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The ANCHOR An Anchor 01 the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul

Encouraged Work for All Sparks Vocations Day Sunday, June 3, has been designated as' a special day of prayer for vocations throughout the Diocese of Fall River. Parish observances, concerted prayer and a diocesan-wide eccleSJiastical student fund collection will be taken up to help seminarians and diocese in providing vocations for service in the area. In a letter sent to all parishes Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin encouraged varfous types of parochial observances. He gratefully acknowledged the fact that

the. Diocese of Fall River is receiving even increased vocations. However, the preparations of such vocations for adequate service in the Diocese is a costly burden. The Ecclesiastical Student Fund, contributed to by each parish and each priest trained by its resources will be taken up in all parishes of the Diocese on Saturday and Sunday, June 2-3, at all Masses of obligation. The Bishop's letter reads: Turn to Page Two

Two Diocesan Missionaries Celebrate Anniversaries

Appeal Hits Record High of $924,739 The 1973 Catholic Charities Appeal of the diocese of Fall River has attained the highest total in the the thirty-two years of the Appeal. The total for this year is $924,739.62. This represents an increase of $27,234.21 over the 1972 Appeal total which was the previous highest total. The final number of parishes . surpassing the 1972 totals in this year's Appeal is 89. Last year, 87 parishes exceeded their final totals. There are 115 parishes in the diocese. Holy Name parish, Fall River had the highest total of all the parishes with $27,631.00, an increase of $264.25 over its 1972 total. Mt. Carme'l, . New Bedford, was second with a: total of $21,741.86, and St. Lawrence, New Bedford, was third with $18,844.00 Turn to Page<Two

Ordinary ·Expresses Gratitude Once again, it is my happy duty to announce that the Catholic Charities Appeal of the Diocese of Fall River has surpassed the results of the previous year's Appeal. The very .generous support of the clergy, religious and faithful of the Diocese and of the many businessmen of our civic communitUis for the Catholic Charities Appeal is gratifying beyond adequate expression.

However, as Bishop, concerned with the continued, effective charitable arid apostolic endeavors of this Diocese, I wish to convey to one and all my heartfelt gratitude for the won· derful results of the 1973 Catholic Charities Appeal. The Diocesan Director and the Diocesan Lay Chairman, the priests and laity coordinating the various Diocesan Regions, the parish priests and committee chairmen and women, together with countless volunteer workers have all labored tirelessly, and their labors have been rewarded with a very generous respcJnse. May the blessings of Almighty God descend upon all the benefactors of the 1973 Catholic Charities Appeal.

Bishop of Fa!! River

Holy Communion

Bishop to Commission Lay Ministers Twenty-two gentlemen from ten Diocesan parishes will be commissioned by the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, as extraordinary lay ministers of the Eucharist on Sunday afternoon at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Rite of Commissioning these first extraordinary Eucharistic ministers to function in the Diocese will take place during the celebration of the 5 o'clock parish Mass.

Most Rev. James Walsh, M.M., Rev. John J. Considine was exercising a limited ministry fol- born ~n New Bedford on ·Oct. 9, lowing years/of imprisonment in 1897. He entered Maryknoll in China, was the principal cel- 1915 aJfter graduating from Holy ebrant of a concelebrated Mass Family high school and was orhonoring six Maryknoll mission- dained to the priesthood in 1923. ers who celebrated their Golden The missioner received a LiJUibilees this year. centiate in Sa'cred Theology from. Among the six, two Maryknoll- Catholic University in 1924 and ers were from the Fall River an honorary Doctorate of HuDiocese: Rev. John J. Considine mane Letters from Fordham Uniand Rev. William A. Fletcher. versity in 1955. The ceremony was held at MaryFather Considine went to WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope knoll, N. Y. last Friday, May 25. Rome in 1924 and spent the Pwl VI named Archbishop Jean Rev. Vincent Mallon, M.M., next 10 years there, engaged dur- Jadot, a papal diplomat who has was the homilist for the 11 ing a considerable part of his served in Africa and Asia, as the . o'clock morning Mass. Members time in an information and' re- new apostolic delegate in the of Iboth jubilarians' families at- search unit of the Holy See United States. tended the impressive ceremony. which dealt with the world Archbishop Jado, 63, a native together with Rev. Msgr. Ray- missions. of Bel,gium, has served in thE; mond T. Considine, Rev. Msgr. It was during journeys conpapa-I diplomatic corps since' Arthur G. Considine, Rev. Msgr. nected with his assignment that 1968. He succeeds Cardinal Luigi. Lester L. Hull and Rev. Howard Father Considine began his con- Raimondi, who held the post A. Waldron. Turn to Page Three from June, 1967, until he was made a cardinal and prefect of the congregation for saints' causes last March. Upon hearing of Archbishop Jadot's appointment, Cardinal John Krol of Philadelpjhia, president of the National Conference

This group of laymen will shortly begin assisting priests in the distribution of Holy Communion at well-attended Sunday and Holyday Masses in parishes ranging from North Seekonk to Brewster and Harwich. They form the first "class" Of extraor- . dinary lay ministers of the Eucharist, formed in accord with recently - publish.ed Diocesan Guidelines. Their commissioning will mark the implementation,

Appoints Archbishop Jadot New Apostolic .Delegate

Adult Confirmation Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, STD, Bishop of Fall River, will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to adults who have not yet received this Sacrament, at the', II o'clock Mass, Pente· cost Sunday, June 10, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River. Adults interested in receiving the Sacrament at this time should see their parish priest for details. REV. JOHN J. CONSIDINE

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of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), expressed a "heartfelt welcome" to the new a,postolic delegate. He cited the archbishop for having "served with distinction" in diplomatic posts in Asia and Turn to Page Seven

within the Diocese, of' special faculties 'recently granted by the Holy See, whereby qualified lay persons may be appointed to a Eucharistic ministry in instances of exceptional necessity. Classes of instruction and formation have been conducted in preparation for the commissioning ceremony. Father Daniel F. Hoye,. Assistant at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Attleboro, has conducted' the sessions, which were held at Coyle-Cassidy High School in Taunton. The candidates themselves have approached their unprecedented ministry in· the Diocese with a mixture of reverence for the responsibility which they will assume and total willingness to assist in the .service of their fellow parishioners. The permission to exercise such an extraordinary ministry is granted in instances where the celebration Turn to Page Three

Diocese to Graduate 1055 In Exercises Next Week The eight high schools of the and 61 girls of the senior class diocese will graduate 1055 stu- at St.. Anthony's High School. dents, including 444 boys and Miss Donna Tetreault and Miss 611 girls, in ceremonies to be Diane Champagne will speak for held throughout the diocese next their classmates as valedictorian week. The total is 86 below 'last and salutatorian respectively. year's number of graduates. To be held at 8 P.M. Tuesday, The first scheduled graduation June 5 are ceremonies at Bishop will take place at4 P.M. Monday, Feehan High School, Attleboro, June 4 in the auditorium of Coyle where Miss Christina Bergh is and Cassidy High School, Taun- valedictor.ian and Miss Kathleen ton. Bishop Cronin will present . Sedlak is salutatorian. Bishop diplomas to 103 boys and 71 Cronin will officiate and present diplomas to 78 boys and 91 girls. girls. Wednesday, June 6 ceremonies Also slated for June 4, at 7:30 P.M. are ceremonies at St. An- will be held at Bishop Stang thony's Church, New Bedford, High School, North Dartmouth, where Bishop Cronin will be wl'!ere 118 boys and 125 girls, principal celebrant and homilist largest graduating class in the Turn to Page Six at a graduation Mass for 25 boys

LEADING AREA PARISHES

THE ANCHORThurs., May .31, 1973

Vocations' Continued froin Page One The specjal day of Prayer for Vocations is observd in the Dio· cese of Fall River on the first Sunday of June, at which time the customary annual colle::· tion for the Ecclesiastical Student Fund is taken up, Special and concertcJ action is to be undertaken in cvery parish to underscore' the significance of Vocation Day. Under separate cover, a packet of material designed to assist in the observance is being sent to every parish 'ana high school in the Diocese. A lea,flet with suggestect homily outlines is provided, along with a prayer of the faithful which should be recited at ('vcry Mass of obligation on the weekend of our Diocesan vocation observance. A poster" inspired by one of the themes from a popular current musical is enclosed, along with material for display from our Diocesan Director of Vocations, The special annual Ecclesi<ilstical Student Fund Collection should, be anounced and taken up in the usual manner. Please remind your parishioners of the need we face in this regard, as the cost of seminary education is rising, and, thanks be to God. the number of young men under Diocesan sponsorship is actually increasing. Kindly remit the proceeds of this collection to the Chancery Office promptly. Our Holy Father has, 1n conjunction with the world-wide I hrust for vocations, addressed moving words to his listeners. I heartily endorse' repetition' of t his message, by you, to your ,faithful parishioners. Pope Paul' said: \ . "Dear sons and daughters, those who are young or perhaps not so young, we say this to you: Don't let people or ,ideas ,or (~vents block your choices and your decisions. Why hang back and wait? The face of the world is changing rapidly. A new generation is arising in this earth. The Gospel must be announced. to everyone. Yesterday's poor are joined by tomorrow's. There are and will be people who arc hungry, thirsty, imprisoned, sick in body and spirit. They look to you; in them you see Christ. There is work for everyone. There is a place for you." Grateful for your attention to this matter, and in union of prayers for the rich blessIng of many vocations, I rema'in Faithfully yours in Christ, ~I' DANIEL A. CRONIN Bishop of Fall River

Necrology JUNE 8 Very Rev. John S. Czerwonka, 1961. Assistant, St. Stanislaus, Fall River. JUNE 9 Rev. Timothy J. Calnen, 1945, Pastor, St. Joseph, Woods Hole. Rev. Joseph S. Larue, 1966, Pastor, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro. JUNE 10 Rev. William H. Curley, 1915; Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River. Rev. George A. Meade, 1949, Chaplain, St. Mary Home, New Bedford. . Rev. Thomas H. Taylor, 1966, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton.

Attleboro Area St. John, Attleboro $15,890.95 St. Mary, N .Attleboro 12,859.00 St. Mary, Mansfield 12,196.50 Mt. Carmel, Seekonk 10,350.50 St. Mark, Attleboro Falls 10,130.80

Cope & Islands Area St. Pius X, S. Yarmouth 16,651.50 St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis 15,693.00 St. Patrick, Falmouth 12,436.00 Assumption, Osterville 12,334.00 Corpus Christi, Sandwich 10,027.00

Fall River Area Holy Name, Fall River 27,631.00 Our Lady of the Angels, 13,725.00 Fall River Sacred Heart, Fall River . 12,902.00 St. Mary Cathedral, Fall River 12,689.00 St. Thomas More, Somerset 10,557.00

New Bedford Area REGINA PACIS CENTER HONORS VIRGIN: Members )f the Regina Pacis SpanishSpeaking Center of New Bedford in the May procession ~o St. Hyacinth's Church, New Bedford on Saturday afternoon. Following the procession> Rev. James .E. Murphy, director of the center offered Mass in Spanish and the statuu of the Blessed Virgin Mary was crowned.

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Attleboro Area $250 Creed Rosary Co. '$200 First Federal Savings & Loan Association . $100 Dodgeville Finishing Co. St. Mark Conference, Attleboro Falls W. H. Riley & Son $75 Attleboro Lions Club $50 Colonial Lithograph, Inc. ·Fireside Motors, Inc. E. N. Cook Plate Co. $40 Portuguese Ameri~an Club $35 Ashley Drug, Inc.' $25 Daughters of Isabella Alcazaba Circle Falls Shopping Center, North Attleboro Ethel Rounds Harry Dowdall. St. Mary Guild, No. Attlebor~ Arns' Park ·Motel Hair Flair Israel Franklin Plainville Savings & Loan Assn W. E. Richards Co. Westcott Construction Corp. .,......".."""''''''H''''''''I''''''''''"""''''''''''''m'UlIOIIIII''''...'''',,......._

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$122 Anonymous, Buzzards Bay $100 Corpus Christi GUild, Sandwich $50 Capt. Harris Fish Market, Inc. Buzzards Bay RobertJ. Carroll, Edgartown Anonymous, FalItlouth Lawren~e-Lyneh Corp., Falmouth' , Edmund C. Wessling, West Roxbury Falmouth Cooperative Bank $25 Baxter Transport Inc., Hyannis Buzzards Bay NationaB Bank Buzzards Bay Garage, Inc. Chatham Trust Co. Harborside Inn, Inc., Edgartown I Conrad Kurth & Sons, Inc., Vineyard Haven Atty. Brian E. McDermott, • Falmouth I Harold L: Baker Co., Inc. Falmouth Walsh Real Estate, Teaticket Falmouth Jewelry Shop Plymouth Savings Bank, Falmouth Falmouth Council K 'of C

Taunton Area • $200 Immaculate Conception Conference, No. Easton Dr. John E. Fenton $100 Dary Ring Traveler Atty. Benjamin A. Friedman . Dr. Robert F. Mealy $50 W. H. Riley & Son, Inc. Dr. Theo~ore R. Thayer Goodnow's

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.' The monthly meeting of Fall River Particular Council, Society St. Vincent de Paul, will he held Tuesday, June 5.' Mass will be said at St. Patrick's Church, South Main Street at 7 P.M. and the meeting will follow in the school hall.

, United National Bank $25 Louis F. Freitas Agency George L. Copeland Funeral Home McCarthy' Coal Co. Paul Mitrano Chevrolet Co. Bacon Felt Company Dr. Samuel L. Poplack David F. McNearney Insurance Co. . Gaelic Society Our Lady of Lourdes Conference Dr. William L. Donahue Mrs. Anthony Elias . Dyecraftsmen, Inc.

New Bedford Area $1,000 Hemingway Transport, Inc. $500 Star Store . $300 Loranger Construction Corp. $2~0

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. $190 Sacred Heart Home $150 Conrad Seguin Body Co. First Federal Savings and Loan .\ssociation $100 Yankee Installations, Inc. Frank Silva, Jr. $50 Daughters of Isabella Hyacinth Circle No. 71 Dr. I\-fanuel F. Sousa $40 Schmidt Mfg. Co. $25 Catholic Nurses Guild of Greater New Bedford Tum to Page Three

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Lay Ministers Continued from Page One of the parish Masses of obligation might" because of the large number of communicants, be unduly delayed. All the new extraordinary Eucharistic ministers, who reflect a considerable 'cross section, in age and in occupation, have undertaken this service with a characteristic determination to provide assistance . in situations of exceptional need. The men will not be "ordained" in any technical sense, and will remain distinct, then, from the priests whom they will be assisting. They are not "lay deacons," but rather are members of their various parish communities who have been authorized to exercise a special ministry, hearkening back in Church history to that ministry exercised by St. Tarcisius. In the Rite of Commissioning, Bishop Cronin will add'ress the candidates imp\oring them to maintain absolute fidelity in ~e votion to the Holy Eucharist. In a series of questions, the Bishop will inquire about their motives and intentions. Then as the candidates :kneel, Bishop Cronin will recite a prayer which invokes God's special Iblessing upon the extraordinary lay Eucharististic ministers. The Mass within which the Rite of Commissioning will be celebrated is open to attendance' by the public.

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Special Gifts Fall River Area $800 Laberge Wrecking Company $500 R. A. McWhirr Company Mooney & Company, Inc. $200 Sullivan-Harrington Funeral I Jomes Robert A. Wilcox Co. $150 Holy Name Conference $100 In Memory of John M. & Phyilis Corrigan Walter A. Furman Co. Dr. & Mrs. John Malloy Atty George L. Sisson National Contracting Co. Nira Warehouse $70 Beetle Plastics Div. of Chemineer, Inc. $65 Fall River News Co., Inc. $60 O'Neil's Tire Service, Inc. $57 Additional Donations Catholic Memorial Home $50 Mary E. Noon Construction & General Laborers Local No. 610 Shelburne Shirt Co., Inc. Smith-Fall River Lumber Co. Borden Remington Co. U. S. Luggage Corp. United Labor Council of Greater Fall River $30 Eastern TV Sales & Service $25 Greene's Storage Warehouse Allen's Cut-Rate Drobyski Wallpaper Co. John P. Slade & Son Sterling Pile Fabrics Corp. Dr. William H. Graff Tom Ellison, Inc. American Wallpaper Co. B & S Fisheries of Fall River Hathaway Funeral Service, Fall River and Somerset Wm. T. Grant Company August Badwey & Sons

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fa.ll River-Thur" May 31, ; 973

CONGRATULATIONS: Most Rev, Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, is shown presenting a personal letter of congratulations from Pope Paul VI to Bishop James J. ' Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River, on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee of ordination to the priesthood,

u.S. Justice Department Backs Aid to Nonpublic School Parents WASHINGTON (NC) - The ment. Instead; the department U. S. Justice Department has argued, the plan supported the urged the U. S. Supreme Court Amendment ,which provides for to reinstate Pe'l1nsylvania's tui- religious freedom, and was simtion reimbursement plan for non- ply aimed at redressing "to some public school parents that had extent the burden imposed on been stJruck down by a lower pare'l1ts who send their children to religiously affiliated schools." court. Before the Justice Depalftment The department denied the state aid violated the Constitu- filed its brief, the city of Philation's ban on .the establishment delphia filed a similar document of religion, stating the plan "is with the Supreme Court that bsin the true spirit of the religion serted the "monopoly of public clauses of the First Amend- funds" enjoyed by public schools should be replaced by a "sharing ment." . The, department made its com- of educational tax funds" by ments in a friend of the court both public and, nonpublic brief filed in the Lemon V. Sloan schools. case involving a Pennsylvania Virtue 'law that would pay pare'l1ts of nonpublic schoolchildren $75 to The highest 'proof of virtue is $150 per child to defray tuition to possess boundless power without abusing it. costs. The law was struck down last -Thomas Macaulay summer by a federal court in . Philadelphia, which said the payments constituted a violation of the U. S. Constitution's provision for separation of church and It has been announced that state. the on-going' abortion controDenies Violation Proponents of the reimburse- versy will be debated in the ment plan then appealed to the House of Representatives at 1 Supreme Court, which is ex- o'dock on Monday. afternoon, pected to hear the Pennsylvania June 4 instead of Tuesday, June case and a New York case in- 5. The Bill is numbered H6165 volving tax credits for non public 'and all are urged to write to school parents later this month. In its brief supporting the their representatives and protect Pennsylvania plan, the Justice "Freedom from Forced AborDepartment de.nied the assist- tions." ance violated the First Amend:e:···e:············:::::·

Continued from Page One studied at St. Patrick Parish tacts with Asia, Africa and School and Durfee High School, Latin America. he entered Maryknoll in Sept. At the urging of Richard Car- 1915. dinal Cushing, chairman of the He was ordained a priest on Episcopal Committee on Latin May 26, 1923 and was assigned America, Father Considine was to the South China Missions. "loaned" to the NCWC for one Three years later, the Maryknollyear, beginning June 1960. er had a close brush with death He was to organize and direct when he was kidnapped by pithe newly-established Latin rates but later ransomed. America Bureau. During that In 1928, Father Fletcher went time he also served as professor to the Philippines where he beof Contemporary World Affairs came the private secretary of the at Maryknoll Seminary, publica- Archbishop of Manila, Michael tions director for the society and J. O'Doherty. There he organized and advisor to various interna- radio programs, served as chaptional organizations. ' lain to the students at the UniFather Considine represented versity of the Philippines and the International Conference of was the master of ceremonies for Catholic Charities with UNICEF the International Eucharistic' at the United Nations. He was Congress of 1937. also a member of the Board of The next year found him in Directors of <the African Studies Rome as private secretary to Association and a member of the Peter Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, Council of Foreign Affairs. head of the Propagation of the In April, 1961, he was selected Faith Congregation. In 1939, he by President John F. Kennedy accompanied the Cardinal into to serve on the National Advi- the papal conclave that elected sory Council for the Peace Pope Pius XII. Corps-the only priest on the With the approaching war, ::l3-member council. Father Flet~her returned to the He retired from the Latin U. 'S. to serve at the society's American Bureau ,in 1968 and publication department. Later, he returned <to a writing career in became the superior of the sociwhich he had already become ety's' Chicago House. internationally renowned, He . After a short term as pastor now resides at St. Theresa's of the English speaking parish Home for retired Maryknollers in Guatemala City. Guatemala, and is in charge of his society's illness ,forced him to return to Communications. the U. S. where he served as Father Considine is the brother chaplain to Dannemora Prison, of Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Con- N. Y. Manhattanville College, sidine, pastor of St. William Purchase, N. Y. and Assumption Parish, Fall River; Rev. Msgr. College, Germantown, Pa. Arthur 'G. Considine, pastor of He has a brother a,nd two sisSt. Mary Parish, So. Dartmouth; ters: Ralph Fletcher, retired Honorable Walter Considine, re- teacher of Durfee High School; tired Probate Court Justice; Sr. M. Dorothea, RSM; Mrs. George and Frank Considine of Louis Navin. New Bedford. Goodness Fath~J' Fletcher My intellect as well as my inRev. William A. Fletcher, a native of Fall River, was the first stincts lead me to the conclusion man in the diocese to join the . that men have a positive yearnMaryknoll Fathers, After having ling to ,be good.-Rosenfeld

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1973 PARISH TOTALS

Calls Newspaper Statement 'Character Assassination' Newspaper publishers and editors are gloating a bit ~ese days. And who can blame them? Vindicated by the Watergate disclosures, they are basking in the warm glow of public approval. Even Vice-President Agnew, with his finger to the wind, is trimthe average cmiddle-size city ming his sails and - to in in the United States and, for switch, the metaphor - is that matter, in som of our manfully eating crow. All major cities as well. 7 "

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press. is a mixed bag. Some of . the papers which are now saying that the Watergat~ incident is a gloI"ious vindication of the free· dam of the 'Press .are simply riding on the coattails of the Washington Post. They were perfectly content to let the Post do all the . digging and take all the heat, and they didn't. get on the band· wagon until it became the pop· ular thing to do. If that's what is meant by freedom of the press -who needs it? Mediocre at Best The fact is 'that: by .and large, the American press has little enough to gloat about these days. YQu can count on the f.ingers of hath hands the number of first-rate dailies in the Unilted States and sbil! have a few fin· gers to spare. Rlicently, within a .three-week period, I vis'ited some 10 middlesized cities from coast to coast. The leading da'ilies in most of these cities a,re mediocre at best, and some of them are hard· Iy worth the paper they are printed on. Maybe I have been spoiled by the Washington Post and the New York Times, but, . whatever of ,that, I feel sorry for people who' have to rely for their news on the aver,age paper.

Mediocril~y is bad enough. But ·some of our provincial papers are worse than mediocre. They are simply awful. The worst of the lot, in my opinion, is the Manchester Union Leader, the only state·wide daHy in New Hampshire. The Union,Leader is irresponsibly partisan with a vengeance, .as witness, for example;-its shoddy coverage of the .j\\·fated Muskie campaign in New Hampshire. lit will stop at nothing to destroy the opposition.

Vicious Attack Let me cite a re'cent example. The April 30 issue featured a front-page editoriaI by the pub· lisher, William Loeb, enti'tled "Buy Lettuce and Eat Grapes." It's a vioious attack on the merits of the Teamster-Farm Worker struggle, bUit he is guilty of slander - that's ,the only word for it-when he says thatCha· vez seems to be a burning Marx~st who is just using the farm workers as' a publicity ploy to build up his own stature on the radical front. That's character assassina'tion pure and simple and, lin my opinion, any publisher who would sign his n'ame to it is be'neath contempt. I was about to add that Mr. Loeb knows better than to publish that kind of hogwash. But does he really know any' better? It's hard to tell, but judging from his ,recent editorial, I can only conclude that, with regard to .the farm) labor proQlem, he simply doesn't know what he is talkingabout. In o~her words, his ignorance in this area is appall,ing. Again,' if that's what ,is meant by freedom of the press, who needs itt? Teamster lLoan

It is only fair to add, "in con· clusion, that Mr. Loeb is not Install Archbishop completely ,ignorant with regard In Washington to the Teamster·Farm Worker WASHINGTON (NC)-·At his struggle. He obviously knows instaHation .as head of the arch- very little about Cesar Chavez diocese of Washington, Arch- and the United Farm Workers bishop William W. BaUln said' Union,· but he knows a fair the Church '~must do battie with amount about the Teamsters. He racism" and stated his intent to knows, for example, that the work wibh other Christians in "Teamsters, under Jimmy Hoffa, ba'iled him out several years .ago the cause of Christian unity. In a homily during the Mass with a generous loan. The ques· whiCh followed the installation tion arises: Does this explain ceremony in St. Patrick's Cathe· why he thinks ~hat "it would dral, Archbishop Baum called • certainly be much better for the racism "that heresy and that evil farm workers-and much more so present in our own nation" desirable from the standpoint of and ranked it among "the great-. the whole nation" if the Teamest denia,I's of the Gospel and the sters were to win out over traditional reaching of the Chavez dn California? I wouldn't know about that, Church." The Churoh,"nobably in our but I do know, that Mr. Loeb own nation and ,its. capital," he ,owed it ,to his readers to remind said, must fight it all and, "all them of that Teamster loan. His other forces which threaten hu· failure to do so is ,regrettable man life and dignity. Among from the point of view of jourthose for whom the Church must nalistic ethics but, given his be cncerned in this struggle are long-standing record as a shamethose unborn, the aged and all less 'partisan, it's not at all surwho suffer as victims of injustice prising. In fact, it's par for the course. in war and violence." /'

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.. $12,689.00 1,741.50 . 3,120.00 .. 2,027.00 .. '" 27,631.00 8,025.00 .. . 13,725.00 3,817.75 .. 4,312.00 .. 6,237.77 ;. . 12,902.00 6,465.00 . 2,932.00 .. 3,075.50 . 1,806.00 . 3,461.00 . 6,533.00 .. 4,643.00 . 2,225.50 .. 8,18,0.50 . 6,370.00 . 6,141.00 :. 3,020.00 . 5,515.00 . 5,620.00 . 4,604.35 . 3,253.00 . 4,384.00 . 5,760.00 .. 3,888.25 .. 6,458.50 . 7,808.00 . 10,557.00 :. 7,180,70 . 5,885.00 : ,.. 6,668.50 ~ .

. Fall River-St. Mary's CathedraL Blessed Sacrament " Espirito Santo , " Holy Cross " ,.."" : Holy Name , , ".., " Notre, Dame , , , Our Lady of the Angels Our Lady of 'Heialth " Holy Rosary , , , Immaculate Conception Sacred Heart St. Anne , , St. Anthony of the Desert St. Anthony of lPadua , St. Elizabeth ,..;, St. John the Baptist , ~ " St. Joseph , , St. Louis ,, , , ,." St. Matthew " St. Michael ~ St. Patrick : , SS. Peter & Paul St. Roch ~ , St. Stanislaus ' St. William Santo Christo Asson~t-St. Bernard , Central Village-St. John North Westport-Our Lady (If Grace Ocean Grove-St. Michael Somerset-St. John. of God : St. Patrick " " : St. Thomas More Swansea-Our Lady of F~tina St. pominic , , St. Louis of France ,., , CAPE

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41.75 355.00 50.50 264.25 795.50 278.00 387.25 292.00 170.00 13.50 -26.00 1,022.00 879.50 19Z.00 166.50 661.00 1,989.00 475.84 209.50 397.50 1,145.50 391.00 391.00 77.70 23.50 437.00 323.00 656.50 12.25 324.00 793.00 158.00 938.03 362.00 819.17

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Brewster-Our Lady of the (:ape Buzzards Bay-St. Marga:ret : CenterVille-Our Lady of Vic tory Chatham-Holy Redeemer East Falmouth-St. Anthony Edgartown-St. Eli,~abeth Falmouth-St. Patrilck , " Hyannis-St. Francis Xavier . " Nantucket-Our Lady of the Isle Oak Bl\lffs-Sacred Heart Orleans-St. Joan of Arc .., Osterville-Assumption , Pocasset-~t. John , , Provincetown-St. Peter " Sandwich-Corpus Christi South Yarmouth-St. Pius X Vineyard Haven-St. Augustille Wellfleet-our Lady of Louflles ..: West Harwich-Holy Trinity Woods fiole-St. Joseph ,..,,,

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Bish;ops' Statel11ent Applauded, Attacked By NC News Serviice A statement by the French bishops' committee for relations with Judaism contmues to be praised and denounced. The bishops' committee appealed for an \ end to anti· Semitism and was interpreted by some CI1itics as recognizing and SUPPol1ting Isra~l. In New York, Philip E. Hoffman, the president of the Amerioan Jewisjl Committee praised the statement as ",the first great step taken by a Catholic religious body since Vatican II." He said, "It contains all the elements necessary to inspire the Catholic world with positive directions ,toward the recognition of Jewish, tradition. Jewi:,h people and the state of Israel." Hoffman said the statement calls for elimination of all antiSemitic prejudices, stereotypes,

,md ignorimces .that have a~cu· :milated throughout history. If llenites that Judaism is a religion of fear, that the Jewish people have been deprived of its elec1ion by God and that its disper: ion is a punishment by God, he : aid. ' The statement aliSO asserts that the land of Israel was promi:;ed to the Jewish people at the leginning of history, Hoffman ~ aid, and that J'ewish existence r as always been divided between I fe among the nabions and the v/ish for a national existp.noe in 13rael. H~ pointed out that the statementcontains a warning against any desilre to convert Jews to (hristianity. The text, he said, is permeated by the principle that ":::hllistianity does not want the disappearance of the Jewish c)mmunity and that the Jewish

people are the object of an eternal alliance." The bishops of North Africa issued a statement criticizing the French bishops' vi,ews. The Fr~nch bishops' documen.t, they said contained grave ambiguities" .of text that permit "perni· cious confusion between Judaism and Z~onisni." "BlliSed on ~mproper intierpretation of tihe Bible," the bishops of North Africa said, "this text, in the present circumstances, is necessarily understood as an acceptance of the fait accompli of bhe violent occupation of a land withoUit taking account of the imperatJives of justice."

Peace of Mind The contentment of the man who is too busy to worry by day and too sleepy to worry at night. -Wilson

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River- Thur., May 31, 1973

1973 PARISH TOTALS ATTLEBORO AREA

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Attleboro-Holy Ghost St. .John St. Joseph ~ St. Mark , St. Mary : St. Stephen : St. Theresa Mansfield-S1. Mary : North Attleboro-Sacred Heart St. Mary Norton-S1. Mary Seekonk-Mt. Carmel

. $ 9,301.30 15,890.95 .. . 3,634.00 . 10,130.80 .. 9,407.00 6,206.00 . 8,757.00 .. . 12,196.50 3,885.50 . ; 12,859.00 7,099.00 .. . 10,350.50

NEW BEDFORD AREA New Bedford-Holy Name . $10,368.35 2,742.60 Assumption .. 9,124.00 Immaculate Conception : .. M1. Carmel . 21,741.86 4,864.00 Our Lady of Fatima ; .. 2,775.00 Our Lady of Perpetual Help ; .. 993.00 Our Lady of Purgatory............................ .. .. . Sacred Heart . 4,220.50 2,318.50 St. Anne . 4,217.50 S1. Anthony of Padua .. 505.00 S1. Boniface .. . 1,588.00 St. Casimir .. 1,966.00 S1. Francis of Assisi . 1,499.00 S1. Hedwig . 1,499.00 S1. Hyacinth .. St. James : . 13,636.25 9,226.40 S1. John the Baptist : . 10,874.35 S1. Joseph : .. 3,565.00 S1. Kilian . S1. Lawrence .. . 18,844.00 9,850.00 S1. Mary .. 4,406.00 St.' Theresa . 4,233.00 Acushnet-S1. Francis Xavier .. Fairhaven-S1. Joseph : . 14,456.40 3,369.10 S1. Mary : . 1,275.00 Sacred Hearts . 3,021.00 - Marion-S1. Rita . 5,596.49 Mattapoisett-St. Anthony .. 7,804.00 North Dartmouth-S1. Julie Billiart .. 9,329.00 South Dartmouth-St. Mary.............................. . .. 10,160.00 Wareham-St. Patrick .. 6,819.00 Westport-S1. George .. TAUNTON AREA Taunton-Holy Family Holy Rosary Immaculate Conception Our Lady of Lourdes Sacred Heart St. Anthony St. James S1. Joseph S1. Mary S1. Paul Dighton-St. Peter North Dighton-S1. Joseph North Easton-Immaculate Conception Raynham-St. Ann , South Easton-Holy Cross

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"I picked onions and sweet potatoes in Chino. I worked as a shoemaker. I was a sign painter. and a house painter. I worked in a plastics factory and in the fibre glass industry," recounted the new priest. "When I talk to people who have to get up every morning at six to go to work, people having to clock in and out every day on the job - I know exactly how they' feel." Father John Soichiro Terao studied at St. John's because Los Angeles is sister city to Nagoya, Japan, his hometown, and for that reason the Los Angeles archdiocese agreed to educate the Japanese seminarian. His father had opposed his

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2,338.30 816.20 537.00 232.80 49.00 108.00 61.00 10.00 1,112.50 2,100.00 768.50 333.00 88.15 430.82 25.38 1,264.71 384.00 17.00 264.00 1,086.35 150.25 415.50 107.00 14.00 48.50 79.00 114.00 925.75 682.15 810.60 81.00 1,634.44 1,858.25 395.50 13.40 55.28 150.60 77.50 428.55 679.50 718.89 56.00 398.20 176.00 581.50 20.00 447.25 110.75 317.85 333.37 355.00 433.25 839.50 225.00 16.00 428.50 . 927.00 358.00 460.00

Three From Workers' Ranks· Ordained LOS ANGELES (NC) - A Mexican former farm worker, a Japanese who worked in seaport shipping and a Hungarian who worked in the petroleum industry took priestly vows at an ordination ceremony here. The three were among 17 members of the 1973 ordination class of St. John's Seminary of the Los Angeles archdiocese and were ordained by Cardinal Timothy Manning in St. Vibiana's Cathedral. Father Ruben Lopez was born and educated in Aguascalientes, a state in cent-ral Mexico. His family emigrated to California and when his father died he had to work to support his mother and brothers and sisters.

baptism as an infant, but acquiesced to his becoming a seminarian because it was his own adult decision. The new priest worked .two years in a marine shipping company before entering the seminary. Father Stephen Vecsey began his seminary studies in Hungary. Despite upheaval and uprooting, he persevered in his vocation. He came to America, worked several years in the petroleum industry in California' and finally was able to resume studies here.

Courtesy Courtesy gives .us owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.-FieIds

VATICAN CITY (NC) -The coming Holy Year is a time for the Christian to show the world he is totally devoted' to Christ, loves God more than himself and is 'therefore a "truly human person," Pope Paul VI told thou· sands at two audiences in the Vatican. The Pope urged everyone to take seriously the summons he issued May 9 for a Holy Year in Rome during 1975 and a Holy Year in the rest of the Church to begin this coming Pentecost Sunday, June 10. "The moment has arrived for us to measure our allegiance to Christ ... It is time for an act of total 'awareness on our part of the highest of values," the Pope said in his address to thousands of Italians in St. Peter's Basilica following his greetings to thousands of tourists of other nationalities in the nearby papal audience hall, that he was exhorting everyone "to give our announce· ment of the Holy Year the importance due it." 'Phe Holy Year, he said, is not just a passing event, but something which truly must be taken

seriously." In his rather hrief address, the Pope asked in four or five ways whether the modern Christian would genuinely make God the center of his life, then added: "We wish that this formula of the Holy Year (turning to God) constitute a general balance ... leading to a new synthesis between our ancient and living faith and the pace of modern life." In an age of tech· nological advancements, the Pope said, man needs a "spiritual supplement" to maintain his balance. For the past several weeks, the Pope has been holding two general audiences each Wednes· day. He delivers his weekly address in Italian to an all-Italian audience in the basilica after he greets all other nationalities ·in the papal audience hall and summarizes the main points of his address in several modern languages. This new format of dual audio ences will be continued as long as overflow crowds continue to pour into Rome during the postEaster holidays.

Cardinal Heenan Warns Nurses About. Euthanas.ia Proposal LONDON (NC)-The next Iegal hazard for nurses and doctors in Britain is likely to be a hill permitting euthanasia, Car· dinal John Heenan of Westminster said at a special Mass for nurses here. The cardinal said euthanasia legislation will undoubtedly be i~troduced as ~ private ~~mber's bill - one WIthout offICIal gov· crn~ent backing or o~e on whIch members of Parltament are not held to political ideology and are free to vote their conscience. The cardinal told the nurses that if euthana.sia - sometimes called mercy killing-were to become legal, "enormous pressure would be felt by the sick to ask to be put to death. Before long the senile and mentally sick would be presumed to wish to be ,put to death." Discussing abortion, the cardi· nal said that few who advocated Britain's permissive 1967 Abortion Act "foresaw the massacre of the innocents which is being perpetrated. "It is to be hoped that the Lane Commission (a parliamentary committee. now investigating the Abol1tion Act with a view to possible amendments) will reduce the slaughter by showing in its report that, despite the in· tentions of the promoters of the bill, we have in /this country abortion on demand. "No child in the womb is safe if its mother is selfish. The state will now destroy the child for no other reasori than the convenience of the woman who con· ceived it. "Never forget that you have the right and duty to refuse to assist actively in operations which of.fend your conscience." In another address Cardinal Heenan spoke on cruelty to children in Britain.

Speaking to the annual meet· ing of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, . the cardinal said: "We used to upbraid the Americans when we saw pictures of babies burned. We forget that our own society is among the most violent in the world. I am thinking especially of violence to children. '\Britain is perhaps unique among the civilized nations in .permitting violence.

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of Fall River-Thur., May 31, 1973

Graduations

Unprecedented, Success Once again the charity of Christ has urged the people within the Diocese of Fall River to respond to the needs of ( their brothers and sisters. ' This year's Catholic Charity Appeal has reached a new record high. And this jn the face of severe unemployment, a shaky economy, rising prices, and deep concern over personal needs that must be met. All these circumstances could have been used by people to curtail their gifts. Perhaps in some cases this was done. But the sum total of the Appeal indicates that where charity is the issue, people would not and -did not make excuses. And if many persons gave with the element of sacrifice-taking a little from themselves so that others could have something-then they gave indeed in the spirit of Christ, giving not only money but a part 'of themselves. This is, perhaps the -most touching part of the Appeal, the willingness of so many, Catholics and those of other faiths, to respond to the needs of other people. ArnoW Toynbee, the historian, said that the Twentieth _Century will go down in history of mankind as the age in which people became aware of the needs of their neighbors and did· something about it. But- this is not an automatic thing. Needs have to be pointed out. Programs have to be initiated and strengthened and advanced. Many persons have to be enlisted to provide the funds to meet the needs. Others have to give their time and effort in soliciting for funds. All this does not simply happen. But all of this is done' in the name of charity, in the name of Christ, in the name of person helping person. In this spirit was this year's Appeal made. And in this spirit was this year's Appeal taken up. And in this spirit has this year's Appeal re'ached unprecedente~ success.

HATS I1V THE RING

Advice From a Knick When the 6-foot 5-inch 30 year old forward for the champion Ne", York Knickerbockers stepped forward to receive an honorary doctorate and to deliver the major address at 5t. Peter's College in Jersey City, he did not so much as acknowledge the cheers that greeted him and the chants of "dee-fense, dee-fense" with whIch the Knick fans had urged their team to th~ NBA championship~ In. stead, the former Rhodes scholar, Bill Bradley, launched into a serious talk calling upon "our generation" to "leave the comfortable room" and to commit themselves to something larger than themselves. He asked his hearers to question a society that spends $2 billion a year on jewelry, more than is spent to combat poverty; a society that spends $3 billion a year on pleasure boating, twice the foreign-aid budget; a society that spends $2 billion for golf courses, twice the amount spent annually for municipal water systems. The questioning should take the form of escaping "the materialistic habit of defining ourselves by our possessions, titles and .honors." When Pop'es speak in this way they are .listened toif at all-with merely, a certain dutiful respect but their words are. not too often taken to l1eart. It is only from time to time that some people sometimes look at the present state of affairs and then remember that Pius XI or Pius XII pointed to the signs and gave the warning and offered the advice some decades ago. Perhaps a present generation will listen to the voice of one of its own. Perhaps what the turmoil of the 60's and the questioning of the 70's is leading up to is the realization that the generation is seeking spiritual answers to what are, after all, spiritual ills and questions.

@rhe ANCHOR OFFIClA~

NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FlUL RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675·7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shelloo, M.A. 'lev. John P. Driscoll . . . . leary. Press-Fall River

Continued from Page One diocese, will receive diplomas. from Bishop Cronin at 8 P.M. On Sunday Four schools will hold· exercises Sunday, June 10, beginning at 1:30 P.M. at Bishop Gerrard ~ High School, Fall River where 139 girls will graduate. Bishop. , Cronin will preside and Miss Teresa Patten will be valedictorian. Towp o'clock exercises are scheduled at Sacred Hearts A'cademy, Fall River. Bishop Gerrard will present diplomas to 80 girls and Hon. James P. McGuire, Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, will be the principal speaker. Miss Janet A. St. Laurent will be valedictorian and Miss Phyllis L. Stanton will be salutatorian. Bishop' Gerrard will also present diplomas at 7:30 Sunday evening to 25 boys and 44 girls ' graduating from Holy Family High School of St. Lawrence parish, where he was pastor until his retirement last year. Rev. Brian Harrington will also speak at the Holy F!lmily ceremonies. Also 'at 7:30 P.M. will be grad· uation ceremonies at Bishop Con,nolly High School, Fall River where Rep. Margaret Heckler will be principal speaker and Bishop Cronin will preside. Viii· edictorian Michael L. Raposa and Salutatorian Ronald P. Joseph head the class of 95 graduates. 111"'1"'\"'1111111111 1111~11l1111'11111"I'I"I'I""'II'II"'III'I'II'II'111111111111"1"111111111111"1111'"

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He just couldn't believe that it had happened to him. After twenty three years of !;teady employment, the Navy yard was to be closed and a r,ew facility built in the south. As he waited in line for his last paycheck, he really felt that he had become a victim of political revenge. It was after a long day's work. Howto be such a good summer of ever with the critical power shortage it was again his day promise but now he wound to conserV!l energy.

have to be added to the'rolls of For the past, five weeks, those the unemployed and pound tLo pavement searching' for an al- little comforts that had become most impossible dream, a' neW necessities now faded into oblivjob. At his age and considering ion. The temperature was still the present state of the econ- at the 90 degree mark and there omy what chance did he haVE) was seemingly no hope for any to find any type. of sk:iIled em- type of relief be it from the ployment? Well he'd .better stop climate of the apartment or the feeling sorry for himself, hop the atmosphere of present politics. crowded bus and head f9r hOIll€1 This energy-crisis, was getting to be not only a nuisance but with the maddening mob. In the. good old days, he also down right aggravating. He thought, he would drive to work thought of the millions of office but now with the price of gaso- workers who were trapped in line so high he couldn't afford] elevators last week because of to face .even the commuting energy blackouts. Stores no rush-hour'traffic. The, bus inche:i, longer ran elevators or escalaits way through the polluted, tors, signs no longer ,flashed J haze of the city. He choked and their brilliant rainbows of elecsweated' in the oppressive sum- trical color, city buildings no mer heat until he finally reached longer gleamed like shining pilhis flat. Slumping into' his chair lars in the dark night. What was he glanced at the unused air con- once considered to be the ordi· ditioner remembering the mo- '- nary usage· of electricity now ments of comfort it gave him became a luxury.

Need a Fre!sh Win.d to Purify the Land Well at least he had his reo frigerator. Oh how that poor storage chest suffered. Gone were the steaks and the roasts, gone were the ever pres,~nt fresh vegetables, gone were any of

those little extras that he once could afford. Now he glanced with a glazed eye at the future supper of a hot dog and a can of beans. Yet this would be a welcomed change from the diet

of pastas that had .become the regular diet. Who can even afford to eat? He remembered how his mouth watered as he pushed his empty cart by the meat section of the supermarket. Even at the fish counter the glaring eye of a single lobster made him angry with envy. At $12 a pound he knew he would never taste that sweet delicacy again. On and on it went as he wound his way through the well stocked aisles until he found himself at the check"out with the usual cheeses and breads. Inflation was one thing but this present price situation was out of contro~. where would it all end? For some, this little sketch may seem to be a mere exaggeration. Yet for many it is or will be a reality. The summer of 73 holds little promise and hope not only for what we call the good things of life but also for so many of the ordinary things that we have taken for granted. From the polluted beaches to the smog encrusted hills the life pattern of many Americans will be changed not for the better unfortunately but for the worse. What we. have taken for granted for so long is now catching up to us, From the arena of politics to the kitchen table our lives are being changed because of our own indifference or carelessness. Too long have we left things for the other guy to do and we find out ·that he has not done them. Now even the staples of life are endangered. A fresh wind must blow to sweep the air clean, and a new tide must rise to purify the land. We can no longer afford the luxury of waiting. People must act; individuals must care. It is now down to basics. Air, food, water, energy and government are all at stake. How you react (0 the growing -problems of life will indeed affect your. own future life.

THE ANCHORThurs., May 31, 1973

Taunton Parishioners Celebrate Grateful One Hundred Years

Delegates Continued from Page One promised him "my full cooperation." Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary for the NCCB and the U. S. Catholic Conference, said he was "grateful to the Holy Father for having chosen so well qualified a person for this position." "I anticipate a close and 路cordial relationship with Archbishop Jadot, such as has trad~tionally existed between the apostolic delegate and the secretariat of the U. S. episcopal conference," Bishop Rausch said. The appointment was announced here by Msgr. Francesco de Nittis, charge d'affairs of the apostolic delegation. Belgian Chaplain Archbishop Jadot was born in Brussels Nov. 23, 1909, and ordained a priest Feb. 11 1934. After serving as a military chaplain for the Belgian armed forces in the former Belgian Congo, he was the national director of Pontifical Missionary Work for Belgium.' On Feb. 23, 1968, he was made titular路 bishop of Zuri and appointed apostolic delegate for Laos, Malaysia and Singapore. On Aug. 28, 1969, he was given the additional post of pro-nuncio in Thailand. Since May 15, 1971, Archbishop Jadot has been pro-nuncio apostolic in Cameroun and Gabon and apostolic delegate for Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea has 'been the scene of serious conflicts between Church authorities and the government of the young African republic. The nation's two bishops have been expelled-one in April, 1971, and one in April, 1972. In May of this year several Spanish nuns were expelled from the country. Pope's Representative The appointment of Archbishop Jadot as apostolic delegate in the United States marks Hie first time that a non-Italian has held the post in this country. The apostolic delegate is the Pope's principal representative . to Catholics in the country. The delegation, located in Washing. ton, D. C. was established by Pope Leo XIII in 1893. Since the United States and the Vatican have no official diplomatic relations, the apostolic delegate's principal concerns are with the Church in this country. He is the normal channel of communieations between the Vatican and the U. S. bishops, and it is his job to keep the Vatican informed of the conditions of the Church in the Unite'd States.

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TAUNTON PARISH CENTENARY: Bishop Cronin was the principal celebrant and homilist at the Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating the IOOth anniversary of the Sacred Heart Parish in Taunton,. Sunday, May 27. Top: the concelebrated Mass was offered in the recently refurbished sanctuary of the parish church by priests who have served the parish in the past or who have come from the parish to

serve throughou.t the diocese. Bottom left: Following the Mass, Bishop Cronin met parishioners introduced to him by the present pastor, Rev. Walter A. Sullivan,' while Rev. Msgr. Francis McKeon, former pastor, renewed acquaintances. Bottom right: Younger parishioners express elation at their meeting with the Bishop..

DENVER (NC)-The national Cathollic Library Association (CLA) has unanimously passed a resolution opposing President Nixon's proposed elimination of all federal funding for, libraries. During his annual convention here, the CLA protested Nixon's 'Proposal to eliminate all support for elemen1tary, high school, college, university and public libraries. The step has been taken路 despite Nixon's acknowledgement during National lJibrary Week of the need for generous support for libraries.

lHEANCHOR-Oiocese of Fall River-Thur., May 31,1973

R~If.h Gordlon Proves Ad,a,g,e 'Agre, Is ,State, of. Mind' That ,age is a state of mind is an adage I have heard repeated over a.nd over, but· never was I more aware of the deep truth it holds than recently when I met Miss Ruth Gordon, actress extraordinary and woman incarnate. Seventy-seven years young (a One cannot picture this vivacliche I'm sure she's sick of cious creature sitting down for hearing), she wears her hours in front' of a TVaI' just years so lightly that: she's counting memories; rather. she truly a'geless. I wished for a moment of her time to ask her the secret 'of keeping one's mind so energetic

By MARILYN RODERICk'

while at the same time keeping a body that seemed that of a 40year-old woman. The way she sat, the way she stood, her every movement after a hectically paced day gave no indication of weariness or fatigue. Inner Glow Even Miss Gordon's skin, though slightly lined around the eyes gave off a youthful glow that no amount 'of cosmetics could have created-this was a glow that came from inside. While never a raving beauty, a fact that I'm sure Miss Gordon would be the first to tell you, she is more attractive now than in any movie' that I've seen her in _and certainly much more striking a person than can even be conveyed on the screen. Her charisma defies description, she talks not of what she has done but rather of what she is going to do, and perhaps here is her secret.. .Life hasn't stopped yet for her, there is a tomorrow.

spends' her time making plans, for her future, looking forward to a new play that's opening next winter; and all in all living each day to its fullest. I've just finished reading an article advising women approaching middle age (with despair) to pick out an older woman whom they admire and use' her as a model. Anyone who has the fortunate opportunity to meet Ruth Gordon would not ha,ve to look any further for a model because the best one pos~ible would have been encotm-' teredo Have Defied Age She and her utterly charmjng husband, Garson Kanin, have defied, age, time, and the ravages of both. Truly interested and interesting individuals, they radiate a warmth, and vitality that could be an inspiration to us all. Presently residents of Martha's Vineyard, part of our diocese, the Kanins graced Fall River recently to speak for a newly formed organization, Friends of the Library, and it was on this occasion that I saw what "joy in living" really means exemplified by two of the greatest artists of the American theatre. One of our friends wrote to Mr. Kanin after the lecture, suggesting that his next book should be titled "Kanin and Gordon" (a sequel to Kanin's best seller, "Hepburn and Tracy"). If he should write such a book, I hope Mrs. Kanin reveals what has -kept her so youthful.

"Long N.Y. Legislature Includes Nonpublic Schools in General Aid Bill ALBANY (NC) - A textbook_ aid program extending the loan of textbooks to all grades in public and nonpublic schools was approved by the New York legislature as part of a general education aid package. Soine $4 million out of a total of $23 million allocated to textbook aid for public and non publie elementary schools will be reserved for the latter. Previously the law provided textbook loan aid only to seventh to twelfth grades and non public students shared in that also. "It is needed, constitutio'nal and long ~)Verdue," said tne president 'of the New York Feder, ation of Catholic School Par-ents, Dr. Thomas R. Curran of Elmira; in praising the passing of the measure. "U is a welcome help for all children," h~ said. He added that the program will be especially beneficial to tne poor in non public as well as in public schools. J. Allan Davitt, executive sec-

FALL RIVER SERRANS (;;REET BISHOP: Principals at the annual Bishop's Night 'of the Fall River Serra Club wl~re Mrs. Dennis C. Hurley, Bishop Cronin, who was the guest speaker; Dennis C. Hurhy, outgoing president of the organization. .

Laymen Misinterpret Ecumenical Role . SYRACUS (NC) - The word "ecumenism" has such an offi. cial ring to it that most pe();>le see It as a clergy function and not a ,layman's concern, ac-cord-ing to a leader in eCUlmenical affairs. "Just tile, word itself is a stumbling block for the average layman," said Father Harry C. Wallace, chairman of the National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Affairs. "The word sounds so official, as if our ministers and priests are ,getting together for high~ level activities whkh don't affect the people," he said in an inter,view with the Syracuse diocesan , weekly Catholic Sun. "Actually in ecumenicaJ work, we are more interested in what the people are doing on the grassroots :level than what is happening on high officia.l levels in policy actions," says Father W!lllace. "The NODEA is meeting re-

retary of the State Council of Catholic Schools Superinten- Catholic :Agencies to Aid dents, said that this "is evidence 'that the legislature takes serious- Earthquqke Victims NEW YORK (NC)-Plans to ly its mandate to p'rovide educa- . expedite the housing and retioil for all children in the state." He also praised the legislative habilitation of the victims of last leadership for consistently re- . December's -earthquake in Mansponding to the great needs of agua, Nicaragua, topped the list parents and students in the non- of. items di~cussed at a meeting here of representatives of Caritas public schools. Catholics' overseas aid agency. . Bishop Edward Swanstrom, exGetting Out of School ecutive director of CRS, anWas The Best Part nounced an agreement of both agencies to join in the purchase PEORIA (NC):-"I slept well in Honduras, and the erection in last night. It didn't seem to both- Managua, of 600 prefabricated er me," said IO-year-old John housing units urgently needed to Ardis. shelter disaster victims before John was the hostage who was the rainy season begins. taken outside at gunpoint by one With funds contributed by of the three men who invaded children in U.S. Catholic schools St. Cecilia's School here.· and Confraternity of Christian Even though it was, a trying Dootrine (CCD) classes during experience for the fifth-grader, Lent, CRS has already provided he feels he did profit from it. 50,000 sheets of corrugated iron '1'm kind of excited about aU for re-roofing damaged houses, the national newsmen talking to CRS expects to deliver in the me, but the best thing is that coming weeks, 37.000 addl-itional school was called off today.'.' .0 sheets.

i~ioilafIy to find out exactly what :s being done in the dioceses fn ocumenism, and to find~ out what :leeds exist. Then we will share 1hese ideas .with the hishops' Commission on Ecumenical and : nterreligious affairs so that they can take ba,ck to the National Conference of Catholk Bishops II report on ecumenism. For ,Common Good "This is brand new-we don't want to .be absorbed into a naIional office; we want to mainIain -a sort of independence so ,ve can give an honest, sincere Ieporting of what is going on in (cumenical work ,in the country," I.e said. Father Wallace pointed to hteroparish lay ecumenical activ- , i:ies as the direction of the eeuIlenical movement in America. , We want to get down to the gut i ;sues in ecumenkal work, like J overty," he explains. '''A 'diocese in Kansas has a pilot pro~ ram which works on a 'covenant relationship' - parishes combine their committees to accomplish their work for the common good. It works like social a ction in human development: it s laring of the human develop.t1lent needs of the poor, fpr example." ) Ecumenical Aim He said there has been a c lange in ecumenical aims from c mversion to coexistence. "Itwas not the intention of Vatican

II that everyone in the world must be Catholic," he says. "The writers stated that the primary pur,pose of ecumenical activity is not conversion, but rather a sharing whatever we can with other churches on a reciprocal basis. "The earlier emprasis on conversion came partly from the Church's pre-Vatican stance that the Church was virtually, perfect in all respects. One of the great achievements of the council was the recognition that the Church is growing and will continue to grow through the perfection of certain areas within the Church," he said. "Yet we keep very secure our foundations of doctrine and our teachings. Non-Catholics as well as Catholics are interested in the fact that they each have, a certain identity of -their own. Differences do exist, and we should not destroy them, but we' have to look for deeper relationships without the idea of conversion."

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"A Little Child Shall Lead Them." Last week I wrote about my little six-year-old daughter, Bobbie . . . warm affectionate, outgoing . . . mentally retarded . . . and the happiest p'erson I know. I promised that this week I'd tell you why I think she is such And possibly therein lies the a happy person, and how I key to contentment in life. God believe we can all learn to has given each of us a particular be happy . . . from her. chore assigned to no other. Bobbie doesn't worry about anything! She has practically no

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anxieties or fears. She holds no Try it. Your mind can be conhate, bitterness, nor grudges. We can easily say that be- tent, and your heart light. It's worth the effort! cause of her retardation, her brain isn't as developed or capable as a normal person's, therefore her freedom from worries, Many Children Receive fears, anxieties and hatred is No Religious Instruction simply that she doesn't underPHILADELPHIA (NC)-Near::ttand life's problems. But the difficulty may be in ly half of the Catholic children the way we "normal" people re- attending Philadelphia public schools last year received no foract to life's ,problems. Consider the way we look at mal religious instruction, according to statistics released by things. We worry constantly, about Father Raymond J. Teller, archhundreds of possible disasters. I diocesan director of the Confraoften joke that I have ~voided ternity of Christian Doctrine. many life's mishaps because The statistics show that I've worried about them. The 111,418 Catholic children, in the things I worry about never hap- archdiocese attended public pen! schools in 1972 and that 59,094 Nurse Memories were enrolhid in CCD programs; Fear gnaws at us; fear that our 52,324 were not participating in r.nvironment is deteriorating, religious instruction classes. that war is inevitable, that our The CCD figures showed that health wiil fail, that our children , the number of children receiving will go astray. instruction was up almost 2,000 We are a.nxious about tomorover 1971 while the number of row. Will we get done all we Catholic children n public schools must? Will we get no phone call increased some 8,000 in the same from the one we're hoping to time period. hear fepm ... or worse, will we Since 1967, the number of hear from the one we'd rather not? Will we'have the money for Catholic children attending pubthe rent? or to send our children lic schools increased by about 40,000 while the number of those to college 10 years from now? And we nurse the memory of receiving instruction went up wrongs that have been done to about 22,000, us, planning how to get 'even, scheming how we could return Vineyard Haven the insult, or "what we should have said!" ST. AUGUSTINE All these things put our minds $100 in turmoil ... and our hearts are St. Augustine CYO not at peace. This is why we are -- $50 unhappy. St. Vincent de Paul Society But Bobbie's life is different. Sylvia Funeral Home She goes about each· day with$30 out fear, without apprehension, Mr. & Mrs. William Figueiredo taking each thing as it comes. If $25 something should be enjoyed, Mr. & Mrs. John Fortes she delights in it fully, without Mr. & Mrs. Boleslaw Nickowal inhibition. If it is a challenge, Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Thibault she gives it everything she's got. And if it should be for,gotten, she discards it, without ever West Harwich looking back. Everything she does, she does HOLY TRINITY her ,best ... and sometimes that $200 may be very low on the "normal" St. Vincent de Paul Society scale. oBw. she's doing her best. $100 Mr. & Mrs. Russell Rose Jr. That's all that isimportant to\ $30 her. Leo Sullivan Through Bobbie I've met doz$25 ens of retarded children and I Mar:garet Geoghegan, Mr. & have .l'Ifverknown one 'who was ashamed of being retarded! They Mrs. Alfred Lenardson, John J. all seem content just being them- Mullins Family, Mr. & Mrs. selves, doing their best, a!!d Charles Reid, Marguerite Riley helping each other. Mr. & Mrs. Carl R. Jollnson:

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So what the retarded seem to come by naturally, we normal people have to work at ... finding our purpose in life and learning to accept it' and just do our best. To live happily at peace, we must know that we are doing our very best each moment,' each day, to fulfill our particular role in life, to deeply love and serve God, our fellowmen, and ourselves. Then the worries, fears, anxieties, and even hatred will disappear.

I3 FIRST BLESSING: Rev. Charles Teixeria, M.M., of New Bedford, bestows his blessing on his mother, Mrs. Dolores Teixeria following his ordination at Maryknoll and just before ceremonies in which he received his Maryknoll Missioner's crucifix and his assignment to Central America.

OLYMPIA (NC)-The Washington State Supreme Court unanimously declared that state legislation appropriating funds for nonpublic schools is unconstitutional. In its decision the ninemembered court struck down two acts, one aiding elementary and secondary school students, the other aiding college students. In an' extraordinary session, the 1972 legislature appropriated $200,000 for individual grants to needy and disadvantaged elementary and secondary ~pupils attending both public and private schools. . The law would have given up to $100 and $300 a year to elementary school and secondary school students respectively, with at least 25 per cent of the funds going to needy students in the public schools. A 1971 enactment provided tuition supplements to students in private colleges and universities of the state. In both instances , the money would have been given directly to the students, not the institution, and spent on tuition or books. The court based its decision on the section of the state Constitution which reads: "All schools maintained or supported whoHy or in part by public funds shall be forever free from sectarian control or influence." Father Michael O'Neill, Spokane diocesan superintendent of education and president of the Washington Federation 0 f Independent Schools (WFIS), said the decision is based on both federal and state grounds. and apparently precludesappeals to the U. S. Supreme WFIS is now looking to other forms of state aid. A tax credit program will go before the legislature this November. WF'IS is also considering backing a bill that would provide state money to school districts for textbooks and library books to be. loaned to students in all Schools.

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PRINCIPALS" AT STONEHILL 'COMMENCEMENT: :Rev. Ernest J. Bartell, Stonehill President; Martin Meyerson, Presid~nt of the University .:>f Pennsylvania; M~s. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, first Black president of the ~EA; Zenon C. R. H~nsen, Ch~mnan, o~ the Board of Mack Trucks Inc.; Dr. Harry A. Wolfson, professor ementus from Harvard, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop 9f Fall River who presided and gave the benediction.

Stonehill' Graduates IllS LClrgest Class BY MARION UNSWORTH CURRA\'l "From a view (in the 50's) that we could rarely do wrong we seem to have moved to a view that we can rarely do right ... Where is our historic sense of confidence?" President Martin Meyer§on of the University, of Pennsylvania asked 355 gradu· "ates of Stonehill College, the largest graduating class in the history of the College, at Commencement exercises held Sunday on the campus in North Easton., Stating that most of this atmosphere of despair, this state of self-denigration, is unwar· ' ranted, President Meyerson point. .ed out that "we have demonstrated and continue to show generosity to our fellQws in other countries ... opportunity is more widespread in this nation than elsewhere ... material abundance ... 'is not somehow an evil... the visual arts and architecture are our special province ... and ,our higher educational' institu· tions are outstanding." , Rather than giving in to this despair, the speaker suggested to the graduates that they must "fulfill again and define once more the American character and hope ... this is diffic~lt. It means setting an example, and without becoming unduly righteous. "And that is hard," Challenges 'As their 'part 'of the unfinished agenda of our country in this century, Pres'ident Meyerson issued four challenges to the grad· uates: First-Uwe should stop being ashamed of 'our material abundance ... but should make surethat a basic ,threshold of material well-being' is availaJ:)le to all of us ... through our historic attachment to reward through , work." Second-Uthe" strengthening of democratic institutions," including a free press. "It is important to confine government," he added. UIt should be seen in a subordinate role .. ,las supplier

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Nazareth Hall Students Operate Spiritual Powerhouse for Fall River路 Friends By PAT McGOWAN

Except for the neat sign on its front lawn, Nazareth HalI looks like just another welIkept house on Fall River's Highland Avenue. But it's a spiritual. powerhouse, operated by nearly 100 exdeptional children, inclj.lding retarded, mongoloid and emotionally disturbed youngsters. "They have no trappingsthey go straight to God," said Sister Maureen, RS.M., 10ngtime Nazareth principal. Hundreds have discovered Nazareth's power and it's a rare day that th'e youngsters don't receive a request for prayers. Sometimes answers are spookily prompt. "We were asked at 12:15 one day to pray for the happy death of a hopelessly ill a~d suffering man," related Sister Maureen. "At 12:25 we received a call. 'He's gone to God. Thank you.' " On another occasion a priest dropped in to request prayers for a pat\ent who refused to see him. On the way back to his rectory he paused at the hospital to see another ill person. He passed the door of the obdurate one and .was beckoned by a family member. "He wants to see you now, Father," she whispered. "We thank God for the privilege of working with these youngsters," said Sister Maureen. "We have none of the hassles and problems of other schools." Noting that the theme of the recent diocesan teachers' convention was "Building a Com,/ munity of Faith," she added, "That's what we've got hereour faculty is a real community of faith." Radiates Outward Sparked, by the faculty, the Nazareth spirit radiates into the I

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SUPER SWIMMERS: Youngsters from Nazareth Hall, Fall River, who merited ribbons and certificates in Special. Olympics swim meet at Brockton. From left, front row, Leilani Anderson, Denise Canuel, Priscilla Shea; rear, Steven Vieira, Linda Carreiro, Jeannette Haire, Carmel Rosa.

FalI River community. Sister . Maureen said that "literalIy scores" of volunteers aid the school in the course of a year, including students from Bishop Connolly High School and Morton Junior High School who come to Nazareth during their free periods to tutor youngsters on a one-to-one basis. Especial!y popular is a swimming program which recently resulted in Special Olympics ribbons and certificates for eight Nazareth Hall youngsters. Pupils 'have been using the FalI River 'Boys' Club pool for three years, through the courtesy of Norman North Attleboro Mullen, director, said Sister Maureen. SACRED HEART Attleboro Supervising girls' swimming $40 ,,are Mrs. Frank Plichta of the Alice Richards ST. THERESA Nazareth faculty, Mrs. John P. $25 $200 Mr. & Mrs. William Dumoulin, Mr. & Mrs. Vincent DeQuattro Malloy, Mrs. Daniel M. McDonald, Mrs. George D. Kelly and , $25 .. Mr. & Mrs. Norman Pinson-" neault, Mr. & Mrs. Emile SeyMr. & Mrs. George Busby, Mr. " Mrs. William H. Gaudreau. In charge of the boys are Paul Lamour & Mrs. Edward Messier pointe, Harold Mosher and Gary Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred Goulet ST. MARY Bigos. Jaycee meJPbers provide $100 HOLY GHOST. transportation to the pool. Mr. & Mrs. James Coogan $25 In area competition in the $60 Merton Churchill Special Olympics, a nationwide Mr. & Mrs. John Kierstead Michael Quaglia program sponsored by the KenR. Wessman nedy Foundation, Jeannette Haire ST. MARK $50 topped all others with two first $30 John Bevilaqua Jr. and one third place ribbon in Paull P'. Danesi Mr. & Mrs. S. Linfield free style and relay races. First, $25 Walter Rowe second and third ribbons' were Daniel Miconi, Rob~rt Jacques, E,va Morawski Mrs. Mary Pineo, Mrs. Robert won by Linda Carreiro and, CarMarie Scanlin mel Rosa; Leilani Anderson merSharkey $35 Ray Boucher, Raymond Mulry, ited a first and a third, and DeMr. & Mrs. Frederick A. nise Canuel a second. Mrs. John G. Walsh Thorpe Gerard Hickman The youngsters, together with $30 $25 winners in track and jump events Cecile J. Brais Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Baumgartel will enter competition on the Mr. & Mrs. H. Donnelly state level in Boston on June 2. Mr. & Mrs. W. Woloshyn ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST Top state scorers go on to nat$25 $50 ional Olympics. Last year, said Gertrude Bride, ,Mr. & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Lewis Sister Maureen, Denise Canuel Ronald L. Donley, Mr. & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. James J. Coogan was among national entrants,' Joseph Doran, Mr. & Mrs. Don$25 traveling to California for. com路 ald Dube, Mr. & Mrs. H. Dupras In Honor of Rev. Msgr. Thom- petition there. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Feeney, as F. Walsh, Mr. & Mrs. George Here You're Loved Mrs. M. McCabe, Walter Mc- Bosh, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Car"The most beautiful thing for Cann, Catherine McNally, Mr. & uso, Mr. &. Mrs. Harry Borden, us about the Games is the .sharMr. & Mrs. Vincent Pedro Mrs. Francis E. McNally Mr. & Mrs. John J. Mullaney, ing feeling," she said. "EveryMr. & Mrs. Francis G. Murphy, Mrs. John Mushey, Mr. & Mr. & Mrs.. Robert Boutin, Mr. one is so happy about the ribbons that were won. The chil.dMrs. Gerard Michaud, Mr. & Mrs. & Mrs. Donald Price ren are that way about everyMr. & Mrs. Frederick Woll J. Paulousky, Mrs. H. Peczynski thing-so glad about each other's Mr. & Mrs. Francis I. Bowen Mrs. E. Sheals, Michael A. Vigorsuccesses." Helen Sheehan ito ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,'III""IIIIII,,illll'I1"'I1I"II,,,,,,'1111111"'llI111111I,",,,,,'Il"""'''UlltIHIIIlI,,tlIl

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Mass is celebrated at Nazareth once a month by Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, said Sister Maureen. And retired Bishop Connolly, who made establishment of, the Nazareths in Fall River, Attleboro and Hyannis one of his priorities while directing the diocese, has. not forgotten his young friends. He visits the Fall River school at least once a week. It's all summed up by a plaque hanging in the school for all children to see. "Here you are loved," it says. 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllll111111lUIllllUllIllIlllllllllllllllltlii1111111111111111111111111111111>

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There was this country that had two sons. When the wars came, one son joined and dutifully went off to slay , the enemy. The other son, however, went to his father. "I refuse to kill for my coun~ry," said he. "Give me my inheritance and 1 will go off to Canada." His father did but now he has been found," And so the party began. as he asked and sent him off The other son, the veteran. with his blessing. ~ was out in the field. When he The prodigal son went to a country far away where he

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wasted his inheritance on study,' writing and protesting. His soldier brother went also to a country far away where he protected his country and upheld the honor of his father by fighting gloriously and killing many. One day the wars ceased for a hrief moment and the soldier son came home. He was greatly honored. All the country acclaimed him hero and he went back to his fields, a proud and righteous son. The prodigal son, however, languished in his land away from home. He wrote of the futility of the wars and of his exile. The wars which had c,eased briefly took up again a few miles over the border in the land far away. The heroes' who were his brothers found their glory short-lived, and their sacrifice unappreciated, and their minds drugged. The prodigal son became lonely. He wanted to come' home to his father. His host country was tiring of him anq he found himself as unemployed as a returning soldier, as useless as a body count, and as hungry as the poor in his own country. Wars Go On He found a job washing dishes in a restaurant and one day he' said to himself, "Even the Indians in my father's country eat better than I do. I will get up and go to my father and say, 'Father, I was wrong. I spent my inheritance foolishly. I made a stand for what I thought was right but nobody seemed to care. My sacrifice has been in vain. The wars go on'. "'I am no 'longer fit to be called your son. Treat me as one of your disadvantaged poor, but let me come home.' " Then he got up and started home to his father. He was still a long way from home when his ,father saw him; his heart -was filled with pity and he ran, threw his .arms around his son and kissed him. "Father," began. the son, "I have spoken against my country and dishonored you. I am no longer fit to be called your son." ' But the father called his friends and neighbors. "Hurry!" he said. "CQme and rejoice with us. Our second son 'is home. We are having a party to celebrate. For this son of mine was dead, ,but now he is alive; he was lost

he heard the music and smelled the bar-b-que, he asked a friend. "What's going on up at the house?" Angry Veterans' "Your brother is home," answered the friend, "and your father's having a party to celebrate his coming home safe and sound." ,Now the soldier brother was so angry he would not go' back to his home. Instead he went to his fellow veterans and to their parents and to his leaders and they became angrier together. "We have peace with honor," they said. "If we -allow a dishonorable son in our midst, our ,own honor will be diminished; 'We must never forgive him. He is a criminal and must be treated like one." Then the father came out to them and begged them to welcome his lost son. "Never," replied the veteran son. "He gave up his citizenship while I defended mine. He has lost the ri,ght to forgiveness. " "My son, my son," answered his father gently,. "to you belongs everything. You have the land, the honor, the rightousness that comes to one who never strays. You have never questioned, never protested. You have never suffered for principles. "Don't you see, everything beIongs to you the present and the future while nothing belongs to your brother but his conscience? What will you lose, then, by welcoming him home? For your brother was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost,. but now he has been found."

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MINI-COURSES SPARK. CURRICULUM

,. -. FRIDAYS ARE FUN~ Friday is fun-day at Holy Name School, Fall River, where seventh and eighth graders have been participating in. a variety of Friday afternoon mini-courses. Activities pictured include knitting, taught by Mrs. Rita Danis, an activity which drew faculty members as well as students; swimming at Fall River Boys' Club, directed by Peter McCarthy and Alfred Medeiros; two typing sessions, supervised by Rev.,

William Campbell; photography, including developing and showing of slides, taught by Miss Mary Hooben; basketball strategy, explained by Francis Desmarais; and arts and crafts, led by Mrs. Joseph Ryan. Concluded before The Anchor photographer visited the school was a popular course in oil painting, taught by Mrs. Robert S. Hackett.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., May 31,,1973

The·- Parish, Parade

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

Gardening Welcome Respite From Watergate Affair By Joe and Marilyn Roderick With all the controversy over- Watergate and the political state of the country, it'is rather refreshing to get out into the garden and do thin,gs that probably have no consequence in the world around us. Our irises are now coming into bloom along The placing of flowers before with the oriental poppies, Mary's image with prayers is an and they fill a much needed act of religipus, homage which gap at this time of the year began in the early days of the

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just before the roses and early, lilies bloom. Irises have come a long way in the past few years and many varieties are available , which are truly lovely and less prone to disease than those of yesteryear. The only difficulty with the newer irises is, that they tend 10 be very big and take up an inordinate amount of room in the garden, before and after they bloom. The dwarves I've had have the disadvantage of an extremely short blooming time and though they do not take up much room they bloom for only a few days and are hardly acceptable as replacements for standard iris.

Church. Symbolic Blooms There is speculation that these first gardens set aside for the veneration of the Blessed Mother may have bet;Jn in monasteries and that they were mainly for the use of the travelers who 'stopped at these hostels' to refresh body and soul. Our early venture into a Mary Garden was mostly in the area of blue and white flowersMary's colors-but a true Mary, Garden contains symbolic blooms such as the Madonna lily and Mary's Heart, the bleeding heart. Everyone needs a quiet spot" for renewal after the wear and tear of modern living and a small Mary Garden could very well be it. This frosting recipe was given to me by Mrs. William Letendre of St: Elizabeth parish in Fall Rivet. She cautions that it makes a large amount, but I --find that quite good, since most recipes don't make enough.

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CATHOLIC ARAU: Mrs. Nimra Tannous Es-Said, a Catholic Arab, has called fo~ a C:'ujstian conference 011 Middle East problems. She is executive secretary' of the Supreme Ministerial Committee for Relief of Displaced Persons of the Government of Jordan NC Photo

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OUR LADY OF' ANGELS, FALL RIVER. The Holy Name Society will hold a communion breakfast and meeting following 8 AM. Mass Sunday June 10. A baseball trip is planned for Sunday, June 24. The council of Catholic-Women will hold its banquet and installation ceremony at Valle's res-' taurant at 6 P,M. Sunday, June 17. The Feast of Espirlto Santo will he celebrated this weekend. Children of Mary will attend 8 AM. Mass Sunday, June 17, followed by breakfas~ The Holy Rosary Sodality announces a penny sale for 7 P.M. Friday, June 22 in the parish hall. ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Continuing its longstanding annual tradition, the Women's Guild has presented a book to the Falmouth Library. This year's selection I is "The Pain of Being Human" by Eugene Kennedy, M.M. The guild has presented an annual book since its founding and also presents volumes in memory of deceased members. A ,total of 43 books has been given to the 'library in this way.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Guild plans to hold its annual installation dance and .buffet from 7 P.M. to midnight Saturday, June 16 in the parish hall. Music will be by the J. B. Quintet and the public is invited. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK A mother-daughter communion breakfast will be served in the .parish center on Sunday morn,ing, June 10 following the 9:15 Mass. Of-ficers of the Women's Guild for the coming year will be in-' stalled at the cQmmunion breakfast. The slate consists of Mrs. Donna Motta, re-elected president; Mrs. Agnes Rase,' vicepresident; Mrs. Nancy Reed, secretary; Mrs. Linda Hall will serve again and thus complete her two-year term as treasurer. Entertainment will 'be provided by ,Frank Tempo, Channel 10's singer-artist. Tickets may be purchased from any member of the guild. A Mt. Carmel Day will be held at Nissen's Thrift Shop on Taunton Ave. on Friday, June 8 with all proceeds being used to initiate the fund for the 'new' bus. All parishioners are urged. to purchase their baked goods between 9:30 A.M. and 8 P.M. on the special Mt. Carmel Day.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER 'Now Is Time Parish volunteers will begic Irises are planted in this area cooking Wednesday, June 6 il~ in late Summer, so now is the preparation for the annual festiti,me to visit gardens -and to see val,' to be held Saturday ane.: the varieties you like in bloom. Sunda~, July 21 and 22: at MaIn late August and early fall you Iowa Grove, Tiverton. Cooking ST. JOHN BAPTIST, ST. ANTHONY, can then order and plant those will conti~ue ,from 9 AM. to 5 CENTRAL VILLAGE varieties you have chosen. MATTAPOISETT P.M. in the school every Wed· A meat pie supper is scheduled , The parish will hold its first I find they do reasonably well nesday, Thursday and Friday from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M. Saturday, in Iight shade, although they .preuntil that -time. Polish delicacies June 9 in the parish hall, under whist party in the new church fer full sun. Light shade, howwill be available on J'hursdays sponsorship of the Ladies' Guild. building at 1:30 P.M... Sunday, ever, is suitll!ble as long 'as' they and F.ridays during this perio,: Tickets are available from Mrs. July 8 with proceeds to benefit are not standing in water. Devil Dog lFrosting the construction fund. Mrs. at the sch~ol hall. , Irises, of course, are veJ'y shalLynwood Potter and Mrs. Arthur Gloria W. Rounds is chairman. 2 Tablespoons flour Other festival plans will be Denault. low rooted, in fact, their tubers 2 Tablespoons corn, starch made at a meeting tonight in the . sit above the soil and therefore, The unit also announces a ST. JOSEPH, 1 cup milk churc:3 hall, ,following 7:15 Mass. whist party at 8 P.M. Tuesday, ATTLEBORO they cannot tolerate too much 1 cup sugar r All parishioners and friends will-· June 12 in the hall. The public is dampness or absolute wetness. All members of the cast and 1 teasp. vanilla ing to assist in the project arc The rule is that they should not welcome and refreshments' will backstage personnel of the re1 cup white' shortening . asked to attend by WaIter Gosci- be served. have wet feet. Other than that. cent minstrel show will meet at 1 stick margarine or butter . minski, chairman. I really think they have very (~ lb.) The annual guild banquet will 7:30 on Sunday night, June 3 A preiJrimary promotion cer- take place at a date to be anfew requirements. Care should be for a "Fu!l Evening.'.' Pictures 1) Cook flour, cornstarch and emony will be held at 10:30 A.M, taken in planting that they are milk over low flame until thick. nounced at Holiday Inn, New and slides taken of the show tomorrow 'in the school. Parents Bedford.. Members may. bring 110t buried, but even then it has Set aside to cool. will be shpwn and swapped. and friend~ are invited. been my experience that no mat. ~uests. Reservations may be made 2) Beat together for 10 minter to what depth they are utes the sugar, white shortening :md further information obtaine-ct planted they tend to seek the, from Mrs. Alston Potter, Main Archbishop Hannan and yellow shortel'\ing. ST. JOSEPH level they .prefer in theIr own Road, Westport. 3) Add the cooled flour mix: $50 Heads CU Board time. ture and beat for 10 minutes Havenwbod Motel WASHINGTON (NC) - ArchST. MARY, After growing in favorable again. The frosting will have the : $32 bishop Philip M.'Hannan of New NANTUCKET conditions for a length of time consistency of whipped cream. Mr. & Mrs. August Gonsalves The' Women's Guild will con- Orleans was elected chail:man of they tend -to reproduce quickly $25 'cluct a "Spring Festival" in the the Catholic University of Amerand become rather crowded. Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Cunning. church hall from 10 AM. to 4 ica's board of trustees at its Under these circumstances they Taunton ham, Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Don· P.M. on Saturday, June 2. Mem- quarterly board meeTing here. should be divided and moved ovan, Mr. & Mrs. Edwa,rd Fitz· IMMACULATE CONCEPTION... bers stress that there will be A native of Washington, Arch- ' rather- than let them be over& Mrs. Arthur simmons, :Mr. $50 prizes for all. bishop Hannan earne'd' a,masters I crowded. Immaculate Conception Wom- Frates, Mr; & Mrs. Louis Vaudry 'degree and doctorate in canon HOLY NAME, In the Kitchen Jr. en's Guild law at Catholic University.. , FALL,RIVER Mr. & Mrs. Charles Pittle $35 For a short time we had a Also named to the board as The golden jubilee of the parMr. & Mrs. Charles L. Kings· Mary garden, ,but when we built I new -trustees are Archbishop ish will be celebrated at a special . our addition on the back of the bury Joseph L. Bernardin of CincinNorth Dartmo1uth Mass 'of Thanksgiving at 11:15 $25 house, our statue (a' small stone Sunday morning. Bishop Cronin nati; Jane P. Cahill, IBM viceMr. & Mrs. Alfred Rose ST. JULIE Renai!isance Madonna we purwill be principal, concelebrant. president; Dona.ld R. Keough, $100 chased at St. Leo's League in Coca-Cola vice president, and SACRED HIEART ~efreshments will follow in the Rev. John J. Steakem Newport) moved to a central Raymond A. DuFour, a Washing$30 3chool hall. $50 garden location where it would Mr. & Mrs. Richard Flannery The 1923 dub will hold a din- ton business' executive. Mr. & Mrs. Roy Mason not bedarriaged and there it has $25 ler dance Saturday night, 'June Mr. & Mrs Michael CoX'deira Jr: stayed. Presently we are reworkJohn J. Curley 23. All dues should he paid by $30' , ing the garden and I would like Dorothy Conley Sunday, June 17. Mary Newett to move Mary once more into a ' New Phone 'Numbers $25 ST. ROCH, ST. 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Iished the distinction between "God" and "Caesar" saying: Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's," he meant that loyalty to "Caesar"-or the State can never come before loyalty to God. But there is another meaning to our Lord's distinction. The Church is not to become Caesar. If the Church is tempted to take over the powers of civil 'authority, she can find herself hopelessly confused between the basic divine doctrines she is commanded to protect and secular interests which can never be absolute, either in the claims they make or loyalty they demand. Popes fighting wars, beseiging cities and executing "rebels" in order to preserve temporal powers and territory are one example of the confusion of the divine with the secular. They were also forerunners of the tragic split in Europe's religious life at the time of the Reformation. Carries Risk Even to be idpnUfied as a "State Church" carries some risk of confusing the eternal with the ephemeral. Secular punishments, including torture and death, can be inflicted on citizens because they do not share the beliefs prescribed by Church and State together. The horrors of the Inquisition would have been avoided if the State had not been ready to kill the "disbelievers and heretics" handed over by the relig ous oHicials.· "i) Yet such executions were profoundly anti-Christian. To repeat the biblical reminder, when our Lord's disciples asked whether fire and destruction should be brought down on a village which would not listen to him, he told them squarely that the devil had inspired the thought. If we want to j~dge the horrors and agonies we are spared by the modern separation of Church and State and the total inability of the Church to inflict secular punishments, we have only to look at contemporary Ulster. There, today virtually all Church leaders are desperately trying to end the bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants and to introduce moderation and the possibility of "dialogue." The extremists are the chil-

A second guideline flows in a sense. from this example. It is that both sides should display a sense of history. Those who defend traditional positions with absolute certainty should remember that many doctrines, reinterpreted or outmoded today, were once held with blind certainty. Those who press for an innovation should be able to look back on the stupidity and danger of some proposed innovationsfor instance, the long effort of Bogomils and Cathara and Albegensians to make procreation an evil in itself. They should also reflect that for every Luther breaking with the .Church, there was an Erasmus and a Thomas More working for reform within the wider unity. Neither authoritarians nor rebels have always been right. Often they have both been wrong. This is the perspective of humility which history gives to the hope of true dialogue.

ST. ANTHONY

MOURNED: Father Willian Ross, 78, who discovered Stone Age tribes in New Guinea in 1934, died at Mt. Hagen, Papua-New Guinea. The Divine Word missionary from Whiteport, N. Y., was still pastor of Sacred Heart parish there when he died. (NC Photo)

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'KNOW YOUR FAITH The Widening Worfd of Religion

The Faiths of Other Men If someone were to ask you·to

list the ten persons who have c,ontributed most to the shaping of our world, whom would you name? Who would be yoU!' nominees for' history's most influential personalities?

FR. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J.

A respected modern historian, Arnold Toynbee, compiled such a list in response to that -very question. "I would say: Confucius and Lao Tzu; the Buddha; the Prophets of Israel and Judah; Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed; and Socrates." TO}'lnbee's "ten most influential persons" is made up of a handful of teachers and mystics, men of deep religious and moral convictions. ConfuCius. and Lao Tzu were ancient Chinese sages whose teachings formed the base of Chinese culture for 25 centuries. Buddha's teachings have enlightened billions of Buddhists from India, to Japan, to America ~ince he died 25 centuries ago. The prophets of Israel and Juda, OTHER FAlTUS: "Each faith tradition may perhaps men IiIke Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ho- challenge us to reflect more deeply on Some question,_ exsea and Ezekiel still provide insight and inspiration to 14 mil- perience or value in our lives." The names of the world's NC Ph.oto. lion Jews as they have for some religions are joined in an ecumenical college. I 25 thousand years. I • Only several hundred thou- ism, Islam, and Christianity. . with the profound effect ,the life sand people, chiefly the Parsis Mohammed's teachings have and teachings of Jesus have had of Bombay, still follow the teach- helped shape the culture of coun- on Western civilization. Fewer ings of the Persian genius, Zoro- , tries as diverse as Pakistan, Tur- of us are probably aware how aster (Zarathustra), but his key and Indonesia. As Christians. greatly Je~us' teachings have teachings are reflected in JUda- we are perhaps more familiar been clothed in the Greek mentality and language of Socrates, and his fatrtous pupil, Plato. . , Searchers These men have had such profound and lasting influence beI The number of converts re- caIly . from two backgrounds: cause, among other reasons, they ceived' annuaIly into the Catholic they have either no earlier reli- searched Olit the deepest meanChurch throughout the United gious affiliation (consequently ing of life. They provided meanStates since the days of Vatican not. baptized) or were members ingful resp~>nses to questions II has dropped drastically. In ,of what is termed a. "separated each hum,a~ being mu!!t face fact, we even use the term "cori- ecclesial community" (some with, sometime during life:' What is vert" today with some hesita- some without Christian baptism). the purpose of Ufe? What ts good tion, careful not to offend sepand evil? In. what does man find Ritual arated Christian brothers or imhappiness ahd fulfillment? On the feast of the Epiphany pede the cause of ecumenism. At som~ periods of the last year, Pope Paul, in one fur- Church's history Christians have ther step renewing our 'liturgy, closed themselves to the riches issued a Latin document, "The to be found in the faiths of other Order for the Christian Initiation men. But the more traditional' By of Adults." It provides liturgical attitude is one of openness to r celebrations for alI those cate- ,truth and wisdom wherever it is FR. JOSEPH M.· gories . of persons mentioned, to be found. Today the Catholic CHAMPLIN above - the non~baptized,. the Church, foIlowing the Second dOUbtfUlly baptized. Vatican Coumcil's explicit urgAn appendiX to the text con- ings, is struggling to recapture tltins a "Rite for Reception of some of tl~is openness. "CathBaptized Christians into FuIl olic" means,' in fact. "open to the Yet many still do seek {or. a Communion with the Catholic whole world." , solution to their spiritual needs Church." Us introduction and Learning Period in Catholicism and, from this the ritual itself waIlt a delicate During the next 15 weeks we writer's viewpoint, those per- path, showing real sensitivity for sons y.oill probably multiply in the convert's past while warmly will explore some of the faiths the next decade now that there welcoming this newcomer into of' other men. Each week we will focus on one important dimenappears to be a certain settling the spiritual family. sion of another great religious down within the Church. With this approach, the decree tradition - not to compare or These individuals who enter foIlows the example of leaders judge, hut to learn. Each faith the Catholic Church come basiTurn to Page Seventeen Turn to Page Eighteen

Becoming aCatholic

BY FATHER JOHN HOTCHKIN (Ed. Note: Father Hotchkin is director of the Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Division of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops). The world of religion has no .fixed ,boundaries. There are many centers of influence where religious authority is vested and traditions of the past are studied and reapplied. Centers of organization with programs to advance the ideals and values of religious communities. also are numerous, though there are few centerSrwhere new religious discoveries are made. These centers are not isolated from each other. In real life a'll religious enter.prises are connected whether followers of specific religious comJ;l1unities find it advantageous or not to ackowledge their deeper points of contact and common concern. Vatican II marks the acknowledgment of such relationships with other religious communities on the part of the Catholic Church. Why over four centuries went by for Christianity before the new directions opened by the ecumenical movement began to take hold is stiu a very large p:Jzzle. The state of scholarship and' religious thinking, political conditions in Europe and the

a constructive fashion. There is to deal with their differences in patterns of European emigration no doubt all played a role. . Divergence Yet we are still probably too close to the long era of Christian. divisiveness to assess in a mature , way what the religious· spirit of Western civiliz'ation was seeking to express in his time of divergence. We should be wary of writing off so long a period in religious affairs as nothing more than evidence of human shortsightedness and stubbornness. Without denying the presence of these elements in all human conduct, more positive factors must also have been at work. The Christians of the West may have been engaged in an extended experiment developing within a common culture the variety of forms for community life and the transmission of religious insights they now have. This extended experience may provide us with a more comprehensive basis for understan.ding \ how to cope with religious and cultural pluralism in the future. The world has become a compressed place in which to live due to the tightening bonds of commerce and com!Jlunication. With this comes the need for men of different faiths and idealogies Turn to Page Seventeen

·In the Lands of the Bible

BY STEVE LANDEGAN of Eden, but the Euphrates is Wh k f h I d f one of the four rivers mentioned :n we spea 0 t e ~n s 0 in connection with the garden the BIble most of us thmk of / (Gen. 2:11-14). Of the other three that pocket of real estate tucked streams, the Tigress is known at the South~astern-most corper and lies within the crescent, but of the M:dlterranean. that we the Gihon and the Pishon are uncaIl Pal.estme. . . known to scholars today. Certamly thiS 'land that IS A few miles from where the largely present day Israel and Euphrates empties into the PerIsraeli occupied territory, was sian Gulf was the ancient Mesott.e. center of toe stage upon potamian city of Ur. It was from which the great draJ;l1a of the Old this, city that Terah, the father and New Testaments was ~Iayed. of Abraham migrated to Haran . But some very important (Gen. 11:31). scenes were played on other Ur was situated near the tip parts of this s~:ge that extended of the eastern leg of the Fertile from the Persian Gulf to the Crescent. Haran was near its Roman Forum. northern-most point. It was from Much of the early action takes Haran, located close to the presplace in a region that scholars ent Turkish-Syrian frontier, that , refer to as the Fertile Crescent. Aliraham was caIled Yahw~h If you take a map of the Near (Gen. 12:1-2). The patriach, with East and draw an arc with one his wife Sarah and his nephew 'leg at the northern tip of the Lot, and' their servants and posPersian Gulf, and the other in sessions, tr.aveled down . the the Nile Delta, the arc will sweep western leg of the crescent. Their 'Up the vaIley of the Euphrates caravan made its way through R:ver, pass just above the south- the land of Canaan, to the Negeb ern border of present-day Tur- Desert, until famine forced tJ:1em key, then down the ,levantine to seek refuge in Egypt. (Gen. coast of Syria, Lebanon, Israel 12:9-10). and Egypt. ' So Abraham, who left Ur as a The name Fertile Crescent is child,traversed the Fertile Cresgiven to this strip because it em- cent in stages, until he reached braces the principal water Egypt as an old man. scurces that made habitation The course he foIl owed was possible on the edge of great ex- one familiar to many who used. panses of arid and semi-arid th: same route to flee from or land. migrate to Egypt and Mesopotamia, the two great centers of Geographical Sites political power and population It is not possible to locate a of the ancient Near East. geographical site for the Garden Turn to Page Eighteen

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Questions Secret Abuse Of Government Power

Widening World

After "Star Trek" went off television' my favorite program for a long time was "Mission Impossible." The nice thing about that program was that you did not have to take it any more seriously than you did "Star Trek." The IMF in the real world would be irresponsible criminal bul- Watergate may be only one ot the more minor capers in which lies -government-sponsored the real life Mission Impossible vigilantes' who were above got caught; there may have been and beyond the law. Similarly, I have always enjoyed reading Helen MacInnis's spy novels in airplanes. They were a diverti~g

hundreds - even thousands of others. The far leftist' who said that the FBI and the CIA were becoming a Gestapo may have been speaking the truth. Secret Power ( ! And it may well have been a I clique in some shadowy secrecyBy cloaked segment of the federal bureaucracy that decreed that REV. the Kennedys must die. The Cuban influence in particular seems ANDREW M. to run through the. whole mad GREELEY patterns of the Watergate/EHsberg/CIAlFBI/White House corBAPTISM OF CONVERT: "Its introduction and the ruption of American freedom. Maybe, after all, the CIA did ritual itself of Baptism walk a delicate path, showing real way to kill the pain of jet travel. have President Kennedy assassi- sensitivity for the 'convert's' past while warmly welcomnated because he had been too ing this neophyte into a new spiritual family." Father ~aesar No one reafIy believed that the soft on Castro's Cuba. CIA did that sort. of thing, 9f Orrico of Assumption Parish in Emerson, N.J., baptizes a Do I really believe this? At one course. time I would !}ave thought such convert, Reynard Frederick Richards. NC Photo. There were those extreme leftists who suggested that the CIA a suspicion was absurd. I am might have been behind the as- still prepared to believe that the CIA is for the most part an ~assination of President Kennedy, und occasionally a military chap- agency that collects its informatians only a simple profession Continued from Page Sixteen tion from newspapers, journals, in the primitive Church who said: of Catholic faith is required. !;Jin would tell me about the CIA's "hit men," the hired killers and long-range electronic sur- "It is the decision of the Holy Anything which smacks of triveillance (information which, as Spirit, and durs too, not to lay umphalism should be carefully that the U. S. 'government used far as Vietnam goes, seems to' on you any burden beyond that avoided. to assassinate undesirables have been quite accurate and which is strictly necessary." usually undesirable foreigners, Celebration of the reception hut occasionally an undesirable mostly unused). And yet I'pl not (Acts 15:28) ideally ought to take place in the American got it, particularly if so sure anymore. If Lord Acton The initial paragra?h, for ex- context of a Mass, but prudence he was somehow or other asso- was right when he said that 'ample, actually employs some will often dictate this should be ciate!l with what the CIA was power corrupts, he might just of those words: "The rite for the with only a few relatives and as well have added that the most reception of one born and hap- friends. doing. corrupting form of power is tized in a separated ecclesial Stranger Than Fiction The person to he received into But neither the fictional IMF secret power. community into full communion full communion should make the Needs Investigating nor the rumored CIA seemed with the Catholic Church, ac- final decision about details of There are too many sources of cording to the Latin rite, is ar- this "frequently joyful-painful very real, at least they didn't until the whole mad Watergate secret power in the United ranged so that no greater bur- event. If a serious doubt exists about <,pisode surfaced. And if the States today for a free society to den than necessary is demanded White House's crew of spies- tolerate. Once one discovers that for reception into communion the fact (no records) or the validity (rite of the separated ecKrogh, Hunt. Liddy, McCord, .. secret power has been responsi- ' and unity." 'clesial community is unclear) of !'tc.-are not a real life "Mission ble for extraordinary crimes, Recommendation Impossible," then I don't know then one must face the possibilSpecific application of that a baptism, the candidate is bapwhat one would look like. The ity that it is capable of any general principle manifests itself tized conditionally, but only only difference between fact and crime. I don't think that secret in recommendations like the fol- after an explanation "why" and then in a ,private ceremony. fiction is that the real one used government agencies did away lowing: When the reception service Cubans instead of blacks to do with John and Robert Kennedy; In the case of Eastern Chrisoccurs outside Mass, an interthe actual breaking in - quite .but the very fact that such a posesting rubric notes that after the possibly part of Mr. Nixon's sibility must be seriously raised once again indicates how utterly Bishop Eulogizes Our Father, "if the person reSouthern Strategy. devastating for our society has Jacques Maritain ceived into fu11 communion is 路FBI .files are destroyed, psybeen the revelation that Mr. chiatrist's offices ransacked, a WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop accustomed to the final doxology Nixon really did have his own James S. Rausch, general secre- 'For the kingdom,' etc., it should man who was later to become Mission Impossible force (wheth- tary of the National Conference be used in this place." commandant of the Marine " Petitions Corps turns over equipment to er he knew about it or not). of Catholic Bishops, paid tribute What is needed, it seems to to philosopher Jacques Maritain Several petitions of the Samthe White House's private Gestapo, former CIA agents strike me, is a thoroughgoing impartial who died in France April 28 at ple General Intercessions in included in this official document out on secret missions for the investigation of not only Water- the age of 91. offer, I think, an especially sensiL White House - complete with gate and the Pentagon Papers Bishop Rausch described Mari equipment as elaborate and so- spying but of the whole secret tain as "one of the giants of tive touch. "That all who believe phisticated as Barney carried in intelligence apparatus of the faith and intellect in our cen- in Christ and the Christian communities to which they belong, his tool kit. Indeed, truth is federal government and of the tury." stranger than fiction-and con- government's use of its police "His passing has special sig- may come to perfect unity ... investigative powers for political nificance in the United States, That the Church (Community) in siderably more frightening. I am now prepared to believe pur.poses. One federal attorney where he spent so many years which this person just now adanything. Helen MacInnis's his- remarked to me that the Justice teaching, writing and lecturing," mitted was previously baptized and formed may ever know tory of the Sold war may well Department could indict anyone he said. be the tr.uth. Daniel Ellsberg may in the country of any importan'ce"Jacques Maritain's intellec- Christ more deeply and proclaim be only the tip of the iceberg.. if it were so directed. The power tual legacy is truly immense. He him more effectively, let us pray of indictment is not secret, but played a vital role in shaping to the Lord." it can be used for secret political the contemporary Church, demNew Abbot purposes. onstrating for' all to see how TRAPPIST (NC) Father If Mr. Nixon really wishes to it is possible to combine the Timothy Kelly, a 37-year-old na- restore the confidence of the best of the Christian intellectual tive of Canada, has been elected American people in their govern- tradition with lively involvement the seventh abbot of Our Lady of ment he must not merely get to in the intellectual currents of Over 35 Years Gathsemani Abbey here il1 Ken- the bottom of the Watergate af- our times. He was an exemplary of Satisfied Service tucky. Father Kelly, a close fair, he must get to the bottom Catholic whose deep personal Reg. Master Plumber 7023 friend of the late Father Thomas of the much broader question of commitment served as a model JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. Merton, has authority over Trap- the secret abuse of government and inspiration to many. I pray 806 NO. MAIN STREET for the happy repose bf his pist monasteries in six U. S. power. Fall River 675-7497 soul," Bishop Rausch said. 漏 1973, Inter/Syndicate states and Chile.

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Continued from Page Sixteen a religious or ideological dimension of no small importance to every major issue that confronts mankind today. The more importamt the issue the more"likely it is to depend on a searching vision of human li.fe, its meaning and potential. Effects Since these questions are among the central preoccupations of religion, most men in theIr thought and language have been shaped by the religious or counter-religious ideologies in confronting them. Thus it becomes clear that the way in which religions of the world encounter each other will have a real effect on how the peoples of the planet confront each other. Interreligious relationships are woven into the broader area of intercultural contact and exchange that marks this era. Interchurch relations in the West' are affected hy strong movements in Europe toward political as well as economic unity and by the beginning of movement toward a North Atlantic Fe-deration. The religions of India and the Orient continue to exert a considerable power, of fascination and the followers of these religious ways are less and less. unfamiliar to Americans though most of us learned little about their way of life in the course of our ordinary education. Equally obvious are the forces at work to bring Christians and Marxists into deeper levels of conversation as the countries in which they live open new political and trade relationships. New Questions With all 'of this going on in our world, it is not surprising that we have new questions forming in our minds about interreligious relationships and a renewed curiosity about others who have long been strange to us. The very best way to gain knowledge of other religious traditions is through live- dialogue with men who live by them. But dialogue itself requires some preparation. In the next 15 weeks, Professor William J. Whelan will offer a guided tour pointing out the highlights of many of the world's churches and religions. He will provide his readers with a knowledge of many important facts and brighten these with his own comments and insights. This series will provide a lively start for the ordinary reader who wishes to increase his knowledge and understanding of what men helieve and how they li~e their lives in the Hght of the faith they hold. It is a series which can increase the reader's understanding of humanity as well as of religion.

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The Bible

Finds Rasputi,n, R"bens Biographies 'Disappointing ,

It was with smiling anticipation th~t I took up two new biographies, RasJ>utin by R. J. Minqey (McKay, 750 Third Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. $6.95~ Illustrated) and Peter Paul Rubens by Samuel Edward i (McKay. $6.95). Rasputin, of course, is the ' ! hypnotic figure usually rep- considerahle ~eed to his opinio~s, resented as having sovereign But, she did n~t, M~. Mm, , ney contends; fall mto hiS grasp, and baleful sway over the nor did he seek to exert power

last Romanoff rulers of Russia, , Ni~holas an~ Alexandra.. Mr. Mmney promises to show him as

I\~OSSIANAS ,C f ' t SUA I

through her.: Mr. Minne~ would have it that, Rasputin impressed the rulers f~"%H;,w@m:m:m;;mlgti and' others as a holy man of supernatural ~capacities. But he adduces 'no e~idence of genuine By holiness, and ithere is no need to go beyond the natural to explain RT. REV. anything which Rasputin ,is credited with sa~ing or doiQg. The MSGR. rulers may halve been awed; they were very cr~dulous people. JOHN S. Contro~ersiar Figure , KENNEDY The' commonly received accounts of Rasputin's debauchery GIFT FOR THE MISSIONS: Father Ronald Cardoza ~'~nWml)mmm;mmmmlli1JJ may well be! exaggerated, and much misunderstood and aHo- Mr.. Minney Iquotes .people ac- at the wheel of the new jeep that the people of New Bedgether unsinister. quainted ~ithlRasputin who give ford purchased for his Suai Mission on the Island of Timor. Rubens was possibly the the lie to t~ese lurid stories. greatest pa,inter. of the first half Still, he has to admit that Ras-. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Enos, Mr. & New Bedford , of the 17th century. Having seen putin ' indulged in sexual dalMrs. James Goldrick his vast and, glowing ,canvases liance WhiChl approach~d the Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Kennedy, MT. CARMEL in churches and galleries in va- promiscuous, that he drank $50 . Mr. & Mrs. Joseph MacFarlane, rious parts of the world, one is heavily, that he frequented night Helen McGrath, A Friend, ElizaA Friend glad' of the opportunity to learn spots, ,that he !,sometimes dressed' beth O'Brien $30 something about the man who sumptuously. Ambiguous at best. Helen O'Brien, William J. O'Mr. & Mrs. Jose dos Reis Vascommanded such genius. Rasputin w~s a controversial concelos Brien, Anna Riley But both these books are dis- figure for yea~s before his death. '$25 Mrs. Hazel McCrohan -appointing. Mr. Minney does not He had enemi~s; and several atMr. & Mrs. John Pacheco MedST. MARY really make his case, and Mr. tempts were ~ade on his life. His eiros $32 Edwards really has no case to' murder, in 19116, was grisly, even Mr. & Mrs~ 'Rod Lussier make. Rasputin's ill repute is if not bizarre ~s some of its perST. LAWRENCE $30 not explained away, and Rubens petrators hav~ depicted it. $100 Mr. & Mrs. John Hughes Mr. Minney seems confused on is not explained. Rev. Michael 'G. Methot $25 some points. Thus, he has RasMr. & Mrs. Edward F. HarMany Wanderings ' Mr. & Mrs. John Higham putin celebrating Mass, although rington .Grigori Rasputin was born in he was never la priest. The style Mrs. Joseph Rezendes & Mable Mrs. Anne E. Hooper 1872, in a Siberian village of & Mrs. Frederick Gryss Mr. $75 which his father was headman. is dreary, and 'the avowed intenMr. & Mrs. William Whalen Jr. A Friend He had no education, and did tion of clearing Rasputin's name ' is not achievetl. $35 not learn to read and write until ST. THERESA Mr. & Mrs. James Sherin he was about 20 and already Master Artist $100 $30 married. Mr. Minne~'s book is much Anonymous - Dorothy -Curry At 12, he' revealed the identity more detailed than Mr. Edward's. $25 of a horsethief, seemingly by The fact is' th~t Rubens was an Theresa Beehan" Mr. & Mrs. Somerset clairvoyance. At 16, he went to extremely reticent man. This visit a distant monastery, where may be becaus~ his father's name Raymond Bolton, Anna M. Brady ST. JOHN OF GOD he spent four months.. He never was clouded i by scandal, and $50 became a monk. He did become Rubens was a~ pains to keep a Rev. Msgr. Augusto L. Furtado cloak of mystery around himself • Michelangelo's painting, which he something of a pilgrim. $35 ' He went on foot to Mt. Athos lest he be as harmfully gossiped studied -intensively. He was apMr & Mrs George R. Coulombe in Greece, taking 10 months to about. ~ pointed court painter to the Duke ST. PATRICK get there. Later he journeyed to There is no tecord of his birth, of Mantua, spent a year in Spain, $120 the Holy Land, being away from but it appears Ithat it "took place' and by 1606 was recognizl~d as a Norman Anctil home two and a half years this in 1577 at Siegen, near Cologne, major artist and was, financially $50 time. These were but two of his although his parents belonged in independent. Doris W. LaFrance many wanderings. Antwerp, whet-e his father had He was a prodigious worker, $25 During one expedition he pub- been the pri*dpal magistrate. spending every hour of daylight William L. Slaby, Arthur F. licly foretold that Tsar Nicholas Exiled from AJ;1twerp, the family in his studio, never taking a holiand Tsarita A:lexandra would struggled for a precarious exis- day, ana turning out 3,000 (some Cassidy, Roger M. Morgan; Helen have a son, although their hopes tence in alien parts. say 5,000) canvases in a little Morgan of a male heir had been all but It was onlyl after his father's over thirty years. H~ was delabandoned after ,repeated disap- death, and when he himself was uged with commissions, charged Ocean Grove pointments. Within a year Tsare- 10 years old; Ithat Rubens first ever higher prices, and piled up vich Alexei was born. saw Antwerp, :where his family enormous wealth. ST. MICHAEL Credulous People had been notable for centuries. Kings and queens vied :for his $80 Rasputirt came to the attention, He went to sc~ool, became page services, and plied him with Rev. Edward J. Sharpe of the Grand Duchess 'Militsa, to a noblewoman, and discovered· treasure and resounding titles. $60 and .by 1905 he was visiting in some of the details of his father's His contacts with courts: gave Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Brophy St. Petersburg, where he worked disgrace. ! him the opportunity to perform . $25 an apparently miraculous cure T,he author surmises that this diplomatic missions, at which he Mr. & Mrs. Leo T. Cyr, Mr. & of a sick dog belonging to.a knowledge spu~red him to aim at hecame adept. He was one of the Mrs. ' Robert Mailloux,. Mr. & grand duke. eminence and1 th'ereby restore foremost celebrities of his day. Mrs. Moise J. Authier He soon was introduced'to the luster to the fap1ily name. At 15, Account Book Mr. & Mrs. John C. Lindo Jr. tsar and his wife, and was called he voiced the intention of being Yet he hid the truth about Henry Bird, Domenic Troy in to do what he 'could for the - a painter and! was apprenticed himself. The biographer must tsarevich, who was a hemophil- to a mino~ attist. He worked conjecture on every page. Some North Westport iac and had bouts of acute suf- hard and fairly [soon w~s granted of the conjecture is plausible, yet fering. After this and other visits the rank of master artist. the reader never knows when he OUR LADY OF GRACE by Rasputin, the child's pain Prodigio~s ,worker' is treading on the fiim ground $30 would abate. He went to Italy, to learn what of fact, when on flimsy possibilSt. Isidore Council No. 4373 The tsaritsa was naturally im- he was convinced' he could not ity. What we get here is a time- K. of C, pressed and grateful, kept in learn at homEl, and there Hie table, a catalogue, an a(:count $25 touch' with Rasputin, and paid princ~pal influence on him was book, more than' a life story. Mr. & Mrs. William Costa '111111111111' 1l111IHllUlIl!1I1l!f~1I1 tlllllllllllllllllllllill till 11111 11111 1till III II r 111111111111'1111111" '"

Continued from Page Sixteen From the Persian Gulf to Rome 'Mysterious: Magnetic On the western end of the stage· of the Bible were played the great dramas of the New Testa-' ment. The journeys of Peter and Paul to Antioch, where Christians got their name (Act 11:26), and the missionary travels of. Paul through Greece and Asia Minor' coincided with the westward expansion of Christianity. The death of Peter and Paul at Rome stake out a good claim for the eastern half of the Mediterranean as the center of New Testament action following the Resurrection of Jesus. The lands of the Bihle bear strange names '!ike Moab, Shethem and Beersheba; they include tropical valleys, snowcapped mountains and desolate wilderness. They are as mysterious as they are magnetic ... for ;Vho h~s not visited Bethlehem, Nazareth and . Jerusalem countless times on the magic carpet of the mind? In this series of articles we will explore together' those far away yet always familiar places that comprise the "Lands of the Bible."

Other Faiths Continued from Page Sixteen tradition may perhaps challenge us to reflect more deeply on some question, experience or value in our lives. We may find that openness to them can actually encourage us to deepen our appreciation and understanding of our own Christian heritage, rather than being fearful of the faith of other men. .' After years of study Arnold Toynbee concluded: "In learning more and more to respect, rev-erence, admire and love other faiths, we shrould be making progress in the true practice of Christianity. And the practice of the Christian virtue of charity need not prevent us from holding fast to what we 'believe to be the esssential truths, and ideals of our ow,n Christian faith." ,

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Thurs., May 31, 1973

SCHOOLBOY' SPORTS

HOLY NAME $300 In Memory of Charles E. &. Margaret Bc>nner $175 Dr. & Mrs. Francis D'Errico $150 Dr. & Mrs. John E. Delaney $100 Dr. & Mrs. Richard Donovan $50 Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Mitchell $35 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hennessey Mr. & Mrs. Fred Demetrius Mary Hurley $25 Mr. & Mrs. John Azavedeo Mr. & Mrs. Frank McCauley Mrs. A. ,Frances Davis Mr. & Mrs. John Golden Elizabeth M. Zalenski Mr. & Mrs. Jan Pietraszek Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dwyer John T. Farrell

IN THE DIOCESE By PETER J. BARTEK Norton High Coach

Durfee and New Bedford Join .Southeastern Mass. Conference The Southeastern Massachusetts Conference will expand to 28. schools in September when the scholastic year commences. The league/membership voted both New Bedford High and Durfee High of Fall River into the Conference at the May meeting. sub-committee The admission of the two Congressional hearings were held, and numerschools brings to an end the ous charges were leveled at indidebate created over' a year vidual Conference members.

ago when both were rejected admission. However, the circuit's Board of Governors now is con·· fronted with the difficult problem of placing the two large schools into divisions and still adhere to the Conference's spedfic purpose "to ·provide equitable competitive conditions for each schooL" The Conference overcame tremendous obstacles enroute to it;, present status. When New Bedford and Durfee were deni{!d admittance .the loop was bitterly attacked in a few local papers,

To give credit where it is due, in this writer's opinion, the Conference is -to be congratulated on an outstanding first year. The competitive conditions were, for _ the most part, very equi.table. Keen competition exemplified divisional races ,in all, sports. The athletes enjoyed competing in contests in which they believed they had, at least, an even chance of winning. The final result of most events was in doubt until the final stage of the game indicating the teams were evenly matched.

ST. MARY CATHEDRAL $50 Franciscan Missionaries of Mary $25 S1. Francis Residence Mr. & Mrs. John Beckerle

A SORT OF REVERSE RIGGS: While Bobby Riggs was making headlines by coming out of retirement to challenge a top female tennis player, a high school girl from the Columbus diocese was making inroads into male tennis Must Work Together to Strengthen Loop ranks. Theresa Donahue of Newark Catholic High School Make no mistake, the Confer- if changes were made at this time.. played in the previously all-male Central Ohio District rnce did not provide a Utopia The original pairings were for Class A-AA tournament. NC Photo. for all members. There were er- two years with adjustments

rors committed. However, steps are being taken to avoid the same problems in the future. But, even considering the difficulties and errors, the Conference did bring' more equitable competition to local schoolboy sports. The New Bedford-Durfee issue has created some hard feelings on both sides. However, whichever sid? may ~ave been right or wrong IS of httle co.nse~uence now. The . . past year IS history. . What IS Important now IS that all members of the Conference must work together to st~engthen the loop and see to It that athletes who compete have an enjoyable experience, the fans who go to the games are treated to good high school competition and that team as well as individual accomplishments be justly recognized. . The Conference's football alignment will remain the same for next September due to scheduling difficulties that would arise

made at the end of that time. Thus, Durfee and New Bedford will play independent schedules in football again this Fall. However, there is the possibility that both new members could compete in Conference soccer and cross country. Undoubtedly, the soccer question will bring about a debate as to where New Bedford should be placed. The Whale~s rate as one of the best soccer combines in the Commonwea Ith an d't's I J debat able whether or not there are h h I 'n th enoug soccer sc 00 s 1 e 100 that can compete with them. p League officials are now in the process of aligning basketball schools into division for next Winter. Durfee and New Bedford will definitely be included. The alignments probably will be finalized before the termination of the ·scholastic year. It will be interesting to see what changes are made from last Winter's groupings.

Basketball Alignments on Drawing Board It has been rumored that Durfee and New Bedford could be placed in a two, three or evea four team division if the league ,officials determine that is the ?nly e.qu~table ~olution to alig.n~n~ wIthm .a. ~Ive.n sport. Whll.e It IS a POSSlblhty In basketball It is unlikely. ... One of the more reahshc ahgnments calls for four divisions with five teams in the top two and eight teams in the third and and fourth. The ten strongest hoop schools would ie placed in the top two backets and be scheduled /for thirteen league games. Each school would play the teams in its own division twice and the schools in the other -group once.' All games would count toward divisional championships.

In divisions three and four each team would play fourteen league games all within their own bracket. 'If this or a similar proposal is adopted it will do away with interdivlisional games in the lower divisions. Such action would be acceptable by some of the smaller schools in the circuit who' have found interdivisional play unsatisfactory. Whatever action is taken will be for the good of the league. It's time that all forget their petty grievances and work for the benefit of the whole. The Southeastern Massachusetts Conference could be the best league in the Commonwealth with the support of all member schools and all local press. '

Centra,l Village ST. JOHN, THE BAPTIST $300 Mr. & Mrs. John DeNadaI

Assonet ST. BERNARD $65 Mr. & Mrs. Fred E. Kelley, Sr. $50 In Memory of Paul Kleiner 1$40

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fazio $32 William L. O!Brien $25 Mr. & Mrs. Francis Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Joseph -Corey Mr. & Mrs. James Correia Mr. & Mrs. Richard Houghton Mr. & Mrs. Wilson Tavares

Fall River SANTO CHRISTO . $175 Rev. Joao C. Martins $100 Conference of. St. Vincent de Paul A Friend ,$50 A Friend $40

Edmund & Leonor Silva $32 Mr. & Mrs. John Henriques Mr. & Mrs. Antone Souza $25 Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Carreiro, Mr. & Mrs. John Mello, John B. Moniz, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Rego, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Souza, A Friend ST. ROCH $100 Mr. & Mrs. Paul Giroux $35 St. Roch Council of Catholic Women

$30 Mr. & Mrs. Ravmond Levitre . $25 Mr. & Mrs. Isadore Lapre. SS. PETER AND PAUL $100 William J. & Helen M. Lowney $25 Mr. & Mrs. Pasquale Di Martino, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Farren ST. MICHAEL $300 Rev. Luciano J. Pereira $100 Rev. Joaquim F. da Silva Gilbert C. Oliveira Atty. & Mrs. Manuel M. Rezendes Manuel Machado $75 Manuel Silvia $50

Gerald H. Silvia $30 Francisco Gonsalves $25 Evaristo Gaspar, Leonard Cabeceiras, Mrs. Patricia' Caron, Manuel M. Rega, Mrs. August P. Curt Antonio Soares ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST $25 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Desbiens ST. PATRICK $50 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Veloza $40 Joseph M. Morrison ST. ELIZABETH $25 A Friend ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA $100 Dr. Othilia Vieira Petrone $50 Mr. & Mrs. Antone 'Camara

. HOLY CROSS $25 MI'. & Mrs. Charles J. Szulewski in Memory of deceased parents NOTRE DAME $25 MI'. &'Mrs. Armand Raiche HOLY ROSARY $50 , Dr. & Mrs. John Gagliardi $25 MI'. & Mrs. Frank J. Barresi, The Italian Progressive Club IMMACULATE CONCEPTION $25 Mr. & Mrs. Edward Iwanski SACRED HEART $25 In Memory of Thomas F. McCabe Sr. & Thomas F. McCabe Jr ST. ANNE $50 Letendre & Boule Wholesale Grocers $30 Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hamei $25 Loretta Fillion ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT . $50 Dr. & Mrs. Elie Jawa $25 Mrs. Elias Swidey

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of, Fall, RiveftThur., May 31, 1973 ,

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