Rep. Hyde: a life- saver By Ana Rodriguez-Soto "I don't know if we'll ever 7 think the facts are on our side, and Voice News Editor succeed," the pro-life Republican from if we have the commitment on our Illinois told The Voice in an interview For Congressman Henry Hyde, it's recently. "But we've got to try." side we will save a lot of lives. That's not a question of winning or losing, but The author of the Hyde the only realistic goal we have' —Rep. Henry Hyde of how many lives you save. Amendment --perhaps the only pro-life Keeping that goal in mind will bill ever passed by the U.S. Congress, Congressman Hyde noted that the country. keep the wolves of despair away from which prohibits federal money from pro-life movement has failed to pass a "I'm hoping that can happen within the pro-life movement, even if courts paying for abortions- was in Miami Human Life Amendment in Congress, the next two years," he said, noting that continue to rule against unborn babies; recently to speak to the volunteers in and the odds of doing so have worsened, "it's up to the good Lord" and President even if politicians and some clergymen the Archdiocese's Respect Life program. since "we lost ground in the last Reagan. "Some of those gentlemen insist on ignoring the "holocaust;" even He urged them to carry on their election." [current Supreme Court justices] are if newspapers and television networks work with fervor and optimism because But he maintained that the pretty long in the tooth." continue to ridicule pro-lifers; even if a the "great strength" of the pro-life movement is one Supreme Court A change in the law may not new pill threatens to drive society's movement "is not in Washington or Justice away from overturning the 14- matter, however, if RU-486 is approved moral conscience deeper into a possibly even on the courts but in the grass- year old Roe vs. Wade decision, which for use in this country. The so-called irreversible coma. roots. It's from the people." legalized wholesale abortion in the (Continued on Page 11) y

Vol. XXXIIII No.1 Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Friday, Jan. 9,1986 Marian Year set by Pope VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has announced a rare 14-month year of Marian devotions to help Catholics worldwide enter the third millennium of Christianity. The special year, the second in history, is to begin June 7, Pentecost Sunday, and end Aug. 15, 1988, the feast of Mary's bodily assumption into heaven, the pope said. The period will be preceded by an "encyclical letter, dedicated to you, Virgin Mary, inestimable gift of God One Artist's God to humanity," the pope said. The Vatican also plans to announce Carlos Salgado sits before a display of his norms for the Marian year listing in- religious art at the library of St. John Vianney dulgences and other spiritual benefits College Seminary in Miami. Salgado, who for Catholics who participate in local works for the Southeast Pastoral Institute for or international events. An indulgence Hispanics (SEPI), sees God as being present is a church-granted remission of tem- poral punishment due for sins already in the daily struggles of people. So that's how forgiven. the Colombian native paints Him, as a friend The Catholic Church teaches that beside us. The exhibit was a first for the Mary was born without original sin, seminary, but perhaps not the last, as the that Christ was conceived in her womb display drew impressive numbers of visitors. by direct intervention of the Holy (La Voz photo by Araceli Cantero) Spirit and that she was bodily assumed into heaven. Society Church workers help illegal aliens - a By Laurie Hansen said Father Frank O'Loughlin, direc- WASHINGTON (NC) — In Indian- tor of the Rural Life Bureau for the town, Fla., illegal farmworkers at Ho- Diocese of Palm Beach, Fla. ly Cross Parish staged practice immi- Father Virgilio Elizondo, director gration raids after Mass to learn the 'I think it's a terrible of the Mexican American Cultural best way to respond to confrontations Center in San Antonio, Texas, agrees. with federal immigration officials. crime to invite them and Yet he points out, "The problem is so In Washington, illegal Central massive, it seems what we are doing is American women who have never be- not give them their rights' so insignificant." fore seen vacuum cleaners or washing There are no church regulations to machines are trained to use them tell church workers exactly how far through a program sponsored by the -Fr. Frank O'Loughlin they can go to help the illegal alien, Spanish Catholic Center under the said Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, exec- auspices of the archdiocese. After utive director of the U.S. Catholic training is completed, the center at- Conference's Migration and Refugee tempts to place them as domestic help- Services. Church policy, he said, is ers in the metropolitan area. "not to look at immigration status." Priests, Religious, lay people and In San Benito, Texas, church aliens to apply for legal status. But "Church workers offer help to peo- diocesan personnel nationwide contin- workers found themselves in trouble thousands who have come since 1982 ple who need it. The problem, of ue to respond to the plight of the ille- with the law for illegally transporting or who do not qualify for other course, comes with regard to civil laws gal alien by offering legal, material Salvadorans who had fled their war- reasons will continue to be classified that say what you can and cannot do and moral support — sometimes using torn nation. by the U.S. government as illegal and to help the undocumented alien." face possible deportation. The controversial methods. A new federal immigration law He said 164 dioceses have offices to passed in October by Congress will "shadow society," in the words of one "Church people have been those allow an untold number of illegal church worker, will not disappear. most open to the new immigrants," ( continued on page 8) New Title I voucher program proposed for needy students WASHINGTON (NC) — The U.S. Department of proposal would affect them and their students. Education has drafted a new version of its voucher The*proposal is expected to be submitted to proposal for disadvantaged children. Congress as part of the 1987 re-authorization of the The new proposal would allow local school 1981 Education Consolidation and Improvement districts to give parents vouchers to pay for remedial Act. Chapter I, formerly known as Title I, provides instruction outside the local schools — at private instruction for more than 5 million poor, education- schools, other public schools, universities or non- ally disadvantaged children around the country. The profit agencies. new proposal would increase funding of the $3.9 It is a variation on a proposal first offered in 1985 billion program by $200 million next year. that would have permitted Chapter 1 funds to be Education Secretary William J. Bennett had intro- sent directly to eligible parents instead of to the local duced the Chapter I voucher idea after the Supreme school districts for distribution. The U.S. Catholic Court ruled in July 1985 that public school teachers Conference and other Catholic organizations have could not give remedial instruction to disadvantaged supported recent voucher efforts. students on the property of religious schools. Charles O'Malley, director of the education That voucher proposal was not approved by department's Office of Private Education, called the Congress and since the Supreme Court decision new version "much more restrictive" than the parochial school students have been receiving TEACH proposal introduced in 1985. remedial instruction in vans, at neutral sites near He said it could only be used for "compensatory their schools and at public schools. educational services" and is meant as an "alter- Vouchers have been opposed by public education native means" of helping private school children groups who say the program would hurt public who have had difficulty receiving remedial instruc- schools. Others have argued that Chapter I money tion because of a 1985 Supreme Court decision. eventually would go to the religious schools, in O'Malley said his office has been talking with violation of the principle of separation of church private school officials to determine how the and state. Activists told to 'remain Needy have a right to health trusting' despite con scam insurance, groups argue CINCINNATI (NC) — Sanctuary activists should WASHINGTON (NC) — Calling access to quality remain "open and trusting," said a Cincinnati health care a fundamental right for all Americans, sanctuary coordinator, despite the arrest of a man several national groups, including four Catholic who police said conned $2,192 from a religious com- organizations, have begun a push for adequate munity, claiming it would be used to help refugees. health insurance coverage for the poor. Their effort, "We've got to try to be open and as trusting as pos- called the National Health Care Campaign, involves sible," said Cathy Cornell, coordinator of the Coali- 60 organizations, including church, labor, women's tion for Public Sanctuary, an alliance of 35 church and child health groups and organizations for the and religious organizations which work to provide disabled. Catholic membership includes the U.S. shelter to Central American refugees. The Sisters of Catholic Conference Department of Domestic Social St. Joseph of Medaille, members of the coalition, Development; the U.S. bishops' anti-poverty called Cincinnati police after becoming suspicious of Campaign for Human Development; the Catholic a man who told them he was helping a group of Health Association; and the Aging Commission of Hard hat area refugees on their way to Canada. Nuns in Baton Catholic Charities USA. Mother Superior Margaret Mary McGuire of Rouge and New Orleans, La., had also given the the Sisters of the Visitation of Monte Maria man more than $1,300 before he came to Cin- adjusts her hard hat as the cupola is in- cinnati, Van Pelt said. Pill called 'chemical warfare stalled for the chapel of the order's new against unborn monastery near Richmond, VA. The sisters soon will move from their old monastery in Atlanta clergy: Government, WASHINGTON (NC) —. An experimental pill Richmond. (NC/UPI photo) found to successfully cause early abortions for about business must help homeless 85 percent of the women who take it is "chemical NEW YORK (RNS) — A committee representing warfare" against unborn babies, said Dr. John 218 Atlanta churches appealed for local government Willke, president of the National Right to Life Catholic college getting money and business leaders to help with the problem of Committee. Its proponents consider it a break- for 'Star Wars' research feeding and sheltering Atlanta's homeless popula- through wfiich will allow women to have abortions tion. "We're saying the problem is growing, and the DAYTON, Ohio (NC) — The national debate at home. Developed in France, the new pill, over the Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars" churches have come to the end of their rope," said RU-486, serves as a contraceptive or abortifacient by Father Daniel O'Connor of Sacred Heart Catholic , weapons destruction system is no stranger to the blocking cells in the uterus from receiving University of Dayton campus. The Marianist-run Church, at a press conference called by the Com- _ . progesterone, a hormone needed by the uterus to mittee of the Clergy for the Homeless. He said that Catholic university, recipient of $425,000 for "Star prepare for and continue a pregnancy. The inventor Wars" research since July 1985, finds nothing in its if civic leaders "want a downtown Atlanta that's go- of the pill, Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu of the ing to be safe, that's going to attract people... it's SDI work to be incompatible with Catholic teaching; University of Paris, has described it as "a way to it hopes, in fact, to obtain another $600,000 for going to cost more money." The committee, which fool" the uterus into rejecting an egg. represents Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy, is three more years of SDI research. SDI is envisioned seeking help in setting up a permanent, securely by the Reagan administration as a satellite-based financed way of providing housing, meals and job weapons destruction system in space. Opponents of training for the homeless men, women and children U.S. bishops push the system claim it would have offensive, as well as who now rely on a patchwork of church-run shelters welfare reform defensive, capabilities. The University of Dayton has and soup kitchens. conducted Defense Department research since 1949 WASHINGTON (NC) — The U.S. Catholic Con- and is the leading Catholic university engaged in ference has endorsed a set of welfare reform prin- government research. Nun is among first to be ciples that call for programs to end dependency and to guarantee a federal standard of living for needy named administrator of parish families. The principles, sponsored by a coalition of Hospital group seeking ways BALTIMORE (NC) — Medical Mission Sister religious, child advocacy and family services Jane Coyle is the first nun to administer a parish in organizations, including Catholic Charities USA, to help frail elderly the Baltimore Archdiocese and one of the first non- were announced Dec. 22 at a press conference in WASHINGTON (NC) — A task force of the •• priests to administer an urban Catholic parish in the Washington. The ''Welfare Reform Statement of Catholic Health Association has begun a study of United States. She was named coordinator of Principles" called for improved job training and health care needs of the nation's frail elderly and the pastoral ministries of Corpus Christi, a 350-family counseling for welfare recipients and federal role of families, churches and communities in parish in Baltimore in late December. Non-resident guarantees of adequate food, clothing, shelter and financing such care. priests provide sacramental ministry in the parish, medical care for the 33 million Americans living in The 12-member task force, established by the as- while Sister Coyle heads the pastoral team that runs poverty. "Alleviating poverty historically has been, sociation's board of trustees, is headed by Auxiliary the parish and provides its other services. Two other and continues to be, a primary responsibility of the Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, N. Y. The nuns, two lay women and a permanent deacon form federal government...," said the coalition's state- CHA represents more than 900 Catholic hospitals the rest of the pastoral team. ment. and long-term care facilities across the country.

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PAGE 21 Miami, Florida / THE VOICE7 Friday, January 9,1987 Parishes told to welcome immigrants WASHINGTON (NC) — The study of their countries of origin in the scheduled activity" and "which Tomasi. What's more important, he parish that learns to welcome the im- parish school curriculum. language group gets the 'good' Mass said, is "communication of the heart." migrant and still function smoothly time" are questions that make it can become a model for U.S. society, 'No alien§ in Church' challenging to operate a parish with When immigrants feel they've been which must do the same, said a U.S. different ethnic groups. given the "cold shoulder" at the Catholic Conference official. In a pastoral statement on migrants Knowing the language of the new- parish, the priest said, they look else- If "we can create a viable new type and refugees called ''Together, A New comers to the parish, while important, where, frequently joining fundamen- of parish in which stereotypes are People," approved by the U.S. is "secondary," according to Father talist sects. broken down and newcomers are bishops' Administrative Committee in welcomed, we can show society how it September and released in December, can function" while accepting waves pastors and parish teams were urged to of new immigrants, said Scalabrinian be sensitive to the presence of im- Father Silvano M. Tomasi, USCC migrants so that parishioners will director of pastoral care of migrants realize "there are no aliens in the and refugees. church." The statement said that "the biblical injunction to extend hospitality to the ) 'If we can create a viable stranger overcomes the tendency to see " new type of parish in which newcomers as a threat to our comfort, stereotypes are broken institutions, culture and lifestyles." down and newcomers are It encouraged parishes to welcome welcomed, we can show immigrants and refugees by: • Organizing Bible study groups society how it can function' where the meaning of migration and exile in the history of salvation is He was interviewed in connection highlighted. with National Migration Week, • Sponsoring leadership teams that celebrated Jan. 5-10. "visit, seek and catechize" those who Welcoming new immigrants to do not come to church because of parish life is no easy task, Father language and cultural differences or Tomasi acknowledged. Due to lack of mobility. language difficulties, immigrants are • Offering programs for youth that usually "not brave enough" to take take into account they are often the initiative in joining parish life, he caught between the traditions and said, so priests, nuns and lay persons culture of their immigrant parents and who form parish teams must actively their U.S. peers. recruit them. • Appointing an immigrant or Father Tomasi suggested concrete refugee representative to the parish steps for parishes to welcome new- council. comers: While "hundreds" of parishes have • Planning an evening to celebrate already taken steps to open their the different cultures,, of new im- facilities to new immigrants, other migrants and inviting newcomers to parishes where all decisions seem to be tell stories about why they came, their made by one select "clique" of exodus experiences, the churches they parishioners would profit by changing left behind, and their expectations. course and welcoming newcomers to • Inserting the language of the new- participate, Father Tomasi said, since comers in certain parts of the Mass. they "force the parish to become • Initiating a scholarship program catholic with a small 'c' " by making to open the doors of the parish school everyone aware that "the world is a to immigrants whose parents cannot big place." afford to pay for a Catholic educa- tion. Speak with hearts • Teaching children about im- He said "who's going to get to use Rev. John Fife and Sr. Francis Nicgorski bless hands before leading migrants in the parish by including the parish hall or basement for a a 'Sanctuary Caravan' in Arizona, transporting refugees. Manila. A government spokesman has said the earthquake Mother Teresa was in the Philippines to open a charity house. (NC/UPI-Reuter photo) fault zone at Laguna Verde is passive, not active, and that there is no truth to the claims of faulty Christian sects told to change construction. Paper: Union Carbide trying to proselytizing tactics avoid paying Bhopal victims Lebanon prelate calls for end BANGKOK, Thailand (NC) — The Thai govern- KOTTAYAM, India (RNS) — An Indian Roman to fighting in Christian village ment and the Catholic Church have expressed Catholic newspaper has charged the Union Carbide concern over the fund-raising and proselytizing Corporation with trying to escape payment of a fair BEIRUT, Lebanon (NC) — The Greek Melkite tactics of some Christian sects in the country. The compensation to victims of the Bhopal gas disaster. patriarch for Lebanon has called on Lebanese and government has issued a circular barring Christian In an editorial, Deepika (Torch), which is sponsored international troops to stop fierce fighting in the groups from begging or selling religious items in the by an Indian Carmelite congregation, accused Union Christian village of Maghdousheh, Lebanon. Fight- street. Catholic Bishop George Phimphisan of Udon Carbide of trying to avoid paying anything to the ing between forces of the Palestine Liberation Thani, Thailand, said the church is unhappy about victims of the accident. The article said the Organization, the Shiite Amal militia and pro- the way some groups solicit money. The circular, American corporation was still disputing Iranian forces has left hundreds dead in the area signed by Mongkol Sripraiwan, director general of its liability by claiming that India was responsible near Beirut in recent weeks. PLO forces have oc- the Religious Affairs Department, reminded for the tragedy. cupied Maghdousheh, a village near Beirut whose Christians that in propagating their faith they should population is mostly Greek Catholic. All but 300 of avoid harassing or disturbing other people. Pope tells publisher to avoid the town's 6,000 people have fled. Patriarch Maximos V. Hakim of Antioch called for military Spanish laity must combat works that cause 'confusion' intervention. "We insist on the return of all refugees VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has to their houses," he told reporters. "We don't want rising secularism -Pope told an Italian Catholic publishing house it should other people to occupy the village." VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II avoid publishing works that could cause "doubt or criticized the "eclipse of religious sentiment" in confusion" among readers. Edizione Paoline, run by French suspend genetic Spain and said lay people must be trained to the Society of St. Paul, a male religious order, has evangelize its secular society. "It is especially the lay published recent books on liberation theology and research on human embryos people who must be the promoters of the Gospel in last year published "My Faith," an account of Fidel PARIS (NC) — The French government has the animation and transformation of temporal Castro's religious sentiments as told by the Cuban agreed to suspend for three years research on genetic realities," he said. "Stimulate among them their leader to a Brazilian Dominican brother. The book manipulation of human embryos. The moratorium responsibility as committed Christians," the pope was published in Cuba as "Fidel and Religion." was suggested by a state-appointed committee of told a group of bishops from central Spain. The Among its current publications are works by doctors, which also recommended not allowing pope said Spain's return to democracy has brought Franciscan liberation theologian Father Leonardo fertilizations for medical research. The national important social, political and cultural progress but Boff and Belgian-born theologian Father Edward Advisory Board for Medical Ethics in a 23-page also an increased secularization having a "less posi- Schillebeeckx. Both have been criticized by the report also recommended that embryos obtained tive and even negative" influence on moral values. Vatican. through in vitro fertilization which had not been implanted in a uterus should be frozen for no longer African leader praises work of Pakistani Catholics leaving because than one year. Catholic Relief Services they can't rise above middle-class South Korean leader: I won't run NEW YORK (NC) — The president of Gambia HONG KONG (NC) — Many middle-class has praised Catholic Relief Services for its work in Pakistani Catholics are leaving the country, if gov't allows direct elections helping the country diversify its agriculture and raise frustrated in their efforts to gain upper-class SEOUL, South Korea (NC) — South Korean nutritional standards. Speaking at CRS head- economic and social status in an overwhelmingly opposition leader Kim Dae Jung, a prominent quarters, President Dawda Kairaba Jawara cited a Moslem nation after rejecting their lower-class Catholic, said he will not run in the 1988 new crop program and a nutrition program serving origins, said a Pakistani priest. Most who remain presidential race in return for a government promise children up to 5 years old and their mothers. He take a minimal role in a church that serves mostly to allow direct presidential elections. "I want to said he would like to see the nutrition program the poor and illiterate, said Father Lawrence make some breakthrough in a positive direction," expanded. Jawara said Gambia, a tiny West African Saldanha, social communications director for Kim said. country, needs further development aid. Pakistan's Catholic bishops.

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PAGE 4 / Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 Christians in Lebanon They're losing territory, population day by day

Sister Mary Ann Walsh minister who heads the Middle East BEIRUT, Lebanon (NC) — Council of Churches, called the civil Lebanon is tiny, three-fourths the size T/ie Christian presence in war "a Christian crisis." He said that of Connecticut. But in this small Mid- Lebanon is a wart on the "Lebanon is the only place that can be dle Eastern nation of 2.6 million peo- Moslem nose... It's so small used as the base for a Christian mis- ple, members of the world's two and insignificant that they sion in the Middle East." largest religions, Christianity and would like to destroy it.' Several Lebanese, however, said Islam, have been in bloody battle since that the war is political. But they also 1975. —Msgr. John Esseff note that religious identification is Lebanese debate whether this is a woven into the nation's government. religious war, or a territorial war with The constitution, for example, religious labelling. states that the president of the country Some Christians see the conflict as must be Maronite Catholic, but it also yxt of a larger effort to push Chris- says he cannot act without the agree- tianity out of the Middle East. Others ment of the prime minister, who must fear that a 42-year-old unwritten ac- be a Sunnite Moslem. The president of cord will be broken, tipping the the national assembly, where Chris- balance of Lebanese political power to A Lebanese Christian tians hold a majority of the seats, is a the Moslems. kneels to pray in a Shiite Moslem. More than 100,000 Lebanese have bombed out church. The formula giving Christians a been killed and hundreds of thousands larger number of assembly seats than more pushed from their homes by the Moslems, despite Christians no longer war. If loss is measured in acres, the matory presence, Msgr. Esseff said. patrimony of Lebanon." being a majority in Lebanon, is an im- Christians have lost. "The open exercise of the Catholic "We work as Christians to promote portant factor in the national conflict. Ten years ago, Christians lived faith, the sanctity of Sunday, the ring- the Christian patrimony and as Since independence in 1945 an un- throughout the nation. During the war ing of church bells, and the dotting of Lebanese to preserve the patrimony of written agreement known as the Na- they were driven from their homes in the hills with crosses is the red flag in coexistence for all," he said., tional Pact has divided elective and the Lebanon Mountains, in the south- front of the bull," he said. Charles Malik, a Greek Orthodox, civil service posts among the various west, and from homes in west Beirut. Msgr. Esseff stressed the signifi- said Lebanese Christians are victims of religious groups. The division is based "Christians are being systematically cance of driving Christians from their a region-wide "squeezing-out on each group's proportion of the eliminated," said Msgr. John Esseff, a homes. phenomenon." Malik was president of population, as determined in a 1932 priest from Scranton, Pa., who heads "The Islamicization of Lebanon is the U.N. General Assembly in 1958 census. Moslems argue that census, the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. by the land," he said. "If they can't and was Lebanon's ambassador to the weighing in the favor of Christians, is The mission provides war relief and Islamicize the people, they will United States from 1946 to 1956. no longer valid. other social services in Lebanon. Islamicize the land." "This region is solidly Christian, "It's a political war," said Sunnite "The Christian presence in But Lebanese President Amin more than anywhere else in the whole Sheik Jhassan Lakkis, who lives in Lebanon is a wart on the Moslem Gemayel, a Maronite Christian, said Middle East," Malik said. "We have a Beirut's Christian sector. nose. The Moslems can't stand it," the fighting is not based on religion. Christian culture, society and tradi- "None of the Moslem groups has said Msgr. Esseff. "It's so small and He said Lebanon, in the past, has been tion. Seven miles from here is a church claimed that Lebanon is a Moslem insignificant that they would like to a land of religious "tolerance and co- on the spot where St. Paul landed. country, nor have Christians claimed destroy it." existence." We're mentioned in the New Testa- it is a Christian country," he said. In the overwhelmingly Moslem However, the president also voiced ment two or three times. Now we're in A Shiite Moslem, who asked not to Middle East, Catholicism is an inflam- concern for preserving "the Christian danger of extinction. In 1920 in be identified for fear of reprisal from Turkey there were 2 million Chris- Moslem extremists, said that religious tians. Today there are 15,000. sects "take on the role of the political "It's been going on since the days of party" in Lebanon; he said that the What you know Christ. We're the only Christian coun- real problem is one of overpopulation. try in the whole damn place." "To fit everyone in," he said, "we about Catholic burials Rev. Salin Sahiouny, a Presbyterian (Continued on page 6) is probably all wrong. CORAL GABLES PRINTING SERVICE Full Service Printing - One To Four Color Send for this informative booklet on the beliefs LITURGICAL . SCHOOLS . BUSINESS . SOCIAL of the Catholic Church or call Our Lady of 3328 SW. 23rd Terrace . 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Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9.1987 / PAGE 5 Priest comforts fire victims' loved ones WASHINGTON (NC) — The "sad- The 21-story hotel, located on San Aponte Martinez of San Juan has Juan's Perpetuo Socorro Parish, said dest, most painful aspect" of the Juan's beachfront tourist strip, was been at the medical center "personally his church is located not far from the Puerto Rico hotel fire is that so many packed with New Year's vacationers. ministering" to family members of Dupont Plaza Hotel. Tourists often at^ bodies were burned beyond recog- Reports indicate that as many as 95 victims since the beginning of their tend Mass at the pmRP, he said, nition that relatives were unable to people were killed^ and up to 100 were ordeal. because an English-language liturgy is identify them, said a Puerto Rican injured in the fire. Cardinal Aponte Martinez celebrated every Sunday. priest. "Naturally, the mood in the celebrated a Mass in honor of the vic- He said victims include tourists Father Armando Alvarez, part of a medical center is pne of sadness and tims at nearby Stella Maris Parish on from the United States mainland as volunteer team of social workers, psy- anxiety," said Father Alvarez, "the Jan. 1, the day after the fire began, well as Puerto Ricans who were chiatrists and ministers aiding victims' anxiety is the worst for the many Father Alvarez said. employed at the hotel or gambling at families, said in a telephone interview relatives who are unable to identify The priest called the effort to help the hotel's casino. that in additiont to the team, priests, their loved ones." the victims' relatives "amazingly well- The priest said he is ministering to Sisters and lay people have been help- He said relatives find "at least some organized" and said volunteers are tourists from the mainland because he ing staff a medical center near the lux- type of comfort" when they can iden- "well-prepared." is bilingual and can speak to them in ury Dupont Plaza Hotel that caught tify their loved ones. "Until then, "No one is ever alone. The relatives English, translate when needed, and fire Dec. 31. there is not much we can do for them. always have someone to talk to. The help them fill out legal forms. The medical center is where bodies Our ministry really begins at. that volunteers are compassionate and con- According to Puerto Rican govern- are brought ~to be identified by point." cerned." ment officials, the hotel fire was the relatives, the priest said. The priest said Cardinal Luis Father Alvarez, pastor of San result of arson. Propagation of Faith priest is bishop Pope: Synagogue visit made history WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope he resigned that post in 1976 for ROME (NC) — Pope John Paul II our 'elder brothers' in the faith of John Paul II has named Msgr. health reasons. has said his April visit to Rome's main Abraham in their Rome synagogue," William J. McCormack, national Bishop-designate McCormack, 62, synagogue is an event which will be the pope said. director of the Society for the has been a priest of the New York remembered for "centuries and "Blessed be the God of our fathers, Propagation of the Faith, an auxiliary Archdiocese since 1959 and national milleniums in the history of this city the God of peace," he said. bishop of New York. director of the Society for the Pro- and this church." The pope spoke Dec. 31 at his tradi- The pope also accepted the resigna- pagation of the Faith since 1980. The April 13 visit marked the first tional yearend thanksgiving Mass at tion of Bishop Marion F. Forst, 76, The society, an international time a pope had visited a synagogue Rome's Gesu Church. The speech out- as auxiliary bishop of Kansas City, organization with headquarters in since biblical times. lined the pope's major events as head Kan. Bishop Forst was bishop of Rome, is the Holy See's chief funding "I thank Divine Providence because of the Rome Diocese during 1986. Dodge City, Kan., for 16 years before agency for some 900 mission dioceses. it was given to me the task of visiting Lebanese Christians losing out (Continued from page 5) need to drive someone out. There are no really religious issues in this coun- try," he said. The Lebanese army, which is considered inferior to the militias of the various Christian and Moslem groups, is divided among Christians and Moslems. Antonine Sister Isabel Nassif said that the soldiers "are not able to rise above religion to fight as a Lebanese ar- my for Lebanon." Armenian Patriarch Jean Pierre XVIII Kasparian of Cilicia of the Armenians, whose patriarchate is in Beirut, said he does not fear for Chris- tianity in Lebanon. "Christianity was here before the Moslems," he said. "Lebanon and Christianity are twinned, rooted together. This is not the first time we've had a war between Christians and Moslems. The partiarch said the country's crisis "stems from the presence of Palestinians in Lebanon." We predicted that the nation would develop a new constitution, which he said, must be "based not only on numbers but on the overall rights given to the various communities" and upholding "the principle of equality between Moslems and Christians." Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignacev Antoine II Hyack said "the future is clear. If the population continues as it has grown, in 15 years from now there will be four Moslems for every Chris- tian in Lebanon. We wiri live with Family Workshop that." Whether or not the war is religious, at St. Francis Hospital the symbols of the fighting are. In Moslem-controlled west Beirut, for example, Christian church bells Families are changing - they make up and break up. Join us for our special free seminars: January 10 - may not be rung. 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PAGE 6 / Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 Reagan budget: more arms, fewer programs By Liz Schevtchuk tional affairs spending, which includes members of Congress two weeks "We recommend expansion of job WASHINGTON (NC) — President military and security-related foreign before the budget was released. training and apprenticeship programs Reagan's proposed $1.02 trillion fiscal aid, would climb from $14.6 billion to He said that the 100th Congress in the private sector, administered and 1988 budget calls for boosting defense $15.2 billion. faces a "trade-off between defense supported* jointly by business, labor spending by $15 billion while cutting The president also seeks $100 and non-defense spending." The unions and government," the bishops social programs, economic develop- million in continued aid for the "con- bishops, too, favor providing for an said. They noted that "retraining pro- ment and other non-defense functions tra" rebels fighting in Nicaragua and adequate national defense, he said. grams will be even more urgently by $14 billion. $5.2 billion for the space-based However, he added, "it's a question needed" for experienced workers laid As proposed by Reagan, social pro- Strategic Defense Initiative, which got of how you measure those off from jobs. gram outlays would dip from the $3.6 billion from Congress for fiscal (priorities)." But the president also proposes $46.6 billion expected to be spent in 1987. As far as the bishops are concerned, elimination of numerous social and fiscal 1987, the current budget year, to In the past, church and social justice he added, "the first concern of the development programs, including $44.4 billion in fiscal 1988. organizations, including the U.S. budget is to protect the poor." education grants for handicapped in- That reduction does not include cuts Catholic Conference, while sym- Although the president proposes a fants and their families, urban in other service-related programs, such pathetic to efforts to reduce the budget, Congress holds the power over development grants, mass transit as spending for economic development deficit, have opposed budget-cutting government spending. grants, vocational education, im- programs, which was to decrease from actions in programs for the poor and According to Reagan's budget, migrant and refugee education, the ^1.3 billion in fiscal 1987 to $80.9 disadvantaged. The bishops also have although overall 1988 outlays would Legal Services Corp., and other pro- Jillion for fiscal 1988, and $11.8 opposed aid to the contras and criticiz- increase by $9 billion over fiscal 1987 grams. billion in cuts in other, non-defense ed the Strategic Defense Initiative. levels, "after adjustment for inflation, Another area facing reductions is programs. "The federal budget debate really is spending would decline in real terms." agriculture. Reagan wants to cut the Defense spending would increase a sum-zero game," Father J. Bryan Statistics from November indicated total Department of Agriculture from $282 billion for fiscal 1987 to Hehir, USCC secretary for social an inflation rate of about 3 percent. budget from $55 billion to $50 billion $297 billion in fiscal 1988. Interna- development and world peace, told The budget for the big social service and seeks to cut $24 billion between program agency, the Department of. 1988-1992 from farm price supports. Health and Human Services, would The Reagan budget cuts the housing increase from $145.3 billion to $146.7 repair grant program for the very low- 20 Million billion under Reagan's proposals. income from $4.8 million in fiscal However, that additional funding 1987 to $155,000 for fiscal 1988 and of us babies would not cover cost increases due to cuts the resource conservation and inflation if inflation remains at about development program from $25 haven't had a 3 percent. million to $15 million. birthday Reagan seeks an increased use of Budget reductions, from 1987 levels housing vouchers that provide an to Reagan's 1988 recommended levels, The Supreme Court allowance for the poor to use in meet- include: ing their own housing costs instead of —Rural housing for farm laborers, says we're not living in government housing, but his down from $10.2 million to $8.7 people budget cuts other housing programs. million. -STILLWAITIMG- He also calls for an increase in the —Food stamps, down from $11.8 Chapter I remedial education program billion to $11.6 billion. 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WASHINGTON (*NC) — Aliens' illegal status makes them targets in society who travel to their countries in search Church workers eager to help il- and forces their children to "live a lie," say church workers. of cheap labor. legals in becoming legal residents or It's not only adults who acquire false Social Security cards and assume new He said the immigrants are the main acquiring political refugee status fre- names in order to avoid deportation, said Olga Villa Parra, coordinator of the source of labor in rural Florida, where quently find the experience "some- Midwest Regional Office for Hispanics in South Bend, Ind. Children of illegal they harvest citrus fruit and sugar aliens also hide behind assumed identities. cane. "I think it's a terrible crime to They are taught when young to "live a lie" in order to protect their families, invite them and not give them their 'Neither loving nor help- she said. rights." ing breaks any laws. The The children, Villa continued, "learn to live in two worlds — the one with Jack Elder, former director of Casa Church must give mom and dad at home where everything is normal and the one outside where Oscar Romero, a church-sponsored testimony to the fact that they must project that they are American citizens. They live in fear since they are shelter for Central American refugees, taught at a young age not to tell people where they are really from." was one of the San Benito Church all men and women are She said this dual lifestyle can produce psychological and emotional scars. workers convicted in well-publicized deserving of being loved...' Often, families of illegal aliens live in fear of deportation. trials in 1985 for transporting illegr Fr. Jose Somoza Auxiliary Bishop Juan Arzube of Los Angeles said that many illegal aliens aliens. He said he didn't believe he had Washington, D.C. employed in factory and service occupations "work each day with one eye on me broken the law, but that the U.S. job and the other on the gate — ready to make a run for it if immigration of- government was breaking the Refugee ficials should enter." Act of 1980 by denying Central thing like being next to someone sick Their life is filled with tension, he said. "And when there's that kind of ten- Americans asylum. and not being able to do anything. It's sion at work, you can't help but bring it home." The Reagan administration consid- the agony of impotence," Father He said if illegal aliens are "lucky enough not to be brown-skinned" they ers Central Americans economic Elizondo said. won't be bothered by immigration officials. On the other hand, brown-skinned refugees rather than people fleeing Al Velarde, southwest district direc- U.S. citizens of Latin American ancestry are frequently detained by authorities political persecution. Only the latter tor of Migration and Refugee Services, looking for illegal aliens. are eligible for asylum under the 1980 said his staffers often have to tell As a parish priest, "one of the most painful things is to go visit a family and act. undocumented aliens they have no discover that 'la migra' (immigration agents) picked them up last night," said Elder and others received the sup- legal recourse. "Many times they Father Virgilio Elizondo, pastor of San Fernando Cathedral and director of the port of Brownsville Bishop John J. knock on our door, we tell them what Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas. Fitzpatrick, who said what they were the eligibility factors are, and they He characterized everyday life for illegal aliens as "painful" and doing was "not only Christian but walk out the door." "precarious." American." The "legal aid service" of the On the other hand, the priest said, their insecurity gives them a "profound un- Franciscan Father Jose Somoza, Catholic Church is how Velarde derstanding of what it means to be a pilgrim people. They know that God is their pastor of Nuestra Senora Reina de las describes the offices under his juris- protection." Americas, the Hispanic parish to diction. He said staffers help immi- which many Central American immi- grants to legally bring their family grants are drawn upon arriving in members to this country, represent il- pocketing their money while fully federal immigration officers. Washington, said church workers are legal aliens in deportation hearings, aware there is no chance of legaliza- After several reports of abuse were obliged to do what they have to in show residents how to apply for tion — the church in Los Angeles has filed, he said, six local immigration of- order to live "Christ's mandate of citizenship, and act as advocates on been a source of accurate information ficers were fired. The Immigration and love." political asylum claims for Central for the undocumented. Naturalization Service has denied that "Neither loving nor helping breaks, Americans. Florida's Father O'Loughlin has the dismissals were a result of San- any laws," he added. "The church' Illegal aliens have nowhere else to gone a step beyond many parishes and tuario's efforts. must give testimony to the fact that all go, Velarde said, since many do not dioceses. The priest and others work- Demand rights men and women are deserving of be- speak English and cannot pay at- ing with illegal Guatemalans and Mex- One goal is to encourage so many ing loved just because they are human torneys' fees. icans in Florida organized a group aliens to demand their rights that it beings. The love we give them must called Santuario to teach workers to "would create a bottleneck" preven- not be determined by color, legal Legal help status, wealth or nationality." In the Los Angeles Archdiocese, the document abuses committed by ting immigration agents from contin- immigration division of Catholic Charities has provided primarily legal help to 500,000 new immigrants — Legalization: Parishes will be key legal and illegal — in the past 15 years, said Elizabeth Kirsnis, director. WASHINGTON (NC) — Parish Parishes have been chosen as the to work with parishes on the project, She said that while there are always volunteers may help as many as 1 basic church unit to work with illegal Msgr. DiMarzio said. Migration and crooked lawyers content to sell a bill million illegal immigrants legalize their aliens seeking legalization since "these Refugees Services offices in New of goods to illegal immigrants — status, said a church official. people live in parishes," said Msgr. York, Washington, San Francisco and Nicholas DiMarzio, director of the El Paso, Texas, will coordinate the U.S. Catholic Conference's Migration church involvement in the legalization and Refugee Services. program. A new federal immigration law Training materials for volunteers We're Proud of passed by Congress in October allows are being developed, he said, and the immigrants who arrived in the United program will be explained in detail in States before 1982 and have resided late January to diocesan personnel here illegally and continuously to ap- through a nationwide teleconference Our Membership ply for legalization. Church agencies arranged by the Catholic Telecom- will be among those helping illegal munications Network of America. The Lithgow Funeral Centers have been a mem- aliens determine if they are eligible. Parish workers will need to be While the number of aliens eligible fluent in Spanish and English, because ber of an association for reputable funeral di- for legalization is unknown, Msgr. about 75 percent of immigrants eligi- rectors known as the International Order of the DiMarzio said that according to "soft ble to apply for legal residency are Golden Rule for the past 25 years. 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PAGE 8 / Miami, Florida / fHE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 Typical aliens: In cities, they are mostly female, educated, employed By Laurie Hansen Haiti and the West Indies. WASHINGTON (NC) — Rosa Sixty to 70 percent of illegal aliens works nights vacuuming floors and nationwide are Catholic, estimates cleaning bathrooms in an office build- Msgr. Nicholas DiMarzio, director of ing in lower Manhattan. Migration and Refugee Services, who Originally from the South American also worked on the survey. city, of Quito, Ecuador, she has lived Of the 2 million illegal aliens the in New York City for five years. U.S. Census Bureau counted in 1980, A high school graduate, she came to 1.5 million are from Mexico, the the United States with her husband not Caribbean and Central America. Of to escape abject poverty but because that number, 1.1 million are from the two found their financial situation Mexico, said Gregg Robinson, a worsening instead of improving. demographic statistician for the Rosa and her husband have two bureau. children still living in Ecuador who are But not all illegal aliens are cared for by her mother. Three more Hispanic. He estimated that 213,000 have been born since the couple came are from Asia. to the United States, and one of them And the William Vogt Center for is in New York public schools. U.S. Population Studies found that The family lives in an apartment Detroit, for example, has a high building with Rosa's brother-in-law, a concentration of illegal Arab aliens legalized resident. All three contribute while Washington is home to a Illegal aliens are ferried across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, to the household income. number of illegal Nigerians, Ethio- Mexico, by "mules," men who for about 50 pesos will carry someone Each year, Rosa and her husband pians, Iranians and Filipinos. across the river to keep them dry. Of the 2 million illegal aliens send $700 to her mother to help pay Census Bureau statistics on illegal counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1980, 1.5 are from Mexico and the expenses of raising the children aliens are only estimates since im- Central America, with 1.1 million of those being from Mexico. still in Ecuador and to reimburse her migrants who fear recognition often (NC/UPI photo) for subsidizing the couple's move to hide from census counters, Robinson New York. said. In fact, a 1983 bureau report on Rosa, who is in her 30s, talks about estimates of undocumented aliens is Irish youths flee returning to her homeland one day to titled "A Count of the Uncountable." be reunited with family members. But More than half of the illegal aliens when forced to seriously consider the counted live in California, Robinson depressed economy question, she admits that she is said, adding that the census counted relatively sure she will be here for at 658,000 in Los Angeles County. By Bill Pritchard to be supported by Irish-American least another 15 years. Other states with large percentages, WASHINGTON (NC) — Thou- communities in the cities they settle in. Not a real person, Rosa is a com- according to the 1980 census, are sands of young Irish, many of them "They just literally disappear," said a posite of typical immigrants en- Arizona, Florida, Maryland, New well-educated, are living illegally in the U.S. official. countered by Demetrios Papa- Jersey, Virginia and Washington. United States — refugees from The current wave of migration from demetriou, a consultant to the U.S. Robinson said Census Bureau Ireland's faltering economy, say Ireland is said to be the largest in more Catholic Conference's Migration and figures do not reflect the numbers of government and church sources. than 130 years. It includes thousands Refugee Services, in a survey of illegal illegal aliens who stay a few days or Many come to this country on legiti- of Irish moving legally to England and aliens living in New York City. months of the year and then return to mate tourist visas, then stay on illegal- Europe. Their education and skills He said the majority are female, their homeland. It is these temporary ly, the sources say. Estimates of their contrast sharply with the poor, often well-educated, employed and come aliens, he said, who are most often ap- numbers range from a few thousand unskilled and little-educated Irish from the northern nations of South prehended by U.S. patrols along the to 200,000, concentrated in New York emigrants of the mid-19th century. America, the Dominican Republic, Mexican border. and Boston. But no one guessing at Twenty-seven percent of the 1985 the size of the illegal population claims university graduates left the country, to have hard statistics. Irish govern- according to Irish statistics. Of the ment statistics show more than 30,000 graduating architects, 71.7 percent CATHOLIC EDUCATION: Irish citizens emigrated in 1985 alone. took jobs overseas. U.S. Immigration and Naturaliza- A large number of those living il- Now More Than Ever! tion Service spokesman Duke Austin legally in the United States would said the number illegally in the United return to Ireland if economic condi- States "is significant" but declined to tions improve, said those familiar with HERE'S WHAT THE CLASS OF '86 SAYS ABOUT make an estimate. the situation. CATHOLIC EDUCATION Ireland's bishops said they are suf- Ireland was badly hit by the global ficiently alarmed by the exodus to con- recession of the late 1970s. The and sider establishing a "chaplaincy" in government's attempt to stimulate the POPE JOHN PAUL II REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL the United States for the emigres — economy through heavy international A Catholic Regional High School serf ing the Archdiocese of Miami and the Diocese of Palm Beach similar to the ministry to young Irish borrowing failed, leaving a large who have moved to England. foreign debt comparable in its effects "It's easy to exploit them," Father to those carried by Third World coun- "A Catholic school education provides a total education... it stimulates John Gavin of the Irish bishops' con- tries. Workplaces continue to close. intellectual advancement but more importantly it also encourages maturity, ference told National Catholic News Potential workers under 25 years responsibility, and a strong, vital sense of community." Service in Dublin, Ireland. "They old are said to have little chance of Kristen Ryf, St. Ambrose Parish, Deerfield Beach have no permanent work permits and finding employment in Ireland. Un- Attending Clemson University they feel very vulnerable." employment, averaging 18 percent, in- Many of the young illegals are said cludes 74,000 jobless youth. "Catholic school education helped me to realize my potential for the future. It I helped me get into a respectable college." Steven Shortz, St. Vincent Ferrer Parish, Delray Beach V 32 years under the same ownership. Attending Wake Forest University

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Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 / PAGE 9 r St. Lawrence dedicates new sanctuary St. Lawrence Church In North Miami Beach recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and rewarded itself at the same time with the dedication of a new sanctuary. The Mass was concelebrated (right) by Archbishop Edward McCarthy, Father Roger Holoubek, pastor, and a number of priests from neighboring parishes. St. Lawrence Church was originaliy built in an L-shape with the altar facing at an angle from what is now the central aisle. The renovated altar now faces down the aisle and there was enough room left over for the addition of an office for the director of Religious Education. Bishops issue Communion guidelines The following "Guidelines receive Holy Communion in fulfillment community signifying a oneness in for Receiving Communion" were of Christ's command to eat His Body faith, life and worship of the com- prepared by the Committee on and drink His Blood. munity. Reception of the Eucharist by Pastoral Research and Practices In order to be properly disposed to Christians not fully united with us of the United States Catholic receive Com-munion, communicants would imply a oneness which does not Conference. should not be conscious of grave sin, yet exist, and for which we must all Archbishop Edward McCar- have fasted for an hour, and seek to live pray. thy, in accordance with the man- in charity and love with their neighbors. date of the U.S. bishops, re- Persons conscious of grave sin For those not receiving quests that all parishes make fre- must first be reconciled with God and Communion quent use of these guidelines the Church through the sacrament of Those not receiving sacramental and print them "in a prominent Penance. A frequent reception of the Communion are encouraged to express place" in parish bulletins. sacrament of Penance is encouraged for in their hearts a prayerful desire for The publishing of these all. unity with the Lord Jesus and with one guidelines by the U.S. bishops does not create any new Church For other Christians another. policy on the reception of Com- We welcome to this celebration of munion, but is intended to make the Eucharist those Christians who are For non-Christians existing policies more clearly not fully united with us. It is a We also welcome to this and widely known. consequence of the sad divisions in celebration those who do not share our The U.S. bishops have asked Christianity that we cannot extend to faith in Jesus. While we cannot extend For Catholics that the Communion , guidelines them a general invitation to receive to them an invitation to receive Catholics fully participate in the be published in a "prominent Communion. Catholics believe that the Communion, we do invite them to be celebration of the Eucharist when they place" in all parish bulletins. Eucharist is an action of the celebrating united with us in prayer. Churches mark month of Christian Unity Following is a partial sche- Ministry-Jan. 24, 9 a.m., St Grace Presbyterian Church, 6895 NW vice-This event culminates the Month dule of events during the month Thomas University, 16400 NW 32 Ave. 14 Ave. of Prayer and will be held in several of Prayer for Christian Unity, •Luncheon for S.W. Clergy •Prayer Meeting: "Celebrat- languages: Feb. 15, 3 p.m., Miami which begins Jan. 17 with an ec- Support Group-Jan. 26, noon, ing Christian Unity and its Di- Shores Presbyterian, 602 NE 96 St. umenical service at St. Sophia University of Miami Faculty Club, versity"-Jan. 29, 10 a.m., Church •Fellowship Hour for all Greek Orthodox Cathedral in 1550 Brecia Avenue, Coral Gables. Women United (South), 7241 SW 108 present following the Worship Miami and ends Feb. 15 with a •Midday Celebration of Terr. Service-Feb. 15, 4 p.m., Miami service at Miami Shores Pres- Christian Hope-Jan. 29, 2 p.m., •Ecumenical Worship Ser- Shores Presbyterian, 602 NE 96 St. byterian Church (details below). AU churches are encouraged to use the Sundays of this month for ecumenical fellow- ship such as pulpit or choir ex- changes, prayer meetings and church visitations.

•Little Havana Christian Leadership Luncheon-Jan. 7, noon, Centra Vasco Restaurant, 2235 SW8SL •Minister's Prayer Service led by the Brothers of Taize-Jan. 16, noon, site to be determined. •Ecumenical Worship Ser- vice-Jan. 16, 8 p.m., St. John Bosco Catholic Church, 1301 West Flagler St. •Ecumenical Youth . Festival led by the Brothers of Taize-Jan. 17, 9:30 a.m., Church of the Little Flower Parish Hall, 1270 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables. •Ecumenical Worship Ser- vice-This event launches the Month of Prayer and will be held in several languages: Jan. 17, 4 p.m., St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 244 SW 24 Road. •Fellowship Hour for all present following the Worship Service-Jan. 17, 5 p.m., St Sophia Wall of Reconciliation Greek Orthodox Cathedral Central Students at St. Brendan Elementary School In west Dade did something special to commemorate Courtyard, 244 SW 24 Road. the Year of Reconciliation, which has been proclaimed by Archbishop Edward McCarthy to prepare •Pulpit Exchange-Jan. 18, the Archdiocese for the visit of Pope John Paul II this September. Painted on boards set up along a 5:30 p.m., Christ Congregational hallway because of nearby construction, the mural shows children of all nations holding hands, with Church, 14920 NW 67 Ave. a picture of the world In the center. (Voice photo/Prent Browning) •Celebration of Women in

PAGE 10 / Miami, Florida / THE VOICE /Friday, January 9,1987 Looal Imprisonment of Cubans denounced by bishops By Prent Browning The bishops said the Mariel Cubans imprisoned in Voice Staff Writer the United States can be classified in four groups: the mentally ill, those who committed serious crimes in Two Cuban-born U.S. bishops have denounced Cuba, those who committed crimes in the United the imprisonment of nearly 2,000 Cubans by the U.S. States and are serving their sentences, and convicted government. criminals who have already served their sentences for In a joint statement issued in late December, crimes in this country. Bishop Roman Bishop San Pedro Miami Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman and "The indefinite imprisonment of human beings Auxiliary Bishop Enrique San Pedro of the Diocese of who are not serving sentences due to crimes they have • A review of the cases of those who committed Galveston-Houston, Tx., criticize the policy of committed cannot be justified," the bishops wrote. crimes in Cuba to determine if they were duly judged. "indiscriminately" holding Cuban prisoners in U.S. "It's a basic human right that after a man or a woman • The freedom of Cuban prisoners who have federal jails and ask that Catholics examine their has paid his or her debt to society, his or her freedom committed crimes in this country but who have already consciences on the matter. should be restored." served their sentences, provided it is found that they do xAbout 1,800 prisoners in the Federal Penitentiary Deportation of these individuals, called for by law, not constitute a threat to society. ii ianta, primarily Cubans who came to America in is blocked by the Cuban government's refusal to accept • Providing adequate facilities for those still the Mariel boatlift of 1980, are being held without them. Fidel Castro had agreed to do so when he signed serving their sentences. regard to even their most elementary legal rights, the an immigration pact with the United States, but he • Providing rehabilitative programs that would statement says. suspended it in May of 1985 when the U.S. enable Cuban prisoners to co-exist in a free society The courts have ruled that these prisoners, often government's Radio Marti began broadcasting to Cuba. (many are victims of the "moral relativism" of a denied entry permits into the U.S. because of past "It is obvious that the law does not contemplate a Communist system, the statement says). criminal records, are "excludables" and have no right to situation such as the present one. Therefore, this These prisoners, who are primarily Roman individual hearings or legal representation. 'legality' must give way to other alternatives which Catholic, look to the Church as a source of hope, the "Letters full of sufferings reach us from different adhere more closely to reality and have a firm moral bishops say. prisons, expressing the feelings and needs of those and humane basis," the statement says. The statement concludes with a plea not only for persons, some of whom have been incarcerated for The bishops specifically called for prayers but for action, requesting that people "work more than six years and whose future grows more • The humane treatment of the mentally ill as within the channels of the democratic government" to uncertain every day," the statement says. opposed to their indefinite imprisonment. change the current fate of the Cuban prisoners. Congressman: Don't stop saving lives (Continued from page 1) There will always be murders," the "morning-after" pill developed by a Congressman said. French scientist threatens to make "But I think the facts are on our abortion as easy as swallowing a glass side, the biology is on our side, and if of water. we have the fervor and the commitment on our side we will save a lot of lives. Although its effects have not been That's really the only realistic goal we tested completely, the pill works both can have." as a contraceptive and an abortion agent, by blocking the hormone progesterone from reaching the uterus. This prevents the build-up of the uterine lining, Walk for making it impossible for a fertilized egg to implant itself or, if already im- life'next planted, causing it to be flushed out along with the lining. weekend If the pill is legalized in this country, "we in the movement will have January 22 will mark the 14th to adapt our educational efforts," said anniversary of die Supreme Court Congressman Hyde. "We will have to decision legalizing abortion through- try to reach younger women and out all nine months of pregnancy. To mark the sad occasion. Re- At the Respect Life Apostolate's annual celebration of the feast of younger men. ..and explain to them the Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, Dr. Rolando De- biology of what they're doing and the spect life volunteers, supporters and Leon (above) received the 1986 Respect Life Award, given every consequences. It's still taking a life no schoolchildren from throughout the year to someone in the community whose works exemplify a true matter how convenient it is." Archdiocele will be "walking for life" next weekend, Jan. 17. sense of dedication to the sanctity of all human life. Giving the a- He stressed that "the education ward to Dr. DeLeon is Father Dan Kubala, director of the Respect The purpose of the walks is Life Apostolate. (Voice photo/Ana Rodriguez-Soto) function of the pro-life movement will go on no matter what method is used to both to increase public awareness of exterminate a tiny human lifc.Our job the tragedy of abortion and to raise Official is a massive educational job with funds so that the Archdiocese's children and adults and even some Emergency Pregnancy centers will be clergy, to let them know this is a able to continue helping needy women to keep their babies. Support pro-life work problem that concerns every member of society." The walk-a-thons will take place Dear Friends in Christ: in each of the areas where Respect In this month of January, as we renew our commitment to the sacredness Congressman Hyde praised South Florida's priests and Religious for their life offices are located, beginning at -and dignity of all human life, I ask for your support for the Respect Life 9 a.m. and continuing until noon. Appeal that will be held the weekend of January 18,1987. "awesome commitment" to the cause of the unborn, saying "I wish this were so The Miami Beach walk will take We realize that efforts to protect other rights will be unsuccessful if life place a week later, on Jan. 24. itself is continually diminished in value. in every diocese in the country." Families, school and Church January 22, 1987 will mark the 14th year that our country has sat in "We need the clergy to be more groups are encouraged to "walk for apathetic acceptance of abortion on demand through all nine months of effective," the Catholic legislator said. life" or sponsor walkers. For more pregnancy. Our seven Respect Life Emergency Pregnancy Offices struggle to "I don't mean to be critical but some of information and to sign up, call the meet the needs of those women who are facing unplanned pregnancies so that them have other concerns. I'm sure Respect Life Office nearest you. The the children they carry will not become one more shameful statistic in an ever- there are many concerns...but this is a offices' phone numbers and walk increasing total of more than 20 million since 1973. question of life and death that there locations are as follows: We can't allow ourselves to be desensitized to the value of human life ought to be no division on, and the • Coral Springs: 753-0770; which would allow us to also accept death by means of starvation; or, as the Church ought to not sound any American Medical Association and some legislators prefer to call it "Death with uncertain trumpets." St Bernard and Si Andrew churches. Dignity." Asked whether, realistically, a • Ft. Lauderdale: 565-8506; The Respect Life Apostolate in the Archdiocese of Miami strives to give simple change in the law can overcome StColeman Church. continued visibility to the critical life issues hoping that through education 14 years of pro-abortioTn propaganda and • Hiafeah: 883:222?; Our Lady society will once again take on an attitude of heart and mind that springs to the acceptance, Congressman Hyde said yes, of the Lakes Church. ' . • . . defense of all human life. because "the law is a teacher." Thanking you for your concern and support of this Respect Life Appeal "A lot of people have never and for your continued prayers, I am _. , . _, . thought about abortion, really, it hasn't Sincerely yours in Christ, crossed their lives," he said. "The controversy that surrounds it even now is helpful in that people begin to focus 2229; St John Vianney Seminary. Edward A. McCarthy on it." • Miami Beach: 534-2229; Archbishop of Miami Unfortunately, "there always have SkPakick Church. been abortions, there always will be.

Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 / PAGE 11 Page 12 January 9,1987 Miami, FL THE VOICE Collision course Scientific advances increasingly reveal Supreme Court erred on abortion decision By Father Virgil C. Blum, S J.

Every day, the progress of medical science reveals more about the nature and development of the unborn child. And every revelation puts another nail in the coffin of the Supreme Court's credibility. Not only is the Court on a collision course with itself -as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor so rightly said- it is on a collision course with the facts of biology. In its pro-abortion Roe vs Wade ruling in 1973, the Supreme pound, Court said that the human fetus is not one a person in the eyes of the ounce. Constitution, and therefore that the fetus had no constitutional right to life." At the time, the scientific 'Since the Supreme Court has said that the unborn child evidence was overwhelmingly contrary to the Court's reasoning. Discoveries is not a human being or person, what did the surgeons since the abortion decision continue to operate on?A bunny rabbit?* challenge the Court's credibility even further. In 1981, a Senate Judicial surgical procedure in San Francisco on a destroy it. charges for "fetal neglect" in the death Subcommittee held hearings on a pro- 23-week-old fetus. The fetus was What if the the baby had of her infant son. life bill. After hearing testimony from removed from his mother's uterus. died during the surgical Suppose a test during pregnancy 22 prominent pro-and anti-abortion Since the Supreme Court has said procedure? Would he have acquired in had revealed to her that her child was scientists, the committee reported that that the unborn child is not a human death what he does not have in life - brain-damaged. Had she then decided "the biological facts today are beyond being or person, what did the surgeons -personhood- for purposes of a death to kill her baby, she would not now dispute ... the life of each human operate on? A bunny rabbit? certificate? Either answer involves an be facing criminal prosecution for being begins at conception." absurdity. "fetal neglect." Dr. Watson Bowes, professor of Legally, we can't say. The Another issue that will challenge If an unborn child has no obstetrics and gynecology at the Supreme Court in the full plenitude of the Supreme Court's credibility is child- constitutional rights, as the Supreme University of Colorado School of its majestic powers has not yet ruled on abuse. In recent years Americans have Court has ruled, on what basis can this Medicine, concluded his testimony that scientific, biological question. But become very sensitive about the abuse of woman be criminally prosecuted for with the statement "The beginning of we do know how, based on its Roe children. And recently that concern has having seriously abused her unborn a human life from a biological point of precedent, the Court must rule: Once been extended to the unborn child. baby? view is at the time of conception. the baby boy is returned to his mother's A 27-year-old El Cajon, California These two cases demonstrate the This straightforward biological fact womb he will cease to be a baby boy, a woman faces criminal charges in the degree of irrationality in the Supreme should not be distorted to serve human being, a person. He will be just death of her infant son. Contrary to her Court's thinking in cases dealing with sociological, political, or economical a fetus without life, with only "potential doctor's advice, she allegedly took drugs, abortion. Sooner or later the Court goals." life" -although he is in full charge of had intercourse, and failed to follow will be compelled to confront the his development- with heart beating, medical directions in the event of irrationality of its decision in Roe vs Yet, the Supreme Court continues brain functioning, fingers wiggling, eyes hemorrhage. Her child was born Wade. to re-assert that the unborn child is not squinting, ears listening, and arms and prematurely and underweight with a person or human being. legs swimming. massive brain damage allegedly caused Father Virgil C. Blum, With the advance of science, its What if after the successful by drug abuse by her mother during S-J. is a professor emeritus of insistence that an unborn baby is not a surgery the mother decided to pregnancy. Political Science at Marquette human being or person is beginning to kill her unborn baby? Would that The baby died six weeks later - University, and founder and be perceived as not only false, but be legal? Yes, the Court would say, -apparently the victim of drug abuse by president of the Catholic ludicrous. because the "whatever-is-in-her" has no her mother during pregnancy. The League for Religious and Civil Consider, for example, a recent rights and she has a "privacy right" to California woman now faces criminal Rights. Low-key center is influential force for justice WASHINGTON (RNS) - The large, white, wood- was hardly popular in 1971, even if widely taken for This meant Western countries should emphasize frame house in a tree-lined residential neighborhood on granted today. "Peace and justice [advocacy] was development that is labor-intensive, small-scale and the outskirts of Washington, D.C., would seem an considered on the fringes of the church," he said. geared to basic needs rather than consumer luxuries, unlikely center of activism in the Catholic Church. according to Father Henriot. Today, the principle is But inside, using every square foot from Social agenda accepted by the world community, even if it is not basement to attic, the Center of Concern has been Yet the social agenda was pressing. In a ground- always reflected in practice. •"X nurturing ideas behind some of the most dramatic breaking document, the 1971 Synod of Bishops, an events in Catholicism over the past two decades. occasional international gathering of prelates at the Birth control vs. development Most recently, the influence of the center could be Vatican, declared that seeking peace and justice in the In one of its earliest and perhaps most sensitive found in the American Catholic bishops' pastoral world was a "constitutive" element of Christian faith efforts, the center was among a relatively small num- letter, or teaching document, on the U.S. economy. and the church's mission. What was missing, however, ber of private groups arguing for a revised understand- Now observing its 15th anniversary, the center was a catalyst to keep the document from collecting ing of the population explosion in the Third World. was founded jointly by the National Conference of dust on the shelves of church libraries. While Western leaders contended that the only Catholic Bishops and the Rome-based Society of Jesus - The center filled this role by circulating 150,000 way to deal with the problem was to make the birth- -the Jesuits- as an autonomous research and education copies of a study guide, titled "Quest for Justice," control pill as widely available as aspirin in poor group dedicated to issues of global peace and justice. It which spread the message of the synod statement and countries, others said population policies were exists on a rather slim $425,000 annual budget and recommended courses of action by the church. inextricably tied -once again- to development raises money through direct-mail appeals to 23,000 But influencing the church has been only part of In other words, controlling population level supporters. Its staff consists of 15 researchers, the center's work. In 1979, it was one of the most depended heavily on improving education, health and educators and administrators, most of whom have active private organizations at the U.N.'s Vienna ^ other social conditions in the Third World. The center worked directly with poor people overseas. conference on science, technology and international was able to argue this without getting into the In 1974, it was granted consultative status within development. difficult matter of the morality of artificial the United Nations, thus creating what would soon While most recognized the need for development of contraception, which was the main thrust of the become an effective bridge between the church and poor nations, the question of what kind of development Vatican's involvement in the debate. poor nations of the world. was up in the air. The center, siding with the Third Today, the idea that the world's poor and "You can't be a church without doing justice. World countries, played a leading role in arguing that oppressed will not control the sizes of their families That was our message," said Father Peter Henriot, a science and technology should serve the interests of the without changes in broader social conditions is Jesuit priest and the center's director. This message poor, not rich Western industrialists. considered conventional wisdom in many circles. j What do permanent Sharing resources The other day I was part of a group discussion which shocked and saddened me. The conversation revolved around a deacons homeless welfare recipient called "Mr. W" who was born and raised in a predominantly wealthy, exclusive little town in Connecticut. do? The people of his town are grappling with the problem By of what to do with this man who lately has become a thorn in Q. We have some questions their sides. Antoinette about permanent deacons. What Connecticut towns have a legal responsibility to take do they have in common with care of their homeless. News stories state that if someone Bosco priests? wants to live in the town where he was born the town must How is he called "reverend" find him a place to live. just that he's asked for shelter but that he thinks he has a right and how does he dress? There are Mr. W's town has no facilities suitable for the homeless. to live in his hometown. In other words, Mr. W continues to different ideas about this in our So the town put him in a trailer by a lake. To do so they see himself as a human being while his neighbors see him only had to grant an exemption from their, zoning laws. But the as a problem upsetting the neatness of their orderly exemption was only temporary and now it's running out community. The townspeople don't want to change their zoning laws Our society doesn't want "problem" people. We'd prefer it to allow Mr. W to stay in his trailer. They,want him out. if they didn't exist and when they show up our first reaction is Mr. W doesn't want to leave. to get them out of our neighborhood. What is a town to do in a case like this? That was the But the truth is that society has a responsibility to take ByFr. subject of my group discussion which included educated, care of its members. That's why we formed societies in the middle-class men and women from 24 to 58. Here was the first place ~ to nurture, protect and support the group as a John gist of their comments: whole by pooling resources. "They should just throw him out." A "survival of the fittest" mentality doesn't belong in Dietzen "Why should it come out of my pocketbook to take care human society. That is the law of the jungle. What makes us human is teing willing to share without area. of him?" being overly concerned about fairness. If we get obsessive What is a deacon allowed to "It's too bad if he's an alcoholic. He could get cured but about what constitutes a fair share, making sure that none of do in the parish? We would he just doesn't want to." our money goes to the undeserving, then our own selfishness appreciate knowing if there are "I go to work every day. He could work too but he's will eat away at the very society we all need to preserve. real answers to these questions. just lazy." Just as artists have a responsibility to share their talent or (Ohio) "Let him starve if he doesn't work." It surprised me that they were so hard. All too often scientists their intelligence for the benefit of the rest of the A. Ordained deacons receive, as do people operate from the standpoint of "me, myself and I" and world, we all must share our resources to keep the whole fabric priests and bishops, the sacrament of that conversation was a classic case. People don't want to of society-intact. holy orders. While these three groupings share their material accumulations with someone who doesn't No one can be forced to feel compassion, to be gentle or share in different levels or stages of that "deserve" them. kind. But one can hope and pray that people find the desire in sacrament, the ancient tradition of the I am amazed at the hostility people feel toward anyone their own hearts to share what they have with those who have church sees each of them as contributing who asks society for more than his "just due." less. a special kind of service to the people. What has really infuriated people about Mr. W is not (Copyright (c) 1986 by NC News Service) Both priests and deacons, of course, serve subject to the bishop who has full responsibility for the church of a particular diocese. As for dress and title, the U.S. Reacting to rumors bishops' committee for the permanent diaconate has the following Why is it that we are so quick to believe a rumor? The recommendation: "Deacons should very fact that someone suggests a thing has happened gives resemble and dress in the manner of the rise to the believe that it has. laymen from whose ranks they are chosen but never separated. The title It's very important to know the distinction between a 'reverend' is not appropriate for the rumor and a fact. The word rumor is taken from a Latin root ByFr. permanent deacon." At least several which signifies "to make a buzzing noise," and has reference dioceses which have permanent deacons to the buzzing nature of words that are carried from one John have formally adopted this person to another. A rumor is more or less vague. In the recommendation as their own policy. army, it is said, every battle gives rise to a thousand rumors. Catoir Specific functions assigned to The word "fact," in Latin the participle of facere, "to do," deacons mostly relate to the liturgy. All signifies the thing done. A fact includes in its meaning only deacons realize, however, and it should what is positively known to have happened. History should "Suppose a man reported a tiger loose in the city, would contain nothing but facts since authenticity is its chief merit you believe him?" be stressed that liturgical functions of 1 the deacons, especially in the celebration But we live in a world where rumors abound. How do '"No, I would not " of the Eucharist, are a symbol and we react? Take the case of a boss who fires a worker. "Then what if two men told the same story?" outgrowth of the other services they Rumors begin to fly about that he intends to fire more "'I would still doubt it.1" render to the community outside of the people. Panic sets in, but no one else is fired. Rumor has "Well, what if three men brought the same news?" liturgy. created needless worry. Supposed someone is very sick, and "'Yes, then I should believe it to be true."' Liturgical roles assigned to deacons rumor has it that he has AIDS. In no time people conclude "Ah, it is now clear that even though no tiger roams loose include to: the rumor is a fact and imaginations run wild. It later turns in the city, yet the reports of three men bring one into 1. Function as deacon at out that he had cancer not AIDS, but rumor has done its existence!" celebration of the Eucharist. damage. 2. Function as ordinary minister of When presented with damaging information that may be (For a free copy of the Christophers News the sacrament of baptism. false information, before believing what you hear, find out if Note, Violence, send a stamped, self-addressed 3. Minister the Eucharist to the you are listening to a rumor or a fact. There is a Chinese envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48 Street, sick in their homes or health-care fable that makes the same point. New York, NY 10017.) i 4. Serve as celebrant at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Time capsules By Frank Morgan 5. Serve as celebrant at wake services for the dead and at graveside burial services. 6. Officiate at marriages. Challenging the God Thor 7. Administer the sacramentals of the church (including ashes on Ash Winfrid of Devonshire had noble Anglo-Saxon parents. When he was 75, Boniface set out, on a mission to Wednesday) according to the rite At 30, he became a priest and was granted his long-standing Holland. He carried a Bible and a book written by St. Ambrose, established by the church. (This does wish to go as a missionary to his Saxon kinsmen in Europe. entitled ominously, "On a Good Death." On Whit Sunday in not include blessing ashes or religious In 722, the Pope consecrated him Bishop of Hesse and 755, the missionary camp was invaded by hordes of savage articles, or the blessing of throats on the Latinized his name to Boniface. It was in Hesse that Boniface fighters who came to avenge their pagan gods. Boniface forbade feast of St. Blase.) came before the worshippers of Thor. Thor was particularly his Christians to fight back. He said, "Let us not return evil for Deacons also may deliver homilies venerated at the spot where a great oak tree known as the *evil." The pagans murdered the 62 Christians and Boniface, at celebrations of the Eucharist and other "Thunder Oak" was standing. Boniface declared that he was "The St. Paul of Germany." There is still shown at Fulda, the ceremonies. However, this function as going to chop it down. The people were outraged and called blood stained Bible of Boniface. well as the faculty to officiate at upon Thor to strike down this unbeliever. Boniface took an marriage must be explicitly granted to axe and cut away at the tree. Helped by a convenient gust of *** them by the bishop of the diocese. wind, the tree crashed to the ground. Virgilius, "the Geographer", was an Irish abbot. His (Questions for this column should When the expected dire consequences of Thor failed to studies of ancient geographers led him in the eighth century to be sent to Fr. Dietzen at Holy Trinity materialize, the German tribes one after the other became teach the opinion that the earth was a sphere. But for his further Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, converted to Christianity. On the spot where the tree had belief that elves inhabited another world with its own sun and III. 61701.) stood, Boniface built a church in honor of St. Peter. moon, he was censured by Pope Zachary.

Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 / PAGE 13 Parents confront teen drug abuse

Dear Dr. Kenny: parent feels used, betrayed and even rejected by the lies Our son has had a serious problem with which are part of the denial common to substance drugs and alcohol. He is now in a halfway abusers. house still not believing he has a problem. Finally, parents have to deal with their shattered Can you say something about the parents' dreams. Most parents have great expectations for their feelings while they are going through the children, seeing them as better than anyone else. With turmoil created by teens on drugs? By Dr. substance abuse, parents may see these hopes dashed, What leads parents to take the first James and feeling a sense of great disappointment and failure. steps and how involved should they become? Most parents work through their angry and hurt How do they feel when they hear all the Mary Kenny feelings by treating their child as a loved but separate different theories on the recovery of a person, by letting go but still being there. One mother chemically dependent person? How do they parenting situation. You are far from alone. Perhaps of a teen-age boy put it very well: fight the guilt, when they are told over and other readers will write in to share similar concerns and "I have reached the decision to let go and let God ! over again that there should be none? with some specific responses to your many questions. This is one of the big mottoes in AA and , believe me, How do they handle the wanting to Meanwhile I want to respond to your underlying without the help of God his mother and prayv I blame something or someone, even the other question and pain: In addition to the drugs and alcohol, would not be admitting any of these feelings. There are spouse, after blaming oneself becomes so what makes this situation so hard for parents? no guarantees in this life and there are even less in painful? One obvious factor is that we are talking about dealing with an alcoholic. What procedure is used to tell close teen years. The issue of drugs and alcohol is "I trust that one day my son will have the strength relatives so they will be informed before compounded by teen-age assertiveness and rebellion. to help himself. But meanwhile it would be great being confronted by others, especially when The soon-to-be adult feels the need to do things his or support to us to know how other families have gotten drugs lead to trouble with the law? How do her own way, sometimes reacting against some very through such a situation." they deal with the misunderstanding friends, sane and sensible rules. Thanks again for your letter. I will try to respond the co-workers? Do these parents have the The ingratitude of teens also makes it more to your specific questions in future-columns after some same feelings as parents who have learned painful for parents. Teens are so wrapped up in their of our readers have shared their wisdom. that their child has any other horrible own problems, searching for their own identity, that (Reader questions on family living and child disease? (Kansas) they have very little sensitivity for the feelings of their care to be answered in print are invited. parents. Address questions: The Kennys; Box 872; A most difficult item to handle is deceit, the lies a St. Joseph's College; Rensselaer, Ind. A. What an eloquent description of a difficult teen may tell to protect his drug or alcohol habit. The 47978.) Family problems' silver lining

Looking back on your life, what incidents will say. "She has made our lives so much richer." occurred which you considered calamitous or at least Unrequited love: "Thank God I didn't marry stressful at the time but which you have come to view him," is the usual refrain. "It never would have as positive and beneficial retrospectively? worked." Or, "If I had married him, I wouldn't have This is a question I frequently ask adults when met and married my husband and that's unthinkable." discussing stress. Don't cheat now. Before you read By Spiritual emptiness: Many people indicate further, stop and think of past stresses that turned into that a period of spiritual sterility which was extremely plusses for you. Dolores painful - when they couldn't find or feel God - forced Okay. The reason for the question is to remind us them to seek Him in new ways. Often they tried to fill that when we're undergoing a major problem, we rarely Curran the void with other activities and pleasures but see a positive value to it. But later on, we look back eventually responded to His call by joining a scripture and say, "It was the best thing that happened to me," or satisfying work. "I thought the world ended when the or prayer group, making a retreat, reading, meditating, "It was good for our family." steel mill closed," said one man. "But for me it just attending daily mass, or changing faith behavior in When we reflect on the positives of the past started because I love the job I was forced to find." general. Was it worth the pain? Yes, they reply stressors, we are better able to deal with present ones, Illness: There's very litle that's positive about enthusiastically. figuring that maybe some good will come out of this illness but many people claim that a heart or other Other stressors mentioned as having ultimate pain. scare forced them to reexamine their lives and change value include unwed pregnancy, accidents, divorce, I've used this technique in workshops over the^ their lifestyle. death, and broken relationships. years and here are the major stresses people name that A Move: When a move is involuntary, we I have my own story to share. As a young teacher turned out positive for them in the long run. rarely welcome it. But for many, a move turns out to en route to a distant state for an exciting job, I was Unemployment: While exceedingly stressful be a plus in their lives. Their children are happier in involved in a serious auto accident. Injuries forced me at the time, unemployment has brought many families the new environment or , perhaps, the family is better to resign my job and stay in the state where the closer and forced them to look at priorities and values. off living farther from their extended family. accident occurred. I grabbed a teaching job and met my "We took so much for granted before Rob lost his Unplanned pregnancy: When this is husband. In spite of the pain, fears, and scars, twenty- job," is a representative comment. Or, "We found out mentioned in a group, I see lots of nods and smiles, seven years later, I can say, "Thank you, God, for that what was really important in our life." which tells me it's a familiar' stress-tumed-gift. "We accident." But I couldn't say it at the time. Another is that the worker found new and more couldn't even consider life without Annie," a parent ( c. 1987 Alt Publishing Co.) Family matters The need to return to family basics By Lynda DiPrima, from its own life of faith and from other like minded devouring a microwave frozen dinner. Granted, he Director of Ministry to the Engaged families. does need to be held accountable for his and Newly Married With so many world changes around us it seems responsibilities, but he also needs to know and feel, in imperative that we as families return and reclaim the that deepest center of self, that he is loved irrationally It seems that many things around us which were unchanging, basic, core elements traditionally ascribed and "unconditionally" And when he arrives and leaves previously "predictable" and "out there" are now to family... closeness, warmth, intimacy, ritual and the home, he needs a tangible sign of that love. Too changing and impacting families at an accelerated rate. celebration... the more we can develop these qualities, often I have not gone out of my way to initiate the Things like massive lay-offs in well established the more we will be able to be "in the world" but not "ritual" of greeting and leaving that celebrates his companies, an unbalanced economy, questionable "of the world", to fortify ourselves against that which goodness and our affection for one another. A kiss, a foreign policies, nuclear build-up, new tax laws, may be destructive. hug, a smile that says "you are loved" can enable him international terrorism, increased numbers of cocaine I don't know about your family, but it is getting (and me) to more easily handle life's demands. It is all and "crack" users, and society's unbridled passion for harder and harder to be intimate, warm, and close in my so easy for me to be critical, it is all so hard for me to consumerism all have the potential of playing havoc family. As our three sons grow into teenagers and express love if somehow the young man hasn't quite with families. young adults, their school, jobs and recreational measured up to my expectations. Probably at no other time in history have activities keep them out of the house, even at In this, the beginning of 1987,1 do hereby resolve families been so vulnerable and threatened by the mealtime, which has always been "sacred" to me... I to remind myself to pay more attention to family impact of outside forces as they are today. Whether the mean, how can we be close and celebrate family basics; intimacy, warmth and closeness and to celebrate family is an elderly couple, a single parent, or the goodness if we don't see each other? And when we do with one another, not just occasions, but the true traditional two parent composition, it finds itself see each other, there is always an urgency to "remind" giftedness we are to one another, even in our having to muster up Herculean effort to combat them about unmade beds, forgotten chores, and differences. For it is in our struggle to be close and life- negative influences from our modern world. "responsibility". These statements usually occur during giving that we taste and see the goodness of the Lord... The only support a family has for this task comes the hour between school and work as the kid is and He makes, even us, strong.

PAGE 14 / Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 Film shows God's love in action

Name a living saint Petrie sisters. I began by asking what Chances are good that you just it's like to work so closely with one's said, "Mother Teresa" and that's the title sister. of a moving and noMo-be-missed 90- "It was a big plus, particularly on minute TV documentary that shows the this project," said Jeanette Petrie, who world-famous nun ministering to the left a career in business to join her dying in Calcutta, Aids victims in New filmmaker sister to produce "Mother York City and the poor in nations all Teresa." around the gldbe. "We never anticipated that it would "Mother Teresa," the film, is the take five years to make the film; it was work of two American sisters- siblings, bigger on every level than we that is. Ann and Jeanette Petrie spent anticipated. So the bond of family sustained us in difficult times; we knew we could count on each other." Ann Petrie concurred, saying, "It was terrific. Our different strengths complemented each other. Nobody else would have been willing to take the risks-physical and psychological- except a blood relative." The Petries agree on something else: Mother Teresa. "She's extraordinary," Ann said. "She has endless energy. It was' impossible to keep up with her. She lands running. But it's a very five years following Mother Teresa spiritualized energy, which she gets around the world. The results of their through prayer." efforts are now being shown in 60 Jeanette was struck by the nun's countries, including China, Poland, "tremendous joy, even in the worst India and France. American viewers have circumstances" and by her "consistency two shots at seeing the movie: it is all the time in every area. King or queen being released to theaters and it will be or beggar on the street, they are no shown on public television this month different to her. She focuses on each (locally on Ch. 2 on Jan. 14 at 9 p.m). person." The special, which I have Both sisters agree that media previewed, includes interviews with coverage of Mother Teresa often suffers people who have known Mother Teresa from a flaw which. the nun herself since her days as a novice in India, but resists: making her seem superhuman HE'S BACK and therefore incapable of imitation by the essence of the film are scenes of her The great ape King Kong rises again in "King Kong Lives," a Dino De other people. work among the poor. I defy you to Laurentiis release . In this latest sequel, Kong has been kept alive but watch the first 120 seconds of the movie "She says very clearly, "What I do, comatose for 10 years in a lab. Another oversized gorilla, "Lady Kong", without being moved, without you can't do; what you do, I can't do. is discovered and shipped to the lab so that Kong can receive a much questioning your own place in the world But together, we can do something needed blood transfusion. Calling the film "cartoonish" with too much and without sitting back to complete the beautiful for the Lord,'" Jeanette noted. bloodshed, the U.S. Catholic Conference classifies it A-lll. (MC Photo) special. Catholics, the Petries found The word which runs throughout themselves changed by five years in the movie is "love," but, of course, it is Mother Teresa's company. the sort of selfless, pure love which "The major change in me has to do crew: A Jewish camera crew, some that, but it can enrich people's lives." television does not usually celebrate. with faith," Ann explained. "We had to WASPS and a 'God-know-what' sound The Petries might be doubted when And it is love in action. As Mother operate as she does. When there is a person. Each of us was deepened in our they talk about their own film so let me Teresa says at one point,"people talk crisis, she goes. We couldn't worry faith. Mother Teresa has an incredible add my own endorsement to their words. about the love of God, but it must be about money or health or access or if faith and trust in God. When you see it, "Mother Teresa" justifies the existence put into action." We see that action as the office was covered. We just had to you want it" of television. Gather your family and she and her order of nuns soothe lepers do it. We had to operate on faith - and Like its subject, "Mother Teresa," donate 90 minutes to viewing this in India, embrace spastic orphans in doors would open." the film, shows "love in action," masterpiece. Afterwards discuss how Beirut and befriend the forgotten in Jeanette had the same experience, Jeanette says, while Ann believes it you can apply Mother Teresa's American inner cities. reporting that "my faith deepened "touches the best in people, like Mother philosophy (what she calls "the joy of When I spoke recently with the tremendously. I wasn't a particularly herself. People have said the film has loving") in your own home and strong Catholic before. We had a mixed changed their lives. I can't guarantee neighborhood as well as in the world. 0ROWARD IJAPER& PACKAGING Willie Nelson's music aids needy kids Seattle (NC)~ Music by country abandoned. These are all children we're school superintendent, sang with singer Willie Nelson is featured on a talking about, and they all need help." Tammy Wynette on an album to benefit record album produced by Catholic Nelson became involved in the the city's schoolchildren. The project Community Services of the Archdiocese album as a result of an earlier agency raised $100,000 in scholarship funds. of Seattle to help children in crises. project for runaways. He and his wife "Renegade Heart" was previewed in Proceeds from the sale of the Connie, a Catholic, were executive Nashville last October by delegates at country music album "Renegade Heart" producers of a film called "Streetwise," a the national meeting of Catholic will benefit children already out on the 1984 documentary on Seattle street Charities USA, which has endorsed the streets and others who are headed there, children. project FREE DELIVERY FLORIDA said Rosemary Zilmer, director of In addition to the use of his song (The album is available on record 1-800-432-3708 development for the Catholic agency. "Those Healing Hands of Time," Nelson or cassette tape for $10 plus $150 0ROWARD "Our agencies are working with the also assisted in the album's production. postage and handling from Catholic homeless, abused and neglected," she A local country singer, Don Steele, Community Services, Archdiocese of QAPER & said. 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Miami, Florida /THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 / PAGE 15 New marriage ministry program started

The Archdiocese of Miami, Family Therapists. through the office of Parish Community 1 This training program will Service (a program of Catholic commence on Saturday, February 7 and Community Services) will soon see the continue for three months - until mid reactivation of a ministry to married May. There will be nine hours of couples started eight years ago by the training each month. Phase II training late Fr. Tom Barry. Assisted by Gladys will resume in September and will Garcia, a CCS. family couselor, Fr. continue until. December 1987. This Barry trained married couples to help second phase will "fine-tune" the skills other couples who are experiencing and concepts presented in Phase I. difficulty in their marriage relationship. Pastors are asked to select qualified This "marriage ministry" program couples who feel called to this special involves an extensive course of training ministry, and to forward their names to and ongoing direct supervision, by Hugh Clear, director of Parish Frank and Rosemary McGarry, an Community Service, at the P? \l experienced husband-wife team who Center (phone: 754-2444). scholars specialize in counseling education. Couples who are interested are Students from Immaculate Conception School in Hialeah Frank is director of the Pastoral asked to contact their pastor. Further garnered so many medals in the Academic Olympics sponsored Counseling Center at St. Thomas information may be obtained by calling by La Salle High School in Miami that they earned their school the top-honor "championship plaque," being presented here by University, and is a member of the Hugh Clear or Bill Thompson (phone: Father Frank Wolfram, S.D.B., La Salle principal. The sixth American Association of Marriage and 235-5483). annual competition saw 210 students from 18 Archdiocesan grade schools being quizzed On their knowledge of math, Wedding anniversary Masses stated English, Spanish, religious education, social studies, science The Archdiocesan Anniversary St., Miami, Fl. 33165. Celebrant and physical skills. Other medal-winning schools were: Masses honoring Silver and Golden Archbishop Edward McCarthy. Carrollton; St. Theresa of the Little Flower; St. Kevin; Ep- Wedding Jubilarians (and over 50) are iphany; St. Brendan; St. Hugh; St. Agnes; Sts. Peter and Paul; St. Bartholowew Church (Broward St. Timothy; St. John Neumann; St. Thomas the Apostle; scheduled as follows: County) February 7 at 11 a.m., 8005 Corpus Christi; St. Rose of Lima; and Holy Rosary. St. Brendan Church (Dade County) Miramar Parkway, Miramar. Celebrant January 31 at 11 a.m., 8725 SW 32nd Bishop Norbert Dorsey.

Separated/di vorced/wi dowed The Cenacle Retreat House Entertainment Beach. They will also host a Dessert New Beginnings Separated will host an "In-Depth Prayer Experience The Barry University Card party on Jan. 24 at 11:30 a.m. at of the Cost of Discipleship" on Jan. 16- and Divorced group will be holding Auxiliary is sponsoring a St. Elizabeth's Gardens. For more 18. For those desiring to look deeper a "Superbowl Dance" at St. Maurice luncheon/theatre trip on Jan. 17 to the information call 941-5546. into the reality of personal prayer as church in Ft. Lauderdale on Jan. 24 at 8 Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre leaving at seen in discipleship. Conductor: Fr. Greg p.m. For more information call Helen at 10 ajn. The comedy is You Can't Take it Potpourri Cornelia, C.PP.S. Call/Write Cenacle, 961-4138 or Jackie at 987-5284. With You starring Brian Keith. For Our Lady of Lebanon 1400 S. Dixie Hwy., Lantana, Fl. An The Dade Catholic Singles reservations call 758-3392, Ext. 311, or Church, 2055 Coral Way in Miami, evening will be held Jan. 14 from 6 to Club will participate in a Pro-life Walk Verna Hodges at 895-2127. will host its annual. Lebanese Festival 10 p.m. for parents who have lost a for Life Marathon at St. John Vianney St Joseph's parish in Jan. 16-18. Food booths, gift booths. Seminary grounds on Jan. 17 at 9:30 child through death. Reservations Wheel of Fortune, Jewelry, dancing, and necessary. Miami Beach will host an organ recital a.m. For sponsor sheets and more by New Hampshire organist Kenneth Arabic delicacies. Adults $1. Children information call Reggie at 226-0340 or under 12 free. St Maurice Catholic Grirmell on Jan. 16 at 7:30 pjn. The Maria at 552-6838. They will also meet recital will feature a variety of classical Church will host a lecture on Centering Our Lady of Lourdes Jan. 10 at Daphne's Lounge in Miami at and family pieces. Admission free. 9:30 pjn. Cover $5. Prayer by the well-known author and Academy will have its annual bazaar at Happenings Singles is Trappist Monk Fr. Basil Pennington on Meetings tropical park on Jan. 16-18. Games, having a mid-week Rendezvous party on Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the church, 2851 The International Order of rides, food. Admission free. Jan. 14 from 5:30 to 9:30 pjn. at the Stirling Rd. in Ft Lauderdale. Alhambra, Jacar Caravan 228, will Club Mystique, Miami Airport Hilton, The Dade Women of Light hold their monthly luncheon meeting at The Columbiette Auxiliary 5101 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami. There host their monthly Bible Brunch on Jan. 2 pjn. Jan 18th at St. Sebastian of St Bernadettes Council, will be Music, Hors D'Oeuvres and gift 10 at the Sheraton Riverhouse, 3900 NW Catholic Church in Ft Lauderdale. For Knights of Columbus will hold their drawings. No cover. For info call Sharon 21 st. in Miami from 9:30 to 11:30 ajn. more info about group which works -with annual Polish Nite Dinner Dance on Jan. Silver at 385-1255. $8 per person includes brunch , scripture the retardedcal l 432-0083 or 966-8635. 31 at St Bemadettes Parish Hall located teaching , music, and a personal witness. The Dominican Laity, at 7450 Stirling Rd. in Davie. Dinner 7- For reservations or information about Spiritual renewal Third Order of St Dominic St 8 p.m. Dancing till midnight to the The Catholic Charismatic future brunches call Norma at 266-3585 Hollywood Polkateers. Donation $10 per or Irene at 264-3591. Thomas Aquinas Chapter will hold their Renewal of the Archdiocese of Miami monthly meeting on Jan. 18 beginning person. For reservations call Irene will host a Life in the Spirit Seminar at St. Clement Women's Club at 11:30 ajn. at Cor Jesu Chapel at Pontillo at 432-6596. St. Brendan's Church at 8725 S.W. 32nd will host a day of reflection on Jan. 24 Barry U. Visitors welcome. Holy Spirit Council 6032, st. in Miami for 10 consecutive Mondays from 9 a.m. to 2 pjn. at St. Clement Knights of Columbus, will host a dinner Church, 2975 N. Andrews Ave., in Ft. beginning Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. in the old The Catholic Daughters or dance on Jan. 24 in the Council Hall, Lauderdale. The conductor will be Fr. church. The seminar will be offered in the Americas, Court Holy Spirit 2118 SW 60 Terr., Miramar. Dancing till Edward Bryce, Pro-Life Activities English and all are invited Registration #1912, Pompano Beach, will hold their midnight. Donation $5 per person. For Director of the National Conference of come early Jan. 12. For more" regular business meeting on Jan. 9 at 1 tickets and info call Fetes Garden Shop Catholic Bishops. information call C.C.R. at 925-8464. p.m. St. Elizabeth Gardens, Pompano at 989-1802 or evenings at 962-4860.

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PAGE 16 / Miami, Florida I THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 Office of Worship workshops Hispanic vocations meeting "In My Father's House" will be the vocations for the Catholic Church in the Office of Worship and Spiritual which workshop the candidate will theme of a national meeting sponsored U.S., it is designed to assist vocation Life workshops through April,1987. attend. Deadline for reservations is the by the U.S. Bishops' Committee on personnel, collaborating with a local Eucbaristic Minister Work- Wednesday prior to the workshop being Vocations between Jan. 6 and 11 at St. partner, to call forth future Hispanic shops: ( Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) attended. Thomas University, 16400 NW 32 priests and nuns. March 7, St. Brendan (Spanish); March Evenings of Reflection for Avenue, Miami. According to Father Neil Doherty, 2], Holy Family; April 4, St. Liturgical Ministers (Tuesdays. A constructive training program for Archdiocese of Miami Director of Coleman. 7:30 to 10 p.m.) February 17, St. fostering and recruiting Hispanic Vocations, "Major architects of Thomas the Apostle; May 5, St. Hispanic Catholic life in the U.S." will Lector Workshops: (Saturdays, Elizabeth. (Both bi-lingual ) Family workshop at participate in the workshops for which 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) January 17, St. Reservations requested. No fee. more than 190 persons from across the Augustine; February 7, St. Stephen; Reservations for above should be made St. Francis nation have already registered. March 28, St. Boniface. through the Office of Worship and Trips are planned to Hispanic Fee: For both workshops $10 per Spiritual Life, 9401 Biscayne Blvd., Nationally syndicated columnist centers in and around Miami and person (includes lunch) payable in Miami, Fl 33138. 757-6241 (Dade) or and author John Rosemond, M.S., will opportunities will be provided for advance. 522-5776 (Broward) Ext. 351. be the featured speaker at the Family Workshop, "Creating the Child meetings with Hispanic youth, Reservations required. Please Correction: The Office of Worship Wonderful," a free seminar sponsored by seminarians, parents and seminary reserve by letter ( signed by pastor, and Spiritual Life English Flyer St. Francis Hospital on Jan. 10, 10 faculty members. recommending new ministers),; enclose erroneously reported a workshop at St. a.m. at the hospital, 250 West 63rd SL, Speakers during the sessions will check ( Ma'de payable to the Office of Thomas the Apostle on February 27. It Miami Beach. include Father Virgil Elizondo, author, Worship and Spiritual Life), and specify actually will be held February 17. Most noted for his "Parents" writer and lecturer; Father Allen Deck, column which appears regularly in the S.J., former director of Hispanic Miami Herald and about 50 other Ministry in the Diocese of Orange, Notre Dame students take Urban Plunge newspapers nationwide,-Mr. Rosemond CA.; and Sister Veronica Mendez, is a psychologist specializing in Coordinator for Las Hermanas; Also, Once again Boystown of Florida is students will visit half a dozen facilities working with parents, couples and Father Mario Vizcaino, director of the hosting ten students from Notre Dame dedicated to helping people in need, such families. In addition, he is the author of Southeast Hispanic Pastoral Center, University who are participating in that as Camillus House and the Miami many articles and the popular book, Miami; Father Vicente Lopez, staff university's "Urban Plunge" program. Bridge in Miami, and St. Ann's Mission member of the Hispanic Affairs Office in Homestead. "Parent Power! A Common-Sense Students participating in the program Approach to Raising Your Children in of the National Conference of Catholic spend several days visiting institutions the Eighties." Seating is limited. For Bishops; and Father Felipe Estevez, and facilities in inner cities throughout The students ended their three day reservations, call Joyce Buck, RN, at former rector of St. Vincent de Paul the country. visit Wednesday with a trip to the 868-2736. Seminary, Boynton Beach. In addition to Boystown the Krome Ave. Detention Center.

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The family that laughs... By Katharine Bird My mother developed a blissful school. ating an ugly temper — something I NC News Service ability to "tune out" what she didn't My father took refuge in books. find invaluable as. an adult in dealing I learned early in life the value of need to hear. The routine shrieks and One of my favorite memories of him with the shocks and upsets of life. humor in family living, perhaps partly chaos of our family didn't faze her is hearing him laugh in his study, then When I was sunk deep in some because I grew up the eldest in the because she was busy, in a world of seeing him emerge, book in hand, to childhood woe, time and again dad family with five brothers and two her own, concentrating calmly on the share some entertaining passage that coaxed me into good humor by making sisters. Looking for the funny side of task at hand. enthralled him. He does that to this me laugh, sometimes by quoting some life was a way of keeping one's sanity Looking back now I realize it day. whimsical verse from Lewis Carroll or in the midst of the confusion and might have been natural for us to He delights in finding droll things Edward Lear. How could I keep a soui messiness that often reigned in my resent this. But I think it is much to laugh about in conversations with face while laughing at those masters of much-loved home. better that we looked on the situation's friends, in life, in books. For him, the ridiculous? From our parents we children light side, gently laughing over it perhaps, humor provides some relief Today, if I read an author who is picked up the ability to look for the instead. We knew that she always was from the heavy responsibilities of life. commenting on the importance of humor that laces so many situations, right there when one of us needed her- From my father I learned that humor for good living, I am reminded even serious ones. They used humor to kiss a banged head or listen to a humor can be a well-nigh painless way of the lessons I learned so effortlessly to remind us that any situation can be woeful tale of wrong perpetrated at of lifting a somber mood,-of dissip- long ago. looked at in more than one way. There was the time when two policemen came to our front door Joy, love and God go together asking, with grave voices and furrowed brows, whether my parents knew Humor is healthy -in more ways Thus, the smile helps to ereate alive with the life of the risen Christ, anything about the dummy lying by than one. (sometimes to re-create) and reinforce why should anyone believe us when the side of the street half a block from Consider laughter, which is the bonds among people. we proclaim without passion 'Christ is our house. Life-sized, it was dressed in humor's companion, You might call Another of humor's companions risen'?" ("Still Proclaiming Your football gear with a large red stain laughter a healing agent. Ironically, is love. "Have you noticed that humor Wonders," Paulist Press, 1984). seeping across the chest. however, this healing agent is and love get along very well together?" People racing around the corner infectious. asks Gerard Bessiere in "The Theology Everyone knows that humor, would catch sight of the "body" and hit There are a number of reasons of Joy" (Herder and Herder, 1974). laughter, smiles and joyfulness can be their brakes hard. My brothers, Bill why humor and laughter are good for "This connivance must conceal some employed to deceive -to communicate and Mike, laughed hysterically at the people. They ease tensions, for secret. Humor blossoms readily in a message that is false. They can be faces people made when they example. "Relief from tensions is those who love and know themselves twisted so that they belittle what is discovered what the "victim" was. perhaps the root from which all humor to be loved. Like something that eases serious or deir°,an and mock people. My parents, even as they lowered takes its rise," writes Father John life." Failing to recognize the God-given the boom on my brothers, admitted Walchars in "Resurrection of Values" dignity of others, they fail to become that the situation had a funny side. (Crossroads, 1986). "Burdens lose Finally, just as laughter readily constructive life forces. But they explained to my brothers in their weight when carried with finds its place in relationships of love, But the healthy humor and no uncertain terms that it wasn't right happiness and pleasure." joy makes it way into a life of faith. joyfulness spoken of here are different. to get a laugh at the expense of The smile is another of humor's Actually, joyfulness expresses faith. They foster love, heal, put difficult someone else. constant companions. A smile can be a And joyfulness is vital when it comes situations in a new context, lighten Growing up, we children forceful thing. It reaches out toward to communicating one's faith to heavy burdens. gradually recognized that our parents others in a relaxed and open way; at the anyone else. Laughter, smiles and joyfulness had developed some interesting same time it is inviting, drawing As Jesuit Father Walter Burghardt even help to create the atmosphere for techniques for coping with family life. others closer. asks: If we "show no joy in being a life of faith.

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Scriptures By Father David Monahan his executioners as they were charcoaling him on a NC News Service griddle: "You can turn me over. I'm done on that side." .? Laughter is important music in God's house Witty St. Thomas More signaled the axman to among all of his many-splendored family. hold for a moment so that the martyr's beard might Abraham, in a friendly chat with God, laughed be removed from the chopping block. The beard, he out loud at the thought of an elderly man and said, has committed no treason. Tenderness woman producing a baby. And Sarah got the Father Thomas Merton, the celebrated Trappist giggles when she overheard God's messengers writer, told readers that he had "earned two degrees of talking to her husband about a child this time next dullness" (at Columbia University) and that his of the year. "Now that I am so withered?" she chuckled to 1948 autobiography had "created a general herself. hallucination followed by too many pious books." Gideon, the rabbit-hearted champion of God and Pope John XXIU answered the questions: "How of Israel, is pulled and tugged by the Lord to do his many work in the Vatican?" with the quick reply, funnybone bidding in a comical few chapters in the Book of "About half." Judges. My father had a saving grace in his sense of The martyr Lawrence is said to have quipped to humor. He bequeathed to his children tenderness of

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By Dolores Leckey NC News Service The Gospel of John says: "Jesus wept." A short, poignant sentence full of the feelings associated with friendship and humanity. Lazarus of Bethany is dead and only tears will do. Nowhere in the Gospel do we read that Jesus laughed, at least not in direct, unambiguous language. And yet.... It is as human to laugh as it is to cry. What's more, modern medicine now affirms what folk medicine has long known: Laughing is good for your heath. Families are well aware of the value of this readily available therapy. To laugh is to recognize that each of life's ups and downs will pass; none is the final word. I remember when our youngest son - now 23 and a graduate history student - was in fifth grade. His whole world seemed to be coming apart. He couldn't master the math tables; his school locker was filled with molding bread, the residue of an unsuccessful science project; teachers were lecturing him; and his older siblings were not one bit shy about sharing their various school and social successes. As parents, we were worried about our young son. And then, one day we saw him walking through the house step by step on his hands, counting "100,101, 102." Everyone broke out into applause, laughter and tears as Colum informed us that his goal was to reach 200. His 16-year-old sister wrote an essay about him and his hand- walking which ended with the supportive thought: "I hope he makes it I love him so much." Clearly, life has its serious side. I don't want to minimize this. But life is also sprinkled with absurdities. For example, imagine a marital spat under way. Suddenly one or the other spouse notices how riotous the issue is: Should veal be served with catsup? The real issue may be one of dominance and power ~ and this takes In the midst of all the earnest and serious business that can overtake family a lifetime of work to confront and transform - but humor relieves the life, look for the humor. Our laughter communicates how much we really tension and allows us to stay with it so that little by little we can see enjoy each other and how ready we are to enjoy God. (NC sketch by Jim Bullock) our insecurities. Or picture a teen in the family setting, testing everyone's endurance. some religious leaders of the day for associating with "questionable" people. He Suddenly she turns into the clown. Momentarily the tension is relieved in laughter must have smiled at that too. and tears. And then there were his chance encounters with people in all kinds of funny Or think about the toddler who giggles at his own antics, and notice how situations, Zaccheus for example. This gospel story is pictorial: everyone appreciates anew the gift of life. - Jesus is hurrying along the road, and then stops at a tree and looks up at the When author Norman Cousins learned that he was ill with a life-threatening inventive Zaccheus who had figured out how best to see the wonderworker. We disease, he took a hotel room for • ———— ———— can almost hear Jesus laughing as he weeks, watched Laurel and Hardy invites himself to dinner at Zaccheus' films, and believes that laughter helped 'Humor helps us set aside the heavy bur- house. him win back his good health. dens imposed on life for a little while and to There is also the encounter Humor helps us set aside the enter the merriment of God. In some ways, between Jesus and the Samaritan heavy burdens imposed on life for a woman. They have a long and little while and to enter the merriment a good laugh is like prayer: One simply lets sometimes witty exchange. An of God. When we see how God is go, into God.' • occasional wry laugh would not have playing in the rain and wind and • ._ been out of place. rainbows, as well as in a small boy's ""•mmm"""•"•"•"•"'""""•"•mmmmmm•"•"• • I think Jesus laughed a lot. hand-walking, we have reason to laugh. In some ways, a good laugh is like prayer: In the midst of all the earnest and serious business that can overtake family One simply lets go, into God. life, look for the humor. Our laughter communicates how much we really enjoy Did Jesus laugh? We know he attended wedding feasts. People tend to laugh each other and how ready we are to enjoy God. with joy on such occasions. A laughing Jesus invites us to joyous appreciation of all that is given to us We know that Jesus was often a guest at dinner parties and was criticized by in life!

the funny bone in the presence of the cockeyed side local mausoleum on Saturday nights as young eyes bring peace and a small smile to parental lips. of life, readiness to unleash an untamed imagination searched for the gory sight along the road. But beware of humor which is used as a club, . and a lack of scruples when fact collided with color Some will object to such a tactic. But it did or rather verbal bats disguised as humor. They can in the hunt for laughter. cause severe damage. Try not to belittle or cut. We treasure the gifts. 'Abraham, in a friendly chat Child abuse or spouse abuse -or parental abuse- Each family, as each individual, needs to with God, laughed out loud at masqueraded as humor can leave awful bruises. develop their own style of humor --dry, raucous, Which brings us to Sir Winston Churchill and punny, subtle, as obvious as sunrise, etc. the thought of an elderly man George Bernard Shaw. As the story goes, Sir And the humor needs to fit the situation. What and woman producing a Winston received an envelope with two theater is appropriate to melt tension may not work at baby. And Sarah got the tickets and a note from Shaw. putting a shy person at ease. A remark that brings The note said: Enclosed are two tickets for the laughter at a wedding reception could be terribly giggles when she overheard * opening night of my new play -one for yourself and inappropriate at a time of suffering or loss. God's messengers talking to one for a friend, if you have one. I once knew a father and mother who were Churchill returned the tickets to Shaw with his bothered terribly when their children began to fight her husband about a child own communique: Sorry, can't use the tickets for in the car on long trips. When the aggravation got this time next year.' opening night. Please send two for second night, if too bad, the father would holler: "Dead animal!" there is one. For 30 seconds or so, the silence was that of your

Miami, Florida / THE VOICE / Friday, January 9,1987 / PAGE 19 Jeane Dixon 's cloudy crystal ball By Religious News Service Psychic-astrologer Jeane Dixon, say her critics, should use more windex on her old crystal ball or, better yet, turn it in for a new one. The ball she's been using of late seems more than tarnished; it seems to have some basic flaw. A review of her tabloid forcasts for 1986 reveals that she retains her marvelous penchant for being either vague and fuzzy, or missing many headline grabbers, or being just plain wrong on any number of matters of public interest For example, take this prophecy made on Jan. 22,1986 in a Los Angeles Times Syndicate byline piece: "Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos will eventually leave office for reasons of health, and hand-picked military officers will be forced to step in." That boo-boo, by the way, was a followup on her earlier prediction in the tabloid Star of Dec. 31, 1985: "Despite the number of his enemies, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos appears to 1986 Misses. have a fairly good chance of winning the upcoming election." Psychic Jeane Dixon predicted that the pope (left) would be "mired in the financial problems of the church" this year. She also wrongly predicted that Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (above right) would win Psychic Dixon learned, like the rest the Philippine election although he would later be forced to resign for health reasons. of us (i.e. after fact), that Mrs. Corazon Aquino won the election in the Phillipines. Psychic Dixon's Star new income tax plan," "strife in Central government later in 1986." 1985 and January of 1986), she predicted prediction of April 8, 1986, that America," and above all his "Star Wars" And what about the precision of an that Prince Charles and Princess Diana "Philippine boss Corazon Aquino faces nuclear defense policy. oracular utterance about Secretary of would announce in 1986 that they were a tense showdown with her military The Capitol crystal gazer came Defense Caspar Weinberger delivered expecting a third child. The world still leaders," was closer to the mark, but closer to hitting the bull's eye with a last January? Judge for yourself. Said awaits the announcement According to hardly an exercise in occult prescience. prediction about recently resigned the seen "Weinberger and the Defense Ms. Dixon, by the way, the royal One might expect problems with National Security adviser Vice Admiral Department will come under fire when a couple's first child was going to be a accurately forecasting events in places John Poindexter. Said Ms. Dixon last female employee is revealed as a spy." girl. far removed from a seer's bailiwick, but January in her byline article: "The new Jeanne Dixon's tabloid prophecies Did Jeane Dixon make any correct psychic Dixon peeks into the future at National Security adviser starts off the about Pope John Paul II are usually dark predictions for 1986? Of course she did. her home in Washington D.C. You year with a bang, but comes down to forebodings about assassination You can't take a scatter-gun approach to would think, then, that the "vibes," or earth in February or March when events attempts on the globe-trotting pontiff. your psychic forecasting and not hit "auras," or whatever emanating from the something. Here are three of psychic White House would be more faithfully 'Frequently, the more specific seer Dixon gets Dixon's more or less accurate recorded in her crystal ball. Apparently in her tabloid portents, the more likely she is to predictions for 1986: not. -"A rash of tornadoes, storms and As recently as last Oct. 7 ( in the be dead wrong.' other natural disasters in early spring Star), astrologer Dixon declared: "The will be blamed on the return of Halley's next three months will determine seem to get out of control." Here note, She did not, by the way, predict the comet." President Reagan's place in history." not even a whiff or a hint about the Iran- actual attempt on the pope's life in 1981 -"The agreement between Britain Now that, in light of subsequent Contras arms deal. All that the at the Vatican. But for 1986, Ms. Dixon and Ireland, envisioned as a solution to developments, would seem to be a valid forecaster gave was a psychic weather pretty much confined herself to the problems of Ulster, will cause great vaticination. But wait. The seer was not advisory that "questions will be raised announcing that the bishop of Rome unrest this winter." talking about, or even hinting at, the about his (Poindexter's) appointment, would be "mired in the financial -"Philippine President Corazon Iran-hostage-Contras imbroglio. In fact, and he will struggle with doubts about problems of the church" and be "credited Aquino is in peril at the end of the year nowhere in her four-part series of the best course to pursue." What course, with saving lives in a terrorist and well into the spring of 1987." published predictions for 1986 does she toward what end, Ms. Dixon doesn't tell But astrologer-psychic Dixon's give the slightest indication that she situation." Regarding this last us. overall performance, at least regarding knew any more about those startling prediction, possibly Ms. Dixon's crystal As for Secretary of State George her tabloid forecasts, is not particularly developments than her non-psychic computer garbled a psychic transmission Shultz, somebody should tell him he's impressive. If, as the Star headlined it, public. that concerned the archbishop of hanging on too long. According to the Canterbury's aide, Terry Waite. "America's most famous" astrologer What prophesier Dixon did say, Potomac prognosticator, in her Star Frequently, the more specific seer "tells it like she sees it," then perhaps however, in her Oct. 7 forecast, was that predictions of Dec. 31, 1985, Mr. Dixon gets in her tabloid portents, the the fault is not in the stars, but in her Mr. Reagan's main concern in the Shultz was "likely to surprise everyone more likely she is to be dead wrong. murky crystal ball. closing months of 1986 would be "the with an abrupt departure from Twice, for example (in December of Windex anyone? Priest finds chaplain job 'Bearable'

CHICAGO (NC) - Scalabrini interview with the Chicago Catholic, Masses at his parish. Later, he takes to ties with some of the players / ; Father Nicholas Marro, a parish priest archdiocesan newspaper, he thought the the road again, this time to Soldier Field coaches Ditka and Steve Kazor, wn6 in a Chicago suburb, has found his job would be a "one-time deal" but for a pre-game prayer, then to his oversees the special teams and tight second job more than bearable - he's "they were pleased with the homily and complimentary seats in the stands. ends. chaplain for the Chicago Bears, the they invited me back." Father Marro's other duties include "What I've learned from them is defending Super Bowl champions. The post as the team's spiritual hearing confessions and providing they're just as family-oriented as The Bears won the central division captain fell to him when his provincial spiritual consultation for those who ask. anybody else," the priest said. "I've of the NFL's National Conference with superior, Scalabrini Father Peter Sordi, He frequently telephones different learned they've got their priorities a 14-2 record. In a 24-10 victory Dec. passed on a request for a chaplain that he players and coaches during the week to straight." 21, the Bears handed the Dallas was unable to accept because of a see how things are going. Cowboys their first losing season in 22 number of commitments. As a way to make their community Said Kazor of Father Marro, "He's years. When the team is at home, a like a parish, Father Marrro before Mass really a great guy." They lost a divisional playoff game typical Sunday for Father Marro begins distributes a "Good News Bears" leaflet, "We're happy he's doing it for us. last week, but Father Marro was on at 6 a.m. From his suburban parish, he similar to a parish bulletin, with a He shares our lives with us. He does hand to celebrate Mass before the heads to a hotel, a parking lot away thought on the day's liturgy, a few more than just (celebrate) Mass." players took to the field. from Soldier Field, and he prepares for religious trivia questions and a short Father Marro, a priest for 22 years, And if the Bears had gone to the Mass in one of the conference rooms. message. has had some football playing days of 1987 Super Bowl in Pasadena, he would There about 10 to 15 players and "What is the big issue in today's his own. The priest, who stands 6-foot- have been there too. coaches, including head coach Mike Gospel is that what really counts is how 1 and weighs 245 pounds, once played The priest, 51, pastor of St. Ditka, gather, setting aside their God views the situation," one of his college football in Maryland and Rhode Charles Borromeo Parish Church in playbooks and public status. leaflets read. "In other words what we Island. Melrose Park, has been the Bears' After Mass, the priest often has really are in his eyes is the true measure He also played a year, in 1957, chaplain since the 1985-86 season. breakfast with the team, then returns to of what we are." with the Baltimore Colts, now the Last season, he recalled in an the suburbs to celebrate morning In the otT-season he has kept close Indianapolis Colts.

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