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violated • Latin lands In WASHINGTON (NC) - Two U.S. agricultural advisers killed Jan. 3 in El Salvador, Michael P. Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, worked for the land::ess peasants as did four American missionary women slain a month earlier.

Hammer, 42, of Potomac, Md., was a Catholic and a: graduate of Georgetown University. His family said a Mass of Christian burial will be scheduled after his body is returned to the United States.

Hammer and Pearlman, 36, of Seattle, worked for a Salvadoran government land reform program under contract which the American Institute for Free Labor Development has with the U.S. Agency for International Development. The institute is an educational arm of the AFL-CIO and sponsors projects in several Latin American countries.

The murder of the advisers was blamed by President Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador on rightists opposing redistributi.on of land.

Meanwhile El" Salvador a.nd Guatemala reported by the Council on Hemispheric" Affairs to top the list of human rights violators .jn Latin America. Bolivia .js a close third.

COHA, a coalition of religious and civic groups, said in a review of Latin American events in 1980 that the two Central American countries had surpassed Argentina's 1979 record.

In the two countries, with a combined population of 10 million, 15,000 people were killed as a result of political violence.

"More people died in El Salvador than in all the other nations of Latin America," COlorA sa.jd. Close to 10,000 died in political violence there in 1980, "largely as the result of government-condoned rightwing death squad killings," it:.,said.

In Guatemala "the number of political murders increased frC,m a daily average of 20 to 30 in 1979, to 30 and 40- in 1980; guerilla groups are active in the country, but most of the violence is carr-ied out by rightwing paramilitary g r 0 ups," COIi:A said.

Elsewhere in Central America and the Caribbean, COHA said, Honduras "made halting progress toward a return to civilian rule, although there were signs of violence against strikers."

The first year of Sandinista rule in Nicaragua "produced a mixed record ... of tolerance Turn to Page Ten

Bishop's Ball tomorrow The weather will be cold but hearts will be warm tomorrow night as thousands dance at Lincoln Park Ballroom for the benefit of exceptional and underprivileged children of Southeastern Massachusetts.

The music of the Meyer Davis and AI Rainone orchestras will be heard at the 26th annual Bishop's Charity Ball, to be highlighted by a ceremony at which 38 young women of the diocese will be presented to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

Dancing will begin at 8 p;m. to the music of Al Rainone and at 9 p.m. the Meyer Davis orchestra, led by Emery Davis, will be introduced.

Bishop Cronin will then be escorted to his box by ball honorary chairmen Miss Adrienne C. Lemieux, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, and Stanley A. McLean, president of the Cape Cod Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The organizations annually sponsor the ball.

The presentees will be introduced "to the bishop by Robert McGuirk of North Dighton, representing Taunton area Vincentians.

Dancing will follow the ceremony \lntil 10 p.m., when the traditional grand march will take place. " Kenneth Leger will sing the national anthem preceding introduction of Bishop Cronin to ball attendants by Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan ball director.

The evening will continue with dancing until 1 a.m. to the music of' both orchestras.

YOUNG MEN preparing for the priesthood and retired priests looking back over lives of ministry met with Bishop Cronin on the same day, poignantly illustrating the words of the psalmist: "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise." (Torchia' Photos)

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WASHINGTON (NC) -- Composers of liturgical music have received praise from the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Liturgy for their service to the church in providing music for the revised liturgy in English.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (NC) - John Augenstein, since 1971 superintendent of schools in the Diocese of Youngstown, is being considered for the post of assistant secretary for non-public education in the Reagan administration.

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NORFOLK, Va. (NC) - Pro-life opponents of the nation's first test-tube baby clinic have abandoned legal efforts to close the clinic and instead launched a petition drive to cut off public funds for Eastern Virg.inia Medical School, which with Norfolk General Hospital operates the clinic.

WASHINGTON (NC) -- Father Thomas F.Lynch, family life and pro-life director of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., has been named family life representative in the U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Educat路ion.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Christian church unity must center on Rome, Pope John Paul II told some 30,000 Catholic and Protestant youths gathered in Rome for an ecumenical peace vigil.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Applications for 1981 funding from the Campaign for Human Development (CHD) are available from the national office and from CHD diocesan directors. CHD is the church's domestic anti-poverty program.

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - A federal appeals court has ruled that the Philadelphia Archdiocese must reimburse the city of Philadelphia for the cost of erecting a platform on which Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass during his visit in Oct. 1979.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (NC) - The executive director of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, Howard Fetterhoff,has praised Gov. Richard Thornburgh for signing legislation limiting most funding of abortions in Pennsylvania.

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (NC) - Czechoslovakia's Communist Party newspaper has accused the Polish bishops of trying to revive church domination of their country by manipulating the labor unions.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (NC) - The commander of right-wing militias in southern Lebanon said he had appealed to Pope John 'Paul II to prevent the extermination of Christian communities in the country, according to Reuters, the British news agency.

GRANADA, Spain (NC) - Saying "We want to give witness to the brotherhood we preach about," priests of the Granada archdiocese have contributed their yearly salary bonus of $330 to the Catholic Charities bank for the unemployed. The bank has set up 15 cooperatives for jobless workers, providing 200 jobs with the funds con. tributed by the priests.

NEW YORK (NC) _. Two orders of nuns who operate hospitals and other health facilities in New York City have decided to merge their resources, forming what they call a multi-institutional health care system. They are the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, N.Y., and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Orthodox and Roman Catholic representatives drafted a joint document on the Eucharist during a meeting in Rome, the Vatican has announced.

WALKERS ALL, but destinations vary. Top, young Salvadoran militants Qlake their cautious way down a wooded trail. Center, New York City Mayor Edward Koch enters the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Bottom, Texas volunteer Georgina Bencomo splashes her way to a home visitation in the huge and poverty-stricken parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Matamoros, Mexico. (NC Photos)

LONGFORD, Ire1ancll (NC) - The ending of the hunger strike by H-block prisoners in the Maze Pdson in Northern Ireland has provided a rare opportunity for progress on the political front, said Bishop Cahal Daly of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, Ireland.

LONDON (NC) - The British Broadcasting Corp. will televise nine experimental religious services designed for v,iewer participation. The services will combine images, music and readings, interspersed with prayers to be conducted at home.

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McLuhan dlead Marshall McLuhan, the communications theorist wl'.o popularized the aphorism, "The medium is the message," died Dec. 31, apparently of a stroke, at home in Toronto. He was 69.

McLuhan, a convert to Catholicism who attended Mass daily, had been a professor Qf English literature at St. Michael's College, the Catholic unit of the University of Toronto, for' the past 34 years, and was the director of the university's Centre for Culture and Technology; In 196768, he taught at FordhELm University in New York Cit~,.

From 1973 to 1977, hE! was a consultor to the Pontifici;iil Commission for Social Communications.

In his books, "Understanding Media" and ''The Medium Is the Massage: An-. Inventory of Effects," McLuhan argued that the electronic media caused the radical social changes of the 20th century. The nature itself of television, movies, computers and other media, far more than their content, is reshaping civilization, he said. The ell!ctronic media are transforming every aspect of man's life and r,estructuring civilization, McLuhlln said.

Technological changes, such as the invention of the printing press, have affected the history of the Catholic Church, McLuhan said in an interview in the J anuary 1977 issue of U.S. Catholic magazine.

"Improved written c.ommunication made possible the development of a huge Roman bureaucracy, transforming the Roman pontiff into a chief executive," he said. "Further improvement in trave4 and communication brought the pope' into more im- . mediate personal'relation to his' subjects. Today, even the president of the United States need not govern from Washington, D.C. 'IWhat, therefore, is called the de-Romanization of the Roman Church is simply its elec:trification. When things speed up, hierarchy disappears and. global theater sets in."

He contended that the c:hances of the Catholic Church's survival "are a heck of a lot bettl!r than those of the United SUltes or any other secular institution" because "it is not unaided at all times - even on the secular side - by supernatural means."

CHURCH REOPENED: The 17th-century Church of St. Joseph in downtown Peking, China, used as a warehouse during the Cultural Revolution, is reopened at .a Christmas Eve midnight Mass. The Mass was celebrated by priests of the Patriotic Catholic Church, which has no ties with the Vatican. Church leaders on both sides are trying to resolve China's relationship with the Holy See. (NC Photo) .

Belloc papers to Boston College

By GeOrge Ryan BOSTON (NC) - As a result of negotiations in England last summer and fall Jesuit-run Boston College has acquired the library and papers of Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), the French-born English Catholic poet, journalist, essayist, novelist, historian, biographer and critic.

The library and papers, which include hundreds of boxes, filing cabinets and 10,000 volumes, is considered the most comprehensive collection of Belloc materials in the world.

The papers range from letters, bills and circulars to first notes, fair copies and page proofs of all Belloc's published writings.

The letters, which comprise the bulk of the collection, cover the years 1889 to 1945. Much of the correspondence is already in order by subject and correspondent.

The correspondence includes letters to and from George Bernard Shaw, A. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Msgr. Ronald Knox, Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward, W. B. Yeats, John Galsworthy, Cardinal Desire Mercier and David Lloyd George.

Of special interest is a fair copy (a neat and exact version of a corrected manuscript) of Belloc's. "Path to Rome" in his own hand. Also included are his, verses in rough copy, drawings, a film script, several mediative

pieces and a 10,OOO-word autobiography never published.

Miscellaneous papers include Belloc's parliamentary speeches, family photos, diaries and engagement books (1891-1939), original source materials, drawings by his children and cata-

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lish county histories, maps, about 100 volumes of the French Revolution, a 24-volume set in English of the "Summa 'rheologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas and other theological works.

Miscell1ineous books include early science fiction, 50 volumes of P. G. Wodehouse, 10 volumes of Cardinal John Henry Newman (signed), a variety of inscribed volumes from poets and biographers and hundreds of Greek and Latin texts.

Born of a French father and an English mother, Belloc studied under Cardinal Newman, served in the French artillery, was a member of Parliament from 1906 to 1910 and published more than 150 books in such varied fields as history, warfare, economics. satire, apologetics and topography. A journalist for more than 50 years, he traveled widely in EUrope, North' America and Africa.

He was a contributor to The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper, in which his by-line appeared as recently as 1930, when the paper published his examination of Puritanism in its centennial issue.

Belloc taught at times at the University of Notre Dame and Fordham University and was in-. strumental in the conversion of his friend. G. K. Chesterton.

Belloc suffered a stroke in 1946 and died in Surrey in 1953 after an accidental fall into his fireplace.

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Help, Don't Hinder Family Ministry As the year of the'family becomes part of the decade of the family, interest in and concern for family life in all its aspects intensifies and expands within the church family, despite Andrew Greeley's reflections to the contrary.

To be sure, there are many who because of thwarted causes or unfounded dread refuse to acceptt an objective standard of reality when it comes to the church's efforts in tfirs-'regatd:' ,Often such sensitive subjectivity limits people's iii;itit)d(fb~:sificere'a'riqgenuine in reporting on the various cburch~slippdrted undertakings attempting to help families in: these most difficult times.

For some strange reason known to themselves alone, these self-appointed ecclesial censurers expect the church to offer instant solutions to complex problems, heedless of whether such solutions would compromise fundamental tE;a~h~ng; or .else, totally misunderstanding her mission, they WQuld·r~dl\ce her to a social welfare agency. l" t.~As: ,the..American church progresses into the eighties, ~ould it be hoped that these same people who are in such a rush for spontaneous problem solving might manifest at least a modicum of good will toward the church they say they love and her efforts to help and heal the sufferings that our world has .inflicted on families?

Too often one would glean from their syndicated harangues that the church herself is solely responsible for the turmoil faced by so~many families in today's society. They would almost have one believe that divorce, separation, sexual abuse and child abuse are the fault of the heartless Mother Church.

As if this mind were not in itself enough to contend with, we must reckon with their reaction when the church reaches out to guide and comfort those family members who are society's victims.

•me 6o<tihelp::;the"i>~or:.pope if he ever refers to any area ~f"~lt-y~n\flH~. rij~ it simply by Way~ of a few asides' at a Wednesday audience. Somehow this ilk refuses to give the church a break. This is even more difficult to take when the vast majority of these unfair and unjust critics cloak themselves in the stage garments of loyal sons and daughters of the church. .

It is about time that those with the responsibility of and the talent for reporting and reflecting on church efforts in the area of family ministry (and this includes our own National Catholic News Service) begin to support this work, even if it is not being accomplished in a manner suited to their own whims.

It is a shame and a sham to reduce the difficulties of family life to mere pet peeves. Among the church's many family ministries all will admit that there will be failures and setbacks; but it should be rememb~red that outreach ~~~~Y.s~i:rivo~ves risk.

InaugUrating new programs and reforming and renewing existing ones will of necessity involve some trial and error; but simply because of past mistakes and current oversights, one should not blame all family apostolate failures on a heartless and unfeeling church.

Families are the heart of a living community. Faithful families are the soul of a church community. Somehow, someday, in God's gopd tjme, all commwiities will become ·o~e;·~ Until, 'then we must encourage and reenforce every ~ch 'effort to help the brokenhearted, heal the battered and console the lonely.

We must help and not hinder, realizing always that a church family is a beatitudinal family.

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D.

EDITOR Rev. John F. Moore

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Compulsive gambling

By Jo-ann Price NEW YORK (NC) - Compulsive gambling has devastating family consequences and is rising in direct proportion to the number of states - 44 at present - that have or plan to legalize gambling, according to Msgr. Joseph A. Dunne, a New York police chap:tain and founder of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling.

The biggest problem, said the priest, is that the compulsive gambler is often unseen and undetected. As with alcoholism, a growing number of compulsive gamblers are women, he said.

In 1971 Msgr. Dunne designed the Gamblers Anon~ous program of the council, using a 12step program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous.

The chaplain estimates that there are at least 6 million compulsive gamblers in the United States. Those who suffer from the illness are usually very quiet about it.

They are busy "working out the odds, raising more money, sweating out bets and possibly trying to stay out of jail," he said. They are far from happy.

"They are the people in your offi,ce with credit numbers at the bookies, who are absent from work or out at the track at night without knowledge of their employers or families," he said in an interview.

While an estimated 68 percent of all adults gamble, the compulsive gambler differs from the social bettor "who bets as much as he wants, when he wants and thoroughly enjoys it."

Uncontrolled betting can happen when a person bets far more than he can afford, loses consistently and starts to damage his relationships with job, home and family. ·Msgr. Dunne con tin u e d, "When he wins, his compulsive gambling is triggered. Compulsive gamblers have a need for recognition, visualize themselves as bigshots and their addiction is frequently linked to alcoholism."

'While the national council takes no stand on legalized gambling, it is a frequent resource for legislators, probation officers and the courts as to the effects of the addiction.

Msgr. Dunne can cite case after case. One man rec;ently bankrupted his company's treasury of $250,000. A "respectable" real estate agent in Connecticut lost $80,000 at the track. There is often the story of the woman who sometimes starts by using up the household money for bingo and eventually becomes a prostitute to pay gambling debts.

After Super Bowl football Sunday every winter, membership in Gamblers Anonymous usually rises, with its ranks

shelled by compulsive bettors who have lost.

"The sad fact is that very few women seek treatment," he related. "We really don't know how many women are compulsive gamblers, but we suspect there are a lot."

Politicians who regard offtrack betting and casino gambling as revenue sources frequently 'Overlook their connections with organized crime, he said.

Also, centers which treat alcoholism do not put enough stress on the link with compulsive gambling, he noted.

Alcohol and drug addicts get along comparatively cheaply when compared with the compulsive gambler who can lose thousands of dollars all at once.

Msgr. Dunne recently declared in a speech before the clergy of the New York Archdiocese who voted to oppose Las Vegas nights in parishes - that because of possible additions to bingo games, churches should also provide facilities for remedial services. These should include rooms for both Gamblers Anonymous and auxiliary Gamanon and Gamateen groups for families of compulsive gamblers.

Editor's note: Gam-Anon meetings are held at 8:15 pm. each Tuesday at 51:. Joseph SChool Annex, 1335 N. Main St., Fall River.

Family calendar 81 Early January is one of the best times of the year for the family because it's a respite from society. After a surfeit of programs, paJties, and paraphernalia, everyonl~ seems relieved to stay hom~"iu1d quietly catch up. The iN word this year is stress and, 1:iecause the family inherits most communic.abie conditions, the new phrase: is family stress. I have a couple of suggestions for putting a little more early-January time into the rest of the year.

First, it's time the family stops trying to fight the calendar alone.

I've seen extremely successful ecumenical efforts in reCE~nt years in impacting community calendars. It works like this. The pastoral council on family life department of a church - frustrated at being unable to find any family time that isn't usurped by local sports, activities, or organizations - contacts a few other churches who each contact a few more.

As a group, they meet with major leaders to discuss freeling one evening weekly for familyI church activities. If thl~ entire community agrees, it is overwhelmingly effective. It benefits all. Churches and families get an evening to call their own while organizations benefit because they aren't continually coping

Declin~e The poor quality of Sunday preaching is thE~ most serious problem facing the American church. Hut ·it does not seem to be one which portends long run trouble. The laity takes bad preaching for granted and people are not likely to leave in appreciable numbers because of it.

One of the other problems I worry about, however, is the decline of the religious orders.

I cannot understand -- perhaps because I am not a religious - why they are in so much trouble. Prayer, meditation, dedicated service, even celibacy are back in fashilJn. But neither the orders of men nor those of women seem to attract recruits. Nor do they appear capable of pulling then:lselves out of a 'paralyzing crisis of loss of identity.

In fact, much of what is good in the American.. ch\Jrch is the direct result of th~. work· of the religious communities. When they die out - as they seem determined to do - that good will cease. We will all be the worse.

Yet when the orders look for new theories with which to rejuvenate themselves they seem incapable of reflecting on their own very great achievements.

Instead they turn to ideologies, brought in from the o'lltside, either radical feminism or liberation theology, neither of which will attract recruits, save the communities or change the world of the church.

I'm baffled. It is as though the

with the frustration of having one or two participants unable to attend because of church activities. If everyone in the community has church activity the same evening, the rest of the organizations lose only one evening, not parts of five.

I'd like to see the idea extended to one weekend per month as well. Pastoral teams tear their hair in frustration trying to find one weekend free for a renewal, a family retreat, or a conference. Aside from the obvious -that the family forego a few Saturday games - a free weekend every month is a good answer.

Next, I suggest that families start learning how to get control of the calendar. Buy a longrange wall calendar and individual monthly calendars, one for each member of the family who can write. Put the wall calendar (available for about $3 at stationery shops) on a wall near the center of family life. Mark school, holiday, and vacatit>n oll-tes. Then add predictable periods of chaos like "Getting ready for vacation," "final exam time," and "May end-of-school activities." One of our problems is that we agree to things far in advance, forgetting what else might be going on. A quick glance at the calendar prevents this.

To insure family time together,

of order,s religious communities are implacably bent on self-destruction and will, lemming-like, rush to their destruction parroting irrelevant cliches. .

I've just finished a study with a very large sample of the effect of Catholic secondary schools on minority students (black and Hispanic). The results are astonishing. Even holding constant a dozen or so family background variables, Catholic schools are much more successful in educating minority students; indeed the findings are the most striking I have encountered in 20 years of research.

Moreover, the effect is especially ·powerful at schools that are o.wned by religious orders and (also. incidentally) especially powerful for the very poorest (lowest third in income) of black and Hispanic children. The Catholic s~condary schools and especially the religious order schools do on a large scale what no one else can do - educate the poorest of the minorities for success in life.

Now that seems to me to be liberation par excellence. Yet the religious orders not only seem to have lost confidence in their educational mission, they do not

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bring out your individual calendars on Sunday evening and go over the ensuing week together.

Who has to be where when? Are there going to be days on end when family life consists of passing notes? If so, can anybody change any appointments so there can be some family meals together? .

Finally, consider investing in one of the many good family calendars put out by church publishers, marriage enrichment groups, or diocesan family life departments. One of the better ones is The Family Calendar 81 put out by the Family Ministries Office of the Archdiocese of Louisville. It is a spiritual yet functional calendar which gives suggested family activities, prayers, major feasts, ethnic saint days, and some familytrivia. Use the ideas you like and substitute for those you don't.

For information write Family Ministries Office, 1941 Bishop Lane, No. 206, Louisville, KY 40218.

And enjoy what's left of Janary.

By REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

even seem to want to hear good news about it. When I tell them they are successful because they have better teaching in their schools, they will not want to believe me.

I'll be darned if I can figure out why.

(necrology] January 10 Rev. Jourdain Charron, O.P., 1919, Dominican Priory, Fall River Rev. George H. Flanagan, 1938, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, 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 January 15 Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, 1948, Pastor, St. Joseph, Woods Hole Rev. Msgr. John E. Boyd, 1977, St. Patrick, Wareham, Retired Pastor

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By MARY McGRORY

Nancy Reagan was going to be the perfect lady as First Lady.

"Sounds 1D0re like a landlady, doesn't' she," said' a Carterite a trifle smugly "-.: pushing the Carters and the social life of tenants out before the lease is up."

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Another consequence was the Her heavy hint about a house cashiering of Mrs. Reagan's press swap between the two First Couples gave everyone some- secretary. The White House thing to cackle and cluck about people were on Robin Orr's side. at all the parties that pack the "She didn't say it, she only told it," said Jody: PoweU:' ': .~~ , transition calendar.

The Reagan, people:rUshed to It also created a wave of symexplain that poor Robin had pathy for the Carters, who have had precious little since the Big been found wanting long before Rejection of Nov. 4, which, their the refurbishing furor. She sufson Jack declared, has "deeply. fered, it was said, from a terminal case of naviete about her embarrassed" them. perks.

Mrs. Carter gave the perfect Soon the volume, on the argureply to Mrs. Reagan. Total si- ment had been turned up so lence. She just directed a long, . high that Mrs. Reagan caJJed eloquent look at the reporter Mrs. Carter from the coast, to who asked her how she felt which her husband had repaired about moving across the street to see his tailor, his barber, his to Blair house. Many meanings manicurist and his butcher. Her could be read into her expres- people said she apologized. But sion, which mainly said what the Carter side sniffed that she everyone was thinking: "Did you had only told Mrs. Carter "not ever?" to worry:' The president, at one of the The president had an oppornumerous "last" White House. J1!~ J.,~, P~·qullltl«liimQU' and receptions, brought down .the: .,told. a erowd ou~sj~e· ..ofl"~ house by saying "Welcome to that Mrs. Reagan had been very Blair House Annex." Even nice about the whole thing. people who in November had That was, as it happens, the made no secret of their desire to day before young Ronald Reaget him out of town didn't want gan, the ballet dancer, informed him to get out of the White New York magazine that he House preniat~rely. would not shake hands with the Mrs. Reagan's subsequent outgoing president at the inclarification was not healing. auguration because it was his What she meant was that when view that Jimmy Carter "has the Reagans' time to go rolls the morals of a snake:' around, they will be glad to get Nobody could find anything out of the way so that the new to say about that.

First Lady can get at the allOne harried transition spokesimportant work of sprucing up man moaned, "Wait until you the White House. The explana- hear from Maureen." Maureen is tion spoke well of her nesting Reagan's older daughter by his instincts, but not of her grasp marr~age.. ~he)5 ~la.nk~~ of the Constitution, which sets first third marriage aM' 'Coli • lrJan. 20 as moving day. She left ting a run' for. the· S~e~l. the impression, somehow, that The Carter people, who' have the Carters were tacky not to volunteer an early departure. had their share of family One of the consequences of all troubles, are much amused. this was to make buddies of the The transition, which was White House staff and the re- . supposed to be of exceptional porters, who had been adver- felicity, is' coming. unraveled. saries for the past. four years. Wicked W~hingtQJl is .tbPronghThey put down their mutual re~ Jy enj<)yiDB· itNSp,; ~1#il'i!xp~, crimihations· about the election perha~s, .. ~re ; the. ~&.!tefS..:.~­ and sang and drank together and body begrudges t~em' a conuoitagreed that they should have ing glass of viridication punth:' done it a long time ago.

At every party, the White House press people were the center of happily indignant huddles, which they regaled with stories about the meeting between the two First Ladies "Nancy treated Rosalynn like an obstacle, like a chair," said one informant.

The Carterites, of course, had • What to do if your been smarting from stories about child steals the restoration of class and grace to the White House and the wounding raptures about how

No doubt about it, Nancy Reagan's' expressed impatience to get into the White House has done a lot for the

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Come to Hartford say the Knights NEW HAVEN, Conn. (NC) Pope John Paul II has received a formal invitation from Virgil C. Dechant, supreme. knight of the Knights of Columbus, to attend the Knights' centennial convention in Hartford, Conn., in 1982.

During an audience with Dechant, the pope reportedly expressed thanks to the Knights of Columbus for their work and took special note of their support for priests.

At Christmas midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated by the· pope, Dechant was seated near the altar. The Mass was telecast worldwide by four InTelSat satellites to a potential audie~ce of one billion.

The Knights paid the costs of beaming the Mass to satellites.

The organization also assists in costs of telecasting Easter Week activities at the Vatican and of such special events as canonizations.

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Second in a series of articles prepared by members of the Fail River diocese to explain the history, pwposes and procedures of the CursiUo.

With the Cursillo Movement in this Diocese celebrating its 100th Cursillo last Nov. 23, it is estimated that well over 3,000 diocesan men and women have lived Cursillo. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has. recognized the movement, and since. last year it has been governed by a diocesan secretariat composed of priest and lay directors and other men and women who guide the TOUR 1 - EASTER VACATION WEEK IN movement's growth in the area.

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What does the, Cursillo offer laity and religious? First, it invites them to a pr;!rsonal encounter with Christ within the context of a Cursillo weekend, which is a time Jor participants to assess where they are and where they are going and to rediscover the essential elements of Christianity.

Following the weekend, new Cursillistas are welcomed into a

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Missionary in its essence, kerygmatic in its approach, the Cursillo offers Christians a particular way to build Christianity into the world. It is a method which feeds on spiritual huriger, a method,J:ooted in the person and teachings of Jesus Christ and a method which will, with God's help, contin~··'to be a vitally effective instrument of Christian renewal.

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TORONTO (NC) - Solidarity is the key for the Latin American people in their struggle against repression, according to Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This solidarity must also extend to people in the First World because of Latin America's dependency on foreign-based multinational corporations, foreign g 0 v ern men t s and foreign churches, he added.

People in First World countries such as Canada can put pressure on the banks, corporations, government and church institutions in their countries to discontinue policies that encourage dependency and discourage people from having "their own hands and not be instruments of foreign nations and organizations," he said.

Catholic churches in Latin American countries receive heavy aid from churches abroad in the form of missionaries alld funding for projects.

Cardinal Arns spoke at an ecumenical conference held in Toronto on Canadian and Latin American cooperation.

"The Third World has no way of making decisions in and for the First World" which is the way it should be, he said. "But the First World makes the decisions in and for the Third World."

The underdeveloped world is the object of the developed world's charity "and charity is not justice," he said. ,.

CDA opens essay contest

NEW YORK '(NC) The Catholic Daughters of' the Americas (CDA) will offer a $1,000 Next: What happens on a Cur- cash prize for an essay dealing sillo Weekend? with unknown or little-known aspects of local Catholic church history.

"Each essay must present • some little-known or previously in four Asian nations. unknown aspect of your local A controversial figure who Catholic church history," said avoided bureaucratic red tape, Miss Mary E. Murray, national Dooley was criticized for the regent of CDA. "Scholarly thinkprimitive medical practice in his ing, good writing and presentajungle hospitals. He countered tion of material which is new by saying that 19th century and informative in the field of medicine was preferable to noth- local Catholic history will be ing at all and that facilities for favored, as well as material many modern procedures were which has not been presented unavailable to him. .elsewhere."

The contest is open to clergy, In 1959 he developed melanoma, a form of cancer, and re- religious and lay persons. CDA memberships is not required. turned, to New York for surgery.

Contest rules may be obtained He then <:ontinued to follow a crowded schedule of fund-raising from Mrs. Lila Dilis, 2309 Huntlectures until December 1959. leigh Drive, Oklahoma City, when he returned to Memorial Okla. 73120. Manuscripts must Hospital in New York, where he be submitted to Mrs. Dilis by July 1, 1981. died on Jan. 18, 1961.

Often called a saint in his lifetime, Dooley said that made him feel inhibited about going into a bar to ask for a beer.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) - No Medico was renamed the Catholic may be a member of Thomas A. Dooley Foundation the Ku Klux Klan, a Louisville after his death and still supports archdiocesan commission stat.ed, hospitals in Asia and Africa. and Archbishop Thomas DonnelPresident John F. K;ennedy lan of Atlanta said membership said it was Dooley's example in the Klan "is inconsistent with that inspired establishment of the teachings of our religious th.e Peace Corps. herita.ge."

Mass to- mark Dooley death ST. LOUIS (NC) - A requiem marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Dr. Thomas A. Dooley, whose medical work in Laos and Vietnam during the late 1950s made him world-famous, will be celebrated Jan. 18 in St. Louis Cathedral.

Oblate Father Maynard Kegler, United States promoter of the cause for the canonization of Dooley, will be the principal celebrant and homilist of the anniversary Mss. The son of it well-to-do St. Louis family and a graduate of Notre Dame University and St. Louis University Medical School, Dooley served for two years as a Navy doctor in Indochina. He assisted some 600,000 refugees in Southeast Asia after French forces stopped fighting there. .' In 1956 he resigned from the Navy and f,?unded Medico, an independent non-profit international medical organization to provide medicaL care in remote areas in Southeast Asia. He raised almost $2 million for the organization and oversaw the establishment of seven hospitals

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WASHINGTON (NC) ~ A committee of U.S. bishops has published a 4,500-word statement calling on Americans to welcome VATICAIN CITY (NC) - The ethnic diversity .and to unite in Vatican press officeh,s declin~d efforts to eliminate ethnic preto comment on' a Newsweelt re- judice from national iife. port that Pope John Paul might "We urge all Americans to acgo to Poland "to be with his c~t the fact of religious and culcountrymen if the Soviets in- tural pluralism not as a historic vade." oddity or a sentimental journey In a one-~p!l. story in into the past, but as a vital, the "Periscope" column ot' news' fruitful and challenging phenbriefs Dec. 29, Newsweek said: omena of our society," the bish"Pope John Paul II has quietly ops said in their statement, ispassed word that he would fly to sued Jan. 4.

Poland to be with his country"Americanization does not men if the Soviets invade. He call for the abandonment of culdisclosed this -in off-the-record tural differences but for their audiences with at least two re- w;iider appreciation," said· the cent visitors, both of whom statement, pUblished by the bishcame away with the impression ops' Committee on Social Dethat the pope has made his in- velopment and World Peace. tentions known to the Soviets.

The statement, titled "Cultural One of the visitors, a French Pluralism in the-tl'nited States," diplomat, thinks the prospect of John Paul'•. presence could help was developed in response to a account for the Kremlin's cau- request by delegates to the 1976 tion in the Polish situation so bicentennial Call to Action conference sponsored by the bishops far." .Asked to comment on the in Detroit that the hierarchy Newsweek storY, the vice direc- give greater attention to Ameritor of the Vatican Press Office, ca's ethnic riches 'and cultural Father Pierfranco Pastore, said diversitY. Calling on both the churCh he had no comment on what he and ~e country at large to untermed speculation, It is' known thilt tfie Polish- derstand and accept cultural difbom pope is intensely interested ferences, the statement urged in the developments in. Poland specific actions such as providing parish worship and religi~us and is following them closely.

But some Vatican obserVers education activities in languages discounted the alleged papal con- other than English, teaching in versation with visitors, saying Catholic s~hools about the that the pope is treading care- church's broad range of cultural fully, aware that any misstep !?y experience, induding in seminhim could adversely affect the ary training the history ofethrecent gains by Polish workers, nic communities and opening leadership positions in the church Intellectuals and the church.

In a related development, ltal- "to those of all ethnic backian newspapers reportea that grounds who are canonically eliMoscow has quashed plans to gible and qualified/' allow Lech Walesa, leader of "We ask that the public and the new independent Polish la- private sectors give consideration bor union, to visit the pope in t9 those ethnic groups who have mid-January. ' too long been unrepresented in

large and important areas of American life," the statement said.

"With special urgency we call public attention to the continued immigration of the large His'panic popuhltion, one of the oldest ethnic American groups, which is just now beginning to receive appropriate recognition," it added.

The statement also said that ethnic discrimination can take place within the church itself because of the existence of "ecclesiastical minorities," such as Catholics of the Eastern Rite.

"The differences which the Catholic Eastern Churches reflect are differences of theological insight, spirituality, liturgical practice and church discipline.

"Despite the rapidly increasing numbers of such fellow Catholics in our country, discrimination against them in the valid expressions' of their traditional customs, practices and discip-

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The statement rejected the "melting pot" theory. "Any measure of reflection would indicate that this would not, and irid~ed ~J1QJd,d'no.t. 1)'.t.we~ f-\rt9~; for America. The total' homogeri; ization of people within a nation is no less disastrous, as history shows, than that same process among nations."

The statement also noted the existence' in .the- past of the "national" parish which served particular ethnic immigrant groups.

"The many great ministries rendered by these parishes have not received the praise, gratitude and support they have deserved, neither from historians, of the past nor scholars of the present day," said the statement, which also noted that in some cases national parishes continue to serve a new generation of immigrants.

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conservative Americans can no longer be ignored and silenced," Christian Voice describes itself as '.:a national political lobby representing the Christian community," It claims 19-0,000 memo bel'S, of whom 37,000 are ministel's. Of these, 1,300 are CathaIl'c pn'ests, accordl'ng to Gary Jarml'n, head of the group's Washington office and secretarYtreasurer of l'tS Moral Gov'ernment Fund. 'He sal'd I't I's'not the organization's policy to release the names of members.

a strong national defense, which includes assistance for Taiwanand weapons" superiority over Prior to the November electhe Soviet Union, for overcom· tions the organization passed out ing what it views as the moral "report cards" indicating how decay of socie.!1 and for organiz- senators and representatives voting itself as a majority to govern ed on key moral issues.

America.

Jarmin said the ratings did not It's been credited with defeat- indicate moral states. '''Our rating incumbent members of the .jngs are not intended,.never'were House and Senate, descr.jbed as intended, to be a statistical rat· a rising conservative tide and ing ot a person's morality," he denounced for alleged intoler· said. "Only God can judge." ance.

At a recent press conference It has Catholics in high level Msgr. George Higgins, recently positions.' retired from the U.S. Catholic One of the New Right's top Conference, said he was disturbleaders, Richard Viguerie, a ed by. religious evangelicals' "reCatholic and conservative polit.j· peated and not very subtle em· cal activist who heads a direct phasis on getting out what they mail business, described the New indiscriminately call 'the Chris· Right as a coalition crossing re- tian vote.''' He was joined by Iigious-ethnic lines. "We want to Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the talk to traditional Catholics ... American Jewish Committe~ the evangelical Christians, tradition-- Rev. Jimmy R, Allen, past presi. al family Jews," Viguerie said. dent of the Southern Baptist "There's a heavy preponderance Con v e n ti 0 n, and the Rev. of Catholics in the New Right" Charles Bergstrom of the LutherPlus fundamentalist ministers an Council. such as the Rev. Jerry Falwell, The religious New Right has organizer, of the fundamentalist also been criticized by the ConChristian political group, the gressional Black Caucus; Patricia Moral Majority.

Harris, secretary of Health and -Cooperat.ing on various issues, Human Services; and various "we're going out there, putting congressman, inc Iud i n g Rep. together a majority to govern John Buchanan (R-Ala.). a for· America," Viguerie said. "We're mer Baptist preacher who attrib· an d we ' re rea I"IStiC utes a prImary . pragma t IC e Iec t'Ion defea t and we're smart," he' said. "I to Moral Majority. want to win and I want to sucThe'Priests' Senate of the Diocese of Madl'son, WI·S., ·Iast Sepceed in life."

The Moral MaJ'ority and Chris· tember passed a resolutl'on crl'ttian Voice are probably the best l'cI'zl'ng the Moral MaJ'ority fol. known of the religiously oriented' lowing a visit by Mr. Falwell to conservative political groups.

Madison. Protestant and Jewish Mr. Falwell's Moral Majority clergymen likewise protested has at Ij:!ast 400,000 members, against Mr. Falwell's views. operates statewide grassroots orFather William O'Connell, asganizatio~ and claims about sociate editor of the West River 72,000 ministers in its ranks. Catholic, newspaper of the DioMoral Majority has supported cese of Rapid City, S.D., also such candidates as Jack Fields, discussed the religious New a young conservative Texan Right. challenging well-known incumThe Moral Majority's "crusade bent Rep. Bob Eckhardt (JD-Tex- to turn the nation back to God" as). and Rep. Steven Symms. an i3 "certainly an admirable goal," Idaho Republican battling Demo· ' he wrote. But he found in the crat Frank Church, chairman of movement "a wo!f akin to the the Senate: Foreign Relations rightist dicatorships that .are deCommittee, for his Senate seat. stroying the people of Latin and In early' October" Mr. FalweH, a Central America in the name of popular TV evangelist, also feted God and country. The Moral Ma· Republican president·elect Ron· jority is nothing more than a aId Reagan at his Lynchburg, vehicle for some to gain power Va., headquarters. But he has under the guise of turning the described himself as neither a nation to God," he wrote.

Republican nor a Democrat but Despite much publicity suras a "God-fearing .citizen." rounding the so,c,alled New In an introduction to Viguerie's Right, however, determining its book, "The New Right: We're actual 'membership" is difficult.

Ready To Lead," Mr. Falwell ti0me of those regarded as stated: "The godless minority of staunch New Right adherents treacherous individuals who have don't want to be categorized as been permitted to formulate na- such. tional policy must now realize Viguerie has cited as 'New

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C ' 0 m mit tee (NCPAC); the con s e r vat i ve "think tank" Heritage Foundation; the pro-family movement; the Life Amendment Political Action Committee, Inc. (LAPAC), and others.

But people associated with those groups don't like being listed as New Right.

"I don't like the term 'New Right,' I don't kna<v what it means," said J 0 11, n Dol a n, NCPAC's chairman, a Catholic.

Dolan prefers to be called a conservative. His..... group supports conservative candidates and helps target Liberal incumbents.

Mrs. Connie Marshner, who works on family issues for the Free Congress Research and Ed· ucation Foundation, is referred to by Viguerie as a "New' Right leader," The Foundation's president is Paul Weyrich, a Catholic and another top New Right leader, according to Viguerie.

Mrs. Marshner doesn't consider her pro·family movement part of the New Right. "There's an overlap" but the two movements aren't synonymous, she said.

Many New Right positions coincide with Catholic positions as slle and her coHeagues see them, she stated. "The New Right has always had an emphasis on morality in social issues," said Mrs.

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"Catholic social teaching has al,ways given us a sense of obligation to the community."

Jesuit Father Virgil Blum, president of the Catholic League ~ for Religious and Civil Rights, described by Viguerie as another pro-family stalwart, also doesn't want to be linked to the New Right. "I don't align politically with anybody," he said.

Gary Potter, of Catholics for Christian Political Action, a Washington, D.C. lobby, is a member of a "national leader· ship council for traditional values," which he said includes Rev. Jerry Falwell. Nonetheless, Potter doesn't want to be con· sidered a conservative or New Right member.

"We don't define ourselves as conservatives. We define our· selves as Catholics. We urge Catholics to be politically active as Catholics, not as conserva· tives," he said. He added that "we do work closely with some groups and organizations that are undeniably of the New Right."

Because some New Right or· ganizations are concerned primarily with economics, he said religious groups shouldn't be. called New Right.

"It'd be inaccurate to define the Christian political;, move·

tian Voice, said. "Loosely de- quarter century in the United fined, one could call us a part States has come to an end: of the New Right, I suppose. But In the future he sees either a the New Right didn't create us. perpetuation of tile status quo We're separate groups who have with a vastly more permissive an alliance with New Right attitude toward moral diversity groups." or else a return to more tradi.

Paul Brown of LAPAC also tional norms of behavior.

I' d he' t N R' ht . 11, h c alme IS no ew Ig. Hlg am said e recognizes B 'd 11, b I' . coal' h' rown sal e e leves m I- t at m. regard to moral diversify, tion politics _ working with as- many would say that 'immorality t d II' "W '11 th sal' e ales. ,e WI cross e has itself gained legislative sanct I' 'th " h ' d tion, ' ~ "S0 t he conservative . forces par y me el er way, e sal.

"I cooperate but I'll not sell my are perfectly correct in feeling I It' at f I" , I sou. s n Qr sa e. legiS ation is a legitimate area of One conservative familiar with operations, he added. the religious groups' efforts said He expressed the belief, hawthe New Right. political leaders ever, that' the well-being of so'have 'really tried to horn in on" ciety depends on its capacity to the religious-morality organiza- maintain Ii national consensus tions. Some of these guys want with as little legal coercion. as to control the whole conserva- possible. "The more legal coertive political movement," said cion, the more fragile the conthe source, who wanted to reo sensus." main un,identified.

He said there are two histor.

Other sources dismissed that ical precedents for the country's as a problem, however. apparent turn to the right in the Viguerie, like others, said a recent eleption: the changes octype of double standard is ap- curring in early postrevolutionplied to conservatives. When ary America and in the America they coalesce or take different of the Great Depression. positions on issues than liberal Following the American Revogroups, they are accused of be- lution the republican concept ing a new force or of being un· was genuinely radical and there charitable, he said. occurred a major shift to the "There's a tremendous amount left, culminating in a degree of of demagoguery" by the "left;' disorganization in the late 1780s against the New Right, Viguerie that threatened the future of the said. 'I've been callFd a racist republic, he said. d h' k 11, an aR' warmonger. t m ft e But with the adoption of ' the N ht 11, 11, ew Ig as muc more 0 a Constitution a move to t.he right f I' 11, I'b h' ee mg tel erals are C ristlan" began, he said, with an emphasis than the liberals credit the New on the establishment of central R' ht h' 11, 'd "A f Ig as avmg, e sal. s ar power, formerly held by the arisas being consistent with the New tocratic elite. t Test t h' 11, • amen, This early conservative trend .

I'f I w thO ICk thIS paramoun N R' ht In my I e, m e ew Ig lasted for a number of decades, . r'ght' t ..

IS 1 In une. he said, giving the young nation .

It also doesn't bother Viguerie an opportunity to develop a ,that of hisdecline supposed New dangerous sense of unity Rightsome colleagues the title. worldand survive in 'a ' . ' "I've no problem if people The second instance of a condon't want to wear the label," servative . trend in the country he said. "That's immaterial." similar to, today's apparent pheTheir actions and sentiments aTe nomenon occurred in the 1930s, what count, he said. "We know he said, . although the 30s are II' d . who everybody is. We know our own out there and e erybod genera y vlewe as a progresv y sive time in' terms of pOlitics, else does, too," marked by such liberal political A Summation initiatives as the New Deal, the Summing up the "increasingly concept of the welfare state and effective alliance" between a seg- the establishment of justice for ment of American Protestant the weak and underprivileged. fundamentalists and some Cath.

What is often overlooked is olics, historial John Higham that the leftward movement ip called it "one of the most sig- politics was accompanied by a nificant developments on the swing to the right on moral isAmerican political scene." sues, he said. 'The 30s demon· The Johns Hopkins University strated a need for greater sta· professor termed the alliance bility in private life and an in"abSOlutely uripr~edented" and creased appreciation of the said that the. divisions ~of the strengths and importance of the American public that seem to be family that contrasted with the important today cut across de- "strong thrust toward experinominational lines. mentation, hedonism and. the lib.

During the recent election eration of, youth from parental campaign, Higham observed, and family restraints" that took groups that had been intensely place in the American urban culconcerned over such single is. ture of the 20s. sues as abortion, homosexual The trends of the 30s also prorights or pornography 'for some vJded a "congenial milieu for time finally coalesced into an American Catholicism," he addeffective coalition. ed, noting that government paTiHe predicted that the "amaz- cies were "supportive of and ingly sweeping movement" of elicited the allegiance of most "unprecedented liberalization of Catholics who were among the both behavior and norms in reo underprivileged," The same at-

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Dear Mary: We are writing to you about a matter which bas wrecked our family. oW- daughter got a nice office job where she met a t'wiee-divorced man who has five children. One day she came home aod told us she was pregnant with his cbild.

My wife bad to be admitted- to a mental institution. I bad an 'urge to kiD my daughter. I did slap her.,and demand • abortion. She fought back and went to aD agency where she had her child and had it put out for adoption. .

My wite and I and four children suffered terribly. My wife has never tully recovered. I still maintain an abortion would have solvecr1he problem at least partially. .

My question is:· Shouldn't the church encourage abortion: in these cases: It would save a lot of grief and trouble.

Pm ashamed to sign my name. (penn.)

You mention that you and your wife have not fully re. cove~d. You make .no mention of the .people most directly concerned: your daughter, the child, the adoptive parents.

Today abortion is the easy "solution" to the· problem pregnancy. Abortion is available and socially acceptable. Society sees it as the "sensible" thing to do.

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They face the social shame and scandal which accompany. a pregnancy out of wedlock. They experience physical discomfort and an interruption of their lives. In some cases they face condemnation from tl;1e people whose support they need most: their own family.

They make a greater sacrifice than most of us are ever called to make. They give life, then they give up thatlife and entrust it to others. Your daughter is one of these courageous unwed mothers.

Second, there is the child. This human being, with all -its gifts and potential, is alive today because of your daughter's choice.

Third, there 'are the adoptive parents. Today infants for adoption are in short supply. The childless couple realizes they may never have the opportunity to become parents. Somewhere a couple has a child because your daughter made the decision she did.

I am not suggesting that pregnancy out of wedlock is a wonderful thing. I do know, however, that when we work out a problem, when we choose life despite the difficulties involved, much good can come from our choice.

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COJIA ,also, 'y~~ed Bolivia in olence."

Cuba showed a mixed record. the "ranks of serious human It has reduced the number of po- rights violators as a result of the ROUTE 6-between Fall River and New Bedford litical prisoners dn the past two massive killings which took place years, but "reports are afloat after the July coup staged by that the jails are being repopu- Gen. Luis Garcia Meza •.. The One of Southern New England's Finest Facilities lated by, the hundreds." Cuba bloody repression has continallowed a mass exodus unparal- ued."

How Avoilable for leled by any other communist Brazil kept up "its ambivalent country, but also sent out Com- march to a poJ.itical opening and mon criminals and mental pa- freedom, and at the same time tients. the military arbitrarily arrests FOR DETAILS, CALL MANAGER - 636-2744 or 999-6984 In Jamaica the hope is "that dissidents, pressures the media ~=========;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;_;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~, ' gang politics will be replaced by and curbs trade union activity," ~ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • III a responsible two-party system." COHA said. .. • The Dominican Republic is given Argentina, Chile and Uruguay still hold thousands of political a clean slate except for the conI~ ditions of slavery in which mi- prisoners without charges or trigrant workers from Haiti are al and in the three nations secret police tactics against the mod; 926 CHURCH STREET - NEW BEDFORD kept.

• " ,'. " • Haiti is consi<\ered a dictator- erate opposition "are the order NEW" REBUILT USED • ship with flagrant violations of of the. day." A decrease in 'the ". '" '.,..' '. .",.

• civH rights, COHA said. There" number of killings·· and disapNEW • USED IN STOCK the church in a Christmas letter pearan~es "may be attributed to read in all churches and over its their governments' success in , , J N SURA NeE ... NS TAL, L AT ION S • Catholic radio station voiced eliminating political opposition and the fact that continued resharp criticism of the governU" ment following mass arrests, of pression has intimidated all Full Service Shop - Sales and Repairs •• journalists, professionals and voices of dissent into silence:' .. other opponents of President-for- COHA said: It gave it similar ap' • ~ • life Jean Claude Duvalier. The praisiH to Paraguay. ~ letter asked'that those under arIn the northern part of South • ". ' .

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• out trial: • CONY::J~~nrJO:~T:: Following the church protest by military rather than civiJ.ian • • more than 60 Haitian labor union courts.

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You have touched a most sensitive area for us, as we have four adopted chil~n. Because four women rejected abomon and chose life, we are four children richer. I often pray for those four biological mothers who have given us such a' great gift., I am not against aJ>ortion simply because the church says so. I am against abortion because I reject death as a solution to a problem.

You say the matter "wrecked you family." I think a crisis is 'a challenge to a famil~ AIl families have problems. The challenge is to solve the problem, to support each other, to work out the· mo!;t effective, loving solution possible. Some families might be wrecked by a crisis, but famities can also grow through crises.: y'our family still has this opo poptunity for growth. I hope you and your Wife. despite your pain, can recognize that your da~­ ter behaved courageously.

Giving life is a gOod thing. If you can support the good she has done, yoUr,' f~ily can be- ' come more loving than it has ever been before, arid you need not be ashamed.

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In Mexico there were instances of violations by state ~lDd local officials and the central government does little to prevent them, COHA said.. Officials have not investigated the disappearance of about 300 political dissidents.

"Whatever it,i shortcomings. the pro-human rights policy of the Carter administration can be described as Americanism in action" for saving lives and helping to improve democratic s0ciety in some nations. COHA said.

It voiced "the fear th~t the Rea.gan admlnistrati611 will abandon the strong hwrian rights poli~y."

In a recent interview president-elect Ronald Reagan said human ~ights pol~cies were often "unilateral actions" by which U.S. intervention had helped bring about changes in small nations like 9uba' but had ignored violations in big powers like the Soviet Union. "I believe in human rights, but when you talk aboUt them, the approach must be universal," he said.

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uestion corner sion on abortion, one member told us that some theologians Q. We have many friends have attempted to justify abol'who are members of the Angli- tions on the basis that the child can Church. While we go to each . in the womb can be an "unjust others' churches .sometimes, we aggressor." I find that hard to realize we are not supposed to believe, that a baby in the womb receive communion in these could be compared to somebody other churches, since there is a attacking the mother - which problem about the recognItion of was the way' it was explained.

Anglican priests.

What does the church say about With all the changes in the this argument? (Texas) church, has there been, or will A. It is a common and genthere be, any change in this materally accepted moral principle ter? It certainly can be embarthat when someone is threatenrassing and hard to unde:rstand. ing my life (or someone else's) (Florida) I have every right to take approA. The story of the Roman priate measures to defend myCatholic Church's concern about self. In this case the person who Anglican orders (which is the threatens my health or my life center of your concern) ,is long is referred to as an "unjust agand complicated. These nre the gressor." highlights: No theologian, at least no one The primary official d()l~ument of any standing, to my knowlof the Roman Catholic Church edge, has seriously defended on the subject is the decree, abortions' on the basis of such "Apostolicae Curae," of Sl~pt. 18, a moral pr-inciple. .

Even ·if the principle were ac1896, in which Pope Leo XIII declared that the defects in the or- cepted in this area of morality, dination of Anglican bishops and it would apply only in those inpriests are so crJtical that Ang- stances where the child in the lican orders must be judged in- womb· constituted a direct threat to the life of the mother. In no valid. way could it be used as a genVery simply, the Holy Father eral justification for all aborgave two reasons for this judgtions. ment. The first was a presumed disagreement about the nature Questions for this column of the Eucharist, especially the should be sent to Father Dietrelationship of the sacrifice of zen clo The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, the Mass to the sacrifice of Fall River, Mass. 02720.

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The second was an apparent basic disagreement about the origin of the order of bishops. and priests. Pope. Leo had con. cluded that' there was a serious difference between the Anglican belief and the ·Roman Catholic position that the commission of bishops and priests derive:s from the same commission which Jesus gave to his apostles.

Since Vatican Council II, Roman Catholic and Anglican scholars have devoted Yl~ars to a restudy of these differences, and have found that the differences are far less in fa<:t than they seemed at the time of Pope Leo. The Anglican-Romarl Catholic International Commission, which was' appointed bJr Pope Paul VI and the archbishop of Canterbury, concluded just a few years ago that the judgment of Pope Leo XIII should be iput "in a new context" for the church today.

It is impossible here to enter into more details' ·about.these agreements, but they are ,expressed in two documents which you can obtain, each treating one of the major differences that I mentioned above. They are titled, "The Agreed Statement on Ministry and Ordination," and "The Agreed Statement on Eucharistic Doctrine."

Officially the matter is still being weighed, and then: is no change at this time in the position of the Roman CatholJc Church regarding Anglic:an orders.

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Japanese studied by traveling pope VATICAN CI1Y (NC) - Pope John Paul II began studying Japanese in early December to prepare for his Feb. 23-27 visit to Japan, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

The report said the pope is taking lessons from Franciscan Brother Fedele Nishiyama, a member of the order founded in Nagasaki, Japan, by Polish-born Blessed MaximlIian Kolbe, who later died at the Auschwitz con-centration camp.

ANSA said the pope hopes to learn enough Japanese to celebrate several Masses in the vernacular.

In Japan Pope John Paul will make stops in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

KAmLEEN ARRUDA

TWO DIOCESAN residents have received promotions at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

Kathleen Arruda, Somerset, has been named assistant director of personnel and James J. Cooney, Westport, has been named assistant controller and director of patient accounts.

Ms. Arruda has been associated with St. Anne's Hospital for nine years. Previously she was an employment supervisor, a personnel assistant and an executive secretary.

She is a member of the Massachusetts Hospital Personnel Directors Association and the Southeastern Re· gional Personnel Adminis-4 trators Association.

James Cooney has been director of patient accounts at the hospital since 1973.

He holds a master's degree in business adminis1:A:ation from Southeastern Massa... chusetts University and is president and director of the Massachusetts Association of Patient Accounts Managers.

A 25-year member of the Knights of Columbus, Cooney is also a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick.

He was an executive with the Boy Scouts of America for 16 years and now serves on the board of the Moby Dick Council of Boy Scouts.

Mr. Coon~y and his wife Virginia (Donohue) live in Westport with their eight children aged 10 to22 years.

Co·patr~ns VATICAN CITY (NC) - In a symbolic move emphasizing the ties between Eastern and Western Europe, Pope John Paul II has named SS. Cyril and Methodius co-patron saints of Europe Dec. 31.

The two brothers, known as the apostles of the Slavs, join St. Benedict, an Italian, as the continent's patrons.

In a Latin-language apostolic letter, the Polish-born pope said his decision was based on moves to unite the Orthodox and Catholic churches, as well as the concept of European unity.

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By Father John O'Cal1aghan

It was close to midnight at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. I was one of about 20 people who had come to see a friend off· for home.

Observers might have noted that few of us could speak to ~h.s friend: We didn't share his $panish, nor he our English.

Three weeks before, he had arrived in the United States with his wife, seeking expert medical treatment for her grave illness.

He had known no one, but had a contact with me as a friend of a friend. Within two weeks his wife had succumbed to the cancer eating at her brain. .,;,-·Goingheme, "he was accomParish prayer groups are important panied 'only by a coffin. But he was surrounded by friends.

The human sadness of his wife's death was terrible and very real. But the community that had fonned around this man opportunities to reflect on the

By Father Philip J. Mumlon in a few short weeks was also Bible, formation of prayer real - and profoundly comfortSince the U.S. bishops decided groups. ing. in 1977 to establish a special - 2. Many want help in makproject on parish life, people It had happened unexpectedly. ing their family lives more staI had mentioned the couple's have expressed their hopes and ble, more nourishing and more concerns for parishes in many plight from the pulpit, asking the loving. And they want help with . prayers of the parish. Inside two ways.

They have spoken through na- their children; the revival of . hours people had called offering tional, diocesan and parish sur- youth ministry in parishes testiprayers - and much more: a fies to this concern. home for the husband during his veys as well as in national con- 3. Some people judge' a at countless disventions and wife's hospitalization, an apartparish by its liturgy and preachcussion groups on many levels. m~n.t .for their use during what What points have been made? ing and many seek out parishes ~as e.:lJ!P..ec:~tQ..i1~ ~.~ con-\ - 1. Many people have said other than their oWn whose worfale~, transPortation and' they want parish activities to en- ship they prefer. still more.

- 4. People want priests and I was dumbstruck by this out- gage. them personally: home pouring of care from "strangers." Masses, help· in developing a other parish staff members who are open and understanding.

It never abated, all· the way to spirituality that fits their lives, the midnight departure.

As we embraced at the gate, the man whispered huskily, his eyes filled with tears, "Look, Father John, at these people!

Three weeks ago I knew no one

By NC News Service the pastor dons a chef's hat and - now these are my friends!" becomes dinner host at the parSome days later at a parish .Creating a parish community ish house. The guests, often a liturgy we were singing, "They'll in which· people would'know and couple, are randomly chosen know we are Christians· by our care about each other was a top from parish lists some time in love!" It struck me that what priority for Father William advance. The dinners serve as had happened during those Bausch when in 1973 he became "delightful icebreakers," says weeks had dramatically brought pastor of St. Mary'S Church in Father Bausch, who admits they t o focus what we ought .to.. ex- Colts Neck, N.J. At that time, have sharpened his cooking ct of a eucharistic people. ' few parishioners knew each skills.

Catholics take part in a sac- other ou'tside their brand new . For several years a neighbor. ment which is meant to n~ur­ church building. ish their lives. It ought to make Father Bausch and his assis- hood visitation program has a difference. tant, Sister Joan KoIiss, mingled been in operation at St. Mary's. . If someone loses weight -:and informally with parishioners in Every three weeks, in differing strength despite regular nourish..; a variety of ways. In the sum- areas of the parish, a host couple ing food,' it is' clear that some- mertime~ they took neighbor- invites two or three dozen ~ing is wrong with; his or her hood bicycle tours, stopping to neighbors to a relaxed social usimilationprocess..· .. visit parishioners. . evening. ~ .SjFllibirlY~ if:·,otllers'·;.~do not On ., most Saturday evenings, 'COnversation at these informal Ittow us by our .love, then we ~t~t(:qJ,sk w~ether our reception of the Eucharist is "working, whether this food is building up our Christian strength and helping us love "the brother we can see." For this is the Apostle John's test of whether we really love "the God we cannot see."

I have seen the Eucharist fail to make a difference. I have experienced myself as cranky, intolerant and self-centered after sharing the Eucharist.

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In a diocese where parishioners were consulted about qualities they would seek in a new pastor, they choose warmth and a sense of' humor as most important.

- 5. Many want parishes to reach out to those who have strayed away from the church or who have suffered severe loss.

Ministries to the divorced and separated and to single-parent families are seen as greatly needed. . - 6. In many poorer parishes people say they want active effort in the promotion of justice.

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affairs usu;lily "flows very easily," according to Father Bausch, perhaps because the "people feel very free .and are uninhibited."

The topics of discussion? Perhaps the concerns of commuting fathers, youth recreation, ecumenical action or better ways to communicate parish information.

During these evenings, parish staff members help direct participants to specific topics only if conversation lags badly. This rarely happens becau~epeople are too busy meeting each otber.

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know your faith

The churches Paul founded were small enough to meet in private homes for the celebration of the Lord's Supper and other community affairs. Larger cities probably had several such house churches.

Until the early fourth century Christianity was an outlaw religion, so for Christians to build a church publicly could have invited disaster.

The people of the Pauline churches, much like parishioners now, represented a cross section of the city's social, cultural and economic life. The church in the city of Corinth (in what we call Greece), surely was one of the most typical and interesting.

Paul started this community around the year 51, toward the end of his second missionary journey. During this eventful trip, he revisited churches founded on the first journey and picked up a new and faithful companion, Timothy.

Despite ·some successes along the way, Paul was tired and he must have been a bit depressed~ Corinth would be his point of departure for home, and it was hardly the type of city to raise his spirits.

Corinth, in fact, was a cesspool of immorality, and Paul decided not to stay long. But in his own mysterious "ay, God encouraged Paul to preach the Good News in Corinth. The reo sult was a sojourn of about 18 months.

The population seems' to have been roughly a third Roman citizens, a third freedmen and a third slaves. The ChlXCh was a mixture of rich and poor, educated and simr'e. Jew and Gentile.

Pa:.l~ c(Jrresponded with hi!> Connthian com e.l i" while in the city of E,phesus on his third missionary journey. There he got news that the Corinthian church was having serious problems. He wrote a letter to which he refers in 1 Corinthians 519.

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By Jaman Manternach Saul sat in the front row of the courtroom glaring at the defend'ant, Stephen, a young man. abolit his own age.· Saul· listened with growing anger as witness after witness came forward to accuse Stephen.

"This man is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth," said one.

"He speaks against Moses and the Temple," another swore.

"I myself heard him talk against God's law," insisted a third.

Saul was an expert in the law of God and a zealous defender of Moses and the Temple. He could not tolerate anyone who opposed these sacred' beliefs.

The high priest stood up.

"Have you heard the accusations against you?" he asked the defendant.

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Na noite da Vigilia pascal, cantase 0 "Pregio" sobre a igua baptismal.

Neste hino percorre-se a Biblia para se tomar consc:Lencia do F'rofundo sentido deste elemento. Recordam-se assim As primeiras iguas sobre as quais pairava 0 Espirito criador e vivificador de Deus, As iguas do diluvio, As iguas do lliar vermelho, A igua que brota de Jesus crucificad< Tambem a psicologia actual ve na igua urn dos simbolos mais profundos da psique de cada homem. Se da psicologia passamos as cii~ncias naturais, verific< se que toda a vida da terra provem des· te elemento. Na origem dos tempos, a vida existia exclusivamente no mar. AtE a obstetriciaconstanta que cada ser hl rnano nasce da iigua dentro das membranal' do feto, e que essa igua tern a mesma composi9ao da iigua do mar. ~ este simbolo da igua que esti na origem da vida, que Cristo assume para significare efectivar 0 renascimento E a nova vida do homem que 0 aceita na fe Deus ao escolher presiamente 0 elemento mais vital, 0 mais maternal, pare ser 0 sinal eficaz do nosso nascimento celeste, p5e-nos em rela9io com toda a hist6ria da nossa vida: da vida terrestre e da vida celeste que vern coroar aquela. , o Baptismo incorpora-nos a Igreja,c Corpo de Cristo. Desse modo, 0 homem entra a formar parte da comunidade ecle sial atraves dum nascimento pela agua e pelo Espirito.

Pelo Baptismo nascemos e recebemos uma nova vida, a da igua e do Espirito.

Por isso, ser baptizado nio e um mere rito simb6lico de incorporalio a uma determinada sociedade. 0 Esp1rito Sante faz-nos nascer, torna-nos novos na e pe la comunidade eclesial.

Se 0 nosso nascimento para a vida terrestre nunca e puramente individual, muito menos 0 nascimento em Deus que nc faz comunidade, familia, povo de Deus, membros do Corpo de Cristo.

No Baptismo, por obra do Espirito santificador, 4~ntramos e permanecemos e Cristo, e Cristo entra e permanece em n6s; ficamos cheios da gra9a santificadora. o Baptismo lava toda a mancha do pe cado. Naqueles que sio assumidos por Cristo, ji nio hi lugar'para 0 pecado.

A igua tambem significa ablu9io (lava) , alem de nascim4~nto. 0 Baptismo arranca toda a raiz do pecado: original e pessoal (no caso dl::>s adul tos). 0 homem recome9a em pigina completamente branca.

Ficamos a :ser filhos adoptivos no Filho. Recebe-:se 0 Baptismo para sempre Nunca se pode repetir, visto que nos Ie va a plenitude da vida, ao nascimento definitivo, imprimido um caricter indelevel.

Pelo nosso Baptismo, que nos insere no misterio salvador da mort~ e ressurrei9io de Cris·to, tornamo-nos solidirio com 0 Seu caminho: servi<i0' pequenez, humildade, obediencia ate a morte, na submissio amorosa a todos os condiciona lismos e limita95es deste mundo.

Continued from page twelve "Yes," Stephen answered. ",But it is not I who am guilty.

It is you and your followers.

You claim to have God's law but you do'not keep it. You claim to honor Moses and the prophets. They foretold the coming of the Just One, Jesus of Nazareth. Yet you put him to death, the very one God sent."

Saul was furious. So was everyone else. Shouting, they rushed at Stephen.

Saul was right with them as they pulled Stephen out of the courtroom. Crowds of people joined them as they pulled their victim through the narrow Jerusalem streets. "Kill him," people shouted. "He is against Moses and the Temple. He deserves to die."

Stephen was dragged to an open field full of large rocks.

They tied his hands and feet and left him standing alone.

Those who were to throw the deadly stones at the condemned man took off their heavy cloaks and asked Saul to watch over them. Saul stood under a tree with cloaks stacked up at his feet and shouted. encouragement to the others to punish this enemy of God. Saul stood there with murder in his heart as the stones began to strike Stephen. He heard Stephen praying aloud to Jesus.

For a moment Saul's sensitive heart went out to the suffering victim. But he trembled with horror as he heard Stephen call

Friendship Continued from page twelve er diversity in liturgy as well as to identification of people's talents and desired activities.

In the friendly atmosphere of St. Mary's, people trade ideas and insights, often leading to new programs and activities.

This year parish emphasis is on lay spirituality. Full use is made of a new spiritual center, containing a retreat chapel and a library.

A multipurpose building for the Colts Neck community as well, the center includes a 120seat theater, classrooms, counseling rooms and a crisis center.

The focus here, as in the whole parish, is on adult education.

Today St. Mary's Parish is heading into its second century as an active and caring community of 800 families.

Parishes Continued from page twelve In sum, people want to see the love of Christ enfleshed in action. They want to be helped to live the life of Christ.

Many parishioners also say they want respect for their own lives and views. They want to be regarded neither as mere recipients or services provided by professionals nor as anonymous individuals to be mobilized around a cause.

I consistently find that when parishioners feel their parish is vital to their lives, the pastor and other staff members are making the work of that parish their life.

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For children Jesus "Lord." It seemed to Saul this went against belief in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Saul was certain this man deserved to die because of his beliefs. For another brief moment, a's he heard Stephen pray to the Lord to forgive his executioners, Saul's heart was touched. But in the end he felt little pity for Stephen.

The executors picked up their cloaks and thanked Saul.

Saul took one last look at the dead man. He determined to use all his energy in searching out and persecuting others like Stephen. But God changed Saul's heart.

Corinthians Continued from page twelve Persistent bad news occasioned another, more detailed letter what is now known as 1 Corinthians. The reaction to this missive was alarming so Paul decided to make a quick personal visit to Corinth. That turned out to be a near disaster.

While back in Corinth, Paul was insulted and deeply hurt. On his return to Ephesus he wrote a scorching letter, to which he refers in 2 Corinthians '2:3,9.

This, too, appears to be lost.

Then, forced to leave Ephesus, Paul met Titus, the bearer of the "bitter letter" and learned to his relief and joy that the letter had brought the Corinthians to their senses. This good news prompted him to write what is now known as 2 Corinthians.

A brother Continued from page twelve watched congregations grow in the awareness that they are indeed their brother's keeper.

I have seen programs start in Eucharistic communities, reaching out to the young, the old, the divorced, the alienated.

I have felt the tangible and growing concern of the well for the sick, the haves for the havenots, the befriended for the lonely.

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SOMETmNG has happened in this song that has changed the singer's point of view. "The world has ·changed for me today," he proclaims. He "thought he could never feel this way," and he wonders if "this is really me!" .

Such emotional highs are exciting but rarely last long. But our personal value does not depend on our emotional state.

We are an amazing creation!

We possess richness. and diversity words or examples could never exhaust.

Some people are thinkers; in others feelings seem to rule.

Some peopIe thrive on being with a group; others enjoy the quiet walk alone. So~e people learn through experience; others benefit from their imaginations.

One way to keep the, "I'm Alive" feeling is to know' your own' gifts and to act out these strengths.

For example, a person who prefers spontaneity and a "hangloose" attit:Jde, might hate a 'rigidly scheduled· job and highly detailed work.

Society may suggest that it is better to be a certain type person. 'Sometimes the impression is created that certain skills are more important than others. But a mature person rejects such false standards.

Whatever it is to "really be me," it is a gift from God. By developing our own gifts, we can find adventure and meaning in life.

By Cecilia Belanger We should perhaps look upon the Lord's Prayer as the Family Prayer, for such it is. Many of us were taught as children not to forget that there is another family out there, beyond the blood ties.

Thank God for those dear folks in our youth who never preached a "do-it-yourselr' or a "go-it-alone" religion! The Old Testament knows nothing of solitary religion. The Hebrews were a covenant community.

This is why our Bible is not divided into Part I and Part II, but into Testaments. A testamentary relationship existed between God and the people joined to him by faith.

In the Psalm 27 the poet cries, "When my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up." How does the Lota take one up? Through other people, of course. God always reaches people through people.

He has no other way.

Our being together is not incidental, but central to our experience. 'Beyond this, we must become more aware of each other as' persons. It's so easy, even in a "holy" institution, to get wrapped up in agendas, flow charts, meetings, goals, programs and budgets. Isn't the person more important? Why else all these things? I remember the words of an economist, during a coal crisis, staggering a group he was addressing by declaring: "The most important product to come out of the mine is the miner."

The most important product to come out of the church is a person. If you've been treated other than as a person, you've been shortchanged, and so has Christ. How easily we get absorbed in function. We see each other as choir, deacon, clergy, laity, council, staff, you name it.

To be a family we must think not functionally, but personally.

These are some of the reasons people leave one church and go to another, or even leave their denomination entirely.

I think we all like to see churches run correctly. Slovenliness is not a virtue. But we must not ,be carried away and forget why we are here. ' I have seen too much "functionalization," heard too many words that make people out to be "things" and certainly all this does not bring glory to the church. If' you haven't always been treated as a person by those who act in his Name, then you know that Jesus' love has been left outside that place.

Why do we remember Jesus?

Is it not first and foremost for his love? Is it his efficiency or organization that draws us to him, or is it his crucifixion, his scars that symbolize this love?

Impediments NEW YORK (NC) - The arms race and the consumer society today stand in the way of authentic development, Archbishop Helder Camara of Olinda-Recife, Brazil, said dUI'ling a visit to New York.

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portsWQtch Hub Pap.!r Honors Stang Coach Theresa Dougall, field hockey coach at North Dartmouth's Bishop Stang High School, has been named coach of the year on the Boston Globe's aU- scholastic field hockey team for 1980.

Ms. Dougall's Spartanettes have compiled an outstanding record of 65 wins and 11 ties against only seven losses in seven seasons over which span the Stang girls won the Southeastern Mass. Conference Division One championship five times:.

Although no players from diocesan schools were named to

the Boston newspaper's allscholastic team, three of its 14 members are from schools within the diocese, all from the Cape and Islands League.

Harwich goalie Penny Fennell, named player of the year, and her teammate, senior halfback Sharlene Gomes, are joined on the all-star team by Joanne McGrath, Sandwich's center forward. In her four years at Harwich, Ms. Fennell has- posted 42 shutouts in 48 league games and six in 11 tournament games. She has 280 saves out of 288 shots.

F:eehan Rolls On The Bishop Feehan Shamrocks, undefeated in five preseason starts, opened their Southeastern Mass. Conference Division Two schedule Tuesday against the Bishop Connolly Cougars. They host Falmouth tomorrow and travel to the Dartmouth Indians next Tuesday, when Connolly is home to Falmouth.

Other action in Division Two has Fairhaven at Dartmouth tomorrow, Wareham at Fairhaven Tuesday. In Division One it will be Attleboro at New Bedford, Taunton at Barnstable,. Durfee at Somerset tomorrow, Taunton at Attleboro, Durfee at Barnstable, New Bedford at Somerset Tuesday. ..

The three diocesan high schools in the conference's Division Three have away games tomor-· row night. Holy Family opposes Greater New Bedford Voke-Tech in Boston Garden, Coyle-Cassidy is at Old Rochester, and Stang at Dennis-Yarmouth. Tuesday Coyle-Cassidy is host to Stang, Holy Family visits Dennis-Yarmouth and Voke-Tech is home to Old Rochester.

In Division Four it is Diman Yoke at Dighton-Rehoboth, Case at Bourne, Seekonk at Westport tomorrow, Diman Voke at

Bourne, Westport at DightonRehoboth Monday, Case at Seekonk Tuesday.

The Hockomock schedule has North Attleboro at Canton, Oliver Ames at Sharon, Foxboro at Franklin, King Philip at Stoughton tomorrow, Oliver Ames at King Philip, Sharon at King Philip, Canton at Franklin, Stoughton at Mansfield, Tuesday.

Severe weather conditions have caused some scheduled games to be postponed.

Wrestling is admittedly not the .most widespread scholastic sport, with Fall River's Durfee the only school in the Southeastern Mass. Conference that has a wrestling team. Consequently the Hilltopper matmen compete mostly with teams from schools in the Greater Boston area.

Coached by Jim Feijo, they defeated Randolph, 45-16, Needham, 36-27, and Middleboro, 3326, in dual meets prior to an engagement at Foxboro last night.

Tomorrow night they host Stoughton. In a recent tournament host Durfee finished third to Warren and Bristol. Cape-Cod Tech finished fourth in the fourschool tourney.

New E~edford Increases Lead . .

New Bedford, appare~ntly well on the way to- a repeat Bristol County CYO Hockey League championship, posted ~I 7-1 victory over Rochester,· and with an assist from Somerset- boosted its lead over Fall River South to three points.

In the curtain-raiser of the league twin bill in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River last Sunday night, Kevin Robinson's goal 15 seconds from the end of the game enabled Somerset to tie South, 5-5. It was the first tie game of the season.

Paul King and Dan Rockett sparked New Bedford to its 10th win in a row with two goals each.

New Bedford and Fall River South, the 1978-79 titlist, meet at 10 o'clock Sunday night in

the nightcap of the usual league twin bill in the Driscoll Rink.

The curtain-raiser, at nine, pits Rochester against Somerset. New Bedford is now 12-1-0 (won, lost, tied), South 8-3-1, Somerset 5-7I, Rochester 2-10-0.

Bill Shea, of the Kennedy team, was named the most valuable player in the Bristol County Cya Baseball League for 1980.

Other award reipients: Batting championship - Ken Medeiros, Kennedy; Outstanding Pitcher Steve Ogden, North End; Outstanding Fielder - Brian Landry, South End; Rookie of the Year - Carlin Hart, Kennedy; Sportsmanship Award - Steve Marshalik, Maplewood; Competitor's Award - Brendan Shea, Somerset, and Carl Destochers, Central.

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tv, mOVIe news 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: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyonej A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanationl: C-condemned.

New Film "Breaker Morant" is an Australian film based on an incident that took place during the Boer War, when three officers of an Australian unit are courtmartialed on the charge that they shot prisoners and a German missionary aware of their actions.

Acting and photography are excellent but the main characters are sketchily drawn and there is confusion about the moral responsibility of soldiers in wartime. Due to the maturity and complexity of the theme this film is rated A3.

On TV "300 miles for Stephanie," NBC, 9 p.m.. Monday, Jan. 12, is a TV movie based on the true story of a police officer who ran 300 miles as a prayer for a miracle to save his five-year-old daughter, retarded, suffering from cerebal palsy and not expected to live when she contracted pneumonia.

"The World of Mother Teresa," PBS, 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12, is a documentary filmed in India on the work of the Nobel Prie winner. It follows her on her tireless round of activities, presenting a portrait of a charismatic leader who has proved that society can be transformed more radically with love than with violent revolution.

One of the most complete records of Mother Teresa, the documentary was made by Ann Petrie with Joyce Susskind as narrator.

"A Matter of Life and Death," CBS, 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13: This dramatization is based on the actual experiences of a nurse who has devoted herself to helping patients prepare for death. Linda Lavin of the "Alice" sitcom is totally convincing in the role of Joy Ufema, the nurse who battles hospital bureaucracy to talk to dying patients about their approaching end.

Such nurses are a necessary and growing part of the health profession.

Monday, Jan. 12, 10-11 p.m.

(PBS) "Deadly Winds of War," ~he history- of chemical warfare from Byzantium to th~ present is _traced in this documentary, which also interv:iews people who live and work in areas where poison gases are manufactured and stored.

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Channel 6, includes Father Peter N. Grazi-

ano, diocesan director of social services ,as one of a permanent discussion panel of clergymen.

This week's program will discuss "The Government in Transition," with reference to the inaugural of president-elect Reagan.

Sunday, Jan. 11, (ABC) "DirectIons:" ABC newsman Herbert Kaplow interviews the head of the Moral Majority, the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Check listings for time.

Sunday, Jan. 11, 10:30 a.m.

EST (CBS) "For Our Times" "Orthodox Christians: the American Presence" traces the history of the different Orthodox sects in the United States. Antiochian Orthodox Father Paul Schneirla provides the commentary which includes a visit to the first Orthodox shrine in St. Augustine, Fla. 'Check listings for time.

Film on TV Sunday, Jan. 11, 9 p.rn. (ABC) - "High Plains Drifter" (1973) - Clint Eastwood is a mysterious drifter who saves a town from vengeful gunmen. A dispicable film that relies heavily on violence and rape for its impact. B Morally objectionable in part for all.

Sunday, Jan. 11 (NBC) "Guideline" - Newsweek Correspondent Penny Lernoux discusses with Marist Father Joseph Fenton the influence of the church on Latin American politics.

Check listings for time.

OAKLAND,. _Calif. (NC) Franciscan Father John Vaughn, 52, the minister general of the Order of Friars Minor, suffered a mild heart attack in Oakland Dec. 3D, just after celebrating the 25th anniversary of his ordination.

He was reported in stable condition and was removed from intensive care Jan. I, but was expected to remain hospitalized for about two more weeks. He will need two to three months for recuperation before returning to work in Rome, according to a medical spokesman.

The first American to head the Friars Minort, Father Vaughn was chosen minister general in 1979.

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ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOUTH Marion Vielleumier will speak on Cape Cod's Historical Treasures at the meeting of the Women's Guild scheduled for 2 p.m.

Tuesday.

LA SALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO A discussion-study group, "Parents to Parents about Sex: A Catholic Approach," will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, continuing each Tuesday through Feb. 17. It will be conducted by Father Joseph Ross, MS. A public healing service will be conducted at '7 p.m. Wednesday by Father Richard Lavoie, MS. ST.. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Parish guests at 10:30 a.m.

Mass Sunday wiL be Cape Cod residents, mainly of Polish descent, visiting via chartered bus.

A Christian Living session for parents of public school pupils and the pupils tt.emselves will be held following 9 a.m. Mass Sunday.

The parish credit. union will hold its annual :neeting Sunday, Jan. 25 in the church hall. The sacrament of baptism will be administered the same day and ~ rents should contact the rectI y immediately if they wish tl lir children baptized.

S . JOHN OF GOD, S'MERSET ~ prayer meeting will be held to light, beginning with 7 o'clock M ISS. A social hour will follow.

A fellowship ):rogram with Father Pierre Lachance as speaker will follow 7 p.m. Mass Thursday, Jan. 15.

An appreciation day for parish workers will tEke place from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the parish center.

The Holy Name Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the rectory.

LUSO·AMERICAN AWARD FALL RIVER State Senator Mary Fonseca of Fall River, named third recipient of the Luso-American Award. given annually by the Jornal de Fall River, will receive the honor at a public banquet to be held Sunday, Feb. 22 at Venus de Milo reshurant, Swansea.

Somewhere in our 18·country mission world you can help build a parish plant with completed church for $10,000. Name It for your favorite saint, in your loved ones' memory. The plaque that will be erected wili request the prayers of grateful people this year and forever for the members of your family, living and deceased.

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ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD Healing Masses will be held each Wednesday evening during January, followed by prayer meetings or Bible study.

A holy hour will be sponsored by the Legion of Mary from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16.

Senior citizens will meet today and will hold a social Thurs. day, Jan. 22.

The parish council will meet at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22 in the convent.

Lithuanians ask papal aid

SECULAR li<'RANCISCANS, ST. LOUIS .FRATERNITY Members will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, beginning the . session with a Mass at St. Louis NEW YORK (NC) - Catholics Church, Fall River. All are welin -Lithuania have requested come. moral support from Pope John Paul II on behalf of an exiled ST. JOSEPH, agnostic human rights activist, FAIRHAVEN Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.

The junior folk choir is heard The request was made by the at 10:30 a.m. and the senior folk Catholic Committee for the Dechoir at noon Mass each Suntlay.

The parish council will meet fense of Believers' Rights in a documer..t recently smuggled out at 7:30 tonight in the rectory. of Lithuania, according to the Lithuanian information Center ST. BONIFACE, ill New York.

NEW BEDFORD The document pays tribute to A pro-life Mass will be celebrated at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sakharov for his defense of huJan. 22, the eighth anniversary man rights for prosecuted Cathof the Supreme Court decision olic Lithuanians, priests and prisoners of conscience. legalizing abortion.

Several other documents were ST.. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, released calling for freedom for FALL RIVER religious activists and activities.

A new series of classes in naDocument No. 33, addressed tural family planning is in progress at the hospital. Sections to the Central Committee of the will begin Wednesday, Jan. 14, Lithuanian Communist Party, 21 and 28 and each will meet complained that even minimal monthly for four sessions. Fur- religious freedoms guaranteed ther information is available by the Soviet constitution are from Mariette Eaton, RN, at the not honored in Lithuania.

The Catholic committee said hospital.

A physicians' conference on that children are forbidden to radionuclide imaging presented take part in reliigous processions

by Kenneth Korr, MD, will take and churches must pay six times the national average for place at 8:30 a·.ri1> Wednesday.

"Hospital-Acquired Infections" electricity. When the pope visitwill be discussed by Robert ed Poland, people from neighMoellering, MD, of Harvard boring Lithuania were expressly Medical School at the same time forbidden to go to see him, the committee said.

Wednesday, Jan. 28.

A program on cancer nursing The committee also expressed skills open to all area nurses concern for the only seminary in will begin in February, continu- Lithuania, reporting that 17 of 36 candidates accepted by the ing through March 4.

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SS. PETER AND PAUL FALL RIVER James Benevides has been reelected parish council president.

Helen Sullivan is vice-president and Connie' Stankiewicz has been reelected secretary. Councillors are making plans for the 100th anniversary of the parish in April 1982.

CCD enrollment is rising, especially in the lower grades and additional teachers are urgently needed.

The Junior CYO will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Father Coady Center.

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