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Education head favors tax credits WASHINGTON ~C) - SllCretary of Education T. H. Bell testified in favor of tuition tax credits at a Senate finance subcommittee hearing last week in what Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) called a "mome:nt in history."

"You are the first chief officer of education to have spoken," on tax credits, Moynihan, (:0sponsor of the Tuition Tax Relief Act of 1981 and long time supporter of aid for non-public school students, told Bell. Previous Health, Education and

Welfare and Office of Education officials had avoided such hearings, Moynihan said.

Auxiliary Bishop James P. Lyke of Cleveland, representing the U.S. Catholic Conference, and Rev. Jerry Falwell, president of the -Moral Majority, Inc., also urged Congress to pass legislation allowing parents of nonpublic school children to claim tuition tax credits.

Bell told the subcommittee on taxation and debt management that he wanted to appear personally before it because "I didn't

Pope calls for unity VATICAN CITY (NC) - Four days after returning to the Vatican from three weeks in the hospital following the May 13 attempt on his life, Pope John Pnul II made his first formal public ~IP­ pearance and issued a major call for

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On Pentecost Sunday the (llyear-ulJ pontiff, still pale and th~in after his ordeal, personally delivered a five-minute talk and gave the final blessing at a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.

To representatives of other churches and hundreds of Catholic bishops gathered from round the world to mark the Christian faith in the Holy Spirit, the pope declared that the Holy Spirit "has gathered us together into the one love of Christ."

Although his doctors refus.ed

to let the pope lead any of the June 6-7 events celebrating the 16th century of the Council of Constantinople and the 1,550th anniversary of the Council of Ephesus, on June 6 he pre-recorded three separate speeches, totaling more than an hour, to be broadcast at events the next day.

want to appear to waffle" on the issue. Assistant Treasury Secretary John E. Chapoton had told the panel June 3 that tax cuts would have to come before tax credits and some have accused the administration of backing down from its support of tuition tax credits.

However, Bell said that President Reagan "attaches a high priority" to tuition tax credits and that the administration believes that the growth of private school alternatives "is healthy and increases the freedom of

families to choose the type of education that will best meet the needs of their children."

Asked by Moynihan if, as principal U. S. school official, Bell saw the bill as a threat to public education, Bell replied, "I don't . . . I feel friendly competition is healthy for all of education."

In his testimony Bishop Lyke sought to clear up what he called misconceptions about nonpublic schools and tax credits.

"For too long the non-public schools in this country have been considered racist, elitist and of

inferior quality," Bishop Lyke told the subcommittee. "Past attempts to establish a public polio cy which would truly give parents educational freedom of choice have been defeated using these misconceptions as reasons.

"Hard evidence is now avail· able, and it reveals these misconceptions for what they are," he said.

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The recorded papal speeches were a half-hour homily at the concelebrated morning Mass of Pentecost in St. Peter's Basilica, a 10-minute talk before his noontime Regina Coeli appearance over St. Peter's Square, and another half-hour allocution Sunday evening during ceremonies at St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome in honor of Mary.

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Mass plans ready Preparations are complete for the diocesan Mass for the handicapped and disabled, to be celebrated at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 20, in the gymnasium of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall Rivl~r.

A large attendance from ,all parts of the diocese is expectlld.

The Mass, scheduled in celnnection with observance of 1981 as the International Year for Disabled Persons, will coincide with a similar Mass to be celebrated at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on the feast of Corpus Christi and to be attended by disabled persons from throughclut the world.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant and homilist for the Fall River Mass, with priests of the diocese as concelebrants. Oscar Drinkwater and Frank Mis will be deacons and minor ministers will be students of Nazareth Hall, Fall River.

The first reader will be Dennis Polselli, representing the Catholic Guild for the Blind and the second reader will be Victoria Kitchen of the Catholic Gu:ild for the peaf.

Cheryl Finnerty will offer the Prayer of the Faithful and the

meditation after communion will be by Dennis Cancilla.

The offertory procession will be formed by representatives of diocesan nursing homes, religious communities and handicapped youth.

Music will be by the parish choir of Sacred Heart Church, New Bedford, directed by Joseph Scammons.

Members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses will be on duty in case of emergency, as will emergency medical technicians under the direction of Father John FoIster, Fall River fire department chaplain.

Father Martin Buote, diocesan director of Catholic Scouting, will supervise Scout ushers for the Mass.

Arrangements for the liturgy and following reception have been handled by the Bishop Connolly High School community.

Bishop Cronin will meet all those attending the Mass and each participant will receive a ring rosary as a memento.

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"WE USTENED," said President Reagan, when asked what was discussed at luncheon for Mother Teresa of Calcutta, shown with the First Couple during her Washington stay. (NC/UPI Photo)

'Give that child to me' WASHINGTON {NC) - On a month-long tour of the United States to open several homes for ·the poor, -Mother Teresa of Calcutta came to Washington to deliver her message that abortion is a destroyer of family life. At the same time :it was announced that she wHi open two of her new homes in the capital city.

"Today the unborn child has become the target of destruction," she said at a day-long symposium sponsored by the Amer·

iean Family Institu,te. "In destroying that child, we are destroying love . . . we are destroying God." The symposium, held in a Senate hearing room, attracted more than 100 people, including a smattering of congressmen and Reagan administration officials along with several leaders of the New Right.

Under bright TV lights and surrounded by photographers, Mother Teresa called the child

God's greatest gift and said that in Calcutta her coworkers were fighting abortion with adoption.

At a talk to New York police officers she returned to the theme. "If you know anyone who does not want !the child, who is afraid of the child, then tell them to give that child to me," she said.

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TRIUMPHANT MICHAEL DiPIETRO says it all for

. the 710 graduates of the five high schools of the diocese.

He's at Bishop Feehan, Attleboro. Right, honor students Colleen Taylor (at piano), Alan Rapoza, Kathleen Hudon and Christopher Paiva of Holy Family, New Bedford, make happy music. Center, left, Scott Verissimo, Laurel McKivergan, Karen Morad, Suzanne Seguin, David Ponte, Bishop Stang, North Dartmouth, try a hat trick. Right, the new mini-billboard at Bishop Connolly, Fall River, has a word for Joseph Rocha, Laina Ouellette, Rosa Campos and Stephen Brown. Bottom, Bishop Cronin congratulates James Silva and Mary Beth McGowan of Coyle and Cassidy, Taunton.

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Awards Adult Boy Scout, Girl Scout and Camp Fire leaders will be recognized at a dioces~tn ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 12, at St. Elizabeth Seton Church, North Falmouth.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will present awards at a concelebrated Mass followed by ;a buffet dinner. This year will mark the first presentation of the St. Elizabeth Seton Medal, said Harvey L. Martindale Jr., Cape Cod committee chairman for Boy and Girl Scout and Camp Fire programs.

Ordination Rev. Mr. Joseph J. Kelleher, SJ, of St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, will be ordained to the Jesuit priesthood at noon Saturday, June 20, at Holy Cross College, Worcester. The ordainin,g prelate will be Archbish,op Samuel E. Carter, SJ, of Kingston, Jamaica.

Rev. Mr. Kelleher is the son of Joseph J. and Mary R. Kelleher. He is a graduate of Boston College, where he also pursued graduate studies. In th,~ course of his preparation for the priesthood he taught at St. George's College, Kingston, Jamaica, and at Bishop Cheverus High School, Portland, Maine.

He will celebrate his first Mass at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 21, at St. Lawrence Churc:h. Subsequently he will return to California where he will continue pursuing theological studies at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, and where he will assist in parishes of the Oakland diocese.

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BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN ordains Father Gerard A. Hebert in cathedral ceremonies last Saturday.

'Wyszynski line' to continue ROME (NC) - Church-state relations in Poland will continue along the "Wyszynski line," Cardinal Agostino Casaroli has disclosed.

The papal secretary of state made the comment immediately after his arrival from Warsaw, Poland, where he had represented Pope John Paul II at the funeral of 79-year-old Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland.

"I don't believe that the death of the cardinal, a figure linked to one of the most important parts of Polish life, signifies a change in the course which he undertook in the life of the church, in church-state relations," Cardinal Casaroli said.

The cardinal said leaders of the communist-run nation told him that they felt "almost like orphans" after the death of the Polish primate.

The appointment ofa successor to Cardinal Wyszynski is expected in July.

"I felt it my duty and right to assure (the state leaders) that the line of the primate will be continued," Cardinal Casaroli said.

"Also because it was not, or no longer was, his personal line, but that of the Polish church," he added. "This was very reassuring for Poland during a moment when no one is hiding the

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OFFICIAL Rev. Richard E. Beaulieu, temporary leave from Office of Principal at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, to pursue graduate studies at Boston College.

Continued from Page One students. Coleman also testified at the hearing.

Falwell told the subcommittee that "the choice between public and private education is a basic parental right and it is primarily the responsibility of parents to see that their children's education reflects those values that they themselves believe in."

Subcommittee chairman Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) and Moynihan argued with tuition tax credit opponents who tried to portray tuition tax credits as unconstitutional and an air to racist, elitist institutions. I "Tax credits would encourage the establishment of an educational caste system" and "would work to return racial segregation to the public schools," Dorothy Shields, director of education, AFL-CIO and representative for the American Federation of Tealher, said.

"You drag slime into this hearing room," Moynihan said, adding that she was suggesting that by supporting tuition tax credits for non-public school children "people are working at something evil . . . I am appalled."

difficulties there. Even the highest ranking ponticijans admit with great sincerity that it is a difficult moment which requires unity of efforts in the nation."

Cardinal Wyszynski was a staunch defender of church rights, yet was willing to compromise with the communist government in the name of national unity. During the series of labor troubles affecting Poland since last August, the cardinal strongly defended workers' rights but also worked as a mediator between dissident workers and the government to help ease tensions.

Asked to comment in Rome <5n recent statements by Polish leaders that it is no longer possible to govern Poland without an understanding with the Catholic Church, the cardinal said, "I believe that this awareness has always existed."

"But while in earlier times this awareness, for various historical reasons, did not always mean there was understanding, today on the contrary there is truly a desire for understanding," he added.

June 11 Rev. Msgr. Augusto L. Furtado, 1973, Pastor Emeritus, St. John of God, Somerset June 12 Rev. Thomas H. Taylor, 1966, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton June 13 Rev. Edward F. Donahue, S.J., 1974, B.C. High School, Dorchester June 14 Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan, 1980, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River June 18 Rev. James M. Coffey, P.R., 1935, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton

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Abp. Tang named to Chinese post VATICAN OITY ~C)-For the first time since 1955 a pope has named a new Catholic archbishop for China.

Pope John Paul II appointed 73-year-old Bishop Dominic Tang Yee-Ming as archbishop of Quangzhou (Canton), China, June 6, in a move seen as evidence of further ~mproveme"'t in Vatican-Chinese relations.

Archbishop Tang, a Jesuit who has been apostolic administrator of the Quangzhou Archdiocese since 1950, becomes the only active member of the Chinese Catholic hierarchy to be recognized by ,both the Vatican and China's communist government.

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Campaign 82 - Now Underway Few could be blind to the political manipulations and maneuverings now underway in the Commonwealth. What it adds up to is that the politicians have set their goals and objectives and are now after the votes.

The prime race next year will be that for the United States Senate seat currently held by !the seemingly invincible Edward M. Kennedy.

To prove to the voters that he really is interested in them and the state, Mr. Kennedy is once more appearing at such out-of-the-way places as fish piers and clambake pavilions. The rhetoric heard on these "surprise" visits is still the same old line, nothing new, but embellished with much advance publicity and highpowered p.r.

Now the upholder of lost causes, the senator is considered unbeatable in '82. If this is so, why has he begun his reelection campaign so early? He might peak too soon; shades of the presidential primary.

The other race that should provide residents with a real. old-fashioned political donnybrook will be that for governor. Right now it seems that this contest will resemble the starting gate of the Kentucky Derby.

The horses, if we may use that term, are lining up fot their formal appearance on the track. King, O'Neill and Dukakis are among former winners; but often a dark horse has confounded the political prophets in unpredictable Massachusetts. This run for Beacon Hill will indeed be quite a spectacle.

Of course, in 82 we will have the added attraction of musical chairs for the seats in the United States House of Representatives. From all reports, the state, according to the recent national census, should lose one seat in Congress. And there are stories about the land that in their inscrutable wisdom our leaders have decided that the area for excision, to no one's surprise, will be Southeastern Massachusetts.

Margaret Heckler of the 12th Congressional District is the prime target and she knows it. Question: How will Beacon Hill chop up Bristol County?

Now, add to this delightful political madness the current mood of the state as fixed by the limitations of Proposition 2Y2. Politicians have either already committed suicide on this issue or have become the victims of political cronyism. Caught between the fires are uncounted firemen, policemen and teachers. Where will they exercise their voting muscle in '82?

Amid this entire Verdian scenario, one must never forget that the grand aria from the forces of the Moral Majority will be sung from right of stage. There will be many who will like what they hear. If this aria is sung loud enough and long enough it surely can't be ignored..

In fact, it just could become a popular hit tune.

Thus it can be seen just from this jaundiced review that the home front will be hopping in '82. Yet" no matter how bombastic or devious the tactics of the candidates in their efforts to capture the fantasies of the voters, one must try to discern the wolves fft sheep's clothing and the thieves in the night. In other words, keep voting records' in mind and ethical issues in sight. .The pressure to ignore or set aside issues like abortion tuition tax credits, inflation, energy, conservation of natural resources and the like will be heavy. But don't forget, as the merry-go-round starts whirling that Catholics must have a conscience in the polling booths as well as the center aisle.

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'Unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself, remaineth alone.

But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.' John 12:24-25

Vatican warns U.8. press WASHINGTON (NC) - The Vatican is concerned that some articles and columns in U.S. Catholic newspapers "cause harm to the faith of the people because of lack of respect for the teaching authority of the church."

The concern was expressed in a letter sent to U.S. bishops by Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic delegate in the United States.

There are 162 Catholic newspapers published in the United States, most of which are diocesan weeklies having the local hishop as publisher.

Archbishop Laghi's letter said <'With increasing frequency the Holy See receives letters from the United States complaining about articles appearing in Catholic newspapers, including . diocesan publications, which cause harm to the faith of the people because of lack of respect for the teaching and decisions of the magisterium. As you know, it is not unusual for such articles to contain criticisms and attacks even on the teaching authority and the person of the holy father. The impact of such criticism is heightened when columns are syndicated and widely circulated.

"A letter from the Secretariat of State expressed concern over this problem, and Ordinaries are encouraged to consider their responsibilities in governing the policy of those publications over which they have control. To this I would add a word of encouragement for the promotion of a sound and vital Catholic press, so useful an instrument for evan-

gelization and so vibrant in the life of the church in the United States."

Father Lawrence Purcell, secretary of the apostolic delegation, said the letter from the Secretariat of State did not cite specific cases.

"The text of Archbishop Laghi's letter is basically the same text as the letter received here from Secretariat of State," Father Purcell said.

(In Vatican City, a Vatican official familiar with the situation said the secretariat wanted to avoid citing specific cases, but that the criticism was probably aimed at a syndicated columnist "who has been speaking out against the church" and "it is very clear what the secretariat wants someone to do." The official did not identify that columnâ&#x20AC;˘ ist nor explain what action the secretariat would want taken.)

The delegate's letter, dated April 27, became public when it was published in the May 28 issue of the ..Wanderer, national Catholic weekly newspaper published in St. Paul, Minn. The Wanderer did not say how it obtained the leiter.

The Catholic Press Association (CPA) of the United States and Canada wrote to the delegate after his letter became public.

"It is extremely rare for attacks on the authority or person of the holy father to appear in American Catholic publications," said the CPA's letter, dated May 28 and signed by Father Norman J. Muckerman, CPA president, and James A. Doyle, CPA execu-

tive director.

Catholic editors and publishers are "highly professional and loyal Catholic journalists" having "a strong adherence to the faith .and to the magisterium," added the CPA letter.

"We are puzzled by the broad general nature of your criticisms and would like to sugg,est that specit1ic cdtic.sms of specific instances ought to be directed to the publishers, editors, or columnists in question.

"We would be happy, ill fact, to have the Catholic Press Association act as an agency to transmit such specific criticisms to CPA member publishers," it added. ' The CPA letter said that some articles considered disturbing by some are "in fact nothing more than open discussion of controversial matters still open for discussion."

"It has been our experience from talking to editors of our member publications that almost daily they themselves receive letters from such people who mistakenly consider open reporting and discussion of controversial matters as deviation from the faith or from loyalty to the Holy See," added the CPA letter.

"The experience of our Catholic press leads us to believe that issues are clarified, not confused, by free and open discussion," it said.

The CPA memben~hip is composed of editors, PU\>lishl~rs and staff members of Catholic newspapers and magazines in the United States and Canada..

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I just had lunch in a secluded place with one of the interesting men in :my life.

It was wonderful but when we parted, I felt some pangs of pain because I know we can't go on meeting like this much longer.

The man? My 12 yeaJ~-old son, Steve. The place? A lovely spot of wilderness called the'"Highline Canal planted in the middle of our concrete environment. We're fortunate in having it less than a block away and it's always a nice escape to take an after dinner walk or a weekend bike ride along the canal which winds in and around the city like a 10mile lariat.

My pain? Steve, our youngest, is leaving elementary school this month. Now, that doesn't exactly call for mourning but there are things that are coming to a close in my life, like picnics ,along the canal during school lUJlch time.

These delightful one-on-one breaks in the spring and autumn began when our oldest, now in college, was in grade school. We wanted to pick some wild asparagus but she had something scheduled after school, so she suggested instead," Why don't you bring a lunch and meet me and we can eat it on the canal?"

And so we did. It wa.s a won-

derful lunch hour. There were all kinds of little spring things around young squirrels, butterflies, wild flowers, and baby magpies. It was a nice hreak for Beth away from the noise and numbers in the school lunch room and it was a wonderful break for me, away from the tyranny of the typewriter.

So, as often happens, a tradition is born. We didn't go every day or it would have been boring but we usually managed lunch once a week on the canal during nice spring and fall weather. A real bonus was that it gave us a chance to be alone without other family members around, particularly younger siblings.

When Beth left for junior high, Mike was ready to meet me for lunch on the canal, and, three and a half years later, when he departed, Steve took his place.

Now, with Steve's last year of elementary school, it marks the end of our intimate lunches.

Today we didn't find any asparagus, but that's not important. (He loves to hunt it but can't stand eating it.) As we sat on the old terry towel reserved for canal lunches, he told me about Orion and how it is both a constellation and a mythical hunter. Then he pointed to a

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crevice in the aged cottonwood tree under which we were sitting and said that he and his friend had stored some corn nuts there for the squirrels and he would have to check if they'd found them. Without a break, he went on to tell who was winning in Foursquare, and then on to how astronauts are chosen.

I would have heard none of the above without our canal lunch. He wouldn't have stopped to tell me all that after school.

So, it's with regret that I see elementary school end in our family. Steve will go on to junior high where they have a 13minute lunch and where a boy wouldn't be caught dead lunching with his mother.

There are lots of things I won't mind leaving behind in elementary school: field days, carnivals, safety patrol, and lost boots. Nor will I miss car pools, pack meetings, or searches for overdue library books. But I will miss our picnics and conversations along the canal.

Federal budgeting The current debate over the federal budget may look like the last inning of the last game of the World Series.

But in reality the first votes on the Reagan administration's budget proposals - while critically important - are only initial steps in the long and complicated process that leads to enactment of a new 12-month blueprint for federal spending next September.

Since the votes are only the beginning of the budget battle, church groups concerned over the fate of such federal programs as food stamps, Medicaid and legal services for the poor are also only at the beginning of their efforts to salvage such programs.

What makes initial votes important, yet preliminary, is the intricate federal budget process, established by Congress in 1974 in an attempt to gain control over what had become 11 melange of appropriations bills enacted each year.

Stripped to its bare bones, the process begins each January when the president by law submits his budget proposals to Congress.

The next major step is decision by House and Senate budget committees on overall spending targets for the new [.seal year which begins Oct. 1. These come in the fprm of resolutions establishing an overall budget figure and telling each House and Senate committee how m':.lch money

will be available for federal programs under their jurisdiction.

This year, the Senate Budget Committee pretty much went along with the president's proposals, but the House Budget Committee chaired by Rep. James R. Jones (D-Okla.) approved a resolution calling for spending which added funds for some programs Reagan seeks to cut.

Once the House and Senate approve the budget resolutions, the various committees must decide how to spend the money allotted them.

That's where the next battles are taking place all over Capitol Hill as various interest groups and congressmen with their own pet projects jockey for the limited amount of money each committee can authorize for spending in fiscal 1982. While the initial budget documents approved by the House and Senate include itemization of where money should be sent or cut, each committee is free to make its own adjustments as long as it meets its individual spending target.

For instance, the agriculture committee in theory could approve additions to the Reagan proposal for food stamps, but would have to make further cuts in another program, such as food for world hunger, to meet its overall spending target.

The committees must not only decide how much money to spend per program' but also how to change the law to bring each budget within its spending tar-

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get. In food stamps, for example, the committees are considering a number of changes in eligibility, purchase requirements, deductions, and other proposals which will doubtless be subject to intense debate over the most "humane" way to implement them.

Later a second budget resolution - sometimes bigger than the first when Congress realizes it cannot live with the strongencies it originally tried to impose on itself - must be passed as well as the various appropriation bills that actually dispense the funds to the federal agencies that run the programs.

Through it all there are dozens of places where changes can still be made, where victories can be won or lost, or where federal programs can be saved or scratched.

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Festiv'al of death fores,een A lone piper, a middleaged man in a shabby suit and a beret, led the funeral procession of Raymond McCreesh from the whitewashed family cottage on the edge of the graveyard, up the steep hill to St. Malachy's church in Camlough, Northern Ireland.

Behind him, under the weight of the coffin, were four friends, with armbands of the Irish Republic colors. An orange, white and green banner covered the box, and on top rested McCreeh's black beret and black leather gloves - the mark of his calling as a soldier. of the Provisional IRA. At the brow of the hill, over100k~g the mountains of Mourne, where sheep were gently grazing, the procession stopped, and the top-hatted undertaker jumped out of the hearse to give instructions to the pallbearers. They set their burden doy/n.

The melodramatic moment for which all had been waiting was about to unfold. The crowd, patient for hours under the lashing of wind and rain, with brief sunlit respites, came to attention.

An IRA man wearing an oversized khaki uniform and a green mask over his face stepped forward, followed by six others in similar garb. He barked a command in Gaelic. Three volleys of rifle fire tore the air.

The church bells tolled, and the crowd, after seconds of silence, began to clap and then to cheer. The third IRA man to fast to the death in the H-Block of Maze prison had been given his due.

The only sign of a British presence in this province of the Crown was an army helicopter droning overhead. The IRA men then melted into the crowd "to change their clothes," a bystander explained. A dozen men jumped over a hedge of nettle into the graveyard and raised their fists at the intruder.

"The old women throw bread at them, you know," remarked a steward, one of hundreds of volunteers wearing scruffy white armbands. "The Brits count the crowds - they've never seen the like of the one in Camlough."

The turnouts at IRA funerals are of concern in London, where Margaret Thatcher has vowed to make no concessions to the IRA prisoners who protest their lack of status as political prisoners.

They are, she says of those who have died and those who have pledged to take their places, terrorists - they have chosen death, but gave no choice to their victims. Even those who agree with her principle are cringing at her rhetoric.

Bobby Sands, the Belfast loser, was the first to demonstrate that

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IRA terrorists are willing to die for their cause, whatever it is.

He was elected to Parliament as he was dying and has become a folk figure to the world. His funeral brought out 60,000 people along Falls Road and gave pause to those who have maintained that the IRA has no popular following.

It is certainly a question whether the Catholics who come to these occasions are expressing their support of the IRA or only their sympathy for the "idealists," as they have begun to call them.

Some people think that the IRA is reaching for a 1916 con路 nection, some echo of the Easter Rising - that most poetically recorded rebellion, which was a flop until its four leaders were executed by the British and gave the enterprise an aura of martyrdom.

The Northern Irish Protestants are infuriated by the new tactic, against which there is no defense. They resent the worldwide uproar and the invasion of the international press. They expressed their fury in recent munipal elections by doubling the strength of the Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant extremist who will consider no change in Northern Ireland's status of union with the British.

"If he wants to be an Englishman, let him go to England," said Gerald McGivern, a Cam路 lough postman who reports that "people are badly cut up by the deaths of the boys.

"If the Brits would get out, we Irish coUld settle this among ourselves."

Four hundred years of bitter history suggest otherwise. And many here feel that if the 12,000 British troops were withdrawn, the Protestants and the Catholics would fight each other to the death.

"Raymond McCreesh," the par. ish priest said during the funeral Mass, which was broadcast to the people on the hill, "would never have been in jail if it had not been for the historical circumstances of this land."

It was a sentiment expressed by many standing along the road and in the muddy meadows. Of McCreesh, who was 24, and a milkman before he became a gunman, many said, "He was not a criminal, he was an Irishman."

The conversion in the popular perception of the terrorists into "idealists" is Mrs. Thatcher's problem. If she shows as little imagination as other English leaders, beginning with Queen Elizabeth I, have demonstrated in dealing with the Irish, Ulster faces a summer that could be a festival of death.

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Open house at Mt. St. Rita Marking the 10th anniversary of Mt. St. Rita Health and Retirement Centre, Cumberland, R.I., Sisters of Mercy and their friends will attend 1:30 p.m.

Mass Sunday at the center. An open house and refreshments will follow.

The center is a powerhouse of prayer, say community members.

"After many years of service to the church in the areas of education, social service and health care, centre residents are able to focus more fully on the spiritual aspects of their ministry," they explain.

"While advancing age and/or physical infirmity may prevent active participation in teaching or parish work, each sister is interested in the well-being and progress of those who came under her care. Prayers of intercession and thanksgiving are offered at various times throughout the day and a spirit of quiet

joy pervades the rooms and halls of Mt. St. Rita."

During the past decade, the center has served as a source of physical and spiritual renewal for many active Sisters of Mercy, lay volunteers and benefactors, serving younger sisters leaving the active ministry due to illness.

"It is a heart warming commentary on the Sisters working at Mt. St. Rita that they can provide an atmosphere of peace and tranquility during the last days of life, as in the cases of the late Sister Marion Geddes and Sister Sheila Sullivan," said one religious.

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Pope calls for unity Continued from page one first formal appearances since he was shot almost overshadowed the ecumenical significance of the ·Pentecost celebration, which was regarded by many in the Vatican as the most important ecumenical event in his papacy since his visit ;in 1979 to the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I of Constan-' tinople (Istanbul, Turkey).

Symbolizing the desire for church unity behind the observances was Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Damaskinos of Tranoupolis, who as persomil representative of Patriarch Dimitrios, delivered the homily and led more than 300 Catholic cardinals and bishops in prayer at the Pentecost vigil service in St. Peter's.

Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England, president of the Council of European Bishops' 'Conferences, presided at the vigil on behalf of the pope.

At the Pentecost Sunday Mass, Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, dean of the College of Cardinals, was chief concelebrant in place of the pope. ,In his prerecorded homily Pope John Paul emphasized the role of the Holy Spirit in the birth and life of ,the church and the importance of the Council of Constantinople's profession of faith in the Spirit.

The evening celebration at St. Mary Major Basilica started with the evening vespers of Pentecost but was chiefly a celebration in honor of Mary, commemorating the Council of Ephesus' proclamation of Mary as "theotokos" (God-bearer or mother of God.) Prior to the Pentecost observances, Pope John Paul had an emotional meeting with Ann Odre, 58, the Buffalo, N.Y. widow also wounded May 13.

With her daughter, her son, her physician and a nurse, Mrs. Odre was brought on June 4 from Santo Spirito Hosp:tal in Rome

to the Vatican for a private visit with the pope.

Wounded in the chest and abdomen in the assassination attempt, she had her spleen removed and, like' the pope, had a temporary intestinal bypass operation.

After the audience, Michael Odre said that his mother, of Polish descent, chatted with the pope in Polish, while the pope conversed with the doctor and nurse in Italian and with Mrs. Odre's two ,children in English.

Mrs. Odre, whose abdominal injuries were more severe than the pope's, was brought into the audience in a wheelchair.

"Mom asked if she could touch his face," said Michael Odre. "She kissed his' face and he kissed her.

Then he made the sign of the cross on her forehead."

After the papal audience Mrs. Odre was brought back to the hospital for the night. She returned to the United States June 5.

Sr. Josephine Sister Josephine Morin, 74, of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec, a native of Fall River, died last week at her community's generalate in Beauport, P.Q., Canada.

Until last November she was stationed at Mt. St. Joseph School, Fall River, as sacristan previously she had been a nurse at Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford. She was also a nurse at Mt. St. Joseph during its years as an orphanage; and nursed and cared for the elderly at other homes of the Sisters of Charity.

The daughter of the late Philibert and Helene Gagnon, she entered religious life in 1934. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Aurore Pare and Mrs. Alice Mathieu, both of Fall River and a brother, Brother Herve Morin, FEC, a missionary in Pakistan.

Interment was in Beauport.

GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. (NC) - Sen. Edward Kennedy (DMass) praised Catholic schools at a fund-raising dinner for a New York parochial school while outside pro-life demonstrators picketed his appearance.

Kennedy spoke at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in Gloversville. Outside he was met with boos and chants of "Kennedy is anti-life." Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., also provoked chants as an attendant at the dinner.

In his speech Kennedy com· mended parents who had sacrificed for the school and encouraged their efforts.

Sen. Kennedy, who has voted against tuition ta)( cuts in Congress, had a private meeting with clergymen before the dinner. He reportedly explained that in his opinion tax credits do not benefit the poor and arc questionable constitutionally.

Legislation, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Robert Packwood (R-Or,e.) proposes a tax credit of up to $500 or one-half of tuition parents pay to non-public schools. Some Catholic school administrators have said tax credits are consti· tutional and would benefit the poor who would get a refund for tuition paid even if they didn't have to pay taxes. They have called the legislation important in alleviating the financial crisis which many parochial schools face.

Following the dinner Kennedy attended a fund-raising party while pro-lifers picketed outside the house. He was interviewed there by a reporter for The Evangelist, the newspaper of the Albany Diocese.

Kennedy stated that he is "personally opposed to abortion" and has voted for legislation to allow abortion "only in the case of incest, rape or serious illness:' "I authored the teen-age pregnancy legislation (which supports programs for pregnant girls who want to bring their babies to term). I've fought for support for pregnant women so that they're not forced into abortion for financial reasons. I've supported pre- and postnatal care so that children will be well and healthy and I've led the fight against the infant formula companies to save one million lives a year. I believe 1 stand for life:' Robert Griesemer of the Upstate (New York) Coalition for Life disagreed and said Kennedy had an eight-year-long pro· abortion record. Griesemer said he was protesting "to support the ideal of protection under the law of all human life from conception until natural death."

Despite the protests, the fundraiser grossed $12,500 and organizers predicted a profit be" tween $9,000 and $10,000.

"Our main concern was to raise badly needed money for our school" Susan Licardo, cochairman, said. "When we invited Kennedy we were thinking of the Kennedy magic, not the controversy:'

Contest for radio NEW YORK (NC) - The LaFarge Institute has announced a contest designed to encourage script writers for radio dramas dealing with Catholic life.

Winners will receive prizes of $2,000, $1,000 and $500 and the contest sponsors will seek to have the winning dramas produced, although they do not guarantee production.

Called the Catholic Radio Drama Competition, the contest is funded by the Catholic Communication Campaign of the U.S. Catholic Conference and administered by the LaFarge Insti· tute, which was established by the Jesuits at America magazine in 1963 and conducts symposi· urns on various contemporary topics.

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MISS TINA DUJlERE models her grandmother's 1939 wedding gown for Mrs. Michael J. McMahon (left) and Mrs. Aristides Andrade, cochairmen of a bridal fashion show planned for 12:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 27 by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. The women aTe selecting bridal gowns of the past 60 years for a theme tying in with the 60th year of the founding of the National Council of Catholic Women. The show, to be staged at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea, is being planned by a large committee representing all diocesan council districts. (Rosa Photo)

'Give tllat child to me' Continued from page one argued over abortion before a Senate subcommittee, Mother Teresa decried the mentality that leads to abortion becausl~ people desire other things - "maybe another car or something," she said.

She will open two homes for her nuns in Washington, possibly by the end of June, a spokesman for the Washington archdiocese announced. They will be near Assumption Parish in the south· east area of the city.

The site was chosen because half of the Distric of Columbia's welfare recipients live within Assumption's boundaries. !Mother Teresa's MiSltionaries of Charity will have a contemplative home where the nuns will pray and meditate for 12 to 13 hours a day and an llpostoHc home, where the sisters minister· ing to the community will live.

Community members will minis· ter to prisoners at the D.C. jail, the elderly in D.C. Village and the ill at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a federal psychiatric institution.

They will also knock on doors in the community "to talk about Christ."

During her Washingt':>n visit, Mother Teresa was President Reagan's guest for lunch at the White House. The president later praised her as "the soul of kindness."

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"You can't be in the presence of someone like that wIthout feel· ing better about ,the world," the president said.

After lunch the president and his wife, Nancy, escorted Mother Teresa to her waiting car. Government employees on the White House south lawn applaunded her as she left.

Mother Teresa folded her hands and bowed her head as she was driven away.

Mass Continued from page one Women as hostesses, aided by members of several youth groups.

The Mass will be signed for the deaf and special areas of the gymnasium will be reserved for the blind and those in wheelchairs. Easy wheelchair access is available at the rear of the building.

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What is the message of the Sacred Heart encyclical and what is its value today?

First, the pope wished to teach the essence and purpose of devotion to the Sacred Heart. He explained that the essence of the devotion was the love of the Person of the Word made flesh, seen in the totality of his human and divine love, with his physical heart used as a natural symbol of that love. The purpose of the devotion was to help us respond to God's love by loving him with our whole being and loving our neighbor as he loved us.

The pope wrote of the "threefold love" of Christ: >(1) his divine love which he shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit and their love for us; (2) His human spiritual love infused charity, which God also gives to us; and (3) His human emotional love - which we too have.

The heart of Jesus is honored then, as a natural sign of the divine and human love of the God-man, Jesus. Because the heart reacts naturally to movements of love within and for us, it is widely accepted as a natural symbol of love.

Since people speak of loving "with alI my heart," it is beautiful that we have a devotion to the love of Christ in which we love him "with all my heart," and he loves us with the human and divine love of all his heart.

Second, Pope Pius XII knew that most people of his time probably practiced the devotion as a result of the apparitions of Christ to St. Margaret Mary AIcoque and with the form derived from them (First Fridays, Holy

Hours, honoring the image of the Sacred Heart,Feast of the Sacred Heart, reparation, and so on). Legitimate as this was and is, the best foundation for this devotion is the scriptural and theological reasons underlying it in our day, when Scripture is so much a part of the

liturgy and ordinary life, this point is particularly appealing.

The pope outlined many examples to prove that God's relationship with us is primarily one of love: quoting God's command to love him with our whole being and our neighbor as ourselves; recalling the covenant concept; and reviewing love images found in the prophets and in the Song of Songs. In the New Testament, this message is very clear, especialIy in the loving and obedient death of Christ on Calvary.

To the scriptural foundation, one should add the theological.

The pope showed that this devotion is connected with many essential truths of faith: the Incarnation, the union of the divinity with the humanity in the GodMan; the Redemption by which he saved and sanctified us; and his role as Mediator between us and God. Third, the pope briefly traced the development of the Sacred Heart devotion by recalling many of the saintly people who practiced it and wrote on it. Neverthe less, he reminded the faithful that external practices do not constitute the devotion, useful as they are. He insisted that one

must constantly return to its essence - responding to God's love in Christ, letting it overflow into love of neighbor, and ever aspiring it by the Heart of Jesus, the sign of his divine and human love for alI. The pope also reminded the faithful that the greatest gifts of Christ's Heart are the Eucharist, the priesthood, and his own Mother, honored with the title of the Immaculate Heart.

The immediate response to the Sacred Heart encyclical was a large number of articles in newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals. In a personal survey, I found over 200 of them in English-language periodicals. The greatest number appeared before the Second Vatican Council, but they also increased in the late 1960s, when many authors felt such writings would meet the needs realized by the Co.unci!

Fathers.

In 1965, Pope Paul VI issued two Apostolic Letters on the Sacred Heart, stressing that this devotion reflects concilar ideas on the liturgy and church and urging that the faithful practice it especialIy through greater participation in the Eucharist.

In 1973-74, the Intl~rnational Institute of the Heart of Jesus was founded in Milwaukee as a worldwide facilitating organization for old and new forms of the devotion. It now has regional offices in Europe, Africa and South America.

Such movements as the International Institute, the Sacred Heart radio program, t.he Canadian "Messenger of the Sacred Heart," the Enthronement Program, and the Apostleship of Prayer report renewed interest in the devotion.

Because it is conne(:ted with the essence of our faith - especially with our response to God's love for us, shouldn't ~ou think about a valued place for it in your spiritual life,'

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Sisters aid clergy The following article is adapted from a French-language c0ntribution by Gerard Thmlblay to Sainte Anne de Beaupre magazine, published at Sainte Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada.

The Institute of the Servants of Our Lady, Queen of the Clergy was founded in 1929 lllt Lac-auSaumon, Quebec, when Bishop Georges Courchesne 01' the diocese of Rimouski lliuthorized Father Alexandre Bouillon, the first pastor of Lac-all-Saumon, to found a new congrElgation to serve in rectories and other religious institutions.

Father Bouillon cho.se MarieAnne Ouellet of St. Anaclet to be his cofounder. It was an inspired choice. She had been a teacher for over 20 years and had also from time to time been a rectory housekeeper.

She was a woman of faith, self-disciplined, a born leader, endowed with steadfastness and the spirit of obedien.ce; in a word, she possessed all the virtues necessary to steer a new community through difficult times. In her love of prayer she found strength to direct and bring her undertakings to a successful conclusion.

Today her communit~, numbers some 200 members at work in 40 rectories, bishops' houses and religious institutions in 13 Canadian and United Statel; dioceses.

In the Fall River diocese, sisters are stationed in three rectories: St. Anthony of Padua and Sacred Heart in New Bedford and St. Louis de France in Swansea.

But in 1929 such achievements were far in the future. MarieAnne, later known as Mother Marie de St. Joseph de l'Eucharistie, had as her first foundation the Lac-au-Saumon parish hall, converted into II cenacle.

There, on Dec. 8, 1929, she and four companions consecrated themselves to the Blessed Virgin.

The pioneers were Yvonne St. Laurent from Lac-au-Saumon, Antoinette Vallee from SainteAnne-des-Monts, Rose-Anna Fournier from Baie-des-Sables and Alvina Collin from Val d'Espoir.

Their first motto Vias "Dieu seul et Sa croix" (God alone and His cross) but in 1968 their watchword became "Mary was there."

The Servants of Our Lady, Queen of the Clergy b~long to a Marian and eucharistic: institute, in the sense that theil' model is Mary, who consecrated her life to the service of Jesus, the great High Priest.

Although the original purpose of the community was simply the provision of dom.estic service, its goals were broadened in the wake of the Vatic:an II decree "Perfectae Caritatis" (On the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life).

Since promulgation of the decree, one can no longl~r look at the charisma of religious congregations with the same eyes as before. The Council asked commullities to renew themselves according to the mind of their founders, adapting themselves to changed conditions.

Since Vatican II the collegial aspect of religious life has been stressed, meaning, in the case of the Servants of Our Lady, Queen of the Clergy, that community members now work as collaborators and associates of priests rather than as their servant.

While the sisters continue to take care of the domestic side

On its strength the sisters made their religious profession and established a novitiate. In 1943 they opened a home for the aged near their motherhouse.

In that same year, on June 18, they suffered the loss of their co-founder, Father ·Bouillon, who died unexpectedly at age 69.

Mother Marie de St. Joseph remained superior general for 21 years, dying at age 95.

We find this directive in her spiritual testament: "Be good and respectful to the priest . . .

Surround him with an atmosphere of prayer, sacrifice and silence."

She was succeeded in turn by Mother Marie de I'Eucharistie (Valeda Guindon), Mother Marie de Jesus Hostie (Bertha Leclerc) and Mother Madeleine Roy. The present Superior general, elected Aug. 5, 1980, is Mother Annette Lebel, sister of Bishop Robert Lebel of Valleyfield, Canada.

At various times our Lord gave important lessons to his apostles and disciples in what concern the service of others.

MOTHER ANNETTE LEBEL Once he told them: "The greatof rectory life, they are equally est one among you must be like ready to make their own "the the youngest, and the leader objectives of the Church in such must be like the servant. Who fields as these: the scriptural, is greater, the one who sits down liturgical, doctrinal, pastoral, to eat or the one who serves ecumenical, missionary, and so- him? The one who sits down, of cial" to use the words of "Per- course. But I am among you as one who serves." (Luke 22:27) fectae Caritatis."

The spirit of this directive is This brief reference to the broad directions of the Council sensed in the words inscribed is made for the benefit of young on the coat of arms of the Serwomen thinking seriously of con- vants of Our Lady, Queen of the secrating themselves to the ser- Clergy: "Etre la prier, servir" vice of the people of God in the ("To be present to pray and to religious life. (It might also be serve"). The same thought is noted that some proficiency in implied in the community's motthe French language is needed in to, previously mentioned: "Mary was there." this community).

To return to our historical narUnited in heart and mind to rative, it was on Feb. 14, 1936,· the grand and perpetual service that Bishop Courchesne deliver- of these sisters who strive to ed to the Lac-au-Saumon com- imitate Jesus and Mary in sermunity the rescript of approval ving the priests, we wish them from the Roman authorities that . numerous recruits. The people of constituted the new foundation God can only be the better for a religious institute. it!

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Dear Mary: Our daughter, age 30, lives and works in a city about 200 miles from here. She called me and told me that she was pregnant. She is unmarried.

This girl is amolllg the oldest of several children and has always been the one we could depend on. She has never given us any trouble.

She plans to put the baby up for adoption as she does not want it. I think this is wise if she really feels this way. She asked me to keep tllis a secret from her father and the other children.

I have given myself time before writing to you to try to accept her behavior, but I am nearly out of my mind with grief and worry. I also suspect this child could be biracial. This might make a child harder to place. Thoughts also haunt me that 20 years from now this secret could show up on our doorstep and my worries go on and on. - Missouri.

A. Thank you for sharing your feelings so honestly. You have expressed what many parents in similar circumstances have felt.

My first reaction is to admire your daughter. She is having a child under difficult circumstances. Being 30 and pregnant is probably even more difficult than being 16 and pregnant. She has already established her life

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and must now interrupt it. She changing. However, adoption has chosen not to rely on family workers and courts realize that support, and thus she is facing adoption always involves a trithis experience alone. angle: the biological mother (or How easily she could have parents), the adoptive parents gotten rid of her "problem" with and the child. The law must proan abortion. You would never tect the rights of all three.

While all adopted persons are have known. Obviously she values life enough to sacrifice her curious about their biological own convenience for the child heritage, very few turn this curiosity into a full-scale public she bears.

She has confided in you, show- search for their biologic,al paring she wants to share her prob- ents. Newspapers emphasize lems with her mother. In coping these stories for their human inwith her pregnancy she shows terest vahle.

In short, while I cannot promthe very qualities you admire in her. She is courageous and re- ise your daughter's chHd will sponsible. grow up in a wonderful home, I You raised several specific is- can assure you that many sues. First, your daughter does couples would like to make your not want the family to know. daughter's child their own to She is an adult. While it might love and raise to the best of their be easier for you to share this abilities.

While I cannot promise the problem with your husband and other children, your daughter child will not "turn up" in 20 has asked you to support her years, I can assure you the likeliby keeping quiet. Do so. hood is rather remote, and the Second, the child might be bi- law· is committed to protecting racial. Today a healthy biracial your daughter's right to secrecy.

Meditate on the great gift of infant is not hard to place. Only persons dealing with adoption life your daughter is giving angenerally realize how few babies other human being. Be proud that are available and how many the courage, strength, love and families want them. Many responsibility she demonstrates couples are not only willing, but must have been developed! in the eager to adopt a biracial infant. . secure and loving family where Your daughter's baby will be a she grew up. much wanted child.

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tutes, such as animal milk, sugar water or teas.

Into this sea of controversy have waded a number of Catholic groups, including several religious orders and a handful of dioceses backing the boycott of Nestle, the Swiss-based company accused of being the most aggressive marketer of infant formula while remaining free of U.S. stockholder pressure.

Nestle's critics charge that prepared infant formula sold by Nestle and other companies causes malnutrition and sometimes death to children because poor women frequently overdilute it or fail to keep it sanitary because they cannot afford the formula or understand its instructions.

In 1979 representatives of health organizations, governments and the baby food industry adopted a set of recommendations on breast feeding and infant nutrition at a meeting sponsored by the World Health Organization and the l,lnited Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

That led to the latest World Organization action, in which the United States was the lone dissenter in a 118-1 vote adopting the new code.

In the weeks leading up to adoption of the code, one of the issues was whether the critics' charges of Third World formula use could be substantiated. The industry and other opponents of

the code pointed to studie:; showing no "causative relationship" between marketing of infant formula and the decision not to breast-feed.

They also said the problems of infant malnutrition are much more profound than simply a question of breast-feeding or infant formula and remarkl~d that contaminated water which critics charge is mixed with formula also gets mixed with othE~r baby foods.

But industry critics roll out their own studies, one of which cites a relationship between promotion of substitutes, lower levels of breast-feeding and malnutrition in BraZil, Canada and Papua New Guinea.

They also cite horror stories, such as the recent repOlt of a Bangladesh family of 13 with a monthly income of $34 that was persuaded to bottle-feed its youngest at a monthly cost of $28.

The debate also has centered on the right to free market enterprise by infant formula producers. Nestle, as well as the three U.S. manufacturers of infant formulas - Bristol··Myers, Abbot Laboratories and American Home Products Corp. argued that the cod~'s prohibitions on advertising, \lromotional giveaways, sales inc~ntives and other restrictions would be a violation at least in the United States of antitrust laws and freedom of speech.

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OUR LADY OF HEALms' FALL RIVER A day of renewal and :l1ealing will be sponsored by thE: River of Life prayer community at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 28. Rev. Arthur T. DeMello will speak and Maria Rocha will conduct a heal~ ing service.

ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY The women's guilds of St. Margaret's and St. Mary Star of the Sea in Onset will hold their annual installation banquet· at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Windjammer restaurant, East Wareham. A Mass at St. Margaret's will precede the meal.

To be installed are Rita Lopes, president; Ruth Pope and Irene Gosselin, first and second vicepresidents; Cholace Lussier and Nancy Schofield, secretaries; Ursula Wing, treasurer.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Registrations are being accepted for a pre-schooler's, Bible class to be held in the church basement during 10 a.m. Sunday Masses this summer. Telephone 222-0399 or 399-8762.

ST. RITA, MARION Volunteers are sought to scrape and stain the church doors. Those able to he1p may call the rectory.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD A parish picnic is planned for Sunday, June 28, at Sacred Heart Seminary, Wareham, UndE!r sponsorship of the Men's League.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER Parish council officers for the coming year are Norman Berube, president; Lillian Daigle:, vicepresident; Claire Petrin, secretary.

ST. ANmONY OF PADUA, FALL RIVER The parish patronal feast will be celebrated this weekend and the Sacrament of the Sick will be administered today. A prosession and band conce,rt· will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday and the festival Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. Sunday, followed by band and orchestra music until 11 p.m.

ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA The annual parish picnic will take place Sunday, Aug. 30, at St. Vincent de Paul C~lmp. A planning meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 18.

The parish expresses appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Antone Miranda for the donation of the cost of sidewalk necessary to complete a ramp access to the church for the use of the handicapped.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN The parish council will meet at 7:30 tonight at the rectory.

A blood bank will take place in the church hall from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Volunteer aides should call Earl Faunce, 992-2061.

The Couples' Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28, in the hall.

Barbara Ward, a member of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission and an economist who was a leading advocate of aid to underdeveloped countries, died of cancer May 31 at her home in Lodsworth in southern England. She was 67.

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ARCHBISHOP Philip F. Smith, OMI, of Cotabato, NEW HAVEN, Conn. (NC) Philippines, will preside at The Knights of Columbus will an outdoor Mass and adminhelp build a new chapel and enistration of the Sacrament of large an existing one in the grotthe Sick at 2 p.m. Sunday at toes of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Supreme Knight La Salette Shrine, Attleboro.

Virgil C. Dechant has an- The choir of St. John the nounced.

Evangelist Church, AttleThe new chapel will be dedi- boro, directed by Scott Ancated to SS. Benedict, Cyril ana Methodius, co-patrons of Europe. derson, will sing.

Formerly of Lowell, the It will be established in an area adjoining the Polish chapel, archbishop has served in the which is dedicated to Our Lady Philippines since 1950. of Czestochowa, patroness of Poland and which will be en- . The andinting ceremony is open to patients in nurslarged.

The altar of the new chapel ing homes and to the general will be contructed of marble dis- public. Further information covered in the ruins of a basilica is available from the shrine. built by Emperor Constantine in the fourth century.

Sacred island ATHENS, Greece ~C) - The Greek Parliment has voted nearly unanimously to declare as sacred the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea. According to tradition, the island is the site where St. John the Evangelist wrote the Book of Revelation.

Made a life peer five years ago with the title Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, Miss Ward was once an assistant editor of the influential British weekly, The Economist, and at another time a governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Once called "the most lucid Cassandra of the Western World," Miss Ward appealed constantly to the developed nations of the northern hemisphere to help improve the economic condition of the poorer nations of the world in order to avert disaster.

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Evangelization is meeting topic Thousands of east coast, Puerto Rican and Virgin Island Catholics are expected to attend the third annual national Catholic Celebration of Evangelization, to be held the weekend of Aug. 21 through 23 at the Civic Center, Hartford, Conn.

Cosponsored by the Paulist Evangelization Center the Pallottine Fathers, with the archdiocese of Hartford as host, the celebration will bring together religious and laity committed to the cause of evangelization in the Catholic church.

The program will consider the definition of Catholic evangelism, the content of the gospel message and techniques of evangelization outreach.

Workshop topics will include alienated Catholics, street preaching and programs for youth, families, minorities, the elderly, and the handicapped.

Seminars will offer. training in use of mass media, music, liturgy and parish planning.

A pre-convention workshop on preaching skills will be open to priests and deacons.

Author of more than a dozen books, Miss Ward was at various times an unofficial adviser on foreign economic policy to President Lyndon Johnson, Albert Schweitzer professor of international economic development at Columbia University and president of the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development.

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Her book "The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations," published in 1962, analyzed the problems faced by the new nations of the Third World and described the critical role the West should play. "The first decision we have to make in facing these problems," she wrote, "is to abandon the fallacy that somewhere, somehow, everything is going to turn out all right."

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A parish that copes

By Lenore Kelly In a 1976 cover story on churches in America, Time magazine described St. Ignatius Parish, Hicksville, N.Y., as "the parish that hopes and copes."

St. Ignatius' drew national attention because it deliberates about where it is and where it wants to go as a parish.

While reviewing its annual financial report several years ago, the 20-member parish council noted with alarm an increasing gap between expenses and income. Former parish council chairman Joe Robinson recalls that discussion quickly led to questions on how and why money ~as being spent.

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Finally the council decided to occurred after World War II as set a three-year goal for reach- young families moved into new ing a balanced budget and com- single-family homes. ~s childmitted itself to setting priorities. ren grew up, however, many Father Frederic Harrer, the pas- moved away from the communtor, explains, "Before we could ity, causing the parish school to use the knife, we had to know drop from 1,400 students to 350. where we could insert it.

Planning meetings were held A planning committee with every two weeks and parishionrepresentatives from staff, ers were encouraged to attend. school, religious education and Some feared the closing of the human services began to study parish school, while others want~ issues. St. Ignatius also estab- ed more religious education for lished a support program to en- adults and public school childcourage parishioners to pledge ren.

Nonetheless, "if we got too a specific amount of money an- . taken up with things," explains nually.

At the time, St. Ignatius was Robinson, "we stopped, prayed an active middle-class suburban and got back on the path for the parish with some 3,000 families. good of the parish."

Its greatest period of growth had Turn to Page Thirteen II

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The seed of the future

By David Gibson

Articles that foretell the future hold a certain allure.

It seems there is a belief that the future is hidden in the present, that the future, in seed form, is growing now.

But anything that grows like a tree - develops in surprising ways. One tree suffers from drought,. another does not; one has a tree house built in its branches; one is struck by lightning; and so it goes.

It is similar with an individual's life or the life of a family.

Unanticipated needs and even a crisis (or two or three) are encountered. The future is unpredictable; it is 'shared and re-

shaped over the years as one urgent concern yields to another, as an old goal is succeeded by a new one.

Think of a couple married 50 years. Over those years, in unexpected ways, their financial status may have changed for better or worse. With this change might have come changed goals, changed hopes.

If the couple raised children, they affected them .in unpredicted ways. The couple learned more about themselves as they nurtured a childs unique personality and coped with family sickness or teen-age challenges. The relationship of this man and woman changed over the years,

perhaps for the better.

For the couple, planning for the future often meant planning for the unexpected; dreams were modified by real problems; and the reality of each moment was demanding.

Now I have a question. Does it make sense to plan, to try to assure the outcome of life's events, when the element of surprise is always on the horizon? Maybe. Consider: 1. The present moment in life may carry notes of warning, a call for action that will contribute to one's future. For married couples, for families, for close friends, this may be a call to Turn to page thirteen

Steve's Meat Market

By Father John J. Castelot

Whether to eat meat originally used in pagan sacrifices is hardly a modern problem, but it was a very real question for the Christian community in first century Corinth. The principles Paul formulated in answering the question are relevant in any age.

People brought meat to the temple to be offered in sacrifice to idols. Some meat went to the priests on the temple staff, but since they could not eat it all themselves, they sold the surplus to the local butchers.

This posed a problem for some Christians of tender con-

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science. Could they continue to patronize Steve's Meat Market and take a chance on buying meat sacrificed to a pagan god?

Wouldn't they, in some way, be partaking in that sacrifice?

Paul refers to Christians who react in this way as "the weak," not because their faith is weak, but because they are easily disturbed by scruples of conscience.

He addresses this problem in the first letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 8, beginning by taking up the position of "the strong" - those not quite so scrupulous.

Paul agrees that all know the eating of such meat is quite indifferent morally. But in the

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Christian life, knowing is not the supreme rule, love is.

"Whereas 'knowledge' inflates, love upbuilds." If a person simply knows something without infusing his knowledge with Christian love and consideration, "that means he has never known it as he ought."

Applying this principle, he admits Christians know that idols are nonentities and that meat sacrificed to them is really sacrificed to nothing, therefore, is unaffected by the sacrificial act.

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By Father Philip Mumion

Daily life has a way of consuming all one's attention.

There's so much to do, and so little time to do it! In the rush of events, it is easy to lose sight of what we are really doing, and why. You might say the big picture tends to get lost in the shuffle.

People don't always keep their goals and their purposes clearly in mind.

We've made powerful automobiles only to find that we often neither need nor want all that power. We raced to place men on the moon. But were the reasons clear or' did people get caught up in the idea that it could be done, therefore it should be done.

I think most people find themselves, sometimes, in the awkward position of wondering why they are doing something or what difference it will make.

Habit, convention or life's fast pace take over, and little space is left to reflect on an individual's goals, 'a family's hopes or a parish's role.

It seems, however, that people make a larger effort when they are clear about just why they are doing something. Family members, for instance, need to talk about their goals, try to understand each other better and work together. It is similar with parishes.

Many parishes are making an effort to spell out their purpose assessing the needs, considering responsibilities, reflecting on the meaning of the parish in light of the Gospel.

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Based on such reflection, the parish can list its goals and priorities, considering its resources in terms of people, talent, money, etc.

In doing this a parish asks many questions: â&#x20AC;˘ 1. Is work for greater unity needed? Is there a need to recognize the value of diversity in the parish, to put it to work for the. parish?

2. Is more profound faith needed? Do we need to concentrate on how faith pertains to our lives as family members, students, employers, employees, or parents?

3. Is improved parish worship a need? What does this involve?

4. Should the parish work to extend the community of Sunday Mass into the daily lives of parishioners?

5. Do the elderly need special attention? Do other groups?

As parishes clarify their goals, they often find they no longer want to carry out progr~lms without asking what their purposes are. They get specific in spelling out ways of accomplishing their purposes. For instance, if a parish wants to strengthen community, it seeks practical ways of achieving this.

The mission of the parish is the mission of Christ and his church. But it is carriE!d out in a particular time and place and among particular people. So the ways in which parisne:; achieve their goals may differ. .

At times, parishes' find their planning is brought ilown to earth when they consider their Turn to Page Thirteen

A Verdade E A Vida Dirlgida llelo Rev. Edmond Rego

santissima Trindade Todo aquele que se quiser salvar, antes de tudo e preciso que professe a fe catolica ... Esta e a fe catolica: que veneremos urn so Deus na Trindade, e a Trindade ~a unidade. Assim come~a um dos mais ar..tigos simbolos, resumos doutrinais, da Igreja Catolica: 0 Sim~ bolo Atanasiano, que ao lange de quarenta proposi~5es, nos fala do misterio sa SSe Trindade. o misterio de Tres Pessoas distintas e urn so Dems verdadeiro encontrase revelado no Novo Testamento.

Quandq 0 Arcanjo Gabriel apresenta a Nossa Senhora a mensagem do Ceu a .anunciar-lhe que ela tinha side escolhida para Mie de Deus, fala claramente das Tres Pessoas: Jesus Cristo, a Segunda Pessoa encarnada, e Filho· do Altissimo, do Pai, e seri concebido por obra e gra~a do Divino Espirito Santo.

Quando Jesus se apresenta nas margens do Jordio para ser baptizado pelo Precursor de ~ovo se manifesta este misterio: 0 Filho submete-se ao rito do Baptismo; 0 Pai faz ouvir a Sua voz Este e 0 Meu Filho amado em Quem tenho a Minhas complacencias; 0 Espirito San' to desce sobre Jesus na forma duma porn' ba.

E ao fazer aos Apostolos as ultima: recomenda~5es antes de subir ao ceu manda-os baptizar em Nome do Pai, do Filho e do Espirito Santo.

A n~ssa pequenez nio logra compreender tao profundo misterio: Tres Pessoas distintas e um so Deus verdadeiro. o nosso Deus nio e alguem distante, impessoal. ~ uma familia divina; e uma Comunidade de Vida e de AIDor. ~ E 0 que e mais maravilhoso para no~ e que Deus quis fazer-nos participantef da Sua propria vida e felicidade. A g ra 9 a torna-nos filhos de Deus. E somOf chamados a contempli-l'O face a face eternamente no Ceu. _ Toda a vida cristi decorre em uniic com aSS. Trindade: 0 Pai criou-nos e colocou ao nosso dispor toda a cria~io: o Filho resgatou~nos do pecado; 0 Divino Espirito Santo habita em nossoa cora ~oes como num t:emplo, para nos ensinar a viv~r como f11hos de Deus.

Desde a nossa entrada na Igreja ao sermos baptizados, ate i nossa partida deste mundo, dE~pois de exalarmos 0 ultimo suspiro, ::azemo-lo em nome das Tres Divinas Pessoas. o misterio da SSe Trindade e uma i spira~io para a nossa vida de filhos d Deus.

Manifestemos ainda 0 nosso amor i SSe Trindade adorando-A em nosso cora9io. Saudemo-l'A ao levantar, repetind a ora9ao dos anojos fieis: Serviam, Se virei! Mantenhamo-nos fieis i Sua von tade no meio das pteocupa~5es do nosso dia. Rezemos dl:votamente a ora9io que Anjo de Portugal ensinou aos Pastorinh de Fitima. "Santissima Trindade, Pai, Filho e Espiri'::o santo, ad.oro-Vos profundamente ... " Recordemos a grandeza do nosso Deu na maravilha da cria9ao. Que a contemp ~ao deste misb~rio nos ajude a um diilc .go continuo com Ele.

Steve's Continued from page twelve Still, the associations of a lifetime are hard to shake. Even though people may be convinced of something intellectually, emotions can block the complete carrying out of that knowledge.

The more scrupulous have associated these foods with pagan worship all their lives and even though they now know better, on an emotional level, they remain uneasy.

Again, Paul agrees with the more assured Christians. Food does not bring us closer to God, he points out. We suffer no loss from failing to eat the meat, and we gain no favor by eating it.

But the scrupulous still suffer pangs of conscience about it.

Love demands that we spare them that pain.

Many social and civic affairs in Corinth involved celebrations in the temple. Absolutely speaking, that is all they were - social and civic. But scrupulous persons were put on the spot. If they refused to participate, their pagan relatives and friends would be hurt and could point to the fact that other Christians were joining the festivities.

Accordingly, Paul asks the stronger Christians not to put the more scrupulous brothers and sisters in an embarrassing bind. "When you sin thus against your brothers and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ."

For Paul, the community was, quite simply, Christ. To hurt the community or anyone of those "for whom Christ died," is to sin against Christ.

Seed Continued from Page Twelve listen carefully to each other, to spend more time together, to clarify each other's aspirations so that people who are close can continue to grow together.

2. The present moment in life may carry clues or hints about the future. Clues about future possibilities are found in present events that shape our values, challenge our thinking and perhaps, at times, even frighten us.

Hints of ways to plan are heard when we feel a strong need to pay close attention to our own lives, to ask what sort of person we've become.

The truth, it seems to me, is that the future grows in the midst of present events. But the future will be surprising, nonethe less. The future cannot be looked up now, but it makes sense to plan for it.

Big Picture Continued from page twelve budgets. When it comes to keeping plans in focus, it also helps to consider what staff members might be needed if a proposed objective is actually to be accomplished.

What does a parish want to be? In many ways, the answer seems obvious. Yet many parishes have found that it helps to ask the question; to spell out ways of being the People of God here and now.

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Again, Paul gives no orders.

He leaves the decision up to the Corinthians, citing his own behavior as a model: "Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not be an occasion of sin to him."

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Copes Continued from page twelve Finally the planning committee and the parish council drew up a statement on priorities, mailing copies to parishioners. The carefully considered document incorporates parish hopes and goals under the interrelated areas of worship, Christian service and religious ed~cation.

Prayer groups, retreats, sacramental preparation, lectors, ushers, eucharistic ministers and liturgical p.lanning come under the heading of worship. Service areas' encompass youth activities, parish visitations and groups such as right-to-life and the human service center for the needy.

Youth education, parish lectures, adult discussion groups and workshops come under the religious education heading.

The parish's priorities have guided decision making. The school remains open with the number of classes reduced to conform with smaller enrollments. A second person has been added to the human service center. Through responsible budget cuts and somewhat increased contributions, the goal of a balanced budget draws near.

According to the pastor, the priorities continue to refocus staff members and according to Robinson, a better feeling about parish unity emerged during the long planning period. "People got involved in the issues and saw there was concern for the whole parish operation," he says.

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PATRICIA RODRIGUES, 17 (left), number one in the Bishop Stang graduating class and recipient of two $500 grants, is also one of 35 students selected nationwide to participate in a seven-year Brown University program leading to a medical degree. She has been active in extracurricular programs at Stang while taking college credit biology courses at Southeastern Massachusetts University. She credits Mrs. Teresa Dougall (right), Stang science department chairperson, with sparking her interest in medicine.

"But for her," she said, "I would not have been accepted at Brown." (Sr. Gertrude Gaudette Photo)

THIS SONG has broken into the national top 10. Its message' parallels Winwood's own rise in music: "While you see a chance take it;" find out where it will lead.

Life's full of opportunities. Deciding how to use them requires insight and courage.

By Charlie Martin

WHILE YOU SEE A CHANCE Stan~ up in a elear blue morning Until you see what ean be Alone In a eold day dawning Are you sOO free Can you be?

When some eold tomorrow filfils you When some sad old dream reminds you How the endless road unwinds you.

While you see a chanee take it Fina romance, take it Because it's all on you Don't you know by now No one gives you anything And don't you wonder How you keep on moving One more day Your way, on your way.

When there's no one left to leave you Even you don't quite believe you That's when nothing can deceive you.

While you see a chance take it Find romance, fake it

Written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings (e) 1981

by Fantasy Songs Ltd. (PRS), Irving Musie., Blue Sky Rider Songs

We live in one world, on one earth, and all who inhibit it are related and play a role in its destiny.

Although the world is basically a good place, it is plagued by poverty, dissension, conflict, disease and suffering - and yet this need not be. Human actions are at the root of most inequity and injustice; and human decisions could change the world into a better place.

If this is to happen there has first to be a better understanding between peoples, and second a revolutionary change in attitudes and policies. Without changes in our thinking, in our institutions, in the relationships between rich and poor, there is little hope for either rich or the poor.

I hope that the majority of students leaving college and university this year have developed understanding and concern for how half the world's population lives. One gets tired of hearing people say, "We'll always have the poor."

But a student graduating this year said "The use of force by the oppressed against their oppressors seems to be the object of condemnation, while represion of society by recognized governments goes uncriticized."

What are they talking about this year at commencement ex· ercises?

I think we should tell youth that there is hope for the world if we accept that small people matter and make a difference.

That problems can be overcome if we address ourselves to their underlying causes of poverty and inequity. That the poor nations need to help themselves and con· tribute substantially to their own development.

We got rid of one kind of slavery. Surely it is possible in the next few decades to rid the world of its modern ·slavery.

There is only one earth. Our institutions must help us to see the woods by means of the trees, and not just the trees. Our students must be prepared for the responsibilities of community and national participation and leadership and must learn to act in other-regarding as well as self-regarding ways.

We must stop the killing and the destruction of earth. All things are sublime and created

by God and who are we to con· tinue on this mad binge of killing?

CoyIe-Cassidy The first annual alumni reunion for graduates of St. Mary's, Coyle, Cassidy and Coyle-Cassidy will be held Saturday, June 20, at the Taunton school. The oldest alumnus ex· pected is Edward Slattery of Fall River, described as a spry 86year old. Further information on the event is available from the school office, 923-6164.

Student council officers for the upcoming year are Frank Biedak, president; Ashley Wh.itehouse, vice-president; Richalie Enos, secretary; Cheryl Allen, treasurer.

For instance, an educational program in another state might seem very attractive, but fear of a new environment and new people might keep some people from entering it. We need not pretend to be fearless, but we should not let fear run our lives.

It can help if we talk over our fears with those close to us.

Winwood loses an important perspective, however, when he sirtgs: "Find romance, fake it." ·Love cannot be faked and be true. Doors only open and stay open if we relate in authentic ways to others. No matter what we want, we must -first be our true selves. Masks and false fronts eventually fade.

Today Christians need more courage than ever. We need to help each other find the courage, for example, to confront society's decision makers on the issues of world hunger, human rights or the madness of building more nuclear arms.

Winwood asks: "Are you still free?" Freedom when our actions are based on solid, cherished values. Such are the values of the Gospel.

FATHER JOHN J. OLIVEIRA directs a living rosary ceremony at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, New Bedford.

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portsWQtch Of Success and Happiness At Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, happiness in scholastic sports is thE! result of success on the track, baseball and golf fronts.

In track, the Cougars: boast the state division C champion in the 100-yard run. Andy Re:illy is that champion. He earned the gold medal by running· that distance ,in 10.2 seconds.

Additionally Andy has set three new school re<:ords this season and shares in another.

New are his 10.1 seconds for the 100-yard run, 42 feet 11 % inches in the triple jump, and 20 feet 10Y2 inches in the long jump. He shares with Rich Turcotte, Brooks Hawkins and Cary Emond the 4x110 relay school record of 47.2 seconds.

Further evidence of Andy's versatility and consistency is his performance in the Southeastern Mass. Conference Div:ision meet at Case High School, where he

was first in the triple jump, 100yard dash and shared first place with his running mates in the 4x110 relay. So, for Andy and coach Brother Michael Barnaby, F.I.C. that is happiness.

For first year coaches Don Chouinard and Fern Letendre and their Cougar athletes happiness comes with success in other sports. Don piloted the Connolly baseball team to a 17-3 season, the best ever at the school, and a berth in the Eastern Mass. Division Two playoffs.

Under Fern's guidance, the Connolly golfers posted their first-ever winning season seven wins, two losses and one tie - and also for the first time qualified for the Eastern Mass. Division Three tournament. The Cougar players are scheduled to compete with seven other schools today at the Bass River Country Club on the Cape.

Canton Hockomock All-Sports. Champion Competing in all the Hockomock league's 17 sports except soccer, Canton High School was the winner of the league's 1981 All-Sports Trophy with 109 points for an average of 6.813 points.

Next in order WerE! Foxboro 6.107, Oliver Ames f).092 , No. Attoelrbo 5.724, Stoughton 5.394, Sharon 5.019, King Philip 4.676, Mansfield 4.500, Franklin 4.147.

Canton was the champion in football, field hockey, indoor track, ice hockey, gymnastics and girls' tennis. Foxboro's titles were in soccer, girls' basketball and baseball.

No. Attleboro took girls' crosscountry, boys' track and girls' track titles while Oliver Ames it> golf and boys' basketball champion. Sharon won the boys' tennis crown.

Miscellaneous Notes Joan Smith, New Bedford High, with a leap of 17 feet 10 inches won the state's 1981 long jump championship in the AllState Track Meet at Gardiner last weekend.

Jane Sullivan of the Somerset High School tennis t,eam com-

piled an enviable 17-3 record during regular season play. Her record is the more impressive because it was posted while playing second singles on an otherwise all-boys' team and against boys' teams.

ANDY REILLY, right, with Brother Michael Barnaby, FIC, Connolly track and cross-country coach.

tv, mOVIe news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation!: C-condemned.

Films & TV "Cheaper to Keep Her" (American Cinema): A divorce lawyer (Tovah Feldshuh) hires a private investigator (Mac Davis) who is newly divorced himself in this vulgar attempt at romantic comedy. The humor comes at the expense of homosexuals and Hispanic Americans. C, R. "Kill and KiD Again" (Film Ventures): A m!lrtial arts master (James Ryan) is hired to rescue a scientist from a villain who will use his discovery to control the world in this simple-minded melodrama from South Africa.

Despite the title, the violence is stylized. A3, PG.

"Death Hunt" (Fox): Melodrama, set in Canada in the early 30s,pits Lee Marvin as a grizzled Mountie against Charles Bronson as a wrongly accused fugitive, both loaded with respect for each other as the last of the old breed. The real bad guys are headed by Ed Lauter as a vicious killer. Because violence and rough language, it is A3, R. "Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I" (Fox): This buffoonish tour through history resembles an exceptionally vulgar home movie. As if unremitting vulgarity were not bad enough, there is also morally offensive material, including sequences about persecution of Jews by the Spanish Inquisition and Brooks as a waiter at the Last Supper.

C, R. "Polyester" (New Line): This is a burlesque saga of the' sorrows of Francine Fishpaw, an overweight suburban matron played by a .female impersonator who styles himself Divine.

Tab Hunter plays the man who seems to be the answer to Francine's dreams. Because of its homosexual aspect, "Polyester" is classified B,R. "Sea Wolves" (ParamOUDlt): 1\ group of overage and overweight British civilians resident in India during World War II steal into the neutral harbor of Goa to destroy !l German freighter which has been broadcasting information on Allied shipping to submarines in this movie based upon an actual incident. Unfortunately, unusual material has become a conventional movie which focuses not on the gallantry of the amateurs but on the derring-do of intelligence agents Gregory Peck and Robert Moore. Violence, nudity and moral ambiguity give it A3, PG ratings.

"The Four seasons" (Universal): Covers a year in the lives of three couples who are such good friends that they take vacations and long weekends together. We look in on them on one of these communal recreations during each of the seasons, a schematic touch characteristic of the movie.

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If you're looking for a few laughs and don't mind the film's pretensions to be some thing more than a superior sitcom, you might want to give it a try.

Because of mature theme and treatment, including vulgarity and profanity, it is rated A3, PG.

"Beyond the Reer' (Universal): A South Pacific idyll about a Polynesian boy and his shark.

Tikoyo and Diana, a rich man's daughter, are childhood friends.

When she returns after an American education, he wins her love despite machinations of her brother and unscrupulous promoters. The shark helps out by lunching on some of the villains.

But nothing really matters in this otherwise amateurish little movie save some remarkable underwater photography showing Tikoyo and Diana romping with a 16-foot shark. Because of partial nudity and the lovers' relationship, it gets A3, PG ratings.

"Cattle Annie and Little Britches" (Universal): Two runaway teen-agers (Amanda Plummer and Diane Lane) become outlaw groupies and inspire an aging gang to strive to live up to its legend in this contrived Western that tries to be as cute as its title. The sexual aspect of the relationship is fudged for the most part and though some people get killed, the bodies are whisked away fast. Because of violence and the ambiguous relationship of the young girls and their outlaw buddies, the film gets A3, PG ratings.

"Happy Birthday to Me" (Columbia): Another simple-minded Canadian horror movie, nauseating to no purpose. Melissa Sue Anderson is a disturbed young student at an exclusive school whose friends start disappearing. The climax is her birthday party, at which they all show up rather the worse for wear.

Because of gore and violence, this is classified B, R.

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SSe PETER & PAUL, FALL RIVER Kindergarteners wiII graduate at 7 tonight in a church ceremony.'

A school games day will be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Pulaski Park.

A soundproof crying room has been installed in the church for use of parents with infants.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-Thur., June 11, 1981

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OUR LADY OF LOURDES, TAUNTON The annual parish fiesta will take place on the church grounds this weekend, highlighted by a procession at 1 p.m. Sunday.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Fellowship members will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 18, for Mass and an evening of recollection 'conducted by Father Stephen Salvador.

Parish youth group members will be aides at a social hour to follow a Mass for the handicapped planned for 1 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at Bishop Connolly High School.

DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, NEW BEDFORD Members of Action group of Hyacinth Circle 71 will be coffee hour hostesses following a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Knights of Columbus Hall. A program on meat selection will be offered and a business session will be held. Guests are welcome.

EDMUNDITE CENTER, MYSTIC, CONN. A variety of retreat programs in an island setting are offered by the Edmundite Fathers and Brothers on Enders Island. Programs are available for individuals and groups, including offerings for charismatics, single persons and married couples. Further information is available from the center at Enders Island, Mystic, Conn. 06355.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD Gratitude is expressed to the parish Couples' Club for a donation of $500, used for purchase of a filmstrip projector.

DISTRICT I, DIOCESAN COUNCIL A wedding gown selection night in preparation for a fall wedding style show to be sponsored by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women wiII take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. John of God parish center, Somerset.

District I DCCW members will be hostesses for a social hour to follow a Mass for the handicapped Saturday, June 20, at Bishop Connolly High School.

Pastry donations may be brought to the school by noon of that day.

DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, SOMERSET St. Patrick Circle will hold a day of recollection for members and families from noon to 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 28, at the Dominican novitiate, Elm Street, Dighton. Participants should bring lunch. Beverages will be served.

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BRomERS' ASSEMBLY, CHESTNUT HILL "A Point of Turning: The Brothers in the 80s" will be the theme of the 10th annual Assembly of Religious Brothers, to be held from Thursday, June 18. through Sunday, June 21, at Boston College. The keynote speak· er, Brother Martin He]]dorfer, will speak on "The Changing Church - the Changing Self" and Father Thomas Groome will discuss "The Changing Brother."

Interest groups will consider vocations, teen ministry, sexuality, community, justice, formation, spirituality, new ministry and social analysis. Further information is available from Brother Sebastian . Barresi, CFX, 704 Brush Hill Rd., Milton.

DEAF APOSTOLATE, FALL RIVER DIOCESE A bus trip to the JFK Memorial Library, Boston, will take place from 9 ·a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27.

The Deaf Apostolate office will be closed from July 12 through 25 as Father Joseph Viveiros attends a conference of the International Catholic Deaf Assn. and other staff members take courses at Gallaudet Co]]ege for the deaf, both in Washington, D.C. HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER A Mass of thanksgiving at 10 a.m. Sunday will be fo]]owed by an appreciation breakfast for Sister Barbara Walsh, for the past 12 years principal of Holy Name School anc~ for five previous years a faculty member.

She is being honored as she leaves for a period of service in Appalachian missions.

Parish children in grades one through eight are invited to try out for "The Music Man" at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the school.

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GUILD FOR BLIND, NEW BEDFORD New officers are Florida Arsenault, president; Emile Arsenault, vice-president; Diane Pigeon, treasurer; Genevieve Foley and Lillian LeBlanc, secretaries.

Father Marc Bergeron is chaplain.

SEPARATED & DIVORCED, NEW BEDFORD The ~ew Bedford area support group meets at 7:30 p.m. each Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford.

June programs will offer a lit· urgy this Sunday, fo]]owed by coffee and conversation; a talk

by Judy Perreira on being a single parent, June 21; and a discussion of budgeting for the divorced by William Thiberge of the trust department of the First National Bank, New Bedford.

Information on a New England regional conference for separated and divorced persons, to be held Aug. 1 and 2 at the University of New England, Biddeford, Me., is available from Edward Holleran, 996-8275.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Prayers to St. Anthony will be offered at all Masses this week in preparation for the 75th anniversary of his death on Saturday, when a feastday Mass will be offered at 8:30 a.m., fo]]owed by distribution of St. Anthony's bread.'

New Women's Guild officers are Celia McLendon, president; Irma Emond, vice-pre'sident; Alice Gauthier, .secretary; Sally Grygiel, registrar.

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