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NEW BEDFORD — While parishes throughout the Fall River Diocese have all celebrated some form of an outdoor picnic or summer festival and every Portuguese parish worth its salt has hosted a feast in honor of its namesake patron saint at one time or another, there’s only one event that can be simply identified as “the feast.”

Anyone who grew up within a stone’s throw of New Bedford will immediately know that “the feast” is regional shorthand for the annual Feast of the Blessed Sac-rament — a four-day outdoor event that has evolved over the last century into the largest Portuguese feast of its kind in the world and the single largest ethnic festival

in all of New England.“We never called it ‘the feast,’ some-

one else started calling it that,” said Larry Abreu Jacques, president of Club Madei-rense S.S. Sacramento and, by extension, the president of this year’s Feast of the Blessed Sacrament. “Instead of saying ‘the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament,’ they shortened it to ‘the feast.’ But it’s still the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament in my book.”

This year the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament will celebrate its milestone 100th anniversary on the weekend of July 31-August 3 at the Madeira Field grounds adjacent to Immaculate Conception Par-ish on Earle Street in New Bedford.

Founded in 1915 by four Azorean im-

New Bedford prepares for 100th Feast of the Blessed Sacrament

Bishop George W. Coleman poses with student greeters Victoria Burgess and Mary Rondelli during the annual St. Mary’s Education Fund Summer Gala held on July 11 on Cape Cod. The gala helps raise funds to assist need-based families in sending their children to diocesan parochial schools. (Photo by Judith I. Selleck)

Local Father Peyton Guild chapter prays for Rosary Priest’smission of families

Holy Cross Father John Phalen, former president of Holy Cross Family Ministries, speaks to the Easton chapter of the Fa-ther Peyton Guild, one of many chapters across the world devoted to praying for Servant of God, Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton’s sainthood cause, and to carry on the “Rosary Priest’s” mission of bringing the Rosary to the world and to keep fami-lies together through prayer. With Father Phalen is Ann Marie Melanson, a member of the chapter since its beginning in 2003.

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NORTH EASTON — Shortly af-ter the “Rosary Priest” Holy Cross Fa-ther Patrick Peyton’s sainthood cause was opened on June 1, 2001 in the Fall River Diocese, the Father Peyton Guild was born, with chapters spring-ing up across the globe. The purpose of the guild was to have faithful routinely pray for the cause, and learn more about and continue the mission of Servant of God Father Peyton; that being to have families pray together and come to know Jesus Christ better through the intercession of His Blessed Mother via

the Rosary.Several guild chapters were estab-

lished in other countries before the U.S. gained its very first in 2003.

“In 1997, there was a group of us who made a pilgrimage retreat, and when we returned, we felt called to create a ‘Rosary Group,’ that met each week to pray the Rosary for various intentions,” Ann Melanson, a Mission Assistant at Holy Cross Family Ministries in North Easton, told The Anchor. “We met on the Stonehill College campus until 2000 when then-HCFM president Fa-ther John Phalen invited us to use the

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FALL RIVER — Faithful Catholics across the Diocese of Fall River have once again sought the Face of God in their neighbors and responded with love, gen-erosity and compassion. The books have closed on the 2014 Catholic Charities Ap-peal for the Diocese of Fall River, and the results confirm the spirit of shared purpose that defines the work of a community of believers.

Inspired by the words and actions of the Holy Family, Pope Francis, clergy and laity have demonstrated extraordinary generos-ity for the needy throughout the diocese. The $4,207,920.45 total was the third

Members of the renowned Group Folklorico dancing troupe perform during the 2013 Feast of the Blessed Sacrament in New Bedford. This year the world’s largest Portu-guese feast will celebrate its 100th anniversary July 31-August 3.

FALL RIVER — During summer, the warm weather encourages those co-cooned in their homes during the cold winter months to venture out, enjoy the brilliant sun and open up the windows to allow fresh air to permeate their home. Yet for some families, summer is just an-other season because homeless families don’t have windows to open, but Ed Al-lard, program director for Catholic Social Services’ Community Action for Better Housing, has been overseeing numerous projects in the diocese to try and give the homeless a home so that they can enjoy that window-opening moment.

The Oscar Romero House on Allen Street in New Bedford just opened last year and “it’s been great and we have great tenants,” said Allard of the eight units that came fully-applianced and of-fered a community space and laundry

CABH projects in full swing

during summer

2 News From the VaticaN July 18, 2014

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Congregation for Catholic Education has named Angeline Franciscan Sister Mary Melone, 49, to a three-year term as rector of Rome’s Pontifical Antonia-num University, making her the first woman to head a pontifical university in Rome.

The Antonianum is run by the Order of Friars Minor — the Franciscan fathers and Brothers — and offers degrees in canon law, theology, philosophy, Bib-lical studies and archaeology, Franciscan Spirituality and me-dieval studies.

Father Michael Perry, min-ister general of the Franciscans and grand chancellor of the Antonianum, issued a state-ment in early July congratulat-ing Sister Melone and “sharing with conviction the confidence expressed” in her by the educa-tion congregation. He said he was certain “the daring novelty of this appointment will open new horizons for the life and academic activities of the Fran-ciscan institute of study and re-search.”

In 2011, Sister Melone’s all-male colleagues elected her the first woman dean of a theology department at a pontifical uni-versity in Rome. She earned her doctorate in theology at the An-tonianum in 2000 and served as president of its religious studies department in the 2001-02 and

Vatican appoints first woman rector of pontifical university in Rome

2007-08 academic years.She also is president of the

Italian Society for Theological Research.

In an interview with the Vat-ican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, after she was elected dean of theology in 2011, Sis-ter Melone was asked what she thought about “feminist theol-ogy” or “women’s theology.”

“I’m against these kinds of labels,” she said, even if “per-haps in the past there was a reason” women theologians had to assert themselves. “Certainly, much more room for women must be guaranteed.”

Still, Sister Melone said, it is true that each person brings their own sensibilities and ex-perience to their theological re-search.

“The way one approaches mystery, the way a woman re-flects on what this mystery re-veals, certainly is different from the way a man does.”

Rather than demanding that men in the Church allow more women to study theology, she said, women’s religious orders and lay-women must see the importance of such study and dedicate them-selves to it “because it is a treasure. Theology done by women is done by women; you cannot say it is not distinguishable. However, it is about complementarity and rich-ness rather than opposition and claiming space.”

Pope Francis blesses the womb of a pregnant woman during a recent visit to Isernia, Italy. The pope was visiting the Italian region of Molise. (CNS photo/Ciro De Luca, Reuters)

VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza, the new head of the Holy See’s Per-manent Observer Mission to the United Nations, served on the front lines in response to Haiti’s disastrous 2010 earthquake.

Now he will have to tackle key international issues like restrict-ing the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Archbishop Auza, 55, hails from the Philippines and is a for-mer nuncio to Haiti. He is the first Filipino to lead the observer mis-sion at the U.N., and the fourth Filipino to serve as a nuncio.

On July 2, Archbishop Auza was named to replace Archbish-op Francis Chullikat, an Indian-born prelate who had led the Holy See’s main U.N. presence since 2010.

The new permanent observer is set to arrive in New York at the end of August.

The Holy See’s mission at the United Nations is of key impor-tance for the Holy See’s diplo-matic work. It aims to assist the U.N. in realizing “peace, justice, human dignity, and humanitarian cooperation and assistance,” the mission’s website says.

The mission aims to com-municate the Catholic Church’s centuries of experience to hu-manity.

Archbishop Auza will likely bring his commitment for the poor to the core of the mission.

He was born in the city of Talibon on the central Philip-pines island province of Bohol, the eighth of 12 children. Arch-bishop Auza received a licentiate in philosophy in 1981 and anoth-er licentiate in theology in 1986.

Vatican’s new U.N. observer to face key challenges

He received a master’s degree in education in 1986. He advanced his studies in Rome, where he received a licentiate in canon law and earned a doctorate in Sacred theology at the Pontifical Uni-versity of St. Thomas Aquinas. He also studied at the Vatican diplomatic school, the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.

Thereafter, he served as secre-tary of the apostolic nunciature in Madagascar and Mauritius from 1990-1993 and in Bulgaria from 1993-1996. He was appointed counsellor in the nunciature of Albania in 1997, after which he served as charge d’affaires in Lon-don. He then served as counsel-lor of the Second Section of the Vatican Secretariat of State from 1999 to 2006, and worked for the Holy See’s mission to the U.N. in New York from 2006 to 2008.

In 2008, he was appointed papal nuncio to Haiti. He was in Haiti in 2010, when a massive earthquake hit the western part of the country. At least 316,000 people died in the quake and many buildings were destroyed, leaving hundreds of thousands without homes.

Among the dead was Haiti’s senior churchman, Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince.

Archbishop Auza helped lead the Catholic Church’s response. He worked on the front lines of the disaster to rebuild the coun-try and to help its people. He especially helped collect relief money from the Vatican and other sources to direct to Haiti, one of the world’s poorest coun-tries.

Now, the archbishop is going to take over one of the most influ-

ential posts of Vatican diplomacy. The first issue he will handle will likely be nuclear weapons, the target of the Non-Proliferation Treaty to be discussed in 2015.

The archbishop’s predecessor at the U.N., in his last interven-tion at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparation Conference April 30, stressed the need to achieve a non-proliferation treaty which would not lead to an indis-criminate nuclear ban that would preclude “civilian” uses.

“It would be better to have the nuclear-weapon states work-ing with the non-nuclear states to prepare a common path to develop a legally binding instru-ment banning the possession of nuclear weapons,” said Archbish-op Chullikat.

Archbishop Auza will con-tinue the Catholic Church’s lead-ing role in the debate. As one of the founders of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Holy See has always backed the right use of nuclear energy for ci-vilian reasons. At the same time the Holy See has always worked for a treaty which would lead to a ban on the possession of nuclear weapons.

Several times the Holy See has been asked to raise its status in the United Nations to that of a member state. However, it has preferred to keep its permanent observer status so as to be able to exercise its moral authority with-out being obliged to vote on war resolutions or resolutions against the Church’s teaching.

There is a separate Holy See permanent observer mission to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva.

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JERUSALEM (CNS) — Catholic leaders in the Holy Land called for an end to the cycle of violence and criticized Israel’s occupation of Palestin-ian territories and its collective punishment of Palestinians.

“Using the death of the three Israelis to exact collective punishment on the Palestin-ian people as a whole and on its legitimate desire to be free is a tragic exploitation of trag-edy and promotes more vio-lence and hatred,” said a recent statement from the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land.

“We need to recognize that the kidnapping and cold-blooded murder of the three Israeli youth and the brutal vengeance killing of the Pales-tinian youth are products of the injustice and of the hatred that the occupation fosters in the hearts of those prone to such deeds,” the Church leaders said, but added that the deaths “are in no way justifiable.”

In early July, Israel launched airstrikes into the Hamas-con-trolled Gaza Strip, killing more than 40 Palestinians — includ-ing children, elderly and mili-tants — in a circle of escalating violence that began with the discovery of the bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teens and the brutal apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teen. The Israeli offensive, dubbed Operation Protective Edge, has hit hun-dreds of targets, while more than 100 missiles have been launched into southern Israel, reaching into the center of the country and Jerusalem as well.

The ordinaries, who include Catholic bishops and the Fran-

Holy Land bishops criticize ‘collective punishment’ of Palestinians

ciscan custos of the Holy Land, called the situation in Gaza “an illustration of the never-ending cycle of violence in the absence of a vision for an alternative fu-ture.”

They criticized Israeli “lead-ership that continues to foster a discriminatory discourse pro-moting exclusive rights of one group and the occupation with all of its disastrous consequenc-es. Settlements are built, lands are confiscated, families are separated, loved ones are arrest-ed and even assassinated. The occupation leadership seems to believe that the occupation can be victorious by crushing the will of the people for freedom and dignity. They seem to be-lieve that their determination will ultimately silence opposi-tion and transform wrong into right.”

“Resistance to occupation cannot be equated with terror-ism,” they said. “Resistance to occupation is a legitimate right, terrorism is part of the prob-lem.”

The Church leaders said they mourned all those, Israeli and Palestinians, who had died.

“Some of their faces are well-known because the media have covered in detail their lives, in-terviewing their parents, bring-ing them alive in our imagina-tions, whereas others — by far more numerous — are mere statistics, nameless and faceless. The selective coverage, mourn-ing and memory are themselves part of the cycle of violence,” they said.

The Church leaders also said the “violent language of the Palestinian street that calls for vengeance is fed by the at-

titudes and expressions of those who have despaired of any hope to reach a just solution to the conflict through negotiations. Those who seek to build a to-talitarian, monolithic society, in which there is no room for any difference or diversity, gain popular support, exploiting this situation of hopelessness. To these we also say: Violence as a response to violence breeds only more violence.”

“We need radical change,” they said. “Israelis and Pales-tinians together need to shake off the negative attitudes of mutual mistrust and hatred.” They called for educating the younger generation “in a new spirit that challenges the exist-ing mentalities of oppression and discrimination,” but they also called for a change in po-litical leaders.

“We must find leaders who are clear-sighted and coura-geous enough to face the ur-gency of the present situation and to take the difficult deci-sions that are needed, leaders who, if necessary, are ready to sacrifice their political careers for the sake of a just and lasting peace. Such leaders have the vocation to be healers, peace-makers, seekers of justice and visionaries of the alternatives to the cycle of violence,” they said, recalling Pope Francis’ separate meetings with Israeli and Pal-estinian leaders during his May visit to the Holy Land and “his incessant call for justice and peace.”

The complete statement can be found at http://en.radiovaticana.

va/news/2014/07/09/holy_land_a_call_for_courageous_

change/1102679.

Palestinians run following what police said was a recent Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City. The Is-raeli army intensified its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, striking Hamas sites and killing dozens of people in a military operation it says is aimed at quelling rocket fire against Israel. (CNS photo/Majdi Fathi, Reuters)

VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — More than 20 Korean celebrities have come together in making a mu-sic video honoring Pope Fran-cis’ upcoming visit, and in an initiative they hope will help to overcome religious differences.

“I thought that if we united in praying for others (through this song), it would be the most beautiful flower bouquet that we could give to the pope when he arrives,” actor Ahn Sung-ki, who organized the event, stated in a recent news conference re-leasing the video.

According to the Korea Her-ald, the video, entitled “Koino-nia,” is a celebration of Pope Francis’ August 14 – 18 visit to South Korea, and was named for the title’s Greek meaning of fellowship, sharing in common and communion.

“So many people live just for themselves. If more people prayed for others, the world would be a better place to live,” the song’s composer and lyri-cist, Noh Young-sim, said at the news conference, which was held in Seoul’s Myeongdong Cathedral where Pope Francis will celebrate Mass his final day in Korea.

Among other celebrities who participated in the event were actress Kim Tae-hee from KBS TV drama “Iris,” actor Kim Woo-bin from SBS’ “The Heirs,” actress Kim Ha-neul from SBS’ series “A Gentle-man’s Dignity” and singer Bada.

“The song carries our hope that the pope’s visit will bring joy to all of Korea, beyond re-ligious differences,” Sung-ki explained, stating that “Sur-prisingly, many (stars) were

Korean celebrities create music video ahead of pope’s visit

willing to participate, although some couldn’t make it because of their schedules.”

Executive producer of Real-ies Pictures Won Dong-youn, whose former projects include “Masquerade” (2012), directed the music video. Speaking with those present during the Mon-day conference, he pointed out that all celebrities involved in the video did so on a volunteer basis.

“As a producer, it was such an extraordinary experience to work with so many stars all at once,” he said. “It was easy too, because they were so willing to do this, considering it a true honor to be part of it.”

Won and Noh are also mak-ing plans to release different ver-sions of the song and new videos in coming weeks. The original version will be played during numerous events in the pontiff ’s trip, including the Beatification Mass of 124 Korean martyrs.

The preparation committee organizing the pontiff ’s visit also revealed that they have been in contact with North Korean authorities to negoti-ate the possibility of inviting North Korean believers to the pope’s final Mass in Seoul.

“We’ve invited around 10 North Koreans to participate in the event,” Rev. Mattias Hur Young-yup, a representa-tive for the committee, said. “We expect an answer by early August.”

Pope Francis’ visit was an-nounced by the Vatican in March, and comes after his re-ception of an invitation from the president of the Korean Republic, Park Geun-hye, and the bishops of Korea.

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Anne Lotierzo, director of Pregnancy Care Centers in Fort Pierce and Stuart, Fla., welcomes listeners in early June as she kicks off a new Pro-Life radio show that is broadcast in the Diocese of Palm Beach, Fla. (CNS photo/Linda Reeves, Florida Catholic)

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CNS) — A new radio program launched in the Palm Beach Diocese in June with a focus on shedding light on Pro-Life is-sues, and sharing ways to get in-volved in promoting the culture of life in the not-so-Pro-Life world.

Organizers believe the pro-gram may be the only one of its kind in Florida, if not the Unit-ed States, that is broadcast from a site across the street from an abortion clinic.

“We are doing battle on the frontlines,” said Anne Lotierzo, a parishioner of St. Joseph Par-ish in Stuart, who hosts “Cross-Roads” with Duane Berreth, a parishioner of St. Mark the Evangelist in Fort Pierce. Ber-reth, a grand Knight of Colum-bus, heads the parish’s respect life ministry.

“We like being at the front lines. That is where the battle is,” Lotierzo said in an interview with the Florida Catholic, Palm Beach’s diocesan newspaper.

“CrossRoads” airs on WJPP 100.1 FM (Prince of Peace Ra-dio) that reaches listeners in ar-eas of Stuart, Palm City, Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce.

“I think the program idea is great,” said Eva Daniel-Barrera, a parishioner of St. Mark the Evangelist. “The program will let everybody know about current Pro-Life issues. There are a lot of concerns today.”

Computer users can tune

New radio program covers life issues, ways to spread culture of life

in through the Internet to hear broadcast as well as www.wjppfm.com.

“You won’t hear the issues we will cover on mainstream media,” said Lotierzo about the program, which has commen-tary, guests, and special features and discussions with a Catholic, Pro-Life perspective.

Lotierzo and Berreth, direc-tors of the Pregnancy Care Cen-ters of Fort Pierce and Stuart, a nonprofit organization dedicated to Pro-Life education and saving babies, have set up a studio in a back room of the care center in Fort Pierce. It is across the street from Woman’s World Medical Center, an abortion facility.

“I have been out on the streets in front of the abortion clinic since 1995,” said Berreth about joining groups on the sidewalks near the abortion clinic to pray and provide witness to the Pro-Life movement. “If this (the radio broadcast) goes well, it will go nationwide and be syn-dicated.”

The weekly one-hour pro-gram premiered June 9 with Father Frank Pavone as the first guest. He is national director of Priests for Life and president of the Christian coalition National Pro-Life Religious Council.

The priest also is a national pastoral director of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, organized to make the public more aware of the effects abor-tion has on women and men, and Rachel’s Vineyard, a healing ministry for those suffering in the aftermath of abortion.

“I have never been more con-fident that we are closer to see-ing the end of legal abortion,” Father Pavone said, as he joined the co-hosts by phone. He sees a weakened abortion industry and

pointed to changes in state and federal laws “recognizing the un-born as a real human being.”

“We see changes in the laws laying the groundwork and mov-ing us into that direction. We are seeing similar changes in public opinion,” said the priest, who has been involved in the Pro-Life movement since 1976.

The conversation turned at one point to sweeping changes over the last decades and mod-ern society’s growing acceptance of divorce, sex outside of Mar-riage, same-sex relationships and babies born out of wedlock. “How do we bring the light to the truth?” Lotierzo asked.

“Two words come to mind,” Father Pavone replied. “One is ‘witness’ and the other is ‘suffer-ing.’ Witness means we have to live out the truth in our Church in our families and in our com-munities.”

“The second thing is suffering. We are all in this together and we all have to suffer together,” he said. “We need to reach out in love to the people who need our help: the divorced, the lonely, those who are suffering from the wound of abortion, those who are confused about their sexual-ity. We need to reach out in love and show people we are here to help people follow the law of God.”

Lotierzo and Berreth hope to change hearts with “Cross-Roads.”

“Simply said, we hope to in-form, educate and inspire listen-ers to take action,” said Lotierzo. “We live by the motto ‘We can make a difference, we must make a difference,’ and I hope that is something we can communicate to our listeners and that they can come to embody that same motto.”

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BATON ROUGE, La. (CNS) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court has ruled that a priest may be compelled to testify as to what he heard in the confes-sional in 2008 concerning an abuse case.

The priest, Father Jeff Bayhi, faces automatic excommunica-tion if he breaks the seal of the confessional, but he also could face jailing if found to be in contempt of the court should he refuse to testify.

In the case, a girl who was 14 in 2008 said she told her parish priest — Father Bayhi, pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Zachary — in the confessional that she was abused by a now-dead lay member of the parish.

The girl’s parents sued Father Bayhi and the Diocese of Baton Rouge for failing to report the abuse. The parents won at the district court level about compel-ling the priest to testify, but lost in Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeals, before the state’s highest court reversed and vacated the ap-pellate court’s decision.

“As you know, one of the great Sacraments of healing in the Church is the Sacrament of Reconciliation/Confession. It has given hope and comfort to all Catholics throughout the

Court may compel priest to break Confessional seal in abuse case

centuries and continues to do so today,” Father Bayhi said in a re-cent statement.

“The seal of Confession is one that can never be broken. Through its use the faithful must always be protected, so much so, that as a priest I cannot even say someone has come to Confession, let alone divulge the contents of what was revealed.”

The Baton Rouge Diocese, in its own statement, said the state Supreme Court violated the Es-tablishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Consti-tution in its decision.

“A foundational doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church for thousands of years mandates that the seal of Confession is absolute and inviolable. Pursu-ant to his oath to the Church, a priest is compelled never to break that seal,” the diocese said. “Neither is a priest allowed to admit that someone went to Confession to him. If necessary, the priest would have to suffer a finding of contempt in a civil court and suffer imprisonment rather than violate his Sacred duty and violate the seal of Confession and his duty to the penitent.

“This is not a gray area in the doctrines of the Roman Catho-

NEW YORK CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — A New York Times ad criticiz-ing Catholic Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby’s religious free-dom case is part of a long his-tory of anti-Catholic bigotry in the U.S., Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has said.

“In keeping with a long, shadowy, legacy of antipa-thy, justices who happen to be Catholics are branded and bullied by a group who only succeed in providing the lat-est example of a prejudice that has haunted us for centuries,” Cardinal Dolan said in a re-cent column for Catholic New York.

The cardinal facetiously thanked the Freedom from Religion Foundation for giv-ing him “yet another handout” for his talks on anti-Catholic bigotry in the U.S.

The secularist foundation’s full-page ad, headlined “Dog-ma should not trump our civil liberties,” ran July 3 on page 10 in the New York Times’ front section.

The ad claimed that the “all-

Cardinal Dolan slams anti-Catholic New York Times advertisementmale, all-Roman Catholic ma-jority” on the Supreme Court “puts religious wrongs over women’s rights.”

It claimed that the Supreme Court majority in the Hobby Lobby case was an “ultra-con-servative, Roman Catholic ma-jority” that sided with “zealous fundamentalists.”

The ad reacted to the Su-preme Court’s June 30 five-four ruling that the Obama Administration violated the Religious Freedom Restora-tion Act in attempting to man-date that closely held corpora-tions provide employees with insurance coverage for possible abortifacient drugs.

The legal cases concerned Hobby Lobby, a craft store giant owned by a Protestant family, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, which is owned by a Mennonite family. Both employers objected that they could not provide some of the required drugs without violat-ing their religious beliefs.

The five justices who ruled in Hobby Lobby’s favor are Catholic; one remaining Cath-olic justice, Sonia Sotomayor,

sided with the Obama Ad-ministration, as did the court’s three Jewish justices.

Cardinal Dolan said the Freedom From Religion Foun-dation ad did not provide a “robust examination” of the decision in a way that attacked ideas and viewpoints.

Rather, its arguments at-tacked persons, “the weak-est and most vicious of argu-ments.”

He said the ad “attacks the people on the court, and im-plies that their Catholic faith makes it impossible for them to protect the cherished Con-stitution they have sworn on a Bible to uphold.”

The cardinal said that the decision was not surprising, citing White House sources who said they knew the man-date would not pass constitu-tional muster.

“Scholars, journalists, and thoughtful commentators have elsewhere convincingly de-fended the unsurprising and long-predicted Supreme Court defense of ‘our first and most cherished freedom,’ religious liberty, from the hyperbolic

over-reaction of the ideologues who claim that there is a ‘war on women,’” the cardinal said.

He also noted that Catholic Supreme Court justices have made “frequent votes” that are not in accord with Catholic teaching.

Cardinal Dolan described the Freedom From Religion Foundation as “notoriously an-ti-Catholic.” He said that the foundation would not take out an ad, and a newspaper would not publish an ad, questioning Jewish, Baptist, or Mormon public figures on the grounds of their religious affiliation.

He claimed that the ad was part of a long line of bigotry against Catholics dating back centuries, to New England Puritans, to the anti-Catholic nativists and Know-Noth-ings of the 19th century, and the Ku Klux Klan and other groups which included Catho-lics among the objects of their hate in the 20th century.

The Freedom from Religion Foundation, which had filed an amicus brief against Hobby Lobby, claimed that the Hobby Lobby ruling allows employers “to decide what birth control an employee can use,” charging that this is not an “exercise of religion,” but “of tyranny.”

The foundation’s ad called for the repeal of the Reli-

gious Freedom Restoration Act, a 1993 law passed by overwhelming majorities and signed into law by Democratic president Bill Clinton in re-sponse to Supreme Court de-cisions which weakened reli-gious freedom protections.

Its ad follows similar attacks targeting the Hobby Lobby decision on the basis of the Catholic affiliation of the jus-tices in the majority.

On June 30, Huffington Post blog contributor Ronald A. Lindsay, head of the secular humanist Center for Inquiry, asked “Is it appropriate to have six Catholic justices on the Su-preme Court?”

Lindsay claimed that the majority in the Hobby Lobby case “may now be resurrecting concerns about the compat-ibility between being a Catho-lic and being a good citizen, or at least between being a good Catholic and an impartial judge.”

The National Organization for Women has also grouped many Catholic organizations, including the Little Sisters of the Poor, EWTN, the Univer-sity of Notre Dame and several Catholic dioceses, as the “Dirty 100” because they are plaintiffs in cases challenging the federal mandate on religious freedom grounds.

lic Church. A priest/confessor who violates the seal of Confes-sion incurs an automatic excom-munication reserved for forgive-ness to the Apostolic See in Vatican City.”

The diocese added, “In this case, the priest acted appro-priately and would not testify about the alleged Confessions. Church law does not allow ei-ther the plaintiff (penitent) or anyone else to waive the seal of Confession.

“This matter cuts to the core of the Catholic faith, and for a civil court to inquire as to wheth-er or not a factual situation es-tablishes the Sacrament of Con-fession is a clear and unfettered violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution of the United States,” it continued. “This matter is of serious conse-quence to all religions, not just the Catholic faith. The statutes involved in this matter address ‘sacred communications’ which are confidential and are exempt from mandatory reporting.”

The diocese said, “For a civil court to impinge upon the free-dom of religion is a clear viola-tion and the matter will be taken to the highest court in the land by the Church in order to pro-tect its free exercise of religion.”

This week the international Anglican Communion, which traces its origins to the Church of England, faced new divisions as the retired Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey came out in favor of assisted suicide. The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, immediately responded, saying that a proposed law in the British Parliament to legalize the practice of doctors giving poison to patients so that they might end their lives is “mistaken and danger-ous.”

Later in the week Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu, the retired An-glican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, came out in favor of Carey’s proposal, citing the example of how the late South African President Nelson Mandela was kept alive for a long period of time.

Welby warned in The Times of London: “I know of health professionals who are already concerned by the ways in which their clients have suggestions ‘to go to Switzerland’ [so as to be euthanasized there] whispered in their ears by relatives weary of caring for them and exasperated by seeing their inheritances dwindle through care costs.”

Pope Francis has often complained about the “throw-away” culture that Archbishop Welby was referencing, when he spoke of sick people feeling the pressure to go to countries where they could legally commit suicide with the help of a doctor (who would be breaking the Hippocratic Oath).

Speaking to the San Egidio Community in Rome on June 15, the Holy Father said, “We throw away the elderly, behind which are attitudes of hidden euthanasia, a form of euthanasia. They aren’t needed, and what isn’t needed gets thrown away. What doesn’t produce is discarded.”

Back on February 28, the pope addressed a similar message to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. “The old, too, are discarded, they tend to dis-card them, and in some countries of Latin America there is hidden euthanasia, hidden euthanasia! Because social services pay only up to a certain point, and no more, so the poor old people make do as they can. I remember visiting a retire-ment home for the elderly in Buenos Aires, which belonged to the state. The beds were all occupied; so they were putting mattresses on the floor, and the el-derly just lay there. A country cannot buy a bed? This is indicative of something else, is it not? They are like waste material. Soiled sheets, with every sort of filth; without a napkin and the poor old people were eating there, they were wiping their mouths with the sheet. I saw this with my own eyes, no one told me about it. They are treated like trash; and this worries us.” What the Holy Father said at this encounter reminds us that it is not enough to ban assisted suicide — we always need to reach out and help the sick and all people in need, to let them know that we value and love them, putting that love into concrete action.

Back in 1999 there was a conference sponsored by the Vatican in Buenos Ai-

res, Argentina, for which the future pope, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, S.J., offered Mass. This “Third Meeting Politicians and Lawmakers of America” issued the Buenos Aires Declaration, which can be read on the Vatican website (some-thing which is normally only done for things which have the Vatican’s blessing, at least implicitly). In the declaration, these Catholic thinkers wrote, “The fam-ily, as the cradle of human life, is also the most appropriate place to take care of the sick and to accompany them in the process of their illness until death. Some propose a ‘death with dignity’ and with this argument falsely pretend to justify and defend euthanasia for those with serious illnesses. It is necessary to have a proper understanding of ‘human dignity,’ a fundamental principle in bioethics that is based upon the truth about man and an anthropology which recognizes the eminent value of the human person. The concept of ‘death with dignity’ needs constant revisions if it is not to become empty and conventional, especially when faced with the Utilitarian cost/benefit analysis used to decide who shall or will not benefit from health resources. If dignity is replaced by util-ity, how can life have intrinsic value? The distorted use of the concept of ‘dignity’ hides the deformation of the value of life and of the person. The true right to die with dignity supposes the acceptance of dying with the dignity proper to man: with nobility, acceptance, serenity, that is to say, ‘holding the office of life until the end’ (Cicero, “The Dream of Escipion,” III, 7). The sick person, given the care they need and the responsible love manifested by their families, in hospitals and clinics, dies with the dignity of someone loved by God, by their family and all those who recognize the dignity of the person” (St. John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 88).

Today (Friday) we celebrate the memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (we cel-ebrate him on July 18 in the U.S. due to July 14 being the memorial of St. Kat-eri Tekakwitha, a homegrown saint). On Sunday Pope Francis reminded the crowd in St. Peter’s Square that this week we celebrate the 400th anniversary of St. Camillus’ death. “I invite the Camillan family to be a sign of the Lord Jesus Who, as the Good Samaritan, bends over the wounds of body and spirit of suffering humanity, pouring the oil of consolation and the wine of hope.” Our Anglican brothers and sisters, like so many other people in our world, are deeply sorrowful, seeing the suffering of people they know. Out of a misplaced compassion, they advocate for assisted suicide. They, like all of us, need the consolation and the hope that can only come from accepting Jesus’ invitation: “Take up your cross and follow Me.” Sometimes that cross is living with an ill-ness for a long period of time; sometimes that cross is caring for someone else in that situation. As Christians, we are called to be like the Blessed Mother, Mary Magdalene and the Apostle John at the foot of the cross, helping our brothers and sisters with our loving presence. May God help us to do so.

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Good day, brothers and sisters! This Sunday’s Gospel (Mt

13.1-23) shows us Jesus preach-ing on the shore of Lake Gali-lee, and because there was a large crowd around Him, He gets on a boat, moving away a little from the shore and preaches from there.

When He speaks to the people, Je-sus used many parables: a language understandable to everyone, with images drawn from nature and ev-eryday life situations.

The first that He tells is an in-troduction to all the parables: it is that of the sower who casts his seed

without holding back on all types of terrain. And the real protagonist of this parable is the seed, which produces more or less depending on the land on which it has fallen. The first three terrains are unpro-ductive: on the way the seeds are eaten by birds; on rocky ground it buds, but withers quickly because they have no roots; the seeds that fell among thorns are choked by the thorns. The fourth ground is good ground, and only there does the seed take root and bears fruit.

In this case, Jesus did not limit Himself to presenting the par-able; He also explained it to His disciples. The seed that fell on the path indicates those who hear the proclamation of the Kingdom of God but do not receive it; the evil one comes and takes it away. The evil one in fact does not want the seed of the Gospel to sprout in the hearts of men. This is the first comparison. The second is

Pope Francis’ Angelus address of July 13

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the seed that fell among stones: it is the people who hear the Word of God, and receive it immediately, but superficially, because they have no roots and are inconstant; and when trials and tribulations arrive, these people give up immediately. The third case is that of the seeds that fell among the thorns: Jesus explains that it refers to the people who hear the Word but, because of worldly concerns and the seduc-tion of wealth, it remains stifled. Finally, the seed that fell on fertile soil represents those who hear the Word, welcome it, keep it, and un-derstand it, and it bears fruit. The perfect model of this good earth is the Virgin Mary.

This parable speaks to each of us today, as it spoke to the listeners of Jesus 2,000 years ago. It reminds us that we are the land where the Lord tirelessly throws the seed of His Word and His love. What do we receive? And we ask ourselves

the question: how is our heart? Which land does it look like: a pathway, rocky ground, a thorn-bush? It’s up to us to become good soil without thorns or stones, but tilled and cultivated with care, so that [the seed] can bring good re-sults for us and for our brothers and sisters.

And we will do well not to for-get that we also are sowers. God sows good seed, and here we can ask ourselves the question: what kind of seed comes from our heart and our mouth? Our words can do so much good and also so much bad; they can heal and they can hurt; they can encourage and they can depress. Remember, what matters is not what goes in, but what comes out of one’s mouth and from the heart.

Our Lady teaches us, by her ex-ample, to welcome the Word, keep it, and bring forth fruit in us and in others.

Putting Intothe Deep

By Father Roger J. Landry

7 aNchor columNistsJuly 18, 2014

Moon OverMolokai

By Father Patrick Killilea, SS.CC.

The good we can doThe summer is a time in

which many parishes host missionaries to beg for Spiritual and material support and to raise the awareness of people here to the various needs, struggles and successes of our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world.

I have always been especially happy to welcome missionaries from Africa, where the Church is growing exponentially in the midst of persecution and pov-erty. The scale of the good that can be accomplished by Chris-tian fraternal charity is readily evident in the African mission-ary context.

Two weeks ago I welcomed Father Stephen Kitonga, a young priest from the Arch-diocese of Nyeri, Kenya. His archbishop had sent him to try to appeal for help to expand their seminary which is bursting at the seams, to care for or-phans with AIDS and HIV in a Church clinic and to attend to the tens of thousands of Somali refugees who have come to the diocese fleeing poverty and persecution.

We were the first missionary appeal that he had ever made and so he sought my advice about the best way to ask for money.

I told him that my experi-

ence is that American Catholics are very generous when they’re given the information they need to determine where their money will go and how much of an impact it will make. So I asked him a few questions in search of the information he’d need.

How much does it cost each year to educate a future priest in the seminary? He told me about $700, or about $2 a day.

What is the ex-pense to feed a family of refugees for a day in the camps? He said between $1 and $2, depending upon the size of the family.

What was the typical salary for a nurse in the “Consolata Hospital” that cares for AIDS orphans? He replied about $1.50 a day.

So I encouraged Father Stephen to share that informa-tion with my parishioners at the Masses.

Weaving the appeal into a homily based on Jesus’ calling us to yoke ourselves to His lov-ing compassion, he movingly said that if Catholics here could “make the sacrifice” of sharing $2 in the second collection, they would be able to feed a large hungry family after a treacher-ous escape from Somalia, or pay for a nurse to care for dozens

of orphaned, sick children for a day, or help prepare a priest get one day closer to ordination to take the place of those priests who have been killed for the faith.

If they had the means to sac-rifice $5, he added, they would be able to do all three at the same time.

And if they were “rich” and

had the chance to give more than $5, he said, “I can’t even describe the good you would be able to do!”

I looked out at my parish-ioners as he was making that appeal and many had stunned looks on their faces as they pon-dered how materially loaded we are, even in an inner-city parish, compared to our brothers and sisters in Africa. The people as a whole responded very gener-ously, giving far more than their typical beneficence to the weekly offertory in order to help out with these very important works.

Before the last Mass, how-

ever, as I was introducing him, I mentioned something else that we had spoken about the night before at dinner.

One of the main struggles in African villages is access to clean water, so I asked Father Ste-phen whether his native village had a well. No, he said. In fact, every Saturday the people of his village have to travel two-and-

a-half hours each way over mountains and val-leys to the nearest river, where the women wash the family’s clothes and the men fill up water jugs to bring back to the village. The round trip, he says, takes all day. I asked him how much it

would cost to drill a well there. He told me that it was “astro-nomical,” about $4,000.

Putting into the deep, I mentioned that story before the last Mass and commented how great it would be if our parish would be able to raise the money to drill a well in his village.

A half hour after Mass, a woman came by the rectory with $4,000 in cash, saying that she and her husband wanted to pay for the well in Father Stephen’s village. She shared that both of her children had already died and they wanted to do something

with their savings to make a difference in the lives of the 392 families that dwell there as well as thousands of families in neigh-boring villages who would be able to come to get fresh water.

A few days later, a young mother came to see me. She had just received a bonus at work and had been thinking about using it to do house repairs or go on a pilgrimage. After hear-ing about the need for wells, she and her children decided it would be better to use the bonus to bring water to the well-less village where Father Stephen used to serve a pastor.

When I informed Father Stephen of these gifts, he could hardly keep himself together thinking about the difference that will soon be coming to the lives of so many families he knows and loves, including his own. He had previously de-clared that he couldn’t describe the good that more than $5 could do. Now he was totally speechless.

Just imagine how much good the faithful of the whole diocese can do during this Missionary Appeal season.

Anchor columnist Father Landry is pastor of St. Bernadette’s Parish in Fall River. fatherlandry@catholicpreaching.com.

I can well remember catch-ing my very first fish. It

was on a Sunday afternoon in the summer time of my primary school days. On that glorious, golden day I was ably assisted in my fishing by a girl from my own village who was a couple of years older than myself. (I always have liked older women.) While I suc-ceeded in hauling in a beauti-ful fish that afternoon, that girl got away. She entered the convent as a Sister of Mercy. A few years later I entered the seminary and became a Brother of the Sacred Hearts. So we both gave up fishing for sole and took up fishing for souls.

Each time I visit my home in County Galway, the mem-ory of those golden days and years come flooding back, as will happen next week when I go home to visit family. It hap-pened also here in Kalaupapa this weekend on this northern shore of Molokai during our fishing tournament, when the

Dropping a line in Kalaupapawhole community got caught up in the fishing activities, hook, line, and sinker.

Fishing has always been a tradition here in Kalaupapa where for the most part it is now done from the pier (I call it Damien’s Land-ing) where Father Damien and many others arrived from Honolulu on May 10, 1873. Fishing also takes place in the vicinity of the Lions’ Club Pavilion on the airport road. Many of the men of the settlement in the past spent a lot of time cast-ing on these waters and this settlement was noted for years for the presence of the Fishing Nun.

The number who entered the tournament this year was less than the expected but did number about 20. Most of the fishing was done off the outer edge of the peninsula. Our trusted electrician, Eddie English, sacrificed his usual

weekend visit with family on Topside Molokai in order to run this event. He did a

great job making sure that all participants “toed the line” and stayed safe in the process.

All enjoyed the tournament even though there seems to have been a scarcity of fish taking the lure. Our own Mr.

Everything, Lionel, said he enjoyed the weekend and assured me that there is no truth to the rumor that he almost got dragged into the water by a monster fish.

As always with our special events, this event culminated in a feast

at McVeigh Hall where the voices in the hall grew louder

and louder as the evening pro-gressed, especially when aided and abetted by Mr. Heineken and Miss Corona. Today being Sunday, everybody is recover-ing from the weekend’s action. So it is time to relax and watch the mermaids (and the mer-men) frolic on the pier and in the waters at nearby Damien’s Landing. See you next month. Aloha.

Anchor columnist Father Killilea, SS.CC., is pastor of St. Francis Parish in Kalaupapa, Hawaii.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. July 19, Mi 2:1-5; Ps 10:1-4,7-8,14; Mt 12:14-21. Sun. July 20, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Wis 12:13,16-19; Ps 86:5-6,9-10,15-16; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 or 13:24-30. Mon. July 21, Mi 6:1-4,6-8; Ps 50:5-6,8-9,16bc-17,21,23; Mt 12:38-42. Tues. July 22, Mi 7:14-15,18-20; Ps 85:2-8; Jn 20:1-2,11-18. Wed. July 23, Jer 1:1,4-10; Ps 71:1-4a,5-6b,15,17; Mt 13:1-9. Thurs. July 24, Jer 2:1-3,7-8,12-13; Ps 36:6-7b,8-11; Mt 13:10-17. Fri. July 25, 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1b,2-6; Mt 20:20-28. Sat. July 26, Jer 7:1-11; Ps 84:3-6a,8a,11; Mt 13:24-30. Sun. July 27, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 1 Kgs 3:5,7-12; Ps 119:57,72,76-77,127-130; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52 or 13:44-46. Mon. July 28, Jer 13:1-11; (Ps) Dt 32:18-21; Mt 13:31-35. Tues. July 29, Jer 14:17-22; Ps 79:8-9,11,13; Jn 11:19-27 or Lk 10:38-42. Wed. July 30, Jer 15:10,16-21; Ps 59:2-4,10-11,17-18; Mt 13:44-46. Thurs. July 31, Jer 18:1-6; Ps 146:1b-6b; Mt 13:47-53. Fri. Aug. 1, Jer 26:1-9; Ps 69:5,8-10,14; Mt 13:54-58.

This week’s readings can be a challenge. It is easy

to say the good and the bad will work and live together until their appointed time of death. Death will bring either an eter-nal reward or damnation.

However, I chose to look at the eternal Word of God, which can only bring us to eternal life.

The tongue is a double-edged sword. A simple word can bring much happiness like the wheat growing in the field. Or a word can bring much pain and suffer-ing because the evil that it brings can never be taken back. These are the weeds that can bring us to the final judgement of hell.

We must consider how fear and doubt are the seeds that are activated by Satan.

Faith, on the other hand, is the seed that produces good wheat that comes from our holy tongue through the gift of the Holy Spirit that dwells in all of us.

Genesis, chapter one shows us that God created with the “Word,” His holy tongue — “Let there be….”

And how good it was!The wheat and the weeds are

words that are uniquely human

functions because they blend man’s intelligence and imagina-tion with the ability to speak as a speaking spirit.

John 10:10 says, “The thief comes to steal and destroy” the inner spirit of man. Jesus said, “I come that you might have life, and that you might have life more abundantly.”

However, how can we have it more abun-dantly if our thoughts and words are consumed with fear, doubt and de-pression?

I might ask, how can I pos-sibly feel better surrendering to God all my pain and suffering? I still have the pain, so why sur-render all that I am to God?

Because by virtue of prayer the innermost longing of our being is expressed in the form that is most representative of the human soul. Good or bad, the words like the wheat or the weeds will come out.

We must remember that if we operate our lives in fear and doubt we live in misery and spir-itual death. It is impossible to live our lives more abundantly if we

are afraid to live our lives in faith and trust in the Word of God. However, we must remember, negative words bring negative emotions and the weeds accu-mulate at a rapid pace.

The seed of faith is a gift from

God that helps us through the most difficult times in our life. Satan does not want us to feel the presence of God in our pain and suffering. He would prefer that we would feel hopeless and think that God does not really care about us, but we know bet-ter.

Prayer is the wheat of the soul. Prayer is a process of self-evaluation and self-judgement. It is a process of removing one-self from the pandemonium of life to a little corner of truth and refastening the bonds that tie one to the purpose of life

which is to love.We must remember if there

is a weed in our heart, an evil thought, it is going to come out of our mouth. We might be able to cover it up for a while. But just as soon as we get upset or we

get the opportunity, it is coming out of our mouth whether we like it or not; it will come to light.

We must pray that God’s mercy will conquer our anger, that God’s mercy will overshadow our negative thoughts about others. We must

pray for the attribute of mercy and love toward our neighbor instead of a lack of forgiveness toward our neighbor which is the weed of hatred.

Jesus said by our words will be justified, and by our words we will be condemned (Mt 12:37).

When I was in business I always said I never lie. I never lie because I know I won’t re-member the lie. I never wanted to be judged by someone for my lack of responsibility for my words.

We might apologize for gos-siping or being rude and mean

to another person, but that does not dull the effects of our words or actions.

I was once told it was like get-ting a feather pillow and cutting it open and letting the feathers out. We can never retrieve all the feathers, the damage is done.

“I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

God teaches us to guard the Word He has planted in our hearts. Those who have heard and listened to the Word of God by faith live on good soil and the wheat is flourishing.

God’s judgement is not hasty, but it does come. In the end God will reward each according to what they have sown in their hearts and reaped in this life. In that day God will separate the good from the evil.

Do you allow God’s Word to take deep root in your heart?

Lord, may we hunger for righteousness now. May we look forward to the day of judgement with happiness and joy.

Deacon Cipriano is currently serving at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Attleboro.

By DeaconAnthony Cipriano, SFO

Homily of the WeekSixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

8 July 18, 2014

Heeding the Word

TheFeminine

GeniusBy Genevieve Kineke

When families gather together and reminisce,

one is often shocked by how oth-ers remember particular persons and events. We carry with us an eclectic composite of memories that have shaped us over the years, and that have colored our opinions about how the world works, but occasionally two per-sons will remember an occasion or encounter so differently that they have trouble recognizing the shared experience.

When the memory concerns an innocuous event, the banter back and forth is usually light-hearted and entertaining, as each helps the other to see that his details are incomplete or wrong. But for the more serious events in life, the details — accurate or not — become seared in the psyche. There is little joy in go-ing to the heart of the matter, because to re-image the details is to interfere with the very person himself and how he has coped

God is in the detailswith that memory.

This is where the gift of motherhood is so valuable in a family circle. As we have people over to our homes in the coming weeks, and the relaxed visits turn to “Do you remember?” a wise woman would do well to talk less and listen more intently to the conversation. To remove herself from the discussion may prove challenging (we do remember!) but the reward will be to hear astonishing things about how the others have been processing family life and its challenges.

The advantage to listening to such exchanges is two-fold, in that an attentive ear can dis-tinguish the difference in how events are packaged for retelling and whether anger, animosity, or bitterness have been caught up in the residue. A motherly ear,

used to the tone and inflection of those she loves, will distin-guish where subtle fault-lines may rest, and prayer will then tell her what to do about it.

I confess to scratching my

head over the misunderstand-ings from the earlier years of Marriage. My children will laugh over chaotic situations from years ago, having no grasp of the complexities we were dealing with at the time. Or they may laugh about their parents’ “tantrums,” oblivious to how their childish inanities accumu-late over time until the silliest

action triggers a mental col-lapse. Furthermore, their breezy dismissal of various details transforms their parents’ atten-tive care into a string of blunders that make their very survival

appear miraculous.While those

memories served up with increasing embel-lishment may give one’s pride a serious thumping (all for the good!) there are other accounts that creep into the telling that remind us of the pain,

the anxiety, and the resentments that linger after most have moved on. While squabbles of old may make for amusing folk-lore, in many instances a loaded phrase will enter in (for example, “you always,” or “she still,” or worse, “I never ”). When “always” or “never” are thrown in, it may indicate that walls have been erected delineating behavior that

doesn’t change, suffering that endures, or characterizations that are cast in stone. These must be addressed.

The attentive mother will take note of such reference points and bring them to God, Who sees all. Whether or not the memories correspond to reality is irrelevant — they have formed the pattern that either strengthens the family bond or undermines it, and that’s the re-ality that needs to be addressed.

A quiet one-on-one later can serve to soothe the ache, restore the breach, or reorient the affec-tions. It’s a delicate — but es-sential — process. Let this guide your interactions this summer, and may the balm of forgive-ness carefully applied allow our family reminiscences be true occasions of joy for all.

Anchor columnist Mrs. Kineke is the author of “The Authentic Catholic Woman.” She blogs at feminine-genius.typepad.com.

Thursday 17 July 2014 — Homeport: Falmouth Harbor — Anniversary of the 1918 execution of Czar Nicholas II

On St. Nicholas Day, 6 December, 1908

George “Baby Face” Nelson was born in Chicago. On that same date, in Manhat-tan, Mildred Pinto was born. “Baby Face” Nelson died in a hail of FBI bullets in 1934. Parishioner Mildred Nicoletta (Pinto) Allen died peacefully at a local nursing home this month at the age of 105 years. Mildred was a celebrity in the Town of Falmouth and in the Parish of St. Patrick.

Grandma Moses discov-ered late in life that she had a talent for painting. Mildred Allen, in her 90s, discovered a penchant for poetry. One of Mildred’s poems is entitled “My Mother.” It reads in part:

Mom made my dresses and curled my hair.

I’d help a little. I really did care.

Fulltime mother was her vocation,

Years went by without a vacation.

…I “see” her before me so lov-ing and kind.

I weep for her still, I’m her motherless child.

This goes to prove, dear readers, that even if you live to be 100, you will always remember your mother and everything she taught you.

Perhaps, as a young child, your mother taught you the same things my mother taught me. And, as we all know, mother is always right.

Didn’t mother teach you not to run with scissors? You could fall and hurt yourself. To this day, I seldom run with scissors (In fact, I seldom run at all). See, mother is always right.

Mother taught me to wait precisely one hour after eating before go-ing into the water. If you eat anything within 60 minutes of entering the water you will be seized with stomach cramps and doomed to a horrible death by drowning. After all, this is a scientific fact clearly stated in the 1908 manual “Scouting for Boys.” Let me put it delicately, dear readers. There has never been a single death by drowning anywhere in the world attributed to en-tering the water too soon after eating. There has never even been a near drowning. Need I say more?

Mother taught me that food dropped on the ground is perfectly safe to eat if it is retrieved within five seconds. It’s the “five-second rule.” Unless the floor has been sterilized (highly unlikely,) the surface is crawling with bacteria and viruses. Some will be harmful. Bacteria and

viruses contaminate imme-diately on contact. Would you want a surgeon to use a dropped instrument on you because it was more or less sterile? I think not. There isn’t even a .01-second rule. Even if mother was a little off-base in this matter, I’m sure she was well intentioned. Mother didn’t want you to waste food. Why, think of all the starving children in Biafra (or some other location of her choice) of which she was constantly reminding you).

Mother taught me to leave a window open during a

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hurricane in order to prevent pressure buildup in the house. Actually, leaving a window open will allow gusts of wind to blow into the house. The wind will then proceed to find an outlet. When it does, there go parts of your house. Well, who knew back then?

Come to think of it, my father taught me a tip for hurricane survival as well: crisscross the windows with duct tape in the shape of giant asterisks. Stud-ies have shown that duct tape won’t prevent window glass from breaking nor will it

prevent the shards of glass from flying through the air. There is, however, one proven benefit to taping the win-dows during a hurricane. It’s a windfall for the duct tape manufacturer.

Mother warned me not to swallow chewing gum. It stays in your stomach for seven years. Actually, that’s not true either. When you swallow gum, it goes through the process of digestion in the same amount of time it takes real food to digest. Oh well, to give mother the benefit of the doubt, you could possibly

choke by swallowing a wad of gum, but then that applies to almost anything you eat if it “goes down the wrong way.”

Mother taught me that poinsettias are poisonous. Now here, finally, we have an indisputable fact. Everyone knows that. There is just one small problem, however. It happens to be untrue. Oh, yes, you’ll no doubt point out to me that death back in the year 1919 in Hawaii that was assumed to have been caused by the ingestion of poinset-tia leaves. It was an incorrect diagnosis, but why let an er-roneous assumption get in the way of what your mother told you? There is a possibility that the disgusting taste of poin-settia leaves might make you nauseous, but it won’t kill you. Scientific testing on animals gave up at the ingestion of 600 leaves and no animal was harmed in the process.

You know me, dear read-ers. I’m a stickler for accu-racy in everything I write. So, allow me to qualify the title of this column: Mother is always right (except when she isn’t).

Anchor columnist Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Pat-rick’s Parish in Falmouth.

The Ship’s LogReflections of a

Parish PriestBy Father Tim

Goldrick

Producing human em-bryos in the laboratory for

research purposes makes most people uneasy. Even those who tolerate the creation of embryos in test tubes so that infertile couples might have children will often have reservations about the creation of embryos to serve as experimental research material or to destroy them for their cellular parts.

Twenty years ago, when a deeply divided government panel recommended allowing such research experiments on human embryos for the first time, even Bill Clinton summarily rejected the idea. Two years later, Repre-sentative Nancy Pelosi concurred in the Congressional Record: “We should not be involved in the creation of embryos for research. I completely agree with my colleagues on that score.” The proposal to engender human embryos by cloning has similarly drawn strong opposition from Americans for many years.

Yet society’s views are shifting. Clinton, Pelosi and many oth-ers have reversed their views in recent years. Scientists and politi-cians now seem ready to draw

ethical lines — and then erase them — as expediency demands.

Last week, with little fanfare, the journal Nature published a paper from a major research laboratory describing a study that would have been largely unthink-able when the embryo research debates first began in the early 1990s. Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his colleagues at Oregon Health and Sci-ence University described the creation of multiple human embryos in the laboratory for research purposes. Two of the embryos were produced by in vitro fertilization (IVF), and four more were generated by nuclear transfer or cloning, the same technique used to produce Dolly the sheep. All six of the human embryos were engendered for the purpose of “disaggregating” them for their embryonic stem cells to enable further study and detailed comparisons of their genetic and epigenetic patterns. If those human embryos derived by IVF or by cloning had not been destroyed but instead implanted into their mothers, pregnan-

cies could reasonably have been expected to ensue.

Human embryos, our own progeny, surely deserve better than being reduced to a kind of raw material, a commodity to be used for research and commercial purposes. Embryos, of course, are strikingly unfamiliar to us. They lack hands and feet and

voices. Even their brains have not yet developed. They look noth-ing like what we expect when we imagine a human being. But they are as human as you and I; they’re simply younger, smaller and more vulnerable. Embryos may not register with us on first glance; we may need to make a concerted effort to avoid discon-necting them from what we once were ourselves, given that each of us is precisely an embryo who has grown up.

Human embryos ought to be accorded the same respect that every human being deserves, as a matter of basic human rights. Human dignity demands noth-ing less. Respect for our own progeny, then, will have the obvious consequence that human embryos should not be generated in the laboratory for premedi-

tated destruction, nor for cellular cannibalization by scientists.

Dr. Mitalipov’s labora-tory, of course, is not the first to carry out human embryo-destructive research. But if he and his 25 co-authors on the paper are able routinely

to create human life merely to extinguish it for research ends — and are able to chronicle their exploits in professional journals without engendering so much as an ethical hiccup from the scientific community — perhaps it really is time to ask whether our corporate practice of science is returning to its pre-Nuremberg days, when weak and vulnerable human subjects did not need to be accorded unconditional pro-tections, particularly if expedient

and important research agendas happened to be at stake.

On the other hand, one might argue that the biomedi-cal sciences have not yet lost their ethical footing, concluding instead that a few renegade and influential scientists have man-aged to hold sway over a silent majority of other researchers who actually harbor substantive ethical objections to human embryo re-search. In that case, we can hope that papers like the one published last week may trigger the research community to begin drawing some long overdue ethical lines, and to reign in some of their own rogue investigators. We can hope for a new measure of courage in taking the important step of join-ing science to ethics, and working to protect the youngest and most voiceless members of the human family from research exploitation.

Father Pacholczyk earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, and serves as the director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org.

Renegade researchers and the future of biomedical research

Making Sense Out of

BioethicsBy Father Tad

Pacholczyk

10 July 18, 2014

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Anchor correSponDent

ASSONET — At the con-clusion of Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi, Father Michael Racine, pastor of St. Bernard’s Parish, blessed the people and sent them forth with homework.

The assignment included the viewing of a short video posted on the parish website on how to properly receive Holy Commu-nion.

In his homily Father Racine taught about the significance of the 750-year-old feast.

“I spoke about how fortunate we are as Catholics to have the Eucharist available to us every day of the year and how the Eu-charist strengthens and nour-ishes us as food for the journey,” said Father Racine. “I also talked about the importance of rever-ence to the Eucharist and how we receive Holy Communion with love and respect.”

Earlier, in preparation for the

Priest challenges parishioners with homework assignmentfeast, Deacon Paul Levesque had mentioned to Father Racine that he had seen a video posted by a priest on Facebook that ex-plained in a light-hearted man-ner how to receive Eucharist in a proper, reverent manner.

“Father Mike and I watched the video and agreed that we should make it available to the parish,” Deacon Levesque said.

“The video was humorous, but it was sad because the mes-sage of today’s society existed,” added Father Racine. “We for-get the beauty and the reverence of Christ in the Eucharist, and we treat Communion as some-thing unimportant. That’s when I challenged the people to watch the video.”

Sponsored by a grant from the Catholic Communications Campaign and presented by Busted Halo, the five-minute video, “Sacraments 101: Eucha-rist,” offers an important mes-

sage with a humorous approach. “So at Mass we see people

receive Holy Communion in their hands or on their tongue,” a young woman says. “Is there a certain way you are supposed to receive it?”

“Ah yes, Communion the Sacrament of the Eucharist,” says Father Dave Dwyer, CSP. “For many of us the last time we learned about it was in first grade, and who can remember that far back; so how about a refresher on how to receive this most Holy Sacrament?”

The Church gives us two options. According to Roman Missal No. 60, “The Consecrat-ed Host may be received either on the tongue or in the hand at the discretion of each commu-nicant.”

“Sounds simple, your choice,” says Father Dwyer. “But you may be surprised at how easy it is to get those wrong. We are not tak-ing — snatching — or biting.”

This is where the video high-lights communicants actually snatching and biting the wafers.

“We don’t take the Eucha-rist,” adds Father Dwyer. “Rath-er all we can do is make ourselves completely open or receptive to this beautiful gift of grace that God is offering us.”

St. Cyril of Jerusalem who lived in the fourth century said, “Receive Communion by mak-ing a throne — one hand under the other — ready to receive our great King.”

These beautiful words also re-mind us of the reverence needed when receiving the Sacrament. As Catholics, we believe that Je-sus is truly present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucha-rist.

“We express our reverence first with a simple bow of the head as we approach the minis-ter,” says Father Dwyer. “That’s not a full body bow or genuflec-tion or curtsey, but it should be more than perfunctory motion.” (Again we watch the demon-stration as communicants fully bow and curtsey. Hilarious).

“Be careful not to get too close when you bow either,” he

adds. “Many people make it when they are next in line for Communion.”

The priest also offers some practical considerations when receiving the Blessed Sacra-ment.

“If you hold your hands like a trapdoor, there’s likely to be an accident; and if you have stuff in your hands, how much room do you have for Jesus?” asks Father Dwyer. “If your hands aren’t clean, it’s probably best to receive on the tongue that day. In receiving on the tongue, try not to make it difficult for the minister to place it there. You really need to open your mouth and stick out your tongue. And when you receive the precious Blood of Jesus, take the cup in your hands and drink as you normally would.”

The simple words — “The Body of Christ. Amen.” — ex-changed between the commu-nicant and the priest, deacon, or extraordinary minister of Holy Communion are important. Here we watch communicants respond with “Thank you” and “Cool.” (Silly).

“When we say, Amen, we say, “Yes truly, this is the Body of Christ,” says Father Dwyer. “I will take Jesus into my heart and into my life this week.”

Finally the priest warns not to be afraid to get close enough for the Communion minister to actually reach you, but not so close as there are personal space issues.

“Having said all that don’t be overly concerned with getting it right,” adds Father Dwyer. “You can prayerfully appreciate re-ceiving the Lord into your life. The whole point of our faith is that even when you’re not per-fect, God’s grace makes up for that.”

According to Father Racine, the incidents that prompted the video assignment are many.

“And that’s the lack of respect that is given for the Eucharist and lack of knowledge of how to receive Communion reverently, and it’s everywhere in society,” he said. “I want to emphasize, however, the good in people, particularly parents who come to church weekly and teach the beauty of the Eucharist to their children.”

“We have received a lot of great positive feedback from parishioners who have watched this video,” Deacon Levesque added.

To view the video, visit www.stbernardassonet.org and click on the link at the top of the page.

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12 July 18, 2014

This past July 2 marked a significant anniversary in

the history of this great country. But I’ll bet not many people heard, saw or read about it much.

It was the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, that outlawed discrimina-tion based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It was meant to eliminate segregation in public places. It was meant to end the horrific, and often violent relationship between some whites and African-Americans in this country.

Just because a law is passed doesn’t mean it will change hearts.

As a young boy growing up in the ’60s, I witnessed on television the race riots and inhumane ways many whites treated blacks in this country.

It left an impression on me that I will never forget, nor do

I want to. As a young boy I couldn’t understand how people could be so hateful to others because of the color of their skin. Fifty years later, I still can’t.

I grew up in an all-white neighborhood, with all my friends being white. But I would watch the news and read other media outlets and learned that black children my age didn’t have half of what I had — and I wasn’t well-to-do by any stretch.

These children and their parents were killed simply for being black. They were ostracized simply for being black. They were banned from using the same doors and seats as whites, simply for being black.

I couldn’t comprehend that as a young boy. I couldn’t under-stand how some people I knew didn’t like blacks simply because of the color of their skin. I don’t

understand today how some people I know still feel that way.

I cried when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Others cheered.

I will never know what African-Americans went

through since they were “freed” by President Abraham Lincoln. I will never know their suffering, and I wish I could apologize for all that my white “brothers and sisters” did to them.

I had a few black friends in high school, and none in college. In the work field I became good friends with several black people. And you know what? They were just like me, even though they were black. Go figure.

I did feel the sting of prejudice once. While working in Provi-dence I became good friends with a black co-worker. We played ball together, and he came over to my house to eat with De-

Diocese of Fall River TV Masson WLNE Channel 6 Sunday, July 20, 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Craig A. Pregana, Pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish at St. James

Church, New Bedford

Celebrant is Msgr. Stephen J. Avila, pastor of St. Anthony’s

Parish in East Falmouth

Diocese of Fall River TV Masson WLNE Channel 6 Sunday, July 27, 11:00 a.m.

I just don’t understand

highest total of donations in the 73-year history of the Appeal.

Figures for the number of do-nors in the 84 parishes are com-plete and it appears that more than 31,000 individuals and busi-nesses were moved to support those in need in the diocese.

The focus of the Appeal proved compelling enough to inspire sac-rificial giving once again. “When you consider the state of the economy nationally, and especial-ly in southeastern Massachusetts with our two largest cities of Fall River and New Bedford continu-ing to experience a slow recovery from the economic downturn of recent years, it is an amazing ex-ample of a Christ-centered faith for those who do contribute and to their authentic witness to the good works made possible by the Appeal and the agencies it spon-sors,” said James Campbell direc-tor of the diocesan Development Office, of which the Catholic Charities Appeal is a part.

The results of the Appeal showed amazing accomplish-ments across the diocese. Ten parishes throughout the region had double-digit increases over last year’s Appeal total, with one parish exceeding a 40 percent in-crease, and nine others with more

than 10 percent increases. Twen-ty-four of the 84 parishes in the diocese had increases over their 2013 total.

“I believe that several factors helped to distinguish our Appeal in the mind of our donors,” con-tinued Campbell. “First, there is a genuine respect for the work be-ing done on behalf of the poor by the Diocese of Fall River in meet-ing the needs of those to whom it ministers through its various agencies and apostolates, and sec-ondly, our efficiency, as measured by the fact that 93 cents of every dollar donated goes directly to these agencies and apostolates to address the needs of those who turn to us for assistance during their time of need. We are very proud of the sound stewardship which has always been a bench-mark of the Appeal.”

Bishop George W. Coleman, as he visited throughout the dio-cese, was moved by the work done on behalf of the those served by the Appeal. “I am so proud of our priests and the lay leaders in every parish who advocate so strenu-ously on behalf of the poor,” he said. “We act, not only with pro-fessionalism and diligence, but also out of a spirit of love. This is what distinguishes our services

Appeal brings in more than $4 millioncontinued from page one

and the people feel that. The re-sponse of a great number of peo-ple, parishes, and businesses in the Diocese of Fall River to our an-nual Appeal demonstrates an ad-mirable degree of respect for the dignity of the individual.”

Campbell expressed gratitude to the many pastors and parish workers who made the Appeal successful. “Many pastors’ stepped up to the challenge of bettering their parishes’ results and we are so thankful. I also want to thank our three teen-age speakers at this year’s kickoffs. Victoria Johnson from Apponequet High School, Kate Franklin from Bishop Fee-han, and Owen Leary from Bish-op Stang were inspiring examples of young people who are animat-ed about their faith and recognize that their faith impels them to act on behalf of those in need. If they are representative of our future, then the future is bright indeed,” said Campbell.

“I want to express my thanks to so many parish assistants for doing the little things that lead to success. Preparing the mail-ings, analyzing initial responses and preparing follow-up mailings is laborious and time consuming but the results speak well for their efforts.”

nise, the kids and me. We were always together at work.

Then, out of the blue, he ac-cused me and another co-worker of saying racist things to him. We were reprimanded at work without even a chance to give our

side.I soon found out from

another black friend that he had been going to meetings where the agenda was anti-white.

I hadn’t done any-thing wrong, yet was treated totally unfairly. A small dose of what our

African-American brothers and sisters went through — and un-fortunately are still going through today.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did change some things, but not all. This country is still inhabited by too many ignorant, arrogant white people — a race that feels entitled and I don’t know why. Whites weren’t the first race on earth — what makes them so special?

I recently went to a Blues festival featuring mostly black Blues artists (including the leg-endary B.B. King, who has seen more of his share of back doors and the back of buses). Shemekia

My View From

the StandsBy Dave Jolivet

Copeland sang a song her Blues musician father wrote and re-corded in 2003, “Ghetto Child.” She sang, “I’m just the ghetto child. Somebody, please, please help the ghetto child. I’m just the ghetto child. In this so-called, in this so-called free land.”

Too many things haven’t changed since the ’64 CRA, and that’s a shame and a crime.

Prejudice and racism don’t come naturally — they’re taught and learned. America is still the greatest country on earth, filled with millions of good, honest people — of all races, colors, creeds and nationalities. Unfortu-nately, the hateful heart still exists though. And as long as that heart lives, so too, will evil — in this so-called free land.

But God sees what’s hap-pening — here and across His good earth. Evil hearts will have to answer to Him. Meanwhile African-Americans, Mexicans, other Hispanics, Native Ameri-cans, Asians and others who are “different” will continue to feel the deep, hurtful sting of hate-ful hearts no matter what act is signed by whom. And that makes me sorry for us all.

Dave Jolivet can be reached at davejolivet@anchornews.org.

13 July 18, 2014

JudgeFor

YourselfBy Dwight G. Duncan

Recently, the Magna Carta, in one of its four

surviving original copies, the one from Lincoln Cathedral, began a U.S. tour with an exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. The legal document, dating from June 15, 1215, which means it’s celebrating its 800th anniversary, begins and ends with King John guaran-teeing “that the English church shall be free,“ with its rights undiminished and its liberties unimpaired. It is one of the few provisions of the Magna Carta that still remains on the English statute books.

On July 6, I visited the Magna Carta, and was struck by the coincidence that July 6 is also the anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas More, once Lord Chancellor of England, who was executed for treason because he would not take an oath prescribed by Par-liament that made Henry VIII Supreme Head of the Church of England. At his trial, he was overruled in his claim that the Act of Supremacy violated the Magna Carta and the king’s coronation oath. After all, the provision of the Magna Carta originally meant freedom of the Church from royal control. Which goes to show that reli-gious freedom, however admi-rable in theory, can rather easily be disregarded in practice.

Admittedly, there are close cases. The recent Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties cases, however, released by the U.S. Supreme Court June 30, the last day of its term, should not have been among them. The case was decided 5-4, however, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion, and Justice Anthony Kennedy, in concurrence, once again providing the swing vote. The court’s four liberals, led by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dissented.

The cases involved claims by closely-held family-run busi-nesses that the requirement promulgated by the Depart-ment of Health and Human Services to implement the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare), that they had to provide free coverage for their employees of four types of contraceptives that can cause abortion. While the regula-tions required the companies to provide free-of-charge 20 different types of contracep-tives to women, these com-panies, owned and run by Protestants, did not object to

What the Supreme Court did (and didn’t) do to religious freedomcontraception as such, but only those four types of contracep-tives that have a feature that would prevent implantation of a fertilized embryo into the woman’s uterus and thus cause an abortion.

Like so much involving the Affordable Healthcare Act, the cause became politicized. There’s an interesting contrast with the case the court decided unanimously the week prior, McCullen v. Coakley, in which the Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts buffer zone in front of abortion clin-ics, because it violated freedom of speech. So in a case that also involved abortion and the First Amendment, the court was capable of speaking with one voice, legally rather than politically.

In Hobby Lobby, the court ruled that a fed-eral law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, applied to the case, and that it covered “any exercise of religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief.” The only question that govern-ment could consider was not the truth or reasonableness or centrality of the religious belief, but only whether the belief were sincere, which was not doubted in the case of these companies. Interestingly, RFRA had passed in 1993 by overwhelming majorities of both houses of Congress. This is because religious freedom, like free speech, is a vital part of our legal heritage and until recently, viewed as axiomatic.

The court said that compa-nies were legal persons within the meaning of RFRA, an unexceptional view dating back to the Middle Ages, when the Church, as the Body or Corpus of Christ, was viewed as a cor-poration with legal personality. Citing William Blackstone, the authoritative expounder of the common law at the time of the American founding, the court recognized that there were two types of corporations, ecclesiastical and lay, and that lay corporations could also have eleemosynary and religious purposes (The amicus brief I filed in support of Hobby Lobby for four non-profit cor-porations made the same point, also citing Blackstone).

Because of the political firestorm that erupted several years ago when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of

corporate free-speech rights in the Citizens United case, which President Obama had denounced in his State of the Union address, this question of the First Amendment rights of corporations, and specifically whether for-profit corporations were legal persons, has become politicized. Even so, two of the liberal justices, Justice Ste-phen Breyer and Justice Elena Kagan, did not join that part of Ginsburg’s dissent that said that for-profit corporations were not legal persons.

As Justice Alito pointed out for the majority, “It is impor-tant to keep in mind that the

purpose of this fiction [that corporations are legal ‘persons’] is to provide protection for human beings. A corporation is simply a form of organiza-tions used by human beings to achieve desired ends. When rights, whether constitutional or statutory, are extended to corporations, the purpose is to protect the rights of these people.”

Since corporations, or at least closely-held family-run companies, can claim to exer-cise religion, the law requires that if their religious exercise is substantially burdened, then the government must show both that it is seeking to achieve compelling government inter-ests, and that it is doing so in the least religiously restrictive way possible: a demanding ends and means test. If the govern-ment passes the test, the matter belongs to Caesar. If not, then it belongs to God and the reli-gious conscience of believers.

Justice Kennedy concurred by saying that while free contraceptives for women was a compelling government interest, the government had a lesser restrictive alternative in that it could either provide the contraceptive coverage itself or extend the accom-modation HHS was already giving religions non-profits to for-profit closely-held compa-nies with religious objections. Because he was the swing vote, the majority had to assume for the sake of argument that there

was a compelling interest in free contraceptives, though the prevalence of exceptions in the regulation for grandfathered companies, companies with less than 50 employees, and churches and other religious organizations, makes that very questionable. If it’s so impor-tant to government, then why is it handing out exemptions like party favors to all those ex-cept for-profit companies with religious objections?

And so the majority ruled that the huge fines the fami-lies faced for not covering the abortifacient contraceptives did constitute a substantial bur-

den on their religious practice, and that even assuming a compelling government inter-est in support of the regulation, the gov-ernment had failed to show that cost-free access to these con-traceptives was the least-restrictive means

of achieving its desired goal. Either the government could assume the cost itself, or extend the accommodation it already was giving non-profit employ-ers with religious objections to the mandate.

The court went on to say that its ruling did not neces-sarily apply to vaccinations or blood transfusions, nor did it provide a shield to employers illegally discriminating on re-ligious grounds. Those matters will have to wait for another day.

It did not take long, how-ever, for the plot to thicken. On July 3, the Supreme Court issued an order in the case of Wheaton College v. Burwell, Secretary of HHS, granting an emergency injunction to the Protestant college, which had religious objections to fill-ing out the bureaucratic form whereby the school notified its insurer of the obligation to provide full contraceptive cov-erage. The court said that “the applicant has already notified the government that it meets the requirements for exemption from the contraceptive cover-age on religious grounds.” That was sufficient, at least pending full lower court review of the merits. The court said, “this order should not be construed as an expression of the court’s view on the merits.”

Even though Justice Sonia Sotomayor had issued a similar emergency injunction protect-ing the Little Sisters of the

Poor from the contraceptive mandate on New Year’s Eve, she now wrote a dissent joined in by the other female justices, Ginsburg and Kagan (Interest-ingly, they were not joined by Justice Stephen Breyer, who had dissented in the Hobby Lobby case). While the court here divided along gender lines, it did not divide along political lines or religious ones (Breyer is Jewish, and Sotomayor is Catholic).

Justice Sotomayor claimed that this emergency injunction was distinguishable from the one she granted, and the full court confirmed, in the Little Sisters of the Poor case, which is still pending. But more tell-ingly, she claimed that filling out the form that notified the insurer was not a substantial burden on religious exer-cise, and that it was the least restrictive means of achieving the government’s compelling interest. She also said that the court seemed to be back-tracking on the viability of the “accommodation” that just days earlier they had said was a lesser restrictive alternative for religious non-profits.

I was struck by how over-the-top much reaction to the Hobby Lobby case was, as if, all of a sudden, applying a law intended to protect reli-gious freedom to the facts of a particular case were a threat to civil liberties. Justice Ginsburg, for example, calls it a “decision of startling breadth,” and dem-onstrates that she is opposed to RFRA, in spite of the careful hedging of the majority’s opin-ion. In front of the Supreme Court building the Monday that the decision was issued, there were contending demon-strators. The pro-government contingent had a slogan, “My birth control is none of your business.” Precisely. That’s what the companies were saying: Get your hand out of my pocket.

As James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal pointed out, the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s full-page ad in the New York Times asserted, quot-ing retired Justice John Paul Stevens, “Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feel-ings, no thoughts, no desires.” Taranto retorted: “Then shut up.” But of course corporations, like the people who comprise them, can be hypocritical too.

Anchor columnist Dwight Duncan is a professor at UMass School of Law Dartmouth. He holds degrees in civil and canon law.

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migrants who, ironically enough, all shared the common and popular name of Manuel — or Manny, for short — the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament began as a spinoff of the religious festivals that were common in the villages of their home island and was first established to commemorate their safe passage to America.

“It’s based on the same feast that they have on the island of Madeira,” Jacques told The An-chor. “When the four founders came over (from the Azores), they got together here in New Bedford and they wanted to con-tinue that tradition from their homeland and it’s continued on ever since. I don’t think they ever thought that it would last 100 years.”

Even though the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament originated as a religious celebration under the auspices of Immaculate Concep-tion Parish, over the years it has since evolved into its own entity, completely organized, financed and supported by the Club Ma-deirense S.S. Sacramento.

“It started at the church — the first feast was held on the grounds (of Immaculate Con-ception Parish),” Jacques said. “But then the club started buying its own property over near the church and they started building and building and made it what it is today.”

“It’s not the way it used to be,” agreed Father Daniel O. Reis, pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in New Bedford. “They used to have a procession, but many years ago it became a pa-rade — that’s what they have now. There are no statues, there’s noth-ing religious about the parade.”

But many members of the Madeira Club are parishioners and Father Reis said the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament still re-tains connections to its religious roots.

“We open the feast with the exposition of the Blessed Sacra-

ment and Benediction,” he said. “They first come to the church on Thursday to begin the (four-day) feast, then they go over and officially open the feast. One of the highlights of the weekend is the Feast Mass, which is one of the main events at 11 a.m. on Sunday.”

An Azorean native himself from the island of São Miguel, Father Reis said the Portuguese immigrants have always tried to keep up these traditions from their homeland.

“We always had our own feasts in every parish in the Azores — especially during the summer,” he said. “The feast from the parish where I was born was just held last week: the feast of St. Anthony.”

Although many ethnic par-ishes in the United States have since abandoned such celebra-tions, Father Reis said they have been kept alive at Immaculate Conception Parish.

“We still have the annual Holy Ghost Feast and the feast of Se-ñhor da Pedra,” he said. “Señhor da Pedra is a statue of Jesus similar to Señhor Santo Cristo, only it shows His full body, sitting on a rock. We still have the Señhor da Pedra procession two weeks after the Feast of the Blessed Sacra-ment.”

Apart from celebrating the Feast Mass and the opening day Benediction, Father Reis’ partici-pation in “the feast” will be lim-ited to marching in the parade on Sunday and enjoying some of the flavors from his native land.

“I’ll go over once in a while during the weekend, but I don’t stay there too long,” he said. “But I always go over and get some-thing to eat.”

Boasting a menu of tasty eth-nic food that would make any Portuguese mother proud, the 100th Feast of the Blessed Sac-rament will be offering its usual assortment of traditional Por-tuguese cuisine such as bacal-

hau (codfish), caçoila (marinated pork), carne de espeto (barbecued beef ), favas (beans in a spicy sauce), linguiça (grilled Portu-guese sausage), and malassadas (deep-fried Portuguese dough coated with sugar).

And it wouldn’t be a Madei-ran feast without vinho — tra-ditional wine and sangria blends imported from the vineyards of Madeira.

All of these culinary delights will be cooked to order and sold on the grounds of the Madeira Field by volunteer members of the club or feisteros, which are, lit-erally translated, “party people.”

Jacques said when the Club Madeirense S.S. Sacramento was first incorporated in 1953 to oversee the feast, you had to be of Madeiran ancestry to join.

Now anyone who volunteers or serves on one of the planning committees is eligible to become a member.

“Because it’s the 100th cele-bration this year, everyone gets to be on the committee if they are a member,” he said. “So we have 282 festeiros who are going to be here during the weekend.”

With many family members offering their time and talents to make the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament a reality, Jacques said the four-day weekend some-times resembles a family reunion of sorts.

“It’s pretty amazing — we have some families who have been involved with this feast for three and four generations now,” he said. “I’m a third-generation member myself. My grandfather, my father and myself have all been involved. We try to instill in our kids the things that are im-portant to us.”

“I would like to think that they’re just not celebrating a feast that marks 100 years,” agreed Fa-ther Manuel P. Ferreira, retired priest of the Fall River Diocese. “It’s an ongoing feast, but it’s also a renewal of not only their faith,

their customs and their culture, but also a renewal of their broth-erhood together.”

Father Ferreira, who served as pastor at Immaculate Con-ception Parish in New Bedford from 1979 to 1992, said he still makes an effort to attend the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament every year.

“I was born here, but my grandparents were from São Miguel in the Azores,” Father Ferreira told The Anchor. “I was brought up with my grandmoth-er and she always instilled in me a love for the Portuguese lan-guage and culture and I always appreciated that — and I still do. I learned all that from her.”

Admitting that some Portu-guese traditions have fallen by the wayside due to a lack of par-ticipation, Father Ferreira said it’s good to know some things have continued to thrive.

“You hold onto traditions but once you let your faith go, your traditions go as well,” Father Fer-reira said. “If you forget those traditions, it all goes down the drain. I’m glad they’re keeping this tradition alive.”

Along with the usual assort-ment of food, rides and outdoor games, “the feast” is also known for showcasing nationally-known entertainment acts — and this year’s milestone celebra-tion is no exception.

Performing this year along-side traditional Portuguese folk dancers and fado singers will be rock acts like the Gin Blossoms on July 31; Blood, Sweat and Tears featuring former “Ameri-can Idol” contestant Bo Bice on August 1; and country artist Phil Vassar on August 3.

As it has been throughout its 100-year-history, there is no en-trance fee to attend the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament and ad-mission to all live performances is free.

Throughout its history, men of Madeiran heritage and their families have made the feast possible through their generous

contributions of time and labor. Supporting funds are also raised through the sale of food and drink at the feast, rental space paid by vendors on the feast grounds, and promotional events and items arranged by the club.

At this year’s feast more than 100,000 visitors are expected to enter the grounds during the four-day celebration. So, for the first time this year, the feast com-mittee has recognized that some people may not want to battle the crowds.

As such, the feast grounds will open six hours earlier on Friday, August 1, beginning at noon.

“On Friday afternoon, many feast -goers are still at work, so parking will be easier and all of our most popular foods will be fresh out of the ovens,” said Da-vid Luco, feast vice president. “We hope this will attract a for-merly set group of people who wanted to attend the feast with-out the crowds.”

Jacques said they had also extended an invitation to the Bishop of Madeira to attend this year’s feast, but he had a prior commitment.

“He’s sending us a letter of congratulations to be read during the Mass that weekend,” he said.

“Someone talked about bring-ing back the procession for this (100th) year, but they already had all their plans set up,” Father Reis added. “They’re probably going to do something more solemn for the 100th anniversary. I’m sure there will be more people involved this year.”

Even though he’s about to helm the landmark 100th anni-versary Feast of the Blessed Sac-rament, Jacques remains oddly nonchalant about the whole thing.

For him, it’s just another year-ly opportunity to get together with family members and friends — albeit thousands of them — and carry on the tradition of his forefathers, the same way he’s always done since first attending “the feast” as a seven-year-old with his grandfather.

“We’re planning the same feast we always have. Nothing has really changed that much,” he said. “It’s still going to be the four days, and the same thing will go on that’s gone on for the past 50 years since I’ve been here.

“For me, it’s a labor of love. I do this because of my ancestry and my love for everything Ma-deiran.”

For more information about the 100th annual Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, including an updated schedule of events, visit www.portuguesefeast.com.

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facilities. “It’s fully occupied. All the people who came into the Romero House were con-sidered homeless, so obviously that moved them from a bad situation into a great situation. We have mothers with children, couples and single people living there; it’s a mix of households.”

The units range from studio apartments, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units, including the two handicap units on the first floor. When someone goes from living either on the streets, couch-jumping with friends, or trying to land a bed in a shelter, coming to live in a home and having a stable place to live can change a person or family’s life dramatically.

“We took one elderly tenant who was living in an unbeliev-ably bad situation and had no-where to go, and came [to the Romero house],” said Allard. “The feedback has been terrif-ic. The condition of the hous-ing is such that when some-one moves into our housing after we do it, it’s like noth-ing they’ve ever lived in. We do quality work and the place looks like a hotel.”

The same ideal holds true at the St. Dominic Apartments in Fall River. A four-year proj-ect, the apartments were created during a rehab of St. Anne’s Priory residence in Fall River. The 18 one-bedroom apart-ments may have retained the unique architectural features of the gothic building, but Allard made sure that every apart-ments was handicap accessible; “The elders who have moved into St. Dominic’s really like the fact that they’re living in a safe, clean and stable environment,” said Allard. “They’re living with others, so there’s a sense of com-munity there, which is good for them. When you get to that age, it’s good to have company and to hang out with.”

Places like St. Dominic Apartments are a godsend for elderly who may not have children living close by, or are not necessarily close with their children, said Allard. Living in a community-type based ar-rangement encourages neigh-bors to connect with each other, creating a special closeness not found when the elderly are liv-ing alone.

“They can build relationships with the other tenants and that’s happened,” said Allard.

There are many projects in various stages currently under-way. The Sister Rose House, a sober men’s shelter, is wait-ing for the final financing to come through for its move from downtown New Bedford to the former St. Hedwig’s Parish on Division Street, where it will be able to offer beds to women for the first time in the city. The plan includes expanded living space for guests beyond a bed in a cubicle, a patio, raised beds for a community garden, job-training certificate program and GED/ELL classes.

Allard said Arlene McNa-mee, executive director of Cath-olic Social Services, has been extremely successful in raising private funds for the Sister Rose House “from individuals, cor-porations, hospitals and banks. They’ve all stepped up. I’ve been doing this work for 35 years, and I’ve never seen this kind of re-sponse to a project.”

Nearly $700,000 has been raised, with a huge boost from a meeting with the Fishermen’s Association; “Arlene has gone in and talked, and from that some fishermen have stepped up,” said Allard. “One fisherman wrote a check for $50,000 on the spot.”

“I think what’s motivating them is they see the need for the shelter,” continued Allard. “Like in the case of the fishermen, some fishermen are struggling.

Also, a lot of them are members of the Church and they’re do-ing their charitable part. Others know it because of the reputa-tion of CABH and the work we’ve done in the community, and they put that trust in us.”

Allard said he recently ac-companied Rep. Joe Kennedy in a walk-through of a newly-completed veteran housing project in Fall River on Eastern Avenue. The six units — two are handicap accessible — will be rented out to veterans through a lottery process; “With the con-struction just completed,” said Allard, “we’re hoping to have people starting to move in there sometime in September.”

CABH also works on rehab-bing homes and selling them to low-income, first-time home-buyers. Currently a property on Leland Street in New Bedford was redone; the two-family home is in a “great location on a dead end street, next to the schools and the highway; on the next street over there’s a cul-de-

sac of newly-built homes. It sits on a third of an acre. It had been foreclosed on and we went in there and purchased it, and did a complete rehab. This place looks beautiful,” said Allard, adding that the new owner, who was chosen through a lottery-system from those who qualified, would be taking possession soon.

There are so many misun-derstandings about those who are homeless, said Allard, and there is an idea that individu-als become homeless “through their own fault,” he said, “that if they really wanted to do some-thing, they wouldn’t be home-less. I think that’s an easy way out. People can get themselves off the hook by saying that, put-ting the onus on the individual, then no one has to think a lot about the issues over why a per-son would become homeless — until it strikes home, then it becomes more real.”

There is sometimes a fear born from those misconcep-tions, so in the case of the Sister

Rose House and its community garden, the garden will create a link with the guests from the shelter to the neighbors; “They can get to know each other, see each other and trust each other,” said Allard. “We try to do that with all our projects, to get the tenants involved in the neigh-borhood community.”

Seeing each job to its com-pletion, Allard said he enjoys seeing each project give back to the community in two ways; one by helping homeless families and individuals, and the other is sprucing up a neighborhood by rehabbing a blighted property.

“Personally, this is one of the best things I like about my job,” he said. “There aren’t that many jobs that you can say, ‘This is what we did.’ In my job, I can do that. We can take a dilapidated building and turn it around into a shining star, look at it and know that it’s going to be well-maintained by CSS and the ten-ants living there will be treated with respect.”

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Students from St. James-St. John School in New Bedford had a celebratory ice cream party sponsored by Hood Ice Cream. The school was being treated to the party by Hood and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for placing fifth in the New England area for the Pennies for Patients fund raiser.

The Mystic Aquarium traveling program recently came to St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro to give presentations to the science classes. The seventh- and eighth-grader’s program was entitled Marine Scientist. The fifth-graders’ program was entitled “Beluga Ecolocation.” The sixth-graders’ program was entitled “Long Island Sound.” Pictured are seventh-graders Evan Andrews and Isaiah O’Sullivan with Cailee Smith from Mystic Aquarium as they diagnose a seal bone and radiograph.

With grateful hearts, students of St. Mary’s School (Mansfield) Class of 2014 thanked their parents for their dedication to the school/home partnership by presenting them with flowers during their recent graduation ceremony. Principal Joanne Riley’s message encouraged students to “go out and make a difference in the world. Remember what you have learned here at St. Mary’s, as we will remember you.” Front from left: Payton Rappold, Paige Mordarski, Kiana Soares, Brianna Kelly, Sophia Pelletiere, Grace Crowley, Skyler Basara, Julie Hogan, Angela Corkery, and Macy Ried. Back row: Sophie Drager, John Dekkers, Donald Jepsen, Owen Price, Sean Birch, John Pignato, Nathanial Stewart, and Derek Dat-tero. (Photo by First Choice Photography)

Participants in the annual Diocese of Fall River Pro-Life Boot Camp are pictured at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Attleboro, where they attended Mass and enjoyed a breakfast prepared by parishioners from St. Vincent’s and St. John’s joint Respect Life Committee, on July 12. The boot camp was held July 11-13 at Stonehill College, with a trip to Attleboro to pray for an end to abortion and to visit patients at area nursing homes.

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Be NotAfraidBy AmandaTarantelli

Happy Anniversary to me! I just celebrated four years of Mar-

riage with my husband (I know — we are a Hollywood success story). As I write this article I am celebrating my one-year anniversary with The Anchor so congratulations to all of you for making it through a year with me!

Anniversaries are funny things. Some people celebrate more anni-versaries than others. Some celebrate month-long anniversaries (or as I hear they are called, “monthaversaries”).

Some people celebrate Marriage or dating anniversaries. Some people cel-ebrate friendship anniversaries (“frien-daversaries”).

Last week I went out to breakfast with two friends of mine and we were planning what we are going to do next year when we celebrate our 30th an-niversary of friendship. I have married friends who even celebrated the anni-versary of the first text they sent to each other (between you and me, I think this is too much but to each his own on this one). And lastly some anniversaries are not happy anniversaries.

Next week is the nine-month an-niversary of my dad’s passing. I will be taking his remains to his final place of rest in Mississippi. He always wanted to retire there so that is where he will retire.

I did not think I was much of an anniversary person but the more I thought about it, the more I realized how many anniversaries we really celebrate.

I love birthdays! I always have. I love to gather with all the people I love and celebrate the anniversary of the day I was born (which is July 23, if anyone wants to send me a happy birthday email). I love to cel-ebrate my loved ones’ birthdays.

My mom and my brother hate cel-ebrating their birthday. They hate getting older. I feel like there is no better way to say “I love you” then “Yay I am so glad that you were born.”

Our holidays are all anniversaries as well. We celebrate the anniversary of the birth of America, the anniversary of a new year, and the anniversary of the first Thanksgiving. We memorialize many anniversaries.

When we look at our faith, we cele-brate many anniversaries as well. Every December 25 we celebrate the anniver-sary of the birth of our Savior. Every

Pentecost we celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of the Church.

Every spring we celebrate the an-niversary of the Resurrection of our Lord. Three days prior we remember the anniversary of the death of Christ. Every day at Mass we recognize the an-niversary of the Last Supper.

Our faith and our culture put a great emphasis on anniversaries. I think we need to be mindful when celebrating or remembering anniversaries that we need to remember

the reason we have anniversaries. When we celebrate Marriage or relationship anniversaries, we should not celebrate them without thanking God for the gift of that person in our lives.

When we celebrate the anniversary of a loved one’s death, we cannot forget to pray to God for the gift of their life and for their soul. When we celebrate the anniversary of our birth, we must not forget to thank God for the gift of our own lives and for our parents who chose to say yes to life.

While it is not something that I would do, thinking about my friend and her anniversary of their first text, made me realize that maybe it is not such a bad thing. There is so much sadness in the world; maybe we should celebrate the small everyday things as well. For those people trying to quit smoking, celebrate every day you go smoke free. For those of us dieting, celebrate the days where you choose carrot sticks over cheesecake.

Celebrate the anniversary of a first date, a graduation, a first word, a first conversation. Anniversaries remind us that God is in every moment. He is not just there on the one-month or on the one-year or the 10-year but He is in every day, every moment in between. Celebrate the small anniversaries as well as the big anniversaries recogniz-ing God in all of it.

And thanks for spending the last year with me here at The Anchor. Happy anniversary to us!

Anchor columnist Amanda Tarantelli has been a campus minister at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth since 2005. She is married, a die-hard sports fan, and resides in Cranston, R.I. She can be reached at atarantelli@bishopstang.org.

Happy anniversary

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The of-ficial logo and prayer for World Youth Day 2016 were unveiled in the event’s host city — Krakow, Poland — by the city’s archbishop, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz.

The Vatican released the information the same day, July 3.

The logo and prayer focus on the theme chosen by Pope Francis from the Gospel of Matthew: “Blessed are the mer-ciful, for they will re-ceive mercy.”

The logo, created by Monika Rybc-zynska, 28, with help from Emilia Pyza, 26, features a red and blue flame of Divine Mercy flowing from a gold cross that is surrounded by a red outline of the map of Poland. A gold dot represents the city of Krakow on the map and symbolizes the youth. The red, blue and yellow colors represent the official colors of Krakow and the city’s coat of arms.

The prayer begins with a line from St. John Paul II’s homily at the dedica-tion of the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Krakow in 2002: “God merciful Father, in Your Son, Jesus Christ, You have revealed Your love and poured it out upon us in the Holy Spirit, the Com-forter, we entrust to You today the des-tiny of the world and of every man and woman.”

Divine Mercy is focus of official logo, prayer of World Youth Day 2016

The first part of the prayer entrusts to the Lord’s mercy all of humanity, espe-cially the world’s young people. The sec-ond part asks God to grant to the faith-ful the grace of being merciful toward others, especially those who have doubts about faith or who are discouraged. The last part asks for the intercession of Mary and St. John Paul — the patron saint of World Youth Day.

The Archdiocese of Krakow is the for-mer see of St. John Paul and is home to the Divine Mercy shrine. St. John Paul had a great devotion to Divine Mercy, the recognition of God’s mercy as demonstrat-ed in His sending His

Son to die for the sins of humanity.Pope Francis has asked young people

to read the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1-12, not just as a way to prepare for the 2015 diocesan celebration for World Youth Day and the international gath-ering with the pope in 2016, but also in order to make them a blueprint for their whole lives.

The international gathering is sched-uled for July 26-31, 2016, with Pope Fran-cis and youth from all over the world.

The last international celebration of World Youth Day, which Pope Francis celebrated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in July 2013, concluded with a Mass at-tended by three million people.

St. Michael School in Fall River participated in the Relay For Life 2014. Many students, families, faculty, and staff participated and nearly $4,000 was raised. Shown here is the St. Michael School Angel Fish Team that took part in various fund-raising activities.

St. Vincent’s Home (Fall River) annual summer celebration was recently held on the deck of the Battleship Massachusetts. With 410 guests in attendance, more than $97,000 was raised for the youth in St. Vincent’s Life Skills Program. From left: Mechanics Co-operative Bank President and CEO Joseph T. Baptista Jr., Mechanics Cooperative Bank Executive Vice President Deborah A. Grimes, and St. Vincent’s CEO Jack Weldon.

In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests

during the coming weeksJuly 19

Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, D.D., Second Bishop of Fall River, 1907-34, 1934

Rev. Francis M. Coady, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River, 1975

Msgr. Joseph R. Pannoni, Retired Pastor, Holy Rosary, Fall River, 1992

July 20Rev. Joao Medeiros, Retired Pastor,

St. Elizabeth, Fall River, 1983

July 22Rev. Francis L. Mahoney, Retired

Pastor, Holy Name Fall River, 2007

July 23Rev. Patrick F. Doyle, Founder, SS.

Peter & Paul, Fall River, 1893Rev. George B. McNamee, Found-

er, Holy Name, Fall River, 1938

July 25Rev. Michael J. Cooke, Pastor, St.

Patrick, Fall River, 1913Rev. Raymond R. Mahoney,

SS.CC., Former Pastor, Our Lady of Assumption, New Bed-ford, 1984

July 26Rev. Msgr. Alfred J.E. Bonneau,

P.R., Retired Pastor, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River, 1974

July 27Rev. Damien Veary, SS.CC., For-

mer Pastor, St. Anthony, Mat-tapoisett, 1981

July 29Rev. Mathias McCabe, Retired

Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River, 1913

Rev. Charles P. Trainor, S.S., St. Edward Seminary, Seattle, Wash., 1947

July 30Rev. Francis Kiernan, Pastor Sand-

wich, New Bedford, Wareham, 1838

July 311865, Rev. Daniel Hearne, Pastor,

St. Mary, Taunton2003, Rev. Hugh J. Munro, Chap-

lain, Marian Manor, Taunton

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The Cape Cod and Attleboro Bus for Life will have its second an-

nual summer dinner event on July 26 at 6 p.m. at St. Pius X Par-ish, 5 Barbara Street in South Yarmouth. Guest speakers will include Father Ron Floyd and the keynote speaker is Kevin Burke of Rachel’s Vineyard and Priest for Life. The emcee

for the event is newly-ordained Father Chris Peschel. Dinner options include beef or chicken, with all proceeds supporting

the 2015 March for Life bus trip. To RSVP or for more information contact Kevin Ward at fkw194722@yahoo.com or 508-291-0949.

A special celebration of the profession of Father Flavio Gillo and other La Salette Seminarians will be held during the 12:10 p.m. Mass on July 27 at La Salette Shrine, 947 Park Street in Attleboro, in the shrine church. Together, let us invoke Our Lady and the Holy Spirit to bless and enrich their lives in Her service in “Making Her Message Known” throughout the world. Thank you for your esteemed presence and prayers.

Holy Cross Family Ministries’ annual retreat for families will take place at the University of Notre Dame the weekend of August 1-3. Why not take a road trip and pray, play and spend time with your family? Here’s a weekend to to-tally dedicate your time to each other and to God. Enjoy a candlelight proces-sion, beautiful Liturgies, enriching presentations on prayer, fun recreational activities and more. For complete details visit www.FamilyRosary.org/Events or contact Ann Melanson at 800-299-7729 or amelanson@hcfm.org.

The annual Good Shepherd Parish Feast will be held on August 8 and 9 from 5 to 10 p.m. and on August 10 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at 1598 South Main Street in Fall River. The feast will feature a multi-national food tent and live entertainment including Steel Dreams on Friday, Kings Row on Saturday, and Summer School on Sunday afternoon. Activities include homemade malassadas, a Portuguese bazaar, Chinese auction, jewelry, a country kitch-en, games and activities for children and teens, along with many crafters, ar-tisans and vendors. On Sunday, August 10, the Feast Mass will be at 10 a.m., followed by a procession through the surrounding neighborhood.

A healing Mass and blessing with St. André’s relic and anointing with St. Jo-seph Oil will be held at St. Joseph Chapel at Holy Cross Family Ministries, 500 Washington Street, Easton, Mass., 02356, on September 14 — the Solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, with Rosary at 1:30 p.m. and Mass at 2 p.m. St. André’s relic will be available for blessings and veneration. Don’t miss this special opportunity to bring your family and friends for a blessing. St. André Bessette was known as the “Miracle Man of Montreal” for healing thousands of the faithful at the St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal. More than two million people visit his shrine each year. For more information call Holy Cross Family Ministries at 508-238-4095 or visit www.FamilyRosary.org/Events.

St. Mary’s Parish, 106 Illinois Street in New Bedford, is hosting its annual Holiday Fair in November and is looking for crafters. The fair will be held November 8 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and November 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information contact Linda at 508-995-4166.

Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River is searching for missing alumni as the school plans for its 50th anniversary to take place during the 2015-2016 school year. If you or someone you know is an alumnus of Bishop Connolly High School and is not receiving communications from the school, please send your contact information by email to Anthony Ciampanelli in the Alumni Office at aciampanelli@bishopconnolly.com; via the school’s website at www.bishopconnolly.com; by phone at 508-676-1071 extension 333; or mail the school at 373 Elsbree Street, Fall River, Mass. 02720. Please provide the graduate’s name (including maiden name if appropriate), complete mailing address, telephone number, email address, and the year of graduation.

Around the Diocese

Father Peyton Center for our meetings.

“In 2003 Father Peyton thought it made sense for our group to become the very first Father Peyton Guild chapter in the United States. He in-vited us to do so, and we gra-ciously accepted.”

Father David Marcham, vice postulator for Servant of God Father Peyton’s saint-hood cause oversees the chap-ters across the world. There are certain criteria that must be made by each chapter, and one of those is that they meet three times a year.

“Our chapter, which is named the Connie Harvey Chapter of the Father Peyton Guild, tries to meet on or near important dates in Father Pey-ton’s life,” said Melanson. “We try to meet on or around Janu-ary 9, his birthday; June 3 his date of death; and September 15, the feast day of the Con-gregation of Holy Cross, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.”

Melanson told The Anchor that a chapter meeting usu-ally consists of praying a set of Mysteries of the Rosary, a speaker, fellowship, and re-freshments. Currently there are 25 or so members of the Harvey Chapter.

“We pray for the cause, we

pray for the mission of Father Peyton to continue to spread, we pray for those in the mili-tary, for the unborn, for the re-spect for life from conception until natural death, and for personal intentions. We usual-ly have a book of intentions for members to add to and pray for. And we always pray Father Peyton’s two prayers; for his beatification, and praying for a request or favor through his intercession.”

The Easton chapter met on June 6, and invited Father Pha-len as its guest speaker. Father Phalen, who had been HCFM president for 18 years was just completing that assignment before beginning his new as-signment as director of novices to the Holy Cross order in the Chosita Diocese near Lima, Peru. That assignment begins in November.

“We wanted to thank Father Phalen for all his good works at Holy Cross Family Ministries and across the world,” added Melanson. “And we wanted to present him with a gift. We gave him a gift of 12 Masses to be said for the success of his new assignment, one a month for the next year. There isn’t a better gift than to have a Mass celebrated for someone.

“The Masses will be cel-

ebrated by Holy Cross Father Steve Gibson in Ireland, di-rector of the Father Peyton Centre in Attymass, Ballina, County Mayo in that country.”

Also attending the chapter meeting was Father Marcham, who gave an update on the sainthood cause (The Anchor will feature a story on the sta-tus of Servant of God Father Peyton’s cause in an edition in the near future).

“I am impressed when read-ing testimonials or when I have conversations with people who know Father Peyton and the things said in the ’40s right through to his death,” Father Marcham told The Anchor. “I thanked Father John for the same consistency following

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Christ all his life, with fidelity to Christ and the Blessed Mother.”

Robin Cabral, the new di-rector of Development at HCFM was also a guest speak-er at the June meeting. She spoke of the importance of Fa-ther Peyton’s ministry and the need for faithful volunteers to give of their time, talents and treasures to spread the word of Father Peyton, bringing Christ to the family.

Since the Connie Harvey Chapter began in 2003 sev-eral more Father Peyton Guild chapters have blossomed in California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia. Anoth-er Massachusetts chapter has also started in Shrewsbury.

Melanson said that the Ro-sary group, begun in 1997, is still going strong. “We used to meet

weekly, but now we meet month-ly because of everyone’s busy schedules,” she said. “We meet on the first Sunday of the month to keep the First Friday and First Saturday themes going. At the monthly meetings, we pray all 20 Mysteries of the Rosary.”

For more information about the Father Peyton Guild or Servant of God Father Peyton, visit hcfm.org.

Father Marcham invites those who would like to start a guild chapter or join an existing one to contact him by email vicepostulator@hcfm.org; via mail at 518 Washington Street, North Easton, Mass., 02356; or by telephone at 508-238-4095.

To join the local Connie Harvey Chapter of the Father Peyton Guild, contact Melanson at 508-631-0533 or email amelanson@hcfm.org.

ACUSHNet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.AttLeBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the St. Joseph Ado-ration Chapel at Holy Ghost Church, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.AttLeBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.AttLeBORO — There is a weekly Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration Thursdays from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at St. John the Evangelist Church on N. Main St.BRewSteR — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the La Salette Cha-pel in the lower level of Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays beginning at noon until 7:45 a.m. First Saturday, concluding with Benediction and concluding with Mass at 8 a.m.BUzzARDS BAy — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, every first Friday after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending the following day before the 8 a.m. Mass. eASt FReetOwN — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neu-mann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).eASt tAUNtON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.FAIRHAVeN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at noon. Also, there is a First Friday Mass each month at 7 p.m., followed by a Holy Hour with Eucharistic Adoration. Refreshments follow.FALL RIVeR — Espirito Santo Parish, 311 Alden Street, Fall River. Eu-charistic Adoration on Mondays following the 8 a.m. Mass until Rosary and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.FALL RIVeR — St. Bernadette’s Church, 529 Eastern Ave., has continuous Eucharistic Adoration from 8 a.m. on Thursday until 8 a.m. on Saturday.FALL RIVeR — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Av-enue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.FALL RIVeR — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.FALL RIVeR — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.FALMOUtH — St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration each First Friday, following the 9 a.m. Mass until Benediction at 4:30 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.MANSFIeLD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adora-tion every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.MASHPee — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Mass every First Friday with special intentions for Respect Life, followed by 24 hours of Eucharistic Adoration in the Chapel, concluding with Benediction Saturday morning followed immediately by an 8:30 Mass.New BeDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration takes place 7 to 9 p.m. Wednes-days at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 233 County Street, with night prayer and Benediction at 8:45 p.m., and Confessions offered during the evening. Please use the side entrance.New BeDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.New BeDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharis-tic Adoration in the side chapel from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple BenedictionNORtH DARtMOUtH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m., ending with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.NORtH DIGHtON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.OSteRVILLe — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the As-sumption Church, 76 Wianno Avenue on First Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to noon.SeeKONK — Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.tAUNtON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. An-thony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.tAUNtON — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Ado-ration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 6:30 p.m.wAReHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church begins each Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. and ends on Friday night at midnight. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall.

Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese

~ PeRPetUAL eUCHARIStIC ADORAtION ~eASt SANDwICH — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.New BeDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.SeeKONK — Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Ado-ration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.weSt HARwICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes. All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

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MILTON — Eleanor (Walsh) Doherty died June 17. Beloved wife of the late James J. Doherty. She is survived by her children: Mary Doherty of Brookline; Eleanor; Wil-liam Gerson of Harwich; Fa-ther James Doherty, C.S.C. of Taunton; Ann of Winston-Sa-lem, N.C.; Elizabeth Madden of Milton; Edward of Harwich; and Catherine D’Amato of Denver, Colo.

Doherty has 13 grandchil-dren and seven great-grand-children. She was the daughter of the late Edward and Nora (O’Halleron) Walsh and sis-ter of Rita A. Walsh of Milton and the late Mary E. Walsh, Edward J. Walsh, Vincent P. Walsh, and the Father Paul T. Walsh.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Agatha Church in Milton on July 3.

Funeral arrangements were made by Dolan Funeral Home in Milton.

Memorial donations may be made to the James J. and Mary E. Doherty Fund at T. P. O’Neill Library, Boston Col-lege, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

CUMBERLAND, R.I. — Sister Patricia Custy, formerly known as Sister M. Joel, 88, a Sister of Mercy and a former teacher of special education, died July 8, at Mount St. Rita Health Centre, Cumberland, R.I. Born Winifred Patricia Custy in Fall River, she was the daughter of the late Patrick and Winifred (Bagnall) Custy and was also the daughter of Gertrude Bunting Custy. She entered the Sisters of Mercy, Cumberland, on Sept. 8, 1943 and professed her perpetual vows on Aug. 16, 1949.

Sister graduated from Durfee High School, Fall River, and Catholic Teachers College in Providence. She did graduate work at Cardinal Stritch Col-lege and Salve Regina Univer-sity, Newport, R.I.

Sister Patricia’s first ministry was as a first-grade teacher at St. Joseph School, Fall River. She then was assigned to St. Vincent’s Home, also in Fall River; Sister then ministered at Nazareth Hall in Hyannis, and then at St. Joseph, Pine Harbor, R.I. For the next 20 years, she was a special educator at Naza-reth Hall, Fall River. Following

that assignment, Sister Patri-cia taught at St. Mary School, New Bedford, and completed her teaching career at St. Anne School, Fall River.

In retire-ment she resided at Landmark Assisted

Living in Fall River and then at Mount St. Rita Health

Centre where she

has been in residence for the last year. Throughout her life, in school and in her religious community, Sister Patricia was known to be very strong in her convictions and at the same time

had a very gentle spirit. In addition to her religious

community, Sister Patricia is survived by her sister, Shirley Sarantakis and husband Peter, a sister-in-law, Catherine Custy, and nieces and nephews, and grandnieces and grandneph-ews. She was also the sister of the late Kenneth Custy.

A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated on July 11 at Mount St. Rita Health Centre Chapel, Cumberland. Inter-ment was in St. Patrick Cem-etery, Fall River.

Donations in her memory may be made to Mount St. Rita Health Centre, 15 Sumner Brown Road, Cumberland, R.I. 02864, or to the Sisters of Mer-cy, 15 Highland View Road, Cumberland, R.I. 02864.

Eleanor Doherty, mother of Father

James Doherty, C.S.C.

Sister Patricia Custy (Sister M. Joel), R.S.M.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Sister Louise Synan, O.P. (Sis-ter Mary Patricia) of the Do-minican Sisters of Hope, died on June 4 at the Kaplan Fam-ily Hospice Residence in New-burgh, N.Y. She was 83 years old.

The daughter of the late William E. and Louise D. Mc-Nerney Synan, she was born June 14, 1931 in Fall River.

Sister Louise en-tered the novitiate of the Dominican Sisters of Fall River, in De-cember 1951, made her First Profession in August 1954, and Final Profession in August 1957. Sister Louise earned her BA in English and his-tory from the College of the Sacred Heart, Fall River, and her MS in guidance from Bridgewater State Teachers’ College.

Sister Louise began her ministry years as an elemen-tary teacher in 1954 at Do-minican Academy in Fall River. She moved on to New Haven, Conn., where she taught at St. Bernadette School from 1957-60; then to Plattsburgh, N.Y., where she taught at St. Peter’s School from 1960-63. Return-ing to Dominican Academy in Fall River, she taught there until 1973 until she assumed the role of principal, which she held until 1986. In the fall of 1986, she accepted a teaching position at Coyle & Cassidy High School and accepted a position in the same school as guidance counselor. In 1996 she returned once again to Do-minican Academy as guidance

counselor for one year and then as principal until the academy closed in June 1999. Between 1970 and 1992, Sister Louise also served on the leadership team of the Dominican Sisters. She was a representative of the Dominican Sisters of Hope on the Dominican Academy Alumnae Board. She was Sec-retary for Admissions at Coyle & Cassidy High School in

Taunton (2000-2003) and personal care and religious lifestyle coordinator for the Dominican Sisters in-firmary (2003-2005). She volunteered at San Miguel Academy, Newburgh, N.Y. in her retirement.

In addition to the members of the Do-

minican Sisters of Hope, Sister Louise is survived by Elaine Lorenzo (sister-in-law) of Westerly, R.I., and several niec-es and nephews. She is prede-ceased by her parents and three brothers, Edward D., Owen J. and William E. Synan.

A Mass of Christian burial was June 2 at the chapel in the Dominican Center on the campus of Mt. St. Mary Col-lege in Newburgh, N.Y. Burial followed at the Dominican Sis-ters’ Cemetery at Mt. St. Mary College.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Brooks Funeral Home at 481 Gidney Avenue, Newburgh, N.Y.

Donations in Sister Louise’s memory can be made to The Dominican Sisters of Hope, Development Office, 299 North Highland Avenue, Os-sining, N.Y., 10562-2327.

Sister Louise Synan, O.P.

Be sure to visit the Diocese of Fall River website at fallriverdiocese.org

The site includes links to parishes, diocesan offices and national sites.

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