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SERVING SOUTHEASTEFtN MASSACHUSEnS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1978

Tuition Credits A Rocky Road

By Cliff Foster WASHINGTON(NC) - When all was said and done, a single phrase helped kill tuition tax credits for elementary and secondary schools in the House Ways and Means Committee.

The phrase was "public schools" and it was not included in a tuition tax credit bill introduced by Rep. Charles Vanik (D-Ohio).

Before it approved a tax credit of up to $250 for college tuition, the committee deleted tax credits for elementary and secondary schools.

The intent of the bill was to provide tax relief to middle-income Americans with children in school. The original bill, when fully implemented in 1980, would have allowed a $100 credit for elementary and secondary school tuition, and a $250 credit for college tuition.

But unlike a similar bill in the Senate, the Vanik proposal applied only to elementary schools which are privately operated, a provision that Vanik realized would probably doom his bill in court.

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DR. RANDOLPH W. BROMERY will be keynote speaker at the opening session of the Diocesan Catholic Education Convention Thursday, May 4 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. An internationally famous geophysicist, Dr. Bromery is executive vice-president of the University of Massachusetts and chancellor of its Amherst campus.

His topic will be "Glimpses of Heaven."

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HOSPITAL CHAPLAINS: Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald, diocesan director of pastoral ministry to the sick, seated, and Sister Marie Claire Salois, OP of the pastoral care department of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, right, congratulate Father Robert Carter, Sister Honora McHugh, RSM and Father John Gomes on completion of a training program for hospital chaplains. Also completing the program but not pictured, Father William Babbitt. (Story on , page 3)

Adoptive Parents Discuss IOrphan Voyagel Program What do we do if our child wants to find his natural parents? The question faces nearly every adoptive parent and answers range from pushing the panic button to calmly aiding the child in the search.

The whole gamut of reactions to the situation came under discussion last Sunday at a meeting at St. Vincent's· Home, Fall River, for parents who have recently adopted children through the Catholic Social Services department of the Fall River diocese.

Moderated by Mrs. Diane Nassr, social worker for the department, the program offered presentations by adoptees who did and did not seek their natural parents and a briefing on the current legal status of such searches.

Mrs. Nancy Collins of St. Theresa's parish, South Attleboro, the adoptive mother of 10-month old Shane, told the 19 other

couples present, "I'm satisfied.

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RI Bishop Seeks To Heal Scandal Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence has issued a statement with regard to the participation by Catholics in an Episcopalian liturgy at McAuley House in Providence, a soup kitchen operated by the Sisters of Mercy. It was carried in the April 13 issue of The Providence Visitor and excerpts follow: "The April 6 edition of The Providence Visitor reported an event concerning an Episcopalian liturgy conducted in the Diocese in which Catholics took an active part.

"The manner in which the Turn to Page Seven

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Past·oral (are lSI Explained At eeA Kickoff Meeting At the kickoff meeting of the Catholic Charities Appeal, 37th annual Catholic Charities which is to say, effectively, that Appeal of the Fall River Diocese, such poor souls have known Bishop Daniel A. Cronin pro- Christ's love because of your posed the "diocesan life" of the generosity in sharing to supfirst Christians as an example POlt the Appeal." of 'fraternal charity. "One strikDiscussing Catholic Charities ing characteristic of this first undertakings in, the past year, 'diocese' in the long history of made possible by last year's the Church," said, the bishop is record Appeal proceeds, the bishthe living testimonial to charity op pointed to renovation of Rewhich the people practiced.. gina Pacis Hispanic center in Saint Luke tells us that they New Bedford; new headquarters '"1lhared their worldLy possessions for the Diocesan Apostolate of in common, dividing their re- Sodal Services and Special Apossources . . . according to each tolates; and opening of a branch one's need . . . social services office in Hyannis.

"Fraternal, charitable concern He also spoke of pastoral minfor each and every one of the istIy to the sick, and diocesan brethren was the "touchstone" aid in constructing a chapel at of faith actually lived. Later on, Stonehill College. paga.n observers in the Roman Looking toward the future, the EmpIre ~e.re to say, Look at prelate indicated that the diocese ~ the ChrIstIans, s,ee h~~ t~ey hoped to "give some substantial l~ve one ~nothe~..The .mspIra- gift" to the Carmelite Sisters for twn .for thIS ChrIstIan vIrtue of the Aged and Infirm towards cha~lty . . . n~t ~erely as a construction of a new facility platItu~e or a prmclple. of a hy- for the aged in Centerville. He pothetIcal or th~retIcal sort said there is also need for en... b~t as ~ pra~tIcal matter ,of larging the St. Vincent's Home fact, Impactmg directly on dally t ' F 11 R" t'ng ··· 1 1 COTlven 10 a Iver, no I Ilfe . . . t h· IS msplratIon c ear y that this a ostolate to emotioncomes from the example of the ,P . " Commum'ty d eSCrI'bed ally dIsturbed youth IS attractCh rIstlan

by Saint Luke in the Acts of the Tum to Page Seven Apostles.

"I should like to propose the example of the faithful men and women of that early Diocese of Jerusalem to you, my dear TlO brothers and sisters, faithful The Chancery announced today men and women of the Diocese the appointment of Father Edof Fall River." wa:~d J. Bums as pastor of St. Noting that Acts of the Apos- Peter the Apostle Church, Provtles described "wonders and inc'~town, effective Wednesday, signs" wrought by Christ's fol- Apdl 26. He is presently pastor Immaculate Conception lowers, the bishop said that of Church, Fall River. signs and wonders have also occurred in the Fall River dioA Fall River native, Father cese "because of the devotion Bums has served )lis entire and generosity of the faithful priesthood in the area of the people of God - and our many Turn to Page Seven friends in the community at large - to the Catholic Charities Appeal, now beginning its 37th year.

"Many a poor soul, of every age, of every race, color and creed, in so many varied circumstances of need that they literally defy adequate description, has experienced the loving concern of Christ, manifest through one or other of the agencies, institutions and apostolates which depend upon the

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1977 CCA FINANCIAL REPORT Continuing the policy initiated by the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin,. Bishop of Fall River, the Diocesan Office for Administration and Finance has issued the Financial Report for the 1977 Catholic Cha.rities Appeal.

The report shows that the net proceeds from the 1977 Catholic Charities Appeal were $1,020,383.89, a record amount in the 36 year history of the Diocesan fundraising campaign. Through April 19, 1978, expenditures had been recorded in the' amount of $1,005,010.35, leaving an unexpended balance avail~ble of $15,373.5>4.

As the Report indicates, there are four general areas of Diocesan activity which are funded from the proceeds of the Catholic Charities AI:peal: "Social Service and Child Care," "Education," "Pastoral Works," and "Health and Hospitals."

Agencies and institutions in all four areas follow a fiscal year which begins on July 1st.

four areas of endeavor funded by the Catholic Charities Appeal increased during the current fiscal year by more than $140,000 over the prior year! While the impact of inflation and rising "cost of living" factors contributed to the increased expenditure, the cost of improving and expanding several existing programs and the implementation of totally new activities consumed by far the greatest portion of the substantial additional funds allocated to "operational expense."

The Diocesan Social Service apostolates, encompassing both the central office and the licensed agencies, received subsidies exceeding $140,000 during the current fiscal year, an increase over the prior year's funding level. of more than $40,000.

Increased staff, the establishment of "outreach" at the new Hyannis office and the move to attractive and efficient new headquarters on Slade Street in Fall 'River accounted for the increase.

In the spring of each year, following upon the conclusion of the Catholic Charities Appeal, there is a determined amount of money available for those various endeavors. The resources garnered in the Catholic Charities Appeal are allocated to the apostulates and institutions in accord with budgets which are prepared in anticipation .of the fiscal year.

Services throughout the Diocese were markedly improved by these measures; however, operational costs rose proportionately. During the fiscal year which began on July I, 1977, a comprehensive program for the pastoral care of the sick in major hospitals was introduced, with the assignment of priestly and religious personnel to this ministry on a full-time basis.

The proceeds of the Catholic Charities Appeal are carefully segregated in the Central Diocesan Office in a special "Budget Account," and quarterly subsIdies are transmitted to the separate units in accord with approved budgets.

An altogether new "line item" was thus introduced into the Financial Statement of the Catholic Charities Appeal, with significant increase in operational expense. Extensive renovations were completed at the Regina Pacis Center in New Bedford, focal point for the Spanish-speaking residents, Catholic and nonCatholic alike, of greater New Bedford. Subsidies for Diocesan secondary schools increased by a considerable margin. Operational expenses for the Campus Ministry, for the Family Life Bureau, for Communications and similar "Pastoral Works" all registered increases.

There is a modest "reserve fund" maintained in the accounts relating to the Catholic Charities Appeal. At the close of the financial year, any excess of revenues over expenditures is deposited in this "reserve fund," and prudent stewardship dictates the allocation of some funds, whenever possible, to this account, as the proverbial source to which to turn in "the rainy day." The "reserve fund" has the modest balance of $87,337 as of April 19, 1978.

The 1977 Report shows that more than 75% of Appeal proceeds went directly to the funding of operations in the various agencies, institutions and apostolates.

Some funds from each annual campaign are allocated to the "capitalization" of major projects. In the current year, a total of $250,000 was designated for such purposes, $100,000 to complete amortization of the debt at Bishop Gerrard High Sl~hool and $150,000 for debt service on the facilities at the Saint Vincent's Home' complex.

The Diocesan Office pointed out that total expenditures to date this year have exceeded last year's level of spending by some $55,000. A year ago, the statement for the 1976 Catholic Charities Appeal reported expenditures of $961,825.

Expenses rose in the current year, it was noted, despite budgetary restraint, reduction in certain operations, the decision to curtail allocations for capitalization by $50,000 and the reluctant decision to forego the possibility of adding any funds at all to the "reserve account." In effect, "operational expenses" for Diocesan activities in .the

Social Service and Child Care Central Diocesan Office for Social Service and Special Apostolates .

Licensed Agencies (Counseling, Adoptive Services, . etc.) .

12,000.00

109,000.00

Education

338,750.00

Pastoral Works

158,460.35 60,400.00

162,000.00

50,000.00

Catholic Charities Office .........

40,000.00 $447,400.00

Education

Reserve Account (4/19/78)

Pastora I Works Spanish Apostolate Subsidy $56,000.00 Renovations at the Regina Pacis Center 27,755.00

Total Disbursements (4/19/78) $1,005,010.35 $1,005,010.35

Catholic Youth Organization

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$70,000.00

Nazareth Apostolate

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32,000.00

Subsidies for Schools

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86,750.00

Stonehill (final payment on pledge) .

50,000.00

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100,000.00 $338,750.00

$83,755.00

Conferences and Associations

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27,700.00

Communications

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10,596.35

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$15,373.54

Permanent Diaconate Program

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10,000.00

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$87,337.00

Campus Ministry/Vocations

8,825.00

Family Life Bureau

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8,000.00

Clergy Programs

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3,895.00

Scouting Apostolate

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1,800.00

Ecumenical Activities

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1,566.80 2,322.2Q

Miscellany

Central Diocesan Office

Total

$1,020,383.89

Social Service and Child Care $447,400.00

Health and Hospitals

52,000.00

Capitalization - Bishop Gerrard ;fIigh School

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Disbursements: $34,400.00

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Total......................................................

The picture portrayed in the Financial Report for the 1977 Catholic Charities Appeal thus underscores, in graphic fashion, the plea of Bishop Cronin for an even more successful camp~ign in 1978. .

Net Proceeds from 1977 Catholic Charities

Unexpended Balance (4/19/78) Saint Vincent's Camp

There is some concern regarding one or other of the Diocesan schools. The Diocesan Office for Administration and Finance acknowledged the very real possibility that the "Budget Account" could be in a deficit situation by the time the books were finally closed on June 30th.

Appeal

Saint Vincent's Home Capitalization $150,000.00 Subsidy

The "margin" is very slim. As of the moment, only $15,373.54 remains available for allocation before the end of the current fiscal year on June 30, 1978. Most major expense items have been attended to, but ongoing incidental requests for additional funding must be foreseen in the remaining weeks of the present fiscal year. Convent repairs are needed at Saint 路Vincent's Home in Fall River, and while budgetary restraint recommends that the allocation be made in the coming fiscal year, it may be necessary to fund at least a part of this repair program from resources so far unexpended in the current year.

Total......................................................

$158,460.35

Health and Hospitals Pastoral Ministry

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$50,400.00

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home

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10,000.00

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$60,400.00

Total

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To Study Sunday At Liturgy Day The New England Liturgical Committee will sponsor a Liturgy Study nay from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 13, at Stonehill College, North Easton.

The program will focus on the meaning and importance of Sunday in regard to liturgical ~ele­ bration.

Father Thomas V. Krosnicki, Executive Director of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Liturgy. will deliver the keynote address.

Afternoon sessions will include Sunday Liturgy for children; Planning for Sunday Worship - in the Parish, on the Campus, in religious .cqmmunities; Music; Lectors; Alienated youth and the Sunday observance; 'Legislative issues con· cerning Sunday; "Obligation" as it relates to Sunday.

The day will close with celebration of the Eucharist.

Registration is limited and advance registration is required.

Further information is available from the New England Liturgical Committee, 'P.O. Box M-443, New Bedford 02744.

GERALD POISSON, a teacher at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, uses audiovisual aid in classroom. The home ~s among "beneficiaries of the annual diocesan Catholic Charities Appeal.

Four _Chaplains Receive Hospital Certification

To inaugurate the camping season, LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro is sponsoring a pilgrimage of Motor Vans to the Shrine.

The first such pilgrimage and blessing was held at the Shrine last year. Several hundred vans and campers came to the Shrine from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Maine and Vermont.

This year's blessing will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Shrine on Route 118, Attleboro.

The campers and vans wishing to participate in the blessing are asked to assemble in the Shrine's main parking lot for a brief prayer service.

Following a general blessing an individual blessing will be imparted to each van and its occupants. The purpose is to begin the camping season in the presence of the Lord and to ask God for a safe, enjoyable and fulfilling summer.

Fear Polish Disaster

Four members of the Fall with theological reflections on WARSAW (NC)-The Polish River diocese have received the healing ministry, group inter- bishops have warned that unless notification from the Board of actions, and the shared prayer Poles reject the model of the Examiners of the United States which is at the heart of the one- or two-child family, the Catholic Conference that· they hospital apostolate. country faces disaster. Being a have successfully completed a The Fall River Diocese, under disciple of Christ, they said, training program for hospital the leadership of Bishop Cronin, forces the rejection of an attichaplains and are certified to bas reorganized the need to ex- tude of indifference toward The 25th annual convention of minister in general acute care pand its commitment to the sick, threats against human life. the Fall River Diocesan Council hospitals. noted Father Fitzgerald. Since of Catholic Women will be held They are Rev. William Bab- the health care team has beSaturday, at Bishop Connolly bitt of the Catholic Ministry at come so specialized, he said, it High School, Fall River.

Morton Hospital, Taunton; Rev. is important that adequate CATHOLIC CHARITIES Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will Robert Carter and Rev. John training be given to those who be guest of honor at this silver Gomes of the Catholic Ministry serve as chaplains. jubilee convention and will be at Union-Truesdale Hospital, principal celebrant of a concele- Fall River; and Sister Honora brated Mass to be offered at 4 McHugh, RSM a sister visitor p.m. at the close of the after- in the Catholic Ministry at St. noon session. District and guild Luke's Hospital, New Bedford.

Last October the four chapmoderators wishing to conceleTh;s free booklet tells brate are invited to do so and lains attended a two week intenwhy every father reminded to bring their own sive workshop in Alexandria, Va. sponsored by the National Assoalbs and stoles. should make a will ciation of Catholic Chaplains.

This was followed by a 13 week even if he's young Prayer for Hungry program at St. Anne's Hospital, DES MOINES (NC) - The Fall River, conducted by Rev. and healthy!

National Catholic Rural Life Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Diocesan Conference has called for dioce- <Director of the Pastoral MinisSixteen pages. clearly written san and parish partlcipation in .try to the Sick and Sister Marie and colorfully illustrated, tell a national day of prayer for the Claire Salois, O.P. of the Paswhy you should make your will hungry May 7. toral Care Department of St. and how to go about it. Charts Radio spots, a family prayer Anne's. on page 3 show what your heirs The certification course conand educational materials on sisted of lectures and discussions if you die without a can lose ",Economic Justice in Our Food by various members of the will.

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themoorin~ Support CCA: Have a Heart Once again the Diocese appeals to all men and women in Southeastern Massachusetts for support and encouragement as it attempts to meet the challenges of need tha: our society seemingly creates each and every day, needs born more of hurt than want.

That is why this year's Catholic Charities Appeal (CCA) takes on new depth and importance in the life of all the agencies. it serves. From the aged to the young, from the runaway to the unwanted, from the stranger to the homeless, CCA reaches and affects the lives of thousands of men, women and young people who are today's social throwaways. The scope and dimension of the work that is funded by CCA is most evident in the financial report to be found elsewhere in this issue of The Anchor.

It is most interesting to note how these works have been expanded in a way that clearly indicates a renewed concern for the pastoral care of souls. Such expanded ministry to the sick and dying in the hospitals of the diocese has been made possible because of the generous response' to last year's CCA. . The developing ministry of the Permanent Diaconate is becoming a reality in diocesan life through funds raised

by CCA. It is in such faith dimensions that CCA can and does make a difference to the searching, the needy and the forgotten.

Bringing not only professiomilism to the field of social services but also Christian hope; helping a new immigrant Hispanic family to adjust to the cold of the north and to see the face of a compassionate and under·· standing Church; seeking in the turmoil of an abortion·· oriented society the child that a loving couple wants to adopt, CCA yearly enters thousands of lives in this diocese in a way that other social agencies cannot begin to serve.

Because of the works sponsored by CCA, there is new spirit in the effort of the Church to serve those who are wandering aimlessly in the marketplace. This spirit is fostered by a Church that is realizing more and more that if it is to fulfill its mandate from Christ it must become a healing people sharing a loving faith in a servant Church.

Yet, given the practical reality of the world in which it exists, the Church, the people of God cannot reach out in this serving ministry without concrete means to help those in need. Faith without good works is dead!

Such faith, such spirit will be nurtured and developed in the coming years. only if efforts are continued ane expanded to support the CCA. To all who have been helped and now can help, a wore. to work in gratitude; to those who have yet to help, a plee. for a selfless spirit; to each and every one who has beet: given an abundance, a cry to have a heart.

We Are Delighted A word of special thanks to all who proved their interest and involvement in this newspaper by taking tim€' to respond to our recent readership survey. We are delighteo. with the number of replies we have received, especially after checking with members of the secular press who have attempted similar projects and have had rather minimal. response.

We assure you that we will print the survey reSu1t~ in the near future, together with a commentary on the many sincere suggestions and criticisms we received.

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Itls Like Banning Breathing

By Father John B. Sheerin Lutheran church leaders have registered a protest against NBC for its refusal to permit a radio program on abortion. The Lutherans were not asking for' a free ride; they were ready and willing to pay for the broadcast.

The reason for the censorship?

NBC said the program presented one side of the abortion issue, and NBC policy opposed the selling of time for the discussion of controversial issues. I ~hink Hoffman was right in saying the decision to ban the program was a moral decision and therefore outside the province of the courts: "Tha.t's where God comes in and the word of God speaks to us about that." To the highpriests in Jerusalem, Peter and John said, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight for us to o'Jey you rather than God." (Acts, 4.19).

This whole episode seems preposterous. Had NBC said it was opposed to apple pie or color TV, we could not have been more surprised than we were on hearing that a radio program had been ba.nned because it was controversial. If there is anything that i,; totally and exuberantly Amer, can, it is controversy. To ban 8. program in America because it is controversial is almost like banning breathing.

It is man's very nature to be controversial. Each of us is a unique indi'vidual and to differ in our viewpoints is a fact of life. Pope John told the bishops

at Vatican II that he did not want them to be like monks in choir, all singing the same note.

If God had wanted us to be identical, he would have made us all alike.

When there is a ban on free speech relating to moral or religious questions, censorship is lamentable. I was happy to see that Catholic leaders sprang to the aid of the Lutherans in this present controversy. It was good to see this display of ecumenical good-will, but who could possibly read the Vatican II documents, especially that on religious freedom, without realizing how far off base NBC is in banning a "controversial" program simply because it is controversial.

The denial of religious freedom (and who will say that abortion has no religious or moral implications) is beyond the jurisdiction of the state or the Federal Oommunications Commission. Loyalty to God is prior to loyalty to any civil authority, since religious liberty recognizes that men and women have goals and loyalties far beyond the reach of the state by virtue of their sacredness as persons. Basic to all moral rights is religious liberty and without it all moral rights are hampered.

Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, once said: "In the forum of conscience, duty to a moral power higher than the state has always been maintained . . . The essence of reli-

gion is belief in a relation to God in¥Olving duties superi~r to those arising from any human relation" (U.S. vs Mackintosh, 1930).

Is the 'Lutheran episode only a matter of passing interest? No, I don't think so. It will receive and deserves to receive maximum attention from all Christians. The churches may be divided on points of doctrine but they agree on religious liberty with its concomitant implications of freedom for controversy. This episode shows that even in America, where dissent is cherished as a traditional right, religious freedom can be threatened. The mission of the church is to remain free from any alliances, that might mute her prophetic voice.

America should be a model for the world in the matter of free speech in moral and religious matters. Religious liberty labors under a thousand restraints and censorships in countries abroad. .If we hope to make any impact on . such violations of human rights abroad, we might start here and now at home championing and promoting freedom of speech, especially as it relates to controversy and dissent on moral and religious issues.

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Attleboro Priest Kof A Adviser Father Nonnand J. Boulet, associate pastor aJ St. Joseph Church, Attleboro, and long active with the Knights of the Altar, has been asked to continue as East Coast regional adviser to the international organization for altar boys.

A letter to Father Boulet from Joseph De Silvestro, national director of the Knights, commended him for· promoting the goals of the association and noted that the members' handbook and associated materials are in process of revision and that new editions will be pub· lished in the fall.

Prophet Minus Honor JOl.;IET, 1ll.(NC) - The Joliet diocesan Senate of Priests has yoted against affiliation with the National Federation of Priests' Councils, although the organization's president is a priest of the Joliet Diocese.

Father Ratigan, a Joliet priest on loan from the diocese to the NFPC who recently began his second term as the organization's president, expressed disappointment at the vote.

"The priests were reflecting the referendum they were given by the other priests," Father Ratigan said. "And I was disappointed we were not given a chance to speak to the senate on the issue of affiliation.

"The NFPC is the one voice the bishops of the United States turn to when they want to find out the mind of the American priest," he added. "We represent two-thirds of the priests' councils."

A Priest opposed to affiliation said: "From the activities undertaken by the NFPC and its claimed 'accomplishments,' it is difficult to determine what is uniquely 'priestly' about the organization.

"One would not be surprised if that same list of accomplishments were claimed by the American Civil Liberties Union or 100 other do-gooder organizations," he added.

Not Wanted WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops' education committee opposes a bill to create a cabinet-level department of education, saying it would be contlrolled by those with "little understanding for and appreciation of" non-public schools.

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GLEN GIU'ITARI leads choir practice at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. .

'Cursillo in Music' Elates Area Pastoral Musicians Lean, intense and dedicated, 35-year-old Glenn Giuttari, director of music for St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, is a man with a mission. He wants to meet Catholics where they are, musically, and introduce them to meaningful, horizon-widening experiences.

His goal received powerful impetus last month when he, together with Father William G. Campbell of Holy Name parish, Fall River, Father Timothy Place of St. George, Westport, Geraldine Bowles, organist at St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis and representatives from St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, and the Taunton area attended the first-ever convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, held in Scranton, Pa. Some 600 were expected at the meeting, but an unbelievable 2000 musicians from all parts of the nation showed up.

"It was a Cursillo in music," said Father Campbell and Giuttari termed the liturgical celebrations "tremendous," adding "I was in tears many times."

Both men spoke of the feeling that swept the convention that the integration of liturgy and music in worship is a concept whose time has come.

Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, a Benedictine long noted for his musical achievements, sounded the keynote, said Giuttari, when he declared that the times call for pastoral musicians who are "professional musicians, professional liturgists - and psychologists."

The psychology, explained Giuttari, lies in persuading those in authority to realize the place music should play in the life of the people of God. He said sessions at the fourday Scranton convention, held lit Marywood College, were based on the theme "Musical Liturgy is Normative" and featured some of the foremost lit• urgists in the .nation.

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Harpsichords Too

Noe Bessette

Giuttari describes his work at the Cathedral as a "big part time job," but his other hour:; are also largely musical. He and his wife are founders and directors of the Rehoboth Music Festival and he is also a founder of the Providence Singers and . II harpsichordist with the Rhodl~ Island Civic Chorale Orchestra and the Providence Recorde r Society.

At home in Rehoboth, he devotes much of his time to building harpsichords and has constructed about 30 of the pianolike instruments, as well as assorted psalteries, virginals and clavichords.

Father Ernest Bessette, pastor of St. Joseph Church, Attleboro, was principal celebrant of a funeral Mass at St. Anthony Church, New Bedford, for his father, Noe Bessette, who died last week at age 89. Bishop Cronin was represented at the service by Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, vicar general.

He started constructing, reo storing and repairing the instruments in 1969 "when I wanted a harpsichord and couldn't aff10rd to buy one readymade," and has developed th,~ project into a busy sideline.

Born in Manchaug, Bessette had lived in New Bedford since youth and was a textile mill worker until his retirement. He is survived by two daughters and a son, in addition to Father Bessette.

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Liturgy demands music, hungers for it. Without music, liturgy cannot be itself. Our church is just discovering music aU over again.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Apr. 20, 1978

New Publication Reinforces Catholic Self-Hatred

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REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

I have the melancholy suspicion that Catholic selfhatred will never go away.

Take for example anew Paulisf Press booklet, Parish Religious Education. One of the authors, Dr. Stephen Schmidt, teaches in the graduate program of religious studies at Chicago's Mundelein college. His essay,

"On Christian Nurture: Urban America U.S.A." is a vicious, itresponsible attack on urban ethnics and neighborhoods. Professor Schmidt is not Catholic, but for a Catholic publishing company and a Catholic college to provide him with platforms to vilify Catholic ethnics is an absolute disgrace.

Chicago, according to Dr. Schmidt. is "under God's word of judgment, punished for its sins by its sins . . . marked by its structures with death . . .

It is a violent dty, the city of the Haymarket Riot, the St. Valentine's Day massacre of Al Capone. Its reputation as a

in one square mile Polish, Lithucrime center is well-earned."

But crime and violence, ac- anian, CzeCh, Slovak, Croatian, cording to Schmidt, is not the .Italian, and "Irish" parishes only or even the principal judg- with a substantial proportion of ment of God on Chicago. "The Hispanics in the parochial melting pot never melted . . . schools of all the parishes. One Chicago remains a divided city would be hard put to think of a where one can cross from one more pluralistic neighborhood neighborhood to another and anywhere in the world. find each one separate, proud, That there is prejudice and bigotry in Chicago I would not threatened."

One does not know whether deny. But Schmidt's judgment to be more shocked by his mor- that ethnic diversity leads to al arrogance or his intellectual ethnic bigotry is prioristic and irresponsibility. Dr. Schmidt not supported by the empirical simply doesn't know what he is data.

The ethnic neighborhood partalking about.

Mayor Daley's home neigh- ish is one of the remarkable sohorhood of Bridgeport has with- cial and human contributions of

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Does your diocese have these problems?

1. High school tuition keeps rising, making Catholic education out of reach for' most parents.

2. In many homes, both parents must work but there is little available in the way of day"-<:are centers for children. . 3. Young people are getting married with no training for a career in parenthood.

There is a solution that would provide increased enrollment in

the schools, as well as additional revenue; would create good daycare centers; and would gh-e young people excellent training in the art of child care.

Suppose a day-care center were established at the diocesan high school, with fees charged going as direct revenue to the school. It would provide a Catholic environment for mothels who must leave their children.

It would take little expense.

The schools already .have arts and crafts supplies, gymnasiurn equipment, cafeterias. battrooms, and a nurse on duty. The only problem is that a center would have to be staffed.

To take care of this, the school would start a course h sophomore year on baby and child care that would ;:>e mandatory for all students, boys and

girls. This would give them the training necessary to staff the day-care center during their junior and senior years.

Our educational system re~ quires that students pass a certain level in English, math, social studies, and physical education. B).lt we do nothing about teaching them to be parents. A young person can start raising a family with less training than is required to be a clerk in a supermarket. Yet most people eventually become parents . . . knowing absolutely nothing about the job.

During high school, many students learn they have no aptitude for history, or they hate math. Maybe after two years in a day-care center they might learn they hate looking after children. It might be the most

American Catholicism. The Catholic community in the United States does not value this contribution; indeed, it is embarrassed by it and makes no attempt to understand its uniqueness and importance.

Does Mundelein College have any full-time faculty who teach courses on the theology of neighborhood? Of course not.

Does Paulist Press intend to publish a book on parish education which views the ethnic neighborhood parish as a positive and constructive aspect of urban life? Of course not.

And that's why we'll continue to be second-rate.

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valuable thing they would learn i~ high school.

Yet because the day-care center would have a trained supervisor, there would be little risk of a child being beaten or thrown down the stairs . . . which does happen when people discover they hate children after they've had their own.

parents. But isn't it even stranger that this country requires a license to be a barber, yet sets no standards for parenthood? It seems comparable to requiring a license to sweep a street but allowing anyone who chooses to build a bridge.

Our diocesan schools are recognizing that the quality of family life can be improved with The weakness of the plan is training in understanding sexthat the students would be on uality. Yet that's the easy part. duty for a limited time each day.

Our present concept of childAt the end of that time, they raising presumes that everywould be free of responsibility. one just naturally knows how.

Since that's not how parent- But when anything goes wrong, hood is in real life, ideally this "It's the parents' fault!" course would continue for two I believe that if some enteryears after high school with' prising diocese started such a students caring for the children program the benefits could exfor a week or two at a time, 24 tend far beyond providing good child-care facilities . . . to imhours a day.

It may seem bizarre to require proving the whole quality of training for people to become -family life.

Still Suffering: Viets, Laotians, ,American Vets By JIM CASTELLI

April 15 was the third anniversary of the official end of the Vietnam War. And the people who suffered most during that war - the people of Indochina and American soldiers - are still suffering and without much public attention.

For one thing, the refugee situation in Indochina is dramatic.

The most drastic situation involves the "boat people" - refugees who flee Vietnam in small boats often traveling for thousands of miles before landing and often being rejected by the countries where they do land.

U.S. Catholic Conference offi· cials estimate the boat people are leaving at the rate of abou'; 1,500 a month ·and that more than 10,000 of them have been lost at sea.

The U.S. has been allowing the boat people into this country on a piecemeal basis, but the

Carter administration recently decided to ask for a long-term increase in the number of refugees who can be admitted and to use existing parole authority to admit an estimated 25,000 more Indoc ~ina refugees th'is year.

One reason people are leaving Vietnam and Laos :is hunger. The Interreligious Task Force on U.S. Food P~licy hays the food situation in both countries is serious enou~h to be considered a disaster. Vietnam faces a 300, OOO-ton food deficit for its 50 million people, while Laos is 54,000 tons short of a limited

goal of a bare minimum diet for its 3.5 million people.

Tim Atwater of the interreligious task force says the United States has a special responsibility to Vietnam and Laos. Some areas were so heavily defoliated with pesticides by the United States that food grown there is now carcinogenic, he says.

Domestically, Congress has "gutted" President Carter's military discharge review program and Carter did nothing to stop it, according to the Rev. Barry Lynn, a United Church of Christ minister Who has been a leader in the amnesty movement.

Mr. Lynn says the new review program can still help people; but, he said, it is almost flooded already and the Defense Department is not advertising it because the department does not want to attract more people than it can handle. Mr. Lynn and others have obtained foundation money to' publicize the review project on their own.

Upgraded discharges and veterans' benefits, particularly education benefits, are important because they make it easier to get a job, and unemployment remains a serious problem among younger Vietnam veterans.

April Bri,ngs S,pring Flowers, Also Cle'a.ni:ng Chores By MARILYN RODERICK

What is there about weather that has such an effect on our feelings? A sunshine-filled day finds us enjoying spring while a rainy day plummets us back into the gloom of winter.

When the sun shines the first harbingers of spring, the cro·, cuses open their petals witr. hope, but on a cloudy, chilly day they appear to hug th£l ground in despair.

While New Englanders really should know by experience not to expect too much of spring, we; still hold close to the faint ray of hope that may.be this year spring will be more than a glim.. mer before the torrid heat of summer. At the first warn:. breeze Joe and my father-in-law

head for the garden and I begin to clean closets.

Sitting in my mother-in-Iaw's kitchen on Sunday morning and gazing out on the April yard that shows just the beginning promise of what is to come, I long for the flowers of spring.

April is such a tease - a warm breeze for an hour, one early daffodil, a little longer brightness to the d.ay.

Mingled with the April delights is the fresh look we take at our winter-weary homes and our sighs when we think about

the efforts required to repair the ravages of winter.

When you first look around, you feel a burst of energy; however temperance and moderation are virtues too and just physical limitations will stop us from becoming workaholics!

- This is a pie recipe that brought raves from my motherin-law, a champion pie-maker.

It comes from a member of St. Joseph's parish in Fall River who asked that her name not be printed because it wasn't her original recipe.

Regal Pie 1 9 inch graham cracker crust 1 9-ounce container of whipped topping 1 can of condensed milk Y3 cup lemon juice 1 can of pie filling (personally my fri~nd prefers lemon, but for company generally tops the pie with cherry) 1) Blend together, by hand. the whip, condensed milk and lemon juice and spoon into pie shell. Top with filling and chill well until firm.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall RivElr-Thurs. Apr. 20, 1978

Sister Barthelemy Funeral services were held Monday for Sister Marie Barthelemy, OP, 84, a Dominican Sister for over 60 years, who taught at St. Anne's School and Dominican Academy in Fall River, at St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, and in New York State schools of her community during her religious life.

She also served terms as superior of the Fall River motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters and as mistress of novices.

Born in Lynn, the daughter of the late Wilfred and the late Eudoxie Langevin, the former Eva Langevin is also survived by two brothers.

Interment was in Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River.

FATHER NORMAN J. FERRIS, pastor of St. Anthony of the Desert Maronite Church, Fall River, will mark his silver jubilee in the priesthood on Sunday.

Bishop Francis M. Zayek, Maronite Bishop for the United States, will preside at a Divine Liturgy of thanksgiving to be offered

by Father Ferris at 11 a.m.

Sunday. A dinner and reception will follow.

A special children's Mass will be offered by Father Ferris at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, also followed by a reception.

The jubilarian, a native of Fall River, was ordained May 23, 1953 by retired Bishop James L. Connolly.

He served in the Fall River diocese for 17 years, most of that time at St. Mary's Church, Taunton, before transferring in 1970 to the Diocese of St. Maron, serving all Maronite Catholics in the United States.

He was named administrator of St. Anthony of the Desert parish in 1970 and pastor in 1975. He is its first member to enter the priesthood.

Father David George, associate pastor of St. An-' thony of the Desert, is chairman of the jubilee celebration, assisted by a large committee.

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R. I. B;ishop Continued from Page One "The individual Catholics who story was presented was very took part in the service should misleading. The headline identi- inform themselves clearly about fied a particular community of Church teaching and regulations religious in a way that could and should follow them carecast doubt about the loyalty to fully." the Church of the community as a whole. The story itself could be interpreted to mean Continued from Page One that it is now permitted for Catholics to take active part and city. He is the son of the late receive communion in the litur- Edward J. and the late Anna L. gies of other denominations. (Reilly) Burns.

After attending路 rail ~iver Both of these conclusions would be false, and it is regrettable public schools, he prepared for that the article could possibly the priesthood at Mainad's Seminary in Indiana and St. Peter's lead the readers to them.

"A letter was immediately College, Western University, sent by me to all priests reiterat- London, Ontario, Canada where ing the present regulations of he obtained the degree of Lector the Church regarding participa- in Sacred Theology. He also tion by Catholics in ecumenical pursued graduate studies in services, and the distinction to semantics and liturgy at the Unibe made between such ecumen- versity of Notre Dame. ical services and the Hturgical The new Provincetown pastor worship services of other denom- is a noted linguist, fluent in inations. The priests were asked Portuguese, French and German. to clarify this for their people.

Ordained to the priesthood on "Concerning the particular May 22, 1954, he served as ON UNE: Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe of Fresno, Calif. service in question, I have met associate pastor at St. Joseph, joins a pro-life picket line at a Fresno abortion clinic. Picket- with the sponsoring organiza- St. Louis and St. William's parers also included members of the Knights of Columbus and tion, the Social Action Confer- ishes in Fall River. On October ence of the Sisters of Mercy, and 18, 1972, he was appointed adthe Legion of Mary. (NC Photo) have clearly stated the position ministrator of Our Lady of of the Church to them. Sister Fatima parish, Swansea, and on Miriam Sharpe, the Provincial of March 9, 1977, to his present the Sisters of Mercy, have ex- pastorate.

Continued from Page One In July, said Father Fitzger- pressed regret in the name of Father Burns has also served ing so many "devoted and com- aid, ministries are planned to the community for any harm as a notary of the diocesan marpetent Sisters of Mercy we've begin at Sturdy Memorial Hos- that may have been caused. As- riage tribunal and as a member run out of room for the Sisters!" pital Attleboro, and Cape Cod surance has been given to me of the Diocesan Liturgical ComPastoral Ministry Hospital, Hyannis. All chaplains that greater care will be taken mission. Presently he is chairare certified by the United Continuing the kickoff tradi- States Catholic Conference and to follow regUlations of the man of the Diocesan Ecumenical Commission. tion of yearly offering an in- have completed an extensive Church in the future. depth presentation of a particu- training program. lar Appeal beneficiary, Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald discussed Today more than ever, the for the 900 priests, religious and chaplain concluded, "the genulaity in attendance at the meet- ine, human, Christlike presence Chrisi~ian ing the work of his department of the chaplain serves as a IivA proven program based on Bible teachings to give of Pastoral Care for the Sick. ing reminder that Jesus sees parents the interpersonal skills for raising more He said that pastoral care at- great value in each person's life. tempts to reinforce three spec- Medicine can add days to a perresponsible, cooperative ch::Idren. ial healing processes of Jesus: son's life - the Church's presBegins Wednesday, May 3 - for 8 consecutive the institutional, seen in hospi- ence can add life to those days."

Wednesdays from 7 P.M. - 10 P.M. tals and homes for the aged; the Also addressing the Appeal sacramental, seen in the sacra- workers were Edward S. MachaInstructor: Dr. Hugh C. Boyle, Jr., Certified P.E.T. inments of Eucharist, reconcilia- do, diocesan lay chairman, and structor Associate Professor of Psycholtion and anointing of the ill; and Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, longogy, Stonehill College. the charismatic, seen in the use time CCA diocesan director. $60 per person - includes books, materof presence, prayer and touch , to minister to the sick.

Patriotic songs were led by ials, and registration fee.

In the Fall River diocese, Mrs. Albert Petit and Kenneth INFORMATION AND REGI~TRATION these needs are addressed, he Leger, accompanied by Henrisaid, by means of fuHtime pas- ette Roy. A social hour foHowCALL 823-4697 7:00 - 10:00 P.M. toral ministries in Morton Hos- ed in the Connolly cafeteria. pital, Taunton, St. Luke's, New Bedford and Union-Truesdale, Fall River, all coordinated by the pastoral care department with headquarters at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

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Now It'll Be Top Forty for Hymns Music directors, choirs and parishioners in five dioceEan parishes are participating in a unique talent search for naw Christian songs, sponsored by the J. S. Paluch Company of Chicago, producers of worship aids used in two-thirds of American Catholic parishes.

Nearly 900 parishes in 150 of the 165 United States Catholic dioceses are involved in the p::-oject. They include St. Stanisla:Js, Sacred Heart and OUI" Lady of the Angels parish in Fall River, Sacred Heart in New Bedford and St. Mary's, Norton. The p.uishes have been selected on the basis of location, size, worship and music programs to' participate in a long-term test of the best of the hundreds of new congregational songs submitted each year to the company for use in their various worship aids.

The undertaking is an unusual applicntion of the "marl:et testing" concept, often used for such items as toothpastes, soft drinks and cake mixes, tut never before for hymns.

Chester Paluch of the Paluch company explained that the organization had for years .neluded new music in its worship aids, "but. we have never had any sure way to know whether the songs we added to our repertoire were going to catch on or just take up space in our missalettes. Some songswe had doubts about have caught on everywl:ere; other real beauties - we thought - are still nowhere. And we hate to admit it, but we've rejected some that became hits later on.

"We want to be sure that good songs, songs with texts

that present Scripture or Chris- valved in planning or leading tian doctrine in strong contem- the music for the parish will be porary language, songs with asked to listen to the cassette simple and attractive melodies and rate each item. As Paluch that congregations can sing, get points out, "if the music to the people in our parishes," personnel in parishes have a said Paluch. "But first we have negative reaction to a song, no to be sure that the songs will matter how great it may seem appeal to the broad spectrum to our staff, it is never going of tastes and skills that is char- to make it to general nationacteristic of any Catholic par- wide use." ish. We just don't know any When the returns on this way to be sure of this except listening judgment are in, the a trial run and that's what we're Paluch Company plans to evaluate them and prepare a live planning.

"One thing we've discQvered is that most parishes _ learn songs that are taught to them by the musical forces of the NEW YORK (NC) - A parparish. If the folk group likes a song, they'll sing it and teach ish priest with 28 years of exit to the people. If they don't, perience has suggested that his the people will never know colleagues literally hit the about it. We've discovered that streets. most parish musicians-choirs, "The hard, traditional discipfolk groups, song leaders, even line of priests walking their parorganists sometimes - are most ish, visiting their people, is not likely to try a song if they done now," said Father P.J. liked it when they heard it McHugh, pastor of Nativity Parsomewhere.. Reading a new song ish, Torrance, Calif. off cold, without ever having "The disappearance of the heard it, is pretty uncommon." visiting parish priest is a great Since experience in the field loss to the church," he said. of Christian liturgy points to the Writing in the March issue of fact that new songs are picked up through a kind of musical Homiletic and Pastoral Review, grapevine .- this music group a theological journal for priests, hears that music group do a Father McHugh said, "there is song successfully - the plan is only one way for a parish priest to create a model grapevine for to build community and that is testing new songs. Each of the ... walk it." parishes participating in the test Father McHugh said, "Someof new songs willi receive a 60- times people ask me why I a::n minute cassette with a number on their streets (and this is how of new songs in various styles one lady put it: 'reverting to that - hymns; guitar songs, songs ancient practice'). I tell them all: in other popula,r and ethnic 'if the Jehovah Witnesses and idioms, settings of the Mass or- the Mormons can do it, so can dinary. i" .

All those in each parish in"And they do. They are out

use test for those that receive strong positive responses. Each of the test parishes will receive copies for the entire congregation of a small booklet of hymns and songs plus a setting of the MaSs ordinary to use at all Masses and services for a period of 12 months. At the end of this time, parishes will report on their experiences and items that receive favorable responses from most of the congregations using them will be chosen for general publication.

Hit Streets, Says Pastor there tramping up and down those streets, tireless in their zeal, speaking to all, being rejected by many, but winning some . . . How can I stay at home and putter around the rectory while they are showing the sign that I am supposed to show?"

Father McHugh said, priests should go out and meet the people to develop "a better sense of the realism of things."

"Go and meet ordinary people," he advised. "The ordinary people who have the faith but are not too visible or articulate, who fill our pews and support our parishes and are so patient with our adolescent 'follies - the real people of the church."

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"When you write a headline," he ~j explained, "you offer people benefits. You don't ask them to starve for a day."

Well, I'm no advertising man, so I listened carefully to this voice of experience. if that is I listened because this "ad" Monsignor John G. Nolan, National Secretary, • • • ' . . .

The Catholic Near East Welfare Association tndeed what It IS, rnust 110t fad. It IS gOIng to make the difference between food and hunger, between love and neglect, even between life and death for countless little orphans in the Holy Land, the Near East and India this year. It can'izot fail.

So I reread my headline and reflected on it. If you will take a few seconds to do the same, I think you'll agree that it does offer you benefits-very important, very desirable benefits.

If you should actually skip three meals as I suggest, you will share, in a small way, the experience of hunger with millions of the world's disadvantaged. If this brings you to a better understanding of and sympathy for your fellow man, certainly that will be a benefit.

And if you should elect to mail our coupon with a contribution, you will be reaching out your hand to "adopt" a deserted and helpless child who, though he lives in a faraway land, is no less God's child than are your own. Certainly that will be a benefit, too. (il/ore)

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Missing breakfast would probably be no problem for you. A lot of us pass up breakfast anyway. And when lunch time rolled around you migl:t find yourself experiencing no more than an unusually lively interest in the idea of food. But I promise you that when the supper dishes were washed and you were still unfed, you would know what the beginning of hunger was like. You would know what it was like to start feeling empty.

That night you might find yourself dreaming of food. Next morning's breakfast would very possibly be the best-tasting you'd had in years. But let me assure you that you: enjoyment of it would be a pale and insignificant thing beside the sheer ecstasy:: have seen on the face of a child who is eating, not his first square meal in twenty-four hours, but his first real meal in his whole life!

Never has a penny bowl of oatmeal received more respectful and loving attention. Never has an orange or a fig been regarded with more wonder and awe.

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That first meal is a scene to warm the hardest heart. And it is repeated thousands of times every year in Catholic Near East Welfare Association miss~ons in the Holy Land, rhe Near East and India. With God's help and yours, we now hope to multiply the number of such scenes during the year to come!

Because the need is enormous.

Consider, if you will, these facts: During the next twelve months, three million children will die from hunger, never having tasted II full meal in their lives. (Think of your own children in Hartford and Oakland and Waco.)

To walk in an Indian city at night means to step over tiny bodies asleep or dead. Fully half of India's homeless are children - too many to feed, too weak to work, too young to steal.

(Think of your own children in White Plains and Washington and Baton Rouge.)

If we set off a Hiroshima-sized bomb once a week for a year in a ciJy the size of Buffalo, we would achieoe the same yearly mortality rate that world hunger is now producing. (Thmk of your own children in San Mateo and Cincinnati and Worcester.)

Malnutrition takes children along a familiar route: fainting, glazed eyes, bloating stomach, falling hair, the parchment skin of the very aged, death. This killer claims over five thousand little lives every day. (Think of your own children in St. Cloud and Paterson and Fresno.)

Let us ask ourselves, as Christians, how all this can happen after two thousand years of the Christian ethic, in an age when technology is so amazingly advanced and so many people - so m~ny of us - are actually too' well fed.

A clear majority of mankind has manifestly not. yet heard of Jesus Christ. And affluence, as Pope Paul said, is highly localized. I quote the Holy Father: "It is not only a question of reducing the appalling and growing disproportion which places fifteen percent of mankind in possession of eighty-five percent of the world's entire income. The goods and fruits of this world were created for all and no one has the right to reserve them for himself, neither individuals nor com-

"Half of In.dia's homeless are children: too many to feed, too weak to work, too young to steal." munities. All have the great responsibility of placing them at the service of everyone."

I think the key word in the Holy Father's statement is "everyone." In the Catholic Near East Welfare Association we follow this lead by serving everyone equally, by serving on the basis of need, not creed. I honestly cannot tell how many Christians we care for. [ can tell you, however, that in our school for the blind in the Gaza Strip every one is a Moslem, the teachers as well as the students!

But I've digressed from the main point of my message, which is this: our mission is to provide real homes for as many orphans in the Holy Land, the Near East and India as we possibly can. That memorable "first meal" I described earlier is, of course, only the tiniest beginning of our task. It is one thing to run a soup kitchen for starving children. Ir is an entirely different thing - and vastly more expensive - to give these children a home, a bed, cl06ing, education, wholesome food and continuing love and care over the years.

It sounds like an impossibly costly undertaking, doesn't it? Yet we are providing these very things for our enormous "family" for just about $14 per month per child!

So, while the expense of maintaining one of our children is remarkably low, still it requires a steady flow of funds over the years. We are trying to solve this problem of funds by extending an unusual invitation to good

"We're as different as a daisy and a sunflower, but God loves us both." people like yourself. I think you will agree that it is the nicest invitation anyone could possibly receive:

You are cordially invited to "adopt" one of our orphan children and help us raise this little boyar girl in health and happiness. All you need to do to accept is fill out the coupon below and send $14 each month to pay his or her expenses.

We will send you the child's personal history and picture, and you will be able to exchange letters and cards.

You can even visit your "adopted" child should you travel overseas.

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How will your money be spent?

Carefully, very carefully. During the past five years, one hundred cents out of every dollar contributed has gone to defray the direct expenses of raising our orphan children. None has been diverted to administrative expenses or "overhead:' All contributions are, of course, tax deductible.

The personal relationships that develop between sponsor and child, transoceanic though they may be, have proven to be extremely satisfying, as a look at the letters that pass between quickly proves. A delighted "adoptee" in India writes how happy she is that "you have picked me part of your family." A boy in a sponsor family writes to an Arab child, "We're as different as a daisy and a sunflower,

"The goods and fruits of this world were created for all."

Pope Paul. but God loves us both." And an Army sergeant writes to The Association, "I don'r make all that much, but I feel I make more than enough, because my food is adequate and most of my other needs are taken care of. I wish to share-."

Will you share too? God wants you to. He expects you not only to give away what you do not need, but also to give some of what you do need in His name.

So if you can afford to support one of our children, consider supporting two. If you can afford to support two, perhaps you should be supporting three. We like big "families!"

May we hear from you today?

Thank you and God bless you.

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Wealthy Celibate Like Fat Runner

By John Muthig ROME (NC) - All Christians - not just priests and Religious - are called to lead a celibate life, said a Dutch psychologist, Father Henri Nouwen, in a speech at Rome's North American College.

Father Nouwen said that celibacy understood as a "vacancy for God" is very important in a world where people have come to expect too much- from interpersonal relationships and are "tempted to demand much more from their neighbors than what they can give."

"I am constantly aware of the fragile border between intimacy and violence," said the priest.

"Often those who desire desperately to be loved are entangled in a violent relationship where listening becomes overhearing, a tender gaze becomes a suspicious look and surrender becomes rape." .

"Mature, human intimacy," said Father Nouwen, "requires deep respect for that empty space for God which must exist within and between partners."

He said that many marriages break up because couples have a too intense desire for closeness and "allow a minimum space for free movement."

"Celibacy is part of marriage," he said, "because the intimacy of marriage is based on participation in a love that is greater than the love which the couple can offer each other."

He said that even for priests and religious sexual abstinence "can never be the most important part of celibacy."

"Celibacy is an openness to God, lived in a way that must raise questions to those we encounter about the deeper meaning of existence."

He said that voluntary poverty and contemplation are essential elements for celibate life.

"A wealthy celibate is like a fat runner," said the priest.

He asserted that married Christians struggling with economic proJjlems often wonder who is giving greater witness to . the Gospel "when they see the carefree lifestyle of some ministers."

"Wherever the Church is vital it is poor," he said.

He opposed the traditional view of defending celibacy for its "usefulness" - as a tool for keeping a person's time and energies free for others, etc.

For Father Nouwen, the true celibate "recognizes God's ultimate priority by being useless in his presence," by standing "naked, powerless and vulnerable before God.""Making celibacy 'useful' " said the priest, "is more a homage to American pragmatism" than to acceptance of celibacy for God.

Bishop of Paradise Discusses His Job

By Msgr. J~hn P. Foley HAMILTON, Bermuda (NC)"This island is paradise! The terrain is beautiful; the weather is excellent and the people are wonderful!"

That's the assessment of Bishop ·Brian Hennessy, a native of Canada who is spiritual leader of more than 9,000 Catholics on the 21-square-mile island of Bermuda, almost 600 miles off the North Carolina coast.

Bishop Hennessy, who is in his third year as head of .one of' the world's smallest dioceses, admits that tourism is the economic mainstay of the island and that riots last December by young black residents protesting the execution of two murderers seriously affected Ber-

muda's chief industry.

"If it happens again, we're dead," he said. "People don't think to go where there's trouble, and you can't blame them - but there's no trouble now, and I can show you that."

Most of the trouble occurred two blocks from the cathedral and was over in two nights, the bishop said. Now, he added, "you can walk anywhere on this island without fear."

Walks around the island and even in the poorest parts of the picture-postcard capital City of Hamilton proved the bishop to be accurate. Even the smallest homes were brightly. painted in pastel colors and the lawns were neatly manicured. Only an occasional board in a spot where a

window used to be served as a reminder of Bermuda's weekend of madness.

"Fortunately, Bermudians forgive and forget easily, and there is peace on the island," said Bishop Hennessy, "but the rest of the world still remembers the reports of the December riots - and I honestly think people can feel more secure here than in any other place in the world."

In an island of only 55,000 people, Bishop Hennessy seems to know half of them by name.

People on horseback and on bicycle recognize the smiling face in the small white car - and they wave and call a greeting.

In the Church of Bermuda, everything seems in good order - and manageable. There are six parishes, 10 priests, one school and nine Sisters, seven teaching in tli'e school and two in CCD work.

"By law, we're only allowed to have one schoo!," the bishop said. "That's a vestige of the prejudice that once existed. But one school is enough for us now, and we have about 500 children from kindergarten through 12th grade."

There is a large Portuguese population and one priest from the archdiocese of Braga, Portugal, cares exclusively for Portuguese Catholics, most of whom came to Bermuda from the Azores from one isolated group of islands to another.

"I should say 'islands' and not 'island' when I speak about Bermuda," Bishop Hennessy said, "because we have about 320 islands of all sizes clustered here - but that depends on whether the tide is in or out.

"Since the major islands are all connected by bridges, we often speak just of the 'island' _ and there's no place in the world like that!"

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"To be a Christian is to be a subversive. He is a person who dares to call the whole society into question. He is a revolutionary." - Arthur Gish

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Tuition Credits Continued from Page One ality of the measure, Vanik proposed and the oommittee accepted an amendment extending the credit to public schools below the college level.

The debate on the Vanik amendment, however, shifted committee attention from tax policy to education policy, and from aid to taxpayers to aid to schools. Some members felt that by offering a federal income tax credit for public school tuition, the tax-wr.iting committee would tum educational finance on its head and would enter into a policy area that belongs to the House Education and Labor Committee.

"The discussion switched from individual aid to institutional aid," commented Father Donald Shea, a member of the Republic National Committee.

This, he said, raised the "politically explosive" issue of aid to parochial schools, which some tax credit opponents used to argue against the bill.

However, even if supporters w.in out in Congress, the greatest obstacle may lie ahead. Just minutes after the Ways and Means Committee approved the amended Vanik bill, President Carter told a nationwide television audience that he opposed tuition tax credits "under any circumstances" and might veto it if he decides it is both "costly and unconstitutional."

AT ADOPTIVE PARENTS' MEETING, from left, Mrs. Dianne Nassr, social worker; Mrs. Nancy Collins, adoptive mother; Mrs Susan .Darke, Orphan Voyage coordinator; Atty. Paul Connolly.

Adoptive Po rents Continued from Page One shaped me." She said she felt no need to know her natural parents and that her own happy experience led herself and her husband to become adoptive parents in their tum.

Far. different was the attitude of Mrs. Susan Darke of Peabody, Massachusetts . coordinator for Orphan Voyage, an organization that aids people finding their natural parents.

"I was an illegitimate child," she said, "and was happily adopted. I had an illegitimate child myself when I was 16 and placed him for adoption. At that time, 16 years ago, there was no thought that a teenage mother might try to raise a child on her

own. Anyway, I went on, got married, became a licensed practical nurse and had my own family.

"But I always wanted to know about my natural parents, even though this upset my adoptive parents. What I wanted to do was to thank them for givin'g me life and tell them that they'd made the right decision in placing me for adoption."

Mrs. Darke said that after eight years of off-and-on efforts to trace her mother, she "really got down to business" and within two weeks managed to trace her. She then wrote her a cautious letter, describing herself as "an old friend" but including sufficient detail so that her

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"I had to be careful," explained Mrs. Darke, "in case someone who knew nothing about me read the letter."

All went well, however, she continued, and the two women had a happy meeting. In 95% of cases, she added, such meetings are joyous and usually the adoptive child is well able to understand the reasons he or she was given up: extreme youth or poverty of the mother, hostility on the part of the mother's parents or the young father, or possibly medical considerations.

Orphan Voyage, she said, seeks to bring about such meetings and is active in attempting to change thwarting legislation, designed to keep natural parents and their children from ever contacting each other.

"After I met my mother, I felt like a whole person," declared Mrs. Darke, "I knew where I'd come from. And I think that's what the meeting does for most people."

She said that adoptive parents need not fear that they will lose their child if he or she traces the natural parents. "Both sets of parents have the child and his welfare in common. It creates a bond."

Explaining the Orphan Voyage program, she said it is not meant for those under 18, unless there are strong reasons for a search and the consent of the adoptive parents is given.

"We do not conduct searches," Mrs. Darke emphasized. "We tell people how to conduct their own." The organization does, however, maintain a national Reunion File, a registry of natural parents and adopted children, and this may be utilized by searchers.

Mrs. Darke, who operates Orphan Voyage from her home at 94 Franklin Street, Peabody, said that when she bee:::ame associated with it, more girls than boys were seeking their families, but that now the ratio is evening.

"I think it's a reflection of role changes for men......,it's no longer considered strange for a man to seek his mother."

She said that fathers are sought as welI as mothers, although it is far harder to trace a father. However, she added, if the mother is found, the father is usually discovered within the next two years.

Atty. Paul Connolly, associated with the adoption service of Boston Catholic Charities, addressed the legal aspect of searching for natural parents.

He said that under present law, adoption records are sealed and may be released only by the probate judge in the county of jurisdiction.

"The judge has a great deal of latitude and in practice we find that some absolutely refuse to release records, some do it with hardly a question and others are in the middle, with many of these asking probate officials to check with the natural parents to see if they are willing to have information released.

At present, said Connolly, there are three bills on the matter pending in the state legislature. The first would give an adoptee absolute right of access to all information concerning him or her; the second would give such infor.mation with the approval of the natural parents or, in the absence of such approval, after a hearing determined such action would be in the best interests of the adoptee.

The third bill, which Connolly opined would be enacted, would give alI information on adoptions finalized after the bill's enacting date.

The lawyer explained that the theory of adoption law is that the social agency and the court enter a contract with the natural parents to keep their identity secret and to place the child in a good home.

"This theory holds that parents placing their children under that understanding cannot now have it abrogated," said Connolly.

He agreed with Mrs. Darke that uniformity in handling release of information to adoptees i~ of paramount importance and also pointed out that the present clamor to change the law is all on behalf of adoptees. "There is little or no action on behalf of the natural parents."

Couples at the meeting represented alI areas of the diocese.

It was the third such gathering planned by Mrs. Nassr and she said as well as providing information to adoptive parents, they offer them the social support of a group sharing common goals and interests.

P'apal Knight GLASGOW, Scotland (NC)A retired chartered accountant who has been a financial adviser to the Catholic Church in Scotland for more than half a century has become the first nonCatholic in Scotland to receive the Papal Knighthood of St. Gregory.

Alexander G. MoBain, 82, received the award from Cardinal Gordon J. Gray of St. Andrew's and Edinburgh.

Archbishop Thomas J. Winning of Glasgow called McBain, a Presbyterian "a trusted and trustworthy advisor to the Catholic Church for more than 50 years," as well as "an exemplary Christian."

McBain set up hellith insurance and retirement funds for priests and housekeepers long before such scheme.s became common. He also s~t up the Catholic National Fire Insurance Ltd.

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By Dr. Jim and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: Two months ago we lost our beautiful, loving 16-year-old daughter in an automobile accident. We were caned to the aecldent they wouldn't let us see her ...;,.. then at the hospital we were told she was kl11ed Instantly. ThIs Is such a shock to parents and the family. We have four other girls and a son. We ~ God for aU or them as they keep us busy and give us ·a purpose to keep going. If It weren't for them, even now, some days I feel I could go crazy. There are feelings of despair, anger, fnIstration - this is something we can't do anything about.

We do have the faith to believe she is happy with. God, as she was a very good girl helpful at home and to her friends lively, popular at school. She was a cheerleader.

It is so hard to give up a beautiful person like· this.

Our question and appeal for help is, have you any experience or suggestions that might be helpful in the different stages of mourning - especially for the girls. They were very upset at first but after those first days they have quit crying even when we talk about Jayne.

Isn't it better if they do cry with us? They don't like to see my husband and me cry which we can't help. But, at the family times - meals, Mass, family prayer - we feel the loss and absence the greatest and we tell them they should cry too because we know they must feel sad. They say they feel sad, but it doesn't help to cry - It doesn't make things differ. ent.

CORT Meeting The Conference of Religous Treasurers (CORT), Region I, will hold its annual spring meeting in Holyoke, Friday through Sunday, April 28 through 30.

The keynote address on "Simplicity and Discipleship" will be delivered by Bernardette Casey, RSM, and workshops, to run concurrently will cover Investing" Budgeting, Social Security Reporting, and Modern Trends in Financial Planning and Control.

A. I have all the awkwardness of going to a wake: what do I say to a person whose dear one has died? I always feel so inadequate in the presence of great suffering and grief.

However, you are not asking for my sympathy (though you certainly have it). You are asking for my knowledge about the mourning process, that is, how human beings cope with a loss.

The following five steps generally hold true: Mourning is "grief work." The first step in dealing with a loss is to accept it. Accept the death.

Denial is usually our first response to death. We don't believe it. It sounds as though you have faced the death of ·your daughter honestly. That is good.

The second step is to express as much grief as you actually feel. The crying, the wanting to be alone, the bottomless anguish may remain severe for three to six months. Don't tranquilize.

Let it come out.

You are right to encourage your other children to grieve in this way. But don't force them.

Act rather as a permissive sounding board. You are letting them know it is all right to cry.

The third stage may sound strange. It calls on us to express some anger toward the deceased. Does that sound crazy? It's not.

We do no one any favors by idealizing or canonizing the deceased. They were real flesh and blood people with faults as well as virtues. Now they have left us.

We are always a. bit angry with people who leave, even when they did not want to leave.

The fact is they ·have left us, and we are hurt - as well as frustrated and angry. Too often we hide from this anger because it seems shameful to be mad at the dead. In fact, it is very human. They deserve our honest feelings. Don't be afraid to express a little anger. Actually, the anger will facilitate the grief work.

Fourth, we need to get used to life without the deceased.

This means mealtime, basketball game~, Christmas Eve, all the times she was part of your family. You miss her physical presence, but she is with you in

spirit now. Let the tears come, but don't avoid your celebrations and family events out of a false sense of protectiveness.

You will only postpone this step.

Fifth and finally, in six months or a year you will need to "replace" your daughter. The time, the feeling that especially belonged to her will need to be given to someone else. You are not ready for this yet. It is the final disengagement.

Yet it is not truly a disengagement. The fact that we can keep on loving is a compliment to the one we have loved so much.

Now she is gone, beyond bodily reach of our love. But our love, the love she awoke in us, continues. It must find a new object. Her best memorial will be that we find strength not only to go on loving, but to love better because we loved her.

Reader questions on family living and child care are invited.

Address to the Kennys, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

JAMES AND MARY KENNY are the parents of 12 children. Their material on family life iappears in many Catholic magazines and newspapers as well as in the Chicago Tribune and professional journals. Dr. Kenny, whose doctorate in psychology was taken at the University of Mainz, West Germany, is director of a mental health center in Rensselear, Ind. Mrs. Kenny is a graduate of Loyola University, Chicago.

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Expanding Role of Nuns

Nuns: From Cloister to World

By Father Alfred McBride

Nuns without habits? Sisters living in their own names? Consecrated virgins seeking out their own form of Gospel ministry? Is such a thing possible? Sounds very modem. Appears to be a contemporary breakthrough. Yet over 430 years ago, a bright dedicated woman, named Angela Merici set in motion just such a revolt from the traditional view of nuns living in monastic cloister. She founded what we might today call a secular institute in the city of Brascia, Italy, in 1535.

Angela assembled a group of women who wished to engage in a variety of ministries, each according to her personal calling.

They lived in their own homes, practiced consecrated virginity, met once a month for mutual support and future planning and used their private time for spiritual development.

Angela and the original 28 ladies chose St. Ursula as a patroness. This Company of St. .Ursula of the Ursalines, as they would come to be known, enjoyed their freedom of movement and used it to teach Christian doctrine, visit the hospitals (with a special ministry to those with venereal diseases) and help out in parishes. They were the first group of religious-minded women to break with the idea that cloistered contemplation was the only form of religious life open to them.

Male religious orders had begun to cope with this four centuries before. Women could do the same only when the culture favored it. Such must have been the case in 16th-century Brascia. The idea of single, unmarried women moving freely in the world and practicing ministry to the ignorant, the sick and the downtrodden may seem commonplace to us. It was a new idea then, and one that must be admired in the bold move of the

Company of St. Ursula. Flexibility was written ir:.to their rule: "If acoording to the times and needs you should be obligEd to make fresh rules and change certain things, do it with prudence and on good advice."

The succeeding centuries saw a curbing of this original freedom, but the ideal of active ministry never died. Forty years after the original founding, Charles Borromeo insisted tr.e sisters live in convents rather than in their own homes. Incidentally, this is the first tirre a male exercised a significant influence over the internal affairs of the Ursulines. They are or.e of the few female religious orders in whose founding a man was not instrumental. ,By the year 1700, the 'Jrsulines were finally cloistered, a condition for beiIlg accepted ÂŁs

nuns in the Church. Yet they did not abandon Angela's dream of public and active ministry. They insisted on having a fourth vow of teaching so that they would have an apostolate and they remained inventive in finding ways to do active work for the Church. The Ursulines of New Orleans, for example, established in 1727 genteel hostels for marriageable young women, teaching them "all they needed to know" about marriage and taking care of a home.

The liberating force for active ministry begun four centuries ago by the Ursulines generated hundreds of orders of religious women and literally millions of members. That first Angel of Mercy (Angela Merici) brought the women of the Church a fresh vision of ministry, implemented to this day.

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Those who open the New American Bible see on its introductory pages the name of SistEr M. Emmanuel Collins, O.S.F., one woman among some 50 ed .-. tors of this translation. And many more of us who know Sister Collins rejoice that her name will be long inscribed in the sacred book with those cf Judith, Esther, Ruth and Mary.

Born in San Francisco and :l member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minn., she was the first sister to earn :l doctorate in English at Yale.

Sister Collins is among those who organized the Sisters Formation Conference in the 1960~.

She had previously studied th~ education of Sisters in France, Italy, Germany and England 0:1 a grant by the Fund for the Ad""neement of Education of the Ford Foundation.

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Susan Sontag in her recent work on the psychology of photography has said that we can learn more from the reasons we take certain photos than from the photos. Those who know Sister Collins like their pictures of her.

Our pictures do not capture her but they indicate the seal the hope which her life is in many hearts. Shots of this woman standing at dozens of podia bent toward the audience to cre-

By Cathy Haven

A little more than a decade ago, sisters were for the most part teachers, nurses, missionaries or contemplatives. All were easily identifiable by their habits.

Today we do not always recognize a sister. She may be wearing contemporary clothes.

The nun we do recognize on sight has a modified habit. Her outward appearance has changed. What has not changed is her dedication. She is still the bride of Christ.

But we see her in more places.

While she is still in the classroom, the hospital, the missions and the cloister, she has also entered the worlds of business and government, ministry to the migrant worker, the jailed, the homosexual and the prostitute.

Wherever there is need, you will find her.

Her role in education has expanded. She leads \dult education and children's religious programs. Health care finds her .operating major metropolitan hospitals and establishing innercity clinics.

In the missions she performs such duties as administering sacraments, conducting funeral services and preaching.

Alongside priests, sisters are chaplains in hospitals, prisons, college campuses and police departments.

Modem religious life has opened new avenues while keeping those of an earlier age open.

The need for those who choose to spend their lives in prayer has not ceased. In fact, there has nevet been a time when we . so badly needed contempiatives.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is an example of 20th-century religious life. She does not wait for the infirm to be brought to her. She and her sisters go into the streets to find the abandoned.

In this country, there are countless women who represent the expansion of their religious vocations. Among them are Sisters Lorraine Polacci and Elizabeth Thoman.

Sister :Polacci organizes congressional districts for 'Bread for the World. Sister Thoman is director of the National Sisters Communication Service (NSCS), which seeks to make sister-communicators more knowledgable and professional in their efforts and to mobilize the sister power that is already sensitive to social justice issues.

Sister Thoman says: "The Church in each age has had to examine itself. Where are we going? What is our mission?

How can we touch the lives of others? Public relations is not a substitute for mission. It is an aid to mission. It is a method of multiplying the effectiveness of oommunity."

ate the illusion of their brilliance rather than her own. Pictures of dozens of classrooms where Chaucer, Shakespeare, Ezra Pound, medieval drama and many poets, philosophers and novelists invited students to believe in the potential of human creativity. A person of prayer, of wise counsel and abundant Do It Now knowledge. A friend relaxing "When I am called before the and sharing fun events. A woman talking as easily with the Divine tribunal, what will I man who sweep campus walks wish I had done with my worldas with those seeking to deter- . ly goods? This certainly is what mine the final accent marks on I ought to do at the present moment." - St. Ignatius Loyola a scholarly translation.

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THE NEW NUNS: Outward appearances may have changed, but not the dedication of women in religious life. From left, Sister Elizabeth Thoman, director of the National Sisters Communication Service; Sister Elizabeth Condon, a worker in a South Carolina clinic; Sister Mary: Luke Tobin,

only American a~ditor at the Second Vatican Council, who is "retiring" at age 70 to found a Center for Creative Exchange; Sister Emmanuel Collins, among translators of .the New Amsterdam Bible and the first nun to earn a doctorate in English at Yale.

'Bishop of Poor" Resigns at 75 SPOKANE, Wash. (NC) Bishop Bernard J. Topel, who is widely known for his humble lifestyle and ascetic practices, has resigned his post as bishop of the Spokane, Wash., diocese because of age.

Bishop Topel, who will be 75 on May 31, shunned the comforts available to him, living on a Social Security check in a small frame house in a racially integrated neighborhood.

While the White House and many other homes lowered their thermostats to 65 degrees during early 1977, Bishop Topel kept his home at its normal winter temperature: 42 degrees.

"My reason for these low temperatures is to save money for the poor," he wrote at the time.

He will remain as apostolic administrator of his diocese until a successor is named.

The bishop has been an outspoken critic of the Supreme Court and said he was prepared to practice civil disobedience should a confrontation take place between the church and state over abortion.

• The bishop also participated in an anti-B-l bomber demonstration in January, 1977. He told about 200 fellow opponents of the advanced bomber to "see Christ's love so we can have his kind of peace."

Bishop Topel drew widespread attention with a letter he sent to his seminarians in 1972, in which he told the prospective priests to develop a strong personal prayer life or leave the seminary.

"If it appears that you are not likely to practice daily mental prayer in the priesthood, I ask that you cease studying for the priesthood," he wrote.

In 1969 Bishop Topel left the bishop's mansion and moved into the rectory of Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral in Spokane.

Two years later, using "money from gifts that were mine to use as I please," in his words, the bishop moved into a one-story frame house costing $4,000.

He grew much of his own food ;in the garden, and sometimes had money left over from his $97 a month Social Security check to donate to the poor.

Pope Praises K of C VATICAN CITY (NC) - Because of the generosity of the Knights of Columbus, Pope Paul VI said, "we have been enabled to proclaim the Lord Jesus Christ directly in millions of homes."

Receiving members of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus in audience, the pope expressed gratitude "for your collaboration in our television apostolate."

The pope was referring to the Knights of Columbus' contribution to the funding of international television transmission of papal functions via satellite.

Since 1975 the K of C has paid for beaming such programs as the papal Christmas Mass to a satellite, and part of the cost for sending the signal from the satellite to missiot.l lands where costs of receiving the signal would be prohibitive.

A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego A GRANDEZA DO BAPTISMO

o sacramento do Baptismo e uma dade, e urn misterio t~o qrande, t~o

realiimoortante, tao profundo, Que nos deverfamos, sempre, mas esoecialmente neste tempo abensoado interroqar a nossa consciencia: 0 aue e~ Que siqnifica 0 Santo Baotismo? Eis uma oerqunta que nos deve acompanhar oortoda a vida.

Saberemos nos recordar sempre este acto, esta novidade, este misterio?

Entretanto. reflectamos: existird, em todo 0 decurso da nossa vida, urn momenta mais importante, mais decisive do que este?

N~o: este 6 0 ~nico!

Enos acontecimentos da nossa vida, existir~ urn facto mais belo, mais feliz do que este? N~o: este ~ 0 acontecimento mais feliz da nossa exist@ncia.

Para que nos serviria haver nascido, para a vida natural, se nao tivessemos tido a felicidade de renascer, com 0 Baptismo, para a vida sobrenatural? .

Muitos ensinamentos recebemos j~ acerca deste acontecimento: a fe, a qra~a, 0 renascimento para uma vida pura e inocente, a Iqreja, a ora~~o nova ... Como podemos recordar tudo isto s6 numa palavra? numa unica formul a? .

Podemos recordar tudo com uma expressao: tornamo-nos cristaos! ~ S. Paulo que nos repete a sua palavra: Com Cristo!, fostes sepultados mediante 0 Baptismo; com Cristo ressuscitastes; a vossa vida esta unida a Sua. Assim, formas com Ele uma so coisa, urn s6 Corpo. .

Sen do assim~ G que se iqnaura uma nova forma de vida, urn novo modo de oensar, sequndo a fe; uma nova visao do tempo, das coisas, da dor, e da morte, sequndo a esoeran)a; urn novo relacionamento com os outros homens; a caridade.

Em Cristo, Caminho, Verdade e Vida oara todos nos! Oeste facto, deste momento nasce urn qrande dever; sim, urn qrande dever que por~m f~cil e feliz; 0 de somos fieis dever Que ha-de " ecoar semore na nos sa consci~ncia, e Que e resumido nestas simoles palavras, diqnas de serem sempre, sempre, recordadas Dor todos Quantos tiveram a felicidade de receber 0 Baptismo: Cristao, s@ cri s,t'ao!

A doutrina sobre a santi dade e imensa!

Como ooss{vel alquma vez aplicar a nossa vida vivida uma formula de tal modo, emoenhativa e, sem duvida, superior as nossas possi bil i dades?

Vejamos. Antes de mais nao e verdade que a santi dade seja imposs{vel; lemos a vida dos Santos e veremos como eles experimentaram orimeiro as nossas mesmas dif1culdades, as nossas fraquezas; e como consequiram, a parte milaqres e carismas extraordin&rias, merecer 0 tftulo de Santos. E deoois; nao ~ obriqat6rio para todos os cristaos empenharem-se na experi~ncia da; queles fen6menos extraordin~rios, que carac terizam alqumas fiquras excepcionais de homens e de mulheres, entre as muitas Que a Iqreja eleva as honras dos altares.

Existe uma santidade que pQdemos dizer mais comum, enquanto ela se aoresenta toda tecida num duolo desfqnio extraordin~rio, mas de si, acessfvel a todos. A base fundamental da santi dade G de viver em qra~a e o querer, isto e a nossa vontade, a nossa vida moral e pessoal. Esta e a santidade.

Aauela Que 0 Evanqelho nos preqa e torna poss{vel. A unica que salva 0 homem.

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You're Singles, He Tells Priests CHICAGO (NC) - Successful parish singles groups do almost nothing to integrate singles into parish life, according to author Kenneth Guentert in the current issue of U.S. Catholic, published in Chicago by the Claretian Fathers.

"Unsuccessful groups prompt well-meaning parish leaders to shrug, 'We tried,' and to give up," Guentert said.

"Family ministry is only one aspect of parish ministry," the author said. "Ministries generally thought of as applying to families apply equally well to individuals." He said singles should be incorporated into all aspects of parish life, including liturgy, education and finance committees, and eucharistic ministry.

Guentert told parish priests to remember their own singleness.

"Whether counseling or preaching, you can speak to singles out of your own experience. Include them in your sermons . . .

This is the single most effective thing anyone in the parish can do."

Parish councils can help unify familes and singles by reaching out to divorced, widowed and never-marr.ied persons in their geographical community. "Quit telling people your parish consists of 500 'families' . . . substitute members, or households or even contributors," he advised.

Guentert also offered these suggestions to parishes: - See that parish reading racks contain books of interest to singles.

- Set up adult education classes appealing to both married and single people and promote them as such.

- Organize the next parish social affair so that singles do not feel uncomfortable going alone.

- Set a goal to increase substantially the number of single people registered in your parish.

Married people should invite singles to join them at parish functions, without intentions of "setting them up" with members of the opposite sex, said Guentert.

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Our very survival may depend upon our capacity to learn from the Indian the art of communing with the earth, Another lesson our clergyman learned was a different way of apprehending time, space and reality. For the Navajo, he came to realize, the mythic accounts of creation are not in some chronological time past. Rather, they tell of processes which are an eternal happening.

"In my timebound, historical consciousness of past, present, and future, I have no way of understanding, I have no way of standing amongst the holy people of the sacred place of Ship Rock, New Mexico, and hearing .the rolling thunder of their drums in the midnight desert. 'But for the Navajo, with whom believing is seeing, and hearing, and feeling, he communes with his ancient forebears as certainly as I recall my historical past." Thus spoke this humbled man of God. "Not by words alone"

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By Cecilia Belanger Several students l)ave requested that I write about Indians. I don't intend to get into the Indian land controversy but I would like to speak of the traditional teachings of the Indians. I was impressed recently with observations made by a minister who had spent some time with the Navajo people.

He said that all the ~ime he was among them he felt embarrassed and even ashamed of his Christian connections, for he felt that there had been a policy of collaboration among institutions to root out the traditional beliefs and practices of the Indian people.

He concluded that the Indians and their beliefs should have been left alone and that Christianity should have allowed itself to understand what this religious culture had to offer.

There seemed for. instance, to be little interest in our "technological paradise" with the exception of four-wheel drive and pick-up trucks.

The most important evidence to this clergyman of the spiritual vitality of the Indian tradition was the fact that the Indians had survived successive waves of military, missionaries, educators and anthropologists.

When the minister arrived in the Navajo nation, he said he knew he had to shift the mental gears of his Western, rational, logic-loving mind. He needed to let the silence and solitude of vast expanses of space illumine his narrow niches and tunnelled vision so he could see with a native eye.

He admitted to himself that there was no way he could learn the Navajo tradition or experience t~e strange archetypal rumblings of their rituals without sacrificing his "precious" pattern :Of seeing the world.

"I c~me to appreciate the

warning that people not only have different customs or beliefs in different Gods; it's rather that the worlds of different peoplE have different shapes. The very metaphysical presuppositions differ. Man is not differentiated from life, or non-life from death, as it is in our world."

He also discovered that in the Navajo world space does not conform to Euclidian geometry, time does not. form a.continuous unidirectional flow and causation does not fit Ariestotelian logic.

Navajos have no religion, yet there is nothing in their view of the world that is non-religious. They worship no god, but there is no aspect of existence untouched by an unseen spirit.

The minister became more aware of the earth and its mysticism, seen most pointedly in the Pueblo view that in the springtime, Mother Earth is pregnant and one does not mistreat or abuse her any more than one would a pregnant woman.

Some may think of this as lovely poetry, but impractical as agriculture. The Indian thinks of it as reality, so that when the technologist tries to get a Pueblo farmer to use a steel plow in the spring, he is usually rebuffed.

When you see the earth as divinely presented to you to do with as you please, as Westerners do, then the Indian view of the inner communion of life systems becomes a superstition of a primitive people. Only industrialized, techological man, dead to his origins and blind to all sense of non-physical aliveness, could fail to see that the fuel for our machines is limited, that defacing the earth defiles human beings and destroys that divine voice that speaks so powerfully through all cosmic activity.

Americans worked so hard to destroy is rich. In conclusion, he said his most lasting impression from exposure to the culture and tradition of the Navajos is that our world is too small and narrow, that the world he had formerly believed in may be only a small part of reality.

He came· to see the truth in the paraphrasing of an old proverb: "If I hadn't believed it, I never would have seen it."

Bishop Gerrard Upcoming events at Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River, include a spaghetti supper Friday April 28 and a bowl-a-thon Saturday, April 29, School choristers will sing at the closing Mass of the Diocesan Catholic Education Convention Friday, May 5 and will give a spring concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 11 at Central Congregational Church, Fall River.

The latter event, will feature the music of Alexander Peloquin, who will be in the audience.

RQnald Rathier, head of Gerrard's drama. department, will be a soloist and a small orchestra, conducted by George Campeau, will accompany the singers.

A student-faculty volleyball game is planned for the near future and recent events included a blood drive, a concert by the Somerset Jazz Band and a series of Parent Effectiveness Training meetings. ~

Holy Family Students at Holy Family High, New Bedford, will participate in a March of Dimes walk-athon Saturday, April 29.

In recent happenings, Stephen Cusson represented the school at Student Government Day in Boston and the second annual foreign language festival presented activities typical of French, Spanish and ancient Roman life. In a "Loterie National" Rosemary Dupre was the lucky winne!, while American money was exchanged for French currency for fairgoers to

By Charlie Martin

Dust in the Wind I close my eyes only for a moment and the moment's gone

All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the Wind, all w.e are is dust in the wind Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away, but all your money won't another minute buy Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.

Written By K. Livgren; Sung By Kansas; (c) 1977, CBS Records, Inc. "Dust in the Wind" blends a strong vocal with acoustic guitar.

The song speaks of the transience of life's experience. In summary, life's significance is minimal, for everything we experience is lost or scattered like "Dust in the Wind."

Life does present many changes, and there is a degree of uncertainty about what will happen to us. Today we can know the happiness of achievement but there are also tomorrows of failure and times when hopes seem to die.

Consequently, it is important to see the continuity of time and life's experience. Judgements based only on ups or downs fail to take into account the wholeness of life.

There are times when we feel and see only our own emotional needs, and there are other times when we respond to the needs of others. We grow in many ways, and as we discover more aspects of ourselves, we see that our potential is tremendous. We only really fail if we give up on ourselves. .

The song brings up the question of life's significance. Is there anything that lasts in life? The answer, of course, depends on one's perspective of life's purpose, and for those of us who find a special meaning for the revelation of God in Jesus, the answer can only be, "Yes!" In every scattering of life's "Dust in the Wind," the dust is in reality the seed for new growth. new relationships and new ways to enter into our human potential.

For the Christian, life's time possesses special significance. How we use today determines if life's dust can be the planting for a rich harvest.

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Also featured were clowns, a Seine boat ride, a French puppet show and slides of ancient and contemporary Rome.

Bishop C()nnolly Students and faculty of 'Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. will participate in a hunger awareness day Wednesday, April 26. Although the day is observed by colleges and some high schools jlcross the country, Connolly will be the first high school in southeastern Massachusetts to participate.

The day is intended to sensitize participants to the suffering of the world's hungry. The program includes guest speakers, film presentations and small .discussion sessions.

The speakers represent organizations involved with the problem of world hunger.

Wendy Moran will speak on behalf of OXFA!M America, an independent international organization that funds self-help development projects in Africa, Asia, and ·Latin America. ,Ken Morgan, a Jesuit volunteer, will explain the work of

the Society of Jesus in this field of social justice; and Father Leo McCarthy, a Maryknoll missionary, will recount his work with the hungry in underdeveloped countries.

Films will range from a documentary on Tuareg life in the Niger to a description of family life in India.

A concelebrated liturgy, film and panel discussion will close· the day.

In connection with the program, Mayor Carlton Viveiros has proclaimed April 26 as "Food Day" in Fall River.

Bishop Feehan Thirteen Spanish students from Feehan High are in Spain this week, spending their vacation absorbing its culture.

Seven faculty members have been certified as instructors in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Cheerleading tryouts will be held Monday, April 24, and parent-teacher report card conferences will also be hel4 that day.

The annual father-daughter dances will be held in the school cafeteria Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29.

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Somerset Invitation This Weekend The annual Somerset High School's invitational baseball tournament will get underway tomorrow when Durfee and Shrewsbury High meet at 10:30 a.m. Host Somerset will oppose Pilgrim High of Warwick at 1:30 p.m. .

The consolation final is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, the championship final for 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

Southeastern Mass. Conference teams have another busy week coming up with games scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In Division One play Monday, it will be New Bedford at Barnstable, Somerset at Attleboro, Taunton at Durfee, Bishop Stang High at DennisYarmouth, on Wednesday the schedule has Attleboro at New Bedford, Durfee at Barnstable,

Dennis-Yarmouth at Somerset, Taunton at Stang.

Monday's games in DivisiOn Two West are Bishop Feehan High at Diman Yoke, Coyle-Cassidy at Westport, Case at Dighton-Rehoboth, Bishop Connolly High at Seekonk. In Wednesday's action Coyle-Cassidy will be home to Feehan, Westport to Diman, Case to Connolly, Seekonk to Dighton-Rehoboth.

Division Two East also has full slates scheduled for Monday and Wednesday. Monday's schedule reads New Bedford Yoke-Tech at Holy Family, St. Anthony at Bourne, Fairhaven at Dartmouth, Falmouth at Wareham with Wednesday's action listing VokeTech home to Falmouth, Old Rochester to Holy Family, St. Anthony to Dartmouth, FaLrhaven to Wareham.

Hockomock League Also Active The Hockomock Baseball League also has games on tap for three days next week.

Monday's games are Sharon at Foxboro, Mansfield at Franklin, Canton at North Attleboro, Oliver Ames at King Philip. Wednesday action lists Stoughton at Mansfield, Foxboro at Canton, Franklin at Oliver Ames, North Attleboro at King Philip.

Hockomock dual track meets today have Oliver Ames at Sharon, North Attleboro at Stoughton, Mansfield at Canton, King Philip at Foxboro. Monday's meets will be North Attleboro at Mansfield, King Philip at Oliver Ames, Sharon at Franklin, Foxboro at Stoughton.

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In addition to the recordbreaking performance of the Bishop Stang High School trio in the Somerset girl's relays, other meet records were broken.

Attleboro set a new record in the discus with a combined total of 284' lOW'. Host Somer-

set's 13' 10" is a new record in the high jump.

• • • Among conference baseball games tomorrow, Connolly is host to Dighton-Rehoboth at Lafayette Park, Fall River, Westport entertains Feehan, Diman visits Coyle-Casidy and Case is at Seekonk.

Integration is the name of the game as far as the Case High School tennis team is concerned The Cardinals do not have separate boys' and girls' teams.

The squad is captained by Lori Holmes, a senior who was named to the all-league team last year and won the team's Most Valuable ,Player Award as a sophomore.

Not in the starting seven, but showing promise and sure to see action this season are Liz Kinnane, Melinda Silvia, Paul Surette, Nancy Beltran, Mitch LeSage and Renee Silvia.

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The rudimentary plot is more than an excuse for a string of action sequences, none of which is especially exciting. The film's violence and high casualty rate rule it out for younger viewers.

Morally unobjectionable for adults.

"The First Time" (EDP Films) is an account of a 16-year-old boy who, after an apprenticeship in pornography and homosexuality, progresses through an unsatisfactory experience with a prostitute to more successful adventures with girls his own age.

The film does include some warm and positive details of family life, but its amoral view of sex, offensive dialogue and graphic depictions of sexual behavior give it a condemned rating.

"Madame Rosa" (Atlantic Releasing) is the story of an elderly ex-prostitute, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, who runs a foster home for the children of prostitutes in a sixth-floor walkup in Paris. One of her charges is a 14-year-old Algerian boy named Momo (Ben Youb). Madame Rosa and Momo need each other, and the film is little more than a series of scenes illustrating that need. The theme and atmosphere of this film, as well as a scene involving a decomposing body, make it mature viewing fare. Morally unObjectionable for adults.

"The Silver Bears" (Columbia) is a complex caper film having to do with international financial intrigue. The ball gets rolling when Michael Caine goes to Switzerland to buy a bank, and then the complications begin to pile up. At the end everyone lives happily ever after except for a low-level functionary (Tom Smothers) who takes the· rap for everybody in a Swiss jail, to which his wife (Cybill

Shepherd) comes every visithg day. The film has some fun:ly moments but the over-all impression is that of a rather bland travelogue. The i casc.al Caine-Shepherd adulterous urrangement at the end is far too blatant not·to be offensive. Morally objectionable in part for Elll.

On Television "Siege," CBS, April 26, 9-11 p.m. The worst blight of our cities in the victimization of the elderly, too weak to defend themselves against even youngsters and too stubborn or poor to move elsewhere.

"Siege" is the story of an apartment complex in the Bronx where a neighborhood gang of kids terrorize at wHl the widows and pensioners living there. The level of violence in this timely story is mainly psychological. It creates the atmosphere of VJlnerability that paralyzes the threatened community, but may make the drama inappropriate for the younger children.

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Joe Don Baker stars in the ro>le of Buford Pusser, the sheriff who cleaned up Mo.'lairy County by walking tall and clubbing down the opposition. Since the end does not justify the means, the film is morally reprehensible even apart from its graphically depicted violence.- Condemned.

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Friday, April 28, 9 p.rn. (NBC) - "Play Misty for Me" (19'71) - Gore and more gore are ':he more ingredients as Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter star in this Eastwood-directed suspense movie tracing a slick California disk jockey's near-tragic involvement with a severely disturbed woman who's a fan of his. The film is gripping, but drips with violence. Moratly unobjecti:mtionable for adults with reservations.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-Thurs, Apr. 20, 1978

The Parish Parade Publicity chairman of parish organizations are as~ed 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. Note: We do not carry news of fund raising activities such as bingos, whists, dances, suppers and balSars.

We are happy to carry notices of spiritual programs, club meetings, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities.

Fundraising projects may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675路7151.

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ST. JAMES, NEW BEDFORD

HOLY NAME, NEW BEDFORD The new Parish C.C.D. Center will be dedicated Sunday, Bishop Cronin will celebrate the 11 A.M. Mass on that day and will .proceed to the new building for . the blessing and dedication ceremonies. All parishion~rs and friends are invited. The center will be open for inspection all day until 4 P.M. Refreshments will be served.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Installation ceremonies for the Children of Mary Sodality will be held at 7 p.m. Mass Thursday, May 4. Officers are Theresa Rego, president; Colleen Oliveira, vice-president; Virginia Medeiros and Lori Faria, secretaries; Edwarda Mello, treasurer.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD A Marriage Encounter infor;nation night will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 30 in the school hall on Illinois Street. Refreshments will be served and all area married couples are invited.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The monthly prayer service for parish ministers of intercessory prayer will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 30. All parishioners are invited.

Three bus trips are tentatively planned for parishioners: a June. weekend of prayer and song in New Hampshire; an August trip to the Boston Pops and an October foliage tour.

The Legion of Mary will conduct a Columban Drive the weekend of April 22 and 23, with the purpose of recruiting members for the parish presidium. Speakers will explain the work of the Legion at each Mass.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO Knights of the Altar will hold a theatre party tomorrow night.

Junior Corps will have a bowling party Saturday and Boy Scouts will have an overnight camping trip.

May 21. Reservations may be made with Jean Drzal.

Groundbreaking ceremonies -for the new parish festival grounds will take place following 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Baseball tryouts are being held at the Forest Street field at 6 p.m. daily this week for the Junior Baseball League.

A day of renewal will be held from 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday, April 30.

Brooklyn Helps BROOKLYN, N.Y. (NC) The Diocese of Brooklyn has pledged $3,500 a year for the next five years, to support the education of 17 seminarians of the Paraguayan Diocese of Coronel Oviedo.

Italian Pro-Life ROME (NC)-Italy's emerging pro-life movement has collected 700,000 signatures for the presentation of a modified abortion law in parliament. According to the Italian constitution, a proposed law can be introduced directly in parliament when sponsored by at least 50,000 citizens.

Voting CQrdinals VATICAN CITY (NC) - The death of Italian Cardinal Giacomo Violardo and the 80th birthday of retired Cardinal Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore reduced the number of cardinals eligible to vote in a papal election to 115.

If a conclave were held soon, nine American cardinals could vote. Their votes would repre. sent eight percent of the total.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, . ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER FALL RIVER The parish social concerns A parish day of recollection committee will host a neighbor- open to all ad .llts will be held hood improvement meeting to- from noon till 8 p.m. Sunday, night at 7 in 'Father Coady Center. St. Anne's, Holy Cross, First Primitive Methodist, Our Lady of Health and S1. Luke's "Constant Concern "Every Year ~aring, Churches will join SS. Peter and For Those In Need" Sharing, Giving" Paul in an effort to upgrade the area. Members of all churches are urged to attend.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL The parish education Committe and Senior CYO will meet Diocese of Fall River at 7:30 Monday night in the church center.

1942 - 1978 Grade Three children who attend CCD classes on Sunday morning will receive the sacrament of Penance after 9:30 a.m.

Mass SUilday, April 30.

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ST. MATHIEU, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday in the parish hall with Mrs. Paul Leco路.lr as hostess.

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The department of social services of the Diocese, funded by the Annual Catholic Charities Appeal, has an apostolate of Catholic Counseling Service.

The above photo shows the staff in charge, left to right: James Tooley, Rev, Robert Carter, James Carson, Rev. Maurice Lebel, S.J., and Deborah Maloney.

For the Works of Charity, Mercy, Social Service and Education to All People in Southeastern Area of Massachusetts ... The Appeal provides Care for All regardless of Race, Color and Creed ...

The Appeal is supported by Flaternal, Professional, Business and Industrial Organizations.

The Appeal Provides Care for the Unwanted Baby, Youth, Engaged Couples, the Sick, the Poor, the Elderly, Family Life and Other People in Need,

Special Gifts Phase April 24 to May 6 Parish Appeal May 7 to May'17

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Sunday, May 712 Noon to 3 P.M.

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. Bishop of Fall River

17,500 Volunteer Solicitors will visit 104,750 Homes in the Areas of Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro, Cape Cod and the Islands.

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