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Taunton native asks rethinking

Msgr. Hoye joins

anti-Bitburg chorus

WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr. oDaniel F. Hoye, general secre­ tary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference, has urged President Reagan to reconsider his plans to visit a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, where Nazi soldiers are buried.

The Taunton native, a priest of the Fall River diocese. who has served ,in Washington since 1977, in an April 29 statement termed a visit to the cemetery not "suitable."

His statement was one of a series of criticisms and ques­ tions from Jews, U.S. miitary veterans, concentration camp survivors and others upset by Reagan's decision to visit the cemetery May 5. Reagan also was schedued to visit a Nazi concentration camp while in Germany.

"President Reag~n's observance of America's friendship with the Federal Republic of Germany over the past 40 years should be carried out in a way which ,is not divisive, and which avoids unnecessary hurt to the sur­ vivors of the wl1.r and to the memory of its victims," Msgr.

Hoye said in his statement.

He said, that "it is clear that the Bit.burg cemetery does not provide a suitable site for such a gesture. For this reason I urge the president to reconsider the visit."

Msgr. I-Ioye said that in op­ posing the visit ": do not mean to imply any sense of collective guilt for the war or the Holo­ caust on the part of the Ger­ man people, living or dead."

Included among the dead ~n the Bitburg graveyard are mem­ Turn to Page Seven

A special call

COpy OF RUSSIAN ICON

MOTHER OF GOD

" 'Tis the month of our Mother, the blessed and beautiful May"

Appeal Day Sunday Explaining the undertaking, Oi,er 20,150 volunteer solici­ tors wiH make house to house Bishop Daniel A. Cronin !has calls within their parishes from written to diocesan families, ask­ noon to 3 p.m. Sunday on behalf ing for their generous support of the 44th annual Catholic .of the 1985 Appeal.

Charities Appeal.

"We find ourselves once Visiting some 114,000 homes again," he wrote, "in the midst representing over 325,000 peo­ of the Catholic Charities Ap­ ple, the volunteers will ask peal. It is ,a special time when funds for maintenance and ex­ the good people of the diocese pansion of diocesan apostolates join together in witnessing to 'of education, social services, this year's Appeal theme: It Is health care and charity.

Easier To Give than To Need.

"Through this joint effort, many vital apostolic endeavors throughout the diocese are sup­ ported. Because of the Catholic Charities Appeal, the church's mission has !been able to touch the lives of countless numbers oi people in all areas of the dio­ cese.

"By the generosity of God's people in the parishes, the apos­ tolic endeavors and institutions of the diocese of Fall River have Turn to Page Six :

Sister Adrienne Bolduc, a Sis­ ter of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc recently assigned to Notre Dame rectory, Fall River, received an early morning phone call Wednesday, April 24.

On the Hne was her former boss, calling to ,tell her of his naming to the College of Cardin­ als and asking "How are you doing over there?"

Sister Adrienne said she was cverwhelmed at the thoughtful­ ness of Cardinal-elect Bernard F. Law in calling her just before facing a televised news confer­ ence on what had to be one of the busiest days of his life.

"We talked three or four min­ utes," she said. "I congratulated him and told him I didn't want to take up his time when he was so occupied."

The conversation, she said, was mainly in French. She speaks little English but the car­ dinal-elect "has a few' wordS of French."

Sister Adrienne was at the car­

dinal's residence in Brighton from 1974 until a few weeks ago, serving Cardinal Humberto Medeiros until his death in September 1983 llnd Cardinal­ elect Law from the time of his arrival in Boston last year.

Related stories are on page 8.

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The company has always main­ tained that "the moon' and stars" logo it has been usingsince 1850 depiCts the man in the moon facing 13 stars, which ,represent the original 13 colonies.

The company, which manu·' factures such products as dis­ posable diapers, bathroom tissue and soap, launched a national media campaign in 1982 to com­ bat rumors that the logo was a satanic symbol. .

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SISTER MARY Michael­ inda Plante. RSM. will 'as­ sume the position of associ­ ate superintendent of schools for the diocese of Fall River. effective July 1.

She will succeed Sister M. Laurita Hand. PBVM. who has accepted an administra­ tive post for Catholic schools in the WoonsocJ<.et area.

As associate superinten­ dent. Sister Michaelinda will be responsible for \adminis­ tering to the 26 elementary schools in the diocese. A Sis­ ter of Mercy of the Provi­ dence Province, she brings a wide range of skills and experience to her new posi­ tion. Her early years in edu­ cation inclu$led administra­ tive posts as assistant to the registrar 'at Salve Regina College. administrator/direc­ tor of the Carter Day Nurs­ ery in Providence, and direc­ tor of school services at Salve Regina.

She recently completed 10 years as principal of St. Mary's School. Winchester and is currently a doctoral candidate in administration and supervision at Boston College.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 3, 1985

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Lifting the Burden

Americans have the fixed idea that they will eliminate pov­ erty. In fact, it is a national cause. As a people we may be divided on strategies for civil rights, we may be fragmented on issues of war and peace, but we are a nation united on the ,desire to eradicate poverty.

As far back as 1928, Herbert Hoover made this dream a national political goal, loudly and unabashedly proclaiming that the nation was nearer than ever before to the final triumph over poverty. Well, we all know what happened after that -the Great Depression.

Well, that didn't faze the New Dealers. They decided that the reason we had poverty in America was because people did not have enough income. (Sounds like the New Deal.) Thus, they focused -on the issues of low wages, uncertain employment, credit unavailability and chronic joblessness. To end,poverty in America they brought into being Social Security, unem­ ployment compensation, minimum wage laws and farm credit.

This, they thought, would indeed put an end to, poverty, .which was now to have an "official level. "Those who fell below 'it were to be considered poor.

This post-Depression attitude, however, had some basic flaws which still haunt the nation. The attempt to classify the' nation's poor'gave rise to a new breed of cat called the s.ocial ·scientist. In their attempt to zero in on, poveit~, these good people began to give nfore importance to equality of condition than of opportunity. Thus society was mathematically divided, with the bottom fifth identified as "poor." But in the process of trying to bridge the poverty gap, inequality was confused with poverty. While the two are related, they are not the same.

'Such a floating definition of poverty does nothing ~ore than reinforce the 09spel words: "the poo'r you will always have with you. " If the'l~west20 percent of the population is to be considered p'oor it will be around forever. .

Would it not be better to look at today's poor as more than mere.e·conomic equations? Could we not say that we have ~~~\~:~~}~(,re~!~::~r9':'~;~JY,~,?pme?~~~·i~~~ur.:'~~c·i~l',o~d.~r '~h_at . epergl2;e·p,o~~rty~.Isn~t 'Ita~out hme t9d~ away WIth Ol,lf' present ideas of poverty which are, after all, based on new cash flow.

What about the poverty created by divorce, the' death of a working parent or enforced migration caused by religious or political persecution? There is a new type of poverty among the disabled, the chronically ill, the blind and the, truly senile.

Despite all our good intentions, these poor are found in half­ way homes, state institutions, community mental healthclinics and the like. This type of poverty is not solved by passing the . ' buck.

There are also those who are indeed the least fortunate of our brothers and sisters. They can be found moving in and out of rehabilitation institutions, detoxification centers,prisons and various work programs. Such social poverty is a new urban condition, radically different from anything previously known in the United States. ' If we are to reach out and truly help today's poor, we cannot do so with a mind obsessed by the dollar. Instead, we should meet head-on the problems of needless vio'lence, vandalism, gang extortion, the quiC;k fix, prostitution and the rest of the sorry list. Social poverty, the rising plague of our day, cannot be changed, never mind challenged, by big government.

Rather, we should strengthen and revitalize our religious institutions, reduce alienation in families and decrease depen­ dency upon government agencies.

To put it quite simply, poverty is not solved by han~ing someone a bowl of soup.

We approach its solution when we help lift t\1e burden ofthe person in n e e d . ' Tille Editor

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The work of a cardinal

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By Sister Mary Ann Walsh VATICAN CITY (NC) - Being Vatican officials note, they have years in a congregation before the power which comes from access being sent to a pope. named a cardinal not only brings a or perceived access to the pope prelate prestige and power, it brings Cardinals heading Vatican offi­ him more work, especially und.er and his representatives. ces and living in the Vatican hold Pope John Paul II. . One official, who asked to remain membership on more committees "This pope makes more use of anonymous, said that cardinals than do those living in their home the College of Cardinals" than did have power simply from their rank, countries. previous popes, said U.S. Arch­ which extends beyond holding the Cardinal Baum, for example, bishop John P. Foley, president of place of honor in liturgical proces­ besides heading the Catholic edu­ the Pontifical Commission for So­ sions. , . cation agency, is a member of the cial Communications.

"Ranks count in a bureaucracy," Archbishop Foley said the pope he said, "and surely the Vatican is Council for Public Affairs of the Church and of five other congre­ sees the college having a role . a bureaucracy.'" .. gations, including the congrega­ beyonp that of electing his suc­ Extra work, and power, come tion for the doctrine of the Faith. ·cessor. from the fact that cardinals hold In 1979, for example, the pope key positions in the Vatican con­ He also is a member of the called a special consistory to dis­ Secretariat for Non-Believers, the gregations, secretariats and coun­ cuss Vatican financial problems. cils. Some cardinals, required to Pontifical Council for the' Laity That meeting marked the first time live in Rome, head these bodies of .and the Commission for the Authen­ in 400 years that the College of the Roman Curia. U.S. Cardinal tic Interpretation of Canon Law. Cardinals had been convened for William Wakefield Baum, for ex­ The cardinal's colleagues in the any purpose other than the elec­ United States belong to fewer con­ ample, heads the Congregation for ti<?n of a new pope. gregations.

Catholic Education.

The pope described that meet­ Cardinal Krol, for example, is a All cardinals serve on one or . ing of the consultative group as more congregations which require member of the congregations for "an important step' on the path of that they travel to Rome at least Eastern-rite churches and for the collegiality, in the spirit of the once a year for plenary sessions. clergy.

Second Vatican Council" and as a One Vatican official, who asked Cardinal John Dearden, retired "reanimation of this wonderful not to be identified, pointed out head of the Archdiocese of Detroit, institution, the College of Cardi­ that through the congregations and belongs to the Congregation for nals. " other Vatican bodies the cardinals' the Sacraments.

Two years later, the pope named may - and do - exert their Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of 15 cardinals, including Philadel­ .' power. phia's Cardinal John Krol and Chicago belongs to the congrega­ In the congregations and secret­ OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE ,DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER New York's late Cardinal Terence ariats, he said, they can "act. as a tions for divine worship and the Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River Cooke, to a new Council of Cardi­ evangelization of peoples and the brake on over-enthusiastic sugges­ , 410 Highland Avenue' nals to study problems related to tions of the Curia." He pointed Secretariat for Promoting Chris­ tian Unity. the organization 'and finances of out, for example, that congrega­ Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 the Holy See. Cardinal Timothy Manning of PUBLISHER tion documents must be approved Technically speaking, beyond by the membership of a congrega­ . Los Angeles belongs to ,the Con­ Most Rnv. Da.niel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T,D. .

EDITOR tion before they are submitted for gregation for Religious and Secu­ FINANI:IAL ADMINISTRATOR' their positions in the Curia, cardi­ nals have no greater authority or papal approval. Some documents, lar Institutes.

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Forgiveness heals

Three years ago when I was invited to speak in a distant diocese, I received a letter from a woman there who begged me to set aside some time to talk with her alone. Her letter indicated deep disturbance so I agreed to meet her.

She ended up driving me to the airport and we talked during that long drive and while waiting for my flight. She was having some marital and faith problems, most of which she blamed on her church upbringing.

She was hurting badly and my heart went out to her. Her hus­ band, a driving sort of success­ oriented professional, was a ne­ glectful spouse and father who made it clear that she was responsible for any family problems. When she failed, he called God in on his side.

It seems that in his eyes she couldn't do anything right and he invoked acerbic remarks to improve her.

She had tried every way she could think of to save the marriage. By the time she talked with me she was ready to abandon her mar­ riage and her faith because she blamed the church for making her husband the kind of man he was: dogmatic, critical, inflexible, and righteous.

He had come from a rigid author­ itarian kind of family and had spent some time in a seminary as a young adult. His family was deeply

disappointed and blamed her for his leaving the seminary. Later, as normal family and work stresses emerged, he also blamed her, tell­ • ing her frequently that he wished he had remained in the seminary

and become a priest.

Not being a marriage councelor,

all I could do was listen and sug­

gest counselling. Unfortunately, her husband refused to see anyone except a priest who, according to her, counselled prayer and sacri­ fice to save their marriage. This they did but it didn~t change the underlying problems w'hich e­ . merged in ever greater intensity.

I asked her to keep in touch but I never heard from her again. I suspect the marriage didn't last.

The most troubling aspeci of my meeting with her, aside from my help­ lessness, lay in her overwhelming anger toward the church.

She evidenced an attitude I see more and more in Catholic adults today - a tendency to blame the church of their childhood for their personal and marital problems.

She focused her energy on this anger to such an extent that she was incapable of dealing with her present situation rationally. Every­ thing came back to the church. It was the church's fault because of its attitude toward women, sexual­ ity, a'nd marriage. She personal­ ized this attitude by distrusting all priests, sisters, and bishops.

Such anger is not only counter-

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productive but debilitating. At a time she most needed. prayer and faith, she was denied it. She was allowing her youthful experience of church to get in the way of her relationship with God. It is sad to find this attitude in adults. Last winter I wrote a column on forgiving our parents for being human and making mistakes. I wrote that until we forgive them, we cannot mature into healthy adults.

So must we be able to forgive the church for being human and acting in ways we may now ques­ tion. I'm not implying that we can't be angry over injustice, but that anger alone is not enough. To be useful, anger must move one to action. We can't allow it to con­ sume us to the degree this woman did.

She was so busy feeding her anger, she had no energy left to deal with her situation. Gently, I tried to say this but she was too angry to hear it. She and others like her need our prayers.

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There is no doubt that the church in the United States is in trouble regarding religious vocations. It is not getting the·

me was the statement "There is no FATHER crisis provided we have the proper distribution of clergy and a utiliza­ . EUGENE tion of lay ministry."

While stating that there is a need vocations it did in the past, and the for more vocations to the priest­ HEMRICK priests, sisters and brothers we hood, many lay leaders expressed have are getting older. the belief that the church "would Statistics tell us that the situa­ have more vocations if we simply tion by the year 2000 will be worse ordained whoever is qualified to It is my hope that many more dio­ than the projected 50 percent fewer 'become priests, for example, mar­ ceses will follow their example priests. In addition, the average ried men, resigned priests, women." when personnel and finances be­ age of men and women in religious As with all research, certain' come available. life is 56 and is rising rapidly. troubling issues come to the sur­ There is a great need for more Some think God has a reason face. Research is a vehicle for get­ Projects 1990. We need to listen to for the depletion of the ranks of ting into troubled areas in a disci­ the voices of our religious and laity priests and Religious and, in laissez­ plined way. In this case, research on what they think are possible faire fashion, reflect the God-will­ was a vehicle for getting to the avenues the church can take to provide attitude. Others have de­ grass roots to find out what people successfully serve the world in the cided to take the issue to the t~ink, without second-guessing year 2000. grass-roots level and fight for the them.

Somewhere among them is the future ..

The laity in Project 1990 say answer to where the church will be On a recent visit to the Chicago they definitely need an ordained 15 years from now. archdiocesan chancery, I was given ministry. They want priests and a ringside seat and saw firsthand feel there is no substitute for them.

What I find most interesting how priests and laity are respond­ about Ptoject 1990 is the fact that ing to the dwindling vocations sta­ tistics. The archdiocese calls its one of the top archdioceses in the United States sounded out its laity battle "Project 1990." to learn their deepest needs.

Its most effective punch is the A forum has been established,

MayS use of research followed by on-site bringing thoughts to the surface Rev. Leo M. Curry, Chaplain, visits to parishes and meetings and getting people to ponder them. 1973, Catholic Memorial Home with the leadership of those par­ Some of these ideas will be dead­ ishes.

May 6 ended, while others may just hold Rev. Thomas P. Elliott, Founder, the key to the future.

In Project 1990, 23 parishes repre­ Today about one-third of the 1905, St. Mary, Mansfield senting 23 deaneries were surveyed Rev. Asdrubal Castelo Branco, dioceses in the United States have on how they envisioned the minis­ Retired Pastor, 1980, Immaculate terial needs ofthe archdiocese over an Office of Planning and Research. . Concepti'on, New Bedford the next five to 10 years. Once the May 7 THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-020). Second results were compiled, representa­ Rev. Raymond P. Levell, S.J., tives from the chancery office met Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Pub· 1958, Springhill College, with the leadership of each parish lished weekly except the week of July 4 and Professor, Mobile, Alabama the week after Christmas at 410 Highland to decide what should follow next.

Avenue. Fall River, Mass, 02720 by the A frequent comment heard dur­ Catholic' Press of the Diocese of Fall River May 9 Rev.J.E. Theodule Giguere, Pas­ ing the parish discussions was the Subscription price by mail, postpaid S8.00 per tor, 1940, St. Anne, New Bedford need for the formation and train­ yea~, Pilstmasters send address changes to' Rev. John P. Clarke, Pastor, 1941, ing-of lay ministers.

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By FATHER JOHN

DIETZEN Q. My question is about com­ munion under both forms of bread and wine. Our parish liturgy group know, but I haven't heard from has heard it is allowed o~ly on him and don't want to ask again.

Sundays, holy days, weddings and (New York) funerals. Is it possible to have it on A. The rule you mention was in other days also? (Ohio) .effect for a while years ago, in A. The regulations governing some of the early changes fromthe communion under both species days when the eucharistic f~st was for the United States are contained from midnight. Apparently many in the document "This Holy and Catholics are still confused.

Living Sacrifice" published by the At the end of the third session of American bishops last fall with the Second Vatican Council, how­ approval of the Congregation for ever, in 1964, Paul Paul VI greatly Divine Worship. simplified this rule. According to To be honest with you, I almost this 1964 decree, which we still hesitate to answer your question abide by, people should fast from because the actual "rules"contained food and liquids (including alco­ there are only a tiny part of what is holic liquids) for one hour before an unusually inspiring brief expo­ receiving Communion. sition of our Catholic belief and Water does not break the fast tradition about· the euchari'stic and neither does medicine. These sacrifice. Taken out of that con­ " may be taken alllY time. text the guidelines lose much of For all practical purposes, even what makes them so significant. this'rule does not apply to people Nevertheless, the document lists who are ill or advanced in'age. The more than 20 types of occasions at present law ofthe church says that which communion under both the sick and aging - as well as kinds is encouraged - not only those who care for them - can allowed - at the discretion of the receive the Eucharist even if they local bishop and with proper edu­ have consumed something during cation of the people. the preceding hour (Canon 919).

There's nothing "magic" of Generally they include people somehow directly involved with course, in designating a particular Masses at which any of the sacra~ period for the eucharistic fast. The ments are ministered, funerals, Ii­ regulation is simPlY a reminder 'turgies during retreats, congf;~ga­ ;lnd aid in prep,ar.i~~ o~eself.spi~: tions present on days of special ituaHy ll,nd mem~lly for particip~t­ religious or civil significance to ing in the eucharistic sacrifice and· 'people ofthe United States and so for receiving Holy Con:tmunion.

Q. I am returning to the Catholic on.

When adults are received into faith which I love dearly. I know the church, for example, at least you have face-to-face confession nOft", What is the procedure? Is it they, their sponsors, spouses and relatives, and those who partici­ still, "Father, I have sinned," and so on? (Wisconsin) pated in their training and prepa­ ration may receive under both A. Most churches today have the opportunity for face-to-face species.

Perhaps mOre directly relevant confession as well as the tradi­ to your question, not only Sunday tional anonymous way. The option and holy day Masses but also should be yours, depending on what you feel most helpful for you weekday Masses are listed.

Communion under both kinds spiritually.

Don't werry about the words to is not permitted when circumstan­ ces make it difficult for this to be use. Usually the priest will say a brief prayer before you begin, or done with proper orderliness and reverence for the Eucharist. This read a short passage from the would include, for example, Masses Gospels. Then say whatever you in a stadium, a square or·building are familiar with. The priest will that would involve carrying the . ask you to fill in the gaps, if any.

The changes in the sacrament of blood of the Lord up and down a penance are not so much in proce­ number of steps or where the con­ gregation is so diverse that it would dure as in greater attention to the be difficult to know which people causes of sinfulness, and especially have been properly prepared for to our cooperation with the heal­ ing gt:ace of God in committing this kind of reception of the Euchar­ ourselves to greater holiness. ist.

Nearly always the priest will, as The document notes that even much as possible, help you to do at regular Sunday Masses the num­ that as you receive this sacrament. ber of people present can make the A free brochure explaininl Cath­ rite of communion under both olic regulations concerning mem­ species very difficult to accomp­ bersillip in the Masons and some lish reverently. other organizations is available by Again, I point out that the estab­ sending a self-addressed envelope lishment of norms for education to Father Dietzen, Holy Trinity and procedures in each diocese is Parish, 704 N. Main St., 8100­ up to the local bishop. In such minl:ton, III. 61701. Questions for matters most bishops generally fol­ this column mny be sent to the low norms recommended nation­ same address. ally, but it is each bishop's own decision to make for his diocese.

Different World Q. What is the time period now "The world is very different now, for the fast before Communion? I thoug~t it was one hour from food for inan holds in his mortal hands and three hours from alcoholic the power to abolish all forms of liquids. Our parish priest prom­ human poverty and all forms of ised he ,!ould find out and let me human life." _. John F. Kennedy

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While ~qe telegram did not 'name the work. it clearly 'l'eferr­ 283 Sta'lio" Avenue ed to ~he film "HaH Mary" by South Yarmout~, Mass.. director Jean-Luc Godard.

AT'C.~THOUCCHARITIES kickoff meeting Bishop Daniel A. Cronin !11eets with, "The Holy Father joins in U11­ from left, Francis Menard, St Mary p~rish, Seekonk; Claire ,Bourquette, St. Theresa' par­ Tel. :398-2285 animously deploring, with the ish,. South Attleboro; Emma Andrade, Taunton"diocesan)ay·chairper~on; and Rev. Bento faithful of Rome's dioceses. the R. Fraga,pastor of 'Holy Ghost parish, Attleboro, and'Attleboro ~rea CCA director. (Gau-, showing of a cinematic work that. in' treating fundamental dette Pltoto) .' . , ! themes of the Christian faith. , STAFFON FLORIST distorts and scorns their spirit­ and' GREENHOUSES· ual significance 'and their his­ . 187 ALDEN ROAD torical value," the telegram said.

FAIRHAVEN, MA 02719 "It deeply wounds . the reli­ Through combined efforts of all our 1985 Catholic Charities Ap­ Cont~nued from page one, Tel. 993~8062. -: 997-2666 gious sentiments of believers,­ peal.

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Dried & Silk. ~rrangements .. and frierids. perhaps your own will have the assurance of con­ such filial love by Catholics 'and . And An Extra Large will ta,ke 'place on .Sunday, May tinued, service to those in need j ~oved 9nes. is so dear to Christians." the Selection of Green Plants. ,,' 5. One of your neighbors, afel­ "With this .year's theme in in the comiJ;lg year. " telegram said.

Short Term Plant Rentals 1:3, Days "I am writing to<;lay to encour~ tow parishioner. will visit your mind. all Catholics are, asked to Italian priests, nuns and laity FLOWERS SENT WORLDWIDE. home in the early afternoon reach out to those in need. age your generous response to have demonstrated ,against the hours., A, contribution card is en­ closed, and I we earnestly ask film outside the Rome movie theater where it began playing ,you to make use of this card in­ April' 18. Among the first pro­ preparing a reason.able gift." testors were followers of French "Your Generous Gift "It Is Easier To Give Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes. di­ dissident Archbishop Marcel Le­ "Fulfills The,Need Of Than To Need" ocesan Appeal director, has sug­ febvre. who has been suspended Reople In Need" gested" cons\cieration' of ,the from the exercise of orders by pledge' system as a way of in­ the church. .

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The two-part film is a modern '-"",'. ;,' ') Diocese of Fall ,River version of the lif~ of Mary, in "1.

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ZIANO, Diocesan Depart­ ment of Social Services ex­ ecutive director, has been elected New England repre­ sentative to the national standing committee of the of National Conference Catholic Charities. Meeting four times a year, the com­ mittee guides joint activi­ ties of U.S. directors of Catholic social welfare agen­ cies and institutions and presents their concerns to the national body. (Baptista Photo)

Continued from page one bers of the notoriousWaffen SS storm troopers, the combat branch of Adolf Hitler's elite· guard. They are blamed for kin­ ing Jews, Allied prisoners of war, and other victims of Nazi op­ pression during World War n.

Reagan's decision to visit the cemetery earHer was questioned

by Eugene Fisher, director of the NOCB Secretariat for Christian­ Jewish Relations. "Why is he going to go and pay tribute to the Waffen SS?" Fisher asked.

A Catholic survivor of Aus­ chwitz, Michael Preisler, presi­ dent of the downstate New York division of the Polish American Congress, said in an April 22 telegram to Reagan that "Polish Americans regret your plans ,to honor the Nazi dead." Preisler

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said that "as Christians, we feel compelled to forgive" the Nazis but "as their victims, we find it ,inconceivable to honor them."

Executives of ,the American Jewish Committee said that "it would be morally obscene for a president of the United States - however well-meaning his in­ tentions - to ,lay a wreath at a cemetery containing SS graves." ·But an editorial scheduled for publication May 2 in The Catho­ lic Banner, newspaper of the Diocese of Charleston, S.C" while not direct'ly supporting Reagan's decision, disagreed with trip opponents that Reagan's visit "dishonors the memory of the Allied soldiers" killed in World War II or the victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

"Forgiving is not forgetting," said the editorial, written by Msgr. Thomas R. Duffy, vicar general of the diocese. "Some of the comments of those opposed to the visit demonstrate a belief that forgiving and forgetting go hand in hand. They do not. For­ getting eraseS the event from our consciousness. Forgiving de­ mands that weare aware of what happened, for that is what we are forgiving." .In the editorial, !Msgr. Duffy pointed out that West Germany and Japa!1 are now allies of the United States though they were America's enemies in World War II. "If we can become fr-iends and partners with the survivors, why can't we seek to be at peace with the dead?" he asked.

'Blasphemous' talk.

KINGSTON, Ontario (NC) ­ Pro-life supporters have sub­ scribed as Iblasphemous a speech by abortionist .or. Henry Mor­ genthaler describing God as "the grea'test abortionist. because, in the doctor's interpretation, 80 percent of· 'pregnancies end lin miscarriages. Abort:ions are per­ mit'ted ,in Canada only on ap­ proval of a hospital abortion committee. Morgenthaler, who has been acquiUed four times of charges of operating an megai ab0l1ion clinic, maintains that the committees cause delays and inconvenience to women seek~ ing abortions.

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The IRC, sponsored by the Catholic Communications Foundation, is designed to teach religious communica­ tors how to use the elec­ tronic and print media crea­ and effe~tively. tively Through lectures, discus­ sion, hands-on studio train­ ing and assignments, parti­ cipants develop writing', in­ terviewing, petsonal com­ munication and technical TVjradio skills.'

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fair River-Friday, May 3, 1985 '

Our n:ew cardinals: what mann,er of men?

Cardinal-elect Bernard F. Law BOSTON (NC), - Cardinal­ designate Bernard F. ,Law of Bos- , ton told a news conference April 24 he doesn't think Pope John Paul II was motivated by poli­ tical considerations in his ap­ pointment of 28 new, cardinals earlier the 'same day.

He spent much of the press meeting deflecting questions about papal motives in the ap­ pointments. ': Asked if he thought he and Cardinal-designate John J. O'­ Connor of New York were the only U.S. residents chosen be­ cause they hold "conservative" views on abortion, Cardinal­ ,desigriate Law said there is only one'teaching of the church on abortion, not a "liberal" and a ';conservative" view.

Asked what message the pope was --trying to send in choosing cardinals from countries such as Poland, Card1nal-designate Law said, "I don't think the HQly Father is motivated by a political consideration in these, appoint­ ments. I think he's motivated by what he deems to be the way in which the ministry of the church and his own ministry can be both effective and ad­ vancedJ' , ' Asked' how he deals 'with dis­ • sension' in the-church,. the car­ ~ diriaI-designate' s~id,' ,~';'i don't lose sleep at night worrying about the fact that I am bishop of a divided church. Certainly there are te,nsions and cert~inly there are times when those ten­ sions take on negative aspects, but tension can be a very crea­ tive thing. It's a measure of peo­ ple's concern for the church."

He said he does not believe that becoming a cardinal will ,change his ministry much be­

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same at all levels.

Asked what added clout he would have as a cardinal, he noted that I'm not over and

above the (National) Co'nference of '(Catholic) Bishops because I'm nominated a cardinal. I'm stilI a member of that confer­ ence."

Cardinal-elect John J. O'Connor NEW YORK (NC) - Cardinal­ designate John J. O'Connor of New York, asked how he felt ahout his elevation to the Col· lege of Cardinals, recalled that he still faced the task of "try­ ing to save my soul."

"The more honors you receive, the more diffi,cult it can be­ come," he said April 24.

Appearing for a press confer­ ence in New York the morning of the announcement ,that he

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CARD-ELECT LUBACHIVSKY \ would receive the red hat May' 25 Cardinal-designate O'Connor fo~nd a throng of cameras, and reporters facing him.

Much of the questioning dealt with political controversies that have involved Cardinal-designate O'Connor and whether he might now have more "clout" in dealing with politicians such as " New York Gov. Mario Cuomo"

with whom he has, clashed on abortion, and' New York Mayor Ed Koch, with whom he has clashed on homosexual policy. ",I know you won't believe this," he responded, "but I don't think of myself as dealing with politicians. My role is to express the teaching of the Catholic Church."

Also on April 24, the cardinal­ designate spoke at a business conference sponsored by alumni of the Fordham University Col­ lege of Business. He was intro­ duced as John Cardinal O'Con· nor.

"In deepest humility, I must confess that does have a lovely ring," he responded jokingly.

Two ' weeks before being named a cardinal, he revealed to the New York Archdiocesan Priests' Cbuncil that he accepts no salary, donates most of his Navy pension to the archdiocese and signs over his Social Secur­ ity check to some archdiocesan charity each month.

Cardinal-designate O'Connor, who served from' 1952 to 1979 as a U.S. Navy chaplain 7"" the last four years as chief of chap­ lains - receives an annual pen­ sion of approximately $30,000 ,after taxes as a retired rear ad­ miral. He said he had made a commitment to donate $2,000 per month of that to the New York Archdiocese ,as long as he was archbishop, and that he took no salary.

An archdiocesan spokesman said that during the tenure of the late . Cardinal Terence Cooke, the archbishop's salary was set at $25 a'bove the' top, level of priests' salaries which varies ac­ co~ding to number of years or­ damed. At present the top salary for priests is $6,750.

On January 15, Cardinal-designate O'Connor had his 65th birth­ day", and in February he began receiving Social Security and signing over each check to some charity in the archdiocese.

The first check went to !Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity,

DISPLAYING IDS rapport with his flock, Cardinal-ele'ct John O'Connor tries his mitre on the head of an altar boy, also named John O'Connor. (NC Photo)

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN welcomes Cardinal..:elect Bernard F. Law to New England in January, 1984. (Sr. Rita Murray Photo, courtesy of The Pilot, Boston) who are working in the South Last September Cardinal Slipyj Dronx, the second to the Miseri­ ,died at age 92, and Archbishop cordia Sisters for a program for Lubachivsky, now 70, became major archbishop of Lvov and unmarried mothers. head of the Ukrainian church.

Cardinal-designate O'Connor said he accepts no Mass stipends, Born' in Dolyna in t~e Lvov stole fees, lecture fees or other Archdiocese on June 24, 1914, payments. His~ only other in­ he was ordained a priest of that come, in addition to his pension, archdiocese on Sept. 21, 1938. is ,interest from a modest savings He studied in Innsbruck, Aus­ account. tria, for two years then, with World War II 'raging in Europe, ' he went to Sion, Switzerland to complete his doctorate in theo­ logy" with liturgy as his specialty.

In 1942 he went to Rome,

By NC News Service where he obtained licentiates in Cardinal-designate Myroslav I. Scripture and philosophy and Lubachivsk)l, chief archbishop also studied medicine. , of Ukrainian Catholics world­ Transferred to the Unite<! wide: was born in the Ukraine States in 1947, he was secretary and now lives in Rome, but the to Ukrainian Archbishop Am­ United States 'is his adopted brose senyshyn of Philadelphia homeland. and secretary of the Ukrainian He moved to the United States section of the National Catholic as a young priest in 1947 and Welfare Conference, now' the lived there most of the next 33 U.S. Catholic Conference. years. In 1952 he obtained U.S. From 1949 to 1967 he served citizenship in Cleveland, Ohio. h1 U.S. Ukrainian parishes, then In 1980 the world's expatriate . returned to Rome to teach and Ukrainian bishops gathered in do research.

Rome in special synod under Coming back to the United Pope John ,Paul II to elect a co­ Sta'tes in 1968, he served in adjutor with right of succession seminaries and parishes and to aging Cardinal Josyf Slipyj as taught for the next 11 years. major archbishop of Lvov in the When Pope John Paul named Ukraine. They chose as their him Ukrainian archbishop of top candidate Archbishop Luba" Philadelphia in 1979, the pontiff chivsky, who only six months personally ordained him in the earlier had been appointed Uk­ Vatican's Sistine Chapel. rainian archbishop of Philadel­ The following spring, at a sy­ phia, metropolitan of U.S. Cath­ nod convoked by the pope to' olics of the Ukrainian Rite. choose a successor to Cardinal Pope John Paul confirmed the Slipyj, Archbishop Lubachivsky headed the list of nominees. choice and Arhbishop Luba­ It ~as sugegsted at the time chivsky, a quiet, bearded theo­ logianand linguist, moved to that the choice of a successor to Rome. There he lived with Car­ Cardinal Slipyj had averted a linal Slipyj, in exile from his possible schism on the cardinal's homeland since 1963. death.

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Miss Egan's personal acquain­ wrong to criticize Mother Teresa for not being Dorothy Day, said tance with her subject goes back EHeen Egan, a close associate 30 years. A Catholic Relief Ser­ of both women and author of a vices executive until 1978, she visited India in 1955 and was new book on Mother Teresa.

Dorothy Day, who died in told by the CRS chief in New 1980, led the Catholic Worker Delhi that one person she must see was Mother Teresa. movement in a witness that of­ Miss Egan said that "in fear ten meant going into the streets and shame" she found herself and sometimes to jail in oppos­ ing war and structures of social holding back from the diseased injustice, Miss Egan noted in an and dying that Mother Teresa interview. ,And some people, she served with the conviction that said, have complained that "each one is Jesus in a distress­ Mother Teresa's ministry to "the ing disguise."

Since their first meeting, Miss poorest of the poor" does not Egan has' been 'with Mother take that form.

Teresa on many occasions, in­ When Mother Teresa's Mission­ aries of Charity began working cluding her first visit to the United States in 1960; her 1964 in Latin America, Miss Egan re­ called, some clergy and others visit to Venezuela, where in 1965 she established her first com­ committed to changing struc­ tures told them they should not munity outside India; and her 1979 visit to Oslo to receive the be there.

"Many people see Dorothy and Nobel Peace Prize.

Mother Teresa and Dorothy Mother' Teresa ~s at opposite poles and it's absolutely not so," Day not only had compatible she said. "They're at one on the visions of the Gospels but also bedrock view of the infinite were personal friends and sup­ porters of each other, said Miss value of every human person."

Miss Egan was interviewed at Egan. Actively .involved in the her apartment in connection Catholic Worker movement her­ with publication of her book, self, then and now, she facili­ "Such a Vision of th~ Street: tated the meeting of the two Mother Teresa, the Spirit and women. On a New York trip, the Work" (Doubleday). The Mother Teresa visited the Cath­ title is taken from the poetry of olic Worker; and in 1970, when T. S. Eliot, who wrote in his Dorothy Day visited India, she' Mother Teresa's "Preludes" of someone who had addressed "such a vision of the street as novices.

Afterwards, she said, Mother the street hardly understands."

Though Miss Egan said the Teresa pinned one of her order's crucifixes on Dorothy Day's book was not strictly a biogra­ phy but an account of "the spirit dress and said, "You are one of us." and the work," it gives exten­ People who are taking care of sive biograp'hical information on abandoned infants, lepers and 'Mother Teresa and on her com­ munity, now numbering more the dying, Miss Egan said, do than 2,500 slisters, pius a related not have time to march in dem­

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Miss Egan was commissioned to write her new book because of her long acquaintance with Mother Teresa and her order.

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But she said she felt no dis­ appointment since the book was written to explain the spirit and work of ,the Missionaries of Charity, which Teresa knows already. "She doesn't need to read what I write," Miss Egan said.

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By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Dr. Kenny: My husband I are in our late 40s. The third of our three children has left home.

I have the opportunity to take a well-paying job as an addictions' counselor 'about 100 miles from our home. My husband. is the manager ora supermarket and has to stay wh~re we are now. I could get an apartment near my job, and we are thinking of commuting on weekends. We still care for each other and do want to stay married.

What do you think of weekend marriages? (Iowa) Marriages come in all !!hapes and styles. Each couple, each fam­ ily, must fashion the arrangement that suits them best.

Some marriages thrive on con­ stant closeness and everyday shar­ ing. Both partners grow as indi­ viduals through the regular op-' portunity to be intimate with each other. _, For others, this daily intimacy is too much. As one wife complained after her husband retired and was around the house all day, "I mar­ ried him for better or worse, but not for lunch:" Some marriages grow as the. partners work together on a com­ mon task of importance. Child rearing is the most common and most serious joint effort. Father and mother support each other and pull together through the many

ups and downs of raising a child from infant to adult.

But you and your husband have finished the major phase of child rearing. Your three children are launched and on their own. Fur­ ther, the life plan you are consider­ ing does not allow for daily con­ tact. You may not see each other for five days at a time. Thus you . will be lacking regular interaction and a common task. You ask if such a marriage is possible.

Yes it is. There are, of course; dangers. There are also advantages and opportunities. And there are safeguards to take against drifting 'apart.

With your children gone, whether you take any major initiative or not, your marriage will surely change. Unfortunately, for some women, this change leads to more unnecessary housework, soap op­ eras and even alcohol.

Your proposal is much more positive. Instead of waiting for the "empty nest" to depress you with feelings of uselessness, you have gotten a worthwhile job. The fact that it is 100 miles away from your husband does present a problem.

The obvious danger is that you both will develop other separate interests and friends and will begin to drift apart. Affairs become a possibility as one or both of you may be tempted to seek the ten­ derness you have found in each

other from someone else. As the' proverb says, "Out of sight, out of mind."

There are, however, other pro­ verbs which suggest just the oppo­ site feelings. "Distance lends en­ chantment." "Absence makes the, heart grow fonder." You can do much to make the second set of proverbs a reality.

Take a positive approach. Write to each other about the events of each day. A letter a day may open new avenues of affection. If you are not writers, use the telephone.

A nightly phone call might be well worth the cost.

Plan your weekends ahead. Do something together. Beware of com­ ing home tired to rest and recuper­ ate and tune out while you prepare' for another workweek. Plan at l~ast one major activity together for Saturday or Sunday.

And while you are in the plan­ ning mood, why not meet mid­ week for dinner and a motel? Split the 100 miles and meet halfway.

With both of you working, surely you can afford a midweek night together. If you take the initiative and plan your togethers, the new life you propose clm be an exciting one.

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She expressed her surprise, say­ ing: ·"1 always assumed you were a widow when you referred to rais­ ing your children alone."

Then she made a request: "I wish you would write sometime on divorced Catholics, the ones who remain unmarried. We are a dying breed, I'm afraid. I have been divorced for more than 20 years."

Then she asked: "Do you ever find. people who think you are strange for sticking to the rules of our· religion? A few words from you on· the subject would be great. " That letter struck a chord. I've been divorced for nearly 18 years now. The major .curiosity people have about me is why I didn't ever remarry. Others ask, "Don't you want to get married again?"

I usually answer to evoke a laugh: "Because I couldn't decide from among all those suitors wait­ ing to be No.? in my life" (I have six children).

But after I put the smi.le away, I bristle. It has always amazed me that people somehow feel justified in asking single women such a nosey question. .' Yet, I must admit that'I am not able to explain singleness in terms of "sticking to the rules of our religion."

I feel the reasons why·a divorced Catholic woman does not remarry' are too personal and complex to be explained in such terms.

In my own case, I certainly can explain why I've never considered remarriage. It was clearly because of my values. I had ajob to do -to

refashion an intact family. That was the one priority in my life.

There was, in my view, no way my children and I could rebuild our family unity if an outsider moved into our circle. So remar­ riage remained out of bounds.

But now my children are grown , and I am still single. I know many' other women in a similar situa­ tion. But, truthfully, I couldn't presume to know why women don't remarry for anyone but myself.

I know people don't have an awful lot of choice about the cir­ cumstanoes that put them in diffi­ cult, uncomfortable situations ~ be it a broken marriage, a broken back, a country at war ­ whatever.

But choice is the challenge after that. How we decide to redirect our lives comes out of our values - good or bad·, spiritual or mater­ ial, other-focused or self-centered.

If we choose to see our lives as a quest for God, we then must make decisions which keep us centered and focused in the direction that leads us to God.

That choice may require a mar­ riage partner, or the rules of an institution, or a personally designed lifestyle that allows one's spirituality to flourish.

There are no precast, set models for everyone to follow when it comes to living on this earth ­ unless it is that we should live our lives in such a way that we never deliberately hurt anyone else or ourselves.

As my letter writer implies, people do find it strange if you choose to stick to values that require() personal choices the world does not understand.

But on the scale of importance, what· people think about us when it touches our spiritual values rates about a zero.

All that is important, ultimately, is wha~ kind of relationship we have with the one who gave us life and nurtures it day by day. Our values determine that - and our marital status.

Father Hartke testimonial at CD Essanay Film Studio. Since arriv­ WASHINGTON (NC) - Do­ minican Father Gilbert Hartke, ing at Catholic University, he and his drama students have produced whose drama students at The Cath­ olic University of America have shows from Romania to the Arctic Circle. included Susan Anspach, Ed Mc­ McMahon, of NBC's "Tonight Mahon and Jon Voight, was recent­ ly honored at a testimonial dinner .Show," a 1949 graduate, was mas­ marking his 50 years with the ter of ceremonies for the testimon­ ial, which included announcement school. ..

Father Hartke founded Catholic of an Ed McMahon Scholarship University's drama department in Endowment to assist Catholic Uni­ versity students studying for broad­ 1937 with film critic and play­ wright Walter Kerr, Leo Brady casting careers. and Josephine McGarry Callan.

Suggestion Born in Chicago in 1907, the 'For fast-acting relief, try slow­ priest began his show business career as a child film actor with the ing down." - Lily Tomlin

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Charismatic conference

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The 1985 national Conference ence's closing liturgy, at which on the Charismatic Renewal in the each participant will receive a Catholic Church will be held May replica of the pastoral cross Pope i.~ 3/ - June 2 at the University of John Paul II carries on his mis­ ~ Notre Dame. The event, which sionary journeys. Blessed by the regularly attracts 10,000 partici­ , pope, the crosses will symbolize pants, is sponsored by the National the commission to "go and preach Service Committee in cooperation the Gospel to all nations." with Charistimatic Renewal Ser­ There will be an introduCtory vices. The 1985 theme, "Serve the session for newcomers to t!te ch'ar­ IT WAS business as usual Lord With Gladness," will focus ismatic renewal, at which baptism on the mission of evangelization. in the Holy Spirit will be for Cardinal-elect Law as, on The charismatic movement explained. the day he was named to the Pentecostal minister David' began in 1967 at Notre Dame, and Sacred Colleg~, he confirmed according to a Gallup. poll has duPlessis, will address a general young Marie Carey in servi­ involved 18 percent of all U.S. session in the coming of the Holy ces in a Marble,head parish.

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Ordained to the ministry in 1928, It is estimated that the still an observer at Vati­ duPlessis was growing movement has some .20,000,000 members worldwide. can II and was cochairman of the Commenting on it, the U.S. Vatican Pentecostal Dialogue.

The conference weekend will bishops' liaison committee with also include a general session on the Renewal said in a pastoral healing ministry and opportuni­ statement: "We should be grateful ties for individual reception of the to God for pouring out in our time CHICAGO (NC) - Internal those gifts and graces with which sacrament of penance.'

Revenue Service rules forbidding A Hispanic session on evangeli­ he blessed the Church at its very partisan political activity by tax­ zation and the family is scheduled beginning. and simultaneous. translations exempt groups are troublesome, church-state experts told diocesan Bishop Paul Cordes, vice-pre­ into Spanish will be offered ,at all attorneys meeting in Chicago April sident of the Pontifical Council for general sessions.

22. . ~he Laity, will speak to.conference , Advance conference registra­ But ~emoving bans on church participants on the mission of the tions may be made through Char­ Church in the modern world. He ismatic Renewal Services. On-site' political activit~would also pose has worked closely with the Inter­ registration will take place at the. problems, panelists suggested dur­ national Catholic Charismatic Center for Continuing Education it;lg the convention of the Diocesan Attorneys Association.

Renewal Office in Rome and seeks on the Notre Dame campus. No ·Jesuit Father Charles M. Whe­ to foster a yibrant lay apostolate. registration is necessary for the lan, ,law professor at Fordham Bishop Cordes will also be the closing lit\lrgy at 2 p.m. Sunday, University, suggested the church principal'celebrant of the confer­ June 2. may have to lose its tax exemption to save its mission.

"Chr\st came to save us, not to exempt us," he said. ":rhe work of redemption is more important

By Hilda Youhg , ) Why can't pets go to heaven? than preserving exemptions." I If anyone ever doubted. that, Would God let my dog, go to If the church's duty in the world God has a sense of humor" he or h~aven if I prayed about it? conflicts with the' IRS ban on pol­ itical activity, the church must ·she should volunteer to teach a Why do'esn't it count if you

CCp class to 8-year-olds. Try an­ remember its first responsibility watch Mass on television?

swering the'se: and "let the leg~l chips fall where Has anyone ever gone 'to confes.! they may," he said. , If God created the world, who sion over the phone? Would it be created God? The IRS currently prevents pol­ OK? If Jesus was a Jew, did he cele­ itical campaign activity by non­ brate Christmas? Did he believe.in profit groups claiming tax exemp­ Why do they take saints apart so Santa Claus? ,people can have pieces of their. tions. Critics, including Wilfred If Adam amd Eve were the first Caroni general counsel for the people and ha'd two sons, where bones? Who does it?

National Conference of Catholic Why do Catholics kneel in church did the rest of us come from?

Bishops, contend the IRS has over­ If you die when you are 8, do and Protestants don't? stepped its authority by limiting you stay 8 all your life in heaven or church First Amendment rights.

Where was Jesus and what was do you grow up? What ,if you die he doing during the three days he Joining Father Whelan as pane­ when you are 100 and would rather was dead just before Easter? lists were Robert Clark, an ABC be 30 or 40 or 16 for the rest of News correspondent who has cov­ If Jesus is God and he died on time? What if your mother died ered national politics, including when she was 40 but you lived to the cross, does that mean God church-state issues, and Geoffrey died?

How can God die? be 90? Would you be older than R. Stone, University. of Chicago Could Jesus have flown like your mother in heaven? law professor.

Superman if he wanted to?

What language do you think Stone said that improper politi­ they speak in heaven? cal conduct by churches "is so per­ vasive that the idea of enforcing it (the IRS ban) is impractical."

However, he said, "the issue is not the right of the church to sup­ port political candidates" but whe-, ther the church f;:an expect govern­ ment largesse - such as not having to pay taxes - without agreeing to some conditions. He noted that ·the IRS rules apply to all tax- , exempt groups, not merely to churches.

Father Whelan denied that the tax exemption represents largesse from government and said prob­ lems arise because some IRS "rules come very dangerously close to turning preaching ,into partisan politics." While the IRS has ,not yet moved against a church, "there's no guarantee" for the future, he said. , Nonetheless, the priest said he is "dead against" having the church .' I LIKE TO THINK OF MY DIET AS A CLASSIC endorse political candidates.

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For example, a prosecutor might , seek public support and perhaps personal publicity by delaying the start of atrial or lfy extending the length'of a trial.

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We live in aq age of speed where completing a task quick­ ly,corresponds our notion of .efficiency and ajob well done.

The Sixth Amendment protects against improper prosecutorial discretion by making the right to a speedy trial a requirement of the U.S. Constitution in all criminal cases. Although other rights of the accused such as the right to an attorney, the right to remain silent and the right to have an attorney present during questioning may be better known,' nevertheless, the right to a speedy trial is crucial for ,a fair trial process. '

One purpose of such a right is to protect defendants from being im­ prisoned for a lengthy period while You want to avoid delay not only - awaiting t,rial. Another reason for becaus~ it annoys you (just think a speedy trial is to allow the accused

to prove his' innocence and to avoid problems such as the los's of a witness or the loss of memory by a witness. An additional reason for the right is to lift the suspicion from'innocent people as soon as possible.

The Founding Fathers of our country developed the idea for a right to a speedy trial from the British who had such a right from the time of' the Magna Carta.

The U.S. Supreme Court deve­ loped a four-part test to determine whether the right to a speedy trial is violated. The four parts include: first, length of delay; second, rea­ son for the delay; third, assertion of the right; fourth, damage to the defendant.

The first- part of the four part test involves the length of the delay~ There is no standard length of time for a trial to be speedy.

Nevertheless,delay will be excused only if it is reasonable. A rule of thumb is that a case should be tried within six months from the time the demand for speedy trial is made.

, The second step of the test is to dant would be encouraged to sit back and hope the the government question the reason for the delay. forgets about him. At a later time, If the defendant causes the delay, he may not complain. However, if the defendant could claim that he should be released because he did the prosecutor causes the delay, not get a speedy trial. the defendant may complain only The final step of the list involves if the delay is unreasonable. ' the amount of prejudice or harm . So, if the' delay results because the defendant suffered because of ofthe defendant's inablility to stand the delay. Harm for purposes of trial because of mental incompe­ this step would include emotional tence or the defendant asks for distress suffered because of the more time to prepare the case or charges; loss of respect among col­ the defendant appeals certain points leagues and neighbors; loss of wit­ of law to a higher court, there will nesses or the loss of memory by not be any grounds for the viola­ witnesses; and, of course, if the tion of a right to a speedy trial. defendant was in jail while await­ However, if delay results because ing the trial. the prosecutor needs to prepare The remedy for a defendant his case, the defendant can com­ who demonstrates that he did not plain. Note, if delay results because receive a speedy trial because he of a sick judge, there might be meets the four-part test elaborat­ grounds to complain, but if the ing the scope of this right, is dis­ delay results from a sick witness, there should not be a basis for a , missal of the charges. This may , not seem fair if the person was complaint. really guilty. However, if an inno­ The third step is to determine whether the defendant asserted his , cent man spent a long time in jail awaiting trial the system would be right to a speedy trial. The courts have ruled that defendants must unfair.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NC) ­ The main point ofthe U. S. bishops' pastoral letter on the economy is "that it's not possible to call your­ self Catholic and ignore the poor," New York Gov. Mario Cuomo said. ~he governor spoke on the first draft of the still-unfinished pas­ ,toral as he received an honorary doctorate last week at Jesuit-run St. Peter's College in Jersey City.

Cuomo said -that the central challenge of the pastoral 'is to make America more just and fair, not to destroy its current political and economic system.

"It has jolted all of us out 'of some easy assumptions," he said and it gives a different view at a time "when compassion is being derided as weakness and the doc­ trines of Malthus are ,far more popular than those of St. Francis."

Cuomo rebuked critics of the pastoral who claim that the bishops' views are utopian, particularly a recent article in National Review by former Treasury Secretary Wil­ liam Simon which claimed that, in view of the pastoral, "a free eco­ nomic system cannot be compati­ ble with Christian doctrine."

"The bishops," Cuomo com­ mented, "never anathematized'our entire economic system as im­ moraL" .

Their language is strong. There's no question about that. Bilt no­ where do they issue a wholesale condemnation of the free-enter­ prise economic system."

What the bishops actually do, said CuomQ, is to "point out force­ fully" the "legitimate moral con­ cern" of grinding poverty amid wealth in America and of the need to do more than is being done to reduce the injustices that still remain. ' The New York Democratic leader also challenged conserva­ tive critics of the bishops who object to the economic pastorals emphasis on a government role in fighting poverty, joblessness and other economic problems.

Those critics usually accuse the' bishops "of ignoring history and embracing the so-called 'failed pol­ icies of the past,'" Cuomo said.

"But if anyone is ignorant of the past," he said, "it's those critics who fail to acknowledge the rea­ sons for the success of the Ameri­ can economy."

That su'ccess was not the "irievi­ table... happy result of rugged indi­ vidualism" but was encouraged by a wide range of government actions from "land for homesteaders, for railroads, for private colleges" to "unemployment insurance, health care, social security, loans for col­ leges, for homes, for businesses," Cuomo said.

He said that like others'he dis­ . , agrees with some of the particular

emphases, policies or programs backed in the first draft of the eco­ nomic pastoral, which was released last November. A second draft is due this fall, and the bishops are to debate and vote on a third, final revision sometime in 1986.

"There are honest disagreements with particulars, and all the criti­ cisms should be carefully exam­ ined and evaluated," Cuomo said.

"I believe they will be; the bishops never claimed to have received stone tablets froql Mount Sinai."

But whatever changes are made in subsequent drafts, Cuomo said, they should help advance "a single proposition" that "there is 'more poverty - more economic suffer­ ing - in this country than there

has to be" and no one should be , satisfied with that.

Cuomo, an Italian-American Catholic, drew wide national at­ tention last summer when he deli­ vered the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.

His speech at St. Peter's College was his latest in a series on issues of religion and politics. He entered the fray on those issues during last year's presidential campaign when controversy over personal moral­ ity, religious belief and public pol­ icy, particularly with regard to abortion, became a major cam­ paign issue.

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German bishops call Jor repentance

By NC News Service There was "constant resistance," the most horrible means of mass The bishops of West Germany , the letter said,. "But such resistance destruction. " have called on their people, in a was too weak" and allowed many The ,bishops also called for the people to die. letter marking the 40th anniver­ reunification of Germany and an sary ofthe end of World War II, to "The Jewish people," the letter end to the division between East ask forgiveness for starting the said, were affected to their "very and West Europe as means toward war. core." world peace.

"We cannot speak of war and The letter called on the Ger­ , "It would be fatal to overlook national soci~lism without speak­ mans to analyze how the Holo­ the split which runs through our ing of guilt before God and guilt caust could happen and to ask fatherland and thence through before unnumbered others," the themselves, "how lively is my will Europe. We must not cling to what bishops said in the letter, signed by to resist ideological deceit, has been achieved in the Federal \ Cardinal Joseph Hoffner, head of cowardly' and thoughtless cl:)n­ Republic of Germany and forget the German Bishops' Conference. formism, (and) covert or overt the other half of our fatherland "And this means directing the inhumanity in thought, word and and Europe, with continual request for forgiveness from God deed, now and in the future?" shrugging of the shoulders," they and to God and to others."

The bishops also warned the , said.

"The Second World War started German people to see existing off from our country," the letter dangers and not to feel compla­

By NC News added. "In spite of all the interlac­ cent that Europe has gone 40 years Mother Teresa of Calcutta has ing of historical circumstances, without war.

- opened a home for the poor in the this fact cannot be overlooked."

"The fire of war in the world was Syrian capitol of Damascus, in­ The letter, which decried what it not extinguished after May 8, creasing to nine the number of called the Third Reich's "claim to 1945," they said. "There is still tor­ institutiions in the Middle East overall power" and its distinctions ture and terrorism, tyranny and run by the Missionaries of Char­ between those deemed "life­ ity. The order also runs homes in lack of freedom and an unimagin­ worthy" or "life-unworthy," able poverty unworthy of man.

Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt acknowledged that, not all Ger­ and Israel; and in nearby Ethiopia mans accepted Nazism, but said "The will for peace," the bishops staffs six houses ministering to the that efforts to oppose it were added, "has so far not been able to sick and hungry in drought-stricken inadequate. effect demolition of the arsenal of areas.

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ST. ANNE, FR Special Mass: 10 a.m. May 5 to open Little League season followed at I p.m. by ceremonies at Father Patenaude Field.

Fellowship meeting: 7:30 p.m.

May 9, school.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR Monthly meeting: following 6:30 p.m. Mass May 8. All invited.

SACRED HEART, TAUNTON V-E Day Mass: 7:30 p.m. May 8.

All invited.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Mariology course begins 7:30 p.m. May 6 in the lower church hall.

Family Mass: 10 a.m. May 5.

Volunteers needed on Sundays to roll bandages for leper hospitals.

Information: 362-6346.

Coffee and Donuts served each Sunday following 7:30, 9 and 10 - ,a.m. Masses. All welcome. , The Pilgrim Virgin statue is in the church this week; private dev.otions are encouraged.

Rosary: 7:20 and II :50 a.m., Mon­ day through Saturday.

First communion: 10 a.m. Mass May 4. .

ST. JAMES, NB CYO meeting: 2:30 p.m. May 5 church hall. "A. Wish Come True" representative will speak.

Couples' Club meeting: 7:30 p.m.

May 7, church hall. Speaker: John McAvoy, "Growing Up Catholic".

All welcome.

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St. Rose of Lima Chapter: meet­ ing at Dominican Academy 7:30 " p.m. May 10.

O. L. of Rosary Chapter: meeting 1:30 p.m. May 7, St. Anne's rectory, with Mass in rectory chapel.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH First communion: May II, 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Theresa's, II a.m.

Mass at Corpus Christi.

May procession, crowning and Benediction: 3 p.m. May 12. First communicants and other CCD stu­ dents are asked to participate.

Rosary will be recited prior to 9 a.m. daily Mass during May. Life in the Spirit seminar and prayer meeting: 7 tonight.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH First Saturday Mass, followed by rosary: 8 a.m. May 4.

Falmouth police will attend 8:45 a.m. Mass May 5. A communion breakfast will follow.

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, EAST FALMOUTH Information on this support group for bereaved parents: 540-0492 (even­ ings); 540-2201, ext. 316.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB Rosary: 7:45 a.m. preceding Mass during May.

Presentation of first communicants and reception of robes: 10 a.m. Mass May 5.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Plans are being made for a fall renewal series including scripture study, prayer and a social period.

Five-hour vigil tonight, beginning with a 7:30 Mass. Devotions will also be held each Friday of May. ST. AUGUSTINE, VINEYARD HAVEN Those wishing transportation to a May 19 healing service to be held at St. Margaret's Church, Buzzards Bay, may call 693-0368.

Iteering pOintl

SACRED HEART, N.ATTLEBORO Paul Fournier was honored as Attleboro area recipient of the St. George award for Catholic Scout­ ing. He is Institutional Representa­ tive for the parish Boy Scout troop.

Rosary to be recited daily during May following weekday Masses.

Month's mind Mass for Father James McCarthy: 8:30 a.m. May 5.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Segunda Dominga: home of Renato Neves, 171 Mohawk Road, Somerset. All welcome for 7 o'clock prayers nightly.

Meeting: parents of 6th and 7th grade students, 6 p.m. May 5, parish center.

ORDER OF THE ALHAMBRA Regional meeting: 2 p.m. May 5, Parwick Motor Inn, Chicopee. Pre­ siding will be regional director Roger Ouellette of Fall River.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB Annual meeting: 7:30 p.m. May 8, Wamsutta Club. Election of Offic­ ers, entertainment.

MEMORIAL HOME, FR Birthday congratulations to Mrs. Florence <;::ousineau, 10 I, and Mrs. Margaret K. Stec, 100.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Novena: Our Mother of Perpetual Help, at 8 a.m. Mass, Wednesday.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH New Ladies' Guild officers: Aida DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, Poitras, Sheila Couta, Gilda Costa, SOMERSET St. Patrick's Circle meeting and Mary Anne Costa and Lorraine La calendar party: 7:30 p.m. May 8 at France. Guild banquet: 7 p.m. May 8 at Joseph's Olde Tavern Inn, Mat­

Old Town Hall.

60th anniversary Mass: II a.m. tapoisette. Reservations: Annette May 19, St. Thomas More Church; Carreras, 994-3583. banquet 2 p.m., Sportsmen's Hall. ' ST. MARY, SEEKONK SACRED HEART, FR Rosary recitation follows 9 a.m.

Women's Guild banquet and Mass tomorrow. installation: 6:30 p.m. May 13 at Sportman's II restaurant, Swansea. ST. PATRICK, FR Reservations deadlines: May 10.

First communion: 9 a.m. Mass BLESSED SACRAMENT, FIR .

CCD promotion and achievement awards will be given at 10 a.m. Mass May 5.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN First communion: II a.m. May 19.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA .

Confirmation day of recollection: I to 8 p.m. May 5.

The rosary will be recited when­ ever possible before 7:30 a.m. Mass weekdays in May. VINCENTIANS, TAUNTON Meel'ing: 8: 15 p.m. May 6, St. Ann's church hall, Raynham, fol­ lowing 7:30 p.m. Mass.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Parish Renewal. Mass: 9 a.m. tomorrow.

Women's Club: final meeting of season 8 p. m. May 6, Coady Center.

CATHEDRAL, FR Women's Guild members will recite the rosary and Litany of Our Lady daily during May prior to the 12:05 p.m. Mass.

Confirmation for adults: at5 p.m.

Mass May 19.

May crowning and CCD awards ceremony: 10 a.m. Mass May 5.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Holy Rosary Sodality: annual communion brunch May 5, begin­ ning with procession from school at 8:30 a.m. .

Scriptural rosary and Litany of Our Lady will precede every Mass during May. Masses today honor Our Lady, Queen of Poland. ' ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, FR Pediatric lecture schedule: May 10, "Latest trends in long term health care." Information: Eileen Pelletier, R.N., 674-5741, ext. 2483 VINCENTIANS, FR Fall River District Council meet­ ing: St. George Church, Westport, following 7 p.m. Mass May 7.

ST. JOSEPH, NB The Pilgrim Virgin Statue arrives tomorrow. Rosary and prayer fol­ lowing 5 p.m. Mass weekdays through May 10.

O.L. VICTORY, 'CENTERVILLE St. Vincent de Paul meeting: 7:30 p.m. May 13.

A mentally retarded gentleman in the parish. needs transportation to and from church. Information: Lou­ ise, 775-1331.

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HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON May crowning: 10:30 a.m. Mass .

May 5.

Confirmation retreat: May 5, beginning with 10:30 a.m. Mass, continuing until 4 p.m. in parish center.

St. Vincent de Paul meeting: 11:30 a.m. May 5.

Rosary sodality: 7:30 p.m. May 7.

Sr. THOMAS MORE, ., SOMERSET First communion rehearsal: p.m. May II. ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA First communion: 2 p.m. May 5.

Confirmation: 7 p.m. May 17 Peace Prayer Vigil: 8 a.m. May 18 to 8:30 a.m. May 19.

ESPIRITO SANTO, FR May devotions daily during May, after 7 a.m. Mass and at 5: 15 p.m.

ST. KILIAN, NB Widowed Support Group: meet­ ing 7:30 p.m. May 13, rectory base­ ment. Information: 998-3269, 992-7587.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK

Rosary and Benediction: 7 p.m. each Tuesday of May. ST. MARY, NB New altar boys will receive cas­ socks and surplices at 9 a.m. Mass May 12.

Presentation of first communion class 9 a.m. May 5; reception sacra­ ment May II and 18.

DEAF APOSTOLATE, FR Mass: 2 p.m. May 26 St. Anne's hospital chapel. Participants should bring a can for a May Basket and refreshments for the social hour.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Engaged Encounter begins May

3.

N.B. Deanery meets II a.m. May 6.

Special Gifts

Bishop Connolly High School Con't. from page 2 retreat day: May 7.

535 ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Donie's Tire & Appliances, Congratulations to the school cheer­ Raynham leaders on their first place win in the Octagon Service Station; Rayn­ parish division of the New England ham competition held at Providence Col-' lege in April.

525 Cheerleader tryouts: registration Princess House, Inc., Dighton 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Assiran, Ellis & Pontes, Attys. school. Fourth to seventh graders at Law are eligible.

Bernard Blank, Inc., Children's Square dance: 7:30 p.m. tomor­ Shop row in the church hall.

Stanley R. Parker, Jr., M.D., Appreciation nighf6:30 to 12 p.m.

Raynham tomorrow in the school gym. ,

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"y Charlie Martin_ CAR:E L E SSW HIS PER Time can nevell' mend The careless whisper of a good' friend To the 'heart and mind Ignorance is kind There's no comfort in the truth Pain is alI you'll find.

Should have' known better yeah.

I feel so unsure' As I take your hand And lead you to the dance Door As the music dies Something in your eyes Calls to mind Ill. silver screen And you're its sad goodbye.

I'm never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm ThoUgh it's easy to pretend I know you're -not a fool I should have known better than to cheat a friend And waste a chance that I've been given So I'm never- gonna dance again The way i dance with you oh ob.

Tonight the music seems so loud I wish that we could lose this crowd Maybe it's better this way If we'd hurt eaclt oth~ with the things we want to say We could -have been so good together We could have lived this dance forever But now who's gonna dance with me?

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Recorded by Wham, written by George MiChael and .Andrew' Ridgelley, © 1984 by Morrison Leahy Music Ltd., , published and administered in the United States

by Chappell and Co., Inc. IN .mE LYRICS of this ,top hit, Wham never says what was "carelessly said." Yet the song makes it clear that words have

hurt a friendship and brought much guilt upon the whisperer.

He now regrets what he said, for he "should have known better

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Q. I like to go out with my friends but I'm also trying to get good grades. I'm afraid my friends will be mad if I stay home to study on week nights. :What shoud I do? '(Rhode Island)

A. Let's look ata word that has come into the English lang­ uage rather recently: "futurize." : It's such a new word that it's not in my new dictionary.

As a child, I was no good at futlirizing-. One of my' uncles was forever asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I never had an answer.

For me that distant future was so far away that I couldn't even -think about it. I couldn't futurize. I couldn't form. any mental picture of what it would be like t~ go to work every day and earn my Hving. Nor did it interest me..

The present moment was what counted. My mind and heart

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LENNON

were' focused on sledding, games of tag, the 'movies;' school work,' swimming on a sunny 'summer day .and reading a good book about other. young people who· had wonderful adventures. To­ day was what -life was aU about. . 'In general, young people tend not to be very good futurizers about their own lives. For them now is where it's at.

But you are on the verge of. adulthood. Might you begin to make a serious effort to futurize?

What might good grades this year mean to you 10 years f,rom now?

A prospective employer's evaluation of you might take into account the g,rades you got when you were in school. You just might get a good job be-' cause you got good grades. '. Then too, the way you discip­ 'line yourself now my enable you to control yourself well in the

than to cheat a friend."

The song i~ a· reminder that our words have a -real impact on others. Too often we unthink­ -ingly pass along the latest gossip without con.c;.ern for who might get hurt. .

Gossiping can be a way of hid­ ing our own insecurity. Gossipers. put others do;.vn in order to build themselves up.

Friendships are based on trust.

When one person fails to pro- . tect a friend's reputation this. bond is broken. Even when we are upset by what a friend has done, friendship should keep us from passing' around judgments on the other.

When we are' bothered by a' friend's aCtion~ or words, what is needed is to talk directly to the person. If we can express our feelings, openly and non­ judgmentally,'a valuable dialogue can result. It shows we care enough ,to want to hear our friend's view.

The song hints at the need for' forgiveness when, we have gossiped. Perhaps the singer wants to "lose this crowd".so he can talk about -his feelings. Even if· this .is embarrassing and diffi­ cult, it. is ,a way of 'admitting wrong and-resolving to do better.

No matter, how close a rela­ tionship, people do hurt each other. Even the best love needs a large rese~oir of forgiveness.

What is important a'bout this song is how it .,reminds us of the power and effects of our words.

The next time you are tempted to talk in a "careless whisper" about another person; think about what the larger impact may be, both to yourself and to the other person.

Address' correspondence to Charlie Marti~ 1218 S. Rother­ wood Ave~t' Evansville, nnd.

future. This can !have good ef­ fects not only' on the job but in other areas ,of your Hfe as well.

Skill at self-control is one of the ways we become fully hum~n: Hnvingfutlirized .for a while, . let's now. jump back into the present. .

How - likely is it that your friends win become seriously angry with you if you nifuse to go out on· week nights? They may sound momentarily mad, but are they secretly admiring you? .

With your Parents' permission, , you might use them as an excuse and tell your friends that your. parents won't ·let you go out on week nights. This' could save you some embaITassment.

'But if your friends, 'really do get ml!-d at you and threaten to . .cut you off, are they. good friends to have? What kind of friends would' want you to be mediocre?

Perhaps it would be well to evaluate the -"friends" you have and consider whether you should. search for some new ones: There is yet another possi­ bility. If your study schedule per­ mits, could you go out with your friends one· night during the week? Do you have to go out absolutely every week night?

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In oU.r Bishop Connolly Don Newcombe, win be key­ note speaker for an Alcohol and Drug Awareness Day. Thursday, , May 9, at the Fall River school.

A daylong program for students will be followed by' an evening program for parents. Part of the program will draw on questions and comments on the substance abuse problem previously solici­ ted from parents. .

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Connolly. juniors Cathy Boyle and Christel'FernilnQo are parti­ cipating in an exchange prog,ram withCaou.sou School, Toulouse, France, where they 'are. now studying; Caousou students wiH come to Connolly at a later date.

Coyle-'Cassidy· The annual Jim-Jam program will take plac~ May 19 and 26 at the school. Practices are now going 'on and dec;orating for the event wiH take place aU day Saturday', May '18.

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rece'ntiy. ~n all, one swnm.a cum laude, seven maxima cum laude, nine. magna cum laude and 11 cum laude' presentations were made, in Latin I and II programs, .-as well as one maxima cum laude poetry award.

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Bishop Stang Stang senior ,Marjory Gomez has been named a finalist in the IUnited States Presidential Scholars' Program and is eligi­ ble for selection asorie of 141 Presidential Scholars to be chosen early this month.

The scholars will participate in a National Recognition Week in Washington next - month,. where they wil-l be honored by state representatives, educators and .others. They are chosen on the basis of scholarshp, leader­ ship and creativity.

PC speaker

John C. Quinn, editor of USA Today and a 1945 alumnus of Providence College, will be t.he featured speaker at PC's 67th Commencement Ceremonies to Nine Feehanites have been be held on May 20 at the Provi­ named high scorers in the annual dence Civic Center.

National Merit Scholarship pro­ Quinn began his newspaper . gram; and colleges in which.they are interested will be notified of career as a copyboy at the Provi­ this honor. The students are Amy dence Journal, worked at NBC, then returned to the Journ~l Barca, Robert Butera, Amy Cro­ nin, Anthony Dolan,. Marguerite where he became' day managing.

Keiper, Robert Petit, Andrea editor. Since 1966 he has work­ Richardson, Sharon Thimot and ed with the Gannett Newspaper Group, publisher of USA Today, Albert Walgreen. the country's only nationa'l gen­ .eral interest newspaper and its 29 students received awards in third largest, behind only the an international Latin examina­ New York Daily' News and the tion in which they participated Wall Street Journal.

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\ Accepting yo.urseH

By Cecilia Belanger

feel guilty, dissatisfied with their condition, their everything. It's It happened again' .last night. okay to aid the struggling sinner A very nice lady called wanting who gets up to .face each day, to donate' some things she had. aware of his or hershortcomings, to whoever could use them, and but one should do so with sensi­ since I am in toU&h w~th many tivity. Accept yourself - God who can, I told her.I would pick has. accepted you. them up and deliver.

People have been facing every During our conversation she kind of hear.tbreak and disaster went on about how she falls for thousands of years. No one short in this or that area, and has been completely sheltered, how deficient' she is in some­ but by the grace of God the hu­ thing else. The worst of it is man race is still here. that she had convinced herself Christ· went through all the of 1t. It was all in her mind and storms of life and could stH-I say, r told her so. She' is a most "Peace, be still." His grace charitable person, kind, gener­ comes to us with a personal. ous and capable, yet there is an soothing touch, so that when inferiority complex hovering waves are high and winds are aroune{ her. fierce we, too, can say,- "By the I ,told her I was reminded of grace of God I am what I am. . something Paul said' in 1 Corin­ Lord, I believe." thians 15:10: "By the grace of The New Testament plucks up God I am what I am.'" our courage. It makes us salute "What is man?"· When the the storm-tossed martyrs of old question was asked, 'man was who knew' what they would told what and who he was. And coine to that safe ,land toward that was that. which they had been striving . I don't think people know how since they met their' Lord and to deal with one another. So supped with him. They knew many are always finding fault, that his grace would see them always criticizing instead of through, just as. it will see us ' helping. They are making others through.

THE ANCHOR ­ Friday, May 3, 1985

By Bill Morrissette

tv, movie news

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Shoes That Fit ­ Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG--parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or St. Anne Il.eague Opens Season Sunday younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for St. Anne Junior Little League Rev. Jean-Dominique Pare, children and adults; A2-approved for baseball will open its 30th sea­ OP, is the present league chap­ adults and adolescents; A3--approved for son Sunday at its field on For­ -lain. Officers are John Chicca, adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive est Street, FaU River. The field president; Tom Salva, vice-presi­ will be rededicated to the mem­ dent; John Pacheco and Jerry . which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O~morally offensive.

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ory of Rev. Rene Patenaude, OP, league founder.

Comeau, secretaries; Brian Dias, commissioner.

Steve Maurico is the Boxers' The league is unique in that it manager with Dias and Comeau is the only intra-parish league as assistant. The Colliers are. .Please check dates and in New England, with four teams managed by Jim Arruda; his as­ times of television and radio made up of parish members. It sistants are Scott Emard and Leo programs against local list­ a-lso supports a "minor" Little Lepage. Pacheco is at the helm ings, which may differ fropl League, the Bulldogs, from which of the Terriers with Jim Mellen the New York network sched­ players graduate to the "major" and Danny Santos assistants. ules supplied to The Anchor.

Little League. .

Beagles are managed by Salva, Opening ceremonies will be whose assistants are Tom Law­ held at 12:30 p.m. followed by a lor and Fred Heining.

New Films twin bill in which Boxers will In the event of inclement "Moving Violations" (Fox) The meet Terriers in. the curtain­ weather Sunday the opening raiser and Beagles take on Col­ program will be held Monday feeble premise for this failed comedy is the gathering together Hers in the nightcap.

(May 6): of some diverse types who must attend driving school to get Stang Runners Set School Records their licenses back. Because of Two new school records high­ Tom Longo and Dave Bednar­ its heavy emphasis on sexually lighted Bishop Stang High eck combined for the new school oriented humor, it is rated 0, School's second place finish in record of 3:34.3.

PG-13. state ·relays at Norwell High In Southeastern Massachusetts "Test of Love" (Universal) A School -last Saturday. Stang had Conference baseball games 1ast 50 points to first place See­ week diocesan school fa·red well. courageous teacher takes an in­ stitution to court to effect the konk's 56.

The Shamrocks of Bishop Fee­ The sprint medley team of han High, led by John Hanewich, release of a bright child suffer­ Shane Morin, Sean FitzgeralCl, nipped Dighton-Rehoboth; 8-7, ing from cerebral palsy who has been diagnosed as severely reo Frank Souza and Tom Clark and Bishop Connolly High's Cou­ combined .for the new record of gars squeaked by Attleboro, 3-2. tarded. Immensely entertaining and inspiring. A2, PG 3:44.9. In the 4x440 Morin, Clark,

NOTE

The 'followlng television and radio programs originate in the diocesan viewing and listening area. Their listings norm­ ally do not vary from week to week. They will be presented in The Anchor the first Friday of each month and will reflect any changes that may be made. Please clip' and retain for reference. .

Films on TV Monday, May 13, 9-11 p.m.

EDT (PBS) - "The Europeans," (1979) - This adaptation of a Henry James novel is a quiet comedy of manners about the un­ settling effect of two European cousins on a proper Bostonian family. Though pleasant enough, this period piece lacks the vital­ ity of the original. A2

"The Glory of God," with Father John Bertoluoci, 7:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 27.

Religious TV Sunday, May 5 (CBS) "For Our TImes" - Today's program examines the success of Houston

Area

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Each Sunday, 10:30 a.m.

WLNE, Channel 6, Diocesan Television Mass.

Portuguese Masses from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford: 12:15 p.m. each Sunday on radio station WJFD-FM, 7 p.rn. each Sunday on television Channel 20.

Broadcasting

"MarySon," a famHy pup­ pet show with mora·1 and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thursday, Fall River and New Bedford cable channel 13.

Mass Monday to Friday every week, 11:30 a.m. to noon,. WXNE, Channel 25.

"Spirit and the Bride," a talk show with William Lar­ kin, 6 p.m. Monday, cable channel 35.

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants. Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Epis­ copal Bishop of Rhode Island; and Rabbi Baruch Korff.

"Breakthrough," 6:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 10, a program on the power of God to tQuoh lives, produced by the Pastoral Theological Insti­ tute of' Hamden, Conn.

Charismatic programs with Father John Randall are aired from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Mon­ day through Friday on station WRIB, - 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at 1 p.m. each Sun­ day.

Programs of Catholic .in­ terest are broadcast at the following times on station WROL Boston, 950 AM: Mon­ day through Friday 9, 9:15, 11:45 a.m.; 12:15, 12:30, 1 p.m.

On Radio

support groups which help peo­ ple cope with grief over loss of a loved one.

Religious Radio Sunday, May 5 (NBC) "Guide­ line" - Actress Elaine Stritch discusses her career ·and her new book "Am I Blue? Living with Diabetes."

Cardinal Baggio named . chamberlain VATICAN CITY (NC) - Car­ dinal Sebastiano 'Raggio, 71, a Vatican administrator and diplo­ mat, has been named chamber­ lain of the Holy Roman Church :by Pope John Paul II.

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A RE'ADERSHIP SURVEY

As editor of The Anchor, I wish to thank those read­ ers 'who took time and bought'stamps to respond to our recent survey. It is very am­ portant to us to know what you think about what we are trying tQ do; and a survey is an effici­ ent way of finding out.

I am grateful to note that by and large you seem to feel .that The Anchor staff is effectively meeting the challenges that fa.ce a diocesan newspaper in today's church; however, what is per­ haps even more important for us is to be told about our short­ comings.

Journalistically speaking, we need, to be aware of opinions differing from ours. While it is true that we can never ,fulfill everyone's wishes 'every week, that is no excuse for not accept­ ing positive and concrete criti­ cism openmindedly. Your sug­ gestions never go unnoticed and this editor and the newspaper staff will continue to give' top priority to reader opinion as a necessity for open and honest journalism.

Once more, my gratitude for your support, help and coopera­ tion., If The Anchor brings the Word': effectively inCo' your homes, we who work on it are grateful for the opportunity it gives us to share in the apostolic mission of the Church - the furthering of which,after all, is the prime assignment of any Catholic medium of communica­ tion.

Foryour share then in making

possible our mission of word and' Word, a sincere thank you.

Editor

What ,we say At last we're ready to report on our Jan. 11 Readership Sur­ vey. Lacking a handy-dandy, we­ do-it-all-for-you computer, it's taken us until now to tabulate ond evaluate your 262 responses, but the project has been more than rewarding, taking us on a ,roller coaster of reactions with, thank God, many more highs than lows. !-mong the highest highs: "Using interest .and enjoyment as measures, you are doing an excellent job"; "The Anchor: is a ~ig help spiritually with abun­ dant information on everything we should know. F'or ts size, it's one of the very best."

Keeping ,us humble: "Lousy paper. Waste of money"; "When am I gping to get my money's worth?"

Immodestly, we're glad that 203 of yo~ found our appearance attractive, as opposed to 14 who didn't and 27 who had no opin­ ion; and that 211 think our news

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As for Mary McGrory, al­ though she's one of the best writers going, her column was often too topical, for a weekly newspaper and equally often in~ appropriate to our needs.

Moving to another topic you could do this yourself, with the chart above" but we'll save you the trouble: here are the Top 10 on our Hit Parade, i.e., those getting the most "always read" mentions.

Number one is Father Diet­ zen's question and answer col­ umn, garnering 153 "always reads." Following him are the . Living Word; Dolores Curran; the Mooring; cartoons; fillers (would you believe!); the Mail Packet and the Kennys" column (tied for 7th place); 'Fathers Har­ .rington and Hemrick (tied for 8th); Tom Lennon and Necrology.

Features 11 to 20 all had their .fans as well, some, such as our sports ,column, appealing, of course, to a more, specialized readership than others.

A couple of special messages here to readers who didn't sign their names (not that we asked you to). One person wondered why Father James F. Gilchrist of Taunton does not appear in our Necrology column. Well, our very efficient diocesan archival. assistant, Yvonne Lafontaine, . went back to 1924 _unsuccess­ fully seeking a reference to him.

What you said Here's a sampling of your com­ ments, queries and complaints: :::

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coverage' is fair and accurate.

When it comes to specific dio­ cesan coverage, 123 thought we represented all areas fairly, but 54 thought we didn't. That's an improvement over 'our 1978 sur. vey, when 112 thought we were well balancedan~ 76 thought we weren't, but there is, of course, still room for improvement.

As we mentioned in 1978, part of the problem is that often peo­ ple don't let us' 'know what's going on. Even the New York Times has no crystal ball, al­ though it has a lot more re­ porters than we do. If you think something's newsworthy, give us a phone call or drop us a note.

However, with new reporter Joseph Motta, we've become' more flexible and hope to do better by subscribers such as our Taunton reader ("We seem to have been forgotten here") and our Cape Cod frien4s ("Is Cape , Cod the country cousin?"; "The Cape is seriously neglected.).

Several people mentioned columns that no longer appear, namely those of Father An<lrew Greeley, Mary McGrory, Mary Carson and Bill Reel. Both Greeley and Reel terminated their columns themselves. How­ ever, we had dropped Greeley before he quit for the same rea­ son y/e dropped Ma·ry Carson: both' were a tad too controver­ sial.

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Four people asked for a child­ rEn's feature. We had one for about five years and when we discontinued it, not a word was spoken, not a te'ar shed. How­ ever, we're willing to think about trying again. We'll let you know.

There were requests for parish Mass schedules but here we throw up our hands. In summer we run Cape schedules every other week for the benefit of visitors, but if we did every par­ ish in the diocese every week there'd be room for nothing else.

Some people wanted more letters to the editor. That's one thing we can't provide. Readers?

So it went: some ups, some downs. Our bottom line -is that we'll keep trying and we're grateful for your input.

'If that reader will give us fur­ ther information, we'll be glad

to'include his name in the proper place from now on.

Then there was the lady who checked the "71 or older" 'age group and wistfully added to her -comments "As I am old, maybe my opinions are not worth much." Dear lady, you belong to our largest group of respondents and what you say matters enor­ mously to us. Don't put your­ self down.

On the other end of the age scale, one person said "You have a Ilong way to go .to meet the needs of youth." It's a point well taken, since one of our only two zeros on the chart was for the -under-20 age group (the other was in the "never" column for the front page - it would be almost impossible not to look at a front page). However, under-20s are not the world's best correspondents and we have it on excellent authority that in a number of homes "On Record" is eagerly awaited. We hope the music lovers look' at the .rest of the youth page too.

Another comment: "Drop the film ratings. McCarthy is dead," Opposed to that, we get calls for back ratings from conscien­

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Dear . .Father Moore: Your paper is 100 times better than the daily paper. . Thank you!

God bless you!

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I read the Mooring all the time but I wouldn't say I'm in­ fluenced or not influenced -, I simply digest what I read and act according to what my cons­ cience tells me.

More of your comments will

appear next week.