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Bishops may ask Friday fast for peace

WASHINGTON (NC) Among changes in the new third draft of the U.S. bishops' pro posed pastoral letter on war and peace is one that, if accepted, could have an effect on every U.S. Catholic over 21. The bishops are proposing, as a tangible sign of penance for the cause of peace, to eommlt themselves to return to the tradi tion of Friday fast and abstin ence. If the body of bishops ap prove the move, they will urge U.S. Catholics to follow their example.

Additionally, Sunday, May I, the eve of the bishops' meeting to deliberate on the third draft, has been designated a day of prayer for U.S. Catholics by the administrative committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The 50·bishop committee also urged brother bishops to devote . a day of their choice before the meeting to prayer and fasting for a succcessful outcome to their deliberations. The third draft embodies con tinued condemnation of any

first use of nuclear weapons, along with a subtle shift away from support for the nuclear freeze. ' The draft, mailed to the bish ops just before Easter, includes much of the same material found in the second draft, which condemned several aspects of U.S. deterrence policy. But it expands or redevelops several sections, making the 178 page document considerably longer than the second draft it replaces. The new draft will be consid·

ered by the' nation's more than 300 bishops at a special meet~ ing in Chi<:ago May 2-3. Though approval of the document is by means certain, a majority of bishops said at their November general meeting that they sup ported the general thrust of the proposed pastoral. Because of that the third draft follows almost exactly the same outline as the second. It begins with religious perspectives on peace, moves into a discussion of war and peace in the modem world, follows with a section on

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proposals for the promotion of peace, and concludes with com mentary on the pastoral chal lenge facing the church. But there are several key dif· ferences between the second and third drafts: . - The implicit support that the second draft gave the nu clear freeze movement is down played in the third draft. Where as the second draft urged the immediate end to further devel opment, production and deploy ment of major new. nuclear Turn to Page Eleven

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Albert J. Vaillancourt, 37, a teacher at Notre Dame School, Fall River, for the past decade, was one of 12 elementary teach ers across the nation honored this week at the annual conven· tion of the National Catholic Educational Association. Vaillancourt, sixth grade home room moderator and a teacher of science, reading and religion at Notre Dume, received the Miriam Joseph Farrell Award for distinguished teach ing. He was chosen as New England recipient of the award by a screening committee of the NCEA. Other award winners repre sented other geographical areas of the nation. Selection criteria include at least 10 years of ser vice in Catholic elementary edu cation, possession of a clear and integrated philosophy of Cath olic education and being held in high regard by peers, students and parents. The late Sister Miriam Jo seph Farrell, PBVM, was execu tive secretary for the NCEA De partment of Elementary Schools. She died during her term of office. Vaillancourt was accompan ied to Washington by Sister Helene Dussault, RJM, Notre Dame principal, and by Father Normand Grenier, associate pastor and school director. Also in Washington was Den nis Payant, principal of St. Mary's School, New Bedford, and a Ipember of the elementary schools advisory board of the NCEA. Representing New Eng land R~gion I of the organiza tion, he processed Vaillancourt's

nomination as a Farrell Award winner. Many other representatives of diocesan sChools attended the meeeting, which closed yester day. The Department of Educa tion was represented by Sister Doreen Donegan, SUSC, direc tor of religious education; Rev. Marcel H. Bouchard, assistant director of religious education and director of continuing edu cation. for the clergy; Sister Pa tricia Halliday, SND, also an assistant director of religious education: and Sisters M. Laurita Hand, PBVM, and Ann Moore, CND, superintendent and assis tant superintendent of schools. Some 15,000 educators attend ed the three-day meeting which had as its theme "Catholic Edu . cation: The Choices and the Challenges." An innovative fea ture was a computer conference offering hands-on experience and explanations of classroom computer use. Also offered were a wide vari ety of sessions for teachers and coordinators of religious educa tion programs. Among convention speakers were author Father Henri Nou wen; Cardinal Joseph Bern ardin; newsman Frank Reynolds; author Abigail McCarthy; U.S. Catholic Conference peace and justice director Father Bryan Hehir; "intensive journal" de veloper Ira Progoff and educa tor Dr. Elinor Ford. Father N01llwen In his keynote address Father Nouwen set the spiritual tone for the NCEA meeting, calling intimacy. fecundity and ecstasy gifts and rights for all people Tum to Page Six

YOUNGSTERS AT St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, lay claim to some of a large shipment of toys donated to area children's 'agencies through the St. Vincent de Paul So ciety. With the boys are Father Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan Vincentian director; Raymond Pelletier, diocesan and regional disaster chairman; Joseph Gromada, president of the Fall River area Vincentian council. (Torchia Photo)

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.Helping hurting people For the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 1983 is a special year and April is its most important month. The year marks the 150th birthday of the society, founded in Paris to aid the poor by Fred eric Ozanam, a young law stu dent; and the last Sunday of April will be observed across the nation as Ozanam Sunday, a time for Vincentians and their friends to pray for the beatifica tion and eventual canonization of Ozanam. In the Fall River diocese par ishes with St. Vincent de Paul . conferences have been asked to celebrate a special Mass on April 24 accompanied by an informa tional activity such as an open

house, a special speaker or a mond Pelletier and Arthur Gau communion breakfast or supper. thier. Further plans for the year will . Events to come later in the be made at the quarterly dioce· year are a national Vincentian san council meeting, to be held convention from Sept. 29 to Oct. Wednesday, April 27, at Sacred 2 in San Antol1lio, Texas. The Heart Church, Taunton. second day of the convention Internationally, April 24 will will be observed as a time for mark the close of a six·day St. penance and prayer, organizers Vincent de Paul Council meeting have announced. in Paris. The gathering will be The anniversary year will con· attended by Father Daniel L. clude Sunday, Dec. 4, when Freitas, Fall River diocesan di Vincentians will gathE:r for local rector for the Vincentians. He penitential programs. will head a delegation of seven Honoring their foullder, U.S. Vincentians from the diocese. society members have chosen As well as Father Freitas, "Ozanam: A Life WQrth Living they are Father Edward J. Again" as their anniversary Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. Vito V. theme. An anniversary logo inGerardi, Gloria C. Costa, Ray Turn to Page Six

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THE ANCHOR - . Friday; April 8, 1983

Sister Gertrude tri~Ie achiever "I'm going to keep it on my desktop to cheer me up." That was one educator's reaction to last week's ·beautiful page one Easter feature. - . The verse, "Forth He came at Easter," is from a 19th-century Easter carol, "Now the Green Blade Riseth." The lettering and

accompanying wheat- border were the 'work of Sister Ger trude Gaudette, OP. ActuaIly, Sister Gertrude scored' a triple achievement on last' week's front page. Not only

did she letter our carol but she took the front page photo and crafted the seven large jubilee crosses pictured. All this plus a fulltime job as art· teacher at Bishop Stang High School! Sister Gertrude, we salute you!

Abp. Romero ROME (NC) Archbishop Arturo Rivera Dams of San Salvador, El Salvador, is gather ing evidence which could lead to introduction of .the beatifica tion cause of his controversial predecessor, Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated while celebraftjng Mass three years ago. Father Jesus Delgardo, arch bishop Romero's secretary for three years, who now holds that position under Archbishop Rivera Damas, told reporters in Rome March 24 that Archbishop Rivera Damas is assembling a dossier on miracles attributed to Archbishop Romero, who was shot in San Salvador March 24, 1980. Father Delgado said the miracles which have been at tributed to the deceased arch bishop have been "quantita tively, very many."

BROTHER SEAN SAM· MON, FMS, Ph.D. inter national clinical director of the House of Affirmation, a therapeutic center for those in religious life, will speak on Midlife Issues for Nurses in the Age of Transition at a seminar sponsored from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, .April 16, by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses at St. Patrick's parish cen-. ter, Wareham. Information: Mrs. Barbara Gauthier, RN, 41 Tremont St" Taunton 02780.

THEIR RIBBONS ATTEST to the swimming ability of these youngsters at Nazareth Hall, Fall River.

Swimming to Victory The Bristol County and Ply mouth County Special Olympics Swim Meet, hosted by Nazareth Hall, was recently held at Dur fee High School. Participating organizations were Cardinal Cushing and Old Rochester from Plymouth County. Representing Bristol County were Nazareth Hall, Austin Middle School, People Inc., Wrentham State, Paul A. Dever, FaIl River, Dart mouth and Norton Public Schools. Special Olympics competion begins at eight years of age and has no upper age limit. In order to give each participant the best chance of competing and win ning, each age group is divided into competition divisions with winners eligible for state level contests in June. Nazareth's first place winners in the 25 meter freestyle were Rick Nobrega, David Roy and Lee Terpak. Second place win ners were Brian Boisssonneau, Marie Chaberek, Mary Garro and Daimy Renehan. Third place ribbons' went to Beth Ainsworth, Brian Blan chette, Lisa Breault, Cindy Crof ton, MicheIle Dias and Gerry Fontaine. Mike Harrington and Joe Pimental placed fourth. In the 50 meter freestyle, first place winners were Christine Jupin and Joe Pimental. Second placers were Cindy Crofton, Mike Harrington, l1-nd Michelle Lapointe. Placing first in their age group and division in the 25 meter backstroke competition were: Brian Blanchette, Brian Boisson neau, Lisa Breault, Marie Cha berek, Gerry Foqtaine, Michelle Lapointe, Rick Nobrega, Danny Renehan, -David Roy and Lee Terpak. Mary Garro placed sec ond and Beth Ainsworth third. Christine Jupin won first place honors in the 25 meter breast

stroke and Michelle Dias second. Nazareth Hall's relay teams earned first place ribbons in the mixed 16 and over female 15 and under divisions. The Nazareth swimmers are coached by Mary Deane Malloy, a volunteer, and Greg Rooslet, adapted 'physical education teacher at the school.

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PAP program Eight teachers in the elemen tary and secondary ·schools of the Fall River diocese will com plete a Potential Administrators" Program in June. For the past two years these teachers have been involved in administrative activities at their respective schools and have attended four special workshops each year. The PAP program was de sigried wjththe help of a plan ning committee composed .of elementary and secondary school principals. Integral to its success has been the coopera .tion of the principals ·of the schools involved. Those who will· complete the prograIlJ are Sisters Janice Brady and Rose Angela McClel lan, Alan Kazarian and Peter Galligan, Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro; William Hart, Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth; Louise Dunphy, St. - John Evangelist School, Attle boro; Kathy Jones, St. Mary Home, New Bedford; Sister Roger Mills, Nazareth Hall, Fall River. THE ANCHOR CUSPS·54S-D20). -Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. PUblished weekly except the week of July 4 and the lVeek after Christmas at 410 Highland Aven· ue, Fall River,: Mass. 02720 by the Cath· olic Press of' the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price by mall, postpaid $8.00 per year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

VATICAN CIlY (NC)-Despite an announcement by the Guate malan government that its am bassador to the Holy See had been removed from his post April 1, the, Guatemalan diplo mat continued to attend func .tions as head of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican. Guatemalan Ambassador Luis VaIladares y Aycinena, 79, par ticipated in several Vatican functions after April 1 and his presence and title as dean of the diplomatic corps were mentioned by Vatican Radio, the bulletins issued by the Vatican Press Office, and L'Osservatore Ro mano, the Vatican daily news paper. Vallarares y Aycinena, for mer chief justice of the GU,ate malan Suprme Court, has repre sented his country at the Vati ~an since 1966 and for the past five years has been dean of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. . He. was fired from his post March 15, because Guatemala said he had failed to inform his

government immediately of a papal clemency request in Feb ruary for six men who were scheduled for execution. The six, convicted of terrorist activities by a closed-door military court, were executed March 3 in Guate mala, three days before Pope John Paul II's arrival in that Central American country.

Valladares y Ayctnena has said he did immediately inform his superiors of the papal plea and also that he plans to sue Guatemalan officials for defama tion.

On April 1 the government is sued a statement in Guatemala City saying that the ambassador had been removed from his post because of "advanced age" and it did not mention the March 3 exe~utions. . After the executions, the Vati can warned that Guatemala's decision to carry them out in the face of papal clemency pleas could ,have "serious repercus sions at world and national levels and also 'at the level of the Holy See itself."

Pastoral Musicians set two workshops at Our Lady of Victory Church, Workshops on wedding litur gies' and the musical ministry of Centerville, is "Children's Choir children are planned by the Fall on Sunday Morning," a session Rive~ chapter of the National on involving the assembly in Association of Pastoral Musi children's musical ministry. cians. Antiphonal responses and sea The wedding workshop will be sonal psalmody led by children held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sacred ,with children as. cantors will be demonstrated. There will also Heart Church, Taunton, In be consideration of the liturgical tended to assist pastoral musi use of flute, clarinet, trumpet cians in planning liturgies, ac cording to the tastes of a and stringed instruments as couple and in conjunction with played by children. the prayers, readings and psalms Additionally, music from of the nuptial Mass, it will also Peloquin to Landry will be demonstrate how services can utilized to demonstrate employ be adapted to instruments avail ment of all choirs and other able in differept churches. groups of a parish in a unified Traditional, folk and other program. types of wedding music will be Non-members of the National played and information on order Association of Pastoral Musi ing sheet music will be avail cians are welcome at either able. workshop on payment of a Set for 2 p.m. Sunday, May 15, small fee.

It's not an encylopedia BATON ROUGE, La. (NC) Louisiana's bishops, for the first time commenting on the creation ism issue, said the Catholic Church rejects any teachings of' atheistic evolution or .any sys tem of science which attempts to disprove the existence of God. However, "Catholic biblical principles of the teachings of the church do not require that we take the stories of creation as historical imd scientific accounts, therefore we cannot draw from the BibJe any scientific conclus ions,", the bishops said in their statement. They added that, "the Bible is God's word' of salvation, not an encyclopedia of the physical word." The bishops commented in a statement issued for a general assembly of the Louisiana Cath-

olic Conference in Baton Rouge. The creationism controversy centered around Louisiana legis lative efforts to force public schools which teach evolution to give equal time to the tea,ching of creationism. "The church can always deep en its understanding of divine revelation by studying this writ ten record of God's words and action, a document unique in hu man history and literature. At the same time the church en courages the corresponding re search in the physical sciences to help in understanding better the marvels of God's crejition; for God's revelation thrpugh the Bible and through hi" creation leads to the same trUth about God himself and his' purposes for the world and humanity," the bishops said.

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Father Ronald A. Tosti, direc tor of the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry, has announced organization of a widowed sup port group serving the Taunton area. The group will hold its first meeting from 7:30 to 9 p.m. to night in the basement of Sacred Heart Church on Second Street in Taunton. The main speaker will be Mrs. Dorothyann Cana han of the Cape Cod widowed support organization. Mrs Elo ise Menard is coordinating the new group, which is open to all widowed persons in the greater Taunton area. Groups are active in the New Bedford and Attleboro areas as wen as Cape Cod and Taunton, noted Father Tosti. He said it is expected that a Fall River area group will soon get underway. AlI are sponsored by the Family Ministry office.

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Personnel heads to meet at Feehan Personnel directors of the re ligious communities represented in ministries of the Fall River diocese will meet Tuesday at Bishop Feehan High School, At leboro. Sponsored by the diocesan Catholic Education Center, Sis ter Claire Fitzgerald, SSND, coordinator of the Boston Col lege Catholic Leadership Pro gram, will speak on "Leader ship for the Future." The schedule will allow time for participants to discuss their involvements and plans with re gard to diocesan ministries. The day will conclude with Mass, during which Ms. Elaine Saulnier and the Bishop Feehan Folk group will lead singing.

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ON THE EVE of her 75th anniversary as a Fran ciscan Missionary of Mary, Sister Clara Paulinho cele brated by attending the diocesan Holy Year Mass a~d, receiving the congratulations of Bishop Daniel A. Cro nin. Sister Clara, who will be 91 on May 2, keeps to a schedule that puts most people to shame. Up before 5 a.m., she puts in a full day washing, ironing, answering the door and telephone at her Fall River convent and caring for the altar linens both at the convent and at nearby Santo Christo Church. She also teaches cate chism weekly at Santo Christo. Born in Portugal, she entered religion at' age 15 when two Franciscan Missionaries came to her home to beg for their works of charity. "I go with you," said the teenager, packed her belongings and left on the spot. Sister Clara has never looked back, through a re ligious life that included fleeing at risk of her life from the 1910 Portuguese revolution, assignments in Bel gium and France, 20 years in Boston and a total of 50 years in Fall River. Mainly occupied in domestic tasks, she says simply "I did all that had to be done. God has been good to me."

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A Time for Peace The current mood of the land seems to be for peace. The Congress, the churches and the children are all for peace, all for varying reasons. In fact, peace is now becoming politically fashionable. Why anyone would be for war is a question that of _ course defies an answer. But what has· made this surge for peace so very real, dramatic and courageous? The enormity of the atom is perhaps the fundamental reason why earthlings are becoming quite concerned about their continued existence. When first used, the destructive potential of the atom was l.ittle understood. It has taken almost two generations to begin learning the lessons of Hiroshima but man is now discerning how destructive he can' be, not on~y to his enemies but to himself. The aware ness that no one would survive a nuclear holocaust has made the would-be destroyers cognizant of their own en dangerment. Yet it almost seems that our world is bent on self annihilation. One need only look at the action being fol lowed by -the superpowers in the development of weaponry. Both the United States and Russia, along with their so called allies, have more than enough destructive power at their fingertips to dissolve the entire planet. Yet the-main news stories of each day center around the arms race, the defense budgets and now Star Wars. As inconceivable as it may seem, we are taking. war to space. No longer is it sufficient to defend ourselves on earth, we must now guard our defenses in space. The awakening realization of the enormity of -our destructive capabilities should certainly be. welcomed not only as a sign of hope but also as evidence that some people do care. It would be wrong to dismiss the growing efforts of the peace movement as a disruptive venture of just a few "nuts." . Today's peace initiative is not the rebellion of the late sixties. True, it has attracted- many of the controversial hasbeens who march to the sound of any dissident drum mer; but it also has a broad base of support from people concerned about their future and that of their children in nuclear combat. If the peace initiative of caring people is to have credibility, it must not become a mere political tool. It would be tragic (and there is evidence that the danger is real) if the peace movement became nothing more than a communist ploy. The track record of the Soviet Union's ability to subvert and take over such activities is well documented. At the same time, the American tendency to label socalled radical groups "red" or at least "pink" also has a long history. To support peace efforts and not be.come involved in partisan ideologies is like walking a tightrope over an active atomic proving ground. Yet the work for peace demands such a risk. Leadership should be developed strong enough to cope with the risks that so often weaken the best of men and women. Giving active service to the peace movement demands courage, forti~ude ,and endurance. But the reward will be great. Blessed are the peace makers. They shall be called sons and daughters of God.

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have fewer problems is untrue, Father Neudecker said. Country parish problems include large numbers of alienated Catholics who go unnoticed simply be cause of the lack of priests in rural areas. He estimated that the 228 families at Sacred Heart account for only half of the Catholics actually living in the parish, and that the 325 homes registered with St. Gregory are only a third of the Catholics there. Rur~1 areas -have many lonely and isolated people, and another problem is community decay, often caused by the trend to ward commuters living in the coun~:ry, Father Neudecker said. The church should develop theological concepts that reaf firm the value of rural life and indicate the interdependence be tween rural and urban areas, he said. That might throw a posi tive light on rural living and perhaps slow the migration of people from farms to the city. Father Neudecker said. He said he would like to see radio stations used for evan gelization in rural areas and for broadcasting programs on rural life. Radio could reach more people than seminars or work shops, he said. Father Neudecker s~id that if the church developed ~ducation al programs and theology re

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OPENING PRAYER Thank you, Jesus, for the mag nificent beauty of springtime. Thank you for new life every where, fresh, lush, and sweet smelling - a continual reminder of the Resurrection. Be with us this Family Night and bless us as we gather in your name. Amen.

TO THINK ABOUT Jesus was really the greatest storyteller of all times, and who among us' doesn't love a good story? Stories are not only en tertaining, but they can also teach us and provide so many opportunities for imagining and experiencing. Let's share with each other our favroite stories from the Bible and elsewhere.

ting in the middle of the circle giving hints and answering ques tions about his or her favorite story, until the story is guessed. The person who guesses it then takes a turn in the middle. You might want to draw a scene from the story before question ing begins.

Adult Families Choose your favorite parable to read and discuss. Parables are stories that Jesus told which have special messages for us. A few suggestions are: Parable of the Sower - Matthew 13:1·9; The Lost Sheep - Matthew 18: 10·14; The Unforgiving Servant - Matthew 18-21-35; Parable of the Wedding Feast - Matthew

ACTIVITY IDEAS Young and Middle Years Families Think about your favorite story of all time, biblical or other wise. Let each take a turn sit·

Having a Giving birth to a new book is a lot like having a baby - only longer. Every so often I meet someone who says that it must be nice to write books. Nice? I can think of a lot of words - lonely, frustrating, exhilarating, pressured - but nice is not among them. I like Winston Churchill's re marks on the subject: "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amuse ment. Then it becomes a mis tress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." . Well, this month I am flinging my longest and most ambitious book to the public: "Traits of the Healthy Family" (Winston Press; available from you Hocal book seller). Because my church fam ily experience played a role in the genesis of this book, I'd like to tell you a bit about its preg naocy. Traits began as a result of my work as a parent educator in our church. When I was working on the pastoral plan for families, I sensed the need for helping fami. lies recognize their strengths rather than always focusing on family needs and problems. I work with and hear from families who are all too aware of their weaknesses but don't recognize their competencies. Yet all fami lies have them. So I developed a survey in· strument of 56 traits commonly found in families and sent them to 500 professionals who work directly with families, inviting

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they consider healthy. Much 'to the astonishment of my husband, who went through the arduous task of getting a certain percent age of his surveys back for his doctoral dissertation, I got 551 returns three professional groups having used the survey for meeting material. Two facts surfaced immediate-· Iy - there was almost total agreement on the top 15 traits and they all had to do with reo lationships. Not chosen to any degree were income, education, rootedness, owning one's home, number of children, working pat terns of parents, or other struc tural traits by which we used to define a good family. That's an incredible switch in just 10 or 15 years. Those who work with families clearly told us that what goes on inside families is more important than their out side or billboard image. In order, traits chosen were: The healthy family 1) communi cates and listens; 2) affirms and supports; 3)' teaches respect for others; 4) trusts (Jile another, 5) has a sense of play and humor; 6) shares responsibility; 7) teaches a sense of right and wrong; 8) has a strong sense cd' family with many traditions; 9) has a balance of interaction among members; 10) has a shared religious core (not nec essarily shared denomination); 11) respects the privacy of one another; 12) values service to others; 13) fosters table time and conversation; 14) shares leisure time; and 1'5) admits problems and seeks help. Each has its own chapter in Traits (the chapter on

22:1-14; and Parable of the Ten Virgins - Matthew 25:1-13.

Is it possible that a lay person who desires to work closely with priests could be badly hurt in this working

SNACK TIME Sherbet in various flavors to create a springtime rainbow of colors and flavors.

ENTERTAINMENT Choose a story that everyone would enjoy and have a "Family Read-Aloud Time."

SHARING All share their insights into the meaning or message of their favorite story.

CLOSING PRAYER Dearest Lord, we are trying to grow by truly living the mys tery of your living, your dying, and your rising again. Help us to be kind and patient and gener ous to each other and to every one we meet along the way. We remember especially the sick and t11e lonely, and everyone who. is suffering in our world today. Amen.

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communication was excerpted in the March issue of McCall's Magazine.) I correct those who say that writing a book must be nice. Writing it isn't nice but having it written and delivered is very nice indeed!

relationship? During a recent national conference, I heard of such an experience. A lay person recalled the time he was asked to accept a posi tion as superintendent of Cath olic schools in his diocese. En thused by the opportunity, he accepted. A week later he was informed that the diocese pre ferred to put a priest in the position and that the offer was being withdrawn.· A year later, the same lay person was offered the job as superintendent again. He accept ed, but with a feeling that he was consi4ered second best as a lay person.' .. I\s I, listened, I wondered how many lay persons could tell simi· lar stories. A reflection on sem inary .training of the past seems to suggest there are other such stories' to be toid., For in the past, most semin aries removed young men from society almost entirely. You were fortunate to come home a few times a year. Courses were taught in Latin, and many theo logical arguments were a de fense of the faith against those outside the church. Daily life was more regimented than the Marines. The world the seminarian lived in was a world of theology and spiritual exercises which aimed to give spiritual service and change the secular world for the better. But it was a .world apart from the world of the laity. So, when I hear of a lay per son who has been hurt by being

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excluded from the church's inner circle, I wonder if that hurt is caused by a clash be· tween two different worlds of thinking. Priests have a way of spending time with priests. They reinforce each other in patterns learned in the seminary. Those traditions were not always con· ducive to becoming a co-worker of the laity. Times, however, are changing. The idea that priests are solely responsible for parish life has shifted to a greater sharing of responsibility. This new pattern translates into a closer working relationship of priests with laity. This is not to imply that these two worlds of priests and laity should become one. If they did, neither would have anything special to offer the other. What is important is for priests and laity to find ways to share their best with each other. If we are to avoid injury on both " sides in the future, there are some questions that need to be asked. For example, if there are priests who are insensitive to the world of the laity, is it possible thail the laity have not sensitized priests to that world? And, if lay persons sometimes feel hurt as they work with priests, could it be because some of us who are priests don't realize the powerful influelR:e our past formation had on us. The chance will iocrease for the laity to ma!<e a positive con tribution to the entire church, I believe, as priests discover more and more from the laity about their desire to be integral par ticipants in the church, and as priests ponder their own roots.

An Excellent Mother's Day Gift! Traits of a Healthy Family, by Dolores Curran "In my opinion, this book is 'must' reading for parents and for young people as well. Our surveys show that Americans assign the highest importance to a good family life, yet too ofte~ leav.e childrearing to chance. A few hours spent by parents readmg thlS book today could prevent countless hours of anger, anguish and frustrations in the years ahead. " George Gallup, Jr. The Gallup Poll To order your copy of Traits of a Healthy Family by Dolores Cur ran, please send $14.95 (includes postage and handling charge) to: THE ANCHOR P. O. Box 7 Fall River, MA 02722 Make checks payable to newspaper. PREPAID ORDERS ONLY

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fruitful. As Catholic educators, from page one help people \ develop fruitful and urging conventiongoers to lives." educate their students to re Father Nouwen called success ceive those gifts. a "conquering attitude" and Marriage, friendship, com warned against competitiveness munity are ways that love's re fracted and people can build a in education. A sense of com home together where the Lord munity is necessary for fecund ity, he said. . has built his, he continued. Ecstasy, "the life of joy," "That is intimacy . . . We ar,e means moving out of fixed anchored in' the house of the pla~e!l to new territory, he de ". Lord." clared. Fecundity is fruitfulness, "In this culture we are temp" Father Nouwen said, referring to ted by a fascination with death the Gospel passage on the vine , - the fixed place . . . We are and the branches. called to move ay.'ay from the "Fruitfulness is born out of static place, the seemingly 'safe' intimacy. "Fruitfulness is not place. We cling to what we have the same as successfulness," he because we do not know what said. "The world asks us to be we are going to get. Many peo successful, God asks us to be' ple prefer to be secure .and miserable than happy and inse cure," said, Father Nouwen. ,., , ~ Abigail McCarthy Addressing the NCEA Boards . of Education department, Abi gail McCarthy said that the ex . : The Post Office has increased from _ 13 to 25 cents its charge to THE_ perience of .Catholic schools , ANCHOR for notification of a sub-_ staffed entirely by lay teachers : scriber's change of address. Please: has led to a heightened sense of _ help us reduce this expense by noti-_ _ fying us immediately when you plan_ lay responsibility for those schools. , to move. . . : . PLEASE PRINT YOUR NEW : She cited a study which show , ADDRESS BELOW _ ed that a majority of lay teach . _ Name _ ers and parents disagreed with the statement that "priests and Religious have the greatest call Street Address : to holiness in the church." She noted too that "the. laity -A-Pt-.-#-,-C-It-y,-S-t-at-e----- : seem to be far more committed • to the schools thari the pastors. New Parish : "The commitment of the laity --------'-----, Date of Moving . . : to Catholic schools is a surprising development," she added, point And please attach your OLD ANCHOR: ing out that in the 1960s ADDRESS LABEl below so we can up-: "critics of Catholic schools said : the school had become the chief _ date your record Immediately. preoccupation of the clergy." . After tracing briefly the his : Paste Old Address Label Here : .tory of Catholic education in the United States, and of the laity's involvement in it, Mrs. : Clip this 'entlre form and mall to: : McCarthy said, "There is still : THE ANCHOR : a great deal of uncertainty , P.O. BOX 7 , about where lWthority lies, how : FALL RIVER, MASS. 02722 : free parents are to have input." THANK YOUI ' _ "A new bishop can change the whole situation," she said.

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Continued from page one corporates a background flame, representing Christ as the light of the world, a design taken from the South American Vin centian symbol thu,s expressing both the unity and international scope of the society. Also part of the logo is the Ozanam name repeated three times, larger each time, signifying continued growth of the Vincentian dream. "If there is a secret that ex plains Vincentian success over so many years, that secret is its reliance upon members and units at the grass roots level," say national officers. Accordingly, most sesquicentennial obser vance!'l will occur at the parish and diocesan level and diversity in activities is encouraged. General goals, however, hav.e been formulated and under takings 'are expected to have a religious component, "express ing public thanksgiving and love for God because of his providen tial goodness and support of the society during the past 150 years." Also stressed are heightened commitment to Christian person al service and outreach to po tential new members. Local Involvement Diocesan Vincentians need few lessons in Christian personal service. They demonstrated that last May, when their response to the disastrous Notre Dame fire in Fall River won international attention. . That response was also fea tured at last year's national Vin cEmtilin convention, held in Hy annis. Films, displays and in formal talks centered on the Vincentian role in relief efforts drew the attention of delegates

from all parts of the nation. That national attention has continued. Its latest evidence came last month when Raymond Pelletier, disaster .chairman for both the Fall River diocesan Vincentian council and the north east region of. the organization, was contacted by the Nickelo deon Toy Company of New York. The company,_ aware of both the general activity of Vincen tians and the work done' fol lowing the Notre Dame fire, selected the Fall River unit to distribute a large shipment of toys and sports equipment· to needy area. children. The pro gram was undertaken in ob-· servance of National Children's Educational Week. Among agencies ·sharing in the donation were St. Vincent's Home, Nazareth Hall, the Dea coness Home, Family Services, the Salvation Army and the Boys Club in Fall River; St. Mary's Home, New Bedford; Crystal Springs School, Assonet: and the Stevens Home, Swansea. Such activities as distributing toys or aiding in resettling 76 homeless families, as in the aftermath of the Notre Dame fire, are a bit out of the ordin ary for Vincentians. But not the least out of the ordinary is the Vincentian spirit, which not only copes with the unusual but carries on, week in and week out, the less-heralded basic Vin centian task of helping hurting people.

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Dear Editor: I'd like to commend Thomas P. McDonnell for his excellent article, "Porn Shop a Symptom" (Anchor, March 25). He leaves one very little to add, since he says it all. Yes indeed, where are our values gone and what is happening to this nation's chil dren? We are demanding purity in our food, the air we breathe, in the waters we swim in and drink, yet the society in which we live scoffs at the pure young girl and boy and makes their Uves miserable. They have told me so. Have we completely crowded out decency and purity so that our youth no longer reach for that level? Do we look askance at those who do? Schoolteachers have told me they are ready to throw in the towel - that they have had it! Even those who run nursery schools are shocked by what they hear from the mouth of four year-olds. We talk about crimes: what is worse than stripping away innocence from a child? What did Jesus tell us about the fate of those who would? At a recent Bible study group those present said the problem is so overwhelming they don't know where to begin. When children are undermined then evil has ind~d done its nefarious work. Society has allowed it to happen before its very eyes. Cecilia Belanger N. Vassalboro, ME

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., April 8, 1983

New code provides

for· papal retirement

By NC News Service

monk who found himself incap able of dealing with the com plexities of the papacy and re signed barely five months after he was elected in li294. Celestine was elected pope on July 5, ordained a bishop on Aug. 27, and crowned pope on Aug. 29. On Dec. 10 he issued a con stitution declaring a pope's right to resign, and three days later he resigned. St. Celestine had a great repu tation for holiness but that holi ness was not matched by legisla tive acumen. His decrees were so confusing and at times contra dictory that his successor, Pope Boniface VIII - possibly at Celestine's own request - re voked all privileges granted by Celestine and ordered that all papal biBs issued by him be reo turned to Rome for reexamina tion. The language of the new law, stating that a pope's resignation must be freely given and need not be accepted by someone for its validity, affirms that no other authority has power either to force or prevent a papal resigna tion. The law contains no provisions regarding age. But as the church grows accustomed to priests and bishops retiring for reasons of age or health, future Catholics could become equally accustom ed to papal retirement for those same reaS0ns.

The new Code of Canon Law carries the church's first clear legal provision for It pope to step down from the papacy. Canon 332, paragraph 2, of the new code says, "Should it happen that the Roman pontiff resign his office, for validity it is required that the resignation be freely made and duly mani fested, but not that it be accept ed by someone" (unoffcial trans lation). While the right of a pope to resign has been generally ac cepted in church thinking and has a historical precedent, the new code marks the first time in modern history that it is spelled out in general church law. After Pope Paul VI instituted retirement rules for bishops and cardinals, including exclusion of cardinals over 80 from attending conclaves or holding curia posi tions at the Vatican, there was wide speculation that Pope Paul would himself retire when he reached' his 80th birthday. 'A lot of pOIson IS legal' He made no specific legislation to govern a papal retirement, however, and on Aug. 6, 1978, and I would be pleased to see Sharing our thoughts with one more than 10 months after his 80th birthday, he left office another it in your paper. I am a sopho A close group like sister and through death - as virtually all more at the area high school. popes in history had done. brother. I have been in this group for The most notable exception a little over a year and am When I'm in this group I'm was Pope St. Celestine V, a pleased with what I have found never bored. We help each other through guileless Benedictine hermit in this group already. I hope the Lord. that others can see what good a group can do. Every time we're at our peak, TRE is the only one of its We always find what we kind in the area, as we found seek. out this past summer when we A symbol of Faith and Love attended a retreat in Paxton. Dear Editor: "110M( 1IAm&

That helps us to believe in Christina Kosinski COUIICIl HEMlII"

On May 2 and 3 the U.S. the Lord, above. Attleboro Catholic bishops will meet to Thank you Anne and Jim and FOf 'italIAn 24 Ho~' S,,"',c. finalize a pastoral letter on war Chorles Velolo, Pres, 2·WAY RADIO the rest of TRE ALL FRIENDS .IN TRE and peace.... You have given me the I urge readers to contact their Teen Religious Experience or strength to believe! bishop in support of a strong TRE This is what it means to me pastoral concerning this nu Fadeless Ught clear arms race which truly A symbol of Faith and Love, An example set by the Lord threatens the future existence "0 God, our Father, we come above. of mankind. to you at the close of day, for Individuals interested in more It's a group of united Catholic you are the light that never OfRCI U OAItGlOVl AVI.• fAll IWII information may write to Holy teens fades." - Roman Breviary Experiencing our lives to Family Peace Center, 584 W. gether or so it seems. Broad St., Columbus, Ohio 43215, telephone 614-221-2513. But that's not all we doWe pray together, me and James G. Borden you. New Bedford My friends in this group have helped me this year. When I couldn't make the outings they showed their Dear Editor: care. I belong to a group at St. Mark's in Attleboro Falls called I lost my faith in God one day, That is when I ran away. TRE. This church-oriented group I left my problems all behind is for who have been confirmed, I thought how the world but wish to keep up their reli seemed so unkind. gion more than by just going to At this time I 'felt all alone, church. I was crying and hungry TRE stands for Teen Religious Experience. In this group, we and cold to the bone. place more importance on reli I called one of my friends gion than we do on activities. from TRE We have retreats every once in We talked and she helped a while, we have fund raisers me to see for variQus trips, we have a What the Lord had in store few social functions and many me. for times we all go to church and Teen Religious Experience or then go ~o the CCD for pizza. The reason I am explaining TRE Through them I found a better this group is because 'I have en me. closed a poem about the group

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The Bible is also 'literature

By Darren Turner

Religious News Service

You don't have to be a be liever to read and enjoy the Bible. Although the scriptures are primarily a work of religious doc trine, they also provide examples of almost every form of literature known in the Western world. Even fundamentalists who in sist that they take the Bible '''lit erally" admit that the literary type of a particular passage must be taken into account in inter preting it. The Psalms are not treated in the same way as the historical books, gospels or epistles. Preachers often use literary techniques in interpreting the parables of Jesus. The Bible has always been a favorite topic of H,terary criticism both in its own right and because the world's great literature has drawn heavily on biblical themes. In recent years, it has become a theme in major works by such respected scholars as Frank Ker mode, Robert Alter, and North rop Frye. Hillel Halkin, an Israeli author and critic, wrote i~ Commentary ruling of ~O years ago that out

magazine last September that lawed the use of 'the Bible 'and

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in vogue these days, so'much 5,0 public schools, the U.S. Supreme

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pouring of it, one might almost academic study of the scriptures.

"It certainly may be said that believe that the text of Scripture had been recently found in a the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic quali cellar' . . . and were being de ties," -Justice Tom Clam wrote ciphered for the first time." As the United States observes for the majority in the Schempp v. Murray decision. "Nothing we the "Year of the Bible" in re have said here indicates that sponse to President Reagan's pro clamation, the Bible is getting such study of the Bible or of new attention as a focus for religio'n, when presented objec academic studies without tively as part of a secular pro violating church-state' separa gram of education, may not be tion. effected consistent.1Y with the' Qbservers often overlook the First Amendment," The National Council on Reli fact that in its controversial

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gion and Public Education, Prof. Frye's recent book, "The based at the University of Kan 'Great Code: The' Bible and litera sa~ at Lawrence, has encouraged ture" (Harcourt, Brace Jovano teaching about the Bible in pub 'vich, 1982), has drawn a good lic ,schools. Such institutions of deal of attention both because of higher education as the Univer his stature in the world of litera sity) of Indiana at Bloomington ture and because of the work's have annual teacher-training attempt to survey the entire programs to help educators learn Bible, as opposed to particular books or passages. how to apply techniques of bibli cal scholarship in their English The University of Toronto professor notes that the Bible classes. The lith annual Con ference on Christianity and has been a theme in all his ma Literature, to be held this year jor works of criticism and that at Northwestern College in his latest book. is the first of Orange City, Iowa, April 21-23, ·what are intended as two vol will have sessions on such topics 'umes on the subject. "The Great as "The Bible and Literature," Code" examines seven phases of and "Northrop Frye and His the literature of the Bible creation, exodus, law, wisdom, Great Code." prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse, with two forms of apocalyptic HOL Y FAMIL Y vision postulated. Another recent work on the RfLIGIOUS " literature of the Bible was writ G~FT STORE ten by a novelist. Dan Jacobson's book, "The Story of the Stories: 1223 STATE ROAD The Chosen People and its God," WESTPORT MA (Harper & Row, 1982), examines Located near Llneoln Park how the Bible tells 'of the rela ,'.': . Full L1nl Rlllgious tionship between the people of " I Gift Shop Israel and their God. The author t,:"'" TEL 636·8482 finds a pattern which "has seen I~\ ,, OPEN MON•• SAT. 9,30 A.M. ·.,00 P.M. the people move from a condi IFRIDAY 1:00 P.M. tion of homeless nomadism to possession of the land; from possession of ,the land to dis possession of it; from dispos session to exile; from exile to the hope or vision, at least, of re-entry and true repossession." Sale! And Service Critic Robert Alter, in his book, "The Art of Biblical Nar Fall River's Largest rative" '(Basic Books, 1981), threats the narrative sections of Display of TVs

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. Prof. Alter, who teaches at the University of California, Berke ley, writes that in biblical narra tive, "character is revealed prim arily through speech, action, gesture, with all the ambiguities that entails; motive is frequently though not invariably left in a penumbra of doubt; often we are able to draw plausible inferences about the personages and their destinies, but much remains a matter of conjecture or even of teasing multiple possibilities." Here lies the worth of the Bible even, and perhaps especi ally, for the non-believer. Mr. Jacobson points out that "one does not have to believe in the literal veracity of these books, or even hold some more elaborate theory about their divine pro venance, as most modem biblical scholars appear to do, in order to perceive these patterns, or to write about them." Prof. Hyam Maccoby, who teaches at the Leo Baeck College in London, wrote in Commentary magazine in April 1980 that in approaching the ,Bible as litera ture, "the whole question of find ing historical truth is bypassed. The critic can take an entirely fresh look at the text, and can deal with obscurities or appar ent contradictions just as he would in studying a play by Shakespeare or a novel by Henry James." At the same time, Prof. Mac coby notes that the contexts in which the different parts of the Bible were written must also be taken into account in their liter ary study, as would be the case in studying Shakespeare's his torical plays. "The study of the Gospels as pure literature is certainly an interesting and worthwhile acti vity," Prof. Maccoby says. "But it should not be forgotten that the Gospels were not written as pure literature. Any work that has an extra-literary aim in view, such as propagation of a political or religious standpoint, cannot be assessed without asking what the author is trying to prove and what we as readers and moral be ings, think of the attitude that the author is so passionately try ing to persuade us to adopt." Thayer S. Warshaw, 'a special ist in the use of the Bible in pub lic-school classes and author of "Handbook for Teaching the Bible in English Classes" (Abing don, 1978), says that "the Bible is indeed a religious book. The study of (the Bible as) -literature is primarily interested in how artistic expression reinforces the religious ideas being expressed." Study of the Bible as literature 'is a field that offers infinite variety. As Mr. Halkin writes, " . . . an army of academicians has marched off into its pages c:; (0 hunt for synechdoches and metonymies, track down meta phors and images, discover hid den ironies and tensions, and un earth realities-behind-appear ances and appearances-behind realities that would do a T. S. Eliot poem or an E. M. Forster novel proud," And what is the rejiult of all this? Perhaps Prof. Frye has the -last word on the subject. In the introduction to ,"The Great Code," he comments that "ulti mately, as we should expect, the Bible evades all literary criteria."

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., April 8, 1983

Bringing message sooner

"The more we go, the more we see that it is too late for most people," says Sister Lu cille Levasseur, director of the diocesan Natural Family Plan ning program. She has found that presenta tions to pre-Cana couples and high school seniors on the Nat ural Family Planning method of spacing pregnancies come after the fact in many cases. "There are stories galore about pregnancies and contraceptives among our youth," she laments. She cites cases of pregnant II year-aids, of sophomores rou tinely fitted with IUDs, of a high school junior whose mother in sisted on a led and c" on the mere suspicion that the girl might be pregnant. High school seniors, says Sis ter Lucille, casually admit hav ing sex two or three times weekly. Faced with these facts, she and trained volunteers are offer ing a "fertility awareness pro gram" geared to the junior high school level. With the coopera tion of Sister 'Theresa Bisson, OP, principal, it was offered

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Nurs'ing home vs. real' home give patients good professional care, as you do. I even love my Dear Dr. Kenny: In your arti .patients. Nevertheless, I am cle on altematives to nursing aware I behave differently with homes you state, "Institutions my wife and children. are considerably handicapped in Families provide a very differ providing' personal and loving ent atmosphere from institutions. care." Excellent professional care is not We have a fulltlme in-house the equivalent of love. We ad social service worker whose pri dress this issue at length in our mary responsibUity is attending book, "Making the Family to the social needs and problems Matter" (St. Anthony Messenger of patienu. We also have a re Press). . creational therapy department Families are more personal. I that provides meaningful activi take care of you because you are ties. More important, our entire my son or my brother, not bestaff is trained to be sensitive cause you pay me. and atteliltive to our patients' Families are more physi~al. Resocial and emotion8l needs. search shows that there JS more We monitor this closely and touc~ing: mo~. hugging, more provide in-service training to our holdmg m famlhes. . staff on patients' rights and dig Family relatio~ships tend to be nity. If we are unable to resolve mutual and rec~procal. My 87a patient's problem, we seek the ,year-old. father-m-law s.ets,the assistance- of the patient's fam table mghtly, tells stones and Uy, clergy, friends or other rela bUy~ fried chicken on Sundays. tive. ~e IS ~ot only cared ~or, but he We also have contracted with gives m ~eturn. Nu.rsmg homes a company to provide psycho a~d hospltal~ provld~ on~-~ay logical serVices. to patients when care. Rarely IS th~ pa~lent an Imneeded and approved by ·the p~ portant and contnbutmg member of the institution. tient's attending physician. . Families are smailer than inWe: have three shifts ,of per stitutions, allowing them to be' sonnel, not five as you state. I have b~en a .nursing home more flexible about such things administrator for eight- years. I as meal~imes, trips out, bedtimes. feel that your article gave seri- . Schedules and routines can give ous f8.tseiImpressions. (pa.) way to personal wishes and Thank you for responding to changing conditions. Families have no middle manour column. It soupds as though you have a fine institution. agement. Buck·passing and reporting are minimal. Primary reI have been a clinical psycholo gist for more than 20 years. I sponsibility and decision making

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"He was shouted down with . Marcos of arrogantly using / cries like, 'But this is a project In his speech he noted that power to serve its own purposes, of the First Lady,' 'That would while the government is allow .including sponsorship of a film be subversive,' or 'We will all festival featuring what he called get into trouble,''' the cardinal ing these uncensored films to play, Marcos on Feb. 1 an· "pornographic movies." said. In a prepared speech for a He said that if such material nounced a new -law toughening meeting of executives he also' as the festival films did not dis-' government censorship 'practices. said Marcos has_ stifled dissent gust people, "there is definitely Regardless of how such actions so that a climate of fear per something wrong with us, for may be explained, "there is a dis vades the .nation, reaching even this means that. we have been maying demonstration of tIN! dehumanized, that we are no arrogance of power," he added. into Catholic institutions. "It is clear," he said, "that better than the pigs that wallow . there is a climate of fear per in filth an,d gobble up the gar vading our country. The people bage." now prefer to 'think no evil, see Mrs. Marcos had said earlier ROME (NC) Msgr. Alvaro del at a press conference that "porn no evil and hear no evil.' " Portillo, President general of . He asked rhetorically whether ography i!; in the mind" and that Opus dei, has been officially in the fear had been brought about "I am sorry that cheap porn vested as head of that group with by such actions as the closing' of ography has affected some very its new status as a personal pre fragile senses, but this is part of lature. The papal nuncio to Italy, an opposition newspaper, ques tioning of journaiists and a growing up." She said that even Archbishop Romolo Carboni, was "systematic campaign to dis the Vatican has nudes in Sistine the pope's delegate to the cere· credit the church over the issue Chapel paintings and that "porn mony. As a personal prelature. of -rebel priests." ography is not in sight or in Opus Dei will be guided by the "Whatever the cause may be," vision. Pornography is in mind prelate in matters of formation he concluded, "the fact remains or heart." , and choice of apostolate but will "I never argue with the remain under direction of local that the spirit of dissent - even peaceful . dissent - has effec church," she said. "I never ar 'bishops in other activities. "Opus tively been stifled. Is it possible gue with God." She s_aid the Dei" is Latin for "Wor~ of God." that we are becoming a nation festival proceeds are going to il'he group, with mem1)ership of of sheep?" charity. 70,000 lay persons ,.nd 1,500 He said that at a recent meet Cardinal Sin. said that "to suit priests worldwide, hits as its ing of a -Catholic organization, its own ends, the government goal the Christianizatipn of so will not hesitate to use power in ciety through members who which he did not name, some one suggested passing a resolu a capricious and arrogant man deepen their spiritual lives while tion condemning the presen~ ner, to treat 'people Iike idiots remaining in their vRrious occu tion of sex-oriented, uncensored and expect to get away with it.~' pations.

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Marketplace. factors seen nuclear use determiner By Tracy Early

NEW YORK mC) - A major ity of participants in a recent nuclear energy symposium held under Jesuit auspices agreed that marketplace considerations should govern United States policy in the area. However, there was disagree ment over whether current econ omic indicators were favorable or unfavorable to expanded reli ance on nuclear power. The symposium, held at the Jesuits' America House, was the third in a series sponsored by the LaFarge Institute with funding by the Committee for Energy Awareness, an Industry group working for public acceptance of nuclear energy. . Ethics professor Frederick Car ney of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas presented the more pro-nuclear position. He said electrical energy needs in the U.S. would likely increase significantly in the coming years, and presented figures indicating that nuclear power generated cheaper electricity than did oil or coal. The position questioning reli ance on nuclear power was pre sented by Director Jim Harding of the International Project for Salt Energy Paths, a project of the Friends of the Earth Founda tion in San Francisco. He pre dicted that increasing efficiency and conservation would cause U.S. needs for electrical power would stay at current levels or decline, and he advocated greater use of solar, wind and water power. Harding said that developing greater energy efficiency in lighting, refrigeration, heating and other areas was much cheaper than generating more electricity. He also indicated that although energy from existing nuclear plants, was cheap, build ing a nuclear plant now would be so costly as to make its out put more expensive than elect tricity produced by alternative methods. In an assessment of the papers presented by Carney and Hard ing, Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, associate editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, called for ac tions such as deregulation of natural gas and ending govern ment subsidies in all energy fields in order to "improve the working of the market place as a system to provide us with in formation about the demand and cost of energy." J.J. Barry, an official of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said mem bers of his union favored nuclear power and did not consider it un safe. "We are concerned about industries leaving the Northeast· because of excessive costs of generati~g power," he said. Givinl$ a more personal view of the ~'1Uclear power question was Msgr. George Lentocha, pas tor of t~e Church of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary il'\ Middletown, Pa. His rectory ill about a mile from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant

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that had the accident in 1979, he said, and many of his parishiQn ers worked there. He described the panic on the day of the accident, but said life returned to normal in about three weeks and that residents are ready to see the plant started up again. Harding said the Three Mile Island plant came within 45 min utes of a meltdown that a Sandia laboratories study found could have caused as many as 56,000 deaths, 90,000 injuries and $100 billion in property damage. . PATRICK F. SCANLAN, Carney responded that al 88, managing editor from though such a result was possi 1917 to 1968 of The Tablet, ble, it was not inevitable. In any newspaper of the Brook case, he said, the potential dan ger from a nuclear plant must be lyn, N.Y., Diocese, died balanced against factors such as March 27 after a long ill deaths from coal mining and ness. Scanlan was a past health damage from burning of president of the Catholic coal. Press Association. In 1967 He added that the media dis he received a special cita torted the nuclear power issue, tion from the association on failing to inform the public that the scientific community gener completion of 50 years of ally supports nuclear power. "distinguished s e r vic e." Harding denied that the scienti Pope Pius XII named him a fic community as such had a Knight of Sl Gregory in position on nuclear power. 1944 and during the 1950 "Weapons proliferation is very Holy Year granted him a much linked to the future of nu private audience. clear energy production," Hard ing said. "Taiwan, South Korea, Argentina, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Brazil arid South Africa have all pursued a nuclear weapons option under the ambi guous cloak of a peaceful nuclear power program ... A nuclear in dustry committed to saving itseif through the sale of ambiguous nuclear products abroad will add to the likelihood of a global nu clear war." Carney responded that any assistance to industrial develop ment of a Third World country could contribute to its warmak ing potential, and that in any event nuclear plants producing FATHER GERALD electricity were not used for pro- . duction of weapons-grade fuel. BEIRNE, pastor of St. Rita's

Bp. to 'Thailand PROVIDENCE, R.I. (NC) Bishop Louis E. Gelineau, of Providence, whose diocese holds the second largest concentration of Cambodian refugees in the United States, will visit Thai land in June to examine the plight of Cambodian refugees in holding camps there. In a re lated action, the bishop is to join a Buddhist monk today in leading a Christian-Buddhist prayer vigil for Cambodians, both living an4 dead. The Luth eran Services Association of New England is arranging the Thailand trip, which may. in clude other Catholic bishops, as yet not named. There are also plans for a trip this month of clergy and laity. There are some 3,000 Cambodians in Providence.

Losing To Gain "Unless the shape of his man hood be withdrawn from our bodily eyes, the love of his God head may not fasten in our spirit ual .eyes." - The Epistle of Privy Counsel

parish, Warwick, is the au thor of the book he's hold ing, "New England Sports Trivia." He describes it as a "175-page tribute to the peo ple and achievements of sports in New England." It includes facts about native New Englanders who gain ed fame elsewhere in the na tion and non-New England ers who contributed to area athletics. Trivia fans, it's for you!

Fetal surgery OK VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has praised prenatal diagnosis and early surgical treatment of congenital defects but warned that such diagnosis must not lead to abortion. The pontiff spoke at a Vatican audi ence with some 700 doctors at tending a conference on prenatal diagnosis sponsored by the Cath olic University of Rome, Pope John Paul told the doctors.

Continued ~rom page one But in an entirely new ad weapons systems, the third dendum to the "first use" sec draft simply urges negotiations tion, the third. draft recognizes to curb such testing and deploy "the responsibility the United ment. States has had and continues to - The section condemning all have to protect allied nations first use of nuclear weapons is from either a conventional or a amended to include recognition nuclear attack." of the role that NATOs "flexible Noting that NATO's refusal response" doctrine has played in to renounce first use of nuclear deterring Soviet aggression in weapons has enhanced its de· Western Europe. But the draft terrenee against conventional also urges that flexible response attack, the bishops nonetheless - the policy that permits first "support NATO's moving rapid use of nuclear weapons if ly toward the adoption of a "no NATO forces seem in danger of first use" policy but doing so in losing a ~onventional war tandem with development of an be replaced quickly with an ade adequate alternative defense quate non-nuclear altentatipe. posture." - Portions of the second As for the nuclear freeze, the draft's section on deterrence are backing away in the third draft rewritten in response to com comes in a siE!parate section on ments by several bishops that "specific steps to reduce the the section was the pastoral's danger of war." The new word most crucial and needed to be ing urges immediate agreements strengthened. But the revised to "curb the testing, production discussion leads to many of the and development of new nuclear same conclusions, including a weapons systems. Not only "conditional acceptance" of de should steps be taken to end terrence. as a policy for prevent development and deployment ing nuclear war. progressively, but the numbers - A 2,200·word "precis" of existing weapons must be re summarizing the points made in duced in a manner which les the third draft is included at the sens the danger of war." At the same time though the beginning of the pastoral in re sponse to arguments that many third draft says that "the urgent will not read the entire pastor need for control of the arms race requires a willingness for al because of its length. each side to take some first - Sections on the just war steps, that is, some independent and non-violence traditions in initiatives." the church are expanded, along Other elements of the new with a separate expansion of the pastoral include: draft section devoted to bilical views A repeat of the second on war and peace. draft's link oil abortion and - A new discussion of the peace as issues involving "rev various levels of moral author erence for life." ity with which the bishops speak - Several revisions in a con is included, again because of cluding section of messages to criticism that the pastoral did individual Catholics, such as not make clear that some of its those in the military or defense arguments are morally binding industry. The draft tells Cath and some are open to debate. olics in the military that the The third draft, written by a bishops recognize the demanding committee of five bishops head moral standarcts they follow and ed by Cardinal Joseph L. Ber remarks that the pastoral letter nardin of Chicago, was released is not intended to "create probe a little more than two months lems" for them. It tells catholics after Cardinal Bernardin and in defense industries that the other representatives or the U.S. bishops "do not presume or pre bishops met at the Vatican to tend that clear answers exist to .discuss the pastoral with Car many of the personal and pro dinal Agostino Casaroli, papal fessional choices facing you." secretary of state, and with - An endorsement of pro representatives of the European posals to establish a United bishops. States Academy of Peace to On deterrence - the con provide a center for peace stud cept that stockpiling arms will ies and activities. deter the enemy from attacking - the new draft argues for a "strictly conditioned moral ac ceptance" of the principle, but WASHINGTON (NC) A quickly adds that deterrence is committee of the U.S. bishops' not adequate as a long-term organization has published "A basis for peace and says there Reflection Guide on Human Sex must be "continual public scu uality and the' Ordained Priest· tiny" of deterrence polices. The hood," a booklet to help priests draft attempts to relate Pope deal with questions of sexuality. John Paul's general views on The bishops' Committee on deterrence to specific U.S. Priestly Life and Ministry pub polices. lished the 59-page bOoklet, which The discussion of first use of includes chapters on loneliness, nuclear weapons continues to self-esteem and celibate sexual oppose initiation of nuclear war ity. The chairman of the com ,on any scale. mittee, Bishop Michael Murphy "Because of the trouble ef of Erie, Pa., said the guide is fects, the deliberate initiation meant to be "an ipstrument of nuclear war,' in our judgment, which might help priests deal would be an unjustified moral with some real tensions and risk," according to the new difficult situations in a fraternal forum." draft.

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Mystery By Cecilia Belanger

We are born out of one mys tery and die into another. We stand on the mystery of an un supported world, looking up in to millions of other mysteries in the night sky. It is good to be sure of more than we can see and to be thank· . ful for more than we can com· . prehend. Let us welcome spirit ual vision and let the interpreta· tion come when it will - very likely it will come when we live up to it. . And God grant that we be there for those .in the land of the unbeliever who want to be lieve but cannot. They are not deserted. .TransfigQration can take place in ~ aJ:lyone as a new being emerges. :Heaven;!; door is' not closed. There is a Way!, It is spiritual communion with' Christ that lifts us to the moun tain tops, that 'opens glimpses of another world, assuring us. of re lationships greater than. allY on' earth. Why do we. complicate what Chrjst did, n.bt wi$,ti~, to' be, compli~ated? "No wonder -peo ple are turned away an,d, feel. '\\ ' they. cannot be. saved! ., .. . Yet as long we try ,to walk' steadily, with-confidence in· the truth of Christ's words, we shall make it.. In his' hand -there is safety; at his feet, there is learn ing; at his side there is fellow ship; on his shoulder there is power; and in his! aims there is. rest. , In all of our sorrows, when some of our heart's best treas ures have bee'n laid to rest, he was with us, helping us bear our griefs because he knows them all. '

Jesuit observatory reopens in China VATICAN CITY (NC) - One of Peking's oldest· monuments, the astronomical ,observatory once operated by the Jesuits, has been reopened to the public after four years of restoration work. The observatory, constructed in 1296 on the orders of Chinese Emperor Kubla Khan and re built in 1'522, was entrusted to the Jesuits after the arrival in China of a Jesuit missionary, Father Matteo Ricci, in 1583. Torrential rains severely dam ligedthe building in 1979, ' necessitating the restoration work. .

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PATERSON, N.J. (NC) - The Paterson Diocese has announced a new policy on confirmation which recommends that those receiving the sacrament be high school sophomores or juniors. The policy also calls for each candidate to have both a spon sor and a godp!lrent., The policy states that "a well disposed baptized Catholic, who is appropriateiy prepared, ac-, cording to age and condition, has the right to receive the sacrament of confirmation." The policy recommends that candidates be in high school, "unless pastoral reasons and in dividual cases indicate' other wise," and that the actual time of receiving the s~crament be determined by the candidate's readiness al).d' that of ~he parish c'ommunity.. Msgr. Ro.naJd Amandolare, ex e¢utive secJ.:etary of the diocesan secretariat, said some parishes in the diocese have already had per mission to delay the confirma tion' date for 'young people and 'r have found delay very effective." " Ainimdolare said, "the candidates SANTA· ROSA,Calif. (NC) ::,:. attend'daily lectures on Marxism fro~' his mother, brother 'or ~is have: been more aware of what anCl was' then' ordered to teach' tets. ,,' Chinese priests' 'diiagr,ee 'ahout the sacrament means and better whether it would have' b'een Marxism in the schdOl and to He'r~~ent1y obtained ~ pass atile to understand that what better to set up a church-in-ex award a red scarf to children port from another country, pack they are d'oing' is making for ile after the communist take ed 500 hosts, a dozen Bibles, and themselves 'the choices that were' who passed the tests. The apos over of China or to remain and tolic internuncio to China, Arch assorted medals and rosaries made for them by their sponsors suffer with, the people, as many bishop Riberi,- before going into and returned to China. in' baptism: These are young :. priests did; Bishop Mark ~. :Hur~ exile,' had advised priests not to people who are already making l!'!y of S~nta Rosa said; .;'," . assist at'the red scarf cer.emony·· ,His plane landed at Peking at college and career choices for and Father Chew followed that 4' a.m. when 1).0 customs officials . . .'. . . J3ishop Hurleyyi~ited China advice. were on' duty. The' bus to' his themselves and have reached a recently; 'interviewing' fou'r Chin "Promptly he was arrested, the native town was ,delay?d by a level of maturity usually quite a eseprfests, thr~e ,of whom spent school closed, confiscated and breakdown and the. police were bit beyond that of sixth, seventh or eighth graders." more than 20,years each in com ~ot at the depot when he ar turned into a Marxist study ceo. Msgr. Amandolare, who pion lJlunist jails there, and one of ter and exhibition hall," Bishop rived. eered the introduction of the whom has lived in. exile for abolit Hurley said. "Denounced as an Once at home, he learned that 30 years.. restored Rite of Christian Initia 'imperialist running dog,' he was his mother had died three years , tion for Adults in the diocese, Chairman of the U.S; bishops' confined to a cell eight by three before. said confirmation preparation Committee on Social Develop and a' half feet in the county Remaining almost three weeks, under the new policy will follow ment and World Peace, he jail for four months.", he distributed his religious goods some of the steps ot' that rite, visited China after attending a Bishop Hurley said the priest a~d celebrated Mass, usu~lly at Sri Lanka conference on social was taken to a larger jail and mght. He fou~d th.a~ hiS 500 such as acceptance as candidates, action held by,the Asian Bishops' brainwashed . in an atempt to hosts were. msufflclent and the preparation process and then acceptance for the sacrament. Conference. b~oke the~ mto as many as persuade him to join the govern Taken in part from the adult "Father Aloysius' Chew, a , ment-sponsored Patriotic Cath el?ht partlcl.es each. The Cath initiation rite, he said, is the new ' pseudonym, spent over 20 years olic Church and repudiate aIle olic popul,a~lon had more .t~an policy's requirement of sponsors do~bled,. With parents baptlzmg and godparents for the candi in, communist 'jails," Bishop giance to the pope. their children and converts be . Hurley said in the Redwood Cro~ dates. The sponsor, to be chosen 65 ap ing baptized also. Three'years later, after zier, Santa Rosa diocesan news by the parish, will be responsible pearances before judges, he, was paper. "He said that the Catholic sen,tenced to death. But the sen Father Ng said, Bishop Hurley fqr no more than 12 candidates, Church was unprepared for the tence was suspended and later reported, that "the Patriotic whom he will accompany through Red persecution and. it would commuted to life imprisonment. Church of China, with its Latin the preparation process. Each have been better had .the priests IIi· 1978, when Chinese com candidate wiU choose a godpar Mass and old-fashioned 'sand fled the country 'and formed a munist leader Mao Tse-ITung .wich board' vestments, fools no ent who will be responsible for church-in-exile as the· English died, Father Chew's sentence one, least of all the laity." the candidate before and after did at Douai, France, during the "One. layman, who spent 23 administration of ·the sacrament. was reduced to eight years and times of Henry. VIII and Eliza Msgr. Amandolare praised the years in prison;" the bishop said, beth." Father' Chew said too several months ago he was re new policy for involving parents leased. "summed up the current stance and the whole parish community. many priests were lost to pris "He. believes," Bishop Hurley of the Red Chinese government: For some parents who may have ons and executions. , said, "it would have been better 'Human rights and dignity, free Born of an old Catholic family, if the priests, brothers and sis~ dom of, conscience and moral been inactive in the church for Father Chew remained at his ters ,had gone into exile and values ceased to exist in principle a ·long time, the experience is an opportunity for a renewa'l of parish after the commlinist take worked their'way back,to China and in practice from the ,very be faith, he said. over. "Almost immediately plain ginning of the communist take year by year as ,history unfold He acknowledged the possible clothes agents took to ,monitor ed." But the bishop said Father over and not simply during the risk involved in the later time ing all his sermons, to entering Stephen Ng, also a pseudonym, Cultural Revolution and the rule the rectory at any hour," the who has spent more than 25 of the 'Gang of Four, which was for confirmation and in the right of -choice given to qmdidates bishop said. "By 1951 he was years in exile, takes a contrary simply a more extreme and fan who may never seek tlte sacra publicly denounced as a land vilew. "Those heroic priests," atical expression of the party ment. But, he said, his e:l'perience owner, the parish site measur Father Ng said, "have done more ideology.' " has shown that "we dOQ't always .ing slightly under two acres. The layman said that "political lose them." for the faith than we who left, "Then public Mass' was re for 'the blood ,of martyrs is still and economic expediency may stricted to the feast of the As the' seed of the faith.' " One Thing lead to a 'more -liberal' and 'open' , sumption and Christmas. He con "Man must always do one Father Ng, Bishop Hurley said" policy, but at the same time tens tinut:d private Masses in homes. fled his hometown about 30 'of thousands' of Catholics and thing, he cannot do them all. He other prisoners of conscience live must always be one thing and in "It was control, then restrict years ago and left his family be and finally destroy," Bishop hind. In the interviewing time' he and die in prison camps in every that one find all." - Meister Eckhart of China." Hurley said. Father Chew had to never had any communication province . " " ' . " , . . .... -.. .. : .

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By Jerry Filteau WASHINGTON (NC) - Imag ine for a moment 200 million Americans prepared to make it impossible for Moscow to con quer or rule them - not by nu clear counterattacks or bloody trench warfare that leaves tens of millions dead on each side, but through non-violent resist ance. One of the distinctive features of the third draft of the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter on war and peace, released April 6, is its appeal for such an alternative as part of national policy. 'IBefore the possibility (of non-violent resistance) is dis missed as impractical or unreal istic, we urged that it be meas ured against the almost certain effects of a major war," the draft says. "Citizens would be trained ·in the techniques of peaceable non compliance and non-cooperation as a means of 'hindering an in· vading force or non-democratic government from imposing its wlIl," it says. Among examples of non-vio lent resistance cited by the draft are the refusal of Norwegians under Nazi occupation to teach Nazi propaganda in the schools, the refusal of Danes to turn Jews over to the Nazis, and the ex amples in the United States of Catholic pacifist Dorothy Day and the murdered black civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King. The third war and peace draft - which the U.S. bishops are to debate and probably vote on at a special national meeting called for that purpose May 2.3 makes a stronger case for non violence, both theoretically and practically, than did the two earlier drafts. 'Where the second draft sug gested by lts structure and lan guage that pacifism and the just war theory are two parallel op tions, the third draft suggests that the tradition of non·violent response is not simply parallel to the just war theory but an integral part of that theory when it is considered in all Its dimen sions.

The shift is subtle but impor tant. Among its most signifi cant implications is that a com prehensive view of the just war theory in the nuclear age may require a national policy that prepares for the possibility of non-violent as well as violent defense. In the third draft this argu ment achieves an integration with moral teaching missing in the earlier drafts. This is done at three levels: in the basic just war theory it self, in supportive arguments fa voring non-violence, and in trans lating the theory more thorough ly into practical implications. -On the theoretical level, the third draft says: "Just war teaching has evolved, however, as an effort to prevent war; only if war cannot be rationally avoided, does the teaching then seek to restrict and reduce its horrors. lIt does this by estab· Iishing a set of rigorous condi· tions which must be met if the decision to go to war is to be morally permissible. Such a de cision, especially today, requires extraordinarily strong reasons for overriding the presumption in favor of peace and against war. This is one significant rea son why valid just war teaching

makes provision for conscien tious dissent. Objection to war - to all war - must be the norm for all sane people, Only the· most powerful reasons may be . permitted to override such objection." What is new in the third draft is the linkage of conscientious objection to the just war theory itself in a way that suggests that the burden of proof rests on the other side ,.- "Only the most powerful reasons may be per mitted to override such objec tion," and . "extraordinarily strong reasons" are required to day. -On the supportive level, the third draft offers more exten sive argumentation against even conven~ional warfare as an ap propriate means of settling con flicts today; and a more nuanced. treatment of the nature and mul tiple dimensions of non-violence, emphasizing that Christian non violence is "not passive," but a positive method of resisting in justice. -On the practical level, the . third draft suggests 'in greater detail how non-violence can pre vent war, push back its frontiers, or be an alternative response when the effects of war seem to morally disproportionate

whatever good it might achieve. The draft cal1s non-violent reo sistance a point of "common ground of agreement" between the pacifist and the person who accepts the theology of the just war, because "both are able to be committed to the same objec tive: defense of their country." The point of non-violent resist ance, says the draft, is not sim ply avoiding harm or injury but "winning the other over, making the adversary a friend." Non-violent resistance, in the view of the third draft, is a posi· tion that should be integrated into public policy and that reo quires study, effort, planning, funds, political decisions - a , structure that would push war fighting fUl"ther down the scale as a last resort. "Non-violent popular defense does not insure that lives would not be lost," says the third draft. "Nevertheless, once we recognize that the almost cer tain consequences of existing policies and strategies of war carry with a very real threat to the future existence of human kind itself, practical reason as .wel1 as spiritual faith demand that it be given serious consid eration as an alternative CQlItse of action."

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By Charlie Martin

B R EA.K I N GUS I N TWO

, MElWBERS OF . Our Lady of Grace parish Teen Club, Westport, present giftplaque to Father Edmond R. Leves que, recently transferred from the' pastorate of Our Lady of. Grace to that of St. Theresa's, South Attleboro. Kneeling, Jay Raposa; from left, standing, Mike Raposa,. Kelly Cos grove, Karen Pellet~er, Mike Greenhalgh.

Middle School Taunton Catholic Middle School students marked' the opening of the Holy Year with

a dress"up day. On the spiritual side they participated in a ser vice at which the. year and the symbolism of .the .opening of the '. holy door were explained. TCMS sixth graders have been visiting ~three area. nursing homes, bringing handmade greeting cards .and favors, serv ing refreshments and entertain ing with dancing and a sing along. Both the youngsters and

the elderly gain. fr:om the pro~

ject, ,say TCMS administrators,

"The young are happy to .share their joy and abilities, while they learn from the wisdom and wit of their elders:"

St. Jean Baptiste Students of Janet Belanger at' St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River, were among top winners at a recent regional science fair. Eighth graders took two secopd and three third places as well as an honorable mention, while seventh graders garnered a sec ond, a third and two honorable mentions. . Additionally, Lori Ann Viv eiros, a third place e.ighth grader in overall competition for her display on periodontal disease, won two' dental awards: a: $50 savings' bond trom the Massa': chusetts Dental Society and the Dr. Eugene Dionne Award for' the project best, exe~plifying dental research. The latter award was' presented by, the late:Dr~ Dionne's' da.ughter, Mrs. Lucille 'Piohne Thomas. ' ,' Eighth;' grade second 'placers were Michelle Dupre, "Hyper~ tension" and John Cunha, "Is Your Body a Toxic Wasteland?" The: 'seventh grade second placer was Julie' Murray, "Herbs.'" .

Coy le·Cas~idy

: :. Student~ recently participated in a drive for the Pine Street Inn in Boston, a shelter for the homeless,' collecting, $HiO plus Clothes and toilet articles. Those who b~ought the donations to .~

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gle to keep a relationship to gether. . Different interests and life styles have brought distllnce be tween this couple. The desire to close some of the distance reo mains alive, but the question of how close is unsettled. Healthy love relationships re

quire balance between closeness

and independence. Forging this

balance is an ongoing process.

for people's needs often change.

When two people commit themselves in love to each oth'er, each must not only take care of his or her own needs, but both must care for the relationship. A r~lationship can gradually wither from lack of care of at tention. Could one reason for our high national divorce rate be the ease of casting off the mar riage r.elationship? Have we for gotten the importance of mend ing and caring? 1 want to ask you, my reader. about ways of taking care of love relationships, small, practi cal, yet very important ways. And what about repairing a re lationship that is breaking in two? Write to me! Address correspondence to Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rothero wood Ave., EvansviUe, Ind.

,Don't you feel like trying something new? Don't you feel like breaking out of breakiJllg us in two? You don't do the things that I do. You want to do the things I can't do. Always something breaking us in two. You and 1I could neyer live alone. . But don't Y01,l feel like breaking out just one day on your own? ,Why does,what Pm saying hurt you? ' I didn't say that we were through. Always something breaking us in two_ The way that two hearts should beat as one for us, We'll fight it out to see it through. , , I say there won't be too much 'fun for us. Tho1,lgh It Is' oh so nice to get advice It Is oh so hard to do. We could stay at home and stare into each other's eyes. Could we be much closeI!' If we tried? Maybe we could last an howr Maybe then we w~d see right through Always scmethlng breaking us in two.

Boston toured the facilities and learned about the work ot' the Inn. . Freshmen and sophomores at Written and sung by Joe Jackson, © 1982, A .and A Records Inc. the Taunton school are planning a dinner dance 'for June 4; JOE JACKSON is part of that inating the record charts. Among those arranging the British' contingent currently domThis song focuses on the strugevent are Bill Orsi, Janna Mur

phy and Brendan Mansfield.

Mark Belanger won' fourth .

place in it recent T-shirt design contest sponsored by the Rhode Island School of Design and entered by 'over 200 persons.

His prize is a $'100 scholarship

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Bishop Feehan Feehanites Richard Lincoln,

Joanne Valade and Shelly Wat son will compete in. the annual Aquinas Junior College typing contest, to be held Wednesday

in Milton.

Sister Annette Bibeau, SSA, Sister Marie Rosaire, RSM, and M~s. Marie Hopkins represented the Attleboro diocesan high at a career education workshop held last month in Boston. Among career fields discussed were satellite communications, automated accounting and key boarding.

Counselors' 'jobs, Interviews for counselors at the Cathedral camp will be con ducted at the camps office on Route 18, East Freetown, Sun~

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Why he's Sportsman of the rear NEW YORK (NC) - Talk the press. ing with Bryan Trottier, star "I'd be that way whether I . center oll the New York is were an athlete or not," Trot landers, it's easy to see why tier told Catholi~' New ,York, he was 'honored by the New newspaper of the New York York, archdiocesan Catholic Archdiocese. "I was brought up that way,. . . .. . Youth Organization as Sports man of the Year.. Trottier . recently received Trottier, who scored '50 the John y. Mara Sportsman goals last year when the Is of the Year~ward at the eyO landers won' the National , Club. of Champions Dinner at . ~ockey League championship, • the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in . New York City.' ' is friendly and outgoing, will ing to' answer questions More 'than his personality thoughtfully and politely in a earned him the award., His time wlien many athletes su<:cess with tl)e three-time prefer to hide from fans and Stanley Cup champion Island-

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ers is a model for athletes. His work with the Special Olympics for handicapped youngste~s and his devotion to his family are a model for all. .Besides: appearing at many fundraisers, Trottier often visits children in hospitals. ,Hi~' work with the Special Olympics started in 1980, just arter. he had been named Most Valuable Player in the playoffs, and Spo~ magazine offered to make a donation to hi~ favorite charity.

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South Wins CYO Hockey Crown Fall River South nipped de lead on Troy deMoranville's fending champion New Bedford, goal at 12:50. Less than a minute 5-4, in the Driscoll Rink, Fall later New Bedford stretched its River, last Sunday evening to lead to 3-1 on Pete Larrivee's complete a sweep of the best .goal. of-three final in the Bristol At 4:10 of the last period Greg County CYO Hockey League Laureano scored, unassisted, for playoffs. Fall River to narrow the gap to South thus regained the title 3·2 and the Southies pulled up even, 3-3, when Nobrega scored it once held and ended New Bed ford's quest for a fourth straight at 5:59. New Bedford regained playoff crown. The Fall River the lead on Herman's goal (from skaters had lost to New Bedford Bob David) at 8:15 but South tied the score, 4-4, on Daniel twice in the past three years. New Bedford, which finished Heaslip's goal at 10:40 with as first in the regular season, led, sists from Hogan and Nobrega. Fall River South capitalized 1-0, after one period. Joel Her man was credited with the goal on a situation that left New which resulted when a South Bedford minus two players as a defended collided with his own result of three penalities against the defending champions and goalie, Charles Ripley, and car ried the puck with him into the netted the game-winning goal South nets. Herman was the at 11:55 off Hogan's stick with last New Bedford player to assists from Roderick and Rick Coleman. touch the puck. The relatively high score be The Southies tied the score at I-Ion Paul Hogan's goal, with lies the outstanding perform an .assist from Dave Nobrega, ances by both goalies - Rip at 4:50 of the second period ley and New Bedford's Steve but New Bedford took a 2-1 Rivard.

St. Vincent Hoop Tourney Preparations are progessing for the third annual St. Vincent's Home spring basketball tournament to be held April 16-23 in Bishop Connolly High School. There will be three divisions: open, six-foot·and-under, junior for players 14·years-old and under with team rosters limited to 10 players.

The Taunton YMCA is the de· fending champion in the open division, The Fish in the six·feet and-under division and CFLC of Cranston, R. I., in the junior division. For information call co-direc tors Fran Desmarais at 678-1482 or Tom Dunse at 679-8511.

Holy Name Repeat Champion Holy Name of Fall River has won the junior CYO basketball championship of the Fall River Diocese for the sixth time. The Holy Namers swept their bestof·three series with St. Mary's of New Bedford. They posted a 43-29 victory in the Kennedy CYO Youth Center, New Bedford, Monday night and completed the sweep with a 48·36 triumph in CYO Hall, Fall River, Tuesday. Mitch Lown scored 17 points Monday and 23 Tuesday in sparking the Holy Name hoopsters to the sweep. Marc Vercellone, with 13 points, was St. Mary's top scorer in Monday's

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug· gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults· and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanationl; O-morally offensive.

New Films "Man, Woman and Chlld" (paramount) is the screen ver sion of an Erich Segal novel. It deals with a happily married college professor and his wife, parents of two daughters. Their bliss is upset when Bob Beck with (Martin Sheen) discovers, when the child's mother dies, that he is the father of an illegi timate son, the fruit of a roman tic interlude in France a decade before. When he confesses tQ his wife Sheila (Blythe Danner), she suggests that he bring the boy to the United States for a visit, not telling him or their daughters his status. The boy, Jean-Claude (Sebastian Dungan), proves an irresistible waif and all ends happily. Because of the glossily depicted love affair, this film is rated A3, PG. "Baby, It's You" (paramount) is the story of Jill (Rosanna Arquette) and Sheik (Vincent Spano), New Jersey high school seniors in the 60s. She's a bright, hard-working Jewish girl who wants to get into a good college and then become an actress. Sheik thinks you can get ahead without working. They're not exactly made for each other, but they're not happy apart. Jill goes to Sarah Lawrence, where she becomes a casualty of the counterculture. Sheik goes to Miami Beach, where he washes dishes and lip-synchs Frank Sinatra records in a seedy night club. This is a perceptive, com .passionate film made memorable by excellent acting. Unfortuate ly, because of nudity and graphic sexuality, it is rated

game while Dave Gamache toss ed 13 for the New Bedford team in Tuesday's game. Bishop Connolly High School will meet host Old Colony Re· gional High School at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Old Colony Baseball Tournament. Greater New Bedford Vo~-Tech and Dartmouth meet at 1:30 p.m. The consolation final is set for 11 a.m. Sunday, the championship final for two p.m. Normand Yelle, president of the Maplewood Babe Ruth Base ball League in Fall River, has been named freshman baseball ,0, R. coach at Connolly.

Catholic Camelot PE9RIA, Ill. (NC) - In his first major pastoral since he be came bishop of Peoria 12 years ago. Bishop Edward W. 0'· Rourke expressed !his "dream" - that the diocese's quarter· milUon Catholics will make their lives a "t>right shining moment" 0(, "chlv,lry, love, loyalty and service" in central Illinois.

In the pastoral, explained at Masses throughout the diocese. the bishop called Lent a special

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time of "prayer, study imd re commitment." He /MSO asked parishioners to join in Lenten parish renewal programs, saying, "No significant parish renewal will occur unless amon(; the parishioners there is a stirring of

the Spirit and a kind of con·

version."

Doing "Whoever loves much, does much." - Thomas a Kempis

"Bad Boys" (Univers8.l): Sean Penn is a vicious young criminal in this brutal exploitation movie trying to pass itself off as so cially significant. Lack of moral perspective and heavy· emphasis on violence earn ratings of 0 and R. Film on TV Sunday, April 10, 11 Porn. (ABC) - "Altered States" (1981) - A brilliant but fanatic young scientist (William Hurt) attempts to regress to Ute origin of awareness by undergoing some dangerous experiments. Sex and graphic nudity. 0, R

Relfgious Broadcasting - TV Sunday, April 10, 10:30 a.m. Diocesan Television Mass. "Confluence," 8 a.rn. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Gra· zlano, diocesan director of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. "The Glory of GoeJ," with Father John Bertolucci, 7:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 27. "MarySoo," a family puppet show with moral and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs· day, Fall River and New Bed ford cable channel 13. "Spirit and the Bride," a talk show with William Larkin, 6 p.m. each Monday, cable chan nel 35. Sunday, Marcb 27, (CBS) "For Our Times" - The show features a special Passover program ex aming religious freedom in America, with Rabbi Israel Sin ger and Jesuit Father Robert Drinan. Sunday, April 10, (ABC) "Di· rections" - The National Coun cil of Churches 1982 Film Awards. Sunday, April 10, (CBS) "For Our Times" - Part 5 of the report, "Cities in- Transition Hartford, Conn; On Radio Charismatic programs are heard from Monday through Fri day on station WICE 1210 AM; Father John Randall, 9 to 10 a.m. and 11 to 12 p.m.; Father Edward McDonough, 8:15 a.m.; Father Real Bourque, 8:45 a.m. Father McDonough is also on WMYD from 1:30 to 2 p.m. each Sunday. Sunday, April 10, (NBC) '''Guideline'' - Interview with John Farnsworth, USCC repre sentative for youth ministry.

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·Rabbi Norbert Weinberg will speak on the Hol<lcaust at 7 p.m. Sunda.y in the parish youth cen ter. The date is observed as Holocaust Day. Holy water isavaUable at all times in a container at the west side entrance to the church. D of I, SOMERSET St. Patrick's Circle, Daughters of Isabella, wlIl meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday il'1 Old Town Hall. Senior· Drop-~n Chorus, business meeting, refreshments.

ST. MARY, NB Youth Service Corps members 'were enabled to provide Easter dinners for four families as a result of their own efforts and the gener.osity of other parish ioners. Confirmation candidates will' be presented to the parish at 9 a.m. Mass Sunday. Volunteers able ,to assist in renovating the religious educa tioncenter during the week are !lsked to contact the rectory. WIDOWED SUPPORT GROUP,NB . Widowed persons will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at St. Kilian's rectory, 306 Ashley Blvd. Dis cussion topic: Developing a Posi tive Self Image. All welcome. HOLY NAME, NB Mrs. Ruth Valentine will show slides on Hawaii at the Wom en's Guild meeting at 7:30 ,p.m. Monday.

SAC"En HEART, N.ATTLEBORO ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Parishioner Carol Nerney ex presses gratitude for the an The Holy Ghost Society will swered .prayer that she find em observe its first Dominga 'Sun ST. JAMES, NB ployment. Parishioner.s are asked Area residents are reminded . day evening at the home of Mr. to remember especially those that St. James is among jubilee and Mrs. Manuel Ferreira, 24 with arthritis or disorders of parishes and will be a' place of Hinsdale Ave., Swansea. The the back. pilgrimage through next Easter. rosary will be recited each eve Meetings: Parish council, 8:15 ning and Friday devotions will p.m. Monday; Women's Club, 8 CHARISMATIC RENEWAL, °be held at 8 p.m. with the priests p.m. Wednesday; RCIA course, NB DEANERY of the parish presiding. 7:45 p.m. Thursday; Holy Hour, A Life in the Spirit seminar Mec;tings: 7 .p.m. Sunday, rec 7:30 p.m. Friday (April 15). . will begin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, tory, 'Catholic Charities cap April 25, af St. Julie Billiart tains; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,rec SECULAR FRANCISCANS, parish ,hall, North Dartmouth. tory, HQly Nlime Society; 7:30 POCASSET Information: Angelo Telesma p.m. Wednesday, Youth Group; Novices will be received by nick, 995-7339. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16, St. Francis of the Cape frater':' pat:ish center, family ,gathering. O.L.GRACE, ,WESTPORT nityat' 7:10 p.m. Tuesday at St. ST.ANNE,FR John's parish center, Pocasset. A 10-week cardiovascular fit Parochial school students Mass and ·talks will follow. All ness program is in progress, welcome. meeting ,at 9 a.m. each Monday. among regional science fair win Information: Linda Delafuente, ners: Jude Nicoletti, 2nd place; O.L. ANGELS, FR Steven Dias, 3rd place; John 676-8923. New parish council officers: Adult Bible study (Acts 7 and Chicca, Michael Teixeira, hon Mary Velozo, president; Ken,. 8) will take place at ,8 ·p.m. orable mentions. neth Carrier, vice-'president; Tuesday in the church hall. Par . The Blessed Sacrament will be Patricia Cabral, Dorothea Al exoosed after 11 :30 a.m. Mass ticioants should bring a Bible. meida, sec.retaries. . CouDles' Club meeting, 7:30 today. An hour of adoration will Council of Catholic Women p.m. Sunday, April 17, parish begin at 2 p.m. in the shrine. meeting: Wednesday, April 20. center. ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA ST. JOSEPH, NB Confirmation candidates will ST. MARY, SEEKONK Meetings: Tuesday: Cubs, 3 Confirmation ·penance service: attehd a retreat day Sunday in p.m.; Lellion ot Mary. Arthritis, 7 p.m. Tuesday. Candidates, the' school from 2 to 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Wednesday:.Girl Scouts, sponsors, parents urged to at Parents and friends are invited 3:30 p.m. Healing Mass. 7 ,p.m.; tend. to a closing ceremony at. 6:30 . prayer meeting, 8 p.m. Thursday; Parish meeting: after 10 a.m. p.m. Boy Scouts, 7:15 p.m.; School Mass Sunday. A family retreat for parish board, 7:30 p.m. Annual Mass of the Sacrament ioners will be held at LaSalette Shrine the weekend of June 17. of the Sick: 2 p.m. Sunday. SECULAR FRANCISCANS, Those wishing to attend may Life in :SDirit seminar: Satur FR Mass will begin'the meeting day and Sunday, April 23, 24. contact the rectory. of St. Louis fraternity at 6:30 Pre-registration: call 336-6349 NOTRE DAME, FR p.m. Wednesday at St. Louis or 222-1516. A Marriage Encounter infor Church, Fall River. Postulancy SACRED HEART. FR mation night will be held at 7:30 formation wlIl be discussed. All tonight at the school. All couples CCD classes will resume Sun welcome. day. Confirmation candidates welcome. will meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow. FAMILY LIFE CENTER ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Bread of Life prayer group ST. DO~C, SWANSEA A charismatic prayer' group members will begin 'a weekend The parish council will meet meeting will be 'held at 9:45 a.m. retreat tonight at the North at the rectory at 7 p.m. Sunday. Wednesday at Sacred Hearts Dartmouth center. Parents of first communion Convent, 44 Rotch St. Members of SS. Peter and candidates will meet a! 7 p.m. Paul Women's Club, Fall River, Sunday in the center. A First ST. RITA, MARION . Confirmation candidates will will hold an evening of recol Eucha,rist workshop will be held lection at 6 p.m. Wednesday. from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, keep appointments for confer ences tomorrow and will re April 16. hearse in the church at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. HOLY NAME, FR Montie Plumbing First communicants will re ceive the sacrament at 9 a.m. K of C, MANSFJELD George C. Shields Council Heatong Co. Mass Saturday, May 7. will attend 9 a.m. members Over 35 Years

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ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL. FR SS. PETER & PAUL. FR Coming events: Family Be Paul Marchand, JeffreY'Men gInnings parenting series, four doza, Richard Raposa and Pat Mondays beginning, April II, rick Riley .have been named to the Bishop Connolly High School , 7 to 9P.rd. Clemence Hall, Aging: altar boy corps to serve Masses The Holistic Approach, confer ence, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, 'at the school and at St. Mary's April 14, at the hospital; Rheu Cathedral. matoid Arthritis, physicians' Confirmation will be received education coilference, Thursday, by 40 young people at 7 p.m. April 21, 6:30' p.m., White's res Thursday. taurant, Westport. Further in Meetings: 7:45 p.m. Monday, school, Education. Committee; 7 formation on. all ,programs: p.m. Tuesday. Fathe'r Coady 674-5741. Center, ~YO Council. . MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Reservations are still avail ST. STANISLAUS, FR A Life in the Spirit seminar able for a Marriage Encounter begins at 6:30 p.m. Sunday and weekend to be held April 15 ·to 17 at La Salette S'hrine, Attle will continue for eight weeks. boro. Information: 678-2486, Science fair award winners from the parochial school are Lisa Bzdula, first place; ·Chris topher Nied.bala, .Claudine Brian Wallingford, Emond, Kristine Pereira, David Gilmore, second places; Patrick Luddy, honorable mention. Additionally, VAtiCAN CITY (NC) - Swe Brian WaIIingford received a trophy as the highest scorer in den and the Vatican have form the field <If .physics. ally reestablished diplomatic re Confirmation candidates be lations after a 456-year break .gin a retreat to~ight at St. which began during the Protes . James Convent,Nanaquaket. Czestochowa Confraternity tant Reformation. members will meet for sphitual The formal ceremony was held . direction at either Mass on Wed in March when Pope John Paul nesday. New acolytes will meet at II accepted the credentials of the 2:30 p.m. today for instructions Swedish ambassador to the Vati .and a test. can, 62-year-old Gunnar Johan CATHEDRAL MUsiC Ljungdahl. . The Barrington College Cham Sweden severed Vatican reo ber Choir, directed by Martha Sobaje, will be heard in concert lations in 1527 during the Pro testant Refo11l1ation. Lutheran at 3 .p.m. tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathedral and at 4 p.m. Mass ism became the state religion in immediately thereafter. 1560. The 16-voice group will be Monasteries were. suppressed unaccompanied. Their program will comprise works 'by Hassler, and in 1617 the mere presence Mozart,"- Mendelssohn, Titcomb, of Catholics in the country was Eilers and Pfautsch. All wel forbidden. come. No admission charge. Recent centuries, however. ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM showed growing tolerance. A Officers of the newly formed junior and senior CYOs are, for' 1781 decree. allowed foreigners in Sweden to practice the Cath seniors, Brian Hardiman, presi dent; Ann Brogioli, vice-presi olic faith, and in 1873 Swedes dent; Staci Potter, secreta.ry; Jim were permitted to leave Luther Garfield, treasurer; for juniors, anism for another Christian David BrogioU, president; Sean faith. D'Acci. vice-president; Mary DavenDort, secretary; Cindy Ljungdahl told the pope that Cappello, treasurer. "more than 1,000 years ago Father Bruce Neylon is mod Sweden was converted to Chris erator for both groups. tianity by Roman Catholic mis IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, sionaries. Their message of FR Coffee and malasadas were brotherly love, peace and human served to parishioners Easter ity is just as relevant today as morning as they inspected new it was then." . ly renovated kitchen facilities. Catholicism was introduced Confirmation candidates will into Sweden in 829 by St. Ang rehearse Monday and on Wed nesday, April 20. On the latter sar, a Frankish monk. date sponsors are asked to be "Several cultural institutions present. created in Sweden by the Roman BL.SACRAMENT,FR Catholic Church still exist and Women's Guild 25th anniver enrich our daily life. I, for one. sary banquet. 6:30 .p.m. Wed nesday" McGovern's restaurant. had the privilege of attending a Also on Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m, school founded in 1406 by Pope in the small chapel. a course 'of Innocent VII," said the Swedish Scripture studies' sponsored by ambassador. the Bread of Life prayer group. Swedish Catholics now number STONEIDLL COLLEGE, more than 100,000, representing . N. EASTON one percent of the population. A Consumer Awareness Fo Lutherans compose 95 percent of rum, open to the Dublic. will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the the population. College Center. To be covered are credit pOlicies, the new bot tle ·bill, small claims courts pro cedures, landlord/tenant rela BATON ROUGE, La. (NC) ,tions, 'auto emission regulations, auto sales and repairs and gen The coat of arms of Bishop eral shopping, return and refund Stanley J. Ott, new head of the policies. Information: 238-1081, Baton Rouge diocese, includes a ext. 213. baseball. LaSALETTE SHRINE, The ball recalls the bishop's ATTLEBORO second cousin, baseball Hall of A seminar on !un~ral plan Farner Mel Ott. The late player ning will be held from 10 a.m. to • p,m. Saturday, April 16, at was one of the game's all-time the shrine monastery. Speakers home run hitters. will be Sister Yvette Beford, As for the bishop, he prefers SSA, Father 'Andre A. Pate naude, MS, and Deacon Leo running for distance to sprint Racine, a funeral director. ing around the bases. He posts Also at the shrine, a study a five-mile run severjJl times a series on our Lady will be held week. on three Wednesdays, April 13, 20 and 27', at 10 to. 11 :30 a.m,. repeated each day from 8:15 to First Accuser 10 p.m. "The just is first accuser of Information and registration himself," - Provo 18:17 for both programs: 222-5410.

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