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p a s t o r a l at ordination PITTSBURGH — Bishop By JERRY FILTEAU Donald W. Wuerl will preside as WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. consecrator at the episcopal or­ bishops' Committee on Women in dination of the Rev. William J. Society and In the Church is spon­ Winter, named auxiliary bishop- soring two regional meetings — elect in late December. East and West — o f diocesan women's commissions early In The ordination will be held on 1989. Feb. 13 at 3 p.m. In St. Paul's Cathedral. Serving as co- Participants, appointed by their consecrators will be Aux. Bishop bishops, are to discuss diocesan John B. McDowell and Bishop An­ responses to women's interests thony G. Bosco of the Diocese of and to the U.S. bishops' proposed Greensburg. pastoral letter on women's concerns. A committee has been named to coordinate the ordination event. The East Coast meeting is Selected as honorary chairman scheduled for Jan. 24-26 at the was the Most Rev. Vincent J. Dominican Retreat House in Leonard, retired Bishop of Pitt­ Elkins Park. Pa. sburgh. Bishop McDowell is general chairman. Associate The meeting on the West Coast chairmen are Rev. Nicholas C. is scheduled to take place Feb. Dattilo. diocesan general 8-10 at St. Francis Retreat House secretary, and Rev. Thomas J. in San Juan Bautista. Calif. Tobin, associate general secretary. Bishop Joseph L. Imesch of Joliet. 111., chairman of the As auxiliary bishop. Bishop- bishops' committee, wrote to Parishioners greet new bishop elect Winter, who is pastor of St. bishops last fall asking them to Philip. Crafton. will assist Bishop send as participants one or two Father William Winter, who will be ordained as an auxiliary bishop will continue as pastor of the parish following his ordination. With Donald W. Wuerl in the pastoral representatives from their for the Pittsburgh Diocese on Feb. 13. greets parishioners at S t him are Susan and Mark Viola and their daughter Nina. 2. care and general administration diocesan task force, committee or Philip Church In Crafton following Sunday Mass. The new bishop — Photo by John C. Keenan of the six-county diocese. commission on women, if they have one, or other diocesan representatives if they have no specific vehicle In their diocese for Jesuit priest says addressing women's concerns. He said the meetings would give diocesan representatives op­ Theological leadership now shifting back to universities portunities to share their views and experiences regarding the By TRACY EARLY Fr. Dulles also suggested that university theology "Its due character of seminary theology. sacrifice Its status as a reflection establishment and development election of a former university measure o f freedom” with In­ Fr. Dulles said, university on the corporate faith of the of diocesan agencies to deal with NEW YORK (NC) — Jesuit professor as pope "m ay be of sistence that a university cannot theology maintains close contact church and would cease to render women's concerns, to discuss the theologian Father Avery Dulles more than symbolic give theologians a status "outside with disciplines such as history the kind of service that the church resources dioceses need in that said recently that Catholic significance." In the 1950s Pope or above the church.” and philosophy, addresses a wide­ expects from it.” Fr. Dulles said. field, and to reflect on the recent theological leadership had moved John Paul II taught ethics at the ly diversified audience and papal letter on women and the from seminaries back to univer­ Catholic University o f Lublin. "They may continue to raise "concentrates on open and un­ "Whatever may be the case stUl-developing U.S. pastoral let­ sities — its main setting in the Poland. questions arising from their per­ solved questions that cannot be with regard to other academic ter on women. high Middle Ages — through a sonal study and reflection and in settled by a simple appeal to disciplines, theology requires a "providential" shift of recent this way prepare for further living relationship to a communi­ The lecture by Fr. Dulles in­ authority." Many dioceses first formed task decades. refinements of the official ty of faith and to the official forces or similar organizations on augurated the McGlnley lecture teaching." he said. "But However, he said, university leadership of that community." women's concerns in the "Since the Council of Trent (in series and his appointment as the theologians cannot simply theology has "characteristic mid-1980s as part of a nationwide the 16th century). theo)ogy had first holder of the McGlnley Chair disregard the teaching of the weaknesses." He cited the action Although theological leadership consultation to help develop the become too far removed from the in Religion and Society at For­ pastors. They cannot responsibly of German Lutheran theologian has shifted to the universities. Fr. first draft of the bishops' pastoral modem world with its ebullient dham. It Is named for Jesuit substitute their own opinions for Dietrich Bonhoeffer in leaving the Dulles said. American Catholic on women. The first draft was secularlty." said Fr. Dulles in a Father Laurence J. McGlnley. the official teaching." University of Berlin during the universities have not yet produc­ published last spring, and lecture at Fordham University in who was president of Fordham Nazi era when he felt Christian ed "the kind of creative scholar­ dioceses were asked to sponsor New York, where he is a professor. from 1949 to 1963. doctrine could not be taken ship" associated with major Euro­ further local consultations this Fr. Dulles said the maglsterium seriously there. pean universities. fall and winter to help revise and "The products of the seminary Fr. Dulles, who retired from the — the church's teaching authori­ refine the document. system — staffing the Roman con­ faculty of The Catholic University ty — was not to be viewed as a "In living dialogue with con­ gregations and other sensitive o f America earlier this year, said force "forever trying to shackle "If academic freedom meant t e m p o r a r y culture and Some dioceses have turned in­ positions — maintained and the Fordham appointment was university theologians" but could that theologians were entitled to technology," he said, "university itial task forces on women's con­ defended the Catholic tradition for two years and involved also protect them from "the teach as true whatever seemed to theology must bring the full cerns into standing diocesan com­ but seemed ill at ease in the teaching one course and giving assaults of anti-intellectual them to be sug^sted by purely resources of Catholic tradition to missions. committees or offices. modem world.” he said. "The two public lectures each year. bigots." rational methods of inquiry, bear on major questions regar­ new shift back to the university without any deference to Scrip­ Bishop Imesch Is also chairman ding belief and conduct raised by corresponds to the call of Vatican In contrast to the generally ture. tradition or ecclesiastical of the committee of bishops that is In the Inaugural lecture, Fr. "clerical and doctrinaire" authority, theology would other disciplines." drafting the pastoral letter. II for openness and dialogue." Dulles balanced a call for giving Plans underway for conference on Feb. 5 for pre-marriage teams By SR. JACQUELINE SET­ frequent lecturer on personal munity will offer praise and TER. CSJ and family development, will thanksgiving to God for the gift present the morning session on of ministry to which they have PITTSBURGH — A one day The Sexuality and Spirituality been called. They also will pray Conference for Pre-Marriage of Marriage. for all couples preparing for the teams throughout the diocese The afternoon session will be sacrament o f marriage and will be held at the Sheraton offered by Dr. Marguerite whose lives they will touch. Hotel, Station Square on Sun­ Kroplnak. CSJ. and will focus A dinner at the Sheraton will day. Feb. 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 on the issue of Communication follow the Mass. A ll par­ p.m. in Marriage. Sister Marguerite, ticipants In the conference are is a counselor In private prac­ to attend, as well as staff The program is offered by tice, as well as a staff member members who are Involved in the Office of Religlpus Educa­ at the Pittsburgh Pastoral parish, regional, deanery or tion for Adults and Is open to Institute. diocesan pre-marriage all persons presently or poten­ The speakers will offer exper­ programs. tially Involved In preparing tise and Insights on their Letters regarding this con­ couples for marriage, whether respective topics and engage ference have been sent to all at parish, regional, deanery or participants in the sharing of priests of the diocese and to diocesan level. High school experiences and concerns. It Is coordinators of local programs. teachers of religion also are expected that all attending will For Information about par­ Invited. St. C olum bkille w indow gain personal benefit as well as ticipation. contact your parish new Insights and skills for their or the Diocesan Office for Adult Joseph window is one of 14 windows to be The conference, featuring Father William Miller, pastor of S t Columbkille ministry to engaged couples. Religious Education, phone dedicated by Bishop Wuerl at a special Mass on two educators, will address two Parish in Imperial, examines the S t Joseph win­ The day will culminate with (4121 456-3117. Registration Sunday. Jan. 8 at 3 p.m. aspects of marriage prepara­ dow that Is to be Installed In the parish church. tion. Dr. William Kraft, pro- the celebration of Eucharist at must be made by Tuesday. Assisting him are Howard Walters and Mike fessor at Carlow College and jJJ5jjn/Thejathm d^ Feb. 10. Mahofskl. employees of Hunt Studios. The S t — Photo by John C. Keenan Page 2 PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Friday, January 6, 1989 Diocesan News A n a ly sis Catholicism gets more free in several communist states By BILL PRITCHARD wants to live In what was the pean communist nation visited by WASHINGTON (NC) — bishop's residence, but is now a the pope, outside his native Catholicism has been allowed a government building. Poland, during his 10 years in little more breathing room in re­ The Lithuanian government office. cent times in some of the world's began relaxing restrictions on In the Far East. China has been major communist states. Bishop Steponavicius several steadily expanding its version of China, the Soviet Union and months ago when it granted him religious freedom for the past 10 Hungary have been easing up on permission to visit Rome in Oc­ years. After the decade of the restrictions over the past few tober for three weeks of talks with Cultural Revolution when public years. At the end of December, Pope John Paul II and other top religious activity was stopped. developments regarding East bloc Vatican officials. Chinese Catholicism began in hierarchies were welcomed by 1978. under the government of Since 1961. the bishop has Catholic spokesmen as good signs Deng Xiaoping, to resume church been living in Zagare. a town in for the future. life and recover properties. the northern part o f the Ar­ • In the Soviet Union. Lithua­ Officials of the government- chdiocese of Kaunas. Lithuania. nian authorities allowed Bishop recognized Chinese Catholic The bishop has never been tried Julijonas Steponavicius to Church, which elects bishops nor convicted of a crime, the resume his church duties as without papal authorization, told leader of the Vilnius Archdiocese Lithuanian Information Center in Rome said Dec. 30. the visiting journalists that they for the first time in 26 years. are free to train priests, reopen Bishop Steponavicius' return to The government began relax­ and repair churches damaged ing restrictions on Bishop Vilnius is "the latest In a number during the turmoil of the '60s and of welcome developments In Steponavicius several months ago early '70s, and recoup rental pro­ Lithuania that give us cautious when it granted him permission perties which account for a large hope that the breezes of renewal to visit Rome in October for three portion of church income. that are beginning to blow across weeks of talks with Pope John But the government, through the Soviet Union ... will extend to Paul II and other top Vatican its Bureau of Religious Affairs, religion." the secretary general of officials. and the Communist Party, the U.S. bishops' conference. • Vatican-Hungary relations, through its United Front Work Aiding Arm enian victim s Msgr. Daniel Hoye. said in a Jan. warmed to the point of allowing a Department, have the option to 3 statement. Mother Teresa comforts a young girl during her of Charity, who will be tending to people Injured papal visit this year, have also control and direct church activity. In the global picture of contact recent visit to the Children’s Hospital of Yerevan In the Dec. 7 earthquake. resulted in the appointment of In the southern province of between Catholicism and com­ in the capital of Armenia. With Mother Teresa five new auxiliary bishops young Guangdong, the provincial — NC photo from UPI-Reuter munism. the relations between are three members of her order, the Missionaries enough to ensure continued government has required priests Hungary and the Vatican are con­ church leadership into the next and ministers to apply for permis­ sidered the most genial. century. sion to hold worship services and The Vatican announced Dec. 30 • And in another part of the other religious events. Supreme Knight urges pro-lifers that Pope John Paul II had named communist world. China, foreign Additionally, the Chinese five auxiliary bishops to Hungary. Catholic journalists observed a Catholic Patriotic Association, It was a step seen as positioning church considerably freer In the formed in 1957 to keep the to consider implications of success the church's hierarchy in that past 10 years than any time since church in line with the party, con­ country for the future and was the mid-1950s. But government tinues as a powerful force in NEW HAVEN. Conn. (NC) — If the U.S. Supreme undertaken with the cooperation remedy for the tragic error of the Roe decision may still holds the option to regulate Chinese Catholic life. But recent­ Court decision legalizing abortion is overturned, of the Hungarian government. be forthcoming from the Supreme Court itself." and restrict, as well as aid. the ly. the association came under pro-lifers should be prepared for more legal battles He was referring to Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 "official” Catholic Church which Two of the new auxiliaries will criticism from a northern bishop and to show magnanimity to those "duped by pro- Supreme Court decision that struck down state operates under government go to Esztergom. the primatial who called it corrupt, crumbling abortion propaganda." the head of the Knights of abortion restrictions. approval. See in the communist nation, and and unpopular. He was supported Columbus said Dec. 12. But if Roe vs. Wade is overturned, he said, it is The decision by Lithuanian the others were named to some of by other bishops. Supreme Knight Virgil C. Dechant asked the likely to guarantee a long legislative struggle In authorities to permit Bishop Hungary’s largest dioceses. Chinese Catholic bishops said pro-life movement to "confront a basic question: Congress and especially in state legislatures. Steponavicius to resume his An informed Vatican official, they are one in faith with the ... what will we do with success when and if it He made his remarks in a statement urging duties as apostolic administrator who asked not to be named, said universal Church, but the lack of comes?" Knights to participate in the annual March for Life of Vilnius, restored him to the Dec. 30 that the appointments diplomatic ties between China There is now powerful pro-life sentiment among in Washington marking the anniversary of the country's most important See. would bring young leaders into and the Vatican prevent formal the majority of Americans, according to Dechant, Supreme Court decision. The 1989 march will The government decision, com­ dioceses where the resident, relations with the Holy See. and "there are even grounds for hoping that a take place Jan. 23. municated to Lithuanian Car­ bishop is old or ill. and would dinal Vincentas Sladkevicius Dec. relieve the workload on other 29. capped a year of religious bishops. Two of the new bishops developments in the mostly are in their 40s. Curran trial a forum for Church law debate Catholic Soviet republic, in­ "These nominations are really By JERRY F1LTEAU ment places on a civil court in a canon law and civil law dimen­ California while awaiting the out­ cluding the reinstatement of based on local pastoral needs. WASHINGTON (NC) - The trial case where church law and civil sions of the case. come o f his lawsuit, took the Christmas as aii official holiday. They help round out the hierar­ of Father Charles E. Curran vs. law are intricately intertwined. In between — In what Welsberg witness stand Dec. 22-23 to argue There Is one hitch, however. A chy." he said. The Catholic University of No decision on the lawsuit was termed “ one of the most difficult his side of the case. spokesman for the cardinal said Pope John Paul II has also ac­ America ended Dec. 23 as it expected for at least two months. and one of the most interesting He said his right to continue the bishop is not returning im­ cepted an invitation to visit began nine days earlier: a car­ After the final witness was heard. cases I have ever had” In 11 years teaching at the university while mediately to Vilnius because of a Hungary, possibly in October, it dinal on the witness stand and the Wetsberg asked lawyers for both as a Superior Court Judge — the dissenting from some Catholic dispute over where he will live. He would be the first Eastern Euro- lawyers arguing in a civil court sides to submit post-trial parade o f witnesses before the teachings had been clearly about Church law. memorandums — legal briefs court included two U.S. cardinals, established 20 years ago in a U .S. m issionary to head diocese "This lawsuit is over whether summarizing their arguments — the last four presidents of Catholic series o f controversies at Catholic VATICAN CITY (NC) — Bishop John C. McNabb. a U.S. missionary, I'm allowed to teach Catholic by Jan. 25. Under standard court University, and a stream of University in which he was a cen­ hqp been named to head the new diocese of Chulucanas. Peru, a theology" at Catholic University, procedures, a verdict incor­ theologians and canon lawyers. tral figure. prelature he had run for 24 years before its status was raised. Fr. Curran told the District of Col­ porating the Judge's legal opinion Cardinal James A. Hickey of Other witnesses. Including umbia Superior Court as he was on the questions at issue could Washington, who as chancellor of Jesuit Father William J. Byron, I JIM DRONEY A MIKE SILVESTflE SELL cross-examined on the final day of then take up to several months to BEFORE YOU BLOW the university initiated the pro­ current president of the universi­ the trial. complete. ceedings to remove Fr. Curran EVERYTHING FOR THE OFFICE YOUR STACK..CALL ty, and his three predecessors in The university removed Fr. 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AMERICAN TABU PAD CO. reader to team more Search (or January Stations legal ties to Rome, is governed S Iran and Iraq, In the Soviet systems that do not respect their difficulties and trials and growing solidarity and social con­ withdrawal from Afghanistan and human, cultural and civil rights." praised the Jesuits "who hatre O rdinance passes in C hicago cern for one and all," the pope in negotiations to end fighting in Speaking in a year-end "T e opened their homes to you in a CHICAGO (NC) — Despite opposition by the Chicago Ar­ said in a sermon. Angola. Deum" of thanksgiving in Rome’s true spirit o f Christian hospitality1 chdiocese. the Chicago City Council banned anti-homosexual The pope's World Peace Day The article, citing the Palesti- Gesu Church Dec. 31. the pope and solidarity." bias in a broad new "human rights" ordinance. made some unusually pointed He also prayed that all those in The council voted 28-17 In favor of the law Dec. 21. reversing remarks about Rome's treatment Ethiopia would know "greater a September vote in which it had defeated the same legislation of the less fortunate. peace and well-being" in 1989. 26-21. The switch of several council votes was attributed to Bishops’ study states He said that during the past The country has been racked by pressure by acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer and other can­ year some Romans had shown civil fighting and famine for didates in an approaching mayoral primary race. the “ non-Christian behavior of several years. The new law. which takes effect in February, bans priests’ morale is low discrimination based on "race, color, sex. age. religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, By JERRY FILTEAU the work of a subcommittee, marital status, parental status, military discharge status or WASHINGTON (NC) - Many headed by Bishop John L. source of income." U.S. priests feel "trapped, over­ McRaith of Owensboro. Ky.. of the In a statement Dec. 22 the Chicago Archdiocese said it was worked. frustrated” and suffer priestly life and ministry "concerned that (the new ordinance) may be construed to pro­ low morale, says a study Issued committee. vide acceptance or approval for homosexual acts and may not by the U.S. Bishops’ Committee Another source of frustration provide adequate protection for the rights of religious groups on Priestly Life and Ministry.' for priests, the report says, is the in the practice of their beliefs.” The growing shortage of priests fact "that some solutions to the and a feeling by many that their clergy shortage are precluded years-long work to implement the from discussion and that not all Second Vatican Council "Is now pastoral solutions and options G overnor com m utes sentence being blunted or even betrayed" can be explored. HELENA. Mont. (NC) — Montana Gov. Ted Schwinden com­ contribute to the low morale, the "Discouragement.” it con­ muted the sentence of a convicted killer who had been study says. tinues, "comes from the acute scheduled for execution after a six-week campaign for clemen­ It also cites loneliness, tensions awareness of priests that some cy by a Catholic priest. over sexual issues and polarized possible avenues of relief are not Father Jerry Lowney. associate pastor o f St. Helena's views of the church as key factors. to be considered or discussed. Cathedral, got Involved In the case of convicted killer David "Generally every study or com­ Those most commonly referred to Cameron Keith when he gave a homily opposing the death mentary done on the priesthood are ordination of married men. ef­ penalty that spurred two Catholic lawyers to seek clemency for and shortage of vocations men­ fective use of laicized priests and Keith. tions sexuality —■ and specifically expanded roles for women in Schwinden commuted Keith’s sentence to life imprisonment mandatory celibacy — as a major ministry.” without chance of parole Dec. 29. less than a week after the reason a) for leaving the On polarized eccleslologles. or state's Board of Pardons and Parole recommended that he priesthood, b) for shortage of views of the church, it notes that commute the sentence. vocations and c) for loneliness priests are called "b y theology and personal unhappiness of and vocation" to be healers and those who stay," the report says. reconcilers, making "tension and It says that sexual tensions in­ outright hostility all the more Pope criticizes threats to fam ily volve not only questions o f “ per­ disheartening and difficult to PORTO SAN GIORGIO. Italy (NC) — Pope John Paul II sonal and interpersonal levels of bear." criticized social threats to the family and urged the renewal sexuality" for individual priests, “ The priest must deal with but also "what might be called movement known as the Neo-Catechumenal Way to work to those who are angry and disillu­ "protect the family from every destruction.” 'the politics of sexuality' which sioned with what they consider The pope's brief trip to the Adriatic coastal town of Porto San would include the Issues surroun­ the slow pace of renewal: he must Pope m eets Arafat Giorgio to meet with 2.000 catechlsts belonging to the move­ ding feminism, married clergy, also face the unreasoning and ment on the feast of the Holy Family. Dec. 30. became an occa­ optional celibacy, the role and Pope John Paul II and PLO leader Yasser Arafat look over gifts they often well-organized opposition of exchanged at the Vatican. The pope and Arafat met at a private au­ sion for an extemporaneous homily on the modem family. place of homosexuals In ministry, the self-styled orthodox and of just to name a few." dience during the recent holidays. “ Society, peoples, culture, social life, economic life: all are those who simply do not believe — NC photo from UPI-Reuter for the family, not at the cost o f the family." the pope said. The report was completed and In the decisions and directions of Pope John Paul made his spontaneous comments during a sent to the U.S. bishops last spr­ Vatican II (Priests) find Mass celebrating the decision of 72 couples and their 292 ing. but it was not made public at themselves caught in the mid­ that time. In September the Ad­ children to leave homes, jobs and country to become lay mis­ dle." the report says. Wedding World ts one of the largest groups of bridal stores sionaries abroad. The missionaries have no fixed tours of duty. ministrative Committee of the Na­ tional Conference o f Catholic What a bishop can do to ease in the United States. BRIDAL gowns from the main bridal Bishops approved publication and the demoralization of priests "Is warehouse for Pennsylvania and Maryland have been moved wider distribution of the report, not easy and is definitely to our two Pittsburgh stores in MONROEVILLE and PLEASANT HILLS Pope nam es H ungarian bishops and the NCCB Public Affairs Of­ limited." the report says. VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II named five aux­ fice released copies to the press It says that what priests often WAREHOUSE SALE iliary bishops In Hungary, a step seen as positioning the after Christmas. want most from their bishops is church's hierarchy there for the future. The report, titled "Reflections "more personal contact, greater LIMITED TIME! 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They serve as ing to his rivals as "you stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart Constantine also donated the land on which the Basilica of St. elaborate bookends. drawing attention to taro lesser-known religious and ears." John Lateran. the seat of the Rome diocese, was built. The portico of observances. Stephen was accused of blasphemy because of his belief in Jesus the basilica still contains a huge Roman-era statue of Constantine These are the feast o f S t Stephen. Dec. 26. and the feast o f St. and was stoned to death outside the walls of Jerusalem. But his ex­ commemorating his donation. Sylvester. Dec. 31. The religious dates also have their practical side ecution also serves to introduce New Testament readers to Saul of In 325 Constantine convoked the First Ecumenical Council of in Italian life. Tarsus, who later repents of his persecution of Christians and Nicaea which condemned the Arlan heresy because it denied the The feast o f St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr is a legal holi­ becomes the model for the church's missionary efforts. Paul's ac­ divinity of Christ. The council also established the date for Easter day. allowing people to ease their way out of Christmas indigestion tivities and writings dominate the books of the New Testament and contributed to the formulation of the Nicene Creed, the body of before returning to normal activities. New Year's Eve is known as which come after the Gospels. belief required o f church members. Although Sylvester was pope. the vigil of St. Sylvester, a fourth-century pope. This gives a spiritual The relationship between the two men was expressed by the Constantine opened and closed the council in elaborate ceremonies aura to what is generally a night of parties and merrymaking stret­ and was the "de facto" presiding officer. ching into the early hours of the new year. fourth-century doctor of the church. St. Augustine: "If Stephen had not prayed, the church would not have Paul." For the two saints, being overshadowed is nothing new. Just as Constantine also dispatched letters and instructions to bishops their feast days are in the shade of the well-known holidays, so were St. Sylvester was Pope Sylvester I. who reigned from 314 to 335. It asking them to resolve local theological disputes. Political more their lives dominated by more important historical figures. was a period when Christianity began flourishing as it was granted than theological reasons were behind Constantine's actions. As St. Stephen was stoned to death by early opponents of Christiani­ legal status in the Roman Empire, ending centuries of persecution. Christianity was growing in the empire, he feared that church ty. Throwing one o f the first stones was Saul o f Tarsus, who later But this flowering was more the work of the contemporary Roman disunity would harm political stability. converted to Christianity and became Paul the Apostle. Paul's mis­ emperor. Constantine I. The emperor, after years of sympathy for Subsequent generations of Christians were disappointed in the sionary real was a major force in spreading Christianity west from Christianity, was baptized on his deathbed. dominance of Constantine in his relationship with Sylvester and the Holy Land into Southern Europe. Constantine, who ruled from 306 to 337. is recognized by began formulating legends, embellishing the pope's role in the Stephen, whose Christian exploits are recounted in the Acts of the historians as one of Rome’s most important emperors. He regarded events of his era. These legends were later collected and published Apostles, was. like Paul, a zealous preacher and an early Jewish religion as an instrument of state policy and became actively involv­ as the "Acts of Blessed Sylvester ' convert to Christianity. Stephen's worth was recognized by the ed in ecdesial affairs, building landmark churches throughout Events from the "A cts" inspired a series of well-known 13th- Apostles who considered him the most important of the first group Rome and even calling an ecumenical council to resolve theological century frescoes. The well-preserved frescoes still can be seen in of deacons they ordained. disputes. Rome's Chapel of St. Sylvester, located in a convent o f cloistered Described in the New Testament as "a man filled with faith and The most important church he ordered built was the original St. Augustinian nuns. But you have to ask one of the nuns for the key to the Holy Spirit. Stephen quickly established a reputation as an elo­ Peter's Basilica over the site traditionally believed to be the grave of the locked chapel door. E d itorials National Migration Week

National Migration Week 1989 will be visit newcomers in the parish. The commit­ celebrated from Jan. 9-14 throughout the tee. which should include representatives of U.S. all ethnic groups present in the parish, will The theme of this year's observance is schedule visits to all newcomers — both "The Blessed Mother and Immigrants." foreign and transplanted U.S. citizens. Through this event, sponsored by the Na­ • Ask members of established ethnic tional Conference of Catholic Bishops, communities to translate instructional members of the Church can reaffirm their materials into their native languages to help commitment to serve and evangelize the newer arrivals feel m ore at home. world's people on the move: immigrants, • Outside your parish church, display a refugees and displaced persons. multi-lingual "welcome” sign, written in Indeed, the Catholic Church in the Pitt­ your communities predominating imm igrant sburgh Diocese is a church of immigrants la n g u a g e s . within a nation of immigrants. Once a year • Familiarity with your parish's ethnic during National Migration W eek, members of composition is important. Studying the ex­ the diocese celebrate their rich Immigrant periences of the im m igrant« in their native heritage and reflect about how the faithful countries and their understanding of the can welcome today's newcomers to our local church in Am erica is a starting point in p a ris h e s . the evangelization effort. For Catholic imm igrants and refugees, the • Newcomers should be encouraged to parish is the most im portant and meaningful participate in the parish m inisterial services social and spiritual institution. T h e C h u r c h and the policy-making process. Immigrants m ay be the only familiar point of contact for consider the parish their own only when they newcomers who are confronted by a new. can identify themselves with those who are confusing and sometimes hostile environ­ actively involved in parish m inistries: lectors, ment. Thus, the Church provides hope, eucharistic ministers, parish council stability and continuity of religious members, etc. experience. • Commemorate special religious and na­ Newcomers long for a sense of com m unity tional holidays from your immigrant and fam ily relationship. The local church has parishes' countries of origin. Include some an obligation to respond to this need and to special mention of the historical events or help imm igrants and refugees develop trust m ajor happenings in their homelands. and confidence. These factors present the ffi Bishop’s Schedule jfe Church with a new challenge and. at the W elcoming new individuals and groups in­ same time, with enormous opportunities. to the life of the parish calls for creativity and The following is Bishop Wuerl's public fice. Northside. Suggestions include: flexibility. Together, all groups form one schedule for the week of Jan. 8: • Establish a welcoming committee to B o d y o f C h r i s t . Sunday. Jan. 8 Monday. Jan. 9 thru Thursday. Jan. 12 3 p.m. — Mass and blessing of stained glass Annual Pennsylvania Bishops' Retreat. St. windows. St. Columbkille Parish. Imperial. Charles Seminary. Overbrook. Philadelphia.

Monday. Jan. 9 Sunday. Jan. 15 Feast of the Epiphany 9:30 a.m - 12 noon — Christian Associates 11 a.m. — Mass. St. Aloysius Parish. Reserve Committee on Racism. Pittsburgh Presbytery Of- Township. The story of the Magi (Three Wise Men) Epiphany commemorates the manifestations calls attention that the Church will m ark the of the divinity of Christ. It was not until 1955 feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 8. The story of when its rank of importance — which was the Magi, particularly for the Western higher than that of Christm as — was reduced Church, symbolizes Christ's revelation to the by the Church. The feast remains a holy day Introduction to the Trinity G e n tile s . of obligation (U.S. exempt) for many At one time in Church history, it was one of Catholics and its significance is recognized By Fr. JOHN CATOIR the important feasts of the Church following universally. warmth toward God. it is God Director. The Christophers Himself enabling you to enjoy the only after Pentecost and Easter. The feast In these times when the solemnity of Divine Presence. Keep In mind, originally is believed to have commemorated St Augustine wrote a sermon Christm as has become secondary to buying, theology is the science that ex­ the date of the baptism of Christ. Christmas, on the mystery of joy (Sermon 21. receiving and giving gifts as well as other plains the unexplainable. The the more popular feast in m odem times, was 1-4) which intrigued me. He cites worldly pursuits, it may be good to take Trinity is beyond our capacity to this text: "The just man will re­ not included until the 4th century in an effort notice of this feast on our Church calendar to fully understand but we know joice in the Lord and put his hope to supplant a pagan festival. further remind us of the holiness of the this: the Holy Spirit in us enables - One of the oldest Christian feasts. in Him. the heart of all good men Christm as season. will be filled with joy." us to love the Father and to rejoice in Him. The question he raises is. how? EDITORIALS — Editorials are the views expressed by the editor and his assistants at the Pitt­ What reason does the Christian I don't know how these ideas sburgh Catholic. Readers are welcome to respond in the Letters to the Editor colum n. All letters have for joy? His answer is sim­ will touch you, but I was ple: the Lord Himself. Rejoice in m ust be signed and contain the writer's address, phone num ber and kept to a m axim um length plains exactly how God draws reassured and comforted in the the Lord. of 300 words. near in these words: "God is love: knowledge that m y own warm­ What then are we supposed to God is that which enables you to hearted feelings toward God are do to gain this joy? Do nothing, he be loving. not merely a sign of my humani­ says, simply rejoice in the Lord I Here we begin to see how the ty. they are also signs of God's life like his simplicity and straightfor­ Blessed Trinity is at work in us. and grace working In me. wardness. but Augustine doesn't The very fact that you choose to This is good news indeed: It leave it at that. He questions fur­ love Him is a sign of His loving makes me rejoice In the Lord and ther: who can rejoice in what he presence in you. If you feel any put my hope in Him even more. c a t h o l i c does not see? His answer: it's not what we Serving the Diocese of Pittsburgh: Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Lawrence end Washington Counties see. it's what we shall see. "Belov­ Photograph shows hum anity of unborn Established in 1S44 by Most Rev. Michael O'Connor, 0.0. ed we are now the sons o f God. By JERRY FILTEAU Annual Subscription Rate: S 10.00 in U k . and SII in Foreign Countries what we shall be has not yet been Second-Class Postage Paid at Pittsburgh. PA WASHINGTON (NC) — The word "abortion" could not be used with revealed, but we know that when the picture, but U S Catholic Conference officials feel that the striking * * * it is revealed we shall be like Him. color photo of an 18-week-old fetus by award-winning Swedish science Pittsburgh Catholic Publishing Associates because we shall see Him as He photographer Lennart Nilsson speaks for itself Is." (St. John). Moet Rev. Donald W. Wuert, S.T.D, D.D. Preerdent Fr. Ronald P. Lsngvrin, Director, Office for Communications They have produced 50.000 copies of the photo on a 16-by-20-inch Augustine persists, how can we poster for distribution throughout the United States. W Hani P. Fodiab. Editor Cannella Weismantle, Comptroller rejoice in the Lord if He is far from PbB Taylor, Assistatit Editor Peggy Terra. Circulation Manager “The simplicity and stark beauty of the picture says volumes about us? He answers his own question the dignity and sanctity of unborn human life." said Gail Quinn, direc­ Patricia Bartoe. Reporter Jack Lee, Advertising Manager once again: if He is far. that is SSephsn KarUnchak, Aeporter tor o f program development o f the U.S. bishops' Office for Pro-Life Stephen Kursen, C om positor your doing: love and He will draw L E. Antonucci. C om positoi Patty Ambrose, Receptionist Activities near. John C. Keenan, Photographer Nilsson’s photo shows the face and hands o f a serene-looking, Published Eeery Friday Deadtine - Noon Every Monday If you read the above translucent -skinned unborn child, its right thumb in its mouth, its Postmster t Suescribsr Send address changee le Pillaiugli Cattale, 100 Wood Putti. SuKs 500, Pittsbwah, PA 15222 paragraphs a dozen times you trill eyes still closed. Aflow W tretks ter cUangs sI address still be puzzled, unless you simp­ Printed on the poster Is a passage from Psalm 139: "Truly you have ly stop trying to be logical and ac­ Pittsburgh CathoSc (ISN-032-C3Z% 100 Wood Street, Suite 500; (First Avo. Entrane#) Pittsburgh. PA 15222 formed my inmost being: you knit me in my mother's womb. I give cept the fact that you can’t pin ______PRONE: (412) «71-1252 you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made: wonderful are your down mystery. St. August pie ex­ works." I Friday, January 6, 1989 PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Pa«e 5 Opinions/comments Homelessness in U.S. scandalous By Msgr. CHARLES O. RICE around it and you will be struck the triumph of greed and I am haunted by the homeless by the vacant stretches where indifference and the shortage in this rich coun­ homes used to stand. try of places where they could Examples abound o f civic and Letters abide. To m y way of thinking a political blunders — Manchester major cause of the increase in the I Msgr Chariesj on the North Side presents a But now. let me shift from this numbers of homeless is the O. Rice wasteland where people once liv­ country to another country, one destruction of their habitat, that ed in some comfort that could not exist without our is. the type o f old houses in which Take beliefs seriously In the years I lived in support. Israel. Like the rest of poor people can manage after Homewood I saw the housing you 1 agonize over the rights and some fashion. One way or another stock decrease and the empty lot wrongs, and the contradictions. To the Editor: so many o f these have been increase. Every time you heard o f There is the determination that Is there any hypocrisy whatsoever In the life of someone who demolished. a fire, you could mourn one more Israel shall not die versus the considers himself a good Catholic but does not attend Mass daily In a shrinking city such as ours irreparable diminution of habitat. longing for justice for the Palesti­ or pray the rosary? that demolition had to be horren­ structures. As a child in Ireland I remember nians. When terrorists war on If we believe in the Holy sacrifice of the Mass and sacramental dous because we have lost Developers o f all sorts are the the sad sight of abandoned rural Israeli civilians, just as when life as the great privilege and gift of God while also acknowledging population. Less people should worst habitat destroyers: houses — the roofs fallen in. just Israeli troops fire and kill, often the urgency of Mary's direct plea to mankind at Fatima to pray have meant that more, rather highway builders are a close se­ the gables standing, gardens with children as tormentors and the rosary, then why are these beliefs not taken more seriously. than less, habitable dwellings cond. Consider the East Street grown over and given to the victims. 1 am shaken and Indeed, are we spiritually indifferent without even realizing it? would be available. Animal Valley Expressway now glorious­ weeds. Sometimes these were saddened. species are wiped out when their ly triumphant. It flattened and relics of the bad old days of evic­ What hurts me most of all. even JOHN N. HEIL habitat is destroyed: but that paved over a solid community of tions. most often of emigration. more than when the Israelis extie Wauwatosa. WI human species, which is made up several thousand settled and con­ Families had given up and left the Palestinian resisters. is when they of our homeless, multiplies when tented City residents in order that land of their ancestors. blow up a house, an Arab home, its habitat is destroyed. We now others who wanted to desert the Sometime in the New Year I as punishment for a community ’s have two possible solutions: one. City could do so painlessly. shall write about an intense and militance or in retaliation for a Messages of hope kill the homeless: two. restore Our Pittsburgh renaissance extended effort I made to help a real act of violence. That bothers their habitat. wiped out a lively and ethnically slice of the homeless. That was a me more than I can explain. I can­ Good intentions destroyed varied community in the Lower half century ago. and it had its not avoid seeing it as the ultimate from Medjugorje dwellings. Subsidized public Hill, and for what? A Civic Arena, good and bad points. in vandalism, so permanent! Is it housing was Intended to increase an unnecessary hospital, an All this has influence on what I worse than death, does self the supply o f decent, affordable apartment house, some highway conclude about the scandal of defense justify it? Who dare EDITOR S NOTE: The Church houses but it began with tearing spaghetti and parking lots homelessness in our country. judge? All I can say is that it is like has not endorsed nor condemned some down. Shacks were bulldoz­ The Lower Hill is gone and the Homelessness among us need not a stone in the heart. Oh! let there the activities and claims of Med ed. but so were adequate rest is in danger. Walk or drive be. should not be. It represents be peace! Peace and justice. jugorje but Is still studying them. By M ARIA ZANONI Washington letter Hundreds of thousands of peo­ ple have visited Medjugorje. Yugoslavia, for a deepening of a K faith, for a more sincere devotion Congress returns, so do controversies to Our Lord through Mary, and/or Vicka. one of Medjugorje's for a renewal in spirit. It is amaz­ visionaries. By LIZ SCHEVTCHUK backs an increase. areas than in inner cities." ing to see that so many pilgrims — Photo by Maria Zanonl WASHINGTON (NC) — Con­ Bush has expressed support for The capital punishment debate have come back enthused about praying to Him. we should tell gresses come and go. but issues some minimum wage increase. also may return to Congress, ac­ •the peace and love shown by God Him and ask for the intercession often linger — giving the incom­ cording to a USCC legislative up­ Both Network and the USCC and through others. It is almost as of the Holy Spirit or of Our Bless­ ing 101st Congress ample oppor­ date. Although a federal death if something had called them to also expect further debate on ed Mother. It is important to leave tunity to not only delve into new penalty was adopted by the 100th Medjugorje. family and parental leave pro­ our problems to Our Lord because business but to revisit some old Congress in anti-drug abuse Whether people go to learn posals. which would demand that He will eventually take care of controversies. legislation, a separate proposal to employers provide such benefits about praying more effectively. them. Giving Him our problems is prevent use of the death penalty Likely to demand congressional as unpaid leave to employees finding peace, or showing a deep an invitation for Him to give us by states in a racially attention again, are — to name a when a child is bom. adopted or respect for Our Blessed Mother, the love and peace that He desires discriminatory manner "can and few — domestic issues of bousing, seriously ill: when the employee the message that they find there to give to get us through the day. will be brought back. " the USCC day care and parental leave, rural is HI: or when an employee’s is universal to all people In all cir­ If we believe that we are created said. cumstances — peace. development, the fairness of the elderly parent needs care. The in His image and in His likeness, ing likely outcomes of any bill can As St. Alphonsus De Liguouri death penalty, and the minimum issue generated both widespread After convening Jan. 3. Con­ and that we are truly loved by be risky. gress was expected to put off once said, because Our Lord was Him. then we can believe that He wage. and. on the international support from church and front, sanctions against South women's groups and heated op­ serious work until after the Jan. brought to us through Mary, it is would want us to live day by day Nonetheless, sources at Net­ Africa, the Third World debt position from interest groups 20 inauguration. very appropriate that we choose in His love and peace. work and U.S. Catholic Con­ dilemma and a host of other before dying in the 100th Major foreign policy questions to love Him through Mary. Another aspect o f prayer that ference's Department o f Social questions. Congress. likely to demand attention in­ Through Mary, who loves our Our Blessed Mother stressed is Development and World Peace clude sanctions against South Lord so purely and so devoutly, reading from the scriptures. This Old debates about defense spen­ singled out several major issues Another family-related issue — Africa, arms control issues and we gain the support and the helps us better understand the ding. domestic needs and the likely to be stir interest in 1989. federally assisted child care or the pressing Third World debt guidance God so eagerly provides word of God and to live it in our overall budget probably also will day care — proved highly con­ crisis, said Robert Hennemeyer. to love and serve Him. own lives. FT. Tomislav Vlasic be revived, albeit under a new ad­ For one. said Sharon Daly, troversial in the 100th Congress director of the USCC Office of In­ As she has done in the past, she says that she recommends that ministration — which may well director o f the USCC Office of and is considered likely to pro­ ternational Justice and Peace. comes once more to Medjugorje we read and "root in our hearts’’ come in with its own legislative Domestic Social Development, voke serious debate in 1989. with much love to bring messages ’’we're going to try to interest In the last Congress, the USCC or meditate upon a different wish-list as well. In the last Congress, compa­ of hope as well as guidance. She passage from the scriptures every Congress in creating and main­ backed a bill to impose com­ In addition. President-elect nion House-Senate bills won the has revealed to Mirjana. one of the day. and reflect upon it taining low-income housing. ” a prehensive economic and other George Bush's administration ap­ backing o f the USCC and other visionaries, that God gave permis­ throughout the day. crucial need at a time when some sanctions against South Africa. pointments to executive branch church groups after the legisla­ sion to Satan to try the Church She also wants us to fast on families pay up to 70 percent of positions, and possibly the tion was changed to allow church- Beyond that. "I think the Third during 20th century, as can be Wednesdays and Fridays. She their incomes for shelter. Supreme Court, no doubt will sponsored day care centers a role World debt will be a major item in seen by today’s bloody wars, desires that we only eat bread and draw scrutiny from the pro-life The USCC. in a 1988 policy in federally backed programs. the coming session." Hen­ domestic violence, and the heresy water on these days, although giv­ movement — already dissatisfied nemeyer said. of modernism which attempts to ing up any food or entertainment statement, recommended more Bush has also endorsed the idea with his selection o f Dr. Louis W. According to a background promote living without God. She is a type o f fasting which is also cooperation between govern­ of improving child care oppor­ Sullivan as nominee as secretary ment, religious and private sec­ paper provided by the USCC. in also said that the evil one is begin­ appreciated. Once again, fasting tunities and "there will probably of health and human services. tors. she noted, "and we will be general "the religious community ning to lose his power and that his helps us to focus more upon God’s be dozens of child care bills of­ Right-to-llfers. citing serious pursuing that agenda. Low- is convinced that the relatively power will be destroyed after the love for us as well as the love He fered in this Congress. " Ms. Daly questions about Sullivan’s views income housing looks like a major small amount of U.S. foreign 10 secrets confided to the vi­ shows through other people It predicted. on abortion, had urged Bush not priority." assistance is overshadowed by sionaries come to pass. can also be seen as a type of The USCC also hopes to pro­ to choose him. the immensity o f the debt pro­ Essentially she has come to let penance, but it certainly can be mote increased federal support "Another key issue looks like for the nutrition program for low- blem for most of the developing us know that Our Lord loves us the means of expressing a true According to Network, the the minimum wage." Ms. Daly Religious-led social justice lobby, income pregnant women, infants countries." very much but that He is very love for God. said. A proposal to raise the some 11.092 bills were introduc­ and children and for health care hurt by man’s increasing indif­ Finally, she stressed a renewed federally set minimum wage from The poor developing countries ed in the last Congress, of which for low-income pregnant women ference or hatred toward Him as attention to the Holy Sacrament. its current level of *3.35 per hour debt is reportedly *1.2 trillion, some 600 actually passed both and their children, she added. well as his disregard for others. She stresses that we become more to *4.55 over a three-year period and "the devastating impact of She gives us hope in telling us respectful and loving toward the House and Senate and became died in the last Congress. Furthermore, the USCC. public such amounts makes it impossi­ that it is not too late to become Blessed Sacrament by making the law. policy agency of the U.S. bishops, ble for efforts to promote develop­ converted to Him and she guides proper preparations. Monthly Keeping track of that much "Any increase below that level will be reviewing federal rural ment or for economic growth to us by telling us how we can confessions are encouraged so legislation occupies a small in­ would be insufficient." agreed development policies. Ms. Daly succeed." the background paper become converted to Him. that we may receive our Lord with dustry in Washington, and guess- Network, which like the USCC said. "Poverty is worse in rural said. Her messages, not contrary to a more open and pure heart. the Church's teachings, center The messages are obviously around the fundamental compo­ given to us out of love. They are nent of our well being — peace. In endearing reminders of how we as The Church and liturgical reform fact. Our Lady introduced herself Christians should live in the love as the Queen of Peace (according o f God. He wants us to live in His to Vicka) and comes to call all to love and peace, but it Is up to us to By Msgr. PAUL M. LACKNER tion. I could hardly believe that He gives the Council an "A ." but peace. She says that peace is make a conscious decision, to the Church would grant the many the Church a "C " for not carrying necessary to save humanity, but answer Our Lady's call, through This past Dec. 4 may have things that Uturglsts hoped would out all the fundamental reforms before we can go about creating a prayer and fasting. Such seemed to most people to be just become a reality. called for in the documents. In peaceful world, we must begin messages show bow we can live another day on the calendar. essence he calls for a new reform with ourselves. We develop this our lives for and in the love of However, for those persons who Msgr. Paul The Constitution has indeed or renewal o f Church liturgy. Inner peace by opening our hearts God. offering all that we are and have a great love for the liturgy of M. Lackner made a substantial contribution to God. trusting and loving Him the Church, it was an important to the piety o f Catholics during have as He offered His life for the Significantly, he quoted more and more each day in every day. It marked the 25th anniver­ these past 25 years. It has given love of us. Not heeding these Romano Guardini who wrote an aspect o f our lives. sary of the publication o f the order to their worship that was messages shows that we don’t open letter to the German document. "Sacrasanctum Con­ fragmented by novenas and other Our Lady stressed prayer and really need God and that we are liturgical congress at Mainz in cilium." the Constitution on the devotions, for it centers on the fasting — both of which actually running away from His 1964. Fr Guardini spoke of acknowledge our true love and Sacred Liturgy, the first decree fundamental truths of our Chris­ love. several things but mainly of the issued by Vatican Council IL tian religion. need for God. Our Blessed Mother Those who visit Medjugorje are need for better instructions on the specifically asked that we pray able to see such beautiful results renowed German liturgical meaning of the liturgy and the seven Our Fathers. Hail Marys. This was a very important Other accomplishments of the — the blessings that Our Lady has scholar, whom I was fortunate to recapturing of lost attitudes, Glory to the Fathers and the document to me personally. I say Constitution include the restora- bestowed upon them from God for befriend and know well when he which he describes as "the this because one day in the late tlon of the baptismal Apostles Creed. She also said that answering her call. Nevertheless, came to live in Pittsburgh. He liturgical act.” one that would 1930s while reading in the catechumerate through the RCIA we should pray the whole rosary. it is not necessary to go in order to died here on January 26. 1968. transform our lives by our par­ seminary. I discovered the (Rite of Christian Initiation of Yet, such prayers are merely the follow her messages. In fact, there ticipation in the sacred liturgy In beginning of devoting one's life Liturgical Movement. It had a pro­ Those of us who supported the Adults), the frequent reception of may be some who have been liv­ effect. Mr. Searle is calling for a found effect upon m y life. I made Liturgical Movement In the late the Eucharist and the use of both day by day to God. ing out her messages or some of renewal of liturgy in our day. The intended purposes of such her messages with results in more the discovery while reading 1930s and 1940s were looked species, and the exposure of prayers are to continually focus peaceful lives. It is not unusual Romano Guardini’s book. The upon with some suspicion by Catholics to many new passages our attention on the lives o f Mary that there is some skepticism as Spirit of the Liturgy (Sheed & some o f our fellow priests. Our o f Sacred Scripture via the three- Mr. Searle pointed out a and Jesus and to develop a deeper to how to visibly prove that she Ward. 1935). studies indicated to us the need year cycle of readings. number of other fundamental dif­ devotion to them as well as to the has been appearing there since for a thorough reform of the Latin ficulties that must be met, Father. We pray more because we 1961. but the messages are prac­ This in turn led me to become a Rite Liturgy, but we did not see In a recent article in Com­ discussed and solved, if a true desire to become closer to God. tical ones for devout Catholics as regular reader of the liturgical any signs on the horizon that it monweal. Marke Searle. associate liturgical renewal is to take place. The more we pray, the more we well as those who seek a deeper monthly. "Orate Frates, now would be realized. professor of liturgy at the Univer­ Here are a few: the necessity for a are able to pray effectively, par­ relationship with God. known as "Worship" and sity of Notre Dame, writes quite study of the document by ticularly If we pray by opening published by the Benedictine And yet it was realized in great well on the Constitution on the everyone, the need for some our hearts. It is important to put IMaria Zanonl is a recent monks of St. John's Abbey, in measure through the Constitu­ Sacred Liturgy and the present dedericalizadon. and the need for aside all problems, stress, and graduate o f Seton Hill College Collegevllle. Minnesota. In "Orate tion on the Sacred Liturgy of situation of liturgical reform in the liturgy to be a bulwark anxiety and to let the Lord take and a freelance writer Uving in Frates." I avidly read the column Vatican II. I recall that when 1 the Church. His article is entitled against our secular culture I tend Care of them. If we have trouble Whitehall.) by Father H.A Runhold. the read It shortly after its publica­ "Renewing the Liturgy Again." to agree with him. I r v t PITTSBURGH CATHOUC Friday, January 6, 1989 Entertainment Morie reviews Movie ratings The classification for the moral Running on Empty. A m suitability of film s is determin­ Scrooged. A-TV The best and worst films o f ’88 ed by the United States Tequilla Sunrise. A-II1 Cathode Conference's Depart­ Twins. A-fil By Ft . PETER HORTON they would be separated if a can still produce the finest ment of Communications. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. scholarship was accepted. The animated films in the business. A-fi After all of the major holiday film also dealt with the horror of The colorful, lively animation Movies at area theaters: Working Gtri. A-IV Sims have been reteaseri. It s tune child abuse in an intelligent and gave new life to Charles Dickens' The Accused. O to. settle back and review the sensitive manner. “ Dominick and “ Otiver Twist" by transporting it Big. A-fi • A-I. General Patronage. previous year In film. Eugene“ is an unforgettable little to the animal world of New York. Child's Play. O • A - 11. Adults and As the new year begins, critics Fr Peter masterpiece. The voices and songs of Bene Cocktail. A-lII Adolescents. look back over the previous year's Horton “The Milagro Beanfieid W an" It Midler and Billy Joel added a Cocoon fi: The Return. A-fi • A-m. Adults. yapp of movies and choose their is a shame that this tasteful fan­ touch of class to the enterprise, Crossing Delaney. A-fil • A-IV. Adults with reserva­ >9 » best and worst. The task was tasy directed by Robert Redfbrd this is the best family Shn o f the A Cry in the Dark. A-lII tions. An A-fi' classification váñjch harder this year as the failed to find an audience. The year, a film that entertains adults Die Hand. O designates certain films that, •guahty o f films in 1988 was most small town of Milagro is about to and children as well Ernest Saves Christmas. A-li while not morally offensive in Üptrssjvr Not only was it dif- be wiped out by a new develop­ Hope and Glory John Boor­ Everybody's AU-American. A- themselves, require caution A ú it to narrow the best UM down ment until by accident, one man recalled his childhood in m and some analysis and explana­ Horten, it was even harder to come quence” be tween Hanks and farmer takes a stand and diverts England during World War n in A Fish Called Wanda. O tion as a protection against t h with ten for the dubious honor Robert Loggia is a true cinematic waiter into his beanfieid. The film this warm and brilliant film- As Gorillas In The Mist. A m wrong interpretations and false zjLthe year's worst. Here are my classic. "Big" not only set high is light, airy and a pleasant diver- seen through the eyes of the The Land Before Time. A-I conclusions JeQoices for the best and worst of standards but also had the slon with fine performances from children who lived it as a daily My Stepmother Is An Alien. O • O. Morally Offensive courage to achieve them. Sonia Braga. Chick Venerra and experience, the horrors and Mystic Pizza. O The word "Recommended“ ;The ten best of '88: “ The Last Emperor ' This ma­ Christopher Walken. Though it is sacrifices of war are made much The Naked Gun. A-fil appears after the title of those *;l*Rain Man;" directed by Barry jestic epic captured eight a simple story of justice trium­ more meaningful and visible Oliver And Company. A-fi film s that merit such 34venaoa. this film was tar and Academy Awards including Best phing over evil, with a little help Sarah Miles returned to the Rain Man. A m designation. M fay the best o f the holiday Picture and Best Director. The from an angel, the film is a power­ screen in a brilliant comeback defeases. Dustin Hoffman and film was a magnificent biography ful viewing experience. performance in this film which Tom Cruise are incredible in their of China's child emperor superbly T u c k e r “ JeC Bridges stars in was nominated for Best Picture. It C oncert at Resurrection C hurch the title role as the creative, in­ is a film that will be remem bered roles as brothers. Charlie and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. BROOKLINE — A choral concert will be held on Sunday. Jan. 8 at for years to come. Raymond. Raymond is an autistic Though the film was o f epic pro­ dependent automaker who dared 8 pm in the Resurrection Church. 1100 Creedmore Ave Admission portion. it was as sensitive and challenge the big three Francis The runners up for the best of savant who inherits his father's is free. fgrtune while Charlie, estranged graceful as it was majestic. John Ford Coppola returned to his ex­ the year are: "Eight Men Out.” Grom his father, is left only a car Lone was remarkable in the title cellent standards as a director giv­ "Cry Freedom. " “ Biloxi Blues. " an d some prize roses. The film is a role and Peter O'Toole gave an ing the film pizazz and poignan­ “ Au Revoir L Infants. Bird. journey o f discovery as Charlie outstanding supporting cy. The film featured an Oscar Da.“ “The Land Before Time. BRUSCO-FALVO FUNERAL HOM E kidnaps Raymond from an in­ performance. calibre performance from Martin “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?." ALBERT J. BRUSCO GREGORY F. FALVO stitution to attempt to claim “ Moonstruck:" Cher won the Landau as well. T u c k e r" the “ A Cry in the Dark." “Betrayed." ‘VI Family Owned Firm Serving Catholic Families since 1937" custody. The brothers learn much Oscar for Best Actress for her por­ film is every bit as flashy and con­ “ Clean and Sober." "Running on --OFFERING PRE-NEED 412/311-1113 about each other as Charlie, trayal of a dull bookkeeper who vincing as the man who is its Empty.“ “ Clara's Heart. " "Pun­ FUNERAL PLANNING*’ through Raymond, rediscovers finds a new spark to life when she subject. chline." “Twins." "Coming to the values o f life. The film is meets the brother of her fiance. “ Crossing DHancey:“ Amy Irv­ America" and “ Midnight Run." powerful, respectful, funny, warm Directed by Norman Jewison, the ing gave the performance of her Finally, here are the films and intelligent. “ Rain Man" is my original screenplay by John career in this fine film from direc­ which make the hat as the ten i personal choice for the best pic­ Patrick Shanley was a joyous and tor Joan MichHn Silver When her worst films o f the yean “ Iron ture of the year. touching look at an Italian family. grandmother arranges a match Eagle n." "License to Drive." Big ' Imagine a small 12-year- Olympia Dukakis won an Oscar as between her fizzy), a young pro­ “Sunset.“ “Hot to Trot.” The old boy wishing be were big. a boy well in this utterly delightful mo­ fessional, and Sam. a pickle New Adventures of Pippi whose wish comes true as he tion picture. “ Moonstruck" was maker, two worlds o f experience Loogstocktng. ' "The Big Blue." awakens in a 35-year-old body. the definitive comedy o f 1988. are brought together. Though "Police Academy V.” “ Arthur II: Thanks to a stunning perfor­ "Dominick and Eugene:“ Film­ very different. Izzy and Sam On the Rocks." “The Blob” and mance by Tom Hanks and the ex­ ed in Pittsburgh, thw honest and discover a commonality through "High Spirits. In a category all cellent direction of Penny Mar­ touching film focused on two love The film combined the old by itself. Martin Scorsese’s “The shall Big' was a big success. brothers, one disabled in a tragic world charm of matchmaking Last Temptation of Christ." a con­ Unlike the other films of the accident as a child and the other a with modem day romance. The troversial film that was so reverse role" genre, this film had promising medical student- Ray film was definitely the sleeper of abysmal that it would have died a an intelligent screenplay, Liotta and Tom Hulce offered the year. quick and deserved box office believable situations and a true superb performances as the “Oliver and Company:“ The death if not for the uproar it sense of class. The "keyboard se- brother* faced with the fact that Disney team showed that they raised Book review

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By JERRY FILTEAU would hope for." he added. WASHINGTON (NCJ — Today's U-S- Catholic young people show Specific findings cited by the report included: “ * new openness to and interest in religion ' but often they find the • “ Teens typically experience the church as impersonal, in­ church "im personal" and inhospitable ' according to a survey hospitable and larking adequate role models." but "parish, school done for the Vatican by the National Conference of CnttwiHr Bishops. and diocesan programs for youth ministry are rebuilding the in­ A report on the survey, released in Washington Dec. 39. stud the terest of youth in the institutional church. interest of young people in the church is closely connected to their • "Youth generally make tittle connection or Unkage between access to church-sponsored youth programs. religion and lived experiences. Church is seen as something for Sun­ "Teens who are experiencing these programs are responding day. not every day." Many young people "are passive and bored" at positively, but our survey* also shows that where there is nothing for Sunday Mass and have a strong "negative feeling" toward it voung people they are becoming alienated from the fathnBc • "During the past 10 years there has been a significant Church." the report said. decrease in vocations to the ordained ministry and religious life." It said that "fundamentalist groups ' are attracting many young and according to some research vocations will surely dwindle fur­ Catholics, especially young blacks and Hispaaics 'who find the ther if mothers lose their commitment to the institutional church. " Catholic Church not in tune with their needs." • Among losses of young people to other religions, "the most "Cults also attract many with their strong street ministry and serious threat is from various fundamentalist groups." outreach." the report said. "Cults place themselves where the peo­ • Among negative ideologies affecting young people in the ple are hurting. " United States, the chief ones are not philosophical or theoretical but Societal emphasis on success, material goods and pleasure poses materialism, consumerism and excessive individualism.... We one of the main threats to religious and moral values of young peo­ have lost many o f the values upon which our country and faith are ple in the United States, the report said. built.” Despite those "negative cultural values." the report said, "we • The cultural diversity of U S CathoUcs presents a special found that our youth can also be characterized as pilgrims on a challenge: "As Catholics bow do we celebrate our various heritages spiritual Journey. Youth today search tor a meaning in life, a of faith so all may feel welcome?" spirituality to give them rootedness. They yearn to experience the • "T h e primary way youth experience the person of Jesus today grace of God which challenges and sustains them, but they all too is through relationships with caring and faith-filled youth and often feel only alienation and confusion." adults." Programs that have proved particularly effective in The report is titled "Youth Ministry in the United Stales: A Survey assisting young people to experience Christ ... include weekend of Youth Pastoral Work." It was based on a survey, conducted by the retreats, community service projects. Masses for youth, prayer ser­ NCC8 Secretariat on Laity and Family Life, which involved vices and personal encounters. " responses from more than 100 dioceses and more than a dozen na­ • Catechetical formation, aimed at forming a living union with tional or regional organizations involved in Caibobc youth ministry. Christ, "is the primary objective of youth pastoral work in the Requested by the youth section of the Pontifical Council for the United States. " Isiah Thomas gets set to make a play against Los Angeles Clipper Laity as part of a worldwide Vatican study on Catholic youth and • On the extent o f youth involvement in church-sponsored player Reggie William. Thomas says his Roman Catholic faith youth ministry, the survey results were forwarded by the laity groups, “ there is lack o f adequate data, but we think approximately enables him to maintain a proper perspective on life amid the secretariat to the council and to the bishops o f the United States. 35 percent to 40 percent of young people are involved in ecclesiai fame and financial prosperity of professional sports. Paul K Henderson, special assistant for youth and young adult groups. Of those who participate with church groups, most are af­ — SC photo by Thomas Nash ministry in the NCCB secretariat and chief coordinator o f the filiated with parish, school or scouting programs. " survey, said the responses to it indicated many positive youth pro­ • For young people who do not belong to such groups, "a signifi­ | grams are at work in the U S church, but much more is needed. cant amount of evangelization ... is accomplished through non- Faith helps basketball star "In parishes and dioceses with strong youth ministry programs instltutiorial situations, such as peer ministry and personal invita­ youth feel a connectedness to the church, a linkage of their lives tions .. Countless young people have had their first positive ex­ cope w ith fam e, prosperity with faith." he said. "But this is not as common an experience as we perience of church through a friend's invitation to 'come and see. " By THOMAS J. NASH SPRINGF IELD, Mass. . VC) — Aznid the fame and financial pro­ Home Again sperity of professional sports stardom. Isiah Thomas says his Cat hoi Ir faith enables him to maintain a proper perspec tive on life. "I've been blessed spiritually and Tee been blessed with good Discipline an essential part of Christian Life family And those are the two richest things you can be blessed with. " said Thomas, point guard and leader o f the National Basket­ ball Association's Detroit Pistons. CONNIE ANN VALENTI Now tell me what reason we seen the emergence and rapid movements are a challenge to the "You know, the money and everything else does not necessarily Father, one of my friends taped have to criticize other religions or growth o f many different kinds of Church to improve Its pastoral make you a happy person." Thomas said in an interview a discussion on a radio talk show religious cults? Novices were forc­ new religious or pseudo-religious ministry and to be spiritually and sent it to me so that I could ed to endure great humiliation. movements, each having its own renewed "But if you're comfortable in your spiritual life and also in your family Ufe. then you're going to be pretty happy and pretty suc­ listen to it. When 1 did. 1 began to Mother superiors, for example, beliefs and practices. Not all of The concerns that you raise cessful as a person." be said wonder why we Catholics seem to seemed hell bent on ridiculing them have a stated religious pur­ about religious Ufe were resolved From growing up poor on Chicago's West Side. Thomas has have such short memories. The them and causing them great pose. Among some of the explana­ long ago when the Church began become one of the NBA's highest-paid players, recently signing a guest was a very articulate priest mental anguish. They would do tions offered for their proliferation to better understand what forms reported eight-year. S I6-million deal. who was warning parents about things like command a novice to are the sense of community they of discipline contributed to He now Uvea in Bloomfield Hills outside Detroit, with his wife. the dangers of religious cults to­ scrub a floor and then walk over it offer to people searching for sup­ spiritual growth and maturity, Lynn, and son. Joshua Isiah. who was bom in June. The day. Not too long ago I would have while it was still wet and tell her port and security in our frac­ and what forms were an obstacle 6-foot-1-inch. 185-pound guard donates his time to a variety af sworn he was describing life in what a lousy Job she did. Open tionalized society, the simple to it. Strict discipline was con­ charitable causes, and the Thomas family attends St. Thomas More our convents and monasteries. confession o f one’s faults was answers they give to complex sidered necessary to control and Church in Troy. Mich. He explained why be believes another humbling exer cise. Is it questions, the way in which they overcome the influence and On the court. Thomas has led his teams to the National Collegiate j cult members are brainwashed, any wooder that other religious make people fed special, and the power of sin. The Church still Athletic Association championship (Indiana. 1981) and the NBA not allowed to think for groups criticized the Catholic sense o f mystery they embody believes that discipline is an finals (Pistons. 1988). In the process he has earned collegiate All- themselves. He said they are religion? Now we do the same Some of the other reasons in­ essential part o f the Christian Ufe. American honors and has made the NBA all-star team each of his directly or indirectly encouraged thing ourselves to new religious clude the charismatic leadership but it also realizes that discipline first seven years in the league, six times starting and twice winning to cut ties with their friends and. movements. that these new religious must not become excessive. the game's Most Valuable Player Award. if necessary, even with their I will never understand why the movements provide, the hope It may have been the criticism Thomas said his spiritual formation deters him from acquiring an families- All social contacts are Church praised Religious who that they provide for the future in o f other religious groups that inflated ego or wayward way. restricted to other cult members. mutilated their bodies through the promise of a new age. and the helped us to recognize and correct By having a lot of money and being successful as I am. AO reading matter is skillfully self-flagellation and excessive invitation they extend to people to any excesses that may have ex­ sometimes some of the rules don't apply to you." said Thomas, controlled. They adhere to an tasting, and considered such ac­ better themselves and the srorkl isted. ft is with an awareness of noting bow a rich and famous person can get away with behavior ideology which allows them to tions to be holy The Church is in which they live These cults try our own faults as a Church that others cannot. But." be added with a laugh, being Catholic and Justify this type o f behavior wise in encouraging people to to present themselves as the only we are able to honestly appraise believing in God. you always have that guilt. ' Now who is calling the kettle pray constantly, but the other true answer in an often chaotic new religious movements. In your "1 think (Catholicism) gives me structure in my Ufe. it gives me black? I remem ber what happen­ disciplines it enforced were world. own words, we should not refrain some type o f discipline." be said. ed when a friend entered the con­ foolish at best There have always been such from criticism simply because a Thomas largely credits his mother for the faith and values be has vent many years ago. We were Father. I am sure the Heavenly movements in the world because group claims to be rehglous and today. Raised a Baptist. Man Thomas led her whole family tq not allowed to visit her for a year Father expects us to follow the there have always been people to act in the name o f God. Some Catholicism before Isiah Lord Thomas m. the youngest of nine And when her mother was dying, simple Ten Commandments He who fed vulnerable when faced self-evaluation and criticism may children, was born. she had to choose whether she gave us. but I am Just as sure be with the problems o f the world. also be in order because spiritual His off-court efforts with charities range from Special Olympics to wanted to see her before or after does not enjoy seeing any o f His They b e c o m e worried, discipline has vanished from far anti-drug campaigns and to American Red Cross promotions, in' she died. Y es she could make on­ children humiliated, mutilated, or disoriented, frustrated, distllu- too many lives. which Thomas and Boston Celtics star Larry Bird appear tn ads' ly one visit. When she entered hurt in any way in body, mind or sioned. and alienated. There is an An undisciplined person is that proclaim. " Become Buddies for Life. It's Easier to Give Blood- Religious life, a basket was passed spirit. We must remind ourselves emptiness within them which often someone under the in­ Together." ^ around and the girts were tokl to that all that is said or done in the longs to be filled and so they turn fluence of sin who is blind to "You Just Dry and do things tn your everyday Ufe.' said Thomas*, {dace all their Jewelry in it. She name of religion Is not religion. to new religious movements or God s presence, who follows only “ In terms of giving, I was taught. T h e more you give, the more you never saw her gold pierced earr­ are sought out by them, especial­ the path o f feast resistance and ings or the watch her mother gave FT. RON LENGWIN ly when the Church fails to meet who. therefore, does not learn the get. And I've been blessed with a lot of things. So you Just try to help kids and you just try to help as many people as you possibly her again. We live in an age which has their needs. 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Questions Fr Bober Why do Christians celebrate Christmas on different dates? By Fr CHARLES BOBER ferent calendars to mark time. trade necessitated more calendar was thus becoming ment among Christians that the ticular example). initially, the movement o f the uniformity. | QUESTION more and more out of step with annual commemoration of the In addition, while the birth at sun and the revolutions o f the Various attempts were made to the seasons. Pope Gregory vm birth of Christ should be assigned the Savior may be observed on moon played a part in the Why is U that some Christians accomplish this but few proved then devised a plan whereby a to the date of the winter solstice. December 25. additional feasting | celebrate the birth of Christ on a establishment of two different successful. JuHus Caesar carried more accurate reckoning of time However, that date varied depen­ and gift giving may take place or} ‘different date than December calendars. The solar year had 365 out a radical reform o f the Roman could be maintained ding on which caleiMfar was different days. December 6 (the and one-quarter days while the 2Sth? calendar in the year 45 B.C. He in­ He promulgated his plan tn Oc­ employed (for example: feast of St. Nicholas) and January lunar year (based on the intervals troduced the solar calendar form tober of 1582 when the day after December 21. 25 or January 6). 6 (the date traditionally a n s w e r % between the 12 appearances of Alexandria (Egypt) with its year of October 4 became October 15. Op­ Today, while the Gregorian associated with the "threg the moon) consisted of only 354 365 days and provtston for an ad­ position to the Gregorian calendar calendar seems to have been kings") are two such examples. While the majority of Christians and one-third days. ditional full day every four years. (named after the pope) was strong adopted for general use. not all This latter date Is particularly im­ i in the West celebrate the birth at When agriculture was the That calendar (called "Julian" in places such as England (and its reUgfous communities have done portant for Christians of the West Christ on December 25til. it is cor­ predominant occupation, the dif­ after the emperor) was based on a colonies) which did not adopt the so for liturgical observances. because It marked the manifesta­ rect that many Eastern Christians ferences were of little conse­ tropical year of 365.25 days. By calendar until 1752. In Russia ft Therefore, some religious com­ tion of the newborn Sartor to the celebrate it on a different date. quence When Ufe became more the Middle Ages It was known was only introduced in 1917. munities celebrate feasts an dates "nations." In one sense. II la One reason for this divergence is complex, however, such things as that the actual year was slightly which have been set by a different \.fbe historical existence o f dif- Throughout all this, there "Christinas" for those not at the government and international teas than that number and the teems to have been general agree­ calendar (Christmas being a par­ Biblical house of Israel. f 1 Pace I PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Friday, January 6, 1989 Classified ads/diocesan news Pope calls family missionaries * of Church’

By GREG ERLANDSON "W e live by alms." Mrs. Hettich said. "W e have no salaries, no "I am not Judging the movement, one can't deny its value." he PORTO SAN GIORGIO. Italy (NC) — Pope John Paul II calls them guarantees." said. But Archbishop Foresti said the groups must fit in with his the "leaven" of the Church and "the way to renew the parish as The communities are not allowed to grow beyond 50 members. diocesan pastoral plan. community." One parish may be a home for several such groups. Members meet To charges that the NeoOatechumenal Way creates elites in a Bishops from around the world seek their help In evangelizing twice a week, including Saturday evening for Mass parish.Gennarini responds that "it's not a matter of being an elite, both the unchurched and the nominally Catholic. In 1986 the movement (bund itself returning to the original ex­ but of being a leaven." But their critics charge them with elitism and say they demand perience of Arguello: forming communities among society's poorest In an article earlier this year in the British Catholic weekly The too much time on the part of overworked priests. and most alienated. Tablet. Gennarini admitted that the movement does receive They are the Neo-Catechumenal Way. a 24-year-old movement That year the first three neo-catechumenate "families in mission" opposition bom In the slums of Madrid. set out for cities in Northern Europe to begin a "new evangelization" Membership estimates vary. In a 1967 article about new in what the pope described as “ de-Chrisdanized" zones. "The neo-catechumenal communities remain within the Church movements In the Church. Bishop Paul Cordes. vice president of the The program has now expanded to dioceses throughout the world. and are faithful to it even when they are persecuted or clash with Pontifical Council for the Laity, put their number worldwide at The families, inluding children, go without Jobs and without those structures or methods which are an obstacle to conciliar about 200.000. language training. They are supposed to place themselves in the renewal." he wrote. - They belong to more than 10.000 small groups the movement has midst of the community, finding work and building contacts outside But whatever the objections some may have for these energetic established in 80 countries. In the United States there are about 100 of any explicit parish structure. evangelizers. the pope himself has no such doubts. such small communities, said Giuseppe Gennartni. a longtime "I believe" that the Neo-Catechumenal Way "has found the member of the Neo-Catechumenal Way who with his wife Claudia answer" to the challenges which face modem Christians, the pope “The neo-catechumenate is the works as an "itinerant catechist" in U.S. parishes. told members last January. The Neo-Catechumenal Way was founded In 1964 by Kiko Arguello. then a 24-year-old artist who went to live in the slums of the parish as community, ” h e said. Madrid after undergoing a conversion experience. "I brought with me a Bible and a guitar, happy that, if Jesus came They travel with a priest and often with an unmarried lay man or back in his second coming, he would have found me beside the woman, forming what Gennarini called a "transplant of a little poor." he later wrote. church." Instead of the second coming. Arguello discovered the interest of The purpose of such missionary families is to reach people outside the poor in God and the Gospel message. That stirred him to begin all parish structures: the poorest, and those most separated from his movement. society and the Church. As word of his community spread, he was invited first to other It is an endeavor which has won the pope's strong support. Madrid parishes, then beyond, to repeat the experience. According Each group which has gone off on mission has been personally to Gennarini. Arguello found it necessary to develop a method of sent by the pope, who invests each family with a crucifix at a catechesis not for the poor and the unchurched, but for the baptized ceremony every feast of the Holy Family. but unconverted. This year the pope came to the International Neo-Catechumenal In the Neo-Catechumenal Way. Arguello turned to the New Testa­ Center in Porto San Giorgio, where he celebrated an exuberant ment and the experiences of the early church. Those seeking bap­ three-and-a-half-hour Mass and delivered an extemporaneous ap­ tism — called catechumens in the early church — underwent a peal for neo-catechumenal members to help save the modem lengthy process of education in the faith family. Arguello devised a multi-year system of education in Scripture, But while the Neo-Catechumenal Way has the strong hacking of theology and church teachings for those already baptized — the neo- the pope. Vatican officials and many bishops, it is not without its catechumens. critics. To help in the task of setting up small groups in the parishes. In Italy Archbishop Bruno Foresti of Brescia, near Milan called a "Itinerant catechists" were trained to go into parishes and form temporary halt to the proliferation of groups in his diocese. such communities through a two-and-a-half-month program of He told National Catholic News Service that be also had stopped introduction. the practice of Saturday evening Masses. Josef and Joyce Hettich are two such organizers in the United The archbishop said the "fundamental problem" was the States. demands the small communities placed on his priests. Cardinal says pope will visit Cuba, no date set

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Car­ Cardinal Etchegaray visited ¡s no program or date for such a "1 don't know when it will hap­ dinal Roger Etchegaray. who Cuba Dec. 23-Jan. 2. His remarks, visit. The preparation for any pen. but it will be a benefit for all spent 11 days in Cuba, said Pope reported by the Italian press, were papal trip takes a great deal of Catholics and for the entire John Paul n will visit the com­ confirmed by the Vatican press time, he said, and is the work o f Cuban people." be said. Holiday hospitality munist island nation, but he did office. the local bishops. The cardinal's comments came not know when. According to Vatican Cardinal Etchegaray said a after a private meeting with Lou Patcoolc. a member of the Diocesan Youth Council and a I am absolutely sure that the spokesman Joaquin Navarro- papal visit "is desired by the pope Castro in Havana. member of S t Felix Parish In Freedom, extends Christmas pope will make a visit to Cuba. " Vails, the cardinal's statement himself, by the bishops" and by Cardinal Etchegaray is a major greetings to Sister Mary Dominic, a resident at the Petition Sisters' said the cardinal president of the did not say anything new about Cuba's Christians, Vatican spokesman on interna­ S t Josep h Infirmary In CorappoUs. Members of the Diocesan Pontifical Justice and Peace Com­ the pope and his willingness to "Such a trip is desired also by tional Justice and peace issues Youth Council paid a visit Christmas day to the Infirmary, where mission. at a Havana press con­ visit Cuba. (Cuban President) Fidel Castro. and has represented the pope in they sang carols for and presented fresh fruit to the retired Sisters. ference Dec. 31. Navarro-Valls said Jan. 3 there Cardinal Etchegaray added. several important visits. — Photo by Richard Sharp

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H ibernian w om en hold elections PITTSBURGH — Members of the Ladles Ancient Order of Hiber­ nians. Division 4. elected new officers recently. They are: Dorothy Weldon, president: Mary Jane Spence, vice- president; Lorraine Heckman, recording secretary: and Mary Ellen O'Neill, treasurer. The organization Is composed of women of Irish descent who are practicing Catholics. For information call 258-3352.

Bishop B osco to discuss AID S U n i t y t r e e PITTSBURGH — Greensburg Bishop Anthony Bosco will discuss "AIDS and the Church" at the Sunday. Jan. 15 meeting of the d e c o r a t o r s Catholic Physicians Guild o f Pittsburgh to be held at Divine Pro­ vince Hospital. North Side. Father Ed Czemerda. Bishop Bosco will be the principal celebrant for a 9:30 a m Mass parochial vicar at St. John the in the hospital chapel. Baptist parish in Unity, wat­ Following Mass and breakfast. Bishop Bosco will speak. Bishop ches as parish children Bosco. former auxiliary bishop for the Pittsburgh Diocese, was a decorate the Christmas tree member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' ta«it force on the church's altar. The ac­ on AIDS. tivity. which was sponsored For reservations, telephone Dr. Robert Lee at 647-3735 before by the Christian Family Move­ Tuesday. Jan. 10. ment. followed a recent religious service for the St. V incent alum ni lunch youngsters. From left are Vic­ PITTSBURGH — The monthly alumni luncheon of St. Vincent tor Scassera. Mike CUsta. Kel­ College and Seminary in Latrobe will be held Tuesday. Jan. 10. in ly Franklin and Dlann Tambellini's. 7th St.. Downtown. Graduates of the school are Cremeans. welcome. For reservations call 242-0845. — Photo by John C. Keenan Nuns slate vocations w eekend HUNTINGDON. VALLEY. PA. — The Sisters of the Holy Redeemer will hold a vocation awareness weekend retreat for single women ag­ ed 16-35 on Jan. 20-22 at the order s provlncialate at 521 Moredon Rd.. Huntingdon Valley. Pa. (near Philadelphia). Registration is required and donation is 830. For information call Sister Anne Marie or Mandy Sirofchuck. (215) 938-0540.

Sen ior citizen fitness series set PITTSBURGH — A fitness program for persons aged 55 and older Teaching as Jesus will be offered at Motor Square Garden. Baum Blvd.. East Liberty, beginning Monday. Jan. 23. The 12-week series of low-impact aerobic exercises will be offered Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Exploring ‘Congress ’88’ themes from 10 a.m. to noon. The series is sponsored by Vintage. Inc.. and offered at $10. For information call Vintage. 361-5003. By Fr. FRANK C. SOKOL pond to the "It was too short" theme worthy of our reflection Because Congress '88 was "too Lecture on M artin Luther K ing Director for Religious comment at the moment. I would daily. short. " and because we bave not Education/CCD have said. "It was Just long During the Congress. "In All yet exhausted its profound PITTSBURGH — The Association of Black Seminarians of the Pitt­ The woman stopped me at the enough." Ways. In All Seasons" was ex­ theme, the members of the sburgh Theological Seminary will present the annual Martin Luther bottom o f the escalator in the With the perspective that time plored from four dimensions, or to Diocesan Department for King Jr. Lecture Monday. Jan. 9. at 7:30 p.m. in Hicks Memorial David L. Lawrence Convention and space bring to events, use the language of the American Religious Education/CCD will Chapel. 616 V Highland Ave . East Liberty. Speaking will be Center and said. "It was too however. I now realize that Bishops, four calls: the calls to take the opportunity of this col­ Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.. pastor of Trinity United Church o f Christ in short." Before I had time to ask perhaps the woman was correct. ministry, adulthood, holiness and umn to write about some dimen­ Chicago The Allegheny A. M E. Zion Conference Choir will also per­ what was too short she was on her The theme for Congress '88 was community. These calls are in­ sion o f this theme. form. All are welcome. way out the door and onto the bus so rich that it was impossible to vitations to all baptized people to During the next six months we which her parish had rented. exhaust Its meaning in two days. carry out their parts in bringing will continue to reflect on our Program for 3-year-olds Two thousand of us catechists, "In All Ways. In All Seasons." about the reign of God. Indeed, it calls to ministry, adulthood, those who teach the faith, had was the theme used to express SOUTH PARK TWP. — Nativity School has announced that it will takes all ways and all seasons to holiness and community. In that Just finished a two-day congress that all Christian people must build a world o f justice, peace, offer a program for three-year-olds for the 1989-90 school year in ad­ way. may we all continue to grow which is convened every three continue to grow in their faith dition to the existing pre-school program offered for four-year-old mercy and love, such as we would in our faith "in all ways, in all students. years. The experience of common throughout their lives. It is a hope for In the reign of God. seasons prayer, of lectures and Applicants must be three or four years old by Oct. 1. For more in­ workshops, of drama and mime, formation. telephone the school office at 653-1500. and especially of the Eucharist, The pre-school programs offer both morning and afternoon ses­ were fresh in our minds and sions. three days a week. The curriculum has been designed to be CALL THE EXPERTS hearts as we left the center o f the deveiopmentally appropriate, meeting all areas of the child's city for our homes and parishes in development including cognitive, physical, social and emotional. six different counties. Children are encouraged to explore and experiment In a classroom At the very moment that I was which provides opportunities for large and small motor activities, beautiful Hattie (Binòe told "It was too short." I was dramatic play, cooking projects and various creative an projects. thinking to myself. "Thank goodness it is over." PAINTING REMODELING M avor visits school The Diocesan Catechetical Con­ gress for 1988 had taken one and P a R PAIN TIN G CARRICK — On a recent visit to the neighorhood. Pittsburgh PAINTING MOSES REMODELING Mayor Sophie Masloff visited the students at St. Basil School. one-half years to plan and ex­ PAINTING • «seta • ta *-K v Zmtrm tat ecute. 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By STEPHEN KARUNCHAK Jay's parents. Sandy and on July 30. 1860 In St. Mary's. served as acting superior of the made the decision to replace sula resort area where many ERIE — The mystery concer­ Gary Kreigline, tried with no Elk County. Sister entered the community for four months the old tombstones of its visitors come during the sum­ ning the tombstone of Sister success to return the tomb­ Benedictine Sisters o f Erie on following the death o f one members who are burled In mer saeason,” Sister Mary Philomena Riederer. OSB. has stone to Its rightful place. July 8. 1877 and made her superior in 1913 and until the Trinity Cemetery, Erie, with Grace said. "W e know that flat, durable markers. She said there are Pittsburgh residents been solved...well, sort of. Copies of the article were final vows on Aug. 10. 1882. election of the next. that Sr. Phllomena's marker who rent cottages at the near­ Who she is and where she is sent to two Benedictine com­ "Our records don't Indicate Sr. Philomena. Sr. Mary was an exception, that many of by Kelso Beach area. It is our burled have been determined, munities. who were thought to the cause of death, but she was Grace said, taught In the the Inscriptions on the sisters' presum ption that Sr. but how the tombstone got to be sources of Information. One teaching school until May schools of the Erie Diocese. In­ tombstones had worn down Phllomena's marker was stolen Pittsburgh is a matter of congregation. Mount St. 1918." Sr. Mary Grace said cluding St. Joseph In Oil City, and were no longer legible. by someone from the Pitt­ presumption. Benedict In Erie. Identified about Sr. Philomena. "and we Immaculate Conception In Sr. Philomena's tombstone sburgh area as a prank. Sister Philomena as member of presume that she may have For those new to the Clarion. St. Boniface In Ham­ "Our sisters will be going to been a victim of the flu was replaced In 1984 with a mystery, the Pittsburgh Its community. mett and at St. Benedict the Kriegline home to reclaim epidemic." new marker. Sr. Mary Grace Catholic recently published the Who was Sr. Philomena Academy In Erie, where she said. All of the old tombstones, the grave marker. It will be ad­ story of how nine-year-old Jay Riederer? served as directress for two And what about Sister she said, were stored In an ded to similar stones which we Kreigline discovered the tomb­ According to Sister Mary years. Sr. Mary Grace said that Phllomena's grave site and open area In the rear of the are setting into a "Memorial stone belonging to the Benedic­ Grace Hanes, community Sr. Philomena was gifted in art how did her marker end up in Geiger Monument Company In Walk'' that will connect the tine sister, while playing in the secretary for the Benedictine and specialized In china pain­ the South Hills? Erie. two wings o f our building addi­ woods near his south Baldwin Sisters of Erie. Sr. Philomena ting. In addition. Sister Mary Sr. Mary Grace explained "The monument company is tion. which was completed in home. was bom Magdalena Riederer Grace said that Sr. Philomena that in 1983. the congregation located very near the Penin­ February 1988.”

Saltw orks Theatre to perform C hild gu idance office re-locates Obituaries UPPER ST. CLAIR TWP. — The Parent-Teacher Guild of St. PITTSBURGH — The offices of Parent and Child Guidance Center Louise De Marillac School will present the Saltworks Theatre Com­ have moved to 2644 Banksvllle Rd. (the former Burroughs Bldg.). ef­ E valine G alati pany In a production of “ 1 Am The Brother Of Dragons." on Wednes­ fective Dec. 30. The center, a mental health agency serving children day. Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the school gym. and families in Allegheny County, had been housed in Castle Shan­ Evaline (Eva) Galati of New Castle died Sunday. Jan. 1. In St. The 75-minute performance dramatizes a family Involved In non. Mt. Lebanon and on the North Side. Francis Hospital. New Castle, at age 79. chemical abuse and dependency. The presentation Is a Joint produc­ The center is in the midst of a capital campaign fund drive. For In­ A native o f Clalrton. she was a graduate of Duquesne University tion of the St. Francis Medical Center. Lawrencevllle. and Saltworks formation call 343-7166. and worked for many years as a social worker and teacher in the Pit­ Theatre. tsburgh area. B oar’s H ead fest in B utler Miss Galati was a member of St. Michael parish In New Castle. C om petition for internship opens Surviving are one sister. Sarah Prevlt of Cleveland, a nephew and BUTLER — The 11th annual Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival, a cousins. Miss Galati was preceded In death by two brothers, Fr. PITTSBURGH — Competition Is open to college students who medieval 12th day of Christmas celebration, will be held Sunday. Charles and Joseph. reside In southwestern Pennsylvania for the 1989 James G. Fulton Jan. 8. at St. Paul Church. 128 N. McKean St.. Butler, in two perfor­ Funeral Mass was offered Wednesday. Jan. 4. in St. Michael Internship Program. mances — at 2 and 4:30 p.m. Church. Interment followed in St. Clare Cemetery. Clalrton. Five winners and two alternates will be chosen from approximate­ The church will open 30 minutes before each performance. The ly 50 applicants to serve with a U.S. Representative or U.S. Senator program is free and open to all. in Washington. D.C.: or to serve In Harrisburg. The eight-week in­ N e c r o l o g y ternship Is to run between June and September 1989 and carries ‘V atican W eek ’ to air on radio Jan. 9 with it a 8175 weekly stipend. McKEESPORT — Two 30-minute weekly radio programs Msgr. Stanislaus R. Labujewskl...... 1969 Requests for application forms should be made to the James G. originating In Rome — "Vatican Week'' and "Vatican Viewpoint" — Fr. Henry M. Connelly...... 1979 Fulton Internship. The Pittsburgh Foundation. 30 CNG Tower. 625 will be carried locally on Radio Station WE DO-810 AM in Fr.Louis P. Yunker...... 1981 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh. Pa.. 15222; or telephone 338-2609. The McKeesport beginning this month, according to John James, sta­ Jan. 11 deadline for applications is Tuesday, Jan. 31. tion vice-president and general manager. Fr. Charles J. Sovak...... 1942 "Vatican W eek" will be heard on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Msgr. Edward G. Joyce...... 1969 School holding registration J a n .12 beginning Jan. 4 and "Vatican Viewpoint" will be heard Fridays at HOPEWELL TWP. — Our Lady of Fatima School is conducting 11 a.m. beginning Jan. 6. Msgr. Thomas F. Henntnger...... 1975 Jan. 13 registration for kindergarten through eighth grade for the 1989-90 "Vatican Week." produced by Vatican Radio, is a weekly radio Fr. Adalbert B. Soltesz...... 1943 academic year on Thursday and Friday. Jan. 12 and 13. Registra­ news magazine that Includes a round-up of activities Including the pope's English addresses and press conferences. Msgr. Albert L. Farina...... 1969 tion hours will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. "Vatican Viewpoint" provides an in-depth examination of ethical J a n .14 Parents should bring their children's birth certificates and bap­ and moral issues. Catholic teachings and other current topics. Fr. J.A. Wojciechowski...... 1945 tismal and immunization records for students entering Fr. Norbert J. Schramm...... 1980 Jan. 15 kindergarten or first grade. Kindergarten students must be 5 years Fr. Joseph Dejon...... 1941 old by Sept. 1: first grade students must be 6 years old by Sept. 1. Fr. John F. Enright...... 1968 ALL-IN-EAR HEARING AID Wear Home The Same Day • Students place in forensics m eet Fr. James Woods...... 1986 nothing outside the ear! OAKWOOD — Seven students at Canevin High School placed at Free hearing test & demonstration call the forensics tournament held recently at Central Catholic High for appt...don’t delay. This otter ends School. Oakland. Sat. Jan. 14 Our office or your home. M usicians to m eet in deaneries Doug Bozlck received first place In the humorous interpretation PITTSBURGH — Parish musicians of the diocese will meet In event. Christopher Coppula took second place in the original oratory deanery groups on Monday. Jan. 16. at 7:30 p.m. at the following contest. Alex Konecky placed fourth In the Llncoln-Douglas debate parishes. competition. Rich Mehrenberg was fifth In the dramatic Interpreta­ St. Joachim in Greenfield: Annunciation. North Side: Sacred tion division. In addition. Brian Clcco, Karen Lawrence and Paul O'Donnell made the semi-final rounds of the toumey. Heart-St. Peter. Tarentum: St. Teresa. Perrysvtlle; St. Michael. FREE PARKING AT The Canevin forensics team, which has 28 members. Is under the South Side: St. Anselm. Swissvale: St. Luke. Carnegie: St. John W. PENNA. HEARING AID SERVICE OUR DOOR director of Rita Yunker and Maggie Ebert. Caplstran. Upper St. Clair: St. Joseph. Clalrton. 97S Greeatre« Rood of Parkway TOUFRIE INFO St. Michael. Elizabeth: St. Michael. Butler: St. Christine. Industry: »7.3101 REPAIR ALL MAKES S1MS-4N OFFICE 1-800.44S.7S74 St. Patrick. Canonsburg: St. Dominic, Donora (Tuesday. Jan. 17): St. R aphael and at the homes of Lee Ann Nard. 316 E. Euclid. New Castle: and Frances Fotla. 910 Plymouth Lane. Ellwood City. PTG to m eet MORNINGSIDE — The Parent- Teacher Guild of St. Raphael PTG to hold book fair School will next meet on Tues­ BETHEL PARK — As a part of the Library of Congress observance day, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. In the ABORTION'S SOLUTION of 1989 as "The Year of the Young Reader." the Parent-Teacher school's multi-purpose room. The Guild o f St. Germaine School will conduct a book fair. Monday guest speaker will be child through Friday. Jan. 16 to Jan. 20. In the school's multi-purpose psychologist Dr. Timothy Mur­ room during school hours. phy. All are welcome to attend. IS SIMPLE. . . Books will be appropriate for all age groups, from beginning For more Information, telephone readers to adults. The collection will Include approximately 750 661-0288. books with 350 to 400 different titles. The books cover a wide range of Interests, including Action, biography, sports, reference books, etc. The books will range In price from 50 cents to $5. with a majori­ Be as informed ty of the books in the 81 to 82 range. Proceeds from the event will benefit the school library. Catholic by reading the PITTSBURGH Calendar CATHOLIC weekly. SUNDAY, JAN. 8 Marian Movement of Priests — Cenacle. 2 p.m.. St. Stephen. Semi-annual sale! McKeesport. Legion of Mary — Comltium meeting. 2 p.m.. St. Basil church hall. Carrick. For Information call 279-7132. Children’s St. Anthony, Millvale — Roast beef dinner. 3-6 p.m.. lyceum, 106-108 North Ave. Donation. 85 for adults. 82.50 for children Clothing under 12. Also take-outs. MONDAY. JAN. 9 Theos (for widowed and Shoes families), St. Albert the Great, Baldwin Boro — Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Featuring video on “ Coping With Self." For information call 'V Accessories ASHLEY — Three months of age Her mom. although Norm. 882-5569. a teenage unwed mother, made the choice for life TUESDAY, JAN. 10 Marian Movement of Priests — Cenacle. 2 p.m.. St. Stephen. McKeesport. IT'S JUST NOT EASY! WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11 2 5 % .. 5 0 % Fifteen years and twenty two million deed babies later, America ie still groping for the solution to “the abortion problem." Auxiliary, St. Joseph Nursing ft Health Care Center. Garfield ThesoMton is deceptwety simpte. Continue educating Ste American public; continue working with our state end federal representatives to slop the taxpayer funding of antMife organizations; and pass the Paramount Human — Social. 1 p.m.. 5324 Penn Ave. OFF Ule Amendment which wffl restore the right to We of aH God’s children. All welcome. But R won’t happen unless we make it happen. THURSDAY, JAN. 12 Now in progress...af Pfe must pray end work end give of our time end our money today, tomorrow end every day until we have St. Joseph, W. Aliquippa — •topped the bdsyslaugftter once end for afl. Mass for charismatic». 7:30 p.m.. _ f o i h&ie a choice: >bu can join the American Life League today end work with others rtsriirefod to the Life 410 Allegheny Ave. Fr. Leo Bur- Principles, the Paramount Human Life Amendment and the total protection of ALL of God’s children. chiantl. celebrant. kennu kardon Or You can turn the page end TRY to forget that this baby wee lucky. Twenty two million of her brothers THa Vhttfin IWna FRIDAY. JAN. 13 The 't/bung Idea end sisters were scraped, burned or sucked to shreds in a horribly brutal and painful death. Cenacle Retreat House. Love Life! Choose Life! Join A.L.L today! • Monw iriRi Mall Oakland — Weekend retreat on • Cftirtury HI MaN AMERICAN LIFE LE AGUE. P.O. 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