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Part of her sub stance abuse problem came from her effort to erase the painful memory of the abortions. Because of her abortions, Lynott says, the woman ex pected condemnation from the Catholic Church. In stead, she was surprised to find compassion. It might have been condemnation before 1985, when the diocese began a program to train counselors and priests in how to help women who have had abortions. women a month who defied church oppositiontoal^ tion came to Lynott’s agency for help. Counselors aware of the women’s abortions, sometimes wert. able to spot what was troubling them. “We didn’t know how to begin,” Lynott says. "It By Jeff an utterly foreign concept.” VickieThorn, the founder of the first Project Rad® The £ which began in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee ini says feelings of remorse aren’t confined to CatktKjThe women. pn rr “I don’t think it’s Catholic guilt,” she says. "I just generic human guilt.” In every great city there is one great specialty store Named for a biblical story about a woman who grieved inconsolably for her children, Project Rachel treats women more like mourners than sinners. Before fhm an average of one or two Catholic The National Conference of Catholic BishopsJto'hfP* dorsed the concept of post-abortion reconciliationxHThis t ices such as Project Rachel in 1985, according to ®^ a Rev. John Gouldrick, director of the bishops’Pro 1®*'^’ ar Office. -as" pvc; a At least 60 Catholic dioceses in the I'nited So tht top s have started Project Rachel programs because oftBThe mates that as many as 30 percent of Catholic woaB'ophy have had abortions. Thorn says. It’s about the sa^ptnid 31 propot tion as the general population, she added, ■fensiw ■On (It Howard Hoeflein, a spokesman for the ArchdiosBll he 1; of Detroit, says the numbers aren’t surprising, dess Bould the church’s position that abortion except to save; life of the mother is a serious sin. Famous gate crasher recalls good old days of parties, big events NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pinky Ginsberg doesn’t get around much anymore. The days of dining with royalty, infiltrating big events and thumbing his nose at officials are gone. “I don’t know who remembers me COLBERTS CULPEPPER PLAZA 696-0990 anymore,” he says. “There was a time when they all knew me, though. There was a time when my name was magic.” The man who once walked into Adolf Hitler’s office and asked for an autograph, attended the coro nation of King George VI, crashed 37 World Series, 12 presidential in augurations, eight Olympics and many other events is a little short of magic these days. 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