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What the unchurched say

Gallup Poll results WASHINGTON (NC)·-· Some "unchurched" Americans would :consider joining the Catholic Church because it teaches that human life is sacred, that marriage is forever, and because of a sense of strong family ties among Catholics as well as moral and emotional support.

- 'Having Catholic relatives, friends or neighbors.

- The teaching that marriage is a Hfelong vocation.

- The belief Jesus Christ is both true God and true man and that Jesus Christ is alive today and is lord and savior of all people.

Others find the church un- The teaching that human attractive because of its teach- life is sacred. . ings that abortion, artificial" - The availability of relibirth control 'and sex outside of gious instruction for children marriage are wrong, its "empha- and youth. sis" on money, and its upholding Reasons unchurched Ameri· of the pope as "universal shepcans gave for finding the Cath· herd of all Catholics." olic Church unattractive inThe reasons were given by cluded: people interviewed in a Gallup - The teaching that abortion, Poll conducted for the Paulist birth control and sex outside of Fathers' National Catholic Evan- mardageare wrong and that gelization Ass()ciation to assess marriage is lifelong. attitudes toward - joining the - The church's "emphasis" on Catholic Church. money.

- The tradition of the pope A total of 3,050 adults, age 18 and older and selected at ran- as "universal shepherd of all dom from across the' country, Catholics." were interviewed in person.

- Devotions to Mary and the saints.

Sixty-seven percent of those.

- The use of statues, rosainterviewed could be described as "churched" and 33 percent as ries, incense, holy water, candles and medals. "unchurched."

The Gallup Poll results will The, study defined "unchurched" as,.those who had worshiped affect the type of materials the less than two times in a church Paulists' evangelization associaor synagogue during a 12-month tion designs to !l'each the un· period, excluding weiddings, churched, said Father Alvin funerals, Ch~istmas, Easter or Illig, director of the association. holy days.

What the unchurched find atThe unchurched were asked to tractive about the. Catholic choose from a list of 45 items Church wiH be emphasized and !those wltich would be rtlhei'l" what is perceived as unattracmalin .reasons for considering tive, like its teaching on aborjoining - or rejoining - the tion and birth control, win· be Catholic Church and those rea- explained in detail, he said. sons that would keep them from "We had the survey conducted considering such 'a move. because we want to raise public Some reasons given for rOin- . awareness about the unchurched ing included: . and make Catholics realize that - The belief God exists and each one has the responsibility is creator of everything. to evangelize," said Father Illig.

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ORDAINED TO THE TRANSITIONAL DIACONATE by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, center, in ceremonies last Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, were, from left, Freddie Babiczuk, .David M. Andrade, Thomas A. Frechette, Timothy P. Reis and Maurice' O. Gauvin Jr. (Torchia photo)

Pro;olifers active here, on national level The Greater New Bedford chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life is spearheading diocesan observance of the 13th anniversary of the pro-abortion decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Members will sponsor a March for Life at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, gathering at Old New Bedford High SchOOl at County and William Streets. It will be followed by a rally at the old high school auditorium.

The event will take place "rain, shine or snow," said Mary Ann Booth, among its organizers.

Rally mistress .of ceremonies will ,be Evelyn Geary Paquette, MeL vice-chairperson.

Speakers will include Father Thomas L. Rita, director of the diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate; former New Bedford mayor Brian Lawler; Dr. Cynthia Kruger, chairperson of the department of education of Southeastern Massachusetts University and New Bedford Ward 3 city councilor; Rev. Mark Gelinas, pastor of the First Christian Church, Hicksvifle.

Also Rev. Neil Damgaard of the Dartmouth Dible Church; Dr. David Constantine, past presi-

dent of Greater New Bedford MCL; Martha Su,llivan, the present president; Joseph Goyette, president of the Concerned Christian Coalition.

Chris Spoor, Fall River, of Women Exploited by Abortion; Ron Burnett, minister, First Church of Christ, Fall River; Robert Kiess, MD, family practitioner, North Dartmouth; Karen Brienzo, mother of a child for whom abortion was advised for medical reasons but who was delivered in good health.

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Pro-lifers active Continued from page one Church, Hicksville; and Sieven Massoud, choir director and chairman of the Pro-Life Committee at St. James parish, New Bedford. Both will sing original pro-life songs.

Also to be heard is the choir of Sacred Heart Church, New Bedford, directed by Joseph G. Scammons.

Priest freed LISBON, Portuga,1 (NC) Father Juan Fernandez Krohn, a Spaniard who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in 1982 when tl\e pope was visiting the Marian Shrine at Fatima, Portugal, has been released from a Portuguese prison after serving half of a six-and-a-half-year sentence. After his release Nov. 20, Father Fernandez Krohn, 36, flew to Paris and was th~n deported to Spain. The illicitly ordained priest lunged with 'a bayonet in his assault on the pope, but was restrained hy security guards.

at a New Bedford abortion clinic and have distributed a petition asking that the power to ,legislate abortion funding be restored to the state oiegislature.

Pro-Life Mass In other activity, Knights of Columbus are sponsoring a prolife Mass at 7 p.m. Jan. 22 at St. Boniface Church. All are invited to attend.

W~shington Bus The New Bedford MCL, said .

NEW YORK MAYOR Ed Koch, left, accompanies I\Irs. Booth, will sponsor a bus Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Cardinal John O'Connor of to the\ national March for Life, to be held in Washington, -D.C., New York as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun speaks to VVednesday, Jan. 22, actual anWASHINGTON (NC) - Carthe press outside a Greenwich Village hospice where AIDS niversary of the Supreme Court dinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicpatients are cared for by sisters of her order. Mother Teresa decision. ago, chairman of the National Round trip fare will be $25. b is wearing sunglasses because she recently underwent eye Conference of Catholic Bishops The bus will leave at 6 p.m. Committee for Pro-Life Activisurgery. (NC-UPI photo) Jan. 21 from the front of the tees, will be the main celebrant Free Public Library on Pleasant and homilist Jan. 21 at a Mass Street in downtown New Bed- for the annual Prayer Vigil for ford and will return about 7 Life.

The NCCB Office for Pro-Life NEW YORK (NC New hattan, it is the former rectory ,a.m. Jan. 23. Passengers will participate in all Washington Activities announced the vigil, York Gov. Mario Cuomo re- of St. Veronica's Church. leased three convicts terminally Last summer Cardinal O'Con- activities on Jan. 22 (see story which will be held in Washington at the National Shrine of ill with AIDS to Mother Teresa's nor announced plans for the New below).

Immediate registration is re- the Immaculate Conception on care as the world-renowned nun York Archdiocese to provide opened a New York residence "total care" for victims of AIDS, quested for the bus, which can the eve of the 13th .annual for AIDS victims on Christmas or acquired immune deficiency accommodate 47 persons, said March for Life.

Mrs. Booth. Information is availThe March for Life Jan. 22 syndrome. ' Eve. Mother Teresa told reporters A key element in his plan was able from her at 636-4903; and will be held to commemorate that each AIDS victim "is Jesus the opening of a residence, run for the Cape Cod area from the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court's decision that struck down state in a distressing disguise."

by Mother Teresa's nuns, for . Doreen Marinelli, 428-5402.

She suggests that persons who laws against abortion. Pro-lifers The' nun, founder of the Cal- victims not in need of full hoscutta-based Missionaries of pital care. 'fohe first attempt to cannot make the trip themselves also hold marches and raBies Charity, met the three prisoners create such a shelter was cut may wish to contribute towards around the country to. protest Dec. 23 during a visit to the short when people in the neigh- sponsorship of a person willing the abortion decision.

The theme of the march in state prison at Ossining, where borhood of the proposed site to go but unable to afford the Washington is "Unity on the Life fare. all were serving time for rob- protested.

Principles - No Exceptions, No bery.

The archdiocese is to fund the MCL Activities Compromises," according to She said she deliberately ask- St. Veronica residence, with , The New Bedford MCL does Nellie J. Gray, president of ed for their release Christmas Mother Teresa's nuns providing not confine its activities to the March for Life. .

Eve and announced the opening staffing, said Joseph Zwilling, annual March for Life, noted Marchers will gather at the of the new AIDS shelter that an archdiocesan spokesman.

Mrs. Booth. Through the St. Ellipse, between the White day "because Jesus was born, Receives Bequest James parish Pro-Life Com- House and the Washington so I wanted also to help them In other news concerning mittee an arresting billboard has Monument, to hear pro-life be born in joy and love and Mother Teresa and her Society been placed on Route 6 in North speeches 'and prayers, then papeace." of Missionaries of Charity, a re- Dartmouth with the message rade to the Capitol and Supreme Cuomo spoke with Mother tired -librarian in Oklahoma City "Stop Abortion: They'路re For- Court building.

Teresa' about the convicts twice has left her $300,000 estate to getting Someone."

The fourth annual rose dinner by telephone after she told New Members have sponsored will follow the march, U.S. Rep. the religious order.

York Mayor Ed Koch what she The librarian, Ann Murray many showings of - a pro~life Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., and Auxili- . wanted and he conveyed her Hough, died last February at age film, "The Silent Scream," have ary Bishop Thomas W. Lyons of request to the governor. engaged in sidewalk counseling Washington will be among the The mayor also said he would 94. Terms of her estate settlement were revealed in December speakers at the dinner. help Mother Teresa find a farm Golden Key Last January District of for the care of other AIDS in The Sooner Catholic, newspaper of the Archdiocese of "Death is the golden key that Columbia police estimated that victims. opens the paaace of eternity." 71,500 people gathered at the Mother Teresa, who won the Oklahoma City.

The newspaper said that - Milton Ellipse for the march.

Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work among the poorest of the Mother Teresa's order was conpoor in India, was flanked by tacted and would probably reKoch and Cardinal John O'Con- ceive the money in a few weeks.

Mrs. Hough worked for a numnor of New York at a press conber of years at ,the Oklahoma ference marking the opening of the New York residence. At 657 City Public Library and also helpWashington St. in the Green- ed in the libraries of Catholic ' wich Village section of Man- elementary and high schools.

She was a national authority on children's books and was recognized by the American library Association, said fellow librarian Virginia LaGrave in an .interview with the paper.

DEACON ASSIGNMENTS "She was independent. A' EFFECTIVE JANUARY 4, 1986 good friend, a true friend and a brilliant woman," she said.

Rev. Mr. David M. Andrade to Saint John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro.

Ms. LaGrave added that Mrs. Hough often consulted with Rev. Mr. Freddie Babiczuk to Saint John the Baptist Parish, Bishop Francis C. Kelley, bishop New Bedford. of Oklahoma City from 1924 to 1948; on his library.

Rev. Mr. Thomas A. Frechette to Holy Name Parish, FaIl Mrs. Hough, was a parishioner River. of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Rev. Mr. Maurice O. Gauvin, Jr. to Holy Name Parish, Cathedral fllra number of years New Bedford. and later belonged to St. John Nepomuk in Yukon, Okla., where Rev. Mr. Timothy Reis to Saint Thomas M6re Parish, she <lived in a retirement home.

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VATICAN CITY NC) - Pope John Paul II plans to visit a monument to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi ' and tour a Calcutta aid center run by Mother Teresa's Mission. aries of Chari.ty during his Jan. 31-Feb. 10 trip to India, the Vatican has announced.

The Vatican released the schedule of the pope's trip, his first to lJidia and his 29th outside Italy. In 1964, Pope Paul VI made the only previous papal trip to India to attend a eucharistic congress.

Pope John Paul plans to visit 14 cities, stopping :longest in the capital, New Del'hi, where he is scheduled to meet with President Zail Singh and government officials shortly after his arrival Feb. 1.

The same day, he plans to visit a monument at the cremation site of Gandhi, a Hindu philosopher and writer who led a nonviolent independence movement until his assassination in 1948, the year after India achieved independence from Great Britain.

On .Feb. 3, the pope plans to travel to Calcutta, India's largest city and one of its poorest, where he is to pray at a social center run by the Missionaries of Charity.

The pope's itinerary includes a. meeting with non-christians in the eastern coastal city of Madras Feb. 5, a Mass at a tool factory in Cochin Feb. 7 and the beatification of an Indian nun and priest during a Mass in Kottayam Feb. 8.

CORETTA SCOTT KING, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago meet to announce plans for the first federal holiday celebration of Dr. King's birthday. Mrs. King is chairwoman of the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission and Cardinal Bernardin is cochairman of the Rlinoi~ State Holiday Council. (NC photo)

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PHILADELPHIA (NC) Father Joseph Vadino of Philadelphia has taken over the editing of an internationally syndicated newspaper column, "Se-. lected Observations of Pope John Paul. II." The column, born amid controversy, is distributed by News America and The Times of Lon-. don syndicates, both owned by Australian . publishing magnate... 路.

Rupert Murdoch.: When it began last September, Vatican officials said it appeared as if it were written specifically by the pope as a weekly column.

Father Vadino, who spent five years .in Rome working on English translations of papal speeches and writings for the English-language weekly edition of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said he was asked to edit the column after the initial flap over its format.

Archbi$hop John Foley, another Philadelphian, now president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, "suggested that they contact me," Father Vadino said.

Father Vadino said he spends about one full day a week researching and putting together ,the column. W~king aJ><1ut Jl month in advance, - he ""io . center the column around th~mes' that will be' topical at the .time it appears. For instance, he pulled together papal comments on dialogue and negotiation to appear at the time of the ReaganGorbachev summit in November.

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Very Rev. William Heffron, province's priests and brothers OrIgin; and councilors Father SS.OC., will be inaugurated into participated.

Richard McNally, a Fall River a second term as director of the Also to be .inaugurated Jan. 13 native and a pastor in Rochester, U.S.A. East Coast Province of are Provincial Councilors elect- N.Y.; Father Columban Crotty,. .the Sacred Hearts Community ed last month. pastor of St. Joseph's Church, at a concelebrated Mass at 4 They are vicar provincial Fairhaven, the community's Before returning to Rome, p.m. Jan. 13 at Sacred Hearts Father Thomas McElroy, pastor mother church in the United Persistence of Our Lady of the Assumption States; and Father Fintan D. Pope John Paul will meet youths Retreat House, Wareham.

Bedford, the only Church, New He was reelected by vote of Sheeran, former provincial and "Saints are sinners who keep in a Bombay park. the priests and hrothers of the American parish specifically for vicar-general of the congrega- on !trying."

Robert Louis province; consisting of the U.S. Catholics of Cape Verdean tion, now a religious cons.ultant. Stevenson east of the Rockies, Japan, India and The Bahamas.

Funeral services were held Prior to his first term as proJan. 4 at St. Julie BilIiart vincial in January 1983, Father Church, North Dartmouth, for Heffron was for several years a dealer missionary in Japan and 'later well-known antique George L. Considine, 76, who was master of novices and prodied Jan. 2. vincial director of formation for A New Bedford native and the new community members. Imson of the late John W. and Alice mediately before becoming pro(Murphy) Considine, he was one vincial he was pastor of an of six brothers. They include inner city mission in Rochester, Msgr. Raymond and Msgr. N.Y. A native of Malden, Father Arthur Considine, retired priests. of the Fall River diocese; and Heffron entered the Sacred the late Father John J. Con- Hearts novitiate .in Fairhaven in consultant to the 1961 and was ordained to the sidine, MM, Vatican Congregation for the priesthood at Queen of Peace Mission Seminary in Jaffrey Evangelization of Peoples.

Center, N.H., in 1968.

Also brothers are retired Developments during his first Judge Walter L. Considine of term of office have included es. Fairhaven and Francis A. Con- tablishment of a parish ministry sidine of New Bedford. 'and training center for Hispanic . vocations in San Antonio; ex------~----------------------------------.

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The Politics of Terror Will the politics of terror bring peace to the Middle East? 路Does the eye for an eye mentality unify divisions? Can we really expect to end terrorism by becoming terrorists ourselves?

Answers to these and a thousand other questions that surface from the intrigues and insanit~es of the Middle East should be a resounding negative. Yet that is not the case. The horrors of Rome and Vienna have served only to inflame and ignite greater hate and passion. Saber rattling has given way to missile preparedness. .

The sleeping mongers of war are becoming restless. The only thing that seems to matter is.that evil be destroyed, whatever the cost. That the end justifies the means has once more become the standard of judgment, not only for the uncivilized but also for the so-called civilized.

The moral and ethical implications of retaliation have little influence in a world committed to destruction. The spirit of . violence is unleashed and the irrational seems the order of the ! day. In the long run this situation but plays into the hands of ' the Khadafys of this world.

Before the Western world reaches the point of no return, it is imperative that the voices of the rational not be drowned out by the rumble of war. This is especially true of the United States. In our frustrated attempts to end terrorism, we are slowly but surely. losing our objectivity.

The.tendency for most Americans is to lump together all the Middle East. As a people, our lack of general knowledge of this part of the world is appalling.

We do not seem to realize that the Arab states and nations are influenced and governed by the teachings and precepts of Mohammed and that it is in the name of the Koran that today's Arab world has inflicted divisions, destruction and death upon itself. The inability or even refusal to understand this motivation of the Middle East is rapidly bringing the West to a state of self-induced qysteria.

ThereiS路ilo doubt that the problems; personalities and partitions of'theMiddle East are perplexing and' confusing. To most Americans the passions aroused by religion are impossible to comprehend. We cannot get a pulse on the Jewish need of a homeland anymore than we can understand the Arab concept of a holy war.

Blinded by our misunderstanding, we are trying to become the great appeaser. Somehow we feel that we can keep everyone happy in a world that resounds to the wail of the widow. .

It is true that the civilized community must bring the destroyer to judgment. We cannot be held in bondage by kidnappers, extremists and murderers. Thomas Jefferson knew this in the early 1880s when he sent American forces to the Barbary States, today's Morocco, Algieria, Tunisia and Libya, to end terrorism and piracy. The same principle that brought into being conventions making such violations' of human rights punishable crimes apply to today's pirates and madmen.

Yet we have the moral obligation not to repeat some of our own past mistakes, as exemplified by our treatmen~ of American Japanese in World War II. We must not picture all,Arab peoples as outlaws and thugs.

Respect for life means all of life, be it Arab, Jewish or" American. Our inability to see life as a precious gift is wha,t keeps defense budgets opulent and terrorists well supplied. ' Alternative responses to the terror of the times must be encouraged. Trade embargos, international sanctions and. 'other nonviolent deterrents must be employed to the utmost.

In our attempts to end terrorist influence ;lnd violence, we must not ourselves become terrorists.

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1986: INTERNATIONAL PEACE YEAR

'There will be . peace and security in my lifetime.' Is. 39:8 .

Simple law, Creative God

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

ing the scientific method to study of the creation of the universe is Every age in the Church's his- somehow encroaching on terrain tory has had to reconcile scientific staked out by religion. ;teachings with the prevailing reliIt took a full century for people gious traditions. Notable transi- to absorb Darwin's insights applytions occurred between the times ing the laws of evolutionary biolof Galile9 and Darwin. ogy to human beings. However, Never has' there been so much belief in evolution should not scientific progress 'as there is damage anyone's religious convictoday. Most remarkable is, the tions. It should not be surprising progress made in our knowled,ge that such central doctrines of the of the beginnings of the universe. Christian faith as the immortal' The frontiers of Cognition have soul, original sin and 'redemption , been pushed relentlessly back' were left intact by the hypothesis that human beings eyolved from towards the moment of creation. lower life forms.

Many people see in the new I suspect that it will take considphysics a way of eliminating the erably less time for believers to need for a creative God. Throughabsorb the latest theories concernout history the proverbial "God of ing the origins of the universe. the gaps" has been invoked to Particle accelerators have providexplain phenomena otherwise ed physicists with experimental inexplicable. Indeed, as science proof for their theories. Discovery demystifies more and more, there seems less and less room for God, with a clockwork universe evoking diminished awe and wonder.

The Diocesan Directory and Personally. however, I find the Buyers' Guide will shortly be logic of the universe ,an aid to my available in durable form. It belief in a creative God. The more will reflect corrections brought we understand about its order, the to our attention since the newsmore we can appreciate the true print edition was issued. Further nature of a cosmic miracle. corrections should be teleIt seems that the unease people phoned immediately to 617feel with regard to the new physics 675-7048. arises from the notion that apply-

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of the laws governing the nature of elementary particles have pushed the frontiers of knowleqge back to the very ..moment of creat.ion.

The fact that a frontier ,remains should comfort those who feel that knowledge of the origin of the universe will preclude the need to believe in GQd. The "God of the' gaps" endures. As more is learned of the material form, of the universe, our attention will shift to the laws that govern its behavior. Perhaps in the 21 st century scientists, philosophers and theologians will be'asking the same question: Who created the laws Of physics?

One recalls that the primative state of 13th century scientific inquiry inspired King Alfonso of Castille to lament: "If the Good Lord had consulted me before embarking upon creation, I would have recommended something simpler. " As Alfonso would have, I welcome .the simplicity of the lawli of modern physics. I feel more comfortable with the concept of a God clever enough to devise the laws of physics that make the existence of our marvelous universe inevitable than I do with that of an oldfashioned Creator who had to make it all laboriously, piece by piece.

Old marriage roles A colleague sent me a reprint of an article published in the Niagara Heraid in 1828, entitled "Instructions for the Married." On reading them, it becomes evident that they are instructions for the female married only. Apparently husbands back then needed no instructions.

Sharing them aloud with women brings much merriment - and also sadness, because we bear some fallout today. I decided it would be interesting to reprint these eight instructions along with reactions from older and younger women of 1985. ' The instructions follow.

I. Avoid contradicting your husband.

2. Occupy yourself only with household affairs; wait till your husband confides to you those of higher importance, and do not give your advice till he asks for it.

3. Never take upon yourself to be a censor of your husband~ , morals and do not lecture him. Let your preaching be a good example, and practice virtue yourself to make him in love with it.

4. Command his attention by always being attentive to him; never exact anything and you will obtain much; appear always flattered by the little he does for you, which will excite him' to perform more.

5. All men are vain; never wound his vanity, not even in the most trifling instances. A wife may have more sense than her husband, but she should never seem to know it.

6. When a man gives wrong counsel, never make him feel that he has done so, but lead him on by degrees to what is rational, with mildness and gentleness; when he is convinced, leave him all the merit of having found out what was just and reasonable.

Rome hasjust concluded. Reports tell us that it found the changes caused by Vatican II to be effective and positive on the whole.

At this point, almost every Catholic university, adulteducation program and university . Newman center, as well as various other educational programs have addressed the U.S. bishops' pastoralletter on war lind peace; they are now digging into the bishops' proposed pastoral on economics.

If awareness and lively discussions about nuclear war and equal distribution of God's blessings are criteria for judging progress, then' the last year can be called success-' ful in the area of justice. , Compared to a y~ar ago, we also are seeing the establishment of many new centers for tjIe training of lay ministers. If active involvement, of the laity in the church is considered a step forward, the last year has witnessed a giant leap. . ". . ~ The numbers of permanent deacons are increasing and their particular role is being more clearly defined. A new force in the church is found in these men and their wives.

And two recent studies in 1985 revealed some excellent news. The first study reported: "Large numbers of students are interested in careers as lay ministers." A sufficient number also said they were interested in vocations to a religious life.

The second study found that many more priests today are

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7. When a husband is out of temper behave obligingly to him; has done so, but when he realizes, if he is abusive never retort; and never prevail over him to humble give him the credit for having discovered what isjust and reasonable. him.

8. Seem always to obtain infor"If he is abusive never retort..." mation from him, especially be,fore Tell that to parents of today's compan}', though you may pass yourself for a simpleton. Never daughters.

"Never forget that a wife owes forget that a wife owes all her all her importance to that of her importance to that of her husband. husband." There are those who Well, there they are. I suggest think wives owe their importance you share them with your spouse, to God. your children, your pastor and your therapist whenever they indiThe sadness is that we still read cate that feminism is a needless' this kind of thing in tracts today. endeavor.

It's reassuring to know that some My older women listeners nod- of our husbands have escaped the ded in sad recognition: yes, that's trap of being infallible and prefer a the way it was. And, yes, that's wife who is real to one who is what their mothers tried to teach manipulative. them.

I sus'pect that few of today's And the younger women? Almost husbands would actively seek a in unison they shrieked with laugh- wife like the one described. Who ter. Their second reaction? "What wants a wife who only occupies a putdown of men. " It's something herself with household affairs? How we don't think about when we talk boring. Who wants a wife who about women's prescribeo roles-'- believes men are always vain and how demeaning they are to men. need attention and flattery? As the Let's look again at these instruc- young women said, "These instructions. The bottom line reads, "Man- tions don't say much for men, do ipulate." When he gives wrong they? They sound more like childcounsel, never make him feel he ren'than men." Amen to that.

Happy 1986!

1985 was a good year in the church!

The extraordinary Synod of the World's Bishops in

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encouraging young people to consider the priesthood or religious life than in 1970. This second finding seems to indicate that some of the disturbing turbulence which left priests uncertain about the happiness of the priesthood might be subsiding.

Thousands of parishes have been benefiting from renewal programs. Bible groups are increasing as are new methods for making religious education more meaningful for youth. There is continued increase in programs for the aged, the divorced or separated, the poor and those of other races and cultures. ' This brief progress report would seem to indicate that the church is in a new state of consciousness. ' . Within itself, the church has expanded awareness of talent, available and is utilizing it more fully. Not onlyhave renewal pro-

(necroloQij) January 13 Rev. Emile Plante, M.S., 1954, LaSalette Seminary, Attleboro" January 14 Rev., John J. Lawler, M.M. 1977, Maryknoll ~issioner January 15 Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy, Pastor, 1940, St. Joseph, Woods Hole Rev. Msgr. John E. Boyd, Retired Pastor, 1977, St. Patrick, Wareham.

January 17 Rev. John Laughlin, Retired Pastor, 1967, Holy Ghost, Attleboro

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grams and newly established ministries revitalized us, but our youth seem to be experiencing more of the vitality of ministry and its importance in their lives.

And the clergy and religious who were somewhat knocked off balance by change seem to have new hope.

If some reading this column think it is a bit too optimistic, I concede it is. I could have written about all the negative things in the church.

But this is the beginning of 1986 and each New Year is a special time to look at the positive side of life.

What has been said here can be substantiated. It tells me that if we keep working on these positive findings 1986 will be a gre~t year.

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Q. What part of the Catholic Church is the "Ultrajectine tradiwere born has always been. As one tion, Utrecht succession of the Dutch' Church?" Is this one of woman said to me not long ago, protesting our use of English at what our priests call the Eastern Mass: "If Latin was good enough churches? (Ohio) A. The only "church" I know of for Jesus, why isn't it good enough for us?" using anything like that name was The fact that Jesus and most of a very short-lived movement conthe early members of our faith nected with the alleged apparition of Our Lady at Necedah, Wis. probably didn't even know Latin didn't faze her, if indeed she ever As most of our readers may considered it. know, beginning in 1950 a lady on To answer your question, the a farm near that city, Mrs. Mary Mass, even before Vatican II, has Ann Van Hoof Hirt, began claimbee'n celebrated in numerous laning visions and revelations from guages. In the beginning, of course, Mary. Numbers of people from all the language of liturgy was almost over the country accepted ,her certainly Aramaic, used by Jesus, claims and became to some degree the disciples and the early converts. devotees of that shrine.

Before long, however, the comIn 1955, after five years of invesmon liturgical language was Greek, tigations, the bishop of the Lathe tongue most commonly known Crosse Diocese, which includes in the world where Christianity Necedah, said no basis existed for first spread. Numerous other lanbelieving the events were superguages such as Syriac, Arabic and natural, and prohibited any public Coptic, one of the few "relic" lan-' or private Catholic worship there, gtiages of ancient Egypt, have been the first of several such statements and still are used in the Catholic since then.

Toward the end of the 1970s, a churches of the East.

Apparently somewhere in the "bishop" surfaced who called himself "the archbishop and metropol- fourth century the Roman church began to adopt Latin as its quasiitan of North America, American official tongue. This was underNational Catholic Church, Roman standable for many reasons. At Catholic Ultrajectine." He claimed that time and for nearly the next he was consecrated a bishop in thousand years every literate per1976, and gave "official" approval to the shrine as a place of pilgrim- son understood Latin. Civil and church business was conducted in age.

Latin. It was therefore natural that A few years later, about 1982, the lituJ:gy should be in Latin. this "bishop" who had been a Roman Catholic layman, returned At the time of the Council of to the Catholic faith and renounced Trent (mid 1500s) and for years all connection with the events at after, use oflocallanguages during Necedah. the liturgy was considered "Pro-.

Another supposed bishop, who testant." To suggest a greater opencalled himself Father Francis Bene- ness to vernacular languages (as detto and supported the ~ecedah many did at Trent) was to become apparitions group, left that com- suspect of disloyalty or heresy. munity with a number of other Even during these centuries, howadherents in 1983. He told the ever, many languages - Armenpeople the claims were false and ian, Greek, German, Chinese, Mothey should return to the Catholic hawk Iroquois in the United States Church. and others - were officially apMrs. Van Hoof Hirt died in proved from time to time.

March, 1984. To my knowledge, The move to return to local lannothi.ng of this Ult~ajectine church guages for our liturgy developed remams. slowly over the past 100 years or Q. A recent issue of our Catholic so. The rationale for that develpaper quoted Cardinal Bernard opment has been explained by' Law about some ofthe changes in recent popes and; in several pla'ces, the church. According to this arti- by the bishops of Vatican II. cle, he, said that before Vatican In that council's Constitution·.

Council II "our historical sense was somewhat blunted," giving as ' on'the Sacred Liturgy, the bishops•. one example the lack of awareness expr~ssed t,l).eir desir~, to .change that the Mass had not alway.sbeen those feature~ which, 'may have "crept in which have grown less' celebrated in Latin. ' I never thought of this. In what functionaL .

-Among these was the language other languages has the Mass been celebrated, before the changes we itself. Texts and rites should be -restored, they said, "so that they ;have today? (Massachusetts) express more clearly the holy things A. First, I agree totally with the which they ~ignify. Christian peocardinal's assessment. Judgingfrom ple, as far as possible, should be my own experience and from my able to understand them with ease, mail through the years as author and take part in them fully, actively, of this column, the greatest single as befits a community" (No. 21). reason for rejection and lack of Christians always insisted that understanding ofthe current develtheir liturgical rites be in a lanopments in the church is the ignorguage that conveys the reverence ance of so many Catholics of even and mystery of what we celebrate. a basic knowledge of the past cenExperience proves that this can be turies of our history as a church. accomplished with careful a'nd digWithout a sense of history, one nified use of the language of the easily falls into the trap of assum- people. ing that what has been since we

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Also spiritual director of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses, Father Fitzgerald emphasizes that pastoral care extends to hospital staff members and families of patients. He added that many hospitals in' the·

abused . children, accident victims and drug addicts; and on a positive note,r:ejoice, with new parents or patients restored to health. They frequently work with social service agencies and other such groups.

The "good, solid spiritual . lives" that the chaplains 'lead and the support they lend each other helps them avoid burnout and '<iepression, the director said, . adding that a hobby sometimes helps put some distance between the chaplain and his or her delPanding work.' , All diocesan chaplains have received or are receiving' training in clinical pastoral education, for the most part at nearby centers, Father Fitzgerald said. The program leads to certification by the U.S. Catholic Conference and the National Association of Catholic Chap.Iains. Theological. and psycho~logical enrichment courses are also 'provid'ed.· ,.-

were' gradually introduced to other hospitals. Ministries ~ere "establis~edat Charlton Hos~~tal:' . Fall River, Morton, Hospftal..

Direction of VATICAN CITY (~C) - Pope Taunton and St. Luke's HospiRev. J. Joseph Kierce As a member of the' USCC J?hn Paul· I~' ordal~ed seven tal, New Bedford, in 1977. Cape board of examiners; Father Fitz·blsh~ps !r~m five ~ontments Jan. -Cod· Hospital, Hyannis, 'and Auth'oro and Producer of . gerald has observed hospital The New England Passion Play 6, . mcl\Jdmg ,.alshop Donald Sturdy Memorial Hospital AttieWuerl, a former Pittsburgh dio' chaplaincy programs throughout . ;:' '~/THE CHRISTUS'" . cesan official recently named the United States. diocese offer monthly Masses for auxiliary bishop of Seattle. I' , . . deceased patients, to' which famThe pope told the men they " Bishop Croni~, extr~mely sup' : jly members are welcome. portive of the ministry, also saw the ·richness of 'the represented. .Hospital - chaplains also· offer the need of expanding it· to par· various cultures and traditions grief counseling to the b~reaved, 'ishes, the director noted. His in the~~niv~rsal church. he said: ' office is thus responsible for ,. ,The traditional ceremony took place on the feast of the Epip"A chaplain is involved at the training special ministers of the hany...T.b~ .PP.Ee said the visit of heart of people's lives, at some Eucharist to bring communion , ATTLEBORO the· Wise" Mer1~io-~lir~~s·-birthof their most difficult moments," under parish direction to those , ..,place, commemorated by the said the priest, noting that it is confined to their residences or . Sturdy Memorial "Hospital, feast, was the first "prophetic important to allow patients to·, to nursing homes. tel. 222-5200, Rev.· Bruce announcement" of the church's· , artkOllite personal perceptions of Neylon. , A day of recollection for such universal mission.

God and their faith at times of TOUR 1 ministers was held last spring "You are their heirs," the pope illness, anxiety, depression· and THE ·ISLANOS OF HAWAII AND MAUl!.

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Fitzgerald, Rev. Neil Decker, present in their cultures, tradi,ous illness. They are often the SJ, Rev. RaYmond Drouin, tions and experiences - ·in their "Bishop Cronin and the dioones called upon to notify relaOP, Sisters Mary Margaret ·APRIL 17 • joys and in their suffering," he cese of Fall River have made a tives and friends of a death and Mello, OP, Maria Ceballos, said. tremendous commitment both in TOUR. 2 in grief.· then to .comfort them OP, Marina Mejia, OP, Rita terms of personnel 'and finance :,THE NORWEGIAN FJORDS, SWEDEN,· and Marie Morency, OP, Jeanne They minister to attempted to the pastoral care of the sick," DENMARK plus LONDON and CRUISING Tllerese Rivard, OP, Margaon the NORTH SEA! .. suicides,. battered spouses, Ft".ther Fitzgerald concluded, rita' Ortiz, OP. SCENES OF SPECTACU.LAR BEAUTY LOS ANGELES (N'C) - Screen Charlton Memorial Hospiwriter and playwright Emmet FOR ON L Y ..... ) tal, tel: 679-313i, e~t: 2311, .

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A phone call from Sarah

By Cecilia Belanger

"Do you' have older friends?

Perhaps the people who gave you my name? 1 won't ask who they are,' but they sound like people who have a friendly regard for you. They could be of help."

"Hello ... " "Hi : . . this is Sarah with an 'h'."

"Hello, Sarah with an 'h'."

"You don't know me. Somebody gave me your name and' "Yes, they are kind and all phone number." that, ·but they aren't classmates.

"Fine. Glad to hear from you.

I don't see them every day. Even Always happy to make new though I sound aggressive, I'm friends." not. So that leaves out going up "Thank you." to people I don't know' and "What can I do for you, starting conversation so I'm Sarah?" surprised at how easily I'm talk"Well, now that I'm on the ing now." . phone maybe 1 can talk. 1 can't "I'm not a classmate, Sarah, talk face to face with people about the thing's that bother and we're doing fine. Do you belong to a youth group at a me." church?"

"Fire 'away! I'm listening."

I'm a junior in high school "No. 1 don't care for these now. You would think ,I wouldn't groups. They're okay for some have this kind of problem, but but not for' me. But I am reli1 have 'a hard time making and gious, I think. I believe in 'God holding on to friends." 'and I pray a 'lot. I have my "Why do you think this is so, faults and I'm aware of them, Sarah? Have you ever asked but I try not to lay too many . guilt trips on myself. I do think yourself?"

"Yes, I've gone over it again 1 am right in some things." . and again in my mind, and 1 "Have you ever visited a come up with two answers: One, nursing home? Do you know 1 have too much of a· mind of anyone who is confined to a my own even though I don't home? If so, I'm sure ,they'd be appear tO,and two, I am critical. happy to see you. You could I don't judge, but I do offer perhaps read to them. You could suggestions to help. At least, I close generation gaps, both of think I'm helping. I don't think you! This would be much more that is being judgmental." productive than fighting with "Having a mind of your own classmates or just standing' is a good thing, Sara-h. Too many around the edges of groups." young people have given up in"You know I've thought about dependence of thought these that.

I think I'll look into it. days and get into trouble because of it. It's good to have What bothers me is to be misoriginal opinions 'and not to al- understood. It bothers me to ways be 'led by another. We are have something ascribed to me not supposed to be passive auto- that isn't me at all. It's like matons going 'against inner con- smaH talk. One spends hours victions' ·regarding the right getting nowhere. Sometimes 1 get into a reading moOd, I could thing to do." read for hours on end. If I had "That's the way I look at it a sign saying 'Do not disturb' I but people don't always agree. would hang it on my door."

They're indifferent to everything I say and call me 'odd' or things "But we can't overdo the 'Do like that." not disturb' sign, can we? We

create a cold image even if we do not deserve it."

I "I hear what you're saying.

Maybe I've kept my fiele\.. of acquaintance too narrow, restricting it to school. I can't expect or force people there to like me.

It's just that I haven't been talk- . ing like thi~ with anyone." .

"Open up to your parents, Sarah. You'd be surprised at the beautiful friendships waiting for you there. How do they know how you feel if you don't tell them? Acquaint them with your true self and I'm sure it will make them happy."

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more of your time, but I hope you don't think I'm silly for all this. What do you think? I'd like to know." .

"I think your classmates are the losers, not you. But don't be bitter. It gets in the way. Keep believing and praying. Hold on to your ideals. Bea friend to the human race in the best way you can. God bless you."

"May I call again?"

"I'd be hurt if you didn't."

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St. Anne's, and found he "could be "My childhood associations vicar at the church since June.

1982." with him and the Church were effective in bringing people closer to the faith and the Church."

"There was no gimmick." said very positive," Father Degagne Eventually, "priesthood seemed Father Degagne. The priest. newly said. He himself was an altar boy the way to go." ordained at the time of his appoint- and also sang at the church and The priest is also excited about ment, headed straight for the par- was a member of the parish Boy the Holy Name Youth Group. a ish school a'fld religious education Scout troop. program classrooms at the start'of· -. He is quick to give credit to the traditionally structured CYO prothe next school year and asked the. parents onhe-H~oIY.Nameservers, gram. In December, 1983, he young men of the parish. from noting that the moms and dads of related. some parents approached fourth grade through high school the nearly 100 altar boys who have ·him.and said they wanted to start a seniors, to participate in the pro- served the parish in the past three high school group. Because he was gram. And they did. years have gotten out of bed before heavily involved in the parish confirmation program. he tossed the "That first year I recruited about six a.m. to drive their sons as far as ball back in their court, challeng30 altar boys," the young priest five or six miles to serve early ing them to start the group and Mass. said. "I think the kids are really help run it. ~he 1500-family parish extends .proud of what they're doing."

About 35. young people showed "M uch of the success of the pro- to the Freetown line. up for the first event, a trip to gram comes from my availability."

There have been rewards for LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. he continued. He teaches seventh Father Degagne from the proA month later, a constitution and eighth grade religious educa- gram. "Some of the kids I've was in the works. officers were tion at Holy Name School. and encouraged to serve, kids who elected and adult and junior advioften is a visiting teacher in other were very shy, have come out of sors were appointed. grades. He also instructs periodi-· themselves," he said.

The four couples who initially Asked what advice he might asked Father Degagne to start the cally in the parish religious education program. give other priests hoping to estab- group are still advisors, with other The altar boys are trained for lish a'similar altar boy program, parishioners completing the team. several weeks before they're the priest suggested that they be The advisors are "very faithful," installed; and their excellent ser- "involved with and visible to" the Father Degagne said, describing vice prompts many positive com- kids, and then approach them them as "people who through their ments both from visitors and pari- regardi ng participation. "The own family life are concerned with shioners. Father Degagne noted. degree of one's personal involve- the spiritual, social and moral Older boys specialize in serving at ment with the children will deter- . development of the kids." weddings and help train new- mine their response." he added.

A highlight of the group's year is comers.

A graduate ofSt. Anne's School a weekend ski trip, he said. Other When asked if the program and B.M.C. Durfee High School, act ivies include fund raisers, helpmight be all invitation to the Fall River, in 1975 Father Degagne ing at the annual parish bazaar. priestly vocation for participants. earned a degree in music educabowling and hayrides. the parochial vicar replied, "I'm tion from the University of Lowell.

A weekend retreat was held in not sure if they see it that way, but then Lowell State College. He then October 1984 at Cathedral Camp. if it gives them a greater associa- returned to Fall River to te·ach East Freetown. The successful tion with the Church and me a music in Morton Middle School. event was followed by another last His decision to become a priest chance to work closely with them May. it could serve to i·ncrease was not hasty, he said, explaining "Parents of members liked what vocations." that he had thought about it as far they saw" and asked for adult A proud moment for the boys back as fifth or sixth grade. weekends, said Father Degagne. came in 1984 when Bishop Daniel.· "Ideas about becoming a priest The first was held recently.

A. Cronin invited them to serve came and went," he said. In high Since it· now embraces young the Christmas television Mass, school he decided that the lifestyle people and adults. the. retreat proFather Degagne said, adding that was not for him; but in college he gram is now independent of the the bishop has "always been very joined the campus Newman Club Holy Name Youth Group. aware of and supportive of the and became active in a Lowell par"We have a monthly retreat . ish as a Scout leader. religious renewal," said the busy priest, "and work I'm doing."

Father Degagne grew up in St. . education teacher and organist. our goal is to run one high school "All that involvement helped and one adult weekend each year."

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Dear Mary: My daughter is 23 years old. Ever since she was 12 we have had argumen·ts. As the years go on, they have become more frequent and severe. I have suggested trying to talk our problems out between ourselves, or that wego to a priest or some other professional.

She says the only help we need is that I stop ruling her life. She also feels that anything she does is wrong in my eyes. She says the only way to resolve the situation is "for me to stop feeling that she is a child and stop worrying about her.

Since I know she-feels this way, I haven't mentioned anything about the problem for at least six months.

We are more controlled with each other, but the problem is still there.

I am constantly afraid ofsaying or doing something to offend her.

Please advise me. (Pennsylvania) Arguments between mothers and . daughters rank high on the list of family problems. There are probably few mothers of daughters who could not write your second sentence.

Many years ago, a fine writer and father, Eugene Geissler, wrote an essay called "At the Age of Twelve." He pointed out that the only time Scripture reports Jesus causing his patents anxiety is -

you guessed it - at the age of 12.

Developmentally, 12 still marks the start of a child's growth away from the shelter and jurisdiction of the family toward independent adult livi'ng.

The transition from childhood to adulthood is usually difficult. It requires change both for parent and child. We have suggested in earlier columns that the best guideline for parents' is to strive for a relationship or friendship with adult children. Friends share common interests and enjoy common activities. Friends do not tell each other what to do or how to behave.

Friends come to each other's aid in times of trouble.

Achieving such a relationShip takes time. Generally, however; by . the late teens or early 20s both parents and children are adjusting to the new adult relationship and life goes smoother; The tone of your letter suggests that such has not happened between you and your daughter; Both of you .seem to experience much tension.

To keep yourself from focusing on your daughter so much, you need other activities. Begin to do the things you want to do with your life. Consider a job, volun. teer work, church and community involvement, hobbies. Get active in something besides your daughter's life.

You are not the only one who needs to change, however; Your daughter seems unsure of herself as an adult. She seems upset that you treat her as a'child and worry about her; If she were more confident of herself as an adult, your behavior would not bother her so much. .

Both of you could benefit from a little more distance in your relationship at this time. If she lives at home, suggest that she move to her own apartment. If she already has moved out, reduce the number of times you see her or call her in the week. When yol;! get together, have a planned activity you both can enjoy - shopping, a movie, visiting a friend, a meal. Plan to spend the time' doing something other than arguing.

Sometimes adult children can live in the family home very happily. Sometimes they cannot. Since you have experienced tension for many years, you seem to need· more than a mere ~esolution not to argue. Try to expand your own life, encourage your daughter to live independently and get together to share positiye, pleasant experiences.

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For 'my father

By Antoinette Bosco My last memory of my father is how he feebly waved to me from' his bed at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, N.Y., with a broad smile before he faded into yet another of his intermittent states of oblivion.

The tears rolled down my face as I saw him, his head turned to the side of his pillow; his arms slightly extended at his sides, his hands tied down, his legs straight, with' 'his ankles crossed. He was Christ on the cross for seven weeks before he died on Dec. 5.

Remarkably, he never complained those weeks when his suffering was so evident. I remember that last weekend I spent with him, when the hospital chaplain came to speak with him. My father couldn't receive Communion because his swallowing ability was gone. Yet he kisse'd the priest's hand as his own way of communicating.

My father's smile and his faith in life were the blessings I felt at a young age. One of the first articles I ever wrote was about my father; Called "Faith and a Smile," it was published in 1953 in a small Catholic magazine called "The Apostle."

During his last weeks many came to feel that faith and see that smile.

Years ago I heard a Dutch psychologist, Father Adrian Van Kamm. speak of some people who go into old age and its infirmities with complaints, anger and bitterness, making everyone around them miserable. Then, the priest said, there were the others who go into those sunset years without complaint - peaceful and accepting. These people, he said, become a blessed presence to others in their old age.

My father was a blessed presence to others before he left his world.

As my brother Joe expressed it: "We saw our father become more and more childlike and innocent as his love for us became cleansed of complications.

"In the end," said my brother, ·"we saw him leave the world with a gentleness and sweetness that must have been very much like the way his own father saw him as he entered the world."

Hundreds of people came to his wake. People from his past who knew him as "Joe the butcher" spoke of his kindnesses to their families. They recalled especially the food he always gave to the people who, as my brother put it, "had too much month left at the end of their money."

Then there were people who had only met him after the heart attack that brought him to the hospital.

When we saw two of his nurses. come to say a last goodbye to "M r; Joe," the man who always smiled,

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we knew how special our father was.

And when Mr; Kiernan, blind from a stroke. who had been in the bed next to my father for a week or so, came to the wake, we again felt awe. He asked for us. my father's eight children, by name. Though he couldn't see us: Kiernan had gotten to know us by name and voice during our daily vigils with dad.

My father was, indeed, a blessed presence to others in his old age.

Perhaps this is the greatest eulogy that can be offered.

He is, of course, a blessed presence for me that will sustain me all my days. I now wear the medal of the Blessed M other on the chain from Italy that he wore all his life since coming to the United States as an immigrant teen-ager alone.

But I've always worn the values he taught me early in life, telling me that what was important was a clear conscience, the family. a good education and. caring for others.

Grazie, papa. Bravissimo, papa.

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KANSAS CITY. Kan. (NC)giving birth in the (city) clinics, The sisters also make and sell Deaf people can help the hearing they come to the sisters," Sister African dresses to raise funds. " learn to, slow down and appreciate Ihenacho said. life, according to Jesuit Father Joe Sister Ihenacho said that with Sister Ihenacho's order, founded Bruce, qf Holy Cross College. the little money she obtained while in 1931 by an Irish member of the Worcester.

Sisters of Charity, specializes in in the United States, "I buy mediThey also have much to connursing, teaching and social work. cal equipment and ship it home." tribute to the life of the Catholic There are 300 members. Most of She said the sisters work hard to Church, but are not taken seriously, added the priest, who was born deaf. .

Father Bruce, in Kansas City to talk with deaf youths and adults.

By. Hilda Young , to, wash it," said Betty. "I used to made 'his comments in an intertell friends Brian's blankie was a view with The Leaven, d'iocesan At Caffeine Club this morning battle flag that held sentimental newspap.er. we decided that only puberty and value for my husband. Even the ' . , The priest, "rho learned to speak moving out (for the first time) cat wouldn't lie on it."

"One day when he was about 4 I at. Clark School for the Deaf in exceed another maturational event in a young person's life ~ giving couldn't stand it any more and I Northampton, has worked with snuck it away while he was taking deaf and hearing impaired persons up the "blankie."

Of course this includes not only a nap. It dissolved during the soak since: his ordination in 1981. He holds a master's degree in deaf blankies but also teddies, etc: Alice cycle."

"W asn.'t Bnan . told us her daughter's security was upse t?" . AI'Ice education from St. Canisius Col- . lege, Buffalo,N. Y. invested in a special silken pillow- asked. case.

"He didn't say. He just held his "People often associate slow"I thought she might give it up breath until he passed out." , ness with stupidity because being when it wore to shreds," Alice . We all agreed there is absolutely slow is not acceptable in our sighed. "But then she just kept it no way ,to pull a switch or make a society," he said. "We're slow but under her pillow. It went to college sU,bstitution. .J once offered our we're not stupid - wejust liv,e a with her.... , ,J ohnny three stuffed tigers and an slower pace. You can't keel' in I remember our oldest's panic , electric blanket with his own con- touch at 60 mph." the first time she saw me throw her troIs in ex'change for his blank,ie, Deaf people have a language to blankie in the washing machine. or at least what was left of it. No share along with "our prayer,our She camped out right there through way. the spin cycle with this look on her - As a matter of fact, I sewed that heritage; our ordinary joys and face like I was someone who picked rag back together so many times I sorrows and how we celebrate suf. feathers off hummingbirds. Thumb was repairing repairs of repairs. It fering, "he explained .

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how the store handled the situa- ager's office or security station supply room when he meant to while waiting for police or parents lock the boss in, he could be guilty tion. You may, however, realize of it. This is true under the law to arrive. later that the store did not treat because no matter who he impriFinally, detention must be for a your son fairly. Though this does soned, the janitor intended to connot happen in most cases, a store, reasonable time. Your son should fine someone. just like a person. can be guilty of not be held longer than it takes to determine if property has been It addition, the law does not holding someone against their will. your son all day stolen.

Holding that the persOn who con, require This is called false imprisonment fines another bear ill will toward under the law. If one is falsely would seem to be too long a time; held, one may be able to sue the . y.ou may be able to sue for false , that person. In other words, if the janitorfelt he was helping you by person who detained him or her imprisonment on his behalf. and receive damages.

False imprisonment can arise in confining you-so you wouldn't many other situations as well. overwork yourself-he can still be In order for the manager to hold Anytime someone intentionally guilty of false imprisonment.

Johnny, he must be legally justiand unjustly confines you they fied in doing so. There are three It is important to note that there could be found guilty of false is also no need for four walls and a points which must be present to imprisonment. Intentionally locked door to have a case of false make your son's confinement means that the person must have legal. First, the manager must have imprisonment. Confinement is any intended, within his or her own complete restraint on your freereasonable grounds for ,believing mind, to confine you. If you are dom of movement. that Johnny was stealing or working late one night and the janattempting to steal candy from the The law does not even require itor mistakenly locks you in the that you be physically restrained store. If Johnny merely "looks office, you are not going to be able suspicious," that is not enough. in order for there to be a false However, if he was carrying a bag to sue for false imprisonm'ent. imprisonment. You can be impriof candy in his coat pocket which But what if the janitor hears you soned by threats of violence against he did not pay for, this would give screaming to be released, yet you or your family, by blackmail the manager grounds for believing refuses to let you go? Once he or by someone tricking you into that theft was taking place. knows that you wish to leave, he is believing that you cannot leave a place. In such a case, you would be' Second, ,when he confines the confining you intentionally.

A person could also be guilty of as confined as if you were in a boy, he must do so in a reasonable manner. This means that he can- false imprisonment if he confines prison cell. You may also be moved not have your child chained or someone other than the one he around to different places, as long intended to confine. This me'ans as you do not have freedom of held in a closet. Ordinarily, merthat if the janitor locked you in the movement. chants will hold suspects in a man-

It is also possible to be locked in a room and not be confined. If you know of a reasonable way to escape from your confinement, the law does not consider you to be confined. As long as you can safely escape from your imprisonmentif, for example, you are locked in a first floor room with an open window-you cannot claim false' imprisonment.

False imprisonment can also occur if you are arrested. If you are falsely arrested and are confined by the police, you may be able to sue for false imprisonment. The law helps you in this situation by forcing the arresting officer to prove that the arrest was justified.

In addition, should the officer mistake you for someone else who is wanted for the crime and arrest you, you still can sue for false imprisonment.

Most people will never face such it situation. However, if it does happen, it is important to take note of everything that occurs so when you are finally released, you can find out what your legal rights are and how you can pursue them in court. .

The Murphys practice law in Braintree.

Church commitment to refugees remains firm

By NC News Service Refugees today may not be making the dramatic headlines of Vietnamese or Cuban boat people a few years ago but the church's commitment to helping them remains firm, church leaders said in marking National Migration Week, Jan. 6-11.

Scalabrinian Father Silvano M. Tomasi, director of pastoral care of migrants and refugees for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Jan. 6 that "the church is not advocating immigration," as the best solution to the problems of refugees. It first seeks to assure them a "decent life where they are born," he said.

"But given that people are coming, the church is working at making their presence fruitful, at welcoming them," Father Tomasi said.

In the United States "There are no longer the dramatic headlines" such as there were after the 1975 fall of Saigon or during the 1980 Cuban,boatlift, Father Tomasi said, but waves of legal and illegal immigrants are still arriving. . ' , , And, although the public may ,not pe as aware of these new migrants and refugees, "if you talk to the parishes, there is still a lot of generosity" in helping resettle the people who continue to flee from Southeast Asia, Central and South America.

Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles issued a pastoral let- ; ter for National Migration Week urging the 3 million Catholics in his archdiocese to welcome and show soiidarity toward the area's immigrants.

The archbishop called for "extended voluntary departure status for Central American refugees fleeing violence" and for fair immigration policy that gives legal status to aliens, "who, in fact, are a contributing part of our society."

An extended voluntary departure program would give illegal

aliens temporary legal status in the United States until conditions in their own countries improve.

The integration of immigrants into communities poses a challenge to pastoral care and provides "a new moment of evangelization and communion," Archbishop Mahony said.

"The world has arrived at the doorstep of each parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles," he wrote, urging the parishes to accept cultural and language diversity as an enrichment "rather than a barrier," and calling on Catholics to learn about immigrants' language and background.

Talking about illegal aliens, Bishop Rene H. Gracida of Corpus Christi, Texas, urged help for refugees in general, but said, "I don't want any priest or any church providing transportation to (undocumented) refugees between cities or places within a city to airports or bus terminals.

"Aside from these restrictions, it is possible to house, feed, clothe and transport aliens within a city to see the doctor, to see a lawyer... We have the full cooperation of the local Immigration and Naturalization Service and they recognize the human needs that several Catholic churches render these people," Bishop Gracida said.

The bishop urged people to bring out bedrolls and make their halls and shelters available to the thousands of refugees who cross the border from Mexico into Texas.

"Welcome the stranger into our midst...for there would be no need for the political movement known as the sanctuary movement if we urged all priests to minister to refugees," he said.

"I call on all priests to help meet the corporal and spiritual needs of our immigrants as they pass through our communities seeking to better themselves," Bishop' Gracida said.

"Spread the mattresSes in all the

halls and church basements. You are not to question or to ask for green cards or yellow cards or any cards," he instructed, referring to permanent residence cards.

Richard Masin, reporting for the Committee for Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy, said there is a legal difference between harboring and sheltering the aliens.

Sheltering is providing warmth and comfort to those in need, while harboring is a secretive act that should be avoided, he said.

The fate of Haitian refugees in

the United States will be one item on the agenda when U.S. bishops meet with their Haitian counterparts in February. The bishops also plan to discuss issues such as human rights in Haiti, according to Holy Cross Father William Lewers, director of the bishops' Office of International Justice and Peace.

Father Tomasi said Haitians "are in a limbo situation" because most of them are in the United States illegally and the church tries "to be kind of advocates for these people who have nobody else."

Bishop Regan scores ,Philip.pine guerrillas DA VAO CITY, Philippines Dominican nuns at Assumption (NC) - Guerrilla war and a vio- Academy leave the town by sunset lent religious cult called "Tadtads" each day for fear of the Tadtads (choppers) have trapped the poor and stay overnight in Tagum, an of Davao province on southern. hour's drive away.

Mindanao island in a <:ycle of In some towns in the Davao death and brutality, said a retired province and the Surgao del Sur bishop. province, fighting between the com"I've never seen such mindiess munist-led Ne'w People's Army violence and fear," retired ~i~hop and the government is so severe, Joseph Regan of Tagum, a native said t4e Bishop, that normal life of Fairhaven, said during an inter- ha'salmost ceas«;d. view at the Maryknoll Center More than 700 people-have died House in Davao City. . in the provinc~ this' year in the war "The poor people are trapped. i between government forces and just don't know what will happen the NJ>A. in the end," said the 80-year-old "Nothing moves after dark," he Maryknoll missioner. ·said .. "Food is running out. People Bishop Regan, who officially are eating roots and contaminated retired in 1980 but remains active, food. The NP A booby traps buses said he feels the c'hurch has no one and the army fights back with tanks." . to speak out against the violence.

"All we've been able to do is He said he has no plan for hold rosary rallies," he said. "But resolving the violence.

50,000 people attended the three "I just plug along like a good rallies we held, which shows you priest, doing what I can to help how hungry the people are for a people," he said. solution to all the trouble.

According to Bishop Regan, the The Cure Tadtads drove the parish priest "Love cures people: both the out of a town called Monkayo, ones who give and the ones who north of Davao City. He said the . receive it." - Dr. Karl Menninger.

DR. JAMES J. SABRA, chief of surgery at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, offers best wishes of hospital personnel to Mrs. Yvette Ratte, retiring after a total of 28 years at the hospital, first in the medical records department and for the past 23 years as operating room secretary.

Changes, new projects at St. Anne's Hospital The loan. progr~m, cosponsor· In various happenings at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, ed by St. Anne's and the Fall . ground has been broken for a River Police Department, loans family practice center to be asso·· car seats for inpatient children ciated with· the hospita'l; a car from the hospital to their homes, seat loan program has been ini· thus keeping parents 'and the tiated for children from new· hospital in compli~nce with born to five years .of age; the Massachusetts law. hospital has taken full responsi.

The SHAPE Screening, Health, bility for a health maintenance Awareness, Prevention and Edu· project formerly underwritten cation health maintenance pro· by an insurance company; and ject. formerly sponsored by personnel changes have included Aetna Insurance Co., is now appointment of Dr. Neil Sher· directed by the hospital. Offer· man as director of radiation on· ing free health .screening ser· cology and retirement of Mrs. vices to parishes and organiza· Yvette Ratte after 28 years of tions, it checks for hyperten'sion, service in the medical records cancer, enemia, diabetes and vision, hearing or lung prob·· and operating room departments.

The one-story family practice lems, as well· as providing councenter, to be located on South seling in those areas and in nu· trition. Those interested in Main Street· . across from the hOspital, will accommodate SHAPE may contact Maria Ca· eight phys,icians, It is expected· brales at the hospital, 674-5741, to open in July.. ' ext. 2390,

WASHINTON (NC) - Two parents' organizations and the recording industry have reached a compromise on how to ,label rock music lyrics considered "ex· plicit."

The agreement, announced recently, and praised on all sides as a victory for parents and con· sumers, gives record companies two options when dealing with lyrics that contain suggestions of explicit sex, violence or sub· stance abuse: - A four-word warning, "Ex· plicit Lyrics Parental Ad· visory," may be boxed and print· ed on the back cover of record albums.

- Potentially offensive lyrics may be printed on the back cover of albums or on visible lyric sheets, enabling consumers to judge for themselves. Cas· settes, which are too small to carry the lyrics, would contain a substitute statement, "See LP for Lyrics."

Recording artists who!,!e cont· racts give them control over album cover design may ~gnore the understanding.

No specific definition was adopted for "explicit," leaving

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Compromise made on " labeling 'explicit' lyrics record companies to decide for themselves.

Members of the Washington· based Parents Music Resource Center "have· faith" that record companies "will make those judgments with the concern of the parents with younger, child· ren in mind," said Tipper Gore, one of PMRC's founding memo bers and wife of Sen. Albert Gore Jr., D·Tenn, PMRC, founded last May by a group of influential Washing. ton women, had spearheaded reo cent efforts to persuade the recording industry to restrain itself.

Ann Kahn, president of the National Parent-Teacher Association, said her organization considered the agreement "a' win situatiol). for everyone who ' is involved."

She said the controversy over lyrics was "a consumer issue from the beginning, one in which consumers have ,the right to have fuB information before they purchase any product."

The agreement is "a major step forward in giving parents mO,re information on which they and their families can make reo

sponsible decisions," Ms, Kahn said.

A statement by the Recording Industry Association of America, whose 44 members account for 85 percent of U,S, record reo leases, said the new policy "is intended to respond sensitively to the concerns of parents of younger children and to achieve a fair balance with the essential rights and freedoms of creators, performers and adult purchasers of recorded music."

While some record companies still oppose any kind of labeling, ll:!cording industry associatiPn head Stanley Gortikov said' 22 companies, including all the major ones, had already agreed to the new guidelines, and the others were being urged to do so.

The policy is expected to take effect in early 1986.

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Rights abuses increase SEOUL, South Korea (NC)- An was released during the Korean agency of the Korean Catholic ,bishops' recent fourth annual bishops' conference has .said hu· Human Rights Week, held in man rights abuses, are ,increasing Seoul, .south Korea~s ,capital. in South Korea in ,recent years.

"The dignity of the human per· "Several times, prisoners of son is rooted in the image of conscience have been imprisoned God," the committee said. "Ac· and not released," the' Korean c'ordingly," to improve human Catholic Justice and Peace Com· rights is the demand of the Gosmittee said> in a statement. pel and' the . summons of the Referring to daily searches, ar- church for those who sliffer rests and seizures on the wit~out a voice by 1njustice." 'streets as "anti·human· rights," South Korea has a president it said a wi'de' range of people and an elected 'legislature. How· are being arrested, . including e,ver, governme!lt opponents say students, farmers, . "r~ligious the :legislature 'is weak and people and city migrants." dominated by President Chun The committee's . statement , Doo Hwan.

A parade for 'the pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - The , circus came to St. Peter's Square last Sunday for a parade before 30,000 people, including Pope John Paul II. .

The pope watched from the balcony of his apartment oyer· looking the square as elephants, 'horses, zebras, antelopes, ostri· ches and a Uama marched below. The parade also included' three circus performers dressed

as Magi, to commemorate the feast of the Epiphany when the three' kings presented gifts to the newborn Christ.

The animals and performers were from the Moira Orfei cir· cus, currently performing in Rome.

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OCUI on youth Bishop Stang 42 students at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, havebeen named to the principal's list for the first academic quarter.

Joining them in the winners' circle are 94 students who received first honors and 151 who earned second, honors.

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A NEW RUSSIAN stamp will honor the 'late Samantha Smith, the American girl who visiteQ the Soviet Union iIi 1983 'at the invitation of tpe late Soviet leader Yuri, Andropov.

Samantha had sent Andropbv a letter' asking. for' peace betwe.en the U.S. and Russia. She was killed in a plane crash last August.. (NC/UPI photo)

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Q. Why do people take you for the'way you dress,'wear your hair, be afraid to face life's deepest etc., but not for your personality? issues, (Indiana) Ho,w much more interesting it ,is A. Their vision is faulty. Such to talk with someone whose vision, persons have trouble seeing is not faulty, someone, for exambeyond the small animal that's on pIe, who isn't afraid to come outin your shirt .or the brand name that the open and admit that he is is on your jeans. afraid of certain things.

One young man, age 26, talked Sad to say, th~se people sometimes 'carry their affliction with to me recently about his glory days them into adult life. They become on the high school football team. concerned about what'kind Of car He told me how he lived' in utter' theirfrii:'nds drive and in What area' . 'dread of the two-a-day practice 'sessions in the searing heat of of town they' live. ' , . . , A H ' d h '11 .

These people lead shallow lives. " ugust. e sal est!. occaslOrtIt is difficult,for'them'.to s'ee below ' ally dreams ofthose g~ldlron work-

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older like a parent, knowing that someone is there gives additional confidence in difficult times.

Unfortunately, not everyone recognizes when they need help.

Individuals become lost in life, turning to situations or styles of life that might hurt themselves and others. ' Alcohol and drug abuse are among the surest signs that a

By Charlie Martin young person is losing his or her way. Few paths hold more danger.

As a fellow. teen, you may be the ' SAY YOU, SAY ME first to notice, that someone in your peer group is losing the way. , 'Say 'you, say me S~y it for always , You discover a, friend drunk at a party, and perhaps even more That is the way it should b~ Say you, say me , dangerously, willing to drive while under the influence o{ alcohol. Or 'Say it together, naturally I had a dream ', you see a peer popping pills or takI had an awesome dream ing other types of drugs.

People alone in the dark, p'l~ying games in the dink When faced with such a situaAnd what they played was a masquerade 'tion,1 encourage young people to From behind the walls of doubt have the courage to care. Reach A voice was cl:ying out. . out to the person. It may not be As we go down life's lonesome highway , easy, but you may need to conThe hardest thing to do front the friend with the abusive behavior. Even if your friend's Is to find a friend or'two That helping hand, someone who understands reaction includes some anger, your When you feel that you've lost your way concern will come through.

You got someone there to say Ask the person to look at what I'll show you. is occurring and consider getting So you think you know the answers help. Offer to support your friend Oh no as he or she works to, change the Well the whole world's grown messed up abusive use of alco,hol or drugs; That's right, I'm telling you Whether it .is through alcohol, But believe in who you are drugs, problems at home, or You are a shining star. through some other cause, we can lose our way in life. .

Written and sung by Lionel Richie. (c) 1985, As painful as these times may ' Motown Record Corp. be, we can t~ke steps to change ' ". , " , ,', " .. things. We can rediscover our Lionel ~ichie, has another. .top- they can help each other find the' truer, self and begin again to live five hit in "Say, You, Say Me.'~, ,way in life. We sometimes need our lives more fully. " Sung in his familiar ballad style, "that helping hand, someone who Your comments are always welthis song is part oft~.e film "White understands when yo'u feel 'that come. Address 'charlie Martin Nights.", . , ' ' , ,you've lost your way." Whether 1218S. Rotherwood'Ave., Evans: The song reminds people tqat' the person is Ii friend or someone" ville, bid. 47?14. . .

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Or perhaps they are afraid of And likely the vision of each finding out too much about them- partner will improve as time goes selves and so they choose to stay on. The truth about life on earth LISA PAUL (right), 23, visits the Moscow apartment of Inna Meiman, a Soviet Jew who with people who will not probe' will become clearer and clearer. was her tutor during a 1983 stay in Russia. Ms. Meiman is in need of cancer therapy not below the surface of life. Often Send questions to Tom Lennon, available in the Soviet Union but has been denied an exit visa. Miss Paul is on a three-week fast such people are rather dull to be 1312 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washingin an attempt to call attention to her tutor's plight. (NC Photo) ",:ith. And in a subtle way they may ton, D.C. 20005;

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General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewingj PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggestedj R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved fOI children and adultsj A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults onlyj A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

NOTE FATHER CLAREN CE RY AN talks with migrants, telling them in the few Spanish words he knows that he wants to help them in any way he can. (NC photo)

Missouri parish offers ~id to migrant worl~ers

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"Fool for Love" (Cannon) Sam Shepard's adaptation of his own play about a brutalizing love~hate relationship between a couple (Shepard and Kim Basinger) is unremittingly violent, both physically and psychologically. Moreover, because of the sexual coarseness of the dialogue and the unresolved ambiguity of its theme of incest, it has been classified 0, R. "Revolution" (Warners) This epic treatment of the· American Revolution is grand spectacle but lacks a credible human dimension because of underdeveloped characters' and·'episodic plot contrivances. Violent battle scenes. A2, .

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"Runaway Train" (Cannon) An Alaskan train whose steely-black locomotive is hurtling out of control carries two escaped convicts (Jon Voight and Eric Roberts) along with a napping railroad worker (Rebecca DeMornay). Senseless plot, ex.cessive violence and coarse language. 0, R. "When Father Was Away on Business" (Cannon) This subtitled Yugoslavian film, set back at the time of Tito's break with the Soviet Union, is about a philandering husband who is denounced by his mistress as a political deviant and ends up in a labor camp. This . warm human comedy ends in the resolution of personal problems and political differences during a madcap wedding feast of family forgiveness. Some coarse language and partial nudity. A3, R. Religious TV Sunday, Jan. 12 (CBS) "For Our Times" - The first of three programs on the church since the Second Vatican Council offers a historical perspective on the 196265 council.

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LEXINGTON, Mo. (NC) - The All but one of the seven ormigr'ant workers who travel to chards in the county provides Lafayette County each faU to free housing and utilities for the pick apples don't have to live in migrant workers. The houses the migrant camps for very long usually contain one room with a before they run into Father Clartoilet, gas stove and refrigerator, ence "Clancy" Ryan. with workers sharing a common . Driving through the backroads washhouse. Late arrivals often of apple orchards in his maroon must sleep six to eight to a Ford, the straight-talking Irish room. priest. pastor of Immaculate ConFather Ryan said that growers ception Parish, Lexington. has give the impression that workers Sunday, Jan. 12 (NBC) "Guidegone to the· camps for the past are earning as much as $100 a day, line" - Cardinal John Krol of three years· to tell the. migrants '. which he says is false, He said Philadelphia discusses the extramany might be in the county for they are welcome. ordinary Synod of Bishops.

Since fall 1983. Father Ryan five or six weeks before receiving a Ilnd his parishioners have aided paycheck. the ·approX'imately 200 Mexican Father Ryan said he is pleased· and Haitian families who come with the progress tha~ has been from August until late October made for the migrants over the to pick apples in Lafayette TUCSON, Ariz. (NC) - Mis- other religions "drink from a come past three years, but he ho'pes County's seven apple orchards. . to provide even m9re aid to the . salettes prOVide only "tidbit Scrip- mon well."

On Monday and Thursday Hires," in the words of Paulist.

Although the physical presence migrant workers in the future. evenings, migrant families begin .

"We have to do more because Father Mark Hettie, associate pas- of Bibles is uncommon in Catholic lining up outside the doors of the number of people coming for tor at St. Cyril of Alexandria in churches, Father Hettie said they the former parish school buildthe clinic js going to build every Tucson, so the parish has stocked have always been used, "just in difing for food and clothing, medithe pews with Bib)es. ferent formats." year," said the 55-year-old priest. cal and dental screening. pres"Missalettes make for ChristiFor example, he said, stainedcriptions. family counseling.

Last year, Immaculate Concep- anettes," said Father Hettie, "but glass windows depict bi blical scenes, the Stations of the Cross are based legal aid and other support sertion spent $20,000, a third of its BibJes build bulk." .

"Catholics are not tidbit Chris- on Scripture and the rosary is "97 vices. . total income, on the migrant proA day-care-center and a pregram. Father Ryan estimated the tians. Catholics are not Christi- percent straightfrom ~he Bible."

Father Hettie said he does not school are operated on weekparish would need $30,000 a year anettes," added the priest.

The Second Vatican Council worry about theft of the Bibles days by the local school district to operate an adequate program at the facility. Classes are offerof services for the migrant called for making Scripture easily because he put them under the accessible to all Catholics and there protection ofSt. Dismas, the patron ed for migrants ages 14 to 20 in workers. . is "no clearer, easier access" than saint of prisoners, who repented auto body repair. auto mechanics. while on a cross next to that of having Bibles in church, he said. small-engine repair, welding and Paulist Father Jerry Sullivan, Jesus.

English asa second language.

Besid«s, he asked, "what kind of also an associate pastor at St. Mass is celebrated in Spanish Cyril, said that there is "something person steals a Bible?" for the workers, who are preBERK.ELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. about excerpts" that is not fulfildominantly Catholic, followed/by (NC) - Archbishop Peter L. ling. His description for them is coffee, donuts and fellowship.

Gerety of Newark has told a con- "cut-and-paste Catholicism."

Prior to 1983, Father Ryan . troversial charismatic group in his MAR YDALE, Ky. (NC) - A' In November, St. Cyril's pursaid, virtually no material and archdiocese to correct their views diocesan priests' council "is not a chased 350 Bibles to help "build spiritual assistance was provided of women and· the world. The confidence and love among pracmen's club,~' Bishop J. Francis for the migrants. He and his People of Hope charismatic com- ticing Catholics and to give a welStafford of Memphis, Tenn., told parishioners have had to over- munity, many of whom worship at come to converts and non-Catho- a meeting of priests from the five Catholic dioceses of Tennessee and come local resistance and prejuLittle Flower Parish in Berkeley lics/' dice to aid them.

Heights, is seeking legal recogniSupplying the parish with Bibles . Kentucky. A bishop and his priests' council should "honestly "The people around here don't tion as a Catholic organization in was "one of the finest ecumenical advise" and "challenge" o~e anunderstand the migrants. _ the archdioce·se. But some other things we could do," Father Hettie other; he said. The, bishop noted they're not going to speak Eng_Catholics i~ Li~.tle .\!ower P~rish said. that the legal pow.erof a priests' lish 'in front of you because they:' .have called It a cult and claimed St. Cyril's averages 20 new memcouncil is restricted:' the bishop are not that fluent,' so 'when··peo.; ... that it was trying to move in and bers~a year, Father Sullivan saia, consults with it before making cerpie overhear their conversatioJ:ls, . take over the parish and the local and it is a comfort for former ProCatholic school. The conflict had testants to see Bibles, as it is for tain major diocesan decisions but it's Spanish," he said. been simmering for more than a non-Catholics attending weddings he needs its consent only rarely.

"Well, we don't understand year before becoming a public and funerals.

However, "any juridical relationthat, and what we don't under- controversy that has captured local ship between bishop and priests in Father Hettie added that he headlines and some national atten- feels the presence of Bibles evidenstand we fear, and what we fear, the church is secondary to their . tion. we hate," he .said. sacramental relations~ip,"he said. ces that Catholics arid members of

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Scout paper drive: 9 a.m. to I p.m.

Feb. I. Parishioners requested to save newspapers.

ST. MARY, NB Parish council meeting 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 14. The council will also be the prime building co~mittee for the parish construction project.

Prayer group meetings resume Jan. 13, church.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Coffee and doughnuts follow 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday, at which . time Vincentians will also meet.

Babysitting available at 9:15 a.m.

Mass each Sunday.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Appreciation dinner for parish volunteers: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17, parish center.

Special Masses will be offered Jan. 19 and 21 for donors of Christmas poinsettias.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Engaged Encounter weekend begins tonight.

SACRED HEART, FR Thanks go to parish senior citizens for gifts to the church renovation fund from the Senior Group and the Senior Tours.

. ST. MARY, SEEKO.NK First penance: 2 p.m. Jan 12; new altar servers meet at I: 15 p. m. tomorrow, church; parent enrichment night for grade 2 parents: Jan. 19; parish ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT appreciation dinner "Feb. 2.

"Vision beyond War," a four-week ST. THOMAS MORE, video series with speakers and disSOMERSET cussions, is being cosponsored by St. Stained. glass windows, especially Anthony's and Mattapoisett Con- . the St. Thomas More window, are gregational Church at 7:30 p.m. Jan. currently being repaired.

16 and 30 at St. Anthony's and Jan. 23 at the Congregational' Church.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Information onjoining Anthony's Choir members, especially tenors, Angels Choir: Diane Garde. and altar boys are needed. Information at rectory.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS New Women's Guild officers: Harriet Royal, president; Ann Patter- ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH DCCW meeting for members and son, vice-president; Mary O'Hear, friends: 2 p.m. Jan. 12. treasurer; Margaret Hafferty, secretary.

ST. FRANCIS XA VIER, HYANNIS DEAF APOSTOLATE The Sunday TV Mass at 10:30 Four single or twin beds are needed a.m. on Channel 6 will be signed

by Vincentians for parish families.

Donors may contact the rectory.

Jan. 19 and Feb. 16.

DIVORCED/SEPARATED, DOMIN CAN LAITY, FR NB AREA Mass and Dominican workshop Support group meeting 7 p.m.

7:30 tonight, Dominican Convent, Jan. 15 and 27, Family Life Center, 37 Park St. Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth. .LaSALLETTE SHRINE, CONCEPTION, IMMACULA ATTLEBORO TAUNTON Healing service led by Rev. Albert Choir rehearsals resume 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 13; new members in and out of Fredette, MS: 2 p.m. Jan. 12, Peoparish sought for instrumental ensem- ple's Chapel. ble beginning rehearsals 3:30 p.m.

CHRIST THE KING, Jan. 19.

COTUIT/ MASHPEE ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Memorial cards are available at Appreciation day for parish volun- the rectory for building fund donateers: 3 p.m. Jan. 12, parish center. tions in memory of a loved one.

KIC (Kids in Christ) invited to fellowship meeting 7 p.m. Jan. 16.

First rehearsal of new adult folk group: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16, Queen of ST. JOSEPH,NB All Saints; Vincentian meeting 7 First penance 2 p.m. tomorrow; p.m. Jan. 13, parish council meeting parish council meeting 7 p.m. Jan. 8 p.m. Jan. 13, both at CCD center.

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SEPARATED/DIVORCED, CAPE, ISLANDS .

Ministry for Separated/ DIvorced Catholics: meeting 7 p.~. Jan. 19, St. Francis Xavier pa~lsh center, Hyannis. Address ~y mcome tax consultant. InformatIOn: Janet Farrell. 775-8168.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, NB Meeting 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13, St. Kilian rectory. Address by Sister Rose Agnew, RSM, pastoral care director, Parkwood Hospital: Hope' in Time of Grief.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHA VEN Lectors' training sessions: 2 p.m.

Jan. 12, 19,26, rectory.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Mass and healing service 2 p.m Jan. 12.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Fellowship meeting 7 p.m. Jan. . 12; those wishing to be altar boys are asked to contact one of the priests; parish prayer intercessors for the week are Dolores Blais and Geral-' dine Poitras.

Gets Laszt prize BEERSHEBA, Israel (NC) French-born Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace, has been awarded the first Ladislau Laszt Prize at the Ben Gurion University in Beersheba for his contribution to mutual understanding among Christians, Mos)","""

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You couldn~t ask for better babies WATKINS, Colo. (NC) - With the help of the parish commun· ity at Our Lady of the Plains .

Church 'in Watkins, Kathy and Greg Miller have been able to meet the demands of caring for their 4-montb,.0Id quintuplets.

Support has ranged from dona~ tions of food, clothes and money to individuals giving their time to help care for ·the five babies born in April.

The start of school has kept some parishioners from stopping by to help feed the quintuplets, but many have offered to donate money to cover the cost of a full-time aide if Mrs. MiUer hires one to assist with the workload.

Because the whole parish community helped with the children, said Greg Miller, it was included in the September baptism of the quints, which took place during Mass. in front of a full church..

"They're 'all super people," Miller told The Denver Catholic Register, newspaper of the Den· ver Archdiocese. . The Millers have one parishioner who helps out every Thursday and another who takes over on Tuesday nights 'so the couple can play in a softball 'league.

Parishioner Sophie Ingraham, who also helps out, said she has :five children of her own, "but I can't imagine having them all at the same time."

Dianne Behrens, a close friend, said she tries to visit the Millers once a week "to help alleviate the stress."

"It's tough on her (Mrs. MilMs. Behrens said. "You couldn't ask for better babies, but there are five of them. YO\£ just can't grasp. having five of them on demand at the same time."

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The father of the five said that praying every night has gotten him through the hectic months since the babies were born.

"It must be faith,"his wife said. "I haven't thought ahout it but it must be."

Their parish priest, Father Andrew Gottschalk, has visited the family often, bringing a pack-

aged Chinese dinner from town.

He' said he is concerm;d that the couple has so little time to themselves.

"It's not only having to feed and burp babies, but it's a question of people in and out all the time,"the priest said.

Father Gottschalk has volunteered to pay to send the Millers on a retreat or Marri~e Encounter weekend "to help them regroup spiritualIy.

Notre Dame gets millions for peace NOTRE DAME, Ind; (NC) The University of Notre Dame has received a $6 milIion gift from Joan B. Kroc, widow of Ray A. Kroc, founder of the McDonald's restaurant chain, to establish an institute for peace studies.

The benefaction is one of the largest personal"gifts ever received by the university.

The institute endowed by Mrs. Kroc's gift will be directed by John J. Gilligan, former governor of Ohio and a Notre Dame professor since 1979.

Among other things, it will consolidate existing courses into a comprehensive peace studies program and will establish peace fellowships for young scholars of several nations.

Mrs. Kroc has been involved in a number of peace-related activities, including publishing full-page advertisements in major U.S. news- . papers urging people troubled by nuclear arms to share their views with elected representatives. She also has given grants to disarmament groups.

Boycott urged (UNDATED) (NC) - Scottish bishops have urged Catholics to dissociate themselves from all social;cultural and sporting' links to South Africa. The bishops were backing a call from their Justice and Peace Commission for Catholics to boycott South African goods, discourage emigration to 'South Africa and question personal financial investment in the country.

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February 21-22-23 • Married Couples Rev. Albert Ryan

February 17'-21 • Guided Retre·at for Religious Rev. Jam'es Murphy, C.S.C.

March 4-5-6 • Catholic Women Rev. Maurice Proulx, M.S.' --(

March 14-15-16. Widowed Persons TEAM

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KA THY MILLER, surrounded by her quintuplets, begins the morning feeding session. (NC photo)