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Curious cults Cute and thefro8u» for young peo- ple vwe the focus of o workshop offered py 5t John Fisher College's NQ- thorv KoBar for reifgious educator lose weekend its Geneva. Paae 9. McGh»aldondl>$5ate5 0|^>eoftobe seriou* contender tor league tifos ir* their lesfXKtfve dFV&ons, as <he high up. Page 16. Catholic Diocese of Rochester 50 Cents Thursday. December 8. 1988 .'j \aqes wei to unite By Lee Strong The Diocese of Rochester is considering a plan, to consolidate alLits development and fundraising programs under the Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, Inc. The plan, presented to the diocesan Finance Council October 27 by Mark Seeberg, direc- tor of development, calls for the development office and the Thanks Giving Appeal — which is currently part of the development office — to be incorporated into the foundation. The development office would then carry out the appeal — as well as planned giving, major gifts and capital campaigns — as part of the foun- dation's overall operations. The plan also calls for the recruitment of new members and a new president for the foundation's board of directors. '/ An ad hoc subcommittee of the diocesan Fi- nance Council comprised of council and foun- dation board members met Monday, Dec 5, • to consider the plan. Diocesan officials hope that the committee will finish its work in De- cember, and wiU submit to the council a recom- mendation concerning the plan. The officials otmiob^heweve^hat specifics of the plan would have to be worked out. • IPM^0^^^^L dioi»saa';develop-': ment operations would ^legally independent from the diocese. Although the foundation 1 was incorporated separately when it was formed in 1984, its bylaws stipulate that it is institution- ally related to the diocese — that is, it would not be free to setUts own goals for fundraising and spending priorities. Instead, the diocesan Finance Council and Bishop Matthew H. Clark would make those decisions. diocesan budget. Because the plan is still in the proposal stage, the exact nature of the relationship between the foundation and the diocese hasn't been de- fined. One question is how the foundation and the finance council will work together to de- velop the diocesan budget. Another question is who will manage the diocesan portfolio. The subcommittee will also consider how the Thanks Giving Appeal (TGA) would function from within the foundation as envisioned in the plan. Seeberg acknowledged that unforseen questions may yet emerge as the committee meets. Father John Mulligan, moderator of the pastoral office, acknowledged that consolidat- ing development functions with the diocese is a direction in which the diocese will move, and that Seeberg's plan is one way to do it. \I think weVe agreed with (the plan) in prin- ciple,\ he said. \I think what we're trying to. do is fine tune the relationship .between the foundation and the diocese. I'm sure that it will be worked out between Mark (Seeberg) as de- velopment directoy he Finance Council and coalesce Seeberg pointed out that under the proposed plan, he would be responsible for day-to-day ~ fundraising efforts. He would report to the foundation's board of directors and to. Bish- op Park, who is also a member of the board. Although the foundation board and staff would offer advice about whether financial goals can be met, Seeberg said, they would not have veto power over.-those goals or over the By Richard A. Kiley Despite the guilty verdicts passed down to 37>fo-life activists oh Monday, 'Dec. 5, the leader of Project Life of Rochester is claiming a moral victory .because \there is now expert testimony On public record that a fetus is a human being/' A Rochester City Court jury convicted the Project Life members on charges of simple trespassing and resisting arrest for their May 21 actions in staging ar\rescue mission\ on the fifth-floor east wing of Highland Hospi- tal and failing to comply with police orders to leave. At the beginning of the three-week trial, all 42 demonstrators were charged with third- degree criminal trespassing and resisting arrest, both misdemeanor offenses that carry a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. And although Project Life of Rochester Executive Director David E. Long said he was disappointed with the jury's decision, he was pleased that pro-life activists were able to tell jurors why they staged the demonstra- tion. \ \As iar; as the outcome, certainly I'm uisappointed ... even more so for the children whose lives we&e trying to save,\ said Long, who was convicted for the second l^l^-ffom^^pi^^^' , ; On^othethand, Father Peter Bayer, chan- c|l^^|jgai%se and^itectipr i?f the Pivi- sibn*orsupport* Services, -was cautious in assessing the proposal. \It's premature to say if it will be approved*\ >he noted. \T are a number of issues to be framed. Certainly the (subcommittee) will come to some resolution!' For Father Bayer, a pivotal question in the discussion is the relationship between the foun- dation and the diocese. \A question of inde- pendence (of the foundation) is a key question, becausethe Church is different from a college or university','he observed. Yet the foundation as Seeberg envisions it, would be institutionally related to the diocese. - \The kind of foundation we're talking about in the diocese is the kind that goes out and raises money for a specific agenda!' Seeberg said. The agenda, he added, would be set by Continued on Page 21 guilty verdicts, moral vi®twy time in less' than a month on charges stemming from a pro-life demonstration. ^From the respect that new things'were brought out dyring the trial and that we were allowed to use the justification defense, I was pleased. We're hoping that using (the justification defense) will start to be the norm.\ The so-called \justificatiorT\ or \necessity\ defense sterns from a state law stating that under certain circumstances people may be justified in using, criminal behavior to defend their own lives or the lives of others. Long said pat he was not.surprised by the verdicts, addiligthat \jurws just aren't ready to acquit people for breaking the law while trying to save lives. \The future of America rides on how these cases come but. No nation that continues to kill its offspring can survive,\ Long said. \We wiU become barbaric ... it will t>e survival of the fittest.\ -' Five cases were dismissed at the end of the trial. Four defendants could not be identified by police, and Judge John Manning Regan dismissed charges against a fifth defendant because of special circumstances. Regan will sentence the. rest of the group •.'•-'•-• Continued on Page 6 Unda Dow Haycs/Couriar-Jourfiiiil PATRONAL FEAST — The feast of the Immaculate Conception, celebrated on De- cember 8, was established as the patronal feast of the United States by the Sixth Provincial Council of Baltimore in 1846. This stained-glass window honoring the Blessed Virgin's Immaculate Conception is in the chapel of the Nazareth Academy convent. . 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