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Salvador ai(l condemned

Diocese aids Indochinese

WASHINGTON (NC) - Two Maryknoll sisters have criticized the Reagan administration's announcement that it will no longer demand an investigation into the murders of four women missionaries in EI Salvador as a condition for U.S. military and I~con足 omic aid. But members of the Maryknoll order also said that the State Department's new policy comes as no surprise. Aid to th,e violence-ridden nation was resumed in mid January by the Carter administration, after a State Department review found no direct evidence of Salvadoran government involvement in the December murders. The Carter administration had nonetheless said it wanted the investigation continued as a criterion for sending aid. The Reagan administration has called instead for a quiet investigation 'through private diplomatic channels,' according to State Department spokesman William Dyess. "I don't see it (the Reagan administration de~ision) as an essential change," said Maryknoll Sister Annette Mulry of the Maryknoll Sisters Office of Social Concerns. "The whole policy of our government giving aid to El Salvador is one of death," she said. "It brings death, whereas the sisters were giving and sharing life. Maryknoll Sister Blaise JLupo, co-director of the human riightsoriented Clergy and Laity Concerned, also wasn't surprised by the Reagan administration's decision. "It's just more of the :same. There's nothing that's going to stand in their way," he said. The U.S. government policy-makers "sold themselves out" in r,egard to any promises to the victims' families, Sister Lupo said. "I really think they've been dishonest in this whole thing." Like Sister Mulry, she blamed both the Carter and Reagan adminstrations for assisting. the Salvadoran regime, cited by church groups in EI Salvador as being an indirect if not direct accomplice in the four women's murders and other deaths in the Central American country. Turn to Page Six

<A contract to provide case management services, family and individual life counseling, and interpreter/translator services to the Indochinese population of Southeastern Massachusetts has been announced by Rev. Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of Catholic Social Services. This contract, entered into with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, was effective Jan. of this year. All Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian refugees who live within Region V of the Commonwealth and who are eligible for cash assistance or whose family income is not more than 90% of the state's median income can receive these servies. Region V includes the 48 communities of the diocese of Fall River as well as 20 other communities served by Brockton Catholic Charities. The Fall River diocese has a long history of aiding resettlement programs, primarily as the local agency for the U.S. Catholic Conference's Migration ana Refugee Service. Refugee families were resettled following World War II and commencing in 1975 with the first flight of the Vietnamese from their homeland, the diocese has resettled about 100 Indochinese refugees throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. This has been done with the assistance of sponsoring groups and relatives throughout the diocese. Implementation of the new state contract will enable social workers to work with refugees on a full time basis. Counseling and interpreter/translator programs will facilitate the transition of the newly arrived to the culture of Southeastern Massachusetts. The grant is the result of an ecumenical venture between the Fall River Refugee Resettlement Committee and the Fall River office of Catholic Social Services. Rev. James Hornsby and Rev. Donald Jaikes, both Episcopalian priests, are the leaders of the former group. Rev. Mr. Hornsby of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Fall River, and Mary-Lou Mancini, director of the Fall River CathTurn to Page Seven

POPE JOHN PAUL II will see many cycle-taxis adorned with religious art during his . six days in the Philippines. (NC Photo)

Pope in Philippines, Japan to come MANILA, Philippines (NC) One third of the way through his 12-day trip to East Asia, Pope John Paul II was schedu'led to offer a Mass of peace early this morning at Quezon Memorial Circle in Manila. He was then to meet with priests and missionaries at Sacred Heart auditorium in Cebu City. Tomorrow he visits Davao, Bacolod City and Iloilo City. On Saturday he will visit Bataan of

World War II fame and returning to Manila will address all the people of Asia via Radio Veritas. On Sunday the pontiff departs from the Philippines for Guam, where as many non-Catholic as Catholic families will open their homes to provide housing for the many people expected in the Pacific U.S. trust territory for " the occasion. The golf-cart "popemobile" to

be used by Pope John Paul to ride around the island for one hour before his Monday morning Mass has been painted yellow and brown. Paintings of Our Lady of Camarin, patroness of the island, grace its front and rear. Handwoven baskets to hold the thousands of communion wafers for the Mass have been Turn to Page Six

Canon lawyers defend U.S. practice WASHINGTON" (NC) - U.S. canon lawyers commenting on the speech by Pope John Paul II to the Roman Rota on Jan. 24 defended the way marriage cases are handled in church courts in this country and said that the pope's speech was not a criticism of U.S. tribunals. The pope told the judges of the Rota, the church's central court of appeals for marriage cases, that if declarations of nullity - court pronouncement that a man and woman were never really married - were to be

given easily and hastily, young people would be more likely to enter marriage without due consideration. Vatican sources had said that the pope was critical of U.S. church" courts, which in recent years have been responsible for more than three-fourths of the yearly total of nullity decrees in the church. Bishop Cletus F. O'Donnell of Madison, Wis., a member of the U.S. bishops' Canonical Affairs Committee, noted that the pope had phrased his comments hypo-

thetically, in "if" clauses. The pope said that "the preparation for matrimony itself would turn out to be negatively influenced by pronouncements or sentences of matrimonial nullity if" these were obtained too easily" and that annulments, "if they were to multiply as easy and hasty pronouncements" would contribute to a growth of the mentality that does not take marriage seriously. "I could not agree more with that," Bishop O'Donnell said, Turn to Page Six

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people/ placel/ event I WASHINGTON (NC)-An abortion rights group has named the U.S. bishops as co-defendants in a four-month路路old lawsuit urging revocation of the tax-exempt status of certain Catholic churches and organizations ,in the United States. CHing the bishops' Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities, the suit charges that the church's political efforts to secure passage of a human life amendment constitute a violation of ilie tax code.

SISTER MARIE du Divin Coeur, 95, left, and Sister Willibrord Kelter, 97, are "birthday girls" at Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary retirement convent on Hood Street in Fall River. They and their fellow retirees pray daily for intentions received 'and are happy to fill. written or telephoned requests for prayer.

LONDON (NC)-The Nicaraguan literacy campaign and its director, Jesuit Father Jr;'ernando Cardenal, brother of Father Ernesto Cardenal, a poet who is the country's minister of culture, have been nominated for the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination was made by 117 members of the British Parliament.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (NC)-The speaker oithe South Carolina House of Representatives has apologized for the appearance of Northern Ireland's Protestant leader, the Rev. Ian Paisley, in the state legislature to offer devotional prayers. Mr. Paisley is a proponent of efforts to retain ties between Northern Ireland and Britain.

WASHINGTON (NC)-A medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the estate of an unborn baby has gone to trial despite objections that a fetus is not legally a person and cannot sue. Lawyers for the hospital argue no lawsuit can be brought on behalf of "an infant never born aliv,e." The suit claims the child died in the womb as a :result of malpractice.

BOYS TOWN, Neb. (NC)-Entertainer Danny Thomas, 67, founder of St. Jude .Children's Research Hospital, will receive Boys Town's highest award, the Father Flanagan Award for Service 'to Youth, at a dinner in April.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NC)-The New York State Catholic Conference is opposing the :egalization of casino gambling on the grounds it would bring a host of "social and moral evils" to the state.

t!:le BALTIMORE (NC)-A Baltimore contractor and land developer, Henry J. Knott, anxious to "put something back" into the Catholic educational system from which :~e and his family have benefited, has established a $20 million scholarship fund, the :~argest in the history of the Baltimore ArchQiocese.

THE LORD'S PRAYER is taken seriously by Joe Diroff of Detroit, h.opes to get 52 million signatures on a scroll expressing forgiveness of the' trespasses of the Iranian government against the American hostages.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Federal subsidies which reduce the bulk mailing costs for the Catholic press and other:; using reduced-rate postal services are among items being considered for spending cuts by the Reagan administration.

WASHINGTON (NC)-The State Department has informed the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee that the 18-month-old suspension of U.S. arms shipments to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUe), the Northern Irish Police Force, is still in effect.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Th.e National Conference of Catholic Charities and three other religious organizations have asked the Reagan administration to honor a $4 million agreement given iby a former Energy Department official who gave the money to the religious agencies to disburse to needy individuals to pay heating bills.

(UNDATED) (NC)-Czechoslovakia's communist government closed a Catholic seminary in Bratislava after seminarians staged a strike last fall protesting government manipulation of a priests' organization, according to reports reaching North America.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-The Permanent Council of the Polish Bishops' Conference has criticized Polish farm policy and defended ;the right of Polish farmers to unionize.

MICHAEL HURDLE conducts a "priestless Sunday" service in Hamilton, New Zealand, where 58 diocesan priests were absent from their parishes to participate in a 12-day renewal program with Bishop Edward Gaines.

WASHINGTON (NC)-The U,S. view of Central America often rrtiss~s the influence of the Catholic Church in the indigenous revolutionary movements there, according to Rep. Robert Edgar (D路路Pa.). The Bible, not a communist manifesto, is their inspiration, he said. .

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Program set in Attleboro The Diocesan Education - Department will sponsor a fourweek Teacher Training Program for catechists in the Attleboro area. Teaching techniques, scripture, sacraments, and doctrine are areas to be covered. Sessions will be held at St. Mary's Parish Center in Seekonk from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. starting Thursday, Feb. 26. The session on the sacraments will be given by Father Francis Mahoney; the others will be offered by Sister Frances Sidebottom of the dio~esan office. Further information may be obtained by contacting any religious education coordinators in the Attleboro area or the Catholic Education Center in Fall River, telephone 678-2828..

Donly named in Taunton

Rev. George Coleman, director of education for the diocese of Fall River, has announced the appoint~ent, effective July I, of Michael J. Donly as acting principal at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton. Now assistant .'i\r\9r);vd. ~....~ ---f.p,acbft.! -'KL the Taunton school, Donly will replace Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, the present principal. Father Beaulieu has been granted permission by the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, to undertake, doctoral studies in education administration at Boston College. Prior to being named assistant principal, Donly had taught at Coyle and Cassidy. He holds bachelor's' and master's degrees from Providence College. Married - to the former Irene Valade and the father of four children, he is a member of St. Mark's parish, Attleboro Falls. Father Beaulieu, ordained in 1971, holds a master's degree in education from Boston College. He served at St. Jacques Church, Taunton, before becoming principal at Coyle and Cassi- dy in 1977. Since then he has been in residence at Sacred Heart rectory, also in Taunton, assisting the pastor on weekends. Father Beaulieu has also been a chaplain at Taunton State Hospital, director of area pre-Cana Conferences and a member of the Taunton Drug Commission. He is a Serra Club chaplain, deanery vocations coordinator and an advocate and notary for the diocesan marriage tribunal.

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MEMBERS OF Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parishiNew Bedford, participate in CARE, a one-day retreat program sponsored by the Greater New Bedford area youth' and adults involved in the Teens Encounter Christ movement. CARE is designed for youth groups, especially confirmation programs, and further information on it is available from Father Steven Furtado, telephone 997-1515 or 992-7727. Pictured are, from left, Maria Mello, Vivian Medeiros, Vivian Oliveira, Father Furtado, John Resendes. (Rosa Photo)

Church-state intervention discussed

BOSTON (NC) - The 1st U.S. Circuit COUlt of Appeals has upheld the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law requiring unmiirried minors to obtain the C,-'l1r,cnt of either their parents or a JucgEl before undergoing an abortion. Passed la.st year, the law also requires' adult women to sign an informed consent form before an abortion can be performed. Refusing Feb. 9 to issue a preliminary injunction sought by the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, the threejudge court permitted the law to go into eff,ect. The law provides that physicians may be fined up to $2,000 upon conviction of performing an abortion on an unmarried minor without the required consent. But the court issued a preliminary injunction against a section of the statute requiring women to wait 24 hours after signing a consent form before they could have an abortion. The injunction also struck from the consent form language describing the fetus. 路Praising the court's decision, Phiiip D. Moran, president of Mt:.~sachusetts citizens for life, which sponsored the law, said: "Abortionists no longer constitute a privileged class. The day is over whIm minors can be victimized fo:r the financial interests of the abortion profiteers."

BETHESD}-; Md. (NC) ent in church-state cases, said m general counsel, discussed the Though t':.t:Y differed in theology a keynote address that govern- history of Internal Revenue SerI:m~ politics, representatives of ment efforts at accreditation, ap- -vice regulation of political activirtually every U.S. religious de- proval or certification of reli- vities by religious organizations; nomination pledged at a national gious activities often are made - Jesuit Father Charles meeting in Bethesda, to act with without offering proof that such . Whalen of Fordham Law School unity on one common problem: efforts are necessary for the pub- discussed efforts by state attorthe growing intervention of gov- lic good. ney generals and others to treat A major part of the conference churches like any other chariernment into the affairs of religion. was devoted to specific exam- table trust subject to the same Speaker after speaker at last pIes of government intervention state oversight of symphony or路 weel\s Conference on Govern- - in the affairs of religion. chestras, museums, hospitals and ment Intervention in Religious - A team of attorneys from schools; Affairs detailed what he or she the U.S. Catholic Conference, - A New York City attmney, saw as evidence that government headed by Wilfred Caron, usec Sharon Worthing, discussed is regularly overstepping the ways in which governments have boundaries between church and become involved in "conservatorstate established in the Constiship" proceedings by parents tution. against their adult children who A funeral Mass was offered In the end, the 300 participants last Saturday at Blessed Sacra路 have become members of unWASHINGTON (NC) - Citing representing everything from the ment Church, Fall River, for Sis- usual religions; his interest in service through Catholic Church to the Hare ter Marie Cecile Clement, SSJ, One conference paper, how- collegiality, Archbishop Pio Lag. Krishna movement were urged 89, who died Feb. 11. ever, noted that there are in- hi, new apostolic delegate in the to show solidarity whenever any A native of Fall River, she en- deed times when government United States, publicly addressed group's freedom to act on its tered the Sisters of 51. Joseph can and should regulate religious Americans for the first time at own religious principles is in 1916, serving as a teacher for activities. a Mass at the National Shrine threatened by a government ac- over 50 years in St. Michael and Marvin Braiterman, professor of the Immaculate Conception in tion. St. Louis de ,France schools, of law and public policy at New Washingto:n. "Collegiality means working "We will continue to disagree Swansea; St. Theresa's, New -England College, and the Rev. with one another on various is- Bedford; and St. Mathieu, St. Dean M. Kelley, executive for together in: love and with shared responsibility," he said, characsues," said the Rev. William P. Jean Baptiste and Blessed Sac- religious liberty at the National Thompson, stated clerk (chief rament, Fall River. She was also Council of Churches, said that terizing hil; relationship with the officer) of the United Presbyter- assigned to a school of her com- such cases can be legitimate in nation's bishops as one of "fraian .Church in the USA:, "but munity in Vinton, La. instances of fraud or when pub- ternal coUaboration and loving we share a common commitment lic health and safety must be pro- advice," not authority. The daughter of the late to the overall defense of religi- George and Christine Clement, tected. ous liberty." she is survived by a sister, Mrs. The meeting gathered repreship of oVler 121 million, making Mr. Thompson specifically A:urore Dickinson of Fall River. sentatives of more than 50 reliInterment was in Notre Dame gious bodies in the United States it one of the most inclusive cited the abortion issue, urging having an aggregate member- gatherings in American history. denominations which do not Cemetery, Fall River. agree with the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion to nonetheless help the U.S. bishops defend themselves against a suit challenging their right as taxI VOLUNTEERS Cambridg4~; MA exempt organization to particiExperience Christian Community and voluntary service to pate in the political debate over the poor. Open to single Catholic men (18-:JO yrs.) For abortion. more info: Though there may be disagreement on abortion, said Mr. Thompson, who chaired the conOblate Summer Program ference, other denominations Box 825 should not stand on the sidelines when a church's "right to Plattsburgh, NY 12901 speak and act is challenged." William iB. Ball, a Harrisburg, Pa., attorney nationally promin-

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themoori~ A Forgotten Family In this decade of the family it is imperative that the church take a long hard look at a unique family type that for all practical purposes is either overlooked or, even worse, ignored by the vast majority of the church family. This forgotten group is the military family. It is estimated that about two million of our Catholic brothers and sisters belong to a diocese that most of us do not even realize exists. This diocese i& called the Military Ordinariate. Serving members of the am ~d forces of the United States wherever they are, it has wide jurisdiction. For example, in addition to the personnel of the armed forces and members of their families, the M.O., as it is familiarly called, includes Veterans Administration hospital chaplains, members of the Coast Guard (Department of Transportation), National Guard, Air National Guard and Civil Air Patrol when on aCtive duty, as well as persons living on military iI}stallations and/or attached to military offices or V.A. facilities. From a pastoral viewpoint, the ordinary family included in the above list has a mobile world. Ever on the move, searching for new roots, forced to make constant adjustments, the military family must very often seek its strength from within. For such families the task of achieving "normal" family life is enormous and taxing. In addition to their internal problems, military families often encounter hostility and suspicion from local parishioners. Many military families must live off base or choose to do ~o for their own survival. Their attempts to become a part of a given parish are often limited by bad past experiences or by outright unchristian misunderstanding. People who live near a military base often expand conclusions drawn from the escapades of some to include all military personnel. And because of uncertainty as to the duration of their residency, many local churches view military families as they would gypsies or vagabonds. All in all, much more should be done to help the military family, . especially by local churches. The M.O.'s witness of ministry is to be commended but it is. insufficent. Its gaps must often be filled by the families themselves and often the local church is more of a burden than a help in this regard. This is sad, especially when one considers the special needs of the military family. It is imperative that members of dioceses in which military bases are located realize that they must reach out â&#x20AC;˘ in Christian love and affection to their brothers and sisters in the service. The military family' needs local support systems that the M.O. cannot offer. Marital problems, difficulties with teens, alcoholism and drug addiction all can be alleviated by the services of a caring diocese. As we try to enrich and reenforce family life during this period of family concern, let us not be narrow in vision or limit ourselves to helping only those near at hand. If family ministry is to be an effective instrument of Catholic renewal it must not be selective or self-serving. Rather, it must reach out to all who are hurting and in particular to families in the service of their country, who often come among civilians and strangers: It would be well if we reminded ourselves of the Gospel question, "When, Lord, did we see you?" If we answer this question with faith and love, military families of our church will never be the forgotten families.

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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D.

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A HANG GLIDER SOARS ABOVE THE HAND OF RIO DE JANEIRO'S HUGE STATUE OF OHRlST T~ REDEEMER

'If I take my wings early inti1e morning ... even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall uphold me.' Ps. 138:9-10

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VATICAN CITY (NC) "Give ear, 0 heavens, while I speak; let the earth hearken to the words of my mouth." 'Pope Pius XI used those words from the Book of Deuteronimy to inaugurate Vatican Radio on Feb. 12, 1931, and 50 years later Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state, used them again to mark the golden jubilee of "the pope's radio station." Cardinal Casaroli officiated at 50th anniversary ceremonies Jan. 31 opening an exposition on Vatican Radio's history and dedicating one of the radio station's meeting halls to Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio and builder of Vatican Radio. The cardinal recalled Marconi's words at Vatican Radio's first broadcast: "For nearly 20 centuries the Roman pontiff has had the word of his divine teaching authority heard in the world, but this is the first time that his voice can be heard live across the whole face of the earth at once." The radio station of 50 years ago, built under Marconi's personal supervision, reached around the globe with 10,000 watts on short wave. Today it transmits in 35 languages with eight short-wave transmitters, five of them with a power of 100 kilowatts (kw) and one with 500 kw. A few in the world match the 500 kw one, but none exceeds it. In addition Vatican Radio today has medium-wave AM transmitters of 300 and 150 kw serving Europe and smaller FM transmitters for the Rome area. The transmission antennas, at Santa Maria de Galeria about 12 miles north of Rome, take up an area of nearly 1,000 acres nine times the area of Vatican

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City State. Thirty-three languages are broadcast, including Hindi, Ukrainian, Latvian, Armenian and Vietnamese, in 620 weekly programs beamed to five continents. This means 11,500 hours of programming per year. "Ip some cases, especially in Eastern Europe, Vatican Radio places second to fourth" on the list of stations most listened to, wrote Jesuit Father Roberto Tucci, director general of Vatican Radio, in an article commemorating the beginning of its 50th year. Programs include music, news analysis and interviews. Vatican Radio's life began with the signing of the Lateran Treaty negotiated between the Vatican and the Italian government in 1929. The treaty provides that "Vatican City will construct on its territory an autononomous radiotelegraph and radiotelephone system." . On Christmas 1937, a 25-kilowatt transmitter replaced the Marconi 10-kilowatt one and in 1939 regular international programming began with the move of the studio to the Leo XIII Palace on the summit of the Vatican Hill. The palace had previously been used by Pope Leo XIII as his summer residence. Beginning in 1940, daily programs in Italian, French, English, Spanish and German were transmitted. Portuguese, PoUsh, Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Russian could be heard two or three times weekly. World War II sharply curtailed development as Vatican Radio concentrated on transmissions dedicated to locating civilian and military missing persons. Jesuit historian, Father Robert Graham, catalogued the wartime activ!ties of Vatican Radio.

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"In those years, priests and laymen were arrested, .even sent to Dachau . . . and a certain number of cases exist in which one may speak of the 'martyrs of Vatican Radio,''' he wrote. After the war, expansion and development of Vatican Radio resumed. The radio. formed a news service, IRVAT, to collect, edit and broadcast' news of worldwide church life. IRVAT is the forerunner of the present Radiogiornale, the main news program, which broadcasts in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German and Polish. In 1950, Dutch Catholics raised money for a Philips 100kilowatt shortwave transmitter. The old studio in Vatican City was too small for the new equipment and in 1957 Pope Pius XII inaugurated the new complex at Santa Maria in Galeria. Two 100-watt shortwave transmitters were installed by 1962, one a gift from the late Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne, West Germany, the other from the Catholics of Australia and New Zealand. In 1966, Pope Paul VI inaugurated two more shortwave transmitters. Cardinal Francis Spellman donated one RCA 100-kilowatt transmitter and the other was given by the Knights of Columbus. Various U.S. groups offered a 250-kilowatt mediumwave transmitter. Vatican Radio has about 300 full-time religious and lay employees and about 200 collaborators. Forty-three different nationalities and 20 different Religious orders are represented. . A shortwave program beamed daily in English to the United States can be hearq at 7 p.m. EST on frequencies 6.015, 9.605, and 11.845.

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Jiffy baptism Sometimes I feel like a is a God and that if there is, Catholic Ann Lanqers. I get 'he requires some kind of att~n颅 tion and worship? And what letters from people who are means a community of believers aggrieved with something or or parish which call for memsomeone in their church lives bership and support? Then why and they write me to correct the the anger over a pastor's refusal problem. Take the letter I re- to baptize unless the parents ceived recently on jiffy baptism: practice what might be their "Will you please comment on belief? An insurance policy calls why some priests will not bap- for payments throughout the tize little innocent babies with years. Under such circumstances, the reason given, 'their parents pre-baptismal preparation of are not practicing Catholics'? parents is an absolute necessity The parents have been driven and must deal with the parents' even further away from the faith problem, not the baby's. church as they feel baptism is Some Catholics are so attacha baby's birthright in the Cath- ed to the image of infant bapolic church." tism as a spiritual right that I'm afraid the reader isn't go- they fail to see what it really ing to like my answer because signifies. In writing on the "DeI applaud that pastoral team and cree on the Apostolate of the their diocese. They are recogniz- Laity," theologian Ferdinand ing infant baptism for what it Klostermann, explained, "It is is, an extension of the parents' only because of the faith of its faith, not a bit of magic pro- own family that a child can be nounced over a baby's head in baptized at all. The child's faith case it should die before it is an offshoot of the faith of reaches maturity. Or because the parents, and it is their faith Grandma is coming and the par- which is to nourish the newborn ents are going to have to an- faith until it grows and reaches swer to her if the baby isn't maturity." baptized. In the early Church, only Or, most degrading, the in- adults were baptized because creasing use of the profound only they could make a commitsacrament of baptism as an in- ment to belief in Christ. As surance policy. Parents who long . they came to experience the ago stopped believing in and great gift of faith, they wanted practicing the faith go through it for their children and there the motion of getting the baby was a terrific controversy at the baptized "just in case." time over whether baptism of Just in case what? That there children could be permitted at

Defense may rest From now on everyone is freed of the duty to defend me. I don't want defense, I don't need it, I reject it out of hand. And the next person who says to me, "I (have to) defend you all the time," runs the risk of a poke in the mouth. Support me, if you want. That's fine. I welcome support and, God knows, get very little of it. Support is a strong, vigorous, human response. Defense is a cowardly, demeaning patronizing response because it concedes to the attackerS" that which ought not to be conceded their right to attack. ,Some of my friends have lately been pleading with me to pull back from the tough things I've been saying and in particular not to write fiction (especially Literary Guild Selection fiction) that is critical of church authority. I'm entitled to peace and freedom from controversy at this stage of my life, they say. What they mean is, please stop doing things that force us to defend you. Too bad for them. If they wanted to avoid controversy they should have avoided me. It goes with the odd vocation to which the Spirit has apparently called me. I like peace, but not at the price of being silent about the truth. There are a number of things

"defenders" who want to become "supporters" might do when they are put on the spot on my account: 1) They might accuse the attacker of not having read what I wrote (this is always a safe strategy, because who has read all that I've written?). 2) They might charge the attacker with deliberately misquoting or misunderstanding what I've written. About threefourths of the' things for which I am attacked are things I have not said from people who for some reason find me an ideal ink blot. 3) They might accuse the attacker of clerical envy, an almost sure-fire truth. 4) They might tum their backs and walk away. 5) They might call the attacker any number of names unfit to print in this column. 6) They might finally poke him in the mouth (or her in the mouth, so as not to be chauvinistic). 7) They might agree completely and deny identification with me and my views. Any or all of these things, but don't defend me. When my novel "The Cardinal Sins" appears in a few weeks (the last word is a noun, not a verb-everyone knows that cardinals don't sin), all the rightwing crazies charismatics,

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all. It was agreed upon only because the family faith was strong enough to support the child's faith. Baptizing a child where there was no family faith was inconceivable. Today many parents are asking just the reverse: that the baby be supplied with a faith the family has shed. What's the point? It demeans the sacrament and the Church that. performs it. Yes, I know there are parishes where non-practicing Catholics can pop in and get the baby baptized. There's street knowledge in most dioceses on which pastors will baptize a baby without asking any questions or requiring any faith shot-in-thearm for parents. I suggest that my reader search one out if jiffy baptism is what she wants. But it's a real loss to adults who just might be searching underneath for a return to belief and faith. And new parenthood is a good reason. Good pre-baptismal instruction for such parents isn't as much an obligation as an opportunity for them to find what they may never had realized was there in their earlier years.

By REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

right to life, The Wanderer, etc., are going to scream to Rome for my scalp. They may get it for all I know. I don't much care. The Coria doesn't ha~e a concordat with either the state of Arizona or any of my publishers. The official church has done about all it can do to me in its destruction of the archdiocese I love. I suppose they can try to laicize me by force, but they'll look pretty silly because I won't accept it. Whatever happens, gentle souls, please don't defend me or the book. Support me if you want and assert in the face of all other nonsense that the book is precisely about what the motto says, "Love is sterner than death" (from the Song of Songs). But don't try to explain. Either the theme is so clear that it does not need defense - and will be so perceived by most people or it is not clear because of stupidity or envy or malice. In either case defense is not required. I am considering paying a bounty for every poke in the mouth.

Calls for reform unheeded

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The firing of our ambassador to EI Salvador, the outspoken and courageous Robert White, will not help EI

ment in an approach that they are willing to go to the point of public deception to defend what is going on' - just as they did in Vietnam."

Salvador. Nor will it greatly assist Ronald Reagan in efforts to find a diplomatic rather than a military solution to a bloody mess. Probably all it will do is signal the military forces that they are home free. With White gone, they can expect an end to demands for reform within their often murderous ranks. The killings - 9,000 lives last year will doubtless go on. Increased tolerance for the excesses of the security forces was already conveyed by Jimmy Carter when he authbrized the first arms shipment to the junta government. The junta is supposed to bring peace and justice to a small country - which until recently was exclusively owned by 14 families. Practically every aspect of the misery is disputed, from the character and strength of the opposing forces to the effectiveness of the land-reform program which we exacted as the price for economic aid. Oxfam, the international organization which feeds the starving, calls it a fraud - in which the civilian arm of the government encourages peasants to become landowners while the military arm guns down would-be beneficiaries. On the other hand, the A'merican Institute for a Free Labor Development maintains that over 100,000 campesinos have benefited from a "land-to-the-tiller" program which was pilot tested in Vietnam. The refugees are another point of contention. Rep. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who with Gerry Studds, D-Mass., and Robert Edgar, D路Pa., made a trip to countries surrounding EI Salvador in January (they skipped El Salvador at White's request), talked to dozens of refugees in a camp at the Honduras-EI Salvador border. They recounted stories of atrocities at the hands of security forces. Ms. Mikulski was told at the U.S. Embassy that the refugees were "guerrjJlas," as proven by their specifics about the guns of their tormentors. The State Department contends that refugees in EI Salvador are fleeing leftist guerrillas. They say many have clustered around the security forces in "strategic hamlets" such as we founded in Vietnam. Studds finds the parallels to Vietnam "eerie." "Somewhere in the policymaking levels there is sufficient intellectual and political invest-

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He uses the doubletalk about the murder of four American women, th:ree of them nuns, in early December, as an example. Aid to EI Salvador was suspended as a consequence. Resumption depended I:>n "satisfactory progress" of an investigation which Carter announced on Jan. 9. White called it "bullshit." This was the immediate cause of his firing. The repc>rt of- a State Department team leaves little doubt that government security forces did the dE~ed. But no one has been arrested or charged. The reason for abandoning a previous no-arms policy was a "final offensive" by the left, which, as a matter of fact, the junta repelled without any help from us. The junta can expect more military a:id from the Reagan administration. The "domino theory" is at work. Intelligence reports show a heavy flow of arms and men to EI Salvador through N:icaragua, and the belief is that the shaky new Sandinists government is trying to export revolution. Policy planners project the fall of the entire region to Marxism in the event of a leftist victory in EI Salvador. Mexico does not agree. The Sandistas, who desperately need U.S. aid, which is contingent on their not abetting rebellion in the neighborhood, told the congressional visitors that they fear a U.S. "destabilization" plot. In Mlmagua, foreign minister Miguel D'Escoto indignantly showed Situdds a report from the right-wing Heritage Foundation. The lluthor, C. DiGiovanni, identified ,as an ex-CIA official, suggests "a well-orchestrated program targeted against the Marxist Sllndista government." Studds has introduced a resolution to bar further arms shipments to El Salvador. He suggests a regional or international approach -- a UN peace-keeping force, an OAS initiative, a canvass of thl~ neighbor's opinions. The firing of White, who emphasized reform and human rights, indicates that Reagan is embarked on another course. .Uln'I"!l"""U"IIIII'III"I"I'I"'III"IIIl'lllII'UIIIII"l11111111","111111""'''''''''''11''''_

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Continued from Page One "The whole policy all the way around has been to protect their (U.S.) investments down there," said Sister Lupo, referring to what she termed "security" .and "profits." !Following the Carter administration's resumption of aid, Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed "profound disappointment and disagreement" with the step. "Our opposition to renewed military aid is based on the conviction that no real evidence exists that the government of EI Salvador has brought (its) security forces under control," he stated. 'Forty-five Catholic individuals or organizations, including religious orders, archdiocesan social justice offices and bishops joined Protestant groups and other' Americans in signing an advertisement in The New York Times Feb. 3 calling for an end. to U.S. aid to EI Salvador. Among signers were Bishop Paul A:nderson of Duluth; Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Francis of Newark; Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau; Bishop James Niedergeses of Nashville; Auxiliary Bishop Peter 'Rosazza of Hartford; and Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee.

Dr. Koop health head PHILLADELPHIA (NC) - Dr. C. Everett Koop, surgeon-inchief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an outspoken abortion critic, has been named deputy assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources. At a press briefing after the White House announced the appointment, Koop said he had accepted the job effective March 9 with the understanding that he would become U.S. surgeon general once a law is passed changing the age requirements for that office. As the law now stands a person must ·be under 64 years of age 29 days before assuming the office of surgeon general. Koop reached 64 last Oct. 14. Koop said Secretary of Health and Human Resources Richard S. Schweiker told him he would be named surgeon general as soon as enabling legislation is passed. The change in the law not only would lift age requirements for the post, but would also place four agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services under his juri!;diction. Koop said also he had resigned from all pro-life organizations to avoid conflicts of interest.

II IN OBSERVANCE of the International Year of the Handicapped, children at Mt. St. Joseph School, Fall River, invite handicapped friends to share a liturgy celebrated by Father Normand Boulet. Guests included residents of Highland Heights, members of the Catholic Deaf Apostolate and Mrs. Josephine Fletcher of Buzzards Bay, the totally blind mother of two Mt. St. Joseph students. (Torchia Photo)

Pope in Philippines Continued from page one made by senior citizens in Guam ~iIIages.

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Among organizations scheduled to perform or conduct special activities to celebrate the papal visit are Polish, Hispanic and Scottish groups. Alaska's native populations will be presented by Tlingit, Eskimo, Haida, and Athabascan dancers and a Russian . Orthodox Aleut Choir. The pope will receive a "kuspock," a traditional muslin parka-like jacket lined with rabbit fur and decorated with a wolverine ruff. The U.S. Postal Service is among those joining in papal preparations. Officials announced the service will provide handstamped cancellations on pieces of mail to mark the visit of Pope John Paul II to Agana, Guam, and Anchorage, Alaska. The special cancellations will be available in Agana Feb. 22 and in P;nchorage Feb. 26. The papal trip began with a three and a half ho~r visit to Karachi, Pakistan, marred by a bomb explosion at the National Stadium, wbere the pope was to

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say Mass, about 20 minutes before his scheduled arrival. According to Pakistani police, a man was killed when a grenade in his pocket exploded as he entered the stadium. Police said the explosion occurred after the man, described as a young Christian, was challenged at the entrance to a section reserved for diplomats and VIPs. Two other men and a security agent were wounded in the blast, police said. The pope was not told of the explosion while he was in Pakistan. The pope was greeted at the airport by Pakistani president, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Har, and Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro of KaI rachi. "Christ is the only one who can satisfy the deepest hunger of the human heart," he said in an English-language homily before more than 70,000 people. But, Pope John Paul said, Christians cannot "try to ignore the need for bread, the great need for food suffered by so many throughout the world, even in our own lands." The Eucharist "unites us to one another, to all the other members of the church, to all baptized of every age and every land," he said. "Because the mystery of the Eucharist is so closely linked to the mystery of the church, we cannot but feel a sadness at the divisions which still affect the one body of Christ," the pope added. "May this sadness prompt us to action." 0

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Lawyers Continued from page one adding that any serious canon lawyer is also aware of that danger. ,"But," the bishop said, "I don't think that our annulments, by and large, are easy . ~nd hasty pronouncements." Commenting on the pope's reference to "the alarming increase of matrimonial cases in the church courts," Bishop O'Donnell said, "Certainly the number of annulments has increased drastically." He attributed that increase in part to the use in the United 'States since 1970 of 23 procedural norms, or rules for the operation of church courts, approved by Pope Paul VI. Those norms have allowed U.S. marriage courts to take on more' cases and profess them more quickly. "Prior to use of the norms," Bishop O'Donnell said, "more injustice was created than justice. The parties have a right in justice to be heard. They have no right to an annulment," Citing the old adage "Justice delayed is justice denied," the bishop said. "Prior to the use of the American norms we could not arrive at a decision. Many dioceses did not bother with a tribunal." Bishop O'Donnell continued: "I could see that some one might say 'It's divorce under another name.' But it's not. A great, great number of annulments are denied." Noting the near unanimity of . the U.S. bishops in asking for extensions of the period for using the American procedural norms, Bishop O'Donnell said the bishops would' not have voted that way if !bey thought there was something wrong with the way church courts were operating. 0

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Abortion Little hands that will never play, Tiny feet that will never stray, Bright shining eyes never to see, What God created for you and me. Ears unable to hear loving words, A voice that won't mimic The first sounds heal'd. A child who won't know a mother's love Or receive from a father a gentle hug, A mind that might have been the one That found a cure fOl~ cancer Or a great invention. A soul sent to God before its time, That's what abortion does What a sin, What a crime. I've put into words f,or you to see A sorrowful tale of reality That began a very long time ago And instead of being stopped It continues to grow. It begins with what should be A woman's great joy And ends in tears And pain that destroys. If we condone killing unborn daughters and son:; Someday we may be the expendable ones. Barbara Despres Fairhaven

Free Dear Editor: Mike had been on drugs since he was 10 years old; he is 16 now. He wrote the following poem to God in thanksgiving for all he has done for Mike. Being free from drugs for about a year now; that is something to bE~ thankful for. He knows if it wasn't for God's grace, he would still be on drugs. If you like, you may print this poem in your wonderful newspaper, The Anchor. This is from Mike's mother, who is so grateful to God. Thank you, God. I love you! Name withheld I'm Free Don't you knock on m~, door ... I'm not answering it nCt more . . . You always kept me in misery; Now it's time to b,~ Free. He broke the chains of:f my wrist And He took me off the devil's list. Even though we will start to cry And He'll allow our f1l~sh to die, I'll still be in love with Him, Even through the dark and the dim, I'll still be in love with Him.

A puzzle.lJItent Dear EcUtor: Your newspaper of Feb. 5 raises points that should be clarified. An article, "War, peace and the bishops," once again raises doubts in a society where these

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Strong endorsement of. the project was received from Bishop John Coburn of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts as well as from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin of the Fall River diocese.

REFRESHMENTS FOLLOW a commissioning ceremony for new volunteer ministers at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford. Sponsored by present ministers following an intensive training program, the new recruits will visit patients weekly. Many are also to be commissioned as special ministers of the Eucharist. Pictured, from left, Phyllis Collins, Imelda Tardi, Dennis Marotte, Florence Gonsalves, Janet Mathieu. Others, not pictured, are Manuel Alexander, Dolores Alexander, Constance Bernier, Mary L. Bouchard, Dorothy Ellis, Mary Harding, Katherine Hart, Marie Lebeau, Edward Macedo, Pauline Macedo, Carolyn Magnant, Claire Marotte, Norma Meehan, Cecilia Vera. (Rosa Photo) should be clearly resolved. Jim Lackey indicates that while our bishops are about to scrutinize church teaching on war and peace, the Military Vicariate, headed by Cardinal Terence Cooke, is circulating a letter "focusing on the confusion over just what the church teaches on war and peace." Many of us, using common sense, judgment and conscience, have long come to the conclusion that a just war is no longer possible. We could, of course, be wrong, but when we hear that neither Vatican II nor the popes nor the American bishops have explicitly condemned nuclear weapons, then we readers are puzzled. In the same issue of The Anchor, Pope John Paul II says he would stand "on the site on which the terrible destructive force of the atomic bomb was first manifested to beg the merciful God that this will never again be repeated." Would it not seem that the time is overly ripe for our bishops to study this papal statement and clarify the position of the church towards the use of thermonuclear weapons? Arthur Hartog Vineyard Haven

Where's church? Dear Editor: Arthur Hartog's letter in the January 29 edition of The Anchor struck a responsive chord. Mr. Hartog seemed to wonder why "pro-lifers" could be so concerned 'llbout one aspect of life and neglect addressing the problems of the arms race. I too, wonder at this. I do not question the Catholic belief in right-to-life; I do question the inconsistency on the issue. What about the living, are they (we) not entitled to Godgiven life? Where is the Church when it comes to pro-life policies dealing with weapons and war? The same week Mr. Hartog's letter appeared I received are-

quest for support from the Maryknoll Sisters. . .. The letter called for people to join them "in urging President Reagan that he does not permit our Government to send to the Salvadoran Government any military aid to be used by security forces which would only serve to further the violence against their own people..." Just prior to Mr. Hartog's letter and the Maryknoll statement, Secretary of State Alexander Haig (apparently with the president's blessing) recalled the American Ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White. White had called investigation of the murders of four American missionaries in El Salvador "a total disaster." A Boston Globe article quoted White as saying "It is undoubted that the security forces were diirectly involved in the murders." The situation there is intense. Where are the pro-lifers and the Catholic church on this issue? Joann Neath Cotuit The American bishops have gone on record as deploring U.S. aid to EI Salvador (fhe Anchor, Jan. 22); and in common with most diocesan newspapers we have consistently carried stories on conditions· in Latin Amerca. Coverage has been intensified since the December murders. in El Salvador. see pages I, 5 and 11 in this issue. Editor

Abstention Dear Editor: The pro-life commission of the Denver archdiocese has produced a "No" button. (See page 14 of this issue. Ed.) Recently Judge Arthur Dunne ordered Illinois pubIic schools to include instructions on bow not to have sex. He said "Abstention is the best and. most effective means of birth control," and added that "schools must stop advising on contraceptives unless they include the alternative

of abstaining from sex." I do not believe contraception should be taught in the schools.. If the schools are going to give sex education, parents should insist that it contain a moral as well as a biological dimension. Genevieve E. Foley New Bedford

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Two Catholic couples, one in Colorado, the other in Ohio; have accomplished the seemingly impossible. They have forgiven the murderers of their children. Richard and Nancy Talbott of Kiowa, Colorado, pray daily for Michael Bartowsheski, serving a life sentence for the murder of their eight-year-old daughter Shelley, and they correspond with him frequently to encourage him to accept God's love. "After all," Talbott said, "God has forgiven him, why' shouldn't we? Our greatest concern is that he know the power of God in his life and spread it to his fellowmen." And in Cleveland, Jack Wente, whose 18-year-old son Joe was shot to death last summer, wrote to the Catholic Universe Bulletin, newspaper of the Cleveland' Diocese: "Whoever killed our son is forgiven by God, and I'm sure by Joe, too. For me, the only way back to peace was to forgive my black. brother and ask God to let his mercy touch. that man's heart and soul. "Brotherhood isn't easy, but there's no other alternative." Wente said that he asked his wife Sue after writing the letter: "Honey, am I sick? I feel as sorry for this guy as I do for Joey." She replied: "Who are we not to forgive, if Jesus forgives us? Life is too short to hold grudges." A 21-year-old bblCk man 'arJACK AND SUE WENTE (top) hold a photo of their rested for shooting the Wentes' son, Joey, and a painting done for them by an artist friend son was acquitted on grounds after seeing Mrs. Wente weep over her murdered son's of insufficient evidence. casket. Below, Nancy and Richard Talbott recall their Young Wente had been waiting outside Cleveland's Municipal 8-year-old daughter, Shelley. (NC Photos) stadium for the gates to open for a rock concert. Police said Son die, who am I to question bott said, "not because I was so strong, but because God somehe, was the victim of a racial him?" how gave me an awesome peace Who reads But for Wente, fight. Mrs. Wente said: "When you Scripture often, and prays daily, about it," But the Talbotts said their talk about forgiveness, I pray the numbness is still there. He . every day for Joe's killer, who- can't forget holding his dead son lives have been changed. ever he may be, and his family. in the hospital and saying, over "The transformation has been . I pray for his forgiveness. In the and over, "My Joey, I sat you on startling," Talbott said. "God has beginning it was rough, frus- my knees and taught you your begun to reveal to us the meantrating. But I never said, 'God, prayers. Why? Why?" ing of Shelley's death and it all Now he often says within has to do with love," why me?' I never cursed him. himself: "I'll study Scripture for No, I couldn't do it." Mrs. Talbott said that they For her husbaridit was more you, my Joe, and pray every are now more keenly aware of difficult. "When Joey got killed, night until I see you again." God's love for them and they· I was really bent out of shape," For the Talbotts in Colorado, feel that God is asking them to he said. "I can lean toward vio- in COMAlst, grief and rage did love people more deeply and lence. I wanted to go out in the not fill the days following the openly than ever before. "What street and kill a kid. You talk finding of their daughter, who better purpose could there be about anger and frustration. You had been sleeping on the living for living life?" she asked. wonder if you'll ever be happy room sofa on the night of Dec. again. I drank until I couldn't 16, 1978, with her throat cut see anymore. And I didn't want and multiple stab wounds in the to see anymore. Sue watched head. me sink deeper and deeper." '''It's difficult to explain," TalWente said he didn't pray for bott said, "but both Nancy and 10 days. But God "spoke to me," I felt tremendous peace about· February 20 he said. "He somehow gave me Shelley's death from the beginRev. James H. Fogarty, 1922, peace, because I was really go- ning. It was as if God took both 'Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River ing down. of us by the hand and calmly February 2;! "But I kept thinking, if I and lovingly led us through it don't forgive whoever it was all," Rt. Rev. Jovite Chagnon, 1954, who killed Joey, then I can't "I had no feeling of breaking Founder, St. Joseph, New Bed10Vf;l Jesus. If the Father let his down or falling apart," Mrs. Tal- ford

What ltas the Cursillo done? By Robert T. Reilly Fifteen years ago you were nowhere as a Catholic unless you'd made a Cursillo. It became the first of the modern church movements you "had to experience to understand." Catholic periodicals felt obliged to examine its dynamism, Pope Paul VI praised the "abundant fruit" it produced, and local bishops were inundated with requests for, or questions about, the Cursillo. Whether you agreed or disagreed with its methods, the Cursillo was the spiritual exercise in the turbulent '60s. Today it is but far much less visible from finished. "Before we made noise; today we do more work." That's the opinion of Father Marcel Salinas, a veteran of the movement, who now heads the Mount Claret Cursillo Center in Phoenix. "Perhaps the membership is down from the days when it was the main movement," he admits, "but I believe the Cursillo is stronger than ever." ,Eduardo Bonnin, a Cursillo cofounder, agrees with this optimistic outlook, adding that the movement is particularly strong in the United States where some 750,000 persons have completed the three-day pE!riod of spiritual renewal. Although Bishop Juan Hervas of Ciudad Real, Spain is credited with developing the short course himself, he shares the honor with a team of clergy and laity who honed the exercises into their present form by 1949. By 1957 the Cursillo had been introduced to the United States by two Spanish airmen training in Texas. Four years later: the English-language Cursillo was inaugurated. Originally intended for men, the Cursillo was subsl~quently made available to women, although, in the case of married couples, the man had to make the weekend first. There! are no mixed cursillos. Typically, the number of cursillistas, or participants, will be around 40, including priests and laity. Leaders hope for a blend of racial, economic, social, and educational backgrounds. A team of priests and laypeople conduct the exercises. Unlike the traditional retreat, silence is kept only dUiring the opening evening - usually a Thursday night. Exchange is stressed over introspection, although both are encouraged. sometimes Jokes are told rather "blue" jokes according to a number of Cursillo alumni and there is considerable singing, mingling, handshak:ng, and sharing. Cursillistas live and work together, starting slowly, but eventually melding into a community. They listen, take notes, meditate, discuss. The formal program features drills, or rollos, with the clerical team emphasizing theological matters in their five lessons and the lay team relating these points to ordinary life in their ten extensions. Mass and other

devotions like the Rosary and Stations of the Cross are central to the experience. When the Cursillo begins, individuals are forced to confront themselves. (Why did you come to the Cursillo? What are you really like?) They are reminded of the evils of the world: "Can Christianity penetrate the many areas of secular life? Can it live there? Can it grow there? Can it transform the world in a way that is more fruitful than the past and in keeping with the times? The Cursillo Movement thinks so." Participants are asked to face their own sinfulness and then are introduced to the loving mercy of God. "Christ waits for you with open arms. He proposed the Parable of the Prodigal Son for you, for me, for everyone. He himself has brought you to the Cursillo to make you understand His love." The talks combine themes familiar from Balitimore Catechism days with more modern concepts sanctifying grace, piety, the sacraments and a study of the environment, Christian community in action, and laity in the church. The final sessions prepare the cursillista to reenter the world. "The Cursillo does not close things down," they are told, "it opens them up." \ Life after the Cursillo is discussed, with veteran cursillistas exhorting their new brethren to continue with their commitment forever. Finally the clausura or closing ceremony terminates the three-day renewal. Participants' testify to their personal impressions, avoiding any public confessions. They embrace each

other. "And let us take thought for one another in view of rousing one another to acts of love and good deeds," the spiritual director reads from Hebrews, chapter ten. . Tales of bigots hugging their black brothers and weeping out their guilt are common. So are stories of people collapsing at this point, caught up in the emotion of the moment. After that comes the "fourth day:' the balance of the cursillista's life on earth. The way they ultimately live that "day" varies; for some it has become a permanent state; for others it is a memory, sometimes good and sometimes bad. While social reform was a common by-product in the 60s, Salinas insists the, main purpose has always been to develop leadership. "What we try to do is bring people out:' he says, "to let them see themselves as worthwhile. Commitment. and leadership follow." -Bonnin sees the success of the Cursillo in simple terms, contending that it doesn't teach anything new but "allows a cursillista to experience what he already knows." Dennis Lovell, now a Midwestern team leader in the movement, echoes that notion. "The Cursillo introduces us to the fact that God loves us~ Since this is presented in a community setting, we also see this love in others." Next week: The "fourth day." Reprinted with permission from U.s. CATHOLIC, published by Claretian Publications, 221 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. 60606.

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A mother's By Dr. James and Mary Kenny In response to one of our columns, a reader shared her personal experieJllce with a. diffi· cult teen-age son. Her action combines good principles of dis.. cipline with Christian caring better than anything we have seen. Here is part two of her letter, responding to the mother of a 14-year-old son. "If I were in your shoes I would pray, pray, pray. Pray for everything in your letter that concerns you. "I would especially be concerned about the music. Would it be possible to sort through your son's records, taking out the most offensive ones? You are the ones in authority in your home. God will hold you responsible for what you permit there. Perhaps your son would listen to some Christian rock records. There are many out. Maybe get him started with one as a gift. I say this because I think the music is a real source of a lot of rebeUion in our children. " I would ask others who love your son to join you in prayer. If you are concerned enough I would do some fasting. I used to fast breakfast and lunch and then eat dinner with the family, and no one even knew the difference. "If possible, I suggest you and your husband pray for your boy together. Surely God will help

you have the wisdom, patience and love needed to do a good job. Remember your son is first of all a child of God. Our heavenly Father is more concerned about him than you are. "I would also look for little ways to show love. Maybe he has a special dish he especially likes. Make it on his birthday. We all need to see that we are loved. As well as just being told. "Try to help him have opportunities to be successful. Try not to put him in situations, for a while at least, where he has a good chance of failing. He probably has had enough failure at school, etc., to last a good while. Is he good at a certain job? Give him that to do and praise him when it's over. I would be very careful about talking over his problems with others (and never, never when he might overhear). "I am amazed at some friends who tell me all their children's problems within hearing distance of the child. Surely that would reinforce the child's fear of being a hopeless problem. On the contrary, whatever his strong points, brag a little. He is unique and God has a special job waiting for him. "To end my story, I must tell you that Mike will be 21 next spring. He has had ups and downs (graduated from high school by the skin of his teeth). He tried college, at our urging, and quit after one semester.

2 However, he is one of the most loving people I know. "He has had a real experience with God and wants to tell the world how good God is and how real and alive he is today and how much he wiIl help us if we just ask. His one desire is to do God's wiIl whatever that might be for his life. "He is a delight in our home, playing with and helping the younger children. I hate to think of the day he will be gone. What can I say? God heard my prayers. Mike is going back to college (his own idea) and wants to go into the communications field. (fhis is the same boy with the speech problem.) "I hope this letter helps you in some small way. I do want you to know that I will pray for your son and I'm also going to ask Mike to pray for him. "Don't go this alone. That's why there is a body of Christ. Get others to pray for you and with you - a prayer group or church group. Finally I'd say to rest as much as possible in knowing that you can trust God to help and that he begins working in the situation as soon as we ask. Begin to look for signs of his working and thank him and praise him for it." - Missouri Questions on family living and child care are invitecll. Address to the Kennys c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

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Outlets outshine Lizzie? By Marilyn Roderick

Along with hiIls, miIls, dinner pails, pork pies ,and we mustn't forget Miss Lizzie) this area is becoming famous for factory outlets. Those low overhead stores, generally located in old textile mills, offer bargains that are hard to resist. Mrs. Dorothy Jackson, who has been in the retail business for over 35 years, manages one of my favorite stores. "We buy direct from the manufacturer," she said, "and because we are in a miIl utilized for other garment manufacturing, we have a low overhead, no middleman and we can offer quality items at a 20 to 27 percent discount from what they would cost in the better stores." Dorothy's customers come from all walks of life and from all over the east coast. "We get

many bus trips from Connecticut and New York where people really appreciate our lower prices." . Such shoppers, Dorothy noted, buy in quantity it is not unusual to see them getting back on their buses with $300 to $400 worth of goods. Dorothy's store carries labels that spell quality in classic syles that give the wearer value and versatility. Separates comprise most of the merchandise but there are also designer dresses at prices far below those advE!rtised by the large New York stores. In these days of high clothing costs, and the necessity to stretch one's budget a hundred ways, the factory outlets of Bristol County may yet outstrip Lizzie and her ax in bringing fame to our area.

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U0!;tlon corner By Father John Dietr:en Q. When does an inJur:( to another person by true goIlSip become sinful? U the information Is strictly true and has taken place, where Is the iDj~r or the siD? (DI.) A. In my

Q. A group of us talked of starting a study club, at least during Lent, at which time we would study the Bible. Our l»lan was to read one of the Gospels or other books, especially the New Testament, discuss what It means, and try to apply It to our lives.

experience as a priest, no crimes of speech (perA couple of the people inhaps no crimes of any ki.nd) are more destructive to our social volved didn't think we lay peo; relationships than the cine. you pie should do something like this mention - and the feeling that by ourselves. They say that withsimply because a thing is true out a priest we probably would about someone else we are free get into heresy. The rest of" us to say whatever we like ~lbout it, don't agree. What do you think. whenever we like, and to whom- (Del.) A...J think your plan sounds ever we like. One who thinks and s.cts this most worthwhile and sincerely way is grossly in error. When hope you will follow through on the topic of our loose gossip is' it. The combination of discusstrue, we're dealing with the sin ion on the meaning of Scripture, of detraction and costumely (in- with some attempt at seeing how sult), as distinct from 1he sins the word of God applies to our of calumny and slander, which lives today, should make your involve lying about thl! faults meetings valuable to everyone who takes part. of another. I suggest that you use some One commits the sin of detraction when he makes known text of Scripture that will asthe faults of another wi.thout a sist you with basic background very good reason for dl)ing so. and explanatory notes. Several lt can be a serious moral offense excellent booklets are in print if it does great harm to that for this purpose to assist groups other person's reputation by such as yours. Some treat each having his or her faults spread book of the Old and New Testaabout when they otherwise ment separately. Others, for example, the fine monthly publicawould not be. The same sin of insult is com- tion of Paulist Press, "Sharing mitted when the other person is the Word," are designed around refused ordinary decency and re- . the scripture readings for the pect whether face to face in pri- following Sunday's liturgy. The St.. Joseph edition of the vate, or in public, such as in New Anierican :eible, for exnewspapers or on television. Even when the other person's ample, would probably enrich faults are public knowledge, it your discussions considerably, still can be sinful against charity because of the extensive helpful to speak unnecessarily abOllt information it contains. As for the concern of some those faults. Already in his own time, St. of your group, you might rePaul recognized the poisonous mind them that heresies in the effect of this kind of conversa- history of the church are gention. He found himself forced to erally started by priests and warn against it frequently. His bishops, not by lay people. So advice to Titus is still valid: don't let that fear stop you. "Tell them not to speak: evil of Good Luck! anyone." Which means in blunt Questions for this column ~anguag~ "U you can't say should be sent to Father Dietsomething good about someone, zeD c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, keep quiet." Fall River, Mass. 02722.

Children mourn miner's death CLEVELAND (NC) .- Coal miner Bill Harris, 24, W,!iS hunting on his mother's property in Johnstown, Pa., when he spotted a white tag and a punctured red balloon. "Air mailed" in a balloon launch earlier that day from St. Paschal Baylon Parish, H~h land Heights, Ohio, the tag was an All Saints Day blessing from second grader Elizabeth Mac LelIan. The tag asked' that the finder mail it back to the school and Harris gave it to his mother since it was found on her property. Two days later Harris was killed in a mining accidE:nt. In a letter to the St. Paschal pupils, Harris' mother, Mrs. William D. Harris, wrote: "Please pray for him. He was a fine son, husband and father of two little girls of five and four ye.ars old."

The St. Paschal children, shocked at the news, responded with prayers of sympathy and Mass cards. In a subsequent letter, Mrs. Harris wrote, "Sometimes we don't feel like going to school, but look what came out of your religion class. I hope someday my granddaughters will make someone as happy as your blessing made their daddy. We received your pictures and letters of prayers, which impressed us' very much. "I tried so hard to show my faith and hid my tears in my grieving heart," she added. "Today I opened our mail and the beauty of what we received pulled on my heavy heart, and the tears were finally free. "I know we're not given more than we can bear and you all helped lighten our load," she told the students.

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Nun relates her arrest PASEDENA, Calif. (NC) Former U.S. Ambassador Robert E. White carne personally at night to get her out of jaH in San Salvador, Notre Dame Sister Sandra Price said. "He said he had come because I had been arrested by the most brutal of the police forces and he feared for my safety if I had to spend the night in jail," Sister Price said in a talk in Pasadena. Active in the Hispanic apostolate in San Jose, Calif., Sister Price had been invited to EI Salvador as a member of the SanFrancisco archdiocesan peace and justice commission to verify charges of 'repression in the country. She was arrested there last August on the eve of her departure and her notes and tapes were confiscated. The people, she said, are demanding social change, the right to decent wages, food, shelter, education. "What the papers call the extreme left is the whole Salvadoran people. Anyone with a view different from the government is the extreme left." To questions as to whether the church was promoting revolution, the nun said "The church has conscienticized the people, has helped them to see that it is not God's will that they do not have education, housing, adequate food. "It is through the church that the people have become aware that they must work for a just social order. The church is not a political body. It will never say that there must be an uprising. But the church's role is to critique any government," Sister Price said. "The government in EI Salvador is openly trying to suppress the church. Hundreds of catechists and priests have been murdered. "The only kind of religion the government tolerates is one that prays and closes its eyes' to reality," Sister Price said. "The church in EI Salvador stands with the people, with the poorest, and it suffer9 the same fate as the poor, which is death."

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel are getting a fresh look as work progresses on a 12-year cleaning and restoration project. Fabrizio Mancinelli, .director of the Byzantine, medieval and modern are sections of the Vatican Museums and head of the project, last week unveiled the first fully restored section of the chapel, more than a year after the work began. The project is the first cleaning and restoration work in the 500-year- history of the chapel. The completed work - nearly an entire wall at the chapel's en· tranee - includes a "lunette" (small painted section) by Michelangelo; a 15th-century series .of papal portraits by Ghirlandaio, Cosima Rosselli and others; and two large frescoes by Hendrick van den Broeck and Matteo da Lecce. Mancinelli said Michelangelo's other 13 lunettes, along with the chapel's other art works, will be completely cleared of dirt and traces of paint added by other artists. In restoring Michelangelo's "Creation" on the chapel ceiling, workmen will not use the original artist's method of painting lying on his back, but will probably lean on special scaffolding. The ceiling restoration is expected to take four years. Another four years will be devoted to restoration of Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" fresco on the back wall of the chapel. Throughout the 12-year project the chapel will be open to the public. The Sistine Chapel was built between 1475 and 1480 at the direction of Pope Sixtus IV' to the dimensions indicated by the Bible for the Temple of Solomon. The first decorations were added to the chapel between 1481 and 1483 by Perugino, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Russelli, and Signorelli. Michelangelo worked in the chapel from 1508 to 1512 and again from 1536 to 1541.

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II Theologian By Father John J. castelot

By Henry Libersat A ministry that takes the church to the people has been developed in St. Margaret Mary Parish, Winter Park, Fla. A parishioner, Patty Shoot, with the pastor's support, developed the neighborhood Apostolate concept in 1971 in this parish of 2,600. families. The pastor, Father John Bluett, has emphasized the concept of "like ministering to ,like" over the years. Today, after nearly a decade, St. Margaret Mary's is considered a model. Its pastoral team consists of the parish priests, the full-time director of neighborhood Apostolate, Sister Carleen Maly, and other parish ministers. Under Neighborhood Apostolate, the parish is divided into four areas, each with a coordinator. Each area has nine neighborhoods and nine chairpersons, thus the parish has 36 subcommunities. In times of death, marriage, illness or on more joyous occasions, the neighborhood provides an intimate circle of Christian friends to share sorrow or joy. Many problems among the aged - such as the need for transportation, nursing care, companionship, legal assistance and just plain caring - are met by neighborhood ministry. Prayer groups have sprung up in the neighborhoods - from rosary societies to Scripture study路 groups - providing an even greater spiritual bond throughout the entire parish. Father Bluett puts it this way: "What happens in our parish is akin to what happens in a wellorganized diocese. When we come together on Sunday we have something to celebrate a real eucharistic bond strengthened by intimate Christian relationships in 36 different little worlds in our parish." What do the people themselves say about neighborhood Apostolate? One elderly woman had shut herself away from everyone. A persistent neighborhood visitor finally got a priest into the house. He found the woman to be overwhelmed by guilt over an abortion many years before. Subsequently she made her Turn to page thirteen

know your faIth New steps to faith and community By Father Philip J. Mumion

In an interesting study of Episcopalians in North Carolina, sociologist Wade Roof describes some different expectations people have regarding their church: - Some people are essentially local - their lives are lived largely with people in the same town or neighborhood. - Other people's lifestyles are much less based in the local community. Roof found that people in the first group want the church to play an important part in their family and social lives. Activities that develop a sense of belonging are important to them. The second group is not as likely to get deeply involved in local parish activities. People in this group want the church to provide support for their belief. For them, liturgy and preaching are especially important. Of course, the groups are not as mutually exclusive as this breakdown makes them sound. Each group needs some of what the other wants. Still, the distinction is helpful. And parishes are taking steps to meet the needs of both groups - to help personalize belief as well as the sense of belonging. On one hand, people are helped to develop a sense of belonging when parishes and their people try to build up their church as a community. Because people move so often today, this may mean that deliberate efforts are lIndertaken to help people get to know each other and to get involved with each other. Sometimes the task of building up the parish as a community of Christians involves efforts to help people rise above deep seated views and feelings about each other. This may be true especially in smaller communities where people tend to know each

as. that they no longer see the other already. . Other times, a strong sense of connections between their belief community may exist rather na- and the rest of their lives. turally - for example, in some The heart of secularization ethnic groups. The task then is is not so much loss of faith or one of the locating the existing . the rise of atheism. Rather, becommunity, supporting it and lief is seen as marginal. deepening it with the life of the To respond to this sort of sacraments. secularization, many parishes Parishes are taking steps to are taking pains to help people build community because it put faith back within the center seems that relationships cannot of their lives. Parishes and their be taken for granted. Parishes people are grappling with: are also taking steps to help One Chicago parish has espeople personalize belief. tablished weekends where 20 to Here are some basic matters 30 parishioners reflect together of faith which may need reflec- on their faith and its signifition and persona.l commitment cance. Hundreds of parishioners on the part of today's Catholics: have joined with the pastor, belief in a personal God; belief Father Leo Nahon, for these in the divinity of Jesus and in "Jubilee Weekends" in a conhis saving power; belief in his verted former convent. death and resurrection. Other parishes offer similar People who have moved away opportunities for parishioners to from the church often have indi- talk openly and personally about cated that a weakening of their their faith with groups of fellow belief in basic Christian teach- Catholics. ings played a role in their disAs with the sense of belonging, it seems that the role of affection. Yet, perhaps it is not so much belief in peoples lives cannot be that these people stop believing taken for granted.

Small groups By Dolores Lackey Years ago when my husband, new baby and I moved to Washington, D.C., I felt lost in a land of strangers. One Sunday a notice in the parish bulletin caught my eye. The Council of Catholic Women, hoping to begin a social justice study group, was inviting women to an organizational meeting. Eager for such stimulation, I attended the first meeting. About seven women of varying ages gathered. At least two strong and lasting friendships formed from this study group, which served me a,nd my hus-

band as a bridge to the life of our parish. Almost everyone is part of a small group that is a bridge, as it were, between him or her and the larger institutions of society. The family, for example, is the link to the neighborhood and community. The classroom helps the child relate to the larger world of school. Offices serve as connectors within larger organizations or industries. A parish is the usual way for the individual Christian to reTurn to Page Thirteen

51. Paul applied his theology to concrete situations. Even more important, his theology grew out of his reflection on those situations. He was what . we call a "pastoral theologian." Paul was quite literally a pioneer in his field. His churches had problems and he had to come up with solid solutions. While they were eminently practical, they sparked reflections of a more general nature. So it was with the problem presented by the factions in the church at Corinth. This had to be handled at the practical level first of all. But since it involved childish attachments of the people to individual preachers, it set Paul thinking about the role of those ministers who proclaim God's plan of salvation. So we see that under God's providence, even bad situations can have some rather happy side effects. Had the Corinthian community not been splintered in this way, Paul' might not have been led to his very positive and valuable reflections. Since the people are divided on the basis of allegiance to Paul or to Appollos among others, Paul begins by asking quite incisively: "After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? His own answer is blunt and right to the point: "Simply min.isters through whom you became believers, each of them doing only what the Lord assigned him." (Cor. 3:5) If either Paul or Apollos was responsible for the 'Corinthians coming to Christ, it was only as instruments. It was God who called them, God who graced them. He alone was responsible for their birth as his children and for their continued growth in Christian maturity. Since neither Paul nor Apollos is the basis for the Corinthians' faith, neither should be the basis for their divisiveness. In what has become a justly familiar phrase, Paul clarifies further what he is trying to get across to them: "I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. This means that neither he who plants nor he who waters is of any special account, only God, who gives the growth." (I Cor. 3:6-7). Paul and Apollos were not rivals; each was from start to finish doing God's work. Turn to page thirteen

A Verdtdlde E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

A Eucaristia na. Comunidade Crista Quer pe1a necessidade existencia1 do homem, quer pe1a vontade de Cristo i-nos fici1 conc1uir a existincia da Comunidade Crista(no sentido ample da universa1idade da reden~ao). Todavia, a Comunidade nao pode ser circunscrita a um desejo, ideia ou institui~ao juridica: deve ser sensivel,isto e, deve ser uma realidade concreta para o homem no seu aqui e agora. ~ justo perguntar em que se manifesta, ou deve manifestar, a Igreja como Comunidade? Todo 0 grupo e, com maior for~a de razao, toda a comunidade tim os seus "momentos fortes" que procuram assinalar e manifestar por meio de celebra~oes e .comemora:~oes. Sirva-nos de exemplo a familia. 0 casamento, 0 baptizado, os aniversirios, as reunioes familiares manifestam 0 grau de coesao dessa familia. Para corroborar esses momentos usam-se pequenos simbolos: fotografias, alian~as, presentes, etc. Se estes sinais sao verdadeiramente significativos, somos 1evados a aceitar a e:>l:istincia duma comunidade familiar. Os sinais traduzem uma realidade subjacente que se pretende exteriorizar. A ausincia de sinais integrados duma Comunidade nao significa necessiriamente a i.nexistincia de interac~ao ou amizadE! entrfi! os membros, mas pe10 menos demonstra que os 1ac;;:os que unem os membros sao muito dibeis, 0 que equiva1e Cl dizer que nao estamos perante uma comunidade na autintica acepc;;:ao da palavra. A comunidade crista, sem uma forte interacc;;:ao dos seus membros, que vemos traduzida exteriormente por meio de sinais de uniao, nao pode ser considerada comunidade, ou seja, nao existe ai Igreja. Licito i concluir que, sendo 0 cristianismo uma Igreja, nao haveri cristianismo vilido onde nao houver uma comunidadE~. 0 grau de integrac;;:ao comunitiria aparecer-nos-i por detris dos simbolos ou sinais proprios da Comunidade Crista. As comunidades profanas tim ob.jectivos e vinculos de uniao segundo a sua propria Indole. A comunidade crista vai mais longe: 0 seu vinculo de uniao entrc~ os membros e 0 amor, mas um amor pl~ssoal. So atraves do amor conseguimos construir a comunidade, pois onde nao hi amor nao hi DeusMas como saberemos se existe amor e, por conseguin·te, uma Comunidade? Sob 0 ponto de vista da fe, hi indIcios de comunidade, "se temos um so Senhor; se somos animados pelo mesmo Espirito, se somos iluminados por uma so fi" •. . Sob 0 ponto de vista da orac;;:ao temos a promessa de Cristo de estar onde dois ou tris ou mais oram em nome d'Ele. Sob 0 ponto de vista do amor, onde haja caridade e amor, ai habita Deus; sabendo que so haveri caridade e amor, se se concretizarem no amor dos irmaos. (Continuado na proxima pUblicac;;:ao)

Small groups portive community is so univerContinued from Page Twelve late t~ the diocese and the uni- sal, I believe, that anyone can find or help begin such a group. versal church. You might not see an invitaOne could say that the small group lends a personal face to tion in your church bulletin as 1 the larger, somewhat impersonal did, but perhaps you could help . issue the call: "Come join in an structure. Churches have been discover- exploration of Christian life, ing the power of small groups growth and faith." The promise of Jesus is with to transform the lives of individyou: "Where two or three are uals and entire parishes. After living in Washington a gathered in my name, 1 am with few years, my husband and I you." were invited to join a Christian Family Movement (CFM) group in a neighboring parish. We met regularly with other couples and Continued from page twelve a chaplain to explore the mean- peace with God and began a ing of marriage, family life and more wholesome life. responsibility to our community. Another family seemed aloor And we gradually became aware and removed from everyone of new strength in our lives, "a little uppity and stuffy," acdrawn from knowing ourselves cording to. one lay minister. A to be part of the body of Christ. visitor, braving rebuff, called In the years after Vatican and got nowhere. Council II, we joined with severFinally Father Bluett took the al other couples to study Scripbull by the horns and knocked ture and to pray. Our meetings were not scholarly. Rather, they on the door. When the husband were attempts to relate the word saw the priest, he broke down of God to our lives as parents, and cried. His wife was mentally to our professional responsibili- ill, they were suffering deeply ties and to political and social and believed no one really cared. issues. One family found financial help when it was "down and Today many lay renewal movements, such as Teams of Our out" and saw firsthand that St. Lady, Marriage Encounter and Margaret Mary's practices what charismatic prayer groups, have it preaches. small groups structured into The parish tithes 10 percent their way of life. Many people of Sunday collections for needy value Cursillos, for example;. parishioners and projects outfor the support of weekly group side the parish. Bob Gardiner, meetings, quite apart from the head of the Christian ministry "high" some experience at their and service board, explains: original encounter with the pro- "The money comes off the top. gram. . We don't wait until we've taken The need to know and be care of parish needs before we known in a small, honest, sup- tithe."

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Theologian Continued from page twelve If the Corinthians are making Paul and Apollos rivals and the basis of their own childish rivalry, it can mean only that they do not understand what faith really is. They are thinking of faith in terms of intellectual convictions which depend on the persuasiveness of impressive speakers armed with compelling arguments and brilliant oratory. Paul tells the Corinthians they should learn that faith is a gift, pure and simple. Far from being a mere intellectual conviction, it is a profoundly personal response to a divine call, a response leading to total commitment to God. The Corinthians became believers through the preaching of Paul and Apollos, but only be cause God chose to use the two men as instruments. Once chosen, however, they had a serious responsibility to accomplish their mission to the best of their ability. Paul introduces this important consideration in the concluding verses of this section: "He who plants and he who waters works to the same end. Each will rescue his wages in proportion to his toil. We are· God's coworkers, while you are his cultivation, his building." (I Cor. 8:9).

Even area hospitals take advantage of the Christian commitment in the parish,· commented Ruth Bliss, an assistant in the parish ministry office. "The hospitals let some elderly patients come home sooner when they know the parish ministry is concerned about them." Father Bluett also says that many marriages have been reconciled and many people have come back to the church through the neighborhood Apostolate.

Instead of hate he's sowing love DETROIT ~C)-Joseph Diroff admits a lot of people think he's crazy. But Diroff, who believes a Christian should sow love wherever there is hatred, hopes to collect 52 million signatures expressing brotherhood and forgiveness to be sent to the. Iranian people. A math teacher at St. Mary of Redford High School in Detroit, Diroff began circulating a scroll for signatures Jan. 20, the day of the hostages' release. He is circulating the petitions among his students, faculty and fellow parishioners in an attempt to resolve bitterness toward the people of Iran. ""!t was the way 1 was brought up," said Diroff. "We were taught to turn the other cheek and to forgive those who hurt us."

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By Cecilia Belanger

All diocesan high schools except Coyle-eassidy and Bishop Feehan are tied for first place in The Anchor's First Annual Empty Promises Contest. The contest is open to all high schools that solemnly appoint school correspondents in September. The correspondents must then disappear, not to surface until school is safely over for the year. Extra points are granted if they are credited in their yearbooks or school p~pers for their devotion to The Anchor. Rumor has it that the entire student bodies of the schools in question got tired of the New England winter and moved to the archdiocese of Miami, but we really don't believe that, since those same schools appear frequently one page over, in o\Jr sports column. Nor do we buy the argument that no news is good news. Our feelings are shared by several alumni we know who look hopefully and weekly for word of their alma maters on this page. It must be that the missing schools expect to win really good prizes in our FAEP contest. But they should consider that two can play the Empty Promises game.

Coyle-Cassidy An extensive self-evaluation process involving teachers, students, parents, alumni, friends and Taunton civic leaders has been complE:ted at Coyle-Cassidy. Recommendations it makes will shortly be implemented and Â˘he 160-page report itself has been forwarded to the New England Assn. of Schools and Colleges. Alumnijae reported on dean's lists at ,their colleges dnclude Cecilia Scott, Dennis Clark, Bill Ventura and Vinny Phillipino at Providence College and Regina McCabe at Emmanuel College.

Stonehill College costs increase Tuition and room and board charges at Stonehill College, North Easton, will illcrease for the 1981-1982 academic year. Tuition will go from $3725 to $4275 and room aid board will rise from $2200 to '$2500. Evening college rates will dncrease from $170 to $220 per course. Officials say that despite the ,increases the college rates remain among the lowest of private institutions in Massachu-' setts.

New museum PARIS (NC)-Thecrypt of No'tre Dame Cathedral is now a public museum tracing the history of the city since the third century B.C. Among the exhibits are a hot air central heating system for a mansion that dates to the Roman conquest, segments of the original docks along Seine River, ramparts from the Middle Ages and a wine cellar from a 17th c~ntury house.

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I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN We dreamers have our ways Of facing rainy days We keep the feeUngs warm Protected from the storm Until our time arrives Then one day the sun appears And we come shining through those lonely years I made it through the rain I kept my world protected I made it through the rain I kept my point of view I made it through the rain And found myself respected By the others who Got rained on too And made it through . When friends are hard to find And life seems so unkind Sometimes you feel afraid Just aim beyond the clouds And rlse above the ground And start your own parade When I chase away my fears That's when I knew that I could finally say Written by: Drey Sheppard, sung by Barry Manllow, ÂŠ 1980, Arista Records, Inc.

IS LIFE UNFAIR? Does it sometimes seem unkind? Are there problems, difficulties? Can't they just be swept away? Manilow's first line speaks of "dreamers." They're the people who see and seek alternatives to situations that arise in life. But dreamers also confront present difficulties. And their dreams often begin as ideas. Once we act on an idea, we discover its cost. If a dream is to come true, change is often needed. .People often prefer the safety of what is already known even when it is a problem. Perhaps we can't reach all of our' goals and dreams quickly. Some difficulties may even take the effort and struggle of a lifetime. But a life lived courageously leads to greater happiness than one controlled by fears. As we assess our lives, we begin to see what areas can be improved. Look for small steps to take. Usually problems and difficulties have been with us for a while. We cannot undo quickly what has been building for a long time. Take steps that are measurable. Visible progress, no matter how small, builds confidence. Manilow even suggests that "you start your own parade." He reminds us not to let problems weigh so heavily that other aspects of life cannot be enjoyed.

In the beginning there was peace. Then brother lifted arm against brother and there was death in the world. War is slavery. It overloads a nation with taxes and public debt. It breeds internal discontent. Instead of dealing in beneficent commerce, war finds nations dealing in destruction, in privateering, in legalized piracy. And we live in a time when our weapons can put a:.1 end to life on this planet. War is like a fire that spreads when fueled. And seldom has there been less cause for it than now. Nations are slowly becoming self-determined; we feel we are moving forward in many. areas. Instead of warring, we should be working together, drawn into talks for peace, not for an escalation of tension. If only we could direct the energies to peace that we now direct towards war! Is agression s6 deeply embedded in us that we cannot throw off its shackles? Yes, war' is shivery! Yet national honor can be served by earnest, patient efforts for peace. Why must honor be seen only in the light of duellists battling for supremacy? We need not battIe to 'prove we are not cowards. The days of the bow and arrow are gone. Today we talk in terms of the annihilation of a planet. Are our leaders so devoid of principle that they cannot realize that every means of averting war must be used? Who allows such leaders to get into power? And why are the people so helpless? In the history of civilized nations, who has written a brighter page than those who strove to avoid war? Peacekeeping can also be patriotic. Flagwaving is fine, but dropping bombs does not prove love of country. The people must speak with strength to their leaders. We cannot just leave the country to politicians. Experience shows that they are not always concerned with the true welfare of a nation. We know that war has sometimes been necessary and that providence can bring good from suffering. But we do not therefore canonize war, crime and despotism. Today we need war no more than we need to go back to the rack, the Inquisition or the baronial license of the Middle Ages. Such monuments to bar,barism should be buried, never to be resurrected. Only then could we call ourselves civilized and Christian!

Campus ministry WASHINGTON (NC) - Father Joseph Kenna, 41, director of campus ministry IJt Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash., has been appointed the representative fpr campus and young adult mini$try for the U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Education.

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At the end of each season allstar teams abound. The first stellars of the basketball season available to us at this tir.:le are from the CYO. The New Bedford Girls' CYO All-Star team is built arciUnd a nucleus of three returnees, including point guard MariE! David, of defending champion St. Mary's, on the stellar combine for the third year. The other returnees are guard Julie Miranda of St. Francis and center Sharon Sinagra of St. James. Roberta Ferro of Mt. Carmel, last year's rookie-of-the-year, is making her first appearance as an allstar. Others on the all-star team are Anne Mauricio, Mt. Carmel; Debbie Halstead, St. Francis; Karen Gardzina, St. George; Rachel Lemieux, St. Marys; Nicki Champagne, St. Francis; Lori Rua and Donna Dufresne, St. Mary's and Natalie Fontaine, St. James. All are forwards. At guard are Kelly Dreher and Jo-Ann Vieira, St. George; Sue A:rsenault and Cathy Camacho, St. Joseph. The Fall River Girls CYO allstars are Ann Gibbons, Lisa 0'

Stars Named Neil, Tracey Audet, Sue Guerette, Maureen Sullivan, Carolyn Smith, Danielle Bertrand, Joanne Hackett, Kathleen Arnoe and Aileen Donnelly. The New Bedford and Fall River squads met in a twogame series in New Bedford last Sunday, with New Bedford the winner, and in Fall River yesterday. The Bristol County CYO Hockey League's post-season playoffs will start on March 8 with regular season champion New Bedford opposing fourth-place Rochester at 9 p.m., runnerup Fall River South taking on thirdplace Somerset at 10. The bestof-three semi-finals will continue on March 15, starting at 9 p.m. All games are played in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, the league's home base. Meanwhile, tonight's league twin bill has Fall River South vs. New Bedford at 9 o'clock, Rochester vs. Somerset at 10. On the final card of the regular season, next Sunday, it will be Fall River South vs. Somerset 'at 9, New Bedford vs. Rochester at 10.

The C:hampion Scorers Final figures on individual scoring in the Southeastern Mass. Conference' show that Mark Schmidt of Division Two champion Bishop Feehan High led the entire conference with 246 points for an average of 24.6. Teammate Greg Larrivee finished eighth with 149', 14.9. Bishop Connolly High's Brian Shea, 180 for 18.0, was f:ifth. Diocesan schools placed five among the top 10 scorers in Division Three. Ken Farnworth, Bishop Stang High, 198, 19,8, was third, Mike Strojny, CoylE!-Cassidy High, 182, 18.2, fourth. Bill Greaves, Coyle-Cassidy,. was sixth with 162, 116.2, Steve Lopes, Holy Family, 13~1, 13.0, and Chris Leary, Coyle-Cassidy, 118, 11.8, finished eighth and ninth. Peter Laporte, Attleboro, was the top scorer in Division One with 194, 19.4. Carl Rodrigues, Taunton, 164, 18.2 and Mark Dias, New Bedford, third with

tv, mOVIe news Symbols following film reviews indicate is the complexity of Shylock's characterization as neither hero both general and Catholic Film Office _nor villain, but a wronged inratings, which do not always coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for gen· dividual striking back at those eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug· who hate him solely because of gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for his race. children or younger teens. Those who see in Shylock only Catholic ratings: Al-approved for an invidious racial sterotype children and adults; A2-approved for miss his human dimension. The adults and adolescents; A3-approved for play's greatest moment comes adults only; B-{)bjectionable in part for with Shylock's response to his everyone; A4-separate classification Christian tormentors in His (given to films not morally offensive speech on our shared humanity which, however, require some analysis - "If you prick us, do we not and explanation): C-condemned. bleed?" Admirably directed, this proNew Films duction emphasizes the play's '~addie" is a languid Austraunflattering picture of Chrislian film about a young wife who walks out on her brutal tians in an age of bigotry, one adulterous husband and supports that contemporary viewers can herself and her young children see as a tragic part of the hisas a barmaid in Sydney during tory leading to the Holocaust.

the Great Depression. Helen Morse is very good as the heroine and the evocation of the era is effective, but the film lacks vitality -and dramatic force. Because adultery figures in the plot, it has been classified A3. "Fear No Evil" (Avco Embassy) A bright, unpopular high school student is possessed by the devil in this inept horror film. Because of violence, nudity and exploitation of religious themes, it has been classified C and R. "The Last Metro" (United Art· ists) A married actress and theater manager tries to keep her theater going and her Jewish husband safely hidcfen during the German Occupation of Paris. Romantic and sophisticated fare with no depth or passion, it has been classified A3, PG because adultery figures in the plot. Films on TV

163, 18.1. Larry Perry, Wareham, 246, 24.6, was runnerup to Schmidt in Division Two, Ron Andrews, Fairhaven, third with 199, 19.9. In Division Three Mark Bruce of New Bedford Voke-Tech scored the most points, 211 for an averSunday, Feb. 22, 9 p.m. (ABC) age of 21.1 but teammate Paul "Norma Rae" Sally Field Gomes had the highest average, plays an exploited textile work22.3 on 179 points in eight er who, under the influence of games. a tenacious labor organizer (Ron Ernie Bacon of Fall River's Liebman), is instrumental in forDiman Voke was tops in Divis- mating a union. An inspiring and ion Four with 198 points aver- entertaining film. Because of its aging 19.8. Paul McCann, Digh- serious nature and some exton-Rehoboth, was the runnerup tremely frank references to sexwith 168, 16.8. ual misconduct, it is rated A3, Durfee is host to Taunton to- PG. night in the Division One finale. Sunday, Feb. 22, 9 p.m. (NBC) In non-league games Connolly is . - "Prom Night" (1980) - A at Coyle-Cassidy, Wareham at revenge killer stalks high school Middleboro. Tomorrow night students on the night of the big Seekonk hosts Holy Family and dance in this grisly little packDartmouth is at Somerset. age of exploitive horror. B,R. Today is the deadline for Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. (CBS) teams to qualify for the Eastern _ "The Wizard of Oz" (1938) Mass playoffs. Dorothy rides again to the magic land over the rainbow in the classic that launched Judy Garland's career and which has beal organizations. "The need for energy, with come an annual must-see for which you are familiar, makes many families. AI.

Waste of lenergy offends God VATICAN CITY (NC) - To waste energy is an offense against God, "when one knows the lacks for which our world suffers," Pope John Paul II said to the administrative committee of the International Union of Producers and Distribu'~ors of Electrical Energy. He urged member:; to use "imagination, resolution and prudence" in seeking new energy sour·::es and called for development cf cooperative energy plans among European countries and inte:mation-

me think of that moral energy which members of society also need in order to resolve in dignity and equity the grave human problems which they confront in all fields," Pope John Paul said. "For Christians, to continue analogy, the church seems like an immense network secretly irrigated by the life of the risen Christ," he said.

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ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD The parish prayer group announces Masses of healing Feb. 18 and Feb. 25, followed by prayer meetings in the rectory basement. A holy hour will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, sponsored by the Legion of Mary. Classes of area Boy Scouts wishing to earn the Ad Altare Dei award will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 in the rectory basement. The parish council will meet Thursday, Feb. 19. BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER . Diet workshops are held at 7 p.m. each Thursday in the church hall. On the Tuesdays of Lent, beginning on Shrove Tuesday, March 3, Father MauriCe Jeffrey, pastor, will conduct a study of the Book of Revelation. A post-Cana Conference will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in the hall. "Looking Good," a talk by Mrs. Louise Freeman, will highlight the Women's Guild meeting slated for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. All women are invited. Rosary makers will meet at 7:30 p.m.' Wednesday in the church hall.

CATHEDRAL CAMPS, EAST FREETOWN Parishes wishing reserve facilities at Cathedral or Our Lady of the Lake camp for summer Saturdays or Sundays will have priority bookings until April 1. After that date reservations will be accepted from other groups. The camps may be contacted at Box 428, East Freetown 02717 or telephone 763-8874. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Deacon and Mrs. Leo Racine of New Bedford will address a meeting of single parishioners at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, at which time plans will be made for the formation of a parish ministry to young adults. \ "Parents of candidates for first penance and first communion will meet at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 1, in the school. Also on March 1, parish intercessors will meet at 3 p.m. in 'the lower chapel. The Young Adult Ministry will, hold a meeting for single persons aged 18 to 50 at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the lower chapel. Deacon and Mrs. Leo Racine will speak. LITURGICAL DANCE, WESTPORT/DARTMOUTH A liturgical dance course will be offered by Sister Pauline Morrissette beginning Monday at St. George Convent. Further information is available from her at 636-4909. ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER A retreat open to parishioners will be held the weekend of Feb. 27 at Peacedale, R.I. Further information is available at the rectory.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD The Tuesday morning discussion group will resume meetings on March 3. Parents of parochial school first graders will meet with Father John F. Moore, pastor, at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the school. Plans for a computer learning center in the school are underway. Parishioners with experience in carpentry or electric work are asked to volunteer their services in its construction. Aid is also needed in painting the school cafeteria. Futher information' is available. at the school. ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, FALL RIVER David Williams, MD, of Brown University will present lectures on cardiovascular problems Wednesday, Feb. 25 and Wednesday, April 29, both at 8:30 a.m. in Clemence Hall. Physicians and other medical professionals are invited. ADORERS OF BLESSED SACRAMENT Adorers will hold a holy hour from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven, under direction of Msgr. Henri Hamel. Refreshments will follow. All are welcome. SISTERS OF. PROVIDENCE, HOLYOKE Sister Maria Joseph Nace will hold a one-woman art exhibit and poetry reading at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Providence from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The program, open to the public, will include works 'in oil, acrylic and watercolor. Readings will include selections from the works of Archibald MacLeish, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson andT. S. Eliot. ST. RITA, MARION Parish Renewal Weekends are planned for March. To be held in the rectory, they are open to all parishioners 18 and over.

CATHEDRAL MUSIC, FALL RIVER The first in a series of monthly concerts to the public at no charge will be held 'at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Lady Chapel of St. Mary's Cathedral. The program will featu're an naHan early music quartet consisting of gamba, harpsichord, guitar and voice. OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER A family mission will be held from Sunday, March 8 through Friday, March 13 under direction of Father Thomas Tobin, CSC. Daily Masses during Lent will be offered at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. The stations of the cross will be conducted at 3:45 p.m. each Friday. Holy Rosary Sodalists will attend 8 a.m. Mass Sunday, March 8, followed by a breakfast meeting in the church hall. DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, ATTLEBORO Alcazaba Circle #65 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5 in K of C. Hall on Hodges Street. Slides will be shown by Father Kevin Harrington and the public is invited. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD Parishioners are asked to donote used baby furniture to Birthright. Items may be brought to the church. ' ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Cub Scouts will hold a Blue and Gold banquet at 1 p.m. Sunday in the church hall. Parents of first communicants wiU meet in the school hall at 9 a.m. PARENTAL STRESS HOTLINE, BOSTON A statewide confidential 24hour telephone counseling service is available to parents and children under stress, especially in cases of threatened or actual child abuse. Its toll-free number is 1-800-632-8188.

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Apply synod~ bishops told VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope John Paul II has firmly. warned the Dutch bishops to carry through their' year-old special synod resolutions, regardless of difficulties they may face. In a letter to the Dutch bishops the pope said that carrying out" the resolutions is "a fundamental condition, an objective basis which cannot be prescinded from, for the building of communion both within the church in the Netherlands and in the relations of your locali community with the universal community of the Catholic Church." "The present difficulties, some of which are certainly very serious, cannot intimidate us. We cannot ·back off in the face of them," the pope said. The synod was an effort by the bishops to restore unity and discipline in the badly divided Dutch church. Reports from the Netherlands have indicated that the synod resolutions, which called' for an, end to numerous unauthorized experiments and a restoration of hierarchical authority in all areas of Dutch church life, were not received favorably by many Dutch Catholics. Confusion of the roles of priests and laymen and the closing of traditional seminaries in most Dutch dioceses were among issues underlying the 1980 Dutch synod. 'Pope John Paul said that "the attention owed'to the apostolate of the laity certainly cannot be diminished," but he also said that Vatican II "indicated the most precise areas and the proper forms according to which it must tatte place."

Scouts will work on vocations The National Catholic Committee on Scouting has established a standing committee on vocations to work closely with the National Vocation Directors Council. At its executive board meeting held in San Antonio, members said the action will help make the more than 250,000 young men involved in Scouting under Catholic auspices aware of the need for vocations. In other action the NCCS appointed Raul A. Chavez associate director of Catholic relationships at the Boy Scouts national, office. Commenting on the appointment, Bishop Joseph Hart of Cheyenne, Wyo., episcopal advisor to the NCCS, said: "With nearly 50 percent of all Hispanics under 18 years of age, Scouting, with its three-fold program of Cub Sco\,Jting, Boy Scouts, and Exploring, can provide an educatoin, c~aracter development and fun. Scouting under Catholic auspices provides a close association with the church and a means to strengthen their Catholic faith as well."