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WORSHIPERS crowded St. Mary's Cathedral last Sunday for a quickly-arranged holyhour for peace, led by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. (Gaudette photo)

"Peace, peace: and there was no peace'·'

is often questioned or "passed overin silence," the pope said.

"What is overlooked is that everyperson has the right to hear the'Good News' of the God who-revealsand gives himself in Christ," thepope said.

The Christian message and thecall to conversion must be ex­plained in a way that respects theconsciences of listeners, he said."The church proposes; she imposesnothing."

I n its work among non­Christians, the church must makeclear its belief that "for all people- Jews and Gentiles alike - sal­vation can only come from JesusChrist," the encyclical said.

"While acknowledging that GodTurn to Page Two

The bishop said that in the firstdays of the Persian Gulf War the1965 words of Pope Paul VI totheUnited Nations General Assemblyrepeatedly echoed in his mind: '.."No more war, war never again."

"It is not for me as a religiousleader to pass judgment' on deci­sions that have been made," saidthe bishop, "but we must alwayspray for peace. Young men andwomen I probably confirmed arenow serving in the Persian Gulfand they neeq our prayers... tellthem we are praying for them andfor peace and that we want themhome soon."

The bishop then read a prayerfor peace offered by Pope John

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Missions are subjectof new· encyclical

the 800 seats of St. Mary's Cathe­dral for a holy hour for peace.

Announced Friday and public­ized in parishes and through themedia during the weekend, theholy hour was led by Bishop DanielA. Cronin. It included Scripturereadings, adoration of the BlessedSacrament, recitation of the rosaryand Benediction.

It took place on what PresidentGeorge Bush had proclaimed Na­tional Sanctity of Human LifeDay, having in mind the sanctityof unborn life.

But, the bishop pointed out,"respect for human life becomesmore complicated when a situa­tion between nations results fromthe need to protect the rights ofthose subject to unjust aggression."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Theprimary reason the church engagesin missionary activity is not toprovide social services but to issuean explicit call to conversion inChrist, Pope John Paul II said inhis eighth encyclical letter.

The encyclical, titled "Redemp­toris Missio" ("Mission of theRedeemer"), was released at theVatican Jan. 22. It was dated Dec.7, the 25th anniversary of theSecond Vatican Council's Decree·on the Church's MissionaryActivity.

The I53-page letter is subtitled,"On the Permanent Validity oftheChurch's Missionary Mandate."

The main task of missionaries tocall non-Christians to conversion

A Catholic Schools Week sec­tion begins on page 7.

By Pat McGowanwith CNS reports

As Christian leaders through­out the world echoed the words ofJeremiah the prophet and calledfor peace, there wasno response totheir plea as the Gulf conflict con­tinued to escala,te.

There was no question that dioce­san Catholics stood with Jeremiah.With only two days' ,notice, lastSunday afternoon they crowded

the "body bags of little babies"who were aborted.

Once again, President Bush sentan audio message of support forthe marchers, calling them "cour­ageous and determined Ameri­cans." He said that largely becauseof the pro-life movement, Januaryhas become a month for reflectionand rejuvenation of efforts to pro­tect unborn babies.

A sea of people wrapped to theirnoses against the biting coldhuddled on the Mall in front of theSmithsonian museums, holdingsigns with anti-abortion slogans.They cheered supportive commentsfrom dozens of activists and reli­gious leaders.

Several speakers drew parallelsbetween the fight against abortionand the Persian Gulf war.

The time has come for those inmedicine, journalism and politicsin particular to "face up to thecost" of legalized abortion in theUnited States, said Rep. Chris­topher Smith, D-NJ.

He also said pro-life activistscan learn about "crafting a pru­dent strategy" by studying the U.S.role in the Gulf war. "Let us notjust work hard, but also smart andeffectively," Smith said.

Three U.S. cardinals and at least10 archbishops and bishops joinedthe rally. Also represented werestudents, senior citizens, fraternalorganizations and religious den­ominations including Jews AgainstAbortion, various OrthodoxChristian churches and majorProtestant congregations.

Pro-lifers march despitewar tensions, weather

A Catholic Schools Week messagefrom Bishop Daniel A. Cronin

The integration ofreligioustruths and values with life dis­tinguishes the Catholic schoolfrom other schools. Studentsin our diocesan elementaryand secondary schools arebeing formed to live adultChristian lives, to be personsfirmly grounded in faith and..with ihe strong academicprograms offered on all lev­els. people able to take aresponsible place in A meri­can society..! heartily endorsethe efforts ofall who work sodiligent(v to planfor thefutureoftheir support ofour Catholicschools!Faithfully yours in Christ,

-r;r~ ~. c,,-v......,.-.-Bishop of Fall RiverBISHOP DANIEL A. Cronin and three of the more than

8,000 students who attend diocesan elementary and secondaryschools. (Catelli photo)

. WASHINGTON (CNS) ­Pro-lifers, including many fromthe Fall River diocese, numberedan estimated 50,000 as theygathered in Washington Tuesdayfor the annual March for Life, thisyear marking the 18th anniversaryof the Supreme Court's decisionlegalizing abortion.

As well as their ongoing fightfor the unborn, many in the crowdhad the Gulf war on their minds;nor could the below-zero wind­chill factor be ignored.

. Fear of terrorism was a factor inkeeping march attendance belowlast year's figure as some charteredbus trips to the capital werecanceled.

Signs linking abortion and warabounded: "Save Saddam Hussein... kill our unborn?"; "Saddam is akiller? We murder millions everyyear. Save our children"'; "Heymedia - the worst war casualtiesare in the U.S.A.: 4,000 everyday"; "N () killing in the Gulf, nokilling in the womb."

The fear of terrorism "didn'taffect me" in deciding whether tocome to the march, said BrianNiland, a freshman accountingmajor at Boston College, who camewith eight other students.

"It's very unimportant consider­ing what's going on here," he said.

Nellie Gray, president of Marchfor Life, said to the shivering crowd,"they told us we wouldn't survive."

"We're also praying for the menand women in uniform," Miss Graysaid, but of greatest concern was

Cardinals to meet in April

At least six 'ti mes as many civili­ans as _Panamanian troops died inthe December 1989 U.S. invasionof Panama, a human rights groupsaid. The report strongly disputedU.S. c1i;lims that the invasion, called"Operation Just Cause," achieved"a surgical strike against militarytargets:' Physicians for HumanRights said at least 300 Panaman­ian civilians and only 50 Pana­manian troops died in the invasion.

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"The evangelical witness whichthe world finds most appealing isthat of concern for people and ofcharity toward the poor, the weakand those who suffer."

- Proclamations of the Gospelmust show a knowledge of thelives of listeners and a respect andesteem for their cultures.

- Missionary vocations, "thereal measure of self-giving," can­not be replaced by monetary con­tributions. Vocations are "in dangerof disappearing" in many ceun­tries that give increasing amountsof monetary support t"o themissions.

Interreligious dialogue is a meansof fostering better understanding,of discovering the way the HolySpirit works in other people and ofexamining one's own faith fromanother's point of view, he said.

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According to M P AA guidelines,movies rated X and NC-17 are solabeled becausl~ they show an "ac­cumulation of sexually connectedlanguage, of f:xplicit sex, or ofexcessive and sadistic violence:'

The M PAA gives its less restric­tive R rating to films with "someadult-type material respecting lan- ­guage, violence, nudity, sexualityor other content."

M PAA guidelines add that "thelanguage may be rough, the vio­lence may be hard, drug use con­tent may be included, and whileexplicit sex is not to be found inR-rated films, nudity and love­making may be involved."

The M P AA changed its desig- ­nation for adults-only movies amidcriticism that an X stigmatizedsome serious films because itseemed to imply a film was porno­graphic.

The X rating also hurt publicityand profits because of restrictionsnewspapers place on advertisingX-rated films and theater ownersplace on showing them.

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loves all people and grants themthe possibility of being saved," thepope wrote, "the church believesthat God has established Christ asthe one mediator and that she her­self has been established as theuniversal sacrament of salvation."

The Gospel calls Christians "tobe on the side of those who arepoor and oppressed in any way,"the poor said.

"Building the Kingdom meansworking for liberation from evil inall its forms," he wrote.

Some have a tendency, how­ever, to make.the earthly needs ofpeople the central focus of theirwork, emphasizing"programs andstruggles for a liberation which issocioeconomic, political and even.cultural."

Prom()ting peace, human rights,liberation, equality for women andminorities and safeguarding theenvironment are all good thingsthat "need to be illuminated withthe light of the Gospel," he said.

The pope also made the pointsthat:

- Modern people put moretrust in the behavior they witnessin missionaries than in the thingsmissionaries say. .

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of new encyclical

Blockbuster bans NC-17 videosWASHINGTON (CNS)

Blockbuster Video, the nation'slargest video chain, has bannedfrom its shelves videocassettes ratedNC-17, no children under 17 admit­ted.

The Florida-based company has1,600 outlets nationwide, includ­ing several in the Fall River diocese.

NC-17 is the Motion Picture- Association of America's designa­

tion for adults-only films. Whenintroduced late last September, itreplaced "X" in the MPAA movierating system.

Blockbuster's decision not tosell or rent NC-17 movies wasapplauded by Henry Herx, direc­tor of the U.S. Catholic Confer­ence Office for Film and Broadcast­ing.

"It's socially responsible," saidHerx. "X-rated material is not inthe public's best interest. Trying tomake X-rated material s'ocially ac­ceptable by calling it NC-I7 isharmful for society. There have tobe some standards, especially at atime when violence against womenis so apparent and seems to begrowing."

A Blockbuster statement an­nouncing the decision said thatafter "analysis of both the M PAA'snew 'N C-IT rating and the briefperiod of its implementation, it isclear that the rating criteria used inapplying the 'NC-IT rating are thesame criteria as for the former 'X'category."

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The recent Vatican announce-,ment did not list the specific threatsto life on the cardinals' Aprilagenda. The announcement wasmade after the outbreak of war inthe Persian Gulf. but Vatican offi­cials said planning began prior tohostilities.

Besides war, other mo~ern

threats to life often criticized bythe pope are growing social accep­tance of abortion and euthanasia.

A 1986 Vatican document onsects said their growth was a "pas­toral challenge" for the church,especially in knowing how to dealwith Catholics who become in­volved with sects.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Amajor April meeting of the world'scardinals will discuss currentthreats t9 human life and theinroads mad"e by religious sects inevangelizing Catholics, said Joa­quin Navarro-Valls, papal pressspokesman.. Pope John Paul II has convoked

the cardinals for a special meetingat the Vatican April 4-6.

"It will treat various themesrelevant for the life of the churchtoday, especially church policy inthe face of threats against life andthe problem of the aggressivenessof sects," said Joaquin Navarro­Valls, Vatican press spokesman.

The announcement also increas­ed speculation that the pope wouldname new cardinals during theApril meeting. Currently, the popecan name up to 18 cardinals under80 who would be eligible to elect apope.

The special meeting will be. thefourth time during the 12-yearpontificate of Pope John Paul thathe has called the cardinals togetherto discuss church problems andshows the growing importance ofthe College of Cardinals as a papaladvisory body.

Previous meetings were primar­ily concerned with Vatican finan­ces and reorganization. The firstwas held in November 1979 and

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WAS HINGTON (CNS) - Cath­olic Relief Services, the U.S. bish­ops' overseas relief and develop­ment agency, and the CatholicNear East Welfare Association willaid refugees fleeing the PersianGulf war..

CRS is sending $61,170 to itsJordan office to provide 75,000food packages for refugees fleeingIraq because of the Persian Gulfwar. Some 100,000 refugees areexpected in Jordan in comingweeks.

The Catholic Near East WelfareAssociation, which helped providemore than $1 million in aid forrefugees in Jordan when Iraqinvaded Kuwait in August, is pre­pared to provide similar aid to

. refugees, said Joe Donnelly, NearEast's director of external affairs.

Donnelly said that the organiza­tion has no office in Iraq, but willhelp meet any requests for aidmade by the papal nuncio in thecountry.

Jordan, which also has beenpromised help from the UnitedNations Disaster Relief Organiza­tion, will reopen its border withIraq to all war refugees, said HansEinhaus, the organization's emer­gency coordinator.

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1985. It has been her secondassignment to the home, where shewas a nurse in the early 70s. .

Catholic Memorial Home'smotto of "love made visible" is asentiment that Sister Shawn findsreflected in diocesan commitmentto its four nursing homes.

"I feel that here in the Fall Riverdiocese we have a bishop who istotally committed to taking care ofthe older vulnerable person," shesaid.

"These homes are a very realway of revealing ChriSt to people.There is an attitude of respect forthe dignity of the older person ashe or she journeys to meet theLord."

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administrator at Catholic Memor­ial Home in Fall River for sixyears, will leave her position thismonth to assume new duties as a 'council member of the CarmeliteSisters for the Aged and Infirm.She was elected at the order'sgeneral chapter meeting inSeptember.

A farewell dinner at White's ofWestport was an opportunity formany of Sister Shawn's colleaguesand friends to pay tribute'to herachievements at the Fall Riverhealth facility. Residents ofCatholic Memorial honored her ata silver tea last Monday.

Sister Shawn will be succeededby Sister Sean Connolly, nowassistant administrator at CatholicMemorial, who was formerlyadministrator at Our Lady's Haven,Fairhaven. The nursing home'snew assistant administrator will beSister Peter McDonough.

"In her caring and her compas­sion, Sister Shawn Flynn has servedthe residents of Catholic Memor­ial so very well," said Rev. EdmundJ. fitzgerald, executive director ofthe diocesan homes.

"She has ably guided the homethrough times of great change innursing home care, and she will besincerely missed by residents, fam-ilies and staff." -

In her new role, Sister Shawnwill be involved in the governmentof the Carmelite community, whichoperates 27 nursing homes in theUnited States and one in Ireland.She will be coordinator of Mid­west homes and will be on theirboards as well as on the Carmelitecommunity'S ministry board.

She has been administrator atCatholic Memorial since January

K of C to pick upcollege tabs

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS)._. The Knights of Columbus haveannounced plans to pay collegetuition and other costs for childrenof Knights killed or permanentlydisabled in the Persian Gulf war.

The decision. announced shortlyafter the Gulf hostilities began.will be retroactive to Aug. 2. 1990.when the crisis began, the Knightssaid.

Under terms of a '1944 ed uca­tional trust fund, children ofKnights can receive the costs ofeducation at Catholic colleges ofthe student's choice, including tui­tion, room and board. books andother expenses.

Previously, funds from the trusthad been awarded to children ofKnights killed or disabled in WorldWar II, the Korean or Vietnamwars and several other conflicts.

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A Norih:Carolina judge who isappealing a ruling that prohibitshim from opening court sessionswith prayer has explained his stand."The" pu'rposeful effort to removeGod from public life has woundedour society," said District JudgeH. William Constangy in a guestcolumn for the North CarolinaCatholic.Costangy has appealedto the U.S. Fourth Circuit Courtof Appeals a lower court rulingbanning his prayer as uncon­stitutional.

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- A Yugoslavian bishops' state­ment saying alleged Marian visionsat Medjugorje "cannot be confirm­ed" is not a final judgment, accord­ing to an official of the FranciscanUniversity of Steubenville.

"That the supernatural originsof the apparitions at this time can­not be 'affirmed' does not indicatea negative final decision," saidMark Miravalle, director of theuniversity's Marian Office of Con­temporary Apparitions.

Inferences of "a negative finaljudgment on the Medjugorje event"based on the Yugoslavian state­ment, Miravalle said, are "bothinaccurate and untrue."

The Yugoslavian bishops, un­animously but for one abstention, 'said at a November meeting thattheir judgment was made "on thebasis of studies that have beenmade' to this moment."

. The bishops' statement addressedthe need for "liturgical and sacra­mental" care for those traveling toMedjugorje, "so that manifesta­tions and contents which are not inaccord with the spirit of the churchmay be prevenled and hindered."

"A definite statement regardingthe authenticity of the apparitionswas simply not the intent" of theYugoslav bishops, Miravalle saidin his statement. Their declarationon Medjugorje "completely leavesopen'the possibility ofa final posi­tive judgment as to its supernatu­ral nature," he added.

He urged that the ongoing Med­jugorje investigation be given "theproper spirit of integrity, respectand submission to the final anddefinitive judgment approved bythe church's magisterium."

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THE PRAYER OF WAR'S CHILDREN

~'Have pity 'on me,have pity on me." .Job 19:21

-Prayer. can alter Mideast picture,The Middle East is the birth­

place of three of the world's greatreligions: Islam, Christianity andJudaism. It is the place whereGod. by whatever name, spoke inthe stillness of the desert, whereprophets called mankind to loveand obey the One who is good,merciful andjusl:. Man's true naturemirrors a God who is a peace­maker, not a warmaker, who isgentle, not violent.

On Jan. 16.. Rev. Billy Grahamprayed in the White House withPresident George Bush' in thesewords: "There are times when wehave to fight for peace."

History may prove him right orwrong as to whether now is one ofthose times. However, when wemust fight for peace, we havealready squandered countlessopportunities to struggle for jus­tice in peaceful ways.

Of course, as long as we are sooil dependent, we will be accusedof a conflict of interest; but it willbe only by addressing legitimateArat? grievances that we will beable to build a lasting peace basedon justice.

As I said at the beginning, it iseasy to wonder if prayers for peacereally make a difference; but faithtells us that prayer is the invisibleweapon that can soften the heartsof world leaders and move them togive peace a chance. The oppor­tunity to create a just social orderwill follow and will determinewhether we will be feared as a mil­itary power or respected as a moralleader.

The trigger of a war is oftenjudged to be a single incident. TheAllies' history books will list theAug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait asthe trigger event and Jan. 16 as thebeginning of Desert Storm.

Iraq's history books will defineits jihad or holy war as beginningwith its efforts to provide thePalestinians with a homeland, lib­erate Kuwait from the emir andeffect <:l fairer distribution of Arabwealth to the oil-poor Arab world.

Iraq watched the Soviet Unioninvade Afghanistan with only tokenAmerican response and miscalcu­lated the present American reac­tion. The line in the sand that wasdrawn in 1915 between Iraq andKuwait reflected French and Brit­ish colonial interests and certainlynow reflects American interests inlight of our overdependence uponoil.

The peace demonstrators whoyell "No blood for oil!" can rightlypoint to the inconsistency of ourresponse to naked aggressiondepending on whether its victim isor is not of strategic interest.

There is a consensus that if thisis a long and bloody war Americawill lose its "stomach" for conflict.But human beings, although createdlittle less than the angels, can havetheir reason so clouded by ignor­ance and their will so marred byweakness that they seem to havean infinite capacity to stomachenemy casualties and almost noneto stomach their own or those oftheir allies. Only prayer can res­tore balance!

By Rev. Kevin J. HarringtonCan prayers for peace really

make a difference'! This questionwas asked by a 13-year-old reli­gio,us education student in my par­ish after a prayer service for peacefour hours before the UnitedNations deadline.

As a priest I answered in theaffirmative; as a human being Iadmit to the doubts everyone hasfrom time to time.

I wish the world were a placewhere differences could be resolvedwithout armed conflicts. Too oftenwe forget the oft-quoted maxim ofSt. Thomas More:" Act as if every­thing depended upon you and prayas if everything depended uponGod.".

Now that war has broken out,the time for prayer has certainlynot ended.. I will leave to moralistsand historians the judgment as towhether the present conflict is ajust war. However, i'fwarcan serveany positive function at all it ishopefully that we will learn fromour mistakes.

The 20th century will be notedfor its great advances in technol­ogy and its lack of progress inovercoming the need for war. Itwill be tragic if the present waronly adds to the hatred betweenthe oil-poor and the oil-rich Arabworlds and between the Palestini­ans in the Israeli-occupied territo­ries and Israel.

Most wars are between the havesand the have-nots and in manyways the war between Iraq andKuwait is as much over oil as overboundaries.

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Education is the largest item in the budget of every state,estimated as accounting for $1 out of every $3 flowing fromstate treasuries.

It need hardly be said that over the last 10 years educationalcosts have become an inflammatory issue in most communi­ties. Hardly a city or town escaped problems as state and localspending escalated from $89 billion in 1980 to $187 billion in1990.

In the public sphere, the 1957 launching of Sputnik byRussia induced Congress to invest in the teaching of scienceand mathematics and in 1960 the federal government wasmotivated to support educational programs for disadvantagedand handicapped students. Today the federal share of schoolspending is around six percent, a far cry from the moniesinvested in armaments and defense.

The real burden of educational funding thus rests on stateand local governments and is usually financed by way ofproperty taxes.

As communities are faced with new school challenges, thenorm has usually been to throw more money into funding suchoutlandish concepts as so-called modern math and open class­rooms, while as schools became a substitute for family care yetmore money went into breakfast programs and latchkeyoutreaches.

In the process of trying to be all things to all peoples, schoolshave evolved into mythic sacred cows while actually fallingapart at the seams. Murders and assaults in schools have inmany areas necessitated daily police patrols attempting tokeep some semblance of law and order in institutions wherescholarship should be the focus.

Now the recession has sounded a note of harsh reality. Stateand local governments just do not have the money to keep theeducational pot boiling. Few seem to have reflected that per­haps schools should be schools and not a civic babysittingservice presided over by agents of the law.

As-we encourage and support our own-Catholic.schools, itshould be noted by the public sector that they spend less thanone third the amount per pupil than do public schools. At thesame time, government-sponsored tests indicate that Catholicschool students outperform their public school counterparts inreading, math and science.

The National Center for Education Statistics reports thatper-pupil costs in public schools are $4563. Per-pupil costs inCatholic schools are $1476. What this indicates is that moneyis not the cure-all many politicians and educators would haveus believe. For one, the prestigious Brookings Institution hasreported that increased expenditures per pupil have not signif­icantly influenced U.S. student achievement.

Given national enrollments based on p.ublic school educa­tion costs, Catholic schools represent a gift to the nation ofover $10 billion. What makes this figure so very impressive isthat the U.S. goverment spent under $40 billion on educationlast year.

School efficiency and effectiveness are not linked to thefading dollar bill. They are intimately linked to parentalchoice, reduction of bureaucracy, involved leadership andclearly defined educational goals and obj'ectives.

These are the areas that should concern all schools. Schoolsare to teach. Teaching involves discipline, not only with regardto students'and classrooms but also with regard to city halls,statehouses and Congress. The Editor

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Jan. 25, 1991 5

Jesus Living in Maryo Jesus living in Mary,

come and live in Your ser­vants, in the spirit of Yourholiness, in the fullness ofYour might, in the truth ofYour virtues, in the perfec­tion of Your ways, in thecommunion of Your mys­teries, in Your Spirit, forthe glory of Your Father.Amen.

the government to thoroughlyinvestigate and resolve the killingsof six Jesuit priests, their house­keeper and her daughter 14 monthsago.

Despite arrests of eight soldiersin the Jesuit case, the case has beenat a virtual standstill for nearly ayear.

Bush cited what he called "intrans­igence in negotiating" by the rebelsand a "clear violation" of thestandards set by Congress. He saidrebels had been "engaging in actsof violence directed at civiliantargets." His decision also wassparked by the Jan. 2 killing of twoU.S. soldiers, shot down in a U.S.helicopter. Autopsy reports indi­cated that they survived the crashbut were later shot at close range.

Bush to release EI Salvador aidWASH INGTON (eNS) - Pres­

ident Bush has decided' to free$42.5 million in mi,litary aid for thegovernment of EI Salvador, butsaid the money will not pe releaseduntil March so peace talks cur­rently underway will have "everychance to work."

President Bush told Congressthat he decided to restore the mil­itary aid because Salvadoran reb­els are committing human rights'abuses and receiving "significantshipments of lethal military assist­ance." The rebels, known as theFarabundo Marti National Liber­

'ation Front, have been at war withthe Salvadoran military for morethan a decade.

Bush said he would delay the aidfor 60 days to coincide with Marchelections for the SalvadoranNational Assembly.

"The United States is preparedto go the last mile for peace in EISalvador," Bush said. "We are notprepared to sacrifice the securityof the elected government or ofAmerican citi7ens."

But he said he might "releasemilitary assistance sooner than 60days in case of a compelling secur­ity need."

Catholic leaders have long beenopposed to the military aid for theCentral American country.

Under the 1991 foreign aid law,half of the $85 million in militaryaid for EI Salvador was frozen byCongress to require the govern­ment and rebel forces' to partici­pate in good faith peace negotia­tions. The legislation also requires

mother. If your parents are notwilling to do this, ask them toleave and help them 'find anothernice apartment, perhaps in yourneighborhood.

Is this too cruel? Not at all. Youare changing the situation into onewhere you can help and respectyour parents without resentment.This is a healthy improvement.

You would also like gratitudefrom your parents for what you dofor them, and you would like yourmother to respect your finehusband.

These requests are more diffi­cult. You cannot order your motherto change her attitude. Since shehas always been cool toward yourhusband, there is little likelihoodshe will change so late in life.

You can, however, change yourattitude. Be good to your parentsbecause you are that kind of per­son. If you feel yourself gettingresentful, remind yourself that youhonor your parents and do whatyou can for them, with or withoutgratitude.

Reassess what you can and can­not do for your parents. Evenwrite down what you can/ will doand what you cannot/ will not do.Stick to your resolve.. '

You need time for your hus­band, children and yourself as wellas your parents. Do your best toreconcile these needs, then assistyour parents as best you can with­out resentment or guilt.

Focus Forward"There is a point at which every­

thing becomes simple and there isno longer any question of choice.because all you have staked will belost if you look back."--Dag Ham­marskjold

By Dr. JAMES &MARY KENNY

yourself how you would treat avery good friend in this situation,and treat your son or, daughteraccordingly.

Friendship also works the otherway, offering a good model foradult children to relate to theirparents. Would you invite a goodfriend who had sufficient moneyto live rent-free in your homeindefinitely? Probably not.

Most people must spend 20 to25 percent of their income onhousing. On this basis you canexpect more than a token paymentfrom your parents.

Human relationships are 'moreimportant than money. Too oftenfamily members develop differen­ces over money which become soserious that relatives do not speakto each other for years.

What a regrettable situation!Your situation has not led to

such differences. You do,' how­ever, have considerable resentment.Get rid of this by bringing themoney issue out in the open.

Set a payment you feel is just.The payment should be enoughthat you do not feel used'by your

Dear Mary: By the time I was13, I was the oldest of seven child­ren. I cared for the younger ones,did the laundry, helped cook andclean. I started to work outside thehome as soon as age allowed tohelp with household expenses.

At 19 I met Tommy. Mothermade up her mind she didn't likehim at the first meeting.

We did marry and had threelovely children. We aren't rich, butwe help each other and are happy.

We turned part of our smallhome into an apartment. Motherand dad are retired and on pen­sion. My parents have taken overthe apartment.. Shouldn't we expect them to

pay rent? Dad is willing, but mothersays we owe this to her. My hus­band is good to my folks, but mymother is cool toward him.

I take them shopp'ingand todoctor appointments. I cookgoodies for them. Am I wrongwanting a little rental paymentand wanting a little respect for myhusband? (Iowa)

I infer that you have answeredyour own question. You feel thethings you want are reasonable,and you want some support in get­

. ting them.In relationships between parents

and young adult children, we oftenrefer to the friendship model: ask

"Chargingparentsrent

Dear Friends of Shirley Babiec,'

When Shirley Babiec passed away December 9, 1990 at the age' of 55, she endedan heroic 14Y2year battle against lymphoma. Those ofyou who knew her weresurely blessed by the specialness of the person she was.

Shirley expressed her devotion to God and her spiritual sisters and brothers in amultitude of ways. She was a Eucharistic Minister, aprayer group participant anda world traveler seeking God's graces with Our Lady's Blue Army. She was also amember of Our Lady's Rosary Makers, creating by hand more than 750 rosariesand shipping them all over the world. During the years of her illness, she visited367 different churches, a remarkable pilgrimage by anyone's standards, in spite ofthe fact that she was unable to fulfill her goal of 500.

To each of us she brought a unique and generous grace, touching our souls in theway she did best, by being herself and letting God form her daily life. Because ofher, all our lives ha.ve been enriched. She never boasted of herself, just God. Shenever looked for anything in return, except God.

If you wish to participate in establishing a memorial for Shirley at St. Julie'sChurch, you may forward your check or money order in any amount to:

Stanley BabiecP.O. Box 143

No. Dartmouth, Mass. 02747

Make your check payable to: St. Julie's Church - Shirley Babiec MemorIal. Please do not send cash.'\.

6The Anchor

Friday, Jan. 25, 1991 Why the lifelong study of faith is needed

The "churching" of women after childbirth

Nicknames easier 'to get than get rid of

All we have to worry about is worry itself

I

By

FATHER

EUGENE

HEMRICK

For most people, grad uationfrom school is cause to rejoice.The last thing they want to hear atthat point is that their education

, should be lifelong.If I'm right about that, many

people sure wouldn't want'to hearwhat Archbishop Thomas C. Kellyof Louisville, Ky., said in the pas-

By

FATHER

JOHN J.

DIETZEN

Q. I am the mother of .fourgrown children ages 36 to 44. Afterthe birth of each child, I wasrequired to be "churched."

When I tell this to my children,they are amazed and want to knowwhy this was necessary. Nooneknows what churched means.

Will you please explain this inyour column so I can show it to 'my

,By

DOLORES

CURRAN

A nickname is easier to get thanto get rid of. I met a couple at aconference who asked me to phonetheir daughter, Mary Jane, wholives in my area, and say hello. So Idid.

There was silence, then a suspi­cious, "Who is this?"

"Well, you don't know me," I

By

ANTOINETTE

BOSCO

Each new year, I find myselfthinking back to J a!1. I, 1940. Iwas pretty young back then andvery impressionable. That is prob­ably why I remember it so well.

My mother was in a strangemood that day, and she took meand my sister aside to confide herworries to us. She told us she had aterrible feeling about 1940; that it

toral letter he just issued titled"Teaching and Sharing Our Faith:Lifelong Formation and Edu­cation."

The need for Catholic educationand formation from cradle to graveis what Archbishop Kelly stresses.

My guess is that after studyingthe seven sacraments, some Biblestories and the church's basicteachings, many of us feli that allthat remained necessary was to goto Mass and confession, and tolive a lairly decent life.

In other words, once the earlystage of learning fundamentalprinciples is completed, Stage 2 isto practice faith. Faith then leavesthe classroom behind, becoming apersonal matter..between God andthe individual.

But our times mandate a change

children and their spouses? (NewJersey)

A. The churching of women, ablessing after childbirth, enteredChristian practice as a carryoverfrom the Jewish ceremony ofpurification.

Under Jewish law, many actionswhich were not immoral at allincurred a kind of spiritual con­tamination or uncleanness. Amongthese were any actions involvingsexual functions and other activi­ties whose primary fault was oftensimply that they were aestheticallyunpleasant.

A woman was considered un­clean after childbirth, for exam­ple, seven days if the child was aboy and 14 days if the child was agirl. (See Leviticus 12.)

began, "but I met your folks -""- Oh," she interrupted, "that

explains it. Nobody here knowsme by that name. And I don't wantthem to know it!"

She told me her name is Leahand when she was a tot, she was soproud of her new Mary Jane blackpatent leather shoes that shebecame Mary Jane on the spot. Itwasn't until she moved 2000 milesfrom home that she earned theright to be called Leah.

I empathize with her. I wentthrough school with a nicknamefew know, including my children.

When you're handed a nicknamevery different from your real name,it causes all kinds of complica-

was going to be a year of tragedy.She thought that something wouldhappen to someone in the family.

I spent much of that year wait­ing for the gloom to descend. Butit did not. And I learned a greatlesson. Simply stated, it was thatsuperstiti'ons, worry and pessim­ism are a colossal waste of time.

You would think that knowingthis I would have gotten throughlife taking it all a day at a time-not concerned about problems,upsets and disasters that mighthappen, or could happen but hadnot happened, at least not yet.Unfortunately, that was not thecase.

I was terrific at counseling oth­ers to be calm and peaceful and

in this. Given the weight of theconcerns that bear in upon ustoday, lifelong education in thefaith is necessary if we are to keepour balance.

Almost daily we hear that rainforests are being devastated andthat life as we have known it in thisworld is in seriousjeopardy becausepeople lack the sense of steward­ship that faith creates.

There is fear that high technol­ogy is forging ahead without a trueethic to guide and control it.

Not a month passes without thenews of yet another unethicalbanking or business deal - dealsthat could kill the economy andpu blic trust.

Worst of all are the deadeningeffects of broken marriages onmany adults and children.

This ceremonial uncleanness wasofficially removed by an approp­riate rite of purification. The puri­fication of Mary after the birth ofJesus is still celebrated as part ofthe feast of the Presentation Feb.2.

In its Christian form the cerem­ony became rather a way of thank­ing God for the safe birth of thechild, and of asking God's bless­ings on the mother and child.

All major features of the formerchurching ritual are now impliedor included in the revised Rite ofBaptism. Our present baptismalritual contains numerous referen­ces to the parents and to what is intheir hearts, and prayers concern­ing their new child.

The church's official Book of

tions, the main one being asked toexplain its origin over and over.When the origin is silly, one feelssilly explaining it.

Nicknames can be fun, cruel, orsimply dumb. For the most part,nicknames imply likeability, but Ibelieve.children have a right totheir real names if they so choose.

I met a woman everyone calledBod. She explained her name isElizabeth but her sister lisped Biz­zie and the name stuck. When shegot into junior high, the kids startedcalling her Bizzie Body which wassoon shortened to Bod.

"I hate it," she said. "Peoplethink it has to do with my bodyand it's just too stupid to explainto everyone."

trusting. I quoted the motto,"Worry is the interest you pay onmoney you never had." True, worryis senseless, a waste of time, and ifyou talk about it - as my motherdid - a burden to others.

But it is one thing to knowsomething and be able to discuss itintellectually and quite another toactually live by what you say.

I think that half the people I talkto in the course of a week expressworry to some degree. They worryabout catching the cold that a fel­low worker has, they worry aboutthe economy, about their carbreaking down, about whether theirjob is safe.

They worry about getting old,putting weight on, being lonely.

In the face of such challenges,many nonetheless look upon reli­gion as other-worldly, not in termsof meeting needs in this world. Lit­tle realized is the history of reli­gion and its role in society - thatthe greatest lawmakers were steepedi,n religion and the best in culturewas based on religious principles.

, Today we need knowledgeableCatholics who know how torespond to modern challenges,whether. in the business world,government, or the realms of ecol­ogy and the home.

There is a need for peoplegrounded in religious virtues ­like prudence, for example.

Why prudence? This virtueencourages us not to run in themidst of chaos, but to stand and

Blessings (No. 257ff) contains ablessing for a mother after child­birth, but it is intended for a newmother who has been unable to bepresent at her child's baptism.

Q. I strongly differ with youranswer to a question about theMass for shut-ins on television.Thousands ofshut-ins derive greatcomfort in, at least in spirit, receiv­ing the benefits of Mass whichthey are physically unable to attend.

I am one of these. I look for­ward to that televised Mass; Godknows I would be in my own par­ish church if able. (Mississippi)

Judging from the number of let­ters I received similar to yours. myanswer was apparently not as clearas I thought.

I realize television Masses are

With a beautiful name like Eli­zabeth she could have chosen froma variety of nicknames but she isgoing through life as Bod. What atwist of fate.

At some point, perhaps whenchildren reach puberty, familiesneed to ask them if they want tocontinue to be called by an oddnickname or be relieved of it. Itwill never disappear completely,of course, but if the family cooper­ates by using real names public, itwill encourage other to do so.

Often it's just a matter of remov­ing "y" from the end of a name. It'stough for adults to go through lifeas Danny, Jimmy, or Annie if theydon't like it.

having arguments with relatives,not having enough time to doeverything that has to get done,not having enough money.

I have concluded that worry issimply built into the human condi­tion. We cannot ever free our­selves from it entirely. All we cando is try to control it so that it doesnot become ail obsession or a des­tructive personality pattern.

But I think I have also come tounderstand why it is that, despiteour efforts not to, we constantlyworry. It is all tied up with the factthat we care.

Most of the worries I hearexpressed reveal how important itis to that person to be able to carryout his or her responsibilities. They

sort out exactly what is happen­ing. Once we learn the truth, pru­dence invites us to take immediateaction based on it.

If this virtue alone were prac­ticed, just think how many fami­lies might still be together, andhow many more wholesome lawsand policies we'might have! Pru­dence leads to good action - andultimately creates hope.

What would happen if Cathol­ics made a lifetime study ofjust thecardinal virtut:s of prudence, forti­tude, justice and temperance?Wouldn't we see changes for thegood. in homes and in the worldaround us?

Clearly, there is wisdom inadvocating the lifetime study offaith.

for many people a valuable andspiritually helpful opportunity forcommunion with the whole churchat prayer and worship.

As I indicated, if one is excusedfrom Sunday Mass because of ageor illness or other reason, a televi­sion or radio broadcast may greatlyassist that person to join the Massin spirit.

My point was simply that watch­ing a TV Mass, however reverentlyand with whatl:ver spiritual profit,is never a genuine substitute forpersonal presence and participa­tion in that worship with others ofour community of faith.

Questions fo.r this column shouldbe sent to Father John Dietzen,Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. MainSt., Bloomington, 111. 61701

The Irish have an interestingway of nicknaming. Because fam­ily names ar,~ so common, itbecomes confusing as to whichMary or Patrick O'Hara one isdiscussing~So they add the father'sname and sometimes even the grand­father's. If' thl~re are fi~e MaryO'Haras in the family, one mightbe Mary Dan, another Mary Fin­bar, and another Mary Thomas.

Nicknames can connote friend­ship and love, but if they are dero­gatory or obscure they can createunnecessary embarrassment. Thesensitive ones among us show theirreal affection by calling others thenames they prefer, not the onesthey happened to acquire aschildren.

worry because they care - forthemselves, their families, theircoworkers, their world.

I still think worry is senselessand nonproductive, but I believe itis here to stay. All we can do is tryto control it so that it never over­takes' us.

Jesus wisely warned us: "Do not,worry about tomorrow; tomorrowwill take care of itself. Sufficientfor a day is its own evil" (M t. 6:34).We would do well to heed thatcounsel.

Unused"On the bookshelf of life, God is auseful work of reference, always athand but seldom consulted."-DagHammarskjold

Middle SchoolTAUNTON

Taunton Catholic Middle School, 61 Sumqler S1.02780. Tel. 822-0491. Ms. Kathleen Simpson. Principal.

High SchoolsATTLEBORO

Bishop Feehan High School, 70 Holcott Dr. 02703.Tel. 226-6223. Sr. Mary Faith Harding. RSM. Princi­pal. Rev. David A. Costa. Chaplain.

FALL RIVERBishop Connolly High School, 373 Elsbree S1. 02720.Tel. 676-1071. Rev. JohnP. Murray. SJ, Principal.Rev. James Mattaliano. SJ. Chaplain.

NORTH DARTMOUTHBishop Stang High School, 500 Slocum Rd. 02747.Tel. ,996-5602. Theresa E. Dougall. Principal. Rev.Stephen J. Avila. Chaplain.

TAUNTONCoyle and Cassidy High School, Adams and HamiltonSts. 02780. Tel. 823-6164; 823-6165. MichaelJ. Donly.Headmaster; Dr. Donna Boyle. Academic Principal.Rev. William L. Boffa. Chaplain.

Schools of theDiocese of Fall River

Elementary SchoolsACUSHNET

St. Francis Xavier, 223 Main St. 02743. Tel. 995-4313.Joanne N. Riley. Principal. .

ATTLEBOROSt. John the Evangelist~ 13 Hodges St. 02703. Tel.222-5062. Sr. Martha Mulligan. R.S.M .• Principal.

FAIRHAVEN .St. Joseph, Spring& DelanoSts. 02719. Tel. 996-1983.•Sr. Muriel Ann Lebeau. SS~Cc.. Principal.

FALL RIVERDominican Academy, 37 Park St..02721. Tel. 674-6100. Mrs. Helen Miller. Principal. .Espirito Santo, 143 Everett St. 02723. Tel. 672-2229.Sr. Mildred Morrissey. FMM. Principal.

-------- -------t------.:T~_xr.=;o_o~~=""~.__r...........__..:r"_zC"'JAOTT'rr~~----_t_------o y ame, ~rce t. . e. . rs.Patricia Wingate. Principal.Notre Dame School, 34 St. Joseph St. 02723, Tel.672-5461. Sr. Paulette M. Gregoire. RJM. Principal.St. Anne School, 240 Forest St. 02721. Tel. 678-2152.Mrs. Irene L. Fortin. Principal.St. Jean Baptiste School, Lamphor St. 02721. Tel.673-6772. Kathleen Barboza. Principal.St. Joseph Montessori School, 2501 So. Main St.02724. Tel. 674-8893. Sr. S1. Louis Paquette. SSJ.Principal.St. Michael School, 187 Essex S1. 02720. Tel. 678­0266. Sr. Bernadette Sullivan. SUSC. Principal.SS.Peter & Paul School, 240 Dover S1. 02721. Tel.672-7258. Miss Kathleen A. Burt. Principal.St. Stanislaus School, 37 Rockland St.. P.O. Box 217.02724. Tel. 674-6771. Mrs. Denita Tremblay. Principal.St. Vincent Special Education Facility, 2425 HighlandAve. 02720. Tel. 679-8511. FAX 672-2558. Gerald J.Poisson. Special Education Program Director.

NEW BEDFORDHoly Family-Holy Name School, 91 Summer S1.(}2740. Tel. 993-3547. Cecilia M. Felix. Principal.Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, J03 Crapo St. 02744.Tel. 997-9612. Sr. Adelaide Furtado. SSD. PrinCipal.St. Anthony School, 106 Bullard S1. 02746. Tel. 994-5121. Sr. M. Cecile Lebeau. CSc. Principal.St. Ja,tnes.St. John School, 180 Orchard S1. 02740. Tel.996-0534, Miss Mary E. Mello. Principal.St. Joseph School, 35 Kearsarge S1. 02745-6117. Tel.995-2264. Felipe M. Felipe. Principal.St. Mary School, 115 Illinois S1. 02745. Tel. 995-3696.Dennis R. Poyant. Principal.

NORTH ATTLEBOROSt. Mary-Sacred Heart Consolidated School, 57Richards Ave. 02760. Tel. 695-3072. Sr. Mary MartinDelahanty. O.P.. Principal.

TAUNTONOur Lady of Lourdes School, 52 First S1. 02780. Tel.822-3746. Sr. Mary Margretta Sol'. RSM. Principal.St. Mary Primary School, 106 Washington S1. 02780.Tel. 822-9480. William Ruggiero. Principal.

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KALEIDOSCOPEOF PEOPLE

Catholic Schools Week • Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, 1991 • A Kaleidoscope of People

THIS BOOKMARK designby St. Joseph's School, Fair-,haven, first-grader StefaniePolchlope k won first place ina fall ··recycling bookmark"contest sponsored by the M il­licent Library, Fairhaven.

School events

Mary Alice WIDlamsCo-anchor of NBC News''Sunday Today· andspecial assignment re- •porter. Former vice presi­dent In charge of the NYbureau of CNN, 1988Woman of the Year for

_, Women In Cable.

The Catholic-school family

Robert COlesResearch psyc~iatrist andprofessor of psychialIyand medical humanities.Author of 50 books andover 1000 articles,Recipient of the PulitzerPrize and numerousother awards.

The annual meeting of;aH catholic educators300 sessions and liturgies. 6IiO exhibits. 14,000 attendees

General session Speakers

.An:IIbIsbop PIo LagIiI' ,>

Pro-Prefect of the Congre­gation for catholic EdUca­tion. Former papa\ pro­nuncio, the dIief liaisonbetween the vatican andtile u.s. Catholic Chwdl.Holy see's permanent 'observer to the OrganIza­tion of AmerIcan States.

For registration, contact Sr. Michaelinda Plante, RSM, at the Department of Educa­tion, Diocese of Fall River,423 Highland Menue, Fall River, MA 02720, tel. 678-2828.Discounts are available if registrations arermade through the education office beforeFebruary 5. '

Continued from Page EightOn Monday the student body

and faculty will gather for a morn­ing p'rayer service, during whichfaculty and staff will be com­missioned.

In keeping with Tuesday's Fam­ily Day theme, a large mural willbe created in which students willinscribe their names. In the even­ing Feehan will sponsor a Curricu­lum Night for persons interested inlearning 'more about Feehan'sacademic goals and priorities.

Wednesday is Ethnic Day. Fee­han will celebrate its ethnic diver­sity with a reception at which stu­dents and faculty will share ethniclood speclaltJes.--------

Thursday has been deemed PeaceDay, and Feehan willjoin in pray­ers for peace to be held at 2 p.m. in

By Father Richard W;,lIeaulieu, Director eastern U.S. Catholic schools.Diocesan DepartMent of Education The week will close on Friday

Throughout the I980s, our schools have made concerted efforts to address the needs with a special eucharistic cele-our students have today of a value-oriented educational process. Christian family bration.values have been the basis of our school philosophies and curriculum development. Bishop Stang, It's no accident that so many of our institutions refer to themselves as "the school At Bishop Stang High School,

family;" North Dartmouth, students willIn speaking with administrators, I frequently hear them tell me that so often it is an speak during the da.i1y announce- "

uphill battle~Children today come from so many different family environments that the ment period on topics coincidingCatholic school "family" 'has become more and more important. Some principals even with daily themes: Monday ondiscuss the fact that they feel like "fathers and mothers" for their children. academic excellence; Tuesday on

That sense offamily is something that makes the schools unique. Like most families, the family's role in education;there are disagreements and different points of view, but the sense of commitment Wednesday on Stang's role in therooted in Catholic Church principles and'the teachings of Jesus makes it possible to community.g.row together. Schools Week themes will be

This year's Catholic Schools Week theme speaks of a "Kaleidoscope of People" and employed during a before-schoolfocuses our attention on the diversity that we,find in our school families throughout the Mass on Thursday and a prayerDiocese, but it also emphasizes the basic reality that unites us as one community-the Vigil for world peace will be held At America's Catholic schools,faith that we share, the faith that we teach;tbtfaith that we live. 'during the day. Announcement

As we look ahead into the I990s, sociologists and futurists tell us that as a nation, we period talks will focus on steward- Johnny can readwill be returning to a love for traditional faniily values and religious expression. If these ship. On Friday school relation-predictions do.come to pass, we......will .b.f:...;ajtlle.....1.clL.CIele'huiL1e....the...JAciL1JI1at~'.e...J~l.e.1'--1...sJ:lipl>-WilLbe..ceIlehrated. ---uCitTO::--~.....-,.....-;,---,--:--,-,- ...........-:;...-::-:_---:----.-.----_----=.---~.----_.,...,..".,....,....,...,......,..,,-----.=CL::c:::c:-=>-=--=:::-::c==~r".':-=~----abandoned those values in the first place andcontinue to help our children grow into the Espirito Santo "Why can't Johnny read?" It's a studies on American education, But how do t IS country s at o-men and women who will be our Church and nation well in,to the next century. question that education experts, have unearthed some impressive lic schools achieve such a consist-

At Espirito Santo School, Fall public officials and disappointed statistics: ent level of success, given risingRiver, the week will begin with a 1 .parents have been asking the Amer- • in national math and science costs and a student popu atlOn10 a.m. family Mass and breakfast

ican public schools for decades. achievement tests administered to Turn to Page toon Sunday.But it's a question that's never third, seventh and eleventh grad-

Appreciation Day for Cathol'ic raised in the Catholic schools. ers,Catholi"schoolstudentsoutscoredSchools will be observed Wednes- There, young John Doe and his their public school peers;day with parent-teacher basketball sister Mary are consistently read- • in all subjects, Catholic schoolan<l volteyball games beginning at ing, writing, and doing arithmetic stUdents. show greater academic12:30 p.m. For students it will be a at or above national averages. Per- achievement gains between tenth"dress-<!own" day, Appreciation haps most interesting, so are Juan and twelfth grades than do publicDay pins will be distributed and and Maria Hernandez, Hoang and school students;there will be ice cream treats. Mai Nguyen, and their counter- • Catholic school students from

Friday will be Parents and Grand- parts from dozens of cultural,eth- deficient families show no corres­parents Day, beginning with 9:45 nic, socioeconomic and religious ponding academic deficiencies ina.m. refreshments followed by an backgrounds. math or verbal achievement, whilehour of classroom visits. Today's Catholic schools are similar students in public and other

Report cards will be distributed educating kids from every con- private schools show substantialThursday and a book fair will run ceivable background. Increasing academic deficiencies;all week, offering the opportunity numbers of African American, His- • in 'Catholic schools, minorityfor parents and friends to donate panic and other minority parents students from und'erprivileged back-books to the school library. are seeking a Catholic education grounds outperform their public

Holy Family-Holy Name for their children. Many Catholic school counterparts;Catholic Schools Week will open school students-from 20 percent • only 3.4 percent of Catholic

tomorrow at Holy Family-Holy to 80 percent in some urban high school students drop out ofName School, New Bedford, with areas-aren't even Catholic. So, 'school between tenth and twelftha 4 p.m. Mass at St. Lawrence what's the draw? gradeS, compared to 14.3 percentChurch. The school glee club will .. Academic success, for one of publiclligh school students;provide music and refreshments thing," says Rev. Stephen O'Brien, • Catholic school graduates ofwill follow in the school cafeteria. executive director of the Depart- every ethnic background choose a

A pancake breakfast will be ment of Chief Administrators of pre-professional college curriculumheld from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday Catholic Educationatthe National twice as often as public schoolin the school cafeteria, followed by Catholic Educational Association graduates.a winter carnival and book fair in Washington, DC. "The Catholic The academicsuccess ofall kindsfrom noon to 4 p.m. in the audito- school has an impressive track of students, combined with recentrium. Registration for preschool record of being able to educate any evidence that the .level of parentalthrough grade 8 will be held at this kind of kid that walks through the involvement in school activities istime. door." not a critical element in a child's

Monday's theme will be Kaleid- The success is quantifiable. Re- academic performance, points tooscope of Careers. Students will cent studies conducted by such one conclusion: it's not the kind ofwear career symbols and speakers well respected and diverse agents students that attend Catholicwill visit each class to discuss voca- as the U. S. government's Depart- schools, or their parents, that maketions. Monday Prayers will be mentofEducation(NationalAssess- the difference. The Catholic schoolsoffered over the intercom by grades ment of Educational Progress) and themselves can take the credit for5 and 6, Dr. James S. Coleman, sociologist creating an environment in which

Turn to Page 14 and author of many landmark students learn so successfully.

Schools plankaleidoscopeof events

"Monday focuses on academicexcellence and on Tuesday, stu­dents celebrate the family," shesaid. "Wednesday arid Thursdayare devoted to community out-'reach and Christian stewardshiprespectively. Friday is a day offunand celebration."

Appreciation DayFalling in the middle of the

week is National Appreciation Dayfor Catholic Schools, Jan. 30, thisyear themed "SchOOls of Choice­Catholic Schools."

Theme buttons will be distrib­uted nationwide, with the obser­vance designed to promote paren­tal choice in education and toheighten publicawareness.of Cath­olic schools and engender greatersupport for their expansion.

Dr. Robert Kealey, executivedirector of the NCEA ElementarySchools Department, said, "Catho­lic educators have always recog­nized parents as an iritegral part ofthe formal schooling process. Aswe move into the final decade ofthis century, our nation must moveto give all parents an opportunityto select schools for their children­public, private or Catholic schools."

He added that studies indicatethat parents choose Catholicschools for religious education,academic excellence and the re­sponsibility and self-diSFipline in-stilled in students. '

Positive ValuesA new study by the NCEA says

that Catholic students in parochialschools have stronger "pro-family"views, express less support for themilitary and are more willing tocontribute money to the poor thanCatholic students in public schools.

The study also shows that Cath­olic school students attend churchmore regularly, give more moneyto the church and consider religionand religious values in general asmore important to their lives thando public school seniors.

The study compared the atti­tudesofI6,000 Catholic high schoolseniors in parochial schools ascontrasted to Catholic students inpublic schools. NCEA hailed theresults as showing that parochialschools give stronger "positive"influence to students in many areasincluding closer affiliation withthe church in terms ofsocial valuesand moral goals.

"Non-Catholic parents whochoose Catholic schools for theirchildren cite the importance of avalues-added eduction and tradi­tion of academic excellence as thebasis for their selection," said Fa­ther O'Brien.

During the 1980s, both ele­mentary and secondary Catholicschools continued to flourish inurban areas, with a small increasein the percentage of suburbanlocations and a slight decrease inrural areas.

"Ofover 8,700 Catholic schools,34 percennue in urban areas an-d12 percent in inner-city settings­

'numbers which underscore the_strong commitment of Catholic

educators to urban America," saidFather O'Brien.

According to the CatholicSchools Week handbook producedby the NCEA and USCC, Catholicschools observe the week in manyways, ranging from gathering pro­clamations from governors andmayors to fairs and competitions,ceremonies honoring teachers andstudents, food drives for the home­less and local clean-up campaigns.It is also a time of prayer and spe­cial liturgies.

Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan,the U.S. bishops' secretary foreducation, said each day of theweek will be dedicated to a differ­ent topic.

Catholic schools: the kaleidoscope

SISTER MARY FAITH Harding, RSM, principal ofBishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, and freshman scho­larship recipients for the 1990-91 academic year: from left,seated, Amy Dwyer, Katherine McGowan, Elizabeth Hat­mann, Vanessa Cesarz; standing, Patrick Burt, MatthewGaleone, Nathan Cote. (Maguire photo)

Diocesan elementary andsecondary schools will celebrate1991 Catholic Schools Week, Sun­day Jan. 27 through Saturday Feb.2., The week's theme, "A Kaleido­scope of People," will be trans­lated into a kaleidoscope of eventsat schools throughout the nationas well as in the diocese.

In F:r:f:;:~i~a~:iDaniel FATHER RICHARD W. BEAtJLIEU, Director of the DiocesanBogan has proclaimed Jan. 30 as Department of Education, addresses diocesan Catholic educators duringAppreciation Day. for Cath?lic the fall Catholic Education Convention Mass at Bishop Connolly High

--sctroocfs;--stud1:ntri1n--1~HCivc~t-SclIuul;Fall R ivel. (Hickey photo), STUDENTS AT Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, participate in a Mass during a 'and elsewhere in the diocese will

pastoral visit by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. wear red, white and blue buttonswith the message Schools of Cho­ice: Catholic Schools.

Daily ThemesSunday: A Beautiful Vision:

Catholic education, a vision com­prised of many colors and aspects,is centered in school-taught values.Schools strive to provide a non­threatening, joyous atmospherefocusing on formation of a faithcommunity, facilitation of learn-ing and enhancement of each stu­dent's self-concept, self-disciplineand maturity.

Monday: Patterns of Growth:The Catholic classroom is a fertileenvironment for intellectual growthand discovery. Education withinthe special Catholic context alsoenables students to cultivate willand understanding so that the seedsof knowledge may bear fruit.,

Tuesday: Pattern~olc:relltivity:At the heart and soul of Catholiceducation is the family. Parentschoose the Catholic school notonly for academic excellence, butalso because it is a home-away­from-home where family valuesare protected and cultivated.

Wednesday: Patterns of Diver­sity: God loves variety. Truecommunity makes beautiful pat­terns ofdiversity. Catholic schools,teaching a wide range of immi­grant, ethnic, minority and non­Catholic students, strive to recog­nize the gifts and needs of eachindividual for the enhancement ofthe entire community.

Thursday: Patterns ofHarmony:Intrinsic to Catholic education is a

,global perspective that nurtures avision of the world Jesus believedcould exist. Catholic school edu-cators help students grow intoadults who love the world enoughto want to change it into a placewhere people live in harmony,cherishing and sharing God's gifts.

Prayer for world peace and har­mony is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thurs­day at Catholic schools in the east­ern 'united States.

Friday: Patterns of Joy: In thelearning, loving atmosphere ofCatholic schools, a kaleidoscopeof people share their joy in eachother and in God's creation.

Diocesan ActivitiesActivities planned for the week

at diocesan schools follow.Bishop Feehan

Bishop Feehan High School,Attleborq is preparing for CatholicSchools Week under the directionof chaplain Father David Costa.Special activities are planned foreach day.

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"Catholic Schools: A 'Kaleido­scope of People" is the theme ofthis year's Catholic Schools Week,Jan. 27 to Feb. 2.

The annual event, now in its17th year, is designated by theNational Catholic EducationalAssociation and the United StatesCatholic Conference as a time forcelebrating the contributions ofCatholic elementary and secondaryschools to tire church and thenation.

,"The Greek roots of the wordkaleidoscope suggest two majorgoals of the week: appreciationand promotion," said Rev. J. Ste­phen O'Brien, executive directorofthe NCEA Department of ChiefAdministrators. "The theme alsoreflects the rich diversity in Catholicschools today and their' successin teaching students of many eth­nic, religious and socioeconomicgroups."

"For example," he said, "thepercentage of ethnic minority stu­dents has more than doubled in allCatholic schools, from II percentin 1970 to 23 percent in 1990. Afri­can Americans and Hispanic Amer­icans represent the largest segmentsof that 23 percent, followed byAsian Americans."

Another trend is the increase innon-Catholic enrollment, from 10.6percent in 1983 to 12.1 percent in1990.

Catholic Schools Week 1991Johnny can read

AT ';fOP, St. Jean Baptiste third-graders display picturesof saints framed on paper plates; below: we don't know whatthese Dominican Academy students are doing, but they sureseem to be enjoying it. .

place in the community at anygiven moment.

"Being community, or, rather,becoming community is very oftena messy process. Challenges mustbe met; visions reset; errors cor­rected; risks taken.

"Our school is the most vibrantsign of the church's mission toevangelize and we're taking thatmission to heart very seriously."

Father Kaszynski also noted thatschool principal Denita Tremblayand faculty members Robert Cha­rlebois. Julie Borgatti and Ray­mond Romganolo are presentlytaking a course in school devel­opment sponsored by the dioceseand consisting of eight days ofseminars and workshops.

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schools.

tures of school activities. Specialattention will be given to the St.Stanislaus display, which commem­orates the school's 85th anniver­sary, being celebrated this month.

The observance in the parishbegan on Jan. 6, the anniversary ofthe school's opening, with the Massof Thanksgiving followed by abrunch and an Epiphany play bystudents.

In a statement on the anniver­sary, St. Stanislaus pastor FatherRobert S. Kaszynski said, "St.Stanislaus School has been givento us by the Lord as a very pre­cious gift! Our parish school hasnever been something extra ­something outside the daily life ofeveryone in the parish. [The school]is truly a mirror of what is taking

St. Stanislaus celebrates 85th anniversarySt. Stanislaus School, Fall River,

has designed a display for a Catho­lic Schools Week exhibit to beheld in Doric Hall at the State"­house Jan. 29 to 31. .

The annual exhibit, sponsoredby the Massachusetts CatholicConference, highlights contribu­tions of Catholic education to thestate.

This year's exhibit will featuredisplays on the history of Catholiceducation in Massachusetts as wellas student art and science projectsfrom the four Massachusetts dio­ceses.

The Fall River diocese will senda historical poster listing schoolsof the diocese and the dates theywere founded and displaying pic-

Diocesan Department of Education Director Father RichardW. Beaulieu will celebrate the television Mass to be viewed at 8a.m. Sunday on WLNE Channel 6. Associate Superintendentof Schools Sister Michaelinda Plante RSM, will be the readerand diocesan school students will be acolytes. Students fromSt. James-St. John School, New Bedford, will comprise thecongregation and music will be provided by students from St.Anthony's School, New Bedford, and St. Stanislaus School,Fall River.

ble, "Catholicschools provide huge­ly consequential oases of impactand hope. Their value is-literallyas well as figuratively-beyondmeasure."

A Seven-Year Plan"Our church and our nation

have been enriched because ofthe_quality of education provided inCatholic schools over the last 300j·ears.... Now we are called to'sus­iain andexpand this vital(1' impor­tan( ministry of the church, .. theU.S. bishops say in a statement ofsupport Jor Catholic elementaryand secondar.I' schools approvedNov. 14 during their fall meeting.the statement commits thein "tocertain seven~year goals as a signof... affirmation of the principleslaid down" In their 1972 pastoralletter _"To Tea('h as Jesus Did."The bishops' goals for the letter's25th anniversarl' in 1997 are "thatCatholic schoois will continue toprovide high quality educationforall their students in a contextinfused with Gospel values, .. that"serious ellotls will be made toensure that Catholic schools areavailablefor Catholic parents whowish to sendtheir children to them, ..that "new initiatives will belaunched to secure sufficient.financial assistancefrom both pri­vate and public sectors" and that"salaries and bene,fitsfor Catholicschoolteachers andadministratorswill reflect" the bishops 'teachingson economic .iilst~e. The state­ment includes initial actions forachieving the goals. It also instructsthe U. S. Catholic ConferenceEducation Committee to ';developastrategicplanfor Catholic schools"10 be presentedfor our considera­tion no later than 1995." (fromOrigins, a publicatiOfi ofCatholicNews Service)

Continued from Page Ninethat is becoming more diverse, andless Catholic, every year?

It's a combination of things,beginning with experience. Manyof this nation's Catholic schoolswere originally established specifi­cally to edycate immigrant child­ren. In addition, today's Catholicschool classroom populations are

-generally small, allo...wing teachersto give their students more indi­vidual attention. Researchers, edu­cators, parents and the studentsthemselves, identify these qualitiesas intrinsic to the Catholic school'ssuccess in educating a diverse stu­dent body: Catholic school teach­ers' superior motivation skills and"greater interest in students andtheir parents; true cooperation be­tween parents and school staff;strict classroom discipline; greaternumbers of required academiccourses for all students; and acommitment to nurturing strongpersonal values such as self disci­pline and respect for others.

The Catholic schools' successserves not just the Catholic com­munity, but all ofAmerican society.Catholic schools enhance the entireAmerican educational system byproviding the healthy competitionthat spurs public and other privateschools towards improvement. Inthe inner city, they offer an oppor­tunity for a quality of educationthat many urban kids might nototherwise have. Coleman has point­ed out that the Catholic schooldraws people into cohesive com­munities, binding generations inways that the extinct extendedfamily and the rapidly disappear­ing nuclear family used to do. AsMalcolm Forbes wrote in an edi­torial entitled What Big Cities Oweto Catholic Schools is Incalcula-

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Bishop Leroy T. Matthiesen of. Amarillo, Texas, urged his people

"to observe Wednesday and Fri­day of every week as a day of fast,almsgiving and prayer for peace'with justice until hostilities end,men and women in the service oftheir countries can return to theirfamilies and normal life berestored."

"Our tradition is rich in callingfor fasting at times of great crisis,"Archbishop John R. Roach of St.Paul-Minneapolis said in an appealto his people to join their prayersfor peace with weekly fasting onFridays.

Archbishop Adam J. Maida ofDetroit asked his people to jointhe commitment made by the U.S.bishops in their 1983 pastoral let-

against "unjust aggression" was a"legitimate, though grave option."

Prior to Jan. 16, when hostilitiesbegan, several prominent U.S. Cath­olic leaders either urged caution indeciding on war or called for apolitical solution.

Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Ber­nardin said before the war beganthat military action would notmeet the church's standards for a"just war." Those standards requirethat human, economic and othercosts J11ust be in proportion to thegood sought, and that all avenuesto peace must be exhausted beforeresorting to violence.

Following the outbreak of war,the head of the U.S. bishops' con­ference, Cincinnati ArchbishopDaniel E. Pilarczyk, said that themilitary campaign must take allreasonable steps to "safeguard hu­man life, minimize casualties andto ensure that the means of war areproportionate to the values to bedefended."

Catholic Iraqi-Americans of theChaldean rite prayed for peace asa ferocious air bombardment hittheir ancestral land.

Hours before the war began,Father Manuel Boji, an Iraqipriest at Mother of God ChaldeanChurch in Southfield, Mich., saidparishioners told him the war"hurts. It:s very hard."

Father Boji also said Iraqi-Amer­icans feared they were being brand­ed as terrorists because of theirethnic background. The U.S. Bureauof Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearmshad raided several Detroit areahomes Jan. 16 on suspicion Iraqi-

. Americans were making explosives.European bishops condemned

the commencement of hostilities.The French, German and Swiss

bishops, in ajoint statement, calledit "a defeat for the community of

. nations in its desire to reestablishjustice and peace through politicalmeans" and also warned that thewar could "reawaken uncontrolledanimosities among peoples, amongraces and among followers of dif­ferent religions.

Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sab­bah of Jerusalem said the attackson Israel "show th;lt the entireregion is one region, that all itsproblems are one."

"I hope the intern,ational com­munity will learn a lesson fromthis war," said the patriarch, whois the first Arab to head the'ancientsee, "that it should find new andpeaceful solutions to problems."

Worldwide ReactionsCatholic leaders worldwide, in

reacting to war in the PersianGulf, have expressed views rang­ing from outspoken opposition tothe use offorce to outright supportfor Iraqi President Saddam Hus­sein.

The pope has devoted continualpublic statements to urging theU.S.-led coalition and Iraq to stopthe fighting and negotiate a set­tlement of Iraq's annexation ofneighboring Kuwait last August.He has worried publicly about anexpansion of the war and the dangerposed to civilians.

On Jan. 19 he met with IraqiChristian leaders and prayed withthem for a quick end to the PersianGulf war.

The Christian delegation, led byCatholic Chaldean Patriarch Ra­phael I Bidawid, said afterwardthat the pope was sympathetic totheir concerns and especially wor­ried about civilian victims of themassive allied bombing campaignagainst Iraq.

Patriarch Raphael has been astaunch public supporter of hispresident and friend Saddam Hus­sein.

From the United States to thePhilippines, Catholic clerics havedeplored the war, urged prayersfor the troops, or warned that thewar zone could easily widen.

,U.S. Catholic clergy were some­what divided on the use offorce todislodge Iraqi occupation forcesfrom Kuwait, with the majorityagainst warfare.

Archbishop Joseph T. Ryan ofthe archdiocese for the MilitaryServices said in a Jan. 15 letter tochaplains that using armed force

COYLE-CASSIDY students pause for prayer beforeDesert Storm display in the Taunton high school's foyer.(Breen photo)

Seniors at Bishop Feehan High.School, Attleboro, have sent let­ters and baked goods to 10 alumniserving in the Mideast. A studentcouncil-sponsored peace vigil heldimmediately prior to the deadlinefor Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwaitjoined some 200 students, relatives,faculty and neighbors in song andsilent intercession.

On Wednesday members of PaxChristi ofSoutheastern Massachu­setts attended a Mass for peace atSt. Vincent's Home chapel, FallRiver, followed by a meeting atwhich pro-peace actions were dis­cussed.

They included prayer, fasting. and various "prayerful public wit­

nesses" for an end to hostilities.

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Paul II at a Jan. (6 general au­dience. It also echoed the words ofPaul VI.

It follows:o God of our fathers,great and mercifulLord of peace and of life,Father of all,You whose designs are forpeace and not for affliction,condemn warsand devastate the pride ofthe violent.You sent your son Jesusto proclaim peace to thosenear and farto reunite people of all racesand descent .in a single family ..Hear the unanimous cry ofyour children,the sorrowful entreaty ot allhumanity:Never again war, adventure'without return;Never again war, spiral ofstruggle and violence;Never this war in the PersianGulf,threat to your creatures,in the sky, on earth and inthe sea.In communion with Mary,the Mother of Jesus,We continue to implore you:Speak to the hearts of thosein charge of the destiny ofpeoples;Stop the. logic of retaliationand revenge;Suggest with your Spirit newsolutions,Generous and honorable ges­tures,Spaces for dialogue andpatient waiting,Which are more fruitful thanrushed deadlines of war.Grant to our timesDays of peace.No war ever again.Amen.

The bishop concluded by askingprayers for Bush "and his tre­mendous responsibility to guidethis nation," for the United Nations,the citizens and the leader of Iraq,"that he may contribute to thecause of peace and cease hostilities." ,

Above all, said the bishop, "wepray for the good men and womenin the armed forces."

In other peace initiatives in thediocese, special prayers were of­fered in diocesan churches andschools. Earlier this month theentire student body of Taunton

. Catholic Middle School marchedto Taunton Green in a show ofsupport for 772nd Division sol­diers departing for Saudi Arabia.Many students will write to localservicemen whose' addresses theyobtained during the departure cere­monies.

Also at TCMS, students partic­ipated in homeroom prayer servi­ces for peace and added signedpaper peace doves to yellow rib­bons and white lights on a "peacetree" in the school lobby. Thesigned doves signalize pledges to"pray for peace in the world andwork for peace at home." Theywere designed by student JohnClift.

At Coyle-Cassidy High School,also in Taunton, prayers for peaceare said daily with special mentionofTaunton's 772nd Military PoliceCompany, and yellow ribbqns a­dorn classroom doors and theschool entrance. A Desert Stormdisplay is on view in the mainfoyer, listing names of alumni, rel­atives and friends on duty in thePersian Gulf. .

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with the number of married priestsa tiny fraction of this.

The numbt:r of married priests"is small and "not a dramatic prob­lem for our church," said FatherTomas Halik, a clandestinely or­dained priest who is now secretaryof the Czech section of the Cze­choslovakian bishops' conference.

"This was never done as an idealfor the future church," he said.

"These were persecution times.People did this in good faith," hesaid.

"One of the arguments forordaining married men was thatthe secret police suspected celi­bates as clandestine priests," hesaid.

Father Halik added that somemarried men had been ordainedwith permission because they weresupposed to be assigned to theSlovak rite but remained in theLatin church.

The Slovak rite is an EasternCatholic Church with about390,000 members.

Father Halik said he doubtedthat men unmarried at ordinationlater married. Other officials, how­ever, said that there are cases ofmen marrying after ordination.

Clandestinely ordained Czecho­slovak priests fall into two cate-gories: _

- Those ordained outside Cze­choslovakia in neighboring Polandand East Germany by publiclyordained bishops.

- Those ordained in Czechos­lovakia by clandestinely ordainedbishops.,

The major problems, involvepriests ordained in Czechoslovakia.

Under church procedures, theyhave to prove that they were validlyordained'. This often means prov­ing that the person p'erforming theceremony also was validly ordaineda bishop.

The problem is further compli­cated as some people say they wereordained by clandestine bish­ops who are now dead and wereout of contact with public churchofficials for long periods of time.In these cases..reliable witnesses tosuch ordinations are needed.

In contrast, the German andPolish bishops who ordained menwere able to keep a secret file andpass the names. to the Vatican. saidFather Halik. who was ordainedin 1978 in East Germany.

Pope John Paull I. when he wasCardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow.Poland, used to secretly ordainmen from Czechoslovakia. saidFather Halik:

Validly ordained marriedpriests in the Latin rite pose anadditional problem.

Under chur<:h rules, the Vaticanwould have to make an exceptionif it were to allow the marriedpriests to minister in the Latin church.The other option would be to rec­ognize their marriages. allowingthem to live as Catholics in goodstanding but not as functioningpriests.

Holiness"Holiness was not made by Jesus.

a qualification for membe~ship inhis church. Rather, the reverse; thejust are in less urgent need thansinners. At "ny given moment theChurch seems to be made up ofpeople on tht: road to heaven,people on the road to hell, andpeople going nowhere in particu­lar. So it was in the beginning. SoJesus knew it would be."--FrankSheed

Problems include:- Determining whether some­

one claiming to be a bishop wasvalidly ordained by another bishop.

- Determining whether some-one claiming to be a priest. wasvalidly ordained by a bishop,

- Determining whether a validlyordained bishop had the specialpermission to conduct clandestineordinations.

- The status of married menwho were theoretically ordainedfor the Eastern rite. which allows amarried clergy, but who de factoremained in the Latin rite. whichforbids married priests.

No statistics or reliable estima'tesare available yet regarding thenumber of bishops and priestsclandestinely ordained. as claim­ants are still coming forth.

Some officials say that aS'manyas 20 bishops and several hundredpriests may have been clandestinelyordained.'Most estimates are lower.putting the figure closer to 100

Secret ordinations poseproblem for Vatican

VATICAN CITY (CNS) ­Church freedom in Czechoslova­kia has produced a sticky problemfor the Vatican; normalizing thestatus of the numerous secret I}'ordained bishops and priests, someof whom are married.

Vatican imd Czechoslovakchurch officials say the problem ofmarried priests is a small part ofthe larger issue of determiningwho was validly ordained and howto integrate these clandestinepriests into normal church struc­tures and parish life.

Some do not want their statusnormalized. preferring to continueworking informally through theirsecular profession, said churchofficials.

These priests say people havegreater confidence in them becausethey share their daily hardships

, and situations. according to thechurch officials. _

There are also rumors that at 'least one clandestine bishop or­dained women deacons. Vaticanand Czechoslovak officials saidthey are aware of the rumors butcannot verify-them.

The overall issue is in the handsof the Vatican Congregation for.the Doctrine of the Faith. which isreviewing information forwardedfrom Czechoslovakia. Congrega­tion officials told Catholic NewsService they are not authorized todiscuss the situation.

Czechoslovak and other Vati­can officials. however, outlinedthe complex problems that areemerging.

'The problems stem from 40 yearsof often-harsh communist rep res:sion. which forced the develop-.ment of an underground church

'- with secret seminaries and ordina­tions as a safeguard against thetotal destruction of Catholic life,

This underground church paral­leled the highly restricted publicone.

ing about. the need to name cardi~

nals is relatively easy. The realguessing game is figuring out whenthe pope will make the announce­ment.

The pope keeps the date a closesecret. doing most of the prepara­tory work himself. Vatican offi­cials say that the Secretariat ofState does not usually find outuntil four days before the an­nouncement.

During his 12-year pontificate.the pope has named cardinals fourtimes. Each time he has announcedthe names about a month beforethe date of the consistory for theirformal induction.

The time lag allows cardinals­designate to clear their calendarsto attend the Vatican ceremonies.It also gives their friends and rela­tives lead time to organize grouptrips to witness the ceremonies.

The pope has favored the mid­dle of the year for holding consis­tories. Two have been in June andone in May. Yet May and June of,this year are busy times. with twoforeign trips and publication ofone social encyclical planned.

April, however. is fairly free onthe pope's calendar. So is Febru­ary up to Ash Wednesday. Feb.13. when Lent begins. Then muchof the pope's time becomes dedi­cated to a one-week spiritual retreatand the liturgical ceremonies lead­ing to Easter.

It's fruitlessVATICANCITY(CNS)-- Popc

John Paul II said world events'have shown that "class strugglc" isfruitless as a way toward socialjustice. The pope commented dur­ing a series of talks on "RerumN ovaru in," the 1891 social encyc­lical of Pope Leo X III. RerumNovarum held it was wrong toassume that social classes areenemies of one another or that therich and poor are in an implacablestruggle.

tifical Council for the Interpreta­tion of Legislative Texts.

Traditionally, popes put cardi­nals at the heads of these offices asa sign of the importance of theirwork.

As the new year began, the popecould name up to 18 cardinals tothe College of Cardinals, Churchrules limit the college to 120members under the age of 80.These are the people eligible toelect a pope. There is no limit onthe number of cardinals over 80.

There are currently 142 cardi­nals. including 102 under 80.

The record number is 161.established in 1988.

Besides top-level curial officials,the title of cardinal is given toheads of major archdioceses aroundthe world. This means that withthe current vacallcies. the popecould boost the heads of many seesthat traditionally have been headedby cardinals.

It would also allow him to,strengthen hierarchies - by privi­leging them with a cardinal - innewly emerging mission landswhere Catholicism is starting totake hold.

Th'e same is true in the Polishpope's backyard of Eastern Europe,where centuries-old but institu­tionally weakened .churches aredigging out from under the rubbleof communist rule.

For Vatican watchers, speculat-

Prelate will stay in IraqVATICAN CITY (CNS) - born prelate with long experience

There are no plans to withdraw as a Vatican official.Archbishop Marian ales. Vaticanpronuncio to Iraq. despite theescalating Gulf war. Vati'can offi­cials said.

.. An archbishop's responsibilityis to stay at his post" in troubledtimes. said one official.

The Vatican embassy is locatedin Baghdad.

The decision that Archbishopales should remain in Ir'aq wasmade prior to the start of bombingand has not changed, Vatican offi-

. cials said. 'Chaldean Patriarch Raphael I

Bidawid, Iraq's top Catholic leader.praised the decision as "a gestureof goodwill" that was "very muchappreciated by the Iraqi govern­ment." he,said while in Rome tomeet Pope John Paull!.

A Vatican representative "is notlike other diplomats." said oneVatican diplomat. describing pol­icy. "He is also an archbishop. andhas a duty to stay near the Chris­tian community, near the peoplewho suffer."

Archbishop ales, 55. is a Polish-

When being an archbishop isn't eno~ghVATICAN CITY (CNS) - An

archbishop is near the top of theinstitutional church's hierarchicalladder. But sometimes being anarchbishop is a rung short of what'sneeded.

Such is the case of Italian Arch­bishop Angelo Sodano, thechurch's most powerful officialafter Pope John Paul II. .

Under church rules, the 63-year­old archbis'hop's job is reserved toa cardinaL So, as the Vatican win­ter progresses. ru mors' 'snowballthat the'pope is about to announcenew members for the College ofCardinals, with ArchbishopSodano topping the list.

Speculation started Dec. I whenthe pop,e named ·ArchbishopSodano to succeed Cardinal Agos­tino Casaroli as papal secretary ofstate, the pope's chief assistant inrunning the universal affairs of theCatholic Church.

"Pastor Bonus," the apostolicc~nstitution containing the rulesfor the Roman Curia. the church'scentral administrative offices, givesthe full title as "Cardi nal Secretaryof State." ,

Currently, Archbishop Sodano'sformal title is pro-secretaryof state.meaning that he is acting head ofthe secretariat. Technically. his jobis not permanent until he movesinto the cardinal ranks.

A practical but unspoken rea­son for requiring the secretary ofstate to; be a cardinal is that heoften gives orders to other cardi­nals. In a hierarchical structure,barking out instructions is diffi­cult when looking upward at thenext rung on the ladder.

A case in point is CardinalCasaroli. also an archbishop whenthe pope appointed him on April28, 1979. Two months later, onJune 30, he and 13 others wereinducted into the College ofCardinals. '

Fueling the speculation is thefact that another high-rankingVatican official is in the same boatwith Archbishop Sodano: ItalianArchbishop Pio Laghi, 68, namedto head the Vatican Congregationfor Cathoiic Education last April6. Church rules also require thatprefects of congregations be 'car­dinals. Since taking office, Arch­bishop Laghi has had the title ofpro-prefect.

Two other high-ranking Vati­can officials are also in line forpromotion. although rules do notrequire that their jobs go to cardi­nals. They are Australian Archbi­shop Edward Cassidy, 66, presi­dent of the Pontifical Council forPromoting Christian Unity, andItalian Archbishop VincenzoFagiolo. 72, president of the Pon-

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nology enlisted by the New Yorkarchdiocese to aid in verifyingToussaint's remains.

No headstone marked Tous­saint's grave in the cemetery of OldSt. Patrick's Church in New York.but with the aid of an imprecisegraveyard map drawn by a parishpriest in 1906. a skull was locatedand unearthed Nov. 9. Four dayslater, it was determined that.it wasthat of an elderly black male.

After comparing the skull andarchival photo with the aid ofcomputer imaging. Turkel said hehad "no doubt' at all that theremains were Toussaint's."

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Archival photo identifiescandidate for sainthood

THIS WET PLATE photo of Pierre Toussaint. found inthe archives of Columbia University, proved crucial in identi­fying the remains of the man who may become the first blackNorth American saint. (CNS/ Columbia University photo)

NEW YORK (CNS) - A rarephotograph in the Columbia Uni­versity archives identified the re­mains of Pierre Toussaint beforethe candidilte for sainthood couldoe interred in December in NewYork's 51. Patrick's Cathedral.

The photo was taken by formerColumbia University PresidentNathaniel Fish Moore sometimeafter 1851. Toussaint died in 1853.

Born a slave in Haiti .in· '1766,To'us~aint became a resident ofNew York when he was brought tothe city by his owner in 1787.

Allowed to keep some of themoney he made as a hairdresser.he bought his freedom and secretlysupported the family of his master.who had died on a return visit toHaiti., By the time of Toussaint's death,

he was known ,for his works ofcharity and ·his devotion to theEucharist. ,

New York Card'inal John J.O'Connor formally launched Tous­saint's cause for canonization inDecember 1989.

Exhumation is required by the. Vatican Congregation for Saint­hood Causes for verification of theremains of a candidate for saint-hood. .

Finding Toussaint's remai~shadbeen the first hurdle, reportedSpencer J. Turkel, a professor atthe New York Institute of Tech-

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35Jan. 30: Heb 10:11-18;Ps 110:1-4; Mk 4:1-20Jan. 31: Heb 10:19-25;Ps 24:1-6; Mk 4:21-25Feb. 1: Heb 10:32-39; Ps37:3-6,23-24,39-40; Mk4:26-34Feb. 2: Mal 3:1-4; Ps24:7-10; Heb 2:14-18; Lk2:22-40 or 2:22-32Feb. 3: Dt 18:15-20; Ps95:1-2,6-9; 1 Cor 7:32­35; Mk 1:21-28

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Jan. 281947, Rev. Joseph M. Griffin.

Pastor. St. Mary. Nantucket1961, Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J.

Shay. Pastor. St. John Evangelist,Attleboro

Train Lovingly"Train the minds of your chiiCi­

reno Do not give them wrong ideasor wrong reasons for things... traintheir minds lovingly and patient­ly."-Pope Pius XI

Jan. 291944. Rev. Christiano J. Borges.

Pastor. St. John Baptist. New Bed­ford

1950. Rev. Albert J. Masse.Pastor. St. Joseph. Attleboro

Jan. 3019l13. Rev. Raymond F.X. Cahill.

S.L Assistant. St. Francis Xavier.Hyannis

Jan. 311901. Rev. Charles J. Burns.

Pastor. SI. Mary. No. Attleboro1930. Rev. William F. Sullivan.

Pastor. St. Patrick. Somerset1930. Rev. Manuel C. Terra.

Pastor. S1:. Peter. Provincetown

Feb. I1948. Rt. Rev. Msgr. MichaelJ.

O'Reilly. Pastor. Immaculate Con­ception.Taunton

1961l, Rt. Rev. Patrick Hurley.Pastor, St. Joseph. Taunton

1975. Rev. Anatole F. Desma­·rais. Pastor. St. James. Taunton

1983. Rev. Msgr. Gerard J.Chabot. Pastor. St. Theresa of theChild Jesus. So. Attleboro

Jan. 271919. Rev. John T. O·Grady.

Assistant .. Immaculate Conception,Fall River

1955. Rev. Joseph M. Silvia..Pastor, St. Michael. Fall River

19l1ll, Rev. Thomas E. Lockary,CSc. Stonehill College. ~orth

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 2,5, 199.1...".'.\ . . .

SHANNON MORRISEY demonstrates the dribble thatearned her a trip to Japan's national wheekhair basketballtournament. (CNS photo)

Dominican AcademyDominican Acad~my,Fall River,

will open Catholic ~ch~oIs Weekwith an internatio~!lJ-themeliturgyq;:lebrated b'y Father Craig Pre­gana. A proces'sion honoring OurLady of Guadalupe will precedeeach day's events during the week.

Among planned activit\es is aMad Hatters' Day for Which stu­dents 'will Wl~ar' crazy hats andmixed-up clothes.

Also to be held this week are astudent-faculty basketball game; atalent contest directed by musicteacher John Travers; and astudent-appre:ciation day to bemarked by dn:ss-up clothes and nohomework. . "

spaghetti supper and family talentnight will be held at 6 p.m. in Fa­ther Coady Center and the 1991Distinguished Alumni Award willbe presented.

Appreciation Day buttons and.sweatshirts will be worn on Wed­nesday and local business peoplewill join students in a "Jeopardy"competition using a lighted panelboard constru.:ted by fifth gradersduring their study of electricity.

On Thursday, students andfaculty will join hands to form a"prayer kaleidoscope" in theschoolyard as part of a prayer forpeace to be held in eastern U.S.Catholic schools at 2 p.m.

Kids on thl~' Block puppeteerswill perform for grades I through3 on Friday in a program to fosterunderstanding of persons withhandicaps. Also, the school willhost a cable TV workshop forCatholic school teachers to bepresented by personnel from localcable channels. .

motivated" and said, "I don't haveto keep after her. A lot of kids herage - able-bodied kids - won'tdo what she does."

"Shannon's real future is intrack," said her coach, Fred Lind­sey. "There are no limits to whatshe can do." .

He described Shannon as "self-

with students wearing blue andgold, the school colors. Eighthgraders will sponsor a pizza lunch,and older and younger studentswill be paired for art projects.

On Wednesday, AppreciationDay, there will be open housefrom 9 to 11:30 a.m, giving fami­lies and friends the opportunity tovisit students in the classroom.

Children will- bring thank-younotes for their teachers on Thurs':day, teacher appreciation day.Parent volunteers will supervisestudents in the schoolyard. Stu­dents will join in a 2 p.m. prayer·for peace in the eastern UnitedStates.

On Friday, younger studentswill go bowling, and upper gradeswill go roller skating. Dismissalwill beat 11:30a.m. so that teachersmay attend workshops.

Registration for new studentswill be held Feb; 4 to 8.

SS. Peter and' Paul·Student council members from

SS. Peter and Paul School, FallRiver, will distribute Appreciation·Day buttons at ·weekend Masses.Parents and grandparents will share·reflections on the parish schoolafter communion at each Mass.

On' Monday fourth graders willwrite notes of appreciation to staffmembers of the diocesan educa­tion office and valehtines promis­ing prayers will be sent to patie.ntsat the Rose Hawthrone LathropHome. Students in each classroomwill receive a surprise from,theirteacher.

On Tuesday, students will designsquares for a family quilt to bedisplayed at the church ~ntranceatthe close of Schools Week. A

Third-grade athleteis on a roll

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (CNS)- Shannon Morrisey, an interna­tionally recognized athlete, pushesherself to school in a wheelchair.

Otherwise, Shannon is a typicalthird-grader at Holy Spirit Schoolin Overland Park, Kan. She is aBrownie Scout, recently enteredthe slumber party stage of life andsays she wants to be a veterinarianwhen she grows up.

Spina bitida, a disability markedby imperfect closure of part of thespinal column, once set Shannonapart from other children her age.Now talent and determination aredoing it. She has been making hermark in the fast-growing field ofwheelchair sports for the past twoyears.

"To us, it's the best thing she canbe involved in, as far as her fitnessis concerned, learning team sportsand being with these other kids inchairs," said her mother, PattyMorrisey. "It has really been reward­ing."

Last September, Shannon andfellow teammates on the KansasCity Rolling Pioneers were honoredguests at Japan's national wheel­chair basketball tournament.

"U.S. wheeIehair sports are muchmore advanced" rhan in Japan,said Mrs. Morrisey, who accom­panied her daughter on the trip."Shannon's team was invited partlyto teach and partly for public rela­tions ~ to spread the idea thatpeople in wheelchairs all oVer theworld compete in sports."

Last summer, at ajunior nationaltrack and field meet in Colorado,Shannon set a national record inthe club throw, a preliminary tothe discus. She also placed fourthin four different track events: the100-, 200-, 400- and 800-meterraces.

dress down on Wednesday, Stu­dent Day.

Report cards will be distributedon Thursday, Hall of Fame Day.For kindergarten students, Thurs­day will be Dinosaur Day.

The week closes on Friday withSpirit Day.

St. JosephThe week will open with a fam­

ily dance from 6:30 to 9:30 p:m.tomorrow at St. Joseph's School,Fairhaven. Families will also gather,for a 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday, atwhich Appreciation Day buttonswill be distributed.

An assembly and awardsceremony will be held on Monday,during which all-stars, a gold medalaward winner, art and composi­tion contest winners, and studentson the second quarter honor roll 'will be recognized.

Tuesday: will be School SpiritDay, for'which students will dressdown and wear "spirit clothes;"

. the annual science fair will be heldfrom 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday;and relatives and friends are invitedto a concert by children in allgrades beginning at 9:30 a.m.Thursday. :

A closing liturgy will be held at 9a:m. Friday, followed by anappreciation luncheon for staffmembers. .

St. MichaelParents, students and staff of

St. Micha'el School, Fall River,will join in a family Mass at 10:30a.m. Sunday at which parents willreceive Appreciation Day buttonsto wear during the week.

Monday classroom activities willreflect the Patterns of Growththeme; Tuesday will be a spirit day

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St. AnneSt. Anne's School, Fall River,

will kick off the week with a'Superbowl breakfast and book fairon Sunday.

On Monday, science fair pro­jects will be displayed and judgedin the auditorium together withscience videos, demonstrations andliterature.

A 7 p.m. ceremony Tuesday,followed by a reception, will markthe school's receipt of its certifi­cate of accreditation.

Faculty members have desig­nated Thursday to be "PrayerPartners Day." Big brothers andsisters in the upper grades willwork with prayer partners in lowergrades on projects aimed at en­hancing global perspectives.

Friday students will be dismissedat 11:30 a.m. Teachers will join ina cable TV workshop on how to'use educational programming inthe classroom.

. Registration .for. new studentswill take place from 9 a.m. to noonFeb. 2 for parishioners and from 9 .a.m. to noon Feb. 9 for non­parishioners.

St. Jean BaptisteAt .St. Jean Baptiste School,

Fall River,the week begins w.ith aVocational Ventures program dur­ing which st'udents will. hearspeakers on different careers.

On Tuesday, "A Kaleidoscopeof Activities" will be offered, withstudents attending workshops oftheir choice.

Wednesday, Feed the HungryDay"begins with a 10 a.m. Massfollowed by collection of cannedgoods for a local soup kitchen.

On Th ursday, kindergartenthrough second grade children willtreat grandparents' to a9 a.m.breakfast. At noon students willserve lunch as a ges.ture of thanksto volunteers.

Friday will be. "Mad Hatter.Dress-Down Day" with dismissal'at II :30 a.m. so that teachers mayattend a workshop at SS. Peterand Paul School.

St. John EvangelistSt. John the Evangelist School,

Attleboro, plans a "KaleidoscopeKids" basketball tournament forgrades 4 through 6 during CatholicSchools Week.

Prayers will be held at 8:30 a.m.each day, and a schools week Masswill take place at I: 15 p. m. Mon"day, which is themedSeniors Day.

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That evening students will enjoya skating party from 6:30 to 8:30p.m.

Tuesday is themed Kaleidoscopeof People. Students will dress inethnic costumes and share familycustoms, folktales, stories andgames. Intercom prayers will beoffered by grades 3 and 4.

Wednesday will be TeacherAppreciation Day. Students willwear their favorite socks, sweatersand sneakers. Ice cream will beprovided with lunch. Grades 7 and8 will offer intercom prayers andconduct a school prayer service atI p.m. A faculty tea will be held'after school.

Thursday's theme is Kaleido­scope of Books. Students will bringtheir teddy bears and curl up witha book for a schoolwide storyhour. Grades I and 2 will presentintercom prayers.

On Friday; School Spirit Day,students will celebrate a Kaleido­scope of Friends and Fun with"classroom picnics." All will bringa brown bag lunch as well as atreat for a friend's lunch. Studentswill also we'ar crazy hats and par­ticipate in a.field day in the gym at12:30 p.m.. Preschool and kindergarten will

present Friday's intercom prayers.'Kaleidoscope of Family will be

the theme for a 4 p.m. Feb. 2 clos­ing Mass at Holy Name Church. Aspaghetti supper and family dancewill follow in Holy Name Center.

Notre DameCreative hats will be worn by

stl\dent.s, teachers and staff ill NotreDame School, Fall River, on Mon­day. In the afternoon, youngerstudents will work with "bigbrothers and sisters" to make val­entines for nursing home reSidents.

Tuesday will ·be Parents andGrandparents Day, and Wednes­day morning will be letter-writingtime, followed by a hot dog lunch.

On Thursday, Color Day, child­ren will wear colors assigned totheir class, report cards will be.senthome and there will be a video andpopcorn treat. Friday will closethe week with a 9 a.m. Mass towhich relatives and friends· areinvited. Dismissal will be at 11:30.a.m.

Reregistration for present stu­dents will take place all week,. ,. .

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"I have seen both sides, butCanada hasus beat by far," saysDianne. :'They really take care oftheir people."

heard of the" Message to Garcia,"and I wager you'll get no for ananswer. Don't be surprised. Ourgrandchildren are not readingHubbard's, inspirational essay.They're reading very little.

Students are reading only whatthey are forced to. Vocabulariesare limited because of familyfragmentation, absent parents insingle-parent families, over­whelmed parents who are bothworking and kids over-involved insports, entertainment and TV.

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Confucius said 24 centuries agothat he would correct human lan­guage if he were ruler of China. "Iflanguage is not correct," he said,"then what is said is not what ismeant. If what is said is not what ismeant, then what ought to be doneremains undone.

the home care services available to'help caregivers cope - like helpwith house~ork, laundry, andfeeding and bathing the patient.

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Medicare does not cover homecare services for the chronically ill.Medicare is geared towards cop­ing with acute illness, not longterm care.

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Two grandmas, two crises, two nations

It was like bumping into an oldfriend. Bound in neat hand-tooledleather, the 36-page' 4 1/ 2-by-6­i'nch book came to light among theitems left to my wife by her AuntAlyce.

Elbert Hubbard's"A Messageto Garcia" is an 1898 essay distrib­uted in more than 40 million copies-the largest circulation of anyliterary venture in the lifetime ofthe author - who died in the 1915sinking of the Lusitania.

Hubbard's tribute to the personwho takes an order, does not equiv­~cate, acts swiftly and gets the jobdone was circulated and translatedinto "all written languages,"according to the author.

"A Message to Garcia" maysound a little old-fashioned today,but it was read and rememberedby untold millions of school child­ren early this century. "The point Iwish to make is this:" the authorwrote.

"McKinley gave Rowan a letterto be delivered to Garcia; Rowantook the letter and did not ask,'Where is he atT By the Eternal!There is a man whose form shouldbe cast in deathless bronze and thestatue placed in every college inthe land."

Ask your grandchildren - orev~n your children - if they ever

By Ron PollackExecutive Director, Families

USA Foundation

Last Sunday morning, DianneGodesa emptied her mother's urinebag, cleaned her up, fed her break­fast, and went to church. Diannewould have liked to attend Sundayschool as well but was afraid toleave her mother by herself forthat long. "An Alzheimer's patientis just like a two-year-old," sheexplains,

A few weeks ago, Dianne's hus­band and children went off to visittheir grandfather in Canada.Dianne had to stay home. The lasttime Dianne got away was severalyears ago - when she went to thehospital to have a hysterectomy.

Dianne's mother, a widow withno other children, developed Alz­heimer's disease seven years agoand requires constant attention ­attention Dianne does not be­grudge.

"Thafs my mother. I'm herdaughter. It's my responsibility,"Dianne says.

Hostage in Her Own Home.In America, 70% of the non­

institutionalized disabled elderlyare cared for by family andfriends. The' relentless responsibil­ity of constant supervision of anAlzheimer's patient can tak,e itstoll, as Dianne knows: "I feel like ahostage in my own home."

Demands on caregivers' timeare complicated by demands on theirpocketbooks. According to theAlzheimer's''Assoc'iation, the costto a family caring for an Alzhei­mer's patient at home averages$18,000 per year. ,

Dianne's mother could qualifyfor Medicaid funding to help payfor institutional care. But Diannewants to keep her mother at home,with the family. "When I walk intoher room and she's happy to seeme I think, "How could we everconsider sending her awayT"

What Dianne could use is finan­cial assistance to pay for some of

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Racism seen risingNEWORLEANS(CNS)- Rac­

ism is on the rise in the UnitedStates and the Catholic Churchthrough its parishes should take aleading role in combating it, said·Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Fran­cis of Newark, N.J. The advances"of the civil rights movement inthe '60s were done on the legal andjudicial fronts. But it wasn't doneon a moral basis," said BishopFrancis, in New Orleans recentlyto address 175 priests at a confer­ence on racism and how parishescan help eliminate it.

guidelines for music ministers calledfor by 'he U.S. bishops' Commit­tee on the Liturgy.

Until churches begin payingmusicians a just salary. FatherFunks aid, "we will have 'pastorssatisfied with mediocre music whiletheir parishioners will be discon­tent with the music that they areasked to sing."

The. average salary of $24,500among lay professionals -- notcounting men and women religious._. working for the church comesfrom a 1988 nationwide study.

The study showed that although93 percent of the professionalssurveyed had a bachelor's degreeand two-thirds had a master'sdegree or above, their medianincome from church employmentwas more than $5,000 below ~he

national median income of headsof households who have bache­lor's degrees and more than $12,000below that of people with master'sdegrees.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTONBible study series begins 9:30 a.m.

Feb. 5, rectory.

ST. MARY, NORTONCanned goods for distribution to

the needy by Vincentians will be col­lected each first weekend at thechurch.SS. PETER & PAUL, FR

A parent of a parochial schoolstudent will speak at each weekendMass on Catholic education.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON,N. FALMOUTH

Discussion group will be held at9:30 a.m. Wednesdays and 7 p.m.Sundays throughout Lent.

SACRED HEART, NBAppreciation night for parish

volunteers Feb. 9. Call rectory toregister.

Church musicians saydough's a sour note

WASHINGTON(CNSj- Lowpay is one of the reasons for ashortage of qualified Catholicchurch musicians in the UnitedStates and dissatisfaction with themusic in Catholic parishes, saysthe National Association of Pas­toral Musicians.

Results of a survey of 69 dio­ceses recently released by the asso­ciation indicated that the averagefulltime professional church music­ian is paid $19.810 -- nearly $5.000below the $24.500 median pay forall lay professionals with fulltimechurch jobs.

In additi0l1, the dioceses reportedthat only a small percentage oftheir directors of parish musicministry were paid, fulltime pro­fessionals.

In the dioceses surveyed. 46 per­cent of parish music,directors wereunpaid volun'teers, 40.1 percentwere in parttime paid posts and13.8 percent were fulltime workers.

Among parttime church musi­cians, the average yearly salary fora 20-hour week was $9.673~

Father Virgil Funk. executivedirector of the 9,OOO-memberassociation. said "church musician"is somewhat misleading when ref­erring to fulltime workers.

"When a church musician has afulltimejob in a parish, except in afew instances in a cathedral envir­onment. he' is both director ofmusic and director of liturgy," hesaid.

Of the 69 dioceses that respondedto the questionnaire. all but threereported a shortage of qualifiedparish music ministry directors.

Only 46 percent of the diocesessaid they had the 1972 salary

ST. THERESA,S. ATTLEBOROFood for needy may be left at

church entrances.

. '. . . .HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO

·Finance council meeting 7:30 p.m.-Feb. II; Women's Guild 7 p.m.Monday. Appreciation supper 7 p.m.Feb. 9.

BREAD OF LIFE, FRCharismatic prayer meeting and

Mass 7:30 p.m. each Friday BlessedSacrament Church, Fall River.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NBMen's League meeting II a.m.

Sunday. 10 a.m. Massgoers invitedto free coffee and donuts after Mass.compliments of the league.

ST. MARY, SEEKONKCCD classes have resumed after

the holiday break.

HOL Y NAME, FRParochial school registration 10

a.m. to noon Feb. 2, II a.m. to noonFeb. 3. School advisory councilmeeting 7: 15 p.m. Feb. 7, rectory.

ST. JOSEPH, NBCanned and packaged goods may

be placed in receptacles in churchand church hall for use by Vincen-.tians to distribute to needy.VIl'lCENT'IANS, TAUNTON

Mass and meeting 7:30 p.m. Feb.5, St. Joseph's Church, N. Dighton.

LaSALETTE SHRINE,ATTLEBORO

Rev. Joseph Gosselin, MS willoffer a slide talk on Mexico 7:30p.m. tomorrow, Good News Room,next to People's Chapel.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAMAdditional adult aid needed for

Better Youth Group 7 to 8: 15 p. m.Tuesdays. Information: Sister AnnMiriam, 295-0780. Bowling party,grades 7 and 8, II: 15 a. m. tomorrow.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FRExposition of Blessed Sacrament

noon to 6 p.m. Feb. 3 with holy hourat 5 p.m.SEPARATED/DIVORCED, NB

Support group meeting 7 p.m.Jan. 28, Family Life Center, 500Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth. 5thanniversary program will includeinformational talks. Information:998-1313.CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH

Confirmation 11 retreat Eeb. 2.Lectors' reflection evening Jan. 30,Miramar Center. Parish Couples'Club will begin meetings in Febru­arv. Catholic AI DS group for thosewishing to respond to this need willmeet 7 p.m. Jan. 28, parish center.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT. Altar serve~s. me.eL.ll~ 9 !i.m.·

tomorrow, parish center. Women'sGuild meeting Monday.

ST. THOMAS MORE,SOMERSET

Names of those serving in the Per­sian Gulf for whom parishionerswish prayers may be written in bookin main church foyer. Lenten retreatmission Feb. 18 to 22 with Rev.Dennis M. McNelis, CSc. "You AreChosen" vocation poster contest isopen to CCD students in grades Ithrough 8.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTi!:RVILLE, Palanca hour for Cursillistas 7:30p.m. Tuesday; religious educationcenter.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVENBaptism preparation meeting 7

p.m. Jan. 29. Youth group meeting 7p.m. Sunday.

K of C, HY ANNISVocation Awareness program 2

p.m. Feb. 10.51. Francis Xavier par­ish center, Hyannis, sponsored byCouncil2525. Knights of Columbus.

CATHEDRAL CAMP,E. FREETOWN

Le Repos retreat today throughSunday.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEEVincentians will collect canned

and packaged foods for the needy atall Sunday Masses. CCD classes·resume week of Jan. 2H.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBOROAttleboro area Separated/ Div­

orced Catholics will meet 7 p.m.Sunday in the parish center. Namesof persons serving in the Mideastmay be placed in the basket that willremain on the altar during the Gulfwar. Also, names and addresses ofsuch persons may be placed on thechurch bulletin board if it is wishedthat parishioners write to them.

ST. STANISLAUS, FRMrs. Sally Grygiel and Mrs. Jane

Weglowski head seamstresses whowill design and execute ethnic cos­tumes for the parish manger scenenext Christmas. School registrationfollows 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. PATRICK, FRParishioners may place names of

loved ones in the Middle East in thecollection basket if they wish specialprayers offered for them.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTERVolunteers needed for the Ladies'

Guild-sponsored Respite programwhich offers caregivers to the home­bound the opportunity to leave thehouse for errands or other purposes.Information: 760-1528. Organistneeded at Immaculate Conception,East Brewster and guitarists andsingers by the folk group. Informa­tion: Father Camille, 385-3252.Ladies' Guild scholarships availableto college students. Information:896-7694 or rectory.

CATHEDRAL, FRThe rosary is prayed for peace

before 8 a.m. daily Mass. One decadeis recited at weekend Masses.

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Lenten discussion group beginsAsh Wednesday. Feb. 13.9:30 a.m.parish hall, continues each Wednes­day, repeated 7 p.m. each Sunday.Men's retreat Feb. 22-24. Informa­tion: 548-5774; 548-5555. Firstpenance 10 a.m. tomorrow.

CAPE WIDOWED SUPPORTMeeting 2 p.m. Sunday. CCD

Center, Christ the King Church,Mashpee.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEAFirst penance workshop 9:30 a.m.

tomorrow. Parenti Teen evening forparents of junior high schoolers Jan.29 and 30. Altar boys' investiture 10a.m. Feb. 3. Holy hour for peace 7p.m. each Sunday for the durationof the Gulf war.