01.14.82 by The Anchor

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

t eanc 0 VOL 26, NO.2

FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1982

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Test tube baby debate flares: WASHINGTON (NC) - The use of in vitro fertilization to produce test tube babies is ethic ally acceptable, according to Dr. Leroy Walters, director of the bioethics center at Georgetown University's Kennedy Insitute of Ethics. Although there are some ques tions surrounding the process in which an egg from the mother and sperm from the father are united in a laboratory dish and the resulting embyro is implant ed in the mother's womb, where it develops like another unborn child - the method itself can be used for either good or evil and should not be considered part of a pro-abortion mentality, Walters said. In vitro fertilization is used to help couples who cannot other wise have children because of reproductive system deficiencies. Some church leaders and pro life groups have opposed the process, and debate over its ethi cal permissibility flared again with the Dec. 28 birth of Eliza

beth Carr, the first test tube baby born in the U.S. In 1979, a federal ethics ad visory board which included re ligious and medical personnel, also decided that research on in vitro fertilization is ethically acceptable although it raises cer tain questions. Jesuit Father Richard McCor mick, Kennedy Institute ethics professor and an ethics board member, agreed with the board's conclusions, although he too ex pressed reservations. Among the other recommendations, board stated; in vitro fertiliza tion research that stopped short of transferring an embyro into the womb was acceptable if it met certain criteria, including one providing that no embryos would be sustained outside the womb for more than 14 days, the time at which inplantation .usually occurs. Also in 1979, Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National ~onference of Catholic Tum to Page Six

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Response .IS President Reagan supports tui tion tax credit legislation but his attitude is not shared by legisla tors serving Southeastern Massa chusetts. Last Nov. 4 The Anchor wrote to Senators and representatives serving the diocesan area. Each was asked his or her stand on tuition tax credits ':as a method of achieving freedom of choice and equity in education," and on specific Senate and House bills addressing the matter; Senators Edward M. Kennedy "and Paul E. Tsongas and Repre sentative Gerry E. Studds ex pressed opposition to the tax credit concept. Representative Margaret M. Heckler did not answer the ques tions posed, simply outlining the status of various tuition tax

credit bills and concluding "This is one of the most complex and far-reaching education issues be fore this Congress, so I particu larly appreciate your thoughts and suggestions." The Anchor's letter and the complete texts of all responses are on page 8 of tl1is issue.

Father Coleman said it was crucial that tuition tax credit supporters should write to Rea gan now, as the fis~al 1983 bud get message is being prepared.

Despite disappointing reac tions from state legislators, said Father George W. Coleman, dio cesan director of education, he is encouraged by response to a diocesan letter-writing campaign" mounted last fall at about the time President Reagan told a meeting of Chief Administrators of Catholic Education that his administration would "keep its pledge to work with this Con gress to fashion the kind of legis·

"We should reiterate our gratitude for the president's stance," said the diocesan edu cator, "and encourage him to present it in the context of the budget." Agreeing that now is the time "for the non-public school como" munity to make a concerted ef tort to urge enactment of tuition tax credit legislation," Archbish op Thomas Kelly, general secreTurn to Page Eight

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JUDITH CARR admires her newborn daughter Eliza beth, the .first U.S. test tube baby. (NCIUPI Photo)

With clockwork preCISIOn " honed by the experience of 26" years, the 27th annual Bishop's Charity Ball will begin at 8 to morrow night at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth. Promptly at that hour the Top hatters, led by Gene Arieta, will begin playing for dancing in the

lation which provides tax reo lief to the families which pay tuition in addition to supporting their public schools."

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main ballroom. At 9 o'clock they will move to the ballroom lounge and the Buddy ,Braga orchestra will be heard in the ballroom. At 9:05 p.m. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be escorted to his brightly decorated box by hon orary ball chairpersons Joseph Gromada, president of the Fall

River Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and Miss Ethel· Crowley, presi dent of the Diocesan ·Council of Catholic Women. From 9: I0 to 9:35, young women, escorted by their fathers or other male relatives, will be Turn to Page Six

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JOLIET, III. (NC)-Bishop Romeo R. Blanchette, 69, retired bishop of Joliet, who for .nearly three years maintained his humor and courage despite a disease thatre duced him to immobility and muteness, died Jan. 10 at St. Joseph Hospital in Joliet. where he had been confined for more than a year and a half. ' Three years ago his illness was diagnosed as "Lou Gehrig's disease," a terminal dncurable .mness of the motor nerves technically caI'1ed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (UNDATED) (NC)-Archbishop Jozef Glemp of Warsaw and Gniezno, the primate of Poland, has attacked government aemands thalt Polish workers renounce their mem bership in the Solidarity ,labor federation in order to keep their jobs, said uncensored reports from Warsaw. "Extractions of such declarations is unethical," Ithe archbishop said in a sermon. Jan. 6 to 3,000 worshipers in Warsaw's St. John's Cathedral. Noting ,that many people were :in a moral quandary over signing such documents, the arch bishop indirectly advised them to sign because ,the documents are meaningless. WASHINGTON (NC)-The memory of ,Dr. Martin 'Luither King Jr. should spur efforts to build a just and equitable society, according to Archbishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference. In a statement on ,the Jan. 15 observance of the slain civil rights leader's birthday, Archbishop Kelly said: "When human needs are being cut severely while spend ing for armaments is increasing ito unprecl!dented levels, 'the issues of justice and dig nity for the poor become all the more urgent." WASHINGTON (NC)-The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) has listed Guatemala, Haiti and El Salvador as the worst violators of human rights in Latin America in 1981 and said U.S. foreign po'licy under President Reagan has worsened the human rights situation. The Washington-based COHA is a coa:l~tion of civic, reli gious and trade union groups monitor:ing U.S. relations with ,Latin America. Other countries i,t cited for human rights violations :include Cuba,Grenada, Guyana, Colom bia, Costa Rica and Mexico. The, complete COHA report is scheduled for publicaition ,in the s p r i n g . ' ' . ~

DEACON RICHARD DEGAGNE of St. Anne's parish, Fall', River, with

PITTSBURGH (NC)-oratorian Father WilHam Clancy, 59, former associate editor of Commonweal and formerr(lligion editor of Newswee~, died Jan. 6 at the Pittsburgh Oratory where he had been provost. Father Clancy, who also founded and edited Worldview, the monthly journa:l of the Council on Religion and International Affairs,

had been elected first provost 9f the newly established Pittsburgh Oratory in 1968 and

served in that post and as pastor of the University Oratory of the Holy Spirit unUI his

death.

his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Degagne and his aunt, Sis,ter Paulette Degagne, OP (at right), in top picture. Bottom, he has ~ busy Ifirst day in . the diaconate, assisting at Mass in his home parish,'then, at St.' William's parish, baptizing his niece, Kelly Jeanne, held by her mother, iJeanne De . WASHINGTON (NC)-A .group of pro-life and New Right political activists says it gagne. Her father, partially hidden, is at right. To rear, gbdpare:nts Murielle will ask President Reagan to proclaim 1982 as the Year of the Unborn Child and is pro Degagne, Joseph Carvalho. (Sr. Gertrude Gaudette Pho~os) 1

moting international ,recognition of the observance. "1982 has been set aside to com memorate a'1l the victims of abortion throughout the world and to unite in the effort to stop the raging Jiver of innocent blood that bl~ights the face of the earth," said the coordinating council. The council also added that pro-life and pr()-famiJy groups worldwide will be asked to adopt the Yeal' of the Unborn Child logo and to develop appropriate ideas and projects for-1982.

PARIS (NC)-Poles submitting peacefully to martial law in their country are, undergoing a spiri,tual <trial like the Passion of Chdst, said Archbishop Jean Marie Lustiger of Paris in the Pa,ris, daily paper, Le Monde. In his article, the archbishop ana,lyzed the political options open to the Poles as coming down 'to two: despair and suicidal revolt, or submission to martial ,law a!ld Hving through their trial by the st'1"ength of their spirit and faith. "T-he passion of Poland today is to have the spiri,tual courage not 'to die but to 'live," he wrote. ~"'-~

WASHINGTON (NC)-The Catholic Press Association (OPA) .isurging its mem

bers to "raise Cain" and" "scream" about posta'! rate ,increases, effective Jan. 10. Be

cause funding !to allow continued phasing in of higher costs 'until 1987 was axed in

December from a continuing appropriations resolution signed by President Reagan,

new postal rates not scheduled to be reached for another five years are being imple

mented now. The increase is as much as 175 percent for some Catholic newspapers.

, The CPA executive director, James A. Doyle, is aslcing editors to fight back by con tacting ,their senators and representatives home for Congress' mid-Winter break.

IN COLOMBIA, family members work with technicians tel construct homes costing a total of $800. The Servivienda project wasf'ounded. by Jesuit Father Alberto Jimenez, a graduate of IJ1i!1ois .state pniversity. Using prefabricated materials, it has provided homes for 8,000 families, is i ' expan4ing to other Latin countries. (NC Photo)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (NC)-Charles H. Keating Jr., founder of Citizen.s for De cency Through Law, 'lashed out at child pornography and obscenity on cable television dur]ng a national conference on legal means to fight obscenFty. Kea'ting, also preS'ident of Am:rican Continental.<:orp., told abo~,t 500 conferees that child porno~l'aphy and obscenity on cable teleVISIon are the bIggest cha:Henges faced by anti-p9<l'nography groups. "We are now talking about something so hideous and barbaric" he said "that people who have not seen it cannot believe it exists." . "

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Worldare is opposed BOSTON (NC) Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston has joined 12 Protestant and Orthodox church leaders in pro· testing against Massachusetts' plan for workfare, which would require welfare recipients to take' jobs, incJuding unpaid Rublic service jobs. Because of the opposition of the church leaders and state legislators, and a reduction in federal work incentive program funds, the date for implementing workfare has been pushed back to Feb. 4 from its initial imple· mentation date of Jan. 4. Under workfare, welfare reci· . pients would have to take jobs. If paid jobs are unavailable, they would have to perform unpaid public service work in order to receive benefits. The number of hours worked depend on the size of the recipient's benefit check. The program "appears to pen alize welfare recipients for being poor," Cardinal Medeiros and the other religious leaders charged FATHER MORRIS in a letter. Uniting as the Church Leaders in Covenant for Urban Justice, the religious officials claimed in their Jetter to Massachusetts Father William F. Morris, 62, Taunton public schools and Gov. Edward King that workfare since 1962 at Corpus Christi Providence College before enter· may force welfare mothers "to parish, Sandwich, as associate ing St. Mary's Seminary, Balti. make impossible choices between pastor, administrator and pastor, more. unsatisfactory custodial child died last Saturday. He was ordained Nov. 27, care arrangements and the need 1943, by the late Bishop James attended by many His funeral, to put food on the family table." E. ~assidy, and was first assign "We regard these sanctions priests of the diocese, took place ed as associate pastor at St. yesterday at Corpus Christi, fol against mothers and children as lowing a wake on Monday at St. Peter's parish, Provincetown morally repugnant," they said. Mary's Church, Taunton, his na· where he remained until 1944. Some 23,000 welfare mothers tive parish, and Tuesday. at Cor· Other curacies were at Our would be affected under the pus Christi. Lady of the Assumption, Oster Massachusetts program. ville; St. Louis, Fall River; St. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was Also expressing concern with principal celebrant and Msgr. Margaret, Buzzards Bay; and St. regard to workfare were the so Robert L. Stanton was homilist. Mary, Taunton. He was then as cial services directors of the four signed to Corpus Christi, where Interment was in Taunton. dioceses of Massachusetts in cluding Father Peter N. Grazi· • Born June 19, 1919 in Taunton, he was associate pastor for six Father Morris was the son of the years, then administrator and ano of Fall River. As the Social late William F. and Anne pastor. Welfare Technical Advisory Com (Reilly) Morris. He attended mittee of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the direc tors sent a letter to Governor King. Declaring that they could not A Mass of thanksgiving in tors, especially Fathers Thad morally support a program nega: augurating a year-long program deus Bouhuysen and Finbarr Mc~ tive towards the values of in dividual dignity and family life, of activities commemorating the Aloon who served the parish 50th anniversary of Holy Trin many years, 'and to the commun· they asked the governor to con ity parish, West Harwich'/, was ity that worked with them to vene a "blue ribbon committee" concelebrated on Sunday, Jan. twice rebuild the church, as well to address the problems raised 3. A reception followed. as a school building, convent and by the workfare proposal. summer church. Over the years celebrant' was Very' The main "We would encourage and Rev. William V. Davis, provin the parish branclied out to form support a good and wholesome cial of the Sacred Hearts Fathers two other parishes. program," said the directors. Father Sullivan has appointed community which has staffed noting that such a program John Kelly, Dorothy O'Donnell should respect individual dignity the parish from its mission days and Rose Sylvia coordinators of to the present. and benefit the whole family. Concelebrants included Rev. a year of parish activities com "Any program failing to meet John F. Sullivan, SS.CC., pastor, memorating the 50th anniversary these standards we would find and Rev. Stanley Kolasa, SS: of Holy Trinity. difficult to support in our own Committees will plan liturgical agencies and programs, nor CC., associate pastor. Deacon and social events. to include Vincent P. Walsh, a parishioner, could we encourage such sup every member of the parish. assisted. port on the part of other church . "'Everyone is invited to volun part in the liturgy Also taking related agencies or programs teer talents to make this the as lectors and members of the that would seek our counsel or offertory procession were other best and most Spirit-filled year advice," they said. parishioners. Music was by the in the history of Holy Trinity," say organizers. parish choir and folk group. In his homily Father Davis Here and Now Sister Antonia Maria Lafran::e traced the history of Holy Trin '''The spiritual life is not a life of the Franciscan Missionaries ity from its mission days when of Mary died last Thursday at it was served by a traveling before, after, or heyond our age 95 4't her communjty's con priest. Two previous Holy Trin everyday existence. No, the vent in North Providence. Born ity churches he noted, one in spiritual life can only be real in Que~ec, she served in Fall Harwich Center, the other at the when it is lived in the midst of River and Woonsocket during current site in West Harwich, the pains and joys of the here and now." - Father Henri Nou her reli~ious life. She has no im had been destroyed by fir~. He paid tribute to former pas· wen mediate survivors.

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themoorin~ Let's Try Again

This issue of The Anchor features a special report; on

tuition tax credits for nonpublic schools; It includes state:'

_ments on the matter from the senators for the common

wealth and' the representatives for our area of Massachu setts. To say the least, the response from our elected officials

on this matter so crucial to our Catholic schools was dis

appointing.

The Anchor contacted Senators Kennedy and Tsongas

and Representatives Heckler and Studds on November 4.

It- was two months before all replies came in; and in one

case a statement almost literally had to be wrung out of

the legislator. All responses are to be found on pages 8'

and 9. '

Given the track records of those concerned, one could

expect the replies received from Washington. Mr. Ken

nedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts, states that

basically on constitutional,grounds he is unable to support

tax credits~ He comments,' in fact, that it would be useless

to- vote for tax credits because even if the measure passed,

it would be struck down by the Supreme Court. 'This high

ly -probabilistic approach to the question is indeed familiar.

Again, Mr. Kennedy, too many i f s . .

- Our junior senator has no ifs. He simply will not sup

port efforts to aid nonpublic schools. Directly and open~y,

he supports only public education. He also 'feels that the

government cannot afford tax credits 'for nonpublic school

children. In essence, he would continue to uphold the prin

'ciple of double taxation which has been the plague on'our

POLISH SEAMEN DOCKED IN VANCOUVER PEER THROUGH PORTHOLES educational house. _ '

The longest, most detailed reply came to us' from

'The eyes of all hope in thee, 0 Lord.' Ps. 144: 15 Congressman Studds, who -is also unable to suppo.rt the

,tuition tax credit concept 'and who likewise makes it clear ;~------------.;..-------_._------------- that priority must be given to public education.

, Representative Margaret Heckler neither supports n:or

opposes such a tax plan. She leaves the door, open to all

' options. After all, this is election year. 'Anchor film reviews are pre Since we have a Christian graphic forms, in a manner, in After reading our legislators' responses, Catholics Q working hard for tuition tax credits might well feel that all p21red by the U.S. Catholic Con view of existence, we believe fact, uncomfortably- close to that is lost. It is obvious that supporters of Catholic education ference Department of 'C()RlI11uni that there is an essential order of so~e lavishly praised film caltion. In the following article, things an~ that there can be directors of our day - notably are in for a long struggle. It is also quite clear that private Michael Gallagher of that depart- to no real clash between moral and Brian de Palma ("Dressed to I and parochial schools will once more become -the target ,of ment explains how reviewers go esthetic considerations. Pornog Kill" and "Blowout"). Some the trite bromides so often hurled about when chuch-shite all!out their work. raphy and exploitative violence, ,times, for example, if a mutila 1 - , for example, by .their very na tion or execution was called for, issu~s are under discussion. Parents who choose to exercise purs is a group effort. We their constitutional rights\ will continue to pay the price ha,ve a board of consultors from ture transgress esthetic stand· a hapless slave was mutilated va;rious walks of life, some 30 ards as much, as' they do moral. ,or murdered before an apprecia ' (for their beliefs and freedoms. The Greeks had an admirable tive crowd. Yet in this concern so important t9 Catholic educ~ tol 40 people. Several attend This, of course, was immoral, tion and constitutional liberties, we should never give up. each of the special screenings principle called esthetic distance th~t the motion picture com· in accordance with which they but it was also a violation of Catholics should not and must not be discouraged. Som~ panies offer our offfce and write wrote and staged their plays. artistic standards. The two are what disappointed, yes, but not ready to throw in 'the re'~iews of the films viewed. Thus the spectator at a tragedy inextricably linked, and never at proverbial towel. ,I go through them. and confer never felt that he was actually odds with each other. Our own diocesan director of education; Father George wi,th other staff members to ar looking at the real King Oedipus Thus "Reds" and "An Ameri· Coleman, agrees that it is crucial for tax credit supporters rh'e at a classification. This is undergoing such terrible suffer can Werewolf in London" both to write to Wa,shington as the 1983 federal -budget begins uSI,~allynot .very difficult· but ing. Had <he thought he was, he contain lovemaking sequences. could no more have -enjoyed the sOlrnetimes there is vigorous dis "Reds" was rated A-III and ' its journey from Pennsylvania Avenue to the Hill. cU,5sion before we arrive at our play than we could enjoy wit· "Werewolf" was. given a C (an This paper will continue to urge the Catholics of de,bision. 'J'.1essing a terrible traffic acci o under the new system). southeastern Massachusetts" Cape Cod and the Islands to Then one of us, usually, writes dent. To explain why involves both be vocal and active in this undertaking. ,- thE~ review. Though it will never There had to be a detachment We are grateful to the members of Congress who re . cOllltradict the classification ~s· to the pity and terror evoked by moral and artistic considerations. lovemaking in "Reds" was plied to our inquiries. We shall continue to ask them to signed nor go against the concen· classical tragedy. These emo The in the context of an excellent state their stands on this and other fundamental issues - sw; as to the esthetic merit of tions did not upset the viewer movie, "Werewolf" was a piece . thEI movie, it will, of c~urse, reo therefore, but rather deepened affecting the Catholic community. - of trash. In "Reds," the specta ,./

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f1eh the taste of its author, his compassion and his compr~ tor knows exactly what's going ltinally the reviews and classi hension of the:tragic human con on, but actually sees very little. fications go out to the Catholic . dition he shared with a mythical 'Why? Because director Warren preiss throughQut the country king. Beatty was doing a love story, thr6ugh the National Catholic The Greeks kept sex and vio· not putting on a skin show. He Ne'ws Service, with each editor l~nce offstage. These had a wanted to stir empathy, not titil usihg as .much or as little of our place in life, thus a place in late. material as he or she wishes. but to depict them graph. \Vhat we don't do in evalua drama, In "Werewolf," on the other ically might ru'pture esthetic dis· tinl~ a movie is to get Qut a hand, director John Landis laid tance and destroy the detach· Iittlle list of' thou·shalt-nots, on the nudity and graphic sex· men~ essential to real catharsis. such as "suicide in plot solution" uality, simply because he had andl "accepts divorce," termin It remained for the Romans, no overall artistic vision. Thus ology that might be familiar to in their decadence, to bring sex his film is both morally and loni~time readers. and violence onstage in horribly artistically offensive. I

Alone in the crowd

I saat in a restaurant in Germany and ordered the day's special blindly. I didn't have a clue as to what I might be getting - raw steak, eel, or a tiny roasted chicken like I saw some people eating. The only words I understood on the menu was "tomatencrem suppe." But what in the world was "rahmhackbraten?" I'd soon find out. Around me swirled German words and laughter. A man pUll ed a chair out and sat at my table, a custom in German res taurants. He said hello and be gan a conversation. I responded helplessly with the international language of illiteracy in another's tongue: a smile, a .shake of the head, and a hands-up gesture. He nodded in understanding and turned hi:; attention·to the menu. I watched as other tables filled with stranger~ and noticed how quickly they became table friends: An American couple en tered the restaurant but when they were escorted to a table al ready filled with Germans, they beat a hasty retreat. I was reminded of the late Marshall McLuhan's observation that American homes are such public places that we escape into the public for privacy, whereas European homes are just

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the reverse. They tend to keep', their homes private and enjoy DOLOR~S others' in public places. When we go out to eat, we want pri . CURRAN vacy, a table all to ourselves. We don't intrude unless we are invited. Yet we welcome strang ers into our homes for dinner, meetings and even business. asking questions and sharing I'm sure my table companion stories. At first they seem' un was disappointed. He wanted to friendly but when you get on to talk and had he not been so the system and begin asking di courteous, he probably would rections or advice, you leave have moved to a more congenial three .hours later with new table. As it was, we smiled and friends and warm feelings. Of looked around the room and ate course, it helps to share the in silence. He passed me .the tongue, if not the brogue. bread, I passed him the mustard. , My food finally came. It was Unreasonably, . I wanted to meatloaf with a wonderful sauce. speak to him in Spanish.. a lang I was both relieved and disap uage in which I can get at least pointed, relieved that it wasn't along. I've found that whenever liver, disppointed that it wasn't I am in a foreign environment. something we don't have at I reach for my only other tongue home weekly. in desperation. But I was afraid I paid the waitress and left, he might know Spanish and start feeling very alone. However, my reeling it off at a pace I couldn't German companion made a final comprehend and that would be attempt to relieve my discomfort. disastrous. So I did as I .do in He rose and bowed courteously, any tense situation - I ate. wishing me a pleasant, "Auf wie I don't know which idea is dersehen." better - privacy at home or "Auf wiedersehen," I replied privacy in public. I suspect the and left, regretting that I didn't Irish have the best solution. know him any better than when They respect one's privacy in a he sat down. There were so pub or coffee house until you many things I could have asked ask them a' question and then him. As it was, all I could do they become open and congenial, was smile and pass the mustard.

Burnout mystery

Do you know, people who lethal situations occur when have no time for friends or family pressures and the ordin ANTOINETTE ary hassles of life are added to children, for relaxation or job stress. for God? Do you know peo When I read something like BOSCO ple always on the go, who ap this, I think of people who face proach life as if it is a combat unbelievable life stresses appar zone, whose energies are activa ently with'out burning out. ted all the time? Mother Teresa works around the The principle was well stated Such people may be motivated clock, never knows 'where her in a spiritual book: "What you to make money. But such people next meal is coming from and keep, you lose; what you give can be found almost as often in shares her daily life with the away, you keep." the service of a cause or ideal. poor and the lIl. Hearing so much about burn The unrelieved stress of being A woman I know has seven out lately has made me recall constantly active may' continue children and' a disabled husband. that reverse law of economics too long, and the people sudden She is exhausted, but not burnt-, on the spiritual level. I think it ly are stopped, perhaps by heart out: A black -leader I've known accou'nts for why some people attacks, or perhaps by severe more than 15 years works cease , bllrn out and Qthers never do. disillusionment. Or, sometimes, lessly for fair housing. He has they simply rebel against a pres been hassled - a cross was even sured ')ife. burned on his lawJ:l.· The cross Doctors have a label for these suffered burnout. He -did not. people -:- they are suffering I have a theory. i know, it from burnout. doesn't explain all cases of burn January 15 In the past few weeks, I have out, but it may have some valid Rev. ThomasF. KennedY,1948 ity. I think whether a person . Pastor, St. Joseph,Woods Hole read several articles about vari bums out or not' has something ous types of burnout for adoles Rev. Msgr. John E. Boyd, 1977, cents, physicians, parents and to do with the direction of his St, Patrick, Wareham (Retired even clergy. Two recent books or her work. Pastor) . also discuss burnout: Some people work incessant Janullry 17 Dr. Herbert Freudenberger, in ly to' gain. Others work to give. Rev. John Laughlin, 1967, Re an Anchor Press book called, Candidates for burnout are seek tired Pastor, Holy Ghost, Attle "Burnout," uses case histories to ers not only of mo'ney and posi boro tion - but also of power, pres show what is happening in Am erica. In his view, the valium tige, praise and human respect. January 20 generation is paying a terrible Strangely, when the gain be Rev. Roland J. Masse, 1952, price for its single-minded -pur comes either out of reach or too Assistant, Notre Dame de Lour-' suits. heavy a burden to carry, such des, Fall River people may suffer burnout. The other book is "Work Stress Connection: How to Cope On the other hand, a peculiar .....",......'''.....1011.'''..''''..11I1...•.......''......''....''......",'''''''..'"''rn""II'lItrn,-

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He is so identified with t.he cause of the unborn that Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R Ala., seems to epitomize Massachusetts Rep.' Barney Frank's jibe that "conservatives' concern for children begins with conception and ends with birth." His stand against free choice and free sex have made Denton an ogre to the National Organiza tion for Women and other fem inist and liberal organizations. His sponsorship of what was known as "the teen-age chastity" ,bill occasioned many snickers, although the final product, a compromise called the adolescent family life bill, won the endorse ment of Edward Kennedy. An unguarded remark he made during a hearing on a bill about spousal rape - "Dammit, when you get married, you kind of expect ydu're going to get a little sex" produced more laughter inside the Senate and out, and fresh outcries from women's groups. But there's another side to Denton, one that sets him apart from the cardboard Moral Ml joritarians who abound in the new Senate. He spoke of John Kennedy on the anniversary of his death, Nov. 22. In advance, he paid a call on Kennedy's brother to ask formal permission and to show him the text of his speech. John Kennedy is a hero to Denton, a retired admiral who is regarded as a hero himself, having spent seven years and seven months in a North Vietnamese POW camp. Denton protests that he cares about the born, too, and that his efforts on their behalf have been lost in. the hullabaloo over his nay-saying on abortion and sex. He doubled the funds that Presi dent Reagan proposed for adop tions and battered children. He managed the bill for aging Ameri cans. Most recently, he stood up for a group your standard right winger has no time for: Amer asian children of Asian women and U.S. servicemen, who are unwanted here and regarded as "undesirable" in their native countries. To Denton, trying to give the little outcasts a chance to come here is logical extension of his publicized exertions on behalf of sexual morality. "I am not a ·sex prude. I'm not a hardnosed hawk," says Denton. "What I do, I do for children. They are the victims of permissiveness. Look at battered children. A promiscuous mother has many boyfriends. Inevitably one of those resents the child's father and beats up the child. "Anyone who knows me knows

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I am a compassionate individ ual. I always have been. I was president of my class all the way through school' and you can't be elected unless people sense you are compassionate. "In Mobile, when I got out of the cooler, they printed a whole lot of stories which r had for gotten. One girl I went to high school with said she would never forget me. She was so fat, she couldn't lean over to tie her shoes. I tied them for her." The man who tied the fat girl's shoes is, he insists, trying now to make 1ife easier for the child ren who are the casualties of America's sexual revolution, which erupt~d while he was in Hanoi. He was .captured in 1965, when' Playboy was at the bound ary of public acceptance; he was liberated in 1972, into a world of massage parlors, group sex and Playgirl. He isn't intOlerant, he says. He is, he insists, a survival oriented person who worries equally about the imbalance in strategic forces and the imbal ance in the way we treat our kids - "throwing them into tot Jots and giving them television as a sitter." When Jody Darragh - a for mer Eastern Airlines steward· ess who flew mercy missions to Indochina and was assigned as his escort when he finally re turned to the United States brought the plight of the Amer asian children to his attention. He embraced it with his usual ardor. In order to bring such children out of Vietnam, where there are thousands, obviously some cor.. tact would be necessary with the Vietnamese government, which we do not recognize. The idea of recognition does not enrage Denton. "If it was our policy, and we got something in return, I would not be opposed just because of my experience there.

, "But I want you to hear this carefully: [ did not will as a prisoner that my government should end the war to get us out. I didn't value my own life as a blue chip in exchange for the 17 million people)n South Vietnam, who would be subjugated to communist tyranny. So I wouldn't be n leader for recog nition just to get accountability on our MIAs or to get these children out. But I wouldn't ob ject on the grounds of what I went through there. I am not a vindictive man." He's for the MX, nerve. gas production, AWACS, all the standard "right" things. But he's for compassion, too, and that's more than you can say for the Senate right-wingers with whom he travels and votes.

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Test-tube baby

"I'm sorry to see some groups Continu~d f.rom page one have made in vitro fertilization Bishops, urged in vitro fertiliza tion research not be funded by and embryonic transfer an abor the federal government (which' tion-related issue," Walters said has refused to fund in vitro Jan. 4. "I think the practice of using in vitro fertilization and programs). . for pregnancy help embryonic transfer is ethical1y The church is "apprehensive confidential about wholeheartedly endorsing compatible with the view we ought to protect the embryo the technology (of in vitro fer free pregnancy testing tilization) because child bearing from the moment of fertiliza Let us help you • We Care involves so. many other human tion." Criticism has been voiced be values alid human decisions" as well, said .Msgr. James McHugh, cause it is possible for research ers to fertilize more than one ops' Committee on Pro-Life Ac tivities and professor of moral egg and sperm in vitro, creating more than one embryo, although theology at Imma~ulate Concep tion Seminary, Darlington, N.J. only one need be implanted in LUMB~R Thus, it has withheld both the plother, and discarding the Complete "Line

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Massachusetts Citizens for Life, the commonwealth's larg est prolife organization, will hold its ninth annual Assembly for Life at I p.rl1. Sunday at Fan euil Hall, Boston. Rep. Charles F. Dougherty (R Pa.), chairman of the congress ional prolife caucus, will be the featured speaker. Others in at tendance will include Rep. Nich olas Mavroules (D·Mass) and politicians, clergy and' prolifers from across the commonwealth. Marianne Rea-Luthin, MCFL president, will also speak. and will chair the assembly. MCFL' will be represented at the annual Washington March for Life, to be held in the na~ tion's capital Friday, Jan. 22.

ImpossibilitY "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln

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Ball Continued from page one presented to the bishop by Rob ert McGuirk of the Taunton Vin centian Council. The presentees will represent one-third of the diocesan parishes as they partici pate in what is traditionally a ball highlight. At 9:35 dancing will resume, to break at 10 o'clock for a Grand March, singing of ttle National Anthem by Kenneth Leger and the introduction of Bishop Cro nin to ballgoers by Msgr. An thony Gomes, ball director. Following the bri~f program. dancing will continue until 1 a.m.

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Just war theory examined in light of nuclear age By Jerry Filteau

NC News Service

With new Catholic attention in the United States to the moral issues of war, peace, nuclear weapons and the arms race, new attention has also focused on what is called the "just war" theory in the Catholic teaching tradition. The idea of a "just war" is it. self a paradox. One of America's best Catholic theologians, Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray, once wrote: "The effort of the moral reason to fit the use of violence into the. objective order of justice is paradoxical enough; but the pa~adox is heightened when this effort takes place at the interior of the Christian re ligion of love." The idea of a just war has been described as an effort to find a middle ground of reason in the face of violence. It views war as a monstrous evil and a last resort to fend off serious in justice, but avoids extremes of saying that no one can ever be justified in waging war or say ing that when it comes to war there are no longer any moral principles which apply. As synthesized by St. Augus tine, the fourth-century theolo gian considered the originator of the just war theory in West ern Christianity, the elements required for a war to be just are: - It must be a war of defense against an unjust aggressor. - It cannot be fought simply to punish an offense or to re cover a thing, but only to repel. injury and aggression. - All peaceful means of set tling the dispute must have been exhausted. - There must be a reasonable hope of success. - There must be a due pro portion between the gravity of the injustice and the damage the war should do (it must be the lesser evil). - It must be waged by a legi timate authority. - It must be a limited war, in which the immunity of non combatants is respected and the rules of morality apply (no tor-' ture or other atrocities against enemy troops or civilians. for ex· ample). Some have argued that the terms of the just war theory are out of date in the face of mod em war technology. How is aggressor defined, for example, wher;t the primary frame of reference may no longer be an invading army crossing a border. but swarms of ICBMs flying in both directions almost simultaneously? On the other hand, the just war theory's ideas of due pro portion. reasonable hope of suc. cess. and immunity of noncom batants have been used by the church in recent years to con demn all-out nuclear war and to raise questions about the morality of other weapons of modem war preparedness. The idea of proportionality al so und~rlies repeated church condemnations of the global

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Can't be just war in nuclear age ROME (NC) - A "just war" cannot take place in the nuclear age and further build-up of nu· clear arsenals cannot be morally justified, said the Jesuit biweek ly review, Civilta Cattolica. A 14-page editorial in a recent edition reviewed comments of various 20th-century popes on war and peace and said that the "enormous destructive power and practically unlimited range" of nuclear weapons make the "just war" criteria inapplicable. "This poses a grave moral problem, which is most difficult of solution." the editorial said. "On the one hand, given the na ture of the 'total' destruction of nuclear war, one cannot see how it can be morally' justified; on the other hand, given that today the only defensive weapon' which is effective for its deterrent char acter seems to be nuclear, one cannot see how whoever feels obliged to defend himself from an enemy attack can be morally condemned in an absolute man ner." Civilta Cattolica did not pro pose a solution to the dilemma, but said "it is a moral duty, which touches all," to work for the elimination of nuclear wea pons "through a gradual disarma ment," The magazine, which has its major articles and editorials re viewed by the Vatican Secretar iat of State, linked efforts for nuclear disarmament to other world problems. "The arms race is condemned not only for the fact that it places an ever more horrendous threat on the future of human ity. but because it is already the cause of suffering, hunger, un derdevelopment and death for millions of persons," the editorial said. "The church, making itself the voice of the moral conscience of humanity and the prophet of a world of justice and peace . . . feels the duty' to denounce as contrary ·to reason and to the true interests of humanity the , current situation and to ask from both sides first a reduction and then the elimination of nuclear arms.... it added.

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Unity Week In addition to previously an nounced observances of the Week of Prayer for' Christian Unity, Jan. 18 to 25, is the an nual Niagara Neighborhood Ecumenical Service, to be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the First Primitive Methodist Church, Ply mouth Avenue and Dover Street. Fall River. . Rev. Cyprian Sondej, OFM. Conv., pastor of Holy Cross Catholic Church, Fall River. will be the homilist. Other participa ting churches will be St. Paul, Lutheran; St. Luke. Episcopal; and Our Lady of Health and 55. Peter and Paul, Catholic.

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Letters from legislators 'Cannot support tax credit' bear Reverend Moore: I I am grateful for your Jetter :requesting my views on legisla Ilion to provide tuition' tax . ,tredits and I welcome this op :portunity to reply to you and to all the readers of The Anchor. ! I am deeply committed to ex c:ellence in both public and pri 'rate education. I ~elieve t~at private schools constitute an Im I;ortant resource offering diver ~Iity and educational opportunity. II also believe that parents should have a right to send their child r~en to these schools. I am proud crf the parochial school system in our Commonwealth, which Iirovides a'strong religious orien~ tation as part of the educational e:xperience. ? Throughout my service in the 5enate, I have supported. efforts I tor) insur.e 'that federal education plrograms 'Jlimed at helping stu d1ents with special needs do not I discriminate against student's vihose 'parents have c;hosen to send them to private schools. I hlave supported provisions to in s'lue that student aid to the . cbonomically disadvantaged, to h~ndicapped children, to limited English-speaking pupils, and to other students is available ~rhether they attend a public sc:hool or a private school. I have s'~lppdrted constitutional forms 0:[ federal help for parochial sc\hools. . IOn the issue of tuition tax credits, I appreciate the fact that ir.lflation and the high cost of ec!ucation are imposing real h:irdships on many private sclhoolS and are making it diffi cult for many· parents to send thleir children to such schools. I stlare your desire to see these sclhoOIS maintained and strength ened. But, at this time of mass ivle budget cuts, it is extremely Ulllikely that Congress would be willing to finance a separate pro gr1am of' tuition tax credits that I would cost the federal treasury billions of dollars. ILast March, for this reason, I proposed a $500 increase in the pelrsonal income tax deduction. for taxpayers and dependents. Urlder my proposal, the deduction wl~uld have increased' from its I current level of $1,000 to a new le,(el of $1,500 - enough to reo store the value lost to inflation ovler the past decade. I for a family of four, the addi tional deduction would have .be,bn $2,000. The savings Would halve been even greater for a larlger family, and they could haVe been used by hardpressed talfpayers for tuition relief and other essential needs. Instead, Cohgress adopted the Reagan Ad~inistration tax plan, which fa..\ors the wealthy and short chlmges average families and thel middle class. . Another difficulty for enact m~ht of tuition tax credits is that serious constitutional questions ha\fe been raised with respect to thc' pending proposals. In the vie.lN of most constitutional ex· per~s,if such legislation is en act,ed, ,I it would be struck . . down

ally, the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation and Rev enue in 1978 estimated that tax credits for kindergarten through post-secondary would cost at least $4.7 billion. This would surely be a massive tax expendi ture that our nation cannot af ford at the persent time. For all these reasons, I cannot offer my support to the Pack wood/Moynihan Bill. Again, I would like to thank you' for giving me the opportun ity to express my views on what is for many a difficult and emo tional issue. I encourage all your readers to share their views with me on this matter which con cerns us all. United States Senator Paul E. Tsongas

by the Supreme Court as a viola tion' of the ~ First Amendment. . For these reasons, I am 'un able to support the tax credit proposals. I assure you that I will continue. to study this mat ter closely, and I appreciate your taking the time to write and express your concerns to me. Edward M. Kennedy United States Senator

'I cannot offer my support'. Dear Rev. Moore: Thank you for your letter con· cerning S. 550, the Packwood/ Moynihan Bill on tuition tax credits; I realize that this issue is very important to you and to the readers of The Anchor, and I am pleased to have the oppor tunty to respond. I appreciate the importance of private and' parochial schools

and the very fine education that many of these. schools provide. They make. a vital contribution by often setting an example of what quality education can be. Private schools can provide a worthy alternative to public edu

cation. However, only 11.3 per cent of all students in this coun try attend private schools. Nat urally, at a time when the Ad ministration is substantially cut ting federal expenditures for elementary and secondary schools, the government's pri mary obligation has to be to provide free qu~lity education to the nine-out-of-ten students who attend .public institutions. . I am further concerned that tuition tax credits create a de-' mand for private and· parochial schools that these schools might not be' equipped to handle.' Fin-

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'1 appreciate your thoughts'

Dear Father Moore,

Many thanks for your com· munication on the tuition tax . credit issue. I appreciate know ing of your interest and senti ments before the House of Repre . sentative~ begins consideration of this credit.

Let me first outline the status of the various bills that have been introduced here in the Cong ress that provide some form of tuition tax credit. There have been over 25 bills introduced in the House and Senate so far this Congress; the bills vary primar ily in their dollar amounts and eligibility requirements. . Over the past summer, two days of hearings on Senators Packwood and Moynihan's S. 550 were held in the Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management. No conclusion was reached at that time, in part because of the contemporaneous consideration of the President's tax package. There is no additional action on this issue planned for the near future in the Senate. The House Ways and Means Committee has not held hearings on any of the tuition tax credit proposals as yet this session, and also has not scheduled any for this New Year. Although we do not know the exact form of the bill to be con· sidered by the full House, there are several crucial points that have to be considered with any

Continued from page one tary of the U.S. Catholic Confer ence, said last week in Wash ington: "I trust the president will take the. promised steps to i!,!clude tax relief for parents in his fiscal 1983 budget message and I hope that Congress will give this matte~ the top priority . consideration it deserves." "I urge Catholic school par ents,' superintendents, adminis trators and all segments of the non-public school community to work together to convey their sentiments to. the president and to members of the 97th Cong ress and to do so without delay." A .status report on tuition tax credits issued. by the Office for Education Assistance of the U.S. Catholic Conference notes that it is anticipated that the president will send his 1983 budget mess age to Congress in late January. "Serious congressional activity related to the. budget aspect of tuition tax credits could begin early in the year," the report said. "Howev~r, congressional action would probab'ly not take place prior to the first of March nor after early October, since 1982 is an election year. This means that there is basically a seven-month period which will be crucial to this effort."

A LEITER In conjunction with olher diocesan ertoru, The Anchor has sent the following letter to senators and representatives serving the area of the Fall River diocese. Their replies will be published. Dear (Senator, R~resentative): I am editor of The Anchor, the largest weekly newspaper - in southeastern Massachusetu. We serve a diocese over 64 <percent Catholic (340,000 Catholics in 8 total population of 530,000), with 34 Catholic secdndJry and primary schools. For the infornuttion of our readen, your constituents, I should appreciate a statement on your stand with rcgnrd to tuitton tax credits as a method of achieving freedom of choice and equity in education. Specifically, 1 should like to know at tho present time if you plan to support 5.550' (the Packwood/Moynihan bill). (RepresentativeJ were asked their stand en HR 3665, the Ashbrook bill.) In the interest of voter education. we will. of course, publish your reply. Sincerely yours,

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The letter sent to legislators

Letters from legislators cial problems. Tuition tax credits in this particular respect. For would drain the U.S. Treasury example, the Tuition Tax Relief of an estimated $4.7 billion for Act of 1981 - H.R. 90 - per private school families, which is mits an annual tax deduction of two-and-a-half times the current $1,000 or a tax credit of $500, federal expenditure for our na applicable toward up to half of tion's public schools. tuition costs. This is not only difficult to Once again, however, these justify, but also raises some very proposals are coming directly on disturbing Constitutional issues, the heels of unprecedented fed in light of the long line of court eral retrenchment from proven decisions striking down state educational programs and with programs to aid parochial educa virtually no distinction between tion. Since tuition tax credits people who need help and people ... would for the most part benefit who do not. families of students who attend The. Administration has al sectarian schools, even some tax ready insisted - over my strong credit proponents have question objections - on slashing federal ed whether the Supreme Court educational funding by 25 per would find such proposals un cent in an effort to balance the constitutional. budget. As part of-these changes, As you know, in 1978, lop the President has demanded im posed legislation which was ap posing stricter eligibility stan proved by the House of Repre dards on, for instance, the pared sentatives - but never enacted back assistance fo~ college stu into law - to provide tax credits dents. It would be difficult to of up to $250 a year to par~nts defend restricting proven educa of college students and $100 a tional programs in the name of year to parents of private ele financial austerity, only to open mentary and secondary school the fiscal floodgates by offering students. After new oversight tuition tax credits without any hearings on September 22 and such needs test. 24, 1981, the House Subcom· Diversity in education, and in mittee on Elementary, Second educational institutions, is im ary and Vocational Education Dear Father Moore: concluded that the arguments on portant. But the federal govern Thank you for your recent let this issue remain substantially ment's first responsibility must be to support the integrity and ter inquiring about my views on the same as in 1978. proposals to establish tuition I opposed the 1978 legislation vitality of the public education tax credits for parents of stu because I believed the Congress al facilities which play a critical role in promoting opportunity dents in private and parochial was groping for a politically at school. Both proponents and op tractive but simplistic course of among different ethnic and econ ponents of tuition tax credits action to deal with a genuine omic groups, in molding our com are concerned about the quality national need.' The ostensible mon national culture and demo and cost of elementary, second purpose of that tax credit bill, cratic values. Everyone ~enefits, directly or: ary and higher education. I must and of its' counterparts now tell youJ however, that I have pending before Congress, was to indirectly, from a strong public serious reservations - on both assist those of modest means to school system. Quite apart from other arguments on the merits of economic and policy grounds meet the rising costs of provid about the tuition tax plans that ing a good education to their tuition tax credits, the current restrictions on federal funding have been proposed in the 97th children. The most generous pro Congress.. vision of that bill would have make this issue a choice between spending money on public or It is vital to help parents to offered a tax credit to students private schools. It would, con in private universities totalling encourage their children toward sequently, be very dffficult for in 1978, $150 in 1979, and $100 the best possible education. The me to support tuition tax credit federal government certainly has $200 in 1980. Despite the plan's legislation now pending before enormous cost, that tax credit a legitimate role in this process, Congress.. which would have covered little the primary component of which Again, while we may not fully is to assist public education. more than the annual cost of agree on this matter, I certainly While I would not argue that purchasing college textbooks appreciate your taking the time the passage of tuition tax credit was not adequate to allow a sig legislation will destroy public nificant number of new students to write, and your giving me the education, there is little doubt to pursue higher education nor opportunity to share my views that it would be weakened. I enough to relieve most families with your readers.' I will look forward to hearing from you think we can all concur that is of the tremendous sacrifice nec the last thing. we need at this essary to provide their children again soon. with decent schooling. time of dwindling public. re Gerry E. Studds Some of the newer proposals sources for education, on the U.S. Representative are somewhat more reasonable local, state and federal levels. The concept of tuition tax c.redits is not without appeal, particularly when considering the .plight of the overburdened par ent for whom a small tax savings might represent just enough as sistance to permit his child to attend a private school. However, tuition tax credits would not necessarily be targeted to per sons who are the most deserv ing. The benefits in these bills would go to the parents of all participating students, regardless of financial need. In fact, a sig nificant portion of the benefits would go to families with rela tively high incomes, many in ex : I cess of $100,000 a year. Tax credit money would bene fit scores of private schools with . few, if "ny, low-income students as well ~s some private and paro chial schools with serious finan Don't we matter? proposal. Our major purpose, of course, is to provide the best pos sible education for our children. In trying to achieve this, the out standing record of Catholic schools in Massachusetts and across the country. is an extreme ly significant factor. In addition, I am well aware of the financial constraints imposed on those families choosing this option. Di verse education systems have provided for a balanced and suc cessful learning process; I am confident that this rich and va ried education history, public and private, will help us meet the changing needs of the Ameri can student in the years to come. As specific details on a credit proposal emerge, I look forward to hearing from you again. This is one of the most complex and far-reaching education issues be fore Congress, so I particularly appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Margaret M. Heckler U.S. Representative

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DEAF APOSTOLATE Apostolate members will meet for a Mass and social at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Anne's School, Forest Street, Fall River.

ST. RITA. MARION The Women's Guild will hold a potluck supper at an interna tional night meeting set for Tuesday. Antone Pina has been elected St. Vincent de Paul Society president. With him will serve Robert Ferreira, secretary, and Robert Demeo, treasurer. Dally Mass will be offered in the rectory this month and next. SS PETER & PAUL, FR New parish council officers are Atty. Robert J. Marchand, president; Rita Tynell, vice president; Ronald ·A. Roy, sec retary. Marchand has also been named head of the education

committee, wHh Agnes Peterson as secretary.

A convocation for Greater Fall River CYO omcers, advisors and directors will take place in Father Coady Center from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Further informa tion is available from the rec tory, tel. 676-8463. ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA The parish wUl host the annual. Unity Octave Service of the Somerset/Swansea Clergy Assn. at 7 p.m. Sunday. Father Paul Carrier, SJ, of Bishop Connolly High School and Rev. Richard Mattozzi of Fllrst United Metho dist Church will speak and the Rainbow Mime Players of St. Louis de France parish, Swansea, and the Somerset/Swansea Inter. faith Choir will also participate. St. Michael Knights of the Altar will be servers and the parish Women's Club will serve refreshments followdng the service. Miss Austin and Miss Goyette's confirmation classes will attend a retreat at Blessed Sacrament Convent, Fall River, from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday. . Parents of first communion and confirmation candida,tes will meet Tuesday, Feb.' 2, either at 10:30 a.m. or 7 p.m. Baptismal certificates, for chUdren not baptized in the parish should be brought. K OF C, FR Officers and directors of Council 86 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Deacon Manuel Camara will speak on the permanent diaconate at a social meeting of the council at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25. A decal promoting the 100th anniversary of the Knights of Columbus is available free to members. .

ST. ANNE HOSPIITAL, FR Medical professionais are in vited to attend a conference oil "Surgical Oncology" to be given by Peter Deckers, MD, at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in the hospital's Clemence Hall.

ST. ANNE. FR 'George Caisse has been elect.,.

ed president of the S,t. Vincent de Paul Society, succeeding Ray_ mond Brodeur, president for the past six years. A blood drive wlll be held in the school from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow.

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be on retreat in Enfield, N.H. the weekend Qt.1 ;ra~. 23 and 24. ·CATHERINIAN CENTER. NO. DART-MOUTH Winter spiritual programs will begin the week of Jan. 18. Fur ther information: Sister Judy Brunell, OP, 996-1305. ST. MARK, ATTLEBORO FALLS Madeline Livingston will pre sent '''Shape Up for Spring" at the Women's Guild meeting set for 8p.m. Monday. ST. JULIE, NO. DARTMOUTH The youth ministry will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday for Mass, a meeting and fellowship. The St.Vincent de Paul Society will meet at 7:30 tonight at the rectory. ST. JOSEPH, NB

The monthly Legion of Mary holy hour, to be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, will be offered for the Polish people. ST. STANISLAUS, FR The Czestochowa tapestry will be on view from noon to 6 p.m. every Sunday of 1982. INTERFAITH COUNCIL, FR . Father Peter N. Graziano, dio cesan direotor of social servi~es, will be the featured speaker at the annual brotherhood meeting of the Interfaith Council of Greater Fall River, to be held at 2:30 g.m. Sunday at Holy Name school auditorium, Pearce and Read Streets, Fall River. All .welcome. SACRED HEART. FR . Parishioners are'invited 'to join the Tuesday afternoon sewing group that meets at 1 o'clock at the rectory to sew pads for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home. Second graders will receive first penance at 11 a.m. Satur day. All are invited to attend the celebration. Confirmation candidates will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. ST. JOHN OF GOD. SOMERSET Women's Guild members will . honor Father Daniel L. Freitas, pastor, a,t Moderator's Night, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Father John Bavaro, OFM, of . St. Louis parish, Fall River, will speak at a fellowship meeting beginning w~th Mass at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. An appreciation day for parish workers. will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Pai-ishioner Walter Carreiro, a seminarian, will show slides and explain his missionary activity in Peru.

PRAYER GROUPS. ATTLEBORO HOLY NAME, FE Barbara Wright of the Word of Parents of children planning God Community of St.Patrick's to return to the parish school in parish, Providence, wUl speak at September should register them St. Mary's parish, Seekonk, fol by, Friday, Jan. 22. Following' lowing 7:3~ ·p.m. Mass Monday, that time, registr~tion wUlbe Jan. 25..Merribers of area prayer opened to children,' not now in groups will meet for the occa the school:~' . sion. All welcome.

ST .MARY. NB Each Tuesday a stUdy group meets ip the CCD Center at 10 a.m. and a scripture group at 7 . p.m., A\l welcome. An evening of reflection for Eucharistic ministers and their families will take place at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8.

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ST. MARY, SEEKONK In observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the parish will host ecumenical ser vice at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Fellow ship will follow the program. The annual parish apprecia tion dinner will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30.

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MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER A Marriage. Encounter infor mation coffee hour will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, at South Dennis Congregational Church parish hall pn Main Street, South Dennis. The pro gram is- sponsored by Dennis Junior Women's Club and is in terdenominational. Further in formation: Manny and Sandy Amaral, 394-7294. ST. JOSEPH,' FAIRHAVEN The parish council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, at the rectory. A fund is being set up in aid of the family of Bob Dargis, the school custodian, 'whose home was recently destroyed by fire. Donabions may be brought to the rectory or the Fairhaven Savings Bank. .

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What Will we be like?

will our risen bodies come from? I

Will they bear any relation to i

Pllul was a Jew" a Pharisee, a our present bodies?' , , ' I rabbi. He was steeped in the lore Paul's answer is devastating: ' of his people,' but he was no , stranger to the Greek world, its "A nonsensical question!" Act- I ideas and techniques for arguing. ually it's not. Theologians have' 1 One technique was the Stoic asked it over and over, and mil- , diatribe, in which a persen poses , lions of Christians wonder about an objection to a position and it. then answers it. The objection . But the question is nonsensi I furnished an occasion for ex· cal if it is thought anunanswer- I able objection to the doctrine of I . .

plaining a position., In First Corinthians 15:35, bodily resurrection for, Chris- I tians Paul's explanation is cogent where he discusses the resuurec and beautiful. tion of the 'body, Paul poses He begins by discussi~g the I such an objection:' !'Perhaps someone will say, 'How are the planting of seed. If seed is to dead to be raised up? What kind bear fruit' it must, in a 1 sense, Tum to page thirte~n' of body will they have? Where By Father John J. Castelot

For children By Janaan Manternach

The sun was hardly up when about 40 young men c;rowded in to a meeting room. Urgency fill ed the room. "Paul must die," they said to one another. "Let's take a solemn oath," their leader suggested. "We, will not eat/or drink any thing until we have killed PauL'.. All 'agreed. They began their fast immediately. ' Word of the plot against Paul leaked out. Paul's nephew heard it and rushed to the Roman headquarters in Jerusalem where Paul was being held. The guards let him in and he told Paul what was happening. Paul called the centurion, the officer in charge of the' guards. "Take this young man to the commander.. He has something -to report to him," he said. The centurion did as Paul ask~d. ,The com~ander, Claudius L)'sias, asked the boy, "What ~o'

you have to report?" The boy replied, "There is a plot against Paul. About 40 men want to kill him. They are just ~aiting for you to release"him." ,The commander ordered "Don't tell' anyone you gaye me this information." ' :' Then Claudius called in two centurions. "Get ready to: leave for Caesarea by 9 o'clock,'; he ordered. "Take with ,you ~OO in fantrymen, 70 cavalryme~, and 200 spearmen: Make sure you get Paul safely to Felix the gov: , ernor." " Then Ciaudil:ls wrote a letter to the gover!10r explaining why he was sending ,PaUl' to hi,m. <l That night the soldiers march ed out of the city with Paul. When they arrived at Caesa'rea, the governor read the lette~ from Claudius,' He ordered Paul; to be kept under guard in his ~alace. Felix plann!!d to bring P4ul to trial in a few days. I '

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categories. For example, a par I ish may be highly organized, de Parishes differ from each other voted to adult education and almost as' much as families. rather homey, all at the same I S0!1le are very large, with thou-, time. . sands of members packed iI1to Nonetheless, here' are some • I I a few blocks. Others are small in maIO types: . I population buy large in territory. - There are homey parishes, I Some parishes are rural, others usually small in numbers of peo : urban or suburban. Still others ple, where the calendar is not i serve, special groups such· as filled with! programs and special I found on a military base o'r col events. The people -know and lege campus. There are ethnic help take' care of each other : parishes with no, geographical without. much fuss. Perhaps , boundaries. There are parishes in everyone has a regular pew and 'which, more than one language many people have responsibili~ is spoken, and multiracial par . ties they, regard as their own,' It :ishes. may be' the Thanksgiving cloth I . There is no one type of parish ing drive or the annual picnic :and not ,even a single :model of or the f1ow.ers for Holy Week :what· constitutes a goOd parish. "everyone knows who )Vill take l care of the~e. The people feel at fi=======================·d==-=•. ! For' differences are not just those i of "locale: and ' composition. home in the church and rectory . and the pastor feels comfortable 2.','. . " ;ences Equaily ~igriifican~ are. dim~r""'" of style. Parishes differ in their homes. ' -A paris~ may also be quite • '.' • . '. ' , " J' " . . ~grea~ly in '~istory" customs, so- : By Lenore Kelly group, for the separatedilnd 'icia'i 'and, economic'-needs of their Five yea~s' ago an increase 'of divorc~d. "I just. wouldn't i have!people, ,artdthe manrier in ,which . , single parerits among parishion~ , made ,It through those first few !thepeoplelive. St.' : It is becimseof aU this that months of separation without' ers was, noted at St. Timothy's Timothy's group," says Ms. Ta-,'manyparishes are. discussing and parish, Blaine, Minn.' In, recogni-, a rela tion of the ne'ed, ,a support, group bis'-"l had .somebody to tah~to; ,!c1arifyirtg their goal~ By Suzanne E.Elsesser for the separated and the div I!stento, share similar e:icperi- ~ti~ely formal way. They want to . ,. Peter Fember' ·watch(!d 'as the 'eilc~s with. For me;it. was''iil~ ,be ,d,ea. r. .about .,how 'th.ey· will orced was otgimized. valuable/' ~ ,l , . , .' 1 . ;: . ~ry to achieve the churc~'s goal's simple' casket of one of New , St. Timothy's, 10 miles north York's homeless men was carried R,oger. Bauer, once an active" 10 their particular area, of Minneapolis, has 3,500 fami· lies.'," , parishion~r,. fe.lt"a:Ii,~nated,1pe~~ I,Dlffe;ent parishes ;nayempha~ into the ch~rch of 'Our' Lady of , 'Sandra Tanis and Roger 'Bauer ph~ral,. l?t~~TIIdl!ted. ' afte~., hiS ~ize c1!fferent facets of cliurch Loreto. biJrying Joseph today, "We're sep'aratJon~ You thmk you re so life. Of course, there is a meas \ were among-pa~ishioners attend ing '. the earliest, meetings of' the Turn to page thirteen I ~re overlap "in' any list . of ' Father," he said, handing the priest a pa~er with a name pen'.,' I .,!,' ciled on it. ' . . Fember helped position the casket before the altar. Then he took ,a seat in a front pew. He and the priest were the only par ticipants in' the church's farewell to a man he hardly knew. i Our Lady of Loreto and its Holy Name Centre are special to many men and women of New York's Bowery. The center offers practical services to New York's homeless. Few people who come to the center attend Mass regularly. But they know that whetheral· coholics, drug addicts or emo-

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highly organized,with the calen dar and bulletin full of sched uled events. Staff members may multiply in such parishes and many people. may be engaged in its activities. Stil lother parishes are, known for liturgical celebrations or preaching or adult education programs or retreats and tilnes of recollection. Or a parish mar be a place of caring and healing. Attention. is given to anyone in need. The staff members respond whenever a ,need arises, not getting so ac tive in special programs that they could become unavailable. The. emphasis is on the individ ual, the person who is sick of experiencing a family problem, the one looking fOr counseling ." or financial help, the shut-in or , . the hospitalized. Some parishes are lively, some Tum to Page Thirteen

Christ' on the Bowery tionally ill, when they die they can be buried by the center with , respect. . "It doesn't make a difference to some, but for others it is very important to have a dignified funeral and be buried in the' center's plot;" said Fember. "The Holy Name Centre keeps records on the men who register and tries to locate their families when they die. But often all con tact ~as been lost," he added. Father Edward O'Brien is pas tor of Our Lady' of Loreto and director of the center. He ob,serves that people are careful not to lose the center identifica tion card. "They are afraid that if they get sick and don't have the card the 'center could not be notified and then, if they died, they wouldn't be buried by the center. In a sense the center is like a home for them." Tum to Page Thirteen

What will we be like?

Continued from page twelve die. But the results of that death are simply amazing. When one looks at a seed and then at a full-blown chrysanthemum, it is hard to realize the connection between the two. By the creative ingenuity of God, the flower is contained in the insignificant seed, the ma jestic oak in the humble acorn. This ingenuity is also manifest in the astonishing variety of be· ings. "Man has one kind of body, animals another. Birds are of their kind, fish of theirs . . . Even among stars, one differs. from another in brightness." Paul applies this to resurrec· tion. "What is sown in the earth is subject to decay, what rises is incorruptible ... Weakness is sown, strength rises up. A nat ural body is put down and a spiritual body comes up." The spiritual, as Paul uses it here, is not contrasted to the physical. There will be a real identity between our risen and our mortal body, just as there is between flower and seed. Our risen bodies will be physical, but transformed, just as was the risen body of Jesus. He was so transformed that even those who knew him intimately didn't recognize him at fit;st, but so really physical that in every in· stance they eventually did. The appendix to Mark's Gos pel puts it quite simply: "Later on, as two of them were walk ing to. the country, (the Lo.rd) was revealed to them completely changed in appearance" (Mark 16:12). Luke, who built this encounter into a dramatic scenario, tells us "how they came to know him in the breaking of the bread" (Luke 24:35). But before Mark or L':Ike, Paul

Bowery Continued from page twelve . Fember is on the premises be· cause he has found a home in the parish after spending half his 70 years as a knight of the road. An alcoholic who left his home almost 50 years ago, he is proud of his 12 years of sobriety and his position as sexton, sac ristan and all-around aide at the parish and center. "I go to Alcoholics Anony mous, but if I'm not occupied, eventually I'd get' back to drink ing. The parish and center keep me busy. I don't want to go back to drinking again," he says. Fember lives in the rectory. He <Jays out Mass vestments, un· locks the church doors, lights the candles, shovels snow and on Sundays rings the church bell. During. the week, Fember can be found at the bake shop of a fashionable department store where he picks up donated bread and at AA meetings at the cen ter where he shares his success against alcohol with other al. coholics. Fember is an important part of the center's Christlike pres ence on the Bowery. Quietly, he helps care for and finally bury many people who have ·lost hope in themselves.

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put the matter most clearly: "He will give a new form to this lowly body of ours and remake it according to the pattern of his glorified body, by his power to subject everything to himself" (Philippians 3:21).

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Different Continued from page twelve quiet. Some are quite formal while others are casual. What is the right type? There is no one answer. ' . The parish should enable peo ple to believe, to worship, to find support and hope, to ex tend the mission of Christ and his church. But there are many ways of expressing these and other qualities. The people and staff of each parish must deter mine how best to be faithful to the Lord and responsible for their particular situation. In short, all parishes are the same in essentials; how they ex press their mission differs as widely as do the people of God.

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this was a worthwhile step in terms of interparish cooperation. Father Griffin se,es a sign value in having the group in the par ish. "It helps people to feel ac cepted by the church in their struggles," he comments. Lorraine Lund, a member, thinks the parish benefits too. "It gets 're-singled' parishioners functioning in a parish organiza tion again," She also thinks the association is significant for her children. "Kids hear so much about fami lies at church. It's important for them to know that we are not cut off from that." ~~r.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope 32, 33. John Paul Irmet Jan. 7 with Is 3S. )6. raeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak 37. Shamir to discuss the conflicting 42. 43. Vatican and Israeli positions on liS. 47. the status of Jerusalem and the 48. rights of the Palestinian people. 49. SO. The communique said that on S2. S3. the status of Jerusalem, Pope S~. S6. John Paul "confirmed the well S9. known position of the Holy See Down for a just and agreed-upon solu 1'. :>on of Zorah (1 'ings 4:)1) tion to the question" and said 2. Plent.7 (Eoole.h.te. 5:1?)

the city should be "a crossroads ). To cloan moat (J. !'inl:' 17 :12)

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6. Owned ~11enesi~ J?:It) ful of the three religions. 7. M1l1e child ~':onosi:': I. :1'f) Christianity, Judaism and Islam A. Son of Jshrr;wl ('1enn:.i::; ::,r::1C;) 10. FOMl&rrl p.'\rt. . - . . . which venerate it as a 11. rnA of 1a.vjd's seer.• /} "!.rl)nl,·le: .:'r':4) sacred center of history and the 1:'. to fal"lOuf. na;o.:'\l"'i tc (.I.trt-,r.s 1) :~h)

life of their own religion." In response to the pope's com ments, the communique said, Shamir "emphasized that the cur· rent situation of the Holy City Continued from page twelve ish investment of. money and reflects its particular significance unique being single when every· personnel. , in the history of the Jewish peo A new guest-speaker program one else is married," In the group ple" and said that the Israeli Bauer experienced acceptance, a has attracted considerable inter government wants to provide sense that he had a place in the est during the past year. Self

free access to the holy places to parish again. esteem, family violence, a bal·

members of all religions. The group began with six anced lifestyle, shame, family

The pope's remarks indicated members. Now from 25 to 40 loyalties, having fun on a. limit continued Vatican disapproval persons attend meetings and ed budget were among discuss of the July 1980 decision by the there' is a mailing list of some ion topics. Israeli government to make a 200 names. Sister of Mercy Mar Women usually outnumber united Jerusalem the capital of gretta Dwyer thinks the size of men at meetings, though some Israel. the group contributes to its suc times nearly half the participants are 'men. In any event, members "The significance' and value of cess. She says divorced and sep Jerusalem is such as to surpass arated persons seem to benefit tend to face similar problems in the interests of any single state," from a group larger than, say, raising children, managing' fin . . ances, dealing with a former said L'Osservatore Romano, the 10 persons. spouse~ and establishing new Vatican daily newspaper, in an Fdr newcomers or those ex friendships. Some men in the editorial shortly before the Is periencing crisis, the group con group have custody of their chil raeli Knesset (parliament) voted ducts a small "Comfort and Chal dren. definitely to make Jerusalem the lenge" discussion group on meet Father Patrick Griffin, a co capital. ing nights. Other participants at St. Timothy's, says: pastor 'Pope John Paul also. spoke out choose between a guest speaker strongly in favor of the rights of program or a series conducted "People who come here need a spiritual dimension which they by parish staff members or train the Palestinians, both those liv don't get at other groups," Thus, ed facilitators who are group ing in the Holy Land and those who are refugees in nearby members. A members' advisory several evenings of. reflection board meets monthly to plan . are scheduled yearly and some countries. members take part in diocesan meetings. In his' remarks on peace nego Sister Dwyer, a counseling sponsored retreats. tiations between Israel and Recently two smaller groups Egypt, the communique said that psychologist and fUIltime staff Pope John Paul stressed that the member at St. Timothy's works from nearby parishes joined St. negotiations should include "all with •the group. Members credit Timothy's to form a regional part of its success to such par- organization. Sister Dwyer thinks interested parties."

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Creationism struck down

UTILE ROCK, Ark. (NC)' After a historic nine-day trjal, a federal judge has declared un constitutional' an Arkansas law requiring the teaching of crea tionism alongside evolution in the state's public schools. U.S. District Judge William Overton said the law "was sim ply and purely an effort to in troduce the biblical version of creation into the public school' curricula" in violation of the separation of church and state. ' Plaintiffs in the suit, filed by the American Civil Libertie~ Union, included Roman Catholic Bishop Andrew J. McDonald of Little Rock. , During the trial, Vincentian Father Francis Bruce Vawter, a biblical scholar, testified for the ACLU that the wording of the law was taken directly from the Book of Genesis. In the 40-page decision Over ton said that even though the law says its legislative purpose is not religious, the only infer ence that can be drawn from the circumstances under which the law was drafted and passed is that its purpose was religious. "The argument that creation from nothing does not involve a supernatural deity has 'no' evi dentiary 'or rational support," Overton wrote. "Indeed, creation of the world 'out of nothing' is the ultimate religious statement 1;lecause God is the only actor," he said. Noting that. the law defines creation science as including separate ancestries of man and apes, Overton - said the statute 'made "a bald assertion." He continues,' "It explains nothing and refers tQ no scienti fic fact or theory." At the trial Father Vawter, re ligious studies department chair man at DePaul University in Chicago, said, "This act (law) in its description of what it calls creation science has as its un mentioned reference book' the first 11 chapters of Genesis." He added, "I don't know of any other story of origins which embraces exactly these points." Bishop McDonald was one of a number of religious leaders in Arkansas who joined in the law suit against the creationism law. Others included Method,ist, Pres byterian and Jewish leaders. State officials said before the decisjon that if they lost they probably would appeal to. the ' 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals in St. Louis.

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WA!TING FbR Ai GUU ~~KE YOU

SO long , I I've been looking too lfard, I've been waiting too I~ng S0l!letim,es U d~n't kn01~ what II will find 'I only know it'~ a matller ~f tim~ When you love someOJ~e . When you love, someOlle I 'It feels so right so wall'~.and true I need to know if you feel it too I . Maybe I'm wrong Won't you tell me if ]['IIn coming on too strong This heart of mine has '~een hurt before This time I wanna be Ilute. I've been waiting for a :girl like you To come into my life I I've been waiting for ~ 'girl like you With. a love that. will s,_rvive I I've been waiting for ~~meone new To make me feel alive ; Yeah waiting for a girJllike you To come into my life. I i You're go good When we make' love it':~ understood It's more than a touch 'or ,a word we, say Only in dreams could i~ be this way,. When you love, someoll,e Yeah really lov~ someone Now I know it's rig,ht I ' ' . . From the moment I wal~e up til deep in the night There's nowhere on ealth that I'd rather be Than holdingy~u tendlfrlY . I've been waiting for a girl like you To come into my life I I've been waiting for a girl like you With a love that will slJrvive ,I've been waiting for sl~meone new To make me feel alive I Yeah .waitingfor a glr11like you To come into my life. Recorded by Foreigner, Writtell by M. Jone~ and L. Gramm, . (c) 1981 by Somerset Songs PUbli~hing, Inc. and Evansongs, Ltd.

FOREIGNER'S current ; hit, "Waiting For A Girl Like You," presents a situation where an individual has been waiting for "someone new to make me feel alive." . A part of Foreigner's new album, "4," the song initially -talks about searching for a love, that

Nonetheless, mature individ uals will take time tel evaluate whether they are ready'for mar· riage by looking at various as pects of their relationship. 1. As a couple, what do you talk about? Does your dialogue together include differences of opinion? Can you express both positive and negative feelings about the other person? Walking down 'the' aisle works no last ing magic. If you are afraid to talk about certain problems. bEl fore the weddIng, they will still be there afterward. 2. Love will.soon tum to dis illusionment if one' person ex pects to change the othe(s hab its. Both persons heed to be will ing to seek answers in problem areas.' 3. Another important area in volves conflict. If a couple has not encountered conflict, it may be a sign; they are more inter~ ested in pleasing each other than sharing their true selves. Such a fantasy existence cannot last long after marriage. . ' . 4. An important preparation for marriage includes establish ing one's own identity, goals and dreams. Strong marriages blend strong individuals. Sometimes 'people are afraid to examine the strengths or weaknesss ,of a relationship; thinking th,ey might hurt or even lose it. Yet marriage should be a mutual commitment for growth. After catefully examining their readiness fpr marriage, a' couple sometimes: decides to postpone marriage for a time. Waiting, as the song indicates, can be long, lonely. and uncertaip.

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By cecilia Belanger "What think ye of Christ?" is a good question to ask ourselves as we pray. What do we really think and believe? Are we influ enced by others? How strong is our faith? In these days of uncertainty and fear, days when those weak in their faith find hanging on a struggle, that question, in my opinion, preempts all others. I watch many who toil at the . same task day after day, yet their faith in Christ gives them a lift. Our awkward words cannot describe what takes place in the hearts of simple,folk whose faith remains unshaken no matter what. A student asked, "How come we're so organized when Jesus framed no organizatipn?" An other followed with, "Jesus composed no liturgies; he said nothing about buildings in which his followers would worship; he said nothing about method but always spoke in regard to the spirit. And to me that's what counts the most." True, Christ did not reduce his teaching to a systematic or scientific form. He abstained from copious teaching and pro saic instruction. He taught in parables and, was easily under stood as he drew illustrations , from familiar objects and scenes. He uttered pithy sayings, often in a figurative style.

In human systems, in the com pany of the, professed followers However, a 'couple is better of Christ, tares will mingle with off waiting' for a relationship to the wheat, but all that is true grow than to marry before they and abiding in Christian theology , are ready to make a public state has been derived from the seeds ment of their commitment to of ,truth Christ left in the mem , each other.

ory of his disciples. Ilwill ,endure and lead to happi

. If love is authentic, this wait ness - something the one in the ing can be, the best investment Jesus was certainly concerned Isong apparently has found' in a for a future life of shared satis with human welfare. Yet left Inew relationship. politics untouched. He recognized factions and meaning. Once such a relationship has human government as having its Please address correspondence been established, it is important place. But what particular form Ito evaluate where it is going. to Charlie' Martin, 3863 BeUe it should take, whether it should IFor many couples, marriage meade Ave., Evansville, Ind. be the rule of one, of the many, 47715. iseems like. the next step. or of the few; how the functions of government should be divided and distribl,lted; how far the jurisdiction of' the state should extend; on these and kindred questions, he was silent. However, we must realize that the religious and ethical truths he taught, by entering into the minds and hearts of men and women have leavened the politi cal life of nations. They have gone far towards detennining the views of those who govern on the true design of govern ment and the Proper bounds of its authority. This is the effect, not of direct enactment, but of the slow op eration of the moral and religious truth Christ deposited in human souls.

People "People cannot live as if. they were on a desert isiand. 'They need companions, friends with whom they can share their lives, their vision and their ideals. So it is that people come together, not because they live in' the same neighborMod or are re lated, but because, of a ,mutual sympathy; they come together around ideas, around a Vision of man and society." - Jean Vanier

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Christ's spirit was in keeping with His words. The problem be gins when youth hear words not in keeping with that spirit.

BOYS TOWN STUDENT lJiffi Gill demonstrates 'new radio equipment at the Neb raska home to its director, Fath{~r Robert P. Hupp: AM station setup was donated to the Nebraska institution by 'the lat1e Patrick Norton, nephew of Father Edward J. Flanagan, Boys Town founder., (NC Photl~)I - .

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portswQtch Lombardi Committee Named The selection committee for the annual Vince Lombardi Block of Granite Award is again headed by Jim Sullivan, former head coach of football and present baseball coach at Somerset High School. Others on the committee are Donald F. Montle, former head coach of football at Durfee High; John McCarthy, former head coach of football at Case High; Charles Connell, former head coach of football at Bishop Stang High; Oscar (pete) Levesque: of the Fall River Herald News Sports Department; Bill Camp bell, a member of the board of directors of the Southeastern Massachusetts Football Officials Association; Ronald Boulay, for mer assistant football coach at Durfee; Richard Dias, former head coach of football at Digh ton-Rehoboth Regional High; and George Milot, former head coach of football at Stang. High schools eligible to nomin·

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not alwaYs coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for gen Iral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug· gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for

only: A4-separate classification ate for the award are Bishop adults (given to films not. morally offensi~e Stang, Durfee, Tiverton, See· which, however, require some analYSIS and explanation); D-morally offensive. konk, Case, Somerset, Appone quet Regional, Dighton-Rehoboth New Film and Coyle-Cassidy. "Man of Iron" (United Artists First presented in 1971, the Classics): This much-hom~red Po award is sponsored by the Great lish film, winner of the grand er Fall River Chapter of the Am· prize at the 1981 Cannes Film erican Cancer Society. It goes Festival, is director Andrzej to the player selected as the out Wajda's account of the confron standing down lineman in the tation between Solidarity and Greater Fall River area. ' Poland's communist regime at Finalists will be guests at a the Gdansk shipyards in August presentation dinner at Venus de 1980. Main characters are a Milo restaurant, Swansea, on heroic younger worker and his Sunday, Feb. 7. filmmaker wife, who are con Previous winners were Steve trasted with venal and corrupt Winarski, Durfee, 1971; Peter party functionaries and a once· Reis, Case, 1972; Eugene Wade, courageous television journalist Coyle-Cassidy, 1973; Robert turned alcoholic coward who is Ponte, Durfee, 1974; Bob Mon sent to Gdansk to smear Solid teiro, Case, 1975; George N. Bro arity. Though the mix of real deur, Somerset, 1976; John Gon characters and documentary foot et, Bishop Stang, 1977; Chris age with a fictional story line Destremps, Tiverton, 1978; John isn't as smooth as it might be, Sharland, Apponequet, 1979; "Man of Iron" is a powerful and and Matt Schultz, Seekonk, courageou's film. The sad recent 1980. events in Poland give it extra ordinary impact. A2, PG

Durfee In Wrestling Win Host Durfee was the winner of the Lex King Souter Wrestling Tournament. The Hilltop mat men had 150 points. Bristol High, 129Y2, was the runnerup follow ed by Middletown 124Y2, Fox boro 73, Cape Cod Tech 28 Y2 Warren 55, No. Providence 49, Ponagansett 12. Pat Stephenson, 108 pounds, and Nick Leventis, 185, of Our fee finished first in their respec tive weight classes. Other class winners were Dan Chinese, Bris· tol, 100 pounds; Brian Thomp. son, Foxboro, 123; ·Bernie Cata loni, Foxboro, 123; Joe Franco, Bristol, 136; John Russell, Cape Cod Tech, 142; Bruce Hutchin· son, Warren, 147; Carlin Sulli van, Middletown, 159; Scott Wil-' son, Middletown, 171; Fred Mes cala, Bristol, heavyweight. In unusual Thursday night ac· tion because of the holiday to morrow, there are several high school basketball' games on tap for tonight. All Division One teams in the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference will play, with Taunton at New Bed ford High, Barnstable at Som erset and Durfee at Attleboro. Dartmouth is host to Falmouth in Division Two and Dennis-Yar mouth entertains Old Rochester in Division Three, Case hosts Westport in Division Four. Tomorrow night it is Fair haven at Bishop Connolly, Ware ham at Bishop Feehan in Divis ion Two, Coyle-Cassidy at Great · er New Bedford V0 k e-Tech In Division Three, Diman Voke at Seekon~ in Division Four.

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'''To s~rve' the cause of' peace is to sell'e civilization." - Pope Pius XII

High point of Saturday's schol· astic sports schedule is the Win ter Track Invitational at 10 a.m. in Voke-Tech High School in non-league basketball, Attleboro is home to Dartmouth, Coyle-Cassidy and Connolly meet at 8 tonight in the nightcap of a hockey twin bill in the Oris coil Rink, Fall River. Falmouth and Somerset meet at 6. In girls' basketball, Holy Fam i1y is host to Fairhaven this afternoon and Stang entertains New Bedford High at 'II :30 a.m. Saturday. Also in girls' basket ball today, Apponequet is, home to Norfolk Aggies. Hockomock basketball today has Oliver Ames at Mansfield, No. Attleboro at King Philip, Canton at Foxboro and Sharon at Franklin while on Tuesday it will be Stoughton at Oliver Ames, Foxboro. at Sharon, Frank lin at King Philip and Mansfield at No. Attleboro. The pairings are the same for girls basketball except that the home team is the reverse from the boys' games. Fall River South defeated Som. erset 3-1 last Sunday night and once again is tied with idle New Bedford for first place in the Bristol County CYO Hockey League. In another game See konk tightened its hold on ,third place with a 5-2 victory over 'Marion. Next Sunday night's games in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, list Somerset vs. New Bedford at 9 o'clock, Seekonk vs. Fall River South at 10.

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Film on TV Sunday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m. (ABC) - "The Onion Field" (1979) Two petty criminals kidnap two policemen and murder one of them. The consequences nearly destroy the surviving officer in this· somber, slow-moving, but gripping. film version of Joseph Warnbaugh's best seller. Vio bmc€l, rO,ugh language, frank depiction of criminal life. A4 . TV Programs

"Brideshead Revisted," an 11 part adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel, premiering 8·10 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, PBS: Waugh once described the theme of his novel.about an English Catholic family as "the opera tion of divine grace' on a group of diverse but closely connected characters." The story follows the 'aristocratic Marchmains from the early 1920s to the end of the Second World War. It is told from the perspective of an outsider who became deeply en tangled in their affairs. He is Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons), who as an Oxford student meets and befriends the eccentric Lord Sebastian (Anthony And rews). Charles is gradually drawn into the Marchmain cir cle at Brideshead Castle, the family estate. In 1944 Charles, as an army captain, finds his unit quartered at Brideshead. The elegiac tone of the past recalled is an impor tant part of the novel and is powerfully evoked in the first episode of the series. The production is lavish, even to using magnificent Castle How ard in Yorkshire, which was Waugh's model for his imagin ary Brideshead; and John Morti

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mer's adaptation of this complex novel is completely faithful to the original. It will delight Waugh fans and perhaps con· vert some of his critics. "The Electric GrandmoU\er," NBC. Jan. 17: A widower (Ed ward Herrmann), needing help in raising his three youngsters, receives it from a robot, "The Electric Grandmother," in a warm and loving family fantasy airing Sunday, Jan. 17, 7·8 p.m. on NBC. Mauren Stapleton shines in the title role as the mechanical marvel programmed with the knowledge and understanding to look after the children. There is a lot of playful fun in this updating of the old fairy godmother theme. But there is also serious substance in this Ray Bradbury story, which starts with the reality of death and ends in reconciling human mortality with an eternal ideal. Tuesday, Jan. 19, 9-11 p.m. (CBS) "Marian Rose White," This reality-based dramatization tells the tragic story of a normal nine-year-old girl placed in a state asylum for the feeblemind ed, her brutal mistreatment there and her eventual release 30 years later. James Garner is a middle-aged man making decisions about his job and family in ''The Long Summer of George Adams," air ing Monday, Jan. 18, 9-11 p.m. on NBC. Set in a small Oklahoma town in 1952, Garner works for a railroad line changing from steam. to diesel. The uncertainty of whether he will be fired or have to relocate weighs heavily on his mind and that of his wife (Joan Hackett). Among his problems is an at· tractive neighbor (Anjanette Comer) who invites him over when his family is away. Gar ner's guilt about this dalliance is a factor helping him decide his future. This film succeeds best as a piece of Americana. It has down. to-earth honesty, but is not for the youngsters. Sunday, Jan. 17, WLNE, Chan nel 6, 10:30 a.m., Diocesan Tele vision Mass. "Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Charmel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan di· rector of social services; Rev. Dr. Paul Gillespie, of the Rhode Is land State Council of Churches; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. "The Glory of God," with Father John Bertolucci, 7:30 p.m. each Sunday on Channel 25.

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