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Massachusetts citizens walk for life

RESPECT LIFE walkers from Fall River/Somerset (carrying "Choose Life" banner) andseminarians from St. John's in Brighton pass a news camera (right foreground) across from thestatehouse during Sunday's march. (Hickey photo)

Respect LifeSunday observednationwide

By Marcie Hickeywith C~S reports

Promoting respect for humanlife in all its stages proved moreincentive than showery weatherand a hostile climate on Beacon Hillproved deterrent for 25,000 pro­life marchers in Boston on Sunday.

The fifth annual Respect LifeWalk, coming as it did on the heelsof Gov. William Weld's introduc­tion of pro-abortion legislation,drew a slightly larger crowd thanlast year's sunny-weather conting­ent. Weld's legislative package in­cluded a proposal to eliminateofficial observance of October asRespect Life Month.

The walk was one of numerouspro-life demonstrations in citiesacross the nation marking RespectLife Sunday.

rail River diocesans participatedin this year's walk in record num­bers ·with some 37 buses leavingthe five deaneries, some sponsoredby Massachusetts Citizens for Lifeand several sent by individualparishes.

Pro-life groups from all over thestate gathered before the walk foran entertainment and speaking pro­gram on Boston Common.

Among those who addressedthe group was Boston CardinalBernard F. Law, whose introduc-

tion was met by cheers and applausefrom the crowd. The cardinal haddrawn fire during the week fromlocal secular media and pro-choice'groups for a Respect Life Monthstatement in which he and his fiveauxiliary bi~hops called for Cath-

olics in public life "to use theiroffices to create a society which·guarantees respect for unborn life."The statement also pledged arch­diocesan help for any pregnantwoman needing assistance.

Cardinal Law told walk partici-

pants that they should "greet [the'opposition) with the same love andpeace we greet every human being"because "Our movement is aboutlife, and therefore it is about love."

He continued, "Ours is a rejec­tion of violence that begins withabortion... We are concerned withhuman life from the first momentofconception until the last momentof natural death."

The cardinal responded to criti­cism that he has "scaled the wallsof separation of church and state"in urging politicians to opposeabortion by noting that the inter­denominational religious commun­ity historically "has brought tobear religious thought on moralquestions facing this nation."

Citing past examples of religiousopposition to slavery and supportof the civil rights movement, henoted that "We are engaged [again)today in a civil rights struggle ­for the basic right to life."

Cardinal Lawand Theresa Han­ley, president of MassachusettsCitizens for Life, which sponsorsthe annual walk, led marchers onthe five kilometer course, encou­raging all to pause when passingthe statehouse to observe a momentof.silence in memory of the 40,000

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Catechists urged to appreciate their faith

AT THE ANNUAL diocesan Religious Education Day,Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presents an hon<;>rary plaque toMargaret Travis, religious education coordinat~r at S1. Jo­seph's parish, Taunton, one of 43 catechists recognized for 25 .or more years of service in religious education. At bishop:sright is Father Robert A. Oliveira, director of continuingformation of clergy and laity, who presented a conventio~

workshop titled "Will the Real Jesus Please Stand?" (Breenphoto) . . .

More than 800 participants gath­ered Sept. 28 for the annual Relig­ious Education Day convention atBishop Stang High School, NorthDartmouth.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin wascelebrant and homilist for theopening liturgy of the convention,themed "Walk in the Presence ofthe Lord." .

He thanked the catechists andschoolteachers in attendance fortheir dedicated service in the mis­sion of teaching youth in diocesanparishes and schools and told themthat by developing and strengthen­ing their own faith, they are able toteach by example as well as word.

In a special ceremony during theliturgy, Bishop Cronin presented43 catechists with plaques recog­nizing their 25 or more years ofservice in religious education.

Keynote speaker Dr. Ernest J.Collamati told those in attendancethat their faith shapes the vision ofthe world that they convey to theirstudents. Because we know thatJesus represented his father onearth and that we now representJesus to the world, he said, every­thing human is potentially sacra­mental.

The speaker, chairperson of thereligious studies department atRegis College, West.on, urged thecatechists to appreciate and deepentheir understanding of the expe­riences, stories and images of theCatholic faith. Catholics are dif­ferent, and they should rejoice andbuild on that difference, saidCollamati.

One convention participant not­ed that Collamati won over hisaudience with "humor and practi­cality combined," while anothersaid he "made yoJ.l feel good aboutbeing a Catholic."

"What a wonderful message hecame with and thus left me with,"added another catechist.

The convention's afternoon pro­gram featured three workshop ses­sions with a choice of nearly 50topics presented by speakers fromarea schools, parishes, diocesanoffices and other organizations.

Topics ranged from classroombasics, such as teaching the sacra­ments or incorporating art, craftsor music into instruction, to dis­cussions of faith history, Jesus inthe 90s, and discipleship, ana socialconcerns such as single parenting,violence, and coping with grief orstress.

Convention participants gave thesessions good reviews, noting thatthey were well-planned, informa­tive and enjoyable, said associatedirectors of religious educationSisters Elaine Heffernan, RSM,and Eugenia Brady, SJc.

"Speakers were moving andopened your mind to new ideas,"said one participant in an evalua­tion of the program.

"I received a lot of inspirationand enjoyed everything very much,"another catechist wrote.

And yet another enthusiasticparticipant commented simply, "Itwas alive!"

Receiving plaques for 25 yearsof service in religious educationwere: Sister Heffernan, ClementDowling, and parish catechists:

Fall RiverImmaculate Conception parish~

Dorothy Sliwa, Nancy Jalbert; OurLady of the Angels: Sister SimoneDecelles; Our Lady of· Health:Emily Pacheco; St. Jean Baptiste:Lorraine Theroux.

Also, St. Joseph: Rita Perkins;St. Patrick: Sister Romana Mur­phy; St. William: Laura Nobrega;Santo Christo: Irene Campos,Olivia Martin.

New Bedford·Immaculate Conception: Dr.

David Costa, Mary Lou Betten­court, Rita Souza, Bob Rebello.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel: Leo­nor Louiz, Mary Pereira, AliceMacedo, Mary Macedo, StellaMacedo, Mary I. Macedo, GeorgeMoniz.

St. Mary's: Sister Rita Pelletier.

Tau-ntonImmaculate Conception: Jose­

phine Morrison.St. Joseph's: Margaret Travis,.

Sandi Raible.Also, Holy Ghost parish, Attle­

boro: Robert Haag, Carol Stand­ley, Marjorie Castro.

St. Mark's, Attleboro Falls: Jo­seph Hanley.

Our Lady of Victory, Center­ville: Rosemary Donelan.

St. Joseph's, Fairhaven: CarolBorges.

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Respect: tq::eWeakest Vessels

"The gift of life, God's specialgift, is no less beautiful when it isaccompanied by illness ,or weak­ness, hunger' or poverty, mental orphysical handicap, loneliness orold age. Indeed, at these times,human life gains extra'splendor asit requires our special care, con­cern and reverence. It is in andthrough the weakest of humanvessels that the Lord continues toreveal the power of his love."­Terence Cardinal Cooke

FATHER GENEST

\.' ,. .Ft: .Gellest to he'ad 'LaSalette province

Father Gilles Genest, MS hasbeen elected superior 'of the Im­maculate Heart of Mary provinceof the Missionaries of LaSalette.The province is headquartered inAttleboro.

A native of Manchester, NH, hehas worked extensively in the dio­ceses of Fall River and Manches­ter. Upon his ordination in 1962,he served at LaSalette Shrine, En­field, NH, until 1964, wh'en he wastransferred to the newly openedCenter for Christian Living inAttleboro. There he was instru­mental in bringing the Cursillomovement to the Fall River area.

Father Genest remained at thecenter until 1973 and from 1973 to1979 was superior of LaSaletteShrine in Attleboro. From 1981.to1986 he was superior at the Enfieldshrine, returning to Attleboro in1988 as codirector of the Centerfor Christian Living.. In his new position, h~ will livein Attleboro and will be assistedby Father Camille Doucet, MS,provincial vicar, and BrotherClaude Rheaume, MS, provincialcouncilor. Father Doucet, a nativeof Bathurst, New Brunswick, ispresently parochial vicar at OurLady ofthe Cape parish, Brewster.Brother Claude, a native of Berlin,NH, and a. certified paramedic,lives at Sacred Heart parish, Leba­non, NH, from' which he workswith the Golden Cross AmbulanceService.

The Immaculate Heart of Maryprovince, composed of 80 mem­bers, has missionaries in Massa­chusetts, New Hampshire, Ariz­ona, California, North Carolina,Quebec, Ontario, and Rome. Theirwork":consists ;mainly .in. staffingshrines, parishes and various chap­laincies. They are part ofa Catholicco'mmunity of men working world­wide in 22 countries on five con­tinents.

In 1992 the Missionaries ofLaSalette'will celebrate 100 yearsof apostolic service in the UnitedStates and Canada.

the New York Archdiocese. It wasthe last family-owned U.S. dioce­san. newspaper.

After it closed in 1981, CatholicNew York was founded as the NewYork Archdiocese's official news­paper. Ridder's.company now pub­lishes educational and informa­tional books.

R!4~.er joil)ed the family b,-!si-.ness in high school~ becoming vice'.president in 1972 and president in1985 when his father, Victor Sr.,died of cancer.

He was also chairman of theCatholic Committee on Scoutingand a board member on the Centerfor Catholic Lay Leadership.

Made a Knight of Malta earlierthis year, Ridder had also beenpresident of Catholic Big Brothersand had been active in New York'sarchdiocesan communication com­mission and Catholic Youth Organ­ization.

The Ridders are survived by fivechildren. A funeral Mass was sche­duled for Oct. 10.

Rights"Precisely because he is a per­

son, he has rights and.obligationsflowing directly and simultaneouslyfrom his very nature. And as theserights and obligations are univer­sal and inviolable, so they cannotin any way be surrendered."­Pope John XXIII

. The annual Columbus Day candlelight procession and Massfor peace will take place on Monday in Fall River.

Marchers are to meet no later than 5:45 p. m. in the schoolyardof St. Mary's Cathedral, corner of Spring and Second Streets. Theprocession will begin at the Cathedral at 6 p.m. and follow amile-long course to St. Anne's Church. Parishes are encouraged tosend buses, and groups may carry banners and flags. Marchers willcarry candles, sing hymns and recite the rosary in' various lan­guages. A statue of Our Lady will be carried in the procession.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant of the Massfor ~eace at St. Anne's Church, to begin at approximately) p.m.

Disabled or elderly persons should proceed directly to St.Anne's, where a special section will be reserved for their use. .. The annual event, which honors Our Lady ofFatima, was'begunIn 1975 to pray for peace in Portugal,. but has since broadened to'include peace world wide. . .

New York CathoUc newspaperfigure dies in car crash

Peaceprocession Monday

PLANNERS OF a Diocesan Council of Catholic WomenDay of Recollection include, from left, Madeline C. Wojcik,immediate past president; Theresa Lewis, third vice pres,identand Day of Recollection chairperson; Father James F. Lyons,DCCW moderator; and Mary Mikita, DCCW president.

The event, to be themed "Women of Christ, Women of theChurch~" will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 26 at 8t.Francis of Assisi Church, New Bedford. Rev. William Costellowill be spiritual director. For information contact TheresaLewis, 997-2405, by Oct. 16.

LINTHICUM, Md. (CNS)­Victor Ridder Jr.,'president of theCatholic News Publishing Co. inNew York, was killed with hiswife, Mary Jane, in an automobileaccident Oct. 6 in Linthicum, justsouth of Baltimore.

The Rirlders were northboundon Interstate 295 when a speeding,southbound 1987 Chevrolet Celeb­rity driven by Eric Strickland,16,ofSeverna, Md., crossed the grassymedian and slammed head-on intothe Ridders' late-model LincolnContinental.

Ridder, 49, was pronounced deadat the scene. Mrs. Ridder, 48, wastaken, to a Baltimore hospital,where she died a short time later.Charges were pending against Strick­land, who was in critical conditionat a Baltimore hospital.

Maryland state police said alco­hol was not involved in the middayaccident. A spokesman for thestate police said Ridder was wear­ing his safety belt, while Mrs.Ridder was not.

The Ridders were returning totheir home in New Rochelle, N. Y.,a New York suburb, after visitingtheir daughter, Maureen, a seniorat The Catholic Uni\;'ersity ofAmerica in Washington.

Ridder's company was foundedin 1886 when his great-grandfatherestablished the Catholic News as anational newspaper. Later it served

said it was inappropriate for Car­dinal Hickey to comment on it yet.

When the college agreed to grantG U Choice official status, Cardi­nal Hickey said the decision' was"regrettable" and "inconsistent withthe aims of an institution 'of higherlearning that has a Catholic iden-tity." . .

At the time, John J. DeGioia,dean of the Office of StudentAffairs, said GU Choice wouldhave to conduct itself"in an insti~

tutional context in which the mat­ter of abortion is settled" and thatit would be expected to provide aforum for the exchange of ideas onthe abortion debate. He noted thatthe university does not officiallyrecognize or endorse any studentorganization.

A press release from the George­town Ignatian Society' said thepetition was submitted "after ex­haustive 'attempts" to persuadeGeorgetown's president, JesuitFather Leo O'Donovan, to reversehis decision. The release said thepetition was based on recent Vati­can norms governing Catholic col­leges and universities.'

A second group, the Committeefor Georgetown Values, an alumniorganization formed in responseto the GU Choice issue, said in arelease that it sent letters to 3,000Georgetown alumni asking for helpin reversing the dec.ision. Amongits merrbers are author WilliamPeter Blatty' ("The Exorcist");columnist Patrick J. Buchanan;former Georgetown acting presi­dent Jesuit Father William A.Ryan; and former president of St.Louis University, Father DanielC. O'Connell.

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Sister named foodbank presidentERIE, Pa. (CNS) - Benedic­

tine Sister Christine Vladimiroffhas been named president andchief executive ()fficer of SecondHarvest, the' United States' largi;:stcharitable food distribution system.

Her appointment was announcedin Erie, where her Benedictine com­munity is based.

Second Harvest, based in Chi­cago, channels more than 400 mil­lion pounds of donated groceryproducts to 180 food banks in 50states.

For the last four years, SisterVladimiroff has been superintend­ent of schools in the Diocese ofCleveland, and for the past eightyears.she has served on a commis­sion which oversees compliancewith court-ordered desegregationfor Cleveland's public schools.

A native of Erie, Sister Vladimi­roff has also served as a multicul­tural coordinator for the Erie Dio­cese and spent 21 years in variouseducational posts at Catholic aca­demies and colleges.

St. Anne's Hospital gratefullyacknowledges contributions thatwe have received to the Remem­brance Fund during September1991. Through the remembranceand honor of these lives, St.Anne's can continue its "CaringWith Excellence.·..

We are grateful to those whothoughtfully. named St. Anne'sHospit~l's Remembrance Fund.

Mr. Paul Bally.Adrienne Chouinard

Albert DavisAlice M. DuclosMrs. Alice Halle

Dr. Wilson E. HughesMrs. Catherine M. Kirkman

John J. KisbertCharlotte Harrington Kitchen

Stanley P. KoskaMrs. Irene Lemay

Ralph LemieuxRomeo H. McCallum

Mr. Eric M.S. McWhirterEdward C. Michno

Mrs. Rose RousseauJoseph C. SaulinoMrs. Joanna Spicer

Family & Friend who died atSt. Anne's

Margaret TowneMarie Vago

Margaret Viveiros.

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Petition asks Georgetown'sCatholic status be removed

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Agroup of Georgetown Universitysupporters has petitioned Cardi­nal James A. Hickey of Washing­ton to withdraw the religiou's sta­tus of the oldest Catholic college inthe United States.

The petition was circulated bystudents and alumni who aredissatisfied with the university'sFebruary decision to grant GUChoice, a student group that sup­ports abortion rights, the samestatus as other student organiza-tions. ,

They delivered a petition withmore than 1,000 signatures andsupporting statements by theolo­gians asking Cardinal Hickey to,on behalf of the church, removeGeorgetown's Catholic designation.IfCardinal Hickey refuses to with­draw the club's status, petitionerssaid they would appeal to the Vat­ican Congregation for CatholicEducafi"on or directly to Pope JohnPauill.

As a recognized student club,GU'Choice is entitled to universityfunding, use of school vans, amailbox and other services. Amongits activities has been to host a talkby Kate 'Michelman, executivedirector of the National AbortionRights Action League, at a cost of$1,000 to the university .for hallrental, security guards and a $500speaking fee.

A spokesman for the Archdio­cese of Washington confirmed thepetition had been received, but

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Pastoral ministry programenters its f~urth year

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PARTICIPANTS in this year's pastoral ministry to thesick program settle down for their first session. (Agnew photo)

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not necessarily have to identifythemselves.

, Mass homilies'on the designatedweekends address the topic of vo­cations and all diocesans are askedto pray for the success of Called ByName.

Names of young people submit­ted in parishes will not be for­warded to Bishop Cronin withouttheir consent. Parish priests willcontact nominees personally toexplain the vocation program andask permission to send their namesto the bishop so that he can invitethem to an informational programto be held later this year.

Area nursing home profession­als are invited to attend a free two­hour program on stress manage­ment for caregivers and new reg­ulations for self-administration ofmedications by nursing home res­idents. It will be held at 6 p.m. Oct.24 at Catholic Memorial Home,2446 Highland Avenue, Fall River.

Two contact hours of continu­ing educatiori credit will be awardedregistered and licensed practicalnurses in attendance.

Registration deadline is Oct. 17.To register, call Cathie Cullum, 1­800-688-4164, ext. 259.

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Msgr.' Arth'ur Ge Considinedies at age 84

He attended Holy Family gram­mar and high schools in New Bed­ford, then Providence College fortwo years before studying for thepriesthood at St. Bernard's Semi­nary in Rochester, NY.

Ordained May 21, 1932, atSt.Mary's Cathedral by Bishop JamesE. Cassidy, he then served at St.Joseph's Church, Taunton, from1932 to 1947 with the exception ofthree years as a Navy chaplain.

He was assigned to St. Mary'sNorth Attleboro, from 1947 to1954, when he was mimed pastorat SI. Mary's in South Dartmouth.

Namel;! monsignor by Pope Paul·VI in 1969, he remained at the

" South D'artmouth parish until his" retirement in 1982, overseeing-con­

struction of a new church in 1956and a CCD Center in 1968. .

" D.~~ing his 59. years· in. th~priesthood, healso served as direc­tor 'of the' priest's' Euchari'stic

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Msgr. Considine was known.for. his, love ofcllildren and his. devo­

.. .tion to Our Lady. That devotionled 'to construction' of a' RosaryWalk at his South Dartmouth par- .

. ish during hisgoJd~n.ju!:>ileeyear.

The walk features' a flower~sur­

rounded statue, a Marian medal­lion and '50small:bushes represent­ing beads of a five decade rosary.

In addition to Msgr. RaymondConsidine, Msgr. Considine leavesanother.brother; Francis A. Con­sidine of New Bedford, nieces andnephews, and grandnieces and grand­

MSGR, ARTHUR CONSIDINE nephews.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin wasprincipal celebrant and Father JohnP. Driscoll was homilist for theMass of Christian Burial Mondayat St. Mary's Church, South Dart­mouth, for Rev. Msgr. Arthur G.Considine, 84. He died Oct. 3 atCatholic Memorial Home, FallRiver, where he resided.

Born in New Bedford Oct. 24,1906, he was the son of the lateJohn W. and the late Alice M.(M urphy) Considine. He was oneof six brothers, of whom two oth­ers became priests:" Rev. Msgr.Raymond T. Considine, now re­tired, and the late Father John J.Considine, MM. .

The'diocesan program prepar­ing persons for pastoral ministryto the sick has begun its fourthyear with a' class of,32 persons,including five religious sisters re­presenting (iv~ different commun~ities, one Brother of ChristianInstt~ctiol1 and a physician andhis wife.. Th.e program, directed by Sister

Shirley"Agnew;"RS'M,:!las thus farhad participants from 49 of theIII diocesan parishes; many ofthem staff members at either nurs­in!!: homes or hospitals.

The course.consists of 25 sessionsand a weekend retreat, the latterat Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.Sessions are held- at SI. JohnEvangelist parish, Pocasset, and atthe Family Life Center, North,"C II' dB N . ,.". ·t e

. "e's' Dartm.outh,with the exception of.":~'~" '.:~: r:,:',; Y',:'; '_'I~JI1e con I~U .. a closing potluck supper at Cathe-

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len Fall River, New Bedford ceremony for the new ministers atSt. John Neumann Church, EastFreetown.- The program begins with classeson scripture, ecclesiology, and thesacraments and continues withstudy" of sin, suffering, grief, loss,stress.and pastoral care..Techniquesof listening and pastoral conversa­tion are explained and the courseconcludes with six sessions in hos­pitals or nursing homes where theprinciples learned are put intopractice.

The 1991-1992 faculty consistsof Sister Agnew, assistant directorof pastoral care for the Fall Riverdiocese, who holds a master of div­inity degree from Andover' New­ton Theological School and certi­fications from the National Associa­tion of Catholic Chaplains and theAssociation of Clinical PastoralEducation.

. Also serving is Father GeorgeBellenoit, director of pastoral carefor the Fall River diocese and cha­plain at Charlton Memorial Hos­pital, Fall River. He holds a mas­ter of divinity degree from St.Mary's Seminary and Uni'versityand is certified by the NationalAssociation of Catholic Chaplains.

Others on the faculty are SistersJacqueline Dubois, SSA, AnnHarvey, SND, Patricia Johnson,SND, Dympna Smith, RSM, andHelen Wright, SND. .

Also Fathers Marcel Bouchard,

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"Called By Name," a nationalvocation program, is continuing inthe diocese in the Fall River andNew Bedford dearierie~ during thefirst three weekends in October.

The program was introduced tothe diocese in the Attleboro andTaunton deaneries one year agoby Bishop Daniel A. Cronin anddiocesan vocations director Msgr.John J. Smith.

The "Called By Name" titlecomes from the words of the Lordin the Old Testament book ofIsaiah: "Fear not, for I have re­deemed you; I have called you byname: you are mine." (Is. 43: I)

Developed by Serra Internation­al, an organization dedicated toencouragement of vocations, andthe National Conference ofCatho­lie Bishops' vocations committee,of which Bishop Cronin is a mem­ber, Called By Name involves per­sonal approach to young personsidentified by priests, religious orlaypersons as possessing qualitiesfitting them for the priesthood orreligious life.

The second phase of Called ByName was launched with a Sept.I I meeting of Fall River and NewBedford area clergy.

Msgr. Smith distributed guide­lines and suggestions for the week­ends of Oct. 5-6,12-13, and 19-20,when parishioners in the two dean­eries will find a form in their bul­letins asking them to suggest namesof young men and women whomthey feel might be interested inconsidering life as a priest, sister orbrother. Forms are to be droppedin collection baskets or returned tothe rectory, and parishioners do

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Planning for a medical nightmare

BISHOP THOMAS V. DAILY OF BROOKLYN. NY. ACCEPTS THE QUINCENTENARY CROSS,A GIFTOFTHE KNIGHTS OFCOLUMBUS. DURING A MASS AT ELLIS ISLAND ANTICIPATING

,THE SOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE NEW WORLD

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations." Matt. 28:19

ical nightmare:; said Father Smith.The health care proxy "is the wisercourse."

Last fall in congressional testi­mony the Catholic Health Associ­ation said the bill protects "theright of patients to control medicaldecisions that affect their lives."

But the U.S. bishops' Secreta­riat for Pro-Life Activities in a let­ter to lawmakers prior to theirvote said the measure assumes that"all advance directive laws aregood laws, regardless of their par­ticular content."-:'Frankly I think the law wasbeing passed in the wake of mediablitz of the [Nancy) Cruzan case,telling people they'd better signstatements or they will be aggres­sively overtreated against theirwill," said Richard Doerflinger,the secretariat's associate directorfor policy development.

Miss Cruzan, who was in a-per­manent vegetative state for severalyears following a car accident,died last December after a· longcourt battle to stop her feeding.

Dominican Father KevinO'Rourke, a prominent ethicist inSt. Louis said the new federal lawis "in general a good idea. It helpspeople overcome the bureaucracyinherent in contemporary medicalcare. However it doesn't solve allproblems about what is appro­priate health care."

sell Sm\th of the Pope John XXIIIMedical- Moral Research and Edu­cation Center in Braintree. Mass. '

'''I think our society realizes thereare limits to th'e need for technol­ogy to sustain our life," he said."Karen Ann Quinlan's problemwas a sobering event that made usstart asking, the right questionsabout what are moral limits ofusing high technology.... One way[of) getting a hold of this situationis to clearly state our 'intentions,our values, about treatment."

Miss Quinlan died in 1985 after10 years in a coma. When her par­ents asked that she be removedfrom her respirator. they had totake their case to the New JerseySupreme Court.

The two common forms ofadvance directives are the livingwill, whereby an individual deter­mines ahead of time what treat­ment they want should they becomeincapacitated, and the durablepower of attorney for health care,sometimes called health care proxyor medical durable power of attor­ney. With this form a personchooses another individual to maketreatment decisions should the needarise.

Traditionally the CatholicChurch had objected to living willsbecause "it is not informed con­sent a'bout an actual situation buta decisio}l about one's darkest med-

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Dis­cussions about death and dyingnever come easily in this age ofhigh-tech medicine, but as of Decem­ber anew federal regulation mayforce the issue for many Americans.

Beginning Dec. I, anyone admit­ted to ahopital- whether to havea baby or undergo bypass surgery- must be told what rights theyhave under state law to decide on~edical treatment if they shouldbecome incapacitated.

Patients won't have to sign anyadvance directive on the spot, butduring admission must be informedin writing of existing state law byhealth care providers at facilitiesthat receive Medicare or Medicaidfunding.

That's virtually every hospital,long-term care facility and hospicein the country.

Some Catholic leaders say thenew nile - the Patient Self-De­termination Act passed by Con­gress in October 1990 as part of thebudget bill - will cause anxietyand confusion for patients andadd one more unnecessary'layer offederal dictums for health care.

Others, including the St. Louis­based Catholic Health Association,see it as an opportunity to encour­age people to sign advance direc­tives,

The new federal regulation is "amixed blessing," said Father Rus-

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Called By NameThe Fall River and New Bedford deaneries are currently

involved in the vocations awareness program Called By Name.The effort was introduced.to the diocese through the Attleboroand Taunton deaneries last year.

It should be quite evident to all church members that theissue,ofvocatio'ns is not just a clergy matter. All one has to do islook at a gathering of clerics to see the greying of the church.There are fewer and fewer younger priests simply because thereare fewer young men entering the seminary after college andhigh school.

One third of today's seminarians are 30 or over - a sign ofthe times that has been ignored by those who' are yet bankingon "young" vocations. In some ways this vision has_hinderedthe vocation process. Delayed vocation in young men ages 18to 25 in all areas of life is a current sociological trend. Moreand more college graduates )lre returning to their parents'homes. Economic times have made job choice critical.

Perhaps the prime factor in the decline in vocations is thegeneral decay in the quality of family life. Singl~ parenting anddivorce have a detrimental fallout on vocations.

When a family loses soul, there is little hope for the nurtur­ing of any inclination toward the priesthood or religious life.So many young people must struggle simply to survive. Theyare unlikely to perceive a vocational "call" amid the shoutingand screaming of divided families, abusive or addictive par­ents, or a careless attitude toward life itself.

The church family must try to rise above these harsh realitiesof today's living. Renewal of family life in all its dimensions isneeded to make vocations flourish.

We might need new tactics; we might have to try new ideas;we may-even have to change ourselves; but whatever it takes wecannot simply sit by and say that vocations are the Lord'sconcern, not ours.

h is not only the pope's work, or the bishops' or the priests'.It is the job of each and every church, member to pray for and

---encourage vocations.We must give Called By Name a chance.There are some who view it simply as a new gimmick. So

what! Why relegate it to mere indifference just beca use it's newand involves a different approach? Organizers of this effortdeserve our encouragement and support. This can be offeredfirst and foremost as a prayer to the Lord of the Harvest.

But good works are needed, not merely good will. If youknow someone whom you think may be interested in thepriesthood, talk about it! It might be the spark that sets theHoly Spirit afire in that person.. We have a tremendous potential for vocations. But it will

remain only potential if we keep silent and are afraid to act.May we pray that all in our church family be truly aware that

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The guest speaker this year willbe Deacon Maurice Lavalle of St.Joseph's. who along with his wifeTheresa is an auxiliary Legionmember.

Roger Boyer will direct a pro­cession to be led by the Men of theSacred Hearts; Fairhaven chapter.Also participating will be firstcommunion children from St.Joseph's School and active. andauxiliary members of the Legion.Participants will carry a 40-foot­long rosary made of floats heldtogether by rope. The rosary, madeby parish Sco'uts iJ;! the late 1970s.haS' been used annually for livingrosaries at the parish.

This year's event is the second ina series of 10 leading up to the year2000. the millenium of the begin­ning of Christianity. All are invitedto the Oct. 13 celebration. Refresh­ments will be served i'n the churchhall immediately following.

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25; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 11:37­41

Oct. 16: Rom 2:1-11;Ps62:2-3,6-7,9; Lk 11:42­46

Oct. 17: Rom 3:21­29; Ps 130:1-6; Lk 11:47­54

Oct. 18: 21m 4:9-17;Ps 145:10-13,17-18; Lk10:1-9

Oct. 19: Rom4:13,16­18; Ps 105:6-9,42-43;Lk 12:8'-12

Oct. 20: Is S3:10-11;Ps 33:4-5,18-20,22; Heb4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45

Wisdom 7:7-11Hebrews 4:12-13Mark 10:17-30

Truewealthfoundin God

Rarely do we misinterpret aChristian Scripture passage morethan today's Gospel pericope. Wefirst use it to defend our conve- dimension by going beyond thenient "two tier" practice of the Ten Commandments. It becamefaith; then. by misconstruing a few part of their lives when they gavewords. we totally absolve ourselves up everything and followed Jesus.from carrying out one of Jesus' Giving up everything is so essen-most important teachings. tial that Jesus uses a popular rab-

We use these lines to justify our binic idiom to reinforce his teach-famous "two ways to get into ing: ..1t is easier for a camel to passheaven" strategy. We mistakenly through the eye of a needle thanbelieve that Jesus wants most for one who is rich to enter theChristians to reach salvation by kingdom of God." (Sorry. but theresimply keeping the Ten Command- never was a narrow pass in thements; that only a select few ,- Judean Hills, nor a Jerusalem citypriests. nuns. brothers - are given gate named "The Eye of the Nee­the added command to "Go and ,die!" People always took this say­sell what you have and give to the ing on face value. In modern terms.poor... After that come and follow "You've got the chance of a snow-me." Seminary spiritual directors ball in helL..)have often employed the rich young No wonder the Lord's followersman as an example of someone ask. '~Then who can be saved?"who rejected a vocation to the They had always regard~d richespriesthood. as a sign of God's blessing: Since

But we compound the error when Jesus is completely turning theirwe pull one of the Lord's state- value system upside down. he mustments completely out of context assure them that it can be done.and use it to defend a practice Humans might not have enoughwhich Jesus never imagined any of strength on their own to give uphis followers would ever defend. everything. but with God's help"For human beings." the Lord such dedication is not only possi-proclaims. "it is impossible, but ble, it will eventually bring a wealthnot for God. All things are possi- they could never acquire any otherble for God." Can we keep our way.riches and still enter GQd's king:, .. ' Early Chl;istians.musJ·l)aye· fre,. '.dom?' quently reflected on.t,oday'... , first·

We misunderstand Jesus' call. reading from the book of Wisdom.He invites thi: rich young man to Though the original writer knewbe a Christian. not a priest. The nothing of Jesus' demands, thedistinction between lay and reli- Lord's followers knew when theygious lifestyles is' not an issue in gave, themselves totally to him,this passage. (That question would when they rejected scepter andnot even surface until more than a throne. gold and silver. even healthhalf dozen generations after Mark comeliness. they finally attainedwrote.) The problem here is the "all good things."difference between Jew and Chris- They also agreed with the Hew-tian. brews' author: "God's word is liv-

Jesus' first disciples believed their ing and effective. sharper than anyfaith in. and imitation of, him two-edged sword. It penetrates andadded something to the Judaism divides soul and spirit. joints andthey had already practiced. They marrow..... They had followed thatreally felt part of God's' kingdom word; given up everything to attain- his working in our world. But 'what it promised. They knew allthey only experienced this new about its two edges.

One edge of the Lord's wordcuts through all life's nonsense. Itpenetrates to the depth of ourexistence and brings us a fulfill­ment beyond anything we couldimagine. Yet its other edge is simu­taneously separating us from thosethings and persons on which wehad placed our security: ..... home.brothers. sisters, mother. father.children, property.....

If God had used just a single- •edged word. we would have muchmore control over it; always seewhere it is cutting; and never mis­interpret the meaning of Jesus'Gospel!

ANTOINETTE

In a most surprising develop­ment, a book that is something ofa manual on how to commit sui­cide without undue pain zoomedto the top of the New York Times·bestseller list of advice and miscel­laneous books.

The issue of suicide is not going awayprobably buyers, too. How tragicit would be if this book gives them"permission" to make a "final exit"when. help may well be available.

The issue of suicide, solo ordoctor-assisted, has now come outinto the open and it is raising anethical debate that won't go away.

Dr. Edmund P.ellegrino, a med­ical ethicist from GeorgetownUniversity and the former presi­dent of Catholic University, gaveus all something to ponder whenhe wrote in the Journal of the

. American Medical Association,"On the outcome of the debate.hangs a vision of the kind ofsociety and the kind of professionwe [doctors) want to be."

The unexpected popularity ofHumphrey's do-it-yourself bookraises warning flags. For it can't beonly. the terminally ill reading it.Those with clinical mental prob-'lems who fantasize about. deathduring psychotic episodes are

I think part of the attention· given to doctor-assisted suicidestems from the fact that people livelonger now than ever before andtheir late years can be painfuLanddebilitating.

But certainly, to accept the con­cept of suicide when life no longerholds hope, we would have to changesome long-held views about theending of one's own life.

We have to ask why it capturedso much attention by so many soquickly?

And why were some previousinstances of planned suicide givenfront-page treatment?

It is hard to ignore that a Michi­gan pathologist helped a womanin the early stages of Alzheimer'sdisease kill herself by pushing abutton that released a lethal doseof drugs into her body.

This was followed by a disclo'­sure from Dr: Timothy Quill, aRochester, N.Y., internist, in TheNew England Journal of Medi­cine, that he assisted a patient withterminal cancer in dying by pres­cribing a lethal dose of barbiturates.

It has an expressive title, "Final. Exit," and is by Derek Humphry,director of the Hemlock Society,which endorses suicide for theterminally ill.

Some are praising it as a timely,helpful recipe book for those whowant to end their lives. It gives arundown on methods such as plas­tic bags over the head, or whichpills to use.

Some are concerned that it playsinto the fantasies of people whosee suicide as "the ultimate quick­fix, fleeing from reality," as ex­pressed by a New York Times let­ter writer, Kurt Weyrauch.

One fact cannot be dismissed,and that is the way the bookzoomed in popularity.

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At what age can one incur excommunication?. .By

FATHER

JOHN J.

DIETZEN

Q. In the July 29 edition of ourCatholic newspaper, you mentionthat a person must be at least 16years old in order to incur theautomatic excommunication at­tached to abortion.

The age for any automatic cen­sure, including abortion, is 18 yearsold, in accord with the Code ofCanon Law.

In many dioceses all confessorshave the faculty to absolve directlyfrom th.e excommunication deal­ing with abortion without recourseto their superiors..

However, from a pastoral stand­point, accurate knowledge of ex­empting and excusing causes maybe very important. (Michigan)

A. The general age under whicha Catholic is exempt from churchpenalties is 16(Canon 1323). How-

. ever, it is necessary to be at least.18 years of age before one is boundby the penalty of an automatic ex­communication (Canons 1324 and97)

I'm grateful to the chanceryofficial who wrote to suggest thiscorrection.

For the sake of any physicians,

mothers or others who might findthemselves concerned about suchan excommunication, I need torepeat what I wrote in that column.

In addition to the minimum age(18), a number of other criticalconditions must be met beforesuch a penalty occurs. One is thatthe-person must be aware when the

. act is committed that it will incurexcommunication.

Obviously, many people whoknow that abortion is seriouslywrong do not know that excom­munication may be involved.

Force, fear, panic, lack of theuse of reason are other elementsthat can rule out excommunica­tion. It is often, if not almostalways, impossible and unneces­sary for anyone to attempt to

unravel all these motives about'past events.

The important thing is to talk toa priest and get back to the sac­raments.

Q.Our Catholic newspaper· printed an article about the'Maro­

nite Catholics. This is the first timeI've heard of them.

Apparently there is only onediocese, and their bi.shop says theentire Catholic Church would sufferif the rite dies out:

How can this be? Are they trueCatholics? Do they receive Com­munion? (Illinois)

A. The Maronites are an East­ern Catholic church, founded bydisciples of a hermit, St. Maron,who lived in Syria about the year400.

Most Maronites today are inLeb;lnon and other parts of theMiddle East. There is one Maro­nite diocese in the United States,centered in' Brooklyn, but thatbishop's jurisdiction extends tosome 50,000 U.S. Catholics whobelong to that church.

Several popes, along with coun­cils and numerous other Christianleaders and scholars, insist that thedisappearance of the Easternchurches would be a tremendousloss for the whole Catholic world.They are seen' as treasures whichshould be preserved, both as a signof the church's worldwide unityand as a 'conspicuous part ·of thefaith heritage handed down fromthe apostles.

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MARY

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Dear Dr. Kenny: I read youranswer to a letter where a divorcedmother asked what to tell herchildren about why their fatherhas stopped his visitation. Thisvery thing happened to me when Iwas divorced and my daughterwas 5 years old. .

Many, many times she waitedhours for him, and he'd never

show, even though he insisted he'dbe there. It hurt me to see her soheartbroken.

In your answer you forgot animportant point: stress that it isnot the child's fault that the fatherdoes not show up. It is nothing t~e

children have done that caused thefather to stop seeing them.

Sometimes parents don't knowhow to act lovingly. Another sadpossibility is that the father maynot love the children and may notwant to see them.. .

It has taken many years for mydaughter to get over this. Herfather sees her very rarely evennow. But she has other relation­ships that help make up for it.

She has a very close relationship

with my ex-husband's parents. Iam remarried, and she is close toher stepfather.

. Our therapist told her, "If yourwell is dry, go to where, the. wateris. Find a relationship with anotherfather figure." - Wisconsin

Thank you for reminding me ofa very important point. Divorcingand divorced parents must be awarethat normal children take personalresponsibility when things gowrong.

Children of divorce won't alwayssay ·this. Sometimes, as you wiselyremark, the parent needs to bringit out in the open and say, "It wasnot your fault that Daddy and Igot a divorce." Or, "It's not your

fault that Daddy doesn't show upfor his visits."

Research on divorce shows thatguilt among the children is analmost universal side effect. Evenif the child did not do somethingbad, he or she may feel a vaguesense of responsibility about

· something they should have done.For example, a very common la­ment among children ofdivorce is,"My parents might have stayedtogether if I'd only behaved myselfand been a better kid."

Your second point is equallyimportant. When stepfathers arethe parent who is present, they'need to act decisively and withconfidence.

What do fathers do? Fathers

earn money to provide bed andboard. They provide love andunderstanding. They work togetherwith Mom to set house rules. Theyenforce discipline consistently andwith compassion ..They set a goodexample and provide a male rolemodel. These important aspects ofparenting must be neglected be­cause of the inattention or absenceof the birth father.

Again, I appreciate your point­ing out what I had omitted: thatchildren are not the cause of a par­ent missing visitation.

Reader questions on family liv­ing and child care to be answeredin print are invited. Address TheKennys; 219 W. Harrison; Rensse-laer, Ind. 47978. .

The hidden prob'lems of expectant fathersBy

DOLORES

CURRAN

"Why don't you ever address thefeelings and issues of expectantfathers?" a man asked me. "Mywife's first pregnancy,was one ofthe worst times of my life. I think alot of men have feelings and fearsat this time but I never read any­thing about them."

Actually, there is quite a bit.published for new dads, but onehas to dig harder for it in librariesand bookstores. One of thesebooks, in fa~t, might make a finebaby shower gift. .

What are the feelings and fearsthat attack first-time fathers dur-

ing and after pregnancy? There are·the obvious fears about their wife'ssafety, their child's normality, andtheir ability to be an adequatefather, similar to fears of pregnantwomen.

But there are other feelings whichare less gften expressed becausethey're difficult for men to admitin our culture.

The first is a feeling of beingexcluded. Everyone's attentioncenters on the mother-to-be. Dadstands on the sidelines looking on,nodding and smiling. Her friendsand their families focus on her andhe begins to feel unimportant.

Often, but not always, a first­time expectant mother plays intothis neglect by becoming egocent­ric. Everything is viewed in light ofthe pregnancy and coming baby.Other issues suddenly become un-important. '.. , ....

Predictably, this engenders re­sentment in the prospective father.Is their couple relationship nolonger important, he wonders.

. Can't she talk about anythingbesides the coming baby? Is thatthe reason she married me? Willwe be able to resume our formercloseness?

These are very deep feelings,and most prospective dads don'thave friends with whom it's sociallyacceptable to discuss them. Some­how it's considered unmasculineto own such feelings.

In addition to feeling excluded,a new dad often inherits a feelingof guilt when his' wife suffersmorning sickness, weight gain,discomfort and prenatal moodi­ness, as if, somehow, it's his fault.

Wives feed into this guilt byexaggerating symptoms and say­ing thin'gs like, "I'hate my body."Naturally, the father's going to feel

guilty because he has no physicalproblems.

Some prospective fathers dealwell with these feelings, othersdon't. They come to resent thebaby before it even arrives. Andwhen it does arrive and the newmother's time and attention arealmost totally focused on the baby,his worst fears are realized. He'sbeen replaced.

Men who handle this difficulttransition well tend to recognize itas temporary and are willing togive up control. Loss of control istheir most basic fear. Men like tobe in control of their lives andwhen this control is threatened,they react. They don't have con­trol over their pregnant wife'smoods or over their child's genderor health.

This can be terribly unsettlingfor the new dad, but once life set­tles back into a -routine, husbands

find that they are essential to theirwives'. well-being again.

If they think of it in terms ofbeing pregnant, too, and having togive up certain pleasures and pre­rogatives just as their wives must,they will survive the nine monthsmore easily.

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The office also reports that 58youth completed the 1991 Chris­tian Leadership Institute programheld during the summer.. Theyrepresented 30 parishes and threeof the diocesan high schools.

Emmaus retreatsresume this month

The Emmaus retreat programfor young adults will begin its1991-92 season with an Oct. 25 to27 retreat at Cathedral Camp, EastFreetown.

1992 retreats will take place Jan.31 to Feb. 2; April 3 to 5; and June12to14. "

The retreat program, a co-educa­tional Christian-oriented weekendfor young adults ages 19 to 30,offers participants the opportun­ity to explore and deepen theirrelationship with Christ and sharein a loving community.

Run by lay and religious peopleof the Fall Riverdiocese, the pro­gram includes a series of spiritualtalks, and time is set aside for per­sonal reflection concerning one'slife, one's world and one's God.

The registration deadline for theOctober weekend is Oct. 13. Forinformation on Emmaus contactSheila Dorgan, 992-9630.

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All convention participants mustregister in advance with the Dioce­san Office for Catholic Youth Min­istry by Oct. 23. For informationcontact the office at 763-3137.

The offic'e also has availableguidelines for liturgical celebrationsfor World Youth Day, celebratedannually in the U.S. on the Thir­tieth Sunday in Ordin;HY Time.'

This year's theme, in observingthe 100th anniversary of the foun~

dation document of Catholic socialteaching, Rerum Novarum, callsyoung people to join the struggleto bring the kingdom of peace andjustice into being. '

Youth Ministry NewsThe youth ministry office will

offer "Let's Plan a Retreat," a day­long workshop for adult youthministers, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct.26 at Cathedral Camp, East Free­town. Presenter~ Peggy Fromm ofSt. Peter-Marian Junior-SeniorHigh School in Worcester willcover topics including creating ateam, developing a theme and plan­ning creative prayer experiences.Registration deadline for the work­shop is Oct. 15.

Other youth minister enrichmentdays are planned for February andApril.

Among youth retreats to beoffered this year are confirmation,junior high, eighth grade gradua-

Youth C'onvention is Nov.' 3

VICENZA, ltaly(CNS)- Pub~lie officials in a democracy mustrepresent the wishes of the peopleand pursue the "global develop- I

ment of the civil community," saidPope John Paul II.

This means coordinating theneeds "of men and women, babiesand senior citizens, the healthyand the sick, the wealthy and thepoor," he told public officials dur­ing a recent visit to Vicenza,northern Italy.

Public service means "overcom­ing the logic of pragmatism and ofgroup and partisan interests," saidthe pope.

Impartial service means attend­ing "above all to the neediest" suchas immigrants and refugees, hesaid.

Represent people'swishes, pope tells

public officials

The 1991 Diocesan Youth Con­vention will be held on Nov. 3 atBishop Connolly High School, FallRiver. The convention theme,"Seeing With New Eyes - Actingin Solidarity," is taken from thatdesignated for the U.S. celebra­tion of World Youth Day on Oct.27·this year.

Convention activities begin at 1p.m. with an opening celebration,followed by the keynote address ofPaul J. Tonna.

A doctoral candidate in systemictheology at Fordham University,Tonna has planned numerous re­treats and is the founder of YouthFocus, Inc., a Long Island, NY,Catholic youth ministry organ­ization.

The afternoon program will in­clude workshops, icebreakers, aprayer service and a dance. Dinnerwill be provided.. New this year will be a session

billed "Youth Speak Out," anopportunity for' youth to expressviews on the day's theme and offerideas for service projects.

14 workshops will be availableto youth, including: "Self Esteemand Affirmation - Shape Up YourLife," with Brother Joe LaGressa,OFM; "Mark," a session in which

- Jay F. Hoyle will discuss his teen­age son's battle with AIDS; "See­ing With New Eyes: Taking aLook at Prejudice" with Leo J.Donoghue; and "Dating~ Matingand Relating" with Kathleen'Killion.

Other workshops and presen­ters will be: "Who Cares AboutOur Environment," Krystal Tol~

ley; "Are You A Miracle in theMaking?" Peg Hannigan; "Kidson the Run: Teenage Homeless­ness," Sister Barbara Scanlon, CSJ;.. A Merchant's Cry: Do You ReallyCareT', Mike Cote and TonyNune,s; "Nonviolence: The OnlyWay to Go," Father Joe Costa.

Also, "Parent-Teen Relation­ships," Dr. Joseph Ryan; "Prayerand Inner Peace," Peggy Fromm;"Love, Sex and Choices," JeanRevil and Ted Pirozzi; "Stress:Don't Just Let It Be!", Kevin Hur­leY;,and "Where is God Calling Meto Be?" Kate Brandley, FatherJohn Denning, CSC, Sister BethHenk'en, MSBT, and Jim Medeiros.

Adult,youth ministers may attendtheir choice of four workshops:"Making Sense of Social Justice,",Susan Colla mati; "AdolescentIssues,'" Sister M. ChristopherO'Rourke, RSM; "Total YouthMinistry: What's It All About?",

in the Parish:' Spirituality for LayMinistry and Pilgrims in ThisWorld: A Lay Spirituality, bothpublished by Paulist p'ress.

Father James O'Donohoe, JCD,will speak Oct. 28 'on "MoralQuestions in Today's Church."

A professor of moral theologyat Boston College, Father O'Do­nohoe previously taught at St.John's Seminary in Brighton andhas published se~eral articles onmoral issues.

The public is welcome at bothsessions.

John F. Waygan, Jr.East Falmouth

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ADULT EDUCATION minicourse speakers VirginiaFinn and Father James A. O'Donohoe.

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Virginia Finn of the WestonSchool of Theology in Cambridgewill speak Oct. 21 on "Laypeoplein Today's Church."

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Europeans' arrival in· the NewWorld, he said.

Native Americans point out thatit is only from the European per­spective that the Americas were"discovered" in 1492, since NativeAmericans had been here for cen­turies before that.

Bishop Pelotte hopes t~e 1992 ,anniversary will increase publicawareness of Native Americans

.and their contributions as well asresult in a period of"self-discovery"for his people.

"Native people have so muchrespect for the earth. Now whenthere are so many questions abouthow to express respect for theenvironment" it's a chance forNative Americans to show theirexpertise, he said.

Bishop Pelotte said one reasonhe decided on storytelling as a wayto commemorate the 1492 anni­versary was that, storytelling, aform of passing on oral history, isa Native American tra'dition.

He said while he expected tohear a variety of stories, somewould be' similar to that of "anative lady that pulled me aside" .at a recent religious ceremony heattended on 'the Laguna reserva­tion.

The woman informed him thatin the Cathedral of San Franciscode Asis in Santa Fe, N.M., hangs aplaque listing a number of Fran­ciscan missionaries "who weremartyred during the Christianiza­tion of the native people."

"She said she wanted the plaqueremoved because it was too pain­ful for her and her children," thebishop recounted. "It was a con­stant reminder to young nativepeople that Native Americanskilled," he said. .

In her view, the bishop said,there were abuses and murderscommitted on both sides duringthe colonization period and it wastime to "put that behind us."

the country, Hispanic Catholicsoutnumber Native American Cath­olics in the diocese, said BishopPelotte.

The bishop said although hewas asked in 1986 to be on thebishops' committee dealing withthe church observance of theColumbus anniversary, for a yearand a half he declined to partici-

. pate because he disagreed with the,focus of the pastoral letter the

committee was writing.He said in particular he was

concerned that parts of the draftdocument were insensitive to Na­tive Americans and African-Amer­icans.

The draft, he felt, 'was too cele­bration-oriented and too "trium­phalist" - considering the painstill generated in recalling the en­counter between the colonizingSpaniards and Native Americans.The original title, "Sounding theJubilee Horn," "said it all," saidBishop Pelotte.

"Then I realized it was beingimmature" not to participate inthe document's development, hesaid. "Finally, I said, I've got toput the cards on the table," and heproceeded to tell fellow bishops ofhis concerns., Pleased with the results, BishopPelotte said, "we got the focus tochange from triumphalist to oneofhealing and reconciliation." The,new title of Jhe 41-page pastoralletter, which includes an apologyto Native Americans for churchinsensitivity, is "Heritage andHope: Evangelization in America."The comple,ted letter was approvedby the U.S. bishops in 1990.

The church, because it includesboth Native Americans and His­panics, is in a unique position tosensitize the U.S. public concern­ing the 1992 anniversary, believesBishop Pelotte.

"A sou'rce of pain and tensionamong Native Americans from thebeginning was use of the word'discovery' " in discussion of the

NEW MEXICO craftsmen Alex Vallejos, left, and Umberto Lopez pack up the hand­carved crosses they have created for observances of the fifth century of Christianity in America.Since last May the two have been measuring, cutting, carving and staining 188 crosses, replicasof one planted in 1514 by missionaries in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Paid for by the

. Knights of Columbus, the crosses are being given to each U.S. diocese that requests one as asymbol of "a call to prayer and a call to intercultural dialogue" during the quincentenary year,said Maria Luisa Gaston, U.S. bishops' national coordinator for the fifth centenary obser-vance. (CNS photo) ,

1992 anniversary of Columbus arrivalto be "low-key" in Southwest

WASHINGTON (CNS) - TheNative American bishop of Gal­lup, N.M., says that in most South­w~st dioceses the 1992 observanceof the 500th anniversary of thearrival of European colonizers andChristianity in the Americas willbe intentionally "low-key."

Bishop Donald E. Pelotte ofGallup said the reason the anni­versary will be played down is thatthe coming of the Europeans andresulting bloodshed remain sensi­tive issues in the Southwest, "wherelarge concentrations of people fromthe cultures involved in the origi­nal encounter" continue to liveside by side.

Bishop Pelotte, who made the.. comments in a recent telephoneinterview from Gallup, referred tothe' sometimes bloody encounterbetween colonizing Spaniards andNative Americans, which followedthe arrival of Christopher Colum­bus in 1492. Many Native Ameri­cans s,ee this period as. the begin­ning of the destruction of theircivilizations. "

To commemorate the anniver­sary in his diocese, Bishop Pelottehas asked members of the layCatholic Cursillo movement to or­ganize a series of gatherings atwhich people of all ethnic groupsare invited to "tell their stories ...the painful ones and the joyfulones."

The bishop, whose parents wereAbenaki Indian and French Can­adian, is a member of the U.S.bishops' Ad Hoc Committee forthe Observance of the Fifth Cen­tenary of Evangelization in theAmericas.

Within his 55,000-square-milediocese, Bishop Pelotte explained,li~e seven Native American tribes.Tne largest, the Navajo, is 2 per­cent to 5 p~rcent Catholic. Thesmaller Acoma, Laguna and Zunitribes are 95 percent Catholic.

Despite the fact that the GallupDiocese has the greatest numberof Native American Catholics in

panels showing the castle ofCastile, the Lion of Leon, theadmiral's anchor, a massive sil­ver crucifix, silk and brocadevestments and a maniple," anecclesiastical vestment morethan 500 years old, he added'.

The chapel also houses sev­eral paintings by Renaissanceand Baroque masters, Massvestments from the 1400s, atabernacle used on exploringships in the 1500s and 1600s, areplica of the coat of arms ofthe Columbus family, and165,000 pages of Columbus­related family documents dat­ing from 1451 to 1902, althoughthere are no actual writings ofChristopher Columbus in thecollection.

The pieces ofthe True Cross,contained in a silver reliquary,were given to Don Joachim andDon Felix Columbus for thechapel in 1817 by Bishop Igna­cio Roman de Roda of Leon,Spain, who included a certified,signed and sealed document,which can be seen in the chapel.

Lee said the site has been runas a museum by the Boals since1952 and they are now makinga concerted effort to promotethe museum, especially in con­nection with celebrations of the500thanniversary of Columbus'discovery of Alllerica in 1492.

Capitol, winners of a Knights­sponsored Washington-area quin­centenary essay contest will readtheir entries.

The activities cap a ColumbusDay weekend "Celebration of~­tures" series of activities in Wash-ington. .

To observe the quincentenary,.the Knights have produced a video,commissioned two books on thequincentenary, and plan to build anew church near the site of Colum­bus' first landing in San Salvador,Bahamas.

Tiny chapel has links to ColumbusBOALSBURG, Pa. (CNS)

- A tiny piece of 16th-centurySpain is tucked away in the

.small Pennsylvania village. ofBoalsburg, in the Diocese ofAltoona-Johnstown.

The Christopher ColumbusChapel, located at the BoalMansion Museum, contains oldreligious relics, vestments andartifacts, many used by Chris­topher Columbus himself. Iteven houses what are believedto be pieces of the TI:ue Cross.

"This is a very strong connec­tion to Christopher Columbusand the only concrete link tohim in the United States," saidChristopher Lee, director of theColumbus Chapel and BoalMansion Museum.

Inherited by the Europeanwife of Theodore Davis Boalfrom her relatives in the Colum­bus family, the chapel wasbrought to Boalsburg fromSpain by Boal in 1909. .

"Colonel Boal constructed astone chapel building on hisestate and brought from Spainto Boalsburg the entrance doorand the interior of the Colum­bus Chapel with everything itcontained," said Lee, whosemother is a member of the Boalfamily.

"There's paneling, wood­work, the choir loft, colored

Knights to sponsor quincentenary,events in Washington

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - TheKnights of Columbus will sponsorreligious and civic events in Wash­ington Monday to launch the quin­centenary of Columbus' arrivai tothe Americas. '

Cardinal James A. Hickey ofWashington will celebrate a Massthat morning at the Basilica of theNational Shrine of the Immacu­late Conception. The Knights' sup­reme chaplain, Bishop Thomas V.Daily of Brooklyn, NY, will preach.

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R'ELIGIOl.JS EDUCA­TION DAY principals fromtop left: keynote speaker Dr.Ernest J. Collamati, Sister Eu­genia Brady, SJC, associateditector of religious educa­tion; Bishop Cronin; SisterElaine Heffernan, R~M, asso­ciate director of religiouseducation; and Father RichardW. Beaulieu, director of thediocesan'department of edu­cation. (Breen photo) Right:Catechists with 25 years ofservice at convention's open­ing ceremonies. Below: BishopCronin speaks at liturgy; RuthMurray staffs one of manyexhibits available for brows­ing catechists; Kathryn E.Wrobel of LaSalette Centerfor Christian Living (left),who presented a workshop on .pre-confirmation retreats,and Sister Doreen Donegan,SUSC, religious education co­ordinator at Corpus Christiparish, Sandwich; MichaelaBurke presents workshop onteaching methodology; SisterTheresa Sparrow, RSM, relig­ious education director at St.Julie Billiart parish, NorthDartmouth, offers helpfulhints for catechists; Sisters ofMercy Michaelinda Plante,associate superintendent ofdiocesan schools, and Chris­topher O'Rourke, guidance di­rector at St. Anne's School,Fall River, who spoke on"Single Parenting: A Chal­lenge for Us All."

10 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 11,1991

SEMINARIANS from St.John's Seminary, Brighton,lead nearby walkers in recita­tion of the rosary. (Hickeyphoto)

St. Ann's Raynham, and HolyFamily, East Taunton, sponsoringtheir own buses.

Two buses from St. Patrick'sChurch in Somerset joined at leastthree Fall River deanery level buses.

Persons who could not attendthe walk were invited to St. Mary'sCathedral in Fall River to pray the'rosary for participl!nts and forrenewed respect for human life.

Walk organizers were hopefulthat the impressive show of forcewould impact the state iegislatureand were encouraged that the eventseemed to attract more media atten­tion than in previous years.

Though not exactlY'''positive,''media coverage was "fair," com­mented Attleboro deanery repre­sentative John Choberka.

The Respect Life Sunday walkwas also a fulfillment of CardinalLaw's hope that, despite Gov.Weld's refus,al,to pr.oclaim OctoberRespect Life M'oriih, there wouldbe "an observance of pro-life monthright up to his office door."

The Boston archdiocese also en­couraged Catholics to mark themonth by displaying a single whiteelectric Christmas candle in thewindow of their home to remindothers to be open to the light ofChrist.

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ST. JOAN OF ARC par.ish Orleans, sent 22 parishioners,to the Respect Life Walk. (Hickey photo)

Continued from Page OneSt. Rita's, Marion: Amelia Pina.Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, See­

konk: Emily Medeiros.St. John of God, Somerset:

Agnes Barboza, Hazel Chellel,Laura Furtado, Cora Silvia.

St. Michael, Swansea: BlancheFaria, Mary Saylor.

Our Lady of Fatima, Swansea:Dorothy Sullivan.

Holy Trinity, West Harwich:Bernice Johnson.

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children annually killed by abor­tion in Massachusetts.

It took more than two-and-a­half hours for the throng to circleBoston Common and wind its waydown Commonwealth Avenue andback. Some marchers sang hymns,others prayed the rosary, and manydisplayed banners and signs urg­ing an end to abortion and affirm­ing the sanctity of humanlife. They ranged from the simple- a handwritten sign, proclaiming"Hooray for Cardinal Law" - tothe elaborate - a large decoratedbanner from ,the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology with themessage "Science Cares."

Nearly everyone possessed oneof the ubiquitous brightly-coloredRespect Life balloons. '

The spectacle drew both posi­tive and negative reactions frompasse~sby and motorists thwarted>on their way from here to there astraffic was periodically stopped to

, let marchers pass.At least one driver was'content

to wait, offering encouragementand a thumbs-up sign as walkersstreamed around his car.

Father Stephen A. Fernandes.director of the diocesan Pro-LifeApostolate and a participant inthe walk, said he was greatly en­couraged by the large turnout atthe event, particularly the increasedparticipation from the Fall Riverdiocese, which sent 25 buses lastyear.

Cape Cod area coordinatorKaren Loura said she knew of 10buses from the Cape, some fromindividual parishes including Christthe King, Mashpee, and St. Joanof Arc. Orleans.

That count is in addition'tO"other groups going in vans, min­ibuses or driving, and I know therewere 'a lot of those ... ·she said. Agroup from Martha's Vineyardjoined buses leaving the deanery,she added.

Five buses from the Attleborodeanery included a parish bus fromSt. Mary's Seekonk, and 13 fromNew Bedford included a St. Mary'sparish bus.

Four left from Taunton, with

people and, a small group" ofcounterdemonstrators. .-'

The largest Oct. 6 demonstra­tion was believed to be in tne St.Petersburg/ Clearwater area ofFlorida, where an estimated 28,000people lined 29 miles of U.S. Route19. According to the Florida LifeCenter, the Port Charlotte, Fla.,group which organized life chainsthroughout the state, there were150,000 participants from 2,250churches, covering a totardistanceof 290 miles.

A 15-mile-Ionglife chain stoodalong highways outside Houston,Texas. Father Micha~1 Carmody,pro-life director for the Galveston­Houston Diocese, provided liveradio reports from the chain onlocal radio statiQn KTEK.

More than 9,000 pro-life sup­porters gathered in downtownIndianapolis Oct. 6 for a massiveinterdenominational life chain,despite cold and windy weather.Another 15,000 people from Indi­ana and Kentucky spanned theOhio River from Jeffersonville insouthern Indiana to Louisville, Ky.

Among other archdioceses anddioceses participating in the lifechain project were: St. Louis, Mo.;Charlotte, NC; Atlanta, Ga.; Bur­

.\ington, Vt.; Paterson, NJ; Har­risburg and Pittsburgh, Pa.; andArlington, Va.

In Canada, cities including Ot­tawa, Edmonton, Alberta, andVancouver, British Columbia, heldlife chains Oct. 6.'

Bishop -James S. Sullivan ofFargo, ND, chose another way tomark Respect Life Sunday. He ledthe ro~aryat the site of the memor­ial stone marking the grave site ofaborted infants at Calvary Ceme­tery in Jamestown, ND.

Approximately 150 aborted in­fants from-various sites around the,country were' found in trash con­tainers and buried in 1988 at theJamestown cemetery and at HolyCross Cemetery in Fargo.

Sixty adults and children joinedin a Walk for Life Rosary Oct. 6 toFargo Women's Health Organiza­tion, North Dakota's only abor­tion clinic, where they recited theSorrowful Mysteries.

At a Respect Life diimerOct. 6in the Peoria, Ill.; diocese, JesuitFather John Powell, an authorand professor of theology at Loy­ola University in Chicago, urgedpro-lifers to heighten their sympa­thies for women contemplatingabortion.

"I suggest, instead of stressingthat 'You're killing a baby,' whichthey unquestionably are, that yousay 'Don't do this to yourself,' .. hesaid. Such an approach is "muchmore apt to win over those whoare uncommitted."

Bishop Donald W. Wuerl ofPittsburgh was among U.S. bishopsissuing statements about RespectLife Month and the life chain pro­ject. "The life chain is a peaceful,prayerful and powerful statementof this community's support forthe rights of unborn children," hesaid. "Children in the womb arealso our brothers and sisters whoneed protection and love."

"Life chain offers spiritual bene­fits by encouraging all congrega­tions to stand publicly in defenseof God's little ones," said BishopEdward T. Hughes of Metuchen,N.J. "Life chain sends a messageof strength, commitment and en­couragement...

, "Respect for life? We are eachchallenged to review just what thephrase means," said ArchbishopFrancis T. Hurley of Anchorage,Alaska, in,a column. "For Catho­lics that meaning can be foundultimately in the life of Christ."

Life Month. The second annualworldwide Rosary for Life was totake place Oct. 12; organizers saidthere were participants at morethan 300 locations in 12 countrieslast yea!.

In New York, pro-life suppor­ters who formed a "human cross"

"in midtown Manhattan Sept. .27said their silent demonstration wasa success even with competitionfroma raucous march by abortionrights supporters.

"They have banners in their arms;we have babies in our arms," saidKathy DiFiore, who runs a pro­life shelter ,in Ramsey, N.J., andparticipated in the life chain out­side St:Patrick's Cathedral. "Theyhave empty slogans; we have life."

Police estimated the abortionrights demonstrators at 4;000 andpro-life supporters at 1,100.

The following Sunday, a lifechain in the Diocese of RockvilleCentre, N.Y., attracted some 2,000

Respect Life Sundayobserved nationwide

WASHINGTON (CNS) - Hun­dreds of thousands of abortionprotesters lined hundreds of milesof U.S. and Canadian roads Sun­day- in a North American "lifechain" designed to bring home themessage that "abortion kills child­ren."

In most locations, the demon­strators carried identical blue-and­white signs bearing that slogan or"Jesus forgives and heals." Partic­ipants in the life chains came frommost major religions, and Protest­ants outnumbered Gatholics inmany sites.

According to The National LifeChain, based in Yuba City, Calif.,more than 665,000 people formedlife chains in 350 cities.

Although most of the abortioriprotests took place Oct. 6, desig­nated by the Catholic Church asRespect Life Sunday, some wereheld earlier or scheduled for laterin October, designated Respect

BANNERS SPOTTED: Respect Life walkers from St:Mary's, Seekonk; St. Mary's, North Attleboro; St. Patrick's, '~omerset; St. John Neumann, East Freetown; St. Mary'sCathedral; Fall River deanery. (Hickey photos)

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Neglected Duties"Those .who claim their own

rights, yet altogether forget or neg­lect to carry out their respectiveduties, are people who build withone hand and destroy with theother."-Pope John XXIlI

WASHINGTON (CNS) - To­day's church in Eastern Europewill be highlighted in an ABC-TVspecial to air Oct. 20.

The special, "A Time to Build,"is slated for 12:30 p. m. Easterntime (check local listings) and fea­tures several persons who workedwith the Catholic Church andagainst communist repression, in­cluding Polish President LechWalesa.

The program focuses on the re­emerg~nce of the church in suchnations as Poland, Lithuania,Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

The U.S. Catholic Conferenceprovided partial funding for theprogram through the CatholicCommunication Campaign.

Walesa discusses the current rolefor the church in Poland, wheresome argue the church must stayout of politics while others saychurch values are an appropriatefoundation for a fledgling demo­cracy.

Others featured in the specialinclude a nun in Lithuania, SisterAlbina Pajarskaite, who foundeda secret social services network tohelp the ill and elderly, and Cze­choslovakian Cardinal Jan Korec,who for decades was an under­ground bishop working as an ele­vator repairman by day and pre­paring men for the priesthood bynight.

The special also features Hun­garian laity who formed a secretprayer and study group in defianceofthe government's crackdown onreligious activities.

Ellen McCI~skey of the l,ISCG·l .J. COLORADO SPRINGS,.Colo... :. The· puppy, named· John-Luke,Catholic Communication Cam- (CNS) -. A cute puppy has great had dug a hole under the fence ofpaign staff is. executive producer. appeal, but not even dog-owner the nearby rectory. He traced Fa-The special was written and pro- Father Donald Brownstein of St. ther Brownstein to church and,duced by Martin Doblmeier of Patrick Parish in Colorado Springs since the doors were propped open,Journey Communications. knew how much appeal. invited himself in.

"A Time to Build" is the second Father Brownstein, in his first John-Luke's appearance was soof a four-part ecumenical series, weekend as pastor, preached on perfectly timed that some parish-"Vision and Values,''' presented by the subject of community. "We all loners thought the priest had setthe Interfaith Broadcasting Com- need each other and are not meant up the event.mission. Members of the commis- to be alone," he told the assembly.sion include the USCC, the Nation- "Even my 7-month-old beagle "N 0, I certairily didn't' plan it,"al Council of Churches, the Jewish puppy doesn't like to be alone." Father Brownstein said. "H onest.Theological Seminary of America As he continued to talk, a small We will have to figure out a way toand the Southern Baptist Conven- black, white and tan beagle puppy keep John-Luke from making antion. wandered in a side door of the encore performance."

church. Immediately the pup perk- In the meantime, the incident is900-numbers curbed ed up his ears and trotted straight the talk of the parish. One member

to Father Brownstein. As the said, "Too bad we didn't get theassembly exploded into laughter, whole thing on video. We couldthe puppy jumped against the have won $10,000 for the church."priest's knees and wagged his tailin delight.

"I have no idea how my dog gothere," said a stunned Father Brown­stein as he watched the puppy friskaround his feet. "I told you, hehates to be alone."

WASHINGTON (CNS) - TheFederal Communications Commis­sion has acted to curb rip-offs by900-number operations, some ofwhich lure people to dial expen­sive messages unwittingly. The900-number industry sells informa­tion and services via the telephoneand last year reportedly was theobject of more than 3,000 com­plaints to the commission. Thenew FCC rules say that for mostcalls - only those under $2 wouldbe exempted - message providersmust playa free "clearly under­standable and audible" messagetelling people what a call costs andwho is offering it. FCC action wasurged by the U.S. Catholic Con­ference last May when the com­mission considered an argumentfrom the Information IndustryAssociation that any rules govern­ing price information would in­fringe on the right to free speech.

12 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River~Fri.,Oct. II, 1991

Reaching Forward"Faith acts promptly and boldly

on the occasion, on slender evi­dence, as if guessing and reachingforward to the truth amid thedarkness."-Cardinal John HenryNewman

..Asituation that assures Catholiccelebrations a position as civilholidays tends to deny, Muslims-as it does Jews on the occasionof, Yom Kippur - the right to apresen~e in the.public sphere," hesaid.

Archbishop Delaporte said Cath­olic officia1s must demand recip­rocal rights for Catholics in Mus­lims countries, where Catholics"have the impression of beingsecond-class citizens."

The archbishop and several 'otherspeakers specifically criticizedSaudi Arabia. .

Restrictions on Asian Catholicsworking in-Saudi Arabia and otherArab oil-producing countries are"a flagrant injustice which theinternational community mustclearly denounce," said Cardinal~oger. £tchegaray, president ofthe Pontifical Council for Justiceand Peace.

In ~uwait, Catholics have onlytwo churches, are not allowed toteach religion in private schools,and cannot evangelize among themajority Muslim population, said'Bishop Francis Micallef, apostolicvicar in Kuwait.,

The Pontifical Council for Mi­grants and Travelers,plans to issuea document on migratory prob­lems based on the recommenda­tions submitted by congress par­ticipants. No date has been set forpublication of the document.

A CROATIAN BOY stays close to his armed father as thefather takes him from the Croatian Village of Petrinja, Yugos­lavia, to a safer location. Yugoslavian fighting has alreadycaused 320,000 Croats to flee areas of heavy fighting, IvoBaucic, founder of the Center for 'Migration Studies in theCroatian capital, Zagreb, told participants in a recent Vaticanmigration congress. (CNS photo)

have a decent chance to be integ­rated.

V.N. High Commissioner, forRefugees Sadako Ogata criticizedindustrialized countries for "build­ing walls" as their main policy indealing with migratory waves.

"Large groups of refugees areperceived as a threat to nationalsecurity," she said. .

Archbishop GiovanniCheli, pres­ident ofthe pontifical council, saidthe migratory trends can be expect­ed to increase because the situa­tion in underdeveloped countriesis getting worse, spurred on bypopulation pressures.

'In 1970, underdeveloped nations'had 74 percent of the world's pop­ulation, while in the year, 2000their population will represent 81­84 percent of the world's total, saidthe archbishop.

"There has really not been muchserious, systematic thinki-ng at theinternational level on the linkagebetween migration, populationgrowth, regional inequality' ,and,global security," said ReginaldAppleyard, migration SPecialist atthe V niversity of Pertn, Australia.

Several speakers said the migra­tionof , Muslims to traditionallyChristian Western Europe has pro,"duced a de facto interreligious dia­logue, since religion has become akey factor in efforts at culturaladaptation.

"There are certainly Islamicpractices that need to be betterrecognized in daily life" in Franceand other European countries withsignificant Muslim populations,said Archbishop Jacques Delaporteof Cambrai, president ofthe Frenchbishops' justice and peace commis­sion.

Pope suggests two-pronged approachto-migratory flows

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - PopeJohn Paul II, at a Vatican migra­tion congress, advocated a two­pronged approach for developedcountries dealing with massive in­flows of Third World migrants.

Speaking to participants in thecongress, the pope said the wealth­ier nations must develop broaderimmigration programs and makegreater efforts to stem the flow atthe source by improving economicand political conditions in theThird World.

He called it an "obligation of .....welcoming and sharing when facedwith the poorest of the poor."

For many participants in theSept. 30-0ct. 5 congress, the cut­ting edge of this two-pronged ap~

proach is finding a balance, givenlimited resources industrialized'countries have earmarked to dealwith immigration and Third Worldaid . .,.' ,

"It IS the tension between wel-coming the stranger and further­ing those changes which wouldallow the stranger to freely choosenot to leave home," said CardinalBernard F. Law of Boston.

"Both are our task," he said.During the congress, organized.

,by the Pontifical Council for'Migrants and Travelers, manyspeakers stressed the pressures thatmillions of migrants present toindustrialized societies unpreparedfor or reluctant to organize ade­quate programs to deal with them.Much ofthe migrant flow is illegal.

Speakers noted that incidents ofracism against Arab and blackAfrican immigrants are on the risein several European.countries,

Congress participants, mostlynational Catholic migration offi­cials, said the major migratoryflows' are from:

- Latin America to the UnitedStates and Canada.

- Africa to Western Europe.- Asia to Australia, Western

Europe and the United States.Soon to be added is an expected

large exodus of East Europeans towealthier Western Europe.

This flow could swell to danger­ous levels if rival nationalistichopes in the wake ofcommunism'scollapse produce wars, as in Yugo­slavia, several experts said.

The majority oftoday's migrants"do not emigrate because of a freechoice, but often under the push ofhunger and the pressure of sub­human living conditions," the popesaid in a speech closing the con­gress. "They emigrate sometimesto flee harsh persecution motivatedby political or religious convic­tions."

The church must help overcome"the mentality which considers thepoor, whether person:; or popula­tions, as a burden and as inoppor­t\lne bothersome people," the pope,continued.

Immigration policies must- gobeyond granting entry permits andgive new arrivals the opportunityfor a "genuine insertion in thesociety receiving them," he said.

The first task of church pro­grams is providing for the materialneeds of migrants, the pope said.This must be followed with spirit­ual formation of Catholics, which"tak~s into account their [migrants']language and culture and theirneed to live the faith within theirown ethnic group," he added.

Other speakers also asked thechurch to be a watchdog on humanrights to insure that immigrants

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erty the next day. Accordmg to

Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, an ex­pert with the commission, the re­sults showed that directly beneaththe crop outlines were the walls ofa 200-foot-Iong basilica, of a typebuilt exclusively in the early 300s.

Fiocchi Nicolai, who announcedthe discovery in a recent article inthe Vatican newspaper, said thechurch is "almost certainly" thatcommissioned by Pope Mark in336, the single year of his reign.Historians say the pope was bur­ied there after his death.

The basilica's discovery is espe­cially exciting, Fiocchi Nicolaisaid, because it is "extremely prob­able" thll,t extensive catacombsexist underneath it. A handful ofsimilar Roman basilicas have beenfound from the same period, andall of them are gateways to miles ofChristian burial chambers. .

These major churches on thecity outskirts were used primarilyfor funeral Masses and were asso­ciated with the "cult of martyrs"popular among Rome's earlyChristians, he said.

Pope Mark's basilica apparentlywas still standing in medieval times,according to restorati'on recordskept at the Vatican. But as Romedeclined further, the church metthe fate of many ancient buildingsand fell into ruin, eventually to becovered by about four feet of soil.

New Palestine, one of the larg­est slums in the country, was beingspruced up in anticipation of thepope's visit to the city of Vitoria.An estimated 45,000 people live in 'the slum, built atop a huge gar­bage dump"

Father Bernardo Henri Hervy,the local parish priest, describedthe people's situation as desperate.

The city of Cuiliba, which as ofOCt. 7 had not yet paid its em­ployees for the month of August,already had spent about $500,000on the papal Mass site.

The city had threatened to with­draw from the papal itinerary be­

'cause the federal government hadnot responded to the mayor's re­quest for financial help.

Hemosul, the blood bank in thestate <;>f Mato Grosso do Sui; plan­ned to stock a minimum of threeliters of A-negative blood foremer­gency use for the pope's Oct. 17visit. Because only 0.1 percent ofthe population in the state has A­negative blood, the blood bankhad difficulty finding donors.

BRAZIL

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53 rd PAPAL TR.IP

ROME (CNS) - A Salesianbrother's curiosity over strangepatterns in his alfalfa field on theedge of Rome has led to the dis­covery not of alien landings or ahoax, but an early Christian ba-silica. .

Vatican archaeologists say thechurch was probably built by afourth-century pope, St. Mark,and may still contain his tomb.

, They are eager to' begin excava­tions at the site, located nearRome's most famous catacombson the Appian Way.

Evidence of the basilica came tolight in early September whenBrother Tarcisio Gazzola, whohelps farm the property for localSalesians, noticed that the alfalfacrop was stunted in several strips.When he stepped back, it almostseemed that he could see the out­line of a large building.

He phoned officials of the Pon­tifical Archeological Commission,who took soundings on the prop-

These' patterns in field nothoax but buried basilica

Braz~1 visit preparationsextensive, expensive

< SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS)­'A security force 30,000 strong,special construction projects cost­ing millions of dollars and a majorslum-cleaning project were part of

,Brazil's preparations for the, Oc~.12-21 visit of Pope John Paul II.

Specially built altars and com­munications systems were also part'of the mix of arrangements.'

In Maceio;hometown of :Bra­zil's President Fernando Collor deMello, the cost was expected to'reach $5 million for a three-hourvisit. Most of the' expense was forconstruction of an amphitheater.

In Natal, the kickoff point forthe .papal visit, the ci,ty and thestate of the same name spent about,$1.3 million. That includes thecost of a plaza for the 12th Eucha­ristic Congress, where the popewas to address some 150,000people.

Other amphitheaters and altarswere being built in the nine othercities on the papal itinerary. Addi­tional civic expenditures included

- -road paving and slum cleanups.

Remembering, celebrating, believing:Bishop Connolly High School turns 25

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Activities continue Oct. 18 witha student-parent dance from 7 toII p.m. and culminate on Oct. 20with a Silver Anniversary Mass,celebrated by Bishop Daniel A.Cronin, at 3 p.m. and a banquetfollowing at 5 p.m.

Banquet guests will receive ananniversary booklet chronicling theschool's 25-year history.

Reservations for Dr. Sizer's ad­dress, the anniversary concert, orthe banquet may be made throughthe Connolly development officeat 676-1476.

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"For 25 years Bishop ConnollyHigh School has served the dio­cese of Fall River. For 25 years ithas educated youth in the Jesuittradition. For 25 years it has sharedthe Jesuit vision: to love as Jesusloved and to .be of service to oth­ers," noted Connolly principalFather John Murray, SJ. "OurSilver Anniversary is a time of,promise and a renewal of the spiritof excellence and of dedication toChrist which gave birth to theschool a quarter century ago. Welook forward now to the next 25years."

chairman of the Coalition of Es­sential Schools.

Educated at Harvard and YaleUniversities and author of severalbooks, Dr. Sizer will speak on"What the National School ReformMovement Might Mean forChurch-Related Schools."

Dr. Sizer has received numer­ous awards, including the GoldMedal for Excellence in Under­graduate Teaching, and citationsfrom the American Federation of

.Teachers, National Association ofSecondary School Principals, andChambers ofCommerce in Bostonand Andover.

The evening is free to the generalpublic.

The Boston College SymphonyOrchestra will perform a SilverAnniversary Concert at Connollyat 8 p.m. Oct. 16:

The Orchestra, cpnducted byNeal Hampton and featuring vio­linist Ray Shows and violist LesliePerna, will perform Mozart's "Sin­fonia Concertante K.364," Schu­bert's "Symphony No. 8 in BMinor," and Handel's "Suite fromthe Water Music."

Area high school musicians havebeen invited to perform the lastmovement of the Handel selectionwith the orchestta, and they maycall ,the development office bytoday to obtain musical .scoresheets. A rehearsal will be held at 3p.m. Wednesday at Connolly anddinner will be provided for thestudent musicians.

The concert is free and open tothe public.

THE PRESENT high school campus, with track, soccerfield and tennis courts added in 1987-88, when the baseballfield was also redesigned to promote better drainage and allowfor construction of softball and practice fields.

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.K' fABISHOP CONNOLLY opened its doors in September

1966 at St. William's parish center in the South End of FallRiver. A year later, close to 1,000 people gathered for dedica­tion of the then-new Elsbree Street school building on Oct. 20,1967.

With the theme "We Remember,We Celebrate, We Believe," BishopConnolly High School, Fall River,will observe its 25th anniversarythe week of Oct. 13 through 20.

The week's,events begin on Sun­day with a 5K Silver AnniversaryRoad Race,.beginning and endingat the school's Elsbree Streetcampus.

Runners will depart from theschool at 10 a.m. and follow a 5kilometer route along surround­ing streets.

T-shirts will be given to the first200' entrants and prizes will beawarded in the following catego­ries: masters, sub-masters, firs.tstudent, and Connolly alumni. Re­freshments will be provided fol­lowing the race.

Shower facilities are availableand lodging for out-of-town racerscan be arranged.

Runners may preregister by call­ing the athletic director at 676­1032. Registration will also beaccepted the day of the race, whenall participants are asked to sign­in in the school gym beginning at 9a.m.

The Fall River Cross CountryChampionship Race at 10 .a.m.and boys' and girls' soccer and vol­leyball games beginning at 10:30a.m. will be featured on the Colum­bus Day holiday.

Activities continue at 7:30 p.m.Oct. IS with an address in theschool auditorium by Dr. TedSizer, professor of education atBrown University and founder and

14' THE"ANCHOR--'Diocese of 'Fall Riverc...:...Fri., OCt. II , 1991

, NOTRE DAME, FRYouth group skating for grades 8

through 12 at Driscoll Rink 7 p.m.Oct. 27, meeting in church parkinglot 6:45 p.m. Corifirmation classesbegin 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21, parish school.

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our human family tell us weneed to keep our dreams alive.Whether our dreams beindi­vidual or much larger, likedeveloping a more humane,Chri~tlike world, we must sus­tain them.

How do we accomplish this?I. Reaffirm what you want

each day. This is difficult to dowhen immediate circumstancesare not in line with your dreams.However, look beyond currentsituations through the gift ofimagination. Take time to seeclearly what you are strivingfor, even when difficulties blockyour way.

2. Talk about your dreams.Share your goals with thosewho can be positive and enthu­

-' siastic about them. Be a caringlistener when others express

, 'their dreams. " .

. 3. Do at least one small thingeach day that supports yourdream.

4. Pick out a symbol, of your'dream. Keep'it in a· speci-alplace:' For' instance, sO'meonedreaming of abetter job, mightcreate a sample paycheck, sym­bolizing'the enhanced personalsatisfaction he or she will receive

'.. from the !1ew job. Loo,k at tresymbol each day and experien,c~

,the' feelings that ~o91e from,imaginingthilt the job iS,alreadypart o(your life., ' ,

5. As'k God to sh.ow you theway. Pray especially to perceivethe first or the next. step in the

, procl;ss of reaching your goal.Our God wants to help us findthe best in ourselves and in our

. world. Trust deeply any intui­tions.that come to you' in times

"of prayer. '

VO,ur; ~~m91j!nts,ar~ wel~om~d, ,by Charlie'Marthi, R.R. 3, Box182, Rockport, Ind. 47635,

By Charlie Martin

dreams, how "people dreamedout loud" and ','stopped, a war,"even though 'they couldn't st9P"the dying." . -' .

These words remind me ofthe situation in the Middle East.Many of us drea":led _of stop­ping the Persian Gulf War. Eventhough it ende.d, hundreds 'o(Iraqi children still die each daydue to the effects of the bombing. "

This terrible tragedy and otherexamples of suffering within

REV. GERALD BARNWELL, chaplain at SS Peter andPaul School, Fall River, blesses newly-installed middle gradeschool officers for the year. The officers and class representa­tives form the school's student council.

Pictured, from left: President Lisa Korzeniowski, VicePresident Jennifer Rocha, Secretary Jennifer Santos andTreasurer Heather Rocha. Class. representatives are DanielDeslisle, Leslie Medeiros" Kelly Ainsworth, Adam Iveson,Eric Copsetta and Rebecca Turcotte.

. HOLY ROSARY BOYS CLUBThe late Fattier Gaspar L. Parento

.will be honored'by Boys Club alumniat their seventh annual awards cer­emony and reunion at 7 p.m. Oct. 19at Sons of Italy Home. Parento wasa Holy Rosary altar boy as a youth.

THE DREAM IS STILL ALIVE

Written by' G: Ballard, Wilson Phillips, sung by 'WilsonPhillips, (c) 1990 by SBK Records '

Not so long ago we were so in phaseYou and I could never forget the daysBut then the fire seemed to flickerCold wind came and it carried us awayBut we'l get back ,some day, babyThe dream is still alive .Look here in my eyesCan you see what I'm feelingThe dream is still aliveThe one of you and IAnd my heartache is healingI couldn't let it dieNo, I knew it would surviveT1Je dr,ea,m is still,aliveNot so long ago in a purple haze, ,People dreamed out loud, they were not' afraidThey stopped a war but not ,the dyingSome got a little bit lost along the wayB~t somehow we're here today, and we say, '

WHAT ARE your dreams?How can you keep them alive?Wilson Phillips' latest releaseaddresses these questions.

A little over a year ago, thismusical trio burst onto the popmusic scene. I doubt ·iLmany "other artists can claim five top40 hits from a debut album.

"The Dream Is Still Alive"describes a person's efforts'tokeep believing in romance. Thesecond verse discusses larger

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ST. ANNE, FRParishioners Edna arid Raymqnd

Morin are part of the diocesan Mar­riage Preparation Team, which assistsengaged couples to prepare for mar­riage. Annual St. Jude novena beg­ins Oct. 20, continuing through Oct.28, presented by Father Pierre La­chance,OP.

St. Anne novena service 3 p.m.and healing service until 5 p.m.Sunday.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBOROPortuguese prayer group Mass 7

p.m. Oct. 14, parish ,center. Confir­mation I Rite of Entrance and par­ents' meeting 7 p.m. Oct. 15, parishcenter. Our Lady of Fatima feastMass in Portuguese 5 p.m. Oct. 13followed by rosary, procession, bene­diction and refreshments. Presider:Rev. Manuel Andrade. New Wo­men's Guild officers: President Made­leine Livingston, Vice President AliceLauzon, Secretary Molly Sullivan, ,Treasurer Mary Bullard. Cannedvegetables for Vincentians may beleft at church entrance.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTHWomen's Guild installation of

officers Patricia Costa~ president;Pauline Gradeski, vice president;Rosalie Ghelfi and Rosanna La­mothe, secretl,lries and Emily Walsh,

'treasurer, will take place Oct. 20, fol­lowed by welcome tea for' newmembers.

K of C, COU,NCIL 813FALMOUTH/ MASHPEE

Children's Halloween party 2 p.m.Oct. 26, Council Headquarters 279Brick Kilri Road, Falmouth. Cos·tumes should be worn. Councilmeeting 8 p.m. Oct. 15,

WIDOWED SUPPORTNB widowed support group meet­

ing 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, St. Kilian rec­tory basement, 306 Ashley Blvd,Information: 998-3269 or 992-7587.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAMFirst communion class begins ~:45

,a.m. Oct. 19. CCD teachers' com­missioning at 8 and 10 a.m. MassesSunday. Youth retreat for grades 9through 12 Oct. 18 to 20 in Sand­wich. Topic: Forgiveness and Mercy.Information: Sr. Ann Miriam Gal-

, lagher, 295-0780. ''HOLY CROSS, S. EAST01'l/ '

, Life in the Spirit Seminar beginsOct. 16 8 p.m., continuing for 5Wednesdays. The course helps Chris­tians develop a deeper relationshipwith Christ through the power of the

, Holy Spirit. Information: 238-2235.All welcome.CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB

FR CWC annual bishop's nightdinner honoring Bishop Daniel A.Cronin 6:30 p.m. Oct. 15, White's ofWestport. Entertainment by "PrimeAlliance," a barbershop group. Trans­portation may be arranged with PegLeger or Barbara Sullivan.

"Hey, this is about, me rightnow. I am in that same bind, HereI am with a full load of courses,president of the sociology club andI'm working 20 hours a week as acashier in a tire store. If I'm notasleep in class, then I am fighting'so hard to stay awake that I'm not'Iearning anything. I don't havetime for school work, for friends l '

'or even for fun. How did I get'myself !nto ~his mess~" '

, These stories must be fairly typ­.,ical of more l,lnd more teens. In'various ways' young people are 'being told they need money to be ,

. happy and mpre money to be "

.. happier. What they are-sacrificingis their leisure; their time to think

. and reflect, their time to learn,their time with; friends ..-:" ,theirtime. This leaves no time to behuman. ,

You have tO,decide for y~urself

about this matter, but you'don'tnecessarily have to decide by your­

. self. You can ask the wise peopleyou know ......c and we all knowsom,e wise people - what they

, think of this issue of time imdworking too many hpurs.

I suggest that you al~o consider, someone you love who is younger

and ask what 'you would wish forthis person when she or,he is.your

,age. Would you wish this personto be in a bind between school andwork,' between work and family,between ail of these and time toenjoy friends? If not, why wish iton yourself?

Apparently Allie asked herselfthese questions, because when Isaw her last wee,k she told me shehad quit her job. In her ownwords, "I struggled over the deci-

, sion, but now I, am really happyabout it. I have my peace of mindback." She is a wise young woman.

By' Michael WarrenAre you shortchanging yourself

when you take on too many hoursof part-time work? Are you work­ing'for peanuts - slave wages ­while throwing away some pre­cious gems of your teen years?

These questi~ns intere'sted agroup of young people in their lateteens or ea~ly 20.s w~el) I raisedthem. All" knew" ydunger tee'nsaffected by parttLme w,ork.

Phil's ,younge.t:brothet: is brightand never found school a real chal­lenge. He is able to work fourhours every day after school in afast-food place and still keep uphis grades. Qr so it seems. '.

Phil 'claims the pressure isaffecting his brother's personality:H~ is hassled' with the ,pressure ofSChool, hOlJ1e, work and .friends.He is not satisfied' with any of.these areas. .: \ ,

Despite his OK grades, hisbrother admits to: studying verylittle and, in fact, thinkingveiy lit-tle about anything at all. ,

Phil says; "The saddest part ofall is that he thinks the money heearns makes him;independent,buthe:s become a kind of slave andndt much fun to be around."

Kelli says her younger sisterworks 30 hours a week as a clerk ina cosmetics store, barely has time

. to talk with her friends and fallsasleep over her homework almostevery night. She is in a challenginggirls' academy but recently hastalked about switching to a less­demanding school. In Kelli's words,"She wants money for clothes; shebuys them but she doesn't havetime to enjoy them, though shedoesn't like to admit it."

Others in the group tell storiesabout themselves and their strug­gles with this question when theywere younger. Finally Allie says:

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ministry to greet persons enteringMasses; information: religious edu­cation office: 385-2115. RO$aries fordistribution in Russia by RosaryCrusade may be left in boxes at rearof church.

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Sister Regina Coughlin, headguidance counselor, will presentan SAT preparation course knownas SENSA. ,To date 30 seniors

.have registered and juniors will beadmitted if space is available.

Several faculty members havebeen speaking at and participatingin education conferences. EileenWilson and Donna Motta attendedthe Massachusetts Business Edu­cators Association in Boston Sept.20, while Father Costa, SusanCollamati and Kathleen Killionwere workshop presenters at thediocesan Religious Education DaySept. 28. Mrs. Colla mati alsopresented a workshop at the Wor­cester diocese's religious educationconvention Sept. 21 .

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St. John EvangelistSchool, Attleboro

School chaplain Father DavidCosta presided and area clergyparticipated in a Sept. 24 liturgymarking the opening of the schoolyear and celebrating Mercy Day atBishop Feehan High School, Attle­boro.

The latter event honored Sistersof Mercy foundress Mother Cath­erine McAuley as the school's Sis­ters of Mercy renewed their com­mitment to the charism of mercyand compassion.

The community was called toworship by principal Brother Ro­bert Wickman, and following theliturgy special prayers were offeredfor juniors, who had received theirclass rings.

All fall sports were represented. at a Sept. 19 pep rally organized bystudent council members under - ...-----------..the leadership of faculty membersAlan Kazarian and Sister PatriciaHarrington. The rally is tradition­ally held prior to the Feehan vs.North Attleboro football game.

AlsoonSept.19,manystudents', gathered after school to form the

school's new Ecological Commit­tee. The group will oversee a recy­cling program and address envir­onmental issues.

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The informative "PIE (Partnersin Education) Memo" from St.John's reports addition of Chris­topher Stanfa as music teacher atthe school. Also in the music line,children in grad'es K-5 heard en­vironmentalmusician John Kelle­her on Oct. 10 under an Arts Lot­tery Grant program.

The first-ever school studentcouncil has been inducted into theNational Catholic Studenf Coun­cil Association. 15 students receivedpins at a prayer service/ assemblyand Sean Harbour received a pres-

been. named a. Commen.ded Stu- ident's pin.dent In the NatIOnal Ment Scolar- A f' Id--d 0 t 7' I d dh· P Sh h . d Ie ay c. InC u es Ip rogram. e as receive a./ d f h

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an rs.. ow an owen 0Little Compton, RI, is an honor School basketball will begin instudent and completed her junior November and assistant coachesyear ranked sixth in her class of are needed for nearly all teams. A136 students. children's Sports Council will meet

She is active in student govern- at 7 p.m. Oct. 16 in the meetingment, captain of the field hockey room.team, and was the school's repre-sentative to the Hugh O'RrianLeadership weekend as a sopho­more. Her teachers and coacheshave'described her as a dedicatedstudent and athlete who is self­motivated and always striving forimprovement.-----

Poyant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Dennis Poyant of, New Bedfordwere honored for outstanding per­formances on the 1990 Prelimi­nary Scholastic Aptitude Test/ Na­tional Merit Scholarship QualifyingTest. They placed among the topfive percent of more than one mil­lion program entrants.

The Coyle-Cassidy St. Vincentde Paul Society started its secondyear with election ofTia Famularoas president; Amy McAloon asvice president; Michelle Proulx assecretary; and Michael Leonard astreasurer.

Members will sponsor a Hallo­ween party for neighborhood child­ren.

* * * *Senior Margaret M. Bowenhas

CAPITAL CAMPAIGNcorporate phase cochairman­Dale Shenk greets BishopCronin.

butions to the Southeastern Mas­sachusetts and Rhode Island com- ­munity in its well-educated, value­oriented students.

Shenk, a Dartmouth resident,and Dr. Thomas McCormack ofMattapoisett, cochairmen of thecorporate phase, have set a goal of$350,000 to be reached by June1992 through the generosity ofarea businesses.

For information on the cam­paign, contact Suzanne Burke,developmenf director, 993-8959.

with a I-I tie over Somerset andfollowed with a 4-3 win over Bishop.Feehan. In the Feehan game, seniorstriker Jeff Ferreira had threefirst-half goals to lead the way.

The Lady Warrior-volleyballteam started the season with a winover Hockomock League oppo­nent North Attleboro.

Three Coyle-Cassidy seniorshave been named Commended·Students in the National MeritScholarship Program.

Evan J. Bowers, sonof Mr. andMrs. Frank ·b;isidoro ·of Cilfver;··Mary K. Giovanoni, daughter ofMr. and Mrs. Richard Giovanoniof East Taunton; and Julie C.

Bishop Stang High School.

Coyle-Cassidy High School

COYLE-CASSIDY cross country team runners, from left, Joseph Saladyga, Tony Smith,Sean Flaherty, Scott Hughes, captain .,Jay Drewniak, captain Matt Doherty, Rob Holland,Danny Bourque, Chris Boehme, and Coach Kevin Worthington. (Breen photo)

. For the second consecutive yearthe boys' cross-country team ofCoyle-Cassidy High School, Taun­ton, has won the City of Taunto·nchampionship meet. Senior ,cap­tain Jason Drewniak won the racein a time of 15:37.

The Warriors scored 29 pointsto Taunton High's 36 and Bristol­Plymouth's 57.-Coyle-Cassidy re­tains the Paul Fraga MemorialTrophy for another year. C-C haswon tile meet six times since itsinception in 1980.

In the girls' rneet; sophOMoreMegan Lincoln raced to an im­pressive second place finish.

The Warrior soccer team opened

Bishop Stang High School,North Dartmouth, kicked off thecorporate segment of its $1.5 mil­lion cl,lpital campaign on Sept. 26.Dale Shenk, a Stang parent andsenior vice president of the Acush­net Company, welcomed guestsand introduced Bishop Daniel A.Cronin, who spoke on th~ impor­tance of Catholic education.

Patrick Carney, chairman oftheClaremont Company and a Stangalumnus, who is chairman of thecapital campaign, reported that$921,000 has already been pledgedtoward the $1.5 million goal. Heupdated guests on achievements todate: lighting modernized, wallcoverings and lockers redone andscience labs renovated. Remainingto be accomplished are renovationand modernization ofathletic fieldsand the gymnasium and, in the .

· third and final phase of the cam­.paign, establishment of an endow­ment to lead Stang into the 21 stcentury. _

· Carney also acknowledged theloss of two leaders in the capitalcampaign, Dr. Arthur Buckley of .

·South Dartmouth, who was honor­ary cochairman, and Frank O'Ne'ill',of Mattapoisett" who was a memberof the campaign's executive com­mittee. , ' ,

Theresa Dougall, Bishop Stangprincipal and alumna, describedthe Stang of today, noting that theschool strives to provide a value­based, academically superior edu­cation,

Shenk noted that Stang con­tinues to make significant contri-

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Des­pite a plea from the dying Kim­beriy Bergalis for mandatoryAIDStesting of health care workers, theHouse and Senate passed less string­ent compromise legislation Oct. 3.

Thelegislati6n, adopted by voicevote in both houses without debate,requires states to adopt federalguidelines for preventing the spreadof AIDS by medical professionals.Those guidelines suggest, but donot require, that health careworkers be tested for AIDS andrefrain from invasive procedures ifthey test positive.

Any state that fails to adopt theguidelines could lose federal Pub­lic Health Service funds for thechildhood immunization, safe'water and other programs.

A week earlier in testimonybefore a House subcommittee, Ms.Bergalis asked Congress to "enactlegislation so other patients andhealth care providers don't have to~o through the hell that I have."

The 23-year-old Florida woman,who apparently contracted AIDSin 1987 when her dentist extractedtwo of her molars, was testifying infavor of the so-called Bergalis Bill.It would have required health careproviders who tested positive forAIDS to get written consent frompatients before performin'g anyinvasive procedures. It also man­dated testing of patients.

The compromise legislation waspart of a bill appropriating $19.9biIIion for the Internal RevenueService, Treasury Department andseveral other- federal agencies infiscal 1992.

. CATHOLIC NURSES, CAPE'Meeting 7:30 p.ll). Oct. 16, Cor­

pus Christi parish center, Sandwich;speaker Father James Fitzpatrick,chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital.ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEBORO

All 'children of parish invited toparticipate in contest to name pro­life committee; deadline Oct. 20.ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT

Holy hour for vocations 7 tonight.Young ladies 16 or older wishing tobe parish presentee for 1992 Bishop'sBall may contact rectory.HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON

Evening devotions 7 p.m: Wed­nesdays in October;' rosary prayed7: 10 a.m. daily. Vincentians fooddrive Sunday.

MARY HALLORAN, right, a Catholic from Juneau,Alaska, plays with a child at an orphanage in Bistrita, Ro­mania. She is spending a year there working on educationalprograms for orphans under the auspices of Juneau Cares, acharitable organization. (CNS photo)

, ;, ST. JAMES, NBParish council meeting 12:45 p.m.

Sunday. parish center.·COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUE

Natural family planning workshop4 p.m. Oct. 27, Our Lady ofthe Capeparish center, Brewster. Information:432-7192.O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE

\ Mass of Thanksgiving for free­dom of Lithuania noon Sunday.HOLY NAME, FR '

Youth group installation of offic­ers 10 a.m. Mass Sunday. followedby communion breakfast, school hall.

ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLEPastor Father William W. Norton

has been appointed to the board ofthe Falmouth Service Center.

SACRED HEART, FRMeeting for prospective altar boys

4 p.m. Oct. 15. Rosary and Benedic­tion 7 p.m. Tuesdays in October.ST. MARY, SEEKONK

Father Bill Baker will lead child­ren's choir at 10 a.m. Mass on secondand fourth Sundays beginning Oct.13; rehearsal at 9:30 a.m.ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN

Ladies of-St. Anne communion9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday; meeting 7p.m. Oct. IS, rectory. '

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Dr. Barry Fleet, D. Min., and hiswife Susan Sullivan will present theworkshop "Healthy Relationships"lOa. m. to 3 p. m. Oct. 26 in the GoodNews Room. Discussion topics willinclude how to argue fairly, howone's past affects the present, theimportance of self-esteem and hownot to sabotage relationships. Pre­registration is requested by Oct. 21;information, 222-5410.

SEPARATED/DIVORCEDS'upport group meeting 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 15. St. Mary's parish center. N.Attleboro.CATHEDRAL" FR

Evening prayer (vespers) 7 p.m.Sun9ay.PRO-LIFE SPEAKERS

Speakers on pro-life subjects areavailable for groups and organiza­tions through Massachusetts Citi­zens for ·Life. Greater Fall Riverchapter. Information Jim Wasel,676-8958 .D.ofl.

Hyacinth Circle 71 Daughters ofIsabella Halloween party 7:30 p.m.Oct. 15. Holy Name CCD center.NB.ST. THOMAS MORE,SOMERSET

Children's liturgy 10: 15 a.m. Sun­day. Exposition of Blessed Sacra­ment 11:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. Bene­diction Sunday; sponsored by Vo­cations Awareness Team.

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSETHoly Rosary Sodality feast Mass

and corporate communion 9:45 a. m.Sunday; recitation of rosary preced­ing Mass. Women's Guild monthlymeeting 7 p.m. Oct. 16, parish cen­ter; joint meeting with St. Louis deFrance guild will be discussed. AliceArruda and Pam Cordeiro are meet­ing chairpersons.'CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE

Pro-life committee meeting 7 p.m.Oct. 14, library.SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR

School computer lab open house7 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17.

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