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tions which Archbishop Croninhas in place functioning well. Thediocese will be handed on to hissuccessor in the excellent conditionin which he left it. I ask the prayersof everyone during the interimperiod and I am certain that Godwill bless our efforts."

Msgr. Munroe was born in FallRiver Nov. 21, 1928, the son of thelate Kathryn (Burns)- and the lateHenry T. Munroe. He graduatedfrom St. Joseph's grammar school,Fall River, and the former CoyleHigh School, Taunton, and at­tended Providence College for twoyears before entering St. John'sSeminary, Brighton.

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portunity to find out more about"right places" at a buffet supperand discussion se~sion at BlessedSacrament Convent, 250 I SouthMain Street, Fall River. Thosewho attend will be obligated tonothing; it will simply be anoccasion for learning more aboutvarious religious communities andprograms for laywomen.

The evening will be coordinatedby Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM,diocesan representative for rel­igious, who will be aided by acommittee consisting of Sister ofSt. Joseph Eileen Sullivan. Dom­inican Sister of the PresentionCarole Mello and Sister of MercyAliceann Walsh.

Those interested in attendingmay contact the Office for Reli­gious. 500 Slocum Road, NorthDartmouth 02747. telephone 992­9921. to receive an invitation.

MSGR. HENRY T. MUNROE

Msgr. Munroe ;electedinterim administrator

''I'm in the right place," saysSister Jackie Racine of New Bed­ford. a missionary to Uganda whosestory appears on page 3 of thisissue of the Anchor.

Are you a woman seeking your"right place"? Maybe. like SisterJackie. you will find it in religiouslife. Her own lifelong desire was tobe a missionary, but that is onlyone of scores of options open totoday's religious women.

She was in her early 20s whenshe entered the Comboni Sisters.but in today's church the vocationofa sister is open to women decadesbeyond that age; in fact. it is notuncommon for widows or retireesto enter a second career either inreligious life or as a lay volunteeroften bringing with them expertiseand talents gained through yearsof experience.

Interested? At 6 p.m. Thursday,March 12, there will be an op-

Seeking the "right place"

Msgr. Henry T. Munroe. dio­cesan vicar general and pastor ofSt. Thomas More parish. Somerset.was elected administrator of thediocese of Fall River by the seven­member board of diocesan consul­tors on Thursday, Jan. 30.

As administrator, Msgr. Munroewill remain pastor of St. ThomasMore parish while governing thediocese until the installation ofnew bishop, to be appointed byPope John Paul II.

In assuming the responsibilityof adminstrator, Msgr. Munroesaid "I look forward to the ableassistance of all who are involvedin the diocesan apostolates, manage­ment and every aspect of churchlife, in keeping the diocesan opera-

"It is not the first time that theSupreme Court has succumbed tounfounded fears and popularhysteria," commented Msgr. BryanO. Walsh. director of CatholicCommunity Services of the A 'ch­diocese of Miami. His officerecently joined MRS in opening aMiami agency to assist arrivingHaitians.

Bishop Thomas V. Dail) ofBrooklyn, N.Y., a consultant tothe U.S. bishops' Migration C:>m­mittee. in a Feb. 3 statement, :;aidhe was "anguished" by the forcedrepatriation.

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company seeking to fill a COflPU­ter position.

"He happened to have justexactly the skills they were lookingfor," said Mrs. Claussen.

Now "area companies know theycan contact the group and we'llpass that [job] information along,"she concluded.

While the number ofunempl,)yedis not as high as in previous reces­sions, the "staying power" ofjoblessness is more severe, withmore people unable to find newjobs and more of them runllingthrough their unemployment bene­fits, according to Thomas Shella­barger, urban issues expert fo: theDepartment of Social Developmentand World Peace of the U.S.Catholic Conference.

With 8.9 million people Ollt ofwork at the end of Decemberhelping people adjust to life with­out ajob is becoming a priorit~1 forsome church organizations.

Sometimes the best thing a par­ish can do is to simply let thosewho are having a rough time kllowsomeone car.es. Former bank em-

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virus "fed an alarmist feeling inWashington."

He said his office was urgingmembers of Congress to "put onthe fast track" a bill to halt therepatriation. Such a bill. if ap­proved. could face a veto byPresident Bush.

"We're sending people back to anation that's very unstable andviolent with no assurances thatthey will not be persecuted as theyfear they will be," said FatherThomas Wenski, director of thePierre Toussaint Haitian CatholicCenter in Miami. in an interviewwith Catholic News Service Feb.3. -

The job seekers have been suc­cessful in drawing on communityresource persons such as areaexecutives and Catholic SocialServices representatives to offerworkshops on interviewing, net­working, and resume and coverletter writing. Services have beengeared to individual needs of jobseekers, whether they are unem­ployed, planning to change careersor are college students entering thejob market for the first time.

Most importantly, said Mrs.Claussen, the group provides a set­ting for members to air their con­cerns about being out of work.

"When you're out of work,sometimes you feel isolated. Youfeel a lot better when others aregoing through it with you," shesaid. "It's a difficult time, [not justfor the one out of work but] forfamily members too." Participants"get more power from the groupexperience than from going italone," she added.

Another benefit, of course, isthat members find job leads. Oneparticipant was contacted by a

~,tH•~'i.,THEIR FUTURE uncertain, Haitian refugees stand behind razor wire at the Guantanarno

Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

Haitian ruling said "hysteria"WASHINGTON (CNS) - The

U.S. bishops' top migration offi­cial says a Supreme Court decisionallowing U.S. repatriation of Hai­tians was based on "hysteria" andwhat he believes was an unsub­stantiated report that some 20,000U.s.-bound Haitians were poisedto exit their homeland.

Jesuit Father Richard Ryscav­age, executive director of the U.S.bishops' office of Migration andRefugee Services, in a Feb. 3 in­terview, said that report and whathe called "exaggerated" claims thatan unusually high percentage ofU.S.-bound Haitian boat peoplehad tested positive for the AIDS

By Marcie Hickeywith CNS reports

As the percentage of people outof work in the United States hit itshighest level in eight years in De­cember, Corpus Christi parish,Sandwich, was among churchesnationwide responding to reces­sion era joblessness by organizingsupport and networking groupsfor those seeking employment.

Begun in November, the CorpusChristi Job-Seekers Support Groupmeets at 7:30 p.m. on alternateMondays in the parish center andis open to anyone in the community.

Carl and Joanne Claussen envi­sioned such a support system whenboth lost their jobs. They foundedthe group together with Ken andPhilomena Figueiredo, also ofCorpus Christi.

The group has been thrivingsince, said Mrs. Claussen, with 15members on the roster, 25 to 30person attending each meeting andfour "graduates" who have foundjobs.

The group's purpose is twofold,said Mrs. Claussen. "It's not onlysupport but networking."

Sandwich parish helping job seeke.'s

Cable· TV regulation backed by USCC

Gail Davis promotedat Madonna Manor

Sister Pellerin

ObituariesSister Walsh

The Mass of Christian Burialwas celebrated Jan. 27 at OurLady of Mt. Carmel Church, NewBedford, for Sister MargaretWalsh, SSD, 97, of Villa FatimaConvent, Taunton, who died Jan.24.

Sister Walsh had resided at Mt.Carmel Convent, New Bedford,for 45 years before moving toTaunton last June. A native ofProvidence, she was the daughterof the late John and the late Mar­garet (Healy) Walsh.

She entered the Sisters of St.Dorothy in 1912 at age 17, becom­ing the first American-born mem­ber of the order. She was sent toAerschot, Belgium, for her novi­tiate, then to England when warbroke out in 1914. She professedfinal vows Nov. 28, 1922.

She taught English in Leicester,England, until August 1933, thenserved in the order's houses in Sin­tra and Lisbon, Portugal, for 13years. She returned to the UnitedStates in 1946.

Fluent in Portuguese, she wasassigned to the Mt. Carmel con­vent and for a time taught thirdgrade at Mt. Carmel School. Sheretired in 1972.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parishhonored herin November 1987forher 75th jubilee, giving her a trip toCounty Mayo, Ireland.

She is survived by two grand­nieces, Mrs. Thomas Michels ofBridge Lake, NJ, and Mrs. Tho­mas Maloney of Putnam, Conn.; agrandnephew, James Bransfield ofSalinas, Calif.; great-grandnieces,great,grandnephews and cousins.

Sister of the Presentation ofMary Doria Pellerin, 92, formerlyknown as Sister St. Philomena:died Feb. I at her community's res­idencein Manchester, NH. HerMass of Christian Burial wasoffered Wednesday at the residencechapel.

A Fall River native, she was adaughter of the late Arthur andElisa (Germain) Pellerin. Duringher active ministry she was a schoolsupervisor and elementary andsecondary school teacher in WestWarwick and Woonsocket, RI.She had entered the convent in1917.

She is survived by nephews andnieces.

Gail M. Davis, RN, has beenpromoted to the position of nurs­ing documentation coordinator atMadonna Manor, North Attleboro.She was previously staff chargenurse at the 121-bed nursing home.In her new position, she will over­see documentation of resident care.A resident of Warwick, she holds abachelor's degree in nursing fromRhode Island College.

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cultural and political life," shesaid.

Ms. Whiting added that theUSCC supports "the must-carryand retransmission consent provi­sions" of the bill. .

"Must-carry" states that cableoperators must carry all local sta­tions broadcast in their area and'''retransmission'' would allow broad­casters to charge cable TV systemsfor carrying their broadcast signals.

'The NBC, ABC and CBS net­works, which have lost ad revenueto cable, have argued for the re­transmission provisions. Currently,cable TV can carry network sig­nals free.

Cable television is use'd by manychurch broadcasters, including theVision Interfaith Satellite Network,or VISN. Programs of the bishops'Catholic Telecommunications Net­work of America, CTNA, also aresometimes transmitted via cableTV within a diocese. The weeklyCTNA program, "Catholic View­point," for example, is availableon cable systems with over 6 mil­lion subscribers.

Nelson Price, president ofVISN,noted that the cable industry"created VISN" and has "put majorfunds into helping the network getstarted."

held at Our Lady of Angelschurch hall, III Tuttle St., willdiscuss Scripture readings forthe Sundays of Lent from 7 to8:30 p.m. Mondays, Feb. 24 toMarch 30.

Speakers will be as follows.Feb. 24: Father Raul Lagoa ofSt. Michael's; Mar. 2: FatherJack Oliveira, St. Anthony ofPadua; Mar. 9: Father JohnGomes, Our Lady of the Angels.

Mar. 16: Father Steve Fur­tado, Our Lady of Health; Mar.23: Father Fred Babiczuk, Es­pirito Santo; Mar. 30: FatherEd Correia, St. Anthony ofPadua.

At both the Santo Christoand Our Lady of the Angelssites, refreshments will followeach Bible study session.

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Six Portuguese parishes inFall River will jointly sponsorLenten Bible study courses inEnglish and Portuguese to beginthis month.

They are St. Anthony ofPadua, St. Michael, Our Ladyof the Angels, Our Lady ofHealth, Espirito Santo andSanto Christo parishes.

The eight-week Portuguese­language course will offer ageneral view of the Old andNew Testaments presented byFather Gastao Oliveira, par­ochial vicar, at Santo Christoparish center, 102 Mulberry St.Sessions will meet 7 to 8:30p.m. Thursdays Feb. 13 to Apr.2.

-The English-language course,all sessions of which are to be

Portuguese parishes offer LentenBible courses in two languages

for Communications Policy, hadurged support for the Cable Tele­vi.sion Consumer Protection Actin order to protect consumers from"abusive rates" and to guaranteediverse viewpoints.

The bill passed by a 73-18 voteJan. 31 would have the FederalCommunications Commission setnational rate regulation standardsand require that rate increases bedeemed "reasonable" under FCCstandards. Local governmentswould enforce the FCC regula­tions and consumers could peti­tion to have rates reduced.

The Bush administration, how­ever, has threatened to veto a cablebill, part of a policy opposing fed­eral regulations.

She noted the significance to thenation of the Cable-Satellite Pub­lic Affairs Network, known as C­Span, and the Cable News Net­work.

"Cable television has becomethe sole provider of a significantamount of educat'ional and infor­mational programming," she said.

"Justice demands" that cableoperators be prevented from creat­ing "an economic bottleneck" todeny people access on reasonableterms to programs important to"full participation in economic,

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In a Jan. 24 letter, Miriam Whit­ing, director of the USCC Office

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta under­went a checkup Jan. 30 at La Jol­la's Scripps Clinic and ResearchFoundation and got a clean bill ofhealth a month after treatment forheart disease and pneumonia.

The next item on the agenda ofthe 81-year-old nun, who had beenstaying with members of her Mis­sionaries of Charity in Tijuana,Mexico, since her Jan. 15 releasefrom the hospital, was a meetingwith Pope John Paull!.

Mother Teresa, admitted to thehospital Dec. 26, underwent anangioplasty, a procedure designedto open clogged arteries to theheart, as well as treatment for bac­terial pneumonia.

During her Jan. 30 checkup, shetook a treadmill test to monitorher cardiovascular system.

The hospital released no infor­mation on the checkup, but Dr.Paul Teirstein, one of the physi­cians who treated Mother Teresa,told the Associated Press that sheis "really doing beautifully" in herrecovery.

"She's had no chest pain orother symptoms," he said.

Teirstein also said Mother Teresahad returned to the hospital sev­eral times since her release, mainlyto be fitted for her first set ofdentures.

"She thinks she looks youngernow," he said. "She hasn't reallybeen taking all that great care ofherself, from a health perspective."

JANUARY 1992Armand H. Brodeur

Jerry CiulloAI Gagnon

Lillian D. GuillotteMary Lee

Sylvia T. RebackJoseph C. Saulino

Atty. Richard P. St. PierreWilfred Thiboutot

Blanche A. TremblayStella Troy

Hildeberto VenturaFrances Whelan

St. Anne's Hospital gratefullyacknowledges contributions thatwe have received to the Remem­brance Fund during December,1991 and January, 1992.Through the remembrance andhonor of these lives, St. Anne'scan continue its "Caring WithExcellence."

We are grateful to those whothoughtfully named St. Anne'sHospital's Remembrance Fund.

DECEMBER 1991

Marjorie AbramsEdward A. Austin

Roland R. BanvilleJohn Bell, Jr.John Bell, Sr.

Giovanni BonaguraRev. Roland BrodeurMrs. Lilia CamachoAntonia S. Cardoza

Jeannette CayerFlorence Croke

Richard H. CunhaTheodore Falandys

Mr. Richard FernandesMrs. William Furze'

Mrs. Lorraine M. GagneMary V. GalvinEdward Gazarro

Leon N. GendreauDr. William V. Gugli

Mrs. Lillian D. GuillotteHolland Welcome Hazen

Mrs. Ida HicksDr. Anne Marie HigginsDr. Thomas F. Higgins

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Richard LavimoniereMary Lee

Hendryka MaslankaMrs. Sandy Mello·Edward C. MichnoEdward MonarchAnita Ouellette

Raymond E. PariseAndrew J. Phenix

Mrs. Sylvia T. RebackAnn L. RogersAlbert J. Roy

Max SalterPauline V. Sasso

Joseph C. SaulinoMonsignor Daniel F. Shalloo

Mr. StikeIda Volpe

Frederic A. Woodworth

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From bankers to ex-communists,participants in a Vatican-convenedconference asked whether capital­ism is the best system for rebuiid­ing societies in the postcommunistworld. No single answer emerged,but the experts agreed that com-

system, it's not very often requiredof her.

Sister Racine's responsibilitiesdon't end at the hospital, whereher hours are 8 a.m. to I p.m. and 5to 7:30 p.m. Weekends find herworking with Young ChristianStudents in Angal. "We have dis­cussions and take part in apostolicactivities," she said.

In Uganda since 1990, she haslearned the Alur language, spokenby most patients, although Eng­lish is the country's official tongue."Alur is the easiest of all the lan­guages used in the country," shesaid.

St. Luke's Hospital is served byfour Italian and two African,doc­tors and by nine Comboni Sisters.Asked where the order gets voca­tions in these days of scarcity, Sis­ter Racine laughed. "I guess fromGod," she said. :

Commenting on care of the agedin Uganda, she said she has neverseen an old age home, that peopleremain with their families. Theaging problem seldom arises, how­ever, since the life expectancy formen is only 49, for women 51.

Sister Racine, aged 30, is thethird of six brothers and sisters, allof whom graduated from StangHigh School. Her parents arePermanent Deacon and Mrs. LeoRacine. Her father serves as a dea­con at S1. Theresa's parish, NewBedford, but the family's homeparish is S1. Joseph's, also in NewBedford.

Their missionary daughter spokeat S1. Joseph's School and at Stangwhile on her every-four-years homeleave, also finding time to visit hersiblings.

"It was my first Christmas athome for seven years," she said.

Sister Racine worked in a plugfor her chosen community, noting

. that anyone interested in the 2000­member congregation, which servesin Latin America, the Middle East,Europe and the United States aswell as in Africa, can write to theComboni Sisters at 514 S. Clare­mont Ave. Chicago, Ill., 60612.

As for herself, she said, "I'm inthe right place."

"I'm in right place" saysmissioner to Uganda

By Pat McGowan

In 1987, Comboni Sister JackieRacine visited the Anchor. At thattime the graduate of Bishop StangHigh School, North Dartmouth,and the nursing progr~m of whatis now the University of Massa­chusetts at Dartmouth ;was anewly-professed sister on the eveofleaving the United States for hercommunity's generalate in Rome.After a brief stay at the generalate,she expected to spend the follow­ing four years at a Comboni hospi­tal in Italy.

But what she had dreamed ofsince childhood was a life as a mis­sionary nurse in Africa. She didn'thave to wait long.

After a mere two years at a hos­pital in Milan, Italy, during whichtime she became fluent in Italian,she received her dream assignment:to take charge of a 70-bed child­ren's ward at St. Luke's GeneralHospital, in Angal, a town in theWest Nile River area of Uganda inEast Africa.

There she supervises care of"usually 100 kids" under condi­tions light years removed fromthose found on stateside pediatricwards. Recently she visited theAnchor again, this time to talkabout her work.

Unless children are very seriouslyiII or receiving intravenous ther­apy, she explained, they sleep onthe ward floor. Each child must beaccompanied by an attendant,usually his or her mother, whooften must bring along other child- .reno The mother does routine careand feeding of her child, cookingfood brought from home in acommunal kitchen with wood fires.

"It gets very smoky in there andthe temperature rises to about 100degrees in the dry season," saidSister Racine.

Except for the bedridden, child­ren go outside during the day, shesaid, always with an attendarit,even if at times it's only Ii 6 or 7year-old sibling.

It's hard to work with patientslying on the floor, she admitted,but noted that with the attendant

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and executive branches of govern­ment; state health organizations toassess community needs and dis­tribute resources; and integratedcare delive.ry networks of physi­cians, hospitals, nurses and socialworkers.

Key components of the plan areuniversal access, a patient-centeredcare delivery system, choice ofdelivery networks, reduced admi­nistrative costs and incentives forpreventive and primary care.

"While our proposal is in har­mony with our ministry values andthe teachings of our church, it willalso be appealing to a broaderU.S. audience," Kessler said. "It ...will provide the Catholic healthcare ministry a place at the table todebate and help lead health carereform."

The difficulty of developing acomprehensive plan was demon­strated last December when thefederal Advisory Council on SocialSecurity ended two-and-a-halfyears ofwork by admitting that itcould not agree on a plan to reformthe current public-private healthinsurance system.

"A majority of the council con­cludes that, at this time, there is noone right choice," the council saidin its final report. "The nationalconsensus so essential to the suc­cessful systemicreform the councilbelieves necessary has clearly notdeveloped.", But four of the council's 13.members issued a strongly wordeddissent, saying the council had"failed in its major mission" byrecommending only gradual chang­es, along with further study.

"In essence, the council urges usto buy some new furniture for ahouse that is on the verge of col­lapse," the dissenting members said."The more urgent task, we sug­gest, is to rebuild the house."

groups support a national healthinsurance plan.

But the health care issue goes farbeyond the question of insuranceto such matters as fair distributionof human and material resources,bureaucratic inefficiency and waste,and discrimination against certaingroups of patients and certain dis­eases that carry a social stigma.

Both Network and the St. Louis­based"Catholic Health Associationare working to address the full pic­ture in health care policy state­ments.

Network's "vision statement,"released last November, criticizedthe country's "lack of a nationalhealth care policy" and called it a"failure which leaves the mostvulnerable people unprotected andwhich jeopardizes our nation'sfuture."

Among other things, Networkrecommends developing financing

. mechanisms to fund health care,changing liability laws with regardto malpractice, addressing the highcost of prescriptions and diagnos­tic testing and eliminating unne­cessary duplication of services.

The Catholic Health Associa­tion, through a 20-member taskforce on national health policyreform, is working on its own planfor reforming the U.S. health caresystem and hopes to present itsfinal proposal to the CHA boardthis spring.

The CHA plan, the subject ofregional meetings throughout thecountry, is designed to make auniquely Catholic contribution tothe ongoing debate about healthcare reform, according to WilliamE. Kessler, president of St. Anth­ony's Health Center in Alton, Ill.,CHA board chairman

The CHA plan foresees estab­lishment ofa national health board,independent from the legislative

Health care: no easy answers

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"See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you thattheir angels in heaven always see the face of my Father." Matt. 18:10

WASHINGTON (CNS) ­Health care promises to play amajor role both in the 1992 presi­dential campaign and in the house­hold budgets ofaverage Americans.

At a recent debate on healthcare issues in Nashua, N.H., eightDemocratic candidates for presi­dent agreed that affordable healthcare is a fundamental right of allAmericans, but found little else toagree on.

"National health reform is goingto be a major issue" in the 1992elections, said Ruth Purtilo, pro­fessor ofclinical ethics in CreightonUniversity's Center for HealthPolicy and Ethics. "I think we'veturned the corner on that question."

With U.S. health care costsreaching nearly $700 billion in1990 - $2,050 for each Americanman, woman and child, the high­est per capita cost in any country- the deadline for resolving thenation's health care crisis is fastapproaching, according to Catholicleaders in the health care field.

"It's almost like the mood ofthe'30s, a hopele'ss feeling of 'Whatare we going to do?'" said Sister ofSt. Joseph Catherine Pinkerton, alobbyist for the Catholic socialaction group, network.

The statistics are daunting. Areport released last December saysthat an additional 1.3 million peo­ple became medically uninsuredbetween 1989 and 1990, bringingthe total of Americans with nohealth insurance to at least 35 mil­lion. Another 60 million are esti­mated to have inadequate healthinsurance.

The report, prepared from cen­'sus data, was released by the Pub­lic Citizen Health Research Group,Physicians for a National HealthProgram and the Center for Na­tional Health Program Studies atHarvard University. All three

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EDITORRev. John F. Moore

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themoorins.-,In Joyful Hope

The diocese now enters a period of hopeful expectation. Webecome the watchers and waiters as we anticipate the appoint­ment by the Holy See of a new bishop for our diocese. With thefulfillment of required canonical procedures and the electionof Msgr. Henry Munroe as diocesan administrator, our localchurch enters into a new phase of its life.

The last time this situation arose in our diocese was upon thedeath of Bishop William Stang in 1907. The guidelines ofadministration at that time were very different from those oftoday; in fact, the procedures now in place to govern such aninterim situation as we are now experiencing flow directlyfrom the historically hysterical situations that often occurredprior to promulgation of the 1917 Code of Canon Law.

In that connection, it should be noted that the election ofMsgr. Munroe as diocesan governed by specific regulations.The qualifications of an administrator are spelled out in detailby canon law. He must be a priest at least 35 years of age andoutstanding in doctrine and prudence. Once elected, he isbound by the obligations and enjoys much of the power of abishop, excluding certain things which are excepted by theirnature or by the law itself. .

In our present situation, where the administrator is not abishop, certain episcopal prerogatives, especially in the sacra­mental area, are outside his sphere. The law also clearly statesthat when the see is vacant there are to be no innovations. Thisis a legal effort to preclude possible problems for the futurebishop; but it does not mean that the administrator cannotmake decisions redounding to the benefit of the diocese.

Obviously an administrator has the responsibility of keep­ing the diocesan house in good order. In today's world he needsthe help and cooperation of all in the diocesan family, not justbecause it is his due but more importantly for the good of thechurch, the people of God.

The administrator's responsibilities cease when the newbishop takes possession of the diocese. Until this occurs at thepleasure of the Holy See, this process assures the continuity soimportant for good order and stability, both of which aresorely needed in these times.

Thus, if anyone thinks that there will be great changes in ourdiocese while we await a new bishop, he or she is mistaken.Indeed, much of what we do in the world, whether it be of acivil or ecclesial nature, is governed by law. We are such ficklebeings that law is necessary to secure peace and justice.

Over the centuries, the church has experienced many swingsof human moods. In most situations, such alterations havebeen detrimental and hurtful. In that light, the new Code ofCanon Law is a true sign of care and concern for all thechurches and church members in communion with the HolySee. It seeks not to harm but to help, and is in itself a veryhuman attempt to keep the house in order and the familytogether. The church knows well its importance.

As we anticipate the appointment of our new bishop, mayeach of us support the stewardship of our administrator. Thuseach of us will share with joyful hope in the task that is ours atthis time in the life of our diocesan church.

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WASHINGTON(CNS)- Am­nesty International has encour,lgedCongress to press for changc:s inthe policies on use of deadly forceby Northern Ireland police agen­cies.

In a recent hearing befon theCongressional Human Rights Cau­cus, Halya Gowan, a researcherfor the international human r· ghtsmonitoring agency, noted diicre­pancies between the existing poli­cies for Northern Ireland lawenforcement officers and those fol­lowed in England or Wales.

The committee also heard fromrelatives of two young men whowere shot by British soldie:'s inDecember; from John Stalker,author of a recent book OIl hisinvestigation of a disputed killing;and from a Massachusetts di!:trictattorney who has written OIl the !

legal basis for the use of I,:thalforce.

Ms. Gowan noted that AmnestyInternational has been askin.~ theBritish government since 19115 toestablish an independant ju(licialinquiry to investigate disputed kil­lings by security forces as a WiY ofjudging how well existing p:oce­dures work and evaluating currentlegislation on the use of kthalforce.

Although the laws for use offorce are the same as for otherparts of the United Kingdom, Ms.Gowan noted that police officersin England and Wales, for eJ:am­pIe, do not regularly carry guns.

Amnesty International"bel eves. the laws and regulations govern­. ing the use of lethal force by Sl:cur­ity forces are inadequate to pre­vent and deter unlawful kiIlings,"she said. "There is also a discre­pancy between the law as ap;>liedin Northern Ireland and rel{vantinternational legal standards."

In addition, she said, inve5 tiga­tions do not meet minimum inter­national standards set by the Uni­ted Nations.

"In some cases [investiga tors)have not examined all the reh:vantevidence, prevented prosecut ions,failed to investigate reports 0:des­truction of evidence or conductedinvestigations in a manner likelyto lead to or to facilitate fabrica­tion of evidence or perjury," shesaid.

By FATHER ROGER_K.ARBAN

CorrectionsSt. Mary-Sacred Heart School,

North Attleboro, featured on lastweek's schools page, was incor­rectly identified as being in NewBedford.

St. Theresa of the Child Jesusparish in South Attleboro wasincorrectly identified on page 9 oflast week's Anchor as being inSouth Dartmouth.

The Anchor regrets the errors.

gives details. He looks for hisprophet to say "yes". before heinforms him about the where, whoand when. The Lord simply asks,"Whom shall I send? Who will gofor us?" expecting Isaiah to answer,"Here I am, send me!"

Peter and his companions aregiven only a broad outline for theirministry. "From now on," Jesussays, "you wiIl be catching men."Yet they respond in the generousfashion of all biblical "callees":"With that they brought their boatsto land, left everything, and becamehis foIlowers."

Though paraIlel to the two otherpassages, Paul's response demandssome reading beyond the liturgicallines. He relates his call in the con­text of a list of Jesus' post-resur­rection appearances. Since someCorinthians are beginning to be­lieve there is no resurrection fromthe dead, the apostle must remindhis community of the most fun­damental part of his teaching. "Youare being saved by it at this verymoment if you retain it as Ipreached to you," he writes. "Oth­erwise you have believed in vain."

Once they respond to a caIlexper1ence from the risen Jesus,they start down the road of faith.Yet not even Paul can totallyexplain their resurrected future.He gropes for analogies; compar­ing seeds with fruit, starlight with·sunlight, and heavenly bodies withearthly bodies. Nothing quite des­cribes this phenomenon. Christianssimply are caIled to probe theunknown.

Every God-foIlower can iden­tify with today's readings. Thoughhistory, culture and individualshave· changed, call narratives re­main the same. We stiIl need theLord's guarantee that he wiIl helpus overcome the failings whichstop us from totally responding tohis invitation. And we stiIl needthe courage to sign the blank con­tract he places before us.

Every call is· a command tochange the source of our security.Biblical examples show how thefaithful leave everything behindwhen they begin to foIlow theLord's path. Perhaps the reason sofew of us feel God calling us todayrevolves around our unwillingnessto switch security sources. We findit very hard to put all our hope andtrust in a person who continuallypushes and pulls us into areas wewould rather not go. Yet it is whenwe generously respond to his caIlthat we most discover our destiny.

DAILY READINGSFeb. 10: 1 Kgs 8:1-7,9­

13; Ps 132:6-10; Mk 6:53­56

Feb. 11: 1 Kgs. 8:22­23,27-30; Ps 84:3-5,10-11;Mk 7:1-13

Feb. .12: 1 Kgs 10:1-10;Ps 37:5-6,30-31,39-40; Mk7:14-23

Feb. 13: 1 Kgs 11:4-13;Ps 106:3-4,35-37, 40; Mk7:24-30

Feb. 14: 1Kgs 11:29-32;12:19; Ps 81:10-15; Mk7:31-37

Feb. 15: 1 Kgs 12:26-32;13:33-34; Ps 106:6-7,19­22; Mk 8:1-10

Feb. 16: Jer 17:5-8; Ps1:1-4,6; 1 Cor 15:12, 16­20; Lk 6: 17,20-26

The callof theLord

Isaiah 6:1-2,3-8I Corinthians 15:1-11

Luke 5:1-11

Each of today's three readingscontains a "caIl narrative."

Since the original readers ofScripture believed they had receiveda personal vocation from God,these biblicalpassages are extreme­ly important. Such narratives con­vey· the deep insights which theLord's followers have acquiredthrough centuries of reflecting ontheir special invitations. Thoughgiven eight centuries apart, intotaIly different circumstances, thethree caIls contain very significant,common elements.

For instance, each recipient ini­tially gives a reason for refusingGod's request. Isaiah shouts, .....1am a man of unclean lips, livingamong a people of unclean lips.....

Peter falls at Jesus' feet plead­ing, "Leave me, Lord, I am a sinfulman."

And Paul reacts to seeing therisen Jesus by confessing, "I amthe least of the apostles; in fact,because I persecuted the church ofGod, I do not even deserve thename."

God's caIl forces us to look atourselves in very honest and criti­cal ways. In those moments weunderstand our total inability torespond correctly to any requestthe Lord makes of us.

Yet every protest is met withGod's immediate reassurance."See," he tells Isaiah, .....yourwickedness is removed, your sinpurged." "Do not be afraid," Jesusassures Peter, "from now on.....And even Paul admits, ..... By God'sfavor I am what lam."

This protest/ reassurance inter­change arises from a realizationthat the Lord calls them to gobeyond their present, secure lifeinto a realm with which they havelittle familiarity.

Isaiah has no idea to what he isbeing caIled. As usual, Yahwehfirst demands a commitment, then

Q. Would you please explainthe church's stand on in vitro fer­tilization? (Pennsylvania)

A. In vitro fertilization is atechnological method of conceiv­ing a child without sexual rela-'tions between a man and woman.The woman's ovum and the malesperm are united in a test tube inwhich the first stages of growth ofthe new human life take place.

Soon this new pre-embryo istransferred, to the mother's (or

In vitro fertilization and Catholic teaching6

By

FATHER

JOHN J.

DIETZEN

The AnchorFriday, Feb. 7, 1992

another woman's) womb for con­tinuing development.

Such fertilization is called hete­rologous if the gametes come frompeople who are not married toeach other. Homologous fertiliza­tion means that the reproductivecells come from a husband andwife married to each other.

In vitro, literally "in glass," fer­tilization is considered entirelymorally unacceptable by thechurch, for at least these reasons:

First, from the time the ovum isfertilized a new separate humanlife has begun which has its owndignity. Commercial, scientific andother procedures often performedon lives begun "in vitro" violatethe respect and physical and spir­itual reverence owed these lives.

Second, in vitro fertilizing usu­ally means that a number of zygotes(fertilized ova) are produced, allbut one ofwhich are simply allowed

to die and be discarded. This is animmoral deliberate destruction ofnew human life.

And third, this process for in­itiating human life is seen as a sub­version of the dignity and unity ofmarriage, and of the integrity ofnatural and necessary parentalrelationships with children as theycome into the world.

This aspect ofthe moral charac­ter of in vitro fertilization mayseem less tangible, but it is animportant and profound one. Inthe tradition and teaching of thechurch, sexual relations in thecontext of married love is the onlysetting worthy of bringing intoexistence a new human life.

Heterologous fertilization, ofcourse, brings in the additionalquestions of marriage fidelity andparental identity and responsibility.

But even if the fertilization ishomologous (husband and wife

providing the cells for the new lifeof their child) it deprives humanprocreation of the dignity which isproper and natural to it.

The fullest current explanationof the church's teaching on thesematters is the March 1987 "Instruc­tion on Respect for Human Life inIts Origin and on the Dignity ofProcreation," issued by the Con­gregation for the Doctrine of theFaith.

It says of this procedure, "Inconformity with the traditionaldoctrine relating to the goodsof marriage and the dignity of theperson, the church remains op­posed from the moral point ofview to homologous in vitro fer­tilization.

Such fertilization is in itself illicitand "in opposition to the dignityof procreation and of the conjugalunion" (11,5).

Perhaps it needs to be clearlysaid that when in vitro or anyother kind of artificial human fer­tilization does happen, the result­ing life is no less human and no lessto be accepted and cared for withlove.

For those of us who were raisedwhen there was only one way for ababy to be conceived and carriedto term, it comes as a surprise toknow that today there are at least30 different combinations ofmethods by which this can happen.

And each has its own array ofreligious and human, and there­fore moral, questions.

It is a continuing and monu­mental challenge for the church,or anyone else, to address thesetechnological developments hO,n­estly and at the same time remainfaithful to those values we hold so·sacred about human life and re­lationships.

Sexual harassment or harmless fun?

Little Carolyn Marie made pro-life concepts real

Putting love into marriage

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By

DOLORES

CURRAN

If the Anita Hill-ClarenceThomas standoff did nothing else,it started women talking andthinking about sexual harassment.And if the women I'm hearing arerepresentative of the wider popu­lation, then most women havebeen sexually harassed at sometime in their lives.

I was, but it wasn't called sexualharassment 40 years ago. It was

By

ANTOINETTE

BOSCO

Something happened at St.John's Catholic Church in Water­town, Conn., that has infused aparish with a new commitment toreach out and help desperatepregnant women.

It happened the evening of Nov.4. Father Robert Rousseau had

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Dr. JAMES &

MARY

KENNY

Dear Mary: My husband and Ihave been married close to sevenyears. We have one child.

We were teenage lovers and mar­ried very young. We share a lot,but we really do not share the lovenecessary for a healthy, happy,loving marriage.

When we married I didn't knowGod or the teachings ofJesus con­cerning marriage, but now I do.Marriage has an entirely different

called harmless fun by those whoengaged in it. It never occurred tothem that I was offended by-it andif I had told them so, I'd have beenaccused of having no sense ofhumor.

During my college summers, Iwaitressed in a northwoods resortwhich drew upper middle classfisherman and their families. Oneof the most popular features of theresort was Chip, a personable 30­year-old bachelor who ran the barin the Lodge where I waitressed.

Everyone liked Chip because hewas fun and funny. One of hisfortes was sexual innuendo and Iwas the chief victim. I grew to hategoing into the bar to serve food ormake change because I knew there

left a meeting of the Council ofCatholic Women and went to turnon the lights to the parking lot. Ashe was about to leave the dimly litchurch entryway, he heard a smallcry.

Father Rousseau looked downand could barely see a small box ina corner. He vividly recalls that cryin the darkness and a shaft of lightshining on a newborn infant girl.

It was, the priest said, "as if Godpoked her and said, 'Let yourselfbe known.' She wasn't crying. Shejust let out that one cry and got myattention."

Nov.4 is the feast of St. CharlesBorromeo, "so I called her Caro-

meaning to me now, and our mar­riage does not have what is neces­sary.

If we were to divorce, would I becast out of the Catholic Church?

I love God and my church a lot;I just don't love my husband. Thethought of spending my life in arelationship where there is no loveis sad. What are we to do? ­Washington

Your letter mystifies me. WhileI understand you are dissatisfied, Ifind it difficult to figure out whatyou want out of your marriage.

Perhaps your marriage lacksromance or intimacy. Perhaps it isjust boring. Perhaps your expecta­tions of marriage do not matchreality.

would be some reference to myanatomy by Chip to the rilen at the

, bar who would pick up on it andguffaw.

When it rained and they couldn'tfish, they could always sit aroundthe bar and have fun at my expense.The owners encouraged Chip be­cause he kept the fishermen frombeing grumpy.

While I was deeply offended, Iwas too naive and the culture wastoo accepting of this smutty malerepartee to confront it. I just fig­ured it went with the job.

If I faced the same thing today, Iwould confront Chip privately,tell him he was offending me, andask him to stop. If he didn't, I'dconfront him at the bar with hisfans watching.

Iyn," Father Rousseau explained,"and I added Marie for the BlessedMother."

St. John's parishioner EllenCavallo is a nurse, mother of threeand pro-life advocate. She saidthat the impact of Carolyn Marie'sarrival has gone beyond the "excite­ment at our church that night."Suddenly the parishioners had intheir midst "a lovely strawberryblonde baby girl, 3 or 4 hours old."

But along with that joy, saidMrs. Cavallo, was a sadness that amother had been desperate enoughto desert her newborn infant. "Theproblem of pregnant mothers issomething we talk libout," Mrs.Cavallo said. "But on that night

Marriage is built on sharedvalues, shared interests, physicalattraction, mutual understanding,shared experiences and intimacy.

Generally, early love is morecarefree and romantic. Later, withthe arrival of children, responsibil­ity grows but so does commitment.

Generally the deepest joys andhurts occur within the family. Asspouses share the joys and consoleeach other over the hurts, theybecome closer friends and betterlovers.

You say that learning about theteachings of Jesus has convincedyou that your marriage does nothave what is needed. Yet, the sin­gle thing Jesus asks of us is not tolook for love in our lives but to putlove into our lives.

If that didn't work, I'd go to mybosses and say, "I was hired as awaitress, not as a butt of sexualjokes. I'm a good waitress but ifthat isn't enough, then I don'twant the job."

I would risk losing the job, ofcourse, and'this is what women aretelling me when, like the senators,they brush off sexual harassmentas harmless. It isn't harmless. It'sdegrading, disrespectful and threat­ening. Millions of women havehad to put up with it because theyneed or want to keep their jobs.

In the aftermath of the Thomashearings, the Corning kitchenwarecompany shared its common-senseapproach to sexual harassment.Its employees are told to applyfour tests in deciding whether their

Carolyn was right there. She madethe problem come home."

Because Carolyn Marie wasabandoned, Father Rouseau hadto turn her over to the state depart­ment of Children and Youth Ser­vices. She has since been placed ina foster home. If the mother is notfound, she will probably be put upfor ado'ption.

Ironically, Father Rousseaunoted, on that Nov. 4 when CarolynMarie lay swaddled in a T-shirt ina small box, the parish's pro-lifecommittee was having a staffmeeting. "We talked about thepro-life concept and questionedwhat we should be doing to edu­cate people.

Since I am not an authority onthe legalities of your status withinthe church, I cannot tell you whatwould happen should you divorce.

However, I am more interestedin how you might begin to live theloving, giving, joy-filled life Jesuscalls you to live.

First, you need to sincerely be­lieve that you are capable of givinglove. Then you must want to takethis direction. For a marriage togrow, both husband and wife mustwant to grow.

The church you love can help.Find out if there are retreats orrenewal weekends in your areaespecially for married couples.

Join a study group or prayergroup to help you reflect on whatyou might bring to yourmarriage.

behavior constitutes sexual harass­ment: Would you say or do this infront of your spouse or parents;ditto, in front of a colleague of thesame sex; would you like yourbehavior reported in your localnewspaper; and does it need to besaid or done at all?

The company's guidelines formanagement are clear: "Harass­ment constitutes one of the mostbasic violations of an individual'srights. It represents a cost of qual­ity and loss of productivity thatCorning will not tolerate."

I don't think I could improve onthose guidelines. Sexual harass­ment doesn't have to go with thejob. I wonder if Chip ever learnedthat. Ifhe had daughters or grand­daughters, maybe he did.

.. And then that night littleCarolyn -appeared. She made thewhole pro-life concept real."

Father Rousseau has had sometime to ponder how the arrival ofCarolyn Marie has changed hisown life. "Personally, I have be-

, come much more sensitive to theneeds of women."

"I thank that mother for havinggiven birth to that child," FatherRousseau said. "Though she mayhave been desperate, I thank herfor having the courage to bring herchild to a safe and warm place."

Then the priest paused' ·f()f amoment and said, "God does workin mysterious ways."

You say you share a lot together.Build on that. Plan to spend sometime alone together every week.

Make your love grow by sharingit.

Can you provide a home for afoster child? Can you volunteer ata nursing home, a child-care cen­ter, a center for pregnancy coun­seling? Find out the needs in yourcommunity, and do what you dobest to help.

If you truly want to make yourmarriage grow, you need to dis­cover and deal with the things thatbother you. Even more importantyou need to recognize the strengthson which you can build. A mar­riage counselor might be able tohelp.

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"The question is no longer 'Willthe budget agreement be broken?but 'How will it be brokenT" hesaid.

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cades-long disinvestment in hu­man infrastructure," particularlythrough job' training, housing,transportation and community in­frastructure and research and devel­opment programs.

Is it realistic to expect politi­cians to set aside partisan differen­ces in an election year? "If GeorgeBush doesn't, it's not going to bean election year for him," Moransaid.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River:""'- Fri., Feb. 7, 1992 7

generous than to throw peopleback to a situation that ev,~n theBush administration admils is achaotic political scene," sa.d Fa­ther Ryscavage.

More than 15,000 Haitial1 boatpeople have been intercepted atsea since a military coup inSeptember overthrew Fathe:' Jean­Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's pres­ident.

'Job seekersContinued from Page Olle

. ployee Judy Milewski was sur­prised, heartened and a little ernbar­

; rassed when her Richmond, Va.,parish gave tier a Christmas foodbasket.

Laid off from her mid ·Ievelmanagement job at a Richmondbank in November, .Ms. Milt:wskiwas feeling fairly optimistic abouther chances of finding a new jobsoon.

When her parish sent over a bigbox offoodjust before Christmas,Ms. Milewski was cheered ty theknowledge that someone waf wor­ried about her but a bit embar­rassed to realize she was on thereceiving end of charity :'or achange. Since she was spe :ldingthe holidays with her parents, shewas in turn able to pass alongsome of the food to a family sheknew was in greater need.

In its publication, Initiatives,The National Center for the Laityregularly describes support pro­grams for the unemployed fromaround the country. The Chicago­based organization also .)fferscopies of a booklet published dur­ing the 1983 recession with ti ps onhow to set up support grou~'s andjob networks.

William Drod, editor of )nitia­tives, said people like Ms. Milewskiare typical of the different f.lce ofthe unemployed in this recession.Among the hardest hit are those inmanagement, white-collar, techni­calor highly skilled jobs -- whohl"l;pved their professions wereinsulated from the layoffs morecommon to factory, constructionor other labor-intensive jobs, Droelsaid., An instructor and campw: min­ister at Moraine Valey ColI~ge inthe Chicago suburb of Palos Hills,Droel edits Initiatives on a volun­teer basis.

"I try to keep raising the idea ofour Christian responsibility tocreate jobs," he said.

In the February issue he citesthe story of Jim McKeown, whowent on a retreat in 1989 and dis­covered some retreatants were wel­fare recipients. Deciding he shouldtry to create employment, heestablished the Partnership forCommon Good, which, amongother things, helped 10 f,)rmerwelfare mothers start a gift-hasketcompany.

U.S. Rep. James Moral1, D­Va., and Shellabarger ofthe USCCboth said the only significant fed­eral help to the unemployed willcome from the $14.3 billion trans­portation bill passed in October.

Moran, a Catholic from theWashington suburb of Alexandria,Va., said that in the last few years,his constituents seem to have lostconfidence. And while lack ofindividual confidence may makefinding a job difficult, Moran isworried about what happem whenemployers start to reflect the sameattitude.

For its part in curing the confi­dence gap, Moran said COl1gressneeds to put aside differences withPresident Bush and "undo the de­111111111111111111111I111111I11111I11111111111111I111n11111i1I11111UI

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Haitian rulingContinued from Page One

"It was not for frivolous reasonsthat [the Haitians] fled theirhomeland. They left in desperationbecause of intolerable violence andoppression," said Bishop Daily.

The U.S. Supreme Court Jan.31 lifted a ban that had preventedthe government from sending Hait­ians back, ending months of legalwrangling that left more than10,000 Haitians in a state of limboat Guantanamo Bay naval base inCuba.

The court's 6-3 ruling came onan emergency petition by the Bushadministration, which argued thatas many as 20,000 Haitians werepreparing to leave their countryand that the naval base at Guan­tanamo Bay was filled to capacity.

"We have no independent con­firmation" of the 20,000 figure,said Father Ryscavage.

He added that "none of thecases [of Haitian asylum seekers]we've received in Miami have beenHIV-positive."

Father Ryscavage said he hadno reason to believe that the AIDSvirus was more prevalent amongHaitian asylum-seekers than amongthe general Haitian population.

"I think there's a bit of hysteriainvolved here. It seems to me [theUnited States] is not reallythreatened by the influx. We canafford as a society to be more

THE BENEDICTINE orderofthe Sisters ofJesus Crucifiedcan't be accused of discrimi­nation. It even accepts thosewho are in good health.

However, all 12 sisters nowat St. Paul's Priory, Newport,RI, have physical handicaps.When their community wasfounded by Father MauriceGaucheron and SuzanneWrotnowska in 1930, theyemphasized that all its mem­bers, whether in poor or goodhealth, 'could share a lifedevoted to prayer and to suchwork as cooking, housework,sewing, gardening, arts andcrafts, vestment making andpainting of icons.

Sister Beatrice Marie Na­deau, shown above workingon an icon, also designs greet­ing cards and paints.

But she said the order neverforgets that its primary focusis prayer; and special intentionsphoned in or brought in personare never forgotten. (CNSphoto)

Continued from Page OneHe was ordained in 1953 by the

late Bishop James L. Connolly atSt. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River.

His first parish assignment wasto Holy Name Church, New Bed­ford, where he remained 19 yearsbefore assuming the pastorate ofSt. John the Evangelist Church,Attleboro, in 1972. He remainedin that post until 1975, when hewas appointed pastor of St. Pius XChurch, South Yarmouth. In 1989,he was appointed to his presentparish and named diocesan vicargeneral.

Over the years, Msgr. Munroeserved as notary and secretary ofthe diocesan marriage tribunalbefore being named judicial vicarin 1971. In that position he waschief judge and administrativeofficer of the court that handles alldiocesan cases involving marriages.

From September, 1972, to June,1975, he was episcopal vicar forthe Attleboro and Taunton areasof the diocese, and from June II,1975, to June 27, 1989, served inthe same capacity in the Cape andIslands areas.

In 1974, Msgr. Munroe wasnamed a prelate of honor by PopeJohn Paul VI, at that time receivingthe title of monsignor. Since 1976he has been a minister of the sac­rament of confirmation in the FallRiver diocese.

The election ofa diocesan admin­istrator followed the Jan. 28 instal­lation offormer Fall River BishopDaniel A. Cronin as archbishop ofHartford, Conn. Canon law man­dates that an administrator mustbe elected by the board of con­sultors of a diocese within eightdays of the time that a bishop diesor is installed as head of anothersee.

The consultors for the Fall Riverdiocese who participated in theJan. 30 election are Msgr. Munroe,Msgrs. Luiz G. Mendonca, JohnJ. Oliveira and John J. Smith andFathers Richard L. Chretien, Ed­mund J. Fitzgerald, and John J.Steakem.

Feb. 91963, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J.

Kelly, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul,Fall River

1985, Rev. Vincent R. Dolbec,A.A., Assumption College

1972, Rev. Peter J. McKone,S.J. Bishop Connolly High School,Fall River

Feb. 101966, Rev. Edward L. O'Brien,

St. Mary, Mansfield -1983, Rev. Lucien A. Madore,

Retired Chaplain of Mt. St. JosephSchool, Fall River, Director, NotreDame Cemetery Fall River

Feb. 111961, Rev. John J. Sullivan,

S.T.L., Pastor, Holy Rosary FallRiver

1987, Rev. William J. McMa­hon, Retired Pastor, St. Joan ofAre, Orleans

1910, Rev. John O'Connell,Founder, St. John Evangelist,Attleboro

Feb. 121961, Rev. Stanislaus B. Albert,

SS.Cc., Sacred Hearts Monastery,Fairhaven

Feb. 141932, Rev. Charles E. Clerk,

Pastor, St. Roch, Fall River1980, Rev. Msgr. Francis E.

McKeon, Pastor Emeritus, SacredHeart, Taunton

Administrator

8 THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Feb. 7, 1992 Guilt and the children of aging parents

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What stories these pews could tell

Wings"The way to Heaven is so nar­

row, so rocky that no one cantravel up it, except by flying. Noone can fly, except with wings, andwings do not attach to the body,but to the spirit."-St. FrancesCabrini

the people in the pews, will knowthat wonderful things are about tohappen when we see notes likethese in our Sunday bulletin:"Spend more evenings together asa family this week with the TV setturned om"

We need to be honest with ourpastors and other parish staff peo­ple. They need to hear from usthat, while we would be lost with­out Sunday Mass, we need morethan that.

First, we need to feel theiracceptance of us as families ofvar­ious kinds, with all our trials andimperfections. Then we need theirhelp to be the best Christian fami­lies we can be.

My family - like yours, I sus­pect - feels more inclined to par­ticipate in parish activities whenwe sense support from our parishfor the domestic church that is ourfamily.

Remember you don't have to doeverything for an aging parent. Itis not required that you meet allhis needs yourself. If there isn'tenough time to clean Dad's houseand make all his meals, or if yousimply can't bring yourself to giveDad a bath, there are competent,qualified people who do thesethings, people in social-servicejobswho provide home and personalcare.

Instead, use your time and energyto do the things with him that youreally want to do. The things thatmean most to you and him. Theones that will mean the most toyou after he is gone.

Remember you can set limits. Aparent whose health continues todeteriorate is going to need moreand more attention, but that doesnot mean you will be able to con­tinue to match that need. Permityourself to say, "I can't do that."

Remember that others face thesame insurmountable challenges.There are support groups availa­ble whose members will listen andunderstand.

Finally, remember that no mat­ter how much you do, no matterhow well you do it, an aging par­ent's health is going to deteriorate.This is not a reflection on you.And it is not your fault.

ticipate in is the church of our fam­ily. Our most basic calling is to bepresent to and build up the churchof our family. So we should getinvolved in extra parish activitiesonly if that will relieve not inten­sify our level of stress at home.Parish staff people should be thefirst to appreciate this insight.

A stressed-out person motivatedby guilt makes a poor CCD teacheror parish council member.

In an era when family life isbeing eroded on all sides, supportfor family life should be an essen­tial dimension of all parish minis­tries. A basic parish goal should beto nourish the roots of the parishin the various kinds of strugglingfamilies which constitute the par­ish. Faith-filled families will meana faith-filled parish.

The best thing we can do for ourparish, most of the time, is tospend time with our family. We,

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - A him, "the most pressing concernsnew book distributed by a Wash- are uninspiring liturgies, ineffec­ington-based group offoundations tive styles of communication andand donors examines young peo- teaching, lack ofoutreach programspIe's attitudes toward Catholicism. and sporadic opportunities for

FADICA (Foundations and Don- [youth) involvement. These areors Interested in Catholic Activi- things that turn young people awayties), in a recent statement, said the,· from the church."book is the "edited exchange" of The statement said the studentspersons participating in a national urged the church to help equipsymposium. on how the church you'rig people to' better link themight develop stronger links with teachings oftheir faith to daily life.the next generation of Catholics. '

The 142-page book titled "Of It said they also called for moreFaith Service and Values: The opportunities to "learn ChristianChurch and Youth Involvement," values through volunteer service."

contains personal narratives ofeight college-age Catholic studentswho spoke before an au4ience offoundation presidents, bishops andyouth ministers.

The FADICA statement quotedone of them, Jeremy Langford, anhonors student at the University ofNotre Dame, as saying that to

through for her the way she did forme.

I feel guilty about feeling guiltyall the time.

Or I feel guilty for giving myselfa break and not feeling guilty.

Maybe hardest of all, I feelguilty because sometimes I imaginewhat a relief it will be when Dadhas died. And then I can't believe Ifeel this way. What's wrong withme?

And as if the care giver's emo­tions aren't already stirred up,overworked and muddled enough,Mom or Dad knows what buttonsto push - the phrase, the gesture,the sigh, the stare - to make achild feel guilty.

Brothers and sisters likewisehaven't forgotten a sibling's emo­tional weak spots. A spouse canpour on guilt. And children, evenlittle ones, can be masters at usingit to manipulate.

Guilt can easily become a con­stant companion, and if leftunchecked it feeds the twin fires ofexhaustion and anger.

What to do?Remember you are a human

being, created and loved uncondi­tionally by God even though you,like all humans, are imperfect.You are not a perfect spouse, par­ent, son or daughter, not perfect atwork or play or prayer. You willnever be a perfect caregiver.

. By Mitch FinleyThere was once a poor peasant

who lived in a small village withhis family. Each day, the manwould leave to spend an hour inprayer at his parish church.

As he left his home he wouldturn, give a little wave and say,"Goodbye, Lord God, I'm goingnow to perform my religiousduties."

This story, told by the late authorand spiritual guide Father AnthonyDe Mello, SJ, illustrates perfectlya strand of tradition rediscoveredby Vatican Council I!.

The point of the story is thatGod is present in our homes and inour families, not just in church.

Even more to the point, familylife - whatever shape it may take- is an authentic form of church.Pope John Paul II, echoing Vati­can II, said that the family in itsvarious forms is meant to "consti­tute the church in its fundamentaldimension."

I detect some disbelief: "What?My family is the most basic formof church I belong to? You ob­viously don't know my family. Wehave problems. We struggle fromone week to the next."

Easy now. The key is to rethinkwhat the word "church" means. Itdoes not mean a group of peoplewho have no problems. Rather,"church" means something likethis: a gathering of people withproblems of all kinds, who, whenthey get a minute to think about it,realize that they place all theirhope in the love of God as revealed,in Jesus.

To embrace the truth that yourfamily is church is to acknowledgethat your relationship with Godhappens most fundamentally inthe context of your relationshipswith that unpredictable crew youlive with. Why?

Because the Gospel declares thatwe can't draw closer to God whileremaining distant from one anotherand vice versa.

The first form of church we par-

Imperfect families, you are the church

By Monica and Bill Dodds

The problem with guilt is thatsometimes we deserve it. We'vemade a mistake, hurt someone,been lazy or arrogant or selfishand feel bad about that.

But all too frequently for theadult child caring for an agingparent, the guilt alarm never stopsringing. The feelings of frustra­tion, inadequacy and doubt nevercease.

Sometimes it helps to realizethat no matter what you do - howmuch or how little - the guilt islikely to be there. For example:

I feel guilty because I don't stopin and see Mom every day.

I feel guilty because I'm spend­ing too much time helping her andthink I'm neglecting my spouseand kids.

I feel guilty because I don't livecloser to Dad.

I feel guilty because I'm thesibling who lives close by and I'mresentful - even jealous - thatthe others don't know the day-to­day hassles I'm facing.

I feel guilty because Mom wasn'tvery good at being a parent and Ilove her but sometimes don't likeher.

Or I feel guilty because Momwas a super parent, and now thatshe needs my help I'm not coming

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our little Marie to catnap on dur­ing Mass.

What stories these old pewscould tell about the kids' bickeringand giggling, about· how I tappedthem nervously as the children didtheir parts in the Christmas pro­gram, about how they have sup­ported us through weddings, bap­tisms, funerals.

I know the pews are not thechurch any more than the statue ofMary near the baptismal font orthe worn holy water dispenser bythe exit.

And change is due. But how doyou say goodbye to an era?

With a quivering lip and a tearysmile, that's how.

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As I walked into the back of thechurch recently for a quick hello tothe votive candle rack, workerswere unbolting the last three rowsof pews.

A lump formed in my throat.These have been "our" pews for along time. They have been con­stant friends, their varnish longago mixed with the oil of humanuse to make them smooth andwelcoming.

Yet, I suppose it's good they aregoing. The church needs remodel­ing. It will be nice to have the altarcloser to the congregation, to havethe choir out of the loft, to be ableto see more than just the backs ofheads.

There will be more room be­tween the new pews. No one willmiss having to climb over Mrs.McBrien's boney knees (she's anaisle hugger).

I wonder if our son John re­members how we used to fall overher and how he lost a tooth oncewhen he fell into a missal rack.

The new pews will probablyhave better racks, anyway. I don'tknow how many elbows we'vepried loose from the old ones overthe years. I do sort of hope that thenew ones look as natural withcrayon and Tinker Toys brokenoff in the pencil holes.

The new padded ones will benice. Maybe the padding will cutdown on the echoes created bydropping baby bottles or car keysor a concealed cap gun smuggledinto church. Funny, though, thathard pew was never too hard for

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Special mention went too to PatCasey of the city's Sandy BeachAssociation who for several yearshas conducted fundraising eVI:ntsfor the soup kitchen, most rece Cltly

Street, from II a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Monday and Fridays.

An invocation was offered byPermanent Deacon Manuel Cam­ara, the program's treasurer, and aclosing blessing by Father RichardW. Beaulieu, pastor ofSt. Patrick'sparish, in which the soup kitchenfacility is located.

A commemorative plaque wasunveiled by Albert Lewis, Urban'slongtime frie'nd and soup kitchenco-worker; and Fall River MayorJohn Mitchell presented Urban'swidow, Veronica, with a citationacknowledging her husband's con­tributions to the city.

Mrs. Urban, 71, who had workedwith her husband at the kitchen,has taken over his supervisoryrole. With a crew of similarlydevoted volunteers, she is on handat the facility every Tuesday andThursday.. Most crew members,.she said, are senior citizens who,despite a variety ofailments, reportfaithfully to their posts.

She paid tribute also to RogerSalpietro who with a group of St.Patrick's parishioners takes overdirection of the kitchen on Satur­days. '

Then there are untold scoreswho year-round keep the kitchenin food, contributing, Mrs. Urbansaid, nearly 75. turkeys during theholidays alone, plus sufficientcanned goods to share with theFall River Food Pantry, a pro-

A man who cared about God, people

IHENRY URBAN is shown in action in the soup kitchen in this 1989 Anchor file photo.

AT SOUP KITCHEN dedication, from left, Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, pastor of ~;;t.

Patrick's parish, Fall River, in which soup kitchen is located; Al Lewis, Urban's longtimefriend; Rev. William W. Norton, former St. Patrick's pastor and regular soup kitchen cook;Mrs. Veronica Urban, Urban's widow; Marilyn Southworth, president of soup kitchen pro­gram. (McGowan photo)

By Pat McGowan"Hank Urban was a man who

cared about God and about howGod cares for poor people,"declared Father William W. Nor­ton at the recent dedication toHenry P. Urban Sr. of the SladeStreet location of the Fall RiverCommunity Soup Kitchen.

Urban, who died of cancer lastApril 20 at age 75, had worked atthe kitchen as dishwasher, cookand eventually as supervisor fromthe time of its opening in 1982until a few weeks before his death,continuing even as his illness wasravaging his body.

Friends, family, priests, FallRiver city officials and volunteerswho had worked with Urban wereamong almost 100 persons whocrowded into the soup kitchen forthe dedication program.

Located in the basement of theDiocesan Offices of Catholic Social .Services at 783 Slade Street in FallRiver, the kitchen feeds the hungryon a no-questions-asked basis fromII a.m. to 12:30 p.in. each Tues­day and Thursday year-round andfrom II a.m. to noon each Saturdayfrom September to June.

Those at the dedication werewelcomed by Ms. Marilyn South­worth, president of the commun­ity soup kitchen program, whichalso operates at the EpiscopalChurch ofthe Ascension, 160 Rock

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his appointmenlas bishop of lin­coln. Past Vatican practice sug­gests that his retirement will prob­ably be delayed until shortly afterhe celebrates those events.

Similarly, the Vatican may wellhonor Bishop Boudreaux's requestto retire this fall, a few monthsbefore his 75th birthday, becausekey anniver;sary occasions for himoccur this spring and summer. InMarch there is the 15th anniver­sary of the founding of the dioceseand his appointment as' its firstbishop. In May he marks his 50thanniversary of priestly ordinationand in July the 30th of his episco­pal ordination.

Execution showingon TV condemnedby Vatican' paperVATICAN CITY (CNS) - An

Italian TV broadcast of what itsaid was a U.S. electric-chair exe­cution was condemned as "intol­erable" and shameful by the Vati­can newspaper, L'Osservatore Rom­ano.

The execution was shown toprime-time viewing audiences Jan.31 by Telemontecarlo, one of Italy'slargest private stations. The point,the network said, was to underlinethe horror of the death penalty.

But the Vatican newspaper andother critics said the show was partof a trend toward "spectacular TV

. at any cost - including death."

The station refused to providethe name of the person executed orsay when the execution took place.A spokeswoman for Amnesty Inter­national in New York said shethought the execution occurred inthe United States in the mid-tolate-I 980s.

The Vatican newspaper said broad­casting the execution "was thelatest shameful act in a trend thatincreasingly reveals a stubborntrait: denial of human dignity andrespect."

Several Italian church leaders,including Archbishop GiovanniSaldarini of Turin. denounced·theTV show. Other Italian comment­ators were divided on the value ofsuch a broadcast.

- Ukrainian Bishop InnocentJ. Lotocky of St. Nicholas of Chi­cago, a bishop since 1981, whoturned 75 on Nov. 3, 1990.

- Ruthenian Bishop MichaelJ.Dudick of Passaic, N.J., a bishopsince 1968, who turned 75 on Feb.24,1991.

- Auxiliary Bishop John M.Bilock of the Byzantine Archdio­cese of Pittsburgh, a bishop since1973, who turned 75 on June 20,1991.

In the Latin-rite church, bishopshave been asked to submit theirresignations at age 75 since 1966,but there was no such retirementrule for Eastern-rite bishops untillast October, when a new generallaw for all Eastern Catholicchurches went into effect.

Under the new law, for the firsttime bishops of the Easternchurches are asked to submit theirresignations at age 75 to theirpatriarch or his equivalent if theyare in the home region of their rite,or to the pope if they live outsidethe home jurisdiction.

In the first few years after aretirement rule went into effect inthe Latin rite, there was a gradualtransition before it became routinefor the pope to accept nearly allresignations on or shortly after abishop's 75th birthday.

Exceptions, often continuing foryears, have been common in pla­ces where the church is persecutedor severely restrained, such as inChina or until recently in EasternEurope.

Otherwise, exceptions are gen­erally made only for relatively shortperiods of time and because ofparticular pastoral concerns in adiocese or because an importantpersonal occasion for the bishop.such as a jubilee, is near.

When Bishop Ottenweller's 75thbirthday rolled around, he was inthe middle of handling a delicatepastoral problem of restructuringa local Catholic charismatic com­munity and getting it back ontrack - a job' now largely com­pleted.

Bishop Flavin marked his goldenjubilee of priestly ordination inDecember. and has a double occa­sion coming up at the end of May:his 35th anniversary of episcopalordination and the silverjubilee of

DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE: Kathleen DonnollyBetts (left), a 1967 graduate of SS. Peter and Paul School, FallRiver, poses with SS. Peter and Paul principal Kathleen Burtafter receiving the National Catholic Educational AssociationElementary School Distinguished Graduate Award. She washonored at a Catholic Schools Week Mass for bringing theMassachusetts budget into the black by discovering$489,000,000 owed the state by the federal Medicare program.Her name was also placed in the SS. Peter and Paul AlumniHall of Fame.

- Bishop James L. Schad, July20. He has been auxiliary bishopof Camden, N.J., since 1966.

- Bishop Cletus F. O'Donnell,Aug. 22. He has been a bishopsince 1960 and bishop of Madison,Wis., since 1967.

- Archbishop Ignatius J.Strecker, Nov. 23. He has been abishop since 1962 and archbishopof Kansas City, Kan., since 1969.

- Bishop Bernard F. Popp,Dec. 6. He has been auxiliarybishop of San Antonio since 1983.

- Bishop Arthur J. O'Neill,Dec. 14. He has been bishop ofRockford, 111., since 1968.

Bishop Warren L. Boudreauxof Houma-Thibodaux, La., willnot be 75 until next Jan. 25, butthis January he told his peoplethat he has asked Pope John PaulII to accept his resignation "some­time in the fall of 1992."

Bishop Boudreaux was ordaineda bishop in 1962. In 1977 he wasmoved from Beaumont, Texas, tobecome founding bishop of thenewly created Houma-ThibodauxDiocese.

Although Eastern-rite bishopsmake up only a small percentageof the U.S. hierarchy, they have adisproportionately high four bish­ops who are over 75 but still active.These are:

- Romanian Bishop Louis Pus­cas of Canton, Ohio, a bishopsince 1983, who turned 75 on Sept.13, 1990.

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Bishop Ottenweller, a bishopsince 1974, was 75 last April 5.

The only remaining Latin-ritebishop who is 75 and still active isBishop Glennon P. Flavin of Lin­coln, Neb. A bishop since 1957, hewas 75 last March 2.

Active Latin-rite bishops whowere or will be 75 in 1992 are:

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- Archbishop Daniel E~ Shee­han, May 14. He has been a bishopsince 1964 and archbishop ofOmaha, Neb.. since 1969.

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FLORENCE POWERS, left, a resident at CatholicMemorial Home, Fall River, and Cassia Picard, a student atBishop Connolly High School, Fall River, were among thosesharing a buffet luncheon hosted by Memorial Home resi­dents for .Connolly students during Catholic Schools Week.The 9th and 10th grade students, who then toured the facilitywith activities director Ruth Gruhn, will have the option ofvolunteering at Catholic Memorial Home through the Con­nolly community service program, directed by Rev. Donald A.MacMillan, SJ.

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pons, and you can't go sailingdown a supermarket aisle whenyou have to get down on yourknees to read the price labels onthe bottom shelves. That's wherethe bargains are.

I also try to buy items that aremost often requested and leastcontributed to neighborhood foodshelves. Studies show these includecanned meals like beef stew, cannedtuna, stewed tomatoes and peanutbutter.

Sometimes I save so much moneyon coupons that I use equivalentdollars to help stock the shelvesfor the poor. I was bragging aboutthis neat practice one day to Ver­ona Devney, the Northfield, MNwoman who founded Operation. "HOPE, an international chantyprogram.

"I hope you add a nickel of yourown," Mrs. Devney said.

Nobody's perfect, I explain. It'shard enough getting used to mynew title of homemaker. Like a lotof homes where both husband andwife have retired, I wonder: Canone house hold two homemakers?

who has helped three womencommit suicide in the past twoyears by using machines he in­vented.

The "action by the MichiganBoard of Medicine is not a merepolitical event," said Doerflinger."The board has reaffirmed a con-.viction that is at the core of medi­cine as a profession: The medicallicense must never be a license tokill."

• Do benefits start the first dayof a nursing home stay?

• Do the premiums increase withage? Could you afford the premi­ums ifthey were raised a moderateamount?

• Can your policy be cancelledby the insurance company? If so,do not buy the policy.

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To learn more about buyinglong term care insurance, write toAARP at the above address forthe pamphlet "Before You Buy: AGuide to Long Term Care Insur­ance."

To receive volunteer assistancewith Medicare and Medicaidthrough the Massachusetts Execu­

.tive Office of Elder Affairs'S HINEProgram, call your local Councilon Aging or the EOEA at 1-800­882-2003.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) ­Richard Doerflinger, associatedirector of the U.S. bishops' pro­life office, has praised a unanim­ous vote by the Michigan Board ofMedicine to suspend the medicallicense of Dr. Jack Kevorkian,

expect any medals, but I was flyingin the face of a study a while backwhich claimed husbands don't helpmuch when they do chores.

"When husbands take on morehousework," the Wall StreetJournal reported, "They tend tosubstitute for chores done by thekids rather than the wife." Work­ing or nonworking wives did about80 percent of the chores, the studysaid, including washing, cooking,shopping, housecleaning, child careand paperwork.

Only for yard work and homemaintenance did women do lessthan half of the chores. Whilechildren helped do the mother'swork, husbands appear to lightenthe kids' load rather than mom'sburden, the study claimed.

Perhaps because of our revolv­ing door household, with no kidsyou could count on, my house-=­husbanding included almost allthe shopping and paperwork, muchof the dishwashing and some cook­ing and housecleaning.

I'm very good at shopping, if Ido say so myself, but my brideclaims I take too long. You can'tgo fast, I explain, when you docomparison shopping. What if itdoes take two hours on a Saturdayafternoon when the job jar is fullof dirty work?

Besides, I save a lot of moneywhen I go shopping. I collect cou-

intensive nursing services, whichfew people use for very long? Ishome care covered?

• Will the benefits pay theaverage costs of care in your com­munity?

• Does the policy provide forinflation?

• ~ow long will you receivebenefits?

• Must the long term care fol­low a nursing home or hospitalstay? Usually the need for longterm care comes about slowly, andnot following a hospital illness.

• Are organic psychologicalillnesses, such as Alzheimer's dis­ease, covered? These are the mostcommon conditions for whichpeople need long term care.

• Are non-Medicare-certifiednursing homes covered? Mosthomes, even if they give excellentcare, are not Medicare-certified.

• Is there a waiting period orare certain conditions excluded?

HOUSE~husband?

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Being a part-time househu ,bandis not all it's cracked up to b~, andnow it looks as if I'm going to haveto drop my title entirely. It appearsthat the term may be sexist -- evenpolitically incorrect!

That's too bad, because the labelgets instant recogniti9n. It was ahandy word to explain why I wasstaying home keeping house onWednesdays when my bride \\'orkedfulltime at the newspaper ga me.

Now that she has retired to col­lect her modest Social Securityallowance, I may not need H.e titleanyway. And that's a good thing- according to the new RandomHouse Webster's Collegiat!: Dic­tionary.

In the good old days dict .onar­ies used to stick to word spellingand definition, avoiding co1trov­ersy and political disputatio:l. Thenew Random House word book,which came out last spring, has nosuch restraints. Besides p Jttingwarning labels on "offellsive"words, it has added an appendix:"Avoiding Sexist Language."

That's where I learned that"humankind" is better than "man­kind," and "homemaker" shouldbe substituted for "housewife." Ifhousewife is sexist, can "house­husband" be far behind?

I haven't bought the new dic­tionary yet (and I probably won't)so I don't know its other restric­tions. What does it offer to replacethe "man" in "human"? Or the"men" in "Amen"? Or the "man"in "mantra"? I'm worried, becauseit apparently proposes "womyn"as an alternative to "womall."

Before reading the New YorkTimes story on the new dicti onary,I was feeling rather pleased withmy role as a househubby. I don't

long term care insurance privately.Some medigap policies includesome long term care coverage, butrarely enough should care be need­ed for a long time.

When you buy long term careinsurance, consider how much youcan afford to pay for insurance,what other sources of cove rage,such as Medicaid, you have or areeligible for, and what informalsources ofcare, such as family.and ..friends, you have. It maybe thatyou do not need long term careinsurance, or that the amount of

. coverage you will be able to buy isso small that you may as weJ useyour assets until you are eligiblefor Medicaid.

The purpose of long term careinsurance is generally to protectassets. Thus, in determining yourneeds, be sure to include in~ome

from social security, pensions,interest income and other sOllrces.

When considering policies, com­pare the following features:

• What services are covered?Are benefits restricted to the most

"Friendly Visitors" to the home­bound and as COA receptionists.Information: COA, 487-9906. Hab­itat for Humanity of Cape Codwill make home repairs for needyhomeowners; information: 255­2167.

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Tax Counselors available toassist seniors with tax returnsthrough April 13 at senior center;home visits are also possible forpersons unable to come to the cen­ter. Information: 945-1534.

Eldercare Locator is an infor­mation and referral service whichhelps individuals locate state andcommunity services available toseniors. When calling (1-800-677­1116) give name, address and zipcode of person in need and des­cribe briefly the problem or theassistance needed.

savings accounts, and the couple'shome.

In Massachusetts, the spouseliving at home may keep $1,500per month, and up to half the cou­ple's assets, up to $62,580. In otherwords, a spouse in a couple with$30,000 in assets may keep $15,000,while the spouse in a couple with$500,000 may keep the maximum,$62,580.

As soon as you believe you qual­ify for Medicaid, whether you cur­rently need long term care or not,you should apply at your localstate public assistance office sothat the coverage will beavailaoleas soon as you need it. In addition,the application process can takeseveral months.

Recent changes in regulationshave also affected Medicaid. Forexample, an applicant's house cannow be counted as an asset indetermining eligibility in certaincircumstances, including if theapplicant is not married.

Private Long Term Care Insur­ance. Many older adults purchase

Rehoboth

Attorney Beth McGregor willspeak on the Massachusetts HealthCare Proxy 10:30 a.m. Feb. 19 atthe COA. Assistance with incometax returns will be provided begin­ning in March; interested personsmay call COA and leave name andnumber.

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Wisdom Institute program isheld at 10 a.m. Thursdays throughApril 2 at senior center. The CapeCod Cello Choir, directed byFlorence Reynolds, will performselections from Mozart, Vivaldi,Bach and Faure 2 to 3:30 p.m.Feb. 29 at the senior center.Information: COA, 385-5067.

Provincetown

Old prescription glasses andhearing aids are being collected atsenior center for distribution tothe needy. Volunteers needed as

This article is a continuation ofthe Elder Health Alert .. Untang­ling the health insurance. knot",which ran on the senior page ofJan. 24. 1992.

Long term care is nursing orpersonal care services needed for along time. It includes both nursingand rest home care and homehealth services.

Most health insurance policiesdo not cover long term care, andits costs can be financially devas­tating to older adults who requirecare and their spouses and child­ren. Medicare covers only skilledhome health care, and then onlyrarely.

Medicaid. Most long term carecoverage comes from Medicaid.Once an elder qualifies for Medi­caid by having a low enough in­come, and applies and is acceptedin the Medicaid program, Medi­caid will pay a set amount per dayfor nursing home or home healthcare.

Many elders and their spousesmust pay for long term care them­selves until their funds are ex­hausted and they are Medicaideligible. This is called spendingdown.

Recently, however, Congressmandated that states must allowthe spouse of a nursing home resi­dent who lives at home to retainabout $800 per month, plus about$15,000 in liquid assets such as

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ing too many questions," said Fa­ther Graham.

One of Scattolini's clients wasthe Office of Strategic Services,the U.S. intelligence agency dur­ing World War II.

..American intelligence in Romepaid Scattolini $500 a month toget this massive documentation,completely invented, now clutter­ing the U.S. National Archives,"Father Graham said.

Scattolini was born Sept. 3, 1889, 'in Brescia, Italy. He was an eco­nomically unsuccessful author whoworked from 1935 to 1939 forL'Osservatore Romano, the Vati­can newspaper, as a film critic.

The years at L'Osservatore Ro­mano added authenticity to Scat­tolini's bulletins because they madehim familiar with the Vatican'shigh-sounding ecclesial writingstyle and with the official titles ofchurch people.

According to court records,Scattolini initially told police thathe "invented" his news based onpublic information about Vaticanactivities, papal audiences and tripsby church authorities.

He later said he had a secret Vat­ican source and his information"was put together based on simpleintuition and predictions deducedfrom indiscretions and voices inthe corridor."

No Vatican source appeared toconfirm his story, and the courtsentenced him to seven monthsand four days in jail. An appealwas refused in 1950, and Scattolinidisappeared from public life.

Father Graham, however, pointsout that Scattolini's work stillhaunts government files and lib­raries, where it rests without anywarning that it is false. The resultis a minefield for unwary re­searchers investigating Vaticanpolicies, he said.

One person who found himselftrapped by Scattolini's informa­tion was Myron Taylor, U.S. Pres­ident Franklin D. Roosevelt's rep­resentative at the Vatican duringWorld War II.

Taylor got into trouble withWashington officials after newsstories appeared with false infor­mation about his private conver­sations at the Vatican. Taylor, infollow-up meetings with Vaticanofficials, was shown copies of theScattolini news sheet that was atthe root of the false stories.

Taylor explained the matter in aMarch 15, 1945, letter to Roose­velt, which included copies of"thesebogus news sheets."

"We should be reluctant to acceptas authentic, or to be too greatlyinfluenced by rumors or reportson Vatican matters until they havereceived appropriate confirma­tion," Taylor wrote.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In1948, a two-volume set of allegedsecret Vatican documents was pub­lished. It caused a political uproarin Italy aid exposed a IO-year­scam of false news about papalpolicies.

The documents purported toshow Vatican interference in Ital­ian and world affairs during thecritical time when Europe wasrebuilding after World War II andthe ideological ice was formingaround the Cold War.

The aim of the publishers, whothought the documents genuine,was to help communist and social­ist parties defeat the ChristianDemocrats in crucial Italian elec­tions later in the year.

Instead, publication exposed thecareer of Virgilio Scattolini, whofrom 1939 to 1948 made a livingselling phony Vatican information.

In 1948 an Italian court foundScattolini guilty of "creating andspreading false news about thepolitical activity of Vatican City."

The incriminatingdocuments pub­lished covered the post-war yearsonly, but the investigation showedthat Scattolini's efforts began in1939. He was discovered when thedocuments were published with­out his knowledge, sparking denialsby prominent people able to showthat they were not involved in thesecret Vatican meetings and con­spiracies described in the docu­ments.

The Vatican, which had beenpublicly criticizing the spread ofScattolini's false information sincethe early 1940s, formally protestedto Italy.under a law that prohibitsthe spread of false informationabout a friendly state. The 58­year-old Scattolini was arrested.

Prior to that he had a thrivingbusiness for his typed news sheet,which he peddled clandestinely asinside information about papalaffairs, often complete with bogusVatican documents.

His clients included internationalnews agencies, embassies and for­eign intelligence services on bothsides of World War II. All werehard up for news from the tight­lipped Vatican about its contactswith the Allied and Axis powers.

Scattolini's bulletins were filledwith papal plans to write politicaldocuments, secret messages to theVatican from world leaders anddirectives to church officials inpivotal parts of the world.

Scattolini wrote the bulletinsbecause he needed money and eventailored reports for specific clients,said Father Robert Graham, aVatican historian who has tracedScattolini's career.

"He found that there were manyin Rome ready to believe whatthey wanted to believe and werewilling to pay for it, without ask-

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But preparations for the newbuilding did not begin until 1990,after increased Jewish protests,including a July 1989 demonstra­tion by New York Rabbi AvrahamWeiss and six followers that endedwith Polish workers beating andejecting the demonstrators fromthe convent grounds.

Cardinal Franciszek Macharskiof Krakow, Poland, laid the cor­nerstone of the new convent, whichhad been blessed by Polish-bornPope John Paul.

He was assisted by CardinalEdward Cassidy, president of theVatican's Christian unity counciland its Commission for ReligiousRelations with the Jews. The car­dinal brought the cornerstone fromRome.

Neither Cardinal Macharski norCardinal Cassidy referred to thedispute at the hourlong ceremony,which had about 100 onlookers.

But Cardinal Cassidy said thenew convent, part of an $8 millioninternational prayer center, wouldprovide "the opportunity to reflecton the terrible crime that has reallyaffected the lives of all of us whoare children of the 20th century."

The present convent, occupiedin 1984 by the nuns to pray for thedead of Auschwitz, was a theaterused by the Nazis to store theclothes and possessions of theirvictims. It is also believed that theCyklon-B gas used in the gas cham­bers was kept there.

"This new convent is a move inthe right direction, but we have towait until the sisters move becauseonly that will be a significant mo­ment," said Jerzy Wroblewski, di­rector of the camp museum.

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The dig, Father Foley said, fitsinto "a pattern of making it diffi­cult to get the church in shape forpublic use."

V ntil work in the sacristy is fin­ished, the parish cannot begm thecomplete electrical rewirin{; thatthe government insists upon heforeallowing public use of the ct urch,which, thanks to the Paulist Fathersand to the consternation (If theVatican; was the first chulch inRome to have electric lights. Addi­tions and corrections have beenmade to the 1920s system, but itwas never completely replaced.

The church also needs a ;oundsystem and a new heating S) stem.

Father Foley's million-dollarestimate for fixing the churchincludes the ceiling, electricity,sound and heat. With half thatamount, the work essenti iI forpublic' safety could be done soMasses could resume, although itwould be under the scaffolding.

"{he Paulist priest said relationswith the nuns are "calm and bus~

iness-like. There are no par':iculardifficulties, certainly no animosityis evident."

The Cistercian nuns sa~1 theycannot talk to reporters.

The Nazis killed an estin:ated1.6 million people, most of I hemJews, at Auschwitz and neigt.bor­ing Birkenau camps. But Polishgentiles also see them as shrines totheir own dead and many wereoutraged by Jewish demands forremoval of the nuns.

Four Catholic cardinals prom­ised Jewish leaders at a meeting inGeneva in 1987 to move the nunsby February 1989.

Mirth"He who is truly a lover ofJesus

Christ does not say his pray(:rs like. other men, for seated in hi, right. mind and ravished with Christ'slove from above himself, he istaken into marvelous mirth." _.Richard Rolle

Auschwitz caused internationalJewish protest.

If the nuns move in on schedulein October, it will ease a conflictthat has affected Jewish-Catholicrelations worldwide.

The new building is about 300yards from the old convent.

Former Israeli prime ministerShimon Peres once called the oldconvent a "stain" on Auschwitz.

Many attend local Italian parishesor no church at all. Attendance atweekend Masses has dropped fromover 500 at Santa Susanna toabout 300 at the parish's tempor­ary quarters, he said.

After Abbess Maria RobertaCappiotti handed the key throughthe grill, Father Foley, other churchofficials and a lawyer went to themain door of the church. Theabbess entered through the clois­ter to remove the bar inside thedoor.

"We all tried the key to makesure it worked," he said. "We allwent into the church."

Father Foley said he had heardthat government archaeologistsdigging in the sacristy had piledsome dirt in the church, but he wassurprised:at how much. Even onpathways through the dirt moundsin the church,nave, there's no hintof the once gleaming marble floor.

The church is considered a his­toric landmark, and as such thegovernment has complete controlover the exterior, is responsible forthe structure and has some control

,over the interior.The government was supposed

to fix the ceiling, but didn't get.much beyond erecting scaffoldingbefore it ran out of money.

Father Foley said he didn't knowwhythe archaeologists chose SantaSusanna for the dig and why theyweren't digging in the open court­yard, or at least. putting the exca­vated dirt there. The dig is part ofastudy of fourth century founda­tions in the area.

The current church was com­pleted in 1603 on the site of aninth-century church built over afourth-century church.

OSWIECIM, Poland (CNS)­Polish church officials have honor­ed a longstanding pledge to worldJewish leaders by laying the cor­nerstone of a convent to replace acontroversial Carmelite house at aformer Nazi death camp.

The building, to be completedthis year, is intended as a perman­ent home for the cloistered nunswhose convent near the walls of

KRAKOW CARDINAL Franciszek Macharski (left) and Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy,president of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, participatl: incornerstone laying for a new Carmelite convent in Auschwitz, Poland. (CNS/ Reuters photo)

They have key, but is it their church?

Auschwitz convent to be replaced

ROME (CNS) - When a five­inch-long key was passed throughthe grill of the Cistercian cloister,it was a significant step towardending the six-year exile of Rome'sAmerican Catholic parish fromthe Church of Santa Susanna.

But even with key in hand, theAmericans are $1 million and manymonths away from celebratingMass in the church they calledtheir own for more than 60 years.

And Boston Cardinal BernardF. Law is months away from tak­ing symbolic possession of SantaSusanna, the titular church as­signed to him when he became acardinal.

His 1985 elevation to the Col­lege of Cardinals came a monthafter an anonymous caller told theRome fire department that theornate church ceiling sagged. Thechurch was closed as a safetyhazard.

The 15 nuns in the Cisterciancloister of Santa Susanna havesaid repeatedly that the busy min­istry of the American parishthreatens their contemplativelifestyle.

They also contend that theyown the church - a claim theycontinue to press before the papalvicar of Rome, the Vatican and theItalian Ministry of the Interior:

Paulist Father John J. Foley,pastor of the' American parish,said that a late 1990 letter from the.Vatican promised investigation ofthe ownership, but added that eitherway, the pope wants "the pastoraluse ofthe church" directed towardV.S. Catholics in Rome.

Father Foley said there are anestimated 10,000 V.S. Catholicsliving in Rome and its suburbs.

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Major, Josh Turcotte and KevinDO,nley added a total of 16 points.

"The key to our'w,in was'a def­ensive 'effort by the total team,topped off by key rebounding byKevin Donly in the final 2 minutesof the gaine," LaRocque said.

St. John's boys' offense was ledby Mike McNally with 15 andNick Russas with 10. '

The boys' team defeated Mt.Carmel on Wednesday to earn itsfinals spot.' "

LaRocque's co-coaches are MikeDonly and Jim Turcotte.

out hope is hardly life at all. Wemay be able to go through themotions but we don't genuinelyfeel alive without our hopes.

Yet, as the song suggests,sometimes permanent changesoccur and our hopes for "for­evers" go away. It is in thesetimes that we need to discoverways to find new hopes andthus new reasons to live.

To renew one's life and hopes,consider these suggestions:

- First, accept your grief.Take care of yourself physicallyand emotionally. Allow othersto care about you. Gettingthrough grief takes time,patience with your changingmoods and a willingness to shareyour feelings with someonewhom you trust.

- Next, begin to think aboutyour life again. Ask yourself:What would happen if I were tore-experience some happinessand enjoyment during the nextsix months? Be imaginative.Don't censor any of your an­swers at this time.

- Once you have a list ofanswers, write out five specificactivities you could engage inactively during the next sixmonths. Share this list withsomeone and ask him or her tohelp you keep your promises.

I think that it is just aboutimpossible to say goodbye toyesterday unless we have createda renewed sense of tomorrow.Finding new hope takes cour­age and perseverance. God willhelp anyone who seeks his gui­dance. Ask God to lead you toreestablishing your life.

Your comments are welcomedby Charlie Martin, R.R. 3, Box182, Rockport, IN 47635.

By Charlie Martin

just about anything that wehoped to keep in our lives, themost painful part of sayinggoodbye is letting go of thedream.

To let go of the dream is toexperience grief. Often, we facesmall griefs that bring us tem­porary setbacks. Occasionally,we encounter the type of deeperloss that makes a significantimpact on our lives.

Even though facing grief is apart of everyone's life, all of usstill need our hopes. Life with-

a key bucket late in the game,~'saidCoach O;Connell. Also scoringwere Andrea Aylward, Megan Roth­emich'and Kathleen Crounse.

TheSMSH girls' team defeated'St. John's 6th graders Wednesdayto earn a,berth in the finals.

The SMSH 6th grade boys' 43­41 vi~tory over ,St. John's in theJunior A final was a "real thriller;:said Coach. Ray LaRocque.

Offense was led by Billy Donlywith 10 points, Mark Vandette,with 9 and Jeffrey LaRocque with8. Point guard Jason O'Connellsupplied many assists and Dan

IF YOU LIKE vocal har­mony, then Boyz II Men's "It'sSo 'Hard to Say Goodbye toYesterday" is the song for you.Apparently lots of teens like itand, as a result, the song hasrisen to the top five on thecharts.

Most of us would agree withthe song's message: It hurts tolose something good, and wesoon realize that "it's so hard tosay goodbye to yesterday."

Whether it be a relationshipsuch as the song refers to, or

IT'S HARD TO SAY GOODBYE TO YESTERDAYHow do I say goodbye to what we hadThe good times that made us laughI thought we'd get to be foreverBut forever's gone awayIt's so hard to say goodbye to yesterdayI don't know where the road is going to lead meAll I know is where we've been and what we've been throughIf we get to see tomorrow I hope it's worth all the painIt's so hard to say goodbye to yesterdayAnd 111 take with me all the memoriesTo be my sunshine after the rainIt's so hard to say goodbye to yesterdayAnd 111 take with me all the memoriesTo be my sunshine after the rainIt's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday

Written by Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian. Sung by BoyzII Men (c) 1991 by Motown Record eompany

DROP EVERYTHING: postman Doug Weldon, a guest reader for "Drop Everything andRead Day" during Catholic Schools Week, introduces first graders at St. Mary-Sacred HeartSchool, North Attleboro, to a Dr. Seuss tale.

St. Mary -Sacred IJeart Scho'ol'The"J unior A" basketball teams

of St. Mary-Sacred Heart School,North Attleboro, emerged victor­ious from:last week's KaleidoscopeTournament, held atSt: 'John'sSchool i'n Attleboro as part ofCatholic Schools Week festivities.

The4th-5th-6th gra'de girls' team, 'coached by Tom O'Connell and'Steve Rothemich, defeated St.John's 5th graders 20-13 in Satur-'day's final.

Leading scorer was Erin O'Con­nell with 13 points.

"Kerry Kennedy also had anoutstanding game defensively and

ate, we both went up to his roomand kept talking and listened toold jazz records while we workedon our projects.

Like I said, except for the partabout Adrian getting that cut, itwas a really great evening. It wasn'twhat we expected, but it gave us achance for closeness we hadn't hadin a while.

It's natural to make plans. Infact, it's a good idea. If you don'tmake plans you spend a lot of timefloating around aimlessly.

But problems arise when wetake our plans too seriously. Wedecide in advance exactly whatshould happen, and when it doesn'twork out that way we make our­selves miserable.

God is no respecter of humanplans. Real life rarely progressesas smoothly as we'd like. One ofthe central keys to human happi­ness is the ability to change yourplans to fit changing reality.

. Much of the texture and rich­ness of human life comes in exactlywhere our plans get all balled up.The lives of great women and menare often defined at points wheretheir carefully drawn plans ranhead-on into something entirelyunexpected.

Christopher Columbus was look­ing for a path to the Spice Islandswhen he stumbled across the NewWorld. Alexander Graham Bellwas' working on an amplifyingdevice for the deaf when he accid­entally created the telephone.Mother Teresa was working as ateacher for wealthy girls in Indiawhen she could no longer turn hereyes from the human struggles sur­rounding the islands of privilege inCalcutta's sea of poverty.

Sometimes you do what youhave planned. But God's grace isoften most evident when you haveto do something else - like driveto the hospital on Sunday night.

governments are already very con­cerned," he said.

Cardinal Lopez Trujillo spokein an interview with Vatican Radioafter a recent five-day study ses­sion on demography sponsored bythe council. The e.xperts looked atthe ethical aspects of populatio'ncontrol.

the cardinal said that especially,in p'laces of overpopulatipn, thechurch ,continues to pr<;lmote thepossibility ofnatural family plan:~ ,ning methods. He said such meth-

'ods are enjoying increasing scien­tific support as well as acceptanceby many local populations in ~he ,Thi,rd World.

He said that by the term'''respon­sible parenthood," the churchmeans that a couple mu.st carefully,consider, with ,an informed con­science, how 'many children tohave.

By Christopher CarstensHave you ever noticed that some­

times things don't work out theway you thought they would?

My son Adrian and I had Sun­day evening all planned. We wouldget a lot of work done and have ajump on Monday morning. Wemight sneak an hour to watch"Murder She Wrote," but otherthan that,.it was all homework andbusiness. At least that was theplan.

But while Adrian was makingdinner, ,he cut his hand. It wasn't aserious cut but it was a nasty sortof thing that sometimes needs astitch or two. We wrapped thehand, and he and I headed for theemergency room.

We ended up spending two hoursthere, what with waiting to checkin, then waiting to be called andfinally waiting for the doctor tocome. She gave his hand a quickrook, cleaned it and sent him homewith a bandage and a tetanus shot.Fortunately, he didn't need anystitches.

It turned out to be a specialevening. Really.

Adrian and I both had been ter­ribly busy, and each had taken ona bit of grumpiness that comeswith having too much on yourmind. But driving down to theemergency room we found our­selves with time to talk. And whilewe were stuck waiting at the hospi­tal, we joked with the nurses andprivately shared our observationsabout the people there.

A man in his 30s was slowlyreading the Sunday comics out­loud to his wife. She was reallyenjoying the jokes. I thought it wasodd, but Adrian figured it out. Hesaw that the wife, in a gentle andloving way, was helping her hus­band learn to read.

W'hen we got home, it was too'rate for real dinner so I threw onsome bacon and eggs. After we

No baby boom in Europe, he saysVATICAN CITY (CNS) - The

declining birthrate in Europe raisestile prospect of a "terrible" popu­lation collapse that has worriedmany governments there, a Vati-can officiar' said.. " .

Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo,president ofthe Pontifical Councilfor the Family, said concern aboutthe increasing worldwide popula­tion should not· overshadow the,fact that in Europe, only Polandand Ireland ar~ 'above zero popti- 'ration gro'wth; : .'

The drastic decline of birthrates"dem'onstrates that there" is 'notenough lo've for life; and that thefuture of populations is truly beingplaced at risk," said the cardinal.

"The fact is thatif this tendencycontinues without deep changes;the future will bring a profound,and terrible collapse about which

in our schools '

Bishop Feehan

turned from Moscow, Kiev andAlma-Ata, the capitol. of Kazakh­stan, where contacts were made todeliver the needed medical supp­lies. "Many hospitals don't haveaspirin, let alone drugs needed'tocure and prevent illness," Culversaid in a statement.

Feehan also won several roundsby forfeit. The team was accom­panied by moderator and coachDiane Crane and judges Mrs.Meloni, Sr. Anne Holland, Mrs.Saintdon, Mrs. Gualtieiri, Mrs.Famulare and Mr. Smith.

Bishop ConnollyT.J. Rebello of the Bishop Con­

nolly High School varsity basket­ball team scored 29 points in arecent game against Somerset, mak­ing him the all-time boys' basket­ball scoring leader at Connollywith 914 points. As the ConnollyCougars downed the SomersetRaiders 79-64, Rebello eclipsedthe old mark of893 points held byhis coach, Billy Shea.

With five games remaining inthe regular season, Rebello has achance to garner 1,000 careerpoi'nts, which would make himonly the second basketball playerin Connolly history to reach thatmark. Keri Hanley was the first,finishing her high school basket­ball career with 1,174 points in1990. .

Connolly students participatingin the Junior"Achievement Region­al Conference Feb. 3 to 5 in theCatskill Mountains, NY, were: .Michael Charkowski, David Silva,Tonya DeMelo, Stephanie Schull­er, Cassia Picard and Kyle Wills.The conference provided learningexperiences in economics and cur­rent events.

PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) ­Medical equipment, supplies, foodand health care resources are beinggathered by Mercy Corps Interna­tional to send to Russia, Ukraineand Kazakhstan. Ells Culver, Mer­cy Corps president, recently re-

"We Love Our Catholic School'"(sung to the tune of "Farmer in the Dell")

We love our Catholic SchoolWe love our Catholic SchoolWhat we learn and what we seeWe love our Catholic School

We love our .Catholic SchoolWe love our Catholic SchoolWhat we learn and what we seeWe love our Catholic School

Catholic Schools Week song written by Lynn Lawrence, Grade 3teacher, St. Anthony's School, New Bedford

Our moms and dads are greatOur moms and dads are greatThey send us here to learn "The Way"Our moms and dads are great

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Our Secretary's a nurseOur Secretary's a nurseShe has the greatest tasting mintsOur Secretary's a nurse

Mer.cy Corps to aid republics

Our teachers care for usOur teachers care for usThey make sure we like our schoolOur teachers care for us

Our Principal mans the schoolOur Principal mans the schoolShe makes sure that we are safeOur Principal mans the school

Our Pastor runs the schoolOur Pastor runs the schoolHe makes sure our school existsOur Pastor runs the school

The Janitors help the schoolThe Janitors help the schoolThey make sure our school is cleanThe Janitors help the school

Massachusetts Debate League neldat Norton High School:

Varsity: Affirmative - KathleenSheridan and Erinn Hoagdefeated .Somerset. Erinn was named topspeaker. Kathleen was secondspeaker. Daniel Swyers and ElaineDwyer defeated Norton and Fox­boro. Elaine was first speaker inboth rounds.

Varsity: Negative - Derek Wes­ley and Neil Lambert defeatedFoxboro. Neil was first speaker,Derek was second. Kristen Saint­don and Timothy Famulare defeat­ed Norton. Kristen was first speak­er. Katherine Goldman and NitaPatel defeated Tabor. They werefirst and second speakers respec­tively.

N~vice: Affirmative - LeighO'Mara and Amy Dwyer defeatedTabor. They were first and secondspeakers respectively. They alsodefeated Foxboro. Leigh was firstspeaker. Colleen Fanningand Chris­tine LaChapelle defeated Soinerse"t.Christine was first speaker. AngelaSummers was second speaker intwo rounds.

Novice: Negative~ David Heff­ner and Michael Gualtieri defeatedNorton. David was first speaker.Jeffrey Gomes and Michael Laro­cuqe defeated Tabor and New Bed­ford. Michael was named firstspeaker in both rounds. CharlesAntone and Joshua Orsini defeatedFoxboro. They were first andsecond speakers respectively.

coordinated clothing for '''fv1is­match Day."

Thursday, Discover Day, b~ganwith students writing essay:; onwhat they have discovered abouttheir faith as students at St.Anthony's. It was also "I nside OutDay" with students wearing theirclothes - you guessed it -itrsideout.

On Friday, a morning liturgywas planned by eighth grajers,and students were invited to dressas their favorite Bible charac·;er.

Also, ethnic foods were se rvedin the cafeteria' all week.

A closing liturgy was helj onFeb. 2.

in that language. She is also devel­oping an arts course for the fall aspreparation for the school'f artsrequirement, set to take effect infall 1993. She is presently gather­ing information from Bostoll andProvidence area Catholic sc ~ools

which have successful ac.ademicarts programs. .

Also newly developed by (le artdepartmen.t. is the Bishop Fl:ehanDance Company. 22studentf havejoined the group and their firstpublic performance took place inDecember when the music anddance departments presented"Songs of the Christmas Spirit..". The Bishop FeehanTheatre Com-

. pany, directed by Alden Harrison,prese'nted the three-act play "MeetMe in St. Louis" in November andwill perform Act II of the cc medyat the Massachusetts Drama Fes­tival in January:

II Feehan students were ae<:eptedinto the Southeast District 1\1 usicFestival at Bridgewater Stat~ Col­lege in January:

Vocalists: Kerri Simoneau, KateBerry, Kimberly Wappel, CathyChoberka, Kathleen Cassidy, Eli­zabeth Hartmann, Angela Volpi­celli, Raymond Martel.

Instrumentalists: Erinn Hoag,Jennifer Wilson and Leigh 0' Mara..

On Jan. 10 the followini~ Fee­han students turned in winningperformances at the Southeastern

Catholic Schools Week (Jan. 27to Feb. 2) began at St. Anthony'sSchool, New Bedford, with "CrazyHat Day." Also part of the firstday was a coloring contest involv­ing the Catholic Schools Weekposter.

Tuesday of Catholic SchoolsWeek was School Spirit Day. Stu­dents wore school colors, red andwhite, and shared special talentswith their classes.

On Wednesday, AppreciationDay for Catholic Schools, studentswrote letters of thanks to personsin their families, school and com­munities. Students also wore un-

The Bishop Feehan High School,Attleboro, art department has beenextending into classrooms all overthe school. Through an interde­partmental teaching program, artdepartment chair Elaine Saulnierand faculty members Brenda Loi­selle, Alden Harrison and JosephTaylor have been sharing theirexpertise to' help students makeconnections between their physics,social studies, English, foreignlanguage and business classes andthe world or art and music.

For example, Ms. Loiselle in­troduced "Pop Art oflhe 1960s" tostudents in a contemporary Amer­ican history class. Next she willpresent a lesson in "Impression­ism, Post Impressionism and LightTheory" to physics students inorder to show how light and colortheory influenced painting stylesin the late 1800s.

Conceptual physics students,meanwhile, have learned aboutgenerating sound from Taylor, whointroduced them to instrumentswhich demonstrated how vibrationaffects pitch and tone.

Art and marketing students arecooperating to produce print adsand package designs for originalproducts dreamed tip by students.The art students have been "hired"by marketing students to help them"sell" their products.

Ms. Saulnier plans to visitSpanish classes to teach them songs'

ST. ANTHONY'S SCHOOL, New Bedford, students(from left) Raina Figueroa, Kevin Patricio and EmmanuelVasconcelos sport unusual apparel for Crazy Hat Day duringCatholic Schools Week. .

St. Anthony's School

Bishop Stangstudent to visit

Soviet RepublicsWhile mapmakers are catching

up with changes in the formerSoviet Union, Bishop Stang HighSchool freshman Adam Gula willbe heading to the new common­wealth republics this summer as astudent ambassador in the PeopleProgram. Adam, the son of Mr.and Mrs. Russell Gula of NewBedford, heard about the "Initia­tive for Understanding: American­Soviet Youth Exchange" last fall.After scoring high in the applica­tion and interview process, he'sready to pack his bags.

The Bristol County delegationwill attend local orientationmeetings in the spring, then willdepart during the sum'mer on a 23­day project including visits toMoscow, Leningrad and three ad­ditional cities representative of thecommonwealth republics.

The student ambassadors willparticipate in discussions andmeetings with Russian citizens andgovernment leaders. The itinerary.includes meetings and dances withmembers of Leningrad Komsomol(Young People's Party) and visitsto a children's health clinic inMoscow and a collective farm inKharkov for an overview of theagricultural system.

The Initiative for Understandingbegan as a result of 1985 Genevatalks between Presidents Reaganand Gorbachev, .when an agree­ment was signed to expand private'citizen exchange between the,U nit­ed States and Soviet Union. Lastyear more' than 1,000 American .high schoolers were student am­bassadors to the USSR.

Coyle-CassidyCoyle-Cassidy High School,

Taunton, will add two girls' var­sity sports to its interscholasticprogram for the 1992-93 schoolyear.

Soccer and spring track will joinvolleyball, cheerleading, cross coun­try, basketball, winter track, ten­nis, softball, and golf as athleticofferings for girls at Coyle-Cassidy.

"The girls' program at Coyle­Cassidy has a great tradition ofexcellence and the addition ofsoccer and track will only streng­then that program," said Coyle­Cassidy athletic director WilliamTranter.

The girls' basketball team wasthe 1987 state Division III cham­pion, while the cheerleaders wonthe state title in the same year. Thesoftball team was confere(lce cham-pion in 1990. .

The girls' soccer team will playin the Eastern Athletic Conferencewith Bishop Stang, Bishop Con­nolly, Dartmouth, Wareham, andOld Rochester. The track teamwill also compete in the EAC withStang, Connolly, Dartmouth, Bish­op Feehan, Attleboro, and Somer­set its opponents. Previous toformation of separate teams, thegirls played an.d practiced with theboys' soccer and track teams.

Coyle-Cassidy has produced out­standing girl soccer players andtrack stars in the past. ColleenPowers was captain of the HolyCross soccer team in 1990 and1991. Jean Lincoln and Tracy Kel­ley have had outstanding colle­giate track careers.

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After the fishermen threatenedto block highway and rail trafficon the 12th day of Father Kalee­kal's fast,' the state governmentcalled fisherman's federation rep­resentatives together and urgedthem to "prevail upon the priest tocall off the fast."

As news of the arrest spreadalong the coast. thousands of fish­ermen from neighboring districtsrushed to Trivandrum.

Though almost unconscious.Father Kaleekal continued his fastfrom the hospital bed. resistingwhen doctors tried to force feedhim with glucose.

"I believe the chief minister willkeep his word." Father Kaleekalsaid on ending his fast. notinghowever that "immediate relief isonly a partial solution."

o of I, SOMERSETSt. Patrick's Circle, Daughters of

Isabella, will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 12,Old Town Hall, for a games nightfollowed by Valentines-themed re­freshments. Members asked to bringcanned and non-perishable packagedfoods for donation to the Commun­tiy Soup Kitchen.

ST. MARY, MANSFIELDThe Catholic Women's Club will

meet 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the parishcenter for a games night and discus­sion of spring events, including thegroup's annual May banquet. Bar­bara Willey heads meeting arrange­ments.ST. ANNE, FR

Maryknoll Bishop John Rudinwill speak on Maryknoll missionwork at Masses this weekend. Con­firmation students will attend 10a.m. Mass Sunday. St. Anne novenaservice 3 p.m. Sunday, shrine. CubScouts Den 3 meeting 6 tonight.

SACRED HEART,N.ATTLEBORO

First communion class and fami­lies celebration, "It's About GivingThanks for Creation," 10:30 a.m.Mass Sunday. Parish council meet­ing 7 p.m. Feb. 13, rectory. Recep­tion for Father Justin Quinn 2 to 4p.m. Sunday, rectory. Family LifeMinistry seeks new members to planparish activities and conduct bap­tismal preparation program; infor­mation: Father Marcel Bouchard,699-8383, or Brian and CourtneyWalsh,699-7083.ST. ELIZABETH SETON,N. FALMOUTH

Youth group will meet for 5 p.m.Mass Sunday, followed by video ofFather Cook's orphanage in Hon­duras, which the group is assistingwith donations of clothing, schoolsupplies and toiletries. Men's Clubhealth clinic 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.tomorrow, church hall. Bereavementsupport group meeting I to 2:30p.m. Sunday, downstairs hall; video"Life through Death" featuring Fa­ther Kenneth Czillinger will beshown. Information: 563-6807,548­8665. Bible discussion group meetsSunday; information: O'Keeffe's,548-8735.SEPARATED/DIVORCEDCATHOLICS

Attleboro area support groupmeeting 7:30 to 9 p.m. Feb. II, St.Mary's rectory, N. Attleboro; in­formation: 695-6161.ST. JAMES, NB

Father Larry Burns will speak atMasses this weekend on Maryknollmissions.ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET

Confirmation rehearsal 6:30 to 8p.m. Feb. II; robes will be distri­buted.

Onthe 10thdayoftheNovemberfast. police arrested Father Kalee­kal and took him to a hospitalafter a panel of doctors recom­mended his immediate hospital­ization.

Priest's hunger strike producesaid for Indian fishermen

TRIVANDRU M. India (CNS)A hunger strike by a Catholicpriest has forced the Kerala stategovernment to rush relief to some25.000 inland fishermen whose live­lihood was threatened by a rarefish epidemic-.

The epidemic led to an estimated120 million rupee (U .S.$4.8 mil­lion) loss because it hit fish in mostof the state's backwaters. lakesand rivers. Fishermen say indus­trial pollution spawned the disease.

Father Jose Kaleekal. a formerpresident of the Independent Fish­ermen's Federation. began "a fastunto death" because the state gov­ernment refused to help alleviatethe fishermen's misery. but endedit after 15 days when Chief Minis­ter K. Karunakaran assured thefishermen of "everything possibleto alleviate their misery and con­trol the killer disease."

The government announced itwould give every affected fisher­man a monthly allowance of 150rupees (U.S.$6). The fishermenalso would be provided a freeration of food grains. it said.

. ST. MARY, NBFifth graders Erin Hegarty and

Marc Fatula received first and secondplace, respectively, in a World Mar­riage Day poster contest. SchoolParents' Blue and White Ball meet­ing 7:30 p.m. Feb. II, parish center.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVENMissioning ceremony for youth

group members and adult leadersparticipating in Bahamas missiontrip (Feb. 14 to 23) at II a.m. MassSunday. Each participant is seeking10 "Prayer Pact Partners"; in­formation: Charlie Murphy, 992­2195. Youth group wrap-up meeting6:30 p.m. Feb. 12.ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FR

Holy Name Society meeting after8 a.m. Mass Sunday; Joao Silva willspeak on "Walls and Barriers." Vin­centians meet 7 p.m. Feb. 10, rec­tory. Holy Rosary Society corporatecommunion 8 a.m. Mass Sunday;rosary and Benediction 2 p.m. Sun­day followed by joint meeting withEspirito Santo Rosary Society. Youthgroup meeting after 6 p.m. Masstomorrow.CATHOLIC ALUMNI CLUB

Group open to singles ages 21 to65 meets second Sundays, Brass RailRestaurant, Rt. 6, Seekonk. Optionaldinner at 6 p.m. followed by discus­sion of upcoming activities. Infor­mation: 824-8378.ST.MARY,N.ATTLEBORO

Youth group will serve coffee anddonuts after 8 and 10 a.m. MassesSunday. Children's choir meeting 10a.m. tomorrow, main church.CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE

Registration for new altar boys 10a.m. tomorrow, church. RCIA cate­chists planning session 8 p.m. Feb.10. Youth group trip to see FountainSquare Fools 5 p.m. Sunday; infor­mation: Lorraine Folan. 477-6543.Youth group meeting 8 p.m. Feb. 10.ST. THERESA,S. ATTLEBORO

Troop 35 committee meeting 7:30p.m. Sunday. parish center. Firstpenance 9 a.m. tomorrow.WIDOWED SUPPORT

Attleboro area widowed supportgroup meeting 7 p.m. tomorrow, St.Mary's parish center, N. Attleboro.William J. Walsh will speak onfinancial planning.ST. MARY, SEEKONK

Youth ministry Valentine Dance7:30 to 10 p.m. Feb. 15, churchbasement.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NBAppreciation dinner for parish

workers 6:30 p.m. Feb. 14, CenturyHouse, Acushnet.ST. LOUIS de FRANCE,SWANSEA

First reconciliation 10 a.m. tomor­row, church.

. .HOSPICE OUTREACH

Self-help series on grief 10:30 a.m.to noon Thursdays Feb. 27 to Apr.2, Clemence Hall, St. Anne's Hospi­tal, Fall River. Topics: Feb. 27:"Grief - A Natural Response toLoss"; Mar. 5: "The Grief Process";Mar. 12: "How Do We Cope?";Mar. 19: "Getting Through theHolidays, Anniversaries and Diffi­cult Times"; Mar. 26: "PracticalConcerns after a Death"; Apr. 2:"Living Through Griefand Beyond."For information or to preregistercall Hospice Outreach, 673-1589.ST. JOSEPH, NB

Prayer group Bible study 7 p.m.Feb 12.; prayer meetings 7 p.m. Feb.19 and 26. Parish council meeting 7p.m. Feb. 10. Ultreya 7 p.m. Feb. 11.ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA'

Youth Ministry information meet­ing 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow, par­ish center. Young people (in at leastsixth grade) and adults of all agesneeded to serve on various commit­tees. Information: 676-0547.ST. GEORGE WESTPORT

Confirmation II day of recollec­tion 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, churchhall.O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE

Youth ministry meeting 6 to 8:30p.m. Sunday, R.E. center. FamilyValentine party 4:30 to 7 p.m. Sun­day, parish center; reservation dead­line is today. First Saturday rosary8:40 a.m. tomorrow. OLV/OLHGuild meeting noon Feb. 10, parishcenter. Men's Club meeting 7:30p.m. Feb. 10, R.E. center.

SECULAR FRANCISCANSSt. Louis Fraternity, FR, liturgy

6:30 p.m. Feb. 12, St. Louis Church,followed by meeting in church hall;Bernard F. Sullivan. editor of theHeral News, will offer personalreflections on the Persian Gulf war.All welcome. .

St. Clare Fraternity, FR, meeting6 p.m. Sunday, Rose HawthorneLathrop Home, 1600 Bay St., FR.O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER

Blessing for married couples at allMasses this weekend (World Mar­riage Day).ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH

Fountain Square Fools perfor­mance 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, BishopStang, H.S. Youth group advisoryboard meeting 7 p.m. Feb. 11, rec­tory. Ladies' Guild potluck supperFeb. 12, church hall; new membersare welcome.ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS

Evening Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.Feb. 12; coffee hour after 8 and 9:30a.m. Masses Feb. 16.

STONEHILL COLLEGE,NORTH EASTON

Concert featuring selections fromcomposers Mozart, Puccini, Schu­bert, Debussy and the musical "MyFair Lady," performed by CharleneHaugh, soprano, and Kayo Tatebe,pianist, 8 p.m. Feb. II, Martin Insti­tute (first building on left whenentering campus from Rt. 123). Ms.Haugh is director of the StonehillCollege Chorus and of choral musicfor the Easton public schools. Ms.Tatebe, a Norton resident, has per­formed solo and chamber recitals inJapan and Germany as well as theUnited States. She regularly accom­panies the Stonehill Chorus and theChaminade Opera Group.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST,ATTLEBORO

Ladies' Guild meeting 7 p.m. Feb.12, school hall, Hodges St. PresidentKathy Fredette will preside with top­ics to include plans for the annualbanquet. Kitsy Lancisi, District IVpresident of the Diocesan Council ofCatholic -Women, will speak on"Goals of the Council of CatholicWomen in the United States" andplans for an evening of recollectionto be held March 10 at St. Mark'sChurch, Attleboro Falls, with spir­itual director Father David Costa.CATHEDRAL CAMP,E. FREETOWN

Merrimack College retreat Feb. 7to 9. Corpus Christi, Sandwich, con­firmation retreat 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.tomorrow.ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON

Grade 5 CCD students, studyingHoly Orders, will stage a mock ordi­nation ceremony in class on Sunday.Parish children are invited to a win­ter vacation Children's AdventureDay featuring sports and refresh­ments I to 3 p.m. Feb. 19 at Coyle­Cassidy High School.

COUPLE TO COUPLE LEAGUENatural family planning program

Feb. 16, St. Mary's parish center,Mansfield. Information: Jon andMaureen Howey, 339-4730.

O.L. ASSUMPTION,OSTERVILLE

Guild meeting I p.m. Feb. II;silent auction.

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Confirmation year II rite ofenrol­lment 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow.O.L. HEALTH, FR .

Youth group Valentine dinner anddance Feb, 15.

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES,CAPE COD

"In Memory Still" suicide bereave­ment program support group meet­ings are held 7 to 9 p.m. second andfourth Wednesdays at Catholic SocialServices, 261 South St., Hyannis.Walk-ins welcomed. Information:771-6771.ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM

Jr. CYO meeting 7 to 8:15 p.m.Feb. 13; dance and pizza for Valen­tine's Day. First penance make-update 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10.HOLY NAME, FR

Youth group ski trip to Mt.Wachusett Sunday; bus leaves HolyName School 6:30 a.m. and willreturn 8:30 p.m. Confirmation retreat8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow,school. CCD grade 4 and substituteteachers needed; information: SisterRomana, 674-9131.