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LIVING UNDER THE MUSHROOM' CLOUD

By Jim Lackey

CHICAGO (NC) - The moral implications of life under the threat of the mushroom cloud of nuclear warfare have been spelled out by the Roman Cath olic bishops of the United States. By an overwhelming margin which surprised and pleased even its chief architect, the bishops on May 3 agreed to is sue a historic pastoral letter ex amining the moral principles surrounding war and peace in the nuclear age. The vote on the pastoral, titled "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Re sponse," was 238-9. It capped two days of dis cussion at a special meeting of the U.S. bishops in Chicago at which more than 500 amend ments were proposed. Nearly 175 amendments were accepted, although more than 100 of those were of a non-controversial na ture. The others either were reject ed or withdrawn after the com mittee which drafted the pas toral indicated opposition to their inclusion in the text. The chairman of that drafting committee, Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, appeared extremely pleased at a post meeting news conference that the pastoral - which generated tons of controversy during its two years of development - had been approved by such a large margin. Cardinal Bernardin noted that many had expressed concern that the document would be divisive both for the bishops and for the Catholic community at large. "I think what has happened

here the past two days is an in dication that there really is a great deal of unity among the bishops," he said. Though it would take several days to sort out the amendments that give the pastoral its final shape, the more than 150-page document: • Rejects any war except as a last recourse; • Rejects or strongly ques tions the morality of any lronn of nuclear war; , • R~diates the arms race and ~1s for an lnunedlate ne gotiated halt to new Illuclear weapo~ . systems; • Cl\tegorlcally condemns any fonn 01 COUDterpopuIation war fare aJ¥! expresses deep skepti cism as to whether a nuclear ex ehange can be kept withiD the limits of moral aceeptablllty; • Ul'les NATO to move rapid

iy out of Its polley of possible first use of nuclear weapons In Europe, and

• Urges nOlI-violent solutions to conflict and stresses that the avoidance of war Involves a comprehensive positive effort to promote peace. On deterrence, one of the key sticking points in the develop ment of the document, the pas toral offers a "strictly condi tioned moral acceptance" of de terrence that ,requires real ef forts at disarmament and a re jection of all nuclear stategies that fail strict tests of morality. The bishops wasted Httle time dealing with some of the most controversial amendments fac ing them as the meeting opened May 2. Their first action was to overwhelmingly support a "halt" rather than a "curb" in the test ing, production and deployment of new nuclear weapons sys tems. A call for a "halt" to new nuclear weapons systems had been contained in the second

draft of the pastoral but had been reduced to "curb" in the third, partly to dissociate the pastoral from the political cam paign for a nuclear freeze. But when the issue came to the full body of bishops for a vote, only about 25 of the ap proximately 275 bishops in at tendance indicated opposition to shifting the pastoral back to "halt." As a concession the bishops added a new footnote that says they do not want the pastoral "to be identified with one speci fic political initiative or to have' our words used against specific political measures." Later the bishops also strengthened the pastoral's con demnation of first use of nu clear weapons, passing a series of amendments by Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco stating flatly' that initiation of nuclear war was "morally un justifiable:' The third draft of the pastoral had called initiation of nuclear

war "an unjustifiable moral risk:' Archbishop Quinn called the vote on his amendments "the real turning point" of the meet ing. But while Archbishop Quinn was successful in getting several of his amendments appt:Oved, the bishops almost unanimously rejected another series of amend ments by Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans that would have softened some of the pastoral's judgments on first use and nuclear deterrence. "I didn't expect to be so alone," admitted Archbishop Hannan, who had been the most outspoken critic of the pastoral. He said the bishops were "bla tantly disregarding the will of the Holy Father" in making specific judgments on complex issues. In other action on the pastor al the bishops: - Called for legal protection for conscientious objectors but deleted language saying that the

church has endorsed conscien tious objection itself; - Decided to delay issuance of the pastoral's "precis" - a sumary of the pastoral that was included in the third draft until Cardinal Bernardin's com mittee writes a new version re flecting the pastoral's new amendments. The bishops will vote on the new precis by mail later this spring. - -Decided to drop from the pastoral an appandix listing experts in government, ethics, theology and scripture with whom the committee consulted. It was no longer needed in the final document, according to Cardinal Bernardin. - Voted to add an amend ment encouraging devotion to Our Lady of Peace after some bishops objected to a more speci fic reference to Our Lady of Fatima, saying dlat devotion to Mary under other titles should not be excluded. The meeting opened with Car dinal Bernardin setting the scene for the debate by calling the pastoral primarilly £1 "teaching document:' "We speak not as technicians or politicians but as teachers of moral and religious principles," he told the assembled bishops. He also defended the length of the document, saying the "in tricacy of the issues" demanded it. The unprecedented public at tention given the pastoral br~ught an equaEy unprecedent ed number of journalists to the Chicago meeting and gave rise to many demonstrations, pil grimages and all-night vigils by supporters and opponents.

As approximately 450 report ers, camera operators and tech nicians crowded into the meeting hall in the Palmer House hotel, a nationwide cross section of peace groups and individuals gathered in front of the hotel and outside the bishops' meet ing rooms to urge development of a strong statement on nu clear arms. They demonstrated their call for peace by carrying banners, singing songs, fasting, praying, passing out leaflets or simply standing in sil~nce. At the same time a coalition of conservative groups opposed to the pastoral also demonstra ted outside the hotel or quietly held signs in nearby hallways. One sign read "KreIl}lin smiles, Catholic bishops me~t:' The pastoral also received the close attention of the Reagan administration. Turn to Pa~e Six

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri;, 'May 6, 1983

17,020.00 Immaculate Concep.tion FALL RIVER AREA 12,904.75 Mt. Carmel Fali River 3,660.00 - Our Lady of Fatima 7,495.00 St. Mary's Cathedral' 3,116.00 Our L'ady of Perpetual Help A'm'LEBORO AREA AITLEBORO AREA 1,375.00 Blessed Sacrament 2,772.00 Sacred Heart 7,352.00 Santo Espirito St. John, Attleboro 16,797.00 Attleboro 2,201.50 I St. Anne 2,576.00 Holy Cross St. "Mary, Seekonk 13,839.00 6,366.00 10,099.00 Holy Ghost St. Anthony of Padua 13,726.50 Holy Name Holy Gh'OSt, Att.leboro 10,099.00 1,655.00 16,797.00 St. John . St. Boniface 5,249.25 Notre Dame St. Mary, Mansfield 9,242.00 5,261.00 2,100.00 St. Joseph I St. Casimir 18,274.00 Our Lady of Angels Mt. Carmel, Seekonk 9,093.00 5,978.00 St. Mark I 2,880.00 St. Francis of Assisi 5,159.10 Our Lady of Health 5,995.00 1,768.50 St. Stephen St. Hedwig . CAPE, ISLANDS AREA 6,935.00 Holy Rosary 6,740.00 St. Theresa 6,459.00 St. James 4,315.00 Immaculate Conception 22,315.00 Mansfield --1St. Mary Corpus Christi, Sandwich tie 9,339.50 John the Baptist St. 9,242.00 4,163.00 Sacred Hear:t St. Pius X, So. Yarmouth 22,040.00 tie 9,339.50 St. Joseph 2,087.00 St. Anne St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis 17,731.00 North Attleooro 1,423.00 St. ~ilian 3,176.50 Sacred Heart 6,029.00 St. Anthony of Padua Holy Trinity, West Harwich 16,200.50 3,949.00 St. Lawrence 6,089.00 . St. Mary I 1,658.00 St. Elizabeth Holy Redeemer, Ohatham 16,068.00 9,125.50 St. Mary 3,166.00 St. Jean Bapti'ste Seekonk I 3,112.00 St. Theresa FALL RIVER AREA 5,504.00 St. Joseph Mt. Carmel' 9,093.00 3,490.00 Acushnet-8t. Francis Xavier 3,459.00 St. Louis 13,839.0Q St. MarYi Our Lady of Angels, 6,950.00 Fairhaven-8t. Joseph 6,380.00 St. Michael Fall River 18,274.00 CAPE COD AND mE ISLANDS AREA 7,137.00 Marion-8t. Rita St. Patrick 3,846.00 Holy Name, Fall River 13,726.50 I 7,101.00 Peter & Paul SS. 12,503.00 St. Thomas More, Somerset 5,914.00 Mattapoisett-8t. Anthony Brewster-D. of the Cape 8,045.00 10,743.00 St. Stanislaus St. Stanislaus, Fall River 10,743.00 9,964.00 Dartmouth-8t. Julie No. Buzzards BaY:-St. Margaret 5,611.00 4,749.50 St. William Santo Christo, Fall River 10,325.00 5,803.00 10,325.00 So. Dartmouth-8t. Mary Santo Christo Chatham-'-Holy Redeemer 16,068.00 NEW BEDFORD AREA 4,866.00 Wareham-St, Patrick Assonet-8t. Bernard 6,209.00 East Falmouth -81. Anthony 8,284.00 3,680.00 Central Village--St. John Immaculate Conception, Edgartown-8't. Elizabeth 1,267.00 TAUNTON AREA 5,855.50 No. Westport-OL. of Grace 17,020.00 New Bedford 11,679.00 Somerset . 12,904.75 falmouth-8t.li Patrick Mt. Carmel, New Bedford. Taunton . St. John of God 7,068.00 Hyannis-:-8t. Francis Xavier 17,731.00 9,964.00 St. Julie, N. Dartmouth 5,254.00 Holy Family 12,503.00 St. Thomas More St. John the Baptist, No. Falmouth+3,897.00 Sacred Heart Swansea New Bedford 9,339.50 St. Elizabeth Seton 9,725.00 5,322.00 St. Anthony Our Lady. of Fatima ./ 8,753.00 St. Joseph, New Bedford 9,339.50 Oak Bluffs-8acred Heart 1,995.00 4,042.00 St. Joseph St. Louis de France 7,775.00 Orleans-8t. Joan of Arc 14,447.00 5,572.00 St. Mary TAUNTON AREA 4,933.25 St. Michael Osterville-AsSumption 9,080.50 4,527.00 St. Paul 4,185.20 Westport-st. George Immaculate Conception, Pocasset-St. John 7,867.00 2,726.00 No. Dighton-8t. Joseph North Easton 8,107.00 Sandwich-Corpus Christi 22,315.00 NEW BEDFORD AREA No. EastonHoly Cross, South Easton 7,459.50 22,040.00 So. Yarmouth~t. Pius X 8,107.00 Immaculate Conception St. Ann, Raynham 5,745.00. Vineyard' Haven~t. Augustine 3,913.00 New Bedford 5,745.00 St. Mary, Taunton 5,572.00 Raynham-8t. Ann . Holy Name 6,275.00 Wellfleet-o. ~. of Lourdes 2,480.00 7,459.50 St. Anthony, Taunton 5,322.00 434.00 So. Easton-Holy Cross Assumption West HarwichTHoly TrinIty 16,200.50

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National $1000 Sacred Hearts Community; Fairhaven $500 Rev. Cornelius J. Kell:her Rev. Thomas L. Rita -450. '" Rev. Msgr. John J. Oliveira $300 Rev. Roland B. Boule $250 Rev. Ernest $~OOBessette Rev. Lucien Jusseaume $100 Stonehill College, North Easton' Rev. Joao V. de Medeiros

Cape Cod $600 St. Mary Conference, Nan

tucket $460 Friends of 81. Mary's, Nan tucket 0$250 Ladies Association of t-he Sacred Hearts, West Harwich $200 St. Anthony Council of Cath olic Women, East Falmouth S1. Elizabeth Seton Confer ence, North Falmouth Aluminum Products of Cape Cod, Dennisport $125 Visitation Guild, North East ham $100 Falmouth Knights of Colum bus, East Falmouth Vetoripo Brothers, Inc., Barn stable , In me~ory of Msgr. Lester L. Hull by Bishop William Tyler Fourth Degree K of C, Nantucket Holy ':frinity Conference, West Harwic~

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St. Joseph Conference, Woods Hole St. Joseph ParishionerS Group; Woods Hole • Edson's, Dennisport I $75 :, I

Sundae School, Denni"port $80 I United Concrete Corporation, East Falmouth I Hyannis Pharmacy, Inc. $50 : Thomas H. Peterson Realtors, Inc., West Harwich I Hall Oil Company, I South Dennis James G. Marceline, Harwich Cape Cod Five Cents S'avings Bank, Harwic-hpor:t i The Soundings, Dennisport $30 I Quintal's Restaurant, Buzzards Bay :

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East Falmouth Packagel Store, East ~almouth I Doug's Country Florist, East Falmouth I McCarthy & Petrasko Insur ance Agency, Inc., East Falmouth The Ships Inn, Oak Bhlffs The Boarding House, I Nan tucket I Poets Comer Press, Nantucket St. Mary's Guild, Nantucket Murray's Fuel Oil ~rvice, Inc., Dennisport ' Hazelton's Gifts; DennisPort Walker Oil Company, Harwich Handler's Auto Parts,: Inc., Harwichport ! Capt. Chase Interiors, IHar wichport Barbo's Whitney Wayside Furniture Corp., DenniBPOr't Buzzards Bay Pharmacy I Buzzards Bay Garage Canal Electrical, Inc., !Buzzards Bay I

Buzzards Bay Getty Carreiro, Florist, Hyannis

Quick Stop Bakery, . Dennls port Sea View Playland, Dennis port George's Place, Harwichport

New Bedford $2415 New Bedford Institution for Savings $300 St. Anthony Bingo, Mattapoi sett . $200 St. Anthony Bingo Ki,tc.hen, Mattapoisett $150 St. Anthony Conference, Mat tapoisett $100 Murray F. DeCoffe Automo tive Service, Inc., Mattapoisett St. An,th:ony Women's. Guild, Mattapoisett $75 Aerovox, Incorporated $50 CItizens Credit Union Mr. Lucien Robert St. Anthony C.Y,O., Mattapoi sett Textile Workers of America No. 177 . . $25 Brodeur Machine Co., Inc. State Road Cement Block Co., No. Dartmouth Cape Cod Color Associates International Ladies Garment Workers Union Atty. Louis Stone U. S. Furniture

Taunton $400 Particular Council of St. Vin cent· de Paul $300 Holy Family Conference, East Taunton $175 . St. Joseph Conference, North Dighton $lJ.50 . St. An,thony ~opfirmation Class

St. Ann Raynham Mozzone Yard

$100 Women's $80 Brothers

Guild, Lumber

$75 Bristol County savings Bank ~35

DonIe's Tire & Appliances, Raynham $25 Princess House, Inc., Dighton Martin & Strojny

Attleboro $2200 Krew, Incorporated $200 St. Vincent de Paul Confer ence, District· of Attleboro $150 Dwyer Heating & Air $125 Art's 3 Hour Cleansers, Inc., North Attleboro $100 . Precision Tool & Machine J. Richard O'Neil Company, Attleboro Falls Carey Company Bacher Corporation, Billerica Reardon & Lynch Company, Attleboro Goddf.tt & Boyer $90 Attleboro Mutual Fire Insur ance $75 Dewitt Animal Clinic, Inc., North Attleboro Edward G. Lambert Insur ance, No. Attleboro $50 Boardman Insurance Agency Ml'.s. Louise Farrands, North Attleboro . Homer Alden Company, North Attleboro Swift .& Fisher, Inc., North Attleboro Consolidated Business Prod ucts, North Attleboro Ed Pariseau Real Estate, At ·tleboro Falls Foster Metal Products Sacred Heart Conference, No. Attleboro . V. H. Blackinton & Co., Attle boro Falls

Colonial Lithograph, Inc. Reeves Company, Inc. . $25 Gilbert Rea Shoe Repair Attleboro Telephone Answer ing Service Wagner's Flower Shop Attleboro & Plainville OU Company Volterra, Goldberg & Mangia ratti, Law Counsellors Riley Brothers Lumber Com pany, North Attleboro ~ Lyons Advertising, Inc., At tleboro Falls St. Anne Women's Club, North Attleboro . Achin's Garage, North Attle boro Walter B. Edwards, North Attleboro " Armstrong, Pollis & Clapp, North Attleboro R. J. Schriever Company, North Attleboro Bergevine Bros., 'Inc. Charles R. Mason, Atty., No. Attleboro Community Pharmacy, Incor ,porated, No. Attleboro

Fall River $1500 Slades Ferry Trust Company $1000 St. Vincent de Paul Society Particular Council , Venus de Milo, Swansea $726 Residents, Ca·tholic Memorial Home $600 . Fall River Savings Bank $500 . St. Vincent de Paul Society Diocese 'of Fall River In memory of' tl1e Lynch Family $400 Union Savings Ban~ $250 Ashworth Brothers, Inc. $200 Catholic Woman's Club T·homas P. Egan, Inc., Somer set Fall River Florists Supply Co.

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St..~ss topic of workshop

Appeal.stands

at $499,492

First returns from parishes and Special Gift solicitors show a total of $499,492.28 already collected in the 1983 Catholic Charities Appeal. Special Gift solicitors are re quested to make their final re turns by this Saturday. Parishes will continue to make calls on parishioners not contacted last Sunday. The par ish phase ends on May 11. Ap peal books will be open for con tributions until May 20 at 1 p.m., the closing date for the Appeal. Parish Honor Roll Parishes which surpass their 1982 final Appeal totals in this year's" Appeal will be enrolled on the 1983 Parish Honor Roll. Last year, 107 parishes were on the Honor Roll.

Stress, Afflirmation and Growth in Pell'Sonal and Rectory Living will be the topic of the Spring Theology Institute for di ocesan clergy, to be held -May 17 and 18 and repeated May 19 and 20 at LaSalette Center for Christian Living, Attleboro. Father Thomas A. Kane will direct the institute: He is a priest of the Worcester diocese and th~ founder and executive direc tor of House of Affirmation, a therapeutic center for priests and religious with branches in Massachusetts, California, Mis souri and Knowle, England. In a letter to priests concern ing the program, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin writes: "I heartily en dorse this important and valu able annual diocesan program. The realization of the demands which are made upon the time and energy of IPriests, the in formation gleaned from evalua tion sheets completed at past institutes and the very positive response to the presentation on adult development and ministry given by Brother Sean Sammon in November of 1981 have been factors" leading" to the selection ~f this year's" topic. " "The fruitfulness of our min istry is enriched when we are '"a¢quainted' with the 'potential impact of stress factors in our l;wes and have available re sources for dealing in a creative manner with such factors."

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of tlle Appeal said: "We are anticipating that every parish - 112 - will be on this year's Honor Roll. We must have substantial increases in every parish to surpass last year's Appeal total of $1,373, 772."

The first parish to receive Honor Roll status is St. Anthony of Padua in New ,Bedford with a total of $6,366.00 already col Jected. Leading parishes, parish totals and special gift listing appear on page two of this issue of The Anchor. Ne~t week's edition will include an eight-page supplement of special gifts and parish dona ,tions and listings will continue weekly until all have been pub Hshed.

Money speaks,

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By Tracy Early "

NEW YORK (NC) - After being lobbied on the war" and peace pastoral, the bishops may be less 'naive about the power of money in American society, Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee said in an address May 1. "Money for the sake of power, in our age, cannot be ignored. The church in capitalistic na tions tends to be naive vis-a-vis such use of money. "Perhaps the forces that have opposed the bishops' efforts to bring a moral dimension into the arms race and the nuclear arms question, in particular, will leave us less naive about the power of money and the aims of numer ous foundations spun off from such money and that serve the interests - not always of so ciety - but of their own cor porate concerns." Asked to expand on this point in the question period, Arch bishop Weakland said this was the first time the bishops had produced a pastoral with such political ramifications and that "they've all been lobbied to death:' He saId that working in his archdiocese he went into meet ings witq a Vatican II theology of the ch\lrch, listening to others and contributing and trying to hear whl:\t the Spirit was saying. But many people coming from outside the church to talk about the pastoral took a quite differ-

entapproach. "They came with a political position and wanted to gain ground," he said. In the annual "Shepherds Speak" series at St. James Ca thedral in Brooklyn, N.Y., Arch bishop Weakland addressed the ~ topic "Living a Gospel Lifestyle in a Consumer Society." He drew frequently on his monastic background and the contrast with his current life in examining the issues of poverty and consumption. He was named to succeed Archbishop William Cousins -of -Milwaukee in 1977 after 10 years as abbot primate of the Benedictine Confedera tion. Archbishop Weakland is chairman of the committee pre paring a pastoral on capitalism. In an interview following his ad dress, he said he expected cor porate interests to attack the work of his committee as they have the war and peace pas toral. But he sahli he did not ex pect the controversy would be come as intense. He said his committee antici pated a vote on the final draft of the capitalism pastoral in November 1984. In his address A'rchbishop Weakland lI'ecalled that his early years came during the 1930s de pression, that during his years as a monk with III vow of poverty life was "kind of cut out for me" and that only since becom ing a bishop had it become neeTum to Page Seven

Bishops oppose 'brain death' laws

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The Visitation ofElizabeth -by Mary, one of the ioy· ful mysteries of the rosary, is depicted in this stained glass window at Bishop Feehan High School, Attie· boro. Daily recitation of the rosary is a'time.honored May tradition and during this Holy Year the month will also be marked by rededication of all diocesan parishes to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Cit ing medical, moral and legal dis agreements. over the value of such legislation, the U.S. bish ops' Committee tor Pro-Life Ac tivities has reaffirmed its opposi tion to "definition, of death" laws. The committee sent a let ter in April to all U.S. bishops saying that "a compelling need for such legnslation has still not been demonstrated." More than half the states have enacted some form of legislation equating death with "brain death," but statutes and court rulings differ among themselves. The committee letter said there are fears that some doctors may want to use "brain death" as a medical and legal fiction to ob tain transplants from comatose but still-living patients.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri.,' May 6,l l 983 I"

the living

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A. Mere Bandaid

Anyone with an ounce of awareness knows that ~ublic education is -to be pitied. Just the everyday school incidents that we read about in our local newspapers offer suppdrtive testimony to the many who re.alize that, there mu~t be changes in our tax-supported classrooms. . i Given -all this, the facts recently reported by th~I Na , tional Commission on Excellence in Education should come as no great surprise. The commission painted a dismal, pic ture of declining test scores, watered-down courses iand lower expectations on all levels of education, including those of teaching and administration. I To counter this trend, the commission made some basic recommendations. It supports higher standards botH for high school graduation and admission to' college. It: also asks for a longer school day and school year, as well as a stronger role in academic matters for the federal go~ernment. . i It seems to feel that if more tax dollars are poured ,into public education aU the current ills will disappear. Th~s is, . by way of an aside, also the cry of Albert Shanker's A~erican Federation of Teachers. I Somehow it seems that we have been down this road before. The report of the commission and the wailing of Shanker fail equally tO,meet head on the realities that ~xist in the classrooms of AmeriCa. So often minds that seek tax dollars as a solution to all woes ignore the facts made obvious on police blotters ,and in administration reports. I Those responsible for public education, if they wisp to reverse the horrendous and agonizing situations exisUng

in many public schools, should note that real learning Ican

. only take place in an atmosphere of real discipline. Fot all

the verbiage, money can never buy education. It may pro

vide wonderful institutional plants and well-paid teacners,

but it cannot directly affect the real process of learning.

'He •.• shall How can a teacher, no matter how well paid, ti;ulY teach the police patrolled' environment of so many 4igh' schools? How can a teacher do more than baby sit when parents are allo)Ved. to demand and dictate policy proted ures? How can schools be true institutions of lea",ing when their administrators are the pawns of politicians?, By Antoinette Bosco

These are but a few of the many questions the c6m NC News Service

mission failed to answer or even face. Until it or sdme One of my earliest memories successor to it does, police will still be needed to keep ortIer comes from when I was about in school corridors, teachers will still be battered by stud~nts 2 and my father, then a young and parents and the courts will still dictate educational man of 28, was in a rage. The policies. i table had been set for dinner The recommandations of the commission are ideali~tic and, with a swing of his arm, he knocked everything crashing and noble. They fail to be practical. All agree that edu'ca tional standards should be upgraded, that teachers should to the floor. head was about level with be better prepared and paid and that curriculums shouldl be theMytable I remember run improved and expanded. , I ning awayandfrom the horrible Yet before any of these goals can be achieved, there sound and into my mother's arms. She was crying. The scene . must be respect for education and educators. Neither stu left 'me in mortal fear of seeing dents nor parents should be allowed to run schools. L~w anger expressed. enforcement agencies should be replaced by forceful and Later, when I learned in cate demanding administrators. Politicians should cease thbir chism classes that anger was constant interference in areas that are the province lof one of the seven deadly sins, I professional educators. i felt vindicated. God too knew For gaping wounds the commission has proffered I a . that anger was an evil, ugly thing. I pledged to myself that mere Bandaid. But the patient needs intensive care. :

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MOTHER'S DAY

be a comfort to his mother.' Ecclus. 3:7

Is anger 'public litter'?

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! OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

Publishe.d weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall Riv,er 410 Highland Avenue ' 675-7151 Fall River, Mass. 02722 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., SJ.D.

EDITOR Rev. John F. Moore

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FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR Rev. Msgr. John J. Regan:

anger was a deadly sin, indeed, but only if it were not express ed. If anger were held in, it was a destroyer; it would give peo ple ulcers, headaches and chest pains. The idea that it was essential to one's good mental health to scream and rage and get anger out of one's system caught on famously. "Let us all hang out" became a kind of rallyIng cry. No one dared suggest that per sons engaged in ventilating fury needed to exercise an alterna tive, what was called self-con trol in the old days. No one dared to contradict the experts with· the observa tion that all this expression of anger seemed to lead to was more of the same. Well, things are beginning to I aJways would try to control change. Some recent studies by psychologists reported in Psy anger. Many a time since then I've chology Today and The New York Times indicate that ex been called "repressed," "dis honest" and. "overly controlled," pressing anger can have the dark and said to be in danger of some and dangerous side of reinforc terrible, terminal ,fate because I ing it. always remained calm in the "People who are most prone presence of others. . to give vent to their rage get .About 20 years ago psycholo angrier not less angry" when gists started to analyze anger they do so, said Carol Travis: a and its role in the continuing de , social psychologist, Willard Gay velopment of persons. Some psy lin, a New York psychiatrist, chologists began to preach a called the ventilation of anger new doctrine. They said' that "a form of public littering."

Anger even can be dangerous to one's health, according to some new research. On occasion, ventilating rage does not "get rid" of hostilities, purifying a person and bringing peace. Ex cessive hostility, ventilated or not, can even increase the risk of heart attack. If you think about the evil anger can ·Iead to, it is unbe lievable that the myth about the therapeutic nature of expressing it was held so long. Anger has been known to cause destruc tion, from vandalism to murder, In people young and old. It is a terrible emotion when it gets out of hand and, as the church knew long ago, a deadly sin. I'm not implying that anger isn't a legitimate emotion. It is justified many times. If you are the victim of an action that leads you understandably to anger, you have a right to ex press it. But this should be done na turely; anger should not be slung around to threaten everyone within range. One shouldn't smash the dishes off the table. Anger is a fact of lif~, so much so that some people really get attached to it. They let it all hang out and in doing so hang on to it, adding to the discord' in this world.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 6, 1983

Family Night

A weekly at-home·program for families

sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry

OPENING PRAYER Lord Jesus, thank you for our mother. She's terrific and we love her. Thank you, Jesus, for the example your mother, Mary, has given us. Be with us, Lord, and help us to honor oull' mother. Amen.

TO THINK ABOUT Motherhood is an exalted call ing, one that demands tremen dous spiritual and emotional re sources. We celebrate tonight the specialness of our mothers who give us the gift of life and the example of love.

ACTIVITY IDEAS Young and Middle Years Families MOTHER IS QUEEN TO NIGHT Materials: paper, cray ons, tape, scissors. Cut out a crown for Mom to wear marked, "Mother, You're Special." Also, cut out a big heart to pin on her dress listing the names of those

in the family and reasons why Mother is special. Plan a party for Mom with small gifts from around the house or of promised good deeds written on slips of paper. Be sure to cook dinner and do the dishes for her.

Adult Families LOVE LEITER TIME Write Mother a love letter stating why she is so special. Plan a dinner out with a corsage for her as a surprise or make a surprise din ner at home. Let her know she's one special lady.

to lower IQ children than other mothers. Well, maybe. But being a Catholic mother and it being Mother's Day, I'd like to examine the issue a bit more closely, perhaps even ir revently. I'm tempted to regard it as I did the time an amateur palm reader looked at my hand at a party and told me I was mildly retarded. "Really?" I asked. "What are the signs?" "Well, the tip of your little finger doesn't reach the top line on your ring finger:' he said. "Oh." I replied. How else does one respond to a charge of mild retardation? (Before you pass it off as being mildly valid, exam ine the length of your little finger). Back to the study. Dr. Zena iBlau, a University of Houston sociologist, announced last year that she had examined the IQ test scores of lightly more than 1000 Chicago-area school child ren and concluded that the mother's religious affiliation is a major factor affecting a child's educational development. According to her study, child ren whose mothers were non religious had the highest scores while those with Catholic mothers had the lowest. The children of Protestant mothers ranged in the middle, with Epis copalians and Presbyterians al legedly producing brighter off spring tl\an Baptists. It's enough to make one fall away. "ere we are, Catholic mothers, fighting the odds in passing on enduring values, counteracting new sex and giv

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ing kids a purpose in living only to discover that our faith has rendered us dumb. Before I succumb to a terminal Excedrin headache over it, I have a few questions to ask of Dr. Blau. 1) Why is .jt the moth er's responsibility when it was the children who were tested? 2) What about dads? 3) If I switched to Presbyterianism to morrow, would my children be come brighter? 4) What about converts? 5) What does this study say about the intellectual level of priests, bishops and sisters, most of whom, we presume, have Catholic mothers? 6) Did she factor in variables like educa tional and income level, ethnic and immigrant status, religious practice, family stability, and economic motivation and oppor tunity? Or did she grasp at the easiest straw? 7) Could it have something to do with Chicago, like the water used in baptism or the air surrounding Catholic churches? Before we accept Dr. Blau's conclusion that "the impact of high-control religious institu child's in tions is adverse to tellectual development:' I invite her to reflect ·upon statistics that say Catholics are the most high ly-educated of all among main line ·American religions. How does she reconcile this with her findings? It tells me that we mothers must be doing a magnificent job with our low IQ children. Just think of what we could do with Episcopal and Presbyterian chil dren, given,the opportunity. It boggles the mind, what there is of it. The Catholic League for Re ligious and Civil Rights has de

Each family member shares his or her favorite time with Mom over the past year. Mother shares a favorite time she had as a child with her own mother.

CLOSING PRAYER Gentle Jesus, thank you for this Family Night and for, our dearest mother. Thank you for her love and' the hours of labor she spends caring for all of us. Most of all, Jesus, help us to show our love for her through our helpfulness and cheerfulness and our hugs and kisses. Amen.

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nounced the Blau study as "dangerous nonsense:' saying "Intellectual ability is no more dependent on the church one's mother attended than on the color of one's skin, and· sug gestions to the contrary are as dangerous as they are foolish." Right on. As one Catholic mother among many, I don't intend to raise my children's IQ by becoming an atheist; Instead I'll take a chance on giving them some Words to live by while wending their way through college with a higher proportion of Catholic peers than any other group. It's enough for me.

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Rev. Raymond P. Levell, S.J., Professor, 1958, Spring Hill Col lege, Mobile, Alabama May 9 Rev. J. E. Theodule Giguere, Pastor, 1940, St. Anne, New Bed ford Rev. John P. Clarke, Pastor, 1941, S1. Mary, HebronviHe May 12 Rev. John F. deValles, Chap lain, 1920, United States Army . May 13 Rt. Rev. Osias Bolcher, Pastor, 1955, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River

Brooding ab·out Brokaw If you have trouble feel ing sorry for anyone who makes more than a million dollars a year and is a mega watt celebrity, perhaps ·you should not read on. I warn you because I am about to express my sympathy for Tom Brokaw, who, I scarcely need tell you, anchors the "NBC Nightly News" with Roger Mudd. Brokaw is catching it from right and left for expressing opinions - not, mind you, on the air, but to a periodical. Both Joseph Sobran, who doesn't agree with him, and Colman McCarthy, who does, have writ ten sternly critical columns about him. They both earn their living by opinionating, which is an absolute no-no for Brokaw, and they think he broke the newscaster's code by giving in print some thoughts which, caught by the network, would cost him his job. Maybe the subliminal prob lem for them is that they think that a person who earn either $2 million (Sobran says) or $1.2 million according to McCarthy) should not let down his hair to a magazine that kicks the stuff ing out of the establishment. Perhaps ,Brokaw's tax bracket sh9uld talk to Fortune in its off-hours. Brokaw is literally "a limou sine liberal" - he is driven to and from work in a chauffeur driven car - and possibly his choice of a left-wing monthly was to send a flare to his col leagues (notorious progressives, predominantly) that he is still one of them, or at least that he hasn't given up thinking. And why should he? The most common complaint about his kind is that they are a dry blown, mindless lot who can do no more than "rip and read." The rather pompous percede to the interview says that Bro kaw, yearning "to be more than a television icon," wants "to be respected for his ideas and his intelligence." Well, the Mother Jones inter view may not do that for him. What he says will not dazzle with its originality or depth. It is superficial and trite, the standard, everyday left-of-center complaint about the Reagan revolution. He finds the Reagan approach to government "pretty simplistic," which is something not likely to knock his 16 million viewers out of their lounge chairs. Yet Coman McCarthy sees Brokow's "scatter-shot venting" as a grave lapse "that can't help eating into the public trust of the media." Sobran, on the other hand, finds Brokaw's approach as "simplistic" as Reagan's. It isn't as if on duty he comes

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on as one of those "raised-eye brow cynics" that sent Spiro Agnew into his famous frenzy about "nattering nabobs of nega tivism." I have studied his boy ish face to see if there are any physiognomic signals to hint that he thinks the news Brokaw has just read about the economic recovery or the presidents latest solution for El Salvador may be just a bunch of stuff. U see none. To me, he is a model of impassi vity, as compared with, say, Chariles Kuralt, whose face and voice both noticeably droop when he recounts massacres, mass rapes and other breaches of civil ity. Even so, Joseph Sobran con cludes from the Mother Jones evidence that Brokaw "seems to think that his job is to expose the flaws in our society from a mildly leftist perspective." Colman McCarthy approving ly recounts the contrasting de

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whom he once dined. Even in relaxed company, in off-the-record conversation, Rey nolds wasn't trading in opinions about the events he was paid to cover as a reporter. I like to think that Reynolds just didn't feel like tall<ing shop that night. But McCarthy implies that his work has made him a kind of high priest of our society, one who takes a vow of mental celi bacythat applies not only to the moments when he is performing the solemn rite of reading to the nation the day's events off the teleprompter. I wonder if there is ever a time or a place when such an awesome figure is permitted freedom of expression. I have been musing about' what might ensue when Mrs. Brokaw asks him, of an evening, what kind of a day he had. Would the proper reply be: "My dear, it was a mixed day, with good aspects and bad. The tape machine broke, the line to Beirut went· dead and we muffed the lead on monetary policy. But lunch was excellent and the sixth floor liked the show. All in all, I feel that Roger and I can be content that we brought to the American people a bal aIlcd, objective and impartial ac· count of what transpired in the world today." And if he should find himself next to Colman McCarthy or Joseph Sobran, I trust that should either seek to divine what he really thinks about our policy in Nicaragua, Brokaw will either smoothly deflect the discussion to the weather or simply say, with the loftiness required of his unspeakable eminence, "I can't comment on that.

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At FAITH parley Sister Maureen Mitchell, R.S.M. and Mrs. Theresa Mau rer·Isaacson, both of Fall River, represented the Fall River dio cese at the seventh annual Pro ject FAITH, held last week' at Our Lady of Peace Spiritual Life Center, Narragansett, R.I. FAITH, an acronym for Fran co-American Interest in the Handicapped, is a three-day workshop concerned with the spiritual needs of the mentally retarded and handicapped. It brings together representatives of the 11 New England dioceses to exchange ideas and discuss their common goal of bringing the message of Christ to individ ' uals With special needs.

MEMBERS OF OUR lADY OF FATIM\ parish, Swansea, will celebrate the 25th an niversary of its. founding at a Mass and banquet Sunday, May 22. Among arrangements Project FAITH, is sponsored by Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste, a . committee members are, standing from left, Mrs. Ambrose Powers, Mrs. William Rog ers, Mrs.. Raymond Patent; seated, Mr. and Mrs. Andre Michaud, chairmen, and Mr. fraternal .benefit insurance, so ciety. ' ' and Mrs. Robert McCoAnell, cochairmen. .

Keynote ,speakers were Dr. ,Richard" E. Kleiner,' a psycholo gist, and Rev. John J. Paris, S.J., of the faculty of Holy Cross Col lege, Worcester.

Faith a trapeze, he says

WASHINbTON(NC) - !Peo pIe want to believe, psychol9gist John McCall told religious e~ucators, but believing is risky, I like hanging in midair .while swing ing from one trapeze to another. McCaU spoke at the East qoast Bishop Louis E. Gelineau, of ~onference for Reli~ious, Edl~caProvidence and Edgar J. Martel, national president of Union tlOn, recently held 10 Was~mgton. The confe~nce theme Iwas Saint-Jean·Baptiste, and presi I dent of the National Fraternal "Growth in Faith." " 'Faithing' is what you do to Congress of America. teach people to believe more," said McCall, founder and direc tor of the Institute for, the Study ONLY FUll·L1NE RELIGIOUS of Religious Education at Boston GIFT STORE ON THE CAPE I College. "And people want td be o ,OPEN: lion - SIt; •• 5:30 I iieve more." ° OPEN 7DAYS Faith develops in people over during IUIIIIMr ....30 ...III!!!!!!~~ time if they have good moaels ~and partners in this quest, Me.""" ~ Call told the religious educaiors. One dimension of growth In faith is the capacity to take"'ri~ks, McCall said, quoting Cardinal 428 Main St.:HjannIS John Henry Newman: "We tisk 775-4180 upon Christ's worct what we ~ave John & Mory Lees. Props, for what we have not." I Taking this risk ·is like being an acrobat who must let g~ of one trapeze to catch another. "That's when we really belie~e," he said. \ Also participating were Sister Rita Baum, S.S.J., executive di rector of the National Catholic Office for Persons with Disabill . I t les. ' .

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Iii a speech four days befbre the opening of the Chic~go meeting, Secretary of Defe*se Caspar W. Weinberger Sllid U.S. nuclear deterrence policy "is consistent with many prin ciples of Catholic teaching".1 in the third draft of the pastoral. Weinberger, speaking lat Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York, quoted several lof the moral jUdgments contained in. the pastoral and said. uis. , I policy agreed with most of th~se principles. I But he also criticized the pas toral arguments on first use bf nuclear weapons in Europe a~d on development of new weapons capable of a "hard target kill." . I Though the meeting's work I

A second dimension of growth in color, to. talk in parables," he said. in faith is "the expanding aware Humor, "Learning to laugh ness of your own identity," McCall said. People reach a point even in pain," is the fifth dimen where "what got you here won't sion necesary for growth in faith.. "Huplor is the response of the keep you he~ei::'. and they must develop new .strengths~ non-violent.· believer" according "Ou.t .of: tb~ ashes comes ~e to' McCall, who said "the meek phoenIX, the, new self. As you die shim inherit the 'laugh." to self, YO':J: become more aware, . more integrated," he said. Lovipg more freely is the third dimension of growth in faith, WASHINGTON (NC) - The and it requires risking being hurt, McCall said. "Every time Supreme Court has agreed to re we trust someone we Iet go of . view whether local governments the trapeze. All faith believing can sponsor Christmas nativity begins in trusting someone else." scenes without violating separa Imagining in color is the fourth tion of church and state. The dimension, he told the religious high court said it would review educators, explaining that this a case from Pawtucket, R.I., in means increasing the right hemi which two lowr federal courts sphere of the brain, the hemi ' have ruled that city sponsorship sphere "where the mystery is." of a nativity scene was uncon The -left hemisphere of the stitutional. Though limited to the Pawtucket issue, the justices' brain is the informational, se quential side, while the right, is decision in this case may settle the spontaneous, holistic side, several similar disputes around McCall said. A balanced educa the nation. Some have involved tion, including both the left and Knights of Columbus councils right hemispheres, is important, that 'have purchased nativity' WASHINGTON (NC) - Scala he declared. scenes for erection on public brini Father Silvano Tomasi, "We've been afraid to imagine property. former director of the Center for Migration Studies in New York and editor of tlie Inter ,national Migration Review, has been named director of pastoral completed - except for the pre was tedious and time consum care for migrants and refugees ing, it was not without its light cis - the document now be 'comes the responsibility of a at the U.S. Catholic Conference. er moments. In the newly established post, three-member follow-up com Shortly after Archbishop John mittee headed by iBshop George he will administer the U.S. bish R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapo A. Fulcher of Lafayette, Ind., a ops' Ad Hoc Committee for Mi lis, president of the bishops' member of the pastoral's draft gration and Tourism. The com conference, pleaded with the ing committee. mittee is concerned' with the bishops to withdraw some of spiritUal needs of migrants and Th~ new committee, according tourists. their amendments if all the work was to be completed in two to Msgr. Daniel Hoye, general days, Auxiliary Bishop Patrick secretary of the National Con V. Ahem of New York d~d just fer~nce ,of Catholic Bishops, is ASCENSION to work on· a national level to that. , encourage, awareness and ap After one of his ea~ly amend THURSDAY ments - number 12 on the , preciation of the pas~oral by May 12 is a holy day of Catholics and other Americans. printed amendment sheets o~ligation. Cat h 0 Ii c s failed 'he said, "In light of num Other members of the com should attend either a ber 12, I waive. 15, I waive 17, mittee are 'Bishop Kenneth J. I waive 35,1 waive 40 -- I feel Povish of Lansing, Mich., and vigil Mass on W$esday like I'm waving good-bye." Bishop Kenneth Untener of or Mass' on Thursday_ With work on the pastoral Saginaw, Mich.

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MAHWAH, N.J. (NC) "Catholics no longer appear totally oblivious or innocent of the spiritual riches of other tra· ditions," Archbishop Jean Jadot, president of the Vatican Secre tariat for Non-Christians, said at a three-day international and ecumenical seminar at Immacu late Conception Seminary. The archbishop, former apos tolic delegate in the United States,' told pastors and acad emicians at the seminar that "none of us can any -longer ig norantly dismiss people of other faiths as one of the Fathers did at the first session of the Vati can Council as simply 'pagans, idolators and unbelievers.''' Seminar participants included scholars from four continents, representing Hindu, Buddhist, Moslem, Japanese, Jewish and Christian traditions. Archbishop Jadot said he did not intend to set aside ."the uniqueness of the revelation of Jesus Christ." At the same time, he said, "other religions may help' us .to come to a deeper understanding of all that Jesus has taught in the church for al most 2,000 years." He added that "the one Spirit is active in all religions . . . and we must come to know others if we are to speak to them and give wit ness to Jesus Christ." He said "rich fonts of spirit· uality" are to be found in the sacred books of other religions. Such holy books or sacred literatu're," the archbishop said, "are faithful records of the ways in which a varietY of other reli gious and spiritual people attest to how God has both called them in the past and continues even today to nourish them with spiritual strength." Recalling how missionaries .from St. Paul to Pope John Paul II have invoked "the unknown God," he recommended that fellow missionaries respect and reverence the mystery of God's 'hidden work among aU people.

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Vincentians Dear Editor: We wish to express oUlr sin cere appreciation and thanks for the generous space allocated for the celebration of the 150th An niversary of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, in the Diocese. Six Vincentians from the Dio cese attended the week long program at the International Council Meeting in Paris. The outstanding event ·in the Diocese, was the Concelebrated Mass at St. Ann Church, Rayn ham, by twelve Priests, follow ed by a banquet,·· with Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, guest spaker. Joseph A Tl,nsley, Secretary St. Vincent "de Paul Society

Rosary for pope Dear Editor: A reminder to Anchor friends to pray a "Birthday Rosary for His Holiness, Pope John Paul II and for his intentions. Beloved Holy Father will be 63 on May 18. Let us thank and ask Our Blessed Mother for her continu ing protection over him as he shepherds· . Christ's pilgrim Church on earth. May we, the Church, support him by our prayers, sacrifices, and good works as he carries the heavy burden of the papacy. We, the Church, need him and especially during these troubled times; and he needs our filial Jove and support. Monica Zygiel

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Excommunication VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has excommunica ted an exiled Vietnamese arch bishop and six of his followers, Including an American. The church decision was directed against Archbishop Pierre Mar tin Ngo Dinh Thuc, the 85-year old archbishop of Hue, Vietnam, who currently lives In France. A Vatican statemnt said the ex communication was ordered be cause of Afchbishop Thuc's illi cit ordinations of bishops and priests and his statement last year that the Holy See Is vacant. Originally excommunicated in 1976 for ordaining bishops in Spain without the authorization of Pope Paul VI, the· archbishop asked pardon. The order was ·lifted in 1977 but the archbishop was still prohibited from or daining. His new excommunica tion centers on his 1981 epis copal ordinations of a French Dominican and two Mexicans.

Those who saw it liked it NEW YORK (NC) - "The Pope and His Vatican," an ABC New$ special report that aired Easter Sunday, has prompted numerous fan letters although it finished low ,in network ratings. ,:~-~"Z:q "The response has been among the largest ever received for an ABC News program," said Jane Paley, ABC director of com munity relations. "We never ex i t .... 7 ..;,.. . • pected such an immediate and enthusiastic response. Some 50 . _ 7__ r______ letters about the program arrive ARCHBISHOP PIO LAGIU, apostolic delegate in the United States, celebrates Mass each day." "The. Pope and His Vatican" marking the 175th anniversary of the Boston archdiocese. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin is aired only a few days after third from right at ceremony which brought together most of the bishops of New Eng broadcast of the controversial land. (Garrity Photo courtesy of The Pilot, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston) ABC miniseries. "The Thorn Birds." Unlike "The Thorn Birds," however, which swept the weekly Nielsen ratings in first, second and third place, "The Pope and His Vatican" fin VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope church declaration of sainthood that the number of requests to ished low in the ratings, 66th of John Paul II has approved in as little as 10 years. In the begin the process had greatly 69 shows. changes in the process for the past, the process usually took increased in recent years. Nonetheless, acording to ex canonization of saints which 'decades and candidates were Although there were only 47 cerpts of let¢ers - released by place more responsibility on local rarely canonized less than a cen canonization causes introduced ABC, it had its fans. bishops, reduce the. role of the tury after death. at the Vatican during the entire Michael and Joanne White of Vatican and pennit lay men and Major responsibility for initia decade of the 1950s, he said, Cedar Falls; Iowa, told ABC that women to promote a candidate's ting and .documenting causes there were Ei new cases just last "we have nevell' written to a net cause. will rest with local bishops, who . year. work before' ... We just wanted "With the new provisions, a will no longer need to request The new nonns stress the need to let you know that we ap preciated this look at one of the simplification of the procedure Vatican pennission for the pro for "maximum scientific and his will be obtained, freeing it from cedure but will simply be' asked toric rigor" in investigating _few public men of God that we can grow to understand. With useless fonnalities," said Msgr. to keep the Vatican infonned of causes. Fabijan Veraja, undersecretary of progress in gathering proofs reo The document allows a lay out ABC's efforts to bring this to us, we should KaVe been a the Congregation for Saints' garding the activity, virtues and man or woman to hold the posi miracles of candidates. tion of "postulator," gathering little poorer this Easter even Causes, at a Vatican press con Msgr. Veraja declined to say . material relevant to the canon- . ing." ference. A clergyman in Tennessee, the Three documents related to how many canonization causes ization cause and serving as its are currently pending but said main promoter. Rev. Arthur J. Jansson of Pul the revJsed procedure were re aski, said he "thought it was the leased at the conference. best program of its type ever The papal document, an apos shown about sny religious tolic constitution titled "Divinus .leader. Many people not of the Perfectionis Magister" (Divine Teacher of Perfection), was dated Continued from page three everyone a specific and personal Catholic faith told me that it gave them the best view of the Jan. 25, the day that the pope essary to face lifestyle ques fonn of renunciation." issued the new Code of Canon tions. "Perhaps my original guilt Vatican or the Cstholic religion Law. Taking issue with common came from asking the wrong they had ever had." The other documents - the usage of the tenn poverty in ra questions," he concluded. "The nonns for new canonization ligious orders, Archbishop Weak challenge is not - what kind of Every Moment causes and a general decree on land expressed preference for car do I drive? In what kind of Every moment· comes to us the procedure for causes already the tenn renunciation. Noting house do I live? - but, rather: pregnant with a command in progress - were dated Feb. 7 problems of Third World coun Does my car help me to be a from God, only to pass on and and signed by Cardinal Pietro tries, he said that poverty is good bishop, in particular on plunge into eternity, there to re Palazzini, prefect of the Congre "an evil" and cannot be called Wisconsin's winter roads? Does main forever what we have gation for Saints' Causes, and a virtue. But he said that the where I live help me fulfill the made of it." - st. Francis de Archbishop Traian Criban, the Gospel lifestyle "demands of function of bishop?" . Sales congregation's secretary. The apostolic constitution and the nonns will be an appendix to the new'Code of Canon Law, which takes effect Nov. 27. Msgr. Veraja estimated that the new procedure will pennit a

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HECLA. Pa. (NC) - Until about 25 years ago, most monas teries in ,the United States were engaged in agricultural work in addition to their primary voca tion of prayer. But today, in rough economic times, many orders are finding it difficult to survive on agrarian endeavors alone. A number of Cistercian mon asteries,for .example, have sought work in other occupa tions. The monks of St. Mary's Monastery near the tiny village of Hecla are one group with an unusual source of fund-raising. A few years ago, the superior monk at St. Mary's, Father Luke Anderson, decided tha-t farming would not, sustain the monas tery. He asked for outside help in finding work the monks could perform within the. monastery. A local textile firm contact 'ed the monastery with an offer to train the monks in the diffi cult and meticulous job of gar men·t-cutting. St. Mary's accep ted. Today the Cistercian monks cut anything from Calvin Klein jeans to jogging suits. Initially, the company's mill workers and the monks were both skeptical about having the Cistercians COme to the mill to learn the necessary skills. But soon, rapport developed. The Cistercians learned the trade well and now do all of

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.. THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., May 6, 1983

'Nobody loves me better than my mom'

By cecula Belanger

Recently I ukecl children and young people ranging In age from 4% to 18 what they Ukecl best about tbe1r mot!llers. Here are their responses: "I'm glad my mother is mine and not somebody else's." "My mother doesn't always get mad over every little thing. When I've done something wrong she says, Okay, let's have it. The whole truth from the begin ning.' Because of that I don't lie." "On rainy days my mother isn't upset because I'm playing in the house. She plays with me. We read and somtimes we sing together." "If there is something at school she always goes and I like to see her there." "Nobody loves me better than my Mom." "She likes everything I give her. On her birthday I made something in arts and crafts and she hung it in the living room, even though it's nothing you hang up." "My mother isn't crazy over dogs, but because I wanted one she agreed for me to have one. And now she likes Turnover as much as 1 do." "I like everything about my mother. 1 like to watch her work. By that 1 mean she's so good at everything she does. I hope some of that talent is rubbing off on me. 1 certainly have a good ex ample right under my nose." "When Mom Isn't feeling well I tell her not to get up, that 1 can make my own breakfast, but she still insists on getting up and seeing that 1 get off to school

okay. Then she will go back to bed." "It's hard to say which one thing 1 like best about Mom. 1 just have to look at her some times when she isn't looking and 1 feel loved and secure. Moms are everything." "My Mummy lets me help her cook. 1 make a mess and she just says, 'We'll clean it up.' It's fun to do things with her be cause she smiles a lot at me and she is nice." "My Mum le~ me write letters to my grandmother and she helps me. And my grandmother writes back and says it's the best letter she ever received." "She fixed up a special room for me with all my things In it and nobody can go in without asking me. Nobody can touch my stuff. She made a rule about it." "Mom helps me with my hob bies. I collect alll kinds of things. She never complains and says I'm dirtying the house or mak ing a junkyarei out of it. She . knows these things I collect are important to me." "My mother likes to cook and she does a lot of it. She is hap piest when everybody is eating and feeling good and healthy. She's not always complaining even though I think 1 would in her shoes. She works hard and 1 love her." "Mom's budgeting tightly just so I can get an education. I ap preciate it now but will appre ciate it more when I'm out in the world earning my own liv ing, having my own children. She's super." "I appreciated my mother

when I went off to college. Boy, did I ever appreciate her! She said my first letter made her cry. I finally told her what 1 couldn't tell her in person." "My. mother is proud. She isn't always wishing for things she can't have and thereby mak ing my Dad feel bad. She keeps things to herself, things that would upset everybody and no good coming out of it. She's pa tient and in my eyes very saint ly." "Mom is a religious person. She's influenced me in that di rection. 1 never fought it because 1 think it's the way to go. She's intelligent about her faith and not overbearing or showy, but it's there, deep and strong. I like that." "I love my Dad too, but since this is just about Moms, one of the things I like best about mine is her determination. She begins something, and she fin ishes it. She makes a promise and she keeps it. She's on time; you don't have to wait for her. She doesn't embarrass you in I front of your friends." "She's not a person you 'Can lie to. She's always said, 'As long as you tell me the truth we'll be okay. I'll back you up as long as you tell me the truth.' " "Somebody once asked me to describe my mother, her fea tures, etc. and I couldn't. It dawned on me I'd just taken my mother for granted, never analy zing her or her outward appear ance. I wondered how many kids can describe their mothers? Can you describe yourself? Is it im portant to? So my answer was, 'She's my mother and she's

wonderful. That's how I de- other people and she took us along with her. 1 don't know scribe her.''' "My mother is so nice that I how she did it, but she did. And told her one day that I wish I when I remand her of it today could have played with her when she just smiles and says, 'I didn't mind.' " she was a little girl." "She lifts me up so 1 can mail "Mom has had arthn.tis for the letters." years, the painful, crippling "She lets me take pictures of kind. She's taught me not to her at the lake." complain. I love her for her . "She bakes cupcakes for me courage and not wanting sym. to take to school." pathy from anyone. She works "Mother is from Europe and a harder than the rest of us and very interesting person aside tries to cover up how she feels. from being a special mom. Stor- Moms are special all right." ies of her childhood fascinate me "When my dog died Mom and she can make just about didn't laugh at me when I had anything she puts her hand to. a hard time eating at the table. She said in her country they 1 used to feed my dog with my start the children off very young scraps and when they were left to be useful and dependable. lover there was no dog to feed can thank her for that because' them to it was hard on me. And I'm pretty self-sufficient and Mom just held me and let me hope I can take care of myself." cry." "Dad died' when I was three "My mother is so good, so years old. Mom supported me ' tender andl loving, that when and my brother by working for I'm with her I feel close to God."

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Actually the bishops long had , opposed military aid for El Sal 'vador because, it was argued, most of that aid went to re pressive military groups that violated human rights with im punity. The bishops, for instance, had urged the Carter administra tion to honor the request of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero of San ~'alvador, who shortly before he was assassinated in March 1980 had asked in a letter to Carter that no more military aid be sent to his government.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Presi dent Reagan's difficulties' with Congress over Central American policy can be attributed to many factors. But perhaps the biggest stumbling block of all is some-, thing Reagan didn't mention in his April 27 address to a jo.int session of Congress: the con .stant memory of the deaths of the four American .church women in El Salvador. It has been more than ,two years since Maryknoll Sisters But the murder of the four Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ur 'suline Sister Dorothy Kazel and women crystalized opposition lay worker Jean Donovan were among American Catholics and found murdered near the San shocked the nation even though Salvador airport, allegedly by a such deaths are commonplace group of Salvadoran National in El Salvador itself. Ever since then the slow pro· Guardsmen. gress - ,some would say the And yet despite the way is sues tend to come and go these, lack of progress - in the prose days, hardly a week or ~ month cutions of 'the five ex-Guardsmen slips by without some reference being held in the case has been , to those deaths and,the lac,k· of , -used as one of the clubs against convictions in the '~ase. The more military aid and as one of latest reference came from Sen. the' reasons to oppose Reagan's Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), " semi-annual' certifications that who in the Democratic response human rights progress is being made in the country. immediately after Reagan's ad , ReagllO in his addres~ to Con , dress pointed to the women's deaths and said the Salvadoran gress said that there are stilI "major troubles" in the Salva judicial system is "so intimida doran criminal justice system and ted that it cannot even bring the ~n the ,~iIIings of noncombat accused murderers to triaL" . The deaths, in December 1980, ants. But critics of his policies say that the answer is not more prompted President Carter im mediately to cut off all military aid but an end to aid until im and economic assistance to, El provem~nts are made. - Salvador pending an investiga-' At a March congressional tion.. But a little more than hearing Stephen L. Kass, a New month later, in the face of the York attorney who went to El Salvadoran rebels' "final offen Salvador earlier this year to re sive," Carter resumed economic view its ,criminal justice system, and military aid, the la~ter much said he saw "no reasonable to the constemation of the U.S. hope" that ,the Salvadoran judi bishops. cial system can be improved so

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long as the Salvadora~ military sees itself as above the law in its perceived mission of elimina ting subversives. With aid continuing, Kass said, there is no incentive for reform while a "significant in terruption" in' aid would do the most good. 'But such an interruption is not likely, at' least under the present circumstances. Though Congress has been reluctant to give Reagan everything he wants, it has tended to give the administration at least partial victories, such as the House for eign operations subcommittee's decision the .day 'before Rea gan's address to give, him $30 million of the $60 million in mili· tary aid he wanted to shift to EI Salvador: from other countries. Where Congress has been tougher on the administration has been in the setting· of con that aid•.. One new ditions for .1'• . proposa.l, sponso~ed by Rep. Stephen J. Solarz (D-N.Y.), would _directly link to the churchwomen's deaths by requir ing, : presidential certification that trials have been 'held for "substantia! numbers" of Salva doran troops re~ponsible for violent acts against U.S. and Salvadoran citizens. How much overall impact the murders of the "our church women has had on the debate over El Salvador is unclear. But it is almost certain that had they not died the Reagan ad ministration might not be facing the problems it faces today as it tries to convince a reluctant Congress to go along with its policies in Central America.

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the Gospel. "Every student," he WASHINGTON (NC) - Non Catholic students should feel said, "should be provided the welcome in Catltolic schools, opportunity to know Jesus Christ." The Bishop called Cath Bishop John S. Cummins of Oak land, Calif., told educators, but· olic education for poor, inner there should be no watering .city non-Catholic children a down of church dogmas for "significant social justice con them. Speaking at the National tribution" that should be de Catholic Education Association veloped further. convention in Washington, Bish op Cummins said Catholic Most Important schools must balance the needs ''The most important acts, of Catholic and non-Catholic both for the one who accom· students. plishes them and for his fellow He also noted that the pres creatures, are those that have ence of non-Catholics offers remote consequences." - Leo schools an opportunity to teach Tolstoy

FATHER EAMON CAR ROLL, O. Cann., a Mariolo gist, speaker and author, will deliver the keynote ad dress at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 14, at the second an nual Marian Wekend at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro. The weekend theme will be CIA Woman Clothed with the Sun." Father Carroll, whose most recent book is "Under standing the Mother of Je sus," will be celebrant and homilist at a 12:10 p.m. Mass following his address. Other Saturday events will be a slide presentation on the La Salette apparitions, a dis cussion of such apparitions, 7:30 p.m. Mass and a candle light procession and crown ing ceremony. The day will conclude with an open house in the shrine monastrY. Sunday's program will open at 12:10 p.m. with a Eucharistic liturgy for pil grims followed by a living rosary at 2 p.m. and solemn Marian vespers at 3 p.m. Music during the weekend will be by the LaSalette Chorale. Featured will be a new composition by Father Andre Paenaude, MS, shrine director. Its title, "A Woman Clothed with the Sun," echoes the weekend theme. It will be heard at the 12:10 p.m. Mass on Saturday and at Sunday vesters.

'Roses' star NEW YORK (RNS) - Melissa Gilbert. star of "Little House on the Prairie," will have the title role in an NBC television movie about Jean Donovan, the Cath olic lay missionary slain in El Salvador in 1980. The film, "Roses," will chronicle Miss Donovan's development from apathetic college student to deeply committed missionary. Production began in Mexico City in March: A previous documentary, "Roses i~ 'December," also dealt with MillS Donovan's dife. Its title ~ that of the TV film refer to the winter blooming of roses in El Salvador on which she commented in a letter writ ten shortly before her death. .

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the blue, historically s~eaking, whereas a great tradition; of celi It is appalling to have to wit bacy had alre~dy been in prac· ness on national'television, every tice through the third and fourth now and then~ ail almost incred centuries and had in f~ct pre ulous lack of religious leadership pared the way for its later con· in this coUntry when it comes to firmation by the churchl our own best churchmen explain By that time,' the min~ of the ing certain crucial aspects. of the church ,had reached al point Roman Catholic faith. where it considered celibacy to During the week of the tele be an invaluable and perhaps casting of "The Thorn Birds" necessary -condition for :the ef that by now immortal Australian fectiveness and stability of holy soap opera in which priests very orders. It is ironic that in ian age curiously have no priestly duties of the most severe forms of sex to keep them busy and in which ual dislocation, some Diodems the always fully adorned hier should now consider celibacy as archy in Rome preoccupies itself the cause of 'instability in holy with nothing more stressful than orders. I staring wistfully from Vatican But it is not my purpose to windows - it was in such a justify the practice of c~libacy week that ABC's late news fea as a Church tradition th~t must ture program "Nightline" de be defended at all costs.; 'Theo cided, appropriately enough, to retically, of course, the practice examine the question of priestly could be changed or altered by celibacy, in the Catholic Church. the Holy See itself. And Iyet, if After all, while network tele Father Andrew Greeley had his vision cannot abide the notion way, I'd not be allowed IIto say of accommodating Catholic posi anything about it at all. Accord tional statements and interviews ing to a News Notes bUll~tin of on the rights of the unborn, for the National Federation of example, it is very open to ex· Priests' Councils for October amining the curio of priestly 1982, Father Greeley ha~ stri celibacy in an age unparalleled dently exclaimed that "priests for its relentless sex hype in a are what priests say they are largely consumerist society. and the laity had damrt well The main guests that Ted better be satisfied with ~at." Koppel's producers had lined up And let that be a lessoni to me for interviews were Cardinal and all other laymen, by gosh, ,John Joseph Krol of Philadel straight from the guy who !thinks phia, Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh that papal disciplining of doc of Notre Dame University, and trinally unsound theologi~ns is the religious soap novelist a bit too much. I Father Andrew M. Greeley, a Greeley's ultimatum ~as a ,self-publicist whose views are touch of irony not unlike that in even less stable than his where the cases of Jane Fonda, tecent abouts, hardly ,a rock-solid ly sued for sexual discrimipation choice for representing the views against some of her own female of the teaching church. 'employees in the pump, isquat, The latter two are predictable and bend business. In either media guests (along with Fr. case, don't let the 'peasantS arise Richard McBrien) at almost any or dare take issue with their time on almost any subject con obvious betters. , cerning the faith and morals of Come to think of it, Jane and the Catholic Church. Father Andy are an aMpI lot One presumes that the idea alike. Cute but very skittish I was to have a conservative on around the edges. the show, such as Cardinal Krol, To return to "Nightlinel" and priestly celibacy, what remains a middle-roader like Father Hes burgh, and a sprightly little appalling is that an outst~nding shocker like Father Andy just to high churchman, the preSident of a great Catholic university, liven things up before the com and a loquacious socidlogist mercial breaks. turned novelist either could not Also guesting were an ex priest married to an ex-nun, the - or at least did not - c,learly articulate the. spiritual dypamic former notably illogical in al most everything he said; w~ile that is mainly responsible for the' latter, though pecuilarly their having become good priests dormant, confessed several times in the first place. Cardina~ Krol to being so energized in her new did touch upon the matter, but state of life that you had to only glancingly, and yet neither president n6r the wonder why Duracell was not, the university , . I sponsoring her appearance. Any- novelist chose to follow the car way, enough of those two. ' dinal's lead. Instead, tedious arguments On the question of priestly celibacy itself, however, none, were proffered on the fabuliar of the clerics could provide a . grounds that the celibate priest clear and unequivocal response can devote all his attention to as to why the Roman Catholic a ministry or apostolate Which priesthood is considered unique, has no other 'distraction~' at at least by Roman Catholics tending upon it, etc. Still, I good themselv~s, among aU the Chris works are neither the cause nor tian mini/ltries. None took pains ,the primary intention o~ the to correct the program's re priesthood - they are its effects. ceived ,iqtpressfon that celibacy As a layman out of hiS ele was sud~enly imposed upon a ment, I nevertheless' dar¢ to hapless priesthood in ,the 11th suggest that the overwhelming century, like something out of reason or 'manifest· grace for By

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Merry month of May ,also worst for suicide There were 8' suicides in Fall River, 8 -in New Bedford. But 1982 Cape figures are ex pected to show a notable drop, since the completion of suicide 'barriers on the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. Samaritans U.S.A., the nation al council of the worldwide sui cide prevention organization, is redoubling its efforts to help combat the tragedy of suicide, which in Massachusetts is high est in the 20s age bracket but which everyWhere is increasing alarmingly among adolescents, for whom it is second only to car accidents as a leading cause of death. Barbara Espey, president of The Samaritans U.S.A., says that by the end of 1983, six more Samaritan' branches will be opened for 24-hour service to suicidal, despairing and lonely people. ' "Eventually we hope to have Samaritan branches in many states," he said, adding that or ganization is "a big job, as each branch must recruit at least 50 volunteers to start, and find its own funding. For now, we l:jre concentrating on New' England, priestly celibacy follows from it . where new branches in Hartford, freely chosen way of life which Conn., Manchester, N.H., Salem, has as its goal the becoming, as Mass., and the Fall River-New nearly as possible, an authentic Bedford area will be added to (though always fallible) imita those ,already active in Boston, 'tion of Christ. Falmouth and Lawrence, Provi The priest'is an eschatological dElDce, R.I." and Keene, N.H." sign whose central fact of cohe In 1982, these branches re sion and constant center of cele sponded to over 200,000' calls bration is the Eucharistic Pres for help and Samaritan volun ence and the sacramental grace teers gave 95,000 hours of ser which flows from it for the bene fit of the 1l>elieving and worship vice to caners. ping community. ,"Samaritans are not coun

I don't find this too difficult selors," says Monica Dickens, founder of the group in the U.S. to say. Why should priests? I mean outside the fact that it's "We listen and befriend. Sui· enough to· put the fear of God cidal people desperately need to ,in you. talk, and sometimes it's easier This month, the most beauti· ful of all for many people, for others may be a month of trag edy. Of all the months, May con sistently shows the highest rate of suicide. Spring should be a time of hope and b,etter chances. But to those who are too depressed' and unhappy to feel this, it can make their situation' look worse, by contrast. The American Association of Suicidology has designated the first week in Mayas National Suicitle Prevention Week, to in crease awareness of the risk of suicide, and what can be done to help. Latest Massachusetts figures for ,1981 record 492 deaths as suicide, an -increase over the 1980 total of 463, but lower than any other year in the last 10 years. It is estimated that there were at least 5,000 suicide attempts. 23 people, from Cape Cod and the Islands took -their lives in 181, one-and-a-half times as many as the national avrage of 12.4 per ROO,OOO.

VILA NOVA DE OUREN, Portugal (NC) - Father Juan Fernandez Krohn, 33, an illictly ordained Spanish priest, has been found guilty of a May 1982 attempt to kill Pope John Paul 11 at Fatima, Portugal. He was sentenced May 2 to six and a half years in prison. While being sentenced at Vila Nova de Ourem, near Fatima, Father Fernandez Krohn called_ the judges "puppets, commun ists, murderers" and was given another seven months' impris onment for insulting the court. He was found guilty of hav ing tried to murder the pope at Fatima on May 12, 1982, when he lunged toward the pontiff with a bayonet. The pope was in Fatima to thank Mary for spar ing his life in another assassina tion attempt a year earlier in Rome. At the beginning of his trial, whic!! opened last October but was then recessed for several months so Father Fernandez Krohn could undergo psychiatric tests, the priest accused Pope John Paul of "demolishing the Catholic Church." In April, after the trial re sumed, he tried to bum a photo graph of the pope in court. Father Fernandez Krohn was ordained by suspended Arch bishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1978 but later broke with the arch bishop's followers. He has since been linked to a radical, ultra . rightist group which' believes no pope since Pius' XII has been validly elected. alhlllllllUUlllIIlIIlIIlIIllllllllllmnllnlllllllll"UUWlllhhtUlUmllllllllllll 11111111111111111'

to talk to a stranger who is not involved in your life." But the Samaritans believe that suicide prevention is every body's business, not just that of prevention centers and mental health professionals. The Sam aritans conduct workshops for schools, colleges and other groups on how to recognize a suicidal person and how to help him or her. "Anyone who is willing to listen and share the pain," de clares Ms. Dickens, ",to take the suicidal feelings seriously and not be afraid to discuss them, may be able to help a person at risk to save his or her own life." In this area the S'amaritllns have three 24-hour suicide pre vention hotlines: 548-8900; 771-7770; 255-1888.

NOTRE DAME, .FR Women's Guild: officers and directors will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in :the rectory. Dinner meeting', presentation of scholar ships, 7 p.m. Monday, May 23, W.hlte's restaurant. Testimonial honoring Alhert VlIJillancourt. winner of national award for outstanding teaching: 1 :30 .p.m. Sunday, May 29, Mc Govern's restaurant. Informa ·tion: school or rectory. First communion: Noon Sun day, May 15, Mt. St. Joseph School. Rosarymakers meeting: 7:30 p.m. Monday, rectory.

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ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET First communion: 11:30 a.m. Sunday. May procession: 10:15 a.m. Mass Sunday, May 15. Rev. Howard A. Waldron Scholarship Award: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, parish center. ST.JOSE~,F~AVEN

. Soup kitchen: Parish volun teers will assist today at the New Bedford project. Canned goods for the kitchen are col lected at the church entrance on a continuing basis. First communion: Noon Sun day, group 2. Ro~ and Benediction: 1 p.m. FrIday. May 13 and 20. CCD: Last classes and distri bution of report cards: Sunday, May 15. ST.DO~C,SlVANSEA

Nominations for membership on the parish council may be telephoned to the rectory before tomorrow. Elections: weekend Masses May 21 and 22.

ST. PAUL,. TAUNTON Mother's Day Mass and May crowning: 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Mothers, mothers-in-law and grandmothers are invited to re ceive a' flower and blessinR fl"om Msgr. Robel"t Stanton, pas tor. Music by parish choir ac companied by organist Rosemary Bettencourt. Crowning proces sion: first communicants, with Amanda Kotkowski as crowner and Robert Cahoon as crown bearer. Refreshments will fol low Mass. ST.ST~LAUS,FR

. Congratulations go to parish men who won the CYO Class B basketball championship. Presentation of confirmation candidates: 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. O.L. ANGELS, FR Consecration of parish to Im maculate Heart: 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow. Blessin~ of autos: 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 29, church parking lot. Parish council: meeting 7 p.m. Monday, June 13, ,parish !hall. Summer Mass schedule: be .gins Sunday, June 5, with Masses on the hour from 7 a.m. to noon, 7 a.m. and noon Masses in Portuguese. 8a'turday: 4 and 5:15 ·p.m. ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR 53 Junior Volunteers were honored at ·recent recogni·tion ceremonies.

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What's: on .your mind?

-j By TOM LENNON

By Charlie Martin

I· WON'T HOLD YOU BACK

Q. You say ·that ptemari tal sex will l)Ulke us un happy. I want to know why you think so. (Dlinois) .

U I had another chance tonight orrhea or even "the. Bi~ H," .I'd try to tell you that ~e things we had were right herpes, if you are' (to u~e an Time <CaD erase the love we shared other euphemism) sexually ac But It gives me time to realize just how much you cared tive. I Now .that you'te gone I'm really not the same A. In "Tex.". a low-budget There also is .the risk of preg I gu~ I have myself to blame. . movie .that wasn't around long, nancy, even if a contra~eptive Time <CaD erase the things we sald . the young hero, played by Matt is used. . , I But It gives me the time to realize that you're the .one Instead Dillon, tries to get his teen-age Then too there is the element You know than won't hold you back now girl to engage in sexual inter of damaging one's relatibnship The love we had just can't be found cOurse in. his pickup truck. with the Lord and the pos~ibility You know I can't hold you back now Her reason for refusing him of carrYing a burden of I guilt. Now that Pm alone It gives me time went something like this: "I'm That can cause deep unhappi To think about the yeats that you were mine confused about so many things ness. I Time can erase the love we shared right now and I don't want to Another friend described pre 'But it gives me time to realize just how mucin you cared become more' confused by get marital sex as "butterfly! sex." Written by: Steve Lukather, sung by Toto, @ 1982

ting into sex." . ' People are free to flit fro~ part- . The girl seemed to sense that ner' to ,partner, much lil~e the Rehtakul Veets Music (ASCAP)

she was not· yet emotionally butterfly, but very often! such , TOTO IS today's most pop- tory, we might find that it didn't mature enough for the profound relationships are fleeting and lar group. "I Won't Hold You stop suddenly. It may have been eXperience of sexual intercourse. shallow. i Back," from the album, "Toto eroded by a long. series of small Careful thought reveals that a Apparently she also sensed, IV," is its third straight Top 40 events and situations. sexual relationship .should be however dimly, that the pleas- . hit. Every couple needs to work ure of, sexual, intercourse, is .at a anything but fleeting andl shal The song begins at the end. of on communication.. Small dis low. . . I much deeper level than, say, Intercourse ' involves. rI1ighty a relationship. But, if we could agreements and hurts gr~dually . munching a piece of fudge:' and look over the relationship's .his-·can make a difference in feelings There are other reasons why and profound forces of love that are wonderful: gifts premarital sex, does not ulti i . . from God. . : , matelycontribut~ to happiness. It is the most intimate physi and believed in him, he or she ,typewriters an4 printing presses land Higher I;:ducation Author·

A friend said that premarital clil expression of a person's total' can' no-'Ionger 'continu'e as if his Iif~ has put into motion. i~y. .

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giving' of herself or hims~lf in. it,olhing had changed. Peter ,Pens and computers will continpresents .in November. There's the .immensely pleasurable em- '. fou,?d that there was work other ue to probe his mysterious per- ot .Gonnolly inducted .new mem

an empty. feeling afterward be brace· .of love. One recall~ the. : thim 'fi~hi~g for him to do. His sonality. His very name, says St. bers at a ceremony last Wed cause anticipation is gone. words of a once popuiar·isong, n~w jo~. was to pring' souls. to -Bernardi ~"is honey in th.e mout;.h,nesd.,ay.. StJld.~m.L speakers were

. Premarital sex can also in: "All of me! Why not taKe all Chris~:")niscipli~g was ~o. be melody in the ear, joy in the ,Steve Cobe~~ Sheryl Harring-.

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of me?" . " I , the niahi bus~riess 'of ,J~~us' fol heart, medi-dirie' '.' , . Fernando. ., .....A teen-ager' might well won That ,kind of love isn't given lowers: Soon It was realIzed. that " ',' Cier:" "Is the 'other person using for half an ht>ur'and then taken his' death had no.t interrupted me? Will he or she leave as soon . back. It is exclusive and l per- his life's mission. " . .' ,Junior Achievement .of Fall as we've had intercourse several manent.·1t is the forever of: marI like to think about the As times?". . ... . riage. Even in the midst of 'diffi-" cension, as I did in -childhood. River . re'cently awarded $500 Feehanites Janice Dudson and culties and, struggle, that fkind The apostolic company led ~~ the . scholarships to Joanne Jackson Linda Geoffrey' have· been ac- One ·16-Year.-oid was heart broken when' her boyfriend ~left of -love gives solid happiness to Master to the slope of Olivet, and Steve' Cobery. Sheryl Har cepted in a summer sCience pro I ' he blessing them l:(nd then being rington was awarded a trophy gram her two weeks after they ~irst co.mmitted lovers. at Providence CoHege. They as an outstanding member of That kind of love is so mighty received into. a cloud out of their' engaged in sexual intercourse. will study environmental biology JA. . She could not bring .herself to that the Bible compares it to the . sight. and biological' computer simu What a mystery! The body so . have another date untii the sec - love between' Christ' and:. his Father Philip Geogan, S.J., lation in a prQgram to run from church. . I . worn, so exhausted by pain and school chaplain, recently attend ond year of college. -!une 20 through July 28 for six Send comments or que~ons loss of blood, S? lashed by c~el ed a meeting of New England and a, half hours daily. There is also. serious concern about veneral disease. Be aware to Tom'Lerinon, 1312 Mass.jAve. ~lows, ascendmg and bem~. Catholic school chaplains at An They were selected from a that you c;an get· syphilis, gon- N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005.' surrounded by a great multl dover Academy. , . : tude which no man can number." sizable number of qualified ap Pat Cava~agh has received a plicants for the highly struc =j Even though Jesus left no study grant from the Rhode Is· tured program. wridngs, consider aU the pens,

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and attitudes. Burying hurt feel ings can result in their springing back with more power than they originally possessed. On the' other hand, if people learn to work through. small difficulties, they may never get out of hand. Their closeness may grow instead.. . Listening . attentively is im portant too, No one likes to ex press a hurt feeling and have it slighted or ridiculed. A good listener also will try to encour age another to share more than the .immediate concern. Some ,times hints. of larger issues lie hidden in the initial message. Taking time to work through the underlying issues isa vital part of good oommunication. Couples also need to work at forgiveness. for no love can survive without it. Forgiveness acknowledges that some actions and words can hurt; the acknow ledgment begins to rebuild the bond between two people. "I'm sorry." I was wrong." "Forgive me" all are vitally important words. 'Perhaps the greatest sadness is to know that a broken rela tionship could· have worked out differently - if only we had worked harder· at it. Your comments are welcome. Address Charlie MllI'tin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, . Ind. 47714.

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one who too easily believes everything told him. Jesus tUus trated his wisdom in the choice of, so . cautious a disciple as Thomasl I The question has often J;>een asked "Where .was Jesus from the Resurrection to the Asfen sion?" Great mystery surrounds him. We get from the New res tament an impression of reserve and remoteness evinced' in ~Udden and unexpected appearances and disappearances, change~ of form, .silent. glidings in and \out of secluded and fastened cham bers'. i Jesus disciplined the dis~iples to rely on them!>elves1;>efore !the Ascension, but not before I he taught them to rely on the Para clete. Otherwise they might h~ve gone back to fishing. I Yet once someone has truly . r.eceived a mandate from J~sus

YOUTH GROUP members of Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, present Fath er William Boffa, director of St. Vincent de Paul Camp, Westport, with a 'check for camp activities. The youngsters raised the money at a penitential Good Friday meal.

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Dave Gauvin Honored ••• Dave Gauvin, the 119-pound boxer of the Fall River evo continues to make headlines. He has ,been named winner of the annual American Legion Out standing Young American Award presented to a young person who exemplifies princi ples of Americanism within Legion programs. The presentation was made at a dinner in Sharon, where Dave's father, Raymond, accep ted the honor for his son, in training at the United States Olympic Center in Colc;>rado Springs and unable to be pres

ent Dave's name was submitted by Roy W. Holt, Americanism Chairman of District Nine (Bris-

tol County) American Legion. Alvan T. Fuller, of New Bed~ ford, Department Commander, presented a .plaque to Dave's father along with a $200 check which was sent to the United States Olympic Fund in Dave's name. Dave, who already enjoys an international reputation, is one of 96 boxers invited to partici pate in the 1983 Pan-American Trials at Colorado Springs June 10-20. He will vie for one of four spots in his division. If suc cessful he will participate in another competition at the Air Force Academy to determine ad vancement to the next round on Aug. 2 in St. Louis.

••• And His Trainer Honored Too Ron Comeau, under whom Gauvin trained at the Fall River evo, arrived at the Colorado Springs training center last Tuesday. There he will be re sponsible for 65 young boxers for 2 % weeks and will also keep an eye on Gauvin and Gil-

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-parental guidance sug gested; R-rcstricted, unsuitable' for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-scparate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation!; O-morally offensive.

New Films "Exposed" (MGM-UA): This ludicrous melodrama lurches through academia and the worlds of high fashion and internation al terrorism. A farm girl from Wisconsin (Nastassia Kinski) drops out of college and goes to New York where she becomes the hottest model of the season. She also gets involved with a violinist (Rudolf Nureyev), a foe of terrorism on the track of a Carlos-like character (Harvey Keitel) responsible for the death of his mother. Thanks to our heroine, he finds him, and a shootout wraps everything up. Shallow and derivative, the movie exploits Serious issues trying to concoct something chic and witty, but Jt fails. Because of some graphic sexuality and the lack of a moral perspective, it is classified O.

bert Santo Christo, another product of Comeau's program. Santo Christo Is at the center as a member of the all-comers group and is aiming ,for a berth on one of the United States in ternational teams.

Heavy Conference Schedule Tomorrow The Southeastern ~assachu setts Conference has a full card of baseball games on tap for to morrow but Bishop Stang High School is the only diocesan school with a home game. The Spartans will take on the See konk High Warriors in a Divis ion Two game. In Division One action, Bish op Connolly treks to Barnstable while Bishop Feehan visits Dighton-Rehoboth in Division Two and Coyle and Cassidy is at Westport In Division Three in which Holy Family has a bye. Other conference games to morrow are S'omerset at Attie "

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- "Bronco Billy" (1980) - An off-beat Clint Eastwood film about a former New Jersey shoe salesman who puts together a modest but competent Wild West Show with other dreamers and. misfits. An amiable, relax ed comedy marred by one brutal fight sequence. A3, PG Religious Broadcasting - TV Sunday, May 8, 10:30 a.m. Diocesan Television Mass. "Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel program molderated by Truman Taylor and having as pennanent participants Father Peter N. Gra ziano, dIocesan director of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island; and Rabbi B8nlch. Korff. ''The Glory of God," with Father John Bertolucci, 7:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 27. "MarySon," a family puppet show with moral and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs day, Fall River and New Bed ford cable channel 13.

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On RadIo Charismatic programs are heard from ~onday through Fri day on station WlCE 1210 AM; Father John Randall, 9 to 10 a.m. and 11 to 12 p.m.; Father Edward ~cDonough, 8:15 a.m.; Father Real Bourque, 8:45 a.m. Father ~cDonough is also on W~D from 1:30 to 2 p.m. each Sunday.

Sunday, May 8, (NBC) "Guide line" - Paul Cicarelli of ~oth ers Against Drunk Driving is the guest.

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Films on TV Sunday, May 8, 9 Pom. (NBC) - "Little Darlings" (1980) This silly, nasty little movie, I : which wastes the talents of _ ,;.,..,.j Kristy McNichol and Tatum 0' Neal, has to do with girls at a summer camp making a bet that makes loss of virginity a com petitive sport. Besides distaste ful visuals and offensive lang uage, it condones 'immoral be havior. 0, R I

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.Continued trom Page Thirteen SACRED HEART, N.ATl'LEBORO A "redemption cross" is avail able to be worn by members of parish renewal weekend groups, ·the Atonement Assoclationand the Ministry of SUffering. The cross is a sign of participation in prayer and sacrifice for the needs of the parish family. ST. JOSEPH, NB A .departure ceremony for the Pilgrim Virgin statue will fol low 4:30 p.m. Mass tomorrow. Healing Mass: 7 p.m. Wednes \ day, M'liy 11 and 25. PASTORAL MUSICIANS Music workshop,. 2 p.m. Sun day, May 15: Our "Lady of Vic tory Church, Centerville. Topic: "Children's Choir on Sunday Morning: Music -Makers or Min isters?" Information: Mrs. Dor othy Lortie, 771-1029.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR ~eeting: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, St. Louis Fraternity, 420 Brad ford Ave. All welcome. ST. PATRICK, FR First penance: 10:30 a.m. to morrow. Parents invited to join children. First communion: 9 a.m. Mass Sunday, May 22. New Youth Clan officers: Daniel Darcy, president; Robert Bradbury, vice-president; David Halbardier, treasurer; Au~rey Poissant,secretary. Altar cloths and a new Sac rarnentarybave been donated to the ,paristh in memory of William P. Lynch.

ST. MARY, NB Dedication of Mary Garden! follOWing 10:15 a.m. Mass Sun day, May 15.. First communion: 9 a.m. to morrow and Saturday, May 14.

, ST. MARY, SEEKONK Prayers requested for young couples to be married and il;hose , confirmed ,last Wednesday. Mass 'lind dinner for CCD teachers and aides: 6 p.m. Sat I urday, May 14. HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH May devotions: The rosary Ladies' Association meeting: will be recited after 9 a.m. Mass 2 pm. today in church. COnse daily. cration of new members, IMay procession, crowning .and Bene HOLY NAME, lFR diction. May tea following in Organizational meeting for church 'hall. Luncheon: Wednes .Holy Name School Boosters' day, May 18, Lighthouse restau Club: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, r~nt, W. Dennis. May 18, rectory 'basement. . May devotions: Rosary, Bene FIVE HOUR VIGIL : The ,montthly five-hour vigil diction, Act of Consecration to Mary, 3 p:m. each Sunday; held in. churches of the di<kese recitation of rosary· 5 p.m. daily will begin at ~ tonight at St. preceding 5:15 p.m. Mass; Ma Elizabeth's Church, Fall River. Beginning and ending with ~!lSS, rian hymns on carillon following it will also include 'atholy it}our, Angelus each Sunday of May. rosary :and coffee break. j, S8. PETER & PAUL, FR . I ST. ANNE, FR May devotions: Rosary before Sign language classes fori the 4 p.m. Mass each Saturday. deaf and those wishing to l~arn CCD teachers ,and aides: Ap preciation dinner Monday; meet a means of communication with them begin at 7 tonight in I the ing in parking lot 6 p.m. CYO council meeting: 7 p.m. school cafeteria. : First commuIilon: 2 p.m. ~un Tuesday, Father Coady Center. day, upper church.' I Meeting for adults wisMng to receive confirmation: 7 p.m. SECULAR FRANCISCANS, :

Frida.y, May 13. POCASSET . I Tryouts for gospel drama" to Meeting: 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, be produced in June: 3 p.m. , St. John's ·paristh center. Mass, Friday, May 13 and 20, in school. ,profession ceremony, talks I on . "Love is Patient" by Father FIRST FRIDAY CLUB, FR Owen Eagan, former chairman Edwin Dirig, OFM and James Fegan, SFO. I of the Fall River Housing Au ,thority and former city school WIDOWED SUPPORT, NB I committeeman, will speak fol Meetin~: '7:30 ,p.m. Mon4ay, lowing 6 p.m.. Mass tonight at St. K1lian rectory, -306 Ashley Sacred Heart Church. Blvd. Topic: "Coping with Lone liness," address by advertising 'COLUMBIAN SQUIRES, ilFR consultant J·ackie Sylvia. Cock Organizational meeting for boys 12 to 16 'group sponsored tall :hour and buffet supp'er: 6 pm. Monday, June 13, Fam11y by Knights of Columbus: 7 p.m.' Monday, May 16, St. Elizabeth's Life Center, N. Dartmouth. In formation: 998-3269. All we'l- parish hall, .Tucker St., Infor come. I mation: Steve Mello, 674-4234.

'SACRED HEART, TAUNTON

Women's Guild: Living rosary

and dedication ,to Mary, 7 p.m.

Monday. Refreshments. All

welcome.

CATHEDRAL,FR Slide and tape ,presentation: "Fall River Mill Women," 7 p.m. Friday, May 20, school hall. May devotions: Marian shrine .displayed ·throughout month; ,rosary recited daily before 12 :05 p.m. Mass; May crowning Sun day, May 15. Ladies Guild installation: As cention Thursday, May 12; Mass, ,guild scholarship 'presentations and banquet. STONEmLL COLLEGE, N.EASTON President's Dinner: Wednes day, June 1. DOMINICAN LAITY, FR St. Ros'e of Lima Chapter: meeting 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, Dominican Convent, 37 Park St. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FR

First communion: 2 p.m. Sun day, May 15. Boy Scouts: meetings 7to 9 p.m. eaCh Wednesday: Informa_ tion: Mike Donovan, 675-2888. A new bronze tabernacle door on the Blessed Sacrament 'aLtar has been donated in memory of Cecilia Lopes and Connie Di Nucci. ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Holy Ghost observance: Sexta Dominga, thorne of William Costa, 79 Brushwood Dr., Som erset. Rosary devotions 8 ,p.m. daily, Fl"iday with parish ,priests. First communion: 2 .p.m. Sun day, May 15. F'amily ~Qmmunion brunch: following 9:45 a.m. Mass Sun day, May 22, sponsored by Wom en's Guild 'lind Holy Name So ciety. Youth Group: meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, rectory. ST. JAMES, NB Young people interested in joining 'a guitar folk group for' 7 p.m. Mass Sunday may con tact Joe Zajac, 994-7307. Ladies' Guild banquet: Wed~ nesday, May 18, parish hall.

O.L. GRACE, WESTPORT Mother's Day communion' breakfast: following 10 a.m. Mass Sunday in ,the parish cen ter. Adult Bible study: 8 p.m. Tuesday, church hall.

Women's Guild: meeting 7:30

p.m. Wednesday, ,parish center.

First communion: Group I,

9 a.m. Mass, Saturday, May 14.

\ Teen Club: meeting and elec tions 7 p.m. Wednesday., May 18, parish center. . First communion: Group I, 9 ·a.m. Mass, Saturday, May 14. Teen Club: meeting and elec ,tions 7 ,p.m. Wednesday, May 18, parish center. SACRED HEART, FR

Confirmation: 4 p.m. ·tomor

row.

HOLY NAME, NB

Women's Guild meeting: 7

p.m. Monday, preceded by liv dng rosary and Benediction. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. TAUNTON Parishioners are asked to no .tify the '1'ectory if :they move. May devotions: rosary 6:30 .p.m. Monday through Friday, sponsored by Women's Guild; May crowning Sunday at 9:15 a.m. Mass. Women's Guild craft classes: 7 p.m. each Tuesday" parish center. FAMILY LIFE CENTER. N.DARTMOU'l\ll New Bedford deanery meet ing: 11 a.m. Monday. Stang High School day of recollection: 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. ST. JU~, N. DARTMOUTH First communion rehearsals: 9:30 a.m. .tomorrow, group A; 11 a.m. ·tomorrow, group B.

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PARISH HOLY YEAR

PILGRIMAGE

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·TO 510 M~RY'S\ CATHEDRAL

MAY 11~ ,1983 7:00 P.M.

'(EVE OF ASCENSION)

THURSDAY

MASS pF THA,NKSGIVING , Fo~ .

CELEBRATED ON

Our -Parish Family .

T~E A~NIVERSARY

OF OUR CHURCH'S LOSS'

GUEST HOMILIST iMSGR. THOMAS J. HARRINGTON . I All Parishioners, Fotmer Parish.ioners and Friends Are Welcome -

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