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Specu lotion Grows As to Next Pope By John Muthig VATICAN CITY (NC)-As the pontificate of Pope Paul VI enters its final phase, the work of sizing up "papabili" - leading candidates for the papacy - is going on in the minds of the 11 5 cardinals now eligible to elect the next pope. Whom will they choose? Although a non-cardinal would be eligible for the job, no one outside the College of Cardinals is currently considered a likely candidate to become路 spiritual leader of 700 million Catholics and one of the most visible signs of the spiritual realm to many hundreds of millions of other religious believers.
DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES officials discuss appointment of Father .Horace J. Travassos as observer to the Council Assembly. From left, Father Travassos; Frederick Hutchinson, Council president and member of the First Baptist Church, Fall River; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin; Rev. Robert E. Bell, Council executive director and pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, Fall River.
Council, Diocese Take Ecumenical Step At the invitation of the Greater Fall River Council of Churches, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has an路 nounced appointment of Father Horace J. Travassos as official Roman Catholic observer to the Assembly of the council. Father Travassos is assistant chancellor of the diocese and co-chairman of the Diocesan Ecumenical Commission. This appointment reflects the increasing cooperation between the diocese and the council, which represents most major Protestant denominations and 16 area churches. It was suggested at a conference co-sponsored by the council and the diocese at Case House, Swansea, during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The step also implements an appeal for Christian unity made in January by Protestant, Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox leaders of Massachusetts. The churchmen noted that "a primary role of church leaders is to be advocates for Christian unity and that a fundamental need in our time is eduucation for ecumenism." It is felt that Father Travassos' participation with the council Assembly will foster better communication and understanding b~tween the churches, leading to greater ecumenical cooperation. and involvement. In pursu!lnce of the goal of ecumenism, Father Travassos is attending the 15th national
Workshop on Ohristian Unity, which began Monday and closes today in Tulsa, Okla. Among recent local ecumenical undertakings was co-sponsorship by the council and diocese
of a religious arts festival, held last November at the Central Congregational Church in Fall River. It proved so successful, a similar project is planned for the coming fall.
Within the college, three names stand out - Italian Cardinals Sergio Pignedoli and Sebastiano Baggio and Argentinian Cardinal Eduardo Pironio - but two other Italians and four more non-Italians are among those whose names often come up. It is impossible to give just one name, for none of the cardinals who could now walk into the sealed-off conclave rooms of the Renaissance Apostolic Palace has the election sewn up. It is equally difficult to draw
a profile of the type of pope the c~lrdinals will want. For the next conclave will not fi,; into the mold of other concb.ves. Never before has a conclave promised to be so large, so international. The former balance, weighted Turn to Page Ten
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Deplores $candalous Acts PROVIDENCE, R.I. (NC) B:.shop Louis Gelineau of Providence, calling the reception of Communion by Catholic nuns and others at" a service conducted by a female Episcopal priest "II scandal," said all who took part made a "serious error" against church teaching and cllnon law. The Communion service was oonducted by the Rev. Elizabeth Habecker April 1 following her lecture to 50 people at Me. Auley House, a soup kitchen operated .by the Sisters of Mercy. Rev. Habecker, who has a five-year-old daughter and whose husband is studying for the priesthood, is rector of St. Turn '0 Page Seven
Proxmire: 'We Sell Death' DE KALB, Ill. (NC) - Calling the sale of weapons and military equipment by the United States to other nations "our national shame," Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) told students at Northern Illinois University, "We sell death - and we sell it everywhere." The senator's appearance at the De Kalb, Ill.. campus was sponsored by the university's Newman Center as part of its "Quest for Peace," a monthlong series of workshops, films and prayer services designed to promote world peace. Echoing the U.S. Catholic Conference's call to encourage "reasonable risks for peace," Proxmire said the U.S. is the world's leading arms merchant and currently has back-orders for weapons totalling $56 billion. "We sell twice as much as Russia," he said. "We sell to both sides in a conflict. It's now proposed that we sell arms to Saudi and Egypt as well as the Israelis." Ending the sale of arms to other countries involves "some
risks," including less U.S. influence on the policies of other countries and fewer jobs here until manufacturing is redirected, Proxmire said. But, he added, "I think it's worth the risks." In another talk at the university, Proxmire told students that the time has come to take a tough look at military spending and the U.S. defense posture. He dismissed the theory that Russia could somehow evaeuate Turn to Page Three
Head Brother On Visitation The Superior General of the Brothers of Christian Instruction, Brother Albert Tremblay,路 will visit Fall River from April 25 through 30 as part of a worldwide" visitation of houses of his community. In this diocese the Brothers are faculty members at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall. River, and previously staffed the former Turn to Page Three
WHAT BETTER PLACE to learn about the Resurrection than in the warmth of the April sun, with one's hands full of spring flowers? So say Sister Denisita, RSM, religious education coordinator at Our Lady of FatimCj. parish, Swansea, and her young friend Margaret Smith. (Anchor Photo by Jeanne Gilbert)
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A report by a Tupelo, Miss., televis'.on monitoring organization has accused four corporations of being the "worst advertisers on prime-time television" in relation to the violence, sex and profanity on the shows which they sponsor. The "TV Sponso~s Guide," published by the National FederaUon for Decency, charged that American Home Products, Ford Motor Company, Sears Roebuck and Company and General' Motors advertised more often than other companies on programs that use violence, sex or profanity.
NEW YORK - The U.S. government's opposition to apartheid is "more rhetorical than substantive" since the U.S. Export-Import Bank is doing business as usual with the South African government, 35 officials of Catholic and Protestant groups have charged in an open letter to government leaders.
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FATHER JOSEPH LENNON, OP, Providence College vice-president for community affairs, will speak on "First Things First in Catholic Education" at the annual Diocesan Catholic Education Convention, to be held May 4 and 5 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.
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CHICAGO - Leaders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews have called on American Christians to make a nonviolent "authentic Christian response" to a proposed Nazi march through the heavjly Jewish suburb of Skokie, III. At a press' conference in Chicago, offi'cials of the national interfaith educational ·group ,mnounced plans to distribute black armbands adorned with the yellow Star of David to be worn across the country as a symbolic protest of the Nazi action. "
Lack of Teach"ing NOTRE DAME, Ind. - There is a "regrettable" absence of Catholic teaching on energy and related problems to help citizens and policy-ri:.akers, said Sister Ann Neale, director of the Bishops' Committee on Human Values, during a conference on Christian Ethics and Energy at the University of Notre Dame.
Vocateon Weakener? ROME-A Jesuit review with close ties to the Vatican has said that Religious must shed trappings of wealth and work with the poor, but they should not be involved in the front line of political parties or labor unions. The Jesuit magazines, Civilta Cattolica, said the full involvement in political parties and lahor unions weakens the vocations of Religious to be modern-day prophets.
Refusal Upheld SISTER PATRICIA LOUISE LANGAN, religious education coordinator at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, has made her final profession as a Missionary Servant of the Most Blessed Trinity in services at her community's Philadelphia motherhouse. From Mobile, Ala., she entered religious life in 1972.
LOS ANGELES-Superior Court Judge Vernon G. Foster has upheld the Los Angeles Times' refusal to accept advertising for hardcord pornographic movies, saying that the news:Japer, lacking any legal reason to the contrary, was free to withdraw from a business relationship without liability.
Seminaries Criticized ST. LOUIS-In a wide-ranging talk to about 300 people, Pope Paul VI's repre, sentative to the U.S. bishops gave a somewhat critical review of American seminary training and warned his audience not to repeat mistake;> which have been made abroad. Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, told conventioneers <:t the annual National Catholic Educational Association meeting that those who train ·prospecLve priests must, above all; be spiritual leaders.
Air Censorship Needed
CORETTA SCOTT KING, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., prays at service marking the 10th anniversary of her husband's assassination.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Catholic Conference haH told the Supreme Court that the federal law against use of indecent, profane or obscene language on the air is needed to protect the rights of the public. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in a dispute between the Federal Communications Commission and the Pacifica Foundation, the usec urged the court to uphold the law. .
They're Watching DAYTON, Ohio-The National Right to Life Committee is "closely monitoring everything that Planned Parenthood does" and will "demand that the Justice Department take action if Planned Parenthood in any way violates the civil rights of any of our members," according to Dr. Mildred Jefferson, president of the pro-life' group.
Akron Coalition A~RON,
Ohio-Akron religious leaders have formed a coalition to save an estimated 1,000 jobs that will be lost when Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. closes its passenger-car tire plant· in June. The coalition resembles an ecumenical group in Youngstown, Ohio, which is studying the feasibility of a community-worker takeover of a closed steel mill that employed 5,000 people.
UNHOLY SMOKE: For fire safety reasons, Archbishop James Byrne of Dubuque has banned congregational use of lighted candles at services such as the Easter Vigil.
Archdiocesan Probe SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador - San Salvador archdiocesan authorities have launched a full investigation into the rural warfare that recently left several Salvadoreans dead and thousands homeless. An initial archdiocesan report conflicted with the government version of events, which blamed peasant groups for attacks on villages and attributed atrocities to a Catholic peasant group.
'Authoritative Voice' VATICAN CITY - The Vatican daily dedicated a full page to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the 10th anniversary of his assassination. L'Osservatore Romano' hailed Dr. King as a "clear, persistent ... authoritative voice" of nonviolence.
Pastoral Asked BROOKLYN, N.Y.-The U.C. Catholic bishops will be asked later this year to issue a pastoral letter on the handicapped and to open an advocacy office for the handicapped, according to Father Thomas Cribbin, chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Advisory Committee on Handicapped Persons. He said he hopes the bishops will approve the letter at their general membership meeting next November.
MARY HELEN MADDEN, executive director of the National Council of Catholic Women, will be guest speaker at the 25th annual convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women on Saturday, April 22 at Bishop Connelly High School, Fall River.
Communicators Meet WASHINGTON-In an attempt to develop a national strategy for using the media in the evangelization of Americans and to draw up diocesan models to implement the strategy in parishes, representatives of several major Catholic communications organizations held a two-day consultation in Washington, hosted by the U.S. bishops' new Ad Hoc Committee on Evangelization.
$400,000 Bill NEWARK, N.J.-An estimated $400,000 in public funds has been spent on the medical and legal costs of the Karen Ann Quinlan case since the 24-year-Old woman lapsed into a coma nearly three years ago: according to an article in The Star-Ledger of Newark.
FATHER ROBERT KNAPP of John XXIII Seminary will speak at the annual communion breakfast of the Catholic Order of Foresters, following 10 a.m. Mass Sunday, April 23 at 1200 Beacon Street Motel, Brookline.
City New Desert Says NFPC
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CHICAGO (NC) - An urban pastoral document issued by the National Federation of Priests' Councils, calls cities "the new desert," where "human life is not sustained, but preyed upon." The pastoral, mandated two years ago by the NFPC's House of Delegates, includes information on urban ministry from more than 200 urban priests and ministers from 60 dioceses. It describes the city as a desert where the church is tempted to worship idols in the form of worldly power. "We often act as handmaidens to an economic system that holds human life and dignity in contempt," say the pastoral. "The story of the city is more than the tale of powerlessness - it is the tragedy of total dependence." The pastoral, entitled "Hear the Cry of Jerusalem," discusses an "urban core" of "people who neither control their own lives nor their land, who are unskilled and without recognition as a people, even by those responsible for their services and care." The urban core, the pastoral says, are the victims, not the cause of America's social and religious deformity. It says that society's economic and social aspirations are "on collision with our vocations. A candid evaluation of urban ministry would be that our efforts have borne little fruit on both an institutional and personal level."
BALTIMORE I(NC) The world premiere of "Dear Ignatius, Dear Isabel," an offer about a woman who took vows as a Jesuit in the 16th century, will take place May 5-7 at St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore. The opera, based on actual correspondence between Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, and Isabel Roser, widow of a Spanish nobleman of Barcelona, was commissioned by Loyola College of Baltimore to celebrate its 125th anniversary. Mrs. Roser and two other Spanish women took vows as Jesuits in the Church of Santa Maria della Strada in Rome on
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Cape, Islands Women Cape and Islands District V of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its annual meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at St. Elizabeth Seton parish hall, North Falmouth. Following a business session, a panel composed of Father George Coleman, diocesan director of education; Edward Tynan, Barnstable superintendent of schools; and Mrs. Andrew Mikita of Chatham will discuss "Parents' Responsibility under the 'Public School System." Hostesses will be members of the St. Elizabeth Guild and aU area women are invited to attend.
Pro-Life Suit FAIRFAX, Va. (NC) - Eleven pro-lifers being sued by an abortion clinic filed a cQ\lntersuit in U.S. District Court 'charging that the clinic has deprived defenseless unborn children of their right to life.
Christmas Day, 1545, after Mrs. Roser had prevailed upon the pope to force St. Ignatius to admit her. As a Jesuit, she administered the House of St. Martha in Rome, founded by St. Ignatius as a home for prostitutes. "Dear Ignatius, Dear Isabel" dramatizes, through the correspondence, the conflicts which eventually resulted in the release of Mrs. Roser from her vows after only 10 months of service.
Head Brother Continued from Page One Msgr. Prevost High School, Fall River. Brother Albert, a native of St. Felicien, Quebec, is in his second term as superior general of his 1700-member congregation. In other community news, preparations are being made to celebrate the golden jubilee of Brother Patrick Menard, in 1934 a co-founder of Msgr. Prevost High School and its principal during the 1945-46 academic year. After leaving his Fall River post, Brother Patrick served as dean of studies at LeMannais College, Alfred, Me., then earned a doctorate in education at the University of Montreal and was appointed superior of the American Province of his community. As superior his achiements included founding Walsh College, Canton, O. and high schools and a camp in Michigan, Ohio and Maine. He is presently treasurer and a parttime staff member of Denis Hall Junior High School in Alfred, Maine, which he also founded. His formal celebration will come in August in Plattsburgh,
Proxmire HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US: Tuesday was The Anchor's 21st birthday, so we gave ourselves a present, a new Extel teleprinter, designed to speed the flow of news from National Catholic News Service headquarters in Wasshington, D.C. Here it's viewed by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, with Father John F. Moore, editor, looking on.
Jubilee Communications Committee Announced - John Ghiorse, MeteoroIn order to give the multiphase celebrations and happenings that will be associated with the 75th Anniversary of the Diocese of Fall River sufficient media coverage and publicity, a special communications committee has been formed by Father John F. Moore, editor of The Anchor. Those who have agreed to share their talents as members of this committee are: - Rev. John F. Hogan, Diocesan Television Apostolate Coordinator, North Dartmouth - Rev. Roger Chauvette, MS, Director of Mark IV Productions, Attleboro - Rosemary Dussault, Advertising Manager of The Anchor - Susan Hassett, Station Announcer, WCI,B, Falmouth - Richard Fontaine, General Manager of Sunbeam Bakery, New Bedford
logist, Channel 10, WJAR-TV, Providence - Neil Downing, Church Page Editor, Taunton Daily Gazette Efforts have been made to make this committee a truly representative group of interested media people from each area of the diocese. It should also be noted that the major media areas of television, radio and newspaper are reflected in the talents of its members. Since plans call for a Jubilee celebration that will effect in some way all who live in this diocese, it is importa'nt that each community be well informed of events to be held not only on the parish level but also 'On the broader diocesan scene. The combined talents of this committee, it is hoped, will help co-ordinate media participation in the Jubilee.
Continued from Page One its cities and strike the United States with atomic weapons without suffering serious damage, saying that "both sides have enormous capacity for overkill." "Each of our nucl~ar submarines has enough. armament to destroy every one of the Soviet Union's important cities," he said. The submarines would continue to launch missile attacks "for years" in tb.e event of a first strike by the enemy and the resulting destruction "is too horrible to think about," he added.
Discusses Requests For Women Deacons WASHtNGTON (NC) The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate has promised that his committee will give "all due consideration" to a request by more than 50 diocesan diaconate directors that the U.S. bishops seek Vatican permission to ordain women as permanent deacons. Auxiliary Bishop Eugene A. Marino of Washington said, however, that he did not think the resolution approved by the National Association of Permanent Diaconate Directors in early March has as yet been formally submitted to the bishops' committee for considera· tion.
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Mr. Studds, Look Around, We're Here! This week The Anchor had occasion to .contact the local offices of the members of Congress who represent the area of the Fall River diocese. We were concerned about a House BiB dealing with nonprofit mailing. The office of Congresswoman Heckler was most cooperative, but the New Bedford headquarters of Congressman Studds gave the definite impression of not knowing that two-thirds of his district was in the Fall River diocese. In point of fact, it seemed they couldn't care less. It is well known, at least in the caring Catholic community, that this newspaper stands in firm opposition to Mr. Studds' aborti.on politics. As far as his stand on the issue of tax credits for private and parochial school students is concerned, information received by the Diocesan Office of Education has not been favorable. Thus, on two major issues that concern Catholics in Southeastern Massachusetts, Mr. Studds cannot be considered a sympathetic and understanding congressman. Now, adding insult to injury, his office apparent~y has developed a more than obvious attitude of disdain for the Catholic conscience that exists in his district. These facts are called to the attention of our readers that they may realize that their' feelings and sensitivities as Catholics are being ignored by a man whom they helped to attain public office. The subject is editorialized so that Catholics may begin to wake up and realize that they still have enough political clout in this area to put an end to even the slightest suggestion of anti-Catholic bias. It should be made clear that the Catholic Church in this part of the Commonwealth is being hard pressed, not only by a governor who has determinedly gone out of his way to be offensive but also by a congressman whose developing attitude is almost equally repulsive. This marked lack of concern for Catholic constituents will be allowed to grow and develop by just so much as Catholics themselves allow it to persist. It will be eradicated only when enough Catholics become deeply concerned about it and begin to act. Catholics must no longer be afraid to hide their faith when they travel in the marketplace. In the face of growing anti-Catholicism, the Church needs men and women who are not afraid to do battle with those elements in our society that disdain the faith of our fathers. Catholic community leaders, politicians, social activists, trade unionists, media persons and educators must not be ashamed to be Catholic in their social as well as their private lives. It is obvious from the events of the past few years that the national secular media, elected officials and business leaders can no longer ridicule blacks and Jews. They should not now consider the Catholic community as a dumping ground for bigotry and bias. It would be hoped that a few of our readers might take some of these reflections to heart. Some might even write a few letters and raise their voices in protest at this social injustice. Remember, blacks are not afraid today to speak up for their rights; Jews do not hesitate to defend their convictions. Why can't Catholics do the same, especially here in our own backyard where we comprise over 50% of the population?
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'A joyful mind maketh age flourishing.' - Provo 17:22
The Blessed Vision of Peace By Father John B. Sheerin Now that the Israelis have announced they have achieved their objectives in Lebanon, we can begin to give our attention once again to the search for a Middle East peace. Two months ago, peace was on our lips and in the headlines. Begin anc. Sadat embraced like two old friends. Sadat was honored as t;1e man of the year not only on the cover of Time but in the hearts of people everywhere. Then came the brutal PLO raid on the Israeli buses and the bright hopes of peace were shattered. But now we can focus once more on the' blessed vision of peace. As Pope John would say, it is more important to get together than ':0 argue as to who was right ar.d who was wrong the last few weeks. If peace comes, it wi 11 come from those who think thoughts of peace, not from tr.ose who carefully tally up righ~s and wrongs with violence in their hearts. The Middle East situation is not quite as ugly and hopeless as some imagine. The PLO did commit a savage. senseless, lawless crime, but the PLO's savagery has long been known all over the world and this latest act was no great surprise. The PLO's purpose in staging the attack was to demolish the hope for peace that Sadat had launched and we can be happy that the attack failed to endanger the ,eace. In the long run, the raid served a good purpose. It gave Israelis the opportunity and justification for cleaning out the nests of PLO
terrorists who had been lobbing shells into Israel for many years. Some journalists called the Israeli destruction of PLO bases an act of retaliation for the PLO raid, but world opinion generally, except in the case of the Arabs, saw the Israeli intrusion as an act of self-defense against other PLO raids that. were in preparation. Prime Minister Begin promised "to cut off the arm of evil" threatening his people, and he did just that. He would have been irresponsible had he failed to ward off further PLO raids. As the Vatican II document "The Church in the Modern World" asserts; "As long as the danger of war remains and there is no competent and sufficiently powerful authority at the international level, governments cannot be denied the right to legitimate defense once every means of peaceful settlement has been exhausted." The United Nations could not muster a peace-keeping force in time to ward off the threatened attacks by the PLO nor could the Lebanese army lfandle the threat. On the other hand, if the Israelis overstepped the bounds of justice and killed innocent women and children who were non-combatants, they should be condemned. Of course, it would be utterly unrealistic to ignore the problems that still stand in the way of a Middle East peace. WilJ a U.N. peace-keeping force be able to tranquilize the area around southern Lebanon? What about Syria's boast that it will help Arabs by land or in the air to carry the fight to Israel?
There are thousands of Syrian troops in Lebanon at the moment. Will they challenge the Israelis? And what about Prime Minister Begin's intransigence on the question of sovereignty for the West Bank? How is it possible to achieve a lasting peace without recognizing the legitimate rights of Palestinians who have no affiliation with the PLO terrorists? And who will handle the refugee problem in Lebanon? The Lebanese government cannot that government has been enfeebled by the long years of civil war between Christians and Moselems. Yet there are at least 100,000 refugees in Lebanon. Thirteen years ago, Vatican II warned that "the arms race is an utterly treacherous trap for humanity," and asked government and military leaders to give profound consideration to the awesome responsibility that is theirs before God and the whole human race. Otherwise humanity will experience no peace other than the dreadful peace of death. Surely there must be better means than bombs and firearms to resolve national quarrels in a manner worthy of men and women made to the image and likeness of God. "Divine Providence urgently demands of us that we free ourselves from the age-Old slavery of war." .1Inlllllll'''"'III''''"'''''...'""11I1111_........''_'''.1+I0l.1II''n''''''''""""",_ THE ANCHOR Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published every Thursday ~t 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid '6.00 per year.
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Father Martin Buote, diocesan Scout chaplain, and Francis Escobar of Somerset, a former youth consultant to the executive board of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, represented the diocese at the 25th biennial NCCS conference, held last month in Houston, Tex. There are 363,000 young people in the United States registered in Scouting under Catholic auspices, reported Father Buote, adding that Catholic units rank third as sponsoring organizations in the national Boy Scout program. The NCCS promotes spiritual formation of Catholic Scouts and leaders. With the theme of "Call to Ministry," conference speakers emphasized the role of religion in Scouting. Charles Celier, vicechairman of the World Committee on Scouting, declared, "It is impossible to separate Scouting from religion."
IN THE NEW BEDFORD office of the diocesan department of social services, Father Robert Carter counsels a married couple, a mong many that use the family counseling services of the department, a Catholic Chari ties Appeal agency.
Bishop Michael McAuliffe, episcopal moderator for NCCS, described Scouting as a program providing "rich educational experience and essential character enrichment." He noted that it "addresses all dimensions of youth ministry."
The first phase, Special Gifts, of the 37th annual Catholic Charities Appeal begins Monday, April 24. Over 850 volunteer solicitors will make 4,250 visits to professional, fraternal, business and industrial organizations throughout southeastern Massachusetts. Edward S. Machado of Somerset, this year's diocesan lay chairman, said today: I thank our special gift solicitors in behalf of Bishop Cronin for their willingness to launch this year's Appeal. I ask that all the contacts be made, starting, Monday, April 24. The best guarantee of success in this year's Appeal rests with increased giving in the special gift phase. "Parishes will receive full credit for all donations made by groups which belong to parishes. Therefore there is no better way for a parish to go "over the top" than for special gift solicitors to make their returns directly to their area headquarters...
Challenges as an individual and as a member of the NCCS were presented by Rev. Richard LaRocque, associate national chaplain: "In all your endeavors, remember your own dignity. You are a Catholic Christian Scout, whether it be under Catholic auspices or not. T)lerefore, be proud of your Christianity and be proud of your Catholicity . . . One of the most helpful things that can happen to you in your relationship to the Church and to Scouting is for you to say to yourself - and mean it I am a minister, too."
Necrology April 14 Rev. Louis N. Dequoy, 1935, Pastor, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro Rev. Cosmas Chaloner, SS. CC., 1977, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet April 15 Rev. Christopher G. Hughes, D.O., 1908, Rector, Cathedral, Fall River April 16 Rev. Arthur E. Langlois, 1928, On Sick Leave, Denver, Colorado April 18 Rev. Hugh B. Harrold, 1935, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield Rt. Rev. John F. McKeon, P.R., 1956, Pastor, St. Lawrence, New Bedford April 19 Rev. Msgr. Leo J. Duart, 1975, Pastor, St. Peter the Apostle, Provincetown April 20 Rev. Edward F. Coyle, S.S., 1954, St. Mary Seminary, Paca St., Ml\ryland Rev. James ,E. O'Reilly, 1970, Pastor Emeritus, Mount Carmel, Seekonk
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First CCA Phase To Open April 24 Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Appeal director said: "In behalf of the many in need receiving assistance from the services and apostolates of the Appeal, I urge all groups to continue their generosity in an increased measure this year. Needs are greater,
hence a greater response is needed." Area headquarters in Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro, and the Cape will record returns from special gift solicitors. This Appeal phase ends officially on Saturday, May 6.
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Around the world, missionaries like this priest in Tanzania are teaching people to make a living. Because no one can listen to the Good News of Christ on an empty stomach.
Project FAITH Participants Sister Maureen Mitchell and Sister Patricia Custy, both of Nazareth School, 887 Highland Ave., Fall River, have been named by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as delegates to the secinar April 18 to 20 at Our Lady ond annual Project FAITH semof Peace Retreat House, Narragansett, R.I. Project FAITH, an' acronym for Franco-American Interest in the Handicapped, is sponsored by Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the nation's largest fraternal benefit society for Americans of French descent. Open to all New England dioceses, it promotes exchange of ideas to benefit diocesan programs for the mentally retarded. Keynote speaker at the seminar will be"Rev. Msgr. Elmer H. Behrmann, Ph.D., director of the Department of. Special 'Education of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Father Bartley MacPhaidin, CSC, the new president of Stonehill College, North Easton, will be honored at a reception Monday night, April 24, at Thad's Steak House, New Bedford. The arrangements committee is headed by New Bedford Mayor John A. Markey, a Stonehill alumnus. In other news at the college, William T. Herlihy, a New Bedford native now living in Moorestown, N.J., has received an Outstanding Alumni Award. A student leader and member of Stonehill's first graduating c1as,> in 1952, he is an executive with United Parcel Service and since 1968 has served on the Stonehill board of advisers. The campus radio station is holding an auction marathon through Sunday to raise funds for its non-profit public service operation.
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Kung Criticism Called Christologi'cal Witch-Hunt By REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY
The recent denunciation of Hans Kung by the German hierarchy is the nadir of postconciliar reaction.
One has the chilling impress~ ion that the German hierarchy is now caught in the same mindset that produced the persecution of Teilhard de Chardin. One can only wonder whether Vatican Council II ever happened.
When I was in Rome last faL, it became clear that a christclogical witch-hunt was 'brewing. Even sensible and moderate people were greatly concerned about some of the theologies.! rubbish being written on Jesus of Nazareth. Heresy is still po~颅 sible; one can still write of Jesus in such a way as to cut oneself off from Christian tradition. When a theologian does this, ecclesiastical authorities have no choice but to point it out. But the temper of Rome seemed to me much more irr.,patient and sweeping. "Things are getting out of control," I heard over and over again as though Rome has' the power in the modem world to control
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are tied, 104 to 104." I can appreciate that strikes broke sweat shops, child labor, and inadequate pay, but it does seem that labor has swung out of control and that many strikes are unwarranted, unethical, immoral. but unquestionably legal.
I live in the New York This is unfortunate. Law area. Right now some elec- draws' the least' from men tricians are on strike. Rail- the absolute minimum required road, subways, and news- for existence. It's a shame that paper workers are also threatening to go out. Strikes are becoming so common, there'll soon be a "strike slot" on the news along with those for weather and sports. "Kumquat Growers are ahead of management 47 to 35; Pencil Sharpeners local is losing 27 to
in all the years of "civilization" we haven't reached a higher level of using reason, intelligence, and ethics to solve differences. If strikes solve problems, why do we keep needing them? If a worker is out for an extended period, even if he gets an increase it takes forever for him
things by unilateral decisions.
The German bishops' docu, ment on Kung is embarrassing. He is faulted not for what he says about Christ but for what he does not say - as peculiar an approach to criticism as one could possibly imagine. One must, apparently,go through the .embarrassing process of taking loyalty oaths to orthodoxy on all points - whenever one In the case of Hans Kung there' wishes to speak to any aspect is the additional danger that old of Christianity. The assumption adversaries, envious of his con- seems to be that if somebody tinued popu',arity and influence, does not explicitly profess a docwill use the christological re- trine, then he doesn't believe view as one more occasion to it. attempt to do him it, and end by hurting the Church's crediHow successful Kung's atbility far more than Kung's tempt to restate the traditional Catholic doctrine has been reo effectiveness.
mains to be,seen. But if even the most careful and reponsible attempts to rearticulate Christian belief in the divinity and humanity of Jesus are to be dismissed as heretical simply because they go beyond the restatement of the terminology of the Council of Chalcedon, then it becomes impossible for the Church to explain Jesus to the modern world.
to make up the loss. Besides, management has to make up the increased sa1aries, prices rise and it costs more to live anyway.
be out. We wouldn't have to worry about fraud or corruption in the government. The President would be leading the picket line. Think of it. All the things we complain cost too much, wouldn't. There'd be no phone, no mail, no heat, no light, no water. It wouldn't take long before we could return to an absolutely primitive existence, surviving by our own ingenuity. Soon civilization would need a Messiah to straighten things out, and a baby would be born in an abandoned tenement. He'd grow up and lead people to peace, and love, and respecting and caring for each other. Some would find Him a threat and decide to rub Him out. But it wouldn't happen. All the hitmen would still be on strike.
The principal danger of a Roman review of the present state of Christology is' that those doing it will not be able to distinguish between lunatic and sensible yhristologies and will close off all attempts to reinterpret JeSliS for the modem world.
anything. The principals and teachers would bel>n strike. There wouldn't be any thing to do because the movies, McDonNevertheless, I believe we'll aIds', bowling alleys, and pool see an end to strikes, and the halls would all be closed. Kids solution will come from the wouldn't even be able to go to younger generation. Young the libraries because they'd be people rejected war, recogniz- locked too. ing that everybody loses. I There would be no point in wouldn't be surprised if they going home because mothers take the same action against would be out on strike. This strikes. They may paraphrase would make little difference their quip: "What are you going anyway because there would be to do if you hold a strike and no stores open to buy food, nor nobody comes?" soap or water to clean. But there might be a more It would solve the problem of immediate solution. Suppose we dropping church attendance. hold a Wor1d Strike. Everybody How could you go to Mass if all out! Labor management, retired, the priests were on strike? unemployed . . . everybody! No one could complain about Kids would refuse to go to' taxes. There'd be no one to pay school. They wouldn't be missing them to because the IRS would
The simple truth is that the Chalcedon vocabulary is largely meaningless to the modem world, and to say that Jesus is one person and two natures is to tell modem man nothing about him. And so we retreat back into our caves.
WIC: A Government Program It's Hard To Fault By
JIM CASTELLI
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government program not only works, but_ those in real need, is a special feeding pro-'
gram for women, infants and children. Initiated in 1972 by the late Sen. Hubert Humphrey, WI C provides food supplements to pregnant women, newborns and
children under five nutritionally at risk. The program provides food supplements high in iron, protein, calcium and Vitamins. Before WIC there was no federal program to feed needy children before they began school. Supporters say the program now reaches only about one in five of those eligible, becau~e of inadequate funding. But WIC has been widely hailed as a success for those who have used it. "The WIC program, where it is operating, has achieved dramatic results," Rep. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) said in introducing a bill
to expand WIC in the House. "One of the most significant outcomes of WIC has been the introduction of preventive health to many of our nation's families," Sen. Muriel Humphrey, who was named to her husband's seat when he died, told the Senate when she introduced the WIC bill there. "The WIC program has been especially crucial for women attending prenatal clinics," she said. "These, women are attend路 ing such clinics much earlier than usual, with an accompany~ ing beneficial health impact." Sen. George McGovern (DS.D.) told a conference on mal-
nutrition that medical studies found that women who participate in WIC gain more height, give birth to larger babies and suffer less frequently from anemia than women in similar conditions who don't participate. Babies are healthier and also suffer less frequently from. anemia, he said.
The Carter administration has asked a raise in WIC funding from $400 million to $535 million. Congressional supporters have asked for an increase to $650 million, but concede it will be difficult to get even the administration's request through Congress, where appropriations committees are still talking about $400 million. WIC also has its fans in the ,"No one is against feeding Catholic community, including mothers or babies," one Senate the U.S. Catholic Conference staffer remarked. "They can't Committee for Social Develop- say it even if they are. But we ment and World Peace, the will hear that no program can bishops' Committee. on Pro-Life handle a 40 percent expansion Activities and the National , in one year. We have to show Conference of Catholic Chari- that the need is there and that ties. the program works."
No More Dfeaming, It's Time for Real Gardening By
JOSEPH RODERICK
As I write, my hands are sore and my back and legs are vying with my spine for stiffness; altogether, I feel I've made a painful start on my
spring gardening. We're off to a late start into the bargain, with the continuing cool weather. As I surveyed my yard, I realized that the winter was particularly rough on shl'Ubs. i~l.:y azaleas have taken a beating and quite a few iris developed basal rot. For years we have had a growing number of forget-menots reproducing by themselves in the garden and they make a very good display in early
Spring, but the snow covering just about wiped them out. Taking everyfhing into account, though, the garden seems to have done fairly well and we await the new season with pleasure. Yesterday we broke down one of our compost heaps, turning it over so its dry outer edges will get some action. It is still partially frozen, however, and most leaves added last Fall have not yet disintegrated. It looks
as if we won't have any usable compost for at least a month, but then we will have three large bins. With all the garden work at this season, I find I must set up a reasonable schedule for myself, and I do it in terms of time. Each morning before work I make a quick pass through the garden, and on returning home I put in an hour or two before dinner. This is sufficient to keep
things going during the week and on weekends I put in four or five hours a day until the really hot weather comes, .when I get a bit lazy. As much work as gardening requires, I still find it a pleasure to get out in the fresh air and flex my muscles a bit. Working at a desk all day leaves a great deal of energy aVllilable for physical work and such work is also an excellent outlet for tensions.
Bishop Continued from Page One Ann's Episcopal Church, Wyndham, Maine. The Providence Visitor, diocesan newspaper, reported that nearly all those attending the Rev. Habecker's lecture - including nuns - received Communion in the Episcopal service. That report brought a strong reply from Bishop Gelineau, who said in an April 6 letter to diocesan priests that he did not know about the service "until the story was in print in The Providence Visitor." The article, he said~ "is very misleading and requires immediate correction." The bishop said that while the church encourages Catholics to participate in ecumenical services it does not allow them to take part actively in liturgical worship services of other denominations or services led by other than Catholic clergymen without special approval. "Fun participation, especially when signified by receiving Communion at such services, is not permitted," he said. "The service was not authorized by any diocesan agency," he said. "Those Catholics who took part in it and received Communion acted contrary to church teaching and canon law." "I deeply regret the serious error on the part of all who planned, sponsored, took part in and reported this event," he added. He asked pastors to "bring this matter to the attention of your parishioners with whatever appropriate explanation you deem necessary." A spokesman for the Sisters of Mercy could not be reached for comment. Robert F. Baldwin, editor of The Providence Visitor, said, "I don't like to think we made an error in judgment in reporting" the story. But, he added, "in retrospect, 1 wish the story had included mention of the fact that church teaching and canon law does not permit Catholics to participate in this type of service." Besides the letter to priests, Bishop Gelineau said "further steps are being taken to try to repair the scandal that has been caused."
Medical School For Archdiocese NEW YORK (NC) - The New York archdiocese's acquisition of a financially troubled hospital-medical school complex will involve no moral difficulties stemming from the Catholic teaching on abortion, according to a Church spokesman. ,Father Kenneth Jadoff of the archdiocesesan communications office said, "Nothing we're going to do is going to compromise our stance on abortion," when asked about news reports that the New York archdiocese had taken over New York Medical College and Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital, which permits abortions. Abortion techniques are taught at the nearby medical school.
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Finian's Rainbow Shines For Msgr. Dan Shalloo In 1961, when the then Father Daniel F. Shalloo was transferred from St. Joseph's parish, Fall River, to St. Louis, also Fall River, his former parishioners had a testimonial for him. Among songs was one to the tune of "Danny Boy," with the refrain, "God bless you and keep you, Father Shalloo." It wasn't a casual sentiment, tossed off as you might say "God bless you" when someone sneezes. Some members of the chorus, in fact, couldn't sing for sobbing. St. Joseph's was losing a dear friend, and it was bard to sing about it. It's the way Msgr. Shalloo affects people and it's why some members of his first parish, Immaculate Conception, Fall River, where he served from 1937 to 1942, still seek no one but him when trouble strikes. It's why it's no rarity for him now, as pastor of Holy Name Church, Fall River, to be up two or three times a night to answer hospital or home emergency calls. He is constitutionally unable to say no to anyone in need. "It was such a cold day I wouldn't have turned away the devil himself," was his characteristic explanation of a helping hand he'd extended to a dubiously credible petitioner. It's another story, however, when lit comes to·accepting something for himself. Last April 12 was his 10th year as pastor of Holy Name and last May 22 was his 40th year in the priesthood. He was adamant that nothing should be done about either anniversary. So this year the Holy Name Women's Guild, in the manner of Msgr. Shalloo's favorite football team,. the 'Boston College Eagles, made an end run around the opposition. Even though it's unusual to celebrate 11th and
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Schismatic Nuns TORONTO (NC)-Catholics in the Toronto area have been warned by an archdiocesan offi~ial to ignore a band of "schis:->"tics" po~in'!" R.S Catholic nuns who are soliciting money for their Quebec-based order known as the Apostles of Infinite Love.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Rp.ligious groups have backed Sun Day, May 3 (a Wednesday), an observance proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter. The purpose of the day is to promote what organizers call "The world's only inexhaustible, predictable, egalitarian, nonpolluting, safe, terrorist-resistant and free energy source" the sun. All 50 states have already proclaimed May. 3 Sun Day and local activities, including conferences and solar energy demonstrations, are being planned acr.oss the country. The U.S. bishops' Committee on Human Values has publicized the day in its newsletter and Network, an organization of Religious lobbying on social justice issues, has endorsed the celebration. The National Catholic Rural Life Conference has supported Sun Day and encouraged rural life directors to get involved with local programs.
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From Assisi Dear Editor: Receiving a letter f:rom Assisi is a very special event and I would like to share it with you. It is written by Father Giordano Carpinelli, II your.g American Franciscan studying at the University of Perugia: "On Friday, Feb. 26, I wa.5 privileged to see the earthly remains of St. Francis. The tomb was opened in early February in the presenoe of a papal commission. The purpose was to examine the condition of the remains, clean them with alcohol to remove organisms and then seal them in a plexiglass he:metic box. "Religious and priests were invited to view the remains before they were sealed. The skull we.s completely broken . . . Francis was buried in 1226. In 1230, tt.e body, still in the stone tomb (originally a water trough), was transferred to the new Basilica of St. Francis. It is thought that in the transfer the head detached and broke in the coffin. "When the tomb, lost for almost six centuries, was redi5covered in 1818, they openEd the tomb and placed Francis' remains in a bronze box coffh, plated inside with gold. "This (last February) is the first time since 1818 that the tomb was opened,'~ Father Carpinelli continues his letter with comment on the present political situation in italy. Major Dean's commentary follows.) And so came the letter out 'Jf Assisi, like a whisper from another century and an ugly crash from the present day. It WilS written before the horrible kidnapping of Signor Moro and tle brutal street murder of his escorts. The terror in Italy and in Northern Ireland and other places strikes fear in us all a:ld we feel the need for a modern day Francis. Major Kathleen Dean Fall River
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Dear Editor: It was great to read in Th'e Anchor' the article on the Bishops' project for revitalizing p3r· ish life. We are beginning to see sparks of "good news" happening everywhere in our beloved church. For too long many of us have been in hibernation. It seems to me we've been trying to d:~ag Jesus with us where we W,lI1t to go. It is high time we let him take the lead and follow him. Though we will be hearing more and more about evangelization, we .had better rededicate curselves to the cause: Jesus, the way, the truth and the life. In the words of Father Robert Kaszynski at the religious education workshop in Rh:>de Island: "we can't just te3ch 'about' Jesus, we must convey to others through our wo:~ds.
actions, our lives that we are in love wit:'1 Jesus and all he is to us," With this in mind I offer to all of our beautiful and dedicated pastors the Cursillo method. Cursillo is foremost in my mind because it iF. how my family and I fell in love with Jesus all over again .. Some parishes are offering evenings of information where different speakers offer theirviews on CJrsillo, Marriage £ncounter and the Charismatic Renewal. I ple3d with good pastors everywhere to offer these speakers' nights. There are many who would come forward to witness. . . . I, for one, offer my humble help should anyone inquire. John O. Rego Swansea
Mother Teresa Dear Editor: Would you or your readers have the mailing address of Mother Ter3sa of Calcutta? Mrs. R. McAuliffe Sandwich Mrs. Wi1lliam duMont of OUf Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, International Affairs Commission ch~tirman of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, reports that correspondence and donations for Mother Teresa may be sent to Co-Workers of Mother Teresa in America, c/o Msgr. J. R. Felten, treasurer, Box 6546, Rochester, Minn. 55901. Contributions may be unrestricted e·r may be earmarked for particu)lar countries or projects. Ed.
From DCCW Dear Editor: On beilalf of the Fall River Diocesan (;ouncil of Catholic Women, may I extend sincere congratulations and deep appreciation ':0 you and the entire Anchor staff for the excellent special su?plement printed in 'observance of "Our Marian Silver Jubilee," The format, designs and the moving "Mooring" editorial contribute greatly to a cherished remembrance of our 25th Anniversary. We are especially honored to have within our membership, Mrs. Mich.lel J. McMahon, a past' president E,nd National Chairman of the Organization Services Commission who served as the editor and coordinator of this edition. SI-,e is to be highly commended and credited for her suggestion and voluntary service. We w.sh to convey our thanks and gratitude for the forsesight of our Beloved Bishop James L. Connolly as organ'izer, the continued and outstanding {:ooperation of His Excellency, Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin the fidelity and loyalty of the Moderators, Diocesan Clergy, O~'ficers and members of the Diocesan Board, all the good women of the Fall River DCCW, the donors of the Congratulatory ads, the entire Anchor staff and to all for their contributions
in the special Anchor edition on the joyous occasion of our Silver Jubilee. May Our Lady of Good Counsel, Patroness of the National Council of Catholic Women, bless each and everyone of you. Mrs. James W. Leith President Fall River DCCW
Grateful Words Dear Editor: The 25th Anniversary Supplement of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women represents the cooperation of The Anchor and the members of the Council. It was made possible through the efforts of many people. A grateful word to you for the additional work neces· sary to print this supplement. Your cooperation made our part of the task easy. We especially wish to thank Rosemary Dussault for her work on our ads and you and Pat McGowan for "putting it all together." The DCCW is grateful to the business advertisers who SUJ::ported our efforts, the di!!tri:t and affiliate presidents and members who cooperated in securing ads and the individuai affiliates who expressed their own messages of congratulations. Lest we seem not to appreciate our Commission Moderators - each dedicated to the work of his Commission Chairman- we hasten to note that it had been planned to have their
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The additional copies of The Anchor that you have made available for distribution at our Convention will add a speCial touch to the Convention program. It was a pleasure working with you and The Anchor staff. Please accept our sincere appreciation for publishing our Anniversary Supplement. Mrs. Michael J. McMahon Chairman of the Anniversary Supplement Edition
Editor's Note: In reply to a reader who asked for information on St. John Neumann, material may be found in The Anchor for June 16, 1977 and may also be obtained from the Redemptorist Fathers, 7509 Shore Road, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11209.
Two Diocesans MCFL Directors Eugene Mulligan of Barnstable and Wilson Curtis of Swansea are members of the board of directors of Massa·chusetts Citizens for Life following. elections held at the organization's annual meeting. Mrs. Katherine P. Healy of Wellesley was re-elected president of the nonsectarian pro-life group which has over 100 chapters and 100,000 members throughout the commonwealth.
"The American Catholic Experience: A Vision with a Future" was the theme. of the annual meeting of the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education, held last week in Milwaukee and attended by Father Michel G. Methot, representing the Fall Among its principal goals is River diocese. Major speakers included Dr. _ passage and ratification of a Arthur Harkins of the University human life amendment to the Constitution providing of Minnesota, who spoke on the U.S. ability of the Church to adapt to right to life protection for all complex and pluralistic culture. human beings, bom and unborn. He noted that Church leaders must stress human imagination Ellen McCormack and tolerance and respect for Ellen McCormack, a promivarying approaches to changing nent leader of the nationwide situations. Also speaking was Father Da- Right To Life movement, will vid Tracy, STD, professor of speak at Slavin Center of Provitheology at the University of dence College at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Chicago, who discussed the value April 18. She will discuss poliof conservatives in Church tradi- tics, the need for a constitutional tion, pointing out their value in convention and the implications conserving the richness of clas- and effects of the Equal Rights sicism and bringing its gifts to Amendment. contemporary thinking. The true conservative, he said, calls Leon Caravan people to the "central realities" of belief. Leon Caravan 122 of the InterIn a discussion session Bishop natif'mal Order of the Alhambra Carroll Dozier of Memphis chal- will..hold a communion supper lenged delegates to renewed foll'owing 6:30 p.m. Mass Saturcommitment to justice as pro- day, April 15 at St. Louis de claimed in the Gospel and the France' Church, Swansea. Dancteachings of Vatican II. ing will conclude the evening. Workshop programs were held The organization specializes in in nine interest areas, each re- providing scholarships for stulating to the major speakers' dents in the field of special edutopics. cation.·
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Not Only Bish'ops Speak for Church By Tom Lennon Often in religious newspapers are headlines like these: POPE CONDEMNS WAR, CHURCH SPEAKS OUT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, or perhaps BISHOPS CONDEMN ABORTION. The stories that follow often speak of lengthy documents that are regarded as official messages from the church. For the average person these documents are difficult reading because of the lengthy sentences and the jawbreaking words. And the truth, whether we like it or not, is that when 'the church speaks out in this way, not many people pay attention. But the church also speaks the message of Jesus through many other people in much simpler, more vivid language. These other spokespersons reach a much wider audience, and their messages are listened to carefully and have great effect. The persons who speak these loud, clear messages about Christian living are people like you. All of you reach Christians and non-Christians whom the pope and the bishops never have an opportunity to talk with. Sometimes you are in touch with people who never go to church, who don't care if the pope ever speaks, and who list
Jesus as figure belonging solely to the past. The layperson speaks most forcefully by what he is and does. One act of kindness can have the power of a hundred headlines. Someone who uses a goodly portion of his or her hard-earned money to help the poor is a mighty preacher of the Gospel. And a person who has control of himself in regard to sexuality speaks more vividly than 10 church documents. Sometimes we can speak profound religious truths - and not even mention religion. Once at a health spa a young man whom I knew fairly .well was talking enthusiastically about his free-wheeling sex life. Then came a question about why I didn't follow the same lifestyle. I said quietly, "That kind of sex is the path to lots of fun but it's not the path to happiness." The young man thought for a moment, then nodded assent - and I hadn't irritated him with preachiness or a selfrighteous attitude. It was a matter of speaking the truth with human words and simple language. Unfortunately not all the messages spoken by Catholics to the world are effective ones. The Catholic who is a waspish office gossip projects meanness
rather than love. The Catholic high school sophomore who gets falling-down drunk speaks of a lack of self-control. The Catholic who is anti-Semitic proclaims a message of intolerance and spite. And the foul-mouthed Catholic gives the lie to these words of Scripture: "No insults or obscene talk must ever come from your lip.> . . . Use only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that whtlt you say will do good to those who hear you" (Colossians 3:8; Ephesians 4:29). In a sense it is true that in everything we say or do the Church of Christ speaks to the world. And so a message from the second Vatican Council seems worth repeating: "For although the Catholic Church has been endowed with all divinely reve~led truth and with all means of grace, her members fail to live by them with all the fervor they should. As a result, the radiance of the Church's face shines less brightly in the eyes of our separated brethren and of the world at large, and the growth of God's kingdom is retarded. Every Catholic must therefore aim at Christian perfection." (The Second Vatican Counr.il, Decree on Ecumenism, No.4).
These 'Paper Profits' Are Worthwhile (NC News Service) Several Ohio parishes have found an ecological way to bolster their parish economies, and with church groups across the country are discovering that newspaper recycling can add sizable "paper profits" to operating funds. Clyde Zornes, a piam superintendent at American Packaging, where most Cleveland area parishes take their papers, said that at least a quarter of the company's clients are Catholic groups. American Packaging currently pays $20 per ton for
newspapers and Zornes said "some people can cram as many as 12 tons into a 10-ton dumpster." The company picks up, sorts and bales the papers, then ships them to a paper mill for recycling. St. Thomas More Church in Brooklyn, Ohio, a 2,300-family parish, collects about 15 tons a week, and Father R. Joseph Murray, pastor, estimates $50,000 has been netted in the past 10-12 years from newspapers. Each group has its own col-
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Cardinal Pignedoli, 67, has been a close friend of Pope Paul since before the war, and is best known for his charming personality. He is famous for his correspondence with 6,000 young people --:- many of them nonChristians from the Third World and Japan. But critics say that his outstanding pastoral qualities are not backed up by thoroughness, discretion or a good intellectual background.
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Wi¡thin Dr. C. Norman Shealey, one of the nation's top pain specialists, maintains that patients must first :leal their spiritual ailments. "My feeling is this: An individual who is not in touch with his or her ideals cannot be healed," said Dr. Shealy in an interview with The Times Review, diocesan newspaper itt LaCrosse, Wis. "That means that you have to get in touch with your spiritual ideals which some people can the inner being, some people call the higher self and some people call the soul." Dr. Shealy, who, operates a pain clinic on his 565-acre farm about 10 miles outside of LaCrosse, started the first Pain Rehabilitatio:l Center in the country in :971. Previously he was chief of neurosurgery at the Gundersen Clinic in La Crosse. The sometimes controversial physician has been called "more of a faith healer than a doctor" but he cons:ders that charge a compliment. "Sir William Ostler, known as the father of American medicine, published a book in which he stated that the trademark of the profession is faith," he sa:.d. "Now, in :ny opinion, there is no such thing as a good physician who is not a faith healer," Dr. Shealy added. "If the patient does not have faith in the physician, healing rarely occurs." The most common pains bringing patients to clinics are in the back, says Dr. Shealy. But in the last two years, the number of persons suffering from "stress diseases" such as high blood pressure and asthma has greatly increased. Such diseases, he be-
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DR. SHEALY Iieves, are "actually a reaction to stress in one's life." The La Crosse physician whose techniques for managing pain envolved from surgery to behavorial modification, to biofeedback and autogenic training, has developed a 12-day "biogenics" program which consists of exercises designed to relax the body, balance the nervous system and emotions and program changes in the body or the mind. "And ultimately, to put one in spiritual attunement, which I consider essential for healing. "Basically, I'm trying to make my patients responsible for their own healing," said Dr. Shealy. "In contrast to a faith healer, I'm trying to give them faith in themselves. Some people don't want that, they want the miracle, external cure. "But ultimately. healing comes from within. It cannot come from without. We, physicians, only help those situations where we can temporarily help the body get back into balance so the body can heal itself."
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Continued from Page One heavily in favor of the Italian cardinals, has been overturned. Pope John XXIII was elected by a conclave composed of 35 percent Italians and 25 percent Third World cardinals. In the conclave which elected Pope Paul, the Italians again had 35 per cent of the vote and the Third World - Africa, Asia and Latin America combined - less than 23 per cent. But if a conclave were called today, the Third World would have a solid 40 per cent of the vote and the Italians less than 24 per cent. The concerns of tomorrow's conclavists a::e also vastly different from the concerns of yesterday's cardinals. In 1958 and 1963, _electors came mostly from prosperous democracies. But today, most cardinal-electors live in nations where governments limit the church's freedom of expression and action or from countries (including Italy} where communists are making a serious bid for power. What sort of pope will these men want? Perhaps in the next conclave
They point out that at a conference with Moslem Arabs in Tripoli, Libya, in 1977 the cardinal signed a final statement, unaware that it contained a sweeping condemnation of the state of Israel. His frankness in admitting his error, however, endeared him all the more to supporters. Cardinal Baggio, 65, has since 1973 headed the powerful Congregation for Bishops, which has ~the major say in naming bishops worldwide. He is multilingual, with a fair command of English, and travels widely. Well-educated and open, he is low-key and somewhat retiring in public. As president of the Papal Commission for Latin America, he has maintained ties with that key region. Both Cardinal Pericle Felici, 66, and Cardinal Giovanni Benelli, who will be 57 in May, are mentioned by some as papabili. But Cardinal Felici, head of the church's highest court and of the commission revising the church's canon law, is considered too conservative to draw the necessary votes. Nor has support formed around Florence's Cardinal Benelli, Pope Paul's former righthand man when he was papal undersecretary of state at the Vatican. His close ties with the pope may be seen as a negative factor by cardinal-electors looking for a change at the Vatican.
Perhaps the non-Italian with - the first since the Second the greatest chance is Cardinal Vatican Council - the personal Pironio, 57, one of 22 children, style, willingness to travel, born of Italian parents in Argenbrand of spirituality. extent of tina. pastoral experience and even the He has been rector of a semmedia presence of the papabili inary, university dean, general will count for more than their , secretary of the Latin American relative skill in diplomacy. Bishops' Council (CELAN), and Perhaps, given a certain lead- bishop of a large diocese, and is ership crisis in the Italian church currently prefect of the Vatican and the large number of non- Congregation for Religious. Italian cardinals, the conclave Many who meet or know him will decide on a non-Italian pope say he has a charismatic person- the first since Dutch Pope ality, but his relative youth will Hadrian VI, who reigned for one almost certainly cost him votes year in the early 16th century. among cardinals who fear an To help develop a consensus overly long reign. in the case of a divided conclave, Other non-Ualians mentioned Pope Paul revised the rules to in- as papabili are British Cardinal clude periods of open debate if George Basil Hume, abbot of one no candidate succeeds early in of England's most noted Bene" winning the necessary two-thirds dictine abbeys before he was plus one of the ballots. named archbishop of WestminMany Vatican-watchers are ster in 1976 and cardinal three convinced that in the next con- months later; and African Carclave the real candidates will be dinal Bernardin Gantin, who as president of the Pontifical Juschosen only in these debates. tice and Peace Commission is Yet the guessing about who the first black cardinal in the will be the next pope goes on. Observers still feel that an church's central administration. But both are young, with innoItalian is Hkely to emerge as next pope. The two Italians on vative ideas - qualities ~ot aleveryone's' list of papabili are ways conducive to winnin~ twoCardinals Pignedoli and Baggio. thirds plus one of any vote.
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Couple Accepts Jail for Beliefs DUBUQUE, Iowa (NC) James and Shelly Douglass believe that the U.S. government's development of the Trident nuclear submarine is destructive of their efforts toward a just and peaceful world. And because of their belief, they will each spend three months in jail this year. The Douglasses were arrested last summer for criminal trespassing when they held a July 4 picnic at the Navy base being constructed near Bangor, Wash., where the military hopes to base 30 Trident submarines, each costing $2 billion. "The picnic was a sharing of unity for the human family, as in the Eucharist," said Douglass, in Dubuque on a speaking tour for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Catholic Peace Fellowship. "The ultimate goal we are striving for is a just and peaceful world." At their trial, the Douglasses had three witnesses - a Hiroshima woman who described the nuclear bombing of her city in 1945; one of the military designers of the Trident who explained why he had jQined the movement against the submarine; and an international lawyer who said the Trident is in violation of the Nuremburg Principles and the Geneva Treaties. They lost their case, each receiving a three-month jail sentence, but will continue their nonviolent struggle. On May 22, when the Pacific Life Community to which they belong occupies the base again, they expect to have more than 1,000 people with them.
KAREN CURRAN, 10, is credited by her mother with pushing her to "do something" about abortion. After Karen saw a prolife program and slides of aborted babies, she said to her mother, Mrs. Liz Curran, who runs the Knit Shop in Martel, Wise., "If I were old enough, I would do. something about the killing of babies." Her mother thereupon decided to pledge all proceeds from sale of her knitted baby items to prolife causes, and is accepting yam to be used for such articles. Donations may be sent to her at Rte. 2, Box 54, Spring Valley, Wise. 54767.
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AUCKLAN, New Zealand A documentary film on life in the womb and abortion, believed partially responsible for new legal restrictions on abortion in New Zealand, is soon to be distributed internationally. The Douglasses, who describe The 40-minute color film, "I'd themselves as "a resistance fam- Love Her Back, Though," traces ily," have been to jail before for the life of a baby girl from protesting against war and mili- birth back to conception, using tarism. Sometimes the judge will such techniques as ultrasonic allow them to take turns so that scanning to obtain images of the one of them can be home with fetus at various stages of detheir two children. Otherwise, velopment. It also looks at two members of th~ community care cases of unwanted pregnancy for the children while their par- and describes or shows various ents are in jail. common abortion techniques. An hour after it was edited in The children themselves are very active in the anti-Trident· final form, the film was shown campaign, joining iA such activi- to members of New Zealand's ties as planting a vegetable gar- Parliament, and a few days later den on the base to symbolize Parliament passed new legislalife, passing out buttons reading tion restricting the conditions "We'd rather make toys" to se- under which abortion could be obtained legally. curity guards, Douglass said. The authors of the film, AuckHe and his wife think it is im- land journalist Pat McCarthy portant for other families to get and photographer Mike Tubberinvolved in the peace movement. ty, said they formed a two-man "If everyone has an excuse, company, Origin Films Ltd., to either family, job or other com- begin the project three years mitments, we will never change ago. The film relies heavily on and we are destined for nuclear modem diagnostic techniques war," he said. and features a commentary by Sir William Liley, a New Zealand pioneer in fetology. Lutherans P'rotest McCarthy and Tubberty said NEW YORK (NC) - Luther- they expect international disan Church officials have pro- tribution of the film and are tested NBC Radio's refusal to working ~n arrangements for a accept for paid broadcast a seg- U.S. distributor. ment of the "Lutheran Hour" in which a Lutheran clergyman disLargest Grant cusses abortion. MILWAUKEE (NC)-A $3.5 An NBC statement said the million grant to Marquette Uniprogram presents "one side of versity from the Walter Schroea controversial issue" and that der Foundation will be used to "NBC, by policy, does not sell develop a campus health sciences time for the presentation of and education complex. The views on controversial public isgrant is the largest in Marquette sues." history. (NC) -
VATICAN CITY (NC) Leading figures in the fastgrowing African Church are anxious to call a pan-African council according to a Vatican official just back from Africa. Msgr. Pietro Rossano, secretary of the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Christians, said that leading African churchmen would like to call a general council of African bishops which would include participation of the laity. "It is a thing which could be done and everyone is talking about it," said the official in an interview with NC News. The monsignor emphasized that the idea is still only being discussed. Msgr. Rossano, who participated in January in a meeting in Kinshasa, Zaire, on Christianity and African religions, said that Christianity is "vigorous in Africa and almost feels the need to explode with energy and reveal itself." The Italian priest said that the theology of the universal Church stands to gain much if a theology based on traditional African values could be developed. "The Africans have a latent capital of ideas and values which they have conserved for centuries," he said. "Many of these are values which we in the West no longer· have." Among these values, said Msgr. Rossano, is "the Africans' sense of life, its sacredness and primacy." "Africans have great ties to the elderly, to their ancestors and to the young. It is the dream of every African to see his family grow to the third and fourth generation, as the Bible says," commented Msgr. Rossano. He also said that the West could profit from the African sense of participation in the cosmos. "In the West we have devel: oped the word religion to focus on man's relation to God and to his fellowman. The Africans add another element - man's relation to the cosmos. "In an age of ecological problems, the Church must deepen this idea. Today it is not enough to speak about the injustices of technology or equal distribution of world resources," he said. Msgr. Rossano said the Church is looking to leading Africans to build a theology on the foundation of traditional African values.
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By Father Alfred McBride
By Father John J. Castelot
One of the sorrier spectacles of Christian history was the headlong conflict between a Church which had tamed barbarians, preserved classical learning and founded universities and the scientific community that burgeoned during the Renaissance, and flourished in the Enlightment. Why did the Church fall out of step and enter what was to be known as a state of siege? Perhaps weariness was one reason. In the course of two centuries the Church survived the ravages of the Black Death, the shocks of the Reformation, the diffusion of energies poured into the Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation and dispersal of thousands of its talented personnel into worldwide missionary endeavors.
Galileo 'Galilei had the misfortune of being an original thinker and scientist in an age when originality was suspect and science was so tied in with the prevailing philosophical system that to question accepted ideas was to lay oneself open to the charge of at least intellectual heresy. Galileo risked this in his dedicated pursuit of truth, and he suffered for it. He was born in Pisa on Feb. IS, 1564. He studied pre-med at the University of Pisa, but could afford only four years before having to drop out. His heart hadn't been in it, anyway; mathematics and science were his first love. His private study led to his publishing two scientific treatises, which caught the attention of a rich mathemetician who became his patron, obtaining for him a post as lecturer at the university. His reception by the faculty was cool. To begin with, he had never earned a degree. Worse still, he questioned traditional teaching. The philosophy of Aristotle had determined the. world view of Western Christian culture and was considered as providing well-nigh final answers to all questions, philosophical or scientific. Ironically, because he was a true Aristotelian in the sense of practicing free inquiry, Galileo was badgered, reviled, and persecuted. After two years in this climate, he resigned and rejoined his family in Florence. Upon his father's death, he had to support the family, but again his patron stepped in. He was made professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained for 18 years. Padua was more sympathetic to his genius and those years were productive. He invented a thermometer, wrote copiously, and developed an interest in astron_omy. He was not the only scientist of the time to propose revolutionary ideas. Nicolas Copernicus seriously proposed a suncentered universe in which planet earth revolved on its own axis and also around the sun. The idea captivated Galileo, and he dedicated his energies to proving its truth. Having heard of the. invention of the telescope, he built three, which enabled him to corroborate the Copernican hypothesis. His published findings in the "Starry Messenger" brought him instant fame and a lucrative position in Florence but also evoked strong opposition from scientific and theological quarters. He could not come up with a compelling proof for the Copernican hypothesis, and opposition grew. Theologians were alarmed Turn to Page Thirteen
A second reason was that while the Church was battling to maintain its balance, a new cordon of scientists and mathematicians emerged. They came to their conclusions without any dialogue with ecclesiastical types. Feeling the exhilaration of reason, without the tensions imposed by faith, they set in motion the scientific era. Two men symbolized the shift, Nicolas Copernicus and Rene Descartes. Copernicus concluded that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our universe. Since the previous thought systems, upon which the Church built a rational basis for faith, held the old idea, it came as a shock to find out otherwise. Hence the Galilee case, where Church authority suppressed his espdusal of the Copernican position. Rather than seeking dial. ogue, the worlds of the Church and science squared off in confrontation, an attitude ultimately far more destructive than the Protestant-Catholic cleavage. For here the battle is between faith and reason itself. Descartes, though remaining Catholic, provided a second aspect to the shift. He saw how valuable mathematics was to the new science. He applied the same to philosophy. This moved him to a position of approaching reality with methodical doubt. Its purpose was to remove exaggerated deference to authorities which might inhibit people from doing research and brainstorming new ideas. Though Descartes did not apply this method to the truths of faith, he did apply it to much of the tradition. His method became the foundation of critical rationalism, especially as applied to understanding of the Bible and the historical background and working of dogma. Such a sudden and sefming attack on Church authority could only have reTurn to Page Thirteen
'We can do advanced geneltic experimentation - should we?'
Should We Do What We Can Do? By Mary Maher A modern poet, Christopher Fry, with a look at our age, wrote: "Dark and cold we may be, but this/is no Winter now. The frozen misery jof centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;/ the thunder is the thunder of the floes, the thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.jThank God our time is now when wrong/ comes up to face us everywhere, /never to leave us till we take/ the longest stride of soul men ever took';Affairs are now soul size,jthe enterprise is explon:tion into God." Before I wrote this article I spent a few hours in the Smitl:sonian National Air and Space Museum. I needed to walk in the presence of so many of the longest strides of soul that Arr.erican men and women in science have taken - space flights to the moon, daring airplane flights. And, of course, here in Washington, as elsewhere, one knows the evidences of so many other sciences. Science and techno;路 ogy, indeed, have made awesome adances throughout the world. Some fear the control of technology. Techne the world dominated by production skills and scientific advances - can indeed control us. Writers Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford claim that it already d.oes. We have all heard the old arguments between science and religion. Remarks such as "Religion is against all scientific advance" and "Technology is going to COI'!trol us" are undoubtedly simplistic. But the question thr.t kept running through my mind as I walked about the Smithson路 ian was: How can anyone say anything in this area which is not simplistic?
IPerhaps, as long as we know that it will take years of dialogue and study to have considered and concrete judgments made between technologists and theologians, we will be in better shape. This, may sound like heady theory until we stand in line for an hour or two at a university registration waiting for our number to appear on the overhead computer screen. We feel powerless. :But then we can feel powerless in the Church as well. The Church moves forward. Technology moves forward. These are two of the most important forces in the world; and they require delicacy, sensitivity, and intelligence.
of power forces which often seek to engulf us?" Churches and synagogues have been active to assure that techne remains an extension of man's creative ability and not vice versa. They repeat again and again questions such as: Should we do everything that we can do? We can do advanced genetic experimentation - should we? Bernard Lonergan, the great Roman Catholic theologian, has called for specialization in theological work relating to the sciences. Theologians must maintain a nuanced and critical attitude towards the relative merits of scientific studies.
A big question of our age is not, interestingly enough: "Who has the final power over men and women in this world?" A big question is: "How do we live out our humanity in the midst
Truly "affairs are now soul size." That could be viewed as a statement of cautious fore路 boding. That was not the intent of the poet. His expression was one of hope.
What of the Heart? By Father Jfoseph M. Champlin Recently I described the resettlement of a large Vietnamese family in our city through the efforts of a parish committee. How successful was that venture? The family now owns a two路 unit home (with the bank's help), renting one apartment and using the >income to meet mortgage payments. The father works at a steady job. The mother shops by herself, pays bills, and l:onverses a bit in English. Two boys serve on the altar. The eldest son has a parttime job and two younger brothers deliver papers. All the children seem well adjusted in
schools; the family cultivates a nice garden, drives its own old station wagon, and enjoys the respect of neighbors. . What about less observable inner thoughts, attitudes and feelings? I spent an hour Christmas night with the Nguyen family as they celebrated the feast in a Vietnamese-American fashion, joined by relatives and friends. Smiles and laughter from both adults and children indicated contentment with their newhome in the United States. But at a serious moment the adults spoke of the pain they often feel over the condition of loved ones still in Vietnam - their poverty, Turn to Page Thirteen
What of The Heart? Continued from Page Twelve ill health and lack of freedom.
Measuring the interior reactions of members on the resettlement committee also proves difficult, but here are a few exampIes , which may suggest the impact this work of Christian love has exerted upon them. Last June the executive committee met, evaluated the Nguyen family's resettlement, and judged the time had come to reach out again to the homeless. Two members presented to the parish council their proposal to sponsor a second Vietnamese family, relatives of the Nguyens. The recommendation was approved and p.rocedures initiated to welcome the Cao family, "boat people" Vietnam then at a refugee camp in Indonesia. The same executive group, after reflective prayer, decided to offer the resettlement task to a new committee. It would have been easier, more efficient and
Galileo Continued from Page Twelve at the apparent conflict between his theories and the Bible's presupposition of an earth-centered universe. Although St. Augustine had insisted that the Bible was not a science textbook, and St. Thomas Aquinas agreed, this obvious truth was forgotten and Galileo was subjected to scrutiny, censure, condemnation. Finally, a sick old man of nearly 70, Galileo was ordered to Rome for trial. He was treated with kindness but the opposition was determined to humiliate him and he was condemned as seriously suspected of heresy. A prison sentence was suspended, but he lived under virtual house arrest in Florence, where slowly he went blind. He died on Jan. 8, 1642. The Galileo incident has been a cause celebre ever since, grist for the mills of the Church's foes. Actually, the treatment he ' received was at most quasi- official and the question of infallibility was never at issue. Nevertheless, the matter drove an unfortunate wedge between the Church and the scientific establishment for centuries.
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in some ways more satisfying for them to continue with the new family. Nevertheless, they had experienced the blessings of their earlier effort and wished to share this gift with others, while ,remaining available for advice and work. The resettlement program has the effect of a pebble thrown into a pond touching many. A construction company donates lumber; people offer clothes, furniture and' appliances; students paint rooms;' doctors and dentists volunteer services; a family not on the committee brings the new refugees a complete Christmas meal. Because of an infection acquired in Indonesia, it was necessary for the Caos to bathe with a special medicinal lotion within the first week after their arrival. I shall not soon forget the picture of an affluent suburban housewife kneeling beside the tub to wash the sorecovered body of a young Vietnamese child. How do you measure her growth in love?
The Conflict Continued from Page Twelve ceived an equally fierce rejection from a Church besieged with trouble from -Protestants, Copernicans. South American Indian tribes, Asiatic cultures, competing religious orders and the disintegration of the medieval social system. Frankly, by almost any standard, it was a case of too much too soon. If history could had allowed some breathing space amid all these changes, crises and catastrophes, perhaps the Church could have fared better in appreciating the new learning and adapting its uses toward the illumination of faith. 'But one does not have this luxury. Time waits for no man. Hence, for several hundred years, up until Vatican II, the Church and the world of secular learning fought more than they dialogued. The 17th century break was apparently too deep for either side to give in enough. Today the smoke has largely cleared. Suspicion is down and trust is growing. It's about time. The "Progress of Peoples" and Christian hope depend upon it.
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A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego A'ORA~AO
Ao abrir as paqinas do Evenqelho encontramos, com frequ~ncia, as oracoes das pessoas que se aoroximaram de Jesus. S~o oequenasas fras~s incisivas, que ali ficaram qravadas para nosso exemplo. S~o oedidos diriqidos a Jesus, como 0 do ceqo: "Fazei, que eu ve.;a", 0 do lenroso: "Senhor se quiseres,nodes limpar-me". 0 das irma's de Lazaro: "Sen hor, aquele que amas esta doente". 0 do ladr~o arrependido: "Sen hor, lembra-Te de mim quando entrares no Teu reino". . Sao actos de fe. 0 de Pedro: "Tu ~s 0 Cristo, 0 Filho de Deus vivo". 0 do oai que suplica a cura do seu filho: lieu creio; auxilia a minha falta de f~". () dos ap6stolos: "Sen hor, aumenta-nos a fe." Sao actos de humildade. 0 do orlncioe dos apostolos: "Sen hor, afasta-Te de mim, que sou urn homem pecador. II Do centuriao: .. "Sen hor nao sou diqno que entres, em minha morada ... mas diz uma palavra e 0 meu servo ficar~ curado." Sao actos de amor: "Sen hor, Tu sabes que Te amo" diz-lhe S. Pedro junto do laqo, II'Senhor, Tu sabes tudo. Tu bern sabes que Te amo." o pronrio Jesus usa essas orasoes breves. No Jardim das 01 ivei ras: "pai, se ~ do Teu agrado, afasta de mim este calice." Na cruz: "Meu Deus, Meu Deus, poraue me abandonastes." "Pai nas Tuas maos entreqo 0 Meu eSPlrito." Estas neouenas Dra~oes sao a lenha miuda com que se acende a foqueira. Com elas podemos prenarar, ao lonqo do dia, os encontros mais demorados com 0 Senhor. Como as acendedalhas van enxuqando as cavacas~qross颅 as e lhes peqam fogo, assim estas pequenas jaculatorias nos preparam para a meditasao ou para a Missa. A lenha miuda serve ainda para espevi~ tar 0 lume e reanimar as achas qrossas e polas em fogo vivo. Quantas vezes na medita~ ~ao nos podem ajudar as pequenas exclama~oes aa alma, tomando essas frases do Evanqelno, outras que usaram as almas piedosas, ou a~ quelas que nos proprios inventamos e de que mais gostamos! , Actos de amor. Renete-os como S. Pedro. E 0 proprio Jesus que the nuxa pela lfnqua. Actos de f~ e confiansa. Ouando surqem as d6vidas e tenta~oes. Ouando estamos diante do sacrario e no decorrer da Santa Missa. Ac~oes de qra as. Tanto que temos que aqradecer! A toda 1 a hora estamos a receber favores de Deus. 0 oroprioJesus estranha a falta de qratidao'dos nove leprosos. 'Actos de desaqravo. Como Pedro deoois de ter neQado a Cristo. Senhor, tu sabes tudo. Tu sabes que Te amo. Diante dos nossos pecados e diante dos pecados dos outros. Nao vale nada lamentar-se que 0 mundo nao vale nada ou que vai mal, que "toda esta qente anda perdida." Tambem, por outro lado, nao podemos passar insenslveis, habituar-nos as ofensas e oecados que se cometem a nossa volta. Havemos de elevar 0 nosso corasao a Deus, desagravando-O. Podemos rezar s6 com 0 corasao, sem mexer os labios. Ou podemos diz~~las alto, mesmo que nos pareca uma coisa maquinal porque estamos frios e sem gosto para rezar. Temos de aprender a ser oiedosos. "Ex_ ercita-te na piedade," diz Sao Paulo a Timoteo.
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A-l Approved for Children and Adults Freaky Friday Across the Great Divide Bugsy Malone Herbie Goes to Monte Children of Theatre Street Carlo . Candleshoe Race for Your Life, Dersu Uzala Charlie Brown The Rescuers For the Love of Benji
Pete's Dragon Return from Witch Mountain Sasquatch Summerdog Three Warriors
A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents Airport 77 Jacob the Liar The American Friend Julia The Black Pearl Kingdom of the Spiders Close Encounters of The Lincoln Conspiracy the Third Kind MacArthur Crossed Swords Midway Fantastic Animation Fest- Mohammed, Messenger ivaI of God Gray Lady Down Nickelodeon A Hero Ain't Nothing Operation Thunderbolt But a Sandwich People That Time Forgot
Roseland Scott Joplin Sinjad and the Eye of the Tiger Star Wars Viva Knievel Volcano We All Loved Eacll Other So Much The Wild Duck YOLI Light Up My Life
A-3 Approved for Adults Only Aguirre Day of the Animals The One and Only All The President's Men The Domino Principle OPE ning Night All This and World War II The Duellists Orca Alpha Beta The Eagle Has Landed The Other Side o'f the America at the Movies Eat My Dust Mountain, Part II American Hot Wax Efti Briest The Outfit Annie Hall The Front Outlaw Blues Another Man, Another Future World Piece of Action Chance Gator Pink Panther Strikes Again Audrey Rose Gray Eagle Rebellion in Patagonia Bad News Bears in Break- The Greatest Rocky ing Training Grizzly Renaldo Clara The Battle of Chile Harry and Walter Go to Rollercoaster Beyond and Back New York Roseland Big Bus High Street Sandakan 8 Bingo Long Traveling All· House Calls Scott Joplin Stars I Never Promised You a Seven·Per-Cent Solution Bitterswe~t Love Rose Garden The Shootist Black and White in Colo' Iphigenia Shout At The Devil Black Sunday Island of Dr. Moreau Sidewinder Bobby Deerfield Jaws Silent Movie Bound for Glory King Kong Silver Streak Breaker, Breaker LaGrande Bourgeoise Smokey and Bandit Bridge Too Far Last Remake of Beau Geste Sorcerer Brothers The Late Show Spy Who Loved We Buffalo Bill and the Indians Let's Talk About Men A Star Is Born Burnt Offerings Lifeguard Sta'ship Invasions By the Blood of Others A Little Night Music Stroszek The Car Logan's Run Swashbuckter Casey's Shadow Looking Up Sweet Revenge Cassandra Crossing Lumiere Telefon Checkered Flag or Crash March or Die Tentacles Citizens Band Mr. Klein Thieves Coma Murder By Death The Turning Point Coup de Grace New York, New York A Woman's Decision Cousin Angelica 9/30/55 The World's Greatest Lover Cria! Obsession Damnation Alley Oh, God!
B - Obiectionable in Part for Everyone The Best Way Between the Lines The Big Sleep The Boys in Company C Coming Home Cross of Iron The Deep Embryo .The Enforcer Final Chapter - Walking Tall From Noon Till Three Fun With Dick and Jane Gods of the Plague The Goodbye Girl It's Alive Jabberwocky
Journey into the Beyond The Last Days of Man on Earth Let Joy Reign Supreme Mado Man Who Loved Women Marathon Man Mean Frank, Crazy Tony Missouri Breaks Mother, Jugs and Speed Network The Next Man A Night Full of Rain The Omen One.()n.()ne One Sings, the Other
[ioesn't Pardon Man Affaire Ruty Skateboard A Small Town in Texas Straight Time Suspiria Thunder and Lightning Town That Dreaded Sundown Twilight's Last Gleaming Two Minute Warning An Unmarried Woman Voyage to Grand Tartarie Which Way Is Up
A-4 Separate Classification (A Separate Classification is given to certain films which while not morally offensive, require some analysis and explanation as a pro.. tection against wron.g interpretations and false conclusions.) High Anxiety The Lacemaker The Last Tycoon My Father, My Master
Nasty Habits Outrageous! Saturday Night Fever Short Eyes
The Serpent's Egg A Special Day Summer Paradise
C - Condemned The Betsy Blue Collar Blue Country The Chicken Chronicles The Choirboys Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands Equus Exorcist II: The Heretic' Fingers First Love The First Nudie Musical The Fury
The Gauntlet The Hills Have Eyes House by the Lake In the Realm of the Senses Jail Bait Joseph Andrews Kentucky Fried Movie Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane Looking for Mr. Goodbar 1900 Other Side of Midnight Pretty Baby
Rabbit Test Rabid Rolling Thunder Sal\) Satan's Brew . Sern i-Tough ThE Sensual Man That Obscure Object of Desire Valentino The Van Women in Cellblock 7
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diocesan schools Cathollic Pupils Shine at Fair Catholic students shone at the 17th annual regional science fair, held earlier this month at Taunton High School. Of four first awards in the senior division, two went ':0 Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, and of eight junior. awards, six went to Catholic 'schools, four of them to Taunton Catholic Middle School and one each to St. Anthony, New Bedford, and St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River. Additionally, seven Catholic school students will continue to state scienc.e fair competition, representing Feehan High School, Attleboro; Coyle-Cassidy, Taunton; Holy Family, New Bedford; and Connolly. The Connolly winners were Joseph Souza, with a study of Asthma and Keith Dagwan, Cosmology. From Taunton Catholic Middle School, winners were John Brady, Human Physiology; Francis O'Neill, Earthquakes; Karen Nunes, Dia')etes; Donna Jean Brezinski, Turgor Pressure. Peter Charron, St. Anthony, offered Water Pollution: A Modern Day Threat; and Philip Menard, St. Jean, chose Solar Energy: Home Heating. Other junior division school's whose students received second and third awards and honorable mentions are St. John's Attleboro; St. Michael, Dominican Academy, N?tre Dame, St. Stanislaus, St. Anne's, all Fall River; St. Mary's and St. Anthony's New Bedford; and St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet. Senior division awards also went to students at Feehan, Coyle-Cassidy and Holy Family. Special awards made by various medical groups went to students at Taunton Catholic Middle School, Holy Family, Feehan, St. Stanislaus, St. Mary's and St. John's.
Feehan Student To West Point Kevin G. Rousseau, a senior at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, has heen accepted for the class of 1982 at the United States Military Academy. He r,eceived competitive nomination from Sen. Edward J..Kennedy and alternate nomination from Rep. Margaret Heckler. He is an honor student and active in the Feehan band and athletics. He participated in a Boys' State program at Assumption College last fall, and has been an officer in Junior Achievement and CYO units. A member of St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, the West Point candidate is the son of Gerald und Claire Rosseau. A sister is a Feehan sophomore and a brother is a fourth grader at St. John's parochial school.
KEREN BENDIKSEN runs through her solo, "What I Did For Love," which she will sing in the Feehan Musical Revue at 8 p.m. tonight, tomorrow and Saturday.
Bishop Feehan Students at Bishop Feehan High, Attleboro, are putting the finishing touches on their Musical Revue, to be presented tonight through Saturday at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium, while members of the varsity cheerleading squad are preparing to compete in New England regional competition Sunday Ilt Trinity College, Hartford. Nancy and Michele Lapierre are squad co-captains. At the Region III Regional State Science Fair Lucille Sauve was awarded a $50 bond by the Bristol South District Medical Society for her project on "Lung Cancer," which also garnered her a $25 bond from the Southeastern Massachusetts Lung Association. _ Stephen -Durocher, Dorothy Brockington and Lucille will continue to the Massachusetts State Science Fair on April 28 and 29. Feehan Key Club officers were inducted at ceremonies attended by members of the local Kiwanis Club. They are Jeanne Lynch, president; Joanne Chaput, vice president; Lisa Valade, secretary; Stephen Healy, treasurer, Report cards were issued this week, and teachers will meet with parents on Monday, April 24.
Bishop Gerrard A dinner-theatre performance, "Spring Thing," will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19 at Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River. Broadway shows to be excerpted include Godspell, West Side Story, and Chorus Line. Valerie ,Pereira, a junior, will represent the Frank Allen Wilcox American Legion Auxiliary to the 34th annual Girls' State to be held in June at Bridgewater State College. The program will include establishment
and operation of a mock !;tate government with conventions, campaigns and an election. Valerie, an honor student, is active in the Gerrard Christian Life Community and her parish CCD program. She is a Girl Scout and a guitarist for Sacred Heart parish folk group.
Holy Family. Prizewinning Holy Family students at the recent Taunton Regional Science Fair include Wendy Garafalo, awarded the Bristol South District Medical Society prize; Maria Medeiros, the Massachusetts Dental Society Southeast District award; and Michael Murray, the Dr. Eugene Dionne plaque, Kevin Stone, Wendy and Michael will continue to the state-level science fair in Cambridge at the end of this month. The spring sports program has begun, with tennis and baseball on the agenda.
Free Newspapers ORLANDO, Fla. (NC) - If you're a "lost sheep," spiritually speaking, and live in Florida, The Florida Catholic wants to bring you back to the fold. Lapsed Catholics in central and western Florida are offered the newspaper of the Dioceses of Orlando and St. Petersburg free for a year in an effort tointerest them in the church. The program is part of the dioceses' 10th anniversary celebration whose theme is evangelization. Once a month the newspaper will carry a special supplement in addition to the Know Your Faith religious education series. One section will try to interest Catholics in spreadin~ their faith, another will feature profiles of local evangelizers and a third will contain serialize a book, "Your Faith: A Popular Presentation of Catholic Belief."
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after a painful and humiliating captivity wins their respect and becomes one of them. The film has flaws, including nudity and brutality, but shows integrity in portraying Indians as something more than the Hollywood sterotype. Because of its shortcomings, however, it can be recommended only with reservaHons, and is definitely not suitable for younger viewers. A-IV Morally objectionable for adults with reservations.
IN THE DIOCESE
By BILL MORRISSETTE
Fall River, New Bedford Share Diocesan Crowns Diocesan CYO basketball championships have gone to one New Bedford and two Fall River parishes. Coach Fran Desmarais piloted Holy Name of Fall River to its second diocesan junior crown in his five years at the helm. On the way to the diocesan title the Holy Name hoopsters captured their third Fall River crown under Desmarais, a teacher at that parish's school. In the best-of-three diocesan final, Holy Name lost to St. Martin of Taunton in the opening game in Fall River but tied the series by winning the second game in Taunton and clinched the title with a victory in the deciding game in Fall River. St. Lawrence of New Bedford also put on a comeback effort against St. Joseph of Fall River
to win the senior diocesan crown. St. Joseph WQn the series opener in Fall River but St. Lawrence, coached by Carl Mendez, took the next two games, both in New Bedford, to cop that division's title. The SS. Peter and Paul parish team Qf Fall River, under firstyear coach Bob Bell, won the Prep championship in a best-ofthree series against St. Mary of Taunton that also went the limit. St. Mary won the first game, in Taunton, but SS. Peter and Paul like St. Lawrence, came back to win the second and third games. All three coaches had praise for their players noting the hard work and hours of practice that culminated in winning their respective .champiQnships.
'Tis Spring and Baseball Time! With season openers scheduled for yesterday, the Southeastern Mass. Conference baseball season gets into full swing next week with games scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In Division One it will be Bishop Stang High at New Bedford, Dennis-Yarmouth at Taunton, Durfee at Somerset, Attleboro at Barnstable on Monday; Taunton at New Bedford, Stang at Somerset, Barnstable at Dennis-Yarmouth, Durfee at Attleboro on Wednesday; and Somerset at New Bedford, Barnstable at Taunton, Stang at Attieboro, Dennis-Yarmouth at Durfee. Division Two West lists Bishop Feehan High at Seekonk, Coyle-Cassidy at Dighton-Rehoboth, Diman Yoke at Case, Westport at Bishop Connolly High on Wednesday; ConnolJy at Diman, Case at Westport, DightonRehoboth at Feehan, Seekonk at Coyle-Cassidy on Wednesday;
and, Diman at Coyle-Gassidy, Westport at Feehan, Seekonk at Case, Dighton-RehQboth at Connolly on Friday. The Division Two East schedule has New Bedford VokeTech at Bourne, Fairhaven at Old Rochester, Holy Family at Wareham, Falmouth at St. Anthony, Monday; Dartmouth at New Bedford Yoke-Tech, Wareham at Old Rochester, Bourne at Fairhaven, St. Anthony at Holy Family, Wednesday; and, Bourne at Dartmouth, New Bedford Yoke-Tech at Wareham, Old Rochester at St. Anthony, Holy Family at Falmouth, Friday. Because next week is school vacation, most games are at 10:30 a.m. The Division One game listing Somerset at New Bedford, originally scheduled for Apr. 21 has been rescheduled for tomorrow at 3:15 p.m., because of Somerset's participation on April 21 and 22 in its invitational tournament.
Hockomock Baseball Opens Today The Hockomock Baseball League launches its season today with a four-game card listing Canton at Franklin, Foxboro at MaJ;)sfield, Stoughton at Sharon, North AttieborQ at Oliver Ames. Like the conference, the Hockomock loop has games scheduled on three days next week. Monday it will be :Franklin at King Philip, Oliver Ames at Foxboro, .Mansfield at Sharon, Canton at Stoughton; Wednesday Foxbor<> is at North Attleboro, King Philip at Stoughton, Sharon at Oliver Ames, Mansfield, at Canton; and, Friday's games have Stoughton at Franklin, North Attleboro at Sharon, King Philip at Mansfield, Canton at Oliver Ames. Fall River South defeated
Somerset, 5-3, last Sunday night to sweep' the best-of-three final in the Bristol County Catholic Hockey League playoffs. The Southies had won the opener, 7-1, a week earlier. The Bishop Stang High entry set a new record in the javelin throw at the Somerset Invitational girls' track meet Jast Saturday at Hanson Memorial Field, Somerset. The three girls in the javelin posted a combined 298' 3".
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• news tv, movie New Films Pretty Baby (Paramount) is based on pictures taken in 1917 Qf New Orleans prostitutes. It focuses on 12-year-old Violet (Brooke Shields), raised in a house of prostitution. After initiation into her mother's profession, she begins living with Belloc (Keith Carradine). This ends when her mother, who has become a respectable wife, reclaims her. With cardboard characters and a limp plot, this is a listless tour of bordello life, worthless even apart from its frequent nudity and flagrant exploitation of a 12-year-old. Condemned. Straight Time (Warners). Dustin Hoffman is a convict released on parole after a six-year sentence for armed robbery. Acting is good but the film falls off sharply after a promising beginning, with tension drained after Hoffman abandons his attempts to go straight. There is rough language and some violence but these are not overdone; however, gratuitous nudity makes an "objectionable in part for all" rating necessary. American Hot Wax (paramount), is a rock and roll musical depicting a few days in the life of a 50's disc jockey, Alan Freed, before his last big show. Almost plotless, it depicts Freed as a rock and roll saint pitted against a Puritan establishment. Occasional vulgarities in lyrics and inaccuracies in social history make this film questionable for younger viewers. Morally unobjectionable for adults.
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terrifying ,detail the anti Semitism of Nazi Germany through the stories of a Jewish family of whom only one member survives and the family of a Gestapo official. Parents will have to judge whether young children should see the violence and inhumanity that this truthful portrayal involves. Our Mutual Friend, 9-10 ·p.m. Sunday, April 16, PBS: First of a seven-part dramatization of the Dickens novel which combines murder most foul, humor, mystery and rich characterizations. Tuesday, April 18, 8-9:30 p.m. (PBS) "I Sought My Brother." A documentary about an African tribe living in the jungles of Surinam, South America, the descendants of escaped slaves who have preserved an African culture there for almost 300 years. Wednesday, April 19, 9-11 p.m. (PBS) "The Saint of Bleecker Street." Set in an Italian neighborhood of New York City, Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera concerns a religious mystic who receives the stigmata on her hands. Saturday, April 22, 8-8:30 p.m. (PBS) "Old Friends • • • New Friends." A visit to Father William Wasson, an American priest whose orphanage near Mexico City has attracted international acclaim. Saturday, April 22, 10-11 p.m. (CBS) '''The Politics of Abortion." This edition of "CBS Reports" examines the activities of those supporting and those working to chabge the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
Rabbit Test (Avco Embassy). Written and directed by Joan Rivers, this film concerns the world's first pregnant man. Mindless, witless and tasteless, it also offers many unamusing Catholic jokes. This, together with the wealth of other offensive material, makes a strong condemnation necessary. Because of its PG rating, parents should be warned it could harmfully influence yqung people in this era of confused sexual roles. Condemned.
TV Movies Sunday, April 16, 9 p.m. (ABC) - "Diamonds are Forever" - This time James Bond's antagonist is intent on cornering the world diamond market in order to finance still worse villainy. Everything about this entry in the 007 series seems tired Sean Connery's performance. The usual sexual byplay makes 'an adult rating necessary. A-III - Morally ur..objectionable for adults.
On Television Holocaust, April 16 through 19, NBC, evening hours. This four-part presentation depicts in
Tuesday, April 18, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "A Man Called Horse" (1970) - Richard Harris plays a man captured by Indians, who,
Wednesday, April 19, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Posse" 1975) - Officer Kirk Douglas is a ruthless, politically ambitious law enforcement officer in this shallow cynical Western in which the bad guy (Bruce Dern), robber and cold-blooded murderer though he be, is presented as the moral superior of everybody else. The film is further marred by nudity, which may be cut for television. B - Morally objectionable in part for all.
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First penance services for first communicants and their parents will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday. Confirmation candidates will attend days of recollection at Ephpheta House, Manville, R.I. today and Wednesday, April 26. Confraternity of Christian Mothers officers wil1 meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 18 at the home of Jeanne Hebert, president. ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER
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The annual arts and. crafts night and a mini model show will highlight the Ladies' Guile:. meeting set for Wednesday, April 19. Tickets for the annua:. guild banquet to be held Friday, May 19, win be available. OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER
Plans for celebration of the feast of Espirito Santo call for a crowning ceremony Elt noor Sunday, June 4, followed by a procession and traditional feast activities. The initial planning meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 24 in the parish hall. OUR LADY OF FATIMA, SWANSEA
New officers to be installed at a candlelight ceremony followParochial school children will ing a Mass on Monday, May 1, partic,ipate in a production of. are Mrs. Georgia Silvia, presi"Stage" at 10 tomorrow morn- dent; Mrs. Leroy Newbold, viceing. Sponsored by the Boston president; Sister Denisita, RSM, Center for the Arts, the pro-' secretary; Mrs. John. Sullivan, gram will include a multi-media treasurer. presentation of the history of The guild will sponsor a rethe stage, from Greek drama to contemporary theatre. Stu- ception in 'the church basement dents will participate in impro- following confirmation service!; visations, a mime performance tomorrow night. and comedy skits; and also At their last meeting, members featured will be the develop- heard State Sen. John F. Parkment of a play, from auditions er speak on the effects of govto opening night. ernment on family life.
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SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER
The Women's Guild will sponsor a mother-daughter breakfast Sunday, May 7. Betty Smith has been appointed guild delegate to District IV of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, which will hold an open meeting Friday, May 12, to which all affiliate members are invited. Dressings for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home will be made at the guild meeting of Monday, April 17.
Teachers are being recruited for the 1978-79 religious education program. The greater the number of teachers, the smaUer the classes and the closer the personal relationship with students, notes the coordinator. Volunteers are asked to call the rectory. Volunteers are also needed to take care of altar linens and vestments; and interest has been expressed in reorganizing the parish Holy Name Society and the rectory may also be called in this regard.
ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVEJl
Officials ot the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America will attend the 9 a.m. Polish liturgy on Sunday, then meet for a business session. Members of the parish pilgrimage to the Holy Land will leave from the church at 5:45 this afternoon. Among those at the departure will be Rabbi Norbert Weinberg of Congregation Adas Israel, Fall River, who aided the spiritual preparation of pilgrims. Confirmation candidates will make a retreat at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, April 27 through 30, with the program concluding at the 10:30 a.m. family liturgy in the church on April 30. ST. MARY, MANSFIELD
The Women's Club meeting at 8 tonight in the church hall will feature a spring fashion show with members as models. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER
The Clover Club Choir will sing at 4 p.m. Mass on Saturday. On Sunday at 1 p.m. the annual parish father-son basketball game will be played at the CYO center on Anawan Street. Also in CYO news, a spring bowling tourney is scheduled for Thursday, AprH 20 at Westport Holiday Lanes. The parish Administration Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
HOLY NAME, NEW BEDFORD
The new parish CCD center will be dedicated following 11 a.m. Mass Sunday, April 23. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will officiate. ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET
Beginning next weekend, Masses will be celebrated in 'the new parish center, with entrance at the First Street door. Masses will continue in the center until the. new church building is dedicated. The Holy Ghost rosary will be recited tomorrow night at the home of the Third Dominga, John Oliveira, at 40 Ocean Grove Ave., Swansea. The Women's Guild will meet and elect officers in the parish center Monday, following 7 p.m. Mass. HOLY REDEEMER, CHAT.HAM
Mrs. Albert Leate, president of the Association of the Sacred Hearts has announced that the organization voted unanimously to present its traditional $1000 Easter gift to the parish. The donation will benefit the church building fund and will be earmarked for a reconciliation room. The annual gift memorializes past" present and future association members.
ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO
The recreation committee will sponsor its monthly coffee hour following 8:15 and 10:30 a.m. Masses this Sunday. Also on Sunday, Cub Scouts will meet in the parish hall at 7:30 p.m.
R·enewal Planned For Parishes PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The U.S, Catholic bishops have committed themselves to a year-long program or parish eucharistic renewal as a follow-up to the 1976 International :E:ucharistic Congress. The program, developed by Franciscan Sister M. Eleanor Cecilia of the Eucharistic Renewal Office in Philadelphia, includes spiritual, educational and apostolic elements. A theme has been chosen for each season of 1978.
Materials to aid in the renewal programs are available from the Eucharistic Renewal Office, 222 N. 17 St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. The spring theme is "Eucharist. ·Presence of Christ to satisfy the hunger for faith." The Eucharistic Renewal Office suggests special First Friday Masses and eucharistic processions, implementation of SIGN projects, and showings of the film, "Hungers of the Human Family."
What Is Death What is death? It is a journey for a season; a sleep longer than usual. If thou fearest death, thou shouldst also fear sleep. -St. John Chrysostom
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