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A 'major touch of elegance' Hundreds of exceptional and underprivileged children of every race, color and creed from Southeastern Massachusetts will have fun in the coming warm weather at diocesan summer camps, thanks to the proceeds from last Friday night's 31st annual Bishop's Charity Ball.

The social and charitable event at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth, was attended by several thousand friends of the special children who danced to the music of the Al Rainone Orchestra and Monte Music.

A highlight of the evening, themed "A Touch of Elegance," was the presentation of young ladies representing diocesan parishes from Attleboro to Provincetown to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

The 38 young women were presented to the bishop' by their fathers or other male family members or friends.

After Bishop Cronin was escorted to his box by honorary Ball cochairmen James R. Maneely, president of the Cape Cod and Islands district council of the S1. Vincent de Paul Society, land Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, the elaborate presentation 'ceremony began with Robert McGuirk of North Dighton, ,representing the VinceI}tians' Taunton district council, introducing presentees.

Fall River area presentees began the procession. Leading them was Cynthia Ann Crofton, representing - St. William's parTurn to P?ge Seven

States and ave accus e Libyan g ment of sponsoring the attE,lcks.

Libya has denied the accusations. but the country's official news agency has repeatedly the airport a Col. Moammar

im· on Libya and a-Iso left open the' possibility of military reprisals agains rorist training camps' in Lib .

The 'pope expressed his "ab-' solute and unanimous" con- , demnation of terrorists who: kill in nt people, oftel} in count which imto Pa

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PRESENTEE Cynthia Ann Crofton gree ts Bishop Daniel A. Cronin with a kiss at the 31st annual Bishop's Charity Ball.. Other pictures on page 2. (Rosa photo)

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.m his .annual talk Jan. diplo ccredited to Clln. said Natio iscipline ments support terrorism and repeated his caH for nations to. unite against terrorism and its· ('massacres of innocents

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity services announced In observance of the annual day at Holy Cross Church on Week of - Prayer for Christian Pulaski Street. the Fall River Unity, beginning Jan. 18 and service will be based on the 1986 ending Jan. 25. the feast of the national Unity Week theme: conversion of St. Paul. churches - "You shaIl be my witnesses." of the Niagara Neighborhood in Rev. James H. Hornsby. pasFall River wiH hold an ecumeni- tor of St. Luke's Episcopal cal service and the Greater New Church, will be homilist 'and Bedford Clergy and Religious music wiU be by the combined Association will sponsor eight choirs of participating- churches, services. to ibe held at i each accompanied by Holy Cross ornight from Jan. 18 through 25. ganist Kevin Depin at the conOn the level of the universal gregation's newly-installed Allen chu!fch, Pope John Paul II will organ. celebrate - Mass Jan. 25 at Churches cosponsoring the Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Out- service. in. a1:ldition to Holy side the Walls.

Cross and· St. Luke's, are SS. Fall River Service Pet~ and Paul, First Primitive To take place at 3 p.m. Sun- Me~odist, S1. Paul's Lutheran,

Portuguese Baptist, and Our Lady of Health.

Among clergy who Will be in attendance are Rev. Charles J. Porada. OFM, Conv., of Holy Cross; Rev. Gerard Blais. Jr., of St. PaUll's; Rev. Leroy Ha!fVey of Primitive Methodist; Msgr. 'Patrick J. O'Neill and Rev. Gerald Bamwell of SS. Peter and Paul; Rev. John Martins and Rev. John Raposo of Our Lady of Health; and Rev. Horace Travassos, Fall River Diocesan liaison to the Committee on Evangelization.

The Fall River order of service will follow suggestions made by the Graymoor Ecumenical Insti·_

tute of Graymoor, N.Y., an agency of the F'ranciscan Friars of the Atonement, and commended :by Bishop William Keeler of Harrisburg, Pa., chairman of the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

In New Bedford Tne listing of New Bedford services follows: - Satul'day, Jan. 18: S1. Martin's Episcopal Church, County and Rivet Streets, New Bedford; - Sunday. Jan. 19: St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Kemp· ton Street and Rockda;le Avenue, New Bedford; - Monday, Jan. 20: Our

Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 235 N. Front St., New Bedford; - Tuesday, Jan. 21: Friends IVleeting House, 594 Smith Neck Road, S. Dartmouth; - Wednesday, Jan. 22: Union Baptist Church, Court a'nd Cedar Streets, New Bedford; - Thursday, Jan. 23: South Baptist Church, 745 Brock Avenue, New Bedford; - Friday, Jan. 24: Hope Evangelical -Community Church.

88 Hathaway Road, N. Dartmouth; - Saturday, Jan. 25: Trinity United Methodist Church, 473 County Street, at Elm, New Bedford.

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GREETING A PRESENTEE with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at the 31st annual Bishop's Charity Ball are honorary ball cochairmen Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, left, and James R. Maneely. (All photos by Rosa)

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Masses offered for Father Jenco Family, friends, fellow priests and a former hostage attended Masses Jan. 8 to commemorate the first anniversary of the kidnapping of Servite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, Beirut director of Catholic Relief Services.

The Rev. Benjamin Weir said at a Mass in Father Jenco's hometown of Joliet, Ill., that "I have come to :love him as a brother in Christ," since the two were hostages together in Lebanon.

More than 30 members of Father Jenco's famHy attended the Mass at St. Bernard's, the priest's boyhood parish.

Mr. Weir is a Presbyterian minister who was kidnapped 1'.1,ay 8, 1984, in Beirut and held hostage until Sept. 14, 1985.

The Islamic Jihad has claimed it is holding the priest' and five other Americans until prisoners in Kuwait are released.

Mr. Weir said he met Father Jenco July 2, 1985, when the two captives were brought to the same ;room. From then on they occasionally were able to meet 'and. worship together, Mr. Weir said. ' He said he was thankful for the opportunity during the last part of his capitivity to read and , discuss Scripture with the priest.

The minister added that both he and Father Jenco couId sense that God was giving them the. inner peace they so needed.

"I entrust him to God," concluded Mr. Weir. "He is working on beha'lf of Father Martin.

He will fortify him through these events." ' Servite Father Mark Franceschini of Denver, homilist at the Mass, called Father Jenco "a man of peace who speaks of healing of hurts; binding of wounds, forgiveness, reconciliation. He doesn't know any other way to live."

At a Mass in New York Servite Father Damien Ch;rboneau encouraged CRS staff members to respond with courage and compassion rather than bitterness to the kidnapping. . The Mass was celebrated by BIshop Edwin Broderick CRS director at the time Fath~r Jenco was kidnapped and still a CRS board member.

Beth Griffin, spokeswoman for CRS, said that in addition to the anniversary service, Masses Were celebrated for Father Jenco each Tuesday arid Thursday.

EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL . fALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS

Since the actual place of residence of WAYNE E. PERRY is unknown We cite WAYNE E. PERRY to appear p~rsonally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on January 21 1986 at 10:~O a.m., at 344 Highland Avenue, Fall RIver, Massachusetts to give testimony to establish: '.

Whether the nullity of the marriage exists in the SIENKO路PERRY case? .

Ordinaries. of the place or other pas.tors haVing the knowledge of the reSIdence of the above person, Wayne E : Per~, m~st see to it that he is properly adVised In regard to this edictal citation. , Henry T. Munroe' Judicial ,Vicar Given at the Tribunal, " , Fall River, Massachusetts" on this, ' the 13th day of January; 1986.

The Mass of Christian Burial was offered yesterday at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, for Sister Mary Laurentia, SUSC, 90, who died Jan. 13.

The daughter of the late Laurence and Catherine (Murray) Coyle, she was a native of Fall River and a 1913 graduate of the former Sacred Hearts Academy in that city, as well as of the Fall River Training School for Teachers. She held degrees from Catholic University of America and Boston University.

During her active career she taught at Sacred Hearts 'Academy and was principal and superior at Immaculate Conception School, Taunton, and St. !Edward's School, Baltimore. She was also a faculty member at the former College of the Sacred Hearts in Fall River.

RELATIVES and friends of Father Lawrence Jenco at Mass in Joliet, Ill. From left, his Dick Jenco, his sisters Betty Blair, Mae Mihelich and Susan Franceshini, and Rev. Benjamin Weir, who was held hostage with the priest. (NC/UPI photo) br~ther,

Pro-lifers plan Catholics on the diocesan, state and national level are making final plans for observance of Jan. 22, the 13th anniversary of the pro-abortion decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sponsored by the Greater New Bedford chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life (MCL), a March for Life followed by a rally will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday at Old New Bedford High School at County and Williams Streets; and diocesan pro-lifers will travel by bus to the traditional national March for Life, to be held in Washington, DC, Jan. 22.

Mary Ann Booth, bus coordinator, said space is still available.

She urged those interested to contact her as soon as possible at 636-4903. The trip will begin at 6 p.m. Jan. 21, leaving from New Bedford's Free Public Lib;rary on Pleasant Street and returning to the library about 7 a.m. Jan. 23.

The round trip bus fare will be $25, but Mrs. Booth urged anyone willing to go to Washington but unable to afford the fare to contact her. She said she would particularly like young people, "the hope of the future," to participate in the national march.

In Boston the state MCL unit will hold its annual Assembly for Life at 1 p.m. Sunday at Faneuil Hall. Representative Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) will speak 'and a statement from the bishops of Massachusetts will be ;read by Jeff Dongvillo, director of prolife education for the Massachu-

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The statement follows: We, the four Roman Catholic Residential Bishops of Massachusetts, 'extend our warm wishes and pray God's blessing on you as you gather at the annual Assembly for Life, commemorating the 13th anniversary of the infamous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v.

Wade legalizing abortion on demand in this country.

As our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, so clearly declared when he visited our nation's capital in October, 1979: "All human beings ought to value every person for his or her uniqueness as a creature of God, called to be a brother or sister of Christ by reason of the incarnation and the universal redemption. For us, the sacredness of human life is based on these premises.

"And it is on these same premises that there is based our celebration of' life - all human life. This explains our efforts to' defend human life against every influence or action that threatens or weakens it, as well as our endeavors to make every life more human in all its aspects.

"And so, we will stand up every time that, human life is threatened," We join with you today to declare that all life is created in the image and :likeness of God. From the moment' of conception to the time of natural death, the ;right to life must be protected and promoted. The clear threats to life from abortion; infanti-

After retiring from teaching she was named treasurer of the Holy Union Sisters Corporation.

At the time of ,her death she resided at Sacred Hearts Convent, Fall River.

assembly cide and euthanasia must be eradicated from the Commonwealth and our nation.

We have a pressing, mutual responsibility to educate our yet unconvinced fellow citizens about the atrocity of abortion.

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Her survivors include two brothers, John F. Coyle, Portsmouth, RI., and Laurence A. Coyle, Fall River.

Interment today was in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Fall River.

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the moorina-., A Needed Sharing During the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome, much was made of the importance and effectiveness of nationa) episcopal councils or conferences. Speaker upon speaker urged that the synod express firm support of those official bodies through which the bishops of a given country or territory act together as pastors of the Church.

There can be little doubt that such conferences are commonly and enthusastically accepted. Despite problems inherent in large and diverse conferences, indeed in our own, the positiye aspects of these consultative bodies far outweigh the negative.

In fact, what the Church-has' accomplished on the universal level, echoed by the bishops on the national level, should serve as an example for all areas of church concern, especially that of the basic unit of the parish.

The effectiveness of a national conference of bishops is measured by its ability to bring together varying ideas, concepts and notions for discussion and reflection. As a means of offering direction and advice, many conferences have published guidelines and suggestions for their churches, especially in the area of social justice and moral issues.

The interplay of ideas called for in the preparation of such documents has frequently forged. a unity of intent that would otherwise be lacking.

In general the effectiveness. of episcopal conferences is to be viewed not merely in terms of their accomplishments but also in light of their internal solidarity. By these standards the pluses far outnumbe.r the minuses.

What has been accomplished on the national level by way of example and intent can and should be reflected in that of the parish. Parish councils,' for all that might be said or unsaid about them, are a positive means of reflecting what is happening on the national, regional an.d diocesan plane.

In this complex age the parish council is a positive help in the process of bringing many minds to b~ar on matters of common interest.

Many leaders view parish councils as a threat or at least an intrusion. Others of the minimalist school would at least have one organized on paper to make everything look good. In fact, although "most dioceses have removed these councils from the realm of the optional, they continue to be viewed as something to be avoided. ' Much of this thinking, of course, stems from the fact that in some cases such groups did in fact think they were elected to run a parish. But past disasters are no excuse to miss present opportunities.

Parish councils have much in their favor but must be carefully formed. They should not be viewed as a soapbox for the dissident or a springboard for the opportunist. Parish council membership should not be left to mere chance or pastoral padding. From the outset members must realize that they do not form a legislative body but are rather a group of dedicated and devoted parishioners willing to advise and counsel, suggest and recommend, inform and assist. Above all, members should be prayerful, always aware that they are a reflection of the universality and catholicity of their worshiping community.

If froql the outset all this is made clear, no one should be threatened or intimidated.

The church faces many questioning days. The times are changing and the challenges will increase. Unity is needed as we venture into the future.

A parish council is indispensable to this cohesiveness.

The Editor

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'In her is the beauty of life' Eccl.6:31.

• King seen as ecumenIst Recalling a symposium he sponto 1979 he worked to help other sored last September on the first white chaplains benefit from the preaching and theological tradiNEW YORK (NC) - The mem- anniversary of the 1984 pastoral ory of the Rev.' Martin Luther letter issued by the nation's 10 tion of Dr. King and other black clergy. In connection with this King J r., whose birthday the nation black Catholic bishops, he said he will officially celebrate for the first found it "fascinating that there effort, he said, he visited Atlanta time Jan. 20, could provide an were so many references throughto consult with Dr. King's widow, important stimulus to ecumenism, out the day to Martin Luther , Coretta Scott King.

The cardinal predicted that offisays Cardinal John J. O'Connor King.... cial observance of Dr. King's birthof New York.

"It is almost a rarity if ever a day would be significant for longThe ecumenical importance of black Catholic priest or bishop range effects, such as the awareness Dr. King, Cardinal O'Connor said speaks for very long without some young people will gain of Dr. King in an interview, lies in his way of reference to him," he said. keeping social activism united with as a person of stature equal to "He makes us Catholics conits scriptural and theological foun- front the fact that he could achieve George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. dations. so much, and ask ourselves why," "It is relatively easy for Chris- he said. "My suspicion is that par~ "I'm afraid that up to the prestians to unite in efforts to feed the of the answer is.-he did not separate ent time - if we're going to be poor and house the homeless, and . theological beliefs and social ef- honest - many whites, many Cath-' of course that is highly desirable," forts ... olics, have not given really a great, the cardinal said. "But to mistake Cardinal O'Connor and Dr. King deal of attention to Martin LU,ther that for true ecumenical efforts to both were born Jan. 15 - the carKing in comparison with his accombring about theological and spir- dinal in 1920, Dr. King in 1929. plishments," Cardinal O'Connor itual unity is very superficial and a Cardinal O'Connor said he was said. mistake. Ultimately we have to happy with that connection, but "Now, when youngsters explore confront our theologi'cal same- never had any direct contact with the question of why he is a special nesses and our theological dif- him. ' 'person and seek to learn of his ferences ...

Dr. King's influence on his life, accomplishments, they will find "Somehow - I'm not quite sure the cardinal said, came through that primarily these were his trehow - I think Martin Luther black chilplains and other black mendous efforts to create an awareKing could help," Cardinal O'Con- service personnel he worked with ness of the gross injustices and nor said. "Clearly, he kept the two as a Navy chaplaIn. "His preach- inequities that have been practiced aspects together. There was more ing was so powerful, and it stirred so long in regard to blacks." than the social gospel in him; there so many, blacks and motivated "It will be almost impossible for was a more complex theology." them to share their religious roots whites to look at black people in Cardinal O'Connor said he is with whites. impressed with how highly Dr. King Cardinal O'Connor said that as the same way after Martin Luther King," Cardinal O'Connor said. is regarded by black Catholics. Navy chief of chaplains from 1975

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A new holiday On Monday we celebrate Martin Luther King Day. Or

read, "No Irish (or Italians or Jews) need apply."

will we? How many of us will When my mother was a girl, it take part in or even watch a was an act 'of courage to wear green on St. Patrick's Day because parade in his honor? Will we go to a party? Send a card? it meant getting beaten up by those A few years ago, when a legal who didn't like Irish. So let's rememholiday for King was being hotly ber that St. Patrick's Day was debated, I was in San Francisco on once as controversial as King Day St. Patrick's Day. The parade was ,is now in some communities. the most incredible mix of peoples I see some parallels between St. I've ever seen.

Patrick and King. Both suffered Marching bands of Oriental personally in fighting persecution teens, black youngsters and Mexi- of their people. Bo'th walked from can mariachis all playing rousing town to town to spread their beliefs Irish tunes made my eyes glisten. and draw followers.

Legend has it that St. Patrick What a wonderful tribute to the Irish, that so many cultures turn built the Irish church by preaching out to celebrate their day. in a village, staying until a church I experienced the same thing in was built, leaving a priest to carry New Orleans on St. Joseph's Day on, picking up newly converted young men and catechizing and - originally an Italian holiday but celebrated by peoples oLmany later ordaining them. shades and accents.

Everywhere there was resistance I wonder, will we return the and often physical abuse by pagans. compliment and show our black Those who recall the freedom sisters and brothers that we care marches of the sixties will recogabout honoring their hero and nize the remarkable similarities in martyr?

Dr. King's life. He too preached to I see an extraordinary oppor- the masses, suffered personal hutunity for Catholics to make King miliation and imprisonment, picked Day one of celebration and joy. up followers, and implanted hope After all, we've been through it too and vision, not only in blacks but _ persecution,humiliation and in people of justice everywhere.

"I have a dream,"he proclaimed. vicitimizing. We've heard of the Molly Maguires and the signs that St. Patrick had a dream. Both

Women religious If you're interested in changes in the church since Vatican 11, one area to check is that of women in religious life.

Traditionally, women religious have been the backbone of religious education, Catholic hospitals, the contemplative life and innumerable charitable institutions.

In a study just completed on one women's religious order, it was found that while it still fulfills its traditional roles, tho~e fulfilling them have changed their perception of how. best to do so.

Asked how sisters see themselves, responders clearly indicated that they no longer see themselves as humble servants under a superior, concerned primarily with accounting to that superior for every action.

Nor do they want to return to the "good old days."

The new emphasis is away from a line-staff or superior-to-subject relationship. Supplanting blind following of orders are collaboration and dialogue based on a Trinitarian model in which God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are in dialogue.

When I showed the study to my secretary, her immediate response was: "What else would you expect?

Women are more educated today and this has' raised their expec-' tations about their value. There is also an atmosphere which is encouraging women to be more assertive and to stand side by side rather than bow to a submissive role."

As I listened it became clear that one ofthe biggest changes in many religious women is their desire to witness through individual talents. the strength of this approach is its emphasis on the gifts and unique contributions of individuals.

The strength of the. other approach was its witness, through humbling oneself, to dependency on God. It no longer can be presumed that a religious order will have many members. In the past there was comfort in numbers and much more mutual and outside support.

In their distinctive habits, they cowed tough policemen and unruly kids. The church encouraged them to stay away from the "world."

That atmosphere has changed.

Where once a sister was seen in a , A new strain of sisters is needed, servant role working for someone else in a community or parish; the focus now is more on working together as equals. In place of letting the superior set the tone, there is movement toward working MIL WAUKEE (NC) - Michael with her and sharing more deeply Schwartz, longtime public affairs In her responsibility. director of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, has left As I analyzed these responses, the league to become director of the model of prospering Japanese the Catholic Center in Washingbusinesses 'flashed into my mind.

From studies of these organiza- ton, D.C. The center, a project of tions, the old principle for bringing the Free Congress Foundation, out the best in people is confirmed: was formed in 1982 "to organize "When people feel ownership in an Catholic constituencies on public organization they perform better." policy issues,'''said Schwartz.

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passed on their dreams to committed fofIowers. We are the inheritors of those dreams. How can we subscribc;:to one and not the other?

My dream is that those among us who come from persecuted peoples - that's most of ·us - turn Martin Luther King Day into as joyous a celebration as those of St. Patrick, St. Joseph, Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Casimir and all other ethnic holidays. If not this year, next year.

Let's show' the country that liberation and martyrdom for justice are not defined by color. Let's close our Catholic schools thai day and put our marching bands in the parade. Let's see the Knights of Columbus marching as proudly in Martin Luther King's parade as the black drill teams march· in St. Patrick's parade.

Let's have a parish party and not worry about inviting a few token blacks. Let's just celebrate justice. Let) send cards just as we send St. Patrick's Day cards to.

Germans, Jews and others.

Is this dream possible? Let's get working on it!

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

sisters who can utilize their own resources. in a context where the resources and status they once enjoyed are lacking.

How well the idea of community holds up with this new emphasis on a more worldJy, yet caring individual is yet to be seen. But women in religious life remain a necessary and precious gift to the church.

[necrology] January 20 Rev. Roland J. Masse, Assistant, 1952, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River January 21 Rev. Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, Retired, 1983, St. Joseph, New Bedford January 24 Rev. Edward H. Finnegan, S.J., 1951, Boston College FaCUlty' Rey. Thomas F. McMorrow, Assistant, 1977, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass.

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DIETZEN Q. My question concerns having Mass for a deceased Protestant or a person who had no church affiliation. I recall that some years ago Q. Can you tell me if a Catholic one could request a Mass for a couple can be married at any time non-Catholic but it would be pub- of day with a Mass? (New Jersey) lished "for a special intention."

A. According to general church Has this changed so that the name of the deceased person can law, a nuptial Mass is normally be published in the church bulletin allowed whenever a Mass is the same as for a practicing Catho- allowed, with the possible exception of certain major feasts of the lic? (Illinois) A. Under the former code of year.

However, customs and regulachurch law a private celebration of Mass for a non-Catholic Christian tions differ from country to country, diocese to diocese and even was alw~ys allowed. In this context, private was interpreted to mean a . parish to parish. Some dioceses in the United States, for example, Mass that was not announced, for prohibit nuptial Masses on Sunexample, in the bulletin.

Since 1976 this regulation has days, while Sunday weddings are been greatly liberalized, following· rather common in other dioceses requests from various countries and some other nations. for Catholic priests to celebrate As another example, evening Mass for deceased people baptized nuptiai Masses are never scheduled in other denominations. in many parishes for various good Such Masses are not only permit- pastoral reasons. ted but quite common and for You should ask the parish priest reasons of patriotism, friendship, of the church where the wedding is gratitude and so on, provided that there is no prohibition for another planned about local guidelines. reason, if the f~mily or friends Q. I am a 60-year-old widow. A request it and if in the judgment of Protestant friend lost his longtime the bishop there is no danger of wife this year and our friendship scandal (Decree of the Congrehas brought us close to marriage. gation for the Doctrine of the I didn't know until recently that Faith, June 1976). he had been married in his 20s to a Q. I have heard somewhere that Catholic girl, before a justice of the Catholic Church has changed the peace. They later divorced and its teaching concerning the Holy she is still alive. Can anything be Eucharist, that it is not the actual done so we can be married in the body of Christ, but is only a sym- Catholic Church? (Texas) bol. Is there anything to this? (La.) A. Since his first wife was a bapA. The Catholic Church still believes, as it always has, that the tized Catholic and they were not living, risen Jesus Christ is present married before a priest, a Catholic in the Holy Eucharist. This faith is marriage between the two of you attested to by St. Paul: "Is not the seems quite possible.

Please give your parish priest cup of blessing we bless a sharing the details. He will help you do in the blood of Christ? And is not what is necessary. the bread we break a sharing in the body of Christ?" (I Cor. II: 16) A free brochure explaining the It is still attested to by each of us as we receive the Eucharist when Catholic Church's position on memwe say, in response to the words, bership in the Masons is available "The body of Christ,""Amen" -it by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father Dietis true, I believe it. zen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. This belief jn the real presence Main St., Bloomington, III. 61701. of the Lord in the Eucharist is so essential to the Catholic faith, as well as to many other Christian denominations, that the church is inconceivable without it.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (NC) This is not to deny, however, that the Eucharist is other things - Catholic Church leaders have as well. Particularly is it a symbol, expressed concern about increased a sign, of the saving death and harassment under President Desresurrection of our Lord - "Do ~ond Hoyte. "Although the governthis to remember me" - and even ment under (late president) Forbes more a sign and promise of the, Burnham brought systematic pres~ second coming of Christ in his . sure to bear on the Catholic final victory over sin and death Church...the present campaign surpasses in its vindictiveness, pasand our victory with him.

"Every time," Paul tells us, "you sion and scope anything expereat this bread and drink this cup ienced to date," said a recent backyou proclaim the death of the ground paper prepared by church Lord until he comes." (I Cor. leaders in Guyana. Incidentshaveincluded searches of the homes of several 11:26) Perhaps one reason you ask religious leaders, including Bishop Benedict Singh of Georgetown, your question is that more emphasis Guyana, and an order to expel a is placed on the rich symbolism of the Eucharist than was true in British Jesuit who has worked in the country for 2 i years. times past.

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This in no way justifies our calling it "only" a sign, however. The Eucharist is such a cosmic Christian symbol precisely because it is in truth the body of Christ.

Reminder He who throws mud loses ground.

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The 65-member group, ca,lIed Teachers for Life, says it intends to promote pro-life views on abortion and euthanasia. The group also seeks to combat what its members see as ignorance and apathy concerning family life issues.

Teachers for· Life meetings have focused on strategies for spreading the pro-life message in Ontario's public and Catholic schools. The organization's president, Louis Di ~occo•.said the job will be more. difficult in public schools which draw teachers and students. from a variety of' religious ',and ethnic backgrounds.

Many Canadian teachers' federations are beg'inning to espouse causes, including abortion, not directly, related to'the curriculum, said Di Rocco, an Ontario high-school teacher on a year's leave of absence.

He said many st1Jdents, particularly in public schools, are being overexposed to pro-abor'tion arguments.

"One of our main concerns is to educate ourselves as well as other teachers and studentl!," he said.

Di Rocco said his group may develop a kit teachers can use to incorporate the pro-life message into lessons.

Teachers for Life was formed after deleg,ates from the British Columbia Teachers' Federation attempted to place a proposal urging decriminalization of abortion on the agenda of the Canadian Teachers' Federation annual convention.

The national federation decided to postpone debate on the issue. Gerry Cooke, vice presi-

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Under C:mada's Criminal Code any pregnant female faces two years imprisonment if she "uses any means or permits any means to be used" to obtain an abortion.

Abortion is allowed in Canada only in accredited hospitals after a three-doctor panel agrees that a pregnancy endangers the life or health of the mother, "The formation of the teachers' group is a step that should have been taken long ago," said Father Alphonse de Valk; who provides :liaison between Campaign Life, the Canada"wide anti-abortion organization, and Teachers for Life.

"There's no doubt that the antilife philosophy has been making inroads in schools throughout 'the country."

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) - Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany wants churches to stop providing a:JcohoIic drinks at church fundraising activities, a step taken some months ago in the Fall River diocese.

The bishop cited the problem of alcoholism and the glamorization of drinking in society as the reasons for his "modest but controversial" suggestion, which he also described as a "challenge" for the new year.

His comments came in his column in The Evangelist, Albany diocesan newspaper.

Instead of' holding cocktail parties to raise money, he suggested, church groups could hold social events offering "specialty .POLISH SOLIDARITY leader Lech WaJesa, and his foods, ethnic drinks, novelty wife Danuta admire their eighth child, a daughter, born desserts or 'creative non-alcoDec. 28, feast of the Holy Innocents. (NC/UPI-Reuter phot~) hol punches and other beverages." . He called for more education on the effects 'of alcohol and drug ,use "on the body, mind a'nd spirit." , , "Perhaps what is more imporVATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope zones of combat."

John Paul II 'last week called on _ During the last decade, refu- tant," he said, "we must reverse Continued from Page Three the world's nations to accept gees from Vietnam, Cambodia, the dual message that we comSad to say, 1.5 miUion abortions Asian refugees now in Thailand Laos and Burma poured into m!:micat~aboutalcohol and still take place in our nation, awaiting asylum.

Thailand, a· temporary host drug usage. In this latter regard, each year. This means that 4,000 He made his appeal during an country, to await ,asylum in I would like to ask consideralives are, taken every day and ,address to the new Thai am- such nations as the United tion of a modest a:lthough conone unborn life is destroyed, bassador' to the Holy See, Mon- , States, Canada, Australia, . troversial suggestion:' namely, 'every 20 seconds.

France, Great Britain and Ger- that our parishes and churchtri Jalichandra.

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1983 Massachusetts taxpayers which they have not sought and Intercaritas, the publication of ' using ,'the cocktail party as a paid for 8500 Medicaid abortions do not suppott," the pope said, Caritas Internationalis, an asso- vehicle for fund-raising." at a cost of 1.4 million state "should not be forgotten by pub- ciation of Catholic relief agenThe bishop said the matter dollars. We are one of only a lic opinion throughout the cies, has reported that Thailand, was initially raised by an unfew states still funding abortion. world." a nation beset by economic and dentified "prominent community We must say '''yes!'' to all problems, currently leader" who had been invited to In 1984, during his pastoral social life; the unborn, the handicapped visit to Thailand, Pope John hosts 450,000 refugees. It also six Catholic agency fundraisers newborn and the infirm, frail Paul visited the refugee camp at is host to 30,000 other displaced before Christmas, all of them elderly. We are a just, civil and Phanat Nikhom and donated persons who have not been cocktail parties. humane society. In the best $50,000 to a camp hospital. Last granted refugee status, "The irony of this situation," tradition of our country we week he recalled that visit and The Texas-size country has a he noted, "is that virtuaUy all of must work for l1'eal choices commended Thailand for aiding population of about 50 million, , the agencies deal directly with positive solutions for all chal- "refugees seeking shelter and including approximately 200,000 the tragic efforts of chemical dependency on the inaividual and lenges in life. Abortion destroys safety away from neighboring Catholics. the family." human life. We can find a better 'answer. We must and, we wHl .

Despite glamorization of al• conol by advertisements, rock stand 'up for the "least of our brethren," the most innocent, music and society, he said, the the most frail and the ~ost vulContinued from' Page One He praised resumption of dis- "harsh reality . . . shows that nerable in our midst. _ plicated in their problems, just armament talks between the alcohol and drug usage can be As you gather at Faneuil Hall 'to sow panic and draw attention United States and the Soviet injurous' to one's health and in today and across our state and to their cause."

Union as "an important step on some instances, even fata-\." in our nation's capital this comAccording to research, he said: the obligatory road of dialogue."

The pope also condemned the ing Wednesday, we commend One of three American The pope also praised 'nonyou for your untiTing efforts for "barbarous activity of taking families is touched by the conlife. We recommit ourselves to hostages and criticiZed political aligned governments. Non- align- sequences of alcoholism. "a way of serving ment can be .lead our Catholic community in violence used by guerrillas in - Alcoholism plays a major praying together, in standing their own country "and "system- peace from the perspective of role in the four major causes of 'the opposition of overcoming 'Used by police atic terrorism" together, in working together death suicides, accidents, ,blocs," he said. ' and in defending together with states 'against their own citihomicides and ciIThosis - in 20zens.

Pope John Paul said the grow- to-40-year-old men. you the Godgiven right to life of all persons.

The papal speech outlined a ing gap between rich and poor - Alcohol and drug .abuse God the Father sent his son series of issues which threaten countries is a threat to peace. the economy 'an estimated cost that all might have life and be peace, including terrorism, the He asked' for "a new interna, brought to the glory of his king- , East-West ideological' struggle, tional economic order where $56 billion yearly through 10st dom. May the Holy Spirit em- Third World problems, apartheid man really 'becomes the measure worker production, medical care and crime-related expenses. of ,the economy." power and enliven us with the' and human rights violations.

In. the face of all this,' the fire of. 'Olirist's love that we Among human rights viola- bishop added, the church could He asked governments to may love one another as he has seek solutions through world- tions the pope spoke of were set an exa'!1ple of how to socialloved us. wide and regional structures restrictions of freedom of cons- ize without 'alcohol.

Bernard Cardinal. Law such as the United Nations, the cience, religious persecution, torArohbishop of Boston "The church has never conOrganization,of American, ture, summary executions with- demned the moderate use of 'Most Reverend ' "States and the Organization for out proper' trials and "arbitrary alcohol," ,he noted, "but given Daniel A. Cronin Afr:ican Unity. ' restri.ctions imposed for' re:asons the mounting human cost of alBishop of FaH River The Catholic Church contri" oL racism or apartheid." cohol and drug abuse in our 'Most Reverend butes to world peace by enHe criticized foreign inter- society, we as a church need to Timothy J. Harringto.n couraging negotiations to solve ference [n Central American af- communicate that people can Bishop of Worcester problems and by providing ethi- fairs and lack~of a serious, com- ,come together and socialize Most Reverend cal guidelines for political -and mitment to 'negotiations by, war- without Joseph F. Maguire tranquilizing them,.' selves. economic issues, the pope said.' ,ri l1 g. factions.

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WITH THE COOPE~TION of the First Coast Guard District of Boston, Fall River District Council Vincentians have for the second time sent clothing and a cash donation to Vincentians on the island of St. . Lucia in the Caribbean, with whom the diocesan unit conducts a twinning program. T);1e day after Christmas, three crates of clothing -were dispatched to St.. Lucia aboard the USCGC Unimak, captained by Cmdr. R. L. Blake. Arrangements for the shipment, shown in process, were made through Rear Admiral R. L. Johanson, First Coast Guard District Commander, and the district public affairs office.

A touch of elegance Continued from page one ish, Fall River. With her father, Frank Crofton, wearing a black tuxedo as did all escorts, Cindy, a Nazareth Hall student, approached the bishop to enthusiastic applause, giving him a kiss when she reached him.

A stream of beautiful young

ladies and their proud escorts followed her, the girls in white gowns and carrying .long-stemmed red roses.

Perhaps many of the young presentees were nervous, but the jitters weren't evident as they walked gracefully across

the ballroom to meet the honored guest. . 'Later, however, Margaret O. Fisher of St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, told 1'he Anchor "I figured that I was going to fall. I told my dad to hold me up." He agreed, she reported, but told her that when they danced he would lead. _ Mrs. Pamela McRae, mother of presentee Cheryl McRae of St. Joseph's parish, Taunton,. happily took photographs of her daughter during the ceremony.

Her excitement was representative of the mood that continued throughout the presentee program.

After the final presentee, Mary Ellen Quigley of St. Peter's parish, Dighton, joined the 37 others surrounding the bishop ,and photos were taken, it was time for escorts and presentees to take to the dance floor. The new parish of Christ .the King, serving Cotuit and Mashpee, had its first presentee, Jennifer'Lynn Edmond. "It's nice to be a part . of the Charity Ball," said Father Ronald A. Tosti, pastor.

A high-spirited grand march followed; couples kept time with the Al Rainone Orchestra in a trip around the dance floor, finishing eight abreast while singing "God Bless America."

Kenneth Leger then led the partygoers in the National Anthem.

Bishop Cronin was introduced to the crowd by Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Ball director. "Our honored guest has appeared at more than half of the Bishop's Charity Balls," the director said, "16 out of 31. We hope he'll. continue to come' for ever and ever and ever!"

The - bishop told his listen'ers that "tIlere is a touch of elegance in everything here tonight, which is, of course, our· theme.

The major touch of elegance tonight is the young ladies. This is a major time in their lives and in the 'life of the diocese.

"I cannot allow this evening to pass without pausing to recall with gratitude and tender affection· two dear friends of the Bishop's Charity Ball here in the diocese of Fall River. who have gone to their heavenly reward since we gathered here at Lincoln Park Ballroom a year ago," the bishop said.

"May I ask your good prayers for Miss Margaret M. Lahey and Mr. Robert G. Coggeshall. We cannot help but think of these dear friends this evening and commend them to Almighty God." Miss Lahey, a DCCW founding member,. and Coggeshall, for many years in charge of ball decorations, were remembered . for the "dedicated manner" in which they served the charitable event. . Dancing then resumed until 1 _a.m. in the beautifully decorated ballroom and lounge.

Many Vincentiansand DCCW· members, who served as ushers and program distributors, returned to the ballroom early the following morning to take down the white, rose and . silver decorations, a gift from the Swan Finishing Co. of FalI River.

No doubt they relived the previous evening and thought with pleasure of the good times at camp that so many children will enjoy this summer.

What a great reason to have a party.

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Catholics in India

By Pat McGowan On a recent visit to a daughter and her family in India, which' included stays in New Delhi and Bombay, my husband and I had the opportunity to observe the Catholic presence on the subcontinent.

That 'presence consists of less than 12 million Catholics out of a population expected to top one and a half billion by the 21st century, making India the world's most populous nation.

However, Catholics have made' a contribution to the nation out of proportion to their numbers. The name of Mother- Teresa leaps, of course, to mind, but there_ are many others. For the past century Jesuits have been among the country's foremost educators, attracting many young men to their ranks; in fact the largest number of young Jesuit~ in the world are found in India serving youngsters of all religi~us persuasions. Students vie for entrance to Jesuit secondary. schools, regarding the education offered as a passport to institu- , tions of higher learning.

Closer to home, the Dominicans ofthe Presentation, who staff St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River have since 1971 maintained a mission in India. Their present provincial, Fall River native Sister Dorothy Ruggiero, last year was recalled from her post as mission superior to assume her new duties at provincial headquarters in Dighton.

The Indian mIssIon has three foundations, in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh. In addition to a house of formation and regional headquarters the 23 siste'rs of the mission teadh in ~everal schools and staff a smali hospital and associated outreach clinics. ' Originally, said Sister Dorothy, Indian postulants to the community came to the Fall River diocese for training. Now the mission has , its own program, fulfilling the sisters' goal of making it self-sufficient.

Indian Catholicism is built on an ancient foundation. Tradition credits 5t. Thomas the Apostle with introducing Christianity to southern India, in what is now Kerala. Even today the majority of Catholics are from that area, which will be the starting point for Pope John Paul II's controversial visit to India, scheduled from Jan. 31 to Feb. 10.

MembersofIndia's Hindu majority object to the papal visit, which will take place against a background of recentl~ increase~ ~estrictions on miSSIOnary actIvIty, including "anti-conversion" laws in several of tohe subcontinent's 22

sta~:s; the nation's Catholic bishops see the matter differently, calling the papal journey "an event of immense significance not only to Catholics, but also for the whole THE INDIAN SOCIAL INSTITUTE (top picture) is the nation." .

In a pastoral letter issued In scene of a press conference for Darryl D'Monte (seated), August, the bishops said the event would encourage indians in their , author of "Temples or Tombs?" Standing from left, Ravi efforts towards justice, developChopra, B.B. Vohra, Father Walter Fernandes SJ; other ment, peace and prosp.e.rity a~ d . I pictures, top to bottom, ragpicker and scrawny sacred cows help strengthen their re IglOus splrit.

On the practical side, ch~rches take potluck at a New Delhi dump; women was clothes in a we attended in New Deihl and . gutter in a fashionable section of Bombay; watched, among' Bombay distributed contributIOn others, by a naked child, a New Delhi snake charmer performs. envelopes to help defray expense~ of the papal visit. The New Deihl parish, we' noted, was strongly (MacGill photos) charismatic, with even a completely

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charismatic hymnbook. Among Sunday announcements was that of an upcoming weeklong Bible camp on the New Delhi cathedral 'grounds, to be directed by leaders from a National Charismatic College in Bombay.

Of speCial interest in suburban Bombay was a fishing village, whose residents were originally from Portuguese Goa, since 1961 part of India. Dominated by a large church surrounded by a churchyard whose gravestones bore names almost exclusively Portuguese, the enclave could have come straight from the Azores.

New Delhi is the site of the Jesuit-run Indian SociaUnstitute, where Father Walter Fernandes, Sj-offered facilities for a press co~ference announcing publication of"Temples or Tombs?", an examination of three enviro~mentally undesirable Indian projects, two of which proceeded despite strong opposition and one of which was halted.

The book, by journalist Darryl D'Monte, was most compatible with lSI objectives, said Father Fernandes. It is published by the Centre for Science and Environment, also in New Delhi and also an lSI friend.

I ne press conterence included an explanation of the book by D'Monte, a showing of slides depicting the environmental problems described and an address .by B.B. Vohra, described by D'Monte as "India's most concerned administrator and lone voice on land and water management issues."

Head of the former Indian National Committee on Environmental Planning until its upgrading to ministry status, Vohra is now chairman of the government's Advisory Board on Energy. .

Discussing lSI involvement In environmental concerns, Father Fernandes explained that the institute founded in 1951, has as its pri~ary objective "developm~nt of a just social order by fOCUSIng on the underprivileged groups of society."

That goal is shared by the Centre for Science and Environment, directed by Jesuit-educated Ravi Chopra. In 1982 and again this year the centre published comprehensive citizens' reports on the state of India's environment, documenting the abuses ofland, water and atmosphere that have combined to keep the nation among the world's poorest, despite its natural potential, wealth of scientific and technical expertise and impressive industrial growth.

Like-lSI, CSE wants "to put the concerns of India's poorest people on the country's planning agenda." . d Dr. Chopra, who formerly lIve in a district heavily hit by the reprisals against Sikhs that followed

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Today he and his family are quartered in a dev.eloping area. of New Delhi. At their front door IS a cluster of huts roughly constructed of loose bricks topped . with fragile reed roofs, affordIng Ih" little protection from New De IS frigid winters.

Such huts, man~ far less su~stantial than those In New Deihl, are seen all over India, often coex. h . isting with luxurious hlg . rises.

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Catholics in India Continued from Page 8 I vast amount of drudgery required by a largely unmechanized nation.

Even the hut dwellers, however, are better off than the hundreds of thousands, 'such as those ministered to by Mother Teresa, whose homes are the city sidewalks, stairs and public hallways.

A heartrending photograph that appeared in the Times of India during our visit epitomized their plight in a shot of a small child huddled in a blanket.

The matter-of-fact caption: "A pavement boy, all wrapped up, the first sign of winter stealing into the' city."

In summer the pavement dwellers endure temperatures often reaching 110 degrees and during the terrential monsoon rains seek shelter on covered staircases or even in drainpipes. In cold areas many die

of exposure during the winter; the death of a three-month-old baby was reported in November in New Delhi, when temperatures were by no means as low as they become later in the season.

In a country with no tradition of organized charity and with a widespread f~talism that holds one's status to, be determined by one's good or bad actions in past incarnations, there is little short-term hope for the destitute, despite halfhearted government attempts to implement an educational quota system favoring them.

Long-range studies, however, such as those undertaken by lSI and CSE, hold promise for the future, not only detailing problems but offering possible solutions.

Among lSI initiatives is a natural family planning program which

flies in the face of Indian cultural patterns by regarding the sexes as equal and trying to make both husband and wife responsible for family planning decisions.

Other lSI programs offer legal aid, women's development courses, community organization training and courses for vitlage health workers.

CSE deals with such root causes of India's problems as deforestation and consequent land erosion, air and water pollution, the caste system and a wide variety of health hazards.

Concerned Catholics hope that many of these issues will be addressed by Pope John Paul and that the worldwide attention that would thus be -focu~ed on t/lem will benefit the millions of Indians existing in subhuman conditions.

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We had to go to the police station to pick him up. He was crying and frankly I didn't know whether to be furious or feel sorry for him.

The police told us the store routinely presses charges and that' we will have to make restitution and talk with the juvenile probation officer. Meanwhile, our son is not welcome in the store without a parent until the matter has been cleared up.

My husband and I are embarrassed. What should we do now? Do you think the store owners and police are overreacting? He took about 530 worth oftoy figures.

(Ohio) So far, everyone seems to have done well in responding. No, I do not think the store and police overreacted. The best, way to stop shoplifting is to respond briefly but sternly to the first incident, before it becomes a habit. ' Unfortunately, shoplifting is all too com'mon, not only among child. ren but adults. The motivation for children is frequently the thrill of risk, to see if they can get away with it. Your son has received' a clear message that he cannot.

As a parent, you should' be , pleased he was caught. In fact, a

phone call to the store owner apologizing for your son and yourself and thanking him for handling it appropriately might be a nice gesture.

The next steps are' very important. First, come down sternly.

Your son needs to understand that his parents and the community take shoplifting seriously. The store and the police may already have sent this message. Do not try to make excuses for your son because of his age and his tears.

You may add your own statement: "Don't ever ,do this again!

We Smiths do not steal from stores or other people."

Second, set the· penalty and get it over with. A specified number of hours of hard work such as housecleaning or yard cleanup until restitution is made would be one good idea. Payment for $30 worth of merchandise demands more than a token job.

Ten hours of work might be appropriate. Denying television until the work is completed would be reasonable. ' A long lecture on the folly or immorality of shoplifting would not be wise. Nor would a punishment that lasted for weeks. The reason for keeping punishment brief is to give as little attention as

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Third, let your son know that, although everyone makes mistakes, you love him. A hug following your stern lecture is a good start in this direction!

The manual labor suggested in , step 2 allows your son to respond to his misdeed by doing something worthwhile. He needs to know that although he has done something .bad, he himself is a goo~ person.

Don't be embarrassed. This problem occurs frequently. You now have an opportunity for some good parenting. Be stern. Be brief. And then be positive.

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Some officials, like Mayor Ed Koch of New York City, aren't \ pussyfooting around the issue. They are taking steps to prevent tragedies like the one last year when World War 11 hero Jesse Carpen'. ter, 61, was found frozen to death across the street from the White House in Washington, D.C.

I think not. The best quote I've read on the subject was from Jane Putnam of Gouverneur Hospital in New York City: "We have been seeing people die with their rights on."

Truly it is bizarre to calI rescuing the homeless from the threat of freezing to death a deprivation of their liberty.

In the first place, many of the homeless are there "because they cannot think straight, make decisions and organize their lives," says Dr. John Talbott of the American Psychiatric Association.

Many are mental patients released from hospitals, theoretically to community-based homes. That is a bad joke, because such homes are few and far between.

To complicate the problem further, the non-institutionalized men-

On the belief that officials have a responsibility to protect people's lives, Mayor Koch is forcing the homeless to go to shelters in freezing weather. But his action is drawing protest.

Forcing the homeless to take NEW YORK (NC) - The shelter is an infringement of their American Catholic Historical rights, according to groups such as Society has presented its John the American Civil Liberties Union. " Gilmary Shea Prize to Columbia University history professor Mayor Koch says: "We' believe Eugene Franklin Rice Jr. that anyone who chooses to be out on the streets in the cold when we 'Rice received the $300 award offer...shelter, that person is not for his book "St. Jerome in the competent."

Renaissance," published by the Johns Hopkins. University Press.

The Shea prize is named for a Recent studies indicate that perhaps 35 percent of the homeless· noted 19th-century historian of are schizophrenics, another 10 per- American Catholicism. cent depressed and the other 55 percent victims of alcohol and The society also awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize ·to' drug abuse problems. If so, the mayor's statement about compet- David Herlihy, professor of history at Harvard University, and ency seems on-target.

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, direcMaybe people have a right to tor of studies at the Ecole des choose how and where they will Hautes Etudes en Sciences Socilive; but can we really stand by and ales, Paris. for their book "Tusdo nothing when people are jeo- cans and Their Families: A Study pardizing their lives? of the Florentine Catasto of 1427."

tally ill are often in a Catch-22 situation. They cannot get welfare money without an add:ress and they cannot get an ad'dress if they have no money; so they stay on the streets, sleeping in doorways or on park benches.

And we call this their right or" choice?

What makes the debate particularly ironic is that we are in the midst of a national money~raising effort to refurbish the Statue of Liberty, the statue symbolizing the claims that America opens its arms to the poor and huddled masses.

That concept, it seems now, comes with all kinds of ifs, ands and buts. .....

Can we really ease our consciences by saying that the homeless poor have a right to be on the streets?

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The Marraro prize, given for works on Italian or Italo-American history or relations, honors a Columbia University professor who was author of more than a dozen books on Italian literature. history and culture.

Jesuit Father James Hennesey, Boston ColIege professor of the history of Christianity, took office as CHS' president, succeeding James A. Brundage, professor of medieval history at the University of Wisconsin. /

The Only Thing "Example is not the main thing in influencing others: it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer.

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Things better, not perfect

Ethiopian scene improves Although the United States NEW YORK (NC) - Terrence Kirch has a difficult assignment: plans to continue its assistance, telling people the situation in Kirch said, CRS faces a problem Ethiopia is much improved but the because the U.S. Agency for .International Development at the aid effort still cannot be relaxed.

Formerly director of Catholic start ofthis fiscal year Oct. I began Relief Services work in India, to allocate more of its Food for Kirch is now at the Ethiopia desk Peace commodities to other agencat CRS headquarters in New ies working in Ethiopia and less to York.. He was in Ethiopia Nov. CRS. Initially, Kirch said, CRS got l6-Dec. 18.

Interviewed at his office earlier most'ofthese commodities because this month, Kirch said he found it has worked in Ethiopia since 1958 and was almost alone in the situation much better than in Fall 1984, when Americans were having a capacity for distributing shocked by televised scenes of the food. But now other American . massive starvation. But although groups have begun working in some drought areas got rains in Ethiopia, and in order to let them 1985, he said, harvests nationwide' share in food distribution, AID were still 20' percent below. the has reduced the CRS allocation, levels of 1980-83, and 1.2 million he said. metric' tons of food from outside .

Krich said CRS did not resent involvement of other groups, but are nee.ded for this .year. noted that they are working in "We're afraid people willassume . the situation has resolved itself," other areas with different people, he said. "It hasn't. There has been thus will not aid recipients CRS tremendous improvement: but if may be fqrced to drop.

If that happens, Kirch said, we don't keep the resource coming, we'll see serious famine problems many ofthe people served by CRS again, and undo a lot of the good will again start crowding the camps where direct feeding that has been dOlle."

Kirch said the United States formerly occurred. He said CRS government had been providing director Lawrence Pezzullo and about a third of the outside food other officials had been meeting aid, and was wiiiing to give that with AID in an effort to get percentage of the 1.2 million tons additionill allotments. needed this year. The European "We can feed the current Economic Community has also numb~r for about six months, been contributing about a third' using our allotment for the whole and other donors the rest, he said, year. We are already trying to but so far these countries have not reduce rations where there have made 1986 commitments. been harvests and we can. "

The heir finds his hair

By Hilda Young Oldest son has discovered his· hair. Oh, it's not that he didn't realize it was there in the past. He would force a comb through it before Mass if I threatened him and he washed it if the rest of his body was in the tub anyway.

But turning 12 seems to have changed his nonchalant relationship with what had been compared to a wheat field following harvest.

He now spends more time in the mirror than Alice in Wonderland.

Remember the "greaser" days of the 19.50's when young men wore so much oil in their hair they were a fire hazard? If oldest son is an indication, the style might be making a comeback. There are days he looks like he dipped his head into rubber. cement and then leaned into Hurricane Nancy.

"You look like you just ran the 100-yard dash in a driving rain and lost," his sister told him this morning.

"At least I don't come from the side of the family with lopsided heads," he countered, bending at the knees and bobbing as he combed. one particular strand of hair for the 300th time.

Then he pulled, on' his sweater and started again. Sheesh! Moses had an easier time parting the Red Sea. .

"You shouldn't be using so much hair spray," I offered.

"It's not, mom," he said.

"Then tlie weath~r has changed and you're standing under a little cloud," I pointed out.

"Tell mom how you used dad's spray deodorant by accident yesterday," chimed in our 7-year-old.

"You're going to have to use solvent to wash your head if you keep this up, " I said.

"I wish we were rich so we could have three bathrooms and I could comb my hair in peace," he grumbled.

"So do we," we said in unison.

'Steam grate' nativity to tour WASHINGTON (NC) - A controversial nativity scene featuring a homeless family on a steam grate which made its debut on the Washington Ellipse on Christmas Eve will go on tour in the future, according to its sponsors.

Carol Fennelly, spokewoman for The Community for Creative Non-Violence, a Washington group that runs a shelter for the homeless and has often challenged policies of the government and other institutions, said the statue will tour the nation and be used in programs to promote awareness of the homeless. ' The National Park Service refused to include the nativity scene in its annual Pageant of Peace but allowed CCNV to place it elsewhere on the Ellipse; According to a park service spokeswoman, statue was rejected because it promotes a particular cause and the Pageant of Peace features only traditional American Chr.istmas season decorations.

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Space scientist lives by faith BOISE, Idaho (NC) ~ Through a 42-year marriage, five children, an Air Force career which included development oftwo satellite boos. ter rockets, and 15 years in private industry in Boise, Joseph Bleymaier, 69, said h~ has lived by the belief that ·"with faith, a person can do anything he envisions. Nothing is impossible."

The retired Air Force major general helped develop the Titan III missile, a liquid fuel rocket used as !l satellite booster in the 1950s and '60s, the Atlas booster that put astronaut John Glenn' into orbit around the earth in 1962.

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A widower, he spends his retirement hunting and keeping tabs on his chilctren and grandchildren.

He prays the rosary regularly with a group of people in his parish before daily Mass and often at other times.

A Taiwan first TAIPEI, Taiwan (NC) - The .first Taiwan-born bishop has been appointed to a Taiwanese diocese.

Father Jose Lin Tien-chu, 50, has been mimed bishop of Chiayi, about 100 miles south of Taipei.

His predec~ssor, Bishop Joseph Ti-Kang, was named coadjutor archbis'hop of Taipei May 14.

Until Bishop-elect Lin's appointment, all but one .of Taiwan's seven bishops were mainland China-born. Bishop William Francis Kupfer of Taichung, a Maryknoll missionary, is U.S. borh.

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Damages for emotional distress

By ATTY. ARTHUR MURPHY

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RICHARD MURPHY

Mrs. Jones witnessed the death of her only son when he was hit by a drunk driver last spring. Since then she has

driver, they will most certainly get damages for their son's wrongful death. What they may not know is. that Mrs. Jones also has a legal claim against the driver.

The courts often allow someone like Mrs. Jones to collect damages for emotional distress even when there is no physical injury.

Emotional distress differs from most legal actions in that the claim does not stem from a physical, tangible event. Rather, it is related to the mental anguish you experience because of another person's unlawful actions.

However, it is not easy to recover for emotional distress. In order to deter frivolous claims, the courts have imposed strict standards for proving that you have, truly suffered emotional distress.

I Originally, the tort (wrongful act) of emotional.distress required a physical injury as well as emobeen unable to sleep or concen- tional distress or mental injury.

Courts would not permit recovery trate. for fright, terror, alarm, anxiety or Her boss has threatened to fire distress of mind if unaccompanied her if she doesn't shape up. She has' by so.me preliminary physic;il instarted seeing a psychiatrist who jury. In addition, there"was no: has prescribed tranquilizers. recovery for physical injuries resulting only after the mental distress.

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Courts required a combination of a preliminary physical injury followed by mental injury because they feared that a person could feign and fraudulently recover for distress.

However, the theory of negligent infliction of emotional distress was expanded in 1937. Today courts may' permit recovery for physcal injuries resulting from mental distress. The theory was expanded again 1977; a person not threatened with contemporaneous injury nevertheless recovered for infliction of mental distress.

Parents can recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress when they witness or soon arrive at the scene of an accident involving one of their minor children. One reservation the cour-ts have about permitting parents to recover is that family members might sue one another. For example, suppose. Uncle Joe negligently lets little Mikey dive into an empty swimming pool. When Mikey's mother arrives, she suffers mental distress. She might sue her own brother for her distress.

Unlike the tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress, the tort

,of intentional infliction of emoinflict emotional distress or he tional distress has long been recknows or should have known that ognized in Massachusetts. Recovhis conduct would cause emotional ery will be granted as long as the distress; emotional distress arose from an • second, the conduct must be intentional tort causing physical "extreme and outrageous" so that injury. it is "utterly intolerable in a civFor example, a person can reilized community" and beyond all over for emotional distress directpossible bounds of decency; ly caused by intentional torts such • third, the defendant's actions as assault and battery. were the actual cause of the plain-' In 1948, the courts changed the tiff's distress; definition of the intentional inflic• fourth, the plaintiff suffered ,tion of emotional distress tort. "severe" emotional distress defined ,Now a person need no longer incur to mean that "no reasonable perphysical injury to satisfy the eleson could be expected to endure ments of the tort. it. " However, to limit frivolous lawThe myth persists among nonsuits and to put people on notice of lawyers that the courts are lenient what cond uct is req uired, the courts in these types of cases and permit have refined the standard for intf:n- recovery' for any imaginable type .tional infliction of emotional dis- of emotional distress. In fact, the tress. In 1965, the court held that. legal standards are rigorous and although you do not have to show designed to limit frivolous lawbodily injury, the conduct which suits while still permitting recovcallses mental distress must be ery for harmful outrageous conintentional or reckless, extreme duct. and outrageous.

So if you are depressed because In 1976, the Massachusetts Su- your girlfriend broke up with you, preme Judicial court further refined don't try to claim emotional disthe standard by articulating four tress. But if, like Mrs. Jones, you elements that must be shown to are truly devasted, you should be win an intentional infliction of aware of your legal rights. emotional distress claim: The Murphys practice law in Brain• first, the actor must intend to tree.

Change in Guatemala seen possible By iiz S. Armstrong

Two victims of Guatemalan violence were American missionaries WASHINGTON (NC) - After - Father Stanley Rother of the decades of human rights abuses in Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Guatemala, including the mu'rders killed at his rectory in July 1981, of two U.S. missionaries, the pass- " and Christian Brother James Miling of po~er Jan. 14 to Vinicio ler, shot to death in February 1982 Cerezo, Guatemala's first civilian at his mission. president in 30 years, could bring "We believe military assistance welcome change. should not be provided from any For U.S government policy source or in any form," the U.S makers, Cerezo's victory refocuses bishops said in a November 1981 attention on questions that have statement. "At this moment in long plagued U.S.-Guatemalan relaGuatemalan history, U.S diplotions: the scope of U. S. assistance macy should be directed toward to and involvement in the Central enhancing the protection of human American country. 'rights and assisting the meeting of The U. S Central Intelligence basic human needs, especially the Agency has been blamed for superneed for food and for capital investvising a military coup against a ment for food production. democratically elected left-leaning Guatemala's recent leaders have Guatemalan government in 1954. included a series ofgenerals, includMilitary rule has been marked ing Efrain Rios Montt, a selfby violence which has brought described former Catholic turned appeals from Pope John Paul II born-again Christian installed as and U.S. and Guatemalan bishops. president in a March 1982 coup.

They have urged an end to the killRios Montt's friends included Presings, which have taken a toll of ident Reagan, who wanted to promore than a dozen priests and vide, military aid to Guatemala thousands of civilians. According and asserted that the general-presito church sources, 13,000 persons, dent had gotten a "bum rap" over mostly civilians, died in 1981 alone . , in the conflict between government human rights issues. troops .and leftist guerrillas.

But Father J. Bryan Hehir, then Cerezo; a Catholic and critic of U.S. Catholic Conference internahis nation's military regimes, was tional justice and peace director elected in December runoff elecand now secretary fOf social detions th'at were preceded by an' velopment and world peace, told event that underscored the nation's a congressional panel that the bloody recent past: In November, American bishops opposed militltry families of missing persons temaid and noted that the Guatemaporarily occupied the Guatemala lan hierarchy had "described the City cathedral, demanding that campaigns against the Catholic the military government account Indian populations as amounting for their lost relatives. Military to genocide." and paramilitary groups have been Rios Montt's short career as blamed for the disappearances or chief executive was followed by murders - or both - of countless that of Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia civilians.

Victores, defense minister, who For years, the U.S bishops have argued that U.S. aid to Guatemala should not include military assistance and should instead concentrate on humanitarian support.

pontiff's arrival, he rejected a papal plea for mercy and ordered the executions of six persons convicted in secret military tribu,nals.

The pope, during his visit, called inurder, torture and kidnapping offenses against God and told the Guatemalans "in the name of God" to treat one another as brothers.

Independent surveys reported that during the first 10 months of Rios Montt's tenure, 5,000 to 10,000 persons, mostly Indians, died. The bishops accused the government of exterminative policies.

Allegations of military misconduct did not end with Rios Montt's regime, for two British bishops who visited Guatemala in the summer of 1985 reported continued widespread violations of Indians' human rights by the military government.

According !o the State Department, U.S. assistance to Guatemala in 1984 totaled $20.3 million in economic aid, with no military aid provided.

In its 1985 human rights report,

detailing events of 1984, the state Department noted that Mejia Victores' administration had taken "significant steps" toward return to democratic rule.

However, the report also noted the continued allegation of attacks upon the Indian population; the deaths of 525 non-combatants, victims of government or Marxist guerrilla forces; and an increase in kidnappings and disappearances, believed to have been perpetrated for criminal reasons, such as narcotics trafficking, as well as for political purposes.

Cerezo, for his part, invited the United States to be part of a "partnership in democracy" with Guatemala, which, he said, would have a foreign policy based on neutrality and peaceful settlement of regional conflicts.

During his U.S trip, Cerezo said that if military aid is offered he will suggest it be delayed. As he put it, ~'the real challenge is not to have the best army in Central America but the best democracy.

.Impecunious bishops got Vatican aid

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Bishops from financially strapped dioceses or conferences did not ha\'C to break their budgets to attend the 1985 Synod of Bishops - the Vatican chipped in with generous subsidies. a synod official said.

Among the approximately 160 bishops at the NO\. 24-Dec. 8 synod were some from places as distant from Rome as Papua New Guinea and Pcru and as poverty stricken as Zaire. where the church cannot afford to build enough churches and schools for the growoverthrew his boss in August 1983 ing Catholic population.

- just a few months after the visit· "A number of bishops traveled of Pope John Paul II. Rios Montt had created an international con- under their own steam." Father troversy when, shortly before the Gerald Dwyer. a staff,J:l1ember of

the synod's pci"manent council in Rome, said.

But if the bishop felt the local church, was not able to foot the bill, he submitted a request for a full or partial refund, Father Dwyer said. The synod secretariat then reviewed the request'and approved payments. ' Father Dw\'er would not sa\' how mal1\' to~k advanta!!e of th~ offer.

U.S. bishops did not usc Vatican money. according to Russell Shaw. press spokesman for thc U.S. Catholic Confercncc.

The Vatican subsidy cm'ered tra\'cl and acommodation. said Father Dwyer. Most of the hishops found rooms in religious houses throughout Rome.

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CATHEDRAL CAMP, EAST FREETOWN Youth ministry FIRE meeting for young adults: 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 2 I. Meetings held each third Tuesday.

Information: Tony Medeiros, 7638874.

FIRE, a national Catholic program, stands for Faith, Intercession, Repentance and Evangelization.

Youth Ministry Program: O.L. Mt. Carmel, Seekonk, confirmation retreat, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena 8 a.m. Mass Wednesdays, main church.

Prayer group 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Visitation Hall.

Marian Society holy hour 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20, chapel.

SMU, NO. DARTMOUTH Newman Lecture Series: The Pastoral on the Economy, J. Fitzgerald, Feb. 3; Christianity in India, J. Chandy, Feb. 10; Aggiornamento and Iconoclasm, A.J. John, April 14; The Public University and the Church, Father R. Gendreau, April 28. All held from noon to I p.m.

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ADORERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, F AIRHA VEN the group is seeking people to spend one hour in adoration between 8:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. Fridays at Our Lady of Lourdes chapel, 382 Main Street, Fairhaven. Information: Angelo DeBortoli, 996-0332.

-WESTPORT GUILDS Combined meeting of St. George and St. John the Baptist women's guilds and Our Lady of Grace Council of Catholic Women 7 p.m. Jan. 20, Our Lady of Grace parish center.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON St. Jude-Novena 50th anniversary 7 p.m. Monday. Solemn Benediction and novena prayers follo.wed by buffet, church hall.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET First penance parents' meeting: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22, parish center. l!pper Cape ultreya meeting 7;30 tomght, parish center. .

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Folk choir rehearsals 7 p.m. Thursdays, rectory.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Grade 2 parents' meeting: 7 p.m.

Jan. 22, parish center.

SACRED HEART, FR A group of new altar boys will be received at 9 a.m. Mass Sunday.

Parish musical committee: meeting 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21, rectory.

F AMIL Y LIFE CENTER, NO. DARTMOUTH Marriage Encounter begins today.

Bishop Stang High School retreat day: Jan 22'.

ST. PATRICK, FR Adult discussion group: meeting 8 p.m. Monday, rectory. Topic: "The Need for Adult Education in the Church."

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Marriage enrichment night: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Jan. 26, rectory. Featured will be a Father Chuck Gallagher video. Information: John and Sue Negri, 996-2759.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE SIGN group meets second Sundays, 6 p.m., St. Jude's Chapel basement.

Catholic Womens' Club meets 10 a.m. Thursdays, Religious Education Center.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Rosary 7 p.m Wednesdays, church.

Prayer group 8 p.m. Fridays, Father Clinton Hall.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Share the Word Bible study group meets at 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Information: 428-9456. .

O.L. ANGELS, FR Holy ]'lame Society Mass: 8 a.m.

March 2. Breakfast and meeting follow.

Parish' council: meeting 7 p.m.

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Senior Citizens (60 and over) club: meets noon Wednesdays, parish hall.

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ST. JAMES, NB Vincentian meeting 7 p.m. Jan. 22, parish center.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR First Communion parents' meeting 7 p.m. Jan. 23, sma!l chapel.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPO~SETT First Communion parents' meeting 7:30 p.m Jan. 20, church hall.

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Parish Council meeting 7:30 p.m.

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O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Apprecia~ion Night 6 tonight, Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea.

Peace celebration 9 a.m. Mass Sunday.

CATHEDRAL, FR Parish council meeting 7:30 p.m.

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ST. ANNE, FR Exposition of Blessed Sacrament: after 11:30 a.m. Mass today. Hour of adoration: 2 p.m., shrine.

BREAD OF LIFE A scripture course on the Gospel and Letters of St. John will be offered by the Bread of Life Prayer Community on nine consecutive Wednesdays, beginning Feb. 19, at Blessed Sacrament Church, Fall River. All are welcome to register with Fred Demetrius, 644-2375, by Jan. 3 I. ST. MARY, NB Adult confirmation classes begin Feb. 4. Registration: rectory, 9953593.

A discussion group led by Sister Rita Pelletier, SSJ, meets at 10 a.m.

Tuesdays, religious education center.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Vincentians: luncheon meeting after II :30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Meet in church parking lot.

First communion parent enrichment night: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, including Mass.

Couples' Mass: Feb. 8. Includes renewal of vows.

ST. MARK, ATTLEBORO FALLS Adult education program 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 21, church hall.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Class Mass for grade 5 II a.m.

Tuesday.

New parish council officers: Norm S.t. Laur.ent, president; Bob Jeffrey, vice preSident; Terry Nientimp, secretary.

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By Charlie Martin

Love Is the Seventh Wave In the empire of the senses You're the queen of all you survey All-the cities, all the nations Everything that falls your way T.here is a deeper world than this That you don't understand Tugging at your hand Every ripple on the ocean Every leaf on every tree Every sand dune in the desert Every power we never see There is a deeper wave than this Swelling in the world There is a deeper wave than this Listen to me, girl Feel it rising in the cities Feel it sweeping over land Over borders, over frontiers Nothing will its power withstand There is a deeper wave than this Rising in the world There is no deeper wave than this Listen to me, girl All the bloodshed, all the anger All the weapons, all the greed All the armies, all the missiles All the symbols of our fear There is a deeper wave than this All the stillpoint of destruction All the center of the fury All the angels, all the devils All around us can't you see There is a deeper wave than this Rising in the land There is a deeper wave than this Nothing will withstand I say love is the seventh wave.

Written and sung bfSting, (c) 1985 by A and M Records Inc.

THIS SONG suggests that there is more to the world than what we immediately see.

And what do we see? "All the bloodshed, all the anger, all the weapons, all the greed, all the missiles, all the symbols of our fear. " Those images remind us that the world has become a moral mess. Given the situation, what can we do?

Sting encourages us to visualize a wave oflove sweeping the earth.

Its source is the presence of life, of energy, found in "every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see."

For those who share the gift of faith, this love and energy is God. In_ the- p~st we have been guided by fear. Sting asks us to put aside fear and see each other in a new way - with God's love.

Using this approach, even countries could move away from their deadly agents of fear to embrace new ways of relating to each other. .

The song reminds us that there are choices to 'make. Can _we begin to listen to each other with compassion, concern and tolerance? Doing so does not mean always agreeihg with another's ideas, values or actions.

But the decision to really listen helps build mutual respect among people.

Have no doubt that your choice to resonate with the "seventh wave of love" will make a difference both to your personal life and to how the world evolves.

What will guide your choices in 1986 ~ fear or love?

Your comments are welcome.

Address Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherw09d Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714.

legitimate business to know something about those young people their children hang out with. They By are keenly aware oftheir responsibility to help sons and daughters TOM le~d a happy, productive life and to keep them out of trouble.

LENNON If your parents ask about your friends and if they want to know where you're going after the game, it's because they love you.

But it is often difficult for parents "I'm sitting here looking out the to achieve a happy balance between Q. Should parents be worried about our relationshipsw.ith others? window at Kent," she said. "He's excessive snooping and no concern shooting baskets with some of the about their children. Parents too (Maryland) , A. Before answering your ques- big guys who used 'to make life' are stilI growing and le~rning about tion, let's take a look into the heart miserable for him. I'm wondering what their relationships with their sons and daughters should be. , oCa parent, aAO-year-old mother what they'll do to~ay."

We talked about for awhile and of,three children. .

If at times your mom and dad :Kent, her oldest boy, got a'paper finally his mother said, with a do awkward things that iHitate route when he was, in seventh great sigh of relief, "Kent's making you, try to talk to them calmly grade. Bec'ause tie was skinny a~d one basket after another." about it. Remember, it's often Later she told me Kent outdid tough going for parents as they try wore glasses, some of the big guys gave him lots of trouble. They'd himself that afternoon and for the to guide you on the sometimes call him "fag" and periodically first time didn't feel like a wimp. rough road to maturity.

He had been accepted finally as an beat up on him.

Can youforgive them dew slips His mother and father did all equal. . and blunders? they could to teach him the ait of When I see his mother, I often Send questions to Tom Lennon,self-defense but he was still not a recall that day when her son achieved 1312 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washmatch for the big guys. a victory. Sometimes it isn't easy ington, D.C. 20005.

As time passed, Kent grew bigger being a mom or dad.

Wise parents who love their" and stronger. He wasn't quite as easy to bully, but now and then he children are concerned about 'all . phases of, their development, instill got outnumbered.

The Measure One afternoon last summer I cluding their relationships with called up his m'other about a parish others. At times they well may b e ' "The greatness of a man can " â&#x20AC;˘ nearly always be measured by his matter and'in the course of our deeply worried.

They won't keep a file on every willingness to be kind." - G. chat s'he toid me that atthe moment friend but they will make it their Young. her stomach was tied in knots.

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~focu/a on youth Coyle-Cassidy Students at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, have recently been involved in efforts to help the less fortunate.

C-C Warriors have fasted, prayed and collected funds for Oxfam America, which aids the world's hungry. Father Richard Roy, chaplain, conducted a prayer service in remembrance of the poor.

Donations were collected for Casa Alianza, a Guatemalan orphanage, and National Honor Society members collected toys for the Toys for Tots program. Underprivileged chiidren in Appalachia will benefit from the latter effort.

Students and faculty have also collected Clothing, toiletries and similar items for the Pine Street Inn, a Boston shelter for homeless men and women.

Bishop Stang Sophomores at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will explore careers available to them with the use of a computer.

Career choices will then be tied into solid academic selections in the coming year. The Stang guidance department will also meet with students in small groups over the next few months to answer career-oriented questions.

Taking sanctuary The Idea ot retuge came to be attached to the sanctuary of a God sends us people with prob- church in the Middle Ages when lems and we are sent to them. A there was a law against arrest in a listening ear, a kind word, perhaps' church. Thus one in trouble with some wise counsel can heal and the law could seek sanctuary, a energize. But an unkind word can concept used by members oftoday's send someone into darker recesses, sanctuary movement in sheltering and certainly this is not what the refug~es from Central Amerit:an Holy Spirit is all about. strife.

I like what Dag Hammarskjold It's the hidden pain in others we should look for: It is invisible, yet wrote in his diary during the rumnow and then reveal.s itsc;lf in a pus some years ago about the word or sigh. Those who go through "death of God": "God does not die life bottling up their sorrows have on .the day when we cease to a terrible time. One wishes to believe in a personal ~eity; but we infuse them with some of the joy of die on, the day when our lives cease Christ, to impress upon them that to be illuminated by the steady they are children of God and that radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the sOlirce ofwhich is beyond he is never far from them.

There is a sanctuary within us all reason~" And of sanctuary he had this to that is stronger than we realize. It is strong because it is a holy place, say: "The longest journey is the which is what the word ~riginally journeyinward; the road to holiness meant, although often we think necessarily pl,lsses through the world ', rather of a refuge or a hiding place. ' of action."

By Cecilia' Belanger

THE ANCHOR Friday, Jan. 17, 1986

By Bill Morrisse"e

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Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

Gen~ral. ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-I3-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under Th F 11 R' CYO 13; PG-parental guidance' suggested; e a Iver serves approx- R-restricted, unsuitable for children or imately 700 young men and women, younger teens. with emphasis on its basketball 'Catholic ratings: AI-approved fOI program, which offers two girls' children and adults; A2-approved for leagues with 13 teams representing . adults and adolescents; A3-approved for nine parishes, and six boys: leagues : adults only; A4-separate classification representing 15 parishes. (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis The Kennedy Youth Center in and explanation!; O-morally offensive.

New Bedford accommodates a great number of youths as do other area CYO centers.

In addition to basketball, other Please 'check dates and sports are available. Notable is the times of televi~ion and radio Fall River CYO's excellent boxing programs against' local list· program. ings, which may differ from In future columns I hope to present more information about the New York network schedCYO in other diocesan population ules supplied to The Anchor. centers.

portsWQtch Is there nothing to do?

"There's nothing for the kids to do, so what can you expect?"

How many times have we heard this lame excuse from youths who run afoul of the law?

There are plenty of activities in which youth, particularly teenagers, can become involved.

Inasmuch as this is a sports column, let's look at the many sports programs' aimed at boys and girls.

The Fall River Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) and similar groups in New Bedford, Taunton, the Attleboros and on Cape Cod provide many programs for young people.

Father Donovan Game A highlight of the sports'sea- be held Thursday, April 3, at the' son is the Father Donovan' CYO Driscoll Rink, Fall River.' , Scholarship' All-Star Hockey The game pits a team of Bristol Game, for which preparations are County CYO players against one already underway. of senior high school students.

Anthony Abraham, chairman It benefits'the CYO Scholarship of the CYO Scholarship Fund Fund, which has provided aid totalsince its 1960 inception, has an- , ing $38,000 to high school seniors nounced that this year's game will over the past 26 years: 0

CYO Hockey Results last Sunday: Fall River ford: Bruce Barboza, Bob ReySouth 7, Fall River North 2; New nolds, Duncan McDonald, Mark ~ouza. Somers~:,Chris Riley.

Bedford 6, Somerset I. -~OOl'lirngS: 'South' (1-0':1 't won, ' Goal Scorers: '1Hn:,Jhnlr'ffi!t= bert l rada, Ray Kitchen, lost, tied), New Bedford 7-5-1, Mansfield, 7-3-0, North 3-9-0, Som~ d Jabusch. North: Bob Pendrake, Kevin Robinson. New Bed- erset 1-10-1.

that makes credible Carrie's determination in overcoming all the obstacles on her journey home.

Directed by John Masterson, this past era is lovingly depicted, with careful attention to period detail. One of the pleasures of the film is its sense of nostalgia for a less sophisticated world in which manners counted for more than money.

Because younger childen might be upset by some of the problems that face Carrie, this film is rated A2, PG.

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Films on TV Saturday, Jan. 18,' 9-11 p.m.

EST (CBS) - "Twilight Zone The Movie" (1983) - This film is made up of five separate episodes with only the last one - an airline passenger spots an odd-looking creature sitting on the wing - rising above mediocrity. Some fright"The Trip to Bountiful" (Island ening effects in this and three of.

Pictures) _ is the story of an old the other episodes rule out younger woman who yearns for home and children. A2, PG. Thursday, Jan. 23, 8.10' p.m. finds it not in a place but in herself.

Set in, Texas of the 1940s, the' EST (ABC) - "Grease II" (1982) film depicts Carrie, an elderly - An English youth' (Maxwell widow who has lived most of her Caulfield) enrolls at Rydell High life on a farm, who now must share School and learns to ride a motora two-room city apartment, with cycle, to impress his girlfriend , her son and his shrewish wife. The (Michelle Pfeiffer). Set in the 1960s, women are constantly at odds with the story'is bland but the movie's th.e son tending to side with his moral vacuum, emphasis on conWIfe. formity and sexual innuendos make It .i~ easy.t0 sympathize with it unsuitable for younger. vi/Uwl:rs.

Carne s wantmg to return to B(lJun- • h".J; '1~. . . tiful, the small farming com1munSunday, Jan. 26, 8-11 p.m. EST, i!y which she left 2Q'Y'.;u-r~ J6efore and where are 'buried two of her (ABC) - "The Concorde: Airport children, her husband and her fath- ' '79"(1979) - Another in the series er. Since then, however, its land of airport movies with the usual played and its farmsteads aban- multitude of disasters and film doned, Bou,ntiful has ceased to stars who can do nothing with the exist except in memory. script's ineptness. Offensive lanTaking the bus to the town guage in the theatrical version and nearest her old home, Carrie is illicit love affairs. 0, PG. befriended by a young woman Religious TV going to stay with her parents while her Qusband does his milSunday, Jan. 19 (CBS) "For itaryserviceoverseas. During the course Our Times" - Cardinal John Krol, of the journey, a relationship close archbishop of Philadelphia and to that of mother-daughter devel- copresident of the extraordinary. ops between the two as Carrie Synod of Bishops, is among guests talks of her problems. reporting on the church since VatArriving at her destination in ican II. the middle of the night, Carrie is Religious Radio detained by the local sheriff, who Sunday, Jan. 19 (NBC) "Guidehas been alerted to hold her until line" - Archbishop Denis Hurley the son arrives by car. Early in th'e of Durban, South Africa, is intermorning, the sheriff relents arid ' viewed, about church work in drives her to the now deserted site Africa. of Bountiful to see what remains ofthe old homestead. Havingaccomplished her goal and refreshed in spirit, she is prepared to return to the small city apartment and its ·aggravations. ' LOS ANGELES (NC)':":' ArchThe piot, however, is of less, bishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeimportance'than the richly por- les has named a laymart financial trayed character of the indorhita- . officer of the nation's larges't archble old woman and her small rebel- dio'cese.' Jose A. Debasa, former lion against the demeaning way in financial vice president of the Uniwhich she is treated by her daughter-' versity of Santa Clara, will'replace in-law.' Central to the success of the late Msgr. Benjamin Haw.kes;'

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TWINS Irma and 'lIma Blome, residents at Marian Catholie Home, Milwaukee,listen'as;friends and relatives serenade them with "Happy Birthday to You'."

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the entire enterprise is the extraordinary' performance of 'Geraldine Page, who makes Carrie excrutiat~ ingly real. , ' . .

Ms. Page knows how to play.on our sympathies without 'ever having to ask for them. While conveying the waning physical strength of this older woman who is sometimes confused and given to "sinking spells," Ms. Page projects the inner strength of character, hardened by years of working the land and making do during lean times,

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