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BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN meets with retired clergy, including Bishop James L. Connolly (left) and Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, in left

picture; and with young men preparing for ordination, in right picture.

(Sr. Gertrude Gaudette Photos)

FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

t eanc 0 VOL. 27, NO. 1

FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1983

Ball presentees

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There's no post-holiday lull for at least two diocesan groups: the 125 Bishop's Ball committee members ~ho will decorate lin­ coln Park BaHroom for the Jan. 14 social event; and the 37 young ladies who will be presentEld to Bishop Cl10nin in the traditional ceremony that is a ball high­ light. ,Both groups will be at Lincoln Park in North Dartmouth on Sunday, the decorators at 1 p.m. and the presentees, each with her fal!her or other relative, at 2 p.m. for a run-thl1ough of Fri­ day's ceremony.

The decorators will work with hundreds of yards of Spanish yellow, Kelly green and peach­ blossom material, adorning the presentee and bishop's boxes, the hall entrance, the dance floor and the orchestra stage.

Attleboro areas, the 1983 pre­ sentees come from one-third of the 113 diocesan parishes under a system whereby each parish names a representative once in three years.

Their names and parishes fol­ low: Cape Cod

Art Perry's Orchestra will play. in the main ballroom from 8 p.m.

Friday to 1 a.m., with AI Rai­ none's Orohestra to be heard from 9 p.m. to I a.m. in the ball­ room lounge. The presentee cere­ mony is scheduled flor 9:10 p.m. and a grand march at 10 p.m., foHowed by remarks from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, baH guest of honor for the 13th year.

Marybeth Driscoll, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Teri Sue Zibrat, Holy Redeemer, Chat­ ham; Karen Connaughton, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis.

Irene Alves, St. Peter's, Prov­ incetown; Dorothy Fleming, Corpus Christi, Sandwich; Ka,ren E. Robinson, St. Pius X, South Yarmouth.

New Bedford Area Kelley Stockwell, Holy Name, New Bedford; Ann Lucinda Resendes, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford; Laura Jean Sequin, Sacred Heart, New Bedford; Kerrie Oharron, St. Anthony of Padua, New Bed­ ford.

Rene Domagala, St. Casimir, New Bedford; Maureen A. Mo­ riarty, St. James; Christine May McCoy, St. Lawrence; Claire Marie plivier, St. MarY'S, South Dartmouth.

Ann Marie Pfeninger, St. Julie Billiart, North Dartmouth; Louise Ann Rodrigues, St. George's, Westport; Robin Cam­ pinha, St. Patrick's, Wareham; Jacqueline A. BQucher,- Naza­ reth School and St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet.

Presentees Representing Cape Cod and the Islands and the New Bed­ ford, Fall River, Taunton and

Susan Ann Correia, Our Lady of Angels, Fall River; Clara Theresa DeAlmeida, Our Lady Tum to Page Six

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II announced Jan. 5 that he will elevate 18 church­ men to the College of Cardinals Feb. 2, the feast of the Presenta­ tion of the Lord.

The only U.S. churchman on the list is Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago. Others in­ clude Bishop Julijans Vaivods who heads two Latvian dioceses in the Soviet Union, and a French Jesuit theologian who has never been a bishop, Father Hen­ ri de Lubac.

The- pope told a crowd of 4,000 in the Paul VI Audience Hall that the new cardinals-desig­ nate come from around the world, "two from Africa - Ivory AT A NEW YEAR'S DAY Coast and Angola; one from

America - the United

Mass at St. Anne's parish, North States; two from South America

Fall River, Wanda Wrobel of - Venezuela and Colombia; two

neighboring St.· 'Stanislaus from Asia - Lebanon and Thai­ parish, clad in traditional . land; seven from Europe ­ Polish dress, extinguishes Yugoslavia, Belgium, Italy, candles that had burned in France, Poland, Latvia and Ger­ and one from Oceania - . the French-Canadian parish many; New Zealand," since martial law was de­ "Two are the heads of two clared in Poland in Decem­ dicasteries of the Roman Curia," he added. "And finally there is ber, 1981. the venerable Father de Lubac The candles burned to ex­ universally known for his long press parishioners' solidarity activity in the theological and with their Polish neighbors, patristic fields," Because two of the appointees Tum to Page Six

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are over 80 and thus ineligible to vote in a conclave for the elec­ tion of a pope, the consistory will bring to 138 the total num­ ber of cardinals and to 120 the number able to participate in a papal election.

Under rules established by Pope Paul VI, the maximum num­ ber of cardinals under 80 years of age is 120.

The list of cardinals-designate announced by Pope John Paul included the· names of several prelates who, because of their ecclesiastical positions, were ex­ pected to become cardinals.

Those included Archbishop Jo­ zef Glemp of Gniezno and War­ saw, Poland; Archbishop Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, Italy; and Archbishop Jean-Marie Lusti­ ger of Paris.

But several others who, be­ cause of their office, were ex­ pected to be named cardinals were not on the list. These in­ cluded U.S. Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus, propresident of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State; Belgian Arch­ bishop Jean Jadot, propresident of the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Christians and former apos­ tolic delegate in tJ1e United States; and French Archbishop Paul Poupard, propresident of Turn to Page Ten

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Father Greeley stops .column Fairway, Kan. (NC) - Father Andrew Greeley, sociologist,. novelist and cplumnist, has de­ cided to stop writing his weekly syndicated column for the Cath­ olic press, according to a spokes­ man for Universal Press Syndi­ cate.

In his last column, dated Dec. 21, Father Greeley quoted from two letters he had recentlyre­ ceived.

One, from a Catholic fresh­ man at a non-Catholic college, said reading Father Greeley's novels, "The Cardinal Sins" and "Thy 'Brother's Wife," seems to strengthen my faith and give me courage to believe it."

The other, from a 39-year-Old man, said reading "The Cardinal Sins" had motivated him to go to confession for the first time in 14 years. "The point I got from it," the man wrote, "was that God will forgive as long as we humans keep trying and try­ ing."

"The moral of this story," Father Greeley said, "is not that

the letters about my fiction are dinal John Cody as archbishop overwhelmingly nice (8 or 9-to-l) of Chicago and after the publica­ and that the letters about' the tion of Father Greeley's novel column are overwhelmingly vile . "Cardinal Sins:' relating the (rom both right and the left. The machinations and sexual affairs point is, rather, that never has of a priest who becomes arch­ the column encouraged a young bishop of Chicago.

An article in the October 1981 woman in college to feel confi­ dent in 'her faith ·or moved a issue of the Chicago Lawyer, a man to go to confession after 14 monthly newspaper for lawyers, said Father Greeley planned to years. Columns, however stimu­ lating, are just not designed for coHaborate with the late James F. AnlJrews; board chairman of such a priestly effect."

Father Greeley is a ,professor Universal Press Syndicate, to of sociology at the University of launch a newspaper investiga­ Arizona and senior study director tion that would force the Vati­ at the University of Chicago's can to remove Cardinal Cody. . National Opinion Research Cen­ That article was published as the Chicago Sun-Times was ter.

The column has stirred contro­ carrying reports that a federal versy. Last winter, four diocesan grand jury was investigating newspapers dropped it while Cardinal Cody for allegedly di­ three bishops publicly announced verting as much as $1 million in decisions to continue it in their church funds to his stepcousin, Helen' Dolan Wilson. diocesan newspapers.

Father Greeley issued a state­ Those decisions to continue or discontinue the column ,were an­ ment denying that he conspired nounced during a controversy to oust Cardinal' Cody, although he said he favored the cardinal's over whether or not Father Gree­ ley plotted to oust the late Car­ removal:

Cardinal Cody found guiltless

CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinal­ elect Joseph L. Bernardin of Chic­ ago has announced the end of an independent investigation into the financial dealings of his predecessor, Cardinal John Cody, and said it produced no evidence of wrongdoing by the late car­ dinal.

The Cardinal-elect alsi, an­ nounced new' accounting proce­ dures for the I ar.;:hdiocese and named a blue-ribbon panel of Chicago business and financial leaders to review the annual audit of the archdiocese.

He said he has closed a con­ troversial, unaudited archdioce­ san contingency fund "maintain­ ed by the late cardinal so that there wiU never be need

again" for the kind of inquiry that placed a widely publicized paIl of suspicion over the last year of Cardinal Cody's life.

While declaring the Cody case basically closed, Cardinal-elect Bernardin noted that some rec­ ords were not available. If new records' came to light, he said, "the conclusions reached might require re-evaluation."

The prelate, who was named to head the Chicago Archdiocese last July, announced his actions in a 500-word letter "to the clergy, Religious and laity of the archdiocese" . published in the Dec. 17 edition of the archdioce­ san newspaper, The Chicago Catholic. '

Cardinal Cody died last April 25 at the age of 73, after 17 years as archbishop of Chicago. He be­ came a focus of national contro­ versy the previous September when the Chicago Sun-Times ran a series of articles alleging that he had violated church and fed­ eral laws by diverting as much as $1 milIion in tax-exempt . church funds for the personal use of his stepcousin, Helen Do­ lan Wilson.

In his letter Cardinal-elect Ber­ nardin said that when he succeed­ ed Cardinal Cody "I felt it my responsibility to make a personal inquiry so that whatever linger­ ing doubts might exist could be cleared up as quickly and -com­ pletely as possible."

"On the basis of an inquiry made by the attorneys and ac­ countants, the records collected, information obtained from inter­ ::::::_._=-~~ views, and estimates made when records were not available, it has been estimated that the car­ dinal had spendable personal re­ 391 HANOVER STREET ceipts of approximately $38,000 FALL RIVER, MASS. per year:' the archbishop re­ ported.

For individuals who should not be living The sources of that income, alone, but who do not need the expensiye care he added, were "salary and in­ of a nursing ho":,e, Hanover House ,can become vestment income and the gifts he received" and, in later years, a beautiful alternative.

Social Security payments.

Locat,ed adjacent to the new Charlton At the time of Cardinal Cody's Memorial Hospital, guests at Hanover House death, The Chicago Catholic re­ ported, his estate was valued at enjoy gracious independent Jiving, courteous . about $87,000. The cardinal wiH­ staff members are , available at all times to ed it all to the archdiocese for provide assistance as needed, including the the care of aged and infirm serving of meals, the monitoring of medica­ priests. .tions, assistance with personal hygiene, many , "The available data indicate diversified activities programs, etc. Hanover that his total personal expendi­ tures did not exceed' the total House has private accommodations for both estimated -receipts," ~aid Car­ long term and short ter~ stays. dinal#lect Bernardin, who con­ eluded his letter with a request For Further Information Contact: that Chicago Catholics "remem­ MRS. GREENWOOD ber Cardinal Cody for ,the more than 50 years he served the At 675 -7583 church and for the good he ac­ complished during his 17 years in Chicago:'

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By NC News Service Pope John Paul II visited the central Italian towns of Rieti and Greccio Jan. 2 for what he called a "Christmas pilgrimage" closing year-long celebrations of the eighth centenary of the birth of St. Francis of Assisi.

The pope delivered six speech­ es during a seven-hour/visit to Rieti and nearby Greccio, where on Christmas 1223 St. Francis set up· the first known nativity scene in history.

Describing Greccio as "almost a second Bethlehem," the pope appealed for return to the "Chris­ tian radicalism" of St. Francis.

THE LEADER of some 35,000 Maronite Catholics in the United States, including members of Our Lady of Purgatory parish, New Bed- . ford, and St. Anthony of the Desert; Fall River, has been named an archbishop.

Pope John Paul II gave Maronite Bishop Francis M. Zayek the personal title of archbishop on Dec. 22.

The new archbishop, who is 62 years old, was named the first exarch (bishop) of the U.S. Maronite apostolic exarchate when it was foun­ ded in 1966.

In 1971 the exarchate was made the Diocese of St. Maron of Detroit and Bishop Zayek became its founding bishop. In 1977 he had the diocese changed to St. Maron of Brooklyn, N.Y., saying that city was closer to most Maronite· parishes. .

Archbishop Zayek, Auxil­ iary Bishop John Chedid and 56 priests serve the 48 U.S. Maronite parishes in 22 states and the District of Columbia.

The archbishop was born in Cuba, studied for the priesthood in Lebanon and was ordained to the priest­ hood in 1946. He holds a doctorate in canon law. He was ordained a bishop in 1962 and served as an aux­ iliary in the archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro until his ap-. pointment to the U.S. Ma­ ronite exarchate.

His new title is a personal honor' that does not affect tl.J,e status of his diocese.,

"It is the time to witness to the Gospel with renewed, clear vigor and to preach it 'sine glossa' (in its original purity)," he said.

The pope, formerly an avid skier, proved to be familiar with a Greccio mountain called the Terminillo, where he had often skied before becoming pope.

When his helicopter took off, instead of headi!1g south toward Rome, it went to the east over the Terminillo.

The flight deviation was ex­

pressly requested by the pope,

who wanted to see the snow atop

the mountain.

Bishop on leave GUAEMALA CllY (NC) ­ Bishop Mario Rios Mont, 50, brother· of Guatemala's military leader, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, has been given an indefinite leave of absence by the Vatican from his post as head of the prelature of EscuintIa, Guate­ mala. The apostolic nunciature in Guatemala City sai~ the leave of absence began in early Sep­ tember at the request of the bishop, . but it gave no reasons for the request. Last January however, the bishop complained of government harassment in his prelature.

After his brother came to power in March, Bishop Rios Mont- (who spells his last name differently becaus.e of an error on his birth certificate) express. ed hope that the human rights situation would improve. 'But many church sources and human rights organizations have said that it has worsened.

Peace God's gift

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Peace is a common ideaI which can be achieved in many ways, Pope John Paul II recently told a group of Nobel Peace Prize win­ ners. "There is no pre-t!stablished VATICAN CllY (NC) The method that guarantees peace," Vatican philatelic office will is­ the pope said. He called peace a sue three series of stamps mark­ "gift of God" requiring the inter­ ing the Vatican art collection's vention of man to put it into visits to New'York, Chicago and ' practice. Attending tl)e audience San F~andsco in 1983. Other were representatives of nine in­ planned 1983 'series will honor ternational organziations that the Holy Year and the World have won the Nobel P,eace }>rize, .

Year of Communications and including Amnesty International, commemorate the fifth centenary the InternationaI Red Cross and of the death of the painter Rap­ the office of the U.N. High Com­ hael (RaffaelloSanzio). missioner for Refugees.

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RAYMOND WEAVER· (left), state pro-life director, accepts a check from John M. Murphy and John R. Wilder of Attleboro Council 404, Knights of Columbus, on behalf of the Natural Family Planning program of the Fall River diocese. (Baptista Photo)

Holy Year, canon law code dates givell

By Nancy Frazier 1

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The 1983 Holy Year of Redemption will begin March 25, the feast of the Annunciation, and end April 22, 1984, Easter Sunday, Pope John Paul II has announced.

The pope also said he plans to promulgate the new Code of Canon Law Jan. 25, the 24th an· niversary of Pope John XXIII's announcement of the convoca· tion of the Second Vatican Coun­ cil.

The new code updates canon law in the spirit of Vatican II. Pope John Paul II made the announcements in a traditional holiday season speech to cardin­ als present in Rome and memo bers of the Roman Curia, the church's central administration.

The bulk of the speech focused on the Holy Year, which will mark the 1,950th anniversary of Christ's redemption of man through his death and resurrec­ tion. Holy Years are normally held every 25 years. The last was in 1975.

The aim of the 1983 Holy Year, said the pope, is to bring about "a deepened consideration of the event of the redemption and its concrete application in the sacrame~t of penance.

"For the man who seeks truth, justice, happiness, beauty, good­ ness, without being able to find them through his own efforts, and remains unsatisfied by the proposals that immanentisthic and materialistic ideologies offer him, and withers away because of the abyss of desperation and boredom or is paralyzed by the sterile and self-destructive en­ joyment of the senses, the only answer is Christ," the pope said.

He mentioned his first and third encyclicals, Redempt or Hominis (Redeemer of Man) and Dives in Misericordia (The Mercy of God), as guides "for the ap­ propriate celebration" of the Holy Year.

Pope John Paul said he hoped turies·old organizational prac­ the .13-month celebration would tice," he said. further enrich the world's sense "But it does not want to mon­ of the "solidarity of suffering." .opolize the treasure which is everyone's and it wants the jubi.

Among groups suffering in to· lee to be celebrated with the day's world he listed the 'sick, same rights and the same spirit­ anxious parents, the unemployed, ual effects in each local church alienated young people and in the entire world," he added. "those who suffer for. the viola­ Pope John Paul also linked the tion of their rights, through Holy Year to Mary and to the sometimes refined forms of per­ cause of Christian unity. secution."

"Celebrating the redemption Pope John Paul said the dates we go beyond historic misunder­ of the Holy Year were chosen standings and contingent contro­ to mark "all the steps in the life versies in order to find ourselves of the Savior," from the an- again at the common sotirce of our being Christians, that is, I nouncement of his birth to Mary by an angel to his resurrection redeemed," he said of the link to ecumenism. on Easter Sunday.

"I address therefore a warm Unlike other such jubilees, the appeal to all leaders and mem­ special Holy Year wiH be cele­ bers of other churches and eccles­ brated in all the local churches, ial communities that they may as well as in Rome, the pope said. accompany the celebrations of "Certainly Rome offers itself the year of redemption with their to aU pilgrims with its unique prayers, with their faith in characteristics, its apostolic Christ the redeemer, with their memories, its celebrations in the olove," the pope added. presence of the pope, its cen·

Diaconal ordination tomorrow· Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will ordain three young men to the transitional diaconate in the context of an 11 a,m. Mass tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathe· dral.

They are Richard Andrade of St. Jacques parish, Taunton, presently assisting at St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro; Paul Caron of St. Anthony's, Mattapoisett, assisting at Im­ maculate Conception,. North Easton; and Jlohn ,perry of Holy Rosary,Fall- River, assisting at Holy Name parish, New Bedford.

All are welcome to attend the ceremony.

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Welcome to the New Age As we enter the New Year, many observers of the social mores firmly believe that we are also entering a new age. The days of the Industrial Revolution, they declare, have ended. Man is embarking on a period of his development that will totally revolutionize his life on planet Earth. Man has given man. the computer.

There is much evidence to support the forecasts of our social historians. For the first time in 55 years, Time Magazine was unable to give its Man of the Year ·Award to a person. On the magazine cover man was depicted as a mannequin, while the award went to a machine, the' computer. The editors of Time felt that no human candidate "symbolized the past year more richly or will be viewed by history as more significant than the computer."

The thought is awesome. Yet there can be little doubt that the computer age is not a fantasy. The machines are already intertwining with and in some cases determining man's role in the social order. For example, many blame­ the regrettable unemployment statistics on the so-called recession. There is some justification for this view, but it is too narrow. Few are ready to admit that much unem­ ployment has been caused by the initial adjustments that must be made as society enters the computer age.

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Many jobs taken for granted as essential are now accomplished by computers. Auto workers, secretaries, librarians and teachers are among the many that have been replaced, at least partially, by computers that perform routine tasks effectively, efficiently and without salaries or fringe benefits. From the assembly line to the checkout line, the computer is. becoming the new boss.

It is also invading homes as a game or new toy. Once

inside the house, it can take over and become the hub of activity. .The unsuspecting and unknowing soon become the slaves of the machine. Millions of people, young and old, are hypnotized by the computer.

This is only the beginning. What the next few years of this century will bring is beyond even the Star Wars imagination. Perhaps man will meet his greatest challenge in the coming generation. Will he run the machine or will the machine run him? Will those who control the computer control the masses? Will the world power struggle be determined by the few who try to program the many?

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T~e role of Mary in the church is ever evolving.

Third World people have much devotion to her because her hum­ These are but a few of the serious social questions ble roots resonate with their own. The prominence' of Mary arising at the beginning of this new phase of human devel­ in the growth of the church in opment. One readily perceives the many moral issues that Latin America, Africa and Asia will also surface. The church cannot avoid this new reality is, in fact, truly remarkable. nor t~e inescapable fact that her mission is to men, not In February of 1974 Pope Paul machines.

VI published an apostolic exhor­ How will she use the computer? Will she see it asa. tation on devotion to the Blessed means of spreading the Good News? Is the church ready Virgin entitled Marialis Cultis.

It is regrettable today that so to face the serious social changes that are to come? many people ,assume that the These are topics that should be discussed here and now post-conciliar church has no as the robot begins to walk down the aisle. ' room for devotion to Mary. Even Too many of us are all too ready to pe engulfed by a cursory reading of Pope Paul the new age. But lest we be over-dazzled by the computer, VI's document would .Jeave little doubt that Mary will always be, let us bear always in mind that not even the most glittering an important part of the church's machine can answer the yearnings of the human heart devotional life. Unfortunately, and soul. too many people choose to' ig­ nore her.

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Mary, the Mother of God. Litur­ _EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR gically, she still holds her right­ !lev. Jo~n F. Moore Rev. Msgr. John' 1. Regan ful place of prominence in the ~ I.eary Press-Fall River

Last Saturday we fittingly church's calendar.

A major gift of Mary to the started a new year by celebrating church is the splendid example Mary's motherhood. Its beauty Iies'in the fact that it was freely she sets for its members. chosen.

Throughout the Old and As Pope Paul VI wrote: "The Virgin Mary has always been New Testament and today as proposed to the faithful by the well, people are offered a choice Church as an ,example to be between God's way and other imitated not precisely in the type paths. Too often people choose of me she led, and much .Jess for wrongly. Mary's choice of God the sociocultural background in was renewed throughout her oJife: at the Visitation, at Christ's birth, which she, lived, and which to­ day scarcely exists anywhere. at the Presentation, when her son was lost in the Temple, during Rather, she is held up as an ex­ ample to the faithful for the way the hidden years,' at the wedding in which her own particular me feast at Cana, during Jesus' pub­ lic ministry, in the dark days of she fully and responsibly accept­ ed the will of God, because she his death, in the triumph of his heard the word of God and acted Resurrection, during the final on it, and because charity and a . years of her life. spirit of service were the driving The days ahead will offer us force of her actions. She is , many choices too: Often we opt worthy of imitation, because she for immediate rewards instead of was the first and most perfect of fulfilling God's wiH. We deny Christ's disciples."

Christ like Peter who chose safe­ ty and Judas who chose money Far from downgrading devo­ tion to the Blessed Mother, the in preference to the Lord.

Second Vatican Council attempt­ Our New Year resolutions ed to correct abuses that had should include the decision to cropped up due to an exagerrated choose for God every day. In understanding of Mary that had each act we perform, we declare exalted her to the level of the ourselves, with our free will, as divine and a magical understand­ being for or against God. ing of the.sacramentaIs associat­ Mary's free choices did not ex­ ed with her. Unfortunately, these empt her from more than her changes have given some the im­ share of pain and sorrow; how­ pression that Mary's role in to­ ever, knowing our ultimate re­ day's church has been down­ ward, can we afford not to graded. choose as she did?

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Family Night

A weekly at-home program for families

sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry

OPENING PRAYER Oh, wonderful Father, thank you for this new year. Thank you for all It will reveal In our lives over Its many months and varied seasons. Help us, 'Father, In this new year to grow in unity as a family and help us to place our trust in you and in one an­ other, rather than in things.

Bless us as we gather for Fam-· ily Night. Amen.

TO THINK ABOUT "Tum around and you're tiny; tum around and you're grown; tum around and you're parents with kids of your own." A new year has arrived with its empty days waiting to be filled by each of us.

ACTIVITY IDEAS Young Families

the houses in the year 2020?

Share together how time changes the family.

Middle Years Families TIME MACHINE. Each person draws four pictures on a large piece of paper: The first - self and the family now; the second - self and the family in five years; next - self and the fam­ ily in ten years; and last ~ self and the family in 2010. Share the pictures. What do they say about time and the family?

Adult Families Read about Ecclesiastes 3:1-15.

Make a list of the three most im­ portant qualities in your family.

Share the lists. Together decide on one quaHty the family would like to work on during this new year. Each family member may also choose one personal qual­ ity to work towards. Place the

PRETEND A FAMILY Choose two family members to be par­ ents and have them talk about their family, where they live, what they do as parents. All draw a picture of their family portrait of the future. The more wild, the more fun. What about

lists with the Christmas decora­ tions to be stored until Decem­ ber when you can discuss how well the family has kept its res­ olutions.

SNACK TIME Hot chocolate and "smiley­ face" cupcakes.

ENTERTAINMENT LEMON RACE Everyone has a lemon and a pencil to push it.

Race to a finish line pushing the lemon' only with the pencil. It's harder than it looks; be sure to use enough space.

SHARING - Each share' a wish for the new year.

- Each share the best mem­ ory from last year.

- Each share a moment when God felt close.

- Share a funny story from over the holidays.

CLOS1NG PRAYER Lord Jesus, thank you for this new year and all Ute hope .jt brings to us. Help us to grow in love towards one another and to be a more trusting family. Amen.

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Last fall I was invited to Australia to help set up fam­ ily ministry structures in the diocese of Ballarat, Victoria.

perience at over-filled calendars.

It al~o eliminates our ongoing sense of guilt if we don't attend everything offered us in the church and community. Aussies don't seem to feel guilty about any thing and that is a wonder­ fully freeing way to Hve. I thoughly enjoyed the Austra­ lian people, who are open, warm and relaxed as opposed to many driven American church pro­ fessionals and parents (I include myself)..

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DOLORES

CURRAN Since then, I've been asked by many if I noted significant differ­ ences between the American and Australian church and family.

My generalized impression Is that basically the needs and born as colonies of England with hopes of people are the same the same geopraphlcal size and everywhere. But there is one big frontier expansion. We have a difference between them and us. much denser population, 220 mil­ lion compared to 15 million, so While we tend to operate from An obvious dilemma springs a base of the work ethic, the from a desire to know more about population problems such as pol­ Aussies operate from' a leisure church and family without having lution and crime are understand­ ethic. The word "workaholic" is to give up -leisure time to learn. .ably ,less evident there. not in their vocabulary. It isn't Like many Americans, Aussies Probably the significant factor that they are lazy - they aren't would prefer getting answers, to lies in the nature of the people - but that they haven't made a parenting problems to developing who settled each nation. While religion out of work as many of skills to meet those problems. .England sent us the Puritans, us do.

Skills require education and whom H. L. Menck~n defined as .This difference became obvious learning and that means classes "a haunting fear that somebody, somewhere, might be happy," the minute I began talking about and workshops. she sent Australia her convicts family stress, calendars and pri­ Succinctly then, the leisure oritizing and noted a puzzlement ethic can be as troubling as the and I think maybe they got the on listener's faces. They weren't work ethic in giving a meaning better deal. Australia was spared the Puritan work ethic which so familiar with the problem be­ to life. I'm not sure that making haunts us today. cause they take their free time a religion out of football, horse­ seriously to relax, play and re­ 'racing and bushwalking (back­ Quite honestly, I don't know create. To them weekends and packing) is any more satisfactory which I'd choose, the work or holidays are meant for play, not than making a religion out of o1eisure ethic, if it came down to work. one or the other. Each has its work. merits and drawbacks. I just This has obvious benefits and I wish we could meet halfway. wish we had a better balance of drawbacks. There are few of the weekend workshops or summer I believe the American famHy both. institutes that so proliferate here would be healthier with more because people wouldn't dream focus on leisure and the Aussie of using a vacation for anything family with more focus on work. rifE ANCHOR (USPS·545-020). Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published but to relax and enjoy. This is a We both seem out of balance. weekly except the week of July 4 and the after Christmas at 410 Highland Aven· mixed blessing. It diminishes the It's interesting to speculate on week ue Fall River, Mass. 02722 by the Cath· opportunity for learning new how two countries with similar ollc Press of the Diocese of Fall River.

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own Marine If you're 7 years old and have your own Marine, you greatly increase your peer status and your self-esteem.

Having one's own Marine is one of the many benign side ef­ fects of Operation Rescue, a volunteer tutoring program that has brought out, among hund­ reds of Washingtonians, nine Marines from the Marine bar­ racks who, wearing their uni­ .forms, marched into the Birney School in Anacostia and taught wide-eyed children how to read and count. They were a sensa­ tion and, as one official of the program says, "tremendous role models."

Operation Rescue is a success story, and it comes out of a school system that never got very high marks and a city that is often put-:down as One without a heart. It tells a lot about vol­ untarism, a word somewhat more spoken than practiced by the present administration. Appar­ ently, all sorts of people are just waiting to be asked to lend. a hand.

The program is recruiting again, mostly through posters in supermarkets, libraries and .po­ lice stations. klready half of the nearly 1,000 volunteers who worked last year have signed up again to help elementary school pupils through the mysteries of the alphabet and the multiplica­ tion tables. .

In its first year Rescue opera­ ted in the first three grades; now it has been expanded into grades four, five and six.

It was invented in March 1980 to meet a genuine crisis in the District of Cqlumbia's public schools, a crisis that came out of a decision to eliminate "social promotions" and to insist on program standards. The terri­ ble discovery was made that 10,000 scholars in the first three grades didn't have ~ clue.

James Guines, then acting superintendent of schools, turn­ ed to Sterling Tucker, former city council chairman, for help.

In his Urban League days, Tuck­ er had pioneered in a tutoring program for junior high school students called A Future for Jimmy. \ Tucker collared executives of several 'local companies to serve as his staff and set up a tight infrastructure for the program.

He got the cooperation of the school committee and the unions, assured teachers no one was after their jobs and generated a great deal of publicity.

Guines noted that, although the schools are 96 percent black, the original call for volunteers was answered exclusively by the white community.

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It turned! out that hundreds of housewives, lawyers, government workers, college students and retired schoolteachers were dy­ ing to pitch in. After Guines and Tucker brought to the attention of black civic groups the fact that they were lagging in recruit­ ment, black volunteers began coming forward.

Volunteers were screened ­ the initial recruitment occurred at the time of the Atlanta mur­ ders, and parents were nervous - given 16 hours of training, and sent out to 40 target schools where the marks were most abys­ mal.

"They went into areas that were supposed to be unsafe," says Guines, "but we haven't had a single instance of tires getting slashed or stolen radios or any kind of attack. They found out a lot about the way those children live and about inadequate home reinforcement."

The volunteers found out that some children come to school with litersl1ly blank minds. No one had told them stories or taught them words. They hadn't been held on anyone's lap to learn their AB·Cs. Some of them had been liooking all their short lives for the undivided attention of an adult.

"Some of the parents are just barely surviving," Guines said.

"Never had time to talk to them."

The results of the encounters between one large person who refused to believe that one small person cannot learn if zeroed in on were dramatic. Two-thirds 01 the 10,000 failures were pro­ moted after three months of coaching.

Once Washington has shaped up, Tucker would like to take Rescue to other .urban s~hools that are similarly jammed with students to whom letteJ;S and numbers represent defeat.

Operation Head Start was a wonderfull way of reaching de­ prived chHdren, but its effects wore off. Pre-schoolers accus­ tomed to small groups got ~ost and bewildered in large classes.

Tucker thinks it was because Head Start was not integrated into the school system.

Operation Rescue has not re­ ceived any notice from the White House, but Barbara Bush gave a party for the volunteers at the vice presidential residence last September.

Rescue operates on a grant of $65,000 irom the United Way. It works. Everybody knows why.

"It's the arm a!'9und the shoulder," says Col. O,K. Steele, the commandant of tpe Marine barracks, which has se~t another contingent to the Birney School to drill the pupils in the spelling of "cat."

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THE ANCHOR~Dioces&;'of Fall River-Friday,,Jan. 7, 1983

• Priest to head Sacre'd He'arts prOVInce

Very Rev. William Heffron, SS. ce., curently pastor of SSe Peter & Paul parish, Rochester, N.Y., wHl be installed as fifth head of the U.S. East Coast pro­ vince of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Thursday, Jan. 13, at Sacred Hearts retreat center, Wareham.

Father Heffron, 48, has been vicar-provincial for the past six years. He will lead a province headquartered in Fairhaven and founded in 1905 by Sacred Hearts Fathers from Belgium and Lux­ embourg who came' to the Fall River diocese at the invitation of Bishop William Stang to serve new immigrants.

Today members of the far­ flung province a,lso serve in the dioceses of Provid~ce, Boston, Bridgeport, Rochester, Albany, New York, Allentown, Washing­ ton, D.C., Alexandria, Miami, Brownsville, Houston and Col­ umbus.

They are also active in the military ordinariate, in a Japan­ 'ese vice-province and in India, the Bahamas and Ecuador.

Father Heffron, a Malden na­ tive, entered· the seminary fol­ lowing service with the U.S. Air Force as a medic in Korea.

He was professed in the Sa­ cred Hearts community in 1962 and ordained in 1968. Subse­ quently he was assigned to the Japanese missions and spent two years in language and cultural studies at the Franciscan Insti-

tute of Japanese Studies in Tok­ yo. His pastoral assignmJents were in the perfectures of Iba­ raki and Yamagata. He also seved as Japanese vice-provincial treasurer.

Recalled to the United States for formation work, he was assis­ tant novice master, then ,attend­ ed the Insitute of Religious For­ mation at St. Louis Univer~ity.

In 1975 he was named pro­ vincial director of formation and master of novices, developing an innovative program which in-· eluded intense initiation into the religious life and three months of service in a poverty mission

situation.

Father Heffron has been af the inner-city parish of S5. Peter & Paul in Rochester since 1979 and has been pastor since 1980.

His pastorate has seen establish­ ment of a "table fellowship ser­ ving a daily hot oJunch to up-' wards of 200 people. ' A yout~ mission geared to in­ ne.r city youth, involvement of core parishioner:s and people from affluent suburban parishes in spiritual and social programs and strengthening of traditional parish ministries have also been among projects he has empha­ sized.

Oldest' bishop goes BEAVERTON, Ore. (NC)­ Archbishop Edward D. Howard, retired arcl:tbishop of Portland, Ore., and the world's oldest liv­ ing prelate, died Jan. 2 at Mary­ ville Nursing Home in Beaver­ ton. He was 105.

Archbishop Howard headed the Portland Archdiocese from 1926, when it was known as the Arohdiocese of 'Oregon City, to 1966, when he retired at 89.

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delight be~ond expression" a telephone call he received' from Pope John Paul II when the pope was touring the United States in October 1979.

"It was at the end of a long, hard day for him and it was be­ cause of his marvelous goodness that he called me," Archbishop Howard said a month later. I never dreamed that he would."

Archbishop Howard said then He had been living at the' that he had had a private audi­ Beaverton nursing home since ence with every pope since 1924, shortly after his 100th birthday. with the exception of Pope John Archbishop Howard, wnose Paul I, a'ithough he once sat life spanned the reign of 10 across from him at a Second popes beginning with Pius IX, Vatican ,Council meeting in recalled with "amazement .and Rome.

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Poland Continued lirom page one in faith, our deep love for said Father John R. FoIster, Christ and His Mother whom St. Anne's pastor., They we honor under her title of were extingUished to mark Our Lady of Czestochowa, the New Year'S Eve lifting give us confidence in the victory of love over hatred, of martial law. faith over godlessness, free­ In a message to St. Anne's dom over tyranny. This con­ parishioners, Father Robert fidence born of faith is a gift S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Poland wishes to share with Stanislaus, ~xpressed grati­ men and women everywhere. tude for their "standing with May the new year become a us in faith and Christian giant step toward its final caring. realization!"

"As martial law in Poland is now lifted," he said, "it is with cautious optimism that we look to her future. 1983 promises to bring about yet Continued from page one further developments in of Health, Fall River; Mary Immaculate Conception, Poland and in the Polish Souza, Fall River; Debra J. Machado, church leading toward some Sacred Heart, Fall River.

Helena Sardinha, St. Anthony concrete expression of genu­ of Padua, Fall River; Laurie ine human freedom.

Anne Sirois, St. Patrick, Fall "The battle has .not yet River; Jane~ Silveira, St. Mi­ chael's, Ocean Grove; Barbara ended - only a new phase Gabriel, 51. Michael's, Ocean has begun. Our rich legacy Grove; Patricia Gauthier, St.

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Popelinobile for Holy Year VATICAN CITY (NC) - In an effort to keep Pope John Paul II safe during the 1983 Holy Year, an Italian truck company has given him a 12-speed bullet­ proof "popemobile,"

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The white diesel-powered car has a bulletproof glass bubble allowing easy viewing of the . pope. It has 10 forward and two reverse speeds, side running boards where four papal body­ guards can stand, and a conver· tible top.

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Lisa A. Costa, Sacred Heart, Taun'ton; Kathleen Olson" St. Jacques, Taunton; Mary Figlock, St. Joseph, Taunton; Marie Pel­ letier, St. Peter's, Dighton; Teresa, Fraga, St. Joseph's, North Dighton.

Attleboro Area

Ann Marie Roca, Holy Ghost, Attleboro; Tracy Elizabeth Da­ vidson, St. Mary's, Mansfield; Catherine A. Burke; Sacred Heart, North Attleboro; Joanne M. Creighton, St. Mary's, Nor­ ton.

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Dear Editor: The second coming of Christ must be imminent: when organ­ izations like Dignity, the homo­ sexual group in the Catholic church, are trying to change the church's stand on homosexual relationships; . . . when politi­ cians are advising Sen. Jesse Helms to cut out trying to have his Human Life Amendment passed and wanting voluntary prayer returned to public schools, or he will not be reelected; when so many dedicated and revered priests are intimidated by the large number of Catholics who are leaving the church, so they water down the gospel of Jesus - just skimming over the issues of abortion, infanticide, euthan­ asia, etc. on Respect for Life weekend is a prime example of this:

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Sadly, I could go on and on about this unhealthy state of affairs in our dearly beloved church but I'll stop at this point, reminding myself and others of the words of Jesus: "And I say to you 'You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of heH shall not prevail against it.'" (Mt. 16:18) Let us pray that good people will overcome their apathetic at­ titude and engage in an active apostolate to right these wrongs.

These things happen when "good people" do nothing.

Grace M. Reagan West Yarmouth

WOULD YOU LIKE to toss a bouquet In the direction of a be­ hind-tile-scenes worker in your parish or organization: maybe someone who keeps the altar linens spotless, is always on hand for parish suppers or does . a super job In CCD or youth groups? Write to the Mall Packetl Let such pillars of the parish know they're noticed and ap­ preciated!

For disabled WASHINGTON (NC) - The new National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities, which opened in Washington in early September, encourages establish­ ing diocesan offices for the dis­ abled and assists new directors of those offices, according to Sister Rita. Baum, executive di­ rector.

The new national office is an affiliate of the U.S. Catholic Con­ ference and will work with USCC departments such as ~ducation, family Ijfe and pro-life. Its ad­ dress is National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabilities, 1200 15th St. N.W., Suite 102, Washington, D.C. 20005. The telephone number is 202 429­ 9774.

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De Valera topic of Stonehill lecture

By Pat McGowan The twin lodestars of Eamon de Valera, president or· prime minister of Ireland for a total of 35 years, were reunification of his nation and restoration of its ancient Gaelic tongue. , Thus declared Dr. Donal Mc­ Cartney, professor of modern history at University College, Dublin. He spoke at a recent convocation at Stonehill College at which the North Easton insti­ tution, long distinguished for its· Irish studies prograM, conferred honorary degrees upon the Hon. Carmel B. Heaney, consul-gen­ eral of Ireland in Boston since 1975, and Hon. William V. Shan­ non, former 'American ambassa­ dor to Ireland. The degrees rec­ ognized their commitment to Irish-American friendship.

Speaking on "Eamon de Va­ lera: Educator to a Nation," Dr. McCartney said that Ireland's 20th century destiny has been inextricably bound up with De Valera, who was in public me· longer than any other modem· Irish leader. Born in 1882, he died in 1975, stepping down as president only in 1973, at age 91.

Describing De Valera as a "Moses-like political prophet," Dr. McCartney noted that al­ though he was condemned to death by the British at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising of the Irish, he was released by 1917.

At the time a mathematics teacher, he never lost his respect for scholarship, said Dr. Mc­ Cartney, retaining throughout his public life the post of chan­ cellor of Ireland's National Uni­ versity.

His consuming interest in Irish language, folklore and place names led to Dublin's becoming an International center for Cel· tic studies, while his mathemati· cal background led to the city's equal preeminence in the field of theoretical ~nd cosmic physics.

"For the cost of one bomber," said Dr. McCartney," De Valera initiated an Institute for Ad­ vanced Studies ·that is still bene­ fiting scholarship."

Although criticized as a "peda­ gogue among poli~icians," De

Valera was actually in the tra­ dition of the old Gaelic chief­ tains and an upholder of Ire­ land's ancient title as "the is­ land of saints and scholars," noted Dr. McCartney. . "He wanted Dublin to have the reputation for learning that Alexandria enjoyed in the time of the Ptolemies," declared the University College professor.

De Valera's charisma cam~ from his personality, continued.

Dr. McCartney. Tall, ascetic, usually wrapped in a dramatic black cloak, a survivor of the Rising and many other clashes, he provided the romantic Irish with leadership responding to their national yearnings. No scan­ dal, serious resignations of co­ workers or notable rifts marred his political career.

His dreams included life on the land ·for families and enough industry to make Ireland as self­ sufficient as possible. By 1938, said Dr. McCartney, the parti­ tion of Ireland was the only r~al stumbling block between it and England; yet although achieving Irish unity would have crowned the statesman's life, De Valera saw an "Irish Ireland" with full appreciation of its Gaelic heri- . tage as more important than a physically united nation.

De Valera discouraged war with Northern Ireland because to him "human life was a sacred thing." In one of his 'last state­ ments on partition, which he termed the "worst of all crimes committed by England against Ireland in 750 years," he said he felt the best approach would be found by cooperation in matters

of common interest such as tour­ ism, immigration, industry and export of Irish products.

But through all his political in­ volvement, emphasized Dr. Mc­ Cartney, De Valera remained a "crypto-academician," contribu­ ting mightily to Ireland's heri­ tage and burnishing the nation's reputation ·in the field·of physics. '~When the last words have· been written," concluded Dr. McCartney, "the last paragraph will be on De Valera as an acad· emician."

Also speaking~ briefly at the Stonehill ceremony were Shan­ non, who quoted President Ken­ nedy in relation to Ireland's dif­ ficulties: "These problems are made by men and they can be solved by men."

Ms. Heaney, speaking in Ga­ elic, expressed appreciation for the scope of Stonehill's Irish program._ Dr. McCartney traveled from Ireland to deliver the ceremony's main address and present from Washington was the Hon. Tadhg O'SUllivan, ambassador of Ire­ land to the United States.

Participants were welcomed by Father Bartley MacPhaidin, CSC, Stonehill president, who conferred the honorary degrees.

The degree citations were read by Stonehill faculty meln­ ~ers Dr. Richard B. Finnegan and Sister Grace E. Donovan, SUSC. The invocation was off­ ered by Father Robert J. Kruse, CSC, academic dean, and greet­ ings were expressed by Dr. Fran­ cis J. Phelan, director of Irish studies.

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By Jerry Fllteau WASHINGTON (NC) - Bishop Joseph Delaney of Ft. Worth, Texas, formerly a pries,t of the Fall River diocese, has spoken out on the Dec. 7 execution by lethal injection of Charles Brooks Jr. Brooks was sentenced to death by the state of Texas for the 1976 murder of· a Ft. Worth auto mechanic.

In a telephone interview Bish­ op Delaney said that he per&on­ ally regretted the execution and was opposed to capital punish­ ment under present· circum­ stances in the United 1?tates.

"If one takes a position that capital punishment is not ac­ ceptable in our society now, then any form, any means that is used, is wrong;" he said.

"Personally, I think it (lethal in­ jection) is 'more repugnant" than other means, he saId, "because medical injections are a part of everyday experience, while the electric chair, gas chamber or firing squad are clearly. separate from normal life." .

Dick Reavis, a press witness to the .execution, described 'Brooks' death: "(He) turned his head upward and yawned, then wheezed, and that was' aIL" In 1980 the Catholic bishops of the United States issued a state­ . meilt saying that they did not deny the theoretical right of the state to exact the death penalty, but they opposed the .way it is used in the United States and questioned both its effectiveness in deterring crime and its impact on the values of American so­ ciety.

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While Brooks' execution was might also be used to justify the sixth in the United States euthanasia (mercy-killing). since capital punishment resumed In 1930 the American Medical in 1967 after a 10-year hiatus, Association forbade its members his was the first in which death to participate in executions by was brought about by lethal in­ lethal injection, declaring that- it jection. was contrary to the principles of It may not remain unique for medical ethics for a doctor to long. In addition to Texas, four , take life. other states permit execution by Jesuit Father Richard A. Mc­ injection: Idaho, New Mexico, Cormick, Rose F. Kennedy pro­ Oklahoma and Washington. fessor of ethics at Georgetown If death by injection is, as is Univeristy's Kennedy Institute for the Study of Reproduction widely conceded, the· most pain­ less, ~umane way yet devised to and Bioethics, summarized the execute a criminal, why do many basic moral dilemma posed by people have a mora.l problem lethal injection. with it?

If one ·agrees that capital pun­ In 1978 Bishop Joseph Durick ishment is morally justified, he called for a nationwide campaign said, then the least painful, least to reject it as a means of capi. cruel form of execution should tal punishment. be used. "We are doing more for Bishop Durick, a long-time op­ ·ourselves by being more humane. ponent of the death penalty who The crueler it (the metJtod) is, resigned as bishop of Nashville, the more it becomes an act of Tenn., in 1975 to devote his life vengenance." to prison ministry, called the But if one rejects capital pun­ method "insidious" and "an at­ ishment as immoral, he said, then tempt to run capital punishment "making it more humane is in through the back door and blunting our sensitivity to that make it more palatable.'; moral judgment."· "Killing is killing no matter Or, as death penalty oppon­ what form it takes,"·he said, but ent Henry Schwarzc;hildof the with lethal injection "juries and American Civil Liberties Union the public in general might be likes to say,' quoting theater inclined ·to find the whole bar­ critic Alexarider Wollcott, "The baric process· more tolerable." greatest sin is to do something well that shouldn't be done at In 1977 Msgr. James T. Mc­ Hugh, then director of the U.S. alL" With its very virtue for some Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life being its vice for others, the Activities, said that "the so­ called humaneness of a method" lethal injection debate is likely to continue for as long as capi­ cannot be used to justify a de­ structive act. He 'W!l.med that tal punishment itself is a na­ arguments for lethal injection tional issue.

NC News Service Moral theologians, comment­ ing after the death of South Kor­ ean box~r Duk Koo Kim on the morality of professional boxing, agree that the sport as it is to­ day is immoral.

Professional boxing as it is today cannot pass moral scru­ tiny," said .Jesuit Father Rich­ ard A. McCormick, Rose F. Ken­ nedy professor of Christian ethics at Georgetown Univer­ sity's Kennedy Insitute of Ethics.

Kim was declared dead Nov. 17, four days after being knock­ ed out by Ray Mancini, World Boxing Association lightweight champion, in the 14th round of a . title fight in Las Vegas, Nev. "Changes could be made to maximize the art" of boxing which "might possibly change the verdict," Father McCormick said. But as professional boxing is currently practiced, he said. "the aim of the contestants is to ·render each other incapable of continuing and to cause harm."

Because of the way boxing is scored today and of the way a boxer's' success is measured, a boxer seeks "to pummel the other guy into smithereens," father McCormick said.

"If your head gets batted made morally acceptable by fol­ around in that way, you're going lowing Olympic rules in which to have damage to the brain "touch is what counts," not the severity of the blow struck or cells," he added.

Father McCormick said he inflicting injury.

"I think that the way it is stood by views he expressed in a November, 1962 article in practiced now, prizefighting is Sports lIIustrated. There he said immoral," said Dominican Father that "theologians believe that Kevin D. O'Rourke, director of· when a man polinds another into the Center for Health Care helplessness, scars his face, Ethics at St. Louis University smashes his nose, jars his brain Medical Center. He pointed out that "the specific purpose of and exposes it to lasting dam­ age, or when he enters a contest prizefighting is to render an· 'where this could happen to him, other person unconscious."

Among the changes he sug­ he has surpassed the bounds of reasonable stewardship of the gested were shortening the length of bouts, increasing the human person." length of the period between In that article, he also objected rounds, using heavier gloves to professional boxing as catering and using helmets or some other to the brutish instinct in people. protective headgear.

Paul Ramsey, professor of "I think most theologians are Christian ethics at Princeton appalled" by professional box­ University, said, "It seems to me ing, said Father Donald McCar­ to be obvious, by not only tra­ thy, director of education at ditional Christian, nowadays Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral identified as' Roman Catholic, Research and Educational Center . moral analysis, but also by dis­ in St. Louis. "The succesful tinctions grounded in common prize fighter is the one with the sense, to say the aim of boxing. most knockouts," he /iaid, add­ is· an immoral aim." ing that to seek to knock some­ The professional boxer, he one out is .a "directly injurious said, seeks to knock out "what intention." is distinctive" about huma,n be­ "We're seeing more and more ings, their use of reason. evidence of damage," Father Mc­ Ramsey said boxing could be Carthy said.

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Some years later our paths crossed again when I was study­ ing creative poetry at Harvard and Edith was heading a braille transcribing service at the Boston chapter of the American Red, Cross.

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I called to ask to have some " , After marriage, in addition to textbooks transcribed and ar· her work with the homebound ranged to meet Edith and her blind, Edith assisted in deveop­ ment of a statewide sales pro­ sister at a nearby coffee shop. gram of articles made by the When the books had been tran­ scribed I went to Edith's place to blind. Eventually she became di­ pick them up. It was an occasion rector of sales for the Massachu­ of getting acquainted and it led setts Commission for the Blind, to get-togethers so that she might an appointment which gave her help me revise my poems as she time to do braille proofreading.

She and I also staged poetry typed them. and song recitals and brained a Edith accepted her blindness great deal of material for Cath­ in a nearly Pollyanna type resig­ olics, including spiritual reading nation. I experienced a kind of and prayers for the Mass and passive resentment of all I was other services. With Edith's deprived of but I was deter­ c;oaching I ,became proficient at mined to compensate for my '\oss reading aloud from braille and I of normal scope in response to was frequently a lector and aIso life. Edith identified her blind­ ness as an immensely awkward inconvenience.

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Meanwhile she did much volun· teer work with problem children at Paul Dever Hospital school and, after retirement from her Commission for the Blind posi­ tion, devoted nearly fuHtime to braille proof reading.

Perhaps the most important service, with which Edith was in­ volved was testing of the Rose Reader, which stores braille tape, making full page display instantly available. Edith was excited at the reader's potentia'! for the blind and the Braille Re­ vival League is currently study­ ing means for reducing its cost.

After the outbreak of World ,WASHINGTON (NC) - The War II the Red Cross braille ser· greatest challenge facing Ameri­ vice was closed and Edith moved can religious educators, accord­ to Taunton and became a home ing to Archbishop Pio Laghi, is teacher for the adult blind in to devise' programs that "are Bristol, Barnstable and Dukes doctrinally sound and complete counties in southeast Massachu­ and yet have a tone, language setts. I found myself taking a and method capable of touching bus to see her quite often. the heart."

When I proposed 'marriage I set Archbishop Laghi, apostolic up business in Taunton, estab­ delegate in the United States, lishing a vending stand in the spoke at a catechetic.s symposium lobby of the Taunton post office. sponsored by the National Cath­ I want to tell our story, think· olic Educational Association in ing that other totally blind per­ Washington. sons may want to know how we The symposium brought to­ managed our lives. I offer my ac­ count with great pride in Edith's gether bishops, educators and great triumphs and personal publishers and writers of cate­ chetical materials for a presenta­ heroic achievements. She was al­ ways anxious to prove that total tion on findings of an NCEA· produced inventory of religion blindness need not deprive any­ programs. one of fulfillment in life.

The archbishop said he found Born in 1911 in East Boston, the seventh of nine children, she "reason for satisfaction that in many central areas of Catholic was blinded in a childhood acci­ dent and was educated at the teaching our students appear to be learning essential doctrines Perkins School where she be­ came proficient in braiHe and as about the Trinity and the Incar­ nation. a classical pianist.

"There is, however, reason for concern that their knowledge and attitudes in the areas of ecclesi­ ology and morality are inade­ quate. Their response to issues of morality that affect married life and chastity are especially an area for your attention and for concern.

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Cardinal for Chicago Continued from page one the Vatican Secretariat for Non­ Believers.

Propresident is a title given to heads of major Curial offices who are not cardinals. Normally it is expected that at the next consistory they will be named cardinals and given the title of president.

Pope John Paul has presided at two consistories since becom­ ing pope in October 1978, but only one included the installa­ tion of new cardinals. The first was on June 30, 1979, with the installation of 14 cardinals, and the second was last'May 24 for the approval of. upcoming can­ onizations. " The pope said the Feb. 2 gathering will be a "single con­ sistory," meaning that the cere­ mony will consist only of the public installation of the car­ dinals and not include a formal private session with the cardin­ als.

The cardinals-designate named

by Pope John Paul are: -. Maronite Patriarch An­ toine Pierre Khoraiche of Anti­ och, a 75-year-old native 'of Leb­ anon, who has headed the Mar­ onite patriarchate with head­ quarters in Beirut" Lebanon, since 1975.

D - Archbishop Bernard Yago of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 66, who has headed the archdiocese since 1960 and is president of the bish­ ops' conference of the Ivory Coast.

- Archbishop Aurelio Sabat­ tani, a 70-ye~r-old Italian, who became proprefect of the Su­ preme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature,' the church's highest court, in May 1982.

- Archbishop Franjo Kuhar­ ic of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 63, who has headed the Zagreb Archdio­ cese since 1970 and is president of the Yugosfavian ,Bishops' Con­ ference.

- Archbishop Giuseppe Cas­ oria, a 74-year-old Italian, who has been proprefect of the Vati­ can Congregatjon for Sacraments and Divine Worship since Aug. 25, 1981.

- Archbishop Jose Ali Lebrun Moratinos of Caracas, Venezuela.

- Archbishop Joseph L. Ber­ nardin of Chicago, a 54-year-old native of South Carolina who was named last July to succeed ,the late Cardinal John P. Cody.

-, Archbishop Michael Michai Kitbunchu of Bangkok, Thailand, 53, Ordinary of, -Bangkok since 1972.

- Archbishop ,Alexandre Do Nascimento of Lubango, Angola, 57, who was kidnapped by An­ golan guerrillas last year and released 32 days later after an appeal from Pope John Paul. He has headed the Lubango Arch­ diocese since 1977 and is apos­ tolic administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" (at the will of the Holy See) of Onjiva, Angola.

- Archbishop Alfonso Lopez Trujillo of' Medellin, Colombia, . president of the Latin American Bishops' Council and at 47, the youngest of the cardinals-desig­ nate. He became Ordinary of Medellin in 1979.

- Archbishop Godfried Dan·

Understanding·hom:os'exuality

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny

neels, 49, who is nationally Dear Dr. Kenny: Could you known as a lecturer and liturgist wri~e 'something pertaining to in his' native Belgium and who homoseXUality? We just found was appointed in December 1979 out our son is that way. We don't as archbishop of Malines-Brus­ know what to do. sels.

He is 23. He has known for 10 - Archbishop Thomas Staf­ years.

He said he couldn't tell us ford Williams of Wellington, New Zealand, 52, who has head- . because we were too religious and we wouldn't understand. ed the archdiocese since 1979 H~'s rigItt; we don't understand. and is president of the New Zea· Can't you be a homosexual and land Bishops' Conference. not have sex, just like people - Archbishop Carlo Maria that' aren't married don't ,have Martini of Milan, Italy, a 55-year­ sex? old Jesuit, who has headed one He thou~t we would throw of the largest archdioceses in the him out of the house when we world, with 5 million Catholics, foupd out. n think he needs us since December 1979. more than ever, so I wouldn't - AI'Chbishop Jean-Marie Ar­ do that. 'on Lustiger, 56, a convert from He said many times he Judaism who' was born of Po­ thought of taking his life because lish-Jewish parents in Paris. He the pain was so bad. It must be has headed the Paris A,rchdio­ terrible for these young people cese since February 1981.

- Archbishop Jozef Glemp of to have to live with this. I feel Warsaw and Gniezno, 54, who' as though he was born like this.

Could I be wrong? as primate of Poland since July Can he change if he sees a 1981 has been at the center of therapist? We' know so little of efforts to resolve church·state clashes in the pope's native Po­ . this problem. I do know most people despise them. My son is land. He has also been a strong so good in many ways. He helps supporter of Solidarity, the in­ around the house, doesn't drink dependent Polish labor union which was declared illegal by the or take drugs. I went to a coun· selor but got little consolation. government.

Please help us. - minois -'- Bishop Julijans Vaivods, HomoseXuality in its simplest 87, apostolic administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Riga form is a preference to exchange and Liepaja in the Latvia region physical affection with members of the Soviet Union since 1964.

He was consecrated a bishop

secretly in Rome by Pope Paul VI in 1964. The Vatican an: nounced the ordination the fol­ lowing year. ~.

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The - Bishop Joachim Meisner of legislation of the first PhiladelBerlin, 48, has headed the. Berlin phia diocesan synod in 1832 See, which is divided between greatly influenced the church East Germany and West Ger­ throughout the United States, many, since April 1980. He lives said a ,Philadelphia archdiocesan in East Berlin. Although most of priest who is a former church the diocese's territory is in East history professor. ' Germany, the majority of its "Attended by 30 of the 38 Catholics live in West ,Berlin. priests in the diocese, this sy-- Jesuit Father Henri de Lu­ nod's legislation has come down bac, 86, a French theologian who to us almost in its entirety," was one of the experts' at the said Fahter Hugh J. Nolan, pasSecond Vatican Council. Now re­ tor of St. Isaac Jogues Parish in .tired from teaching, he has con­ ,Wayne, Pa., and a former protinued writing and doing re­ fessor of church history. search. He lives in Paris.

In an article in The Catholic "Ad nutumSanctae Sedis" Latin for "at the wHl of the Holy Standard and Times, Philadelphia See," i~ usually used when the archdiocesan newspaper, Father Nolan said the synod's legislaVatican See acts on its own ini­ tion is still substantially in force tiative, without being asked to in the Philadelphia Archdiocese. . do something. In the context of Archbishop Do Nascimento and But, additionally, because Bishop Vaivods the reasons may Bishop Francis P. Kenrick, the be related to delicate political' bishop of Philadelphia who con· situations. voked the synod, later became Cardinal-designate Joseph L. archbishop' of Baltimore, the sy·Bernardin's elevation to the Col­ nod's legislation entered into the lege of Cardinals is a tribute not decrees of the First Plenary only to him but to the church in Council of Baltimore in 1852, the United States, said Arch­

"Thus influencing greatly the bishop John R. Roach, president church throughout the entire of the National Conference of United St~tes," Father Nolan I

Catholic Bishops. said.

Archbishop Bernardin, who "Even more directly," he said, was appointed to head the Chic­ "this legislation was passed ago Archdiocese last summer, from diocese to diocese. Looking has been probably ,the most re­ to the learned Bishop Kenrick, spected and fastest rising prelate who then had completed his dogin the U.S. Catholic Church. matic theology volumes, as a He is chiefly known today as model, bishops throughout the chairman of a bishops' committee country copied in their own sydrafting a proposed pastoral nods the work of the Philadelphia letter on war and peace: In that assembly and enacted the same capacity he was featured on the decrees to meet similiar condi-' cover of Time magazine. tions in almost all the young

of one's own gender. As with heterosexuality, it need not in· volve overt genital sexuality.

You are correct ,in observing that both homosexual and heterosex~ ual persons can refrain from sex­ ual activity.

Homosexuality is not either-or matter. It is more like a continu-, uum. Most adults are somewhere in between the extremes. For ex­ ample, many married adults en­ joy sexual reliations with their spouses. At the same time, they express physical affection in the form of a handshake or a hug . with a member of their own sex.

Some predominantly heterosex­ ual adults will occasionally ex· perience a "crush" on another person of their own sex. This is quite common. Both homosex­ uality and heterosexuaHty are not so much categories as they are matters of degree.

The condition itself of being a homosexual is not a moral issue..

The homosexual did not will or choose his sexual orientation. He has the same option to enjpy or refrain from sexual activity that we all have. Consequently, homo­ sexuals do not deserve our con­ demnation. Strong negative feel­ ings toward homosexuals are a sign of misinformation and prej­ udice.

Homosexuality is not a mere habit. It is a powerful tendency

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or drive, one not -likely to be aItered. Many psychologists sus· pect that it has a genetic basis.

By early puberty, when sexual preferences are settled, it seems to be part· of the constitutional development. 'In other words, it has penetrated to physiological levels in a way ordinary learning never does.

Homosexuality is not easily changed. Most homosexuals do not wish to change. The thera· pist may help them adjust to living in a very negative and hostile society.

When a homosexual wishes to change his behavior, and this is rare, a therapist can be helpful.

Most homosexuals can enjoy members of the opposite sex at some level. The therapist who attacks homosexuality as mental illness or moral evil is not like­ ly to be effective.

Learn more about homosex­ uality so you can understand and be supportive of your son. Love him. He did not ask to be gay.

He probably cannot totally change his sexual orientation. He will need to know that he· is all right in your, eyes, as he is in God's.

Reader questions on family

living or chUd care to be an­ swered in print are invited. Ad­ dress The Kennys, 'Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

Philadelphia influenced U.S. church , and unorganized dioceses 0 fthe land."

Father Noland said the synod set a necessary limit to the trus­ tee system, in which lay parish· ioners, particularly lay parish trustees, on the basis of civil law, claimed excessive praochial administrative powers; control of parish property and the right to choose and dismiss pastors.

"Other statutes of the synod had equally good effects," he said. "The financial administration of Catholic schools and or· phanages was greatly improved.

The administration of the sacra­ ments was regulated, and the whole sacramental ~ystem pro­

college which would receive both clerical and lay students without distinction," Father No­ lan noted. "Economically a sem­ inary-cllege would have ,been a less hazardous undertaking.

Nearly every other seminary in the country was a combination seminary-college.

But, Father Nolan said, Bishop Kenrick was probably influenced by his experience as a teacher at St. Joseph's Seminary in Bards­ town, Ky., where "many ,of th~ seminarins hd their vocations shaken by being thrown so much in contact with youth of the world."

tec,ted against simony (the sell­ ing of spiritual goods). Parochial administration was perfected by complete baptismal and marriage registers. Among several decrees on clerical discipline, the most striking is that forbidding priests to keep the Blessed Sacrament

on their person for self-adminis­ tered Viaticum or to help their

prayer life or priestly under­ takings.

"Public worship," Father No­ Ian said, "became more solemn and edifying by better obser­ vance of the liturgy."

He noted that a committee recommended to the synod the establishment of a diocesan sem­ inary. Almost at once Bishop Kenrick began the seminary by admitting a student to rooms in the episcopal residence.

In establishing the seminary, Bishop. Kenrick "did not follow the advice of the majority of the clergy and many of the laity who favored a combination seminary.

Globetrotting pope .VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II lias added Austria, Switzerland and Ecuador to the list of countries he will visit in the next two years. Speaking at a private audience to some 70 Austrian ,parliamentarians, the pope said that he hoped to go to their country in 1983; while Swiss bishops on an official visit to the pontiff told reporters that he would visit Switzerland; and Cardinal Pablo Munoz Vega of Quito, Ecuador, announced that the pope would visit the nation in mid-1984, during a trip to several other Latin American countr.ies.

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Soviet charges false,

declares Vatican

VATICAN CIIT (NC) - A harsh Soviet article accusing Pope John Paul II of subversive activities in Poland is false, said a Vatican communique issued Dec. 30.

The Vatican said the allega­ tions against the pope contained in an article distributed by the Soviet news agency Tass "need no comment or reply."

Tass reprinted Dec. 29 an arti­ cle in the Soviet monthly, Politi­ cal Self-Education, which said the Polish-born pope had been responsible for "subversive ac­ tivity" designed to undermine communist societies, especially in Poland.

"This contrasts with the real­ ity of facts and situations well known to all, on which world opinion has formulated a judg­ ment not easily open to ques­ tion," the Vatican communique said. "~t equally contradicts' the evaluations given by Soviet. sources, including official ones, which have recognized on vari­ ous. occasions the high magister­ ium (teaching authority) and tire­ less work of Pope John Paul II in favor of peace and for a just solution to the grave problems which worry humanity," the Vatican added.

The critical article originany appeared in the December issue of Political Self-Education. Its distribution by Tass, the govern­ ment news agency, indicates that the article reflects the views of Soviet officials.

The article was the first com­ mentary on the pope and the Soviet bloc since Yuri Andropov 'came to power in the Soviet Union on Nov. 12. Prior to being named to head the Soviet Com­ munist Party, Andropov was head of the KGB: the Soviet se­ cret police. The commentary was

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January 1 Rev. Jose Valerio, Pastor, 1955, St. EJjzabeth, Fall River Rev. Antonio M. Fortuna, Pas­ tor, 1956, Immaculate Concep­ tion, New Bedford Rev. Francis R. Connerton, SS., STD., 1968, St. John's Sem­ inary, ·Plymouth, Michigan Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, Pastor, 1975, Holy Name, New Bedford January 4 Rev. Eugene L. Dion, Pastor, 1961, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River January 6 Rev. James F. Roaoh, Foun­ der, 1906, Immaculate Concep­ tion, Taunton

January 7 Rev. .'\lfred R. Forni, Pastor, 1970, St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford January 8 Rev. ~fred J. Carrier, Foun­ der, 1940, St. James, Taunton / Rev. John Kelly, Founder, 1885, St. Patrick, Fall River Rev. Arthur C. Lenaghan,

also the first since Bulgarian officials have come under sus­ picion in the attempt to murder the pope in May 1981. Bulgaria is a close ally of the Soviet Union and its secret service is often used by the Soviet Union to carry out policy objectives.

"Unlike his predecessors, the present head of the Catholic Church, John Paul II, has taken a much more conservative and rigid position vis-a-vis the social­ ist world," said the article.

Vatican policy has been influ­ enced by the "growth of the ag­ gressive designs of imperialism and the stepped up activity of the opponents of detente,"· it added. ~ The pope uses "the language of Christian prayers" to issue political messages, it said.

"The anti-socialist activity of the reactionary forces of the Catholic Church is attested by the developments of recent years in Poland," the article said.

"The notorious Solidarity, which came to_ symbolize the crisis provoked by anti-socialist forces on instructions from over­ seas, was born not in the wave of disorders that swept the country in the summer of 1980, but in the Catholic Church," it added.

Solidarity was the independent trade union which the Polish government outlawed last Octo­ ber.

Poland is not the only object of "the Vatican's subversive ac­ tivity," the article said. It· ac­ cused the Vatican of sending Catholic propaganda specialists to other Soviet bloc countries.

"Religious propaganda suits the purpose of anti-communist clerics to justify the inviolability of the capitalist system under the pretext of protecting reli­ gious belief," sajd the article.

Chaplain, 1944, United States Army January 9 Rev. William F. Morris, Pas­ tor, 1982, Corpus Christi, Sand­ wich January 10 Rev. Jourdain Charron, O.P., 1919, Dominican Priory, Fall River Rev. George H. Flanagan, Pas­ tor, 1938, Immaculate Concep­ tion, Fall River Rev. Msgr. Emmanuel Sousa de Mello, 1977, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton January 13 Rev. Emile Plante, M.S., 1954, LaSalette Seminary, Attleboro January 14 Rev. John J. Lawler, M.M., 1977, Maryknoll Missioner

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A student lo,olis at belief

By father James A. Black

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iors are looking towards their graduation and planning their future.

Some will choose college, others will go to work, yet others will go intd the armed services.

But graduation is not only a time for looking ahead. It is also a time for reflecting on the years of high school, and the ,growth that has occurred there. what about religious growth?

What 'are the attitudes and re­ flections of seniors" when ,it comes to faith? What are their expectations for the future?

Mark Lowman is a senior at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tenn. When he enter­ ed high school he didn't place much emphasis on his religious development. But he had several sigAificant experiences as a stu­ dent that changed his way of thinking. "

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"My religion teachers really cared about their students," he said. "Through them I began to see that Christianity wasn't just a set of rules; it was a way of life. These people lived out their faith, and that really made a difference" to me."

As a Junior, Lowman became active in the Search program, a "weekend retreat for juniors and seniors, an experience in which the Eucharist plays .a central ,part.

During the weekend, students hear talks by their peers chal­ lenging them to .)ive out the Gospel. .They also spend time in small groups discussing what this might mean.

Many students would agree with Lowman, who says, "Search really gave me some direction."

He adds, "A lot of my friends made the Search also. We've really learned to support one an­ other."

In addition, Lowman says that

Journey's beginning

By Father John Castelot An account of the beginning of a journey that ultimately will end in Jerusalem with the passion and death of Jesus is found in Chapter 9 of Mark's Gospel: "They left that district and began a journey through Galilee." (v.

the awe one feels when con­ fronted with mystery?

Whatever, Mark leaves no doubt about the extent" of their misunderstanding. Jesus has pre­ 'Be what you see. Receive what you are"' dicted his passion. But the dis­ ciples immediately start discuss­ ing "who was the most impor­ 30) tant" among them.

Mark reminds us of what is to The misunderstanding sets the come through a second predic­ scene for an instruction on dis­ minority groups. Their situation,

By Katherine Bird tion of the passion. But again, cipleship. Jesus declares that the Father Duffy comments, could be Franciscan Father Regis Duffy, similar to th~t faced by St. Paul, . the disciples do not understand. criterion of greatness for a Chris­ a theologian at the Washington, who criticized the Corinthians for In fact, they were "afraid to tian is service - not what hu­ man standards might prescribe.

D.C., Theological Union, tells evading crucial social issues and question him." " Were they afraid of hearing To illustrate, Jesus performs a story about St. Augustine, the for being insensitive" to others. the truth and facing its personal a symbolic act. He puts his arm fourth century bishop of Hippo Another reason Christians par­ implications? Or was their fear around a :little child and says: in Africa, to get at the meaning ticipate in the Eucharist is to of the Eucharist. worship God. Father Duffy ex­ One" day, St. Augustine was plains the notion of worship by talking to Christians about re­ recalling the ancient Jewish prac­ ceiving the Eucharist in the tice "of exploding instinctively hand. The words he usually used into spontaneous prayer when in distributing Communion ­ I

By Dolores Leckey self to them in the form of bread they were surprised by soine­ "This is the body of Christ" ­ and wine, saying, "Do this in thing God had done for them."

Meals are moments of inti­ were the same words used today, Mary's "Magnificat" is one such memory of me." macy. In every culture the shar­ Father Duffy notes. prayer, he says.

Memory. Remembrance. What ing of food with others means On this occasion, however, St. is remembered? that the Father Duffy observes that to some degree we are shar­ Augustine said to each Christian: first Christians found Jesus' ing our lives with them.

During the Passover meal, "Be what you see. Receive what death on the cross difficult to Jews to this day remember how you are."

The Gospel is filled with stor­ For the "Body of Christ" refers understand. The Mass became ies of Jesus dining with others. God deliv:ered them from op­ It a"lso speaks I of the ways he pression in Egypt - how God both to the real presence of Jesus their text for understanding it.

Ultimately, Jesus is giving him­ in the Eucharist and also to the fed the hungry who yearned for freed them. Stories of recent op-" Christian community, Father self totally for the sake of others fulfillment of all kinds: the pression may also be told: the Duffy points out. For him, St. and inviting us" to do likewise, crowds he satisfied with a few . story of Anne Frank, perhaps;

Father Duffy concludes. fish and bits of bread, the close and otber stories of the Holo­ Augustine'S saying suc~inctly" ex­ presses the "constant inter­ friends he nourished after his caust in this century. change" in the Mass when Chris­ So it is with us. In the Mass resurtection. tians worship God and also learn Jes,us ate his last Passover we remember. how to act as Christians.

I do not mean that the Mass meal with his friends, giving himIn a 1982 book publish~ by Harper and Row, "Real Presence:

By Janaan Manternach Its Worshi~ Sacraments and Rabbi Eliazar stopped in the Commitment;" Father Duffy court of the Gentiles before go· dwells at length on some impli· ing into" the temple. He -always cations of the Eucharist.

He says the Mass "demands a found the scene interesting.

Merchants were selling lambs price tag - commitment - on both a communal and an individ-' and turtledoves for sacrifice in the temple. Money changers sat uallevel for Christians." Further­ at tables stacked with coins from more, being committed - carry­ ing out tpe Good News - means many lands. Only Jewish money continually evaluating whether could be used for buying and sell­ we are "evading or accepting the ing in the temple area.' " Eliazar enjoyed the activity for " mission of Jesus."

For instance, Christians in ,a few moments before entering some areas may need to face up the temple to pr~y.

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after that weekend he develop­ ed a better relationship with his family. "And I don't worry so much about what others think: I've learned to make my own decisions."

Recently, Lowman helped with the Special Olympics for physi­ cally and mentally handicapped children. "I actually experienced wha"t my religion teachers al­ ways told me: that I can make a difference in someone else's life.

The Special Olympics kids need love as much as everyone else ­ maybe more."

Lowman is unsure about col­ lege, although he plans to go.

"But I think it'll be an oppor­ tunity for further growth," he said. "I hope to become involved in the college Search aM per­ haps in campus ministry."

I asked what he thought the future held for him. "I don't really know," he said. "But I'm certain of one thing. The Lord will be part of that future,"

Becallse· we remember

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"Whoever welcomes a' child such as this for my sake welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes, not me, but him who sent me."

The term, "little child" or "little one" was used in early Christian literature to denote an insignificant, weaker member of the community. Jesus means that true greatness will be found in humble service to weaker broth­ ers and sisters.

In the course of this instruc­ tion, Mark pulls together a ser­ ies of sayings of Jesus, apparent­ ly linked by their use of a catch­ Turn to Page Thirteen

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is only a remembrance, or that by thinking of it in that way we can learn all that might be said about how God acts in the present in this sacrament.

But the kind of remembrance that takes place in the Eucharist is important. More than the sim­ ple recollection of past events, it is the remembrance of events from which our identity de­ rives.

Some years ago I was in a

.large home gathering where the Eucharist was being celebrated.

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Continued from page twelve against scandalizing "one of word regarding the name of these simple believers." It is Jesus. The phrase translated heinous to obstruct their belief, "for my sake" in Chapter 9,37, but obstacles, occ.asi.ons of sin, means, literally, "in my name.'" may come from withIn a person, This is the link to an episode too. concerning J~hn and his broth­ So Jesus gives graphic descrip­ er James (v. 38). tions of what people should do John complains: "Teacher, we to avoid sin. He tells them: "If saw a man using 'your name' to your foot is your undoing, cut it expel demons and we tried to off!" stop him because he was' not of His language is obviously ex­ our company." aggerated, but the device is im­ To which Jesus replies: "Do not • pressive and effective. The aI­ try to stop him. No man who ~ernative to ~voiding serious sin performs a miracle using 'my IS to be cast Into Gehenna.

At the time of Jesus, Gehen­ name' can at the same time speak iII of me. Anyone who is na ~as. a malodorous dump in a raVIne south of Jes~salem. It had not against us is with us."

In other words Jesus is tell. become a popular Image for the ing the disciples they are to be place of. eternal punishment ­ humble servants, not elitist but an Image not to be taken snobs. Then, Jesus continues: literally.

Throughout this section, Jesus "Anyone who gives you a drink of water because you bear 'the is telling the disciples that they must humbly follow the way of name of Christ' will not, I as­ the cross to be at peace with sure you, go without his reward."

Getting back to the theme of one another. the little child, Jesus warns

Continued from page twelve the civil rights movement, work­ ing for open housing.

We were from all parts of the country, from different races and educational backgrounds and had different experiences of home and community. During the can­ on I was struck by the phrase, "Do this in memory of me."

"It's worked," I' thought. "It really has worked. We are in this house at this hour because of him, because of Jesus."

I realized also that we were reordering our attitudes and lives because of Jesus. Somehow the memory of his values, his compassion, his justice and his mercy were burning in us, dimly perhaps, but there.

Some of us began to talk afterward about how we felt our horizons stretching. We had grown up, most of us, convinced that the Eucharist was our per­ sonal communion with Jesus.

Now we saw and felt another side of Communion, our com­ munion with one another.

More important, there were glimmers of. our communion with those we were trying to help, families who could not choose where to live.

Recently, at a small prayer gathering, I listened to a medita­ tion written by Father Daniel 'Berrigan: "When I hear bread breaking. I see something else . . . So beautiful a sound, the crust breaks up like manna and falls over everything, and then we eat ...

"Sometime in your life, hope you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope you might have baked it or bought it - or even kneaded it yourself.

For that look on his face, for your hands meeting across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot - or die a little, even."

That meditation reminded me of the Eucharist - of stories told, burdens lifted, doors open­ ed.

I find myself pondering the hymn, "One Bread, One Body," over and over again.

The words mean much and keep meaning more and more.

Somehow the Eucharist stretches our horizons.

For children

Continued frolT' page twelve On his way, he noticed a new group of people coming into the court. Jesus of Nazareth was among them. Eliazar watched Jesus. He was still trying to de­ cide what he thought of him.

"Is he the Messiah God prom­ ised to send us? Eliazar wonder­ ed.

Suddenly Jesus began to over­ turn the money changers' tables.

Then he knocked over the stalls of the dove and sheep merchants.

Rabbi Eliazar was astonished.

"I've never seen Jesus act like this," he thought. He m~ust be try­ ing to say something important by his actions."

Jesus stopped overturning tables. He raised his hands for silence. Then he cried out: "Does not Scripture have it, 'My house

shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples'? But you have turned it into a den of thieves."

That is all Jesus said. Then he led his disciples into the temple to pray.

Eliazar sat quietly for a long time. The words of the great He­ brew prophet, Zechariah, kept coming to. him. The prophet had told how people would know when God would come to save his people.

"On that day," Zechariah wrote, "there shall no longer be any merchant in the house of the Lord of hosts."

"That must be it," Eliazar thought. "Jesus is trying to tell us that God' is about to save us.

Jesus must be God's promised Messiah."

Bishops honor Arthur Kenedy WASHINGTON (NC) .- The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has expressed apprecia­ tion to Arthur R. Kenedy, 68, president of P. J. Kenedy and Sons and publisher of the Offi· cial Catholic Directory until his recent retirement, for disting­ uished service to the Catholic Church in the United States.

The Kenedy family has been in Catholic book publishing for over 150 years.

The Official Catholic Directory contains complete statistics for the U.s. Catholic Church, listing all priests, parishes and church institutions. The 1982 Directory, the 150th in the series, numbered nearly 1,500 pages.

Toward unity VATICAN CITY (NC) - Cath­ olic and Anglican officials have met to further the ecumenical activitie.s of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commis­ sion. The commission will work to implement the declaration Pope John Paul II and Anglican Arl;hbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, England, signed last May 29 pledging their churches to work toward full unity.

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The station said Catholic sources in' Asia have only now announced details of the event, which took place at a maximum security jail near the South Kor­ ean capital of Seoul.

According to the radio report, the baptisms were performed by Bishop Angelus Nam Sou Kim of Su Won during a Mass for prisoners. The 98 converts a'lso received their first Communion and confirmation during the cere­ mony.

The bishop credited the con­ versions' .to the Christian wit­ ness of an old woman who had been visiting the prisoners over many years.

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THE ANCHOR~Diocese of Fall River-Friday, Jan. 7, 1983

A makeup placement exam for 8th grade students wishing to enter the New Bedford high school in September will begin at 7:45 a.m. tomorrow at the school. Information: 993·0433.

Essays must be 300·500 words in length, postmarked before March I, 1983, and received by March 15 by Leo H. Neudling, Holy Name Society, 3318 Fleet St., Baltimore, Md. 21224.

. Bishop Stang

A makeup ·entrance exam for students planning to enter the BALTIMORE (NC) - Leo H. North Dartmouth high school in September will be given at 8 NeudIing, chairman of the Youth a.m. tomorrow. Pre·registration Committee of the National Asso· is not required but a $5 fee will ciation of the Holy Name Society, has announced the society's an· . be charged. Further information is available from the school at· nual youth essay contest, to be 996·5602. held Jan. 1 - March I, This year's As the year begins, students theme is "What Family Life look forward to using five tennis Means to Me." courts donated by the Paul Du. The contest is' open to all stu­ chaine family. The courts will be dents in public, private and paro­ dedicated in the spring. Also an chial schools from grades seven through 12. In the high school appreciated gift is weight lifting equipment provided by the Todd range division (grades 9·12) Clements Memorial Fund. Ninety prizes range from· $300 and a plaque for first place to award students are enrolled in the pro­ gram made possible by the fund. certificates for seventh through 10th·place winners: In the junior high division, the range is from The Absolute a - $100 savings bond for first "God is of no .importance if place to certificates for seventh not of absolute importance." through 10th places.

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BISHOP STANG High School liturgy committee members work on banners. The faculty-student committee organizes and 'carries out all school liturgical activities. (Sr. Gertrude Gaudette Photo)

Stonehill College.

"The Rorschach Tabuiator," a computer program written by Dr. John McPhee, StonehHl'69, has significantly reduced time needed to calculate and chart results of the Rorschach test, a widely used personality analysis tool.

Dr. McPhee, a Grand Rapids, Mich. psychologist, says his. pro· gram "examines the 102 indices vital to personality analysis with a fraction of the effort in­ volved in manual scoring."

He has also computerized weather data and Grand Rapids mental health statistics.

In psychological news from the Stonehill campus itself, Dr. Peter Scanlon, director of coun­ seling at the North Easton col· 'lege, announces that Educational Mastery Systems of Brockton will offer students services in the fields of speech therapy, learn· ing disabilities, psychological' testing and alcohol and sub­ stance abuse. Psychiatric consul· tation at no charge will· be avail· able by appointment.

The organization wiil also make internships available in education, psychology, health care adminstration and co~muni­ cation.

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matics department had a math textbook published last month and will have a second text re­ leased Jan. 15. Both are publish­ ed by Prindle, Webber and Schmidt of Boston and involve finite mathematics. Dr. ·Tan is at work on a third book, to deal with applied calculus.

Spring courses to be offered by the Stonehill Center for Com­ munity and Professional Educa­ tion include offerings for small business operators, real estate and insurance personnel, super­ visors and managers and compu­ ter programmers. Information on them is available from the col· lege at 238.1081,' ext. 258.

Coy le~Cassidy A ski club trip begins after school today and also on the schedule are boys' basketball at Dartmouth and hockey at Ware­ ham.

Coyle-Cassidy student Lisa Smith has be~n named second place Voice of Democracy winner on ,the county level.

Bishop Cronin will visit the Taunton high school on Thurs­ day to celebrate Mass and meet with students.

Mid·year exams begin'Tuesday, Jan. 18 and incoming freshmen . will register Tuesday, Feb. 1.

For Romanians WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul II has established an apostolic exarchate for Roman­ ian Byzantine Rite Catholics in the United States and named Father Louis Puscas, nR~tor of St. George Romanian Church, Au­ rora, IlL, as. apostolic. exarch.

Father Puscas, 67, is to be con­ secrated a bishop. in the near fu· ture. The seat of the exarchate will be in Canton, Ohio. An apos· tolic exarchate is established outside the patriarchate of an Eastern Rite where the establish­ ment of a diocese is not yet feasible, usually because the number of members of the rite in the area is not yet suffciently large.

By Charlie Martin

Pressure You have to learn to pace yourself PreSsure You're just like ev'rybody else Pressure You've only had to run so far So good BUt you will come to a place' Where the only thing you feel Are loaded guns in your face And you'll have to deal with pressure.

You used to call me paranoid Pressure But even you cannot avoid Pressure You tumedthe tap dance into your crusade Now here you are with your faith And your Peter Pan advice You have no scars on your face And you cannot handle pressure.

All grown up and no place to go Psych one psych two What do you know All your life is Channel 13 Ses~e Street What does it mean I'll tell you what it means Pressure, pressure.

Don't ask for help, you're all alone Pressure You'll have to answer to your own Pressure .

I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale But here .you are in the ninth Two men out and three men on Nowhere to look but inside Where we all respond to pressure, pressure.

All your life is Time Magazine I read it too What does it mean?

Pressure I'm sure you'll have some cosmie rationale But here you are with your faith And your Peter Pan advice You have no sears on your face And you cannot handle pressure, pressure Written and Sung by Billy Joel, © 1981 by' Joel Songs.

This arrangement © 1982 by Joel Songs.

SOME TIME AGO I asked readers how they handle pres· sure. lin this song Billy Joel picks a sports image to speak of life's pressures: "But here you are in the'" ninth, two men out and three men on, nowhere to look but inside where we alI respond to pressure, pressure."

While I agree we must use our inner strength to face pressures. the song remains enigmatic about how to do this. I found my readers' comments more helpful than Billy Joel's.

A high school senior from Springfield, III., writes: "As a freshman, pressures concerning grades and extracurricular ac­ tivities brought me to the' brink of a breakdown." She says now she brings God into the center of her life, asking him to help her overcome anxieties. She de­ scribes herself as a victor over pressure. Like St. Paul, she has found a "peace that surpasses all understanding filling my heart and mind."

Another reader from Plain City, Ohio, writes: "I must con· fess that I am not free from pressure, but do find the great· est relief when I sense that I am in God's will ... I also have learned to trust in God to pull us through" stressful times.

A reader from Ardmore, Pa., talks of her long journey back from illness. She speaks of "moments of remorse, pity and hate" as she waits to recover her health. She also describes three 'ways she handled pressure: -"Pray at the beginn.ing and end of every day. My trust in God helps me through the wait· ing.

-"Finally, I try to do some· thing constructive every day.

God brought us here to do worthwhile things on earth, no matter how small t/ley may seem."

Send comments and questions to Charlie Martin; 1218 S. Roth­ erwood Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714.

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portsWQtch Martin M:ddle Tourney Champ:on Martin Middle School of Taunton won the fourth ·Diocesan CYO Holiday Festival grammar school basketball tournament, held in New Bedford.

The Taunton hoopsters defeated three-time champion Holy Name of Fall River, 34-32, in the .tourney final. Scott Bullard, who led the Martin Middle team in scoring with 13 points, was named the tournament's most valuable player. Doug Hubert caged eight points for the new champions. Mitch Lown tossed in 13 Chriz Rezendes six for Holy Name.

In first-round games Martin Middle defeated St. Mary's of

New Bedford, 45-36; Holy Name defeated-St. James of New Bed­ ford, 32-26, Espirito Santo of Fall River routed St. Francis of Acushnet, 31-10, and Taunton Catholic Middle posted a 42-20 victory over St. Lawrence of New Bedford.

In hotly contested semifinals, Holy Name eliminated Taunton Catholic Middle, 44-42, and Mar­ tin Middle nipped Espirito Santo, 31-30. Espirito Santo defeated Taunton Catholic Middle, 34-32, in the consolation final. .

The tournament was directed

by New Bedford area CYO director Joseph Barckett.

tV,IDOVle news

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local list­ Ings, which may differ from the New York network sChed­ ules supplied to The Anchor.

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug· gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adu:ts; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; lI3-approved for adults only; A4--separate classification (given to films not. morally offensi~e which, however, require some analYSIS and explanation); O-morally offensive.

"Frances" (Universal) is the harrowing true story of stage and film actress Frances Farmer, an intelligent, strongwilled per­ son who did not take kindly to the exploitative tactics of either CYO Hockey Hollywood or ·Broadway. De­ Bristol County CYO Hockey Picard scored for Mansfi~ld, spite personal success, disillu­ League games last Sunday ended Rick ~oleman for Fal~ River sionment and a failed love affair in deadlocks. Fall River South South 10 the second perIod. led her to drink, drugs and ar­ and Mansfield, 5-5, Marion and Mike Nawrocki netted two rest on various charges. Con­ Seekonk, 3-3. goals, Rick Ruggiero one for The Southies trailed 5-3 going Seekonk. Tom Aldrich scored fined to a state mental institu­ tion where she suffers cruelties Into the last period, but goals by twice, Jay Hiller once for Marion. and indignities including a gang Next Sunday night's games in Dave Sullivan and Bob Gagl"'ln, rape, she is finally subjected to the latter with less than t"wo the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, a lobotomy which turns her into minutes remaining, enabled run- have Fall River Sou~ vs. Mar~on nerup South to gain a split in the at 9 o'clock, defendmg champion a dull and tranquil person who poses no problem to anyone. points. and current pace-setter New Jessica Lange is excellent in the Each team scored twice in the' Bedford vs. Fall River South at title role but other acting is poor opening canto, Rick Roderick 10. and the film fails to probe deep­ and Chris Heaslip for Fall River The standings: New Bedford ly into Frances' character. Scenes South Gino Govoni and Dan Cal- 10-1-0 (won, lost, tied) Fall River of cruelty in the mental institu­ lahan 'for Mansfield. ,Brian Mc- South 5-3-3, Marion 4-6-1, Mans­ tion and some nudity make this Kinnon, Kevin Fontes and Rick field 3-6-2, Seekonk 2-8-2. extremely mature fare. A4, R "Tootsle" (Columbia): A very CYO Baseball Awards funny movie in which a desper­ Tom McKenna of the North Houde, 11-3, had an earned run ate actor (Dustin Hoffman), End team was the batting cham­ average of 1-71 with 77 strike­ whom nobody. wiII hire, dresses pion of the Bristol County CYO outs in 85 innings. Cabral was up as a woman to win a soap Baseball League with an aver- . the runnerup. opera role. He achieves fame, age of .463 with 37 hits. Tom Steve Mendonca (Kennedy) but life gets complicated, espe­ Cabral (Somerset), .457, was the was named rookie of the year cially when he falls.in love with runnerup. and Roger Gaydou (North End) his beautiful co-star (Jessica They received awards at the defensive player of the year. Lange). Mature fare because of league's recent banquet of cham­ Gaydou committed only one error . the sexual nature of much of the pions. during the season. humor. A3, PG Other winners: Tony Barroso Chris Lima (Kennedy) and "The Trl\il of the Pink Pan­ (North End) and Doug Houde Tom Stringer (South End) shared ther" (MGM-UA) This collection (Maplewood) shared the out­ the sportsmanship trophy, while of outtakes and reprises from standing pitcher award. Baros­ Arthur Lopes (Maplewood) and . earlier Pink Panther films so, 7-4 on the season, had an Cabral shared the Competitor's stitched together with unin­ earned run average of 1.41 with Award. spired new material is a wretch­ 86 strikeouts in 74 innings. ed excuse for a movie. The plot has a TV reporter trying to find out what Inspector Clouseau ­ presumably killed in a plane crash - was really like. Because Washington Post.

By NC News Service Instead, Chaminade center of brief nudity, the film is rated In Washington a radio sports­ A3, PG. caster said that the school's Tony Randolph led his Silver­ Films on TV name sounded like a rock group. swords team to a 77-72 victory He meant Sha-Na-Na, but was over the Cavaliers.

Tuesday, Jan. II, 8 p.m. (NBC) Merv Lopes, a junior high reporting on Chaminade, the "The Return of Maxwell small Catholic college which school counselor, is part-time Smart" (1980) - Don Adams, pulled one of the biggest upsets coach- for the Silverswords. as Secret Agent Maxwell Smart, Chaminade is a Marianist-run is assigned to thwart villain in college basketball history. liberal arts college with some Vittorio Gassman who has de­ Chaminade University of Hon­ olulu, with a part-time coach 800 students. Its athletes usually veloped a bomb capable of de­ play against other small colleges. stroying all the clothing in the and a 6-foot-7-inch center de­ Cavaliers coach Terry Holland world. A dreadfully inept and feated previously unbeaten No. I-ranked University of Virginia has been named Atlantic Coast· dull comedy. Some sexual innu­ with an ACC Coach of the Year Conference Coach of the Year for endoes. A3, PG and 7-foot-4-inch All-American the past two seasons. Asked if Friday, Jan. 14, 9 p.m. (ABC) center Ralph Sampson Dec. 24. Virginia's loss to Chaminade was - "The Island" (1980) - A brut­ The "outcome of the game the biggest upset in college ish and clumsy adventure movie was assumed to be a formality," basketball history, he said, "It about 'a writer ~Michael Caine) said Michael Wilbon in the has to rank right up there." C and his young son who inad­

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vertently come across the de­ scendants' of the 16th-century pi­ rates still plying their blood­ thirsty trade in the Bermuda Triangle. Violence, profanity, nudity. 0, R TV Program Friday, Jan. 7, 10-11 p.m.

(PBS) "Roses in Decemb~: The Story of Je8DI Donovan." This is a rebroadcast of a sensitive documentary examining the life and death of Jean Donovan, an American 1ay missionary who, with three U.S. nuns, was mur­ dered in El Salvador.

Religious Broadeastin3 - TV Sunday, Jan. 9, WLNE, Chan. nel 6, 10:30 a.m. Diocesan Tele­ vision Mass.

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, Is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan di­ rector of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Isla.ntl; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. This Sun­ day's topic;: Unemployment.

"The Glory of God," with Father John Bertolucci, 8:30 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 27.

"Spirit and the Bride," a spirit­ ual growth program with Dr. William K. Larkin, a psycho­ therapist, and Grace Mackay, a recording artist, 7 p.m. each Monday, Fall River cable chan­ . nel 36.

"MarySon," a family puppet show with moral and spiritual perspective, 4:30 p.m. each Mon­ day, ·Fall River and New Bedford cable channel 13.

Sunday, Jan. 9, (ABC) "Direc· tlons" - Reports on religion in the news. .

Sunday, Jan. 9, (CBS) "For Our Times" - Examines the morality of human organ trans­ plants.

On Radio Charismatic programs are heard from Monday through Fri­ day on station WICE 1210 AM: Father John Randall, 9 to 10 a.m. and 11 to 12 p.m.; Father Edward McDonough, 8:15 a.m.; Father Real Bourque, 8:45 a.m.

Father McDonough is also on WMYD from 1:30 to 2 p.m. each Sunday.

'Verdict' isn't documentary BOSTON (NC) - The A:rch­ diocese of Boston is advising the public' that the film "The Ver­ dict," in which Paul Newman plays an attorney who takes on the church in Boston, is only fiction.

The film plot involves a mal­ practice suit against a hospital run' by the Boston archdiocese.

A character in the movie is "Auxiliary Bishop Brophy."

In real life, there is no Bishop Brophy in Boston or anywhere else in the United States, and there has been no such mal­ practice suit as depicted in. "The Verdict," said archdiocesan officials.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Friday, Jan. 7, 1983

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FIVE-HOUR. VIGIL A five-hour vigil held monthly in churches of the diocese will 'begin at 8 tonight at Our Lady of Health Church, Fall River.

The service will begin and end with Mass 'and will include a holy hour and ,the rosary. There will be a 10 o'clock coffee break.

All welcome. _ FAMILY LIFE CENTER An Engaged Encounter week­ end will begin ,tonight and the New Bedford deal,1ery will meet 'from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at the North Dartmouth center.

ST. MARY. NB The Couples' Club will meet at 8 p.m. Sunday in the CCD center. New members welcome.

Father John F. Moore, pastor, will interview parents of chil": dren entering St. Mary's School tomorrow and Saturday, Jan. 22.

Additional February interview dates will be announced.'

Religious calendars are' avail­ able to parish families at no cost.

Mary Garden lights will be taken down at,2 p.m. Sunday.

Volunteer assistance will be welcome.

SACRED HEART. FR Confirmation candidates will meet ,at 9 a.m. tomorrow and other CCD classes will resume Sunday.

Senior Citizens will travel to Atlantic City in April. Non­ members are welcome.

Boys wisIiing to serve on' the altar are asked to contact Father Barry W. Wall, pastor.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR St. Louis Fraternity will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. All welcome.

ST. PIUS X. S. YARMOUTH Dr. John Scott Ever-ton will speak on ,a visit to Russia at the' Women's Guild meeting at 1:30 ,ST. STANISLAUS, ·FR During 1983 a special Mass p.m. Tuesday at the parish hall. will be celebrated each Wednes­ Guests welcome. day at the icon of Our Lady of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, VINCENTIANS, FR Poland, for all ,parishioners, re­ The Greater Fall River Coun­ cil will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday flecting the' fact that Mary is at Holy Name Church, Fall especially ;honored at St. Stanis­ River. Mass will be followed laus on that day. by 'a business session in the par­ Junior choir ,rehearsals will ish hall. The next meeting will resume at 10 a.m. tomorrow ,in be Wednesday, Feb. 2, at St. pr-eparati'On for Lenten and Easter services.

Stanislaus Church, Fall River.

O.L. GRACE. WESTPORT The Couples' Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the par­ ish center. .

BL. SACRAMENT ADORERS The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from 8:30 ;a.m. to 8:45 p.m. today in Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven. The- chapel is open daily except Wednesday for adoration from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The program, 'is co­ ordinated by the Bl. Sacrament Adorers'Committee. Informa­ tion: 996-0332.

ST. JOSElP~. NB A healing Mass will be offered at 7 p.m. each Wednesday.

St. Vincent de Paul Disaster Committee' members will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan .. 19.

The Legion of Mary will meet at 7 p.m. each Tuesday in ,the rectory. A holy hour will be held in ,the church at 5:30 p.m.

Friday, J·an. 21.

DIVORCED/SEPARATED. NB Divorced and/or separated Catholics in the Greater New Bedford area are invited to at­ tend a support group meeting at 7:30 p.m. each Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford. This Sunday's program will offer ,the Eucharis­ tic liturgy, followed by a social hour. Roland Brassard will dis­ cuss '''The Children of the Di­ vorced" Jan. 16; Fred Wolock, Ph.D.; will speak on "Eastern Christianity: A View of the Sac­ raments" Jan. 23; and on Jan. 30 Jack Doyle's topic will be "Cop­ ing with Depression."

An annulment clinic 'is ,held at 10:30 a.m. each Saturday at the chapel. Informa,tior;t: Father Edward Holleran, 996-8275. '

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET An Appreciation Day will be :held 'from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the' church 'center for 1982 par­ ish volunteers.

CCD classes will resume on ALHAMBRA ORDER Saturday and Monday and con­ Leon Caravan of Fall River firmation candida.tes will attend will host a Ref!ion One council a session Wednesday, Jan. 19. meeting at 8:30 tonight at St.' 'Parents of first communicants Anne's Fraternity' Hall, 144 will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday at Guild St., Fall River. the center.

The Holy Name Society will ST. ANNE.FR The Parish Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the, sponsor a hayride, tomorrow rectory; 'and the youth group night.

Information: Cecile will meet .at 7:30 ·p.m. Wednes­ day 'at the center.

Michno, 674-8120.

Parish note cards and en.­ XAVIER SOCIETY velopes are available at the A free braille Catholic calen­ shrine or rectory. da.r for 1983 is available to any visually handicapped person.

D of I. SOMERSET S1. Patrick's Circle, Daughters Write: Xavier Society, 154 E. of Isabella, will meet at 7:45 23 St., New York, N.Y. 1001~. p.m. Wednesday at Old Town ST. THOMAS MORE, Hall.

SOMlERSET CCD classes will resume the HOLY NAME. FR ' It is expected that a memoriaf week of Jan. 16. carillon honoring Bernard F. DOMINICAN LAITY, FR Sweeney Jr., late Holy Name St. Rose of Lima chapter will sexton, will be installed in Feb­ meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14, ruary. at Dominican Convent, 37 Park T,he Women's Guild will spon­ St. The gathering will begin sor an 'aerobic dancing program. with Mass.'

Information: Mrs. Terry Fer­ land, . 678-3084.

WAREHAM RETREAT Sacred Hearts Seminary Re­ treat House, Wareham, will hold a retreat for men the weekend of Feb. 4 to 6. With the ,theme "Adult and Christian,," the pro­ gram will' include discussion of the person of Christ and the meaning of church membership.

Father Richard McNally, SS.CC., will be retreat master. Informa­ tion: 295-0100.

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4 Cursillo information night to which ·allare welcome will be .beldat 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13.

Parishioners are invited to at­ tend the ,diacona1 ordination at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathedral of Paul Caron, a for­ mer teacher in the parochial school. ," The CYO council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FR The parish extends gratitude to Brian Furtado, sen.lQr altar boy, for years of service to ,the parish. Four new servers have joined the alta.r boy corps: Joseph Bosse, Charles Canuel, John Sullivan 'and Kevin Taro.

HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH The Ladies' Association re­ cently received a gift of a silver ,tea service from Mrs. Ralph Cummings. The group made a Christmas gift of $1000 to the parish a,t 'an ecumenical tea at­ tended by members of other 'area churches.

ST. KILIAN. NB The parish support group for widowed persons will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the ,rectory.

Dave Frazer of Baybank Mer­ chants Bank will discuss finan­ cial management. All welcome.

ST. MARY. SEEKONK A parish prayer group meets at 7:30 p.m. each Monday in ,the church hall.

CCD classes will resume be­ ginning tomorrow. A workshop for teachers 'in grades 1 through 6 will be held at 3:15 p.m.

Tuesda.y and another session for teachers in ,grade 7 and confir­ mation classes will 'take place at 7 p.m., also on Tuesday. Con­ firmation candidates will attend a retreat on Wednesday.

The 7 p.m. Mass today will be offered for Eucharistic ministers 'and their families. A holy' hour will follow.

New altar boys will meet at 1 p.m. tomorrow in ihe church.

ST. MICHAEL. SWANSEA , Parents of all babies baptized in 1982 are invited io attend 9:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday with their babies. Baptismal vows will be renewed and 'a coffee hour will follow in the church hall.

ST., RITA, MARION CCD classes for first graders will begin Monday. Registra­ tions may be made by calling the rectory.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape Fra­ ternity will meet at 7:10 p.m.

Tuesday at St. John's parish center, Pocasset. Mass will be celebrated and Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, and Jeanne Towers, SFO, will speak on "Franciscans in Pilgrimage to Eternity." All welcome.

FAMILY BEGINNINGS Volunteers are sought for a Family Beginnings program co­ sponsored by St. Anne's and Charlton Memorial hospitals, Fall River, and the Family Ser­ vices agency. The program as­ sists new parents before and after the birth of their child. A volunteer training course will begin in February. Information: Tudy Feldma.n, 674-5741, ext.

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BL. SACRAMlENT. FR A teacher is needed for the 9th grade CCD program. Volun­ teers may contact Father Rene Levesque, pastor.

Gratitude is expressed to Rus­ sell Roy and his son, also Rus­ sell, fbr relocating the taber­ nacle in the church.

Religious calendars are a.vail­ able at ,the rear of .the church for the use of parishioners.

ST. JUlLIE. N. DAR'FMOllTH The scripture study group will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the parish hall to continue study of St. Mark's Gospel. All welcome.

Papal coins WARSAW Poland (NC) The Polish mint plans to circu­ -late 2 million silver coins bear­ ing the image of Polish·born Pope John Paul II, according to PAP. the government news agency. The silver coins worth 1,000 zlotys (about $12) will be used mainly by state firms to pay salaries.