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Salvador aid is (leplored WASHINGTON (NC) - Re. sumption of military aid to El Salvador has prompted quick and strong denunciations from church groups which have long fought to have the aid permanently cut off.

The aid, in the form of mili路 tarly training and "non-lethal" military equipment, was resumed in the face of what the State Department called a major military offensive by leftist guerrillas attempting to overthrow the government of Jose Napoleon Duarte.

The aid had been temporarily suspended following the murders in early December of four American Catholic women missionaries, three of them nuns.

Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, president of the U.S. Catholic Conference, expressed "profound disappointment and disagreement" with the decision, made less than a week before the Carter administration left office.

Church and human rights groups in El Salvado.r had accused the government security forces of being involved in the early December murders as well as other killings. The State Department said investigatiom; into the murders are continuing.

Archbishop Roach also called provision of military aid a "costly gamble" because of the possibility that it might lead to more direct U.S. involveme:llt in El Salvador's civil war.

Archbishop James A. HLckey of Washington and B:ishop Thomas -Kelly; usce general secretary, had met with Secretary of State Edmund Muskie De,c. 17 and with President Carter Dec. 22 pressing their case that aid not be resumed.

BISHOP CRONIN DISTRIBUTES COMMUNION AT MASS FOR HOSTAGES

'Setting all the captives free' "Peace is f'owing like a river Flowing out from you and me, Flowing out into the desert, Setting all the captives free."

ing the morning and many made the effort to be there," said Msgr. John J. Oliveira, episcopal secretary and vicechancellor.

In his homily Bishop Cronin noted that it is a natural desire to meet for a. Eucharist of thanksgiving at times of The yearning of the nation for the freedom of the special rejoicing. He expressed his delight that negotiations American hostages in Iran found expression Monday at a between the U.S. and Iran had been carried out in a statesnoon Mass spontaneously arranged at St. Mary's Cathedral manlike manner. as the hours of waiting drew down.

"Peace is the fruit of justice and we must all work for The liturgy offered by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin inpeace," he said, also requesting prayers for former Presicluded the singing of patriotic hymns. It was attended by dent Carter and newly installed President Reagan as they students from nearby St. Anne's School and Dominican enter upon their new lives.

Academy as well as by many more persons than are usually present for the cathedral's regular noon Mass.

In a special word to the children present, the bishop "Word of the special service got around the city dur:rurn to Page Six

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The decision also was criticized by Network, a Catholic social justice lobby in Washington, which four days earlier had issued a statement signed by representatives of. 34 Catholic peace and justice offices l.:lrging Carter and Muskie not to resume the aid.

The "non-lethal" equipment, such as the loan of two transport helicopters and the provision of communications material, is intended by U.S. officials to shore up the security forces without contributing to the country's internal Violence, which church sources say took some 10,000 lives in 1980.

TODAY IS THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUPREME COURT ABORTION DECISiON

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-lhur., Jan. 22, 1981

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (NC) - Catholic civil activist Bernadette Devlin McAlisky was reportedly in at semi-conscious state Jan. 19 after being shot seven times in an assassination attempt.

Mrs. McAlisky's husband, Michael, was shot three times in the assassination attempt. Both were listed in serious condition.

The attempt occurred Jan. 16 at the McAHsky home about 40 miles west of Belfast. Police said three suspected members of a Protestant guerri1la organization were arrested after the shooting and were being interrogated.

UNITED NATIONS (1'IIC) - The United Nations has announced that during his visit to Hiroshima, Japan, on Feb. 25, Pope John Paul II will give a lecture in the city hall on "technology, society and peace."

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MANILA, Philippines (NC) - ·Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos ended eight years of martial law Jan. 1'7, about a month before the arrival of Pope John Paul II. The Philippines had been under martial law since September 1972.

The United Democratic: Opposition said the move is part of Marcos' effort to improve the international image of the Philippines. ·l'iis government ..has received much human rights criticism for its martial law rule. Among the critics have been the Carter administration a.nd local Catholic Church officials.

VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Pope John Paul II has urged the international community to seek an end to the Iran-Iraq war. During an address to diplomats he also said that only justice coupled with love can solve the long-standing Middle East conflict and civil strife in many other parts of the world.

LOS ANGELES (NC) -- .Preaching Catholic social doctrine in Latin America can lead quickly to the preacher's being branded a Marxist, said Bishop Michael Murphy of Cork and Ross, Ireland, who was a missionary in Latin America.

LONDON (NC) - Opl.:S 'Dei, ,a Catholic organization approved by the Vatican, was strongly critioized in an article appearing in The Times of London. The article, quoting critics of Opus Dei, said it is a secret society which wants to be independent of local bishops and ·national hierarchies. English Opus Dei members disputed the article.

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CHICAGO (NC) - A $2 million lawsuit charging the Chicago Archdiocese with infringement of liturgical music copyrights has been dismissed by U.S. District Judge George N. Leighton, who said F:E.L. Publications extended its copyright privileges beyond federal laws.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) '- There were 632 priests ordained in Poland last year, Vatican Radio reported, an ·increase of 43 over the previous year's total.

SALMON ARM, British Columbia (NC) - Members of a local parish are paying $450 monthly to get an award-winning pro-life public service announcement aired by station CHBC-TV, an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) which refused to run the spot on its national programming in 1980.

LO!'JDON (NC) - Although ecumenical relations have been strengthened, shared Eucharist between Methodists and Catholics is not possible yet, said Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, in a letter to the 'Rev. Kenneth Greet, President of the Methodist Conference.

LOS ANGELES (NC) - Auxiliary Bishop Juan Arzube of Los A:ngeles, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Church in Latin America Committee, has called on President Reagan to speak out in defense of human rights.

CHICAGO (NC) - Illinois bishops accused Gov. James R. Thompson of "duplic·ity" and "discrimination" following his veto of the "fair bus bill" passed by the state legislature. The measure would have provided for bus transporation for non-public school children under certain conditions.

UTHUANIAN CHILDREN form procession to attend Mass. ,Underground sources say open participation in religious services is increasing, despite government harassment of believers.

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CLEVELAND (NC) - I:n services marking his installation as ninth bishop of Cleveland, Bishop Anthony 'Pilla appealed for the uprooting of attitudes that let social injustice continue and for increased discussions and collaboration among members of differing faith traditions.

March for Life is today The eighth annual Ma:rch for Life is being held today in Washington and among the hundreds of New Englanders expe,c:ted to participate will be Hillard Nagle of St. Joseph parish, Fall, River, who has for several years defied the frequently bittl!r January weather to make the trip to the nation's capital.

On the home ftQnt a pro-life Mass will be celebrated lit 7 tonight in K of C Hall on Hodges Street in Attleboro. Sp1rlnsored

by St. John's K of C Council No. 404 and Alcazaba Circle No. 65 of the Daughters of Isabella, the liturgy will be open to the public with families especially urged to participate.

Many members of the diocese participated in an Assembly for Life held Sunday at Boston's Faneuil Hall under the sponsor- , ship of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

Outside the hall both pro and anti-abortionists picketed and carried signs in support of their stands. The pro-abortion forces were led by Bill Baird, operator of abortion clinics in Hempstead, N.Y. and Boston and a frequent target for pro-life protesters.

In other parts of NE~w England, Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence will lead some 250 Rhode Islanders in' March for Life and congressional lobbying activities.

About 400 Connecticut prolifers left the state this morning for Washington. They and all other marchers will join in presenting dozens of r,ed roses to members of Congress as a reminder of the sacredness of life.

New, delegate is 'at home:' WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop Pio Laghi, the new apostolic delegate in thE: United States, said on his ar:rival last Sunday, "I really feel at home here."

The 58-year-old archbishop, who was secretary at the apostolic delegation in W.ashington from 1954 to 1961, addE!d, "being at home, I have to say I love the United States."

Archbishop Laghi said enroute from Rome his plane's commander had notified the passenge~ of the agreement between the United States and Iran concerning the hostages. He sa:id he considered' the news release "a good sign" for the beginning of his work in this country.

In a brief ceremony in the TWA lounge at Washil:lgton National Airport, Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, officially welcomed Archbishop Laghi, apostolic nuncio to Argentina for the past six years.

Alluding to Archbishop Laghi's service as a priest 20 years ago at the apostolic delegation in Washington, Archbishop Roach said: "The church in the United States is delighted that you are back with us

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Guatemala jungle goal of Somerset lay. missioner

By Pat McGowan wth NC News reports

Blue eyes wide open, Sheila Matthews,' 34, of St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, is walking into the tense Central American political situation that last month claimed the lives of four American wom~n missioners in EI Salvador.

One of them, Jean Donovan, Miss Matthews met only days before she was murdered.

"I've thought about it a lot, but I'm not scared to death," said the qiet-spoken Somerset nurse. "If I were, I wouldn't go."

She is a member of the Maryknoll Lay Missionary Program, which trains qualified lay persons to work with Maryknoll priests, brothers and sisters in over two dozen countries. After an intensive course in Spanish in Cochabamba, Bolivia, she will join a catechetical, health and literacy team in Peten, a jungle area of Guatemala. a country sUffering unrest very similar to that of EI Salvador.

The situation in the two countries was described last week in a National Catholic News Service dispatch, It summarized a report from a mission sent to Central America by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization.

In EI Salvador and Guatemala, said Philip Berryman,' a member of the mission and the Friends' representative for Central America, "the military are out to eliminate the opposition."

The report cited evidence of repression against civilians, including church people, tolerated by security forces. It mentioned the withdrawal in July of priests, nuns and the bishop from Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, because of threats against their lives.

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of laymen. In another district villagers destroy their catechism diplomas, fear to gather for evening prayers, hide their Bible, because all these things are considered subversive," the report said. "Persons who show leadership are being threatened or exiled. Greater numbers are simply kidnapped, tortured, mutilated and killed, including Catholic and Protestant church workers, lawyers, students, professIOrs, journalists, workers and peasants."

Most victims are workers and peasants, "a community accepting death with the simplicity of Christ," a priest was quoted in the report as saying.

"Yet the U.S. official position is to support the armed forces as an institution, as the only alternative to the left," Berry'man said.

The reasons could be found in U.S. support for the security forces in these countries, said John A. Sullivan, who travelled with the Friends' mission.

"Officers interviewed felt it was important to have allies in the face of terrorism and insurgency, Soviet and Cuban infiltration, and for the United States to regain world leadership and pres!,!nce," said Sullivan.

"There is need for President Reagan to make a statement reaffirming his support for human rights," added Sullivan.

But regardless of what Washington might do, "the deeply rooted' people's movements for liberation will continue," he declared.

"The simple, unassuming and heroic commitment of so many church and lay people to work for literacy, education, community organization and freedom from oppression humbled us," he added.

That commitment is shared by Miss Matthews, who will coordinate a rural health program. , She is an experienced nurse who after her 1968 graduation from Stonehill College, North Easton, went on to nursing school and worked at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Morton Hospital, Taunton, and as a public health nurse in Vermont. Part of her time in Vermont was spent in the VISTA program.

Then her thoughts turned to overseas service. "I wanted something with a faith commitment," she Sa,id. Through magazine articles and contact with a Maryknoll priest, she learned of the Maryknoll program.

She spoke frankly of the risks she faces, noting that family members, including an older sister and her parents, Mr. and'Mrs. Joseph Matthews, have been ,very supportive of her decision.

She credited a large part of her tranquil attitude to a fourmonth training program she has just completed at the Maryknoll motherhouse in New York state.

She was there in December when word came of the disappearance, then the death of the Salvadoran missioners.

Only weeks before, Jean Donovan, also a lay volunteer, had joined Miss Matthews' group for a few days.

"She was home on leave and she knew how bad things were getting in EI Salvador. She wanted to take some time to think about whether she should return. But she was deeply committed and felt she was needed at the refugee center where she was working," said, Miss Matthews.

Miss Donovan returned. The night Maryknoll 'heard that she and her companions were missing, a sister who was also a veteran of the Salvadoran missions led a spontaneous midnight prayer service.

"She said we shouldn't pray for extra privileges for our people," said Miss Matthews, "but that they would have strength to bear whatever was happening to them. She said 'Salvadorans go through such tragedies daily, with hardly a family that does not have members missing or dead."

Miss, Matthews said she was glad to' have been at Maryknoll when news of the murders broke. "The love and concern shown by everyone was incredible. It made me feel that if anything happened to you, the support that would be rallied around you would be just unbelievable."

The ne~ missioner. left Som' erset last Friday. After five months in Bolivia, she will embark on her Guatemalan assignment. She expects to remain in Peten for three years, after which she will decide if she wishes to renew her commitment to the Maryknoll program.

Correction In last week's Anchor the names of persons in the top picture on page 2 were transposed.

The correct order is Joseph Camara and Elizabeth Camara; Thomas Chickalowski and Susan Gluchacki; Robert Gagnon and Mary Lou Gagnon.

THE ANCHOR Thurs., Jan. '22, 1981

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Bishops protest MEXICO CITY ·(NC) - Mexi·' co's bishops have protested against a surprise visit of suspended Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to their country, where he illicitly celebrated TridentineRite Masses and confirmed children.

The former superior of the Holy Ghost Fathers was suspended in 1976 by Pope Paul VI for his rejection of Vatican Council II positions on the liturgy and religious freedom. He has continued to preach his views and celebrate Mass according to the Tridentine 'Rite rather than the new Mass based on conciliar reforms.

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A Decade for Education Much has and will be said about the revival of parochial and private education. What is happening at present is a waiting game for"fulfillment of the new president's campaign promises with regard to private and parochial education. The tension that is· arising out of his education proposals is somehow forcing an unfortunate wedge between public and private education.

In the attempt to cut expenses and reduce taxes, a long hard look will be taken at the rather liberal spending practices of previous Democratic administrations and giveaway programs. Federal funds, mandated busing, bilingual education and federal regulation of education will all become targets for this new administration if campaign rhetoric is to become reality.

Given the recent lava flow of funds into public education with 'the corresponding decrease in the competence and testing level of students, there can be little doubt that American education is in for some rough days. Tie this together with the taxpayers' revolt and idiotic inflation and you can indeed come up with a very bleak picture for public schools.

But in the area of private and parochial education the reverse seems to be happening. Seemingly bright days are ahead for this area of our educational 'heritage. Among the chief anticipated boons to private education is the Reagan promise to give tax breaks to parents who, for obvious reasons, send their children to non-public schools and colleges.

This plan, supported by an ever-growing segment of the population, will indeed be sternly opposed by supporters of public education, causing an ever greater disparity between the two forms of pedagogy.

The diminished support that public education will receive from the federal establishment will also be seen as a support to private and parochial schools. The f.act that the Reagan policy supports local control of public education strikes fear into the hearts of many who see this as a regressive attitude on the part of the federal government.

Such action .will of course weaken public education which daily encounters more problems and fewer solutions.

What is to be guarded against in this period of change is any attempt to create an educational elite in the private area at the expense of the public sector. This would be deplorable. .

At the same time, the constitutional right of parents to choose between private or public education for their children, free of federal or judicial trammels, must be upheld.

For too long have the lobbyists of such organizations as the' American Civil Liberties Union attempted to curtail the educational choices inherent in a truly free democratic society.

For too long has parochial education been curtailed and confined by the exaggerated and hysterical activities of those who misuse constitutional arguments out of a narrow and even prejudicial sense of justice.

It would be well in the midst of the present tension between the various elements of public, private and parochial education not to forget the child. So often in the muddle of legalities and causes the pupil becomes the victim and not the heart of educational procedures.

With increased public attention to our schools, perhaps all involved in their administration will realize that restoration of ~ value-oriented education process would be the best gift we could o(fer our youth, the lea'ders-to-be of the coming new century.

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'From my mother's womb thou art my protector.' Ps. 70:6 LARIS CALLEJA HOLDS HER PREMATURE BABY BELIEVED THE FIRST EVER BORN TO A MOTHER PARALYZED FROM BOTULISM DURING EARLY PREGNANCY

Families" best friends

By Stephenie Ovennan WASHINGTON (NC "Churches and synagogues are the best friends families have," White House Conference on Families chairman Jim Guy Tucker told representatives of the U.S. religious community earlier this month.

At a briefing for religious leaders, Tucker ouJined· the history of the famLy conference and praised the religious community for its "ongoing commitment that will exist long after the White House Conference on Families is over."

The conference, begun by President Carter in 1979, ends .in March. After Carter received the conference list of recommendations in October, 1980, people began trying to put them into· effect.

Briefings have been held with business, labor and national organization leaders to inform them of conference resolutions and encourage them to help carry them out.

Conference recommendations include family-oriented personnel policies, efforts to prevent alcohol and drug abuse, changes in the· tax code to eliminate taxes which could discriminate

against married people and tax policies to help aging and handicapped people. The conference also called for a systematic an· alysis of aU laws, regulations and rules for their impact on families.

Tucker said at the January briefing, "the biggest danger for the White House conference is that it could be just a passing fad. You religious leaders can see that does not happen."

At the regEonal and three national level hearings, Tucker said the commitment of churches to family life came across over and over: "The churches in this country have been on the front lines of family -issues for generations."

Tucker and members of a panel on ministries to families described programs and plans various churches have set in motion to help meet family needs.

Father Donald Conroy, former U.S. Catholic Conference family life direct<?r and now head of the National Institute for the Family, told the other religious leaders that the Catholic Church had designated 1980 as the Year of the Family and the ·1980s as the Decade of the Family.

The plan, which was first sug-

gested at the bicentennial Call to Action, was approved in 1978 and prepared in 1979.

Father Conroy said Catholics had been calling for an action plan - "We had the documents but what about getting down to where the rubber hits the road?"

The bishops' plans "stresses the vision of total family ministry - the total life cycle," he said, .adding that family life programs are directed at "getting the lay leadership to do family to family kinds of things."

Father Conroy called on the churches to "examine our own consciences" to see what kinds of things they might be doing to keep families apart. rather than bring them together. .

As an ,example he recommend, ed a family night program, used by some Catholic dioceses and other religious communities. One night a week churches do not schedule any meetings, reserving the time for family gatherings at home.

Representatives of the United Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Jewish religion also discussed family ministry work in their communities.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Jan. 22, 1981

Whose problem?

Last year I met a skinny futile, effective only in alIeviatwoman who apologized for ing her guilt if he dies of some -cause aggravated by weight. rushing because she had to We mothers often begin this get to her weight watching dependency by taking our chilclass. Seeing my surpris,e, she explained, "Oh, it's not for me but my husband. His doctol~ says he has to lose weight but he won't go to a class or do anything about it. So I go in for him."

She then explained how she kept a tally of his weekly weighins, dutifully repeated the lectures back to him at home, and got recipes and motivation for making him slim.

She smiled lamely, "It takes a lot of time but I have to do it if I want him around for awhile."

WelI, I suppose she's right.

The question is why. Who needs a lifetime child as a, spouse?

Somewhere along the decades, people have to become 'responsible for their own healthy habits or they become geriatric children carrying briefcases. , I resent doctors and commercials who turn a man's physical well-being over to his wife because it isn't doing that man any favors (or woman, as the shape may be). Until people learn to own their own physical conditions, they will not be responsible for them. That woman can go to weight class until she's a shadow but until he:r husband assumes responsibility for his own girth, her efforts will be

dren's illnesses upon ourselves.

It's such a natural thing to do.

Being necessarily responsible for high fevers in their infancy, we reinforce it by still assuming responsibility in their adolescence.

Making sure they get sleep, dress warmly and eat properly become our responsibility even when they're seventeen.

Several years ago, as a mother of an alIergic adolescent, I was told, "She's going to have to learn to handle this herself."

At that point, we turned it over to her - the responsibility for scheduling injections, watching her diet: and avoiding certain environments. When she went 'away to college last falI, that was one worry-free area for us.

We knew she could handle her own health.

But I had to be instructed to force her to own her own health.

It went against every maternal instinct. I was her mother, after all - ergo, responsible for her health and well-being. Not so, medical practitioners tell us.

Just the opposite. The sooner children take on responsibility for their own health, the better they are able to handle the emotional fallout from their conditions.

When a 10-year-old is diag-

Solem:n vs.

-If Charles Lamb were alive and writing for The New York Times, he would be Russell Baker - who by the way is certifiably alive, and writing very well indeed for The New York Times. Baker has a new book out called "So This Is Depravity" (Congdon & Lattes), and just about my favorite piece in it is the one titled 'Why Being Serious Is Hard.' Baker points out that whenever people advise you to be serious , they really mean for you to be solemn. Being solemn is easy, Baker says, but being serious is hard.

Anyway, it all comes down to playing the game caUed Solemn vs. Serious. By way (If example, Baker suggests that jogging is solemn and poker is serious.

Chicago is serious, but California is solemn. And in one of his very best entries, Ilaker says that falling in love; getting married, and having children are serious, but that the "new sexual freedom is solemn." S. J. Perelman is serious, he adds, but Norman Mailer is solemn. 'So, "Once you can gras:;> that distinction, you are on your way to enlightenment." I thought it might be interesting to play the game in a setting that reveals some of our Roman Catholic attitudes. So here goes.

Henry Morton Rob:nson as the author of The Cardinal is solemn; Flannery O'Connor, in anything she writes, is serious what's more, she i.5 comically

By DOLORES CURRAN

nosed a diabetic today, he is sent to the hospital alone for two days, not for therapy but education. He learns about insulin, diet, and predictable patterns of the condition. He learns how to administer injections to himself, how to respond when friends push forbidden foods, and what to tell grownups when they ask. He is handed the task of educating his parents, not the reverse.

Most of all, he is taught to accept his condition as a natural part of his life. He may always have it so he must learn to control it. Otherwise, it will control and direct his life, a reality we see in many grownups whose preoccupation with a physical disability renders them more emotionalIy than physicalIy handicapped.

If we don't allow our children to own and control their own health problems, we had better pray that they find a spouse who Will, because I don't know many young women today who are going to serve as surrogate husbands in the weight watching classes of tomorrow.

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serious. Cardinal Ottavani was very solemn. St. Francis of Assisi was simply serious, but never seriously simple. To be seriously simple is to lose the gift of humility itself, which is always a gift that we don't know we have in the first place.

In fact, it is impossible to 'possess' humility. An occasional saint, however, may be a little solemn around the edges. If the great Jerome of biblical fame hadn't a scathing' though endearingly human temper, he would have been merely solemn.

His irascibility redeemed him as someone to be taken seriously.

Wrong-headedness and rightheadedness are distinctly related to solemn versus serious, but in a frequently tricky way. A solemn person is more often wrongheaded, I think, than a serious one; but the parts can also be confusingly interchangeable. Republican presidents' are more likely to be solemn but rigidly right-headed, whereas most Democratic presidents are likely to be serious but a sad wrongheaded. Eisenhower was solemn; Harry Truman was serious..

Daniel Berrigan is dreadfully solemn; Henri Nouwen is perceptively serious. The Jesuits and the Dominicans are solemn; the Cistercians and the Franciscans are serious. Despite the nicely serious connotation of its name, the Quixote Center in Washington, D.C. is fanatically solemn, while Phyllis Schlafly is deadly serious. The Wanderer and National Catholic Reporter,

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oddly enough, are relentlessly solemn, just as oddly, however, Commonweal and The American Spectator are mutually serious.

Cardinal Spellman was solemn; Dorothy Day was serious. Ammon Hennacy, on the other hand, was solemn: but Peter Maurin was serious. Woodward and Bernstein are solemn; William F. Buckley, Jr., is serious.

Evelyn Waugh was serious; Graham Greene is solemn, except in his 'entertainments' or spy novels, whe~e he is serious.

Theologians are better left out of this game. They are too confusing. Hans Kung is solemn, but he can also be serious. Edward SchiIlebeeckx is serious, but his two large volumes on Christology are almost overwhelmingly solemn. Raymond Brown tends to be solemn and worries about things that oughtn't to bother the serious Christian mind at all. Bruce Vawter is sanely serious. Richard McBrien has a serious sense of style, but belabors a very solemn point of view. Andrew Greeley has become so serious about everything that he has gone implacably solemn as well.

A hard case. I'm very serious about all this.

Good car • IS hard to ·find Myoid Maverick flunked -inspection. The inspector looked at it with the contempt it deserved, muttered something about "linkage in the steering gear" and plastered a red "temporary" sticker, good for 20 days, on the windshield.

Would I go around to Sonny and tell him to fix it in time for a re-inspection, cry over the biIl and vow never to return? (Our relationship has always been stormy, as is bound to be the case between members of the opposite sex, or even of the same, when one understands what a Pittman rod is and the other doesn't.) Or would I take the step of buying a new car?

I know people who make friends or pets of their cars. One named her sedan "Blue Boy." I sit next to a man who called his Datsun "Mildred" after the wife of a congressman, who was also asputterer. I had no name for the Maverick. I did not talk to it. I did not mind the surprised, slighting glances from people who had asked for rides as they approached its battered sides, its ripped door molding, its grubby interior and sagging front seat.

I have been, in a way, grateful that my work never required me to be in contact with a "Deep Throat." I have never won an argument with a piIlar in an underground parking garage. I am afraid my confidences from a nervous. Watergate source might have ended with his or her flight amid the crashing and banging of metal against cement.

Although I hoped that the Maverick and I might head for the graveyard at the same time, I certainly never thought of being buried in it, as one severely addicted owner of a Ferrari stipulated in her will.

Even if I had it in mind, the Maverick blew its tomb-potential by conking out unseasonalIy, thus confronting me with the necessity to buy its successor.

The only thing I knew was I had to buy a Ford. I had made a promise to the members of the Wixon UAW workers on the eve of the Republican convention in Detroit. I sat with them in the gloaming amid their circled trailers and cursed the Japanese and Americans who would not buy American.

Everyone was very kind. Our :saintly automobile editor, Charles Ewing, said he thought the Fairmont, although larger, would serve. He put me in touch with Sue Galvin, local Ford representative, and she and I found ourselves on the icy windswept plain of Northeast Motors in the company of a salesperson named Brenda Brownlee, whom I told

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I really wasn't fussy. I thought the Escort would do.

I tried the Escort. It had a snub nose. Why didn't they make Mavericks any more, I whined. Suddenly, I became a car nut. I wanted chrome, I wanted a sun-roof, stereo, caramel-colored interior.

I advanced crazily up the scale. I wanted the ends rounded, I wanted the windows vented, the seats to recline. Why not an LTD, or better a Futura?

Sue was turning blue and I, who wanted nothing but a faithful pony, was aiming at the thoroughbreds. I tried a Mustang, with white-wall tires. I ordered one in bittersweet - "don't call it orange," Brenda cautioned.

I signed something - it turned out later I had taken the original and the carbon home with me. Brenda sent me home in a substitute Mustang. It wasn't like the Maverick. The shift was on the floor.

I took it back on Monday.

Brenda and I ended up in an impasse in a fawn-colored Granada. Did it come in bittersweet?

Brenda introduced a long silence; "This is a nice color," she said with a new firmness. It. seems that people who order bittersweet Mustangs and change their minds are not humored again.

Somehow we settled on a spruce-green Fairmont. I'm not sure what it has or hasn't. I assume it will pass inspection. At one point, Sue gave me a book written by the Ford sisters about learning to love the car in your life. I left it somewhere, possibly on the seat of the bittersweet Futura, or possibly it was a pewter Granada. I'm not going looking for it.

(necroloCiYJ January 24 Rev. Edward H. Finnegan, S.J., 1951, Boston College Faculty Rev. Thomas F. McMorrow, 1977, Assistant, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville January 27 Rev. John T. O'Grady, 1919, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, Fall River Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, 1955, Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River January 28 Rev. Joseph M. Griffin, 1947, Pastor, St. Mary, Nantucket Rt. Rev. John J. Shay, 1961, Pastor, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro January 29 Rev. Christiano J. Borges, 1944, Pastor, St. John Baptist, New Bedford Rev. Albert J. Masse, 1950, Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro

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NEW YORK '(NC) - A memorial Mass for Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, will be celebrated at St. Patrick Cathedral in New York Jan. 26 at 6:15 p.!".

Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York will be the main concelebrant and preach the homily.

Msgr. George Higgins, Labor activist and former secretary for special concerns at the U.S. Catholic Conference, will deliver a tribute.

Miss Day, who founded the movement dedicated to the practice of the works of mercy, died Nov. 29. Her funeral Mass was celebrated at a small church in New York which could not accommodate all those wishing to attend.

. ROME (NC) - A limited edition biography of Pope John XXIII was published recently in the Soviet Union, the Italian Catholic newspaper, .Avvenire, has reported.

The book was 'written by Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Nikodim, a strong proponent of ecumenism who died in the arms of Pope Jonn Paul I on Sept. 5, 1979, during an audience at the Vatican.

Avvenire said only a limited number of copies of the biography were printed for the church community in the Soviet Union.

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THE SINGING FRIARS from St. Hyacinth Seminary, Granby, will be heard at 2 p.m. ;unday, Feb. 1 at Holy Name parish center, New Bedford, in a concert of contemporary and religious music.

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This is the last in a series of articles prepared by members of the Fall River diocese to explain the histOl'Y, purposes and procedures of the Cursillo.

Without the three-day experience of the Cursillo weekend, the 222-0234 Cursillo movement as we know it would not exist. And yet the weekend is not an end in itself, but a beginning.'

With it begins thereat mission Funeral Ro.ne of the Cursillo movement, which 550 Locust Street is to restore Christian values to Fall River. Mass. the world. The three-day experience, then, challenges Cursillis672-2391 tas to live out the gospel messRose E. Sullivan age in their Fourth Day, that is, William J. Sullivan for the rest of their lives.

Margaret M. Sullivan The Cursillo founders realized that Cursillistas returning to their homes and communities after the weekend would need HALLETT continued support in their Fourth Day. To sustain and inspire Funeral Home Inc. these new apostles in building 283 Station Avenue Christianity into their lives, South Yarmouth, Mass. homes, and communities, the . tools of Group Reunion and Ultreya were developed.

Tel. 398-2285 A group reunion is a mailman, a doctor, and a social worker coming together every ~ Monday evening to share their lives in Christ for an hour or two; it is four busy homemakers gathered in Christ's name around the kitchen table every Leica • Nikon - Bqlex -Hasselblad Ampex • Sony' "•. Panasonlc Wednesday afternoon when the children are asleep.

267 MAIN STREET FALMOUTH - 548-1918 In short, it involves Cursillistas from every walk of life who, ARMAND ORTlNS, Prop. having discovered the joy of liv~ ing a life in union with _God, meet weekly in small groups, as did the apostles, to share and t Africa: If you buy palm crosses made In you help people whose Income discover more about the Chrisis $5~.00 per year to buy the bare tI and necessities of life and to fill health tian life through one another. educational needs. All work done They meet because they know It. In this country is volunteered. Orders r are acknowledged and must be reo that where two or three are I celved by March 31 to assure de· livery by Palm Sunday. Rates based gathered, Christ will be present t mUltiples on $6.00 per 100; $3.00 per 50 In in a special way. of 50 only. Only Individual. sized palm crosses are available.

The group reunion is a place Inquirie. InVited. InclUde your street addren for United Parcel Service of prayer and of spiritual Dellvefl. growth; it is a source of support AFRI~AN PALMS, P.O. Box 575 ~ and encouragement,' especially • OLNEY, MARYLAND 20832 4 when one is discouraged about

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The group reunion is also a source of accountability, where one can become aware' of the ways in which he is really trying to bring -Christ into his own life and. into the :.ives of those around him. It is through the group reupion that; the Cursillo experience becomes more than just a weekend or a pleasant memory, but rather a means to live a Christian life more fully, and to help others to do the same.

A wider dimension is provided by the second tool of the Fourth Day - the ultreya. Literally a Spanish exhortation meaning "go forward," the ultreya is often referred to as the reunion of many group reunions. It is an opportunity for Cursillistas to meet in a larger community to share and renew their common ideals.

At present there· are 20 active ultreya communities in the Fall River diocese, meeting monthly or bimonthly and extending ·from the Rhode Island border to Harwich on Cape Cod. The format of an ultreya gen-

erally includes a witness talk, small group sharing, and a liturgy or para-liturgy.

The witness talk is most often given by a Cursillista who simply shares how he or she is trying to bring Christ to his or her home, office, or community. The purpose of the talk is to encourage and inspire others to do likewise. ,And so the ultreya is a place of spiritual refreshment. an opportunity for Cursillistas to recharge their spiritual energies so that they will continue to make the Good News a vibrant reality in their own lives and in those of others. .

In the Fall -River diocese, Cursillistas have been and are effective Christian leaders within Church and community apostolates such as Birthright, the permanent diaconate, and CCD. But perhaps most important, the Cursillo Movement has brought the Good News of Jesus Christ into the hearts and homes of thousands -here and around the world, transforming each life so that, in the' words of St. Paul, ."Now it is no longer I, but Christ who lives in me."

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. urged each of them to "do your part for peace" and take pride in being an American citizen.

In a prepared statement on the release of the hostages the bishop declared: "The news of the release of those who have been held hostage in Iran prompts all Americans to rejoice. We look forward to the safe return of our fellow countrymen and women with joy and, in a very special manner, with thanks to almighty God. "The prayer of thanks which springs spontaneously to our lips from grateful hearts is conjoined, as well, to a most urgent prayer of petition that Almighty God enlighten nations and peoples so that justice and peace may flourish, both here in our own beloved country and throughout the entire world."

Rochester to shut seminary doors RO~HESTER, N.Y. (NC) St. Bernard's Seminary, the 88year-old major seminary of the Rochester diocese, attended in former years by many priests of the Fall River diocese, will close permanently July 1.

Reasons given by Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester fqr the decision were the short-range prospect of a small and shrink,ing enrollment and a rapid and disproportionate rise in costs, which has made St. Bernard's tuition one of the highest charged by U.S. seminaries.

About 50 seminarians, half of whom belong to the Rochester Diocese, are now enrolled at St. Bernard's. Another 27 students who are not candidates for the priesthood are also seeking theology degrees there.

The current charge for room, board and tuition is $5,800 and the annual cost of educating a seminarian is more than $10,000_ The advisability of maintaining the seminary's very large and old buildings and the difficulty of maintaining a high quality theological faculty were other considerations leading. to the decision to close, Bishop Clark said.

"Put simply, the combination of enrollment projections, inflation, energy costs make the strain of conducting a theologi. cal seminary by a diocese our size an ever more precarious enterprise," he said. The Rochester Diocese has about 369,000 Catholics.

Iowa Award ROME (NC) Representatives of the Vatican, the American community in Rome and Iowa recently honored Msgr.

Luigi Ligutti as Christ's "ambassador of good will." The 85year-old priest, former president and executive secretary of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Vatican observer to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, received the Iowa Award, the state's highest honor.

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Schools week Feb.l to 7

Pope John Paul II and the Rev. amy:Graham met privately at the Vatican for half an hour earlier this month.

It was the first time the wellknown American evangelist had met with a pope, his spokesman said. .

Dr. Graham had visited the North American College, the U.S. seminary in Rome,. the evening before.

He joined the seminaroians in evening prayer and spoke to them about their future ministry of preaching. ~tever their theological abilities, he said, what a preacher must· do essentially is convey -Profolllld tru!hs simply.

He recalled an antecdote about Karl Barth, one of the most inDuenual European theologians of the 20th century. He said that when Barth was asked once what his profoundest thought had been, he ~lied that it was the realization that Jesus loved him.

Dr. Graham arrived in' Rome 'after visiting Hungary ,and the pope's native Poland. He received honorary theological degrees 'in both count~ies.

In Warsaw, Dr. Graham met privately with, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski.

Boston attacks abortion report BOSTON ,(NC) - The ·Boston Archdiocese has attacked the validity of • .survey which found that 66 percent of the patients at an abortion cUnic in Boston were Catholics.

The more than 2 million Catholics in the Boston Archdiocese comprise 34.8 percent of the total population of the area covered by the archdiocesse, which includes the city of Boston and some of its suburbs. Figures compiled by the Boston Redevelopment Autbority indicate that 64 percent of the city's people are Catholics.

The survey of 1,162 patients at the Boston clinic and at two others in New York, all run by pro-abortionist Bill Baird, was conducted between April 1978 and August 1980 by Colin Francome, senior lecturer in sociology at Middlesex Polytechnic Institute in London.

Father Peter Conley, Boston archdiocesan coordinator of communications, issued a statement saying: "The Archdiocese of Boston deeply regrets a news report of this date, which; based on inac¢Urate statistics and a survey conducted under questionable auspices, states that a majority . of Boston abortions are undertaken by Ca.tholics. , "We. find it regrettable that an ordinarily responsible press has seen fit to pub~ such biased and inaccurate information, thUs meretriciously adding to civic and religious tensions, which IlOston has pledged itself to ,eradicate:'

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A ALTIIOUGH ONLY DAYTIME nap facilities are provided, due to building and safety· codes, hundreds of men come daily to this Los Angeles skid row center, staffed by Mother Teresa's Missionary Brothers of Charity. Wayfarers' are also supplied with shower- and shaving accommodations, clothing, coffee and doughnuts. (NC Photo)

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Catholic schools oi the diocese will hold individual observances of National Catholic Schools Week, Feb., I to 7. said the Catholic Education Center in Fall River.

Such observances traditionally include "open school" programs for parents and special studerit activities.

The 1981 theme' for the week is "Choosing a Tradition: Catholic Schools:' .

The' week honoring the accomplishments and work of Catholic educational institutions is a joint project of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCe) Department of .Education and the National Catholic Educational Association Department of Chief Administrators of Catholic Education. It is intended to indicate the advantages of Catholic education and to cult,ivate community interest in and support for Catholic schools. . Current statistics show there are 1,527 Catholic high schools with 846,559 students and 8,149 elementary schools with 2,317, 200 students in the United States.

When all student enrollments are tabulated, including those from seminaries, colleges and released time programs, the total number of students in Catholic instructitlnal programs is 8,264, 717.

asa 65·year-old Bostonian who to live in a residence with a had left home after his wife stove and refrigerator. If you They grow old and are for- died to spend the rest of his had orily a room but no refriggotten. With little money and days in the west. erator or stove, you couldn't renowhere to go, they drift into One of thefirst" things he ceive food stamps." skid row, where the garbage learned was the importance of As a result of his research, can is their supennarket and the the trash can.

LeBlanc said, California welfare park bench their bedroom.

"Garbage barrels are skid rules were changed to eliminate They suffer loneliness, fear, row supermarkets," he said. such barriers. His research be· hunger. and the despair that "They contain food and ite~s came his doctoral dissertation grows from the feeling that no- for cash, such as returnable and was expanded into a book, body cares. ' b o t t l e s and aluminum cans."

"A/K/A Human Beings," exBut Dr. Richard LeBlanc, a Skid 'row, however, a long pected to be published soon. .> -, Si»liltio"n" -.-:, psychology professor at Ston- way from the security of LeLeBlanc's short experiment has "God is not a problem. He is a hill College. North Easton, cares. Banc's native Leominster. To had a lasting effect on him. solution:' Raymond Bruckin -1974 he became an old man, survive, he ate from garbage "I feel a strong sense of reand for a month threw himself cans, converted trash to cash to sponsibility to the people of skid berger.OP into the daily life of three Los by food, and panhandled. He row, to do whatever· 1 can to Angeles skid rows. tried to sell his blood but was help them." he said.

What LeBlanc found was a rejected because he was too old.

The common sufferings of Winning CBS documentary new generation of skid' row 'Most of what LeBlanc record- skid row life led to solid friend"Sorry I'm Old," a story about people: not just winos and ho- ed in his notebooks wasn't pleas- ships. When LeBlanc told his the problems of the elderly in boes, but the retired with no ant, especially the Catch-22 bar- buddies he was going back to BostOn. savings, little or no pension riers that blocked tbe neediest Boston, they dug deep into their LeBlanc; • Stonehill graduate, . money and no family to take from the welfare benefits that pockets to put on a party. also serves on advisory boards care of them. were supposed to help them sur"I found three of my friends for home care programs f(lr the uBefore. skid row contained vive. gathered at a storefront,U he elderly and is a consultant on ..It was'" a case of institutional said. "You could tell it was a elderly affairs to the city of people who voluntarily chose to drop out of societY. Today, skid discrimination against the poor.... special occasion because the Boston. row contains people who work- be recalled. 'To apply for wel- wine we drank cost .85 a bottle, A conclusion he has reached is ed haFd their entire lives, yet fare, you needed a residence compared to the .65 bra"d we that caring for the elderly should because of i.Dation and retire- with a street address. If, you were used to. be the responsibility of family ment are forced to live in such couldn't afford that, you couldn't Since leaving skid row and and friends, not the government. poor conditions," he said. get w~lfare. earning his doctorate, leBlanc "Only friends' and family can To p~pare himself for his so"Anotber example of discrim- ~has continued his work for the !provide caring and understandjourn, LeBlanc took acting 108- ination was the food stamp pro- elderly. HI' h"lped, for instance, ing. The ~te and federal gov. sons and learned how to make, gnlJll. To qualify, a Pl'rson had to produce the Emmy Award- ernment can't." himself up as • 65-year-old man.

He went to state and city officials for support so 'that his research might be used to influence legislation to help the elderly.

He then turned '¥' on skid row with only a suitcase full of makeup and mat,erials to record his research. He rented a $2.50NATIONALLY ADVERTISED a-day room in a cheap hotel • n.E fUR.nURE • ElEORK APPUA.m wl>ere he spent 2 Yo. hours every • CARPm.G 1",,110<1 by Ex~.;i.nc.d M.th"'i" morning putting on his makeup before hitting the streets.

Open Daily and Monday, Tuesday Thursday & friday Evenings Right away he got a lessOn in (Ovrr SO,OOO Sq. Fee1J the cruelties of skid row exisDIAL tence. The hotel manager, thinkFERRY ST., FALL RIVER HOS FALAI>\OS PORTUGUES ing LeBfanc was a down-andouter with no place to go, came up with added charges. He wound HICHOLS & STOHE I.ddlol b" Furniture by, br' IDLY BROYHill up paying about double what ECLlPS( , RCA FlIIIDAIRE PEHHSYLVAHIA HOUSE IURLlIIITOH HOUSE the room was supposed to cost.· HEYWOOD WAKEFIELD DOWNS CARPETS TEMPLE·STUART WHIILPOOL MAnn Skid row People knewL"BlaQc .

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"GROW OLD ALONG maintain lII1 information and "We do urge older Americans with mel The best is,yet to referral service' on area aid to take a responsible part in their own health care," said be, the last ofllle,.for which programs.

One's parish, of course, is Caroline Robinson, the center's .the first was made:' said a primary SOlll'Ce for ,spirit- Elderly Program Coordinator. poet Robert Browning.

"A leak of knowledge of pharual assistance. Many parBut the reallty of age is of-' ishllll have speclal ministers macology and the aging process ten far from poetic. m of the Eucharist who bring often results in problems of mishealth, Umlted Income, aJeo. hoiy communion to shut-Ins use," she explained, adding that often a person who has holism, loneliness and vuI· more frequently than is pos- "quite never had a drinking problem' nerability to crime are lSibie for pastors or assis- may develop one after retireamong problems plaguing tlII1ts• , ment or the death of a spouse.

"There's a whole big world the elderly, Also availabie to the elder. out there of people drinkingWhile niany proJrams ex- '; Iy is the sacrament of the often concealing it:' she said, , ist to help meet dlftieult1es, Anointing of the Sick, often blaming "ageism," society's disadministrators say that aged administered In thecontert criminatory attitude towards old persons are frequently un- of a church service as well, people, for much of the problem. aware pf them. The Anchor as In home or hospital set- "This attitude often reSults in isolation for the elderly and detherefore presents a deserlp- tlogs, One's parish rectory structive behavior patterns such tIon of some avsllable ser- should be contacted for fur- as seeking consolation in alcohol vices, reminding readers ther Infol'llllttlon on ,these or pills or both." that many more programs matters, Ms. Rohinson said that the center offers four Alcoholics exist, U none of the services S E R V ICE S FOR Anonymous meetings weekly listed below meets a partleuTIlE ELDERLYthat other servIces include lar need, one may call one of DIOCESAN CATIIOLIC so- and programs for the handicapped, the four offices of Diocesan CIAL SERVICES, Information/ personal growth sessions and the Catholic Socia., Services. All Referral serivce at four loca- use of a comfortable' drop-in center, open daily except Sunday. , The center has affiliations with Councils on Aging in New Bedford, Mattapoisett, Fairhav~n, ~areham and Acushnet.

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Churches partiCipation in center sponsorship are SS. Peter and PaUl, Our Lady of Health, St. Luke's Episcopal, whose hall houses the program, Holy Cross, First Primitive Methodist and St. Paul's Lutheran.

Not to be forgotten, among programs for elders are numerous parish-sponsored Golden Age and Senior Citizen clubs which offer a variety of activities, including bus tours, regular card and bingo parties, lectures and suppers. And some parishes, of which Sacred Heart, Fall River, Is one, have enrolled confirmation candidates in service projects for the elderly, such as free

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CARE FOIl. ELDERLY, 248 , Two years ago It was realized Tucker'St., Fall River, 675-2101; that after a year of planning Attleboro office, 222-3180; Taun- neighborhood seniors needed a ton office, 823-5991: place to go and tlte drop-ln tenDue to funding limitations, ter became a reality last sumservices are presently· available mer. It is coordinated by volunonly to clients meeting priority teers Constance and Joseph qualifications. Others are placed Stankiewicz of SS. Peter and on a waiting list. Such services Paul parish, who make light of 'include information and referral, their tremendous investment of case management, homemaker time and energy. and ohore services and traospor· "If you can't do a little voluntation. They may include food teer work now and, then shopping, light and heavy house- what's the use?" shrugs Mrs. work, meal preparation, laundry, Stankiewicz, who has a fulltime minor home repairs and. transjob as director of Fall River's portation for medical purposes.

Ninth Street Day Nursery and The Home Care agency is al- ,also manages to serve as secreso the Area Agency on Aging, tary of her parish council. ' empowered to fund and monitor services supplied by other organizations. It also administers a federal Senior Aides Program which provides paid parttime po-

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How to treat adult children

By Dr. lame; and Mazr I(enny D K ref ear Dr. enny: I er to your recent article about the girl of 18 clating a divorced man, 27.

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even God'sherSelf commantimore that vital. one It notis put in the "occasion of sin" by clating a divoreed person. This is not a parent's choice.

ModerDreUglous teachers leave much, If not all, of the choice of right wrong up to children.

This is a meek, lukewarm, in-afeetlve way to teach. Ineffectivebecause ChUdreR of any age are then going to make their own rules instead of living by God's holy nales, the commandments.

Some parents want to remain' popular with their kids, pr fear the ehUdreII wUl run away' if basic rules of morality ,are strlet~ ly enforced a~ home. .'

Statistics prove I'm right.

Look 'how many ,youth are not going to Mass on Sunday be'cause they don't feel like it.

Yes, I'm an authority. I've raised'five God-fearing Catholic dJildren, 'none of whom have ever run away or gotten mad at me because of a strict decision.

We say a prayer together, then review God's law and teaching on whatever SUbject is being dis-

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cussed. I certaJnJy ~ their view. ' Not once in 19 years have I, or GOd, been disappointed with their decisionS. Take it from an authority on teen-agel'S and young peopl'e, a mother in Mississippi, , A. You a very straightforward andareconcerned parent.

From the letter it sounds as though your . approachW6rks with your children. Good for you.

Be careful, however, not to confuse goals with procedures.

There are many ways.to accomplish' an objective. It is inaceurate to desCribe all parents who do not command and. forbid as permissive.

Most parents would not want their 18-year-old daughl~r, to date a 27-year-old divorcee! man. . But many of tpese parents would find other ways to work toward their goal. .

Good discipline includes many - techniques beyond the authoritarian approach you describe so well. IA the above situation, some parents might decide ,to let their adult daughter learn from the consequences of her behavior. Others might focus on the positive aspects of their daughter's life rather than the objectionable dating. StiII others might strive to make their own lives a good example. .

Some parents might make, a prudential judgment that forbidding an adult daughter to behave in 'a certain-. way would lead to her alienation from the family. If that were, the case, then forbidding would not be a very effective or useful discipline.

Monica stood ,by while her son, Augustine, "ran wild" in his youth. D9 you think she was permissive? Eventually, her beautiful values bore fruit. Both mother and son became saints.

You mention "God's rules" in your letter and imply that parents are to be the enforcers'.

Yet God himself does not fotce us. He described his way as .one of love. His discipline' of us is primarily through example and allowing us to experience the consequences of our own behavior.

- ' God is surely not a "permissive" parent in the sense that he does not care. He- is, however, a parent who is very tolerant and long-suffering through our many mistakes.

We recommend doing what you think will work best in view of the goals you have set as parents. We still advise 'treating adult 'children as dear fri~nds rather ,than persons in ne'ed of forceful and threatening guidance.

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Suicides seasonal, says" nurse WASHINGTON' (NC) "There is a seasonality for su~­ cides," said Sharon Sloboda, associate professor of psychiatric and mental health nursing at the Catholic University of America in Washington.

"The likely seasons for suicide follow the Christmas and New Year holidays, the' 'suicidal indiVidual's birthday and the anniversary of a particularly sig'nificant event for the person, such as a divorce or the death of a loved one," Ms. Slo~a said.

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Suicide ranks in the top 10 causes of death in the United States, she said, with approxi~ mately 30,000 shicides reported each year.

The psychiatric nurse " said statistics show that more women than men attempt suicide, but that men actually kill themselves more often. "Men employ more lethal methods like shooting and hanging, whereas women usually attempt to die from a drug over-

dose which means more women can be saved from suicide attempts."

The nurse advises _persons contemplating suicide to lowel\ their expectations and try to be more realistic during periods of high stress, not to overextend themselves, to keep social events or job commitments within manageable range and avoid financial pressures by not overspending money.

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Good words for the snow

"More suicides probably oc'root system as the rose canes cur during January than in other'

By Joseph Roderiek Along with kids and skiers, whip while the roots remain months because expectations for the holidays were unfulfilled," gardeners thank God for the locked in the frozen ground. she stated. "There is something snow. It is especially welcome Such canes should be cut back magical about our expectations" during this winter of extremely to just above snow level or at at Christmas that "are intensi- cold weather. In fact, one·of the least to the point where they fied by all of the advertising, advantages of gardening is that will remain stationary. television specials and musical almost any kind of weather has Ftuit and ,ornamental tree broadcasts. Suicidal indiViduals its positive side. For me the branches should be checked for think about childhood joys and snow means that mylo,'N azaleas breakage. from the .main limb. If family fun on(!eexperienced, but and baby rhodohendrons are in- a branch is broken, it should' be sulated from sub-zero w.e~ther. cut back to the stein so that it wh~n such happiness is not repeated dUring the holidays they My plant IQsses, wiII be minimal does not continue splitting, poscan become extremely despon- if I can get 'through ~he hardest sibly damaging the main limb. In part of winter with a good snow . a word, it is worth a few mindent," cover. utes of time to inspect snow The likely suicide has a deep'Heavy, wet snow, of course, damage and to remove injured seated emotional and mental depression, Ms. Sloboda said. can damage larger plants and limbs.

On the whole, though, snow is Other signs to look for in some- trees and should be brushed off one seriously thinking of com- branches weighted down by it. welcome as an in~ulation. Almittir;lg suicide include a loss of -This should be done with care, though the gr~und, remains frointerest in what is happening in since limbs are easily broken if zen, plants above ground 'level are a few degrees warmer surthe household, sad and empty the snow is frozen to them.

Inspection of the garden should rounded by snow than if exposed talk, a break~up in a~relationship or failure in school or at work, s,how up areas in need of atten- to the cold. giving away prized possessions; tion. This is not a, bad time to While most ~ople are skid, expressing suicidal sentiments, a check rosebushes to make sure ding in the slush and cussing change in, eating or sleepin~ pat- they are not wfiippingab.out in winter, gardeners see snow as terns. Previous attempts at sui- the wind, thus weakening the one more of nature's gifts,

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Jan. 22, 1981

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ST. mERESA, NEW BEDFORD "Romans 8," an adult education program aimed at deepening appreciation and application of the principles of faith to daily life, will be offered at the church beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, and continuing for eight weeks. All are welcome.

"Genesis II," a follow-up program for those who have already participated in "Romans 8," will begin at the end of February.

Registrations may be made at the rectory.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER Registration for new Holy Name School students will take place Sunday, Feb. 1 from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. at the school.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Parents of public and parochial school children will meet at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. I, for discussion of a course in human sexuality now being given to all grades in the parochial school.

On the same day registrlltion of new students will take place at the school following 10::30 a.m.

Mass.

SACRED HEART, TAUNTON For the'" fifth year t:,e Red Cross will conduct a bloodmobile program at the parish center .off Route 138 lit First Street and Somerset Avenue.

This year's session will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday and donations are welcome from all area residents. Nonparishioners are remind,ed that their donation may be l~redited to their own parish or other organization.

Appointments may be made for donating by calling the rectory or the Red Cross, but walkins will also be welcome'.

Also under Red Cross sponsorship will be a cardiopulmonary resuscitation course, to be held in February.

SEPARATED & DIVORCED, NEW BEDFORD .

Effects of divorce on children will be discussed Sunday at the Greater New Bedford Support Group for Divorced and Separated Catholics, meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St.

Function "It is not the function of our

government to keep citizens from falling into error; :it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." Justice RO'Jert H. Jackson

SSt PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The parish council requests input from parishioners on plans to celebrate the church's 100th anniversary in April, 1982; the possibility of arranging a crying area in the church; and the possibility of extending kindergarten hours from half to a full day.

Father George Harrison, associate pastor of St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth, and chaplain at Bishop Stang High School and Southern Massachusetts University, will be principal speaker at an evening of recollection for CCD teachers at 7 p.m. Sunday, in Father Coady Center.

Teachers. and CCD personnel from several other parishes will attend. There is no pre-registra. tion or fee and all are invited.

LA SALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO A healing serv,ice will be con路 ducted by Rev. Richard Lavoie, MS at 2 p.m. Sunday at the People's Chapel.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL FALL RIVER Registered and licensed practical nurses' are invited to a course on pulmonary nursing care, beginning Wednesday, Feb. 18 and continuing for five consecutive Wednesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. Participants should register by Wednesday, Feb. 11. Further information is available from Jackie Allard, RN, at the hospital.

SEPARATED & DIVORCED, TAUNTON AREA Separated, divorced or remar路 ried Catholics are invited to attend an explanatory session on annulments presented by Rev. Jay T. Maddock of the diocesan marriage court at 7 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph church hall, 19 Kilmer Ave., Taunton. Further information is available from Rev. Herbert NicholS, 824-5435.

ALCOHOLISM COUNCIL GREATER FALL RIVER Alcohol education programs are available to all community groups, agencies and public and private schools. Groups using material include a driving school, elderly housing and drop-in centers and a middle school. Further information is available at the council offices, 101 Rock St., Fall River, telephone 675-0336.

STONEHILL COLLEGE, NORTH EASTON A wide variety of special interest courses are available this semester, including tax programs and offerings for public accountants, small husiness operators and bus i n e s s administrators.

Further information is available from the college, telephone 2381081.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The "Circle of Love" prayer line will meet at 7 tonight in the CCD center.

The Holy Name Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the rectory.

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"The company's extraordinary history of lawlessness calls for approval of the remedy in this case," said a three-member panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in upholding most of the findings of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

J..P. Stevens has been cited 20 times by the NLRB for unfair labor practices in a dispute with unions that has gone back 17 years. A consumer boycott of Stevens products was supported by many Catholic organizations and by six Southern bishops. The company has plants throughout the South. .

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Confirmation candidates will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31.

Senior citizens will meet at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9.

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Senior high school discussion group members will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN A brush-up program in religion will be offered at the rectory at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow by Father Coleman Conley.

Baptism will be administered following noon Mass this Sunday.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER The parish credit union will hold its anriual meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday in the church hall.

An open parish meeting is set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. I, also in the hall.

Parents of first communicants will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the hall.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur.; Jan. 22, 1981

IIow to do everything

By Father Philip J. Murnion There is a fascination today with techniques, explaining the booming sales of "how to" books, covering everything from meditation to making money.

If one were to pick out a word that would help distinguish our time from other periods in history, the word "technique" would be a candidate. Some of us are bewildered by all the techniques society has invented.

There are techniques for counseling people and for organizing groups, for raising children and for developing housing for the elderly.

However, fascination with perienced success in efforts with' technique can be fatal, especi" already existing groups.

Parish councils, men's and ally if people become the vicwomen's councils can strengthen tims of "how to" procedures. their mission by sharing prayer Many writers have warned that in traditional or new ways. Tak- new techniques must serve the ing time for a day or evening of values of people and not vice recollection or a weekend retreat versa. can serve a member as an inWhat has this to do with the dividual and as one of a group. parish?

In recent times the church has Parish staffs - which have set aside regular time for prayer and sometimes adopted techniques reflection have found it helps from other fields.

- Techniques of psychologithem through the inevitable cal' counseling were learned by rough or disappointing periods.

Members of liturgy or Chris- many priests; tian education committees have - Social ministry activists found that devoting a significant' sometimes adopted the organizperiod of meetings to prayer pro- ing techniques of the labor movevides the best basis for effective ment to help citizen groups action, because the group be- carry out effective community . gins to resemble the kind of action; Christian community it hopes to - Dioceses, parishes and build for the whole parish. other church institutions picked All these are single steps that up planning and management can help parishes in their jour- techniques; neys of faith and service.

- Teachers learned educational techniques; - Social work techniques, budgeting techniques, communication techniques and techniques for surveying- the likes and disish is the only church in the .housing project.

These people are often powerless to do any thing about the woes that threaten them," Sister Glose explains. Accordingly, she adds, the parish staff acts "as advocate for the poor," serving on many community boards in order to "make our people's presence known."

Although parish ministry can entail investigation of Social Security and food stamp problems, staffers do not think of themselves simply as social workers. They think of their advocacy as a way of implementing the demands of Christianity.

know your faith Steps toward growth in faith

By Richard M. Lawiess

The people. of a paI,ish often don't know路 each other'very well, let alone find time to share their lives of faith. They may go away from Mass with a sense that the people who worshiped together weren't all they could be as a Christian community.

But in many places people are responding to this situation by taking steps toward a renewed experience of the church. Some have had remarkable success, others have experienced slow but steady growth in finding ways to grow together in the faith.

Sometimes pastors, parish staff members and other leaders undertake programs aimed at the renewal of entire parish communities. Elements may include homilies, parish missions, prayer and study groups and efforts to revitalize a parish council.

In the process, victories and

disappointments are shared, building community.

But good ~s such renewals.can be, they are not always' possible.

Are there intermediate steps?

Many people are familiar with the success of programs like Cursillo, Marriage Encounter and the charismatic renewal.

These and other programs have helped deepen the faith of hundreds of thousands. When they entail follow-up efforts, such ex-路 periences enliven people. But the follow-up is sometimes hard to come by, and a spiritual awakening may become private or get oriented away from the parish community.

What else can parishes do to provide ways for members, to pray and worship together in settings beyond that of the Sunday Eucharist, and to reach out to others in works of service and justice? Some parishes have ex-

Advocates for the poor

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By Lenore Kelly

Coping with poverty is a way of life at St. Michael-St. Edward Parish in Brooklyn, N.Y. The community of the parish is constituted primarily of blacks (80 percent) and Puerto Ricans (18 percent) who first came to the neighborhood in the 1950s when a 3,500-apartment project was completed.

Father Brian Callahan is the pastor. He arrived at St. MichaelSt. Edward's shortly after his ordination in 1965. Two Dominican nuns - Sister Sally Butler and Sister Georgianna Glose are also staff members. All are

native New Yorkers.

They have worked together for about 10 years and they say their ministry is shaped by the needs of their people.

This means, for one thing, that on Sunday there are Masses in Spanish and English. Once a month there is a story time'an effort to involve parents in the religious education of their children. Usually about 70 adults and children attend.

St. Michael - St. Edward's serves the "poorest'of the poor," Sister Glose says. Many hold 'low-income jobs, as porters and maids or are dependent on public funds, she explains. The par-

Paul: A harried pastor

By Father John J. Castelot When Paul wrote First Corinthians, he was not in a good mood. He was a harried pastor with many problems.

To add to Paul's frustration, he was at the moment an absentee pastor, busy with affairs in the church at Ephesus. If the Corinthians misunderstood him in person, they would probably misconstrue his writings.

The letter begins like aU letters of the period; the sender is identified. Paul gives not just his name. but his qualifications.

He says he was "called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus" (1:1).

Some people liked to put Paul down by disparaging his apostleship. He had never seen or heard Jesus as the real apostles had; he was quite simply secondrate.

So, in the brief allusion to his qualifications ot the beginning of the letter, Paul bluntly stresses the source of his call and commission.

He then writes about the recipient of his letter, the local

church (parish) at Corinth. The word translated as "church" was an ordinary Greek word meaning assembly. But this assembly is different. It is the assembly of God, for reasons which become clear as soon as Paul describes its constituents.

They have, he says, been "consecrated in Jesus Christ and called to be a holy people" (I :2).

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likes of people are all being used in parish ministry; - Even among scholars, techniques are important. Scholars of the Bible, for instance, tend to take seriously the techniques of archeologists or anthropologists, feeling they can help them understand better the Bible times.

The parish has benefited from good use of techniques. They have helped us become more careful and effective. But techniques can take over, becoming ends in themselves rather than means for accomplishing our purposes.

Misuse of techniques can occur, for example, if we do not evaluate the findings of psychology in the light of faith, or if we let the maintenance of church buildings become more important than the mission of the church.

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By Janaan Manternach Saul could not see. For three days he ha~ not eaten. Hour after hour he prayed. He wondered what would happen next.

His mind kept going back to his incredible experience three days earlier. He remembered the blinding light, the mysterious voice, the vision of the risen路 Christ. He puzzled over what he had heard: "I am the Jesus whom you' are persecuting." Saul begged God to forgive him for persecuting Jesus' followers.

Now Saul was in the home of Turn to page thirteen

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A V erd~lde E A Vida Dirigida p,elo Rev. Edmond Rego

Somos Caminhantes A vida i uma via. ~ peregrinar,urn fazer caminho. Alegrias e tristezas, sucessos e fracassos, ~xitos e quedas, paz e guerrai serenidade e angfistia povoam 0 nosso caminhar neste mundo.

Temos ern nos 0 divino, mas estamos ainda sujeitos i dor, ao sofrimento, i morte. _Possuimos 0 girrnen da gloria, mas ainda ternos em nos 0 hornem velho.

Acreditarnos, temos fi, mas esta i semeada de trevas, de incredulidade.

Hoje, como ha dois mil anos, Jesus esta connosco a caminho do nosso Emafis, Segunda S. Lucas Cliopas e 0 outro dis· cipulo, seu companheiro de viagem, iam tristes, cabisbaixos. 0 seus sonhos cairam~or t~ira. 0 seu ideal foi,destruido. Ac~editaram em Jesus, pensavam encontrar n'Ele 0 libertador, 0 restaurador do Reino de Israel, afinal tudo acabou tristemente. Mataram-No. Morreu como urn maldito. Desapareceu da vista deles. Esperan9as falhadas. Agora, caminhantes da tristeza, sentem-Se mais sos, ~esiludidos. Amargor de alma, de corac;:ao.

No nosso caminhar sucedem coisas parecfdas. Acontecimentos dolorosos, imprevistos, duros pela sua crueldade colocam-nos em tristeza, em desilusao, por vezes ati em angfistia. Perdemos ati 0 gosto de viver. Tudo se trona trevas. Nem sequer nos outros encontramos ajuda, alento, forc;:a de lutar, de viver, de esperar. _ Em muitas destas situac;:6es a orac;:ao torna-se dificil. Tudo.i uscuro.

Jesus fica distante, o'Espirito nao se faz sentir, 0 Pai, nao nos ouve. 0 nosso caminhar torna-se mais cansativo, mais negro, mais doloroso. E la nos nOE vamos larnentando, carpindo nossas rlesgrac;:as.

Apesar de nao 0 vermos, Ele esta.

Vive em nos, no nosso meio. Presente nos outros na Eucaristia. Fala-nos atravis da Palavra, dos acontecimentos, da Igreja. Mas somos tantas vezes insensiveis i sua divina presenc;:a, sempre actuant~, pacificadora, benfazeja, reconfortante, alentadora. Fi fraca, pouco permeavel ao divino.

Jesus, "no E~spiso(ho de Emafis, ficm; mais presente depois de ter desaparecido apos a fracqao do pao, do que quandc ia conversando pelo caminho. Esta ,era uma presenc;:a flsica, no meio da tristeza paga. A outra era presenc;:a de fi,na alegria da vida nova d6 ~essuscitado.

Passagem do sensivel i fi, do sentimento i crenc;:a pura. Enquanto 0 viam e conversavam.com Ele nao 0 conheceram.

Depois de 0 reconhecerem Je~us desaparece. Nao i presenc;:a sensivel que mais importa, i a viv~ncia da fie Esta v~ mais longe, penetra mais 0 mistirio, comunga mais profundamente a intimidade. .

Jesus i para nos urn caminhante, companheiro de jcrnada. Ele carninha connosco. Ele ~ 0 caminho. Nao exijamos que se faC;:B presente ao nosso gosto Vivamos na fi B sua presen~a. Ele esta.

Eis tudo~ Eloqu~ncia divina da fi no Ressuscitado. Estejarnos nos presentes a Ele, na adesao de fe 'e de arnor.

How to do everything Continued from page twelve fit into the existing systems of the world, or if we fail to evaluate our social action efforts in light of the Gospel. We can misuse techniques by placing such emphasis on the scientific study of the Bible that we forget to let God speak to us through his ,revealed word.

Parishes are learning the limitations of techniques. More and more, "how to" procedures are being subjected to the tests of faith.

Thus, in counseling, the ability of God to help people determine the meaning of their lives and face difficult challenges is 'being reasserted. Social justice groups are reflecting on the connection of faith and action.

Teachers are reconsidering how educational methods can be used as aids in the larger task of guiding students toward Christ.

In various ways the meeting of technique and faith is occurring. Some people would like to scrap all the techniqes and ret\.un to a "simple" faith. They distrust secular skills, or they complain that technique has no place in the church.

In cases where techniques seem to "take over," the complaints may be justified. But in other cases it seems that the discoveries of human under-

standing can have a relation to God. That relationship is seen when people use the best aids available for understanding the Bible; when people develop skills for justice; when those who counsel the doubtful study counseling.

Good intentions are not always enough.

When St. Theresa of Avila was asked about a good spiritual director, she insisted that the person had to be a good theologian as well as someone with deep faith.

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Continued from page twelve a man named Judas. Judas and his family were followers of Jesus. Saul's companions had led him to Judas' house and left him there. , Judas and his family were afraid of Saul. They knew Saul had come to Damascus to arrest people like themselves, but they also knew Jesus wanted them to take care of Saul for at least a few days.

Across the city lived another follower of Jesus named Ananias. That day he was surprised to hear the voice of the risen Christ calling to him: Ananias.

Ananias."

"Here I am, Lord," Ananias answered quickly. "I am ready to do anything you ask."

"Go at once to Straight Street," the Lord said. "Go to the house of Judas. Ask for Saul Continued from Page Twelve of Tarsus." value system and false standAnanias began to tremble. ards of judgment.

Even though they continue to "Lord," he pleaded, "I have heard that this man has done live in the world, they belong to great harm to your followers in a community with different Jerusalem.

Now he has come to standards. They are free to deDamascus to arrest your friends. velop into the kind of human beHe will send us to prison to be ings their creator intended them tortured and killed." to be.

But the Lord insisted, " You The exercise of this freedom must go! I have chosen Saul to demands, however, that its poss- make my name known all over essors make decisions and the world. I will send him to choices of their own ~ includ- speak of me to the J~wish people ing difficult ones. Their choices and to the gentiles." will be a measure of their Ananias did not fully undergrowth as Christians. stand. He was still afraid of Still following convention Saul, but he trusted the Lord.

Paul proceeds. to an expression He walked to Judas' house. of thanksgiving. He reminds the Judas and his family welcomed Corinthians of the favors God him and took him to Saul's has bestowed on them, especially room. Aananias went right up to the spiritual gifts "of speech and Saul. He placed his hands on knowledge," gifts on which the Saul's head. people doted.

"Saul, my brother," Ananias Paul would have preferred to said, "I have been sent to you congratulate them on possession by the Lord Jesus, who appearand exercise of far more impor- ed to you on your way here. The tant gifts, like faith, or hope, or Lord Jesus sent me to help you love. But the people were sadly recover your sight. He wants deficient on these scores, as the you to be filled with the Holy Spirit." sequel will show.

Paul counters smugness by reAs Ananias was speaking, minding his readers of what Saul received the gift of the really counts: the condition in Holy Spirit. Immediately somewhich the Lord Jesus will find thing like cloudy scales fell from them when he returns in glory. his eyes. He could see again. He The return of Jesus was not put his arms around Ananias. a remote prospect for Paul and For a moment they prayed a his contemporaries, who expected happy prayer of thanks.

Then Saul was baptized. Afterit in the near future.

In First Corinthians, the para- wards he joined his new friends mount importance of the com- in a meal of thanksgiving. His munity is highlighted. God call- strength quickly returned.

Saul could hardly believe all ed the people to a profound fellowship of mutual love and shar- that had happened. He had come ing. Anything militating against to· Damascus to arrest Jesus' this betrays their call, no matter people. Now he was one of them. what else is in their favor.

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~orld's hope VATICAN CITY (NC) Young people "are the ,.hQpe of both the world and the' church," Pope John Paul II told Catholic student leaders Jan. 16.

The pope met in the Vatican's Consitory 'Hall w.ith regional secretaries ot the International Catholic Student Youth Movement and the executive council of the, International Catholic Students' Movement (Pax Romana).

He urged representatives of the two movements to witness to Christ and the Gospel in the scholastic environment.

Students, he said, are faced with "an almost limitless multiplicity of techniques, messages, propositions and ideologies."

"It is there that you are called to form yourselves, to give reasons for your choice, to bear witness of your faith in Jesus Christ, who gives us . . . the truth of man indissolubly linked tG the truth of God," he said.

He called on Catholic students to use their time of studies for intellectual and spiritual development.

"May you be ,truly converted to the Lord, impregnated, even in your choice of life, with the spirit of the Beatitudes, concel'ned with an intense spiritual, above all Eucharistic, life," he said. '~Here is the foundation: Programs, discussions, debates of your movements will serve for nothing without these profound spiritual and religious roots." .

He warned against a "dichotomy made by various currents of thought, ancient as well as contemporary, between God and man."

"The more your action, like that of the church, wants ,to focus on man, the more it must openly find its center in God," he said.

Nazi protest fizzles out BUFFALO, N.Y. (NC) - Religious leaders had planned ,a counter-demonstration, but there was no one to counter' as a feared white-power demonstration Jan. 15 failed to materialize.

Nazi leader Karl E. Hand Jr. had calledfor a"white-power rally on the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the late civil rights leader.

Although he had asked "100 white men with guts" to join him, Hand carried on a one-man protest.

After the demonstration, state - and city officials joined religious leaders and a crowd of 3000 at a rally honoring Dr. King.

Bishop Edward D. Head and Msgr. Robert E. Nesslin, director of the diocesan office of communication, were joined on the platform by 'Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), and other officials.

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A SCENE from last year's all-night prayer vigil at Providence College, held in reparation for the killing of the unborn. The vigil was repeated this year as New Englanders marked the eighth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. (NC) Photo)

TOMORROW things just have to get better. Have you ever said that to yourself? Sometimes we come to points in life where our luck must start improving. That's the message of "Hold On," sung

by Kansas.

By Charlie Martin

HOLD ON Look in the mirror and teU me just what you see What have' the years of your Ufe taught you to be Innocence dyin' in so many ways Things that you dream of are lost, lost in the haze.

Hold on baby hold on 'Cause it's closer than you think And you're standing on the brink Hold' on baby hold on 'Cause there's something on the way Your tomorrow's not the same as today.

Don't you recall what you felt, when you weren't alone Someone who stood by your side a face you have known Where do you run when it's too much to bear Who do you tum to in need when nobody's there.

Outside your door he is waiting, waiting for you Sooner or later you know he's got to get through No hesitation and no holding back Let it all go and you'll know you're on the right track.

Sung by Kansas, Kerry Llvgren Š1980 by Don Kirshner MusicBlackwood Music Publishing

This song says that if we keep ourselves together in the rough times, '~then there's something on its way." Our "tomorrows will not be the same as tooay."

The' thinking appears valid, based on life's events. But I don't agreE~' that our lives are totally guided by luck or destiny.

We can help form our futures.

We have a lot to say about whether our tomorrows will be the same a!l today.

Each Of us lives in' an envir,Onment with certain givens, e.g., where we live, who our parents are, what our history has been.

But no one is called to be a victim of this environment. We may be uncertain which choices blend best with our gifts and talents.

But to find out, we have to take some initiative.

It appears that society at large values highIy the self-directed individual. But it fails to see that real success entails more than making it on your own. As Christians we seek a better future for all people.

Weare working for a better tomorrow in which world hunger is diminished, human rights upheld, and where some people are not economically deprived for the sake of others.

By Cecilia Belanger Intemperance is a double evil, harming oneself and others. The intemperate person divests himself or herself of that which distinguishes people from animals - the rational and moral nature.

One sins against 'one's self, which distinguishes between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, .that self whi-ch makes us unique on the planet.

This is the essence of the vice of drinking too much. Better to 'leave it alone entirely. Outward evils are bad enough, but inward destruction ,is like lifting a suicidal arm against one's highest life.

We are God's rational children, and when we renounce that rationality by :intemperance, what are we saying to God? It is common to laugh at the drunk in movies and television, easy to imitate his trembling hands and stumbling walk. Just what is so funny about it? It isn't funny to the little boy or girl who must grow up with it, or to the wife who tries to cover up for it.

A woman told me she could stand poverty and illness much better than having a drunkard for a husband. She said, "I felt my whole life had been polluted, that the vows we made to one another were false, t11at my home was a hell and my children denied the dignity and love that children deserve from a father." , There is no age which is not exposed to the temptation of drinking. The young find in it the excitement they crave, while the old, due perhaps to their age, find themselves victims of this drug for lack of self-control.

The idle are in as great peril of drinking as are the overworked laborers. People are escaping for a thousand 'and one reasons into alcohol, that legalized path to often-times utter destruction.

More women are drinking today and I know of no sight more sad -than a mother who has become a victim of the bottle. In all families, no matter what their condition, there are endangered individuals, and those who care for them should be watchful of their safety and spiritual wellbeing.

One cannot exaggerate the exposure of our society to alco: hoI - the glamorizing of name brands in magazines and other media, the constant, "Will you have something to drink?" It is everywhere, insidiously and stealthily gnawing away at the American soul. Sometimes I think we are like one great big Garden of Eden with more than .one serpent.

What about those famous last words of the youth who starts drinking and when warned remarks, "Oh, you'll never catch me becoming an alcoholic!" The next time you see him or her not only has he or she fallen but has taken others along. The danger of alcoholism is its almost imperceptable approach. Talk about cat's feet! Few who perish by it hear it coming. Many are bound by invisible cords by their . first drink.

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portswQtch Schmid1t Leads Division Two Mark Schmidt of Bishop Feehan's Division Two Southeastern Mass. Conference basketball team led that division in scoring through last Thursday's games. He had scored 80 points in three games for an average of 26.6 per game, second only in the conference overall to Paul Gomes of Greater New :3edford Tech.

Gomes had 54 points in two games for an average of 27.0, the best in Division Three. Also, in the top five in Division Two Feehan is represented by Gerry Lavallee who was tied with Mark Jones of Fairhaven for fourth place each with 54 points in three games for an average of 18.0.

Two of the three diocesan high schools in Division Three are represented among the top five scorers in, that division. Carl Farnworth of Bishop Stang High, with 64 points in three. games for an average of'21.3 is

tied with Mike Barros of Old Rochester Regional High for second-place. Mike Strojny of Coyle-.

Cassidy High was in fifth place with 55 points averaging 18.3. , Other latest available scoring statistics through last Thursday are: Division One - Pete LaPorte, Attleboro, 70 points, 23.3 average; Mark Dias, New Bedford, 57, 19.0; Steve Davis, B~rn­ stable, 49, 16.3; John' Stanton, Durfee, Peter McNally, Somerset, and Rufus Russ, Barnstable, each with 46 points and 15.3 average.

Division Two - Ron Andrews, Fairhaven, John Quinn, Dartmouth, 58, 19.3. Division Three - Mark Bruce, Yoke-Tech, 61, 20.3. Division Four - Ernie Bacon, Diman, 40, 20.0; Barry Pennyman, Bourne, 56, 18.6; Dave Ross, Dighton-Rehoboth, 55, 18.3. Carlton Tripp, Westport, and Paul' McCann, Dighton-Rehoboth, 46, 15.3.

HOI:key Races Tight All three diocesan schools one point back of Dighton-Refielding hockey teams are com- hoboth, 2-2-0, and one ahead of peting in Division Two of the Bishop Connolly, 1-3-0. conference. As of last Friday Tonight, Connolly is host to Seekonk looks like the team to beat for the division crown with Seekonk at eight o'clock in the six wins in as many starts. How~, Driscoll Rink, Fall River. In a ever, Feehan with thre'e wins twin bill at the Taunton Rink, and one loss is within striking Feehan takes on Dighton-Rehoboth at six o'clock, and Coyledistance.

Coyle-Cassidy, 1-3-1 (won, Cassidy is host to Bourne at lost, tied) was in fourth place eight.

Hockomcick Basketball, Hockey Pace-stetting New Bedford defeated Somerset, 4-2, but runnerup Fall River South kept pace with the defending champion by posting a 4-3 decision over Rochester in Bristol County CYO Hockey League games.

Entering this week undefeated Sharon, 7-0, and Oliver Ames, 6-1, are staging what is developing into a two-team race for the Hockomock League basketball title, with Stoughton, 5-2, close behind.

Oliver Ames has a bye on tomorrow's schedule but S::laron is host to Canton, Stoughton to No. Attleboro, Franklin to Mansfield and King Philip as the league launches its second half. Next Tuesday it will be Oliver Ames at No. Attleboro, King Philip at Canton, Franklin at Stoughton, Foxboro at Mansfi~ld :wi:~h Sharon having the bye:' "

Still holding a nine-point lead over the Southies New Bedford now has 15 wins against one loss for 30 points in the standings. South has 10 wins, five losses and one tie for 21 pO'ints.

Somerset with seven victories, nine losses and one tie has 15 points while Rochester has four points on two victories and 13 losses.

Undefeated in seven games, Canton is leading the league in hockey with Franktin, 5-1-1, the runnerup. In a "crucial" Canton will host Franklin Saturday at eight p.m.

Next Sunday night's games in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, pair New Bedford and Rochester at 9 o'clock, Fall River South and Somerset at 10.

In conference basketball Friday night Feehan is host to CODnolly, Coyle-Cassidy is at Dennis-Yarmouth, Stang at VokeTech, Holy Family at Old Rochester. Next Tuesday Stang is home to Dennis-Yarmouth, Holy Family to Yoke-Tech, CoyleCassidy to Old Rochester, Connolly to Wareham and Feehan to Falmouth.

City celebrates LOS ANGELES (NC) - Pope John Paul II has sent a letter and a ble!<sing to the people of Los Angeles on the occasion of the city's bicentennial.

Los Angeles was founded Sept.

4, 1781. A year-long celebration is now in progress.

Thurs., Jon.' 22, 1981

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

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG--parental guidance sug· gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

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

"Breaking Glass" (Paramount): This offbeat British film takes a hard-eyed look at British society and the empire of pop music. It gets a bit too slick and sentimental at the end, but despite de· fects could be entertaining and provocative for some viewers, thanks in large part to the talent of actress-singer-composer Hazel O'Connor, here making her film debut. Because of its portrayal of the seamy side of life, the film has been classified A3, PG. "Hangar 18" (Taft International): The edifice of the title shelters a wrecked flying saucer kept undercover as part of a government cover-up in this anemic little movie starring Darren McGavin and Robert Vaughn. Because of incidental violence, it is classified A2.

"Scanners" (Avco Embassy): This perfectly dreadful Canadian movie has to do with people who, just by setting their minds to it, can cause nasty things to happen to other people, including having their heads explode. Because of its violence, "Scanners" has been classified B, R. Film on TV I;unday, Jan. 25, 9 p.m. (ABC) - "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) - This entertaining movie version of the Agatha Christie mystery stars Albert Finney as the incomparable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.

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On TV Sunday, Jan. 25, (ABC) "Directions" - " California Here I Come," filmed at Salinas, Calif., is the first of two programs on unemployment. Closing of the Salinas Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. factory ended jobs for several thousand workers. This program looks at the effects of prolonged unemployment and what national economic realities indicate about the future of the American Dream. Please check local listings for time.

Sunday, Jan. 25, EST (CBS) "For Our Times" - The recent visit to the United States by Archbishop Helder Camara of Brazil is the focal point of this program. 'Please check local listings for time.

On Radio Sunday, Jan. 25, (NBC) "Guideline" Marist Father Joseph Fenton, host of "Guideline," interviews Bernard Rostker, director of the Selective Service System. about a compulsory national service policy for American youth. Please check local listings for time.

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By Bob Zyskowski CHICAGO (NC) - "American Catholic with Father John Powell, S.J.... a Catholic television program with a popular host, minicam features and state-ofthe-art production techriiques, is set to go on the air in late January.

Aiming for a nationwide audience, "American Catholic" wi1l be broadcast on more than 1,600 cable television stations and several conventional· stations throughout the United States.

Taped before a live audience and produced in the studios of the Catholic Television Network of Chicago (CTN-C), the weekly half-hour series has a potential audience of 9 million homes, according to officials at CTN-C, where production of the first 13 segments has been going on since last summer.

"We wanted to do Catholic TV in a way it hadn't been done before," said producer Dennis Wilcox. "We didn't want it to be a lecture., We wanted something that would grab the viewer and pull him in."

The visuals Wilcox and executive producer Mrs. Judy Muntz will put on home television screens throughout the U.S. blend a colorful set, modern' stylized logo, Father Powell with' his expressive face and hands and heartwarming stories - and special minicam features, short glimpses into the lives of everyday Catholics.

Father Powell, a professor of theology at Chicago's Loyola University, previously made three short television series which continue to be aired throughout the country. Shown in Toledo, Ohio, one show from an earlier series outdrew the popular "Mork and Mindy" pro· gram.

Father Powell may be better known, however, as the author of several mi1lion-selling books, including "Why Am I Afraid to Love?" and "Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?" On "American Catholic" the Jesuit priest talks both to the studio audience and the camera on themes such as faith" Christian attitudes and love during' segments which vary in length from three to seven minutes., Between Father Powell's messages are features filmed in locations from Boys Town to the Chicago Bears football camp in Lake Forest, III. The segments have become Catholic versions of ABC television's "up close and personal" approach to personalities fea-. turing, for example, spots on jazz pianist Mary Lou Wi1liams talking about her faith; Coach Ray Meyer of highly-ranked De Paul University explaining how he instills self-esteem in his basketball players and some not-sowell-known Catholics - a suburban mother of seven, a Hispanic businesswoman and a Midwestern farmer describing the role of faith in their lives.

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