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Bishops hack registration, oppose peacetime draft WASHINGTON (NC) - As an antidraft coalition announced .plans for a March 22 protest demonstration in Washington, the U.S. bishops expressed their support for President Carter's decision to begin draft registration. In a statement released by the Administrative Board of the U.S. Catholic Conference, the bishops restated their opposition to a peacetime draft and opposed the registration and drafting of women. Meantime, President Carter appealed to an audience of more than 250 student leaders for support of his draft registration proposals. His appeal apparently did not persuade many of them to drop their opposition to registration and the draft. "We acknowledge the right of the state to register citizens for the purpose of military conscription, both in peacetime and in times of national emergency," the bishops said. "Therefore, we find no objection in principle to this action by the government. However, we believe .it necessary to present convincing rea-
And on the draft itself, the sons for this at any particular bishops said they opposed reintime." Stating that allowing but not . stitution of military conscription requiring women to serve in the "except in the case of a national military was a practice that defense emergency." The statement repeated the "has served us well as a society," the bishops said they opposed bishops' past support for the both registration and conscrip- rights of conscientious objectors Turn to Page Nine tion of women.
Bishop invited to Azores His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River has announced that he has accepted the invitation of the Bishop of the Azores, D. Aurelio Granada Escudeiro, to preside at the Santo Christo Feast in May on the island of St. Michael. The invitation to Bishop Cronin arrived before a disastrous New Year's Day earthquake hit the neighboring island of Terceira. Bishop Escudeiro said the feast would be held as usual on St. Michael because it would be of spiritual assistance to participants. The Saftto Christo feast, honoring Christ as Lord and
Savior, is particularly dear to Azorean Catholics. Bishop Cronin in expressing his gratitude to the Bishop of the Azores for the invitation to participate in the celebration, noted that he looked forward to returning to the islands. In 1972 he visted both Terceira and St. Michael, the homelands of many priests and laity now living in the Fall River diocese. He expects to revisit Terceira in May, as well as St. Michael. Acompanying Bishop Cronin to the Azores will be Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, diocesan vicargeneral, and Msgr. John J. Oliveira, episcopal secretary.
Hail Mary breaks silence The Hail Mary wy the' prayer that broke 18 years of courtordered silence in at least two public school classrooms in the Fall River diocese, a Fall River second grade and a Somerset third grade. The children who led their路 classmates in prayer were among the first to implement a new Massachusetts law requiring public school teachers to ask each morning for a student prayer leader. If a volunteer is forthcoming, students who do not want to participate may leave the classroom and stand in the hallway during the prayer. The future of the law remains hazy, however, with a hearing as to its constitutionality likely to come next month before the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth.
But in the meantime, four: y.ears after Massachusetts inaugurated a "silent moment" at the beginning of each public school day and 18 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ban on school prayer, spoken prayer is permissible and some CCD teachers are reportedly instructing children in how to lead classroom recitations. Opponents, specifically the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the American Jewish Congress, representing families in Framingham and Marblehead, argue that the new law violates the separation of church and state. They also say students would be left standing in hallways unsupervised and that students who do not pray would be stigmatized. The U.S. Supreme Court 18 years ago prohibited public
schools from compelling recitation of an officially prescribed prayer. A year later the court also ruled that recitation of the Lord's Prayer or readings from the Bible as an official part of morning exercises were also unconstitutional. 13ut the Massachusetts minuteof-silence law was up-held in 1976 by a three-judge federal court panel which ruled that such a practice was constitutional because it did not require students to meditate or pray, just to sit silently. Paul Pierce, a Watertown, Mass., student minister who authored the new law, said he hoped the measure would bring values back to the public schools. He also said he hoped a challenge to the law would go all the way to the Supreme Court Turn to Page Six
SISTER THOMAS MORE, O.P.
New assistant By Pat McGowan
facilities and for other programs for the aged. She used to be a games mis"Nursing homes cannot ac路 tress (a gym teacher to us Yank- cept too many Medicaid recipiees) and that background is re- ents or they won't remain solflected in her firm stride and vent," pointed out Lyons. crisp, no-nonsense approach to Both he and Sister Thomas life. More are strong supporters of She is Sister Thomas More, the hospice concept, a program OP, new assistant director at St. providing aid to terminally ill Anne's Hospital, Fall River, who cancer patients in their own left more than a few broken homes. hearts behind her last faU when St. Anne's is active in a task she ended a seven-year stint as force hoping to bring hospice administrator of Madonna Man- care to Fall River and Sister or Nursing Home, North Attle- Thomas More spoke recently at boro. an explanatory meeting for At present, she said, she is health professionals at Bristol still accustoming herself to her Community College. new routine. One of several asShe sai<;l she first became sistant directors at St. Anne's, aware of the hospice concept in she is responsible for nursing England, where it originated service in all departments, in- and where she was brought up cluding in and outpatient, em- and studied physical education. ergency room, physical therapy She first came in contact with and clinics. She is also liaison her community, the Dominicans to the Friends of St. Anne and of the Presentation, as a gym the Volunteers of St. Anne, the teacher at one of their schools hospital's auxiliary groups. in England. The thought of a vocation did She has carried with her ftom Madonna Manor her deep interest not surface at that time, howin care for the elderly and she ever. World War II intervened hbpes to express it in terms of and like everyone in .Britain, an adult day care program under Sister Thomas More was absorbed in the defense effort. hospital sponsorship. By day, she said, she introShe and James Lyons, hospital administrator, concurred in duced "exercise breaks" into Turn to Page Thirteen stressing the great need for such路
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FORMER DOMINICAN FATHER Francis MacNutt, author of books on physical and psychological healing through prayer and a leading figure in both Catholic charismatic renewal and interdenominational activities, was married in Largo, Fla., Feb. 9. MacNutt, 54, who has been director of Merton House in St. Louis, married a Clearwater, Fla., woman in a small chuurch ceremony. Judith C. Sewell, 32, a convert to Catholicism several years ago, is involved in the charismatic counseling ministry. This was her first marriage. The action automatically suspends MacNutt from the priesthood.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall has delayed temporarily enforcement of U.S. District Juudge John F. Dooling's Jan. 15 decision requiring the government to pay for all "medically necessary" abortions.
ROME (NC) - American Cardinal William W. Baum, recently appointed prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education, has arrived in Rome to take over his new post. The former Washington archbishop, one of the youngest cardinals in the world is the highest-ranKing American in the Vatican.
WASHINGTON (NC) - A Washingtgon area woman's well-publicized agreement to bear a child for a Delaware couple unahle to have children has been strongly criticized by three Catholic scholars who said that artificial insemination raises serious questions about family structure and marital commitment in procreative acts.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Father Paul Boyle, superior general of the Passionist Fathers, and Father Stephen Tutas, head of the Marianists, two American-born priests, will be among the 10 Religious representatives to the world Synod of Bishops next October in Rome. The list is headed by Father Arrupe, superior general of the Jesuits and president of the Union of Superiors General. Other representatives are Father Vincent de Couesnongle of the Dominicans; Father Egidio Vigano, Salesians; Father Joseph Pfab, Redemptorists; Father Eugene Cuskelly, Sacred Heart Missionaries; Father Falco Thuis of the Carmelite Friars; Father Joseph Hardy, Society of African Missions; and Father Gabrielle Ferrari, Xaverian Missionaries.
WASHINGTON (NC) - President Carter's decision that the United States should rejoin the International Labor Organization, a United Nations' agency, was praised by two U.S. Catholic Conference officials. Bishop Kelly, USCC general secretary, and Msgr. George Higgins, USCC secretary for special concerns, said they were delighted that the president had decided to end a two-year boycott.
PICTURES ABOVE CAPSULIZE march of communications media. Top, Pope Pius XI right, listens to 1933 address of Guglielmo Marconi at ceremonies inaugurating world's first radio-telephone system, which linked the Vatican with the papal summer residence at Castelgondolfo. Vatican Radio, now one of the world's largest, is celebrating its 50th year. Center, Father Agnellus Andrew, OFM,president of the International Catholic Association for Radio and Television, has been named vice-president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. And bottom, Brad Dourif, left, and Harry Dean Stanton star in "Wise Blood," film version of U.S. Writer Flannery O'Connor's tragicomic novel about a desperate young man's obsession with Christ. (NC Photos)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (NC) - The governor of Alabama has decided that the state will not participate in this year's White House Conference on Famililes. Gov. Forrest H. James Jr. said his decision was based on the recommendation of his wife, who said the conference does not "establish traditional Judeo-Christian values concerning the family" or "reflect the basic concepts of most Alabamans."
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., feb. 21, 1980
Cesar Chavez will ,speak Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers of America. Union, Will be the main speaker at a banquet tomorrow night at which Cardinal Humberto Medeiros will be honored by the Jomal de Fall River as Luso-American of the Year. Chavez and the cardinal met as both worked among MexicanAmericans of Brownsville, Texas, where Cardinal Medeiros was bishop prior to his appointment to the Boston archdiocese. , Other guests of honor will be Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop Louis Gelineau of Providence and Luso-Americans working in the communications field.
Sister George Funeral services were held last Friday at Jesus Mary Convent, FalI River, for Sister George Sauvageau, 86, of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, who died Feb. 13 on the 67th anniversary of her religious profession. Born in Grondine, Quebec, Canada, Sister George served as a seamstress and housekeeper at houses of her community in New York City and the Bronx before her retirement to Fall River. She is survived by a brother, Joseph, of Woonsocket and a sister, Sister Marie Auxilistrice of the Order of the Presentation of Mary, also of Woonsocket.
MONSIGNOR McKEON
Msgr. Francis McKeon Msgr. Francis E. McKeon, who would have been 98 on February 26, died last Thursday at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant of his funeral Mass on Monday at Sacred Heart Church, Taunton, where he was pastor for 35 years. It was concelebrated by over 50 diocesan priests. Father Francis B. Conners, who served with Msgr. McKeon for many. years at Sacred Heart, was homilist. Born in Taunton in 1882, the venerable pastor attended Taun-
ton schools and St. Laurent College in Montreal before entering St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained June 13, 1914 by the late Bishop Daniel F. Feehan. Assigned to St. Mary's Cathedral as a young priest, the then Father McKeon started collecting a dime a week from parishioners to create a fund for parish boys to vacatio,n on land in East Feetown which became the site of Cathedral Camp. The camp's first building was made from a electric streetcar station house, moved to the East Free-
town site. Over the years the facility grew to provide retreat accommodations as well as overnight and now day camping for diocesan youngsters. Churches where Msgr. McKeon served before beginning his 35 years at Sacred Heart were St. Kilian and St. Mary's, New Bedford. He was founding pastor of the latter parish. As pastor of Sacred Heart, where he was appointed in 1934, Msgr. McKeon became known as an antique buff, filling his sisters' home in Taunton with his treasures. He is survived by two of his sisters, with whom he lived in retirement, the Misses Winifred L. and Catherine C. McKeon. When he was a mere 91, Msgr. McKeon discussed death in an Anchor interview. "Nonsense!" he exclaimed. "Each of us has a bit of divinity in us. God wouldn't trick me that way!"
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Correction On page 3 of last week's Anchor a picture of a prayer Vigil for release of the Iranian hostages was incorrectly identified as taking place at St. Joseph's School, New Bedford. It is at St. Mary's School, New Bedford. We regret the error.
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Schools or Prisons? During the past week, a community in the Fall River diocese advertised three positions for security officers to be employed in its public school system. These jobs, requiring q,egrees in criminal jurisprudence and paying salaries lar.ger than those received by some teachers in our state colleges, are federally funded. In other words, the federal government is now subsidizing police to guard- the internal and external activities of our public schools. In a corresponding event on local public television, it was noted by Dr. Milton Friedman, a nationally known scholar and Nobel Prize winner, that some public school systems spend more in a given academic year on . security than on textbooks. Daily we hear of and see the vain attempts of officials to restore order to the public school halls, yards and buses by means of increased police presence. The inability of a given school system to be about its business of teaching stems of course from this very lack of discipline. The cries of those who truly wish to learn are drowned by the shrill sound of the siren and the raspy roar of the protester. This is indeed a sad commentary on the contemporary educational endeavor. It is also a despicable degradation of democracy. For the federal government to support the correctional endeavors of a given public school while ignoring and refusing to help those who wish to learn in a parochial school is one more clear indication of the hypocrisy of government and of its attitude towards education. All taxpayers, and this includes those whose children are in parochial schools should rise up and attempt to end this national shame and public disgrace. The Vandals, Visigoths and Huns路 of today have no right to become the focus of educational effort at the expense of those who sincerely seek the opportunities that American public educa'All the glory of the King's daughter is within.' . Ps. 44: 14 tion once offered. Nor _should public funds have to be expended to combat institutional chaos and classroom fear. In justice, it is about time our courts let teachers teach. Schools should no longer be administered by the courts, . which have done a terrible job. Not only are our schools suffering under the present system, but our fundamental though wrongfully. that free- parental love thrive, survive or By Father Kevin J. Harrington democratic institutions are being weakened, our society is dom is an end in itself, that hu- die in direct proportion to the being corrupted and our children, our hope for the future, There is no word more treas- man beings are free when they amount of honesty present in ured in our country than free- make use of freedom as they the family. are being progressively demoralized.
The gift of freedom
The Boxer Rebellion What ever has happened to diplomatic corpmon sense? It is more than evident that few in Washington possess such
a commodity. In fact, one would wonder if brains were ever part of the madness that now permeates our national government. The culmination of this infatuation with the idiotic was the recent. attempt to dress up Muhammad Ali as an official representative of the United States government and ship him off to Africa on a goodwill tour. Well, fortunately it backfired. The Boxer Rebellion was a crashing fiasco. \tVhen will the current administration stop doing the wrong things for the right reason or vice versa? When will it stop sending boys to do a man's job? When will it try to restore just a modicum of dignity to its quest for statesmanship? The mouth that roared will certainly be sending its embarrassing echoes through the rather ~mpty halls of the State Department for some time to come, and rightly so.
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dom. Franklin Delano Roosevelt went so far as to define happiness as freedom from want; but as long as we are human we will want, hence we will never arrive at this 'definiti(:m of happiness. Too many people equate happiness with freedom. Anyone who commits him or herself to something . other than meeting his or her own needs is seen as foolish. The breakdown of the family structure and of harmony between nations are clear consequences of our refusal,to look beyond our own needs. Freedom, like any gift, can be .used and abused. Such abuses a路bound. Our many attempts to use our freedom to service our every need usually backfire on us tragically. The exploitation of the Third World, abortion, the arms race, corruption in our government, the lack of CQrporate responsibility, our shameful system of dealing with the marginal elements of our society (the sick, the unwanted, the abused, the elderly, the poor, the imprisoned), all painfully remind us of our failure to use our freedom responsibly. Pope John Paul II addressed this issue of freedom in his encyclical Redemptor Hominus: "Nowadays it is sometimes. held,
wish, and that must be our aim in the lives of individuals and societies. In reality, freedom is a great gift only when we know how to use it consciously for everything that is our true good. Christ teaches us that the best use of freedom is charity, which takes concrete form in self-giving and in services," If freedom is to be used responsibly, it must begin with the family structure. As we begin a new decade, we are reminded that this is the Year of the Family. To make this title more than just a slogan, we must seek ways of using the precious gift of freedom for its intended purpose. It is only in the context of a family that people become free to discover who they are. One day we will have the freedom as children of God to live as' brothers and sisters of Christ in the Kingdom of. God. We can bring that Kingdom to birth at least partially in our own families. First, we must be free to be honest. Living honestly before God and one another is one of our most responsible uses of freedom. Honesty is only possible in a family context when acceptance, affirmation, forgiveness and love permeate the home environment. Marital and
We need not look any further than the person of Jesus Christ to see how freedom can be responsibly used. Jesus knew that as a man his hunger to be loved could only be satisfied by the love of his Father. His way of attaining that unconditional Jove was through sharing it with all. He showed that we do not become great by using our freedom to wield power but by using it to give humble service. Such a message shocked Peter when Jesus insisted on washing his feet. The world desperately needs those who live by the divine logic of humble service. The challenge to both honesty and responsible use of freedom is the central concern of the family. The secret of all genuine freedom and honesty is love. It is the love that the Spirit of God himself is free to work. God himself is both the Love that is free and the freedom that loves. Ama - et fac quod vis, says Augustine: Love - and do what you will. To love as Jesus loved is the ultimate use of human freedQm. Christ's death on the cross is an everlasting sign of Dotq love and freedom. Any response other than love is only suffered at the expense of one's freedom.
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Slecular humanism The fallacy in the charge of single issue 'politics as it applies to abortion is that it reduces this question to a merely categorical status. The question on the contrary, is morally pervasive and permeates every phase and form of American life. It is difficult to see how anyone could be anything other than totally concerned, not categorically con. cerned, but totally concerned even, if need be, to extending the hated abortion litmus test to political candidates. What we think about abortion in America, I'm afraid, tells us what we think of America itself. A totally humanist nation, supported by all its calculated legalisms, is not the pluralist society the liberals claim it to be even now. To be other than totally concerned, I'm afraid, is to acept the humanist secularization of a country founded on distinctly moral principles and which once recognized the inherent wisdom of the natural law. You can talk about pluralism all you want, but the issue at stake is whether we can accept a pervasive secular humanism as the established civil religion of the United states; and make no further mistake about it, for secular humanism has in fact been so ordained by the Supreme Court of these once truly free and God-fearing States. The official policy of unlimited and taxfunded abortions is the most devastating manifestation we have of the triumph of secu-
lar humanism in this country. It doesn't make much sense, however, to be against the monstrosity of abortion as one of the court-declared- privacy rights and yet impose a limit on the extent to which we shall oppose it. On the one hand, it is curious that proponents of the ERA can readily demand the privilege of its extension for purposes of ratification while, on the other, a man as enlightened as Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, declares that the "one issue" pro-lifers are making a mistake; and, in attempting to isolate the presumed mistake, Father Hesburgh himself goes on to offer us a well-intentioned but bad analogy. In an interview with "Our Sunday Visitor" (12/2179), Father Hesburgh asks of the pro-lifers' total concern against abortion: "What is so overriding about this when there are a million children dying this year in Cambodia?" He then insists that a distinction must be made between "living human beings" and "human beings in the womb." But, again, can anyone say with such moral certainty that the born and the unborn are therefore mutually exclusiver I find, disturbingly enough, that the question Father Hesburgh fails to ask is whether our pervasive abortion policy may not in fact effectively condition us for the Cambodian ethic everywhere. Father Hesburgh knows better than that, but he should not fault
Family spirituality What's your first thought when you realize that Lent is here again? Is it, "Not already. Where did last year go?" Is it a shrug and, "So Is it an inward groan as an outward sign of lack of discipline? Or is it, "Good. We need it."? Surprising to many, there are lots of people whose reaction is precisely the latter. As parents today, we feel the need for a deeper shared spirituality in the family, but we need to be prodded into doing something about it. Lent is an excellent prod. Parishes, magazines, and even recipe sections of the local paper combine at this time of year to make us aware of the need to pause and look at our relationship with God and one another through Him. As I begin this, my daughter is filling out a college application form, and her hardest question is a one word essay: "What adjective do you choose to best describe yourself?" It's a tough question because it's forcing her to examine her whole person, not just her personality or her work habits. Of course, she would ~ike me or her dad to choose an adjective for her, but that's not authentic. The value of the question is her reflection on herself.
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It's not a bad place to start in discussing family spirituality. I'm devoting all my Lenten columns to the subject and it's logical to begin by examining our present shared spirituality. Sit together a half hour this first week of Lent and examine. the level of spirituality in your home by asking each member to choose an adjective that best describes your family spirituality. To get things started, suggest a few (perfect, comfortable, missing, sufficient, juvenile) but then eliminate those as potential contributions. Don't rush the process. Allot at least five minutes to it and suggest that members begin with a list of five or ten and eliminate them to find the word most accurately describing your family's shared faith. Now share the adjectives. (If children refuse to take this exercise seriously, don't permit it. A'sk them to leave so the rest of the family can discuss Lent seriously.) You may find unanimity of evaluation. Everyone might think it's great or awful. On the other hand, you might discover great disparity, that you think your family's spirituality is arid while your children think it's superfluous. Talk about the difference and
By THOMAS McDONNELL
the pro-lifers for fighting the strongest possible fight against abortion. There are some things we should not lightly endure. I do not lightl'y endure the abortion tax-finding records of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and' Rep. Robert F. Drinan, for instance, and I can see in them no other outstanding political advantages sufficient to redeem this original perfidy. I hope I shall never lightly endure, in the name of pluralistic expediency, the accommodations we are now making to ensure the total and permanent triumph of secular humanism in the United States.
[necroloCiY) March 7 ,Rev. Arthur P. J. Gagnon, 1958, Pastor, Holy Rosary, New Bedford March 9 Rt. Rev. Henry J. Noon, V.G., 1947, Pastor, St. James, New Bedford; 3rd Vicar General, Fall River 1934-1947 March 12 Rev. Aurelian L. Moreau, 1961 Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River
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disciiss why you each chose the adjective you did. You may find yourself comparing it to your own childhood family and that's good. As parents, we need to examine that and it's good for our children to hear us discuss our childhood spirituality. Next, take five minutes and each choose an adjective that you wish you could have chosen to describe your family spirituality I(alive, none, etc.) This one might be harder, but remember, all action emanates from a philosophy, even inaction, which emanates from a lack of philosophy. In order to truly examine ourselves, we have to ponder issues like, "What does family spirituality mean to us? Is it of high or low value? Do we really feel the need for it?" Finally, talk about how your family can grow from the actual to the ideal in shared spirituality. Can you begin the growth process in the next forty days called Lent? How? Put suggestions on the calendar and we'll talk more about it next week.
Color Congress' chagrined Embarrassment hangs over Congress like a heavy smog. Once again the public is asking if there is any end to the
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might have." ,But he answered all of them with a blush. What would he think of a colleague who had been seen stufgreed and stupidity on Capitol fing his pockets with money? Hill. Kelly said, "it would depend Nobody has been charged with on the circumstances." He reanything yet. But from what peatedly was invited to say out has been leaked so far, it would loud that he was not a crook. seem at a minimum that eight members could be accused of He declined. The next stop was the House being "born yesterday," taken Ethics Committee, meeting in in by cock-and-bull stories, lured :0 odd places at odd hours by emergency session. There the fake Arab sheiks with millions ghost of 'Watergate walked. At the end of the table at the of dollars under their robes. What makes it even worse Republican side, with his arms was that Congress was stung by folded and a quizzical expression on his face, sat Rep. Richits favorite agency, the FBI. For Democrats, the political ard Cheney of Wyoming. He fallout could be cosmic. This is said nothing. He knows what an election year, and the worst scandal, even in its last stages, time for public confidence in an can do. He was the White House institution that many voters feel chief of staff for Gerald Ford whose pardon of Richard Nixo~ is for sale anyway. may have cost him the presiThe circumstances that led the FBI to set up its "sting" dency. A Democrat, Rep. John stack operation are mysterious. How it got from tracing stolen art of West Virginia, moved at once goods to calling up congressmen to close the hearings. There was to offer filthy riches from "gen- a notable bristling among the erous Arab friends" is one of Republicans and a cry for "openthe many aspects of the case ness." Beside Slack there was an that require fuller explanation. But the members are so de- empty chair. It belongs to Rep. pressed and defensive that none John Murtha, D路Pa., understandhas dared the bitter question_of ably absent, since he is one of "entrapment," which, along with the eight alleged. miscreants. the leaks, could compromise. To compound the irony, Murtha was elected in 1974, and was prosecution. Only Ralph Nader, who rou- one of the first beneficiaries of tinely excoriates the members Watergate. His victory in a Refor selling out, rolling over and publican district was an early generally failing to measure up, signal that the voters no longer believed Richard Nixon. came to their rescue. Chairman Charles V. Bennett "I have always," he said, "tried to follow due process. But this of Florida, looking melancholy, was a leak synchronized between spoke of the availability of the the FBI and NBC. Their cameras videotapes, which allegedly show came to Sen. (Harrison) Wil- some of his' colleagues pocketing liams' house right behind the cash. The discussion followed eerily agents. I find it damned offensive. In the minds of millions of the lines of the Watergate compeople, these guys are guilty, and mittee in its formative states. they haven't even been charg!!d. Now-as then--it was a quesNobody is standing up and say- tion of public hearings which this is an abomination, not to might jeopardize court proceedmention the elaborate setup the ings. It is a race for the evidence between a grand jury and a conFBI had." The House of Representatives gressional committee. is Chagrin City. Many painful questions must At his daily briefing, the voice be faced by the shamed Conof Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill gress. Should the members who was scarcely audible. Over the have been leaked upon be alcrowd of reporters gathered lowed to keep their seats, allowed around his desk, fragments of to vote, allowed, in the case of his answers floated out: "the Reps. Frank Thompson, D-N.J., and John Murphy, D-N.Y., to strictest code of ethics" "worried about political conse- preside over committees? quences." One thing is perfectly clear: Richard Kelly of Florida held Rep. Richardson Preyer, D-N.C., a press conference of truly epic spoke gravely of the need for a witlessness. Kelly, a large, fair- special prosecutor. complexioned man, kept saying Archibald Cox, the hero of he had covered everything in his Watergate, just has acepted apwritten statement, a four-line pointment as chairman of Comaffair which limply concluded mon Cause. He m~y have to that he had "not been. involved leave that plow amJ bring his in any criminal activity." unquesioned integrity to the He was there, he said, "to Democratic Watergate which is answer any questions the press just beginning to unfold.
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Hail Mary
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Continued from Page One "so it (the new law) can do for the whole nation what it does for the state." In general, educators in communities within the Fall River diocese say that the prayer issue has been "no big thing" within the schools themselves. "There's been more fanfare in the media than in the schools," commented Barnstable Superintendent Edward Tynan. He said that within the Barnstable system it has been mostly younger pupils who have volunteered to lead prayer, older students seeming reluctant to put themselves in the spotlight. Commenting on. the situation which, of course, lf6es not affect Catholic schools, Father George W. Coleman, Diocesan Director of Education, said that he felt the prayer offered a means of returning consciousness of God to the public schools. "It provides an opportunity to bring back into the public schools a religious atmosphere which had been absent for many years. Furthermore, it allows students with religious beliefs to begin the school day with a consciousness of those beliefs~.u Father Coleman stressed, however, that "no student should be .forced against his or her will to pray. Faith is a free gift of God, a free response on the part of the student. I think I would want that principle upheld. No student should be forced to express beliefs in which he or she does not believe."
SAGINAW, Mich. (NC)-Bishop Francis F. Reh of Saginaw does not think Catholic school OUR ADVERnSERS children should be taking part in a contest to design an insignia for the new nuclear Trident submarine, the USS Michigan. . He endorsed a diocesan education office directive that parochial school children not participate in the contest and told parDirection of ish religious education directors Rev. J. Joseph Kierce .to discourage participation by Author and Producer of The New England Pauion Play Catholic students attending public schools. "THE CHRISTUS" The bishop also took a dim view of naming the submarine after Michigan. In a letter to the Navy's Office of Information in Chicago, Bishop Reh declared: "It is more than troublesome that such a horrifying instrument of unbelievable destructive powTOUR 1 - HOLY WEEK AND tASTER IN er of life should be named after THE HOLY LAND AND JORDAN! The experience of a lifetime (Holy Thurs· a state whose people cherish the day In Gethsemane, Good Friday on Cal· motto: 'If you seek a pleasant vary) peninsula, look around yOI,l! FOR ONLY "The USS. Michigan, a boast of the ·Navy, is capable of destroying 408 cities or areas at FATHER STEVEN FURTADO commissiol)s Natalia S. one time - each with a blast MARCH 30 to APRIL 7 Santos as a Special Catholic Minister at St. Luke's Hospital, (scheduled flight from/to Boston or N.Y.! five times more powerful than Includes all mea's, slghtse.eing, service Hiroshima's in destructive powNew Bedford. Right, Judith A. Saunders awaits her comcharges and 1st class hotels. er. In the name of a merciful missioning. TOUR 2 - YUGOSLAVIA, ITALY, AUSTRIA, God, with such nuclear weapons HUNGARY, ENGLAND, GERMANY, CZECHo· unleashed, will there be in the SLOVAKIA, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, Litworld a pleasant peninsula? Is CHENTENSTEIN AND HOLLAND! this the atmosphere we choose The East and the West of Europe. for our children during the imFOR ONLY pressionable years of their growth by such a contest? Eight volunteers have begun gram and its mission was broad"How can they grow to love, work as Special Catholic Minis- ened to include distribution of JULY 5 JULY 27 !scheduled flight from/to Boston or N.Y.! desire and work for peace unless ters to patients at St. Luke's the Eucharist to patients by the TOUR 1 3 oBERAMMERGAU, ITALY, we teach them peace? I tremble Hospital, New Bedford. volunteers. AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, ENG· whenever I see on our TV screen Their apostolate began at a "The program's primary pur-· L1ND, GERMANY, BELGIUM AND LUXEM· in recent months the nightmare Eucharistic liturgy and compose is to fulfill the church's BOURG! of children handling and being missioning rite in the hospital MADRID, Spain (NC) Grand European Tour. mission to the sick," explained taught to handle weapons in auditorium. Concelebrants were Father Tripp. "Many patients Thieves walked away with a FOR ONLY Mid-'Eastern countries. How can Father Kevin Tripp and Father are in the hospital for extended 13th-century madonna from the we rest peacefully then when we Steven R. Furtado, hospital periods and have special needs. Church of El Pilar, at Santiago see a full-page pictorial showing Catholic chaplains. This program provides trained de Compostela, Spain, as 1979 AUG. 9 to AUG. 24 a child of seven years chosen as Previously the volunteers had volunteers who can visit them came to an end. PASSION PLAY OPTION. the 'child of the month' by a been commissioned 'by Bishop for longer than the regular !scheduled flight from/to Boston or N.Y.! . This kept intact the 1979 reclAir fares subject to change) . local National Guard unit to at- Daniel .A. Cronin as special minchaplains. It gives patients an ord of one theft a day of reliSPACE LIMITED - CALL NOW tend a 'tr.aining day' in weap- isters of the Eucharist for the opportunity to pray, ask ques- gious art treasures in Spain, a .onry?" REV. J. JOSEPH KIERCE . hospital community. tions, discuss problems and re- country rich in Catholic tradiSt. Kevin Rectory, Dorchester, Ma.02125 . Acknowledging problems inThe Catholi<: ministry pro- ceive the Eucharist." tions. The stolen madonna is Telephone (am 436·2771 volved in the arms race, the gram at St. Luke's began in OR' The new volunteers are James worth millions to art dealers. 1974, noted Father Tripp, and CEORGE OSBORN·UNIVERSAL TRAVEL CD. bishop stressed that children F. David, Natalia S. Santos, JudEarlier, thieves took a six44 Brattle St., Cambridge, Ma 02138 must be taught alternatives to initially involved sisters only. In ith A. Saunders, Leo R. Veiga panel painting by 15th-century Tel.phone (617) 864-7800 self-destructive violence. 1979, laypersons joined the proand Olive M. Veiga, New Bed- artist Pedro Berruguette, a 16thford; and Cynthia A. Lewis, century gothic sculpture and a ~~ Linda -R. Morro and Lucille L. baroque image of Jesus. . Such thefts are decimating Pimentel, Dartmouth. ... Spain's religious art treasures, aC,cording to experts who have urged civil and church authori1 WEEK - SAD MIGUEL IINCLUDES 15 DAYS - LISBON - MADRID, SPAIN ties to increase security. 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Read it Dear Editor: Thank you for your timely editorial of January 31, entitled "'Please, No Single Issue." I, too, suspect that our President is hiding behind the "smokescreen of war games." It is unfortunate that so many of our citizens are easily led to support the registration and the draft. People of the Fall River Diocese, if you have missed reading this editorial of your diocesan newspaper, The Anchor, dig it out of your magazine rack, read it, and think carefully when you read:' "Not one drop of American blood should be shed for one drop of oil for capital gains!" Let is do our reflecting and politicking before we get into another Vietnam. Jeanne Bourassa New Bedford
Charismatics Dear Editor: I do so much enjoy the articles in The Anchor pertaining to the Charismatic Renewal. I hope they will continue to appear. Mrs. Fred Borden North Dighton
White Shadow Dear Editor: I am forwarding to you my recen" copy of National Federation For Decency Newsletter. A while back, in the Anchor's list of suitable viewing on T.V., was listed the White Shadow The review this newsletter gives it makes it anything but. I know you would want this called to your attention. This group, NFD, should have the support of all churches and their members. I am wondering if you could give it some exposure in the Anchor. If not, then a copy for your office would be an excellent reference. Catherine B. Kline Harwichport
Bravo! Dear Editor: St. Mary's Cathedral Sunday morning Mass deserves a word of appreciation and praise from the pew. This lovely Cathedral service need take second place to none. In a jewel-like neoGothic setting, it seems the liturgy becomes more inspired and prayerful. The exquisitely expressive voices of the choir praise God with special meaning. It is a setting conducive to prayer and meditation, perhaps coming very close to the real spirit of Vatican II. We rejoice that we have a Cathedral Rector who recognizes and encQuarges music as a high form of prayer. We also rejoice
that we have a Music Director who is truly a musician for all seasons. His productions in the Bishop's Chapel over the past Jubilee Year have presented a varied program covering the full range from Bach and Mozart to the modern liturgical music of Peloquin and Vaughan Williams; medieval morality play, "Everyman," with original music composed by Glenn Giuttari; a demonstration of ancient musical instruments, and a memorable program of Advent Readings and Carols. This is a marvellous commentary on all involved, and on the surprising wealth of talented people in our area. Mary A. O'Hearn Springfield, Va.
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Dear Editor: The time has surely arrived VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope for The Anchor to remove from John Paul II had high praise for its pages the column of Rev. Italy's largest Catholic lay orAndrew M. 'Greeley. ganization recently but simul"His service to the church is taneously counseled lay persons indeed becoming limited and his to "do nothing without your advice quite/ unreliable." Such bishop." was the conclusion of an ediHis comments came during an torial in The Anchor on Jan. 24, audience with members of the taking into consideration priest- National Council of Italian Cathsociologist Greeley's writings, olic Action. especially of late. "'To build' and 'to animate' Actually, Greeley has gone are words which synthesize the from unreliability to outright luminous magisterium of the opposition to the teaching au- Second Vatican Council as to thority of the Church. the tasks, functions and duties I made it a point to watch the of the laity in the sphere of the nationally televised Phil Dona- ecclesial community, and in that hue show last July 19 when of the civil community in which Father Greeley was the guest. they conduct their lives day by And I took careful notes. day," Pope John Paul said. Greeley referred to official "To be faithful to your identiChurch teachings as "ideals.i' He ty means to work apostolically argued that the real church is and always in perfect, happy, the "practical parish church," faithful, living harmony with the and not "Rome." hierarchy," he said. The pope quoted St. Ignatius Donahue gasped and could hardly believe what he was hear- of Antioch's exhortation: "do ing as Greeley termed papal en- ,nothing withollt your bishop!" cyclicals mere "suggestions." The subject was specifically Pope Paul's Humanae Vitae encyclical. trusted colleagues, our brothers Greeley declared to be "prob- sitting at the same table are ably wrong in theory," the those who have turned against Church's stand against artificial us. Dissent has become habit, unfaithfulness an affirmation of birth control. freedom." He was asked about the existThe Anchor has a decision to ence of hell and any eternal punishment. Could damnation to make: continue to feature Greehell be forever, without appeal? ley whose errors weaken and And the best that our columnist- divide the Church; or to be sociologist could answer was truly that which the newspaper proclaims ....... an anchor of faith "maybe." and fidelity to Holy Mother the The interview drew to a close ,Church. with Greeley asserting that Alme A. Lachance Jr. women should be ordained to the Fall River priesthood. He proposed an immediate start. "Tomorrow," he urged. IN MEMORIAM: Father Greeley has placed himself squarely in opposition to papal pronouncements. Greeley rejects decisions by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of GOD'S GENTLE MAN the Faith. He is unfaithful to the magisterium. He spreads error. The Massachusetts Pope Paul VI js quoted as having said at a general audience, Commission On May 12, 1976, words that could Christian Unity be applied to Greeley: "At times our dearest friends, our most
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Finally, before returning to heaven, Jesus gives us this fantastic vision of a healing Ch4rch: "These signs shall accompany tho~e who believe (all who believe): in my name they shall cast out demons ... they shall lay hands on the sick and they will recover" (Mark 16:17-18). When Jesus promised his Spirit, he said, "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be my witnesses ... "(Acts
With the advent of the Charismatic' Renewal, the gift of healing, one of the nine ministry gifts mentioned by St. Paul (1 Cor. 12:9), has gained prominence in the Catholic Church. Fathers McDonough and DiOrio, for instance, have revealed to Catholics of our area the healing .love of Jesus at work among his people today. Catholics have always believed in divine healing. But this bless- 1:8). . ing was generally associated in There is no effective evangela restrictive way with great ism without the Holy Spirit· and saints and certain shrines, like Lourdes. Charismatics believe his power. "The signs of a true apostle were performed among that the gift of healing, like all you in all patience with signs charismatic gifts, is not necess-' arily a sign of holiness, but of and wonders and mighty works." faith, given for the upbuilding of (2 Cor. 12:11-12) Jesus knew people would the Christian people. It is not a rare gift for special people, but flock to him and believe in him part of the ordinary spiritual if he first met their needs, and equipment of all Christians, al- that is why he spent so much though some persons are used time healing the sick. And the by the Lord more frequently and Apostles, in turn, "went forth powerfully than others to minis- and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and ter his healing. Jesus set the example for all confirmed the message by the Christians. The Gospels present signs (miracles) that attended healing as a major part of his it." (Mark 16:20) That is what is .happening toministry and often state that people would bring their sick to day as Christians, priests and him and "he healed them all." laymen, come to believe in the (Matth. ,4:24; Luke 6:19, etc.). promises of Jesus and are Willing Christ in fact made healing an to step out in faith and pray for integral part of Christian evan- the sick. When possible, we like gelization. First, he called 12 to pray two or more together, apostles and gave them power as Jesus said. Families gather at and authority over all demons home to pray over a sick memand to cure diseases; he sent ber. Even children have obtained them out "to preach the kingdom miraculous healings by believing of God and to heal the sick," and in the power of Jesus to heal. so they did (Luke 9:1-2,6). Sometimes adults are more As if that were not enough, .handicapped because they find it he then sent 72 others, instruct- hard to believe God would use ing them to "heal the sick and "me" to heal. proclaim that the kingdom of Supernatural healing can hapGod is at hand" (Luke 10:1, 8-9). pen in four different areas. We The two go together, always. speak of spiritual healing (sin,
which caBs for repentance); inner healing of emotions (like unhealed hurts and fears); physical healing (illnesses' and body infirmities); finally, deliy~rance from evil spirits, which can cause illnesses in the areas just mentioned and impede healing. Spiritual and inner healing are often the precondition of a bodily healing. Some object that such healings are "psychomatic," not miraculous. But when psychological roots of a bodily sickness are healed by God through prayer, that is a divine healing. God heals also through doctors and medicine. Equally, he heals bodily troubles by healing the mental and emotional attitudes that caused them. A strange phenomenon is often experienced in the healing ministry. When hands are laid on a person and a healing is prayed for, that person may "go down under the power of the Spirit." So common is this that at public healing services a "catcher" is usually ready to Jet the person gently down on the floor. The person does not faint or fall asleep. He or she is perfectly conscious and experiences a good feeling of peace while resting in the Spirit. Some say that God seems very close in those moments, which can be brief or quite protracted. This is often a time, while the sick person is perfectly relaxed, when the Holy Spirit takes over and works most effectively to bring about a healing. It seems this is the kind of spiritual experience Saul had on the road to Damascus, when he feB to the ground and heard Jesus speaking to him. Then and there he was healed of his hatred of Christians.
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By Sally Arguilez TIJUANA, Mexico (NC)-Her home is an eight-by-six-foot concrete cell. She expects to serve the rest of her life behind the walls of La Mesa Prison 'in Tijuana. But unlike 1,600 prisoners, including thieves, murderers and prostitutes serving time for crimes, Mercedarian Sister An,tonia Brenner is serving the Lord. Sister Brenner, who has been at the prison for three years, works in an atmosphere where narcotics use, rape and even death are common occurrences. She constantly meets despair and suffering. Tending to spiritual needs, she .seeks to relieve physical suffering as well. She is responsible for many of the donations the prisoners receive, including clothing, shoes, blankets and medicine. Sister 'Brenner first visited La Mesa Prison 14 years ago while working with the Catholic missions. She said she knew then she would return. "The first time I saw the prisoners I loved them, but I was very sad also," she said. "'I'm home,' I said. I don't know why I said it. I just had this feeling this would be my home. I looked to the Lord and said, 'If you want me here, I'm yours.' By the grace of God, I'm here." Sister Brenner, who is from Beverly Hills, Calif., is slowly . learning to speak Spanish. She said she finds the language barrier is the least of her problems. Each day visiting the cell blocks, prison hospital and yard, she is a familiar figure ministering and witnessing to the prisoners, her white habit a stark contrast to the prison surroundings.
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Bishops Continued from page one as well as the right to object to participate in a particular war. Noting that current U.S. law does not allow for selective conscientious objection, they called for a dialogue among legislators, lawyers, ethicists and religious leaders about making effective legal provision for selective conscientious objection. Meanwhile, the Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD), composed of more than 40 anti-war, religious and other groups, accused the administration of a reversal of position on the registration issue that could backfire in Congress, in the courts and on college campuses. The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, CARD chairman, said the administration had a plan for reaching. its mobilization goals without advance registration but deleted it from its report to
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nal organization, and from the National Council of Catholic Women. ' "Your proposal to register young women for a future draft flies in the face of traditional American ideals," said Virgil C. Dechant, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, in a telegram to Carter. Dechant said drafting women "would be greatly disruptive of family values and family stability" and "will create more problems than it will solve,"
New 'Catholic /ROME (Fides) - Naoko Suganuma, wife of the Japanese ambassador to the Holy See, has been baptized a Catholic. Mrs. SugailUma, formerly a Shintoist, who graduated from the Anglican College, ~f Tokyo, also reo ceived first communion and was
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contact with the outside world. or not, they choose values conThey go to college or take jobs trary to ours. Claiming that on the outside. church has no meaning for them, There seems to be a contra- they refuse to attend. diction between the attitude toParents faced with such beward adults and children and the havior often conclude that they attitude toward teens. The Bru- have failed. Yet the Bruderhof derhof explains it thus: Adults members, who demand far more are members because they have commitment than we, urge their .chosen this way of life. Child- teens to go off. Teens must view ren are members because they the outside world and choose have not yet reached the age their course in life. People wh~ of choice. But teen-agers are have followed the line of least not members of the community resistance never make an adult in the same sense. Teen-agers choice for themselves. They are are in transition. The Bruderhof not valuable members of the is most concerned that Bruder- community. hof children do not drift into the .Letting children go is difficut community because it is the' and risky. Not all children who path of least resistance. Thus refuse to attend church are havthey make it hard for them to ing a crisis of faith. Some of join the community and easy for them may simply have had a them to go out into the world. very late Saturday night. But The fact that the community has perhaps we other Christians can third and fourth generation learn from the Bruderhof that, members indicates that many of while letting go is risky, it is the the Bruderhof children choose only course. The teen who atto come back. tends church because "my dad The attitude of the Bruderhof will kill me if I don't" is acting is interesting for those of us who on the level of a young child.. live in much more loosely knit Unless he has the opportunity Christian communities as mem- at some time to examine his bers of a church. Often we are life and to choose to follow far less willing than the Bruder- Christ, he can never make an hof to let our children go off. adult commitment to the ChrisWe expect them to take part in tian community. Questions on family living and church activities just as they did when they were small chil- child care are invited. Address dren. And not infrequently, our to The Kennys c/o The Anchor, children show us that they are P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. in a period of transition. Like it 02722.
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THE ANCHOR-Diooese of Fall River-Thur., Feb. 21, 1980
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uestion corner By Father John Dietzen Q. In response to a question about the Sabbath a few months ago, you refer to the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week. The Bible does not say this. It does say many times that the Sabbath is the seventh day after six days of work. There is a big difference in these two sevens. The seventh day of a calendar week is ODe set date, each week, but the seventh day after the beginning of the first day of work can be any day of the week. The Bible does DOt speak of any consecutive seveDl-day eycles up to the time of the Israelites' first Sabbath. Therefore, we know that before this time there was no standard weekly calendar used such as the one in use at Christ's time. Thus, though God commanded a Sabbath rest day, the Sundaykeeping saints have not gone to hell for not keeping Saturday. (Louisiana) A. You may be right. I'm not sure how practical your suggestion it, however. No matter how theoretically correct you are I don't believe the argument can carry much weight with people who believe we must observe the Sabbath on Saturday. I believe you would find' - it difficult to discowr evidence that observance of a seven-day week came after the Jewish regulation of rest on the seventh day. Long before the observance of the Sabbath rest was an established regulation among the Hebrews, a seven-day week was not at all uncommon in several Near Eastern cultures, including that of the Jews. Apparently this resulted from the division of the lunar month (28 days) into four sections, though other cultures, such as the Greeks and Romans, divided the lunar month into three sections of roughly 10 days each. In other words, it is entirely possible that the Hebrew tradition of six days work and one day rest developed out of the context of the seven-day week, the last day of which would be a day of recuperation from labor. In other words, the history of the Sabbath may be a fascinating study, but it doesn't offer much ammunition against the Sabbatarians (those who insist on Saturday as the holy day).Our reasons for observing Sunday as the Christian holy day arise from entirely different sources.
Q. Do the Stations of the Cross, as we have them in our churches, actually describe the happenings during the passion of Christ?' Someone bas said they do not, but I heard from a neighbor who recently visited Jerusalem that the 14 stations are marked along the way of the cross there. (Ohio) -
Middle Ages, perhaps the 1200s and the 1300s, both as a form of prayer and as a sort of catechism about the sufferings of Our Lord. Various Franciscan communities, which already had charge -of the holy places in Jerosalem for Latin-Rite Catholics, helped popularize the devotion, which went through many forms. Once they included seven falls under the cross. Another v.ariety totalled 43 separate stations. Eventually the 14 stations as we know them became most common. We may, in fact, be experimenting right now another tran-sition in this devotion. Many, if not most, of the books of stations'include it sort of 15th station calling to mind Christ's resurrection. At any rate, the markings of the 14 stations along the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) in old Jerusalem are comparatively recent. The .acuracy and even historical validity of some of them are open to considerable ques. tion. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.
Britain-Chile ties scored LONDON (NC) - Dr. Sheila Cassidy, a medical missionary tortured by Chilean secret police in 1975, has criticized Britain fOf resuming full diplomatic relations with Chile. The decision to name an ambassador to Chile is "difficult -to understand," said Dr. Cassidy in a letter to The Times of London. "It is true that no amount of cold-shouldering will bring back the dead," she wrote. But the issue "is whether it would be morally wrong to embark deliberately upon a venture" that would appear to condone "Chile's recent atrocities" and its economic policy "which favors the wealthy minority at the expense of the majority of its citizens," she said. On Jan. 16, Britain announced it would name -an ambassador to Chile. In early 1976, the nation recalled its ambassador in protest against the treatment given Dr. Cassidy. Dr. Cassidy's release by Chile and her subsequent testimony that she was brutally tortured gave Chile's military government a poor international image. Dr. Cassidy came to Chile in 1971 to work as a physician. She was arrested on Oct. 31, 1975, after giving medical treatment to a leftist guerrilla. She said her torture included electric shock treatments. Currently she is- a Benedictine novice. Mor~
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Convocation plans made Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will lead a delegation of clergy, religious and laity representing the Diocese of Fall River at the annual New England Convocation at Mount Marie, Holyoke, Feb. 29 through March 2. At the annual meeting the bishops of New England convene with diocesan representatives to pray, share and discuss topics of general interest and concern. Subject of the convocation this year will be "The Person of Jesus Christ," with participants considering the age-old question, "What think ye of the Christ, whose son is he?" Resource per~ sons who will make presentations ,upon which the discussions will be based include Jesuit scholar Father Howard Gray of Weston and Sister Madeline Birmingham of Cambridge. Father George W. Coleman, Diocesan Director of Education, is a member of the steering committee, developing this year's program. Acompanying Bishop Cronin in the Diocesan delegation will ~be Father Horace J. Travassos, assistant chancellor and diocesan' coordinator of evangelization; Father Timothy J. Goldrick, assistant at St. Lawrence parish New Bedford and president of the Priests' Council of the diocese. Also Sister Doreen Donegan, a staff member of the diocesan education office specializing in religious education; Sister Gertrude Gaudette of the faculty of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth; Sister Elizabeth Doyle of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro; and Brother Michael Barnaby, FIC, of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. Representing laity of the diocese will be Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Nogueira, Our Lady c;>f Victory parish, Centerville; Mr. and Mrs. ~eal Biron, St. Mary's parish, Norton; Michael Tabak, a teacher at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton; and -Miss Jacqueline Racine, New Bedford, a student at Southeastern Massachusetts University. Delegates recently met in Fall River for preliminary discussion of the subject.
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THE ANCHOR-Diof,ese of Fall River-Thur., Feb. 21, 1980
The child By Eugene S. Geissler \
know your faIth God, our loving father By Father John J. Castelot
One of the most familiar paintings in Christian art is that of Jesus surrounded by little children. The picture is based on a scene in all three synoptics (Mark 10, 13-16; Matthew 19, 13-15; Luke 18, 15-,17). "People were bringing their little children to bim to have him touch them, but the disciples were scolding them for this" (Mark 10, 13). The disciples were probably well-intentioned, but if the children didn't annoy Jesus, they did. And his reaction to their self-importance was not just mild annoyance. He "became indignant" (Mark 10, 14). He said to them: "Let the children come to me and do not hinder them. It is to just such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. I assure you that whoever does not 'accept the reign of God like a little child shall not - take part in it." Then he embraced them and blessed them, laying his hands on them. Why would the first Christians have preserved this particular bit of tradition about Jesus? Undoubtedly it is charming and gives a heart-warming insight into his gentleness, his love for children. But they were not just fuzzy sentimentalists. They had hard questions to answer, questions about Jesus' identity, his meaning in their lives here and now, and the practical implications of all that for their daily conduct. One of those questions may well have concerned the place of children in the Christian community, a predominantly adult community. This incident furnished an answer. But there is more to it than that. One of Jesus' main pur-' poses was to reveal God to the world in a unique way'. That is why the incident of his embracing the children is so profoundly significant. It reflects God as a Father who cares for, welcomes, enfolds even the smallest of his creatures. A.nd this is so very important. It is appalling to meet so many people who go through life actually afraid of God. For them he is a stern, vindictive legislator and judge, just waiting for them to slip so he can crush them. This points up a serious responsibility of parents. They image forth God to their children. If, little ones' are told that God is their Father, they will auto-'
matically think of the only father of whom they have any real experience. The image they have of hjm will share their image of God, for better or for worse. When they hear that Mary is their mother, the impression they have of their own mother will color their impression of Mary. How could it be otherwise for impressionable minds and hearts? And when parents "use" God to maintain discipline by voicing such threatening reproofs as "God will get you for that,"
then, for their children, God becomes of time someone whose sole function is to "get you." This is almost blasphemous. Like Jesus, good parents reveal in their own persons God as he really is, a loving God who cares and shelters and forgives. And their children, in turn, image forth to them the childlike dependence which Jesus had in mind when he said: "I assure you that whoever does not accept the reign of God like a little child shall not take part in it" (Mark 10, 15).
For children By Janaan
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One day Jesus and his disciples were walking back to Capernaum, where most of them lived. Along the way the -disciples had an angry argument. . "I wonder what it will be like when God's kingdom really comes," said Andrew. "When that happens I'm sure to have the most important position-in the kingdom," James said proudly. ~'No, you won't," his brother John responded angrily. "I'm closer to Jesus than you. I expect to have the top position. It's obvious that Jesus likes me more." "You are both dead wrong," blurted Peter. "Haven't you noticed how Jesus has been putting me first? The way I see it, I'll be right after Jesus. I can see myself sitting at his right side." James and John turned on Peter. The other disciples took sides. Jesus overheard them fighting with one another. The argument continued until they got home, where they began to relax. But Jesus wanted to teach them an important lesson. Once they settled down together inside the house, Jesus asked, "What were you talking about all the way home?" They were all silent. Peter, James and John blushed with embarrassment. Jesus sat down on a mat on the floor. He seemed more disappointed than angry. "If anyone wishes to be first," he said gently, "he must reqlain the last one of all. In fact, he must become the servant of all the others." That's all Jesus said. The dis-.
ciples were puzzled. They were not sure what he meant by saying the way to be first is to be last. How could the most important one be everybody else's servant? The disciples began to discuss what Jesus had said. As they were talking, Jesus noticed Turn to_ Page Thirteen
One of our older daughters, with her three children, has just visited us for a month. The three children are six, four and one. It's nice being grandparents because the cares and duties are all someone else's, and grandparents have only to enjoy, enjoy. The children have an uncanny' sense of returning the compliment. Might one say that children and grandparents were made for each other? I think so. The grandparents have the time and the wisdom and the money (it takes very little), and the grandchild has the need, the trust and the enthusiasm to go places and to do things. How is it that the child does not see wrinkles or grey hair, and doesn't mind the slow pace? And he is so trusting that every smile begets a \ smile. Our children when young beguile us and grandchildren beguile us a second time. Those three grandchildren are gone again, but they have enriched my life. I feel younger. I look forward to hanging around a while to see them grow up. We all need the child for these same reasons; to be enriched, to feel young, to have something to look forward to. We are enriched because the child takes us beyond ourselves. We feel younger because the child tells us not to take oursel~s so seriously. We have something to look forward to because the child gives us hope. It is not difficult to see that every child needs a brother and
sister for a full young life. It should be even more obvious that a couple needs a child for their self-development; self-ful, fiIIment, and hopefully their self-transcendence. How do most couples get beyond selfishness if not through their children? The child represents God's plan for a future. In the hands of such a God, the old can rest secure in their own future. There is a passage in the Bible where Paul lists a number of evils and then says. "These are not so. much as to be mentioned among you who become saints." 'If he lived today he would probably list abortion among those evils. Why shouldn't they be even mentioned? Maybe because mentioning them makes them words, and words give currency to ideas, and in time we become used to the ideas. That's where I think we are with abortion today. Who first said "unwanted child?" There is always somebody who wants that child. What reasons are valid enough to snuff out innocent life? What has become of us in a mere decade since six or seven men were enough to make abortion legal? How could such a thing happen without reference to all the people? Or has the flaw been all along to let the people vote on it after they have become used to the idea? We all need the child to teach us how to live and how to get to heaven. Who else will teach us littleness, purity of heart, trust, hope, dependence on God?
Married love By WiIlimn E. May A marvelous thing about mar-' riage is that in it a man and a woman are given the grace to grow together in a life-giving love. In -expressing their love for each other, they can also give love to children, summoned like themselves to a life of loving friendship with God. Married love, in fact, is the soil in which new life is meant to take root to grow. Parents not only give life but also, as St. Augustine said, are responsible for "nourishing this life humanely and educating it Christianly." Children are not toys or pets, but persons with a reed to reach out to touch and be touched by others. But in learning how to touch and be touched, they need help. rhey can also be terribly hurt and crippled. A major responsibility of parents is to provide this help. They do this chiefly by the way they "touch" each other and their children, extending themselves in acts of friendship. The utterly unique marital friendship that parents share supports their special friendship Turn to Page Thirteen
'Might one say that children and grandparents were made for each other?'
A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego A Quaresma
o rito da imposi~ao das cinzas, rito acentuadamente penitencial,esteve de inicio, ligado ao da expulsao dos penitentes. Quem tivespe cometido faltas ou pecados notorios, devia ser expulse ou separado da comunidade eclesiale 0 pecado grave, de caracter publico, separava,os pecadores de Deus e da Igreja; por isso precisavam de ser reconciliados oficialmente. A cerimonia da reconcilia~ao realizava-se_na Quinta-feira Santa, e a da expulsao, na quarta-feira de Cinzas. Este rito das Cinzas, a partir do seculo VII, generalizou-se na Igreja como urn sacramental para todos os cristaos, significando 0 reconhecimento da nossa condi~ao de pecadores, marcando 0 inicio da grande prepara~ao para a pascoa. ~ tempo propicio, tempo forte da gra~a, relacionado com a poda de defeitos e cultivo de virtudes cristas. Pelo Baptismo e pela Confirma~ao fomos regenerados e robustecidos na vida da gra~a, incorporados a Cristo e a Sua Igreja, para podermos debelar as for~as do mal e os nossos defeitos, darmos gloria a Deus e, nurna atitude vigilante de fe e de amor, podermos construir a paz entre os homens, nossos irmaos. 0 grande pensamento que abrange toda a Quaresma e 0 do combate, 0 do esfor~o de renova~ao baptismal e pascal. No dia do Baptismo, prometemos pertencer a Cristo e renunciar a Satanas, as suas obras e ao pecado. 0 curnprimento desta promessa exige de nos born acolhimento da Palavra de Deus e abertura de cora~ao ou for~a de vontade para a per em pratica, pois 0 Senhor disse: "Bem-aventurados os que ouvem a Palavra de Deus e a p5em em pratica." A' Igreja quer sue os seus membros sejam mais ass1duos neste tempo em ouvir e meditar a Palavra de Deus. Nela e por ela seremos levados a contemplar 0 Misterio: de Deus Criador, Deus-Pai, "Deus de Amor" do Verba feito carne, que acampou no meio de nos; nosso Libertador; e do Espirito Santificador, que nos anima a "dar testemunho de Jesus" do homem, criado a imagem de Deus, misterio de "voca~ao sublime profunda", como nos lembra 0 Vaticano II; Seremos mais conscientes da nossa necessidade de conversao a Deus, na comunidade humana e eclesial. Transforma~ao. Dinamismo no empenhamento e testemunho. Na "Mater et Magistra" lemos que "0 cristao deve sentir-se obrigado a melhorar as insti tUi~5es temporais, -pe10 respeito da dignidade humana e para eliminar os obstaculos a difusao do b!:m" ... e sue :as actividades temporais nao se opoem a vida espiritual, mas, vividas em uniao com Deus, devem ajudar 0 aperfei~omento dos cristaos." Deus e a fonte de Verdade, de justi~a, e de paz; "nao havera justi~a nem paz duradoiras, se os homens nao reencontrarem 0 sentido da sua digniade de filhos de Deus."
New assistant Continued from Page One school ("This time I was a factories, having proved that a housemistress I wanted to change in occupation increased educate, not teach"), entered the worker production. By night she Dominican community. was a volunteer truckdriver, "The last thing I did before transporting blood supplies to entering was to visit the United emergency sites. States -:. I thought I'd probably "After that," she related, "I never see it again," she chuckfelt the need of a breather." She led. In fact, her first aasignment as returned to the life of a gym a sister was to St. Anne's Hosteacher, working at an exclusive girls' school "where I had the tal, where she taught in the novitiate and job of making sure a future queen community's "helped in the hljlspital." kept her neck clean." "Then they decided I'd better Then she heard of a temporary job assisting an Oxford Uni- learn what it was all about," versity dean in organizing a pub- she said. Accordingly, she first lic meeting for students disillus- became a registered nurse, then ioned by the lack of Christian earned bachelor and master's leadership in postwar England. degrees in science at Boston College. Although the meeting, billed After four years as an instrucas a discusssion of the part tor in psychiatric nursing, Sister Christians should play in post- Thomas More accepted the Mawar social, economic and politi- donna Manor assignment, where cal life, had such luminaries on she developed her dedication to its program as Lady Barbara the cause of the elderly and Ward, Sir Stafford Cripps, and where she was recognized by the Victor Gollancz, its organizers Attleboro area business and prodid not expect a large turnout. fessional women's organization "In a university town, so many as 1976 Woman of the Year. things are going on all the time, In Fall River she is a member that no one thing attracts a lot of people," explained Sister of the diocesan chorale and the diocesan pastoral council. Thomas More. In her bright office are two However, on the day of the meeting, arriving at its site two portraits: of Sir Winston Churhours early to handle last min- chill and St. Thomas More. Sir Winston said: "For each ute details, she was astounded to see a long line already wait and for all,. the watchword ing, in pouring rain, to enter the should be, 'Carryon and dread hall. That night Christian Ac- nought.' " tion was born and Sister Thomas St. Thomas More said: "The More became its executive sec- things that I pray for, good retary. Lord, give me the grace to laIt was a rewardihg life, but the bour for." Hound of Heaven was at work . Together the quotes are a nutand in 1959 Sister Thomas More, . shell. description of St. Anne's after another stint at a girls' new assistant director.
For children Continued from Page Twelve a young boy standing in the open doorway watching. the adults. "Come here, child," Jesus called. The youngster walked over to Jesus. The disciples paid little attention as first. Jesus put his arm around the young boy. Jesus liked children very much. "Look at this child," Jesus said. "Whoever welcomes a child such as this for my sake welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes him . who sent me," The disciples were even more puzzled than before. They knew few people took children seriously. What did welcoming a child have to do with getting ahead in the kingdom? They were confused but one thing was becoming clear. Jesus was saying that no one would get very far in God's kingdom by thinking he was better than everyone else. The way to the top among Jesus' friends was to think of others and care about them. The most important person would be one who responded to other's needs the way a servant helped his master. The greatest in God's kingdom would have time for everyone, even children. Jesus measured
greatness rpostly by how much people thought about others and responded to their needs.
Married love Contiued from page twelve for their children. Friendship is demanding and challenging, it overcomes obstacles and is meant to help the other in recognizing shortcomings' and growing to full stature. In being friends to their children, parents are to help them grow. At first they help by doing things for them; but, and this is most important, from their parents children learn how to do things for themselves. They grow up. The parent-friend now is to rejoice that the child is no longer helpless. And he or she must now let go while still being ready to reach out if help ... is needed. Growing in the kind of love whereby we have been and are loved by God never ends, not even for parents. They, too, need help in becoming fully the persons they are meant to be; close friends of God. From their children they, too, can learn how to grow. In giving friendship to their children, they receive; in ministering to their needs, they come to a deeper awareness of their. own deepest needs, that can only be met by God.
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I don't go along with those who say that Christ has no place in the modem world. One might as well say that clean air has no place in the modem world. Christianity stood alone at the moment of its birth, just as A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents Jesus stood alone. They were different. They struck at the root of what the world called glory, The American Game The China Syndrome The Prisoner of Zenda Avalanche Express The Europeans Scavenger Hunt reversed the judgments of other Beyond the Poseidon C.H.O.M.P.S. Sunburn ages and passed sentence on the Superman Adventure The Fish That Saved idols of the world's admiration. Take Down The Black Hole Pittsburgh What appeals to modem youth Breaking Away Tree of Wooden Clogs Just You and Me, Kid Uncle Joe Shannon Buck Rogers The In-laws is the spirit of our Lord. His The Wiz The Champ A little Romance whole life was a commentary on his teaching. He was his teaching. There were no contradicA-3 Approved for Adults Only tions. . Jesus approached people as inAgatha Good Guys Wear Black Patrick Alien The Great Hoax A Perfect Couple dividuals. He did not propose The Great Train Robbery Picnic at Hanging Rock The Amityville Horror the glory of the state, but the Angi Vera Harper Valley PTA The Promise perfection of the individual mind Head over Heels Prophecy Brass Target and soul. He did not build up Hot Stuff Real life Being There The Human Factor Remember My Name Boardwalk political power. His message was The' Kids Are Alright Rich Kids Butch and Sundance: one of brotherhood. He taught The Early Days The last Wave Rocky II the most obscure to look with The late Great Planet Earth Roller Boogie California Suite an undazzled eye on the most lost and Found The Runner Stumbles Chapter Two The Main Event Running , City on Fire powerful. The Seduction of Joe Tynan A Man, AWoman and Crimebusters Christianity does not bear the_ a Bank Sextette Cuba mark the politician. One of its Meatballs SkatetowlJ, U.S.A. Dreamer Meteor Something Short main purposes is to extinguish The Electric Horseman Moonraker of Paradise Escape from Alcatraz the very spirit the ambitious More American Graffiti Starting Over Escape to Athena most anxiously cherish. Christ Murder by Decree Time After Time Fast Break today would tell us to love Newsfront The Vi lIain Fast Charlie Nightwing Voices Fedora other peoples as truly as our Norma Rae Walk Proud The Fifth Musketeer own. In his day, conquest was The Fog Nosferatu, the Vampire Wanda Nevada' . the chief interest of a nation and Old Boyfriends When A Stranger Calls Foolin' Around patriotism was the first and Olivers Story Yanks Force 10 from Navarone The Frisco Kid On the Yard Wise Blood noblest social virtue. Going in Style Christianity loosened the tie binding man to the state that it might connect him with his brothers. B - Obiectionable in Part for Everyone In a' word, the religion of The Magician of lublin Americathon Firepower Christ may be summed up in Max Havelaar An Almost Perfect Affair French Postcards love of God and fellow human Natural Enemies And Justice for All Goldengirl beings. It leaves the individual Nest of Vipers Avalanche Halloween free to express this love ac1941 Baltimore Bullet Hanover Street Night of the Juggler The Bell Jar Hurricane cording to his own nature. Players Circle of Iron Ice Castles" There are youth who think that Quintet The Class of Miss Invasion of the Christianity loves power. But its Saint .lack MacMichael Body Snatchers true spirit is self-denial. It counts Soldier of Orange The Concorde The Jerk Sunnyside Airport '79 Just Tell Me What wealth, ease and domination 10 . Death Ship You Want among the perils of life and it The Deer Hunter The last Married Couple Tracks insists on no duty more earnestThe Wanderers Dracula in America Windows ly than that of not worshiping Everr Which Way But looselegacy Fina Chapter· Walking Tall love at First Bite these things. The Gospel is so plain in its message that it cannot be misA-4 Separate Classification understood. When reading it we see the greatest simplicity of (A Separate Classification is given to certain films which while not aim. There is no deception, no morally offensive, require some analysis and explanation as a prolurking purpose, no between-thetection against wrong interpretations and false conclusions.) lines swindles. Its message is that we are here to love God Promises in the Dark Apocalypse Now Manhattan' and neighbor. The RI)se Hair The Onion Fie Id Kramer vs. Kramer
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A Holy FamilyjCoyle-Cassidy math meet saw CC the winner with 66 points, while Holy F:amily was second with 63 points. Three freshnien and three sophomores at the New Bedford school have scored above the 9th percentile in National Educational Development Tests.
Heard by Posterity "What a father says to children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard.by pesrerity." - Jean Paul Ric~ter
Bishop Feehan The faculty of Attleboro's Feehan High. has received an encouraging boost from members of Sister Agnes Therrien's English classes. Essays on what makes a good teacher revealed that enthusiasm and commitment to students as well as subject m'atter were top priorities among the students. According to the majority of essayists these qualities were possessed by the entire faculty. The essays, intermingled with student photographs of life at Feehan, were part of a display on the main corridor bulletin board. Sophomore Deborah Fales was recently selected as Feehan's outstanding sophomore by the Hugh O'Brien Youth Foundation which annually selects student leaders to attend ana'tional leadership seminar. This year's program will take place in Boston in early March. Margaret Healy' will receive the Bausch and Lomb Science Award as Feehan's outstanding senior student. She intends to pursue her interest in biology at Brown University. ' Last week Sister Mary Faith, principal, and the members of the faculty welcomed the incoming· class of 1984 at a parentstudent orientation night at which registration, financial obligations, economics, student life, extracurriculars and spiritual concerns were discussed. Sister Ricarda Wobby, director of fundraising, has asked that papers, rags, car batteries and cardboard be saved' for the annual spring drive.
CYO All-Stars The annual Father Donovan CYO Scholarship All-Star hockey game, sponsored by the diocesan. CYO, will be held Thursday night, March 20 at Driscoll Rink, Fall River. Originally a basketball game, the event has for the past seven years been a hockey match, featuring CYO and area high schQol players, whose names will be announced shortly. In 2 years the games have awarded $28,000 in scolarship aid to area senior high school students. This June a new $4,000 scholarship will be added to' those currently being awarded. John Kineavy, Dartmouth High School principal, will be awards chairman for this year's program. John Carey will direct the seniors' team, while Don Souza and Joe Bullock will direct the CYO contenders. Joseph Prenda 804 Bob Richards will be masters of ceremonies and Bill Kwascinski will be scorer. Jim McCarthy will be in charge of officials. . A banquet will follow the game.
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portswQtch Cheerleading Competition Those interested are reminded that March 1 is the deadline for entries in the twenty-first CYO diocesan cheerleading competition to be held in the Kennedy CYO Center, New Bedford, March 9 and 16. Entries must
be sent to CYO Cheerleading, 43 Anawan Street, Fall River, Mass. 02720. The Competition is open to all grammar school, senior CYO, junior CYO, ninth grade, junior varsity and varsity high school squads.
High School Notes Mike Shea of Bishop Connolly High School's basketball team averaged 19.8 points per game over 18 games and is among the top five scorers in Division One of the Southeastern Mass. Conference. Marlon Burns, of Dartmouth, has averaged better than 21 points per game, is the leading scorer in that division and has passed the 1,000 point career mark. Bishop Feehan's Mark Schmidt is the top scorer in Division Two with a better than 24 point average. Ed Couto of Bishop Stang and Ed Monteiro of Wareham each averaging around 18 points per game come next. Coyle-Cassidy's Ron Silvia, Tim Leary, Kevin Chisholm and Scott Clemmey are among the top siX scorers in Division Three. Silvia has put the ball through the hoop at nearly 19 points per game, Leary at better than 16,
Chisholm and Clemmey around 13. To all intents and purposes the high school basketball and hockey seasons are over and the squads that qualified are girding themselves for the upcoming post-season Eastern Mass. playoffs. The list of qualifiers in the basketball playoffs is not yet complete but it can be noted that among schools already in the fold are Nauset of the Cape and Islands League; Oliver Ames and Sharon of the Hockmock League; New Bedford High and Bishop Feehan High of the Southeastern Mass. Conference; and A'pponequet Regional of the Mayflower League. Feehan, Barnstable, Seekonk (the latter two of the conference) and Oliver Ames are hockey qualifiers. It must be emphasized that the complete list will not be known until this weekend.
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New Films "My Brilliant Career" (Analysis), an Australian film, is one of the most entertaining and exhiliarating pictures to. come along in some time. Based on an autobiographical 1901 novel by a 16-year-old girl, Miles Franklin, the film marks the debut of an unforgettable actress, Judy Davis. It tells the story of poverty stricken Sybylla Melvyn, whose family is unsympathetic to her love of music and the arts and wants her to take a job as a servant. She is reprieved by her well-to-do grandmother who, however, wants to force her unconventional granddaughter into the orthodox feminine mold. Sybylla will have none of this and her adventures and love affairs form the body of this funny, human and touching film. If anyone would Hke to see how much truth, beauty, drama and vitality can be conveyed by a G-rated film, he or she should rush to see it. G, Al "Death Ship" (Aveo Embassy): A Nazi ghostship roams the Atlantic, ramming passenger ships and seeking victims. George Kennedy and a cast who deserve better can make no headway against the witless script. Not only does the film wallow in gore and violence, but it trades upon memories of the Holocaust. R,B "Just Tell Me What You Want" .(Warners): .Ali .MacGraw, as the mistress of rapacious tycoon, Alan King, yearns for independence and tries to find it by marrying a supposedly incorruptible off Broadway playwright. King's furious efforts to get her back provide the springboard for this sour, cynical, vulgar comedy. The foul language and condoning of immoral actions are offensive. R,B On TV
VIOLA, PLAYED BY Felicity Kendal, disguised as a male page, has an important role in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," to be seen next Wednesday on PBS channels.
"As We With Candles Do" Sunday, Feb. 24, at 1-2 p.m. on NBC - A young couple decides to forego traditional marriage ceremonies only to learn that there is wisdom in the old ways in this drama presented in cooperation with the National Council of Churches. "Twelfth Night," Wednesday, Feb. 27, 8-10:30 p.m. (PBS): The second of six seasons during which all Shakespeare's plays will be televised begins with this romantic comedy, performed for HaC by an excellent Brit-
ish cast. A program of music from the age of Shakespeare wiU also be presented and educational material and college course credits are available in connection with the series. Further information is available from local PBS channels. "Scruples," CBS, Feb.. 25, 26 and 28: A woman's rise from poverty to power in a cynical world of high fashion and low morals is portrayed in "Scruples," a six-hour soap opera airing Monday, Feb. 25; Feb. 26; and Thursday, Feb. 28, at 9-11 p.m. on CBS. Although based on a sexuaHy explicit novel, this telefilm is of the kiss-and-cut variety, with sex offscreen. However, it is Grade A trash, offering little beyond slick surfaces and glossy visuals. It is out of its class as prime-time entertainment. Monday, Feb. 25, 8-8:30 p.m.. (CBS) "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown," Peppermint Patty stars as a contestant in a figure-skating competition with the encouragement of the rest of the "Peanuts" gang in a new aJ;limated adventure created by Charles M. Schulz. Saturday, March I, 10-11 p.m. (NBC) "For the Child's Own Good." The new and controversial industry that treats tro\lbled youths is examined in this news program focusing on several of the more than 3,000 facHities where youngsters undergo a variety of therapies. Films on TV Sunday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. (NBC) - "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1975) - Don Knotts and Tim, Conway star as bungling bank robbers who try to make off with a huge gold nugget unearthed by three cute orphans in this Disney comedy. G, Al Sunday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m. (NBC) - "Harper Valley PTA" (1978) - When the hypocritical board of directors of a small-town PTA send a nasty letter to a funloving widow ~Barbara Eden), scolding her for her behavior and threatening to expel her daughter from junior high school, they get more than they bargained for. This is standard drive-in fare, though there· are some talented actors involved. However, its risque humor calls for an adu'lt rating. PG, A3 Friday, Feb. 29, 8 p.m. (ABC) - "Benji" (1974) - The lovable mutt makes his first appearance on television in this screening of his film debut, in which he helps to capture some bank robbers. Light and wholesome entertainment. G, Al
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The Bread of Life charismatic community holds a prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. every Friday at the church, followed by Mass. All are welcome. The community will sponsor a Day of ·Praise from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 30 in the church. Father Robert S. Kaszynski, diocesan liaison to charismatic groups, will speak and John Polce will lead singing. The program will conclude with. a concelebrated Mass.
NOTRE DAME SISTERS, ISPSWICH The Notre Dame de Namur community announces a Search Weekend from March 14 through 16, open to young women interested in exploring the relevance of religious life to the contemporary world. Further information is available from Sister Karen Hokanson, 54 Jeffrey's Neck Rd. Ipswich, Mass. 01938.
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MARRIAGE PREPARATION, FALL RIVER 'DIOCESE Marriage preparation programs scheduled for March include the following: St. Mary's Cathedral hall, Fall River, 7:30 p.m. March 2, 5, 9, 12; SS. Peter and Paul hall, Fall River, 7:30 pm. March 9, 16, 23, 30. St. Louis de France hall, Swansea, 2 to 8 p.m. March 2; Coyle-Cassidy High School library, Taunton, 7 p.m. March 16, 19, 23. Further information is available at any rectory. SACRED HEART, NORTH ATTLEBORO The school board will meet at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28. A life in the Spirit seminar, second of a series of seven will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday. Activities of parish youth are featured in the current issue of The Informer, the parish council newsletter. It is noted that youth comprise 25 percent of the parish population and are involved in CCD classes, the altar boy program and the CYO. The latter group welcomes new members of high school age. ST.. MARY, SEEKONK High school students will make a retreat from tomorrow though noon Sunday at the CCD center. All post-confirmation young people are invited to participate. SISTERS' SENATE, FALL RIVER DIOCESE The senate will sponor a day of prayer at 'Bishop Connolly High School, beginning at 9:30. a.m. Saturday, March 22. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will celebrate Mass at 11 a.m. and the program will include conferences and a luncheon. OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Lenten Masses will be at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Stations of the Cross will be held at 3:45 p.m. each Friday. Parents of first communicants will meet at the parish hall at 7 p.m. Tuesday. A day of recollection for seventh through ninth graders will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 9, also in the hall. The parish council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, March 10. SALESIAN STAMP EXCHANGE, NEWTON, N.J. The Salesian Mission Stamp Exchange of Don Bosco Seminary, Newton, N.J. 07860 requests donations of cancelled stamps. Profits from their sale are. used to support the community's missions. XAVIER SOCIETY, NEW YORK A free 1980 Braille Catholic calendar is available to the visually handicapped and may be requested from Xavier Society for the Blind, 154 E. 23 St., New York.
SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The parish council will meet . in Father Coady Center at 7:30 ST. JAMES, NEW BEDFORD p.m. Sunday, March 2. The Ladies' Guild will meet The Women's Club will hold a potluck supper Monday, March at 7:30 Wednesday in the 3, preceding its regular meeting. ·Iower church hall. A disco exWilliam Manville has been hibition will be featured. A communion supper is planelected vice-chairman of the Activities Committee and Brenda ned for March, with Father Mendoza will serve as secretary. Joseph Maguire as speaker.
ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT A program on sexuality and morality will be presented for seventh and eightl) grade students, teachers and parents at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25. The speakers will be Dr. Robert Creutz and Father Gabriel Healey, SS.CC. DOMINICAN LAITY, FALL RIVER Members will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25 for Mass in the priests' chapel of St. Anne's rectory. A meeting will follow in the rectory assembly room. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A Bible class will be held each Wednesday of Lent, following 7 p.m. Mass. Sunday Lenten services will take place at 4 p.m. in Polish and at 6:30 p.m. in English. ST.. RITA, MARION An introductory film on the Genesis 2 program will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 17 at the rectory. The program is open to all parish adults. Parish women are invited to two discussions of the place of spirituality in their lives, to be presented at 7:30 p.m. March 12 and 26 by Sister Claire Gregg, also at the rectory. ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Lenten discussion programs will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Mondays and 10 a.m. Wednesdays at the homes of Lu Rogers and Gerry and AI Kisla respectively. A 7:45 p.m. series will be held each Wednesday in the church hall, with Father Thomas Grannell leading discussion of Vatican II. ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET A babysitting service sponsored by the parish council will begin for 9:15 a.m. Mass Sunday, March 2. A coffee hour and fel~. lowship will begin following 10:30 a.m. Mass the same day. The Women's Guild will meet on Tuesday, with members of the Cape Cod Family and Children Services discussing their work.
Unity Workshop WASHINGTON (NC) - "Your Kingdom Come" is the theme of the 17th National Workshop on Christian Unity, to be held in Seattle March 1-13. Archbishop Edward W. Scott, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, will keynote the national workshop. Seminar topics will include the church and the handicapped, ecumenism in the early church, models of unity, and ecumenism and the electronic church. The national workshop is an annual program bringing together laymen, pastors, ecumenical officers, theologians and church leaders. The National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers, one of the primary sponsors, will hold its plenary assembly during the four-day program.