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CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE number of religious orders work­ Center for Applied Research in & PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC ing in the parishes." the Apostolate, a Washington- WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Fr. Guay noted that in the last based organization that studies trend of religious orders pulling year one religious order, the church staffing, is doing a survey their out of parish work Capuchins, have taken on an ad­ that includes a question on the apparently is under way in the na­ ditional parish, St. Patrick scope of the shift of religious from tion, although a diocesan official Church in the Strip District. He parish work. said this trend is not occurring in said that when the Parish Self- Jesuit Father Francis Gillespie, Pittsburgh. Study program is completed, new president of the research center, Nationwide, Franciscan priests information might be available, said there was "pressure from are turning six parishes back to but said that he anticipates more upon religious orders" to bishops in four dioceses. Redemp- involvement locally by religious staff parishes because of "the torists will leave four parishes in order priests, not less. shortage of priests." three dioceses this summer, and Religious-order priests in the He said the center's study will the left one last fall. United States totaled 18,558 last collect figures and other informa­ As their members age and their year, according to the OiTicial tion on all Religious — Sisters, working numbers decrease, Catholic Directory, down from a Brothers and priests — but “ we religious orders are facing the high of about 23,000 in the don't have hard data" now. need to have diocesan priests take mid-1960s. The figures include How difficult bishops will find it over parish work, when that is retired members of religious to replace the religious in light of more appropriate, so their own orders. the shortage is not yet members can help the poor, con­ Provincials of several religious known. Where religious orders duct missions and teach. orders contacted by Catholic have pulled out or have said they Future priests This situation is better in the News Service did not have will, bishops have announced Donald W. Wuerl (second from left), on seminary , and Bishop Wuerl are, from left. Pittsburgh Diocese, however, ac­ statistics readily available, but plans to move in diocesan . behalf of the diocese, accepts three third-year Alan Morris of St. Cecilia, Rochester; Kenneth cording to Father Robert F. Guay, they said there was a trend under John L. May of St. seminarians asfornml candidates for ordination Sparks, St. Joseph, Port Vue: and Richard In­ director of the Department of way for orders to re-evaluate their Louis, who recently iost Redemp- to the diaconate and priesthood before their fante oj Ihimaculate Conception, Bloomfield. Clergy Personnel for the diocese. missions and to follow more close­ torists in two parishes and Fran­ families and fellow seminarians. The liturgy and Local clergy attended. Including member-prlests “ Locally, that's not happen­ ly the ideals of their founders. ciscans in another, effective July ceremony were recently held at St. Paul of the diocesan clergy formation board. ing," Fr. Guay said. “ Overall, the No current studies on religious 1, said, "W e will be searching Seminary Chapel. The men will be ordained in diocese has been blessed by the priests could be found, but the (Continued on page 2) about two years. Joining Father Charles Bober, — Photo by John C. Keenan Archbishop says acceptance of fornication ‘root cause’ of abortion

MIAMI (CNS) — Archbishop Edward A. McCar- jectlvity and impartiality, they become a new father of the unborn baby.” Archbishop McCar­ anti-Catholic bias at work in the debate.” | thy of Miami has called for revealing and reduc- dangerous form of censorship, of manipulating thy said. He said that "underlying fundamental con­ [ ing the "root cause" of most , “ namely, public opinion." He noted that the "vast majority" of women cerns are frequently lost" in the abortion debate, • I the current acceptance in our society of adultery He said the news media make "little reference having abortions are unmarried and that “ very, such as: I and fornication." to the fact that the national women's group very few have conceived as a result of rape, or in­ • Abortion is the taking of a human life, not In a statement on abortion issued in early July, which is promoting abortion so strongly has also cest, or would be in life-threatening danger in simply the termination of a pregnancy or the I the archbishop blamed "distortions by the media lesbianism as one of its top priorities.” giving birth." removal of tissue. I and manipulation by public relations agencies" He did not identify the organization. Seldom questioned, he said, was the “ integri­ • Abortion is not only a religious concern but i | for covering up “ the reality, the wickedness, the The archbishop said abortion was "presented ty” of "politicians who vote for abortion contrary is objectively immoral and is against natural law j \ abhorrence, the betrayal of our American respect as a feminist issue” with little mention that "80 to their personal beliefs." common to all humanity. , for human life.” percent of pro-life activists are women" or that “ Political expediency cannot be regarded as • Abortion is not a private affair of the j "Biased reporting should no longer be "girl babies are aborted more frequently than justifying the annual holocaust of 1.5 million mother since the rights of the child, the father ’ I tolerated by readers, listeners or advertisers,” boy babies” for sex selection. defenseless human lives,” he said. and society also are at stake. Archbishop McCarthy wrote. "Protests are seldom raised or reported over Archbishop McCarthy said the abortion debate • Society — not just pregnant women — j "Used well," he said, the news media and the conduct of males abusing women by placing "is also colored by the fact that the pro-life posi­ needs to reject abortion since community at- ' I public relations "provide an invaluable service to them in the position of experiencing an abortion. tion is often associated with the titudes, such as the stigma of an illegitimate ■ | the people of our nation. Misused, failing in ob- "Little is said about the responsibility of the and, unfortunately, as a result, there is a subtle child, are abortion-motivating forces. W»iwiiiinwri' n-—r m ruT Salvadoran children feel effects of decade-long war

EDITOR S NOTE — Barb Froze, phanage about six years. A local Catholic News Service assistant Forced recruiting of minors is one of the pro­ nun explained that she is better foreign editor, traveled in Cen­ off at the orphanage. tral America on a UNICEF- blems affecting children in El Salvador after a Shortly after Ana’s mother died sponsored tour for Journalists. decade-long civil war in which 70,000 people — of illness in 1982, her father was By BARB FRAZE including 60,000 civilians — have died. out shopping with one of her SAN SALVADOR (CNS) - brothers. During the bus trip Seventeen-year-old Marcial Por­ home, soldiers stopped the bus tillo sits in a wheelchair in the and accused Ana's father of being surgical ward of the military UNICEF, the U.N. Children's side the law, but you would ex­ a guerrilla. hospital in San Salvador. His Fund, estimates that 350,000 pect something else from people "There was a man who had put right leg is a stump, blown off up Salvadoran children, or one out of who are working within the law," the finger on him,” Ana said. Her to the hip when he stepped on a every seven, have been directly Msgr. Urioste said. father tried to explain that it was mine. affected by the war. UNICEF Another burden of war borne by impossible for him to be a guer­ Marcial recalls the day, about estimates that half a million peo­ Salvadoran children, he said, is rilla because one of his legs was two years ago, when he and his ple have been displaced by the psychological disorder. The vicar severely crippled. The soldiers twin brother were "recruited" in­ war, and nearly 60 percent of general said they need shot him anyway. to the army in San Vicente, El those are children. psychological treatment to over­ Ana gave her interpretation of Salvador. A UNICEF official said he come the effects of war. the war: "Neither of them (guer­ "I was going with my family to believes the military gangs who But at one orphanage in rillas or army) wants to give up. Mass. It was a holy day. And do the recruiting are more in­ Zaragoza, El Salvador, the ad­ The soldiers don't give up. If the when we came out of church, I terested in physical stature than a ministrator said conventional soldiers give up, we'll live in was recruited," he said. child's age when they make their treatment using psychiatrists has worse conditions. It’ll be the guer­ The Portillos complained to the sweeps. been unsuccessful. rillas who dominate.” local officials that their sons were Msgr. Jose Urioste Bustamante, Herman Aguilarm, who runs Ana enjoys living with the other under the legal age for military of the Archdiocese the home sheltering about 170 girls in one of many houses at the service, but to no avail. Nearly of San Salvador, said that when a children, said, "When the orphanage. two years later, Marcial lost a leg; bus travels through the city, psychiatrist doesn't know the "W e talk to each other as if we his twin remains fighting in the soldiers often force it to stop and trauma very well, he does more are sisters," she said. army. pull the young men off. The harm than good.” When she has to leave the or­ Forced recruiting of minors is method is common among guer­ The orphanage — Comunidad phanage next year, she hopes to one of the problems affecting rilla forces, too, he said. Oscar A. Romero — keeps war or­ get a job using one of the skills children in El Salvador after a “ We talk about having a profes­ phans or children whose parents she has learned. decade-long civil war in which sional army, and you would think cannot afford to raise them. The "I’ve learned how to be a ‘School Under the Tree’ 70.000 people — including that a professional army would home, run by the Sisters of Chari­ seamstress, but I also learned Salvadoran children attend an outdoor class In El Charcon, El 60.000 civilians — have died. find another way of recruiting ty of the Incarnate Word of how to be a baker and ad­ Salvador. The Instruction they receive is part of a basic education Children also face becoming or­ other than these primitive Houston, takes in children from ministrator,” she said, adding project of the Archdiocese of San Salvador called “School Under the phaned by the war, developing means," he said. ages 6 months to 18 years. that she was getting good at mak­ T ree ." mental illnesses, and being put to “You would expect that from Seventeen-year-old Ana Delmy ing sweet breads. — CNS photo by Barb Froze work full time at an early age. people (guerrillas) who are out­ Masariego has lived at the or­ (Continued on page 2)

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Oakland Catholic AFL-CIO to rem ain Olympic champ surprised, neutral on abortion CHICAGO (CNS) - The AFL- good. That's good news, better accepts coaching position CIO Executive Council, meeting than I expected.” In Chicago, adopted a recommen­ Msgr. Higgins, who had testified PITTSBURGH — Olympic gold dation July 3 ) to remain neutral in June before the panel, said he medal winner Suzie McConnell on abortion. had thought the panel would sug­ gest the "possibility of some kind Serio, 23, expressed surprise In an editorial appearing in the of compromise, some general when she was offered the head Plttsbuigh Catholic, readers were statement” about the right to coaching position for Oakland made aware that the AFL-CIO privacy, a main tenet of abortion Catholic High School's basketball might be considering a pro- team but Immediately accepted abortion position. Leaders from rights advocates. the challenge. the AFL-CIO acknowledge they T h e policy statement “ I wanted to get somebody who received numerous responses acknowledged that unions have "staunchly and fervently defend­ would be really good for school,” from the newspaper’s readers. ed the right of all persons to Parish social ministers Oakland Catholic Athletic Direc­ "The AFL-CIO ... adopts a privacy, to personal belief and to New parish social ministers were certified recently by Catholic tor Fran Mannlon said. "I think carefully considered policy of self-determination on matters of Charities after participating In Its four-week Parish Social Ministry she will be excellent." deferring to the Individual religion, thought, conscience and Program. The new parish social ministers are. standing from left. Sr. McConnell Serio, a Seton-La Judgments of its affiliates and Salle High School and Penn State their members on reproductive family.” Mary Clare Donnely, RSM. St. Mary Assumption, Lawrencevllle, and “ We resent and resist govern­ Immaculate Conception, Carnegie; Mrs. Carmella Fury. Purification graduate, has no coaching ex­ issues," said a policy statement, ment Intrusion Into matters that of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ellwood City; Ethel Galll, Holy perience, but Mannlon said that adopted with only three dissen­ are essentially private,” the state­ Sepulcher, Glade Mills; Sr. Lois Sptnneneber. CDP, St. Mary. Glen- her experience as a successful ting votes. ment continued, "and we have shaw; Sr. Carol Sukltz, IHM. Catholic Charities; Pat Gtllard, Sacred player in high school and college "T h e AFL-CIO yields to the consistently opposed Heart, Tarentum; Jean Fitzgerald, Catholic Charities. Seated, from qualified her for the position. good and sound Judgment of abridgements of personal left. Sr. Marlse Hrabosky. CDP, Our Lady of Grace. Scott Township; "I never expected someone to union members — expressed per­ freedom everywhere in the Sr. Ignatius, OSF, St. Peter & Paul, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sr. Marilyn offer me a coaching position," Mc­ suasively and emotionally by S u l* McConnell Serio world.” Malackt, VSC, St. Mary of Mercy, Pittsburgh; Sr. Charlene Schaaf Connell Serio said, especially unionists on both sides of the Msgr. Higgins said he recom­ CDP, Our Lady of Victory, Harwlck. since she and her husband Pete Mannlon said McConnell Serio issue — that they choose to pur­ are expecting a baby this will have a lot of say In picking the sue their goals on reproductive mended In his testimony that the September. assistant coaches for the teams. issues within political, legislative union stay neutral on abortion. "I Salvadoran children feel effects of w ar “ My husband’s a saint,” she She replaced Barb Hess, who and legal arenas as their In­ had 20 minutes, and I played on said, jokingly. "H e ’s very suppor­ resigned. dividual consciences dictate,” the that theme,” he said. ” 1 did not get Involved In the (Continued from page one) mother. tive and my family would do After a successful high school statement said. debate on abortion. I scrupulous­ For now, however, she said she “ I think they were guerrillas," anything to help. I’ve been able to career, leading Seton-La Salle to An 18-member panel of the Ex­ ly avoided that,” Msgr. Higgins Is afraid to go out because she he said, because the previous day do anything that's important to W PIAL and P1AA Class AAAA ecutive Council had recommend­ said. Prior to and since his does not have a birth certificate, some guerrillas had threatened me.” championships, McConnell Serio ed continued neutrality July 30 to and soldiers could detain her. his mother. McConnell Serio said that she continued her success at Penn the full 35-member council. testimony, he said he did not talk with "anybody on either side” on Jorge Lopez, 12, also lives at Enmanuel de Jesus Ramirez, didn't anticipate making any ma­ State, leading the Ntttany Lions to "The differences of opinion the panel. the orphanage. He has studied 12, and his two brothers have liv­ jor changes In the program at the NCAA tournament all four about reproductive issues, in­ baking and mechanics and cur­ ed at the orphanage for two years. Oakland Catholic, but said that seasons. She later played on the cluding abortion, that now divide Pro-life allies of labor had urged rently Is helping to build benches Their mother is still alive, but she will "try to Implement some 1988 U.S. Olympics team, winn­ American public opinion are mir­ continued neutrality, saying the for the chapel. lives in another province and can­ of the things I’ve learned over the ing the gold medal In Seoul. rored in the labor movement.” issue was too divisive for the Jorge said he never knew his not afford to support them. years. Mainly, I’ll be utilizing the McConnell Serio is a member of the statement said. union and would harm union father. He knows the story of his Enmanuel's father was caught talent we have." St. Margaret Parish in Green Tree. AFL-CIO spokesman Rex organizing efforts. mother’s death, although only his in the cross-fire between the guer­ Hardesty told Catholic News Ser­ Abortion rights activists argu­ vice the Executive Council action ing for their position contended 13-year-old brother witnessed the rillas and army. Case not linked to resignation event. “I don’t remember; 1 was brings to an end a debate over that a change from neutrality smaller then,” he said. abortion within the union that would appeal to women and "It was a Sunday. We were ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (CNS) — A controversy over sexual Enmanuel has taken carpentry started last November. minorities, two groups the AFL- working. My mom didn't have abuse of boys by Newfoundland priests which led Archbishop Alphon- any money,” so they returned class at the orphanage and wants The statement applies to the CIO needs to court to boost its sus L. Penney of St. John's to submit his resignation was not linked to AFL-CIO, its state federations, membership, currently at 14.2 home, he said. to be a carpenter when he grows similar cases at a local Catholic-run orphanage, a spokesman said. Outside their home, some men up — hopefully in a peaceful and its local central labor million. were hiding in a taxi and shot his country, he said. Earlier reports erroneously tied the archbishop’s resignation to the councils. The National Right to Life Com­ orphanage case, which has been the subject of a government Inquiry. Msgr. George G. Higgins, mittee and Cardinal John J. Archbishop Penney, 65, sent his resignation to the Vatican prior to retired secretary for social con­ O’Connor of New York had the July 10 release of a critical report by an archdiocesan commission cerns for the U.S. Catholic Con­ threatened a campaign to per­ he established. The report faulted his handling of the abuse cases. ference and a longtime labor ad­ suade union members who op­ vocate, told CNS in a July 31 pose abortion to withhold part of CALL AN EXPERT The commission, headed by former Newfoundland Lt. Gov. Gordon telephone interview from their union dues had the AFL-CIO Winter, an Anglican, said prlest-abusers were given better treatment Washington when Informed of the adopted an abortion rights by the hierarchy than were their victims. panel's recommendation, "Very stance. A t trmur b r u t t e It also said lack of archdiocesan leadership might have encouraged the abuse. Under law. the archbishop remains head of the archdiocese R eligious orders leaving parishes ELECTRICIANSMISCELLANEOUS until his resignation Is accepted by the . (Continued from page one) Mike Hurley, spokesman for the Newark Archdiocese, said the Over the past two years, about 20 Newfoundland Catholics — In­ carefully for the diocesan priests Benedictines gave up a New Thomas P. LEE J. MILLER Infinite Living cluding priests — have been convicted of or face charges of sexually who can take over next.... Things Memorials Jersey parish last November. He Sullivan ELECTRIC abusing boys. are getting tight.” added that it was “not a trend Electrican Inaared/Refiatered Remember a loved one The archbishop had announced by planting a tree in necessarily” but that the religious Registered-Insured Reasonable Rates the changes in his column In the one or our communities were "reorlering Free Estimates FREE ESTIMATES National Forests. St. Louis Review, archdiocesan their mini tries." 421-4316 3 3 1 - 8 9 9 0 Call 571-5836 STOREWIDE CLEARANCE newspaoer. 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News In Brief Bishop W uerl hosts USCC favors protecting unborn program on EWTN WASHINGTON (CNS) — Law does not prohibit companies BIRMINGHAM, AL — Eternal porates a powerful conclusion to from protecting future, unborn life, the U.S. Catholic Con­ Word Television Network (EWTN) the show. ference said In regard to a firm that barred women with child­ announced it will carry Bishop Beginning in August, viewers bearing potential from certain Jobs. Donald W. Wuerl's inspirational can watch the show each Satur­ “ Employers are properly obliged to protect broadly workers television series, "Th e Teaching day at 6 p.m. Eastern, Sunday at and the public, including future generations, from substantial of Christ." Debuting in August, 12 midnight Eastern and Tues­ and foreseeable harm," the USCC said. the bishop hosts this weekly show day at 11 p.m. Eastern. EWTN The USCC, public policy agency of the U.S. bishops, com­ which focuses on this rich can be seen in the following areas: mented in a friend-of-the- court brief filed at the U.S. Supreme catechism of the Catholic Church. Beaver Falls — Times Cable TV, Court In United Auto Workers vs. Johnson Controls. “ The basic premise behind this Channel 41 The case stems from a refusal by Johnson, a car battery program." Bishop Wuerl said, "is Rochester — Adelphia Cable, manufacturer, to allow women who might someday bear that the teaching voice of the Channel 5 children from holding Jobs involving exposure to lead, harmful bishop should be heard as widely Bethel Park — Adelphia Cable. to fetuses. as possible through the use of the Channel 48 media to promote a clear New Castle — Adelphia Cable. understanding of the Church’s Channel 19 Centennial in Hill District teaching." Pittsburgh — Robinson Cable, Bishop Donald Wuerl (left) congratulates Father Louis Vallone, The format of this half-hour Channel 41 pastor of St. Benedict the Moor Parish, Hill Distrtct. following a Anti-racism pastoral issued show includes an initial segment For more information, contact liturgy marking the centennial anniversary of the predominantly SHREVEPORT, La. (CNS) — An anti-racism pastoral by featuring the bishop's teaching, the diocesan communications of­ black parish. The bishop was the principal celebrant and homilist Bishop William B. Friend of Shreveport was Issued in part due followed by a discussion on fice, 456-3020, or Gene Baker, for the closing celebration. The both men are wearing are to a planned meeting next year in Shreveport of various Ku related topics with guests. A two- EWTN marketing representative, made from traditional African fabric. Klux Klan organizations. minute prayerful reflection incor- at (205) 956-9537. — Photo by E m ilio J. DiValerio In announcing the pastoral. "That All May Be One," issued July 11. Bishop Friend said the Klan meeting was “ an 'honor' we could do without.” Payroll manager named MONROEVILLE-NORTH HILLS-DOWNTOWN Bishop Friend in the pastoral said “ there are certain HEARING AIDS AT AFFORDABLE PRICES organizations, such as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who PITTSBURGH — John G. sity of Pittsburgh with a degree in ONLY foster the errors of interpreting science and history to the detri­ Cvetic has been named manager information science. $495°° $10995 ment of certain races and religions." In his new position, Cvetic suc­ of payroll for the Diocese of UNra-s $ Pittsburgh. ceeds Rev. William A. Scholz in Presidential Canal Type Cvetic previously was assistant directing the diocese's centralized Ultra Small HEARING AID manager of payroll and had also payroll system. 8/EAR HOME THE SAME DAY SMALL LIKE A TINY served in various building service A resident of Pittsburgh's D o n o t be misled by other BUTTON-MADE TO Pope critical of programs claims Before buying - functions since Joining the Beech view section, Cvetic is a Test trial these small hear­ HELP NERVE DEAFNESS VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II has criticized diocese in 1977. member of St. Catherine of Siena ing aids You make the final decision - W e Make House Cells - what he said are efforts by some Latin American Religious to He graduated from the Univer- Parish. set up pastoral programs against the wishes of local bishops HEARING AIDS - NO BATTERIES TO BUY and to overly politicize their activities. • Uses a small rechargeable cell » Totally automatic » No volume control There is “ an erroneous interpretation" based on a "Marxist Center disapproves N.Y. bishop prays code” which equates "the option for the poor with the vow of IN OFFICE PERSONALIZED REPAIR *1 9 .9 5 poverty," he said. The pope complained of “ deviations and o f pastoral letter at abortion clinic • QUALITONE • RADIO-EAR • AUDIOVOX • FIDELITY «ACOUSTICON «ELECTONE «PHONIC-EAR • MIRACLE-EAR «SONOTONE «BELTONE «TELEX »OTICON «LANG • WIDEX overly radical and unilateral attitudes" by Religious which BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) — • DAHLBERG • MAICO «ZENITH «SIEMENS «STARKEY • WONDER-EAR have harmed their unity with the hierarchy. WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Bishop Thomas V. Daily, who pro­ PITTSBURGH HEARING AID CENTER He also Jumped into a major Latin American controversy by Washington-based Center of Con­ mised when he was appointed All Offices Open M onday Thru Friday - Full Service defending the Catholic evangelization campaign that accom­ cern has urged the U.S. bishops to Brooklyn's bishop earlier this 101 Iv.mhoc Prof Bldq. 611 Lincoln Ave. Room 201A 1201 Clark Bldq. panied Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas. scrap their proposed pastoral let­ 117 Toitplan Rd Bellevue, P.». . 5000 McKnight Rd. 717 Liberty Ave. year to pray each month where Monroeville, P.i. 15146 >. 15202 * Pgh., Pa. 15237 Pgh., Pa. 15222 It was generally positive with "more lights than shadows," he ter on women’s concerns, citing abortions are performed, con­ 373-4270 761-9992 364-8744 281-1318 said. "inconsistencies" in the docu­ ment’s second draft. ducted his second monthly prayer "Do not approve this document vigil at an abortion clinic July 21. even in an amended form. Do not And while the number of those “Wc Minister To Our Patients With Anglicans get new leader attempt a pastoral letter on who showed up to pray with him The Same Tender Care women's concerns at this time," increased, so did the number and LONDON (CNS) — 's newly appointed spiritual says the center’s 10,000-word ferocity of counterdemonstrators. We Would Oive Our Beloved Saviour!’ leader favors furthering ecumenical links with the Catholic report, which is especially critical Bishop Daily led a procession Church and shares with Pope John Paul II a sense of mission of the document’s treatment of and the rosary at the Ob-Gyn toward the environment but also plans to lead the Church of the church's ban on ordination of Pavilion in the Sunset Park sec­ England into ordaining women. women to the priesthood. The tion of Brooklyn. He led a similar The new archbishop of Canterbury. 54-year-old Bishop report was Issued in June. service June 9 at the Choices George Carey of Bath and Wells, England, is to succeed Ar­ clinic in the Rego Park section of chbishop Robert Runcle early next year as head of the world's Queens. nearly 70 million Anglicans. La. archbishop The announcement of his appointment was made July 25 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's office. An announcement calls fo r override M exican bishops of Archbishop Runcie’s replacement had not generally been (CNS) — Ar­ express concern expected until September. Reaction from British Catholic chbishop Francis B. Schulte of leaders was positive. New Orleans July 27 urged Loui­ CU/iTITLAN, Mexico (CNS) - siana legislators to vote for a Mexico’s bishops have expressed special session to override Gov. concern that the Church could Buddy Roemer’s veto of a bill lose some of its independence and African bishops advised restricting abortions. risk tarnishing its image by forg­ Roemer announced earlier July ing too close a link to the current VATICAN CITY (CNS) — African bishops are being urged to 27 that the bill, which would have Mexican government. step up their proselytizing but "avoid a dangerous collision The Dominican Sisters banned abortions in the state ex­ However, the bishop» said dur­ course” with Islam — a major religious force and rival for con­ cept to save the life of the mother ing a special July 17-20 assembly verts on their cdntinent. and in cases of rape and incest, in Cuatitlan that they will heed of Hawthorne The call was made in a preparatory document for a special did not meet "even the minimum Pope John Paul II’s call made dur­ SERVANTS ()»■' RI.UI I I OR INC I RAHLI CANCER Synod of Bishops for Africa. It said Africa, where slightly more standards set forth by me long ing his May pastoral visit to Mex­ than 13 percent of the approximately 623 million population is ago." ico for continued dialogue to im­ A religious community o f Catholic women with seven modern nursing facilities in six Catholic, is a fertile field for evangelization. He specifically cited its provi­ prove church-state relations. states Our one apostolate is to nurse incurable cancer patients. This work is a practical The Catholic population has grown by 50 percent in the past sions on rape. The archbishop fulfillment o f our faith 10 years, said the document. It encouraged evangelization pro­ issued a statement saying he was grams based on Africa's cultural context and interreligious The most important talent, highly prized by us, is the talent for sharing o f yourself— “ very disappointed" and conclud­ your compassion, your cheerfulness, your faith—with those who have been made so dialogue. Also urged was cooperation with other religions to ed: "I urge the Legislature to vote BUSHraSSPEOPLEt vulnerable and dependent by this dread disease Not all of our sisters are nurses, but as solve social problems such as apartheid and tribal rivalry. for a veto session at which the part o f our apostolate, all directly help in the care of the patients. governor’s veto can be Looking for ways If you think you have a religious vocation and would like to know more about our work overridden." to stretch your and community life, why not plan to visit with us. We would be happy to share with you advertising dollars? a day from our lives. H ibernians pass Then call 471-1252 and Wrue Please send me more information about your Congregation. m em bership rule PITTSBURGH Sr. Mari«* Kd ward Discover the Catholic D O M I NIC.’AN SISTERS OF HAWTHORNE ARLINGTON, Va. 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Our Lady of Peace Ministries (nonprofit sponsor of the Eastern Regional Conference on Medjugorje and other Recent Apparitions of Mary) must G orbachev credits immediately raise over $20,000 to pay for air time and advertising costs, Pope John Paul II 1990 VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Soviet Please assist in bringing Our Lady’s critical Fatima Message to the Pitt­ President Mikhail Gorbachev said Taste and see how good the Lord is...(Psalm 34) Pope John Paul II has played "an sburgh Metropolitan area. enormously positive role” in re­ cent political developments in A n Evening of All contributions are tax-deductible. Please make checks payable to Our Europe. Gorbachev made his comments H ealing and M inistry Lady of Peace Ministries, P.O. Box 22002, Pgh., PA 15222 during a brief July 26 press con­ ference in Moscow with Italian Journalists. TUESDAY 8:00 PM When the journalists asked Name Gorbachev about chances for a ST. BEDE CHURCH pastoral visit by the pope to the (509 S. Dallas Ave.-Pt. 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Vatican letter Nuns, parishioners in a feud at Rom e’s Am erican church

By CINDY WOODEN monastery spokeswoman told Catholic News Service. The first clause of the rejected aigreement stipulated that the church VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Father John J. Foley thinks Umberto Eco, “ A contemplative life is very delicate,” she said. “ It needs space and rector would be nominated by the U.S. bishops. Because a monastery author of the medieval monastery mystery, "The Name of the Rose," silence." chaplain is usually rector of an attached church, the nuns felt the could handle the labyrinthine tale of how Rome's American residents Sharing the space with the Americans was "like being in the middle agreement violated the traditional ordering of their life. The Paulists "are saying they want to be the owners and the bosses lost their church to a group of cloistered nuns. of a marketplace." Fr. Foley, a Paullst and pastor of the parish of Santa Susanna, says Mysterious things have happened at Santa Susanna Church, the o f the church,” the spokeswoman said. While the Paulists said tensions began in the mid-1980s, the nuns he cannot give Eco an ending for the book until the dispute over the pastor and parishioners said. use of Santa Susanna Church Is settled with the 15 Cistercian nuns “ In April 1985 someone called the attention of the Rome Fire said there were always problems and that the community always hoped the Americans would find another home in the city where who live In the attached monastery^ Department to a slight sag in the church ceiling — a matter long- Catholic churches stand on almost every comer, and in the middle of , The latest development in the known and of little concern. The Are department ordered the church Santa Susanna feud Is grist for closed," said a brief history of the parish prepared by Fr. Foley. many blocks as well. “The writing was on the wall," said Jo Cleverly, the parish's conversation wherever The nuns said that the ceiling sag was caused by a broken beam, longtime librarian. Americans gather In the Eternal and that the fire department ruled the church unsafe. Volunteers who ran the library said that whenever the electricity City. Various churches provided short-term temporary space for Mass for and telephones would go out, they chalked it up to Rome's overwork­ The efforts of the Paullst priests the Americans until a long-term temporary arrangement was made and parishioners to get the with an aristocratic Italian family for use of their private church. St. ed and aged utilities. But they had a hard time explaining other things, like sitting in the church back have been sup­ Agnes, in Rome's historic Piazza Navona. library wondering why the flow of visitors had stopped. They'd plemented with similar efforts by The church office remained at Santa Susanna and dally Mass was sometimes discover that all the doors had been locked. the cardinal-vicar of Rome, the celebrated in the . The parish’s English-language library re­ In April 1989 one of the Paulists attached to the parish went to open Vatican Secretariat of State, the mained as well. the office. His keys no longer worked in the locks and all of the office U.S. ambassador to the "From 1985 to 1989, the repeatedly objected to the con­ furniture and supplies were piled in the open courtyard. and the president of the U.S. tinued, though limited, presence of the American community at Santa The abbess told them she had the furnishings removed in order to bishops' conference. Susanna," Fr. Foley's report said. The nuns are trying to protect an Increasingly rare life of con­ do repair work in the office. The ceiling had been pulled down. Cardinal Ugo Poletti of Rome drew up am agreement allowing As the year ended, so did the operation of the library. The locks templative prayer and manual labor begun by their Cistercian Americans office space amd use of the church on Sundays. It also re­ there also have been changed. Books that were in circulation — less foremothers at Santa Susanna In 1587. quires the parish to pay the nuns for cleaning the church and forbade than 1,000 — are exchanged in the basement of the American Their only public witness, and therefore their only opportunity for use of the church for concerts of sacred music and other non-liturgicail attracting new vocations, was their presence behind a grill at Masses Episcopal parish nearby. functions. The nuns said the library had to be closed to fix the leaky roof. The in the church. Through a spokeswoman, they have said they did not The Paulists signed the agreement; the abbess did not. However, the Americans said the work only involves the outside of the building. The like sharing the space with the Americans. monastery spokeswomam said, if the cardinal Insisted, the nuns would The U.S. consulate estimates that 30,000 U.S. citizens live in Rome nuns said they have to pay a tax on the library space and the i*qtl its suburbs, and about 10,000 of those are thought to be be obedient. Americans weren't reimbursing them. Catholics. The cau-dinal has asked the Vatican to attempt a settlement. The On a hot summer day, the floor of the former parish office was du The Paulists' busy ministry to American Catholics, including Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of up and an archeologist was examining human bones buriei religious education and two Sunday Masses with a regular attendance Apostolic Life has asked Fr. Foley and Abbess Marla Roberta Cappiotti underneath it. of about 400 people, “suffocates the fragile life of the nuns,” the to come in for a chat. No one connected with the church is getting any rest.

Editorials H ibernians ...

The recent news that the Ancient Order The new requirement for membership, of Hibernians will disqualify from which also includes membership membership any man who publicly renewals, can be viewed as part of a new favors abortion was quite unexpected "get tough” policy which some Catholic considering the Irish-American group is organizations are adopting concerning primarily a social one. the abortion issue. The action took place July 19 at the Whether the A.O.H. can constitutional­ organization’s 85th national convention ly deny membership to future applicants held in Arlington, Va. or present members who publicly favor Outgoing president Michael Coogan abortion is uncertain. said his organization was proud of its. The A.O.H. actions will certainly have decision and that it was time for the an impact on its image. People will begin group “ to stand up and be heard” on to realize the Hibernians are more than what he called the crime of abortion. just another Catholic social group.

... and K nights

Human Life International, a pro-life it is not their place to determine who is a lobby group, in exerting pressure on the “ practicing” Catholic. To be a Knight, Knights of Columbus to oust Catholic “ the basic criterion is that a Catholic Scriptures politicians who favor abortion and hold man be a practicing or practical membership in the organization, seems Catholic,” commented a group to be meddling in the well-known and spokesman. Aug. 5: 18thSunday of the Year respected organization’s affairs. The Knights rely on parish pastors to The lobby group is asking pro-lifers to determine who is a "practicing” Isaiah 55:1-3 see things, not a new way to ob­ mail postcards to the Knights to force Catholic and say it is not up to the group Rom ans 8:35, 37-39 tain things. to make such a determination. Matthew 14:13-21 Jesus constantly taught and them to give the boot to such politicians. demonstrated God's deep love for Human Life International has targeted Some Knights favor the expulsion of B y FR. ROGER KARBAN each of us. He proclaimed a God as "abortion knights” Democrats in the the politicians and the issue is expected In a recent lecture. Father Ed who was always present and House of Representatives along with to surface at the national convention Hays suggested all Christians Fr. Roger working in our lives, even when Sen. Edward Kennedy and New York early this month in San Antonio. take a "vow of contentment." Karban we turn from him In sin. No The actions taken by Human Life In­ He mentioned how glad he was wonder some of his best friends Gov. Mario Cuomo. Among the better were the outcasts of society. They ternational appear more like grandstan­ to live In the United States; a known House members is the country possessing all the were the first to understand the sometimes flamboyant James Traflcant ding to garnish media attention at the material things sought sifter by implications of such a revolu­ of Ohio. expense of the Knights of Columbus. the rest of the world’s In­ tionary concept. It appears the lobbying group is dic­ The Knights always have been a faithful habitants. They believe a car, a Thirty years after Jesus' death force within the U.S. Church. The telephone, or a color TV will bring and resurrection, Paul sum­ tating to the Knights on how to conduct marizes the basics of this new organization doesn’t need Human Life them total happiness. Fr. Hays re­ their internal affairs. The K of C, respon­ joiced that he had experienced all message, or longing for a change belief in our Roman's passage. ding to what HLI has called a growing International’s coercive tactics to tell these Inventions, because now he of scenery, the Israelites were ig­ “ ...I am certain,” he writes, "that scandal within its organization, has said them how to run their own affairs. realizes that happiness comes noring the most Important aspect neither death nor life, neither from none of them. of God’s salavation; right then angels nor principalities, neither Over and over again the Blbltcal and there he was already giving the present nor the future, nor authors remind us that God has them everything they needed for powers, neither height or depth already given us everything we fulfillment. nor any other creature, will be PITTSBURGH«* «| need to be happy. Most of our pro­ able to separate us from the love Like us, their gaze was almost blems simply arise from a lack of of God that comes to us in Christ always directed outward. They satisfaction with what we have. Jesus, our Lord." failed to take an inward glance at No one proclaims this truth bet­ This belief is so essential that the wealth they already possess­ ter than Deutero-Isaiah. In to­ we see it integrated into many ed; a treasure for which they had catholic day's first reading he speaks gospel narratives; even in today's to sacrifice nothing except their Yahweh’s famous words; “ All you pericope about the multiplication Serving the Diocese ot Pittsburgh; Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Lawrence and Waahlngton counties. cherished idea that true hap­ who are thirsty, come...You who of the loaves and fishes. Established In 1844 by Rt. Rev. 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Kathleen Coyne and G odspeed’s m ission

By MSGR. CHARLES O. RICE borough in March? Are these Books) Last week we looked at an inci­ noble-hearted Republicans work­ Big philanthropy will not give dent in which human compassion ing hand-ln-glove? big to causes such as AIDS, and L e t t e r s seemed to have triumphed. Kathleen Coyne is really an does not help the needy. It helps Joseph Bauer, a terminally 111 angel of mercy and has been try­ the rich and it helps causes that AIDS sufferer, who had been un­ ing to be a low-profile one. We the rich care about or find useful: justly jailed, was released to a Msgr. Charles might not have heard of her Harvard, symphonies, museums, hospital (a for-profit one) which O. Rice marvellous work if she had not some medical research, PBS. I would not admit him. Joe would been dragged into poor Bauer's learned the facts of life when I Conference participants grateful have been on the street with no sad, sad case. Those men are made the rounds, and did some awfully sensitive and I want to To the Editor: resources if Kathleen Coyne and study, while trying to support an We would like to publicly acknowledge our thanks to several of­ her charity, Godspeed, Inc., had assure Joe that something was innovative school for black kids. not been called to the rescue. afoot before his case hit the fan­ fices and agencies of the Diocese of Pittsburgh that made possible We were having successes, but Godspeed is run by Kathy and fare. Back in March, after a recent experience we had at the 19th annual International con­ could not get even a pittance from ference of the North American Conference of Separated and other volunteers and takes care of evict for other than non-payment Godspeed talked to the West View the huge local foundations. I took of rent. Will Gene Coon coldly authorities, the State Attorney Divorced Catholics (NACSDC). nearly 30 abandoned men who note that there was full em ploy­ Through the generosity of Loretta Dlllner, director of the Office are terribly sick with AIDS. Kathy deposit three dying men on the General's Office immediately ment for sociologists and ex­ pavement? Not the Gene I know. opened a file on the charity. academics. There is no system in of Family Life and Family Concerns, who partially funded our has them in scattered sites, just two or three per dwelling. There Just in case you might think Coincidence? fees, we were able to spend July 19-22 at Marymount College In place for our Joseph Bauers. was room for Bauer in a house in that the attorney general of Penn­ AIDS is a staggering problem There is also no system, as Mrs. Tarrytown, NY. West View. sylvania is soft on crime, one of which is not solved by sitting in Odendahl notes, to distinguish The conference afforded us many valuable experiences In Kathy has stated that there is Ernie Preate's deputies has an­ judgment on the sufferers. No between the types of cause (sic) educational workshops related to topics of separation and divorce no system in place to take care of nounced that he is pursuing an in­ matter how smug and secure you that extract tax dollars. and ministry to Catholics In support groups. The renowned and the likes of Joseph. Well, there are vestigation of Godspeed and has feel, it could strike close to home. Harvard, with its billions, is dynamic speakers we encountered were well worth our eight- systems in place to take care of demanded Godspeed’s records. Compassion and common sense considered Just as worthy as a hour drive and four days and three nights of 95-degree weather In the likes of Kathy. Since I wrote, We must presume that Ernie demand we avoid hysteria and do soup kitchen feeding the poor. un-alrcondltloned college dorms and classrooms. has examined all the questionable We returned with a wealth of insight and information to share compassion has taken a hit, but the right thing ourselves while Has any large foundation put real bingo and bunco operators in the urging government to act. with our fellow ministers in the Network of Ministers to Separated the people of West View are safe money into the devastated areas Commonwealth and now has Action has to come from the and Divorced Catholics of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Our thanks in their beds because their brave left to rot by the demise of steel? time for the real criminal types public sector because we know There are hints that the social to them also, for their support and prayers for our trip. secretary-manager, Kenneth Wolf, is levying fines of $500 a and that also he has gone through that big philanthropy in this work establishment is not en­ The time we spent sharing with 500 other members of the day on Godspeed. An eviction is the enormous philanthropic country is a hoax, some of us NACSDC, lay, Religious and clergy from the United States and thusiastic about Kathleeh scams with a fine-tooth comb. knew that even before Teresa Canada brought forth a strong sense of pride and gratitude for the planned. Who wants the honor of Coyne's inspired enterprise. Tfitit The attorney general began his Odendahl's bombshell book, support our network receives from the Office of the Tribunal, Of­ the eviction? could be a sign that the lady is on investigation in March. Is it mere­ "Charity Begins at Home: fice of the Chancellor, and the many pastors, priests, DREs and If the law has not been changed the right track. Fear not, the lady ly coincidence that Mrs. Coyne Generostty and Self-Interest and is a champ, and will not fold pastoral assistants of the diocese who support local parish since I was area rent director, the sheriff is the only one who can discussed her operation with the the Phllanthroptc Elite." (Basic quietly. groups. Our continued association with the NACSDC will surely pro­ vide future opportunities to exchange ideas and grow in our ministry, so that those who suffer from separation and divorce Washington letter might experience healing, reconciliation, and new life. Again, our sincere thanks to all of the above mentioned for making this time of enrichment available to us. Abortion and the Souter nom ination SR. KATHLEEN HOERSTER, CDP ART LaGUARDIA By LIZ SCHEVTCHUK he wrote. anything to stop the slaughter," CYNTHIA A. SNATCHKO WASHINGTON (CNS) - Take it Mrs. Brown asked. “ If not, why?” from the president himself: An One case awaiting Supreme Pittsburgh As a hospital board member, abortion “ litmus test" was no Court action involves rules "Souter’s role in these pro- abor­ "must” in nominating a new preventing doctors at federally tion policies remains unclear.” Supreme Court justice. funded family planning clinics the National Right to Life Com­ Bell tolling for bell ringers? Not that some activists on both Liz from providing abortion counsel­ mittee said July 26. sides of the abortion issue Schevtchuk ing or referrals to pregnant pa­ To the Editor: wouldn’t have preferred one. tients. Right-to-life forces The National Right to Life Com­ 1 recently read a fascinating article on the art of change-ringing Determining w here Judge vociferously oppose such dying out in England. It brought back memories of my younger mittee disagreed with the deci­ David H. Souter stands on abor­ referrals. sion in the "wrongful birth” case. days, back in the ’60s, when we used to ring our church bells by tion soon became the best guess­ hand until a fire destroyed the building at St. John Cantius Souter is also drawing attention Yet, the group added, the ruling ing game in Washington, with Church in Sharpsburg. because of a 1981 letter he wrote "reveals nothing regarding Judge uneasiness in both anti- and pro­ According to the article, the Central Council of Church Bell at the behest of New Hampshire Souter’s views on whether Roe vs. abortion camps. Ringers is helping coordinate a program to attract more bell judges. The letter discussed Wade is a correct interpretation of According to President Bush, The first is Souter’s vote with ringers in England. A survey indicated that out of 100,000 train­ judges’ reactions to proposed the Constitution." Similarly, his who tapped Souter July 23 to fill the majority, while on the New ed bell ringers in England, only 40,000 of them still ring. Groups state legislation demanding letter opposing a Judicial role in the vacancy left by the retirement Hampshire Supreme Court, to ac­ of bell ringers will travel from church to church ringing their parental consent to a teen-ager’s teen-agers’ abortions “ reveals of Justice Williarrv-J. Brennan, “ it cept the concept of a "wrongful bells, in an effort to keep this ancient tradition alive. abortion, unless the minor had nothing regarding Judge Souter’s is not appropriate in choosing a birth" of a child. In so doing, he Are there any churches in the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese, or obtained a judge’s approval. views on Roe vs. Wade or ... abor­ Supreme Court justice to use any and other judges ruled that doc­ even throughout the area outside the diocese, that utilize human tion or the legality of abortion.” litmus test.” tors should test for birth defects Souter wrote that the judges ob­ bell ringers, or have tapes, timers and machines, used exclusively Bush emphasized repeatedly and inform pregnant women, jected because the legislation in many churches, taken over this uadition? Joseph M. Scheidler, president that he did not know — or ask — allowing them to decide on an would allr>w society “ to leave it to of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Ac­ S» ater’s views o.i abortion. Ap­ abortion. individual justices of this court to CLEMENT J. STAMSAUSKIS tion League, said a judicial pointing a ne i Supreme Court make fundamental moral deci­ O'Hara Twp. "W hen parents are denied the nominee’s abortion position sions about the interests of other justice is "far broader than that. I opportunity to make this deci­ "should be a litmus test.” But people" without any standards to have too much respect for the sion” about giving birth to a that doesn’t mean Bush needed to guide them. Supreme Court to look at one deformed child "important per­ make the litmus test public, he specific issue and one alone.” added. Cartoonists unfair sonal interests may be impaired, He said some judges believe Some pro-lifers worry that Bush including ... personal autonomy, abortion under such cir­ “ I think Bush knows exactly To the Editor: may have glossed over the abor­ which may include the making of cumstances would be morally The July 20 frqnt-page article detailing facts that editorial car­ tion issue. where Souter stands on abor­ informed reproductive choices,” wrong while other judges believe toons in our nation’s newspapers are biased in favor of legal abor­ "The red flag went up when tion,” Scheidler said. “ I think it’s the New Hampshire court said. they could not make such a deci­ tion may have been enlightening to some Catholics, but it wasn't George Bush said there has been smart” of the president to sion for another person. The to me. Nor should it have been to Pittsburghers, who for years no litmus test,” said Judie Brown, In a concurring opinion. Souter downplay the issue, he added. "I measure, he said, also would en­ have had to put up with anti-Catholic editorial cartoons from the president of the American Life discussed the hypothetical plight don’t want it to be public.” courage "shopping for judges,” local daily newspapers' cartoonists. Lobby. “ I don't know how many of a doctor who opposes abortion producing inconsistency. An abortion rights backer times Republicans think they can but has a pregnant patient who agreed that Bush knows Souter’s DENNIS R. SMITH hoodwink pro-life people but this carries a deformed fetus and Souter’s involvement as a views on abortion. -- •> Mt. Lebanon is about the last straw.” might want an abortion. member of the boards of two New The American Life Lobby is cir­ Hampshire hospitals providing “ I don’t believe it was not a lit­ A "timely disclosure of (the culating a petition questioning abortions also is being scrutiniz­ mus test for Bush, no matter what physician’s) professional limits Souter’s background. “ We are of­ ed. Former colleagues at the he says,” said Frances Kissling, based on religious or moral Letters to editor welcome ficially withholding support until facilities say they do not president of Catholics for a Free scruples, combined with timely our questions are answered," said remember that Souter ever sug­ Choice. But once Souter’s Judicial referral to other physicians who Letters to the editor are encouraged and welcome. Robert Evangelisto, press gested abortion is wrong. philosophies were apparent, for All letters should be limited to 300 words. The editor spokesman for group. are not so constrained, is a ques­ Bush “ it was real easy not to have reserves the right to reject, edit or delete material Pro-lifers cite three concerns tion open for consideration in any While associated with the to ask” specifically about abor­ from letters due to space limitations or subject about Souter. case in which it may be raised," hospitals, “ did he ever do tion, she said. material. Letters must be signed by the writer and a telephone number should be included so the letters can be verified. Letters that cannot be verified will not be published. The parish is a sacram ent By MSGR. PAUL M. LACKNER the visible sign of Jesus in the celebrate the death and resurrec­ There is considerable develop­ world. The Church then as a tion of Christ. ment or progress In Catholic whole is a sacrament, and we its At Baptism we celebrate the en­ Theology. Such development members are sacramental. trance of a person into the Chris­ Yesterday’s Headlines began before Vatican Council II. Through each Christian, Jesus is tian community. But there is However, it was abetted by the Msgr. Paul alive in the world today. We are a more to it than that, as St. Paul The followtng stories are taken from the files of the Pittsburgh Council documents, as well as the M. Lackner light to the world so that others tells us so clearly: “ For surely you Catholic. America's oldest Catholic newspaper in continuous general atmosphere of openness might see and come to know “ the know this: when we were baptiz­ publication: that came in the wake of the Way, the Truth and the Life” ed into union with Christ Jesus, 10 YEARS AGO Council. (John 14:6). we were baptized into his death. (1980) I have seen this in great The seven sacraments are By our Baptism, then, we were Diocesan clergy aid priest-scarce areas measure in sacramental theology, sacraments within a sacrament bound with Him and shared his When the Vatican called attention to the unequal distribution of the which is one of my favorite is called a sacrament, the primor­ (the Church). Each parish is like a death in order that just as Jesus world’s priests last week, Father John Bench, pastor of St. Joseph theological areas of reading and dial sacrament. If you define a large family trying to live out was raised from death by the Parish in Mt. Oliver, decided to help. Fr. Bench will serve in the mis­ study. Our Christian faith has its sacrament as an encounter with God’s message as Jesus did. It is glorious power of the Father, so sionary diocese of Charleston, South Carolina. He will be the only beginning with belief in Jesus God, then surely Jesus is the only in actual practice in the also we might live a new life..*’ priest in a 4,000 square mile area Just slightly smaller than the entire Christ and the message that He greatest encounter. This is a bit parish that the beautiful and no­ (Romans 6:3) Pittsburgh Diocese. In addition to being pastor of three parishes, Fr. taught. He taught us about God, different from what we learned ble ideas of the New Testament Baptism is the sacrament pf Bench will be a priest for three hospitals, two colleges and a home for His Father, who is our Father and from the Baltimore Catechism, can be tested and put into prac­ welcome — welcome into a Chris­ tice. Here we come face to face the retarded. who has great love for us per­ but it is not essentially different. It tian community. If there is no 50 YEARS AGO sonally. He wants to be close to represents a development. with reality: the family, the such community, then why (1940) us. The sacraments are ways that neighborhood, the office, the fac­ celebrate a non-reality? Obvious­ Youth Council forms He gets close to us whenever we spiritual realities are com­ tory. the community and the ly, every parish falls short of be­ The Bishops’ Committee on Youth was held in Niagara University, look at Jesus. The works of Jesus municated to us. We need to see, world. It is at the parish church ing ideally Christian; yet its N.Y., in an effort to coordinate Catholic youth activities throughout make this quite clear: “ Phillip, touch and feel something in order that the members come together members must strive to attain the United States. Provision was made to Include college and universi­ whoever sees me sees the to make the connection to the to celebrate their Christian life. that goal. Every member of thé ty groups in the National Catholic Youth Conference. Father.” (John 14:9) Everything underlying reality. The Lord used Here they grow in holiness. Yes, parish has the obligation of 100 YEARS AGO we believe then, centers around the basic elements of life in the the parish is a sacrament. building a Christian community. (1890) Jesus Christ. He was the perfect sacraments: water, words, oils, The sacraments celebrate real Our humanness may cause us to Venezuelan pilgrimage human being and was the Son of bread, wine and sexuality. life events. They point to fail at times, but we must con­ A 20-person Venezuelan pilgrimage arrived in Rome. It is notable God. Just as Jesus is the visible sign something real that exists behind tinue to strive in that direction. because it was the first-ever pilgrimage organized in the Venezuelan Jesus then communicates to us of our relationship with God, the the celebration and is the cause of Our Savior, Jesus Christ, and our regions. The pilgrims were granted an audience with the pope. the reality of God and the love He Father, our Creator, so we the the celebration. Thus when we Church are sacraments and we — Compiled by Trish Klecker has for us. In this capacity Jesus Church, the Body of Christ, are celebrate the Eucharist, we are a sacramental people. Friday, August 3. 1990 PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Entertainm ent

Movie review Church ft Bible Quiz ‘The Freshman’a com edy with class The Cathedral By William Ned Andrews Freshman" Is the casting of first robs Clark, and Penelope By FR. PETER HORTON The heart of every diocese is the bishop's cathedral. Some Marlon Brando as the head of the Ann Miller is a delightful woman cathedrals constructed In the Middle Ages were so well built that they Sabatini family. Poitly and im­ in love. Maximilian Schell has Tri-Star Pictures presents a are still standing and dynamic after almost a thousand years. Every pressive, his Carmine Sabatini is more fun on the screen than ever Lobell-Bergman production of an part or feature of a cathedral has a special name, some familiar to Andrew Bergman film, “The a caricature of his role as Don Cor- before as the demented chef and Fr. Peter the average layman while others are somewhat less common. See Freshm an." leone in "The Godfather." What Bert Parks even has fun just being Horton distingushes Carmine from the himself, a singing master of how you make out In matching the names In the left column with the corresponding descriptions In the right column. Clark...... Matthew Broderick usual mob chieftain is his true ceremonies. Carm ine...... Marlon Brando concern for his young apprentice. “The Freshman” is an enter­ _ a. a cathedral given the privilege of Victor Ray...... Bruno Kirby He is more father to Clark than taining, frivolous film in a sum­ 1. nave Tina...... Penelope Ann Miller employer. It is a change of pace mer in which the blockbusters special ceremonies. have been mostly bust. Director Larry London..Maximilian Schell for Brando who is more noted for 2. apse _ b. a vestibule leading to the nave of Andrew Bergman has conceived Bert Parks as himself Bergman, who revealed his talent his dramatic roles. Here he the building for the bizarre in films like "Blaz­ reveals his comic side with very and executed a fine little gem of a ing Saddles," has come up with good effect. comedy, a movie that is both 3. transept _ c. the main part of the Interior, Associate producer Michael Mac­ one of the most original and The supporting ensemble is a likable and memorable. The best namely, the long narrow central Donald/produced by Mike refreshing films of the year. The superb complement to the leading comedy of the year so far, “ The hall satiric plot has as many twists men. Bruno Kirby does a nice Freshman” is inspired, dizzy, Lobell/wrltten and directed by 4. narthex _ d. the basic form of a cathedral, ar­ and turns as a mountain pass in turn as Victor, the nephew who stunning movie magic. Andrew Bergman/a Trt-Star pic­ ranged In the shape of a cross tures release rated PG/A-ll adults the Himalayas, but Bergman and adolescents. keeps it zipping along with zest 5. cathedra _ e. a sheltered walkway within the and verve. The screenplay is a Movie ratings cathedral. When Clark Kellogg arrives in labyrinth of unusual and farcical • 6. facade ___ f. that part of a cathedral that New York's Grand Central Sta­ happenings directed with in­ The classification for the April Fools Day. O crosses at right angels to the tion, the ride of his life will begin. telligence and sophistication. moral suitability of films is Arthur II, A-III Shortly after his arrival, he will Heading the cast as the naive greatest length determ ined by the United Babar, A-I lose all his personal belongings to college student from Vermont is States Catholic Conference’s Bad News Bears Breaking 7. _ g. a projecting semi-circular and a con man. Later while employed the well cast and very talented Department of Training, A-III vaulted part of the building by the mob, he will be caught up Matthew Broderick. Broderick, Communications. Bright Lights, Big City, O in illegal smuggling and fending one of the most consistent young 8. am bo _ h. the architecturally ornate front of Cocoon: The Return, A-II off marriage proposals. In the actors, has found another a cathedral. Theatrical Movies: Coming to America, A-III capable, criminal hands of Car­ challenging role to add to his Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Dakota, A-II 9. ambulatory ___ 1. the bishop's official throne mine Sabatini, Clark is given a strong repertoire. Since his film O Dead Bang, O rare and strange assignment. He debut in “ Max Dugan’s Return," 10. cruciform ___ j. an oblong elevated pulpit Another 48 Hrs., O Dead Calm, A-iV is to deliver a monitor lizard to the Broderick has won critical ac­ Arachnophobla, A-II The Doberman Gang, A-III home of a slightly claim on stage and screen. Com­ Back to the Future III, A-II Excalibur, O ANSWERS: poi -36 :Í8 :R9 ;!S :JE ;3l deranged German chef who plans ing off his superb performance in Betsy’s Wedding, A-III Ghoulies II, A-III on passing the lizard off to rich “ Glory” and his winning Bird on a Wire, A-III Heartburn, A-III gourmets as steaks from the en­ characterization in the lesser Cadillac Man, O The Howling, 0 dangered Komodo dragon. Such "Family Business,” Broderick Cinema Paradiso. 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Friday, August 3. 1990 L i f e Nun serves as ‘grandm other’ to neglected, addicted kids

By JACK HAMILTON had been under criticism for them while 1 have them. CHICAGO (CNS) — To Sister housing up to 60 children in a "Th is causes me to shed a lot of Frances Brenner, supervisor at a facility built to accommodate only tears sometimes, because these center that cares for children who 25 and for not adequately super­ kids are unwanted by others for are neglected or bom with addic­ vising the children. the most part," she continued. tions, the philosophy of dealing The Columbus-Maryville center “ In the short time, of Just days, with children Is quite simple. features a 100-bed structure with that these kids are here I begin to “ I love spoiling kids and I don’t 97,000 square feet of space — bond with them ... and then they believe for a minute that you can floors housing boys’ and girls’ are gone. So I’ve learned to just really love a child too much," said quarters, cafeteria, offices, concentrate on the kids while the 60-year-old home supervisor nursery, and a medical and dental they are staying here." for the Columbus-Maryvllle clinic. It also offers recreational, She said that the children who Medical and Child Reception therapeutic and educational ser­ arrive at the center have been Center in Chicago. vices, Sr. Brenner said. removed from their own homes "After being called ’sister’ for The center includes the "Bren­ when investigators have 40 years, I feel more like a 'grand­ ner home" for toddlers — an area suspected abuse or neglect. Many mother' now," added Sr. Brenner, decorated with signs bearing such are bom with addictions to drugs a member of the School Sisters of messages as "Welcome to Pee and many have the HIV virus that St. Francis. Wee Paradise,” and “Welcome to can lead to AIDS, she said. Scooterland." The center cares for about "The pain for me is that these 2,500 abused and neglected "One of my most painful con­ kids will have no person to really children from Illinois each year. cerns is what kind of home these love them. The unfortunate part "Most of our youngsters come children will have after their short of the system is that these kids from parents with AIDS or with stay here," she said. The shelter will face a future of being merely drug addictions, mainly heroin is used as only a temporary haven shuffled from one foster home to for the children, who are subse­ and cocaine,” the nun said. smother," she said. She became involved in 1987 quently placed in foster homes by after officials from the Illinois the state. “ Will someone really be In Illinois, foster homes are cer­ Department of Children and able to love and care for these tified for three-month periods on­ Family Services asked that children, who have the AIDS ly, she said. Columbus-Maryville take over virus or drug syndromes, after So, Sr. Brenner has a dream — a management of the main Cook they leave here?” she asked. home for AIDS children where all County Emergency Children's “ This has made my focus a sim­ will live together as a family with Center in metropolitan Chicago. ple yet difficult one," Sister Bren­ surrogate parents and a sense of She said that the county facility ner added. "1 must simply love continuity.

NEW YORK (CNS) - A Na­ planning to celebrate the an­ tional Council of Churches niversary did not intend to Columbus resolution opposing church praise the offenses against In­ celebration of the 500th an­ dians, blacks and others which niversary of Christopher Col­ resulted from the discovery of resolution umbus' 1492 voyage has been America. challenged by the director of Instead, he said, many peo­ th e Northeast Hispanic ple from throughout the Sister Frances Brenner cuddles with a young In­ which houses and cares for abused or neglected opposed Catholic Center in New York. Americas “want to celebrate fant at the Columbus-Maryville Medical and children, some of whom have AIDS or are drug In a statement released July what is in fact a milestone in Child Reception Center In Chicago. The nun, a addicted. 25, Mario J. Paredes said those the making of their identity." School Sister of St. Francis, works at the facility — CNS photo by Jack Hamilton

Questions for Fr. Bober Home again Why do some folks insist on spreading gossip?

W h y a v o id CONNIE ANN VALENTI it. greatest of all our possessions. Father, will people ever learn You wrote in our last column The fact that something is true d e a t h , t h e how important are the bonds that Jesus taught us about the does not of itself justify its created between them by God? virtue of silence, but this is not disclosure unle*«1 a proportionate g a t e w a y t o Why do they still enjoy destroying one of those situations where He good is involved. The virtue of another person’s reputation with would have remained silent. His veracity forbids lying at all times, but it does not require that the e t e r n a l l i f e ? innuendo and distorted truth? I enemies could say and do would think enough people have whatever they wanted to Him, but truth be revealed In every cir­ been hurt by gossip that they He would not allow them to cumstance. The Book of Proverbs would not engage in it distort the truth about His Father. states: “ A good name is more themselves. Certain newspapers What difference does it make if desirable than great riches, and By FR. CHARLES BOBER the world as part of a human and magazines sell smut and sen­ Mr. Rooney bet on horse racing? high esteem than silver and QUESTION condition — one that is wound­ sationalism whether it is true or He never tried to keep it a secret. I gold." My question is about death. ed (by sin) but not worthless. not, and some people actually am reminded of a woman I ad­ I am presenting general prin­ Today we see so many people The late Father John Hugo take pride in being called a gossip mired who kept a green glass ciples here and not all the distinc­ doing everything possible to wrote clearly of this central columnist and being able to mason jar with coins in it on her power the simple things we say tions which theologians make save or prolong their own theme when he spoke about reveal the "dirt" in someone’s kitchen cabinet. Agnes and do to one another possess. about the right we have to our lives. All this costs so much "samples.” He encouraged us life. Gossip to them is gold and would bet on anything, even When our human actions are not reputation. For example, money, Is often painful, and to see within the world human respect has little or no when and how the weather would motivated by our love for God, disagreement exists over why a yet frequently Is to no avail. "samples” of the goodness and value. change. But somehow she always even simple actions take on person who falsely holds a good Why? Aren't we Christians love of the unseen God. But he Anger has been the catalyst for managed to keep that jar full. greater meaning and power than name without any basis in reality supposed to view life and also cautioned about allowing this topic. It grew when I read When it overflowed, and that hap­ we can imagine. has a right to protect it. One view death differently than other the samples to obscure the stories about Art Rooney who was pened often, she gave it to her Defamation is an act whereby holds that God has given us a people? Why are we doing so source. so beloved by everyone not only favorite charity, the Salvation Ar­ one person unjustly deprives right to maintain those ordinary much to avoid death which He wrote of a sailor who left in our area but also across the na­ my. They benefitted a lot from her another person of his or her good social relationships which are o u r fa ith teaches Is the his family and went off to sea tion. Like Mayors David Lawrence winnings as did so many people name or reputation. This can be essential for human life. It is a gateway to the eternal life for for a long Journey. Because he and Richard Caliguiri, he was a from Mr. Rooney as recounted in done by telling lies about so­ conditional right which is lost which we were created? missed his loved ones so much model of caring and goodness in legendary tales about his meone which is called calumny; whenever it conflicts with other he permanently bolted a fram­ an age when people tend to think generosity. or by telling the truth about so­ rights of equal or greater impor­ ANSWER ed picture of his family to the only of themselves. He showed us I am not one to promote gambl­ meone without necessity, as in tance. A person, however, whose The above question is not wall of his cabin. That picture that true greatness is achieved by ing, but if one has the ability to be the revelation of secret faults, good name is rooted in truth has one of medical ethics. It IS not was one of the only things that sharing your life, what you have, a modern-day Robin Hood, then which is known as detraction. an unconditional right to his or asking about relatives or got him through the long with others. True greatness is so be it. A lot of men and women Defamation is a sin against her good name. medical professionals "pulling voyage. Once arriving home, achieved by allowing God’s love who have been canonized saints charity and justice. It can be a Jesus knew how it felt to be the plug" on a brain-dead in­ he gathered his belongings and to work through you. by the Church performed many serious sin and may demand that defamed. His own relatives claim­ dividual. It is asking about con­ prepared to leave the cabin, Mr. Rooney will always have a strange good works in the name of a person restore the good reputa­ ed that he was out of his mind. His scious, competent human be­ turning as he left, he looked at warm place in my heart. I can’t Christ that we will never fully tion that he or she took away from motives w ere always being ings who will seemingly do the picture on the cabin wall say the same about those who en­ understand — only God does. someone. In a recent case, a challenged by those in power who anything to stay alive. and regretted having to leave it joy acting like giant killers in woman admitted that she falsely claimed that he was working with T h e question seem s to behind. What the sailor order to try to increase their own FR. RON LENGWIN accused a man of raping her. A the devil and that his power came describe what most of us would misunderstood was that the worth or justify their evil When I was a young boy in portion of her sentence is to make from him. We have no reason to understand as one of the most picture was but a sample of behavior. I was pleased when his Beechview, Mr. Rooney took time a public apology in a newspaper believe that people will stop at­ fundamental of human in­ what he was about to see clear­ son spoke out in defense of him. to speak with me on the street one ad which she is resisting on ap­ tacking another person’s good stincts, self-preservation. But ly and completely. He said that he did not want evening and showed me how im­ peal to a higher court. name as long as we allow sin to the writer is asking a deeper Therefore, it is important to silence to be interpreted as an ad­ portant I was by sharing his im­ A person has a right to his or create us in the image and question — not one about self- understand with the Scripture mission that what was being said portance with me. In that brief en­ her reputation whether it is likeness of the evil one whom preservation in this life, but that we have in this world, about his father had any merit to counter, he taught me how much deserved or not. It may be the many people mistake for God. about self-preservation into despite its beauty and our at­ eternal life. tachment to it, no lasting city. Pope seeks guidelines Our understanding of the We are, again in the words of We Are Remembered Ministry value of this world is an essen­ Scripture, sojourners in a CASTEL GANDOLFO, tial component in any attempt foreign land. We are in this (CNS) — Pope John Paul II has to answer this question. If this world but not of it. Evening Prayer of Hope scheduled asked the upcoming Synod of world were a thoroughly evil Therefore, there is con­ Bishops to provide guidelines for place why would anyone want siderable truth in the state­ choosing priests as seminary name of a person’s loved one will brance of those taken in tragedy, to stay within it? If, on the ment that we should look PITTSBURGH — An Evening directors and teachers. be chanted in this song of hope. but all those who grieve the loss of other hand, it were a complete­ eagerly for the coming of the Prayer of Hope will be held at They should "possess an in­ • Listing of each deceased’s a loved one are welcome to ly beautiful and wonderful Lord to take us home. While Calvary Cemetery on Aug. 12 at tense spiritual life and be name will be in the Evening attend. place, why would anyone want this is a theological reality, it is 6:30 p.m. witnesses of a sincere faith which, Prayer of Hope booklet. In case of rain, the service will to leave it? one not easily translated into The first outdoor cemetery ser­ through their comportment, in­ be held in the Mausoleum. Some We learn from the Scriptures our lives as we contemplate vice, sponsored by the We Are • Memorial “ We Are spires all," he said. Remembered Flag” will be given chairs are available, but par­ that this world was created by facing death and leaving the Remembered Ministry, is an op­ The pope made his remarks ticipants are asked to bring one if God and is the product of God's responsibilities or Joys of loved portunity for families who grieve to each family for the grave or to during a recent midday Angelus they can. love. At the same time, the ones remaining behind. the loss of a loved one to gather keep as a remembrance of the talk at the summer papal day. human condition we inherit is That is nonetheless the reali­ for prayer and commend their lov­ For information, contact Father residence in Castel Gandolfo, 15 not as God originally Intended ty of "going home to God." It is ed one to the Lord. • Prayer of Commendation is Albert J. Leonard at 795-3388 or miles south of Rome. The mon­ it but rather one resulting as a perhaps the most fundamental The service Includes; scheduled for loved ones. write to; We Are Remembered thlong synod on priestly forma­ consequence of sin. We enter reality of our faith. • Evening Prayer for the dead. The We Are Remembered Ministry, P.O. Box 15151, Pitt­ tion is scheduled to begin Sept. • Litany of Mercy — The Ministry makes a special remem- sburgh, PA 15237. 30.

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Whitehall jubilarians Eight members of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence of God in Whitehall marked anniversaries in Religions life recently. Among the jubilarians are. from left: Sisters Immaculata Miltenis, M. Con- cepta Tuztkand M. Dolorita Butkus. all marking 50thjubilees; Sister M. Helene Balciunas, marking her 65th anniversary; and Sister Louise Marie Simcoe. celebrating her 25th anniversary. Also celebrating are: Sisters Mary Clare Palalkis. M. Loyola Sebel and M. Rosalia Norvaisis, all 65th-year jubilarians. — Photo by John C. Keenan

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Millvale Franciscans mark diamond jubilees c o m e Eleven Sisters from the Millvale Franciscan community celebrated son. Marietta Leist. M. Norbertine Bauer. M. Florectta Bittner. Back row. from left Sisters M. Romaine Wuenschel M. Luella Kroha. M. 60 years in Religious life on July 15 with a Mass in ML Alvernia M. e r e Chapel followed by dinner and activities. The diamond jubilarians Thomas Reddy. M. Carol Mader. M. Francita Obeldobel. M. Laverne are: Front row. from left Sisters M. Alvera Loibl. Catherine Thom­ Wuerl. _ photo by John C. Keenan

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Black Catholics focus on global them e Teaching as Jesus ------tion to such problems facing the By TRACY EARLY tlonal Black Catholic Clergy York from 1787 until his death in black community as AIDS and NEW YORK (CNS) — Black Caucus, the latter Including 1853. Em powering youth Catholic clergy and Religious brothers and . Toussaint, whose cause for drug addiction. Father Rollins Lambert, who began their annual national Program and business sessions, canonization was formally laun­ meeting in New York July 23 with beginning with preliminary ched by Cardinal John J. O'Con­ heads the south suburban t o i m p r o v e deanery of the Chicago Ar­ a focus on Identifying common in­ meetings July 21-22 and then nor of New York last December, chdiocese, opened the program terests with black people in other continuing with the full con­ acquired som e wealth after with an address on the current nations of the Western ference July 23-27. were held at receiving his freedom. their self-esteem Hemisphere, Africa and the Bronx campus of Fordham Brother Smith said, however, situation in Africa. The program and business ses­ throughout the world. University. that although Toussaint moved sions were not open to the press, Taking "Holy and Global" as For an evening Mass July 23, among the affluent, he “ never By SR. LOUISE MARIE OLSOFKA, CSSF but in an Interview later Father the program theme, some 200 participants took buses to St. forgot whence he came" and Coordinator of Training Lambert told Catholic News Ser­ registrants came to hear presenta­ Aloysius Church in central assisted young black men in Office for Adolescent Formation and Youth Ministry vice that he had talked about the tions on their pan-African Harlem, where they were Joined need. Billy was just another candidate In the Confirmation program situation of many countries heritage and to join ir. liturgies by friends from New York Toussaint's prayer today, he before the police informed us that he was under house arrest. He where "black people are oppress­ celebrating pan-African spirituali­ parishes. said, would be that black people had vandalized one of the homes being built In the area. Speaking during the Mass, Holy magnify "inclusivity” and "that ing black people” against a However, Billy was given special permission to attend prepara­ ty- background of white U.S. and The gathering was the annual Cross Brother Roy Smith, presi­ which unites." The prayers of the tion classes for confirmation. European economic domination. otnt conference of the National dent of the clergy caucus, focused faithful included a petition for "a Billy's parents loved and accepted him. Some problems did Black elites, he said, enrich lack Catholic Seminarians on the example of Pierre Tous- double portion of Toussaint’s exist, but none of them were Insurmountable. themselves by exploiting the Association, the National Black saint, a Haitian who was born in spirit." Billy and I talked privately. We talked about God. his family system. "One of the horrendous Sisters' Conference, and the Na- slavery in 1766 and lived in New Brother Smith also called atten- and reconciliation. He was sorry about the damage he had caus­ examples," he said, Is Zaire's ed. I told Billy that 1 forgave him. His response surprised me. He President Sese Seko Mobuto, who said, “ I know that you can forgive me, but God never could he said was placed in power with because I am such a bad person.” the "connivance” of the CIA and Despite the fact that he had a family that cared for him and CALL THE EXPERTS kept there with U.S. support. that he had been taught about God's unconditional love, Billy's Father Lambert, former Africa sense of self-worth was lacking. Somehow, he had missed the adviser for the U.S. Catholic Con­ message of Scripture. "I call you friends." "You will be my peo­ ference, said he was "moderately ple and I will be your God.” "As the Father loves Me, so do I iove hopeful" about South Africa, but you.” The message of love is repeated again and again. Why did b e a u tifu l H om e CSatòc saw “ a long way to go before apar­ Billy miss God's powerful word of love? theid is abolished.” Billy, like so many youth, lacks a healthy sense of self-esteem. Noting divisions among South PAINTING REMODELING The quality of his emotional state depends on something out­ African blacks as well as , side of himself. He has given a lot of power to other people, a Father Lambert said he favored power which ultimately controls his own self-understanding MOSES REMODELING the African National Congress led D & R PAINTING F&L Painting and self-identity. 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D i o c e s a N Holy Family Institute to sponsor golf tourney

‘F e s t i v a l s PITTSBURGH — Holy Family Institute will host its fourth annual "Drive for HFI" golf tournament on Monday, Aug. 13 at Shannopln Country Club. St. Raphael, M orningside More than 100 golfers are expected for the event which will feature local sports celebrities such as former Steelers John Banaszak, Sam PITTSBURGH — St. Raphael Church in Morningside will conduct Davis, and Gerry Mullins along with Penguin defenseman Zarley its annual bazaar Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 16-19, on the Zalapski and sportscasters Bob Pompeani and Alby Oxenreiter. parish grounds, 1118 Chislett St. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by a putting contest and The event opens with a parade at 6 p.m. on Thursday and the lunch at 11 a.m. Golfers will tee off at 12:30 p.m. A cocktail reception grounds will be open nightly from 7 p.m. begins at 6 p.m. with a buffet dinner and awards ceremony following Dinners will be served Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. and at 7 p.m. the bazaar will feature a moon walk, haunted house, socials, train The entrance fee is $150 per golfer, which includes lunch, greens rides for children and other attractions. fee, golf cart, dinner, cocktails and prizes. The deadline for golf entries is Aug. 8. There are discounted corporate packages. For more informa­ St. Teresa, Perrysville tion. call Holy Family Institute at 766-CARE. PITTSBURGH — St. Teresa Church on Rt. 19. Perry Highway, Per- Participants in an outreach program sponsored by the Sisters of rysville, will hold its annua] festival from Saturday to Saturday, Aug Divine Providence and residents of Sto-Rox Plaza played a ping- 25 to Sept. 1. pong game at Assumption Convent In Bellevue. Seated, wat­ German Day at amusement park The festival will open with a flea market in the church basement ching the ball, are Joe Rees and Mildred Bernett. Standing are. Saturday, Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and nightly from 7 p.m. dur­ from left Etleen McKetchnle, Chris Ryan, Mary Wano. Sister PITTSBURGH — German American Heritage Day will be held at ing the festival. Cathy Frost. CDP, and Ann Lindsey. Kennywood Park Wednesday, Aug. 8. Featured will be German-style Festival rides, amusements, crafts, bake sales and other attractions — Photo by John C. Keenan foods, music from 6-10 p.m. by the D' Lustigen Dorfmusikanten and will be featured nightly beginning Monday. other events. For advance tickets call Tom and Lisa Seifert, 823-8464. Also slated are ethnic dinners nightly from 5 to 8 p.m. and from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday. Included will be: Irish on Monday, American on Order brings together Tuesday, Eastern European on Wednesday, German on Thursday, English on Friday and Italian on Saturday. Glasiport Festival Days Entertainment will also be featured each night. women from two states August 11 and 12 O ur Lady Q ueen of Peace, North Side for outreach program SPONSORED BY THE SONS OF ITALY PITTSBURGH — Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on Middle & f t M «*le f t Italian Food f t Gamas f t Entartainmont f t Suismon Sts., North Side, will hold its annual summer festival Thurs­ PITTSBURGH — The Sisters of Divine Providence joined with day, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-11, on the church grounds. {Rain women from Pennsylvania and Ohio to participate in their Pro­ SUNDAV GIGANTIC FIRE WORKS date is Aug. 12.) vidence Summer Ministry Outreach Program (PSMO) held in Included will be nightly meals from 4-7 p.m., bake sale, July. 10 PM - DISPLAY SET TO MUSIC amusements, a flea market and socials nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. For three weeks, the Sisters and other participants ministered Saturday Schedule together in various parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. • 5 PM • Food Booths & Dinners They worked at two women's shelters, Miryam's and Donna St. Luke, Carnegie Served In The Air Conditioned Sons Of Italy Hall House, the Jubilee Soup Kitchen, Transfiguration House of CARNEGIE — St. Luke Church in Carnegie will hold its parish Prayer, Sto-Rox Plaza, and did cleaning for elderly and poor per­ • 6:30 PM - Joe Marotto Show festival Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-11, on the church sons among other services. • 7:30 PM - The Sons Of Italy Fiesta BandDirector - Edward George grounds at 309 Third St., nightly from 5 to 11 p.m. Participants in the program were: Jane DiDominicis, Clairton; Continuous Entertainment Till 2 PM Featured will be nationality foods, amusements, children’s games, Audrey Martin, Overbrook; Sharon Bogusz, Pittsburgh; Eileen socials, bake sale and live entertainment. McKetchnle, Beaver Falls; Christine Ryan, Pittsburgh; Catherine Sunday Schedule Wronkovich. Stow, Ohio; Anne Whittle. Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; • I PM - Dinner Indoors - Food Booth Open • 6:30 PM - Joe Marotto and Kathryn Brzezinski, Cortland, Ohio. • 7:30 PM - Fiesta Band • 9:45 PM - Parade To Stadium • 10:00 PM - Fireworks Display ‘Parish Community’ workshop • 10:45 PM - Parade To Festival Area • 11:00 PM - Joe Marotto In Doors PITTSBURGH — A workshop on "Parish Community: The Challenge to Care and Share” will be held at Duquesne University Fri­ Sierra Leone archbishop to visit M e n u ► day and Saturday, Aug. 10-11, co-sponsored by Catholic Charities and PITTSBURGH — Archbishop Joseph Ganda of the Freetown-Bo Ar­ Gnocci-Lasagna-Raviolis-Pizza-Sausage the diocesan Secretary for Social Concerns. chdiocese in Sierra Leone, Africa, will be visiting with the Congrega­ Spaghetti Dinner 6 Meatballs Polenta And More Keynote speaker will be Donna Hanson, secretary for social tion of the Oratory, in Oakland. Monday through Thursday. Aug. 6-9. ministries in Spokane, Wash. Also speaking at the event's six He will celebrate Mass at noon on Wednesday. Aug. 8, in Heinz workshops will be Fathers Joseph Mele and Ken Oldenski on "To Chapel, on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. All are Whom Do We Minister?” ; Sister Marietta Russell, MHSH, on “ Ministry welcome. to Hurting Families"; Loretta Dillneron "Families at the Center"; Ted- Archbishop Ganda has a particular concern for Black and African PERSONAL INJURY die Miller and Father A1 Cicola on "Collaboration Ministry"; Sister religious affairs, international development and related areas. He is in­ Jacqueline Ketter, CSJ, on "Scriptural Perspectives on Ministry” ; and terested in meeting with persons involved in such efforts. Call the Peter and Carolyn Broeren on "Family Spirituality." Oratory at 681-3181 for an appointment. IS PAINFUL ENOUGH. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. and the program opens both days at 9:30 a.m. Aux. Bishop William Winter will officiate at a closing Mass on Saturday. Fee is $35. or $25 for Friday only and $20 for Saturday only Czestochowa pilgrimage Aug. 12 YOUR CASE SHOULDN’T BE. (lunch included). For information call 471-1120. GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — The annual pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Garfield Heights, Ohio will be con­ ducted Sunday, Aug. 12. Included will be confession at 10 a.m. and Mass at 11 a.m. Refreshments will be available. The shrine is located We can help you on matters o f on the grounds of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Third Order of St. Francis, p e rs o n a l injury, malpractice or off 1-77 and 1-480. wrongful d e a th . Call us. Our attorneys will listen, analyze Knights of Columbus elect and advise. Your initial c o n s u l­ PITTSBURGH — Members of Pittsburgh Council 491 of the Knights tation is free. of Columbus in Brookline elected new officers recently. 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I 1 Friday, August 3, 1990 Page 12 PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Around the diocese Outdoor liturgy to mark feast Information session for counselors GREENSBURG — An outdoor Mass will be celebrated at Assump­ PITTSBURGH — The Penn State Pittsburgh Center will hold an in­ tion Hall, Mt. Thor Road, Greensburg. on the Feast of the Assumptions formation session for those Interested in becoming counselors for chemically dependent persons on Monday. Aug. 6 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. The liturgy will be celebrated by Father Robert Moslener. chaplain The session will provide information on the Chemical Dependency at Assumption Hall. Refreshments will follow. Counselor Training Program that consists of six courses. Participants earn a certificate of achievement from Penn State University upon completion of the program. The courses can also be applied toward the Pennsylvania Certified Addictions Counselor Board (PCACB) re­ ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ at St. Vincent quirements for certification and re-certfication. LATROBE — St. Vincent Summer Theatre will present the play The information session will be held at the center. To reserve a "Driving Miss Daisy” as its final production of the season. space, call 565-7018. The stage version of the hit movie will be performed at 8:10 p.m.. Aug. 9-11, 14-18, 20-25 and 27-Sept. 1. and at 2:10 p.m. Aug. 19. 25 ‘H ow to Succeed in School’ w orkshop and Sept. 1. There will also be a 7:10 p.m. show on Sunday. Aug. 26. The after-show-party, St. Vincent Summer Theatre’s cabaret, will GREENSBURG — Seton Hill College, Greensburg. will offer a "How be open after all evening performances (except Aug. 20) through Aug. to Succeed in School” seminar for boys and girls entering grades 6-8 28. on Monday, Aug. 6 at 9 a.m. Admission is $3 on Mondays, $7 for matinees, $8.50 Tuesdays, The seminar, taught by Fran Murrman, a junior high school Wednesdays and Thursdays, and $10 for Friday and Saturday even­ counselor, will help in the development of study skills and self-esteem. ings. Group rates are available for theatre parties of 20 or more. To register, or for more information, call 838-4208. A special opening night benefit has been planned for Thursday, Aug. 9. A pre-threatre reception will be held in the lobby of the am­ Special altar cloth Reunion for St. Norbert alumni phitheatre from 6:30-8 p.m. featuring entertainment by the PITTSBURGH — A reunion for all St. Norbert School alumni will be Westmoreland Woodwind Quintet for the benefit of the Cultural En­ The eighth grade class of St. Therese School, Munhall, represented held on Saturday, Oct. 6 beginning at 6 p.m. dowment Fund of the Campaign for St. Vincent College. A donation of here by (from left), Mark Glgltottl. Giovanni Onorato, Laura Mass at 6 p.m. will be celebrated by Father Regis Farmer, a St. $35 per person and reservations are requested. Flelschman and Cathy Nguyen, created a quilted altar cloth for use Norbert graduate. Dr. Rosemarie Cibik, superintendent of diocesan Reservations are required for all performances except Aug. 20 and at their graduation Mass. The quilt symbolizes their memories and schools, will be the guest speaker. A buffet dinner will begin at 8 p.m. may be made by contacting the St. Vincent Box Office between 11 closeness as a class. in the church hall. Tickets for the dinner are $15 per person. Call a.m. and 9 p.m. dally at 537-8900. — Photo by Jim Herrmann Eileen Malits, 884-5035; Rose Deffner, 881-8390; or Doris Cuddy, 882-8930 for more information or to make reservations. Obituaries Knight elected to state post PITTSBURGH — Theodore Ketterle was recently elected by the Pen­ nsylvania Knights of Columbus to the position of state warden, during Mathilda Lutz their 92nd State Convention at Mt. Airy Lodge in Mt. Pocono, Pa. Bishop Angelo T. Acerra Ketterle is a past grand knight of the Duquesne Council No. 264 and WASHINGTON (CNS) — Auxiliary Bishop Angelo T. Acerra of the Mathilda P. (Yester) Lutz of Glenshaw died Wednesday, July 25, in a past navigator of the Fort Pitt Assembly. Archdiocese for the Military Services died July 26 of lung cancer at his St. Margaret Memorial Hospital. Aspinwall. She was 87. Mr. Ketterle and his wife, Mary, are members of St. Atlianasius in home in suburban Alexandria, Va. He was 64. Mrs. Lutz was bom July 23, 1903 in Etna. She was a charter West View. Bishop Acerra’s body was to be in the crypt church of the National member of the Christian Mothers at All Saints Church and was active Shrine of the Immaculate Conception the evening of July 29, and a with the Christian Mothers of St. Mary Church, Glenshaw. funeral Mass was to be celebrated there July 30. Burial was to be at St. Mrs. Lutz was preceded in death by her husband, George P. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Ala. Surviving are six children: George of Allison Park, Father Gerald, Parish Community: Archbishop Joseph T. Ryan, head of the military archdiocese, in a pastor of All Saints in Etna, Sister Ida Mary, provincial superior of the statement from archdiocesan headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., said Divine Providence order in Kingston, Mass., Nancy Feineigle of The Challenge To Care And Share Bishop Acerra, a Benedictine priest, "touched the lives of many Brookline, Gilbert of Glenshaw and Gregory of Gibsonla; 11 grand­ religious, priests and laity as a seminary professor, college chaplain children and seven great-grandchildren. Social Ministry Summer Institute I I and as a chaplain in the Air Force .... He was always a true son of St. Funeral Mass was offered by her son Saturday, July 28, in St. Mary Benedict.” Church. Burial followed in St. Mary Cemetery, Sharpsburg. The fami­ Bom in Memphis, Tenn., on Nov. 7, 1925, he entered the Benedic­ ly suggests memorials to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. August 10 and 11 tines at St. Bernard Abbey in 1944 and was ordained there on May 20, 1950. He received a degree from St. Benedict College in Atchison, DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Kan., in 1947. Sr. Anna Rose Larkin After his ordination, he received advanced degrees in canon law 600 FORBES A VENUE from The Catholic University of America in Washington and the Sister M. Anna Rose Larkin, of the Sisters of Mercy died July 26 of University of St. Thomas in Rome. cancer in Mercy Hospital. She was 83. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA The daughter of the late James J. and Margaret L. (Pratt) Larkin, Sr. He taught canon law and moral theology in the now-closed St. Ber­ nard Seminary in Cullman in 1954-62. He was chaplain of St. Bernard Anna Rose entered the Sisters of Mercy from St. Francis de Sales Parish, McKees Rocks, in 1935. She pronounced perpetual vows on For More Information About Registration College in 1961-62. Aug. 26. 1940. In 1963 he entered the Air Force as a chaplain, serving at various In 1948 Sr. Anna Rose received a bachelor's in history and English Contact bases in the United States and in Greenland, Thailand, Germany and from Mt. Mercy (Carlow) College. She was awarded a master’s in with the personnel office of the Air Force chief of chaplains in Education in Administration by Duquesne University in 1962. The Office of Parish Social Ministry Washington. He retired as a colonel in 1983. Sr. Anna Rose ministered for 53 years in education, serving as a (412) 471-1120 Pope John Paul II named him a bishop Oct. 4, 1983. teacher and administrator in schools in the Pittsburgh and Bishop Acerra served as vicar general for the Far East with Greensburg dioceses. Sister taught at Epiphany School, Uptown; St. residence in Tokyo and San Diego, Calif., in 1983-85. He was then ap­ Francis Xavier and St. Cyril, North Side; St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland; Co-sponsored by: pointed vicar general for vocations and recruitment for the ar­ Our Lady of Mercy Academy, Oakland; St. Xavier Academy, Latrobe; chdiocese, serving until his death. St. Pius School, McKeesport; St. Colman, Turtle Creek; and Our Lady Catholic Charities o f the Diocese o f Pittsburgh, Inc. of Fatima, Aliquippa. She served as principal at St. Colman and St. He began the archdiocesan co-sponsorship program under which 307 Fourth Avenue, Suite 300 seminarians ordained for a civilian diocese serve three years in that Pius. During her retirement. Sr. Anna Rose tutored children at Carlow diocese, enter the military and later return to the civilian diocese. Cur­ Campus School. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Sr. Anna Rose is survived by nieces and nephews. rently 34 seminaries are studying under that program. a n d A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated in the Mercy Hall Chapel Bishop Acerra is survived by two brothers and two sisters, all of on July 28. Burial followed at St. Xavier Cemetery,, Latrobe. The Secretariat fo r Social Concerns Memphis. Diocese o f Pittsburgh The Archdiocese for the Military Services serves over 2 million Catholics and is responsible for Catholics in the military and their Necrology 111 Boulevard o f the Allies dependents, residents of Veterans Affairs hospitals, and civilian Aug. 2 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 employees of the U.S. government living abroad. Fr. Charles E. Demblowskl...... 1989 Aug. 7 Early Registration Due By July 25 Fr. Leonard J. Scully...... 1953 Sr. Henrietta Michalowski Aug. 8 Fr. William A. Reith...... 1978 Sister M. Henrietta (the former Clara Michalowski) died July 28 in Fr. Daniel J. McCullough...... 1986 WINDOWS UNLIMITED Holy Family Manor, Bellevue. She was 89. Aug. 9 Sister Henrietta headed Holy Family Institute from 1954-60 and was Fr. Philip Platani...... 1949 a member of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth for 74 years. Fr. Francis X. Cronin...... 1969 A native of Cleveland, she entered the order in 1916. She taught for Aug. 10 41 years in the dioceses of Lansing, Erie and Pittsburgh. Locally. Fr. J.F. Robaczewski...... 1948 IsummeCTS sale Sister taught at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Polish Hill: Holy Family, Cardinal John Wright...... 1979 Lawrenceville; Mt. Nazareth Academy, Bellevue: and SS. Cyril & Fr. Paul J. Giegerich...... 1988 Methodius, McKees Rocks. Aug. 11 Sister Henrietta also served on the order's provincial council from Fr. Edmund J. Sheedy...... 1966 1960-65. Aug. 12 $75 Minimum Discount Per Window Surviving is one sister, Sophie Michalowski. Fr. Peter A. Llplnski...... 1945 Funeral Mass was offered July 30 in the motherhouse chapel. Burial Fr. John A. Larkin...... 1981 followed in St. Joseph Cemetery. Fr. Thomas B. Harnyak...... 1987

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