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Lifemarch is Tuesday "A nation with the resolve to have a man set foot on the moon must not be afraid to :let a child set foot on the earth," Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York said in defense of the t.nborn child.

The cardinal's statement on the "national scandal" of legalized abortion was one of a number of comments made in observance of the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court abortion decision, Jan. 22. Other religious leaders around the country joined in condemning abortion and religious and educational pro-life activities were planned to be in step with the annual March for Life.

A three-day Respect Life Lea.dership Conference, an all-night Eucharistic vigil and a short prayer vigil will be held befclre the seventh annual march in Washington. Other cities also will hold marches.

In the Providence diocese an all-night abortion reparation vigil will begin at 8:30 tomorrow night in Guzman Chapel of Providence College. A Right to Life Mass will be celebrated at 7:30 p.m. Monday at SSe Peter and Paul Cathedral by Bishop Louis E. Gelineau.

A reception will follow the Mass, honoring those from the diocese who will leave at 10 p.m. for' the Washington March for Life.

In Providence on Tuesdlly, motorcade members will lay wreaths at 1:15 p.m. at the Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic, 197 Westminster St., and a short time thereafter on the grounds of Women and Infants Hospital. Both ceremonies will memorialize the lives of aborted babies.

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Energy seen • as top Issue

AN ECUMENICAL GATHERING listens to an address by Father James W. Clark, pastor, at the opening of the new parish center of St. John the Evangelist Church, Pocasset.

Diocese to mark Unity Week Marking the 1980 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins tomorrow, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will speak on Monday at an ecumenical meeting of the clergy of Taunton, to be held at the Baptist Church of All Nations.

In Fall River, clergy and parishioners of six area churches have been invited to participate in the second Niagara Neighborhood ecumenical prayer service, to be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 315 Warren St. Participating, as well as members and clergy of St. Luke's, will be representatives of the First Primitive Methodist Church, Holy Cross, Our Lady of Health and SSe Peter and Paul Catholic churches and St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The homily will be by Father Stephen A. Fernandes, associate pastor of SS. Peter and Paul's.

Preceeding Christian Unity Week, St. John the Evangelist Church, Pocasset, held an ecumenical open house in its new parish center. Official blessing of the structure will take place in the spring.

In Falmouth, Catholics will attend a general prayer service

Sunday, Jan. 27 at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. All churches will join in a covenant of discipline and prayer, with representatives of each communion promising prayer and sacrifice for each day of the week.

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$3 million in aid Thanks for the "truly magnificent generosity" of the Fall River diocese to the suffering refugees of Cambodia have been expressed by Bishop Edwin B. Broderick, executive director of Catholic Relief Services.

In a letter to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop Broderick acknowledged receipt of the record breaking amount of $103,670.60, proceeds of a special collection in all diocesan churches.

"Because of our favorable

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purchasing position and of our access to various grants, we are able to deliver about $30 worth of aid for every dollar we receive," the bishop wrote. "So you see that in partnership with CRS. the people of Fall River have contributed over $3 million to help the poor.

"The people of Fall River come like the Kings to the manger, bearing gifts," continued the bishop. "And Our Lord receives them into the only hands he has left us - the hands of the poor."

WASHINGTON (NC) - Energy was called "the pre-eminent social justice issue of the 1980s" by Bishop William M. Cosgrove of Belleville, Ill., during a day-long Washington conference last week on "Religion and Energy in the '80s."

Signaling a major new effort by religious groups to have an impact on the energy debate in the United States, the conference included a White House breakfast and a 15-minute address by President Carter.

"It might seem strange to some - not to you - that the conservation of oil was a religious connotation," Carter told the approximately 125 religious leaders at the conference.

"But when God created the earth and gave human beings dominion over it, it was with the understanding that we are indeed stewards under God's guidance," he said.

The president praised a plan to promote a "conservation Sabbath weekend," and he linked freedom of religion to the availability of energy.

"The right of people to be free is directly tied to adequate supplies of energy in the modern, fast-changing technological world," Carter said.

Bishop Cosgrove, who is heading a U.S. Catholic Conference effort to develop a major policy statement on energy, made his remarks about the pre-eminence of the energy issue in a statement to reporters shortly after the president's speech.

The conference included two interrelated themes: theological questions surrounding church involvement in energy issues, and a discussion of what religious institutions could do to ease the energy pinch.

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AT THE SnLVER JUBILEE BISHOP'S BALL YOUNG WOMEN GATHER FOR THE TRADITIONAL PORTRAIT WITH THE BISHOP AND THEIR FATHERS (Other pictures on pages 8,9)

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NC)-Cardinal William Baum of Washington has been named to head the Congregation for Education in Rome, replacing the retiring Cardinal Gabriel Garrone.

DES MOINES, Iowa (NC)-Campaigns are under way in the Dubuque Archdiocese and the Des Moines Dioc,ese to stir interest and participation in the Iowa precinct caucuses to be held Jan. 21. Both campaigns are using the American bishops' statement, "Political Responsibility: Choices for the 1980s," as a basis for informing Catholic voters on issues.

Meanwhile, a major Iowa pro-life group has accused Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) of using "devious campaign tactics" and distorting his voting record on abortion during his campaigning in the state. The Iowa Pro-Life Political Council condemned the Kennedy candidacy and urged "pro-life Democrats to withdraw their support from someone who so adamantly opposes our views."

PARISHIONERS PLAN mortgage burning celebration of fifth anniversary of the dedication of the new SS. Peter and Paul church, school and parish center in Fall River. Seated, Mrs. Helen Ozug, Father Stephen Fernandes; standing, Edmond Machado, Robert Latinville, James Benevides.

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ROME (NC)--d>ope John Paul II has taken a series of initiatives to help find a solution to the world crisis created by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Italian newspaper, L'Occhio, reported. The Vatican had no comment on the reported initiatives, which the paper said were being pursued under strict secrecy.

OSLO, Norway (NC)--Contributions by the Norwegian people to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India, reached 925,000 Norwegian Kroners in early January and seem likely to top a million Kroners (about $200,000) soon, according to figures released in Oslo. As a result of disagreement with Nobel Peace 'Prize selections several years ago, the Norwegian people began donating to the People's Peace Prize, which Mother Teresa also won this year.

NEW YORK (NC)-Marist Father Joseph D. Fenton, a broadcast journalist, has been named manager for broadcast production in the U.S. Catholic Conference's Department of Communication. Father Fenton will serve as the usec liaison with the three neworks for the more than 100 radio and television programs they produce annually in consultation with the Catholic Church.

WASHINGTON (NC)--The United States was greatly enriched by the life and career of labor leader George Meany, and it is poorer as the result of his death, Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a message to Meany's successor as head of the AFL-eIO. Bishop Kelly joined other religious and political leaders in praising Meany after 'he died Jan. 10.

MRS. PATRICIA SHAHID and two-year-old Sarah march on a prolife picket line at a Maryland abortion clinic. Last spring Mrs. Shahid was dissuaded from aborting Sarah by such pickets, has now joined the prolife cause. (NC Photo)

VATICAN CITY (NC)-"To be a pastor and bishop of souls means to protect the word (of God), to watch over the truth," Pope John Paul II told the Dutch bishops at a concelebrated Mass opening the Particular Synod of the Dutch Bishops at the Vatican. The synod, to continue through Jan. 26, will try to resolve the divisions that, in,the words of a working paper, "threaten to paralyze ecclesiastical life" in the Netherlands.

ATfY. GERALD D'AVOLIO has been named executive director of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, which encompasses the four Catholic dioceses of the state.

He has been associate conference director since 1975.

His responsibilities will include路 coordination of public policies study committees and acting as liaison with Massachusetts lawmakers and with the U.S. Catholic Conference.

NEW YORK (NC)-The dioceses of the New York metropolitan area have a'greed to a uniform policy of limited cooperation with the 1980 census in regard to illegal aliens, according to Msgr. Anthony J. Bevilacqua, director of the Brooklyn diocesan Migration and Refugee Office. "Basically, the policy is one of cooperation to a limited extent without being guarantors of confidentiality," he said.

BELLS OF ST. MARY'S, Newport, RI. are provided by members of the parish handbell choir. (NC Photo)

WASHINGTON (NC)--In a statement marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 15, Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, said racism retains a strong hold on many Americans and on society.

"Great movements in history are born in the souls of great human beings. Martin Luther King Jr. is the American prophet of racial justice, a cause for which he lived and tragically died. The anniversary of his !birth each year is like a tolling bell that calls us to look again on the progress of the work he began," Bishop Kelly said.

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Taiwan ties impede ROlJne

Candle rite

ROME (NC) - The major obstacle to normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the Vatican is the Holy See's ties with Taiwan, according to the first European Catholic bishop to visit China in. more than 30 years.

at St. Anne The sacrament of marriage will be highlighted at parish masses this weekend. Families have been asked to come as a unit to the weekend celebrations.

Following the homily of each Mass, every husband present will bring a lighted candle to his family and before his children renew his marriage vows. He will then give the candle to his wife who in turn 路will renew her vows.

Bishop Georg Moser of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, West Germany, talked about his recent trip to China in the current issue of the missionary magazine, Air.lis.

The 56-year-old bishop reported that he was received with "extreme courtesy" throughout his visit as part of a dell~gation of West German politicians, teachers and church leaders.

He met with Chinese President Hua Guo-feng and was told that "the major obstacle to beginning a process of normaLization of relations between China and the Vatican is the latter's diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

Bishop Moser also mE~t with Bishop Fu Tien-Shan of Peking, who was elected to head the diocese by members of the Patriotic Catholic Church of China but whose election was not approved by the Vatican.

The German prelate said his conversation with the Chinese churchman showed him "not to be contrary to the pope."

The bishop was not allowed to see former Bishop Kung PinMei of Shanghai, 87, who was jailed by the Chinese communists in 1955 as "a traitor to the homeland."

Vows calle(l 'golden naiJls~ VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John Paul II reminded nuns to remain faithful to their vows', especially that of poverty, during an audience Jan. 11 with members of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

"Have eyes and hearts only for the poor, as your founders did . . . never ceasing to stimulate them to contemplate our Lord Jesus Christ, sent to announce a joyous message to the poor, to proclaim freedom to prisoners and sight to the blind," the pope said.

He added that the vow of chastity does not negate "the capacity and the need for motherhood in every woman."

"You are mothers," Pope John Paul told the nuns. "You colloborate in the protection, the orientation, the development, the healing, the serene end of so many human lives on the physical, moral and religious llevel."

On the third vow, th.e pope said that "religious obed::ence is the most piercing of the three golden nails which link :3is imitators to the will of Jesus Christ.

"Is it possible to look up at the cross of Jesus Christ without conforming to his mystery of obedience to the Father?"

Pope John Paul asked.

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To show that families have a stake in each other's marriages, the lighted candle will be presented to a child from another family or to a single person, with the request that he or she pray for the couple presenting the candle.

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Singing Friars to visit Fall River They walk out, eight young men dressed in the black robes that denote their vocation.

Among them they tote three guitars, a bass, a mandolin, a tambourine, a harmonica, a set of bongos, and some nice-sized clapping hands.

More a part of them are the smiles, the joy, the unity and the harmonic blending of voices aimed at one end, praising God. This octette, known as the Singing Friars, is a group of Franciscan Friars who will travel to Fall River from their seminary-home, Saint Hyacinth Seminary and College, Granby, Mass. They look forward to sharing with the people of the Fall River diocese the message of God's love through an evening of song and liturgy.

The Singing Friars are more than a band or singing group; they are part of a 15 year tradition at St. Hyacinth's of serving God's people by spreading His message through song and smile. This tradition of praising God through song began with St. Francis of Assisi, the Lord's Troubadour, who was so filled with the Lord's love that he sang it out, the better to share it with all men.

It is that love which is expressed in the joy of these eight friars as they offer a wide collection of contemporary and religious music designed to show modern music as he did through the psalms and canticles.

Changing with the academic years, the Singing Friars are always alive with changing talent and personality. This year's leader and director is Friar Edward Misiak of Baltimore. For a while he was the sole guitartllIlIIlllllllIIlllUIlIUIlIlIIlIIlIUIUnlll11Ul路llIlmlllllllllllllllllllllllllll"'mllllllllllllu" .....

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ist, but that was remedied when Friars Scott Kershaw and Paul Reinhardt became part of the tradition. Friar Scott (third from right in picture) hails from St. Michael's parish, Swansea. The other friars are from West Virginia, New York and Maryland. . Making their debut in the diocese, the Singing Friars will participate in the 5 p.m. liturgy on Saturday, Jan. 26 at Holy Cross parish, Fall River. At 7

that evening they will offer a concert of contemporary and religious music in the parish hall on Manchester Street. There will be no admission charge.

The Friars Minor Conventual, the branch of the Franciscan order to which the Singing Friars belong, staff Holy Rosary parish, Taunton, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Hedwig parishes, New Bedford, in addition to Holy Cross.

"Cana has always been very important in Christian tradition not only because it was a wedding but because Christ used the scene of a wedding to begin his public ministry," explained Father John R. FoIster, pastor of St. Anne's.

"Cana was the first of Christ's marvelous signs," he said, "a sensitive, concerned love for a newly-married couple, an emphatic re~ognition that the love and relationship between a husband and wife is so important and vital that it must be imitated in all our relationships."

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Among statistics to be found in the 1980 Vatican Yearbook is the fact that during this past year the Holy See established diplomatic relations on the ambassadorial level with six new nations: Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Greece, Grenada and Mali.

These nations join over 125 of the world's governments in establishing formal diplomatic credentials of exchange with the Vatican. Of course, the most glaring absence among world peoples is that of the United States路of Ameriica.

As a token nod to the Holy See, the White House, following an already established use, announced in 1977 the appointment of a personal envoy to the Holy See. As usual, objections to this appointment were raised

by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, along with two Baptist bodies, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. Their predictable position was that the appointment amounted to preferential treatment for one religious body and eritanglement of the American government with the Catholic Church.

A spokesman for the National Council of Churches also opposed the appointment of even a personal envoy to the Holy See. It is interesting to note that at the time of this most recent appointment of a personal envoy, a non-diplomatic post, the House of Representatives had under consideration an amendment already passed by the Senate that would lift an 1867 prohibition against funding for diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

It should be noted that any initiative for establishment of formal diplomatic relations would have to be undertaken by the government of the United States.

The reality of Pope John Paul's formal reception at the White House this past year was more than significant when reviewed in the light of the total history of American and Vatican relationships. This positive step should set aside the fears that many people in this country still have that the pope wants to run the White House. This Ian Paisley mentality still exists in many areas of American life and still hinders inauguration of the diplomatic relations that should exist between the two states..

Last October, in his first address to diplomats accredited to the Holy See, the Holy Father pinpointed some of the fundamental principles affecting some of the issues in the American situation.

He stated: "The Holy See does not seek for itself any special privileges. Relations between the Vatican and other nations do not necessarily mean approval of this or that regime or the approval of all their acts in the conduct of public affairs. It does mean an appreciation of positive temporal values, a desire for dialogue with those who are legitimately entrusted with providing for the common good of society."

With this objective in mind, could we in this land hope that in this decade some of the barriers of bigotry and bias might be removed and that the United States might take positive steps toward seeking ways to bring about full diplomatic status with the Holy See. This would indeed be only right and fitting for a nation that not only is home for 50 million Catholics but also thinks itself a symbol of religious liberty in the world family.

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THE MARCH FOR LD~E, JANUARY 22, 1980

'From my mother's womb, Thou hast been my protector.' Ps. 70:6

FCC Blacks Out The Public Interest Are you concerned about comml3rcial radio's influence on values? Should radio serve the entire community, rather than just monied consumers? Should religious groups and other non-profit charitable organizations be given radio time to send their ,messages to tile community? Should the number of commercials you hear each hour be limited?

You might think, "Yes!" But the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has answered "No" to these and similar questions. The FCC proposed Oct. 5 that radio stations be free to broadcast unlimited commercials and drop all public services. Instead of local events, public affairs, news, community service and other constructive programming, your local radio station will be free to spend as much time as it likes selling you hamburgers, beer and laundry soap.

The FCC has proposed to eliminate your influence on radio programming as a member of your local community..That leaves all program decision-making to _ advertisers and station owners.

Radio stations are now required to serve you, in the "public interest, convenience and necessity." The FCC has proposed to repeal that law and reduce your interest in radio to that of a consumer of purchased products.

If you think local community standards are important to radio broadcasting and if you don't want the FCC to hand your influence on broadcasting over to radio advertisers, write the FCC. Let your voice be heard.

Cite: "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Deregulation of Radio," BC Docket No. 79-219. Address your comments to: Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, 1919 "M" St. N.W., Washington, D. C. 20554.

If you would like more information on the FCC's intention to give away the public's airwaves, write the Department of Communication, United States Catholic Conference, 1011 First Ave., New York, N.V. 10022.

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This complex pope When the Roman inquisitors are finished with the Swiss and Dutch theologians, there is another popular Catholic teacher against whom they ought to take action. This man may well be the most dangerous of all. In a recent talk to tens of thousands of people, he spoke of the human experience of nakedness and what it reveals about (fur nature.

He was talking about the Book of Genesis. He endorsed the very liberal position that the author of the book is not talking about experiences which are "distant in time" but "basic in significance."

He argues that when the Genesis author speaks of human nakedness, he is dealing with our basic experience of being persons with bodies that are sexual and indeed male and female combined, "the experience on the part of man of the femininity that is revealed in the nakedness of the body 21nd reciprocally the similar experience of masculinity on the part of the woman."

In the experience of shame, he goes on to say, we have a "liminal" experience of the unity of human nature as male and female. The negative implications of shame are the result of sinfulness, we become "ashamed" of our incompleteness vis-a-vis the "other because of our fear

and insecurity, but we also perceive, however dimly, that beyond this "ashamedness" there is fundamental truth about the mixture of femininity and masculinity not only in the human species but in each individual human.

I trust that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will go after him. They won't have to look very far - over to the audience hall where Pope John Paul II speaks every Wednesday morning.

I'm being ironic, obviously.

There are, however, a number of that important observations need to be made: 1) Whatever the current difficulties may be between the pope and some theologians, he simply cannot be written off as a traditionalist. Such interpretation of Genesis would have led to his condemnation by the curial authorities 20 years ago. John Paul is a complex, intricate man.

There are strains of traditionalism but also powerful strains of modernity and liberalism.

2) The virtual unanimity of the press accounts describing the pope as "tightening up" or "clamping down" or even "restoring the old church~' are at best inadequate and incomplete and at worse downright bad reporting.

3) The journalists covering Rome and Catholic affairs are intolerably lazy. I know about the papal commentary on the Book

Non-colnmunication A friend of mine who is a marriage counselor told about the couple who came to him for counseling. When he brought the two together and asked some specific questions, one of the wife's charges was that her husband was terribly critical of her housekeepin.g. "He even comes home from work and vacuums the carpets," she said.

Her husband stared at her in genuine astonishment. "I wasn't being critical. I was only trying to be helpful. I figured you had been doing the housework all day and this was one way I could help."

Neither had talked to the other about motives. It was a classic case of misunderst.anding that escalated. If the couple had been able to talk with one another-communicate- the misunderstanding would neVE!r have occurred and the incident could have led to a closer rather than a strained relationship.

Communication is not a luxury but a necessity in the home.

In our harried pace of life, it is more crucial than ever. Vole simply don't have the hours together pitting cherries or stacking wood during which we talked and listened to one Elnother as in an earlier era. We no longer sit and swing on thE~ front porch, idly chatting and hearing

the other's thoughts and dreams.

Instead, we are sitting in front of the television set.

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of Genesis, not because I have any secret Roman sources but because I read very carefully the weekly airmail edition of Osservatore Romano. I daresay there has never been a serious and senstive discussion of the human experience o( nakedness in its pages before.

Nor can I imagine why a pope's comments on this endlessly fascinating matter might not be news. The pope is hardly advocating immOdesty, but he does talk about the human body in a way which most Catholic priests would not dare. I must conclude that a lot of the journalists are at best skimming, if they read such comments at all.

My sense of the situation is that the pope is quite properly concerned when scholars seem to be denying the divinity of Jesus and the resurrection. I think he's listened to envious rivals, however, about certain European thinkers whose terminology may be different but whose faith is the same as his.

Finally, I think that if he should step down as pope, he'd be in trouble for some of the things he says every Wednesday morning.

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Many couples are familiar with this scenario described by a family communications facili- . tator. Husband comes home from work and asks wife how things went today. She replies, "Well, they met. So when we met somethe carpet man came at nine in- one who cared deeply about us stead of eight and I wasn't here and we about him, the bond was so he had to go to Johnsons to communication. let him in and . . . then your So what happened? Why did mother called and told about Uncle Lester. Did you know he we stop talking? Gradually, we . . . when the kids came home, let our interest in the other we took Henry's trumpet to the wane. We heard all the stories shop ... so we're having tomato of each other's childhood and soup and leftover meatloaf they began to bore us. We stopsandwiches. How was your ped discussing dreams. day?"

But we can't love someone we don't know and we can't "Okay," he replies. know someone until we talk and Later, Wife tells her friend, her mother, or the marriage listen to him and he to us. counselor, "He never listens to There's no real excuse for lack me," or "He never talks to me." of communication among couples today. Every night school, comHow can we be so stupid as munity college, and third church to let our communication to- offers seminars and courses on gether die? It was the very thing communicating in marriages and that brought us together as young families. The various encounterlovers - the feeling that finally type weekends and couple resomeone. cared enough about treats have built-in communicaus to listen, to want to know us, tion skills. The couple who to make us feel treasured. After realy cares about enriching famall, we couldn't bare our dreams ily life have only to make the to our parents - they might effort and sign up for a course tell us why they couldn't be real- or a retreat. Otherwise, they ized. We couldn't tell our hopes may well abdicate their marto our best friends; they were riage and family life to the calsure to tell the first persons endar and the television set.

Boycott the Games?

It makes all kinds of sense

for the West to boycott the Olympic Games, which is probably reason enough for it not to be done.

Getting the Olympic concesslon was the single political trilmph the Russians have had in 60 years. When the Olympic ~orch is lit in the Moscow stajium, the bearer officially be:omes a member of the human ~ommunity, a neighbor in good .standing on the planet.

But when several members of the British and West German parliaments suggested that if we really wanted to show we meant business we would decline invitations from the international bullies, there were cries of shock and horror from the Olympic establishment.

Lord Kilanin, president of the International Olympic Committee, reminded us that "the athletes come first."

That may be, but they also would be the first to go - in the war that could come if the Soviets don't stop sending tanks to foreign countries.

The Olympic chairman of Britain, Dennis Fellows, said haughtily that "it is not for governments to meddle in matters of this kind. I really do believe sports is above all this carrying on."

The Soviets obviously agree with him.

The most fatuous statement comes from an official of Britain's Olympic Association, Dan Palmer. He has been to Moscow five times for Olympic planning, he announced, and has not seen "any evidence that the games will be used for political purposes."

The fact is they are already being used for political purposes by the Kremlin, which is engaged in the brutal human housecleaning undertaken by totalitarian regimes when company is coming. The clean-cut young athletes are serving as unwitting agents of further repression.

"Undesirables," that is, citizens who differ with their government, are being shipped out to the countryside so no Western javelin thrower or relay runner will be exposed to the shattering idea that Soviet Russia is not a paradise.

People caught grumbling in lines are picked up by the KGB, hauled off to the police station and threatened with exile from Moscow if they don't shut up.

The dissidents in their mental . hospitals and gulags are being treated to extra layers of barbed wire for the big event. They make the darling little teddy bears that are the official symbols of the games.

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The authorities are making plans to keep out foreign periodicals, to circumscribe the movements of tourists and in general to give visiting sports lovers a taste of totalitarian life.

"The Russians want to state the games well and project a good image, but so does every country that stages the games," Palmer says.

Precisely. And why is it in our interests to give them a chance to "project a good image?"

But you have not noticed any rush to the banners of the boycotters. And you won't.

Offending sports fans is not considered politic in an election year. Even John Connally, the "tough" candidate, urges people who go to the winter games in Lake Placid and the summer games in Moscow to notice the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship. .

It isn't just the jocks or the parents of the young men and women who have trained their hearts out for the last four years who must not be alienated. Big business has invested m~llions of dollars in concessions for the games. NBC has paid a fortune for the television rights.

No candidate wishes to upset any of these folks during the primaries.

But not playing seems much better than the grisly alternatives, which include selling arms to China and Pakistan, dropping rifles to rebellious Afghan tribesmen, tripling our defense budget and drafting our young men.

People opposed to the idea sniff it's only "symbolic" and wouldn't really hurt the Soviets.

It's hard to think of much, short of a nuclear strike, that would inflict more pain.

It would cost them more money than they have ever seen at anyone time. It would cost them prestige. The collapse of the games is the one failure they could not hide from their own people, who are said to be looking forward to August with pride and anticipation. They can conceal their casualties in Afghanistan, but not an empty stadium in Moscow.

We are told they kicked over the traces and smashed into Afghanistan because they believed SALT was lost in the U.S. Senate. Would they have rolled forward if they thought it would lose them the games?

We're hearing the same arguments that were advanced when Hitler was the Olympic host in 1936 and some people suggested we boycott the games because they thought, obviously mistakenly, that some things are more sacred than sports.

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But for some schools the la295-1810 bels soon could represent a sacrifice for social justice.

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), a farm workers union, began a boycott of the Campbell Soup Co. and Funeral Dome Libby, McNeil and Libby Inc. 550 Locust Street products last January with FaD River, Mass. $89,000 in financial support 672-2391 from, the Campaign for Human Rose E. SullIvan Development, the U.S. bishops' William J. Sullivan anti-poverty program.

Margaret M. Sullivan The union says the companies indirectly employ 16,000 migrant workers in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan without providing just wages and fair working conditions.

Two St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocesan officials have urged Catholic school principals FUNERAL to support the boycott by dropSERVICE "1 DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD A MONARCHIST CANDIDATE... " ping Campbell's labels for Edu,., ...". a" 'e,I", ,.AU •• 2. cation Program.

"We recognize the possible Howard C. Doane Sr. Gordon L. Homer hardship we are asking of you Howard C. Doane Jr. Robert L. Studley in urging your school to support , HYANN IS 775·0684 01 the boycott," said Sister Janet South Yarmouth 398·2201 Harwich Port 43200513 the National Council of Churches derstanding among Christians. Hathison, Urban Affairs ComContinued from Page One and developed in cooperation Even more significantly, it mission executive director, and In general, the week will with the Commission on Faith should challenge us to press for- Dominican Sister Marian McOUR LADY'S sound a call for Christian prayer and Order of the World Council ward in our quest for genuine 'earthy, archdiocesan director of RELIGIOUS STORE and action on behalf of world of Churches and the Vatican unity." schools, in a letter to principals. justice and peace, the two marks Secretariat for Promoting Chris936 So. Main St., Fall River "Some schools will say, 'we of the kingdom of God, said its tian Unity. It is also recomICorner Osborn St.l will get into other justice issponsors. sues,'" Sister Mathison said. mended by the U.S. bishops' RELIGIOUS But she said the boycott is an Committee for Ecumenical and is taken The kingdom theme ARTICLES Continued from Page One excellent opportunity to get both from the Lord's Prayer. It was Interreligious Affairs.

11 :00 To 5:30 P.M. .Begun in the United States in which eliminated most restric- parents and children involved in selected by the Graymoor EcuSunday Thru Saturday mencial Institute, and the Com- 1908 by Father Paul Wattson, tions against abortion, is spon- social justice.

Tel. 673-4262 James Griesgraber, president mission on Faith and Order of founder of the Atonement Friars, sored by March for Life, Inc. the Week of Prayer is observed Miss Nellie Gray, president, of the Association of Catholic throughout the world by most said the march will begin at School Principals in the St. PaulChristian churches. noon Tuesday at the Ellipse in Minneapolis Archdiocese, said, Commenting on the progress Washington and proceed to the "It's fair for the archdiocese to made among Catholics since the Capitol. The opening address present the facts, but I think Second Vatican Council, Father will be. given by Bishop Thomas it's important for .each school John Hotchkin,' director of the Welsh of Arlington and the key to make an individual decision. btlgs ~ "This is an inopportune time" U.S. bishops' Committee for speaker will be an Evangelical Ecumenical and Interreligious minister, the Rev. James Robison to raise the issue, Griesgraber said. "Many schools are coming Affairs, said the days are gone of Fort Worth, Texas. up with 20,000 labels and are .Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and "when special permission was given to selected Catholic ecu- Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Calif.)· ready to hand them in for equipmenists to pray the Lord's will be the principal political ment."

Most archdiocesan schools speakers.

Prayer with other Christians."

Miss Gray said that she had participate in the program, Ecumenical prayer services have also changed. Until recent- no solid estimate of the number which provides from $300 to ly, according to Father Hotch- expected for the 1980 march. $500 of equipment for 20,000 kin, such services were "care- March for Life leaders had said labels.

Despite the monetary value fully sanitized, containing noth- that more than 100,000 attended ing that would catch anyone off in 1979. The police estimated of the program, Griesgraber said, "It's part of our mission" guard."

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An all-night vigil of Eucharis- to teach students and parents Now, he said, Christians are wiRbe~ bringing to prayer and worship tic adoration at the National about social justice." "elements characteristic of their Shrine of the Immaculate ConEDICTAL CITATION own inner life and spirituality." ception in Washington is planned DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL As a result, Christians can truly for Jan. 21 by the Maryknoll FALL RWER MASSACHUSETTS learn from one another in wor- Fatima Project of Maryknoll, Since the actual place of residence of ship and "begin to glimpse the N.Y. ABILIO BURGO is unknown.

We cite Abilio Burgo to appear person· inner life of one another's The Supreme Court ruled Jan.. churches, the faith that dwells in 22, 1973 against the constitution- ally before the Sacred Tribunal of the of Fall River on January 31, other church communities and ality of restrictive state laws on Diocese 1980 at 1:30 P.M. at 344 Highland Avenspeaks the-language of prayer." abortion, citing a woman's "right ue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give "The Week of Prayer should to privacy" in choosing an abor- testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the mar· not be a time for token ecu- tion. The ,court said that a state riage exists in the BRITO-BURGO menism," said Father Alex J. may not prevent abortions durcase Bru~ett, president of the Nationing the first trimester of pregOrdinaries of the place or other pas· al Association of Roman Cath- nancy but during the second and tors having the knowledgll of the resi· dence of the above person, Abilio Burgo, olic Diocesan Ecumenical Offi- third trimester the individual must see to it that he is properly ad· II COtnfllfl'lAll\ IOUIIO II • ULL "vii. SOIl"SII • S...SU •• n''01I • In... ' cers. Rather, the week 'offers all state may prohibit abortions. vised in regard to this edictal citation.

1I£l18U • f(DfllAl DfPOSIT' "NSUIlANCf COI_TlON • "OUAl I[$UVI SV$TIM of us an opportunity to cele- During the first three months Henry T. Munroe Officialis . brate on a loca:\ level the prog- ·the state may not interfere with Given at the Seat of the Tribunal, ress made in the joint efforts a decision between a woman and Fall River, Massachusetts, on this, toward mutua! respect and un- her doctor, the court ruled. the 11th day of January 1980 ,Ii i \; .. , . 1 I ) '

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February 1 Rt. Rev. Michael J. O'Reilly, 1948, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton Rev. Anatole F. Desmarais, 1975, Pastor, St. Jacques, Taunton Rt. Rev. Patrick Hurley, 1968, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton

Support HL·A Dear Editor: Permissive abortion wit:: claim the lives of another 1,000,000 unborn children in 1980 unless we, as citizens and taxpayers, take a more active role in opposing this government financed slaughter.

Those who peddle abortion on the premise that "some human life is not worth living" (Le., "unwanted" children) are really peddling despair. They refuse to acknowledge God's. providence and the victory of hope over despair taught in St. John's Gospel: "Through Him all things came into being . . . whatever came to -be in Him, found life, life for the light of men. The light shines on in darkness, a darkness that did not overcome it."

By lending our tacit support to permissive abortion, we contribute to this despair and this slaughter; a Human Life Amendment can put an end to both.

Please lend whatever support you're capable of, no matter how small it may seem, to the HLA. Jeff Grant Watchung, N.J.

Liturgy.award WASHINGTON (NC) .- The North American Academy of Liturgy has presented its annual Berakah Award to Father Frederick R. McManus, an internationally recognized American liturgist.

Father McManus, 56, founded the liturgical studies program at Catholic University, was the first director of the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Liturgy and was a liturgical advisor at the Second Vatican Council. The North American Academy is dedicated to the study lind renewal of liturgical .life within all churches.

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Energy top issue Continued from Page One ciate professor of social ethics and thoology at Boston University, said that religious groups which try to deveop a theology of energy will face two competing theologies that have been prevalent ,in the United States.

One holds that people are merely "passing through" this life and therefore need not be concerned about. the condition in which they leave the physical world. The other is the theology of abundance, the belief that God has specially blessed America and that no matter' how much the earth's natural resources are squandered, God will provide.

"We must take seriously the fact that middle class' Americans are threatened when this theology is challenged," she said.

But she added that a new theology must emphasize that the quality of life cannot be attached to material well-being.

Bishop Cosgrove said the role of the religious community is to educate the public on the energy situation, then to advocate re, sponsible p<llicies.

"We must work for the" day when there is a real, informed grassroots constituency for just

energy decisions and legislation," he said.

Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee, at one point reminded conference participants that a theology which emphasizes conversation

deacons were helping Nancy in some way, showing the strength of the ministry," said Anne Tracy, who helped -Betz write the book.

When he was ordained, Betz was uncertain what course his ministry would take. He had served briefly in a county corrections system, but saw no need of deacons in prison work.

"I had a distorted view of jail life," he said.

Now he is working in a Washington soup kitchen and is keeping up his corrections ministry.

"There are some people who say 'don't ordain a permanent deacon until you have a place for him, but in prison they are really needed. You don't have to go to the inmates; they will find you," he said.

would be at odds with a culture that urges indulgence and materialism.

"If we are really serious about the problems of energy, we will have to have a fundamental and radical theological refutation of materialism," he said.

February 2 Most Rev. William Stang, D.D., 1907, First Bishop of Fall River; 1904-07 Rev. Patrick F. McKenna, 1913, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton Rev. John L. McNamara, 1941, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River.

Rev. P. Roland Decosse, 1947, Pastor, St. Hyacinth, New Bedford February 3 Rev. Antonio O. Ponte, 1952, Pastor, Our Lady of Angels, Fall River February 4 Rt. Rev. Hugh J. Smyth, P.R., 1921, Pastor St. Lawrence, New Bedford, 1st Vicar General, Fall River 1904-07, Administrator of Diocese Feb.-July 1907

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Feeding a young Asian refugee, this Sister follows the example of the Lord. He first fed them with bread and fish tben taught the multitude.

Permanent de~acon gives assistance to woman accused of murder WASHINGTON (NC) -A deacon who helped a woman accused of murder saw his ministry grow from family counseling to raising bail, dE~tective work and courtroom strategy, he says in "The Deacon's Murder Case," published by Our Sunday Visitor press.

Andrew J. Betz, relat.es the story of how he helped Nancy Cumberledge, a member of St. Joseph's Parish in a Washington suburb.

She was a victim of circumstance, dubious testimony and an impersonal criminal justice system in being charged with and convicted of consipiracy to murder her husband, said Betz.

Her sentence was eventually reduced to eight years.

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My grandmother would not have known what to make of modern medicine, She saw a physician three times in her life. She coped with illness and disease herself. Usually there was no physician ".0 turn to, and in the case of serious illness there was little he could do, anyway. Home nursing and hope were Grandma's only resources.

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The control and eradication of many serious diseases is a blessing in our lives and a marvel of medicine. Yet today we have become so impressed with these marvels that we seek medical counsel for every symptom or distress a:1d we choose the technological over the natural, the complex over the simple. Instead of breastfeeding, we hail the advances of modern for-

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After surviving my first semester at college, I looked forward to the Christmas break as a time to relax and

enjoy my family. Going away to school was an interesting learning experience in that for the first time I realized the importance of family life. Although I enjoyed school, it made me realize how much family activity I took for granted.

Homesickness was trying desperately to write letters that would say all I wanted to say and realizing that I couldn't.

Homesickness is realizing that your brother is in his first year in high school, your father is trying to keep the wood stove filled, your mother is campaigning and you're not there to share it.

It was the time before Christmas that made me wish I was home the most. Despite the Maine winter, despite Christmas carols, I could not get into the Christmas spirit without our nightly Advent tradition, the rush to prepare the house and the secrecy of buying presents • and hiding them trom a brother • who tore apart every closet in the house.

During this break I have had the opportunity to catch up on ' . . one of my favorite activities, .,.. baking. The family always enjoys fresh baked goods and I . . like supplying them. One of the things I enjoy most is baking bread. It's fun to work with and almost always comes out right.

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We have abdicated responsibility for our own bodies and health and :have placed an impossible burden on physicians.

We turn to them with every problem. We expect them to make all the decisions about our bodies and our care, and we expect that care to be 100 percent effective with no drawbacks and no negative effects.

"Modern medicine has gone too far by using in everyday situations extreme treatments designed for critical conditions," says Dr. Robert Mendelsohn in his book. "Confessrons of a.

Medical Heretic" (Contemporary Books). Modern medicine has made a cult of body care. In so doing it has done violence to those needs of heart and spirit best met within families. Not only have birthing and dying been taken from the family and translated into medical events, but many heretofore routine physical and emotional prob· lems have become the occasion for treatment with drugs, hospitalization and surgery. Neg-

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Family medicine should mean the use of the healthy influence of th'e family to cure a patient.

Instead, too often, it means intervention within the family life, often in a way that is inhumane.

Hospital procedures have the effect of destroying human dignity and keeping away the family. Upon admission, a person is quizzed about his various identities, especially his ability to pay. Then he is stripped of his clothes and given an institutional uniform, the hospital gown.

Finally he is stripped of his family. Visiting hours are limited and children are not allowed at all. Having given up control, the patient easily comes to feel dependent and then depressed.

No better recipe for depression can be found than this progressive isolation, abandonment and alienation from loved ones.

Physicians and hospitals have a necessary place in our lives, but not an all-encompassing one.

The physician offers invaluable advice and recommendations.

The patient supported by family has the responsibility for decisions.

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I have just found two good bread recipes. The first is for an oatmeal bread and the second is for a Scandinavian white bread that is very pliable. I have used this dough to braid and mold into wreaths and also to serve as table bread. I hope the readers of my mother's column enjoy these recipes as much as I did.

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2) Combine the milk and the butter in a saucepan and heat Oatmeal Bread until the butter is melted. Let 2 cups oatmeal, regular or cool until lukewarm. or quick cooking 3) Into a large mixing bowl 3 cups boiling water beat 4 to 5 cups flour together 1 teaspoon salt with the salt, yeast mixture aijd 1 cup molasses milk and butter mixture. On a 2 packages yeast lightly floured work surface 8 cups flour, approximately . knead all the ingredients until 1) Pour boiling water over you have a rather stiff, shiny oatmeal and let stand until luke- dough. You may have to add warm. more flour.

(4) Place the dough in a large 2) Add salt, molasses and yeast which has been dissolved well-buttered bowl, cover with in Y2 cup lukewarm water. Add a towel and let rise until doubled flour until dough is manageable. in bulk, which should take Knead until smooth. about one hour.

3) Let rise until double in 5) After the dough has doubled bulk. Punch cown, form into rolls in bulk, place it on a floured or loaves (one recipe will make work surface and punch down a two dozen small rolls and two couple of times. Divide in half loaves of bread, or three loaves and knead each piece into an of bread). oblong loaf. Place both loaves 4) Put dough into greased pans side by side on a buttered baking and allow to rise in a warm sheet, cover and let them rise place until double. (I put the in a warm place for about 25 dough near our wood stove). minutes.

5) Bake at 400 degrees for 15 Before putting the loaves into minutes for small rolls or at the oven brush them with beaten 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes egg. for loaves.

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By Father John DiE!tzen

(hiereus) is not used in the New Testament at all to designate an official of the church. It is applied to Jesus himself in the letter to the Hebrews. In a couple qf other places it refers to Christians in general to describe their special character as. the people of God. There is some likelihood that the presbyters performed certain functions which we relate to priests, although their ministerial relation to the church is far less clear than that of the bishops and deacons.

The word hiereus, priest, only came into use in the Christian Church about 150 years after Jesus' death and resurrection as the Eucharist came to be more and more recognized as a renewal of the sacrifice of Calvary as well as a meal. In the religious traditions of that time a sacrifice was offered by a priest. Thus Christians began to refer that title to their minister who presided at the Eucharist.

Q. Several wee'ks ago you said in your column that a Catholic can have his body eremated and still have the usual funeral Mass and other rites.

Can you tell me how this would be done? Also, when and where was the rule made by the church? Is a casket recluired if the body is to be cremated?

(Pa.) A. The official Rite of Funerals (which took effect June I, 1970, by decree _of Pope Paul VI) says "Christian funeral rites are permitte.d fCir those who choose to have the:ir bodies cremated unless it is shown that they have acted for reasons contrary to Christian principles."

In the same place, however, the church declares its "preference for the custom of burying the dead in a grave or tomb, as the Lord himself willed to be buried."

In other words, cremation with all ordinary Catholic funQuestions for this column eral ceremonies is pennissable, unless someone desires it in should be sent to Father Dietorder to deny his belief in the zen c/~ The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, resurrection or other ChriSttan-........ Fall River, Mass. 02722. truths.

When a body is to be cremated, the funeral Mass Dlay take place with the body prElSent before cremation, or the funeral ceremonies including the, EucharCourses in public speaking, ist could be celebrated after the business administration, food cremation and burial. service supervision, speed readThe church has no regulations ing, Irish genealogy, gransmanwhatsoever about a casket. Re- ship, industrial traffic manageligious customs on thi:; matter ment, income tax preparation, differ from country to c:ountry. real estate and small business No state in our country has management are among offerings an actual requirement for a of the Conference and Institutes casket if the body will be cre- Division of Stonehill College, mated. A few states do require North Easton. that the body be shippE:d to the Also being offered for high crematory in a "casket or other school students is a review of suitable container."

Scholastic Aptitude Test materThese are the facts. However, ial.

I must repeat what I have disFurther information is availcussed before in this column. able from the college, telephone Before deciding on cremation 617-238-1081, ext. 258. (or giving one's body to science or any other out of the ordinary plans for one's funeral) I believe the psychological and religious needs and desires of your family and friends deserve careful consideration. One of your last SAN ANTONIO, Texas (NC) beautiful gifts to them. can be - Inviting clergy, religious and the way you allow your death laity to spend time in prayer and burial to help them remem- before the Blessed Sacrament, ber you well, and support them Archbishop Patrick Flores of in their own lives.

San Antonio has designated three chapels in the See City Q. In a Bible discussion group as places of daily prayer and recently, we talked about the adoration. priesthood. Someone said she The chapels will be for praythought the Bible said nothing ers for an increase in vocations about priests - meanirlg priests as we know them in our church. and the sanctification of the Is this true? Didn't the early family, Archbishop Flores said.

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Following four years as an instructor in psychiatric nursing at Taunton State Hospital, Sister Thomas More was administrator of Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, from 1972 unti11979, when she was named to her present position.

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Until Jan. 19 Stop and Shop companies are placing canisters appealing for donations at the cash registers of their 231 Stop and Shop supermarkets and Bradlees department stores.

Funds collected will be given to the Interfaith Hunger Appeal, a cooperative effort launched in 1978 by Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the National Council of Churches agency, Church World Service.

At a New York press conference announcing the campaign, Bishop Edwin B. Broderick, CRS director and president of the Interfaith Hunger Appeal, said this would be the first time the coalition had received funds from such a campaign.

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The familiar parable of the sower (Mark 4, 1-9) is the first of a group of parables on the general theme of growth, specifically the mysterious growth of God's reign.

Like all the parables, it uses terms drawn from the real life situation of the audience. What more common sight in a rural country than that of a farmer seeding his land? Quit unusual, however, from the modern viewpoint, is the technique he uses.

He scatters the seed in random fashion and with uneven results.

Some land on the well-packed soil of the footpath, only to be eaten by birds swooping down delightedly on this unexpected windfall. Some land among the stones which litter the ground, some among thorn-bushes.

Today's farmer would wonder why he didn't clear the field beforehand. There is no answer, except to say that he was following established custom, not efficient, apparently, but not without some good results.

Indeed, as the ending of the parable has it, "Some seed, finally, landed on good soil and yielded grain that sprang up to produce at a rate of thirty and sixty and a hundredfold" (Mark 4,8). Fantastic. And this is Jesus' point. The reign of God is proclaimed to all indiscriminately.

It will meet with obstacles, but nothing can prevent its final and almost incredible flourishing.

What is true of the reign of God in general is true of it in individual lives. To narrow ":he application, it is true of the Christian vocation. It will be offered to all, but will meet with all sorts of responses.

It is obvious that most Christians live out their vocation in the married state. The sacraments of matrimony and orders are further specifications of the vocation implicit in the sacra¡ ment of baptism.

There is a saying, "The hope of the harvest is in the seed."

How the seed of one's vocation is received and nurtured will determine the outcome of that vocation.

And for matrimony, the "seminary" is primarily the home. Here is where young people learn how this vocation is to be lived.

Parents are the farmers who tend this seed. They must reach out to all their children, receptive or unreceptive, rocky,

thorny or open, to nurture the seed by word and example, especially by example.

And it is all those seemingly little things that make up daily life interpersonal relationships, affection, understanding, respect, unselfishness, absence of bickering - which quietly, unobtrusively form their futures.

These things seem so little, .so insignificant. And yet, as the

third of the parables of growth puts it: "What image will help to present it? It is like mustard seed which, when planted in the soil, is the smallest of all the earth's seeds, yet once it is sown, springs up to become the largest of shrubs, with branches big enough for the b: rds of the sky to build nests in its shade" (Mark 4, 30-32).

Engaged Encounter

By Ed and Maryanne Horan "Wow! What an experience," was all we could say as our Engaged Encounter weekend drew to a close. It had been a gift from friends and we hadn't really known what to expect.

Our friends wouldn't tell us, but they assured us it would be the best foundation we could lay for our marriage. They told us things like: "If you think you know each other now, just wait."

It seemed rather exaggerated.

We'd known each other for several years and had been engaged for six months, so how could there be anything about each other that we didn't already know? But our friends were so insistent that we accepted their gift.

Looking back on it now, all we can still say is "wow!" The weekend covered every conceivable aspect of married life from practical matters like finances and use of time to issues like how our love for each other depends on how much we love ourselves. - even how to have a good fight.

All this was presented to us in the form of talks given by two couples and a priest. Actually, they weren't really talks but sharings, intimate insights into their lives, experiences, successes - even their failures - all designed to give us a real foretaste of what Christian marriage is all about.

We remember being absolutely amazed at the "positive press" they were giving marriage. The couples who gave the talks were totally convinced that marriage was the best thing that ever happened to them.

It was a refreshing break from the constant bombardment from society, from television and even from some of our friends that marriage is a sure-fire way

to ruin a good relationship.

But more than the scope and tone of the weekend, it was the openness of the couples and priest that had the most impact on us. Here were five total strangers sharing their guts with us about what total commitment meant for them - not in abstract concepts - but in their own down-to-earth, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes crushing experiences. Their openness was inspiring. It gave us the courage to discuss even things that we found painful and somehow had managed to avoid bringing up.

The heart of human relationships and of marriage in particular is the concern for the happiness of the other person. We must learn unselfish love. There are many outstanding and committed couples in the church.

Through conversation and discussion with such couples, the church offers a health of experience and a fountain of grace in which young people can make preparation for marriage a source of lifelong blessing.

When Eros strikes, it often paralyzes the ability to think and also gives rise to the common saying that love is blind. It is indeed usual that young people in love are occupied only with each other; but the good they see in each other is often a response to a need they experience in themselves. The young man who feels restricted or imposed upon at home finds friendship with an accommoda-' The relationship of marriage ting lover such a relief. The girl who talks a mile a minute finds is so deeply human that it prothe quiet, listening boy a de- vides the basic form for other commitments as well. Whether light.

I am oversimplifying, but the a 'person enters the religious life basic idea is that people seek or ,intends to remain in the partners who respond to their single state, human commitment own needs. This is not bad, but and concern are necessary. The one should remember that the most important school in which accommodating behavior and to learn this is the family in the quiet listening reflect only a which dedication is a way of small part of the total person- life. alities. WhIm people begin to see other qualities in their partners, it can be a painful awakening. People are lucky to awaken before marriage, although this does not always mean that relaBy Janaan Manternach tionships should be discontinued Jesus watched the crowd when faults appear. gather around him. He could alIt is often much healthier most feel their hurt. when couples can adapt and "You keep talking about grOw as they learn to understand each other. The surround- God's reign," a woman began. ing community, the church in "You say God's reign means particular, offers many oppor-' God's love. But where do we see God's love? Evil seems more tunities for this development.

The church is often accused of powerful than love."

Jesus understood. Most of making young people wait by demanding a preparation period these people were poor. They before marriage. This period of were often cheated. The Roman preparation has a much deeper soldiers occupied their lands. meaning than waiting.

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Wow, almost four years later we ,re as thankful as ever for' the opportunity to make that weekend. Through the ups and downs of those years, the things we lear~ed during that weekend have been a help We're thankful for the chance we got to set aside all the distractions of life to focus on each other and our decision to marry - and, for the first time, to really see what it meant to commit ourselves totally and unreservedly to each for life.

And we are thankful for the vision it gave us of ourselves not just as two individuals with mutual obligations under a contract, but also as two people who can relate tc the world as one sign of God's presence. In this it has given us a sense of the greatness of our call to be "one flesh" and the challenge that call presents to us each day of our lives.

We have since become involved with presenting Engaged Encounter weekends. And when the couples leave the weekend, we see in them the joy, certainty, openness and trust upon which great marri.lges are built.

Good marriages require good foundations and Engaged Encounter is granite.

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A Verd.ade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego A Hurnildade

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Ha. pessoas caladas, introvertidas ,que se sentern inferiores a todos e a tudo. Isto MO humildade. t: doen<;a. t: cOl'I'plexo de inferioridade. 0 canplexo de inferioridade urn estado de espirito que paraliza a ac~o. leva as pessoas a MO terem confian<;a em si proprias. Produz urn estado interior de frustra~o e de revolta. A paz interior, 0 ter confian<;a em si proprio, '0 conhecer a prOpria valia e capacidade, 0 sentir-se realizado, urn bern irnenso para as pessoas.

Cobardia falta de coragem, de valentia. As pessoas que nao sao capazes de enfrentar as situa.~s, que se calam quando deviam falar, qu.e tern rnedo ao que dirao e que, per isso, nao seguem os ditarres da prOpria consciencia., MO sao humildes. cobardes. o cristianisrno MO uma escola de cobardes. A fortaleza, a coragem, a intrepidez, sao urn dan do Espirito Santo.

Nonnalmente:, a falta de coragem 0 orgulho disfar<;ado de hurnildade. 0 ter rnedo de correr 0 risco, de MO sair-se bern, supesto que este rnedo exagerado, orgulho. t: a falta de capacidade para enfrentar a pessibilidade durn dasaire!.

Abusou-se muito da hurnildade. Foi uma anna na mao das autoridades e dos poderosos para rnanterem 0 povo miudo na sul:missao. Ser humilde era MO pensar pela prOpria cabe<;a: era deixar-se gl.;iar pelos outros, era fazer a vontade dos a.::.tros, que se dizia ser a de Deus. Nurna pala~'ra: hurnilde era 0 que abdicava da propria inteligencia e da propria vontade. Ole urn hanem sem inteligencia e sem vontade propria<;; t: urn boneco. Mas Deus quer a realiza~lo do hanem. Deus MO quer bonecos.

Que d.3. a ~ilida exacta da propria valia e que faz can que, ao procurarrros a autorealiza~o, MO a busquenos esrnagando os direitos dos outros.

A tendencia fundamental da pessoa aquela que a le\~ a realizar-se, a afinnarse, a dizer: "h:;[Ui estou". Esta tendencia magnifica. Todas as pessoas devem procurar realizar-se, fazendo render ao m3xirro as proprias capacidades e valores. A mulher bela deve al.1Irentar e culti~ a sua beleza, sem e"cagerar, claro, tendo em conta toda uma escala de vaores. 0 que tern queda para a pintura, deve esforc;ar-se per fazer render as suas apti.dOes e habilidades. 0 que tern jeito pro dE!sporto procure rnelhorar cada vez rrais a~; suas habilitacs:Oes. 0 dico esforce-se per ser eximio na sua profissao, e assim per diante.

Esta tendencia fundamental das pessoas a realiZarE!ID-Se e 0 apre<;o pela prOpria excelencia podern sofrer desvios. ~ aqui que deve intervir a virtude e a atitude da humildade para os evitar â&#x20AC;˘ Esses desvios p:>dem ser per defeito e per excesso. Dos desvios per defeito foi dita uma palavra ao dizenros 0 que a humildade MO Os desvios per excesso sao directamente noderados pela humildade. l>D celebrar a Eucaristia celebranos o abai.xanento do hanem e a exalta~o de Cristo. Para sal~ 0 mmdo este 0 caminho: fazer-se servo dos hanens, renunciando ate aos proprios direitos, carro Cristo; ensinar os h.cmens, com a vida, a ter uma atitude nnitua de servi90.

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TV is learning tool NEW YORK (NC) - With the holidays all but forgotten, it's back to the familiar routine of work and school. For many Catholics, however, the year is going to more than a routine one because 1980 has been designated as the Year of the Family.

Contributing to this focus on the family, religious educators will provide resource materials to assist parents in fulfililng their role as the primary catechists and teachers for their children.

The home is the child's first school, one that is today equipped with its own audiovisual learning device, the television set. Family Year is an opportune occasion for parents to consider not only the negative aspects of television but also the positive ways it can be used to reinforce values taught in the home.

Someone who has given considerable thought to this is Sister Mary LaVernne, a Franciscan nun who is learning services specialist for VOTE, the public television station in Toledo, Ohio.

Interviewed as she began her

For children Continued from Page Twelve "Let me tell you a story," Jesus began.

One day a farmer scattered seed on his field. For awhile there were no signs of new life.

He wondered if anything would grow. Then one day he noticed a few tiny green blades pushing up through the earth. Over the weeks small grains of wheat slowly tpok shape. The farmer had no idea how all this was happening, but he was delighted.

Finally the field was covered with golden wheat. When it was full grown, the farmer harvested the crop."

The people nodded. They knew all about seeds and harvesting.

They knew how wonnerful, how mysterious it was to watch things grow.

Jesus seemed to be saying God's reign of love was like that.

It was already planted in the world, in each person's heart.

It would slowly make itself felt, just as the golden grain covered the field. They needed to believe that, just as the farmer believed, the seed would grow.

A man objected. "But there is so little sign of God's love in our lives. It's hard to believe God loves us."

"Let me tell you another story," Jesus responded. "God's reign of love is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds.

Yet once sown, it grows and grows until it is a large bush, birds can even come and make their nests in its branches. That is what God's reign of love is like."

Jesus was saying that signs of God's love might be very small, but that God is present in the world, with all its evil. The small signs of God's reign will eventually grow into a kingdom of love, just as the little mustard seed grew into a large bush.

second year of full-time work for the station, Sister LaVernne spoke enthusiastically of 'her work and of television's potential for home and school.

"Television as an educational tool is here to stay," she said.

"It is up to the teachers and parents to learn to use television effectively in transmitting values to the young."

Children are learning bad study habits, she said, from being allowed to sit passively glued to the television set without conscious thought about .what they are watching.

Sister LaVernne encourages parents to watch TV shows with their family as often as possible.

"A parent has an obligation at the end of a program to ask questions how would you have felt, what about the means used to accomplish a good end, and so on."

In helping the young to reflect on, to interpret and to judge what they see on TV, including the commercials, parents can turn watching TV entertainments into "an education in critical thinking."

What of programs parents don't want their children to see?

"We can holler and holler about what they're watching," Sister LaVernne said, "but we're in control, not the networks. We have the power at the flick of a button to determine what comes into our homes."

If you haven't watched educational programs recently, Sister LaVernne suggests that you tune in your local PBS affiliate some morning or early afternoon. The quality of production and the liveliness of presentation has improved radically in the decade since "Sesame Street" and their educational potential today is "mind-boggling," she said.

She used as an example a current series called "Think About," consisting of 60 15-minute segments thinking logically in problem solving. It deals with practical everyday situations and gets youngsters to participate in an active way in thinking through problems and working out solutions.

The times have changed and the means of educating the young offer new possibilities and challenges. Sister LaVernne says that she "feels like an evangelist" spreading the word about the constructive potential of television.

At the end of this year, will you and your children know each other b(!tter and have experienced a growth in love and shared values, she asks. Or, because they have been abandoned to passive TV watching, will the minds and hearts of your children be further removed from your embrace and alienated from your sense of values?

Ecumenical Thought "It is to be feared, lest our long quarrels about the manner of his presence cause the matter of his absence, for our want of charity to receive him." Thomas Fuller

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Lately I've frequently heard or read the words, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me." Certainly there is a great need for the Spirit of the Lord to be upon all of us.

Strange how this Spirit lights where it wishes! One of the famous Christian hymn writers, Sir John Newton, wrote the hymn, "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds," as well as the better-known "Amazing Grace," yet he made his living selling slaves to the New World. And the name of one of the famous British slave vessels, perhaps Newton's own, was "Jesus."

It's strange that the Christian faith, whiCh came about in part as a method of dealing with an unjust political structure, has often been more closely identified with the oppressors than with the oppressed.

Jesus, as well as a great mass of his people, was oppressed. To add insult to injury, the Jews were not even considered citizens of the land of their fathers and could not count on the normal guarantees of prote~tion by the law.

We remember how incensed AmeriCans were when the British made them pay taxes without representation. And yet in the dark night of the Jews of Jesus' day, the Roman Empire not only disenfranchised the' Jews, but made them pay taxes on just about every commodity they used. And with these taxes temples were built on the holy soil of Palestine in honor of Augustus Caesar, the Emperor of Rome.

It was in that setting that Jesus went to. the synagogue in Nazareth and read words from the Book of Isaiah that echoed the yearnings of His people who had Come out of bondage in Egypt: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me."

Do we believe and feel Spirit of the Lord as Jesus did? Do we understand and accept what the Spirit calls us to do?

If the spirit of the Lord is upon us, then it is up to us to alter the policies in institutions and structures that lock some people into political, economic, social and psychological poverty, and work against the Spirit of the Lord. Those we send to Washington are supposed to be working for the American people. They are "hired" to do so. How long would we last in a job if we did as little as some are doiI1g? We are in a mess today because of ineffective "hired hands."

Our faith is concerned not only about the changing policies, it is also concerned with giving

us purpose in terms of the meaning of life, and in terms of work to do to fulfill that meaning.

Complaints of youth "When I talk' to people, or when they are listening to me, I don't want to feel like I'm being graded."

"Why can't people accept other people even if they don't condone everything they do?"

"Adults are too eager to give adviCe and never eager to listen."

"Brother, am I ever sick of the packaged platitudes and the programmed answers."

"I'm tired of this macho stuff.

I don't want to' play football."

"As a student I go to school to learn and in many cases I'm for striCter discipline." . "I used to read about America being the promised land. But we are destroying the land every day of our lives.

'Taunton Middle

By Sherrie Cook Each day the students at Taunton Catholic Middle School are praying for the quick and safe return of the American hostages in Tehran. Two weeks ago, one class wore white armbands and each classroom participated by not talking during the change of classes.

Beginning with the New Year, however, each classroom has been appointed a time to go to the chapel and pray for the hostages. Each student spends a few minutes in the chapel in prayer, so that someone is there all day praying for their safe return.

Bishop Gerrard Students at 'Bishop Gerrard High School in Fall River are taking semester exams this week. Two exams are scheduled each morning; the afternoons are free.

Tomorrow the Christian Life Community will sponsor a buffet lunch in the school cafeteria for the faculty, to thank it for "being, helping and teaching."

On Monday, an essay contest will open, sponsored by the School Council in preparation for Catholic Schools Week. Its topic is "The Catholic School - One of the Family."

The Gerrard basketball team has home games scheduled with Old Rochester Regional tomorrow and Holy 'Family next Thursday.

Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love?

cal funeral home on funeral procedures and from the Greater New Bedford Jewish Federation on the Holocaust.

In connection with the study of Moby Dick, the English department invited Charles Smith and Theodora Scarbi of Greenpeace to speak on protection of whales and seals.

Since New Bedford was formerly the world center for whaling aotivities, it Vias considered an especially appropriate place to explain the activities of Greenpeace and to ask students to become involved in its work to preserve the ecological balance of planet ES.rth.

CoyIe-Cassidy Semester exams will take place next week at the Taunton high school, with buses running on professional day schedules.

The student council has purchased a TSR-80 computer for school use.

Youngest picket wasn't aborted ROCKVILLE, Md. (NC) - A two-week-old baby was on the piCket line with her mother when eight pro-life activists were arrested for trespassing at a Rockville abortion clinic.

According to the child's mother, Sara Shahid was born because of the persuasion of pro-life activists such as the eight who were arrested at the Sigma Clinic.

When your eyes met mine I knew that I had better play it cool I'm doio' my best tryin' to resist 'Cause I ain't no fool Where in the world did you come from baby You waited just little too long to look my way No it's a little too late.

Where were you when I was falling in love (I was lookio' for you baby) Where were you when I was faDing in love (Lookin' for you baby) If I'd ever looked in those eyes before We'd be together tonight I'm sure Where were you when I was falling in love Where were you (Lost 'nnd lookio' for love).

If I'd have met you sooner I'd be talkin' to ya and playin' the game But the best thing for me to do is get up and leave Without knowin' your name It might have been somethin' special baby Somethin' only people in love could understand Like this ring on my hand.

Sung by Lobo, written by Sam Lorber Considerable time has passed since Lobo's last appearance in the Top 40, but this fall it has re-emerged on the charts with ",Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love?"

It tells the story of a man who fell in love, married and then meets another woman toward whom he feels so romantically inclined that 'he wishes he had met her before he had married. Now "it.'s too late," so "the best thing for me to do is to get up and leave WIthout even knowing your name."

Because of his marriage commitment, the person in the song feels hindered and feels regret. But he fails to realize how different types of relationships add richness to our lives without threaten. ing the sign~ficance of previous commitments.

The main value guiding all our relationships is faithfulness.

Marriage, ir., fa'ct, all friendship, is a commitment. MUC'~ of the brokenness in today's world stems from forsaken promIses and destroyed faithfulness.

"Where Were You When I Was 'Falling in Love?" is simplistic both in its understanding of relationships and the p.ow~r of our att-'activeness to others. Our feelings are valuable mdlcators of when we should build additional relationships, but our sense of responsibility should also tell us how these relationships. should be built. If our main framework is faithfulness, we 'have nothmg to fear.

Patricia Shahid, one of about 30 picketers at thEl Sigma clinic, was at a Washington abortion clinic last spring planning to abort her child, pro-lifers reported. After two pro-lifers told her about fetal development, Mrs. Shahid left the clinic without getting an abortion.

The eight pro-lifers who were arrested in Rockville occupied the building to prevent abortions from taking place. They remained in the clinic for :more than an hour, blocking of:: suction machines used fOT early- stage abortions.

One of the eight, Brent Bozelle, former editor of Triumph magazine, smashed two suction machine collectior.. jars used to hold fetal pieces extracted from the uterus. He was charged with destruction of property.

Holy Family

Lovelessness

At New Bedford's Holy Family High School, religion class students have heard speakers from Harmony House, New Bedford, on alcoholism, from a 10-

"Our present economic, social and international arrangements are based, in large measure, upon organized lovelessness."

Aldous Huxley

FIVE STUDENTS have received $500 educational aid grants from South Attleboro Council 5876, Knights of Columbus. They include, from left, Raymond Tetreault, ~ane Cauley, Alfred Myette and John Buckley. Mark De~launers, also a grant recipient, is not pictured. The council makes five awards twice yearly. Application forms for the. next grant period are available from Leo H. Dery, 40 TomlInson Rd., South Attleboro.

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By Bill Morrissette

portswQtch Holiday Hc)op Tourneys in Spotlight CYO - sponsored basketball tournaments for elementary school quintets are getting their share of the sports spotlight.

There was the first annual Holiday Festival Basketball Tournament in the Kennedy Youth Center in New Bedford and coming up next month is the sixth annual George Washington Tournament in the Taunton Catholic Middle School.

Holy Name School, of Fall River, was the winner of the Holiday Festival competition.

Sparked by Joe Stanton, the tourney's most valuable player, who tossed in 15 points, the Holy Names defeated St. Mary, of New Bedford, in the c::lampionship final, 43-34. Paul Hart contributed 14 to the winning cause and Danny Boisvert led the St. Mary offense with 14. . First round games results: St. James, New Bedford, 40; St. Francis, Acushnet, 34; St. Anthony, New Bedford, !j4; Holy

Name, New Bedford, 27; St. Mary, New Bedford, 38, Taunton Catholic Middle School 34; Holy Name, Fall River, 52; Mt. Carmel, New Bedford 16. In the semi-finals champion Holy Name topped St. Anthony, 36-33 and finalist St. Mary eliminated St. James, 29-17.

Sponsored by the Taunton area CYO, the George Washington Tournament will run Feb. 15 through 19 with all games to be played in the Taunton Catholic Middle School. The competition - increased to 16 teams instead of eight as in previous five tourneys - is limited to those in eighth grade and under.

Entries, on a first-come firstserved basis, should be submitted to Father William L. Boffa, with entry fee of $15, at 193 Main Street, North Easton, Mass. 02356. Father Boffa, the area CYO director, may also be reached by phone at (617) 2883232.

Diocescm Schools in Title Bids Diocesan high schools in the Southeastern Mass. Conference are very much in contention for all three division championships.

The Coyle-Cassidy War:dors, undefeated in· three outings, topped Division Three entering this week.

The Bishop Feehan Shamrocks and the Spartans of Bishop Stang High were in a tie with New Bedford-Voke-Tech for the Division Two lead with 3-1 slates in division play. Bishop Connolly High's Cougars, in a strong showing, hold down second place in Division One with a 6-2 record. Although Connolly may not be able to overcome pace-setting New Bedford (7-0 in conference, 10-0 overall) the Cougars cannot be counted out for second place and a berth in the playoffs.

The tie in Division Two was broken when Voke-Tech entertained Feehan Tuesday as Stang was host to Old Roche!lter (2-2).

Tomorrow night Stang is home to Wareham, Feehan to Seekonk, Holy Family to VokeTech and Old Rochester to Dennis-Yarmouth.

Coyle-Cassidy, host to Westport last Tuesday night, will be at Falmouth tomorrow night as Diman Voke visits Bourne and Westport is at Dighton-Rehoboth. Connolly had a bye on Tuesday night's schedule and will be home to Durfee tomorrow night as Division One swings into its second half schedule. Other Division One games tomorrow have Attleboro at Taunton, New Bedford at Dartmouth, and Somerset at Fairhaven.

In the Mayflower League, Ap-

ponequet Regional's Lakers continue to roll on with a 6-0 record in league, 10-0 overall. As of last Friday Apponequet had chalked up 22 consecutive league victories.

At this writing the Hockomock League hoop championship race is still a wide open struggle with Sharon, Oliver Ames, Stoughton, the top contenders but it is too early to count out Franklin, Canton, Mansfield and No. Attleboro.

Tomorrow's schedule lists No. Attleboro at Sharon, King Philip at Oliver Ames, Canton at Mansfield, Franklin at Foxboro.

Goals by Mike Cassidy in the first and third periods gave New Bedford a 2-0 victory over Rochester in a Bristol County CYO Hockey League game last Sunday. It was the Whaletowner's 14th victory against one loss and one tie.

Somerset-Freetown and Taunton played to a 2-2 tie and remained deadlocked for second place but with no mathematical chance of overtaking New Bedford in the final standings. In the other game last Sunday night Fall River South nipped Fall River North, 3-2.

Next Sunday night's games in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, have Rochester vs. Fall River North at nine o'clock, New Bedford vs Taunton at 10, and Somerset-Freetown vs. Fall River South at 11.

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescentsj A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyonej A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation): C-eondemned.

NEW YORK (NC) - Mirroring the instability of family life today, television scripts about single parents have become something of a Hollywood subindustry. One such scenario is "The $5.20 an Hour Dream," Saturday, Jan. 26, at 9-11 p.m. on CBS. Where this drama excels is in dealing with the economic pressures on a woman whose shiftless ex-husband can't pay child support. She herself, in turn, can't quite make ends meet on what she earns from a menial factory job but figures out that she can pay her bills by working on the all-male assembly line for an extra 90 cents an hour.

She is discouraged from applying and when she is hired on a provisional basis, she faces guerrilla warfare from management, the union and the men on the line until the foreman insists that she be given the same chance as any other newcomer.

What is depicted here is not only the insecurity of the maleego but the fear workers may have of losing jobs to "outsiders." Also made explicit is the assembly line's physically hard and spiritually deadening work. ,unda Lavin, star of the "Alice" series, plays the blue collar mother with quiet dignity.

Veteran actor Richard Jaeckel contributes another strong performance as the tough line foreman.

The program treats well a subject likely to engender interesting discussion between parents and teens.

Films on TV Sunday, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. (ABC) - "The Adventures of the Wild· erness Family" (1975) - This is the story of a Los Angeles family - father, mother and two young children - who, fed up with air pollution, traffic jams and the multitude of other evils that plague urban living, leave it all behind and set up housekeeping in a remote section of the Rocky Mountains.

What follows is predictable but done with a disarming combination of artlessness and professional competence. G, Al Sunday, Jan. 20, 9 p.m. (ABC) - "Fun with Dick and Jane" (1977) A leaden comedy about an upwardly mobile couple (Jane Fonda and George Segal) who suddenly find their direction reversed when the husband loses his job. After trying welfare and foodstamps, they take to armed robbery as a means of regaining affluence and succeed beyond all measure.

The whole thing is meant to be satiric. Satire, however, requires intelligence and purpose, and to make us laugh at unemployment and armed robbery in 1977 is a task far too formidable for the modest talent brought to bear upon it here. Besides the film's general insensitivity, blasphemous expletives are frequent, and there is a tasteless bathroom scene. PG, B On Radio Sunday, Jan. 20 (NBC) "Guideline" begins a series on family questions with a discussion on teens between Atonement Father Thaddeus Horgan and Jesuit Father James J. DiGiacomo. Father DiGiacomo is one of America's best known authorities on youths and religious education. Father Horgan is on the staff of the Graymoor Ecumenical Institute.

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PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor. P. O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be Included, as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: We do not carry news of fundraislng activities such as bingos, whlsts, dances, suppers and bazaars.

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Fundralsing projects may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675-7151.

SACRED HEART, NORTH AITLEBORO 1\ new parish newsletter, "The Informer," lists parish council officers: Joseph Veilleux, president; Roland J. Dubuc, vicepresident; Ann Alix, secretary.

Cecile Jette heads a special committee planning observance of the parish's 75th anniversary.

It is noted that council meetings are held the second Monday of each month and are open to all parishioners. Those wishing to speak at meetings are invited to do so.

A statue of the Sacred Heart will be enthroned in homes of the parish for one-week periods during the anniversary year and a Mass will be celebrated in each home during that period.

Parishioners are needed as typists, lectors, ushers, coUectors, choir members and acolytes.

A retreat for confirmation candidates will take place this weekend at the La Salette house in Brewster.

DISCALCED CARMELITES, PETERBOROUGH, N.H. The Carmelite community will sponsor a seminar on spiritual direction according to St. John of the Cross Feb. 15 through 18.

A retreat for sisters will follow from Feb. 18 through 23. Further information is available from - The Common, Peterborough 03458.

ST. RITA, MARION Babysitting is available from 9:45 to 10:45 each Sunday in the rectory for children from four months through six years old.

CURSILLO ULTREYA, SWANSEA AREA Officers of the Swansea Ultreya Committee are Viv Rego, chairperson; Elaine Levesque, secretary. Marina Crosz is in charge of the Father Petrin Fund, which aids a leper community in India.

A palanca party will be held at St. Michael's Church, Ocean Grove at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1.

Ultreyas will be held at 8 p.m.

Feb. 15 and 29, both at St. Louis de France Church, Swansea.

XAVIER SOCIETY, NEW YORK The Xavier Society for the Blind announces availability of its 1980 catalog of taped titles, both on cassette and open reel.

They may be borrowed at no charge by the visually handicapped. Further information on society services is available :by writing to 154 E. 23 St., New York, N.Y. 10010.

OUR LADY OF VICTORY, CENTERVILLE. The parish is joining with area churches to sponsor a refugee family. Those wishing to assist may contact the rectory.

HOLY CROSS, FALL RIVER New officers of the Men's Club are Ray Kret, president; Louis Gancarski, vice president; John Rys, treasurer; Robert Ciosek, secretary. The club sponsored a communion breakfast last Sunday at which young men and other men of the parish were guests.

On Saturday, Jan. 26 the "Singing Friars" from St. Hyacinth's Seminary and College in Granby, Mass. will be heard at 5 p.m. Mass and will offer a concert at 7 p.m. in the parish hall. The public is invited and there wil be no admission charge.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK An appreciation dinner for all who assist in church activities will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8 in the church hall.

Spouses are welcome. Those wishing to attend should notify the rectory.

DAY OF RENEWAL, FALL RIVER Father John RandaU of the Providence diocese, a leader in the Catholic charismatic movement, will speak at a day of renewal to be held at Diman Regional Vocational High School, Fall River, from 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday. His topic will be the present position and future direction of the charismatic renewal.

The program is sponsored by the House of Israel Prayer Community, Tiverton, R.I. ST. JOSEPH, FAIRAVEN Blood donors are needed at St. Luke's hospital, New Bedford. Parishioners donating are asked to credit St. Joseph's.

Religious calendars are available at the church entrance.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER A CPR and first aid course will begin at 7 tonight in the school. Those interested in enrolling may contact Sister Theresa at 678-2152.

Representatives of the board of education and fellowship and school committe will meet at I p.m. tomorrow at La Salette Shrine to discuss a parish Lenten program.

A citywide bloodmobile will be held at St. Anne's School Sunday, Jan. 27.

ST. MARK, ATTLEBORO FALLS The Women's Guild will meet for Benediction at 7:45 p.m. Monday. A program on handcrafts will follow, with all members sharing ideas and techniques.

Margaret Boucher will head the refreshments committee.

ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD The Legion of Mary will sponsor a holy hour from 3 to 4 p.m.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, MATTAPOISETT Damien Council 4190 will sponsor a memorial Mass for the unborn, marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on abortion, at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at St. Boniface Church, Purchase and Wing Streets, New Bedford.

All area Knights and the public are invited.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER A family retreat will be held at La Salette Center, Attleboro, the weekend of May 16 through 18. Those interested in participating may call S:.ster Barbara, 679-4131, for details.

School registration for next year will be held during the first two weeks of February. The school may be called for times and requirements.

A class for altar boys in fifth grade and above will begin in two weeks. Those interested may contact Father William Campbell.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Lenten programs will include a Sunday afternoon and evening series in Polish and English on fundamentals of Catholic belief and a Bible study course.

A conference for members of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Czestochowa wLi be given at both Masses Wednesday, Jan. 23.

Marking the 20th anniversary of ordination of Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor, Sunday, Jan. 27 will be observed as "Father K Day." Events will include a 10:30 a.m. anniversary Mass, followed by a reception and banquet at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea. Further information is available from Alice Gromada, ticket chairwoman, telephone 673-4568.

ST. RITA, MARION Boys, third grade or older, wishing to become alt'ar boys, will meet in the church at 10 a.m. Saturday.

St. Rita's has adopted a Brazilian child under auspices of the Christian Children's Fund and pari~hioners are urged to correspond with her. Her address is available at the rectory.

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SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER New parish council officers are James 'B,enevides, president; Edward TyreU, vice-president; and Connie Stankiewicz, secretary.

The council voted a donation of $500 to help St. Peter's parish, EI Cerro, N.M., build a chapel for poor farm workers, who now hold services in a garage.

The education committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the school.

The Junior. CYO will make plans for a dance Jan. 26, and its annual gong show at its meeting Tuesday night at 7 in Father Coady Center.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN A baptismal seminar will be held at 7 tonight in the rectory.

Baptism will be administered at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27.

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