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Q u i t s No. 42 Established in 1 8 4 4 ; America s Oldest Catholic N e to s pa per in Continuous Publication Friday, December 24, 1982 Fr. Andrew Greeley, th ngHUUBBHBRUM controversial writer, ha decided to stop writing his weekly column, effective the first of the year. See page 2. rope: dialogue way to peace

VATICAN CITV (NC) —. Dialogue, from the conference tables of world leaders to discussions in neighborhoods and families, is the indispensable way to peace, said Pope John Paul II in his message for the World Day of Peace, celebrated by Catholics on Jan. 1. The pope called dialogue “ an I I I . I | essential condition” for peace and said the 150 armed conflicts since the end of World War II were M a r r i a g e examples of situations where dialogue was untried or was conducted under false pretenses. Preparation Policy The 3,300-word message, released by the Vatican Dec. 20 in seven languages, was titled For the spiritual growth of the people of the Church of C le a re d “ Dialogue for Peace, a Challenge Pittsburgh, both as individuals and as a Christian for Our Tim e.” Community, I, Vincent M. Leonard, by virtue of my No evidence of wrongdoing The pope addressed it to authority as Bishop of Pittsburgh, and in accordance with found in Cardinal Cody government leaders, internation­ Statute 134 of the 18th Synod of the Diocese of 1971, investigation, says Archbishop al officials, politicians, diplomats promulgate the Marriage Preparation Policy of the Diocese Joseph Bernardin. See page 2. and “ the citizens of each of Pittsburgh, entitlea “The Sacrament of Marriage, A country.” Living Reflection of God’s Love.” I degree that this policy The pope said that in the future will take effect on December 26, the Feast of the Holy wars promise to be even "more Family. I urge that the entire Church of Pittsburgh accept terrible" than in the past. “Is it not (necessary to give the Marriage Preparation Policy and be guided by it. everything in order to avoid war, Given at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this 13th day of even the 'limited w ar’ thus December, the Year of Our Lord 1982. euphemistically called by those who are not directly concerned in it, given the evil that every war represents, its price that has to be paid in human lives, in suffering, R e v ie w in the devastation of what would be necessary for human life and TV columnist Jim Breig recalls development?” the pope asked. Most Reverend Vincent M. Leonard, D.D. past Christmases. See page 8. “ Today, when even convention­ Bishop of P ittsburgh al wars become so murderous, when one knows the tragic consequences that nuclear war Also inside would have, the need to stop war À f or to turn aside its threat is all the F r. John Price, left, director of the diocesan family life office, and Home Again Page 3 more imperious,” he said. Fr. Paul Bradley, coordinator for the marriage preparation Obituaries Page 3 “ The Holy See will not grow policy, pose with Bishop Leonard after he signed the document Most Reverend Anthony G. Bosco, D.D. Editorials...... Page 4-5 weary of insisting upon the need to promulgating the new policy for the diocese. Vicar General-Chancellor Around diocese Page 7 put a stop to the arms race through (Continued on page 3) Mr A As Ax Employment ministry World Day of Prayer TO THE CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND LAITY OF THE DIOCESE B a d tim es hit w hite-collar areas Dearly Beloved in Christ: Since January 1, 1968, as a result of the personal initiative of By STEPHEN KARLINCHAK looking for jobs. Talking about her collar workers were laid off or compensation, and reduced school Pope Paul VI, the first day of the year has been designated as Upper St. Clair. Bethel Park. family’s experiences, Mrs. terminated.' ’ lunches. Elizabeth Jacquay, a World Day of Prayer for Peace. In the appeal made by the Holy For many western Pennsyl­ Svaranowic said ‘ 'We were going Degar explained the difference member of the Ladies of Charity Father for this occasion a theme is chosen which is pertinent to the vanians, those two South Hills crazy. However, friends and between white- and blue-collar who helps with the program, said prevailing obstacle to present day efforts for peace. Pope John communities represent all that acquaintances opened up to us and unemployment. When a blue- she had to take people — holding Paul II, for January 1, 1983, has chosen as the theme, "The white-collar a ffluence could offer: they wouldn’t have otherwise.” collar worker is laid off, he said, their hands — into the unemploy­ Dialogue of Peace: A Challenge for our Time.” brick split-level homes surround­ The Svaranowics talked first there often is a union behind the ment office. Mrs. Jacquay added Pope John Paul II stressed the importance of dialogue in his ed by well-manicured lawns and with Fr. John Arnott, associate worker to provide support and to that she also has taken couples discourse at Coventry, in his address to President Reagan and in more than one car in the- pastor of St. Louise, and then with protect benefits; a white collar Downtown to register for food his message to the Second Special Session of the United Nations driveways — in short, the Good the pastor, Fr. Robert Reardon, worker doesn’t usually have a stamps. General Assembly on Disarmament. Pope Paul VI developed the Life. about the need Tor a special union to fall back on. Blue-collar A newcomer to the group, a meaning of dialogue in today’s world, which dialogue he tells us But beyond the well-manicured ministry to reach the unemployed. workers are usually laid off in recently unemployed engineer, “ ought to be without limits or ulterior m otives.. .it excludes the a lawns, at the end of the driveways A notice was placed in the parish large numbers in a specific told the group at a recent meeting priori condemnation, the offensive and time-worn polemic" and and behind all the brick, the bulletin and at the first meeting in community, while white collar lay of his latest discovery — has the characteristics of “ clearness, meekness, trust and prudence." problem of unemployment has August, about 10 people turned offs can be a small number of government fuel assistance. struck home in the South Hills just out. To get ideas for the new people scattered throughout a At the present time there is a dialogue being conducted by the as it hqs in M idland and ministry, the Svaranowics company. "I t’s a matter of attitude,” two great powers who are able to determine whether we continue McKeesport, Butler and Beaver attended a seminar on unemploy- “ It’s an emotional support being Hokaj said about government to move towards peace or war. This type of dialogue must be Falls. meent conducted by Mike and here,” said one of the members of assistance programs. “Over the continued as long as the danger of armed conflicts continue. As Unemployment brings to a laid- Marlene Nickolich of White Oak. the support group. “ It’s very years, they’ve paid into them. A Pope John Paul II points out, “ only true dialogue will give peace a off or terminated worker a host of “ The people in the support refreshing to be with a group of lot of people have the mentality chance in our day.” The events of recent months in ail parts of the other problems in addition to a group are surprised that they are people who understand what it is that they are charities. ” world have illustrated once more that only true dialogue can loss of income: concerns about unemployed,’’ said George like being unemployed.” Asked about stress-related produce just and lasting solutions and secure peace. The Pastoral hospitalization, insurance and Svaranowic, an engineer who has Tom Szarwark, an employee ol problems on the family, one Letter of the Bishops of the United States tentatively proposed at mortgages and the loss of self­ since found employment. "They Joy Manufacturing, acts as the accountant said: “ We haven’t the November meeting stresses the need of dialogue and its esteem. feel they are in a wilderness. When group's adviser (“He just cares seen them here, but that's one continuation till the goal of peace is achieved. To help unemployed workers, they go into an unemployment about people,” Mrs. Svaranowic reason we are here to prevent To make us more conscious of our duty to work for peace and to St. Louise de Marillac parish, office, they find that there are no said). He tells this story: those types of situations. ’ ’ give the spiritual strength necessary to embrace such a positions in their fields.” conviction, one votive Mass for peace is to be offered in every Upper St. Clair, organized an "One man called me. He was “ Kids, I think, can cope better,” employment ministry through its church and chapel of the Diocese on Saturday, January 1,1983. The just laid off. He wanted to know one woman in the support group special ministry office. Among the homily on that day could very well touch on Pope John Paul’s Most of the people in the support how to tell his wife. said. “ You just tell them that you services provided by the group can be described as white theme, “ The Dialogue of Peace: A Challenge for our Tim e.” “ I told him: 'Give her a hug. can’t afford school band jackets.” employment ministry are a collar — two engineers, an Then tell her the truth. Then give Wishing you a happy, holy and peaceful New Year, I am support rap group and a job bank. accountant, two sales representa­ her another hug.' "In the Mon Valley, most of the Faithfully in Christ, "We started this because there tives, etc. — although there is a “A depression sets in,” he unemployed are steelworkers,” was a need," said Jetta steelworker among the members. continued. “The ego hurts and Hokaj said, “ so there, their Svaranowic, who along with her “ A lot of us work in tributary unemployment is a family affair. children understand. Around husband George, Leo Hokaj, and businesses that have been hurt by It’s devastating! ” here, maybe only three homes are Chuck Degar, organized the the steel layoffs,” said Hokaj, who Many of the unemployed have to affected in a neighborhood and the program last summer. At the chairs the Employment Ministry swallow their pride, applying for rest aren’t. Your children are still time, all were unemployed and Committee, “ so a lot of us white- foodstamps, unemployment Bishop of Pittsburgh (Continued on page 2) December 16,1982 Holy Name change

New m oderator nam ed

Bishop Joseph F. Maguire, who advance and enrich the mission of heads the Springfield, Mass., the Church." diocese, has been named new Bishop Maguire, 62, has headed episcopal moderator of the the Springfield Diocese since National Association of the Holy November of 1977 when he Name Society, effective Jan. 1. succeeded Bishop Christopher J. Announcing the appointment Weldon. He had been coadjutor was John H. Farmerie of bishop since April of 1976 and Beechview, national president of earlier had been an auxiliary the society. bishop of the Boston Archdiocese. Bishop Maguire succeeds A native of Boston's Roxbury Scranton Auxiliary Bishop James district, he served as an auxiliary C. Timlin in the five-year post. bishop with the archdiocese for In accepting the position, five years, overseeing the Bishop Maguire wrote, “As a Brockton area as regional bishop. young priest, I was associated Born Sept. 4,1919, he graduated closely with men of the Holy N ame from Boston College and St. John Society. I enjoyed their company Seminary in Brighton, and was and admired their apostolic zeal. I ordained at Holy Cross Cathedral Andrej Shyjan works on creating a new Ukrainian- finishing touches to another. See story on page 2. 0 detailed crucifix while his wife Lottie adds pray that the men of the Holy in Boston June 29,1945 by Cardinal — Photo by John C. Keenan Name Society will continue to Bp. JOSEPH F. MAGUIRE Richard Cushing. PaQQ 2 — Pittsburgh Catholic, Friday, December 24, 1982

C ardinal C ody cleared in new audit: A rchbishop

CHICAGO (NC) — Archbishop named to head the Chicago Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago uMR collected, information obtained managed by the cardinal. "useful" and can serve to “ ensure Archdiocese last July, announced from interviews, and estimates "Though the accuracy of the greater conistency in diocesan has announced the end of an his actions in a 500-word letter “ to made when records were not estimated receipt and expendi­ financial reporting throughout the independent investigation into the the clergy, Religious and laity of available, it has been estimated ture figures cannot be certified, country.” financial dealings of his the archdiocese” published in the that the cardinal had spendable Peat Marwick has informed me Exp an d ing on Archbishop predecessor, Cardinal John Cody, Dec. 17 edition of the archdiocesan personal receipts of approximate­ that...nothing came to their Bernardin’s announcement of the and said it produced no evidence newspaper, The Chicago Catholic. ly $38,000 per year,” the attention to indicate that these formation of a new Audit of wrongdoing by the late archbishop reported. cardinal. Cardinal Cody died last April 25 figures were not within an Committee to review the annual The sources of that income, he acceptable range of reasonable­ audit of the archdiocese, The The archbishop also announced at the age of 73, after 17 years as added, were “ salary and new accounting procedures for the archbishop of Chicago. He ness for purposes of my inquiry,” Chicago Catholic reported that it investment income and the gifts he said. became a focus of national “ will replace the Archdiocesan archdiocese and named a blue- he received” and, in later years, ribbon panel of Chicago business controversy the previous In addition, he said, Peat Finance Committee, which Social Security payments. and financial leaders to review the September when the Chicago Sun- Marwick and others consulted included heads of several At the time of Cardinal Cody’s annual audit of the archdiocese. Times ran a series of articles "advised against a continuation of archdiocesan agencies. The Audit death, The Chicago Catholic alleging that he had violated the inquiry because, in all Committee includes no arch­ reported, his estate was valued at church and federal laws by likelihood, it would not diocesan staff members.” He said he has closed a about $87,000. The cardinal willed diverting as much a $1 million in substantially change the picture. ” The committee is made up of 15 controversial, unaudited arch­ it all to the archdiocese for the tax-exempt church funds for the He said there was “some members. It includes two persons diocesan “contingency fund” care of aged and infirm priests. maintained by the late cardinal so personal use of his stepcousin, confusion in the records” because from Chicago-area academic Helen Dolan Wilson. the cardinal "did not always institutions and 13 top executives that “there will never be' "The available data indicate need...again" for the kind of follow preferred accounting of corporations or financial A federal grand jury probe into that his total personal expendi­ procedures.” But he attributed institutions, among them such inqujry that placed a widely tures did not exceed the total publicized pall of suspicion over the allegations, begun in this to "a failure to attend to detail figures as Frank Considine, November 1980, was still under estimated receipts,” said and the pressing demands of an president of National Can Co.; the last year of Cardinal Cody’s CARDINAL CODY Archbishop Bernardin. life. way at the time of the cardinal's extraordinarily busy schedule." Andrew McKenna, chairman of death, but ended three months the Chicago Cubs; and Robert While declaring the Cody case after that without bringing He said he employed “ the Announcing that the Chicago Galvin, chairman of Motorola,' basically closed, Archbishop charges against anyone. my responsibility to make a accounting firm of Peat, Archdiocese is now following “the Inc. Bernardin noted that some Cardinal Cody categorically personal inquiry so that whatever Marwick, Mitchell and Company, guidelines developed by the Archbishop Bernardin conclud­ records were not available. If new denied any improper use of church lingering doubts might exist could which had not had any previous National Conference of Catholic ed his letter with a request that! records came to light, he said, funds. be cleared up as quickly and professional relationship with the Bishops” for its financial Chicago Catholics “ remember; completely as possible.” archdiocese, to review” all the statements, Archbishop Bernar- Cardinal Cody for themore than 50- "the conclusions reached might In his letter Archbishop "On the basis of an inquiry information collected, including din commented that there are years he served the church and for! require re-evaluation." Bemardin said that when he made by the attorneys and data on the special contingency other acceptable ways of the good he accomplished during; Archbishop Bernardin, who was succeeded Cardinal Cody "I felt it accountants, the records fund, an archdiocesan account reporting, but that method is his 17 years in Chicago.” Hobby and art A rea m an m akes crucifixes

By PATRICIA BARTOS bottle caps to hold his colors, he For Andrej Shyjan, the adds the distinctive bright colors intricate, beautifully detailed — dominated by red and white, but crucifixes he creates are a hobby. also richly colored with green and For others, they are art. yellow and orange — that so Examples of his craftsmanship distinguish the Shyjan crucifixes. — he creates both Latin and He finishes with a clear acrylic Byzantine crucifixes — are on spray that serves to hold the exhibit currently at the Oldfield. brightness of the colors. Gallery, 20 S. 14th St., South Side, The colors and patterns are in the first-floor gallery. traditional Ukrainian. Mrs. Shyjan is somewhat taken Shyjan displays a white Ukrainian aback by the notice his work is shirt, featuring an embroidered, attracting. colorful design to illustrate the The gallery first became aware ethnic art form. of his art when a gallery Shyjan devotes some 10 to 15 committee member received one hours on each Latin cross and at of the Shyjan crosses as a gift, least 20 on a Byzantine one. He according to Kerry Lawrence, estimates he has completed at Oldfield director. least 30 crucifixes over the years A native of southeastern — all given to friends and family. Ukraine, he first learned the art His son, Andrew, has the first from a fellow Ukrainian while cross his father ever completed. It living in Germany. hangs on a wall in his bedroom. Shyjan, his parents and two And Shyjan, at the request of his sisters had fled communism in late mother, created a smaller their native country and version of the crucifix so that she emigrated to Bavaria. In 1949 his would have one for her coffin. parents came to the United States Shyjan periodically stops and settled in Brentwood where creating the crosses, most notedly his father, Ivan Shyjan, still LATIN-STYLE CROSS in the summertime, when he resides. (His mother, Uljana, died becomes engrossed in gardening Reviewing plans for a recent seminar on Ministry: seated, Leo Hokaj and Jetta last year). and tending to his fruit trees. unemployment are members of the St. Louise de Svaranowic; standing, Chuck Degar and Tom’ Shyjan met his wife, Lottie, in He recalls a period in 1978 or Marillac parish, Upper St. Clair, Employment Szarwark. Bavaria and they arrived in this 1979 when he lost the desire to country in 1956. They now live in create any more crucifixes. Then, Bethel Park and he works as a he and his wife traveled to Alberta utility man with the Western province in Canada to surprise a E m ploym ent m inistry begun Pennsylvania Water Authority. friend he had not seen since his unemployed man announced that Although he is a Ukrainian days in Germany. As a gesture of adapt the program for use in their (Continued from page 1) he received a very promising job Orthodox, he first learned how to happiness at the reunion, Shyjan parishes. lead, he also received a small create Latin crosses. Later he gave the friend one of the friends with the children of round of applause from the In closing, Hokaj told this story: himself designed the traditional crucifixes, and, “ I started to make someone who is working. . .” support group. “ A man started coming to these Ukrainian pattern he uses for the them again,” he said. "You can’t relocate because of One of the group's successful sessions. He had become Byzantine crucifixes. During a busy period, such as the mortgage situation,” Degar projects was a two-part seminar disillusioned with the Catholic now when he is preparing them as The crosses aré all made the said. "And if you could, your on job hunting strategies. Fifty- Church and had joined a Christmas gifts, Lottie helps with same size. The Latin crosses are teenagers wouldn’t want to one people attended the first fundamentalist church 20 years the final painting chore. 12 inches long by six inches wide relocate and leave their friends session, while 41 attended the ago when Vatican II was being He is quiet-spoken about his and the Byzantine crosses are 16 and their schools” second. promulgated. work but, at times, when he and inches by six. One offshoot from the support “ I think this is representative of "He lost his job. A neighbor of Lottie talk, she said he will wonder He uses hardwoods for the group is the job bank. Originally, the parish,” Fr. Reardon said of his told him to come to our if God had saved him for such crucifixes — birch, maple or the unemployed workers shared the 1,800 families in the parish. He sessions, but he wouldn’t come at work. He tells of relatives who had cherry — and after sawing them to informal job leads. Eventually, noted that the St. Louise first. Eventually, he came to one been sentenced to Siberian exile, size and sanding them, he first the ministry members expanded parishioners contributed nearly of the seminars on job strategies. and of himself fleeing his native stains them black. This highlights it to include contacting other $6,b00 to help 80 to 100 families There was a total reversal in his village and swimming across a the colors, he explained. parishioners who might have a job meet their utilities payments. attitude. river that no one had ever crossed He brings out a canvas lead or who might be in the Fr. Reardon said representa­ ’ ‘He told me that when he left the before, and surviving. director’s chair, removes the position to hire a worker. “ We tives of St. Anne parish, Castle Catholic Church 20 years ago, he He is looking forward now to a tablecloth from the small table in Shannon, Nativity parish, North didn't see much activity coming break, after completing his have placed a few persons in the paneled family room he built jobs," Degar said. “ It’sacaseofa Side, and Christ United Methodist from the laity. Christmas list and works for the himself and lays out his worn job, any job you can get.” Church, Bethel Park, have come "Now that he is seeing action gallery, where they are on sale. green felt pouch filled with his to the employment ministry And he is already thinking of Informally, the unemployed coming from the laity, he is in the much-used tools. BYZANTINE CRUCIFIX share encouragement. When one programs to see if they could spring, and his next garden. process of being reconverted." Shyjan still uses the original In addition to Andrew, 18, who is woodworking tools he first worked imprints the precise geometrical a Penn State student, the Shyjans with in Germany. designs on the crosses. have two older daughters, Uljana City churches9 Christmas Masses Using calipers and his collection Then, using watercolors and Brophy and Vera McKee, and Christmas Mass schedules for St. Mary of Mercy Church of pencil-drawn patterns, he then working with a fine brush and used three grandchildren. Downtown, Epiphany Church in Uptown and St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland have been completed. They are:

ST. MARY OF MERCY A vigil Mass at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve will be followed by a Fr. G reeley to stop colum ns midnight folk Mass at 11:30 p.m. Christmas Day Masses will be at 7:30, 9 and 10:30 a.m. and at noon.

FAIRWAY, Kan. (NC) — Greeley writes for secular Cardinal John Cody as archbishop EPIPHANY Father Andrew Greeley, publications. of Chicago and after the A vigil Mass is set for 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, with a midnight sociologist, novelist and Father Greeley is a professor of publication of Father Greeley’s Mass to be offered by Aux. BishopJohnB. McDowell who is pastor columnist, has decided to stop sociology at the University of nov^l “Cardinal Sins,” relating of Epiphany. Christmas Day Masses will be at 2:30 a.m at 8 and writing his weekly syndicated Arizona and senior study director the machinations and sexual 10 a.m. and at noon. column for the Catholic press, at the University of Chicago’s affairs of a priest who becomes according to a spokesman for National Opinion Research archbishop of Chicago. ST. PAUL CATHEDRAL Universal Press Syndicate. The Center. An article in the October 1981 A vigil Mass at 6 p.m. is scheduled for Christmas Eve followed last column is dated Dec. 27. The column has stirred issue of the Chicago Lawyer, a by the midnight Mass with Bishop Leonard as celebrant Lee Salem, the syndicate's controversy. Last winter, four monthly newspaper for lawyers, Preceding the Mass there will be carols at 11:30 p.m The Mass wili editorial director, has notified diocesan newspapers dropped the said Father Greeley planned to Marking 75th be carried by radio station KQV-1410 on the dial. subscribing Catholic papers of the column and three bishops publicly collaborate with the late James F. Christmas Day Masses will be at 6:30,8,9,10 and 11 30a m and decision, the spokesman said. He announced decisions to continue it Andrews, board chairman of Sister Hilary Roth recently 1 p.m. said about 30 Catholic newspapers in their diocesan newspapers. Universal Press Syndicate, to celebrated her 75th anniversary (including the Pittsburgh Reporting in November 1981 a launch a newspaper investigation as a member of the Sisters of Bishop Leonard on Christmas Day will offer Mass at the St Catholic) subscribe to the column, decision to keep publishing the that would force the Vatican to Divine Providence. Born Nov. 13, Joseph Home for the Aged in Garfield and, in the afternoon he wili which has been syndicated by column in the Church World, remove Cardinal Cody. 1889, Sister entered the order Dec. stop in to visit senior citizens at the Ozanam Center 1833 Wvlie Universal Press Syndicate since newspaper of the Portland, That article was published as 8, 1907 from St. Martin parish, Ave., Hill District. ’ 1974. Maine, Diocese, Henry Gosselin, the Chicago Sun-Times was West End. She taught in schools of Aux. Bishop Anthony G. Bosco will offer midnight Mass at the The syndicate spokesman said the editor, said a poll of the carrying reports that a federal the Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and motherhouse chapel of the Sisters of the Holy Ghost in West View Father Greeley had indicated that newspaper’s readers had given a grand jury was investigating Columbus dioceses and the where he is in residence. he was not able to give as much clear message: "Father Greeley Cardinal Cody for allegedly Detroit Archdiocese for 65 years attention to writing the column as may be very controversial, but he diverting as much as $1 million in - from 1909 to 1974. Sister H ila ry ’s he would like and that he was needles people to think for church funds to his stepcousin, sister, now deceased, was also a Christmas special interested in returning to a more themselves.” Helen Dolan Wilson. member of the order (Sister Regis The award-winning television disillusioned man who despera­ active role in the priesthood. Those decisions to continue or Father Greeley issued a Roth). In addition, she has two series "Insight” will carry a half- tely tries to find help for his The spokesman said he did not discontinue the column were statement denying that he nieces and one cousin in the Divine hour Christmas episode, “White expectant wife on Christmas Eve. know whether any decision had announced during a controversy conspired to oust Cardinal Cody, Providence community — Sisters Star Garage,” Sunday, Dec. 26, at Finally, the distraught man finds been made about discontinuing over whether or not Father although he said he favored the Dorothy Roth and M ary Catherine 2:30 p.m. on KDKA-TV, Channel 2. an old mechanic who teaches him another column which Father Greeley plotted to oust the late cardinal's removal. Roth and Sister Laurentia Hoegle. Fausto Bara stars as a how to shed his distrust. Pittsburgh Catholic, Friday, December 24, 1982 — Pago 3 Home Again

CONNIE ANN VALENTI FR. RON LENGWIN I stood in front of a mirror and practiced saying There m ay be no awareness of time in the out loud "Let’s not have a live Christmas tree” — heavens, but I believe that there are spiritual first with conviction, then with authority, and cycles whereby we are able to gradually prepare finally with a pleading sound in my voice. ourselves to draw closer to the source of love who Although in theory it seemed to be a good idea, in is God. I also believe that the Christmas event is the end I couldn’t even convince myself, and so I celebrated in the heavens as a part of those knew my children wouldn’t agree. cycles. “Trees are a pagan custom,” I said quietly to myself. "How nice it would be,” I thought, “ to Who of us can even begin to imagine what over­ have only a large statue of the Holy Family or a whelming joy fills the souls of our loved ones who nativity set with one or more candies burning can see and feel the full significance of this Christ- around it, and prayers said by the entire family event? For us on earth, the scene of Christ’s birth before it each day during the Christmas season. can be seen most clearly and felt most deeply One part of my mind said “You shouldn't break within our hearts; for they are the managers into important family traditions,” but another part which God now carefully places his love. said “ Don’t be afraid to start new ones.” Well, The statues which comprise the nativity set on tradition won again this year. I whispered my desk remind me to stop what I am doing every “ Scrooge” to myself and set off for church — to so often and take time to look into my heart. In the comfort of a shelter of love provided for us by doing so, I would like to believe that Mary holds God where our troubles can be placed tearfully at each of us in her arms, as she did her own Son at the foot of the cross. His birth, when we return home again in order to We prefer the stable to the cross, but not too help us in the transition from this life to birth in long after His birth we must follow the pain-filled the next. path to His crucifixion. C h rist’s joy of experiencing Mary and Joseph’s love was soon In the nativity scene within my heart, Mary and tempered by His learning man's ways and Joseph have tears in their eyes. Their tears are a wondering during His crucifixion if He had failed; strange mixture of joy and sorrow, but they are a and in the midst of His greatest struggle with powerful source of spiritual wealth; for tears are death itself, trusting His life over to the Father’s not a waste product. They are created to be one of will. love’s most powerful cleansing agents. Catholic Daughters donate I stared at the shades of gray on the stations of the cross and thought “ What an accurate The shepards, the angels, the three kings and Officials of the Catholic Daughters of the From left are Estelle Ruse, chairman; Marion reflection of my mood today.” After Mass I various animals are all included in the scene in Americas’ diocesan committee for the Bishop’s Weingartner, recording secretary; Margaret stopped at Granny’s. The leaves were from the my heart; but I see another person looking on charities present their group's annual donation to Rylatt, corresponding secretary; and Catherine melted snow. Decaying flower stocks in her yard there now too — my father. Perhaps we interpret Bishop Leonard. This year’s contribution was $600. Jones, vice-chairman. no longer seemed to reflect nature’s beauty or events in order to console ourselves, but I believe God’s love. that there is significance in the fact that he The house seemed too warm as I came in from suffered his first heart attack on Christmas and the cold, and it had a medicinal smell. Mother was died three months later on the feast of the P ope gives peace m essage still bundled up tightly and sleeping soundly. Annunciation. Statues of Mary and St. Anthony seemed to be The tears which I shed for him at his death were (Continued from page 1) half-smiling and looking down at her — “ The way Such an attitude, said the pope, ramifications for the pope’s native that same strange mixture of liquid love found in can conceal "the blind and deaf God is. I’m sure,” I thought. Statues can remind progressive negotiatons, by Poland the pontiff called for us of God’s love. M ary's and Joseph’s eyes. As I said at that time, selfishness of a people, or more appealing for a reciprocity,” the dialogue on the national level for I remembered a past Christmas when two of "I f you see tears in my eyes or hear them in my often the will- to power of its "reconciliation between employ­ voice, do not feel sorrow for me but share in my pope said. leaders.” our eucharistic ministers carried the statues of “ Instead of being at the service ers and workers, in the manner of Mary and Joseph down the aisle and placed them joy. They are only reminders that God’s love and The same attitude, the pope of people, the economy is respecting and associating the gently in their special places in the manger seen«?. my father’s love are still alive within me. Such added, “ coincides with an becoming militarized,” and cultural, ethnic and religious I think of the gentle hands of Mary and the strong tears are a yeast for love.” exaggerated and out-of-date “ development and well-being are groups which make up a nation. " hands of Joseph each time I receive communion concept of the sovereignty and subordinated to security,” he from one of them. Living models of God's love and I expect to cry at Christmas; however, it will security of the state." The pope made a "particular added. statues have something in common. not be "fo r" my father, but “ with” him at the "The state then runs the risk of appeal" to those who work in the “ Science and technology are The tea kettle whistled merrily causing Granny discovery of God's love for us in Christ’s birth. My becoming the object of a so-to- mass media to be responsible to stir. There were no visions of sugar plums in father’s heart and my heart are still joined, and so being degraded into the speak unquestionable worship,” artisans of peace. auxiliaries of w ar,” the pope said. her head as there were in the kids’, when on we cannot help but experience a little bit of what the pope said. “ It runs the risk of the other is feeling. Life must go on for each of us Dialogue for peace, the pontiff Christmas morning I called out “Merry justifying the most questionable In addressing himelf ‘ to every in different ways, but there will always be remarked, “ cannot be dissociated Christmas. Everyone up. Come on. God’s giving undertaking." man and woman and also to you, moments which are meant to be remembered and from dialogue for justice.” "Such worship — which is not to us another opportunity to show our love to one "The temptation to violence and the young," the pope said, “ You another.” shared, times in which we have been blessed by be confused with properly God in both joy and sorrow. war,” he said, "will always be have many opportunities to break Christmas is a special time to receive Christ understood patriotic attachment down the barriers of selfishness, present in societies where greed to one's own nation — can inhibit into our hearts as God’s gifts to us, to realize we The tears at Christ’s birth and at His crucifixion and the search for material goods lack of understanding and the critical sense and moral sense too are God’s gift to one another, and to celebrate were special gifts from God. My gift to my dad impels a wealthy minority to aggression by your way ol those blessings throughout the year. this Christmas will be my tears. of the more aware citizens and can carrying on dialogue, every day, refuse the mass of people the encourage them to go to w ar.” satisfaction of the most in your family, your village, your In a section which Vatican neighborhood, in the associations elementary rights to food, sources said had particular education, health and life.” in your city." Also recommended by the pontiff was the creation of "an Obituaries international juridical system which is more receptive to the S r . M a r y E v a followed in the Sisters cemetery. appeal of those whose rights are * Sister died Thursday, Dec. 16, in violated" and which has an Funeral Mass for Sister Mary the Providence Heights infir­ effective means of making its Eva Gallagher, a member of the mary. authority respected. Seton Hill Sisters of Charity, was Born in Pittsburgh Oct. 6, 1890, The pope emphasized that peace offered Saturday, Dec. 18, in Sister Bernarde entered the order is not a utopian ideal but a realistic Assumption Hall chapel, in 1911 from St. Joseph parish in hope which results from “ the Greensburg. Bloomfield. Throughout her 55 basic aspiration of the men and Sister died Tuesday, Dec. 14, in years of active service, Sister women of our time” and the Jeannette District Memorial taught in schools in Pennsylvania, fundamental reasonableness of Hospital. She was 56. Ohio and Illinois. people. Sister entered the order in 1944 Forced to retire due to i 11 heal th, “ Every person, whether a from Our Lady of Mercy parish in Sister spent the remaining years believer or not," said the pontiff, Johnstown. of her Religious life at Providence “ while remaining prudent and She graduated from Seton Hill Heights. clear-sighted concerning the College and taught in schools in She was the last member of her possible hardening of his brother’s the Pittsburgh, Greensburg, family, and leaves nieces and heart, can and must preserve Altoona-Johnstown, Tucson, nephews, including Fr. Richard C. enough confidence in man, in his Ariz., and Phoenix dioceses and Hungerman of the Greensburg capacity of being reasonable, in the Washington, D.C., Arch­ Diocese. his sense of what is good, of diocese. justice, of fairness, in his In Pittsburgh she taught at possibility of brotherly love and Resurrection, Holy Innocents. St. Necrology hope, which are never totally Mary Magdalene, Sacred Heart in perverted, in order to aim at East Liberty and at St. Michael in Dec. 28 recourse to dialogue and to the Pitcairn. Msgr. Edward J. Moriarity .1961 possible resumption of dialogue." Surviving is one brother, Jam es Fr. Bernard T. Carlin ...... 1965 The first quality of dialogue, the F. Gallagher, in Bel Air, Md. Dec. 29 pope suggested, is that each party Burial was in the Sisters' Fr. Hugh B. C allahan...... 1948 "listen to the explanation of the ■cemetery. Msgr. Henry A. C a rlin 1965 situation as the other party Dec. 31 Basketball cham ps describes it, sincerely feels it, Fr. Wenceslaus Wisniewski .1945 with the real problems which are Sr. M. Bernarde Jan. 1 Members of the Resurrection, Brookline, grade championship trophy to Resurrection co-coach proper to the party, its rights, the Fr. John A. Sabinash...... 1949 school boys varsity basketball team signal “ We’re Angelo Masullo (front row, right), while Pat injustices of which it is aware, the A concelebrated Mass of Fr. Thomas H. Morgan...... 1973 Number One” after winning the Class A title at the Camarco (front row, left), co-coach, looks on. In reasonable solutions which it Christian Burial for Sister M. Jan. 2 St. Mary (46th Street) grade school boys basketball the extreme background is Fr. John Marcucci, suggests.” Bernarde Hungerman was offered Fr. Charles F. Burke...... 1932 tourney last weekend. Tournament director John associate pastor at Resurrection. A prime obstacle to peace Saturday, Dec. 18, in the chapel of Fr. William J. Purcell...... 1944 McGrane (front row, center) presents the through dialogue is “ an a priori the Sisters of the Divine Fr. Casimir P. Koscisz...... 1960 decision to concede nothing...a Providence, Allison Park. Burial Fr. Jam es R. Cullen ...... 1964 refusal to listen,’’ the pope said. 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BOX 9665 ^ PGH.,PA.,15226 PkflB 4 — Pittsburgh Catholic, Friday, December 24,1982 T h e g i v e r n o t t h e g i f t E d i t o r i a l By NORBERT GAUGHAN way, she had reserved that only tions of the Christmas crib from much about the gift that keeps on A folk saying that comes down for God. The Glory of Israel the days of St. Francis have added giving, the present that confers “ a A priceless gift to us via tradition is, “ It's the wanted to share herself with no symbols of the other offerings they lifetime of pleasure." But doesn’t giver, not the gift that counts." one else. Yet when the angel came made: music, song, their meagre that apply only to this Jesus Who The implication is this: "What and announced that the Child Who food, little animals. But the was born at Christmas? For this is folklore and legends did not the one Offering Who keeps on To help grasp the awesome any other birth before or since, counts is that you thought of me enough to send anything, let understand and missed the point, giving, each day at the Eucharist, happening we celebrate on as it makes Christianity alone this present.” that in coming in person to the each hour in our union with Him, Christmas, consider for a different from all other Much sentiment is attached to manger, they had given all. each moment as He pleads for us moment the vastness of the religions, past or present. God that notion. Yet as we approach NORBERT with the Father. Does He present universe in which we live. is incarnated, embodied in this the Christmas season we realize GAUGHAN THE MAGI GAVE. Oh yes, we us with a lifetime of pleasure? No, Science tells us that the closest wee babe. This child wrapped it’s not what the people who know what is reported, their rather a lifetime of peace with star to our earth is more than in the swaddling clothes, with promote a commerical holiday largess of gold, incense and Him and an eternity of happiness 24 trillion miles away. The Mary and Joseph hovering have in mind. They want us to myrrh. Yet those were only with the Father. North Star is 3,540 trillion protectively over Him, is the purchase gifts "which will give for external offerings. They miles distant. Second Person of the Blessed a lifetime.” Show your apprecia­ would be born of her would be a contributed their journey and IF TH EN YOU offer a present, Trinity, equal to the Father tion by choosing this expensive Savior for His people, Mary their loss of the star and for a while don't try to outdo in splendor what The solar system that item. But since Christmas giving you might receive. Do you truly and the Holy Spirit and yet responded by offering herself not their sure way. They made the includes our earth travels is connected with the favor of the only to God, but through Him to all bequest of an encounter with the believe it is the giver, not the gift, a Man, too. Mystery of more than six billion miles coming of the Son of God into the humanity. hostile King Herod. They gave up that counts? If you receive m ysteries! each year in a great orbit world, it might be wise to apply Joseph gave. And his present their soft beds at home, the something but believe it is that phrase to the Infancy Stories pleasure of good meals, friends unworthy of you, don't be angry. around the hub of our galaxy, And for us, what a priceless was his name, his future, his the Milky Way. Yet so vast is contained in Matthew and Luke. reputation. That was already in and companions, all of which were That’s not what Christmas is gift! For here is the One who “ It’s the giver, not the gift." the Milky Way, it takes the question, because he and others put aside. But in the presentation about. Rather, reflect upon the will become our Mediator with Who is the giver? None other than of their favors they discovered the One Who comes. Then ask: was solar system more than 200 knew Mary was pregnant. To God, who will reconcile an the Lord God, the All-Powerful marry her would bring shame great bounty of Christ. That really what you received offered in love? million years to make one estranged human race with its Creator, the Ruler of the upon his house. Nonetheless he put is the nub of their story: the Was the gesture done in union with circuit of it. Creator. Through this infant Universe. We must never forget all that aside so that his person discovery of the highest Gift. Christ? That's what counts. our life of grace and our that He cared enough that He gave could be used by God for our Jesus gave. Paul tells us Christ This Christmas meditate on that Who can understand such friendship with God, lost ages us this Boon, the Offering we purpose and benefit. renounced His place with the phrase — the giver, not the gift — incredible distances? Who can ago through sin, will be didn’t quite understand how much The shepherds, who had so little, Father in heaven; He put aside and know, as He told us, grasp the kind of Intelligence restored. Wonder of wonders! we needed. The Favor seemed so made their donation. They were His dignity and royality. He “ Whatever you do in My name to that created them? We small and insignificant at It’s really unaware that they had offered His will to the Father for the least of My brethern, you do to arrival. Yet- in time Christ has Me.” humans are like ants in a This Christmas week, amid anything to offer. The angel’s our salvation, and surrendered come to be understood as the message bid them to contribute princely palace, a life of ease, universe created by a God our worries over nuclear war, greated Gift of all. their time, the present moment, comeliness and beauty. The whose power and Being we can unemployment, crime and Of course, we can never match and become the first witnesses Savior was even abandoned by His Him Whom we receive. But He only dimly comprehend. other problems, amid the IN THIS CONTEXT, who else from the poor of what this Gift friends at the end, a price He doesn’t want it matched. All He usual material enjoyments Yet, marvel of marvels, this gave? There was Mary, the Virgin would mean to the poor. Little gladly paid for us. wants is our love, trust and and distractions of this Mother. What did she offer? In a unfathomable Supreme Being wonder that all the representa­ The ads and commercials speak surrender to Him. holiday, let us take time to who made everything and meditate on these facts, on keeps everything in existence, what Christmas is really all cam e down to this earth of ours C hristian fam ily about. Let us travel in mind to and lies there in human form in BY FR. RICHARD MURPHY, O.P. a stable, a tiny hnby, helpless the fields of Bethlehem nearly 2,000 years ago, and ponder Faith deals with concrete things like life and death, and all things in- and dependent, in a makeshift between. This week we celebrated Jesus' birthday; today we take a crib. In a moment without again the momentous, exultant words the angel look at family life, of which the Holy Fam ily is our shining example. comparison in humankind’s The idea of family life is under attack today as being old-fashioned history, the Infinite accepted p roclaim ed to the shepherds in and no longer useful. The individual must be allowed to be him/herself the fields: limits. “God is bom and the while engaged in the business of realizing a personality. Some powers tremble,” goes an old Good news! Tidings of great alarming statistics seem to corroborate this view. If 30 to 40 percent of Polish Nativity hymn. joy for all people! A Savior has all marriages break up, can family life be a viable way of living? The Christian family is different. It is established as a menage-a- been born to you! The Messiah The divinity of Jesus Christ trois, that is, it takes three to establish it: a man, a woman, and God. and Lord! Glory to God in high Where this obtains, there is much great stability. An astonishing 93 makes His birth different from heaven...peace on earth. percent of the marriages that break up involve people with no church affiliation. Christian family life is a proving-ground. Where people live together, clashes of personalities and interests are inevitable. Wives and husbands tax one another’s patience and words can be angry and cut O ther view points deep. Children grow impatient with their parents who seem to be so behind the times. This leads to more words. . . Just as in nature the winds and rains and weather are good for the Testifying Dec. 1 before the government complicity is land, so too in marriage. The child who has never witnessed or shared in House Subcommittee on nothing but a miscarriage of a family quarrel and subsequent reconciliation, has been deprived of a Human Rights and Interna­ ju stice. very important lesson, and of a preparation for life on a larger scale. tional Organizations, the Wilmington (Del.) Dialog Attacks on the family rest on the assumption that love is impossible USCC’s Fr. J. Bryan Hehir and that one cannot grow in love and sharing. Love involves an cited human rights violations enduring and deep involvement with all the members of one’s family. as the reason for the Three years ago this month The ancient sage who speaks to us in the first readings stresses the the Soviet Union occupied necessity of filial respect for one’s parents. He echoes the promise conference’s opposition to U.S. attached to the Fourth Commandment: Honor your parents and it will military aid to El Salvador and Afghanistan. Since then 2.8 million Afghans have fled to be well with you. Kindness to a parent serves as reparation for one’s Guatemala. Fr. Hehir noted sins. Pakistan;; another million that Guatemalan authorities In writing to the Colossians, St. Paul paints a glowing picture of true have failed to end brutal have taken refuge in Iran. family life. For colors, he uses the virtues that most attract us: mercy attacks against the civilian Insurgent Afghan forces and kindness, humility (equals realism), an even temper, population and that Guate­ continue to battle with Soviet forebearance and forgiveness. Then, in a daring image, Paul suggests malan bishops this summer troops and those of the puppet Let's go down and adore Him that all "put on love" as if it were a cloak that contains and coordinates described campaigns against Afghan government. the virtues that fit us for family life. their Catholic Indian popula­ The UN General Assembly, tion as genocide. by an overwhelming vote on A plan to save hom es Nov. 29, demanded for the who have sufficient wealth form The priest also said that the fourth time that all “foreign By MSGR. PAUL M. LACKNER so that the interest would generate prominent Pittsburgh banker that forces” get out of Afghanistan. At this time of the year, it is a another kind of bank, a financial sufficient funds to hire the some of the companies holding USCC assigns high priority to great joy to observe the trust, a mortgage bank to assist the prosecution of those Just this week, too, the UN necessary personnel to direct the mortgages of the unemployed outpouring of gifts of food, to the the many people who are in whole project. Fourthly, responsible for the murders of general secretariat released a have, to their credit, made efforts many families where unemploy­ danger of losing their homes in eligibility guidelines might well be to find ways and means to assist the four American church- report of its investigative ment has taken its toll. Food banks panel showing strong circum­ determined by a board of hom eowners to m eet their women, Archbishop Oscar have now become a common directors (whose fee would be $1 stantial evidence that the obligations by working out easier Romero and two American characteristic of our local culture, per year), and whose members credit plans. agrarian reform advisers, all Soviet Union has employed in these trying times. This would be drawn from those of whom were slain in El chemical weapons in Afghan­ generosity is a sign that when companies and banks holding the istan and, through its allies, in tried, Christianity really works. MSGR.PAUL mortgages, as well as, by Salvador. M. LACKNER AS I WRITE THIS column, I am Southeast Asia. And the same can be said for non- personnel from the unions, thinking of two travelers who Christians who practice good will. churches, and other community some two thousand years ago It is an outrage that the Though the late Mr. However, there is still another groups. were looking for a temporary president of the United States, Brezhnev refused President serious problem that our I admit that my proposal sounds home so that the mother with child in light of evidence to the Jimmy Carter a bilateral community should endeavor to quite ideal and that there are could deliver her baby. About 33 contrary, can declare that nuclear freeze in 1979, the solve, it calls for another kind of many details that would need the years later that same child in the Soviets welcome the idea now bank. This matter concerns the this present Depression. expertise of those in the world of last days of his life, on earth, said enough progress is being made At the start there is obviously in El Salvador and Guatemala that their SS-20s, aimed at saving of the homes for the many business and finance. I am a these memorable words: "What little danger of financial loss for priest, not a banker. I can offer you do to the least of my brothers to warrant continued aid to the Western Europe, are in place. people who do not have the funds to meet their mortgage payments. the trustees of my proposed ideals that flow from the Gospel. I you do unto me." (Matt.: 25:40) former and resumption of aid There is certainly adequate mortgage bank because the look to others to implement the The famous English convert to the latter. Ambassador George Ken- nan complains that the United money in our area to meet this homes themselves would be many facets that would arise in G.K. Chesterton once said: collateral. Secondly, arrange­ States has made a chimera, a challenge. such an enterprise. If my proposal “ Christianity has not been tried ments could be made for sounds feasible enough to be and found wanting: it has been Likewise, bringing five veritable monster, of the IN VIEW OF WHAT I have said, homesowners to make low investigated further by the found hard and not tried." As I see low—ranking Salvadoran I am making the following Soviet Union. Is he right? The payments without additional powers-that-be, in this area, I it we have here a wonderful soldiers to trial for the proposal. I propose that the facts mentioned here do show in te re st to the fund once would be happy to make a opportunity for Christians to try murders of the churchwomen the Kremlin’s credibility at an foundations, the corporations employment would pick up. donation toward it. (both large and small), the Christianity as they assist their without a thorough investiga­ all-time low. Only serpents Once the trust was founded the In researching the material for neighbors to save their homes. It churches, and private citizens, tion of the soldiers’ comman­ dare parley with Moscow. monies collected could be invested this column, I have been told by a may be hard but it will work. ders and the possibility of Long Island Catholic rM eddling9 in G uatem ala

Pittsburgh Catholic By MSGR. CHARLES O. RICE darkness and blood have spread, recently reported by reliable Guatemala is a lovely country years ago, the oppression and Official I’ublirnliiui of I he Diurene of l‘ill»ltiirf(h. /*«. as we continue to thwart every witnesses from Guatemala. One slaughter were going into high with rich soil and gently smoking effort at independence and reform wonders that even an obtuse and Serving the counties ol Allegheny, Beaver, volcanoes. If we had let it alone it gear. The place was full of armed anywhere in the region. heartless man such as President would be a tranquil place, men and their threatening Butler, Greene, Lawrence and Washington We generally win, but the cost in Reagan can talk as he did about insolent gaze. reasonably prosperous with a the present military dictator, degree of social justice. But we THE POOR INDIANS! Such Efrain Rios Montt, as having had have been meddling in its affairs attractive simple folk! I visited a Pittsburgh Catholic Publishing Associates a bum rap. So bad were conditions for over a century. village or two and on the way saw Motil Rev. Vincent M. Leonard, D.D., President in Guatemala that the United Our corporations, protected by the acres and acres of good land Rev. John A. Harvey, Executive Secretary CHARLES States Government suspended and General Manager our gunboats, took over RICK devoted to coffee growing — for military aid. Reagan plans to us, not for the needs of the people. Established 1844 by Most Rev. Michael O'Connor, D.D. Guatemala’s finest land for the restore that aid. His isolation from growing of coffee and bananas At one village I saw an army Annual Subscription Haie: $H in l »V. in Canada reality was not disturbed by his Member: C atholic Press Association and, when it freely elected a recruiter at work with a group of recent swing through parts of Served by NC Newt Serv ice mildly left-wing reformist young men. It scared the wits out Second-Class Pottage Paid at Pittsburgh, Pa. Latin America in which he talked government, we arranged an of my guide who feared being Robert Melder, E d ito r human suffering for the only to oppressors. invasion in 1954. This squalid caught in the net. unfortunate inhabitants has Montt is a born-again Christian William McClinton, Associate Editor adventure was launched in the At Mass one Sunday in a Patricia Barton, Stephen Karlinehak, Reporters grown year by year. The military and there was some hope, when he Franciscan church in Antigua I reign of Eisenhower who later on and the elite are merciless as they took over, that his Christian did not sound as if he were sure he was fascinated by truckload after try to stamp out every sign of, not conscience would cause him to Jack Lee, Adrertising Represenlalire did the right thing, but the damage truckload of Indians and peasants only independence, but self restrain the murderers of his Frank Rode, Business Manager was done and a precedent set. swinging up to the Church for a Frank Murray, Circulation Manager improvement, in those countries. peasants and Indians, but no. lovely liturgy which seemed to Even organizing poor people for Born-againers tend to like Huhlished Every Friday OUR LEADERS have been appeal to the ordinary people. catechism classes or food establishments and to have strong determined to control the I wonder today how those Postmaster & Subscribers: Send address changes to production is seen as a threat stomachs where oppressing economies and armies of all Latin Franciscans and their people have Pittsburgh Catholic, 110 Third Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222 because the horrible system murderers are concerned. There America, but especially Central. fared. Have they been caught up in which we support can survive only is also the natural affinity between Pittsburgh Catholic (ISN 032-0323) Guatemala has been a dark and the slaughter? They well may when the masses are inert. born-again religion and United 110 Third Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222 bloody ground ever since we have been because, for a Catholic States power. Native born-again Phone; (412) 471-1252 destroyed its last brave try for priest, nun or lay person to DREADFUL MASSACRES of converts share this bias. r r democracy and reform. The organize the people for anything, whole Indian villages have been When I was in Guatemala eight means risk of life. Pittsburgh Catholic, Friday, December 24. 1982 — Page 5

R eport on reconciliation room s BY FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN experience through over a dozen prepared survey. converts to Catholicism, five However, of ail 72 writers, 42 or 58 development in the Church. A Christinas arrived early for this years of preparing the column, In any event, reader reactions to priests, 18 males and 50 females. percent expressed a preference sampling of each follows: writer. It began during the fall manifests a remarkable interest both these inquiries certainly Of those (231 who specified their for the face to face arrangement. "M aybe in Texas the people soon after my column appeared in the subject. Moreover, most indicates considerable concern age, 20 were over 40 years old. In those four states with the large don’t care how they go to requesting reader response about letters received were much more among contemporary American While most of the responses number of respondents, this confession. But here in ------, reconciliation rooms in parishes. than simple “ yes or no” notes. originated from the four states favorable attitude toward Conn., everybody goes the good I asked: Does your parish have They went into detail and often cited above, nearly every section reconciliation rooms rose to 64 a reconciliation room or rooms? old fashion way. We don’t need included touching personal of the country was represented, percent or 35 out of 55 writers Have you celebrated the any peace rooms. A waste of testimonies. with notes, for example, from indicating they preferred a face to money." sacrament of penance in one? Is About the same time as my California, Texas, South Carolina, face encounter. your preference for the FR. JOSEPH From Michigan: "I am a cradle article appeared, the U.S. Michigan, North Dakota and anonymous or face to face M. CHAMPLIN Catholic and a 65-year-old female. Catholic magazine conducted a Iowa. ALMOST ALL respondents arrangement? What negative All my life I dreaded and perhaps lengthy survey on the sacrament added comments, but they tended reactions to the rooms have you even hated going to confession. . of penance among a sampling of What were their answers to the to touch upon other aspects of the .My first face to face confession encountered or felt? What positive its subscribers. This journal sent questions posed in my article? ones? sacrament rather than concen­ was really a peak experience for out nearly 1,000 questionnaires Of the 83 parishes represented trate on the reconciliation room my soul. I felt completely at ease The quantity and quality of and received back 282 completed Catholics about the subject of (a few writers cited more than one itself. There were a multitude of and instead of giving my "grocery letters surpassed my fondest forms. The editorial staff were reconciliation or penance. church in their letters), 69 or 83 observations both positive and list " litany of sins I really talked to expectations. impressed by the percentage of percent provided reconciliation negative which we will summa­ Father. When I came out of the respondents just as I was more THE LETTERS I received rooms of some type. rize in a future column. penance room for the first time I than pleased by the quantity of came from 17 states, but four — The letters were not always Nevertheless, those remarks felt the joy of forgiveness. I felt AS OF THIS WRITING, 72 letters. It does, of course, take Connecticut, New York, Ohio and clear in their indication of whether persons have responded represen­ dealing specifically with Jesus understood my sins and I more effort and initiative to Pennsylvania — contributed 76 respondents had actually reconciliation rooms generally also understood them. I would ting 83 parishes and 17 states. That compose and mail a personal note percent of the responses. experienced the sacrament in a very number alone, from my took an approving thrust with only never go to confession any other than to fill out and dispatch a Respondents included two reconciliation room or not. a few sharply critical of this way again.” Letters to the editor A ll I w ant from C hristm as Guest editorial criticized BY DOLORES CURRAN We want to relive the thrill of our recipient into an incredibly brief the holiday. The tinsel and gifts To the Editor: From the time we’re little we childhood holidays and traditions. period of time — a situation are important but the spirit is Your guest editorial “ Joblessness," is dangerously wishy- talk about what we want for But sometimes our children don’t fraught with high emotions, what we yearn for and that is washy and out of date. We don’t need an industrial council Christmas but somewhere along respond to those traditions so dear calendar chaos and exhaustion. something that we can get from composed of government, business and labor representatives. the years it changes to what we to our memory and we react with We want time to reflect and Christmas that extends far Study groups, committees, blue ribbon panels these are all safety want frqm Christmas. Gifts meditate, time for personal beyond the holiday and warms us valves which reduce the pressure for a change in the status quo. become less important as experiences become more prayer, and time to stand aside throughout the year. Let us please come all the away up into the 20th century. There’s from the activity for awhile. Yet cherished. My Christmas wish for readers more to life than government, business and labor. There is the DOLORES there’s rarely an opportunity to be Here are some of the gifts that I is that they receive the gift of banking industry and the intellectual elite, who seem to be writing CURRAN alone during the holidays. We all the news we see on television. and other grownups want from acceptance this year. Just as we invite guests and then wish they Christmas: thrill to and accept the humanity The banking industry alone loves high interest rates, but this weren't here. We want to read the of the Babe Jesus, so also may we economy will never be healthy in the presence of high interest beautiful Christmas stories we We want to experience the joy of accept our own humanness during rates. And high interest rates cannot control long-term inflation (I cherish and to think about them. the nativity with those we love. We His season. This means accepting didn't say this; Forbes magazine said it four years ago.). But we often have to wait until want to use Christmas to talk disappointment and anger. Or ourselves when reunions don’t At Carnegie-Mellon, Pitt or anywhere I look, I can find any Christmas is over and by then about Jesus, Mary and the thrill of maybe a spouse wants to open the turn out the way we hope, when number of highly respected economists who are not former we’re surfeited. the Messiah's birth. If thi$ gift is gifts on Christm as morning children squabble with siblings bankers. And yet, in the president’s cabinet, there isn’t one Finally, we want the Christmas economic adviser who isn’t a former big banker. squeezed out in the frenzy of instead of Christmas Eve and the over who got the best gifts and spirit to live on after the holidays. The intellectuals are a different story. The^ just don't like preparations, we feel cheated, let child in us cries, "But that isn't when we aren’t able to be down and frustrated. right,” meaning “ that isn’t the We love the feeling that joyous everything to everyone. This private enterprise and heavy industry offends their delicate reunions produce and we don’t sensibilities. Specifically, any bureaucrat who believes that the way we did it.” Christmas, acceptance can be the greatest We want to spend a close loving incidentally, is one of the greatest want that spirit to end. One family gift we receive at Christmas. steel industry is a “ lemon industry” is not qualified to represent I know extends this by bringing the people of this country, whether in the Environmental time with our families. But too stress periods in the first year of Expecting too much from often this gets bungled. When marriage, precisely for this out a Christmas card daily Christmas is a great human Protection Agency or any government agency. beginning the day after Christmas As for American efficiency, we must remember that the emotions and hopes run high, so do reason. failing. Part of the spirit of peace conflicts. Christmas can be a time and at dinner talks about and we seek from the holidays comes Japanese yen is artificially undervalued, which means that every prays for the sender. Japanese car we buy is subsidized to the tune of $1,500. No wonder when dormant conflicts of We want to give of ourselves at from accepting ourselves and childhood emerge and family Christmas. That's why we Christmas can be a time of great those dearest to us as loving we get such good value for the money (Subsidizng exports is quite joy and great disappointment. For common. We do it with our wheat and corn.). arguments rejoined. The happy entertain, make and bake, and humans who want to give and be loving sharing that is anticipated invite houseguests. When most, it’s a combination of both. given to in the Spirit of the And let us please remember that we haven’t bailed out Chrysler When we focus on what we want as yet. We underwrote their loans. As long as Chrysler stays in so eagerly can degenerate into everyone wants to do the same, newborn Babe. This is the spirit of business and makes even a dollar profit, the American taxpayer painful memories and recrimina­ though, we find ourselves trying to from Christmas, it’s a step toward Christmas and may it live on in all won’t contribute a nickel. If it goes out of business, then we pay. tions. telescope roles of giver and the real meaning and purpose of of us. No, we don’t need another committee. We need some politicians with guts. We need to encourage them with letters, personal visits, votes, whatever it takes, when they do the right thing for the country. And we particularly need to ignore disdainfully the B elieve and skip economic analysis we have been getting from the four television networks. BY FR. JEROME LEDOUX, introduction, only a prelude to the we live this present life with a view than the burning heartthrobs of JERRY BLAHUT S.V.D. best things which are yet to be toward things to come, of better human love, Jesus Christ gives us Whitehall Bleak is the word. In spite of all after this life. things to come and of the best of all every reason to believe — and to the beauties and wonders of our In the year zero, along came our yet to come, because Jesus Christ skip. sojourn here on Planet Earth, our hero, Jesus Christ. And, because was born and made it all possible. Re-incarnation life, ultimately, is bleak if there is Therefore, we believe — and skip. EVEN IN THE YEAR ZERO, To the Editor: nothing beyond our sojourn. Jesus Christ was so full of life that he virtually skipped and caused After reading Fr. Lengwin’s response to Connie Valenti’s Granted that this world has an WE O FTEN S E E people skip for question regarding re-incarnation (Nov. 26), I’m not sure I joy, and, hopefully, we do it often Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the appeal even without a destiny Magi and everyone around him to understand Father’s position on this theory (He says he is beyond our limited life here. It is enough ourselves. We hear them talk, we move with them as they skip as well. The heartbeats of all “ intrigued” by re-incarnation.). But I believe the Church’s not surprising that we feel the rush FR. JEROME LEDOUX sing, and we watch them dance. quickened, their adrenalin flowed position is very clear in the rejection of this concept — and for good of life, given the penetrating Quite literally, we watch them trip more freely, their eyes grew moist reason. curiosity and capacities of our and skip. Most of the time, they and twinkled with excitement, For one, the notion of repeated death for individual souls is mind, given the inherent are skipping about some material while their minds told their inconsistent with Scripture and the Church’s teaching that it is abundance of the earth, given the good fortune, about some incredulous souls that their appointed that man die once after which comes the judgment marvels of science and techno­ (Hebrews 9:27). Secondly, to hope for an infinite number of emotional high, or perhaps about wildest dreams of never-ending logy, given the spellbinding Jesus Christ was born, we believe lifetimes in which to atone for one's sins — or to work out our some revealing intellectual life and love were now being powers of our speech and song, — and skip. In the words of the insight or discovery. realized in fact. They believed — perfection — is to completely misunderstand the work of Jesus at given the eye-popping feats which calypso Christmas carol, “ Men That's fine, of course. We don’t and skipped. Calvary and what was gained for us there. we rational animals can perform, will live forevermore because of do enough skipping. We should No fairy tale was ever nearly so We could not in a million lifetimes ever attain perfection in the given, above all, the startling Christmas day.” Yes, we believe skip more often, even about our beautiful: yet, this was no fairy absolute sense required by God. A holy God demaiuis a perfect warmth and sensitivy of love of — and skip. material, intellectual and tale. This was the best of fables sacrifice for moral guilt — and Jesus is that Perfect Sacrifice. which we humans are capable. Paul tells us in several places in Through faith in Him, and accepting His Sonship and Lordship of emotional good turns of fortune. turned into fabulous reality. HOWEVER, OUR END is his letters that, if it is only with a We need but keep in mind that all We see our dear ones in life. We our lives, we are made righteous in the Father’s eyes — not without hope and our whole view to this present life that we because of anything we can do in this lifetime or another. such skipping is short-lived and see them as well eventually and outlook is bleak if only the here- live as Christians, then indeed we finally vanishes as smoke. ever so surely in death. Without I respectfully submit this word of caution from St. Paul: "See to and-now things are within our are fools and have no hope, even as it that no one deceives you through an empty, seductive More than any amount of Christmas, this separation would grasp. What we hope in beyond our unbelievers have no hope. But, on material good fortune, more than be the pits of despair. But we will philosophy. . .based on cosmic powers rather than on Christ’ present consciousness does not the one hand, we do live this (Colossians 2:8). the highest of emotional highs, live forevermore because Jesus put down the here and now, but present life, we do live in this more than the most dazzling of Christ was bom in the year zero. DEB MERRINER rather identifies it as only an world as it is. On the other hand, Mount Lebanon intellectual soarings, even more We believe — and we skip. Reply to Rice To the Editor: B ishops anti-A m erican? Msgr. Rice's column ’On IRA momentum' (Nov. 12) will encourage the flow of American dollars which has brought death By FR. ANDREW M. GREELEY who did not warn the bishops that nuances until people like Novak present pastoral letter. Renegade liberals like Michael they would be clobbered on the to many Irish homes. and Schlafly began to clobber The peace and justice people Novak (who recently turned charge of anti-Americanism when Unlike the insurrection of 1918, IRA activities lack: them. who emerged during the late 1960s against the Second Vatican they could have just as easily and A Just Cause. Its explicit aims include the subversion of the Archbishop Joseph Bernardin and early 1970s in the church are Council, of which he was once an far mon^ffectively appealed for government of the Irish Republic (which is a fair and democratic has said that it is "kind of romantic revolutionaries, crypto- enthusiastic supporter) and solid one); the forcible unification of Northern Ireland with the demeaning” to suggest that the Berriganites who substitute conservatives like Phyllis Republic, against the will of the majority in Northern Ireland: the committee members are enthusiasm for cool competence Schlafly are accusing American removal of the British army, which would automatically leave if prisoners of their staff. Doubtless. and who are nourished intellec­ Catholic bishops of being ‘‘anti- IRA terrorism ceased; and the defense of Catholic civil rights However, it is not demeaning, it tually and morally by a hatred of American’’ and “unpatriotic” FR. ANDREW which could be much better defended by political means. seems to me, to raise the question American society. I would be because of the draft of their ( — t GREELEY A Just Proportion Between the Evil Inflicted and the Good to be of whether they are being well surprised, very surprised, if the Attained. Two thousand deaths, a radicalization of the sectarian pastoral letter on nuclear served by their staff. weapons. 0 nuances of anti-Americanism that hatred and fanaticism dividing Catholic and Protestants in have crept into the draft pastoral I think the charges are wrong, Northern Ireland, the economic suicide of the province, and the THE ARCHBISHOP and his are not their work. corruption of the hearts of its children are a price too high to pay but I think the text of the current peace in the name of American colleagues cannot have it both for the doubtful ideal of Irish unity. draft leaves the bishops patriotism? ways. Either the staff drafted the unnecessarily open to such A Reasonable Chance of Success. The Republic of Ireland is in Who thought there was no evenhandedness of the document THEY ARE ONLY nuances, but no fit condition to take on the burden of Northern Ireland for a very charges. As the Rev. Joseph problem in appearing to be a little on Russia and the United States O'Hare of America remarks in a they are unnecessary and long time and the majority of its citizens have no interest in bit pro-Russian? Who thought that and slipped it by the bishops or the counterproductive nuances that grafting the diseased organism back onto the relatively healthy recent editorial, it is true, as the it was a form of virtue to appear a bishops drafted it that way and the draft says, that the United States needlessly harmed the bishops’ body. Eighty-five percent of them are hostile to the IRA at the little bit anti-American? staff did not warn them about how major goals. and Russia are divided by lowest count; 24 percent of them fully support (British Prime counterproductive it would be. “ philosophy, ideology and Many Catholic peace and justice Minister Margaret) Thatcher’s treatment of hunger strikers at I HAVE NO DOUBT that these In the first case the staff tricked competing ambitions,” but more types have a love affair with the height of the crisis of 1981. Popular support in the North and the nuances will be changed in the them, and in the second case it to the point and more fundamen­ Marxism. They will quickly tell routing of moderates is a success of a sort — but of what sort? final draft, but my point is that failed to give them competent tally because the Soviet Union is you that they don't believe in a Honorable Methods. The bombing of civilians in Birmingham they should never have been in the advice. In either case it served “ committed ideologically to the Marxist America (and often add and Belfast, the maiming of fellow Catholics found guilty of document in the first place. They them badly. softly, "at the present time” ), but eventual historic Marxist were unnecessary, irrelevant and running independent taxicabs, the murder of civilians, policemen, triumph.” It is not demeaning to suggest they will insist that Marxism politicians and such symbolic public figures as Eari Mountbatten counterproductive. that a committee can be badly ought to be a matter of free choice and his relatives, the systematic intimidation of Catholic areas in How did they get in? Doubtless served by a staff of dedicated and I WANT TO know two things for other nations and that it is not which they have a foothold (even in the Republic) — these are not some bishops are eager to do passionate ideologues who will use about this strange "unrealistic always and necessarily evil. If you honorable methods. penance for decades of flailing their position to impart nuances to evenhandedness’’ (O’Hare’s ask where people have freely against “godless communism,” a document the committed British mismanagement, Protestant intransigence, army and phrase) in the treatment of the chosen Marxism and where it isn’t police brutality are indeed factors in the problem. But the failure but I can hardly believe the members might not notice until United States and Russia in the evil, they will mumble about Cuba of the attempt to find a power-sharing assembly (“ A British members of the committee that they are stuck with it. Such staff and Nicaragua. document: How did it get in there, gambit has misfired,” is how Msgr. Rice put it) is yet another drafted the document think that behavior happens all the time in and who forgot the lesson of the They won’t talk about Poland. tragic deferral of the only possible solution — a political communism is no threat to the every institution that permits Is the peace and justice staff of settlement between the warring factions. 1960s peace movement that the world or that they really believe ideologues in key staff positions. most effective appeal for peace is the national hierarchy pro- American-Irish Catholics would do well to examine their there are no differences between That the peace and justice staff one not against American Marxist? Not in any conspira­ consciences about those bloodstained donations. They may be the stance of the United States in were ideologues devoid of high patriotism but in its name? torial sense, surely. But they are helping to drag the Church and the country they love still deeper the world and the stance of the standards of professional Who wrote the line about not worried about Marxism in the into the mud. Soviet Union. competence ought to have been “ philosophy, ideology and world and have a certain mad FR. JOSEPH S. O'LEARY If I had to guess, I would suggest clear from the Call to Action romantic sympathy for it. competing ambitions” ? Who left that the anti-American nuances Department of Theology debacle six years ago. I cannot When the issue is something as out the fact that Russia is slipped into the document because imagine why they were given Duquesne University committed to the triumph of important as the peace pastoral, Pittsburgh the bishops’ staff put them there charge of the staff work on Marxism all over the world? And the bishops don’t need to have and the bishops did not catch the something as important as the them around. 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Alvernia, Millvale, will host several programs in honor of Three local high school seniors are among the St. John Neumann next month. five winners in the third annual Wimmer A triduum of prayers is set forSunday, Monday Scholarship competition at St. Vincent College, and Tuesday, Jan. 2-4, at 7 p.m. each evening in Latrobe. their chapel at 146 Hawthorne Rd. The services Awards of $4,000 ($1,000 per year for four years will include prayers, a homily given by a guest of college) have been offered to: Ronald A. Stone speaker and veneration of a relic of the saint. of Mount Lebanon, a senior at Mount Lebanon On St. John's feast day, Wednesday, Jan. 5, High School; David A. Kristof of Penn Hills, a they will host a special Mass honoring him at 7 senior at Penn Hills High School; and Jeffrey T. p.m. All are welcome to join in both the triduum Conner of Point Breeze, a senior at Central and the Mass. Catholic High School. The scholarship winners were presented the awards on the basis of a written examination New appointment given at the college; nomination by their high school principals and class rank. Sister Anna Maria Karrenbauer, CDP, a nurse The Wimmer Scholarship competition, named at the State Correctional Institution of after the founder of St. Vincent College, is Pittsburgh, has been elected vice president of the designed to recognize high school students with Scene at St. Pamphilus Mujjic conference get executive committee of the Muscular Dystrophy outstanding academic abilities and to encourge Association, Western Pennsylvania Chapter, at them to pursue an undergraduate education at St. the group's recent meeting. Sister will work with Brother Martin, OFM, (in above photo) shows management of the chapter's business affairs. Vincent. Seventy-two students participated in young Ryan and Shannon McKenzie the manger Duquesne University will sponsor the 23rd Mid- this year's competition. scene at St. Pamphilus m Beech view. The creche East Instrumental Conference March 11-13 at the was originally used by the former St. Peter Church Green Tree Marriott Inn. New this year will be a New Wheeling courses 2 get scholarships in the Uptown area of Pittsburgh and features two conductor’s symposium, with special guests Col. Franciscan saints, St. Francis (behind Brother Eugene Allen of the U.S. Army Band, and Dr. Wheeling College will introduce a new major in Two students of diocesan high schools have Martin), who originated the practice of marking Frederick Fennell, conductor emeritus at the international relations beginning next fall. The been awarded scholarships from the Pittsburgh Christmas with the manger scene, and St. University of Miami. interdisciplinary major will involve the Legal Secretaries Association's Rose Griess Anthony. The St. Anthony statue, in photo below, is Duquesne faculty members and players from departments of business, history, modern Scholarship fund. refinished by Tony Greco, a photographer and the Pittsburgh Symphony and other local groups languages and social science. It will seek to Andrea Simmons, a student at Hilltop Catholic artist and parishioner at St. Pamphilus who will be joined by visiting artists in conducting provide a focus on foreign language, economics High School, received the first place award of refinished the entire 31-piece manger scene. clincs at the conference. and politics, while providing students with an $400. She works part time as a secretary at St. — Photo by John C. Keenan The conference will conclude with understanding of other cultures. Canice parish, Knoxville. presentations by the all-star concert band, Students majoring in international studies will Jean Pascarella, a student at Lawrenceville symphony of winds, orchestra and symphonic also be encouraged to study abroad during their Area Catholic High School, was the recipient of a band with special guest conductors and soloists. junior year. $200 award. She works part time at the For information contact Donald McCathren at Lawrenceville branch of the Carnegie Library of Duquesne, 434-6077 or 6078. Computer camp set Pittsburgh. Benedictine jubilarian A computer camp for children in grades 6-8 will Commended student Brother Nicholas Vincent Nichol, tailor for the St. be held at Quigley High School Saturday Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe for 25 years, mornings. Jan. 29-Feb. 26. Instructor will be Earl Christopher Lowe, a senior at St. Joseph celebrated his silver anniversary as a member of the Arbuckle, who teaches computer science at both Preparatory Seminary in Vienna, W. V a„ has order recently at a Mass in Immaculate Quigley and at the University of Pittsburgh. Cost been named a commended student in the annual Conception Church, Connellsville, his home parish. is $50 and enrollment deadline is Jan. 20. For National Merit Scholarship Program. Chris Brother Nicholas was professed as a Benedictine information contact Sister Clare Ann placed among the top five percent of students in monk in 1957 and his first assignment was in the Maggioncalda, 896-2188. the national competition. archabbey's infirmary. Later he served as assistant He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Lowe of curator of the museum and assistant sacristan, Butler. before studying men's fashion design at Clarissa New officers School of Fashion and taking over the tailor shop for the Benedictine community. James W. Monteverde, CLU, of St. Scholastics Franciscan program parish in Aspinwall, and Karl J.Ohrman.CLU.of Sister Faith Balawejder of the Felician Sisters in Wheeling retreat St. Louise de Marillac parish in Upper St. Clair, Coraopolis, Sister Anna Mae Kuzma of the Mt. Assisi have been elected to posts with the Pittsburgh Franciscan nuns in Bellevue and Sister Alice Dunlop A retreat-workshop in “ creative spirituality” Life Underwriters Association. The group of the Sisters at Mt. Alvernia in Millvale recently will be conducted Monday to Thursday, Jan. 10- includes some 1,400 life insurance agents in the participated in a program at St. Francis College in 13, at Paul VI Pastoral Center, 667 Stone & area. Loretto titled "Francis' Third Order and the World.'' Shannon Rd., Wheeling, W.Va., with Sister Mary Monteverde was named president and Ohrman vice-president. They both are senior partners of The program was for vocation directors of Third Sqnthard as retreatmaster. The program, open to men and women, will cost Coordinated Financial Services, a financial Order Franciscan communities. The representa­ planning firm here, and both have been active in tives gave students a history of the movement, which $75. A $10 deposit is required with reservations began with St. Francis of Assisi. I* or information write to Toni Oliver at the center insurance and civic organizations. They are life (zip code 26003) or call (304) 277-3300. members of the Million Dollar Round Table.

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“Thé Verdict, " a Sidney Lumet film, Paul plays this “ fallen-apart” difficult case. He is a man you Recalling a Zanuck-Brown production. desperate character with want as your friend, teacher and Paul Newman Frank Galvin sincerity, poignancy, power and companion, a tired wise man who Christmas Jack Warden Mickey Morrissey believability. He is not anti- has seen it all. Milo O’Shea is good James Mason James Kincannon as the judge and Charlotte F R . P E T E R Catholic, anti-Church, anti­ Milo O'Shea the Judge Rampling is sensitive as Galvin’s ______!__ HORTON doctor, but a tormented soul in Charlotte Rampling girlfriend search of his own redemption at drinking buddy and accidental R eleased through Twentieth the hands of this comatose victim. love interest. Century-Fox. Screenplay by David He is a strong man fighting to pick Mamet based on novel by Barry up the pieces, terrified of falling Sidney Lumet, the director of BY JAMES BREIG Reed. Rated R for use of profanity for the last time. Here is a hero on another courtroom classic, and sexual innuendo, and A-ll. thé brink of disaster with one last I wish I were four-and-a-half years old again. redemption in taking this case to “ Twelve Angry Men,” and last chance to regain his self-esteem. For one thing, you get to be four-and-a-half all year long. The By FR. PETER HORTON court, a redemption that pits him year’s ‘‘Deathtrap’' and It is this he seeks: to like himself only time you are four is on your birthday. The next day, you get A young, impoverished girl, against Jam es Kincannon, the “ Prince of the City,” is in his best again, to be proud of who he is the “ and-a-half” and you carry it around with you for 52 weeks given the wrong anesthetic by her best attorney Boston has to offer, element here. At times, he allows while unconcerned about the until you become five. the attorney for the powerful the story to get away from him as doctors, lay in a deep coma at a thoughts of others. I know this because my daughter is four-and-a-half and proud of Catholic hospital in Boston. Her archdiocese. he moves it too slowly. Yet the it. sister has brought a malpractice “ The Verdict,” which relates Newman is so riveting that the performances he evolves from his suit against the doctors, the this taut dramatic tale, this fight rest of the cast is often lost in his cast reveal a skilled director using BUT THAT’S NOT the only reason I wish I were her age. I wish I hospital and the archdiocese. for redemption, is one of the most spotlight. The screenplay by all of his talents to form the best in were her age because of Christmas. There’s a well-worn phrase to Frank Galvin, a fallen attorney compelling films of the year. David Mamet is a thinker, not an acting, design and film. More capture what I mean: “ The magic of Christmas.” As you grow with once-brilliant legal skills now There are some legal excesses actor; the action is slow-paced concise film editing would have older, there are other, equally precious reasons for loving lost in the bottom of a bottle, is and misinterpretations of often to the point of a near halt. helped, but the film is not overly Christmas: a growing sense of the meaning of the Incarnation, for given the case. procedures in this outstanding The story demands the full harmed by its length, and Lumet example, and the fire-lit glow of memories (Which no four-and-a- Frank has of late been dropping film, with some of the maneuvers attention of the audience can be proud of this achievement. halfer has yet.) But the magic seeps out of you. his cards at local funeral homes, and sequences bordering on the (guaranteed by the presence of With competent direction, I remember when one of my older children, a boy now 12, was offering condolences to the family unbelievable. Paul Newman’s Newman) , calling us to pass our brilliant performances and a her age. It was the night we put up the Christmas tree. From the via encouragement of taking legal performance as Frank Galvin, own verdict, unsettling our minds powerful, emotional story, “ The basement came the cartons of decorations and strings of lights, actions in the name of the dear however, is so absolutely riveting with more and more questions. Verdict” is a sensitive adult film, always and traditionally tangled. Through the evening, to the departed. Mickey Morrissey, that these are easily overlooked. Jam es Mason is perfect as the one of the best films in many strains of various Christmas albums of music, the entire family Frank’s worn-down mentor and “ The Verdict” is Paul Newman, crafty, skilled and prominent years. Newman has been given worked, hanging ornaments, reminiscing over forgotten hand­ friend, encourages Galvin to a sure contender for an Oscar and attorney for the archdiocese. Jack the role of his career; he gives the made decorations which re-appeared from tissue-paper burial, accept the generous out-of-court a more deserving winner will be Warden offers a superb outstanding performance of a arguing over who had the right to place the uppermost angel, settlement offered by the hard to find. As of now, his only performance as the wise old lifetime. “ The Verdict” is an balancing to get the highest limbs covered with angel hair. archdiocêse, a $210,000 gift. serious competitor seems to be friend, Mickey Morrissey, a man outstanding contemporary drama Finally, the moment came to turn off all the room lights. In the Acceptance is winning for Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma in of compassion and insight who and a leading choice for best darkness, my son sat on his mother’s lap. With a flourish, I Morrissey, but Frank sees his own the upcoming epic, “ Gandhi.” guides Galvin through this picture of the year. snapped on the tree lights. It was a rare moment caught by my wife and me. We both looked — I don’t know why — at him rather than at the tree. The many- Book review colored bulbs glowed in his eyes, but there was another glow there, not cast by the tree but flicked on from within. It was an enchanted glow that said, "Isn't life amazing? A tree in my house with colors and tinsel and red balls hanging from hooks. I believe.” f F am ily N ights It’s good to be a parent and to see a child so willingly and totally tie into the moment. But it would also be good to be the child again. “Family Nights: Advent, mystery that goes far beyond their In a way, that’s what parents get to be when they watch their Christmas. "Family Nights” Christmas. “ Terry and Mimi Reilly. individual dreams and ability to children do anything — make their first letter, take their first step, shows that the interaction among Abbey Press, St. Meinrad, Ind. express the meaning of the bring home a picture of you from kindergarten complete with family members and their 47577. 32 pages. $1.45. incarnation. The family celebra­ enormous eyes or grow up in any way — physically, spiritually, centering on the mystery to be tion made the church ceremonies emotionally. Hearing them talk about their first kiss or answering B y FR. STEVEN PALSA FR. STEVEN celebrated is “ light years” better much easier to understand, their questions about their first communion have the same The table was set. There was a PALSA than eating the well prepared especially from the child’s preciousness as seeing them toddle across a room, tripping on the feeling of excitement in the air. meal and then gazing at the box in perspective, since it was not pattern in the rug. Grandma was sitting at the head the living room. difficult to see the similarity and of the table. The best china in the A family night is a time for the connection between the simple SO PA R EN TS G ET to be four-and-a-half, and six, and 13 and 20 house had been brought out as well family to be together and share home observance and the and play. The structure looks like as their children pass through these years. as the silverware. The unusually liturgical celebration. But it’s not the same as being four-and-a-half. And if I were my neat and well-dressed children To show the joy of Christmas in this: opening prayer, activity, daughter's age, think of all the good things I could wish for this were fascinated by the crystal contrast to the bitterness before Fam ily structures and customs snack, entertainment, sharing Christmas. When I was a child, there were only Davy Crockett and water goblets. the coming of Christ, honey was may be losing ground to the and closing prayer. This little a few Disney characters to get excited about. Now there are On this Christmas eve the passed around the table, and each American culture of TV and ET. booklet gives guidelines for the Snoopy, E.T., Garfield, Holly Hobbie, Smurfette, Big Bird, family assembled and the blessing person put a little on their wafer. Long before the actual liturgical four weeks of Advent and Strawberry Shortcake and all their cohorts. Children today get was said. Then before any food After dinner, the whole family celebration of the incarnation, Christmas and Christmas week. fluffed to ecstasy with all the cuddly pals they have. It was awful would be eaten, the children were went to church for a special Christmas is “ worn out” with The simplicity of the family difficult when I was a kid to snuggle up against Hopalong Cassidy’s to give their Christmas program of singing before the numerous sales, parades with sharing about the Advent wreath will light up the eyes of the little image. Difficult and, come to think of it, a little disturbed. "greeting” to parents and midnight liturgy and a little Santa himself and the unceasing By now, you are probably saying, “ This is all very interesting, grandparents in the language of enactment of the announcement of “ holiday” music that begins from ones more than the overdone but what’s it got to do with television? Don't you write a television their European pioneers. “ My the angels to the shepherds in the Thanksgiving on. Since Christmas Santa Claus commercialism of the column?” dear parents, I wish you a Blessed vicinity of Bethlehem in both is celebrated for four weeks before season. I do and it's got nothing to do with TV. Or, rather, it's got Christmas from my heart...” Slovak and the English language. December 25th by the secular "Family Nights: Advent, something to do with the absence of TV. T H E M E A L began with a sour, SUCH W E R E the customs for world it may be easy to lose sight Christmas” gives the parents the bitter tasting soup with barley and Christmas time for one particular of the significance Christmas opportunity to effectively be the I DON’T-REMEMBER having TV as a part of my childhood mushrooms. Then the white wafer family and parish church. The must have for the family. primary teachers of their children Christmas traditions. There were no gala specials with singing bread was passed around. Images special foods and participation by by their sharing of the story of our stars or half-hour cartoons in which every conceivable character of the Nativity could be explained Ihe children in explaining the TERRY AND MIMI Reilly give faith. Christmas is made real for gets involved in some aspect of the holidays. At least, I don't recall as a different Christmas scene had meaning of the day had a way of some ideas to the simple yet the little ones. This is a valuable any. been imprinted on each tying the family together and marvelous “ how to” of a family little book for any family in this celebration of Advent and Today, everyone with a voice has a chance to sing “ Silent rectangular wafer. helping them to focus on a decade of the family. Night." And every cartoon image appears in a snowy, gift- packaged drama which tells all about Santa, Rudolph, Frosty, the Grinch and assorted other ephemera of the season, but includes T V review nothing about Jesus (except for the extraordinary “ Charlie Brown Christmas,” which has the courage to mention Christ during His birthday proceedings). There have been (and yet will be) specials galore this f S keezer9 to a ir D ec. 2 7 Christmastime, but none of them will touch me in the way I was H E N R Y H E R X Elizabeth Yates that received a going to need some calming ity, and it furthermore offends touched when I looked into my son's eyes and was four-and-a-half NEW YORK (NC) - The story commendation from the Ameri­ reassurance at this point that all with its verbal obscenities and its again. Now that's viewing which no network can match. of a dog and how it helped a group can Humane Association. The will be well. graphic depiction of sexual I hope your Christmas includes a child, be it the Christchild or of emotionally disturbed children drama is careful to point out that misbehavior. R — restricted; O — some little one in search of Him. $ is portrayed in “ Skeezer,” the “ canine therapy” is not some kind morally offensive. Merry Christmas — and, if you can, be four-and-a-half for a likeable but lumpy drama airing of magic cure but can be helpful in Saturday, Jan. 1, 8:30 p.ir, while this week. Monday, Dec. 27, 9-11 p.m. on assisting disturbed youngsters to TV F ilm Fare (CBS) — ’ ’The Black Stallion NBC. respond to their emotions in a Sunday, Dec. 26,9 p.m. (ABC) — (1980). A shipwrecked boy tames a The affable Karen Valentine positive way. ’’Shampoo” . Warren Beatty stars wild black stallion and rides him as a Beverly Hills hairdresser who to victory. Kelly Reno and Mickey stars as Carrie Jessup, a nurse Directed by Peter H. Hunt, the who has taken her first job in a becomes involved with his clients, Rooney. The perfect children’s Local TV. radio production is determinedly home for disturbed children. New especially Julie Christie and movie and a fair one for adults, TELEVISION PROGRAMS upbeat and warmly sentimental to the area and living alone, she Goldie Hawn. The film is devoid of too. A-I — general patronage; G — but, unfortunately, it is also sets out to find a watchdog but is humor, intelligence and human­ general audiences. Station Program Time thoroughly predictable. Channel 4 Directions 6:30 a.m. Sunday taken by a cute mongrel pup at the Parents, however, should watch Channel 2 For Our Times 6 a.m. Sunday dog pound. Bringing the puppy to the show with them because of a Channel 11 Mass for shut-ins 6:30 a.m. Sunday work one day, she is elated at the Replay of Ahp. Sheen very powerful sequence late in the Channel 9 Mass 10 a.m. Sunday kids’ warm reaction but the doctor program where the idealized (WOR-TV) in charge tells her it will only Recorded talks by the late Archbishop Fulton J. picture of the children’s home is Channel 40 Fr. Manning 1:30 p.m. Saturday cause trouble. Sheen will be heard weekly on radio station WOR- shattered when one of the kids Channel 40 The Glory of God 6 p.m. Tuesday MS. JESSUP finally convinces A M , 710 on the dial, Sundays at 8 p.m. beginning in goes berserk and attacks both Ms. Channel 40 Mother Angelica 6 p.m. Wednesday him to let her try to use Skeezer to January. The program will consist of the Mother Angelica 6:30 a.m. Thursday break through the emotional Jessup and Skeezer. It has a archbishop giving lectures and homilies from his (rebroadcast) isolation of these troubled realism missing from the rest of numerous retreats and programs over the years. 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