LastSaturday'swell-attendedevent keyedonhopeandcourage. ~ Diocese's 111 parisheswill KEYNOTESPEAKERHelen Alvan~ commentstoBishopSeanO'Malleyduringherpresenta- tionatthePro-LifeConventionatBishopConnollyHighSchoollastweekend.ToherrightisFather VOL.43, NO.18 • Friday,April30,1999 FALL RIVER, MASS. SoutheasternMassachusetts'LargestWeekly•$14PerYear begintocanvas. THEAWARD- andtheman,DaveJolivet. StephenA.Fernandes,directorofthediocesanPro-LifeOffice. (AnchodGordon photo) By MIKEGORDON " ~
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t eanc 0 FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS VOL. 43, NO. 18 • Friday, April 30, 1999 FALL RIVER, MASS. Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly • $14 Per Year KEYNOTE SPEAKER Helen comments to Bishop Sean O'Malley during her presenta- tion at the Pro-Life Convention at Bishop Connolly High School last weekend. To her right is Father Stephen A. Fernandes, director of the diocesan Pro-Life Office. (AnchodGordon photo) vancing culture of death forwarded by the "slippery slope" of partial-birth abortions. "Our society is terribly flawed and we need to affIrm the sanctity of human life ... the life God gave us when we were born and the life he gave us when we were baptized," said the bishop. ''The most pow- erful weapon is love... it's stronger than death ... pierces the heart of an enemy and transforms that enemy into a brother or sister." Part of the day found winners of the annual Pro-Life Es- say Contest reading their sub- missions. They were awarded a certifIcate and U.S. Savings Bond by the bishop. The con- test is sponsored by the Dioc- esan Pro-Life Office and the theme of the essays was "Un- til No More Children Die and No More Women Cry:' Director of the Pro-Life Office, Father Stephen A. Fernandes, praised the work of the students. "These essays show us how wise our children are. They want to make abor- tion unthinkable," he said. Winners included Kaitlyn Mello, first place, grades six through eight, from Our Lady of Fatima Parish, New Bed- ford, and Amanda Grazioli, second place, Holy Cross Par- ish, South Easton. For grades nine through 12, Melanie Williams, a sophomore from Bishop Stang High School, captured first place and senior Joel Maxwell, also from Stang, placed second. A second speaker for the convention was Canadian Mark Pickup who lives with chronic progressive multiple Tum to page 13 - Life an incredible Catholic." The convention began with a Mass in thanksgiving for the gift of human life. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley OFM, Cap., was principal celebrant and homilist. After attend- ing Mass in the school's auditorium the attendees began a day fIlled with a flood of speakers who focused on the sanctity of human life. , In his homily Bishop O'Malley addressed the recent school-shooting tragedy in Littleton, Colo.! and the ad- Last Saturday's well-attended event keyed on hope and courage. Convention celebrated all stages of life By MIKE GORDON ANcHOR STAFF FALL RNER - Internationally-known pro-life offi- cial and speaker. Helen M. Alvare, encouraged several hundred attendees at the Fall River Diocesan Pro-Life Con- vention last Saturday to "stick out" with their beliefs and "re- member that our bodies and minds are the instruments through which the Gospel of Life will be spoken." In a powerful presentation which focused on a recent statement from the U.S. Catho- lic Bishops entitled "Living the Gospel of Life: A Chal- lenge to American Catholics," she urged her audience to "tri- umph over the despair you see and carryon in prayer and love for the Gospel of Life." Alvare, director of plan- ning and information services in the secretariat for Pro-Life Activities at the National Con- ference of Catholic Bishops' Headquarters in Washington, D.C., said the conference, held at Bishop Connolly High School, was her last speaking engagement before taking time off for the birth of a child. ''The bishops' statement re- minds us that we have basic goodness," she asserted. "It calls on American Catholics to be leaders and we must fIght for all people. You must put your faith and fact at the heart of your public service and be Anchor's production manager is also an newsman Dave Jolivet can wear many hats with ease. By JAMES N. DUNBAR FALL RIVER - Today's Catholic newspapers, like their secular counter- parts, are always looking for the all- round newsperson and production whiz that can get the job done timely with accuracy, brevity and clarity. For The Anchor, that person is David B. Jolivet, a prize-winning writer dur- ing his tenure' with The Taunton Daily Gazette, and The Anchor's current pro- duction manager. A native of Fall River and a member of Notre Dame Parish, Dave, 42, honed his writing skills as a medical under- writer for seven years at Aetna Life and Casualty and six years for Blue Cross as a fraud investigator in its Medicare pro- gram. Later a correspondent for The Her- ald News for fIve years, Dave was a writer and photographer for The Anchor for two years before heading to the Ga- zette where he was a sportswriter and later became editor of the Sports De- partment. He returned to the Anchor in December, 1998. It was during his two years at the Taunton newspaper that one of his sports stories won the coveted and prestigious first prize in the New England Press Association's 1998Annual Better News- paper Contest. Tum to page 13 - Award l'I()X " THE AWARD - and the man, Dave Jolivet. Parish phase of Charities Appeal opens Sunday Diocese's 111 parishes will begin to canvas. FALL RNER - Sunday marks the begin- ning of the parish phase of the 1999 Catholic Charities Appeal throughout the Fall River Dio- cese. Often referred to as "Catholic Charities Sun- day", this is the day when volunteer solicitors from many of the III parishes canvas house- holds of fellow parishioners to receive contri- butions to the Appeal. Some parishes, in response to busy family schedules and expansive parish Tum to page 13 - Appeal
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t eanc 0 FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPERFOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTSCAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
VOL. 43, NO. 18 • Friday, April 30, 1999 FALL RIVER, MASS. Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly • $14 Per Year
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Helen Alvan~ comments to Bishop Sean O'Malley during her presentation at the Pro-Life Convention at Bishop Connolly High School last weekend. To her right is FatherStephen A. Fernandes, director of the diocesan Pro-Life Office. (AnchodGordon photo)
vancing culture ofdeath forwarded by the "slippery slope"of partial-birth abortions. "Our society is terribly flawedand we need to affIrm the sanctity of human life ... the lifeGod gave us when we were born and the life he gave uswhen we were baptized," said the bishop. ''The most powerful weapon is love... it's stronger than death ... piercesthe heart of an enemy and transforms that enemy into abrother or sister."
Part of the day found winners of the annual Pro-Life Essay Contest reading their submissions. They were awardeda certifIcate and U.S. SavingsBond by the bishop. The contest is sponsored by the Diocesan Pro-Life Office and thetheme of the essays was "Until No More Children Die andNo More Women Cry:'
Director of the Pro-LifeOffice, Father Stephen A.Fernandes, praised the work ofthe students. "These essaysshow us how wise our childrenare. They want to make abortion unthinkable," he said.
Winners included KaitlynMello, first place, grades sixthrough eight, from Our Ladyof Fatima Parish, New Bedford, and Amanda Grazioli,second place, Holy Cross Parish, South Easton.
For grades nine through12, Melanie Williams, asophomore from BishopStang High School, capturedfirst place and senior JoelMaxwell, also from Stang,placed second.
A second speaker for theconvention was CanadianMark Pickup who lives withchronic progressive multiple
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an incredible Catholic."The convention began with a Mass in thanksgiving for
the gift of human life. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley OFM,Cap., was principal celebrant and homilist. After attending Mass in the school's auditorium the attendees began aday fIlled with a flood of speakers who focused on thesanctity of human life. ,
In his homily Bishop O'Malley addressed the recentschool-shooting tragedy in Littleton, Colo.! and the ad-
Last Saturday's well-attended eventkeyed on hope and courage.
Convention celebrated all stages of life~
By MIKE GORDON
ANcHOR STAFF
FALL RNER - Internationally-known pro-life official and speaker. Helen M. Alvare, encouraged severalhundred attendees at the Fall River Diocesan Pro-Life Convention last Saturday to "stickout" with their beliefs and "remember that our bodies andminds are the instrumentsthrough which the Gospel ofLife will be spoken."
In a powerful presentationwhich focused on a recentstatement from the U.S. Catholic Bishops entitled "Livingthe Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics,"she urged her audience to "triumph over the despair you seeand carryon in prayer andlove for the Gospel of Life."
Alvare, director of planning and information servicesin the secretariat for Pro-LifeActivities at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops'Headquarters in Washington,D.C., said the conference, heldat Bishop Connolly HighSchool, was her last speakingengagement before taking timeoff for the birth of a child.
''The bishops' statement reminds us that we have basicgoodness," she asserted. "Itcalls on American Catholics tobe leaders and we must fIghtfor all people. You must putyour faith and fact at the heartof your public service and be
Anchor's production manager isalso anaward-~gnewsman~ Dave Jolivet can wear
many hats with ease.
By JAMES N. DUNBAR
FALL RIVER - Today's Catholicnewspapers, like their secular counterparts, are always looking for the allround newsperson and production whizthat can get the job done timely withaccuracy, brevity and clarity.
For The Anchor, that person is DavidB. Jolivet, a prize-winning writer during his tenure' with The Taunton DailyGazette, and The Anchor's current production manager.
A native of Fall River and a memberof Notre Dame Parish, Dave, 42, honedhis writing skills as a medical under-
writer for seven years at Aetna Life andCasualty and six years for Blue Cross asa fraud investigator in its Medicare program.
Later a correspondent for The Herald News for fIve years, Dave was awriter and photographer for The Anchorfor two years before heading to the Gazette where he was a sportswriter andlater became editor of the Sports Department. He returned to the Anchor inDecember, 1998.
It was during his two years at theTaunton newspaper that one of his sportsstories won the coveted and prestigiousfirst prize in the New England PressAssociation's 1998Annual Better Newspaper Contest.
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Parish phase ofCharities Appeal
opens Sunday
~ Diocese's 111 parishes willbegin to canvas.
FALL RNER - Sunday marks the beginning of the parish phase of the 1999 CatholicCharities Appeal throughout the Fall River Diocese.
Often referred to as "Catholic Charities Sunday", this is the day when volunteer solicitorsfrom many of the III parishes canvas households of fellow parishioners to receive contributions to theAppeal. Some parishes, in responseto busy family schedules and expansive parish
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ground work necessary to developsuch a plan. This process involvescollaboration with a broad range ofconstituencies: diocesan administration, clergy, religious and laity.
The pastoral planning process atparish, apostolate and diocesan levels actually entails six different steps:
- development of mission statement;
- data gathering and assessment;- an analysis of strengths, weak-
nesses and opportunities; .- development oflong range ob-
jectives and strategies; .- creation of specific action pro
grams;- evaluation of sufficiency of
mission statement and pastoral plan.Because the face ofthe diocese and
the needs therein are in aconstant stateofflux, pastoral planning is acontinualprocess. After the recommended goalsand action steps have been executed,they need to be assessed in terms ofwhether or not they were viable andwill remain so in the face ofnew situations and challenges. As aresult,pastoral planning - while setting goals andaction steps for a given period of timeis a cyclical process.
However, it needs to be understoodthat all. members of the diocese, laity,clergy and those in the apostolates,·share a role in pastoral planning. Toreiterate: while the clergy shortagehas spurred the planning process, pastoral planning deals with more thansimply the suppression and/or mergerofparishes. Pastoral planning focusesupon a plan to develop and allocateresources, material, financial, and personnel-oriented, in order to fulfill amission. One of the aims of pastoralplanning is to help develop criteriafor what constitutes a healthy and vibrant faith community, and consequently to assist parishes in their owngrowth and development. Because ofpopulation shifts resulting in areas ofgrowth and downsizing, the planningprocess will undoubtedly require themerging ofsomechurches.At thesametime, in areas within the diocese showing rapid growth and development,the planning process will dictate theneed for establishment of new parishes.
In Your PrayersPlease pray for the following
priests 4.fring the coming week\ NECROLOGY
. \\ May 5 .1973, Rev. Leo M. ~urry, Chaplain, Catholic Memorial Home,
Fall River .' \ \1985, Rev. Albert Rowl~y;SS.CC., in residence, St. Francis Xavier,
Acushnet '\' _~.~. . \May 6 .---~<~/ ~
1905, Rev. Thomas P. Elliott, FQundef,St.~Mary, Mansfield1980, Rev. Asdrubal Cast¢lo"Branco,-Retired Pastor, Immaculate
Conception, New B~dford~:~\ \---. .1994, Rev. ErneStE:'Blais, Pastor, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall
Rive~~~/ . \ \ .\................. May 7
1958, Rev. Raymond P. Levell, 'S.J., Professor, Spring Hill Col-lege, Mobile, Ala. \ \ .,. May~'
1940, Rev. J.E. Theodule Giguere; ~astor, St. Anne, New Bedford1941, Rev. John P. Clarke, pastor,\S~. Mary, Hebronville
PRIESTS CURRENTLy SERVING\ \.
May 3 Rev: Ralph ,D. TetraultMay 4 Rev. Ronald'...\:. TostiMay 5 Rev. Horace J.. TravassosMay 6 Rev. Marc P. TremblayMay 7 Rev. Marek S. 'JUptynskiMay 8 Rev. James C. Tuxbury, OFMMay 9 Rev. Raymond Vlillancourt, MS
THE STATE OF THE DIOCFSE River and New Bedford. In the formerDemographics there are 22 Roman Catholic parishes
The Fall River Diocese comprises (23 including St. Anthony of theBristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nan- Desert, a Maronite catholic. parish), .tucket counties, and the towns of that off~r 101 Masses for the faithfulMarion, Mattapoisett and Wareham on any given weekend. In the latter,in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. there are 20 Roman Catholic parishesIt covers approXimately 1,194 square (21 including Our Lady of Purgatory,miles. The total diocesaJ:} population another Maronite Catholic parish),is approximately 718,000, while the that offer 127 Masses for the faithfulCatholic population includes ap- on any weekend.proximately 357,000 people. Priests
The face and realities of the dio- Within the diocese, there are 133cese have changed since its founding active diocesan priests, and 101 acin 1904. New ethnic groups begin to tive religious order priests (some ofpopulate the cities and towns. Shifts whom serve in parishes), fora total ofin local economies and an improved 237 active priests. The ratio of activestandard of living have influenced diocesan priests to the Catholic popuchanges in demographics. More and lation is 1:2684; total active priestsmore people have moved to the sub- 1: 1506.urbs from the cities. Young families Since 1965 the diocese has expe-making their living in Boston cOl~- rienced a 57 percent decrease in itstinue to increase the population, mak- number of diocesan priests. Froming their homes in towns such as 1990 to 1997 alone the diocese expeBerkley, Dighton, Easton, Mansfield, rienced a net loss of 40 active diocand Raynham. Barnstable, Nantucket esan priests.and Dukes counties have become the Church law mandates that priestsfastest-growing areas in the Common- retire at the age of 75, although thewealth and in the entire New England bishop ,has allowed for earlier retireregion. During summer months, tour- ments (age 70). According to currentists flock to CapeCod and the Islands, statistics, if diocesan priests retire at,and many churches there provide ser- age 70, by 2003 the total number oCvices for thousands of Catholics on active diocesan priests will be reducedany given weekend. There is a great by 27 persons. This being the case, bydemand for Catholic education across 2006 the Fall River diocese will nothe diocese, and more and more lay longer have parochial vicars (priestpe.ople are assuming active roles in assistants to the pastor found in theChurch ministry. While indicators larger parishes). If priests retire at 75,show some parts of the diocese are 2008 will see the total number of ac~"downsizing," such as the cities ofFall tive diocesan priests being reducedRiver and New Bedford, other areas, by 21 persons. Like:-vise, by that samesuch as the Cape, the Islands and the year the diocese will no longer havenorthern sections of Bristol County, parochial vicars. Both of these statis-are growing exponentially. tics take into account a best-case sce-
Parishes J. nario. (given the current number ofThe diocese currently ministers to' seminarians in formation do become
the faithful in III parishes, inclusive ordained priests, as well as no premaofthose staffed by both dioCesan priests ture retirements and/or deaths, and noand religious order priests. With these leaves of absence),parishes there are a number ofchapels PASTORAL PLANNINGand missions that serve both seasonal Processand year round Catholics (such as those Pastoral planning refers to a com-located on Cape Cod). prehensive process to formulate a stra-
The greatest concentration of par- tegic plan for the diocese, whose ultiishes is to be found in the cities ofFall mate goal is quality pastoral care.
In 1997, Bishop O'Malley created the Office of Pastoral Planningfor ~e purpose ofbeginning the back-
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and gather data and relevant information necessary to compile a completeassessment ofeach parish.
Father Tosti reported that "as ofnow there are no plans to merge anyparishes in the diocese" beyond thosefour in New Bedford where proposedmergers were announced last month.(Sacred Heart Parish is proposed tomerge with Holy Name Parish; St.Theresa Parish is proposed to mergewith St. Joseph Parish.)
While Father Tosti is assessingparishes, Rodrigues will be meetingwith representatives of diocesanapostolates or departments to gaininsight on meeting the needs of diocesan Catholics.
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FALL RIVER - Father RonaldA. Tosti, the recently-appointed director of Pastoral Planning for the DioceseofFaIl River, has released the following information on the state of thediocese and thepastoral planning process which he is beginning to implement
ApPointed to the planning post inMarch by Bishop Sean O'Malley,OFM Cap., he is assisted by Associate Director Douglas M. Rodrigues.
Father Tosti said that he is startingvisitations t.o each of the 111 parishesin the diocese to speak with pastors
1944, and was buried in Nairobi,was an envoy to Africa. Even asher health declined, she workedfor nearly eight years setting uphundreds of Legion of Marygroups, prompting thousands ofAfricans to become engaged inthe Church's work of evangelization.
For more information onthe Mass and the Legion ofMary, contact Father Wall at758-3719 or Father Sullivan at999-0400.
about their faith in God, whether theyhave been forgiven, or whether theyare good or not. Sometimes'we fmdthat underlying those are really problems with self- esteem," Homen re
ported. "Often these scrupulousthoughts can be healed by a combination ofpastoral counseling andclinical knowledge."
Although thf< worship is entitled "Mothers and Daughters.. ."there is no need for mothers tocome to the workshop with theirdaughters and vice versa, shenoted.
Homen, a native of New Bedford, is a former religious sister. Shereceived her master's degree in social work from Boston Universityand her undergraduate degree inpsychology from UMass Dartmouth; "Most of my clinicalwork has been in health care,"Homen said.
Pre-registration for the worshipis required. For more information'and to register, call the La SaletteCounseling Center at 226-8220.
~ion at 2:15 p.m., on "Abuse of theElderly and Children."
The Sisters of Life is a contemplative/active religious community
founded in June 1991 byCardinal John O'Connor,archbishop of New York.Through prayer and apostolic works, the sisters arededicated to protectinghuman life and advancinga sense of the sacrednessof all human life - beginning with the infant in thewomb and extending to allthose vulnerable to thethreat of euthanasia.
The sisters' work involves serving women
, through spiritual counseling, retreats, and speakingto evangelize the Church'steaching on the sanctity ofhuman life. They also direct the Dr. Joseph R.Stanton Human Life IssuesLibrary and ResourceCenter, a clearinghouse of
information available to schools,pro-life organizations, sch9lars andother interested people or groups.
Legion of Mary hosts Mass topromote,cause of Edel Quinn
CHRISTINE HOMEN
MATTAPOISETT - A Massto promote the cause for beatiffcation of Edel Quinn, who wasinstrumental in establishing theLegion of Mary in many areas ofAfrica, will be celebrated Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m., in St. Anthony Church, Mattapoisett.
Father Barry Wall, diocesandirector of the Legion of Mary,and Sacred Hearts Father Matthew Sullivan, spiritual directorof the New Bedford Curia of theLegion, will be concelebrants.
The public is invited to theMass and to recite the rosary that
sel Awards. The afternoon sessionincludes the new president's message at 2 p.m., and a panel discus-
families have communications problems."
Many who come, to see Homendescribe their concerns around religious issues, she said. 'They worry
and Moderator of the Curia for. theFall River Diocese, will be the celebrant of a Mass at 11 :25 a.m. andpresent Our Lady of Good Coun-
~ Theme will key onsacredness ofhuman life.
SOU T HDARTMOUTH - SisterSimeon Marie of the Sisters of Life at Our Ladyof New York, Bronx,N.Y., will be the keynotespeaker at the 46th Diocesan Convention ofthe Fall River DiocesanCouncil of CatholicWomen to be held Saturday, May 8 at St.Mary's Parish Centerhere.
The theme of theconvention is, "Father,Giver of Life, Help Us toRespect Life."
Registration opens at8 a.m., followed by abusiness meeting. Thepresident's address andmoderator's messagewill be at 9:45 a.m., and the principal address will be at 10 a.m. Msgr.George W. Coleman, Vicar General ,
~ The program will key onsharing, learning andhealing. . .
Diocesan Council of CatholicWomen to convene May 8
La Salette planning aworkshop for women
ATIlEBORO, Mass. -ChristineHomen, MSW, a licensed, independent clinical social worker andnewest member of the staff at theLa SaletteCounseling Center, willbe the presenterata daylong workshop especially geared for women,Saturday, May 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.,at the Shrine.
The session will be built on thetheme, "Mothers and Daughters:Nuturing Ourselves and EachOther." It will include topics suchas: early nurturing and maternalmessages; impact of mother-lossand forming a sense ofself; mothercare, role reversal and groundworkfor understanding; and pathwaysto peace.
Homen, who resides in SouthDartmouth, said shedecided to offer this particular program becausemother/daughter issues come upfrequently in her practice and shefelt there is a real need for a daydevoted to the issue.
''The Counseling Center is oneof the services offered by La Saletteunder the direction of La Salette Father George Brennan, who is a licensed psychologist," said Homen."We provide licensed therapy, clinical counseling and pastoral counseling services under one, roof. Weservice individuals, couples andfamilies - and religious men andwomen too." '
Homen said that most of her practice to date has been women. "I mostlyencounter emotional problems suchas depression, anxiety, marital problems; those trying to manage their
, anger or recover from traumatic experiences such as a hurtful childhood.We also have people who need to recover from griefand death. And many
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immigrant cultures. universal term for thousands of ex-Ifyou choose socialjustice min- citing Church careers.
"I am wond~ring whether lay istry, it will take you into ghettos Let's turn to our second ques-ministry is for me and, if so, will I and barrios, and have you mixing tion about a lay minister supportbe able to feed my family on its with the poor and disadvantaged, ing his or her family.salary?" not to mention public social ser- With the exception perhaps of
Many young people have these vices. serving in some places as a dioc-questions, which a student recently It could be you are a gifted man- esan lawyer or architect, there areposed to me. Lay ministry inspires ager. If so, then what about serving almost no six-figure lay-ministryyoung people, but knowing it takes as a parish manager? Although it jobs. Chances are you will be in amoney to raise a family makes sounds very secular, it is a ministry lower income bracket than mostthem hesitant. because' without it many ministers people your age. But this need not
If you are considering lay ...----------------, be the case if you are an entre-ministry but are hesitant, what L .. I d' If preneur.might help you to decide? ay ministry en s Itse to I know lay ministers who
The fIrst thing to do is to step creative ideas, and·creative ilave complemented their salabackand view the entirety of lay ideas are always in demand ries by writing programs, booksministry. It consists of adult min- and well relAlafi,,.Ied. and columns pertaining to theiristry, 'which serves adults who v,. UI ministry. Many give lecturesdesire to l~arn more about their .... around the diocese and coun-faith, Catholic tradition, litera-. .try, and even have lectured inture, art and music. can't function. Europe. Lay ministry lends itself
There is family ministry, which . Don't overlook campus minis- to creative ideas, and creative ideas.serves families needing support in .try, which involves not only minis- m:e always in demand and well re-parenting; widows and widowers; tering to university and college stu- warded. .single-parent families; t4e di- dents, but also teaching in their Not only arefresh, creative ideasvorced and separated; and those classrooms. in demand, but so are today's laywho are single and never have mar- Oil the diocesan level, bishops ministers.ried. can. always use canon lawyers, In a recent article in America,
If you like the idea of teach- given all the marriages and canoni- Joseph Harris wrote that there is aing, then being a religious educa- cal problems they face. They are need to educate and produce 5,000tor or director of religious educa- also now.employing lay chancel- new lay ministers each year in thetion might be just the ministry for lors. And then there are diocesan United States to keep up with ouryou. offices of religious education, lit- growing Catholic population.
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Scholars name "Pieta', as'art best reflecting Gospel
faith is the masterful 16th-centurysculpture, the 'Pieta' ofMichelangelo," said Father ConradHarkins, associate professor of theology at the Franciscan Universityof Steubenville in.Ohio.
"The work perfectly capturesChrist's message of total lovingdedication to the Father," he added."If art can be in~pired, who woulddeny the power that guidedMichelangelo's hand?"
Also selecting the "Pieta" was'Jude P.
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Maureen A. Tilley, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton in Ohio, said thatthe "Pieta" ."portrays the image ofGod'siedemptive love in the batteredan~ broken body of Jesus:" ' : .
.' Another vote for the "Pieta" camefrom Jesuit Father Robert Scully;'assista,nt ,)cofessor of history at LeMoyne College in~Syracuse, who
said it "captures both the power andthe humility of God, and both thehumanity and divinity of Christ."
Another Michelangelo work, thepainting of the creation of Adamon the Sistine Chapel ceiling, wasnominated by Joseph fl. Kelly, professor of religious studies at JohnCarroll University in Cleveland.
Handel's "Messiah" was chosenby William R. Barnett, associateprofessor of religious studies at LeMoyne College, because "its textincludes the entire economy of salvation from both the Jewish andChristian Scriptures. Handel'sachievement reminds all of the classical meaning of the Christian message as wen as its rootedness in Jewish tradition."
The choice of Benedictine Father James Wiseman, from the department of theology at CatholicUniversity, was "any of the magnificent photos that show the planetEarth from outer space."
Father Charles D. Skok, professor emeritus of religious studies at
,Gonzaga University in Spokane,Wash., selected Leonardo da Vinci's
''The Last Supper" because "ithas been the inspiration for
many similar works ofartin practically every
culture of the, world" and because, :Jl""'" it "embodies the ori-';. . 1"~Jlftl( \~, gin of the cel~bration-
: t :/~ \' of the EucharISt.", t /~;.:...' co' t· i Three of the schol-~ , ;', ars selected written
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works as their candi\1 dates. "The Divine
:J" \ Com~dy," Da,nte's, . epIc poem, IS the
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THE PIETA by Michelangelo sits inside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. a~ the UniverThe 16th-century sculpture depicts Mary cradling the crucified body slty of ~otreof Christ. (CNS file photo) Dame. How
. could you notlove a poet who
understood that a man could'ieadyou through hell and purgatory,but it took a woman to show youheaven?"
Francesco c. Cesareo, associateprofessor of history and director ofthe Institute of Catholic Studies atJohn Carroll, chose "The Imitationof Christ" by Thomas a Kempisbecause "it embodies the notionthat the truespiritual'life is the imi-tation of Christ;',~, "
~ It drew more votes thanda Vinci's "LastSupper"; Handel's
WESTPALMBEACH,Aa(CNS) 'Detroit's Institute of Art reported The exhibition explored the im-- TheNorton Museum ofArt in West the third~highest ticket'sales at agery of angels with prototypes ofPalm Beach reported thesecond-high- 101,033. LosAngeles, where the show nonbiblical cultural and artistic tradiest ticket sales of the five U.S, cities was on display at the Armand Ham- tions of winged victories, genies andwhich hosted the blockbuster art ex- mer Museum ofArt and CulturaiCen- semidivine figures of the Assyrians,hibition 'The Invisible Made Visible: ter, reported about61 ,500 tickets sold, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.Angels from the Vatican." and the Walters Art Gallery in Balti- With over 100 rare and sacred ob-
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ALBANY, N.Y. - Ifyou want to. see the essential teaching of Christ
visualized in art, look at the "Pieta"by Michelangelo.
That's what severaltheologians andhistorians answered whenthey were askedthis question:."Other than theBible, what workofart best illuminates or captures Christ'smessage?"
They were responding to thefourth in a seriesof quest ion sposed toa panelofscholafS fromCatholicuniversitiesthroughout thenationby TheEvangelis t ,newspa-·per ofthe Alb anyDiocese,in anticipation ofthe coming millennilim.
Four panelists chose the "Pieta"which is on permanent display inSL Peter's Basilica. Others found
,the }jest encaps~lation of the m~s
sage of Christ in "Messiah" oratorio by George Frideric Handel, invarious books or even in the photographs of the -planet Earth sentfrom outer space.
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and living in Brussels, has selectedDick to write his memoirs.
Archbishop Jadot's tenure in theUnited States ended in 1980, andaccording to Dick this was for having a "management style" Romefound incompatible. But, Dick said,"there is still a positive, post-Vatican II momentum going on. History will be kind to ArchbishopJadot. He made an important contribution."
Meeting and hearing Dick mademy day and reminded me again thatChrist's Church always will endure.
these words by the far-sighted Archbishop Jadot sounded as if they hadbeen spoken today!
Archbishop Jadot was selectedfor the U.S. post by Pope Paul VI.During the archbishop's tenure asapostolic delegate, more than 100bishops were named. "The Jadotbishops," Dick said, "were priestswho had more of a pastoral background, who were more Americanorie!1ted, believed in shared decision making, freedom of conscienceand fundamental human equality."Archbishop Jadot, now 90, retired
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of a society that officially kills anyof its members, for any reason. Onemother, whose child was viciouslymurdered, opposed the death penalty for the murderer, saying, ''Therehas been enough killing."
Too often plain revenge is thereal motive behind wanting thedeath of a perpetrator of a viciouscrime. And, at least in the estimati.on of the pope, that is not a worthy Christian motive for any action.
As Archbishop Charles Chaputof Denver wrote at the time of theTimothy McVeigh trial for theOklahoma bombing, the death penalty accomplishes nothing but "closure through bloodletting, violenceagainst violence."
The hope of the bishops and thepope is that we can be, and are, better people than that.
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Catholics are not dropping out of theChurch and have not become anticlerical; we are loyal to our priests.And we are nonhierarchical, [knowing] we're the Church," he said.
He noted that Catholics comprise 25 percent of the most educated and affluent American population, and he saw a growing trend:"There's a certain status in being aCatholic."
This said, Dick did not gloss 0
over what remains a major problem,the diminishing number of priests.He quoted from a speech Archbishop Jean Jadot, the Vatican's ap"ostolic delegate in the UnitedStates from 1973 to 1980, made tothe National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1976. ArchbishopJadot noted that in some places twopriests were trying to do the workof four, some were "chronicallytired and frustrated," and some literally "dying" from overwork. Hetold the bishops, "I am deeply convinced that we must seriously studythe problem. When I say 'we' I meanbishops and priests, religious andlaity, all together."
Msgr. Smith commented that
Anyone who has followedevents of the past few years canunderstand why the pope plus anendless stream of bishops and otherCatholic leaders have come to sucha hard line about the evils of thedeath penalty. The major reasonsmight be summarized as follows.
-The death penalty is appliedwith gross inequity. For example,
12 percent of theprisoners ondeath row are inTexas, which hasabout 7 percent ofthe populationand leads thecountry in number of executions.Everywhere in theUnited States,
those on death row are predominantly the poor and racial minorities.
-No evidence exists that thedeath penalty. is a deterrent tocrime. As the Texas bishops pointout, states which have the deathpenalty have no lower rates ofcrimethan states without it. '
-Many condemned to deathhave been later found innocent. Ata recent conference at the Northwestern University Law School, reports showed that since 1976, whenthe Supreme Court reinstated the 0
death penalty, more than 500 persons have been executed. As of lastyear, of the 75 individuals scheduled for execution, one out of sevenhad their sentences reversed because of new evidence.
Based on this percentage, it isreasonable to assume that nearly500 persons out of approximately3,500 now on death row are innocent and may be found innocentbefore or after they are executed forthe crimes for which they are con-victed. ,
As the 'only developed nationin the world which has the deathpenalty, the United States is in theunenviable company of countrieslike Iraq, Iran and China.
There are others, but one thatChurch leaders (Catholic and others) often point to in their opposition is the simple dehumanization
ship in Church ministry.Dick, coordinator of international
research and programming at hisuniversity's European center for ethics, said he has studied Catholicsaround the world, and, definitely,American Catholics are different.
The Catholic Church in America"has the best educated laity andpriests; we are the most vocal, buttend to speak only after some reflection. Unlike Europeans, American
of Msgr. Gregory Smith, head of theInstitute for 'leligious Educationand Pastoral Studies, based at Sacred Heart. The two men are longtime friends who have connectedtheir two universities with collaborative programs dedicated to theongoing formation of adult leader-
By Antoinette Bosco
The BottomLine
Questionsand
AnswersBy Fathar
John J. Dietzen
Strengths of the Church in 'America
Where the Church stands on the death penalty
alty."I'm really struggling with this
issue. The pope and our ownbishop seem to say the Church istotally against the death penalty.I cannot be the only one confused.Where do we stand? It would helpme make an intelligent, convicteddecision. (Massachusetts)
A. Some confusion is understandable considering the movement in the Church's position, asreflected by Pope John Paul II andmost bishops, over the past severalyears.
First, the catechism itself is nowmuch more explicit. A new article(No. 2267) in the revised editionrepeats the traditional position, butthen adds, "If nonlethal means aresufficient to protect and defend thesecurity ofpersons, then public authorities must limit .themselves tosuch means."
Today, it continues, the state has.other ways to make a guilty personincapable of further harm, "without definitively taking away fromhim the possibility of redeeminghimself." Cases in which executionof the offender is necessary "arevery rare, if not practically nonexistent."
In St. Louis this past January,Pope John Paul II repeated his appeal of last Christmas to build "aconsensus to end the death penalty,which is cruel and unnecessary."
Shortly after a conversation withsome Catholic friends in which wefound ourselves in negative territory, worrying about the shortageof priests, I had some positive goodfortune.
I was invited to a talk given byJohn Dick, a theologian whoteaches at of theCatholic Univer-sity ofLeuven inLeuven, Belgium. I have carried his affirmingwords like a security blanketever since: "Thisis no time forAmericanCatholics to be in the doldrums."
I knew I was going to like thisman the minute I met him when heheld out his hand and said, "I'mJack." With that kind of personalrapport, Dick, an expert on the problems and strengths of the Churchin America, connected immediatelywith us, a small group sitting arounda table at Sacred Heart Universityin Fairfield, Conn.
We were there at the invitation
Q. There is much discussion inour state about the death penalty.The "Catechism of the CatholicChurch" (No. 2266) repeats the"traditional teaching of theChurch" that public authoritieshave the right to punish crimeswith penalties commensurate withthe crime, "not excluding, in casesof extreme gravity, the death pen-
FATHER HERNANDO Herrera observes a display at the Pro-Life,Convention at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River.
only with issues oiemploy~~nt an4 cent human life. , age.~Love for th~ unborn child who'econ0ll:lY is, a seri0lls ~ailur€?of our We'have a chance to do some:' is in danger, 'love ,for the mother,(:ivic respons~bility. O,ur 'Declara- ,thing in MaSsachusetts. DQri;t let love fo~: the abo,rii,onist. M~etingtion of Independence':says that life :Baby Hope's death be in '.vain.. Dr. Bernard Nathanson helped meis an inalieA~ble right, l>U,t in 1999 Make your voices !ieard. , to understand the need to pray forthe gove~ent i~ trampling ol!that, Our' experienc~ in the United abortionists. :r.h~y too are God'sright ~d trying to us'!1'P the, right to ,States is p1ear. Legalized abortion ,'children. lust as Saul was a fanaticlife aqd to s,ubo~dina~ jt t~ the:: right ~as been a destru«tive fOrce in th~", persecutor of the C-,hurch and re-
, to privacy (of all things). . " :.,Jives ,0,f!Dany in~livi~uals,; e'spe- " sponsibl~.for the deathi~d impris-The only positive aspect of the, cially wPll:len·who ar~9ft~n,left onment of many Chris~ians and
partial-,birth abortiQn controversy alone to bear the deep sorrow and, later, beca,me St. ,Paul, the_ Greatis that it should prove to all reason- regret which follow the decisioll to, Missionary Apostle; so t90, Dr.able citizens just how slippery and destroy the life of an unborn child. ' Nathanson, who performed thouhow steep the 'slippery slope' ac-' In our struggle against the evil' of sands of abortions, is now one oftually is. In Massachusetts, our State abortion, we, do not want to lose the greatest foes of abortion andLegislature is poised to consider a sight of our need to be concerned recently has become a Catholic.ban that would outlaw partial-birth with women who confront difficult Catholics, who pray and offerabortion in the Commonwealth. I pregnancies. In, the Holy Father's sidewalk counseling at abortionappealto every Catholic and every Encyclical'Evangelium Vitae' clinics have witnessed to their decitizen of good will to encourage ('The Gospel of Life'), Pope John sire to defend human life. It is cruour public officials to enact such a Paul II addressed words ofcompas- cial that' they give a testimony oflaw as quickly as possible. sion and hope to women who have , love and reconciliation that will
This week the Boston Heraldre- had abortions (E.V.100). 'The touch the hearts of the women whoported that in Dayton, Ohio, a 22- wound in yOUr heart may yet be go there for abortions, as well as the
h e a led. hearts o'f the abortionists and theirCertainly staffs. We wantto distance ourselveswhat hap- from those who react to abortion withpen e d violence, but we also want to dewas, and fend the right of pro-life people toremains, hold peaceful demonstrations neart err i b IY abortion clinics. Laws designed tow ron g ; curtail their right to free speech arebut do not discriminatory and unjust.give in to The great challenge that we facedis c 0 u r - is not just to change unjust laws,agement but to change people's hearts. It isand do not spiritual conflict that involves thelose hope powers of Light and Darkness....The Fa- Some devils are cast out only byther of prayer and fasting. We must beginMercies is with our own personal conversionready to and mending the broken relationgive you ships in our lives. Being disciplesHis for- of the Prince of Life, and witnessesgi veness. of His Resurrection requires that weand His be deeply committed to life: the lifepeace in God gave us when we were born,the Sacra- and the life God gave us when wement of were baptized.R e con - Today, we gather to witness tociliation. one another, to those of the houseYou will hold of the faith, to those who sharecome to our convictions. From here we willu n d e r - go forth as messengers to a societystand that that is largely indifferent or hostile
week-old baby girl was born alive nothing is l:lefinitely lost, and you to our message. The more faithfullyduring a partial-birth abortion and will also be able to ask forgiveness we live the life of the Resurrection,lived for about three hours, 'trau- from your child, who is now living the more we will be able to changematizing staff members at the hos- in the Lord. As a result of your own people's hearts. The most powerfulpital.' For the three hours that t]le painful experience, you can be weapon is love. Love is strongerbaby girl lived, an emergency room among the most eloquent defend- than death. Love pierces the cloudtechnician rocked and sang to her. ' ers of everyone's right to life. of unknowing, it also pierces theShe was dubbed Baby Hope by the Through your commitment to life, heart of an enemy and transformsmedical staff. , whether by accepting the birth of that enemy into a brother or sister.
Connie Boyles, the registered other children, or by welcoming and They tell the parable that uponnurse who held Baby Hope after her caring for those most in need of Jesus' arrival in Heaven after thebirth, said that the staff members at someone to be close to them, you Ascension. He was greeted by a hostthe hospital, which has not been will be come promoters ofa new way ofangels. After,the formalities, theyidentified, have had to spend hours, ' oflooking at human life' (E.V.99). asked Him whom he had left behindin counseling and 'venting to get A commitment to 'The Gospel on earth to finish the work He hadover the emotional trauma of the ' of Life' is a commitment to the begun. Jesus replied: 'Just a smallincident' (Boston Herald, April 21, whole social teaching of the Church group of men and women who love'1999). Those poor people in that· which challenges us to defend the me.' 'That's all?' asked the angels.hospital must feel that they have right to life but also to nurture and 'What if this tiny group should fail?'been accomplices in a· murder. protect life after the womb.·The ram- Jesus replied: 'I have no other plan.'What are we doing to the medical pant individualism and consumer- We who are the disciples of theprofession in the United States? ism of today have been strong al- Prince of Life must carry forthThey named that little girl Baby lies to the culture ofdeath. Our con- Christ's mission. The more we loveHope. How fitting a name. She was victions that we are our brother's Christ, the more successful we willborn alive to help unmask the bru- keeper and that people are more be, the more we will love Babytality of abortion and give us hope important than things must be Hope, the Alzheimer patient, thethat reasonable people who want lived out in our daily life. stranger, even the abortionist.to live a decent life will help to stop The response of believers must Ifwe are moved by love, no 'Planthis tragedy, this assault on inno- always be one of love and of cour-, B' will be necessary.
FALL'RIVER - The rouo",- sons the-se abortions are' done: Theing i!! the text or Bishop Sean P. . tragiC truth is that this',procedure isO'MaUey's homily at MaSs dur- ,:not so infrequent, and that it is usu
. ing'the Pro-Life Convention at , ally. an el~ctive:operation.
Bishop ConnoUy High Schooll8s~ "Dr. Martin Haskell, a partial-birthweekend: " .' abortion provider, is quoted in con
In a telegram sent by Pope John' "gtessionill testimony aS'stating thatPaul II to the Ai'chbishbp of Den-- 80 percent of those abortions he per-
, ver, the Holy Father expressed the formed were 'purely elective,' that'earnest hope that American soci- is abortion of healthy,.v~abies. Jbeety as a whole will react to this other 20 percent aborted in the.actlatest act of violence among the of birthing were children with geyoung by committing itself to pro- netic problems. Another 'provider,'moting and transmitting the moral Dr. James McMahon, submittedvision and the values which alone records to Congress showing thecan ensure respect for the invio- various reasons he' performed parlable dignity of human life.' tial~birth abortions, including the
I hope that the massacre in Colo- young age of the mother, depression,rado will be a wake-up call for and cleft palate. The medical estabAmericans. Many have scoffed at lishment has made it clear that thisthe terminology, 'culture ofdeath,' is not a necessary procedure to guaryet the growing body of evidence antee the safety of a mother. As Suris that our society is terribly geonGeneralC.EverettKoopstatedflawed, and we need to reaffIrm our in the American Medical Newsunconditional commitment to the (Aug. 19,sacredness of life. 1996): "In
In the Acts of the Apostles, St. no way canPeter refers to Christ as the Prince I twist myof Life. It is an Easter title for our mind to seeRisen Savior. We are the disciples that theof the Prince Of Life. It is not easy late-termat the close of the 20th Century to abortion asch'ampion the cause oflife. The ab- describedsurdity of making Dr. Kevorkian a youcelebrity ... the growing hostility know, parto human life on so many fronts. tial birth
I am very proud of the fact that then dethe Catholic Church has provided structiona consistent and unwavering de- of the unfense of human life. People were born childsurprised that our regard for the before thesanctity of human life would ex- head istend even .to those whose crimes born - is amerit the severest punishment. As me d i c a II me~tioned in my pastoral, 'The necessityGospel of Life vs. the Death Pen-" for ' thealty,' it is the proliferation of abor- mother."tion in the modern world that has In ancaused the Bishops to re-examine appeal tothe morality of the death penalty. the presiThe popularity of the death pen- dent not toalty seems to flow from a weak- veto a banened sense of the sacredness of on partialhuman life, rather than a careful birth aborweighing of the ethical principles tion, thethat render the practice moral or American Cardinals, speaking in theimmoral. In the midst of so many name of all faithful Catholics in ourassaults on human life, the most country, stated:
.outrageous that we face in the 'The public has learned that parUnited States in 1999 is partial- tial-birth abortions are performed notbirth abortion. No matter what you a few hundred times a year, but thoucall it, this procedure is the direct sands oftimes each year. It is learnedkilling of a child while it is being that partial-birth abortion is used priborn so that it will be born dead. marily in the fifth and sixth months
At the beginning of the abor- of pregnancy. The public has alsotion debate, the pro-abortion co- learned that the vast majority of 'horts stated that abortion was not these procedures are performed onmurder because the fetus (Latin for the healthy babies of healthychild),. was not a human being, women' (MjU'ch 7, 1997).only a glob of tissue. As the years It is a sickening thought that thepass, it is painfully obvious that culture of death has advanced to thethe issue of when human life be- point where infantiCide is now seengins was only a ruse, and that re- ~ a right and where political leadspect for life has so eroded that a ers are so morally blind, or so cowchild is not safe from abortionists ardly, that they could support paruntil its head emerges from the tial-birth abortion. No citizen of thismother's womb. country can in good conscience
There has been much misinfor- chalk this up to 'legitimate pluralmation circulated to try to justify ism.' Indeed, every person of goodthis barbaric practice. Those pro- will should be repulsed by this situmoting this procedure have con- ation and work by all non-violentsistently concealed facts about"the means possible for a ban on partialfrequency of partial-birth abor- birth abortion.tions, as well as facts about the rea- for voters to concern themselves
lHEANCHOR-:-DioceseofFalIRiver-F11:,April 3<?, 1999.. . , .9It's time foryouthministry to kick into gear'
shooting actuapy'is "a greattime foryouth ministry people to be presentto young people. But we have tomake an intentional effort at it."
"'Part of it'is just,telling them, 'these things happen, itdoesn't mean there'sa killer lurking behind every comer;"he said.
By PATRICIA ZAPOR
CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON'- Clevelandmight be a thousand miles away fromLittleton, Colo., but Greg "Dobie"Moser was worried about how teensin his town were taking' news of themassacre atColumbine High School.
The morning after two studentsplanted bombs and started shootingschoolmates at the Colorado schoolApril 20, Moser, the executive direc- 'tor of youth, young adult and CYOministry in the Cleveland Oiocesecomposed an e-mail message toyouth ministers about how they couldrespond constructively. '
''At times like these it is temptingto be overwhelmed by the power ofevil and violence," wrote Moser, alsochairman of the board of the NationalFederation of Catholic Youth Ministry. 'The Gospel demands that we bea people of hope, and our hope needsto be directed into action."
He suggested holding prayer services, offering parish education aboutviolence, teaching mediation skills,and organizing community campaigns for violence prevention or tocollect handguns.
And if he were an active parishyouth minister, Moser told CatholicNews Service, he would have goneto schools his students attend to talkto them about how the Littletonevents make them feel.
"If I knew kids in my parish whohave a deep sensitivity to violenceor a deep commitment to service and
justice, I'd call them up, just to ask, Moser said the incident under'How are you?''' Moser said. ,''If I scores the need for communities tofound a kid who's really distraught, I take responsibility for spottingmight talk with his parent or 'refer young people with such dramatichim to a professional counselor." problems before they tum to vio-
Fifteen people were dead, iitClud- lence.'ing the two identified as the shoot- ''Everything in me screams thaters. Another 23 were hospitalized for this kind of thing just can't con-injuries from bomb shrapnel and tinue:' Moser said. 'gunshots. The two shooters, identi- Those in ministry particularlyfied as Eric Harris and Dylan' need to be attuned to what's happenKlebold, were~d to have belonged ing with young peopl~ throughoutto a group known as the ''Trenchcoat . their communities, notjust within the
, Mafia" that idolizedAdolfHitler and. bounds of their individual parishes,had interests others corisideredec- . he said.centric but not necessarily.harmful. Moser said crises like the Littleton
0'COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL students arrive in tears at
Light of the World Catholic Church in Littleton, Colo., the dayafter two students shot and killed 13 people before killingthemselves. (eNS photo from Reuters)
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JON VOIGHT stars asNoah and MarySteenburgen is Noah's wifeNaamah in the NBCminiseries "Noah's Ark."The series based on theBible story will air May 2and 3. (CNS photo fromNBC)
Some violence, mild sexual innuendo, intertnittent profanityand recurring rough language.The U.S. Catholic Conferenceclassification is A-III - adults.The Motion Picture Associationof America rating is R - restricted.
"Pushing Tin" (20thCentury Fox)
Quirky comedy in which theintense professional rivalry between two air traffic controllers(John Cusack and Billy BobThornton) spills over into theirpersonal lives to threaten theirrespective marriages (to CateBlanchett and Angelina Jolie).Briskly directed by Mike Newell,the characters' finely tuned performances poke fun at the machoworld of controllers whose splitsecond decisions mean life ordeath in the skies. Brief violence,theme of infidelity, fleeting nudity and some profanity andrough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is AIII - adults. The Motion PictureAssociation of America ra~ing isR - restricted.
length but proves to be little more than a TV-level sitcom.Marceau is only called upon to be gorgeous, which sheis, but she can generate no romantic sparks with snippySpade.
The humor is sometimes mean-spirited orjust tasteless,as when Dylan's chubby gofer (Artie Lange) goes throughmounds ofdoggie doo in search of a lost ring. Just as offputting is a young boy who is casually makes accusations'of sexual molestation if annoyed by older guys.
All in all, aside from being visually pretty most ofthe time, the laughs just aren't there and the movie isbetter left lost than found.
Due to a few crude sexual references, fleeting nudity,much toilet humor and an instance of profanity, the U.S.Catholic Conference classification is A-III - adults.The Motion Picture Association of America rating isPG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned that some ma-.terial may be inappropriate for children under 13.
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brief nudity. The U.S. CatholicConference classification is A-III- adults. The Motion PictureAssociation of America rating isR - restricted. .
"Life" (Universal)Bittersweet comedy hi' which
Eddie Murphy and MartinLawrence spend six cantankerous decades stuck together on aMississippi prison farm after being wrongly convicted of murder.Director Ted Demme attempts toblend profane comedy with moreserious concerns about injusticeand institutionalized racism butit's an overlong, rocky road.
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By CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE
NEWYORK - The followingare capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the U.S..Catholic Conference Office forFilm and Broadcasting."The Harmonists" (Miramax)
Beguiling fact-based story setin early 1930s Germany recountsthe rise ofa beloved six-man singing group, the ComedianHarmonists,' who were forced tobreak up at the height of theirpopularity because three memberswere Jewish. Director JosephVilsmaier's handsome perioddrama resonates with the understated horror of the growing Nazithreat that was soon to engulf theworld in war. Subtitles. Fleetingviolence, sexual situations and
'Lost & Found' is mostly lost
'Noah's~Ark' to air.in,·May
By GERRI PARECATHOUC NEWS SERVICE'
NEW YORK - David Spade makes a lacklusterleading man in pursuit of a French cellist in the wanromantic .comedy, "Lost & Found" (Warner Bros.).
Co-written by Spade, who hogs center stage mostof the time tossing off snide remarks, he plays Dylan,a restaurateur instantly infatuated by new neighborLila (Sophie Marceau). She is a beautiful French emigre struggling to start a career as a cellist whose onlyother interest is her scrappy dog, Jack.
Dylan conceives a lamebrained scheme to steal andconceal Jack, then become the hero when he returnsthe mutt to a grateful Lila. .
Naturally complications arise both with the peskypet - and Lila's former fiance, (Patrick Bruel), whosuspects Dylan of being a dastardly dognapper.
The paper-thin premise is stretched out to movie
employ military force.Thesday, May 11, 9-11 p.m. EDT
(CBS) ''Three Secrets." Remake ofthe 1950 film about three women,each ofwhom gave up a baby boy foradoption on the same day eight yearsago, and now await word whether theirson is the sole survivorofaplane crash.
Wednesday, May 12,9-10:30p.m.-EDT (PBS) "Swingin' With Duke:Lincoln Center Jazz OrchestraWith Wynton Marsalis." A "GreatPerformances" program honoring the100th birthday of the late, great jazzcomposer and performer, DukeEllington.
royal fekinist, though the resultnever probes beneath the surface ofevents or motivations. Intense period violence including religiouspersecutions, torture and executions, sexual .situations and briefnudity. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-IV - adults,with reservations. The Motion Picture Association of America ratingis R - restricted. (Gramercy)"A Night at the Roxbury" (1998)
Witless comedy about two nerdybrothers (Will Ferrell and ChrisKattan) who haunt local nightclubsuntil they stumble onto romanceand success in spite of themselves:Directed by John Fortenberry, thebrainless proceedings featuregratingly irksome characters whosedumb antics are thuddingly dull.Implied affairs, a discreet sexual encounter, crude expressions and a fewinstances of profanity. The U.S.Catholic Conference classificationis A-ill - adults.-The Motion Picture Association of America rating'is PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned that som~ material may beinappropriate for children under 13.(Paramount) .
"Stepmom" (1998)Pointed drama in which a de
voted but seriously ill mother (Susan Sarandon) must learn to accepther ex-husband's glamorous youngfiancee (Julia Roberts) whose
. ~arenting skills are less than themother wants for her two impressionable youngsters. Directed by ChrisColumbus, the heartfelt tale is anchored by Sarandon's searing performance as it explores the painfulaftermath ofdivorce for children andadults alike. A live-in relationship,sexual references and an instance'ofrough language. The U.S. CatholicConference classification is A-ill adults. The Motion PictureAssociation of America rating is PG-13 parents are strongly cautioned thatsome material may be inappropriatefor children under 13. (ColumbiaTriStar)
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NEW YORK (CNS) - Here aresome television programs of note forthe week ofMay 9:
Sunday, May 9, 9-11 p.m. EDT(CBS) "The Simple Life of NoahDearborn." Drama in which an elderly carpenter (Sidney Poitier) remainsuntouched by hectic 20th-century lifeuntil he becomes the targetofagreedydeveloper (George Newbern).
Tuesday, May 11, 9-10 p.m. EDT(PBS) "Give War a Chance." A"Frontline" documentary exploringthe bitter divide between military andcivilian attitudes about what, where,when, and why Americans should
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NEW YORK - The followingare home videocassette reviews fromthe U.S. Catholic Conference Officefor Film and Broadcasting. Eachvideocassette is available on VHSformat. Theatrical movies on videohave a U.S. Catholic Conferenceclassification and Motion PictureAssociation of America rating. Allreviews indicate the appropriate agegroup for the video audience.
"At First Sight" (1999)Fact-based drama in which a
wen-adjusted blind man (ValKilmer), at the'urging of his architect girlfriend (Mira Sorvino), undergoes an operation which restoreshis sight but opens a Pandora's boxof other difficulties that come tojeopardize their relationship andhis previously secure sense of self.While overly sentimental, directorIrwin Winkler's romantic drama isemotionally involving in exploring.the~nexpected pitfalls of asudden, drastic change in lifestyle. Discreet bedroom scenes, a flash ofnudity, some profanity and an instance of rough language. The U.S.Catholic Conference classificationis A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of America ratingis PG-13 - parents are stronglycautioned that some material maybe inappr;opriate for children under 13. (MGM)
"Elizabeth" (1998) .Historical dramatization of the
political intrigues and religiousconflicts besetting England as theProtestant Elizabeth (CateBlanchett) succeeds her half-sister,the Catholic Mary (Kathy Burke),to the throne, then comes to rely onthe sinister Walsingham (GeoffreyRush) to break the power of theCatholic nobles and other potentialenemies to her reign as the VirginQueen. Directed by Shekhar Kapur,
. the picture turns a complex and confusing period of history into a seriesof highly dramatic tableaus depicting Elizabeth's development as a
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viable future as a major seminary. Weall hope and pray that this fall in vocations will be temporary and that theday will come, before too long, whenmany young men will once again comeforward to offer their lives in the special service of the Lord," he said.
Second Irish seminary closingbecause of small enrollment
DUBLIN, Ireland(~S) - Beginning in June, St. John's College inWaterford, Ireland, will no longer accept candidates for the priesthood, becoming the second Irish seminary toclose in less than a year because ofdeclining enrollment.
Father Liam Power, Waterford andLismore diocesan spokesman, saidclosing the seminary had been a possibility for several years, but the recent"sharp decline in student numbersmade theclosureinevitable:'The seminary currently has 13 students.'
In September, St. Peter's College inWexford, in the neighboring Dioceseof Ferns, stopped enrolling seminarians. Bishop Brendan Comiskey ofFerns said the number ofenrolled students, 14, was too low for ideal formation conditions.
When St. John's enrollment Make The Waydropped to 17 students, Bishop Will-iamLeeofWaterfordandLismoreset 01 the Crossup a consultativecommittee ofpriests,religious and laity to examine the At Home:tseminary's future. The committee rec-ommended closing the seminary. Write to'
. In a letter to Catholics of the dio- Franc.- s'canscese, BishopLee said: '1 have to agreewith the recommendations. But tak- Fr. Robert Lynch O.F.M.ing into account the reality of falling P.O. Box 23vocations in recentyears, ithas become Best MA02112-0023clear that St. John's d~oes~n~o~t:ha~v:e~a~!:==:on=,===:===::!
some of the students have left St.Josaphat Seminary and returned toUkraine because they had difficulties with English, or they weren'tcommitted to celibacy.
The seminary rector, Father DavidClooney, said that the average age ofthe students is from 20 to 27. Thegroup includes two deacons, who areto be ordained priests in a year. Thepriest described the students as intelligent and gifted and as having a greatdeal of courage for coming to studyhere. .
."Now I can say that six or sevenwill be ordained priests. For the others, it is too early to say. They have aprocess to go through and time fordecision," Father Clooney said.
diocese pays the $20,000 annual tuition for each of the seminarians.
One condition he placed on theyoung men was that they must workfor the archdiocese at least five years.After that they are free to minister inUkraine or any place with a Ukrainian population. But the archbishophopes they will stay in the UnitedStates.
Another condition was celibacy.The Eastern rites of the CatholicChurch admit married men to thepriesthood in their regions of originbut do not permit marriage after ordination. In the United States, celibacyhas been required for those rites since1929.
According to Archbishop Sulyk,
ROSTYSLAV RADEVYCH (center) is among 24 Ukrainianmen studying for the priesthood at St. Josaphat Seminary inWashington. They may eventually serve Ukrainian Catholic
Ukrainians study for priesthoodat U.S. Ukrainian seminary
By LIUYA KOVALYK
CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON-PetroZvarychhas ~ome from Ukraine to Washington to answer a call.
"I have the feeling I am'called byGod to serve the faithful and theChurch," said Zvarych, who with 23other students from his homeland isin the United States to study for the
, priesthood at St. Josaphat UkrainianCatholic Seminary in Washington.
They have arrived from southwestUkraine, which is predominantlyCatholic, to master a nine-year theology program that includes one yearof intensive English. The studentswill learn how to celebrate Mass inboth languages - Ukrainian and English. Eventually, they are to be ordained for the Ukrainian Archdioceseof Philadelphia.
The Ukrainian archdiocese hasabout 78,000 Catholics in 78 parishes in Pennsylvania, New Jersey,Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and theDistrict of Columbia. Sixty priests,whose average age is 60, providepastoral care in these parishes. For28 parishes, there is only one priestfor every two parishes.
Spurred by the lack of parishpriests for U.S. Ukrainian Catholics,Ukrainian Archbishop Stephen M.Sulyk of Philadelphia came up withthe idea to invite young men fromUkraine to study at St. Josaphat Seminary.
"They (the Ukrainian students)have volunteered to leave their homeland of Ukraine to serve the spiritualneeds of our Ukrainian CatholicChurch in the United States," Archbishop Sulyk said in an interviewwith Catholic News Service.
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fer from an enormous debt." He'llalso ask his diocesan finance council, he said, "to see how we as thelocal Church can contribute to thisjubilee debt forgiveness."
The bishop also called for increaSed promotion of the sacramentof reconciliation as the jubilee yearapproaches.
'I would like to use this time between now and Easter of next year ...to invite oUf people back: to the celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation," he said in a homily delivered!during' Holy Week. He offeredthe'services of himself andhis'College ofConsultors to preside at communal pe,,!ance services throughoutthe dibcese during Lerit of 2000.
Bishop Lynch also said he wantsto see the celebration of a diocesewide communal Mass at a time, dateand place to be determined during2000.
'The Eucharist is ... at the heart ofwho we are and what we do as priestsand as Catholics," Bishop Lynchsaid. "It is the finest expression ofthanksgiving that we can have."
"There are many good thingshappening in this Church," BishopLynch said. "Let us first of all forgive one another, so that we mightbetter be able to bring others to forgive and be forgiven."
~ He points toforgiveness as theme ofJubilee Year2000; callsfor communalcelebrations.
By STEVEN SIMS
CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla'. Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St.'Petersburg has plans to absolve parishdebt, to gather the faithful for a diocese-wide communal Mass, and topromote perso'nal and' sacramentalreconciliation as ways to celebrateand usher in Jubilee Year 2000:
Bishop Lyn,ch said he w'ahts tobegin 2000 as "a year of forgiveness, as a year of favor from' theLord."
Recalling the biblical practice inancient Israel of absolving all debtfor a jubilee year, which was every50 years,' the bishop said he wantsto see that made manifest in his diocese for 2000 by a forgiveness ofdebt owed by some of its less wellendowed parishes and institutions.
He said he would meet with hisdiocesan College of Consultors, andask the group "to take a look at thoseinstitutions and entities in our diocese which are most in need and suf-
lect~on ofVatican II documents fromthe 1960s had containe~ "very literaland barely comprehensible translations" from the Latin original.
He added that the new edition hadrequired an "effort of inculturation,"including adaptation ofWestern theological terminology and the creationofnew'concepts not previously knownin Russian. .
The new translation 'follows thepublication of, a Russian' edition ofthe 1994 "Catechism of the CatholicChurch;' as well as the 1997 start ofwork on a Catholic encyclopedia.
the regrettable divisions of the pastmust not continue to have a negative impact on Christian, life today.
About 94 percent of Armeniansbelong to the Armenian ApostolicChurch, which has enjoyed a renaissance since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the declaration ofArmenian independence in 1991.
The Armenian Apostolic Churchis one of six independent OrientalOrthodox Churches. They are in cominunion with each other but not withthe Catholic Church or with the Orthodox churches that split with Romein the 11 th century.
AN ORTHODOX nun attends a liturgy atthe Orthodox Patriarchy in Bucharest, Romania. Pope John Paul is set to visit Romania May.7:.9. About 70 percent of the country'spopulation is Orthodox. (eNS photo fromReuters)
the church and replace vestments and litUrgical vessels.Metropolitan Nicolae also told Il Regno that he supports
theEastern Catholics' claims to all church property seized bythe government in 1948 and given to the Orthodox.
"If the church belonged to the Greek Catholics, it shouldbe returned to the Greek Catholics;' said the archbishop.More than halfof all the churches that have been returnedto the Catholic community in the past nine years havebeen those formerly used by Orthodox in MetropolitanNicolae's diocese.
To pave the way for the pope's visit, the Greek Catholics promised not to sue for recovery of their property, butto submit claims to a Catholic-Orthodox commission.
dox Christians who've had no previous dealings with the CatholicChurch,especially more liberal figures who feelsome good will toward us.
''All Catholics will now have access to readable texts, while Russiansociety will also have the chance tolearn about our Church;' he said.
'The new Russian-Hmguage edition, translated bya Ukrainian-bornnon-Catholic, Andrei Koval, was released April 10 at a\cover-price :of$1.50, and is the first since the 19608.
, In an interview with Catholic NewsServiCe, Father Shajkievich said acol-
Armenia'n President RobertKocharian and Armenian CatholicPatriarch Jean Pierre XVllI Kasparian.
At that time, the pope praised thefaith of Armenia; which dechired itself an officially Christian countryin 301. The pope said the faith hasendured despite invasions, occupation and communist attempts to impose atheism.
. The pope told Catholicos Karekinthat a personal visit toArmenia wouldbe an opportunity to "reinforce ourties and affirm Christian unity." Citing recent improvements in relationsbetween their churches, the pope said
By CINDY WOODEN
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ROME-While Romania's Orthodox bishopsdid whatthey felt was necessary to keep their church going undercOnUnunism, they should admit that their collaborationhurt people, especially the nation's Eastern-rite,Catholics,an Orthodox archbishop said.
Shortly before Pope John Paul IT was scheduled to arrive in Romania, Orthodox Metropolitan NicolaeCorneanu ofTimisoara detailed the extent ofhis own collaboration and apologized for not helping his persecutedEastern-rite Catholic neighbors.
In an interview with Il Regno, an Italian Catholic magazine, the Orthodox prelate also discussed the pope's May 79 visit as well as Catholic-OI:thodox relations in Romania, Metropolitan Nicolae wid the magazine, published in
late April, that he was named a bishop in 1962 when thecommunist regime had a complete hold on the countryand'its institutions.
To accept leadership of a diocese meant going alongwith the government and with its efforts to control religious life.,
"I could have acted differently, but at that time I thoughtthat for the good of the (Orthodox) church I hact to make 'comproiniseS with the regime;' Metropolitan Nicolae toldII Regno.
"Now I must confess my sins with all sincerity;' theOrthodox prelate said. "I did not fulfill my obligations asa bishop, because I did not protest against the regime.
"I have disgust for what I did on certain occasions;' hesaid. "For example, many priests and faithful were imprisoned when I was bishop. Some of my priests protestedagainst the communist dictatorship and were persecuted. Idid not protect them."
Metropolitan Nicolae also said he went along with agovernment order that nuns had to be at least 50 years oldand monks had to be at least 65; he did not protest whenthe governmentsent the younger religious away from theirmonasteries. '
He also apologized for how he had treated Bishop loanPloscaru, who was then head ofthe outlawed Eastern Catholic Diocese of Lugoj. When Bishop Ploscaru went to celebrate the funeral ofa priest who lived with him, the director of the cemetery, which the govemment had placedunder Orthodox administration, turned him away.
"When I was told what happened, I approved what theadministrator did. I did not tell him, 'You were wrong;"Metropolitan Nicolae said.
The metropolitan returned the Lugoj cathedral toBishop Ploscaru in 1992, along with a donation to repair
WARSAW, Poland (CNS)-Asenior Russian priest said a new translation ofSecond Vatican Council documents could improve ecumenical relations with the country's OrthodoxChurch:
"Russia's small Catholic community lacks specialists and professionals, and this won't be a panaCea for allour troubles," said Father VadimShiiikevich, chancellor of the Catholic Church's 'apostolic administrationfor European Russia. "But at a'time ofdeep crisis in ecumenical ties, it'couldbe important for contacts with Ortho-
Russian priest says new VaticanII texts might aid ecumenism
Romaman Orthodox archbishop:Church must admit it hurt Catholics
Pope to make weekend visit to Armenia in. July.VATICAN CITY (CNS) -Pope
John Paul II plans a weekend trip toArrnenia in 'early July, his 'first to theformer Soviet republic.
The July2-4 visit was announcedby officials of the Armenian government and the Armenian OrthodoxChurch. Vatican ,sources confirmedthe dates and said discussion wascontinuing on the details of the pa-pal program. .
The visit was formally proposedat the Vatican in late March when thepope met with Catholicos Karekinof Etchmiadzin, patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with
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Oh adorable and Divine Will, behold me here before the immensity ofYour Light, that Your eternal goodness may open tome the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all inYou, Divine Will. Therefore, oh adorable Will, prostrate beforeYour Light, I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the littlegroup of the sons and daughters ofYour Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in my nothingness, I invoke Your Light and beg that itclothe me and eclipse all that does not pertain to You, DivineWill. It will be my Life, the center of my intelligence, the
. enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not wantthe human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast itaway from me and thus form the new Eden of Peace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have asingular strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things andconducts them to God.
Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinitythat They permit me to live in the cloister ofthe Divine Will and
: thus return in me the first order of creation, just as the creature·. was created. '. . .
Heavenly Mother, Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat, .;". take my handanq introduce me,int,O the,Light oLthe Divine·. Will. You will ~e'm} guide; .my most tender Mother,and will <.•teach me to live mand to niaintain myself in the order and the \ ..' ~ounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother, I consecrate IJlY' ..
. , 'whole being to Youdmmaculate Heart. You will teach me the ...,:. doctrine of the.Divine Will anq I, ~ili listen most attentively to .: '·,r.Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the
infernal serpent dare not pen~trate into this sacred Eden to en~tice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.
Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus; You will give me Yourflames that they may bum me, consume me, and feed me toform in me the Life of the Divine Will.
Saint Joseph, you will be my protector, the guardian of myheart, and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will!<eep my heart jealously and shall never give itto me again, thatI may be sure of never leaving the Will of God., My guardian Angel, guard me; defend me; help me in everything so t~at my Eden may flourish and be the instrument thatdraws all men into th(~ Kingdom of the Divine Will. Amen.
( In Honor of Luisa Piccarreta 1865-1947 Child of the Divine Will)
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columns I had written. It ~as aft~rIhad left th~ Gazette that ManagingEditor Terry Mercer called me tosay that I had won an award. I wasthrilled at the time to know I hadwon an award, but I didn't know itwas first place. I was stunned whenI found out. I have always loved towrite and I went to school to learnabout writing. While at Aetna andBlue Cross I had written for different publications. Add to the fact thatI love sports, made s!lch ajob a wonder for me. I'm proud ~o have received such recognition."
The award was presented onJanuary 29 at the World Trade Center on Boston's beautiful waterfrontin conjunction with the 1999 Annual Convention and Trade Show.
While he misses writing sportsstory, Dave doesn't mind not having to work the grueling night hoursthat took him away from his wifeand family. "The hour~ - 4 p.m. tomidnight - and including holidaysand weekends, didn't lend themselves to family life. I'm a sportsfanatic and it is truly eRjqyable tobe able to watch sports again. Working the sports desk doesn't allowyou to watch games, just report onthem. It meant more to me to bewith my family and yes, watchinggames now is a big plus."
As for his writing skills, Daveintends to keep polishing them. Inrecent months he wrote the interesting story on the retirement ofveteran Anchor writer and editorPat McGowan. "I may do some freelance work on my own time to keepin shape," he said.
"I am very, very fortunate to beable to come back to The Anchor,"Dave asserted. "It was a difficultdecision when I left. But I had achance to be full-time sports writer
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In any case, the goal is the same: to care, family ministry, y(" lth program"invite diocesan Catholics to help reach help for those with HIV i' 'uAIDS, fen:out, a~ Fall River Bishop Sean pantries, pastoral care a; area hospital,O'Malley, OFM Cap., said, "to tens of and the weekly Televi~ion Mass fc'thousands of our brothers and sisters, the sick and homeboumJ.both families. and individuals, who are Bishop O'Malley went on to sayliving in need of our services and our that there is much more work that needsassistance." to be done in order to respond to th::
Funds raised in the Appeal provide increasing numbers ofpeople who WI1'
support for diocesan sponsored pro-.. to the Church for assistance.grams, services and institutions One's contributions to the Appea:tjU'oughout southeastern Massachu- may be made through a :.:me-tirnedoseUs, Cape Cod and the Islands, Last nation or through a pledge payabk .year, approxim~tely 200,000 people over JO months.received some form of assistance ContributioDSto thd999Appea"through various diocesan agencies. may be sent to the Clull"eities Appea"
In a recorded message played last Office, 344.Highland Ave., P.O.Qo:.weekend at many parishes, Bishop :1470, FaIl River, MAOZ722; by car .O'Malley reminded parishioners mat: ing'676-3200;, or droppoo otT~t an:"the faces of the needy in our area to-: parish in the diocese.day are as diverse as the faces that Jesusencountered while He walked thisearth." In order to help them, hecontinued, we must act together, as a diocesan family, to complement the resources available in local parishes.
Last year's Appeal raised $2.9 million, and the bishop noted that 94 centsof every dollar contributed went directly to the agencies and programsservicing the needy within the diocese.. . +:'.
and it was a dream realized. If Ihadn't taken it I would have alwayswondered and thought 'what if?' Itis great and I love being back atThe Anchor. I have always considered The Anchor as family."
As production manager, Dave isresponsible for formatting the pagesof The Anchor; setting stories and
.selected pictures on the pages. Heis also responsible for the creativedesign, layout and positioning ofadvertising. His expertise in selecting the fonts of type and design useof the print are instrumental in helping setting the style of the diocesan weekly. His skills as a newsman are essential in offering a critical eye to local copy and wire news,as well as the re-writing that is allied to the direction of the paper.Proofreading the copy is anotherof Dave's skills that can't be overlooked.
Dave graduated from St. An~e'sSchool and Durfee High School, andreceived a bachelor's degree in English from UMass-Dartmouth whenit was the former Southeastern Massachusetts University.
He is married to the former Denise Belanger and they have threechildren: 19-ye'ar-old son Benjamin, 16-year-old daughter,Lauren and four-year-old daughter,Emilie. A few years ago, the familylost another son, David Joseph,when he was three-days-old. Daveand Denise are eucharistic ministers at Notre Dame.
The talented newspapermanalso finds time to play the guitar.He has played with the Folk Groupat Notre Dame and performed forthe Cursillo and Emmaus movements in this diocese. "For my ownamusement I play rock 'n roll,"Dave said, laughing.
Dr. William 1. Cashore, a professor of Pediatrics at the Brown University School of Medicine, spokeon fetal viability and ethics. Hebrought the audience vivid descriptions of the horrors of partial-birthabortion and stressed the importanceof getting people to think.
"At the core ofevery pregnancy isthe presence of a human being existing. Rejection of a pregnancy is the
. rejection of someone's life," saidCashore.
In a closing talk, Maria Parker,projectdirector for the MassachusettsCatholic Conference's "In Support
" 'of Life," the 'statewide initiative onend-of-Iife and "assisted suicide" issues, declared' thaLthe "right tochoose has taken forefront over
.. what'srighti'We are called to b!lild a;new culture'of life and put our faithinto action," said Parkefland she.outlined what people could do:
."People need to pray and stay infanned. They need to write letters to 0
the editor orarticles stating ilieir-opinion on life. Discuss issues with yourfamily and friends. Call your legislators, teach others or volunteer to facilitate an educational evening atyour parish," she added..
Marian Desrosiers, assistant director of the Pro-Life Office, said thatthe convention day is very important for the diocese. "It is a opportunity for us"to gather:together and cel~'
ebrate with our bishop the sanctityof all human life. It's a great resourcefor people and a very inspiring-day."
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Activities of the National Conferenceof Catholic Bishops and the Knightsof Columbus.
It consists of four, massive,doubled-sided panels and a centerdisplay depicting the story ofthe prolife movement and its commitmentto the,child, women, God and the sacredness of all human life. It was setup in the lobby of the school and itsimagery offered a powerful message.
Life
AwardDave's story copped N.E.P.A.'s
top award for highest achievementin a daily newspaper in theGazette's circulation category.
The N.E.P.A. judge in that category wrote of Dave's entry: "Greatstory! It was wonderful to readabout everyday people who decideto come together to accomplish afeat that has no financial award. Dida good job helping me feel some ofthe grueling pain they went to. Ilike the imagery that was shownthrough the blind biker's words."
The story, which brought Davethe award "For highest achievement in writing a sports story," wasamong 4,000 entries New Englandwide from more than 200 newspaper in a really tough competition.
What won for Dave was a storythat began when he received aphone call about a young womanwho was an employee at a physicaltherapy center in Middleboro. "Sheand her boyfriend had just completed a cross-country bicycle race.It was on a tandem bicycle and herboyfriend was legally blind," Daverecalled. "The annual race was notdone for financial reward. But thesetwo trained hard for the race whichbegan on the West Coast and cycledthrough the Rocky Mountains andended up in Atlanta, Ga."
From the interview of the coupleDave drew upon and dramatized theagonizing physical pain the coupleendured during the trek and thegrand elation of their efforts. "Theyoung man was the only blind person to cycle in the race," said Dave.
In August of 1997 the story appeared in the Gazette. "Actually itwas my wife, Denise, who sug-
o gested that I submit that story forthe entries at that time," he said. "Isubmitted it along with a couple of
sclerosis. He gave a rousing addresson physician-assisted suicide and itsthreat to the disabled. He encouragedthose gathered to enter into otherpeople's worlds and feel their painand anguish because that's whatJesus would do.
"Christ speaks to the hearts ofpeople today. Embrace the handicapped, the old, immigrants and thesick because that's whatChrist woulddo. We should ache with compassionfor humanity. We are called to includeeveryone in the human family," decclared Pickup.
Holy Union Sister Celine T.Rainville, who was attending the convention for the first time, said she wasimpressed 00 V/ith the presentations.'The speakers weJ:C excellent. I foundthem to be:veryinspiring and theyeach touched on some importantpoints.":,':
Bishop O'Malley also praised thespeakers ~nd the.effort put forth forthe gathering. "We're'delighted tohave assemoled such wonderfulspeakers whose expertise' and lifeexperience are so importanqo ex-'~
plain the pro-life cause. I'm verygrateful to the Pro-Life Office andstaffand all those who worked so hardon the convention."
As pan ,of th~ convention attendees were treated to a special displaycalled "TI)e People qf Life: A Story, .of Faith, Hope and Love," which ~
o came from Washington, D.C.artd hasan 18-month waiting list. It-is sponsored by the Secretariat for Pro-Life
I====================================:=JIBishop Feehan High School,Attleboro
. NEW ACADEMI.C vice principal at Bishop Feehan, KarenBrennan and Principal George A. Milot.
Feehan names new,academic vice princip~l
FIRST PLACE - Bishop Feehan High School majorette's squad took first Rlace atthis year's New England Majorette Association Championship in Brockton. From left,front row are: Pamela Godsoe, Robin Bassett and Kate Oliveira; back row: Amy De,Carvalho, Erin Thomas, Christina Hayes, Kate Kellogg, Jenna Reardon anc~ AliciaMoran.
ATILEBORO-Bishop FeehanHigh'School Principal George A.Milot has announced that Katen'Brennan has been selected as its newAcademic Vice Principal effectiveJune 1. Brennan hils been a teacherat the 'school since 1984 and is afonner chainnan ofthe:Foreign Lan- 'guage Departm'ent. She· will fill aposition that is currentlyheld by theprincipal and an administrative assistant.
Vice Principal Brennan's primary
duties will include the supervisionof teachers and development ofboth curriculum and scheduling.
The Rhode Island native holdsteaching certificates in both Massachusetts and Rhode ISland aswell as professional affiliations withtheAmerican Association of.Teachers of French, the MassachusettsForeign LanguageAssoeiation andthe National Catholic'EducationAssociation. She is a member ofSt.Mark's Parish, Attleboro Falls.
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Planting see~~ of life at HF'~HN
TEAMWORK - Fifth graders Mitchell Neill and Katherine. Sousa from Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taunton,"are shownworking on their winning science project: "How Can You Identify the Kind of Charge Given to a Balloon." The studentsplaced first for their grade at the school's recent science fair.
, Fourth graders 'will be visitingthe schooner "Ernestina" and theNew Bedford Whaling Museum onMay 8 where they will compare andcontI:ast the 'fishing and whaling industrie~. Through hands-on experience~ students will gather information from volunteers and crew members and add to the knowledge'they've gained in the classroom. Thetrip is funded through a grant by theIsland Foundation.
NEW BEDFORD- Students inTeresa Souza's third grade class atHoly Fiill.1ily-Holy Name Schoolhave been studying spring and·life.Their focus has been about leaming to appreciate their own livesand the lives of others. As part ofthe unit, when Students do a help
'ful thing they receive a special pa-per seed with their name on it to beprominently displayed at theschool. '
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GRADUATE Victor Pinheiro,city councilor for ·Wa~d Six inNew Bedford, receives .the'Distinguished Gr~duateAward at Our Lady o~ MountCarmel School,New ~edford,
from Principal. Rosiemary'daSilva and Pastor IFatherHenry S. Arruda. Pinheirograduated from the sC.hool in1978·1
.BOWL-A-THaN - Firstand second graders from Espirito Santo School, FallRiver, enjoy its annual bowla,;,thon fund-raiser at HolidayLanes, Somerset. The winning class was honored ~ith
an ice cream party and afternoon at the Discovery Zone.
By CHARLIE MARTIN· CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
A metal band sings of unity
OneThe only way is one
I feel angry I feel helplessWant to change the worldI feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind
Written by TremontiiStapp; Sungby Creed; Copyright (c) 1997 byWind-up Entertainment Inc.
The children headed back toDanvers April 22. That day, as talkswere held at the United Nations tofind a political solution, pro-Indonesian militias broke a day-old ceasefire and effectively sealed off theTimorese capital of Dili.
2. Dare to be an independent thinker. Throughouthistory, societal beliefs often have conflicted with Christian points of view. Consider, for example, that the peopleof Iraq are our brothers and sisters. In the words of thesong, we are "one" with them.
Yet, the violence ofeconomic s<U:lctions and bombinghave created a situation where 5,000 children a monthdie. Do you think God loves Iraqi children less?
Many religious leaders, including Pope John Paul 11,have condemned this policy. Even as a teen, your voicehas power. Find out the names ofyour U.S. senators andrepresentative. Write to them and ask for achange in ourpolicy that destroys so many Iraqi families. (YourSenator's Name, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. 20510;Your Representative's Name. U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC, 205 I5.)
3. Be generous with your money. Sure you have CDsto buy and concerts to attend. I love music too and do thesame. However, each of us can look at ourfinances andask, "What members.of the human family can I help,even ifonly in a small way?" Ichallenge you to come upwith $5 a month to donate to a charitable organization.
4. Begin to consider what you will do in the future.Your work will be a powerful way to make our world"one." What areas of life do you have passion for? Howcan this passion lead you to serve others?
Can our world become "one" through respect andlove? Jesus thought so.
Your comments are always welcome. Please address: Charlie Martin, 7125 W 2008, Rockport, Ind.47635.
Our Rockand·Ro.le
OneWant to change the worldI feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mindSociety blind by color
Why hold down oneto raise anotherDiscrimination now on both sidesSeeds of hate blossom further
The world is heading for mutinyWhen all we want is unity
We may rise and fall but in the endWe meet our fate together
STUDENTS FROM St. Mary Patish in Danvers, Mass.,act out the violence of attacks on citizens of East Timor during a demonstration in front of the White House April 20. The12- and 13-year-olds brought messages from young peopleof East Timor to Washington. (eNS photo by Leslie Kossoff)
ers" to be executed by Indonesianparamilitary forces, he added.
"Beaten, dying, brave. East Timoris still not silent," a narrator intonednear the end of the drama. The groupclosed with a chant: "Send the U.N.Send food..Send medicine."
AN ACQUAINTANCE asked me to listen to Creed.I'm not much into metal- just too many decibels andtoo much screaming that's supposed to pass for music.However, I was drawn to Creed's song "One" off theirdisc "My Own Prison."
The song's message is simple and yet so importantfor how we live: "We may rise and fall but in the end wemeet our fate together. One, the only way is one:;' As thesong suggests, we need to see that our differences ashumans are small compared to what we have in common.
We all know the most basic fact related to this truth:Every human is made to the image and likeness ofGod!Every human being.
The person in the song states that "I feel angry, , feelhelpless." He wants to "change the world," and yet; thefrustration of trying to act leaves him also feeling "violent" and "alone." (What does this mean? I'm not sure,but as an aside at this particular time I must say that whenanyone feels violent, it is time to talk to someone aboutthis - to trusted adults in our lives. Living "alone" withfeelings of"violence" isn't viable.)
The person in the song cannot understand why society would "hold down one to raise another." Yet he possesses more power than he recognizes.
Here are some suggestions on how you can enhancerespect for each human being, even while you are a teen:
1. Practice tolerance. Refuse to go along with jokesabout your peers who happen to be different in someway. I know that this would take courage, but walk awaywhen others ridicule individuals. Show others you be-
, lieve that we are all created and cared for by God.
Affirmative may be justifiedTake from one give to another
The goal is to be unifiedTake my hand be my brother
The payment silenced the massesSanctified by oppression
Unity took a back seatSliding further in regression
OneThe only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
them simple questions, and theytalked for hours· trying to cover forthemselves," Jenn said.
While outside' the embassy, students met a couple of adults protesting the East Timor situation who gotarrested for civil disobedience.
The students' demonstration tookthe form of a 10-minute drama, witha couple ofstudents serving as narrators and the rest about evenly splitbetween Indonesian soldiers and EastTimorese. "
''We speak for them because theyare our friends,': one of the studentnarrators said. ''We speak for them~ause they are our heroes."
Using wooden sticks for rifles,they re-enacted beatings and J:Ilassacres carried out against the Timoreseby the Indonesian military.
The violence continues, Doolittlesaid after the performance. He saidhe could not reveal the names ofTimorese with whom he has been incontact, but said a Timorese priesttold him, ''We're in danger day by"day."
''We think some of them ar:e dead,"Doolittle said. "They were activists.They had a list of250 (Timorese) lead-
planations and (yes) excuses, we canbe sure of one tIling. We can rest ourcase on one factor that underlies all ofthe above and rnixes into a destructivehorrific stew of camage.
It was evil. . ""To carefully construct pipe bombs
filled with nails and plant them arounda school. To walk into a room of human beings, shoot them, listen to thembeg for their lives and say that's justtoo bad: This is evil.
Whatever its cause, this is what thoseacts in Littleton, Colo., expressed: complete disregard for the value of humanlife, and I mean complete.
Consider the depths to which onewould have to go to kill so ruthlesslyand purposefully, and then end thething by taking one's own life.
Somehow, somewhere, evil woveits way into hearts and rninds made forgood, and there is nothing else to callit.
The arguments will be hurled fastand furiously over the next few weeks.Teens trained to be responsible gunowners will protest that the massacreshouidn't cast a shadow on them.Members of the subcultures initiallyimplicated as factors .-:... Goths, devotees of industrial rock, Marilyn Manson,Rammstein - will defend themSelves,"saying" they never killed anyone. Kidswho spend hours staring at games withnames like ''Mortal Combaf' and ''Resident Evil" will say the same things.
And I suppose they are right. Butthe fact is that some of the most powerful and attractive elements of adolescent subculture advocate nihilism,amorality, violence and the glamourof "darkness." Go to the official MarilynManson web site. See if it doesn't giveyou serious chills:
As morning breaks, I go to the Internet news groups to see what's beingsaid about this. There is universal horror, but sprinkled among the grief arethe following:
-"Twenty-five rumored to bedead.... But hey it's a start:'
--'-"Twenty-five dead....Not bad."Just a few voices among the many.
But I think we know now, that's all ittakes.
to because oftheir youth, but becausethis was Ute first trip to Washington
, for many. of them, there was a bit ofan intimidation factor.
''A lot of the cops were laughing"during the .emgassy protest, saideighth grader Dave Soter.
Eighth-grader Kendra Smith tookcredit for the idea of a trip. "I startedthe whole thing," she said - a factcorroborated by St. Mary teacherBobDoolittle, who with his wife,Katherine, helped chaperone the trip.
The students also had meetingsscheduled with Sens. John Kerry andEdward M." Kennedy of Massachusetts and with Reps. John Tierney andThomas Capuano, all of whom areDemocrats, to discuss the East Timorsituation.
Brittany Clifford, a sixth-grader,said the students had collected 218signatures on a petition to ask forpeaceful change in East Timor.
As for White House and museumtours, "we don't like that boringstuff," said seventh-grader JennHudon,
She said Indonesians at the embassy waf11ed during a conversationafter the student protest. "We asked
FOR yOUTH • ABOUT YOUTH
.. -~t::11 Comingof
Age
age boys who went to. school todayand returned to me safe. Tomorrowmorning they \Yill rise, and I will sendthem off again and wait - and trust
And at this moment, two time zonesaway, high in ancient mountains, otherparents sit in other homes. Yesterdaymorning they also trusted, but now therooms within their sight and hearingare darlc and empty.
Their children lie dead in a library,a cafeteria, a halIway - lifeless in aplace that was once a school but is nowa bloody mausoleum.
By the time you read this you willknow much more about the group ofself-proclaimed outcasts called theTrenchcoat Mafia; from clues left, apicture will probably have emerged tobegin to answer why, even if the reasonis beyond reason.
And you will hear blame: that itwas the parents' neglect; that teachersand administrators ignored warningsigns; that it was the music they listened to, the movies they watched, thevideo games they played; that it wasthe fault of a violent society; thatschools don't spend enough moneyand resources helping troubled kids;that the killers were picked on; that itwas the guns no kid should be able tohave.
Perhaps it was one or two of thosethings, perhaps all of them.
But even without knowing the entire story, amid all the competing ex-
By AMY WELBORN
CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE
I sit down to write these words at1:30 in the morning, bleary-eyed andnumb after hoW's in front of the television.
Within a lOO-foot-radius; my children sleep - a little girl and two teen-
Massachusetts Catholic studentsadopt East Timor cause
After Littleton
By MARK PA1l1S0N "
CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - There"theystood on a drizzly lunch. hour onPennsylvania Avenue in front of theWhite House, hundreds ofmiles fromtheir home, putting into words andactions what they felt in their hearts.
White House demonstrations areusually done by an older generationof protesters. But grade schoolersfrom St. Mary School in Danvers,Mass., near Boston, knew they hadto speak up for their convictions.
So, during their school hoiidayweek, 17 of them, accompanied byfive adults, drove to Washington topromote the cause of peace and independence for East Timor.
The White House protestApril 21was just one stop in their journey.Their first taste ofprotest was in frontof the Indonesian Embassy in Washington the day before. Indonesia~s
annexation of East Timor in 1976has sparked a sustained outcry andwon a Nobel Peace Prize for BishopCarlos Felipe Ximines Belo of Dili,the East Timorese capital.
The students say they weren'tlooked down upon or condescended
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,the production of a broader array ofdifferent cells and tissues.
'In. contrast,·embryo stem-cell research fails the testofthe NmembergCode, which Doerflinger. said "demanded that we never inflict death ordisabling ·iqjury on any 'unconsentingindividwil of the human species simply for the sake of bel.lefit to others."
Even if .the bioethics commission,did not accept that argument,Doerflinger added, embryo stem-cell
. research should be deemed unethical"because it needlessly relies on the destructionof life to advance medicalgoals which can be achieved in nondestructive ways:'
Doerflinger detailed :his reasonswhy it is immoral for embryos to bedestroyed, orevencreated,forresearchpurposes.
''Mo¢ly, if it is wrong to create ahuman embryo for the purpose of destructive~h, that is largely because destroying embryosfor researchpurposes is itself wrong:' he said.
''Creatingembryos for research purposes is wrong because it treats thisdistinct human 'being, with his or herown inherent moral worth, as nothingmore than a disposable instrument forsomeone else's benefit," Doerflinger·added.
Lay coordinators handled routine administration. Decisions affecting the community were made bymembers at general meetings wherethe priest, like everyone else, hadone vote.
Donovan, a former Marianistbrother, said the liturgy "always wascentral," and parishioners workedhard on it. '}\t one time we had threemusic groups, so one didn't have todo it every week," he noted.
He said ·the demise of post-Vatican II experimental parishes doesn'tmean they failed.
"An awful lot of what weexperi·mented with is now becoming fairlynormal - more exciting liturgies,more lay management of parishes,"he said. "I think there's a lot ofprayergroups and spirituality that youdidn't see 20 years ago."
According to Donovan, theCatholic Church needs to use something like this model until it "cansolve the priest shortage problem."
But, he acknowledged that' thecommunity's decision-making process was flawed. It "got-away from·us," he said, "because we were toopatient with some people who weretoo disruptive." .
Fitzgerald said the reaction ofmostpeople.to'the parish closing issimilar to a divorce: "Get on with it!Get a life!"
. Donovan~s wife, Liz, a former laycoordinator, likened the closing toa death.
'}\ person dies and (at the funeral)you appreciate. all the things thatperson had and that you shared during your lifetime," she said. "I kind·of feel like thafs where we are, thatwe've shared so many good things.And what happens after that is inGod's hands."
Embryo research caned'grossly ilDDloral'
GIARWITESVILLE,Va (CNS~-Proposed eJi;periments that wouldrequire the destruction of live humanembryos were labeled "grossly immoral" and "clearlycontrary to the willof congress," in testimony deliveredby an official ofthe U.S. bishops' p~life office. .
Richard M. ;Doerflinger, ~iatedirector for poli~y development in thebishops' Secretariatfor ~LifeActivities, testified that "any policy based ona distinction between 'spare' and 'research' embryos is both morally incoherent and practically unworkable"
He was referring to a Clinton administrationproposal in.1994 to makea distinction between the two on thegrounds thatdestroying spareembryosmay be less ini.rnoral than destroyingembryos specifiqilly created for research. The House, in a 1996 vote, rejected making that distinction.o Doerflinger testified April 16 inCharlottesvillebefore the National Bio- .
. ethics Advisory Commission,' createdby President Clinton in 1995 to giveguidance on ethical issues surroundingmedical technology .and research.
Hesaidpromisingresearchhas beenconducted in the past two years on theuseofadulthurnans' stem cells for boththe transplantation into patients and
Cooncil-inspiredToledoI . . .
paris~ closes after 27 years~ Dwindling I
parishioners a~dcollection money,flawed decisiohmaking were iknockout blows.
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served. All 'Yelcome.~n informational session ,on Advance Directives by Atty. Melanie A.Patenaude will follow ~t 7 p.m. Toreserve a seat for the:sessionor formore information call :822-4885.
active in roles that had been reservedto priests and sisters was pretty exciting."
But the excitement wore off."We had started out with lots ofstay-at-home moms," she said."And nearly all those people wentback to work."
Fitzgerald said the time crunch. BvToM KELLYj eventually hit everyone with out-CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE side jobs and there just were fewer
TOLEDO, Ohio - The only par- people to do all the work.ish in the Toledo Didcese that In addition, said Donovan, "weclaimed to owe its origin to the vi-' had some key members that justsion of the Second Vatidn Council moved away when some ofthe largerhas closed after 27 years.' corporations left Toledo."
The Community of the Risen The community was among doz-Christ celebrated its fi~al liturgy ens of experimental or floating paron its Easter feast day. The closing ishes that sprang up after Vatican II.involved people ,and mohey: there Formation of this canonically "perwas not enough of eith~r to keep sonal" parish in 1972 followed twogoing. I· years of meetings by a lay group.
Core membership waS down to By choice, the community alwaystwo dozen adults and several chi!- had ,a "quarter-time" :pastor. Father
Idren. However, about 45 people.at- Mike Madden, the last of five pas-tended the fmal Mass in ~he chapel tors, served the longest at 12 years.ofNotre DameAcademy, a Catholic There have been 36 lay coordi-
• high school that had rented worship nators, with eight serving more thanspace to the community Ifor more once. The parish also experimentedthan three years. . with single coordinators, two- :and
Dan Donovan, one of two lay three-member teams and a 12-memcoordinators, said the pduc parish ber council.budget was about $30,000 a year. One of the guidelines ofthe lateAt the end, it was aboutl$1,6oo a Bishop John A. Donovan, whomonth. headed the Toledo Diocese in 1972,
Sharon Fitzgerald, the Iother co- was that the parish temporarily liniitordinator, told _ the Catholic membership to 100 adults and theirChronicle diocesan newspaper .that children.
.she views the community as "the· It gained permanent status inproductof our times." \ 1976. The number of households
"We were a post-Vatic,an II (re- stayed close to 100 but membershipsponse). We were flush with the idea peaked at well over 3oo,includingwe could do it all. We were no longer children.'traditional Catholics,'" ~he said. The Community of the Risen''The excitement of planning your Cluist had no geographical.boundown liturgy, providing yo~ educa- aries and chose not to own"property.tion, teaching your own kids, being It rented space for Sunday liturgy., .,- ---t--_._---
call Tricia Collins 'at 339-4240.
SAGAMORE- All area womenare invited to a morning of recollection on May 14 from 10 a.m. to noonat St. Theresa's Chapel, Route 6A.Confessions will be heard by a priestof Opus Dei.
'NEW BEDFORD - The Menof SaintJoseph,a 'group of localCatholi.c men, willhoId· itsmonthly evening of 'spiritual devotions on May 6 beginning at 7p.m. in Holy Name Church. Masswill be held and ,the evening willalso include Exposition of theBlessed .5acrament, the rosary andquiet prayer. Refreshments will.be'served. All Catholic men welcome.
TAUNTON - A Mass sponsored by the Tauntdn DistrictCouncil of the St. VIncent de PaulSociety will be held onl May 3 at 7p.m. at SacredHeart Church. It will
.be for the intention of the canonization ofBlessed Frederic Ozanamand in memory of dec~asedmembers. The regular mo~thly meeting will follow in the Rarish hall.
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WAREHAM~ A celebrationin honor of Blessed IDamien deVeuster will be held on 'May 16 onthe grounds of .the Sa~red HeartsCommunity Retreat House, 226Great NeckRoad. It will, begin witha healing prayer and olltdoor Massat 3 p.m. and include time to socialize and relax on the retreat,house grounds. All welcome. Formore information call 295-0100.
IWEST HARWICH - St.
Francis of Peace Fratbrnity willSTOCKBRIDGE - The sixth hold its monthly meeting on May
annual Irish-American Day of . 9atHolyTrinityChurc~.MasswillPrayer will beheld at the Divine be celebrated at 1:30 p.'in. A busiMercy Shrine on May 16 from ness meeting andrefres~mentswill10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m..!t will include follow. Inquiries are weJcome. ForMass, a May Procession, prayer more information call Kayand song. All welcome. For more Fitzgerald at 394-0323~information' call Jimmy Sullivanat (617) 471-3388.
TAUNTON - An open housewill be held at Marian Manor, 33Summer Street, on May 1'3 from 47 p.m. as part of National NursingHome Week. Refreshments will be
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MANSFIELD - The Mothers' Group meets in the Rose Garden building behind St. Mary'sChurch every Tuesday from lOII :30 a.m. Come socialize andmeet other area women. AU welcome. A playroom for children isavailable. For more' information
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