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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1980

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Thousands of friends of ,exceptional and underprivileged children within and without the area of the Diocese of Fall River - from Provincetown to Attleboro - will dance to the music of Lester Lanin and his orchestra and Art Perry's orchestra at the 25th annual Bishop's Charity Ball tomorrow evening at Lincoln Park Ballroom in North Dartmouth. Children attending the Na:zareth Hall Schools and summer camps will benefit from the proceeds of this outstanding New England social ana charitable event. One of the many highlights of the evening will be the introduction of 34 young ladies from diocesan parishes to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in an elaborate presentee ceremony. The young ladies will be escorted by their fathers. In addition to names of presentees already announced, the Turn to Page Six

225,000 sign Hub covenant BOSTON (NC) - I\. covenant of justice, equity and harmony has been signed by 225,000 Boston area people, according to a Boston newspaper. The Archdiocese of Boston reported that 225,000 covenant cards and olive branch pins had been given out, and more w,ere to be available. The covenant, an effort to eradicate racism in Boston, was launched Nov. 19 by clergymen throughout the city as a result of racial tension resulting when a black high school football player was shot and paraly,~ed during a game in a predominantly white neighborhood. The first phase of the covlenant program, signing of the agreement, has been organized mainly at the local church level, with individual congregations and some schools holding special peace ceremonies to sign it. It is now available for signing in Boston banks. The net phase will be a more direct attack on the causes of racial tension, such as unemployment, housing, school disegregation and affirmative action programs. Cardi~al Humberto Medeiros of Boston urged "every person who lives in Boston and loves it" to sign the covenant, "not as a m~re ceremony, but as: a new beginning."

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All parishes in the Fall River diocese took up a special collection last weekend to aid victims of the New Year's Day earthquake in the Azores. Thousands of diocesan residents are Azorean immigrants and many have relatives and friends affected by the major disaster. Immediately upon learning of the earthquake, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin sent a cable of support and sympathy to Bishop Aurelio Granada Escudeiro of Angra, the diOCese comprising the nine Azores islands. He called on members of the Fall River diocese to unite in prayer for the earthquake victims and inquired into possible aid to the Azores from Catholic Relief Services, the overseas arm of the United States Catholic Conference.

MARC TREMBLAY of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, prostrates himself before the altar of St. Mary's Cathedral during ceremonies ordaining him to the transitional diaconate. (Torchia Photo)

Dutch hishops in Rome By Jerry Filteau

Since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) the church in the Netherlands has had a reputation for pushing post-conciliar changes farther and faster than any other church. In the process it has had frequent clashes with the Vatican, often delightedly played up in the press. Some of the more dramaticheadlines in the late 1960's and early 1970's focused on such controversies as: - Vatican objections to "The New Catechism," a Dutch-published catechism for adults that tried to incorporate Vatican II reforms and to express the faith in modern terms. - Blunt dissent throughout the Dutch church agafnst the prohibition on artificial birth control in Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical "Humanae Vitae" (On Human Life). - Massive departures from the priesthood and religious life in the Netherlands. - The formation of the Dutch National Pastoral Council, which called for optional celibacy for

priests and change in church teaching on birth control and the subsequent Vatican suppression of national pastoral councils. - Delegations of Dutch bishops going to Rome to seek optional celibacy for priests or, at least, a new look at the question. - The Vatican banning of a high school catechetics text used in two of the seven Dutch dioceses. - The closing of all traditional minor and major seminaries in the Netherlands, substituting more flexible pastoral and spiritual formation programs for priesthood students, with theology courses taken at the Catholic theology faculties of state universities. - Widespread unauthorized liturgical experimentation and popular support for married priests who were celebrating Mass, despite objections by their bishops. - Strong protests from organized lay and priest groups over the papal appointments of two conservative bishops: BishTurn to Page Six

Although communications and access to isolated fishing villages remained difficult, authorities said that at least 5 were killed by the quake, hundreds injured and thousands left homeless. Most damage was done on the islands of Terceira, Sao Jorge and Graciosa, where towns and villages were at least 60 percent destroyed. The town of Angra do Heroismo, on the island of Terceira, capital of the three-island group, was hardest hit, with 80 percent of its buildings destroyed. Its 16th century Cathedral of San Salvador, where many priests serving the Fall River diocese were ordained, was severely damaged. The village priest at Santa Barbara on Terceira Island was buried in the ruins of his church as he rang the bell to alert villagers of the earthquake. The text of Bishop Cronin's cable to Bishop Granada Escudeiro follows: Please know of the great distress of the bishop, clergy, religious and faithful of the diocese of Fall River at the news of the dreadful tragedy in the Azores. Our sorrow at the calamity is the more profound because of the bonds of true fraternal affection between the diocese of Fall River and the diocese of Angra and between our peoples. We are preparing means

to bring physical assistance to you and to your suffering flock. In the immediate moment, we unite with you in prayer that Almighty God will pour forth graces and blessings upon you and your people in this hour of sorrow. May the good souls of victims of the earthquake rest in peace. May the sufferings of survivors be lightened through God's strengthening graces. The Azores were settled by the Portuguese in the 15th century. As an ocean crossroads for the fleets of European powers, they became a center of maritime warfare in the 16th century. The Diocese of Angra was created in 1534. It has a Catholic population of 260,000.

Day of study for priests Father Stephen C. Doyle, OFM, professor of scripture at Pope John XXIII Seminary in Weston and an authority on the Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse, will lead a priests' study day on that book of scripture' from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at St. Patrick's church hall, Wareham. The program, open to all clergy, wil not require pre-registration. It has been arranged by Father Michel C. Methot, diocesan director of clergy continuing education, at the request of the Priests' Council and with the support of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Father Methot noted that lunch will not be served and that a nominal fee will be requested at the door. Father Doyle is recognized for his ability to cast the Book of Revelation into contemporary terms while analyzing its literary form, setting it in historical perspective and explaining its symbolism. Father Methot pointed out that study of the Book of Revelation has increased in importance with the development of charismatic communities within Catholicism. He said the study day "will attempt to address key questions relating to Catholic understanding of the Apocalypse."

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THE DIOCESAN OFI1ICE of Family Ministry has issued a bilingual pamphlet, "Preparation for Marriage," available to engaged couples at all rectories. Prepared by Father Ronald A. Tosti, director, it lists the dates, times and locations of all marriage preparation programs, together with information in English and Portuguese on registering for each. WASHINGTON (NC)-A 'Brooklyn Catholic, Stephen R. Aiello, has been named special assistant to Presid,ent Carter for ethnic affairs.

DAVID PELLAND, St. Stephen's parish, Attleboro; Eileen Audette, Holy Name, Fall River; and Karen Drinkwater, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville, at a day of recollection for teens whose parents are involved in the diocesan permanent diaconate program. The program took place at St. Patrick's Center, Wareham. (Rosa Photo)

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (NC)-Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa "was so moved by the poverty she saw in the Diocese of Bellary (India) that she decided to establish a community there in a matter of moments," an Indian bishop said. The Diocese of Bellary is so poor that "90 per cent of the people do not have one full meal a day," Bishop Ambrose Yeddanapali said. PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Radio advertisements using sports stars, singers and even Pope John Paul II were llsed by the Delaware Valley Catholic Office for TV and Radio's in a $70,000 12-week evangelization 'Campaign. The office represents the dioceses of Camden, Trenton and Philadelphia. "Now I'm alive and feeling free, knowing that God is leading me," the radio jingle went. VATICAN CITY (NC)-During 1979, the International Year of the Child, 30 youngsters died each minute of malnutrition or related causes, Vatican Radio said in a report from the Italian missionary news agency, AIMIS. That meant 15 million hunger-relafed child deaths in the year. NEW YORK (NC)-The North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea, which includes the U.S. Catholic Conference, has joined two groups of Koreans living abroad in calling on President Carter to freeze military assistance to South Korea until civilian rule is restored and human rights are respected. VATICAN CITY (NC)i-When the seven <Dutch bishops gather at the Vatican Jan. 14 to open a "particular synod," the key word will be "community" in a now divided church. Discussions at the still somewhat mysterious synod will center on factors that cause breaks in a church's community life and possible routes toward new unity.

CARDINAL TIMOTHY MANNING of Los Angeles has another name among barrio residents in his diocese, who call him their head "home boy" and gave him a jacket to demonstrate their affection. A home boy, they explained, is an all-weather friend. Jesus too is their home boy, the prelate told them. NC Photo)

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WASHINGTON (NC)--Several Protestant and Catholic groups are campaigning to stop the Federal Communications Commission from implementing a proposal to deregulate the radio industry. One concern is that deregulation would lead to discontinuation of free religious programming on radio. VATICAN CITY (NC)-"Absolutely unimaginable destruction of human life" awaits the world if peace cannot be achieved, Pope John Paul II warned in a homily marking the 13th annual World Peace Day. It contained a grim assessment of the world's future under continued threats of nuclear war. LONGFORD, Ireland l(NC)--Bishop Cahal B. Daly of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, preaching at Mass in Longford, called the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) a "Frankstein out of control." . LONDON (NC)--Conflict between Catholic theologians and the church's magisterium (teaching authority) is better than indifference and apathy, suggested Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England. Writing in The Times of London, Cardinal Hume said "at tilmes the two will clash; better this than indifference and apathy." BRASILIA, Brazil (N(;)-iSporadic skirmishes have taken place between Xayante Indians and white settlers in the Matto Grosso province of 'Brazil as the Indians try to dislodge farmers from a newly opened plantation on land traditionally belonging to the tribe. Church and government agencies have defended the Indians' right to the land.

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STUTTGART, West Ge~any (NC)-.Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart has told Father Hans Kung to leave the Catholic theology faculty of the trniversity of Tubingen. Bishop Moser, in whose diocese the university is located, delivered the demand to the state education ministry after confirmation of the Vatican's declaration that Father Kung can no longer be considered a Catholic theologian or teach as such. Father Kung, who has said 'Pope John Paul II condemned him without a hearing, said he had no intention of complying with Bishop Moser's demand. lie said the bishop had exceeded his jurisdiction.

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Dead at ~JO NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) Holy Cross Father John J. Cavanaugh, former preside:nt of the University of Notre Dame, died Dec. 28 in a retirement home for Holy Cross priests on the Notre Dame campus. He was 80 years old. Father Cavanaugh was assistant adversising manager for the Studebaker Corporation before starting studies for the pr~ hood in 1926 at the age-'-of 27. He was president of Notre Dame from 1946 to 1952, and was also the religious superior of the Holy Cross community. After leaving the presidency he directed for six years the Notre Dame Foundatior.., a fundraising office he had set up in 1947. Father Cavanaugh, a close friend of the Kennedy family, was summoned to the White House to console President John Kennedy's widow and say the first requiem Mass fol' the assassinated chief executive in the East Room of the White House. Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, who followed Father Cavanaugh as president in 1952, commented: ".I learned from him to dream of what Notre Dame might yet be. We are still trying to realize the Cavanaugh vision, still travelling up the paths he pioneered, the trails he blazed." Father Hesburgh was principal concelebrant and preached at the funeral Mass for Father Cavanaugh in Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has raised salaries of Vatican employees by from about 25. percent to nearly 50 percent.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (NC) - Unknown assailants stabbed and robbed Cardinal Vicente Scherer, 77, of Porto Alegre and left him naked in a di.tch outside the city when he could not meet their demands for more money. Father Augusto Dalvit of the local office of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference, said two men grabbed the cardinal while he was waiting in his car and took $33 from him, then stabbed him nine times in the face, hand and leg. They threw him into a ditch and sped off in his· car. Cardinal Scherer is recovering in a hospital. Bishop Adriano Hipolito of Nova Iguazu, a suburban diocese in Rio de Janeiro state, received death threats after a bomb exploded in his church Dec. 21. There were no casualties but the altar was partially destroyed and the crucifix and hosts thrown to the floor. The threats were signed by the Anti-Communist Hunt Commandos (CCC). Bishop Hipolito, 62, was kidnapped three years ago by the Brazilian Anti-Communist Alliance. His captors kept him for two hours, beat him and forced him to undress before abandoning him on a lonely :road and taking his small car. A few hours later the car, parked near the building of the bishops' conference in Rio de Janeiro, was blown up by a bomb.

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Vatican spokesman Father Romeo Panciroli said the increases, the first in 10 years, were being granted "despite the financial difficulties of the HoJy See." Figured on base salaries, the increases were effective Jan. 1. They will be supplemented by a two percent cost-of-living adjustment every three months, to bring the Vatican into line with general Italian practice. Pension checks will increase by lOpercent. The new increases are 50 per· cent increases on base salaries established by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Those base salaries do not include "contingency" wages, family stipends or twice-yearly increases based on the Italian "moving scale," a wage index geared to increases in the cost of living. Depending on a worker's job, family status and other factors, .such additions to his base salary can account for up to about $400 a month of his actual wages. Minimum salaries will thus rise from approximately $500 a month to $650. Maximum pay goes from the present $720 a month to $1,000.

TILDEN MASON as God and William Beeman as Everyman in the medieval morality play "Everyman. II

'Everyman' will be produced at St. Mary's Cathedral A modernized version of the 15th century play "Everyman" will be presented at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, by the Cab9t Street Playhouse and the Providence Early Music Consort. The public is invited at no charge. The allegorical drama relates

Mrs. Carrier Father Paul E. Carrier, SJ of the faculty of Bishop Connolly Higb School, Fall River, was principal celebrant at the funeral last Friday of his mother, Mrs. Alphonse Carrier. The Mass was offered at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Mrs. Carrier, 65, was born in Fall River. She served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II and was active in the women's auxiliary of Bishop Connolly High School and the Cathedral Council of Catholic Women. In addition to Father Carrier, she is survived by a daughter, Frances J. Carrier of Somerville, three sisters, a brothe'r and several nephews and nieces.

Everyman's summons to meet Death. He .appeals in tum to Fellowship, Kindred, Cousin and Wealth to accompany him but finds that only Good Deeds will travel with him. As originally written, the drama ends at Everyman's death, but in the present version it continues until the day of judgment, when Everyman attains heaven. Music is used in the contemporary production although it probably did not figure in the original. Medieval and early Renaissance songs, carols and processionals have been adapted by Glenn Giuttari, a member of the Early Music Consort and music director for St. Mary's .Cathedral. They will be accompanied by ancient instruments, including the rebec, shawm, krumhorn and recorder. Principal roles will be taken by members of the Cabot Street Playhouse, directed by Judith Shroeder. Performances are also scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Providence, and for 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 at Christ Church, New Haven.

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themoorin~ Catholic Colleges Should Be Different One of the glories of the American church has been its devotion to the education of the people of God on all levels of learning. However, among the stars in this diadem of bringing man out of the darkness of ignorance into the light of knowledge, the Catholic college/university system that spans this nation has provided a beacon of hope and expectation. The immigrant thirst to benefit from the opportunities this country provided its sons and daughters, together with a deep and abiding adherence to faith and church, were the driving forces behind today's Catholic higher educational system. Knowing that the so-called American dream hinged on education, millions of those who flocked to these shores sacrificed their all to build the institutions that would give their children the chance to realize this dream. As history records, their ideal was achieved. Yet has it been fulfilled in all its dimensions? Are our systems of colleges and universities somehow less than Catholic? Is there truly a difference between a Catholic institution and its secular counterpart? Are our Catholic colleges educating only the mortal man and in the confusion of the times disregarding his immortality? These are but a few of the many important questions that Catholic institutions, if they are to be considered truly Catholic, must honestly face as we enter the 80s. Indications that they are failing their responsibilities are many and grim. In some situations the mores of the marketplace have reduced Catholic colleges to the status of shams. Basic issues and fundamentalS of faith are ignored and even ridiculed in some so-called Catholic intellectual circles. The twin concepts of responsibility and accountability in religious matters have not been the cornerstone of moti. vation on many a Catholic campus. Blowing with the winds of current fads, many Catholic colleges have been more than tolerant of "do your own thing" religion, not only on the student level but also on that of faculty speculation. Parents who scrimped and saved were and are heartbroken to see professors lead their children not to a deeper understanding of faith, but indeed away from the very reasons for sending them to a Catholic college. Church-sponsored institutions really have no right to consider themselves such unless they realize that they should be Catholic in matters of faith and morals and in communion with the sources of revelation. It is shameful for a Catholic college to advocate those viewpoints of modern man that stand in direct opposition to the teachings of scripture and the handing on of those teachings by the church. Catholics who send their children to a Catholic college have the basic right to expect that such an institution will be iIi harmony with the teachings of the church. Catholic colleges should provide a ray of truth and faith in a world that too of.ten wallows in the darkness of doubt and confusion. Catholic colleges should be different. They should be Catholic.

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Loyalty By Father Kevin Harrington The eighties should prove a challenging decade for the church. On the American scene there is a determined quest for the autonomous self-expression of the human pers::m. The hotly debated ethical issues continue to be birth control, divorce, abortion, celibacy 'and the ordination of women. There is no doubt such issues reflect a movement of people to determine their own destiny, not to have children if they do not want them, not to remain in a hope:.ess marriage or to have anyone but oneself dictate one's destiny. As we confront these issues we must not lose our perspective or balance. There is a danger that in trying to be relevant to the history and sociology of our time we will become irrelevant to the principles of the founder of our church, Jesus Christ. We must remember that our balance and perspective come from the gift of faith, not through any merit of our own. While that may affront our perception of ourselves as autonomous self-expressing creatures, it is a fundamental truth of our Catholic faith. This is affirmed when many Catho:.ics raised in practicing families and parochial schools give up, lose or exchange their faith for something inferior. Christ's declaration rings loud and clear: "You

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have not chosen me, I have chosen you." As we live in our crisis-ridden Church we need a sense of humor. The head of the great Wallenda family was quoted as saying that Efe was a tightrope walk and our sense of humor was our bala:.1cing bar. To carry the analogy further, it could prove helpful to think of our faith as the net which is everpresent to help us in times of need. The 1980s may well be one of those times. But there are elements of hope for the Church in this coming decade. Pope John Paul II has touched the heart and mind of the world with his vibrancy and spiritual leadership, reflecting Christ's admonition: "Simon, do you love me? Then feed my lambs . . . tend my sheep." If there is one area to which the pope has given top priority, it is that of catholicity in its meaning of universality. His travels within the Roman Catholic countries of the world and his ecumenical adventures have emphasized this quest for universality. Yet the pope has insisted on fidelity to traditional understanding of Catholic doctrine. A departure from this course would only imperil the desire for unity. It is a strategic error to believe that compromising on doctrinal issues with other faiths will attract more people to the church.

To relativize our doctrines is not an act of courage but flight to a false sense of security. Too many people act under the dangerous assumption that they can define any church teaching as they would like it to be, without regard for what it really is and has been. To feed and tend the sheep was for Peter and is for John Paul II the most formidable task at hand. While the times change, the call to follow Christ is the same. Neither Peter nor John Paul II would ever think of his authority outside of the understanding that the sheep belong to Jesus Christ and to him alone: only he can say, "my sheep." While skeptics may never recognize the voice of Christ in His Holiness, believers must. The present pope, like Peter, must remember that the sheep are Christ's and that his call to serve the church is also from Christ. We do not owe our pope admonitions but we owe him the loyalty that has made our church strong, the kind of authority that holds us together despite our diversity. THE ANCHOR (USPS-545Âˇ020) Second Class Postage Pail! at Fall River. Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid $6.00 per year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fill River, MA 02722

The eighties the end of the .decade, half of all the college students in the country will be Catholic, meaning that Catholics are twice as likely to. attend higher educational is an artificial unit arbitrarily institutions than the typical Amimposed on the passage of hu- erican, an extraordinary social man events. But there is one revolution in the space of a prediction that can be made mere quarter century. about the next 10 years of AmFurthermore, there has also erican Catholicism concerning emerged a whole new generawhich there can be little doubt: tion of Catholic intellectuals There will be much more friction young men and women who between an increasingly literate have earned the title by their laity and an increasingly semili- scholarly or adminstrative or terate clergy. artistic work and have not mereIn the middle 1960s, when it ly been conceded it because was clearly established that the their names happened to appear alleged anti-intellectualism of in the pages of the National American Catholics described by Catholic Reporter or the ComMsgr. Ellis and other:; was a monweal. historical and not a contemporThis massive new Catholic ary truth, a quarter of the colelite, according to our data, is lege students in the country were committed to the church as a Catholic. Young CathoJ.ics were heritage and often to the church going to college at about the as an institution,' even though same rate as the res:~ of the it may not accept all the ecclesicountry (since one-quarter of the astical rules. Indeed, as one American population is Cathyoung scholar put it to me, olic). In the 15 years since, the "there is nothing they can do change - never acknowledged now that would drive us out." What kind of clergy will this by Msgr. Ellis and his admirers scholarly and artistic elite, as - of the proportion of college well as the college-educated students who are Catholic had Catholic masses, encounter? risen dramatically and now One must say bluntly that stands somewhere between 35 and 40 percent. Catholics are just as the laity becomes more half again as likely as the typi- literate, the clergy become less cal American to attend college litrate, indeed almost semiliterand indeed we are rapidly ap- ate. Most priests coming out of proaching a situation in which the .seminary presumably can fully half the Catholic popula- read; they simply don't. tion will have been to college In this they are perhaps no and a very substantial propor- diferent from their predecessors tion will have gone to graduate in the priesthood, but they have school. less excuses since their predeI would not be surprised if by cessors did not have to face

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Angry feelings And your letters came. First by a trickle and then by the mailbox. \Vhen I asked you to let me know what we should have done about the improper marriage preparation in a parish, you took me at my word. And not just those in leadership positions either. I heard from three bishops, fifteen family life directors, and dozens of parents, clergy and others involved 'in' various phases of pastoral work. I was struck by two :repeating attitudes: the deep feelings of anger and frustration that surfaced from both latity and clergy over the lack of viable structures for lodging legitimate complaints of both pastor and of parishioners, and the sincere desire to work things Ollt lovingly and intelligently. So what does this tell us? That we're family, that's all, because it's exactly what goes on in the family with emerging young adults who want to be heard and also want to be full loving members of th(~ family. Your superb letters -- and I regret I can't thank yOIl personally for writing - ran a common thread on how to correct a clergy problem in the parish: 1. pray; 2. go to the priest in a loving way and talk with him

about the problem; 3. offer to help; 4. if unsuccessful, go to .the next in authority - pastor, family life office, or bishop; 5. if unsuccessful, go to another parish. In other words, I heard from practically everyone the same advice, Le. do what you can to change the situation in a loving Christian way and if it doesn't work, move on. And apparently that's all that laity and clergy can now do when faced with a non-responsive parish situation, move on. A parishioner wrote, "I've asked responsible priests how to deal with the situation of tyrant priests, and the only response has been a shake of the head and an 'I don't know.' In other words, it is left up to the individual to do anything he sees fit, with no leadership helping solve any problems. However, in the meantime, our parish has lost members because of it angry people." Angry, hurting, fearful, insecure, cheated laity and clergy that's what emerged from my mail. There are many more paragraphs I wish I could quote. In the meantime, however, I call upon the Church, whoever that is . . . priests' senates, Diocesan Councils of Catholic

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nearly so literate a Catholic latity. 'Furthermore, if one is to judge by the quality of their sermons, they cannot write either, or at least they don't. The impact of radical romanticism (of either the liberation theology or the charismatic variety) and the pop psychology of the clinical, pastoral approach to ministry training produced a younger clergy who are - with some marvelous exceptions, of course - utterly incapable of ministering to the laity of their own generation and such priests' organizations as the National Federation of Priests Councils not only tolerate but actively support a non-golden clerical mediocrity - not indeed by explicitly endorsing it but by simply acting it out every time' they assemble. Only the most naive person will think that the situation is going to change. Few seminaries, members of the hierarchy, or priests' organizations are concerned about upgrading the quality of clerical education and performance after seminary. (P.S. Every time I write a column like this, some Catholic editor - usually a priest wants to cancel the column. Might I urge my regular readE'rs to inundate editors with protests on this sort of clerical copout.)

By DOLORES CURRAN

Women, Knights of Columbus, the unchurched, the hierarchy . . . to recognize the explosive deposit of feelings submerged under the guise of respect for one another and permit it to surface so that we can deal with it in our church. We're very good at telling families they should scrutinize hostile feelings and deal with them through prayer and love in the family but we're very bad at doing it in the parish family. Karl Rahner said, "The average Christian often has the bitter impression that his faith-inspired loyalty to the church is abused. And yet he knows that he is powerless before the law." How about considering pastoral-lay relations as the next area of concern in our church, at the parish level, at our bishops' meets, and at synods? Until we begin to communicate honestly, we aren't going to be very successful at parish renewal, family ministry, or anything else.

Iowa looms

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Every four years, we hear a great deal about New Hampshire about the beauty of its landscape, the

Carter and Kennedy are swarming over the state. Members of the Carter and Kennedy clans are available for coffees, teas, dinners and receptions. Iowans are loving the attention. Their congressmen, too. Rep. Tom Harkin says he no longer gets underlings when he calls the State Department. The secretary himself gets on the line. Sen. Culver, one of Kennedy's closest friends, is officially neutral, a matter of great gratitude to other office holders who are looking for a place to hide. The most recent polls show Carter and Kennedy just about even. Until the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini entered the picture, Kennedy, whose brother Robert was a great favorite with Iowans, was well ahead. Organizationally, right now, it's a dead heat, too. The telephone banks to get the vote out are operating flatout already, working over the 100,000 new Democrats who have been registered since 1976.

perversity of its voters and its unworthiness to be the state which, because it has the first primary, decides who our next president will be, or more likely who it will not be. It has a reputation of unparalleled cruelty to front runners. This year, however, another state has come forward to take the first cut at the 1980 results. New Hampshire still holds the whip hand over the Republicans, but Iowa, with its precinct caucuses on Jan. 21, is going to have a critical say on the Democratic side. The Republicans merely have a straw vote, but the Democrats will take the first step in electing delegates to the national convention. People who find New Hampshire unrepresentative are having just as much trouble with Iowa, which is practically one large cornfield, counts its minority population at 1 percent and is virtually exempt from the urban woes that plague other states. "They're saying there's nothing but hicks, hogs and Indians out here," says Democratic State Chairman Ed Campbell. "I remind them we've sent some liberal giants to the Senate: Harold Hughes, Dick Clark, John Culver." A cursory examination of Iowa's psyche would indicate its Democrats tend to be more liberal and its Republicans more conservative than is the case' in other states. For example, last year, it turned out ultra-progressive Dick Clark in favor of far-right Roger Jepsen. But for the past 10 years, it has elected Republican Robert Ray, one of the more enlightened governors in the nation. But for better or worse, Iowa is going to tell the country where it's at. Neither Jimmy Carter, an incumbent president, nor Edward Kennedy, an "invincible" challenger, would have an easy time explaining a defeat in Iowa. In 1976, "Uncommitted" won the state. It got 38 percent of the vote. Jimmy Carter was next, with 27 percent, which was enough to establish him as the front-runner and give him the momentum for a New Hampshire victory. Tom Quinn, campaign manager for California Governor Jerry Brown says the "vibes are good" for his man in Iowa, because everyone wants to participate it's not like New Hampshire, where they want to be wooed." Iowans nonetheless are being wooed ardently. Surrogates of

With all the activity, no one expects more than 10 percent of the 545,000 registered Democrats to turn out in the cold on Jan. 21. What will happen is that those who care will go to a designated place in each of the state's 2,531 precincts, preferably a firehouse, a schoolhouse or a church. In some of the most rural areas, it will be somebody's house, although private homes are discouraged because it is possible that a host or hostess of extreme partisanship might close the door on a known representative of another candidate. Participants have only to prove they are eligible to vote in the next election. They are required to sign a pledge they believe in the principles of the Democratic Party. Once the presiding officer. is elected, he or she asks those present to stand up and be counted. The partisans of each candidate, Carter, Kennedy and uncommitted, are asked to go to the corners and literally to stand up and be counted. It no group commands 15 percent of those present, members are instructed to "reassociate" with another faction. This is the period for some intense lobbying and horse-trading. The precinct's number of delegates is based on the turnout in the previous gubernatorial election. If it seems small time to others, Iowans are persuaded it is as democratic, open and corruption-proof as it can be. There's no chance of stuffing and no chance of ringers - they all know their neighbors out there.

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Father Arthur N. Robert, OP, assistant pastor at St. Anne's Church, Fall River, will mark his 50th anniver· sary of profession as a Dominican on Sunday. He will be principal concelebrant at 10 a.m. Mass at St. Anne's, with Father John R. FoIster, pastor, as homilist and music by St. Anne's Chorale, directed by Normand Gingras.

Continued from Page One following will also participate in the ceremony: Miss Rose Marie Dupra, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Dupra, Sacred Heart parish, Fall River. Miss Evelyn Domagala, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jan Domagala, St. Casimir parish, New Bedford. Miss Amanda Flaherty, daughter of Mrs. Annette Flaherty, St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis. Tomorrow will be the 10th appearance of Bishop Cronin as honored guest at the Charity Ball, for which tickets will be available at the door. From 8 to 8:45 p.m. dance music will be played by Art Perry's orchestra, followed at 9 p.m. by introduction of the Lester Lanin orchestra, led by Lanin. At 9:05 Bishop Cronin will be escorted to his box by Miss A'drienne Lemieux, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, and Edward S. Franco, president of the Taunton Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The organizations are co-sponsors of the ball. Presentees will then be introduced to Bishop Cronin by Robert McGuirk, North Dighton, of the Taunton Vincentian Council. <Dancing will follow until 10 p.m., when a grand march will be participated in by all. - Mrs. A.lbert Petit will sing the national anthem and Bishop Cronin will be introduced by Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan ball director. D'ancing will follow until 1 a.m., with the Lanin orchestra heard in the grand ballroom and the Perry orchestra in the ballroom lounge.

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A reception will follow from 2 to 4 p.m. in the parish school auditorium. BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN celebrates the first Mass in the new church of St. John the Baptist, Central Village. From left, Father Armando Annunziato; F'ather Edward J. Sharpe, pastor; the bishop; Msgr. John J. Oliveira (behind bishop); Father Horace J. Tra· vassos; Father Cornelius J. O'Neill. (Rosa Photo)

Dutch bishO}ls in Rome they were denied public office Continued from Page One and membership in guilds (proop Adrian Simonis of Rotterdam in 1970 and Bishop John Gijsen fessional and trade associations) until 1796. of Roermond in 1972. With a shortage of priests, Now the Dutch are adding anthe lack of resident bishops and other post-conciliar "first" the first "particular synod" (a the eXclusion of Catholics from national synod headed by the politics and many areas of trade pope) since Pope Paul VI set up and industry, Cetholicism denorms for these and other bish- cline Significantly. In the early 19th century the reestablishment ops' synods in 1965. The synod will begin Jan. 14 of political rights brought a reat the Vatican and probably last storation of Catholicism as a about two weeks, although no political force and new growth official closing date has been set. within the church. This was capped in 1853 by According to the official agenda paper for the synod, put the restoration of the Dutch hierout by the Vatican's synod sec- archy, ending M:>re than 250 retariat following, lengthy con- years of institutional weakness sultations with the Dutch bish- and disorganization that had ops, the chief goal is reestablish- hampered church life. But Dutch Catholics remained ing "communion" in a badly a culturally isolated, religiously polarized church. The polarization is the perhaps conservative force. Historians date the beginning inevitable by-products of the rapid change -in the Dutch of the revival of Dutch Cathchurch - a change that is not olicism from World War I. There limited to the effects of the was a gradual integregation of council but rather the result of Catholics into the mainstream broad sociological changes as of Dutch political and intellectual life. CathoHc monasteries, well. The Netherlands was Christ- hospitals and schools increased. ianized thoroughly by the ninth The Catholic University of Nicentury. But as a result of the jmegen was found.ed in 1923. World War II brought the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church in the Nether- Dutch Resistance to the German The Resistance lands reverted to'missionary sta- occupation. tus from the end of the 16th crossed all denominational lines century to the middle of the 19th and created a new atmosphere century. that softened the once stringent Though Catholics were not division of political parties along forced to become Protestants, confessional lines. their churches were taken and At Vatican H, Cardinal Ber-

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(necrology] Junuary 24 Rev. Thomas F. McMorrow, t977, Assistant, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville Jllnuary 27 Rev. John T. O'Grady, 1919, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, Fall River Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, 1955, Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River Jlmuary 28 Rev. Joseph M. Griffin, 1947, Pastor, St. Mary, Nantucket Rt. Rev..John J. Shay, 1961, Pastor, St. :rohn the Evangelist, Attleboro J~muary 29 Rev. Christiano J. Borges, 1944, Pastor, St. John Baptist, New Bedford Rev. Albert J. Masse, 1950, Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro Jilnuary 31 Rev. Charles J. Burns, 1901, Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro Rev. William F. Sullivan, 1930, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset Rev. Manuel C. Terra, 1930, Pastor, St. Peter, Provincetown

Father Robert was born in 1905 in Manchester, N.H., the son of Arthur and Delia Boucher. In 1913 the family moved to the province of Alberta as homesteaders, where the jubilarian attended Catholic schools and a Jesuit college in Edmonton. He was' ordained a Dominican in OttawC!- on May 1, 1933. Father Robert's first brief pastoral assignment was to St. Anne's parish. Returning to Canada he served in Ottawa and Montreal,' then was assigned to Lewiston, Me. Following an assignment in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was a co-founder of the House of St. Dominic in Port Credit, Ontario. In 1969 he returned to St. Anne's for his present assignment. Beloved for his devotion to the sick and his service to St. Anne's Shrine, the jubilarian is chaplain to the Ladies ofSt. Anne, the Children of Mary and the Holy Name Society. He is past chaplain for the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

FATHER ROBERT

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Dear Editor: The current and appropriate concern about the lives of American people threatened in a foreign land contrasts wi::h the anomaly of lack of conce:~n for the lives of millions of Americans destroyed by abortion. The seventh anniversary date of the judicial decision depriving this element of the sovereign people of their rightfu.l protection of the Constitution and Government of the United States approaches. No satisfactory reason. has been advanced for this offensive decision. The Supreme Court's rationale and relationships are revealed in the following quotation from its decision: "The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a person within the language and meaning of the 14th Amendment. In support of this they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the amendment." Superficially, the task of establishment seems difficult, but it is achieved by the very first sentence of the 14th Amendment: "All persons born - ." Born persons infers that they were unborn persons before birth. "Fetus" is indeed a term for the unborn person. All three terms, "born person," "unborn person" and "fetus" refer to the identical human entity involved. The establishment of this entity is the ultimate proof of the relationships involved. Since the Court's decision was conditional, based upon the establishment of the personhood of the fetus, and since the amendment establishes the ident.ty, in the words of the Court, "the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the Amendment." It is unfortunate that the term "person," mere denomination, should have assumed. such importance in the attempted resolution of the matter. Significant identity of the human being is not achieved by name but rather by intrinsic being. The oneness of humanity, its specificity, is achieved by the distinctive intrinsic character of its chromosomes, its genes ,at all stages of life. Moreover, the Court's endeavor to establish that the, fetus was not a human being challenged established tenets of science: (1) all life, and therefore human life; is a continurn; (2) life is not spontaneously ,generated; (3) the zygote is the new individual of its species.

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The Court invoked a "new science" of its own, diametrically opposite. Its tenets are: (1) human life is not continum; there is a hiatus of nine months between the human life of the parents and that of their new-born offspring; (2) human life is generated at each human birth; (3) the human zygote is not the new individual of its species. Universal science welcomes challenge. It requires proof. Something more than the indequate "ipse dixit" of the Court is required for the reasonable acceptance of the "new science" tenets. Charles B. Sullivan Assonet

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TOURS CLOSING THE INTERNATIONAL Year of the Child, parish children attended a special Mass on the feast of the Holy Family at which they dramatized the birth of Christ during the Liturgy of the Word and accompanied the Our Father with appropriate gestures. (Sr. Gertrude Gaudette Photo)

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Holy Name Society members will meet at 9:30 a.m. Sunday in the parish center. Parents of confirmation candidates will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday in the center. The Women's Guild will hold Moderator's Night at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, honoring 'Father Daniel L. Freitas, who will also be guest speaker and show slides of the Azores. A fellowship evening for those who have completed Life in the Spirit seminars will take place tonight, beginning at 7 p.m. with Mass. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER

Registrations for the parochial school for September, 1980 will take place at the school Sunday, Feb. 3, following 10:30 a.m. Mass until 2 p.m. Installation and blessing of parish intercessors will take place at 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER, FALL RIVER DIOCESE

An Encounter information night will be held at 8 p.m.

Sunday in St. Mary's church basement, Fairhaveh. A film will be shown and refreshments will be served. All are welcome. ECHO PROGRAM, FALL RIVER DIOCESE

Those who have made ECHO retreats will hold a reunion and palanca party at 7 p.m. Sunday at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro. Participants are asked to bring musical instruments and refreshments. The next ECHO weekend is set for Jan. 18 through 20 at Peacedale, R.I. COUNCIL 86, KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Fall River Council 86 will hold a dinner dance Saturday, Jan. 19. A social meeting is set for Monday, Jan. 28. ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER

Couples are asked to come with their children to Mass on Sunday, Jan. 20, designated as Cana Sunday, when marriage vows will be renewed. A teen dance will be held Saturday night in the parish auditorium.

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Office of Family Ministry In Septembel:, 1979, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin established a diocesan Offiee of Family, Ministry, appointing Father Ronald A. Tosti, pastor 0:1 St. Francis of Assisi parish, New Bedford, as its director. We asked Father Tosti to share his personal reflections on family ministry as it applies to the diocese of Fall River. He writes as follows: When Bishop Cronin asked me to direct the new Office of Family Ministry, I :nust admit that my own vision was rather narrow. It seemed to me that family ministry was pretty much confined to marriage preparation programs. However, Bishop Cronin's vision was far broader and I soon realized that in addition to coordinating present activities, the new program faced many challenges. Coordination of present activities is paramount, however. There consist :>f all marriage programs throughout the diocese, both for English and Portuguese speaking couples, the Engaged Encounter program and ministry to separated and divorced Catholics, all of which have been ably coordinated in the past by Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, director of what had been the Family Life Bureau. For me, the last couple of months have been a time of learning and evaluating, listening and beginnir g to plan for the future. Not only is 1980, the Year of the Family, upon us, but one can look forward to the days when the Office of Family Ministry can and will become a total service to the diocesan family. With the directors of marriage preparation sessions throughout the diocese, we have developed a new combined program for four of the five diocesan deaneries. Presently the Fall River area has a marriage preparation program coordina'~ed by Father Maurice Jeffrey using "Mosaic," a Canadian resource. Couples prepare themsel.ves with other couples and wi'~h resource persons on a several level program. The Portuguese program for Fall River is directed by Father Edmond Rego. Here too, especially tailored programs for young immigrant couples are well under way. In the New Bedford area, Father Marc Bergeron has developed a unique program in which engaged couples meet in the homes of married couples,

.thus gaining on the spot insights into weddE!d life. Father Jose dos Santos coordinates the companion Portuguese program for New Bedford. In the Taunton area, Father Arnold Medeiros and in the Attleboro area Father Robert Donovan coordinate more traditional programs with married couples, medical personnel and priests instructing and sharing with engaged couples. All these options have been coordinated and scheduled and a pamphlet listing all programs will be available in rectories for couples making wedding plans. On Cape Cod, distances and the fact that many summer marriages take place between offCape visitors, preclude centralized scheduling of preparation programs, Cape priests have therefore requested further resources enabling them better to serve young couples on an individual basi.s. In addit:on to those described above, there is a special program presently coordinated by Mr. and Mrs. William Martin of Sandwich. Entitled the Engaged Encounter Program, this more intensive course involves couples spending a weekend with other couples in a faith atmosphere. In a relaxed setting they explore their inner depths, thereby hopefully discovering their pluses and minuses and making a more cogent decision in regard to their future married life. Eight such programs have been scheduled for 1980 at Sacred Hearts Seminary in Wareham. The present diocesan ministry to the separated or divorced Catholic has already had a substantial beginning. Father George Bellenoit in Attleboro, Father John Cronin in Fall River and Father Edward Holleran, OFM, in New Bedford - all are leaders of support groups reaching out to those who, for whatever reason, find bemselves in less than ideal marital situations. Together, supporting one another, they are able to explore the various possibilities within the framework of the Church and at the same time give each other much needed support and Chritian development. Although the Office of Family Ministry is presently located in the rectory of St. Francis of Assisi parish in New Bedford, we look forward to the day when a -centrally located office will facilitate the further development of diocesan programs.

Meanwhile, however, the new office has become a member of the New England Directors of Family Life Ministers and is affiliated with the National Conference of Catholic Bishops United States Catholic Conference, through its Family Ministry Office in the Division of Education. Such liaisons on the regional and national levels have already borne much fruit, with materials from these offices enabling our own office to minister more effectively. There is no question that family ministry is best carried out at the parochial level. However, as has been proven in the past with other agencies, a central office with competent personnel can be of service to all involved. As one looks to the Year of the Family, one can begin to explore many areas, beginning first of all with inter-departmental liaisons within the diocese itself. There will be coordination between the Office of Family Ministry and the Education Department. One can readily see an overlapping of ministries as family programs for sacramental preparation are presented, as well as for education at the secondary school level in pre-marriage courses. An equally obvious liaison is with the Office of Social Services, since this department works both in the area of remedial family problems and in prolife programs. Many other areas that lend themselves to cooperation with Family Ministry: the Marriage Encounter program, the Cursillo movement, the Spanish Apostolates, the Natural Family Planning program at St. Anne's Hospital, the work of the Marriage Tribunal - to mention only a few. Another area of development will be cooperation with the' Office for the Permanent Diaconate. It seems clear that men ordained to the diaconate, giving official service to the church as well as being, in many instances, married men, can be of great service to the area of family ministry. The Bishops of the United States have issued a Pastoral Plan that foresees the next decade as that of the Family. Their own plan, broad in scope and challenging, to say the least, will be the framework within which our own diocesan ofice will conTurn to Page Ten

... The charismatic renewal

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Jan. 10, 1980

By Father Pierre Lachance, O.P. . of the church in Christian life.

Conclusion ur a two-part series. In order to understand charismatic renewal, we must go back to the opening of the second Vatican Council. In his initial address, Pope John XXIII prayed these words: "Let us have a new pentecost." From that moment on, the Holy Spirit began to reveal himself more powerfully t:lan ever before in the lives of Christians all over the world. Because of this manifestation of God's Holy Spirit, we must look at the charismatic renewal as not what people are doing, but what the Holy Spirit is doing. It is truly the work of the Lord. Implicit in this work is the drawing of men and women into personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In scripture Jesus spoke these words: "When I am lifted up I will draw all, men to myself . . . " He was referring to the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit always glorifies and points to Jesus. In this drawing, men and women are called to a conversion experience, by which they yield their lives to Jesus as Lord. The presence and power of Jesus are manifested to them through the Holy Spirit. They become permeated with the peace and love of God. who is so viable a force within their lives. This experience is called th baptism in the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:5). Through this experience, Christians allow Jesus to become Lord of their lives. It is Jesus who takes comrol and has dominion over their families, jobs, finances and relationships. It is a new beginning a spiritual rebirth. Jesus becomes the center of their lives and gradually his transforming power begins to EFFECT change. The primary consideration in the charismatic renewa.l is the Holy Spirit and his work. For many years, emphasis has been placed on the death of Jesus on the cross and the role

Peter speaks to the assembly The action of the Holy Spirit has from all nations and 3,000 people are converted. The been neglected. It is his return to the center church is born, not in fear and of Catholic life that will renew trembling. No, it is born and the Church in the manner for carries out its salvific message which Pope John XXIII prayed: by the power of the Holy Spirit. "Let there be a new pentecost." It is the Holy Spirit who brings Too, often, we fail to recog- peace and unity. It is the Spirit nize that Jesus came not only who brings faith, hope and love. to die and found a church, but It is the Holy Spirit who is also to bring the Holy Spirit to responsible for equipptng each men. Christian with the power and the In all four gospels, we read of gifts necessary to live a victorSt. John the Baptist preparing ious Christian witness to the the way for Jesus and the com- world. Without the Holy Spirit, there ing of the spirit. "I baptize you in water for repentance, but the would be no church and we one who follows me is more would have to share in the work powerful than I and 1 am of Jesus through his gifts. not fit to carry his sandals: He "There are a variety of gifts,but will baptize you with the Holy always the same spirit: There Spirit and fire" (Matt. 3:11, are all sorts of work to be done, , but always the same Lord: workMk. 1:8, John 1:33, Lk. 3:16). Jesus promised the disciples ing in different ways on behalf he would send the Spirit to of people: it is the same God stand by them and to bring who is working in all of them. them into all truth (John 14:16 The particular way in which the and 26). At the Last Supper, He Spirit is given to each person is told· them not to leave Jerusa- for a good purpose" (1 Cor. 12:4 lem, but to wait there for what -7). The work of the Holy Spirit the father had promised: "It is," he said, "what you have heard is the same today as it was in me speak about, John baptized the early church. The Holy with water but not many days Spirit makes us "sons of God" from now you will be baptized and gives us gifts to carry out with the Holy Spirit. You will the work of service in the receive power when the Holy church. The charismatic renewal is Spirit comes on you and then you will be my witnesses not based on opening ourselves to only in Jerusalem, but through- the power and the presence of out Judea and Samaria, and in-. the Spirit, it means allowing the deed to the ends of the earth" Holy Spirit to guide us and assume an ever-increasing central (Acts 1:4, 5, 8). role in our daily lives. The Work of the Spirit After Jesus ascended he sent For too long, Christians have the Holy Spirit to the disciples. tried to live out their lives on It was the mission of Jesus that their own power and abilities. the Holy Spirit carry out all the It is the desire of the Holy work that has to be done on Spirit that each Christian exearth until the last day. Through perience a personal daily relascripture, we see the disciples tionship with the Trinity. hiding in the upper room afraid The goal of charismatic renewfor their lives. The night before . al is to serve the church by enthe death of Jesus they were abling people to find and live a arguing about who was the renewed and power-filled Chrisgreatest. tian life. Every Christian is callSuddenly, the Holy Spirit ed to be charismatic - equipped comes and they are no longer with all the gifts he/she needs afraid and not concerned about to fulfill the mission of the wha is the greatest. They burst church. forth from the room to proIndeed, charismatic renewal claim the Good News publicly. is the normal Christian life!

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" Jeff becomes more animated. Because his dad gave no advice, made no judgments, a quiet and angry boy was able to share his feelings, to put them in words. Jeff will perceive his father as understanding. Feelings are important in communication. If parents are any good at listening, they will begin to hear the heart. Children should be allowed to express all their feelings, including the negative ones. Feelings like anger many not be pleasant, but it is far better to :::tave them in words than in behavior. Feelings arise

in us unbidden. The child may be responsible for his actions, but not for feelings which he cannot help. "What about respect?" a parent might ask. "No child of mine is going to give me any lip." What does such an attitude accomplish? Does the anger go away? Repressed anger is not respect. When you tell 16-year-old Chris to be in by 11 p.m., he may be angry. He may grumble. But, if he comes home by 11 p.m., he respects you and 'obeys you. Insist that your child do what he is told, but do not insist that he feel what he is told. Try these two techniques. Learn to be an active listener by echoing and rephrasing exactly what your child says. Try also to accept his feelings without judging them or defending yourself. Understanding is mostly listening and not judging. Understanding is a major element of love. Questions on family living and child care are invited. Address to The Kennys c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

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early to work with seeds indoors, time hangs heavy on my hands. Since I have always been a game player, I was happy to have the girls home during the Christmas break to engage in some competition at the game table. Jason is a backgammon player, so I spend considerable time getting beaten by his skill and luck. Melissa plays Spite and Malice, and with cards I hold my own. Meryl is a compulsive gin player with a fierce competitive streak, so many of my free moments are spent searching for a knock card or that one card which will turn a potential

disaster into gin. As our c~,ildren grow older there seems to be less and less dependence on television as a source of entertainment. An industry survey that I read recently shows a nationwide decline in television as a central source of entertainment. This growing trend may prove a blessing for most families. For me at least, television has always been t.oo passive an experience and I enjoy participating in almost anything in preference to s:itting endlessly ih front of the tube. In the 1980s I hope we see more participatory entertainment, a trend that has been growing especially among the young in recent years. Participatory sports, for instance, have made great strides in the past

three or four years. Running is in vogue, as well as racquet ball and other nonteam sports primarily designed to allow the average non-athlete to keep in some kind of shape. More and more people seem unwilling to sit passively in their living rooms, snacking and watching the tube for a major part of their lives. As parents, most of us have shown concern about the amount of time our children spend with television and now we have reached the point where we may be able t.o see a little light at the end of the tunnel. With interest inphysical well-being more and more evident, there is a good chance that television viewing will continue to wane and games of al lkinds once more become the vogue.

Office of F'amily Ministry Continued from Page Eight tinue to function and develop. There are many other areas that need further study and hopefully, will result in new programs for the greater awareness of the people through family ministry and/or dEvelopment of coordinated programs across the diocese. There seems no question that the neWly married, are a very challenging area of development. Statistics show that 90 percent of the marriages that break down do so in the first five years of marriage. It would seem that support groups with like-to-like ministry can forestall a great number of difficulties, if young married couples share their experiences and problems with each other. To that end, a beginning "pilot program" for newly married

couples will be started at St. Francis of Assisi parish. Though a humble beginning, this could prove a most effective tool for future ministry. Along with such innovative concepts, the church should be celebrating "family" in more obvious ways. The Feast of the Holy Family lends itself liturgically to at least the renewal of marriage vows within the framework of the weekend liturgies. Enrichment programs such as family retreats and family nights, both on an area and on a parochial lev.el, can be of help along these lines. We need to work towards enrichment of the personnel involved in ministering to families, seeing to it that clergy and laity alike are given the tools to help families grow in Christ.

We need to reach out more effectively in support of hurting families, to recognize the concepts involved in extended families where so many people are separated from what we have always considered the traditional family. We need to minister to the single adult as well as to the elderly who so often find themselves forgotten for whatever reasons. It is my personal hope that as time allows and resources permit, all of these challenges can be met so that under the direction of our bishop and in cooperation with all levels of leadership within the diocese of Fall River, we can truly lead the family through the decade of the eighties to a deeper union within themselves and with the church as God's family on earth.

..... dialog' which he calls 'the elixir of life.'''

ues;tion corner By Father John DIetzllD Q. There are many things about the Catholic religion. these days that are not clear to me. I was taught that the priest's hands and his right thum.b and forefinger were especially, blessed for handling the Body of Christ and dispensing Communion. If this is so, how can nuns and lay people be allowed to give Communion? I am still not sure about receiving the Body of Christ in my hands. It seems to me it should be placed on one's tongu1e. Can you clear this up? I don't nec· essarily dislike it. I just don't understand.. (Canada) A. Contrary to what many Catholics report they were taught, it was never true that the priest's thumb and finger were anointed in order that he might "handle the Body of Christ." The symbolism of placing oil on a person, whether at baptism, confirmation, or ordination, is not intended as a particular sanctification of that part of thE: body. It signifies that the entire person is consecrated as a member of the family of Christ. Jesus himself is said to be anointed by the father; in fact, that is the meaning of the word "Christ" - one who has been christened or anointed to a role and mission of particular dignity. Certainly a focal part of that mission for the ordained priest is to preside at the eucharistic liturgy. The anohlting, however, is not directly related to giving Communion any more tha.n it is to the forgiveness of sins, or any other priestly function. You are never forced to receive Communion in your hand if you do not wish to do so. There's always the option to receive either way. Frankly, it seems to me that the hand is no less holy than the tongue. The incredible fact is that Jesus gives up his body and blood as our spiritual food and drink in the first place. To make a big deal out of which part of our body first touches the host appears to me to be missing the point. Q. Many Catholics in our area just have a funeral servil:e at a funeral home but do have a priest present. Is there a reason for lthiS? Is there a trend against bringing the deceased person lto the church for a funeral' Mass? (Del.) A. There is no such trend to my knowledge. The celebration of the Eucharist in church, with the body of the dead person present, is still the ideal and normal ceremony before burial. It is a profoundly significant act of prayer for the one who has died, and of faith and hope by those left behind. The official rite of burial does provide for a funeral service outside of Mass. I have officiated at such ceremonies on occasions when th\'l desires of the family or other special circumstances seemed to make them appropri-

This dialog, Father Sullivan said, '!may be verbal or nonverbal; a comforting hand laid on the arm of a dying man, a warm handshake - these are examples of non-verbal dialog."

ate. This is surely the explanation for those occasions you have encountered. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

From his own experience of serving in a country parish, Father Sullivan wrote that he learned that when the aged are uprooted and placed in a (nursing) home, it may seem to them the end of it all.

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Churches weak in Castro's Cuba HAVANA, Cuba (NC) Christmas and the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6 are just workdays in the Cuban calendar, decreed as such in the MarxistLeninist society since the takeover of Premier Fidel Castro in the early 1000s. Catholic and Protestant sources in Cuba say both their communities are diminishing in size, mostly because the government controls schools and youth organizations and makes sure there is little time left for religious instruction and practice. Children receive toys during July, the Month of the Child, which commemorates the start of the revolution in 1953. Families with young children must register for raffles of the few toys produced in Cuba. Two years ago the Communist Party's Central Committee approved the exchange of gifts among workers, a move observers said was aimed at stopping deterioration of morale. Each worker is entitled to give and receive one gift. The government also lifted rationing of some consumer goods, particularly clothing. But appliances like refrigerators, television sets and washers, mostly made in the Soviet Union, are beyond the reach of the Cuban worker, whose average earnings are less than $2,000 a year.

"The first task," he said, "is to find the lonely wherever they are; in homes for the sick and/ or aged; living by themselves or with a relative." Father Sullivan suggested that lonely people who are Catholic may want to join the Catholic Union of the Sick in America (CUSA), 176 W. 8th St., Bayonne, N.J. This union describes itself as "a living, friendly, active group of genuinely loving, concerned individuals who care enough to keep in touch with each other at least once a montl}.

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Imitate me By Father John J. Castelot

Ministering By Daniel J. Dolesh

"I really try with my kids, but it seems to do no good. They won't listen to me. It's like talking to a wall." "I can't seem to talk to my husband. He doesn't listen to me." Do the refrains sound familiar? How many times have we heard them or similar ones? Or have we expressed something similar ourselves? I know a family where the parents dop't speak that way. For a long time I admired the openness, communication and sense of common value which this family seemed to share. One day, I mentioned to Alphonso, the father, that I was very impressed by his family, and I wondered why his family seemed !o have it all together while so many路 other families did not. Alphonso laughed and with his heavy Argentinian accent told me an interesting story. "We have our disagreements, yes. Sometimes we really have battles. But there is one thing that we do as a family which I think has made all the difference in our lives. "When we were first married my wife and I would read a passage from the New Testament before we went to bed. Then we would discuss it. We found tbat any problems we might have encountered during the day with other people or any disagreement we might have had lost its edge. This, we felt, was a fitting end for the day and prepared us to greet the next day. We consciously opened our door and invited God to join us. What strength this gave our marriage. "When our sons came along and were old enough, we included them. Every night after our sons go to bed, my wife and I sit down for several minutes and after we have read from the New Testament, we discuss it. Then we go to the boys' room and either sit or lie on the bed and read them this passage. We click off the light and for maybe 10 minutes we talk about what we have read and what it means in our lives. And it feels as if ail the problems and preoccupations just fall away. Sometimes, we're tired or busy, and sometimes one or even both of the ,poys will fall asleep, but we alw~ys try to do it. And you know," he said, "we really talk to On&ilnOther. Th~ story has always deeply impressed me, because here, I felt, was a family that was doing much more than just providing for their children. What they w.ere doing was so much more lmportant than giving them money or clothes or a car. The parents: were really passing on, not just a theological theory, but rather their faith and belief. This was tradition in the true sense of the word - the handing on of the magnificent gift they had received. Turn to Page Thirteen

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Teaching children about marriage By Eugene S. Geissler In Psalm 139 there are these words: "You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb." These words attest that God is at work in the womb from the beginning. But they attest too that parents as partners with God are also at work from the beginning of life. It is too simple to say that the parents' contribution is merely the ovum and sperm, along with a food-and-shelter environment. This is very important because without it there is no child; but the suspicion today is that the '''psychic child" is also being put together in the womb by the mother's attitudes, thoughts and emotions. All these things are considerably conditioned by her relationship with her husband. Is it a small matter that at the inmost core of a child's being there is reflected the parents' love for one another? So early in life parents begin to "teach" their children about marriage. Our society in the past tended to turn over to mothers and other women the child in its infancy. There is no compelling reason to question this wisdom of the ages. There is much that is obviously right and commonsense about it. Whose arms, bosom and body are better and more naturally fitted to this work than the mother's, and after her the other women's in the house?

Yet the suspicion is also that after the mother, this little one needs the father more than anyone else. For its security, its psychic development, indeed, for its sexual health and wholeness, the little one needs to- hear the father's voice, know the grasp of the father's strong hands, feel the father's love - and not just now and then, but rather x:onsistently - as from someone who is close and present to the

mother, that other staff of its life. So on that second layer of life, close to the inmost core, is another impression of marriage. The parents' second teaching about marriage is almost as subtle as the first. Part of the parents' teaching about marriage at this stage is that the child can run to either of them and be lifted up, be Turn to Page Thirteen

Family portrait By Kay Barnes "We never planned on teaching the children the meaning of marriage," said Deacon Steve Landregan. "But we did try to teach them the meaning of be: ing Christian." "Mom and Dad will go the last mile for anyone," asserts their 25-year-old daughter Debbie, who is Dallas editor of The Texas Catholic and a potter. "They like to do things for other people." Steve Landregan is executive editor of The Texas Catholic, associate director for the Commission for Permanent Diaconate and Pastoral Lay Ministries of the Diocese of Dallas, and director of the Dallas diocesan Bureau of Information. His wife Ginger is taking courses toward a degree in social work and is a volunteer at a Dallas hospital.

"One Christmas we had 18 people in our house," Steve recalls. "There was a Mexican couple with their four children, , a Canadian missionary who interpreted for us, a medical student from Mexico, our family, and the 13-year-old daughter of a neighbor who brought her over so she could have the experience." The children - from Stephanie, 27, a certified brake mechanic, a graphic artist for the state of New Mexico and a civil engineering student, to Michael, 20, an architectural design student, are finding their places in the world. Katy, 22, will be a nurse in two years and wants to get a masters' degree in midwifery "to give the poor an affordable alternative to abortion." Genny teaches art, writes reTurn to Page Thirteen

If anything, St. Paul was a realist with an amazing insight into human nature. A detached idealist might have been content to urge his converts to imitate Christ, then explain what that involved. But Paul knew that it is difficult to imitate someone unseen, unheard, unfelt. He had lived through that difficulty himself, never having actually seen or heard Jesus. Still, it was vitally important that his converts imitate the human Jesus. They were human men and women, called to live a new life in a human world. Jesus, precisely in his humanity, had given the example. ' On the basis of what Paul had learned about Jesus, he could have preached eloquently. This would have had value, of course. But words are cheap and people tire of them. They have been asked to dream too many exciting dreams, only to wake up to the same old mess. (If this has always been true, it is certainly true in our day. People are so surfeited with words they hardly hear them, much less pay attention to them.) No, it was not enough for Paul to talk to people about Jesus. And so he took upon himself the task of living this new life, not only out of deep conviction, but in order to present a model for all to see and imitate. That is why we hear him saying: "Imitate me as I imitate Christ" (1 Corinthians 11,1) "I beg you, then, be imitators of me" (1 Corinthians 4,16; see Galatians 4, 12). Significantly, we read this type of exhortation only in letters to communities personally acquainted with him; Turn to Page Thirteen

For children By Janaan Manternach Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, was in prison. Herod, the ruler of Galilee, had put him there because of something John said. Herod was living with Herodias, who was not his wife; John told Herod, "It is not right for you to live with her." Herod was furious. He wanted to silence John. He dared not kill him because he was too popular. So Herod put John in prison, hoping people would forget about him. While in jail, John kept hear'ing stories about Jesus, how he was going from village to village telling people how much God loved them. "People all over Galilee are excited about the good news Jesus is preaching," his friends told John. "They think he is the Messiah, the one God promised to send us." John liked what Jesus was' teaching. But John had heard many beautiful words in his lifetime. He had himself gone around Galilee teaching some of the same things Jesus was Turn to Page Thirteen

.. A V erd~lde E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

Homem, Se~ Em Construs~o

Todo 0 homem que vern a este mun. .., do, ' e pro]ecto em construsao, e'" urn ser em desenvolvimento, esti chamado a realizar a sua vida at' a plenitude, tendo em conta a gama imensa de possibilidades que hi neste mundo constantemente renovado. o homem baptizado, 0 cristio, que foi incorporado a Cristo, , chamado igualmente porJesus i salvagio, seguindo a voz da sua consciencia, de acordo com as normas de comportamento promulgadas no Evangelho. Ser cristao ~ exigencia. a cristianismo mostra-nos, neste ciclo do Natal, urn Deus incarnado, razio das coisas, da vida e do homem, e simultaneamente urn homem, exemplar para os homens. Jesus Cristo Deus •• . . e h omem ver d a d e1ro, pr1nc1p10 e recapitula9ao de toda a perfei~ao humana, esperan9a dos homens em seu afa de aperfei~~amento e meta das suas vidas. a baptismo de Cristo sinal de purifica~ao e sobretudo de for9a e poder de Jesu~.E epifania da humildade de Jesus e epifania da Sua gloria de Filho muito amado do Pai, a lembrar a nossa epifania baptismal, alian9a e compromisso com 0 Senhor na comunidade humana e crente. Em qualquer tempo e nasao, aceite aJesus todo aquele que a teme e pratica a justiJa. Aprouve, no entanto, a Deus santificar e salvar os homens, nao individualmente, excluindo toda a relasao entre eles, mas antes constituf-los em povo, que 0 conhecesse na verdade e 0 servisse na santidade ... Pelo baptismo, somos incorporados nos misterios da vida de Cristo, com Ele configurados, mortos e ressuscitados, at; chegarmos a reinar com Ele. Em Jesus, Deus uniu-Se a nos para sempre, Deus connosco, sempre ao nosso lado" a dialogar connosco, em servigo, em entrega, em amor ... Convem cumprir toda a justi~a. Comprometeu-Se connosco, nao renunciou ao sacrif{cio, pela nossa libertagao. a homem dominado pela ansia de viver. Todos n6s queremos viver, e viver sempre ... Temos consci~ncia do grande tesouro que a vida. Guiado por essa ~nsia de viver, 0 homem estuda, inventa, investiga, monta laborat6rios e , farm~cias; busca rem~dios, remove ceus e terra para prolongar a vida, para nao morrer, para viver sempre mais. Mas ter~ de morrer, enbora a sua ansia, 0 seu instinto, a sua sede biolbgica seja a de viver eternamente. Todavia, Jesus falou a Samaritana da agua viva, do dom de Deus, da VIDA. Cristo disse tambem: Eu sou a verdade e a vida. Eu sou a ressurrei9ao e a vida. Interessa-nos, pois, receber, conservar e desenvolver em nos o grande Dom de Deus vivo que 0 proprio Jesus Cristo. Cristao aquele que tern por Mestre e Modelo 0 Senhor; que a Ele foi incorporado pelo Baptismo.

Family portrait Continued from Page Twelve ligious songs and, with her husband, director of religious education in a parish near Baton Rouge, La., has remodeled a high school chapel. She is the mother of a two-year-old boy. Not one of the unmarried children seems eager to marry. Katy feels she's not mature enough. Debbie, who helped start a Catholic Singles Club in Dallas, would like to marry and have children, but has adjusted to living alone - "so if it doesn't happen ,it's O.K." She recalls the pressure to marry that she and others experienced as college seniors and "confronting the fact that I had to learn to take care of myself first," The Landregan children describe their parents' relationship as mutually supportive and com-

For children Continued from Page Twelve teaching. He would need some sign to confirm that Jesus was sent by God. "What is Jesus like?" John then asked his followers. "How does he live?" They told him stories of how kind Jesus was to everyone. They said he went out of his way to help people no one else cared about. John was more impressed with the stories of Jesus' life than with the reports of what Jesus was teaching. But he still wondered: "Could Jesus, my cousin, really be the one God promised to send?" John wanted to be sure. So one day he sent two of his followers to Jesus, to ask him directly if he were the one God had promised to send. The two men found Jesus. They said to him, "John the Baptizer sends us to you with a question. Are you the one we have been waiting for? Or should we look for someone else?" "Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard," Jesus said with a smile. "The blind recover their sight. Cripples walk. Lepers are cured. The deaf hear. Dead men are raised to life. The poor have the good news preached to them," Jesus stopped to let his words sink in. The two knew it was true. Then Jesus added, "Happy is the person who does not find me a stumbling block," Jesus wanted John to know he understood John's hesitation and doubts. John's two friends hurried back to the prison. They reported Jesus' words as exactly as they could. John did not say a word. He just sat silently. Jesus' words reminded him of words of the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah spoke of the blind seeing, the deaf hearing, the poor hearing God's word. John was sure Jesus had Isaiah's words in mind, too. John was now convinced that Jesus was the Messiah. The way Jesus lived convinced John. Jesus' kindness and care, his compassion for all who were in need, his willingness to forgive, to help people become whole and at peace - all this showed John that Jesus was sent by God.

mitted. "Dad has always helped with the housework, and when we were all at home he made Saturday morning breakfast for everyone," Debbie said. Debbie sees her parents' marriage evolving and getting better all the time. "They are happy with a simple lifestyle and they have a good time together," she added. "Divorce was never an option for them; I guess that's why it wouldn't be for any of us,"

Marriage Continued from Page Twelve caressed, be soothed, be reassured. He can see them in bed together and jump in with them - a not uncommon occurrence in happily married lives. The children's delight at being welcome to join parents in bed is a happy family memory - something that usually happens on weekends when the parents want to sleep a little later and the children, of course, don't. True, the awakening can sometimes be something of a shock, but it is a small price to pay for the joy-filled moments. And the parents have taught a third time about marriage-still on the subtle side, and without so many words. Words are going to be necessary later on. Word and example are the best combination. If, however, children who have had good examples of marriage seem nevertheless, in a messed-up world, to stray away from home teaching, it is well to recall that what lies at the inmost core and within the first layers at the center will be hard to put down. It will assert itself someday.

Imitate me Continued from Page Twelve only they could actually see and imitate. Paul expected his Converts to be for others what he had been for them: models of authentic Christian humanity. And, in fact, this was how Christianity spread. To the Thessalonians Paul writes warmly: "While we were among you we were as gentle as any nursing mother fondling her little ones ... You likewise know how we exhorted every one of you, as a father does his children - how we encouraged and pleaded with you to make your lives worthy of the God who calls you to his kingship and glory." The references to mother and father suggest the tremendous importance of example and imitation in the family. Paul exhorted, encouraged, pleaded, but first he gave example.

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through their periods when nothing seemed right to them, when the claims of an unseen world seemed like nothing more than pious: fiction. As with everything else we must pray for durability. Faith can never be an altogether solitary experience and that is why God sends us people to whom we can communicate our feel路 ings. Let's admit that there are _some who do not. induce faith in the young. We should be more concerned with the negative things that happen to our children in the church that cause them to leave by the back door, some to return, others to be lost forever. For the lost, it is a wilderness journey. 1 came across one such youth. He told me that one day he had really hit rock-bottom. He knelt in the campus chapel and began to cry. "I looked up," he said, "and there was Jesus on the cross and it was as if he were saying to me, 'tl;.e search stops here, with me; '~he vision rests here, on me,' And then I knew; I understood. I found my peace in the sight of a Man who was there for me,"

I receive many letters from people telling me that although they were brought up in the church, they are still searching for God. Theirs seems to be a A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents . "morning glory" kind of faith, which started well but someThe American Game The China Syndrome The Prisoner of Zenda how failed to finish. It is one Avalanche Express The Europeans Scavenger Hunt thing to get off the mark, someBeyond the Poseidon C.H.O.M.P.S. Sunburn thing else to b,reak the tape. Adventure Superman The Fish That Saved The Black Hole Pittsburgh Take Down The durability of faith has Breaking Away Just You and Me, Kid Tree of Wooden Clogs been a concern of the church Buck Rogers The In-Laws Uncle Joe Shannon from earliest tines. All who set The Champ A Little Romance The Wiz out to live in obedience to Christ do not sustain that intention. Those who do not set out someA-3 Approved for Adults Only times find themselves living the faith that others have given up. Agatha The Great Train Robbery A Perfect Couple "Give the kids a good start in Alien Harper Valley PTA Picnic at Hanging Rock their faith and :.t will stay with The Amityville Horror Head over Heels The Promise them," is one school of thought. Brass Target Hot Stuff Prophecy Being There The Kids Are Alright Real Life .Several parents have told me Boardwalk The Last Wave Remember My Name they have done that but their The Late Great Planet Earth Rir.~ "ids Butch and S"nd~nce: children have left the church. The Early Days Lost and Found Rocky " Even the best 0:' starts does not The Main Event Roller Boogie California Suite Chapter Two A Man, A Woman and The Runner Stumbles guarantee fidelity. City on Fire a Bank Running But more of \;.5 are coming to Crimebusters Meatballs The Seduction of Joe Tynan Meteor Sextette see that Augustine was right:路 Dreamer The Electric Horseman Moonraker Skatetown, U.S.A. "Many are of God who are not of More American Graffiti Something Short Escape from Alcatraz the church, and many are of the Escape to Athena Murder by Decree of Paradise church who are not of God." Newsfront Starting Over Fast Break Nightwing Time After Time Fast Charlie As for me, I always like to ask Norma Rae The Villain Fedora youth why they' left. Who are Nosferatu, the Vampire Voices' The Fifth Musketeer we to condemn where Jesus did Old Boyfriends Walk Proud Force 10 from Navarone not? We must look to see where The Frisco Kid Olivers Story Wanda Nevada Going in Style On the Yard When A Stranger Calls we are wrong, in both home and Good Guys Wear Black Patrick Yanks church. The Great Hoax Hats off to art students Cathy A youth told me that people no longer speak to him because Chace, Barbara LeClerc, Nora he dropped out of a religious Pike, CheJ'Y1 Roza, Ann Marie B - Obiectionable in Part for Everyone group. "I know they think ~hey Stephanaitis, Laurie Wardwell are better than I am," he said, and Colleen White for their Americatho'n Final Chapter路 Walking Tall The Magician of Lublin award-win:1ing window decora"but I'll let God decide that." An Almost Perfect Affair Firepower Max Havelaar And Justice for All French Postcards Natural Enemies Show me the Christian whose tion at a local restaurant, which Avalanche Goldengirl Nest of Vipers pilgrimage is not one of fits and earned a $100 scholarship for The Bell Jar Hmloweell 1941 starts, of highs and lows. 1 have CoCo Circle of Iron Hanover Street Players listened to people when they Math Club officers are Mary The Class of Miss Hurricane Quintet MacMichael Ice Castles Saint Jack were confident and trustful in Pat Tran.ter, president and The Concorde Invasion of the Soldier of Orange their faith and also seen them Richard Burt, secretary. Airport '79 Body Snatchers Sunnyside The Deer Hunter The Jerk 10

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Too often we look at the cross and we don't see what we should see. Why do we need to search further than the cross for assurance that we are loved? 1 have found youth who think of God as someone concerned with all humanity. They have tried to escape the narrowness of their parents as their own minds began to enlarge and expand and they saw a God more wonderful than the one they'd been told about in childhood. There is a tension in the church today but even those who shy away from tension are say路 ing that sometimes this kind can be blessed, that it can generate new wisdom. God grant us all the power to understand and love those who differ from us.

Vocation Olympic planned in Japan ROME (NC) - In an attempt to build "spiritual athletes," Japan's Vocation Prayer Society will hold a Vocation Olympics from April 27 to May 31. The project includes six events - daily five-minute Scripture reading (dubbed the marathon); daily recitation of the prayer for vocations (soccer); daily recitation of a decade of the rosary (swimming); the Way of the Cross weekly (gymnastics); weekly visit to sick, the aged or lonely (bicycling); and fasting twice during the 35-day period (weight-lifting). Each participant chooses one or more categories "and then does the best he can." A similar Vocation Olympics in 1976 attracted some 10,000 participants.

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portswQtch Stang Girls Win Hoop Tourney Crown The Bishop Stang High School girls basketball team annexed the championship of the Christmas Basketball Tournament at Middleboro High School. Coach Bill Hart's SpaJ:tanettes posted an impressive 5H-35 victory over Martha's Vin,eyard in the tourney final. Shauneen Bourgeois took scoring honors with 12 points but received effective backing from Ellen Vera, who pumped in 11, Anna Hudner with 10, Melody Livramento with eight, and Denise Higgins with seven. Miss Vera was voted the tourney's most valuable player. In the boys' division, Stang's Spartans were less fortunate and dropped a 68-65 decision to host Middleboro High. Since our last column, play has gotten underway :in Divisions One and Two of the Southeastern . Mass. Conference. The Bishop Feehan High Shamrocks got off to an auspicious start in Division Two posting easy victories in their first two outings, 70-45 over Holy Family and 72-42 over Dennis-Yarmouth.

After losing its first conference contest, 79-71, to Greater New Bedford Voke-Tech Stang got by Holy Family 67-62. Feehan was tied for first place with Wareham, also 2-0. That deadlock was broken when they met Tuesday night at Feehan. Tomorrow night Stang will be host to Feehan as Holy Family visits Old Rochester, Wareham is at Voke-Tech and Seekonk at Dennis-Yarmouth. Next Tuesday it will be Holy Family at DennisYarmouth, Feehan at Voke-Tech, Old Rochester at Stang, Seekonk at Wareham. Coyle-Cassidy, the only diocesan school in Division Two, opened its conference season with a 66-55 decision over Dighton-Rehoboth. The Warriors will be home to Case tomorrow night and to Westport next Tuesday. Other Three games tomorrow are Bourne at Westport, Falmouth at Dighton- Rehoboth while on Tuesday Diman goes to Falmouth, Dighton-Rehoboth to Case. Case and Falmouth each won their first two starts. Falmouth was idle last Tuesday when Case visited Westport.

Connolly In Good Showing Bishop Connolly High's Cougars had a 4-2 record in Division One action entering this week. They held decisions over Attleboro, Fairhaven, Somerset and Taunton, losing to New Bedford and Durfee. They will entertain Barnstable tomorrow night and have a bye Tuesday when Division One completes its first-half schedule. Stang's Kenny Couto has averaged 16.2 points per game over the Spartans' first four games.

Warren Mello, of Holy Family, is averaging 15.8 over six games. The Hockomock Basketball League winds up the first half of its schedule next Tuesday with Canton at Stoughton, Franklin at Sharon, Oliver Ames at Mansfield, No. Attleboro at King Philip. Meanwhile, tomorrow night's games have Foxboro at Sharon, Stoughton at Oliver Ames, Franklin at King Philip, and Mansfield at No. Attleboro.

New Beclford Gains CYO Title Tie Its drive towards fhe championship of the Bristol County CYO Hockey LeagUE! slowed down by its 1-1 tie with defending champion Fall River South last Sunday night, New Bedford, nevertheless, is assured at least a share of the crown. The tie game with South snapped New Bedford's streak of consecutive victori<es at 13. The Whaletowners' only loss was to Rochester in a season opener on Sept. 3. Now with a 10-point lead over co-runnersup Somerset-Freetown and. Taunton, New Bedford only needs to win one or tie one of its five remaining games to gain sole possession of the league championship. There was no scoring in last Sunday's game until Jim Carey, assisted by Bill Taylor and Tom Riley, scored for South at 3:30 of the last period. Steve Ponte, on an assist from Scott Webber, saved the pacesetters from defeat when he scored 2lt 5:50.

Somerset-Freetown with its 6-1 romp over Fall River North and Taunton with an 8-2 rout of Rochester remained tied for the runnerup spot. That tie may be broken, however, when they meet at 9 o'clock Sunday night in the curtain-raiser of a league three-game card in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River. The other games are South vs. North at 10, New Bedford vs. Rochester at 11. New Bedford is now 13-1-1 (won, lost, tied), Somerset-Freetown and Taunton 8-6-1, Rochester 6-8-1, South 5-7-3, North 0-12-3.

God With Us "Our accesses to his presence are but his descents into us; and when we get anything by prayer, he gave us beforehand the thing John and the petition." Donne

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New Films "Being There" (United Artists): Peter Sellers is an illiterate gardener who knows nothing of life except what he has seen on TV. When the death of a mysterious patron forces him into the world, he, after some initial hard knocks, finds himself a national celebrity, an advisor of the wealthy and powerful, a man upon whose every word reporters hang. The acting is excellent especially Melvyn Douglas as a rich man who befriends Sellers - and the script is clever, but the intended satire is too vague to have much bite and the material becomes rather thin. The adult nature of one of the scenes makes this mature viewing fare. PG, A3 "Chapter Two" (Columbia): A successful writer (James Caan) marries an actress (Marsha Mason), but the memory of his dead wife threatens their happiness in this adaptation of a Neil Simon play. Miss Mason gives a fine performance, but the plot is not strong enough to make this anything more than a moderately entertaining movie. Adultery, though not condoned, figures in a subplot. PG, A3 "Going in Style" (Warners): Three oldsters (George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg), fed up with lack of excitement, decide to rob a bank. Only George Burns' fine performance makes this flat and uninspired movie worth watching. The rough language and the benign view of crime, moreover, make it mature viewing fare. PG, A3 "Scavenger Hunt" (Fox): An eccentric rich man leaves a will decreeing that which ever of his heirs scores the most points in a scavenger hunt will get everything. A dreary, laughless comedy. PG, A2 "Roller Boogie" (United Art· ists): Although some time is spent on a plot about criminals taking over a roller ring, this Irwin Yablans' production has little else on its mind than photographing nubile youngsters roller skating to disco music. Apparently aimed at teens, this blindingly boring exercise in coed velocity has nothing to recommend it. PG, A3 On TV "Make Me an Offer," ABC, Jan. 11, 9-11 p.m. is the story of a woman whose husband suddenly walks out on her. Susan Blakely plays a young wife who

has worked for three years to put her husband through law school. When he passes the bar exam, he takes off with car, bank book and another woman. Ms. Blakely gets a job with a Beverly Hills real estate operator (Patrick O'Neal in top form), and then opens her own agency. Along the way she suddenly realizes that success isn't everything. This is a sprightly comedy about a wronged woman getting her own back in a male chauvinist world. Parents should be aware, however, that sex outside marriage seems to be approved as long as it is a caring and not exploitative relationship. In other words, this is not family fare.

Big Bible demand in East Germany NEW YORK (NC) - The demand for Bibles in East Germany far exceeds the supply, says Rev. Keith Bricknell of the Australian Bible Society. Speaking to officials of the American Bible Society, Mr. Bricknell said he had visited Bible Society officials in East Germany. When he asked why he saw no Bibles, they told him, "We can't show you our stock because it is sold out before it is printed." "The demand for Scriptures is overwhelming," he said. "While there may be a shortage of Bibles, there is no shortage of Christians." Mr. Bricknell said there are similar shortages .of Bibles in other countries. Last year the United Bible Societies distributed more than 500 million copies of the Scriptures, more in one year than at any other time in its 164-year history.

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OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Parishioners are reminded that non-citizens must fill out an Alien Address Report Card and bring or mail it to any post office by Jan. 21. Members of the Holy Name Society will receive corporate communion at8 a.m. Mass Sunday. A meeting and election of officers will follow. SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Confirmation classes resume at 9 a.m. Saturday in the school cafeteria. Confirmation candidates remind elderly parishioners that they are ~vailable at no charge for services such as snow shoveling, running errands and Iighthousekeeping. Further information is available from the rectory. Senior citizens will meet at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the cafeteria.

ST. MARY'S, SEEKONK The tradition of the First Saturday began this month in the parish. Hereafter a 9 a.m. Mass each First Saturday of the month will honor Mary. Public recitation of the rosary will follow the Mass. Altar boys will be commissioned at 10 a.m. Mass this Sunday.

NO'TICE We have received inquiries about the procedure for photographing parish events for The Anchor. Unless a parish affair is quite unusual, we are not able to send a photographer to cover it; but we are aIways happy to receive your own photographs and will use them if at all possible. Snapshots are acceptable, especially sharp closeups. Please include' identifications. ST• .JAMES, NEW BEDFORD The Ladies' Guild will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the lower church hall. Square dancing will be demonstrated by the Romeos and Juliets.

AETNA INSURAl'JCE, FALL RIVER Members of the Error Correction Unit plan to visit residents of the Catholic Memorial Home in February and May,' following a successful holiday visit. During the visit 14 Aetna employees spent time with 41 Memorial Home residents who have no relatives to visit them. Each resident received gifts and refreshments and entertainment were provided by the Fall River Senior Citizens Chorale, as well as by the Aetna personnel. The event cont.:nued a tradition of seven ~ ears for the group, who have visited other institutions in the past. Parishes represented by participants were SS. Peter and Paul, Notre Dame, Espirito Santo, St. Anne, St. Stanislaus, St. John of God, St. Louis de France, S1:. George, St. Michael, Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Fatima, all in the Greater Fall River area, and Holy Ghost, Tiverton. BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, FAIRHAVEN The Adorers will hold their monthly holy hour from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15 at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven. Refreshments will fellow and the public is invited. Further information is available from Susan Fitzgerald, 993-6610.

SACRED HEART, NORTH ATTLEBORO Beginning this month the parish will issue a monthly newsletter, "The Informer," to cover parish council happenings in the areas of worship, education, finance and social activities. A message from the pastor will also be included. HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The parish Junior A basketball team, coached by Jeff Medeiros and Sonny Raposa, has won first place in the annual diocesan holiday tournament. Adult choir rehearsals will resume at 10 a.m. Sunday in the school. DOMINICM' THIRD ORDER, FALL RIVER Dominican Third Order members will me'et at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St., Fall River.

the Light of Faith," the new Catechetical Directory. "At the beginning of a new year and decade, find out where the church is headed in catechetical ministry," say the organizers. Snow date for the workshop will be Tuesday, Jan. 22 at the same time and place. . CURSILLO ULTREYA, CENTERVILLE Members will attend the Attleboro closing of a men's CursilIo Sunday, Feb. 3 as a group. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Junior CYO will meet Jan. 22 and hold a dance Jan. 26 in Father Coady Center. Sen'ior CYO will meet Jan. 29. Parishioners are urged to park in the school yard and use the Benton Street door when attending Mass following snowstorms.

CCD TEACHERS, NEW BEDFORD AREA A workshop on religious education for the 80s will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15 at Holy Name parish center, Mt. Pleasant St., New Bedford. All religious education teachers are invited to attend this program, based on "Sharing

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