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The Bishop's Easter Message
Dearly beloved in Christ, We celebrate today the beautiful Feast of the Resurrection of our Blessed lord from the dead. This is, indeed, "the day the Lord has made." We should "rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 116) Jesus the crucified, the Lamb of God, who by His death on the cross took away the sins of the world, has been. raised up. Death no longer holds sway over Him. Our Divine Savior has triump~d over the powers of sin and death and has risen gloriously from the tomb! In the resurrection of the Lord, a new age has dawned upon the world. By dying, Christ has .destroyed death for all who believe in Him. By .rising from the dead, He has restored all <;>f us to life. As the Apostle Paul reminds us, we too "have been raised up in company. with Chri~t." (Col颅 ossians 3) The hope of eternal life now shines upon us. And so today, on
this glorious Easter Feast, we renew together, as a Community of Faith, the promises of our Baptism. We reject sin, profess our faith in our Risen Lord.. and commit ourselves to live faithfully the new life which He won for us by His cross and resurrection in the hope of one day sharing ever颅 lasting life with Him in Heaven. This is the promise and hope of Easter. I send Easter Blessings to one and all throughout the Diocese of Fall River, and I pray that our Risen Savior will bring to perfection the saving work which He has begun in us. May Christ our Lord shed Easter joy and peace upon us all. Devotedly yours in Christ,
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NEW YORK ~NC)-Archbishop John R. Roach of St. .Paul Minneapolis, president of the U.S. Catholic Conference, joined more· than 40 world religious' 'leaders in an international appeal April 1 for a nuclear weapons freeze and disarmament. 'Buddhism's Dalai Lama of Tibet, Russian Orthodox Patri arch Pimen of Moscow and Hin du Swami Chidananda of india were also signers -of the appeal, along with several Catholic car dinals and archbishops and a wide 'l'ange of other religious leaders;-4ncluding representatives of Judaism, Orthodoxy, Protest antism and various non-Christian. religions. The appeal was released in New York by the interfaith peace group, Religious Task Force Mobilization for Survival. It was addressed to adherents of all re ../ ligiolis beliefs who "are one in our belief. in the sacredness of life and the holiness of the earth." Tied to the Second United Na tions Session on Disannament to be held at U.N. headquarters in ,New York this June, the joint letter asked governments, "espe cially the nuclear powers, to se _riously participate in this process and to address this task, to freeze and reverse the arms race as a first and crucial step toward disarmament. The oJetter also asked "religious people ail over the world" to join in Choose Life Weekend May 28 30, just before the U.S. session opens. On that weekend they asked people to "participate in inten . sive prayer, fasting, vigHs and other actions in their respective churches, mosques,pagodas, syn agogues, temples and holy places in the name of this sacred cause." "This appeal ,goes out to the followers of the ·Buddhist, Chris tian, . Confucian,' Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Moslem, Shinto, Sikh, Taoist, Zoroastrian and indigen ous religious tradHions, as well as ,to al:I believers everywhere," the letter said. Ca'tholic signers besides Arch bishop Roach included Cardinal 'Bernard AIfrink, retired' arch bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands, and a long-time leader of the In ternational Catholic peace move ment, Pax Christi; Archbishop Henri ·Legare of Grouard-McLen _nan, Aolberta, president of !the Canadian Conference of Cath olicBishops; Cardinal Paulo Eva risto Arns of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila, Philippines; Sister Bette Moslan der, president of the U.S. Leader . ship CQnference of Women Re Hgious;; and Nobei Peace Prize winners cAdolfoPerez Esquivel of Argenti~a and Mairead Corrigan Maguire of Northern Ireland. (
MRS. CLAIRE O'TOOLE, social worker with the New Bedford.offiqe of the Diocesan Department of Social· Services, checks records. The department is among numerous apostolates funded by the annual Catholic Charities Appeal, whieh will hold its kickoff meeting' Wednesday.
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The kickoff meeting of. the ,Mansfield, 1982 .lay chairman, 41st annual diocesan Catholic stress the role of the oJaity in the Charities Appeal win be held at campaign. 8 p.m. Wednesday at Bishop Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, Connolly High School, ,Fall RiVer. diocesan chancellor, will deliver The Appeal funds maintenance the opening prayer and Msgr. and expansion of diocesan apos Luiz G. Mendonca, vicar-general, tolates of charity, mercy, sociai wHl lead the closing prayer. services and education. Kenneth Leger of Fall River Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, will be the wiH lead the audience in singing meeting's keynote speaker. Over the National Anthem at the 900 priests, religious and 'laity opening of the meeting and will from every area of the diocese close the program with "America will ,hear Orlando D. Souza of ,the Beautiful." Buddy Braga,
'Fall River band leader, will pro vide music. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan direCtor of the Appeal, will explain the techniques and mechanics of the ApPeal. A social hour in the cafeteria will follow the meeting. The Appeal! Special Gift Phase begins April 19 and ends May 1. The Parish ~hase is scheduled for Sunday, May 2, from noon to 3 p.m., when 19,500 volunteer solicitors wHl visit the homes of 330,000 dioceJan Catholics. '
'China Pilgrim Virgin" t~ visit here A unique statue of our Lady will visit Our Lady of Fatima Church, New "Bedford, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 16.'
statue was restored and fellow members of the Passionist com munity again took it with them on preaching missions.
One of the Passionists then The statue belonged to Bishop read a bulletin issued by the Blue Cuthbert O'Gara, CP, who was shepherd of the diocese of Yuan Army of Our Lady of Fatima, Hng, China, in 1949, at the time discussing the possibility of a of the Communist occupation. ,Pilgrim Virgin statue going to He was arrested, imprisoned fcir China, one of the few nations to three years and finally expelled which such a statue has not h'av from China.
eled. Arrangements were made with the Blue Army and Father Bebie now hop,es to travel to China in August with the statue. In con neotion with the trip, John M. . Haffert, a ,Blue Army leader, noted that in 1973 the iate Pre~ .mier Chou En-Iai had invited the Pilgrim Virgin to China. Political changes after' the premier's death, however, had until now interfered with the trip.
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shrine in Fatima, Portugal, and while there acquired the' Pilgrim Virgin statue Ithat will be hon ored in New Bedford. Subse quently he traveled widely with the statue, spreading the mes sage of Fatima. '
Mr. and Mrs., Octave ·Pimentel of Sot. George parish, Westport, plan to be among those accom panyingthe statue to China; said Ann C. Levasseur of Raynham, a diocesan Blue: Army leader. She said the New Bedford pro gram on April 16 will include a. procession, recitation of the ros a~, .enthroneme~t of the ~Igrim Vlrgm statue and a homl!y by. Father Bebie.. ~e service will be open to all.
"Bishop O'Gara wanted to reo turn to China and take ,the Pil grim V.irgin with him," explains ,Father Philip Bebie, CP, who will bring the statue to New Bedford. "Instead, on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima in 1968, our Lady came for him, to take 'him to heaven." The bishop's statue and' his de-, sire to take it to China were aU ' . but forgotten for some time after his death, but then the
Led by Ethel Crowley of West Harwich, their president, hun dreds of members of the Dioce san Council of Catholic Women will hold their 29th annual con vention on Saturday, April 24, at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hy annis. The day's theme will be The Renewal. of the Tmeporal Order in Conformity with the Mind of the Church. The' program, to be held in Msgr. Thomson Center of the Hyannis parish, will begin at 8.:30 a.m. with registration and a coffee hour. An opening cere mony and a business meeting will are .scheduled for 9:30 and three concurrent workshops will start at 10:30. A legislative workshop will be chaired by Mrs. James A. 0'-. Brien Jr. and will have Msgr. -Anthony M. Gomes, DCCW chap lain, as moderator. The speaker will be Atty. Gerald d'Avolio, executive director of the Massa chusetts Catholic- Conference. "Current Issues in Adolescent Sexuality" will be the topic of a second workshop, with Mrs. An-, drew. Mikita as chairman and Msgr. Maurice Souza as modera tor. Mrs. Genevieve' Fitzpatrick, . RN, 'Ph.D., will be the speaker. The third workshop will con sider "Victims of Crime and Crime Prevention" and will be chaired by Mrs. Thomas Long with Rev. James Lyons as mod erator. A panel will present the topic. A 12:10 p.m. concelebrated Mass will be offered in St. Fran cis Xavier Church, with Bishop , Daniel A. Cronin as principal concelebrant and Very Rev. Ed ward C. Duffy, pastor of St. Francis Xavier, as homilist. 'Keynote speaker for a follow ing luncheon will be Miss Wini fred Coleman, executive secre tary of the National Council of Catholic Women. Bishop Cronin, the guest of honor, will also speak. Chairman for the convention will be Mrs. James H. Quirk o,f St. Pius X parish, South Yar mouth. ' It has been announced that a convention bus' will be available for the convenience of delegates from the greater Fall River area. It will leave from the corneer of Routes 6 and 138 on the Somer set side of the Brightman Street Bridge (at the site of Schwartz Appliance Warehouse) at 7:15 a.m. on April 24, and will make a second stop at 7:30 a.m. at St. 'William's parish parking lot on Chicago Street, just off Stafford Road in' Fall River.
Bus reservations should be Father Bebie, ordained in 1960, . made by Tuesday, April 13, with has been in 'tulltime parish mis Mrs. Rudolph Oue/lette, 674 sion work since .1976. 4050.
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WASHINGTON (NC)~An in burdens seems to us not only un terfaith coalition of church ~ead realistic but a:1so inappropri8Jte," ers, including Father Daniel F. they said. "In the Vni,ted States Hoye, general secretary of the it is not the responsibility of gov-, U.S. Catholic Conference, has ernment to define the tasks of protested that depite their efforts religious bodies. If anything, it Ito increase their charity and as is the responsibility of religious bodies- as ilt is of other citizens' sistance for the poor, they can not fiU the gap ~eft by federal groups - to define ,the task of budget cuts in social services. ,government. The charity of the religious community can only In a message echoing ,those in creasingly voiced by leaders of ease the burden of last year's numerous denominations, the budget cuts on the poor; it can Catholic, Protestant and Jewish not resolve it." officials also claimed the Reagan Representatives of the reli administration's attitude is both gious org~nizations had gathered inappropriate and unreaHstic and in Washington for a meeting to ,that it is a major responsibility -determine ways to increase serv of government to provide for the ices to the .needy and to advo basic needs of society's disad cate restoration of federal pro vantaged. grams. "The stark reality is that the lIn addition to Father Hoye resources of the churches and signers included Rabbi Bernard synagogues or of the entire pri Mandelbaum, executive vice vate seotor are simply not suf president of the Sycamore Coun ficient to replace the federal hu cil of America, and Claire Ran man needs programs," said the da:H, general secretary of the Na statement. tional CouncB of Churches. "Government must fuUiU its responsibiHty to ensure that the Refreshing Stream basic needs of all citizens are "The Hturgy is a rekeshing MC PIlato met," the religious ileaders said. stream flowing from the fountain Such basic needs ,include ade of our baptismal dignity. The quate income, employment, shel church is renewed when these ter, food, medical care, clothing waters overflow and flood the and social services, they said. parched desert of every aspect of our persona:1, family and social "The administration's ex lives." Archbishop James pressed expectation :that reli ROME (NC)-Scientific studies he said. "Christ died on the cross, gious bodies wiH shoulder these Hickey of the Shroud of vurin show that Christ may have suffered a heart there's no doubt about that," attack more than two days be said Jesuit Father Vittorio Mar fore his crucifixion, according to cozzi, who wrote about Malan UNION DISCOUNTS PERSONAl. ,SERVICE a report In Civilita Cattolica, a trucco's findings in Clvi:lita Cat ~olica. "But from the examina bi-weekly Jesuit review. The pubiication summarized tion of the shroud, it appears he shroud investiga'tions by two suffered a heart attack." Rome physicians, Doctors Luigi Malantrucco said that the Malantrucco and Gaetano Delle heart attack may have occurred 363 SOUTH MAIN ST. Site, who concluded that Christ at ,the moment when Christ said, FALL RIVER died on the cross not from suffo "My heal'lt is nearly broken with cation but from the effects of a sorrow," while praying in the heart attack suffered in the Gar Garden of Gethsemane. den of Gethsemane. Christ's Last Supper with the finest selection of fashion eyewear IMalantrucco was among 25 apostles and his agony in, the scientists permitted to study the Garden of Gethsemane may have FRANCISCO ALBERGARIA R.D.O. No. 3096 shroud, believed to be the burial taken place on the Tuesday in cloth of Jesus, for five days in Holy Week and not Thursday, Malantrucco said. 1978. Delle Site conducted ex The Tuesday theory was first periments with human cadavers that ,backed the other physician's proposed by French biblical findings. scholar A. Jaubert, a student of In a repor:t last year to an the Dead Sea scrolls who main Italian conference on synodology tained that Christ was a member (shroud study), Malantrucco said of the Essenes, a dissident Jew ish sect. he centered his studies on a sec ! :l;~' SAINT ANNE CHURCH The Essenes, according to the tion of the shroud containing traces of coagulated blood and Dead Sea scrolls, followed a dif 818 Middle Street ferent religious calendar and ate blood serum in a spot correspond Fall River, Massachusetts " '" ing to the chest area where the the Passover meal two days "\ Ii I, < u Confessions in the shrine from 11 to 12 Noon and 1 Gospels say a Roman soldier earlier than other Jews. Christ's to 5 P.M. pierced Ohrist with a Ilance after Last Supper took place on the Jewish Passover feast. he died on the cross. • 'Liturgy of !the ,Lord's Passion and Death at 3:00 IP.M. The physician, head of radiol One of the first scientists to • Parish confessions from 4 Ito 5 P.M. ogy at St. Peter's Hospital in propose that Christ may have • 92nd annual paraliturgical and dramatic Way of ,the Rome, said the coagulation of the died of a heart attack was Wil Cross, Descent from Ithe Cross and procession 7:00' blood shed after the lance was liam Stroud, president of the P.M. inserted shows that Christ died Royal Medical Society of Edin • Confessions after the evening service. of a heart attack. Iburgh, Scotland, 'in 1847, CivHita
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Cattolica said. The Shroud of Turin, 14 feet, 3 inches 'long and 3 feet, 7 inches wide, shows a negative image of a man wilth indications of wounds on ,the head, hands, feet and side Ithat correspond to the crown of -thorns and naB and spear wounds which the Gospel accounts say Jesus suffered in his crucifixion.
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THE ANCHOR-Dioce'se of Fall River-Fri., April '9, 1982
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Many Americans feel the pain and suffering of the current economic recession. ,The woes of inflation, high interest rates and low productivity have alarmingly affected the 'job market. Many people now searching for work formerly believed that such a situation could never happen in these United States. Farmers face critical times, small businesses fail daily and even some large corporations are struggling for survival. It may be that the current economic mess has some thing to tell us about ourselves as persons. Could it be that we have placed our hope in a world that is all too transient? Would we dare admit that our desire for the "good life" was nothing more tha'n personal greed? Can we face the truth that the acquisition of material possessions has been the force driving the American ethic? If these questions receive an affirmative response, may it be suggested that these days of economic recession could teach an' important lesson: that if we concentrate on the marketplace, forgetting all else, we are bound eventually, to face a crashing and crushing reality. Man survives but poorly when he loses his perspective and sells his soul for things that can only be seen, touched, taste~ and i~haled. When idolatry of things is one's lifestyle, as seen., in the Saturday' Night Live syndrome, there are bound to be cries when, the bottom seemingly falls out of life. The THE JERUSALEM ROOM BELIEVED THE SITE OF 'J1HE LAST SUPPER harsh realization that things can fail one has caused millions With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.' of Americans to flee into a dream world of pot arid tranquilizers. luke 22:15 Seeking the quick fix to ease all pain has become a national habit. From Broadway to the barn, more and more Americans are asking the question posed in the old song: "Is' that all there is?" As Catholics who journey in hope, we have a~ answer ideals, both productions make Waugh illustrates by their sepa By Michael Gallagher
to that question. We know that there is much more to life ration is 'unarguable if you're a the point of something more pre NC News
than material possessions. Often, however, we have a hard believer. cious, more universal at stake. time telling our world what we believe. We are' so often On March 29 Georgetown lost "Chariots," ~ simpler and more For if you do believe in God, afraid of what people will think of us that for many the art to North Carolina in the NCAA popular than "Brideshead," con then you have to believe that the of compromise has reached an all-time low. Attempts to be finals, but this setback to Cath veys this simply. Eric Liddell here and now is not ,the end-all accepted and relevant have turned many! Catholics into olicism, if not to Jesuit educa (performed by Ian Charleson) and the be-all. Arid you hav!,! to tion, was balanced, I think, by places ,religious commitment believe that God wi:ll not be out Jekylls and Hydes. the conclusion of "Brideshead above both personal and national done in gene'rosity, that he will This Holy Week is a graced time for Catholics to put Revisited," the ll-part public glory and refuses to run in a 100 give us back all that we have th~ir 'lives into perspective. The sacred events in the life' television series which enjoyed meter heat pn the Sabbath, given to him - even the joy of of the Lord that we recall should inspire us not only to get unpreced~nted popularity and whose obligations he, a devout that vanished Arcadian summer Congregationa:list, i n t e r pre t s with Sebastian. our own act together but also to put that act on the road. cri tical eS'teem. The same night the surprise' strictly. ' America needs hope. The lack of things has created Hence the last line of "Brides winner of the Best Picture Oscar "Brideshead" -is trickier. As I doubt and despair across the land. This week could be a was "Chariots of Fire." head Revisited," the words was wa~ching it, two things positive moment, turning the country from' pessimism ,This double triumph delights came to mind: what were the Charles' second - in - command speaks just after Charles has towards faith. us who labor beneath the noon pious faithful,' whom a ce~tain come out of the restored Brides Our living of Holy Week in sincerity a~d iruth, in the day sun of a public taste' that type of prelate never ceases to head chapel, "You're looking un life of the Spirit and the sacraments, could be a means of turns the likes of "Dallas," "Gen worry about, going to think of usually cheerful today." showing our fellow countrymen that a person can be raised eraI Hospital," "Anima'i House," alI disedifying :details; and what Charles is middle-aged, child the recent "Porky's" (which' were the sophisticates reveling up from rubble. It could be dramatic opportunity to let and makes "Animal House" seem in ,those' same' details' going to less, 'loveless. He may be on his the fallen know that hope n~ver fades. Holy Week could be tasteful) into Nielsen and box make of the conclusion? way to death in the bloody, in the catalyst in our personal attempt to look beyond those office winners. And that conclusion - Lord glorious chaos of infantry com· things that hold us down. ' tIow heartening to see' "Cha Marchmain's return to the bat. What earthly reason has he Let us pray that the drama of these holy days will riots" and "Brideshead" gain church and Ch!1rles Ryder's re to ,be cheerful? None. That's teach all that personal suffering and defeat are not ends, both popular and critical acclaim! luctant entrance into it -- came Waugh's point. A point to be made, of course, because of, not despite, all the but may well be beginnings; that today's hurts can be is that the secular culture that, disedifying details that preceded healed tomorrow; that the sorrow of recession or any other produced them is English, a cui it. temporal misfortune can be swallowed up by the triumph ture that reveres 'tradi'tion. Some -Ryder loses I in his struggle ant joy of resurrection. critics, in fact, have disparaged against divine g~ace. He, not yet There has been a tremen
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The Easter hope
A joyous Easter to all! It's the time of year and of faith that gladdens our hearts and puts hope into our lives and families. Behind us are cold win ters, viruses, and Lent. Ahead are gardens and flowers, long sunsets, of chi:ldren playing out side, g,raduations and new begin nings. I don',t have to stretch far to talk about ilie relationship be tween Easter and the seventh and fina,1 stage of family Hie the coming together of genera tions. R's the stage when couples become ,grandparents, wi,th the joys and promise of new chHdren and old satisfaotions. J.ust as .the sober and reflective days of Lent end, so do the trials of earlier times in family life give way to the pleasures of enjoying chil dren without the responsibi:lity of rearing them. I met a couple during Lent who spoke of their gratification of seeing values and traits pain fully inculcated in their own children showing up in their grandchildren. "TeH others not to judge their failures with their grown children too quickly," they said. "When we see how our children are trying to pass on ,the same values we tried to, we real ize tha't we did a pretty good job, although we didn't think so at the time." This seventh stage has a triple
focus. Parents can 'look back at their 1ives and work with a de gree of completion and satisfac tion if they don't focus on their failures. Some do and that's sad because there are failures and droughts in every 'life. Focusing on them merely invites depres sion and despair. Those in this stage of life are also entitled to enjoy the present bondedness of generations, ex periencing for the first time the reality -that we are all Hnks in the generations bf humankind. They realize that they are an im po~tant part of their chHdren's and grandchi·ldren's future. With out their efforts, prayers, arid hope, the succeeding generations would be much different. They have put their stamp on future peoples. A thiro focus is that of look ing ahead to a time when they wiU be parented by their chil dren. How able ,they are to per mit and even invite their chil dren to help them make decisions regarding their 1ives, housing and health makes a big difference in how they enjoy this state of fam ily 'life. If they accept the in evitability of dwindling energy and eventual death with hope, they will continue to serve as models for those who follow. If they approach old age and death with fear and bitterness, that, too, is the model they leave. ·1 was struck by this reality
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whi:le reading letters of Ernest Hemingway. His father commit ted suicide when Hemingw~y was young and he struggled with this his entire life, which ended with his own tragic suicide. Oth~r factors entered in, of course, but the model was there and his constant references to it during his lifetime tell us he was never really able to overcome his father's way out. The seventh stage shows us the coming together of genera tions, the acceptance that one's own life wiU end whi:le new life begins. It's the Easter story made h.uman. In olir spiritual 1ife as in our human 'life, we experience .the coming together with our heaven 'ly.father, a hope of reunion with our own parents and grandpar ents who have gone to God, and an opportunity to prepare for this eventua.J homecoming. Without Easter we could not have this hope. Without family we could not anticipate this reunion. Easter, spl'ing, family, hope all are linked together in this time of Hfe.
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By vere cuts in domestic spending. The number of subsidized house JIM holds may indeed be increasing, but they will be increasing far more slowly than the amount . LACKEY Cleveland appeared before a needed to maintain federal pro House subcommittee to comment grams at their present ·Ievels. on the Reagan administration's One controversial Reagan pro proposals for housing subsidies. changes, say opponents, are un posal calls for slowly replacing His words were not kind. Cuts contracts with private landlords fair to those in cold climates and in housing assistance, he said, and local housing authorities to in old, poorly-insulated housing were "simply unacceptable" be and could double or triple hous subsidize rents for low income cause they would make the hous ·households with housing vouch ing costs. ing problems of the poor - mas ers with which low income Bishop Lykes's testimony cited sive even in the best of times ..:... households could seek housing a rthird prqblem: a reduction in considerably worse. on the open market.
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Direct subsidies, rthe adminis dwindling availability of low in the oilier hand, in recent days tration contends, would give ten come housing. has been citing ,low income hous ants the incentive and ability to ing assistance as one of several shop around for the best housing According Ito the administra examples of government's con tion, subsidies for new construc deal. . tinuing commitment to the poor. tion are less important ,than be But critics say that while the The total number of households fore because fewer people now plan might help families whose aided by federal housing assist .Jive in substandard housing; thus ance will continue to increase, major problem is finding afford the basic problem facing the able housing, it would create poor is not .Jack of adequate President Reagan told the Na ·tional Association of Realtors more difficulties for those the housing but rather of income for private market is unable or un March 29. making rent payments. willing to serve, such as 'large, Perhaps no domestic budget single-parent or minority fam Critics say the opposite is oc function surpasses the complex curing: .condominium conversions ilies. ity of the government's array of and movement of young couples Another proposal being criti housing programs. Besides un back into the cities are reducing cized just as strongly is a plan derwriting programs for middle the .avai:lability of rental proper to requiring subsidized tenants income households such as VA ties for the poor and raising and FHA loans, the government pay their entire ,utility bil'ls and rents. also provides assistance to 10cal to count food stamps as income in computing rent charges. public housing programs, rent subsidies to low income house The administration argues that ..,..",,, """'''11''''11''..111'•••11..'' ,,,,..,, THE ANCHOR (USPS·54S.()20). Second Class holds ~nd direct loans to non utility reimbursements under Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published profit '~roups building housing mine energy conservation and weekly except the week of July 4 and the week after Christmas at 410 Highland Aven· . for the elderly and handicapped. that counting food stamps as in ue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 by the Cath olic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. But Reagan critics contend come more accurately reflects Subscription price by mall, postpaid $6.00 per year. Postmasters send address changes the total resources of a low in that low income housing is tar to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA But the '02722, geted for some of the most se- come household. .
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The day of the: bomb Mrs. Kimuko Laskey re membered that it was a beautiful morning the day the bomb dropped on Hiro shima. She saw a B-29 go by, and then a flash. She feIt something on her face. She put her hands up "and my hands went right through my f~ce. "I feIt I had ,lost aU the bones in my body," she said. "There was no way to go. I saw a man without feet, walking on his ankles. I passed out. By the time .J wake up, black rain was falling. We thought it was oil, the B-29s comi~g back to drop oil on us to burn us. !I couldn't see. I thought I was blind, but I got my eyes open, and I saw a beautiful blue sky and the dead city - nobody is standing up. Nobody is walking around." She somehow got to the hos pital. The doctor told her he had seen her outside, but "I thought you were dead." By this time, Mrs. Laskey was weeping, . and so were most of the people in Room 1114 of the Dirksen Senate Office BuHding, where the first hearing on the Kennedy-HaHield nuclear freeze resolution was being held. A photographer standing in front of the wItness table put aside his camera, looking utterly stricken as the woman groped for words and control. Mrs. Las key's small body was shaking from head to toe. Her hair was quivering in the television lights. The doctor told her, "We have no anesthetic." She said, "Leave me alone," but they sewed up her face with a big needle and placed her on' a door on the hall way fIoor. People passing through stepped on the door and, because it still had the knob, it cocked, adding to her agony. "I wanted to go home to my mother," she said piteously, in the tone of the 16-year-old sohoolgirl she was on Aug. 6, 1945. The silence in the room was heavy with her heartbreak. Mrs. Hiroko Harris of Balti more, Md., whose misshapen mouth was reconstructed after the bombing that she experi enced when she was 13, said, "'I don't want anybody to have what I have had." Mrs. Shigeko Sasamori, who was Mrs. Harris' schoolmate, said, "Why I live is really a miracle. . . . Perhaps I was spared to tell people who have never suffered what happened." Mrs. Sasamori, who has had countless operations to repair her face, now works with new . born babies in a hospital "They ,give me courage to go on," Dr. Mitsuo Tomosawa, who is now an optometrist in California, gave the most coherent account in polite rbut still bewildered tones. He saw a young mother with her clothes torn, pushing a
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baby carriage. The baby had a piece of wood imbedded dn its cheek, but "the baby was not crying." He saw people walking with their arms extended, their knees slightly bent, staring ahead, moaning and crying. He saw a streetcar full of people sit ting and standing - "I lI'ealized all those people were dead." Other survivors of Hiroshima have ,testified on Capitol Hill, but never with such powerful effect. Sen. .paul Tsongas, D.JMass., said every member of the House and Sena'te should be strapped to their chairs and forced to Gisten. Sen. Kennerly observed that dis cussion of megatonnage and throw-weight and the window of vulnerab~ity seemed beside the point. Mrs. Laskey, in partiCUlar, laid waste Ito Reagan administration claims of ":limited," "winnable," "survivable" nuclear war. The Ibomb that shaUered her world was, as Sen. Mark Hatfield, R Ore., noted, "primitive," Reagan plans to build 17,000 more nu clear warheads and bombs with a thousand times the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb. Americans are now ready to listen to ,the Mrs. Laskeys. The . freeze is the fastest-growing po mical issue on the scene. Amer icans unrlerstand that if anything is to be done about the arms race, they must do it themselves civi~ rights and Vietnam taught them how governments are not up to great moral issues. Three articulate clergymen fol lowed the survivors to the wit ness stand and, although there was really nothing to say, spoke eloquently of the moral impera tive of preventing a recurrence of the horrors just recounted. Bishop Roger Mahony, the Cath olic bishop of Stockton, Calif., said that the nuclear approach of the Reagan administration be spoke "arrogance, aridity of feel ing and moral bankruptcy." .Bishop James Armstrong of the National Council of Churches no.ted "an absence of tragic so phistication," and Rabbi Walter Wurzburger, president of the Synagogue CQuncil of America, defended the right of the clergy to speak out on Doomsday, de spite their unacquaintance with the technical detail that is used by government officials to put down the freeze. "The experts got us where we are today," IBishop Armstrong remarked mildly. iMrs. Laskey got home to her mother on that beautiful morn ing after the bomb was dropped that within 9 seconds killed or doomed 100,000 people. And 37 years later she' brought home the realities of a nuclear explosion to everyone who could hear her voice and share her tears.
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Dear Editor: It was a moving experience to hear the Fall River Diocesan Choir in their perfonnance of -"The Seven Last Words' of Christ" at the Cathedral Church on Sunday, March 28. The sensi tive rendition by the soloists, chorus and orchestra was worthy of high praise, thanks to the demand for excellence made by .their distinguished director, Mr. Giuttari. . How unfortunate it was that the church was not filled with 'laity and clergy for such a beau tiful Le'nten concert.' ,Bert 'La Forest Brockton
,Music suit ruling favorsFEL CHICAGO ~NC)-A U.S.' ap peals court has ruled against the Chicago Archdiocese by revers ing the decision of a lower court which ha,d dismissed at a $1.5 million copyright infringement suit brought by F.E.L. Publica tions of Los Angeles. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in Chi cago on March 25 that F.E.L.'s anmial copy license "is a re~son able and flexible tool for dealing with ,the unique problems asso ciated with the Roman Catholic liturgical music market." The annual copy license "gives copyright holders protection and compensation and it allows indi vidual parishes to produce cus tom-maoe hymnals at a reason able cost," the three-judge panel said. The judges said the annual copy license' "was not developed in a vacuum; it grew out of a his· tory of copyright infringements, and was designed to protect mu sical copyrights in a market where infringement is not easy to detect and harder to preyent." 'F.E.L. had alleged that the archdiocese had infringed on 21 federal copyrights to Hoturgical hymnals and songbooks' owned by F.E.L. Copyright is the ex clusive legal right to make copies: In March 1980 another copy. right infringement suit, for $8.6 million, against the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference was settled without any admis sion of Jiability. The NCCB-USCC accepted set tlement tenns from F.E..L. which had proposed sending a letter to the Catholic bishops around the United States and the publica tion of the letter' in the news letter ·issued by tl)e bishops' Committee on the Liturgy.
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Truckload of mail for president WASHINGTON (NC) - New York tuition tax credit supporters sent their message to President Reagan ."special delivery" April 1 when a truckload of 750,00 letters arrived in Washington from the eight New York dioceses.
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being of hi~ patients, ne would By EdWard 1,\. Haoify Atty. Hanify of the ·Boston journey to the most remote areas finn of Ropes and Gray was in the cause of Life. chainnanof the Human Llf~ In his crusade, there was no Foundation and hils· long been convocation so large, no meeting so small, nh city so great, no identified with the pro-life move ment. A !Fail River native, he is hamlet so :tiny, no legislative an alumnus of Holy Cross Col . hearing so remote or late or de lege and Harvard University. In 'layed, no scientific meeting so far away iliat he would not en n971 Dr. Lynoh spoke at St. Michael's parish, Fan River, on dure any h~rdship or inconve nience to attend. the evil of abortic;m. The fol lowing tribute to him is re printed by pennission from The Pilot of Boston. Doctor William A. Lynch, a valiant exponent and exemplar of Life in its fullest meaning was called by his Maker on March 14, 1982. Those of us who were privileged to have witnessed even a small part of his tireless : PAVING - EXCAVATING - UTILITIES : struggle to defend for thisgen and to transmit to ~he : eration : - EQUIPMENT RENTALS next generation Christian -and • "A TRUSTED NAME IN CONSTRUCTION". . • Natural Law values in family SINCE 1933 : life, in medica:l and social ethics and in enlightened public policy, : (617) 613-2051 : will feel the benediction of his ~ ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••! influence and the spark of his inspiration for the rest of our lives. We of the ,Board of Human ;' Life and Natural Family Plan ning ,Foundation especially "110M( 1IAT116 those whom he recruited in that COUIICII. MfMlfl" cause over a decade ago - wil1 DR. LYNCH at 1971 talk especia:lly cherish his memory. FOI PlO/IAPT 14 Hau, Service is one of those souls th_rough He at 81. Micha'el's parish, Fall l-WAY RADIO Chorl~s Velolo. Pres. whom "God stooping shows suf River. ' ficient of His Light" to illumine our own pa'th to eternity. Hundreds of thousands of After 45 years of fairly exten youngsters ., 'thtoughout America sive commerce with the world .were his audiences as he strove I have never met a man. from ,to inculcate the beauty, dignity whose persevering, ; purposeful and rational meaning of Hie. personality one could 'gain·great Thousands of' couples entered OfRCE U OAK GlOVE AVI.• fAll IMI er motivation and inspiration to marriage with ,the keener sense strive for the ideals he repre of its joy and :responsibiHty· be sented. cause they reac;l his writings or He was a perfectionist in his heard him speak. . profession. He. approached the Adversaries lof ·his position delivery of new human life as a found him a formidable opponent practicing obstetrician with com beca~se he could meet'doctor or bined reveren·ce and joyousness. scientist on the terrain of medi He loved his ca:lling. Those chil ·cine or science with his own im dren who first saw the light of ' pregna1ble qualifications and, the day under his skillful direction impressive frui,t of his own read were direct beneficiaries of his ing and research. mastery of his art and science. He was not only a crusader for However, he aiso stood, as a Life, he was an expert advocate sentinel, guarding the portals of who brought into often intense me for miHions unborn. Some combat intellectual resources of times, even though weary be . the highest ordElr, and thus he yond ·normal human endurance, feared no adversary. after assuring himself of the well There are few· men in any of
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the professions or in business with his intellectual" curosity coupled with the breadth of his cultural interests. Music, the, dramatic arts, the Greek and Latin, classics, philosophy, the ology, J)istory made particularly vital by its relevance to current events, all engrossed him. , Thus, he not only defended Hie, but he cherished and nur tured the capacity of the human person to enjoy and enrich God's basic magnificent endowment. In . his home, among his books or at his table, he was the embodiment of the gracious host and delight ful companion. He loved his country and served gravely in her defens~ in wartime. He loved his religion. The Roman Catholic Church was to him truly Mother and Teach er. He aoved the institutional Church as a man loves his mother. He studied the precepts of the magisterium wi,th a learned and con!jcientious insight into their meaning and their practical application. His professionaI life would have had ,less trauma and his personal resources might have been greatly augmented if he. had compromised his ethical principles, and yielded ever so little to the expedient. The mod ern world offered him many re wards for just a small sacrifice of principle, and in all the pro fessions, medicine as weB as law and even theology there were ample accolades, professional } and academic, for the time ser vers and the equivocators. Dr. "Bill" Lynch stood firm. He was no man to run after a popular bandwagon headed in· the morally wrong direction. No man ,could have borne so many burdens, caroo compassion ately for so many people, va,l iantly defended so many sound positions without a happy home where love and 'life were durably and radiantly reflected in the de votion of his wife Mary, his daughters 'and sons. The angels who aead this good man into Paradise are doubtless ,the guardian angels. pf the chil dren over"whose entry into this world he presided and the guar dian angels of the children yet unborn who will enjoy me be cause of his indomitable crusade for their right to live.
Prelate explains 'anti-nuke stance SEATTLE (NC) - Archbishop tempt "to highlight the need for Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle a counterstress. Too many peo has said he and other church ple, as it were, llre 'leaning out. .leaders in the Seattle area will of one side of the boat. I am join "a peaceful, prayerful dem trying to rectify ~the balance by onstration" against the U.S.S. • leaning out of the other side, the Ohio, America's first Trident nu- side of the movement toward _clear submarine, when it arrives' total disarmament. in 'Puget Sound this summer. On his :tax resistance the arch ,Last year Archbishop Hunt hausen, 60, attracted national bishop commented that the attention' for this opposition to amount of money -involved "will not be great" since "my totai in the Trident: his advocacy of uni lateral nuclear disarmament and come for 1982 will be only about $9,000-$ I0,000." his decision to withhold 50 per cent of his federal taxes in pro He said he will engage in the 'test against the nuclear arms resistance by withholding half race and the 'large U.S.•miHtary the amount due when he makes budget. his quarterly estimated tax dec He described his outspoken-· laration. He will divide the un , ness on. nUcl~_ar issues as an at- paid tax money among a peace
group. a pro-life group and per haps a direct-service charity, he said. Asked if he would continue to withhold taxes untH ,the arms race stopped, the prelate said, "I have hot thought that through completely, but what bas recent 'Iy come home to. me is the thought that. I should be more closely living the. poverty of the Gospel and should be giving away more of what il earn. "In that case, I would have no tax to pay. However, I want to he sure Ithat ~I -am putting myself in that position for ~he sake of the Gospel and not because I want ,to avoid the difficulties of tax resistance."
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That root cause, according to Father Yeager said, "We're in a neat, neat place and great Father Meyers, "lies in the condi WASHINGTON (NC) - Values tion of people, in their not being things could happen," but he should be such an integral part treated justly and receiving the cautioned that if Catholic of Catholic education that stu benefits of society." schools do not include computer dents stand out as having "an The NCEA president said he Hteracy in their curricula, it will enlightened concern for the other would hope that Catholic schols be like schools of 20 years ago person" and a commitment to have some kind of. justice and not teaching reading and writing. peace, said Father John F. Mey peace education which could be "We've got to take the cur ers. integrated into the general pro-. rent curricular back to square Those values must not be over gram. Studenfs should be in one and if we can't justify it, whelmed by technological ad volved in projects which work get rid of it." Father Yeager said. vances, Father Robert J. Yeager to alleviate some of the suffering Tying the technological ad warned. Advances should be and injustice that people endure. vancements to Catholic :values, made in the curricula in Catholic Father Meyers would like to he said, "We have to be sure schools, but "as you get your see Catholic school students we don't wind up just communi technology together you have to stand out as "simply having a cating with the compu'ter,. we start thinking about the human Christian concern for the other have to be attentive to keeping questions." person and a good sense of hu the human dimension. Fathe Meyers, National Cath mor." Some people see what's com olic Educational Association He emphasized that this Chris ing in the future and are prepar president, and Father Yeager, tian concern includes the little ing for it, he said. Others are NOEA Secondary Education De things. afraid of . change but, "there~s partment director, talked about "If students are not considerate really no such thing as the status "Values and Vision" - the theme and kind to the persons they quo, the dynamics of life go on. of the 79th annual NCEA conven come in contact with every day, What's important is that the fu tion. The two were interviewed I doubt if they are seriously con ture is creatable' and you have before the convention, which will cerned with people 5,000 miles to get people to work with it." be held April 12-15 in Chicago. away in other parts of the Although the economic situa "The whole approach (to edu world," he said. tion has made some people pessi cation) should be based on the Bpth teachers and parents must Gospel values of Christ," Father help in educating children in the mistic, Father Yeager is optimis Meyers said. "From this we live Gospel values, Father I Meyers tic .that Catholic schools can make changes by considering all in the present and hope to build said. of' their resources, especially a future based on those Gospel "Teachers. have to be evalu their "peopJe resources." values. "I don't think we've begun to "If we really lived according ated on their role, their contribu even lift the lid on that," he to the Gospel there would be no tion to the school's religious pur said. Parents and other members fear of war and no need for arms. pose as well as its academic pur of the community can contribute Simply to outlaw arms 'doesn't pose," he said. Everything Cathoilc schools do to Catholic schools in a variety really correct 'the situation. We is geared toward the achieve of ways, from helping to main need to improve the values by ment, the realization of the vis tain the physical plant to volun which people live and the condi ion of the future based on the teering help in the classroom. tions in which they live." The question, as Father Meyers values of Christ, Father Meyers "If you involve all the people sees its it, "What's causing us to said. it causes them to enthusiastic In spite of perennial financial ally buy into the schools," think we need arms? What's causing us to fear starting a difficulties, Father Meyers said ·Father Yeager said. Catholic he is optimistic about the future schools need to do a better job war?" of Catholic schools. He is con . of selling themselves to the Catholic education should fos ter the values by which the stu vinced that Catholic schools have community, he added, and "the dents live and should focus on an important role in correcting best way to do this is have peo injustices and helping human the root cause of nuclear arma ple see the schools as belonging ment in today's society, he said. kind. to them."
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A question of values By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear ,Mary: For the most part I really enjoy your column. How ever, you have given advice which I cannot accept because I feel the bll;Sic premise is wrong. "Imagine treating your daugh ter as you treat one of your best friends," you say. My own feel 'fng is, I select friends who have values similar to my own and uphold the same type of moral ity. If my own family (grown chil
dren) tum their backs on these values or downgrade them by words or action, why would I choose these people to be my friends? We really don't have much in common anymore! If the children (18 and up) .throw out all or most of the par ents' values, then I say throw out the children for. there is no finn basis for a strong relation ship. - Massachusetts Our views are really not con trary to yours. We have sug gested repeatedly that: 1) When children reach 18, they are adults; . . 2) Adults are free to make their own decisions and they are responsible for those decisions;
same time you can recognize 3) Whilepa.rents are respon that he is seeking close ~elation sible for raising a chi:ld to adult hood; they are not responsible ships with other people, a value for raising a child who has he might well have learned from you, the parents. reached adulthood. Third, we do think that friend When parents and grown chil dren clash on values, lifestyles ship demands some tolerance of or behavior, parents cannot tell behavior different from our the gtown child how to behave values. This is an imperfect world. (that's his decision), ,but parents 'Our friends sometimes make can ask the child to live else choices which we would not where: We I do differ, I think, on our make such as divorce, Hving-in, with a partner, cheating so as to approaches to· young adult chil get paid for work not real:ly per dren (ages 18-25). formed, collecting money and • I FIrst, we hold that young not repol'ting it so as to avoid adults are still growing and de taxes. We grieve, but we do not velopir~g; searching for values reject them as friends. they can make their own. We Finally, we wou'ld hold that a don't give up on young adults parent-adult chHd friendship is a who behave in ways contrary to very special one. If ,lifestyle dif our values. We ~atch and wait.· ferences are too great, we would Secohd, differences in behavior ask chi:1dren to leave the house. do not, always signify rejection 'But the door remains open to of values. For example, two be them. haviors: which most disturb par When do you completely give ents are sexual aotivity outside up on kids and throw them out ma,rriage and smoking pot. Suppose your aduIt child tells forever? We would say never. Reader questions on family liv you that smoking pot together with his friends is for him a time ing and child care to be answered of deep' sharing, developing and in print are invited. Address The cementing friendships. You need Kennys; Box 872, St. Joseph's not condone his behavior. At the College; Rensselaer,· Ind. 47978
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BALTIMORE (NC) - A como. pany whose stock in trade will be the "production" and "sale" of newborn babies is set to open in Baltimore,Jlnd church offi cials and theologians have all is sued moral objections to the idea. Called the Miracle Program Inc., the company will begin pro viding "surrogate mothers" for couples unable to bear children. Those persons unwilling to wait years for adoption - and with $25,000 in hand - will select a woman who will be artificially inseminated by the· husband. Following birth the infant will be ~turned over to the man and woman who have paid to call the child their own. While the arrangement osten sibly answers deep-rooted human needs, theologically it is seen differently. "The' question, is simple: it's immoral," said passioriist Father Neil J. O'Donnell, the ,Baltimore archdiocesan director of health ministry, who observed that a tenn for the practice is "womb for rent." Sulpician Father Philip Keane, asso~iate professor of moral theology at St. Mary' Seminary and University; said he is "quite. strongly against (surrogate motherhood) . ;. There is a div ision of 'the entire sphere of re productive activity from that of marital activity. It is an un reasonable splitting of two spheres. "My sense is' that Roman . Catholic theologians are univer sally opposed" to the practice, added Father Keane. He also ac . knowledged 'some ·pa.i"aUeJ~ .be tween surrogate mothering and in vitro ·fertilization. , The latter practice, in which a woman's egg is fertilized out side her womb by her husband's
sperm before being implanted in couple's child through preg- • her uterus, also has been de nancy. plored by some Catholic theo The surrogate mother is paid logians. $10,000, with the remainder of , pne qf them, Jesuit Father the $25,000 fee being spent on Robert Brungs, said that the legal fees, psychological testing, moral dilemma of surrogate counseling and medical care. in mothering is "less muddy" than cluding all obstetrical costs. The that of in vitro fertilization. company is expected to earn Echoing Father Keane, he said about $5,000 for each birt!. that with: in vitro (or "test tube") The surrogate mother is babies, only the genetric parents screened extensively prior to en are involved, whereas the sur tering the arrangement and must rogate mother process brings in sign a waiver of custody that a third party. states the child is the legitimate Father Brungs, director of the offspring of the "parental couple." Institute for Theological En counter with Science and Tech Many lawyers agree the legal nology at St. Louis University, ity of the issue is vague. Should called the surrogate· arrange ,the surrogate mother choose'to ment "ess,entially adultery." Al keep the child upon its birth, the though he said he "can under judge ruling on the matter could stand and, sympathize with the likely upset the custody waiver. reasoning :some couples give for Cases involving such issues are wanting this, the process is not pending in Kentucky and Michi an acceptable means to its ends gan. ... You're'giving a technological Father Brungs noted that what answer to :a human probiem." ever the courts, legislatures or In Baltimore advertisements even the church say about the have soug~t 'women aged 19-30 matter, "baby selling" is "suz:e who have had at least one normal to keep a lot of lawyers in Mer birth and agree to carry another cedes Benzes for a lot of years."
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parts of the country, partly in spired I imagine by the same newscasts that confused you. You seem to remember your high school marriage class well, but for those who don't we should make sure of the differ ence between sterility and impo· tence. An individual is sterile, in the legal sense of the word, when he or she is incapable of parenting, a child because of a defect in the natural internal process of gen ertion; in other words, in the elements of that process that are involuntary. A man who pro· duces no sperm, for example, or a woman who has no ovaries, is said to be sterile. Impotence, on the other hand, is the inability to have sexual intercourse because of some phy sical or emotional defect.
must be absolute, in the sense that it is permanent, with' no hope of.-ehabilitation that might in the future make sexual rela tions possible for that individual. The bishop and other officials of the diocese involved received medical opinions from some of the best authorities in the coun try that such absolute impotence is very rare. Rehabilitation techniques for people who suffer from paraly sis reIalted impotence (as the man did in this case) are improving all the time. All experts con sulted suggested that these im provements hold out some hope here. Where there is any such hope; the impotence is legally doubtful and the couple have a right to marry. This was the final decision made by the bishop. He gave no special permission or dispensa tion. He 'simply followed basic principles of our church laws (imd, incidently, of some civil .laws) and told the couple they . were free to marry in the Cath olic Church. .
You are right that impotence is an impediment to a valid mar riage. As you know, however, time is not available in a l)igh school religion class to examine many details. And one detail is vitally important in this case. In order fo~ it to be an impedi. ment to marriage, impotence,
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company. The solo dancers often ,draw wHd applause. Yet they cannot carry the entire perfonn ance. Important as the stars may be, the overall effect' of the baBet depends upon the entire troupe. Perhaps ,the Christian journey is similar. According to Divine Word Father Thomas Krosnicki, the communal and the personal dimensions of our journey as Christians sMuld work hand in, ,hand. "One feeds and enriches the other," he observes, "and we cannot easily break that circle."
One of my most enlightening experiences with Christian com munity occurred during Holy Week liturgies at a parish I had just joined, in Silver Spring, Md. The church was crowded with people 'I had never met. But as the Good Friday service pro gressed, I was heartened by the familiar activities and prayers. The main celebrant wastheo 'logian Father Edward Braxton. The possessor of a strong sens,e of history and a gifted story teller, he evoked a vivid picture of the scene on Calvary. As he spoke, the audience be came quieter lind quieter. He asked ,us to imagine how Jesus felt when ,he saw his friends by JanaanMantemacb fleeing, with only a handful of women and his beloved disciple Ma'lachi; in >the back of the remaining to watch him die. synagogue, prayed sHently as he Then, taking the pa~t of Christ, waited for the Sabbath service the priest imagined the dying . to begin. Jesus looking across the cen Malachi loved >the Sabba,th. It turies and the miles into St. John was a day of prayer and family the Baptist Church, picking each fun. Ana on the Sabbath he of us out by name. didn't mind as much being handi For an endless moment, we capped. felt as if we were there that day Malachi's right hand was small - as if Jesus was dying for us and shriveled. He could not work alone. At the same time, we be the way other young 'men could. came intensely aware we were So he looked' forward to the Sab not alone; ,that we were a com ,bath and to spending the day munity, Christians worshiping in with those who loved him.' common. Suddenly two synagogue 'lead I came away Nom that splen ers asked him to sit in the front ded liturgy with a fresh under standing of the close 'bond be . row. ' Malachi ,was' embarrassed tween Christianity as a personal but he did not wish ·to show dis journey and as a journey in the respect for ,the leaders. As he sflt wondering why he had been company of others. asked to move, he saw Jesus In other areas of Ute as well, enter. Everyone turned to look the relationship between the in at 'him.' He was very popular dividual and the community is with ,the Galileans. intriguing. We admire the "Now we'll catch 'him," Ma achievements and talents of indi~ viduals, yet we know that no one lachi overheard one man whisper. "We'U see if Jesus wi:ll break the is self-sufficient. Think about Ii performance of Sabbath law of rest." Turn to Page Thirteen "SwanLake" by a classical ballet
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So it was a surprise this spring when he spo~e 'about this faith. The backwoods Florida after He was writing a book report .on noon was very hot, >the only "Where the Red Fern Grows," by sound ·the soft, ,regular bite of Wilson Rawls. ' the shovel into the sand between A love story about an Arkan the orange trees. sas' boy and his two coon hounds, I watched my son, Boo, as we it is sad too, for one dog dies b~ried the dog. after fighting a mountain Hon Boo was 13, ~ean and brown. who is about to attack the boy. His jaw was set, his eyes dark The female dog dies soon after, with pain as he shaped the hole. His real name is Robert E. Lee brokenhearted. The boy buries both. Next spring, the red fern Livingston. He ,is in that· in grows oyer the graves. The fern between-worlds time, both child and man. There are questions in was very rare and an Indian legend said it was 'the 'touch of his eyes. . God. , ,Boo is a private person. Only with special ,timing can you hear As Boo told me the story, I re what he wanders about. I know ca1:led the recent deaths of his he believes in God. I also know own three dogs. He lost a bird the country where that fait'h is dog to an alligator; a Weimar belongs to him. raner to rat poison and a pointer By Patricia Livingston
to a wild hog. I could see in his face he was remembering. After Ii while, he said, "I won der what the author is trying to tell readers with the story?" "What do you think, Boo," 1 asked. "Well," he replied slowly, "I think he is trying to say there is a reason for everything that hap pens. God can bring good out of pain, even if we don't under stand it." "Do you believe that, Boo?" I asked. , "Yes, I do," he responded. That was in the spring and here we were again, in late June, burying the Dalmatian, the oldest and dearest of the dogs. It looked as if he had been bitten Tum to Page Thirteen
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"By Father John J. Castelot Jesus' cure of a leper is a stun ning climax to a series of mira cles Mark grouped together to give a picture of a typical day in the ministry of Jesus. First there, was an exorcism, then the cure of Simon's mother in-law, foHowed by a statement of various cures an4 exorcisms. All were calculated by Mark to illustrate Jesus' victorious com , ba't wi,th evil. Now comes the most ,impressive victory of all, the cure of a leper. ' According to beliefs of, the day, it was as difficult to cure leprosy as to «'8ise the dead tantamount,to saying it was im possible. 'But what was impos-
s~ble' for a, human being, Jesus 'accomplished with a simple touch arid simple words: "Be cured!" Since 'leprosy was regarded 'like death, this healing was a sign of the ultimate victory of Jesus over death itself. Simple as the story seems, it has inconsistencies. When the 'leper approaches, we read that Jesus was "moved with pity." However, the original reading was "moved with anger." Why should Jesus have been angry? Behind ~he,present form of the story, there were probably two , stories: one involving a simple healing, the other an exorcism.
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In the latter version, Jesus would have been angry at the "demon" believed the cause of the illness. This is borne out by the fact that, immediately following the cure in Mark's story, Jesus gives the demon a stern warning and "sends him, on his way." The lat ter phrase literally is "drove him out." Both the warning and the expulsion would apply much more naturally to an evil spirit than to the afflicted man. . ' Mark, not too adroitly but very effectively, combines the healing story and the exorcism story to give us the present powerful nar rative. A leper was a social outcast at Tum to page thirteen
A man of belief Jay Nell Parent
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An outstanding statesman of -this centurY was Dag Hammar . skjo~d, secretary-general of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961 in a plane crash ·in Africa while on a peace mission. A man of remarkable moral in tegrity and a true humanitarian, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after his death. When Hammarkjold's diary, "Markings," was published after his death, many were surprised that its contents dealt not with his life as. a world ~eader, but wi,th his personal journey of faith. ·In a letter to a friend in which he left permission for the diary's
publication, he referred to it as the "white book" - the official document ....,. of his negotiations with himself and with God.
Something - and frOin that hour, I was certain ,that exist ence is meaningful and that. therefore, my me, in self-surren der, had a goal." In "Markings," Hammarskjold According ,to W. H. lAuden, chronicled in prose and poetry his faith journey over nearly 35 who wrote the foreword to the years. His eady entries suggest English edition of "Markings," an intense struggle to discover Hammarskjold's faith was very meaning in '!ife. At times then private. Auden observes that ai ,though Hammarskjold took the he even contemplated the mean gospel seriously, he apparently ing he 'longed for in .totally sur did not participate in liturgical rendering himself to God. and sacramental' activities. On 'Pentecost Sunday 1961, For most of us, however, par just prior tQ his fatal accident, .ticipation in a church community he wrote: "I don',t know Who is very important. Wbile no two or What -- put the question, people respond to GQd's call in I don't know when it was put, exactly the same way, Christian I don't even remember answer-. faith is by its nature communal. ;jng. ·But, at some moment, I did Tum to Page Thirteen answer 'res' to Someone - or
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Continued from page twelve How much private prayer ,Through Christ, God formed should we have ,in our lives? us into a people. It is by living How much public or 1iturgical in a community of faith with prayer? Is one better than the other? i others that our own faith can arrive at its fuBest meaning. Should we share our stories The challenge of Christian life of belief with each other? What is to keep the personal and com is to be gained? munal dimensions of' faith in How much of our faith needs balance. A faith expression that to be externalized in service to is too personal runs the, risk of our neighbors and to the church? being subj~ctive and lacking in Most people wiol:l not be able the support of fellow believers. to fully resolve such questions. On the other hand, a faith ex But the ambiguity that results pression too given over to activ ity, can be shaUow and undi ,can push us to cll~rify the mean ing of our Christian lives. rected. Somewhere in our faith jour The Catch ney, each of :us ...,.. like Hammar skjold - must struggle to say The rules for success won't "yes" to the meaning of Christ work unless we do. in our lives and to what he is calling us to be. More ;Jikely than not, this com ON ONE of his many journeys on behalf of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold reviews an honor guard on a mitment won't be reached in a frenzy of activity, but in mo 1969 visit to the Gaza Strip (NC/UPI Photo) ments of quiet prayer and reflec A COLLECTION OF HELPFUL FLOOR HINTS BY 'AL' GARANT tion. There is a degree of aloneness to being a Christian; Jesus pe FLOOR COVERING Continued from page twelve 30 CRAWFORD ST. gaily clean so he could resume riodically went apar-t from his (Runs parallel to S'oulh Main work and friends to pray. normal Hving. ,the time of Jesus, forbidden con behind Ray'S Flowers) cha:l'lenge of Frequently, the Accordingly, Jesus, respectful tact even with loved ones. Thus FALL RIVER • CARPETING • CONGOLEUM it was hoped to prevent spread of the law when it did not con- ' balancing the personal and com~ • CERAMIC TILE • ARMSTRONG flict with his teaching, sent the munal dimensions of faith trans of the disease. 674-5410 lates into such questions as: The results were tragic, with man to the priests for officia:l recognition. the afflicted cut off from fam Finally, Jesus' injunction for ily, friends, employment and par 'sHence following, this event is ticipation in community worship. part of Mark's deliberate "mes Given ,this background, Jesus' sianic secrecy." Jesus' identity response is all the more astound can be fully ,understood only in ing. The crowd must have the Ught of .the cross and resur-' gasped in horror and then looked rection. on from a safe distance to see In spite of the command to Jesus actually touch this living secrecy, however, the man tells corpse, thereby contraoting what the story to all. amounted to 'legal defilement. "As a ,result of this," Mark IFor Jesus, however, the man writes, "it was no longer possible was not a 'leper but a person. for Jesus to enter a town openly. And if Jesus was angry at evil, He stayed in desert places; yet he had nothing but compassion people kept coming to him from for its victims. Nor was the cure all sides," alone for Jesus. The former leper also had to be certified as ~e-
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Continued from Page Twelve under the chin, probably by a rattler. Those bites, close to the head, do not 'leave much time to live. He had stTuggled to make it home. Sparky had gotten feeble in the -last mO':1ths but he still could sound fierce and intimidate the other dogs at feeding time. Now Sparky was wrapped in a sheet on ,the ground. Together we :lifted him into the hole and covered him with the soft dirt. We said nothing for a long time. ,Finally I began, "Thank you, God, for our friend, Sparky." 'Boo cleared his throat. "Thank you for letting him die on a hunt, before he got too weak, before he lost first place to the younger dogs." Boo had fastened two palm sticks together with some fishing ,line Into a cross. He pushed it into the ground at the head of SparkY'$ grave. Then we walked together through the orange trees to our house, saying noth ing. It wa$ a moment when the red fern grows.
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Continued from page twelve Then Malachi noticed Jesus looking directly at him. The lead ers were pointing him out to Jesus. "Stand up here in front," Jesus said gently. Malachi went and stood beside Jesus. He felt very uncomfortable and put his de formed hand behind his back. Jesus placed his hand on the young man's shoulder then, turn ing to the two men, asked, "Is it permitted to do a good deed on Ithe Sabbath - or an evil one?" To preserve life - or to destroy it?" The two men were silent. Jesus knew they were trying to trap him. Their hostility angered and saddened him. But ,turning to Malachi, the anger left Jesus' face. "Stretch out your hand," he said. As Ma lachi did so, he felt Jesus' love and power. Then the youth gasped. All the, people gasped with him, ,turning to one another in amaze ment. "His hand is no longer shriveled :up. God healed him through Jesus' words," Malachi thanked Jesus and praised God with all his heart.
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Roman had been present, he might well have asked of the eager crowds, "What came ye out to see?" There is little doubt that Jesus wore that day, as throughout his • ministry, t~e simple .raiment of a Galilean peasant. Even these clothes, we. may be sure, were worn and faded. But kingship does not dwell in· royal robes, but in royalty of person, and can one truly say that on that day the onlookers did not feel the
simple dignity of Jesus?
Thinking about the entry into Jerusalem, we see the road from Bethany to the holy city winding around the shoulder of Olivet along·the edge of a deep valley, so that th'ere is no view of Jeru salein till more than half the journey is completed. . Fertile gardens clothe these slopes, with here and there. al
mond .and palm trees. The gen.eral. effect. is of seclusion and rural peace. There is no hint of the neighborhood of a great met ropolis. Then the· road abruptly bends to the right;. a narrow pla teau of rock is reached, and with dramatic suddenness the city is revealed. Jerusalem is a city set upon a hill, or rather an isolated bas tion of rock. As 'one looks' down on domes, turrets and' towers;. there is a magical effect Bathed' in hues of gold and purple, the city is dreamlike. One .comprehends the Apoca lypse picture of. a new' Jerusa lem, let down from heaven, glow ing with precious jewels and purple raiment. It was this beautiful city that Jesus looked .upon with the brooding eye of the prophet. Utter sadness fell upon his heart. "And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," says St Luke. Jesus sawall too clearly the end to which events were moving. He could have prevented it had the people listened. A priesthood in vigorated by his teachings would have taught that one does not rule the world by force of arms but by the force of truth. But that day the ..worst part was chosen and Jesus went over the city. We sense a chill falling on the multitude, as though an icy wind had issued from sunshine.. What turned the· exultant crowd. of' Palm Sunday around into a re vengeful one? Is anything more fickle than a crowd? It is not really strange that those who began the week with hosannas. should conclude it with cries of HCrucify him!" We must not think of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem as a fiasco. But we ~o get an impression of solitude for Jesus as the day nears its close. We picture a grieved and majestic silence, as one who says farewell to a fami liar scene.
REGION III Science Fair prizewinners from St. Jean Baptiste· School, Fall River, from left Gina De Nardo, Bernice Mello, Julie PIcard, John Cunha, Jennifer teary, Ronald . Sevigny, Marc Dupre, Lori Anne Viveiros. (Torchia Photo)
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Students of Janet Belanger at medically oriented project, the St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall latter presented by the Bristol River, all but swept the junior South District Medical Society. division field at the 21st annual . His ·display, "YRUFATT;" based Region III Science Fair held re- on the Richard Simmons tele cently at' Bishop Connolly High vision show, dealt 'with obesity. School, 'Fall River. ..:- Gloria DeNardo, grade ·7; Herewith an account of their third place for· her project on ~inning ways: epilepsy; Lori"' Anne Viveiros, - John Cunha,. gr.ade 7, win grade 7, honorable mention and ner of $50 savi~gs bond a~d a $'50 bond from the Southeast plaque from the Region III com ern District- of the Mass~chusetts mittee for the project contribil Dental Society for her project on ting most to'science.research; and Orthodontics. another $50 tiond .for the best . - Jennifer. Leary and Julie
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and atherosclerosis. - Bernice Mello and Marc I • Dupre, grllde 8, third places for projects c;m' orthodontics and electronics. Dupre also received a $50 savings bond from the Fall River Educators' Association for the project' best embodying the ,pedagogical' aspect of' a science fair. . - Ronald SeVigny,' grade 8, honorable mention for aprojeet on computrrs. I
Five seniors at Stonehill Col lege, North Easton, are working with the Brockton Cerebral Palsy Center in presenting . "Kids on ,the Block," a puppet show that depicts lI'ela'tionships between handicapped children and their peers. The StonehHl students visit area elementary schools two or three times weekly with the pup pets and are enthusiastic both about the response of their audi ences and their own learning ex perience through the program. Also at Stonehill, the college will host 90 Easton middle school students next TUesday, Wednes day and Thursday as they pre sent two Greek tragedies and a comedy. The college has' sponsored the involvement of Albert Cullum, a former professor of education, in conducting the literature festival which has the goal of exposing young people to great drama at an early age. Professor Craig Higgins has joined the college faculty as chairman of the' depal'tment of health care administration. He said that the health care major is designed to prepare students for entry ,level employment in health care organizations and support systems.
.. CoyIe-Cassidy Congratula'tions go ,to C-C stu dent Lucy Gedrites, winner of a six-we~k trip to Spain sponsored' by the 4-H Clubs of America.
Youth ,fear nuclear holocaust
WA:SHINGTON (NC) - The fear that the world will end soon in a nuclear conflagration is hav ing a disastrous effect on Am eJ:ica's youtli, B,ishop Walter Sul livan of Richmond said at an in Such wa~ the- effect a~d' the formal Capitol Hill hearing on the inner t,ransformation of that first moral implications of the mili Easter Sunday. tary. budget. The prelate said But nearly 2,000 years 'later the "vast majdrity" of youth he we are the irtheritors of this mes has spoken with "truly believe sage. History has brought. UP!} that nuclear holocaust is inevi a'nd downs for ~he Ci,ty of God. table" and feel they are Giving Surely we all would agree that on the Titanic. the task temains Jncomplete. Bishop Sullivan's remarks Some would say that the task came at a hearing conducted by By Ch;arlie Martin and dreams' are impossible. Has Rep. Ronald V. Dellunis. (D not today'sl world irreparably Calif.), Dellums, a member of CITY OF -GOD' regressed from the Christian the House Armed Services Com goals preached by the apostles? mittee, decided on his own to Awake from your slumber; Arise from your sleep; A new day is dawning for all those .who weep 'But to say this is to deny what conduct several days of hear The people in darkness have seen a greaUight reaUy happe~ed in the dawn of ings on "the full implications of the first Easter. the military budget" after the rrhe Lord of our longing has conquered the night.· Refrain: Let us build the city of God; As at no other point in history, Armed Services Committee de May our tears be turned into dancing; . we who call ourselves Christians clined his request to hold hear For the Lord, our light and our love face t,remendous challenges. The ings on the subject. ·Has turned the night into day very survival of-our world may Besides religious leaders, mili depend on What we do and say We are sons of the morning; we are daughters of day tary and economic analysts as The one who has loved us has brightened our way during the coming years. well as others opposed to the God is light Once the first Christians were eurrent military build-up also In him there Is no darkness confused, afr~id and broken. We spoke at the, Dellums hearings. Let us walk in JUs light, his children one and all must do what they did; return to "Many parents ask Why the o comfort my people, make gentle your words . the source of their ~ove and church is not doing more for its Proclaim ,to my city the day of her birth. str~ngth. youth," remarked Bishop Sulli We must a:Jlow the risen' 'Lord van.
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But, he added, "what we all @-1981 by North Americap Uturgy Resources Spirit is alive in us. must realize ·is that by living in a Once more Easter returns. world with apparently no future, FROM CONFUSED and fearfuI above song its first meaning: Once more we go fOl'th to build the values of our fllmilies; our people, the first witnesses of the "Let tis build the city of God, the· City of God! . society and our country become resurrection emerged, with the May our tears be turned into· Write to me, Charlie Martin, at irrelevant . . . Spirit, as bui:lders of the new dancing; For the Lord, our Hght . 3863 Jlellmere Ave., Evansville, The arms race al$o should be city of God. and our love, has turned the Ind. 47715. I welcome your com condemned because it is a crime They give the words of the night into day." ments. I against the poor, 'Bishop Sulli :van said.
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portswQtch New Bedford Wins Opener Defending champion New Bed ford, which dominated FaB River South throughout the regular season, was hard-pressed to overcome the Southies in the opening game of the best-of three final in the post-season playoffs of ,the Bristol County Hockey League. The New Bedford skaters edged South, 2·1, in that game 'last Sunday night but needed double overtime to turn the trick. Paul King scored for New Bed ford with only three seconds re maining in the first period on an unassisted goal. • ~t 11 :30 of the
second period Chris Heaslip passed a loose puck to Dave No brega, who passed to Paul Ho gan, who netted the equalizer for FaB River South. Both teams had scoring oppor ,tunities in the last period of regu lar play and in the first overtime but the goalies' were up to the challenge and the game went into a second overtime stanza. New Bedford won the game on AI Harwood's goal at 3:07 of the period. The second game is scheduled fol' 9 p.m. Sunday in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River.
Connolly on Tourney Today The Cougars of 'Bishop Con nolly High School will meet Dartmouth High at 10 a.m. today in the consolation final of the Old Colony Regional High School tournament in Rochester. ConnoHy, the tourney's defend ing champion, dropped a heart breaker, 7-5, to New Bedford Voke-Tech in the opening round last Saturday. The game went nine innings for two extra frames as the contest was sched uled for seven innings. Host Old Colony defeated Dartmouth, 2-1, in the other opening round en counter and meets Voke~Tech to- . day in the championship final. , Trailing 5-1 going into the home ha:lf of the seventh, Con nolly scored four runs in that frame to knot the score at 5-5 and force ,the extra frames.
Connolly is host to Diman Yoke Tuesday and visits the Bengals a week later in non league encounters. The Cougars visit Stoughton at 1 p.m. tomor row. Among non-league games on tap for this weekend is Durfee at Rogers High in Newport to morrow. The Hilltoppers visit Coyle-eassidy in Taunton next Tuesday. • The Hockomock League opens its regular schedule next Tues day with Canton at Sharon, No. Attleboro at Stoughton, Mans field at Franklin, Foxboro at King Philip. Games next Friday (April 16) are Oliver Ames at No. Attleboro, King Philip at Canton, Franklin at Stoughton, Foxboro at Mansfield.
Stang Favored in Tennis The Bishop Stang High School Spartanettes, state Class B cham pions last year, are generally fa vored to repeat as champions of Division One East in the South eastern Mass. Conference but are expected to get some strong competition from Dartmouth High, with Durfee High consid ered a dark horse for the divi sion crown. The Stang girls were' undefeated last year, Dartmouth
was 9-7. In boys' tennis, Stang and Dur fee seem the stronger contenders for conference titles. Durfee will be defending its West Division crown and the SpaIltans look strong in. the East Division. Con nolly's Cougars, who went to the state tournament last year with a 13-6 record, are not likely con tenders as only one singles play er is returning.
Morra de Sanctis lives, again
SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-Con tributions to the San Francisco Bay Area Italian Earthquake Re 'lief Fund are helping bring a medical center and housing to a smaH southern Italian village damaged during the November 1980 earthquake. Morra de Sanetis, a town of about 2,800 residents high in the mountains, lost 30 percent of its buildings to the earthquake, which kUled more ,than 50 people and injured hundreds. San Francisco area residents anxious to help ,the Italian earth quake victims decided to concen trate OIl aiding one village be cause of the magnitude of the catastrophe, according to James . Scatena,. cochairman of the relief
committee. The Bay area raised more than $519,000. Cooperative efforts with the communities of Lucarno, Switzerland, and Milan, Haly, brought the total to $1.2 mHlion for the little town. Since the peope of Morra de Sanctis must journey 75 miles over mountain roads to get med ical ,treatment, the town center the relief funds will provide will include an infirmary. The center also will offer 10 units of low rent senior citizens' housing and 10 units for financiaUy struggling young couples. A town plaza, cafe and activity center also will be included and the viHage school will be rebuilt.
of needles being thrust into arms, and explicit sexual activity, "Christiane F." is extremely rna· Please check dates and ture fare even though nonexploit times of television programs ative. A4 with local listings, which may Films on TV differ from the New York net Sunday, April 11,9 p.m. (NBC) work schedules supplied to "Casey's Shadow" (1978): The Anchor. Walter Ma'btl)au who is an irascible but supposedly lovable horse trainer who has to decide Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office whether to run an injured horse ratings, which do not always coincide: in a race that could mean fame General ratings: G-suitable for gen and fortune. The racing episodes eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for are colorful and well-staged and the acting is good for the most . children' or younger teens. Catholic ratings: AI-approved for part, but the benign attitude children and adults; A2-approved for shown toward the trainer's moral adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults onlYi A4-separate classification failings and the frequent profan (given to films not morally offensive ity make this mature viewing which, however, require some analysis fare. A3, PG and explanation); O-morally offensive. Saturday, April 17, 9 p.m. (CBS)-"Same Time, Next Year" New Films "A Little Sex" (Universal): (1978): Although the adult fan tasy level of this comedy about This comedy about a newly mar ried young man (vacant-eyed, an extramarital affair intends charmless Tim Matheson) who . the situation not be taken seri has trouble remaining faithful to ously, the film's premise con his wife (Kate Kapshaw) seems doning adultery is intrinsically too insubstantial for even a TV offensive. 0 TV Program movie. The principals seem to be "My Body, My Child," 9·B Catholic lmd the young woman, a Catholic school teacher, wears p.m., (ABC), April 12: Vanessa a T-shirt with '~Mother of Redgrave must decide whether to bear birth to a baby that is Christ" written across it through out most of the film', a sniggery probably deformed or have an .. bIt of exploitation in keeping abortion. The plot centers on an Irish with the rest of the movie. It is American Catholic school teach classified 0 because it presumes er (Ms. Redgrave), mother of to deal seriously with moral is three grown daughters, who is sues without bringing any moral overjoyed at the prospect that weight to bear upon them. she may be pregnant. A doctor "I Ought To Be in Pictures" misdiagnoses her condition, puts (Fox): ,Libby Tucker (Dinah Man her on transquilizers and in off) hitchhikes ,to California from creasingly more harmful drugs. Brooklyn to break into movies Throughout this ordeal, she and renew acquaintance with her gets no help from her family father, Herb (Walter Matthau), who think her problems are all who deserted her and her mother in her mind. Finally x-rays re to become a Hollywood writer in veal that she is 15 weeks preg this screen version of the Neil nant and that her baby has al· Simon play adapted by Simon. most no chance of normal de· Young Miss Manoff, ,though good, veloPIJle'nt. pushes a little too hard, pushy Although the program ends be part, ,but Matthau as Herb is fore she decides what to do, the better than his material, as is script has stacked the deck in Ann-Margret as his mistress, a favor of "termination," It does woman of heroic self-effacement this not simply on an emotional who, seems much too good for level (the potential fetal defects) grumpy old Herb. The film is but more essentially by a false rather contrived, but there are moral equation of abortion with some laughs and tears, together the stopping of extraordinary with Matthau's performance, medical intervention in the case making for moderately good en of a terminally ill patient. tertainment. Because Of a brief The medical profession seems nude scene and the arrangement to be the script's chief target but between Herb and Stephanie, it Catholics will be concerned is rated A3, PG. about the fudging of the moral . "The Story of Christiane F." issues. Religious Broadcasting (New World): This clinical yet Sunday, April 11, WLNE, lurid account of a 13-year-old girl's descent into ,the hell of Channel 6, Diocesan Television drug abuse was a box office hit Mass for Easter, celebrated by in ,West Germany where it was Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at II made, but it hicks moral perspec "Confluence," 8. a.m. each tive adequate to the horrific Sunday, repeated at 6 a.m. events it matter-of-factly chron each Tuesday on Channel 6, Is kles. It is suggested ,that Chris-' a panel program moderated by tiane (Natja Brunkhorst) was Truman Taylor and having as driven to drugs by her sterile permanent participants Father environment, but that's not quite Peter N. Graziano, diocesan dl enough. We have no idea why rector of social services; Rev. Dr. her mother should be so un- _ Paul Gillespie of the Rhode Is· aware of what's happening or land State Council of Churches; why, at one critical juncture, she and Rabbi Baruch Korff. seems to abandon Christiane to "The Glory of God," with her fate. Because of the squalid- Father John Bertolucci, 7:30 p.m. ity depicted, innumerable scenes each Sunday on Channel 25.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of FaII.River~Fri., April 9, 1982
ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH
ST. PIUS X, S. YARMOUTH
ST. RITA, MARION
Henry Callen will speak and Easter greetings have been Confirmation candidates will extended to parishioners by St. be queried on their readiness for show slides on American folk the sacrament at "i p.m. Tuesday lore and antiques at the Wom- Rita's '''adopted'' child,Nilda of in the church hall. Youth Minis . en's Guild meeting scheduled for Brazil, who was selected for the 7:30p.m. Tuesday at -the church parish by. the Christian Chil
try representatives will then ex dren's Fund.
plain their'· program in which hall. Refreshments. confirmed young people are eli
FANnLY LIFE CENTER, O.L. GRACE, WESTPORT gible to participate. Refresh Good! Fdday services will be N.DARTMOUTH ments. held at 3 p.m. today. The Way A CARE program for Holy Appreciation is expressed to of the Cross will ,take place at 7 Rosary ·parish, Taunton, will the parish women who designed take place VVednesday. and sewed apostles' costumes tonight., worn by 12 first communion VINCENTlANS, GREATER FR ST. JAMES,. NB ST. NnOHAEL, SWANSEA candidates at a recent special T.he council will meet ~t 7 p.m. A Ladies" Guild business Volunteers to assist in the liturgy.. Tuesday at Blessed Sacrament meeting at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Catholic Charities Appeal are Church,~ Fall River. A business April 21, an the lower church ST.ANNIE,FR asked to contact Father Nor The Service of the Passion will session ,will follow. Mass. Mem-.. hall will be followed by a dem-· mand Boulet, 676-3196.. bers will celebrate St. Vincent onstration of creative stitchery Gratitude is expressed to Mrs. begin at 3 p.m. today. At 7 p.m. de Paul Day Sunday, April 25. by Barbara Lavigne. Refresh Germaine Domingue of West _.the pa.rish's 92nd ,annual para ments. port for making 22 cassocks for liturgieal and dramatic repre NOTRE, DAME, FR sentation of .the Way of the Knights' of the Altar. . One hundred students from PRAYER EVENING, Parents of first communicants Cross and descent from the cross the parish school will enact the BRIGHTON will meet at 10:30 a.m. or 7 p.m. will take place. Church musicians are anvited Passion lof Christ in the church The Home and School Asso Tuesday, April 20, in the church to an evening of prayer con ciation will meet at 7:30 p.m. 'at 7 -toni~ht, with Andrew Rat hall. . ducted by F·ather Stephen Doyle, Thursday in the school hall. cliffe taking the part of Christ OFM at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April, BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER Sister Eliza.beth Menard, OP, for the fourth year. The pro 30, at St. John's Seminary, gram, dncluding. audiovisual ac GROUP,FR will speak on "Dealing with companiment, will conclude with Brighton, under sponsorsJlip of Television." The group ds sponsoring a se the Boston Archdiocesan Litur an Alleluia Dance of Resurrec ries of Life in the Spirit seminars ST. LOlUlS, FR tion. Music and song will be by gical Commission. All welcome. open to all beginning at 7:30 p.m. senior and junior folk group No charge. Secular Franciscans of St. members. Tuesday. April 20, and continu . Louis Fraternity ~ will mee't CHARISMATIC LEADERS ing for seven Tuesdays. If suffi The diocesan leaders' group cient participants are interested, 'Wednesday, beginning their ses SS. lPE'EER & PAUL. Flll sion with 6:30 p.m. Mass. All will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, a second group will begin Thurs Parishioners are invited to at April 17, at Our Lady of Victory day, April 22. Sessions will take invited. tend a schoolyard ceremony at Church, Centerville. T.he gath place at the chapel of Blessed CARMlELII'll'IE MONASTIERY, 10 a.m. ,Friday, April 16, when ering, hosted by the Cape Cod Sacrament church, F'all River. schoolchildren will release hun S.DARTMOlUTJIl[ deanery, will hear a teaching by SACRIED EEART, FR As part of thec'ommunity's dreds of 'ballons in observance of Dr. William Larkin. All wel the parish's 100th anniversary. come. Participants should bring A children's Way of the Cross celebration of the 400th anni A partyi for the children will lunch. will take place at noon today versary of the death of St. follow. and the traditiona~ Good Friday. Teresa of Avila, Father Paul A Mass with Bishop Daniel A. HOLY NAl\JE, NB service will be held at 4:30 p.m. Fohlin, OCD, .will celebrate a Cronin as principal: celebran~ The Couples' Club will host a votive Mass of Our Lady of Mt. communion. breakfast following ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN 'Carmelat 2 p.m. Saturday, April will be offered at 5 p.m. Satur 11 ·a.m. Mass Sunday, April 18. 24, in the -monastery chapel. An day, April17,also in observance Schedules for Eucharistic min of the centenary. A dinner dance Sister Lucille Levasseur of the audiovisual program on' St. Te isters are available in the sac Diocesan Family Life Center resa will follow. All welcome. will follow at the Coachmen res risty. . taurant, Tiverton. will speak. All welcome. 'Infor Applications for the parish mation: Roland Blanchard, 992 CYO bov.:ling tournament should' 5122. be returned by Thursday, April ST. MARK, ATTLE. FALLS 15. ' . The Women's Guild will pre sent "Spring Fling" at 8· p.m. ST. MARY, NB Monday, April 19. . . A new series of Tuesday morn BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR ing discussion meetings will be Women's Guild elections will gin at 10 o'clock May 4 in the CCD center under direction of be held ·Wednesday. ST. MARY, SEEKONK Sister Rita. The Sacrament of the Sick ST. STANISLAUS, FR will be administered at a 2 p.m. Easter foods and baskets will Ma~s Sunday, April 18. be blessed at noon ·and 2 and 4 O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK p.m. tomorrow. Easter devotions The Women's Guild will meet honoring i Our Lady of Czesto at 8 p.m. April 14. Scholarships chowa will take place at 6:30 are available for students who Sunday night. are m~mbers of active. parish A springtime Bible series con families. ducted by Father Robert Kaszyn ski, pastor, Will begin following ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE" SWANSEA 7 p.m. M~ss Thursday. All wel come. ' Slides on Lourdes will be The ,Men's Club will meet shown at 'a St. Anne's Sodality Sun~aYJ April 18. meeting at 8 p.m. April 21.
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ST. JOS'EPH, NB
, A Legion of Mary holy hour will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 23. All welcome. Confirmation rehearsal will take place at 5:30 p.m. Wednes day and the sacrament will be administered at 7 p.m. Friday,' April 16. Senior citizens will :hold a so cial meeting Thursday, April 15, and officers will be installed Thursday, April 22, at Thad's restaurant from noon to 4:30p.m. LEGION OF MA,RY
The diocesan curia will spon sor a retreat June 4 and 5 'at Sacred -Hearts Seminary, Ware ham, under direction of Father Roger Charest; SMM. Informa-. tion: Miss Alice Beaulieu, 995 2354.
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