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Mary inspires devotion, debate dl'/S-~ By STEVE COOPER of Religious Studies at the Unlverliity of San Diego, between 22 and 25 million people promoting adher- sun staff Wriler said changes brought into the church by the Vatl- ence to the message of Fatima. There are 1800 There may be a revival coming among American can council were not meant to demote Mary. members In the San Bernardino diocese. Roman Catholics. "A lot of spiritual energy that had been going No, not the kind where preachers in three-piece Into the devotion of Mary was suddenly going Into suits arrive in their Wlnnebagos for a week of the liturgy of the mass. But she is a powerful sym- mghtly meetings. bol of the place of women in God's plan. Because of This is a revival of the Virgin Mary as a unique this there is a devotional renaissance coming for mediatrix within the faith. her," he aid. There actually appear to be two opposing trains For Ted Parker, there is no need for a revival. of thought developing among the numerous new As president of the Diocese of San Bernardino divl- views of Mary - a liberal Mariology and a funda- sion of the Blue Army, his regard for Mary was mentalist Mariology. secured 18 years ago when he began studying the The parting of the ways has come from what message of Our Lady of Fatima, which warns of a many on both sides call a misunderstanding of the rising tide of communism bent on enslaving the meaning of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. church and the free world. Ronald Pachence, chairman of the Department The Blue Army is a worldwide organization of I This is the story of Fatima, as described in the book, "The Sun Danced at Fatima," by the Rever- end Joseph Pelletier: On May 13, 1917, three peasant children In the small village of Fatima, Portugal, were tending their sheep when they saw what appeared to be a lady, unlike anyone they had ever seen. She was youthful and appeared to be dressed in white light. She glowed like the sun. Her face was lovely, yet serious and grave. The children asked her where she was from. (Please see Mary, B-9)

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College professor Pachence said Mary's place may shift somewhat with the times, but her place of importance in Catholic theology is secure. Only twice has a pope spoken with the claim of infallibility and both instances involved Mary. "With the two-pronged pronouncement of the As· sumption of the Blessed Virgin and her Immaculate Conception, her place was secured in Catholic doc- trine. We may differ in our interpretation of those statements, but the doctrines themselves will stand," Pachence said. The professor called continuing interest in mes- sages such as Fatima and concerns with devotion to Mary part of "the Catholic brand of fundamenta- lism." There does seem to be an interesting parallel be- tween the "end of the world" scenarios attributed to these apparitions and those scenarios drawn from Bible prophecies by evangelists hke Hal Lindsey. "You have fundamentalists in Protestant circles who are apocalyptic and looking for the end of the world. The same thing here. The most extreme groups generally believe they have some form of special revelation. So, 1! you don't belong to the group they belong to, you don't belong," he said. While he did not lump everyone who believes in the Fatima message in this exclusivist group, Pa- chence would include such groups as the followers Veronica Lueken, the seer of Bayside, N.Y., and those connected with St. Joseph's Hill of Hope in east San Bernardino County Lueken is a woman in her 50s who claims to have been visited by the Virgin Mary since 1970. Speaking through Lueken, the heavenly visitor tells of the coming end of the world in nuclC'ar holocaust and earthquakes. Lueken's followers have been tourm cities in Southern California oft and on for the past. few months. They play tape recordings of Mary's mes- sages througll Lueken and show slides of the meet- ings in Bayside, N.Y. 'd · I The bishop of the diocese where ~.ays1 e is .o- cated dismisses Lueken as a seer with no cred1b1h- t " y. Likewise, the Hill of Hope messages ha~e been condemned by the bishops of San Bernardmo and Los Angeles. Ch' At the Hill of Hope development near ID?, a former Placentia housewife, Frances Klug, claims the saints speak through her. Since the early 1970s, Klug's followers have been trying to gain approval for their plan to build a huge religious-medical complex. But little has been accom- plished over the years. . 1 d There are countless other unproven m1rac es an. divine messages often similar in content to the Fat1· ma message. In 'recent years in the U.S. Southw~st, reports have been made of several statues crymg and the face of Jesus appearing m such unlikely a gara"e uoo1 anif on a tortilla shell. places as on ., __ S~veral Catholics interit:~~~~rs~%~~oifb~:~: angered and emba_rrasse w apparitions was raised. "'Don't go into what those kooks are doing. I~n•~ there something else to talk about?" one pnes asked. h believes in the Bayside doom an:~:o~'::: ;~:~~e: d~smissed the official dismissal of Lucken.

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On the same day of the month for the next six months, she appeared. As the story spread, the crowds grew. On October 13, 1917, the miraculous appearances reached a climax. A crowd of 70,000, including newspaper report• ers, skeptics, the faithful and the curious. gathered to see the promised supernatural appearance. At noon, she appeared. Again, a blaze of light. After speaking with the children, she began ascend ing toward heaven again. But stopped. She turned her hand upward and a beam of light shot toward the sun. There was a dazzling display of color and, in the sky with her, there appeared Saint Joseph and the Baby Jesus. After a hort time. they disappeared and the sun began to dance. Illogically, it was leaping and spin ning aero · the sky. With the children, she left a message for the world. It continues to be carried by Sister Lucia, who still lives in Portugal. The essence of the message was a warning about Russia and a call to devotion. Sister Lucia quoted Mary as saying, "If my re- quests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If my requests are not. granted, Russia will spread Its errors throughout the world, raising up ars and persecutions against the Church. Many will be martyred. the Holy Father will have much to suffer - several nations will be annih i lated." To avert this disaster, the faithful must: - Offer daily sacrifices in communion, prayer and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. - Say part of the rosary five times daily while meditating on the mysteries of the life of Christ. - Wear the scapular (special pieces of cloth) of Mt. Carmel as an act of devotion. - Pray for the conversion of Russia, particularly during masses the first Saturday of each month. Pope John Paul II went to Fatima on May 13, 1982, the anniversary of the first appearance.and on year to the day after he was shot by a would-be assassin. There the Pope said the message of Fatima "is still more relevant than it was 65 years ago. It is still more urgent." The Pope has requested Catholic bishops throughout the world to join him in 1984 in praying for peace and the conversion of Russia in accord- ance with the message at Fatima. Ted Parker, of San Bernardino, responded to the message of Fatima because he saw no other way to peace. "'I had tried to find a way through politics, but it just gets worse and worse and worse if you go that direction. Then I began studying Fatima and became convinced it was true," he said. In the past three years, Parker said there has been a significant increase of interest in the mes- sage. "We used to see 15 or 20 at our masses the first Saturday of the month. Now it's 125 to 150. The peo- ple are coming back to their devotion," he said. By devotion, Catholics interviewed this week re- peatedly wanted to make it clear they do not mean worship. 'Tm sure you have a picture of your mother on your piano or wherever," said the Reverend Alfred Geimer of San Bernardino. "That isn't to worship her. But to honor her, of course. She's your mother. She has a special place in your life. It is the same with Mary." In the honored place of mother to Jesus, Catho- lics believe she has access to Jesus in a way no other individual could possibly have. Not to honor the mother is to insult the son. "Much of the bigotry is disappearing and we are all - Catholics and Protestants - finding we have much more in common than we thought. Even in this country, we are learning that in our early years, Mary was held in high regard. The first president, Washington, wrote many beautiful and eloquent prayers to Mary," said Geimer. The priest has been a student of the Fatima ap- pearances for years. Like countless others he finds the evidence of the miraculous overwhelming in the apparitions of Fatima, as well as Lourdes (in France) and Guadalupe (in Mexico). He believes Portugal is a free, predominantly Catholic nation today because or its devotion to the Virgin after 1917. "'If you examine what was happening at that time, you'll see it could have easily become a Marxist country. But it was protected ... and it was the only European country left pretty much unscathed by World War II," he said. Like other priests, Geimer believes there has been a move away from Mary by U.S. Catholics in recent years. But he believes the pendulum may be swinging back toward the Blessed Virgin once again.

Powell Fred Nagel and Mary Conn. The group raised $255,000, mostly from $4 annual dues, 10 1983 and says it will hire a staff of rate and mana- gerial experts to speak for customers of San Diego Gas & Electnc Co. on rate in eases and other regulatory .. ""'''·.. ,,_..., . , L. issues. The group enclosed a membership solicitation in SDG&E billings in Au- gust and December. Lott said 50,166 ballots were mailed to embers and

work voted in th consumer group's first election and chose nine direc- to serve on a permanent board, said UCAN staff member Jeanne to The orgaru.zer of the watchdog group - Robert Fellmetb director of the UruversitIJl!,.Satt-l')iego Law School's Cent€r1or Public Interest was one of those elected when mailed ballots were counted .... ·-.... - , .. Law - y terday. Lott.

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,Jerry Butk1e"".1c1., a Vista community ·er• vices representative, and Tania Bov. man. a paralegal with the Legal id Society. All the , 'orth Coun ty camlldatt•. were nominated hy the temporary b~ard since none received the 500 nommatmg ignatures r qu1_red under till' orgamza tion rule . The ncv. board is expected to convene a meeting soon after the election re ults / are nnounced .L___

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Lt>ster B. Snyder, director of the Graduate Tax Program at the University of San Diego School of Law, will discuss "Proposed change in the corporate tax struc- tur .. t noon m etin Tu day of th Taxation Law Section of the local Bar. The meeting is to be in the University Club. Snyder is editor of the Journal o Real Estate Taxation, an authority in the fi Id of tax law and ('O chairman of a corporate tax con- fi r nee to b held in April in San Diego