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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1979
Cable TV Called Boon for Church CaBs for increased use of cable television in church communications have come from the Catholic Television Network of Chicago and a leading religious broadcaster in AlQany, N.Y. "Cable stations need and will accept professional, religious programming," said Charles E. Hinds, executive director of the Catholic Television Network of Chicago. "The cable stations' economics dictate the use of quality, but low-cost, programs which can be made available to them by members of the communities and dioceses they serve." Hinds was commenting on the results of a, recent survey of Catholic dioceses, which indicated that 37 per cent of the 132 responding dioceses had video cassette equipment but that most were missing an important opportunity by not utilizing cable television resources. "'Perhaps part of the hesitation to begin to use this excelTum to Page Three
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Rice Bowl To Be Included In Lenten Observances The Lenten regulations for the Fall River diocese have been announced by the Chancery Office and are listed on page 3 of this issue of The Anchor. The penitential season begins Wednesday, Feb.' 28 and Easter Sunday will be April 15. H is noted that the season for fulfillment of the obligation to receive the Eucharist' during the Easter season extends from the first Sunday of iLent, March 4, through Trinity Sunday, June 10. A special collection for the Negro and Indian home missions will be taken up, as is traditional, on the first Sunday of Lent; and throughout Lent Catholics are encouraged to participate in "Operation Rice Bowl," a six-week program of family prayer and sacrifice. "Rice Bowl wrappers," informative labels to be taped to a beverage can or similar-sized container, will be distributed in all parishes. 'Each week of Lent, participating families are asked to
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eat a low-cost meal and pray for other. less fortunate families around the world. The difference between the price of the sacrificial meal and their regular meal is placed in the "rice bowl" can, which is, kept on the dining table. Each Sunday during -Operation Rice Bowl offerings are brought to the parish rice bowl. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds of Rice Bowl will be used within the Fall River to alleviate povdiocese erty and suffering on the local level. Nationally, Catholic Relief Services will use its share for self-help and community deTurn to Page Sixteen
Pope Will Preside At Her Wedding Vittoria Ianni and Mario Maltese will be ~arried on Sunday by the Pope in the Vatican's Pauline chapel. Vittoria, 22, is the daughter of Giuseppe lanni, a Roman street cleaner and trashman who met the pope last month when the pontiff visited a mechanized crib scene built by street cleaners under lanni's direction. The trashman explained to Pope John Paul how the scene's lights, animals, streams and waterfalls had been constructed. He also told the pontiff his daughter was soon to be married. The pope then promised to officiate at the wedding.
Convocation Topic Will Be Vocations Twelve representatives from the Fall River diocese will accompany Bishop Daniel A. Cronin to the seventh annuai New ,England Convocation, to be held the weekend of March 2 through 4 at Mont Marie Conference Center" Holyoke. They are Father Horace J. Travassos, Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Sister Martin de Porres, OP, Sister Margaret Hjggins, SUSC, Keith Caldwell, Brother Louis St. 'Pierre, FIC. David Landry, Mrs. John Houst, Mr. and Mrs. John Cwiekowski, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Coughlin. The group includes guidance
Alateen -Helps Youngsters Face Life With Alcoholic Parents Most kids worry about what to wear to school, how to fix their hair, whether they can borrow the car for Saturday night. These kids, children of alcoholics, worry about what they'll find when they get Mme from school. Parents or guardians may beat them, throw them out of the house into subzero weath-
erJ as happened this week in Detroit, shake them down for small change to buy liquor or keep them at home to do housework or babysit. Most of all, almost universally, such parents load their children with guilt. - "Anyone would drink, with kids like you:" _is a typical rationalization.
. To months and _years of such treatment, youngsters usually react by developing their own problems, often including drink.ing and drugs. For such kids, there's Alateen, founded in 1957 by the 17-yearold son of an alcoholic and now numbering hundreds of small Turn to Page, Seven
FATHER DAVID BELUVEAU, SJ conducts Alateen meeting in Fall River. Meetings are open to any teen with a problem of alcoholism in his or her family. (Torchia Photo)
counselors, vocation directors, seminarians, members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the Serra Club and a candidate for the permanent diaconate. 路This year the convocation will focus on vocations to the priesthood and religious life. More than 130 delegates from the 11 New -England dioceses will join with their bishops in group presentations and discussions centering on the roles of priests, religious and lay persons, especially parents, in nurturing vocations. The keynote speaker will be Boston auxiliary and vicar general for spiritual development, Bishop John M. D'Arcy. "One of our most pressing concerns is to establish the foundations of strong leadership for the Church in the future," said Bishop D'Arcy, who has also served as a faculty member at St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Among other major presentors Tum to Page Seven
Puebla Bishops Stress La ity PUEBLA, Mexico (NC)-The Latin American bishops' committed themselves to fight for social change and to give preferential treatment to -the poor at the close of their third general assembly. But they said thilt the . laity have the primary role in fostering this change through political means. The bishops' 200-page final document "insists especially in the action of the laity to carry out essentially a political action and to offer a witness within temporal structures," said a summary. The bishops said they will foster greater participation by the people in the affairs of their nations as a means to overcome "the growing gap and the inequality in our societies" between rich and poor. "Thus the church seeks to overcome delays in the change of structures and shorten the waiting for change already postponed through generations," said the summary. In Vatican City, the pope said Turn to Page Seven
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BALTIMORE - The new president of UNDA-USA, a national association of Catholic radio and TV communicators, . has defended the upcoming Catholic Communication Campaign against criticism from the National Catholic Reporter, an independent Catholic newspaper. Paulist Father John Geaney said the church must make full use of the modern electronic media of television and radio if it is to carry out its mission of preaching the good news to the whole world.
ALBANY, N.Y. - To expedite the annulment process in the Albany Diocese, about 40 nuns are being trained to assist in the initial steps of the process. The nuns - religious education coorddinators, hospital pastoral care workers, parish associates and teachers - will collect data and interview persons seeking annulments as part of the preliminary annulment process.
Schools Aid WASHINGTON-A three-year study of alternative financing for elementary and secondary schools to be conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare will include an analysis of new forms of aid to non-public schools. The study will look at tuition "tax credits, inclusion of private schools in a program of general federal aid and modified treatment of non-public schools in existing programs.
, Electronic Media Aid FATHER DAVID CLEMENT, treasurer of the U.S. Province of the White Fathers, says missioners must balance evangelization and social developm~nt.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y.-The U.S. Catholic Conference's Communication Committee has agreed to emphasize "television, radio and other electronic media, plus special projects for the Catholic press" as the beneficiaries of the 1979 Catholic Communication Campaign in an effort to ease the fears of some Catholic editors that the collection will harm their traditional funding sources.
Change Asked WASHINGTON - The National Catholic Educational Association's president has asked the American Association of School Administrators for a change in its resolution against government aid to non-public schools. "In the interest of peace and good will, I am writing to see if you can use your influence to change . the proposed AASA resolution en aid to private schools," said NCEA president, Father John Meyers, to the association's executive director, Paul Salmon.
ARCHBISHOP HELDER CAMARA, a vocal critic of Brazil's military regime attended the Puebla Conference but kept a low profile at sessions.
Mexican Priests PUEBLA, Mexico - Archbishop Ernesto Corripio Ahumada of Mexico City said priests and Religious have the same rights as other Mexican citizens and asked for legislation granting them a political voice in national affairs.
How They Do It LONDON - Catholics in England and Wales have been working for the past 150 years to set up Catholic schools in a 'network very different from the American educational system. Catholic schools make up almost a tenth of all the schools in the state system. Local education authorities pay all the running costs of the school, and the government provides a grant of 85 percent of the cost of building.
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.CESAR CHAVEZ speaks in Florida, wllere he was arranging a labor pact with Coca Cola, owner of a numb~r of citrus groves.
OMAHA, Neb. - The co-developers of the ovulation method of natural family planning said the most important U.S. studies in the field are underway at Omaha's Jesuit-run Creighton University. Dr. John Billings of Melbourne, Australia, who with his wife, Evelyn, is credited with pioneering research on tI:te ovulation method, was in Omaha to share findings with Dr. Thomas Hilgers. of the Creighton Medical SChool.
Pope to Lourdes? VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II indicated Feb. 10 that he would like to visit the famous Marian shrine at Lourdes, Fran~e. Many Vatican observers believe he will do so in 1981, when Lourdes will be the site of an International Eucharistic Congress.
. Firs't President 'PHILADELPHIA - John J. Reilly, a leader of unionized lay teachers in Philadelphia Catholic schools, has been elected to a three-year term as the first president of the National Association of Catholic School Teachers.
AFTER A LOSING STREAK of 110' races, Jockey. Steve Cauthen finally rides a winner. A member of All Saints parish in Walton, Ky., the youthful rider was aboard a horse named Father Duffy.
La Salette Head DEROIT Father John A. Zebelskas, pastor of Our Lady of La Salette parish in Berkley, Mich., has been elected superior of the Mary Queen province of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.
It's the Gimmes LONDON - A striving for material possessions at the expense of spiritual values is responsible for much of Britain's current labor unrest, said, England's top Catholic and Anglican churchmen in separate statements. British society has become very secular, said Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster. A stronger criticism was issued by Archbishop Donald Coggan of Canterbury, Anglican primate.
Bashops Back SALT II WASHINGTON - The U.S. Catholic Conference's Administrative Board has authorized USCC congressional testimony in support of the anticipated Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) between the United States and the Soviet Union. -Bishop Thomas Kelly, USCC gen- . eral secretary, said in a statement, "Discussions before the board's voice vote made it clear that the bishops feel SALT II deserves support only if it is understood and functions as a necessary, though admittedly limited, step toward true disarmament."
MSGR. AUGUSTIN, ROMAN, episcopal vicar for the Spanishspeaking, is a. new auxiliary bishopdesignate for the diocese of 路Miami, Fla.
Canadian Ecumenism MON'f.REAL Heads of Christian churx:hes in Canada are -being asked to discuss the possibility of forming a new national association which would include the Catholic Church and all other Christian denominations. The proposal is being made by the Committee on Wider Ecumenical Fellowship which met recently at the Ecumenical Centre in Montreal.
Whole Life Gamut LOUISVILLE, Ky. Archbishop Thomas J. McDonough of Louisville told a radio audience that it is incorrect to charge that the pro-life movement is concerned only with abortion. He said the movement covers the "whole gamut of life" - from conception to death. He also attacked test-tube fertilization and what he said is a breakdown in family life in the United States.
THE LOU GRANT SHOW,' featuring Edward. Asner and Nancy Marchand, was among 30th anniversary Christopher Award winners, cited for its present~tion of social and moral issues.
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Father Donachie, Father Langlois Father Adrian Donachie, OFM, who was vicar of Our ,Lady's Chapel, New Bedford, from 1958 to 1977, and Father Gerard A. Langlois, MS, a New Bedford native, died in the past two weeks.
Father Donachie was one of the original group of Franciscan friars to open Our Lady's chapel and was known for his devotion to patients at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford. At the time Cnarles Collins project leader, of his death he was .living at said his group hopes to offer at '. St. Anthony's Residence, Boston. least one program monthly. He noted that such programs have He is survived by three sisters, the potential of reaching 20,000 all nuns, and two brothers, both area cable TV subscribers. like himself,' Franciscan priests.
DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER 1979 Lenten Regulations 1. LAW OF FAST a. Those who are twenty-one years of age, but not yet fifty-nine years of age, are obliged to observe the law of fast. b. On days of fast, those bOund by the law are limited' to It. single full meal. This meal is meatless.. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to one's needs, however together these meals should . not equal another full meal. c. There are two prescribed days of fast: Ash Wednesday (February 28th) and Good Friday (April J 13th). 2. LAW OF ABSTINENCE· a. Those who are fourteen years of age and older· obliged to observe the law of abstinence. b. On days of abstinence, those bound by the law abstain from meat. c. On all Fridays of Lent, abstinence is prescribed. This, of course, includes Good Friday. Abstinence is also prescribed on Ash Wednesday. 3. LENTEN DISCIPLINE a. No Catholic will hold himself or herself lightly . excused from the law of fast and abstinence. Commenting upon the mitigated Lenten regulations promulgated several years ago by the Holy Father, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States noted: ''The obligation to do penance is a serious one; the obligation to observe, as a whole or 'substantially,' the penitential days specified by the Church is also serious." b. Lent is a most appropriate time for the- voluntary practice' of self-d~ial or personal penance. This may be physical mortification, temperance, or such works as Christian charity and witness.
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The Anchor will publish a 76-page Jubilee Conunemorative Issue on Thursday, March 8. Inteilded as a keepsake, it will include an informal diocesan history, many historic 'photograp}ls, and descriptions of the works of spiritual formation, education and social ministry undertaken by the diocese over the past 75 years.
FATHERS RICHARD ROY, Kevin Harrington and Philip Davignon (from left) are preparing a special Lenten radio series, "The Good News," as part of their ongoing Sunday program, "Morning Has Broken," heard from 8: 15 to 8:30 a.m. weekly on Station WARA, Attleboro. The program is sponsored by the clergy of the Attleboro deanery and directed by Father Harrington. (Adams Photo)
Father Langlois attended St. Joseph School, New Bedford, before entering the La Salette seminary. He was ordained in 1940 and served 20 years in the Madagascar missions of his community. He had lived at the La Salette provincial house in Attleboro since 1969. He is survived by four sisters, two of them nuns, and two brothers, one a priest.
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themoori~ Waving ..the Flag, Slowly Americans, in general, have been a flag waving people. Basically, it could be agreed that the people of this land, as diverse as they are, can be considered pa-triotic not only in word but in deed, ev.en in cases, such as Vietnam, where this patriotism was somewhat distorted. Many American youths are buried in contemporary "Flanders Fields," brought there by the forces of oppression that are once more becoming the masters of our national policies. Just glance at the news events of the past week and you will see how fast we are slipping in world opinion and in our ability to face reality. The cultism of Iran left thousands of American citizens defenseless, subject to mob violence. The government of the most influential nation in the world was impotent in the face of this harsh reality. The entire course of events in that nation of extremes clearly indicates to what extent our national leadership should blush with sham~. In a nearby land an American ambassador was taken hostage and murdered. One wonders, of course, if there was any connection between the Iranian and Afghanistanian turmoil. We do know, however, that once more American influence was negated to such an extent that even diplomatic immunity and protection had little meaning for those serving under the AmeriCan flag. A third receqt event again showing the disregard and even contempt that we as a people must now face, was the visit of President Carter to Mexico. The American people, in the person of their president, truly had to eat crow. As an aside, it was most interesting to note the entirely different reception accorded another recent visitor to that nation, namely Pope John Paul II.
SISTER ANGELA MURDAUGH HAS BEEN NAMED 'TEXAS NURSE OF THE YEAR' FOR THE WAY IN WHICH SHE MIRRORS CHRIST IN' HER CONCERN FOR MOTHERS AND INFANTS
'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' Matt. 10:30
.. What all this adds up to is that we as a people should begin to realize that we are not in. the same international position as we were even five years ago. The decline of the dollar, the blackmail of the oil cartel, the open dishonesty of our. own oil industry and the inability of our government to control our ridiculous rate of inflation are forces that are taking paralytic control of our nation.
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We must not be blinded by the light of so-called past glory or we will not be able to recognize the pitfalls of the present. And we must not let the problems of the present expand to such a degree as to lead us astray in the future. What we must do with every ounce of our American ingenuity and inventiveness is to co'me to grips with present reality, facing our national problems collectively, honestly and, for a change, honorably. This nation is still the best hope for all. who seek to live in freedom without fear. However, the shadows of anxiety and tension grow daily, testing our limits and trying our abilities. How we face and live through the inany difficulties of today will' certainly determine our tomorrows. All the flag waving in the world will not change this.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (NC)The Catholic Church has no dogmatic catechism of medical ethics and must instead constantly Ibok to its basic teachings about human life, health and sexuality to examine new developments, a leading ethicist told Catholic physicians recently. Addressing the South Florida Catholic Physicians' Guild, Fath Donald G. McCarthy said the church's crucial challenge is to discern authentic from inauthentic development. He is a professor of Christian ethics at the Athenaeum of Ohio and chairman of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's medical-moral committee. "Every new opinion and every new interpretation of church teaching ever proposed was proposed as an authentic development," Father McCarthy said. "But some opinions and interpretations were eventually rejected and disclaimed as inauthentic. Hence the final criterion of authentic development is a retrospective one as the church assimilates new development to her historic teaching originating in the Gospel itself." The church has seen a vast
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number of new interpretations of church teaching emerging and presented as authentic !locuments since the Second Vatican Council, Father McCarthy said. "There has been precious little time thus far to sift out the authentic and' inauthentic developments," he noted. "In the meantime we all bishops, theologians, clergy, scientists and laity - do our best to live lives faithful to the Gospel." Father McCarthy reminded the Catholic physicians that the Gospel makes the differences between them and other doctors. "Our commitment to the awesome mystery of human life means we will not kill the unborn in the womb, even those whom amniocentesis reveals to be retarded or deformed," he said. But, he added, the Gospel also accepts death and human mortality and does not demand resuscitation for persons whose death is imminent. Neither does it demand that the Karen Quinlans of the medical world can never be detached from the burden of artificially supported breathing, he said. Father McCarthy said the increase in the use of contraceptives and the spiraling divorce rate in the past 10 years indi~
cate that individual contraceptive acts do generate the contraceptive mentality, despite good intentions to the contrary, and that the contraceptive men路 talitY,undermines the authentic reality of Christian marriage. "Catholic physicians who are in disagreement with the church's teaching on individual acts of contraception can still agree with the basic reverence toward human sexuality which is the Gospel value," he said. "Hence, even in the face of the contraception controversy, a broad consensus does exist on the unique value of conjugal sexuality and the importance of avoiding the so-calle4 contraceptive mentality." He called on Catholic physicians to have a deep spiritual life and strong intellectual路 formation 'and urged them to influence the health care environment in favor of Gospel values at staff and professional meetings and in community and political action. "Authentic medical morality is not merely a series of 'no's' or a legalistic code of moral prohibitions," Father McCarthy said. "Rather it is a continual 'yes' to respecting the ~oodness of human life, health and conjugal sexuality."
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MEMBERS OF the Attleboro-Taunton Catholic Scouting Committee participate in a television Mass on Scout Sunday. Aiding Father Normand Boulet, chaplain,are chap" lain's aides Michael Frith, Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Taunton, and Peter Detrolio III; St. Mary's, Mansfield. Father Boulet's chasuble, was designed and made by Mrs. Helen Silvia, committee chairman and music was by the choir of Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, directed by Robert Boule.
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Unesfablished Dear Editor I would appreciate having the mailing address for the Rev. Andrew Greeley, who I feel has a great deal of basic realism. He is obviously not a part of the Establishment as is Rev. Sheerin, who in the 2/8 issue extolls the virtues of the "champion of human rights," Carter. It sort of boggles the mind that the Rev. Sheerin can call Carter a sensitive Christian in view of his, Carter's, rush to recognize Communist China, with an indisputable record of mass murder of its nationals to the total of more thart 40 million over the past years. The power of money seems to excuse anything. Arthur Romero North Chatham
Liked Poem Dear Editor: I did enjoy the poem, "Be A Priest" (Anchor, Jan. 25). Thank you for publishing it. We need a priest, we have lots of "one of the gang." Amelia Pina Marion ....,""''', , ,''.''''''''
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Dear Editor: I was most gratefeul to read the letter praising "Illustrissimi" in your column recently, as I was not aware that it was available locally. I bought a copy and must echo the praise given to it. What a clever fI:lhicle to teach. I thank good Pope John Paul I for leaving it for us. Constance Zygiel New Bedford, Mass.
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Dear Editor Your editorial on county government (Anchor, Feb. 8) was so right on time. It's true that would save taxpayers money much needed for training in new jobs, etc. Also about prejudice against Catholics. I have said for years the diocese should have good public relations men or women in all cities. The badly informed Catholics' call on radio open line talk shows and tell such lies about our religion. Someone should listen and reply. C. Silveira South Dartmouth
WANTED: A RECTORY FOR FATHER THOMAS
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Rev. James J. Brady, 1941, Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford Rev. Antonio Berube, 1936, Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro Rev. Tarcisius Dreesen, SS.CC., 1952, Monastery Sacred Heart, Fairhaven Rev. Alphonse Gauthier, 1962, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford Rev. J. Omer Lussier, 1970, Pastor, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro March 3
Yes, there are people who keep vOluntarily the old Lenten laws 365 days a year. They are priests, Sisters, lay missioners by the hundreds who give away their own food overseas so their hunQ1Y neighbors can stay alive. Share what you have this Lent? ' o Father Ronald Roberts (from England) must get help to feed his 'family' of 47 deaf-mute Arab boys in Harissa, Lebanon. Boys nobody wanted, they are' becoming self-supporting typists, watch-makers, beauticians, thanks to him. To feed the 'family' for one day costs only $70.50 (141 meals at 50¢ each). Your gift in any amount-$100, $50, $25, $10, $5, or whatever you can share will help Father Roberts care for a handicapped boy in war-torn Beirut. The Franciscan Sisters are working among the poor in Puthenpeedika, a .small village on the western coast of India, where there is a strong Communist influence. The Sisters hope to build a hospital and nursery school open to all regardless of creed or caste and thus combat Marxism by spreading the message of Christ by their example, and prayers. Just $5000 will complete the ,project, but gifts in any amount are most welcome. The Diocese of Kottayam erected Assumption Church in 1974 to serve the ,150 families of the Syro-Malabar Rite in the village of Arayangad. Though very poor, the faithful contributed to the purchase of four acres and a semi· permanent building 'for religious instruction. What is still needed is a rectory for the pastor, Father Thomas Cawanan. His parishioners have already over-extended', themselves financially and $1 000 is still needed to complete the build· ing. C~n you help in whole or in part?
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Edward D'Alessio, a former U.S. Catholi.c Conference education official: has been named the first deputy commissioner for nonpublic education in the department of Health, Education and Welfare's Office of Education. D'Alessio's job is to guarantee that non-public school students receive all the benefits to which they are entitled under the federal Elementary and. Secondary Education Act. D'Alessio, 48, has been president of the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, Mass., since 1976. Before that he hea~ed the usec office dealing with elementary and secondary education.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Feb. 22, 1979
NC News Service Is' Latest To Incur Greeley Wrath By REV. ANDREWM. GREELEY
I have a story that 'you may want to reflect on while debating the so-called "communications collection." Its point is that the communications office of he U.S. Catholic Conference, like so many other USCC offices, is staffed by bungling amateurs. I've been working for a number of years on a book about the papal election. I have over 1000 pages of notes and several large boxes of research material. When I began actually writing the book after the election of the first John Paul, I asked the ,publisher if he could get
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JOSEPH RODERICK
With the price of food what it is, the vegetable garden is a must this year. Last year we had a good year in the vegetable garden, including the lettuce, which headed up very weIland gave'us many good salds. Out most productive c::rop was onions, which we are stil!
"post-release" dispatches from who continued to refuse to make the maor wire services so I the materials available, finally agreeing only if the publisher could check factual details. The publisher said it was entered a year's subscription (at standard practice to make such $700) to NC News. Eager to famaterials available. Sure cilitate the book, the, publisher enough, they came from the Re- agreed. ligious News Service and from When I heard about it, I went the Associated Press with let- through the ceiling. I was not ters wishing me well on the about to see 70 cents, much les book. $700, paid toNC News. I reFrom the NC News Service turned the materials though it we heard nothing. Finally, a took NC News Service a couple representative of my publisher of weeks to realize it (as a matcalled Richard Daw of NC News. ter of fact, they sent me not one The young m,an was utterly but two sets of releases every staggered by Daw's response day, demonstrating their efici"Let Greeley do his own reo ency. search." Leaving aside the fact that 1 Now, of course I had done my have spent countless hours anown research and was only \ swering questions for NC reseeking to verify facts from the porters, Mr. Daw's behavior was wire services of record. simply mind-boggling. The president of the publishI called the former director of ing company called Mr. Daw, NC News Service and asked him
what he would have done under similar circumstances and he informed me that he would have done exactly what AP and RNS had done' with the hope that maybe NC would be mentioned in a footnote. "The publicity we'd get \ would be worth the paper and ~ostage involved."
Universal Press Syndicate is the largest independent feature syndicate i.n the country, serv-
icing over 1300, newspapers throughout the world. useC's director of communication can apparently afford to ignore such a powerful organization. I therefore make the following observations about communications in the Catholic church: .' I) Mr. Daw was unprofessional in his gratuitous remark about me. 2) He was unprofessional in refusing to provide post-release dispatches when such excha~ge '. is a matter of courtesy with other journalistic networks. 3) He was,路 unprofessional in his demand that a $700 subscription be entered to obtain the materials. 4) Mr. Beusse was unprofessional in his failure to respond to Mr. Andrews' letters. Bush league. Give such people. money for communications? No way!
using and which will last pretty well into the Spring. . The trick to most vegetables is to get them started in the house and then to get them into a coldframe to harden off before they are put into the garden. Since we have' fluorescent lights in the basement, the job of strating seeds is fairly easy. Onions can be started from seed now or from sets which can be purchased later in the Spring and started directly in the garden. Last year we planted fOblr 20foot rows from seed, starting them in the basement and moving them out into the, garden
paratus, but the simplest measures are as productive as路 the most complex. For instance, to start seeds I have made a shallow two foot by four foot flat containing a heating cable which is stapled to its bottom and which when plugged in maintains a constant temperature of 70 degrees. For soil I use a mixture of two parts said to one part Rediearth and for light I suspend a four-foot fluorescent light over the seed bed. This light is kept on 14 hours a day. After the seeds have sprouted they are kept reasonably moist
and then transplanted to flats and kept under lights until midApril, when they are moved outside into cold frames where they are allowed to harden off before being transplanted to the' garden in mid-May. There is no need, however, to invest a great deal of money in equipment if one is just starting out. Any source of bottom heat is sufficient and light can be natural light using window sills, etc. The point is that the rewards are great and with a little effort and thought, one can produce reasonable harvests with minimum effort.
later in the spring. This yeear we plan to start lettuce, onions, tomatoes, eggplant, brocolIi, green peppers and Brussel sprouts in the house from seed. These will be started in early March for transplanti'ng after the danger of frost has passed, except for the lettuce, which will be planted earlier. Starting seeeds is relatively easy. Many seeds need some source of bottom heat, sufficient soil to anchor them after they produce a root system, sufficient moisture, and light. How these are produced can run the gamut from crude to sophisticated ap-
J ames Andrews, president of Andrews and McMeel, my publishers, then wrote Mr. Robert Beusse, head of the USCC's "office of communication and Mr. Daw's superior, formally protesting Mr. Daw's behavior. Mr. Beusse, the man principally responsible for Catholic communication and preseumably the principal beneficiary of the communications collection, did not even bother to answer.
'Public Funding for路 Test Tube Baby Research? By JIM CASTELLI
Should public funds be used to support research in vitro fertilization (lUF) conception of life outside the humarr body? Catholic experts testifying a~ a series of public hearings on ,that question almost unanimow:ly in said "no." Many argued that the proc~颅 dure is immoral and should not be encouraged by governmen'; financing. , . But others raised arguments dealing with the broader issues of ethics in health care and the allocation of scarce resources as much as ,with the morality of the procedure itself. There is now a moratorium on federal support for IVF research in the United States. But that moratorium could end if an Ethics Advisory Board appointed by flEW head Joseph Ca1.ifano recommends federal funding at a meeting March 16-1'7. . Jesuit 'Father Richard McCor-
mick, a leading Catholic ethicist and moral theologian, is a member of the board. He said he' opposes public funding for IVF at this time because of the "cumulative impact" of arguments. against it. He said he could support federal funding for some preliminary research if he were convinced that the pros outweighed the cons. He said, for example, that government funding is the best way to provide government regulation of the research but that government should not fund IVF service for a childless couple. A variety of Catholic experts cited a number of reasons for opposing public fundng of IVF research. Dominican Father Albert Moraczewski, president of the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center, . argued that IVF "does not seem to be the treatment of a medical condition so much as treatment of a qesire" because it does not treat sterility. He said IVF support involves "the assumption that a married couple, or even a single woman, has a ri~ht to have a child.
"Whereas marriage confers a in health care delivery, it seems right to the sexual acts which incongruous to support research are apt for the generation of a to develop techniques ~h~t will human being, no right to a child have a high cost, limited beneis thereby conveyed. The basic fits and substantial individual reason is that a child is a person and societal ris~s." and no human being has a right Much of the Catholic testito another." mony to the board reflected a Father Moraczewski also cited tension voiced by the late Pope possible abuses of IVF such as John Paul I, who commented on efforts to produce only "perfect" the first test tube baby in an babies, the use of surrogate Italian magazine while he was mothers or the freezing of em- still patriarch of Venice, Italy. bryos for implantation ~ a later Saying he spoke as a journaldate. ist and not as a bishop, he sent Dominican Sister Betty Gaiss, "most cordial wishes" to the health affairs coordinator for the baby and said he could not conDiocese of Lansing, Mich., said demn ,her parents if they acted "the' risks and benefits (in IVF) in good faith.' do not accrue to the same parties. "The procedure . . . is undertaken for human motives for the VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope benefit of the childless couple. John 'Paul II is at an advanced The risks are borne by the as- stage in the drafting of his first yet-to-be-developed embryo." encyclical, which will deal with Sister Gaiss and others also the spiritual nature of man, Vatiargued that public funding for can sources said. IVF would involve a disproporThe sources said the pope is tionate use of scarce resources 'holding up'publication of any for the use of a small group of document related. to the 1977 people while the basic health Synod of Bishops on catechesis needs of many people remain and an already. completed docuunmet. ment on Catholic universities "At a time when the govern- and seminaries because he wants ment is demanding cost cutting the encyclical to be the first
But, he said, "I share only in part the enthusiasm of those who applaud the scientific and technical progress after the birth of the English baby." He said the ability to create life in the test tube "though it may not provoke disasters, at least presents grave risks." He said the procedure might increase the risk of deformed babies. "I this is so," he said, "will not the scientist faced with new problems look like the 'sorcerer's apprentice' unleashing mighty powers without being able to hold them back or dominate them?"
Encyclical Said In Preparation major publication of his pontificate. The theme of man's spiritual nature is one that the pope has discussed repeatedly in talks given since his election.
Not a Prison "Perhaps some day, the modern man will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of man, it is his home," - Walter Farrell
THE ANCHORThurs., Feb. 22, 1979 Continued from Page One he hopes the conclusions of the bishops will strengthen the church's fight for a more just society. Held in Puebla, Mexico, the meeting is expected to have a major impact on church life in the Americas. It will be recalled for the contrasting ideologies which spawned a Puebla in 1979 just a few miles away. The meeting was ostensibly centered on the theme of evangelization. But concern for the poor soon emerged as a key issue among the zi8 bishopdelegates and discussions of liberation theology took place both within and outside the Palafox Seminary, where sessions were held. Pope John Paul II set the stage for those discussions when he delivered the assembly's opening address. He said the church's mission of preaching the Gospel demands that it do all in its power to end injustice and' "make. systems and structures more human." Some interpreted portions of the talk as a condemnation of liberation theology but :,Bishop Candido Padin of Bauru, Brazil, consid: ered one of the most articulate defenders of the 'poor among the hierarchy, disagreed with that assessment.
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Exchange, Not Loss "Self-discipline never means giving up anything - for giving up is it loss. Our Lord did not give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things," - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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BISHOP THOMAS KELLY, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, talks with reporters between' sessions of the Puebla meeting of the Latin American bishops.
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had started drinking themselves, Continued from Page One groups. In them, adolescents but as one said in explaining why find support in what to many she had quit, "So many of my had seemed a problem no one friends have died from drinking, it's not even funny any more." else shared. And tales of wild stunts in . In Fall River, Alateens meet at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at speeding t:a~s were traded, with the Alcoholism Council Building death again' the frequent last at 258 S. Main St., at the corner word. of Spring Street (the entrance The youngsters listened soberis actually on Spring). . ly to each other's accounts of life Calling liberation theology "an , There they find a warm wel- life with alcoholic parents, but emotion charged issue," the come wrom Father David Belli- were notably realistic in their bishop said it has made positive veau, SJ, associate pastor at St. reactions. When one member contributions, but those using William's Church, Fall River, who complained that her father it for political ends deprive it of has for three years been a spon- "couldn't park the car" when he a .Christian context. "There' are 'sor of the group. An average of came home, after a drinking some who taKe advantage of this 10 youngsters attend the weekly bout, another retorted "You movement for liberating .action meetings, which are always open ought to be, glad he gets it and try to ch;mnel it into a to newcomers. home." purely political action," he Alateen, explained Father BelPractical advice rather than added. liveau, is an 'offshoot of Alco- empty sympathy is in fact a holics Anonymous, the famous hallmark of Alateen. "Kids in Several miles away, theolo- lZ-step plan to help alcoholics the same boat can't con each gians, lay people and bishops live soberly.• Some Alateens, aged other," commented a member. gathered at a counter-conference 12 to 20, are already themselves A major benefit to youngsters named Pueblita (Little Puebla) alcoholics, but all are victims of is in learning that alcoholism is 1979, which became a meeting the problem in others. .a disease, not a disgrace, said place for non-participants trying As at AA meetings, Alateens Father Belliveau. Also, trey to influence the bishop-delegates use their first names only and make friends who understand and a forum for extracurricular anonymity, including that of alactivities of conference partici- coholic parents or guardians, is pants. strictly preserved. ?rograms may Bishop Bernardino Pinera, include a talk, films or listening Continued from Page One general secretary of the' Chilean to tapes, but their important asBishops' conference, summarized pect, stressed Father Belliveau, will be Rev. Quentin Hakenethe goal of the Puebla assembly. is the opportunity they give werth, S.M., provincial superior troubled youngsters ·to support of the St. Louis province of the "Some emphasize the person each other. Marist Fathers and Brothers and of Christ as the liberator from board president of the National At a recent meeting, members Catllolic Vocations Council. Also oppressive structures," he said. "The church has a greater idea listened to a tape of a radio pro- a speaker will be Sister Deanna of Christ. He is the saviour, gram on AA. "I felt I could quit Marie Carr, BVM, national direcdrinking any time I wanted," tor of the National Sisters Vocathe total liberator." said a participant. tions Conference. Perhaps the clearest underThe convocation gives the. Heads nodded around the Alastanding of the Latin American bishops hopes for the Puebla teen table. "That's what my bishops input from people representing Ii cross-section of Cathassembly and the future of the father says," muttered one. olic life, said organizers. Latin American church came "Anything's an excuse for a through in homilies delivered in No consensus opinIOn is drink," said a boy in the discus43 Puebla parishes near the, sion following the tape. "A good sought, nor is there any attempt meeting's mid-point. to formulate policy. Individual day, a bad day, have a drink." bishops use information received "The conference is making Another youngster recounted as an aid in local deliberations progress in a climate of brotherhow he had been brought to and decision-making. • hood, fed by a profound sense court as a stubborn child, "beof faith and unity," said Bishop Since it was first established cause I wouldn't pour my mother Ignacio Trejos of San Ignacio, a beer." in 1972, the convocation has Costa Rica, in one of those homidrawn national attention as one lies. "It takes the thrust left by And a girl who time and again of the few gatherings of its kind Pope John Paul II when he said tried to stop her parents' fights in the country. during his visit that he fei"t said bitterly, "There was no time moved by the faith and unity for me to be a child. I had to Among those expected to atof the Mexicans. We feel the grow up and play Mommy." tend are Cardinal Humberto same." Several youngsters said they Medeiros of Boston, Archbishop
their problem, whom they carr even invite to their homes without apologies or explanations. "Most of all," said the priest, "they realize that they're not responsible for what their parents are doing."· A big help, said members, is the Serenity Prayer, recited at each meeting, which they share with AA: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." In addition to the Fall River Alateen group, there are units at Bristol Plymouth Regional High School in Taunton, meeting at 8 p.m. each Friday; and at St. Anthony's Community Hall, East Main Road (Route 138), Portsmouth, R.I.: meeting at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. All are eager to welcome new members and priests, teachers and other concerned persons aware of young people with a family problem of alcoholism are asked to inform them of Alateen.
Convocation Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, and Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford, ranking New England prelate.
Don't Lend to Chile Say Religious Orders NEW YORK (NC) - Church stockholders, includin~ several Catholic religious orders, are launching 'a campaign to urge U.S. banks to end loans to the Chilean government. Those filing the resolutions with seven bankers included Sisters of the Presentation; Dominicans, Province of St. Albert; Sisters of Charity, N.Y.; Congregation of the Sons of the Immacu-' late Heart of Mary, Eastern Province, and Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, N.J. The resolutions call for an end to any further lending to the Chilean government or its agencies until full participation in the democratic process for all Chileans.
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Army Chaplains Charge Bias A letter from three Catholic Army chaplains asking all bishops and religious superiors in the United States to "use your immediate influence in the ecclesiastical and political spheres to alleviate the discrimination against your priests, and the Catholic Church in the U.S. Army" has prompted a reply from Coadjutor Archbishop Joseph T. Ryan of the Military Ordinariate. The archbishop sent all bishops and religious superiors a two-page report on meetjngs with various Pentagon officials regarding "perceived discrimination" against Catholic Army chaplains. ' Somplaints centered on the ,absence of Catholic representation among top-level leadership of the Army Chaplains' Corps.. The Military Ordinariate had asked the Army to publish a ,policy statement "indicating that religion should be a factor considered in _the selcetion-promotion process of the Chaplain Corps;" to establish a second deputy chief of chaplains position; and to assign a senior Catholic chaplain to duty in the Office of the Chief of Chaplains as soon as possible. Although the archbishop told chaplains in the November report that the Army would soon publish a policy statement which says that "denomiJ}ational affi-. liation is on of the factors to be considered in the' selectionpromotion process," the statement is still undergoing internal Army review. The second recommendation was rejected as "not feasible," the report said. The third request was fulfilled with the appointment of Father (Col.) John Cuniffe as special, projects officer in the Army chaplains' office. Father Cuniffe will soon begin an extended tour of Army posts throughout the w,orld to interview Catholic chaplains on "factors that would lead to good or bad morale." Meanwhile, a former Army chaplain is continuing his fight against the military's "up-orout" system, which he says is leading to a critical shortage of priests ministering to military personnel. The system generally requires that a person in the military be fired if he is twice passed over for promotion. In a letter to Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), Lt. Col. Gordon N. Zelez, a deputy with the Congressional Correspondence Agency, said: "The 'up-or-out' promotion system is not responsible for the shortage of chaplains in certain denominations.· These shortages are primarily attributable to shortages of clergy in these denominations or faith groups in the civilian sector."
Klan 'Incompatible' TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NC) As the Ku Klux Klan began a recruitment drive in northwest Florida, Bishop Rene H. Gracida of Pensacola-Tallahassee warned Catholics that Klan membership "is incompatible with the teaching of Jesus Christ and his church."
Warns Abortion Begets Geno~ide SAN FRANCISCO (NC) The president of the San Francisco Medical Society says there are "alarming parallels" between abortion attitudes in the United States currently and those that prevailM in pre-Nazi Germany. Dr. Rafael A. Solari, writing in the society's magazine, San Francisco Medicine, criticized the medical profession for its role in bringing about acceptance of abortion in the United States. It was the German medical profession 'and courts which, by endorsing abortion and euthanasia, started Germany down the road to genocide, Solari wrote. "(The) mentality for mass murder," he wrote,"originated -in advocates (of) eliminating the defenseless members of society." The United States, since the Supreme Court' abortion decisions of Jan. 22, 1973, has seen defenseless lives taken at twice the rate whichl>revailed i!1 Nazi Germany, Solari continued..
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Hildegarde, Age' 73, Still' Occupies Center Stage ORLANDO, Fla. (NC)-Hilde- York's Plaza Hotel. garde, at 73, has got her act toHildegarde introduced songs gether: an enduring career as a that have' become part of Amerperforming artist and a lifelong ican musical folklore, "April in Christian witness. "I'm a prac- Paris," "I'll Be Seeing You," ticing Catholic," she says mod- "The Last Time I Saw Paris," estly. and "Lili Marlene," were hers. As a popular singer, she was "I'm very campy - so much the first to record an album for so that Rex Reed calls me the Decca. The next one to do it • 'high priestess, of camp,' and Earl was Bing Crosby. Blackwell wrote that I am the Ever since her press agent 'mother superior of the nightpassed the word to New York clubs,''' she said. City columnist Walter Winchell, Cardinal Terence Cooke of her fans have known her as "the New York inducted Hildegarde incomparable Hildegarde." as a Lady of the Equestrian She went to St. John's Cathe- Order of the Holy Sepulchre. At dral High School and for a' home in New York, she is a couple of years to Marquette familiar figure at Holy Family University in Milwaukee. At 20 Parish. During her 50th year in show she struck out for vaudeville and there it was that Gus Edwards business, 1-976, Hildegarde rediscovered her, as he had Eddie ceived the George M. Cohan Cantor and Georgie Jessel. Head- award from the Catholic Actors ing for stardom in the singing Guild. Never-married, and a world, Hildegarde had it made "conservative Catholic" by adwhen she was successful in 1933 mission, Hildegarde is a Third before audiences in London and Order Carmelite. "When I retire, 1 intend to live and die in a Paris. She trained her voice (she still Carmelite convent," she said. practices two and a half hours a Her autobiography, "Over 50, So day when at home) and learned What," has been published by stage presence. No longer did Doubleday. she sing to the ceiling, but eyeShe also has several pet projto-eye with growing audiences. ects. One is gathering informa'German roots evident in her tion to further the' cause for blonde good looks, she spoke and beatification of Dr. Tom Dooley. sang in German and French, but She is on the board of Tom remained American as apple pie. Dooley Heritage, Inc., which Three times she made the list gives health care to povertyof the 10 best-dressed women in stricken Southeast Asians. And the world, and "the best hatted," a misisonary to Mysore, India, she added. relies on her to collect Bibles for She had her own regi.dar radio distribution to his flock. show in the 1940's on NBC, "The Hildegarde, at 73, says her Raleigh -Room," and became the goal is performing until she's 80. dear that made Milwaukee fa- "Sophie (Tucker) and Maurice 1110US in such posh supper clubs (Chevalier) made it to 80, peras the Persian Room of New forming. Why can't I?"
He compared those who back abortion as a matter of convenience in a pluralist society to pre-Civil War slave owners who said they had· a right to own slaves because of the pluralistic society in which they lived. "With America's recent concern regarding civil rights of citizens all over the globe," he added, "how can we justify denying the right to life itself to new human beings?"
Bishop of Rome To Visit Flock VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope John Paul II will mak~ his first canonical visitation of parishes, religious houses and institutions of the Rome diocese during Lent, Cardinal Ugo Poletti, papal vicar for Rome, announced. The canonical visitation is the vi~it that a bishop is required by canon law to make to all parts of his' diocese "to preserve sound and orthodox teaching, protect good morals, correct bad morals, promote peace, innocence, piety and law among the people and clergy, and to establish other matters according to circumstance for the good of religion." Each bishop is required to make these visits according to a schedule that will enable him to inspect the entire diocese every five years. The canonical visitation follows a format prescribed by canon law and includes special prayers, 'inspection of the physical plant of the parish and examination of the registers and accounts.
Force Is Blamed VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John Paul II blamed people who proclaim and teach struggle against others for the violence plaguing Rome and other parts of Italy. "Pluralism involves above all respect for others and renunciation of the will to impose oneself on others with force," the pope said.
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Sterilization Forced, Women Claim WASHINGTON (NC)-A labor union hopes to forge a coalition of women's movement supporters and right-to-lifers in support of female workers at the American Cynamid Corporation's Willow Island, W. Va., plant who say they had to be sterilized to keep their jobs. A central question is should a company exclude women of childbearing age from working in an area where a substance potentially harmful t9 unborn children is presen~ - even though the federal government says the level of substance· is safe? Five women· at the company's Willow Island, W. Va., plant complained that they had themselves sterilized at the company's urging rather than lose their position at the plant's pigment division, where lead levels may pose a threat to the unborn. The federal government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration currently holds that 50 micrografs of lead .dust per cubic meter of air is the maximum allowable concentration. Anything over 30 micrograms per cubic meter may threaten unborn children with neurological damage, the agency says.
But company officiaJs hold safer areas of the plant. "At that that the agency's levels may not time," he said, "we said we disbe tight enough. "We're not sure courage sterilization, and that if how safe a fetus would be, even it was done he did not sanction at (30 micrograms per cubic it. " meter)," said one. company offiBut the women said they stood cial. to lose considerable overtime While the company presents pay if they accepted transfer to its side as the result of concern areas with no appreciable lead for possible effects of lead on concentration. They insisted they the unborn, an official of the Oil, were pressured into sterilization. Chemical and- Atomic Workers Union said that women are being discriminated against. Anthony Mazzocchi, vice-presiVATICAN CIIT (NC)-Cardident of the union, called the situ- nal joseph Malula of Kinshasa, ation at American Cyanamid Zaire, was recently held up in "outrageous." The company, he his residence Vatican Radio resaid, "is not the only company ported. that is trying to force women Four armed bandits escorted out of the work place rather by about 20 men in military unithl'\n clean it up.'~ form forced the gates and broke "Women who have been able to enter these jobs as a result down the door of the residence, of their own struggle are now several. miles from the center of being confronted with }he· dismal the city, said Vatican Radio. choice of relinquishmg· .either Threatening the life of the cartheir right to have children or dinal, the bandits locked him in his bathroom, rasacked the their jobs," Mazzocchi· said. The company denied ·pressur- • house, then fled in his car. By morning the cardinal sucing the women, ranging in age from 26 to 43, to be 'sterliized. ceeded in escaping from the A spokesman said a company bathroom and notified the police, doctor met with them in Sep- who put a cordon around the tember to tell them that women house the next night, said Vatiunder 50 would be restricted to can Radio.
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orced, have created a broken it was found that virtually all family. children under 5 showed distinct My experience of the past few distress symptoms after their years is that many divorced par- parents' divorce. Many showed ents are courageously trying to more aggressive behavior, irritaraise their children well as bility, whining and crying. The singles an dare doing an admir- rp:port went on to say: able job. They are giving top "Follow-up studies done a priority to their children's right year after the divorce showed . to good parenting, willing to acthat the symptoms tended to discept the personal sacrifice this appear in two-thirds of the entails. group if the parent who remainI have also become interested ed with the youngster offered in the way the term "broken adequate physical and loving family" is still thrown around. care. This held true no matter ,I would have to be terribly naive how strong the initial reaction not to realize that an increase in to the separation. divorce· is going to .mean an in"But a third of the children crease in broken families. What I object to is the 'way this term continued to be openly troubled. is automatically applied to a Further investigation revealed family of divorce. Broken mar- that in these cases the intensity riages are one thing. Broken of adult emotions surounding families are another. They are, the divorce has not diminished. children lived with however, two separate and dif- These mothers who still felt hurt, huferent conditions. A lot of single parents are putting tremendous miliated and angry with their . energies into keeping their fami- former husbands." lies solid. They should not be This study points out again automatically labelled "broken." something every divorced par. Still, without question, the ent knows, that no matter how children of divorce definitely necessary a divorce ma~ be sufer the effects of loss - los- and it is often the only solution ing one live-in parent, often loss to an impossible marriage situaof. a familiar home setting, a tion - one fact remains indispuneighborhood, security and even, table: divorce extracts a price in in a way. their former identity. the social and emotional growth They are now a different fami- of children. The best you can ly, f.lnd they see, or at least feel, do is respect their right to good themselves as being changed in parenting, work hard to achieve an indefined way. this, and pray hard that the trauIn one study made ·by a psy- . rna they experience, whatever chologist and a social worker, the degree, is temporary.
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The Disciples: Stilling Of The Storm cism recorded earlier: Jesus rebuked him sharply: "Be quiet! There was a time when many Come out 0 fhim*" (Mark 1,25). scholars, strongly influenced by The church of Mark's day did a materialistic philosophy, wrote not consider the stilling of the off the Gospel miracles as fables. storm to be just a flamboyant the climate has changed consid- "nature miracle," They saw it erably, and there is a growing as another instance of Jesus' onwillingness to take the miracle slaught on the forces of evil. He accounts seriously. "rebukes" the wind and "comBut there is still an uneasi- mands" the sea to be quiet ness about "nature miraclts." exactly as he did the evil spirit Acts of healing and the like in the exorcism narrative. make sense as gestures of real, For the ancients, the sea was practical human compassiOn. a deep, dark mystery, a force to Something like the stilling of the I be respected and feared, the storm at sea, on the other spawning place of evil beasts hand, strikes scholars as a sort bent on men's destruction. They of pointless razzle-dazzle. Actuknew nothing of "nature" as we ally it is nothing of the sort, understand it, but only of hostile but rather an integral part of forces which were almost perJesus' mission as held and agent sonal. Whether they were deof the intervention of God's mons or squalls or thunderreign in our world. storms or earthquakes made lit: The setting is quite true to tle difference. In Mark especially, Jesus is 'life. It was the evening (Mark 4,35), and Jesus decided to cross portrayed as God's agent locked to the opposite shore of the in mortal combat with these Lake of Galilee. Now 'it hap- forces, and wherever he encounters them he subdues them. It , pened that a bad squall blew up. The waves were breaking over is thus' that he demonstrates in the boat and it began' to ship dramatic fashion the arrival of water badly" (4, 37). The lake God's victorious reign. "This is is notorious for this kind of disturbance. It is about 700 feet below sea level, surrounded by, mountains through which valleys run to .Jhe shore. Often, when night falls and the temperature By Father Joseph M. Champlin drops suddenly, violent winds Father Henri J. M., Nouwen are funneled through the valleys to whip the surface of the water projects the image of a very into a frenzy. This can happen contemporary, up-to-date, prowithout warning, and even gressive-thinking type of priest. sturdy fishing craft, caught unConsider ·these few facts or awares, are tossed about like descriptive phrases about him. corks. Do they not suggest a most modern man, an avant-garde 1{ind of This is a terrifying predicament, and the disciples, who person? He is a product of the Dutch knew that lake like the palms of their hands, were in a panic. church and a frequent lecturer Jesus, strange to say, was sound (wearing a turtle neck sweater asleep and undisturbed by it all. or dark tie) at U.S. religious Either he was completely ex- education conferences, where he hausted at the end of a long gives talks 'laced with psycho· hard day or, as has been sug- logical principles or insights. He gested, this detail of the story is professor of pastoral theology as we now read it was borrowed at the Yale Divinity School. from the storm scene in Jonah. I found my image of Father (He too was sleeping through Nouwen changed somewhat durthe storm, but in the hold of a ing a reading of Genessee much larger ship, where this Diary." That book described his , would have been possible. This vOlun=a retreat to a Trappist is not the only point of contact monas ry for nearly a year and between the two stories.) his r ctions to the monk's life In any event, the disciples he followed throughout that awakened him and asked him time. rather reprovingly if he didn't There he appeared to accept care that they were all about to many attitudes and activities drown. This was a bit too strong which we would normally today for Matthew, who changed their classify as an older, traditional reproof to a prayer: "Lord, save form of piety or spirituality. us!" (Matthew 8, 25). That clashed with my impression Mark continues the story by of the priest from Holland. An article of Nouwen's in the telling us that Jesus awoke, rebuked the wind and said to the Aug. 5, 1978 issue of America sea: "Quiet! Be still!" The wind magazine on "Unceasing Prayer" fell off and everything grew calm further marred my image of him (Mark 4,39) The wording here as the radical reformer. is significant; it is almost exHe examines at length in this actly the same as Jesus' com· essay the question of how busy mand to the demon in an 'exor- contemoraries can both fulfill St. By Father John J. Castelot
the time of fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand!" (Mark 1,15). Now it is Jesus' turn to reo prove them, although he does it gently: "Why are you terrified? Why are you lacking in faith?" (Iylark 4.40). But they just kept saying to one another, "Who can this be that the winds and the sea obey hiin?" (4,41). And herein lies the answer to Jesus questions. They don't really know who he is, and they won't know until after the Resurrection. But this is just one more illustration of a central theme of Mark: Without faith~ Jesus remains a mystery; lIn writing this account, Mark was thinking of his own Christian community, already or soon to be terrified by the storms of· persecutiqn. Unlike the disciples, they know the full identity of Jesus. He is now the risen Lord, and in spite of everything, they must have faith, must trust him to bring them through even the most violent torms, even if he seems to be "sound asleep on a cushion" (Mark 4.38) and blissfully unconcerned. He is neither.
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How Can IFace Tragedy? By Father Don McCarthy
After a gala Ne,w Year's Eve party at which he had more than enough to drink, a certain individual got on a bus in San Francisco heading for New York City. Me lurched up the aisle from his rear seat to ask the driver,'''Say, how far is it from San Francisco to New York?" "Twenty-nine hundred miles," he was told. Later 'he lurched up the aisle again ~ inquire, "Say how far is it ff6m New York to San Francisco?" "Listen," the driver replied, "it's 2,900 miles either way you go, it makes no difference." "Don't be so sure of yourself," the passenger said after a pause. "It's only a week from Christmas to New Year, but it's a whole year from New Year to Christmas!" The moral is that one's point of view can make a radical dif-,
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Paul's directives about prayer and follow the apostle's model. "Rejoice always,_ never cease praying, render constant thanks; such is God's will for you in:' Christ Jesus." These were Paul's admonitions to early Christians and to us (I Thessalonians 5,16-18). He wrote to Timothy, "I thank God . . . whenever I remember you in my prayers - as indeed I do constantly, night and day" (2 Timothy 1,3). To pray always, constantly, Turn to Page Thirteen
For Children By Janaan Manternach
One day Jesus and his disciples were teaching beside the Sea of Galilee. Crowds of people listened to them and questioned them all day long. By evening they were very tired. They all got into a boat and cast off from the shore. Jesus lay do'¥n in the back of the boat. Soon he was fast asleep. As first the sea was calm. But sson a storm blew up. Huge waves began to break over the boat, filling it faster than the disciples could bail it out. It was the worst storm they had ever been in and they feared they would all drown. Their fear was made worse because they believed evil powers lurked in the murKy waters. Turn to Page Thirteen
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O-sacerdote e noticia nos nossos dia: Aete Re fala ~traves da Imprp.nsa, da' Radio, da Televisao, do Cinema .•. Nunca .como agora se converteu em assunto aue ocupa::o primeiro plano. ~ natural que fa9amos a seauinte pergunta: Quem e 0 sacerdote? Antes era facil reconhece-Io pelas formas exteriores: urn homem vesttdo de preto, com habito talar, com 0 breviario na mao ou debaixo do bra90, segregado do povo, fechado na sacristia, celebrando Missa de costas para 0 povo, 0 que ja era bern urn simbolo. Agora, porem, ja nao e tao facil encontrar este tioo de sacerdote. Cada vez sao menos no mundo os que vestem habito talar, pelo menos na rua: sao hoje mais os que vestem casaco e ate usam gravata~ Hoje', 0 sacerdote tambem se enco"ntramenos fechado na sacristia, an~ da misturado e identificado com 0 povo: alguns sao sacerdotes-operarios~ que oodemos encontrar a trabalhar nas fabricas como operarios, ou nas estradas e nas ruas como condutores de camioes ou de taxis: na politica, como dirigentes:aindanae ha muito tempo dois jesuitas apresentaram-sp. nos Estados Unidos para ocUpar. cargos pUblicos, e ate os 00demos chegar a encontrar nalquma greve como manifest~ntes e animadores dos manifestantes. Entao, que e 0 sacerdote? ~ urn homem como Yes, escolhido dentre ves mas com uma missao para Yes. ~'na tural que queirais saber 0 que :e n sacerdote, nao tanto na aparenc~a externa porno no mais profundo go seu sere Toca-vos muito de perto: e. vosso e e para Yes. Todos os cristaos sao sacerdotes. ~elo baptismo, incorporarno-nos a Cristo: constituimos com Ele uma unidade intima: somos 0 Seu Coroo, e Ele faz-nos participes da un9ao de sacerdecio de Cristo. todos os fieis sao feitos "sacerdocio santo e ~eal oferecern sacri~icios espirituais a Deus por Cristo e aprego~m as maravilhas d'Aauele que os chamou das trevas a Sua luz admiravel." Alguns cristaos sao sacerdotes ministeriais; receberam 0 Sacramen-. to de Ordem. 0 sacerdote minsterial e urn homem como os outros homens. Com as suas limita90es, defeitos, paixoes, como todos: com as suas qualidades e merecimentos como todos. Emtudo igual aos 0utros mesmo no pecado. Quando notamos deficiencias no sacerdote, devemos senti-Io com certeza, nao podemos esquecer que e homem. Urn homem chamdo por Deus com uma voca9ao especial. 0 que Cristo disse aos Apestolos pode reoeti-Io a c~da sacerdote: "Nao fostes vos que me eleaestes: ma~ Eu e que vos eleai a vos." A vnca9ao sacerdotal e urn dom gratuito de Deus, que Ele da a quem quer e quando quer, ontem hoje e amanha. 0 chamado pode ser qualquer urn, porque e dom.
How Can I Face Tragedy? Continued from Page Twelve world, no matter how many wonder drugs we discover or how many new sources of energy. The temptations Jesus experienced after his 40 days fast in the desert continue today to tempt us with visions of controlling our world and our environment (Cf. Matthew 4:1-11). We would like to turn stones into bread - transform the world to our liking. We would like to cast ourselves down from heights without injury be exempt from the risks of disease, pollution, and high speed travel. And we would like to possess the kingdoms of this world . enjoy total security of wealth, power and prestige. Jesus resisted these temptations and instead subjected himself to the experience of human .helplessness which every one of
Fr. Nouwen. Continued from Page Twelve unceasingly, without interruption seems an impossibility for the active, working individual. In response I expected this Yale professor to suggest, after the mode of many moderns, that We simply make our work . our prayer, that we walk calmly in God's presence, that withdrawal from the world is not necessary for constant uncesaing prayer.. He does make a few statements along these lines. However, he concludes: "The Christian ideal of making all our life into prayer, remains nothing but an ideal unless we are willing to discipline our body, mind and heart with .a daily practice of entering directly, consciously and explicitly into the presence of our loving Father through his Son Jesus Christ." That insistence on the need for a stepping aside, a definite period of time apart each day for explicit prayer sounds like the masters of the spiritual life I read in the seminary 25 years ago. And the illustration of conL templative prayer from his personal life resembles exactly the procedure we were taught in those far away days. "Read, every evening before going to sleep, the readings of the next day's Eucharist with special attention to the GospeL" "Take one sentence or word that offers special comfort and repeat it a few times. . ." "During the following day, a certain time must be set apart for explicit contemplation. . ." "In this hour, we can see him, hear him, touch him and make him present to our whole being." "I found that wherever I was or whatever I did during the rest of the day, the image of Christ that I had contemplated during that 'empty time' stayed with me. . ." "This discipline puts the celebration of the Eucharist into a totally new perspective." When reading this, I felt I was listening to two people: our seminary spiritual director and the pioneer liturgist, Msgr. Martin Hellriegel, both speaking to me in the early 1950s.
our human tragedies dramatizes. Why did he not simply outlaw all further suffering and tragedies through a redemptive miracle? The clearest answer is that we human beings have a fallen human nature and hence we readily make false claims of selfsufficiency and mastery to conceal our inner Weakness. The elimination of suffering and tragedy would not have overcome that weakness. Jesus offers his redeeming grace instead. With that grace and the faith that accompanies it, his people can turn suffering and tragedy into occasions of growth and holiness. :Each new tragedy and each new loss we. experience can speak a wordless language to us. H can tell us that nothing in this world is completely permanent and secure, that every human good we .enjoy only reflects in a fleeting and transitory way the real final Good to whom we are called. This viewpoint was implied by St. Paul writing to the early' Roman Christians: We know that God makes all thinks work together for the good of those who have been called according to his decree" (Romans, 8:28). Often suffering and tragedy befall innocent and virtuous people. But the Bible teaches us tnat one person can, as it were, represent others and suffer for their sins because of the union among the members of the covenant group. Hence the Christian viewpoint on suffering emerges in the simple statement of St. Paul to the Colossians: "In' my own flesh I fill up what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ for the sake of his body, the church" (Collosians 1:24). One's point of view can make a radical difference.
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For Children Continued from Page Twelve But Jesus continued to sleep soundly, in spite of the pitching of the boat and the screaming of the wind. Finally the frightened disciples woke him up. "Teacher," they shouted, "Don't you care that we are all going to drown?" Jesus woke up. He saw the terror in their eyes. He set his face into the screaming winds and commanded them to be calm. He looked at the huge waves and said to them, "Quiet! Be still!" The winds died down. The sea became calm. Jesus turned to the disciples and asked gently, "Way are you so terrified? Why are you lacking in faith?" They could say nothing. They were awestruck. They were not even sure why they had turned to Jesus for help. What had they expected him to do? Yet they had turned to him when all seemed lost and he had saved them. They whispered to one another, "Who can this be that the winds and the sea obey him?" So as they crossed the now calm sea, they wondered about Jesus. They kept asking themselves and one another, "Who can this be that the winds and the sea obey him?"
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By Charlie Martin
By Cecilia Belanger "What good is living if there's no quality to it?" This question from a high school junior. She and thousands lIke her are looking for that flowering of all the noble attributes that human existence is capable of bringing forth. The yearning for what the social body lacks, despite pretensions to the contrary,' is uppermost in the minds of many. We are the most . extensively churched people in the world but the majori.ty of people one· talks with fear we are moving toward complete moral collapse. We seem .. to lack courage wher~ we should be strong. We are timid and fearful in those areas in which we should speak out. Failure frightens us, rejection frightens us, risks frighten us and others fright~n us. If we are frightened of just about everything, then what good is our religion? Shouldn't it be a bulwark against fear? The rarest ''Quality, as I see it, in our culture today is COURAGE. And it is the most precious quaIity. The only people who can impact on me, who have my esteem, are people who possess courage. To live. in timidity and fear is incongruous with what God has promised· us. It is not that some are given courage while
WELCOME HOME I have opened up my mind to things I was afraid of Done things I've never done before Taken a chance and seen just what the world is made of Nothin' is the same anymore At times I feel a golden spirit comin' through me Thinkin' of my life and what it's given to me I will live within that spirit ever knowin' I'm where I'm supposed to be Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home welcome home. In the waters I can see a clear reflection of the force that's all around There's a harmony of season and direction This is surely sacred ground Sweet life is everywhere as we stand in the clover Feel the circle magic - let it take us over And through all that I've been blessed with I feel certain I'm where I'm supposed to be Welcome home,welcome home, welc~me home, welcome horne. Written and sung by Carole King, (c) 1978, Capitol Records, Inc.
The name of Carole King is magic to many music lovers. Her blend of voice with piano can inspire all types of reactions and . moods in her listeners. COURAGE TO STANDup for our beliefs is lacking in Her new album "Welcome Home," is a fine example Of. all our culture, says Cecilia Belanger. Father Edwin Arentsen her talents. Tl1e title song captures the listener's imagination. All of Belleville, Ill. has served 11 days in jail in connection of us have looked around in life ,tried different experiences and at with an abortion protest, continues daily picketing of an times moved beyond fears. We are hoping to' find ou~ "home," the place of peace for our spirit and the feeling of being in harmony abortion clinic. (NC Photo) with the world around us. The searching is not always easy. 'We do not always feel; as shells and we become automaothers are not. God has given the song says, "that golden spirit comin' through me." Life can tons. the spirit of power, born of seem like a maze of turns and avenues leading nowhere. What kills the human spirit is courage, to everyone. When we Jesus' most startling promise involved this whole process of cease to believe in this spiritual the lie it lives, hidden behind inhow we lose ourselves and yet are found and welcomed home by respectable' credible masks, of potential for strength, when we the Father. Life's journ~y' always takes the "scenic route" through and cultured friendliness or befail to nourish ourselves on this ups and downs, rarely offers an int.erstate's_ directness to where belief, our lives become empty hind deceptive gaiety and hu.we are really going. mor. These are things young None of us can ~ay for sllre how many inner ,changes we will people talk about when they l go through, how many passages we will explore. But God's love is speak frankly. That they do not everywhere. His love touches every journey and draws us to our wish to be caught up in this final destiny. DENVER (NC)-"Please come Texas. "You know in your heart farce. So that when they are and stay with us for a year. you (we) have the true religion. honest, is it any wonder that Experience what it is like to live You just have to offer ull these. those who are hiding behind the masks are outraged! '. and participate in a wonderful hurts." times and. temperatures. In a Youth often pretend careless recent talk I listed some of the parish among loving Catholic A California.n urged the girl to people. Experience real Catholic "follow the Blessed Mother in indifference. Don't be fooled by questions . youth ask of the First honors have been ataction, teen-age style. Then . . . this perhaps the most important it! Tpey may walk lightly and church: tained by 18 students at New make your decision." Is'is real here? Bedfogi's Holy Family High apostolate today, the rosary and superficially, talking and joking, That message from a Florida the scapular." An Iowa woman doing things in the socially acCan we taste even a little of School. The ranking means they woman to a 16-year-old Denver recommended that all those who cepted way. But when the lid Christian love here? have attained a grade of 93 or girl was just a part of the nation- read the young woman's letter finally does blow off they are Can we find here what we better in every subject. wide response to a letter in the should "pray for her wavering the ones who are in the deepest have failed to find somewhere The scholars are Natalie Areda, ' trouble. Denver Catholic Register in faith." else? Corey Cardoza, Maureen Hathwhich the teen-ager said she Many youth tell that they Do people here dare to love? From Pennsylvania came the away, Cathy Jupin, David Laplanned to leave the church bedon't have any "real friends," "I think somewhere message: Perriere. cause it offers nothing to young They know a lot of young you have missed the essence of people. people, casual acquaintances, Steven Lima, Philip Nunes, After a story about the girl the Catholic faith, which is its and they are seen with· them Tina Torres, Steven Weaver, By Suzanne Seguin sacramental life. . . The church was carried nationally by NC quite often, but they feel it isn't Bitter cold failed to deter Gordon Goes. News Service, letters came to has not rejected you. The church really friendship. One youth sacramental' life offers you its mem.bers of Stang's National Mark' Lavallee, Patricia livthe Denver archdiocesan newspasaid, "There's a limit to this every day. . . Don't turn your Honor Society from warming ingstone, Gina Margaletta, Loriper from Texas, Kansas, Iowa, joking and laughing all the time. Ann Pacheco, Barbara Stone. Louisiana, California, Pennsylva- back on the church just when I need to have someone to talk the hears of those less fortunate. nia, Florida, New York, Missis- the laity is being invited to 'get to about serious matters and 1 The North Dartmouth school Lisa Cabana, Richard Tetreault, students group held a "King and sippi, Massachusetts, Alabama, involved,' The Catholic Church think that's the basis for real Queen of Hearts" Valentine Robert Tetreault. WisconsIn and Indiana. Some needs you," friendship. " dance for students at Nazareth contained medals' and scapulars A Denver couple urged the girl The girls' basketball team has How true it is, not only for Hall, Fall River. for the girl to wear. to "try volunteering ... masterbeen invited to participate in but for adults, that the young, The Bishop Stang Parents' the New England Catholic BasMost of the letters expressed minding the romper room while regret at the girl's plans to leave parents attend the Mass, for ex- they simply fill the embarrass- Club will hold its annual Fashion ketball TDurney. It is coached the chur<:h and urged her to ample." A Louisiana girl sug- ing voids in life with meamng- Show, Wednesday, March 21, in by Kenneth Kramer, aided by change her mind, stressing the gested to her fellow teen-ager less chatter, worn out clichES the schools auditorium, with James Colbert. Stang students as models. value' and beauty of the Catholic. that she "get together with other and very, very tired greetings Church. Many young people' are seekPreparations are being made Rehearsals for this year's muyoung Catholics and start some ing enduring friendship: the sical production, "The Best of for the glee club's spring conkind of program for their age "Dear sweet girl, if you leave cert, "City Lights," to be prethe church you are hurting your- . group," Or "go to the adults of courage to love someone despite Broadway in Cabaret Concert" self anti family and cannot be her parish and see if something opposition, to test the quality of are underway, directed by Ger- sented the Mother's Day weeka relationship through changing ald Morrissey. end, May 11 through 13. can be done." ltappy," wrote a woman from
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IN THE DIOCESE
By BILL MORRISSETTE
BILL SHEA
Shea Breaks Another Record As Connolly Qualifies Bill Shea, who had already set 'Diyisoon Three titIist, have also two new scoring records at Bish- 'joined the select circle. Connolop Connolly High School, became' ly's upset victory over Durfee the holder of a third school rec- last Friday gave the Cougars ord when he pumped in 21 points third place in Division One. The list of schools qualifying in leading coach Stan Kupiec's Cougars to a 96-65 victory over for the Eastern Mass. tournaHoly Family High Monday night ment will not close until tomorand a berth in the ,Eastern Mass. row but already includes Dartplayoffs, which start next Tues- mouth, the Division One champion, New Bedford, Wareham, day. With 467 points for the sea- Falmouth, Oliver Ames of the son, Shea now holds the record Hockomock League, and Apponfor the most points scored in one equet Regional of the Mayflower season at Connolly. The previous League. Pairings will be anrecord was 456' by John-Mitchell nounced Sunday. Falmouth, >Barnstable, Seekonk, in 1971. On Dec. 12, against Dighton- Coyle-Cassidy, and Wareham are Rehoboth, Shea scored 42 points among the schools that qualified eclipsing the mark of 40 points for the ice-hockey playoffs, in a single game by Mike Tra- which also start next week, and vassos in 1973. He also now for which pairing will not be holds the school's career high known until the weekend. Connolly's ice hockey team with 836 points, well ahead of the 690 by Mike Senay in 1976. winds up its season against He can add to the season and Wareham at 8 tonight in the career totals when Connolly Driscoll Rink, Fall River, where closes its season at Dighton- Somerset will be host, at 6 p.m. to 'Bourne. Dighton-Rehoboth Rehoboth tomorrow night. Connolly joins two other di- takes on Durfee at noon in the ocesan high schools in the post- Swansea Arena. In order to gain a playoff berth season playoffs. Bishop Feehan High, champion of Division Two in basketball the Durfee Hilltopin the Southeastern Mass. Con- pers must win at Brockton toference, and Coyle-Cassidy, the night.
Lonergan Conference's Top Scorer Don Lonergan, of Attleboro High, was the top scorer in Division One of the Southeastern Mass. Conference - and, all the conference - with 354 points in 16 games for a 22.1, average. Marlon Burns, of Dartmouth, was next with 341 points for 21.3. Bill Shea had 336, 21.0, and Attleboro's Tim Claflin had 300 for 18.8
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• news tv, movie Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG":-parental guidance sug· gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, 'however, require some analysis and explanation); C--condemned.
New Films "The Glacier Fox" (Sanrio) is a Japanse-made story of a fox, his mating and his family life, all taking place on a harshly cold island of northern Japan. Probably the most accomplished popular film about wild animals since Disney's best work, it is a statement not only about foxes but about the value of life in general. Given the dearth of good family fHms, parents should make sure their children see this one. G,Al "Agatha" (Warners: Vanessa Redgrave stars as mystery writer Agatha Christie Whose unexplained 11:day disappearance in 1926 provides the' occasion for this foray into fiction. Dustin Hoffman, a dapper' journalist, traces Mrs. Christie to a spa where she seems to be plotting something dire against her husband's mistress., His interest soon becomes personal, and the between this odd couple is the substance of the film. Marked by good acting and heavy on atmosphere, "Agatha" is moderately entertaining, but its slightness and a muddled climax detract from it. Theme and treatment make it mature viewing fare. PG,A3 "Murder by Decree" (Avco (Embassy: Sherlock Holmes meets Jack the Ripper in this period piece starring Christopher Plummer as Holmes and James Mason as Dr. Watson. The fine performances of ,Plummer and
diation issue is "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang," a documentary airing Sunday, Feb., 25, at Mason make it worth seeing de- 8-9 p.m. on PBS. spite an untidy plot whose conPaul Jacobs was a journalist tradictions Conan Doyle would who in 1957 began investigating never have tolerated. Bloodshed reports that small towns in Utah and violence limit it to mature and Arizona were subject to viewing. PG,A3 radioactive fallout from nearby "Picnic at Hanging Rock" nuclear bomb testing sites. (Atlantic): On St. Valentine's The matter was seemingly Day in 1900, a group of Austra- ended by the 1963 treaty banlian school girls go on a picnic ning nuclear tests in the atmoto a foreboding place called sphere. But not for Jacobs, who Hanging Rock. In the course of continued to interview people the day, some of them disappear. living in the fallout area, many This film offers a marvelous of whom became cancer victims, picture of the period but can't as did Jacobs himself - he died satisfy the expectations it stirs January 1978 of lung cancer up. The somber nature of the contracted, he maintained, visitstory and atmosphere and the ing a fallout site. sexual emphasis require an adult This documentary relates the rating. PG,A3 • story of Jacobs' investigation "Quintet" (Fox): In a world with footage he himself shot in almost overwhelmed by ice, six 1971 and footage made with him people in a ruined city spend the in the final months of his life. frigid hours left them by playing This is the premiere offering a deadly game called Quintet. of "Non-Fiction Television," This ambitious attempt to grapdocumentaries made under ple with serious philosophical grants from the Independent and theological questions is Documentary Fund. For another banal, tedious and unrelieved viewpoint on nuclear fusion, wit or intelligence: Its graphic depiction of killing, moreover, watch the NOVA dC?cumentary, "The End of the Rainbow," is offensive. R,B Thursday, March 1, 8-9 p.m. on "The Warriors" (Paramount): PBS. is an arty little film that atFilms on TV tempts to turn into a minor epic the sordid adventures of a youth ,Friday, March 2, 9 p.m.' (CBS) gang trying to make its way' - "Day of the Animals" (1977) back to its "turf" through a - Leakage into the asmosphere hostile city. Its violence and depletes the ozene layer, provokglorification of vicious behavior ing wildlife into a wholesale atare offensive. R,C tack upon human beings in this "When You Comin' Back, Red silly movie. There is an attemptRyder?" (Columbia): A half- ed rape and much other violence, crazed Vietnam veteran (Marjoe but so ineptly staged as to be Gortner) terrorizes five people hardly credible. PG,A3 in a roadside diner. There is Saturday, March 3, 8 p.m. some good acting, but psycho(CBS) "Across the Great logical and physical violence and Divide" (1977) - This is a famsexual crudities destroy' whatily film from the company that ever minor social comment may gave us "Adventures of £he Wilhave been in the play on which derness Family," featuring the this film was based. R,C same winning formula of attracOn Television tive adults and children and phoAfter 25 years of government togenic animals photographed assurances, the potential health against gorgeous scenery. The hazards of low-level atomic ra- plot involves two self-reliant diation are once again very much orphans, a brother and sister, in the news. Adding fuel to the whom a charming gambler (Robgrowing controversy over the ra- ert Logan) guides to Oregon in 1876. Everything is attractively packaged, and, as family entertainment, the -film ranks far above recent Disney fare. G,Al "
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Jim Papazian, Feehan, topped the Division Two scorers with 259, 18.5. Mark Bowers, Seekonk, was the runnerup with 258, 18.4. In Division Three, led by Bourne's Tracey Wililams, Kevin Chisholm, Ron Sylvia and Tim Leary, of Coyle~Cassii:Iy placed second through fourth. Chisholm was 195, 16.3; Sylvia, 171, 14.3; Leary 162, 13.5.
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third games, ff needed, on March 11. Champion Fall River South and runnerup Taunton have automatic byes in the quarterfinals.
The Mystery "It is only through the mystery of self-sacrifice that a man may find himself anew." - Carl G. Jung.
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PAUL JACOBS, who died last year, victim of cancer he belived caused by radioactive fallout, is the subject of a documentary, "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang," to be seen from 8 to 9 p.m. Sunday on Channel 2. (NC Photo)
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.. THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Feb. 22, 1979
Rice B.owl
Continued from Page One velopment work in 86 countries. / Most of the projects aided by ORB are financially small, but. their value to those benefiting from them is immense. In Jordan, for example, 45,183 fruit trees distributed to small farmers in the past two years have helped stop erosion and have increased the income of the farmers. The farmers contribuHiggins, vice-president. Readers ted 50% of the planting cost for the service will represent and are responsible for mainthe five churches of Chatham. taining the orchards. A tea will follow in the parish Projects such as these depend center. on the generosity of American
million in Operation Rice Bowl funds to the needy of the world. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has requested that diocesans take this opportunity to share their blessings with the poor and suffering.
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DOMINICAN LAITY (THIRD ORDER), FALL RIVER The Dominican Laity will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26 at St. Anne's rectory. Mass in the priests' chapel will be followed by a meeting in the as~ sembly room. In case of inclement weather, the next meeting will take place Monday, March 19.
ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The monthly prayer meeting will follow 7 p.m. Mass Thursday, March 1 and will end with a socfal in the parish center. ST. MATHIEU, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the church hall. Offerings for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop' Home should be brought at this time. ~ HOI,.Y REDEEMER, CHATHAM The parish will host the Chatham World Day of ,prayer at 1 p.m. Thursday, March I, with Rev. John J. ,Brennan, SS.CC., pastor as meditation speaker. The theme of the service, sponsored by Church Women United, is "Spiritual Growth in Knowledge, Faith, Hope and Love." Mrs. Albert Leate, president of Holy Redeemer Association of the Sacred Hearts, is chairman for the ecumenical program, aided by Mrs. Jerome S.
SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Parish committee meetings tonight in Father Coady Center are administration at 7 and social concerns at 8. The spiritual life committee has arranged a Mardi Gras celebration Tuesday night beginning at 6:30 in the center. Among highlights' will be a gong show.
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RIVER A family Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, March 4, with the liturgy planned by third gradeCCD 'parochial school children. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Knights of the Altar will travel to Providence tonight for Ii performance of the Monte CarioCircus. Confirmation candidates, parents and sponsors will meet at,7 p:m. Tuesday in the parish hal I: A girls' volleyball league is in process of organization. Prospective players will meet at 1 p.m. Sunday at Taunton Catholic Middle School. Coaches are needed for the teams.
NOTICE Due to overwhelming response to our Jubilee Commemorative Issue, to be published March 8, we were forced to close its advertising columns in January.
*** Our Salute To Scouting We praise the BoyScouts of this community .. ,for work!ng together to ~xpond their ideas, sharing their pastimes and fun times and partaking in worthwhile projects.
Since that time, many parishes, organizations and businesses have requested space for iubilee advertising in our issue of March 1S. Th,ere is still space available for that date. Therefore, if your organization wishes to place a congratulatory advertisement, please contact Rosemary Dussault Advertising Manager THE ANCHOR P.O. Box 7 Fall River 02722 Telephone 617-67S.~lSl
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