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Portugal Bestows Honor On Fr. Luiz G. Mendonca His Excellency, the President )f the Republic of Portugal, in ,ecognition of outstanding service to the Church and to the Jromotion of Portuguese Culture in the Fall River area, has be· ,towed the "Military Order of 8hrist of Portugal" on Very Rev. l.uiz G. Mendonca, pastor of Our l.ady of Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford. Dr. Luis Augusto Martins, member of the Portuguese Em)assy in Washington, D. C. will :onfer the insignia on behalf of His Excellency Dr. Joao Hall fhemido, Ambassador of Portu· gal to the United States. The bestowal of Portugal's nalional honor will be in conjunction with a testimonial to be offered to Father Mendonca by the parishioners of St. John of God Parish in Somerset where he was pastor before being assigned to the New Bedford parish. The March 10 ceremony and testimonial will be held at Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea. The guest speaker for the event will be the Honorable Milton R. Silva, Presiding Justice of the Second District Court in Fall River. Mr. Carlos M. L. Nunes, Portu·
Diocese, ,Announces Plans For Holy Year Pilgrims The priests of the Fall River Diocese gathered for a clergy conference on Tuesday and were told of diocesan plans for the celebration of the Holy Year. Considerable time was also given to a full pastoral approach to the implementation of the revised ries for the Anointing of the Sick. An in-depth article will be featured in next week's Anchor. The world-wide phase of the Holy Year, to be celebrated in, 1975, will open Rome to the devotion of pilgrims. The Diocese of Fall River will undertake a diocesan pilgrimage to Rome to celebrate the Holy Year on February 14, 1975. The voyage will be an eight-day pil· grimage with side trips possible to other European sites. The trip is scheduled to take' up the 1975 February Washington holidays. The Februar.y pilgrimage will be the diocese's official pilgrimage and will be led by His Excellency, Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River. Diocesan Phase The diocesan phase of the Holy Year will be inaugurate<1
Asks Children Aid Poor FATHER MENDONCA guese Vice Consul from Boston and Mrs. Nunes will also be present to honor the former Somerset pastor. A native of New Bedford, Father Mendonca was born Sept. 26, 1919, the son of the late Luiz G. and the late Maria (Almeida) Mendonca. After attending New Bedford's Turn to Page Two
NEW YORK (NC)-Pope Paul . VI has asked American school children to support the American Catholic Overseas Aid Fund so that it can provide "food, clothing, medicine and other life-saving supplies to those in need around the gloQe every day, all year long." In an Ash Wednesday radio address carried 'by all major radio networks, the Pope noted that many children "have not schools, no doctors; many go to bed hungry every night because there is simply not enough food to go around." Many other children, he added, suffer from natural catastrophies Turn to Page Four
Lenten Series on Penance For New Bedford Parishes Grammar School A Lenten series for Adult Catholics, exploring the sacra· ment of Penance, the effect of sin and the call to contrition, will be sponsored by the parishes of the south end of New Bedford on four Sunday evenings of Lent, from 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Rev. Thomas Grannell, SS.CC., assistant at St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven, will initiate the series on Sunday, March 3, 197<1, at St. James Church Hall. Father will explore the question,. "What is sin?"
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Rev. Nicholas, O.F.M., of St. Hedwig Church, New Bedford, will conduct the second session, on contrition, "Am I Really Sorry?" at Mt. Carmel School Auditorium, on March 10. On Sunday, March 17, a panel discussion on some of the problems of confession will be chaired by Rev. Michel- G. Methot, Associate Director for Adult Educa· tion and Assistant at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford. Lay people and religious will make up the panel among whom will be Rev. William Petrie, SS.CC. of Regina Pacis Center, New Bedford. The Lenten series will conclude with a celebration of the sacrament of Penance at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, on Sunday, March 24. The priests who have participated in the series wjll be on hand for individual confessions at this servi<;e.
Regislralion Catholic elementary schools of the Diocese are holding registration this coming weekendMarch 2 and 3- for pupils entering kindergarten and first grade as well as for transfer students into other grades. Registration WIll also take place the weekend of March 9 and 10. For'achild entering school for the first time, parents should bring a birth or baptismal certificate. For transfer students, parents should bring a copy of the student's last report card. Parents should check with the school in which they wish to enroll a child since various schools are holding registration at times convenient for pa~ents and taking into consideration area Mass schedules.
next month with each vicariate undertaking an official pilgrimage to St. Mary's Cathedral of the Assump~ion. The ceremony at the cathedral, presided over by the Bishop, will be specifically designed as a Holy Year Service.
ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL Fall River will make the pilgrimage on Sunday, March 17; Attleboro-Taunton on Sunday, March 24; New Bedford·Cape Cod on Sunday, March 31. The penitential aspect of the Lenten ,Season and the Holy Year theme of reconciliation
should easily combine for fruit· ful devotion. To facilitate such pilgrimages and yet limit them to the 800 seat capacity of the Cathedral, each parish in the designated areas will receive a limited number of tickets for participation in these pilgrimages. Following these vicariate pilgrimages to the <;:athedral, the Most Reverend Bishop will designate certain churches in each vicariate where parishes may go in pilgrimage to gain' the Holy Year indulgences. Other Forms The Holy Year indulgences can also be gained in three other kinds of pilgrimages. The first will group together individuals at one designated church for a designated Holy Year service. The second will be the occasion of group pilgrimages to various designated churches. Official parish pilgrimages, societies, clubs, etc. will-as groups - participate in such pilgrimages and gain the Holy Year indulgences. The third will invite individuals to private pilgrimages to the St. Mary's Cathedral of the Assumption in Fall River on a designated day each week. , Urge Priests ' The priests were urged in their normal teaching and homilies to stress the full meaning of pilgrimages to the faithful, especially showing their penitential aspect in Christian devotion. The meaning of indulgences, especially the Holy Year Indulgence, should also be clearly understood by all, the priests were told. Turn to Page Two
Host World Day of Prayer In Chatham Tomorrow Church bells in Chatham will peal forth a call to "prayers for peace building" tomorrow, March I, the 88th World Day of Prayer now celebrated in 168 countries. Mrs. William F. Kelly, president of the Association of the Sacred Hearts of the Holy Redeemer Church, is Chatham chairman. The worship service for women from all local .churches will be , held at Holy Redeemer Church at one o'clock: followed by a Fellowship Tea in the Catechetical Center on Highland Avenue. From a simple beginning in 1887 with a small group of women dedicated to the belief that the mission work for which they were responsible needed prayer as well as giving, the annual ecumenical event on the first Friday of March is now worldwide with roots deep in numberless local committees. It is under the auspices of an International Committee composed of a liaison officer from each country with a national committee. In the United States, Church Women United is the official sponsor of the World Day .of Prayer. Worship materials developed from the 1974 theme, "Make Us Builders of
World Peace," were prepared by the women of Japan and processed by the International Committee to be used universally. The primary focus of the offering this year is a "contribution to an international fund for rehabilitation and reconciliation to which Christian women in all countries contribute." All Chatham churches are represented in the committee of arrangements and will be participants in the service. Assisting the chairman, Mrs. Kelly, are: Mrs. Henry'P. Hopkins and Mrs. Fairfield Whiting, First Congregational Church; Mrs. George C. Dannenberg and Mrs. Frederic L. Howells, St. Christopher's Episcopal Church; Mrs. Cyrus Baker and Mrs. Cyril F. Cahoon, South Tum to Page Four
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Holy Year P,ilgrims Continued from Page One Correlating the pilgrimages are 'recently named groups of clergy and laity from each area of the diocese. These groups are meeting to make plans that will insure the participation of all and study the implications of the energy crisis, other available forms of transportation.
A ·First Friday Mass and five hour pr~yer vigil will be held Friday night, March 1 at St. Boniface Church, Main Street, New Bedford. The services will be the twelfth in a series of vigils in area parishes, held for peace and honoring the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The program will begin with confessions preceding an 8 P.M. Mass of the Sacred Heart. Inc1udedin the evening will be exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hour and Benediction. The Vigil will end with a midnight Mass in honor of the -Immaculate Heart. Refreshments will be served during the evening, and all are invited to attend all or part of the services.
Committee for the Holy Year, chaired by Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G., pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bedford, are drawing 'up various forms of participation for the' diocesan youth, publicity, liturgy and priestly renewal.
An Attleboro Scout pligrimage to Fall River's St. Anne and St. Louis Parishes, culminating with Other committees under the a special Mass at the Cathedral direction of the Diocesan Central' is already scheduled for April.
Toronto Prelate, Hospitals to Start Nat,-ral Family Planning Program TORONTO (NC) -- A major thermo (Serena) methods of program to introduce two meth- natural family planning. . ods of natural family planning,. Da'.a ?n these test couples will hailed as being as eff~ctive as the .. pi, '11" WI'11 be Iaunc h ed'In Marc h be mOnItored for' 12 months by . by Archbishop Philip Pocock of representatIve~ ~f t.he World Toronto in cooperation with St. Health OrganIzatIOn In Geneva. Michael's and St. Joseph's HosOne of the aims of the sym· pitals. posium is to establish clinics and During a two-day symposium .centers throughout the archdioat St. Michael's Hospi~tal, March cese, manned by trained doctors, 14-15, about 50 volunteer Cath- nurses and lay persons, who will olic and non-Catholic' couples train husbands and wives in from the metropolitan' Toronto these two forms of natural birth' area will be instructed in the control. Ovulation (Billings) and symptoSpeakers at the March symposium will include Dr. John Billings of the University of Melbourne, Australia, who developed the ovulation method; Connie and Arthur Johnson of Serena Most Reverend Daniel A. Cro- (Service - for the Regulation of nin,S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, NataHty); and Bernard Daly, ditoday announced the following rector of the Canadian Catholic Conference's family life bureau. appointments: Rev. Marc H. Bergeron, assis. Billing's system, which has tant. pastor at St. Joseph Parish been used successfully in underin New Bedford, as Chaplain to developed countries such as -the New Bedford Guild for the India and Vietnam, relies on obBlind. serving changes in body chemRev. Alexander Zichello, ad- istry and the use of basal body ministrator of St. Francis 'Parish, temperatures to pinpoint the New Bedford, as Spiritual Direc- time of ovulation during which tor of the Legion of Mary of a pregnancy could occur. New Bedford. Rev. William' F. O'Connell,' pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Fall River, as Moderator of the Fall River Catholic Women's Club. Rev. Roger L. Gagne, adminThe- Knights of Columbus, St. istrator of St. Mathieu Parish, Isidore Council No.- 4373, of Fall River, as Faithful Friar of Dartmouth and Westport will ·the Fourth Degree of the Knights serve their annual potluck supof Columbus and Chaplain of per at 7 o'clock on Sunday night, Council 86 and Council 295 Cif March 17 in the council home on the Knights of Columbus in Fall Main Rd., Westport. River. Reservations close on March 13 and may be made by contactPre-Cane. C.onference ing the Grand Knight, Mike A ,Pre-Cana Conference for Farias or the Deputy Grand engaged couples will be held at Knight, Manny Fernandes. 7:30 on Sunday night, March 3 The affair is open to the ladies. in the St. Anne School of NursThe Knights of Columbus ·ing Building at the comer of Women's Division of the Council Forest and Osborn Streets, Fall will conduct its annual ball on River. Saturday evening, March 30 at Please note the change of place the Hawthorne Country Club in from the Sacred Heart School, Dartmouth. Dinner will be served Fali River. at 7 and dancing will follow.
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Portugal Honors Father Mendonca Continued from Page OnE' St, Mary and Holy Family schools, he studied for the p,riesthood at the Seminary of Angra in the Azores. Ordained a priest on June 10, 1944, he has served at Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parishes in New Bedford; Our Lady of Health and St. Michael Parishes in Fall River; St. Anthony Parish, East Falmouth, and St. John of God Pare. ish, Somerset. He is Vicar General for the Diocese of Fall River, a member of the Board of Examiners of the Clergy, Chairman 01' the Diocesan Central Committee for the Holy Year. In .the summer of 1972, Father Mendonca accompanied Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., on an extended tour of Portugal, visiting tlie Portuguese centers from
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Family Planning Coercion Opposed NEW YORK (NC) - The Wall St. Journal has expressed agreement editor'ially with a recent statement by the nation's Catholic diocesan family life directors maintaining that married couples should be free from the "coercive influence of government" in fam· ily planning. In an editorial in its Jan. 10 issue, the Journal described the Catholic Church 'as "hardly a disinterested spokesman, since Catholic doctrine prohibits artificial meam; of obir:th contro!." "For that reason," the editorial continued, "a good many non· Catholics may well dismiss this
recent statement of concern as self-serving. But that would be a mistake, for reasons only part· ly theologica!." While acknowledging that the government has a legitimate interest in encouraging couples to keep the birth rate ,in check, the Journal said that a number of suggestions made for doing that "border on the dangerous."
Enemy The great enemy of the soul is not trial but sadness, which is the bleeding wound of self·love. .,-F.X. Lasance
WHO CARES •••? THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH
Dear friend, Who cares about Holy Land refugees? Who cares if the baby born tonight in a refugee tent will have a clean blanket? Who cares if eager breadwinners deprived of their livelihoods can be re·trained for new jobs?
"EXILED" FROM CONCORDIA: Concordia Seminary students in St. Louis board up archways at the edge of the Lutheran school with signs saying "exiled." They were protesting a faculty and student ouster in a liberal-conservative dispute. The seminarians have been allowed to finish their academic year at Jesuit-run St. Louis University and Eden Theological Seminary, a United Church of Christ institution in St. Louis. NC Photo.
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Holy Year Time to Heal Society's Wounds WASHINGTON (NC) - The Holy Year now being observed in this country "offers an opportunity to bind up the wounds that tear at us individually and as members of our society," the head of 'the U. S. Holy Year observance said in a Lenten message. "Perhaps when Pope Paul chose 'reconciliation' as the theme for the Holy Year, he was pointing toward th.~ one valid response to the many agonizing questions that plague 20thcentury man," Cardinal Timothy Manning of Los Angeles, chairman of the U. S. bishops' Holy Year Committee, said. "Let us share a common vision," the cardinal wrote, "that man can triumph over ignorance and hostility .. :that nations and persons can come together not to destroy but ,to build-and that man can walk with God in peace and in love, not just for a year but forever." Observance of the Holy Year proclaimed for 1975 by Pope Paul VI began in local churches around the world on the first Sunday of Advent, Dec. 2, 1973. Cardinal Manning said that the observance of a Holy Year,
Vincentians to Meet The monthly meeting of the Fall River Particular Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, will be held Tuesday evening, March 5. The Immaculat.e Conception Conference will host the evening. Mass will be said at Immaculate Conception Church, Thom~s St, at 7 o'clock and' the meeting will follow.
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Love· Sacrifice The only and ultimate proof of love is sacrifice. All the flowery··language in the world, all the exaggerated protestations of love mean little more than the breath " it takes to say them. The proof of love is sacrifice. This is one reason that the Church calls for sacrifice during Lent. Those who love God - or say that they do are asked to offer some act of sacrifice each day. It is not that God has need of the sacrifice of His children. But they must show Him, and must prove to themselves, that when they say-they love God they mean it. And an act of sacrifice is an act of love. \. Sacrifice, further, is needed as an act of atonement, because there is no one outside of the Bl~ssed Virgin Mary who has not offended God. It is easy to say, I am sorry. It is more effective to show sorrow by an act of sacrifice, an expression of sorrow that pays a price, that costs an effort. Sacrifice is needed to strengthen the will power so thaf God's children will be ready always to say Yes . to Him and No to sin. Unless a person is willing to deny himself ~n matters that ate good and legitimate, it will be hard to deny oneself when confronted by sin under the guise of what is delectable, alluring, entidng. . Sacrifice is necessary to keep one's priorities in order. A man lives in the midst of a world that reaches out to his senses and involves him in what he can see and hear and touch and taste. It is easy to feel very much at home in this world, so much at home that there is a forgetfulness about the other world to which man is called, the world of God' and good grace. God speaks gently to 'His creat\lres .and when one is totally immersed in the things that are seen, in the world of the senses, it is hard to hear the voice of God. Sacrifice enables a person to back away from the sense life, to sharpen spiritual a.wareness, to place the things seen and the things unseen in proper proportion, to use the things of the world without being used by them, without being dependent too completely upon' them, without being addicted to them. If Lent means love of God, it has to mean sacrifice.
Reverence
Continu~ from Page One Chatham Co'mmunity Church, and Mrs. Edwin Jepsen, Mrs. Herbert L. Stevens and Mrs. Roy B. Meservy, United Methodist Church. From Holy Redeemer Church are Mrs. Walter Lynch, Mrs. Frank Maloney, Dr. Anne Raleigh McCarthy, Mrs. Alphonse Richard, and Helen M-E. McCarthy who is communications chairman for the Chatham World Day of Prayer. Rev. William E. McClenahan, SS.CC., pastor of Holy Redeem· er Church, will give the message, "Make Us ,Builders of Peace." Holy Redeemer Association of the Sacred Hearts will extend hospitality in the Catechetical Center next door to the church immediately after the service. Honor guests at the 'Fellowship Tea will be Mrs. Richard K. Bailey, Mrs. Carl G. Carlozzi, Mrs. W. Irving Monroe, Jr., and Mrs. William E. Sissell, Jr. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Joseph J. Spine'lli and Mrs. Paul C. Toomey; decorations, Mrs, John H. Clavin, Mrs. James A. Larkin, and Mrs. John Mulvaney; refreshments, Cecelia Aide, Mrs. Owen P. Griffith, Mrs. Jerome S. Higgins, Mrs. William F. McCarthy, and Mrs. F. Murray Sullivan; hostesses, Mrs. George J. Fleckenstein, Mrs. Lawrence J. Frawley, Dr. Anne Raleigh McCarthy, Mrs. ,Andrew W. Mikita, and Mrs. Robert C. Stanton. Presiding at the tea table will be Mrs. Frank Maloney and Helen M-E. McCarthy.
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English Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster has . called for a renewed spirit of reverence for holy things. As Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement He has deplored a certain. lack of reverence in church and in administerinK sacraments and for the Blessed Sacrament made her appointed rounds in a recent visit to this area, one could not help but think that it was a shadow of the past ,that is beginning to creep into the actions of some. It is a fact that this is an informal age. It is an age attempting to awaken once more the vitality of the Church's that suffers badly from lack of manners, much less the spirit mission to witness. For American Church. What has hapof reverence. A previous age put too much stress, perhaps, whether you like it or I).ot, pened to the witness of Church on protocol and this led to a rigidity, an over-emphasis on Dorothy Day has certainly leadership'in our own time espe.the form, on externals, to the neglect of the contents, the been one of the outstanding cially in view of the great moral to the beliefs of faith issues that even question the reality. The reaction now is a familiarity that borders at witnesses in our day. Overcoming tremen- 'very existence of life itself? For times on rudeness. dous opposition from the com- example, what effective leaderPeople forge,t that courtesy is an expression of the fortable establishment of the ship was demonstrated in the virtue of charity. Love of God and love of neighbor demand Church, she has served as a liv- market place and the halls of ing witness to the Gospel mes- government before abortion legthat one's attitude toward both be one of respect. that Christ must be present islation became law? To be sure Respect for God demands that His children look upon sage in the ma..rket place. For those some leaders of the American Him with the easy approach that children should have to- who over the years have either Church had the insight to see ward a kind and loving Father. But this does not give license ignored the work of' this woman what was about to take' place. to be rude, to be boorish, to be discourteous. That is not or relegated her to the category However the proof is in the eat-· of extremist,it might be well -ing: It is since t.he approval of the role of loving children. to take her doctrine of Christian abortion law that the collective Somehow the idea must be gotten across to people that !!ocial action to heart and soul. leadership has attempted to inthere is nothing demeaning in showing respect to all persons This is especially true when we fluence public opinion on a naand reverence, above all, to God Himself. have seen how the leadership of tionwide scale', All the stateIf the Commandment injunction to reverence the Name the Church has been so fickle in ments and letters that have been the tremendous social issued to arouse public sentiment of God is valid, then it also extends to every aspect of God, meeting' problems of our day.. have the appearance of crying His worship, His temple, and all those expressions by which 'For the most part if any eff~c~ wolf after the sheep have been man reaches out to God and through which God touches tive work has heen done on the slaughtered. In either words it His children. grass roots level it has been due seems that the mission of to,
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to the sweat and toil of the laity. The days of Carroll, England, Hughes, GVbbons, Ireland and Spalding are but forgotten memories of the dynamic leadership that was once so evident in the
day's church leadership is to react rather than act. It is easy to comment on events that have already taken place. It is difficult .to be the aactivators who cause events to take place:
Christian Witness is not Tokenism Has the Church in this land hecome so established that it only seeks the security and comfort of position? If this is the case then what happens then to the Gospel message of witness? It becomes mere tokenism. The Catholic Church in this land
needs renewed activity and vi· tality. :roo a great extent this should stem' from an activated, concerned and dynamic leadership. The American Church has at its disposal tremendous resources of energy, talent and personnel. It is about time that
Continued from Page One such as floods, earthquakes, and typhoons. Pope Paul told the, children: "As you begin to make your lenten sacrifices, dear children, re~ member that each little gift will help make'· the future _of some poor boy or girl a brighter one. "Our Blessed Lord wants all of us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, minister to the sick and give drink to the thirsty. And so when you make your lenten sacrifices, you not only show your love for other less fortunate :boys and girls overseas, but for our Savior, Jesus Christ, Himself." , Catholic Relief Services, U.S. Catholics' overseas aid agency which sponsors the fund, last year supplied food, clothing, hlankets and medicines to an estimated 20 million people worldwide. leadership of the Church in these United States attempts'to develop, enlarge and promote these resources in the market place of every-day' American life. The daily chaIlenges to moral and ethical standards of life and the glorification of absolute material- ism demand a Christian conscience that is not hidden .in a narrow closed world of false pretentions. Rather the world must know that the Church is alive and well, openly seen as a living force in the wide world of American life. The leadership of the Church must be this living force willing to he the light themselves rather than mere reflectors. To be sure, this type of leadership might disturb some and even anger others. However, after all, can anyone who has assumed a leadership role in the, ,Church expect any more than the Divine Leader Himself?
Prelate. Deplores Loss of Respect For Holy Things
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Passionist Lauds Bishops' Actions
LONDON (NC)-Deploring the CHICAGO (NC) - The U. S. progressive decline in reverence bishops' performance at their for all holy things, Cardinal John November meeting in Washington Heenan of Westminster criticized was "impressive," according to cspecially Catholics who no one of' ;the meeting's priestlonger genuflect before the observers, Passionist Father Paul Blessed Sacrament. Boyle, president of the ConferHe described priests who ence of Major Superiors of Men abandon vestments when say(CMSM). ing Mass or administering the In a February report to CMSM sacraments as "fanatics." The cardinal was addressing members the Chicago priest said 190 lay persons and Religious he considered press reports that in London's Westminster Cathethe meeting was dull "quite unfair." dral who were commissioned at a special service to distribute "Frankly," he said, "I can't Communion in case of need. help but wonder 路if reports of Counseling them "not to lose dullness do not simply reflect their awe for the Blessed Sacraa lack of interest on the part of ment" the cardinal said many the reporters in the meetings of the outward signs of reverunder discussion." ence had gone and there is now The amount of work carried all the more reason for intension by the bishops' twin conferfying inner reverence. ence, the National Conference Extreme Types of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and "There are two extreme types U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC), of Catholics," he said. "For one, is "prodigious:' Father Boyle everything new is wrong, while said. the other gleefully accepts everyHe singled out for praise the thing regardless of tradition. "FRIENDLY" PERSUADED: One of St. Louis' "Officer Friendly" policemen, Dan bishops' activities in areas of Neither of these are of any use Estes, 46, talks to pupils in St. Boniface School. He said he was so impre~sed by visiting liturgical renewal, ecumenism, to God's Church." He told the new ministers of Catholic schools in the police community relations program that he deCIded to become evangelization, human values, and social justice as well as their Communion that they should be a Catholic. NC Photo. work in areas more closely revery careful how they use their lated to the CMSM's concerns of powers. "Many people will find priestly and religious life. The it hard to understand," he said. CMSM is a Vatican-approved "Be careful. Many Catholics association of the major heads of regard this as just one more ST. LOUIS (NC) - "Officer and how impressed I was." cide to become a Ca"~holic-the religious orders of men in the example of the decline in respect Friendly," a St. Louis policeman For the next three or four impressive services:' United Sta,~es. for holy things. Don't give scan- . who has been visiting Catholic After retiring from the force, months, Estes Spent Saturdays dal to the weak and young and schools here for four years to In the area of social justice taking lessons in Catholicism. Estes plans to return to college never be casual." tell students about the police He was baptized the Sunday be- to finish his final year. "I like Father Boyle said the bishops' Cardinal Heenan said that lay department, became so friendly statement on prison reform was ministers of Communion should with the schools that he also be- fore Thanksgiving of 1973. He social studies and I think that's excellent. "It is the most specific what I would like to teach," he has since moved out of Father be suitably dressed: The men came a Catholic. public declaration I have ever Goellner's parish, but has re- said. "I know I would like to should wear a cassock and surseen" he said, "Citing rampant 46, credi~ed ceived permission to remain a teach in ,the Catholic school sysOfficer Dan Estes, plice and the woman a veil. "A cruelty in our penal sys~em and tem. Teaching" at a Catholic cross would be nice too," he school discipline, the dedication St. Christopher parishioner. calling for scraping of most of of personnel and the impressive"Even before taking the in- school would be my idea of the penal 路institutions." added. ness of Catholic services for his structions I had been ,to Catholic work that would be fulfilling." decision to take instructions for services at the schools when the Baptism. Sisters would invite me to parPrelate Approves "The first Catholic schools I ticipate," Patrolman Estes said. CINCI~NATI (NC) Citing saw were the one I entered as "That was one of the things that Sixty-five years in 'Officer Friendly' four years impressed me and made me de- reports of "misunderstanding NEW YORK (NC)-Catholic ago," said Estes, one of three and confusion," archdiocesan ofCatholic Education Relief Services (CRS) has an- "Officer Friendlys" on the force. ficials here publicly reiterated nounced the appointment of five "The thing ,that impressed me Mexico President their approval of Catholic partic,ST. THOMAS program assistants and one most was the obedience and the ipation in the current March of project supervisor for duties in control the teachers at the paro- To Meet Pope Paul Dimes. UNIVERSITY MEXICO CITY (NC) - In a in Central America, Africa and" chial school had. "Reports have reached us that move that some saw as the bethe Far East. "The buildings were not necFREDERICTON, N. B. CRS, U. S. Catholic overseas essarily the best," he continued, ginning of improved Mexican- Catholics have been told they aid and development agency, "but the sincerity of the teachers Vatican relations, President Luis cannot or should not participate CANADA operates in more than 60 coun- and the behavior of the kids Echeverria announced that he in the current March of Dimes tries. CRS estimates it benefits made up for that. I could see will meet with Pope - Paul in because the March of Dimes supports abortion policies," said 20 million poor and needy peo- some very dedicated people February. Father Walter Hauser, director 4-year Liberal Arts ple each year. Sources at the Vatican con- of the Cincinnati archdiocesan doing some very necessary work" I-year Secondary Education Prog~am The five new program assis- and I liked that." firmed the announcement but Family Life Bureau, and Father tants are: Paul McNellis of St. said that no date had been set. James Bramlage, archdiocesan 'Officer Friendly' liked what Paul, Minn.; Joseph Curtin of The meeting will apparently take coordinator of pro-life activities, Write: REGISTRAR he saw so much that he is conColonial Heights, Va.; Michael place during the Feb. 8-10 seg- in a joint statement issued here. sidering teaching in a parochial McCarthy of Springfield, Mass.; ment of a European tour by John McHale of Pittsburgh, Pa.; school upon his retirement in Echeverria. about six years. and Richard J. Adam of BelcherEcheverria would be th'e first Impressed town, Mass. Mexican President to visit a ST. FRANCIS FRIARY Edward Stow Seligman of San Estes said he decided to take Pope and some observers here Francisco is the new project su- instructions one day when saw his visit as a prelude to the A Center for Christian Living pervisor of Upper Volta, Africa, Father Glennon J. Goellner, the resumption of diplomatic relaRye Beach, N.H. 03871 603-964-5559 where CRS has operated for pastor of St. Christopher's tions between the Vatican and more than 12 years. Before join- Church in his neighborhood, Mexico. The relations were - SUMMER PROGRAMS ing CRS, Seligman was a Peace was walking in the area, meeting broken in 1929. Corps vounteer in Upper Volta parishioners. "I invited the pasSisters Three Week Retreat Echeverria announced his plans for four years. He supervised tor up to my apartment for a "June 30 - July 19 at a press conference here, when construction of dams, wells, cup of coffee and told him that he said that "it ~ould be an Scripture Workshop schools and warehouses. I had met a lot of Catholics in honor to visit the Pope, because McNellis has been assigned my work as 'Officer Friendly' July 22 - July 26 the Holy Father is a great chamto Cambodia, where CRS has pion of peace." " Sisters One Week Retreats been helping war refugees with Gospels August 4 - August 10 food clothing, medicines and Mercies When finally the Gospels were August 1 i-August 17 shelter. McNellis is a Vietnam In the last ebb of consciousWar veteran and w.as national written, they did not prove what policy director and Minnesota the Christian believed; they con- ness, who knows what mercies For further information contact God has in store? chairman of Vietnam Veterans firmed it. Fr. Emmett Mulhern, OFM - Director of Summer Program -Bede Jarrett -Fulton Sheen for a Just Peace.
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'(HE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 28,,1974
Urg,es Us,e of, God's GiftsFr,ee Will alnd Int,ellig,e1nce , Any mother who has had small children kn?ws the effect toy advertising has on them. TV ads con~mce ~he children that, they'll absolutely not be able to survIVe Without the "New, Super, EI JlJnko Game." The kids then badger their mother . .. yvith the persistence of thecommer- . they "must have it." . Having turned down kids who daIs. What happens? If absolutely had to have somemother buys it 'because she thing, I know it isn't easy. I can afford it, because it is a good toy, and,hecause it will be good for her children ... fine. But, if she buys it when she _ml5l%Il@:lmi~i~_K'
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can see it's much simpler to give in. lt quiets the kids ... and it makes life much less difficult. to have someone else making decisions for you. You don't have to think whether or not something is good for your family . . . someone else has already said it ,is. You don't have to decide if a garment looks good on you ... someone else has made that decision. You don't have to exer· cise your common sense and good taste in fixing up your home ... some decorating trend has solved those problems. , In short, life is simpler if we . let someone else make our deci~ sions. This not only saves wear and tear on the brain, but it absolves us if it dpesn't work out. There's a comfortable, secure feeling because our consciences haven't entered into the decision. We haven't had to think if this is right or wrong for me ... it's simply the thing to do. Next time you're buying something ... be it a new toy, a new dress, or a new appliance, ask yourself a few questions. Is it good quality? Do I really need it? Can we afford it? If you can answer "yes" to all three, go ahead, and buy it with an easy mind. If you can't answer "yes," consider why you are th.inking of buying it. If it's just to follow a trend, to avoid bucking a tide, to escape using your own free ,will and intelligence, you are neglecting the mind God gave you. Instead of helping solve the pollution problem, you ,become part of it.
can't afford it, she's being conned. If it's not a good toy, it will soon break, and contribute to the endless piles of plastic garbage we can't dispose of. If it isn't good for her children, she has been a victim of accepting someone else's idea of what her children must have. . Suppose she looks at the com· mercial even looks at the toy itself and decides she won't buy it. If a million mothers didn't feel compelled to buy toys that would be broken the first day, there'd be a lot less plastic in our garbage. And this would contribute to solving the pollution problem. Further, the mothers will have exercised their free will and intelligence. What about mothers who throwaway a kitchen full of usable appliances . . . because they aren't the "in" color? What about those who cannot wear'Jast year's clothing, because designers have dictated that they're "out"? What about the thousands of gimmicks that we are constantly told we '~must have." I haven't seen one yet, but I wouldn!t be Seek Pro-life Planks. surprised if we soon see ads for' In Minnesota Platforms electric back scratchers. ST. PAUL (NC) - Pro-life Granted, many things are members of both major political good, useful, and have improved parties in Minnesota have begun our standard of living. But a lot a campaign which they hope will of it is. junk ... and the only result in pro-life planks in both reason it sells is because people Republican and Democratic-Farm believe someone else who says Labor state-wide party platforms in 1974. Urged to Reconsider Willam Koster, it member of Rejection of loan the Republican Pro-life' Commit· WASHINGTON (NC) - The tee, said, , "We'd like to see a U. S. House of Representatives pro-life type of resolution introhas been urged to reconsider duced at every (precinct) caucus. its rejection of a $1.5 billion That would be spectacular." 'The only way to have a proloan to the International Development Association (IDA) by posed plank included in 'the state Life Lobby, a pro-life lobbying party platform, he noted, is to group. have it introduced and passed at In a statement issued by Life the precinct leyel. Although the prO-life commitLobby co-chairmen John Short and William Devlin, the 'group tee is pushing the reSOlutions, maintained that a reconsider- Koster added, the commitee does ation of ,the loan "will demon- not want to have it appear that strate to the nation and to the they are packing the precinct world . that Congress stands meetings. Charges of packing the ' ready to meet the moral respon- precinct meetings, he said, were sibilities of a world leader by made against the supporters of providing positive pro-life assis- Sen. George McGovern during tance and solutions ,to the prob- the 1972 Democratic presidential lems faced by the poor and op- primary campaign, and the party pressed in the lesser developed is still suffering from the controversy; nations of the world."
A talk by Mrs. Louise Holbrook of Whitman entitled ",First Ladies" is the program scheduled for the next meeting of the Queen's Daughters to be held at Marian Manor, Taunton, at 8 o'clock on Monday night, March 4.
This program includes the showing of colored slides of the rare gowns of the First Ladies taken at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Through these slides and stories, one receives an intimate glimpse of the ladies who have served as White House hostesses throughout history. Planning this event are Miss Winifred Laughlin and Mrs. Alphonse Braga, Co-chairmen; the following will assist with arrangements: Mrs. Aristides Andrade, Mrs. James Blount, Mrs. GOURMET EVENT: LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro Robert Briand, Mrs. James Down· ing, Mrs. John Kelly, Mrs. Joseph featured a French wine, cheese and bread tasting event. McNulty, Mrs. Veronica O'Boy, Enjoying the sampling are Chuck .Gagnon and Miss Mary Mrs. Richard Paulson, Mrs. StuAlarie. art Place, Mrs. Manuel Sylvia, Mrs. James William, Misses Alice Doherty, Elizabeth Doran, Katherine Hern, Anne Keliher, Anne Laughlin, Adrienne Lemieux, Marguerite MoManus and May Power. Women Can Serve Church on Temporary A lenten message will be given Basis Without Vows , to the group by Mrs. Aristides , ST. JOSEPH (NC)-The Con· munity, both spiritual and other- Andrade, president. vent of St. Benedict here in Min- wise. Creation nesota is offering women Ithe "We will give women the opNot once in the dim past, but chance to experience convent life por~unity of living in a commucontinuously by conscious mind without taking religious vows. nity situation,' but at the same is the miracle of the Creation The invitation is part of a program called Volunteers for time expect no commitment on wrought. their part." A.S. Eddington Christian Service. Sister Ruth Nierengarten, pr07 She said' that service areas will gram conductor, said th~ pro- include all apostolates now enWindsor Music 993-6263 gram' was started to' "provide a gaged in by the Sisters of the .channel for women who want to St. Joseph community; Th~se inDANCE - REAL· LIVE - MUSIC oUer their talents in service to clude education, health care, Tony Rapp-Art Perry the Church on a temporary secretarial wo.rk, catechetics and -basis." March I-lincoln Park homemaking. 2-our Lad'y of Fatima, N.B. 16-K,C., Newport She said the program will also 16-Christopher Rooney K,C., Ports. She said that for the first year give women the opportunity to 16-SI. Theresa, Tiverton 3D-K,C., McMahon, N. B. work alongside Religious women the volunteers will be placed in 3D-Immaculate Conception, N.B. jobs only within the diocese of who have made a lifetime .comApr. 6-Fr: Joseph Boehr K,C., Tiverton St. Cloud. Afterwards, she said, 13-St. Theresa Hal!, Tiverton mitment ,to Christ. 2D-Sacred Heart, New Bedford expansion of the program and 27-8oys Club of N.B. Sister Nierengarten said the job opportunities may be unlimMay 4-Lakeville lion's Club Benedictine community has ited. 18-Feast of Blessed sacrament Ball sensed the desire of young people to )lave the support of a com-
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By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick Vacation week is now almost a thing of the past, and per usual half of the things I had planned to do remain undone. But I did manage to start some seeds (gloxinias, marigolds, and zinnias), the latter two being destined for the garden, while the gloxI Tablespoon olive oil inias are being prepared for 1 cup diced onion the fluorescent garden. For 1 clove garlic, finely minced those people interested in 1 cup diced carrots
starting seed, what follows is my method for better or for worse. Tender annuals cannot be placed outside until the danger of frost is passed (in this area about May 15) so it is a good idea to plan where you will grow the seedlings once they germinate. By starting the seeds now they will be growing well in a month and will need plenty of sunlight. By the time April arrives I put them out each morning and take them in at night or else I put them in a cold·frame that is bottomed with manure for gentle bottom heat and cover them at night. At any rate it is important that you con· sider how you will grow the seeds after they germinate. Procedure Now to start the seeds. Seeds require moisture to germinate. So, no matter what the medium you use, be sure that you water the seedlings and seeds at least twice a day. If the medium dries out, the seeds will not sprout, period. As to the medium, I use a combination of sifted peat moss and vermiculite in flats, or any container that is reasonably accessible. I have built a. wood frame which is two feet by four feet in which I grow most of my seeds. Once I have selected my containers, I mix the peat and vermiculite thoroughly and place it in the container at a depth of about two inches. Then follows a good soaking and after a day or so the sowing of the seed. This is done in rows and marked according to the seed etc. at the depth suggested on the seed package. Small seeds I usually drop on top of the soil without concerning myself about cover· ing them. From then on in it. is a matter of spraying the seeds every day until I see some life. For spraying I use almost anything at hand from Windex bot· ties to Marilyn's ironing sprayer. When the seedlings appear I add a pinch of fungicide to the spray to prevent damping off. Once the seedlings germinate and begin to touch each other I usually thin them out so that only the healthiest remain. When the seedings become large enough for their first transplanting I place them in flats for their final home prior to going out to the garden. At this juncture, I rarely fertilize but wait until the plants are ready for the garden. With the price of meat, and everything else we eat, hitting all time highs the search for lowcost meals continues, and this soup recipe could be a perfect recipe for a chilly March day when you're exhausted from cleaning the mud out of your house. Minestrone (serves six to 8) Y2 pound Italian sweet sausage
1 teaspoon basil 2 small zucchini, sliced
1 I-lb. can Italian tomatoes (undrained) . 2 10 oz. cans beef bouillon 2 cups finely shredded cabbage salt and pepper to taste 1 pound can kidney beans un- . drained y:! cup rice y:! cup red wine (optional) freshly grated parmesan cheese 1) Slice sausage crosswise, brown in olive oil in deep saucepan or Dutch oven. 2) Add onion, garlic, carrots and basil then cook for 5 min. Add zucchini, tomatoes (with liquid) bouillon, cabbage, salt and pepper. ·Bring soup to a boil, reduce heat and simmer covered for one hour. 3) Add beans with their liquid, rice and wine then cook for another 20 minutes until rice is done. Cool and refrigerate. About 20 minutes .before serving reheat soup slowly and check seasonings. Add' more salt and pepper if desired. In The Kitchen As we enter the month of wind, and changeable weather that will fluctuate between· a high of sixty to a late winter blizzard, mothers find the clearing days fraught with mixed bless· ings. True we all love to see the sudden hint of spring that brings out the bikes, tennis racquets and little children, who up to this point have been housed in destroying said domain. However a strange happening takes place when children and· dogs' meet the first thaw - mud appears. I could possibly take the mud in stride if it stayed where it belonged-outside; but we have a house filled with "carriers" and these walking mud-collectors carry it inside. Once inside it turns to a light brown powder that covers everything-particularly those things that have just seen water, such as my kitchen floor. While no one will ever accuse me of being "crazy clean" the sight of this mud, decorating every dark floor in sight, brings out the shrew in me and everything I've ever heard about quiet talks between parents and children is quickly forgotten. By mid-March the kids have learned a few rules about the mud, please leave it in the garden. Dad and Grandpa will need :all the dirt there, if there's going to be any plants but I don't know of anyone who can teach rules to our eighty pound golden retriever. For not only does Missy bring in the mud on her paws, she has evidently h~ar~ that mud is good for a lady's fur so she wallows in it. If we were· stern masters we would relegate our Missy (and her mud-caked coat) to the basement
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Thurs., Feb. 28, 197-4
YEARS OF SERVICE: Mt. Carmel Parish in New Bedford recently held a banquet honoring its Scoutmaster of 33 years. Left to right, Scoutmaster Teddy Souza, Chairman Alfred Rebello and David Mendonca.
Programs Budget Support for Nonpublic: Schools Welcomed in New York ALBANY (NC)-A spokesman for Catholic school superintendents in New York state. has welcomed the "strong support" given to nonpublic schools in the proposed state budget. J. Alan Davitt, executive secretary for the Council of Catholic School Superintendents in New York State, praised the 1974-75 state budget which would reimburse nonpublic schools for the cost of participating in state-mandated programs. These include Board of Regents examinations and pupil attendance and evaluation programs. The cost of reimbursement would be about $8 million annually. Gov. Malcolm Wilson's budget recommendations· regarding nonpublic schools were made on the advice of the Board of Regents, the state's highest education policy-making body. Gov. Wilson also supported a regent's proposal that handicapped students and those taking vocational education courses be eligible for dual enrollment in public and nonpublic schools. Davitt also lauded several other Board of Regents' proposals not included in the gover-
and let her howl until "disturtbing the peace" complaint was filed. Sternness has. never been one of our virtues, either with children or pets, so when Missy scratches at the door to come in one of us opens it and then with the force of a projected missile the dirt-covered dog shoots by us and lands in a shaking heap at the far end of the family room couch. Now not only does the mud cover the floor it has crept up on to the furniture. We can't even escape the mud in the car because just as we pull up in front of the house and open the back door to remove the groceries Missy and her friend (another huge animal) jump gleefully onto the seat and sit there in their mud-covered glory, "faster than the speed of lightning." Oh, well March only has 31 days-Thank God.
nor's budget message. He praised the regents' suggestion that the state clearly spell out which health and welfare services nonpublic school students are entitled to participate .in. Such clarification, Davitt said, "would save the expense and bitterness whic:h arise when students in some areas are denied services whieh other places make available.
HARRISBURG (NC) - A bill which attempts to take full advantage of the power given by the U. S. Supreme Court to local communities in banning obscenity was passed by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives here by a vote of 151-34. The bill, an amended version of a bill passed earlier by the state Senate, received strong support from the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference. The bill provides for: Prohibition of pornography in Pennsylvania based on U. S. Supreme Court guidelines. Designating the county as the local community which sets standards of what is to be con· sidered obscene. Criminal prosecution of obscenity cases without first requiring a civil case, which previously had the effect of preventing effective enforcement of obscenity statutes. Prohibition of sale and display of sexually oriented material for minors. Confiscation of allegedly obscene material at the time of a preliminary injunction, and de· destruction of the material if found by the court to be obscene. The bill must be returned to the Senate for approval of the changes made by the House before it may be sent to the governor for his signature.
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Priest Says U.S. Should Give Aid To American Prisoners Abroad CINCINNATI (NC)-The U. S. government should consider pro· viding financial assistance to insure proper legal representation for Americans accused of crimes in foreign countries, according to an American priest who serves as chaplain to Engilish-speaking prisoners in Rome's Regina Coeli jail. Msgr. Lawrence K. Breslin told audiences at Xavier University here that the West German government "sends money to people like my German counterpart in Rome to provide the basic needs for the prisoners" and "pays a retainer fee for an Italian lawyer." Officials of the German agency, :United Assistance for Incriminated Persons, Msgr. Breslin said, visit major cities like Rome at leas't once a year to meet wi.th 10c~1 officials and "help ease any complications arising from incarceration of their citizens." The objective of the agency, he added, is to insure that a German citizen in a foreign nation receives the same legal protection as he would if he were in Germany.
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"I think that as international life develops," Msgr. Breslin said, "we are going to have to think in similar terms, not only regarding jail problems but other problems of our social exis'tence." In addition to many physical privations; he noted, the American in a Roman jail experiences the additional penalty of "an unfamiliar legal system where communications bor:der on the impossible, where cultural barriers are more formidable than iron bars or stone walls, where the ocean separating one from
India Catholic News Service Closes NEW DELHI (NC) - The Ca,tholic News Service of India (CN!), which supplied news on Indian Catholic events to the 14 Catholic newspapers in the country and to 200 private subscribers, has closed down, its director, Jesuit Father John Barrett, , annuounced. The decision to close was made by the CNI governing board a·t a Jan. 20 meeting when Father Barrett, a U. S. Missioner, reported that he was unable to find a successor. The continued dependence of the agency on one man for its management and financing had left it in a precarious position, he said.
COMMEMORATION OF SCOUTING MONTH: Troop No. 35 and Cub Pack No. 35 that are sponsored by 81. Mary's Cathedral parish held their annual Scouting Sunday by attending Mass offered by Rev. Barry 'W. Wall in the Cathedral and then participated in the awards held during the Blue and Gold Banquet served in the Cathdral Hall.' Top: Bobc~ts-seated, Tim Dion, Blessed Sacrament Parish; and Michael Daley, SS. Peter and Paul. Standing, Dave Dion,' Blessed Sacrament; Paul Martin, SS. Peter and Paul; Thomas Robert Paquette, Blessed Sacrament; Everett Howard III, SS. Peter and Paul; Donald Bernier, pathedral; Chris Gonsalves, St. Elizabeth's. Bottom left, members of the Wolves Joseph Berry of the Cathedral and Todd Jezak of SS. Peter and Paul. Bottom right: Kevin Landry, the Bear grouJli.
those who care drowns one in hopelessness. "Our task is to help a man in such a position feel that he is redeemable; that despite all there is a saving force which recognizes some· thing worthwhile -in him." With a group of- three seminarians, Msgr. Breslin visits two jails every Saturday. "We find ourselves dealing with Americans, Englishmen, Canadians, Africans, Asians, South Americans, anyone wHh whom we can communicate." He also says Mass for about 30 Italians in the infirmary section of the jails. But there are prisoners who are not in jail, Msgr. Breslin said. "If (the Church) is to reconcile the prisoner in jail, it is also to reconcile anyone who is a prisoner of any kind: a prisoner of bias, of hate or antagonism, of fear and ignorance, of spiritual and material poverty."
Bulk of Nonpublic School Aid Upheld PHILADELPHIA (NC) - A three-judge federal court here upheld the constitutionality of three forms of Pennsylvania aid to nonpublic schools and partially upheld a fourth form. The panel ruled that such aid as auxiliary services and the lending of textbooks and other instructional material does not violate the First Amendment. But ,the judges scheduled a meeting, with counsel to determine which forms of instructional equipment the state could valid· 'ly lend nonpublic schools. The ruling rejected a suit filed by several individuals and groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Pennsylvania Jewish Community Relations Council 'and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The suit claimed that an expected $31· million in aid to nonpublic schools would provide unconstitutional support for religious schools.
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Insurance Company Wins Client For Refusing to Cover Abortions LAWRENCEVILLE (NC)-The Golden Rule Insurance Co., a small firm headquartered here, has won a client-the Evansville, Ind., diocese - away from Blue Cross-Blue Shield because the Golden Rule refuses to provide any coverage for abortion.
cese would have to reconsider its continuing with Golden Rule. "We would be right back where we were a few months ago with Blue Cross," he noted. Although Blue Cross offered to rewrite its policy with the Evansville diocese to exclude abortion coverage, Bishop FranGolden Rule is a rarity among . cis Shea was opposed to continhealth insurers, according to a spokeswoman for the Health In- uing to do business with any surance Association of America, firm which made any payment who said that most major insur- und.er any policy covering aborance companies provide abortion tions. coverage in their health plans. "To continue our association However, some, like Blue Cross- with a company which offers Blue Shield allow subscribers to such coverage," Bishop Shea said, "seems to me to be comdrop the abortion coverage. pletely at variance with the The Golden Rule Insurance Church's stance in this very Co. may pick up many more grave mon~1 issue." customers because of its present The decision by Golden Rule policy of refusing to provide benefits for induced abortions, not to cover abortions or vasecaccording to the company's sec- tomies, said Rooney, a Catholic, retary, J. Patrick Rooney, but he "was made for a moral reason," said that if a company asked and not because the company for a policy which included cov- expected to gain any business. erage of abortions, the company "might" agr:ee. Recently the Evansville diocese terminated its contract with Blije Cross-Blue Shield and switched to Golden Rule because 'of its policy on abortion. If Golden Rule begins writing policies which cover abortions, said Msgr. Orner F. Meyer, chairman of the Evansville Diocesan Insurance Committee, the dio-
NCEA Official WASHINGTON (NC)-Xaverian Brother John Olsen has been named executive secretary of the secondary school department of the National Catholic Educational Association. A native of Brooklyn, N. Y., Bro~her Olsen has been serving as assistant dean of the school of education at Catholic University since 1971. He was also the president of Xaverian College in Silver Spring, Md.
Plan Permanent Diaconate Study
CHICAGO (NC) - Officials from all U. S. dioceses have been invited to participa,~e in workshops on the permanent diaconate at Quigley Preparatory Seminary-South here. The 15 workshop include discussions of ministry in hospitals, prisons and law enforcement, the black community, religious ed. ucation, suburbia, and business and industry. Wives of Chicago deacons will lead a session on "The Permanent Deacon as Seen by His Wife." The day will include a welcome by Cardinal John Cody of Chicago and a talk by Msgr. Ernest Fiedler, executive director of the U. S. bishops' Committee for the Permanent Diaconate.
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Four Cardinals Will Testify For Unborn WASHINGTON (NC) - Four U. S. cardinals will testify in March on behaIf of a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn hefore a subcommittee of the United States Senate, it wss announced here. They are Cardinals Jo.hn Krol of Philadelphia, president of th~ National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC); John, Cody of Chicago, chairman of the NCCB Commit· tee for Pro-Life A~tivities; Tim· othy Manning of Los Angeles; and Humberto Medeiros of Bos· ton. They will appear Marc;h 7 at the "invitation of ,the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, which is chaired by Sen. Birch Bayh (D.·Ind.), to plead for constitutional protection of the unborn as a response to the U. S. Supreme Court'·s decisions last year legalizing abortion. The subcommittee is opening hearings March 6 on two such amendments that have peen proposed in the Senate. Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary of the NCOB and usee, announced that the cardinals would testify after a meeting here of the NCCB Administrative Committee. Concerned American:; Representatives of other reli· gious, civic and professional groups are also expected to testify at the hearings, Bishop Rausch noted. "The cardinals will speak as concerned Americans," he said, "not to advocate sectarian doctrine 'but to defend human rights. "Their presence will be a concrete expression of the concern they share with millions of other Americans over the national scandal of legalized abortion on demand permitted by the Supreme Court's abortion decisions of January 22, 1973," Bishop Rausch continued. "The unborn are entitled to constitutionaI ,protection of their right to life. The dignity and value of human life are under attack in our nation today. It is not only the right but the duty of concerned citizens to do whatever they can to reverse this dangerous and tragic trend." At their annual meeting here last November the U. S. bishops went on record in support of a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn. At that time, however, they did not spell out which of the several amendments before Congress they considered the best.
Reflecting on the project, Alence remarked, "I'm happy with what I've accomplished. I enjoy watching people stop before the sculpture and examine it. Because that's just what I hoped would happen. It grabs their attention as no ordinary sign would do." \ , A graduate of Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Alence organized a Graphic and Plastic Arts Club at Stonehill. He is majoring in college studies at the 1,600-student institution.
DALLAS (NC) - Christian churches are experiencing a new "springtime of the action of the Spirit of God," Cardinal Leo Suenens of Malines-Brussels, Belgium, said here. What is new today in the. Church, he said, is a new'awareness of the Holy Spirit, and an openness to the full spectrum of His action.. Cardinal Suenen·s spoke at St. Matthew's Episcopal Cathedral here to North Texas clergy and laymen. He cited the charismatic renewal in Christian churches and the ecumenical dialogue as two areas in which the working of the Holy Spirit is most evident today. . Tracing the development of the early, Christian Church in the Gospels and the letters of St. Paul, the cardinal said the Holy Spirit was there all the time, guilding the Apostles, pushing them forward or stopping them from time to time. Holy Spirit Present "What's happening today," he said, "is a renewal of those manifestations of -the Spirit of God that the Church had met in the beginning." The charismatic renewal has brought back the experience of the reality of the Holy Spirit present in the early Church, he said, "before the Holy Spirit was a doctrine." Cardinal Suenens said the charismatic renewal is essentially an invitation to discerning faith, to seeing the presence and action of the Spirit of God, to seeing "how close He is to us in daily life." . In, the ecumenical dialogue, Cardinal Suenens saiq, it is easy to get the impression that the movement is not as .strong today as it was a few years ago. That impression comes· because" the progress is not so spectac~ ular, so newsmaking, as it was in the earliest years.
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ADDITION TO CAMPUS SCENE: Robert Alence, student sculptor, sits before his work "Stonehill" on the Stonehill College campus.
-Contribution of Student Sculptor Employing the artistic tools of cubism and impressionism, Robbert Alence fashioned 12 tons of concrete into an inscriptive sculpture for Stonehill College's new, $1.3 million College Center. Alence, a Stonehill sophomote and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Alence of One Harvard St., Wellesley,· worked for five months on the design and construction of the sculpture that sits solidly beside the front steps of the Center. The facility houses a 2,500-seaf gymnasium and a va· riety of student-activity services, including a student publication office, FM radio station and gameroom. The sculpture, expla'ins Alence, is a blending of the pragmatic requirements of a sign with the aesthetic qualities of art. The massive ,gray block, which measures 10 feet long, five feet high and two feet deep, is cast in a series of recessions and reliefs to spell the word "StoneHill." Shadow Letters "I tried to de~ign a sculpture that would serve as a sign and yet be continually stimulating to the viewer," Alence remarked. "It's something that you have to look at intently. The more yOU
look, the more you will see. "That's a philosophy that underlies all the art work I've done." The inscription is cast in a way that has some letters formed by shadows resulting from the light playing on the concrete figures. In other instances, Alence noted, the inscriptive forms lead the viewer to make mental links that complete letters. Alence proposed the idea to Stonehill administrators while the College Center was under construction. With the administration's backing, he set about to design and engineer the sculpture. After researching designs and theorizing on effective methods of casting concrete figures, Alence completed a one-ton model as a test of his plans. Cement Poured, at Site Making some adjustments on the basis of his experience with the model, Alence ,supervised a team of tradesmen who constructed.the wooden mold for the casting. Because of its mammoth size, the sign was poured at its site before the College Center.
Portuguese Priest To Appeal Sentence
LISBON (NC)-Father Mario Diaconate Thrives Pais de Oliveira, who has critCollege plJ'esident icized Portu'gal's wars in its In Troubled Times African territories, has been senWILKES-BARRE (NC)-Holy ALBANY (NC)-The diaconate seems "to thrive in times of Cross Father Charles D. Sherrer, tenced to a month in jail or a great difficulty, even persecu- head of the English department $90 fine for "inciting public distion," according to th~ priest who- at the University of Portland, obedience." The plenary court at Oporto supervises the U: S. bishops per- are., will assume duties as presmanent diaconate office. . ident of King's College here in sentenced the priest, acquitted That aspect of the diaconate Permsylvania in June. Father three years ago of charges of may be responsible for its re- Sherrer, who has studied at the . preaching subversion, after a vival, Msgr. Ernest Fiedler University of Notre Dame, three-month trial.. said in an interview. He was Rome's Gregorian University and Father Pais, whose poli.tical here to speak at a 'clergy confer- ,the University of North Carolina, rights were suspended for three ence at which it was announced will succeed Holy Cross Father years by the court, has already that a permanent diaconate pro- Lane D. Kilburn, King's College spent several months In jail gram would begin in the Albany president since 1964. Father awaiting trial. He plans to ap· diocese in the fall. Sherrer was ordained in 1961. peal, the sentence.
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Supreme Test Confronts Egypt's President Sadat
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Several weeks ago in this column, reference w~s made to a sensational attack (some have called it diatribe) levelled against the State of Israel by Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J. in a widely publicized speech delivered before a predominantly pro-Arab audience. I did not (underline repudiate or, at the very least, to· disassociate themselves from not) accuse Father Berrigan Faisal's position, which runs abof being consciously anti- solutely contrary to the' teachi~
Semitic, but I did say that in my opinion he wittingly or unwittingly skirted around the fringes of anti-Semitism as many
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other anti-Zionists are unfortunately wont to do in discl.!ssing the continuing crisis in the Middle East. Since then I have received more than the average number of hate letters clabbering me for my remarks about Berrig!n's ,speech, and at the same time viciously attacking Israel. Frankly, these letters tend to confirm my long-standing impression that, in the case of many of Israel's more simplistic and intemperate critics, the line between anti-Zionism and· antiSemitism is so thin as to be almost imperceptible. Hatred of Israel In all honesty, I must say that with unsolicited friends like the people who have irately rushed to his defense in response to my recent column, Father Berrigan needs no enemies. With few exceptions, his defenders have made it perfectly clear that their hatred of Israel (and I use the word hatred advisedly) is made up in equal parts of political anti-Zionism and religious or cultural anti-Semitism. I think it's significant, in this connection, that none of these letters in defense of Father Berrigan's speech makes any reference to the fact that the second half of the column they found so offensive referred not to that speech, but rather to a nakedly anti-Semitic (and not merely anti-Zionist) statement . made within recent weeks by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, whose dominant influence in determining Arab policy with regard to the State of Israel is a matter of public record. Visas Refused King Faisal's attack on Israel, which I quoted verbatim at considerable length, had nothing to do with the politics of the Middle East crisis.. It was a classic regurgitation of cultural and religious anti-Semitism. The fact that none of those who wrote to me about the Berrigan matter took any notice of the King's unconscionable statement tells me more than my correspondents probably wanted me to know about their own attitudes with regard to the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, as distinct from their attitude concerning the political aspects of the Middle East conflict. I would have expected them to
of their own Church. on Chris., tian-Jewish relations. Lest it be thought that Faisal's recent statement misrepresented his true feelings with regard to the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, let me report, for Father Berrigan's defenders, that when Eric Rouleau, Middle East expert on the staff of LeMonde, the leading newspaper in France, asked for a visa to accompany the French Foreign Minister, M. Jobert, on a recent visit to Saudi Arabia, he was refused because he had described himself as a Jew in his visa application. Four other Jewish newsmen either said that they were "without religion" or produced forged baptismal certificates in order to follow M. Jobert to the capital or'Saudi Arabia. Interestingly, Rouleau has previously traveled very widely in the Arab world and his al'ticles have generally been somewhat critical of Israeli policy. Solemn Protest In any event, M. Jobert did not protest Saudi Arabia's refusal to admit Rouleau, but the French National Union of Journali!?t Syndicates, in a wrHten "solemn protest" expressed its "indignation at racist, philosophical or religous protexts used to prevent the free exercise of a journalist's profession and to suppress freedom of expression," LeMonde also reports that each of the newsmen in M. Jobert's party, including those Jewish reporters who managed to secure a visa, came back from Saudi Ar8lbia with a "personal gift" from King Faisal in the form of a small silk basket containing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and an anthology of other anti-Semitic writings. The Protocols, a notorious forgery, first appeared in Czarist Russia around the turn of the century. It soon became the bible of international anti-Semitism, portraying an alleged conspiracy by the "Elders of Zion" to bring about the downfall of all governments and set up a world Jewish empire by means of terror and class struggle, all with the help of corrupt politicians, Free Masons, liberals and atheists. The completely fraudulent nature of the Protocols was exposed in the early 1920s, but even today the presses of Saudi Arabia continue to turn out copies by the thousands, and it has become, according to Saudi officials, "the King's favorite· literature." Faisal Influential King Faisal, who played a major role in masterminding the Arab oil embargo against the United States is regarded as one of the most influential Arab figures in· the Middle East. He began the new year in Mecca with two million Moslem pilgrims chanting "liberate Jerusalem." Faisal told the throng: "We need to stand strong and united
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ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The Couples Club will sponsor a St. Patrick's Day Dance on the eve of the feast, March 16 at 8 o'clock in the school hall. AI Rios orchestra will supply the music and refreshments will be available. Mr. and Mrs. Armand Duquette, chairmen have.announced that the affair is open to the public. REV. ALBERT A. CROCE
New Appointee For Stonehill Development
OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS, FALL RIVER. The Parish Council will hold its next meeting at 7 o'clock on Sunday night, March 10 in the parish hall. A Mission in Portuguese will be conducted from March 3-9. All who are planning to make the one-day trip to New York on' Saturday, March 30 are urged to make res(lrvations as soon as possible. The attendance at an Easter show is included in the trip. The Jardinaires will provide the music for the spring dance scheduled for Saturday night, March 23.
SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Michael J. Coughlin, president of the Men's Club is serving as chairman of the committee planning a reception in honor of Rev. Alexander M. Zichello, who was recently transferred from the Sacred Heart Parish to administrator of St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford. The affair will beheld from 2 to 4 in the school hall on Sunday. March 10. Mrs. Willard Piper, president of the Women's Guild heads a large committee planning the refreshments for the occasion. On Saturday evening, March 30, the Women's Guild will sponsor a meat pie supper. Two sittings will be availa~le-at 5:30 and 7:30. The Jardinaires will provide music for the dancing that will follow the last sitting. Admission for the first sitting will be $2.50 while the admission for the second sitting which includes the dance program will be $3.50. Tickets may be obtained at the rectory or from any member of the board. Mrs. Edward F. McGrady and Mrs. Willard Piper are serving as co-chairmen.
The Rev. Albert A. Croce, a former missionary and Brockton native, has been appointed to the Office of Development at Stonehill College. Father Croce's main responsibilities will be assisting in the 'special gifts program of the development campaign and liaison HOLY CROSS, with the Century Club, an anFALL RIVER nual giving program at the libST. WILLIAM, eral arts college. The Women's Guild will sponFather Croce has devoted FALL RIVER sor a flea market from 11 to 7 The Women's Guild has remore than a decade to missionP.M. on Friday and Saturday, scheduled the storm-postponed ary 'work. He served for six March 8 and 9 in the school hall years as Vice President of Notre whist party of Feb. 24 to the on Manchester St. Refreshment.> new date of Sunday, March 3 Dame College in Dacca, the capwill be available. ital of Bengla Desh and later at 1:30 in the parish center. Hostesses for the affair will ST. MICHAEL, was a founder of the Holy Cross FaUiers' school in the Italian be Mrs. Albert Williams, Mrs. FALL RIVER Alps. In 1963 he was a co- Robert Reid, Mrs. Francis GauThe annual Spring Fashion founder of 'the ·first Holy Cross thier and Mrs. Rita St. Michel. Show and Dinner will be held on A scrimshaw demonstration mission in Peru. Father Croce I Wednesday night, March 13 in later taught English at St. will be conducted at the next the Venus de Milo Restaurant, . guild meeting on Wednesday eveGeorge's College in Santiago, Swansea. Dinner will be served ning March 13. Members may Chile. at 6:30. and fashions for both bring guests to this meet,ing. For the last eight years he has men and women will be shown served as a professor of English ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, following the meal. at King's College, Wilkes-Barre, •'ALL RIVER Tickets may be obtained \ by Pa. Masses during Lent will be at calling the school at 8-0266' or A graduate of Br:ockton High School, Father Croce joined the 7 and 11 in the morning and 4 Mrs. Louise Rego at 4-52iO. Plans have been made for a Holy Cross Fathers at Stonehill in the afternoon. Rev. John A. Gomes will con- paper drive on the weekend of College.. He received his bachelor's degree at the University of duct a series of four programs in April 20-21. Parishioners and . Notre Dame. After his ordina- Adult Education on the first four friends are asked to &tart saving tion, he returned to Notre Dame Wednesday nights at 7:30 in the paper and magazines at once. and earned a master's degree in lower church. The topic will be ST. MARY, English literature. In addition, the Mass. Parents and teachers of pupils NEW BEDFORD Father has done further graduate in the fifth grade CCD classes work at Boston University and The parish will host a series will meet at 7 o'clock on Monday of six Lenten Forums beginning Oxfiord University, England. Father Croce succeeds the night, March 11 for a discussion on Friday night, March 1 at Rev. James V. Lowery, who is on that grade's religious educa- 7:30. now at the Parish of St. John tion program. Sr. Arlene Violet, RSM, J.C.D. The newly organized worship will speak on Social Justice. the Evangelist in Pocasset. committee will meet at 7:30 on A different current topic will Monday night, March 4 in the be the theme of each forum and against the Zionists, the ene- church hall. the Christian's role in today's The Council of Catholic Women emies of Allah. Jews have no world will be stressed. A quesreligious or historic rights to will present a fashion show at tion period and social will be in7 o'clock on Sunday night, Jerusalem. Israel has no right to March 17 in the lower church. cluded in each session. remain in the holy city," King Faisal is not a partic- Tickets may be obtained by conipant in the Geneva negotiations, tacting Mrs. John Silvia or any but it would appear that Prince council member. Tickets will Sadat of Egypt has consistently also be available at the door. deferred to him and taken his ST. MARY, advice on crucial matters. 102 Shawomet Avenue FALL RIVER Father Berrigan and his folSomerset, Mass. Rev. Harry W. Wall, assistant lowers can help Sadat to meet Tel. 674-4881 this test by disassociating them- at the Cathedral, will give an selves from King Faisal's blatant illustrated lecture on Ireland at 3% room Apartment $155.00 per month anti-Semitism. The fact that, as the regular monthly meeting of 41/2 room Apartment $185.00 per of this writing, they have failed the Women's Guild scheduled for month to do so is not at all to their Monday night, March 4. Includes heat, hot water, stove, reMrs. Frederick J. Sullivan will credit. frigerator an~ maintenance service. serve as hostess for the meeting. ( © 1974 NC News Service) llUl,umylllllllllllllllllllllllmlIIlIlUllIlllllllllllllllIllUlllllllllllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIUtllll"tIIlllIlI
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 28, 1974
Writer's Respect For Rights
Solzhenitsyn Characters Are Recognizably Human
WASHINGTON (NC) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn's recent expulsion from the Soviet Union points out the primacy of the person and the rights. of the individual in a world of power relationships, according to Bishop James S. Rausch, general secre· tary of the U. S. Catholic Conference. In a statement on Soyzhenitsyn's arrest and expulsion, Bish· . op Rausch added that the Russian novelists's actions demonstrate again the power of conviction, conscience and moral character in the face of over· whelming physical force. But Solzhentsyn' also repr£.sents a whole class of persons who are unju'>tly oppressed, persecuted and imprisoned by governments throughout the world, he pointed out.
Patrick White, the Australian novelist, has been awarded the Nobel 'Prize for Literature for 1973. His latest work, The Eye .of the Story (Viking, 625 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022. $8.95),' is dressed in a jacket which proclaims that unbearable intensity the sufferfact and is garlanded with ings of typical Soviet citizens, praise of the author as "the and the evil which prevails in one novelist at present at that society. But his characters work in the English language who is indisputably possessed of genius." I had tried reading some of
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Mr. White's earlier work and could never see the genius at· tributed to him. But is one to dispute the judgment of the people who chose recipients of the Nobel Prize? Yes, one is. I reach this conclusion after going through The Eye of the Story, a 600-page volume. Its chief character is Elizabeth Hunter, an aged widow who has suffered a stroke and is dying. She is very rich, and dancing attendance on her are thre'e nurses, a housekeeper, a doctor, and a lawyer. Her two middle-aged children have been summoned from the other side of ,the world. The first to arrive is Dorothy, who, as the result of a disastrous marriage, has the title Princesse de Lascabanes. Then comes the son, Sir Basil Hunter, who has attained celebrity on the London stage. They have hurried to their mother's bedside not out of' love of 'her, but because they are eager to lay hands on her' money. Both of them are relativllly hard up. She 'dies, they get the money, but not before some excruciating experiences for everyone concerned, not least of al1 the -reader. .Master of Detail There is no doubt that Mr. White i&, a master of detail. He can, in a phrase, make us see, for example, a room by early · morning light: "there was a bloom of moonstones on the dark grove of furniture." He can define the people at Elizabeth Hunter's funeral: "elderly people stuffed into long-lasting tweed of fur held together my moulted buttons, they limped or shuffled out of the past, peering through a brandy haze with an air of hu~orous incredulity." But this is al1 external. His principal characters leave one cold, and this not necessarily because they are so unpleasant, in·· deed nasty. They have al1 sorts of human faults; corruption is rife in them; but they never seem · convincingly human. Last week we said something about another Nobel lam'eate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose fiction deals with life in the · Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn depicts at length and with almost
are recognizably human. I find it paradoxical that Solzhenitsyn, writing with greatest difficulty, under a brutal dictatorship, gets into his work more humanity, more af\firmation of human worth, more vision than does White, writing under no external pressure, in a society which is supposed to have a nobler concept of man and a higher hope. White has never had a large readership. Some critics blame GROMYKO VISITS CHURCH: Soviet Foreign Minister this on a weakness in popular Andrei Gromyko and his wife talk with Italian Home Mintaste, a failure of popular appre- ister Paolo Emilio Taviani during a visit to the Cathedral ciation. It may, however, be that his negativism and his maca,:bre of Orvieto. Gromyko was on an official visit to Italy and manipulation of his characters met Pope Paul later to discuss problems of world peace, are rightly perceived to be not especially in the Mideast. NC Photo. only repulsive, but also antiliterature rather than literature. 'Bury Me Deep' We turn from the pretentious ~ to the unpretentious when. we take up Peter M. Lappin's Bury Cardinal Speaks of DevH, Sex, Church Me Deep (Our Sunday Visitor, Tensions in Seminar Interview Nol1 Plaza, Huntington, Ind. 46750. $2.95.· IUustrated), tAle story of a South American Indian SAN DIEGO (NC) - Citing professional critiques of the paryouth who .aspired to ,be a Chris- progress in scientific understand- ticipants' performances. tian missionary to his own peo- ing, Cardinal Timothy Manning Interviewed for half an hour ple, but died in 1905 before he at Los Angeles said he does not by three journalists,. Cardinal could be ordained. . consider exorcism necessary to-' Manning told them he believes He was Zepherin Namuncura, day because "I believe posses- 'in the existence of a personal devil because of Scripture. But whose cause for canonization sion is non-existent today." This was one of the views the while the devil may act through has been introduced; he was declared Venerable by Pope Paul cardinal expressed in a wide- temptation and obsession (conVI in 1972. ranging television interview that trolling places and things), he This book does more than was part of a mass media sem- said, he does not believe in the cover his life of less th!1n 20 inar for .priests and bishops here.. existence today of possession years. It sets him against the (the taking over of a person's Ten bishops besides Cardinal mind and will by the devil). background of the Indians' life before the Spanish conquest, Manning, and about 20 priests' Modern advances in the sci· .their struggle against the in- attended the three-day commu- ences, such as medicine and psyvaders, their confinement to ever nications workshop sponsored chology, have explained many smal1er and poorer territory. by the San Diego diocese and cases that would once have been Zepherin's father and grand- the New York Catholic Commu- considered possession, he said. father were formidable warrior nications Foundation: chiefs, defeated by the superior "Unless you understand what Neighbor is happening (in conimunicaweapons of the white men. We have to love our neighbor - tions), you don't know how to because he is there ... He is the Interesting Story In boyhood, Zepherin repeat· handle it," communications ex- sample of humanity that is acedly heard his father talk of reo. pert Fmnk Shakespeare told the tually given us. Precisely be· storing the strength of the dis- 'priests' and bishops. cause he may be anybody he is Shakespeare, former head- of everybody. spirited Indians. He himself was sent to Buenos Aires to prepare the United States Inform'ation -G.K. Chesterton for leadership in such a work. Agency, emphasized the imporIt was there, in a school run tance of television, and especialby the Salesian Fathers, that he ly television news, in communiPLUMBING & HEATING,.INC. turned to another path of re- ca'ting information about the Sales and Service newal, that of profound Chris- Church. I for Domestic ~ ,tian conversion.· He would be He argued,that dealing \Vith and Industrial ~ .not a chieftain but a priestly TV n~ws should be given priorOil Burners servant. But death intervened. 995-1631 ity over special religious proHis story is interesting and gramming. "It is night news 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE significant. The author has done which has the greatest impact NEW BEDFORD considerable research, as the and where the Church's influ~ bibliography indicates. What he ence and voice should be heard," has not been able to document he said. he has freely imagined. This Part of the seminar involved gives the book a kind of dual practical experience for particnature: alongside passages which are factual there appear others' ipants in being interviewed by which·are fictional, as when long media reporters, followed by conversations between th.e boy and his father or mother are Contraetor. given. erin. There definitely was, and These are plausi,ble enough, this becomes clear as the book but certainly there is no record progresses. 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"These individuals do not possess Solzhenitsyn's unique genius and therefore have less visibiHty and less support in their struggle," Bishop Rausch said. "But their rights are no less sacred, the viola,tion of their rigltts is no less immoral, their claim upon us is no less urgent even though we do not know their names or their faces."." Only a few are capable of Solzhenitsyn's artistic genius, the bishop concluded. "But we are called 'by his witness to a more courageous and articulate concern for' the righ~s of others wherever they are stifled."
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John F. Kennedy once described politics as the "art of the possible." In his mind political activity was the means of realistically making possible a better world for people who quite legitimately differ on -their views of what makes up a better world and of the means to achieve such a goal. I
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Many Christians have tended to look on politics much mora negatively. In fact, in today's Watergate- tainted atmosphere many Christians take an even dimmer view than ever before of politics and politicians. The present political climate seriously challenges religious educators to present a positive, realistic view of politics in the light of Christian principles. Young and old today have a right to learn sound Christian principles regarding poHtics. It is striking that the Second Vatican Council devoted an entire chapter of its "Constitution in the Modem World" to a constructive evaluation of polHics. Perhaps it would be worth reflecting on a few of the principles sketched out by the bishops at the Council. The bishops suggest that involvement in political activity is part of the personal vocation of Christians. "Let all Christians appreciate their special and personal vocation in the political community. This vocation requires that they give conspicuous example of devotion to the sense of duty and of service to the advancement of the common good. Thus they can also show in practice how. authority is to be harmonized with freedom, personal initia'tive with consideration for the bonds uniting the whole social body, and necessary unity with beneficial diversitr·" Pers~nal Vocation Part of this personal vocation involves citizens' "simultaneous right and duty to vote freely in
New Chairman CHICAGO (NC)-Father Bernard H. Petrina, a priest of Ithe diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., has been elected chairman of the National Committee of Diocesan Directors of Campus Ministry during the committee's annual meeting here. Currently serving as chaplain at Bloomsburg State College and Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Father Petrina also serves as a coordinator of campus ministry for the Ecumenical Synod of Central Pennsylvania..
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BETTER WORLD NOT 'DIRTY BUSINESS': When the Christian sees political responsibilities as a moral imperative, a real consequence of his or her faith, then politics won't simply be "a dirty business." Hardworking delegates celebrate at the Republican convention of 1972 as Richard Nixon's nomination is secured nearly unanimously. NC Photo. the interest in advancing the' common good." While not all are called to enter full time into public political life, those who do so are singled out by the Council for praise. '.'The Church regards as worthy
of praise and consideration the work of those who, as a service to others, dedicate themselves to -the welfare of the state and undertake the burdens of this task." Tum to Page Fourteen
Vatican Asks Tourist Agencies To Keep Holy Year Costs Down VAToICAN CITY (NC) - The central committee for. the Holy Year has put it squarely,up to tourist agencies and travel com· panies to keep costs to individual Holy Year pilgrims down, particularly for the poor and the young. This is clear from a report in L'Osservatore Romano Feb. 13, on a recent meeting between authorities of the Vatican's central committtee and representatives of various sectors in Rome and Italy most interested in the movement and housing of an expected six million pilgrims during the 1975 Holy Year. At the meeting held outside Rome, Bishop Antonio Mazza, secretary general of the central committee, stressed' the "preeminently spiritual character" of the Holy Year. Underlining the religious aspects of the year-long observance which is celebrated by the Catholic Church normally once every 25 years, Bishop Mazza called for "moderation" by tour-
ist agencies and transport companies "in computing costs" and suggested they come to "an eventual form of self-control to avoid unfair co'mpetition and things which might give rise to disgust on the part of the pilgrims themselves," A representative of travel agencies with offices or branches in Rome assured Bishop Mazza of the cooperation of a majority of travel agencies in the Rome area. During discussion following the prepared talks it became clear that major prob· lems being considered by the travel agencies and others are costs, traffic problems, city sanitation preparations and police protection for visitors. Meanwhile questionnaires have been sent out by the Roman police to all hotels, boarding houses and religious hostels asking how many rooms they plan to make available and at what price. Efforts to establish supervision over conditions and costs in private homes are also being carried out by the police.
Herald listed some standard objections, including the most basic contention that politics has no place at all in the pulpit. According to this approach, a priest or minister should preach only the word of God; any impetus to specific social action should come, not from the clergyman, but from the congregation as a response to God's Word proclaimed to them. He then countered by enumerating several arguments on behalf of the contrary attitude which does not hesitate to delineate quite clearly both where things are wrong and what must be done· to right those injustices. Preacher's Options Article 76 from Vatican Irs document on the "Church in th~ Modern V,'orld" lends strong support to this second position. The pertinent excerpt reads as follows: "It is only right, however, tha't at all times and in all places, the Church should have true freedom to preach the faith, to ,teach her social doctrine, to' exercise her role freely among men, and also to pass moral judgment in those matters which regard public order when the fundamental rights of a person or the salvation of souls require it." Herald concluded by suggesting three options for the preacher: 1. Preach the Word and Christian values in an abstract manner without reference 'to any concrete situation. 2. Preach Christian v:alues and raise questions which surround a current. issue or set of issues. 3. Preach Christian values and take a definite stand on specific concerns. After this presentation, -the class, made up mainly of Catholic and Protestant clergy, divided into small groups and evaluated these possibilities. Every cluster, surprisingly enough, came to the same conclusion: The second alternative seemed best. Preach the Word, stress Christian values, they said, and raise hard questions about particular modern problems, but· avoid, giv-
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ing "the" answer, of maintaining this is Jesus' solution to an individual issue. Via Media I agree with them and believe both the "Constitution on the Church in the Modern World" and a later document, the 1971 Synod of Bishops statement from Rome on "The Ministerial priesthood," give substantial backing for that middle-of-the-way path through this delicate area. The very same article cited above from that Vatican II text notes: "The Church, by reason of her role and competence, is not idenitified in any way with the political community nor bound to any political system. She is at once a sign and a safeguard of the transcendent character of the human person," The Synodal publica-tion on the priesthood speaks in somewhat similar fashion: "In circumstances in which there exist legitimately different political, social and economic options. But since political options are by nature contingent and never in an entirely adequate and perennial way interpret the Gospel, the priest, who is the witness of things to come, must keep a certain dis,tance from any political office or involvement," Warnings to Preacher While this last quotation deals more precisely with the priest in politics rather than his preach. ing on that subject, I think the key words "contingent," "never entirely' adequate," and "never perennial" must be kept in mind by a speaker from the pulpit. The preacher should be carefUl labeling as Christ's plan or God's will the well intentional, good, but human resolution of a problem which is essenHally contingent and neither "'entirely adequate nor permanent. Because some may oppose or reject the latter, does not mean they automatically oppose or reject the former. I do not believe the person who worships on Sunday should be placed in the position of feeling that faith in our Lord means necessarily accepting detailed applications of Jesus' teaching to a current political, social or economic difficulty.
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Government Against Abortion, Puerto Rican Official Says SAN JUAN (NC)·-The Puerto Rican government said it opposes ahortion in a press statement .by the secretalOY cif justice, Francisco de Jesus Schuck. The 'government official said the position of the administration "has been firm and clear, and we do not favor the legalization of abortion in Puerto Rico." . He added that there are two cases related to the abortion issue before the courts at the present time. One is before the Puerto Rican Supreme Court and the other is in a U. S. federal court. Secretary Schuck declared that the administration is opposing any effort to de<:\are unconstitutional the Puerto Rican law that bans abortion in the island. A controversy has erupted here on whether the 1973 U. S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion applies here, since this island has that status of "free associated state" with the United States.. A demonstration ag~linst abor-
tion took place here Feb.. 3, in which some 30,000 people marched from the Capitol to the Puerto Rican Supreme Court building. The demonstration was organized by an interfaith organization. Auxiliary Bishop Juan de Dios Lopez of San Juan participated. Secretary Schuck also told journalists that the recommen· dations his office is making for a revision of the Puerto Rican Penal Code include' a recommendation to "maintain without aitera·tion the dispositions on abortion, because' of a social and econmic realities of Puerto Rico and of our cultural values. We must have autonomy to'determine if a criminal' activity may be legalized or not. I am against the legalization of abortion," he said. The only instance in which Puerto Rican law allows abortion is for medical reasons. The cases now before the courts challenge the constitutionality of the law on the' basis of the U. S. Supreme Court decision on the issue.
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ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON The Women's Guild will meet Registration for children en- at 8 on Tuesday night, March 5 tering kindergarten". first grade in the basement of the church. or any grade in St., James-St. Mrs. Lawrence Goldstein, repJohn Merged School will register resenting the Agudath Achim in the school building, Purchase Sisterhood will present a model and Wing Sts.; from 2 to 4 on Seder service,' the traditional Sundays, March 3 and 10. Passover supper held in Jewish The parish Couples Club will. homes. Guests are welcome to the sponsor a lecture by Dr. John meeting. Stanton, renowned physician and founding member of the Value IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, of Life Committee, at 8 o'clock FALL RIVER on Sunday evening, March 10 in The Women's Guild will hold the church hall at the corner of its next meeting at 8 o'clock on Rockland and County Streets. Monday night, March 4 in the The lecture is entitled "The parish center. Moral Aspects and the Physical The entertainment will 'consist Consequences of Abortion" and of an "Irish Show" under the it is open to the public. direc~ion of Peggy Sullivan. ST. 'MARY, SO. DARTMOUTH <' The Women's Guild will sponsor an "AI Mac's Club Party" luncheon in the parish center at ]2:30 on Wednesday, March 6. The luncheon is open to the public and tickets are $1.50 and may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Frederick Preece at. 6368377 or Mrs. James Cook at 992-4423. Babysitting will be availahle for mothers with young children.
Clover Club Choir Fall River Clover Club Choir will sing at· the 8:30 A.M. Mass at St. Patrick's Church, Fall River, on Sunday, March 10. The schedule also includes Saturday, March 16,5:30 P.M. at St. William's Church; Saturday, March 23, 5:15 P.M., St. Thomas More, Somerset; Sa'turday, March 30, 5:00 P.M., Sacred Heart, Fall River; Saturday, April 6, 7:00 P.M., St. Dominic's, Swansea. The choir will also sing at St. 'Joseph's, .Fall River, at a date to be announced. The club's 30th annual banquet and dance will be held at White's Saturday, March 16.
ST. MARY'S, SO. DARTMOUTH The Women's Guild will sponsor three lectures in a Lenten Forum to be held in' the parish center starting this Sunday night at 8 o'clock. Rev. John P. Driscoll, assistant general manager of The Anchor and pastor of St. Law'rence Parish, New Bedford will speak on Sunday night, March 3 on the topic "Growth and Development." On Tuesday night, March 12, at 8 o'clock, Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, chaplain at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River will discuss "Problems' of the Sick and the Dying." . The final lecture is scheduled for 8 on Sunday, March 31 with Rev. Michel Methot, assistant diocesan director. for Adult Education speaking on "Adult Religious Education~" A question and answer period will follow each lecture and the evenings will close w'ith coffee and· refreshments. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS The formation of a boy scout troop in the parish is now in process. Prospective leaders may sign up now.
ST. LOUIS (NC)-Responding to the ouster of 450 students and professors from Concordia (Lutheran) Seminary here, Jesuit-run St. Louis University and Eden (Unit~ Church of Christ) Theological Seminary haVE: joined to help the students finish their academic year. Father William Sullivan, dean of St. Louis University School of Divinity, called the new Joint Propect for Theological Education "a new and most unusual form of ecumenism." In a joint statement announcing the program, the two schools emphasized that their action is intended for the welfare of the students. It "in no way involves a judgment about the internal affairs of the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod (which owns Concordia) or the controversies which are at present taking place within the synod,". they said. Literalists in Control MODERN VIEW: "Politics is a dirty business!" That's The ouster of most of Concora common opinion today of many Americans. Politicians are dia's faculty and students was looked upon as dishonest, compromising, or just plain the culmination of a liberalstupid. Even the White House has been tainted by the brush conservative fight in the Missouri of scandal. A fisheye lens warps the view symbolically. Synod which began in. July, 1973, when hiblical literalists NC Photo. gained control at the church's synodal convention. Since then, the moderate to liberal faculty and student body at Concordia shape the attitudes and values have been the main focus of atContinued from Page Thirteen The bishops at the Council of their children, yet each of us, tack, with several administrators were quick to. realize that such whether private citizen or pro- and 43 of its 48 professors aca positive view of political ac- fessional politician, might well cused of heresy. tivity requires education. Per- examine his own "inner sense of In January Dr. John H. Tiethaps today that education is justice, benevolence, and service jen was suspended as president more necessary than at- the time for tjle common good." of Concordia, and most of the of the Council. While there is no doubt that seminary's teachers and students "Civic and political educa- evils exist in our present polit- staged a walkout and boy<;ott of tiQn is today sUp're~ely neces- . ical ·life, President Kennedy real- . classes. . sary for the people, especially istically reminds us tha·t politics On Feb. 18 the seminary's young people. Such education remains the "art of the possible." :board of control ordered the 48 should ,be painstakingly provided, dissenting professors and adminso that all citizens can make istrators to end their boycott by their contribution to the politCrucifi.x Remains noon or face dismissal. Wtten the ical community. Let those who MUNICH (NC) - A request boycott continued, they were disare suited for it, or can become missed, and those living in camso, prepare' themselves for the from a group called the Free pus housing were ordered to vaReligious Communities of Badifficult but most honorable art varia that crucifixes no longer cate the property by Feb. 28. of politics." On Feb. 19 some 400 students The Council does not layout be displayed in courtrooms in the state was rejected by Dr. voted to leave Concordia and join a curriculum or program for such education. However the Philip Held, Bavarian minister the dismissed faculty in a bishops do suggest what should of justice. Crucifixes in Bava- seminary-in-exile, after Concorbe at the heart of any 'political rian courtrooms will remain, Dr. dia announced that dissenting . Held said, hecause the general studeflts would be ousted by educational efforts: . public has not objected to them. March 4. "No better way exists for attaining a truly human political life than by fostering an inner SE:nse of justice, benevolence, and service for the' common good,' and by s'trengthening basic heliefabout the true nature of the political community, and :I." about the proper exercise and ~.~ 7 Perry 'Our Heating .....:..';r'~ limits of public authority." III . Avenue Encouraging such basic attiAMERICAN Oils Make tudes and values is central to ,TauntonMass. a Christian approach to politics. ~III~ It is evident that the responsi· Warm Friends' 822-2282 bility for this type of education is shared by all. Parents perhaps more than any other educators
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Twenty-four Local Tearns In State Schoolboy Tourneys Twenty-four teams representing schools located within the confines of diocesan territorial limits begin their quest this week for that cherished title of "state champion." Athletes from these institutions will don their togs knowing well a victory will move the years that -they can them one step closer to their over play with the best in the Comgoal while a loss means elim- monwealth. ination. By weekend the Holy Family High of New Bedstage will be set for the final rounds of competition in both the state schoolboy basketball and hockey tournaments. It is impossible to predict with any amount of certainty what fortunes will befall a team in tournament competition. All qualifiers have proven they can win. Any team that can get hot and put things together for a three or four game period can emerge victorious. In the basketball tournament, for example, no one can ever discount Durfee High of Fall River. The Hilltoppers have proven
ford has a tradition of rising to the occasion in tourney competition. Case High of Swansea more often than not comes through with a super effort when the chips are on the line. Martha's Vineyard has shown well over the past few years. In hockey Barnstable and Oliver Ames of Easton have established themselves on the state level. But, with the emergence of the Bristol County Hockey League and the building of more rinks throughout the area the calibre of hockey is improving steadily.
Three Schools Qualify for Both Events Taunton, Bishop Connolly High of ,Fall River and New Bedford Vocational have all shown surprising strength this Win ter. Whether they or the other local qualifiers have come far enough to compete with the best in Ma~sachu~etts remains to be seen. New Bedford. Taunton and Barnstable send contingents to both classics. The Whalers basketball team will compete in South Division I, the large school bracket. The Southeastern Massachusetts Conference Division I titllsts are joined by both defending State champion Taunton and Barnstable. While Barnstable is familiar with state hockey competition, Taunton and New Bedford will be playing in their first ice championships. In addition to these three schools being well represented, two cities will send three teams each to the playoffs. The Whaling City of New Bedford has the High School teams in both events while New Bedford Vocational will be playing in the hockey festival and Holy Family High battles for the Division III basketball crown. •
Fall River, a mecca for basketball , is slowly turning some of its attention to hockey. Fans are flocking to the new Driscoll Memorial Ririk to watch hockey at all levels. In fact many hockey games outdraw· Durfee basketball.
HOOPSTERS FROM TAIWAN: A female national basketball team from the Republic of China (Taiwan) visited Georgetown University Tuesday to play "A Game of Friendship" with girls from the Washington, D.C. school. In game action, Ling-ling Ho shoots in the first half. The score of the friendship game was less than fJiendly - China 115, Georgetown 48-but it was typical of other scores on the tour. NC Photo.
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CHICAGO (NC)-The Catholic Guild for the Blind here announced that it has published a large-print Mass book to help But, basketball is still king visually handicapped priests celin the hill city. Durfee is tour- . ebrate the liturgy. ney bound as is Dirilan Regional Intended primarily for priests Technical Vocational. Both who suffer such handicaps as schools will compete in Division glaucoma, cataracts or corneau I. Unfortunately for Diman, who malfunction, the book will also plays in Division III in the be available to laymen so that Southeastern Massachusetts Conference, teams are placed in divisions according to boy enrollment in grades 10-12. There is Taunton 10-5; Barnstable 12-6; little doubt that Diman will Diman 10-9. Division II quickly find itself outmanned. Perhaps the tournament commitDartmouth 15-3; North Attletee should evaluate technical boro 13-5; Seekonk 11-5; Case schools separately to equalize 12-6. Division III competition. Martha's Vineyard 17-1; WareBishop Connolly, the third ham 16-4; Old Rochester 16-4; Fall River qualifier, will attempt Nauset 14-4; Holy Family 11-5; to capture the hockey banner. The Cougars are a strong, aggressive club that could go a long way in the tourney. But, like most other local hockey qualifiers inexperience could hurt.
they call participate in the lit· urgy more actively, said the guild's director, WilIiam F. Lynch. The book, part of a 10·month project of the guild, includes all of the ordinary parts of the Mass and the four eucharistic prayers. It is set in heavy, large type on non·glare ivory paper, and comes in a plastic three-ring binder.
Chatham 13-7; Norton 13-7. HOCKEY Division II' Sandwich 12-0-0; Oliver Ames 16-1-3; Falmouth 8-1:0; Taunton 12-2-0.. Connolly 11-2-1; New Bedford 10-2-2; Barnstable 7·2; Vocational 7-3·4.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Con· gress was asked by a Catholic official to "strengthen its emphasis on voluntariness and the protection of personal freedom ... to check the drift toward coercion thalt is too readily apparent," in family planning programs. • Msgr. James T. McHugh also said .that the declining birth rate in the United States shows that "we are not undergoing a population explosion." The remarks by Msgr. McHugh, director of the family life division of the U. S. Ca,tholic Conference, came in testimony prepared for delivery Feb. 21 be· fore the public health and environment subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee. Msgr. McHugh said that a number of state legislatures are presently considering laws that would restrict welfare payments for dependent families to two children, or would use the income tax deductions to limit family size to two children per family." Hits Sterilization Msgr. McHugh, in his Feb. 21 '~estimony on HR 11511, the Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act of 1973, also said that federally funded family planning programs should not include abortion as a method of birth control and should exclude sterilization .. "The reason for this latter ex· clusion," he said, is "that sterilization is a radical and virtually irreversible procedure, one about which we know little in terms of physical or mental aftereffects and one that, because of its near-absolute destruction of the reproduotive capacity, should not be promoted under govern· ment-financed projects. "Moreover, given the primary orientation of HR 11511 toward servicing the needs of the poor, greater caution should be exercised in regard to sterilization as a means of birth control because it can too easily become a repressive measure used against poor people.
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for basketball supremacy while eight chase the hockey crown. Five schools will compete in Division I, four in Division II, and seven in Division III in the basketball playoff. Jt appears as t.hough the area's strongest representation will be in Division III of the hoop championships. Mal·tha's Vineyard which finished the campaign with a perfect 14-0 record in the Cape and Island League and 17-1 over all has to be considered among the best in the division. Old ~ochester of Mattapoisett and Holy Family, while not hav-
ing as good over-all records, have played strong opposition during the season and may have the firepower necessary to go all the way. Dartmollth at 15-3 looks like the area's best bet in Division II. In Division I Stoughton, undefeated champion of the Hockomock League will be tough to beat. The following is a list of all diocesan tournament participants with their season's record: BASKETBALL Division I , Durfee 14-4; New Bedford 11-5;
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