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Bishops join plea forPersian Gulf"orphans"

The Feb. 24-27 meeting, titled"A Century of Social Teaching,"marked the 100th anniversary ofthe first social encyclical, PopeLeo XIll's "Rerum Novarum," onwork and workers' rights.

Although the archbishop's talkspecifically condemned Scud at­tacks directed at civilians by Iraqi

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Fall River Bishop Daniel A.Cronin said in a statement: "Eachday I remember in prayer theyoung men and women in ourcountry's armed forces. When, how­ever, a tragedy such as this occurs,it brings the horrors of this conflictnearer home.

"I will continue to pray for himand his safe return as well as for hisfamily.

"May Ood grant us soon thepeace for which we all yearn."

Father William G. Campbell,pastor of St. Dominic, told theAnchor that the downed pilot'smother had been a daily commun­icant and was active in the parishwomen's guild until suffering astroke some years ago.

Jeffrey Fox graduated from HolyName School, Fall River, BishopStang High School, North Dart­mouth, Mass., and Widener Uni­versity, Chester, Pa.

Atty. Wilfred C. Driscoll Jr. ofFall River, a close friend of Foxwho attended grammar and high

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Bishop's StatementI was distressed to learn that

the family of Lt. Colonel Jef­frey D. Fox has been notifiedthat he has been shot down andcaptured in the conflict in theGulf.

Each day I remember in pray­er the young men and women inour country's armed forces.When, however, a tragedy suchas this occurs, it brings the hor­rors ofthis conflict nearer home.He is a graduate of Holy NameSchool in Fall River and BishopStang High School in NorthDartmouth.

I will continue to pray forhim and his safe return as wellas for his family who are mem­bers ofSt. Dominic parish, Swan­sea.

May God grant us soon thepeace for which we all yearn.

weapons against Iraq, even in re­prisal," he said.

Speaking as chairman of theU.S. bishops' International PolicyCommittee at a national meetingof Catholic social action leaders inWashington, Archbishop Roachspelled out the policy stance of theU.S. bishops toward the Gulf warand the pursuit of a just peace thatmust follow.

Fall River diocese to be listed askilled, captured or'missing in actionin the Gulf war.

First man from diocese

WASHINGTON (CNS)Whatever atrocities Iraq commitsin the Persian Gulf War, the alliedforces cannot "fight evil with evilmeans," Archbishop John R.Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolissaid Feb. 25. .

Noway should U .8. use chemical,biological, nuclear weapons

Lt. Col. Fox captured in Gulf

"I do not envision any circum­stances that would justify the useof chemical, biological or nuclear

MADONNA MANOR, North Attleboro, continued its 25thanniversary observance withresidents, staff and friends gathering Sunday for ajubilee Mass celebrated by Bishop Daniel A.Cronin. More photos on page 10. (Hickey photo)

By Pat McGowan

At their weekly prayer meeting,members of St. Dominic parish,Swansea, habitually intercede forrelatives and friends serving in thePersian Gulf. On Feb. 20 theirprayers took on new urgency.

That morning parishioners J os­eph and Theresa Fox were notifiedthat the single-seat, A-IO low-levelfighter-bomber piloted by theirson, Air Force Lt. Col. Jeffrey D.Fox, had been shot down Feb. 19and that the younger Fox hadbeen taken captive by Iraqi groundforces.

The Pentagon released no otherdetails on the incident and as ofFeb. 26, the Swansea couple hadno further information on thewhereabouts of their son.

"We just have to sit and wait,"said, Joseph Fox. ''I'm satisfied Ihave all the information they [thePentagon) can give me."

Jeffrey Fox, whose father is aretired Army lieutenant colonel, isa regular Air Force officer with 18.years experience. He is the firstarmed forces member from the

Archbishop Roach:

It said the lengthy separation ofchildren from an only parent orfrOm both parents at once, "coupledwith children's fears that their par­ents may not return, can have bothshort-term and long-term debili­tating effects."

Archbishop Roach chairs theU.S. bishops' International PolicyCommittee and Bishop Malonechairs the Domestic Policy Com­mittee. The two committees over­see the U.S. Catholic ConferenceDepartment ofSocial Developmentand World Peace.

The letter said the Pentagonwould be protecting a "strongnational interest by taking steps toassure "the well-being of theseAmerican children."

It did not immediately endorseany of the specific bills introducedin Congress to change the currentpolicy. But USCC official SharonDaly said the bishops' conferencewas studying the various legisla­tive proposals with an eye toward

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TWO-MONTH·OLD twins Jonathan (left) and AdelaAlexander with a picture of their mother, Marine Lance Cpl.Laura Alexander, who was sent to Saudi Arabia in December.The babies' father, also in the Persian Gulf, is in the same unitas their mother. Meanwhile the twins are cared for by theirgrandmother, Mary Villareal, of Pasadena, Tex. (CNS/ UPIphoto)

WASHINGTON(CNS)- TwoU.S. bishops have joined nearly100 religious, medical and child­ren's organizations seeking a pol­icy revision so that Persian Gulf"orphans," children of single par­ents or couples who are both in thearmed forces need not "sacrificetheir children in order to serve inthe military."

Archbishop John R. Roach ofSt. Paul-Minneapolis and BishopJames W. Malone of Youngstown.Ohio, were among signers of a let­ter to U.S. Defense Secretary Rich­ard B. Cheney seeking the change.

The letter, initiated by the Chil­dren's Defense Fund and ChildWelfare League of America, ad­dressed growing concern that cur­rent U.S. policy does not exemptsingle parents or one of two mil­itary parents from deployment in awar zone.

"The unique circumstances pres­ent during wartime place the chil­dren of such military personnel atrisk ofextreme psychological dam­age," the letter said.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Mar. I, 1991 Peru rebels linkedto upper classesLIMA, Peru (CNS) - Peruvi­

ans were said to be shocked byrecent arrests and raids showingthe violent rebel movement Sen­dero Luminoso with apparent linksto Peruvian intellectual, upper­c;:lass and religious society.

One of the captured rebels wasan ex-nun, Nelly Evans de AlvarezCalderon, a member of Lima'supper classes and a graduate ofthecountry's most exclusive girls'school. Police say they believe Ms.Evans is the movement's treasurer.

Also arrested was ex-sister AnaMaria Orihuela. Another ex-nun,Rosalia Tami Puell, remained atlarge.

Church sources said the threewere close associates in the 1960sof Father Gustavo Gutierrez,widely regarded as the founder ofliberation theology, when he wasforming his ideas.

Bishop Ricardo Durand Floresof Callao, former president of thePeruvian bishops's conference,expressed dismay at the connec­tion of the ex-religious to the rebels.

"How can a per~on who optedfor the religious life to defend lifeend up opting for death?" he said.

The upper class connection ofSendero Luminoso (S hining Path)~ long seen by most Peruvians asa movement of the poor classes-jolted the country.

"How do a sociologist, a lawyerand an ex-nun come to consider itas valid to kill in order to put intopractice certain ideas, and how dothey think worthy of their friend­ship and symp.athy the one whoprepares and orders the executionof those death plans?" wroteprominent Peruvian columnistManuel D'Ornellas. . -.

In a sweep. the special 'policeunit, Directorate Against Terror­ism, found tapes of Sendero Lum­inoso officials, along with rebeldocuments, in a house in Lima'supper-class Montericco district.

Part of one video, broadcast onPeruvian television, shows well­dressed Peruvians linked to Lima'sintellectual, social and professionalelite with Sendero's leader Abi­mael Guzman Reynoso.

The bearded rebel.chief is saidto be shown attempting the danceAnthony Quinn made famous inthe movie "Zorba the Greek."

DAilY READINGS'Mar. 4: 2 Kgs 5:1-15; Pss42:2-3,43:3-4; lk 4:24-30Mar. 5: On 3:25, 34-43; Ps25:4-9; Mt 18:21-35Mar. 6: Ot 4':1,5-9; Ps147:12-13.15-16,19-20; Mt5:17~19

Mar. 7: Jer 7:23-28; Ps 95:1­2,6-9; lk 11:14-23Mar. 8: Has 14:2-10; Ps 81:6­11,14,17; Mk 12: 28-34Mar. 9: Has 6:1-6; Ps 51:3­4,18-21; lk 18:9-14Mar. 10: 2 Chr 36:14-17.19­23; Ps 137:1-6; Eph 2:4-10;In 3:14-21

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It will be presented by profes­sional leadership trainers PatTreadway and Kate Boucher andby Mary Ann Kramer, a past pres­ident of the National Council ofCatholic Women.

Registration for the program ismade through the National Coun­cil, said Mrs. Lavoie, who noted toobtain a reduced rate for the week­end, it is necessary that registra­tions be postmarked no later thanMarch 5. Full information onprogram fees and sche'dule isavailable from her at telephone673-8474 or 672-6900.

The skills gained, said Made­leine Lavoie, DCCW OrganizationServices chairman and one of thosearranging the April program, ~'canbe helpful to both professionaland volunteer women and men inevery kind of ministry within thechurch." She said the' 9-sessionevent would be especially useful tothose working in diocesan offices.

Using a question-and-answerformat, the 16-page booklet dis­cusses events that led to the crea­tion of the act and answers suchquestions as when student groupscan meet, whether teachers may bepresent during the meetings' andwhether outsiders can attend.Teachers and outsiders may bepresent a't the meetings, but theycan not initiate or lead the meeting.

Father Davis, a member of theOblates of St. Francis de Sales,said the act is not intended to beused as a proselytizing tool of dif­ferent religious groups, but ratheras a way to help students streng­then their faith.

Some critics of the act said itinfringed on the separation ofchurch and state and that it broughtschools one step closer to allowingprayers in schools.

Sister Catherine McNamee,president of the National CatholicEducational Association, said theact was a step forward for educa­tion because it allows studentswho want to learn more aboutreligion to do so.

A copy of the guidelines can beobtained from Americans UnitedResearch Foundation, 900 SilverSpring Ave., Silver Spring, Md.20901-4781.

"Anyone who influences othersis a leader," say officials of theDiocesan Council of CatholicWomen in announcing their spon­sorship of" Discovering Our Gifts,"a leadership and personal enrich­ment program intended for anyoneinterested in skills applicable tohome, church, community andworkplace .

Open to all women and men inthe diocese, n Discovering OurGifts" offers "prayer ways for busypeople," methods of communicat­ing effectively, organizing and timemanagement skills, techniques ofgoal setting, and training in asser­tiveness, handling stress, decisionmaking and discernment.

To be held from April 5 t07 atLaSalette Center for ChristianLiving, Attleboro, the programfocuses on spirituality as the coreessential of Christian leadershipand on healthy thinking, self-esteemself-empowerment.

Equal Access Act guidelines published

DISCUSSING arrangements for annual Diocesan Councilof Catholic Women retreat, to be held March 8 to to at theDiocesan Family Life Center in North Dartmouth, are fromleft Alice Loew, Church Communities Commission chairman;Madeline Wojcik, council president; Mary Galvin, retreatchairman. Information on the program, to be presented byFather Mark Hession on the theme "The Women aroundJesus," is available from Ms, Galvin at telephone 993-6956.(Lavoie photo)

DCCW leaders'hip programis open to all

WASHINGTON (CNS) - TheU.S. Catholic Conference's Depart­ment of Education hasjoined some20 national educational and reli­gious groups in releasing guide­lines to help public schools abideby the Equal Access Act. whichallows high school religion clubs.

The guidelines, released in earlyFebruary, were developed afterthe Supreme Court said lastsummer that students have theright to form religious clubs if anykind of extracurricular clubs areallowed in their school. Congressin 1984 called for such equal accessbut many schools circumvented it.

"A significant number of Cath~olics attend public schools and ifthey w;wt religious clubs, theyshould be allowed to," said FatherWilliam Davis, the U.S. bishops'representative for Catholic schoolsand federal assistance. "The stu­dents and the school should un­derstand the law."

Charles Haynes, president ofthe National Council on Religionand Public Education, said the lawprovides for equal, not preferen­tial, treatment for religious speech.protects only student-initiatedreligious groups and does not limitthe authority of the school tomaintain order and discipline.

ter McGeady said it "bit the hardbullet of retrenchment by cutting$13 million from its budget."- "I see today as rebirth, as renais­sance," she said. "The outpouringofencouragement and support thatI have received proves to me thatthere are thousands of people whorecognize and support the impor­tance of this work and how essen­tial it is that Covenant Housecontinue."

Franciscan Father Conall Mc­Hugh, Father Ritter's superior anda Covenant House board member,said in an interview after the instal­lation that Father Ritter was stillliving alonenearly II months afterbeing directed to return to com­munity life.

Father McHugh said he re­mained in regular telephone con­tact with Father Ritter, but did notknow how he was occupying histime or how he was supportinghimself. The order pays for hisinsurance but does not give him astipend, the superior said.

He said F'ather Ritter was origi­nally given only a limited time tocomply with the directive on return­ing to community life, but "we'vebeen stretching it."

The provincial indicated he wasinclined as a matter of charity tocontinue deferring any canonicalactions against Father Ritter aslong as the absence of outsidepressures permitted. "He's gonethrough an awful lot," he said.

Father McHugh said he had noplanned assignment for Father Rit­ter but that future work would l'fothave to be in his province. Otherprovinces, he said, have invitedFather Ritter to work for them,provided he agreed to certain con­ditions that were not being madepublic.

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Office of Religioussets programs

The Diocesan Office for Reli­gious will sponsor a meeting forreligious sisters and brothers at Ip.m. tomorrow at 406 MadisonSt., Fall River, adjacent to SacredHeartsConventat491 Hood Street.

A followup to a workshop oncodependency held last fall, themeeting will make plans for acodependency su pport grou p.

Also planned by the office, incooperation with the Office forReligious of the Providence 'dio­cese, is a three-hour workshop onwholistic spirituality, to be heldfrom 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 13 atOur Lady of Fatima High Schoolon Rte. .136, Warren, RI.

Sister ofSt. Anne Rose Clarissewill present wholistic spirituality

.as a process of formation permit­ting, vowed religious to preserveintegrity and· freedom in an apos­tolic community setting. She is ateacher, lecturer and retreat direc­tor and is involved in her congre­gation's formation program.

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NEW YORK (CNS) - Daugh­ter of Charity Sister Mary RoseMcGeady, president of CovenantHouse international ministry forrunaway and homeless youngsters,called for leaders of church andstate to commit themselves to im­proved services for children.

"We are losing a generation ofour kids who feel hopeless, con­fused, worthless and often uncaredfor, without clear values and with­out confidence in themselves, inthe future or in those around them,"she warned at the formal installa­tion Feb. 21.

Sister McGeady, who succeededCovenant House founder-presidentFranciscan Father Bruce Ritter,last September, spoke at the agen­cy's Manhattan headquarters.

New York Cardinal John J.O'Connor, who spoke followingher address, reiterated the appealfor a shift of resources from war tosocial needs and lamented "someinherent evil in our hearts" that ledthe world to find hundreds of bil­lions of dollars to kill when itcould not find money to feed thehungry, house the homeless orimprove the conditions of life forchildren.

Sister McGeady made no refer­ence to her predecessor, who re­signed Feb. 27, 1990, followingallegations of sexual misconduct

. and financial improprieties.But a statement by board chair­

man L. Edward Shaw Jr. thatCovenant House remained como'mitted to the vision of Father Rit­ter brought a round of applause.

Cardinal O'Connor asked theaudience to give thanks that FatherRitter "had the vision to makeCovenant House possible," and topray that one day he will "findpeace."

The cardinal said that manypeople had been hurt - those whoaccused Father Ritter of abusingthem, Father Ritter himself, thepriest's order and former financialsupporters who feel so woundedthey now will not contribute toany church-sponsored charity. "Wemust pray for everyone who hasbeen hurt," he said.

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She concluded, "We are hopingwith this move that if our com­

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interested respondents, Sister Teas­dale explained.

"I write to all of these peopleand send them information on ourcommunity," she said. "Over theyears there have been many withwhom I've been in contact. Mostof the women who request infor­mation are in their 30s and 40s."

She c:ontinued, "Things havebeen slow for about a year and ahalL" In Brighton the communityhad, atone point, a novice andthree postulants, "But some left.You have to listen to the Lord ­not everyone is called."

In projecting her community'sfuture, Sister Teasdale summed

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parish, said SisterTeasdale, remark­ing that at at that time, "you didn'tsee the sisters much; they werevery cloistered."

As a young woman, she consi­dered religious life, she said, "but Ididn't want to be a teacher." Sheset the idea aside until she was 22, .then decided to enter the commun­ity of the sisters she had known inher parish.

She entered the: Sisters of St.Joan of Arc in 1952, going toQuebec for formation since therewas not yet aU .S. nbvitiate house.

After three years in Canada, shewas assigned to Cardinal Cush~ing's residence in Boston, whereshe stayed until she was asked totake charge of a group of postu­lants at St. Anselm's in 1966 and to,supervise the opening of the novi-tiate in 1968: :

In the 12 years that followed,the novitiate was moved from St.Anselm's to Greenville, NH, thento Assumption College. After an­other move within Worcester, Sis­ter Teasdale left the mistress ofnovices position and returned toFall River for six years of serviceat the cathedral.

It was the first time she had setfoot in her native C!ty since enter­ing religious life, and she "wel~

comed that as a special blessingfrom the Lord," especially since itallowed her to be near her elderlymother and "spend time with herat the end of her life." ,

While Sister Teasdale was inFall River, the novitiate was relo­cated to the motherhoiJse. Then in1984 she was asked to return toformation work and the U.S. novi­tiate ~as reopened, this time inBrighton. I

, A second return: to Fall Riverwas more than she hoped for, saida delighted Sister T'easdale.

"When I first came back to FallRiver in 1978, it seemed so strangeto be able to walk down MainStreet. It was such la good feelingto be backjnrn:y home town!"

She added, "I never thought I'd,be back here again. Of course, a lothas changed in the~e 38 years ~especially after the fire" which des­troyed the original Notre DameChurch in J982..

Sister Teasdale is looking for­ward to spending time with herfamily, including two sisters stillliving in Notre Dame parish andanother sister in St. William's par­ish, also in Fall River.

Her task now is to 'contact poten­tial novices. The community is fea­tured in a guide of rdigious minis­

,tries which sends ,her a list of

is offered for a specific group ofclergy: the pope; cardinals, archbi­shops and bishops; missionarypriests; deceased priests; diocesanpriests; and permanent deaconsand future priests. .

"Our father founder intendedthat we do whatever work wouldbe helpful to priests," said SisterTeasdale. That may include notonly domestic work but pastoralministry such as visiting the sickand elderly, serving as a eucharis­tic minister or teaching CCD.

In the Fall River diocese, the St.Joan of Arc sisters have served atNotre Dame since 1939 and at thebishop's residence since 1945. Theyalso served at the cathedral from1939 until last October, when sev­eral sisters were recalled to themotherhouse because of the voca­tions shortage.

Despite the inconveniencies ofpacking up and relocating, SisterTeasdale has taken the novitiate'smoves in stride.

"The Lord maps it out- he hashis reasons," she said.

While the novitiate is not consi­dered part of Notre Dame parish,it will occupy the convent in therectory building where the sistersserving the parish also live.

"It is a real transformation tohave us come here," said SisterTeasdale. "The pastor [Father Ern­est E. Blais] has been so generousand kindhearted and willing to doanything to help us out - as thebishop has."

At Notre Dame; Sister Teasdalejoins sisters Antoinette Lord andPatricia Marcoux. In conjunctionwith the novitiate's move, SisterHortense Bouchard, who for 13

. years was superior of the parishsisters, transferred to the Cardi­nal's house in Brighton. Sister Lordis now superior at Notre Dame.

The community's novice willcome in the spring from studies atthe motherhouse in Quebec to stayat the novitiate until she professesfinal vows.

. One advantage of the novitiate'smove, said Sister Teasdale, is thatshe and any future novices willbenefit from greater contact withthe general public now that they'rein a parish setting.

Boston was "too big" to formcO'rnmunity ties and weekends atthe chancery convent were "veryquiet," she said, while "life in a'parish is very different - more'lively. We'll have better opportun­ities to get involved with parishactivities and meet people."

Times have changed since shewas growing up in Notre Dame

St. Joan of Arc sisters' U.S. novitiatefinds Fall River home

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SISTERS OF S1. Joan of Are, from left, Antoinette Lord, Rita Teasdale and PatriciaMarcoux. (Hickey photo)

By Marcil~ Hickey

She calls it "the novitiate onwheels."

Mistress of novices Sister RitaTeasdale, SJA, has become usedto moving, but little did she knowthfLt the latest relocation of the oft­moved St. Joan of Arc Sisters'U.:s. novitiate would inspire in hera sense of deja vu: the new novi­tiate house is at her home parish ofNotre Dame de Lourdes in FallRiver.

Sister Teasdale has supervisedSt. Joan of Arc novices since theU.S. novitiate was established in1968 at St. Anselm's College, Man­chester, NH. Since then, it hasmoved six times, including oncewhile Sister Teasdale had left thenovitiate position for assignmel)tto St. Mary's Cath'edral, Fall River.

The move to Notre Dame parishfrom the Boston archdiocese tookplace in January after it becameimlPractical for two sisters to occupythe large chancery convent in Brigh­ton.

l~ike many religious communi­tiel', the Sisters of St. Joan of Archave experienced a decline In voca­tions as older sisters are retiringfrom active ministry. At presentthe community has just one novice,and she and Sister Teasdale hadbe(:n the sole o<:cupants of theBrighton novitiate house for thepast two-and-a-half years.

Notre Dame parish was chosenas the relocation site because italready had a community of St.J Qan of Arc sisters living there andbe<:ause there was adequate spacefor the novitiate.

That and the fact that it is aFranco-American parish made itthe ideal locale, said Sister Teas­dale, explaining that the U.S. sis­ter:~ keep close ties with the con­gregation's motherhouse in Sillery,Quebec, where the community'sfirst novitiate was opened in 1920.

The'congregation was founded, on ChristmasDay, 19l4,atAssump­

tion College in Wor.cester by FrenchAssumptionist priest Father MarieC1f:ment Staub. On that day sc;:venyoung women dedicated themselvesto "prayer, work and sacriffce in'the service of Christ, the Churchand the priesthood," says a bio­graphy of Father Staub by ClaireQuintal. '

The sisters work in bishops'houses, rectories, priests' retirementhomes, houses of studies and otherhouses of religious order priests.Thl~y may also work as parish secre­taries or sacristans.

Each day of the week their work

A LITTLE PALESTINIAN GIRL WALKS BETWEEN ARMED ISRAELI POLICEMEN TO PRAYERSAT AL-AQSA MOSQUE IN JERUSALEM

"I have walked in my innocence and 1 have put my trust in the Lord." Ps. 25:1

Blessed Sacramento God, under this won­

derful Sacrament, You haveleft us a memorial of YourPassion. Grant, we ask, thatwe may so venerate themysteries of Your Body andBlood that we may e~er

experience within ourselvesthe fruit of Your redemp­tion, You who live and reignwith the Father and theHoly Spirit, forever andever. Amen.

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arguing with God, he runs throughthe city with his call to repentanceaccompanied by the warning thatin 40 days Nineveh will be de-stroyed. .

The people respond magnificent­ly. Each Ninevite, from king topauper, dons sackcloth and ashes,fasts and turns from misdeeds doneand intended. Moved by such dis­plays, the Lord relents and thepeople are spared the very fate thatJonah wants to see them suffer.

Third act: Jonah settles outsidethis damned, detested town. Seem­ingly he has it JrIade as he takes aringside seat on a nearby hill toobserve the kill. He erupts withanger when the Lord conveys tohim his altered plans and lets Godknow how infuriated he is thatthese people whom he despises

The mysterious Book of Jonahshould be spared and that he him­self should be made to seem such afool.

Our ever-tactful Lord does notremind Jonah that the mercy that

'spared the Ninevites is the samemercy that saved him from the per­ils of the sea.

Instead, the Lord sends a castor­oil plant to be' sUlk.ing Jonah'ssunscreen; but just as Jonah be­gins to take a liking to this plantand to think he has it made in theshade, the Lord sends a worm toconsume the plant.

When Jonah protests that he isangry enough to die the Lord letshim have it with both barrels:"You pity the plant, for which youdid not labor, nor did you make itgrow, which came into being in anight, and 'perished in a night. Andyouresent ~y pitying 120,000 menand women who do not know theirright hand from their left, and cat­tle without number."

The focus of the Bookof Jonah,is, of course, God, n'ot Jonah. Theprophet's 'narroW vision of God asimprisoned in one country, onetemple and one ark, of the coven­ant needed refashioning.

The Book of Jonah, though fic­titious, reveals more about God'snature than one would realize froma cursory reading.

Our God's loving mercy awaitsall who repent, whoever they are,wherever they live, whatever theymay have done. God's all-embrac­ing love reaches beyond our'fond­est imaginings. Not surprisingly,when this God sent his only SonJesus into this world there wereplenty of people like Jonah whowere scandalized by the scope andpower of his mercy and compas­sion. Meditation on all this is trulya fitting Lenten exercise.

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

The Lenten season highlightsthe rich heritage of our Old Tes­tament prophets, one of the leastunderstood of whom is Jonah.Most of us remember him as hav­ing been swallowed by a whale Ofas a character who brings bad luckwherever he goes.

The Book of Jonah is one of thebriefest in the Bible, consisting ofless than 1300 words in English

. translation.It is best understood as a drama

that unfolds in three acts. First act:the Lord orders Jonah to go toNineveh to pr'each repentance.While the biblical story of Jonah isfiction, the city of Nineveh is real.

Indeed, during the early stagesof the air campaign against Iraq,the destructlon of the historicchurch of St. Thomas the Apostlein Nineveh was reported by CNNcorrespondent Peter Arnett.

In Jonah's time, Nineveh was alarge city and the capital of theancient empire of Assyria. The lastthing Jonah, a pious Jew, wantedto do was to preach penance topagans and announce salvation togentiles. So he fled as far as hecould from doing the Lord's bid­ding and bought a ticket on afreighter headed for Spain.

When tile Lord sent a storm the,pagan sailors drew lots to deter­mine who on the ship was thesource of bad luck and Jonahgenerously offered himself to betossed into the sea. The storm sub­sided, the pagan sailors convertedto Israel's God and the Lord sent a .whale to swallow Jonah whole andunharmed.

Second act: Jonah, the reluctantprophet, is spewed from the whale'sbelly. Figuring that there is no

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As we continue our involvement in .the Middle East andconcentrate upon bringing the Persian Gulf war to whatever itsconclusion may be, would it be wrong to say once again thatour intent could be questioned?

We continue to pour technological resources and personnelinto the so-called deliverance of Kuwait, yet we seemingly have'ignored Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. People want to free ar:ather debauched Kuwaiti regime but fail to support gutsyLithuania's push for liberty.

Our official policy is to curtail the activities of a Hussein, atthe same time ignoring Russia's sway over the Baltics. As theexiled rulers of Kuwait continue to enjoy their questionable oilprofits, the freedo'm-Ioving peoples under Russian dominationreceive little encouragement. Somehow it seems that a landthat grows cabbages is not in the same league as one thatproduces oil.

This may seem a rather crass reflection. However, it's nottoo far removed from reality. Our interest in the Middle East isbasically capitalistic: In a nutshell, we want to stabilize the areaso that the First WorId can continue its materialistic advanceand pursuit of the so-called good life.

The nations that have this as their ideal have admittedlyachieved incredible levels of comfort and soft living. But in theprocess much has been lost.

Care for the struggling and suffering have little place in aland wh9se goal is material success. The present lack of con­cern for the occupied nations of the communist bloc is a clearindication of our true values. .

As a nation, we have committed half a million Americansplus staggering amounts of state-of-the-art weaponry to therestoration of a medieval fiefdom which has as its chief pur­pose the fattening of its bank accounts.

The Kuwaiti royal family wallows in luxurious exile with theassurance of our government that it will be restored to itsformer even more sybaritic life of unrestrained profligacy.

Meanwhile we refuse aid to the suffering Baltics in th~ir

struggle for liberty, not only because we are not interested incabbages but also because we do not want to upset our fragilealliance with Russia.

It all leads to the question of American priorities. First andforemost, can this nation continue as the world's policeman?Are we overcommitted and overextended? Is it right to prop upother nations while our own cities burn and fall into rubble?

There are Americans who have neither homes nor hope;there are Americans who have neither job.s nor health care;there are people wandering across the face of America becausetheir own government has treated them as outcasts and lepers.

We live in urban slums, we work in Victorian mills, webarely educate our .people. Our own national crisis c.ries to us,had we ears to hear, that much that is being used to defendforeign states couldrepair and rebuild America. Our country ishurting, with no cure or healing in sight. War and recessionhave become a two-edged sword inflicting wounds of divisionand segregation here at home.. As our Pledge of Allegiance continues to promise liberty

and justice·for all and as, .de~pite our failures and setbacks,thousands from other lands continue to come to our shores, letus rededicate ourselves to that pledge and truly show not only~uwait but suffering peoples everywhere that we are in truth~nenation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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pure, unless it be prolonged by theinspiration of divine grace." - St.Benedict

MSGR. DANIEL F. Hoye,pastor of St. John EvangelistChurch, Attleboro, episcopalvicar of the Attleboro-Tauntonarea of the diocese and chair­man of the Diocesan Presby­teral Council, will speak atthe annual communion brunchofthe Fall River Clover Club.

The event will follow II :30'a.m. Mass March 10 at St.Thomas More Church, Somer­set. To be held in the parishcenter, it will be open to rela­tives and friends of CloverClub members,

The Clover Club choir willsing at the Mass and bagpiperRobert Peck of North Attle­boro will play in the churchfoyer prior to the liturgy. Hewill also play"Amazing Grace"as the communion meditationhymn.

Following the Mass, Peckwill lead partcipants to thebrunch and will also playbefore the meal. He plays bothclassical and "small music,"the latter including jigs,marches and reels, and is offi­cial piper for the annual com­mencement exercises of BrownUniversity.

Msgr. Hoye, former generalsecretary of the NationalConference of Catholic Bish­ops, is a Taunton native. Hewas ordained in 1972 and wasparochial vicar at St. JohnEvangelist parish, where he isnow pastor, and at St. Mary'sparish, Norton, before under­taking graduate studies atCatholic University of Amer­ica leading to a licentiate incanon law. He was vice offici­alis of the Fall River diocesanmarriage tribunal before beingappointed to serve the NCCBand U.S. Catholic Conferencein 1977.

Also upcoming for theClover Club is its annualbanquet, set for 7 p. m. March16 at Somerset Lodge and tobe preceded by asocial hour.Dinner music will be by DavidNadien and there will beentertainment by Irish stepdancers, followed by generaldancing.

By Dr. JAMES &,MARY KENNY

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Arch­bishop Roger Mahony of LosAngeles has urged the UnitedNations to "identify and imposesanctions" on countries whichtraffic illegally in pornography.

"Pornography is no more accept­able in the new world order thanare slavery, apartheid, cocainesmuggling or germ warfare," hesaid.

He spoke at a recent forum onpornography in Los Angeles, co­sponsored by the archdiocese andKnights of Columbus.

He said "the Weimar Republic,that led to directly to GermanNazism, and Lenin's UOS.S. R., andour post-World WarIl secularizedWest made access to pornographya so-called 'right:"

This led to a mentality which, hesaid, "has helped to destroy count­less people in the United Statesthrough rape, rape-murder, daterape, child molestation, venerealdiseases and the killer disease,AIDS - all the fallout of porn­ography."

Archbishop Mahony laudedanti-porn efforts by Morality inMedia, New York based nationalgroup founded by Jesuit FatherMorton Hill; the American Fam­ily Association, headed by Missis­sippi United Methodist ministerDonald E. Wildmom; and theReligious Alliance Against Porno-,graphy, an ecumenical ,coalitionwhich CardinalJoseph L. Bernar­din among its founders.

A~chbishop urgesU.N. anti-porn

efforts

are some possibilities for changewithin marriage.

From what you say, I believeyour husband will not make anyeffort to change unless pressure isbrought to bear. Your own per­suasions are not likely to besufficient.

Would the threat of a tempor­ary separation wake him up? Isthere anyone to whom he wouldlisten? His parents? Your parents?Your priest? A friend?

Know what you want him to doahead of time. Don't put pressureon and then offer some vagueremonstrance that he needs to bemcer.

If you want him in marriagecounseling, let that be your objec­tive. If you want him to help youaround the house and/ or stop theputdowns, then make that clearand specific.

Another option you have withinthe marriage is to put some dis­tance between you and your hus­band. Find things you like to do. Ifyou want ajob,look for one. If hewon't go to counseling, go yourself.Finally, pray that both you andyour husband can find the spirit ofcooperation and peace that Godwishes for us all.

Mar. 31960, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Timothy

P. Sweeney, LL.D., Pastor, HolyName, New Bedford

Mar. 61932, Rev. John W. Quirk,

Founder, St. Joseph, Taunton1932, Rev. Bernard P. Connolly,

S.S., St. Charles College, MarylandMar. 7

1958, Rev. Arthur P.J. Gagnon,Pastor, Holy Rosary, New Bedford

Mar. 21936, Rev. Antonio Berube,

Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro1'941, Rev. JamesJ. Brady, Pas­

tor, St. Kilian, New Bedford1952, Rev. Tarcisius Dreesen~

SS.C<;:, Sacred Hearts Monastery,Fairhaven '

1962, Rev. Alphonse Gauthier,Pa!itor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford

1970, Rev. J. Omer Lussier,Pastor, Sacred Heart, NorthAttleboro

Dear Dr. Kenny: I am 28 andvery unhappy. I have been marriedn years with two children. Wehad one child stillborn. My hus­band puts me down constantly.

He won't let me get ajob, won'tever help me around the house,never compliments me, yet is alwaysready to point out where I made amistake.

If I dare to disagree with him, hewill yell at me: "You don't knownothin' so shut up!" I've tried toget him to go to counseling 'but herefuses. I've had it. I want out.

Is it so wrong to want someamount of peace and happinessfor myself? (Louisiana)

Of course not. We all want to behappy. No one likes to be putdown. We all want to be respected.

I can't tell you what to do. Youmay need to separate and divorce.Here, however, are some things tothink about before you make amove.

I saw a bumper sticker the otherday that read, "If you think mar­riage is difficult, try divorce." Howtrue! Divorce must not be per­ceived only as an escape from anintolerable situation, but also adaily life of its own. Talk to yourdivorced friends about theirthoughts and feelings.

As a Catholic, you have acceptedthe beliefthat marriage is perman­ent. Hence, forming a new rela­tionship would cause conflict withthis bi.mef.-' ,

Even if it were easy to fashionnew relationships, to remarry with­out any hassle, you have no gua­rantee that your second will be anybetter than your first.

Love at the start is not a guaran­tee,. I suspect that you loved yourhusband when you and he werefirst married.

Finally, consider your children.Almost one-third of my work as apsychologist is with children ofdivorce. All of them suffer from .divorce. Almost all of them tell methat they want their parents toremain together.

I realize from your letter thatyour present situation is almostunbearable. It needs changing. Here

Hassledwife,wants out

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Friday, Mar. I, 1991

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Spirituality for the recovering perfectionist-

Vocations and the bad-news, good-news equation

Marriage not meant to be me~ns of reform, therapy-

Just a coincidence, or a surprise from God?

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DOLORES

CURRAN

Being perfect is exhausting. Takeit from a recovered perfectionist.There was a time when my homewas perfect, my mail was answeredbefore the postman left our block,and my friends said, "I don't knowhow you do it all!"

The truth is, I didn't. Like most

By

FATHER

EUGENE

HEMRICK

Some people think that if wecould keep reports of a shrinkingand aging priesthood out of thenewspapers, we might get morevocations.

No doubt those who feel thatway want the church's image to bepositive, and they suffer when theyhear of anything that might tar­nish that image. But there is anotherside of the question.

By

FATHER

JOHN J.

DIETZEN

Q. My husband and I were mar­ried almost three years ago. On theoutside, we looked like the happi­est couple while we were dating.What no one knew was that he wasverbally and mentally abusive to.me the two and one-half years wedated.

Why I put up with it, I still don'tknow, other than that I loved him

By

ANTOINETTE

BOSCO

My daughter Mary and I wererecently involved in a strange coin­cidence.

Mary lives in New York Cityand went to a bookstore there tobuy a present for my son Peter. Asshe reached the counter, she noticedthat the woman in front of her washolding a clipping of a review ofthe book "Be Friends of God,Spiritual Reading From Gregorythe Great." She had not been able

perfectionists, I focused on what Ididn't do. I wrote a fantasy list oftasks every morning and when Ifell into bed at night, I felt like afailure if they weren't all done.

All that has changed. Aginghelps. If friends drop in and thehouse is cluttered, I don't apolog­ize. If1want to take a walk or visita friend, I do, even if I don't makea writing deadline.

Common feelings associated withperfectionism include: "I am indis­pensable; "If I err, I'm a failure;" "Imust always be busy;" "I fear notbeing liked or loved;" and "I can'tsay no."

How does all this get in the wayof spirituality? In his book, So I'mNot Perfect: A Psychology ofHumility, Dr.Robert J. Furey ref-

A researcher's credibility restson how truthful he or she is.

The quality of the questionsasked in surveys and polls is abasic concern. Do the questionsasked get at exactly what is intend­ed? If so, the information a studyyields is valid.

Whether or not the informationis as positive or negative as somewould like it to be, a researcher inconscience must report what hasbeen found. For researchers tooverstress either the positive or thenegative is dishonest.

Without a doubt, it is distress­ing for researchers to complete astudy and then see report afterreport oil it skipping over essen~

so much and the good times out­we!ghed the bad.

Though the abuse lessened quitea bit when we were married, I havebeen on high blood pressure medi­cation and tranquilizers ever since.I'm only 32 years old.

He is' still short-tempered, notunderstanding and makes me ner­vous.

I have had every test imagina­ble; there is nothing physicallywrong with me. I have seen severalcounselors for the past two yearsand they encourage me to leavehim.

At first I said it was out of thequestion because I truly believedthat if persons get divorced theywill go to hell.

However, now when I look at

to locate the book, but the clerkwas unable to help.

Mary glanced at the clip and, toher surprise, realized the bookreview was one I had written. Shegreeted the woman' and told herthat, .though it might seem animpossible coincidence,the authorof the book review was her mother.She gave the woman my phonenumber so she could call for helpin locating the book.

She did, a few days later. Shetold me she wanted to get the bookasa present for the priest who hadmarried her and her husband in achurch named for, you guessed it,St. Gregory the Great.

Maryand I then wondered: Wasthisjust a coincidence or was thereanother force at work? There aresome 8 million people in New

ers to perfectionism as a sin ofpride. Excessive self-reliance leadsus to believe we can be perfectwhen only God is perfect.

Real humility comes fromaccepting our humanness so wecan ~e open to God's gifts andlove. Chronic perfectionists find itdifficult to accept limitations eitherof themselves or others. Whenthey encounter limitations, theyfeel guilty.

Society fosters this guilt with itsring-around-the-collar, be-all-you­can-be messages which keep us inperpetual frenzy. When we're striv­ing to meet all these expectations,most of them self-imposed, wearen't hearing the quiet voice ofGod telling us, "Slow down and

tials and highlighting oniy the mostshocking findings.

Also painful to researchers, how­ever, are the efforts of some whoinsist that everything should soundpositive. Reports that are overpos­itive suggest that people need notconcern themselves further withthe matter at hand.

But the need for more priestsand younger priests in' the UnitedStates is a real cause for concern.The priesth.ood is getting older.

For researchers studying thepriesthood, this raises a question.Is the priesthood unable to recruityounger people because of prob­lems particular to it? Or does thisphenomenon reflect a larger pic-

this more objectively, I do believe Ihave grounds for separating fromhim; possibly grounds for anannulment. My husband and Ihave seen counselors together butthey have not helped.

I'm a nervous wreck and am notat all the person I used to be. Doyou have any advice? (Wisconsin)

A. I hesitated to print this letter.But I know there are thousands ofpeople who will read or hear aboutthis column who urgently need tohear what you say.

The community life of marriagecan be a source of enormous joyand spiritual growth when the twopeople sincerely love and respectone another, and treat each otherwith care.

York City. Was it meant to be thatthis woman and my daughter wouldbe in the same place at the sametime on the same day? And if so,who makes these strange arran­gements we call "coincidence"?

Shortly after this, I got a callfrom a woman in Houston, Texas,representing a group for divorced,separated and widowed peopleunder the auspices of the Dioceseof Galveston-Houston. She askedif I would be a speaker for theirupcoming 10th anniversary pro­gram.

For a long time I had not beenaccepting speaking engagements,but I hesitated on this call, and Ido not know why. I told her Iwould let her know in two weeks.

A day or two later I got a letterfrom a friend I had not heard from

listen to me. Waste a little timewith me and those you love. Whatdoes it profit you to accomplisheverything and lose me?"

Another recovered perfectionisttold me she used to be angry withGod for allowing her to awaken at3 A.M. and experience fear anddespair. "Then I realized it was theonly time God could get my atten­tion," she said. "Now I take time tomeditate and pray in the middle ofthe day and I sleep through thenight."

What a gift it is to be able to putGod on our list of things to accomp­lish.

So how do we overcome perfec­tionism? We embrace our human­ity and humility, letting go and let-

ture in which other social institu­tions also are becoming moredependent on older persons?

Such questions need to be asked,but they never will be if people arewilling to hear only the "positive."

The suggestion sometimes seemsto be that bad news about thepriesthood reflects only on priestsand bishops. But if we aren't replac­ing the priests we lost with youngerpriests, is it really a reflection onpriests or bishops? Or does it reflecton family life and society in general?

Have values changed so muchthat young men are·not able to seethe place of the priesthoood intheir life'? Or could it be that theHoly Spirit is trying to tell us

But marriage is not a reformschool or an institution for psy­chological therapy. Men andwomen who marry with the inten­tion of changing radical personal­ity deficiencies in their spouse,who hope "things will get betterwhen we're married," are alwaystragically disappointed.

I hope engaged couples whofind themselves in situations sim­ilar to yours will read your letterthoughtfully. .

The only advice I can give you isto continue the course you are on,and talk to a priest soon aboutyour own spiritual response to thisrelationship and the options opento you as a Catholic. Good Luck.

Q. A friend of mine recently

in more than 25 years. Betty, aconvert, and I had been friends in1949 when both of us were preg­nant with our first babies. Over theyears we had lost track of eachother.

Her letter told me that she hadseen one of my columns in aCatholic newspaper in Texas andshe was taking a chance on writingto me via the paper. When I lookedat her return address, it was, guesswhat, Houston!

Perhaps it was only a coinci­dence that in two days' time Ishould get to separate communi­cations from Houston. But I sawBetty's letter as a sign and Iaccepted

. the invitation to speak jn Houstonin March and, of course, I shall seeher, too.

There may be nothing at all to

ting God take control. We learn tolive with others' disapproval.

We accept the body, talents,brains and personality that Godgave us and stop trying to improveupon the basic design that makesus unique:

We learn to ask for support,dole out responsibilities and acceptimperfectionism in the help we get.We develop the courage to bevulnerable and we learn to see theabsurdity, in our struggle to beperfect.

I've found that people prefer theimperfect me to the perfect me ofyore. They are uncomfortable beingaround folks trying to be divine.They like me better, I like me bet­ter, and I think God likes me' bet­ter, too.

something about the shape of thechurch to come in the 21 st century?

Questions like this never will beseriously asked if people are onlyinterested in hearing what is posi­tive..

What is most painful to research­ers is the occasional suggestionthat they are malicious or, at best,insensitive to the church's needs.Actually, any reputable researcherin the church is always working forits betterment and in accord withit.

The statistics researchers pro­duce are not always happy news.But then, unhappy news is a chal­lenge to make things better - a

. reminder that we can always im­prove.

returned from Texas where sheattended a wedding between twoCatholics.

The ceremony was performedby a deacon. I did not know a dea­con could do this. Are there somedioceses that allow this? (Indiana)

To officiate at marriages IS oneof the liturgical functions assignedto deacons by the church. To actu­ally perform such a ceremony,however, the deacon must beexplicitly granted the' faculty toofficiate at marriages by the bishopof a diocese. Incidentally, the sameis true for priests.

Questions for this column maybe sent to Father John Dietzen,Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. MainSt., Bloomington, III. 61701.

this business of unexpected thingshappening. But I rather believethat the Creator has a great senseof compassion and humor, andsometimes, like a loving parent,expresses this by whispering,"Surprise!"

Women listedST. LOUIS (CNS) - Women

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article "Dress up for Mass, urgespriest." Father James Telhorst ex­pressed some fine points to supporthis opinion but I felt that he leftout one very important reason forat least attempting to look one'sbest when at Mass.

The whole issue can be easilysummarized and expressed in asingle word: respect. Respect forGod, respect for the Eucharist,respect for the assembly, respectfor where you are, what you aredoing and whom you are worship­ing.

TClsaSao reITectlOnoroursociety in general when a greatmany parishioners will primp them­selves for dances, parties and anycivic or secular event with no objec­tion, but consider it an invasion oftheir privacy to look their bestwhen assembling to meet with theKing of the Universe!

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H eart/elt thanks

in my letter do I even suggest thatwe should not pray for our enemies.

My criticism of the Pax Christiprayer was that it equated SaddamHussein and George Bush. Duringthe cold war there were some Cath­olics who posited two equally evilforces in the world: Le., the USAand the USSR. Now, our countryis not without its sins and certainlyit is our duty to strive to correct theinjustices of our government. To.have claimed, however, that theevils perpetrated by the USA andthe USSR were of a commensu­rate nature was patently false andwas recognized as such by anyobjective observer.

Yet, such blatant anti-American­ism appears anew in the present­crisis. Some members of ourChurch have the audacity to sug­gest that Suddam Hussein andGeorge Bush are two equally evilmen who have caused the blood­shed of this war. One may criticizeGeorge Bush's policies and deci­sions but to even suggest, as thePax Christi prayer did, that he isamoral equal to Saddam Husseinis, I repeat, outrageous.

(Rev.) Edward J. ByingtonSacred Heart parishFall River

Dear Editor:Re "Dress up for Mass. urges

priest" (Anchor. Feb. 15), myheartfelt thanks go to Father JamesTelthorst for voicing his disappro­val of the inappropriate attire wornby adults and children at the week-

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gC?Cs about hiS or her duties IS per­severant. Such perseverance doesnot have to shake the world QID ispart of Christ's invitation to takeup one's cross daily and followHim.

During this Lenten season Hiscross and sufferings ,are alwaysbefore us, reminding us of Hislove. Our perseverance in carryingour own crosses is surely a fittinglove offering to Him.

Jean QuigleyRehoboth

Response toresponses

Dear Editor:The response to my letter (An­

chor, Feb. I) in which I criticizedthe Pax Christi prayer was, to saythe least, misdirected. Nowhere

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said. "I think they give the bestcare I've ever seen to frail people.They are very good people and it'snice to see that ina deterioratingworld.

"Both my parents, who werealso doctors, worked with the Lit­tle Sisters in London and a niece ofmine does as well," he said. "Wesort of have a family relationshipwith them."

For "Awakenings," Sacks saidhe spent "a great deal of time onthe set," mostly with Oscar-winningRobert De Niro, who plays Leo­nard Lowe, a man who comesalive after 30 years in a nonrespon-sive state.

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One patient even helped instructthe "Awakenings" cast.

Sacks said the movie can edu­cate people ahout neurologicallydamaged patients just as " 'RainMan' taught us about autism."

"Far to'o many people are putaway in nursing homes and chronichospitals and then forgotten," hesaid. "I would hope the film wouldbring more sympathetic attentionto these neglected people who mayoften be very precious and have alot of life in them."

Sacks saw "Awakenings" fivetimes.

"The acting is brilliant, and theportrayal ofthe clinical conditionsof the patients is absolutelyauthentic," he said. "These peopleare not mad; they're not schizoph­renic; they're not out of reality inany intensive way. They have grossdamage to the nervous system.Mentally they're often remarkablyclear and normal but somehowtrapped inside their bodies," hesaid.

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"Awa.kenings" usee Oscar pickWASHINGTON (CNS) ­

'''Awakenings,'' a movie aboutcoma-like patients brought backto meaningful life, if only for awhile, deserves the Oscar for bestpicture of 1990, according to filmreviewers for the U.S. CatholicConference Office for Film andBroadcasting. The film was therecipient of a 1991 ChristopherAward Feb. 28.

The Christopher awards honorproducers, directors, writers andillustrators whose work exempli­fies "the. highest values of thehuman spirit," said Fathe.r JohnCatoir, director of The Christ­ophers, whose motto is "It is betterto light one candle than to cursethe darkness." ---------

"Awakenings" drew Oscar nom­inations in the best picture andbest actor categories. The Oscarsare to be presented March 25 inLos Angeles.

Preparing for his role in thefilm, actor Robin Williams, whoportrays a neurologist, visitedQueen of Peace Residence, a LittleSisters of the Poor nursing homein Queens, N.Y., to study for hisrole.

There he saw a woman emergefrom a trancelike state to sing withthe home's superior, MotherGenevieve Regina. It was the kindof"awakening" the movie portrays.

Williams was accompanied byDr. Oliver Sacks, on whom isbased Williams' character, Dr.Malcom Sayer, in the ColumbiaPictures release.

The movie is based on Sacks'1973 medical classic, "Awaken­ings," which documents his 1969experiment with the drug L-Dopawhich brought patients who hadsurvived encephalitis out ofdecades-long, trancelike states.

Sacks, a professor of neurologyat Albert Einstein College of Med­icine in New York City, is a con­sultant to the Little Sisters of thePoor nursing homes in New York.

In a telephone interview, Sackssaid he took Williams and thefilm's director, Penny Marshall, tothe home to visit two patients.

"Sister Genevieve started sing­ing with one of the patients andsuddenly the patient started sing­ing with her. Robin and Pennywere delighted at seeing this," hesaid.

Sacks, born in London in 1933to an Orthodox Jewish family,said he is "not particularly reli­gious" himself, but has workedwith the Little Sisters since 1971.

"I'm very fond of them," Sacks

legitimately makes everybody laughand have a good time," he said.

"Nunsense" earned GogginCritics Outer Circle awards in 1986- for best musical, best book andbest music. It put the then-strug­gling writer in the position wherenow he can pay his rent "for therest of my life," he said.

A fourth Outer Circle awardwent to cast member Semina DeLaurentis for her performance asSister Amnesia, a would-be coun­try singer.

Even "plainclothes" nuns like"Nunsense," said Goggin, whosecast boasts it can spot nuns inmufti in the audience.

Back in Michigan, his prototypefor the lead, Dominican SisterVincent de Paul, has become aself-described "celebrity" aroundher motherhouse in Grand Rap­ids, where she's retired, he said.Her stock soared after she appearedpublicly with the cast when thetroupe went to Grand Rapids ontour.

Goggin has tried to benefit nunsfor all they've benefited him, hesaid. One publicity" effort, Whichhelps both show and nuns, involvesusing real nuns for bit parts. Whenthe show goes to a new city, it con­ducts a search for talent amongreal nuns.

Four winners are selected andeach performs for a week, earning$1 for every seat plus whatever shegets for her favorite charity througha collection from theatergoers.

"Some have made a couplethousand dollars," said Goggin.The company also has done benefitperformances for groups such asSupport Our Aging Religious, afund for retired nuns.

Goggin once wanted to becomea priest and attended Sacred HeartSeminary, Detroit, for a short whileas a high school student. When heleft the seminary he intended toreturn but became involved intheater instead, he said.

He's still helping people, how­ever, he said. He recalled SisterVincent de Paul's words to him:."Danny, I think the Lord wantedyou to reach everybody this waybecause you'vj: touched more livesthan you ever could have as apriest or brother."

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ACTRESSES ALVALETA Guess (left) and Nancy E. Carroll singduring a scene from "Nunsense." (CNS photo)

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more than 2,100 performancesunder its wimple, "Nunsense" haspassed "Godspell" to become thethird-longest-running off-Broad­way musical in history.

"Everyone on earth is fascinatedby the look of the traditional nun,"said writer/director Dan Goggin.

That's one reason, he said, that"Nunsense" is third behind "TheFantasticks," which isin its fourthdecade and still playing, and"Threepenny Opera," which ranfrom 1955 to 1961.

"Godspell" ran off-Broadwayfrom May 17, 1971, to June 13.1976, for about 2,100 performan­ces. "Nunsense" opened Dec. 12.1985, and had its 2,128th off­Broadway performance Feb. 3.

Thousands of people have seenthe madcap musical about Gog­gin's Little Sisters of Hoboken.The nuns, also -known as "TheHobos," are performing in a revueto raise the money to bury the lastfour of 52 fatally poisonedmembers. They died of botulismafter eating vichyssoise served bySister Julia, Child of God.

Since its debut, "Nunsense" haspacked the house with eight per­formances weekly and been trans­lated into 10 languages. At presentit is being performed by theatercompanies nationwide.

Goggin is also in the pre­production stage of "Nunsense,"the movie.

The comedy's characters arerooted in'Dominican Sisters whomGoggin knew as a student at St.Mary's School in Alma, Mich., hesaid in a telephone interview fromNew York.

"I had the most wonderful nunsin school," said -Goggin. His showpresents nuns as happy and dedi­cated, but not without strongpersonalities

There's Mother Mary Regina,the regal superior, and Sister MaryAmnesia, the one with a vacantstare. There's Sister Mary Leo, asin "leotard." She dances.

Portraying the nuns as individ­uals, some of whom compete withone another, is why the show lea­ves people laughing, Goggin said.

The habit is the initial draw, butonce people are inside, "the show

"I'm not part of Kevin Costner'sPR team," he laughed. "But I ampart ofthe PR team for the Lakotapeople," as the Sioux Indians callthemselves, "and our state, andI'm proud of both."

A caveat on the film, however,was entered by Ben Black Bear Jr.,director of the Office of NativeConcerns in Bishop Chaput'sdiocese.

"Dances with Wolves," he said,leaves a false impression that theIndian culture died out with thebuffalo.

Its conclusion, that he saidimplies that Native American cul­ture is extinct, is wrongly "omi­nous," he added.

. Black Bear commen tedon-1he.movie in a telephone interviewafter it received 12 Oscar nomina­tions. He emphasized that NativeAmerican culture is not extinctbut "going through a transition."

"In adjusting to a new way oflife," Native Americans are turn­ing back to their culture, he said.One example is the renewed inter­est in Indian customs, such as theannual sun dance, a fourday, mid­summer celebration of the sun as"the major manifestation of theGreat Mystery," he said.

The dance is "a religious cet'em­ony" compatible with Christianitysince the concept of the GreatMystery can easily be applied toGod, he said.

"It's basically a prayer," BlackBear said, adding that there hasbeen "a revival of the dance as aform of prayer and meditation."

Despile his objection to its end­ing, Black Bear had overall praisefor "Dancing with Wolves."

In showing Indians as humanbeings in their own culture andusing the Lakota and Pawnee dia­lects, he said, Hollywood "made itas authentic as possible."

In the past, Indians have beenonly "portrayed as the enemy," hesaid.

Henry Herx and Gerri Pare,film reviewers for the U.S. CatholicConference Office for Film andBroadcasting, said Kevin Costner,director of"Dances with Wolves,"deserves the Oscar for best direc­tor. They also said they expectedthe motion picture to be namedbest film.

In a review, Ms. Pare praised its"sensitive treatment of NativeAmericans, exceptional cinema­tography and fine portrayals,"which, she said, compensate for itsexcessive length.

The USCC, citing "gory battle­field violence, minimal, restrainedlovemaking and a flash of rearnudity,'~classified it A-I11- adults..

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movie "Dances with Wolves" is a"blessing" to American Indiansand conveys that "the Indian cul­ture has a message for the world,"said Bishop Charles J. Chaput ofRapid City, S.D., a diocese where40 percent of the Catholics areNative Americans.

"I think it's the only movie toportray Indian people as humanbeings with deep relationships anddeep feelings" instead of as sav­ages, said Bishop Chaput, a mem­ber of the Prairie Band Potawa­tomi tribe.

The frontier epic, directed byand starring Kevin Costner, is setin the Dakota territories duringthe_CiYi.l-~ centers on a

Union sdldier, played by Costner,at a deserted frontier fort whoembarks on a voyage of self-dis­covery when befriended by a Siouxtribe. He falls in love with a whitewoman, played by Mary McDon­nell, who had been adopted by thetribe.

It shows that Native Americanshave "many gifts for the world,"said Bishop Chaput in a telephoneinterview. Among them, he said,are "a sense of the harmony andoneness in the world that God hasgiven us and the importance ofknowing our place in it."

The Orion Pictures movie alsoshows the American Indian em­phasis on "the importance ofcommitment to family, not just theimmediate family but the largerfamilies we find ourselves in, and acommitment to community," saidthe bishop.

In illustrating "tribal relation­ships," he said, "Dances WithWolves" showed the Indians had"support for one another and pro­tected one another."-

Bishop Chaput, a member ofthe Capuchin order, is one of twoNative American U.S. bishops.The other is IJishop Donald E.Pelotte of Gallup, N.M.

Bishop Chaput said he has seenthe movie - filmed in his diocese- three times. He said he knewmany of the extras in the cast aswell as people who provided tech­nical expertise, for example, in ascene where buffalo were hunted,he said.

"I was thrilled to see the beautyof South Dakota on the widescreen," Bishop Chaput added. "Itshowed how incredibly beautifulour state is."

The bishop, a self-described"cheerleader" for South Dakota,urged everyone to see the movie.He can't wait until it's out on videoso he can have' his own copy.

ACTOR KEVIN Costner, second from left, and Siouxtribesmen scout a herd of buffalo in a scene from "Dances withWolves." (CNS photo)

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AT MADONNA MANOR jubilee Mass, from left: Bishop Cronin and~oncelebrants;Bishop Cronin accepts the offertory gifts. Among worshipers10 the Madonna Manor chapel was home administrator Martha J. Daneault,

far right. A dinner at Brook Manor, North Attleboro, followed the Mass.(Hickey photos) .

Two years ago, the canon lawsociety voted to establish a com­mission to prepare a petition favor­ing the ordination of married mento the priesthood. Ifapproved, thepetition would have been sent tothe National Conference for Cath-olic Bishops.r _

Among those supporting thepetition in debate were Msgr. Fred­erick McManus, a professor ofcanon law at The Catholic Univer­sity of America, and Peter Shan­non, a former president of thesociety released from the priest­hood in 1969 and now married.

But others arguedthat the peti­tion would constitute inapprop­riate political pressure on thebishops and that background ma­terial had not been adequatelyprepared.

Father Ralph Wiatrowski, chan­cellor of the diocese of Cleveland,told the Universe Bulletin after themeeting, "The resolution was not awell-prepared one. There werequestions which needed to be asked,for example, the whole question ofEastern rites in this country."

I n Eastern-rite Catholicchurches, .a married man can beordained to the diocesan priest­hood, but a priest cannot marryafter ordination. In the UnitedStates, Eastern-rite priests cannotmarry.

Another resolution called for astudy of the participation of thelaity if! the three offices of thechurch: sanctifying, teaching andgoverning.

The measure was related to theinability of canon lawyers who arelay people and women religious toact independently as tri bunaljudges. Under present canon law,such judges must act in concertwith a priest.

The resolution was criticized asa91biguous and otherwise unsatis­factory and was killed in the socie­ty's women's caucus. The groupdid decide to attach a request tobroaden the power of laity andnuns who work on tribunals to anupcoming canon law society reporton women in the church.

and reconciliation in the region," the allied forces must be extraor­he said. -- - - - ----- -- -- dinanty cautious wheneverclvillan

- Avoiding hatred. "All of us, life is at risk" and must carry outfriend or foe, are brothers and sis- the war "in ways that seek to avoidters made in the image and like- disproportionate harm to Iraq'sness of God; American or Iraqi, social, cultural and economic life."we s~are a basic human dignity," "There is no glory in killinghe said. other human beings, even to estab-

--: Avoiding civilian casualties. lish moral principles," he said.Amid reports "that Iraq is attempt- "The moral imperative remains toing to mingle military installations seek a swift, stable and just peacein civilian populations," he said, as soon as possible."

Canon Law Society rejectsresolution on wed priests

CLEVELAND (CNS) - TheCanon Law Society of Americahas rejected a resolution callingfor ordination of married men,reversing a process begun by thesociety two years ago.

The vote came during the socie­ty's recent annual meeting, attendedby about 400 church lawyers.

Meeting participants took issuenot with the resolution's call forexpansion of the "current permis­sion to ordain qualified marriedmen to the presbyterate," but withthe statement of reasons and pre­cedents which accompanied ,therequest.

"The defeat of the resolutionhad nothing to do with the disposi­tion of the group toward marriedpriests," Father Gary Gresko, acanon lawyer on the Clevelanddiocesan newspaper. "The reasonit was not affirmed was becausethe group did not feel the rationalegiven was of sufficient academicsubstance."

"Orphans"Continued from Page One

determining which approach it con­siders best.

On Feb. 20 the Senate voteddown a proposal by Sen. JohnHeinz, R-Pa., to exempt singleparents or couples with childrenfrom serving in combat zones.

The next day Rep. Toby Roth,R.-Wis., introduced a. bilI in thehouse that would allow single par­ents with sole custody of childrenor two or more members of thesame family to request transfer outofa combat zone. It would requirethe Defense Department to honorthe request of at least one suchfamily member.

Current Pentagon rules permitall but one family member in thesame unit or on the same .ship torequest transfer to another unit orship, but not out of combat.

.WITH BISHOP Daniel A. Cronin at a recent planningsessIOn for the 50th annual Catholic Charities Appeal are,from le.!t, Rev. Maurice O. Gauvin. assistant director for theNew Bedford area; Rev. John F. Andrews, Cape area director;Rev. John J. Steakem, Attleboro area director; and Rev.Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan director of the Appeal.

Also, Rev, Gerald T. Shovelton, Taunton area director;Rev. Ralph D. Tetrault, Attleboro assistant director; Rev.Richard L. Chretien, New Bedford area director; and Rev.William L. Boffa, Taunton assistant director. (Hickey photo)

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In looking at the conduct of thewar, which two days earlier hadentered the stage of full groundcombat in Kuwait and Iraq, Arch­bishop Roach warned particularlyabout:

- Maintaining the right inten­tion. "Allied objectives in this warshould remain focused on the libe­raton of Kuwait and we should~vo~dmultiplying or escalating ob­Jectlves. that are not compatiblewith bringing about genuine peace

tinue to have concerning the prin­ciples of noncombatant immunity,proportionality and right intentionin the ongoing conduct ofthe war.

- Pastoral concerns about thoseaffected by the war, especil!.lIy U.S.military personnel and their fami­lies and the people of Iraq andKuwait.

- Civility and mutual respect inthe national debate about the war.

- Concern about U.S. militarypolicy that does not permit exemp-·tion from combat for single par­ents or for one of two parentswhen both serve in the military.

- The requirements of buildinga just peace in the Middle Eastonce the war is over.

In response to questions afterhis talk, Archbishop Roach said,that before the war he and otherleaders of the bishops' conferencehad intervened strongly in urging"every possible avenue short ofwar."

He said he thought the bishopshad helped to bring the moralquestions into the policy debateabout the war and had influencedthe government's decisions. Hecited the frequent allusions by Pres­ident Bush and military leaders tomoral principles behind their deci­sions.

"You may quarrel with the judge­ment [the government reached].but I think we exercised an influ­ence," he said..

To another questioner who ar­gued that the government's use ofmoral terms to justify the war wasan exercise in "lies and deception,"Archbishop Roach said, "That's aharsher judgment than I'm pre­pared to make."

He said one of the points of histalk was the need for mutual respectin debating the war, and he did nothave evidence to conclude that the

Force Capt. Terrance Fox, an F­16 pilot, is stationed in Arizona

. and Army Lt. Col. Timothy Fox i~stationed in Korea. Both are grad­uates of Bishop Connolly HighSchool, Fall River.

Two sisters, Patricia Borden ofSeekonk, Mass., and Nancy Gun­derson of Portland, Ore., arenurses. They graduated from theformer Sacred Hearts Academy,Fall River.

Mrs. Borden's husband, Lt. Col.Stephen Borden, a member of theArmy Reserve, is also in SaudiArabia, serving at an Army com­bat support hospital, on leave fromhis civilian position as head nurseof the surgical intensive care unitat Providence VA Hospital.

Continued from Page Oneleader Saddam Hussein, it was de­livered before news reached theUnited States of the Feb. 25 Scudattack on a building that housedU.S. military officers in Dhahran,Saudi Arabia. At least 28 soldierswere killed and another 100 wound­ed in the attack.

Archbishop Roach, whose ad­dress on moral questions in a timeof war. was a late addition to themeeting agenda, said most of thenation's bishops "have withheld adefiniti~ejudgment" on the moral­ity of the war because of the "spe­cific judgments required and thelimited information available" tomake such alllOral determination."Ther~will be those who will be

disappointed by this reality," hesaid.

Some want the ~ishops to "c1ear~

ly condemn this war as unjust"while others want them to "embraceit ... [as] a clear example ofthe useofAmerican military power to resistevil," he said.

He said the bishops' role is to"share our moral judgments andraise serious questions with bothconviction and modesty" withoutgiving "absolute" answers whenthat is not possible.

"Each of us will have to searchour own conscience .,. on the moraldimensions of this war," he said.

"We [bishops] offer not easyanswers, but hard questions; notcertainty, but substantial doubts,"he said.

In his lengthy address, the firstmajor policy statement from thebishops' conference since Jan. 17when the war broke out, Archbi­shop Roach discussed:

- Moral issues raised by thebishops about whether the warwas begun as a "last resort."

Moral concerns they con-

Lt. Col. Fox capturedContinued from Page One

school with him, said he was votedthe funniest person in his seniorclass. He recalled that Jeffrey anda brother Robert, now a medicalstudent and a lieutenant in theArmy Reserve, had been altar boysat Holy Name parish and that Jef­frey was catcher for the parochialschool baseball team. In highschool, said Driscoll, Jeffrey was across-country runner and a foot­ball halfback.

Driscoll also recalled visits toJeffrey's home, where the seniorFox "ran inspection and the housewas always immaculate."

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"We say we don't know what thekitchen table looks like anymore,"said Mrs. Eck. ,

A staff of 15 volunteers helpsproduce the magazine. Another150 or so volunteers· pass out sub­scription fliers.

The magazine is up to about210,000 subscribers f~om all partsof the world, including~outh Amer­ica and the Caribbean. Another10,000-15,000 issues a~e distributedat Medjugorje conferences and else-where. '

The magazine has featured aninterview with actor Martin Sheen,a Medjugorje believe~, and storieson a miracle cure a,ttributed toMedjugorje, the visit pf the NotreDame basketball teamto the Yugo­slavian village, and! Medjugorjecenters around the country.

The church has noi yet made a.definitive judgment of the authen­ticity of the apparitiohs at Medju­gorje, where Mary reportedly hasbeen appearing to si~ young peo­ple daily since 1981. '

If the church concludes Medju­gorje is not authenti¢, Eck said, ."we'll never print another maga-zine. I

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CHICAGO(CNS)~TwoCath­oJic couples from the ChicagQ sub­urbs have joined forces to produceMedjugorje ~agazine,a quarterlypublication believed the only U.S.magazine on the reported appari­tions in a small Yugoslavian village.

The nonprofit magazine, less. than a year old, is the brainchild of

Larry and Mary Sue Eck of Down­ers Grove, Ill., and Michael andAnn Hatt of Bloomingdale. Ill.,both of the diocese of Joliet. Thecouples first met 10 years ago at aMarriage Encounter.

The Ecks and Hatts produce themagazine in their spare time intheir paper-cluttered homes. It isprinted at low cost by a Floridapublisher who is also a devotee ofMedjugorje.

Before the magazine was con­ceived, the two couples had pro­duced Matrimony ·magazine forWorldwide Marriage Encounteras unpaid volunteers.

"The last thing we wanted, frank­ly, was to do another magazine,"said Mrs. Eck.

Hatt said there are 90 U.S. news­letters on Medjugorje, filled withinformation on prayer groups andconferences, but no magazines within-depth features.

The homes of the Ecks andHatts are virtually magazine offi­

. ces, complete with half-done pages

THESE HAPPY Pack 22 Cub Scouts from St. ThomasMore and St. Patrick parishes in Somerset received the ParvuliDei medal in recent ceremonies at St. Patrick. As a serviceproject they baked cookies for a com:e ,hour at CatholicMemorial Home, Fall River. From left, front, Brad Mayer,Matthew Crider, Robert Walmsley, Peter Saulino; rear,Nathan Mayer, Justin Saulino, Michael Mayer. (Photo cour­tesy of The Spectator)

Cardinal gloomy onPhilippines' futureMANILA, Philippines (CNS)

- Five years after "people power"swept aside a dictator, the Philip­pines has lost its way and yester­day's heroes have become today'svillains for many Filipinos, saysCardinal Jaime Sin.

Cardinal Sin, the archl?ishop ofManila who played a major role inencouraging the revolt that broughtPresident Corazon Aquino topower and ousted FerdinandMarcos, said in a statement mark­ing the fifth aniversary of the 1986uprising that the country had failedto follow through on its triumph.

He said the uprising had im­pressed the world, united the pre­dominantly Catholic country andended 20 years of Marcos' author-

. itarian rule.More than I million people

crowded on to the streets of Man­ila to confront tanks with prayersand flowers ina mark of popularoutrage against Marcos and allegedpoll rigging.

But the cardinal said that sincethen the Philippines had fallenback "into a chaotic juxtapositionof opposed forces. [We have]entrapped ourselves anew in thecompulsive drive for money, powerand selfish interests, backslid inpolitics to the tricks and trappings .of traditional politicians [and]maligned our political servants withall manner of lies."

For many Filipinos "yesterday'sheroes have turned into today'svillains, yesterday's enthusiastshave turned into today's cynics,yesterday's dreams have turnedinto today's nightmares."

Cardinal Sin did not name thewayward heroes, but formerdefense minister Juan Ponce Emile,who helped launch the 1986 revolt,is now under indictment for hisalleged role in a 1989 coup attemptagainst Mrs. Aquino.

Mrs. Aquino has survived sixcoup attempts' in the past fiveyears but critics say she has failedto provide strong leadership.

Cardinal Sin told Reuters, theBritish news agency, in a Januaryinterview that Mrs. Aquino should'not run for a second term butshould hand power over to a.younger person, someone with thevision to steer the country of 60million people toward economicprogress.

About 83 percent of Filipinosare .Catholic and a plenary meet­ing . of the church in Februarymapped out a more activist rolefor the clergy.

Pope asks prayers for war's end

Peace weakened by Christian splits,pope tells. Wor.ld Council of Churches

has nearly reached the limits ofimpoverishment and dependence"on the industrialized economies.

Jesuit Father Jose MoralesOrozco, president of the MexicanConfederation of,Religious Insti­tutes, said tensions between reli­gious orders and the hierarchyshould be a secondary issue.

The working documeritfur theassembly, a synthesis of reportsfrom the 25 national conferencesof religious in Latin America pre- 'pared by a team of confederationtheologians, stressed the need forinvolvement of religious '.in sup­port of the poor. The goal, it said,is for the poor to "become ac(orsin their own liberation" from unjust'"social, political and economicmechanisms" which often consti­

,tute "instruments of oppression."The document also admitted that

designing strategies for a religiouslife which expresses an option forthe poor has stirred many "ques­tions" and "misunderstandings."

Such was the case with theorganization's controversial, five­year "Word-Life" pastoral pro­gram. The program was suspendedin 1989 by the Vatican congrega­tion on religious life after someLatin American bishops chargedthat it contained an "ideologized

,and reductive reading" of theScriptures.

Similarly, last year the popesharply criticized unnamed pastoralprograms of the Latin Americanreligious, warning against a Marx­ist interpretation of the church'spreferential option for the poor.

According to Bishop FranciscoJavier Errazuriz, secretary of thereligious life congregation and itsdelegate to the assembly, the Vati­can's problem with the now-defunctpastoral plan was not with itsemphasis on an 'option for thepoor.

Bishop Errazuriz said the"Word-Life" program did not leaveenough room for the "plurality" of

.ways - from teaching, to parishwork and direct social action.

, The working draft of the docu­ment for the assembly seemed toavoid some of the controversiallanguage of the "Word-Life" pro­gram; but did not shun the use ofterms such as "liberation," and"struggle for justice."It reflected acommitment on the confederation'spart to continue pressing the churchas a whole to carry its expressedoption for the poor into new areasof pastoral action.

CUAUTITLAN, Mexico(CNS)- Representatives of Latin Amer­ica's religious say they want tomove beyond tensions with theVatican to mapping out strategiesfor helping the region's poor.

During a major meeting inCuautitlan, delegates of the Con­federation of Latin AmericanReligious said they want to workout a "new evangelization" whichstresses the Latin Americanchurch's option for the poor.

The 75 delegates of religiousorders from 25 Latin Americanand Caribbean nations at the Feb.19-28 conference were developinga draft document on the issue,which the Vatican has warned mus'tfollow Pope John Paul II's pro­nouncements.

The document, entitled "Cur­rent Tendencies in Latin Ameri­can Religious Life," called on the'region's religious to support the,poor. It said that Latin Americanreligious agree that a "greater con­version toward the world of thepoor" is needed, including work­ing the spiritual values of povertyinto religious life.

The religious were meeting inthe context of a decision by PopeJohn Paul to have the Vatican'sCongregation for Institutes of,Consecrated Life and Societies ofApostolic Life bypass the confed­eration's normal electoral proce­dure and directly choose membersof an executive board that willguide the organization for the nextthree years.

,The decision follows a controv­ersy over the content of the con­federation's pastoral planning.

One confederation spokesman,Argentinian LaSalette FatherTelmo Mairone, said that althoughthere was resentment among thedelegates over the papal decision, .there was also "a consensus that tolose ourselves in a dispute overcontrol at the hierarchical levelwould be a 'sin' when there is somuch work to be done."

That feeling was spelled out bythe confederation's outgoing pres­ident, Argentinian CapuchinFather Luis Coscia, who tolddelegates on the assembly's open­ing day to avoid "fear or dispro­portionate concern over preserv­ing our own image." ,

Father Coscia said chief amongthe issues facing religious is "howto announce the Good News ofsalvation at this moment in thehistory of Latin America, which

CAPUCHIN FATHER Luis Coscia, left, outgoing presi­dent of the Confederation of Latin' American Religious,speaks to reporters at the organization's February assembly asVatican-appointed monitor Colombian Bishop Hector LopezHurtado looks on. (CNS photo)

Latin American religioussay poor come first

the methods which are still possi­ble to put an end to the massacreof human lives, which is beingperpetrated in the war," he added.

"Thus, every Lenten act becomesa humble, pressing, sorrowful invo­cation to peace," he said.

Italy is part of the V .S.-Ied coa­lition against Iraq and has com­mitted naval and air forces to thewar.

A week earlier, the pope askedIraq to provide information abouttwo Italian airmen shot down overIraq: Maj. Gian Marco Bellini andCapt. Maurizio Cocciolone.

Forgiveness"A Christian will find it is easier topardon than resent. Forgivenesssaves the expense of anger, thecost of hatred, the waste of spir­its." - Hannah More

must see itself in the world and see­the world t'hrough its mission."

"Our main worry for the futureis that people, as a consequence ofthis war. can become still moreopposed and still more hostileinstead of moving toward anagreement and a possibly univer­sal solidarity."

"All the interventions of thechurch and of myself, my ministryin this matter, arise from this prin- 'cipal concern," he said.

In his message to the WorldCouncil of Churches, an organiza­tion of Anglican.. Protestant andOrthodox churches, the pope pray­ed that "the Holy Spirit will guideour common efforts toward unityof faith."

"The present tragic situation ofour troubled world confirms onceagain humanity's need for recon­cilliation, its need for an ever moreauthentic witness to the Biblicalmessage of peace, justice and theintegrity of creation," he said.

tends to Christians in the ThirdWorld.

"In fact, I have repeatedly dis­covered a surprising and deeplyfelt sympathy for the Iraqis andtheir president among the clergyand religious of Africa, Asia andLatin America in our colleges andreligious houses in Rome," he said.

They know well that SaddamHussein is no saint but "they canidentify with a population that isimplacably bombarded by a warmachine that is incommensuratelystronger," he said.

He said many Muslims and oth­ers in the Third World think thewar is an example of Westernarrogance.

Father Michel said he thoughtthe religious factor in the Gulfwarhad been exaggerated by Westernmedia, especially in a misunder­standing of the terms "Islamicfundamentalist" and "Holy War."

He noted that many of the war'sArab protagonists -, includingSaddam Hussein - were secularleaders and not exponents ofIslamic fundamentalism.

The term "jihad," frequentlytranslated as "holy war" in theWest, has a much more general­ized meaning as a social and spir­itual struggle among Muslims, hesaid.

In his main general audiencetalk, the pope asked Catholics tomake Lent "a time of special spir­itual commmitment" because ofthe "dramatic situations" of thewar.

"Peace awaits out personal con­tribution made through prayer andpenance," he said.

This should be "a contributionexpressed through concrete recon­ciliation and through a search for

tance and must be followed" thepope told the priests.

The church also looks at the warwith the criteria suggested by theSecond Vatican Council's teach­ing that "all humanity. has thesame creator and therefore thesame redeemer," he said.

The pope told the priests thatthe council's teaching obliges thechurch to work for understandingbetween people and between reli­gions, especially the monotheistictraditions of Christianity, Juda­

.ism and Islam.. Political and economic factorsalso create divisions to the pointwhere people speak of a First,.Second, Third and even FourthWorld, he said.

"Our concern is that this warcan create even deeper splits be­tween these worlds." the pope said.

"We are concerned about thecontinuation of our conciliar visionof the world because the church

, of Kuwait by the Iraqis," he said.A division has developed between

the leaders of Arab states: whosupported the Saudi-Western mil­itary alliance, and the local popu­lations, who are inclined towardIraq, he said.

Many Muslims still view theIsraeli occupation of Palestine as"the most sharply felt injustice andoppression" in the region, he said.

V nfortunately, the priest added,these developments bode ill for thefuture of Christian-Muslim rel­ations.

"There is a frequently expressedsensation that 'The West wants todestroy Islam.' V nfortunately, thisresentment can easily be direct~d

against the Christians who live inthose regions." he said. '

Many Arabs feel that their faith,their culture and their native tradi­tions are held in contempt byWestern peoples, he s,aid.

Father Michel said that damageto Christian-M uslim relationscould be limited if Western Chris­tians could convince their govern­ments to propose an immediatecease-fire to the conflict, followedby fair negotiations and humanit-arian aid. .

Father Michel added that, in his,experience, support for Iraq ex-

VATICAN CITY (CNS) ­Denominational division has weak­ened Christianity's ability to helpprevent tragedies like the PersianGulf War, Pope John Paul II toldthe World Council of Churches attheir Feb. 7-20 general assemblymeeting in Canberra, Australia.

The war is evidence of the world'sneed for reconciliation and theGospel message of peace aQd jus­tice, his messa~e said.

But Christianity's ability to bringthose values to the world is weak­ened by its internal divisions, thepope told the ecumenical body.

The same day in a meeting withpriests from the diocese of Rome,the pope said the war threatens toincrease the social, economic, pol­itical and religious differencesamong the world's people.

"We cannot view this war withonly political criteria, althoughthe principles of international jus­tice are certainly Df great impor-

ROME (CNS) - Iraqi Presi­dent Saddam Hussein lost mostMuslim sympathy when he invadedKuwait, but won much of it backwhen non-Muslim armies wereinvited to Gulf region, says a Vati-can official. '

V.S. Jesuit Father ThomasMichel, in charge of relations withMuslims at the Council for Inter­religious Dialogue, said the failureto resolve other injustices in theMiddle East also aggravated theWestern position in the Muslimworld.

:'The Americans' refusal to dis­cuss the situation of Palestinetogether with that of Kuwaitreconfirmed in many Muslims theconviction that the Americans werethe real aggressors," Father Michelsaid in a talk in Rome Feb. 15.

The priest said that "at thebeginning of the invasion ofKuwait, the majority of Muslimswere strongly opposed to the Iraqiaction. A Muslim country shouldnot attack another Muslim coun­try. But with the Saudi Arabianinvitation to Western armies, thisattitude changed..

"Many Muslims showed moreconcern over the presence of non­Muslims in the holiest Islamic ter­ritories than over the occupation

War bodes ill for Christian-Muslim ties,says u.s. Jesuit at Vatican

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - PopeJohn Paul II pledged solidaritywith families having members fight­ing in the Persian Gulf War andasked Catholics to make lent a'time of inte'nsified prayers "to putan end to the massacre of humanlives."

"I wish to express my most sin­cere solidarity with all the familiesinvolved 'in various ways in this'very worrying contlict," the popetold 60 mothers of Italians fighting

, in the Gulf.The mothers were at a papal

general audience.The pope offered "a special wel­

come to mothers of soldiers cur­rently committed to the war in theGulf' and asked "unceasing pray­ers that God spare all humanitynew suffering and further spillingof blood."

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recently launched Braziliansatellite.

The students seem to be learn­ing something about geopolitics aswell.

"I talked to a Lithuanian guy fora long time a couple of weeks ago,"said Robert. "We talked abouthow he got his license and aboutwhat kind of radio equipment weboth have.... But he was kind ofhesitant to talk about the politicalthings that are going on over there."

"They meet some pretty inter­esting characters," said BrotherJaworski. "And they (ind out thatthey don't have it so bad here afterall."

BROTHER SIMON Jaworski with novice ham radioenthusiasts, from left, Lance Clark, John Shuping, ToddMacKenzie_, M~rian Smith, Scott Whitley. (CNS photo)

Students' world widenedvia ham radio

GREENVILLE, N.C. (CNS)­Franciscan Brother Simon Jaw­orski's students have heard the"wooshing sound" of the planetJupiter's radio signal, talked tokids in Russia abou~ the price ofgas in Kiev and can identify Sovietislands in the Arctic Circle.

Not bad for seventh- and eighth­graders at Sf. Peter's School inGreenville, where Brother Jaworskibegan teaching science three yearsago.

"I could have put all this radioequipment in my room in thefriary," said Brother Jaworski, alifelong ham radio operator. "ButI put it here in the lab, and it beganto spark and generate the kids'interest."

In the mornings Brother Jaw­orski said he'''would putthe newson from Austria around 8 a.m.Then at 8:30 a.m. I'd switch andthey'd listen to Belgium.... We'dalso listen to the space shuttlecommunications; the kids likedthat. They kept telling me to 'bequiet because they wanted to listen.Usually it's the other way around."

A group of students were inter­ested enough to start a radio clubat the school, and a few studentsbegan studying for their noviceham radio licenses from the Fed­eral Communicatioljs Commission.

"To ·get a license we have tolearn stuff like radio theory and beable to do (M orse) code at fivewords per minute," said eighth­grader and novice licensee RobertShaw.

Fellow eighth-grader JohnShuping, who also has his novicelicense, said, "My most interestingQSO (ham jargon for a contact)was a guy named Gary who workedfor the U.S. Embassy in Oman. Hesent me a picture of two camels. Ialso talked to a guy from Togo inAfric'a;he sent me stamps 'from'there-and from Senegal."

Brother Jaworski, who countsKing Hussein ofJordan and Sovietcosmonaut Yuri Gregarin amonghis most memorable QSOs as ayoungster, said 'these· experiences"let the kids know that the world isbigger than their perception of it,and that's nice.....

"How many kids know whereGuernsey Island is?" he added .."These kids know because theY'vespoken to it."

Brother' Jaworski said his stu­dents have carried' on conversa­tions with students in NorthernIreland and, recently, with a manin Estonia. They have also pre­pared a peace message from St.Peter's School which will bebroadcast worldwide over a

FATHER David Knight"will will conduct the retreat"Lay Spirituality: Allow theGospels to Come Alive"March 8 through 10 atLaSalette Center f~r Chris-'tian Living, Attleboro.

Author of the booksCloud by Day. Fire byNight. on religious vows,and His Way. about spirit­ual growth for the laity, he.is an internationally recog­nized authority on religiouslife and on spirituality ofthe laity. .

Currently he is pastor ofSacred Heart Church, Mem­phis, Tenn., and spiritualdirector of the Cursillomovement in the Mem­phis dioces~. Information:222-8530.

Catholic collegiansto discuss AIDS,

rising tuition costsWASHINGTON (CNS) - The

lack of AIDS education and thecultural diversity on many Catholiccollege campuses are topics theNational Association of Studentsat Catholic Colleges and Universi­ties will focus on in the comingyear.

While other national studentorganizations may be studying thesame topics, Catholic schools havea different approach because ofchurch teachings, said KristiKerscher, organization presidentand a senior at the Marianist-runUniversity of Dayton.

For instance, she said, althoughCatholic colleges want to protectpeople against AI DS, condomvending machines, common at stateuniversities, cannot be condonedon Catholic campuses.

NASCC, organized in 1989, triesto bring students from the nation's225 Catholic colleges together todiscuss these and many other issueswith a Catholic focus.

Statistics on how many studentsat Catholic colleges have AIDSare unavailable, but Ms. Kerschersaid she is concerned because someCatholic colleges are not provid­ing AIDS education to students.

Many Catholic colleges lackcultural diversity, said Ms.Kerscher, and NASCC is concernedthat rising costs are excluding manyCatholics.

The group held a ~ational meet­ing in February at the Universityof Dayton. Among topics ad­dressed, iri addition to AIDS andtuition costs were recognition ofCatholic student groups thatoppose some church teachings andrequiring Catholic college studentsto volunteer time for worthwhileprojects, ,Ms. Kerscher said.

"What was it today?" I asked,~'radish hors d'oeuvres and two­for-one onion sets?"

To make it worse, Bogmire hum­ors and flatters his patrons. Helistens to their gardening stories-and even displays their produce.

If you can believe this, Boginirehas this 40-foot pumpkin vinedraped across tile el}tire ~eiling ofhis plant (o,od sec~ion '7grown by,guess who. " '

"I can't believe you guys let thatold, nitrate pirate pllll the woolover your eyes, making you thinkyou ,are al) r,egular..Olympic freestyle farmers or somethi~g:'I said., "You are,still jealous ,of Andy,aren't you," spouse smirked.

"Andy?"'''Yeah; you know, Andy Devine.

Get it? Andy, the vine," J:1e crackled.No' one should' enjoy their ownjokt:s so much, But it was under­standable. The man' had Clearlybeen bellied up to the bug spraydisplay again, ' ,

Love Remains"If I cannot work or rise from mychair or my bed, love remains tome; I can pray."-Father Congreve

Then Nickjoined them, anothersurprise. He had been very over­weight in high school; the butt ofmany jokes. Later the Army hadshaped him up and he had remainedslim and trim, though many of hisclassmates hadn't.

Later Harry, the chairman ofthe reunion, told a classmate,"There were 54 guys in our class.Four committed suicide."

One of these was Tom, who wasrejected by the Army for reasonsof health. He wanted so badly togo off to war with his high schoolbuddies, but could not. He broodedover this and began drinking. Thedrinking led to jail several times.Finally he killed himself.

At a banquet Saturday eveni'lione old man, in a very private con­versation, confessed to another,"This may be heresy, but I don'tthink our high school was verygood scholastically."

The other man said, "Perhaps.But it gave me a strong sense ofresponsibility to our community. Ithink the priests had a very deepinfluence for good on my life."

One of the former studentsgloomily refused to come. He toldthe chairman bluntly, 'Tmjust notinterested in anything about theschool or anything you guys do.Include me out." Noone knew'why he felt that way.

But on a much more cheerfulnote, another man commented atdinner, "Life has never seemed sointeresting and exciting to me as itdoes now. The world is changingso fast and there are so manywonderful developments in ourcountry and our church. I justthink it's a great time to be alive,"

He had, you might say, main­tained a very youthful spirit.

By Hilda YoungMy husband a'rrived a little later

than usual last evening, I suspectedsomething immediately. The sheep-,ish look: The way he avoided eyecontact. The way he hung u'p hiscoat and quickly started for thebedroom'to change from his' workclothes. '

"H ow: 'bout a kiss hello?" Icoaxed without smiling.

He knew I wanted to make anodor check. He rolled his eyes."OK, OK,!' he 'shrugged, "So Istopped by Kelly's, but it was justfor a minute."

The slightly pungent aromaconfirmed it: It' had 'been'Kelly'sGarden Sh'op arid Nursery, allright. Fragranc'e o(Faraway Farm.Essence of Sh~ej> Dip; '''Not Kel~

ly's;"1 grimaced. "That place is theworst."

"Yeah, it is a little seeqy," hegrinned, Even the nian~spuns·atepungent.

Kelly's owner, Bogmire Kelly,has no conscience. To prey on dirtfreaks like my' husband, he pur­chased a bright yellow reader'boardthat calls' out daily "happy hour"speciais to passing motorists.

Up to no good

By Tom LennonLast fall a group of old men

gathered one weekend at a moteiin a Midwestern city. They cameto celebrate the 50th anniversaryof their graduation from an all­boys' high school.

Old friendships were renewed,and they rem~mbere~ what it waslike to be a teenager on the eve ofWorld War II. They talked of howthe world had changed' and ofwhat their lives had been like. Andoccasionally they revealed somesurprising aspects of their lives asteenagers, aspects that might in­trigue you.

Jerry found himself alone at onepoint with two of his former class­mates. He told them, "You know Ivery nearly didn't come. You see, Inever really felt that I belonged atour high school. I was poor thenand came from a poor section oftown. In all those four years' I,never felt at home with you guys.Not once."

Pete couldn't believe these words."Jerry," he said, "1 always enviedyou. I always thought you were soin control, and you played basket­ball so well and - I can hardlybelieve this."

By theen(fOi the reunion earlySunday afternoon, Jerry felt veryglad that he had come - and thatat last he belonged to'his class.

Paul got a big surprise on Sat~urday. He had lunch with Bill, andas ,they sipped coffee Bill said,"You know, I always felt so threa­tened by you."

Paul gasped. "Mer Bill, you hadthe girl I wanted. You were the

,editor of the school paper. You gotthe good grades. You were every­thing I wanted to be!" Both menlaughed heartily'.

Sung by Poison. Written byB. Dell, C.c. Deville, B. Mich­aels,R. Rockett (c) 1990 byEnigma/ Capitol Records.

WHAT DO YOU believe in?When life is difficult and youhardly feel like going on, whatpulls you through?

How we answer these ques­tions makes a significant differ­ence in our lives.

For the individual in Poison's"Something to Believe In," thesequestions lead only to a haunt­ing emptiness. The song des­cribes some of the pain he hasseen: the terror of war in Viet­nam, the death of a close friendplus the tragic lives of thehomeless.

He wonders why those whohave so much seem to care solittle. He wonders if God willhear his desperate plea for"something to believe in."

.- encourage ~~~h' of us toexamine how we think aboutourselves. Do you show faith inyour ability to learn more aboutyour innate interests and talents?Do you refuse to put yourselfdown when you make mistakes,showing faith in how you cangrow from the experiences? Doyou practice healthy self-esteemby appreciating the many thingsyou do well?

I tOink our lJod would re­spond to the person in the songwith this encouragement: "Myson, you are made from theforever goodness of myself. Iunderstand why you hurt and

'how your world hurts. Yet, whenI called you into life, I gave youeverything that you need inorder to discover joy and pur­pose. I stand with you as asource of strength and healing.Rise above despair and go forthto believe in yourself. Whereveryou go bring light, bring love."

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

By Charlie Martin

SCIENCE FAIR winners at,St. Anne School, Fall River,are, 'top from left, eighth' graders .Jeffrey Wagner, KevinMedeiros, Lori Pedro, Marci,a Lima; center, fiftn graders Jen­nifer Camara, Talia Resendes, Lauren Cunha, Patrick Mau­retti, Matthew Souza, Andrew Medeiros, Todd Sampson.Bottom: fourth grade winners Joshua DioQne, Leslie Drum­mond, Lisa Miranda, Andrea Teves, Jonathan Sull~van,

Sophia Teves, KerryBeth Leatherwood, Kelly Medeiros.

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE INWeill see him on the TVPreaching about the promised landsHe tells me to believe in JesusSteal the money from my handsSome say he was a good manLord, 1 think he sinnedTwenty-two years Qf mental tearsCries of suicidal Vietnam daysHe fought a losing war on a four-inch shoreTo find his country didn't want him backBooze took his best friends in SaigonI know it took his wife, his kids, no regretsIn a time 1 don't rememberAnd a war he can't forgetHe cried, "Forgive me for what I've done there'Cause 1 never meant the things 1 did"And give me something to believe inIf there's a Lord aboveGive me something to believe ino Lord almightyMy best friend died a lonely man.In some Palm Springs hotel roomGot the call last Christmas EveAnd they told me the newsI tried all night not to break down and cryAs the tears rolled down my faceI felt so cold and emptyLike a lost soul out of placeAnd will the mirror, mirror on the wallSee my smiling face againSometimes I wish to God I didn't know nowThe things 1 didn't know thenLord, I gotta tell youI drive by the homelessSleeping on a cold, dark streetLike bodies in an old bone graveUnderneath the old broken neon signThat used to read "Jesus Saves"A mile away live the rich folkAnd I see how they're Iivin' it upWhile the poor they eat from hand to mouthThe rich are drinkin' from the golden cupAnd it makes me wonderWhy so many lose and so few win

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Dubreuil, Kevin Comeau, MarkNogueira.

Grade 7: Jeremy Corriveau,Danielle Desrosiers, Tanya Duc~

los, Darryl Diosomito.Grade 6: Jessica Romeo, Am­

anda O'Gara, Erin Flynn, Iris'Furtado.

Grade'5: Matthew Valero, Gary,Ouellette, Albert DUbreil, Chris­topher Boutin. ~

Grade4: Alison Hubert, GeorgeBotelho; Daniel Diosomito, KyleNeto.

Grade 3: Beth Canuel, Jessica,Nadeau, Justin Masse, J illianMailloux.

Kindergarten through grade 2:Patrick O'Gara, Matthew Renaud,Amy Boucher, Amy Canuel.

Beauty"The best and most beautiful

things in the world cannot be seenor even touched; they must be feltwith the heart."--Helen Keller

and and Bill O'Brien had 21 and 22points respectively.

. S'elected 'for the All-Tournamentteam were Willis, Goodine, Bach­and,' O'Brien, and Fall, River's

, Levtault and Richie Ewens'. ..,' .. O~fe.~. 25"the F.allRiver Prep

All-Star team took on their Taun­ton counterparts at Taunton Catho­lic Middle School. Taunton took

'an'earl)'lead, b:ut by h'alf"time FallRiver led 39-37: In the second half,Taunton again went"out in front,but Fall River rallied to pr~vailwith a 'final score of 75-68: MikeCioe of Fall River le'd all scorerswith 31 'points, while Taunton's

, Dave Duarte scored 21.'Chosen fanhe AIl-Tournament

, team were Fall River's Cioe, RayArakelow, and Scott Medeiros andTaunton's Duarte, A.J. Viera andMatt Hammond.

In'another tourname~t game,the New Bedford Se'niors defeatedthe Fall River squad Feb. 24.

195 students 'in kindergartenthrough grade 8 at Notre DameSchool, Fall River, displayed pro­jects for the school's recent sciencefair. Trophies went to first placewinners in grades 6 through 8, andrunners-up received ribbons. Thefive top winners in grades 7 anq 8are eligible for a March 8 through'10 regional science fair at BristolCommunity College.

Awards for kindergarten throughgrade 5 were gold medals for firstplace, silver medals for second,bronze medals for third and a rib­bon for fourth,

Winners, listed in order of fiistthrough fourth place:

Grade,8: Janet Dion, Melissa

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T()urney results posted forCY0 basketball

NOTRE DAME SCHOOL first-place science fair winnersare, seated, from left, Jeremy Corriveau, Patrick O'Gara, Mat­thew Valero, and standing, from left, Alison Hubert, BethCanuel, Janet Dion and Jessica Romeo.

On,Feb. 24 the Diocesan JuniorBoys' CYO All-Star tournamentwas held at the Fall R,iver CYO.New ,Bedford emerg~d 'as' ,thechampion of tile three-game tourna-'ment.,' , ';

In game f"Taunto'i1 vs: 'Attle'~

boro, Taunton rallied after a half­time defl<;it 'o[JO pO,ints towirinovertime, :67-51:., Jonn:T.r,acy>ofTaunton scored 21 points and team7mate J.oe BacJ:tand contJ.ibutedI5~Mike' Amaral led the Attleboroteam withP P9ints. ' ,: I'n game i" FflWR'iver vs. NewBedford, New .Bedford took anearly 20 point lead .. but Fall Rive'rrallied to make the halHime score35-34 in their favor. A 64~64 tie 'atgame's end forc~d overti~epiayinwhich New Bedford prevailed 73­71. .]0' Jo Goodine and MarcusWillis led the'New Bedford squadwith 26 and 24 points respectively,while Allen Levrault led the FallRiver players with 31 points. .

Taunton and New Bedford squar­ed off in the championship game,in which New Bedford prevailed70-64 with Goodine and Willisagain top scorers with 29 and 26points respectively. Taunton's Bach-

To head SLJohn's,':' COLLEGEVILLE;;M:irin.{CNS):- Benedictine Brother DietrichReinhart, 41; de'~ii: of the' Collegeof Arts a'nd Scie'rices at St. John'sUniversity in Collegeville, has been 'na,med the II tt(pres:ident of theuniversity. He holds master's anddoctoral degrees in·; 6istory fromBrown University. '

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mini-massager for the ,overstressed.Mrs. Jeanne Menqes, the mid­

dle school science teacher whoorganized the event, commented,"As we prepare to meet the chal­lenges of our complex world, thesebright and creative ideas are ourfuture and will be a preciousresource in years to come."

Winners, listed in order of-firstto third place, are: Grade 6, JessicaDecicco, "Braille Some Clothes";Aaron McNamee" "HandicapHelper"; and (tie) Timothy Frates,"Helping Hand" and Jessica Des­rosiers, "Mail Carrier."

Grade 4: Steven Azar, "Emer­gency Air Bags"; (tie) Kristen Ber­geron "Seatbelt for Dogs" andJimmy Fereira, "Two-sided Tooth­paste Tube"; and David Stevens,"M ustard and Ketchup Dispenser."

Grade 2: Christine Jasinski,"Musical Pillow"; K'imberly Lau­zon, "Mini-Massager"; Curtis Gel­inas, "Super Grabber."

Winners in an eighth gradescience fair held Feb. 14 are GrantMenard, "Herbs - Uses and Pur­poses"; (tie) Allison Eaton, "HowNoise Affects Your Ears',' andAmanda Thompson,' "UFOs andthe Search for the Extra-Terr­estrial"; (tie) Brian Leclair, "Lay­ers ofthe Earth"; and Tracet Petit­jean, "Your Memory."

Holy Name SchoolHoly Name School, Fall River,

recently held a science fair forgrades 7 and 8 under direction ofteacher Denise D. Gagne, Teachersand volunteer profes'sionals werejudges. ,

Fair projects topics includeddensity, agronomy,· electricity,waves and momentUlp.

Grand prize winner~ were eighthgrader Kristen Librera for a pro­ject on conductors and seventhgrader Jason Andrade for a pro-ject on insulation. '

First place winners were ErinSmith, grade 7; Patricia Rego, 8;and Jessica DUnllld,? ,

Second place: Martha Morin,Kristen -Lenaghan, Sam Jonsson;Eric Levesque and Carley Ami­gone, 8; Jennifer Marques, 7.,'Third place: Keelin Stanton,

Erica Sousa, Jonathan Charest, 7;Ryan Kitchen, 8.

Grand, first and second prizewinners will represent the schoolat a RegionaL III science fair atBristol Community College March8,through10. '.

OpenG()(i'~ Ear, "If you pray,: fast; if you fast,

,show mercy; if you Wlj.nt your,peti­tion to be heard, hear the petitionsof others. If you do not close yourears to others, you open God's earto yourself." - St. Peter Chry­sologus

St. Mary's School

Bishop Feehan

This year students in grades 2, 4'and 6 at St. Mary's School, NewBedford, participated for the firsttime in a nationwide Invent Amer­ica creative thinking program.Students' inventions ranged fromemergency air bags for buses to a

On the second quarter honorroll for Bishop Feehan HighSchool, Attleboro, are freshmenreceiving highest honors VanessaCesarz, Amy Dwyer, Holly Groch­mal, Michael Larocque and LeighO'Mara. 29 freshmen achieved highhonors and 15 achieved honors.

Highest honors went'to sopho­mores Dana Alexander, Timothy'Famulare, Erinn Hoagg and Nita,Patel. 19 sophomores received highhonors and 14 achieved honors.

JunIors receiving highest honorswere Ami Dubois, Elaine Dwyer,Lisa Rowe and Michelle Yurof. 29juniors merited high honors ,and17 achieved honors., Seniors ~chieving,highesthonorswere Keith Collins, Glen Gaebe,Eric Hopkins and Col,leen Keough;also Tara Klemanchuck, Rita Long,Michele Peluso and KimberlySorel.

The high .tlOnor roll included 34seniors anq the honor roll 22seniors. '

Members o( the Bishop Feehancommunity will sponsor Feehan's6th an~,ual First Night with a,vareiety, ofentertainment offerings 5:30p.m. to midnight March 9 in theschool's ,auditorium! cafeteriabuilding. '

Its defeat of Durfee 8-3 on Feb.16 earned the C9nnolly hockeyteam the Fall River city cham­pionship, allowing the Cougars toretain possession of Fall RiverChallenge Cup. The victory alsoearned Connolly a to,urney berth,with play beginning Feb. 26 at theBourne Rink against AbingtonHigh School.

cans in the cafeteria, and we sawall the paper used around here asanother large amount of wastethat could'be eliminated or at leastreduced."

The students said they receive asmall amount of money for thepaper, "but the real point to theproject is to make everybody moreaware of the environment and tomake our own contribution tosolving the problem."

Collection boxes have beenplaced in classrooms and offices,and in the two months since theproject began, "we've had threepick-ups totalling over 600 gallonsof paper waste," said the students.

* * * *Parents of Connolly juniors and

seniors are invited to attend one oftwo conferences on the collegeapplication process to be given at7:30 p.m. March 4 and 6 at theschool.

Connolly art director CharlesDwyer will present an exhibit ofhis works March 8 through 20 inthe school's main office foyer. '

The exhibit will open with areception for the Connolly com­munity and the public at 3 p.m.March 8 and will be open duringschool hours (7:30 a.m. to 4:30p.m. weekdays) thereafter.

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Seniors Lynn Asato, ErinHayden', Nicole Houdelette, VinceJornales and Greg Vrona havebeen nominated to attend theMassachusetts Advanced StudiesProgram, six-week summer sessionto be held at Milton Academy.

Ap'plicants must select one con­centration course and one writingcourse from science, math andhumanities offerings.

Seniors Erin Hoye arid AllisonConnell represented Stang at theState House in Boston as part ofthe Celebration of Girls & Womenin Sports Day, Feb. I.-. Miss Hoye, who ranks in the top10 of the senior class, is a partici­pant in field' hockey, basketballand tennis .. Miss Connell is an all­state field hockey player.

Both receiVed certificates inrecognition of 'their accomplish­ments.

After having to cancel Decembertrips due to lack of snow,'the SkiClub made its first trip of the sea~

son in January to' Mt. S'now. InFebruary they trekked to Cana­da's Mt. Orford. Also planned are'a first-ever freshman ski weekendto Smuggler's Notch anda Marchouting to North Conway. "

:Bishop Stang ,Students Against Drunk Driv­

ing and .the Governor's AllianceAgainst Drugs program at BishopStang High School, North Dart­mouth, will sponsor an in-schoolAdolescent Awareness day explor­ing issues of importance to youngpeople on March 5,

The program will begin with anaddress by Bristol County DistrictAttorney Paul Walsh, after whichstudents will attend three 30-minutepresentations of their choice ontopics including depression, AI DS,grief, date rape, eating disorders,sexuality, the law and the highschool' student, and addictivedisorders,

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New facilities forStonehill College

Stonehill College plans con­struction of two new facilities onits North Easton campus.

A new dining hall and studentactivities centerwill be constructedon the east side of the campuswhere most student residences arelocated. The building will serveapproximately 1,600 resident stu­dents and offer dining and socialopportunities for commuterstudents.

The facility will house aJounge,student government offices, meet­ing rooms, a game room and studyareas.

Also planned is a new residencehall to be located south of the newdining hall. It will accommodate128 students in 64 double rooms aswell as a staff member living in aone-bedroom apartment.

Bishop ConnollyThe Bishop Connolly student

government has successfullylaunched a paper recycling effortat the Fall River school.

Senior class officers Jodie'Medeiros, Eric Stubbert and ChrisCondon suggested the idea severalmonths ago, then found a com­pany that would accept the paper.

Stubbert and Medeiros explain­ed, "We have been saving soda

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THE 1991 DIOCESAN DIRECTORY

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSETWomen's Guild and Holy Name

Society joint communion breakfastfollowing 9:45 a.m. Mass, parishcenter. Speaker will be Mary-LouMancini. Holy Rosary Sodalitymeeting 7:30 p.m. March 12, rectorymeeting room. Women's Guildmonthly; meeting following 7 p.m.Mass March 13; program: "Modera­tor's Night."

MULTIPLE SCLEROSISSOCIETY

Mass. Chapter of National Mul­tiple Sclerosis Society Family Dis­covery Weekend for families affectedby MS April 26 to 28. Registrationdeadline March 15. Information:(617) 890-4990.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLEYouth ministry ski trip meeting

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, R.E. center.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTERStations of cross prepared by reli­

gious education teachers 7 tonight.Food pantry Harvest Sunday March3. Parish mission March II to 13with Father Normand Theroux, MS.Conferences at II a.m. and special 7p.m. Masses to focus on reconcilia­tion and peace.ST. ELIZABETH SETON,FALMOUTH

First Saturday rosary 9 a.m. Youthgroup meeting 5 p.m. Sunday; stu­dents will collect items for FatherEmil Cook's orphanage in Hondu­ras (Anchor, mail packet Feb. 8).Lenten programs: parish mission,week of Mar. 10; Father Robert Oli­veira will conduct daily sessions at 9a.m.; repeated to 7 p.m. Stations ofthe cross 3:30 p.m. Fridays, followedby confession. Church open forprayer 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.Group discussion of Gospel of Mat-

, thew9:30a.m. Wednesdays; repeated7 p.m. Sundays.

O.L. CHAPEL, NBSisters' day ~f recollection with

Father Hilary Scott, OFM, Mar. 9;conferences at 10:.30 a.m. and 2 p.m.followed by confession. Topic: Lent.ST,JOSEPH, TAUNTON

Lenten vespers 3 p.m. Sundaywith reflection by Sister Beth Mah­oney on parish Lenten theme "Toact justly... to love tenderly...and towalk humbly with our God."LaSALETTE SHRINE,ATTLEBORO

Communal celebration of recon­ciliation 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays dur­ing Lent, People's Chapel. Oppor­tunity for individual reconciliationprovided. Lenten Mission: "A Pil­grim's Road to'Reconciliation" withRev. Roger Chauvette, MS. March2 through 6 with Masses 6:30 p.m.tomorrow, 12:10 p'.m. Sunday, andat btth times on remaining days.Healing service with Rev'. AndrePatenaude 2 p.t,TI. Sunday, People'sChapel. Information: 222-5410.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE-Altar boy training session 7:30

p.m. Tuesday;,parents should attend.'Preschool classes during 10 a.m.'Mass.Sundays March 3 through 24.Eucharistic adoration 9 a.m. todaythrough 8 a.m. tomorrow.

RESPITE PROGRAM, MASHPEEVolunteers will be trained to stay

with an elderly person for shortperiods of time. Training begins 10a.m. to I p.m.' March 23, Mashpeesenior center; information: Lynne

,Waterman, 477-2773.

, '.'O.L. FATIMA, SWANSE~Altar boys' outing to PC basket­

ball game leaving church 7 p.m.tomorrow. Lenten schedule: dailyMass 8 a.m. (9 a.m. Sat.) precededby rosary and stations of cross.Respect Life hour of prayer 12:30 toI:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Church openfor prayer 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tues-days and Thursdays. Penance 4:30p.m. Saturdays. 'VINCENTIANS

Attleboro District meeting 7 p.m.Monday, St. Mary's parish, Mans­field. Taunton District Councilmonthly Mass and meeting 7 p.m.Monday, St. Peter's Church,Dighton. FR District Mass andmeeting 7 p.m. Wednesday, St.,Patrick's parish, FR.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVENCollection of nonperishable food

items for NB Market Ministries con­tinues. Clothing is no longeraccepted.

EMMAUS/GALILEEGalilee monthly reunion 7 to 10

, p.m. March 10, CathedraJ'Camp, E.Freetown. Theme: Jesus and theCross. Emmaus 88 April 19'to 21;application deadline ApriI:5.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FRCYO Lent,en Mass6 p.m. March6

followed by business meeting; allparishioners invited to 7 p.m. pro­gram at which speaker will discussher World War II experiences inarmed forces. Vincentians meet 7p.m. March 7, rectory.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE,SWANSEA

Parish mission with Father BobMorin, OM I, March 9 through 14.Conferences at weekend Masses andat 9 a. m. and 7 p. m. remaining days. '

ST. LUKE HOSPITAL, NB 'Hospice training program for per­

sons wishing to assist terminally illpatients and their families will beginin mid-March. Information: EdieVaughan, Hospice Volunteer direc­tor, 997-1515, ext. 2737

Sr., MARY, N, ATTLEBOROMass and healing service 2:30 p. m.

Sunday. "Quiet Day" at Grace Epis­copal Church 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.March 16; Sister Catherine Louiseof the Society of St. Margaret willspeak on prayer, listening and keep­ing a holy Lent. Child care provided.

CATHEDRAL CAM'P,E. FREETOWN

St. Thomas More, Somerset, 10thgrade retreat 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. tomor­row. Diocesan priests' Lenten day ofreflection March 5. Espirito Santo,FR, youth retreat 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.Sunday.ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT

The Union Saint Jean BaptisteFamily Chorale will present the SevenLast Words of Christ 7:30 p.m.March 12, church: The presentation,led by Helen-Anne Priske, will beaccompanied by a homily by FatherRoger D. LeDuc. Lenten Holy hour7 tonight. Youth Mass 9:30 a.m.Sunday. Youth ministry boardmeeting 7 p.m. Sunday, center. BibleStudy 7 p.m. Sunday, center.

WLNEEMERGENCYFOODDRIVE

WLNE 6 is holding an emergencyfood drive throughout March toreplenish Southeastern New Englandfood banks. Items may be left at sta­tion, 430 County St., NB

K of C, RAYNHAMSt. Ann's Church, Raynham,

Knights of Columbus will sponsor afive-mile road race to benefit apar­ish scholarship fund beginning at Ip.m. March 10 at the church on Rt.104. North Main St. Awards will begiven to first male and female fin­ishers, top three runners in each ofsix age groups, and oldest andyouJ:lgest finishers. Open to allrunners, joggers and walkers.Information: Kevin Ellis, 823~6354.

GULF WAR FAMILYSUPPORT GROUP

First meeting of support group forfamilies of persons serving in Opera­tion Desert Storm 7· to 8:30 p.m.'March 15, Family,Center for Coun­seling and' Education, 93 Washing­ton St. (across from Morton' Hospi­tal), Taunton.

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTONKolbe 'Men's Guild afternoon of

recollection for all parish men withFather James Edward McCurry,

'OFM'Conv., I I:30a.m. t04:30 p.m.,March 10. Theme: Compassion.

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N.ATTLEBOROWomen's Guild food pantry

monthly collection this weekend;items may be left at Church St.entrance. Cpu pies of all ages areinvited to attend "Managing Mqd­ern Marriage" 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.,March 18, church hall. Information:Mary Ellen Smith, 695-6066: Liturgycommittee meeting 7:30 p.m. Tues­day, meeting room.

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ST. MARY, SEEKONKNames of parishioners, relatives

or neighbors serving in Persian Gulfrequested for list to be placed ataltar. Grade 4 class Mass 10 a.m.Sunday. Beta training session forassisting mentally retarded adultsfour hours a month begins March 6;information: Mary Handanyan orPam Bliss, 222-70 II.WIDOWED SUPPORT

Attleboro area widowed supportgroup will meet 7 tonight, St. Mary'sparish center, N. Attleboro. Masswill be offered by Father WilliamBabbitt.HOLY ROSARY, FR

Women's Guild monthly meeting7:30 p.m. March 4, church hall. fol­lowed 'by a Chinese auction chairedby Josephine Houghton and Kat­hleen Campeau. Recitation of rosary6:40 a.m. before weekday Masses.

ST. ANTHONY,MATTAPOISETT

Parish Lenten retreat directed byFather Bob Charlton, SS.Ce., March4 through 7; sessions at 7 p.m. withpenance service Thursday includingopportunity for individual confes­sion. "Poor Man's Supper" follow­ing 4:30 p.m. Mass tomorrow; mealwill consist of soup, bread and applesprovided by each family attending.Nonperishable items will be acceptedfor Vincentian food pantry.

NOTRE DAME de LOURDES,FR

Evening of recollection with read­ings, music and quiet reflection timebeginning with 7 p.m. Mass MarchII. Coffee. powdered tea and fruitdrink mixes are being collected forsoup kitchen.

YES RETREATThe Diocesan Office for Catholic

Youth Ministry will sponsor a retreatexperience for high school juniors,and seniors March 22 to 24, Cathed­ral Camp, E. Freetown. Informa­tion: 763-3137.

,City

ST. THERESA,S. ATTLEBOROParish retreat with Rev. Bernard

G. Dupont, OP, March 10 through14; conferences 7 p. m. each evening;Mass and conferences 9 a.m. Mon­day through Thursday.

ST, STANISLAUS, FRHoly Rosary Sodality meeting I: 15

p.m. Sunday, school.

SECULAR FRANCISCANSSt. Francis of Peace pr.efraternity

of West Harwich will meet 2 p.m.March 10, Holy Trinity Church, W.Harwich. Pastor Father GabrielHealy, SS.Ce., will celebrate Massand speak on "Gospel to Life."Information: Dorothy Williams,394-4094.CATHEDRAL, FR

Father Richard Pitre, SJ, willspeak on Lenten practices and cus­toms following'6 p.m. Lenten mealMarch 8. Stations of the cross andBenediction 3 p.m. Fridays duringLent. Confessions 3:15 p.m. Satur­day or by appointment.BREAD OF LIFE PRAYERCOMMUNITY, FR

Charismatic prayer meeting 7:30p.m. Fridays, Blessed SacramentChurch, FR. Meeting concludes withMass. Inclement weather cancella­tions announced on local radio sta­tions between 5 and 6 p.m. Fridays.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSETCCD students will initiate Food

Basket Sunday program on March3. The program will continue oneach first Sunday with collection offood and paper items to be distrib­uted by CCD youth and Vincen­

I tians. Guidelines: nonperishable,completely sealed, nonexpired items.Parishioners aware of persons inneed may contact Father Brian Har­rington or Vincentian Frank Don­ahue, 674-7589. Inquires confiden­tial. Scripture study of First andSecond Corinthians and Epistle toPhilippians 7 to 9 p.m. March 5; ledby Sister Dorothy Schwarz, SSD.

ST.STEPHEN,~TTLEBORO

Lenten reflection program 7 p.m.Mar. 4, II, 18; theme: Holy Week.Recipes for youth group may be leftin box at rear of church by Sunday.Youth group meeting 7 p.m. Sun­day, rectory hall.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of 'Fall River:....:...Fri:; Mar. ·1·,"1991···t~:~~I~CISXAVIER, r f • ,

Grades 2 'through 5 penance Ser­vice 10 a.m. tomorrow. Parish BoyScouts will conduct a can and bottledrive 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. March 10,parish center. World Day of Prayerobservance 7 tonight, SalvationArmy, North St.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAMYouth Choir practice 4 to 5:30

p.m. Sunday, conference room;adults needed to assist.HOLY NAME, NB

Women's Guild meeting 7 p.m.March II, parish center; theme: "IrishMagic, Irish Music."

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ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEAAltar boy ski trip meeting 9 a.m.

tomorrow; trip is planned for March, 8 to 10. Information: 252-9478. First

penance 2 p.m. Sunday; workshop9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Father RobertOliveira will present "Thorns andRoses: Reflections and Prayer onthe Stations of the Cross" 7:30 to8:30 tonight. Youth ministry foodbag Sunday March 10. Teen/parentnight 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. March 5 forgrade 7 and March 6 for grade 8.

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