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Special Gifts Phase of Appeal Opens 32nd Campaign Monday.

• The first phase-Special Gifts -of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal of the dio'cese of Fall - River, now in its 32nd year of service to the community, begins Monday, April 23 when 850 volunteer special gift solicitors will make over 4,225 calls to professional, fraternal, business and An Anchor of the sour, Sure and Firm-St. Paur industrial organizations. This phase ends May 5.

The solicitors have received Fall River, Mass.; Thursday, April 19, 1973 special invitations from the Most $4.00 per year Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Vol. 17, No. 16 © 1973 The Anchor PRICE 10¢ Bishop of Fall River. They have all responded affirmatively of their willingness to solicit.

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, said that "in behalf of the many people in need receiving help from the many agencies and inOn this joyous Feast of Easter, we have come to stitutions of the Appeal, I earmeditate on some words of Our Divine Savior which nestly urge the professional, fraare contained in a recently-published document of the ternal, business and industry Catholic Bishops of the United States, The Basic Truths of Catholic Religious Education: "By his death and resur· rection, he redeemed mankind from slavery to sin and to the devil. Risen truly 'and literally, the Lord became the unfailing source of life and of the outpouring of the. Holy Spirit upon the human race."

Bishop Cronin's Easter Ml!ssage

Christ, the Risen Lord, conqueror of death and sin, is our life and hope. In these times, when much pessimism and confusion exist, when men find it burdensome and unattractive to identify and fulfill their proper Christian roles in life, when men have difficulty conc~ntrating on their eternal destination and all the distractions and problems of this life, the Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord causes men to realize once again that Christ is our happiness, our goal, our hope.

The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its 20th Annual Convention at the Nathniel Wixon School in South Dennis on Saturday, April 28.

The theme of the convention will be "Respect for Life" and

On this joyous and hopeful Feast of Easter, I extend to the .clergy, religious and faithful laity of the Diocese of Fall River my heartfelt good Wishes. May the Choicest blessings of the Risen Savior be with you all.

Devo,tedly yours in' Christ,

Easter Mass

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Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronlri, STD, Bishop of Fail River, will celebrate a Mass for shutIns to bring them the joys of Easter, on WTEV, Channel 6, New Bedford, at 8:45 Sunday morning.

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the keynoter for the diocesanwide event will be Rev. Msgr.

James T. McHugh. Director of the Family Life Division of the United States Catholic Conference, Washington, D. C. The convention will open with registration and coffee hour at nine o'clock in the morning. The first session will begin at 10 with welcomes and greetings.

The first business meeting will have Mrs. James H. Quirk pre-' siding with spotlight on the Family Affairs Commission led

by Mrs. Rodney Blytheo. and Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, the spiritual moderator.

Following luncheon, reports will be made by the Registrar, Mrs. James Leith, and the Judge of Elections, Mrs. James Williams. Mrs. James H. Quirk, DCCW President, will address Turn to Page Fourteen

guarantee to success in 1973 rests with the pace set here in special gifts. Parishes will receive full credit for all gifts made by their members. Therefore, there is no surer way for a parish to go "over the top" than for Special Gift collectors to make their returns directly to their area headquarters so that proper parish credit can be recorded."

All five area headquarters throughoat the diocese will be open to record returns from Special Gift solicitors.

Cardinal Visits Here Monday The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, extends a cordial invitation to religious and laity of tp.e Fall River Diocese to assist at a special Mass of Thanksgiving, to be celebrated at Saint Mary's Cathedral in Fall River, ,on Easter Monday, April 23 at 5 o'clock in the afternoon by His Eminence, Humbert.o Cardinal Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston.

Cardinal Medeiros was elevated last month to the Sacred College of Cardinals by His Holiness Pope Paul VI. A priest of the Diocese of Fall River prior to his ordination to the episcopate, Cardinal Medeiros will be homilist for the Mass.

The Mass has been scheduled primarily to provide an opportunity for all the clergy of the Diocese of Fall River, secular and religious priests alike, to extend personal good wishes to their former confrere, now a Prince of the Church. Many priests from the area had traveled to Rome for the Consistory ceremony during March at which Pope Paul elevated Cardinal Medeiros and thirty other prelates to the cardinalate. However the need to provide pastoral care for the faithful in parishes and Tum to Page Three

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Christ has died . . . Christ is risen ... Christ will come again!

So, all proclaim following the most sacred act 9f the Mass, so the world again publicly proclaims in the celebration of the Sacred Triduum, the last three great days of Holy Week.

given to all peoples, regardless of race, color o'r creed throughout the southeastern area of Massachusetts.

Mr. Joseph H. Feitelberg, diocesan lay chairman said today: "Our five area lay directors and I thank our special gift solicitors for their willingness to launch this year's Appeal. We ask that all calls be made now. The best

Area Women to Meet On Cape, April 28

It is the Risen Lord who gives to the Christian that sought-after stability and holy calm" that inner peace and tranquility, that moral courage and strength that enable him to continue on his pilgrimage way, working out his salvation with conviction and joy in the knowledge that Jesus is Lord.. Having died for our sins, he has triumphed over death and lives again. Christ has died; Christ has risen; Christ will come again.

'Christ Died • . • Lives' Is Theme of These Days

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Pontiff Extolls Youths" Ideals

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, STD, Bishop of Fall River, as pastor of the diocese and St. VATIOAN CITY (NC)-Youths Mary's Cathedral Parish, will today are looking for a new and offer the Mass of the Lord's Sup- more perfect ideal figure of man per tonight at 7, surrounded by than is offered by the past or the priests of the parish. present, Pope Paul VI told The scene will be repeated in thousands gathered in St. Peter's each church of the diocese, and Basilica for Palm' Sunday In his sermon 'the Pope told the world as each Christian community meditates on the love the congregation that he was not shown man by the Savior during going to dwell on the young who .have revolted against all trathat Last Supper.

To assure' an intimate relation- ditional views and who have no ship with the Lord tomorrow- interest in any idea which "deGood Friday-the Blessed Sacra- mands renunciation, dedication, ment will be reverently carried effort or loyalty."

Instead, the Pope concentrated to a specially constructed repository in each church. From there, his attention on the young who tomorrow, all will again have the have rejected the materialism of Turn to Page Six Turn to Page Three

Reverend Patrick J. O'Neill, Director of Education, announced today that plans are now completed.for the Catholic Education Convention to be held on Thursday, May 3, and Friday, May 4, at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro. All priests and teachers in the Diocese in the schools and in CCD programs have been invited to attend. Elementary teachers in the Diocese of Providence will once again avail themselves of the opportunity to participate.

"This year," said Father O'Neill, "the program is a particularly good one. We have some of the finest national figures coming to talk to our teachers." Father Alfred McBride is one of the foremost contemporary commentators on Relig'ious Education.

He is the author of a syndicated column which appears in The Anchor. Mr. Robert Lynch, the Executive Director of Parents

for Non-Public Education, will speak on the prospects and imTurn to Page Eleven

REV. RUSSELL M. BLEICH

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TH~ ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-T~urs. Apr. 19, 1973

V c:itican Documell1ts Detail Pius XII's Peace Efforts VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Pius XII tried through Vatican diplomatic channels to persuade Mussolini and the King of Italy to drop out of World War II in 1943 but without success, hitherto secret Vatican documents have revealed.

The documents are contained in a newly published 'volume "The Holy See and 'the World War." It and a companion vol-' ume "The Holy See and the Victims of War" were released si~ultaneously April 4. They constitute the sixth and seventh in a series of w.artime doeuments which Pope Paul has made public to illustrate the many activities and problems which the Vatican and the Church faced during the Second World War. The volume dealing with war victims for the period of March, 1939-December, 1940, covers a • broad spectrum of problems raised by the racism, and especially the anti-Semitism, of the Nazis and Fascists, the fate of the Poles, the suffering of innocent populations and treatment .of war prisoners on both sides.

The volume contains a private letter written July, 1943, by Archbishop Angelo Roncalli, later Pope John XXllI, but then ,apostolic delegate in Turltey, to Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, now Pope Paul VI, but then Vatican undersecretary of state.

Archbishop Roncalli told of meeting German diplomat Franz von Papen, who talked about the Russian slaughter of thousands of Polish officers buried in a mass grave at the Russian village of Katyn near Smolensk.

Von Papen remarked that the slaughter should lead the Poles to look to the Germans for protection, the future Pope John reported.

"I replied with a sad smile that it would first of all be necessary to make them forget the millions of Jews) sent to Poland and killed and that, in any c,ase, this was a good occasion for the Reich to change its methods of treating the Poles." , In tlJe volume dealing with the siuation of the Vatican during the period of November, 1942December, 1943, much of the documentation is devoted to the efforts of Pope Pius XII to extricate Italy from its alHance with the Germans and tp save Rome from bombings, either by the Allied or the Axis air forces.

'The U. S. government, working through President Franklin Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, Myron Taylor, put pressure on the Vatican to favor an Italian withdrawal from the war as soon as possible, even going so far as to suggest a candidate to succeed Mussolini.

warned of the impending disasters and sufferings' and offered the Pope's ,cooperation in any way that would ward them off.

Mussolini sent back a polite reply, thanking the Pope for his offer but declaring that "Italy,will continue to fight." Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian minister of foreign affairs and and Mussolini's son-in-law, told the Vatican secretariat of state that "Mussolini was not pleased by the action taken by the Holy See'" ancl had declared privately that Italy "will fight to the last Italian."

Pope Pius then addressed another message to King Victor Emmanuel. On June 17, the apostolic nuncio to Italy, Archbishop Borgongini Duca, visited the king and reminded him of the recent statement by President Roosevelt which appealed to Italy to quit the war. The nuncio informed the king that the Vatican had been assured of America's intention to treat Italy well.

British View The efforts of Pope Pius XII to defend Rome from bombings also met with little success during most of 1943. The Americans had assured the Vatican they' would observe the sacred character of the Eternal City but insisted that the Italians remove command offices, supply dumps and communications centers from the eenter of the city. The British were even"more obdurate.

On June 27. ,of that year, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden had assured the House of Commons that "we should not hesitate to bomb Rome to the best of our ability and as heavily as possible if: the course of the war should render such' action convenient and helpful."

Eden, also asked if he did not think Rome should be declared an open city "in the interest of humanity," replied that he thought "it would be in the best interest of humanity if Mussolini were to realize the hest thing to do for his country was to accept the unconditional surrender terms of the Allies." \

Finally Successful On July 19, Rome was bombed for three hours by U. S. planes attacking the main railroad stations. Mor~, than 1,500 persons were killed and 5,000 wounded.

For the first time' since the beginning of the war,Pope Pius left' the Vatican to visit the bombed area to spend an hour and a half with the families of the victims.

The Pope not only protested '. to the Allies but also placed the blame on the Italian government which 'had never fuHy carried out its promises to evacuate or re'To the ,Last Italian' move all 'military personnel a.nd The Vatican demurred at in- control centers from the city. tervening so crudely in Italy's afRome was bombed again on fairs, but Pope Pius, fearing the Aug. 13, and the Germans occu.. worst for Italy, finally sent a pied it on Sept. 8. On Nov. 5, an message to the Italian dictator unidentified plane bombed the . on May 12, 1943. The message Vatican, damaging the railroad station but without loss of life.

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Mansfield Parishioners to Honor Pastor On 40th Anniversary known their intentions of attending.

A Mass· of Thanksgiving will be offered at a future date by the honored guest.

Father Higgins was born April 4, 1908 in New Bedford, the son of the late Frederick J. and Catherine Garry Higgins. Receiving his early education at St. Kilian's School and Holy Family High School in New Bedford, he enrolled at St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md. His philosoph· ical and theological courses were taken at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N.Y. Fallowing ordination by the late Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, the third Ordinary of the Diocese REV. JOHN T. HIGGINS of Fall River in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, on June 10, 1933, Father Higgins served as SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (NC) "Christ is no Superstar. He dlid assistant in Sacred Heart Parish, not have a star over his dressing Oak Bluffs; St. Mary's, NanTAIPEI (NC) - Divine Word room. He was thrown out of the tucket; St. James, New Bedford; Father Bartley Schmitz seems city into a .garbage heap," Arch- and 'at three parishes in Taunfated to assist cardinals build· bishop Fulton J. Sheen told 3,000 ton, St. Mary's, Immaculate Conception and Holy Family. hospitals. persons ata Key 73 rally here.

The 55-year-old priest from "I am here to join in this comIn April of 1957, Father Hig. near Brockton, Mont., was mon assembly to praise and fur- . gins was named the fint pastor charged by the late Cardinal ther Our Lord Jesus Christ," of St. Augustine's Parish, VineThomas Tien with. supervising Archbishop Sheen told the ecuyard Haven. Three years later, the construction of the' Tien menical audience. "We just can- he was transferred to Our Lady Medical Center, a 200-bed gen" not image an assembly of this of the Assumption Parish, Oseral hospital with attached nurs- kind bC'ing held 10 years ago. terville where he remained until ing school on the outskirts of "Ecumenism is important be- he received his present assignTaipei City. cause Christ is in all the people ment in 1966. . He was recently named deputy and not just in certain denominaOn March 2, 1942, Father Higchairman of the planned Kang tions. Of course, we have dif- gins entered the Chaplains Corps Ning General Hospital. prepar- ferences, but only the differences of the United States Army. Folatory committee by Cardinal of a husband and wife. We have lowing a tour of duty at Cochran Paul Yu Pin, exiled archbishop a lovers' quarrel. A husband and Field, Macon, Ga., he was asof Nanking. The Cardinal is 'wife never fight about their love signed to the China-Burma-Inchairman, but the day~to.day de- for one another. They fight dia Theatres of Operation where tails are the responsibility of about a broken fender, the socks he served for 23 months as chapFather Schmitz._ , that weren't mended, the hiigh lain at Agrasand Calcutta.

"When Cardinal Tien asked" meat bill-but the love is never As chaplain, Father Higgins me to take the job of collecting, at sta,ke. ' And so it is' for us. received the Bronze Star with funds and overseeing the con- We all have the one basic love, Oak Leaf Cluster, the Atlantic· struction of his medical center, Ecumenical Pacific Medal, the World II Vic'I knew absolutely nothing about Our Lord." tory Medal and 'American hospitals," Father' Schmitz said..

The 77-year-old archbisl10p Service Medal. He was sep~rated There is little he' d~es no,t sa'id th.at participants in pro- from the service on June 6, 1946 know about hospitals now and grams lIke Key 73 do not gather with the rank of major. last year he was appointed 'execto!?ether in u~ity because they He returned to the diocese utive secretary of the Catholic pr?udly recogmze themselves .as and was assigned to his first Hospital Association here. There samts, but. becaus: they are smTaunton appbintment' as an are 24 Catholic hospitals in Tai- ners, needm~. C~rI~,t, the ~av~~r assistant pastor in the fi'rst of wan with over 1,600 beds. of all men. ThIS, he saId, IS the three parishes he served for . why we have to be ecumenical." ' Schmitz was Cardinal When hate is . gone f rom • th e the next 14 years.

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On the occasion of the' '40th anniversary ·of the ordination of Rev. John T. Higgins, pastor of St. Mary's Parish in Mansfield, the parishioners have planned a testimonial banquet for 7 P.M. Thursday, May 3, at the King Philip Ballroom, Wrentham. Over600 reservations have been made for the affair. . In addition to the Mansfield parishioners, members of the clergy of the diocese and representatives .from parishes served

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Holy Week Continued from Page One opportunity to receive Holy Communion.

Good Friday At three on Friday afternoon, the Most Reverend Bishop will preside at the cathedral service commemorating the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Readings stressing the salvific passion of Christ will be rendered. The cross-an object of torture but of our freedom and eventual victory-will then be, humbly venerated.

Then, in grateful remembrance for this greatest of sacrifices, the faithful will receive Holy Communion. The mournful black of yesteryear has been replaced in the liturgy by red. It is His willful and heartfelt sacrifice that must be stressed; not our mourned loss.

Easter Vigil The sense of loss of the physical presence of the Savior is still commemorated by a rather empty Saturday. No Masses; 'no services whatever.

In the evening, however, the realization of the Savior's true victory will burst in joy. The Father has accepted the Son's offering; He has given physical, human life back to the Son. He is risen!

Bishop Cronin will preside at the Easter Vigil Services at the cathedral on Saturday evening at 7. The glowing Easter Candle, reflected by the faithful's tapers, will bring back dancing light into the dark churches. Living waters will be provided for the Baptisms to come. The Eucharist will again be joyfully celebrated and preside, in our churches from the tabernacle.

To perpetuate the joy of that great night of the resurrection, Bishop Cronin will enter each home of the diocese by celebrating Mass on WTEV, Channel 6, New Bedford, on Easter morning at 8:45.

Bishop· James 1. Connolly, Former Bishop of Fall River, will also bring the joys of Easter to the cathedral and diocese by celebrating the principal Easter, morning Mass there at I I. Yes ... Christ has died, ..

Christ has risen. , , and someday with a joy that this is but a weak imitation, Christ will come again.

Religious Educators Service Extended WASHINGTON (NC) - Reli· gious Educator Exchange (REX), an employment referral service of the National Center of Religious Education-CCD, has recently extended its service to Span'ish-speaking educators and specialists in adult rel'igious education. .

A growing demand for profes.' sional directors of religious education programs who are familiar with the Spanish language and Latin-American culture prompted the extens'ion of the service.

REX is also offering placement assistance in adult religious educaNon in connection with the newly set up office of adult education as part of the national center here.

Now in its fourth year, REX has processed more than 1,000 applications. It has placed trained professional coordinators and reHgious education directors in programs all over the country.

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April 19,' 1973

Dominicans Plan To Change Rules

APPEAL WORKERS HEAR CHALLENGE OF CHARITIES APPEAL: Rev. John F. Andrews of St. Margaret's Parish, Buzzards Bay and priest area director for the Cape and the Islands; Charles Gough, co-chairman for St. John's Parish, Pocasset; Bishop Cronin, honorary chairman of the Appeal; Mrs. Charles Gough, co-chairman for St. John's, Pocasset; Joseph H. Feitelberg, of Somerset, diocesan lay chairman who also addressed' the kick-off meeting.

CARACAS (NC)-The Dominican Fathers are planning to make basic changes in their constitution to meet the challenge of the modern world, their master general, Father Aniceto Fernandez, announced here in Vene· zuela.

In an interview with the daily La Religion, Father Fernandez said a committee is working in preparing changes to be submitted to the general meeting of the order to be held in Naples, Italy, in 1974.

The changes are designed to meet new chall~nges and crisis, "but we are not changing the basic spirit as envisioned by St. Dominic,'.' he said.

Of his tour of nine Latin American countries, including Cuba, the Dominican superior said "our people are truly doing an impressive work, both in spiritual formation and in human development in the social and economic fields."

Rule changes, he added were proposed after an extensive "and very democratic" survey among all the members of the order.

Cardinal Medeiros Visits Here on Monday Continued from Page One institutions of the Diocese prevented most of the clergy from joining the pilgrimage, and consequently Monday's Mass has been arranged.

Though the celebration is not to be confused with projected civic ,testimonials for Cardinal Medeiros, Bishop Cronin did express the desire to invite the legion of friends and admirers of the new Cardinal to attend the Mass. Seating in the Cathedral will be on a first-come,' first'serve basis.'

Remarking that the celebration constitutes a special day for the Diocese, Bishop Cronin indicated that, in accord with the provisions of the recentlypublished Decree on the Holy Eucharist, the Immensae 'Caritatis, Catholics attending the Mass of . Thanksgiving may receive Holy Communion, even if they have attended a morning parish Mass and received the Eucharist previously.

Consultation with the Reverend William J. Helmick, Secretary to the Cardinal, resulted in a determination to limit the number of priest-concelebrants at the Mass, lest the sanctuary area at the Cathedral become unduly constrained. Joining with Cardinal Medeiros as concelebrants will be the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River and host, the Most Reverend James L. Connolly, fOfl!ler Bishop of Fall River, during whose tenure as Ordinary, the new Cardinal served as Chancellor, and the Most Reverend . James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of the Fall River Diocese, a close friend of the Prelate.

Other concelebrants include Very Reverend Luiz G. Mendonca, Pastor of Saint John of' God Parish, Somerset, Vicar General of the Fall River Diocese, Very Reverend John J. Regan, Rector of Saint Mary's Cathedral, Very Reveren~ Henry T, Munroe, Presiding Judge of

the Diocesan Tribunal, and Reverend George W. Coleman, President of the Senate of Priests. Four seminary and ordination classmates of Cardinal Medeiros will concelebrate the Mass: Reverend Edward C. Duffy, Saint Mary's Parish, North Seekonk; Reverend Bertrand R. Chabot, Saint Anthony's Parish, New Bedford, Reverend Joseph L. Powers, Saint Mark's.

Parish, Attleboro Falls, and Reverend William J. Shovelton, of Mount Carmel Parish, Seekonk.

Reverel'\d Monsignor Anthony M. Gomes, who directed the Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Consistory in Rome, will be among the concelebrants, as will be

Bolivia Threatens To Expel Priests LA PAZ (NC)-The apostolic nunciature and the Canadian Oblates have asked the Bolivian government for firm assurances that harassment of Church activities will be stopped.

The action came on the heels of a threat to expel Spanish Father Gregorio Iriarte and to deny a reentry visa to Canadian Father Gerardo LeClerc. Both have been active in reform efforts for the poor in Bolivia.

• A spokesman for the Oblates said if the government refuses to guarantee freedom of religious and social action activities, the order "wil) seriously consider leaving the country."

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Reverend Joseph Oliveira, former assistant to the Cardinal and presently Pastor of Saint Michael's Parish in Fall River, where Cardinal Medeiros himself once served as Pastor, will join in the concelebration, as will Reverend John P. Driscoll, Pastor of Saint Lawr~nce Parish, New Bedford, a life-long friend of Cardinal Medeiros.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Apr.. 19, 1973

Unions Strongest Force For Social Legis'lation . The lead editorial in the April 4 issue of the Christian Century by James M. Wall argues that the 1972 Presidential election marked the end of an era in the relationship between the (Protestant) Church and the American labor movement. The editorial notes that in the -'30s and the Catholic social action movement in this country as being '40s "the middle-to-liberal all that involved in party polichurches identified with the tics. labor movement, supporting organized efforts for stable salaries and working conditions."

By the 1950s, we are told, the

But as one who has had a fair amount of contact with the labor movement during the past 30 years, I think I would have to say-even at the conscious risk of getting involved in a family" quarrel-that WaH has By underestimated the liberal influence of the labor movement. I MSGR. think he has also romanticized the idealism' and the influence of GEORGE G. middle-to-Ieft religious leaders.

Effective Action HIGGINS I would seriously question WaH's oversimplified reading of ST. ANNE AWARDS IN SCOUTING: Four recipients of the award meet the Bis.hop American labor history. He leadership of said churches was seems to be saying that organ- and Diocesan Chaplain for Scouting. Rev. Roger J. Levesque of S1. Theresa's Parish, So. informally identified with the ized labor has progressively Attleboro, chaplain; Mrs. Muriel La Croix, Fall· River; Bishop Cronin, who presented the Democratic Party. By 1960, it moved' from a liberal to a con- awards; Mrs. Margaret Belliveau, Acushnet; Mrs. John McManus, Buzzards Bay; Mrs. had become an integral part of servative stance or, "from ideo- .Stuart Place, Taunton. . of the coalition of labor, subur- logy to power bargaining." that's a very debat.At best, han liberals, and minorities that able proposition. While granting elected John F. Kennedy.

• The point of Wall's editorial that th,e labor movement is open is that the 1972 electjon ended to serious criticism on a number SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-In- believe that when you have wide for Birthright came. to her sevthat coalition. From now on, he of different scores; I would argue terest in Birthright, an organiza- open abortion laws you will cut eral years ago when she read current that, on balance, its says, the churches will no longer about an abortion referral servbe automaticaHy identified either stance is probably more "liberal" tion that offers pregnant women way down on the illegal abori'ce in England alternatives to abortion, in- tions performed." and more issue-oriented than it with the labor movement or the "I thought how really destruccreased dramaticaHy foHowing was, say; 40 or 50 years ago. can have an In Canada, "you Democratic Party. Both organI would also argue that on the U. S. Supreme Court abor- abortion fast, but not tomorrow,. tive this was," she said. "If you izations ha~e become much too tion decision. and not secretly. It goes on a call up lj. suicide prevention cenconservative to merit the con- the majority of so-called liberal "We began ,to get phone caHs issues, the present leadership of . record somewhere," she said. ter, you don't get help to. go kill tinued support of social-minded and letters from people 'who real: "Expediency and secrecy.' Some yourself.. If you call a center for stacks' up the labor movement members of the clergy. pretty well by comparison with ized that since efforts to prevent girls still want both of these. alcoholics, they don't help you Underestimates Influence middle-to-liberal or middle-to- the widening of the (abortion) They don't want to go on record get drunk."

In summary, "the 1972 Dem- left religious readers. I am not law had failed, this was the way as having an abortion," ocratic defeat ended more than comparing the rhetoric of the to go," said Louise Summerhill Mrs. Summerhill said the idea the McGovern candidacy. It also two groups; I am talking about of Toronto, the woman who ended the traditional liberal their ability to translate high- founded Birthright five years The Daughters of church-labor union political sounding rhetoric into effective ago.

Anglican-Catholic St. Paul alignment."

"We sent out 22 applications' Union Predicted economic and political action. serve them all ...

Since WaH seems to be refer- .

In terms of rhetoric, the clergy for charters in just one week," TOKYO (NC)-Anglican Arch- \ ring exclusively in this context would probably win first place, she noted.

Aault, to Protestant churches, I am re- but in terms of day to day effectMrs. Summerhill. mother of bishop Michael Ramsey of Canluctant to get involved as an ness in the field of social and seven, established her organiza- terbury predicted here that the The Sick Prisoners outsider, in his love-hate argu- economic reform, they are not tion to help women cope with Anglican and Catholic Churches Young People ment with the labor movement. even in the running-or it seems unwanted pregnancies instead of will eventually unite on the prinFamilies ciple of "union without absorpMoreover, I wouldn't care to to me. seeking abortions.

1\1e pOOl The .. ~ tion," the Reuters news agency comment one way 'or the other -..tea Compassionate Help More Convincing Record reported. on his strictures against the with the gift of the Word of God; with "We give person-to-person, In saying this, I take my stand the Truth "that· makes men free" At a press conference on his Democratic Party. Sufficient These contemplative·active missionaries to say that I have never thought with Michael Harrington, whose non-judgmental ... compassion- arrival here on the final stage have unlimited horizons to affect the of the so-caHed labor wing of credentials as a militant social ate help," she said. This help 'in- 'of an. Asian tour, the archbishop lives of millions through the Press, Films. Radio. TV. Casselles. etc. reformer are at least as good cludes securing public financial said he was too realistic to preWhy not share in an ali·embracing apos-. as any American clergyman I aid for eligible pregnant women; dict that this union would come tolate? Serve the People of God and the setting up job interviews; arrang- soon.

Urges Amendment world in the opostolate of Socia I Comcan think of. munications. For Information Write To: "Throughout the Kennedy and ing appointments with doctors DAUGHTERS OF ST. PAUL that there would But he said To Protect Unborn Johnson Administrations in the or professional counselors, and 50 51. Paul's Ave., Boston, Ma. o2t30 be sufficient agreement between DETROIT (NC) - The House sixties," Harrington writes in his providing basics like clothing, ~ame ... the cnurches on doctrine and of Delegates of the National Fed- most recent book, "the union furnIture and a place to stay. ~ddress Zip. eration of Priests' Councils polipcal organiEations and lobBirthright now has 37 centers mutual recognition of each ~ge .

(NFPC) caHed unanimously for bies were the strongest single in Canada, two in Great Britain other's priesthood. a constitutional amendment to force for progressive social leg- and about 200 in the United protect the rights of the unborn islation in Washington. In terms States, aH staffed by volunteers. child, and unite its fight against of actual 'political pressure on Mrs. Summerhill was in San abortion with that of the Cath- issues like poverty. racism and Francisco at ,the request of olic bishops and other pro-life Social Security, the labor con- Northern California's 10 Birthgroups. tingent did infi!1itely more than right chapters, which invited her It urged that the proposed the middle-class intellectuals to inspect facilities. amendment be worded so as to and churchmen who so often In its January decision, the assure as weH protection to the dismissed the unions with con- U. S. - Supreme Court nuHified lives "of the aged, the ill, and tempt. . . . " abortion laws in most states. the disadvantaged."

Expediency, Secrecy "May the light a'nd glory of Christ scatter the darkness" I know very weH that this In 1972, the NFPC supported argument runs completely coun"The wider the law is, the I' pro-life laws and programs aimed - ter to the conventional wisdom more Birthright is needed . . .'; Joy at protecting the dignity of aH so dear to liberal inteHectuals.· Mrs. Summerhill said. "Many persons, including unborn chil- I don't expect Wall to agree people think that once something FALL RIVER SAVINGS BANK dren and their mothers. with it. I simply want the record is declared legally right it_ beThe recent Supreme Court to show that I, for one, find it comes morally right, too," so decisions of Roe v. Wade and much more convincing than Birthright's task of educating Doe v. Bolton have "seriously his own lock-stack-and barrel the public about the moral issues 141 No. Main St. Fall ,River 879 County St., Somerset impaired the 'right to life of the repudiation of the labor move- involved in abortion is "more unborn child," the resolution ment and a,J.1 its works and .. urgent no~." pomps. said.

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month after Pope Paul's announcement that next year's meeting of the Synod of Bishops will tackle the complex problem of evangelizing the modern ,world, the council of the synod's secretariat met to launch the long work of preparation.

Before the synod meets in October 1974, its secretariat must draft and polish a working paper on evangelization, with the help of the world's national and regional conferences of bishopil.

The secretariat's council of '\ cardinals, and bishops decided during its March 20-24 meeting

to send a series of brief statements and questions on evangelization to the bishops' conferences in order to stimulate discussion. This "working tool." as it was descri'Jed at the council's meeting, will take the place of the proposed outline for debate distributed before the other three synods.

The council, 13 of whose 15 members took part in the meeting, decided' that the series of statements and questions should be completed within a month.

It must be approved by the Pope before distribution.

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A PARISH STILL LIVES: Parishioners of SS. Peter and Paul Parish in Fall River continue'to worship in Parish School basement after fire destroyed their Church last Tuesday evening. Top photo, Firs~ liturgy in temporary church is that of Palm Sunday with pastor, Rev. Francis M. Coady, presiding under banner proclaiming hope. Center photo. Blessed Sacrament chapel is eet up in room adjoining basement hall of school. Bottom photo.

This 3,000 pound' white marble statue of Mary, streaked with stains from fire, was removed from rubble of Church. Flames and smoke and water highlight poignancy of statue carved from single block of marble.

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A Building Has Died. . . . . . A Parish Family Lives A whole pari~h family was in anguish Tuesday night as its members-younger and older-watched in sorrow the total destruction of the beautiful and distinctive eighty year-old SS. Peter and Paul Church in Fall River. The unique Spanish baroque structure, the work of famed architect Ralph Adams Cram, had loomed against the skyline " of the Niagara-Maplewoo~ .section of the city for four generations. It rose up among crowded tenement houses as a monument of artistic unity but more, as a, monument of f a i t h . ' , As Bishop Cronin remarked;, it was not simply a building that w~s burning but the heart of a parish that was pquring forth in sorrow but also in an expression of human sentiment.

The people of SS. Peter and Paul have always been a close-knit parish family. Together on Tuesday evening they spoke together, all ages" of sacraments received in the Church and loved ones brought to be buried from there, of graduations held in the structure and prayers offered.

Again and again the' remark was heard, I was baptized here, I was married here, and each speaker knew that this gave him a claim to t1).e Church and ~ reason to be in grief at its loss. ' , A building has burned but a parish family still lives.

While the rubble was still erupting into sporadic flames, more than one hundred parishioners gathered with. their two priests and started setting up a chapel in the school.

Reverently, the consecrated Hosts' were taken from the still standing tabernacle, Hosts that had survived intact, and brought to the rectory and then to the school where Arc'hdiocesan Board of Education' they were received by the parishioners who worshipped on Palm Sunday.

Accepts Student' Bill of Rights It was most fitting that the Palm Sunday liturgy be BALTIMORE (NC)-The Balti- ideas and institutions even those the first one celebrated by the parish family after the more archdiocese has accepted of a controversial nature, just as destruction of the Church building. The triumph and tragedy a student bill of rights, empha- they ,might explore any other sizing freedom of expre~sion, due . subject." of Palm Sunday were truly reflected in that worshipping ,process "Students shall be free to exof self-government, for congregation-the tragedy of a destroyed Church ,but the use in, formulating policy in its press themselves and disseminate triumph of an ever-living spirit of faith. ' their views in speech, essays, five high schools: After nearly two years of plan- publications, pictures, badges, For the people of SS. Peter and Paul's truly know that armbands, language and art. prowhile an irreplaceable building has gone, a parish lives. The ning and reviewing, the archdio'=' vided in view of the administracesan board of education apmemories, the nostalgia, the reminiscences, the sentiment proved the three-page document tion, they are not crude or prothat the burning of the Church summoned forth are' signs Jan. 9. It had been presented to fane, not libellous or slanderous, of the strength of. the parish now and the promise of,in- the board three times before re- and not disruptive to the educational prot:ess...." creased devotion and love' of both God and m~n for the ceiving approval.'

"Students 'shall have the right The document is the work of future. a 10-member committee headed to distribute any publications or A building has gone. A parish family lives.

by Lawrence' Callahan, director literature, including a school

SOUTH BEND (NC) - American prisoners-of-war used the University of Notre Dame "Victory March" as a morale booster during their detention in North Vietnamese prison camps, a Pentagon spokesman said. , The university said the spokes'man, who asked not to be identified, reported the "renowned, 65-year-old song was hummE;d or whistled by the prisoners as a means of defying their captors at the "Hanoi Hilton" compound and other POW camps.

The spokesman, according to the university, said the POWs used the song because they would' incur immediate punishment if they attempted to hum or whistle such tunes as the "Star Spangled Banner" and "America the BeautifIul." . These songs, the spokesman said, were known to the Commu· nists but the Notre Dame tune was known only to the prisoners.

"It was the only song that everyhody knew,"· one exprisoner was reported to have said of the "Victory March."

The "March" was" composed and set to music by Michael and John Shea in Notre Dame's Sorin Hall in 1908. Since "it was first played at a concert here in 1909, it has been adopted by several hundred colleges and high schools around the world as their own song.

The song begins: "Cheer, cHeer for old Notre Dame."

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Jesus Christ still lives, is 'still present in the world, is still active in the work of sa,lvation, is still in our midst bearing in His hands the merits He won by His life and death and resurrection.

In this Holy Week He is present, allowing, His followers in this our time and in this our age to unite with Him, to enter into His death, to die to their sins and faults and failings, that they may rise up truly resurrected men and women, living the Christ-life. ' The liturgies of Holy Week are salvific-are productive of redemption, are the actions of the present and saving Lord.

It is the calling of each follower of Christ to enter into the action,s of the Lord, to remove, with God's help, the barriers to the activity of Christ, to open up hearts to the greater presence of the saving Lord.

The week' lived in this way becomes truly holyfor its effects holiness in those who so live it.

@rhe ANCHOR OFFIClAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the piocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 ' 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, 0.0., S.T.D. ' GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll -"lelFY Prell-·FIII Rlvlr

of the archdiocesan division of elementary and secondary schools. The committee included students, counselors' and a law· yer. They drafted the document and submitted it for approval to many other students.

Callahan said he believes "it will be adopted by other Catholic high schools and possibly other dioceses. Its' legally sound and schools' are concerned with these rights as students have more and more say."

After a' preamble setting forth the goals of schools in general and Catholic schools in particular, the document includes the following statements: "Students shall be free to study, examine and discuss philosophical, political' and religious

Pope Pra ise's Continued from' Page One the present world and who have "deep and personal aspirations for an ideal figure of man, which is true, sincere, strong, generous, heroic and good.

"These hopes are great and stupendous desires for a better world, a world which is free and just, freed from the domination of egoistic fiches and of despotic authority which is used unjustly and repressively, a world which is instead brought together fraternally by a common dedication to solidarity and service."

newspaper, provided that the ado, ministration can stop distribution and hold confiscated copies in escrow, if the material is' found to be obscene, pornographic, ,slanderous, libellous or is inconsistent with the Christian values with which the school stands..."

Students' Responsibility "The reguiations concerning the appropriate student behavior in the school should be formulated with student, parent, faculty and administrative representatives. : . . Regulations should be reasonable and deal with specific observable acts. Students assume the responsibility for abiding by, established rules and policies of the school."

"Students shall be free from searches 'and seizures by school officials in their personal effects, lockers, or any other facilities assigned to their personal use, except where there is a suspicion that the schOol regulations have been broken andlor the welfare of the school community is in danger."

The document calls for the establishment by students of student government organizations and for voting rights and the right to hold. office for all students. , In the case of serious penalties such a suspension or expulsion from school, the bill of rights calls for a formal hearing and the right of appeal at the local school level.

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elected head of the international Missionary Society of S1. James the Apostle, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros has announced. , Father Dever, who had been executive secretary of the society for two years, wa!i. named director at a general meeting of the organization in Lima, Peru.

The 39-year·old priest, a graduate of seminaries here, will succeed Father Paul F. Mulligan, 42, who has completed two threeyear terms as superior ge,neral of the society.

In announcing Father Dever's appointment, Cardinal Medeiros said he would also serve as administrator of St. Stephen's Parish here, where the society has its headquarters.

Ecumenical Weekly Published in Korea SEOUL (NC)-Three Koreanlanguage weeklies, The Catholic Shibo (Times), The Christian Press and The Christian Times have collaborated to publish Korean Church News, a weekly English-language ecumenical review of reljgious news in Korea.

The publication is intended for missionaries and othet non-Korean, Christians, many of whom have difficulty reading Korean newspapers.

The use of Chinese ideograms along with the Korean alphabet in newspapers to save space makes them very difficult for most foreigners to read, even those who speak Korean fluently.

Many Koreans, even high-school graduates, have the same difficulty.

Survey Shows Farm Workers Prefer UFWU

THE ANCHORThurs., April 19, 1973

Sister Consolata; Serves 'God for 50 Years In Kitchens of Mercy Convents

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BY ROBERT LEIGH COACHELLA (NC)-An over· whelming number of farm work· She spent the day in the kitchers in the Coachella Valley want en cooking and in the chapel of the United Farm Workers Ul)ion St. John's convent, New Bedford, (UFWU), not the Teamsters praying.

Union, to represent them, a group There was hardly any change of religious, civic and labor lead- in the routine of Sister Consoers announced. lata of the Sisters of Mercy The 25-member group, includ· even though it was the 50th aning Msgr. George Higgins of the niversary of her entry into the U.S. bishops' farm labor commit- order. tee, said they surveyed about The highlight of her day was 1,000 laborers in the fields here a Mass concelebrated by the and 795 preferred the' UFWU, 80 priests of St. John the Baptist wa'nted the Teamsters, 78 indi- Church. cated no preference for union • And during the homily, surrepresentation, and the remain- rounded by her family and der declined to mark ballots dis- friends, the Rev. Manuel P. Fertributed by the group. reira, pastor of St. John's, spoke The group conducted its sur· of Sister's years of devotion to vey as UFWU contracts with God and her order. grape growers here in California At this point, she was more were about to expire and nego- than satisfie'd' with the celebratiations between the growers and tion. When local newspapers the Cesar Chavez-led union have found out about the occasion, collapsed in an attempt to reach _ she said she would pose for phonew accords. tographers and agreed to an Strike Is Possible interview although she could not see what the fuss was all about.

According to reports, the After all, she said, she hadn't Teamsters have organizers in the done anything to attract that ,'Valley talking to the workers and much attention except fulfilling trying to persuade the growers the vows she made in 1923 to renounce their UFWU con- when, as Florence Clark of Hartracts in favor of new settle- rison, N. J., she formally entered ments with the Teamsters. the order.

Msgr. Higgins said there arc Bethlehem Home indications some growers are prcpared to allow the Teamsters to Sister Consolata, the name unionize workers currently rep- given her in honor of The Blesse~1 resented'by the UFWU, an AFL- Virgin Mary, served several parCIO unit. If such agreements arc ishes before mO\ling on to Taunannounced, Msgr. Higgins said, ton where she was assigned to "undoubtedly there will be a the order's Bethlehem' Home for strike." young infants.

Such a strike would be reminWhen the home was closed, iscent of the UFWU strike and Sister was transferred to St. boycott against grape growers in Xavier Convent in Providence the late 1960s that led to a set· where she was in charge of the tlement between the union and culinary department. growers three years ago. At that The nun was right at home in time,' the UFWU won and ex- that work. As she said, "I alercised the right to unionize ways did the cooking." From St. workers in this valley. Contracts Xavier's, she was transferred to dating from that time were to St. James Parish in New Bedford expirc April 14. and then served at St. Lawrence Parish in the Whaling City be'Resent Intrusion' fore going to Mt. St. Marys The group which surveyed the in Fall River and finally to St. workers-which included several John's where she has been for Catholic and Protestant leaders, the past 30 years. a congressman and representaLater this year, she will move tives of several other congress- once again as the order phases men-said their poll made it out operations in New Bedford. clear "the vast majority' of farm She will go to the order's conworkers in the Coachella Valley vent in Portsmouth, R. I. want to be represented by Cesar There are five Sisters ieft in Chavcz' United Farm Workers, St. John's convent now. want to continue under the pro"I wanted to serve God and I tection of UFW contracts, and chose the Sisters of Mercy," Sis, resent the intrusion of the Team- ter Consolata said, recalling her. sters Union." entry into the order.

"It would be a great injustice "I think it is the only life if to the workers," the group's you are called to serve," she statement continued, "if the grape growers were to make Elected Executive agreements with the Teamsters against the will of the workers." Vice-President WASHINGTON (NC)-Divine The group concluded its state- Word Father Louis J. Luzbetak, ment with ari exhortation to the executive director since 1965 of grape growers to seriously con- the Center for Applied Research sider the wishes of their workers in the Apostolate (CARA), a on union representation and with Church research organization a criticism of the Teamsters for based here, has been elected extrying to reach accords with the ecutive v,ice-president of the oremployers "when it is clear they ganization's board of directors. do not represent the wor!ers."

The election was announced

by Bishop Ernest C. Unterkoefler Superiority of Charleston, S. C., president There are three marks of a of CARA. The board appointed E:iward superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, Sullivan, a systems planner, exhe is free from perplexity; being ecutive director of CARA and named Sister Marcia McDonald brave, he is free from fear.

-Confucius director of administration.

ATLANTA (NC)-Michael E. Menster, who had been executive director of the National Catholic Community' Services (NCCS), has been named acting director of the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO).

The 33-year-old Menster, youngest executive appointed to the usa position, will be nominated for forma'i approval as executive director of the New York-based organization at the usa board's next meeting in June.

HLs appointment as acting di· rector was announced by USO president Francis L. Sampson during the annual meeting of the usa national council here.

Menster, a native of Canton, Ohio, who now resides in Washington, D. C., graduated from Villanova University near Philadelphia. He worked in the Peace Corps from 1961 to 1963 and at the University of Connecticut a5 program advisor from 1963 to 1965.

He joined the usa in 1965 and held positions with the organization in Naples and Tokyo before becoming NCCS executive director in IBn. Menster succeeds Samuel G. Anderson as executive director of usn, a federation of six welfare agencies-including the NCCS-that provides entertainment for the U. S. armed forces.

SISTER MARY CONSOLATA, RSM added. "It's been 50 happy years."

Asked what she prepares in her kitchen the Sisters like best, she answered, "apple pie."

The Sisters would want her to mention that, she said. Beyond that short interview, Sister Consolata wanted no more publicity.

It remained for Father Ferreira to speak about the jubilarian.

The priest noted that "for some, a religious style of life is expressed and lived through contemplation, through teaching, writing and nursing. , "But for Sister Consolata, her life has not been so publicly" spent through these types of ser· vice and work.

"Her moments ,of common prayer and worship," he continued, "have been spent in the company of her fellow Sisters and in her own personal and intimate moments with God." Father Ferreira said the nun's desire to love and serve God has been in the environs of her kitchen.

"May every meal that I prepare be seasoned from above With thy Blessings and thy Grace, but most of all thy love.

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THE ANCHOR-Dio'cese of fall River-Thurs. Apr. 19, -1973

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TRENTON (NC) - A threejudge federal court panel here struck down a $19.5 million New Jersey nonpublic school aid law and ordered an immediate halt to all payments under the law.

New Jersey Gov. William T. Cahill immediately announced that the state would appeal the ruling to the U. S. Supreme Court and that it would ask the court here to reconsider the temporary injunction halting payments.

In their ruling, Appeals Judge James Hunter and District Judges George Barlow and John Kitchen said that the law would "lead to excessive government entanglement with religion" in violation of the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

The law reimbursed parents for part' of the cost of textbooks on non-religious subjects and it paid for some auxiliary services supplied to nonpublic schools through local public school dis, tricts.

_C,ont,emlpiorary Outfits When the Easter Bunny comes hopping round this Easter he won't encounter many of the fashions usually seen in the Easter parade, but he will find at least a few of the young ladies in the diocese adhering to the tradition that Easter Sunday is ' the time for new clothes. A white capes to their outfits, Over at Holy Name Parish in pint-sized angel named Dan- Fall River curly-haired pre-teener ielle Machado, daughter of Lynn Garant, daughter of Mr. Mr: and Mrs. Robert Machado of St. Dominic parish'in Swansea, will look like a vision in la~ender.

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and Mrs. Rene Garant, has chosen an aqua and white floral printed dress with the up-todate look of an elasticized top for her outfit on this special day.

Lynn, who always looks band-.

1;>ox 'fresh, will top this crisp dress with a fitted, doublebreasted grey coat with gold buttons.

Doing their own thing 'with outfits made by Mommy will be Jennifer, nine, and Elizabeth Ponte, seven, daughters of the Robert Ponte fatnily of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea.

They'll be dressed alike in puffed sleeved' and empire waisted dresses.

Two year old Danielle will be wearing a miniature body suit of lavender and white sprinkled with flowers, topped by a fluffy Don't Forget Men white pinafore, top-stitched also Not to forget the males of the in lavender. Finishing off this area, lively little Robert Alan spring-like picture will be Danielle's dainty white patent Breault, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Breault of St. Anthony's le'ather Mary'Janes, , Lovely dark hair and spar- parish, Portsmouth, R. I., will Qe kling eyes, a gracious smile and resplendent in a soft yellow outcharming manners add up' to fit. Complete with matching eight-year-old Pamela Borges, riding pants, his double-breasted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. An- jacket is piped and embroidered thony Borges of St. Anthony of in a contrasting shade of brown.

Padua Church in Fall River, who Robert Alan's blond hair will be has chosen navy and white check covered with a matching brim' for her Easter coat. Her tailored med liat. topper will cover a powder blue Our son Jason (if he isn't laid smocked dress set off with a up with' a spring cold) will be powder blue hair ribbon, white sporting' a deep wine velvet knee socks and patent leather blazer, grey and white pinshoes. striped trousers, finished with a wide cuff (a la thirties) and a Contemporary Togs St. Anthony of Padua will be white turtle neck jersey.

A pink _dress topped with a the scene for another smartly- , dressed family when nine-year- pink velour coat will be worn old Susan and seven-year-old by it beautiful young miss, Lisa Deborah Mello arrive for Easter Gauthier, daughter of Mr. and Mass. These young blondes are Mrs. Hector Gauthier of Holy daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdi- Name parish in Fall River. Lisa nand Mello of that parish and has passed up a hat this year, they will be wearing contem- but will wear a large white bow porary outfits in shades of red on her flowing blonde tresses. and white.

Contemporary certainly will be Brazil Asked to Free the word ·to describe the two Mello girls because Mom has Political 'Prisoners WASHINGTON (NC) - The helped them· choose white blazers to top another tradition Latin American Division (LAD) breaker-red belled slacks (my of the U. S. Catholic Conference own daughters have also chosen has 'asked the - government of slack outfits). If the day turns Brazil for the release bf a ,Cathout to be cool, the girls ",ill add olic professor arrested' by secret agents earlier this year.

He is Prof. Luiz Basilio Rossi , Rules Birth Control of, the University of Penapolis in Sao Paulo state. Bishop Pedro Costs Deductible WASHINGTON (NC) - Ex- P. Koop of nearby Lins reported penses for abortions, vasectomies that military authorities admit,and birth control pills are tax de- ted Rossi had been taken from ductible, the Internal. Revenue his home in February arid that they refused to give further'inService has announced.

The IRS said deductions for formation on his whereabouts. the operations and the pills can Several persons have simply disbe made this year for the first appeared after their arrest.

That is the case of another time and can cover expenses for Catholic leader, Joao Francisco them incurred in 1972.

"Although many persons ob-' de Souza, of the Evangelization ject to vasectomy and abortion Movement in Recife dn the on religious grounds, the IRS' is northeastern state of Pernamrequired to base its ruling on an buco.

Archbishop Helder Camara of objective interpetation of the law, " a 'spokesman' for' the fed: Olinda and Recife said inquiries . with security officials about his eral agency said.

"We can't take moral ques- condition and place of detention have been ignored so far. tions into account."

STANG HIGH JUNIOR WINS: Gwendelyn Racine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Racine of 2609' Acushnet Ave. and a member of St. Theresa's Parish, was a winner in the recent state-wide Accordin Competition held in Chicopee.

hiterfaif;h Effort 'Convocation of Conscience' Scheduled May 9-11 in Washington WASHINGTON (NC)-Leaders of all major U. S. religious bodies will come here May 9-11 for a "Convocation of Conscience" designed to focus attention on Administration cutbacks on programs for the nation's poor and disadvantaged.

The convocation is an effort "to break the cynicism and rekindle what is best in the American people," said the Rev. W. Sterling Cary, president of the National Coun1::il of Churches (NCC).

The NCC governing board authorized the convocation with the aim of organizing hundreds ,of people from all over the nalion to reconsider national priorities.

Catholics and Jews have joined a steering committee that was formed under the leadership of the Rev. Paul Sherry of the United Church of Christ Board of Homeland Ministries. Attendance is expected to reach at least 1,000. ' Declaring that a "sta'te of crisis exists," the NCC board said,

"Poor people from various racial backgrounds consider the executive branch of the federal government at best neglectful of their needs."

They "view in anger, frustration and fear the proposed dismantling of programs which offered them 'some semblance of security for the past several years. Substantial trends in government ,support this apprehension," the board -said.

"The- movement away from national leadership in favor of local options in the achievement of social justice and economic development suggests national abandonment of high goalsgoals which inspired a sense of hope in all Americans."

A series" of. fact sheets have been prepared on federal budget changes. They deal with education, economic development, rural development, manpower, Office of Economic Opportunity, programs for the aged, impoundment of funds and revenue sharing.

The state spent $9.5 million under the law in the 1971-72 school year and it was expected to spend about $19.5 million (; in the current year, including about $4.5 million that already has been distributed.

The court ordered a halt to all future payments, including about $4 million in payments that already had been approved but not distributed. State officials hoped to be able to convince the court , to allow at least these payments.

Cahill said the law had been in the overall public interest and if financially tr.oubled nonpublic schools were forced to close as a result oC-the decision, "the burden of educating these children would be shifted to the state public school system."

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Tlo Str,ess R,esulrre,ction I'm sure Easter occurs in the Spring to help us understand the message of Resurrection. As flowers unfold from a recently barren garden, we can more readily grasp Christ's rising from the dead. The earth is being reborn. It refreshes 'our minds and revitalizes our Christ was willing to give spirits. But do we let it stop ~nything ... In fact, He gave His ') Wh hfe ... the greatest demonstrath . ere. en we see new tion of love. hfe around u~, sh~ul~n't we also see the n~w hfe wlthm us?

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To understand Christ's iove for us, consider this story about a mother and daughter.

Try Again The mother was teaching her daughter to bake. The girl made a mistake and ruined the cake.

It was inedible.

The mother could have been annoyed ... but it's not likely.

She would understand that the girl was trying,. and making mis.' takes is human.

The mother would want her daughter to try again.

But, suppose the girl gave up, saying, "It's no use. I'll never learn. I won't try again."

Then, I think, the mother would have real cause for disappointment. She loves the girl, has confidence in her. But the girl doesn't believe in herself enough to respond to her mother's love.

The mother wants desperately for the gir.J to trust her, to forget the mista'kes, concentrate on what she did right ... and keep trying. The mother would give anything ...

Ask' Excommunication For Abortionists MILWAUKEE (NC) - Archbishop William E. Cousins should issue an anti-abortion pastoral letter stressing excommunication as the penalty for those involved in the operation, the Milwaukee archdiocese's priests' senate said.

The senate, in a resolution passed 26 to 1 with one abstention at its April meeting, said the letter should emphasize the National Conference of Catholic Bishops warning on excommunication because people may have overlooked it when the NCCB statement on abortion was issued in February.

In addition, the senate noted that excommunication should be stressed ih the prelate's letter because excommunication - or a cutting off from the Church's sacraments--<:an only be incurred if the parties involved are aware of the Church's censure.

The senate's resolution said archbishop's letter should be posted in every Catholic medical facility in the archdiocese and read at each parish's Masses "with suitable comment."

It seems that Christ's love for us is that mother's love ...perfected.

During His Passion and Death, 'he suffered.....-suffered enormously because of His love for us.

Why don't we believe it? Why don't we trust Him? So often we sound like that girl. "It's no use. I'l-l never learn.

I don't want to try again." Just as the mother wants to stop finding fault with herself, I'm sure Christ would rather we stop dwelling on our mistakes and weaknesses: Christ came to save ... not to condemn.

He died out of love ... not vengeance.

He offered us His Resurrection to teach us of new life, new hope ... encouragement! .

Start Again If He had such confidence in us that He felt it was worth going to all that.. trouble for us, then why shouldn't we have confidence in ourselves? If we really believe that we're made in His image, then isn't recognizing His confidence within us, part of our living that belie~?

We all make mistakes. We all have ,weaknesses. But, this Easter, let them be yesterday's.

Forget them. Start again. New life. New hope.

Let us be born again in the spirit and move forward with confidence. We're trying. ,With perfect love, Christ gave us new life that First Easter.

Let us see that new life within ourselves ... every moment ... of every day ... ... and start living!

Study on Ordination Displeases Nuns CHICAGO (NC)-The National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN) has scored as "selfdefeating," "retrogressive" and "anti-ecumenical in substance" a study on o~dination of women by the U. S. bishops' Committee on Pastoral Research and Practices.

The 1,BOO-member Sisters' group, which has its headquarters here, said that the study, "Theological Reflections on the Ordination of Women," contained only arguments against the ordination of women.

The group suggested the U. S. bishops listen carefully to Amer.jean women scholars on the issue, subsidize American men and women scholars who support the ordination of women and invite women theologians to address them at their annual meeting.

The bishops' panel issued its study last year and it was approved by the Administrative Committee of, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The committee study took no definitive stance on the question of women's ordinat.ion, but declared that the issue require:! further study.

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ANNAPOLIS (NC) - The Ma,ryland House of Delegates has killed a bill that would have allocated an estimated $6 million for textbooks and other instructional materials for the state's nonpublic schools. . The House rejected the bill at the conclusion of its 1973 legislative session. Opponents of the assistance simply filibustered until the session ended and the House coud no longer vote on the measure.

RISEN WITH HIM: An Easter banner is put in place at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, as preparations .are made for Holy Week services, which will culminate with a sunrise Mass at 7 A.M. Sunday,' followed at 2 P.M. by a religious songfest led by Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S. and St. Patrick's Folksingers of Somerset. An Easter egg hunt will take place at 3 P.M. From left, Theresa de Luca, with flowers, Fath~r Patenaude and Sister La.urette Boisclair, C.S.C., who designs Shrine banners.

Protest Court 40,000 Urge Nixon Issue Emancipation Proclamation for Unborn GRAND RAPIDS (NC)-More. than 40,000 citizens of the Grand Rapids area here in Michigan have signed petitions urging President Nixon to issue an "Emancipation Proclamation" for unborn children to establish and protect their rights.

The petitions were signed during a six-week period in February . and March and sent to the White House, according to Joseph Boyle, a philosophy teacher at Aquinas College here and president of the Grand Rapids 'Right to Life' Committee, which drafted the petitions and collected signatures for them.

"We feel the petitions are a positive way to record the great outpouring of pro-life opinions from thousands of people representing all political ties and religious faiths concerning the Supreme Court abortion ruling," Boyle said.

"It is our hope that President Nixon and our legislators will realize that our awareness of the injustice perpetrated upon a defenseless segment of society remains, and our willingness to ,speak for the unborn child continues."

Boyle said the presidential, proclamation for the unborn was needed to protect them until an amendment can be added to the U. S. Constitution guaranteeing their rights.

'He expressed confidence he can elicit as much support for such amendment in his area' as he did for the proclamation. ','We're sure we can get more than 40,000 signatures for that," he said.

The petitions sent to the White House - which' has not yet responded to them - noted the Supreme Court made abortion on demand legal and that the U. S. Constitution has never guaranteed the rights of prenatal children.

Advocates of the legislation, chiefly Catholics from Baltimore and other urban centers in the state, indicated they would revive the assistance bill in the next legislative session.

The aid bill, which was supported by the Baltimore archdiocese, would have -required local school b'oards to provide secular textbooks and other educational materials to nOD',mblic schools in their areas. The state then would reimburse the local boards for the cost of the materials they gave the private schools.

In supporting the assistance bill, top Catholic officials felt the measure would have passed constitutional tests in the courts.

While the U. S. Supreme Court has struck down most nonpublic school aid plans, it has upheld some programs entailing only textbooks and similar educational \ tools.

The officials of the Church, h'owever, were concerned the measure, even if passed by the state's General Assem~ly, would have been petitioned to referendum by its opponents. In a referendum last fall engineered by foes of nonpublic school aid, voters rejected a plan to grant private schools about $12 million for scholarships.

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Thurs., April 19, 1973

Catholics, Jews, Baptists Meet For First Time

World's Only Police Chief Who. Carries Archdiocese Has Insurance Plan A,'Breviary'to Work Every Morning (

CINCINNATI (NC) - Parishes and institutions of the Cincinnati archdiocese will save an estimated $200,000 a year when a new "self insurance" program 'goes into effect.

BUFFALO GROVE (NC) Harry Walsh is probably the only police chief in the world who NASHVILLE (NC) - Jews, carries a breviary to work with Southern Baptists and Catholics him every morning.

The program was approved by , Harry Walsh, chief of police came together here for their first Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin joint meeting and issued a state- in this fast-growing Chicago suband overwhelmingly favored i.n ment on a variety of issues in- urb is a permanent deacon for a poll of parish priests. Hundreds the Chicago archdiocese. cluding Key 73 and the Soviet of individual insurance policies Although he has been in police Jews. throughout the archdiocese The three-day "trilogue, "a reo work 11 years, Walsh carries his would be cancelled and all ingional meeting covering Tennes- breviary naturally. At the age of suranance premiums will be paid see and eight" neighboring states, I5 he entered the Trappist's Gethto a dloces\ln fund instead of to brought together 85 selected rep· semane Abbey in Kentucky. He the various insurance companies. resentatives of the three faiths. was a Trappist Brother for 11 It was co-sponsored by the J~w­ years before being dispensed "All we'·re doing," explained ish Federation of 'Nashville and from his vows at 26.

J. Tracy Kropp, archdiocesan Now at the age of 37, Walsh the American Jewish Committee, treasurer, "is taking our own the Catholic diocese of Nashville has fulfilled two dreams. He is money and putting it into a pool and the American Jewish Com- tops in his profession as a police out of which we'll pay ordinary mittee, the Catholic diocese of chief and he is an ordained minclaims."

Nashville and U. S. the bishops' ister of the Church.

Walsh, his wife Marilyn, and Extraordinary claims will be Catholic-Jewish relations secre· covered by insurance policies tariat, and the Home Mission their children, Sheila Ann, 9, and taken out by the archdi·ocese.

Board of the Southern Baptist Kevin 8, live in a modest home in Buffalo· Grove. As a de~con, Convention.

As the plan is set up now, the A joint statement of the par- however, he is assigned to Queen first $50,000 in claims will he ticipants called for "a recommit- of the Rosary parish, Elk Grove paid out of the diocesan fund ment to social consciousness and Village, the parish in which he and any claims beyond that social action by religious groups lived when he was accepted for amount will be paid under the in America. Specifically we call the archdiocese's first deacon "reinsurance" pol!cies. ' for religious leaders to come to- class in 1970. He was one of 97 .

Monsignor Ralph A. Asplan, gether in all cities as a coalition' permanent deacons ordained for chairman of the archdiocesan the archdiocese last December. of, concern on social issues." temporal affairs commission, Single Role The trilogue participants said the self-insurance plan is praised the Soviet Union's reWalsh does nqt see himself significant because of the annual ..ported easing of the "head tax split into three roles. He is a HARRY WALSH: Deacon, cop, father . . . but most saving, prOjected for parishes which has inhibited the exodus fathe~, a police chief, 'a deacon; of all Christian. and... institutions. The plan also of Soviet Jews to Israel." rather he lives the single role of makes sure that all insured areas TV Movies a Christian. stole over a business suit, any- couldn't serve effectively if she receive "full coverage" as soon They praised the "program and He sees himself as a man despurpose" of Key 73, the national ignated to serve. He believes this more than he would wear a did not have a positive attitude. 'as the plan goes into effect.

"My wife is very proud of Christian evangelization cam- ministry is a fulltime 'job. This Roman collar with his police uniCovered by the program will Harry the deacon," he said. She paign, but cautioned against 'of- includes both his formal duties form. is not "Mrs. Deacon" or "Mrs. be buildings and their contents, Diaconate a Challenge fene-lin" t,hp. religious heritage of as a deacon and his job as police workmen's compensation, general non-Christians.

Walsh believes that permanent Chief of Police." chief. . and automobile liability, automo-, ' Turning to home and family "How much more of a minis- deacons can challenge the rest "If Harry serves the commu- bile physical damage, money and life, they asked "all segments of terial position could I have than of the Christian community. The securities, fine arts and glass, the media" to establish a rating as a chief of police?" he asks. "I deacon says to the man in the nity as chief of police, if Harry sacred vessels, personal belongserves the Church as a deacon," system for movies shown on tel- stand up fOJ mally as deacon in pew: "Don't tell me you are too . ings of priests, new construcWalsh said.

"Marilyn serves the ' evision "to assist parents in ex- a parttime way. When I walk • busy, that you don't have time ercising moral judgment over into the hospital, it is specifically for the Church. You are no Church by suP?orting and taking tion, medical payments, special events and parish organizatiQns. what comes into their homes as as deacon. But when I walk into busier than I am. I am publicly care of Harry. That's it." an influence over their children." the police department in the committed to .ministry. All ChrisParticipants expressed a strong morning, I am also a. deacon." tians are called to ministry. hope that "such meetings as this Walsh feels that people need What are you doing?" can continue at the 'grass roots more preparation on the role of And Walsh sees the deacon level. In this way, we hope to the deacon. Some receive him as telling the priest: "Don't tell me, challenge effectively and force- a priest, others reject him ini: about problems. ,I have problems, fully the creepng secularization tially because he is not a priest. too.

I have a family, I have a of American society." brings He is concerned that the dea- mortgage, a job. I'll match you 'Rewarding Experience' con not be looked upon as a sorrow for sorrow, proble~ for Among the list of speakers and kind of second-rate priest "he- , problem." panelists at the symposium were cause there are similarities in As a deacon, Walsh teaches a Father Edward Flannnery, of the many of ' the functions both per- weekly fourth grade CCD class, bishops' Catholic· Jewish rela- form." works in pastoral care at a hostions office; Bishop Joseph Du"The deacon ministers in his pital, takes a seminary course rick of Nashville; Msgr. George own right in association with the one night a week, assists in the Higgins, secretary for research at bishop and the priests," .Walsh liturgy, and during Lent he has the U. S. Catholic' Conferenc;e; said. "We have to think more in been conducting traditional lentRabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the terms of ministry, of caring for. en devotions one evening a week.

American Jewish' Committee; people, because Jesus did and Walsh is sympathetic to the Dr. M. Thomas Starkes, director as Jesus did. role of the wife in the diaconate. of the Department of Interfaith Love of Liturgy His wife spends many nights Witness of the Southern Baptist "I minister in everything I do. alone at home, when he is out Convention's Home Mission I don't care whether it is in the Board; and Dr. Lewis Rhodes of office or at Queen of the Rosary at diaconal work. He says he ' the Southern Baptist Convention. Church in Elk Grove Village, I After the meeting Father , minister."

Vocation' Day Flannery said participants Walsh thinks he is able to seemed eager to have future bring the Church to many situa- Packet Developed trilogues ,of the same natut:e.

WASHINGTON· (NC) - The tions where perhaps a priest They were struck by "the variety . cannot.Even in the police depart- national Catholic Youth Organof points of view, the nuances of ment, peaple come to him with ization Federation and the Nattradition," he said. "It was a ional Center of Church Vocations very rich and rewarding experi- their problems because they have developed a program packet identify him as a deacon.

These ence." same people might be reluctant· for World Day of Prayer for Voto come to a rectory to see a cations, May 13.

Winner The packet is designed to depriest.

The man with the average Because of his monastic train~ velop the theme "An Overview mentality,' hut with control, with ing, Walsh has a love for the of Hope" during the week of May a definite goal, and a clear con- liturgy. He appreciates the ar- 13-20.' eeption of how it can be gained, tistic part of the liturgy, and The packet contains a program 10 CONVENIENT BANKS lOCATED IN. FAll RIVER. SOMERSET. SWANSEA. WESTPORT. ASSONET MEMBER· Federal DepOSIt In!lurance Corporation· Feaeral Re'!'liIe C;/~lem and above alI, with the power of , ,when he assists in the liturgy, folder of homilies; prayers for application and labor, wins in he believes he should be dressed use in the liturgy, plans for group as -a deacon, not merely wear a activities, and a poster. the end.

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American Choir To Sing at Papal Easter Mass VATICAN CITY (NC) - An American children's choir that has sung at the White House for President Nixon will be featured singers for Pope Paul's Easter Mass on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica.

About 75 members of the 100voice ecumenical National Children's Choir of Washington have accepted a Vatican invitation to sing before, during and after the main Mass Pope Paul will celebrate on Easter.

Although the choir has performed before distinguished audiences in the past three weeks, their debut in St. Peter's Square will provide them with world exposure. They will appear before tens of thousands of pil-' grims as well 'as international television.

The choir, scheduled to be in Rome from Holy Thursday through Easter Tuesday before giving concerts in France and England, earned the money for their trip with part-time jobs.

From Washington Schools . Under the direction of their foundress, Judith St. Aubin of Washington, the choir will perform at the French cathedrals of Notre Dame (Paris) and Chartres as well as in the city of Rheims.'

In London, the choir wiH sing at two Protestant churches, Westminster Abbey and SaintMartin-in-the-Fields.

Composed of singers ranging in ages from five and one'-half to 18 who come from 32 Washington area schools, the choir entertained President Nixon and his family during the Christmas season of 1970. Last Christmas ,eve they sang at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Was~ington.

Swansea Policeman Plans 2048 Mile Hike For Heart Fund Along Appalachian Trail

BY PAT McGOWAN

THE ANCHORThurs., April 19, 1973

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A long walk has begun for Bob Martin and AI Cormier, Swansea Policeman Cariton co-chairmen have announced that Windle II, who hopes to hike the plans have been finalized for the 2048 mile length of the AppalaSpring Dinner Dance scheduled chian Trail from Springer Mounfor Saturday night, April 28, and tain, Ga. to Mt. Katahdin, tickets are now available from Maine, for the benefit of the any of the committee members.

Heart Fund.

The price is $5.00 per person.

Last week he received a sendNo tickets will be sold at the off from friends and well-wishers door. at the Venus de Milo restaurant, From 6:30 to 7:30 will be the Swansea. From there he was cocktail hour and dinner will be driven to his Georgia starting served at 7:30 sharp in the lower point by Sgt. Donald Butler of church. the Swansea Police Department.

Sgt. Butler said that he and Dancing will commence at 8:30 his wife have for six 'years been and all attending will go across Swansea chairmen of the Heart the street to the Sheridan St. Fund, and that when 23-year-old School for this portion of the Windle mentioned his "lifetime evening's affair. dream" of hiking the AppalaOne can attend either the dinsian Trail the idea was born that ner or the dance, however the he should attempt the project for price remains at $5.00 per person. the charitable cause.

"We hope to raise $2048 from ST. MARY, the walk, $1 for each mile," said NEW BEDFORD Sgt. Butler, indicating that over The Parish CCD will hold its $1000 has already been collected BON VOYAGE: Fellow police officers wish Swansea installation banquet and dance in cash and pledges.

Why is Windle walking' from . Patrolman Carlton Windle II, real fortitude and express on Friday night, May 18 in the Georgia to Maine, rather than their thanks as he sets out on his 2,048 mile hike for the parish school hall. Dinner will be the other way? "AlI the books Heart Fund. Left to right: Swansea Deputy Chief Charles served' at 7 o'clock and dancing say it's easier walking south to . Ouey, Sgt. Donald Butler, who is also the Town's Heart will follow until 1 A.M. north," explained Sgt. Butler.

Further information may be Fund Chairman, and Officer Carlton Windle II. Windle has a four-month leave obtained by calling Dorothy Deof absence from his police duties The hike has been carefully 6642 foot Clingmans Dome on Cicco at 995-3737 or Gertrude for the hike, but hopes to complanned, with 14 depots set up the North Carolina-Tennessee Mello at 995-6686. plete it in abput 100 days. at post offices near the trail. boundary.

ST. LAWRENCE, Rec:ord Is 79 Here Windle will pick up fresh As well as by Sgt. Butler, he NEW BEDFORD "The record time for walking supplies of food and maps and the trail is 79 days," said Sgt. will mai'l home items no longer has been aided in his preparaA tribute to Rev. Arthur K. tions by Ronnie Walker, a SwanButler, "but that was done over needed.

Wingate, former assistant at the sea reserve policeman and voluna two-year period, with the Parish, will take place on SunFood, said Sgt. Butler, will be hiker coming back each year and freeze-dried, especially' manufac- teer fireman, who is acting as his day afternoon, April 29, from 2 "mana~er." continuing from where he'd left tured for hikers. A supply suffiAnd among those participating to 4 at the Kennedy Center. off." He indicated that Windle' cient for the trip will cost about in the Venus de Milo sendoff last The Parish Club now being "wouIdn't mind a bit" if he $500, he noted. Additionally, should brea,k the record, al- Windle will carry a lightweight week was Rev. John FoIster, formed will hold a Ham and though that's not his primary pack, sleeping bag and tent. His who was an honorary po.liceman Bean Sup;>er at the Kennedy and department chaplain when Center on Saturday evening, goal. load will weigh about 40 pounds. he was stationed in Swansea.

May 12.

The young man, who will celebrate his 24th birthday while on the trail, is in tiptop hiking conSessions 'beginning at 2 dition, indicated Sgt. Butler. At o'clock will be: six feet, one inch, he weighs 175 IndividuilIizIng Math in Pripounds and is jokingly referred mary Grades by Robert Burto as "our physical fitness nut" roughs, a consultant for Laidlaw by feIlow officers. He works out Brothers. daily, usually running or walk. Art In Primary Grades by Mrs. ing to and from his Swansea Verna Wuorela, art supervisor home to the Fall River Boys' for the Acushnet Public Schools.

Club, and last year he was a Printing and Collage Techparticipant in the Boston Maraniques by Raymond G. Bissailthon. lon, art education director of the . Appropriate Project New Bedford Public Schools.

"We think his hike is an apArt in Junior High Grades by Sister Gertrude Gaudette, O.P., propriate Heart Fund project," art teacher at the Dominican said Sgt. Butler, "because the heart is a muscle and exercise Academy in Fall River.

Recognizing Learning Disabil- builds it up, and decreases ities. by Dr. Eleanor, Semel, pro- chances of a person's having a heart attack." fessor at' Boston University.

The Everlasting Message Value Sharing in a Catholic The highest point Windle will reach on his hike will be the Turn to Page Thirteen

Diocesan Educators to Meet Continued from Page One plications of Tax Credits. This session will be very helpful for pastors, teachers, parents ,an9 school board members. Father Russell Bleich is well known for his efforts to develop the concept of a "Community of Faith" through schools and religious education programs.

Reverend Thomas Sullivan of Chicago, author of Focus on American Catechetics, w.ill talk on how to relate the General Catechetical Directory to every day religious teaching.

Liturgy will be celebrated on both days with His Excellency, Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, concelebrating on Thursday with many of the priests.

Historically, a new step will be taken at the convention. In the beginning, two distinct educational apostolates held separate conventions through the year-one for Catholic schools; the other for the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

Then" both apostolates combined to hold one and the same convention. Now, with all apostolates merged into one, all teachers of the Diocese will con路 verge on Attleboro together.

The convention will open on Thursday afternoon, May 3, at 1:30 with a brief address by Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, D.Ed., Director of Education for the Diocese of Fall River.

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All the World's a Stage, Mother Rediscovers Who will you be today, young son? Deputy sheriff?

Farmer? Hard Hat? Sailor? How I enjoy your varied roles. All you have to do is put 'on a different hat and you put on a different' day. No. boredom in your life.

There's your favorite, your this person but I must play the deputy sheriff shirt, guns, role.

It comes with the job. and hat. After you finally I like better the less-harried get the shirt on so the badge mother I become later in the is on the front, there's that endless business of buckling on the holster which is much too heavy f.or four-year-old hips.

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day when there's time for conversation, jokes, hugs, books and each other. This is a completely different person, the Relaxed Mother, yet I must he both. Each is determined by the environment of the moment.

Relaxed' Mother I am also Wife mother, curious person who comes into being when .the whole family is together. I am not mother to my husband but wife. I am not wife to my children, but mother. I don't behave as I do around either alone. I put on a mask of woman, tempered by the presence' of both husband and children. Each group knows I'm not being true to the role I play when I am with them alone. ) cannot be as open with my husband in front of the children and he knows it. I cannot be as motherly when my husband is there and the' children know it.

So 'I switch masks, from wife to mother back to wife. All the while, they are switching in their own roles from child to son and from husband to father.

Every so often our roles bump into one another and' this is called a family crisis in psychology books. Perhaps my Mother Role responds when my husband is being Husband and he may not appreciate being married to a woman who says, "Because I ' ,say so."

CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL KICKOFF: Attleboro Area representatives meet

But here is the patience missBishop Cronin at the formal opening of the 1973 Appeal. Rev. Bento.R. Fraga, Holy Gho~t 'ing when you're dressing in Parish, Attleboro, area priest director; Orlando J. Souza, lay chalIl~an for St. Mary s ordinary run-of-the-day clothes.

Parish, Mansfield; the Bishop who was principal speaker at the affaIr.; Th~mas O. C~s­ That's because deputy sheriffs tro of St. John's Parish, Attleboro, area lay chairman; Frank W. Foley, pansh lay chaIrdon't get mad whim the shirts scrape going over the face, you man for St. Mary's Parish, Seekonk. tell me.

"Depu~y sheriffs don't cry," you tell me when I eye the bruises and scrapes earned from The Pope also set down cer- from non-Catholic Christians to SUPERIOR (NC)....... Bishop a fall. "And people don't kiss George A. Hammes of Superior, tain necessary conditions that receive Holy Communion in the deputy sheriffs when they get Wis., issued a pastoral letter here must be met by non-Catholic Catholic Churoh in the last six hurt," you emphasize. ' containing guidelines for cir- Christians who wish to receive or seven years."

So I stand back in awe, watchcumstances when non-Catholics Communion in the Catholic He said another reason was ing this child-man struggle with in his diocese may receive Com- Churoh, and Bishop Hammes re- . "the fact that many non-Catholic pain, knowing that once the hat peated these conditions in ,his Christians, without asking, simmunion in the.CatholicChurch. comes off, you'll collapse in The guidelines, applying Pope instruction: ply receive Holy Communion in tears at the whiff of an injury.

Proper Dispositions Paul VI's 1972 pastoral instruc-' the Catholic Church because Put on Person Non-Catholic Christians must they wish to receive the Body tion on Communion, are the first I wonder if we were very difones issued in the United States, ' "manifest a belief in the real of Christ to fill their spiritual ferent ourselves. Oh, we're too although the diocese of Rich- presence of Christ in the Holy needs and do not have the opsophistcated to put on a hat and mond, Va., is in the process of Eucharist in conformity with the portunity to do so in their own change our beings. We do it in developing local guidelines also. belief of ·the Churoh, and they churches."subtler ways. We put on a permust express that belief."

If non-Catholic Christians fulThe bishop stressed that the son instead.

They must "experience a serifill certain "fundamental" condiRole Conflict A professor tells me that the tions of belief, need, and dispo- ous spiritual need for the Eucha- necessary conditions must be Or perhaps a child responds in sition, Bishop Hammes said, they ristic sustenance." met by the non-Catholic Chris'word, person, comes from the root word, persona, meaning his child role instead 'of his son can ask to receive Communion' They must be "unable, for tian, including an explicit remask. Early actors wore differ- role and gets in trouble by stick- in the Catholic Church in the some' period of time"to have re- quest, and that his instructions ent masks to identify which per- ing out his tongue at 'a parent. following instances: course to a minister of their own are "not a permission for Catholics to receive Holy Communion sons they were. When they , Or a parent plays Relaxed ParA person "who is confined in community." changed characters in a play, ent when he should be Com- a hospital or rest home." , "They must ask to receive in the worship services of other denominations." they changed masks or persons. manding Parent and this conOne who "attends the funeral Holy Communion.'" fuses the kids. Role conflict is of a relative' ina Catholic "They must have the proper We are many persons every common but easy to solve if dispositions and lead lives worthy day, from helpless woman to families take the time to, step , church."

"The non-Catholic- Christian of a Christian." consoling wife, from gymnastic back and look at themselves.

CHAS. 'F. In his pastoral letter Bishop spouse in a mixed marriage at girl to sophisticated pre-teen, We have dozens of roles out- the wedding Mass."

Hammes said that ,the Pope had from playful father to command- side the home, too. Being a neighOne who has participated ac been prompted to issue his 1972 ing executive, 'from insecure, bor calls forth a certain behavior, cnild to king of the jungl~ gym. a teacher another, a church tively in preparing his or 'child instructiori because of "the in"for the reception of the child's creasing number of requests "Who am I now?" we ask our- member still another. And all the first Holy Communion, on the OIL CO., INC. selves in subtle ways a dozen while our children are observing occasion of the child's first Comtimes a day. When I get up, I'm us, noticing that we put on and munion."

Enrollment Declines 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE 'Rushed Mother, making appro- take off manners as easily as The non-Catholic parent "on NEW BEDFORD, MASS. priate parent noises: "Hurry up," Steve changes hats. They learn the occasion of the baptism of In C~tholic Schools "Pick it up," and "Because I said that this is part of life and that his or her child when baptism is . MOUNT VERNON (NC) Catholic colleges, high' schools so." Much of this me is involved Steve is just more open about administered during Mass." and elementary schools in the in orders, reminders, and or- it than the 'rest of us.

Bishop Hammes said other in- New York metropolitan 'area So play on, young Steve, with rises. I don't particularly like HEATING OILS your hat collection. Be grateful stances must be referred to him have suffered declining enrollfor a decision. ments in the past year, according that you don't have, to pretend, COMPLETE Releases Priests In issuing his guidelines, Bish- to the Catholic Telephone Guide yet. Be I happy in each of your HEATING SYSTEMS .

VIANA (NC) - Close to 100 roles and then, when you tire op Hammes pointed out that "a p_ublished here.

INSTALLED Basque priests gathered here in of them; become 'yourself and sit number of non-Catholic Chris~ However, the guide disclosed Spain to celebrate the release with me awhile in silence. I tian denominations now believe (that the Catholic population in 24 HOUR OIL BURNER I of four other priests held under promise to become myself for in the real presence of Christ in the metropolitan area has inthe Holy Eucharist."

• house arrest at the Benedictine awhile, too creased by 416,860 persons, in SERVICE Convent of Olivas for delivering Capsule Review: What Do you Pope Paul VI's 1972 "Instruc- the past .year.

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RECOGNITION NIGHT FOR SCOUTING: Bishop Cronin, assisted by Rev. Roger P. Poirier, pastor of the host pari~h, St. Joseph's, Attleboro presents the St. George Scouting Awards. Left to right: Henry Melini

from the Cape Area; Robert Guilmette, Fall River; Robert St. Pierre, New Bedford and John Dunn, Taunton-Attleboro Area.

Diocesan Educators to Meet Continued from Page Eleven High School by Rev. Joseph Quinlan, chairman of the Diocesan Board of Education for the Diocese of Springfield, Mass.

Christian Humanism: A Humanities Program for High Schools by Rev. Martin P. Donahue, assistant superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Worcester. , The later afternoon program, beginning at 3:30, will feature: What's With Schools These Days: Innovations in Elementary Schools by Dr. Virginia Biggy, acting chairman of the Department of Education at Lqwell State College.

Faith-Response of the Adolescent, by nationally known Rev. Alfred McBride, O.Prem., director of the National Forum for Religious Education of the National Catholic Education Association.

What Makes a School Catholic?

by Dr. George W. Elford, director of Research for the NCEA. Learning/Caring/Sharing: Religious Education' in Elementary Grades by Mrs. Rita W. Foley, a consultant with W. H. Sadlier Co. The afternoon sessions will be brought to a close by a concelebrated Mass at which Most Rev.' Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, will be the principal celebrant. All priests are invited to concelebrate the Mass.

Following supper, two more sessions will be offered: To Teach As Jesus Did by Rev. Alfred McBride, C.Prem.

Tax Credits Now! by Robert Lynch, executive director of the National Forum for Religious Education, NCEA. New Dimensions in the Parish: Total Religious Education by Dr. George W. Elford, director of research, NCEA. Sacramental Encounter: Eucharist and Penance Preparation

by Sister M. Francille, CSJ, coordinator of religious education for the Sisters of St. Joseph.

May 4 Sessions Two sessions will be offered

on Friday morning, the first sessions, beginning at 10 o'clock will deal with: Building a Community of Faith: Introduction by Rev. Russell M. Bleich, superintendent of schools of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa.

Drug Use and Related Issues: The Message to Educators by Rev. C. Melvin Surette, direc~or of Life Resources for the Archdiocese of Boston.

Moral DImensions of Current Social Programs by Rev. Thomas A. Wassmer, S.J., professor of Philosophy at SMU. The 11:15 morning sessions will feature:' Building a Community of Faith: Some Practical Exercises by Rev. R~ssell M. Bleich.

Evaluating the High School Religion Program by Rev. , Thomas Sullivan, associate superintendent for religious education for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

The New Challenge for Math Teachers: The U. S. Is ,Going Metric by Sister Mary Cullen, S.N.D., of the Math Department of Mount Wachusett Community College.

Following a lunch, a 1:30 program will deal with Focus on American Catechetics in the Light of the General Catechetical Directory by Rev. Thomas Sullivan.

The convention will come to a close with a Mass concelebrated by all priests present with Rev. Msgr. Henri Hamel, president of the board of education for the Diocese of Fall River.

Jesuit Is Candidate SANTAL (NC}-A Jesuit priest here has been freed for two yeat:s from all his priestly and reli, gious obligations except celibacy to run for a seat in the' Indian parliament.

The priest, Father Anthony Murmu, is a member of the Oraon tribe in the Chotanagpur belt in Bihar state. The tribe has been exploited by non-tribal landlords and employers. '

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The Parish Parade

Sharing Parental Interests· .

Key to Child Involvement"

Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River ;'02722. Name of city or town should be 'included, as. well as full dates of all actiVities. Please send news of future rather than past events.

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By Joe and Marilyn Roderick

By the time this article appears we will have been to see the Boston Marathon on Patriots' Day in Boston. This is one event that we have missed only once or' twice in the past 15 years and only then because the weather was bad. I have always been a sports buff and, } became a with our own eyes the trees and bushes that have resembled marathon fan in the early nothing more than sticks during fifties when'} was a student the long winter suddenly come in Boston. At that time a close friend and fellow student, John Kelley the younger, was the front runner in the Marathon and a great local favorite.

My enthusiasm for the race caught with ·the children and they enjoy ·the trip to Boston, a·· light lunch and then two hours ,or so of 'marathon watching.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. If there is one thing I have learned about children it is that they tend to like what their parents like. They will imitate their parents when they are at the pre-teen ages.

Magic Ingredient They enjoy the rriarathon because both Marilyn and I enjoy it, and the more they know about it the more they feel that they are party to some special knowledge that other people' don't. have. I think this is the ingredient which makes children willing to share things with their parents.

- Sharing with children isn't always an 'easy thing, especially when they turn into teenagers, but nevertheless they can be induced to do many things with their parents, as long as there isn't a lesson or cultural purpose involved. Nothing turns kids off faster than the feeling that they are being educated or uplifted!.

One of the areas in which we have been eminently successful with the children is in ,eating out. With three children, we really don't eat out too often but when we do we try to take them to a foreign restaurant to sample foods from other countries. They enjoy it.' tremendously. .

In Cambridge we eat at the Greek, Indian, Japanese a'nd italian resturants; in Boston at the French and Hung~rian restaurants and wherever e'lse possible.

Lunches are relatively inexpensive ,and therefore manageable in almost any restaurant. Again both Marilyn and I enjoy experimenting with foods and our enjoyment and buildup is sufficient to bring the children along with us. ' In the Kitchen The miracle of Easter and Spring never fails to amaze me, it is such a beautiful season of the year and also a time for a renewing of our faith.

Who could ever doubt the presence of Goel when we watch

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P.ITTSBURGH (NC) - Father Francis W. Wright has be.en named national director of the Pontifical Association of the Holy Childhood in the United States. Assuming his duties on May 1, Father Wright will direct operations of the association which helps support children in more than 800 missions throughout the world.

again tq life. The. crocus pushing its fragile head above the ground is the first sign of renewed life in our garden and this, timed perfectly with the season of Lent, can't help but give us a new lease on our faith.

So often the cares and sadness of the world crush our spirits and shake our faith. We watch the vindictiveness of men win out over goodness and honesty. and we so deeply wonder' why.

However, if you're near any patch of earth during a New England spring or even near a blooming tree, faith just has to be revived.

One Little Tree My first year of teaching, many eons ago, was spent at an inner city sch901 (only in those days we called them tough neighbor1)oods) and one of my particular joys was a large tree whose branches hugged the window of my second-floor classroom. Day by day in the spring we could watch life flowing into those branches and no book could teach the youngsters nature's way any better than could that one little tree fighting against the cement of the area.

Each year at this time I can't help but feel that God chose the spring to die and rise again because in watching green and growing things we could watch his visible lesson that there is always new life in our faith.

There is always room for a nice dessert in our mes and this chocolate cheesecake is one way to please both cheesecake and chocolate lovers.

PRESIDENT: Mrs. James H. Quirk of St. Pius X Parish 'So. Yarmouth and president of the 'Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will deliver the president's message at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, April 28 at the 20th annual DCCW convention scheduled for the Nathaniel Wixon School, So. Dennis.

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Gerard J. Chabot, Attleboro District Moderator.

Two special guests will then be introduced to the convention members: Rev. Msgr. James T. McHugh and Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, STD, Bishop of Fall River.

Monsignor McHugh Msgr. McHugh, National .Director of the Family Life Division of the 'United States Catholic Conference, has been ..director since 1967, after having first served as assistant to Megr.

John Knott for one year.

Prior to coming to the USCC, Msgr. Mdlugh had served as assistant, pastor at Holy Trinity Parish in Fort Lee, N. J. D'uring that time he also served as Director of Programming for the Family Life Apostolate in the Archdiocese of Newark.

In' New Jersey he also was the Moderator of, the Catholic Physicians' Guild and the Ber-' gen County Federation of Catholic Home-School Associations.

The purpose of the Family Life Division, USCC, is to foster and promote the values of Christian marriage and family life, and to communicate these values to the overall society.

The Family Life Division also coordinates the activities of the diocesan Family Life Bureaus in regard to programs of education in marriage arid family life.

Guest of Honor

Marble Cheesecake 1 1,4 cups chocolate wafer crumbs % teaspoon groond cinnamon 1,4 cup butter or margarine, melted, 12 ounces cream cheese, softened Yz cup sugar 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind 2 eggs 1 Yz cups dairy sour cream 1 package (8 ounces) semisweet ~hocolate squares, melted 1) Combine and mix well first Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, 3 ingredients. With damp fingers STD, Bishop of Fall River; will press onto bottom and sides of be the convention's guest of hon9" loosebottomed layer-cake pan. . or. He will be received at the Chill. . '- convention by Rev. Francis B. 2) Meanwhile, combine next C?nnors, Pa~tor of Our ~ady of 3 ingredients and beat until well VICtOry Pansh, CentervJ1le, the blended. Lemon rind, cream host Moderator.

Rev. Jame~ Lyons, pa~tor of cheese and sugar..

S~. ~ary Pansh, Tau~ton, and a 3) Beat in eggs.

4) Stir in cream until smooth. Dlst~lct Moderator, "':111 lead con5) Add chocolate and stir with ~entIOn members, In preparafork until mixture is marbelized. tIOns for Mass.

Pour into crust and bake in preThe Most Reverend Bishop heated 350 oven 35 to 40 min- will then be the principal celebrant of a concelebrated Mass to utes or until' set.

6) Chill 2 hours or longer. ' close the convention.

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Criticism Credit for'Last Week's Recipe ,The Harvey Wallbanger cake Faultfinding without suggesrecipe was sent by Mrs. Harry tions for improvement is a waste ~Smedley E. Sheardson of South Easton. of time.

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OUR LADY OF VICTORY, CENTERVILLE .

Mrs. MiIlie Geilear has announced that plans for the Aug. 8th Fashion Show to be held in the Sheraton Regal Motel are nearing completion.

Other future events planned are the installation banquet of the new slate of officers of the Women's Guild on June 11 in Cummaquid Inn and the Living Rosary that will be conducted at the May meeting. Mrs. Ten:y Nealy and Mrs. Dorothy Silvestri will head the June and May affairs, respectively. ,Mrs. Susan Ellis is serving as chairman of the nominating committee.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The annual banquet for the Women's Guild is slated for Wednesday night, May 2, and will be preceded at 6 P.M. by a liturgy at which new officers will be instaUed. The banquet will follow at White's restaurant.

Tickets are available from Mrs. Thomas Stanton, Mrs. James Dunse and all' board members.

Project Leisure will meet on Wednesday afternoon, April 25, instead of Thursday, April 26.

Raymond Cheney, vice-president and editorialist for Radio Station WALE wiil be the guest speaker.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET A testimonial honoring Rev. Robert McGowan will be held from 6:30 to -10:30 P.M. Friday, May 18 at.K of C Hall, Swansea.

Tickets are available from Jim Clark, Tom Curry, Tom Daley, Tom Donahue, Rene LaPage and Ed Wiluz.

Eighth grade CCO students will hold a cake sale Saturday, April 21 at Fernandes Market, Indian Springs Plaza. Donations will be appreciated, and may be brought to the market from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Adorers' of the Blessed Sacrament are requested to sign up for any period between the close of services Holy Thursday evening and midnight, during which time the Sacrament will be at the altar of repose.

The program goes from 2 to 4 in the afternoon.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The monthly meeting of the Women's Guild will be preceded at 7:30 P.M. by Mass, after which Rev. Lucien Juesseaume, moderator, will show slides of shrines he has visited. Members may 'bring guests.

Almost complete are preparations for "The Fabulous Years," . parish variety show to be presented at Dartmouth High School Friday through Sunday, April 27 through 29. Proceeds will benefit the school fund. Tickets are available at the rectory.

Bingo is played every Wednesday night, with an early bird game at 7 and r,egular play beginning at 7:30.

ST: MARY, NEW BEDFORD A May Frolic will be held in the church hall on Illinois Street from 8 to midnight, Saturday, May 5. Music will be by the Roman IV. Tickets will be available at the door or may be obtained from Mrs. Paul Forgue or Mrs. Ernest Lizotte. .OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Children of Mary will attend corporate communion at 9 A.M. Mass Sunday, April 29. A meeting will follow. Members will form the congregation at a tele-ii'sed Mass Sunday, May 6 and will attend their annual.Mother's Day and Feast Mass at 5 P.M. Sunday, May 13.

The annual mother and daughter communion brea,kfast sponsored by the Council of Catholic Women will folloW 8 ~.M. Mass Sunday, May 6.

Holy Name Society members will sponsor a whist party at 7:30 P.M. Saturday, May 19. . The annual blessing of autos will take place at 1 P.M. Sunday, May 27, in the church parking lot. The summer schedule of Masses will begin the same day, with Saturday Masses to be celebrated at 4 P.M. and 5:15 P.M. Saturday, and hourly from 7 A.M. to noon on Sunday. The 7 A.M. Mass will be in Portuguese.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO Following the Good Friday Evening Services of the Passion .of Our Lord scheduled for 7 o'clock, coffee will be served in the parish hall and slides taken

by David Dion and Arthur Cote during their recent trip to the Consistory in Vatican City.

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15 Columnist Studies Question, Requests Priests Name Candidates for Episcopacy BOSTON (NC) Cardinal Cardinal Medeiros suggested number of names as candidates Of Human Rights in-Church Humberto Medeiros has asked that nominees display "interest for the hierarchy to the Holy

When the Bishops speak of justice, they have more in mind than economic justice-the basic rights of work and shelter and education and health. They also mean the respect owing to a human being as a dignified, responsible,' self-fulfilling and self-determining member of society. and arrangements which best regional needs and cultures.

This concept of responsible suit But it was clearly understood humanity is, for instance, that the detailed appreciation of at the root of the recent remarkable declaration of the entire

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the pr.inciples would follow. In the case of the role of women, the Bishops were rather more specific and called for the setting up of a mixed commission "of men and women, religious and lay people, of differing situations and competence to give the issue a thorough and serious study." .

VolUntary Society

Before. we look at the Bishops' proposals, we should reo' member one general overriding Brazilian hierarchy which, di-' fact. The Church is not a society rectly and by implication, conin the sense that Brazil or the demns as unjust much of what is United States or China is a socigoing on under Brazil's regime. ety. Only in the minute enclave Dedicated as it is to econo~ic of the Vatican City is there growth at all costs, it has over- anything resembling "citizenridden workers' rights, pushed ship" in the secular sense. The the poor peasants and tenant Church is' a wholly voluntary farmers aside, and driven Indians society of believers who follow from their lands. the Risen Lord whose doctrine .

It has given most of the annuand presence enable them to atal 10 per cent increase in .wealth tempt the fundamental purpose to the top 10 per cent of society of man-to complete the work and imprisoned and even tor- of creation and breed on ea~th tur~d Brazilians who protest that the Heavenly City. the policy of· growth-at-all-costs This ,is the meaning of the is a juggernaut crushing the safeguards-traditionally some- . prayer "Thy Kingdom Come." what frail-of Brazilian justice. This is the permanent duality The Bishops' statement comes of the Church - active in the out unequivocally on the side of world, but not of it, committed the oppressed. It underlines the to its renewal but caught in its workers' right to unions and snares, a "pilgrim Church" jourrepresentation, the peasants' neying to individual salvation, right to own the land they till, no doubt, but deeply engaged in the Indians' right to survive, the preparation for Parousia, the right of everyone to ."due pro- coming of the Kingdom, the cess" before the law-including realization of the promise: Besafety from arbitrary imprison- hold, I make all things new." ment, detention without trial, Only Bonds torture, illegal sentences and In theory, since membership arbitrary execution. There can is voluntary, the Church's only be no doubt that this declaration . "honds" are belief and love. is 'profoundly rooted in the When Christ's disciples asked Church's teaching on human whether God would bring down rights in the civil order. fire and destruction on people More Searching who would not listen to his But in Rome, at the Synod, words, Our Lord told them that· the Bishops also asked them- they were being literally devilish. selves a more searching quesIn practice - and this is the tion. If fundamental human rights are part of God's inalien- duality of the Church with a able law for human society, are heavenly and an earthly vocation they not also rights to be recog- -any human community (even nized within that society we call if it is only a sports club) needs the Church? And can the Church rules of membership. In addition, work fully for justice in the people in !lcclesiastical authority world if critics can say that her are exposed to the whole historown members are not justly ical range of temptation open to those in' power-to take too treated?

The Bishops give four con- much, to over-enjoy its exercise, crete examples of the human to push it into areas where it rights which they have in mind: should not he exercised. So, the the right of members of the Bishops conclude, the question Churcn to participate in the of rights within the Church must Church's decision-making; the be examined. right to speed, openness and due process in judicial cases arising between the Church and jts members; the right to "suitable freedom of expression and thought" in order to give the Church a "legitimate diversity"; and the right of women to share responsibly in the life of the 273 CENTRAL AVE. . Church. The Bishops realized that at a universal Synod, they 992-6216 could do no more than lay down general precepts.

NEW BEDFORD It is the duty of each local Church to work out the rules

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priests here to send him the names of fellow priests they think are qualified to be bishops.

In a letter Cardinal Medeiros asked each ;riest to submit the names of three priests in order of preference. The three may be local priests or they may be from other areas.

The letter implemented norms for the selection of bishops, published by the Vatican last year.

in the renewal of the Church as indicated by Vatican II, knowledge of and interest in the main social problems of our day; openness to the opinions of others, willingness ~o.. share aU~hority and. responsIbIlity, capa~lty. to be fIrm but not authOrItarIan, to be kind but not weak, ab!lity to be ~ommuica~i~e with prIests and laIty, and wlllmgnes,~ to serve rather than be served.

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See, and an archdiocesan spokesman said the cardinal's action "does not necessarily indicate that Boston is in search of new auxiliary bishops." It now has four. a~xilia.ries, the largest number 10 ItS hIstory.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH God--The Lord!

God Is Lord And Master Of AU God is Lord. "Lord" means the in countless numbers. He conone who has the ownership and trolled all destinies of creatures. and the power. Everything be- He was the ruler of all others longs to God. Everything an~ everyone is under his control.

Biblical faith sees everything that happens coming from God's By hands. So when the Israelites saw-the Red Sea close over PhaFR. QUENTIN roah's Egyptian armies they QUESNELL, S.J. shouted and danced their victory song. to the Lord. "Shout · to the Lord! He has conquered!"

God was lord of all, and He had - !1W'tt':t}ttitJ,}",~t,);,:,:.,A given them the victory. who called themselves kings or At the same time, they knew lords. "Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord how to apply the same principle our God is the ONE LORD." even when they themselves were on the losing side. Then they concluded that it was because the Lord had wanted to test them or to punish them or to bring them to repentance for "The law is that the closer one their sins.

In every case, the point re- is to good seeing, the closer he mained that God was the Lord. . is to God." These surprising He was the one who could do' words appzar in an article enwhatever He wanted. Nothing titled "Religion 1968" ,written by ever happened without His Ralph Hattersley, a photographer, for Popular Photography knowledge and consent. magazine. I found his words so Lord of Hosts God was "the lord of hosts"-'- challenging that I developed a' that is, master of mighty armies workshop on "Photography and

"The Lord rules, let the earth rejoice." ' This biblical insight is 'still true day. God is not just the one who started things off by creating the world..He remains in control, with power over all that He has made. He knows all, and, nothing happens without His permission.

This truth contains many mysteries, and some people turn it into a collection of puzzles: Can God do anything, even contraciictions? If God rules all, how can our choices and actions be Turn to Page Seventeen

God: Invisible tord 'of the Visible

Family or Parish First Belen in Spanish means Beth· lehern. A place in New Mexico carries that. name and a parish as well. Our Lady of Belen in Belen was founded 180 years ago and the old structure there which has served so many for so long soon will- give way to a new church building.

. However, in that setting rich with its heritage of the past, a very fresh, very contemporary approach to First Communion is in operation this year and the initial feedback seems entirely positive.

"Servite Father Gabriel Weber . (the O.F.M.s staff this parish) before coming to Belen spent "a wonderful year of study in Berkeley" and during that period · "caught up on a lot of reading . I always wanted to do." He picked up imaginative ideas in the process and began organizing the religious education program at Our Lady .of Belen (735 children, 70 adult teachers, aides and helpers) along lines suggested by current experts.

The First Communion class, which involves over 150 boys and girls, follows detailed recommendations developed. by wellknown Christiane Brusselmans and Brian Haggerty in their text entitled: "We Celebrate the EuCharist," Nine words or phrases

Comm~nion

summarize this series and form themes for a like number of monthly sessions which explain them.· "Giving thanks, celebrating, listening, sharing a meal, caring, enjoying life, belonging, making peace, going forth to do God's work." The presentations and projects, of course, speak not only to the children, but to parents as well.

Catechesis On a Sunday afternoon each month, parents gather in the _church hall for an explanation (through films, 'lectures, film.strips, group. discussion) of the designated theme and how to convey this notion to the young ones. In addition, instructors and participants plan a Mass for the following Sunday at 12:30 which will center around that particular theme. At the same time, ensuing classroom instruction and parent~child home study reinforces what has been covered in the weekend meeting.

Two examples illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.

The first theme-belongingseeks to communicate truths connected with Baptism: our membership in God's family, our entrance into the Christian community, our initiation through First Communion into a more mature position within Jesus' Church.

Prior to the Mass, each family prepared a nametag for the child.

Then after the homily, catechists read the names of boys and girls in their classes. Following this announcement, every candidate came to the sanctuary and handed his or her identification badge to the priest. Names represent ourselves and thus through this Turn to Page Eighteen

Religious Education" which I recently conducted with religion teachers in Los Angeles.

Hattersley's opinion at first seems unusual. What does good seeing have to do with closeness to God? What does photography have to do with religion? What does seeing have to do with religious education?

As I explored these questions I found that other prominent phc~ 19raphers shared Hattersley's t..l-toughts. Minor White

By FR. CARL J. PFEIFIER, S.J.

speaks of photography as a form of prayer, a visual way of understanding the invisible and wordless. Alfred Sieglitz described photography as Making visible the invisible."

'Seeing: pelieving' Because of its striking capaC" ity to reveal the invisible in the visible, photography and other good art is very close to religion.

The visual has a unique role in' religious education because as experience has long suggested, "seeing" is closely related to "believing," and catechesis aims at more mature believing. For most. of us who feel more comfortable with words in religion class, it is worth reflecting on the experience of these' contern- . porary . photographers who. find in their art an approach to God. Good art of any kind; including good photography, is a marvelous means of enabling people to look more sensitively, more appreciatively at the w{lrld about them. Good photos, for example, can help people' discover how extraordinary the ordinary reality really is.

The-artist helps us lQok more carefully, more respectfully, at life. He has the ability of stopping us short so that we catch sight of dimensions of .life that we normally fail to notice. Such seeing, which has more to do Turn to Page Eighteen

STORMS OF LIFE: "Indeed, he was Lord-master of' the sea and storm, of human disease and even of life and death." A freighter bobs on rough water during a storm on Lake. Michigan. NC Photo.

According to Saint John's Gospel, Jesus at the Last Supper performed one of the most significant actions of his life. He began the meal by washing the feet of his disciples as a sign of the service they were to show one another and as an ideal for all Christians. His words on that occasion were just as noteworthy: "You address me as 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and fittingly enough, for that is what I am" (13,13).

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Indeed he waS' Lord-master of the sea and storm, of human disease and even of life and death. His presence and words inspired fear and awe.- He acted with an authority he clflimed to have from the heavenly Father.

Men, even the most powerful and influential, came under his judgment and criticism. These were undeniably the traits of a lord. .

At the same time, however, he was kind, self-effacing and considerate. He loved meh and women with a tenderness that was often reciprocated. He wept at the death of a friend. People from all strata of society were attracted to him. With patience, and understanding he instructed his followers in the meaning of

his mission and invited them to share in it.

Saving Lord What kind of a lord and master was this Jesus? Nothing less than divine. And it is in terms of this revelation that Christians must understand God's dominion over the world and over men.

Even in the Old Testament, God revealed himself as kind, gracious and loving. But above all, he was a saving Lord. In no way was this a diminution of his power; it was rather an indication of the uniqueness of his lordship.

Unlike men who used power and authority to instill fear and coerce service, and often in an arbitrary and self-serving fashion, God ruled in order to benefit an'd save man. His dominion was meant to elicit devotion and love.

Many-Sided The tendency very often is. to think of God as lord only in so far as he manifests his power, providence and majesty, for example, in creation and in extraordinary events of history.

This certainly is one side of his lordship, but a side that really does not distinguish him from the other gods men believe in.

It is really only the basis of the more important feature of our God's dominion-his loving intent to save mankind.

At the present time, it is unquestionably difficult' for men to recognize the lordship of God. . Those happenings of nature and events of history that in other times were attributed to him are now explained by so many other causes. His church even is subTurn to Page Seventeen

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Scores Behavior of Some Catholic Anti-abortionists

Or'egon Abortion

Bill Tabled

I think I have made it clear in previous columns that I think the Supreme Court decision on abortion was a judicial monstrosity. The learned justices made fools of themselves, and Nixon's "strict constructionist" appointments are beginning to look even more absurd than they of unborn life is moral than were did at the time they were our predecessors. The rationalfor abortion today arc made. But if the decision izations sophisticated, as befits a sophiswas a totally unjustified "raw exercise of judicial power," I

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must also say that the behavior of some Catholic anti-abortionists is equally foolish. (And I assure all of them who will send me their hate mail that I don't bother opening it, so they might as well save their stamps.)

American Catholics have every right to object to the Supreme Court decision and they have every right, too, to their conviction thaI: abortion is murder. However, when some anti-abortionists yield to rhetorical excess in their argumentation, they become quite indistinguishable from the fanatics on the other side.

The legalization of abortion does not mean that a society is in danger of collapse or that the powers of evil have taken control of it. Abortion, lamentably, is virtually a universal of the human condition. Together with infanticide it is the "ordinary" form of population control that has existed for centuries in almost every human society.

The population explosion, for example, was brought under control in Western Europe in the last century by abortion and infanticide (along with coitus interruptus). Flushing a child down a sewer is an ahominab)e thing, and it doesn't matter whether the child has been born or would have been born in three months.

Unfortunately, it is an abomination that the human race has almost universally practiced.

(And it is an abomination from which th~ s'o-called "Catholic" countries have not been free.)

'Pregnancy Counseling' Whether there will be any more abortion in the United States now that it is no longer a crime may be open to question.

Perhaps there will be some increase, at least at first. The law makes it easier and socially more acceptable to destroy unborn life, but the sad truth is that even in the United States of America unborn life has never really been considered very sacred. This may be another way of saying that we haven't got much beyond barbarism and that our legal code has slipped back somewhat toward the level of the savage. The human race has a long way to go before it becomes , civilized.

Nor am I persuaded that Americans are any more or less likely to believe that the slaying

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ticated people. But that they are any more convincing than the rationalizations used in France in the nineteenth century or in Greece in the third century B.C. or among peasant peoples in any century seems to me to be problematic.

Humankind has always had arguments available for getting , rid of unwanted children, arguments which if not wholly persuasive were at least adequate to soothe the consciences of those involved in abortion and infanticide.

What may be changed-and it is the only real change I am prepared to con,cede-is the practice of "abortion" or "pregnancy counselling" by which society attempts tq persuade a woman seeking abortion that her fears and anxieties are merely the result' of a persistence of an "outmoded morality."

Witch Doctor Function Even here I am not completely persuaded of the change. Society has always had' rituals and symbols designed to lower anxiety among those who are doing things which are painful but .",iTH which society deems to be soCHRIST BEFORE PILATE: "Jesus answered Pilate's cially necessary: The social funcboast about holding power of life and death: 'You would tion of the pregnancy counsellor ' not have any power over me if it had not been given to you and the witch doctor is fundafrom above'."

NC sketch by Eric Smith. mentally the same whatever the content of their reassurance.

I think a strong human and legal case can be made most effectively by rational, civilized, Continued !Fom Page Sixteen the Bible still insists that God sophisticat~d men and women free? If God is really all-power- foresaw it, the prophets had who are secure in their own ful, why is there sin and evil in foretold it, and in that sense it ethical visions and are not com- the world? "had to be." "The Son of Man pelled by their inner needs must be delivered into the hands Divine Permission toward fanaticism.

The Bible does not give that of sinners." "Did not the Christ Unfortunately the hierarchy kind of information or solve have to suffer these things, and and the Cathoilic intelligentsiathose puzzles in theory. It sim- so enter into his glory?" each for its own reasons-has It was according to God's ply repeats the busic facts and permitted the argument against plan. "The cup which my Father calls us to a decision based on abortion to fall into the hands of has given me, shall I not drink those who are in many cases those facts. The facts and the it?" 'decision are both summed up in fanatics and kooks. Crusaders Safe with Christ and self-righteous zealots are the an especially powerful way this last ones who will be able to week in the Scripture selections So in our lives. When inesmake a case, against something about the suffering and death of capable, inexplicable evil and which is so pervasively part of Jesus.

The betrayal of Jesus, the suffering come upon us, no matthe human experience as the mockery of a trial they gave him, ter how terrible they are, no destruction of unborn life. the false and lying condemna- matter how much of malice lies 漏 197~, Inter/Syndicate tion, the cruel execution they behind them, no matter to what inflicted upon him were among extent we even brought them upon ourselves, whatever has Segregation Affects the greatest crimes in the his- all happened could not have haptory of the human race. Many, Sisters' in Rhodesia路, pened without God's knowledge many sins on the part of many SALISBURY (NC)-The Salisand permission. He knows what bury city council's African people had come together to we are suffering. But he also affairs committee has forbidden accomplish the passion and knows how much we can bear. five black African Sisters to death of Jesus.

But nothing in all this escaped He will not let us fall beneath occupy a house owned by the God's control. God saw it all and our burden.

Salisbury archdiocese in the Above all, he knows how to permitted it, and through it he city's white area. turn the evil into good-for us was working out ollr salvation.

The committee did not give any He could have stopped it. and for others. We are in strong reason for the decision, but ob"Don't you know that I could hands, for he is the Lord. That servers have said that the infinite strength is in the service recommendation is in keeping ask my Father and he would of infinite love. "We are safe in give me more than twelve lewith the Land Tenure Act, which saying with Jesus, "Not my will divides the country into white gions of angels?" Jesus said at but thine be done," and "Father, the moment he was arrested. He and. black areas. into thy hands I commend my The Sisters, members of the answered Pilate's boast about spirit." .

Congregation of the Little Chil- holding the power of life and dren of .Our Ble:;sed Lady, were death: "You would not have any Realist called to take over some domestic power over me if it had not been duties from white Sisters at the given to you from above."

Not once have I sighed for archbishop's house in addition Many men sinned to bring childhood and youth again. to pastoral work in the area. about the murder of Jesus. But -Pitkin

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SALEM (NC)-A legislative bill that would have "required Catholic hospitals in Oregon to perform abortions has been tabled in committee here.

By a 5-0 vote the state and Federal Affairs Committee decided to table the bill, in effect preventing any further consideration of it during this session of the state legislature.

If it had passed, the bill would have forced all hospitals "entitled to a tax exemption of any kind under state law or supported in whole or part by a state or local grant of subsidy" to admit persons seeking sterilizations or abortions. Virtually all hospitals including Catholic ones, receive some form of state aid or tax exemption.

Rep. Wayne Whitehead, one of the bill's original sponsors, testified before the committee that the bill would be an exercise in "legislative futility" and recommended tabling the measure.

H said he had received an oral opinion from the attorney general:s office that the bill would probably be declared unconstitutional because it violated guar;lntees of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

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Continued from Page Sixteen ject to these same explanations.

But more important, men appear to be ruled and enslaved by all kinds of masters, within and outside themselves - masters that leave no room for a saving God. Free Choice 'It is in such situations that men have always been invited to acknowledge the one Lord. For it has likewise always been evident that the lords of this world ultimately diminish and even sometimes destroy men.

God offers a dominion that frees men from tyrannical and destructive forces. Such a dominion gives men full freedom to grow, to hope and to love.

But God does not force his savihg dominion on men; he will not have recalcitrant servants.

Only those who freely choose to do so may call him "Lord."

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Continued from Page Sixteen simple ritual gesture the children were manifesting a willingness to become members of God's family and, more immediately, to enroll in the First Communion class.

Elizabeth Longford's wonderfully readable Wellington: Themes The Years of the Sword ended with the duke's destructIOn Despite the size and group of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. Now comes the even nature of that Sunday Mass presentation, the action of giving better sequel, Wellington: Pillar of State (Harper & Rowe, 49 one's tag seemed to make this E. 33rd St., New York, NS. eucharistic celebration personal. were deplorable, andth2 Irish 10016. $10. Illustrated), to each of the boys and' girls. were denied the right to reprewhich carries the sto.ry of sentation in Parliament. WellingOne young lady told her mother Arthur Wellesley, first Duke ton put through a bill of emanshe felt "the whole ceremony of Wellington, do~n to his dea'th cipation in 1829, despite furious was jusffor me."

37 years later.'

The 'second month's liturgy opposition from the all too numIt is not necessary to have contained a double theme: "Sunerous rabid anti-Catholics. read the earlier work i'f one is to day is the Lord's Day. Come let Emancipation, although so us celebrate.", and "Christ is the hard-wrung, was niggardly and Light." Children arrived for the no panacea for all- the ills of Eucharist with a paper candle Ireland. The land and the wealth By pinned to their clothing. Namewere in the hands of a few, the tags from the previous service majority subsisted in wretched had been mounted on board and RT. REV. poverty, and the specter of famplaced in the sanctuary. There, ine always hovered over the land.

MSGR. also, were two magnificent banMisery Everywhere ners which had been fashioned When the actuality of famirie JOHN S. by mothers of students in the struck, with the failure of the KENNEDY class' illustrating the themes. potato crop in 1845, Wellington BUZZARDS BAY REPRESENTATIVES AT CONVENAfter the homily, all the canwas no longer in power, although he was still a power. He was TION: Mrs. Arthur E. Williams, Mrs. Victor Gosselin, Miss didates moved out into the cenperhaps more humane than most M. Ursula Wing and Mrs. Anne L. Eldridge have been ter aisle and sang: "This is my enjoy this second volume. But of his kind towards the victim~ named as delegates from Buzzards Bay to the 20th annual little light of joy. I'm gonna let one must have some knowledge of this disaster. But such measit shine all over the world and of Wellington's earlier career, ures of relief as he favored were Convention of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic nobody is going to blow it out." and especially 'Of' his military nugatory, and, even they were Women scheduled for Saturday, April 28 at the Nathaniel VaJues on Both Sides accomplishments, if one is to not acted upon. .

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At Christmas, one of the nuns understand much which the There' was misery in England who teaches in this program represent work takes for granted. as well. The poor were desperceived an unusually large numThe best avai,lable study of Wel- atley destitute, and they were ber of candles as gifts. Father lingson is found in the two vol-. mariy. They were unrepresented ible creation is a central part of Gabriel wonders if there was a Continued from Page Sixteen urnes by the Countess of Long- in Parliament, and their attempts with mind and heart than 20/20 the believer's experience. The connection here. He also wonmarvelous> Cp.apter 42 in the ders if the impact of this monthford. at securing reform, were con- vision, is itself elose to faith.

For his defeat of Napoleon,' sidered revolutionary.

Book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) ly, community,' class liturgical Visual Aids Wellington was loaded with . Wellington looked upon propSt: Paul, who maintained that catalogues some .of the wonder- celebration will not mean the end honors and prerequisites by for- erty as sacred, and propertY! "faith comes througjl hearing" ful things man can see that reof "Family First Communions." eign countries, as well as by was owned by .a comparative (Rom 10:17) also pointed out veal the creative presence of A good question.

England. He came home to ac- handful. It had to be safeguard- that faith comes through seeing. God, the Lord of nature and of There ar~ many plus values in claim which was to ,last for ~is ed, come what might. His stand Earlier in the same letter to the history: sun, moon and stars; the practice whereby children lifetime; altliough there were strikes us as cruel and unjust, Christians. at Rome Paul writes: rainbows and clouds; mountains periods when he was ,less than . but he was a privileged man of , "Since the creation of the world, and valleys; water, snow, ice receive First Holy Communion with the parents whenever ready. favorably regarded. His pres-' his times, and it is .hard to invisible realities, God's eternal and fire; birds, animals, and fish tige was unparalleled, and it car- realize how abysmal was the ac" power and divinity, have become of many shapes and colors. In But we can easily produce balried over into civilian life'. cepted .Iot of the generality visible, recognized through the the middle of his list the writer' ancing arguments in favor of a "Parish First Communion" with He,beca'me, as the author says, . some thOmg over a century, ago. things he has made" (Rom 1:20). pauses in wonder: "How beauti- all the class present. Perhaps the a pillar of state - or does she Learning to see the world more ful are all his works! ... can one solution need not be in .the Suspicious of' Change mean the pillar of state? He was路 sensitively is a step toward ever s~e enough of their splen- either lor category. It seems to certainly the former, and he Part of the explanation of faith because the invisible God dor?': (Sir 42.23-25). me a combination of both makes came close to being the latter, Wellington's sta'nce lies in his Becl!-use we believe that God good sense and the efforts at can be recognized in the visible His dedicated aim was to serve innate conservatism. He was is Lord of all, "creator of all Belen open up a few avenues world. his sovereign and his country, suspicious of any change, and The relationship between sen- things visible and invisible," we for bringing this about. and serve he did, in whatever resistant even to its beginnings. sitive seeing and faith is so close believe that his invisible prescapacity he could and not with- He was completely' insensitive that ,seeing can often be a' more ence is discernible in what we out handsome rewards.. to the spirit of change at work Zeal effective approach to faith than can see. Whatever helps one see .Political Life in the world. Thus, he was ad- hearing. Back in the fourth cen- better-more sensitively, appreSuccess isn't a result of SPO!)amant against the admission of . ciativelY,reverently can help taneous combustion.

You must tury one of the Church's greatest He went into politics. As a Jews to. Palestine, and to any duke, he had a seat in the House' extension of the narrowly limit- catechists, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, one catch sight of God with us. set yourself on fire.

Photography and art are valtold his catechumens that "faith -Glasow of Lords,' and he became its ed right of suffrage. leader. He was a Tory, with His wife Kitty died in 1831, by seeing is stronger than "faith uable parts of the religious edu; very conservative, but not en- after a life mostly unhappy. They by hearing."Once they had seen, cation process leading to more tirely reactionary, convictions. were not compatible,' although then words would help them. in- mature faith, because they are He first entered the Cabinet as she seems to have been amiable, terpret what they have .seen. .eminently suited to help us see See Us First Master of Ordnance. Later he if disorderly. She did not come Word and visual, hearing and better. If Hattersley and St. became Commander-in-Chief of up to his requirements of mjli- seeing, complement each other Paul are correct in thinking that good seeing is an avenue to disSee Us Last the Army. tary precisiol). He treated her in catechesis, covering God, we can well pray Ecclesiasticus He had a brief term as Prime with some show of correctness, Throughout the entire Judaeo- with the blind man of the GosMinister (1828-1830); a brief one hut often without consideration But See Us as Foreign Secretary. Thereafter, and sometimes without civility. Christian tradition, the recogni- pel: "I want to see"路 (Mk 10:15;51). tion of God's prt;!sence in the visalthough still a' staunch Tory, For a!1 her failings, one symhis stance was less partisan, he pathizes with this gentle woman. declined political office, but he One has to smile, not very remained a force in the House tolerantly, at his foolishness He did not live to see the trious in Epgland, but at Water. of Lords. with other women, some of them Crimean War, in whi路ch the En- loo, where he beat Napoleon, The years covered by this humbugs and transparent schem- glish army performed so badly. souvenirs of the ,emperor are in volume extended from the reign ers. If Kitty had enjoyed the in- Some of- the blame for this was steady demand, whereas none of of George III, through those of dulgence which he bestowed on his, for he had long headed the the duke can be found in the George IV and William IV, into the silly pretentious Anna Maria army. He withstood the devel- display. The reason? "He does that of Victoria. They saw great Jenkins, for example, her way opment and introduction of ,im- not sel!." . . perturbation in England and in would have been smoother. proved weaponry; what had The Countess of Longford has . Ireland, and revolutionary outHe was a systematic, unremit- served well in the past would handled this vast and intricate , bursts and general unrest on the ting worker. What had to be serve well in the future. subject admirably. The man; in Co!)tinent. .Wellington was affec- done, he addressed directly, and Clarity, Balance his distinctive qualities, stands , ted by and in some measure he kept at it doggedly. He was When Wellington died, in 1852, forth, and the crowding elements affected, all of these. meticulous in answering letters, the nationaf mourning was un- in the background are presented He had been born in 'Ireland with which he was deluged. LOY- precedented. So 'huge 'were the with clarity and balance. Welling. : and it was to Ireland that he alty and duty were paramount throngs at his lying in state that ton, as she portrays him, is no had to give much attention while with him, and he strove might- some people' were crushed to waxworks路 figure, and no demi.

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE 'DIOCESE

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton Hllb Coach

Divisional Play. Commences In Southeastern Mass. Loop The Southeastern Massachusetts Conference will officially open its. championship campaign tomorrow with. a full slate of games. The twenty-four member schools wIll be competiting in four divisions with the winner of each bracket qualifying for the son. Tomorrow they'lI be playing State tournament. for keeps. .

Each school will play a 14 In opening Division A games game league schedule. Four intercity rivals Msgr. Coyle-Casgames will be interdivisional matchups and will not count toward the divisional crown.

Most teams have already played three or four games against non-league opponents. While there have been a few surprises, it must be remembered that many coaches approach these games as Spring training contests. During these matches coaches often experiment in hopes of finding new talent or better working combinations.

Tuesday of this week all Conference clubs played their first inter-divisional game of the sea-

sidy High and Taunton will meet in the Silver City, Somerset will travel to Seekonk, and Bishop Feehan High will tak~ on city foe Attleboro on the latters home field.

Four of the six schools within the division are from the old Bristol County League and two (Somerset and Seekonk) hail from the Narragansett loop.

While the Narry circuit had the reputation of being ·the small school league, its two representatives should be able to hold their own against their new rivals.

Norton, St. Anthony's Unknown Quantities Somer~et and Seekonk perennially have been two of the better Narry -clubs. Either is capable of winning the division race.

Division" B, the sroall school northern group, will commence play with St: Anthony's hosting Dighton-Rehoboth in New Bedford, Diman Regional Vocational playing at Westport and Norton entertaining H{lly Family High of New ·Bedford.

Each of the schools in the division is capable of developing a championship club. The bracket appears to be well balanced with Norton and St. Anthony's being somewhat unknowns. The Lancers played in the Tri-Valley League before the formation of the new Conference and have never competed against its new league opponents. The same

is true for St. Anthony's which was a member of the Mayflower WATTS WELCOME EN ESPANOL: Teenage dancers from San Miguel Church in the League last Spring.

Los Angeles suburb of Watts, welcome Bishop Juan Arzube to the parish where he held The remaining four schools were in the Narragansett League a bilingual Confirmation for 50 youngsters and then joined them in dinner. Entertainment until Dighton-Rehoboth severed included Mexican songs and dances. NC Photo. relations with the circuit two years ago. When they did compete against one another no school dominated. However, it was only on occasion that any WASHINGTON (NC) - Laity that the Church's view of the Both Neihaus and Mrs. Burke of the four could compete against and der,gy are calling for more sa'ncHty of life is far d:ifferent called for greater support of the stronger Narry clubs includ- emphasis on Church teachings to from the court's view. such agencies as Birthright and ing Somerset, Seekonk, Case remind Catholics that the "To be specific, I see this af- other pro-life groups which have High of Swansea and Bishop Church's view of the sanctity of fecting schools, adult education been active 'in seeking the proConilolly HIgh of Fall River. life is far different from that of programs, and long range pro- tection of human life.

Diman has been very success- the U. S. Supreme Court. grams of national Catholic or"Our bishops have given us ful to date in the new loop winThe call came after' the Su- ganizations," Msgr. McHugh direction in their pastoral mesning a cross county champion- preme Court refused to recon- said. sage," said Niehaus. "Our own ship and showing well in basket- ,sider its rulings of Jan. 22 Task Is Clear informed consciences tell us that ball. Look for the Artisans to against Texas and Georgia aborcome up with another'strong per- tion laws, thus opening the way He said he also sees a role to to fulfill our obligation we have formance in baseball. be played by physicians' and to act now to preserve the life to invalidate aliortipn statutes in , lawyers' gU'ilds which could· of the unbC!rn person." every state.

New Bedford on the Road for Two Saturday almost show Catholics the long-range "First, we must read the decisocial effects of the Supreme The Division C race should is not far behind. Look for Bish- sions," said Ferd J. Niehaus, Court's op,inion. the NaNonal Counpresident of rival last year's American League op Stang of Dartmouth to field & Mrs. Thomas J. Burke, prescil of CathoHc Men. "We should East pennant chase. AII six mem- another strong representative. ident of the National Council of bel's. have produced excellent In tomorrow's openers Stang form an informed conscience by baseball teams over the years is at Connolly, Dartmouth ,at reading all we can about the sub- Catholic Women, said the task Over 35 Years and seem to be evenly matched Case, and Fairhaven is at New ject. Particularly, we should of her organization is very clear. of Satisfied Service "We must coninue to work by study the 'Pastoral Message' of for this Spring. New Bedford Bedford Vocational.

Reg. Master Plumber 7023 education ,and by legal means to the U. S. Catholic bishops."

Vocational may be the only club JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. Lawrence High of Falmouth insure the full protection of all Msgr. James McHugh, director that will not be in the thick of and Barnstable appear to have 806 NO. MAIN STREET the race. The Artisans' have the edge in Division D: The two of the family life division of the human life at every stage of its Fall River 675-7497 ..........••....... floundered the past few years. large Cape schools will compete U. S. Catholic Conference, said development," she said. with a It will remain to be seen if they against Dennis - Yarmouth, the Church is now faced can bounce back this se~son.

Bourne, Old Rochester of Matta- responsibility "to utilize her educational resources so as to form Dartmouth, Case and Fairhav- poisett and Wareham in the all values and attitudes that embody en have all looked sharp in pre- Cape bracket. a respect for humari life." season games. Bishop Connolly In opening round play Friday "1 think the 01?e thing that the INC. Barnstable is at Old Rochester, court's op'inion emphasizes is Wareham hosts Falmouth and Mother Honored Bourne is at Dennis-Yarmouth.

SAN JUAN (NC)-Mrs. Rosa New Bedford High, playing an Aponte has been named Puerto independent schedule this Spring, Rico's Mother of the Year by a will be in for a busy day SaturONE STOP committee of prominent citizens day when it plays a doubleSHOPPING CENTER here. She ,is the mother of Car- header. Coach John Pacheco's • Television • Grocery dinal Luis Aponte of San Juan. Whalers will start the day with • Appliances • Furniture The wife of a poor farmer, she a 10:00 A.M. contest at Darthas 18 children, 12 of them now mouth and then hurry' to the 104 Allen St., New Bedford 363 SECOND ST. FALL RIVER, MASS. living. She herself came from a Cape for a 2:00 P.M. engagement 997-9354 family of 10. with Falmouth.

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