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An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and F.irm-St. Paul
Suffering Church of Africa Uganda: The Martyr Church
JOSEPH C. RAYBALL
Catholic Charities App.eal of 1977 Chairman Joseph C. Rayball, prominent Attleboro radio manager, a member of Holy Ghost parish, Attleboro, has been appointed the diocesan lay chairman of the 1977 Catholic Charities Appeal of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River. This is the thirtysixth annual Appeal, dating back to 1942. The diocese extends from Provincetown to Attleboro and the campaign will cover the five big areas of the diocese, r.amely, greater Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, the Attleboros, Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The appointment of Mr. Rayball was announced today by the Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River. This Appeal marks the seventh time that Bishop Cronin will serve as honorary chairman.
A native of Lowell, Mass. Rayball attended St. Augustine's School and Punchard High School, both in Andover. He received special training in the radio communication media at Leland Power's School of Radio and Television. He is the general manager of the radio station WARA in Attleboro and executive vice-president of radio station WVNH in Salem, New Hampshire. The 1977 lay chairman of the Appeal is vice-president of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association and vice-president of the legislative affairs committee of the Attleboro Chamber of Commerce. -He is also a corporator of the Attleboro Savings Bank; on the board of directors of the Attleboro Council of Aging; is active with the Way of Tum to Page Nine
For Ugandan Christians this was to have been a year of celebration, the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Anglican church in the east central African¡ nation. Instead it has turned into a year of bloodletting, with the country's estimated 6 million Christians - including its 3.5 million Catholics - the possible target of a new reign of terror by Uganda's mercurial president, General Idi Amin. Some observers believe that the suspicious death Feb. 17 of Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum and two government officials, all accused of trying to topple Amin, touched off a frenzied persecution that could add many Christians to the estimated 30,000 to 300,000 Ugandans who have been killed in retaliation for real or imagined threats to Amin. The government said the trio died in an automobile accident on route to questioning about their part in the alleged coup, but others said that Amin executed them. Refugees fleeing the country since then tell of massive arrests and killings among the predominately Christian Acholi and Lango tribes, which number approximately 654,000 in a country of 11 million. Members of those two northern tribes formed the power base of former President Milton Obote, the exiled leader who Amin blames for masterminding the coup that led to the death of Archbishop Luwum .and the others. What makes it difficult to tell, one observer pointed out, is that
Amin is unpredictable. "When you're dealing with Amin," said this observer, a White Father who was a missionary in Uganda from 1971 to 1975, "you're not dealing with anyone who is norma!." One of those who believes that Amin's latest excess has religious as well as political motives is the Rev. David Birney, a staff member of the Anglican Bishop Tucker Theological College in Mukono, Uganda from 1969 to 1972 and now a member of the church's national and world mission division at the Episcopal Church Center in New York.
Mr. Birney said in an interview that Amin's reprisals against the Acholi and Lango tribes were apparently triggered by the mid-February coup attempt and the result of the fierce tribalism that characterizes Ugandan politics. But, he added, the arrests of Church leaders and the death of Archbishop Luwum, spiritual leader of 3 million Anglicans, is notice "on the Christian Churches that he (Amin) means to turn Uganda into a Moslem country." Amin is a follower of Islam. The White Father, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said that when he left the country there was no Turn to Page Seven
Rhodesia: Bishop Expelled LONDON (NC) - The Rhodesian government's decision to deport Bishop Donal Lamont of Umtali is "a cruel blow to the Church in Rhodesia," said a Spokesman for the English and Welsh bishops. News that the government was depriving the 65-year-old Irish-born missionary of his Rhodesian citizenship came Feb. 24 only hours after an appeals court in Rhodesia had lessened the bishop's 10-year jail sen~ tence, imposed last October when he admitted not reporting on guerrillas and inciting others not to report them. Bishop Gerald Mahon, auxiliary of Westminster and president of the Justice and Peace Commission of the IBishop's Conference of England and Wales, and official spokesman for the bishops on this issue, said the
decision to deport Bishop Lamont deprives the Catholic Church of an outstanding champion of human rights and of nonviolence. It takes away his civil rights as a Rhodesian. Earlier the bishops through Bishop Mahon deplored the appellate court's confirmation of a prison sentence for Bishop Lamont. But they welcomed the reduction of the "original harsh sentence" from 10 years to four, three of which were suspended. "Catholics and fair-minded people will deplore any sentence on Bishop Lamont," said this earlier statement. "He has committed no crime. He has acted in union with his fellow bishops in fulfillment of his work for the Gospel. "We share :Bishop Lamont's view that a genuine permanent Turn to 'Page Seven
There People on Other Worlds? Are there people on other worlds? That's the question explored by Father Kenneth Delano of St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, in his book' "Many Worlds, One God," published today, and his answer is "Almost certainly." Our generation, he points out, is the first that must seriously contemplate the possibility of contact with beings from other worlds. "Now is the time," he writes, "for us all to start making the necessary mental preparations for the revelation that we are not alone in the universe. If our minds have not been prepared beforehand for the detection of or encounter with extraterrestrial intelligences, we will suffer the shock of having to adjust too rapidly to a fact about which the world's religions have
had little or nothing to say. The agitations experienced in the past over the theories of Copernicus and Darwin will seem to have been, by comparison, tempests in a teapot." The priest emphasizes that the religious implications of the discovery of intelligent beings in space, as well as the moral principles which should guide us in our attitudes towards such beings are matters which deserve serious consideration. He notes that nowhere in the Bible is there basis for the contention that man is or should be the center of the universe. "As far as the Bible is concerned, the question of whether or not God has peopled other worlds is an open question. We can find no justification for arbitrarily restricting God's creative ability."
In fascinating chapters, Father Delano discusses what otherworldly beings might be like (possessing four feet and two hands? having wheels? intelligent plants? one being covering the entire planet? an intelligent being as vast as a solar system?). Of the latter hypothesis, the priest writes, "If we were able to recognize so vast an intelligent entity . . . how awed we would be and how quickly we would jump to the conclusion that it was God." And in a concluding chapter. on "astrotheology," he explores the type of spiritual life that might be enjoyed by beings from other worlds, noting that ....Earth may not be the only planet that has seen an incarnation of God" and that there Turn to Page Seven
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WASHINGTON (NC) - A key group of U.S. bishops has given a U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) subcommittee the go-ahead to open discussions with unionists, school administrators, diocesan officials and teachers on the issue of unions in Catholic schools. The action, taken by the USCC administrative board in mid-February, involves the civil arm of the U.S. bishops in a three-way struggle involving some Catholic diocesan, the National Labor Relations Board and independent and nationally-affiliated unions seeking to represent lay teachers in diocesan and parish schools.
BONN (NC) - The Yugoslav government has deported three West Germans, including a Catholic priest, for their actions in seeking the release of ajaiIed dissident poet, Mihajio Mihajlov, reports here said. Father Winfried Pietrek, 44, and two other West Germans were deported because they had "indulged in activities contrary to Yugoslav laws and also to agreements between our two countries," Mirko Kalezic, a spokesman for the Yugoslav foreign ministry in Belgrade, said.
PHILADELPHIA (NC) - A U.S. district court judge here Feb. 17 granted a preliminary injunction against the National Labor Relations Board stopping the NLRB from conducting union representation elections for lay teachers in 269 parish elementary schools in the Philadelphia archdiocese. Judge Donald VanArtsdalen ruled that the labor board's Jan. 17 election order "does tred on the free exercise (of religion) clause of the First Amendment,"
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (NC) - To protest violence and what he calls a distorted image of sex on network television programming, a Mississippi Methodist minister has urged a national boycott of television Feb. 27-March 5, Turn the Television Off Week (TTOW). Response to the project has been widespread, its initiator, the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, said in the Florida Baptist Witness, a Southern Baptist weekly published here. "We have received support from people and groups all across America," he said. "This is not a movement confined to the Bible Belt,"
Defeat Bill ANNAPOLIS, Md. (NC) The Maryland Senate defeated a proposed natural death act after resurrecting it from near death in committee to allow for discussion on the Senate floor. By a vote~ of 32 to 13, the Senate decided against approving SB60, which would have allowed terminally ill persons to execute a document requiring the withdrawal of all life sustaining equipment. The bill had been opposed by the Maryland Catholic Conference and by prolife groups in the state.
Supreme Court Decision WASHINGTON (NC) - A second attempt to allow enforcement of a law forbidding. most welfare abortions while the issue is being adjudicated has been rejected by the Supreme Court. Without dissent, the high court rejected an attempt to overturn an injunction by U.S. District Court Judge John F. Dooling of Brooklyn, preventing enforcement of the Hyde Amendment to last year's appropriations for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare. Judge Dooling struck down the amendment, authored by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IlI.) on the same day it went into effect.
Italian Abortion Proposal ROME (NC) - Italy's liberalized abortion proposal took its first steps toward passage in the Italian Senate Feb. 22 when its constitutional Committee gave the bill its seal of approval. The commission voted 15-14 that the proposal, which won narrow approval in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) in January, was in harmony with the republic's 1948 constitution.
New Rllodesian Bishop VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has appointed a second black bishop in racially-troubled Rhodesia. The Vatican announced Feb. 23 that 42-year-old Msgr. Robias Chiginya will succeed Swiss-born Bishop Alois Hene as head of the Gwelo diocese.
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CAMDEN, N.J. (NC) - Msgr. Salvatore J. Adamo, executive editor of the Catholic Star Herald, newspaper of the Camden diocese, said he is being fired because of his outspoken criticism of censorship of the Catholic press, including censorship efforts in his own diocese. Msgr. Adamo made his comments in a telephone interview after a statement by Bishop George H. Guilfoyle of Camden in the newspaper announced that Msgr. Glendon Robertson, diocesan secretary for education was being appointed associate editor of the paper and would become executive editor on June 15. Bishop Guilfoyle was out of town and could not be reached for comment.
Mexican Difficulties WASHINGTON (NC) Visiting Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo said here that unless Mexico can solve its economic problems, the United States will see an increase in the number of Mexicans crossing the border illegally in search of jobs. Most of the illegal aliems in this country come from Mexico, authorities believe. Estimates of the total number of illegal aliens range from less than 5 million to 8 million. "To the extent that Mexico reestablishes its economic balance, the problem will be solved:~ Lopez Portillo told a press conference after talks with President Jimmy Carter here Feb'. 15.
Papal Regrets VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has expressed "deep sorrow at the tragic death" of Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum of Uganda, who died two days after he criticized Uganda's President Idi Amin for persecuting Christians. Archbishop Luwum was killed along with two Ugandan cabinet ministers in what officials termed an automobile accident, but what many international religious and civil leaders have' branded murders attributable directly to Amin.
Vatican and the U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (NC) The Vatican has prepared· a paper for the first UN Water Conference which emphasized that "human considerations must . . . outweigh ali others" in providing water to communities, especially in rural areas. The Vatican paper, based on long-term research by many Churchrelated agencies, will be presented at the conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, March 4-25. It says that present human needs must be met with an eye toward posterity and it urges an environmental study.
School Prayer TRENTON, N. J. (NC) - The New Jersey Assembly has passed by overwhelming margin legislation caIling on Congress to convene a constitutional convention and providing for a mandatory period of meditation in public schools. The vote for a federal constitutional covention empowered to develop an amendment that would protect unborn human life was 49-19. The measure passed the State Senate by a one-vote margin earlier, so New Jersey became the fourth state to take such action. Arkansas recently became the fifth.
.Anglican Agreement LONDON (NC) England's chief Anglican body has welcomed the recent Anglican-Roman Catholic theological agreement on authority, and some of its members have urged intercommunion eucharistic sharing - despite serious difficulties with the agreement. The agreement, Authority in the Church, published in January by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, expressed significant agreement among the theologians on the commission over the nature of authority and primacy in the Church, including a discussion of ways. in which the commission members thought remaining differences might be resolved.
Shroud of Turin TURIN, Italy (NC) - New scientific studies and perhaps even a period of public display of the Holy Shroud of Turin will begin here next year, according to reports. The shroud, kept in a huge chapel annexed to Turin's small Renaissance cathedral, has not been placed on public display since 1933, the year celebrated here as the 1,900th anniversary of Jesus' death.
Threaten Pope SALUZZO, Italy (NC) - An escaped convict who wanted to take Pope Paul VI as a hostage surrendered to police here after holding a couple and their three children at· gunpoint for a weekend. Franco Bartoli, who described himself as a militant Communist when he made his demands, released the Ariaudo family unharmed and then surrendered to police after a 16-hour siege.
Necrology March 12 Rev. Aurelien L. Moreau, 1961, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River. March 16 Rev. Francis J. Maloney, S.T.L., 1957, Pastor, St. Mary. North Attleboro.
Falmouth K of C The Rosary Committee of the Falmouth Knights of Columbus, Council No. 813, will sponsor a recitation of the Rosary at St. Patricks Church, Falmouth Mass. on Saturday, March 5, at 1:00 P.M. . "'''"11UIIIIIlI-IIIII""m",,,,Ul''''''''''''''"''"' "",." ,,,..,.,,,,,,,,"'''111'''' ",,,,,mlltll'.
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HONOR FORMER PASTOR: Following a concelebrated Mass at St. Anthony's church in East Falmouth, a reception was held for Rev. George E. Amaral, former pastor, now
assigned to St. Anthony's in Taunton. Left to right; Rev. Thomas C. Mayhew, assistant pastor; Msgr. Maurice Souza, present pastor; Father Amaral; Rev. Thomas Rita.
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Bishop, Cronin to Address First Fridians Tomorrow Most Reverend Daniel A Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, will be the principal celebrant of the monthly Mass for the First Friday Club of Fall River and then address the club and meet individual members. The concelebrated Mass will be the usual monthly First Friday Mass at 6 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church in Fall River. The Mass, with a special musical program directed by Mr. Edward Peters, is open to all parishioners and the general public. Following the Mass, the First Fridians will gather at the Sacred Heart Parish School for their monthly meeting and supper. Bishop Cronin and priests who will have concelebrated with him will join the FFC members for supper. Bishop Cronin will be the main speaker at the school meeting.
Only once in its long history has the devotion-education program been interrupted-in 1977 when the January snows were too much to fight. Tomorrow will also be another first for the men - the first time they are honored by the presence of the Bishop of Fall River at their meeting.
and justice as they affect the catechetical mission of the Church. Dr. Doris Donnelly, director of the Graduate Program in Spirituality at Fordham, and author of an artfcle on prayer in the January issue of the New Catholic World entitled "A Child Shall Lead Them," will be one of the featured speakers on .the ministry of healing. Dr. C. Alexander Peloquin, nationally recognized leader in liturgical music, will conduct two workshops on liturgical music and direct music for a closing liturgy at 4 p.m. Sunday. Dr. David O"Brien, professor at Holy Cross and a recognized leader in the field of social justice will be one of the main speakers. He was active in preparation for the recently held Detroit conference, "Call to Action."
School Application Days All the Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Fall River will receive applications for new students and transfer students on Sunday, March 6, and Sunday, March 13. Parents wishing to enroll a child or obtain information should go to the school on either day between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. For a child entering school for the first time, parents should bring a birth or baptismal certificate. For transfer students, parents should bring a copy of the child's last report card. At the Taunton Catholic Middle School, registration will be held on Sunday, March 6, and Sunday, March 13, from 2 to 4
Marriage "Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." - Louis K. Anspacher
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All present and past members of the First Friday Club are urged to attend the festivities. The First Friday Club of Fall River was founded by Msgr. Felix Childs some thirty years ago. For more than three decades the men ,of the club have faithfUlly observed the First Friday devotions, have been enlightened by more than two hundred invited lecturers and adult education programs and have shared in an exemplary fraternity.
Three" from Diocese Serve On Congress Committee Sister Rita Pelletier, SSJ, and Sister Teresa Sparrow, RSM, both of the Diocesan Department of Education, and Joseph Hanley, religion teacher at St. Mark's parish, Attleboro Falls, are members of a central committee making plans for the 29th annual New England Congress of Religious Education, to be held the weekend of Aug. 19 through 21 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The Congress, sponsored jointly by the Religious Education Offices of the 11 New England diocese, is a highlight of the year for all interested in religious education. Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, the associate secretary in the Office of International Justice and Peace at the United States Catholic Conference in Washington, a popular speaker at several diocesan congresses, will share some of his insights on peace
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p.m. Parents and prospective students are invited to tour the school at that time. Space is available for transfer students from public schools.
Taunton DCCW A Bible Sharing Evening will be sponsored by the Taunton District Council of Catholic Women on March 15th at 7:30 in Immaculate Conception Church, Bay St., Taunton. Rev. Paul Connolly, distr!ct moderator, will conduct the readings. This will ,be followed by a group discussion which will then be shared with all participants. The evening's hostesses will be the Immaculate Conception Women's Guild. The meeting will be open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Mrs. William Grover, Chairperson oj Organization and Development is in charge of the program assisted by Mrs. Richard Paulson.
BISHOP CRONIN administering ashes at St. Mary's Cathedral on Ash Wednesday. The Bishop, as the pastor of the Cathedral Church, presides at all the major ceremonies of the Holy Season of Lent.
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Diocese of Newton Erected for Melkites Archbishop Joseph Tawil, spiritual leader of the MelkiteGreek 'Catholics in the United States announced the reception of two documents from the Holy See, raising the M/illkite Apostolic Exarohate to the status of an
DCCN Welcome Cape Council The newly organized Council of Catholic Nurses of the Cape Cod and Islands area will be formally welcomed into the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses at a meeting to be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 20 at St. Patrick's church hall, Wareham. Dr. Joseph R. Stanton, famed surgeon and pro-life advocate, will speak on medical ethics, touching on abortion, the medical rights of the defective newborn, the aged, death with dignity and the "living will." Among guests of honor will be Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and all Catholic nurses and other interested persons in the diocese are invited to be present. A coffee hour will follow the speaking program.
Eparchy or permanent Diocese with the title of Newton, Massachusetts, and appointing him first Eparch of that See. Newton becomes' the eighth American Diocese for Eastern Rite Catholics. It was established as an Exarchate in 1966 with Most. Rev. Justin Najmy as first ApostolicExarch. After his death in 1969, he was succeeded by Archbishop Joseph Tawil, who now becomes the first Eparch. Newton becomes the fifth Catholic Diocese in the State of Massachusetts and the second Eastern Rite Diocese in New England, the other being the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Connecticut. The territory of the new Diocese comprises all fifty states and includes all Catholics of the Melkite-Greek Rite. The Diocese itself is directly subject to the Apostolic See of Rome while the Archbishop remains a full voting member the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch. CALL ON "In dangers, in ficulties, think of on Mary." - St.
A concelebrated funeral Mass was offered at 10 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, February 23, at Notre Dame Church, Malone, New York for the repose of the soul of Harry E. McCarthy, father of Sister Barbara McCarthy, O.P. of the Catholic Education Center. Reverend Monsignor Patrick J. O'Neill, who gave the homily at the Mass, and Reverend George W. Coleman were among the six concelebrants. Sister Theresa Sparrow of the Catholic Education Center attended the funeral services. A large delegation of Dominican' Sisters from the Diocese of Fall River also attended. Mr. McCarthy is also survived by Mrs. Geraldine Leonard, a daughter, from Plattsburgh, New York, and John, a son, from MaIone, New York. Mr. McCarthy is' survived by five grandchildren. Mr. McCarthy was an active participant of Notre Dame parish. Also, during all of his life he was involved in the various sports activities of Northern New York.
The Queen's Daughters of Taunton will hold a Communion Breakfast on Sunday morning, March 6, 1977, with a Mass at St. Mary's Church at 10:00 A'M. followed by a breakfast in St. Mary's School Auditorium: Rev. Paul G. Connolly, Pastor of St. Mary's Church, will be Mass celebrant. Rev. Raymond A Robillard, Assistant Pastor of St. Jacques Church will give an illustrated talk on India and the Himalayas with an insight into the Old Testament. Mrs. Robert Briand will be Toastperson. The event is chaired by Mrs. Aristides -A Andrade and Ms. Adrienne Lemieux.
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A recent survey of several hundred pediatricians and psychiatrists has indicated that violence on television is harmful to children. This finding gives substantial support to many diverse organzations that are attempting to stop some of the present cruelty and sadism that seems to be {< the very heartbeat of T.V. land. As a result of such surveys, some television sponsors already have withheld their .., .•. 1.. .'. support of programs that feature the more degrading aspects of human frailty. I •. • ,.4, .,~ Yet, the process of removing excess and degenerating \<:< violence from the T.V. scene will be a painfully slow one. The reason for this is quite simple. The networks are just , f • W ~'r' ~ ~ making too much money televising such programs. They ;. resent the pressure that is being put on them, crying always a rather spurious infraction of their rights and freedoms. ONE IN CHRIST They seem to feel that they are giving the public what it desires to view. Even with established and credible evidence, A group of priests ... of diverse racial and ethnic they refuse to admit that there is any danger inherent in heritage . . . concelebrate at a special parish Mass . . . excessive and extreme violent television programing. In . Together with the congregation . . . they celebrate the the case of children viewing television, they contend that presence with them all ... of the Risen Lord. it is up to the parents to control the family T.V. Somehow A shared faith in His presence . • . unites those they have failed to take into consideration the millions of who share the Eucharistic meal . . . unites them with children in this country, who in the madness of today's Christ Jesus ... and with each other. society, have little parental guidance. The Eucharist is the sacrament of unity ... of felIt is most tragic to see the defensive attitude that the lowship ... of love ... The community celebration . networks have taken in this matter. One would have thought gives evidence of an already existing unity of faith . that they would have been the first in attempting to bring that brings the believers together . . . and fosters an a positive remedial attitude to help cure and curb violence even deeper union . . . It is both sign and source of that is so very explicitly depicted in television programing. unity. Blinded by the old game of profit seeking, they have themEucharistic unity . . . bridges all differences . . . seJves become the main stumbling block to the efforts of while respecting the uniqueness of each person . . . the organizations who are trying to bring some sanity to this There are many gifts . . . racial . . . ethnic . . . sexual truly. wonderful media form. .... personal but all are given by the one Spirit ... How can the networks fail to realize the 'problems they to be shared in building up the Body of Christ . . . are creating in our society? From lauding infidelity in the the community of believers. afternoon soap opera to glorifying the' young punk in the "Is not the cup of blessing we· bless . . . a sharing evening, television is indeed becoming the mainstay in in the blood of Christ? . . . And is not the bread we the support of the most debased desires of a sick public. break . . . a sharing in the body of Christ? . . . BeThe networks are like a candyman who feeds children an cause the loaf is one . . . we, many though we unlimited amount of bitter chocolate, failing to realize that are . . . are one body . . . for we all partake of the an excessive amount will !J1ake them sick. loaf." (1 Corinthians 10:16-17) The television industry must become reasonable and self-regulating. To be reasonable, it must listen and conCopyright (c) 1977 by NC News Service), sider the pleas of experts whose studies prove that it is creating an excessive orgy of violence. All agree that it is far better for an industry to clean its own house rather than have outside forces impose censures and restrictions. To For some, this might be just another "ho~hum" issue. achieve self-regulation the television industry should realize there is a - real and true distinction between liberty and A person of this mentality should take a trip to their local fish market. For those who care, this new law means we license. If the networks wish to make a real and lasting coli- . have another chance to renew our own American fishing tribution to freedom they must understand that true liberty industry while at the same time helping to conserve and demands self control and that violence, in its very nature preserve the fruits of the sea. Each and everyone of us must be encouraged by the efis a lack of such control. forts of those legislators who have had the foresight to fight for this legislation. In return, each and everyone of us must now make sure that this legislation, now law, is strictly adThe Ides of March hered to and, enforced to its full extent. Only in this way will Caesar forgot and ignored the warning given him con- future generations benefit from the abundance of life that cerning the Ides of March. We all know the tragedy that the sea so bountifully provides for sustenance of man. followed. Let us learn a lesson and not ignore the 1st of March 1977. If we do, we shall be solely responsible for an even greater disaster than befell Cesar. .What is so important about March 1st. Everyone who lives by the sea might remember that it was the date when the tide was turned. On this day the United States took control of all ocean fishing out to 200 miles off its coast. OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER On the practical side of the ledger, this means that the fishing fleets of Provincetown, Chatham and New Bedford, Published weekly by The Catholic Press of 'the Diocese of Fall River have a chance to be rebuilt and renewed. On the idealistic .410 Highland Avenue side of the balance sheet, it means that the endangered Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 species of fish such as haddock, yellowtail and cod might PUBLISHER have a chance to survive and endure. Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.lD. Despite the fact that the new American law does have EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR some dangerous loopholes, it does mean that the Russians Rev. Msgr. JOhfl Regan and their fellow travelers just can not deplete the United Rev. John F. Moore. M.A. States c~astline of its most valuable natural food resource. ~leary Prell-Fall Rivlr
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Medical School Discrimination By Jim Castelli
WASHINGTON (NC) - Sen. Richard Schweiker (R-Pa.) has proposed legislation which would prevent medical schools receiving federal funds from refusing admission to students who refuse to participate in abortions, sterilizations or any other medical procedure because of conscientious objection. The proposed legislation would also prohibit such schools from even asking any prospective student about his views on abortion or sterilization. Schweiker said some medical schools have admitted surveying prospective students about their attitudes toward abortion and sterilization. Students opposed to those practices may be discriminated a~ainst in admissions, he said. Schweiker cited a survey conducted by Dr. Eugene F. Diamond of Chicago. Twenty-one of 60 medical schools surveyed said they question applicants about their attitude toward abortion fmd 18 others said interviewers may bring up the sub. ject at their discretion. Thirteen of the 60 schools said a student's refusal to participate in an abortion would cause "administrative problems" for the institution and two schools said such a refusal would be considered a "negative factor" in considering an admission. "While only two schools had the candor to admit pro-life students are discriminated against, case histories and the fact that many more schools acknowledge 'administrative problems' with pro-life students indicate a broader pattern of discrimination," Schweiker said. "It is the law of the land," he said, "that no federal money can go to any school which discriminates on the basis of race or religion. It is deeply disturbing that some medical schools are discriminating on the basis of an opinion founded on religious or moral grounds." If medical schools are allbwed to discriminate against students opposed to abortion, Schweiker said, they m~y eliminate "dissent" against abortion from the medical profession. "This is not just a matter of pro-life or pro-choice," Schweiker said. "It is a question of freedom of conscience, of whether we will allow some occupations to be closed to people because of their sincerely held moral beliefs." A Schweiker aide, Troy Gustavson, said Schweiker does not yet have any co-sponsors for his bill but is actively asking other senators to join him. "A lot of people don't realize the problem exists," Gustavson said.
Power at the Center "I believe in a personal God; a power, operating at the center of this universe, whicIi creates, and comprehends my personality, and all other personalities, . .. a power which causes my being ... which sustains my being . . . whicll understands my being."-Upton Sinclair
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Pope Paul VI has told Christian businessmen that during an economic crisis they must work hard to insure that profits are shared fairly and that workers' dignity is respected. Addressing an Italian Christian businessmen's group, the Pontiff said that "in a difficult hour like the present, it is indispensable that everyone exploit to the fullest his finest moral and professional resources." "We hope," said Pope Paul, "that your Christian testimony will contribute to spreading the conviction in the business world that created goods have a universal destiny and that they must be distributed equally into the hands of all men, according to the law of justice, which is inseparable from charity." The Pope also called for the "use of available profits in a way which is neither arbitrary nor selfish." Pope Paul VI went to the circus last week - or, rather, the circus came to him. During his weekly general audience which took place at the height of Italy's pre-Lenten carnival season,. Pope Paul witnessed several acts performed by members of the Orfei Family. Circus. The Orfeis, who are the Ringlings of Italy, chose seve~l subduetl. acts to present to a delighted Pope Paul. Among them were a performance by a dozen trained white doves and a Spanish serenade by two saxophonists accompanied by an accordion. "What's a circus doing in a Christian assembly?" the Pope asked. "The performers are people of this world who must travel around constantly, and who are in a certain sense orphans of the society we share.
.. * .. The world's massive armaments supplies are "children's toys" which must be discarded as "wasteful and useless' by the family of man, Pope Paul has declared Feb. 16. "What would happen if our powerful - or rather, overpowering - armaments were to explode?" the Pope asked 6,000 people 8,ttending his weekly general audience. The Pope charged that the current "trauma of armaments" is caused by "men who don't love their fellowmen, who have forgotten that they are brothers and sons of God. "If they knew they were sons of God," continued Pope Paul, "they would consider armaments as children's toys which must be put aside as wasteful and useless." Calling for mature respect among men, the Pope cried out, "Woe to him who. offends, profanes, slays or violates the dignity of the human person."
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MEMORIAL FOR UGANDAN ARCHBISHOP - Msgr. George J. Murphy (left), pastor of Holy Trinity parish, New York, walks in procession beside Episcopal Bishop Jonathan B. Sherman o( Long Island at a memorial service for Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum (right) who was killed in Uganda.
Gives Practical Program For Pro-Life Activity .Get concerned! Get angry! Get outraged! Get involved! We lost 2250 men at Pearl Harbor and .declared war. We have lost millions of babies to the abortionists. When will we declare war against abortion? Be Motivated By Christian Principles. Aborted babies Propagate the facts and the are not only killed. They are concern by word of mouth. Start killed unbaptized. Save a at home. Don't belittle this acbaby and you not only save tion. The legislator who broke his mortal life - you give him a chance for baptism and immortal life. Include the motivation of
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self-interest. You will be punished for inaction: "You shall not stand by idly when your neighbor's life is at stake" (Leviticus 19:16). You will be rewarded for action: "As you did it to one of my least brethren you did it to Me" (Mt. 25:40). Act today. Don't await the "Great SOlution," before moving or you may never move. Begin with the simple things yo.u can do at once. Begin with prayer. Stop, and start now. Say a prayer for a particular baby in danger somewhere right now while his mother struggles with her terrible temptation. Resolve to offer a daily rosary to Mary for the babies; or resolve to attend Mass once during the week. :Begin your prayer with the meditation: Who will speak for the babies if not I? Many are all mouths for their own rights today. Who will lend his mouth to a baby who cannot yet speak in his own behalf? Read to become informed. Start with the newspaper articles you see on right to life. To see many, you will need a Catholic newspaper. Collect clippings for reference.
the tie that loosed a flood of abortions in New York did it to please his wife and daughter. Join a right to life organization. It will help you and you can help it. We need to stand together or our children will be slaughtered singly. Give time and money. Little can be done without both. Support a human life amendment. Without working for that we are somewhat like sailors tidying up a sinking ship. Vote only for pro-lifers. Write your congressmen, newspapers, radio and TV stations. Use your own station in life
NEW YORK (NC) - Concern for the problems of separated, divorced. or remarried Catholics in the United States and Canada will be reflected at the dialogue on divorced Catholics to be held March 26 at the Lincoln Center of Fordham University, conference sponsors said at a news conference. The day-long session for clergy and laity is co-sponsored by the North American Conference of Separated and Divorced Catholics (NACSDC) and the university. Keynote speakers will be Paulist Father James Young of Boston and Dr. Robert Weiss of Harvard Medical School and author of the book, "Marital Separation." "We're really moving into the daylight on this question," commented Thomas Mullaney, New York ,regional chairman, of NACSDC, who claimed widespread interest by parish priests about the group's efforts to press for canonical changes, and against misinterpretations of Church law and discrimination against divorced and remarried Catholics. Mullaney expressed hope that
at their May meeting in Chicago. the U.S. bishops will take up two resolutions of the Detroit "Call, to Action" conference last fall; the request by divorced Catholics who have remarried to receive the sacraments under certain conditions, and another asking the bishops to repeal the penalty of automatic excommunication decreed by the Third Council of Baltimore in 1884 for Catholics who remarry after divorce.
and your work as a base of operations. Live more simply, less demandingly. What kills babies is self-centered and materialistic living that shuts the heart and the hearth and the earth to new life. Do not break the sixth commandment; do not attend filthy movies on any pretext; do not put up with pornography. Set an example for youth. They want to be good but will lose faith in goodness without you. In particular: Fathers and mothers: Devote yourselves to your family. It is the only prolife fortress in the end. Doctors:
Teach the new and really effective natural family planning methods. Don't be culpably ignorant of them yourself. Priests: Study for and preach pro-life .sermons but always add sug'gestions for action. Religious: Aspire to make pro-life activities your primary apostolate. Teachers: Assign essays and talks and run contests on pro-life topics. Business men and workers: Cooperate to create a pro-life economy and culture. For instance, build larger, more economical homes. Shun exorbitant prices and wages. You will save many lives.
Same Power "The sam power which sent the stars roIling on their courses gives sudden health to some poor cripple at Lourdes, and we s&y, "Impossible!" The feeding of the five thousand, that taxes our powers of belief to the utmost. And yet ... what is the feeding of the five thousand compared with that patient process by which vast plains of wheat shoot up and bud and mature, under God's hand. to make the slices of bread which you forgot to say prayers over yesterday? -Ronald A. Knox
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Disagrees with NCR Review of Kueng Book I
By REV. ANDREW M.
GREELEY
I've got to admit I made a mistake. I thought it was impossible for the National Catholic Reporter to sink any lower than it had already, but the rank vicious amateurism in the review of Hans Kueng's "On Being a Christian" is the most detestable thing that that sadly failing journal has ever done. No author, not even such a
great theologian as Hans Kueng, has the right to a favorable book review, but every author has the right to a professionally competent review, unmarked by pettiness, envy, and inflated self-importance. When a book review editor considers who will comment on a book that many think to be a classic, the reasonable B.nd sensible thing to d9 is to seek out an able and distinguished. though not necessarily uncritical, expert from the author's field. But not the National Catholic Reporter. They play it cute; they seek a review from someone who is virtually unknown. But most of the time he will
do what the NCR's reviewer of Kueng's book did: he will puff himself up with his own importance and announce pompously, '\1 was di:lappointed." And the NCR, with its usual flair for responsible journalism, turns that narcissistic line into a full-page headline If Avery Dulles or Gregory Baum or David Tracy or Edward Schillebeeckx were disappointed, that might be a headline; but who cares whether a virtual unknown is disappointed or not? If the reviewer had any taste, he would htwe realized that his own per:>onal disappointment would bH totally ir~ relevant to readers of the re-
view. Hopefully, he was embarrassed to see his disappointment headlined. Unfortunately, if one looks at other paragraphs in the review, it is clear that its author is beyond embarrassment. At the very beginning, he dismissed the immense success of "On Being a Christian" in Germany (on the bestseller list for several months) as probably being the result of Hans Kueng's "Time" magazine style. A few lines later in the review the writer complains of the obscurities in Kueng's style. Now either "On Being a Christian" is popular because of its simple "Time" magazine style
or it is obscure; it can't be one and the same thing. The review-er did not catch his own luducrous self-contradiction apparently, neither did the NCR's editors. Responsible theologians may well disagree with some of Kueng's methods and conclusions; it may even be that some of the NCR reviewer's technical observations on the book are appropriate (if they are, I am sure Father Kueng will respond to them). But technical criticism ought not to be framed in a professional context. It would seem. however, that on such characteristics the "National Catholic Reporter" and its readership thrive.
Mary Had Her Probl路ems By
MARY CARSON
You probably know a ver3ion of this story. A couple didn't approve of their daughter's boyfriend. He had no religious faith; they were afraid she would lose her. They talked her into giving him up, and she took an extended trip to forget him. They didn't hear from her for
weeks. Finally, they received a "so close" to God. She had the letter. She had joined a religious apparition at the time of the Annunciation, the c:onfirmation sect. They tried to get her to come of Jesus' divinity from Elizabeth home. But she said she was at the Visitation, and 'again, from finding the self she had been Anna, at the Presentation. At the wedding at Cana, she seeking ... She wanted them to . asked Him to -perform a miracle understand. . . . They blamed themselves, . . . and He did. And so some wondering what they had d.one believe she was se rene in her wrong. They had tried to bring knowledge that He was God. If this is how you regard her up a good Catholic, had kept Mary, and you are praying over her in Catholic schools. . . . Every time I hear another a tragic situation wch as the version of this story I have less story this started with, you hope there is a solution. But I have to ask her for a miracle. For myself, though, I believe know there are many anguished differently abQut Mary. I believe mothers praying about it. Some see the Blessed Mother there were times when she was as the instant solution. She was aware that Jesus was God. But
that awareness didn't bring automatic serenity. On the contrary, it must have weighed a heavy responsibility on her. As many mothers who have "special" children - either retarded or orilliant - Mary must have raised Jesus as "normally" as possible . . . with love and frustrations, with joys and fears. Thinking of Mary in this light can give a new perspective on Mary's reaction to Jesus' fast in the desert. Joseph was dead. Jesus had left. Mary was alone. There were no telephones, no postcards. He was gone' and she had no word for a month and
a half! How many times did she wonder if He was alright? How many times did she feel an uncomfortable chill in her nerves, a momentary over-poweririg terror that something was wrong. And the empty frustration that there was absolutely nothing she could do about it . . . but pray. While Jesus Wlis away, and Mary was alone with her thoughts, how often did she rehash the past thirty years . . . what she should have done differently? - Mary had tried to raise Jesus in the faith she had known. But He didn't fall into step. He Turn to Page Seven
How Can We Meet Day-Care Needs of 'Children? By MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS
In two recent columns I said this country needs more day care centers, not only for the poor but for many working-class and middle-class families, I added, however, that, day care centers are poor substitute for mothering in the home. I also disass~iated myself from groups who are pushing day
By MARILYN RODERICK
This is a good a time as any to start seeds indoors. The most important consideration, however, is not so much how to germinate seeds as to keep them growing once they germinate. Seeds started the middle of March must be carried over in some
care centers for the wrong rea- Care in Crisis: Implications' of dren lack proper food, medical . Day Care Policy for Families care and other necessities. In her sons. Even though I tried to take a and Children" (Ms. 3arbara Joe, judgment, the solution is not to balanced position on what has 720 A Street, S.E., Washington, promote a massive day care program. but to provide all chil'become a controversiaisubject, D.C. 20003). I expected路 to be clobbered by Ms. Joe argues that "present dren. whether or not their mothcertain right wing groups which policy offers parent~ insuff.icient ers work, with the basic neceshave been carrying on lin unre- financial aid 路to provide proper- . sities. , Her own "positive program" lenting campaign against day ly for their children, condemns care centers and, more specifi- them for neglectinl:; their chil- for families and children would cally, against former Sen. Mon- dren's health, nutJitional and include: (1) 'establishment of a dale's legislative proposals. educational needs, and, at the guaranteed adequate income for Surprisingly, the only com- same time, holds out the promise all families, regardless of work munication I have received is a of rescuing the children through status; (2) increase of income courteous letter from a woman a day-care system which enjoys tax deductions for child care to in Washington whose carefully more lavish support than the approximate actual costs better; (3) expansion of part-time and qualified criticism of day care parents can hope tc receive." centers is based on extensive , And Ms. Joe com:edes to day flexible-time job opportunities in research and has been summar- care advocates that a consider- both public and private sectors; ized in a lOB-page study, "Child able number of American chil- (4) focus of federal child care,ef-
forts on upgrading family day care through hetter licensing practices and training for day care mothers, expanding local child care information and referral services and encouraging the development of cooperative child care arrangements. While I am favorably impressed by this positive program for families and children, I get the impression that Ms. Joe may be too optimistic about the possibility of eliminating the need for day-care centers if her proposals are adopted. Aside from the fact that some of her proposals are unfortunately, not likely to be adopted in the foreseeable fuTurn to Page Seven
form until they can be set out in the garden by May 15, the last frost date. One way to do this is to grow them under lights for those of us who have lights. This means that plants are given a full amount of light until they can be put out in a coldframe to harden off beginning in mid-April. If you don't have lights the next best thing is to keep them in a sunny window with sufficient moisture and then put them out into coldframes as soon as they ure large enough. For most seeds, unless they require special growing conditions, seeds can be germinated
need gentle bottom heat in order to germinate and this may be achieved through a heating cable or placing the container on something which gives off heat moderately such as the top of your refrigerator, the top of a radiator (as long as it is not too hot), the top of an oil burner (in the basement) or the top of a fluorescent fixture. The most important thing to keep in mind in trying to germinate seeds is that once they have been exposed to moisture. they must never be allowed to dry out. Drying will kill any seed that has started to germinTurn to Page Nine
quite easily without special preparations. What we consider to be warm weather annuals can usually be started in a period from ten days to two weeks if they are kept moist and given some gentle bottom heat. For my soil mixture I normally use one part vermiculite or perlite, to one part peat moss or spaghnum and one par:; sand. This mixture will stay' sufficiently moist to allow seeds to germinate without becoming completely saturated. Seeds which requre cold temperatures in order to germinate are placed in the above mixture in a flat Jr container
and then refrigerated for four to five days. The container can be covered with foil, top and bottom, and then placed in the regular section of the refrigerator. When I do this I normally put five or six small containers in the refrigerator at one time and stack them as far in the back of the refrigerator as possible. As a rule of thumb seeds which are cold weather perrenials should be treated in this way. Usually the directions on the packet will say something to the effect that the seeds should be sown as early in the Spring as the ground can be worked. Most other s~ed will I
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Continued from Page One may be intelligent species that are immortal, having "avoided original sin and retained the full measure of God's gifts to them. "Animated by perfect charity, these immortals would be without the psychic distresses sinful humanity knows - distresses such as hatred, envy, fear, anxiety and tenions that adversely affect our bodies and lead to cardiac failure and ~o cell degeneration. Were we to meet such immortal beings, we would be all the more motivated to imitate their serenity and charity and we would increase our own lifetimes through the consequent reduction of our psycliic disorders." He warns, however, against "religious imperialism," saying that "we must not presume that we are God's elite race, destined to get all the other intelligent races to accept the man-orientated revelations that God has given us." ' Father Delano, who has combined his priesthood with a distinguished career as an amateur astronomer, specializing in study of the moon, said he worked on his book for three or four years, taking time off for such projects as a trip to Africa in 1973 to view a total eclipse of the sun. Another trip will come in October, when he journeys to Bogota, Colombia, for a total eclipse. The priest-astronomer said his interest in the heavens began at age 7, when he saw his first meteor. Prior to today's publication of his first book, he has contributed articles on his specialty to many religious and astronomical magazines and as a member of the Lunar International Observers Network has discovered more than a dozen "lunar domes," volcanic swellings on the moon's surface. He is happy to share his expertise with other members of the diocese, often giving youngsters a peek through his telescope and frequently appearing before schools, clubs and other organizations.
Continued from Page One solution to' Rhodesia's problems should be sought through consultation and negotiation and not through violence."
Council Members Two sisters from the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River have been elected members of the council of the Congregation of St. Rose of Lima Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer. The two sisters are Sister Marie Cordia, O.P. and Sister Mary Christopher, O.P. The Sisters from this Congregation are well known for their dedication and devotion to those ill with cancer, serving with care and concern to help those who have been stricken with this illness. In this day and age when so much is being written about "death and dying," the Rose Hawthorne Home has 'become a central study of love and beauty where the dignity of human life is reflected by the unselfish 'spirit of those truly concerned sisters.
36 Countries New York (NC) - Thirty-six countries have annual collections for the Catholic communications media, according to a report issued by the communications department of the U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC) .
THEY STILL SERVE: Despite recent terrorist killings in Rhodesia, missionaries like Sister Erika continue to serve. Although of retirement age, the Dominican nun still works at a tuberculosis hospital, saying she feels her life "belongs to my black children." (NC Photo) nounced that he would allow 10 Catholic missionaries expelled Continued from Page One from the country by his predecovert persecution of Christians. essor, Obote, to return. He added, however, that "it pays In December, 1972 Amin himto be a Moslem,~' referring to self expelled more than 100 Capreferential treatment given that tholic and Protestant missionarreligious minority in business, po- ies on grounds that their papers litics and the army. Approxi-", were not in order and that some mately 15 percent of the country of them had undergone military is Moslem. training and therefore were not Since the first week of his to be trusted. The Ugandan government denreign, Amin has taken an interest in religion, or more precisely, ies that there is any persecution in controlling it. The White Fa- of Christians, an Ugandan ofther said that the Roman Catho- ficial in Washington saying that lic and Anglican churches are "Christians would never allow the only major institutions "that themselves to be killed." are not under the thumb of the Mr. Birney, for one, is not asgovernment," and he described sured by such official explanatheir religious and social efforts tions. Referring to the 31 Cathoin villages as "subtle but defin- lic and Anglicans who were marite witness." tyred at Namugongo in 1886 he Relations between Amin and said, "The Church in Uganda the Catholic Church have fluc- was born in blood - and it appears to be celebrating its 100th tuated. In December, 1972, Amin ac- anniversary in blood." cused Cardinal Emmanuel NsuAmong the American missIonbuga of Kampala of being im- aries in Uganda are sIx Brothers plicated in Israeli and South of the Holy Cross, North Easton African plots against his govern- Ma. including Brother James ment. Four months later, the un- Nichols of Taunton. Presently predictable Ugandan leader per- Brother Nichols is at' St. Mary's sonally donated a new Mercedes Seminary, Box 179, Port Portal, Benz 250 to the cardinal so that Uganda. he could visit all the churches in Uganda. Almost a year to the day later the government told the cardinal that it would donate Continued from Page Six one million shillings (about didn't accept things the way $143,000) to help complete the they were. He kept seeking shrine being built to the Uganchange. . . . dan Martyrs. Did Mary feel that awful empThen, in April, 1974, the gov- tiness that comes from questionernment-controlled Ugandan Ra- ing what she had accomplished dio accused Cardinal Nsubuga of with her life? Did she look back "acting as an imperial agent." on the goals she had set as a When the cardinal answered young mother, and wonder in a press conference to this and where those goals had been other accusations against him lost? only the Kampala Catholic daily, Did she wonder . . . if she Munno, published his reply. tried again . . . to talk to Him A year before that the priest- ... to reach Him ... And when editor of Munno, Father Clement she couldn't sleep, did a tear Kiggundu, was found dead in the trickle down her cheek? As her burned wreckage of his car. pillow grew moist, did she pray Some observers speculated that in desperation, "Dear God . . . I the priest's death was an assas- tried. . . . Where did I go sination instigated by Amin. wrong?" Shortly after Munno printed If you can think of Mary that Archbishop Nsubuga's response, way, and if you have a problem the government closed down the . similar to the one described in paper, charging that it "does not the beginning, pray to her. serve the interests of the people She'll put her arms around of Uganda but blinds the public you and you can shed tears toinstead." Since then two of its gether. These prayers don't seek former staff members have been miracles. They recognize that accused of high treason. some problems have no immediAmin's treatment of foreign ate solutions. They seek only. missionaries in Uganda has been compassion from another mothjust as erratic. A few months af- er . . . who's been though the ter he seized power, Amin an- agony before.
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uently translated into numerous foreign languages and· distributed worldwide. Two years later Bishop Lamont succeeded in convincing the rest of the Rhodesian hierarchy to go on record in opposition to government policies of racial discrimination. Since then the Catholic bishops in Rhodesia, led by Bishop Lamont, have been among the strongest opponents of apartheid, or strict racial segregation, in the country.
Reaffirming the Church's commitment to true freedom and human rights and its opposition to violence, Bishop Mahon went on; "The administration and parliament of Rhodesia have in the past sanctioned an unjust and discriminatory regime and have made it impossible for moderate leaders to hold out consistent hope of nonviolent progress to majority rule. This attitude of the regime has inevitably tended towards the escalation of violence, however unjustified."
3-16-DAY EUROPEAN TOURS
In a telegram. Archbishop George Patrick Dwyer of Birmingham, president of the bishops' conference, assured Bishop Lamont of the English and Welsh bishops' "prayers and support for you in your witness for peace and justice." Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster linked the sen· tencing of Bishop Lamont with the recent murder of seven missionary priests and Sisters at Musami, Rhodesia, and with the recent death of Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum of Uganda. Each of these events, the cardinal said, had filled with him with dismay. Calling for "a responsible and impartial investigation by an independent international body" into the death of Archbishop Luwum, the cardinal concluded: "In Africa as elsewhere I call for a firm stand against violence, terrorism, and man's inhumanity to man wherever they exist." It was in 1959 that the Irish
Carmelite missionary, who had been bishop of the new created Umtali diocese for only two years, issued a now famous pastoral letter, "A Purchased People." In it he charged that laws limiting the land rights of the native Africans were a denial of their rightful heritage and of their natural rights to human dignity and self-determination. The letter was subse-
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Moral Choices: Problem of Abortion By Rev. John R. Connery, S.J.
The Roman poet Ovid, complaining about the ferquency of abortion in the Rome of his time, chides woman for doing what even the lioness and the 'tigress of the jungles of Armenia have never done: destroying their offspring. He goes on to say that women do not always do this with impunity; they often perish with the fetus they destroy in their womb. The widespread abortion and infanticide practiced in the Roman world at the beginning of the Christian era attracted the attention and criticism of several other pagan writers of the time. The reaction of the early Church to these practices was unequivocal: "You shall not kill the fetus by abortion nor the child after birth by infanticide." This condemnation is found in one of the earliest Christian documents, the "Didache," dating probably from Apostolic times. But the condemnation was not original with the Christians. The "Two Ways," that part of the "Dioache" in which it is found, was used originally by the Jewish community in proselytizing among the pagans. So the condemnation' is genuinely JudeoChristian. As Christianity spread throughout Europe, it carried on a ceaseless campaign against these practices. And in the course of history it never wavered in its opposition to them. Vatican Council II, in speaking of abortion and infanticide as unspeakable crimes, does no more than echo this constant and consistent opposition. When Does Life ,Begin?
In the current debate over abortion great emphasis is being put on the prenatal status of the fetus. Is the fetus a human being? Is it a person? When does human life begin in the fetus? These are not new questions; they go back to pre-Christian times. The earliest views looked upon the fetus as part of the mother until it was born. A later and more sophisticated view associated the beginnings of human life in the fetus with its physical formation (40 days after conception). There is no
evidence that Christians ever accepted the opinion that the fetus did not become a hunian being until it waf: born, but some of the early Fathers held· that the fetus became a human being (the human ~oul was infused) at the time (If its formation. Other Fathers, however, held that the human soul was infused at the time of conception. The opinion that the human soul was infused at the time of formation prevailed. for many centuries in the Western world and was not questiol1ed until the beginning of the 17th century. Since that time the opinion holding immediate infusion of the human soul has ga'ned ground, although not enough to win universal acceptance. What is different today is that for many the fitatus of the fetus is not yet a I- uman being, abortion is permissible without qualification. There is no historical precedent for this position. It was never the stage of fetal development that was decisive, but its destiny. Whatever anyone wanted to say about the status of the fetus at any given moment in its pre latal life, it was destined to be a human being, and it was sac:red for this reason. As Tertullian once said: he is a"man who will be a man. The distinction between the formed and unformed fetus was used for purposes of legal dassification. If the fetus was already formed (and therefore human), abortion was classified as h:>micide; otherwise jt was not. But the dis. tinction was never used as a general moral divitiing line between permissible and immoral abortions. And even over the many centuries when only the abortion of the fomled fetus was classified as actual homicide, theologian .and jurists spoke of abortion of the unformed fetus as anticipated, in':erpretive or intentional homicide, since the goal was the same. Church
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to identify the time of infusion of the human soul with conception. But this did not prevent them from condemning abortion and infanticide 'as unspeakable crimes without qualification. The traditional condemnation was based on the certain destiny of the fetus, not on its disputed status. This is a much more secure basis for a judgment. Unequivocal signs of the beginning of human life, as well as of the end of human life, appear only some time after. these events are generally conceded to have taken place. On the other hand, although one may not want to admit that human life begins with conception, neither can he rule it out with any degree of assurance. Using development as a criterion for judging the morality of abortion exposes one to the temptation of treating the fetus during its prehuman stages (if there are such) like ordinary animal or even vegative life. Even this might be tolerable if one could guarantee the fetus the loving care pet animals get. But in no way does it represent the full reality of the human fetus. At no time can fetal life be equated with simple animal or vegetative life. 'Fetal life has a human destiny right from the moment of conception, and this makes it essentially different and unique. Add Little New In general, modem arguments in favor of abortion.. although based on a much more sophisticated knowledge of embtyology and fetology, add little new to the arguments of the past. One might be tempted to think that the new consciousness of women's rights has introduced a new dimension into the issue. Since presumably one-half of human fetuses would be female, it is not clear how or why women's rights would, tip the scales in favor of the mother, at least in
these cases. But the real issue has never been one of sex discrimination. Theologians have long admitted that women (like everyone else) have a right over their bodies. The question is whether this gives them a right to abortion. In the days when the fetus was considered part of the mother, the mother's right to abortion, at least in some cases, might have been defended on this basis. But no one today considers the fetus part of the mother's body. Although dependent on the mother, it leads a separate existence right from the moment of conception. The mother then has no right to dispose of it as part of her body. Nor is there any other justification for extending the woman's right over her body to the fetus. Someone once remarked, facetiously but very aptly, that a person's right to swing his arm ends at the other person's nose. Similarly, the mother's right to her body does not justify direct violence to the fetuf, What has complicated the moral issue in this country is the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court declaring it unconstitutional to protect the fetus against an abortion decision by the mother before viability. It is hard to fathom even the legal mentality behind this decision. There may be a diffrence of opinion about the kind of abortion law that would be in the best interests of a particular community, but to rule that the right to privacy has absolute priority over the welfare of the fetus seems to be a gross perversion of values~ An added tragic elemen~ is the fact that the court's decision has become for many a moral as well as legal norm. The court probably never intended to become the conscience of the coun'try, but this is precisely what, seems to have happened. The decision has h,ad a very destructive impact on morality.
Response to Holiness , "At the sight of beauty love always awakes; at the llppeal of holiness the divine witness within us at once responds." - Paul Sabatier.
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By Father John Dietzen Q. Our son, 18, has a girl friend who was baptized in another (Protestant) church. She attends Mass with him occasionally, and I hear that she receives Holy Communion. I have since sought the advice of priest!!. and among their reactions was: ''We cannot refuse to give her Communion, unless her receiving would create some scandal." I feel that until a person is officially received into the Catholic Church he should not receive Holy Communion. What is the - correct attitude? (Missouri) A. You are correct. The Catholic Church is not alone in its position that Holy Communion is more than a merely friendly act. or something nice to do at Mass. The Eucharist is the sign of community and oneness of faith with those who are with us around the altar. and normally should not be received by anyone who at the present time does not share membership in the community. Many, though not all, Protestant denominations have the same belief and policy. Persons of other faiths are asked not to' receive Communion' at their worship; and their own members are asked not to do so elsewhere. In a sense, receiving Communion in a church where one does not share beliefs and membership with that church demonstrates at least a fuzzy faith, and perhaps even a certain dishonesty; something is said in action that is not in fact true.
On the other hand, what the priests told you is also true. It is impossible for a priest to check on such things when an individual presents himself for Communion at Mass. There are certain, though very limited, conditions under which a Christian of another faith could receive Communion in the Catholic Church. For this and other reasons, the priest gives anyone the benefit of the doubt at the time. However, if he suspects that the individual involved should not be receiving the Eucharist, he should check with that person later to make sure there is no misunderstanding. Q. We visited in a parish around Christmas time, where the bulletin had an article on St. Nicholas, and the help he had given to some poor girls. The bulletin said these girls "seemed destined for prostitu. tion." Is there any person who is "destined" for something like that? Isn't it always a grave sin for any reason? (111.) A. Being destined can mean several things. We might be destined to something because it is predetermined by God's providence, and will happen, regardless of what else happens.
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Thus, for example, we are destined to die. Being destined can also simply mean that we are headed in a particular direction, like a plane is destined for Los Angeles. It will arrive there unless something happens to change its course. Many lives are somewhat the same. To all appearances. they seem destined for greatness or tragedy, unless something happens to change their course.
Today then, a lay Catholic may be a member of a Masonic lodge, provided that lodge is not anti..catholic in its literature or activities. Priests and members of religious orders and congregations are still prohibited from enrolling in any Masonic society. Questions . for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen in care of The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River 02722. (Copyright (c) 1977 by NC News Service)
New Seeds Continued from Page Six ate. So if you intend to grow anything from seed it is important to have the seeds where they are readily accessible so that you can keep an eye on them. This does not mean that the germinating medium should be kept sopping wet; the ideal medium should be moist to the touch. Watering should be done judiciously and as gently -as possible so as not to wash the seed about in the container. Containers may be as crude as a coffee can or a milk container with the top removed. Plant pots make excellent containers as do the small flats or the containers six or eight plants come in when bought in the Spring. Containers should be chosen to fit whatever place you have reserved for starting seeds and should be strong enough to be moved about when necessary. Transplanting is done anytime after the seedlings develop four seeds and not later than when seedlings begin to touch each other. At that point they should be transplanted to containers in which they can grow comfortably without overcrowding.
Mary Luke Tobin, one of those extending the invitation. The religious leaders cannot get U.s. visas because Vietnam is still officially a U.S. "enemy," according to Don Luce, director of Clergy and Laity Concerned, a peace group which was also involved in extending the invitation.
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HOUSING AWARD: Barbara Ward, economist and noted Catholic author, will receive a medal from the American Institute of Architects for her books on archiQ. Is it possible today for a tecture and housing and her man to be a Catholic and a contribution to last year's Mason at the same time? Habitat conference in VanA. Canon 2335, which forbids couver. A pontifical commisCatholics to join any Masonic sion member, she was the organization, came into being first woman to address a bisbecause of severe problems the hops' synod in Rome. (NC Church experienced from Masonic groups during the past couple Photo) of centuries. A few years ago, however, this regulation was changed to apply only to those places where Masonry is an outright enemy of Catholics and of the Church.
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Ten Bishop G(irrard High Ceremonies was National Honor School students were inducted Society President, Maria Almeiinto the National Honor Society da. Opening prayer was offered WILLIAM H. H. MANCHESTER. JR. President on Thursday, February 10. Guest by Father Maurice Jeffery and a speaker, Senator Mary Fonseca, note of. congratulations was of111 William Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts 0~!740 addressed the students, their par- fered by school principal, Sister Telephone 996-8295 ents, and the faculty on the im- Elizabeth McAuliffe. Co-ordinaportance of scholarship, leader- tors of the assembly were Sister 1238 Kempton Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740 . ship, service, and c~aracter in a Mary Adele Thomas and Sister woman's life. Maurice. The National H.)Dor Society The following ten juniors were Vice-President Janet Witkowski; the inductees: ~lllllllllllllllllllll'''''''''''''''III''''''III''''''''IIII11II1l''''II1lIIllIllIllIIllIIllJlJlJlIIIJlJlIIII''"'1II1I111111111111111~Secretary, Louise Amiot; TreaGoretti Almeida, daughter of surer, Mary Talbot; and member Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Almeida of § § Stephanie Von Trapp comment- Fall River. ed on each of the:;e characterKathy Burton, daughter of istics. • Mr. Roy Burton of Newport and Then, in the presence of famRosalie Burton of Tiverton. I:: I:: ily and friends, the hductees pro- Mrs. Eldora Cabral, daughter of ceeded to take the National Mrs. Elvira Cabral of Fall River. Complete Optical Service Paula Hinman, daughter of Honor Society pledge. Master of
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Taunton Parish To Dedicate New Organ A 'newly built organ for Holy Rosary Church, Taunton, will be blessed and dedicated at special ceremonies on Sunday, March 6, at 4 p.m. The special program will include the blessing of the organ, short recital by Mr. David Carrier, organist, and solemn benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Rev. Sebastian Slesinski, pastor of Holy Rosary Parish will bless the organ before the recital and celebrate sohimn benediction with the congregation and choir afterward. The organ, a two manual pipe organ of 13 ranks was constructed by Roche Organ Co., Inc. of Taunton. Mr. David Carrier is director of music at the First Congregational Church of Braintree. He is a candidate for the Master of Music Degree at the New England Conservatory in the fields of organ and choral conducting. Presently an organ student of Yuko Hayashi, he is studying choral conducting with Lorna Cooke de Varon. He also serves as her assistant at the Conservatory. A native of Tiverton, Mr. Carrier began his studies with Normand Gingras in, Fall River where he was organist of St. Mary's Cathedral for 10 years. He recently gave his Master's recital at Harvard University. Recently he played a major solo recital for the American Guild of Organists at St. Peter's Church, Worcester. The Sunday Taunton program will consist of works by Bruhns, Daquin, Frescobaldi, Boyce and Bach.
The Most Revere nd Daniel A. January 26, 1922. He was eduCronin, Bishop of the Fall River cated at LaSalle Academy in Diocese has approvt'd the follow- Providence and he entered the ing nominations made by the Congregation of the Sacred Very Reverend Wilham B. Davis, Hearts in September, 1942. He SS.CC. Provincial of the Congre- was ordained to the Priesthood gation of the Sacred Hearts: in Washington, D.C. in June Reverend Paul Price, SS.CC. to 1949. He has served in various be Pastor of St. Francis Xavier's parishes of the Fall River Diocese - St. Joseph's, Fairhaven Church - Acushne" Mass. St. Anthony's, Mattapoisett Reverend John Sullivan, SS. CC. to be Pastor of Holy Trinity - Holy Trinity, West Harwich Church - West Hll.rwich, Mass. ~ and Our Lady of Lourdes, Reverend Jeremiah Casey, SS. Wellfleet. In 1972, he was apCC. to be temporary Administra- pointed Pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Nassau, Bahamas. tor of St. Boniface Church New Bedford, Mass. Father Father Jeremiah Casey was Casey would remain as Pastor of born in Brighton, Mass. on April Sacred Heart Church - North .8, 1921. He was educated at St. Fairhaven, Mass. Columbkilles Grammar and High Father Paul Price was born in Schools. He served in the Armed Fall River, Ma. on June 22, 1920. Forces from 1943 to 1946 and He was educated at Sacred then attended St. Philip Neri Heart Grammar School, Fall Riv- School in Boston. He entered Director er - Monsignor Coyle High the Congregation of the Sacred Pamela Smith has been electSchool, Taunton and attended Hearts in September, 1948 and ed to the executive committee Providence College. He entered was ordained to the Priesthood of the board of directors Massthe Congregation of the Sacred in June, 1954 in Washington, .achusetts Citizens for Life, Inc. Hearts in Septemb'~r, 1941. He D.C. He served as Bursar in sevAlso serving on the Massachuwas ordained to the Priesthood eral houses of the Community, , setts Citizens for Life executive in Washington, D.C. in Trinity and in parochial work he served committe~ are Richard Carey, College Chapel in JllDe, 1948. Af- in various parishes of the Fall Janet Deschenes, Anne Fox, Lee ter ordination, he served as the River Diocese - Holy Redeem- Hood, Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson, Bursar and later Rector of the er, Chatham - St. Anthony's, Robert McDonald, Jr., Marianne Congregation's se minaries in Mattapoisett - St. Mary's, North Rea, and Katherine Healy. Wareham and later in Clones, Fairhaven. He was appointed Massachusetts Citizens for Ireland. He also served as Pas- pastor of St. Francis de Sales . Life is a non-profit, non-partitor of St. Matthew's Church in Church in Abaco, Bahamas in san, non-sectarian citizens orMt. Gilead, Ohio and in the FaH 1967. While in Abaco Father ganization dedicated to affirmRiver Diocese as Pastor of Our Casey also served as a Diocesan ing the dignity of all human life, Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet Consultor to Most Reverend unborn and born. Holy Redeemer, Chatham - St. Paul Hagarty, the Bishop of Mrs. Smith lives in Swansea Anthony's, Mattapoisett and St. Nassau, Bahamas. He was ap- with her husband James. The pointed Pastor of Sacred Hearts Smiths have three children Boniface, New Bedford. Father John Sullivan was born Church, North -Fairhaven in James, Jr., Wilson, and Margarin Providence, Rhode Island on 1972. et.
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OUR LADY OF LOURDES TAUNTON The Holy Ghost Society of the parish is sponsoring a dance on Saturday, March 5, in the school auditorium from 8 to midnight. Music will be provided by Bebe's Orchestra. Portuguese and American foods will be on IMMACULATE CONCEPTION sale during the evening. Tic- FALL RIVER kets are available at the door. ' .The Women's Guild will meet ST. ANNE on Monday. March 7, at 8 p.m. FALL RIVER in the parish center. Co-hostessRecollection days for the can- es for the. meeting will be Mrs. didates for Confirmation have Jean Bentley and Mrs. Louise been scheduled at the parish Francoeur. school for March 5 and 6. Members are asked to bring HOLY TRINITY donations of canned goods and WEST HARWICH prizes to the Country Store to A testimonial will be held on be held on April 3. Sunday, March 6, to honor the ST. GEORGE pastor, Rev. William B. Davis 5S.ce., recently appointed th~ WESTPORT On Saturday, March 19, at 8 Provincial of the Sacred Hearts p~m., the Couples Club will sponFathers. Father Davis will be the cele- sor a dance in the school hall. brant of a 2 p.m. liturgy and a Refreshments will be available reception will follow the Mass in the course of the evening, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the church Music will be furnished by the Roman IV Orchestra. The mohall. tif. of this dance will be March ST. JOHN OF GOD Dance. Chairmen are Mr. and SOMERSET Mrs. John Figuerido and coLenten Masses will be at 5:15 chairmen are Mr. and Mrs. Bert in the afternoon and 7 in the Leduc. evening. The annual Spring Fashion Show, sponsored by the HOLY ROSARY, St. John of God Women's Guild FALL RIVER will be held on Wednesday: At the next meeting of the March 9 at Venus de Milo. Din- Women's Guild, Jeane Bancroft, ner at 6:30 p.m. Fashions by handwriting analyst, will be the Vera's of Somerset. Tickets may guest. All members are invited be obtained by contacting Mrs. to attend and are asked to bring Manuel T. Nogueira at 673-6145 a friend. Refreshments will be or any member of the Guild, and served. at the rectory. Tables of ten are ST. LOUIS, res~rved. FALL RIVER ST. ELIZABETH A Gala St. Patrick's Night will EDGARTOWN The annual St. Patrick's Day be held on March 19 in the Tea will be held on Sunday, church auditorium, from 8:00 to 12:00. Entertainment will be proMarch 13 at the church hall. Chairman of this event is Mrs. vided by the Night Club EnterEsther Waller. Tickets at $1.75 tainers. All your favorite Irish may be purchased from any Tunes. Refreshments will be promember for the 4 to 6 p.m. event. vided. For tickets contact: John A Penny Auction will be held Cassidy 8-7304. on April 27 at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. A Stop ~nd Shop Party Plan Irene Valenti is chairman. will be held on March 21 at 6:30 The regular guild meetings p.m. A luncheon, prizes and are held on the fourth Monday games will be provided. Tickets of each month in the parish hall. are limited and may be obtained by calling Mrs. Wilfred St. ST. JOHN BAPI1ST Michel. WESTPORT The St. John's L;dies Guild ST. WILLIAM, will hold a Shamrock Whist to- FALL RIVER night in the Main Rd. parish The regular monthly meeting hall. The 8 p.m. event will feaof St. William's Women's Guild ture prizes, door prizes and rewill be held on Wednesday, freshments. Edith Kirby is chairMarch 9, at 8 p.m. in the church man. all-purpose room. A TupperOn March 12, St. John's Hall ware Party will be held after will feature a Saturday Movie: the business meeting. Members "David and Goliath" and "Noah's may bring a guest. Hostesses Ark." The event will begin at 7 are: Miss Grace Flanagan, Mrs. p.m. and the fee is $1. per perGen Granito, Mrs. Virginia son. 'Hayes and Mrs. Mary BatchOn Friday, March 18, a Youth elder. Record Hop is planned at the Turn to Page Sixteen parish hall from 7 to 10 p.m. OUR LADY OF FATIMA, SWANSEA The Women's Guild will hold a "pot luck" supper Monday, March 14, at 7:00 p.m. for members and guests. Coordinating the affair for the newly reorganized guild are Mrs. John Sullivan and Sister Denista Sullivan, RS.M.
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ST. MARY FALL RIVER St. Mary's Cathedral Women's Guild will resume the regular monthly meetings on Monday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the parish hall. Miss Eleanor R Shea will be hostess. Plans are :being made for a Penny Sale to be held in April in the parish hall. The Rev. Francis J. McCarthy Scholarship Fund will receive the proceeds of this event.
'How Ready To Forgive' "A man turning from an evil liie is bound to be rendered despetate by the knowledge of his sins, if he does not also know how good God is, how kind and gentle, and how ready to forgive."-St. Bernard
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Mar. 3, 1977
KNOW YOUR FAITH How Devotion to Mary Began By Father John J. Castelot
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By Deacon Steve Landregan incidental reference to her as the mother of Jesus in 6,3. The Church's devotions have The virgin womb of Mary, The situation changes with â&#x20AC;˘ overshadowed by the power of a rich history; they grow, develop, sometimes get out of hand the appearance of the Gospels the Holy Spirit, conceives Jesus and have to be put back into of Matthew and Luke. Each of the incarnate God. For nine proper perspective. This is to be these books, written some 50 months Mary carries within her expected, for they are part of years after the Christ-event, the Redeemer of the world. On her life, her tradition, and nei- opens with' a theological inter- her journey to E izabeth, she ther life nor tradition is static. pretation of the birth of Jesus, becomes the first missionary, Devotion to Mary is a case in and betrays the profound reflec- the first to carry Christ to anpoint. It has had a long, glorious tion on Mary's role that took other. In her charity and unselfhistory, but our immediate con- place during this period. Matt- ishness, her first concern is not cern is the starting point of its hew makes explicit the Churoh's for herself but for her ,aging evolution to the extent we can belief in the supernatural con- cousin who is also with chiRl. discern it in the New Testa- ception of Jeaus: "When his mo- Finally, in Goa's own time, Jesus ment. Beginnings are begin- ther Mary was engaged to Jo- comes forth from her womb and niIlgs, often vague" ill-defined, seph, but before they lived to- imo the world so much in need hesitant. So we are not gether, she was found with child of redemptiQn. surprised to find only one pass- through the power of the Holy The Church too, overshadowing reference to Mary in the Spirit ... the angel of the Lord ed by the power of the Holy earliest Christian writings, the appeared in a dream and said Spirit, conceives Jesus the inletters to Paul. In, Gal. 4,4 we ... 'Joseph, son of David, have carnate Word. It:oo becomE:s, read: "... but when the design- no fear about taking Mary as as it were, the W,)mb of God, ated time had come, God sent your wife. It is by the Holy wherein the Word is nurtured forth his So~ born of a woman, Spirit that she has conceived until, in God's own time, it leaps born under the law, . . ." Of this child,' ... All this happened forth through proclamation and course, if it was God's Son who to fulfill what the Lord had said liturgy into the hearts and was born of the woman, then through the prophet: 'The virgin minds of men and women. she was quite clearly the mother shall be with child and give Finally, the individual Christof God, but Paul does not pursue birth to a son, and they shall ian, baptized in water and the call him Emmanuel,' a name Spirit, becomes the Womb of this point. The first of our four Gospels which means 'God is with us' " God, wherein the Word dwells o until, in God's own time, with is that of Mark. It appeared (Mt. I, ISb, 20, 22-23.). Luke's "infancy Gospel" 'is an the overflowing cf faith and about 10 years after Paul's death and gives no indication that exquisitely delicate atld theo- love, it spills forth drenching "THE SERENE FACE of the Virgin looks downward Mary was someone of special logically profound portrait of men and women wth its saving toward the congregation but her right arm is raised, pointinterest in the life of the Church Mary. (Lk. 1,5 - 2,52). An an- power. Just as Mary se1:ved as only ing,to the figure of her risen Son above the altar." before 70 A.D. There is only an Turn to Page Thirteen a temporary vessel for the Word (NC Photo) incarnate, a gatewa,y as it were to the world, SO the Church and In the same paragraph, the itate her role as Womb of God. the individual ChriE tian are ves- Council Fathers explain that Thus Mary lives in the Church sels that cannot contain the re- true devotion to Mary proceeds and in the hearts of men and By Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin perfect Victim for our sins. Our deeming Word, but can only re- from true faith that moves to women where through preaching Lord is the new lamb, even tain it by giving it away through childlike love of our Mother and and witness she points the way It takes about 60 seconds at more immaculate than the spot- proclamation, through sacra- to the imitation of her virtues. to her Son, to His obedience our parish to break up the altar less Old Testament animal whose ment and through witness. There could be no greater imi- and to the love of the Father," breads in preparation for Holy blood splattered over door posts At the front of our parish tation of the virtues of Mary and repeats again her words at Communion. During this process in Jewish homes brought deliver- church, St. Pius X in Dallas, than that of both Church and Cana ... "Do whatever He tells the choir and congregation unite ance from slavery in Egypt. there is a carved wooden statue the individual Christian who im- you," in singing the Agnus Dei or of the Blessed Virgin that reThe hymn also speaks or sings flects perfectly the teachings of Lamb of God. A rubric in the Roman Missal indicates the to Christ,' the lamb here and now the Second Vatican Council con"hymn may be repeated until truiy present in our midst, as cerning the role of Mary. the' breaking of the bread is we prepare to receive in a few The simple unpainted statue is finished, but the last phrase is minutes His body and blood in affixed to the wall just to the old age. He spent much of the By Janaan Manternach Communion. always: grant us peace." right of the altar of sacrifice. time that 'I was home sitting ill This past Christmas I was This Lamb of God hymn of The serene face of the Virgin In addition to making clearer his chair in the living room. an opportunity to blessed with finally, looks praise and petition, looks downward toward the the truth that we eat the bread When no one was talking with spend a few days with my famthe future, our heavenly banto congregation but her right arm of heaven in Communion, this him, he prayed the rosary over , ily in Iowa. They were happy That forward glance is' quet. is raised, pointing to the figure breaking of the :bread underscorand over. At times he prayed so es the unity between celebrant made clearer as the priest, fol- of her Risen Son above the al- days. Practically the whole fam- loud that he annoyed some of ily was together. People were lowing the Lamb of God and a tar. and congregation. Ideally, the constantly dropping in and the the family. They told him there priest and people eat of the same private prayer, elevates the host In the Dogmatic Constitution table was always prepared for was no need to pray that loud. and says: "This is the Lamb of loaf, consecrated earlier as one on the Church, the Council Falarger whole and now divided 'God who takes away the sins thers called upon theologians anyone who was hungry or just I couldn't help thinking back wished to snack. Happy are those of the world. into many smaller portions. and preachers to "rightly illusto my childhood. We prayed the who are called to His supper," As I reflect on all the visiting, rosary aloud together every trate the duties and privileges of That same concept of closeThe last sentence refers tQ the the Blessed Virgin which always sharing, eating and gift-giving, night. I remember how, at times ness or oneness between the leader of worship and his fellow book of Revelation (19,9): "The refer to Christ, the source of all two incidents keep coming back I found the practice long and Christian believers is stressed a angel then said to me: 'Wiite truth, sanctity arid devotion" to me. ,Both have to do with tiring. I recall, too, how my moMary. One of my nephews gave ther and I would pray the rosary moment further on when every- this down: Happy are they who (Par. 67). one, including the prie,st, recites have been invited to the wedAt Cana, Mary simply said my mother the largest rosary I together late at night interceding together: "Lord, I am not worthy ding feast of the lamb,' " to the servants, "Do whatever have ever seen, made of large with Mary to bring my father While the Lamb of God is be- He tells you." direc:ting them to chestnuts and meant to be hung safely home from wherever he to receive you, but only say the ing chanted or recited, the priest her Divine Son who alone had on the wall. My mother was de- had gone. word and I shall be healed." In this hymn or song, "Lamb drops a small particle of the the power to save the bride- lighted. She took it to her bedSo much has changed since of God," we call upon or invoke consecrated bread into the cup groom from the embarrassment room, removed a smaller rosary then. Seemingly none of my brothat had hung above the bed saying quietly: "May this' minglof running out of wine. The Christ the Savior directly to forthers and sisters prays the famgive and shower loving kindness ing of the body and blood of our statue at the front of St. Pius X for years, and hung the new one ily rosary. There are fewer novit was a in its place. For her Lord Jesus Christ bring eternal Church echoes those same 'upon us. It points to the past, enas to Mary at the, parish life to us who receive it." words to troubled men and wo- perfect gift. the present and the future. church - important events for Some would see in that ges- men who seek His comfort and My dad is suffering from our family in bygone years. But First, we recall the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, pouring ture a reunification symbol sim- His peace 2,000 years later... 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Continued Education for Clergy DENVER (NC) - Continuing education for priests is no longer restricted to theological and spiritual training, the new president of the National Organization for the Continuing Education of the Roman Catholic Clergy (NOCERCC) said here. Priests today must also learn new management techniques and be familiar with new problems in the areas of alcoholism and sexuality, said the new president, Father James Dunning, continuing education director for the Seattle archdiocese. Elected for a two-year term at the end of the organization's four-day convention here, Father Dunning, who holds a doctorate in religion and religious education from the Catholics University of America in Washington, D.C., succeeds Father Daniel Danielson, director of clergy education in the Oakland, Calif., diocese.
Ma ry's Presence Continued from Page Twelve I think Mary's presence in our family is very real today. I would hope her presence in today's Church is reflected in a basic attitude toward life and God. Being with my family at Christmas helped me appreciate how Mary's place in their Catholic life has not diminished, but rather found new expression. There is no question that many devotions to Mary have died, but the rosary seems to be enjoying a deserved rebirth. Hopefully, Catholics will develop simple forms that can express the need many of us have for Mary. And the more traditional appreciation of her tends to increase, even unexpectedly outside the Church. To be open, accepting and trusting of God's presence and action in the whole of our lives is the soundest, most traditional, form of devotion to Mary. Marian devotions can help foster and express this attitude but the attitude is not dependent upon them. I realize this even more as I reflect on Mary against the background of a young nephew selecting a rosary as a gift for his grandmother and my Dad experiencing solace and comfort for his old age in fingering rosary beads and saying a familiar prayer over and over and over. Events like that provide a bridge for perceiving that Mary will always be alive and well in our midst. For she, like love, is present wherever people, families, and churches who know and love her, are' opefl, accepting and trusting of God in their lives and in their history. (Copyright (c) 1977 by NC News Service)
Found Object'ionable WASHINGTON (NC) - The office of film and broadcasting of the U.S. Catholic Conference has reported that nearly 40 percent of all films released in 1976 were found morally objectionable. The figure represents a five percent increase over 1975 which in turn was up 13 percent from 1974.
NOCERCC's membership now consists of directors of continuing education in 103 dioceses and 50 religious orders. At the convention, the directors discussed methods of providing continuing education for priests in a changing Church and of extending that education to others involved in Church ministry, including the laity. Father John Kinsella of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators surveyed the present talent pool of ministries available to address the needs of the Church in today's world. Father George Wilson of Management Design, Inc., discussed processes through which priests might learn to share ministry in the Church. Task forces established by the NOCERCC presented reports on alcoholism, management, sexuality, social justice, spirituality and the media. Other task forces have been directed to study preaching, religious education evaluation techniques, ministry to minorities and shared ministry. Forms of continuing education discussed included: sabattical programs, retreats, programs for the younger clergy, pre-pastorate programs and one-day workshops.
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How Devotion to Mary Began Continued from Page Twelve cient legend has it that Luke was an artist and that he painted Mary's portrait. The presumed portrait is in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. It is unauthentic, but behind the legend is the demonstrable fact that Luke was indeed an artist. He used a pen rather than a brush, and later geniuses translated his words into unforgettable masterpieces, paintings of such scenes as the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity. Just the opening. words of the angelic greeting speak volumes, not only about Mary's role, but also about her own God-given dignity: "Rejoice, 0 highly favored daughter! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women" (Lk. 1,28). The account is enriched with subtle allusions to Old Testament texts which communicate· a meaning. even deeper than the words themselves. With the words of the angel in mind, read these lines from the prophet Zephaniah: "Shout for joy, 0 daughter Zion! sing joyfully, 0 Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, o daughter Jerusalem! ... The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst, ... The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty
NATIONAL. CHAPLAIN: Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence has accepted to serve as the national chaplain of the Union St.-JeanBaptiste, succeeding Rev. Continued from Page Twelve Msgr. Charles Marcoux of Winooski, Vt. who recently ilar to the separation sign at the narrative. Accorddied. The USJB is the coun- institutional ing to this view, the distinct try's largest mutual benefit consecration of the bread and society for Americans of wine represents to us the ugly division of Jesus' body and French descent. Mr. Edgar J. Martel, presi- . blood on Calvary; the mingling dent, said the choice was of the two elements now thus speaks to us of the glorious revery "appropriate. Bishop surrection when Christ's body Gelinea4 has been a member and blood were reunited, never for years and his parents, again to be parted. Mrs. Juliette' Gelineau and However valid this approach, the late Leon Gelineau, were the important truth is that we active members of USJB worship the risen Lord on our Council 36 De Goesbriand in altars. Centuries ago, Our Lady Burlington during his boy- surely joined with those earliest Christians in celebrating the hood and seminary days. first eucharistic liturgies. ConMrs. Gelineau holds the off- sequently she, like us, believed ice of dean in her council in and received her resurrected today. Son at those early Masss..
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savior; He will rejoice over you with gladness and renew you in his love," (Zep. 3:14·17). Using Old Testament reminiscences like this served to identify Mary as the new Jerusalem, the new Israel, in whose midst is the LORD, the king of Israel, the mighty savior. This is just one of many examples that could be cited from these ingenious ohapters.
Mother Ter·esa In Manila MANILA (NC) Mother Teresa of Calcutta's Missionaries of Charity are now serving Manila's "poorest of the poor." They are giving priority to residents of Tondo, Manila's worst slum district. Mother Teresa and members of of order began serving the poor after inauguration of a threebuilding center here recently. The inauguration ceremonies were highlighted by a blessing from Cardinal Jaime L. Sin of Manila. The center is located in Binondo, a subdistrict of Tondo. It houses a feeding center for children, a dispensary-clinic, a youth vocational education training shop, and a chapel. U sits on 1,400 square meters of land. Both land and buildings were donated by Emelda Romualdez Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Cardinal Sin said that the archdiocese of Manila has also donated a piece of land in Tayuman, another part of Tondo, where a novitiate for the order will be built. Mother Teresa and several members of her order arrived in Manila in January to handle preparations for opening of the center. An appeal for donations to the center drew a strong response from Manila· Catholics. Aside from cash, contributions included furniture, kitchen utensils, a painting of Pope Paul and even a car which Mother Teresa turned down with much gratitude saying, "It's not time yet."
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Mar. 3, 1977
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EVERGREEN Love soft as an easy chair Love fresh as the morning air One love that is shared by two I have found with you Like a rose under the April snow I was always certain love would grow Love ageless and evergreen Seldom seen by two You and I will make each night a first Every day a beginning Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed They warm and excite us 'cause we have the brightest love Two lights that shine as one Morning glory and midnight sun Time we've learned to sing above Time won't change the meaning of one love Ageless. and ever, evergreen by B. Streisa,nd and P. Williams (c) 1976 CBS, Inc. ,Recently· the press seems to have exploded with comments on morality, love and sexuality. What strikes the casual observer is that despite the tremendous number of words, sexual love remains a huge mystery Therefore, we go on groping through the darkness of our own feelings, the things that our friends tell us, the instructions and insights of the Church, and the few comments that Jesus offered; return 'again to assert that there is a mystery that requires that we be humble searchers. A short time back, I read an article that cast some light on the mystery. The author suggested that our society has been through a time when it examined unfaithfulness, multiple loves, pleasure for pleasure's sake. And now it appears as if we are returning to a simple and very old truth. Intimate love is about being responsible for another person. The tone of the article was impressive. Love is truest when it is open, simple and committed to the future. The sexually responsible person brings an open honesty to the question of how to care for the other person throughout all the days to come. Barbara Streisand's new song, "Evergreen:' hits the pop charts with this simple type of message. While an incredible number of songs today deal with infidelity or love that is lost, "Evergreen" spends only a few words on love. It simply sets out the ideal that love is ageless, above time and evergreen. . There are not really "answers" to be found in the issue of sexual love or any other genuine expression of love. There are only ideals to be realistically striven after. The Christian promises that ideal: "Love ageless and evergreen."
Heightened Mora'i Sense Needed In Nuclear Weaponry Race BALTIMORE (NC) - In the first major U.S. observance of the Church-sponsored World Day of Peace, Cardinal John , Deardan of Detroit deplored the nuclear arms race and called for a "heigptened moral sense" among Catholics. The prelate reminded, citizens of their responsibility to ensure that the power of the United States is used in a morally responsible way.
History A Drama "We have not formed the right theory of History until we see History itself as a spiritual drama, moving towards a significant denouement and at the same time a process which has meaning and value as it goes -Rufus Jones on."
. "The only check on power is, moral responsibility," he said. "And this applies whether the power is wielded on the international, national, or even local community level." In calling for a sense of moral responsibility, the cardinal asked: "Where can it be shown more clearly than in our entire attitude toward nucleElr weaponry? 'we know it; we have experienced its devastating potential." He said the "overriding concern" should be to .curb the "fanatical irrational arms race" and the "secret rivalry between people for military superiority." Tpe churchman later called on President-elect Jimmy Carter to push the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union.
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SUZANNE PAQUIN
Massachusetts Junior Miss By Sister M. Jane You might see her in full regalia, as co-captain of Stang's drum majorettes. Or graciously addressing the parents from the stage as presiden!' of Stang's' ~ational Honor Society. You may have read abQ1.1t her in the paper when she was crowned New Bedford's Junior Miss last October. And more recently when, competing vdth 26 other contestants, she .became Massachusetts Junior Miss. The giftedness and versatility of Suzanne Paquin are not the first thing you'd 10tice about her around Stang. It would more likely be her air of quiet, unassuming friendliness and simplicity. As full as her life is, she is always available and willing to help. She is a member of the Drama Club, the Student Involvement Committ~e, the band and orchestra, and the yearbook staff. She's listed in Who's Who in American· High Schools, won
the New Bedford College Club Book Award, was awarded membership in the National Piano Players, and has won the Singer World Stylemaker Award. Suzanne made all her outfits for the city and state Junior Miss pageants, which base selection of winners on scholarship, achievement, personality, goals, and values. Candidates are judged on fitness, creative and performing ability on an interview with pageant judges. Suzanne ranked highest of all candidates in this interview, and for her creative performance played an original arrangement of "Rhapsody in Blue," Suzanne will compete for a $15,000 scholarship in the National Junior Miss pageant in Mobile on April 21. Should she be the winner she would apply the award to study of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University where she has been accepted for the fall.
Stang Players to Present "Fiddler on the Roof" The Bishop Stang High School Gateway Players will
Coyle-Cassidy Sets Dance The Monogram Club of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, will sponsor its annual St. Patrick's dinner-dance in the school auditorium from 7:30 p.m. to' 1 a.m. Saturday, March 19, with a social hour beginning at 6:30 p.m. Music will be by The Four of Us Plus. Proceeds will fiUppOrt the school's athletic program and reservations may he made at telephone 823-0433.
present one of the most loved musicals in the American theater, "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Bishop Stang Auditorium, No. Dartmouth, on March 18, 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the production can be obtained from the highschool - tel. 996-5602 - with no reservations accepted. Gerald Morrissey is the director; Denise Morency is vocal director and' Ronald Machado is music coordinator. Choreography is under the direction of Daryl Collins and 'Heidi Parker. David Fortin and Elizabeth Cabral hold the leading roles.
"The switch is on among young people:' says Dr. Morris E. Chafetz, former director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, "from a wide range of drugs to the most devastating drug of all - alcohol." The first nationwide survey conducted for NIAA revealed these facts about adolescent drinking patterns: 1. About 40 percent of secondary school students (nearly half of the boys and one-third of the girls) are "moderate" to "heavy" drinkers. These include more than 24 percent of the youth younger than 14. 2. One in 10 students drinks "heavily" - consuming five to 12 drinks one or more days a week. Nearly half get drunk at least once a year, and one-fourth more than four times. Three in 10 could be classified as "problem drinkers." An estimated half million adolescents are alcoholics. 3. Most teen-agers use no drug but alcohol. 'But about 30 percent of the moderate-to-heavy drinkers also smoke pot, use hard drugs, or both. 4. Only 20 percent have never had a drink. Blacks have a higher proportion of abstainers and a lower proportion of regular drinkers than either middle-class whites or American Indians. Causes for Drinking The big questio_n, of course, is what is behind the upsurge in teen drinking. Probably the most cited answer is parents. For example, all the youths in one Alcoholics Anonymous group have alcoholic or heavy-drinking parents. Some mental health professionals :believe teen drinking can be traced to psychological addiction. They look for answers in the larger context of teen emotional problems, and the causes of drug dependence in general. A number of psychological factors seem prevalent. The spread of resentment and disappointment among young people could lead to increasing use and abuse of alcohol. Alcohol has been the classical, if mistaken, answer to such feelings of despair for centuries. Look at all the drinking that goes on in TV. The moment there is a problem someone asks, "Do you want a drink?" So perhaps youth today are merely emulating the not-soadult adults. . Youthful members of AA have themselves testified that the pervasive exposure of liquor in TV shows and commercials makes a strong impression on their minds. Society at large is also blamTurn to Page Fifteen
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Young parishioners of Holy Name Parish in New Bedf<?rd each have high hopes as the Holy Name Parish Basketball Jamboree begins. From left to right: William Arnold, Christy Semiao, John Kumor and Robert Lima.
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Eastern Mass. Playoff Underway The Eastern Mass. basketball and hockey schoolboy playoffs are well underway and several games are scheduled for today. In basketball, Durfee, of Fall River, takes on Dedham or Brighton, in the first-round proper of Division One South, at seven o'clock tonight at Brockton. Making its 31st appearance in 33 years in the post-season playoffs, Durfee takes a 20-0 slate into tonight's encounter. Dedham and Brighton met Tuesday night but, at this writing, the result of that game is not
known. Dedham finished fourth in the Bay State League and Brighton was making a strong bid for the Boston League Division One runnerup spot. Also set for tonight, at seven o'clock at Taunton or Quincy, is a first-round game pitting Boston College High against New Bedford or Barnstable. The Hub hoopsters, Catholic Conference titlists, have a 19-3 record. New Bedford (14-6) and Barnstable (13-9) finished second and third in Division One of the Southeastern Mass. Conference.
Division Two South Pairings Sharon (18-2), co-champion of the Hockomock League, is paired against Abington or DennisYarmouth at seven o'clock tonight at Taunton or Quincy in the first round proper. Abington and Dennis-Yarmouth met Tues-
day in the preliminary round. Hanover (17-3), champion of the South Shore League, is paired against Medway (12-8), fourth-place finisher in the TriValley League, at Scituate, also at seven o'clock.
Games Tonight In Division Three South Three first-round games are scheduled for tonight in Division Three South. Norton, (15-6), fourth-place finisher in Division Three of the Southeastern Mass.· Conference, will oppose Harwich (14-5), Cape and Islands League titlist, at Bridgewater-Raynham; New Bedford Voke (15-7), Division Three So. E. Mass. Conference crownholder, takes on Nausset Regional (15-5), runnerup in the Cape and Islands League, at Old Rochester Regional, Mattapoisett. And, Nantucket (15-5), which finished third in the Cape and Islands League, will oppose Mis-
sion of Roxbury (15-7) at Middleboro. All thr~e games are scbeduled for seven.o'clock. In Division One South, the semi-finals are scheduled for next Tuesday with Durfee opposing Boston English or Wellesley at 3:30 p.m., at Oliver Ames, and, Franklin opposing the winner of the Norwood vs. Plymouth-Carver or Hingham game at Marshfield at four p.m. The Division One final is set for Saturday, March 12, at four p.m., at Stonehill College while the Division Two final is scheduled for one o'clock on the same day and also at Stonehill College.
Slate Five Hour Vig'il Tomorrow N'ight A five-hour First Friday vigil of reparation to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary will be held from 8:00 P.M. to 1 A.M. tomorrow at St. Louis Church, Fall River. The service will begin with a votive Mass 9f the Sacred Heart and (:onclude with a Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The rosary will also be recited and a holy hour conducted. There will be a coffee "reak at 10 P.M. All are invited to attend all or any part of the vigil.
Continued from Page Fourteen ed. Dr. Robert Straus of the Unversity of Kentucky College of Medicine says, "Although some physical . . . and . . . psychological dependence on alcohol does appear in young people, it is my contention that the vast majority who are repeatedly drinking 'too muoh' are doing so in response to their perceived need to meet the expectations or requirements of social situations." Teens themselves give a variety of reasons for using alcohol, from drinking to get "turned on" to drinking as an escape from inhibitions. They are likewise not clear on where to get help with a drinking problem. One survey revealed that five percent would pick a school authority, 10 percent would go to their parents, and 19 percent would seek help from someone their own age or elsewhere. What to do? What to do about teen drinking? Gerald Globetti, director of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Education at the University of Alabama, says parents and teachers should begin teaching children about the causes and effects of alcohol and Drug Education at the University of Alabama, says parents and teachers should begin teaching children about the causes and effects of alcohol abuse by age six. Right now new pressures are developing for the YMCA, PTA and other community groups to mobilize teachers, parents, youth leaders and anyone interested to develop better alcohol-prevention programs. , RULED OUR RULER
"Him Whom the heavens cannot contain, the womb of one woman bore. She ruled our Ruler; she carried Him in Whom we are; she gave milk to our Bread." - St. Augustine
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Girls' Hoop Playoffs Also Underway There are no games scheduled today in the South Division of the Eastern Mass. girls' basketball tournament. The Durfee High girls ~19-0) drew a bye in the first round and will oppose Weymouth North (13-3) or Marshfield (13-3) at three o·clock tomorrow afternoon in a Division One South quarter-finals game at Oliver Ames. _ In other quarter-finals games in that division tomorrow Dartmouth (16-3) takes on Franklin (17..J3) at Rockland, at eight p.m.; Norwood (17-1) is paired against Plymouth-Carver (15-3) or Hingham (13-4) at Rockland at 6:30 p.m.; and, Boston English (17-2) meets Wellesley (15-3) at Oliver Ames at 4:30 p.m. In Division Two South, the quarter finals are scheduled for Saturday with the following pairings: Westwood (19-0) or Bourne
(14-6) vs. Nausett (15-2) or Apponequet (154), Oliver Ames, 2:30 p.m.; Archbishop Williams (10-0) or Hanover (12-4) vs. Seekonk (20-2) or Middleboro (16-4), Marshfield, three p.m.; Bishop Stang (16-0) or Notre Dame (15-3) vs. Sharon (18-2) or Holliston (13-3), at Marshfield, one p.m.; and, Abington (19-1) or Rockland (14-4) vs. Martha's Vineyard (15-1) or Msgr. Ryan (11-3), Oliver Ames, one p.m. The quarter-finals in Division One South are set for Saturday, the semi-finals for March 9 and the final for March 12. In Division Two South, quarter-finals are scheduled for tomorrow and Saturday, the semi-finals for March 9 and the final for March 12. In Division Three South, quarter-finals games are also on tap for tomorrow and Saturday with the semi-finals on March 9 and the final Saturday, March 12.
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THE EYES OF CHRIST: Tourists visiting the Christus Gardens in Gatlinburg, Tenn., often are fascinated by a' large marble head of Christ. The reason is the mysterious way the eyes seem to follow the viewer regardless of what angle the sculpture is v,ewed from as shown in these three angles. (NC Photo)
The Parish Parade Continued from Page Eleven ST. MARY'S, MANSFIELD Rev. Thoma~ Rita will offer an 8 p.m. Mass on March 10
Dear Editor, I am an active member in the Legion of Mary, and I noticed in the "Anchor" a few write-ups giving the personal feelings of members. I thought I would add mine. I've been in the Legion of Mary eight years now. It has helped me to speak my mind and it's a wonderful way to promote the Rosary, and also to keep in contact with people. Once a person joins the Legion, I agree that, "It is like a magnet which draws you every week to the meeting." When you're given your assignment, it . is a pleasure, to fulfill it, for you know it is all for Mary. Therese Beaulieu New Bedford
Alien Plight Dear Editor: A recent editorial in the Anchor especially caught my attention because it points toward two situations of injustice In our society and, I believe, it pro-
and then talk to the Catholic Decorations for the Spring Women's Club on Pro-Life. Dance will be made at the home Members are urged to bring of Claire Margano, 81 Pratt St. their husbands. Dessert and . -at 8 p.m. on March 7th. Mem- lunch and supper at the Knights coffee will follow. bers are reminded to bring of Columbus Hall, 2 Hodges St., empty Pringle Potato Chip cans between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. towith the plastic lids. ~""""""""""""""""""""""',.~ morrow, March 4. Tickets are St. Mary's Sprin!' Dance will available at the rectory. Cost be held on March 19th at the is $1.50 for adults and .99 for V.F.W. Hall on Chilson Ave. youths under 12. Dancing is from 8::10 to 1 a.m. The Non-Confirmation Class Tickets are $4 per person in- will hold a Midwinter Children's cluding a cold buffet and are Carnival between 12 noon and available from Ro berta Bach- 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, in : The Post Office has increased from 13 to 25 : man 339-8235. the parish hall for children 7 : cents its charge to THE ANCHOR for notification : ST. JOSEPH, years old and younger. Former members of St. : of a subscriber's change of address. Please : ATTLEBORO The Attleboro Catholic Com- . Joseph CYO will hold a reunion : help us reduce this expense by notifying us : mittee on Scouting will sponsor on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the : a Clam Cake - Clam Chowder parish hall.. : immediately when yo~ plan to move..
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poses solutions which are illogical and unjust. You were dealing with the "illegal alien," the undocumented alien residing in the United States. (January 27, 1977) The editorial entered the discussion of the plight of these people through a statement about unemployment, insinuating that these 8 million people are taking jobs .from citizens and documented aliens. That thinking could lead one to suggest that should all the undocumented workers be deported our whole unemployment situation would be soived!!! Simply untrue... The unemployment situation requires more complex and humane solutions than the deportation of undocumented aliens. It requires the people of this nation to recognize the necessity of governmental action to affirm our right to decent employment. It requires making the private sector accountable for its' contribution to unemployment. Your description of the current working and living situation of many undocumented aliens touches the injustice of their plight. r agree with the recommendation of the U.S. Bishops of last November 10, "That in the light of humanitarian concerns and the preservation of family unity, a generous amnesty procedure :be enacted for the undocumented aliens presently residing in the U.S." Rev. Robert Nee, SS.CC. Director, Office of Justice and Peace Sacred Heart Community Wareham HEART COMES 'FIRST "Even her maternal relationship would have done Mary no good unless she had borne Christ more happily in her heart than in her flesh." - St. AUgustine
IMPORTANT NOTICE FALL RIVER ¡PUBLIC SCHOOLS
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION Parents who plan to register their child for Kindergarten classes in September of 1977 are requested to contact their district school bofore March 18, 1977. At that time, parents will be given the nece'isary forms thatare to be completed regarding the new registration procedure.
Requ'irement for Registration Age of Child: 5 years of age by December 31, 1977 Per Order of the Fall River School Committee Owen L. Eagan, Jr. Abraham A. White David J. Megna Allen Jarabek Patrick Foley Wilfred C. Driscoll, Chairman Mary A. Harrington, Vice Chairperson Robert J. Nagle, Superintendent of Schools