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Consecration

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Concordat cuts

church rights

ROME (NC)-The Vatican and Italy signed a revised concordat Feb. 18 that reduces some of the church's privileges in Italy and declares church and state to be "independent and sovereign." The new treaty removes Cath olicism as the· state religion, makes Catholic religiQus instruc tion in state schools optional and gives civil auhorities authority to review church marriage an nulments. The new concordat drops ref erence to "the sacred .character of the eternal city" of Rome. >Instead, it· notes the "particular significance of Rome for Cath olicism." . The treaty replaces the con cordat signed by the Vatican and Italian dictator Benito Mus solini i.n 1929. The new, shorter version reflects changes in the way Italy and the church view religious freedom. ,Pope John 'Paul II noted the "historic importance" of the Concordat Feb. 19, the day after , it was signed by Vatican .Secre tary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli and Italian Prime Min ister Bettino Craxi. The treaty, said the pope, is a significant legal basis for rela tions with the state. it is "an ideal inspiration for the generous and creative contribution that the church community·is caBed to giv~ toward the moral good' and civic progress of the na tion." ' The treaty will take effect after it is ratified by the Italian Parliament. Little opposition to the accord is expected.

'Before the ratification vote, however, the treaty stipulates that a joint commission of ital ian bishops and civil authorities must agree on the thorny issue of the tax status of church or ganizations in ltaIy. Article 1 of the concordat speaks of the "process of politi cal and social transformatiOli" in Italy since 1929. It adds that the new document will bring church-state relations into con- , formity with the Italian Consti tution and with the Second Vat ican Council's "Declaration on Religious Liberty." The Vatican II declaration stressed the civil rights of all religions, 'as distinct from privi leges enjoyed by a Catholic ma jority. Cardinal Casaroli, at the sign ing ceremony, called the new Concordat "an instrument of agreement, not of privilege." A Vatican source described the treaty as a fair one that stresses mutual respect by church and state and which rec ognizes the growing secular na ture of Italian society. During the negotiations to re vise the treaty, Italian law began reflecting the growing secular nature of society. Itaoly -legalized divorce and abortion despite strong opposition from the Vati can and the Italian bishops. Church-backed referendums' to repeal the divorce and the abor tion laws failed. The tax-exempt status of ex isting church organizations out side the Vatican is not expected Tum to Page Twelve

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would succeed Pope John ,paul I, "but I did so in a spirit of VATICAN CITY '(NC) - The humility and obedience to our planned consecration of the Lord, and complete trust in his world to the Blessed Virgin most holy mother, the Madonna." Mary in March by Pope John From that first speech of his Paul II is a natural step for the pontificate, there have been few man whose motto is "totus tuus addresses which have not in sum Maria," Latin for "I am voked the intercession of Mary completely yours, Mary." or which have not praised her As a youth, he consecrated his as mother of the church. Not life to her. As pope he entrusted only does he speak of her at his native Poland to her and reo nearly every 'Wednesday general caUed Pope Pius XII's 1954 con audience and Sunday Angelus secration of the world to Mary. message, but he added another Pope John 'Paul's decision to opportunity to praise her when reconsecrate the world to her is he began leading the rosary on another public demonstration of Vatican Radio the first Saturday his' confidence in Mary. of each month. The pope frequently includes In the United States, an nouncement of the consecrati<m stops at Marian shrines on his was released by the U.S. bishops foreign trips. In Ireland, he Feb. 14. They also released a visited Knock; in Mexico, the letter in which Pope John Paul shrine of OUf· Lady of Guada asked the world's bishops to join lupe; in the -United States, the him in consecrating the world to National Shrine of the Immacu Mary on March 24 or March 25. I~te Conception in Washington. The major Marian shrines at March 25 is the feast of the Annunciation. This year it falls 'Fatima, Portugal, and Lourdes, on the third Sunday of Lent and France, have provided the reason ' so maybe celebrated on March for two papal trips. 24. as is the case in the United His visits to shrines did not States. begin with his election to the Pope John Paul has made papacy. They began when Pope clear from the first moment of John Paul was the young boy, his pontificate that Mary is a Karol Wojtyla. Karol, whose main source of strength in his mother died when he was eight life. years old, daily visited the Ma "I was afraid to accept this rian altar in his parish church on the way home from school. choice," he told the 300,000 per As a teen, he visited the sons assembled in St. Peter's Turn to Page Ten Square Oct. 18, 1978, to see who By Sister Mary Ann Walsh

CA~SOCKED p ri est s stand at the entrance to an Orthodox church near Irku tsk, Russia. Such a sight is a rarity in the Soviet Union.

In USSR

No change foreseen on religion By NC News Service The death of Soviet President Yuri V. J\Jldropov Feb. 9 imd the succession to power of Konstan tin U. Chernenko appear to sig nal no significant change in So viet policy toward religion. Andropov, 69, had ruled only 15 months, and nearly half that time he was seriously ill and not seen in public. Yet that short rule by the former head of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. was marked by a noticeable tightening of controls on dissi dents at home and a sharp deTum to Page Six

. THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall

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Fe.b..: 24, 1984

Cardinal Sin raps Marcos. At the same time, Marcos MANILA, Philippines (NC) Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila has should not regard the opposition accused both President Ferdinand "as power-hungry men intent on ousting him from his throne," Marcos and his opponents of be ing inflexible in their political the cardinal said, asking the president to assure fair elections. demands. "Surely, it is not unreasonable Marcos is inflexible in regard ing the opposition as only inter to ask that baUot boxes not be ested in toppling his government stuffed with. prepared ballots?" while opposition leaders are said. Cardinal Sin. His speech "rigid and unbending" in their came two weeks after a contro demand that Marcos resign, said versial national referendum to .Cardinal Sin Feb. 9, in a speech restore the vice presidency. ' Opposition leaders had ,urged to a civic club. Cardinal Sin appealed to Mar ,a referendum boycott as an anti., cos' opponents to drop demands Marcos protest and the' nation's that he resign the presidency and Catholic bishops had said that urged them to press instead for Filipinos could join the boycott clean elections and greater civil in good conscience., liberties. If Marcos grants fair Restoration of the vice presi elections, he should be allowed dency was approved by 47 per to fiirish his current term which cent of 31 million eligible voters; ~Dds in 1987, he added. the lowest turnout in Marcos'

Family' collapse close, he warns WASHINGTON (NC) - Con has probably never' been closer ventual Franciscan Father Bruce to collapse than it is now," Ritter" founder' of Covenant Father Ritter recently told the House, asked senators to con Senate Caucus on the Family. .tinue the battle for the American ' "The exploitation of children family and ,against the exploita as sexual' objects and partners tion of children. remains a brutal part' of our ''The traditional American moral landscape. That terrain family is an awesomely strong gives little shelter to values that and resilient institution, but it support and sustain healthy fam-

18-year rule.' The office had been abolished by Marcos in 1972. In a Jan. 6 statement, the Filipino Catholic bishops said that citizens have an obligation to vote under "normal" circum stances, but called the current situation "far from normal" after the Aug. 21 assassinaion' of op position leader Benigno Aquino. Marcos had called .for the ref erendum in the wake of wide spread political opposition and unrest following the Aquino murder. ' Opposition parties and busi ness leaders had been calling for restoration of the vice presidency to assure a successor if Marcos, rumored to" be in ill health should resign or be incapacita ted.

ily life," he said. At a press conference follow ing the meeting with senators / Father Ritter said the government BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN congratulates Sacred should aHow parents the right to control the moral education 'Hearts' Sisters Willibrord Kelter and Rosalie Lind, Sister of their children and the' right Willibrqrd on her, hundredth birthday and Sister Rosalie on to know when their children re her golden jubilee of religious life. The bishop, offered a ceive contraceptives or abortions. Mass of thanksgiving for the sisters at their Fall River con Speaking of, his experiences helping runaway young people, vent. ,It was followed by an open house for members and friends of the Sacred Hearts community. (Gaudette Photo) he said "the street mangles chil dren." ' The 1 million runaway child i~proves ren in the" United States left HARTFORD Con (NC) homes where they were abused, ond "operation most successful Father Ritter said. "Kids do.n't ,Archbishop John F. ~ealon of and said he believes all malig run ..away from warm lovmg,' Hartford is maki~g "extremel nancy has been removed, accord fa~lhes because they W~?t the rapid progress" following a Fe:' ing to Father O'Brien. excitement of the streets. 10 operation for rectal cancer. "There's about a 75 percent The pl"iest said that half the Father Edmund M. O'Brien, arch chance of total recovery - even children who seek shelter at Co ,diocesan spokesman, said last to .the extent of never being venant House in New York have week. bothered again," Father O'Brien been the victims of repeated Archbishop Whealon, 63, un said. He said the archbishop is physical abuse. Nationally, he derwent surgery' af S1. Francis receiving radiation treatment said the 25 percent of girls and Hospital and Medical Center in and hopes to resume his normal 10 percent of boys will have Hartford to remove a malignant duties by mid-March. suffered ,some form of sexual grow!h from the lower bowel. Archbishop Whealon is chair abuse by age 18. Of the children AI previous operation had not .man of the U.S. bishops Ecu who go to Covenant House, less removed al1 the malignancy. menical and Interreligious Affairs than a quarter have been raised Father, O'Brien said. Committee and former chairman in two parent homes, he noted. Dr. John DeMaio, the arch of the bishops Committee on - bishop's surgeon, called the sec Liturgy.

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At .St~ . Louis' 'love's the theme·

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Recently the students went a step further, extending their concern to people they did not know personaHy.·As a class project they earned money to buy gifts· for residents of the Kimwell Nursing Home,' also in Fall River.

Then, with' the gift~ and hand made Valentine cards, they vi~it· 'ed the home, distributed the gifts and car.ds and presented a program. ofsongs on the theme ' 't of God's love. '

LEADERS IN the diocesan Family Ministry program recently met with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at the Family Ministry Center in North Dartmouth. From le.ft,~ the" bishc;>p; Mr. and Mrs. George Durant of Holy Family parish, East Taunton; Father Ronald A. .. d' Th . . h th b' h d . k d I f Tostl,. ministry Irector. e meeting WIt e IS op came l;lnng a wee ~n.. par ey. 0 the couples. Participants represented 20 parishes, with two additional panshes sending..•. team couples to present the program. (Rosa Photo)

As a followup to the proje.ct, the class held an (lpen'house at" which 5t. ,Louis parishioners viewed' ~ctivities .and the" pic. . tures taken on" the' occasion of' the Kimwell Nursing Home visit. _ . N n l ' I I....IIIIIII'l'non,......_ '..II

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ROME (NC) - To h~lp stem the synod delegate~ propo'sed'at' ference of Catholic Bishops; and the decline in Catholics going to . the end of the synod when they Msgr. Daniel Hoye, general sec confession, the church should made recommendations on three reary of the NC~B. stress "an appreciation of the themes; the absence of a sense sacrament of reconciliation as .of sin in society, the sacrament an encounter with the forgiving': of reconciliation and structural Christ," said Cardinal Joseph sin .on the world, said Cardinal Bernardin.· . Bernardin,of Chicago Feb. 18. . He 'said h~ could not give de Among reasons for the de cline, Cardinal' Bernardin said, tails about the final document . are a consumerJsm in which ma before it is published. RoundTrip Flights From terial values seem more impor Once the document is pub tant than spiritual ones and a lished it probably will be im AZORES, MADEIRA, SPAIN, HOLY LAND, "lack of appreciation of the plemented in the United States sacrament as an encounter with through educational programs, FATIMA, SANTO CHRISTO Christ." the cardinal said. Such programs 19 & 25 DAYS ESCORTED TOURS FROM $1,399 p.p. double leaves Many people, including priests, should include stressing the May 11, 12, June 3D, JUly I, Aug. 4, Sept. 8, Oct. 12 IShorter stays is possible). Other Year Round Departures. Space is limited Contact "do not understand fully the ,sacramental nature of penance sacramentality of the church. and reconciliation, he added. . Sacraments are encounters with "The"'sacrament of reconcilia Christ, not symbolic ritua1s," tion is a very important element TOURS and TRAVEL of my own life," he said. "I'm said Cardinal Bernardin. 265 RIVET STREET, NEW BEDFORD, MA 02744 . The card'inal was interviewed very committed to it. I can see TELEPHONE (617) 997-9361 what it means to me so I hate while in Rome to attend a meet to see others deprived of it." ing of the Council of the Gen eral Secretariat of the Synod of Cardinal Bernardin also met Bishops. The council met to the Pope Feb. 13 with a group draft an outline for the final of U.S. church officials. Other document of the 1983 synod on members of the group were Archbishop John Quinn of San penance and reconciHation. The outline incorporates what Francisco, who is heading the papally appointed' commission to study religious -life in the United States; Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, president of the National Con Many parishes seek Infonna tlon and pictures from Anchor Which Side? files when preparing booklets "Truth stood on one side and for anniversaries or other special events. We are very happy to Ease on the other; 'it has often provide copying and note-taking been so:' - Theodore Parker faclllties at our office for' this purpose, but we cannot lend photograpm; from our files. We have therefore arranged SOUTHERN VERMONT with one of our photographers or WESTON PRIORY to make glossy prints of desired pictures. at a cost of $3 per 5x7 STAY AT THE glossy and $5 per 8xl0 glossy. ThIs cost would be billed to the parish or. other designated per son or group. Please take Into account the time needed for this procedure, usually about a week, when planning parish publica tion schedules.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Feb. 24" 1984

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A Plea fO,r Reform The Iowa caucus vote was the kickoff of' the long, tedious and somewhat farcical adventure that phlgues our political process' of elections. Ju~t think of how many more months, weeks, days and hours of these so-called ' 'primary adventures we will b,e forced to ,endure. '.' What makes the outlook so. very foreboding is the fact; .'that-Uie'media somehow nowfeel,-that they are the king . :niakers. As a result they' have already' moved to convince ~us that this election is ,tne single most important issue of our day. ','. ':' ,:, .. ; Ute hours of interviews logged by reporters, ~pejuve ;1)ile' asides of'the"so-called experts and the commentators' ,commenting on themseh~es have already indicated media ,overkill. Television news has been reduced' to political (junkets and it isygetting boring., . , Now, the caJ;ldidates who are, spending millions to get ,1V exposure and print headlines will certainly disagree, with these observations. After all, the more media time' they can capture the more credible to the public they hope 'to be arid. with their advertising dep~rtments flourishing, why should the media worry about reform~ng ouf. election procedures? It really all boils down to cold cash. Political advertising is gravy for the media. It is like finding a gold mine and the more prospectors the better. The sheer n~ber of WhiteHouse 'hopefuls constitutes a guaranteed windfall for everyone from the local Daily Bugle to the sleek slicke~ of Madison Avenue.. The candidates are, in' short, 'prize investments guaranteeing enormous' returns and the longer the campaign agony the larger the profits. , ' , , Jt, is strange that other nations can run elections' so qipckIy~'. Most of, Europe does it in ,a few : weeks. '.' The Russians, ,'of course: do It overnight. Even the, election of ,8 pope is accomplished in days.' But in the United States: we still use the structures developed in the days of pony express-and the river boat. Modern communication methods ,have done little to simplify, clarify or purify the systerri; In fact, they have merely taken advantage of an archaic setup and, drained it for all it's worth. Imagine if the primary jigs and reels were reduced to one half the time they now consume. The candidates would save and the public would rejoice. Candidates, especially those already holding responsible 'political positions, could spend more time doing the business for which they were elected. One wonders how well they can serve their constituents while 'always on the road looking for larger and greener fields. A shorter primary period , would also save the candidates from spending so much of their time raising monies basically for media coffers. The fund-raising process has enough pitfalls in itself without its' length presenting greater temptations to political hope fuls. The election of a president for this country is too 'serious a decision 'to let it become a prolonged media sh.ow. To reform the present system would benefit all who truly wish to make democracy work. There is very-little of the .demoCratic in the'present media circus. . '. ' " As. w~ journey with the 'politicians for. the nextnirie '.months, may. we, seriously ponder how we can ,improve the machinery which puts .our president in office..

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ROME (NC) - .The Vatican . The treasury minister said he bank is negotiating a financial could not, under current agree·

agreement with creditors ,of the merits -.with the Vatican, make

bankrupt B~nco Arilbrosiano as ' public the mixed commission's

part of an overall settlement of findirigs. the' Italian. bank's..huge debt, He said, however, that com said Italian Treasury Minster Gipvanni Goria earlier this plicated negotiations were tak ing place between the Vatican month. , bank, known officially as the In· He added that he expected· a ' conclusion soon to the "complex stitute for Religious Works, and Banco Ambro.siano creditors. negotiations" between the Vati The London-based Financial can bank and Ainbrosiano Times reported' Feb. 14 that a creditors. It was the first time an Ital tentative agreement has been ian government official had pub· reached by which the Vatican licly said that the Vatican was bank would pay $250 million in willing to make payments in the the overall settlement with Ambrosiano case. Previously; Banco Ambrosiano's creditors. press .reports in Europe and the The tentative agreement \vas United 'States had quoted un made Feb. 8 at' a meeting that named Italian officials as 'say included Banco '. Ambrosiano ing the Vatican was prepared to . liquidators, its creditors and a make "goodwill payments" which did not imply Vatican representative from the Italian Vatican commission, the news· lega-l respons~bility in the Case. .\ Goria, .speaking at -a session paper reported. · of the ··italian parliament, also . The Vatican has refused com· said a, mixed· Italian-Vatican ment on the press reports. One commission that investigated the Vatican official who requested Vatican bank's role in the case anony.mity told NC News that if "did not reach unanimous con· there were an eventual "good c1usions:" ~iH payment," it would probably The commission, established be less than $250 million. in 1982, 'is believed to have sub Vatican officials are· believed ml'tted I't' s report t 0 ItaI"Ian an d OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER 'OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER. Vatican officials 'last November. to be concerned that any such Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River Goria spoke during a special payment not be interpreted as 410 Highland Avenue ,parliamentary session 'devoted 'an admission of wrong-doing in. to the banking scandal which connection' with the cqllapse of ,Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 . PUBLISHER. erupted in 1982 when the Banco the bank. Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., SJ.D. Ambrosiano, Italy's largest pri The Vatican ban~ was a min FiNANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR EDITOR ·vate bank at the time, collapsed ority shareholder in Banco Am under debts totalling $1.2 bil brosiano a~d had issued letters Rev. Msgr.~John 1, Regan , Rev. John F. Moore lion. in support of some of the bad ~ Leary Pre~s-Fa" Rlv,r

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loans responsible for the huge debt. Some of the dummy companies that received the loans turned . out to be owned by the Vatican bank. The Vatican has said jt obtained ownership of the com· panies unwittingly, In a plOf oy the late. Roberto Calvi, Banco Ambrosiano president, to gain . control of his own bank's stock: Calvi was found hanged in London' in 1982,and a British court was unable to determine whether he was murdered or had , committed suicide. A Vatican study in 1982 con cluded that Calvi had misled 'the Vatican bank and tllat the Vatican had no financial respon sibility for the collapse' of Banco Ambrosiano. . ·Beniamino Andrea,tta, former I~alian treasury minister, had said the Vatican was financially I~able in the Ambrosiano case and had asked the Vatican to help payoff some of the debt. When asked about' possible Vatican responsibility in the case, Goria did not renew his predecessor's accusation of Vatican ,liability: He said that ,the Vatican bank had always de~ c1ared itself innocent of wrong d~ing and not responsible for the debt.. ' He also said that the new Concordat being negotiated to govern relations. between the Vatican and Italy would not alter the autonomy of the Vati can bank, which currently is not" subject to Italian economic laws.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall <River-Fri., Feb. 24, 1984

Family Night

A weekly at-home program for families

sponsored by the Dioeesan Offiee of Family. Ministry

OPENING PRAYER Dearest Father, thank you for this past week and for all you have given our family. Thank you for our mountains, for our deserts in bloom, our brilliant colored sunsets and for all our friends and neighbors. in this diocese. Bless each of us this evening and help us to respond more and more each day to your caU to be ever open and filled with love, especially within our family. Amen.

LESSON Each family has a specialness all its own that makes it the family others see. Often the fam ily isn't aware of what makes its own specialness and impor tance. Every family member is very special and precious, too. He helps to make up the fam ily's uniqueness, what makes it different from every other fam ily. To help discover what each family's specialness is, let us share thoughts.

Young Family Materials: Paper, crayons. Each divides his paper into four sections; a different picture is to be drawn in each blQck. 1. A picture of myself, show ing my feelings about my self through cqlor ~hoice, example, yellow, supny; blue, gentle, peaceful; orange, strong. 2. Draw the house or apart

ment the family lives in and decorate it with things that make it special to me. 3. Draw a picture of all ~he family members with colors showing my feelings about each person. 4. Draw a picture of the story best thing I like about my family. After all have fin ished the drawings, each may have a chance to ex plain his picture, then name what he thinks is the most special thing about his family. .

Middle Years Family

vide paper into three columns. I. What am I most thankful for in my family? Why? 2. Name two qualities I most admire in each person of the family. 3. As a whole, what is my family's number one quality and how does it relate to God's presence in our fam ily? Share and discuss what each has written.

,SNACK , Let a family member surprise everyone!

Materials: Paper, pencils, SHARING enough for each person. Pass -Each may share a high and out paper and pencils. The paper 'low point of the last week. may be divided into three -Each may share a moment columns. he felt especially close ,to 1. Make a list of five qualities God. I like most about myself; (this isn't as easy as it may CLOSING PRAYER -Spontaneous prayer. seem; ofte" 'we tend to be '-S<:ripture: Ephesians 1:3-6. negative about ourselves). 2. Make a list naming all the -Lord's Prayer and Hail members of the family and. Mary: . ':"Suggested prayer: Dear , after ,each .name list the .three qualities' I like most Father, our family thanks you .. for this evening and for the about that person. 3. In four sentences ~r less, qualities you have helped reveal to each of us. Thank you for "name the family's' most en dearing qu~lity,.~aJ'!~ ~hy I, loving us so much. Bless your that particular Church and our Christian family. chose quality. ' " " throughout the world. Help each, Share 'and discuss' what ~each 'of us to build YGur' lOngdom on,j has written.' " ' . earth as we witness wherever Adult Family we are and whatever we do this Materials: Paper, pencils.' Di- coming weelt. Amen. '

I(ickil1g the habit

"I used to hate it when I'd go over to a friend's house and we'd sit down for dinnr and they'd turn on the TV for the entire meal. It made it so boring ...... they were just idiots watching the idiot box." This comment from a 20-year-old male university student pinpoints a growing tragedy in American famHies today - turning the family table over to television. In researching Tra'its, of a Healthy Family, I was at fi~st surprised that my 551' respond ents rated, "The healthy"family fosters table' time and conversa tion" in the top 15 traits com monly found In strong families. But in subsequent study of these families, I discovered a signifi cantly different 'attitude toward TV than in not-so-healthy fami lies. First, they tended to be light viewers, watching under 20 hours weekly as compared with heavy viewers who watch in excess of 35. Second, they exercise control over what and when their child ren watch. And, finally, they never allow television to intrude upon the family, table. One dad explained, "Eating together once a day is just about our o'nly time to really hear one another and

we're not about to turn ito over to a tube." , But what about families who have already developed an ad diction to TV? In a challenging iJook, Breaking the TV Habit (Scribn~rs, $9.9i», a':lt.hor ~o.an Ariderson Wilkins gives families encouragement arid help in dras tically cutting back on TV view ing. She claims' a family first de termine the seriousness of its viewing habits. To ~ssist them, she .offers thes~ questions to assess signs of TV addic~ion in children: 1.- Do they' come straight home from scl)ool and head for the TV set?,2. Do they spend Saturday morning in front of the TV set? 3. In their spare time do they tum to television first and, other activities secoJ'!d? 4.,00 they watch television be fore school? 5. Do they play with toys while the television Is turn ed on? 6. Do' they play with friends in front of the TV? 7. Do your children frequently say they're bored? 8. Do your children nag you for TV toys and junk food? 9. Are the major ity of -the toys your children play with electronically related? 10. Are your children under age 12 still awake at 10 p.m.? 11. Is the television on during meal times? 12. Is much of the meal-

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gave and the toughest to fol-' need some time to psych myself low: "Enough, then, of up~ Lent. I'll get started in Lent."

}l dozen Lents have come and worrying about tomorrow. Let tomorrow take care of itself. To- a dozen Easters have gone, and day has troubles enough of, its I'm still sitting here with my own." potbelly p~truding. And ~'m Do you projeCt? Do you worry still worrying about it, too. about tomorrow?' Are you anxiMost people I know worry ous about the future? Does the about their weight just as I do. thought of what might happen The whole country is overweight. furrow your brow? Do you ex· Gluttony is epidemic. Health pect the worst? care costs have skyrocketed be , My late father always used to cause Ameri~ans eat too much say that worrying is a waste of salty, rich food. We worry and time because in six weeks or six we have good reason to worry, months you will have forgotten and most of us, like me, don't what you are worrying about do anything. now and you will be worrying I know what to do, I just ' about something different. My don't want to do it. The worry father always used to say that, ing only makes matters worse. but he admitted it never stop- Worrying causes anxi~ty, and ped him from worrying. "You anxiety makes me hungry. come from a long line of worQuit worrying, Jesus said. I 'riers," he tpld me. "The Reels ought to follow his advice and are great w·orriers." . rely on him in~tead of on my . "I've kept up the family tra- self., "Your heavenly father dition. I can' always find the knows all that you need," Jesus dark 'side of:a situation. If every- said. "Seek' first his kingship thing is going great,' I say to my- over you, his way of holiness, self "This can't last." If some~· and all, these things will be thi~g is going wrong,. I s~>' to given you besides." If I made following the,will of myself, "This COUld, last. forever." ., ,,~', .:' . , , God the'most important thing,~n , Wheri'e~e¥' I "Jil'e~t';an :effusivel,~ my life' today, instead ot' maic'ing type who' likes to -chatter en· vague plans to spend 40 days. n , thusiastlcally !about expecting a' the desert beginning Ash Wed miracle and saying yes to life,' nesday, God would take, care of and· embracing the, future joy- - my gluttony. My potbelly would fully and so forth, I always think disappear. to myself, "This person obvious- . Weight is just one example. Iy . doesn't understand the real Worrying won't help, ,but God's world." will works on pride, greed, lust And yet I have a lively Chris- anger, envy and sloth as well

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I worry about my weight. I'm only six or seven or eight pounds overweight, but it's all in the February' 27 same place - my potbelly. I Rev. Joseph ~. Hamel, Foun worry about how my potbelly der, 1956,' St. Theresa, New Bed affects my appearance and my· -ford ' , health. I've been worrying about Rev. Philip' Gillick, Founc;ler, this for a. d?zen rears. . 1874, St. Mary, North Attleboro . February 29 , "I hate the way my st?mach sticks out," I've been saymg to Rev. Msgr. James J. Dolan, myself every day since about, Pastor Emeritus, 1980, $t. Mary, 19,82 or so. "It makes me look Taunton'

slightly ridiculous. I look fine "March • when I remember to suck in my Rev. James F... ·~asterson, stomach, 'but it's an uncomfort able way to go through life. I FOl\nder" i 996. $1. P~trick., Som " ., have to do something about this 'erset " " ·potbelly. It makes me feel' logy , Rt~ Re~:1 Peter L. '0; Robert, and listless.' It could cause high P:R., 'Pastor, 1948: Notre Dame, ,blood pressure and I might get Fall River ' a - stroke. Or too much choles March·2 terol could give. me a heart at~ Rev. James J. Brady,' Pastor, tack.' 1941, St. Kilian, New Bedford I'm at the age when guys be Rev. Antonio Berube, Pastor, gin getting heart attacks. This 1936, St. Joseph, Attleboro potbelly of mine could kill me. Rev. Tarcisius Dreesen, SS. I've got to do something about CC., 1952, Monastery Sacred it. A diet, maybe. Or some regu Heart, Fairhaven lar exercise. I'll quit eating des Rev. Alphonse Gauthier, Pas serts. No more ice cream. No tor, 1962, Sacred Heart. New more cake. I'll take a brisk walk Bedford

every night. I'll begin a whole Rev. J. Omer Lussier, Pastor,

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time conversation television related? 13. Do your children' ask to arrange meals, family activi ties and life ,in general around what'~ going to be on television? She then offers a program Jhat takes. a heavy vie.wing family watching six ho,urs or more a day to one watch!.ng a mere hOllr a day over the course of four weeks. The plan inclu4es a daily recording of all .TV viewed, a plan on choosing and rating pro grams, gradual cutting back, keeping only one TV set on, eiiminating :IV before school and during meals, and finally, turning off the set except for special program. I doubt that most families want to cut back to an hour a day but I know that many want to cut back from heavy to light viewing and' her ideas should, encourage them to try.

Hope "Hope tells us that God will work his will." - St. Augustine

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The government of Malta has told the island's Catholic schools they must offer their services free of charge or ·be taken over by the state, The notification was given by Vice Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud BonniCi, Directors of Catholic schools were given un· til Feb. 29 to comply with the order by Malta's Department of Education that forbids any pay ment, 'including contributions, for private school services. If the schools do not comply, they will be taken over by the "You don't need to act too important. Tomorrow it's my state beginning in October, Bon . tum to be presiden~. ". niel said. ~bishop Joseph Mercleca of Malta, Bishop Nicholas J. Cau chi of Gazo and Catholic school to solidify' his' position, and by' directors said Feb. 13 that no Continued from page', one terioration of already bad East- th'en Chernenko would be into school intended to close~ West relation. . his 'mid or ~ilte 70s. Their statement appealed to 'duc ed' emlgra . t"Ion For" W'es'tern Chrl'stl'ans look parents of students in Catholic He sharp1y re and consolidated the more ing for signs of an improvement schools for their continued sup· in the aititude of. the. Soviet port,and pledged that the church sophisticated repression of hu " . government' toward rell'g'I'O'u·s would continue to run the man rights groups and re1IglOUS activists· that he had begun as' practice amorig its' citizens, Ii schools, The government action was speech given by Chernenko last head of the KGB, -By the:. time ... of '. his death, June gives little coMfort, , "part of a series of measures sup scarcely' anything' remained o f ' '. ! ' . ported by Socialist Prime Minister Dom FI'ntoff I'n hi'S effort to fl attriDuted f the I" continu" the human rights 'monitoring. In it, he mg "m uence 0d reS'Iglon secularize Catholic schools and ' t on I groups that sprang up through··' ' many persl?nsf un er;; OVl~ ,,·ro e . _confiscate church property, In 1977 Mintoff stopped' all out the Soviet Union and East- to"""the various ideological' cen em Europe.in the late 1970s to' ters of irilperiaHsm," These, he pressure for implementation of said, were working "not only to subsidies to the approximately provisions in the 1975 Helsinki support religious' sentiments 60 Catholic schools on Malta. Soviet people, but to Catholic schools number about accords. among one-third of the'island's toal, and 'Pope John Paul II sent a per .'g'ive ,them an ariti-Soviet, nation ... are attended hy about 20,000 sonal "representative, French alistic slant,". " physican Jerome Lejeune of 'the students, Poritifical Academy of the Sci ,'-In 1980 the government sus. Cheriienko 'asserted that the ences, - to" Andropov's' funer~l, Soviet government respects the , pended llll grants to Catholic despite the anegation, unproved constitutional'right of freedom school" students, In 1982 the government prohibited parents' ,but widely believed in the West,.. of conscience and 'uses "enligh ,that Andropov' was behind the tenment, persuasion and propa· donations to the schools until 1981 assassination . attempt ganda" rather than coercion to the' tuition system was abolish fight religious belief. But he also ed against the pope, Within the Soviet Union An- warned that the government Last year, the government en. ' . . .mtensl'f'Ied would ad· against violations of acte'd a controversl"al law that dropov began an law or SUbversive activity using gives the state power to national. Propaganda, campaign against' reh,'gion "as a front:" religion" that Chernenko is like ize church property, The Vati. "Unfortunately, lWe I1iteralI~ can and Maltese bishops strong ly 'to' continue; said, WHliam Conyngham, professor of poli don't want to believe that mili· ;ly protested the government ac. ' tics and associate dean of arts tant atheism in the Soviet Union tion. Direct negotiations between and sciences at the Catholic Uni is really serious," said Father versity of America. Casimir 'Pugevicius, executive the Vatican and Malta over the Chernenko, 72, is widely director of Lithuanian Americ~ school and property issues 'have viewed as a politically orthodox Catholic Services, an agency that continued for several years with bureaucrat, unlikely to'· make monitors human and religious out substantial progress, rights in Lithuania. "They mea~ innovations, . Malta, a Mediterranean island , "Chernenko has never been .business when they say they are of the southern coast of Sici'ly, hall' a strong Catholic tradition going to destroy religion,'" active in initiating or implement He ~ited the sentencing of two and more than 90 percent of its ing .policy' at any· level of the, party, It woirl~ be highly sur· Lithuanian priests last year as 320,000 population is Catholic, prising if he were suddenly to an example of the crackdown on tum into a leader with a great religious rights activists under deal of initiative," Conyngham Andropov. To Lithuanian Catholics, in an said. GREEN BAY, Wis. (NC) Lithuania there The Posse Comitatus, active in ~ American Catholic bishop independent visiting the Soviet Union during would be no forcibly restricted the Green Bay area, is' not a ,the transition, Bishop· Francis A. seminary: enrollments, iack . of Christian group, said the editor Quinn' of Sacramento, Calif" priests, unfilled bishoprics, in of, the Green Bay dioce~an news said the peOple reacted "rather ability to hold religious educa paper, The Compass. The Posse, ' stoically" to Andropov's death tion classes for their children or a paramilitary survivalist group and seemed "unmoved . , , one daily forms of discrimination claiming to have a stronghold against believers. way or the other'~ by Chernen near Tigerton in the Green Bay ko's accession to Soviet leader Similarly, Ukrainian' Catholics diocese, calls itself Christian ship.',· . perceive the forcible incorpora and expresses strong anti-Semi· Chernenko's age suggests that tion of the Ukrainian Catholic tic and anti-Catholic sentiments. he may be only a transitional Church into the Russian Ortho In a recent article, Compass leader, chosen to maintain the dox Church as just one part of a editor Doug - Landwehr wrote, status quo until a younger figure broader picture of Russian ef "Do not be persuaded by their establishes his dominance. 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,By'Stepium T. De fullt tries to c1eterml\U! the best the LagUna province near Man· changed things that weren't ac. The foUowlng artIcI. about poIBible route tor his jeep to Ha.!>tIt the Maryknollers soon cording to the custom. or cuI Bisbop Josepil W; Repn, MlIJ. cross. Thi. Is tile tlrst day 'If found It ''too established" for, \ ture of the people. which we hi. five-day tour of parl.hes and their liking. In 11158 they moved' didn't alway. understand too a patlve of 51. J~ psrIIh. sc1iObls on the east coast of 500 miles south to the ,Islind Of well. Of course. they knC)W the Falrhav...., ''aPjIeBu In the llIIrrent of Maryknoll .....a· Mindanao. Mindanao. There MaryknoH as· language and the people mach zlna ..... Is reprinted by p e r . ' : AI", hOuroOr·two jourlley up sunted responsiblUty for the Ta· better than we do, and so the mlnldllo Editor tiie jungle road that begins gum Prelature, a vast frontier Christian communl~., BtarlIed alilibl on the other .ide of the to the east of Davao City that by Maryknoll *I'll 'lietter than Crossing rivers in_the Pbillp' river, .tudents and teachers at today has a total population of they were." pine. during rain)' season .can be M~!'1knoll High School in Man· ' one million people. Be)'ondJl!e,a..ueetion ,of fin~i"ll treacherouS:. , And Bishop' Joseph 'ay "are waiting for him to celeFI1IpIno 'l(ocatlOll8 , more prieeta tor an overwbell;'W. Reg1In. the 78-year-old V~r brate·the Ma.. ',of the HoI!' "One of'lIIe, blB.'thing. we've" • trg1ypa~ollc COUIIUFof 52 mIlGenera!' of,' l'8IU!'l' ,IIi. . . . Spirit: llilt Bishop Regan doesn't 'done," refteCnr' Bishop' Regan; Ilion \'i<¥lI>Ie. tIWtop, Recan ""ices know. the dangers ·lietter . . . Want the jeep mired In the mid· "is to prepare native clerllY to concern over the social unrest most. Since 1953 he hD ~n die .f. river. Tliat has happen·, run the diocese and then to that has begun,to engulf both working among people who tW-e, ,l!CI many times before. On oc- train iay leaders to a\1ide and the<l\urch and the Il/Itire nation. in sOllle of tbe most Isolated 8IId ea.ionhe lias had to wilit a day clirect the people inChristilln Poverty. hunger.sIckn_. unem· rugged areas on the 'southeM llTt'ivo at the river bank for the communities .. He calculates ployment in urball centers and island of Mindanao. d 'Wat6rs to gb down'. 'there are between 1.500 and a. landless pe_try, in ,rural Bishop Regan. dressed in f~ , Today, however, an orange ,2.000 chapels' where Christiall areas -have fueled a grow,ing brown pants 8Ild batik co*", dumptruek rumbles out 'of the . cOII\munities in the Tagum Dio. ,movement for social change that shirt. tell. his d/iverto .stop "t ,torelt. 'CarryIng gravel and a cese hold U1elr meeting•. "Every has!*'n met with. bo'utai reo the wate,r'.s edge wbU. h. . .ts _g.. of, road COIIStruction Sunday thil chapels are full "he presston from those In power.' out of the Jeep •til ,iIlI1'Vla)" ~ 'workers. it .Iowly grinds its aayo. "The people pray tog~ther '~Many people are just picked rain-swollen river mOn! cloae/f. Wll)l, throuah the churning and solve their oWn problems ,up~d taken away. Sometimes fed by.tre~ born big" hi \till, ..... to the other .ide. -The wltll their ,'own 'native ,leaders. they're not.beard from ,anymore, Filipino mountains wh4¥'8 ..... river Ispasaable. Bishop Regan It taklls a big burden tiff the ,or tbeyre m prison for a long ing tropical rain forests bl'l/jjh and ~ driver get back into their priest:" . time,n .ay. Bishop RepJ1,who the grey likIes,the usUally....-, jeep a_ follow the path of the Bishop J;epn estimates tI)ete .has on occasloo reamuty de· l!lw river now rages over ,truck. are 20,QOIi people fOl"eaCh priest . tended some of bls own Iaymi? rocky bed. An immedlata j ; 'The graJldfatherIy BI.hop Re· In the diocese. "The 'parishes ale -!sters and priests who were jail. crossing doesn't I,oolt too pro: • ....' 1!I1Io.e aplscopal ring Is too big," be 'says. "They need to ed for'subverslon." ising" " -~. -.lorDed with a large piece of red be divided. ~ 1'1luS anOtlier Matt· JlUtIce tor lhe poor Bishop Regan i. a blllly III . , . . . (tetaJ value $8, be says), knoll priority In the Tagum, , "'The rich are _times able with legoOf·mutton fOreennll , tIrst came to the PblUppines in area has __ ed~*lk'''Vi'e buy theIIueIvea OlIt, ,'of dlffi· a head of thick wbIte hair. l~ after 21 years in South had to have ~ to .. ~$~Itles." says BIshop Regan. "but ha.,been officially ..retiied" sin . i ,-~.Hts only sister. twO years . tion.... reasolls *oP' Regan. . It Is very ~ff'lCult for the poor 1980 when bls prelaturll ", ,~ ~.rand also a Maryknoller; And under bIa direction the pre. to be able to do that." In the a diocese and was placed un SlIter Rita MarIe. likewise lature built 23 high schools. 10,', Philippines, be -.as. "the Filipino Bishop l'edro Dean. . lIeMid ih China and now, works elementary schooIlr and tw9 'COi." ,: iJlshops have made an option for asked' him to stay on JIId' ill T~wan: leges. Today theschOols-',ue the poor and tor Justice, and an pointed him one of three BWtop Regan's mission work largely directed' by FilIpInO .9pt1on against violence. ,They generals. ' dWiIed abruptly in 1951 when Sisten. . " , '" I: ~always Inilistlng that there Today Bishop Regan. whh ~ lie ..... arrested by Communl.t Presently ther:e are 27 parisluls have to be chanaes in the Philipalso director of Chri.t the K11lJ ChInese and jailed for two in the diocese. some with as pines by means that are peaceHospital in Tagum; malntains-.... months In solitary confinement. many as 100,000 people; ollly, .JuI." , exhausting . schedule qt vI~tt Weakened by amoebic dysentery. five still have Maryknoll F.thers But chuge even by peaceful the Boston·bom son of a car in- as pastors. The transition 1rl>m means is not always weleonted Confirmations. Masses and;}. '. raising on behalf Of the apector for i:he New York·New Maryknoll to native priesla ba. in the Philippines. Whll. swimhe has grown to love 110 dear' . Haven Railt!lacl was then ex- gone smoothly. At one ttme th8rlo.. .miilg in the· Pacific as 'ba 'takes Like other Maryknollersm' ., pelled aJld .....t back to the were more than 40 Maryknoll a break f1'\llD his .~ vlsita. United States. .. priests and Brothers ..signed :,to Bishop Relieli;JOkGi ,"dr'friends Philippines, he looks bacl<'wI justifiable' pride on Marykn WhUen!cuperating at Mary· the Tagum Prelature; today there .about how ~ts ~'ended,abeall' 25 years in the Tagum area , '., knoll hedquarteJ:s. lilt was asked are seven. -, ' .,tiIIll' frien"-" 'IWCIl _ First by his superiors to lead a group "l)lere. alwaya has .~ . a Lady (Imeida~" . ' paved the way for . 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tain amount of protection in these dangerous- time. . when soldiers, bandit. and· iluerilla 'armies MaID the hillside•. Shortly after, hi~ SUCCfllSOl'. Bishop Pedro Dean, took over the T~um diocese•. the young bi.h· When vtsitinc p shes and op's Jeep was' ambushed by the 'convents. Bishop Re n rarely New People'. Army, the military arrives empty-huded. or many arm of the Communist Party al "years it 'hu been his tom to the Philippine.. When the suerbring gifts of candy nd comic rlllas discovered who the wound'books to the priests a d Sisters. ed man was. they apologized say· a gesture that seema I e a holding the)' thought the bishop was over from another age t whiCh "an old man with white hair:' FilipinllS ~~ta an find en. Mutual respect . dea(ing,".t~.-'Old.f . ned. but After 32 years cros.lng 'nv_ we lova..that lIfYle. It j; OWS,<:are,' aoll ,t,raveling" alon~ the. back and 'concern." says a young roads 'of the Philippmes. 'Bisbop Filipino prieat wllo ca s Bishop Regan has ,~.rned the iove Regan Lolo., the Visa an word and respeet of-the Filipino paofor gtandfather: ' pIe. The feelinp .are,mutual. ToThroughout' his yea day Bishop Regall,'who plans 10 missIon.. Bishop Reg , remain in the' Pl!ilippines until he dies. reflects that the quality ways .tressed perso he has come 10 appreciate most He is not the kind of Is comfortable' behind. a desk; in FlilpinOll'!s their generosity. In fact. he says he "ha es meet. "They will give, you anytilillC ings." DespIte the bo jarring they have although they're very poor," he says. "and ·they are jeep rides, the heat, humiclity very Ilospitable people." Mil;and bugs eo prevalen in the sioners coming to the PhUIpPhllippine..,"e .pends most of pines. he advises, "should be bls tio"fOll.th,~, TOad d 1111 what humble and listen to the P"'!" he lovjll1iest:' vi.ltlng 'pIe. pie, They should remember they A:Dd """-ver' Blsh Regan come to serve the people. They travels "In. ~ far-flun cIiocese. don't come here to try to im· the largest in Mindana • be i. a po.e American ideas or cUlture. famillar figure. His .. e1ebrity" They try to belp the people' in . lItatus even atforcis . a car· their own culture."

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upcoming Boston meeting of the National Catholic Educational WASHINGTON, D.C. - Im Association, to be held during agine this scene. An adult talks Easter Week, April 23-26. Among with a child as they walk presenters and panelists at vari through a park. The adult stops ous sessions will ,be many edu to examine a tree, calling out cators from the Fall River dio to the child: "Look at the cater case. pillar! Ah! Look at how the Dr. Houston will address a caterpillar is becoming, moving, 'general session at Hynes Audi changing, transforming, meta torium on Tuesday morning~ morphosing! Jean, you must be April 24. That afternoon she will come a caterpillar - then you speak specifically to elementary will beco~e a butterfly! Look at educators, explaining how they the butterfly!" can help their students to ex Such an experience lies at the pand their capabilities of mind, heart of Dr. Jean Houston's imagination and spirit. vision of what education can and Dr. Houston said that her early should be about. As a child grow meetings with Father de, Char ing up in New York City in the din, reenforced by subsequent mid-50s, she met "a wildly free, study and educational experi eccentric, comical man who mentation, convinced her that evoked God in hiding," who fill the child has much in common ed her with his sense of "life with the philosopher. and spirit and delight." Although "We assume that children's she didn't realize who he was minds are very small," she said, until years later, that man was "but actually they have a much Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the larger sense of the universe thaI] Jesuit philosopher-scientist. Jean we give them credit for. Their Houston remembers him as "one sense of wonder and astonish of the most supremely religious ment can be aroused by the people I have ever known." flower, by the universe, by Dr. Houston, now director of Christ. the Foundation of Mind Re "I would honor the child's re search, Pomona, N.Y., is a lead ligious sense," she said. "I have er in the exploration, develop seen thpusands of examples of ment and application of human children drawing their experi potential. In a recent interview, ence of God. It's a phenom he shared some of her experi enal thing! They draw them ences and insights about the re selves, and then they draw a ligious and creative development kind of golden aura around them of the child. with a light streaming in, and it She will present them to says, 'Hello, Jimmy, hello, Catholic educators during the Jimmy!' Conditioning and rea By Patricia Felstrltzer

son and cultural patterns have not yet asserted themselves in the child's consciousness. The child is much closer than adults to a cosmic sensibility." She also pointed out that chil dren's religious sense is cap tured by the new mythological movies. "They're seeing and learning about the Force, which is a creative force. They are en tranced by E.T. They see that wonderful logo of the' funny' mtle being with that bony finger touching the finger of the child - reminiscent, of course, of the Michelangelo painting of Adam and God." , But what happens when, in her phrase, "the gates ,of the mind are closed," when wonder is challenged by intellect. and E.T. is challenged by church doctrine? "I think the reason the church has lasted 2000 years," Dr. Houston replied, "is that it has always been wiHing to grow. We cannot say 'now this is the way it is' as if religion were doctrine and nothing else. We cannot cripple the human genius and capacity for worship or prayer or religious sensibility. "We're living in a world where people are going,.to be forced to recognize larger and more complex tapestries of pattern," she continued. "That's what it means to be alive today. We're not village people any more; ,we're cosmopolitan people in' na· tions and states,' and we're very quickly becoming planetary peo ple. "I have no doubt that what we 'call doctrine in the· church is going to look very different 150 year~. ,from. now. It will cer tainly be grounded in the classi cal doctrines, but .its mode of perception is going to be much larger. And children 'have to be prepared so that they do not IQse their faith to quasi-mythic space fantasies." Houston believes that the im· plications of these changes in perception are tremendously sig nificant for teachers. "I have never met a lltupid child," she said, "but I have met incredibly stupid systems of education. Schools lose thousands and thousands of children each year. They lose the child's genius and capacity because our education is so doctrinaire. Children, for instance, .have the sensibility for learning math by singing it, by dancing it, ·by creatillg things with their hands.' .Instead they. are, learning by rote, they're be ing asked to add, substract or multiply abstractly." The analytic thinker has been rewarded in our schools and our society and that has worked up to now, according to Dr. Hous ton. "But it's not working any more," she said. "because now we're in a global society which is too complex for that kind of brain." The computer, she said, appeals to the analytic thinker. But she finds that "the exagger ated, almost sacramental empha sis on the holy computer is a dangerous tre~d." Instead, she believes that em phasis in the schools should be on learning in many different styles and through' whole pro cesses. In her work with schools, she

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ing the arts an essential part of the curriculum. Whether' we were planning for math classes or spelIing or geography," she said, "we employed aesthetic, artistic methods to reach our goals, using colors, forms and shapes. We found that the child ren were then more available for being educated, more aspects of their minds were being ac cessed. "And when the children were tested - that seems always to be the' bottom 'line, testing. they were clearly one to four grade levels ahead in virtually every subject as compared to children in surrounding schools." What is important, Dr. Hous ton concluded, is that teachers appreciate and learn to cultivate the great potential of each child - helping aU children become, in de Chardin's word, "butter- I flies."

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jury were sown in England, and not until much Iater that some· thing approaching "reason" took hold as' the preferred method of finding out the truth in a dis puted matter. '

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A jury in those days, 'however, wasn't a group of 12 who· lis· tened to evidence at a 'trial and decided who was' felling the truth and what had really hap : and AnY.', ,pened. Rather:' i~ was a· group of locals who knew pretty mueh RICHARD everything that had gone on in the neighborhood in recent years. Their job was to take an oath MUR~HY and tell the truth 'about -who oW,n¢d wl}at. Th~ peQpie 'of Sandwich, Eiigland~ for instance, w.ere once caBed upon to' ,t~1I the truth~'about ownersJlip' of a certain ship. On their word,' the Have you been caJled for ,abbot of St. Augustine's abbey jury duty? Or are you won- was allowed to reclaim the ship dering whether you might as ,his. ' be or why you haven't been? Today, there are, two types of Or have you already served on juries, the traverse or petit jury a jury or tw6? -And, just what and the grand jury. The petit 'do juries QO, anyway, ,and how jury listens to or sees conflict· ,do they do, it? Well, whatever ing evidence on facts ("was tlle your experiences.' or curiosities traffic light red or green?"; "~as ;:are, here are a few things about the defendant's conduct 'reason· :juries 'that' 'everyone should able' (ir riot?")' a-nd rend~rs a know., ,- i\ .verdict"resolv~ngth!pgson~ way The Anglo-Saxons, who flour. ~r the other.. " ,',:. ')shed i'n Britain ftom the fifth to Or 'it" listens to 'or sees evi· the Htlicentury;regarded supei'~ dence on'the guilt or 'innocence stition rather. than reason as th~., of a. crirpinaHy charged defend· reliable way to arrive at the ant, and" returns, a verdic't of truth ,,~bout things., The' ,.water 'guil.ty.or innocent."-=":' :,Woulc1-.~fejecUthe gtlilty,;;€the' in.. " ""'Th~, grand:jury- is not in the ~nocent,.::'of""oourse, would sink); ~ .•business of' renderfngve'rdi~t~, the bui1ti~g :iron wO'iild<spare the' ,but of returnin~.-indidments. bla~eless;' ' "'" Grand jurors listen to evidence It wasn't until shortly after relating' to a serious criminal ,the Norman Conquest in .1066:, charge at a pre-trial hearing, that the seeds for ,the modern ,then must decide whether, there's

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enough evidence to call for a trial on the charge. If there is, they return an indictment against the defendant. Anyone qualified to vote ,in ,Massachusetts may ,be a ju'r<?r in Massachusetts, regardless of whether he or shE! is, ,in fact, regisitered t~ vote. , Some people, however, are specifically _excluded from the pool ot' eligible jurors on the 'basis o,f' their occupatiQns. Cour,t ~fficers,' ,physicians, surgeons, J1urses, teachers,- school 'officials, laWyers, clergy, poiice arid fire fighters are among those ex· cluded.' The oniy ':exception. to 'these exclusions is in Middlesex County where at present, a special pilot program is being conducted. ' Others who would suffer per· sonal hardship' by serving may elect to exempt themselves from jury duty. If you're over 70, if you have a chHd under the age of 15 ·whose daily care is your responsibilty, or if. there. is some other .rea~on why.a jury duty would cause you undue hardship ,ot; unusual' inco'nvenience; you may b.e excused. ." .. ' '~You should ',:n~tifY the judge of the cO.urt you',ve b~n select ed for, boiti 'by: mail a~d in' per· son,;:if ,you ,wish: to be~:excused frl?t:J1. iuty ~d_uty, briefl{seitibg out 'your reasons., In mOst cases, Ybil 'will be r~qui;ed' to appear , ,qeforlii th~ 'judge'on: the first day to request li'waiver of 'jury 'duty. He or she may lillowthe request, postpone. your service' ~Ui1ti1 an~ other month, give you,' 'partial duty or reject the request' out right. . " :

for the worl.d·'s p'oor. "r don~t pl~n"' to 'slow down" he. said,- announcing: .'plans travel to 'Italy"Canada and' tlie United States.in-1984 as part of a campaign to get negotiations of Third World debt payments ,to North American and Euro pean bimks. ' The conditions for the repa~. ment of loans, which often force governments to divert resources from social programs, "are op pressing people who are already poor, ana' grinding them down even further," 'the archbishop. said.

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Through written dialogue with his journal-keeping students, Hite runs into all kinds of teen problems. He said boyfriend girlfriend relationships top the list and alcohol abuse is a prob· lem of serious magnitude. A common complaint he hears is that parents'do not spend enough time listening to their children. A journal lielps you 1,mderstand' yourself better, Hite said he ex plains to his students, and a successful marriage is not possi ble unless you know yourself.. "High school seniors are very idealistic about marriage," he said. "None of them believe their marriages will end up in divorce and t~ey plan on doing every thing in their power'to see that it doesn't happen." Hite added that he would finct it impossible to teach classes on marr!age if religious vah"es were not. included.. "Twehty years ago my dream was to retire early and relax," he .said. "Now it is to live out a Franciscan spirituality by ser. ving oth~r people."

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DAYTON, Ohio (NC) - When the Rev. Allen Weimer became THRIFT STORES .' OPEN DAILY a co-member of the Franciscan SOl CoUITTI STIlET 10:00 A.M. to 7:30 P,M. Sisters of the Poor, he also be NEW 8EOFoRO, lUll. came the first Southern Baptist La Salette Shrine with the 'philosophy and mission 1150 DtFFlRlON ILVD.

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It was a big' step for the 33 year-old minister. He admits he grew up with. some rather definite stereotypes about nuns. But he abandoned those stereo types and i!!at home in his role as staff chaplain 'and member ,of the pastoral ministry team at St, Elizabeth Medical Center in Dayton. CLOSED SUNDAYS

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a lot of mistrust between reli· THE CATERING TO WEDDINGS gious denominations," he said, AND. BANQUETS but that has not been his experi- ' NEW WINTER HOURS ence at St. Elizabeths or with CLOSED MONDAYS the' sisters he has become close LUNCH Tuel. Tllru Fri. 11:30 A.M. to to. 2:30 P.M. Rte. 28, East Fa Imou th Hosts _ Paul & Ellen Goulet DINNER ~ Tuel. Tllru SIt. 5:00 to 8:00 The nuns, he' says, "have ai P.M. Ilowed me to be, myself as a Tel. 548-4266 ~~:.DAY 12:00 Noon to 6:00 minister, as a Southern Baptist and as a person. Th~y look at l ~ ~ ' people in a very carng way arid with special emphasis on the poor and needy. I like that. I like what they represent. And I'm proud to be a part of that spirit as a co-member."

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JIM IDTE in the, classroom (top) and Rey. Allen Wei mer (bottom) at a patient's bedside with Sister Lynn Git zinger are followers of St. Francis of Assisi. (NC Photos)

Followers of Francis

Over the centuries St. Francis of Assist has exercised a univer sal appeal, drawing uncounted thousands within and without the Catholle chureh to embrace his way of slmpllelty, poverty and prayer. The stories that follow' describe two of his contemporary followers.

A teacher WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (NC) - Few entrepreneurs who have done well enough in the business world to retire early choose teaching in Catholic high schools over sunshine and golf. Jim Hite, 46, who teaches at Assumption High School in Wis consin Rapids, credits St. Fran cis of Asslsi with his decision to teach instead of retiring to a life of leisure. Joining the Third Order Fran ciscans five years ago gave life specia'l direction, Hite said. "The Franciscan spirit means' total trust in God. Like St. Francis, must be willing to' submit and be used as instruments of God. Allowing ·God to take over has helped bring peace to my life." Third Order Franciscans meet for monthly Mass at St. Mary Parish in' Wisconsin Rapids and several times a month" Hite travels to the Capuchin-operated St. Anthony Retreat Center in Marathon, Wis., to absorb the Franciscan spirit. When Hite, with his wife Ginny and their three children'

was transferred by his company to Wisconsin Rapids, the family liked the area so much Hite es tablished his own small busi nesses there. Three years ago he was financially secure and no longer needed to work. Then Assumption principal William O'Brien asked him to substitute for a religion teacher who was ill. When a full-time position opened the following year, Hite accepted the job of teaching five class periods of Marriage and Family Living, a required course for seniors. Hite, who played basketball at the.University of Kentucky for' Coach Adolph Rupp, also is assistant coach for the Assumption team. "I'm very encouraged by the spirituality of 'these young peo ple," .he said. "They may not ex ternalize the faith, but those values are internalized. Without question they think far more about· religion than I did as a teen-ager." Hite's approach' relies heavily on students keeping journaIs. The difference between a jour nal and a diary, 'he said, is that a journal includes one's relation . ship with God.

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This is a story about a Good Samaritan, a priest who' did not pass by on the other side. , It 'has to do with a young student traveling home to his parents.-His ·tius seatmate pick- " ed his pocket" and he didn't dis- , cover it untH he was standing in ' Hne to .p\.lrch~se another 't~cket to compete his journey. The' priest, 'noticed the stu deht's predicament. In the young : man's wQrds': "The ,priest very kindly'toid me he couldn't help , noticing I'd; lost· my.billfoid (I " had turried all my pockets inside out). He wanted to purchase' my tiCket for me. ' ,"I ,was stun'ned that ~nyone . could care so much, someone who didn't:, know, ,me, and I wilsn't Catholic,' and a -lot of other foolish things went through ' my mind. I didn't know what to do. Then I said, 'If you'll give me your name and address' I'll accept your kind offer and my . parents ~ill send you the money.' "He refused, saying it wasn't necessary, that I'd have done' the same for him, etc. I didn't feel right taking the money and " not rebJrning it" ,but I had no choice. He not only gave me enough for my ticket, but some" '~tt:a in case I sot hungry on: the way. :' " "M~ eyes', stung, 'I'm' not . -~.

, mann Ihas been offered an ap- the top of the entering fresh· pointmi!nt as ~y.s. Coast Guard man class with a full tuition ,', ':',,' ,", ' . . . ,: 'Feeh~mites,' Michaei J: Holmes . cadet' , :, ," ",: -: 'scholarshIp f.or the freshman arid James, "A. Zito have been (Acceptance, of, this' .. ~int- ":"y~ar. ,::, ," ,.::-,. ;:.' named, 'National' Merit SchOlar·, ment ,~ay ,coast Guard o~cals" " . " ship CorporatIon finalists: . , .,' indicates a commitment to beMUlvey IS a member of the . ,. , ,Holmes is the SOil' of Mr. and, coming a leader in ,thei oldest' 'National ,H<mof ~ociety. He Mrs. 'Rithard L. Holmes" North' ' continuing seagoing seJ.vlce. Ap-pians to major in' electrical , Attr~boro: both members of Fee proximately, .300 young, people engineering. The sop of Mr. han~s Ji~~t.graduating elas~, " , will ,be swom' in as ..cadets, ouF and Mrs. 'Williarii: Mulvey .He is.a member ot'the Nation, of 7000 who applied. . ' , .' . , . he, ,attends,. St. ,Jacques aLlIono.r Socie.ty, the ,Spanish. l , Church, Taunton. ',. fl{ational. Hon.or ,S9cietr and the ~ ,At. the Attleboro High ~c~ool Junior ClasSical 'League. He is: LohmlJlDn is· a member of the. a 'high a~}tiever . ill , th,e t Math f Nati~~al: Honor ,~ocl~ty, . the ' CluJ:>, and, II ,member ,of Feehan's " Sp{U1ish N~~io~a1, H~nor ,~ociety , concert,: ,jazz ·and~ ~ar(:1)ing \ and thi! Matll' Club. He is, an .. bands. He ·has \leen accepte4, at ' ~it~r .of the y~arbOOk and editor

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ash~med to admit it. Tllis. was the sort of kindness you read about in storybooks and fairy t~es. I kept s~y'ing, 'But 'I want to repay you in, some way. I don't feel right about this.' Fin ally he said" 'pkay, I'U tell you what you can do:' You'll' one day find someone in ~ situation liI~e yours. You 'help' that'person out of it and you will have' re 'paid me. People. 'have .helped me and wanted nothing in return but that I help- someone else." . ,

'''We shook hands and parted. I still don't know his' name 'or where he came -from, but I'll never forget his kindness. 'And I'll teH you this: I could have been very ,bitter against man kind but for that good priest. He restored my faith in people." ,

Youth traveling cross-country have told me many similarstor. ies involving spmeone's. kind.;. ness and help along the way." It. a-lways brings' to mind the won· derful story 'of the Good 'Samari~ , tan. 'They. ar.e all over, this coun: ' try; quiet; ,decent, unassuming human beings. They never get into the pallers, they just remain ,a' mystery and their kindness is something sacred and beautiful.

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I 'RECEIVED several resP.onses froin readers' after iny column on Air ,Supply!s. big hit, "Mak ing Love Out of Nothing at All." I' want to share some, of them, whil~ r~flecting on Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield." An ,Illinois teen thinks love "provides one with sqmeone to lean ,on ,in troubled times and at the same time we learn to ,By. Charlie Martin stand on our own." She also writes "The greatest expression LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD of -love that 1 have witnessed is We are young on the part of Pope John Paul Heartache to heartache II forgiving his would-be-assass We stand in." promi~ no denulnds '. Another reader states "'Mak· I,.ove: is '~ ,battlefield ing Love 9ut, of Nothing at AU' , ,We ~re' strOng is the decision to love for love's , No 'OJ,1e c,an tell us sake, that is, ,allo~ing God to We're wrong love through me when I don't S~chin' our hearts for s9, long . feel like loving." :. Both of,us knowing Finally, a boy says: "I am a Love is a battlefield .! teen and was 'very, confused t " You're beggin' me go

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1would straightenine out: 1 I~ WOUld, help me to, know " Corinthians 13,· 1-13. 'It really Do I stand in your way eleared my mind and I encour· Or 8m I the be'~t thing. you've had, age other readers to' check it Believe me, believe me out." . I can't tell yo~why . That -is the passage that in But I'm trapped'by your love 'eludes the famous words: "Love And fin' chained to your side. is patient; love is kind. Love is And when I'm' losin'. control not jealous, it does not put on Will you tur~ me away' ,.. it is not snobbish. Love is airs, Or touch me deep inside. never' .rude, it is not self-seek And when all this gets' old , ing." Will it still' feel the same Love traps 'us and chains us? There's no way this will dIe That seems to be the view in , But if, we get. much, closer '" Pat Benatar's song. My readers 1:'could lose control don't seem to agree. ' And if your heart surrenders Thanks to them and to all who You'll need me to hold responded to Air Supply's song, Recorded by Pat Benatar, Written by Holly K~lght ~d Mike Chap Readers' can write to Charlie man, (c) 1983' by Chinriichap Publishing ,Inc. with Careers MUsic MartIn at 1218 S. Rotherwoo~ Inc. and the Makiki Publishing Co. Ltd., 'e.o.' Arista M~c, 'Inc. '; Ave., Evansville,' bid. 47714.

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portswQtch Feehan's Tim Card Sets New Record Junior Tim Card of Bishop Feehan High School' was a double winner in the South Sec tional High School Swimming Championships held in the Lin coln-Hancock Community School in Quincy last weekend. Card took first place in the 200 meter individual medley with a time of 2:01.902. Later in the program he set a new South Sectional record of 1:0L281 in the 100-breaststroke, eclipsing the previous mark of 1:01.90l. Seekonk and Boston College High Schools, each with 144 points, tied for first place in the competition in which 35 schools participated. Durfee, 135, was third followed by Brookline, 117, Duxbury, 93. Others in the top 10 were Needham, 75, New Bed

ford, 73, Xaverian, 69, Attleboro, 62, Feehan and Brockton, 46. New Bedford High's Mike Richard set new school records finishing sixth in the 100 butterfly in :57.318 and seventh in the 200-free stye in 1:52.689 . surpassing school records he had previously established. The Durfee team of Mike and Paul Hartnett, Randy Mayall and Ed Smith won the 400-meter freestyle relay in 3:23.765. The New Bedford team ~ Mahmoud Abdel-Gawad, Peter Berthiaume, Bob TWeedie and Mike Richard - finished second in 3:28.187. Mayall won the 100-freestyle ift :51.061. Card's victory in the 100-. breaststroke was the only sec tional record~breaking perform~ ance of the competition:

High School Champions Here is a partial list of high school champions in winter sports: Durfee, 14-0 in conference, 20-0 overall, Southeastern Massachusetts Conference Divis ion One. New Bedford is runner up wth a 12-2 record in confer ence play. Wareham, 12-2, conference Division Two; Denn'is-Yarmouth, 10-4, the runnerup. Bourne and Dighton-Rehoboth, each 10-2, share the conference's Divsion Three championship. Westport, 12-0, conference's Division Three girls basketball with Coyle-Cassidy, 8-4, the. runnerup. A'pponequet Regional - May flower League large schools champion. Falmouth, 7-0-0 (won, lost, tied), conference Division East titlist with New Bedford 6-1-0 the runnerup in boys track. Attleboro, 5-0-0, Division West champion in boys track.

Entries closed today for the 25th CYO Cheerleading Compe tition to be held next Sunday in the Kennedy CYO Center in New Bedford. Squads from grammar schools throughout southern Massachu setts and Rhode Island, senior CYO, ninth grade, high school varsity and junior varsity will participate in the competition, which will get underway at 1:30 p.m, The post-season Eastern Massa. chusetts basketball playoffs get underway next week. Several schools from within the area of the Fall River Diocese have qualified, including Durfee High of Fall River, New Bedford High, Wareham and Apponequet Regional among others. The com pete list of qualifiers will not be known until this weekend. .

Symbols following film reviews indicate perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs both· general and Catholic Film Office day, Fall River and New Bed ratings, which do not always coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for gen· ford cable channel 13. eral viewingjPG-parental guidance sug "Spirit and the Bride," a talk gestedj R-restricted, unsuitable for show with WiUiam" Larkin, 6 children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: Al-approved fOI p.m. each Monday, cable chan children and adliltsj A2-approved for . nel 35. adults and adolescents; A3-approved for Each Sunday (SJlN) "News adults onlyj M-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive Front" - NC News weekly re which, however, require some analysis port on religious, ethical and and explanationl; O-morally offensive. moral concerns.

NOTE Please check dates and times of televfsion and radio programs against local Ibt lngs, which may differ from the New York network sched ules supplied to The Anchor. , New FUms "Crackers" (Universal- A mot ley .c.rew, sharing only a need for money, plot to crack open a pawnshop safe, a scheme that would at once enrich them '1lnd mete out poetic justice to' the pawnbroker, who, ·they feel, has taken advantage of them. Jack Warden comes out best as the pawnbroker, bui Donald Suther land, as the. ringleader· of the inept band,· has been in too many such movies. The result is a lackluster comedy. Since much of the humor has to do with promiscuity and there's also a ,benign view of petty crime, it is rated A3, PG. . "Crackers" (Universal) A mot famous. : 'conductor (Dudley Moore) wrongly suspects his wife (Natassja Kinski) of being unfaithful and 'fantasizes re venge while on the podium. An expensively mo'unted but not very funny comedy. Though otherwise innocuous, it· is mar red by a shower scene and bed room sequence earning it 0, PG ratings.

Religious Broadcasting - TV Each Sunday, 10:30 a.m. WLNE, Channel 6, Diocesan Televl~ion Mas& Portuguese Masses from Our Meanwhile the state swim Lady of Mt. 'Carmel Church, ming tournament gets underway . New Bedford: 12:15 p.m. each today. Sunday onradi~ station WJFDFM, 7 p.m. each Sunday on tele North CYO Hockey Titlist .vision .Channel 20. Fall River North blanked in meet at 3 for the tournament . Mass Monday to Friday every 'tra-city rival runnerup FaU River crown. The awards ceremony South 3-0, last ,Sunday and will be held at 4 o'clock. . week, 11:30. a.m. to noon, clinched the Bristol County CYO The Fall River girls' all-stars' WXNE, Channel 25. Hockey League's regular season entertained New Bedford last "Confluence," 8 a.m. each championship. In the companion night. The teams will-meet again Sunday 011I Channel 6, is a panel in New Bedford on a date to be program moderated by Truman game New Bedford routed Som announced. erset, 8-4. Taylor and having as permanent In other tournament action the. participants Father Peter N. Gra The league winds up. its regu lar schedule next Sunday night Fall River Prep All-Stars wiU ziano, diocesan director of social with Fall River South vs. New meet the Taunton team at 7:30 servfces; Right Rev. George p.m. tomorrow in the Taunton Hunt, Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Bedford and Somerset vs. Mans Catholic Middle School. field. Island; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. The Senior All-Star Tourna The standings: Fall River North "Breakthrough," 6:30 a.m. 11-3-3 (won, 'lost, tied), Fall ment Tuesday night in the Ken· River South 10-7-0, Mansfield nedy CYO Center, New Bedford each Sunday, Channel 10, a pro 9-6-1, New Bedford 7-8-2, Somer· has Fall River vs. New Bedford gram ,on the power of God to set 1-14-2. at 7 o'cock. The winner will touch lives, produced by the The Fall River Area CYO meet Taunton at 8. An awards Pastoral Theological Institute of Hamden, Conn. host the Diocesan Junior boys ceremony is set for 9. "The Glory of God," with basketball All-Star tournament •••••••••••••••••••••• ; Father John Bertolucci, 7:30 a.m. next Sunday. Attleboro will meet each Sunday, Channel 27. Taunton in the opener at 1 p.m. GOD'S• ANCHOR HOlDS "MarySon." a family puppet followed by Fall River vs. New show wth moral and spiritual Bedford at 2. The winners will t : ......

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Rive·r-Fri., Feb.' 24, 1984

Iteering pOintl PUBLICI" CHAIRMD are asked to submit news items for this column to The' Anchor. P.O. Box 7. Fall River, 02722. Name of city or lown should be included I I well as full dales of all actlvillea. please send news of future rather than Pllt ev.ntl. Note: We do not carry newl 'undrailinl activities such as blnlol. wIIilh. dances, luppers and bazaars. We are hippy to carry notices of spiritual proframa, club meellngs. youth prolects and sim lar nonprofit activities. Fundraislng pro }ects may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675·1151.' . On Steering Points. Items FR Indicates Fall River, NB Indicates New Bedford. .'

The Adorers will sponsor a holy hour from 'J to 8 'p.m. Feb. 28 under direction o~ Father Matthew Sullivan, SS.CC., for mer pastor of St. Mary's Church, Fairhaven. '.Dhe Blessed Sacra ment will be exposed Friday, March 2, following 8 'a.m. Mass until 8:45 p.m. Both ooserv ances will be at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven, and both are open t6 all.

ST. JUUE, N.DARTMOUTH

ST.. JAMES, NB

CCD classes for grades 1 to 7 resume Feb. 26. Confirmation n teachers of lOth graders will meet at the relhdolis education offi!='C at 7 p.m. Feb. 28. Ros~ry and Benediction: 7 ' p.m. Feb. 26. ST. .;~

PATRIC~,

First communion will be re ceived 'at 9 a.m. Mass Sunday, May 6. Parishioners 'are asked to remember candidates in ,their' prayers. ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA

Parish council meeting: 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Snow conditions permitting, confirmation candidates wiil partici.pate ina ski trip ,to GU mington, NH, today, leaving the church :at 6 a.m. and returning about 8 p.m. '

BL. SACRAMENT ADORERS

The Women's' Guild annual communion sUPPer will ·beheld March 21. A new pro-life group will hold its first meeting at the rectory at '7:30 p.m. Feb. 26. ST.A~E,FR

The Blessed Sa.crament will be exposed 'after the 11 :30 ,a.m. Mass today. An hour of adora tion will take place in the shrine from 2 to 3 p.m. HOLY NAME. FR

The Youth Group will spon sor a ski trip to Wachusett Mountain from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. March 11. Officers of the new group are Andrew La tessa, president; Kelly Har graves. vice-president; Christine Valente, secretary; Daniel Desmarais, treasurer. .

CATHEDRAL,FR

SEPARATED/DIVORCED.

ST. CASIMIR, NB

, First communion candidates CAPE COD The parish will mark its pa attending parochial schools are Support group meeting: 7 ,tronal feast at 3 p.m. March 4 aske$i Ito come with a parent to p.m.. Feb. 26, St. Francis Xavier with a service including anoint register for the ·prepa'ration pro parish center, South Street, ing of ,the sick and Benediction. gram lat 2:45 p.m. Feb. 27 at Hyannis. Msgr. Henry T. Mun- All welcome. St. . Mary's School. . roe, officialis of -the diocesan NOTRE DAME, FR O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE marriage tribunal, will speak on annulments. Information: Daily Masses during Lent will CCQ 'board meeting: 8:15 p.m. . Joan Shields, 428-3603; Janet be celebrated at the Lourdes Feb. 28, CCD center. Farrell, 775-8168. Chapel at 7:15 and 8 a.m. and Mass 'at 2 p.m. today at Cen 7 p.m. terville Nursing Home. All wel- D or I, ATTLEBORO come.! . Alcazaba Circle, Daughters of SACRED HEART, FR Isabella, will meet at 7:30 .p.m.· CURSILLO EVENING. A parish musical will be pre March 1 at K of C Hall .on OF RECONCILIATION sented in late spring. Rehearsals Hodges Street. Slides will be Evening celebrating the sac will start at 2 p.m. Sunday in by Rev. 'Kevin Harring r'lment of penance: 7:15 p.m. shown the school hall and will continue ton., All welcome. '.Dhe circle March: 22, St. Patrick's Church, will hold a joint' communion every Sunday thereafter. All Wareham. breakfast with the Knights of workers, including those in are Columbus following 8 a.m: Mass behind-scenes posItions, ST. 'J'lJOMAS MORE. March 25. The Mass will be at asked to attend Sunday's meet SOMERSET ing. . Clean used bed linens and St. Stephen's Church, Attleboro,

towels are needed by the Daugh- and the breakfast will be served ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN '-ters of Isa'bena for the making at ·the K of C .hall with Father Cub Scouts will hold a Blue of .pads for the Rose Hawthorne Andre Patenaude, MS, as guest Lathrop Home. Information: speaker and .George Robillard and 'Gold banquet at 2· p.m. Feb. 26 in the church hall. as chairman. Mrs. Stanley Fugiel, 679-5621. White cotton and . polyester SEPARATED/DIVORCED, MEMORIAL HOME, FR blend :material is needed for NB On today's schedule are exer babies'; baotismal ,robes. Infor Support group meeting 7:30 mation; Mrs. Gilbert Lowney, p.m. each S4nday at Our Lady's cise, games and a aingalong. 67~2783. . Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street. ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, A parish mission will be held March 4th, '''Suddenly SWANSEA during 'the third week of Lent, .single" schedule: (small group discus beginning March 25. The sions); 11th, A 'parish Holy Year celebra liturgy, followed preacher will be Rev. Robert by coffee and conversation; tion will 'be held at 2:30 ·p.m. 18th, Kaszyn'ski. pastor of St. Stanis "Your Federal Income Taxes: April 1. laus parish, Fall River. Confir the Separated and Divorced,'" mation: catldidates will attend talk by IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, tax service owner .Don the mission and .their· parents aId FR . Dumont; 25th, "Loneliness" and sponsors are also urged to The parish choir has resumed (small group discussions). participate. rehearsals, held each Monday Counseling available at each (' , night after ,the 7 p.m. novena ST. ANTHONY' OF DESERT, , meeting and annulment infor service. New members are wel FR: ' . ' mation sessiop.s at 1 p.m. each come.

Satl;lrday. . Adorktion of Blessed Sacra ment: 'n'Oon to 6 p.m. March 4, WIDOWED SUPPORT, O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER St. Sharbel' Chapel, 300 North ATTLE80B,0 . A music workshop will be Eastern; Ave. Meeting 7:30p.m. March 2, 1 held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 ,p.m. Holy Ghost parish center, Attle tomorrow, open to all involved boro. A guest speaker will be in parish liturgies. Paul Baker heard. of Shelton, Conn., director of "Listen to the Children," will D of I, SOMERSET conduct the program with the St. Patrick's Circle, Daugh theme "Celebrating the Eucha .ters of' Isabella, will meet at 7:30 p.m. March 14 in the Old -rist in Song." Participants are asked to bring a bag lunch. Town Hall. A Lenten 'program Further information is available will follow th!,! business session. at the rectory, 385-3252.

S+ANNE'S HOSPITAL i ""

. ONCOLOGYIRADIATION THERAPY CENTER CORNER FOREST AND OSBORN STREETS - FALL RIVER

A $1 million capital campaign is now

underway at St.' Anne's Hospital ·to fund

the new $3 million Oncology/Radiation

Therapy Center.

As a state of Massachusetts designated

regional center, it will provide exclusive

radiatio.n therapy services for all of

Greater Fall River and New Bedford.

Whe'! completed, the Center will be un·

duplicated at the community hosPital level

anywhere in the United Statesincorpora

ting the latest generation of radiation

therapy equipment, and a multifaceted

approach to cancer care. .

Groundbreaking ceremonies are scheduled for early spring.

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St. Anthony's Chapter, Cath olic Golden A~e, will meet at 2 ,p.m. March 3. at Our Lady's Chapel, 690 Pleasant Street. Non-members are welcome. CCD,.classes resume Feb. 27, following winter vacation.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET '

ST. MARY, SEEKONK

Bells which are the gift of St.

Stanislaus community to the

Krakow church where St. Sta

nislaus was murdered nearly 1000 years ago will be conse crated Feb. 26 at the church by Cardinal Franciszek Macharski. Diocesan members of the Na_ tional Associatioll of Pastoral Musicians will meet at 2 p.m. Sl,lnday 'at St. Stanislaus.

The annual St. John of God

novena will be~n Feb. 29 fol

lowing 7 p.m. Mass and will :be

held nightly following the Mass

through Ma.rch 8, with the ex

ceotion of March 3 when it will follow 6:15 p.m. Mass and March 4, when it will follow all Masses. A prayer meeting will also follow 7 p.m. Mass on March 1.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR

O.L. ANGELS, FR

Catholic high school students wishing to apply for aid from the parish Centenary. Fund must first apply for financial 'aid from their high school. Par ish fund forms will be available March 1. The parish 1s seeking an or ganist. Information: Mary' Lee Corbishly, 336-8270.

Parishioners will meet at 7 p.m. April 23 to plan th-e Espi rito Santo feast in June. . The parish council will meet at 7 ,p.m. March 12 at the parish hall. Holy Rosary sodalists will hold a communion breakfast fol lowing 8 a.m. Mass March 11. A Holy Name Society breakfast will follow 8 a.m. Mass March 18.

Altar 'boy and eucharistic minister schedules are available in the sacristy.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB

The Men's League will meet after 10 a.m. Mass Feb. 26. Coffee and doughnuts will be served after morning Masses This group for bereaved par ents will meet at 7:30 p.m. Feb. tQis Sunday. The parish council will spon

27 at St. Louis de France School, sor a leadership training pro

Swansea. A tape, "Fathers and Grief," wHl initiate discussion' gram' at 7 p.m. March 4. All

parish workers are invited.

on the difficulties parents have in supporting one another fol- . . Be~inning March 3; Saturday

lowing the death of a child. evemng Masses will be at 4:30

New members are invited to and 6 p.m. Sunday Masses will

help with the group's publicity remain the same. . ,

library and mont,hly newslette;

"and most of all to share their

love and compassion with others ;

who have experienced a similar loss." Information: Leo and GOD'S' ANCHOR HOLDS Georgette Le Comte, 676-8458' Bill and Susan Coombes, 679~ 6017. . , COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SlVANSEA •

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A Marriage Encounter week end begins tonight. , A CARE program for St. Francis of Assisi parish, New Bedford, and St. Louis, Fall River, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 29. . A Lamaze Prepared Child birth class will be held Feb. 29.

ST.MARY,NB

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