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Representative Margarlet Heckler of the 10th Congressional District has promised Father John F. Moore, editor of The Anchor, "intense Congressional scrutiny" of proposed postal rate changes which threaten to more than double rates for religious newspapers and magazines.

Responding to a telegram from the diocesan editor, Congresswoman Heckler noted: "The possible change in the non-profit mailing costs reflects an acceleration of a process begun under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970. In order to bring user fees more in line with costs, non-profit groups may be asked to pay the attributable costs (those cosfs generated directly by the particular mailing) beginning now, ruther than in 1987, as was originally planned.

"All these proposed changes, however, will be the subject of intense Congressional scrutiny in the weeks ahead, as we examine the funding of specific programs.

"I hope you will get back in touch with me as specific programs are brought under consideration during the budget process," Mrs. Heckler wrote. "As yOIl know, your views are a great help to me in my legislative delibl!rations, so I look forward to hearing from you soon.

"I will keep an eye on this postal proposal," she concluded.

A telegram on the same subject sent by Father Moore to Representative Gerry Studds of thl~ 12th Congressional District has to date gone unacknowledged.

At a Washington hearing held last month before the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, lawmakers were told that some non-profit publications will shut down if the proposed rate hike is implemented O,:t. I, as the Reagan administration has requested.

At the hearing, representatives of the religious press and other non-profit publications said they were willing to pay their fair share of mail costs.

But the administration's plan, they said, amounts to a broken promise that lnctlased posltage costs would be phased in ove.' <l period of years rather than imposed all at once.

"Much of the religious press will collapse under the burden," said Edgar R. Trexler, edit'Dr of the 600,000-circulation magazine, The Lutheran.

Under current postal regulations, non-profit organizations using second, third and fourth-clllss mailing privileges are in the ninth year of a 16-year process (If phasing in the full cost of their use of the postal system. A portion of the annual federal postal subsidy pays the difference between the actual cost of handling such mail and how much mailers now pay.

The administration plan to trim postal subsidies in 'the next fiscal year means that the full rate currently scheduled not to go into effect until 1987 would be charged mailers beginners Oct. 1.

"Non-profit mailers are willing to pay the attributable costs if given the time to phase int'l) it," said Trexler, testifying on behalf of four religious press groups, including the Catholic Press Association and the Associated Church Press.

"They cannot - and ougbt not to be expected to - absorb more than double the present postal costs in one fell swoop," he added.

Trexler said in his own case the cost of mailing one issue of The Lutheran would jump from $24,000 to $57,000, a 137 percent increase. Firing his entire staff, including himself, he said, would only save enough to pay the additional postage costs for four months.

According to Trexler, a survey has showed that if postal rates are more than doubled, 10 percent of publications affected would cease operation. More than 'Dne-half would cut back on the number of issues per year, while others would reduce the number of pages and use lighter weight paper.

Those steps, he said, would result in loss of income for the Postal Service and another :spiral of postal rate increases.

He also noted that with SUbscription rates and dues set a year or more in advance, non-profit publications cannot raise their income quickly enough to ma,ke up higher postal rates.

Trexler also argued that a damaged religious press would result in a "significant loss .•• in the bonding together of millions of Turn to Page Six

POPE JOHN PAUL II and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, longtime friends, embrace following the pontiff's election. (NC/KNA PlOtO)

Cardinal Wyszynski dies Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, who steered Catholicism through the choppy waters of post-World War II communist rule in Poland and who was a key figure in urging calm and unity during the recent series of labor-government crises, died of cancer at his residence in Warsaw, Poland, May 28. He was 79 years old.

From his hospital bed in Rome, Polish-born Pope John Paul II, a protege of Cardinal Wyszynski, called the cardinal "a tireless pastor and a fearless witness of Christ's Gospel.

The Polish-born pope named Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state, to head a Vatican delegation to the Polish cardinal's funeral and sent a telegram of condolences to Cardinal Franciszek Macharski of Cracow, Poland, president of the Polish Bishops' Conference.

The cardinal's funeral Mass was held Sunday in Warsaw's Victory Square. It was attended by more than a quarter million persons. His body was then laid to rest in a crypt in his titular church, the Cathedral of St, John the Baptist.

Cardinal Casaroli eulogized Cardinal Wyszynski at the services and a homily by Pope John XXIII was read by the dead primate's confrere, Cardinal Fanciszek Macharski of Krakow.

Henryk Jablonski, the presi-

dent of Poland's Communist government, led the government delegation at the funeral.

Ordination Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will ordain Rev. Mr. Gerard A. Hebert a priest for the Fall River diocese at ceremonies to be held at II a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Rev. Mr. Hebert is a native of St. Theresa's parish South Attleboro and the son of Joseph and Cora (Champagne) Hebert. He has one brother, Raymond.

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REV. MR. HEBERT

Union leaders, including Lech Walesa, the head of Solidarity, followed the government deputation.

The entire five-hour proceedings were carried live on state radio and television.

As Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Cracow, Poland, the current pope worked closely with Car· dinal Wyszynski in dealing with the communist government to keep Polish Catholicism united and independent within the official atheist state.

Cardinal Wyszynski had been the primate of the Polish church since he began heading the Archdiocese of Warsaw and Gniezno in 1948.

The cardinal's death was caused by a "tumorous process of the abdominal cavity of extraordinary malignancy and rapid progress," said his doctors. He had been ill for about six weeks.

In Poland, where about 90 percent of the 36 million inhabitants profess Catholicism, grief was widespread. Bishops, priests and nuns joined their fel10w Poles in filing past the coffin at the cardinal's residence. Many people brought flowers and kissed the coffin, upon which the cardinal's red hat was placed.

Cardinal Wyszynski, who was placed under house arrest for three years in the 1950s, was Turn to Page Six

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BOSTON (NC)-Despite growing consensus in matters of doctrine, sociological and institutional factors are a formidable barrier to Christian unity, participants at t1)e annual Workshop on Christian Unity agreed. Among impediments to ecumenical efforts, speakers cited secularism, the changing urban environment, racial strife, economic recession and continuing ethnic and denominational ambition. But Father Henri Nouwen, keynoter, said pessimism about ecumenism is unwarranted. In a major development, 10 major U.S. Protestant churches, with a membership of more than 22 million, announced they are committed to uniting in a single church.

SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH at Blessed Sacrament Convent, Fall River

mark jubilees totaling 270 years of religious life. From left, golden jubilartans Sisters Anna Bilodeau, Marie Perron, Rose Bernadette Parent, diamond jubilarians Sisters Marie Celine Demers, Marie de I'Assomption Richard.

LONDON (NC)-British supplies have helped South Africa become a "military state," accord,ing to a report from Christian Concern for South Africa, an interdenominational group supported by major ,British churches. The report, "Arms for Apartheid," concluded: "First, South Africa has now become a miHtary state, efficiently equipped with the weapons and technology required to deal with the enemy within and without. Second, Britain, through government and business, has been one of the chief enablers in this process," DUBLIN, Ireland (NC)-Ireland's three main political parties support amending the constitution to guarantee legal protection to the unborn. The support makes it likely that a referendum to amend the constitution will be approved. Prime Minister Charles Haughey said he favored a referendum and his party, Fianna Fail, and the government were "totally opposed to abortion," Two opposition parties also expressed opposition to abortion.

OTTAWA (NC)-Abortion is not a constitutional issue, said Canadian Prime Minister ,Pierre Trudeau in a letter to Archbishop Joseph MacNeil, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Currently Canada is in process of approving a constitution and the Catholic bishops and pro-Hfe groups have pressured for provisions protecting the right to life. "The government feels that the issue of abortion is not one which should be determined by the constitution," said Trudeau.

PRINCIPALS AT 30th commencement exercises of Stonehill College, North Easton, from left, Maryalice C. Moore, honorary degree recipient; Father Bruce Ritter, OFM, speaker and degree recipient; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, baccalaureate Mass celebrant; Father Bartley MacPhaidin, CSC college president; Robert E. White, degree recipient; Father Aloysius E. Cussen, CSC, Benaglia Award winner; Roger A. Saunders, degree recipient.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Attorneys for the U.S. bishops have asked a federal court in New York to throw out a lawsuit seeking revocation of tax exemptions held by the Catholic Church because of the church's efforts in opposition to abortion. The suit, filed last October and amended in January to include the U.S. bishops as co-defendants, asks the court to order the Internal Revenue Service to remove the church's tax exemption because of its alleged partisan political activity in the abortion issue. But in a nearly 100-page legal brief filed with the federal court May 26, the U.S. Catholic Conference urged dismissal of the suit on several grounds, including the lack of legal standing by the plaintiffs to sue.

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (NC)-"Insight," a half-hour comedy-drama anthology produced by ,the Paulist Fathers, has received an Emmy Award for olltstanding achievement in religious programming from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Additional Emmys were presented for outstanding individual achievement in religious programming to four persons associated with the show.

Celebrating its 20th year on television, "Insight" is seen weekly in about J:OO cities.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Church-sponsored schools cannot be forced to pay unemployment compensation taxes for teachers and other employees, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled May 25. The court, ruling in a case from South Dakota, settled an issue that has been brewing since 1976, when Congress amended the unemployment tax law to eliminate exemption from the tax for elementary and secondary schools.

Then-Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall ruled in 1978 that church-sponsored schools would have to begin paying the tax.

NEW YORK (NC)-Many governments have engineered the "disappearance" of tens of thousands of men, women and ch,ildren who are considered enemies of the state, according to a stUdy published by Amnesty International. The study says the countries or. regions in which people have disppeared in large numbers ~nclude Afghanistan, Argentina, Guatemala and Africa. Amnesty International defines "disappearances" as "the policy whereby a government abducts individuals and then refuses to acknowledge their detention or to reveal their whereabouts or fate."

Amnesty International is an independent group monitoring the worldwide human rights situation.

AT COUNCIL OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS recollection day held at

Dighton provincial house of Dominican Sisters of Presentation, from left, seated, Sisters Judith Brunell, OP, speaker; Cecile Lebeau, CSC, cou~cil president; Dorothy Byrne, OSF, vice-president; standing, Sisters Mary Margaret Rommal, SUSC; Maryanna Thompson, PBVM, council secretary; Ursula Hamel, RJM, treasurer.

NEW YORK (NC)-MaIcom Muggeridge, British journalist, author, television commentator and Christian apologist, was named an honorary life member of the American Bible Society at the society's 165th annual meeting. Educ~ted at the University of Cambridge, England, Muggeridge taught in India and E/D'pt before returning to England to work for newspapers and the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Later he underwent a religious conversion and wrote several religion-related books, including "Something Beautiful for God," an account of the work of Mother Teresa of Calcutta considered to have played a large part ,in bringing her to public attention.

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Pope remlains in hospital ROME (NC) Pope John Paul II will have to remain at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic "for now," his doctors said in a medical bulletin.

The report said the 61-yearold pope was making a "progressive although slow recovery" from the May 13 attempt on his life in St. Peter's Square.

"It is considered opportune for now to continue direct observation of the patient in the hospital setting," the bulletin concluded.

The pope's bullet-shattered left forefinger, however, will take up to six weeks to heal and he will not regain its full use, said Dr. Gianfranco Fineschi, head of the Polyclinic orthopedics department. Th.~ doctor said the first concerns with the finger were to prevent infection and permit healing, then to set it in as functional a position as possible.

Open house at camps The annual diocesan camps open house will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Our Lady of the Lake and Cathedral Camps, East Freetown.

Located on Long Pond on Route 18, the facilities offer a wide variety of waterfront activities as well as sports, animal care, riflery and arts and crafts.

They are open from H a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays from Monday, July 6, through Friday, Aug. 28. Transportation is available from most cities and towns in the area.

Father Leonard Mullaney is camps director, aided by Bill Rockett, boys' head c:ounselor, and Diane Methe, girls' head counselor. Further information on the program is aVllilable at the open house or by mail from P.O. Box 428, East Freetown 02717. The camp tele,phone is 763-8874.

Charismatics at Cathedral All members of the diocese are invited to participate in the annual Pentecost celebration of prayer and praise to bEl conducted by members of the charismatic renewal at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will commission new membt~rs of the Diocesan Service Committee for charismatics and the keynote speaker will be Father Robert S. Kaszynski, the bishop's liaison to the charismatic renewal.

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Easton, the weekend of June 19 Saturday, June 20. It will be to 21. followed by a banquet at which The fourth annual conference Hon. William J. Porter, former of the New England Catholic ambassador to Saigon, will Council on Social Ministry will speak. be held on Friday and Saturday; The Vincentian conference lI'ho says you call 't put loue ill a ballk! and the 16th annual Northeast . will have "Family Values in the Regional Conference of the so- 80s" for its theme, with workciety of St. Vincent de Paul will shops dealing with unwed partake place Friday through Sun- ents, Birthright, alcoholism, day. The latter will be preceded evangelization, separation and on Thursday by a course in dis- divorce and the role of youth in aster response. the Vincentian organization. Dr. Social Ministry Brennan Hill of the religious edFather Peter N. Graziano, di- ucation department of the Alocesan director of Social Ser- bany, N.Y. diocese will be the Fall Hiva, Massachusetts 02720 vices and Special Apostolates meeting's keynote speaker. and president of the Social Ministry C~)Uncil, is host for its meeting. He said its program will in- ~~TdIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhTdll1lhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIhT dIIh~ clude a keynote address by Bishop Leo E. O'Neil of Springfield.

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Pollster Theology Why does it seem that nothing today can be envisioned, undertaken or discussed in the life of the American church unless it has been surveyed, scanned and polled to death? Were it not for Messrs. Gallup, Harris and Roper, could the church in this country ever decide, reflect or resolve?

Even in some areas of theological speculation, one begins to think that these public pollsters are replacing the magisterium as the teaching authority of the church. In their mad drive for relevancy, many Catholics in this country have attempted to substitute popular acclaim for church teaching.

Striving to be all things at all times to all men while at the same time struggling with the passion for social acceptance, the pollster -mentality has become for many the only way to vivify religion in the United States.

It is interesting to note in this regard that the pollster. route to acceptability lies in a comfortable suburban Catholicism, far removed from many of the agonizing real problems faced by the church as she tries to fulfill her mission of bringing salvation to humanity.

Those who make the great leap to what is considered the intellectual and affluent middle class basically want to be accepted and popular in their new life style. Very often their religious values suffer in their personal attempt to climb the social ladder. For instance, in situations considered religiously outmoded and archaic, conscience is often soothed by a poll of how people feel or how they ought to feel (never think). Subjective sentiment, not objective belief is for many today's theological standard.

This mentality receives, at the very least, token support from what may be termed church organizations. Desperately seeking so-called public credibility, many agencies and affiliates turn to the Gallups, Harrises and Ropers in the attempt to find out if their efforts are effective or if indeed their existence has a: shred of value.

In good old American pragmatic style, everything from God to holy water is measured, studied and evaluated.

If the pollster finds it to be popular, pleasing and praiseworthy, it becomes almost a matter of dogma.

In such an atmosphere the concept of church and what it stands for in the reality of life becomes confining and constraining. In fact, those who depend on a poll for religious credIbility would often like those polls to remove from their lives the innate and fundamental discipline implied in the notion of church.

Somehow, in striving for acceptance by American paganism, the simplicity of faith is reduced to dogmatic stupidity. The survey attitude would reduce the Catholic Church in America to a mere irresponsible and irrelevant reflector of cultural mores. It would substitute for the true handing-on of the Gospel message a simplistic Jesus whose demands are easy and few.

There does exist need for pollsters. Their efforts should not be overlooked or ignored. However, it would be well for those who place extravagant faith in them to remember how fallible they have been in, for example, the political field. Too many candidates have discovered too late that their reliance on pollsters was misplaced.

Let those Catholic organizations, agencies and enterprises solely motivated by the computer printouts of pollsters beware before they either become or cause an embarrassment to the church through their narrow and selfish manipulation of facts and figures.

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'We have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come.' Heb. 13:],4

Morality and children should not be identified with good morality. A habitual action Education is not III cure-all for is devoid of moral quality. Such every problem which afflicts our a quality can only be found in society. While it is commonplace our efforts to keep or alter our to make the school system the habits. scapegoat for the perceived The type of environment most lack of morality among our chil- conducive to developing moral dren, such an accusation is based â&#x20AC;˘ maturity in a child is that which upon a false assumption. supplies the critical component True, an eduational system can of self-determination. Although make it easier or more difficult a child is not capable of the selffor children to be morally good determination of a morally mabut there is no failure-proof sys- ture adult, many children can tem for raising children in a discern whether rules are esway that will guarantee their tablished for their benefit or for becoming morally good adults. the benefit of those who enforce No system can root out man's them, and they are certainly self-determining nature. acutely aware of favoritism in the This fact should not seduce manner in which those rules are us into the opposing assumption enforced. which is just as false-that ChilAdults must take this into dren are naturally good and consideration when they formutherefore need only to be allow- late rules. Otherwise there will ed to do as they please in order be an undesirable sharp transito become morally good ¡adults. tion from childhood morality to No system can root out man's adult morality. tendency to evil due to the efIn this connection, todays comfects of original sin. To view monly heard cry for more disimmorality as something that cipline and less permissiveness, comes from the outside leads to can blind adults to their duty to these two false assumptions. allow children the freedom which How then can one equip child- they will eventually need to ren to function in a genuinely make self-determining commitself-determining manner in later ments for the common good.

Such areas as sports, hobbies life?

Certainly there are factors that and play may not be considered can lead to immorality, such as crucial to a child's development being misinformed or becoming by a no-nonsense adult, yet it too closely aligned with evil is precisely in these so-called people; while some maintain that frivolous areas that significant morality centers upon develop- character development occurs.

In an era such as ours, the ing good habits.

No doubt good h~lbits are de- church should take more initiasirable for both children and tive in the raising of children. adults and we may be morally Parish programs should Pxovide responsible for some of our bad youngsters with an opportunity ones. However, good habits to meet others who share the

By Father Kevin J. Harrinyton

same moral standards. This opportunity is not so readily available nowadays as it was in the days of large families and more united neighborhoods.

There is, hower, a danger that parents will assume that it is the church's duty alone to provide moral training for their children. But it is a mistake to suppose that one can make a child good by making him religious.

Religion should never become the handmaiden of morality. Rather, a religious commitment to God should provide a rationale for a morality developed around something greater than one's own needs.

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Very Rev. Thomas J. McLean, 1954, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis Rev. Msgr. Louis Prevost, 1970, Pastor Emeritus, St. Joseph, New Bedford 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 & Paul, Fall River Rev. George A. Meade, 1949, Chaplain, St. Mary Home, New Bedford

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Whose wedding?

It's at this time of year that pastoral staffs begin to feel great empathy toward young people, especially after they've dealt with a dozen or so parents of the ~bride and groom who are more interested in where they will seat nonspeaking relatives tha.n in the couple's desire for their own wedding.

"Tonight I met with a young couple and the bride's mother to plan the couple's wedding. God bless mothers. of the bride. I swear most weddings are those but that mothers wanted couldn't have because of their mothers," writes a parish liturgist.

I must agree, because I have heard it so often from pastoral people involved in wedding planning, but as a parent, I have mixed feelings. Parents are the ones caught between the larger family - be it their own, the parish family, or the community family - and the young couple, whose concentration o:n one another and on constructing a new life together often neglects a sense of responsibility to the families from which they spring.

I can speak to this with some authority because I had my "mother's wedding." Jim and I were teaching a thousand miles

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away from my home, so the idea of a large gathering of the clan for a solemn high Mass followed by a full day celebration on the grassy lawns of our farm didn't excite me very much. I wanted a low Mass followed by a sitdown reception of close family and friends and that was it.

I thank God that Mom won, although I fought her all the way. (I would still do without the long 110t high Mass, though.)

The laughter and relaxation of my friends, third cousins, and farm neighbors all coming together to celebrate the joining of two families and the beginnings of another remains a very pleasant memory.

More profound, though, is the realization that my father died before my sister married so that if I hadn't yielded to my parents' wish for a family-style farm reception, my dad would never have been able to host such a gathering. Finally, I didn't realize at the time the deep truth that marriage does n9t join two people but two families and that, as such, they are entitled to witness the joy.

At that time I didn't know or much care about old friends of my parents or distant relatives.

Now I realize how important they were to my parents in es-

of Masada

ABC's spectacular handling of Masada in an eighthour television play was sharply attacked by Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, editor of The Jewish Spectator.

Weiss-Rosmarin focues a very critical eye on ABC's portrayal of an alleged mass suicide of 960 Jewish freedom fighters on the mountain fortress called Masada. The year is 73 A.D. and the Romans under GEmeral Flavius Silva are fighting a long knock-down-drag out war under the Jewish rebels led by Eleazar ben Yair.

The Jewish editoJr focuses, with good reason, on the very somber ending of Masada. The ~nding, shown to ABC's eagleeyed previewing critics and to the general public, rE!lates how the Jewish rebels realize that their capture by the Romans is imminent. Then, the following morning, "when thE! Romans surge over the ramparts, they find Masada still, and their victory hollow. For Elea2:8r and his freedom fighters have committed suicide." Finally, the audience is reminded of the orgy of suicide in 1978 at thE! height of the Jonestown cult in Guyana.

In her editorial, Weiss-Rosmarin restates a thesis he had presented to the academic world in Jerusalem in 197a. She assails the story of the suicide of Masada's defenders fL pure fiction, with first century Jewish historian Josephus as the villain of the piece.

Says Weiss-Rosmarin, "In view of Josephus' manipulation and distortation of facts and his

'invention' of the Eleazar speeches, it is proper to inquire whether his account of the end of Masada is reliable. Did the last defenders die by their own hands in a suicide pact?"

Weiss-Rosmarin argues quite conclusively that there never was such a fact. "I submit that the remains of the last defenders Of Masada were not found - and will not be found - because they died fighting and their bodies were left where they fell in battle."

The story of a mass suicide at Masada makes for dramatic television viewing but we can thank God that the story may well be fiction: we don't need another Jonestown. Weiss-Rosmarin has performed a great service in pointing out that the televised text of Masada most' likely contains a frightfully tragic error.

Unfortunately we still hear from time to time echoes of the big lie that six million Jews went like sheep to the slaughter under the Nazi regime. A striking, and more realistic, illustration of the Jewish attitude toward suicide occurred in the Warsaw ghetto where Jewish fighters fought like tigers to save their own lives.

For, as St. Thomas Aquinas says, "The taking of one's own life is contrary to the inclination implanted by the Creator in every creature to love itself, to conserve itself in existence and to resist forces that would destroy it."

Why Josephus, the greatest scholar of his time, fabricated the fiction of the mass suicide of Masada defenders is a riddle.

Did he honestly believe this was

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tablishing a strong sense of family.

Parents of the wedding couple are really caught in a no-win situation, particularly those of the bride. Essentially, they are the hosts, not the bridal couple.

If they don't invite close lifelong friends or if they offend in any way, it is they who pay for it socially, not the young couple who, like us, so often move away after the wedding. And hurts like that can last a lifetime, infiltrating other areas of the parents' lives.

I realize the pain involved in a conflict between two generations and their dream of what a wedding should be but someone should speak on behalf of the parents, whom society so often blames for discord. A wedding doesn't belong solely to the bride and groom but to the whole family. It isn't fair that one side has all the responsibilities and obligations and the other all the rights to decision making. The happiest families share both.

By FATHER JOHN B. SHEERIN, CSP

the road to immoral glory, as did many Romans in his day?

Or, was he a man with a guilty conscience? For Josephus also tells the story of a battle he was involved in personally, where he and his felows made a pact to commit suicide rather than be captured by the Romans. But, when the ships were down, Josephus and a few others surrendered rather than join their companions in death.

We don't know what actually happened at Masada but, thanks to the Jewish editor, we have reason to doubt that a mass suicide of 960 Judeans suddenly materialized that sad morning.

I sure wish our course was farther from the church.

A fox guarding the hens?

In case any doubts remain about the Reagan administration's resolve to stamp out human rights in foreign policy, the proposed. appointment of Ernest Lefever as director of te State Department's Human Rights Section should set them at rest.

Lefever is against them. As one outraged member of the human rights community, the Rev. Joseph Eldridge of the Washington Office of Latin America said, "We expected some de-emphasis, but not someone who has made a career of assaulting the Carter policy."

Rep. Don Bonker, D-Wash., chairman of the House Sub-committee on Human Rights, calls Lefever "a hatchet-man." SenAlan Cranston, D-Calif., said the choice "would deprive us of one of our most important weapons for peaceful competition with Soviet regimes."

Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "I worry about the signal it sends."

Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that "international terrorism" would take precedence, but at least said some nice things about human rights - which Lefever never does.

Lefever, who is 61, a graduate of the Yale Divinity School and a doctor of philosophy (in Christian ethics), is the founder-president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a foundation which severed connections with Georgetown University a year ago.

He left no question about his hostility to human rights in testimony he gave to the Bonker 路subcommittee in August 1979.

"In my view, the U.S. should remove from the statute books all clauses that establish a human rights standard or condition that must be met by another sovereign government before we conduct normal business with it ... " At the same hearings, he defended authoritarian regimes as better on human rights than the communist governments which might overthrow them. That, of course, is the Reagan line, but Lefever is so far alone in publicly questioning the loyalty of those who disagree.

"This suggests," he said, "that American zealots invoke the human rights standard not to advance freedom, but as a cloak to attack anti-totalitarian allies or to even promote Marxist regimes."

That's rough stuff, but a Senate which has recently revived the Committee on Internal Security may have little trouble swallowing it. Lefever is the

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protege of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., a demi-god of the New Right who is constantly examining the scalps of Reagan appointments for left-wing lice.

Helms let it be known that the human rights assistant secretary could be either Lefever or Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became ambassador to the U.N. The approach is that if a friendly government is abusing its people, we use "quiet diplomacy" to free the most conspicuous victims, while abstaining from overt criticism of an official policy of kidnap and torture.

"In a formal and legal sense," he told the House subcommittee, "the U.S. has no responsibility - and certainly no authority to promote human rights in other sovereign states."

This would seem to bring him into conflict with the administration over the Jackson-Vanick Amendment, a measure which conditions Soviet trade on human rights observation, which Ronald Reagan, who recently reaffirmed his strong anti-Soviet views, favors.

But another conflict, one over what Lefever calls "the politics of breast-feeding," could embroil his appointment in further controversy. A coalition of church and humanitarian organizations, known as "INFACT," has organized a boycott of the world's largest food company, Nestle, to protest Nestle's advertising campaign to promote the sale of infant formula.

Their contention is that infant formula, mixed with dirty water - often the only kind on tap in poor countries - is deleterious to the health of babies and, in fact, kills them.

As president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Lefever encouraged Herman Nickel of Fortune to do research into what he apparently believes is the anti-corporation bias of the boy~ott.

An article entitled, "The Corporation Haters," in which Nickel depicted the boycotters as "Marxists marching under the banner of Christ," drew a heated response from the National Council of Churches. Lefever's center, which sent out thousands of reprints, subsequently received contributions of $25,000 from Nestle.

In Lefever's rebuttal, he accuses the boycotters of a hostility toward multinationals" and of "compassion-coated revolutionary rhetoric."

Again, it seems that people who differ with him are of suspect loyalty or, as Joe McCarthy used to say," unwitting handmaidens of the communist conspiracy." Reagan seems to be getting what we call a "two-fer" a human rights wrecking crew and a proven red-baiter.

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Cardinal Wyszynski dies Continued from Page One called a "patriot" by the current government after it learned of his death.

Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia and John Cody of Chicago and. Auxiliary Bishop Alfred Abramowicz of Chicago were among attendants at the cardinal's funeral.

Stefan Wyszynski was born in Zuzela, Poland on Aug. 3, 1901.

He was ordained on Aug. 3, 1924.

He then studied for four years at the Catholic University of Lublin, where he received doctorates in social science and canon law.

During World War II, Father Wyszynski continued his apostolic activities clandestinely. He taught social ethics in an "underground university" and organized secret spiritual retreats for lay leaders in public life and nuns.

On March 4, 1946, he was named bishop of Lublin. On Nov. 12, 1948, he was made archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, a post which traditionally carries the title "primate of Poland."

He then devoted himself to post war reconstruction. His efforts were hampered by a clergy shortage, because many priests had been killed during the war, and by the hostility of the communist regime imposed on Po· land by the Soviet army.

Pope Pius XII named him a cardinal in January 1953. But he did not go to Rome to receive the red hat, because he was afraid the communist authorities would not' allow him to return to Poland.

In September 1953 Cardinal Wyszynski refused to condemn Bishop Czeslaw Kaczmarek of Kielce, who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison. The cardinal was then arrested, charged with violating the 1950 churchstate agreement and imprisoned.

For the next three years he was held at various times in four

different convents in widely separated parts of Poland. His whereabouts were not made public. . In June 1956 workers' and students' riots erupted in Poznan and the entire country was in ferment. In October a bloodless palace revolution overthrew the hardline Stalinist regime and Wladyslaw Gomulka, who had spent several years in prison for "Titoist deviation," emerged as the new Communist Party leader and ruler of Poland.

But revolution was in the air and Gomulka and other Polish communist leaders, fearing a loss of power and Soviet intervention,

Prayer day Sunday, the feast of Pentecost, is the annual diocesan day of prayer for vocations.

In a letter to be read at all Masses, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin writes: "I beg those whom the Lord is inviting to his service as priests and religious to say 'yes' to hi sinvitation. Such a calling from Almighty God is a gift given only to a few. And a life spent in total service to God and his people will, without a doubt, be a source of much happiness and peace for you and will serve wonderfully. in building up the church, the body of Christ."

The prelate also asked parents to be supportive of chiJdren's interest in religious life, priests and religious to foster vocations and all "to pray daily that the Lord will bless us with a generous increase of priestly .and religious vocations."

A Waterwheel "Contemplation is like a waterwheel which draws up the water and makes it flow into If contemplation channels. ceased entirely hearts would soon be dried up." - Raissa Maritain

turned to Cardinal Wyszynski and offered him his freedom in an effort to pacify the country.

The cardinal's most recent role had been that of unofficial mediator between the government and Solidarity. During the strikes which threw Poland into turmoil in 1980 and subsequently aroused concern abroad about possible Soviet military intervention, Cardinal Wyszynski played a central and sometimes controversial role. He strongly backed the right of workers to organize in associations of their own choice, and this support was the key for the legal recognition of Solidarity as a union movement independent of the Communist Party. At the same time, he warned Solidarity members against constantly resorting to strikes to settle grievances and told them that they should strive to increase production and help Poland overcome its econ· omic problems.

Sister Ricarda Wobby, RSM, of the faculty of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, is diocesan representative to a committee planning "Second New England Journey," a convocation for women religious to be held at Mont Marie, Holyoke, the weekend of Oct. 3 and 4.

Sponsored by New England diocesan councils and senates of women religious, the convocation will discuss church concerns as they affect women.

Keynote speakers Regina Coli, SSJ, and Francine Cardman will address such issues as Christian feminism and the relationship of women to a patriarchal society.

Sister Coli is associate director of campus ministry for the Brooklyn, N.Y. diocese and campus minister at Queens College, Flushing, N.Y. A doctoral candidate in education at Columbia University, she holds graduate degrees from Catholic University and Fordham Univers:ty.

Ms. Cardman, an associate professor of historical theology at Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, is also an author and spokeswoman .on the role of women in the church.

Ordination Continued from page one High School in 1973 and from Providence College in 1977. then entering St. John's Seminary, Brighton, from which he holds a master of divinity degree. He served his diaconal year in. St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro.

Rev. Mr. Hebert will offer his first Mass at 5 p.m. Penecost Sunday at St. Theresa's, with the pastor, Msgr. Gerard J. Chabot, VF, as homilist.His concelebrants will be Msgr. Chabot and Father Richard Roy, associate pastor.

Clergy, religious and laity are invited to Saturday's ordination. . Priests wishing to concelebrate are asked to bring amice, alb, cincture and stole, while those wishing to participate in the laying on of hands ceremony should wear cassock and surplice.

Postal battle Continued from page one peoples who form the core of the nation's religious communities and who contribute untold energies in maintaining the nation's character and moral fibre." , Also testifying was the president of the International Labor Press Association, James M. Cesnik, who noted that even with the phasing-in process, postage rates for non-profit publications have increased approximately 1,800 percent since 1971.

He said the phasing process offered such publications "death by attrition rather than sudden death so we could try to adapt to our changed condition and perhaps even survive."

The hearing before the Post Office Committee came a week after the full House had defeated a budget resolution which would have restored some of the postal subsidies set to be cut by the administration.

That means that the Democratic-controlled committee, which over the years has supported the subsidies and the phasing process, will be hard pressed to find a way to restore money for phasing and for other mail services subsidized by Congress.

The committee chairman, .~illiam D. Ford (D-Mich.), who was praised by witnesses for his support of postal subsidies, at one point likened the hearing to a judge who asks how a person pleads even though it is certain the person will be hanged.

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John Lennon Dear Editor: In response to your article, "A Hard and. Cruel Music" (Anchor, 5/28/81), your comments on John Lennon disturbed me because of your tone of generalization. The melody of many of Lennon's songs will live indefinitely.

If you are an enemy of the kind of milieu that John Lennon represented, then you are also an enemy of peace as was the theme in many of his songs that I doubt you have ever listened to. Lennon was an advocate of peace. How come you didn't mention that in your article?

You seem to be saying that if there was no rock music the world would be better off because nobody would be influenced by it, good or bad.

Let me make an assumption: If there was no religion and no bible we would have had no holy wars, no Jonestown, no pope to travel to an underdeveloped country where the people got so emotionally worked up seven or eight were trampled. to death in a frenzy. I am deliberately being facetious.

How dare you compare a warm, peaceful man like John Lennon, whose life was taken from him, to an acid rocker like Hendrix or coke-snort.ing blues singer like Joplin, whose deaths were drug-related?

Lawrence Welk, the Boston Pops and many other fine musical talents have done renditions of Lennon's music.

If Mr. Solzhenitsyn finds our rock music intolerable, he now has the freedom to turn it off or maybe he should go b'!lck to the place where music is tolerable.

I find your comments selfrighteous as well as insensitive.

-Len Amaral Swansea

Faith Dear Editor: FolIowing the sad news of the shooting of our beloved Holy Father, a few membE!rs of the Legion of Mary gathE!red in St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford to recite the rosary. Having remained in the church, I saw students from our parish school, guided by religious and lay teachers also coming to recite the rosary. It made me proud of my parish.

We should be thankful that we are among the parishes who still have a school and also, this demonstration of faith should brighten our hope in the youth of today!

Alice Beaulieu New Bedford.

Takeover by Spirit "Anyone in any position 'of authority, be it in business, in government, in the 'church, in the home, must allow Christ and his Spirit to take over." - Pastoral letter of the bishops of Uganda

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NE WYORK (NC) - The Sisters of Mercy, founded in Dublin, Ireland, and now numberin~ 15,000 members throughout the world, will mark their 150th anniversary at three major gatherings in the United States and Ireland during the next four months.

There are an estimated 9,000 Mercy Sisters in the United States.

ORGANIZERS and participants in Cursillo Study Day, from left, Adrienne Borges, prayer service coordinator; Thomas and Mau reen Donahue, general coordinators; Father Gilles Genest, MS, a pioneer in the diocesa n Cursillo movement; Norma Olivier, lay director of Cursillo secretariat; Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald, bishop's liaison and spiritual director. (Torchia Photo)

IOOth diocesan Cursillo is celebrated Celebrating the 100th Cursillo retreat held in the Fall River diocese, some 700 Cursillistas met last month at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, for a liturgy of praise aQd thanksgiving at which Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant and homilist.

The liturgy was preceded by a study day at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, attended by about 400 persons. The program included a prayer service, a keynote address on lay leadership by Father Gilles Genest, MS, and 20 workshops.

Among workshop topics were Marriage and Engaged Encounter, the pre-Cana program, the permanent diaconate, the spiritual life, parish renewal, and ministries to youth, the ill, the divorced, alcoholics and drug addicts.

At the cathedral liturgy Bishop Cronin accepted the commitment of diocesan Cursillo Secretariat members to continue their

apostolic work.

Secretariat members, led by Father Edmund Fitzgerald and Father Thomas C. Lopes, spiritual directors, are Norma Olivier, lay director; Mary Morrill, secretary; Euclid Cabral, treasurer.

Chairpersons are Mary Lees, pre-Cursillo; Raymond LeBrun, post-Cursillo; Carol Levis, Three Days; George Denmark, communications; Mary Fuller, spiritual life; Terence Russell, leaders' school.

D.C. prelate sells house' WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington is selling his residence in an upper middle-class Washington neighborhood and moving to a new pastoral center in a former seminary in a working class section of the city.

Archbishop Hickey also an· nounced appointment of six archdiocesan administrators. They include two women, a nun and a black laywoman.

They are Katherine Cole, secretary for Catholic education, holder of a doctorate in guidance from Catholic University and an

associate professor of education at Bowie State College; and Sister Margaret Culbert SSJ, secretary for service for vvonnen Religious and secular institutes.

Holder of a master's degree in religious studies from Catholic University, Sister Culbert has been associate vicar general for Religious in the archdiocese since 1977.

The Clue ..A man reveals his character by the things at which he laughs." - Sivert ,Erdahl

The Mercy Sisters were founded by Catherine McAuley, an Irish gentlewoman dedicated to aiding the sick and the poor, and are among the largest English-speaking religious institutes of women in the world.

The upcoming events include a series of workshops, June 22 to 24, expected to be attended by more than 2,000 sisters at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburg; a top-level gathering of 100 sister-delegates from several continents in Dublin July 26 to 31, and a Mass Sept. 12 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, to be attended by sisters from eight New York State dioceses.

The worldwide religious congregation subdivided chiefly for financial reasons in 1929, according to Sister Camille D'Arienzo, who teaches journalism at Brooklyn College. One group is known as the Sisters of Mercy of the Union in the U.S.A., with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., and the other as simply the Sisters of Mercy.

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St. Anne's Hospital benefits community <Diocesan Catholics who last month topped all records in giving to the annual Catholic Charities Appeal, can take special pride in the activities of one of that appeal's beneficiaries.

St. Anne's Hospital, Fan River, has a role beyond that of healing the hospitalized sick, participating in community services such as drug counseling, and aid to unwed mothers ~nd abused children and sponsoring s. wide range of educational programs for doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

The hospital also offel's area residents the opportunity of serving neighbors in need, last year listing 155 adults and 150 teenage volunteers as giving 39,839 hours to such activities as delivering flowers, chatting with the lonely, running errands and carrying trays for the junior aides and working at thE! information desk and gift shop and participating in therapy programs and other projects for the adults.

The top adult volunteers, recently recognized at an awards ceremony, were Grace Parenteau, 7,000 hours; Sister Germane Monty and Bertha Lachance, 5,000 hours; and Ellen Kane, Lucy LeBoeuf and Lillian Reardon, 3,000 hours.

Teens who received awards for 400 to 600 hours of service were Scot Carling, Denise Gagne and Lisa Tanguay.

Cancer Services At the hospital's oncology or cancer clinic, special services have been designed to meet patient needs.

One such service is offered by Carol Hazen, newly ap;;>ointed oncology dietitian, who specializes in the nutritional needs of patients receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy or suffer:ing the debilitating aspects of iIln.ess.

Working with chemotherapy and radiotherapy patients, Ms. Hazen assesses nutritional de-

ficiencies which may arise through cancer treatment.

"People who are well nourished respond better to treatment, and tend to deal more easily with other problems," explained Ms. Hazen.

Formulating a nutritionally sound diet is not simply a matter of matching the right number of proteins and carbohydrates, she said. There are no clear cut rules to cancer itself, and not all people react predictably to chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

Nutritional counseling is very personalized and individual.

Ms. Hazen meets with the patient and family to learn individual and household eating habits, personal food preferences, and ethnic foods commonly used.

She also studies reactions to foods, swallowing problems and other aspects of ingestion affecting nutrition.

She then determines texture and quantity of foods, suppliments, if needed and treatment of digestive problems.

Contrary to popular belief, many cancer patients gain weight because of medication. Others tend to lose. Ms. Hazen remains constantly aware' of weight patterns and helps patients maintain proper body weight.

"The services of a specialized oncology dietitian are in tune with our philosophy of total patient care," said James F. Lyons, executive director of St. Anne's Hospital. The oncology clinic has specialized physicians, nurses, social workers as well as the ongoing support of Boston University Medical Center oncology specialists.

Also in connection with the treatment of cancer patients, St. Anne's has introduced a rare earth imaging X-ray system which has reduced the average patient radiation dose by 50 percent.

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NEW YORK (NC) - The num· ber of Catholics in the United States is now 50,449,842, according to the 1981 Official Catholic Directory.

The new total is an increase of 637,664 over last year's total, an increase more than three times as great as the increase between 1979 and 1980.

In the Fall River diocese the Catholic population is reported as 340,000, a growth of 1,678 persons over last year's figure of 338,322.

The total population of the Southeastern Massachusetts area is 530,000, making it 64.1 percent Catholic.

Catholics now form, however, a slightly smaller percentage of the total U.S. population: 22.05 percent, down from 22047 percent last year.

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archdioceses and 138 dioceses, is compiled annually by P. J. Kenedy and Sons of New York.

Nationally, as of Jan. 1, it reports an increase in bishops, decreases in priests and nuns, and increases in deacons and brothers.

There are 74 fewer Catholic educational institutions than in 1980 and the number of Catholic elementary and secondary students is down, but the· number of students in Catholic colleges and universities rose by 31,602.

The Chicago Archdiocese remains the largest see in the country, with a total reported Catholic population of 2.38 million, down from 2.41 million last year. It is followed by Los Angeles (2.23 million) and Boston (2.01 million).

The 122 sees reporting in-

sifying screens composed of phosphors or rare earths which convert radiation energy into light energy.

The new system insures quality films, increased patient safety and reduced need to repeat X-rays because of patient motion, said Dr. W. R. Courey, chief radiologist at the hospital.

Nutrition Program For everyone who eats, sick or well, St. Anne's clinical dietitians recently conducted a largescale educational program, pointing out such frightening facts as that one slice of white bread contains three teaspoons of hidden sugar, while a two-ounce chocolate bar or a 12-ounce soft drink each contain a horrifying eight teaspoons.

Overuse of salt and sugar were major targets of the dietitians' concern, said Susan Hladik, noting that people are usually unaware of the large amounts of hidden salt and sugar in the average diet. To raise consciousness in this regard, the dietitians removed salt and sugar from tables in the hospital cafeteria for a week.

Also pointed out were the calorie contents of cafeteria entrees.

Nutritional counseling is viewed as preventive medicine according to the dietary experts at St. Anne's, who are happy to offer their services to anyone referred by a physician, whether for therapeutic or simple weight loss reasons.

"We continually work to help the patient accept the therapeutic diet as part of the total care plan," explained Michele Garand, also a dietitian. "It is an important part of the rehabilitative process."

The dietitians also emphasized the importance of a well-balanced eating plan for anyone who is overweight. "Obesity can be combated with a combination of proper diet and exercise," said Ms. Garand.

Cat~olic creases in population included the Military Vicariate, which serves Catholics in the armed forces, up 275,000. Among the 41 sees reporting decreases, Seattle led with a drop of 92,225, followed by San Francisco, down 72,408, and Cleveland, down 51,225.

Here is a sampling of statistics from the new directory: - There are 360 members of the hierarchy, an increase of seven from last year; 58,398 priests, a decrease of 223; and 4,725 permanent deacons, an increase of 632.

- There are 122,653 nuns. a decrease of 3,864, and 7,966 brothers, an increase of 25.

- The number of full-time teachers in Catholic educational institutions increased by 3,263 to 170,976. Of these, 123,418, or 72.2 percent, are lay teachers.

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Dear Dr. Kenny: When my wife goes walking or shopping with my 3-year-old son, she's afraid of yanking on his arm and physically hurting him. R.ecently she bought him a harness and leash for walking and shopping. My wife also intends to use the harness in the yard this spring and summer with a long leash attached to the harness. I don't think I care for this at all, and I would certainly appreciate your thoughts. (Illinois) A. I smiled when I read your letter because it reminded me of a situation I witnessed at an airport. A young mother was at the ticket counter. She had five small children in tow and no husband in sight. 'The oldest child was no more than 5 years old.

How could she manage?

Around her waist was a wide motorcyclist's belt which had five hooks. From each hook extended a leash. At the end of each leash was a¡ small child happily proceeding about his or her own business. Meanwhile, the mother's hands and head were free to do whatever'she had to do.

I was impressed with the practicality of this arrangement.

Everyone who saw her was smiling at her cleverness. The leashes and harnesses permitted her to keep her cool in a circumstance which might well have been overwhelming. She stayed happy. The children were . happy. I think she was a good mother.

A 3-year-old is too heavy to carry. He moves quickly and can easily get lost. He is often bored with mother's shopping, but intensely curious and excited by all the wonderful sights and sounds of a large store. A mother can spend more time chasing her 3-year-old than shopping.. If the leash allows a child to be happy and safe while shopping, I'm all for it.

I realize that a leash-and-harness arrangement looks bad. After all, we keep dogs on a leash.

Further, at a time when we are all concerned about child abuse, the leash-and-harness may look like an overly restrictive and even cruel type of control.

Parents must be careful about leaving a child alone in the yard or car in a harness. A 3-yearold playing alone requires careful supervision. A mother, think-

ing her child is" safe outside, might easily get involved in work and fail to check on the child. Such a situation could lead to a tragic accident.

Nevertheless, I can also see the down-to-earth common sense in the use of a leash and harness.

It all depends on how and why it is done. The spirit is important.

The leash might free your wife to shop with greater safety for your child and less frustration for both. She knows her, child cannot wander off very far. Frankly, I have observed some ugly mother-child scenes in supermarkets where the child is in the midst of a temper tantrum and mother is spanking him angrily. I'd rather see a leash than an angry, punitive mother.

The leash-and-harness approach is probably neutral, having a good and bad side. Like so many other aspects of being a parent, its value depends on how and why it is done. It can be used with good sense and love.

Questions on family living and child care are invited. Address to the Kennys c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass.

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Pentecost program at Vatican VATICAN CITY (NC) - The special Pentecost celebration of the Holy Spirit in Rome called for by Pope John Paul II will begin with first vespers and benediction June 6 in St. Peter's Basilica.

On June 7, Pentecost Sunday, the centerpiece event will be a morning Mass in St. Peter's cancelebrated by bishops from around the world. The observance will conclude that evening with second vespers and Marian devotions at St. Mary Major Basilica.

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A Vatican announcement indicated that the pope, still recuperating from wounds received in an assassination attempt May 13, might possibly make an appearance at the program.

In March Pope John Paul issued a letter calling on bishops' conferences of the world to send representatives to Rome for Pentecost in order to mark the 1600th anniversary of the Council of Constantinople and the 1550th anniversary of the Council of Ephesus.

The two councils developed key formulations of Christian belief regarding the Holy Spirit, honored at Pentecost.

The Marian aspect of the observance is related to the anniversary celebration of the Council of Ephesus, which formally applied the title "Mother of God" to Mary.

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NEW YORK (NC) - The juryless Diplock court system in Northern Ireland encourages inhumane treatment and repression of the Catholic minority, according to British attorney Richard Harvey, who spoke at a rally of the Irish Northern Aid Committee. The Diplock courts try defendants charged with terrorist-related crimes.

A survey of post-Vatican II developments in the field of moral theology was offered priests of the diocese at the Eighth Theology Institute held recently at La Salette Center, Attleboro.

Father James O'Donohoe, now of the faculty of Boston College, and previously for 25 years a teacher at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, reviewed the basics of moral theology beforl~ discussing the Christian understanding of what is truly human.

He then considered the technology of sin, repentancl~ and reconciliation, offering suggestions on development of a sound pastoral approach to the sacrament of penance and the formation of conscience. ·Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in comments made during a visit to the institute stressed the :,mportance of continuing formation in areas of moral theology directly concerned with priestly ministry.

Notre Dame fund to honor Andrews NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) A scholarship fund honoring the late James F. Andrews, Ii University of Notre Dame alumnus and editor in chief and board chairman of the Universal Press Syndicate, has been established

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It will provide summer scholarships for students working for social service agencies. The fund has been set up with contributions of $25,000 from the press syndicate Andrews headed and from columnist Abigail V;an Buren, whose "Dear Abby" c:olumn Universal Press Syndicate distributed.

The fund's goal is $200,000, according to Kathleen Andrews, Andrews' wife, and John P. McMeel, Andrews' friend and president of the press syndicatl~.

Andrews, who died Oct. 19, 1980, at age 44, was a native of Westfield, Mass. He completed graduate work in philosophy at Notre Dame, taught at :Purdue University, worked for the former Sheed and Ward Publishing House in New York City and was managing editor of the National Catholic Reporter before setting up the Universal Press Syndicate with McMeel in 1970.

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"All were very positive in evaluating the material c.:>vered and in commenting on Father 0' Donohoe's scholarly and refreshing treatment of his topic," said Father Bouchard, adding that participants felt the institute "provided new understanding and new challenges with which to return to their ministry."

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By Father John J. Castelot

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By Father Philip Mumion An articfe about citizen-action groups in the United States appeared a few years ago in Newsweek magazine.

The groups it discussed were made up of people who had organized for various reasons: perhaps to challenge rate-hikes by utility companies, to confront banks said to be denying mortgages or home-improvement loans to certain groups or regions in a community, or even to make known questionable practices of some real-estate firms.

An important point not reported was that the groups men路 tioned had received assistance from the Campaign for Human路 Development. The campaign, which conducts an annual collection among U.S. Gatholics, provides grants to responsible selfhelp groups. It is a remarkable sign of the Catholic community's readiness to help people exercise responsibility for their own lives.

The campaign goals are shared by many parishes that recognize that taking action to promote justice is an important part of preaching the Gospel.

People in parishes are realizing that many values - family life, communIty stability. care for the needy, freedom from fear - are deeply affected by what happens in communities.

Efforts to achieve a healthy community reach, then, from the individual home to the statehouse and people are learning that they can be more effective when they work together.

When it comes to parish action for justice, people are recognizing the need to link their action with reflection on the Gospel.

Victory on some issue of community concern is not the only purpose of parish efforts for justice. The goal is also development of the sense that a given community is a people.

When parishes organize for action, they react against people's common tendency simply to take care of themselves.

For example, Cleveland parishes have formed coalitions for 路better schools, safer streets, improved services for the eledrly and the protection of their community against certain outside interests.

Baltimore parishes have joined to prevent exploitation of neighborhoods by commercial interests, to secure new housing and to rehabilitate old houses.

San Antonio parishes have brought about a change in the city council that gives Chicanos equal representation.

Milwaukee Catholics and Protestants have formed Congregations United for Community Action. Through this group parishioners can take action on community issues.

In short, parishioners are discovering their ability to improve communities by working together for social justice.

WASHINGTON CHRISTIANS REMEMBER THE DEAD OF EL SALVADOR

An experience of community

By Father John O'Callaghan

In the Acts of the Apostles, Christianity is referred to as "the Way." In those days, it seems to have resembled what we would call a "popular movement."

On Dec. 6, 1980, I experienced contemporary Christianity once again as a popular movement.

It was at a Washington Mass for the four North American women murdered in El Salvador a few days previously. Archbishop James Hickey presided, assisted by three other bishops.

A cardinal was in attendance, along with an altar full of priests.

The liturgy was beautiful, but it was the other side of the altar rail that moved me more.

The people who filled that huge church seemed bonded together in a way I don't often experience at a Mass.

Some had known the dead women. Some were Salvadorans.

Among them were activists and executives, grandmothers and teen-agers, Washingtonians and travelers from around the country.

It put me in mind of the crowd in Jerusalem on Pentecost, and

of the ongoing apostolic community that comes alive in the Acts of the Apostles. The members of the congregation were not fulfilling a Mass obligation, they were part of a movement.

Like Christians of old, they celebrated their belief in the risen Lord who is "the Way," and they mourned their dead sisters.

What drew us together was grief for the dead, but ultimately it was solidarity with the living - . the oppressed people in El Salvador and around the world.

I learned that many of those present were trying to respond to the cry of the poor. Congresspersons and State Department officials got urgent letters from them; anti-war citizens groups got offers of help; arms manufacturers found themselves picketed.

The issue which galvanized these Christians was murder.

They organized to protest that horror. We seldom have such dramatic' issues to organize around. But if people are kept constantly aware of injustice and human suffering, issues for common action won't be lacking.

Sebool issues, safety issues, housing issues family life issues;

There are a few things harder to deal with than religious enthusiam run wild, and at Corinth it seems to have been running in many different directions. It would help immensely if we knew just what those directions were. Unfortunately, we can only guess, based on Paul's answers. In I Cor. 7:25, Paul is obviously taking up a new question, one concerning virgins although in the following verses he says a great deal about marriage, which he seems anxious to defend.

One gets the impression that some Corinthians were extolling virginity, even within marriage, as the only really acceptable way of life for Christians.

Twice in this section, Paul insists that marriage is not sinful. He admits that he has received no commandment from the Lord in the matter. He is simply giving his considered opinion which, as always, weighs all the factors.

He begins by repeating a general principle: "In the present time of stress it seems good to me for a person to remain as he is." The reference reflects his preoccupation with the imminent return of the risen Lord.

In light of that prospect, Paul asks, what is the sense in launching out on a new career?

It is no easy task to assume the responsibilities of married life.

In Paul's view, it would ordinarily be worth the effort but under present conditions it would be love's labor lost.

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there is no lack of problems.

The trick is to move on them together.

That takes skill, persuasion and patience. Judgments on issues differ, agreement on strategies may be hard to reach. And in organized action we must keep alive the gospel vision that makes what we do truly Christian.

For me, the truest sign that the movement I experienced last December was Christian was the repeated recognition of our need and desire to pray for the murBy Catherine Haven derers as well as for the murElwonna Bowling believes that dered. We knew we had to cry in our day what one of the Mass a neighborhood needs people readings described Stephen as who care about it.

So seven years ago the former crying in his day: "Lord, do not public school teacher left her hold this sin against them!"

Like any strategists, Chris- suburban family and friends and tians must point out the injus- .moved to St. Rita parish in a tice in a social situation. But changing Detroit neighborhood, those responsible for the injus- where crime and fear keep reitice may never be held up as dents isolated and off the streets.

Her home has been broken targets for hate or vengeance.

"Love your enemies," the Lord into three times. She has been commanded, "and pray for those severely mugged and! her leg badly injured. who prosecute you."

But Ms. Bowling is a fighter.

A parish ran do that. Its mem"If they're going to break into bers gather first around the table of the Lord, and then around my house, I'm going to clean it concrete injustices which need up and start all over."

Ms. Bowling also has some response. help. She belongs to the North Central Seven Community Organization, a coalition of neighborhood groups representing block clubs, senior citizen groups and other organizations.

NCSCO was organized three years ago by Father John Nowlan, the newly assigned pastor of St. Rita's. At that time the parish had shrunk from 5,000 to less than 1,000 families.

Father Nowland persuaded the parish council to invest $10,000 toward a community organization. Working with Protestant and Catholic churches, staff Turn to Page Thirteen

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Fighters

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Children will receive first communion at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 6.

A missionary representing the Sons of Mary Society will :speak at all Masses the weekend of July 18 and 19.

A planning meeting for the parish patronal feast will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, June 22.

The Espirito Santo feast will be celebrated the weekend of June 5 through 7.

A free concert under dirE~ction of Irene Monte will take place at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June :n, in the parish hall.

The summer Mass schedule begins Sunday.

FIVE HOUR VIGIL, FALL RIVER DIOCESE A monthly five-hour vigil held in vartous diocesan chu.rches will begin at 8 p.m. tomorrow at St. Boniface Church, New Bedford. The service will begin and end with Mass, a holy hou:r will be conducted and the rosary will be recited. There will be a 10 p.m. coffee break. Participation is invited for all or part of the evening.

ST. MARY, MANSFIELD A farewell reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday in the Rose Garden in honor of Father Edward C. Duffy, pastor, who has been named pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis. The event will also mark Father Duffy's 35th anniversary of ordination.

FRANCISCAN FRATERNITY, POCASSET The secular Franciscan fraternity of St. Francis of the Cape will meet at 7:15 p.m. Tu,esday :!t St. John's parish center for Mass and a following discussion. Perspective members. are welcome.

NOTRE DAME, FALL RIVER All are welcome to attend 4 p.m. Mass Saturday, when the choir of Our Lady of Fatima parish, New Bedford, will be heard, directed by Mrs. Elda Poitras with Elaine Rousseau as c1rganist.

Parochial school graduation ceremonies will take place at noon Mass on Sunday.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSlSI, NEW BEDFORD A summer schedule of Masses will begin Sunday, June 14, as announced in the parish bulletin.

Women's League members will attend an installation Mass Sunday.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Planning sessions for CCD teachers and aides are being held through June 11. Information as to dates and times is available from the religious education office, 675-7002. New volunteers are welcome.

An open parish meeting will be held Sunday, June 14, preparatory to formation of a parish council.

Women's Guild officers will be installed in the churc:h at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 15. A banquet will follow at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea.

Iteering pOintl ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD Women's Guild members will hold an installation banquet Tuesday evening at New Bedford Country Club.

Kindergarten graduation will be hel4 at 10 a.m. Friday, June 12. The school advisory board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, June 15, and a closing Mass for the school year will be offered at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, June 18.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK The Women's Guild will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the home of Ann Doyle, president, for Mass, installation of officers and a cookout.

HOLY CROSS. FALL RIVER A solemn triduum marking the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Anthony of Padua will take place at 5:15 p.m. June 10 through 12. All are invited to participate in the services, to include confessions, Mass, a homily and veneration of a relic of the saint.

CURSILLO MOVEMENT, FALL RIVER Cursillo 104, for women, will begin tonight at La Salette Center, Attleboro, with Carol Levis as rectora.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, FALL RIVER Council 86 will hold a Knight of the Year awards dinner beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at the council home. Three Catholic high school scholarships will be awarded to children of council members.

Council elections will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, followed by a meeting.

STANG ASSEMBLY, FALL RIVER Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus will hold elections Wednesday, June 17, from 6 to 8 p.m.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER A yearlong observance of the 100th anniversary of the parish will begin at 11 :30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER The youth ministry will sponsor an Aug. 12 bus trip to Boston for a Red Sox game.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER The diamond jubilee of the church's dedication will be marked at 10 a.m. Mass Sunday, June 21, with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as principal concelebrant. A brunch will follow in the school auditorium. Other special Masses will be celebrated through July 4 in memory of all involved in the parish over the years.

ST. LOUIS FRATERNITY, FALL RIVER Secular Franciscans will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, beginning with a Mass. All are welcome.

ST. MARK, ATTLEBORO FALLS New Women's Guild officers are Mrs. Gail Heap, president; Mrs. Ida Roque, vice-president; Mrs. Dorothy Allen, secretary; Mrs. Mae Souza, treasurer.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The confirmation team will meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the rectory Kolbe Room. Students will meet at 6 p.m. Monday for the last session of the semester.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER New Women's Guild officers are Mrs. Henry Ferland, president; Mrs. Robert Basterson, vice-president; Mrs. Thomas Sweeney, secretary; Mrs. John Pereira, financial secretary; Mrs. Anthony Geary, treasurer.

ST. ANTHONY, TAUNTON The Women's Guild will begin its final meeting of the season with a potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. An illustrated talk on the Holy Land by Sister Irene Comeau of Blessed Sacrament Convent, Fall River, will follow.

Mrs. Mary DeMello, newly elected guild president, will conduct a business session.

OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK New officers of the Holy Name Society and the Women's Guild will be installed following 7 p.m.

Mass Wednesday. A reception will follow in the parish hall.

Women's Guild officers are Delores Amaral, president; Mary Pestana, vice- president; Linda Hall, secretary; Marie Lawrence, treasurer.

For the Holy Name Society Tony Alves will be president; Manuel Pestana, vice-president; Sergio Macedo, secretary; Joseph Faria, treasurer.

The guild will present $500 scholarships to one boy and one girl parishioner.

Enthusiasm Continued from page twelve His concern with the endtime becomes quite explicit in the part beginning, "I tell you, brothers, the time is short," and ~nding, "for the world as we know it is passing away." Between these statements are a series of recommendations adding up to the same advice: Don't get too involved in what will be a temporary situation.

Throughout this section Paul reveals a desire to save his people from unnecessary anxiety and care.

With this in mind, we can read the often misinterpreted verses: "The unmarried man is busy with the Lord's affairs, concerned with pleasing the Lord; but the married man is busy with this world's demands and occupied with pleasing his wife. This means he is divided."

Wrenched from context these verses do not ring true. A single person may in fact be busy with all sorts of affairs other than the Lord's! A married person is not by that very fact prevented from serving the Lord.

But it also can happen that a married couple is so absorbed in each other that nothing else matters to them. Such concentration can blind them to other concerns. But even here, Paul makes it clear that he has no desire to place restrictions on them. (vs.

35) He finally gets around to another pet project of the enthusiasts: spiritual marriages.

The Corinthians apparently had an arrangement whereby an unmarried couple would agree to live together as brother and sister. Even though Paul does not condemn the practice outright, he clearly considers it unrealistic and foolhardy.

Love's What Counts "Love begins at home and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta

He is especially insistent that couples who discover the arrangement is sheer torture should marry and they will not be sinning if they do.

Fighters Continued from page twelve members visited residents, asking if they would work together to improve their community.

"Many were skeptical at first," admits NCSCO director Suzanne Kress. "But once we started getting things done, people became more active."

NCSCO uses confrontation, peer pressure and media publicity to effect change.

For example, an unsightly vacant lot was cleaned up when re5idents took bl'Own-up pictures of it to the suburban neighborhood of the lot's owner, asking, "would you like to live next door to such a lot?" It was cleaned up the next day.

The walls of NCSCO's office are lined with such victory lists: new stop signs, extra street lights, increased police protection, rodent spray control.

Many abandoned, HUD-owned homes are being sold to city "homesteaders" who purchase them for minimal cost and then renovate them. Area residents and businesses also can qualify for low 3 percent. home improvement loans.

Yet while the influx of city services is important, NCSCO members agree that the key change has been the birth of community spirit and unity.

"Years ago, the minute dusk came no one would sit out on their porches," says Ms. Kress.

"Now neighbors are visiting neighbors. People are out on the streets. There is less fear in people's minds."

For Father Nowlan and the parishioners at St. Rita's, helping to create a community organization that brings people together is what the church is all about.

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Thurs., June 4, 1981 ST. ROCH, FALL RIVER All are welcome at a Mass at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 13, marking the 40th anniversary of ordination for Father Lucien Jusseaume, pastor.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Holy Ghost feast preparations will be climaxed at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the home of Mordomo M. Frank Oliveira, 41 Kay St., Somerset. A procession will form at Slades Ferry Avenue at 11 a.m. Sunday, arriving at the church for a noon crowning.

Soupas will be served beginning at 1 p.m. and area pensoes will be delivered starting at 9 p.m. Saturday.

A prayer meeting and fellowship will begin at 7 tonight.

The annual calendar meeting to set up the parish schedule will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

All groups should be represented.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FALL RIVER The parish Women's Club, the oldest of its kind in the diocese, will mark its 50th anniversary Sunday at a 4 p.m. installation Mass followed by a dinner in Father Coady Center.

To be installed are Barbara Lee, president; Eva Souza, vicepresident; Betty Avers and Judy Smith, secretaries; Evelyn Sunderland, treasurer, serving for the 27th year.

Former priests of the parish have been invited to the celebration of which Margaret O'Neil and Helen Polak are cochairwomen.

Students will graduate from the parish school at a 7 p.m.

Mass Monday. A reception will follow in the center. In other school news, a parent involvement committee is being formed by principal Kathleen Burt.

DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, SOMERSET St. Patrick Circle will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Old Town Hall. A meatcutting demonstration will be featured.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER New Women's Guild officers are Betty Charrette, president; Ann Stafford, vice-president; Eileen Wilson, secretary; Ginger Kitchen, treasurer. They will be installed at a dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Monday at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea.

The guild has awarded its annual Rose E. Sullivan scholarship to Maureen E. Raposa, among the top 10 graduates at B.M.C. Durfee High School.

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DISTRICT COUNCIL, NEW BEDFORD New officers of District Council of Catholic Women officers will be installed at 7 p.m. Monday in St. Lawrence Church. Refreshments will follow in Holy Family school hall.

DOMINICAN THIRD ORDER, FALL RIVER A Third Order meeting scheduled for Friday, June 12, at Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, Fall River, has been cancelled. The date for the next meeting will be announced.

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So let's catch up on diocesan events: first, in college circles, scores have graduated but not all have told us about it. .

Among those who have: Laboure Junior College in Boston, where Peter L Look earned an associate degree in nursing; and St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vt., where six diocesan students received bachelor's degrees.

They are Jacob J. Belt and Lawrence P. Johnson, Attleboro; Sheila A. Maguire, CenterVille;

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Examination co-sponsored by the American Classical LeagiJe and the JCL. James Pratt and Steven Fachada received summa cum laude medals, with Kathy Zern and Ann Palmer meriting magna cum laude recognition, and Kim Harker and Nancy Hanigan winning cum laude honors.

Mary P. McGowan (magna cum laude), Fall River; Karen-Lee Richardson (cum laude) and Mau- . reen R. Sullivan (magna cum. laude), North Attleboro.

At Newport College/Salve Regina in Newport, R.I., Richard Manning of New Bedford, a sophomore, has been elected Student Life Senate treasurer for the coming year.

High school graduation ceremonies in the diocese concluded yesterday. at Bishop Stang High in North Dartmouth, while grammar school graduations are still in progress; but except for graduates on both the primary and secondary level, school will keep until June'19.

This is the second year' that Feehan has participated in the exam, taken by some 30,000 students across the nation. Student interest has been sparked by teacher Eleanor Kenney, declared by school officials to be directly responsible for the recent growth of Latin classes at the Attleboro school.

School Events Among recent events at diocesan highs: newly elected National .Honor Society officers at CoyleCassidy in Taunton are Michael Gorey, president; Mark Gurney, vice-president; Donna Brezinski, secretary; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, treasurer..

Also at C-C, the Gold Team won the traditional Jim-Jam, and the school has acquired a Career Information System provide ing counselors, students and adults with occupational and career information including school and financial aid information, community resource and industry locator files and a "career awareness" program.

Meanwhile, at Bishop Feehan High in Attleboro, Latin students attended the 27th annual Massachusetts Junior Classical League convention, held in Waltham.

Activities included traditional chariot races and academic, athletic, costume, art and oral interpretation contests.

In the course of the program 11 Feehanites were cited for performances in a National Latin

Other News In other news, as television commentators are fond of saying, over 100 Camp Fire and Girl Scout members and their leaders attended a day of recollection at St. Vincent's Camp, Westport.

Sponsored by the diocesan Catholic Committee on Camp Fire Girl Scouting, the program included recitation of the rosary and talks on Our Lady and on living the faith given by Father George Almeida.

Paper flowers and posters made by the girls were placed on the altar for a Mass celebrated by Rev. Martin Buote, Diocesan Scouting chaplain. Music for the Mass was under the direction of Girl Scout leader Claire Amiot.

Assisting Mrs. Kenneth Leger, diocesan chairlady, were Deacon and Mrs. Maurice Lavallee, Mrs. Paul Dumais, Mrs. Robert Powers, Mrs. Lawrence Harney and Mrs. Robert Chretien. / As a remembrance of the day each girl received a rosary, scapular and copy of "The Secret of the Rosary."

SPECIA.L GIFTS FALL RIVER AREA $1300 Slades Ferry Trust; $750 Trina, Inc.; $55 Fall River Glass Co.; $50 Textile Workers of America #177, Electrical Workers Local #437; $25 McConnell Electric Co., Inc. CAPE COD AND ISLANDS AREA $100 Falmouth Bank & Trust Co., Falmouth Cooperative Bank; $25 Falmouth Park Cleaners.

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VINEYARD HAVEN St. Augustine $100 M-M Michael Fontes; $50 Frank Contino, Cmdr.-Mrs. Daniel Burgo, Dorothy Gray; $45 Laura Sherwood; $25 Mrs. Constantine Lopes, Francis Pachico. $100 James Gillis, Twenty Club; $25 Mrs. John Griff!n, William Figueiredo, T. M. Silvia Jr. WOODS HOLE St. Joseph $350 A Friend; $150 Dr.-Mrs. William J. Daly; $50 A Friend; $25 Mary J. Walsh, M-M Edward Chicoine, A Friend, M-M Paul Burke, M-M Gilbert C. Martin.

FALL RIVER St. Mary's Cathedral $100 A Friend; $55 Claire O'Toole' $50 M-M James A. Robinson Jr., Mary & Angela 'M. Foley, M-M Michael Hayes & Family; $35 M-M James Frank; $30 Mrs. Eugene Bertrand; $25 Mary L. Connor, A Friend, Mrs. Stephen O'Toole. $40 Dr.-Mrs. Richard Grace; $25 M-M Edward. C. Raposa.

ATTLEBORO AREA $50 Fireside Motors, Inc.; $25 Arns Park Motels.

PARISHES ATTLEBORO FALLS St. Mark $30 M-M Robert Mangiaratti; $25 M-M Francis Gayton.

BUZZA.RDS BAY St. Margaret $50 Buzzards Bay Eagles, #3741.

MANSFIELD St. Mary $35 M-M John B. Antosca, M-M George Knight, M-M Michael Placido; $30 M-M Arthur R. Kane; $25 M-M Paul A. Graveline, Henry S. Werner.

Poe'ASSET st. John the Evangl!list $1,000 M-M Joseoh B. McCarty; $150 Anonymous; $100 Dino & Sons, Nickerson-Bourne Funeral Home, Denmark's Pharmacy; $50 M-M Richard McMorrow, A Friend; $25 M-M Joseph Cyr, M-M Robert Perchard, M-M Henry Madden, A Friend. $120 A Friend; $25 M-M Roger W. Beals.

PROVINCETOWN St. Peter the Apostle $150 Seaman's Savings Bank; $50 Charles & Elizabeth DeRiggs, Attys. Snow & Snow; Tip for Tops 'n Restaurant, A Friend; $35 A Friend; $30 James E. Burke, Land's End Marine Supplies Inc., M-M Raphael Merrill; $2:5 A Friend, King & Fahey Funeral Home, Mrs. Diane Motta, M-M Eugene Poyant, M-M Emmanuel Souza, M-M Warren Costa, M-M John W. Downey, Mrs. John Ferreira, Celia C. Francis.

SANDWICH Corpus Christi $100 Nicholas Bouras, M-M Harold Busey, M-M Peter Fortuna, M-M ~obert Winters; $30 M-M Robert Corradi, M-M Michael McCarthy; $25 M-M Frank DiMaria, M-M Richard Hartigan, M-M Joseph Hennebry, M-M Frank Joyce, Charles Martindale, Horace Matthieu, Mrs. Thomas Purtle.

Corpus Christi $120 M-M Charles Fears, M-M Robert Fournier, M-M Carl Watters; $100 M-M Neil Anderson, M-M Richard England, M-M Ernest R. Ezersky, Falmouth Bank & Trust Co.; $50 M-M Daniel Carey, M-M John Clinton, M-M Clement DelFavero, M-M Raymond Doucette, M-M Paul Killeen, M-M John LeGwin, Mrs. Margaret. McCusker, M-M Martin Putnam, M-M Richard G. Vincens; $40 M-M Peter Luciani, M-M Robert L. Pelletier. $35 M-M Bertram Page; $30 M-M John Joyce M-M Patrick Keane, M-M Henry Roux; $25 M-M Gerald Caron, M-M Francis Conway, M-M Francis Ciccone, M-M Robert J. Connors Sr., M-M Robert Crowley, M-M Dominick A. EaneHo, M-M Robert W. Flagg, Edna F. Fowler, M-M Donald Philbrick, M-M Arthur Roche, M-M Alvin T. Sherman, M-M Gerald A. Sullivan, M-M William Turne;~, Louis Wilson, M-M Lester Geary.

WEST HARWICH . Holy Trinity $100 M-M Frank Duffy, Catherine George, M-M Dominic Tonnucci; $75 M-M Alfred G. Smith; $60 Mrs. Hilda Cutter; $50 John Coyle, Mrs. Eileen Fallon, Frances George, M-M Henry Nelson; $35 Dr. William Falla; $32.40 Mrs. Cecilia Lyon' $25 M-M Michael Barczak, M-M John Barry, M-M: William Brown, S. Calhoun, Kenneth Desmarais, Mrs. Albert J. Edwards, M-M Stephen ;remiolo, M-M Carl Johnson, Leanore E. Lewis, M-M William Maher, Mrs. Aline Marston, M-M Jonathon Saundres, Mrs. James Sullivan. $100 M-M Joseph A. Deering. $50 Mrs. Donald Miller, Alice Saudade; $40 M-M Arthur Dolan; $30 M-M Russell Hamlyn; $25 M-M Cornelius Driscoll, Richard Larkin, Madeline Monroe, M-M Albert Pearson, James Reynolds Jr., F. Milot Underwood Jr.

Blessed Sacrament $50 M-M Henry Teixeira; $35 In memory of Albert LaFlamme; $25 M-M Albert H. Beaudoin.

ESllirito Santo $60 A Friend; $50 Espirito Santo Women Guild, E.S. St. Vincent de Paul Society, E.S. Holy Name Society, A Friend; $25 M-M Robert Couto, John Borges & Family, A Friend

Holy Cross $35 M-M Robert Ciosek; $25 M-M Arthur Caron, M-M Bronislaw Kozack, A Friend, M-M Edmund Boronski

FALL RIVER Immaculate Conception $100 In memory of Thomas W. & Mary Newbury & Robert W. Newbury; $50 Immaculate Conception Men's Club; $25 M-M Edward Gazarro. $75 In memory of Stephen Preston; $50 A Friend; In memory of Deceased Priests of Parish; $25 Edward Ferreira.

Sacred Heart $150 In memory of May H. Healey; $100 Sacred Heart Women's Guild; $50 John O'Neill, Margaret R. Sullivan; $40 M-M John J. Patota; $35 Dr. Edward J. Steinhoff; $25 Mrs. Arthur Beland, Joseph R. Dufault, Letitia A. Lynch, Mrs. John F. McGraw, M-M James Pacheco. . $30 In memory of Mary E. Wagner & Francis C. Dolan; $25 Margaret G. McCarthy.

St. Anne $400 Rev. John R. FoIster; $25 Beatrice Arsenault, M-M Emile Matton.

St. Elizabeth $35 M-M Joseph Martins; $25 John N. Costa.

St. John the Baptist $50 Ladies' Guild, Friend of Catholic Charities; $30 M-M Raymond Francoeur. st. Mathieu $35 In memory of Dr. Eugene J. Dionne by his wife; $25 M-M Edmour Thibault.

St. Michael $100 M-M Gilbert Oliveira; $50 M-M Noel Medeiros; $30 John Castanho, In memory of Gertrude Victorine.

ST. Michael $40 In Memory of Anthony L. Carreiro.

Holy Name $200 Dr.-Mrs. Harry Powers; $175 Atty. & Mrs. Frederic Torphy; $120 M-M Thomas Carroll;

$75 The Dwyer Family; $60 M-M John J. Mitchell; $52 M-M Norman J. Roy; $50 M-M Romeo McCallum, M-M Raymond Gallagher, M-M George Flanagan, M-M Herman Mello; $35 M-M William O'Brien, M-M Raymond McMullen, M-M Lionel Braz. $33 M-M WiUlred Morrissette;; $30 Margaret J. Turner, A Friend, M-M William Henry, M-M William F. Keating Jr., James V. Terrio, M-M William Renaud; $25 M-M Dennis Griffin, J. Robert Turner, M-M Thomas Dunn, In memory of Anne V. Fleming, Margaret McCallum, M-M James Hoyle, Mrs. Mary Roche, M-M Edward Grace, Mrs. Francis Regan, M-M John Walsh Sr., Anne E. & Mary R. Hampston, M-M Antone Fernandes, M-M William Chippendale, Mary L. Walsh. $25 M-M Victor Ferrarine, M-M Dennis Sullivan, Dr.-Mrs. Joseph M. Rockett Jr., M-M Paul Petit, M-M Francis Harrington, M-M Stephen Nawrocki Jr., M-M Paul Lyons, M-M John Kirkman, Mrs. Teresa B. Aylward, M-M Roland L. Boulay, M-M Angelo Stavros, M-M John F. McMahon, M-M Roger Souza, Mabel Moran, Mrs. Margaret Mercier, Normand C. Oliver, Mrs. Margaret Gesner, Mrs. Alice Giloon, Margaret M. McCaffrey, In memory of George R. Chadinha, M-M Edward Nicoletti, Alice Monahan, M-M John J. Sullivan, In memory of Peter M. Braga. $300 Dr.-Mrs. Victor Palumbo; $125 M-M Daniel E. Bogan, Peerless Laundry; $100 Atty.-Mrs. William Long, Dr. Omer Boivin, F-M Daniel Viveiros; $60 M-M Ronald Arruda; $50 M-M Joseph Callahan; $35 M-M I. Paul Lanzisera, M-M Herve Lagasse; $30 A Friend; $25 The McArdle Family, Mrs. Samuel Hacking, M-M John White, M-M Owen McGowan, M-M Joseph F. McGrady, M-M Wilfred Driscoll, M-M Philip Silvia III, Mildred Malone.

Notre Dame $125 Raymond Gibeau; $25 Wilfrid Pineau.

Notre Dame $60 Dr.-Mrs. Adelard A. Demers Jr.; $25 M-M Ademord Allard, Hector Clement, M-M Conrad Desmarais, M-M Gerard Duquette, M-M Robert Levesque.

Our Lady of the Angels $25 Mary Machado.

St. Patrick $600 Rev. James F. Kenney; $100 M-M Charles Veloza; $50 Mrs. William T. Donnelly; $35 Mrs. Anna Bevilacqua, M-M Eugene Grace; $25 Mrs. Alton King, M-M John Morgan Jr., John J. Shay.

SS. Peter and Paul $25 M-M Edward L. Quirk, M-M Frederick Vitullo, M-M John Luebke, Mrs. Agnes Heffernan.

St. Roch $50 Antonio Coutu; $25 George C. Berube..

St. Stanislaus $600 Rev. Robert S. Kaszynski; $300 Rev. Antoni Bury, S.Chr.; $200 St. Stanislaus School; $100 A Friend, M-M Thomas Pasternak, St. Stanislaus Men's Club; $75 Denis Butler, Susan M. Maciarowski; $65 A Friend; $60 A Friend, M-M John Polak; $50 Ms. Lois Walkden, Mrs. Anne Marie Teasdale, M-M Edward Teves, Mrs. Adam Polak, M-M David Murphee. $40 M-M Richard Ernst; $36 M-M Joseph Amaral; $35 A Friend, M-M Thaddeus Waszkiewicz & Jean, M-M George Wrobel, John Kostka; $32 M-M Joseph Minior; $30 Irene Sokolowski, M-M Joseph Whipp; $25 Beverly Carolyn DeMoura, M-M Walter Stasiowski & Joyce, M-M Michael Zwolinski Jr., M-M Thomas O'Neil, M-M William Gilmore, Mrs. Clara Blackburn, Lauretta M. Machado, A Friend, M-M Frank Jancarik, $25 Miss Rose & Martin Forczyk, St. Stanislaus Y.outh Ministry, Mrs. Valerie Butler, Mrs. Stasia Dusault, M-M Walter F. Zdabosz, M-M William A. Brogan, M-M Ernest Motta, A friend, James Pollard, M-M Louis Amaral, M-M Frank J. Rapoza, Felician Sisters.

St. William $35 Mrs. Bert Galford; $25 M-M Adonis Samonte, Manuel Viveiros, The Kennedy Family. $25 M-M Ronald Mardula.

Santo Christo $40 M-M A S.C.; $30 Mrs. Emma N. Raposo & Daughter, M-M Manuel P. Botelho & Family; $25 A.M.B., M-M Manuel R. Costa, Mrs. Inez Medeiros & Daughter. $40 M-M Jose de Oliveira & family.

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary $100 In memory of Vincenzo Maddaleno, In memory of Concetta Marg路aletta & John J~ McGuire Sr.; $75 Dr.-Mrs. John Gagliardi; $50 In memory of Frank & Evelyn Camuso; $30 M-M Henry Maddaleno; $25 The Merry Makers Club, M-M Vincent Schier!. $100 Holy Rosary St. Vincent de Paul Conference; $50 McKenna Typewriter Company; $45 Jay Bronhard; $35 M-M Joseph Graci; $25 M-M Albert D'Ambrosio, M-M Ernest J. D'Ambrosio, M-M Stephen O. DePaola.

ASSONET St. Bernard $30 Pauline Rebello; $25 Joyce Gilbert, Assonet Antiques N'Unigues, M-M Terrence Hayes, M-M Emil Kleiner.

St. Joseph $50 Mrs. Richard Lown; $40 M-M John Mulrooney, M-M Arthur Plante; $30 M-M Walter Nichipor; $25 Aime J. Gamelin. $25 M-M Daniel Eagan.

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CENTRAL VILLAGE St. John the Baptist $50 St. John the Baptist Ladies' Guild; $25 M-M William Navin, Raymond Hurd, Margaret E. McCloskey, Agnes J. McCloskey. $100 St. Vincent de Paul Society; $50 M-M Jc>hn MacAndrew; $25 M-M Rober,t Costa, Janice Pedder.

St. George $25 St. George Women's Guild, A Parishioner

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Immaculate Conception $50 Society of Sennor da Pedra, Inc.

st. Lawrence $200 Judge & Mrs. Edwin Livingstone; $125 John Dunn; $100 M-M Joseph Harrington, Dr.-Mrs. George Riley, In memory of Rev. William Jordan, Dr.-Mrs. Robert Small; $75 Ruth B. McFadden; $60 Mrs. Mary B. Wheaton; $50 John Glennon, Hope McFadden, M-M Robert A. Makin, Elizabeth & Helen O'Connor, M-M Joseph V. Smith; $40 Clayton Russell, M-M Paul E. Marshall. $35 M-M Frank Mahon, M-M Arthur Poitras; $32 M-M Thomas Ryan; $25 M-M Alfred Beauregard, M-M Martin A. Conceicao, M-M Malcolm J. Delaney, Charles J. Donnelly, William F. Doyle, June A. Harrington, Veronica O'Brien, M-M Leo St. Aubin, M-M August Santos, M-M Thomas Shures, M-M. Bernard Baldomar, Mary Brimley, M-M Albert Broadland, M-M Andrew Kennedy.

St. Lawrence $100 Mrs. Thomas Osborne; $65 M-M Thomas J. Long; $50 Margaret Austin, M-M James Dee; $35 Angela J. Hayes; $31 Mrs. Florence Brower; $30 Mrs. George Breen, In memory of Alan J. Moriarty, M-M George Swansey; $25 Anna M. Brady, M-M Charles McCarthy, Ann Mahoney, M-M James E. Murphy, M-M Albert Smith.

St. Lawrenct $100 Mrs. Thomas Osborne; $65 M-M $50 M-M Arthur Kirkwood; $30 M-M Robert Bedard; $25 M-M Willis Goodwin. $35 M-M Peter M. Morris.

NORTH WESTPORT Our Lady 01 Grace $60 M-M Raymond Cambra; $50 Dr.-Mrs. Bernard Cronan; $40 Anonymous; $30 M-M Maurice Dumont; $25 Arthur Caesar. $25 M-M Manuel Vale.

SOMERSET St. John of God $375 Rev. Daniel L. Freitas; $300 St. Vincent de P.aul Conference; $150 Holy Name Society; $50 M-M George Coulombe; $45 Dr. Jesse Baptista; $35 M-M Manuel C. Motta; $25 Joseph D. Lawrence, Roger Lemelin, Mrs. Eulalia Soares, Mrs. James Sullivan, Daniel Tavares. $25 Manuel Medeiros. st. Patrick $40 M-M Peter J. Bartek; $35 M-M Valentino Pallotta; $25 M-M Edward Mendes, Douglas & Jean Chapman, M-M Norman Mathieu, John T. Smith, M-M Alfred Almeida, M-M John W. Kinnane, M-M Adelino Garcia, M-M Philip Roderick. $25 Helen C. Morgan.

St. Thomas More $100 A Friend, Mrs. Ernest E. Grenier Sr; $50 Joseph R. Gagnon; $40 Ms. Rosemary Dussault; $35 M-M James Harrington; $30 The Shea Family; $25 M-M William F. Croke, M-M Shaun Fitzpatrick Sr., In memory of Arlyne Morrissey, M-M Ben E. Paskavitch, Miss Florence M. Sullivan. $50 M-M Edward Robidoux.

St. Thomas More $25 M-M Jos. D. Iadicola.

SWANSEA Our Lady of Fatima $100 M-M Gerald F. Morriss; $50 M-M Edward Heffernan; $25 J. Gerald Coffey Jr., Anonymous. st. Dominic $100 M-M Manuel Travers; $25 St. Dominic's Women's Guild, Mrs. Dorothy Coleman, M-M Kenneth C. Almeida, M-M John Unsworth, Mrs. Imelda Bombardier, Robert J. Bell, M-M John R. Schaefer, M-M John Green, Eugene MacDonald. $50 Eugene MacDonald; $30 M-M John R. Schaefer; $25 M-M John Green, M-M Ralph Racca.

Our Lady of Fatima $100 A Friend; $60 M-M Paul Pelletier, A Friend; $50 M-M Austin Manning, Mrs. Pauline Hamel, M-M Joseph Charbonneau; $25 The Fiano Family, A Friend; M-M Harvey W. Maurice, M-M Augustine Oliveira, M-M William Teixeira.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help $50 Thaddeus A. Irzyk, M-M Casimir Smeka; $40 Friend; $35 Friend; $25 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Society, In memory of Sister M. Wilfred, In memory of ,the deceased priests of the parish. .$25 Albert J. Longpre and daughter.

Sacred Heart $35 In memory of Denault & LeComte Families, by M-M Roger Denault and Family; $25 M-M Henry St. Pierre.

St. Anne $35 Arthur Powell; $26 Arthur Morency; $25 Antonio L. Medeiros, Hector Dumas, Friend, George Burke, Umberto Cruz, John Sylvia.

St. Anne $'25 John Walsh.

St. Anthony $25 Amedee Lestage. $25 The Duval Family.

St. Casimir $200 St. Casimir's Summer Festival; $157 Anonymous; M-M John Gonet, M-M John Polar; Arruda, M-M Teddy M. Kalisz, Ponichtera.

Polish American $30 Emile Golda, $25 M-M Charles M-M Joseph S.

st. Francis of Assisi $100 St. Vincent de Paul; $25 Giulio Cesare Lodge, M-M William N. Whelan III.

ACUSHNET St. Francis Xavier $50 Acushnet Men's Catholic Association, A Friend; $25 In Thanksgiving, Mrs. Lillian Allemao, Mrs. Agnes Jacques, M-M Roland J. LaBossiere, M-M Paul E. Robert, M-M Paul Smigel, M-M James Whitehead.

FAIRHAVEN st. Joseph $200 St. Joseph's Confirmation Class; $150 St. Vincent dePaul Conference, Rev. William McClenahan, SS.CC.; $60 Raymond Barbaro; $50 Dr.-Mrs. James Brault, Mrs. Roberta Braley, Mrs. Rosaria Nicolaci, M-M Bernardino Fortunato; $30 Mrs. Helen Edwards. $25 Fairlawn Mortuary, Mrs. Joseph' Dawes, M-M Joseph Marques, M-M Michael Moran, M-M Roger Peloquin, M-M Richard Claflin, M-M Joseph Hipoleto, M-M Lewis Braga, M-M John Lima Jr., M-M Allen Days, M-M Robert Bach, M-M Donn Fletcher, M-M Arthur Hardy, M-M Nicholas Tangney, Charles Barrett.

st. Hedwig $'25 Walter Twarog Jr. st. Louis de France $200 Conference of St. Vincent de Paul Society; $100 M-M Emile Cote, P.arish Bingo; $50 Holy Name Society; $25 M-M Thomas Silvia, M-M Orner A. Thibault, M-M David Bank.

NEW BEDFORD Holy Name $100 M-M Salva,tore Giammalvo; $50 Dr.-Mrs. John B. O'Toole Jr., $25 Mrs. Joseph Aiello, Mrs. Russell Crawford, M-M John A. Dias Jr., Augusto Fernandes, M-M Robert House Sr., David Silva, M-M John Fernandes.

Our Lady 01 Fatima. $100 A Friend; $60 M-M Paul Pelletier, A Friend; $50 M-M Austin Manning, Mrs. Pauline Hamel, M-M Joseph Charbonneau; $25 T,he Fiano Family, A Friend, M-M Harvey W. Maurice, M-M Augustine Oliveira, M-M William Teixeira.

Holy Name $100 M-M Leonard F. Souza; $25 Daughters of Isabella, In Memory of Adams and Whitmer Family.

Our Lady of Assumption $200 M-M Edward Joseph; $100 M-M Severo Alfama, M-M Robert Garrison; $35 Palmira Silva; $25 M-M Antone Cabral. $100 M-M Edward Cruz; $20 M-M John Baptista; $25 Edward Silveira, Antone R. Gomes, M-M Henry Gibau.

Our Lady 01 Assumll'tion $53 M-M Joseph Ramos.

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Our Lady 01 Mount Carmel $250 Mount Carmel Prayer Group; $150 Mount Carmel Women's Guild; $30 M-M Manuel Travassos, M-M Carlos B. Lima; $25 M-M Joao M. M. Brizida, M-M Mariano Pimentel, Dr. Mark G. Rosenthal. $100 Gastao Oliveira; $50 A Friend; $25 Mt. Carmel Cub Scouts, Mt. Carmel Boy Scouts.

st. James $50 John G. Leva, M-M Francis O. Quinn; $40 M-M Carmino Arena; $35 M-M Stephen Paiva; $25 M-M HeI'bert Wall, Neal Wall, M-M George Downs, Mrs Luke Smith. $30 M-M Edward Kenney; $25 St. James Ladies Guild. st. James $25 M-M Robert Desorcy, Helen A. S. Ross. st. John the Baptist $35 M-M Charles Xavier; $30 A Friend; $'25 In memory of M-M Manuel P. Arruda and family; Manuel Correia, Mrs. Ma,ria L. Correia, M-M Arthur Freitas, M-M Joseph P. J'ardin, M-M Joaquim Paulino, M-M Francisco Pires, Mrs. Mary Schusner, Manuel S. Silva, M-M N. Sunderland. $100 1981 Confirmation Class, In memmy of Manuel J. Soares; $30 M-M Joseph Motta; $26 M-M Joseph R. Garcia; $'25 Dr.-Mrs. Albert Luiz, Mrs. Mary Dalzell. $50 Mrs. Mary G. Alcobia; $25 Ms Gloria S. Alcobia.

st. Theresa $50 M-M Lawrence A. St. Onge, M-M Robert A. Cyr, M-M Laurier Marcoux; $30 M-M Raoul LeBlanc; $25 M-M Paul Vieira, M-M Paul Fontaine, St. Anne's Sodality.

SOUTH DARTMOUTH St. Mary $35 M-M Alfred J. Coutu, M-M Francis Travers; $30 M-M Thomas L. Maher; $25 Mrs. Frank Coleman, Mrs. Wilbert Divis, M-M Maurice Hayes, M-M J'ames F. Kavanaugh, M-M James P. McKenna, St. Mary's Guild.

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MATrAPOISETr St. Anthony $150 John J. Ruane; $60 M-M Joseph E. Hassey; $50 M-M Walter E. Hughes, Mrs. William Delgado, Mrs. Rose Kelsey; $25 Talty Family, James E. Hubbard Jr., M-M John Brennan, George W. Liberty, M-M Roy Andrews, BaI'bara J. Cornish, M-M Alan Fales, John Seaberg, M-M George J. Hillman, M-M Alan Boling.

St. Mary $1300 St. Mary's N.B. Bingo; $150 St. Mary N.B. St. Vincent de Paul Conference; $25 M-M Martin Flinn, M-M Ronald Huber,t, M-M Arthur Greene.

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Sacred Hearts $200 Mrs. Bernadette Hemingway; $100 M-M David Sibor, Damien Council #4190 K. of C.; $60 Mrs. Nancy Ferreira; $50 Your mother and mine; $40 M-M Henry G. Fortin; $25 Sacred Hearts' Conference St. Vincent de Paul, M-M Leonard Cejka, Arnold, Cejka.

NORTH DARTMOUTH st. Julie BUUart $200 In memory of Thomas Aiello & sons; $50 M-M Michael J. Martin, M-M Anibal Medeiros; $25 Mr. Leduc, M-M Richard H. Brown, M-M Raymond Sylvia, The Westgate Family.

St. Julie Billiart $30 Rober.ta K. Dutra; $25 Milton Ferreira, Ruth S. O'Brien, M-M Raymond J. Vincent, M-M Nicholas Nicholas.

st. Kilian $25 M-M Joseph Bernardo.

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St. Mary $200 Congregation of the Sacred Hearts; $100 Association of the Sacred Hearts-St. Mary's Parish; $30 Mrs. Mary Peters; $25 M-M Donald Pacheco, M-M Bernard Boutin, Mrs. Philomena Charamba.

St. Mary $25 M-M Andrew Martin.