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CARDINAL EDUARDO PIRONIO, prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes (right), greets Father Lucien Jilsseaume, Episcopal Representative for Religious for the Fall River diocese, at a meeting in Rome of Vicars for Religious.
Seek Holiness, Not External Change, u. S. Vicars for. Religious Are Told Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has received the text of a special message given by Pope Paul VI to members of the National Conference of Vicars for Religious of the United States during an audience in Rome earlier this month. Addressing the delegates, who included Father Lucien Jusseaume, pastor of St. Roch's Church, Fall River, and Episcopal Representative for Religious for the diocese, the Holy Father said: "With a very special interest we greet the members of the National Conference of Vicars for Religious of the United States. Some of you are actually Religious yourselves; all of you are at the service of consecrated religious life in the church in America. With your bishops we count on your help to encourage and sustain the Religious in the profound doctrine of their ecclesial consecration to Jesus Christ.
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"The purpose of their consecration is to produce greater holiness in the church 'for the glory of the one and undivided Trinity which in Christ and through Christ is the source and origin of all holiness.' (Lumen Gentium 47.) "Only through holiness will Religious live their consecration
and fulfill their ecclesial mission. And on your return home we ask you to take back this message and to assure all the Religious of our deep affection in Christ Jesus." Father Jusseaume said that the 10 - day meeting in Rome dealt extensively with a proTurn to Page Five
WASHINGTON (NC) - Suppose that for every vote on military or economic aid to Israel which appears in the Congressional Record, the name of each Jewish member of Congress was followed by an asterisk, Such a "sick arrangement" would be loudly condemned, said Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.) in a letter to his colleagues. But, he added, this is what the Congressional Quarterly has done to Roman Catholics in its report on the Hyde Amendment, which restricts the use of federal funds for abortion. "Each Roman Catholic - not Greek Orthodox, Eastern Russian Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Polish National Catholic, Old Catholic, Anglo-Catholic, but Roman Catholic-who voted on the Hyde Amendment was singled out for designation bv an asterisk," Dornan said. In fact, Roman Catholics are the only members designated by faith in the Congressional Quarterly rundown. Wayne Kelley, Congressional Quarterly editor,路 defended the article entitled "Abortion: How Members Voted in 1977," which appeared in the Feb. 4 edition, saying, "We felt this was a particular analysis which was valid." . Asked if tIle journal had ever singled out any. other religious group in analyzing voting records, Kelley said that his starf has covered "all sorts of lobbying groups." He declined to say whether the Congressional Quarterly had ever in the past indi-
Diocesan Jubilee Year To Be Modeled On Ancient Customs of Israelites The logo to be used as the hallmark of the 75th anniversary of the Fall River diocese has been selected by the anniversary committee and appears here for the first time. Designed by David and Susan Wygant of Assonet, who last year gave The Anchor its new masthead, thi!l logo will be used on all Jubilee stationery, booklets and programs. As a sign, the logo reflects the intention of the committee that _ the anniversary observance will be a true year of Jubilee. It announces "Jubilee 75" above the coat of arms of the diocese of Fall River with the diocesan dates below. The Jubilee theme was selected to reflect the biblical use of the term as found in Leviticus
25:8-55. Using the Levitical concepts, this jubilee year should be seen as it is understood by scripture scholars, a year of sabbatical.
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The word "jubilee" is derived from the trumpet or "yobel" that was sounded to inaugurate the year. In biblical times the Jubilee year had fixed dates co路 inciding with the seventh sabbatical. Despite some diversit.v of interpretation, it is sufficient to say that the seventh sabbatical was itself a jubilee, a special year (in context) of remission. Such a year was to begin 011 a certain date and was in ger.eral referred to as a year of emancipation with which in addition to sabbatical observances other events were associated. Some of the precepts set forth in the Levitical ideal had dramatic pragmatic consequences. For example, the sacred writer .Turn to Page Three
cated the .faith of members ot Congress by putting an asterisk next to their names. The Feb. 4 article, written by Mary Eisner Eccles, analyzed the \iotes by race, sex, ideology, region, length of time in Congres3 and religion. The only religion r1entioned, however, except for a passing reference to Rep. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) as a "liberal Protestant," was Roman Catholic. "The differences do not seem attributable to religion," Ms. Eccles said. "In each class, the proportion of Catholics is about the same as for the House as a whole." Kelley said the religious analysis focused exclusively on Ror:lan Catholics because "I'm nut Eware that any other church has taken a stand on this." Asked why votes on welfare measures, military expenditures or the PanElma Canal treaties would not be -nalyzed in the same way, he Turn to Page Seven
ILegion of Mary A"cies Sunday The annual Acies of the Legion of Mary will be held at.2 p.m. Sunday in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, with Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, chancell,)r and diol 'san director of the Legion. officiating. All active and auxiliary Legbnaries are invited to the ceremony, a reconsecration to our Lady. The Legion is in its 26th year b the Fall River diocese and its r.ewest unit is an all-Portuguese senior group, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, New Bedford. An open meeting for those interested in joining the organization will be held at 7 p.m. Tues{ay, April 4 at Regina Pacis Center in New Bedford; and a nembership drive will be conducted the weekend of April 22 and 23 by Legionaries of S1. James parish, also New Bedford. An undertaking participated in by all members is prayer for the beatification of Edel Quinn, a young Irish Legionary who at the age of 29, although sufferTurn to Page Seven
NEXT WEEK A Special Issue Honoring the 25th Anniversary of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
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ill People. Places·Events-NG News Briefs ill Itarian Question Mark
No Joy Allowed
ROME - As communists and other leftists move ever closer to power in Italy, there are signs of new life, togetherness and political will appearhg among Italy's Catholic·s. But whether this so-ca1led "Catholic reawakening" has started soon enough and has enough strength to combat the left is still very much an open question.
RUSTIN. Tex. - Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her son, Jon Murray, have filed a $1 million lawsuit in federal court to prohibit church bingo games in Texas. The suit seeks an injunction requiring enforcement of the state's anti-gambling laws.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut's five Catholic bishops have notified local officials that they will not "accept or obey" any law that forbids them from dismissing homosexual teachers believed to be immoral influences in Catholic schools.
VATICAN CITY The Vatican spokesman, Father Ro.neo Panciroli, has denied reports saying that the Vatic,in has asked social activ,st ,Brazilian Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara not to travel out of Brazil to participate in conferences. Father Panciroli said, however, that an unnamed fellow bishop h:ld recently asked Archbishop Camara to take better care of his own Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife.
SOUTH AFRICAN editor Donald Woods told a Washington audience he fears civil war in his country if negotiations for peace are unsuccessful.
Bishops Desappointed ROME - The Polish bishops have expressed disapproval of efforts by the country's communist ,'government to impose materialism and secularism on Polish culture, the bishops' Rome press office said. The Rome office released a communique concerning the 162nd plenary assembly of th~ Polish BishOJS' Conference, which was held in Warsaw March 8 and 9.
Just Color Them Green CHARLESTON, S.C - A church official has made racial discrimination charges against the local Hibernian Society. Father Thomas R. Duffy, vkar general of th€ Charleston Diocese, called for an end to the alI-white memb~r ship of the benevolent association, which among other things, sponsors the local St. Patrick's Day parade.
Terrorism Unabated TWICE WORLD heavyweight boxing champ Floyd Patterson signs autographs at St. Aloysius School in Harlem, where he told students that he too came from poverty and encouraged them to make the most of their God-given talents.
The trickle of terrorism which has come to be regarded ~s almost a normal part of modern life gushed to springflood proportions in mid-March; bringing renewed calIs by religious leaders for an end to such violence. Incidents in the Netherlands, the Middle East and Italy brought death to uninvolved civilians and condemnations from Pope Paul VI, Vatican officials and others.
Age of Confirmation LONDON -- Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster and his team of six auxiliary bishops nave recommended that the normal age for confirmation should be raised to either 14 and over or 18 and over, to clarify that the sacrament is meant for adult commitment.
Not Compa·tible MEXICO CITY - Saying that Marxism "remains incompatible with Christian faith," the Advisory Council of the Mexican Bishops' Corference has issl,ed a public warning against the views of the bishop. of Cuernavaca, Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo, who' visited Cu ba last month.
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RALPH DROLLINGER, 7-foot-2 former UCLA center, has turned down a $400,000 contract offer from the New York Nets in order to work fpr Jesus with the crusading basketl?all team, Athletes in Action.
Mother MarieJose Catteau, superior general of the Institute of Foreign Missions in Toulouse, France, has been unable to find any trace of two nuns from her order kidnapped in December in Argentina, said Vatican Radio earlier this month. The two are Sister Alice Demont a.nd Sister Leonie Daquet.
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Support f,or Dioceses WASHINGTON - Three groups advocating stri.ct church-state separation intend to file briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting two Catholic dioceses which are challenging the authority of the National Labor Relations Board over their schools. The groups - the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Americans United for Separation of Church and State - agree with the diocese that NLRB jurisdiction over religious schools violates the constitutional ban against church-state separation.
MORGAN WOOTEN, coach at DeMatha Catholic High in Hyattsville, Md., home of the nation's top high school basketball team, spends much of his time talking to college recruiters. He has turned down many college coaching offers himself, prefers his high school niche.
Tenth Victim PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Laura Ryan, a freshman at Providence College, died Monday of injuries received during a Dec. 13 fire in a college dormitory that killed nine other students. The 19-year-old student from Mineola, N.Y., died at Massachusetts General Hos-
pital. She had third degree burns over 80 percent of her body. The spokesman said 11 of the 12 other women injured in the blaze have returned to school, and one is recuperating at home.
Can't Have Them VATICAN CITY - The church's supreme court has ruled against a Spanish bishop who was trying to gain diocesan control of church properties belonging to his cathedral chapter. In ruling against Bishop Ramon Malia Call of Lerida, the high court, the Apostolic Signature, overturned an earlier decision by the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy.
ANTHONY WALSH, founder of the Benedict Labre Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Montreal, will receive the 1978 Christian Culture Award at the University of Windsor. .,,""
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Two Routes WASHINGTON - It's a bit like the civil rights movement of the 1960s. There are those who are "working within the system," while other favor peaceful mass demonstrations to show the public how they feel. As President Jimmy Carter received the official report on the National Women's Conference, held in Houston last November, there were religious women - including Catholics - using each route toward their goal of implementing at least part of the National Plan for Action approved at Houston.
First in 60 Years HANOVER, West Germany - A heresy trial of Pastor Paul Schultz, a Lutheran minister accused of holding views against traditiona,l Lutheran teaching, is scheduled to resume in Hanover in June. The trial is the first such investigation into a pastor's teaching in more than 60 years.
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Be More Catholic He Tells NCEA ST. LOUIS (NC) A Catholic education official said the church's schools should become more Catholic in an "intensely secular culture" in his keynote speech to the annual National Catholic Educational Association convention. Speaking at the Cervantes Convention Center in St. Louis as the organization began its 75th convenHon, Norbertine Father Alfred McBride, executive director of the NCEA's National Forum of Religious Educators, said that the church's schools could in the future be what he called "islands of transcendental identity." "With unblushing candor, these schools could be sharing the light of faith and be publicly proud of their religious heritage and intent," he told the crowd of about 12,000 educators. "Catholic education of the future must take a total view of doctrine in which religious experience, religious attitudes, the centrality of the cross as well as of Easter, the hope in the afterlife as well as in the possibilities of this life remain paramount." Catholic education was successful in the past, said Father McBride, because Catholic educators where faithful "to the message of divine forgiveness through the cross and resurrection of Christ." "The power of the cross and the sacrificial love it implies is the only hope for a future of Catholic education," Father McBride continued.
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Fall River area Camp Fire Girls working on the Marian Medal and I Live My Faith awards will form the congregation at the Channel Six television Mass to be seen at 8:45 a.m. Sunday. Father Kenneth Delano, area youth chaplain, will be celebrant for the service, to be taped the preceding evening. The event will continue observance of the Camp Fire organization's birthday, ~hich occurred earlier this month. 0
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Dioceslan Jubilee Continued from Page One makes it clear that in the jubilee year it must be emphasized that the land belongs to the Lord and is entrusted to His people as a result of the covenant. Strictly speaking, the peop: ~ did not own the land but were tenants; and stirring prescriptions concerning rights and ju:,tice were set forth for the yee.r of Jubilee. The poor were to be shown special consideration (Lv. 25:35-38). It was forbidden to enslave fellow countrymen (LV. 25:39-43), since the people, like the land, were Yahweh's own. The needy man was always to be considered as a freeman.
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING is among services offered by the Diocesan Department of Social Services, among agencies funded by the Catholic Charities appeal. Here Deborah Maloney talks with a young client. The Special Gift phase of the Appeal begins Monday, April 24, continuing through Saturday, May 6. It will be implemented by over 800 workers, who are expected to make a total of 4,260 personal contacts with area fraternal, professional and business organizations.
Diocese Active In Science Fair Sister Helene Fortm and Sister Blanche Gauthier of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, are co-chairpersons of the judging and fundraising committees of the Massachusetts Region III Science Fair, to be held this weekend at Taunton High School, from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. James Haskins, president of the science fair organization, has paid tribute to the participation of diocesan schools in the fair, noting that school cooperation over the past 16 years has been outstanding, and that at the 17th annual awards ceremony scheduled for 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Father George Coleman, director of' education for the Fall River diocese, wiU give the invocation and will also be on the platform as an honorary member of the fair board of directors.
Tax Credit Constitutionality Following is the text of a statement issued by Bishop Thomas C. Kelly, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, disputing an opinion by Attorney General Griffin Bell that tuition tax credits fo~ elementary and secondary tuition would not be constitutional. The attorney general's opinion is neither binding nor universally shared. Many legal authorities hold that tax credits for tuition at all levels of education are constitutional and have so testified in the congressional hearings. Mr. Bell's voice is only one among many and no more persuasive than any other. . Instead of assuming with the attorney general that previous court decisions concerning other kinds of legislation create an insuperable barrier to a comprehensive program, the legislative and executive branches would render a service to the constitutional system itself by approving tax credits and so encouraging the Supreme Court to re-think an area of law where re-thinking is long overdue. The United States Catholic Conference strongly urges Congress to pass and the president to si~n this important and needed legislation.
The event will include 256 exhibitions and will be the largest regional fair in Massachusetts. Winners will continue to statewide competition. \
It is also obvious from the text that some sort of special regiHtration or census was indicated. Leviticus tells us that during this year everyone who 1s a member of the Covenant "shall return home to his original family."
What this means for us is the;t the book of Leviticus gives us a Jubilee blueprint, founded on deeply religious concepts of jU!'tice and equality, striving to apply simple sabbatical principles to a society that has becom~ more economically complex. Although not realized to the letter, its spirit of appreciation for personal rights and human dignity synthesizes much of Old Test~.足 ment teachings and serves as a marvelous ideal to be achieved
to some degree during our diocesam Jubilee. It is in this spirit that the anniversary committee is striving to bring innovative programs to the people of the diocese and to make the Jubilee a truly meaningful event.
Thus it is that a diocesan census will be undertaken, a houseto-house visitation to let all men know that as a Church, we care. In every parish a day of hp.aling and reconciling prayer will be held; and in addition to participating in liturgical celebrations, the young people of the diocese will be asked to share i'1 a very special way in the Jubilee. Among other activities, a vocations day will be held to pray for future harvesters in the fields. Thus it is that the celebration to be ushered in next March will not be just another show but rather a Jubilee that will involve and hopefully lastingly affect each and every person in ti'>e diocese of Fall River.
Call to Hope SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-The Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue at every level is a constant call to hope in the Spirit, speakers told more than 350 clergy and lay observers attending the Anglfcan-Roman Catholic Clergy Day Conference in San Francisco's St. Mary's Cathedral.
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We call our readers' attention to a new Israeli law scheduled to go into effect on April 1. In effect, its intent is to restrict missionary efforts of Christian groups. The extremist Orthodox Agudat Israel party managed to get this legislation passed as world attention was focused on Egyptian-Israeli peace efforts. What in effect the law will do is to haft Christian missionary work in Israel. Its provisions are so broad that some religious leaders fear that even a gift of a Bible or Rosary could be illegal. Others have stated that this new law has compromised the civil rights and liberties of all Israeli Christians. It is most interesting to note how little attention has been given by the secular press in this country to the plight of Christians in Israel. Catholics and Protestants alike find it more difficult each year to function because of the restrictions under which they must practice their reEgious beliefs. Because the pEght of Christians in Israel has received little media space and time, few Americans realize that· religious freedom is not a complete civil right for them. Nor do most Americans comprehend that Israel is a religious state and as such supports one religion, often to the detriment of other beliefs. In a land where emotions run at fever pitch, one can imagine the obstacles faced by Christian missionaries. a •.. These few words are offered for your consideration ISRAELI FAMILY MOURNS AT GRAVESIDE OF PALESTINIAN GUERRILLA VICTIMS and to call attention to the fact that non-Jews also suffer in Israel. If Israel is placing onerous burdens on 'her non- 'A voice was heard on high of lamentations, of mourning and weeping~ of Jewish residents at the same time as she is attempting to Rachel weeping for her children.' Jer. 31: 15 rid herself of the psychological effects of centuries of persecution, is she not living a contradiction?
Resurrection Implies New Humanity
A Readers' Survey
It should be obvious that the Catholic Press has a By Father John B. Sheerin specific purpose: to bring the "Good News" to light in a Some' weeks ago a friend manner that conveys meaning and mission. to the lives of shocked me when he casually its readers. suggested that we get rid of beA Catholic paper is not and can never be just another lief in the Resurrection. He felt newspaper. It is always an extension of the Church's work that people today have grown of evangelization. At no time can any Catholic newspaper up and abandoned the juvenile deviate from this basic concept, but how a paper expresses notions of their childhood. They this reflection of the pilgrim journey of God's people is interested not in redemption or resurrection but in physical another story. health, freedom and personal All newspapers have their own character. After all, dignity - all the blessings of everyone knows that editors are human. However, we secular civiliza.tion. should never be afraid to say that we are a Catholic paper, If the Resurrection is not a echoing always our unique calling to make the Word popular doctrine, perhaps the living and real. fault is ours. Maybe we have not Admitting this premise, it is still true that a Catholic be-en communicating the Chrispaper has a lot of elbowroom in which it can express its tian teaching in the right way. own feelings and ideas. It is in this context that this week In my seminary days, the teaching on the Resurrection The Anchor offers the survey you will find on page 16. focused largely on the empty The Anchor cares about its mission and its readers. We tomb, as if that were proof posiwant to know what you think. tive that Jesus rose from the During the past year of this editorship certain changes dead. and innovations have been made in The Anchor. New layBut does the empty tomb outs have been introduced as well as new columnists. We really persuade us that some want this trend to continue, but it is our feeling that ideas event of momentous proportions cannot come from just one side of the desk. happened on the first Easter? Our readers should also give some· input if these The absence of a body is a rather changes are to be of substance and not a mere cosmetic I:legative factor. Some years ago Fathers Hans· Kung and Rayfacelift. mond Brown engaged in a conIt is our hope that many of you will take the time troversy as to whether a recordto complete the survey, then mail it to us so that your er at the scene of the Resurrection would have registered any opinions can be tabulated as soon as possible. sight or sound on audio or video. If you do this, future Anchor readers will be grateful An interesting debate, perfor your personal participation in this survey. There are more changes that we would like to introduce. However, haps, but it would not have told anything abo.ut the Resurright now, we would like to know what each of you thinks . us rection itself, a .spiritual event. about what already has been done. Knowing where we The physical evidence ·of the stand will help us to know what direction to take in the empty tomb suffices for a rafuture. tional acceptance of the ResurI
rection, but faith demands something more. A historian might accept the evidence in the physical order but refuse to believe in the Resurrection. The cosmic meaning of the Resurrection has far more significant than the empty tomb. The situation on Good Friday afternoon was comparable to a trial, not before Pilate but before the people of Palestine and the whole world. In effect, Jesus was on trial for having preached the Gospel of the kingdom of God during his public career. He had met with vigorous opposition from contemporaries who claimed he was dead wrong in many points of his program and a potential danger to the community. On Good Friday, therefore, He was in a real sense on trial before the world. The verdict
seemingly went against him when he was humiliatingly crucified: His program to all intents and purposes a dismal failure. But Our Easter faith is that He was vindicated by a greater judge. God not only exalted His Son but designated Him to direct the Christian movement in history. That, as I see it, is the meaning of the Resurrection. As WaIter Kasper says in his "Jesus the Christ:" "The Resurrection of Christ exists, therefore, in a universal perspective . . . It implies a new world. It is the prefiguration and the foreglimpse of that toward which the whole creation looks, sighing and groaning in eager longing: the revelation of the freedom of the children of God and the reign of freedom that is to come."
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DALLAS (NC) - A Dallas charismatic community will try evangelization .television-style by producing seven one-hour color shows featuring Catholic preachers and distributing them free of charge to all American bishops. The shows will be taped by a volunteer crew of technicians April 1 and 2 during the Central-Southwest Conference of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. They will be available four to six week~ later.
A Sisters' Encounter, based on the Marriage Encounter program, will be held the weekend of April 28 through 30 at the Passionist Retreat House, Shrewsbury. The experience, is intended to "enhance good and healthy vocations" and it is suggested that it be shared witt a
Featured on the shows will be Father John P. ·Bertolucci, pastor of St. Joseph Church, Little Falls, N.Y.; Dominican Father Francis MacNutt, director of the Thomas Merton Foundation in St. Louis; and Franciscan Father Michael Scanlan; president of Steubenville (Ohio) College. Bobbie Caynar; leader of the Christian Community of God's Delight in Dallas, said the shows are intended to renew the faith of practicing Catholics and bring inactive ones back to the Church. The community is financing the project. He said that at least one major television network has expressed an interest' in broadcasting the seven shows. "We are doing this in response to 'Pope Paul's encyclical, "Evangelization in the Modern World," where the Holy Father called for effective use of the mass media for evangelization," he said.
Mabel F'orland Bishop Cronin presided Monday at a funeral Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, for Mrs. Mabel Phelan Farland, mother of Father Williain E. Farland, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Taunton. A Boston native, Mrs. Farland was the daughter of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Phelan and the widow of Donat Farland. She was a meniberof the Cathedral parish and active in the Fall River Catholic Woman's Club. Interment was in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Fall River.
Necrology March 31 Rt. Rev. George C. Maxwell, 1953, Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River April 1 Rev. George A. Lewin, 1958, Pastor, St. Mary, Hebronville Rev. Edwin J. Loew, 1974, Pastor, St. Joseph, Woods Hole April 2 Rev. Adolph Banach, O.F.M., Conv., 1961, Pastor, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Bedford April 6 'Rev. Msgr. John A. Chippendale, Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, Wareham
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Sisters' Encounter fellow community member who is a close friend. Other weekends are planned for June 9 through 11 and Aug. 18 through 20. ,Further information is available from Sister Rose Agnew, RSM, 40 Park St., Pawtucket, R. I. 02860.
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Se·ek Holiness Continued from Page One posed renewal of church law affecting religious congregations. He commented that the papal message captured in a few words the spirit of the gathering, during which speakers stressed that vocation is a "call to mission" under the leadership of the pope and bishops. Delegates, said the Fall River representative, were reminded that the call to personal holiness takes precedence over that for external changes in the religious life.
four full days during their stay in Rome. lt was made clear, pointed out Father Jusseaume, that the Congregation is responsible for religious life throughout the world and that experimentation in any particular country, while it could lead to enrichment of that life, must be viewed in a global context. "We were told, 'We are not here to hurt or compromise but to safeguard the authenticity of religious life,'" said Father Jusseaume.
Representatives of the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, headed by Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, met with the American vicars for
While in Rome he met with Stephen Avila of New Bedford and Rev. Mr. John-Paul Gallant of Fall River, seminarians at the North American College.
CHA Study Calls For N'ew Model WASHINGTON (NC) "If Catholic health care organizations fail to witness to Gospel values and in effect only dupliate the efforts of secular institutions, then they should no longer exist as Catholic." That is a major finding in a self-study conducted by the Catholic Hospital Association (CHA), an organization with 650 institutional members and an annual budget of almost $3 million. The self-study recommended that the CHA change its name to the Catholic Health Association, but more than a name change is involved if the CHA agrees with the self-study's recommendations, it will drop its primary concern with the institutional needs of Catholic hospitals and become more concerned with developing a "clearer Catholic. identity" in health care. This strengthened Catholic identity would put greater emphasis on practicing social justice in health care, responding to new moral questions arising in health care and improving cooperation among a broader variety of health care providers. The recommendations, if implemented, would result in generally better treatment for both patients and personnel in Catholic health care facilities.
The self-study in effect repeats many of' the criticisms levelled against Catholic hospitals - that they are too concerned with institutional problems, do not have a distinctly Catholic identity, do not adequately represent the Church's teachings on social justice and do not operate as a coherent system. The CHA's president, Sister Helen Kelley, told NC News in an interview that "any selfstudy is an indictment." She noted that the self-study committee had included critics from outside the Catholic hospital community. "We shouldn't have to apologize for being Catholic institutions," she said. "We should know why we are and who we are and be proud of our identity." Catholic hospitals are "part and parcel" of the secular health care system and that is "a plus," Sister Kelley said. But, she said, Catholic hospitals have a dimension that secular hospitals -do not have.
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Carter, Califano Torpedoing Catholic Education
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REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY
A little noted passage in President Carter's State of the Union address has enormous implications for Catholic schools. The president made two comments about education. He proposes to set up a new Department of Education and to proide more financial assistance for· college students. The first proposal bodies ill for Catholic schools. The educational bureaucracy inside the present Department of HEW is mostly anti-Catholic, and does its best to pretend that Catholic schools do not exist. But the second presidential proposal is part of every. subtle attempt on the part of the administratiM and HEW Secretary Califano to
head off tax relief for the par· enrollment to the inability of ents of students in CathoIic pri- middle-class Americans to pay mary and secondary schools. for their children's college eduThe story - and I can't tell cation, you how I found out- about ;t The Treasury Department, of but it was NOT from Catholic course, is against losing the sevschool authorities, and it was eral billions of dollars of income NOT from the Senate, either represented by a tuition tax goes something like this: The credit. The department is still president has instructed Califano committed to the notion that one to do all in his power to block can continue to take money the Packwood-Moynihan bill from the middle-clasS" and give which would provide tax credit it to "minorities," even though for tuition paid by parents send- many of the programs into ing their children to any school :which tax monies are going which charges tuition. c1,early help no one but the buSimilar bills passed the Senate reaucrats who administer the before and have foundered in the program. Yielding to Treasury House, but it now appears that Department pressures, the presithe demand for some sort of re- dent instruCted Califano to block lief for middl~-c1ass citizens is .at all costs tree Packwood-Moyso great that the House will be nihan proposal. The leaders of the higher eduhard put to resist pressures from their constituencies in favor 3f cational association told Calithe Packwood-Moynihan bill. fano that they could only weakThere is especially heavy pres- en their support for Packwoodsure also from the higher educa- Moynihan if there was some tional -institutions which attrib- other' legislation providing asisute some of the decline in college tance to college students. Hence,
It's A Natu,ral for Easter Iy MARY CARSON
Easter invariably bring1l joy to me. There are many spiritual reasons, but there are other factors. Winter has finally melted . or most of it, anyway. It's like watching a picture develop to
see things emerging from the melting snow. In other people's yards its spring flowers; in ours it's all the things forgotten on the lawn when that first unexpected heavy snow hit.
be put away. But I enjoy storing ice skates and sleds. No longer am I plagued by thick winter jackets and wet mittens. The lineup of drying boots has left my kitchen.
The rake has returned . . . marking the spot where my son' was interrupted in last fall's leaf cleanup. And the folding lawn chair. The bird. house blown from its spot in the red maple tree can again become a home for baby sparrows. In October I'm depressed when the things of summer must
The same people who dragged their way to the bus in the mornings a few weeks ago now have a new bounce in their step. It's good to be out in the air. And there's fresh asparagus in the stores . . . and strawberries. Enthusiasm for neglected projects stirs. There's hope. There's life.
the president's promise in the State of the Union address. Since the higher educational lobbyists are not fooled, Califano is going to have to deliver some kind of student assistance programs or they will flock back to support the tax credit bill. The bottom line is that any form --of tuition asistance which is going to take some of the pressure off the middle-class family will be almost as expensive as the tax credit spree. The Califano-Carter alternative to Packwood-Moynihan, in other words will provide help for everybody BUT parents paying tuition for private, primary and secondary schools. Something for everybody but Catholics. So what else is new? Will they get away with it? Surely, you jest! Of course they'll get away with it. The hierarchy is busy spinning its wheels in the anti-abortion crusade. The new secretary of the USCC education department is
the man responsible for a catechetical directory that scarcely mentions Catholic schools. The role of Mr. Califano in all of this is especially interesting. He is the "token" Catholic in the administration, obediently following the president's instructions to sink the blade into Catholic education. Mr. Calter would not dream of asking a black official to torpedo legislation which would benefit American blacks, nor would a black official dare to accept such instructions if they were given; nor would the black community tolerate such betrayal if it were attempted. But in the case of Catholics, Mr. Carter gives the instructions; Mr. Califano complies; and the Catholic community remains silent. Mr. Califano, in other words, is the Catholic representative in the Cabinet in the same way that Mr. Justice Brennan is the Catholic representative on the United States Supreme Court.
• As Christians we equate much of this revival of spirit with Christ's Resurrection. Yet I have to believe that people felt this way in the spring long before ·that first Easter Sunday. I wonder if God chose spring for the Resurrection because it would fit so beautifully with the natural feelings people have at this time of the year. Resurrection in the depths of a January blizzard would be hard to sE;11. Rejoice - there's two more feet of snow predicted. Alleluia - the streets are all iced
up and th~ trains have stoppt'd running. It makes me wonder exactly how much planning God did. If the timing. of Easter was considered ahead of time, then Good Friday would have been much more appropriate in October or November, when everything is dying. But it was tough enough to get those first Christians to hang around for three days. If they'd had to wait for six months for the Resurrection, Christianity probably would have died a-borning.
NLRA Revision·s Generate Labor, Business Mail By
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The issue provoking the most mail on Capitol Hill these days is not the Panama Canal but a proposed revision of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which was first passed in 1935. Labor unions and their supporters regard the revision ~s a must; they've sent almost a mil-
.By MARILYN RODERICK
Melissa, one of my teenagers, and her friend Allison just left for a church dinner and dance and, miracle of miracles, no jeans
lion letters to Congress so far. been amended twice before, both The business community, led by times to include penalties the U.S. Chamber of Commerce .against unions. As a result, the and the National Association of committee said, the law is now Manufacturers, has generated at tilted against workers. least as much. But the major complaint The National Labor Relations against the e~isting law is that Act, which established the right it has too many loopholes which to collective bargaining and es- allow a balky employer to go tablished the National Labor Re- years without bargaining with a lations Board (NLRB) to handle duly elected union. The most famous case has inlabor disputes, was regarded as a major victory by Catholic "01ved the J. P. Stevens Co., a Church leaders at the time and southern textile firm described the proposed revisions have . by a federal court last August as "the most notorious recidivist in Church backing today. The Bishops' Committee for the field of labor law." Several Social Development and World Southern bishops have tried to Peace notes that the law has mediate the Stevens labor dis-
were in evidence. In fact, two more feminine females would have been hard to find. Both wore skirts and blouses and the look was definitely all-girl. While jeans have become such a classic that one can't imagine them disappearing, their popularity seems to have located itself in the right place, recreation. Some of the best-dressed young ladies I see pass before me in
the corridors of the high school where I teach. I find that the teenagers I work with don't have much clothes money 'but that they do buy wisely. Even on be lovely young, you'll see the big look this season. Skirts are full and swirly, blouses are also big and can' be worn tucked ~n or tied with a sash as an overblouse.
pute. ful violation" of the law. The problem, according to Jim Other provisions of the proKaplan of the AFL-DIO public posed revisions would speed up information staff, is that the cur- the election process, expand the rent law has no teeth. The NLRB .NLRB and streamline NLRB procannot 'enforce its own sanctions; cedures. it must go to the federal courts A major provision would make for help. if possible for the NLRB to win The proposed revisions would immediate reinstatement and change this in several ways, ac- back pay for workers fired for cording to Kaplan. First, he union activity. "That kind of says, they would guarantee that change in the law would probaan employer found guilty of vi- bly change the atmosphere in a olating the law would pay a place like J. P. Stevens from the organizing through the election penalty. They would also allow the Sec- on up," Kaplan said. "Workers retary of Labor to bar a com- would just be more willing to pany from federal contracts for consider the ,idea" of joining a three years if it continued "will- union, he said.
Vests will make the fashion dif~ ference on the junior scene and look for Miss (or Ms.) Teenage America to team them with skirts, dresses and of course jeans. While it's very heartening to see the young caring once more about their appearance, we can also thank them for their adventurous fashion spirit. It was youth's interest in the finery of bygone eras that influenced the
designers who are now bringing back the elegant fabrics and laces of the past. The fun youngsters .have had with hats ha1': finally filtered up to the older generation and this is the first spring for ages that I 'have seen beautiful hats. So take heart, lac\ies, our daughters have discovered it's fun being female and perhaps instead of them borrowing your clothes, you can borrow theirs.
THE ANCHORThurs., March 30, 1978
Acies Sunday Continued from Page One ing from incurable tuberculosis, went as an envoy of the Legion of Mary to East Africa, where she established the organization over vast territories until her death in 1944 at the age of 37. A leaflet describing her life states that "her intense love for the Mother of God, her childlike trust and complete dependence dominated every aspect of her life, for she Hved to a unique degree in union with Mary. When asked if she had ever refused our Lady anything, she replied: 'No, I could never refuse her anything I thought she wanted.' " In 1956 Edel Quinn's cause for beatification was introduced in Rome. Prayer leaflets describing her life are available from Miss Therese Beaulieu, 882 Belleville Ave., New Bedford 02745, telephone 995-2354; for information on organizing Legion units in diocesan parishes may be obtained from Miss Beaulieu or from Miss Beatrice Capeto, Fall River, telephone 6724591.
I n Yugoslavia VATICAN CITY (NC)-There is a high level of participation in religion lessons conducted by the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia, Vatican Radio reported. Statistics indicate that in 1975 about 530,000 students voluntarily attended religion lessons given outside the school system.
Gets Award WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop Carroll T. Dozier of Memphis, Tenn., has been given the third annual Joseph B. Collins Religious Education Award at the East Coast Conference for Religious Education in Washington.
Total Loser "I lose God, I lose the world, I lose myself, if I want only to clutch at things and use them only for my own pleasure or profit." - Gerald Vann
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Continued from Page One said he is unaware that the Catholic Church has taken any position on such issues. Dornan, a Roman Catholic, said the analysis showed "there is no correlation to make" between religion and votes on abortion. Twenty-five Roman Catholics including Father Robert Drinan, a Congressman from Massachusetts voted against the amendment to prohibit federal funding of abortion,
propaganda built against Cath· olics" said Schwa·rtz, who cited a recent letter from the National Organization for Women which linked the church to the Ku Klux Klan and a report of the National Abortion Rights Action League which used incorrect figures in charging that nearly all financial support for the pro-life movement is coming from diocesan funds.
while 153 non-Catholic members voted in favor of the measure, he pointed out. ~icha~l Schwartz of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Liberties joined Dornan in his criticism of the article, saying the use of the asterisk "is the same tactic as the Nazis requiring the Jews to wear f.he Star of David whenever they went out." The article appears in an atmosphere of "such incredible
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The strategy of pro-abortion groups in regard to Catholics, he added, "is to isolate them and represent them as enemies of th,~ civil liberties of our nation."
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MEMBERS OF diocesan delegation to Spring Convocation of New England bishops, clergy and laity, held earlier this month in Holyoke are, from left, seated, Miss Dorothy Curry, Sister Theresa Trayers, SND, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Mrs. Michael J. McMa· hon, Mrs. James Meloni; standing, Father Ronald A. Tosti, Mrs. Aristides Andrade, Mark Hession, Atty. James Clark, Sister Muriel Balch, OLVM, Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, Father Timothy J. Goldrick.
WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops have launched a three-year Project for Parish Renewal designed to provide practical assistance to priests and other parish staff. The project, announced in Washington by Bishop Thomas C. Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, will involve publishing studies and othei' aids, and bringing together parish leaders, professionals and representatives of diocesan and parish-oriented institutions to share experiences. Bishop Edward C. O'Leary of FATHER EDWIN AR- Portland Ms., chairman of a ENTSEN, arrested during a special bishops' committee to confrontation in a Granite oversee the project, said its imCity, Ill. abortion clinic, plementation "represents a new where he attempted to halt approach by the bishops to help the challenges, and probabortion proceedings, has meet lems posed for those who are in been given 18 months on the front lines of the Church's probation and told to spend mission. "The work is expected 30 weekends caring for the to make a major contribution spiritual needs of inmates toward revitalizing parish life, at Madison County Jail, in which remains for millions of Catholics the first and foremost lieu of· 30 days in jail. He vehicle of their involvement with said he considered himself the Church," he added. innocent of the disorderly Although the project involves conduct charge made study and reflection, he said, "it against him because clinic would be erroneous to call it 'a personnel "are killing bab- study' because at every stage we ies and people should be al- hope to share the fruits of effective parish experience with lowed to save them." others, to work with the priests, deacons, Religious and laity who are developing parish life, GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS and to cooperate with agencies designed to assist parish life." The Project for Parish Re............•.. ...
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ST. LOUIS, FALL RIVER S1. Louis Fraternity of the Third Order of S1. Francis will hold its first profession ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 2. All are invited. A Marriage Encounter Information Night will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 2. All are invited.
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HOLDING NASO--GASTRIC TUBE used for flushing poisons and drugs from stomach, Dr. Victor Victoroff, Cleveland psychiatrist, tells young people the hard facts about suicide attempts.
Suicide: He Tells It Like It Is to High Schoolers should be used on a person who threatens suicide, Dr. Victoroff CLEVELAND (NC) It's has the answer. He told of a been called a game, a power young draftee during the Korean play. One priest calls it "going War who threatened suicide. out the back door." His captain told Dr. VictorWhat ever the name, suicide off he was "going to fix that is irreversible, and the rate in (expletive) .- I gave him my this country is on the rise. gun," the captain said, "and told A Cleveland doctor, alarmed him the only two ways out for at the growing number of sui- him were to shoot himself or cides and attempted suicides, es- face court martial." While the specially among young people, doctor told the officer how has developed a stark, - physic- wrong he had been, the two men ally-oriented seminar on the sub- heard a shot. The soldier had ject for high school students. blown his head off. Dr. Victor H. Victoro:ff, direcDr. Victe,roff tells students tor of the division of psychiatry that suicide is unpleasant. At at Cleveland's Huron Road HosBenedictine high, he invited the pital, r~cently presented his proaudience to hold their breath for gram at Benedictine High School 30 seconds. Some of the students of Cleveland for students from giggled during the 30 seconds. several local schools. Then he said, "Now you've got In his seminars, Dr. Victoroi'f a noose around your neck; you shows slides of teenagers who - can't get it off, and it will take have committed suicide, instrum- about five minutes for you to ents emergency room physicians die..... The giggling stopped. use to save attempted suicides, Jumpers from high places do and discusses in depth the physi- not die from heart attacks or cal damage done in suicide at- fright on the way down. Rather, tempts by knife, gun and other "they enjoy the view all the means. way down, until they hit the Among teenagers, drugs are pavement," Dr. Victoroff said. by far the most utilized: method For students in higher educaof self-destruction. tion, suicide is second only to Girls use poison, pill:l, kniVES accidents as a cause of death. and wrist slashing; boys use, Above 15,000 to 20,000 attempts guns, knives, jumps from heights are made each year by members and drugs. of that group. By far the commonest reason An article by Dr. Stephen P. for suicide by non-psychotics is Hersh, chief of the Center for loss of a love object, Dr. Victor- studies of Child and Family' off said. This is particularly true Health, Rockville, Md., lists suiof girls, he said. Boys may try cide warning signs. They insuicide following loss of prestige, clude: a decrease in verbal comfear of d'isgrace, humiliation or munication l:ombinedwith an inestrangement from peers. Among crease in isolation (more isolaboth boys and girls, a prime can- tion than usual for that individdidate for suicide is a child with ual); _talk about' or actually giva long record of depend,ency and ing away prized possessions; little desire for independence. changes in sleep cycle (insomSuicide, said the doctor, is a nia or suddEin changes in the tonon-verbal declaration of anger. tal amount of sleeping, especialThree things are necessary for a ly during the day); active' ten" suicide: the wish to die, the wish sions within the family of origin to be dead and the wish to kill. (especially if there is evidence If you've ever wonder€d that psychological or physical whether. reverse pschology abuse existed in that family.) By Sigmund J. Mikolajczyk
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SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER A retreat follow-through program will be held Sunday, April 2 at 7 p.m. .in Father Coady Center. All who made one of the three youth retreats are encouraged to attend the reunion, sharing scripture, witness and refreshments. Prep and Junior C teams captured city CYO basketball titles their respective divisions in Coaches and players will be honored at a spring CYO banquet.
ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD Two hundred students, parentss and faculty members of . the parochial school participaHOLY NAME, ted in a five mile Good Friday FALL RIVER' penitential walkathon, followed The Leisure Group will meet by refreshments in the school at 2 this afternoon in the school cafeteria. Chairmen for the anwill· be hall. Refreshments nual event were David Beaulieu served. and Wayne Miller. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Parish interessors will meet at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 8 in the Kolbe Room to evaluate their ministry. New intercessors are invited to join the group at this time. SACRED HEART, FALL qIVER TACT youth group will meet at 7 tonight in the parish center and the parish council will gather in the center at 7:30 tomorrow night. Mrs. Margaret Leger will be parish chairperson for the Catholic Charities Appeal, aided by Mrs. Brenda Lopes and Mrs. Ma· rilyn Lafond. An organizational meeting will be held in the center at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 10. All willing to aid in the Ap· peal are asked to notify the !'ce-
ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Confirmation rehearsals are scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday and 7 p.m. Tuesday. The sacrament will be administred at 7 p.m. Thursday. April 6. Father Methot will speak at the Home and School Association meeting set for Tuesday, April 11. A "Gift Weekend" for high school and college students will be held from April 21 through 23. Application forms are at the church doors and the rec~ory.
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A potluck supper is scheduled by the Women's Guild for 6:30 p.m. Monday, with guild directors in charge of arrangements. ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO Volunteers are needed to assist in caring for the sanctuary and the priests' sacristy. Normand Emond is institutional representative for Cub and Boy Scouts of the parish. Parents and sponsors of confirmation candidates will meet in the parish hall at 7:30 p.m. Sunday for a talk by Father Philip Davignon. Practice will also be held for commitment and confirmation services. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER ,Professor Jules Ryckebusch of the English department at Bristol Community College will speak on Lizzie Borden at the Women's Guild meeting set for 8 p.m. Monday in the parish center.
Vincentians The Greater Fall River Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will meet for 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday, April 4 at Notre Dame Church, Fall River. A business session will follow at St. Vincent de Paul Store, 1799 Pleasant St., also Fall River.
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BARBARA SHLEl\10N, RN will be among participants in a Healing Prayer Workshop to be presented at Leominster High School in Leominster from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, April 29 and 30. The program is offered to prayer group leaders and l- astoral teams in the renewal Ir.inistry as. a learning experience in the process of spiritual, emotional and physical healings through prayer. Also presenting the workshop will be :Father Albert A. Fredette, MS and Father Thomas Leonhardt, SJ. All are active in the Association of Christian Therapists. Further' information is available from Joseph Fredette, 167 H. Darling Dr., North Attleboro 02760.
Bad Companions? By Dr. Jim and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: Due to distance, finances, and health, my eight children have been unable- to attend ~eligious education classes. I have done my best in teaching catechism and how to live. I have tried to let each child know that each other person is a child of God and should be respected. But how am I supposed to ask them not to associate with certain children because their background is immoral? One mother lives unwed with a man and her six children; two of these children (15 and 16) are pregnant and unmarried. Am I to draw the line with the c1tlld that proudly tells of smoking pot or taking drugs or the one that proudly brags of premarital affairs? I was never around such people. Do I teach the way to live and try to give good example and then leave it up to God to guide them in their companions? What ,is a bad companion? In general, when I have little concrete information, I would be inclined to give each person the benefit of the doubt. If my child likes this person, he must recognize something good and admirable which I perhaps have not noticed. On the other hand, I personally would draw the line at companions who brag about drugs and premarital sex. Preadolescents and young adolescents are highly susceptible to peer influences. If the companions are a couple of years older, as often happens, their actions can take on a glamorous or heroic cast. I do not attempt to play God and judge whether these people are bad. I simply decide that I do not want their influence on my children.
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How do you deal with unwanted companions? The direct negative approach says. "You may never play with the Jones children." The Jones children, being off limits, become even more glamorous and interesting than before. Furthermore, if daughter ever wishes to irritate mother a bit, she can raise the issue. "Why can't I play with Susie Jones?" Long fruitless discussions ensue. An indirect approach usually works better. Encourage those companions you approve of. If one child persists in an attraction to the undesirable companion, try to make the association impossible: "It's too late to. visit Susie," or "We're doing something else at that time." Probably the most effective way to deal with children's companions is to encourage all your children to bring friends to your house. Naturally, hospitality involves extra noise, food, and confusion. As parents of eight chiidren, you are probably somewhat immune
to noise. Popcorn and peanut butter sandwiches make acceptable - and cheap - snacks. For a conscientious parent, the advantages far outweigh the inconveniences. You know where ycpr children are and whom they are with. If certain companions are questionable, you can get to know them better. Even children you don't approve of can be made welcome within your home. When ydu coritrol the atmosphere, it is doubtful that they would exert so "bad" an influence. They can share the wholesome atmosphere of your home, and your children can learn that there are all kinds of people in the world. Perhaps most important of all, you teach your children by your own example that warm, loving hospitality is truly a Christian virtue. . (Reader questions on family living and child care are invited. Address questions to: The Kennys clo The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.)
tors are discouraged by the nationalization of businesses. A decline in agricultural and light has industrial production brought about a 30 percent rise in the cost of living. A large excess of imports over exports has increased Portugal's foreign debt to $1.3 billion. 'International lending institutions, however willing to help, insist on further austerity measures and more taxes before releasing aid funds reportedly totalling $800 million. It was this economic downturn that caused the fall of the minority Socialist government in December. The political crisis lasted until February, when ·Premier Mario Soares was able to reorganize his cabinet on a wider base by including the conservative Center Democrats. Other Socialist and Marxist groups remained in the opposition.
food prices. The food-price index is 46 percent higher than last spring. The aim of the April, 1974, revolution against an authoritarian government that had lasted for four decades has to check the excessive profits of the few corporations which controlled most resources but cared little for the living and working conditions of the common man and woman. The revolution's leaders, most of them military men with socialist ideas, used nationalization to break the monopolies some corporations had established under the rule of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
They hoped to channel resources toward improvement of schooling, health, transportation, housing, drinking water, electrieity and public services. But Portugal remains at the bottom of the social scale among EuropWhile Soares and his econ- ean countries, and complaints omic aides are trying to were increasingly heard among stop the drain on foreign re-- rural and urban workers who serves needed for food imports originally supported the revolu- some say they will not last tion. This led to the inclusion of more than six months - the conservatives in the new cabaverage worker faces higher inet.
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Against Arms Spending Dear Editor: I am writing in response to your editoria:. of March 9. I appreciated your bringing to the attention of Anchor readers the fact that the Northeastern reo gion of the nation is currently suffering a drain of jobs and economic stability. It is good to see a diocesan paper moving in this area. There are some issues which I feel contribute to the direction of a possible federal response to our need which have to be part of a Church expression of concern. In the light of the current Church teaching about the responsibility of rich nations to share more of their resources with poorer people, I don't be-
lieve we can or should expect every cent of tax payment to be returned to us. If it were all to come back, I would wonder about our national will to share the gifts of the world with our brother and sister nations. An additional issue of importance, is the type of job support given the region by federal funding. The federal government should not be asked to increase military spending in our region. Continued escalation in military spending contributes to the development and maintenance of a war society. Economically, we lose jobs because of military spending. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts alone some 35,000 jobs were foregone annually at a time when we were receiving substantial contracts for research and development. (1968-1972) For each billion dollars spent by the federal government on the military there are produced 46,000 jobs while the same bil-
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BoHvia Capitulates LA PAZ, Bolivia (NC) - Bolivia's military government has capitulated to a hunger strike by miners and others and granted .general amnesty to political exiles and prisoners. Church support of the strike was a mao jor factor in winning the amnesty.
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Ecumenism Growth Steady By Thomas J. Barbarie Despite obvious obstacles, the move toward Christian unity is making steady and sometimes surprising progress among members of an extraordinarily wide spectrum of religious persuasions. The range of the progress is broad and varied - from neighbors who once were suspicious of each other's denomination now praying together, to formal discussions of intricate theological points conducted between representatives of the Vatican and Orthodox and Protestant churches. Interfaith undertakings can range from prayer services in a private home with just a few people gathered together, to days-long gatherings of as many as 50,000 people, such as that held for charismatics in Kansas City, Mo., last July. In Norfolk, Va., the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia and the Catholic Diocese of Richmond have established what Bishop Walter L. Sullivan of Richmond describes as "a community of worship" for C.atholics and Episcopalians. The community, called the Anglican-Roman Catholic Church in Tidewater, holds separate Mass for Catholics and Holy Communion services for Epissopalians. Educational programs, including family life education, are to be conducted jointly. Bishop Sullivan said the Vatican had inquired about the venture. But he declined to say precisely what the inquiry consisted of. Similar, but more cautious, experiments have been conduct~ ed with interfaith houses of worship in other communities, among them, Columbia, Md., where Catholics, Protestants and Jews share facilities and take part in cooperative programs. But the denominations are kept administratively separate, and no attempts at common catechesis are made. Ecumenical activities often
take the form of community service projects, such as provision of meals for the elderly. Such a program is in effect in the Worcester diocese, where Sister Therese Dion is ecumenical officer, . The nun said many Catholic churches are inviting a Protestant to sit in on parish council meetings as observers, while some Protestant churches have Catholic observers on their governing bodies. But "there is less involvement" in interfaith activity than there was in the late 1960s, said Sister Dion. On the other hand, Father Alex .J. Brunett, ecumenical officer for the Detroit archdiocese, said there is more activity now, but it is taken for granted and goes unreported. While ecumenism at the local level makes its way, theologians make a parallel effort "seeking theoretical bases for unity of faith. Catholics and Southern Baptists have completed a series of regional meetings, and this year the Southern Baptist-Roman Catholic Scholars' Dialogue will begin.
In addition, 1978 will see the first Armenian Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation. Such bilateral talks are already in progress between Catholics and Angelicans; Lutherans; United Methodists; Presbyterian and Reformed; and the Disciples of Christ. Cardinal William W. Baum of Washington, a member of the Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interfaith Affairs (BCEIA), said, however, "It would be lacking in honesty if we were to deny that (Episcopalian ordination of women) does constitute a new and grave obstacle to restoration of communion," But moves toward the Orthodox are called for, and would have " a salutary effect on the West," he said. Bishop Bernard F. Law of Springfield - Cape Girardeau, chairman of the BCEIA, said he is encouraged by recent developments between Catholics and Southern Baptists. "The Southern Baptists are the biggest Protestant denomination in the country," he said, and "there's been definite movement in that area,"
He Calls For A New Kind of Bishop CROTONE, Italy (NC) - The Church needs a new kind of bishop if it is to renew itself, according to an archbishop in the impoverished deep south of Italy. . Archbishop Giuseppe Agostino, who heads the three small dioceses of Santa Severina, Crotona and Cariati in Calabria, made that statement in a pastoral letter before beginning a series of pastoral visitations. "Now is the hour of nonresidential, itinerant bishop, the bishop who is more an evangelical person than a professor, the bishop who is an establisher or a re-establisher of the Church," wrote the prelate. He said that the Church must "begin from the beginning, be-
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BISHOP WALSH
Bishop James Edward Walsh, NI.M. By Father Ronald Saucci, M.M. The old man placed his cafeteria tray on the table, sat down and bowed his head to say grace. My mind wandered as I thought about this small giant of a man sitting across from me. It went back to Shanghai, 1952, when Bishop James Edward Walsh of Maryknoll, 61-year-old veteran missioner, was placed under a kind of house arrest by the Communists. His comings and goings were under constant surveillance by the police as he aided refugees from outlying areas who arrived penniless in Shanghai. For some years everything went well. But as the Communists worked to eradicate all foreign influence from China, the bishop headed their list of "undesirable aliens." One day, nine years later, he was arrested, tried in absentia as an American spy, and imprisoned for 20 years for a so-called currency violation while at-· tempting to aid the local bishop. He was confined to a small damp cell in a Shanghai prison. As months passed his health began to fail. He became frail and boils erupted on his body. "They would send a doctor in to lance my boils occasionally. Fearing that I would not survive in the small cell, they moved IJle to a light and airy hospital room where I stayed for the remainder of 12 years. It was altogether quite pleasant," he told me.
Shortly after B-ishop Walsh :~e turned to the United States, I interviewed him on a WNBC-~:V special welcome-home program. He arrived in the studio extremely irritated by a back problem not helped at all by sweltering weather. I exp~ed to have my hands full during the Interview. Was I surprised! As soon as we began to discuss China, his pains seemed to disappear. When asked whether he would return to China if ::te could, he responded, "Of course! After so many years in China I'm practically half Chinese. They're my people. Readjusting to life in t;le United States after so many years in a Chinese jail was less difficult than one might imagine for the bishop. Since his return, he has made three major journeys: to Latin America, where he visited six countries, encouraging and advising Maryknoll priests, Brothers and Sisters; to the East African missions first established by Maryknoll under his leadership; and to the Orient, with stops in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and the Phili~J pines. Finishing his lunch, the bishop gathered both his and my used dishes on a serving trE.y and . quietly thanked me for sharing the meal with him. Then, rather erectly for an 83year-old, he walked to the serving cart, left the dishes and went out to stroll among tt.e trees.
Next to St. Paul, Francis Xavier was in many ways the greatest missionary the Church has known. A:ld he was much like Paul: intelligent, prayerful, consumed with love and zeal, unselfish, gentle and caring, yet strong and fearless in denouncing scanea!. The patron ~~aint of foreign missions was born in Navarre, near Pamplona, in the castle of Xavier in 1506. The youngest of a large family, he went to the University of Paris, and was one of Ignatius Loyola's first followers. In 1540 Ignatius sent him on a mission to the East Indies, armed with papal documents appointing h:m Apostolic Nuncio in the East - and with little else. He had just two helpers, an italian Jesuit priest and a Portuguese layman. There were five ships in the fleet and the admiral's ship became Francis' parish for the time being, made up of crew, passengers, soldiers, slaves, and -, convicts. He instructed, preached, cared for the sick, and struggled with his own seasickness. There was an outbreak of scurvy, with only Francis and his companions to care for the stricken. It took them 13 months to reach Goa, a Portuguese enclave in India. There they found a large Catholic population but the lives of many of the Portuguese were shockingly scandalous. This made spreading the Gospel among thE' native Indians extremely difficult. As a first step, Francis plunged irto the task of reChristianizing the Christians.
Mornings he spent in the city's nauseating hospitals and prisons and then he walked the streets ringing a bell to call the children and slaves to catechism. He seemed to be everywhere at once, offering Mass for lepers on Sunday, preaching in public, visiting homes, gradually winning over the people by his charm and concern. After five months of this activity, Francis heard of a coastal people who had been baptized from political motives but for all practical purposes were still pagan. He set out on the first of 13 missions to them, meeting difficulties which would have daunted all but the most zealous. Like Paul, Francis was all things to all people. He shared their life, ate their food, slept on the ground. He journeyed to Malacca on
The Missionary Church By Father Alfred McBride
Exhausted by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation the tired Church of Europe found new vitality in the memory of Christ's command to bring the Gospel to all nations. Both the New World and the Old World of Asia offered the challenge of evangelization immensely aided by the world-wide economic expansion and colonization efforts of Spain and Portugal and the international outlook of orders such as the Franciscans, Dominicans and Jesuite. While the missionaries intended the salvation of nations, they acted with the blinders of 16th century European culture. This meant all too often identification with the economic goals of the European colonizers and imposition of a European cul11_ tural Catholicism on Incas, AzBy Father Joseph Champlin tecs, Hindus, Buddhists and other representatives of South Two years ago, a committee in American and Asiatic culture. our parish agreed to sponsor a Missioners also acceded to the Vietnamese family : disastrous policy of refusing, in Within E; month or so, the most cases, to ordain a native committee had rented a house clergy. suitable for a nine-member famDespite this, Latin America ily (parents and seven children from 3 to 16), furnished it, was converted to Christianity. stocked the pantry and assem- But the sad record of cultural bled a complete wardrobe. Par- and economic imperialism, exploiting the wealth and destroyishioners willi a large van then ing the precious inheritance of drove 250 miles to. bring the the Indian peoples, seems in reNguyen family to their new trospect to be a cruel and conhome. tradictory price to pay for More thE.n 100 persons conbringing people to the saving tributed in some way to the famand loving message of Christ. ily's successful resettlement. At the same time, one must The language barrier stood in speak up for the struggle of the the way at the beginning, but majority of missionaries to huthe family's progress has been manize colonization and limit remarkable. Mrs. Nguyen even the voraciousness of the milifinds the little ones are forget- tary conquerors. ting their Vietnamese. The story of the mission efA job for ':he father was a high fort in Asia is no less a compriority, and a few days after_ posite of impressive and daring Turn to Page Thirteen adventure allied with painful
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the Malay peninsula, back to India ,Ceylon, and Cape Comorin. In the course of his travels he met and,converted a Japanese named Anjiro, whom he christened Pau!. Together with him, a Jesuit priest and lay brother, and two other Japanese converts, he set out for Japan, where he met with considerable success. Back in India again, he decided to penetrate China. He got as far as the bleak island of Sancian, six miles off the coast, where he fell ill. His boat crew left him unprotected on the shore, exposed to a bone-chilling north wind. He was finally taken into a merchant's little hut, where attended only by Anthony, a young Chinese companion, he died on Dec. 3, 1552. His body was finally taken back to Goa and enshrined in the church of the Good Jesus.
shortsightedness. In trade terms, Christianity was Asia's greatest export to the West. Somehow, the West has never been very good at re-exporting it back to the mother continent. The major difference between South America and Asia had huge populations, militarily powerful and prOfoundly rooted in ancient and well-established religions of their own as well as having a cultural pride that dismissed westerners as barbarians." To their credit, some missionaries tried to de-Eui'opeanize themselves but such efforts failed, _due to lamentable rivalry between religious orders and to the opinion of most missionaries that Christianity had to be European in style. Still, a new possibility -lurked in Japan, where Jesuit missioners made extraordinary headway. But their fatal error was the refusal to ordain a native clergy. Hence the Japanese were not allowed to take charge of their own Church and eventually the Christian missi9nary effort was suppressed, though a tough group of Christians survived until the second opening of Japan in the 19th century. We can only speculate now what the world would be like today had those 16th century missionaries succeeded in Asia. The interaction of the high cultures of Europe and Asia would have been much further advanced. The introduction and impact of uncounted millions of Asiatic Christians would give us today a different kind of Church. Only now do we seem ready to apply the hard won lessons of yesterday. Nowhere is this being done more successfully than in Africa.
Money Is Sought F'or Westminster WASHINGTON (NC) - England's top Catholic layman has come to the United States to talk about the ecumenism sweeping his country and to foster American interest in London's Westminster Cathedral. Miles Fitzalan Howard, Duke of Norfolk, is the English Earl Marshal, which makes him Queen Elizabeth's top nobleman, as well as the Catholic Church's liaison with the Church of England. He was in Washington to begin a series of visits to U.S. and Canadian cities during which he will lecture about, and raise money for, the 128-year-old Westminster Cathedral. The duke hopes to raise enough to build a hospitality center for American visitors at the London church. Britons have already donated almost $2 million, including a gift from the Queen, toward restoration and upkeep of the cathedral.
The duke says this financial support represents the good relations that have evolved between the Catholics and the Church of England. Old medieval churches used by the Church of England have been offered to Catholics for services whenever they want to use them, the duke said. And last Christmas, Prince Charles, heir to the throne, read at Mass at Westminster Cathedral. The duke's mission in the United States includes organizing an Anglo-American lecture ex<:hange program on religious and world peace issues. Cardinal William BauIn of Washington, D.C., will be among the first lecturers in Britain. Persons interested in contributing to Friends of Westminster Cathedral may contact John Zalonis at the Institute for the Arts, 1711 N. St. N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036.
The Nguyens Continued from Page Twelve his arrival he began work as a janitor in a health institution while studying English during off hours. A year later, a factory job would have made him fiscally more independent, but a work-related injury caused extended hospitalization and convalescence and heavy discouragement. Recently, however, Nguyen, his health sufficiently improved, resumed work. His salary is not adequate for such a large family, according to our standards, but the Nguyens make ends meet and even save a little. Education ranked high among tasks to be accomplished. Public school classes helped with initial English lessons and later the children transferred to Catholic institutions. The oldest son plans
to enter college and the fifth grade boy can assist classmates with mathematics while they aid him with English. More time-consuming for committee members than jobs or schools, however, were the thousand big and little needs f)f emergencies which developed. Teaching the mother how to shop, arranging for food stamps, setting up medical and dental checkups ,transportation to Sunday Mass, stopping at the house daily to make sure all was well - these were but a few of the committee's responsibilities. Throughout, members struggled against the tendency to be paternalistic, to impose American culture, to deprive, however unconsicously, the family of its pride and dignity.
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A ora~ao mental a ora~ao <nti]a e pessoal com Deus. ~ como esses encontros de namorados, em Que falamos ao Senhor d'Ele e de n6s. Em que 'usaremos nao tanto a nossa boca mas a corasao, a nossa mente. Por isso lhe chamamos mental, para a contrapor a ora~ao vocal, feita mais com a voz, par exemplo com ora)oes feitas. Elas devem ter sem duvida em luqar muito importante em nossa vida. A oracao mental exiqira habitualmente a saber iSblar-nos, como Jesus, saber fazer silencio a nossa volta como vinho orecioso metido em qarrafa bern arrolhada. Podemos imaqina-la como a encontro de miudos com a seu pai que reqressa do trabalh( e se senta para estar com eles. Sobem-lhe oara as joelhos, olham oara ele, contam-lhe coisas. Principiaremos por abrir as olhos, par dar conta que a Senhor esta junto de nos r fundamental este acto de oresen~a de Deus. Dele deoende todo 0 resto. Porque muitas vezes 0 ofendemos , come)aremos a conversa pedindo~Lhe oerdao, arrependidos e confiados. como as meninos, depois duma travessura, enquanto saltam para as joelhos do pai, Papa, eu nao volta a fazero Temos de adora-lIO, fazer-nos oequeninos diante d'Ele, sermos a que realmente somos. Se nao vos fizerdes como meninos nao entrareis no reino dos ceus. . Pedir-Lhe-emos que nos ensine a falarLhe, porque com as miudos, mal sabemos balbuciar e precisamos Que nos va soprando as palavras. Saberemos recorrer tamb€m como as meninos a ajuda de nos sa mae, Santa Maria, e dos irmaos mais velhos, as santos. E ja estamos a fazer ora~ao. Falar-Lheemos d'Ele e de nos. Contemplaremos as maravilhas que nos revelou e apresentar-Lhe-emos as assuntos da nossa vida. Trataremos esses assuntos, urn de cada vez, dizendo a Que sentimos e perquntando-Lhe 0 que pensa e 'nos indica. A ora~ao nao node ser monoloqo. Temas de fazer sil~ncio para ouvir a Senhor. Isso exiqe ter, como Samuel, as ouvidos atentos aquila que nos vai dizendo baixinho no {ntimo da alma. Devemos recorrer a ajuda de urn livro au de notas que tomamos ao lonqo do dia para levar a ora~ao. Para nao nos oerdermos e facilitar essa conversa com 0 nosso Pai Deu5 Urn born livro torna-nos mais f&cil ertender a que Ele nos quer dizer. . Esse tempo de ora~ao havemos de ench~ la, no fim de contas, ae actos de fe, de esperan~a, de amor, as tr~s virtudesteologais que resumem toda a nossa vida com Ele c~ na terra. Faremos como a rapaz que confidenciava: Ouando estou sozinho na capela YOU dizendo alto ao Senhor que 0 amo. Actos de humildade e arrependimento, propositos de ser melhor, oedindo a Sua luz e a Sua for~a para cumprir a Sua vontade. A ora~ao mental par isso, elemento importantfssmo para crescermos na santidade. Ali repassaremos, dia ap6s dia, a nossa vida aos olhos de Deus, deixando-a penetrar da Sua luz, para, depois, embebermos com a Seu amor todas as nossas actividades. Nao vamos fazer discursos, mas sim abrir a cora~o, deixar que a seu olhar penetre nos recantos mais fntimos, com a desejo de nao esconder nada, sabendo que tocar~ as nossas feridas para as curar. Para lutar mais decididos contra os nossos defeitos, para nos esfor~armos em melhorar cada dia nalqum pequeno ponto da nossa vida
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FALL RIVER SOUTH, Bristol County Catholic Hockey League champions: first row, from left, Ray Correia, John Viveiros, Tom Reilly, Mike Laureanno, Tom Burke, Len Cabeceiras and Steve Caeton; second row, coach Joe Bullock, John Rodrigues, Carl Dias, Bob Leite, Arthur Tansey, Glenn Souza, Dave Mazzarella, Steve Reis, coach Don Souza.
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By Cecilia Belanger I have received a 12-page letter from a worried mother who wants to share her concerns with other parents and with youth. She has been working part time and she wants to quit her job. She feels she should be at home, waiting for the children when they come from school, being there when needed, not being exhausted ar.d too tired to attend school functions. She also feels she's lost contact with her children and their lives outside the home. She"s worried, in short, about many things. We know from reports and research that American families and their children have been neglected. We know so because of the destructive effects of that neglect: the growing rates of divorce in families with small children, the fact that over one-sixth of the nation's children are living in single parent families. Knowing this, why is pressure put upon a mother to work? Hasn't she enough to do at home? When the mother prefers to be at home why isn't she encouraged to remain there and do the thing she cares most about? This mother has two teenage daughters and her concern for them is great. She cites the rocket rise in the proportion of unwed mothers who are bearing children alone and this worries her. She also has two sons. She points out the rising rates of violence and vandalism and delinquency and feels she should be at home, free to talk with her children together or one at at a time. One sympathizes with her in view of the fact that now virtually one eighth of the nation's youth will appear before some legal body accused of a crime, before the age of 18. I remember what Dr. Urie Bronfenbrenner said about a trip he made to Communist China. He had asked a teacher about Chinese ~oals of child-rearing. 'IIn our society," she said, "we
have a guiding principle; it is to serve the people. What is your guiding principle?" Dr. Bronfenbrenner said, "It's not that I couldn't answer her; it's that I wasn't sure that she would quite understand if I said, "Do your own thing, baby. Just let it all hang out. Don't let it hassle you. Do your own thing.' '~ As an American, I don't think I quite understand it, either. Personally, I long foJ' the days when a handshake meant something. When people did favors without expecting to be paid. When there seemed to be more common goals, more shared values. How often do we hear parents say of their children, "If they don't like it they can get out." No wonder people are splittir.g all over the place. As the television ads tell 'Us, don't bother to mend or fix it; get a new one. ~eople are not ~thering to mend relationships with their children they're off doing their own thing and the children become the victims. It's sad to hear some say, "I wish I'd never been born!" It's too much an "every person for himself" society. The excuse is, "We're all different." Sure, we're different, but that shouldn't make a difference when it comes to what's good for the society. .or. Brodenbrer.ner said, "We are different from every other modern sodety. We are far out." . Where will youth learn compassion and responsibility, competence and -loyalty, if there is no one around to show them? I think this is also what that concerned mother is saying in her letter. We are not self-made, though we like to ,brag that we are. If we can stand on our own two feet it is because others have raised us up. If as adults we lay claim to compassion and love and all the other virtues, it means that other human beings have been willing to commit these virtues to us, through in-
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fancy, childhood adolescence, young adulthood, right up to the very moment one now lives and breathes.
Bishop Gerra rd Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River, announces election of Joanne Pinsonneault as delegate and Nancy Micheson as alternate to the statewide Student Advisory Council. The 'organization represents the concerns of high school students to the Commissioner of Education and the State Board of Education. Members also attend regional meetings and re90rt findings to their own schools. Susan .Bowman, a senior, has received a $1600 scholarship from Kinyon Business School, New Bedford, after placing fourth in a competitive examination. Students of Biology Two are taking a first aid course in preparation for "survival trips" planned for April. They will include a camping weekend; and a five-day trip to Bar Harbor, Maine, to study ecology, mountains and the ocean. The problems of city survival will also be studied and discussed. Christian Living Community members recently sponsored a father-daughter dance and a Palm Sunday "awareness walk." Proceeds from the latter will benefit area halfway houses, a fund for summer programs and the needy in Appalachia.
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I've seen you twice in a short time Only a week since we started it seems to me For every time I'm getting more open hearted I was an impossible case No one ever could reach me But I think I can see in your face There's a lot you can teach me So I won, I know What's the name of the game Does it mean anything to you What's the name of the game Can you feel it the way I do Tell me please 'cause I have to know I'm a bashful child beginning to grow And you make me talk And you make me feel And you make me show what I'm trying to conceal If I trust in y,ou would you let me down Would you laugh at me If I said I care for you Could you feel the same way too I wanna know the name of the game I have no friends No one to see And I am never invited Now I am here talking to you No wonder I get excited Your smile and the sound of your voice And the way you see through me Gotta feeling you gimme no choice but it means a lot to me So I wanna know. Copyright (c) 1977 by Polar Music AB, Stockholm, Sweden, for the world. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. "The Name of the Game" is a song about trust in relationships, about a person who finds himself in a new and developing relationship. His past history of relationships has not been good. "I was an impossible case, no one could ever reach me," he says. Yet, this recent relationship generates desire to move beyond this circle of doubt and fear that has built barriers to others. However,. questions linger. Is this relationship new and authentic, or just a "game" that will end in further pain? This song presents several possibilities for comment, but I will focus on its ideas of trust. Certainly trust is not blind faith. The questions about trust the song asks are not necessarily unhealthy if they are points of reflection rather than a life-attitude about relationships. We find that sometimes expectations are not met and a relationship turns oot not to be what we thought it might be. The trusting person sees these painful times as -lessons that will further direct his/her discerning powers for the future. The person who trusts acknowledges what has happened in the past, -learns from these experiences, and moves forward in life. Life is not a "game" but a wealth of discoveries and living out of personal potentials. To mistrust. these life possibilities, or to find solace in the emptiness of self-pity, is to miss out on the treasure. God gave us the ultimate assurance that we are so OK that he became one of us and lived the gamut of a full human existence. In fact, Jesus' life is a statement of challenge for each of us: Believe and trust in yourself, believe in God's presence in your life, and allow'these two facts to direct further re~ching out and authentic caring for others.
Coyle-Cassidy "Lizzie Borden of Fall River" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 6 and Sunday, April 9 by the Drama Club of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton. The fact that Lizzie Borden was an area personality has
added to the interest of cast members, many of whom have spent hours researching the famous murder case involving the Fall River socialite. Also participating in the production are Taunton Catholic Middle School students.
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Catholic League Stars Win Fund Game Bristol County Catholic Hockey League All-Stars defeated the Senior All-Stars, 10-5, last Thursday night in the sixth annual Father Donovan Scholarship Fund hockey game before 800 enthusiastic spectators in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River. On the way to the league allstars first victory in the annual event, the leaguers, got off to a 4-1 lead in the first period on goals by Denis Cournoyer, Glenn Souza, Len Cabeceiras and Chris O'Toole with Tim Smith accounting for the Seniors' marker. A pair of goals by Bob Hugh-
es, singletons by Cabeceiras and Ray Correira against Senior goals by Harry Goulet, Nick Caras and Tom Rodrigues gave the Catholic League stellars an 8-4 lead after two periods. Souza and Bob Leger tallied for the winners and Joe Custer for the Seniors in the last quarter. As announced by Jack Kineavy, chairman of the all-star selection committee, the game's all-star team is made up of Cabeceiras, Hughes and Scott ·Levsque -of the league team, and, Custer, Caras and Charley Ripley of the Seniors.
Holy Family's Leiato On All-Star Team Dave Leiato of the Holy Family High, New Bedford, has been named to the Division Two Southeastern Mass. Conference all-star basketball team, which also includes Peter Lacroix and Ernie Madden, Seekonk, Randy Andrews, Wareham, and Jeff Dickerson, Old Rochester, with Peter Thomas of Bishop Stang High, and Dave Perkins of Old Rochester as utility players. All are seniors. Named to the Division One stellar combine are Jim Hennesey, Fairhaven; Tony DePina, New Bedford; Kevin Whiting, Durfee; Mike Borden, Somerset; Marion Berson, Taunton, and Kevin Davis (utility), Barnstable. The Division Three all-star team was not available at press time. In girls' basketball Sheila Dean of Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro was named to the West Division all-star team with Lea Peattie and Dorothy DiOrio, both of Seekonk; Elaine Kinder, Dighton-Rehoboth, and Lena Polocheck, Attleboro. The East Division team lists Lisa LaFlamme and Karen Moore of Bourne, Sharon Collette, DennisYarmouth; Terri Thatcher, Wareham; Deborah GilIu~, Fairhaven,
and Lori Taddeo, Barnstable. The Central Division team has not yet been announced. Bishop Connelly High of Fall River has placed three - senior defenseman Joe Shaker, senior forward Tom Stone and junior forward John Viveiros - on the Division Two ice hockey all-star team and Coyle-Cassidy High of Taunton has five players on the Division Three team: goalie' Tom Donnelly, defenseman Todd Borges and forwards Eric Fleming. Dan Mulcahy and Mike Potoczak. Others on the Division Two team are goalie Charles Ripley, Dartmouth; defensemen Tom Clifford, Dighton - Rehoboth; Steve Bishop, Dennis-Yarmouth; Eric Nunes, Dartmouth; forwards Jerry Fletcher, Dighton-Rehoboth; Eric Oman, Dennis-Yarmouth; Dana Leach and Bob Fountain of Bourne, and alternate goalie Doug Brown, Seekonk. On the Division Three team are goalie Mike Freeman, Case; defensemen Barry. Chase, Tom Morse, Old Rochester, and Jeff Faria, Fairhaven; forwards, Ron Tavares, Fairhaven; Ken Douglas, Old Rochester, and Glenn Decas, Wareham.
Hockey League Playoffs Final Sunday Champion Fall River South and Somerset will meet at 9 p.m. Sunday in the Driscoll Rink in the opening game of the bestof-three final in the Bristol County Catholic Hockey League playoffs.
game riding a 10-game win streak. Somerset has won five straight since losing to New Bedford on Feb. 19.
Both posted victories last Sunday to sweep their semi-finals series. The Southies routed Taunton, 8-2, and for the second straight time, Somerset upset runnerup New Bedford by one goal, 4-3.
PATERSON, N.J. (NC) - An address in Spanish and a special welcome to an African archbishop who was one of his coconsecrators wm-e part of a message of Church unity and universality given by Bishop Frank J. Rodimer following his ordination and installation as sixth bishop of the Paterson diocese.
Although Somerset finished third in the final league standings, 16 points back of the Southies, the team has always posed a threat to the top runners. South lost only two games during the regular season. Its last loss was to Somerset, 3-2, on Jan. 1. In three oUter league encounters, the Southies bested Somerset. South will enter Sunday's
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AN ANGUISHED wife reaches for her husband as he is taken to a Nazi concentration camp in a scene from the NBC film "Holocaust," which will be presented on the nights of April 16 through 19. (NC Photo)
• tv, movie news New Films The Fury (Fox) is the story of a CIA agent (Kirk Douglas) and his son (Andrew Stevens), who has psychic powers. The CIA wants to kill the father in order to exploit his son. The killing attempt is unsuccessful but the boy is kidnapped and with the help of another psychic youngster (Amy Irving) the father spends most of the movie trying to locate him. The story ends with general carnage. Its violence, unremitting depiction of bloodshed and disregard of human dignity make a condemned rating necessary.. Kingdom of the Spiders (Dimension) is a mindless story of a small community beset br juiced-up tarantulas. Mindless entertainment but morally unobjectionable for adults and adolescents. A Little Night Music (New World) is a film version of a Broadway musical about illmatched spouses and lovers who sort out their differences and find happiness. Dialogue and situations (one of the players is a Catholic seminarian) make this film morally unobjectionable for adults only. The Big Sleep (United Artists) is a new version of a Raymond Chandler detective classic set in present-day London. Heavyhanded depiction of violence and exploitation of nudity. Morally objectionable in part for all. Summer Paradise (Cinema 5) is an attack on modern society in the microcosm of a Swedish family on summer vacation. Telling points are made about the pill, abortion, unwarranted medical experimentation and society's responsibility to children. Mature nature of the film and incidental nudity rule it out for the very young but it is worthwhile for serious older viewers. Morally unobjectionable for adults, with reservations. On Television Feeling Free (starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 4 on PBS). This six-part series, patterned on the popular "Zoom," is presented by
disabled youngsters and hopes to dispel uninformed and awkward attitudes of children without experience with handicapped peers. Watch Your Mouth, starting at II p.m. Satlrday, April 8 on PBS, is a 10-part series on language and communications skills for teenagers, aiming to introduce culturally deprived youngsters to standard English. TV Movies Friday, March 31, 9 p.m. (ABC) -"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" (1974) - Peter Fonda is a racing driver who robs a supermarket to finance building a racecar, only to have Susan George dis· rupt his plans by tagging along on the getaway. One big chase, with none of the characters bear· ing much of a resemblance tc human beings. Morally unobjec· tionable for adults. Sunday, April 2, 9 p.m. (ABC) -"High Plains Drifter" (1973)-· Clint Eastwood plays a mysteri.. ous stranger who, in his OWf. fashion, protects a corrupt town from three vengeful gunmen. An absurd Western made still worse by a brutal depiction of sex. Morally objectionable in part for all. Wednesday, April 5, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Race With the Devil" (1975) - One of the silliest and most boring movies of all time. Peter ,Fonda a.nd Warren Oate:; flee devil worshippers acrOSB most of Texas in a recreational vehicle. Some violence. Morally unobjectionabl,e for adults. Saturday, April 8, 9 p.m. (NBC) -"McQ" (197'1) - John Wayne stars as a police lieutenant determined to bring to justice a notorious drug dealer. The usual Wayne brand of frontier justice only this time in an urban setting. Violence and some adult sexual references. Morally unobjectionable for adults.
College to Close WASHINGTON (NC-Immaculata College of Washington, a two-year Catholic women's college staffed by the Sisters of Providence for th~ past 41 years, will close this June, due to financial problems.
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