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VOL. 35, NO. 17 • Friday, April 26, 1991 FALL RIVER, MASS. I Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly • SllPer Year

"We are the church"

Parish reboundsfrom major fire

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AT THE SCENE of the St. Stanislaus fire, Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor/ conferswith Father John R. FoIster, Fall River fire department chaplain and pastor of neighboring St.Anne's parish. (Studio r> photo. Other photos page 15.) ,

By Pat M.cGowanFlames were still leaping from

the roof of St. Stanislaus Church,Fall River, last Sunday, but in theparish school hall across narrowRockland Street, the talk was ofrebuilding.

"We are the church and we'llbuild again." declared a membe.rof the basically Polish parish whichnevertheless attracts people ofmany national origins from farbeyond, the city of Fall River.

"It's a community." said Mrs.Evelyn Bean, drawn to the 550­family parish by its warmth andspirit of caring. "People talk toyou here," she said.

The second devastating fire inthe history of the 93-year-old par­ish began during 10:30 a.m. Masslast Sunday. Believed of electrical

origin, it burned some four hours,even with the assistance providednearly 50 firefighters by drenchingspring rain.

Among the first on the scene atthe three-alarm blaze were BishopDaniel A. Cronin and Msgr. JohnJ. Oliveira, diocesan chancellor.Reiterating the parish attitude, thebishop said "The church is its peo­ple, not its buildings."

The 10:30 Mass was celebratedby LaSalette Missionary FatherPaul Rainville. substituting forFather Robert S. Kaszynski, St.Stanislaus pastor. who was direct­ing a retreat at LaSalette Shrine.Attleboro, when he was called tothe fire scene.

Massgoers first noted somethingamiss when a light bulb in the ceil-

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holds community artifacts andmemorabilia, including artwork ofthe sisters, gifts to the congrega­tion such as a set of fine china, adoll collection illustrating modifi­cations of the sisters' habits overthe years, and the original plansfor the convent drawn up in 1894,

Formerly upstairs in a roomadjoining the convent library, thecommunity treasures will now bepermanently displayed in a remo­deled room near the convent en-

, trance.Dominican prioress Sister Eli­

zabeth Menard, OP, and commun­ity archivist Sister Aim MurielBrown, OP, have been instrumen­tal in organizing the celebration

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INCOMING DCCW president Mary Mikita (left) andoutgoing president Madeline Wojcik with Bishop Daniel A.Cronin. (Lavoie photo. Other photos page 5.)

Dominicans of St. Catherine of Siena

Celebrating a centuryBy Marcie Hickey

They came quite by accidentand have stayed for a century.

On Sunday the Dominican Sis­ters of St. 'Catherine of Siena',known to Fall Riverites as the"Park Street Dominicans," willcelebrate the 100th anniversary oftheir founding in the Fall Riverdiocese with a noon Mass ofThanks­giving at St. Anne's Church; FallRiver. Bishop Dartiei· A..em.ninwill preside. .

A reception will follow at nearbyDominican Academy and Conventincluding a buffet, tours of theconvent and a slide presentationon the congregation's history.

The event will also be markedby the official opening of the sis­ters' new Heritage Room, which

the bishop urged the more than300 women at the meeting to usetheir influence to ensure "everyoneunderstands that the Church dis­approves of Sunday being turnedinto just another day."

The proposal to extend Sundayhours was protested in Februaryby the Massachusetts CatholicConference, representing the fourdioceses of the Commonwealth.

Smaller retail outlets are alreadypermitted to open on Sundaymorning, while larger establish­ments open at noon. Approval forthe latter group to extend Sunday

Bishop scores Sunday openinigsBy Pat McGowan

"It is absolutely disgusting theway Sunday has been desancti­fied," Bishop Daniel A. Cronintold members of the DiocesanCouncil'of Catholic Women. Thewomen met last Saturday at thenew and beautiful parish center ofSt. Ann's Church, Raynham, fortheir 38th annual convention.

Decrying an April 17 decisionby Massachusetts Commissionerof Labor and Industries PeterTorkildsen to lift a ban on Sundaymorning openings of supermarkets,malls and large department stores,

THIS 1898 PHOTOGRAPH records the first time the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherineof Si~n~ gathered for- a group picture. It was taken in' August in the children's dorn;titory ofDOmInICan Academy, then a boarding school. I

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As the Anchor went Ito press, adecision had not been reached,said a spokesman for the FallRiver police departmeIit, who in­dicated that area police chiefswould meet on the matter April25. Swansea Police Chief RalphLepore is among chief~ opposingextended openings, citing the factthat Sunday is traditionally aChristian day of worship.

Indicating that local influenceof the' DCCW memb'ers would

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An Embrace

sacrament of orders in such a waythat men are to be ordained andnot women."

In defense of the Westernchurch's tradition of celibacy hesaid, "I think we have to keep tell­ing ourselves, when you have amarried person serving the church,the service of the church is by defi­nition a secondary commitmenton the part of that person. Theprimary commitment is to wifeand family. And if we're going tocontinue to teach what we teachabout matrimony, we have to saythat."

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Women's videoseries wants input

WASHINGTON (CNS) Thebishops' Committee on Women inSociety and in the Church is seek­ing input for a four-part video ser­ies on issues affecting women inthe church.

The series, each part to run 10minutes, will look at women's spir­ituality; balancing family and workfrom a spiritual perspective; use ofmentors; and women and men aspartners working for the church.

Dolores' R. Leckey, executivedirector of the U.S. bishops' Sec­retariat for Laity and Family Life,said input would be accepted inletter form.

Letters, due by May 31, shouldinclude both suggestions aboutissues the series can address andexamples of what is occurring inthe four areas, she said.

Two videos are slated for fallrelease. The other two are to bereleased before Lent 1992. Designedas a tool for parish groups, theseries will include a discussionguide.

"We want people to help shapethese videos," said Mrs. Leckey."We want letters in which peopletell us their stories, raise questionsand point out' what should beaddre.ssed in parish discussions."

The committee wants to know,for example, if groups of womenare gathering for prayer, or if menand women are collaborating onparish ,efforts such as outreach tothe needy.

There is evidence that "womenhave different ways than men of

, speaking to God and experiencingGod," Mrs. Leckey said. The c0!TI­mittee wants to know if this is theexperience of most people.

Research on use of mentorsshows that some ethnic groups, forexample Hispanics, have a tradi­tion of older women guidingyounger women, she said. Thecommittee wants to know whatboth Hispanic and non-Hispanicwomen have experienced in thisarea, she said.

The goal is for the videos to"develop and expand upon ques­tions that affect women's lives," be"inspirational and motivational,"and "get men and women talkingon these issues."

Male,-"celibate priesthoodgood thing, says prelate

CINCINNATI (CNS) - In aninterview with St. Anthony Mes­senger, Archbishop Daniel E.Pilarczyk of Cincinnati said thechurch should stick to a male, cel-

, ibate clergy even if it means fewerU.S. priests in coming years.

He attributed the Catholic voca­tions decline in the West partly toan "attitude problem."

The projection of fewer andfewer priests becomes "a self-fulfill­ing prophecy," he said, if it leadspeople to quit working for voca­tions because "the attitude is, it'sall going to hell in a handbasket."

He said he could not absolutelyrule out an eventual change inchurch teaching about womenpriests, but that does not mean theissue "is up for grabs."

"What we are talking about hereis not law or regulation, we aretalking about belief," he said.

While the church's celibacy ruleis not a matter of belief, he said, heopposes a change because ,of "im­plications both financial and ec­clesiological."

The eight-page interview withArchbishop Pilarczyk, who ispresident of the National Confer­ence of Catholic Bishops, was thecover feature of the magazine'sApril issue. St. Anthony Messengeris published monthly by the Cin­cinnati province of Franciscans.

The archbishop said argumentsfor changing the celibacy rule orteaching against women priestsbecause of the vocations decline inWestern'Europeand North Amer­ica are based on "a very narrowpoint of view."

At last fall's world Synod ofBishops in Rome, he said, bishopsfrom around the world "reaffirmedas strongly as they could, short ofshouting, that they wanted thechurch's discipline of celibacy toremain. The ordination of womenwas not discussed at the synod atall, as far as I'm aware."

He said there is "some insular­ity" in describing the U.S. ratio ofabout I, 100 Catholics per priest asa shortage when the worldwideaverage is about 2,200 Catholicsper priest.

The vocations decline in theWest "is troublesome," he said,"but it's a localized phenomenon.It's a developed-country phenome­non. The number of seminarianshas gone up 47 percent in 10 yearsworldwide."

He questioned the claim thatfewer priests will mean a less sac­ramental church. "We tend to havea convenience-oriented ministry,that you have to have a Mass atevery time when anybody wants aMass," he said.

Eliminating some sparsely at­ten'ded Masses or consolidatingsome parishes should not be equat­ed with denying people the sacra­ments, he suggested. "Did it comedown from Mount Sinai that Par­ish X on such-and-such a roadwith 75 families is supposed to lastforever? I don't think so. . . . Idon't envision a situation in ourdiocese where people would bedeprive.:1 of the sacraments foreverand ever if a married man were notordained to be their priest. I don'tthink we're talking major. incon­venience here."

On women's ordination he said:'~The church's position is that it isnot free to open or close that doorat all, that there is something of a'given' in the priesthood which thechurch attempts to discern.... Itis my belief that Jesus set up the

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Catholic angleon "Doonesbury"

FAIRWAY, Kan. (CNS) ­News is the lifeblood of the socialand political satirist. For DonCarlton, the finish artist for GarryTrudeau's nationally syndicated"Doonesbury" comic strip, news

. can also mean instant headaches."We all have our personal gripe

with [Iraqi President} SaddamHussein," Carlton said, "and mineis having to draw all those damncamouflage uniforms!"

Still, the bearded, 50-ish Carl­ton jokes that he is pleased to haveavoided a "real job" during his 20­year association with Trudeau."Most of my friends perceive methat way," he said. "They think,'Oh, cartooning must be fun.' It is,but it's also hard work."

Carlton, a Catholic, works inhis home in Fairway, a suburb ofKansas City, Kan. While workingas circulation manager for theNational Catholic Reporter inKansas City, Mo., he did free­lance advertising work for Univer­sal Press Syndicate, which supp­lies "Doonesbury" to newspapers.

A mutual friend arranged a meet­ing between Trudeau and Carltonin 1971 when Trudeau, havingdecided to attend graduate school,realized he needed some help with"Doonesbury."

"I didn't think I would likeGarry before I met him," Carltonsaid. "He was everything I wasn't.I thought, 'Here's this Garry Tru­deau - he's from Yale, long­haired, young, very bright, andprobably intolerable to work for.'''

Instead, Carlton found his futureboss "extremely warm," and theirIS-minute meeting set the stage fortwo decades of"long-distance car­tooning," as Carlton calls it.

"In those early days, FederalExpress wasn't even around," hesaid. "We just relied on specialdelivery mail service to get thingsback and forth from New Haven[Conn., where Trudeau lived} toKansas City."

Today, Trudeau sends his roughpencil sketches and any specialinstructions via fax from his homein New York, where he lives withwife Jane Pauley, host of NBC­TV's "Real Life" program.

Carlton keeps a low profile,deals with Trude~u over the phcne,and sees him only on specialoccasions., "We went to Garry and Jane's

wedding," Carlton said. "And hewas in town last October for the20th anniversary ofthe strip." Thisfall, he said, the Trudeaus will flyCarlton and his wife to New Yorkfor what Carlton calls "a big week­end of theater" to celebrate their20 years of collaboration.

Since the survey was taken, thebishops have received its results,an explanation of current NCCB­USCC finances and structures, anda document by a "CAP committee'of bishops, with 16 questionsbishops should ask themselves rel­ative to the NCCB-USCC's future.

Among the questions, Father•Schnurr said, were how investmentrevenues should be utilized andwhether the NCCB-USCC shouldseek more outside revenue sourcesfor its activities.

Currently, investment revenues,along with slight surpluses fromthe 1989 and 1990 budgets, arehelping fund 1991 operations, hesaid.

Some NCCB-USCC activitiesreceive outside funding, amongthem the bishops' Secretariat forPro-Life Activities, which is aidedby the Knights of Columbus.

Bishops are being asked to con­sider outside funding, FatherSchnurr said. Scenarios would in­clude an NCCB-USCC develop­ment office to help other officesget grants from Catholic foun­dations.

With no other outside income,the per-Catholic assessment wouldhave to rise to 16.7 cents in 1992,17.3 cents in 1993, 18.1 cents in1994, 19 cents in 1995, and 19.9cents in 1996 just to keep NCCB­USCC acfivities at current levels;Father Schnurr said.

Each· one-cent assessment in­crease represents about $500,000.

Keeping the same assessmentlevels "would force us into cut­backs," Father Schnurr said.

"If we're looking for a savings, areduction in the overall budget,"Father Schnurr added, the neces­sary step would be looking at"[bishops') conference units thathave the largest budgets."

The executive director of each·department was informed of sug­gestions made by the CAP com­mittee based on bishops' surveycomments. Each director then metwith the appropriate' NCCB orUSCC committee to discuss thesuggestions. If suggestionsmet "anabsolute lack of enthusiasm," theCAP committee withdrew them,Father Schnurr said.

The bishops will benefit fromcomputer technology when mak­ing their decisions. "At everymoment they are going to havebefore them a calculation of theimpact (their budgeting propos­als) will have on them," thanks to acomputer program's output beinglinked to a large projection screenin the meeting room, he said.

Cutbacks orcancellations ofNCCB­USCC programs would take effectby the end of 1992, Father Schnurrsaid.

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The bishops are expected tovote on possible increases indiocesan assessments to fund theNCCB-USCC,. possible cutbacksin NCCB-USCC operations, or acombination of both.

The review was mandated bythe bishops when they were askedin 1989 to increase the diocesanassessment from the current rateof 15.7 cents per Catholic. A Con­ference Assessment Project, knownas CAP, began in 1990 to reviewNCCB-USCC operations.

The current NCCB-USCC bud­.get is $34.2 million, with the dioce­san assessment covering $8.1 mil­lion of that. The rest of the con­ference's income comes largely fromgrants and from fees for services.

Bishops were sent a survey inMay 1990 asking them, amongother things, whether budgets ofindividual NCCB-USCC depart­ments and offices should be en"larged or cut back based on whatthey perceived as the value of eachto the national and local church.

Father Dennis Schnurr, NCCB­USCC associate general secretary,said some bishops of larger dio­ceses felt certain departments couldbe cut back because they duplicatework done on the diocesan level,but that "smaller dioceses are say­ing, 'Everything you're doing is .appreciated....

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On a· lighter note, the deaconsuggested that perhaps it was meantto be that he would be standing onthe Bishop Connolly High School

.stage to launch this 50th Appeal."Two separate events of 50 years

ago come together on this stage,"he said. "Y ou might say that theCatholic Charities Appeal and Iwere born together!"

Also 50 years ago, noted Dea­con LeBlanc, Appeal director Fa­ther Daniel L. Freitas participatedin his first Appeal.

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organizers or collectors; you arecollaborators in charity with yourbishop."

He added, "Are we really strang­ers when charity personified comesto our door? Are we not broughther by Christ's love and bound bythat love?"

Through the Charities Appeal,"We collaborate in child care, socialservices, pastoral care for the sick.

"You form the total person" inour elementary and high schools,Deacon LeBlanc continued. "Youprovide training for priests anddeacons; you sponsor family lifeand all it entails; you bring theCatholic way of life to othersthrough communications;" youprovide for diocesan nursinghomes, where "life is respected andtreated in a sacred fashion."

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Additional photos on page 10At last Wednesday's kickoff

meeting for the 50th annual Cath-olic Charities Appeal, lay chair­man Deacon Claude A. LeBlanccalled all who participate in theeffort through donations or can­va"ssing "collaborators in charity."

Focusing on elements of thisyear's theme, "Caring, Giving,Time, Sacrifice," Deacon LeBlancnoted, "We use time 'for manypurposes: to work, to eat, to sleep,to be a part ofthe happenings thatoccur in our lives. But time canalso be a sacrifice for those whoare canvassing, knockiing on thedoors of people you do not know."

However, he said, "Please donot think of' yourselves only as

DEACON CLAUDE LeBLANC addresses the Catholic Charities Appeal kickoffaudience at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

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1991 National Review CollegeGuide has named II Catholic col­leges and .universities among whatit has rated America's 50 top lib­eral arts schools.

In the preface to the collegeguide, its editors write that U.S.higher education "is in crisis," say­ing "admissions standards havebeen lowered, curricula debasedand courses trivialized."

The guide was edited by journal­ist and author Charles Sykes andBrad Miller, literary editor ofNational Review, with an intro­duction by William F. Buckley Jr.,National Review editor for 35 ~e~s.:.

It lists schools that "overall,achieve academic excellence" basedon:

- Quality and availability offaculty;

- Curriculum quality, with em­phasis on liberal arts.

- Intellectual interaction be­tween students, faculty, adminis­trators, alumni and town residents.

ANational Review news releasesays the 50 schools selected were"shining rays in an academicjungle."

"The core curriculum is an en­dangered species and the academicleft is the culprit that's killing itoff. There is cynicism in 'the class­room about the Western traditionand American ideals," it says.

"And, what's worse, there arecurbs on free expression - it's bet­

. ter not to voice your opinions oncertain subjects unless your opin­ions are 'politically correct,''' says

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for Children. They committed them­selves to an action plan to addressthe silent catastrophe of 40,000child deaths each day from malnu­trition and disease by reducing thisrate by one-third by the year 2000.

The cost of this project is esti­mated to be $2.5 billion annually(the cost of U.S. cigarette advertis­ing each year). The world summithighlighted the problems facingthe least developed countries butdid not ignore those of the moredeveloped nations. In the UnitedStates alone, one-fifth of ourchildren live in poverty and 37 mil­lion citizens have no health insur­ance.

Perhaps the insight of Gorba­chev and Reagan regarding mut­ual trust could come to be the truebeginning of a new world order. Itis one thing to come together tofight a common enemy such asSaddam Hussein; it is another thingaltogether to fight poverty, pollu­tion, hunger and disease.

When the nations of the worldbegin to feel secure be<;ause theyare committed to a relationshipbased on trust rather than fear, the$1 trillion spent annually on wea­pons can be earmarked for invest­ments in the areas of health, edu­cation and environmental restora­tion.

e Without such a change in think­ing, the only lesson taught by theGulf war will be that the nationwith the most arms wins. That les­son is part of the old world order,an order as old as Croesus, theancient Greek king possessed oflegendary wealth, who learned thehard way that his gold was uselesswithout the iron to defend it.

The new world order should notbe based on something as antipro­ductive as mutual distrust but onmutual trust and a shared worldvision.

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not in better relations with neigh­bors. Canada's President BrianMulroney has noted the irony thatmost of the weapons used in theGulf were supplied by the fivenations of the United NationsSecurity Council.

The creation by Saddam Hus­sein of a vast military arsenalshould have taught the world avaluable lesson. A laissez-faire freemarket approach to the weaponstrade has wreaked havoc in theMiddle East.

However, if a coalition of coun­tries can come together to fight awar, it should be equally able tomount an arms moratorium in theMiddle East. All our rhetoric abouta new world order notwithstand­ing, without such a moratorium itwill be business as usual with theweapons-hungry nations and a newwar will be lurking in the not toodistant future.

Last September, 71 heads ofstate joined for a World Summit

By Father Kevin J. HarringtonDuring the beginning days of

the lhaw in the Cold War thenPresident Ronald Reagan sup­posedly convinced President Mik­hail Gorbachev that the reasoneach country had so many armswas because they distrusted eachother.

Reagan, in his recently publishedautobiography, said that when bothleaders realized that their mutualdistrust was not of the magnitudeto justify continuation of the armsrace, they were finally able to puttheir differences aside and worktogether.

lndeed~ one year ago. on AprilII, 1990, Gorbachev spoke to theWorld Media Association about anew world order.

Since the victory in the Gulfwar, President George Bush has inhis turn often referred to the coali­tion effort as part of an emergingnew world order.

Too often in the past order hasbeen narrowly defined as t~e sem­blance of law that can be main~

tained through a balance of power;but a truly new world order willrequire a rethinking of the mean­ing of security.

Our military strength may keepus safe from armed invasion andmay help us take a leadership rolein regional conflicts, but there areother strengths that must' bebrought to bear on the myriad ofproblems that face us.

The irony of the Gulfwar is thatit has heightened the spending ofmoney on armaments. Its show­casing of high-tech weapons hasdiverted the scanty funds of smallernations away from human resources.

The current $1 trillion a yearspent on weapons proves that mostnations still believe that securitylies in being armed to the teeth and

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Hope for the Future:Public Higher Education

The history of public higher education in this area of theCommonwealth is one of determined persistence. From theearly days of our textile schools to their merger as SoutheasternMassachusetts University, the road of educational progresshas been rocky.

Nevertheless, many have labored for years to bring not onlySMU but our other area colleges to their present high level.But in education as in all else, one must renew as well as'maintain.

The difficulties now being experienced at MassachusettsMaritime Academy are but one example of the need for newapproaches and ideas. It would be unfortunate if such a goodschool became a mere commodity to be auctioned off to thehighest bidder. There mlJst be some way it can remain a viablepart of the Commonwealth's network of higher educationinstitutions; possibly as a college of the proposed, University ofMassachusetts at Dartmouth (now SMU).

The recent initiative of Cape Cod Community College toinvolve the public in its efforts to be a vital educational force inthe community also deserves applause. The·college's door-to­door fundraising campaign should not only raise needed capi­tal but also public awareness. It faces unique challenges in aunique community and is responding to them enthusiastically.

Meanwhile in Fall River, Bristol Community College offersmany opportunities to those who might otherwise be lookedon as unschooled immigrants. BCC indeed deserves everyeffort made to enable it to continue lighting lamps for themany who might otherwise be left in the darkness of ignorance.

Despite the fact that the State College at· Bridgewater is notactually in the territory served by this paper, it has reachedthousands of diocesan residents, especially in the area of post­graduate work. For years Bridgewater has been an outstand­'ing leader in public higher education without receiving therecognition it truly deserves. It's a fine college that has starteduncounted graduate students on the road to a doctorate.

In fact, it's a shame it hasn't been considered for incorpora­tion into the state university system. Perhaps there should beUniversity of Massachusetts campuses at Bridgewater andBuzzards Bay as well as at North Dartmouth.

The proposal to raise S MU to the level of a true university isto be welcomed, supported and financed. For where it is at thepresent time, S MU is a good school. It has had a very positiveoutreach to the local community and has given many a basiccollege education. However, its true potential as a univ'ersityhas never been fully developed.

Perhaps it has been too parochial in its vision or perhaps toomany with area influence have limited its horizons. Whateverthe case, new possibilities are unfolding for SMU. As a full­fledged member of the Massachusetts system, it can movefromits insular position into the mainstream of higher educa­tional opportunity, benefiting more students from the under­graduate to the doctoral level and assuring its position in thestate financial structure.

It is evident that great things ar.e happening in our areacolleges and universities. As responsible citizens, we should doeverything we can to bring to fruition the hopes and aspira­tions such institutions represent for the future of our youngpeople.

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his essential contribution to thefaith.

Luke believes Saul's conversionto be one of the most significantevents in church history. tIe is ableto see God's hand at work through­out the entire episode. It is noaccident that it occurs just as Gen­tiles are beginning to seek entryinto "the way."

Noone in the present commun­ity can meet the demands of theseunexpected converts. Everythingis geared toward Jewish conver­sions. Culture and religion are uni­form. All share identical Scrip-,tures and worship; everyone takesthe same things for granted. How.can they relate to people whobegin their search for Jesus from atotally different background?

Initially the faithful try to turnthese Gentiles into Jews. Only thendo, they permit them to be Chris­tians. But Luke believes that Godwants them to go beyond this pro­cess... Different" people must beadmitted directly into the faithand not forced into a prior reli-

: gious system. Saul, because of hisJewish! Gt:ntile cultural mix. isideal for such a ministry.

But Saul's path to Jesus was sounique that many .....even refusedto believe he was a. disciple." HadBarnabas notstepped forward and

."sponsored" their former persecu­tor, the Jerusalem communitywould probably never have accept­ed him. Had Saul been rejected.the church would have missed itsopportunity to become a universalreligion. Uniformity would havebeen its downfall.

Barnabas, believing that faith inJesus could transform an enemyinto a friend, takes a chance onSaul and receives him with openarms. This one act of love eventu­ally changes Christianity's entiredirection.

The saml: God who creates plantsalso creates the Church. He hasmade diversity essential for thesurvival and growth of each. Soeasy to be content with the statusquo;.so simple to fall back on tra­ditional ways.

Only love will give us the secur­ity to accept 'those who bringenough diversity into the Churchto keep it in existence.

DAILY READINGSApril 29: Acts 14:5-18;Ps

115:1-4,15-16; In 14:21-26April 30: Acts 14:19-28;

Ps 145:10-13,21; In 14:27-31May 1: Acts 15:1-6; Ps

122:1-5; In 15:1-8May 2: Acts 15:7-21; Ps

96:1-3,10; In 15:9-11May 3: 1Cor 15:1-8; Ps 19:2­4; In 14:6-14

May 4: Acts 16:1-10; Ps100:1-3,5; In 15:18-21

May 5: Acts 10:25-26,34­35,44-48; Ps 98:1-4; 1 In4:7-10; In 15:9-17

Sunday's readings: Acts 9:26­31; I John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8The April 1991 issue of"National

Georgraphic" contains an intrigu­ing article on plant genetics. Theauthor maintains that the geneticuniformity which we have bredinto our modern crops is a mixedblessing. It greatly increases yieldsbut it also makes each plant iden­tically vulnerable to disaster. Tomake certain that some calamitywill not wipe out the world's foodsupply, scientists are racing to ob­tain and preserve genes from wildvarieties of common plants. Theirfuture existence as cultivated cropsdepends on genetic diversity.

Ironically, today's Gospel speaksabout plants: grapevines. Jesus re­minds his disciples, "I am the truevine and my Father is the vine­grower ....No more than a branchcan bear fruit of itself apart fromthe vine, can you bear fruit apartfrom rile. I am the vine, you are thebranches....The person who doesnot live in me is like a withered,rejected branch..."

Union with Jesus is a majorcomponent ofJohn's theology. Theevangelist often stresses this aspectof faith in his Gospel and his threeletters. Such unity is a pledge thatwe are living correctly. If we arenot completely bound to Jesus,everything we accomplish is worth­less.

Normally we show we are onewith God by the kind of things wedo. We read in I John: "Those whokeep his commandments remainin him and he in them." And whatis his most important comm'and?..... We are to believe in the name ofhis Son, Jesus Christ, and are to'love one another. .."

Yet, just as plants need diversityto survive, so we who are growingin our union with Jesus also needdiversity. If there is too much uni­formity in our unity we could be indanger of extinction. Without aconstant infusion of "new genes"we risk annihilation.

Jesus seems to have tackled thisproblem by commanding us tolove one another. Luke gives anexample of love's importance inour first reading.

Saul certainly brings new genesto the Christian community. Buthe comes into the faith in such anextraordinary way that only lovecan guarantee his admission and

Theneedfordiversity

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Q. What should keeping theLord's day holy mean to Catholicstoday?

Attending Mass is simple. Butrefraining from servile work? Doesthis still have a meaning?

Today many people hardly everdo servile work. It is possible for

Keeping holy the Lord's day in the 1990sin a Catholic cemetery together?(Alberta, Canada)

A. You should talk to a priestabout the validation of your mar­riage in the Catholic faith beforeyou return to the full sacramentallife of the church. Judging fromthe facts you give, this processshould be relatively simple andbrief.

There i's no reason to be con­cerned about your being buriedtogether in a Catholic cemetery.It's done all the time.

Please talk to your priest, explainthe situation, and he will adviseyou of the steps to take.

Questions may be sent to FatherDietzen at Holy Trinity Parish,704 N. Main St., Bloomington, 111.61701. '

day above all the peace, joy, con­tentment and love that should beours because of what Jesus hasaccomplished for us by his deathand resurrection.

Q. I am a Catholic woman mar­ried to a Lutheran man for 46years. We were married in a civilceremony. The reason was simplythat my husband was in the Navyand I wanted to go with him as hiswife. This was 1944. Our first childwas born in 1946.

For years we attended the Uni­ted Church until we moved towhere a Catholic church was avail­able and I began attending.

I have two questions: Is it allright for me to receive commun­ion? Are we allowed to be buried

may become in fact a day of joyand of freedom from work" (Con­stitution on the Liturgy, 106). -

Canon law says almost the same.The faithful "should avoid anywork or business which might standin the way of the worship whichshould be given to God, the joyproper to the Lord's day or theneedc;d relaxation of mind andbody" (1247).

You probably are aware that thewhole idea of forbidden "servile"work developed in a radically dif­ferent agricultural-labor society.I t generally misses the point entirelyto discuss what kinds of "work"are allowed.

Our aim, as the above state­ments indicate, is to have ourhomes and activities reflect on that

professional persons to work all, -day on Sunday, not do a bit of

"servile" work, but miss the spiritof the Lord's day.

I've been given vague directionsby priests such as, Does the workyou are doing keep you from God?

Please, are there any real guide­lines or is it all a matter of attitude?(Texas)

A. Participation in the Sundayeucharistic liturgy still is requiredfor us, of course. Whatever otherobligations:we have to observe theLord's day are meant to help uskeep the spirit of reverent reflec­tion, worship and rest.

Vatican Council II calls Sunday"the original feast day" and urgesthat 'its observance always should­be proposed and taught "so that it

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FATHER

JOHN J.

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Is morality synon.ymous with the letter of the law?By

DOLORES

CURRAN

Last January in San Diego a 25­year-old man in a wheelchair enter­ed a bank and threatened to blowit up with a bottle of nitroglycerinif the teller didn't give him $70. Heexplained apologetically that heneeded it for heart medicine andhe had only $4 left in his account.

He was arrested a few minuteslater at a drugstore near the bankwhere he was attempting to buy abottle of heart medicine for $69.The bank's security guardfollowed him and called police.

The story was humorous to sometelevision reporters but I found itmore tragic than funny. It remindedme of one of the dilemmas posedby psychologist Lawrence Kohl­berg to subjects in his research onmoral development.

His fictional problem, which hasbeen widely used in adult religiouseducation, had to do with themorality of a husband who stolemoney for medication for his dyingwife. I have sat in with more thanone group struggling with the issueof morality in this situation.

In each group, there was at leastone person who evidenced dualis­tic thinking - stealing is eitherright or wrong. If it's immoral,then the'reason for it never justi­fies the act.

_There was also at feast one ineach gf'OUp who evidenced plural-

istic thinking: "Yes, stealing iswrong but the situation determinesthe morality so in this case thehusband is not guilty because he isdoing it out ofunselfish motives."

Most adults fall between- thetwo, asking questions like, "Did heexhaust all other possibilities? Ifso, would it be immoral?" "Whatwere his motivations?"

Assigning morality to another'sbehavior is always a chancy busi­ness because we take it out of thecontext of that person's life andapply it to our own situation.What we were discussing in the'groups had more to do with thequestion, "What would I do?"

Victor Hugo's book, Les Mis­erobles, which was turned into oneof the most popular musicals inrecent years, is based on this wholeissue. Was Jean Valjean justified

in stealing a loaf of bread to feedhis starving family?

Later on, was the priest whogave him shelter right in telling thepolice that he gave Valjean thesilver candlesticks when he hadactually stolen them? In_dualisticthinking, the answer is no; it isnever right to lie. Yet, most read­ers and viewers respond empathet­i~ally to both Valjean and the

, priest.I recently attended a lecture by a

moral theologian who distinguished'between moral, ethical, ap.d reli­gious behavior. Morality, he be­lieves, is based on the rules ormores of society. Ethics are rootedin a deeper understanding of God'smercy which, throughout scripture,influences the commandments andother rules. Religion is the meansto this understanding.

Under this definition the U.S .

magistrate in the San Diego caseoperated from an ethical base.When the offender appeared volun­tarily for arraignment and pleadedinnocent claiming that anyone inthe same position would have donethe same, the judge told him hedidn't have to be booked or fin­gerprinted because it would be animposition to the man who is par­tially paralyzed by a stroke.

The thief told the judge he "hatedto have to go to this extreme," ref"erring to the robbery, but insistedthat he had tried every other wayto find money to buy the medicine.

As of this writing authoritieshave not yet decided whether toprosecute the case. Let's assumethey do. He broke the law, afterall. And say you end up on the jurywith- the instructions, '''Your onlyquestion is whether or not he brokethe law." How would you vote?

It was Mahfood's way of doingsomething about the unbelievable.poverty in this country where deathis rampant from disease and hung­er, some 60 percent of the children

Hendon Chubb, both of whom arepsychotherapists, said that state­ment was true because while peo­ple were mourning the boys, theywere at the same time "celebratingthe man they had chosen, whothey hoped would put an end tosuch deaths." .

My interest in Haiti deepened afew years ago when an acquain­tance told me about a man namedFerdinand Mahfood, a food ex­porter from Pompano Beach, Fla.,who has become a modern mis­sionary, starting Food for the Poor,an enterprise that has become quitewell known.

.Can Father Aristide begin a new chapter for Haiti?neve; reach their fifth birthday Duvalier had thousands of peopleand medical care is beyond the brought for interrogation and tor­reach of most people. ture. She said only 20 percent

Father Aristide has been well taken there survived. "We wereknown as an activist priest, a lib- shaken by Fort Dimanche. Moreeration theologian who is commit- than anything else we saw, it stoodted to eliminating government as a squat, ugly metaphor: Murdercorruption, public sector stealing ,and terror were routine oc­and the unjust, unequal economic currences."conditions that have led to such Given Haiti's long' history ofpoverty and suffering in his poverty, bloodshed and routinecountry. corruption, "can one little priest

He is also a special, sensitive begin to write a new story?" sheperson who speaks several lan- asked.guages, composes songs, speaks in The day after the inauguration,Creole directly to the people and Father Aristide went to' Forthas shown the grass-roots leader- Dimanche along with some of theship that generated the trust that survivors and families of peoplegot him elected president. who died there. "He spoke of the

Ms. Naut told me she and her past and of the future and plantedhusband visited Fort Dimanche, a tree. We hope it grows well," shethe infamous barracks where Hai- said.ti's former president Baby Doc And so do we all.

they flew to that country, someonethrew a firebomb into the dormi­tory of an orphanage for homelessboys run by the 37-year-old priest.

Four of the boys were killed."The murder of the boys six daysbefore he took office made the vio­lence and corruption we'd readabout shockingly real," she said.

Two days later they went to theMass for the four boys. Hundredsof people were there; the churchwas jammed.

"We saw Father Aristide forthefirst time, looking frail and an­guished. The four small coffinscarried his 'children' as he calledthem," said Ms. Nauts. "After theservice, a Haitian couple said tous, 'This isn't about death, it'sabout life.'''

Ms. Nauts and her husband,

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With the election in Haiti lastDecember of Father Jean-BertrandAristide by an overwhelming major­ity of 70 percent, one would haveto be calloused not to feel newhope for the people of Haiti.

I spoke with a woman who wentto Haiti with her husband,for theFebruary inauguration of FatherAristide as president. Phyllis Nautstold me of their shock. The night

Alcoholism: the disease that denies itselfBy

Dr. JAMES &

MARY

KENNY

Dear Dr. Kenny: How do youknow if someone is an alcoholic?My husband has lost two jobs inthe past year because of his drink­ing and had three auto accidents,but he still insists he is not ali alco­holic. Are there some guidelines?- Indiana. .

What causes a problem is aproblem. If your husband has lost

jobs and had auto accidents becauseof his dri'nking, then obviously hisdrinking is a prob'lem. That prob­lem is called "alcoholism."

Denial is a very common symp­tom of alcoholism. In fact, alcoho­lism has been described as the onlydisease that denies itself.

Many people imagine an alco­holic as a bum lying drunk in thegutter. That's one r,eason why manypeople say they are not alcoholics.Actually; fewer than 4 percent ofthe nation's alcoholics fit thispattern'.

The major effect of alcohol is tocreate euphoria. Everyone drinksfor the same reason: to feel good.Once people get feeling good. the

"problem" is treated with'laughterand dismissal. That is another rea­son why people deny alcoholism.

Alcoholism comes in two varie­ties. One type is called "alcoholdependence" or "alcohol addic-'tion." Here, the victim is physi­cally dependent on alcohol.

The person suffering from alco­hol dependence will drink largeamounts daily, on weekends or onperiodic binges. The best way totell _if a person is physicallydependent is to observe whetherthey suffer from withdrawal whenthey stop drinking. '

Another way to tell is if theyhave the habit of eye-openers, ex-

perience blackouts or consistentlygo over their own "quota."

The second type of alcoholism iscalled ,"alcohol abuse." Here thevictim may not be physically depen­dent, but the drinking causes ser­ious problems in important lifeareas. A few examples are:

- Health problems such as im­pairment of the liver, heart andother body organs.

- Marital problems such asspouse or child abuse, infidelityand separation.

- Personality problems such as'irritability and combativeness.

- Financial problems such asheavy indebtedness pue to poor

judgment or the high costofliquoritself.

- Employment problems suchas tardiness, absenteeism, poorwork performance and job loss.

Your husband appears to besuffering from "alcohol abuse."His drinking is seriously affectinghis life. If he cannot or does notstop his drinking, then he needstreatment for the problem. Aftertwo job losses and three accidents,it is time for outside help.

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Jarship will be drawn from thenames of players attending thebanquet. .

Calipari has completed hissecond year at UMass, Amherst,leading his team to the NationalInvitational Tournament semifinalsat Madison Square Garden.

Migrants'rightsVATICAN CITY (CNS) - In

its work on behalf of migrants, thechurch defends not only the reli­gious rights of uprooted people,but all of their rights, Pope JohnPaul II said. "The church worksfor an adjustment of national andinternational legislation in res­pecting the fundamental rights ofevery person to life, to a home­land, to a family, to just treatmentand to participation in politicaland social life," he said at a recent

. meeting of the Pontifical Councilfor Migrants and Travelers.

Calipari to speak at CY0 banquet

HELPING make preparations for a National Congress ofthe Sacred Heart ofJesus to be held Aug. 1to 4 at the SheratonConvention Center, Liverpool, NY, are members ofthe Fair­have~ ch~pter of Men of the Sacred Heart, from left, RayLaVOIe, vIce-president; Octave Pimentel, publicity; Donald St.Gelais, pres~dent;, Leonard Cejka, hisrorian. Not pictured,Norman DaIgle, secretary. The convention, sponsored by theSacred Heart Enthronement Apostolate, will include a day foryoung people ages 14to 20 on Aug. 3 and perpetual adorationthroughout the event, arranged in cooperation with a Knightsof Columbus honor guard.

April 271925, Rev. Francis J. Bradley,

D.D., Rector, Cathedral, Fall River1949, Rev. Romeo D. Archam­

bault, St. Anne, New Bedford

April 281959~ Rev. StanislausJ. Goyette,

Pastor, St. Louis de France, Swan­sea

April 291987, Rev. James Leo Maguire,

Pastor, Monterey Diocese, Calif­ornia

1989, Rev. Adolph Szelagowski,OFM Conv., Parochial Vicar, O.L.Perpetual Help, New Bedford

April 301900, Rev. John A. Hurley, Pas­

tor, St. Mary, North Attleboro1930, Rev. David F. Sheedy,

Pastor, St. John Evangelist,Attleboro

May I1882, Rev. Francis J. Quinn,

Founder, Immaculate Conception,North Easton Founder, SacredHeart, Fall River

May 2, 1963, Rt. Rev. Msgr. M.P. Leo­nidas Lariviere, Pastor, St. JeanBaptitte, Fall River

Rev. Jay Maddock, director ofthe Fall River Area CYO, an­nounced today that John Calipari,head basketball coach at the Uni­versity of Massachusetts in Am­herst, will be guest speaker at theannual awards banquet. The eventwill be held at McGovern's Restau­rant, Fall River, at 6 p.m. May 7.

All coaches have been notifiedby mail and are reminded that theycan order tickets by calling Mrs.Vivian Burke at 673-9492 or Fa­ther Maddock at 675-7150 or 676­1541. The ticket deadline is Satur­day, May 4.

At the banquet, team trophieswill be presented to parishes win­ning regular season and/ or playoffchampionships this year and indi­vidual awards will be given.

Highlighting the evening will bepresentation of Sportsmanshipawards in the Junior A Boys' Div­ison and the Junior A and B Girls'Division. A basketball camp scho-

vention Mass was offered for them. and for all deceased members, saidthe bishop.

At an opening business meetingnew officers wer~ elected to two­year terms. They are Mrs. AndrewMikita, president; Miss Claire ­O'Toole, recording secretary; MissHelen Stager, treasurer.

Vice presidents are first, Mrs.Manuel T. Nogueira; Fall River;second, Mrs. George Bauza, Attle­boro; third, Miss Theresa Lewis,New Bedford; fourth, Mrs. LeoPlouffe; Taunton; fifth, Mrs.Joseph Mazzuchelli, Cape andIslands.

All were installed by BishopCronin at the convention Mass.

The bishop also presented theannual Margaret M. Lahey Memor­ial/Our Lady of Good Counselawards to a woman from eachDCCW district outstanding forservice to her parish coun~_

The 1991 awards went to EmilyPacheco, Our Lady of Health par­ish, Fall River; Mary S. Betten­court, Immaculate Conception,.New Bedford; Elsie Abreau, St.Anthony, Taunton; Rose Soucy,Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, See­konk; and Frances Furfey, St. Eli­zabeth Seton, North Falmouth.

Mrs. Theodore J. Wojcik Sr.,DCCW president, announced thatMrs. MichaelJ. McMahon is nom­inating committee chairman forthe annual convention of theNational Council of CatholicWomen, to be held in Septemberin Dallas. Mrs. Aubrey M. Arm­strong has been nominated as thirdnational vice president and MissDorothy Curry as a member of thenational nominating committee.Both are past presidents of theDCCW..

Also at the convention, pastpresident Mrs. James H. Quirkwill be installed as Boston pro­vince representative to the NCCW.The province embraces the statesofMassachusetts, Maine, New Hamp­shire and VexIllilDl.

On behalf of the council, Mrs.Wojcik presented a check to BishopCronin for the work of the dioceseand it was also announced thatparish councils had collected atotal of $2000 for the NCCWWater for Life program, whichfunds the. digging of wells in ThirdWorld countries.

In brief comments, Mrs. Mikitaexpressed appreciation of her elec­tion as the new DCCW presidentand said that "Together We A­chieve" would be the council themefor the forthcoming two years.

Father L~ons singled' out forspecial mention the recent "excel"lent leadership seminar" presentedat LaSalette Center in Attleboroby NCCW trainers under DCCWsponsorship.

Music at the convention Masswas directed by Michael Kelleywith choristers from St. Josephparish, Taunton, and the Coyleand Cassidy High School choir.

The convention committee washeaded by Mrs. Aristides A. An­drade and Mrs. Richard M. Paul­son. Subcommittee chairmen wereMrs. Raymond Lavoie, registra­tion and publicity; Mrs.' WilliamGrover, luncheon; Mrs. Plouffe,decorations; Miss Adrienne Lem­ieux, nominations and coffee hour;Mrs. Harry Loew; liturgy.

Mrs: Michael J. McMahon wasparliamentarian; Miss Lewis wasrecording secretary; and Mrs. An­thony Geary was treasurer.

Concluding the day was "AClassic Sound," a musical programdirected by Richard Naas.

Sunday openingsContinued from Page One

outweigh his, Bishop Cronin toldthe women "I can give this talk~nywherebut can you imagine theI~fluenceyou'll have ifyou empha·sIze hgw Sunday is being desacral­ized." He also stressed the badeffect on youth of commercializa­tion of Sunday. "How can theygrow up learning to respect theLord's day," he queried.

The bishop expressed his grati­tude for DCCW contributions tothe diocese, stressing that "I wantevery parish guild in the diocese tobecome associated with the coun­cil."

Conventi(m keynote speaker Dr.Lois Wims held her audience spell­bound as she related her years ofservice as a police officer in Cen­tral Falls,RI, to'-the conventiontheme of"Here I Am, Lord. I WillServe."

The alumna of EeehaJl---HiglLSchool, Attleboro, who is nowassistant professor in the adminis­tration of justice department atSalve Regina University, Newport,Dr. Wims was the first womanpolice officer in Central Falls.

She said that a sign over herdesk at Salve Regina given her bya homicide investigation officerreads "We work for God."

"You don't usually think of po­lice officers as doing that," shesaid, "but it's true of many."

Dr. Wims added that in manyways "it's hard work to get to workfor God," citing grueling policeacademy training and the fact thatone small police department had600 applicants for two vacancies.

She said that Central Falls is a"perfect place to do God's work"but it was hard for her to co~efrom a middle-class backgroundto a world of cocaine and agingtenements with their attendantproblems. It was sometimes hardfor her friends as well, she said,recounting an instance when shewas driving with someone andspotted a car on the police wantedlist.

Her friend was understandablyconfused to find himself chasingthe car, she chuckled.

"Police officers must confrontmany fears and take a lot ofabuse,"she told the audience, "but there'sa great brotherhood among them."

For example, said Dr. Wims,she had a disastrous house fire inwhich she lost literally all her pos­sessions. "For months afterwardsI received checks from policemen Ididn't even know, sometimes witha little note enclosed: 'I worked anextra shift for you, so here's themoney.' "

Your fellow officers take it forgranted that they would "stop abullet" for you, she continued."You don't expect that of mostcoworkers."

Police .officers can be the best orworst of people, depending on cir­cumstances, she said, notillB thatthe recent videoed beating by policeof a Los An_eles man carried "alesson for all cops."

But, she concluded, "We dowork for God - and he's the bestpossible employer."

New OfficersDuring the convention letters of

condolence were read and BishopCronin and DCCW moderatorFather James F. Lyons expressedthe sense of loss felt by all at therecent death of pioneer membersGertrude O'Brien and MargaretNoonan, both past presidents whohad contributed greatly to devel­opment of the council. The con-

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Apr. 26, 1~91 9

-I"FROM TOP: at a picnic in North Dartmouth (Anchor,

July 13, 1978); Father Ron Henery, OP, left, and FatherRobert Vaughn, OP, celebrate a Mass in observance of the600th anniversary of the death of St. Catherine of Siena(Anchor, May 8, 1980); at left, Sisters Donna Brunell (left) andElizabeth Menard open the community's development officein New Haven, Conn. (Anchor, Feb. 6, 1987); at right, thestatue of Mary, whose pedestal and arch, constructed by SisterGertrude Gaudette, were dismantled last year when the statuewas moved to the convent's new courtyard and fire access road(Anchor, May 24, 1987); DA students entertain retired sisters(Anchor, Feb. 19, 1988).

Bishop Gerrard High ~chool,which included faculty membersfrom all three schools. Later BishopGerrard itself closed when BishopConnolly High School, also inFall River, became coeducational.

decline in health and Sister Mary burgh, NY. and a short-lived ven-Thomas Kelly was named interim ture in Grafton, ND, the latterprioress. closed within four years. "The dis-

However, the annalist relates, tance was too great and the weatherMother Bertrand "never became too extreme - some of the sistersindifferent to the concerns of the were getting sick," explains Sisterconvent" and, "always more of a Menard.mother than a superior," she en- The community also expanded The .1978 to 1986 term, of Sisterjoyed the company of the younger closer to home: in 1922 they were Barbara McCarthy as prioress gen-sisters and sboWed great concern invited- to staff St. Francis Xavier eral was marked by "more subtlefor their well-being. .School in' Acushnet, where they changes," continues Sister Menard:

Continued the annalist: "God still serve. "a continual growth in the identitylet it be clearly seen that she was Mother Joseph Trottier led the of the community, the implemen-truelythe instrument He wished to community from 1940 to 1946, tation of the renewal process afterdig the furrow, where, thanks to during which time the sisters' New Vatican II; long-range planningher, a fruitful harvest would grow. York missions "became a major and evaluation of our life andBlessed with an energetic will and ministry touching many towns" mission."generous love, Mother made a says Sister Menard. They went 1980 saw the Catherinian year,total gift of herself to God in the from one school to another, "see- an international observance oftherenouncement of her time, her ing more than 2,000 students a sixth centenary of the death of theown desires, her strength, in fact,. week." congregation's patroness celebrat-her whole-life,-to--lead-~~-- During Muther--rotm- Augusta---e!t J>.Y-~Jt_e .F.a~l~!~e£-,iste£s~_i!~_ -alo'ng the road to perfection, in the Marsden's 1946 to 1952 term as speCial actiVIties, spe~ke~s and dls-dual role of religious and educa- prioress the communit obtained plays an~ the v~r~ahzatlon of the'tor." b 'Id' ' ... h Y commuDlty's miSSion statement.

Th 'f d M h G d UI lOgs adJolmng t e Park Street . "Th' t' b' . f. e gl te ot er ertru e· convent to house the sisters and IS con mues to e a ~Islon 0

Roney was a natural choice to-take novices and allow the school to who w~ are as we move mto theover the role of prioress in 1913. expand future; It speaks to who we are andWithin three years she founded the The ~cademy boarding school who we are to become," notes Si~-Dominican Academy Alumnae As- had been closed, but a prep school ter Menard, who .a~su~ed the prt-sociation, endured the death of her was opened under the direction of oress gener~l posItion 10 1~86.close companion Mother Gertrude, Sister Mary Delmace Seguin for S~edeSCrIbes the cent~nmalcele-and planned a third addition to the high school students considering bratlOn a~ an opportu~ltyto focusconvent. Completed in 1917, the entering the community. once aga~ on the her!tage of theaddition completed the building as "l~m a product of those prep ~ongrega~lOn as the .s!sters moveit is today, including space for the· school years myself," says Sister !nto a period ~f tra~SltlOn, e~~lor-school, chapel, sisters' dining room Menard, who attended from 1956 109 collaboratIOn With Domlmcanand The Studio. to 1958. "There were 15 girls atthe orders of men and women through-

"I don't know how they built it," time who attended school along out the country.muses Sister Menard. "There was with the Dominican Academy For ~he p~st year and a half theno money, very few resources. But students." ~all River sisters h~ve been ~~)fk-Mother Gertrude was a very prac- 109 more closely With Dommlcantical, smart woman. She got the Mother Teresa of Jesus Bou- nuns in Newburgh and Ossining,permission of the banks and sup- chard was prioress general from NY, "with a view of possibly com-port ofthe bishops and it was built 1952 to 1970. Under her leadership ing together at a later time," sayson a whole lot of faith." a convent school was opened in Sister Menard.

It was also under Mother Ger- New Haven, Conn.; the sisters At the center of the centennialtrude's leadership that the Domin- served at St. John's nursery under' celebration is emphasis on theican sisters embarked on mission the auspices of St. Patrick's par- "giftedness" which has enrichedwork in upstate New York, visit- ish, Fall River; and the communi- the sisters' community over theing public schools to teach cate- ty's only Canadian house was years.chism after hours. opened. "We have always had gifted

Expansion Years Changes people," says Sister Menard, "andIn 1916 Mother Mary Made- Mother Teresa was succeeded we've needed to call on ttiose gifts

leine Desaulles succeeded Mother by Sister Anita Pauline Durocher. to serve the sick, in education min-Gertrude as prioress. Her 1970 to 1978 term was marked istry, and in leadership and organ-

She"saw the community through by "changes" says Sister Menard, izational positions.the expansion years and the reor- in"habit, ministry and lifestyle. . . . "There is the Creativity Center,"ganization of the community's gov- The highly scheduled daily routine run by the multitalented Sisterernment in 1922," when her title was replaced by more decision- Gertrude Gaudette; "the elderlywas changed to prioress general, making by the sisters." sisters who serve as portresses and~ays present prioress general Sister A "big, big change" came, says give us their gift of prayer; and theMenard. Sister Menard, in 197) when gift shop which sells articles made

Mother Madeleine guided the Dominican Academy High School by our sisters," adds Sister Menard.congregation until 1940 and saw merged with Mount St. Mary's- Thesisters'ministrytodaytakesthe opening of missions in Platts- and Jesus-Mary Academies to form many forms: pastoral care, pas­

toral ministry, campus ministry,day care, social services, religiouseducation, and retreat work amongthem, she says.

Sister Brown calls her archivistposition "The resurrected minis­try."

But the sisters' identity is stillvery much linked to their originalvocation: teaching;

"We've been in education in oneform or another throughout ouryears," says Sister Menard. "Edu­cation is in avery real way theheart of our ministry."

And so, on April 28, the daybefore the feast of the communi­ty's patroness, St. Catherine, theDominican Sisters will welcomevisitors to their motherhouse,where their educators continue tobestow the gift of knowledge onstudents at the only remaining pri­vate school for girls in the diocese.

It will be a celebration of "100years of service to the church andthe many people of God," says Sis­ter Menard. "Part of our com­mitment is to continue to respondto God's call - and to see that thatcall is constantly changing."

known as a talented artist andseamstress with a "joyous, gentle·spirit," says Sister Brown.•

Sister Sheridan spent many hours.teaching the art of painting to Sis­ter M. Joseph Trottier, laying thefoundation for what later wouldbe called The Studio (now theCreativity Center).

The shrewd Mother GertrudeRoney wore many hats: teacher,administrator, infirmarian, treas­urer, construction work overseer.

"It can be said that if our foun­dress was the soul of the congrega­tion, then Mother Gertrude wa~

truly its right arm'" says SisterBrown.

She was reputed among localbankers and lawyers to have had"the head of three businessmen"complemented, notes annalist Sis­ter Moreau, by "the heart of threemothers."

Her "penchant for architecture"was translated into plans for thepresent Dominican Academy andConvent, built in 1894.

The plans were drawn up byMother Gertrude and Mother J os­eph - "working through the night,"says Sister Menard, and they need­ed little alteration by professionalarchitects.

In March 1895, less than a monthafter the sisters moved into thenewly constructed red-brick struc­ture on Park St., Dominican Acad­emy was opened with a comple­ment of seven pupils, three ofthemboarders.

When the new school year beganin September there were 30 stu­dents, and the sisters were alsostaffing a fourth school: S1. Anne's,then on Hope St.

A Dying and a ResurrectionAs the academy and the com­

munity continued to grow, SisterMenard recounts, "it was both adying and a resurrection in a way."While several postulants professedvows during those years, a numberof sisters died of tuberculosis,typhoid fever or influenza.

"We lost Sister Catherine Buren ..in 1892, Sister Philomena in 1895,and several young sisters in theirearly twenties died between 1895and 1905," says Sister Menard.

1908 was marked by additionsto the Park Street convent and thecelebration of Mother Bertrand'sgolden jubilee.

Two years later she suffered a

SISTERS PRAY in the newly-completed Bominican Academy and Convent chapel in 1917.

Sister Mary Catherine Moreau,one of the first young women to ,

,enter the community in Fall River,became the congregation's firstannalist, keeping a complete his­tory until the year before her deathin 1911.

Her faithfully recorded accountsoffer lively portraits of the found­ing sisters, retold now by SisterBrown.

The "wise, prudent and loving"Mother Bertrand was "truly aneducator, collaborator, nurturer,"says Sister Brown. "Great faithand ajoyful Dominican spiritaccom­panied all she did...Her magneticpersonality generated love and res­pect. She set high academic stand­ards for the school and encour­aged hard work and sacrifice."

I he foundress suffered four ser­ious illnesses before her death in1915, "and, as our annalist put it,everybody would be praying veryhard for her recovery because itwas still too early to lose her," saysSister Menard.

Mother Bertrand's legacy - hergenuine dedication, resourceful­ness, emphasis on prayer and study,calm acceptance of disappoint­ments, and warm and welcomingspirit - "continues to touch herfollowers as they discern God'scall for the 21st century," said Sis­ters Brown and Menard.

Mother Bertran~'s companion,Sister Mary Anna Scoales, isremembered as a gifted teacher,loved by young children and pos­sessed, of a beautiful singing voiceas well as a mischievous streak.

"We are told she never missedan opportunity for a 'natural his­tory' lesson at recess time - the'mountains and valleys' formed bythe most recent storm, or the resi­dent spider spinning a web underthe porch," notes Sister Brown.

Young Sister Mary CatherineBuren, who had contracted tuber­culosis while in Carrollton, in­sisted on accompanying MotherBertrand to Fall River to foundthe new community despite herfragile health. The annals revealthat she suffered days of intensepain, but nevertheless remained"calm, peaceful and uncomplain­ing" until her deat-b in 1892 at age23. She is remembered by theannalist especially for "her expres­sion that mirrored interior sim­plicity and nearness to God."

Sister philomena Sheridan was

Dominicans of St. Catherine of Siena mark centennialContinued from Page One

and preserving the history of thecongregation, which arrived inFall River in 1891 to staffschools.

But the road to Fall River from·the sisters' original home in Car­rollton, Mo., was anything but adirect route. Originally they wereasked by a Dominican Father inLewiston, Maine, to leave Carroll­ton and found a new communityin Lewiston. However, a mixup incommunications gave the priestthe impression that the sisters werenot coming, and by the time MotherMary Bertrand Sheridan and Sis­ters Mary Anna Scoales and MaryCatherine Buren arrived in Maine,he had returned to his nativeFrance.

f-__~F=all River was meant to bemerely a stopover on the sisters'return to Carrollton. But theirvisit planted the seed of an idea inthe minds of Fall River Domini-can Fathers Francois Bonaven­ture Esteva, Paul Comerais andCharles Bernard Sauval.

The day before the sisters arrivedback in Carrollon, a letter wasreceived by the community there:Father Esteva was asking the sis­ters to come to Fall River to teach.

So Mother Bertrand and hercompanions set out once again,this time to settle permanently inFall River, then part of the dioceseof Providence.

On Sept. 4, 1891 they movedinto the Hicks Hill house, now1939 Souih Main St., prepared forthem by the Dominican Fathers.The next day they welcomed morethan 300 students at St. Dominic'sSchool in what is now BlessedSacrament parish, and two monthslater they opened S1. Thomas'School on Tuttle St.

Young women from the com­munity were trained as teachers'aides, and when in DecemberBishop Matthew Harkins approvedthe opening of a novitiate, eight ofthe women entered immediately.

"Good is Done Quietly"The congregation's motto,

"Good is done quietly," has itsorigin in a New Year's tradition ofthe 'sisters that still endures: "thedrawing of the sentences."

Father Sauval, who had officciated at the opening of the novi­ciate, since Father Esteva had re­turned to France, instituted thecustom on Jan. I, 1892. At theceremony" eacti sister drew a cardprinted with an inspiring passageon which they were to reflect dur­ing the year.

The message which became thecommunity motto - in French,"Le bien se fait sans bruit" - wasdrawn by Mother Bertrand.

In August of that year, the twosisters remaining in Carrollton,Sister Gertrude Romey and MotherBertrand's older sister, SisterPhilomena Sheridan, closed thecommunity house there and cameto Fall River.

With their arrival and the addi-tion ofthe teacher-aide postulants,e sisters soon outgrew their spaceat Hicks Hill, and in December1892 the congregation moved to anew convent on Benjamin St.

"Ofthe eight young women whoentered originally, four remainedin formation and became the firstpostulants," recounts Sister Men­ard. Among them was Adele Trott­ier, later Mother Joseph. "Eachyear after that there were a num­ber of novices and within eightyears there were 25 sisters," addsSister Menard.

8 THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Apr. 26, 1991

DOMINICAN HISTORY: from top: foundresses Moth­er M. ~ertrand 'Sheridan (seated) and Sister Mary AnnaScoales.m 1891 and Mother Gertrude Roney in 1925; from the~ov. 6, 19.58, Anchor: Sister M. Pius (center, left photo)mstructs Sister M. Madeline, left, and Sister M. Martin inGregorian ch~~t; and m~sically inclined Sisters (right photo,from left) Mmam, Regma Marie and Clare Marie demon­st.rate their skill; Bishop James L. Connolly with, from left,Sisters Bernard Marie and Mary Simon and Melissa Reiff atthe blessing of the Dominican Sisters' novitiate on TuckerRoad, North Dartmouth. (Anchor, May 4, 1961). The novi­tiate is still open, and while there are no present vocationseducation continues at that site in the Catherinian Center'which hosts retreats and adult educational programs. •

Parish rebounds from major ·fire

Outsiders decimateBrazilian Indians

emigrants to Fall River. Its firstbaptism took place Oct. 21, 1898and the cornerstone of the presentchurch was laid Feb. 26, 1899.

The third pastor, Rev. PeterBasinski. founded St. StanislausSchool in 1906. It was the first Pol­ish Catholic school in Massachu­setts.

By 1914 the parish numbered800 families and in 1918 FatherHugo Dylla, who was to serve itfor 44 years, began his pastorate.During those years the church wascompletely renovated following itsfirst disastrous fire in 1951.

In the same spirit, St. Stanislauswill be rebuilt following Sunday'sfire, said Father Kaszynski.

Among the earliest to pledge sup­port have been members of the FallRiver Jewish community. Leadersof both Temple Beth EI and Congre­gation Adas Israel have friendly tieswith St. Stanislaus parish. Supportfrom congregants will be channeledthrough theJewish Community Coun­cil.

BRASILIA, Brazil (CNS) ­The Inc;fUlD Missionary Council of

, the Briuilian&ishops' conferencehas urged quick government actionto aid the nation's Indians, saying

,13 were murdered last year, 31committed suicide and 69 died ofillnesses such as malaria. '

Ranchers, squatters and hiredgunmen were responsible for therise in violence against Brazil's240,000 Indians, said the council'ssecretary, Antonio Brandt.

Only four of last year's murderswere investigated and only onemurderer was convicted, Brandtsaid. .

Later everything was taken toSt. Stanislaus School when fire­fighters briefly feared that thechurch blaze might involve therectory.

It was at the school, in the dimlight of emergency bulbs activatedwhen power to the parish plantwas Cl,lt off, thllt parishionersgathered to watch the fire acrossthe street and even as it burned totalk about possible fund raisers tohelp rebuild St. Stanislaus.

Also on hand at the school wereRed Cross workers who seeminglymiraculously materialized withcoffee and soda.

Mrs. lremblay. whose childrenare fourth-generation St. Stanis­laus parishioners. said her grand­parents had come to the parish in1906. "When the firefighters brokethe stained glass windows to ventthe smoke and flames, my heartbroke a little too," she said.

But stdking a positive note, Fa­ther Kaszynski said, "I feel verypeaceful. I feel very' calm." He hasserved St. Stani~laus since ,1962,successively' as parochial vicar,administrator and pastor. "A littletime and a little cash and we'll I>eback; in business," he said. ThechufcD is insured but no exact dol­lar figure has yet been set on dam­ages. Which may go higher than '$750,000.

He gratefully acknowledged theimmediate concern of BishopCronin and offers from the neigh­boring pl)l'ishes of Our Lady ofAngels and St. Anne to provideMass accommodations, but saidthat liturgies would most likely becelebrated in St. Stanislaus schoolhall. _ ___

The parish was established in1898 to serve the needs of Polish

Continued from Page Oneing flashed. then small flames ap­peared around it.

St. Stanislaus School principalDenita Tremblay, readingannounce­ments at the pulpit, said she smelledsmoke, but thought it was from anearby candle that had gone out.Then a parishioner shouted thealarm.

Mrs. Tremblay said that whatshe then witnessed from her van­tage point was incredible. "Therewas no panic. Everyone stood upin silence and walked out. ThankGod there were fewer children atthe Mass than usual because it wasa vacation week."

She went into the sacristy tophone the fire department andwhen she returned to the churchanother sight met her eyes. Child­ren safely- out of the building,adults and teenagers had returnedand were quickly and quietly re­moving everything possible lromthe church._

"It was beautiful. Noone hadempty hands." said Father Rain­ville.

He said he and parish Perman­ent Deacon Franciszek Mis made

, it their first priority to remove theBlessed Sacrament and sacred ves­sels from the church.

They and "everything that wasn'tnailed down" were initially takento the next door rectory. said Mrs.Tremblay. As well as vestments.statuary and the heavy baptismalfont, two special parish treasureswere rescued: a 50-pound woodenhandcarved statue of St. Maximi­lian Kolbe, a Polish hero who gave'his life for a fellow prisoner at theWorld War II concentration campof Auschwitz; and an ikon of OurLady of Czestochowa, the patro­ness of Poland, blessed by PopeJohn Paul II.

ON STAGE at the CCAkiClc.off me-eting, from left, with Father Daniel Freitas (at podium): area Appeal directors andmeeting speakers; Father William Boffa; singer Catherine Quental with her pastor Father Freitas.

Kickoff meeting launches 50th Charities AppealContinued from Page Three work toward the $2 1/2' million closed the meeting with the singing donors pour out their hearts forFather Freitas also got a few mark. We need you! Sacrifice and of God Bless America. the AppeaL"

responses when he asked the full work will put us over the top" of Special Gifts Funds collected, said Fatherhouse audience if he had any col- last year's total. Deacon LeBlanc reports that Freitas, support the many aposto-leagues that had been present for Other participants in the kickoff the Special Gifts phase of the lates of charity, mercy, education,that first Appeal. were area Appeal directors; Msgr. Appeal, which began on Monday, social services and health care

Deacon LeBlanc congratulated Henry T. Munroe, who offered the is doing well. The 250 Special Gifts facilities of the diocese and servethose who had participated in the opening prayer; and Msgr. John J. volunteer solicitors are making con- all persons regardless of race, colorfirst Appeal and welcomed those Oliveira, who offered the closing tacts with 3,000 professional, frat- or creed.making a first-time effort. prayer. ernal, business and industrial Gifts solicitors in the five areas

"And to all Of you a sincere Piano music was provided by groups in Southeastern Massa- of the diocese - Fall River, Newthank you for your dedication," he Irene Monte of Our Lady of the chusetts. Bedford, Attleboro, Taunton, andadded. "You are the catalysts." Angels parish, Fall River; Ken- Said Father Freitas, "These con- Cape Cod and the Islands-are asked

Also speaking at the kickoff neth Leger ofSacred Heart parish, tributors with great generosity and to make reports to their headquar-meeting was Father William L. Fall River sang the National An- enthusiasm support the Appeal ters as soon as possible.Boffa, parochial vicar at St. them, and Catherine Quental of for its contributions to the com- The Special Gifts phase endsJoseph's1>arish, Taunton, and St. John of God parish, Somerset, munity for people in need. These May 4.director ofSt,,vincent's, Nazarethand CathoJicBoys' Stlntmer campsin Westport, ali among beneficiar­ies of the annual charity drive.

For many ofthepoor and under­privileged children they serve, saidFather Boffa, these camps havebeen over the years "a safe harborfrom a turbulent home life; anintroduction to a clean and safeenvironment; the difference be­tween a Christian" and non-Christ­ian environment.

From the time the first summercamp was opened in 1929 as St.Anne's Camp, chiefly a place forchildren to recover from surgery,the Westport camps have hostedtens of thousands of boys ages 5 to14.

The decision to bring in semi­narians as counselors as their in­troduction to pastoral ministry and,joked Father Boffa, "cheap help,"was made during the 196Os.

Among seminarians who servedat the camps were the future Car­dinal Humberto Medeirps andWillie Warren, who drowned inrescuing a young camper.

This past summer, Father Boffarecalled, St. Vincent's Camp hostedtwo brothers whose home burneddown, providing them with "cloth­ing, a place to stay."

Also at the camp last summerwas an 8-year-old whose motherhad recently died. His father wasout of town, So he was being caredfor by an older brother.

The camp became "a stable en­vironment for that child," said Fa­ther Boffa. "Situations such asthese make being a contributorworthwhile."

In conClusion, said Father Boffa, ."I have enjoyed spending yourmoney - on our children'"

Father Freitas urged diocesansto continue "the mission of caringfor the less fortunate.

"With the enthusiastic supportand leadership ofour priests, let us

,

National parley setfor AIDS ministers

BISHOP Cronin greetsmeeting guests.

The' National Catholic AIDSNetwork will host the Fourth Nation­al Catholic HIV / AIDS MinistryConference June 27 toJuly2 at theUniversity of Notre Dame, IlTd.

Including workshops on suchtopics as prayer, rituals ofcelebra­tion, transition, death, loss, andwomen with AIDS, the conferencecreates an environment in whichreflection and personal renewalcan take place.

An introductory three-day train­ing module has been incorporatedfor those beginning HIV / AIDSministry. -',

Archbishop John R.'k'oach ofSt. Paul-Minnellpolis will celebrateSunday Mass. Keynote ~peakerswill be 'kev. RichatdMcBrien,Carol Lynn Pearson and Betty­clare Moffatt.

Information on the conferenceis available from Rodney DeMar­tini, SM; 445 Church St., SanFrancisco, Calif. 94114-1793, tel.

,(415) S65-~613.

Decision praisedWASHINGTON (CNS) - The

U.S. Catholic Conference's topattorney has praised a federal courtdecision allowing parochial schoolstudents to receive remedial in­struction in government-ownedvans, as long as the vans are offparochial school property. MarkChopko, USCC general counsel,said that a decision by U.S. D.\s­trict JUdge William H. Orrickapproving such an arrangement inSal) Francisco was "a major vic­tory" for all schoolchildren.

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Catholic schoolsdid the t'rick

CARYLE MURPHY

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Cath­olic school education trained re­porter Caryle Murphy, 44, to beresponsible, "especially when timesgot tough," said the Icorrespond­ent, who won a Pulitzer Prize forher wartime reports from Kuwait.

Ms. Murphy, a fo~eign corres­pondent forThe Washington Post,Won U.S. journalism's top honorApril 9 for stories oth.ers handcar­ried from the Persian Gulf nationwhere she hid out last August.

In Catholic schools. "it wasalways emphasized th'at if you hada responsibility, you should pay alot of attention to it, especiallywhen times got tough," Ms. Mur­phy told Catholic News ServiceApril II.

The graduate of Trinity College,run by the Sisters of Notre Damede Namur in Washington, andJeanne d'Arc Academy HighSchool, Milton, hid with friends inthe emirate after Iraqi troops tookover the nation last Aug. 2.

For 26 days she was the onlyU.S. newspaper reporter in Kuwaitgiving eyewitness accounts of theoccupation. She reported fromthere until Aug. 27. when sheescaped Saudi Arabia dressed asan Arab woman in !l convoy ofKuwaiti refugees. '

Some of her stories were pub­lished without a byline to protecther while she hid from 'Iraqi troops.

Living amid the events whichculminated in the Persian GulfWar was "frustrating" when shefelt unable to report what shesensed was "the No. I story in the'world," though "no oTie knew whatwas going on," she said.

Back in the United States, shewas "thrilled to death" to find herstories had gotten through. shesaid. "I had no idea they weregenerating such interest."

She said she was not afraid ofdying but worried about what wouldhappen if she were detained.

"I didn't want to lose my notes,"she said. In one close call. Iraqisoldiers asked for her passport,but soon released her. They couldn'tread. she said, "and didn't knowthe blue color [of the passport)meant American."

When she left the ¢mirate, shedressed in Arab style and wore aveil over her face. she said.

Ms. Murphysaidsheisachurch­going Catholic, though not alignedwith a parish.

"I go where I like sermons," shesaid. '

She said her experience in Kuwait"only got nerve-wracking after [the

. Iraqis] said they we~e going tohang anybody who sheltered aWesterner. At the time I was stay­ing with a Kuwaiti family. Thatwas one of the major 'factors thatmade me leave." She said oneKuwaiti who helped her was stillbeing held prisoner in Iraq.

of times, but that never weakenedtheir resolve to help me learn frommy mistakes."

The absence of parental nurtur­ing is often seen as a precursor toviolent crime, she said, with deathpenalty advocates saying the crim­inal put to death "got what hedeserved ...·

"How come it is that we don'treally start worrying about givingpeople what they deserve untilthey have broken the law?" Ms.Schoof asked.

"Why should a 30-year-old getthe electric chair that he deserves,"she said, "when as an infant he didnot get the cuddling he deservedand as a 5-year-old he did not getthe father he deserved and as aIO-year-old he did not get the free­dom from abuse ... as a 15-year­old he did not get the supervision... as a 20-year-old he did not getthe education ... and as a 25-year­old he did not get the job hedeserved."

Ms. Schooftold the prison min­isters "our Christian traditions andbeliefs bring us ... better preparedfor the battle" against the death,penalty.

She said Christians possess teach­ings and a heritage which "loudlyproclaim the dignity and value ofevery human life," which "speak toa process of forgiveness and recon­ciliation," and "which consider thevalue of prayer and a right rela­tionship with God."

She discounted people pullingBible quotes "out of their backpockets" to argue for or againstthe death penalty.

A frequent pro-death penaltyargument is the "eye for an eye"quote from Exodus, which in actualfact "biblical scholarship generallyagrees ... was a call for limitationof punishment in the context of acommunity where harsh and ex­treme retribution was the order ofthe day," Ms. Schoof said.

FORMER POW Lt. Col. Jeffrey Fox of Swanseaaccepts a flag from Stang student Peter Fanous ofKuwait.

Stang honors Gulf War veteransBishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, hosted a Mass of

Thanksgiving April 12 for the safe return of Operation DesertStorm service personnel with Stang connections. Mass celebrantswere Stang Chaplain Father Stephen J. Avila and diocesan direc­tor of education Father Richard W. Beaulieu. Foreign languagedepartment chairperson Jacqueline Bertrand McCarthy coordi­nated the event.

Among guests at the celebration was Lt. Col. Jeffrey D. Fox,Stang class of'69, who was shot down over Iraq Feb. 19 and takenas a prisoner of war.

Stang student Peter Fanous of Kuwait presented Lt. Col. Fox.with a POW flag which flew on the Stang campus during hisordeal. The Air Force officer addressed the assembly of students,faculty and friends, thanking them for their support and prayers.Many of Fox's Stang classmates joined in a luncheon that fol­lowed in the school library.

Other honored guests were Stang graduates L. Cpl. ArthurCaesar, '88, and L. Cpl. Paul Levine, '82; aviation technician 1stClass Petty Officer Richard D. Waite of Mattapoisett, father ofStang student Scott Waite; and Stang friend Lt. David Hayes ofNew Bedford. I

Keep religious reasons againstdeath penalty, ministers urged

FALMOUTH, Mass. (CNS)­The director of clinical services ata Massachusetts facility for youthoffenders urged a conference ofCatholic prison ministers not toabandon religious reasons againstthe death penalty.

"Watering down the Christianmessage for any reason - includ­ing expediency - is dangerous tothe border objectives of streng­thening the commitment to lifeand to human dignity," JanetSchoof said in an address in Fal­mouth earlier this month to theNational Convocation of Jail and,Prison Ministry.

"The continuing battle to eradi­cate the death penalty is weakenedwhen the Christian perspective isreduced to humanitarian argu­ments," Ms. Schoof said.

A graduate of Harvard Univer­sity Divinity School, Ms. Schoofsaid opposition to the death penaltyis held to be like opposition to thePersian Gulf War - un-American.

"It's not cool to be radical any­more. It's not avant garde, it's notbrave, it's not chic, and it's noteven all that interesting. Quite thecontrary, it's stupid, naive, off­base, soft, unrealistic and un-Amer­ican in the most un-cool way," shesaid. "Those of us who oppose thedeath penalty are assailed by all ofthe above verbal arrows and more."

Others' perceptions are damag­ing in additional ways, Ms. Schoofsaid.

"We've allowed others to asso­ciate forgiveness and mercy withwimpiness or lack of courage. Forsome reason we have let othersinterpret for us what the action ofour justice thinking would bring,"she said.

"Forgiveness does not necessar­ily mean that w.e have no concernfor the safety of our streets or forthe victims of crime," Ms. Schoofadded. "I can remember my par-'ents forgiving me untold numbers

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listening'to radio in northern Italywere told Pope John Paul II hadbeen shot in the Vatican - thenfound out the news was a decadeold.

Taped coverage of the shootingof the pope in St. Peter's SquareMay 13, 1981, was accidentalIybroadcast in the Turin area duringstate radio's soccer program April14.

Rumors that the pope had beenshot again quickly spread. Romepolice headquarters received sev­eral calls, while the Vatican assuredquerying journalists that the popewas fine.

A red-faced Mario Giobbe, headof sports broadcasting for RAI,the state radio network, said April15 he was stilI trying to work outwhat happened. "It was basically atechnical problem," he said.

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dream !tbout the future either. ItwilI neither give you back the past,nor satisfy your other daydreams.Your duty, your reward - yourdestiny - are here a'nd now." ­Dag Hammarskjold

The paper said the synod's themeunites references to current histor­ical changes with the church's needto help people understand whattrue freedom is and how'it shouldbe exercised.

The church in Europe is calIedto begin "a new evangelizationthrough which faith in Christ theRedeemer wilI be more incisive inthe life of European society," thepaper said.

The new evangelization has al­ready been started by Christians incommunist Europe who sufferedand even died for the faith, it said,noting that the trials which Chris­tianity survived under communismmay have been "more severe" thanthe attempts "to eradicate thechurch" in its earliest days.

The falI of communism also hasimplications for Western Euro­peans who thought that solidaritywith the poor required them to beMarxists "or at least to accept theinstruments of Marxist analysisand to place oneself under the pol­itical direction of communists," itsaid.

"In many developing countriesthe convi<;tion was spread thatMarxism offered a capable modelfor overcoming material povertyand for constructing a more humansociety emarginating faith andnegating religious liberty," thepaper said. Thus, it declared, thechurch must help Europeans seethat their unity and future peace­ful relations cannot be accomp­lished only through the economicchanges proposed for the conti­nent in 1992, the paper said.

Syn~d on Christianity innew 'Europe set for f~11

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - TheVatican plans to convene about100 European bishops - includ­ing Protestants and Ortbodox ­to discuss Christianity's role in thenew Europe at a special Synod ofBishops late this year.

"We Are Witnesses of ChristWho Has Liberated Us"wilI bethetheme of the Nov. 28-Dec. 14synod, the Vatican announced.

Synod participants wilI discussthe church's role in Europeansociety as former communist coun­tries build democracies and as thecontinent moves toward economicunity.

The changes in Europe in thepast year and a half bring chal­lenges not only for formerly re­pressed churches, but also for thosein Western Europe where economicwelI-being often threatens Chris­tian values, said a Vatican reflec­tion paper on the synod.

At an April 16 Vatican briefing,Archbishop Jan P. Schotte, secre­tary general of the Synod of Bish­ops, presented the paper and ex­plained how Catholic delegateswould be chosen.

Although formal invitations havenot yet been sent, he said, about 15representatives from Orthodox andProtestant churches would be in­cluded as "brother delegates,"invited to speak to the entireassembly and participate in thesynod's smalI working groups.

Lay people and women religiouswilI be invited as observers, andeight provincial or general super­iors of male orders wilI be electeddelegates, the archbishop said.

Under normal synod rules, wherethe number of representatives fromim individual country depends onhow many bishops it has, fewerthan one third of the delegateswould have been from Central orEastern Europe, the archbishopsaid'.

Pope John Paulll and membersof the European bishops' synodplanning committee decided tochange the rules this time to give agreater voice to the churches whichare just emerging from communistoppression. he said.

With the adjustments the largestEuropean bishops' conferences ­Italian. French and Spanish ­each wilI have four delegates, whilethe Czechoslovakian, Polish andYugoslavian conferences wilI havesix each.

The presidents of the 15 West,European and eight Central-EastEuropean bishops' conferences wilIbe automatic delegates, as wilI thepresidents of the European bishops'conference and the council of bish­ops' of the European Community.

Additional delegates wilI be elect­ed according to the size ofa bishops'

. conference, but there are differentformulas for Western and EasternEuropean conferences.

Archbishop Schotte said thepope wilI appoint delegates fromcountries or Soviet republics whichhave bishops, but not bishops'conferences, including Russia, Bye­lorussia and the Ukraine.

The Eastern-rite metropolitans- Ukrainian Cardinal MyroslavLubachivsky of Lvov and Roman­ian Archbishop Alexandru Todeaof Fagaras and Alba Julia - areautomatic members of the synod,he said.

The synod reflection paperincludes 17 questions the bishopswilI b'e asked to answer by mid­August in preparation for the meet­ing.

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are "seeking to contain" poorernations "on the pretext of demo­graphic politics," Cardinal Rat­zinger said.

- PracticalIy, the docu,mentcoul~ respond to the changed tech­nology and its implications forhuman life - for example, theabortion pilI or the fact that somecontraceptives now function asabortifacients. The church wouldalso seek to involve the mass media,political parties and medical per­sonnel in the fight against abor­tion and other related evils.

Cardinal Ratzinger outlinednothing less than a social and po­litical battle plan. A main goal ofthis plan is to bridge the gapbetween personal ethics and thepolitical sphere - to weaken, forexample, the argument that aCatholic can be personalIy opposedto abortion yet support legal abor­tion for those who want it.

For Cardinal Ratzinger, thatkind of argument reflects an "ab­solute tolerance of freedom ofchoice" which can destroy themoral foundations of society.

What will a new encyclical haveto say on this matter? A hint can befound in the doctrinal congrega­tion's 1974 "Declaration on Abor­tion," which stated that a Chris­tian can never conform to legali~ed

abortion, cannot campaign or votefor it, and "may not colIaborate inits application." The pope will beexpected to expand on this point.

Those who want a new encycli­cal believe there are new and insid­ious developments on the abortionfront that require clear responsesfrom the church. They want amore political strategy. If in pro­viding it the church repeats itslong-held position, that's the leastof their concerns.

possible terms. Can there be anydoubt about where the churchstands on the morality ofabortion?

Maybe not, the cardinals said-but over the past 20 years, thebattleground has changed. In 1968,"Humanae Vitae" spoke mainly tocouples and the individual con­science; in 1974, the doctrinal con­gregation's statement warned ofthe "possible" legalization ofabor­tion; today, according to churchleaders, some 30-40 million abor­tions are performed each year,many of them legal.

That's why today's pro-life fighthas a strong political element. Sodoes Cardinal Ratzinger's pro­posal, which was released to thepress in sketchy outline but de­tailed in his actual address to thecardinals. It set' out five focusareas for a new document on thedefense of human life:

- DoctrinalIy, the church couldmake a "s'olemn affirmation" that"the direct killing of an innocenthuman bei'ng is always a matter ofgrave sin." Without being a formaldogmatic pronouncement, he said,such terms would have the "weight"of dogma. '

- Culturally, the church shoulddenounce "the anti-life ideology"in society, which is "based onmaterialism."

- In the legislative area, thedocument could outline differenttypes of legislation on ~bortion,

the "embryo trade," euthanasia,etc., and show how these laws are"intrinsicalIy immoraL"

- Politically, the' documentcould connect anti-life laws withtheir "totalitarian" basis in society,and show how developed coun­tries use such policies for "im­perialistic" aims regarding theThird World. Developed countries

VATICANCITY(CNS)-Does'the church need another documentcondemning abortion?

According to the world's cardi­nals, yes - and the statementshould go beyond abortion. At aVatican meeting April 4-7, theyasked Pope John Paul II to writean encyclical that would affirm the

, value of human life in light of alI, "current threats."

The cardinals made clear thatthey consider abortion the No. Ithreat to life.

As frequently occurs at Vatican­sponsored events, the battle cry atthis meeting was sounded by Car­dinal Joseph .Ratzinger, the Vati­can's top doctrinal official. In akeynote address, he warned thatthe church was losing ground in itsfight against abortion, and calIed.for a new statement by the magis­terium.

No one really expects a doctri­nal breakthrough on the subject,however. Some observers won­dered whether a new encyclicalwouldn't simply be a "recycling"of"Humanae Vitae," the landmark1968 encyclical that condemned ­in no uncertain terms - bothabortion and contraception. '

Indeed, the church's condemna­tion of abortion is stated almosteverywhere a: Catholic cares tolook: in canon law (the penalty isautomatic excommunication forthose procuring an abortion);in alandmark declaration by the doc­trinal congregation in 1974 (theyear after a U.S. Supreme Courtdecision opened the way for legal­ized abortion), and in the SecondVatican Council's document "Gau­dium et Spes" (which called abor­tion an "abominable crime").

Add to that the hundreds oftimes Pope John Paul II has con­demned_ abortion in the strongest

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said. "There hasn't been a divisionlike this since the Discalced Car­melites began in the 16th century."

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monasteries were asked to evalu­ate the draft, about 70 percentrejected it. In 1988 members sug­gested to the pope that one set ofconstitutions be written for allcloistered Carmelites based on thepost-Vatican II text.

A commission appointed by thesuperior general drafted the newconstitutions for the majoritygroup.

The Discalced Carmelite Mon­astery of St. Teresa of the ChildJesus in Buffalo, N.Y., is one ofthe 92 directly affected by the Vat­ican action. Its prioress, MotherMary St. Joseph of the Immacu­late Conception, said that the nunswere "very pleased that we'll con­tinue as we've been."

An American Carmelite whoasked not to be named because,she said, the issue was "tootouchy," said the nuns in the 92affected monasteries "have beentaken out from under the author­ity of the general" and were nowdirectly under the Vatican.

She compared the move to anend-run and said that "it's like theway Opus Dei was taken out fromunder the jurisdiction ofthe bishopsof the world" when it was made apersonal prelature.

"The Holy Father's just dividedthe 'nuns into two groups," she

Unprecedented action splitsworld's Carmelite nuns

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - PopeJohn Paul II has approved newconstitutions for92 mon~steriesofcloistered nuns in the DiscalcedCarmelite order.

Approval of the new constitu­tions, similar to the Carmelites'1581 constitution, came after morl)than five years of tension withinthe order. The new constitutionsmake each prioress directly res­ponsible to the Vatican, under the"vigilance" of the local bishop,instead of maintaining the order'scenturies-long tie to the superiorgeneral of the Discaled Carmelite

. priests.The Vatican statement announc­

ing approval of the constitutionsfor the 92 monasteries, most ofthem in Spain, said other Carme­lite cloisters could "in the futuremake the same choice."

The remaining 700 monasterieswith more than 11,000 nuns main­tain their ties to the Carmelitepriests.

The Vatican statement said therules approved for the 92 monas­teries, with about I ,500 members,"retain the same text of the consti­tutions <?f 1581, with various cor­rections and adapt ions."

It quoted a section' of the 1581constitution explaining that theCarmelite nuns form' a "spiritualfamily" with the priests, but do not"necessarily" depend on the super­ior general's governance and juris­diction.

Proposed constitutions for the700 monasteries are awaiting Vat­ican approval. They ~re based onpost-Vatican II constitutions ap­poved on an experimental basis byPope Paul VI.

Both the approved and proposedconstitutions maintain the strictcontemplative lifestyle ofcloisteredCarmelited nuns. T'he biggestchange in the post-Vatican II con­stitution had to do with internalgovernance. It promoted a morecollegial style, gran'ting widerauthority to monastery councilorsand convent chapters.,

In, late 1984, Pope John Pauldirected the Vatican Congregationfor Institutes of Consebrated Lifeto draft new constituti,ons for allDiscalced Carmelite nuns basedon the 1581 rule. The decision wasunusual because religious usuallywrite their own constitutions, thensubmit them to the Vatican forapproval. In 1986-87,' when the

FATHER CORTINA

Dangerous Lie"The danger is not lest the soul

should doubt whether there is any'bread, but lest, by a lie, it shouldpersuade itselfthat it is not 'hungry."- Simone Weil

lies, the priest said. "Reconcilia­tion and forgiveness - that dimen­sion of Christian life is very deep inthem."

With regard to the 1989 slayingof the Jesuits and laywomen, onMarch 22 of this year, U.S. House,of Representatives Speaker Tho­mas S. Foley reappointed 19Democrats to a Special HouseCommittee on EI Salvadore createdto monitor the Salvadoran govern­ment's investigation into the kill­ings.,

The committee is part of theHouse Democratic Caucus TaskForce on Central America. Rep.Joe Moakley, D-Mass., was re­named committee chairman.

. Moakley has charged repeatedlythat the high command of the Sal­vadoran armed forces has "engagedin a consipiracy to obstruct jus­tice" in the case of the murderedJesuits.

Early last month the Salvado­ran military agreed to expand theinvestigation into the Jesuit kil­lings, saying that as many as adozen' more military officers otherthan the 13 indicted so far mayhave been involved.

The latest action in the mattercame April I0, when a Salvadoranhigh court ruled that nine soldiers,including an army colonel, will betried on suspicion of the killings.

The decision could lead the wayto the first trial of a high-rankingSalvadoran army officer, Col.Guillermo Benavides, for humanrights abuses.

No trial date was set, but presid­ing judge Ricardo Zamora wasinstructe9 to inform prosecutorsand the defense of the court's deci­sion and to name a jury, the doc­ument said.

EI Salvadorviolenceescalates

ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) - Withworld attention riveted on the Per­sian Gulf region, little notice hasbeen paid recently to the escalat­ing violence in EI Salvador, accord­ing to a Salvadoran pastor andhuman rights activist.

Jesuit Father Jon Cortina saidterrorism by military death squadsin EI Salvador is on the rise andstate-sponsored violence againstChristians is worse than it was in1980, when a string of murdersand persecutions culminated inthe assassination of ArchbishopOscar Romero of San Salvador.

Visiting the Albany dioceserecently, Father Cortina said afearful "war mentality" has grippedhis country since the United Statesresumed military aid to EI Salva­dor on Jan. 16, the same day itlaunched its war with Iraq.

Congress had stopped U.S. aidto protest EI Salvador's failure toinvestigate the 1989 murders of sixJesuit priests and two lay women.fn restarting the aid, the UnitedStates said it was needed to helpthe Salvadoran government com- .bat guerrilla insurgency.

In an Interview with The Evan­gelist, Albany diocesan newspaper,Father Cortina complained aboutthe U.S. aid and about the world'stolerance of the injustices perpe­trated by the government againstthe church and the peasant andworking-class populations.

In addition to the 75,000 civili­ans killed or kidnapped by govern­ment-linked death squads, dozensof priests, religious and lay peoplehave been killed in EI Salvador"just because they were Christians,"he said. There have even beenperiods in recent memory whenowning a Bible or a picture QfArchbishop Romero was consider­ed a subversive or criminal act.

In his more than 30 years of ser­vice in EI Salvador, Father Cor­tina, a native of Spain, said he feelsthat he hasn't preached the Gospelto the poor as much as he's had theGospel of the poor preached tohim.

"They evangelize me more thanI evangelize them," he said. "Theyhave shown me how to live aChristian way, how to give valueto God's plan for the kingdom,what justice might be, and whatlove, peace and reconciliation mightbe."

Refugees who have been dis­placed from their villages by thewar have even donated blood toprovide for the medical needs ofsoldiers wounded while wagingwar against them and their fami- .

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failure to communicate howmuch they need each other.One individual waits for theother to share her feelings. Sincethis waiting game takes the re­lationship nowhere, he feelshurt.

He pleads that "somebodyplease hear me cry for help." Hewants to "release the pain" andfind some support for this be­wildering time in his life.

The situation reminds us thatwe must risk being emotionallyvulnerable if we seek genuinecloseness with another. Some­times we learn early in life tohide emotions. Some familiesfoster a sense that feelings, or atleast certain types of feelings,should not be trusted or express­ed. This teaches us to disownthe vulnerable, "feelings" partof ourselves.

We need to understand thatfeelings are good in themselves- gifts of God that we mustlearn to handle well.

Emotions are messages fromour inner, selves. They can beacknowledged, listened to andevaluated. '

We do not need to act onevery message from our feel­ings. At times it is better toallow'a feeling topass. We canthen see if it returns.

Repeatea feelings within arelationship are stronger indi­cators that one should talk aboutwhat one is experiencing.

Also, when we share feelings- the timing - is important.For example, consider intensefeelings of anger. Often we needto take some time to cool downbefore we communicate anger.

Without this time lapse, thestrength of what we feel mightlead us into verbal behaviorsthat destroy emotional close­ness.

However, feelings that wemust learn to share are our criesfor help. As we own and sharemore of our vulnerable self, wediscover some of life's closest,most treasured moments.

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often. All the sliding was ruiningthe uniforms and grinding dirtinto tht: knees like you could notbelieve.. Ernie pointed out that steali'ng

and sliding were the nature of thegame.

D~nnis asked how the commit-, tee could be so complacent aboutthe nature of a game that includedsneaking around baseS, to say noth­ing of what seems to him to be a lotof unnecessary' spitting. He mo­tioned we pass a resolution askingthe U.S. bishops to write a pas­toralletter on sports. There was nosecond.

Georgia asked Hilda what shewas using on the uniforms.

Ernie made Ii 'motion that thepurchase of a' second base beapproved. Mary seconded (no punintended). Motion passed, five infavor. one abstention.

Mary recalled she had promisedher husband she would be home at8:30.so he could go bowling. Erniemotioned we adjourn. Georgia ap­ologized again for the donuts.Motion passed unanimously.

Respectfully submitted. HildaYoung.

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Arnold could not attend becausehis wife had limited him to threemeetings and four practices perweek.)

Mary said the team had beenbor~owlng St. Francis Assisi'ssecond base for a long time. but St.Francis had reclaimed it for theirgiils' softball team."'Erriie questioned the expendi­ture, noting that n'one of our play~

, ers h~d re.ached secQn!1 base as yet.Mary noted there was always a,chanc~ o,ne of our boys or' girlsinight steal second.

Dennis Wright; religious ed'uca,tion coordinat,or, objected to useof the word "steal." ,

Erni~ suggest.ed Dennis take itup with the commissioner of base­ball or Father O'Kneel.our pastor..

Lucille Morgan, hospitalitychair, said visiting teams might beinsulted by a lack of a second base.Also, our teams might be embar­rassed. ,

Mary asked if it was legal to rundirectly (rom first to third. Ernie,indicated "no" by hitting his fore­head on the table. .

Recording secretary HildaYoung noted that some of themothers had been complainingabout Coach Arnold having theplayers a~tempt to steal second so

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Much ado about second baseBy Hilda Young

The monthly meeting of theCYO Baseball Fundraising Com­mittee convened at 7:40 p.m. atGeorgia Fitzpatrick's house. Fro­zen glazed donuts left over fromthe last meeting were served. Geor­gia apologized for not taking themout of the freezer sooner. ' ,

Ernie Lee, treasurer, rep'ortedthe committee had $32.21i'n thebank and a $5 outstanding loan toCoach Arnold's wife so she couldbuy bread on the w~y home fromthe last game.

.First business item: Chairper­son Mary Schreiner said CoachArnold asked her to request $15.75for a new second base: (Coach

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By Mick Conway, "All the angers, fears and hurtsKids who are in treatment for that I had been holding inside for

alcoholism or drug dependency years started pouring out of me. Itlearn a lot about what it means to wasn't easy to talk to my mom andget really honest. dad about my feelings, but the

Bottom-line honesty doesn't therapist kept encouraging me tohappen overnight, but requires make a start. Once I did, it gotsteady perseverance on the part of easier and easier," she said.the recovering person. Most ad- "One thing that really helpeddicted kids, and adults for that o.ur family was being in group ses-matter, have spent enormous time slOns with other families who hadand energy avoiding honesty about kids in treatment. A lot of whattheir dependence on chemicals, so had happened to them had alsoit should come as no surprise to happened to us, like not commun­learn that an equal amount of }c,ating ~l!li each other.effort will be required to overcome "It was like we had all beenthe avoidance. dancing around my problems,

Part of what getting well in blaming others or making excusestreatment means is getting behind for my behavior. It was really hardthe denial that has become so for my parents to face the fact thatmuch a part of the lives ofthe kids I had become an alcoholic, butwho are there. Adolescent depen- once we started talking about 'it,dency is no different from adult things got easier:~ "chemical dependency in that re-· Family·week.ci~ring treatmentspect: Denial is t,hepriinary symp- is often an intense time. leis nottom of the disease. , . unusual 'for fa.mily 'members' to

Being,nonest about the circum- , 'resist talking a~Ol.it whai-i'cs beenstances' 'of someone's' alcoh:olism like for them':to live with an aico­or drug dependency can 'be scary. holic or drug-depeQdent teena.ger.We all ~ant to protect ourselves They have carried so m'ucti fearfrom hi.irtfuI feelings, and when around with them for so long thattlJose feelings. have 'been' stuffed it seems incredibly dangerous todown deep for a long time it isn't talk ,openly: a!id honestly abouteasy to 'iall them up for examina- their feelings',": . ','tion. "I used todiead weekends When

"I felt like I had just been through Angie would come home drunkopen-heart surgery;" said on'e'·rec- from a party. I tried to, tell myselfovering teenager, who had, just that it was just part of growing up,gone through the family Week seg- that all teenagers had to go throughment of her treatment. ' it. I knew in my hea.rt that what she

was doing was not norma'i teenagebehavior, but I didn't want tobelieve that she was becoming ad­dicted to alcohol," said Angie'smother.

"One of the hardest things forme to face was my own responsi­

,bility in Angie's alcoholism," saidher dad. "I kept thinking it wassomehow my fault that she wasdrinking so much. It seemed like a

• reflection of me as a parent, a~dthat was hard to admit. After whatwe've learned in family week, Inow know I'm not to blam~.",

Family programs associated withtreatment centers are full of open-'heart surgery. They teach'us' howto mend a broken heart and howto deal with our long-neglectedfeelings. They also teach us thatthe greater healer, Jesus, is the tiethat binds' recovery to continuedgood health. He is not afraid ofhonesty, so why should we be?

Norris H. TrippSHEET METAL

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16 THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Apr. 26,1991

NEW YORK (CNS) - TheCatholic Medical Mission Boardhas reported it sent $12.4 millionworth of medical supplies abroadin 1990, including aid worth $2.6million for victims of the 1986·nuclear disaster in Chernobyl,Soviet Union. The shipments wentto 2,758 missions in 47 countries.

Missions aided

on the drug problem, seeks'to edu­cate health care professionals andcarries the anti-drug message tostudents.

Stan Hay, of the San DiegoOrganizing Project, said the pro­ject involves II churches in anecumenical effort to get publicofficials to carry out a comprehen­sive anti-drug program.

Dealing with anyone aspect ofthe problem is inadequate, he said.

He described his own drug ad­diction and imprisonment and howhe turned his life around when herealized that change was possible.

Father Kevin Sullivan, social"development director of the NewYork archdiocese"reported on itsTask Force on Drug Abuse. Mem­bers believe, he said, that dealingwith addiction requires addressingan individual's values, not justtreating the probiem itselfthroughtechniques or neutral counseling.

Calling in from a teleconferencelistening group was a woman fromthe diocese of Gaylord, Mich. Shesaid that diocese sponsors twolow-cost retreats a year for peoplewith drug problems. Attendancehas grown, she said, from 12 at thefirst retreat to 33 at the mostrecent.

Father Sean O'Sullivan of theMiami archdiocese also called tosay that former Florida Gov. BobMartinez, nominated by PresidentBush as the new director of thefederal office on drug policy, hopedto engage the religious communityin working with him. Father O'Sul­livan suggested that church peoplewith experience in drug ministriesshould contact Martinez.

NEW YORK (CNS) - Partici­pants in a recent teleconference onthe drug crisis gave evidence thatthe church in many parts of thenation is making serious efforts toaddress the problem.

Father Raymond, B. Kemp ofHoly Comforter-St.' Cyprian'sChurch, Washington, said his par­ish has "been creating a climatewhere it's OK" for people to admitthey have an addiction. He spokeduring a teleconference sponsoredby the National Pastoral Life Cen­ter in New York and broadcast bythe Catholic TelecommunicationsNetwork of America.

Father Kemp said he originallythought the parish had 'only a fewdrug cases among its membership, 'but then realized there was a prob­lem in virtually every pew.

At one recent liturgy, he said, hecounted 75 members of the con­gregation in recovery.

The city of Washington, FatherKemp said, has an estimated 50,000to 75,000 addicts, and "drugs aredriving the wave of violence." '. He called for renewed attentionin the church to the ministry ofJesus as healer to help people outof chemical dependency.

Franciscan Father Benedict Tay­lor, who runs a Harlem programcalled Project Create, said he takesthe church to addicts.

When people ask him where hischurch is, he said, he tells them,"You're standing in it."

Father Taylor said many addictsin Harlem lack self-esteem. Aslocal conditions deteriorate andjobs are nonexistent, people beginto think badly of themselves andturn. to drugs and alcohol, heexplained.

Barbara Bush, coordinator ofCommunity Health and RecoveryServices for the archdiocese ofAtlanta, said the drug crisis reachedinto all sectors of society.

She said she is from the countryclub set and became addicted. Andtoday, she reported, the drugproblem has moved even into ruraland small town areas of Georgia.

She said the Atlanta archdio­cese trains parish teams to work

Church responses to drugcrisis teleconference topic

SACRED HEART,N. ATTLEBORO

Anne and Dave Johnson will hostan RCIA inquiry session after 10:30a.m. Mass Sunday; Raymond How­ard will be accepted as a candidatefor full communion at that Mass.Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.April 30; Ray Aubin of AttleboroFarm and Garden will speak.

LaSALETTE SHRINE,ATTLEBORO

The Philippines will be the subjectof a 7:30 p.m. Saturday session ofthe continuing "Religion in OurWorld" series in the Good NewsRoom. Rev. Joseph ,P. Gosselin,MS, will examine influences whichhave shaped the spirituality of Fili­pinos and led to current religiousinstitutions.and beliefs. .

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEAChildren's Mass with baptism of

the new son of a CCD teacher 10a.m. Sunday.

ST. ANN, RAYNHAMDay of renewal 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

May II, parish center, with FatherRay Bourqu,e, who appears onEWTN. Pentecostal celebration,healing service and Holy Ghostcrowning ceremony 7 p.m. May 20.All welcome. •

THE OLOAjunior boys: CYO basketball team: front row, from left, assistant coachDwayne Grace, Attim Almeida, Sharik Mendes, Troy Cooler and Craig Rosario;middle, from left, Deacon Antonio daCruz, Ricardo Beltran, Frank Correia, score­keeper and CYO girls' coach Bernadette Sylvia, head coach Peter Britto; back, from left,John Gonsalves, Malik Perry, Ronnie Webb, Marcus Willis and Joe Goodine. Not'pictured: Ronald Barboza and assistant coach Eric Britto. (CY,N photo)

MASS IN PORTUGUESEFather John Oliveira of St. Mi­

chael's parish, Fall River, will cele­brate a Mass in the Portuguese lan­guage for the Brazilian communityof Cape Cod 6,:30 p.m. Sunday, St.Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEEFood pantry needs jelly, peanut

butter, crackers, canned meats andtoilet soap. Women's Club day ofrecollection May 18. Blessing ofmotorcycles, family kite flying andpicnic I p.m. May 5, church parkinglot and picnic area.

ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE,SWANSEA

Vincentians will attend 7:30 Massand a following breakfast Sunday inhonor of Frederic Ozanam. A parishmission, postponed ftom March, isset for May 4 through 8, directed byFather Ro~ert Morin, OMI.

VINCENTIANSTaunton District Council Mass

for deceased members and intentionof beatification of founder FredericOzanam 7:30 May 7, Holy CrossChurch, South Easton; meeting fol­lows in church hall.

Cape & Islands District com­munion dinner 5:30 p.m. tomorrow,O.L. Cape Church, Brewster. In­formation: 896-5546.

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4th grade penance mini-retreat 3p.m. Monday; dinner provided.Guild meeting beginning with prayerservice 7 p.m. May 1. Applicationsfor Guild $500 scholarship availableat local high schools and rectory;deadline May 3.ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN

May crowning at 9:30 a.m. MassSunday; all religious education stu­dents should meet in church hall at9:20 a.m. Youth group meeting,movie and social 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

SACRED HEART, NBTo honor Frederic Ozanam,

founder of the Vincentians, blessedbread will be distributed after eachMass on Ozanam Sunday, April 28.There will also be refreshments inthe parish hall after 10 a.m. Mass.CCD registration for next year willbe held during May. Teachers, aidesand substitutes needed for the pro­gram.

SACRED HEART, FRWomen's Guild installation ban­

quet 6:30 p.m. May 6, Venus deMilo. Reservations may be madewith Peg O'Shaughnessey, YvetteDufault, Martha McVey, MargaretO'Hearn or Louise Poole.ST. JAMES, NB

Blankets are needed for the home­less. Donations will be picked up byMark Lewis, tel. 993-6965.

FALL RIVER AREA CYOBASEBALL LEAGUE

Managers and coaches are re­minded that the organizational meet­ing for the 1991 season will takeplace 7 p.m. April 29 at the CYOHall on Anawan Street. Every par­ish intending to have a team this sea­son should be represented. Leaguerules will be discussed and practicetimes will be given out. For furtherinformation contact Al Vaillancourt,672-1666.

Congratulations are in order forthe Our Lady of the Assumption,New Bedford, junior CYO bas­ketball team who traveled to Spring­field and beat St. Cecilia of Wil­braham to clinch the 1990-91 NewEngland CYO Championship title.

On the way to the New Englandchampionship the OLOA Juniorbasketball team made up of 7thand 8th graders, downed St. Mich­ael's of Providence, RI, 50 to 44and St. John's of Hartford, Conn..61 to 50 to cap their undefeatedseason.

In addition to holding the NewEngland title they also disting- ,uished themselves by winning boththe New Bedford and Fall Riverdiocesan CYO championships.

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Eighth graders are now collectingsummer clothing; children's andbabies' clothes especially needed.Somerset Congregational Church in­vites parishioners to share in cele"bration of their 150th anniversary;Methodist minister Dr. MarstonSpeight, director of Christian~Mos- .lem Citizens, will speak on Islam,Christianity and World Communityat 7:30 tonight at the church on 1411County St.ST. JULIE BILLIART,N. DARTMOUTH

Confirmation II presentation cere­mony 7 p.m. Sunday. Recipients ofLadies' Guild $400 scholarships areJeffrey Cabral, John Nunes, GaryRegan and Kendra Thomas. Ladies'Guild banquet 6:30 p.m. May 8, NBCountry Club; reservations: EmilySantos, 994-1562, or Pat Janiak,994-8423, by May I.

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