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JUNE 1,1989 THE CATHOLIC ADVANCE PAGE 3 i MISSIONS MONEY Kapaun-Mt. Carmel students recently presented Bishop Eugene J. Gerber a check for $1,000 for the diocesan mission in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The students involved raised the money by selling tickets to wear jeans, selling Valentine balloons and other projects. From left are David Nelson, Chris Murphy, Tara Noorani, Bishop Gerber, Soheyla Noorani, Sr.

Mary Johnellen and Matt Huhnke. Hearing dog allows independency for owner HATS OFF Kapaun-Mt. Carmel seniors let their caps fly after their graduation ceremony Monday, May 22, at Century II in Wichita. Bishop Eugene J. Gerber presided at a Mass during the ceremony.

(Photo by Randy Guapo) Philippine ex-prostitute blames poverty for sex trade All Saints honors Blessed Mother WICHITA Students at All Saints School honored the Blessed Virgin Mary May 5 with a crowning ceremony. During the ceremony, the eighth grade boys formed an honor guard as the eighth grade girls each placed a carnation at the May Altar. Eighth grader Carrie Corn-stock carried the crown and Heather Anderson crowned Mary. Following the crowning, representatives from each class placed flowers at the May Altar. Cuban family stranded in Canada given U.S.

asylum WASHINGTON (NC) A Cuban family stranded for five months in Canada after unwittingly deporting themselves by taking a sightseeing trip to Niagara Falls was granted U.S. asylum and returned to the United States May 16. Newlyweds Carlos Fa-jardo, 39, his wife, Bermaida, 33, and her two children from a previous marriage, Yoan-dys, 1 2, and Yordalys, 9, were granted asylum May 15 by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The family, which had been living as illegal aliens when they were in the United States, will eventually be eligible to apply for U.S.

citizenship. "It was sad in one sense because they made good friends in Canada, but they were very happy to come back to the United States," Franciscan Sister Kathleen A. Rimar, a Catholic Charities lawyer in Buffalo, N.Y., who represented the family, told National Catholic News Service in a telephone interview May 16. She made the comments shortly after helping the family cross the U.S.Canadian border. The family is expected to stay with friends in Buffalo for a few days to "collect themselves" before returning to Miami, where Fajardo had worked as a boat builder, Sr.

Rimar said. She added that the family would be virtually starting their lives over again ELMORE, Vt (NQ A trained hearing dog is helping a Vermont woman remain independent despite a hearing impairment that is a result of her stint in Korea as a lay Catholic missionary more than 20 years ago. Mary Frederick lives alone in a cabin she and a friend built in the Vermont woods, and Sheba, a German shepherd, lets her know when the alarm clock rings, when someone knocks at the door, when the telephone rings or when the smoke detector sounds. "My hearing has never got ten better and as I get older, it is gradually getting worse," Miss Frederick told the Vermont Catholic Tribune, newspaper of the Burlington Diocese. During a 196S sabbatical from teaching health and physical education at Seton Hill College, run by the Sisters of Charity in Greensburg, Miss Frederick went as a lay missionary to Korea, where she came down with a middle ear infection.

"There were no doctors and I remember spending 10 days in bed watching the ceiling spin around because the 'Of- 0m fr'? 4 tf ing at a seminar sponsored by church groups. Bulawan left prostitution last year to work with a church-backed group called Buklod (Center of Unity), a drop-in house for prostitutes in Olongapo City, site of the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay. Buklod lobbies the Philippine Legislature for recognition of prostitutes as members of the country's labor force eligible for employee benefits. There are about 17,000 prostitutes in Olongapo City and an estimated 300,000 in the country, according to IBON, a research publication.

Bulawan, who comes from Samar island, one of the most underdeveloped areas of the country, told the seminar audience she migrated to Manila when she was 14 and begin with national repentance and efforts to rebuild society in line with Christian ideals of justice. Bulawan said it is commonly believed that much money is made in prostitution. However, she said, In Olongapo City when the U.S. fleet is at sea a woman is lucky to earn $2.50 a day. When the ships are in, the women earn $25-550 daily, she said.

Luisa Guillen, on the staff of a women's center in Iloilo City, said prostitution flourishes in part because the government promotes it as part of its tourist program. The Iloilo seminar was jointly sponsored by the Western Visayas Ecumenical Council and Gabriela, a women's group headed by Benedictine Sister Mary John Mananzan. was unable to find a job there. She said she married early and had two children, but then her husband deserted the family. She said she subsequently took up an offer to work as a prostitute in Olongapo City.

"We do not like the job, but we have no other choice," Bulawan said. "Give us alternative jobs and we will grab them fast," Labor legislation may not be the ultimate solution, but it could lessen police harassment of prostitutes, she said. Augustinian Father Roge-lio Obja-an, president of Sah Augustine College in Iloilo City, told seminar participants that he supports the benefits proposal. He also said that bringing an end to prostitution must bishops urge clear vision on teen sexuality ILOILO CITY, Philippines (NC) A former Philippine prostitute, lobbying for employment benefits for her former colleagues, said poverty and abuse force women into selling sex. Alma Bulawan, 27, who used the name "Pearl" when she worked in the bars of Olongapo City frequented by the sailors of the U.S.

7th Fleet, said being poor forces women to do things they would never do if they were able to provide for their children by other means. Many unwed mothers, rape victims and jilted lovers became prostitutes, she said, and they all have one thing in common poverty. Prostitutes want to be registered as regular workers with social security and other employee rights, she said, speak Pennsylvania HARRISBURG, Pa. (NC) Teen-agers need and deserve to be affirmed and supported by a clear vision of their sexuality as a gift from God and of God's plan for using that gift, the Pennsylvania bishops said in a letter to youths. "We can understand your confusion with the double standards which portray premarital and extramarital sexual activity in the media as acceptable, in candidates for public office," the 19 bishops wrote.

"We understand how difficult it may be to delay the physical sexual expressions of your feelings for each other because of the strong drives which move you to do so," they said. "But we are convinced that it is in your best interest to control those urges." The bishops said the ado 3A Si balance in my middle ear was affected," she said. The infection left her with a partial hearing loss. Miss Frederick a member of Holy cross Parish in Mor-risville where she is a eucha-ristic minister, works as an advocate for the elderly at a county agency on aging. It was there that she first heard of hearing dogs.

"In order to remain independent, many of the elderly find it necessary to have a dog, whether a seeing-eye dog or a hearing dog." mmk. LAST NAME OF PARISH OR CHURCH Weekend date preferred June 9-11 July 14-16 August 18-20 0f fr i tiim ,1 mm ''i 'HTHiumJ lescent years are a "key time'J for developing many friend' ships, for studying and preparing fpr professions and for deciding on a vocation. involvement at this time usually means an unhealthy emotional dependence on one person, just when a successful maturing process requires having many and different kinds of contacts and friendships with others," they said. Only when two people have matured to a point when they make a lifetime commitment to each other in marriage is a physical sexual expression of love healthy, appropriate and morally correct, they wrote. The bishops said "it is only in this context that a total gift of yourself body and soul to your partner can mean all that it is supposed to mean." By engaging in promiscu because their home was bur glarized in tneir absence.

In granting asylum, Benedict J. Ferro, the INS district director in Buffalo, issued a statement saying, Fajardo had "established a well-founded fear that he would be subject to persecution for his political beliefs if he were returned to his native Cuba." Ferro had said in January that the Fajardos entered the United States fraudulently and that it would be unfair to thousands of other immi- grants if they were allowed to return. Certified Latest Styles Starting at $8.40 eq. yd. and 'safe sex' are sending contradictory and therefore confusing signals to young peo ple," they said.

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Woodlawn, Wichita. ous or casual sexual activity, a person gives only their body to another, and withholds the total gift of self which true love demands, they said, I his means that you are using another person." The bishops also cautioned the teens about masturbation. "Self-seeking is also evident in solitary satisfaction which uses for oneself a gift intended for someone else." Use of artificial contraceptives also goes against God's plan for human sexuality, they said. It means "denying an essential purpose for which God made our sexuality to pass on life. Using the gift of sexuality according to God's plan can lead to the most deeply fulfilled life a human being can attain loving and being loved," they wrote.

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