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Rome Supports Dlocesani Pro-life spokeswoman condemns Reorganization The Vatican has affirmed the pro assault on abortionist cess of parish reorganization in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Church authorities communicated this WASHINGTON (CNS) — Rachelle Shannon, 37, of abortion clinics in San decision in six letters to individuals The chief pro-life spokes Klamath Falls, Ore., was F ra n c e s c o and and couples who protested the clos woman for the U.S. Catholic arrested at an airport in Okla Milwaukee. ing of Immaculate Conception bishops sharply condemned homa City as she returned a Tiller, 52, was Church in Carnegie. the Aug. 19 shooting in rental car which witnesses released from a Wichita Copies of the letters, signed by which an anti-abortion dem said the assailant used to flee hospital after treat Cardinal Jose T. Sanchez, cardinal onstrator wounded Dr. the scene. She was held on ment for minor gun prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, and George Tiller as he left his charges of attempted murder. shot wounds in both notarized by Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, its secretary, abortion clinic in Wichita. Oklahoma City is 160 miles arms. were provided to Bishop Donald W. Wuerl. Kan. from Wichita. One of the few U.S. The letters stated that “decisions (in the reorganization) “There is no room for vio Witnesses said the assail doctors to perform late- based on the accumulated facts and opinions of those corn- lence in the pro-life move ant had joined a small protest term abortions, he has suited were presented to the Presbyteral Council and then ment," said Helen M. Alvare, group outside Wichita’s been a frequent target to the Ordinary (bishop) for his decision as required by the director of planning and Women’s Health Care Services of abortion protests, law of the Church." information for the National Clinic earlier in the afternoon, including summerlong to the letters, Cardinal Sanchez said, “It is our prayer Conference of Catholic Bish talking with protesters and Operation Rescue pro that Mary, the Immaculate Conception, would guide those ops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life helping hand out literature. tests in Wichita in Activities. involved to bring the traditions of their cultural heritages When Tiller left the clinic and 1991 that led to 2,700 Helen M. Alvare together, thereby enriching the newly created Saint Eliza “We condemn the shoot entered his van, they said, she arrests. beth Ann Seton Parish.” ing of Dr. George Tiller in no Last spring abortion oppo fired shots at him, fled to her The attack on Tiller was the Very Rev. Lawrence A. DiNardo, episcopal vicar for uncertain terms.... We call nent Michael Griffin was car and drove away. second shooting of an abor canonical services, said that the diocese “was pleased to be on all who oppose abortion charged with the slaying An Oklahoma City police tionist this year, sparking new informed of the support expressed by the Congregation for to act consistently with our March 10 of Dr. David Gunn spokesman said Ms. Shannon concern about the use of vio outside an abortion clinic in the Clergy for our strict observance of canon law in the beliefs about the respect also has outstanding warrants lence as a tactic by a small reorganization. owed to every human life," Pensacola, Fla., during a against her for trespassing minority in the anti-abortion "We have kept the Vatican advised of our reorganization, Ms. Alvare said. protest sponsored by Rescue during demonstrations at movement. America. B and its review of our supporting documents has caused the Congregation for the Clergy to indicate that our pro cess does, indeed, conform with the norms of canon law." The Congregation for the Clergy was involved because, among its responsibilities are the preservation and admin Sesquicentennial istration of the temporal goods of the Church, including Priest looks after parish buildings. Father DiNardo, in further explanation of the Closing on foundling friend congregation’s action, noted that the Vatican will not inter vene in the pastoral judgment of a bishop. . By PATRICIA BARTOS “It is the function of the Vatican congregation to deter a joyful mine whether or not canon law has been followed in a I Utr has been particular circumstance, not to interpose its own judgment on the action of a bishop, who is responsible for pastoral note youngest charg^^HHgee- matters in his diocese," he said. Women’s Hospital. Fr. DiNardo also welcomed the congregation’s encour Py GERARD MAHON §n Utz found a newborn agement of the recipients to participate in the faith life of baby boy abandoned at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish. “There is a real need now The faithful are planning to door of- his rectoty at SL Sus to move beyond the initial sorrows of reorganization into make a joyful noise — and anna to Penn Hills eatly last an atmosphere of healing and cooperation," he said. plenty of it — at the Sesqui A scene straight out of Sunday morning and has A group of persons from the former Immaculate Concep centennial closing Mass on Sept. the Psalms. Bells, brass, taken a personal interest to tion Parish also has filed suit in Allegheny County Com 19. The Sunday celebration will hearts and hands and thS tnipnt. He’s visited the mon Pleas Court in an effort to have the church reopened. resound with ! a 200-voice choir bAby each day since then. "A very small minority has decided to challenge reorga and a brass quartet; it will whirl voices — all will give glory to doing - very well, God in music and dance at nization decisions in the civil courts." Fr. DiNardo said. with a group of junior tamburit- tftpiks be to God,” Ft. Utz "These changes, while painful, are necessary to keep this the Sesquicentennial closing zans and an ensemble of liturgical said of the 8-pound, 8-ounce local Church vital now and in the future. It is unfortunate dancers Mass, Sept 19, in the Civic that legal action, with its attendant disunity, has been Making sure it’s all in tune and Arena More than 17,000 I VfJRight I now, he doesn’t ' filed. But we are confident that the diocese will also prevail in step is the work of John Miller, worshippers are expected, have that much family. I in the civil courts." | diocesan director of music, and along with Cardinal Anthony thought I’d be a good substi tute father," hfs new-found Veronica Morgan-Lte, former Bevilacqua o f Philadelphia director of Black Catholic friend iaid of his daily visits. Bishop Wuerl addresses the issues: Ministries. the apostolic pronuncio to It was 6:10 a.m. on Sunday Miller, who is the also director of the United States and 22 as Fr. Utz opened the rectory • Priestly life music at Sj:. Maty, Glenshaw, is other bishops. door, heading for church to • Marriage responsible for putting together prepare for Mass. He saw the • Annulments • Liturgy the hour-and-a-half program that the Mass has a Pittsburgh flavor to it. child immediately, near the precedes the Mass as well as the doorway. • Reorganization The processional music is the “Festival Procession in • Schools music during the Mass. C Major for Handbell and Brass" by Albert Zabel. He was wrapped to cloth “It’s an enormous undertaking, ing covering his lower body, • Catechetics The gathering hymn, titled “Out of the Darkness,” was • Sexual abuse but the hundreds of volunteers composed by Christopher Walker. The song was com butbecause the morning was who’ve helped have made things brisk, the baby was cold. Fr. missioned by the Diocese for Bishop Donald Wuerl’s Read his “Reflections on the 1993 Spring Deanery much easier. I think the music will Ordination. Utz rushed to get a blanket Meetings," in a special pull-out section, this issue. really appeal to people.” According to Miller, “The composition calls on us to be SM PRIEST, BABY, page 2 The festivities begin at 1:30 p.m. disciples to the word of Christ, which is why it is such a with the Good Shepherd School good opening song.” Handbell Choir. The Gospel Acclamation, “The Good News South Side chapel in schism “The Hand Bell Choir is going to Acclamation,” was composed by Father James Cheppo- do something unique in that nis, vicar at St, Catherine of Sweden Parish, Wildwood. Our Lady of Fatima Chapel ‘not recognized as Catholic’ they’re going to use two sets of Fr. Chepponis is also the organist for the Mass and com bells," said Miller. poser of the recessional hymn, “Songs of Jubilation.” Going to Mass or devotions by the Catholic Church,” declared to be in schism. At 1:45, the North Hills Junior During the liturgy of the Eucharist, Lee Hoiby's “The at Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Father DiNardo wrote in an Tamburitzans will perform, fol Schism, Fr. DiNardo noted, Lord is the King” will be used during the presentation of South Side, doesn't fulfill a official statement. (The full is “a formal and willful separa lowed by SL Benedict the Moor the gifts. “The Lord’s Prayer," which will be done in Gre Catholic's obligations, a dioce statement is found on page 4.) Liturgical Dancers at 2 p.m. tion of a group or individual gorian chant style, was composed by Pittsburgher Robert san official announced — and Fr. DiNardo’s statement from the unity of the Catholic The pre-liturgy music closes at Show. it can result in separation noted that the chapel operates 2:20 with the *200-voice Diocesan Church.” "Most people thought that this ‘Lord's Prayer' was from the Catholic Church. under the auspices of the St. Our Lady of Fatima Chapel, Sesquicentennial Festival Choir. written long ago, but it’s actually from the 1960s,” added Responding to recent Pius X Society, affiliated with The Choir will perform works from then, is in schism. The Mass Miller. inquiries, Very Rev. Lawrence the "traditionalist movement" Bernstein, Perry and Stanford, the celebrated there is not authd- For distribution of Communion, the work “We Rely on DiNardo, episcopal vicar for founded by the late Arch rized by the Diocese of Pitts same they performed at the Dioce the Power of God” will be sung. This song, written by canonical services, has bishop Marcel Lefebvre. san Choral Festival in Februaiy. burgh and does not fulfill a Richard Hillt, was commissioned by the diocese for defined the status of Our Lady Archbishop Lefebvre was The Mass will also include Catholic’s Sunday obligation. Bishop Anthony Bevilacqua’s installation. “Holy God We of Fatima Chapel on excommunicated from the "In addition," Fr. DiNardo music by the Carnegie Brass Praise Thy Name" will be the finale. Pittsburgh’s South Side. . Catholic Church in 1988 after Quartet and Percussion and the wrote, “informed, continual “Holy God is an older song, and that will help us tie in “Our Lady of Fatima Chapel he ordained four bishops, in St. Catherine of Sweden Handbell and knowing participation at the past with the celebration," Miller said. is neither a church nor a defiance of Vatican instruc Choir. Our Lady of Fatima by aii Cantors for the Mass will be Diane Rudolph and chapel recognized as Catholic tions. Both the archbishop individual implies separation Most of the music selected for Michael Monnikendan. B by the Diocese of Pittsburgh or and the movement were Sn CHAPEL, pag* 2
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First Catholic South Side chapel in schism , official says seminary in Moscow Continued from page one not enough for a Catholic to Mass to be a source of real Unfortunately, the Church’s from the Catholic Church andi claim obedience to the pope spiritual growth." broadening of permission for VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Mary Queen of carries with It serious conseEgwhlle continuing in disobedi The bishop added that the Tridentine Mass has had the Apostles Seminary, the first Catholic quences which Include an ence to the legitimate author Implementation of the Triden limited success in bringing lay seminary in Moscow, will formally open automatic excommunication ity of the Church. “Being in Sept. 1 with a public Mass and 12 semi tine Mass in the diocese followers of Archbishop Lefeb- from the Catholic Church as communion with the pope and “should not be construed In narians. prescribed by canon 1364 and vre back to the faith, accord the Church means being any way as fostering separate Vatican Radio reported Aug. 22 that subsequent denial of Christian united with the Church by an ing to Vatican officials. The the seminary will be housed at the parish communities or the reason, Vatican officials said, burial from the Catholic expression of faith, by the encouragement of a separate Church of the Immaculate Conception, a Church." is that the archbishop’s fol reception of the sacraments rite within the Church." He building partially returned to Catholics a Fr. DiNardo said that the and by adherence to ecclesias lowers oppose not only liturgi year ago. said that he shared the con subject of the South Side tical governance, including cern expressed in the Holy cal reforms of Vatican II, but i The church, closed by the Soviet government in 1637, chapel was raised recently by that of the local bishop.” Father’s apostolic letter “for also oppose that council’s hras converted into a metal factory. With the support of members of the diocesan Trl- Only a bishop can authorize teachings on religious liberty Moscow's mayor, the metal factory has resisted the Moscow those who are still attached to dentine Dialogue Committee, the time and place for liturgy the Latin Mass." and ecumenism. ■ city council’s efforts to evict it. who felt that the Masses cele within a diocese, Fr. DiNardo Since August 1992 parishioners have been, allowed to brated there were misrepre added, “and anything else is use the first floor of what was turned into a multistory sented as legitimate Tridentine in violation of canon law and ■ structure. liturgies. diocesan policy." Priest, baby keeping in touch j The rector of the new seminary will be Monsignor Ber The only authorized Triden The Diocese of Pittsburgh's nardo Antonini, a priest from Verona, Italy, who has been tine Mass In the diocese is policy prohibits the celebra Continued from page one friend. teaching at St. Thomas Aquinas Theological Academy in celebrated each Sunday at St. tion of Mass in places other and towel to cover him and Bishop Wuerl called Fr. Moscow. Agnes Church in Oakland, but than churches, without spe quickly called Penn Hills Utz the first evening to ask The first community event for the 12 seminarians, Vati- will move to an as yet undeter cific permission of the bishop police and paramedics. how the child was doing and pan Radio said, would be a pilgrimage to Vilnius, Lithua mined site in 1994, when St. or his designate. “At first it was a profound to see if he could help, Fr. nia, for a Sept. 5 Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II. Agnes is scheduled to close as Permission for Masses in shock,” Fr. Utz reported. Utz reported. J Vatican Radio said the choice of Immaculate Conception part of the diocesan private homes on weekdays “But we had about five min Penn Hills police reported parish as the site of the new seminary reflects its special reorganization. can be granted by the proper utes alone together before at mid-week that the investi Jninlstry among young Muscovites. The Tridentine Latin Mass pastor, Fr, DiNardo said. the police arrived. It was gation into the infant's iden [ The parish, staffed by five Salesian priests and three was promulgated In 1570 and Masses celebrated outdoors, very moving to feel totally tity was continuing. Saleslan sisters, was also the site of Moscow’s local cele was in use, with modifications in hotels, and similar non responsible for him." And Dan Krikston, deputy bration of World Youth Day on Palm Sunday. — the last of which occurred church locations require per Fr. Utz likes to think the director of direct services for I Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, apostolic adminis In 1962 — until replaced by a mission from the diocesan baby has some good friends Children and Youth Services trator for European Russia, has estimated that there are new form of the Mass promul chancery. pulling for him. They include of Allegheny County, added almost 300,000 Catholics in the region under his care. He gated by Pope Paul VI in 1970. In 1989, Bishop Donald W. Penn Hills police and para that following the shelter has 35 priests and 42 parishes to serve them. B “We want to inform people," Wuerl authorized celebration medics, all “fine people" who hearing in Juvenile Court Fr. DiNardo said, “about the of the Tridentine Mass in the were able to help the infant earlier this week the agency true nature of the South Side Diocese of Pittsburgh, noting and clamp the umbilical was granted permission to HEARING AID SALE facility and offer those Catho at the time that it was “solely cord which was still place him in a pre-adoptive lics unknowingly participating to respond to the legitimate attached, the hospital per home. Another full hearing (Starkey BTE H-73) in services there the opportu spiritual needs of those who sonnel, who have been very was scheduled for next “VERY POWERFULL” nity to withdraw." are faithful members of the caring, and another special week, ffl Fr. DiNardo added that it is Church yet find the Tridentine O n l y $ 5 9 5 . Reg. $895.99 E arm old extra ($35.**) N o Other Charges One W eek O nly! Auguit 30 through September 3 Pittsburgh Hearing Aid Center Alabama priest suspended, refuses to oppose violence 2201 Clark Bldg., 717 Liberty Are., Phone: 281-1318 North Hills Monroeville B elle v u e White Oak Homestead MOBILE, Ala. (CNS) — abortionists. chooses the former and will so During an Aug. 16 radio 304-8744 373-4270 734-3344 073-5310 401-2009 Archbishop Oscar A. Lipscomb The controversy began ear conduct himself publicly in interview Father Trosch said of Mobile has suspended the lier in August when the priest the future.” Michael Griffin, charged withi priestly faculties of an archdi tried to buy a newspaper But in an interview pub the March 10 murder of Flor ocesan priest who refused to advertisement backing the lished Aug. 22 in the Mobile ida abortionist David Gunn, f £ x p e r t s stop calling the murder of murder of abortionists. Register, Fr. Trosch reiterated “acted out his beliefs in what abortionists justifiable The ad, which the Mobile his views and expressed hap God wanted done.... I find no homicide. Press-Register daily newspa piness at the publicity he had fault with him and I do find it - S e r v i c e In an Aug. 23 statement, per refused to run, showed a received. justifiable homicide.” Archbishop Lipscomb said he man aiming a gun at the back' The controversy was further While “not recommending Miscellaneous was removing Father David C. of a doctor about to perform fueled by the Aug. 21 late- that anyone go out and kill Trosch as administrator of St. an abortion. The caption read, night murder of a Mobile abor anyone," Fr. Trosch said, “I REJUVENATE YOUR John’s parish in Magnolia “Justifiable homicide?" tion doctor outside an X-rated would be willing to defend B.M. BAILEY SPECIAL OLD PLASTERED WALLS Plastering Co. Springs, Ala., because of the He also told the newspaper, theater. Mobile police have anyone who does it." THROUGH Mako your walls priest’s “continued public sup “If 100 doctors need to die to indicated that the killing of In an Aug. 16 statement, Look liks Now port of an erroneous teaching AUGUST Free Estimates save over 1 million babies a Dr. George Wayne Patterson issued before contacting the Reasonable Rates that the killing of abortionists year, I see it as a fair trade." was most likely a random priest. Archbishop Lipscomb Block Garage 8 mall or Large Jobe is morally acceptable. “The Catholic Church can street crime unrelated to the said Fr. Trosch was “in seri 20x20 MASSUNG “At this time it is not certain not espouse the teaching that abortion issue. ous error as a teacher of Cath D a y - 6/2 13/0 installed whether Fr. Trosch can abortionists are to be killed in The Aug. 24 edition of the olic moral theology. 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The parish has filled a humanity avoid ecological cated for peaceful uses only. not just for food pantry, raised money, and spearheaded a project to disaster and bring peace and The “greenhouse effect,” the some people, attract a tenant for the closed plant. A night of bingo freedom to all. Pope John Paul hole in the earth's ozone and raised $4,000 to fund advertising promoting Ripley as a II said. new treatments for cancer but for all good home for business. “What should be the response of Just as a decade ago scien were also on the meeting’s m e n a n d the local church when the community faces the loss of a tists alerted the world to the agenda. women of the major employer?" said John Cooper, parish director of reli threat of a "nuclear Pope John Paul asked the earth who, as gious education. “There is a place for government, busi holocaust,” the pope said, scientists to spearhead a brothers and ness and the Church to come together to promote eco they can influence the world movement among their peers sisters, must nomic Justice." on the need to protect the throughout the world to edu confront and environment and do so in a cate others about the need to resolve the way that benefits all human protect the environment and problems of Church doesn’t change for polls beings. to develop technologies that p la n eta ry WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Church’s goal is people's sal Pope John Paul's remarks would safeguard it. vation in Christ, not winning opinion polls, said Cardinal were made in a message to an "The enemy which threat emergencies.” James A. Hickey of Washington. The Church will not Aug. 19-24 international ens life and the progress of The pope change its teachings on human sexuality or its discipline meeting of scientists, gathered peoples today is called ego offered his of priestly celibacy just “to suit the times and reflect the in Erlce, Italy, to discuss ism, lack of love for one’s support and latest polls," he said. His comments appeared Aug. 15 on ‘■planetary emergencies." neighbor and a desire for prayers for the op-ed page of The Washington Post. In his column, Several of the 60 scientists power in every sector: eco the work of participating in the meeting headlined “Don’t Blame Celibacy," Cardinal Hickey said nomic, political and the scientists sponsored by the Ettore Malo- industrial," the pope said. Pope John Paul II's Aug. 12-15 visit to Denver for World with the hope that their efforts LUV’S rana Center were from the He called for “a profound Youth Day led to a nationwide “Catholic week” — exten would contribute to “a tri 99 sive media coverage of "the controversies that the church United States. cultural change .B in which umph in the world of life and faces, especially the tragedy of pedophilia and the yearn They included Richard Car- the values of science, held in LEARN win, an expert on strategic not death, hope and not ing of some to make celibacy for priests optional." common with and not Develop your child's learning skills and knowl armament, who presented his opposed to those of faith, despair, freedom and not edge with constructive playtime. Reduce exces sive television time and use o f those annoying proposal for a world bank in become the supporting axle of slavery." HI video games. 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Ambrldge, PA 15003-0624 City ___ State zip recent amnesty for political Five National Guardsmen (412)266-3600 (412) 266-3781 m admitted to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences crimes carried out during El Phone were sentenced to 30 years in Aug. 20 complaining of fatigue. A team of specialists found Salvador’s 1979-92 civil war. prison for the killings in May her “suffering from malaria and acute breathlessness But the Supreme Court caused by lung congestion. An Aug. 23 bulletin stated that ruled Aug. 17 that Jose Rob 1984. No officers were tried her breathlessness had been controlled. Mother Teresa's erto Moreno, Francisco Contr for the crime despite wide 83rd birthday is Aug. 27. eras and three others had spread allegations that senior HOST been found guilty of a com National Guard or military Pope hopeful after Youth Day mon, not a political, crime officers ordered it. FAMILIES and therefore could not bene The National Guard was NEEDED! VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II said the enthu fit from the amnesty. dissolved last year under U.N.- sponsored peace accords that siasm and commitment of young people at World Youth Maiyknoll Sisters Ita Ford BRING THE WORLD HOME!! Day filled him with hope for the Church and the world. and Maura Clarke, Ursuline ended the war. El Salvador’s HOST AN “With them I was able to look with hope at the present Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay National Assembly passed an EXCHANGE STUDENT. and especially the future, despite the difficulties which worker Jean Donovan were amnesty last March covering PACO KATHRIN humanity is going through at this moment in its history," shot dead Dec. 2, 1980, after political crimes committed Make this the year to share your world with a young foreign visitor from the pope said at his Aug. 18 general audience. being stopped at a National during the conflict. D abroad. Welcome a high school student (girl or boy, 15-18 years old) from France, Spain, Germany, or Mexico as part of your family for a school year and make an overseas friend for life. Bring the world home and enrich your family. Archbishop protests U.S. troops For more information about this program or to select your own student from ‘Faith and Order’ conference applications with photos, please call: C.S. W alaanburg at 412/S«3-8217 or SAN SALVADOR (CNS) — The presence of U.S. troops in El first to include Catholics Amy at 1-800-888-9040 (Toll Free) Salvador violates the country’s constitution, said Arch bishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador. The arch SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (CNS) — A historic Fully Own Spending Insured! bishop and leading lawyers have protested the arrival of conference of the ecumenical Faith and Order movement Moneyf nearly 50 U.S. Army engineers in mid-August. About 450 WORLD HERITAGE ended Aug. 14. The conference was the first of its kind in 30 W ORLD HERITAGE IS A PUBLIC BENEFIT, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. troops will participate with Salvadoran soldiers In years and the first ever to include an official Roman Catholic well-drilling and school-building operations, scheduled to last till December. delegation. It was held Aug. 3-14 at Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. OUR LADY OF HOPE CEMETERY Catholic participation in Faith and Order conferences was Philippine bishops nix dialogue prohibited by Rome during the first half of the centuiy. This Tarentum/Culmerville Road, Tarentum MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — The Philippine bishops have year. Catholics formed the fourth-largest delegation with 26 announces * ym declined to participate in a dialogue on the government’s members. population control program, which one bishop charged is Cardinal Edward Cassidy delivered a message from Pope the result of U.S. “demographic imperialism.” Auxiliary John Paul II and declared the Catholic Church's “irrevocable” Bishop Teodoro Bacani of Manila charged that the United commitment to ecumenism. D States was attempting to impose population control on the Philippines. Bishop Bacani met with the President Fidel Ramos Aug. 6. He said no substantial agreement was COAT, JACKET & SNOWSUIT reached at the meeting. Archbishop criticizes terms Our Lady of Hope MILAN, Italy (CNS) -- The archbishop of Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina, criticized peace plans that would divide his Garden Mausoleum country into three ethnic divisions rather than maintain a multiethnic country. “Unfortunately, intolerance is about to get the better of us,” said Archbishop Vinko Puljic. The handful of Catholics and Orthodox remaining in Sarajevo are facing increasing discrimination by the Muslim-led Bosnian government headquartered in the city, he said.
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* The adventure began as . Denver. “It was the experience ', (bur young men in search of a of a lifetime.” Denver roles ’ t a n - He is president of the New • Jeremy Chiappetta and his man Center at Penn, the first ‘ friends were determined to get such center established in the "to Denver for World Youth U.S. and now celebrating Dqy. They thought renting a its 100th anniversary. He was Can would prove the most eco- joined on the trip by: John ftomical way to get there. Freiland, 22, of Greensburg, a The 19-year-old from Bea ver Palls, a history major at new graduate of Penn and the University of Pennsylvania former president of the New in Philadelphia, got estimates man Center, and John's $rom several rental agencies brother Jeff, 20, a pre-med Jhich were "pretty expensive.” student at Duquesne Univer * He then tried the Linda sity, and David Mestre, 25, of Bridgeport, Conn., a Harvard Jones Chrysler-Plymouth grad now in his third year of The World Dealership on Ninth Avenue graduate work in astronomy Youth Day fri Beaver Falls. He talked to a gathering held From left, at a retreat at Keystone Mountain during youth day at Penn and also an officer of Salesman, who explained the special memo activities, are: Jeremy Chiappetta, Fr. Ken Roberts, Fr. Benedict the Newman Center. fusiness didn’t rent or lease ries for, from Richel, John Freiland and David Mestre. JeJfFreiland is The men carried with them 4ans. left. Eld Howe, a depiction of Cardinal John » Soon, Skip White, the gen Kathleen Newman which a priest-friend eral manager, approached. listed courteously. He then Jeremy was stunned. “I got Sacco and was able to hand to the pope ■ As Jeremy recalls it, White asked Jeremy the approxi such a rush when he said Tom Messina. for blessing, Jeremy reported. Photo by John Franko mate mileage and the number that. I said we’d wash cars for Jeremy’s sister, Mary, 16, ATTENTION of days the trip would span. the dealership all summer to By JOHN FRANKO pay for it, but he said, ‘No. also traveled to Denver with pope or take communion Jeremy thought he was nego Getting close to the Holy just say a prayer for us’." fellow Quigley students from him, “his presence was Widows! Pensioners! tiating a price, but, instead. Father was Just a dream for To White, the eagerness of through Youthtowne in Clin enough." White said: “Why don’t we just most pilgrims during the Working People! do this for free.” the young men to participate ton and the siblings found Sacco was touched by the Special Pocketbook Prices each other twice during Youth World Youth Day celebra Holy Father’s homily in in a religious event was tion in Denver, but for three on all “heartwarming." He knew Day activities, he said. which he told the youth local youths, the dream WE MEAN BUSINESSI Jeremy’s father and thought it Youthful stamina won the they must say say yes to HOME REPAIRS Since 1960, Pittsburgh's 01 source came true. for quality office furniture. Excellent was “fantastic" that young young men a great spot for God. “I’ve gone to a lot of OWNER-WORKER For Ed Howe, Kathy Sac Interior design & layout depariment. people were so intent on see the papal Mass. They hiked Masses and I’ve heard a lot EQUITY LOANS, Free professional delivery. co, and Tom Messina, it was ing the pope and joining in the entire 20 miles into of homilies, but this one CONSOLIDATIONS Fufnltuf-Machine»-Supplle» an experience they .will World Youth Day. Cherry Creek State Park was something special." she FINANCING never forget. GUARANTEED Lowest “They had such a great among some 60,000 others. stated. •SOFFIT • FASCIA Discount Prices on Famous Howe was chosen to rep ® OFFICE FURNITURE interest in seeing the pope. I As hikers stopped to rest, they The full impact of the ACOUSTICAL (HUGS •iatmooms H O N resent the diocese when the Pittsburgh's #1 Hon Osslsr thought that was Just such a determined to keep going and occasion hit her, however, STOM WINDOWS A DOOHS • ROOFING pontiff arrived at Stapleton •PATWAOMENTWOU *100(111 positive thing," White get closer to the front. The when she walked out the International Airport Aug. • PIASTERJNG - SANITAS *0)1101 explained. strategy worked and, near the church doors at the end of 12. Sacco and Messina •KRACEMM WINDOWS • PANB.ING The young men returned end, Jeremy was able to help Mass and realized, “Thou served as International •ALUMINUM A HKtOASS 'PANTING the van “in excellent condi carry the huge cross for the sands were waiting to catch AWNINGS 'ttdMM Youth Forum delegates at a tion. It was a very positive Mass. a glimpse of him, and yet we •WAIfR-PIOOflNG • SIDING special Mass at Immaculate note all around," he added. He also served as a panelist had just had Mass with AIT. LEBANON Conception Cathedral two OFFICE EQUIPMENT CO, INC. Jeremy called the Pitts for a Youth Day session con him." 521 -7083 (Anytime) days later. 1817 Bsnksvills Rd., Pgh., PA 15218 burgh Catholic on his return ducted by the National Catho According to Messina, a “I couldn’t believe I was WE GO ANYWHERE to place a paid ad, thanking lic Conference for Interracial member of St. John the 1-800-924-7002 shaking the pope's hand," the dealership for their help. Justice, which attracted some Baptist Parish, Plum, those said Howe as he recalled his A member of St. Mary Par 1,000 persons. historic meeting. who were around him when ish, Jeremy has already Jeremy was struck by the He also shook hands with he was told he would attend returned to Penn, where he is way planning for the trip the Mass “will always training as a resident adviser President Bill Clinton, but evolved. “As each thing would admitted it wasn’t the same. remember the look on my CILeak and 8 aa H ou se before classes resume. face." occur, it was not far short of a “After meeting the pope, Family Dining Featuring: “Awesome" is the word that miracle, the way people came seeing the president really He was awed by his audi dominates his recollections of together for us,” he added. B U8DA Choice wasn’t a big deal," he said. ence with the pope. “I 100-ITEM PLUS couldn't believe it was so b BEEF SALAD BAR “Even though they are both Celebrating beyond Denver heads of state, the pope is real," he said. “To see him up close, in person. It was CHICKEN more significant.” KID'S MENU incredible." 6 Tender Choices TOMS RTVER, N.J. (CNS) — While thousands of youths were Howe was informed of his b making the 15-mile trek to Cherry Creek Park in Denver to selection during a prayer For him, the high point of the Mass was the Holy SEAFOOD attend Mass with Pope John Paul II, young people from the service the evening before SENIOR Father's final blessing. “All Broiled or Fried Trenton Diocese were making a shorter — but just as faith- the Holy Father’s arrival. b CITIZEN'S MENU filled — pilgrimage of their own. “I was honored,” said the your life you've seen objects blessed by the pope, but More Than 30 Locations Throughout Pennsylvania The two-mile trek around the neighborhood surrounding St. member of St. Bartholomew being within 20 feet of him Watting to Sente You! Joseph Church in Toms River took approximately two hours. Parish. Penn Hills, who will Locations To The walk included the Stations of the Cross, as well as stops be a senior at Central Cath as he blesses you is such a at three houses where local youth ministers shared their faith thrill." Serve Munysville Penn Hills Moon Township olic High School. “It was a Pittsburgh: 412-733-2090 412-241-7522 412-262-8857 journeys with the kids. The 20-minute stops also included great feeling." “I’ll never forget it as long skits based on parables in the Gospels. Sacco, a member of as I live," he said. “I hope Cenonsburg. Grasnsburg Allison Park “I wish every kid could have gone to Denver,” said Carol Sacred Heart Parish, some day to feel as close to 412-746-4677 Belle Vernon 412-834-1515 412-486-9291 412-929-9249 Babuschak, youth group leader. B Shadyside, admitted she God again as I did during was surprised by her selec that ceremony.” Excellent Availabilities tion. “It was such an honor, Joyce Gillooly, director of ii _ Sunday through Thursday I didn’t feel worthy," she the diocesan Office for Ado said. lescent Formation and She described attending Youth Ministry, said the I just can't GTfje lenfmrt the Mass as “the most three delegates represented Facing on the shore of incredible feeling in the all the young people of the world," and said that even Pittsburgh area, and were LAKE CHAUTAUQUA though she didn't meet the chosen on their behalf. B handle it Only 160 miles from Pittsburgh ROOM AND MEALS MODIFIED AMERICAN PLAN COCKTAIL LOUNGE, SUNDAY SMORGASBORD, ‘Youth’ view from a anymore." MUSKIE FISHING, GOLF, SWIMMING, TENNIS, BOATING, (Free Docking Privileges for own boat) ) 1 hi k'i l oin ol um irol .mil wani in CRUISE RIDES, SHUFFLEBOARD, SCENIC RIDES, police car window oic.ipu Hi i.ish m il al ihnw \ i m |, >\ SPACIOUS VERANDA FOR RELAXATION. RESER VATIONS REQUESTED. LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) — themselves. They wanted their )mu Ilk lias lakfii on a pal ui n id Phone (716) 386-2715 Sister Margaret Michaud pictures taken with them and tli. Mi ik i iv o In'li.n n n. spent World Youth Day in the autographs. Write P.O. Box 449, Bemus Point, NY, 14712 custody of Denver police. As Denver's police chief, There Is Hope. No, the Benedictine nun Michaud could take nothing Luxurious Living had not run afpul of the law. for granted, however. Sister Kun is nv.iuMu. I Vpivssiou, iliti*.; will) (’oik i ' i -i u h I C a rv by the Denver’s chief of police, David Michaud described some of .kluk t link >Ukl‘ ollki t/moiii u l.i I pit )|> Sister s of (lie H u m ility of .Y la i” Michaud, is her brother and the security precautions. had invited Sister Michaud to knis result fmm iIk p.un ih.tt lik i.in She said Secret Service see youth day from the van bruit;. In .i uiinit* ( Inisii.m cn\non agents were everywhere and tage point of his police car. police snipers were on the mem, there is hope lor ,\ new Irle. e n t u r i o n So Sister Michaud, plus roofs of nearby buildings. 1 .ill us Itul.lN, another brother from Green "There were mounted police, a o m m o n s Bay and a sister who lives in bomb squad with canines 1,2 & 3 BR apt. avail, for immed. occup. Denver, joined their brother sniffing all the grounds, a big as he supervised the most • Adjacent to St. Maurice Pariah in Foreat Hills fire truck,” she added. • Fully carpeted massive security operation the The pope’s motorcade • Fully equipped kitchen with froet-free refrigerator city had ever experienced. uunuxurmni] included bulletproof govern • Self-cleaning oven, central air conditioning “The police were amazed at /'
Nazareth nuns honor memory Earthquake damages New Guinea missions
The Capuchin Friars in church have shifted and it The diocese includes eight of 11 slain in World War II Lawrenceville, who have may also have to be tom main churches with as many served in Papua New Guinea down. as 20 bush churches orga The Holy Family of Naza for 37 years, have received Also, water tanks at the nized within each one. reth Sisters In Bellevue began word of a devastating earth government station and hos The Capuchin Friars are the month by commemorating quake which struck the region pital in Tari were destroyed. accepting donations to help the 50th anniversary of the on Aug. 20. In Komo, five teachers’ with the rebuilding work. They deaths of 11 of their Sisters at The quake measured 6.5 on buildings at St. Paul School the hands of Nazi troops in the Richter scale and, were destroyed. may be sent to: Fr. Francis Belarus. although no deaths were In Pureni, health center Fugini, Capuchin Mission It was during World War II reported, damage, to buildings housing was damaged, in Office, St. Augustine Friary, that the sisters were shot to in Komo, Pureni and Tari was addition to two nurses' hous 221 36th St., Pittsburgh, death by soldiers of the Third extensive, according to Fr. es, the old Capuchin friaiy, 15201. ■ Reich — on Aug. 1. 1943 — Peter Meis, Capuchin vice pro and Sisters' and teachers' and buried in a mass grave in vincial there. houses. a forest outside Nowogrodek, In Tari, where Fr. Mark Bol A total of 32 Capuchin fri S t . M a r y Belarus (the former linger of Pittsburgh is sta ars — 16 of them from the Byelorussia). tioned, two Capuchin friaries Pittsburgh area — work in the M e r c y S They had been teachers in were knocked off their founda Mendi Diocese in the South the village and after the Rus tions and must be dismantled ern Highlands of Papau New M a n o r sians invaded in 1939 the sis and rebuilt. Parts of the Guinea. ters had removed their habits extended attention Nazi troops execute 11 Sisters of Nazareth in Belarus in this apartments and lived among the towns illustration. Benedictine nuns to work in China people, teaching religion in for the elderly VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A An agreement made with secret. van and driven to a nearby cr handicapped Daniela, Kanuta, Sergia. Gwi- U.S. nun is one of five Bene the government promises that With the German occupa forest for execution. The exe dona, Felicyta, Heliodora and dictines preparing to work in the hospital will remain the tion, although they returned cution was forestalled by the Boromea were exhumed. They a hospital in China’s north property of the Benedictines 330 — 46th Street to their habits and prayed presence of witnesses, howev were brought in procession on eastern Manchuria region. even after 1995, when it is together regularly, the situa er, and the sisters were Pittsburgh, PA 15201 sleighs over the snowy roads The Chinese government scheduled to replace the state- tion was desperate, according returned to headquarters to the church of the Transfig asked Benedictine missionar run 600-bed hospital, gj A ll utilities, laundry to research compiled by Sister where they spent the night in uration. Following a funeral ies to return to Manchuria — Gemma Pepera. a basement. cleaning services, Mass, the bodies were placed an area from which they were The Sisters watched as In the early morning hours all maintenance and in graves near the church. expelled more than 40 years T A B L E P A D deportations and executions they were driven into a forest ago — to build and run the 3 meals a day are included were carried out. Grieving three miles outside of town. The townspeople regarded Protect your treasured dining hospital, according to Fides, table top with Custom Fit with family members as hun Nazi soldiers shot the women the sisters as martyrs who an information bulletin pub TABLE PADS! SUBSIDY AVAILABLE FOP dreds of men were arrested and threw the bodies into a had died for their faith. By • WASHABLE TOP lished by the Vatican Congre • INSULATED FELT INCOMES UP TO $20,556 and sentenced to death in mid- ditch which had already been 1990 the order's superior gen I gation for the Evangelization HEAT RESISTANT July of 1943, the sisters prepared. eral petititoned for the cause For more information, i prayed, according to Sister of canonization for Mary Stella of Peoples. $3995 A member of the order A n y size up to 42 x 60 at this Low Prlcel Sister Mary Michael Rot- table please call Sr. Roseann j Gemma: “O God, if sacrifice of began inquiries into the sis and her 10 companions. In Wt'LL COME OUT AND MEASURE YOUR TAME FREE) tinghaus, a Minnesota native or Sr. Pat at ti • life is needed, accept it from ters’ whereabouts and learned September of 1991 the sisters’ QUALITY TABLE PAD CO. belonging to the Missionaiy us who are free from family they had been shot. Pretend remains were removed from Ph: 521-7803 anytime Benedictine Sisters’ commu W e G o Anywhere 682-2888 gi, obligations. Spare those who ing to go searching for mush the church yard and placed in nity in Norfolk, Neb., and the have wives and children." rooms, she and another a tomb in the chapel of Our four other sisters have been in In the end, some of the men woman entered the woods in Lady of Nowogrodek in the were sent to labor camps, but China since March, Fides search of the grave. When church of the Transfiguration. reported. Comtrneli Care, 3nt* none were executed. they found it, they marked the The results of the canoniza Several weeks later, the sis Sister Rottinghaus, an W IN HOME HEALTH CARE spot with a cross and left. tion process were completed ters were ordered to report to X-ray technician, is joined by RN’s, LPN’s, AIDES, COMPANIONS AND LIVE-INS. Almost two years later, the in Warsaw and forwarded to a German and three South Professional and Experienced. the German commissar’s bodies of Sisters Stella, Imel- the Vatican’s Congregation for office. They were forced into a Koreans, all of whom are pro ft'ie 1 Philomena Dowdall, R.N. da, Kanizja, Rajmunda, the Causes of Saints. D fessionals in the medical field. o 35- l 662 (Owner/Operator) 941-7111 On ‘Rio’ streets S T E V E N R . ‘People are out to kill kids,’ says Alan, 12 U R E T S K Y , By WILLIAM SCHOMBERG his nights behind the security D.M.D. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil gate at the day center run by Practice Limited to Periodontics (CNS) — When 12-year-old the Sao Martinho Association, 1900 Murray Avenue, Suite 201 Alan Valentino could take no Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15217 a charity set up to help street Telephone (412) 421-9000 more of his stepfather’s kids in 1986 by Carmelite You don't have to lose your teeth because of gum disease. drunken beatings, he ran Father Carmelo Cox. Remember to brush and floss daily, eat a balanced diet and see away from home in one of Rio Alan, who has not been to your dentist regularly. If you notice any of the following signs of gum disease, contact us de Janeiro's southernmost school since he was 9 and can suburbs and joined the esti write only a few letters, hopes THE W ARNING SIGNS • Gums that bleed during • Pus between the teeth and gums mated 1,000 children to stay off the streets long toothbrushing Loose or separating teeth “sleeping rough” on the city’s enough to qualify for one of > Red, swollen or tender gums A change in the way your teeth fit streets. the center’s vocational train I Gums that have pulled away from together when you bite your teeth A change in the fit of partial “Of course I was young to ing courses. The center is in 1 Persistent bad breath dentures leave home, but what could I contact with more them 400 THE ROAD TO HEALTHY GUM S IS do?” said Alan, now a 6- street children but can pro PAVED W ITH G O O D ORAL HYGIENE foot-tall 14-year-old. “Most of vide shelter to fewer than 50. ★ Insurance plans welcomed R Blue Shield/Health America participant the people who leave home do "This is the best place I’ve it because they can’t stand had to sleep in,” said Alan, G o o d N e w s s s zs 't:':::st the conditions any more.” who knew two of the victims Street kids in Rio de Janeiro join to protest the recent murder of In the wake of the killing of of the July massacre. “Out their friends. eight street children July 23, there, all sorts of things can Pittsburgh Catholics Alan has moved out of his happen. People are out to kill cameras from downtown things. They sniff glue in front customary sleeping place, kids.” stores and quickly selling his of the police officers, who get under a bridge in Rio’s Botan For two years, Alan sur booty. Inevitably, in a city mad, and they start shooting." ical Gardens. He now spends vived by stealing items like where more than 300 street Alan said he would not kids were murdered in the return home. The last time he first six months of this year, went back, his stepfather ‘Anti-Islamic’ prejudice Alan, too, was drawn into the started to beat him again. cycle of violence. Beaten up by Alan said he was looking MILAN. Italy (CNS) — The Muslims as equals, said Ceric. members of a teen-age gang forward to starting a part-time war in Bosnia-Herzegovina He supported the idea of Sara- for refusing to take the blame Job as a trainee chef in a res has shown the “anti-Islamic Jevo, the predominantly for a robbery gang members taurant in Copacabana, one of prejudice” of Europe and Muslim-populated capital, as committed, Alan stole a pistol Rio’s more exclusive neighbor Christianity, said Mustafa an open city for all three from a police car and was hoods. The job, he said, was Ceric, Bosnian Muslim reli groups, but said that Muslims about to exact revenge when conditioned on his staying at gious leader. should also have free access he was stopped by a police the center. “The liberal and tolerant to cities not under their officer. “This is the place with a Europe died here in Bosnia. control. “Police officers know that future," said Alan. “On the Reborn is the medieval Ceric said Muslim casual it’s illegal to shoot kids,” he street you get nowhere. I just Europe, the Europe of anti- ties include 250,000 dead. | said. “But the kids do bad want to get ahead.” Islamic crusades,” he said in an interview with Awenire, a Milan-based Catholic newspa per. WHY NOT ANNOUNCE “We are suspected of funda YOUR NEXT PARISH ACTIVITY • i mentalism and intolerance as TO THE ENTIRE DIOCESAN FAMILY? if we should always excuse I Enlt^ifehil^ F ourselves for belonging to • Carnivals Festivals • The LatesrCh Islam,” he said. 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Serbs are f e e ' c a ll a t Mail this coupon, M l ‘ i Editorials/Opinions — m v I Vatican letter O ffic ia l « Peace team can ’t reach Sarajevo \ ^ Official Statement by the Episcopal Vicar far Canonical Services Regarding Status of Our Lady qfRatbna Chapel, South Side, in the City qf Pittsburgh By AGOSTDfO BONO partial lifting of the siege to allow relief con voys to enter the city. During the negotia- I , With the recent announcements con- formal and willful separation of a group or ROME (CNS) — The unstable war situation tions, the United Nations threatened to ! ceming the third priority clusters in the Individual from the unity of the Catholic in Bosnia-Herzegovina stymied almost all of authorize NATO aircraft to bomb Serb posi- ! t Diocesan Reorganization and Revitaliza Church. the 2,500 international peace marchers try tions overlooking Sarajevo if the Serbs did tion Project and the continuation erf the ▼' Therefore, the Mass celebrated at Our ing to reach the Serb-besieged capital of not agree to withdraw from key hilltop posi- ! “ Tridentine Community” at S t Agnes Lady of Fatima Chapel, which is in schism, Sarajevo in August. tions. ! 'Church in Oakland, inquiry has been is not authorized by the Diocese of Pitts After a week of riding buses, walking and As the march progressed, the Geneva talks I “ made concerning the status of the Our burgh and does not fulfill the precept of negotiating with rival forces at military sputtered, with the threat of bombing becom-! ]“ ®dy of Fatima Chapel located on the Sunday obligation as required by Canon checkpoints, only 58 entered Sarajevo Aug. ing more controversial. Meanwhile, conflict- I south Side of the City of Pittsburgh, and 1248 of the Code of Canon Law. In addi 11. The rest turned back after several days ing reports emerged as to whether the Serbs * the participation of Catholics at worship in tion, informed, continual and willful par on the road when march leaders were unable were withdrawing. .this Chapel. ticipation at worship in Our Lady of to get security guarantees from the different The result for the marchers was failure to * ▼ Out Lady of Fatima Chapel Is neither Fatima Chapel by an individual implies military groups along the route. get security guarantees. March leaders also ‘ 4 a church nor a chapel recognized as Cath- separation from the Catholic Church and “If we did not reach Sarajevo, it was # „ ohc by the Diocese of Pittsburgh or by the carries with it serious consequences which reported threats from military along the route, because the war stopped us, a real war with that they might be taken hostage if they con- ? _ ■ Catholic Church. The chapel operates include an automatic excommunication cannons and machine guns in action, with from the Catholic Church imposed by the tinued. “ under the auspices of the Saint Plus X mortars and wounded," wrote Bishop i.nig| ‘ Society. This society is affiliated with the law itself as prescribed by Canon 1364, On Aug. 7 many of the march organizers ; and the subsequent denial of Christian Bettazzi of Ivrea, Italy, one of the marchers advised returning, but left the decision up to ; K > .“Traditionalist Movement" founded by who turned back. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The arch burial from the Catholic Church. individuals. Most decided to turn back, with ; ▼ In response to the document Ecclesla A goal of the marchers was to pressure the 500 going to Mostar under Bosnian Croat bishop was excommunicated from the United Nations and world governments “to Catholic Church in 1988 after he ordained Del of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, escort. There they demonstrated — under authorizing the celebration of the Triden- finally commit themselves to actions of mas Bosnian Croat security — in the Croat- four bishops without the permission of the tine Latin Liturgy, the Diocese of Pitts sive involvement with serious accords," the j Holy Father. Both the archbishop and the controlled part of the city. burgh has authorized the Trldentine Lit bishop said. Bishop Bettazzi expressed disappointment ,* movement were declared by His Holiness. urgy" to be celebrated only at St. Agnes He praised the marchers for risking their ■ Pope John Paul II, to be in schism, a that the marchers could not visit the Muslim ] Church, Oakland. lives “to carry a message of peace, solidarity section nor talk to Muslim and Orthodox and nonviolence.” leaders. Bishop Bettazzi was among the 500 Also participating in the march was Bishop * marchers who held a peace demonstration In Diego Bona of Porto-Santa Rufina, Italy, and Editorials Mostar, Bosnian city of fierce Croat-Muslim Giovanni Bianchi, president of the Associa- t fighting near the Croatian border, after aban tion of Italian Catholic Workers. doning the Sarajevo march. Many peace marchers back from Bosnia 5 Bishop Bettazzi told of his experiences In a planned to demonstrate Aug. 14 before the I Pro-life means anti-violence Page One article In the Italian Catholic news NATO air base in Avlano, Italy, said a state paper, Awenlre. ment Issued by Blessed Are the Builders of I Maybe we should leam to expect the Now, some among us are losing patience Blessed Are the Builders of Peace, an Ital inconceivable, when it comes to evil. Peace. with God, Who apparently has His own ian organization involved in organizing the The statement opposed NATO air strikes in ; Forty years ago, how many Catholics schedule for dealing with the sexual revolu march, kept Rome news organizations would have predicted the legalization of abor Bosnia, saying these could not achieve peace. •• tion. Now, some have tired of the spiritual informed about the march’s progress by fax “The short-sighted politics of the past tion? Then the enshrinement of abortion as a combat of the pro-life struggle, and turned to ing press releases. Most of the marchers were right? Then the hallowing of abortion as a years show that no one military action cam • the easy way — the way of the world and of from Italy, France, Spain and the United solve the conflict, but only makes the situa- ; Virtue by some celebrities and fringe nations — armed combat. States. feminists? tion worse,” it said. We’ve got to stop this now. When people The march began Aug. 4 In Split, Croatia, “ Forty weeks ago, how many of us in the The statement asked international media start to consider violent means, even theo 100 miles west of Sarajevo. It started as deli pro-life movement would have predicted tors to move the peace talks from Geneva to ; retically, we have to walk away. Violence is cate peace talks among Serbs, Croats and Sarajevo. tjiese recent events: the murder of an abor seductive, and we must resist it from the Muslims were near collapse In Geneva over "The permanent presence of the negotia tionist by a deranged demonstrator, the start. Otherwise it will consume us. as it has failure to agree on how to divide Bosnia into tion partners could provide protection to the ^hooting of another abortionist, and the consumed the abortionists. three separate ethnic republics. population and security for humanitarian aid ’ encouragement of such violence by a Catho We can not place evil at the service of God. lic priest? Also at stake in the negotiations was the convoys,” it said. B Evil will not serve, appearances to the con } This is what happens when Christians lose trary. And God will not accept this violent hope. When we no longer believe in God’s offering of Cain. lirovidence, or in the power of our own St. Paul told the Romans, who lived In a grayer, we turn either to complacence or time and place perhaps as violent as our " violence. own: “Never repay lnjuiy with Injury. See • Through our complacence, we allowed our that your conduct is honorable in the eyes of society to slide down the slope of contracep all ... Do not avenge yourselves: leave that to tion and abortion. “Why bother fighting?” we God’s wrath, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is said when the going got tough. “They’re going mine, says the Lord' ... Do not be conquered to win anyway.” by evil but conquer evil with good." B Rumors of war A few weeks Into any war, the battles are respect the witness of people who are not no longer news. They’re boring, the same yet satisfied with our answer. Our powers of story day after day — casualty counts, reasoning are tainted by the fall, our advances and retreats. motives are less than pure, and we just £ o I s a ip i d him/your Holiness, i goulp do much m ore o f ■ Lebanon, Bosnia, Somalia, Congo, Angola, might be wrong. THIS fOCIAL-JUSnOL SRIFF IF VDU VKXJLP PECW3L A LoNfiER Sudan, Chile, all move from page one to the The pope outlined a three-part peace plan SUMMER WWTON." a L O N G E R back pages of our newspapers and our in his address. World leaders, perhaps, will memory. reject It as impractical. Christians should Scriptures Earlier this month. Pope John Paul II take it In faith and hope as a guide. caHed upon us to face up to these crises, and First, “silence the arms.” Second, “desire to, express our solidarity with the suffering justice and dialogue.” Third, “reject the ter Forming minds to God’s plan people of these nations. He appealed espe rible logic of violence” — provocation and cially to "those who, on any side, are directly reaction. (22nd Sunday — Aug. 29) makes any sense. To look at and the conformance of our I responsible for so much new sorrow and to Though justice at times demands condi the wondrously complex and minds to His plans for us. The - all who could have avoided this new spiral of tional surrender, our conscience should B y MSGR. THOMAS HERRON ordered universe around us, hatred and suffering.” nonbeliever is already mysti- * always require unconditional forgiveness. as science has taught us to do fled by the mere mention of In the new world order, as in the old, our The cease-fires must begin in individual Jeremiah 20: 7-9 more and more, and then to God, let alone by the idea that * country is seen by many as the peacemaker hearts now, without delay. Christians must Romans 12:1-2 conclude that it came about this God of ours has some- \ and the enforcer. Hardly a week goes by be the first to forgive nations, tribes, parties Matthew 26; 21-27 by some ungulded and pur thing specific In mind for each \ when our leaders don’t take sides in some and even their own persecutors. One could easily get the poseless series of evolutionary of us. Yet that is exactly what j conflict in a remote comer of the world. Often Keep In mind, the pope’s words are a call impression from even a cur accidents Is what Is really we believe. enough, we’re taking up arms as well. to Christian Integrity. And anti-war move sory selection of the media incredible. Yet that is pre That the Christian faith and ■ As citizens and as Catholics, we have to ments can choose, just as easily as armies that religion In America has cisely what the nonbeliever secular opinion are on a colli- ; take the pope's challenge to heart. We have can, to dodge the call. Catholics who oppose become an object of ridicule. has to be saying. Deeply slon course seems clear as j to ask ourselves if we, as a nation and as war have an especially challenging task, Spare newspaper editors and biased by this very dubious well from the episode related I Individuals, are doing what we can to avoid a never to lose sight of their primary mission random talk show hosts, espe theory, he then proceeds to in St. Matthew's Gospel. ; ,new spiral of hatred and suffering. as peacemakers. The mission turns ugly cially if the president Is on scoff at belief in God. It is at Peter, who is hardly a villain, * . Christians have to ask the just-war ques and even unchristian when it takes judg vacation, feel perfectly free to this point that we and Jere especially in light of Matt. 3 tion of every war, conflict, police action and ment and vengeance into its own hands. expose the faith to every man miah begin to have so much 16:18, nonetheless elicits" intervention. We have to seek an answer All of us should make the pope’s plan our ner of criticism and disdain. in common. from the Lord one of His * scrupulously. And long after we’ve settled the own, seeking solidarity, peace and justice, They must believe that the Far from weakening the sharpest rebukes for failing to J matter to our own satisfaction, we have to always in prayer, always In Christ. B Church knows nothing about faith, it Is only when we real distinguish between man's 3 humanity, justice, life and ize how very different is our standards and those of God. I Correction sexuality, and that they do. view of the world, that we are The persistent tension is high- “ Something of this sort was to the August 13 edition. Bishop William G. Connare’s name was omitted from a photo in a position to see our faith lighted for the disciples who ! probably what was tormenting cdption on page 11. Bishop Connare, the retired bishop of Greensburg, was second from for what It is and defend it are to take up a cross, and 3 the prophet Jeremiah, as this against the highly educated, If not shun it as the world I selection from his work shows. too highly paid, shapers of would have them do. Even the \ He appears foolish to “reason contemporary public opinion. gain of the whole world itself 3 Pittsburgh Catholic Publishing Associates able" and “sensible" people. At This is why Paul is so Insis could not compensate a per- 3 times, he would rather do any President: Most. Rev. Donald W. Wuerl, S.T.D. tent at the urgent need not to son for the loss of his own ■ General Manager: Ron Cichowlcz thing than proclaim God’s “conform yourselves to this self, his soul. word. Still, there is something age." It should dawn on us that 3 Editor: Mike Aquillna unavoidably compelling about Comptroller: Carmella Welsmantle It is not that Paul’s age, or the contrast between us, who * PITTSBURGH it, and he finally must deliver ours or any age In particular, believe In Jesus, and those * Assistant Editor: Phil Taylor the Lord’s message as he was Reporters: Patricia Bartos is Intrinsically evil. It simply who do not is real and dra John W. Franko Instructed to do. means that the Christian matic. When it does, we will * Circulation Manager: Peggy Zezza The first reading thus pre believer, having received the be able to relax since It will • Advertising Manager: Jack Lee pares us foi a reflection on revelation of God’s glorious likewise dawn on us that con- j Established in 1844 by Rt. Rev. Michael O'Connor, D.D. 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To the Editor for two main reasons, one discriminatory lendlhg I was pleased to see that you responded to the editorial One more thing, he was a lib policies. admirable, and one not so. eral and definitely not a rac cartoon by Rob Rogers In the Aug. 12 Post-Gazette. The admirable reason is that Black veterans could not get ist. The tragedy for America is credit to buy or build in the I am not a Catholic. As such, I was appalled and puzzled bv once I have.used my free and the cartoon. J that he subordinated his lib suburbs, while the whites unfettered power to express eral convictions to what he found such easy credit that I was appalled, first of all. by the utterly offensive quality of myself on controversial issues, the (hawing. This Incredibly ugly man with a huge nose terri took to be commercial they and the Levitts were vir those who disagree with me, imperatives. tually subsidized to depopu fyingly reminiscent of anti-Semitic caricatures In the late take the time to write and get By his fiat his lovely devel late the cities. African Ameri unlamented Volkischer Beobachter of Nazi notoriety — is this past the editor, are entitled to opments, three of them even cans, even the humblest, find supposed to be the man whom millions throughout the world have the last word for the refer to as the Holy Father? There's much more than disagree tually, were lily white, and these truths to be self evident moment, even if that last word America. were kept so for 20 long years. and that feeds Black rage to ment in the drawing: there’s spleen: there's dark, steely be nasty. hatred, so much so that the viewer is Impelled to ask “why?" To refresh your memory, I can't help thinking of what the detriment of us all. My less admirable reason is Levittown is a huge private might have been. If this strong By telling how Levittown And I found It peculiarly distasteful that a family newspa that, the older I get, the less I per took so blatant and one-sided a position on what are housing development outside brilliant man had dared to made life better for him and care what others may think, essentially religious issues. Are we next to see editorials of New York City, which open his projects to African many, many people like him, and the more I am content to attacking specific tenets of the faith of conservative Jews or attracted masses of ordinary Americans, he might have Ronald T. Bowes must intend let their growls and grumbles fundamentalist Baptists? An editorial cartoon is not a piece of people because it provided changed history, or speeded it to show that taken all in all, Just hang out there. private expression, like a columnist's statement, for example them the chance for a com up. Of course, such is the the huge project was healthy It is the very flag of the editorial page. It announces the Actually there is a third rea fortable, safe and very pleas nature of our callous society for society, that the good it did son: two persons arguing back newspaper’s considered Judgment and emotional ant existence that was and market place, he might for his kind outweighed what commitment. and forth, in print as in life, affordable. have gone broke. That was ever bad it did to an unfortu Finally, I was puzzled almost beyond words by the logical bore me whether I am in it or The time was 1950 and we unlikely — at worst he would nate minority. Of course, it did not. commercial consequences of the cartoon's publication. A very had the sort of development, have been a bit less not, as you can see if you just great many of the subscriber and readers of the P-G have to So I owe an explanation though on a lesser scale, out successful. look around you. I do not blame those white be Catholics. Is it sensible to tweak them so viciously when when I make an exception, as side every urban enclave in My main point was, and is, people who seized the oppor the Tribune-Review is so anxiously attempting to tear of fa I am prepared to do here and the country. Levittown was on that this venture, and others tunity to leave the cramped I large chunk of P-G readership? now. Ronald T. Bowes in a let the grand scale but it was like it, helped to destroy the city for a less cluttered envi ter published in our paper last typical. inner city, to ghettoize it, L . ( . . PHILIPKLASS ronment but, as they look Mt. Lebanon week, commenting on my col David Halberstam’s book, worsen the plight of our Afro umn of July 20, wrote so as to back they should, or at least “The Fifties," set me thinking American population and, cer carry the discussion along. because it related some signif their children should, feel § Buchanan ‘raucous’ but Catholic tainly, gave pain to its count twinge of guilt over their smug Actually, I shall be not so icant information about the less Afro Americans who were To the Editor: much rejoining as reacting. In venture and the man who con indifference to other people's excluded and knew they were pain. They should realize that In response to Msgr. Charles O. Rice’s article (July 23 the piece in question I looked ceived it, that I had not known excluded, indeed rejected. issue, “Gergen odd man in’ for Democrats”), I offer a few with disfavor on Levittown and or had forgotten. the ultimate effect of the Levit While the Levitts of our town phenomenon was deep thoughts. It is better to be a Catholic who truly respects the its influence on urban William Levitt was a society were doing their thing. rights of unborn children than one who is politically correct. and lasting social damage, Pat Buchanan may be raucous but he defends the teach ings of Catholicism and is against abortion. He has spoken against the nomination of Joycelyn Elders by Bill Clinton as ‘Now I'm a believer, after youth day surgeon general because of her inflammatoiy remarks con cerning Catholics and her pro-abortion view. How can she be B y JO H N FRANKO I sensed the Spirit in a priest visibly politically correct if she slanders any religious group? I went to Denver as a reporter, and I moved by the pope’s words. “It’s the first Perhaps Msgr. Rice should forget about which political came back as a true believer. Seeing is time I’ve actually felt I was greeted in the camp he sits in or how he misprinted the Duquesne Univer 1 believing, and I saw how the Holy Spirit name of Jesus Christ,” the priest told sity student newspaper 63 years ago and concentrate on works through the Catholic Church. being a Catholic priest who defends Catholicism. me. “It was that powerful. He said noth It’s impossible to point to one particu ing new, but it was just the Gospel pro , VICTORIA M. CARRIGAN lar moment or place. I could mention Pittsburgh claimed in him." walking through the streets of the city Two images of the Holy Father will during the opening Mass and hearing forever remain with me. The first I saw ‘Obey pope in all matters’ conversations in a dozen different lan when he reached the altar at Cherry To the Editor: guages. Though I’ve read about Pente Creek State Park on Saturday. He As I watched the young Catholics being interviewed in Den- cost since I was a child, in Denver 1 was turned to face the vast crowd and ! ver* * was impressed by the show of support by youths toward there. walked back to his chair. He slumped | the pope — but at the same time a little disillusioned. I think back to Villus Lopas who cele into it, covered his face — and began to Too many of the interviewees voiced disagreement with the brated with his fellow Lithuanian coun weep. pope on sexual matters and stated THEIR conscience is their trymen on a downtown street. “We’re The second came later in the program guide. excited to see our pope," he said. “We when the frenzied cries of “John Paul I think the young should remember that it is the pope, never had such massive demonstrations Two — We love you" echoed through the acting as the vicar of Christ on earth, who is Interpreting like this in Lithuania because we were park. With a wide grin on his face, the God’s will. 6 suppressed. Now we can, but we're Holy Father answered, “John Paul Two Having Catholics obey what they want and ignore what learning how to do it." — He loves you." they want is not being Catholic. Christ wants us to accept all I felt the power of the spirit when I In a way, it’s easy to see why some in of his teachings, not the ones we choose to follow. stood among 90,000 people swaying to the secular media chose to attack the CRAIG E. GALIK the World Youth Day theme song of "We But perhaps Teska Dillard of St. Duquesne Holy Father. It’s almost as if they are Benedict the Moor Parish, Uptown, said' are One Body" as the Holy Father was afraid — afraid of one man who can gen about to enter Mile High Stadium. it best: “It’s not over. The festivities mayr erate so much love. be over, but the pilgrimage has just* Priest defends Pat Buchanan On Friday, I watched a multicultural Yes, there was dissent, but I person group of students reverently carry a started. It’s up to us to take the Hoiy To the Editor: ally saw only two instances of protest. Father’s message back and proclaim- I see by your July 23 issue that Msgr. Rice forgot to take large wooden cross before 70,000 people Really, there was an overwhelming sense at Stations of the Cross. Near the end of what we’ve heard today." his medicine again. Too bad, for when he sticks to his regi of unity among the young faithful. World Youth Day alone won’t change’ men he writes well. But when he slips, a latent gnosticism the ceremony they placed it in the mid The Holy Father helped all of us view dle of the stadium and walked off with the world, but it can serve as a begin surfaces and he looks down his elitist nose at "uppity" laymen our faith as we never had before and he ning — an example of how the Spirit can like Pat Buchanan. their arms around each other. taught us to stand up for our beliefs. Minutes later, a strong wind threat use the bonds of friendship to create’' If there were clerics with the intuitive spiritual perception It can be argued that the spirit’ of harmony among God’s people. The gath of Pat Buchanan on what is wrong with the Church and the ened to blow it over and, spontaneously, Denver was just an emotional high that ering taught us all about the power of nation, we would not have the blissful vacuity of articles on they rushed to its side as one. That’s will soon diminish — to some extent it that spirit. We’re all a little better for it. I evangelization of our neighbors that are divorced from reality real love. That’s the Spirit. most certainly will. at home. hope, and it’s time for us to pass it on. Pat tells it like it is and if his plain speaking makes him a Reflections on aging “yahoo" then he is in good company with Lao Tzu, Plato. Aris totle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas and right down to our present-day premier philosopher Josef Pieper, all of whose works are marked by “plain words.” Assessing care needs for elderly Pat Buchanan is outstanding in the practice of the Faith and the probity of his life. To say that he lacks compassion for One of the more difficult first discuss the older person’s things older persons and their assessment may be of value. the poor is to misunderstand the mission of Christ. Nowhere condition and needs, so the There are several centers,, in scripture is it mentioned that He came to cure the sick families can face is beginning most appropriate referral can to recognize that Mom or across the diocese which per-; poor or the blind poor, but it is noted that He came so “the be made. Often a suggested form this function. A health poor have the gospel preached to them." Dad’s current situation “isn’t call to the local Area Agency care team, typically comprised' I do not know who said it first, but both Phil Tower, dean of working any more." There are Arlene on Aging can begin to secure of a geriatrician, nurse and the divinity school at Berkeley, and Cardinal Wright are on subtle changes taking place McGannon the necessary sendees and social worker, do an extensive ■ record as declaring “American Christians are as a body suffer which make everyone a little supports for someone in his or ing from collective amnesia," but when a Catholic who prac nervous, or perhaps a more evaluation of the person’s her own home. physical, mental and social* tices the Faith as fervently in public as he does in private and major event such as a serious Perhaps the person and is respected by his peers in the journalistic profession on the needs. Specific follow-up rec fall or a stroke has created a caregiver would benefit from outside is clobbered by one of his own on the inside, some whole new set of concerns. ommendations are then made, thing closer to dementia is indicated. an Adult Day Care center pro to the individual and/or. ■ The Ministry for Aging gram, where the older person FR. THOMAS. R. MURPHY family. receives calls from family can spend the day while the Pittsburgh members faced with making with meal preparation, house Until a need arises, most hold chores, home mainte caregiver works or takes a families are unaware of the. alternative arrangements for respite from caregiving duties. Offended by ‘Nunsense’ nance, and perhaps some types of services available to the care of a loved one. The Such programs can make all minimal personal care servic older persons in their homes ; To the Editor: older person may be in the the difference in whether or es, particularly bathing and local communities, or the ' This is in regard to the production “Nunsense" which has hospital facing imminent dis not an older person can con assistance. varying levels of care provided been showing in the Pittsburgh area for the last three years. I charge, at home and becoming tinue to live within the family went to see it during the first month of production. I will increasingly unable to live Other family members within different care facilities. ; setting. Often seme helpful infer- ; admit that I found it funny but at the same time I considered alone, or living with a f a m i l y describe persons who are Should the person require some parts very offensive to our Catholic faith. member who can no longer beginning to develop medical mation is all that is needed tp I felt that if I ignored it, the production would eventually go placement in a care facility, it ease the strain of the situa provide the necessary degree problems, or who may be is important to know whether away. But now I am reading that not only is the production of care. tion and to provide some oveft showing signs of confusion, he or she is most appropriate not going away, but because of the success of the first, the There are also inquiries depression or increased isola all direction and support. FqjJ. ' writer has created “Nunsense II." for a personal care home, information, contact the Mir£ about in-home services for tion. The family is uncertain where residents receive mini The review says that it is more laid back than the original. I older persons, to assist them istry for Aging at 456-3163, sure hope so. If not, it should cany a warning label: “The about how to proceed with mal to moderate assistance, in remaining independent or Catholic Charities Informa- ' j audience might find this offensive in part." I think we should evaluating the older person’s or a nursing home, where res within their home for as long tion and Referral Office, 456- be more cautious to what we are laughing at and calling it condition so as to best meet idents are typically more frail as possible. Typically, these 6976. IB fine entertainment. his or her needs. and require more care. are individuals who are able to JOSIE PALLOTTA When an individual or fam If there are some general manage most of their own ' (Arlene McGannon is diredr Pittsburgh ily member calls the Ministry concerns about the person’s care, but who may need help tor of the diocesan Ministry for Aging, it is important to overall condition, a geriatric Aging Department) Page 8 PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Friday, August 27,1993 Entertainment Movie reviews Church & Bible Quiz ‘Heart and Souls, ’‘Secret Garden’Our Latin heritagetops In recent years, many have and doing the best for his son. through the warmth and WILLIAM NED ANDREWS wondered what has happened Of all the foreign languages in the world, none seems to have the fasci “Searching for Bobby Fischer" miraculous powers of a secret to Hollywood. Though the old iS: one of the best films of the nation for people as does a particular one of the classical languages, studio system was problemat garden. Director Holland has namely Latin. This is, of course, especially true of Catholics, inasmuch as year. Latin has been the official language of the Church for almost 2000 years ic. no one can deny that the Finally, there is a G-rated magnificently filmed this story for liturgies, documents, communications, coins, and for preserving price system turned out some of the Fr. Peter movie worth seeing from a with richness and loving less literature down through the ages, not to mention the fact that it is also finest motion pictures ever Horton major studio other than Dis the mother tongue of so many European languages. Match up the well- .produced, films we were proud detail. The performances of known phrases in the left-hand column with the corresponding transla ney. Warner Brothers has tions in the righ t 'to embrace. Lately, the audi released Agnieszka Holland's Kate Maberly and Maggie ence has been hard pressed to marvelous retelling of "The Smith are unforgettable. This 1. vox popull (vox pop) — a. from the chair or seat o f authority; •find worthwhile films without Secret Garden" based on the one is a classic and a must- with high authority Violence, profanity and unnec classic children's novel. The see for all ages. essary nudity. story of Mary Lennox is time 2. in solo Deo salus — b. may he (or she) rest in peace - * This year, Hollywood has less, as this girl, through her With fine motion pictures ;t|imed its face to produce comedies and romantic clas own transformation, brings like these, -it is possible to say 3. rex (reglna) Dei gratia — c. in the place o f a parent f)lms with that old quality and sics of a bygone film era. new life and hope to her that Hollywood can make Appeal. There are still those Some have compared it to “It’s uncle's house of despair. 4. in saecula saeculorum — d. so passes away the glory o f the them like they used to — Violent inane films such as a Wonderful Life." While it Where once there was death world ‘jbliflhanger" and “Hard Tar may not hold up as a classic, and sadness, now there is the when they put their mind to get,” but In the midst of these, “Heart and Souls” is a warm, miracle of rebirth — all it. Don't miss these fine fllms-H \Ve also have three quality pic funny and wonderful viewing 5. ad majorem Dei gloriam — e. king (queen) by the grace o f God tures, “Heart and Souls,” “The experience. Secret Garden" and “Search “Searching for Bobby Fis Movie ratings ------6. ex cathedra — f. to err is human ing for Bobby Fischer.” cher” boasts an excellent cast The classification for the moral suitability of JUms is deter 7. requlescat in pace (R.I.P.) — g. for ages on ages ; “Heart and Souls” stars in a superb family drama. mined by the U. S. Catholic Conference’s Department of Robert Downey Jr. as an Max Pomerancz stars as a Communications. i^ptlght yuppie executive young chess prodigy who is 8. sic transit gloria mundi — h. voice of the people whose life is changed by four tom between the streetwise Theatrical Movies: Rising Sun, O 9. hominis est errare — 1. for the greater glory of God spirits. These spirits were ways of his friend and the cut Another Stakeout, A-III Robin Hood: Men in Tights, killed in a bus accident just as throat methods of his formal Coneheads, A-II A-III 10. in loco parentis — J. in God alone is salvation he was bom, and now he Is to teacher. As he struggles with Dennis the Menace, A-II Rookie of the Year, A-II fulfill their unfulfilled dreams. his newfound fame, his par The Firm, A-III Sleepless in Seattle, A-III »o i :J« :P8 -» :*c 'fz :qt :raiA8HV The spirits are a wonderful ents search their souls to do Free Willy, A-II Snow White ensemble of a petty thief try what is best for their son. The Fugitive, A-II and the Seven Dwarfs, A-I ing to make good, an aspiring Directed by Steven Zalllian, Hard Target, O Son-In-Law. A-III ^Jnger, a mother concerned for this movie is a triumphant Heart and Souls, A-III Weekend at Bemie’s II, A-III fyer children and a woman and well-crafted look at val House of Cards, A-II Bishop Wuerl on KDKA-TV looking for her one true love. ues, family and friends, and In the Line of Fire, A-III •A-I, General Patronage Bishop Donald W. Wuerl’s television program on Sun The cast, which includes treating others with respect. Jason Goes To Hell: The •A-II, Adults and Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard day, Sept. 5 , at 8 a.m. on KDKA-TV is titled “Ordina Ben Kingsley and Laurence Final Friday, O Adolescents and Kyra Sedgewick, is tion.” Fishbume are dynamite as Manhatten Murder Mystery, •A-in, Adults remarkably fine timed and the chess instructors, while A-III •A-IV, Adults The program will include the ordination of Fr, Brian skilled. The direction by Ron Joe Mantegna offers another Meteor Man, A-II with reservations. Welding, now a parochial vicar at St. Sebastian, Ross Underwood is light and airy. sterling performance as the Poetic Justice, A-IV •O, Morally Offensive Twp„ and was originally shown on Nov. 24, 1991. This recalls the old screwball father tom between winning Part of a continuing series based on a catechism enti tled “The Teaching of Christ," the program also is shown on various cable systems in the diocese in the week fol ‘Serve others, ’ urges basketball official lowing the telecast. By MARK NACINOVICH tickets and they get Knicks' read an interview of her a cou FAIRFIELD, Conn. (CNS) — stuff,” he said, adding that ple of years ago. She was New York Knicks president Knicks' guard Glenn "Doc" asked, ‘How do you choose Penysville women elect Dave Checketts' religious Rivers put together a video to where to serve?' She said, ‘I upbringing formed his belief promote the cause. serve where the needs are.’ The Guild and Christian Mothers of St. Teresa Parish in that those who can must The Knicks also support the “And the same way a single Penysville have elected officers for the coming year. They are: s,erve others. New York City Coca-Cola person can make a difference, Janet Wargo, president; Dolores Blasko and Ruth Moore, vice- Perhaps that's why the League, a youth basketball a sports franchise can make a presidents; Mary Jane Nadzam and Shirley Gorwick, secretar Knicks, one of the top fran organization in which 7,000 difference,” Checketts said. ies; Carol Konopka, treasurer; Rosemary Flaherty, financial chises in the National Basket participate, and the Juvenile “There’s no end in sight to ball Association, give more secretary; and Eileen Terjak, Mel Tritinger and Karen Kratsas, Diabetes Association, which the boom in popularity of the than $1 million a year to char trustees. gets the proceeds of an NBA, he said. ity, including a stay-in-school annual Knicks dinner at the "You can see it (the game) effort in conjunction with Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New up close, it goes quickly Gorm*n Low* Starter, a New Haven sports York. present* unlike baseball, and the char ALL NEW! merchandise company. Knicks players also visit acters are readily identifiable, Dave Checketts Thursday, Friday, Saturday "A sports franchise is very hospitals and orphanages. "It 1L close to a lot of people so it brings the athletes down to they don’t wear helmets. Ju d e P o h i P r o d u c t i o n s * “THE STAGE” at la Place can make a difference,” said earth," Checketts said of the They’re great, great athletes, vcolhf Mete, 677 Washington Road in the Heart of Mt. Lebanon Business District Checketts, a Mormon, who players’ visits. “They realize the greatest in the world,”-he received an honorary degree how blessed they are.” said. Supper & Show $24.95 • Show only $12.00 in May from Sacred Heart Checketts’ spent his two- On the question of whether Reservations Required University in Fairfield for the year mission, which the Mor great athletes are accountable Knicks’ charitable contribu- mon Church requires of its as role models. Checketts H E ! 734-4597 341-3702 tipns. members, in .the poor neigh said, "They are role models, Come Join the Fun. Checketts told the Catholic borhoods of East Los Angeles. and they can accept that or N o w is the tim e to plan Transcript, newspaper of the “It was one of the greatest not. I think they should be for your Christinas Party. '• S H O P SMART ; ; . CALL CHUBA CO. Archdiocese of Hartford, that experiences of my life. Work accountable. Charles Barkley fflameyStone Tfataurant the “It’s Up to You, Stay In ing with poor people shaped was wrong in trying to glamor N o w Playing At O ur School” program is the my thinking," he said. “It ize the line, ‘I am not a role Second location Knicks’ most prominent chari made me realize that there are model’; I hope that he realized table effort. poor people who need our that he is.” Checketts was 'We give rewards for the help. 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Peter Paul The Ambridge parish was long thought to be the first, but Ambridge church, he reported. It is mod Ukrainian Church before moving to the another Christ the King Parish — in Rome — had also been ernistic in construction and was, designated basement of what is now Christ the King rumored to be the first to cany the title. a basilica in 1965. Church. The feast day was established by Pope Pius XI on Dec. 11, “It's much bigger, very modem, but not Today the Ambridge parish numbers 635 1925 and the Ambridge parish was established Oct. 13, 1926. as beautiful as ours," Fr. Gelati reported. families and it maintains am active partici Over the years, parishioners knew of the contender parish and Over the years, the Roman Christ the pation by parishioners. The parish has 30 that it was established in the same era, possibly before the King has been visited by its "bishops" — lectors and more tham 30 Euchauistic min Ambridge parish. Pope John XXIII in 1962 and Pope John isters, and am active CCD program. Fr. Dario Gelati. administrator, put the matter to rest this Paul II in 1980. In addition to the church, the parish also summer when he returned home to Italy to visit. While the Rome church was still under includes the newly named Fr. Edward “I went to check on that ‘sister’ of ours," he said. construction, it also received a visit by Ital Farina Catechetical Center. Fr. Gelati is a native of Italy and had attended a seminary in ian Princess Marie Jose. The Feast of Christ the King (observed Rome. He recalled, even then, hearing of a Christ the King par Fr. Gelati also discovered another bit of this year on Nov. 21, last Sunday of the ish there. information on the Rome parish. church year) was established by Pope Pius He tracked down the Ambridge congregation’s “little sister- When a cardinal is named, he has a par XI to counteract the growing ladcism, secu parish" and got hold of some historical material on the Sacred ticular church in the City of Rome larism and atheism of his time. Heart of Christ the King Parish, as the Rome church is for entrusted to him. It is an “idea feast," marking a title of Photo by Jim Herrmann- mally known. He found that the parish was established on As Fr. Gelati toured the sacristy of the Christ rather tham a specific event in histo July 31, 1927, a full nine months after the Ambridge parish. It Sacred Heart of Christ the King, he discov ry. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, is in the care of the Sacred Heart Fathers. Fr. Dario Gelati, with statue of ered a large photo of the parish’s titular the feast “affirms the sovereignty amd rule Christ the King, holds papers docu cardinal — Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadel of Christ over persons, faunilies, human menting the Ambridge church's Questions for Fr. Bober------phia, former bishop of Pittsburgh. society, the state, the whole universe." B *sister parish " in Rome. Killing doctors: Cholera Day: Keeping the faith on South Side By GERARD MAHON 20 yeairs, found his new neighbors at This year, as in every year since Prince of Peace “very cooperative.” Is it permitted? 1849, the people of South Side faiithfully The inspiration for the first Cholera celebrated “Cholera Day." It’s a day of Day came from the city of Constance, QUESTION means employed. Thanksgiving for deliverance from epi which was delivered from a similar I Just heard on the radio In this context, then, demic. Last week, for the first time, it plague in the 15th century after invok that a Catholic priest In Ala despite the noble end of was marked by the new Prince of Peace ing the assistance of St. Roch. bama is saying that it’s OK saving innocent lives, no Parish. Other places in Europe have gained to kill doctors who perform one has the implicit right to The memorial began at St. Michael fame for their celebrations in fulfillment abortions. Can this be true? take a life to do so. This parish. Cholera was spreading through of similar vows. The villagers of Oberani- Can this really be the posi teaching is clearly rooted in the community at the time, explained Joe mergau, in Bavaria, have hosted their ' parishioner Joseph Drzazynski. The tion of the Roman Catholic the Gospel of Christ. Jesus Drzazynski celebrated Passion play since 1634, Church? spoke with eminent clarity people of St. Michael made a solemn carries the when they were delivered from a plague. vow that if they were spared they would against any kind of violence relic o f St “Some of the people who have been ANSWER keep a holy day every year within the (much less the taking of Roch into S t involved in our Passion play, Veronica’s The priest, identified as life). octave of the feast of the Assumption. Josaphat, Veil,’ have had the opportunity to see Fr. David Trosch (see page There were many at the Soon, the epidemic subsided, amd adl Prince o f the one at Oberammergau,” noted Drza 3), apparently sought to time of Jesus who wanted of the parishioners who had been Peace Parish, zynski. take out advertisements in to achieve the noble end of stricken with the disease miraculously on South The South Side tradition became so ■ recovered. newspapers saying that the ridding Palestine of the Side. well known that Pope Leo XIII presented killing of a doctor who per Romans and their taxes but In 1854, cholera once agadn broke out the parish with a precious relic of St. formed abortions was not Jesus turned his back on in the area. The people of St. Michael “We send out letters to former priests Roch. In 1938, a painting by George murder but really justifiable such Zealots and taught a made Cholera Day a holy day of obliga of the parish to come back amd worship Sotter depicted St. Roch against a back homicide. Fr. Trosch is a doctrine of loving one’s ene tion for the people of the parish. And no with us," Drzazynski added. “We also ground of hills, rivers and a small priest of the Archdiocese of mies. Some might see phy one in the parish contracted the dis have a social afterwards. And many church. The artist presented it in mem- - Mobile, and Archbishop ease. sicians who perform abor former parishioners who have relocated oiy of his grandparents who were Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile Through the years, the people of tions as enemies; but the to other pauts of Pittsburgh still come among the first people to make the vow has met with him and South Side have kept their vow. “We've Gospel of Christ then back for Cholera Day.” to celebrate the day. demanded some clarifica had the three masses for as long as I demands that we love them Last yeair. when St. Michael pairish Drzazynski is thankful for the cooper tion of his statements. can'remember," Drzazynski said. The (not kill them). closed as part of the diocesan reorgani ation of his fellow parishioners, both Apart from whatever is first Mass asks for the repose of the I l h e second flaw in the zation, Drzauynski and others made new and old, who have kept the spirit of true or untrue about this souls of victims of the epidemic; the sec thought of Fr. Trosch is sure the tradition would continue. Drza Cholera Day alive. specific story appearing in ond honors St. Roch; amd the third hon zynski, who has been active in organiz that the actions he “Justi "I never thought it would happen but' • the media, the question ors the Blessed Virgin Mauy. ing Cholera Day activities for more than we all pulled and made It work.” B about this viewpoint is an fies" are completely rooted important one to address. I in subjectivity. The rare would imagine that there exceptions of “justifiable" are those in our own neigh killing (in a Just war or in S t Monica the mom: surrendering the will to God borhoods or even families self-defense) are sur who have thought about the rounded with multiple qual By SR. M. FIDELIA CHMIEL God and sur Augustine. Her husband died bodily delights and the fear of, possibility of doing some ifications and restrictions to CSSF rendered her in 371, one year after his own giving them up came between thing drastic to end abor ensure clarity and For centuries, St. Monica will to the will Baptism. At the time of him and Baptism. For years, tions. In my opinion, there objectivity. was presented as a model for of God that Patricius's death, Augustine Monica kept praying and are at least two veiy serious Fr. Trosch is introducing Christian mothers. Her perse miracles fol was a student of rhetoric in Augustine kept murmuring to flaws in the specific a view which would permit verance in prayer for the con lowed. Carthage. Exposed to all the God, “Soon, but not yet." approach reportedly taken anyone to act against life version of her wayward son are The difficult circumstances materialistic trends of his day, The light finally dawned. by Fr. Trosch and I believe without any of those widely known. Very seldom is of Monica's life could have he accept the Manlchean her Augustine withdrew with they are relevant to other restrictions. It would mentioned the fact that, if God made her a nagging wife, a esy and was living an immoral friends to prepare for Baptism,. aspects of this important thereby place each person had heard her original prayers frustrated daughter-in-law life. This very Augustine who not issue. in the position of being able begging to keep her son in and a despairing mother. Her Monica followed her son to long ago connived to escape his The first of these is that to personally “Justify" the Africa, we may not have had a many years of praying and Rome only to find out that he mother’s influence through this approach to abortion act of taking the life of a St. Augustine. fasting, of hoping and waiting, had left for Milan. Here, deceit and trickery now will falls directly into the fallacy physician. That unchecked It will be an inspiration and and her gradual surrender to Augustine came under the ingly included her in the circle which claims that “the end and unchallenged power, in an encouragement to many God's plan led to the conver influence of St. Ambrose, of disciples searching for true justifies the means." In this my view, is given by no law mothers and fathers praying sion of her hot-tempered hus Monica's spiritual director. wisdom. way, those who contemplate (not God's, the Church’s or for a prodigal son or daughter band, her cantankerous Monica became a leader of On April 24, 387, Augustine, such actions claim that the the state's). to remember that Monica’s mother-in-law and her head devout women in Milan as she with his friend Alypius, was terrible evil of abortion Holding a pro-life stance prayer may have been selfish. strong son. Augustine became had been in Tagaste. We do baptized by St. Ambrose. Eager would be stopped if all the and believing in the Gospel She had a plan. Desperately, a Christian at 33, a priest at 36 not learn from Augustine why to return to their beloved Africa doctors who perform such of Christ demand that one she tried to keep Augustine and a bishop at 41. he never considered making with the good news, the entire procedures were killed. The respect the life of one’s ene under her watchful eye. He did St. Monica was bom around his mistress and the mother household left for Ostia to means (murder) therefore is mies. Failing to do so places not appreciate this constant 333 in Tagaste in North Africa of his beloved son Adeodatus, embark for Carthage. Monica justified by the end (pre us at risk of joining the bar surveillance, so he tricked her (currently Souk Arras in Alge his wife. We do know that died at Ostia, content that her venting abortions). barism of the age where into believing he was going to ria). Though both of her par Monica arranged a marriage mission in life was finished. ^ Many moralists and everyone seeks the power to say goodbye to a friend. ents were Christians, her reli for him with a “suitable" Today there are man££ teachers of ethics have spo decide who lives and who Instead, he sailed away in the gious education was entrusted woman as to status and dow Augustines in the world waifj^ ken against those who dies. night, eventually going to to a servant. Surprisingly, she ry. In the meantime, his long ing for the redemptive tears, J would employ evil means to We must never succumb Milan. was given in marriage to a time love magnanimously left sacrifices and prayers of loved J achieve an end (no matter to becoming like those In Milan he met St. violent, licentious pagan Augustine behind with their ones who will bring upon them j how noble). Catholic tradi whose views we oppose. Ambrose, the man of God who named Patricius, chosen by shared priceless son. the grace of God and rebirth to * tion is clearly within that Our noble ends as well as influenced his conversion. Had her parents. She was only 17, Augustine did not marry eternal life. Learning to pray; group noting that an action the means we employ to Augustine stayed in Africa a n d Patricius was but took another mistress in for our loved ones is learning to ; achieves its “morality" not achieve them must always under his mother’s vigilant middle-aged. an age that idealized chastity surrender our wills to God’s; only from the purpose be judged in the light of the eye, God’s design would have Monica had at least three because it was so rare. Augus plan of everlasting love for each; intended but also the Gospel of Christ. B been thwarted. It was only children who survived infancy. tine ached desperately to and every one — in faith, hope,; when she allowed God to be The oldest is the famous St. become a Christian, but love and patience. B «•£ f ' Page 10 (''■ i i M B H FRANCISCAN Hill & WHI I I SENIOR CITIZEN-Have I INC ()l \ TOURS your walls washed or painted New York 2 Dayt/I NlgM at prices you can afford. 412 CLASSIFIED ADS-ordered 271( fcf 271-4550. ■ killed after being set but prior Christmas Show S*Pl. 19-20 Si !• aide Sit Coin. 410 Dot Catherine White to publication will be billed at j/r7,' MM* P ittsburgh C a t h o l ic S p e c i a l S u p p l e m e n t Friday A ugust 27,1993 □ Reflections on the spring deanery meetings for the priests and myself to talk Catholic schools. I also requested By Bishop Donald W. Wuerl about any Issue of importance to support for the new schools of our local Church. choice legislation when it is intro For the third consecutive year I Some of the information that I duced and for the closing celebra have visited with the priests of our brought to these meetings was the tion of the diocesan sesquicenten- diocese at their spring deanery establishment of a confidential nial commemoration at the Civic meetings. Nearly 400 counseling service for priests who Arena Sunday, September 19, as a priests attended the 15 may be struggling with some form moment of diocesan renewal and meetings which began in of psychological stress, the reasons recommitment. February and ended in for making public our policy on sex In a particular way I appreciate May. A number of perma ual misconduct, and the efforts that the many expressions of encour nent deacons also were we as a diocese have been making agement that priests offered in present. These small gath to shorten the time it takes to response to the sometimes negative erings help to foster the obtain a marriage annulment from media coverage of the reorganiza sense of fraternity and col the diocesan tribunal. tion and revitalization project. laboration that should Two of the concerns that I raised When we support one another, we mark the relationship were the need to be attentive to the can overcome every obstacle to the between a bishop and his priests in qualifications of those who minister good that we are trying to accom the service of the diocese. These in the Church and the necessity of plish. meetings also provide an occasion finding a new way to support our Issues discussed While the conversations at all of a remembrance of his service to the ior is wrong and others do not these meetings were wide-ranging, Church and in a request to make seem to care. While priests differed the main areas of discussion were priest obituaries in the Pittsburgh on how to address this issue pasto- priestly life, the sacrament of mar Catholic more personal. rally, there seemed to be a general riage, annulments, liturgical con There were also questions about consensus that we need to do a cerns, parish reorganization and the priest retirement and extended better job of educating young peo revitalization. Catholic schools, health care programs. Many priests ple about the sacrament of mar catechetics and the diocesan sex asked what more can be done to riage, especially since it is ual abuse policy. I share here with promote vocations to the priest projected that six out you an overview of the concerns, hood and religious life in our of ten marriages may not necessarily in the order in schools and from the pulpits. end in divorce. which they were presented, nor to suggest that they were all dis cussed at each deanery. Sacrament Annulments of Marriage Many priests expressed frustration Priestly One deanery discussed almost exclusively the issue of how to treat over the length of time Life couples who have been living that it still takes to The need for priests to affirm together and present themselves obtain an annulment. They know one another was emphasized. The for marriage. Should the diocese that it is not always the fault of the new confidential counseling pro establish policies and guidelines? tribunal but people seeking an gram and all the other forms of Should one approach this matter annulment can place a lot of pres support that the dio as a moment to welcome back to sure on parish priests. Because the cese offers its priests the practice of the faith number of requests is increasing, are important and the couple living some asked if the process has been appreciated, but together, in imitation of reviewed to determine how it might priests must also help the parable of the prod be improved and if any pastoral one another. Many igal son, or should we solutions could shorten the pro priests commented take the occasion to cess. that they believe the require some sign of They recognize that annulments convocation at the conversion in imitation can shake the faith of some people Oglebay Convention of Our Lord's injunc who do not understand what they Center, which was tion, “Go and sin no are: they are not a form of Catholic held for three days last October, more"? It seems to be a pastoral divorce. There is also a popular greatly helped in this regard. dilemma for many priests who misconception that annulments The fraternal support was also approach this concern from differ are only for the rich and can be reflected in the desire to send out ent points of view. Some couples do obtained if you are wealthy. We prayer cards when a priest dies as not seem to know that such behav (Continued on page 3) • _ * 1 mm 1 mr f | A I * 44 4 4 4 4 4444 444 M 111II! I l l 11 i 81 i j mm h / V lU III 114X4 .414444 i 4 4r4 4 H E l P ittsburgh C ath o lic S p e c ia l S u p p l e m e n t Friday A ugust 27,1993 (Continued from page 2) Questions of clarification were children is subsidized by the parish or the diocese. As a result, many must do more to correct these mis asked about the team ministiy conceptions. concept, the role of the moderator, pastors find it very difficult to raise the renaming of parishes, parish tuition because of the controversy cemeteries, the possibility of so it creates. Liturgical called lay “pastors,” the disposition Against the background of all Concerns of closed parishes and their arti these concerns, it is easy to see A number of priests expressed facts, the role of the parish services why there was general and enthu concern about the recently revised office, dealing with criticism, par siastic support for the idea of a obligations for certain holy days. ish personnel who are no longer diocesanwide review of how we pay They believe that there will be con needed and the lawsuits against for Catholic education in the fusion over holy days as there is the diocese. future. At the same time, all agree about the proper age for the sacra At many meetings there seemed that we have an excellent product ment of Confirmation. Different to be general agreement that we in Catholic school education but solutions were proposed such as must look to the future with hope. that we must find ways to make it moving holy days to the closest While we recognize the pain in better known and more widely sup Sunday or to an unchanging time reorganization, we also need to ported. within the liturgical year rather move beyond it to the healing. It than a specific date. A suggestion was noted that there are no books Catechetics to help us in this effort and so we was made to count the number of Priests agree that we should not be surprised that we people attending Mass on holy must maintain high stan will not be perfect in all that we do days as we do for those assisting at dards for our parish cat even though we are doing our very Sunday Mass during October. echetical leaders. We best In the area of sacraments, some must be sure that they priests believe that many people are truly prepared to have lost their understanding of Catholic provide proper instruc the Mass and the Eucharist and no Schools tion. For some pastors longer appreciate their true signifi it is becoming more cance. “Do they truly understand There is a deep concern about the amount of money that is cur and more of a problem to find what they say they believe?” This well-trained and effective cate- also is true of the rently being spent to support our Catholic schools and chists. Some priests expressed the Sacrament of the belief that even some faithful Cath Sick. Many peo that such expenses can overwhelm the parish olics lack a sound moral education. ple, we were told, There was considerable interest have not gotten and prevent it from in the newly promulgated Cate beyond the con carrying out its normal chism of the Catholic Church and cept of extreme ministry to the rest of what plans the diocese has to edu unction. Priests, the parishioners. Some cate people about it and to imple too, must learn to priests cited instances ment it here. This discussion pro use the ritual where well over 50% of vided an occasion to refer to a effectively because the entire parish oper rather complete plan and program it offers many ating budget goes to for implementation on the diocesan possibilities of ministering to peo support a school that serves a and parish level that was outlined ple in all kinds of circumstances. minute portion of the parish popu in the Pittsburgh Catholic and will One of the positive observations lation. Some priests asked if any be implemented just as soon as the that emerged from this area of dis office is monitoring parishes with English edition of the catechism is cussion is the belief that some schools that are accumulating thing is happening among college large debts and if criteria have available. students who are returning to the been established to judge the via sacraments in growing numbers. bility of our schools. A fear was Sexual Abuse They seem to be looking for some expressed that we are reaching a point when small parishes will not Policy thing that they are not able to find Many priests explained that their elsewhere. be able to afford school subsidy. Suggestions were made to estab relationship to young people lias lish development committees in changed in recent years because of Parish Reorganization every elementary school, to use all possible allegations of sexual and Revitalization professional advice available in our abuse. A concern was raised about Priests are eager to parishes and to place young par what brother priests can do for offer suggestions that ents on the school subsidy task those who have been accused of I might help this process. force when it is established such behavior, for their families T They want to know because they can sell the idea of and for those who have been alleg ■ what we have learned Catholic schools better than any edly abused. In this context we J b from it so far and sug- one. spoke about the support the dio m % gested that those who It was also pointed out that the cese gives to priests who have been M % have been a part of it tuition rates in our elementary accused of sexual abuse, and the come together to share schools are low when compared to responsibility we have for lay fjjgjj. experience and other parts of the country, but par employees and volunteers who their best creative ideas ents here do not seem to realize minister in the name of the with one another. how much of the education of their Church. 3 Actions taken In some areas we have already secular paper. The mission state we might revise the way in which begun to act upon Ideas that were ment of the Pittsburgh Catholic we fund our Catholic schools. discussed. Other suggestions will emphasizes that it is meant to be a We will continue to move ahead be considered in the future as steps source of unity, education and with our plans to implement the are initiated to address various evangelization for the faithful of the institute for ministries to assist in areas of concern. diocese. preparing our people for service in Prayer cards for the death of a An explanation of the confiden the diocese. priest have been designed and are tial counseling program for priests A special task force continually now being used when a priest dies. has been mailed to all priests. renews our sexual abuse policy to A new editor has been hired for The retirement plan for priests make any improvements that are the Pittsburgh Catholic. Many of will be on the agenda at a priest deemed necessary. the recommendations that have convocation in the near future. The spiritual life committee is included utilization of the Pitts The priest council will consider preparing recommendations that burgh Catholic will be reviewed by the possibility of establishing dioc we hope will be helpful to the its editor in conjunction with the esan policy and guidelines for priests and other parish leadership secretariat for communications. those persons who have been living in the ongoing effort to revitalize This fact gives us an occasion to together and wish to be married in our parishes. reflect on the primary purpose of the Church. Consideration will also While I have concentrated on the Pittsburgh Catholic and its con be given to the possibility of mak some of the issues that were raised tinuing need. Diocesan newspapers ing marriage the focus of a future during the Spring deanery meet originally began because of the his priest convocation. ings, I need also to underline that torically verifiable reality that news The tribunal took two weeks this for me the most significant aspect summer and ceased all the routine of interest to Catholics was not of our gatherings is the spirit of business in an effort to reduce the published in secular newspapers cooperation and fraternal mutual backlog of annulment cases. The and all too often the Catholic support that pervades them. It is Church was the object of continu search for additional staff will con good for us priests to come ous bigoted-based attack in the tinue. together to share, to talk, to listen secular media. Catholic publica Priests who have been involved and to pray together. I came away tions surfaced to provide an oppor in parish reorganization and revi tunity for news that involves the talization have already been meet from these deanery meetings aware Catholic Church to reach people ing to discuss what they have that we have some problems and and to do so in a way that would learned from this process and to challenges, like any local Church balance some of the more negative make recommendations. We will today, but we also have the solidar reporting in the secular media. The continue to look for other ways to ity of vision, faith and will to face situation has ameliorated some critique and improve this process, our future with confidence and what since the days of the Know- especially as we place more atten hope. We may not have everything Nothings but the need for Catholic tion and effort on revitalization. “right" but the vast majority of our newspapers continues. A task force on our school sub priests are prepared to work The Pittsburgh Catholic is not sidy policy will be formed this Fall together with me and our faithful designed to function exactly as a to make recommendations on how people to do the best job we can. Friday. August 27,1993 PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Page 11 Around the diocese Calendar------MONDAY, AUG. 30 ------... Devotions, 7 p.m., Queen of Peace Marian Prayer Group, 7110 Thomas Blvd., Point Breeze. Including three rosaries, Mass, prayers, according to format at Medjugoije. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1 ------Meeting, Christian Mothers and Women's Guild, St. Pam- philus, Beechview, 7:15 p.m., meeting and prayer service. Also music by Front & Center Sweet Adelines Quartet. Meeting, Christian Mothers and Women’s Guild, St. Patrick, Canonsburg, 7 p.m., school cafeteria. Speaker. Fr. Celebrating their golden jubilee as Sisters of Mercy are, left to Philip Przybyla. right: Sisters Rosemary Laboon, Catherine Ann Brady, Caroline Scheuermann, Mary Schmidt, Charlotte Worthington and Helena FRIDAY, SEPT. 3 ------_ _ _ McCormick. Labor Day weekend retreat for men, St. Mary Retreat Cen ter, Freeport, through Wednesday. Fr. Angelus Shaughnessy, 6 Mercy Sisters mark jubilees OFM Cap., director. For information call Linda, 295-3090. Mercy Sisters Caroline Festival, All Saints, Masontown, through Sunday. Hours Parish, Forest Hills. She also Scheuermann, Catherine Ann .Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. and Sunday from 3 p.m. Also taught at St. Maurice School Brady, Rosemary Laboon, Hel Sunday dinner, 1-4 p.m. Also crafts, games, bingo, entertain as well as other schools in ment, ethnic foods. ena McCormick, Charlotte Dioceses of Pittsburgfi-* Worthington and Mary Greensburg and Ft. Lauder Weekend retreat. St. Paul Retreat House, South Side, to Schmidt marked their golden dale, Fla. Sunday. For reservations call 381-7676. jubilee Aug. 15 at their moth- All-night adoration, St. Margaret, Green Tree, 10 p.m. to 7 erhouse in Oakland. The cele Sister Helena is coordinator a.m. bration occurred during the of religious education and pre 150th year of the arrival of the school at John F.. Kennedy SATURDAY, SEPT. 4 ------Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh School in Washington. She is First Saturday devotions, Blue Army-Beaver Valley Chap and the U.S. also past principal of JFK ter, 8:15 a.m., Divine Redeemer, 241 Merchant St., Ambridge. Sister Caroline is director of where she has ministered for 20 years. In addition. Sister Confession, Mass, rosary, meeting, refreshments. All welcome. arts and crafts at the mother- Helena has been principal and Picnic, Kennywood Park, for League of Ukrainian Catholics, house. From 1979-1988 she teacher in other schools of the Western Pennsylvania Council, beginning 11:30 a.m.. Pavilion directed Sancta Sophia of Pittsburgh and Greensburg 9. For information call 831-7362, evenings. Studies. Sister Caroline also Photo by Jim Herrmann Dioceses. Summer guest Maria Jose Abaroa (font) poses with her host Luncheon-card party, Daughters of Erin, noon, Knights of taught at St. Maurice in For family, Dr. David and Teresa Petrick and daughters Deidre (left) Equity club rooms, 533 E. Ohio St., North Side. Admission est Hills and other schools in Sister Charlotte is informa and Anne. $4. the Pittsburgh and Greens- tion clerk at Mercy Hospital. burg Dioceses. She taught in Pittsburgh and SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 ------Sister Catherine Ann Greensburg and at Mercy she has worked in human White Oak family is host Mass for shut-ins, 6 a.m., WPXI-TV, Channel 11. resides at the motherhouse. She taught in the Pittsburgh resources, employee relations Tridentine Masses. 8:30 and 11:45 a.m., St. Agnes Maria Abaroa joined the now the children spend eight Oakland. and Greensburg Dioceses and and benefits analysis. Petrick family in White Oak was a house mother at St. weeks with host families Mass, 8:30 a.m., Calix Society, for persons troubled with Sister Mary is a pastoral for the summer as part of a Paul Orphanage in Crafton for throughout the U.S. and Can drinking problems, East Wing chapel, St. Francis Hospital, care associate at Holy Cross cultural exchange program for ada to learn a new culture Lawrenceville. 16 years. She also volunteered Hospital, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. youngsters in Mexico and and improve their under at the Red Door of St. Mary of She is a former teacher of Central America. Mercy at the Point for several standing of English. 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Benedetti of Holy Spirit parish in West Mifflin has been re Teaching by ‘loving service’ elected to the international board of Jubilarians the Knights of Columbus. The action By MSGR. PAUL M. LACKNER occurred at the recent 111th conven Chaplain. MR. ft MR8. MICHAEL VANCAS tion of the Knights in Washington, Office for Visually Impaired Persons Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Vancas of West Mifflin celebrated p .c . The person who writes about teaching as Jesus did has their 50th anniversary with a dinner at Paule’s Lookout Res | : Benedetti is past state deputy and two sources at his disposal. First, he has the four gospels taurant. Mr. Vancas and the former Anita (Toni) Jackowski past president of the Pitsburgh Chap as his primary source of information and, second, he has were married May 11, 1943 in St. John Cantius Church, ter of the K of C. the vast amount of literature written about Jesus and the Sharpsburg. He is president and owner of Bene message that He taught. They have one son, Michael, of Elizabeth Twp., and one detti & Associates, an insurance and // In both sources he learns that Jesus taught by His granddaughter. Mr. Vancas is retired from Westinghouse. Investment firm in North Versailles. Benedetti example, by His holy life, and by the message that He gave to His learners. In this column 1 will confine my MR. ft MRS. CHARLES YUHAS St. Emma to mark 50 years writing to the holiness of His life. In his wonderful book, Flowers in The Desert, Father Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yuhas of White Oak celebrated their St. Emma Monastery and Retreat House at 1001 Harvey Demetrius Dumm, OSB, says the following: “The Passion 50th anniversary by renewing their vows at a Mass at Holy Ave., Greensburg, will mark its 50th anniversary Saturday, Narrative is the climax and the most important part of all Trinity in McKeesport. A dinner reception was held at the Sept. 4, at 2 p.m. Bishop Anthony Bosco will officiate and a the Gospels because it shows Jesus putting into practice Chesterfield Restaurant. The former Helen Margitan and Mr. reception will follow. All are welcome. what He had been preaching. It is true, of course, that He Yuhas were married May 4, 1943 in Holy Trinity Church, The Sisters of St. Benedict purchased the John Robertshaw had exemplified the meaning of loving service in his pub McKeesport. estate in April of 1943. They came to this area from the 900- lic ministry, but the deepest and fullest meaning of such Mr. Yuhas is retired from the Irvin Works of'US Steel Corp. year-old Abbey of St. Walburg in Eichstaett, Bavaria, to cook loving service was revealed only in the last days of His Mrs. Yuhas is a former employee of H.L. Green Co. and West and serve in the dining rooms at St. Vincen* Archabbey and human life. Though the four gospels differ considerably in inghouse Co. College in Latrobe. The sisters worked at St. Vincent until their accounts of the public ministry, they are surpris 1987. Today the community of 27 includes four sisters bom in ingly similar in the Passion Narrative." BAR. ft MRS. STANLEY WISE the U.S. The Passion Narrative begins in the Garden of Gethse- Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wise Mother Franziska Kloos, abbess of St. Walburg in Bavaria, mane. “Horror and dismay came over Him, and He said to will attend the celebration. of Monroeville celebrated their them, ‘My heart is ready to break with grief; stop here and 60th anniversary with a Mass stay awake.'" (Mark 14:34 ) and blessing at St. Leocadia Tammies slate picnics “Then He went forward a little, threw himself on the Church in Wilmerding and a The North Hills Junior Tamburitzans will sponsor two pic ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, this hour dinner hosted by their chil nics at the Croatian Center on Scheutzen Park Rd. in Millvale might pass Him by. ‘Abba, Father,’ he said, ‘all things are dren at Tiffany’s. The former Sundays, Sept. 5 and 19. Admission is $2 and ethnic foods possible to Thee; take this cup away from Me. Yet not Blanche Olszewski and Mr. will be available. Music by the Tammies and the Jack Tady what I will but what Thou wilt.’" (Mark 14: 35-36) Wise were married May 3, Orchestra will also be featured. In this account, Jesus was obviously overwhelmed by 1933 in St. Leocadia Church. The group is also accepting registration for students inter the certainty of a cruel death. As a human being, He They have one son and twin ested in joining the Tammies. Young people ages 6 to 20 are sought survival and asked His Father to postpone the daughters: Ronald of Concord, wplcome to participate. An open house will be held Monday, frightful day that was quickly approaching. Fr. Dumm Ohio, and Dolores Mols of retired machinist from West Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Northgate Bible Baptist Church on says that the “cup” symbolized His approaching destiny McKeesport and Dorothy inghouse Air Brake Co. in West View Avenue. Practices are held on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and He asked for more time. “But then faith took over and Bishop of White Oak; nine Wilmerding with 34 years of For information call Marilyn Rebholz, 36-6268, after 7 p.m. He said in effect,‘Father, I know that You love Me and can grandchilden and three great service and Mrs. Wise also will only what is good for Me. I accept Your will. It is grandchildren. Mr. Wise is a worked for the company. African spirituality at D.U. perfectly all right if you want Me to die tomorrow.'" “In a very real sense, this was the most crucial moment BAR. ft BARS. RAYMOND BEVERIDGE A course on “African Traditional Spirituality" will be offered in the whole life of Jesus, for it was at this moment that this fall at Duquesne University’s Institute of Formative Spiri He died on the all-important psychological and spiritual Raymond and Rita tuality on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. Instructor will be Fr. Ray planes. Here He finally and totally rejected illusion or (Hunkele) Beveridge of West mond Mosha, head of the evasion and embraced the reality and truth of human life. View celebrated their 50th spirituality department at the He did so purely and simply because He had come to anniversary with a Mass and TEST ft I f jMASTER Catholic Higher Education know and trust God as His loving Father, in spite of all renewal of vows at St. Athana Institute of Africa in Kenya. appearances.” As I see it, this was teaching at its veiy sius Church. A dinner recep F or information call best. tion at the Great Hall followed. S.A.T. 396-6026. Some months ago, a priest, a nuri and several lay per The couple were married July PREPARATION sons went to a retreat house for a weekend to read and 10, 1943 in St. Athanasius. They have one daughter, WORKSHOPS THE study, word for word, the Gospel according to St. Mark. Be Prepared, Be Confident At the conclusion of the weekend, the priest said that he Karen White, and three grand Overcome Test Anxiety! was amazed to learn how hard Jesus worked. This sons, all of West View. Mr. 0 Learn over 150 Strategies teaches us that many of us may be doing little for His Beveridge is a retired Key and Techniques •S MOTEL kingdom by comparison. stone Lumber truck driver. registered nurse who worked 0 Time Efficient - In many churches, we are accustomed to seeing Jesus Mrs. Beveridge is a retired at West View Park. Four 3-hour sessions 16th St. & Boardwalk portrayed in a window as the Good Shepherd tending His 0 Locally Taught on In the Middle of the Boardwalk sheep. I think that a better picture of His life of service for Sunday Mornings Ocean City, MD 21842 others would be a picture of Jesus washing the feet of His BAR. ft BARS. VINCENT FARBAEN 0 Money Back Satisfaction disciples. Vincent L. and Dorothy G. Guarantee 1 -800-BEACH-OC I think that it is important to understand correctly the Farmen celebrated their 50th 0 Price: $150 (1-800-232-2462) contents of the gospels. I, for my part, accomplish this by anniversary with a Mass and Enroll NO W for the workshop frequently reading the New Jerome Biblical Commentary renewal of vows at St. Peter preceding the Oct 9 S A T . Off season rates begin Aug. 15th in preparation for Mass. It requires a theological and bib Church, Slippery Rock. A din (1st Sunday Session b Sept 12) lical background. However, there are books and booklets ner reception followed at Days » Right on the Beach •Cable Color TV •Close to Churches • Major Credit Credit Accepted written in simple language that can be helpful to the laity Inn, Butler. They were mar call 366-9994 ' Air Conditioned • Shopping Amenities 1 Free Parking • Tavern by the Sea whose training may not be highly theological. The Liturgi ried April 29, 1943 in St. Educational Achievement Center cal Press in Collegeville, Minn., publishes such material. Joseph Cathedral in Wheeling. Jesus had indeed a message to teach. He taught it They have five daughters: ATTENTION PASTORS & ADMINISTRATORS amazingly well to His hearers. He also taught that same Sandra Lee Boring and Debra Announcing a Souvenir Supplement message amazingly well by the example of His holy life.fli Jean Hawks of Butler, Cheryl In honor of the yearlong Seaquicentennlal Celebration, the Pittsburgh Catholic Is pro Elaine Wilson of Franklin, ducing a special supplement to be Inserted In the Friday, September 17th edition TOa souvenir supplement will trace the history of the Diocese and as well as review Cynthia Sue Tracey and Tam from Pullman Standard after the yearlong celebration. ara Lynn Carter of Sutton, 37 years of service and Mrs. Tb order extra copies of this keepsake edition for your parishioners, call the Circula ‘Blithe Spirit’ on South Side tion Department at 471-1252 by Sept. 10. West Ontario; and 13 grand- Farmen retired from A & P in The Veronica’s Veil Players of Prince of Peace Parish on the children. Mr. Farmen retired Butler after 25 years South Side will present “Blithe Spirit" Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 9-11, at 8 p.m. in St. Michael activity building. BAR. ft BARS. FRANK STRAZISAR idvanced The production will be directed by Dennis Thumpston. The Saturday show will also include a spaghetti dinner. For Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Strazisar of Gibsonia celebrated their reservations at $6 ($10 for Saturday) call 431-5550. 50th anniversary with a buffet at Days Inn in Butler. The event ines The players will also hold auditions for its upcoming pro also commemorated Mr. Straziar's 80th birthday. Mr. Strazisar duction of “Abie’s Irish Rose” on Friday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. in and the former Josephine Gierl were married June 26, 1943 in the activity building. The show will be presented on Nov. 11- St. Ursula Church, Allison Park. Due to the Labor 13. Crew members are also needed. For information call Tony, The couple have have two sons, Robert and David, both of Day holiday, our Erie; and six grandchildren. Mr. Strazisar is retired from Voss press deadlines 422-9283, or Dennis, 561-5916. have been ad Engineering Co. and Mrs. Strazisar is retired from the U.S. vanced for the Sept. 10 edition. Postal Service. in order to meet these press deadlines, the following schedule Auberle raises $1 million must be followed. Anniversary policy guidelines All DISPLAY ads are due at 11 a.m., FRIDAY, SEPT. 3. Auberle Home in McKeesport has completed its $1 million Couples who are celebrating golden or diamond anniversaries . All LINE CLASSIFIED ads and EDITORIAL material are due at 11 “Foundation for the Future” fund-raising campaign. The funds a.m., FRIDAY, SEPT. 3. will provide for physical, program and institutional develop should send Information and photo (optional) along with your telephone The Pittsburgh Catholic will be printed and mailed on SEPT. 8. ment needs of the 41-year-old non-profit agency. number to: Pittsburgh Catholic. Suite 500, 100 Wood SL, Pittsburgh, Pa, 15222. Photos will not be returned. Anniversaries will be published Raymond Niedenberger is executive director. whenever space in the newspaper permits. YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN FATHER RALPH A. DiORIO IN PITTSBURGH f o r EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION INSPIRATIONAL SPOKEN WORD AND HEALING PRAYER SERVICE on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1993 12 NOON (Doors Open at 11 a.m.) ______DAVID L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER *1001 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222 TICKETS must be purchased In advance. • Make check or money order payable to and mall to: PARACLETE CORPORATION • P.O. BOX 116 • CHESWICK, PA 15024 ENCLOSE: a stamped self-addressed envelope. Or you may purchase your tickets at Klmers Catholic Bookstore. 219 Fourth Avenue, Downtown Seating Is limited, order early Admission $15.40 per person ______For more information, call 963-7023