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10 ARGUMENTS AGAINST ABORTION: The 10 children of Conrad and Florence Desroches of St. Francis Xavier parish, Acushnet, gather with their parents around pastor Father Paul J. Price, SS.CC., after he baptized the newest family member, Seth, born April 15.

The others are Rebecca, 12; Virginia, II; Joshua, iO; Eli, 9; Katie, 7; Samuel, 6; Elizabeth, 4; Rachel, 3; and Noah, 2. Come September, seven Desrocheses will be at St. Francis Xavier School. (Louise Desroches photo)

2 high court路rulings Abortion debate is refueled WASHINGTON (NC) - In two major decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court added new fuel to the national debate over abortion and the related issue ofthe rights of hand icapped newborns.

And in Denver, delegates to the convention of the National Right to Life Committee were courted by prospective Republican presidential candidates who decried the court's actions on abortion In the first decision, the Supreme Court June 9 threw out federal regulations by the Reagan administration which had demanded medical treatment for severely handicapped newborns.

The regulations were developed after the 1982 death of a Bloomington, Ind., infant boy born with Down's syndrome. The case, which came to be known as Baby Doe, gained national attention because the infant's parents denied permission for surgery to open a blocked esophagus.

In its 5-3 ruling, the court said that withholding treatm~nt from a

handicapped newborn does not violate federal antidiscrimination laws because parents, not the hospital, decide what medical care babies receive.

Father Edward Bryce, director ofthe U.S. bishops'OfficeforProLife Activities, said the decision never faced the key issue: "whether federal. law protects the child's not the parents' right to be free from discrimination."

Two days later the court in a 5-4 vote struck down a Pennsylvania law regulating abortion and reaffirmed its landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

The Pennsylvania law required that women be provided information on abortion, its risks, and fetal development. It also required detailed physician reports, use of the abortion method most likely to result in a live birth and the presence of a second doctor to help save the fetus.

Justice Harry Blackmun, writing the court's majority opinion,

said that "few decisions are more personal and intimate" than a woman's decision on abortion.

"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies," said Blackmun, who also wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 abortion case.

Three justices who dissented, however, urged the court to reconsider Roe vs. Wade. The harshest criticism came from Justice Byron White, who called the court's record on abortion "fundamentally misguided since its inception."

Many abortion opponents pointed to the narrow 5-4 vote as evidence that the court may be close to reconsidering or even overturning Roe vs. Wade.

Father Thomas L. Rita, diocesan director of the Pro-Life Apostolate, said: "The Supreme Court's June 11 decision striking down Pennsylvania abortion regulations Turn to Page Eleven

MINNEAPOLIS (NC) - The U.s. church is simultaneously experiencing a crisis in vocations to the priesthood and religious life and a "vocation's explosion" in lay ministries, said Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Bishop Malone spoke at a news conference in Minneapolis followinga June 9-16 meeting of the U.S. bishops at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn. Among those present was Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

The Collegeville meeting, which focused entirely on vocations, was termed "kind of like an executive retreat" by Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala., who. joined Bishop Malone at the news conference. No press coverage of the meeting was allowed.

Archbishop Lipscomb chaired the bishops' committee which organized the meeting, attended by 259 bishops.

Bishop Malone said the bishops recognized "that there is a crisis in vocations to the priestly and religious life." .

A presentation by Bishop Lawrence Welsh of Spokane, Wash., documented the shortage of priests, Bishop Malone said.

Bishop Welsh's presentation, released at the news conference with other presentations made to the bishops in Collegeville, points out the increasing number of U.S. Catholics and the declining number of priests.

"On the other hand," his presentation said, "if you believe ... that now the laity are being called to

their rightful baptismal postitions, you may see a vocation explosion happening today."

Bishop Malone told reporters that discussion of the priest shortage "does not provide for solutions which are contrary to current church law."

"Consideration will not begiven to the ordination of married men, women priests" or a return to active ministry by laicized priests, he said. . Bishop Malone pointed to several "encouraging signs that the (vocation) crisis may be able to be turned around."

While priests in the 1970s were not enthusiastic about their lives and work, he said, a more positive attitude is being expressed today that will serve to attract young men to the priesthood.

The heart of the eight-day conference; Bishop Malone said, was contained in five major presentations, including the presentation

by Bishop Welsh, and a summation given by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago.

Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic pronuncio to the United States, also addressed the bishops.

A presentation by Archbishop Daniel路Pilarczyk of Cincinnati on the ordained ministries "provoked the most hearty response," Bishop Malone said.

Other presentations were given by: - Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, on a theology of vocations.

- Bishop Raymond A. Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., on lay vocations.

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By NC News Service Foreign and domestic church leaders criticized South Africa's declaration of a state of emergency to forestall demonstrations commemorating a black student uprising, and expressed concern for the continuing violence in the country.

At least eight blacks were killed in clashes on the June 16 anniversary date. Millions of black workers went on strike to mark, I0 years since the uprising in Soweto, a township outside Johannesburg.

In June 12 raids, South African security forces arrested scores of church and human rights activists, including a top official of the South African bishops' conference. The authorities also have severely restricted press coverage ofthe crackdown.

Two members of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate were expelled from South Africa June 17. Thirteen Oblates were arrested June 12, including II seminarians.

Pope John Paul II prayed for South Africans injured in the violence; US bishops' president Bishop James Malone urged US pressure on South Africa to release detainees; CardinalJean-Marie Lustiger of Paris called South Africa a "sick" country; and London Cardinal George Basil Hume called on the British government to press the white-ruled nation for reforms.

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Cardinal's Lebanon visit raises hope for hostages' Among five Americans held hosBEIRUT, Lebanon (NC) - Cardinal John O'Connor of New York tage, reportedly by the Moslem visited Beirut in his role as presi- group Islamic Jihad, is Servite dent of the Catholic Near East Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, Welfare Association amid reports director of Catholic Relief Servthat he was also there to promote ices in Beirut. efforts to free Americans taken The kidnapped priest's ~ister, hostage in Lebanon.

Mae Mihelich, said June 16 that Cardinal O'Connor met with she hoped Cardinal O'Connor's President Amin Gemayel June 14 visit would be "the little key that's and later told reporters that he had going to open the door for Father offered to do whatever he could to Jenco." help free the U.S. hostages, includ- , Hostage family representatives ing visiting Syria or Moslem-conmet with Cardinal O'Connor in trolled west Beirut.

But the cardinal said he would May. "He said that when the time not interfere in any negotiations was ripe, he would go," said Mrs. already under way to free the hos- Mihelich, of Joliet, Ill. "I think tages and called his JUile 14-16 Cardinal O'Connor's going there visit ",purely pastoral," sponsored is going to make it a little bit by the papal nuncio, the Lebanese smoother. Even if he can't be sucMaronite patriarchate and the cessful, the 'try' is there. Then we'l try something else." pontifical mission.

Catholic Observer editor dies in W. Springfield A Mass of Christ the High Priest will be offered at 7:30 tonight in the chapel of the Dominican Monastery of the Mother of God in West Springfield for Msgr. David P. Welch, 60, editor in chief of The Catholic Observer, newspaper of the Springfield diocese.

Msgr. Welch died unexpectedly on Tuesday. '., . Tonight's liturgy will be followed at 10 tomorrow morning by the Mass of Christian Burial, also at

the monastery chapel. Interment will be in St. Thoqlas Cemetery, West Springfield.

Editor in chief since 1959, Msgr.

Welch was also chaplain at the Dominican monastery.

A Springfield native, he was ordained in 1950. Before assuming his editorship, ,he· was associate pastor at several parishes and was director of a parochial school. He was named a monsignor in 1964.

Father Richard Wolf, SJ Some 100 Jesuit and diocesan priests and hundreds of Bishop Connolly High School students and parents crowded Holy Name Church, Fall River, on Tuesday for the Mass of Christian Burial offered for Father RichardJ. Wolf, SJ, 51, who died June II. Born in Rockville Center, Long Island, NY, he was the son of the late Charles A. Wolf Sr. and Marie (Rooney) Wolf. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1954 and was ordained in I967,joining the Bishop Connolly faculty in 1968.

Father Wolf, who held master's degrees in philosophy, English" classics and divinity, taught English and religion at Bishop Connolly and from 1975 to 1979 was the school principal. At the time of his death he was director ofalumni and assistant director of development while remaining a teacher of religion. The 1986 graduating class dedicated its yearbook to him.

He was active in academic organizations and in Fall River civic affairs, •serving on many boards and being among founding J'Ilembers of the city's Re-Creation program. He was a director of the' Greater Fall River Association for Retarded Citizens and was"also a supporter of the former Nazareth Hall School for exceptional children. ) The n()milist at TuesdaY'8-"rvIass .. was, Rev. James A.Benson, SJ" redo: ofthe Connolly Jesuit'com- . munity. Taking as his theme the

Gospel of Matthew read at the liturgy, he said that Father Wolf exemplified the Gospel directives to feed the hungry and. welcome the stranger. ' Principal celebrant for the Mass was Very Rev. Robert E. Manning, SJ, New England provincial· superior for the Society of Jesus.

The condolences of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, in Collegeville, Minn., for a meeting of the U.S. bishops, were brought to the congregation

by Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, pastor of Holy Name Church and dean of the Fall River deanery of the diocese.

Father Wolf is survived by a brother, Charles Wolf of RO,ckville Center, and a sister, Joan Reimer, of St. James, N.Y.

MARCIA MEDEIROS

The tops in teens

By Joseph Motta Four Cape Cod Catholic teenagers have been named among Outstanding Young Church Women of 1986 by Church W.omen United in the USA, an ecumenical movement with a chapter on the Cape.

Beth Arnold of St. John the Evangelist parish, Pocasset; Marcia Medeiros of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis; Nancy Moran of Holy Trinity parish, West Harwich; and Sara Northup of Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, were the four Catholics among the 13 young women honored, according to Bonnie Goodwin of West Yarmouth, chapter president. . "They're Christian examples to other teenagers," Ms. Goodwin said. She added' that the girls had been nominated for the honor by women's groups in their respective churches.

Marilyn Lariviere, an active Church Women United member, said a goal of recognizing the young women, "all quite visible in their own churches," was to bring them together in "an ecumenical sense."

The Anchor had the opportunity to speak with Marcia Medeiros and Sara Northup in depth. The other two young women could not be reached for comment. .

"I was looking at my involvements the other day and I realized they're all Church-related!" Marcia said.

The Hyannis resident, a recent graduate of Barnstable High School, plans to major in elementary education at Bridgewater State College this fall.

The 17-year-old has taught second grade CCD for two years and

Sr. Marie Bernard Funeral rites took place Monday at Blessed Sacrament Convent, Fall River, for Sister Marie Bernard Lemaire, SSJ, 73, who died June 13. '

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A Fall River native, the daughter of the late Anthime and Eugenie (Bastien) Lemaire, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1930. After 13 years in France, she returned to Fall River in 1·946, serving in Sf: Jean Baptiste and Blessed Sacrament parishes'in the city and in St. Michael's parish, Ocean Grove, until she retired in 1981.

Her survivors include t'wo brothers, Henri Lemaire, Clearwater, Fla., and Joseph Lemaire, Newport, RI. .

has participated in St. Francis Xavier's CYO for three years.

Marcia has definite opinions about attending church services.

"Religion is something I've always been brought up with," the National Honor Society member said. "But now it's not just my parents' faith, it's my faith. It's something you need to keep your life on track.

"It almost makes me angry that other young people aren't involved."

At Mass, Marcia says, when the homilist applies the Gospel to everyday life, she can "take it home and use it."

She and Sara Northup have made the ECHO youth retreat.

Both. later ,served as ECJ-IQ t~l!m mem'bers,. ..Also 17 and a brand-new Barnstable High graduate, Sara will attend Regis College in Weston.

The future social sciences major is interested in gerontology and holds a parttime job in ,an area nursing home.

"You can use Church as a foundation for how you want to live your life," she said. "It's somewhere you can turn for answers."

Sara thinks that most young people are religious, but that those who stray do so because of identity problems.

"Many aren't sure of who they are," she said, "but a lot of them will return to church."

Teenagers tend to be afraid of priests, she opined, because they mistakenly believe that clergy"only look for the negative" in young peopll{. She adds that she sees the priests in her home parish as "entireIyapproachable."

"They can talk to you on your own level," she says.

The young woman recently received the Vincent and Rose Curran Memorial scholarship of Our Lady of Victory Women's Guild.

Like Marcia, she is active in her parish CCD program, having recently addressed high school students on the concerns of elderly persons and the ECHO program, which is flourishing in the Cape and Islands deanery.

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CH ICAGO (NC) - Priests and religious as role models do most to encourage as well as discourage vocations, accoroing to a survey by the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors in Chicago.

The survey found that the single most encouraging factor for priesthood and religious life, cited by 34 percent of vocation directors and others involved in vocation , ministry, is personal contact with priests and religious.

The single most discouraging factor,listed by 35 percent ofthose surveyed, is that many priests and religious are poor role models and display inconsistencies.

Twenty-one percent listed "celibacy, can't have a family" as the single most discouraging factor.

The survey was sent to the 347 members of the national conference and distributed to 510 others involved in vocation work. 416 surveys, 46 percent, were returned.

52 percent of diocesan vocation personnel said they see the interest in priesthood and religious life among young people as greater today than five years ago; 48 percent of priests see the interest as being greater. ..

80 percent of diocesan vocation personnel see interest in lay ministry among young people as greater than five years ago.

90 percent of those surveyed suggested hiring more fulltime lay ministers in parishes, 89 percent called for more influential roles for women in parishes, 84 percent urged greater church involvement in social issues, 78 percent called for reducing ,the.size of parishes, 69 percent' urged, allowing priests to marry and 68 percent called for ordaining women.

While 37 percent thought temporary commitment would help the church, 50 percent said it would hurt.

Father Henry Mancuso, conference executive director, said the survey indicates that "the climate for promoting vocations today is better than just a few years ago."

He added, howeyer, that "we have to recognize that there are issues of church and society that work against commitment to priesthood and vowed life as well as lay ministry."

He also said he was concerned that only 45 percent of diocesan vocation personnel are working full time in vocation ministry.

Pointing out that it is difficult to develop a comprehensive program while filling many other roles, he said that parttime personnel end up merely processing seminary applications.

Eleanor Kenney The Mass of Christian Burial was offered yesterday at St.Mary's Church, Foxboro, for the repose of the soul of Eleanor (Drew) Kenney, a Bishop Feehan High School, ,Attleboro, faculty member, who died Monday.

Mrs. Kenney was the widow of John Torrey Kenney, and the mother of Father Paul C. Kenney, SJ, Dr. Richard Kenney, Robert Kenney, Mark F. Kenney and Mary Chris Higgins. She is also survived by a sister, Phyllis Drew Mahoney' of Wellesley, and fiye grandchildren. . D'o~~tio~s in her memo~~ to the Bishop' Feehan High School Humanities 8ch01ilTSl\ip Fund are welcome. ' .

Dorotheans appoint provincial . Appropriately named, Sister Dorothy Schwartz has been appointed superior of the North American province of the Sisters of St. Dorothy. She will be installed at a 10 a.m. Mass tomorrow at Villa Fatima Provincialate, Taunton.

Educated by the Sisters of St. Dorothy at St. Patrick School, Staten Island, N. Y., Sister Dorothy entered the order in 1962 when she completed high school. She holds a bachelor's degree in education and master's degrees in education and biblical studies and has taken courses in the Hebrew language, scriptures and culture at temples in RhodeIsland. Additionally, she has done advanced studies in science under grants from the Natural Science Foundation and Brown' University.

After professing final vows in 1972, Sister Dorothy taught in Bristol, R.I., for three years, then was assigned to the science department at Our Lady of Fatima High' School, Warren, R.I., where she headed the department and was school athletic director..

She had also been active in teen retreat work and adult scripture classes and as CCD coordinator for three parishes. For the past two years she has been a member of the Diocesan Lay Ministry staff

2 US cardinals to aid catechism VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has established a commission of 12 churchmen, including U.S. Cardinals William Wakefield Baum and Bernard F. Law, to prepare the compendium of church doctrine called for by the 1985 Synod of Bishops.

The commission, headed by Cardinal Joseph'Ratzinger, head of

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SISTER SCHW ARTZ of the Providence diocese and has also served on the leadership staff of-House ofJudah prayer group in Bristol.

Since 1980 Sister Dorothy has worked on her congregation's International Renewal Program, visiting provinces of the order in Brazil, Spain, Portugal and Italy.

She has been a provincial coun~i­ lor for three years and coordinator for her religious community for the past year. She was a province delegate to the Dorothean general chapter held last November in Rome.

While serving as provincial superior, she will reside at Mt. St. Joseph Convent, Bristol.

Father Boff discusses liberation theology paper ROME (NC) - Brazilian Fran-" ciscan theologian Father Leonardo Boff, silenced by the Vatican for nearly a year, said a recent Vatican instruction on liberation theology allies Rome with the oppressed.

He also said the document frees theologians to "attack" oppression.

In an open letter to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Father Boff said the congregation's "Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation" was a "decisive and historic" document that "protects" liberation.theology.

"Now there can no longer be any doubt: Rome is at the side of the oppressed and all those fight.ing against injustice," the letter said. It was published in both Italian and Brazilian newspapers. .

The letter, which begins, "Dear Brother Ratzinger," was cosigned

by Servant of Mary Fa·ther Clodovis Boff, who, like his brother, is a leading exponent of liberation theology.

Although most ofthe letter supports the congregation's document, published in April, the priests were critical of its "doctrinaire" and "abstract" tone.

But the greater part of the document has "undeniable richness" and sent a clear message that "Rome is in favor of liberation," the letter said.

Peace book ROME (NC) - The Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace has compiled the 19 papal World Day of Peace messages into "Ways of Peace, "a book to mark the 1986 International year of Peace proclaimed by the United Nations.

It agreed with the document's main point that the essentialliberation for the Christian is spiritual.

But it said that the document could have developed more -the idea that spiritual liberation must be united with liberation from poverty.

"Without an insertion into concrete history, faith in God does not go beyond 'opium,' and God himself is transformed into an 'idol,'" the letter said. The Vatican document seems to assume this but does not stress it, the letter said.

It also faulted the document's description of the church's "preferential option for the poor. " "This kind of language was typical30 year~ ago, when the churches gave assistance for the poor and rarely with the po'or," it said. It said that "before the church chose the poor, the poor chose the church, because they saw in her an ally and a space of elevation and recognition of their struggles. " The letter said an artifiCial opposition had been created between Marxist and Christian liberation, theologies.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (NC) - A Buddhist abbot, once jailed as a gang leader, has helped a needy Catholic-run polio center in Taiwan in an effort, he says, to make up for past wrongs.

"I have done many bad things in my life and now it is timeto repent and make up for them," Abbot Chang Neng said as he donated 100,000 Taiwanese dollars (about U.S. $2,540) to St. Theresa Polio Center near Taipei.

Chang, 34, collected the money during what he plans as an 18month, 6,250-mile pilgrimage around Taiwan. He· has vowed to "kowtow" (touch his face to the ground) every three steps.

Run by four sisters and two other workers, the center needs about U.S. $1,525 monthly to care for its 57 children aged 3-18, says its superior, Theresian Sister Theresia Hsieh.

The abbot's' gift received so much public attention, Sister Hsieh said, tIlat China Television plans to shoot a film on their work.

Saying that she is grateful for any contributions, Sister Hsieh noted that the parents ofthe poliostricken children "are too poor to buy anything."

The Theresians were founded in mainland China in 1929 by Belgian Father Vincent Lebba.

Another award In addition to the first place national award for best editorial given to Father John Moore, editor of The Anchor, another staff member was recognized at the annual Catholic Press Association convention held earlier this month in Columbus, O. In the category of Best Youth Award, The Anchor received an honorable mention citation for "Let's Hear It from the Kids." In awarding the honor, the judges stated: "While most of the material in the 21 entries submitted dealt with or was directed towards teens, The Anchor's 'Let's Hear It from the Kids' presents appealing pictures by Joseph Motta and amusing quotes from Fall River elementary students."

"Bet every child got his family to read' this," said a judge, noting it was a good way to introduce the paper to those who might not have read it before.

Hats off to Joe Motta and his imaginative way of bringing The Anchor national recognition.

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the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is expected to complete its work in time for the 1990 Synod of Bishops.

The Vatican said the commission would compose a "draft catechism, " on which "all the pastors of the church" will be asked to comment. It will then go to the pope for his approval, the Vatican said..

Cardinal Law, archbishop of Boston, suggested the project on the synod floor last November.

The synod took up the idea in its final report, suggesting that "a catechism or compendium of all Catholic doctrine regarding both faith and morals be composed" to serve as a "point of reference for catechisms or, compendiums that are prepared in the various regions."

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AIDS: Gospel Compassion Those with the responsibility of spiritual leadership must always be careful how they treat the less fortunate, the afflicted and the pained. This is especially true ifthe burden that one carries flows from a life style or behavior pattern that can be considered ethically or morally objectionable. A leader should always be conscious of the fact that the Lord came to save sinners, not the just.

In fundamental religious circles, there has been an extr~mely ugly recent attempt to cast AIDS victims into the category of the unsaved and doomed. Television programming on this subject has had a field day with fire and brimstone predictions of God's wrath and divine retribution with reference to AIDS victims.

Speakers describe this horrible disease as the just punish-' ment ofthe avenging angel, visited on those who have committed the unforgivable sin. Were we to believe them, we would feel that the days of apocalypse -are upon us, that there, is no hope and that evildoers face final condemnation.

Such tactics arouse panic and help foster an alarm mentality that has turned its back on compassion and sympathy. Like the lepers of old, those with AIDS have been turned away to wander in the hell of their own making.

This is,wrong. Such an attitude lacks the forbearance and mercy ofthe Christian message. It condemns the sinner, isolating him or her in a quiet and callous ghetto. It exemplifies religion at its inflexible and merciless worst. Such agents of fear and hate certainly have lost sight of the Christ who came to heal and help the outcast and downtrodden.

God's people must not be misled by those prea<;hers of doom who cast AIDS patients into the fires of Gehenna. Rather, they must have the mind of a Mother Teresa who seeks to open homes and hospitals for AIDS patients. ' The message is clear. It is the individual who needs help.' It IS the person who is ill and who requires medical ,attention.

Particularly in the case of AIDS, the loving and caring Christian must realize it is the person, not the disease or the secondary problem of fear, who matters.

Continuity of care is a major ethical concern; this implies that one is not isolated or abandoned; this assures compassion', companionship and human respect.

Condemning an AIDS patient for having the disease is a form of ostracism and banishment. Blaming victims is really attributing to God the intention of punishing certain types of people. Someone leads an unacceptable life and "God gets them." Using such reasoning to'justify lack of human caring is completely unacceptable.

We in the church must not allow fear to overcome forgiveness, condemnation to overcome concern and compromise to overcome care. If we truly believe in divine reconciliation, our attitude towards and awareness of the needs of AIDS patients will be that of the healing Christ who n~ver avoided or condemned the so-called unforgivables.

To be sure, caution is in order when dealing with AIDS issues but hysteria and responses based on ignoraQce are not ethically acceptable.

The Editor

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Rambo gaining on Dumbo

By Tony Zaza NEW YORK (NC) - With 37 percent of American households owning videocassette recorders, the home has become a media battleground. Since the explosively expanding market is virtually unregulated, the harm or benefit of the new entertainment technology will depend on parental and community concern.

Videocassette outlets are everywhere: shopping malls, gas stations, bookshops, supermarkets. offering for sale or rental a wide inventory, inCluding popular movies past and present; madefor-TV movies; non-theatrical sh'ows like sports, exercise and how-to programs; games; and music videos.

The marketplace also includes a' vast inventory of X-rated movies, unrated questionable movies and unreleased blood and gore flicks like "Buried Alive,"which features dismemberments, acid baths and acts of blood-frenzied cannibalism.

Beyond pornographic movies and music videos; some shops sell something approximating "snuff video" - movies in which sadistic torture techniques are taught and the actors are actually killed.

The main software source, however, is theatrical motion pictures.

Indeed, studios have found the home video market to be more profitable than theatrical exhibition.

Furthermore, in a market once Home video is rapidly changing the structure of the American domiriated by the Disney classics, entertainment industry. In the pro- "Rambo" is gaining on "Dumbo" cess it is having a direct impact on like greased lightning. Alarmingly, the moral climate of the nation. the home has become extremely More Americans are watching accessible to objectionable program videocassettes than are going to materials. Six of the top 10 theattheatres. As group entertainment rical rentals are R-rated. Twelve of at parties and at home, they are the top 40 VCR sales are R-rated; inexpensive to rent, more conve- 15 of the remainder are unrated nient than a trip to a theatre and nontheatrical tapes on exercise or controllabh~ by the viewer with music. There are no figures on Xslo-mo and other playback features. r",ted sales and rentals.

Although the classic family film, During the past three years, "The Sound of Music," is the curaccording to a recent study, movie rent top seller, and nine of the theatre attendance dropped from alltime top 10 sales leaders are 113 million to 100 million, while family films, they don't reflect the VCR ownership rose from 9 pertrue market picture, which shows cent to 37 percent of U.S. housethat new releases are generally holds. 56 percent of these households ,hllve three or more people, morally objectionable or adultoriented fare. , indicating multiple usage. This is a In short, the home has become rate of pene.tration greater than the testing ground of the extent to any previous entertainment mode which the public will,accept morin history. ally degrading entertainment.

The report shows that 55 perBut other issues figure into the cent of all VCR households rented home video phenomenon: the cost a movie at least once in a two- for a family togo to a theatre, the month survey period, averaging poor maintenance of theatres and four rentals in that period. ' their equipment and the lack of The lure is so great that distribu- decent, intelligent movies. tors have been selling to the VCR The videocassette industry IS a market before the traditionai six- powerful new influence in Amerimonth theatrical run is over. This can society. Parental monitoring has especially been the case With IT\ust be done at the community , box-office losers. In some cases level and at the source of supply, the move has amazing success. For On the one hand, the VCR may example, "Commando," a box- strengthen family ties. On the other, office dud, was the No.2 rental it may encourage prurient and item on Billboard's theatrical VCR dehumanizing interest in the prichart in late May. vacy of one's home.

About weddings "It remains a source of mystery and frustration to me why people with little or no identification. with the church for years come to me wanting a church wedding," a priest wrote me. "If I ask them why, I get the answer, 'Well, we've always wanted a church wedding.'

"If I push for why, I get a number of inadequate reasons: 'Our parents want us to be married in a church.' Or, 'This is a pretty church f?r a wedding.' Or, 'We were baptized and made our first communion here.' Or, 'A church makes the wedding pictures nicer.' " His ex~erience and feelings are almost UnIversal among priests who are constantly asked to perform Catholic weddings for people who no .Ion~er practice - or perhaps believe in - the Catholic faith.

Many of these priests feel used.

"I feel like a physical part of a wedding like the caterer or florist instead of the celebrant and witness toa sacrament," a priest friend told me.

I share these clergy frustrations. ~requentlY'1 am asked by parents If I know a priest who will perform a wedding without requiring the f?ur-month pre-marriage preparatIOn mandated in most dioceses.

"If I knew of any, I wouldn't divulgethem"l reply, "because the best wedding gift you can give your children is this preparation.

In fact,. man~ couples who go through It realize they aren't suited for each other and separate instead

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of marrying. Better before the wed- DOLORES ding than after. " It's not a popular response with parents.

CllRRAN I don't understand why some .1Jt.. .â&#x20AC;˘. parents are more interested in the wed<ling than the marriage. The wedding is simply an event a begin~ing, while the marriage is a vocation and a lifetime. When sumes that the couple values the couples and their parents ask the sacramental covenant which inchurch to solemnize a sacrament cludes a high Christian commitfor two people who have aban- ment to one another. It also predoned the faith, they demean the sumes that this commitment will continue after the wedding day. s~crament and evidence a primiWhy a church wedding, then? tive understanding of church.

A marriage doesn't become Not to impress others or to please sacred because it's held in a church. parents but to give public proclaChurch is not a building but a mat!on of a faith that says God is community of believers. If one an Important part of our life doesn't believe, one has little rea- together. If this is absent, a church son to be married in a sacrament wedding is meaningless.

I know that parents of nonvalued by believers. . believing children suffer at wedA few years ago, I presented a ding time. Their friends and relaworkshop in a beautiful Protes- t~ves raise eyebrows and ask questant church. In the course of the !IO?S whc:n they learn the wedding day, three huge weddings took Isn t takmg place in the family place. The pastor told me that parish. none of the couples belonged to It takes courage, but I suggest his or any church. these parents show their respect "But they want our church for the sacrament by explaining, because it's so beautiful," he said. "They aren't active Catholics and "So we charge them a good hunk so we feel it is improper for them of money and we don't have any to be married at a Mass. We're debts." hoping that later on they will come How sad, I r.eflected. Might as to believe and practice the faith well be a professional wedding they grew up in. Then we'll have a chapel in Las Vegas. . wonderful church wedding and Marriage in ourchurch presumes you'll ,be invited to celebrate with that the. couple has some affilia- us."

Isn't that easier than explaining tion with the faith community and regularly gathers with it to hear why nonbelievers are being marthe Word and break Bread. It pre- ried in a c!lurch?

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"Father, there are too many principle which says that most of ,FATHER things going on around the us like a balanced, predictable life.

We work to obtain a routine in EllGENE altar. It is getting confusing order to have better control over and nerve-racking!"

JOHN DIETZEN Q. My daughter attends a Catholic grade school and goes to Mass daily. When we attend Mass as a family in the evenings I don't allow her to go to Communion again.

She cannot understand this. I tell her she cannot receive Holy Communion twice in one day unless It's a special occasion like a wedding or funeral. That's all I remember being taught. Is this still the rule?

(Missouri) A. During the years after the Vatican Council II, restrictions on Communion more than once a day were greatly relaxed. As you indicate, a wide variety of occasions. was listed when one might receive the Eucharist a second time on special occasions such as the ~nes you mentioned, when one is a minister of some kind at a particular Mass, and so on.

The 1983 revised Code of Canon Law simply notes that when one receives Communion more than once on a given day it should be at a Mass. The church's primary concern has been to discourage people from a superstitious "collecting" o.f communions: "If one is good, SIX must be better!"

The church believes, it seems to me, that the likelihood of this happening any more is quite small.

On the contrary, some still need to ~e femind'ed that ~ullpartleipaiion.

In the Mass always includes receiving Communion. ~on't hesit~teto encourag~ your chIld to receIve Communion at both Masses. ' Q. Perhaps'I should be writing to an etiquette column but somehow I feel you are better able to answer. Weare planning our golden wedding celebration with a Mass in October. My cousin will be celebrant but I would like to invite other priests.

Whom do I consult about concelebration? My cousin? The priests who also are expected? My pastor? I want to show the others some recognition as priests and not simply as guests. Could they do one of the' readings? Is a donation expected or proper?

These may be simple questions but I don't want to embarrass them or myself. (Pennsylvania) A. Please don't feel constrained by any detailed "protocol." The only etiquette involved would be just simple good sense which I am sure you would use.

The most helpful first step proba~ly would be to discuss plans ~Ith your p~stor or another priest In your pansh, since one of them would probably have to be present and help with the arrangements on the day of your celebration. In addition, he could answer some of your other questions about seating and further arrangements for concelebrating priests.

. That observation by a parish- , o~r life. For exa1T!ple, a runner HEMRICK Ioner was passed on to me after a 7 Will establish a pace or balance of a.m. Mass one Sunday. I believe it speed in order to avoid burnout, What happens with innovations is refle~e~ the fact that our parish is that often they throw people off 1. ~xplain and explain again heaVily mvolved in the Renew pro- balance. Sometimes this is done the context of any innovation begr~m and has taken steps to reviintentionally. fore it happens: What is its histalize .the parish's understanding However, there are times when t?r~ Why is it better for paof Scnpture, prayer and liturgy. nshlOners? What new needs is it Several changes have been initi- too much comes all at once and meetmg? .

Link past tradition with ated which have d~finitely increased peop Ie get out of synchronization action during the Mass. For ex- and los~ their breath. When they pres~nt inno,vation, and link presabout being confused ent InnovatIOn with the present ample, at the beginning the cele- complam d needs of parishioners. brant goes up and down the aisles an. ~er~e-racked, what is being 2. Don't overload the parish to bless the congregation with holy said IS: I am unable to balance water. He also invites everyone to what I see with what I know. There with too many innovations all at turn to the person next to them is a ~issing link and my system is once: Mother Nature has seasons shortIng out because of overload." for nurturing and rest, as well as and introduce themselves. . growth. Give parishioners time to With the introduction of comFor the pastor or parish that adjust to one good innovation muni~n under both species the ~an,ts to help nerve-racked pabefore introducing another. Realtar IS surrounded by additional n~hlOners two simple principles spect the trauma some people exeucharistic ministers at commun- mIght prove helpful. perience when it comes to change. ion time.

Reflecting on the encounter with the parishioner, I wondered whether his idea of confusion was nothing more than the unsettled feeling that comes with any innovation.

Rev. Dario Raposo, Pastor, June 25 My thoughts went back to the Rev. Raymond J. Hamel Cha- 1933, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunvalue of innovation as propounded plain, 1960, St. Joseph O;phan- ton

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her age, Fall River Rev. Msgr. Thomas F. Walsh, ~ook "Change Master." Her thesis Rt. Rev. Louis A. Marchand, Pastor Emeritus, 1980, St. John IS t~at "without innovation, stag- Pastor, 1941, St. Anthony, New the Evangelist, Attleboro natIOn and death often result for Bedford Msgr. BernardJ. Fenton, Retired an organization." Ms. Kanter docPastor, 1984, St. Joseph, North June 26 uments this principle with case Rev. Charles P. Gaboury, PasDighton Talk to your cousin and explain studies of companies that have tor, 19~1, Sacred Heart, New June 28 your desires about the other grown .because they put their Bedford Rev. Thomas C. Gunning, Assispriests. Several opportunities are ~m~haSIS on upgrading the organRev. Msgr. Albert Berube Pas- tant, 1947, St. Lawrence, New avai~able for their participation in IzatIOn by using idea persons. Those tor Emeritus, 1973, St. Anthony, Bedford , the liturgy beyond simple concelecompanies that relied less on New Bedford bration, if they are willing. research-minded persons often June 27 I'm certain none of the priests didn't survive.

Rev. John Corry, Founder, 1863, would desire or expect a donation.

But another' thought also hit St Mary, Taunton; Founder, St. They will consider it a privilege to me. There is the psychological Mary, Fall River

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Q. I am a convert of several years to the Catholic faith. A few days ago a friend (Catholic all his life) mentioned something I never heard of before, the Index of Forbidden Books. Is there such a list of forbidden books? What does that mean? (Pennsylvania) A. Almost from the beginning the Catholic Church has recog~ nized that what people read has enormous potential influence, for good or bad, on their faith.

For example, this is one reason Christian people were always so careful that translations and copies of the Sacred Scriptures were as accurate as humanly. possible.

Among the most colorful docu~ents we p.ossess from early ChristIan centunes are letters that flowed be.tween t~e early theologians and sa~nts argumg ?ver the most appropnate translatIon of a word in the Bible. ' By the fifth century this concern was already shown toward other writings and what later became the .Index of Prohibited Books came into existence.

This was simply a list of books relating to religion, Christian religion'particularlY,that members of the church were not to read without sufficient preparation and background.

The index continued in one fashion or another; up to ~urtime.

Gradually, particularly in this centu~, ~his sort,of prohibition against pnntIng, seiling or reading certain book~ was greatly mitigated and now is repealed altogether. The new (1983) Code of Canon Law contains no provision for such a prohibition of books.

Approval by proper church authorities is still required for certain types of publications either before ,or after they are printed.

These Include mainly editions of the Bible, liturgical and devotional books and books intended to be used as texts for religious instruction (see especially canons 824828). These provisions are considerably less restrictive than in previous church law.

The church, of course, retains the same concerns for the integrity of our faith as in the past. The shift is toward a different understanding of the purpose of church law.

As ,the Can~n Law So~iety of Amer!ca e~plal~s: "The purpose of thIS legIslatIOn has partially c,hanged, from a rather paternalistic attempt to protect the faith and ~orals ofthe people by safeguardIng t,he!J,1 from harmful religious publIcatIons, to a more restrained and positive effort to assure that those writings which express the church's prayers and beliefs do so accurately" ("The Code of Canon Law: A Text and Commentary"). . A free br?chure, "Infant Baptism: Cathohc Practice Today" is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church 704 N. Main St., Bloomington' m.

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THE ANCHORFriday, June 20, 1986

Laity synod October 1987 vATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has set Oct. 1-30, 1987, for the next world Synod of Bishops.

The synod's theme will be, "Vocation and Mission of the Laity in the Church and in the World, 20 Years After the Second Vatican Council," the Vatican announced June 10.

The syn.od originally was scheduled for 1986, but Pope John Paul postponed it after he announced the 1985 extraordinary synod to mark the 20th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council.

The preparatory document for the synod, issued by the Vatican in 1985, stressed the need for the laity to bring faith to secular society through work, education, family, politics, economy, culture and mass media.

It also voiced concern for what it called "the clericalism of the laity" and the "laicization of the clergy," which show confusion over "the correct relationship which must exist between clergy and laity in the church."

To prepare for the laity synod, the pope called for widespread consultation and discussion between clergy and laity.

This dialogue, he said, should include positive and negative experiences since Vatican II. It "must involve all members of the ecclesial community without exception," he added.

The U.S. bishops' committee on the laity has announced extensive consultations at the national level on the experiences, needs and views of U.S. Catholics in preparation for the synod. The committee also has agreed to assist dioceses in conducting consultations.

Ordained a deacon Rev. Mr. Albert H. Ledoux, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aurele H. Ledoux of N. Dartmouth, was recently ordained a transitional4eacon for the diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, PA, by Bishop James J. Hogan.

A 1970 gra~uate ofN orth Dart. mouth's Bishop Stang High'School, he holds degrees from Stonehill and Middlebury Colleges and engaged in graduate work at 'Pennsylvania State University..

Rev. Mr. Ledoux is studying at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Emmitsburg, MD, and will be ordained to the priesthood next spring: EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL F ALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS

. Since the actual place of residence of VICTORINO ALMEIDA is unknown.

We cite VICTORINO ALMEIDA to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on June 24, 1986, at 10:30 a.m. at 344 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Ma~sa颅 chusetts, to give testimony to estab!lsh: .Whether the nullity of the marnage in the FREITAS-ALMEIDA case exists?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Victorino Almeida must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Henry T. Munroe . Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this, the 12th day of June, 1986.

IN AN EXAMPLE of intercommunity cooperation, Sister Carol Regan, SUSC, Immaculate Heart Province superior of the Religious of the Holy Union, notes names of her community's jubilarians for photographer Sister Gertrude Gaudette, OP. From left, seated, golden jubilarians Sisters Marie Louise Coutu, Armande Marie Chabot, Mary Louise Samson; standing, diamond jubilarians Sisters Eileen Giblin, Lawrence Marie Dunnigan, Francis Sebastian Dwyer, Maurice Louise Proulx, Celine Rita Jette, Vera Herbert. Not pictured, golden jubilarians Sisters Rose Lamb and Elizabeth Rickel.

Holy Union Sisters honor jubilarians II Religious of the Holy Union ofthe Sacred Hearts were honored last Sunday by provincial superior Sister Carol Regan and membersof her council at a dinner at the community's Fall River. provin, . cialate.

'Diamond jubilarians observing 60 years in religious life were Sisters Lawrence Marie Dunnigan, Eileen Giblin, Francis Sebastian Dwyer,Celine Rita Jette, Vera Herbert and Maurice Louise Proulx.

Goldenjubilarians with 50 years of service were Sisters Armande Marie Chabot, Marie Louise Cou'tu, Rose Lamb, Elizabeth Rickel and Mary -Louise Samson~ Diamond Jubilarians Sister Lawrence Marie, a Fall River native, taught first to eighth grad.es and was an elementary school principal and librarian. She served in New York, Maryland and N'orth 'Carolina 'as well as 27 years in Fall R,iver at the former Sacred Heatt School' and St.: Michael's School. Since her retirement Sister Lawrence Marie has visited the sick and taught CCD classes in Fall River parishes.

Sister Eileen Giblin was principal of elementary schools in Long' Island, Queens, New York City, Baltimore and Taunton. In 1958 she was appoihted provincial superior and during her six-year term, which coincided with the Second Vatican Council, she provided the community with strong leadership implementing the renewal of women religious. Sister Eileen is presently on the staff of St. Francis de Sales parish, Patchogue, Long Island.

Three other jubilarians served at the former Sacred Hearts Academy in Fall River.

Sister Francis Sebastian Dwyer taught Latin and Spanish at the academy from 1954 to 1975 when the school closed. She had previously taught in Baltimore and at the former St. Mary's High School in Taunton. She is now a Eucharistic minister at Sacred Heart par-

ish and Charlton Memorial hospital in Fall River and is active in the Sacred Heart Parish Senior Citizens Club.

The greater part of Sister Celine Rita Jette's teaching career was spent teaching French at Sacred' Hearts Academy. She also taught philosophy for a number of years at summer sessions of the College of the Sacred Heart as well as at Carroll College and Mount Marty College.

Upon retiring from teaching, she took charge of records for the former Sacred Hearts Academy and the College of the Sacred Hearts. .

Sister Vera Herbert taught English at Sacred Hearts Academy from 1949 to 1962 and was academy principal from 1962 to 1964. She was also an English instructor during summer classes at the former College Qf the Sacred Hearts.

Transferred to Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, in 1964, she has taught there since, with the exception of the years from 1971 to 1973 when she resided in Rome, and was in charge of international communications for the Holy Union Co.ngregation.

In recent years Sister Vera has attend.ed summer Elderhostel programs at various institutions of higher learning including Yale University and Bowdoin College.

Sister Maurice Louise Proulx studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston after entering the Holy Union Community. Her musical talent first benefited pupils atSt. Jacques and St. Mary's schools in Taunton, where she trained uncounted young people, giving lessons on almost every instrument ofthe orchestra. It was said that nearly every professional musician in the Taunton area received his or路her early training at her hands. Earlier this month she retired to Sacred Hearts Convent in Fall River.

Golden Jubilarians Sister Armande Marie Chabot is well known to countless Sacred

Hearts Academy alumnae. As community cook for over 40 years, she endeared herself to boarders at the former school by treats of cookies and cakes designed to ease homesickness.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) Nearly 8,000 charismatics gathered at a national conference on Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church, held recently at the University of Notre Dame. The conference theme was "Proclaim the Gospel with Power."

Father Tom Forrest, former director of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office, told attendants that "the Gospel must be written on the heart of every evangelist. ..

Sister Linda Ko~>ntz, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, a member of the Sisters ofthe Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, spoke on God's presence among the poor of Juarez, Mexico, where she had worked.

"The poor," she said, "are teaching me about trusting in the Lord.

Christianity is not just talk, talk, talk and good ideas."

Father Mike Kolar, director of the Catholic Youth Center in St. Paul, Minn., addressed a conference session for 12- to 22-year-olds.

He reminded the young people of the Gospel story in which Peter acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah. But almost as quickly, the priest noted, Peter tried to get Jesus to conform, to stay away from Jerusalem, to change his course. Peter wanted Jesus to "blend in a little bit, not be so hard on those Pharisees."

Most people at first act like Peter, he said, but "the Lord wants you to reorder everything .in your life. Don't worry about blending in."

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Sister Armande Marie's immediate family includes three priestbrothers and a nephew, Father Philip Hamel, ordained last June for the Fall River diocese.

Sister Marie Louise Coutu taught in New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island as well as at Sacred Heart School, Taunton, and at the former Sacred Hearts Academy Elementary School, Fall River. Her last assignment prior to retirement in 1984 was at St. Michael's School, Fall River.

David J. Dunne of St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, a member ofthe diocesan Charismatic Service Committee, was among 500 persons attending a conference on the prophetic messages of our Lady, held earlier this month at the University of Steubenville, O. The main speaker was Mother Mary Angelica, founder of. the Eternal Word Television Network.

Sister Rose Lamb, a Taun~on native, taught biology and chemistry at Sacred' 'Hearts Academy from 1952 to 1965, when she was transferred to Bishop Cassidy High School, now Coyle and Cassidy High School. In 1970 she began studies for Ii master's' degree in religious educ!\tion at Aquinas Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A donation of$50 to the Catholic Charities Appeal from William Williams of St. Patrick's parish, Wareham, was inadvertently omitted from'previously published listings.

Up to 1982 she held Ii variety of administrative positions in religious education in Michigan and upstate New York. Since 1982 she路 has been director of religious education at St; Mary's parish, South Dartmouth.

In September Sister Rose will travel to England to pursue courses in art, an avocation she has developed for a number of years.

Sister Elizabeth Rickel, a Baltimore native, began teaching at Sacred Heart parish school, Fall River, where she taught third and fourth grades from 1938 to 1948.

Her assignments then took her to New ~ersey, Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and most recently to New York City. Since 1970 she has been at St. Francis de Sales School, first as a teacher and for the last nine years as school librarian.

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Sister Mary Louise Samson, who was a nurse prior to entering religious life, spent her first 15 years of ministry at St. Martin's Convent, 'Fall River, the community's former home for sick and aged sisters.

For the next 20 years, she was a primary grade teacher ill Holy Ghost School, Tiverton, as well as at schools in New York and New Jersey. In 1973 she was a primary grade teacher at Holy Ghost路 School, Tiverton, as well as at schools in New York and New Jersey. In 1973 she returned to Fall River and served on the nursing staff at Sacred Hearts Convent until her retirement in 1985.

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Health care providers discuss needs of poor SAN DIEaD {NO - Catholic health care leaders pondered the role of prophet and profit in health care at the 71st annual Catholic Health Assembly June 1-4 in San Diego.

They heard a call to collaboration froID Chicago Cardinal Joseph L.- Bernardin. a plea to establish policy for dealing with AIDS cases and a report on tbe crisis in medical carc for the poor.

Michael Novak oftbe American Enterprise Institute maintained that a health carc facility needs profit to be a prophet and that a profit - can reflect God's creation. ..It is creation and discovery that create new wealth," he said.

"Human wit. human capital are vital to 'creation of new wealth; _and that is part of Catholic theology.

"Profit is our investment in tbe future," he added. "It is the servant to the prophet in the church. It is quite different from profiteering," making excessive profits by taking advantage of a shortage of necessary goods or by other such tactics.

Jesuit Father James E. Hug of the Center for Concern differed with Novak. He said health care facilities should use existing church structures to better serve society's disadvantaged.

"Money is the language of the marketplace," the Jesuit said. "The cry of those without money can't be heard in the marketplace."

He warned that U.S. Catholic health care facilities may waste resources by competing with each other and he termed~ competitive marketing of health care a pro-phetic challenge to ministry.

Problems of Catholic health care facilities are". call from God for conversion from the worst aspects ofour marketplace economy," Fath~ er Hug said.

Cardinal Bernardin told assembly attendants that collaboration rather than competition makes the difference between survival and demise and is intimately related to Gospel values.

The cardinal said that collaboration does not eliminate competition, which can be good "when it providetl an incentive to be unsatisfied with oneself, to improve, to excel, to be the best one can be."

Lawyer Mark A. Kadzielski recommended that Catholic health care facilities establisb policies for dealing with AIDS, even if their facilities are in areas with small homosexual populationl. Future AIDS v.id.ims willinclude military personnel returning from countries with a high incidence of AIDS

New rector named for seminary Bernard Cardinal Law has named Rev. ThomasJ. Daly, M.A., Ph.D., as the new -rector of St. John's Seminary, Brighton. He replaces Bishop Alfred C. H.ughes, recently appointed bishop of the LoweD region ortbe Boston archdiocese.

A native of Dorchester, Father Daly was ordained in 19S2. Following a brid parochial assignment he was appointed to St. John's seminary faculty. He has since held a variety of teaching and administrative posts at the semin''Y.

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A Catholic Health Association report on health care for the poor was presented at the assembly. It declared that the homeless. poor and uninsured must have bettcc acceu to health care.

"Some doctors' offices and hospitals don't like dirty, ugly old people" and will not treat them said John E. Curley, Catholi~ Health Association president, at a press conference publicizing the report.

-Universal health care insurance is the ultimate goal. but this is impossible in the present U.S. political climate, the report said.

It estimated that there are 34 million uninsured Americans without adequate access to health care.

Current aid programs help only a small percentaJe of the poor, it added.

ShorHerm strategies the task force advocated include more effective use of government money, more pariSh involvement in health care, church advocacy of those in medical need, more generosity by all healthcue providers, and license or tax procedures requiring forprofit institutions to take a fair share of responsibility for unfunded or government-funded patients.

VOCATIONS Continued from Page One - Auxiliary Bishop J. Terry Steib of St. Louis, who delivered a paper on religious life prepared by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Fraricis of Newark, N.J., who recently underwent heart surgery.

Bishop Malone noted that the Collegeville assembly was not meant to produce a statement, a plan of action or any other product.

"We succeeded in achieving those goals," Bishop Malone joked.

Proper balance NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) Callingthe Catholic university "the preeminent institutional setting for the theological enterprise," Bishop James W. Malone told University of Notre Dame graduates that Catholic colleges must maintain a proper balance between academic standards and faith. The bishop, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said theology in academic Iife--"must meet the academic standards of the university community while also meeting the faith standards of the larger Catholic community."

He acknowledjed tensions between the character of the university as an lIcademic institution and the character of the teaching authority of the church." '

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New name NOTRE DAME. lnd. (NC) The National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the United States has adopted the name of Chariscenter USA for its office and headquarters at Notre Dame.

The organization, a service cen. ter for charismatic groups, made the change because its full name has usually been shortened to"National Service Committee" or "NSC," neither of which included Catholic or charismatic identities.

Its address is PO Box 1065, Notre Dame, Ind. 46556.

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nun to run a two·year program to WASHINGTON (NC) - For resolve the difficulties (see story years, they taught the Khools, below). staffed tbe hospitals, helped the Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, NeCD old and poor.

Now, many ofthe nation's nuns general secretary, unofficially pegged the discrepancy between all are old and poor themselves. and the church they served seeks to . religious orders' needs and resour· lighten the financial crunch press- ces as "in the billions."

Although male religious also ing their communities. face financial problems, sourcts According to sources at the said the crisis is more acute for National Conference of Catholic women because nuns: Dishops, leadenhip Conference - Have tradiftonally been paid of Women R el igious aOON at'tonal less than lay people or even reliAssociation of Treasurers of Religious Institutes, nuns' orders face gious brotheri in the same jobs. mounting financial troubles as their - Have worked in low-paying members age and retire, fewer careers luch as teaching. young women enter religious life, - Have not received retirement benefits routinely paid to diocesan and the gap between needs and clergy. resources grows.

- Have run women'l colleges, Sister Kathleen Steinkamp, a Sister of Mercy who is executive whose alumni have not earned as much as male colleges' alumni and director of the treasurers' group. estimates that out of the 150,000 can thus less afford the substantial nuns in the United States, 100,000 donations male alumni give to live in communities with insuffi- their alma maters and the men's cient money. Some listers rely in orders who run them.

- Have avoided efforts to get part on the government's Supplemore money because they thought mental Security lncome, a form of it conflicted with virtues of humilwelfare for the elderly poor, she ity and selflessness. said.

- Have lacked such avenues of The NCC8, Leadership Conincome as celebrating Masses for ference of Religious Women. and Conference of Major Superiors of special intentions, for which priests or their orders, traditionMen, assisted by contributions ally receive a donation. from private donors and foundaSources also blamed the prob~ tions, established a fund, c.ontainlem in part on the stipend system. 'mg $149,000, to bail destitute reliUnder it, church organizations, gious orders out of emergencies. including the NCCB-USCe, pay They have released a major new religious and clergy a stipend, study on the religious' financial sometimes with room and board shortfall and have appointed a

as part of the deal, instead of the sa_ary paid a lay person in the same job.

Sister Steinkamp attacked the sti'pend system. "The position should be worth a certain value to an employer no matter who fills it,-'she argued ...It's crazy to do it any other way."

She said the stipend is usually "si,nificantly"lower thana salary.

The idea that stipends are lower than salaries wal not disputed by Msgr. Hoye, who noted he too gets a stipend and suspects that a lay general secretary would be paid more, though "I'm not going to t Ite poorhou5C." Ite also.pointed out that institutions fun by religious orders have themselves used the stipend system.

The bishops' conference does pay into retirement programs for its religious and priestly employees and has set up a task force to scrutini~e religious employees' compensation and stipends, he added.

"It's not as simple as saying the crisis is caused by the stipend systern," the monsignor said. "It may well be part of the problem" but the answer "may not be merely doing away with it. I don't envi~ sian anyone...national solution" to end religious' monetary crises, he added.

He discounted the notion all orden lack enough money. "While it's true that thert are some reli~ gious communities in difficult financial straits. I don't think that's an accurate picture" of all, he said.

Some chanceries pay religious and lay employees on an equal basis, but "that's a handful, "Sister Steinkamp added. "In the rest there's no equity at aIL" She abo said younger nuns must take secular jobs to help suppon th.eir convents. but "then they're' blamed on the other side for leaving"traditional nurn'ministries...It's a horrible dilemma," she said, adding that the median age of nuns is now 65.

Sister Mary Oliver Hudon, a School Sister of Notre Dame who is academic dean at the College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, noted thal while a lay person is often called upon to suppon two elderly par~ ents, today's religious may be suP'" porting 10 elderlY "parents" older colleagues in the religious community.

In July Sister Hudon becomes head of the new NCCD/Leadership Conference! Major Superiors of Men program to help resolve religious' money woes. She said her mandate is to develop national programs. to educate those involved in the problem; to study and recommend new models for pay-

ing .religious; and to continue pmviding "emergency relief to, any religious institute in real crisis."

She added tb.t she fears the effect commotio» over the iuue will have on elderly religious. "1I would be regrettable if aged'teligious ever felt we were diseussing them as a liability," The Wall Street Journal ieeently reported hardship cases of nuns, including a New York community too poor to pay funeral home.bills and eventually helped by the emergency fund.

Msgr. Hoye said, that as,: an administrator of the emergency fund, he knows of New York communities assisted in paying roofing costs and straightening out Social Security problems but not ormeet~ , ing undertaker bills.

Sister Margaret Nulty, a Sister of Charity, assistant to the direc- . tor of the Leadenlhip Conference: of Women Religious, traced part of the trouble to the way nuns have been treated by dioceses.

Her own home diocese only allocated $300 a year toward a nun's retirement and some din-

Sisters' colleges face unique issues TOLEDO, Ohio (NC) - Catholic colleges run by women ReligiOUS must develop financial endowments to replace the "living endowment" the nuns have traditionally provided by contributing their services, warned the Toledo diocesan development director.

Richard W. Waring, in a report on fiscal and personnd resources of Catholic colleges founded by women religious. recommended that college trustees strive for "fiS'cal self-sufficiency" rather than depending on the diminishing resources of religious orders.

by women religious decreased 21 percent between 1973·74 and 1983~-g4, from 4,323 to 3, 144, Waring said. He projected a further decrease of8 percent by the end of this year and an additional 7.6 percent by 1990.

"The option of a quality education in a Catholic college, one of the strengths of the American system of higher education, may not exist for students in the future unless major programs to support such schools are begun in the 1980s," Waring said.

ceses prOl'ided nothing at all. "I doubt it (that lack) would ~pply to brothers and priests." she said.

"The old-boys~network thing, I think, was oJ)erative."

Now dioceses aTl; aware of the nuns'financial needs but their reac~ tion seems to be, 'where are we going to get the money?'" she said.

Msgr. Hoye said that in caring for old'diocesan priests, "the resources of dioceses are available"and that priests"usuaUy work-

ed until they dropped" and died at an earlier age than women religious.

In the draft of their pastorallet~ ter on the economy, the bishops said that there are problems and said they would "be insincere" if they denied the need forrenewal in the church's economic life. "We bishops commit ourselves to the principle that those who serve the church - laity, clergy and religious - should receive a sufflcient livelihood and enjoy the social benefits common in our nation."

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Of 1,196 survey questionnaires sent out to U.S. religious orders, 534, or 4S percent, were returned, which was called an excellent response. Returns came from reli· gious communities representing 80 percent of religious women and 62 percent of religious men in the nation.

The two-year project on religious orders' retirement costs, to begin July I, will be directed "toward identifying options for solving the problem," said Divine Providence Sister Lora Ann QuiDonel.,LCWR C:xCC\llive director.

The phiject is being funded by the three conferences and contri~ butions provided through Fo'undations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities.

"We are particularly eager to address the problem energetically because religious orders want to be free to respond to the needs of today '5 society and peoples without making finances the primary consideration." said Sister Quinonez.

The project will study adequate funding for those now retired; retirement benefits for those still

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They added that "increased re. sources will also be needed for the support of elderly members or religious communities."

Sister Steinkamp and Msgr.

Hoye both said no one group, person or policy is to blame for the current circumstances. "It's an accumulation of lots of little things," the nun said, "We've just got to work together to make sure" the crisis is alleviated, Msgr. Hoye added,

;Retirement problems to be addressed WASHINGTON (NC) - Three major Catholic agencies have announced a new two-year project to help religious orders deal with the inereBling financial burdens of retirement.

They also released a study showing that·although male and female religiouS orders are increasing efforts to fund their retirement needs, the debt for their retirement costs has hit $2.5 billion.

Representatives from the National Conference ofCatholic Bishops, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious recently held a press conference to announc~he~rateet:and release the study.

MSgT. Daniel F. Hoye, NeeD general secretary, referred to the $2.5 billion figure as "soft" because varying factors, such as retirement ages and returns on investments, may lower or raise the figure.

He said the figure was not meant to "scare anyone" and "the sheriff isn't at the door" to foreclose on religious order property, but the figure does indicate the significant problem "we have to address."

The study, "Retirement Needs Survey of United States Religious," compiled results of a survey by the

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in active ministry; models of compensation for religious working in church structures to assure more equitable remuneration; and continued assistance to individual orders planning for the future.

School Sister of Notte Dame Mary Oliver Hudon has been named project director. Now academic dean at tbe College ofNotre Dame, Baltimore, she will begin work July I. Sister Hudon, also at the news conference, said the factors causing the financial crunch are complex but added that with "collaboration, trust and belief there isn't'a sister in America who will ever be truly without food or shelter."

A national COllection, new salary models and the selling ofproperty to create retirement funds may be among ways orders will seek to close the widening gap between needs and resources, Sister Hudon said, but added it was too soon to outline concrete steps.

Although statistics show female rellgious orders have been hardest hit by the crisis, male religious orders want to be involved in solving the problem, said Franciscan Father Roland Faley. executive director ofthe Conference of Maj or Superiors of Men.

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Waring, a college fundraiser before assuming his dioccsanpost, expanded his doctoral dissertation on higher education into his report: "The Fiscal and Personnel Resources of Catholic Colleges Founded by Wonten Religious."

He sent his report to the presidents of 131 colleges run by women religious and received responses from 60.

Catholic colleges have traditionally counted on nuns' contributed services to keep costs lower than those at most non-Catholic private institutions, but "that living endowment is evaporating," said Waring. .

Many orders face mounting financial problems as members age and retire and few young women enter religious life.

Waring urged examination of current fundraising efforts and the feasibility o{ increasing financial endowments. He said that orders should plan wiselY for use offuture cash gifts, contributed services and other financial help.

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Dear Dr. KeDDy: ] am scrupulous,. word you never see or hear of anymore. WeD, I have tbis bil problem of feelinl guilty about sins. Sometimes they are DOt even sins, butslnc:e I havetb.t pilt feel-

inl does tbat mak.e them so?

-Indiana Of course not. Like all other feelings, guilt can be based on ract or it can arise for a multitude of personal reasons. Tne feeling of guilt may well be independent of any sin or wrongdoing.

Also, like other feelings, guilt can be productive or destructive.

Another word for feelings is "emotion." The root of the word "emt>lion" is "motion." and tbat is what feelings are for, to get us in motion, to start us moving. Good emotions are productive.

If your feeling of guilt moves you toward a better, happier. more productive life, it has helped you.

But if it inhibits you, overwhelms you with feelings of sinfulness and self-doubt, then it is something to be overcome.

From your letter, your feeling

sounds destructive. In fact, you seem immobilized by guilt.

Guilt can be very self~centered.

Ignoring all others, we dwell on the past, re-<:reating and replaying every aspect of our actions, musing over their possible sinfulness.

Such behavior is not virtuous. It does not improve us. Rather, it is selfish. We are totally preoccupied with self, as if our sin (or our virtue, for that matter) were of cosmic significance.

In truth oursins, like our virtues, , are not ofmonumental importance.

Much more significant is our willingness to correct our mistakes and try again.

Jesus says the same thing when he focuses on the corporal works of mercy. In so many words, he says. "Don't be guilty. I forgive you your sins. Use your energy now 10 be good."

Excessive guilt and scrupulosity can be very hard 10 eliminate.

Here isa 1-2-3 program to combat the self-centered variety of guilt.

I. When you feel besel by guilt feelings and are getting nowhere, look at your watch ana allow

yourself J() seconds more to think it through. Then STOP! Say "Stop!" to yourself. Picture a big red octagonal stop sign.

2. Now say a briefprayer. Psalm 130 provides a good model.

From the depths, I call to you, Yahweh, Lord, listen to my cry for help!

If you never overlooked our sins. Yahweh, Could anyone survive?

But you do forgive us, And for lhat we revere you.

3. Immediately after saying or reading your prayer, perform some good action. Call a friend to wish him or her well. Write a long overdue leUer. Fix a treat for your spouse. Work on a gift for your grandchild.

If you find yourself mired in guilt, try the 1-2-3 approach. And don't be guilty!

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Infidelity: a serious affair

By Antoinette BaseD A psychological profile of "The New Other Woman" in Psychology Today presents the findings of author Laurel Richardson's conversations and l;:orrespondence with 1,000 women involved in affairs with married men.

However, I don't see how we cariget a true psychologil;:81 profile of these women if the subject of morality never arises.

Her study conducted over an eight·yearperiod, Ms. Richardson reports that it is not at all difficult to find these women in all areas, age groups and social classes.

Thewomen,all single, were asked to describe their feelings and behaviors at each stage of their relationship. The findings are pre~ sented from the women's point of view.

Sex is apparently not the pri~ mary soal. Those involved want the same things everyone wants ~ sharing, love, mutual vulnerability - with one difference. The sinJle woman and her married partner want to avoid commitment and responsibility.

Many women in the study have busy careers. They purposely entered into affairs with married men believing that this:wouJd allow them to keep control over how their time was !pent.

In the end, most women say they were disillusioned and hurt.

They lost control oftheir feelings, became'totally invested in affairs that couldn't grow and lost self-esteem.

The men, the author repo,rts, got the satisfaction of controlling two worlds: their secondary world of secret romance and their primary world of wives and children.

Recent research indicates that 40 percent to 50 percent of married men have had affairs and that 70 percent of married men under 40 expect to have extramarital affairs.

The numbers are staggering.

What especially bothers me is that nobody mentioned the wife.

Doesn't anybody ever consider what it does to people when their spouses are unfaithful? The pain

felt by the victim of infidelity never lessens.

How would the other woman feel if she really tried to identify wilh the wife? Instead ofacceptins the man's view of his marriage, what ifshe looked at things through his wife's eyes?

Chances arc that the wife is a good person struggling to make her marriage work and raise children. Chances are she has invested a good chunk of her life in her marital relationship.

I have known single women who rationalize their involvement with a married man by telling themselves that the man's mar· riage was "no good anyway."They align themselves with the husband and see lhe wife as a rival.

The other woman could ask: What kind of man cares so little

for the dignity and feelings of the woman he married that he betrays his commilment in favor of his own gratification?

If the man is unhappy in his marriage, he ought to face his problems with honesty, not deceit.

Somewhere in a psychological profile, howan individuahesponds to moral choices must be factored in. The ability to forego selfcentered pleasure that could hurt someone else is a measure of humanity.

The kind of betrayal inherent in extramarital relationships can never be considered & morally neutral phenomenon. Both the unfaithful husband and the other woman need much greater awareness of the serious moral choice they are making.

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Have you even noticed thaf many garage sale notices strongly spec-ify the hour they will begin? Now I know why: to discourage .people from tapping on your bedroom window at 6 a.m. and making an offer on your garden bosc.

I wenl to the front room window. "You won't ,believe this," I called to my husband. "There are at least ~O people milling around our driveway, a man is selling helium balloons from our front porch, and .it looks like someone is writing the paperboy a check for his bicycle."

"Jt·s not even 7 o'clock," spouse blinked; walking into the room.

"Let'!l get goinS. dearies,"someone called through the mail slot.

"Some of us have two more places to hit before the nea market opens."

SpOWIe threw on his clothes.

"You open the garage door and 111 gOiCt the boxes of stuff tram the den," he said excitedly.

The word "stampede~'hastaken on. new and personal meaning for me. "How much for the hubcaps?" a man shouted at my knees, crawling under the garage door before it was half open.

I didn't have a chance to tell him the car wasn't part of the sale before a woman shoved $2 into my hand and said it was her final offer for a headless plaster flamingo I had forgotten was in the comer. I took it. lt became intoxicating. I spent to minutes negotiating between tm SI.35 asking price and a 35 cent offer on a leaky walering can.

When the last browser left, I collapsed onto the pavement. "This has been one: of the mosl incredible experiences-of my life," I told my hus.band. "Did you se~ the argument over the badmmton rackets with no strings?"

"How about the row over t~e pair of childTcn's plastic sunglasses with one lens?" he uid, pulling at his trousers.

"Did you gel dressed so fast you forgot to put on your belt?" I asked. He smiled sheepishly. "You didn't," I said.

"Well, she wouldn't take no for an answer," he claimed.

I didn't say anything more. I figure the guy will feel bad enough when he notices his hubcaps are miSSing.

CSFA: "Our nation is enriched"

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 20, 1986

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By Joseph Motta

In 1957, Dr. Irving A. Fradkin ran for a Fall River School Committee seat.

He lost, but as a result of that disappointment, about 100,000 young people across the nation, many in communities in the Fall River diocese, have won. They've been awarded scholarships from the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America (CFSA), founded in 1958 by Fradkin, a Fall River resident.

"Some sort of scholarship program" was part of Fradkin's campaign platform, and after his loss, a young man approached him on the street and offered his sympathy for the defeat.

"I'm even sorrier for the students," he added. "You lost an election. We lost a college education."

Disturbed by these words, Fradkin found support for his program from city leaders and' organized the first of many fundraising collections.

As a result, 24 Fall River high school seniors were awarded scholarships the following June.

An optometrist and the son of a Russian immigrant, who has been married nearly 40 years and is the father ofthree and the grandfather of three, Fradkin has "profited from the wealth of friendships" CSFA has brought him.

Now a national organization, CSFA has hundreds of chapters in over half the states in the country.

In the Fall River diocese, programs benefit students iii Chatham, Dennis-Yarmouth, Dighton and Rehoboth, Fall River, Harwich, Somerset and Swansea. The program was the first in Fall River to award scholarships to students in Catholic schools.

Scholarship monies are raised in and stay in a community. For example, a high school graduate from a given town re'ceives a grant, which may range in size from $200 to $25,000, from the town's CSFA chapter. The student· repays the money, without interest, to the

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Continued from Page. One Much of the politics of abortion is disappointing and distressing in seemed to pass through Denver '\"wm{~01 that it reaffirms the court's 1973 June.12-14 as several Republican \;::.} decision legalizing abortion. presidential hopefuls addressed the "The only bit of solace from the National Right to Life convention. ruling is that the 5-4 split vote The Rev. Pat Robertson, a teleseems to indicate that high court vision evangelist who has been support for abortion may be wan- exploring the' possibility of seeking." ing the Republican nomination, At St; Anne's Hospital, Fan railed against the Supreme Court's River, officials reaffirmed the pro- abortion decisions and advised the life commitment of the diocese's pro-lifers to seek "qualified candionly Catholic hospital. dates at every level who are comPro-lifers, however, are heart- mitted to the life of the unborn."/ Mr. Robertson told the 1,300 ened by Tuesday's surprise triple announcement by President Rea- delegates that the Supreme Court ganofthe retirement of Chief Jus- "has become an unelected oligarchy tice Warren Burger, 78, the nomi- and the justices have become nation of Justice William despots. " Both Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y. Rehnquist, 61, to replace him and the nomination of Antonin Scalia, and Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., in addition to noting their pro-life 50, to replace Rehnquist.

Rehnquist is generally regarded voting records, stressed to the con~,,~ as the most conservative of the vention the importance of a "proMotta photo nine-member court. He was family" tax code and a strong DR. IRVING A. FRADKIN appointed by President Richard moral education for American youth.

Nixon in 1971.

A group of pro-life feminists, in Burger had been appointed by chapter when and if he or she is vocational, agricultural and nursa full-page advertisement in the is regarded Nixon in 1969.

He, too, able to do so, thus helping other ing schools.

Rocky Mountain News June 12, students.

"We give these students a hand- in judicial circles as conservative. called on the National Organiza-' up rather than a handout," said The appointment of Scali,a, also Students in towns with CSF tion for Women to "practice what Fradkin. considered conservative, and the tchapters obtain grant applications they preach" and allow "openat their high school guidance offi- , "·We've become a class society," .move of Rehnquist to the chiefjusminded debate" on abortion. The tice position would therefore not ces. group, Feminists for Life, said the he said. "The wealthy can go to Anyone can apply. "Not every- private schools, but the working be exp'ected to alter sharply the ad was in response to a New York body can be an A student," says man's child must go to a state school. court's idelolgical makeup.

Times ad published in 1984 by Fradkin, who enjoys informing his That's bad. Our future leaders If confirmed by the Senate, Sca- Catholics for a Free Choice claimlisteners that President Kennedy, must be able to go to the schools of lia, a Catholic, would become the ing a diversity of opinion among Albert Einstein and Winston Chur- their choice." first Italian-American justice to Catholics on abortion. chill all received mediocre grades.

The new ad, published as both Fradkin received a congratula- serve on the nation's highest court.

Involvements at school and in' tory telegram fr,om President Ronthe pro-life and NOW conventions The father of nine, he graduated the community, financial need and ald Reagan/last year. were opening in Denver, asked from Georgetown University in scholastic standing all contribute NOW to "allow the same diversity "Please accept my heartfelt con- 1957 and received his law degree to the grant decisions. Extra points gratulations for nurturing and guid- from Harvard. in ·1960. He was a and open-minded debate within are given a student holding an ing an .exciting idea into a highly law professor at the University of their own organization." after-school job: In another development, NOW successful college scholarship pro- Chicago when he was appointed as "Anything that's embodied in a gram," it said. "Our nation is en- an appeals court judge by Reagan. announced June 10 that it had democracy is embodied in our riched by voluntary organizations filed suit against Joseph Scheidler, A 1984 article on him in the program," says the CSFA founder such as CSFA." director of the Pro-Life Action magazine Policy Review described and president emeritus.

League, and two other anti-aborLast year, 10,000 scholarships him as personally opposed to A committee composed of a were awarded nationwide. Since tion activists over demonstrations cross section ofthe CSF commun- its inception, CSFA has awarded abortion. It said that his first at abortion clinics. involvement in politics was in a ity makes awards decision, he said.

Arriving in Denver June 12 for over $60 million in student aid, its fight for tuition tax ,credits for Since applications are coded, iden- founder said. the right to life convention, Scheidparents of children in non-public tities of applicants remain secret ler was arrested on an unrelated until final choices are reached.

Information on starting a CSFA s·chools.. warrant issued in Florida for conHe and Rehnqoist refused to' Awards may be used at any chapter is available from 1505 Rivspiracy to commit burglary and speak to reporters about their ·schoola student..chooses, includerview Road, P.O. Box 297, St. felony criminal mischief in conviews on abortion or other coning two and four year colleges, Peter; MN. 56082. nection with an attack on an abortroversial issues following the tion clinic March 26. announcement of their nominaScheidler was later released on ' I,tions. They said those questions should be left to the Senate Judi- his own recognizance and w/ils .ciary Committee's confirmation expected to be extradited to Florida.

Heinz Ernst, were expelled from Churches; expressed anger at the hearings.

South Africa June' 17. Belgian situation in their coun~ry.

Father Louis Vandenbroeck, also Archbishop Tutu told an an Oblate missionary, was appealaudience of about 500 whites at an •• ing his expulsion order as of June Anglican memorial service that 17. the South African government is "trampling ourdignity under foot \e..

Cardinal "Hume; head of the \ 1 and rubbing our noses in the English and Welsh bishops' conDesigners and Manufacturers of dust." . .~ ference, called for "strong and World's Finest Religious MasterHe called the government's ban '. J: \ ',' effective" British political, moral on events commemorating the pieces, Jewelry and Gifts. .and econmic measures to bring () pressure on the South African Soweto riots "grossly insensitive Ash for Creed at your favorite Jeweler's, and highly provocative. " government, according to a June t." ~....

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16 statement. ' service marking the anniversary, Archbishop Denis Hurley of rapped President Reagan's call for Durban, president of the Southern restraint. .

African Catholic Bishops' Confer"For God's sake, Mr. President, ence, told National Catholic News how much more restraint can we Service June 13 that a "long, hard show?" he asked. siege" is under way, and it "must He accused Reagan and British end with black government. " Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "The black people have taken of urging "not restniint from viotheir destiny in their own hands," lence but restraint· from protest the archbishop added. against apartheid."

54 KANE ST., FALL RIVER, MA Duririg church services marking To the president of his country, the June 16 anniversary, Anglican Mr. Boesak said, "Woe to your Archbishop Desmond Tutu and government, Mr. Botha. Your God the Rev. Allan Boesak, president is not our God. Your God is M. S. AGUIAR & SON of the World Alliance of Reformed racialism. "

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Continued from Page One was killed and several were injured by security forces in a ~tudent protest against a regulation requjring Afrikaans, the language ofthe ruling white minority, to be used in classrooms.

The incident se( off months of rioting that claimed hundreds of lives.

In the latest troubles,at least 42 people have died since the emergency decree was put into effect June 12, according to the Associated Press. While a nationwide strike marking the Soweto anniversary appeared to be effective, government restrictions prevented press cov~rage of the event.

According to government estimates, 1,000 people were detained nationwide within the first 20 hours of the emergency decree..

Among those arrested were Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, secretary general of the southern African bishops' conference, and 13 Oblate missionaries.

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Even pope needs time off ROME (NC) - Photographs of Pope John Paulll dressed in hiking togs during a private 1985 mountain outing were spread across a 10-page cover story in the June 13 issue of the Italian magazine Gente (People).

The pictures, in black and white and color, chronicle Ii" July 12, 1985, papal hike in Italy's moun-tainous Abruzzi region, said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican press spokesman.

The glossy full-color cover of the magazine, which includes five other exclusive papal photographs, shows a smiling pope, dressed in light blue pants, black beret and hiking boots reclining at the foot -of a huge tree.

Inside, the photo story shows the then-65-year-old pope in an open, white windbreaker over a Tshirt as he leads an entourage up Maiella Mountain, the tallest mountain in the Abruzzi region.

The photos also show Pope John Paul standing by a waterfall in blue sn.eakers, and looking. over a mountain pool in a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

A two-page poster-like color photo shows the pope, wearing a dark blue slicker, sitting on a rock and praying his office bya waterfall.

In a two-page black and white photo he is apparently asleep at the fQotof a tree as his secretary, Msgr. Stanislaw- Dziwisz, stands protectively nearby.

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He said that Pope John Paul was accompanied on the trip by a small group of Vatican personnel.

He said the group arrived in late afternoon at the isolated spot and hiked for about three hours.

It was not the first time the pope has left the Vatican or his summer home at Castelgandolfo unannounced.

In July, 1984, he slipped offfor a two-day ski trip to the slopes of northern Italy.

He is known to love nature.

Gente, in commentary accompanying the photos, quoted a Vatican source as saying the pope longs for his homeland.

"Like all men, he sometimes suffers from nostalgia,"the source said. "He often feels the absence of his mountains in Poland, and an innocent walk in contact with nature brings him back home, refreshes his spirit and helps him to face better the difficult tasks of his mission."

US scientists tapped by pope VATICAN CITY (NC)- Two U.S. cancer researchers are among new members named by pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Beatrice Mintz, head researcher at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, and Maxine Singer, biochemical laboratory;director at the national Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., were named to the academy, which advises -the pope on scientific matters.

Ms. Mintz, 65, a specialist in the genetic causes of cancer among mammals, developed a technique of studying the action of cancercausing genes in particular areas of the body.

Ms. Singer, 55, specializes -in studying the enzyme makeup of nucleic acid in carcinogenic viruses.

The Vatican described the women's work as fundamental to modern cancer research:.

The academy meets several times a year. Meeting topics for this year will be satellite services for the Third World, oceanic problems and cancer.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-- Pope John Paulll plan~ to be in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the 1987 World Youth Day. The pope said he would be in the city April 12, the beginning of Holy Week. World Youth Day, established in 1985, is celebrated on Palm Sunday.

He made the announcement during a recent weekend centered on youth.

The pope told about 20,000 pilgrims in St. Peter's Square that in Buenos Aires, he will be "with youths in order to receive and to tions to the priesthood and reliwitness to the gift of this love, to gious life," he added. feel a vibrant experience of comEarlier this year, a report on a munion, and to pledge the new 1985 survey by sociologist Dean Hoge of the Catholic University of generations to become builders of a true civilization of love."

America said most U.S. Catholics The pope also preached at a think it more important to develop Mass for handicapped athletes at good lay leadership in parishes Rome's Don Orione Institute for than to recruit more priests. the Handicapped.

A 1982 report showed that "Your presence, dear athletes, is between 1960 and 1980, while the indeed a great sign of hope and the number of U.S. Catholics rose, the most credible testimony that the number of sisters and seminarians possibilities of life are inexhaustideclined substantially. In addition, ble," he said. while the number of priests rose During his visit the pope blessed slightly in some areas, it declined' the cornerstone for a permanent in others. In all cases the average sports center for the handicapped priest is older, the study showed, and gave an Olympic torch to 20with many no longer active because year-old Bruno Angelantonio, a of age or illness. polio victim since he was 2, who has won fourgold andtwo silver medals in skiing competition.

The pope also highlighted youth during a meeting with the PontifiLONDON (NC) - The Vati- cal Council for the Laity, calling can's top communications official . on the group to -help prepare for has defended its refusil!. to allow the.annual- Youth Day celebration. ., bishops' conferences to publish their responses to' a preparatory document for the 1987 Synod of Problem o( Evil Bishops on the laity. Such publica"God does not intend -evil as tion puts "undue pressure" on consuch, but he allows it in view of a ferences in countries where the church is oppressed, said Archbi- greater good. Moral evil, in parshop John P. Foley, president of ticular, is radically contrary to the the Pontifical Commission for Soc- will of God. But God has allowed ial Communications. "If one epis- moral evil to happen because he copal conference publishes its sub- wants us to be free. And the creamission, it puts pressure on al~ tion of beings who are free is more episcopal conferences to publish important than the fact that they their submissions, and then the can abuse or misuse-this freedom. episcopal conferences in areas of Ultimately; the problem of evil greater delicacy, we might say, and suffering is only understood would be inhibited in what they fully in the light of the victorious would be able to say," Archbishop cross of Christ our redeemer." Pope John Paul II Foley said.

Pope addresses US bishops on religious vocations VATICAN CITY (NC) - God wants the priesthood and religious life to flourish, even though lay people assume roles which once belonged primarily to priests and religious, Pope John Paul II said in a letter to the U.S. bishops.

The letter was sent to the bishops' June 9-16 meeting in Collegeville, Minn. The subject of vocations, which have fallen off drastically in the United States since the Second Vatican Council, was the theme of the bishops' meeting.

Pope John Paul said the church promotes vocations to the priesthood and religious life because it is "God's will to maintain both the hierarchical structure of his church and the state of religious life."

He added that the church pro-motes these vocations "even if a certain number of functions exercised by priests and religious are' increasingly shared by the laity."

The pope also toldJthe bishops to hope for more vocations and not to forget that ultimately they come from God. "The church cannot exempt her~ self .from utilizing every _worthy means to attract vocations, including prop~r publicity and personal example," the pope said. "Yet-she unhesitatingly proclaims that her strength comes only from the Lord," who "gives vocations and the grace to accept them."

The pope acknowledged the importance of lay life, but he said "an integral part of Christian family life is the inc_ulcation in its members of an appreciation of the priesthood and religious life."

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Survey studies current US attitudes on vocations WASHINGTON (NC) - Nearly half of U.S. Catholics now favor women priests, accord ing to a survey report released earlier this month.

Catholic support for ordination of women hit 47 percent last year, rising "a remarkable 18 percentage points in the II years from 1974," said the report, the fifth in a series on future church leadership by Dean Hoge, a sQciologist at Catholic University of Americ.a.

Hoge, who is engaged in a lengthy study of influences on priestly and religious vocations among U.S. Catholics, said the new data, drawn from a telephone survey of some 800 Catholics across the country, indicate that: _ A decline in parental support for priesthood as a vocation during the late 1960s and early '70s appears to have been reversed.

- Catholics today are not as critical of the p'reaching and sensi-

tivity of priests as they were in the 1970s.

He said the growing Catholic support for women priests - from 29 percent in 1974 to 47 percent in 1985 - was the "sharpest trend" measured in the survey, indicating that "strong changes are occurring among American Catholics on this topic."

He reported that in both surveys Catholic men supported women~s ordination more than did Catholic women - by 10 percentage points in 1974 (35 to 25 percent), and by seven points in 1985 (51 to 44 percent).

Hoge said that the new survey's "most important" information in terms of the study's immediate purposes was that Catholic parents in 1985 were slightly more supportive of the idea of priesthood fortheir sons than were 1974 Catholic parents.

The slight increase reversed a

sharp d.ecline between 1963 and He said ..the survey showed a 1974, he said. A 1963 survey found decline since 1974 in the percen67 percent of Catholic parents say- tage of Catholics who favored aling they would be "very pleased" if lowing priests to marry, from 57 a son chose to be a priest. In 1974, percent to 51 percent. the figure was 50 percent, and in - Hoge said that his 1985 survey 1985, 55 percent.

When those figures are coupled also asked respondents whether "it with better 1985 ratings of preach- would be a good thing if married ing and of the ability of priests to men were allowed to be ordained . understand people's problems, as priests. "That question, not asked Hoge said, it indicates that priests in 1974 drew a positive response are viewed more positively now from 63 percent of Catholics.

Hoge speculated that the 12 than in the mid-70s.

The same three -surveys showed percent difference in the positive decreasing support for the idea of responses to the two questions daughters entering religious life. about married priests might have 1n 1963, 17 percent said they would been due to the different phrasing. be unhappy ifa daughter became a Catholics may be more open to nun, 21 percent in 1974 and 25 ordination of men already married than to marriage of men already percent in 1985: While mothers were more sup- ordained, he said.

He noted that, following conportive than fathers about a son becoming a priest, Hoge said, servative norms for interpreting "mothers and fathers have similar such data, differences of less than feelings about a daughter becom- 5 percent from one survey to the n~xt were not considered a change. ing a nun."

THE ANCHORFriday, June 20, 1986

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Catholic ratings: AI-approved for The 27th CYO diocesan golf Taunton-Attleboro; Dick Maxwell, children and adults; A2-approved for tourney will be held at I p.m. July Cape Cod. adults and adolescents; A3-approved for 29, Pocasset Golf Course. Divisions Trophies will' be awarded the adults only; M-separate classification are: seniors, born on or after Jan. winner and runnerup in each div- • (given to films not morally offensive I, 1960; intermediates, born on or ision and top finalists in each cate- which, however, require some analysis afterJan. I, 1967;juniors, born on gory will represent the diocese in and explanation!; O-morally offensive.

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August's New England CYO tournament.

The Marty Higgins Memorial Trophy will go.to the outstanding golfer in the diocesan tourney.

Gauvin, Dillon victorious Dave Gauvin, a product of Ron Comeau's Fall River CYO boxing program, has won all hi$ 12 fights as a professional. , The Bishop Connolly High School graduate's 12th victory was over Felipe Mojica of Houston.

The fight ended in the first minute of the sixth round, with Gauvin dominating throughout.

~ishop Students at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, were recently recognized at the school's annual Underclassman Awards ceremony.

Honored were members of Feehan's literary magazine staff, the Feehan.TheatreCompany and the schooes colorguard, t majorettes, chorus, folk group and band.

Debate Club and student newspaper personnel were awarded medals and certificates of appreciation, and student council officers and representatives received certificates of leadership and appreciation.

23 students were recognized for their work in Feehan's Students Against Drunk Driving chapter.

Awards also included recognition for perfect attendance and for achievements in business, mathematics, home economics, English, foreign language, social studies and science courses.

Mark Dillon, a 14 year-old fighting out of the Fall River CYO, knocked out his opponent 39 seconds into their match in the Junior Olympic Northeast Regional semi-finals.

The victory boosted the l56~ pounder into the Junior Olympics, being held, this week in Raleigh, N.C.

Feehan College book awards went to Timothy Sullivan, Holy Cross; Ellen Healy, Salve Regina and Suzanne Lefebvre. New Rochelle.

Brian Decubellis and Gay Perkoski received the,"I Dare You" leadership award.

Five Feehan students placed in the National French Contest, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French.

Freshman Jennifer Swyers received first place in eastern Massachusets and third place in the New E,ngland region.

A classmate, Doreen Baltadonis, ranked sixth and eighth in the two competitions.

Recent graduate Samantha Simonds and freshmen Kieran Chapman and Sonali Shroff received honorable mentions.

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local list· ings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "The Karate Kid Part II" (Columbia) is a wonderful sequel to Karate Kid I, continuing the story of Miyagi (Pat Morita), the teacher, and Daniel (Ralph Macchio), the student who learns the finer points of living gracefully.

In this tale about' honor and devotion, Miyagi, summoned by the lovely girl he was to marry but left behind 45 years ago, returns to Okinawa to confront the stigma of cowardice and his dying father.

Daniel more or less comes along for the ride. fIonoring old age, pat Morita's performance wonderfully expresses the sweet and sour of life.

Part II is better than the original and more expressive of positive values.

There are some touching moments between Miyagi and his beloved, still unmarried, and there are some gentle surprises in this film, whose gracefulness is unparalleled in recent history. AI,PG "Bliss" (New World) An advertising executive dreams that he dies and is doomed to a hell surprisingly like his already hellish life. His love for a, ecologically-

wise hooker helps him find the righteous path far from the maddeningly perverse social order which seems to have killed him.

The moral perspective of the film is obscured by nudity and profanity.O,R "Psycho III" (Universal) Tony Perkins directs and stars in this brutal drama which provides the audience with a parade of gruesomely victimized women in various states of undress. Not enough mystery and too much sex and violence.O,R Film on TV Sunday, June 29, 8·11 p.m.EDT (ABC) "Bloodline" (1979). In this slipshod adaptation of a Sidney Sheldon potboiler, Audrey Hepburn plays the director of a vast pharmaceutical empire who finds herself stalked by a killer. The film reeks of sexual exploitation, with scenes of sadistic violence apparently inserted to jolt ,drowsing viewers into wakefulness. O,R Religious TV Sun~ay, June 22 (CBS) - "For Our Times" .,...: The influence of Moslem fundamentalism on international affairs is examined. . Religious Radio Sunday, June 22 (NBC) "Guideline" - Father Wendell Verriel discusses Hispanic ministry.

Exclusion OK'd WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors can properly bar death penalty opponents from serving on juries in capital offense cases, such as some murders. The court overruled an Arkansas federal appeals court which had decided that such exclusion creates a "conviction-prone" jury and violates an accused person's right to a fair trial. In the majority opinion, Justice William Rehnquist wrote that keeping individuals opposed to the death penalty off juries in trials for crimes punishable by death does not violate a defendant's right to be judged by an impartial cross section of the community.

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Also to be -co'ndemned is the excessive drinking that prevents a person from carrying out his or her daily duties and obligations well.

For teens, drinking alcohol is a super high-risk activity. It's especially dangerous if you are having other problems in your life. Alcohol can so easily become an escape from those problems, an escape that provides no solution, for whatever is troubling you.

By To underline the wisdom ofthis advice, I could introduce you to quite a few young people, some TOM barely out of their teens, who would speak to you words like LENNON these: "I wish to God I had never taken that first drink of alcohol when I was younger. It screwed up my life something awful.

Maybe no one in these crowd's Q. Wby is it wrong to drink if , "I was too young to know how was aware of the disastrous conseyou enjoy it and everyone does it? quences of what they were doing. to handle the stuff and I had (New Jersey) enough other problems on my A. For a moment, let's look at These people were" however, ter- hands without having blackouts some old black and white newsreel ribly misguided. and getting arrested for driving clips. Maybe you've seen some of And although they enjoyed under the influence and having to them on television at one time or cheering their leader, it was a miscall up Dad and Mom to come another. take to dOso. Some things can feel down and bail me out of jail.

The scenes were photographed so right and yet be terribly wrong.

"Drinking is fine for mature, in the 1930s. They show huge And the lame excuse, "Every- sensible, well-balanced people. For crowds, 'each person with right body's doin' it," is a stupid reason teens, it's disaster." arm raised high and each person for doing anything. It's letting the Send questions to Tom Lennon. cheering lustily for the speaker at crowd dictate how you will act.

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America. " They highlight a sometimes forgotten fact - we are all bound together as one family.

The Hands Across America event on our recent Memorial Day, weekend was a triumph for the 'human spirit. In a world too often fragmented by fears of nuclear death, economic oppression, racial hatred and hunger, a symbol arose of a different destiny.

By Charlie Martin Millions of Americans reached out to touch each other an<;l stood with their hungry and ,Hands Across AmeJ:ica homeless brothers and sisters.

From my spot in the line in St. This sky so serene Louis, Mo., I noticed something Has felt the kiss of countless dreams And tbis eartb tbat smells so sweet interesting: youth were all around. " Cradles us all in its great heartbeat The'event showed the power of ,So we nlustlearn to love each other ' America's young people. Most,of 'the marshalls and organizers I See that man over there, he's my ~rother And wh,en he laughs, I laugh , ' saw were young and on both And wbtm he cri~, I c'ry' sides of my family were teens..

I believe that it was youth's And when he needs me.nl be right there by his side , energy, caring and vision that helpHands across Am'erica " . ed make the project a success. ilands across this I_nd I love Divided we fall, 'uuiteCl we stand On May 25th, we felt a power- , fui. and healing spirit at work.

Hands across America , Mothers' .'ild fathers, daughters and 'Sons Hands Across America showed the power of an idea.

We sb,Ould. be Uving together as one , " What now remains is the hard '. " _ AndJ can't help thinking, again and again -The'beart 'of Ii stranger beats the same"as a friend ,work of changing our country's >" " So we',must learn to love each other. priorities and values. We need, See those people over there, bold and creative ideas and further ' They're my sister and ,brother, ~ opportunities to manifest our comAnd when they laugh, I laugh mon 60nd, Our vision'mustbe' And ,when they cry, I cry tied to practical and effective' ways of changing society.

And when they need me ' 111 berighUhere by their side Hands Across America shows ,We are the river of hope ' that each person possesses the That runs through the valley of fear power to make a differe'nce in the -And there's a'iady whose smile shines ~p,Qn us world. Whether you stood in line .:Sayin' all are welcome b,re ' ", , , or not, I urge you to share your talents with others, to be bold, , Recorded ~y Voic,:, of +merica. brave and craring in finding ways ,to continue what ,was st;uted by Written by M. BI.~te, J. Carn~y and L. Gottlieb., that chain of human hands. (c) 1986 by EMI America Records, Your comments are always a division of Capitol Records, Inc. welcome and may be used in "See'tbat man over there. he's right there 'by his side.," These future columns. Address, Charlie my brother. And'when he cries. .. words proclaim the plJrpose and Martin, 1218 S. Rotberwoo4 cry. And when he needs me 111 be the challen eof "Hands ,Across' .Ave., Evansville, Ind. 47714. '

JEAN O'BRIEN, widow of Bishop Stang High School's late athletic director, pauses at her husband's plaque during a recent visit to the school. (Gaudette photo)

"Mr. Stang" remembered The late John C. O'Brien, known to a quarter century of students at North Dartmouth's Bishop Stang High,School as "Mr. Stang," was recently remembered at the North Dartmouth school with the installation of a plaque in its O'Brien Garden.

Jim O'Brien of Braintre~, not related but a close friend of Stang's late athletic director, donated the plaque, which reads, "In Memory of John Cummings O'Brien, 19241985, Teacher, Coach, Friend."

The O'Brien Garden, a gift of the ,class of '85, was dedicated last year.

O'Brien, 60, died Feb. 28, 1985, after six-month battle with cancer.

An outstanding figure in interscholastic sports, he was elected to the State High School Coaches Hall of Fame the week of his death.

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Joining the Stang faculty in 1961, he taught and was varsity basketball coach until his appointment as athletic director in 1965.

A'graduate of Holy Cross College, Worcester, the Fall River native served in the Navy during World War II and later pursued graduate studies at Brown University and Bridgewater State College, from which he held a master's degree in education. ' O'Brien'was among founders of Catholic Boys' Day Camp in Westport, which he served as a director, and he was among the first recipients of the Marian Medal, which recognizes outstanding lay service to the Fall River diocese.

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By Cecilia Belanger Jesus died as he had lived. Always thinking of others. , Throughout life we meet many who do the same thing. Christ has always been their model and inspiration. They never follow the traditions of men, never give in, but are true to the very end. ,What a legacy they leave us!, ' I have known many who suffer bereavement, yet they sti" believe in God and his ability to see, them through a crisis. They believe that suffering has its place in the scheme of things. Some tell me they can't understand sorrows they haven't felt. But more sensitive people disagr'ee; . , FOTsome, suffering is more of a stl'uggle than it is for others. There is :the mental pain inflicted by

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Many say they would prefer physical pain any time.

Suffering cannot be winked out of sight. It wails through much of our poetry, literature, drama and music. We see it on the faces of those we pass on the street. But God gives the grace to use it and to overcome it.

The good p'eople we know never boast of themselves. They will bear their crosses, their sufferings, to the end. Let us do the same.

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AUSTIN, Texas (NC) - Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who once described herself as "the most hated woman in America," is handing over leadership of the American Atheist Center to her son, Jon Garth Murray. She will remain active at the center.

Mrs. O'Hair, 67, founded the center, which claims 30,000 members, in 1965.

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She might be as famous for something she did not do. She has been blamed by millions of petition signers for urging the FCC to ban all religious broadcasting. She . never did that, but a 1974 case involving two broadcasting producers, RM 2493, long since rejected by the FCC, has been linked to her name.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., June 20, ]986

Ileering pOinll PUBLIC In CHAIRMEN are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Hame of city or town should be included, as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Hote: We do not carry news of fundraising activities such as bingos. whists, dances, suppers and bazaars. . We are happy to carry notices of spiritual I'IJograms, club meetings, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities. Fundraising pro· jects. may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675·7151. . . On Steerinll Points items FR indicates Fall River. HB indicates Hew Bedford.

HOLY FAMILY H.S. ALUMNI Mass for deceased alumni of the former Holy Family High School, New·Bedford, 10 a.m. June 22, St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford.

Breakfast follows, Holy Family auditorium.

IMMUNIZATIONS, FRAREA Summer immunization clinics for children in Fall River and surrounding towns will be offered at no charge to public and private/ parochial school students from 9 to 9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, July 7 through Aug. 29, according to the following schedule (all addresses in Fall River): Mondays: Healy School, 726.

Hicks St.; TUesdays: Watson School, 935 Eastern Ave.; Wednesdays: St. Anne School, 240 Forest St.; Thursdays: Carroll School, 117 Hood St.; Fridays: Doran School, 101 Fountain St. Immunization is required for kindergarten entrance and is also avail- . able to all children, including middle and high school students, who are eligible for extended immunizations required by state law. Parental consent should be brought to 'clinics.

Immunizations available are diphtheria, pertussis (whooping couch), tetanus, polio and triviral (for measles, mumps and rubella, lliso known as German measles).

CATHEDRAL CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER, E. FREETOWN St. John of God Church, Somerset, CCD teacher retreat June 20 to 22; St. Mary's Church, New Bedford, parish outing I to 6 p.m. June 22; Nemasket Group, Fairhaven, children's picnic June 23; Diocesan Altar Boy Day 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

June 25; Cathedral Camps, E. Freetown, staff orientation week June 27-28.

BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER COMMUNITY, FR Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. June 27, Blessed Sacrament Church chapel.

Father Joseph Richard, AA, will discuss Catholic worshipin Russia.

Mass and fellowship follow. All welcome at Life in the Spirit seminars July 19 and 20, St. Joseph's Convent, Fall River. Information and registration: Fred Demetrius, 6442375. .

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Eighth grade graduation Mass II: 15 a.m. Sunday.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE Cape Cod Widowed support group meets 3 p.m. June 29, St. Jude's Chapel, Cotuit. Theme: Ye Shall Be Comforted. Information: 428-7078, evenings.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET St. Patrick's fellowship meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, parish center. . K of C, HYANNIS Father McSwiney Council 2525 ST. STANISLAUS, FR reports a net profit of $6,194 from its Maryknoll Father John Gilligan recent candy sale drive. 'Proceeds will speak at all Masses this weekfrom this and other councils aid end; family Masses 10:30 a.m. physically and mentally handicapped throughout summer; new Women's persons.

Guild officers: Nancy Luddy, president; Anna Reid, vice-president; Bar- ST. MARY, S. DARTMOUTH Father Arthur G. Considine'schobara O'Neil, secretary; Virginia Kelly, larship winners are Susan Sylvia, treasurer.

Kristen Menard, Melissa Hogan, ST. RITA, MARION Michelle Moniz and Kathryn Parishioner Martha 'Demeo was Anuszczyk; 'New Women's Guild inducted into Tau Beta Pi, an honor officers: Mrs. David Brunette, pressociety for engineering and architec- ident; Mrs. Roger Bourgeois, viceture majors, in ceremonies at Catholic president; Mrs. David Com;ia a'nd University of America, Washington, Mrs. Bruce Monte, secretaries; Mrs. Sales and Service ~ DC. Ms. Demeo, the daughter of Angelino Carvalho, treasurer. for Domestic Patricia and Robert Demeo, also and I n d u s t r i a l ' ;:.::. received a tuition fellowship and was ST. ANNE,FR Cub Scout bicycle rodeo 10 a.m. .

995·1631 named research assistant· in the Unitomorrow, schoolyard; New Life of Virginia's department of .versity 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE mechanical and aerospace engineer- . Charismatic prayer group will no NEW BEDFORD longer meet at St. Anne's Shrine; ing. members invited to join Bread of Life prayer group, which meets 7:30 Fridays, Blessed Sacrament parish, Fall River; healing services resume Sept. 7. 32 eighth graders recently graduated from the parish school.

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, FR-TAUNTON Greater Fall River/Taunton chapter meeting 7:30 p.m. July ,23, St. Louis de France School, Buffington Street, Swansea. 'For information on this support group for bereaved parents, contact Sandra FRI. - SAT. - SUN. JUNE 20 - 21 - 22 Sousa, 823-5240.

ST. ANTHONY, P.A.C.C. Gr.ounds - 175 School St. - Taunton, Mass.

MATTAPOISETT The parish lending library, located PORTUGUESE AMERICAN in the church hall, includes books , and tapes ·by Dr. 'Leo Buscaglia.

NOTRE DAME, FR Memorial Mass for parishioners FUN FOR THE :ENTIRE FAMILY who died between May J 1,1982, and June I, 1986, 10 a.m. tomorrow.

APPEARING Parishioners and friends welcome.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS "FLASHBACK" Kerry Doon,of Eastham has been FRlDAY awarded a $500 scholarship by the NITE Women's Guild. He will attend Mitchell College, New London, CT. SATURDAY - "HIGH SOCIETY" SACRED HEART,'FR Parish council meeting 7:45 p.m.

All Star Jazz Band NITE June 22, rectory; reception for Father Barry W. Wall, pastor, transferred "DESTANY" to St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, SUNDAY June 28. 4 p.m. Mass will precede a flus ",CC & COMPANY" NITE buffet in the parish hall. Music will be provided by the parish children's chorus.

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FATHER BRIAN P. O'Donnell, SJ, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard O'Donnell of St. John the Evangelist parish, Pocasset, was ordained last Saturday at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, by Archbishop Samuel Carter, SJ, of Kings,ton, Jamaica.

He will offer a first Mass at 11 a.m. June 21 at St. John the Evangelist.

Father O'Donnell has been assigned to initiate an outreach program at Wheeling College, Wheeling, W. Va.

Alumnae and alumni of Sacred School, which merged with Bishop Hearts Academy and Prevost High Connolly High School, Fall River, School, both former Fall River after its destruction by fire in 1968, Catholic high schools, will hold - will meet Saturday, Aug. 16. major reunions this summer.

Over 400 Prevost alumni and As part of celebrations marking spouses, coming from distant parts the 100th anniversary of the arriof the nation and including one val of Religious of the Holy Union from Europe, have already made of the Sacred Hearts in the United reservations for the reunion. Many States from France, alumnae, Brothers of Christian Instruction faculty, family and friends of the who were former faculty members former Sacred Hearts Academy in will also be on hand. . Fall River will meet Friday, Aug. The gathering will begin with a I. 5:30 p.m. concelebrated Mass at The academy was the sisters' the new Notre Dame Church in first foundation after their 1886 Fall River. Like Prevost High arrival in Fall River.

School, the former Notre Dame The reunion will begin at 5:15 was destroyed by fire. p.m. with a Mass of thanksgiving Father Paul Carrier, SJ, a 1967 at Holy Name Church, Fall River, Prevost graduate, will be homilist and will continue at 6:30 p.m. at for the Mass, to which some 20 Venus de Milo restaurant, Swan- alumni who entered'the priesthood sea. There a buffet will be followed have been invited as concelebrants. by "an evening of music and memoThe evening will continue with a ries... banquet at White's restaurant, Information on the event is avail- Westport. able from Mrs. Kenneth Leger, Further information is available 545 Walnut St., Fall River 02720, from general chairman Paul Du678-6675. mais, a 1939 graduate, at tel. 673Prevost High School 7675, or Roland Masse, '64, at Alumni of Msgr. Prevost High 676-0452.

SEPARATED AND DIVORCED, FR Greater Fall River area support group for separated, divorced and remarried Catholics meeting 7 p.m.

June25, Our Lady of Fatima Church hall, Gardner's Neck Road, Swansea. . CATHEDRAL, FR Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, departing rector, who will study at Catholic University, will celebrate 5 p.m. Mass June 29; parishiol1ers and friends invited to it and a following reception.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Parish prayer group meetings begin with 7p.m. Mass Wednesdays. Praise and intercession follow until 9:30 p.m., church basement; Leslie Handrigan of Rehoboth has been awardeda $500 scholarship by the Women's Guild. She will attend North Adams State College; new guild officers: Mary Oliver, president; June Mace, ,vice-president; Lillian Welshman, secretary; Dolores Andrews, treasurer; reception for parochial vicar Father Edward J. Byington, who will be pastor of Sacred Heart parish, Fall River, 3 to 4 p.m. June 29, parish center; greeters needed to welcome parishioners to Mass. Information: Wally and Ellen Guay, 252-6523; new Holy Name Society officers: Donald Wilson, president; Lou Sil. via, 'vice-president; Jim Handrigan, secretary; Andy Valerio, treasurer.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Thomas Raymond has been awarded the Walter and Elizabeth Gorey Scholarship. The award, for onehalf of yearly tuition to Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, is given by Donald Gorey and Muriel .

Gorey Kelliher in memory of their parents.

ST. PATRICK, FR Holy hour 2 p.m. Sunday; Jason I,lerubehas been awarded a scholarship by the Women's Guild; shower, for sisters moving into the parish 'convent 3 p.m., Aug. 3, school. All parish women invited.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Parish family picnic Aug. 17, school grounds. Planning meeting 7:30 p.m. Sunday, parish hall.

CARE PROJECT, FR The Diocesan Office of Education will sponsor an afternoon of recollection at St. Elizabeth's parish from 2 to 4:30 p.m. June 29 for parishes involved in the Catholic Adult Religious Enrichment program. They are, in addition to St. Elizabeth, St. Jean Baptiste, St. William,Our Lady of Health and St. Patrick's parishes.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Bible study group led by parochial Vicar Father James A. Calnan will meet 8 p.m. Wednesdays throughout summer. Information: 428-9456; prayer meeting 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Father Clinton hall. Information: 428-9456.

ST. MARY, NB Parish picnic noon to 6 p.m. June 22, Our Lady of the Lake Camp, E. Freetown; new Women's Guild officers: Ella Dutra, president; Susan Preece, vice-president; Diane Miranda, secretary; Joanne Brown, treasurer.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK .

Vincentian meeting after 10 a.m.

Mass Sunday; parish youth softball I to 3 p.m. June 23 and 28, North School field; adults interested in helping form a parish youth ministry are asked to contact either of the priests.

HOLY NAME, FR Seven parishioners will be commissioned eucharistic ministers at 7:30 p.m. June 24 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. They are Mrs. Lionel Braz, Mrs. Ronald Cabral, Ms. Louise Gauthier, Brian Kearns, Thomas McCloskey, Ms. Gertrude L. Mercier and Mrs. Arthur J. Morin; parish youth group outing to Rocky Point July 19.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Holy hour 7 to 8 p.m. June 26, with Mass and Benediction; mission Father William Donegan, SS.CC., will speak at all Masses on the weekend of July 5.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS, FAIRHAVEN Holy Hour 7 to 8 p.m. June 24, Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven, with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, prayers, meditation, homily and bendictions. Guest priest: Father Joseph Martineau, retired pastor of St. Theresa's Church, New Bedford.

All welcome.

LEGION OF MARY Diocesan Legion of Mary retreat Oct. 24 to 26, Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth.' Guest speaker: Father Joseph Richard, AA. Information: Alice Beaulieu, 995-2354.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will preside at a prayer service at 3 p.m.

Sunday, 'during which he will bless the shrine's newly-renovated outdoor worship area. A reception will follow. All welcome.