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Bishops study morality DALLAS (NC}-Bishop Daniel A. Cronin Was among :WO U.S. and Canadian bishops participating in a workshop in Dallas to study the complex dimensions of human sexuality nnd personhood.

The workshop, sponsored by the Pope John ~III MedicalMoral Research Education Genter in St. Louis and funded by the Knights of Columbus, provided the North American chUJ,ch leaders with an informal, private forum to discuss moral aspects of such issues as homoslexuality, contraception, transslexuality and moral norms for married, single, celibate and divor<:ed individuals.

Explanations and basic information on the physiological aspects of sex and human behavior were outlined for the bishops by medical experts. Theologi~ms and ethicists discussed popular methodologies and the development of contemporary theology on sexuality and marriage.

In a taped message to the bishops, Pope John Paul II laud.ed the participants for examining human sexuality and personhood.

"This simultaneous treatment is not only praiseworthy, it is necessary," the pope remarked.

He also urged the prelates to "recall that the words of our Savior are not words of accusation or condemnation, rather they are words of invitation,

words of truth spoken in love and compassion."

Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostoliC delegate in the United States, joined the bishops for two days of the workshop. In a homily at a workshop Mass, Archbishop Laghi asked his fellow bishops to respond to the needs of their people in areas· of human sexuality with "pastoral charity, human compassion and fraternal support."

"People come to us with problems that seem to be too much for them. People who find it difficult if not impossible to observe moral teaching. People whose lives are settings for problems you are discussing in these workshops," the delegate said.

"We cannot offer· miracles, but we can offer what Jesus offered, doctrine and actions, teaching and deeds," he added.

One day was devoted to pastoral considerations of selected questions on human sexuality.

These included chastity education, contraception and the contraceptive mentality, homosexuality, masturbation, transsexual surgery and sexual therapy.

"The exceptional cases of human sexuality make us realize our need to sharpen our concept of what sex really is," said Dominican Father Albert Moraczewski, who discussed transsexual surgery. Such rare cases as that of a transsexual, usualLy an individual with a male anatomy who

sees himself from an early age as a woman, or the hermaphrodite, a person with both male and female sexual organs, illustrate the complexity of making moral decisions in certain areas of human sexuality, he said.

Father Moraczewski added that medical studies have not yet shown how sex is determined.

Certain cases, he continued, have shown that it is not simply determined through chromosomal or obvious anatomical factors.

The priest, who is al~o a staff member at the John XXIII center, said that the large turnout of bishops for the two educational workshops seems to indicate "that the leadership is not closing ·its eyes to new developments and concerns. It doesn't say 'I've got my mind made up, don't bother me with facts,' but on the contrary says, 'Let me hear some more facts,'" he stated.

Bishop Bernard Law of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., chairman of the Pope John Center's board, spoke of the workshop as a means of dlluminating church teachings on human sexuality "for ourselves, not just for others." .

"One can be totally convinced that the thing is right, but that doesn't mean that you don't see the practical difficulties that people are facing," he added.

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Catholic press plays vital .role ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (NC) - The Catholic press is invalua~le in bringing the full story of what is happening in the church to the Catholic people, the president of the Catho:tic Press Association said in a Catholic press month statement.

"It is difficult to envision a ohurch without the CathoHc press," said the CPA president, Ethel Gintoft. "Our informatil)n would be limited in scope and amount. Our perspective would be merely parochial."

Mrs. Gintoft, associate editor of the Catholic Herald Citizen, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, continued: "Our links with the larger church and churches of other denominatio::ls would be weak. And our voices

as a faith community would be only whispers barely heard beyond the confines of our own buildings."

February is celebrated annually as Catholic press month. This year's theme is "The Catholic Press: Blueprint for a Better Society."

In the Fall River diocese, where Anchor Subscription Month is concurrent with Catholic Press Month, the Polish parish of St. Stanislaus, Fall River, has made a unique offer.

"In honor of the Holy Jubilee Year of Our Lady of Czestochowa," announced Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor, "every person who either renews hisl her subscription to The Anchor

or becomes a new subscriber

this year, will have their subscription automatically renewed and paid for by the parish in 1982."

Mrs. Gintoft said an American archbishop recently commented that 90 percent of the letters he receives expressing confusion or concern over something that has happened in the church are froni people Who obtained their information from only the secular press.

She said the secular press does not have the background and the space "to present all the details, clarifications, nuances and contexts in which the events of the church occur." Only the Catholic press can present full reports that help readers understand the Turn to Page Six

All systems go for pilgrim pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II will. address the people of Asia by radio and deliver a world peace message during his ·Feb. 16-27 tour of the Far East.

The. two events were among highlights of the papal schedule, which includes 12 Masses in as many days.

The message to Asia is scheduled for Feb. 21 from the head-

quarters of Radio Veritas, a Catholic broadcasting system, in Manila, Philippines. The talk on peace is scheduled for Feb. 25 in Hiroshima, Japan, site of the world's first atomic bomb attack in 1946.

The schedule makes no men· tion of a planned stop in Karachi, Pakistan, Feb. 16 primarily for refueling the papal plane.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Constitutional lawyers studying wording for a proposed human life amendment agree on most points but not on whether such an amendment should allow for indirect abortion procedures which would save the life of the mother.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (NC)-The Mass Pope John Paul II celebrates in Anchorage Feb. 26 is expected to draw as many as 100,000 persons from throughout the huge state of Alaska. The Mass will highlight the pope's three-hour visit to Alaska.

MILWAUKEE (NC)-The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has urged the' California attorney general's office to investigate the p\l'bl~sher of the anti-Catholic comic book, "Alberto," for false advertising and consumer fraud.

MOTHER ANGEUCA of Our Lady ot the Angels Monastery, Birmingham, Ala. watches technicians prepare for broadcast at Eternal Word Television Network, the first Catholic satellite television operation in the nation, which she founded, depending entirely on providence for operating funds.

(NC Photo)

DALLAS (NC)-Curtis Hutson, a fundamentalist Baptist magazine editor, refused at a Texas meeting to shar,e the podium with anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly because of her Catholicism. Mrs. Schlafly, national chairman of Stop-ERA, said she had never before encountered such a reaction to her faith.

WASHINGTON (NC)-William R. Wilson, a long-time friend and political adviser to President Reagan, is rumored to be headed for the Vatican as the president's special envoy to the pope.

ROME (NC)-The Catholic Church in Equatorial Guinea has made a "new beginning" since the overthrow of an anti-church dictator, Francisco Nacias Nuema, 18 months ago, according to a report in the Rome-based Fides, news service of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. <During Nacias' ll-year-rule the institutional church was virtually destroyed.

AGANA, Guam (NC)-uSpirituality, Hospitality and Unity" is the theme selected by the Diocese of Agana, Guam, for the visit of Pope John Paul II Feb. 22-23. An outdoor Mass is planned as the highlight of the visit.

VATICAN CITY (NC~-A Canadian nun who died 69 years ago, Mother Marie Lenie, had her cause for sainthood take the first major step forward during ceremonies Jan. 31 at the Vatican. Mother Leonie founded the Institute of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family.

ARCHBISHOP Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage, Alas~a is deep in planning for pope's three-hour visit to state on feb. 26. (NC Photo)

VATICAN CITY (NC)--lPope John Paul II has called for an end to border fighting between Peru and Ecuador and asked that the dispute be resolved "through only peaceful means."

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WARSAW, Poland (NC)-At least half of Poland's three million Communist Party members are Catholics forced to practice their faith in secret, according to an article in Zycie Warszawy, a major Warsaw newspaper.

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WASHINGTON (NC)--Entry and resettlement of 125,000 Cuban and 12,400 Haitian refugees has cost the government about $532 million so far, according to federal officials. Congress appropriated $734.4 million for Cuban-Haitian refugee resettlement through Sept. 20. Officials anticipate staying within that budget unless there is a new wave of refugees.

VATICAN CITY (NC)--Pope John Paul II has named the first nat,ive Ordinary in Namibia (South West Africa). He is Bishop Bonifatius Hauxiku, 45, who succeeds German-born Bishop Rudolf Koppman, 68, as apostolic Victor of Windhoek.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Father Blase J. Cupich, a priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Neb., has been appointed secretary of the apostolic delegation, according to Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic delegate in the United States.

FATHER JOHN NESBITT never expected his vocation would involve him in driving a bus. Pastor of two rural parishes in a sparsely populated area of San Diego County, Calif., he brings CCD to children, holds classes . in the 'bus. (NC Photo)

WASHINGTON (NC~路Catholic colleges and universities must practice what they preach because they "have a missionary obligation to embody the presence of Christ for the world," said Father Roichard P. McBrien, chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame.

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for refugees The Diocesan Department of Social Services is seeking clothing, towels, blankets, dishes, glassware, sllverware and kitchen utensils for a refugee family from Cambodia expE!cted to arrive in Fall River this week.

"They are coming sooner than we expected," said Patricia Sullivan, the social worker in charge of the diocesan agency's. resettlement effort for the family, "so the need is really urg. ent."

The family consists of a mother, father, a 15-year-old boy and two girls, 13 and 6. All will need winter clothing and it is noted that Cambodians are a slight, slJ)all-boned people. The 6-year-014, for instance, will wear clothes in 4 or S-year-old sizes.

Donations may be brought to the Social Services office at 783 Slade St., Fall River. FUdher information as to items needed is available there from Mrs. Sullivan, telephone 674-5741.

Mercy parley in Hondur:ls Among delegates and guests at a Sisters of Mercy Laltin American and Caribbean Conference to be held in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Feb. 19 through 26 will be four with ties to the Fall River diocese.

They are Sister Mary Noel Blute, administrator .of the Mercy province of Providence and a Fall River native; Sister Sheila Harrington and Sister Margaret Kinsella, bot:11 New Bedford natives stationed. in San Pedro SuIa; and Sister Marie Geraldyn, assistant to Sister Mary Noel, who is a former faculty member of Holy Family High School, New Bedford.

They and delegates f:rom 10 Latin countries where thEl Mercy community is active will meet to discuss their commitment to the poor in the Americas: in the light of the Puebla DOtcument and the writings of MothE!r Catherine McAuley, Mercy foundress.

Also discussed will be preparations for celebrating thEl IS0th anniversary of the Mercy community this July in Dublin.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (NC) The WorldWIde Marriage Encounter has a new episcopal moderator, Bishop Lawrence H. . Welsh of Spokane, Wash. Bishop Welsh replaces Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Seattle, who had served as moderator for almost four years.

Announcement of the appointment was made by Al and Bar. bara Regnier and Father Des Colleran, United States executive team of Worldwide Marriage Encounter. The U.S. office is in Long Beach. . "At a time in our history when FATHER MARCEL BOUCHARD CONDUCTS POST-ORDINATION COURSE FOR many forces seem to threate~ DEACONS AND THEIl( WIVES the basic structure of 1Darriage and family life, I welcome the opportunity to serve and assist the Worldwide Marriage Encounter movement," Bishop The permanent deacon pro- gether of deacons allows them to program for deacons i~ another Welsh s a i d . ' . gram of the diocese entered .a share their needs and concerns evidence of the ongoing effort of new phase last week with the and become aware of the general the diocese to implement the deWhat Counts "An acre of performance is start of post-ordination courses attitude towards their role in crees of Vatican II as they perfor deacons. diocesan life. In an open and tain to the continuing education worth a whole world of promise." - Howell .

The current course, Prophets positive manner, each deacon Js of those in Holy Orders. of the Old Testament, is being enabled 路to confront his strong conducted by Father Marcel and weak points as he witnesses Bouchard and will continue for to the reality of the servant eight two-hour sessions, each church. session concluding with liturgy.

Since the diaconate is a new In addition, several day work: addition to the clerical life of shops are in preparation. The the diocese, the post-ordination first, directed by Msgr. John J. program also gives its members Oliveira, will be on liturgy arid the opportunity to reaffirm their will be held at St. Mary's Cathe- loyalty to their brothers in Ordral on March 7. A daylong ders, the presbyterate and the homiletic workshop employing bishop, thus alleviating some of video playback will be offered in the difficulties and uncertainties the spring. experienced by the deacons.

Finally, the post-ordinat路ion These courses and workshops reflect the serious concern of the Fall River diocese for clerical education. Ordained deacons are annually required to participate VOLUNTEERS - Cambridge, MA in a course of studies as well as in days of recollection and a Experience Christian Community and voluntary service to retreat. the poor. Open to single Catholic men (18-30 yrs.) For Although not offered everymore info: where, such 'post-ordination programs are considered an absolute Oblate Summer Program necessity in dioceses 路that take the restored order of deacon seriBox 825 ously. In the diocese of Fall Plattsburgh, NY 12901 River they are viewed not only as a means for furthering the intellectual growth of deacons but also as an aid to building diaconal community. They also help Ithe di9Cese to keep In touch wtith its deacons in a manner benefiting all members of the local church.

In addition, the coming to-

Diaconal post-ordination program

Tax crt~dits discussed WASHINGTON (NC) .- The U.S. Catholic Conference is holding nine one-day meetings around the country to discuss proposals in Congress for tuition tax credits.

The meetings, according to Edward Anthony, USCC director of educational assistance, are designed to share information on the tuition tax credit issue with local coordinators and other supporters of the credit.

According to usec officials, 13 tuition tax credit bills had been introduced in Cong:ress by early February. The bill with the most support is HoB. 380, intro-

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duced Jan. 6 by Rep. Thomas A. Luken (D-Ohio) and 13 co-sponsors.

A similar bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Robert Packwood (R-Qre.), is expected to be introduced in the Senate..

Tax credit supporters are awaiting the Reagan administration's tax cut recommendations, which are expected to include support for tuition tax credits.

Meetings heve been held in Boston, New York, Chicago and Denver, and are yet to come in Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta and Washington.

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themoori~ Second-rate Diplomacy In the wake of the turmoil and tribulation of the Iranian hostage affair, it has become more and more evident. that one of the glaring flaws in American foreign policy is the failure of this country to recognize the State of Vatican City and name a fully accredited ambassador to the Holy See. It has become all too evident that on the diplomatic level the United States is a bastion of bias, ineptitude and prejudicial ignorance. Despite all the Holy See has done to uphold freedom. of nations as evidenced by its full parti. cipation in the Helsinki Accord; despite the high esteem in which the non-Catholic world holds the Holy See; and despite the fact that most of the rest of the world has full diplomatic representation at the Vatican, including Iran, this great nation is playing footsie on this issue. . i This ridiculous and stupid situation is merely aggravated the more by the token presidential appointment of a personal envoy to the Vatican.

Such a person might be able to listen at keyholes but in the world of international diplomacy he is a nonentity.

The personal representative might have the power of the presidency as his reason for existing but in recent times, as we know too well, this has been a limitation. .

The question of our diplomatic representation to the State of Vatican City is a national embarrassment, smacking of bigotry and bullying and telling us once more that the diplomacy of the United States is dominated by religious intolerance and political subterfuge.

Would that those so-called defenders of freedom represented by the mouthings of the American Civil Liberties Union could appreciate the Holy Father's words as statemElnts of fact, not fiction.

Ina recent address to the diplomats accredited to the Holy See, the pope said: "It is true that civil sQciety does not coincide with religious society and that the two missions, that of the Church and that of the State, must remain clearly distinct. But it is also true that the Church and the State are ordained to the good - spiritual on the one hand, temporal on the other - of human persons and that the mutual dialogue, respectful and loyal, far from disturbing society, on the contrary enriches it."

Why can't the government of this land accept this papal statement at its face value? Why must we as a people have our diplomatic representation dictated by the whim and fancy of the bigot? Why are we politically afraid to have an ambassador at the Vatican?

These are but some of the questions that must be placed before the new _administration. As a nation, we should no longer play games with this issue, hiding behind false and fraudulent interpretations of the perennial issues surrounding the separation of church and state. Our exchange of ambassadors with the religious states of Israel and Saudi Arabia should have settled that issue.

Nor should we have to apologize and defend a papal visit to our nation or to the White House. The head of the Anglican church, the English queen, would never be submitted to such embarrassment.

As Catholics in a free land, may we dare to support each and every effort to eradicat~ this singular blot that stains our diplomatic record. Let us put an end to secondrate diplomacy. .

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Humanae Vitae restres,se'd

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

Catholics were as committed as he to the truths of Catholicism, the members of the church would truly be seen as the light of the world and salt of the earth. The truth, n9...matter how rare, is always compelling.

The late Ameri.can poet, Carl Sandburg wrote: "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." Here, in these few words, is much truth. It is a crying路 shame that so many The pope gave the rationale Catholics choose to ignore the teaching of the church with re- behind the church's teachings gard to birth control: that the .against artificial birth control ultimate responsibility for moral and for natural family planning decision-making rests with the in an address to the Congress路 for individual conscience guided by the Family of Africa and Europe. reason and grace.

In it, he stated: "The design The phrase "reason and of the Creator has provided the grace" succinctly describes the human organism with structures process of conscience formation. and functions to assist couples It was the conclusion of the in arriving at responsible parentrecently concluded Synod of hood. How sad it is to note that Bishops that the teachings of the spirit of so many men and Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) women has drifted away from were valid. H~nce artificial this divine plan. means of birth control are in"For so many, new life is trinsically wrong. The Synod looked on as a threat and someconcluded that the faithful need- thing to be! feared. Others, ined to be more aware of the bib- toxicated with the technical lical and personalistic reasons . possibilities offered by scientifor this teaching. fic progress, wish to manipulate pope John Paul II has stressed the process of the transmission in his Wednesday conferences of life and, following the subthe need for better-formed con- jective criteria of personal satissciences in the area of sexual faction, are prepared even to destroy newly conceived life. morality.

His lectures, a commentary on "Christians must be quite difthe Book of Genesis, have pro- ferent: inspired by objective morpounded; a Christian philosophy al standards based on an auof sexuality centering around thentic and all-embracing vision of the human person, the Chrisa responsible person.

The pope's background in Sa- tian stands in awe of all the cred Scripture and philosophy laws that God has impressed on has made him particularly adept the body and spirit of man." at such instructio~'l. Roman Catholics should count their blessings. A pope as trilliant and energetic as John Paul II is truly a great asset. Perhaps if more

Many Catholics have been duped into believing that Humanae Vitae is an encyclical letter that one can choose to ignore. They are seduced by the

popular ethos that teaches that the church has no authority in a decision that involves only a husband and wife. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Others feel that while birth control may be an important issue, the church should spend more of its energy fighting abortipn. When in battle, few have t~e " l\lXury of choosing their battleground. Circumstances are such that the battleground is selected before the war is fought.

There was a day when a ship was sinking, shelter was first provided for women and children. Quite the converse seems to be true today. The ideology of secularism attacks, at times openly and at other times subtly, women and children.

The pope seems too often to be alone in upholding the dignity of women and children.

Worth remembering are the words of Malcolm Muggeridge: "The great guarantee that human life is always worth crea路 ting, always worth bringing into this world, always worth living, is because there is built into it this indestructible awareness that it belongs to eternity and not to time."

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Report card time I can hear it reverberating in thousands of American homes this week: "Until you bring those grades up, there will be no television, no friends forever, and three hours of homework nightly," Don't ask me how I know. I have a certain amount of loyalty to m:~ own.

However, one mother took her son by the bus and visited school after one particu:larly discouraging report card. She sent me her reactions to share with other parents and for this we all thank her.

"Upon breaking the news to my 13 year-old son of my intention to spend the day at school, it wasn't a jubilant ride into the city from our mountain home. I had just cast a fate worse than death on my seventh grader his mother spending the entire day in his classes! How embarrassing. So I braced myself for a lonely day as my 5-fO(,t-l0 offspring started out the morning acting as if he had never seen me before in his life and didn't know my name from Eve. "The reason for the trip was a drastic decline in grades. I felt that I would not get to lhe heart o.f the matter by just ~lttending a conference or havillJ!: a nice heart-to-heart chat with my son.

The more blunt and forceful words that had been eJi:changed

weren't resolving the situation either. After some soul searching, I decided to see, firsthand, what this whole school business was all about..

"Well, Mom was refreshed, rejuvenated, and exhausted by day's end. I was refreshed because it forced me to take time to sit in a room and observe many beautiful young lives at the threshold of the world. I saw dedicated teachers who love children enough to give them all of their good and moral knowledge. So many times during the day, I wanted to stand up and say to the students, 'Here it is, kids, all this good knowledge being offered to you. Reach out and fill your minds with every bit of iU' I was rejuvenated because I felt that I had gained an insight into the situation and could see a means to the solution. I realized more clearly how important friends and peer pressures are to young adults. Young minds must constantly struggle to be tuned into the learning process rather than the peer process. I'm not excusing this lack of concentration in class but I do have a better idea of how this problem must be approached. I also realized assignments could not be completed in one study hall session per day. Armed with this

A Cat:holic I've been a Graham Greene addict for more than 35 years. His book, "The Power and the Glory," has had a profound impact on my spirituality as a priest. One of the few compliments paid to my work (and there are not many, to tell you t:1e truth) that really mattered was Mr. Greene's request for un autographed copy of my "The Making of Popes 1978," It was, as you may imagine, inscribed "To Graham Greene, in gratitude for 'The Power ant! the Glory,' " Therefore I gobbled up his quasi-memoir, "Ways of Escape," a :book as fascinating as many of his novels. Mr. Greene has really been to all those strange places about which he writes in his fiction. And he is indeed the kind of sensitive, ironic, suffering, uncertain man about whom he writes. . The book has stirred, up the old discussion of whether Greene is a Catholic or a Catholic novelist, or a novelist who is a Cathlic or an ex-Catholic who happens to write novels.

It seems clear to me that he is now what, he always was, a man whose Catholic vision pl~rmeates his work. He may be content with the plea that he is only a Catholic who writes novels and he is entitled to that stance.

Yet even his autobiography suggests something muc:h more.

Others insist that he reveals in the biography that he has rejected Catholicism. I find that position as absurd as when it

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was advanced in the past after every one of his major books.

Mr. Greene may not be a practicing Catholic - I don't know. He may not be a good Catl1olic, he certainly doesn't think he's a good Catholic, but beware the person who claims to be a good Catholic. He probably writes for The Wanderer or is into Liberation theology.

Yet Graham Greene is haunted by a Catholic vision of things from which he cannot escape, a vision to be found even in Pinky in "Brighton Rock" and in Harry Lime of "The Third Man" (one of his greatest works in my judgment).

Like many other great Catholics he has been harassed shamefully by some Catholics, especially in connection with "The Power and the Glory," That was a long time ago, you say. Not so long as the history of the church goes. And the same kind of people are still in

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By DOLORES CURRAN

information, I feel my son and I are on our way toward a mutual understanding and grade improvement. '.'Finally, I must admit I was exhausted by the time the bell rang at 3:15. I didn't look forward to two hours of homework with Tim after dinner dishes.

But the point that helped me to continue the evening in reasonable harmony with my family was that I knew in detail what was expected of my son by 8:45 the following morning.

"I didn't relish the thought of sitting in school all day. Being a wife, a mother, and a business executive, I certainly had other matters to occupy my day. It was the education that I was receiving from my children rather than the reverse that necessitated the commitment. The many experiences which I derived will remain vivid in my mind for many years.

"I am grateful to the teachers and staff for the warm welcome and hope I received in their school that day."

By REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

business doing the same thing.

Today the witch hunters have a new alliance of supporters in this country - the combination of Right to Life, charismatics, The Wanderer and other assorted right-wing kooks.

Need one say that this sort of corruption cries to heaven for vengeance? How bad must the public image of the church become before the pope and the bishops end such nonsense?

(necroloCiY) February 14 Rev. Charles E. Clerk, 1932, Pastor, St. Roch, Fall River Rev. Msgr. Francis E. McKeon, 1980, Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, Taunton Rev. Pastor, Rev. Pastor,

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·PRAYER OBSERVANCE WEEK'."

February 15 Joseph G. Lavalle, 1910, St. Mathieu, Fall River James C. Conlon, 1957, St. Mary, Norton

February 19 Rev. Andrew J. Brady, 1895, Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River Rev. Leopold Jeurissen, SS. CC., 1953, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fairhaven

A nation refurbished

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By MARY McGRORY

When the hostages startBy then, it was obvious that if ed speaking for themselves we couldn't celebrate the epiev~rything changed. They sode, we could celebrate the blunted the rage, dissolved people who had endured it. "I the shame. At their West Point made up my mind early on to press conference, in their inter- cope," said Richard Mo~field.

Kevin Hermening, whose views, they exhibited style, grace and humor, three qualities mother, Barbara Timm, had which have in no way been as- made a trip to Iran so provocasociated with their plight and tive her life was threatened by the conternation it occasioned in her neighbors, as asked at West Point how he felt about her comtheir country.

While they were on their way ing. He said mildly, "I was very - in the clutches of doctors, glad to see her," The roles had been reversed. dentists, psychiatrists and debriefer in Wiesbaden the The hostages, who we thought mood was turning ugly, as stor- needed reassurance, were disies of abuse and torture seeped pensing it instead. William Keout. Jimmy Carter, the classic ough, for instance, offered an over-reactor, called their cap- unexpected defense of the "flexitors "criminals," "animals" and ble" American school system "thugs," They may be that and which enabled its captive gradumore, but the hostages, at least ates to survive while their Iranthose who were not emotionally ian captors showed only "anger maimed by the experience, ob- and anguish," By the way, they viously did not want to dwell on were "students," they said emthis aspect, and Elizabeth Ann phatically. The word was banSwift implored reporters to be ned from the official lexicon by sure they got it straight when the Carter White House. The they wrote stories about torture. West Point press conference They set the tone of their showed that the hostages were homecoJlling. They defined their less inhibited than we had been ordeal, gave it meaning, pro- and felt free to speak their nounced its worth: It had unified minds.

It was unpatriotic here at the the country. time to criticize the admission Bruce Laingen, their boyish- of the shah to the U.S. When looking leader, chose at the asked at West Point, two politiWhite House to mention a small- cal officers passed the query town New York sign which pro- back and forth and one of them claimed, "The world will be a finally said, with heroic lightbetter place for this," ness, "We always think WashAnd you know what? For a ington should do better," while it was. Pity for the hosThey quarrel politely about tages was transformed into ad- being called "heroes," they are miration. A trauma was turning unmistakably celebrities. into a triumph. The signs said, "Johnny McKeel," yelled "U.S. 52, Iran 0," The hostages someone at the White House told us that was the case. gate at the sight of the Marine.

Moorehead Kennedy, silver- McKeel had unreconstructedly haired, cultured, explained how opined at the West Point press he had upheld his principles. conference, on the subject of Hours before the end, with his 'psychological effects, that the liberation hanging on his per- Marines would be fine once they formance on Iran television, he got back to the business of went on camera and said that "chasing women," while some guards had been genPresident Reagan made his uinely kind and helpful" the contribution to the spirit of the Iranians had done wrong to day by being conversational'in seize the embassy. It had been, his welcoming remarks. He made he chided them, "counterpro- the expressed threat of "swift ductive." and effective retribution" if it Washington's welcome was ever happens again. But he sugheartfelt and homemade. Along gested we "turn the page," the route that Ronald Reagan To national astonishment and rode just a week before, amid gratitude, it has become a page more programmed jubiliation, of pride in our history. The coun· hand-lettered signs bloomed, try, to use a word Laingen apspontaneous, sobbing joy erup- plied to the hostages, has been ted in the streets. A blind wom- "refurbished" Iby the homecoming an said, "Oh, when I think of hostages. their suffering . . . " Senators and congressmen stood humbly on the edges of the South Lawn crowd craning for a look.

Not since the Bicentennial has there been such a surge of "pub• A look ;tt the lic happiness," such a blaze of other side of t~e Curpatriotism. The crowd waiting along the route sent up a cheer sillo movement. when a giant flag was raised over an intersection.

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Continued from page one Previously, a Vatican spokesman announced the refueling stop.

It lists eight cities in the Philippines, one in Guam, three Lelca • Nikon • Bolex • Hasselblad Ampex • Sony • Panasonlc in Japan and a final stopover in Anchorage, Alaska, on the re267 MAIN STREET turn flight to Rome.

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Paul is scheduled to meet Catholic groups, politicians, the Chinese community, slum dwellers, diplomats, Moslems, sugar cane plantation workers, farmers, refugees and lepers.

The schedule includes vJsits to areas troubled by anti-government activities and sentiments.

One stop will be at Davao on I the southern island of Mindan//ji "Sullivan's ao, whioh has for a long time It Religious Goods been the scene of anti-govern428 Main 51.. Hyannis 775·4180 ment guerrilla warfare by MosII John & Mary' Lees, Props. lem factions. The pope will adOnly Full Line ReligIous Gift Store on the Cape dress Moslem leaders at Davao.

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN, at right, at session of Dallas workshop. (Texas Cath- . In Manila the pope is schedolic Photo) uled to visit the Tondo waterfront slum area where residents have opposed government efforts to resettle them on land outside the city far away from their WAL.tALL A ,COLLECTION OF HELPFUL FLOOR VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope man sexuality and the subject of ning we discover the nuptial places of work.

HINTS BY 'AL' GARANT • In Japan plans call for him to John Paul II has asked U.S. bis- personhood," the pope said. meaning of the body; we see GARANT "This simultaneous treatment . that, in the mystery of creation, meet with groups including hops to present a "total vision of FLOOR COVERING is not only praiseworthy, it is man and woman are made to be youths; atomic bomb victims, man" in their teaching on sex.

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"We, on our part, must help (Runs parellel to South Main behind Ray'S Flowers) Leaving Rome on Monday, the . He said that sexuality and per- other," said the pope. our people to see moral teaching FALL RIVER "In their very existence, as pope will arrive in the Philipon sexuality as part of the total sonhOOd can be fully understood • CARPETING • CONGOLEUM Christian ethos of redemption," only When studied within the male and female, by their sex- pines at 8 a.m. local time on • CERAMIC TILE • ARMSTRONG 674·5410 the pope said in a radio message framewor~ of the mystery of uality and. freedom as persons, Tuesday. After five days of cereto a group of American bishops creation and the mystery of re- man and woman are capable of monies, meetings and travel mirroring thE! creative activity of within the country, he will deat a Workshop on Human Sex- demption." part from Guam on Sunday, Feb. The pontiff briefly reviewed God," he added. uality and Personhood at the CAPE COD Through r(~demption by Christ, 22.

Pope John XXIII Medicid-Moral his efforts to take that approach COUNTRY CLUB Research and Education' Center in his wee1?Y general audience he said, .man and woman receive The pope will leave Guam at in Dallas. talks over the past year and a . . . the streng~o live, in noon local time Monday, Feb. 23, "You have wisely chosen to half. Examining the plan of Christ and through hrist, a new arriving in Tokyo at 3 p.m. the same day. He will be in Japan examine both the subject of hu- God as it existed in the begin- ethos of redemptive \1e:'" until 10 p.m. local time Thursday~ Feb. 26, when he will depart CAPE COO'S MOST INTERESTING GOLF COURSE for Rome via Anchorage, Alaska, where he will make a THEATER DRIVE Of recent years increasing atOpened in a rambling white tasks and pSLy their own travel, three-hour stop from 10:40 a.m.

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At the end of the formation themselves to spiritual pursuits and the divorced, who wish to Pope John Paul II will be due year it is hoped that participants following first careers as home- test their religious v,ocation. back in Italy at 11:30 a.m. Rome BUFFINTON makers or in the working world, It offers a year of prayer, will have a firm handle on their time Feb. 27. future goals. delayed vocation programs have' scriptural and theological study, FLORIST, INC. The ·compa.nion men's program been established in many areas. spintual direction and contem-. is a four-year course, leading to porary religious community livAmong them are Villa Maria, . • 490. ROBESON the priesthood, offering acada vocation discernment program ing, including retreats, religious .

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Fr. Hesbm'gh to step do~yn NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the Universit'·. of Notre Dame since 1952, has announced plans to retire in the spring of 1982 and has asked the university trustees to find a successor.

Under the university charter, the new president wouild come from the Indiana province of the Holy Cross order, which established the school. The Indiana province takes in the states in the Midwest and West.

Father Hesburgh, 63, is expected to remain affiliated with Notre Dame in some capacity and to continue activities on the international and national level.

He currently chairs the national Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, which is scheduled to go out of existence March 1.

There has been spe~culation that Father Hesburgh might be appointed a bishop, but a spokesman for Notre Dame said these rumors are not taken sleriously.

Father Hesburgh was born on May 25, 1917, in Syracuse, N.Y. He was educated at the University of Notre Dame from 193437 and then completed further study at the Gregorian University in Rome, Holy Cross College and the Catholic University of America.

He was professed in the Holy Cross order in 1936 and ordained a priest in 1943.

In addition to his university role, his activities have included serving as chairman of the Overseas Development Coun<:il, a director of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Conference on Scienl~e and Technology for Development.

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NEW YORK (NC) _. Bishop James R. Crumley Jr., president of the 3-million-member Lutheran Church in America, said in New York he hopes there will be official intercommunion "before the year 2000" between Catholics and Lutheran:;.

On his return from a trip which included a private audience with Pope John Paul II and a tour of several Africfln coun.tries, Bishop Crumley said that he was reassured that ecumenism is a priority with the pope.

"The dialogues will continue," he said. The theological question of justification is important to us. It is difficult and: it may take two to four years to work it through."

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A parish that cares FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (NC) - The Gospel of Matthew put it this way: "The king will say to those on his right; 'Come, you have my Father's blessing.

'Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

'For I was hungry and you gave me food.

'I was thirsty and you gave me drink.'"

The people in St. Maurice Parish in Fort Lauderdale take those words literally. In 1980 they gave nearly $80,000 to feed the hungry all over the world.

This year they expect to do even more.

"I believe it's the number one responsibility people have as Christians," said Father John Mulcahy, pastor of the parish of about 2,000 families.

"We have everything at St. Maurice," agreed Sheila Benson, secretary of· the hunger program's six-member' advisory board. "Why not help those who don't have anything?"

Begun in 1976 with the Rice Thursday campaign, where interested parishioners ate only rice one Thursday a month and donated the difference !between that and the cost of their regular meal to the parish, the program really got into full swing in 1980 after Ms. Benson saw a documentary on the plight of the Cambodian refugees.

"I couldn't understand why God was letting this happen.

Then I realized it's us who are letting it happen," she said.

"I had all these luxuries and there were people out there starving. The reality just hit me that the world is so lopsided and something had to be done," she said.

The reality is that six percent of the world's population consumes 40 percent of the world's goods; that 1.7 million people died of starvation, malnutrition and lack of water last year in Africa alone; that 30 children die each minute of malnutrition; that more than 12 million chil-

dren died in 1980 of hunger-related illness.

Collecting large amounts of money so far has not been difficult, according to Ms. Benson and Father Mulcahy. Rice Thursdays, still being held, collected an average of $250 a week in December. Special activities raised $14,000, and much of the proceeds from a parish country fair also went to the program.

Donations also come from or· ganizations or visitors impressed with the program. One group do. nated almost $7,000.

"But I never talk about money," said Father Mulcahy.

Projects sponsored by St. Maurice include: - A mission in one of the poorest slums of Bogota, Columbia.

- A nutrition center in Guatemala.

- A hot-lunch program for 597 students in rural Thailand.

- An intensive care nursery in Guatemala.

- Three water projects in Central Africa.

The parish also sponsors five children around the world for $15 monthly each. It also helped provide hot meals to the infirm elderly in the Fort Lauderdale area and gave $1,000 to Cambodian refugees.

"It's the way we live that counts, surely, not the buildings we have," said Father Mulcahy.

"It's wrong to go overboard building rectories and churches while people are dying."

"It's written all over the Bible. Feed the hungry. And he's talking to us now," concluded Ms. Benson.

The other cheek NEW DELHI, India (NC)-The standing committee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India decided to increase social service activities despite attacks on the church. The attacks included a ban by the government of West Bengal State on new programs by several churchsponsored social agencies.

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She told her story at a meeting of adoptive parents sponsored at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, by Diocesan Social SerDesigners and Manufacturers of vices.

Trim, outgoing and in her midWorld's Finest Religious Masterdle thirties, Judy was an unwed pieces, Jewelry and Gifts. mother at age 15. "I didn't want to give the baby up but in those Ask for Creed at your favorite Jeweler's, days you weren't asked what Religious Shop or Gift Store. you wanted to do, it was just taken for granted that the bab.y would be adopted," she related.

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Now I feel as if everytitled "Who Am I?" It described Social Services, said that Massa.~ - , 1 8 · organizations that were helping thing is whole, no pieces miss- chusetts law forbids disclosure ing." adopted children and their naJudy's story illustrates a new of adoption facts, although bills tural parents to find each other. openness in society regarding to change the ruling are perenTucking the article in her TELEPARTS SERVICE CONV::J~~~L~.i0f~T:: the adoption process and also nially before the legislature, purse, Judy thOUg:lt about it for a clearer understanding of the strongly supported by tracing some time, then told her husP.T.l. importance of "roots" to an in- organizations. band she wanted to locate her dividual.

Formerly courts and The change most favored, firstborn son. In January 1979 MASS. TOLL FREE TELEPHONE 1-800 642-7548 she said, would permit release of social workers went to tremendshe joined two search organiza~ tions, both meeting in Boston, ous lengths to bury the identity information on adoptions finalConcerned United Birthparents of natural parents, birth records ized after the bill's date of enwere sealed and adopted child- actment. and Orphan Voyage.

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Our Lady of Victory Home in tion with the understanding of vices, she said, and her son turned out to live only a few Lackawanna, N.Y., is a large confidentiality cannot have that facility for unwed mothers. agreement retroactively abromiles from her.

The social services depart- There, for instance, in the past gated. Strictly speaking, that ment wrote to her son's adop- 18 years, only one unwed fath- means that present adoption tive parents, she said, who er has sought information about records would never be freely mAIUSIIED lt06 agreed to tell him that his nat- his child. And in Fall River so- released.

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The speaker was John Raposa, homefinder for the Taunton office of the' Massachusetts Department of Social Services.

Homefinders for other areas of southeastern Mass;achusetts nodded in agreement.

"You sometimes have a kid sitting for six hours in your waiting ,room, asking every hour or so, 'Have you found me a place?' and you keep having to say n~," said Raposa.

"What he gets is the message of rejection. Often his family doesn't want him, thElt's why he's with us, and now no one else wants him either."

"It's no wonder kids are full of anger," put in anothl~r homefinder.

The homefinders, rep:resenting social services. offices in Fall River, New Bedford, Attleboro arid. Hyannis as well as 'Taunton, were together to discuss their common problem - the acute scarcity of placements for children in need of at least a temporary home a~ay' from home.

The need is greatest for 13 to 17-year-olds, considered hard to handle by many prospective foster families, said the homefinders. Next neediest group are preschoolers, "who, tie people down."

What everyone wants, said the workers, are docile, delightful 5 to 12-year-olds, off at school all day, eager to please and not yet torn by the traumas of adolescence.

Although homes for such children are certainly welct)me, the workers agreed that they can use, "as many homes as we can get" for the other two groups.

Long term homes are, oJ course, the ideal, but emergency shelters . are also sought for thOSEl desperate weekend situations.

Current social work philosophy is to keep families together and children in their own homes if at all possible, they explained.

Placement is a "last resort" for youngsters referred to the department by courts, their parents or at their own request.

The length of a child's stay with a foster family can vary from a weekend to years, even until the child reachl~S legal adulthood. And every case is different, stressed the sodal workers.

What sort of fammes take foster children? All kinds is the answer, but what most foster parents have in Common is love of children and a warm willingness to open their family circle to another member.

That willingness must be shared by children already in the family, noted the workers, who said that an important part of

the homefinding process is a heart to heart chat with each child involv_ed, finding out his or her attitude towards sharing family love and facilities.

The Department of Social Ser- THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Feb. 12, 1981 vices pays board, room, clothing and medical expenses of. children, with rates varying according to the child's age. (A teenager eats more than a preWhat about sharing a bedroom? How do you feel about schooler, it was pointed out.) , No foster.parents get wealthy', having another kid in line for a morning shower? are the kinds however; since extras such as' records, school fees, hair cl!re of questions asked. equipment (again an important Once a child is placed, the item for teens) or trips to the workers hope against hope that movies, skating or out for a the arrangement will "take" on hamburger must come out of the both sides. "We urge foster par- basic allotment. ents not to request a child's re-, How do foster children feel moval hastily, to give disagreeabout their situation?"· Some do ments or arguments a chance to very well, said 'the honiefinders, work out,'~ said another homeciting for example a teen who finder. "Every time a child is serves on his community's cititaken out of a home, it's an- zens' advisory board and another other rejection for .~im or her." who's sharing a supervised Religion isn't usually a prob- apartment with another young M. S. AGUIAR & SON lem, it was noted. Usually fos- person in preparation for her 87 STOWE STREET FALL RIVER ter children go along with fam~ soon-approaching independence ily practices in regard to church- at age 18. going and catechism but if·either Realistically, however, they side has strong religious con- admitted that many children do victions, care is taken to match have difficulties stemming from children to homes of their own previous home .situations. But faith. many a:re amazingly resilient, iNo one plunges blindly into with no more problems than any foster parenthood, Twelve hours other child.

Concerned love is the key to of orientation are provided for candidates. The sessions are also most problems that' do arise, open to people who might sim- said the homefiilders. ply be wondering about foster And if you are haunted by the care, and involve no obligation thought of. an unwanted child actually to take a child. in a social services office asking Support from social workers "Have you found me a place?," and foster parent groups con- the chances are that you possess tinues after a child is placed in. that sort of love. a home and there are periodical Telephone numbers of area check-up visits by a worker. In offices of the. Depa.rtment of Soother words, no one is left to cial Services .follow. For inforflounder. mation on foster child placeThe homefinders pointed out ments, ask in eaeb case,for the that there are no income require- Homefinding Unit: New Bed-' ments for foster parents and that ford, 997-3361; Fall River, 679single 'and working parents are 1981; Taunton, .822-7761; AttIeeligible for placements, as are boro, 226-4553; Cape and Isfamilies receiving welfare assis- landS; 771-8564 or (toll-free) tance.

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Some time ago we wrote about "About the middle of the sev"After four or five months we .a mother who was trying to cope enth grade, we began to have began to see some small imwith a very difficult 14-year-old. real problems. He became sullen, provements: not so much tenA reader wrote the following insisting we did not love him.· sion in him~ a little horseplay letter to that mother. Our readlHe hardly spoke to us, would not with his brothers and sisters. er's h~tter combines, better than allow me to touch him and spent' "One night, 1 went to kiss the anything else we bave seen, most of his time lying on· his children goodnight and tell them good 'principles of discipline bed listening to music. When I I loved them and ask God to with Christian e'Uing. Here is would try to kiss him goodnight. bless them. (Mike always pulled the first half of her letter: he would push me away. the co\'ers over his head and "I knew we were in real would not let me kiss or touch "I'm taking time out of a very busy Saturday morning to write trouble and I became very fear- him.) I playfully pulled the covthis letter because I know how ful and upset. I was heartsick ers off one of his shoulders and heartsick parents can be over a and didn't really have any idea kissed him there. My son, already child they cannot seem to reach what to do. Here was our son, a teen-ager, pushed back the or help. I know, because I have so miserablE! and unhappy, fail- covers, looked at me with a grin, been there. I want to tell you ing at everything he seemed to and said, 'That didn't count.' He just a little abo'Llt our Mike's try, and convinced we did not put both arms around my neck problems and where we found love him. His father and I tried and hugged me hard. to show him love and help him, "That night was the breakhelp. but it seem.ed to make things through. He was our son again, "Mike was the fifth of 10 chil- worse. a member of the family.' Of dren. Mike was slow to walk "In desperation I cried out to course, we have had other proband talk. He had a moderate God for help. Every day after lems through his teen years, norspeech problem which took sev- Mike left for school I would mal ones I guess, but he seems eral years of therapy to correct. kneel by his bed and pray for to know without a doubt he is He was bright enough and an af- .him. I prayed that God would loved. fectionate little boy, but he was help him have a good day. I "I've never stopped praying slow to complete any task. He i.s prayed for his teachers that for Mike and all our children. just one of those people who is they might have the patience and My main prayer is that God will never in a hurry. He is meticu- wisdom to help him for himself. give them a real experience of lous and does a beautiful jab of "I prayed that God would his love and that they will really what he does, but he will drive. help us know how to help him come to know the goodness of you bananas' waiting for him to and how to show our love in a the Lord." finish.

(Next week: More practical ~ay he could accept. I also did "Mike did poorly in school and some fasting, just asking God to suggestions from this wise moththrough the sixth, seventh and take my sacrifice as an extra er.)

Questions on family living and eighth grades I always had to prayer for Mike. be behind him, pushing him and "I asked his grandmothers to child Care ~ invited. Address seeing that he finished his home- pray for him, and several aunts to the Kennys c/o The Anchor, work, etc. He had discovered and friends of mine. As I write P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. that you could be the class this, I have tears in my eyes be- 02722.

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High of course on the list of such luxuries are cosmetics.

Most of us find it difficult to give them up- altogether, thus the boom in no-frill cosmetics.

They are plainly packaged (we pay a lot for those frills) and in many. ~ses are items we hardly realize are cosmetics.

Baby oil and vaseline, for instance, are as familiar to us as apple pie and ice cream, but as mainstays of our beauty routine have hardly been touched.

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at a good price; petroleum, for example, the basis of vaseline, provides real benefits by sealing in moisture and making the skin's outer layer a more effective barrier to the dry, cold weather of a northern winter.

We routinely use baby oil and baby shampoo for babies, yet it has only recently come to our attention that the usefulness of those products does not cease when their users are toilet trained!

In every area, from food to fabric, there is a movement from the frivolous to tile essential.

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One side. of a dialogue

By Father John J. Castelot

II My mentor II

By Dolores Leckey

As a young mother I was fortunate to have a mentor - an older, experienced person who had succcessfully maneuvered and weathered life's storms.

A light of wisdom and hope for me, she was 20 years my senior and the mother of 10 children. She considered it more important to read than to wax floors. My mentor never deliberately "taught." But she lived out of a center of conviction and action that all could see.

For many years prior to Vatican II, liturgy was really the heart of her life. Family prayer in her" home included eight roughhousing boys saying vespers, the. church's evening prayer.

The Mass of the Christian community logically led Christians, in her thinking, to perform works of charity and to promote social justice. She believed ordinary men and women were called to holiness, to participation in the creative and redeeming work of God. In the mid-I960s she invited several young mothers to meet in her home over coffee, to discuss how we might deepen our lives of prayer. Our group met to learn, to meditate, to be comforted in silence, to pray for our vocations in marriage and family. For many of us, these morning meditations opened windows to the other dimension of life, that which "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard."

My mentor, now a widow with grown children, is still. in pursuit of the intellectual, creative, artful, prayerful life. She has chosen to continue this path in the company of praying women - a community of nuns.

-After she made this choice, a number of us searcned for a way to say "goodbye and thank you" and decided finally on a home Mass. Gathering in one of the living rooms where we had met so often seemed the most fitting way to thank God for her and for the years of grace and giving we had received through her.

Accordingly, a dozen middleaged women and men, grown children and others touched by her active concern for social. justice joined with her pastor in celebrating the church's central act of worship. Afterward, we shared stories and memories as w~ll as food; song, laughter and tears.

This moment stretched my memory to other home Masses: a Christmas Mass at our diningroom table after my husband's heart attack; a friend's wedding anniversary; a welcome Mass for new neighbors. .

Home Mass is not a frequent occurrence in my life. But it is important when it happens. As the parish liturgy brings the breadth of Christ to my ,sense of Christian community, a home Mass opens for me the depth and intimacy of Christ in the community.

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cause they live near one another as neighbors.

The home Mass can actually nourish the parish by strengthening involvement ill the liturgy on the part of various segments of the larger congregation.

3. There. is perhaps a further reason for the attraction of home Masses. Since Vatican II there has been an effort to help people center their personal spirituality closely on the church's liturgy and sacraments. To accomplish this, it is important for people to feel a part of the liturgy. This can be achieved to a significant extent by parish home Masses.

Home'Masses will never, however, replace the parish celebration of the Eucharist. In fact, given the shortage of priests, they will inevitably be' rather rare events in any home.

This practical limitation is as it should be. For in small groups, the liturgy need not ,be the only form of prayer. Moreover, home Masses' should not replace the liturgical celebra:jons in which we come in cont~.ct with the diverse members of the Christian community.

A friend once remarked that a home should provide room enough for people to be together and rooom enough for them to be apart - space for the family as a community, yet privacy for individual family members.

The scene of persecuted Catholics hudqling around a makeshift altar for Mass in a home demonstrates drama and liigh courage.

That scene has been repeated in various' parts of the world through the centuries, from the earliest days of the church when Christ's followers had no place for public worship, to the present. The construction of churches where large numbers of .peopl~ could gather for Mass has often been a sign that Christians were no longer being persecuted.

Yet today, in many places in the U.S. and Canada, small groups of Catholics are gathering. again in homes to celebrate Mass. Since they are not persecuted, why do they $ant home Masses?

1. Recent church developments have led to the placement of altars in churches as close as possible to the people, who thus see more clearly the action at the altar and feel part of what is happening. In a sense, home Masses reflect this development - bringing the altar and the people together.

A home Mass can be a very powerful experience, especially for people who sometimes feel like anonymous members of a community.

Of course, Christians know that they share with God and with ,each other in any celebraThis maxim might be applied tion of the Eucharist. And many to the parish as it provides acparishes are amazingly success- tivities large enough to' bring ful in creating a feeling路 of unity the whole parish family together; and intimacy among hundreds of but also makes room for events Mass goers; nevertheless parish- on a smaller scaXe, allowing inioners often say that during a . dividuals and small groups to home Mass with a small group pursue the life of faith in special they see and experience the Eu- ways. charist and their connection with other Christians in a special way.

In addition, the home Mass helps people see that the home and neighborhood are also sanctuaries of God's presence.

2. The parish Mass is a continuing sign that parishioners are called to be 'one family of God despite their many differences. Nonetheless, it is sometimes helpful to complement the larger gatherings with worship among small numbers who have much in common - peI'haps as members of a prayer group or a high school class or simply be-

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tics but in lives modeled on the selfless, creative love of the Son incarnate, a love which reached its highest expression in the cross.

This is the amazing wisdom of which it is written: "Eye has not seen, ear has not. heard, nor has it so much as dawned on man what God has prepared for those who love him." (1 Cor. 2:9) The Corinthians' egocentric behavior is a clear indication that they have failed to grasp this wisdom. The true wisdom, says Paul, can be expressed only in acts of love directed toward others.

As for finding wisdom by clever reasoning or by any other merely human means, the Corinthians should come to -realize that this wisdom defies reason.

Wisdom cannot be found; it must be given. Just as no one can ever know another's real self unless the other reveals this, so no one can know "the depths of God" (1 Cor. 2:11) unless God reveals himself, his wisdom.

It cannot be found; it must be given - and accepted. But anyone who insists on judging and living according to human standards, no matter how apparently noble, will not be open either to receive or to accept. .

"The natural man does not accept what is taught by the Spirit of God. For him, that is absurdity. He cannot come to know such teaching because it must be appraised in a spiritual way." (1 Cor. 2:14) That is why Paul came preaching the "absurdity" of the cross.

For in this "absurdity" God challenges people to see true wisdom, creative and not destructive. Wisdom unifies people in mature love. It does not divide them out of childish self-centeredness.

Sometimes reading Paul's letters is like listening to one end of a telephone conversation.

You can hear perfectly well what the pe:rson in the room with you is saying. But you can only guess what is being said on the other end .)f the line. That, of course, determines to a great extent what: is being said at this end. If you could just- pick up the extension phone and hear both sides, all would be clear.

Paul's letters are just one side of a dialogue. Often what he says leaves no doubt about what the other side is up to; other times, you <:an only guess - not necessarily mildly, but guess nevertheless. This is true for a good part of the second and the beginning o,f the third chapters of First Corinthians.

Many Christians in Corinth prefer the sophisticated presentations of Apollos to the more direct and realistic proclomation

by Paul.

This suggests that, for all their talk of "wisdom," the Corinthians do not really know what true wisdom is all about. They are still immature, still judging things, wisdom included, according to human standards, not divine. They have a lot of growing up to do.

"Brothers,. the trouble was that I could not talk to you as spiritual mEm but only as men of flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, and did not give you so:tid food because you were not ready for it.

"You are not ready for it even now, being still very much in a natural condition. For as long as there are jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not of the flesh? And is not your behavior that of ordinary men?" {1 Cor. 3:1-3).

Taking the prevailing philosophy as a guide, the Corinthians had imaginE!d Christian wisdom in terms of high-flying speculation about the divine Lord.

By JanaanMamemach Floating smugly is this atmosSaul walked slowly into Jerusphere, they congratulated themHe half expected to see alem. selves. on being superior - so superior that they could look armed guards at the gate; ready down on those less' fortunate to arrest him as in Damascus. people who were still concerned Bu there were no guards to stop about such distasteful things as him.

Saul felt excited as he walked the crucifixtion; still struggling to live out their Christian com- through the bustling streets of mitment in the ordinary affairs . the old .city. For years Jesusaof life; still trying to love un- lem had been his home. He had been away for over three years. selfishly and creatively.

But fear dampened his exWell, says Paul, this is precisely where true wisdom lies. Not citement. When Saul left JerusaTum to Page Thirteen in self-gratifying mental gymnas-

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A Verdade E. A Vida Dirigida Ipelo Rev. Edmond Rego

A Eucaristia na Comunidade Crista Nao e born que 0 homem esteja.s§ ...

Esta reflexao do Criador, nos pr~mor­ dios da humanidade, traduz uma profunda realidade existential do homem: 0 homem, para ser homem, necessita de vi ver em comunidade. Oeste modo, podemos afirmar que 0 homem tanto mais se humaniza quanta mais socializa, e tanto mais socializa quanta mais se humaniza A compara9ao'entre as sociedades elementares e as sociedades evoluidas com prova a tese anterior: 0 homem civilizado procura estar em continuo contacto com todos os homens. Sendo imposivel estar em rela9ao directa com todos os homens, 0 genio humane criou os maravilhosos meios de comunica9ao social atraves dos quais se presencializa a nivel mundial.

A hurnanidade, a medidaque se desenvolve, socializa 0 homem fazendo-o mai irmao, mais solidario de todos os problemas e alegrias do mundo.. _ Constrange-se-nos 0 cora9ao perante horrendos massacres no mundo ••• , quando entramcs em contacto com eles pela T.V. ou pelo jornal. Porque estao perto dos nossos olhos, temo-los perto. do cora9ao. Assim sentimos que todo 0 homem e meu irmao.

Cada vez mais 0 homem se sente irmao do seu irmao, porquanto pertence a sua propria na.tureza esta fraternidade, Mas, devido a queda do homem, a sua inclina9ao para 0 mal, mais parece ter razao 0 que ja. dizia Plauto: "0 homem e para 0 outro homem um lobo~ A historj de sempre tem apresentado esta flagrante conradi9ao: a familia'humana comporta-se, frequentemente, como uma alcateia de lobos siberianos: a menor mOf tra de fraque2:a de um serve de pretextc para ser devorado pelos seus irmaos."

Pela perversao do pecado, a fraternidade entre os filhds dos homens tranf formou-se em fraternidade de alcateia.

Mas ali onde abundou 0 pecado(a perversao) ai su~erabundou a gra9a(a reden9ac Deus nao abandonou a humanidade, ar tes contlnuamemte a chamou ao \inico redil, 0 Seu Povo. A ideia dos povos e n2 cionalidades i estranha a Deus. Ele so tern urn \inico povo. Como diz S. Paulo: "Nao ha grego, nem judeu, escravo ou U vre, se nao que tudo isso e um so povo reunido em Crj.sto~ Cristo, com a sua pc sagem pela morte, criou um novo povo en que nao e possivel estabelecer fromteiras racicas ou ideologicas.

Em qualque~r na9ao, 0 estrangeiro e um estranho, t~ desenraizado. Na Igreja ja nao existem estrangeiros ori forastei ros, pois somos concidadaos dos santos e membros da familia de Deus. Por Crist foi decretada a fraternidade universal: todos nos somes igualmente filhos de De us, unico Senhor e Pai. o homem rE~eencontrou em Cristo 0 caminho que cenduz a plena socializa9ac dos homens. Ele' proprio teve como fito primordial da sua aC9cao fundar urna comunidade universal, alicer9ada sobre 0 principio dum unico reino: 0 Reino de Deus a quem chamou a Sua Igreja.

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For children Continued from Page Twelve lem, he was the city's most feared persecutor of the followers of Jesus. Now he was returning as one of them, himself a follower of Jesus. He feared how people might react.

Finally a man named Barnabas believed Saul's story. He took Saul to meet the apostles.

Saul was especially eager to meet Peter, who was moved by Saul's story and invited the new convert to stay with him. Saul was delighted. He stayed at Peter's house for about two weeks, learning many things he had not known about the life and teachings of Jesus.

Gradually the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem learned to trust and accept Saul. They could see how totally committed to Jesus Christ he now was. So Saul was able to move about freely among those he had earlier persecuted.

Saul even began to tell others the good news about Jesus Christ. He preached Christ to an important group of Greek-speaking Jews. Their reaction was the same as that of Jewish people in the synagogues at Damascus.

They were very upset by Saul's .words. A few were so angry they actually plotted to kill Saul.

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Lord wanted him to do. Should he stay in Jerusalem despite the danger? Or should he escape oIice again? One day as he prayed in the court of the Temple, Saul's prayer was answered.

He fell into a deep trance. In his trance Saul saw Jesus. He heard Jesus speaking to him. ·.you must hurry," Jesus told him. "Leave Jersualem at once.

They will not accept your teaching about me."

"Lord," Saul answered, "they remember how I arrested and imprisoned anyone who believed in you. I stood by and guarded the cloaks of those who stoned your servant, Stephen. Now I am telling them the very same thing St~phen preached. I understand their feelings and why they are angry with me."

"Be on your way, then," Jesus told Saul. "I plan to send you far from here. I want you to preach to the gentiles."

Saul came out of his trance.

He quickly left the temple and hurried back to the community of Jesus' followers.

Some had heard of the plot against Saul. With their help Saul immediately left Jerusalem.

He decided to go back to Tarsus, where he had been born. There he would wait for further guidance from the Lord.

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Perhaps we hustle about too much and think that the hustling Popeye Avalanche Express The Gettin\ of Wisdom is accomplishing something. We The Great antini Raise the TItanic The Black' Hole like to look busy, rushing about, Scavenger Hunt Hangar 18 Coal Miner's Daughter Somewhere in Time Hero at Large to be seen here and there.

The Earthling Sunburn Hide in Plain Sight The Empire Strikes Back Maybe we are less concerned Tess Just You and Me, Kid The Europeans about the state of our souls than Kagemusha The 39 Steps The Fiendish Plot Tree of Wooden Clogs Little Miss Marker we are about good works, the of Dr. Fu Manchu Watcher in the Woods Midnight Madness The Final Count Down kind that are not done quietly, When Time Ran Out The Mirror Cracked The Fish That Saved but are seen by others.

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The Runner Stumbles The Hunter Bronco Billy Throughout his ministry our Running The Idolmaker Brubaker Lord attacked people who had The Seduction of Joe Tynan The Incredible Shrinking Can't Stop the Music Seems Like Old Times Woman The Changeling substituted mere doing for faith.

Simon Inside Moves Chapter Two He warned that unless doing Skatetown, U.S.A. It's My Turn Coast to Coast came from a prior commitment, Smokey and the Bandit The Jazz Singer Cuba it would sour and become unII The Kidnapping of the Defiance Stardust Memories President Die Laughing satisfying. Truly, in the midst of Starting Over Lost and Found Dirty Tricks hustle and bustle we often find Tell Me A Riddle The Main Event The Electric Horseman ourselves wearied with serving, Time After Time A Man, A Woman and The Elephant Man exhausted from the round of Tom Horn a Bank Falling in Love Again Tribute htso: Melvin & Howard doing that seems to serve no Voices Meteor ffolkes ultimate purpose.

When A Stranger Calls Middle Age Crazy First Deadly Sin James Joyce ]in his "Portrait Where the Buffalo Roam Moonraker flash Gordon Wholly Moses of the Artist as a. Young Man" More American Graffiti The Fog Willie and Phil My Body Guard foolin' Around describes such a Jesuit priest Wise Blood Nme to Five The Formula in terms that are apt to describe Yanks Nothing Personal Foxes us all: "His body had waxed old The Frisco Kid in the lowly service of the Lord ... yet had remained ungraced B - Obiectionable in Part for Everyone :by aught of sanctity and beauty. ... Nay, his very soul had waxMountain Men From the Life of the Altered States 1941 Marionettes ed old in that service without Americathon Night of the Juggler The Gong Show Movie And Justice for All growing .towards. light and One路Trick Pony Guyana: Cult of Any Which Way You Can beaut}' or spreading abroad the Penitentiary the Damned Baltimore Bullet . sweet odor of her sanctity."

Private Benjamin Happy Birthday, G~mini Blood Beach

A lady told me she was involved in a church project "because I've got nothing better to do." Wherl~ the commitment?

Service without holiness is as misguided a,s piety unsupported by action. A young person overheard that lady's remark and later said, "I: can tell she isn't committed by her attitude towards us and the job."

I think the lesson to be learned is in the story of Jesus washing his disciples' feet. We can recognize ourselves in poor impetuous Petl~r saying "No, Lord, you shall nElver wash my feet!"

And Jesus' rebuke comes to us as sharply as to Peter: "If I do not serve you, then you have no part in what I am doing." The

answer lies in why Jesus served, not in the fact that he aid it.

This is our trouble - our misunderstanding of our relationship to God. In our eagerness to serve we do not think about the why and we sometimes get so uppity we refuse to allow ourselves to be served' by God. We do not become holy because we have served, but we serve, or should serve, because something of God's holiness has touched our lives.

We serve in his name, continuing the ministry which he began. We are called to live in the world with our hearts fixed on God, concerned with all that touches the lives of fellow humans.

Old Nrotre Dame 'conquers the skies NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, is going to be a star - or, more accurately, a planet.

A minor planet, discovered May 3, 1951, has been named "Hesburgh" by the International Astronomical Union.

It was listed for the first time in January 1n the Minor Planet Circulars, which cited Father Hesburgh for his "extraordinary record of public service.

"During his 12 years a member of the' National Science Board," the dreuiar said, "he played a very important role in

CoyIe-Cassidy A portrayal by Ken Richter of "Mark Twain on Tour" will be presented at 10 a.m. tomorrow at a student assembly.

the founding of both the Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO). His support for CTIO during the 1964 period of inflation in Chile was decisive."

Bishop Feehan Catholic Schools Week activities at Feehan High in Attleboro included appreciation days for students, parents, faculty and staff. A Feehan Awareness Day celebrated school tradition and highlighted special events in school history. During the week there were parent-teacher cont'erences, right to life seminars and a Mass of Thanksgiving for the benefits of Catholic education.

Peace "In his will is our peace." Dante Alighieri

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The Blue Lagoon Caddyshack Carney Cheech & Chong's Next Movie The Children The Competition The Concorde Airport '79 Death Ship Dracula Fade to Black Fame First Family The Fifth Floor French Postcards

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Night Games Shogun Assassin Spetters The Stud Used Cars The Wicker Man

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ALUMNI AND ALUMNAE of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School New Bedford, members of 'Classes from 1940 to 1960, made a banner and joined present students in a Catholic Schools Week liturgy celebrated by Father John J. Oliveira. In front of the altar are Joseph Pimentel, dressed as Bishop John Carroll l first U.S. bishop and founcler of the school" that became Georgetown University; Robert Matos, St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of students; and Linda de Deus, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, one of the first American Catholic educators.

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Feehan TitUst, Stana Co-Titlist The Bishop Feehan Shamrocks have won the Southeastern Mass. Conference Divsion Two championship with a sweep of their IO-game division schedule.

Appropriately, the team's Mark Schmidt is the leading scorer not only in the division but for the entire conference.

Bishop Connolly High's Cougars finished as runnersup to Feehan with eight wins and two losses, both defeats by the Shamrocks. Schmidt scored 246 points for an average of 24.~ per game.

Connolly's Brian Shea with 180 points for an 18 point. average was among the top five scorers in Division Two. Ron Andrews, of Fairhaven, 191, 19.1, and John Quinn, Dartmouth, 185, 18.5, were among the top scorers in that division.

The Bishop Stang Spartans, who might well be rated the

surprise team of the conference, share the Division Three crown with Old Rochester's Bulldogs.

The Stang hoopsters earned their share of the championship when they defeated Old Rochester'last Friday in the division's season finale. Each finished conference play with 9-1 records. Stang's only division loss was to Old Rochester on Jan. 20. CoyleCassidy's Warriors, 5-5, finished in third place.

New 'Bedford High and Barnstable's Red Raiders staged a see-saw battle all season for the Division One crown which they now share. Barnstable gained the title tie with a win over the Crimson Friday in still another divsision season finale. The Division Four crown is owned outright by the Dighton-Rehoboth Falcons with the Diman Voke Artisans in second place.

Hoc:komock Race Close Entering this week's play, Oliver Ames and Sharon were tied for first place in Hockomock League basketball with 11-1 records. They met Tuesday at Oliver Ames and that game might well, to all intents and purposes, be the pennant clincher for the winner.

Games tomorrow have Mansfield at Stoughton, No. Attleboro at Sharon, Franklin at Canton, King Philip at Oliver Ames.

Looking Feb. 20 is the cutof1~ date to qualify for the Eastern Mass. tournament. Among schools ,that have already qualified are Bishop Feehan, Bishop Connolly, Bishop Stang, Old Rochester, New Bedford High, Barnstable, Dighton-Rehoboth, Diman Voke and Apponequet Regional, Oliver Ames and Sharon.

Several non-league games are on tap for tomorrow, most of them season finales. Feehan is home to Somerset, Stnng is at Case, Coyle-eassidy at. Bourne, Holy Family at Dighton- Rehoboth, Attleboro at Connolly.

Voke-Tech at Diman Yoke, Falmouth at Barnstable, DennisYarmouth at Westport,Taunton at Wareham, Dartmouth at New Bedford, Seekonk at Old Rochester, Apponequet at BristolPlymouth, Blue Hills at Old Colony.

In girls' basketbaU Holy Family is host to Coyle-Cassidy and Stang to Barnstable in afternoon games Saturday.

Champion New Bedford, back on the victory trail after being held to a tie a week enrlier, defeated Rochester, 5-1, in a Bristol County eYO Hockey game last SUllday night. Somerset upset Fall River South, 3-1. Play -:ontinues with a twin bill, start-

The league winds up its season with full four-game cardl!i on Monday and Wednesday. Games Monday are Canton at Foxboro, Oilver A'mes at Mansfield, Sharon at Franklin, No. Attleboro at King Philip. On the season's final card Wednesday it will be Stoughton at Oilver Ames, Foxboro at Sharon, Mansfield at No. Attleboro, Franklin at King Philip.

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

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

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

New Films "Blood Beach" (Jerry Gross): A nasty creature devours bathers before they can. even get their feet wet, sucking them down into the sand, in this mindless little horror movie classified B, R.

"Dirty Tricks" (Avco Emhassy): A Harvard professor (Elliot Gould) and a television newswoman (Kate Jackson) are the unwitting targets of gangsters and government men in this inane comedy-thriller. Be~ cause of its leering' humor, it has been classified A3.

"The Earthliog'~ (Fllmways): William Holden and Young Ricky Sohroder team up as a dying man and a orphan boy thrown together in a beautiful Australian valley. The film is lovely to look at, but stilted dialogue and sketchy characterizations make it slow going. Because of scenes involving danger from wild animals and a bit 'of mild profanity, it has been classified A2, PG.

"Spetters" (Samuel GoIdwyn): Three young men with little on , their minds but motorcycle racAhead ing and sex cavort in this Dutch ing at 10 p.m., in the Driscoll film reflecting the confused valRink, Fall River, next Sunday. ues of some youth. Because of Matt Schultz, Seekonk High graphic nudity and sexually exSchool, was the winner of the plicit scenes, it has been classi1980 Vince Lombardi Block of fied C. Granite Award, presented to ON TV him at the lOth annual awards "Fallen Angel," 9-11 p.m. dinner last Sunday night. Eight other finalists were presented Wednesday, Feb. 18, CBS, is a plaques.

1V movie on child pornography.

Those interested are reminded It tells the story of a 12-year-old whoses recently widowed moththat entries must be received by er is considering remarriage.

March 1 for the 22nd CYO Feeling shut out from her mothCheerleading Competition to be er's affections, Jennifer is an held on March 15 in the Keneasy prey for a young recreanedy CYO Center, New Bedford. tion director who makes pornoEntry forms in writing should graphic films. be sent to CYO Cheerleading, The mother discovers the sit403 Anawan Street, Fall River, uation, has the young man apMass. 02720. prehended and must then decide whether her daughter should be further traumatized by being asked to testify against him.

The situation is handled tastefully and although this film is WASHINGTON (NC) - The not suitable for young children, Canon Law Society of 'America it is worth the attention of parhas relocated its offices to the ents and teens.

Catholic University of America "Only the Ball Was White," in Washington, under the direction of Father James H. Provost, 9:30-10 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16, assistant professor of canon law. .PBS, is the moving story of the Father Provost was named the black baseball leagues that society's new executive coordina- played before baseball was intor last fall. Recently the offices tegrated in 1945. have been in Hartford, Conn.

Sunday, Feb. 15. 6-7 p.m. and Toledo, Ohio.

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Parents about Divorce." This special is intended to help parents understand that their quarrels affect their children's feelings and cause fears about the future.

Monday, Feb. 16, 9-11 p.m.

(NBC) "Angel Dusted." Jean Stapleton stars as the mother of a seemingly well-adjusted boy who seeks help for her son after he goes beserk from a marijuana cigarette soaked in highly dangerous "angel dust."

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. eadl Tuesday on Channel 6, includes Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services as one of a permaneJ!t discussion panel of clergymen.

This week's program topic will be "Sexist Language in the Liturgy."

Films on TV Sunday, Feb. 15,8 p.m. (ABC) "Jaws 2" (1978) Roy Scheider re-creates his role of an embattled sheriff pitted against a great white shark in this dull sequel. Vulgar language, teenage promiscuity and violence.

A3, PG. Sunday, Feb. 15,8 p.m. (NBC) - "Animal House" (1978) Fraternity boys cavort in this vulgar, slipshdd comedy whic~. features racism, sexism and some graphic nudity. C, R

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DOMINICAN LAITY, DEAF APOSTOLATE, FALL RIVER FALL RIVER DIOCESE A Mass for the hearing handiA meeting planned for Monday, Feb. 16 has been resched- capped will be celebrated at 2 uled for Monday, March 16, when p.m. Sunday at St. Anne's Hosmembers will mee~ for 1:30 p.m. pital chapel, Fall River. A chapMass in the priests' chapel of· ter meeting of the International St. Anne's rectory and' a follow- Catholic Federation of the Deaf ing session in the rectory assem- will follow. Plans will be made . for' an anniversary banquet and . bly rOOm. for attendance at a national conST. JOSEPH, EASTER SEAL SOCIETY, vention in Washington this sumFAIRHAVEN mer. During the meeting a Walt All parishioners are welcome FALL lUVER to attend a Valentine's Day Mass The society will sponsor a free Disney captioned movie will be to be celebrated at 9 a.m. to- speech and language screening shown for children in attendimce.

A sign language course for remorrow in the school auditor- at the Community Rehabilitation ium.

Center, 263 Stanley St., from 8 ligion teachers will be offereej,. at New Students may register at a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 17 through .St. John Baptist School, New the parochial school today or 20. Further information is avail- Bedford, at 7 p.rn: the first t~re~ tomorrow. Nursery school stu- able and appointments may be Mondays of March. A dayt,ime class will also be offered in 'Fall made by telephoning 676·1087. dents may register Feb. 25.

River if sufficient interest is exThe spirituality program held pressed. each Friday night at the rectory ST. MARY, The Southeast Conference for will be suspended for tomorrow SEEKONK and Feb. 20.

Parents of first communi- the Deaf will hold a Valentine cants will meet at 7 p.m. Sun- party at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, day, 'Feb. 22. Also on Feb. 22, the home of Roy and Sandy KelFALL RIVER the jubilee committee will meet man, 7 Brook St., Taunton. All An Irish program will be pr€- at the COD center. are welcome. sented and Mrs. Jean Bentley A charismatic retreat for the As part of the jubilee obl/erwill be coffee hour hostess for. deaf will be offered in the near vance a souvenir cookbook is the Women's Guild meeting planfuture at the Oblate Center, Naned for 7:30 p.m. Monday, being compiled. Contributions of . tick. Further information is availrecipes are requested.

They may March 2 in the parish center. be left in designa'~ed boxes at able from Fa.ther Dayne Ripellino, 95 Bethany Rd., FramingLA SALETTE SHRINE, the church or center. ham 01701.

ATfLEBORO ST. FRANCIS OF .I\SSISI, A public hearing service will ST. JOHN OF GQD, be conducted by Rev. Richard NEW BEDFORD SOMERSET A children's Mass will be Lavoie, M.S. at 2 p.m. Sunday, CCD classes will not be held celebrated at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Feb. 22, in the People's Chapel.

Saturday, Feb. 14, Monday, Feb. 16 or Saturday, Feb. 21.

The Women's Guild will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the parish center. .

Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, pastor, will speak at a fellowship supper in the center to follow 7 p.m. Mass Thursday, Feb. 19.

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SECULAR FRANCISCANS, NEW BEDFORD Our Lady Queen of Angels fraternity will meet at 10 a.m. Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel. A formation session will be followed by a business meeting and Mass.

DonlltIOns of canned gooods for the unit's food apostolate will be received.

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A palanca party is planned for 8 p.m. Monday, March 16 at " the home of Henry and Delores Rodriques, 128 Jarry St. Palanca is also requested for members of the North End Youth Fellowship who will be on retreat this weekenc! in Wareham.

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l\. support group for divorced and separated Catholics meets at 7:30 p.m. every Sunday at Our' Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford Sunday's program will be a talk by career counselor Karen O'Hara on coping' with stress and the Feb. 22 program will be a group discussion on "20 Steps to a More Confident You." The unit plans a retreat in June at St. ·Francis Friary, Rye Beach, N.H.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FALL RIVER An oncology conference focusing on radiotherapy will be held at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17 in Clemence Hall. Further information is available from the hospital.

STONE HILL COLLEGE, NORTH EASTON A 14-week cancer information program is in progress, held at 7 p.m. on Monday nights in the coU~~e's Hemingway Auditorium. Academic credit is available" t~ students completing the entire {:Qurse and visitors wishing to attend individual lectures are welcome on a seating-available basis. Further information is available from the college.

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The spiritual life committee will meet in the rectory at '7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24.

Candidates for first penance and their parents will attend 11 a.m. Mass Sunday. Babysitters will be available in the parish hall. A parents' meeting will follow.

Women's' Club arrangements committee members, headed by Margaret O'Neil, will meet tonight to make plans for the club's 50th anniversary. Club members and CYO members will join in celebrating Mardi Gras at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25 in the parish hall.

The CYO has planned its annual winter bowling tourney for 1 p.m. Monday at Westport Holiday Lanes.

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Funeral Home Inc.

HEATING, INC.

283 Station Avenue South Yarmouth, Mass.

Sales and Service ~ .....

Tel. 398-2285

BUILDING MATERIALS, INC. DURO FINISHING CORP. THE EXTERMINATOR CO.

SUPPORT GROUP, NEW BEDFORD AREA

If you buy palm crosses made in Africal you help people whose Income Is $5:>.00 per year to bUy the bare necessities of life and to fill health and educational needs. All work done in this country Is volunteered. Orders are acknowledged and must be received by March 31 to assure delivery by Palm Sunday. Rates based on $6.00 per 100; $3.00 per 50 In multiples of 50 only. Only individualsized palm crosses are available. .

Inquiries InVited. InclUde your street address. for United Parcel Service Denvery.

AFRICAN PAlMS, P.O. Box 575 OLNEY, MARYLAND 20832

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and Industrial =-Oil Burners 995·1631 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE NEW BEDFORD

OUR LADY'S RELIGIOUS STORE 936 So. Main St., Fall River

RELIGIOUS CALENDARS 11:00 To 5:30 Sunday Thru Saturday

Tel. 673-4262