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Church Teaching Must Be Strong VATICAN CITY (NC) - In a homily here Pope Paul VI rejected attempts to abandon traditional formulations of the Church's "deposit of teaching." He spoke during an evening. Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul,
Under the direction of Rev. Kevin F. Tripp, chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, the New England Liturgical Committee will sponsor a congress on "Reconciliation in Our World Today" from Aug. 22 through Aug. 26 at Salve Regina College, Newport. Lectures, workshops and group experiences during the five day meeting will be facilitated by 11 leaders in the fields of liturgy, theology and catechists. The
commemorating his chosen patron and the end of the 13th year of his pontificate. The authentic teac~ing of the Church, he said, "is one of the strong points of modern culture and of the ecumenical discussions of our times." It is too strong, he said "for the arguments of those who would wish to undermine the firmness of the Church's teaching authority which is itself strengthened by the apostolic authority." The Pope continued: "There are some who say it (the Church's teaching authority) might be more flexible, more susceptible to the influence of history, more closely related to modern ways of thinking, more pluralistic and more free - in a word, that it should be guided more by subjective and historical criteria and less tied to the formulations of a traditional manner of teaching." The teaching of the Church, the Pope said, "wishes to remain
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Bishop Hits Court Stand on Abortion by JIM CASTELLI WASHINGTON (NC)-In the most detailed abortion decision 'in three-and-a-half years, .the U. S. Supreme Court has clarified its Jan. 22, 1973 decisions which struck down most state restrictions on abortions. Major elements in the court's new decisions include rulings that state requirements, that a woman's husband or a minor's parents consent to an abortion are unconstitutional. The court did indicate, however, that parental' consent requirements might be acceptable in some instances in which minors were unable to give in-. formed consent and that laws requiring parental consultation on a decision to have an abortion might be constitutional. The court acted on three major cases: Danforth v. Planned Parenthood, a case involving a
Death Penalty Brings Protest Church officials and others from' around the country have expressed concern that the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling upholding the death penalty threatens the value 'and dignity of human life. The high court ruled July 2 that the death penalty does not under aU circumstances violate the constitutional ban against "cruel and unusual" punis!:'ment. The rulings came in challenges to capital punishment laws in Georgia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana and North Carolina. In upholding those of the first three and striking down the Louisiana and North Carolina statutes, the Tum to Page Fifteen
TAUNTON SCHOOLS: St. Joseph, left, and Sacred Heart schools have been sold to the city of Taunton for $300,000 each, after having been rented .to the city public school system for several years since .their
major Missouri law placing a number of restrictions on abortion; Wulff v. Singleton, a case involving the question of whether doctors have legal standing to bring a suit concerning Medicaid payments for abortions, and 'Baird v. Bellotti, a Massachusetts case involving a parental consent law. The decisions prompted swift and severe criticism from Catholic officials and other pro-life figures. The statement of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin follows: "The report of further decisions in regard to abortions which have been recently handed
down by the Supreme Court of the United States should be reo ceived with chagrin and bitter disappointment. Once again we witness the weakening of respect for life and the furtherance of those immoral influences which seek to destroy the protection that has traditionally' surrounded family life. "I deplore the decisions of the Supreme Court which ruled against the requirement of a husband's consent in the instance where a wife would seek an abortion and against the requirement of at least one parent's consent before a single Turn to Page Three
Right-to-Life Convention Rev. Peter N. Graziano and Rev.. Thomas L. Rita of the Diocesan Department of Social Services, Rev. William W. Norton, St. Mary's parish, New Bedford, Dr, David Constantine, New Bedford, and Angela Nystrom, Jeanne Gilbert and Pamela Smith of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, were among thousands in attendance at the national Right-to-Life convention held last week in Boston. Referred to as "a new kind of Boston tea party," the convention brought together leaders of the right-to-life movement for some 82 workshops and meetings. A total of 119 speakers addressed the group on ways to further the movement's goal protection of life from its earliest beginnings until natural death. In addition to further education of the public on the abortion, euthanasia and related is-
sues, the organization's major goal is passage of a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution of the United State$. Such an amendment woUld protect human life from fertilization and regardless of age, health or condition of dependency. One of its effects would be to reverse the Supreme Court decision of 1973 which legalized abortion on demand. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, in a major convention address, said the abortion issue has divided people into two categories: "Biophilics, the lovers of life, and necrophilics, lovers of death." Outside the convention hall, BiN Baird, a militant crusader against birth control laws and anti-abortion legislation, staged a demonstration with a small group of his followers. They were met by a pro-life group led Turn to Page Four
closing as parochial schools in 1971. Purchase prices will go to the parishes involved. Sales transaction was completed at end of June, involved consultation of priests, parishioners, diocesan officials.
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In Silence God Awaits Our Coming
Extraordinary Ministers of Eucharist
Father Coughlin Recalls Career
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World Decapitate Child MANAGUA, NICARAGUA - U.S. Capuchin missionaries working here have documented fiv~ killings of campesinos by Nicaraguan soldiers, including the hanging of an eight-year-old boy who was also decapitated. The 33 missionaries also offered President Anastasio Somoza, head of the National Guard, a list of nearly 100 men, women and children whose whereabouts remain unknown after their arrest by his soldiers in the last six months.
Has Choice VATICAN CITY - Father Giovanni Franzoni, the controversial fonner abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul's Outside-theWall in Rome, has been ordered to sever his recent allegiance to the Communist party or be reduced to the lay state.
Never Said That DUBLIN - The Irish bishops have intervened in the debate over whether the Republic of Ireland should amend its constitution and laws to permit a more secular, pluralistic society. In a statement issued after their June meeting at Maynooth they said the principles peculiar to the Catholic faith should not be made binding on non-Catholics and pointed out tha't they had never suggested that the state should impose Catholic moral teaching on everyone.
He's Not Com'ing VATIGAN CITY -
Pope Paul VI definitely will not attend the 41st International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia in August, said Father Romeo " Panciroli; Vatican press spokesman, July 1. No reason was given for the decision, but Vatican sources note that the aging Pontiff suffers from arthritis and experiences considerable pain in walking.
New Editor LONDON-Richard Dowden, former assist-. ant secretary of the international justice and peace commission of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, has been appointed editor of the Catholic Herald, one of Britain's three national Catholic weeklies.
Five Pallottines Killed BUENOS AIRES - Terrorists killed three Pallottine priests and two seminarians at the
rectory of St. Patrick's parish here, bringing the death toll from polticial violence in Argentina to 582 this year. Parishioners said, however, that none of the victims was engaged in political activity' of any sort. The five are Pallottine Fathers Padro Dufau, 60, Alfin Kelly, 42, and Alfred Leaden, 60, and seminarians Salvador Barbeito and Emilio Balatti, both 25. The' seminarians. were studying to bec<?me Pallottine priests.
Can't Say Mass ROME - Cardinal Ugo Poletti, Pope Paul's VI's vicar for Rome, has forbidden Father Olindo del Donno, a priest from Bari who was elected to the Italian parlliamEmt on the Neo-Fascist ticket, to celebrate Mass.
Urge Black Autonomy ROME - A group of 18 Oblate priests in riot-torn Soweto and other black townships around Johannesburg have condemned the South African government's handling of recent black protest demonstrations there in which 140 were killed and more than 1,000 injured. The priests' statement also urged self-determination for blacks in South Africa and the establishment ,of a commission of inquiry to resolve theirgrievances.
National Deplore Veto ALBANY - New York's Gov. Hugh Carey has vetoed a bill, which would have required that parental consent be given before a girl under 18 could obtain an abortion. Carey vetoed the measure shortly before midnight of the day before it would have automatically passed into law had he taken no action. Following the veto, the New York State Catholic bishops issued a statement strongly criticizing the Catholic governor.
Bishop McManus NEW YORK - Redemptorist Bishop James E. McManus, former head of the Ponce diocese in Puerto Rico, who was instrumental in founding both the Catholic University of Puerto Rico and a Christian political party, has died in Long. Branch, N.J., at the a~ of 75.
St. Louis Auxiliary WASHINGTON - Pope Paul VI has named Father John Wurm auxiliary bishop of St. Louis. Father Wurm, 48,has been serving as associate superintendent of schools of the St. Louis archdiocese.
Give $50,000 NEW HAVEN - The Knights of Columbus, a 1.2 million-member Catholic fraternal society, has given $50,000 to the U.S. bishops' committee for Prolife Activities for the second year. , ,
The committee, chaired by Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York, will use the fund to help coordinate and strengthen its prolife projects throughout the United States.
To Perform PHILADELPHIA -
Actress Helen Hayes is among stars who will, perform at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress to be held here Aug. 1 through 8. Also to be present at the huge gathering are Prince Albert and Princess Grace of Monaco, Dorothy Day and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. . Interpreting the , central Eucharistic theme of the congress will be scores of musical and dramatic presentations to be offered at various locations in the Philadelphia area.
Supports UFWA SAN FRANCISCO - The Central Conference of American Rabbis unanimously approved a resolution supporting the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA) and the UFWA sponsored California farm labor initiative, at its annual convention here. The vote came after a personal appearance by Cesar Chavez, president of the UFWA, who expressed gratitude to the Jewish community for the support it gave him and the union in the early organizing effort.
Extra Mass SPRINGFIELD - Catholics here in Illinois have been asked to attend an extra Mass or make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament each week from now to the end of the year as part of their observance of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress. Every member has been encouraged to sign pledge cards to turn into the parish, while keeping a wallet size card as a reminder of his commitment. The card contains the Prayer for the Congress which parishioners are being urged to pray for the remainder of the year.
De Facto Equality NEW YORK - A recently retired assistant attorney general of Alaska, Dorothy Awes Haaland, was selected president of St. Joan's International Alliance, U.S. Section, it was announced here. In her acceptance speech, she reaffirmed the group's objectives "to secure legal and de facto equality between women and men in all fields: state, Church, and society."
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Bishop Hits Court Stand Continued from Page One woman under 18 could seek an abortion. "Directly procured abortion is always morally wrong with or without the consent of husband or parent. But to weaken further our moral standards as they should be reflected in law is' ethically reprehensible. "As Bishop of Fall River, I state once again my well-known, firm and unaJlterable s-tand against abortion, anp I urge men of good will everywhere to begin again to enshrine in private and public life those standar~s of morality so dear to our JudeoChristian heritage and so necessary for the moral fibre of our nation. Apparently we cannot look for this from decisions of the Supreme Court. This, however, is no excuse for neglecting our moral duties." The president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, called the ruling "a serious blow at parents and families." He said that the decision "makes abortion more constitutiona'lly significant than the right of parents to rear their children." "For more than a century before Jan. 22, 1973, abortion was a socially abhorrent crime pro. scribed by American law," the archbishop said. "Since that date - the date of the Supreme Court it has abortion decisions moved to the status of a highly favored constitutional 'right.' This about-face offends both logic and morality," he went on. The decision "gives abortion precedence over the right of husbands to participate fully in all decisions affecting their marriages," and will "remove an important, intimate aspect of decision-making from the family and lodge it with third parties totally unrelated to the fami'iy," the Cincinnati archbishop added.
Nine Priests ROME (NC) - Bishop Thomas Nantha of Vientiane, capital of Laos, said in a letter that reached here recently that only nine priests are left in the northElrn half of Laos to minister to more than 23,000 Catholics. Bishop Nantha, ·added that one of the nine has been "deprived of all liberty for several months now." The last of about 100 missionary priests were expelled from Laos in April.
Necrology JULY 16 Rev. Bernard Percot, O.P., 1937, Founder, St. Dominic, Swansea JULY 17 Rev. William J. Smith, 1960, Pastor, St. James, Taunton JULY 18 Rev. Adalbert Szklanny, 1968, St. Patrick, Fall River JULY 19 Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, D.D., 1934, 2nd Bishop of Fall River 1907-i4 THE ANCHOR
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Ellen McCormack, the Merrick, N. Y., housewife who campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination largely on the abortion issue, called it "The most horrendous decision they have yet made." Calling it "a terrible intrusion," Mrs. McCormack - who : received about 2<10,000 votes in the Democratic primary campaign - asked: "What agency of the state will act as mother to the 13-year-old who has just had an abortion? Whom will she turn to?" "Please God, the people will rise up when they realize what this decision meanl1," she added.
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ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO Senior citizens will hold a card party at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in the parish hall. Hams, turkeys and bottles of cheer are needed for the summer festival to be held the weekend of July 23 through 25. Donors may contact the rectory. HOLY TRINITY, WEST HARWICH A summer fair will be held at the church hall from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday,. July 14. Items handmade by parishioners will include knit goods, stuffed animals, toys, aprons, novelties and Christmas decorations. Home-baked foods will be available and· there will be a refreshment booth. Also featured will be a white elephant table. OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION, NEW BEDFORD The annual Father Edmund Memorial Picnic and Dance will take place from 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday, July 11, with music by the Mike Cabral Combo, disco music for teenagers, games and prizes for all. Bus transportation to the picnic grounds from the church will be available. HOLY REDEEMER, CHATHAM A Bicentennial summer fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, July 16 at the church hall and grounds on Highland Avenue. Features will include Christmas gift items, gourmet foods for summer entertaining, boutique specialties, "good-as-new junque," toys and jewelry. Also available will be handmade knit and cro'chet items, books and aprons. A snack bar wiU be open. Special attractions will be Chatham Bicentennial pendants, a bride doll with 16 handmade costumes and a green thumb . booth.
CHICAGO (!'IC) - Declaring that the "real problem in the Church is the problem of spirituality," the director of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Human Developmen( urged members of Serra International to "turn the world OIi to the spiritual life." If that happened "it wouldn't be long before we'd be experiencing a. different world" said Vather Vincent Dwyer. "I wish I could ignite you to see what you can do to change the world." MA'ITER OF PRINCIPLE: Michael McKee, St.' Paul, Father Dwyer was a keynote speaker at the 34th convention Minn., hugs Mark, youngest of his five children. McKee has of Serra International, a 12,500- refused to pay county property taxes because part of money member organization which fos- is used for welfare abortions. His family now faces loss ters religious ,"ocations and of their home. (NC Photo) trains Catholic lay leadership. Some 1,500 members from throughout the world attended the convention here. They inThe abortion act provides that cluded Rev. James ·F. McCarthy, LONDON {NC) - A Cathpastor of Holy Family parish, olic gynecologist has declared doctors need not perform aborTaunton, and Quinlan F. Leary, he was forced to leave Britain tions if they have conscientious Sacred Heart parish, Fa'll River. in order to practice medicine be- objections to the procedure. The priest said that the mes- . case his right to "object conNo Appointments sage of the Second Vatican scientiously" to abortion "has Last year, however, a memCouncil was to renew spiritual been made a mockery." orandum from the chief medical life. He said Serra clubs can beWriting in the British Mediofficer of the Department of come the vehicle to unite the cal Journal, Dr. R. Walley, now Lost Our Way whole Church, "to bring it back on the staff of Memorial Univer- Health and Social Security sug"The false optimism, tlie modthat in order to ensure gested to a spritual renewal." sity in Newfoundland, claimed that all women have the same ern happiness, tires us because it that soon after Britain's 1967 "Young people are thirsting opportunity to obtain an abor- tells us we fit into this world. for spirituality," he said. "To Abortion Act came into effect ti,on, doctors with a conscien- The true happiness is that we he found that university appoint-whom do they go? Do you f;el tious objection to carrying out don't fit. We come from someconfident if your son or daughter ments committees started ask- aJbortions should not be appoint- where else. We have lost our came to talk to you about tran- ing candidates for their views ed to certain posts. way."-G.K. Chesterton scendental meditation or prayer? on abortion.. Could you really handle that?" No Place Father Dwyer scored seminaDr. Walley claimed he was ries for failure to train students told there was no place for him in spirituality and he recom- in the National Health Service mended that they place a greater (NHS) when he explained he emphasis on mystics and the had a conscientious objection to IIlnsurance of All Kinds l l saints. abortion.
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This past week, the people of the nation have been asked to accept a contradiction: on one hand, they are urged_to a rededication of national purpose for the upholding of the God-given rights to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; on the other, they are asked to accept the Supreme Court ruling that ignores developing life and makes the first three months of life before birth a matter between the mother and her physician. The right to life apparently does not go into force until some time later,' according to a majority of the learned justices. And so the right to life is pontificated over by the Supreme Court, arid the decision is left to the convenience of the mother and the "practice of "medicine?" of the physician. By what strange process of reasoning does a human being with a separate genetic identity have to depend on existence itself according to the whim or convenience of another person? Does not this ~mack of the very evil that this country was founded to fight? For human life, no matter what the circumstances of its beginnings, once begun is sacred. And if it is not sacred at that moment and through every other moment of its existence, then it indeed lives no more by right but by the will of others. And this . subjects human life to all sorts of unworthy pressures political, racial, experimental. Human life becomes not a right but a selection, and the power to say who will live and who will die - with innocence having nothing to do with the matter - is given into the hands of second and third parties. The argument is used - a woman should have control over her own body. But that is precisely the point: the unborn life is not her body but the body of another, dependent, to be sure, upon her, but genetically different from her and unique in itself. This body possesses the hallmarks of life - it can be distinguished from every other life and it can reproduce dying cells. It has two futures open to it - to become a live human being or a dead human fetus. It needs only nourishment and development. But the Supreme Court has discounted all of this. How far does the outrage have to go, how racked do the 'consciences of Americans have to be, how much more moral damage to the spiritual fibre of the nation before the Court catches up with the realities of the matter? And the. letter and the intent of the Declaration of Independence with its unalienable right to life? Or is this high-sounding verbiage to be trotted out on solemn national occasions and relegated to the Department of Historical Archives when it comes to the day-today living of life? Which brings us back to the question again - who lives? And by what right? Or by whose judgement? Whim? Convenience?
The Mood A sentiment expressed again and again through the Bicentennial weekend was one of relaxation. People just seem fed up with violence and with hostility. America is looking for reconciliation. The turmoil of the 1960's has taken its toll and now the mood of the country is - not apathy, but the desire to grow in peace and tranquility. Such a mood must never be an excuse to put off needed programs of action or to put aside the injustices that cry for redress. But it is to be hoped that such a mood will spark a new reverence for life, a new desire and working for peace, a serious search for harmony, within oneself and with neighbor and in this land and throughout the world. I
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Continued from Page One , by the St. Alphonsis young adult choir of St. Louis, who sang "All We Are Saying Is Give Life a Chance." Cardinal Humberto Medeiros presented Archbishop Sheen to the cheering audience as "a great man {If God ... with {lne of the greatest minds and hearts in America," He called upon peop'le of good will everywhere to be defenders of the "unalienable right to life" guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution." Dr. Mildred Jefferson of Boston's University Hospital, who was re-elected president of the National Right to Life Committee, shared the platf{lrm with Archbishop Sheen. Dr. Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, warned in her brief remarks of "numerous efforts" to block the voices of pro-life advocates. She said; "It is time to place children on the endangered species list" of environmentalists.
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Two locks . . . on a metal shield. . covering a shop window . ',' on a city street. . Locks . . . instruments of security . . . indicators of risk . . . signs of fear . . . in a world of real and imagined threats . . . against one's property . . .one's person . . . one's loved ones. Locks ... symbols, too ... of spiritual closedness ... of selfishness . . . that locks one inside oneself . . . sealed off from God ... insensitive to other's feelings ... irresponsive to other's needs self-contained ... self-satisfied ... seemingly secure locked inside. To break such locks . . . of mind and spirit . . . Jesus comes to us . . . in life's joys and sorrows ... in friends and foes . . . in the poor and hungry . . . saying . . . . "Here I stand ... knocking at the door... If anyone hears me calling. . . and, opens the door . . . I will enter his house . . . and have supper with him and he with me" (Revelation 3:20).
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VVashi~~;~~Report WASHINGTON (NC) - Following an emotional floor debate, the Senate has voted to remove a ban on the use of federal funds to perform, encourage or promote abortions. The ban had been 'added to an appropriations bill for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare by the House in a 199-165 vote. Sen. Robert Packwood (ROre.) made a motion to drop the ban. A motion to table - kill Packwood's amendment 'was defeated 55-27 and Packwood's amendment itself passed 57-28. The vote marked the third time in the past two years the Senate has !lcted on a proposed ban on the use of federal funds for abortions through Medicaid and other' government health programs. The first" time, in September, 1974, the Senate approved ,a ban by a 50-34 vote, but the provision was dropped in a con~ ference with the House which had not voted on a ban. Last year, the ban was defeated 54-36. This year marked the first time a ban was approved by the House.
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Continued from Page One strong in its historical and logical consistency with the "deposit of teaching" confided to the Church of Peter." ' This is not self-glorification. withdrawal, or lack of understanding of the development of human thought, he said. "Rather. it is faithfulness to divine thought, and, therefore, truth and life, even for our own times." At the beginning of his talk, the Pope alluded to the authenticity of the relics of Sts. Peter and Paul under the main altar of the basilica, and he recalled to the 20,000 people attending the Mass that they were both "witnesses to our faith." "Every Christian," he said, "according to his personal and social situation, should be a wit路 ness to Christ, whatever he may be, child, adolescent, man or woman. Nothing, neither occupation, impediments or illness can dispense from this duty . . . which is our common vocation." In closing, he asked the people for a prayer, "that this humble successor of Sts. Peter and Paul may be faithful to this most burdensome office which is ours, for the good of both the Church and the world."
The ban was originally introduced in the Senate by Sen. Dewey Bartlett (R-Okla.) The new ban in the House was introduced by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-UI.) Pastore Supports Ban Supporters of the ban on the use of federal funds for abortion, through Medicaid and other programs, argue that tax money should not be used for a procedure many Americans believe is immoral. Opponents of the ban argue that it would discriminate against the poor by making it more difficult for them to obtain a:f>ortion than for wealthier women. Sen. John Pastore (D-R.I.) who supported the fund ban, told Packwood, "You have a perfect right to disagree with me on this highly moral question if you believe in abortion. It happens that I do not. "All I am saying is that the American .public is split down the middle. Do not split them any more and keep public funds out of it. That is all I am saying."
Tax Deduction WASHiNGTON (NC) - Sen. James L. Buckley {R-Cons.-N.Y.) plans to propose a tax deduction for tuition paid to nonpublic schools as an amendment to the tax reform bill now being considered by the Senate, a spokesman f{)f Buckley said.
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Role of Spiritual Vital in Healing TAMPA (NC)-The medical profession must consider the role of the spiritual in its overall approach to healing, according to a priest-physician who heads the newly formed Association of Christian Therapists. Speaking to about 70 doctors and medical paraprofessionals at the association's first national conference here, Father Alfred A. Fredette of St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, said the aim was not to replace traditional medical practice with prayer alone. "This has nothing to do with charismatic prayer as a total healing process, said Father Fredette, "because" common sense dictates that people see their doctors regularly and follow their orders religiously." Instead, "What we are attempting to do is examine Scripture and determine theologically the aspect of bringing a prayer dimension into the healing profession," he said. The association is predominantly Catholic. It was formed at a retreat house in Staten Island, N. Y., last August, when about 180 medical professionals met to consider "the complementing of the medical and spiritual in ... the healing ministry," according to Father Fredette. Pointing to the situation at St. Vincent's, Father Fredette noted that as the number of nursing sisters decreased, their function began to fall on others. Doctors and clergymen "began to take a keener interest in the total' patient care picture."
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by (above) Bishop Daniel A. What they found, he said, was the "loss, over the cenfNJOY IERT QUACKE.IACK turies, of the anointing, the healing prayer, that had been Cronin as he blesses patient • JAGUARS given to patients by others than the medical professionals. • COUGARS Doctors needed to humanize technology annd communica- at Rose Hawthorne Lathrop • WOLF tions, and establish more personal relationships." •• EMU LLAMA and morel The Christian therapy group is "in the organizational HOIll;e, Fall River; and (beThe_,_1 ""NO riA YlNG DUCIC process right now, and this first national meeting was called fAMILIES WllO PUT to discuss and establish our criteria and objectives," Father low) by Sister Rita Marie, TOGmlfI Will STAl·TOGlTllE., Fredette noted. The conferees heard others including Father Francis O.P., member of pastoral AQUA-CIRCUS McNutt, Father Paul Schaff and Sister Jean Hill testify to THIS COUPON WILL ADMIT ONE CHILD U the acceleration of the healing process when the spiritual care team at St. Anne's Hos• PONY RIDES .. needs of patients a"re met through counseling and prayer. -fomouoDoctors Rudolph and Alphonse Calabrese, brothers who pital, Fall River. CHANDLER SMELL EXHIIIT operate the Christian Institute for ,Psychotherapeutic Studies in Hicksville, N. Y., explained their use of prayer in healing. Both men had been in practice on New York's Park Ave., and both had lost the Catholic faith. I After being introduced to the charismatic movement, Alphonse Calabrese said he "received a whole new feeling TATAKET HOUSE" RESTAURANT! of ministry; my work has become a vocation." I His brother called himself "more hypocritical. I was EAST MAIN STREET • FALMOUTH, MASS. still attending church, but not really believing. I got into Next To Executive Motel the movement with a great deal of trepidation," he said, but after listening to Father McNutt, "I really began to understand." Serving Breakfast Luncheon' and Dinner The brothers are training others in the medical.field to "expand the work of Christian social therapy," according to Featuring A Wide Variety of Seafood Delicacies, Poultry Rudolph Calabrese. , And Choice Beef Entrees He scored "the philosophy of selfishness," and "the effects of hedonism in our culture." OPEN 7:00 A.M. • 10:00 P.M, TEL. 548-4028 "What is happening now is a move in the direction of Cocktails With Luncheon and Dinner returning faith in God to what is essentially a moral profession," he declared.
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While we are experiencing one of the muggiest spells imaginable, it is difficult to, concentrate on summer clothes, never mind winter ones, but as anyone in the business of fashion knows clothing is always ahead of itself. If you want the best of bathing suits, then buy in January, active life there will be the unlined and simple easy shape that the top of the summer is perfect for a busy schedule. dresses, at least April, and There will be glorious colors
My little mongoloid daughter, Bobbie, is now nine years old. Although retarded, she attends our local public school, in a special class; For some subjects she goes to the regular sessions and for others she takes individual instruction. She's doing well, reading on So she's learned to compena second grade level, and dosate by playing with imaginary ing math compar~e to first friends, and fortunately has a grade. She's proving what good grasp of the difference
I've pelieved about her for Years. She can learn . . . it just takes her a little longer. Mongoloids vary greatly in their capabilities,
between "real" and "imaginary." We have a little playhouse in our yard. The other (,iay Bobbie MRS. ELLEN MecORMACK was alone there, and chattering a mile a minute. I went to find out what was going on. "Mommy, meet Linda." I acknowledged the introduction, and had a bit of conversation with the imaginary "Linda." WASHINGTON (NC) A 8y Bobbie explained that she was letter-writing campaign, demonthe baby sitter, and Linda was strations, a television commerMARY the little girl she was taking cial, delegate-hunting and just care of. plain politics are being focused CARSON I asked Bobbie if Linda was on removing the abortion plank being a good little girl, and she from the platform at the Demoassured me she was. cra1ic party's national convenI explained to Bobbie the im- ,tion in New York on July 12-15. and Bobbie is particularly forportance of the baby Sitter taktunate. ~ut opponents of the plank . A parent might remind a nor- ing good care of the little one. are not optimistic about their mal toddler 50 times before "Be careful she doesn't wander chances. "please" and "thank you" be- away. Don't '!et her run in the The plank says: "We fully come automatic. We may have street." recognize the religious and ethThe playhouse was full of ical nature of the concerns reminded Bobbie 500 times, but , once ingrained, the habits stay kindling from a nearby woodpile. which many Americans have on with her better than they do a (One of Bobbie's favorite games the subject of abortion. We feel, is taking the kindling, building however, th\it it is undesirable to路 normal child. Getting her to help with a "fire," and "cooking out." attempt to amend the United household chores has been an- One of her least favorite games States Constitution to overturn other story. When she was very is putting all the wood back.) the Supreme Court decision in The Holy Spirit must have this area," . little she. really wasn't capable. As she's gotten older, she is able been working double time. Along If efforts to remove the plank . . . but as with most children, with the instructions to the goof! fail, according to Msgr. James as soon as they are able, they baby sitter, I mentioned, "You McHgh, director of the Bishops' lose enthusiasm. It's tough to know, when Linda's Mommy Committee for Pro-Life and comes home, she will like to see Population Affairs, "the only keep her on a job. We have a system of rotating the house all cleaned up. If thing 'left for loyal Democrats chores among the children. you're a good baby sitter, you to do will be to personally disBobbie does a marvelous job set- won't 'let Linda leave this wood sent from that part of the platting the table when it's her turn. all over the place. Before you . form." Effprts to have the abortion When it's. not, she's also learned, finish, you make sure Linda picks up all the wood, and puts it plank removed from the plat"That's not my job." Sometimes she'll start to put back. That's what a good baby form are taking shape in several ways: her clean 'laundry away, decide sitter would do," I went back into the' kitchen to rearrange her dresser, remove -The National Committee everything and then get dis- to continue making supper. for 'a Human Life Amendment, Ten minutes later. Bobbie which is f.unded primarily by the tracted, tired, or just plain 'lazy. I'll get after her to clean it up. came in. "I'm taking Linda to U.S. Catholic bishops, has launShe's quick to answer, "I can't watch 'The Electric Company' ched a letter-writing campaign till her Mommy comes," do that." to pressure Carter. 1 went to check the playhouse. Actually, she can do it. It - 130,000 demonstrators are just takes someone else working Every scrap of wood was picked expected to take part in a prowith her to keep her on the job up . . . and the playhouse was life march and rally at the Demswept clean!路 until it's done. o'cratic National Convention in One thing makes me feel bad. New York City in protest She frequently路 plays' alone. It's one of the handicaps of being It's such a marvelous bit of psy- against the Democratic Party's retarded. Children her own age chology. Why didn't I think of inclusion of a pro-abortion posiare much "older." Younger chil- it 20 years ago? I'll bet it tion in its platform. Ellen Mcdren aren't always free to play would have worked on my "nor- Cormack, the pro-life Democrama'!" kids too! when she is. tic presidentia~ candidate, is slated to be the grand marshall of the march. The march and rally are scheduled to be held Oil Sunday, July II, fro.m noon to 4 p.m. with the AND march going from Central Park to Madison Square Garden. The date is the day before the convention formally opens to adopt lQ91 Kempton St. New Bedford, Mass. its final platform and nominate its candidate for President. The Democratic platform as it. now stands states, "We fully rec~gnize the religious and ethical nature of the concerns which many Americans have on the subject of abortion. We feel FOR INFORMATION however that it is undesirable to attempt to amend the U. S. CALL TOLL FREE Constitution to overturn the 1:.800-642-7580 Supreme Court decision in this area,"
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the cream of the fall crop, July. In April in New York there was a very grand fashion show indicating what we will be wearing for Fall '76 and the news has now begun to leak down into the outlying fashion districts. If you find tunics interesting then there will :be a lot of soft tunics worn over even softer skirts. The very long and narrow ones will be worn over pants. Because many of these tunics are very, very slender they have been slit at the sides for more ease and of course a bit of the oriental look. Those of us who have enjoyed skirts this past year will be delighted to find that they are still in fashion, and those for fall will be gathered softly, with matching vests and a definite waistline. Glorious Colors Suits ~re going to be very importantand many will be unmatched. There are blazers in plaid, for instance, with heathered skirt and vest, .or the reverse combination. If you prefer your suits with slacks, don't despair, because they can be had this way too. For the more adventurous, many of the slacks will have drawstring bottoms for a new rounded effect that I'm sure the young will adopt. Coats, one of our most important winter buys, will vary from bulky shapes, and for the more
as well as winter whites from cream to frosty. Neutra'ls will be grey, taupe, beige, brown and surprise for winter, new sherbet shades. Where last year there were a great many earthy tones, primary colors will abound for winter '76. While I enjoy viewing new styles, I do hope that there is not a return to the costumey look that took over a few years back. The return to the classics has been most welcome. Those of us who e'njoy a well-tailored suit, a sweater with a touch of cashmere and a dress that is womanly have found the latest fashions all we want, and I for one certainly hope they remain. Gimmicky fashions are only for the very young!
Prayer Renewa I Centers Listed ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) - The first Annual Directory of Houses of Prayer has been issued by the publisher of a newsletter for priests and Religious. Clarity Publishing, Inc., an-' nounced that the directory lists 75 centers for prayer renewal in the United States and Canada and one in Israel. The directory provides a source of places designating themselves as houses of prayer - centers of contemplative living "which are not cloistered and maintain an apostolate of hospitality," In addition to the alphabetical listing, there are five appendices in the directory, listing houses of prayer by state or Canadian province; those offering hermitage possibilities; centers accepting primari'ly women guests and those offering programs primarily to men, in addition to a list of houses of prayer which in the main serve a single community. congregation or order.
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Thurs., July 8, 1976
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The survey of readers' by' the Catholic Universe Bulletin, the diocesan newspaper, found ·that 37 percent of respondents considered sermons "fair" and 21.7 percent "poor," Other ratings were "good," 19,2 percent; "very good," 13.2 percent and "excellent," 7.1 percent. There were about 850 responses to the survey. The survey found that 51.6 percent of the respondents said preaching "sometimes" helps them know Christ better; 18.6 percent said it "never" does; 18.9 percent said it "often" does and 8 percent said it "always" does.
Billy Graham? Only 7.1 percent said preach"always" gives them a better understaonding of their faith in the world today; 15.9 percent .said it "often" does; 47 percent said it "sometimes" does; and 27.1 percent said it never does. ~ng
BICENTENNIAL QUILT RAFFLE will be highlight of Our Lady of Grace parish picnic, to be held from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 1 at St. Vincent de Paul Camp, Westport. Also on agenda for North Westport parishioners will be chicken barbecue, children's mini-carnival, flea market, plant sale, sports and swimming. From left, presenting quilt to parish for the raffle, are Mariette St. Pierre, quilt project chairperson for Council of Catholic Women; William Baraby, picnic chairperson, Rev. Edmond R. Levesque, pastor; Rev. William L. Boffa, assistant; Phyllis Chrupcala, council president.
Vatioan Says Ordination of W'om1en Being Studied
Asked whether preaching moves them to lead a more Christian life, 8.6 percent said it "always" does; 18.1 percent, "often"; 48.7 percent "sometimes"; and 19.3 percent "never,"
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican is studying the question of the priestly ordination of women but "the study of a question does not imply that any change is foreseen in the matter under consideration," a Vatican spokesman said.
Among suggestions for improving sermons were courses in public speaking, brevity, a sense of humor, use of a Billy Graham approach, and permitting lay persons to give a sermon occasionally.
"With regard to the priestly
Most respondents, 68.1 percent, were married, in the 30-60 age bracket, and had a hfgh school education or beyond. Most had had at least eight years of Catholic education.
CTSA Has First Woman P,.,esident
Mom,s Honored At St. J0geph's Moms had their days recently at St. Joseph's School, New Bedford, as "volunteer mothers," headed by Mrs. Daniel Costa, were honored at a pot luck lunch in the school cafeteria at which Rev. Roger LeDuc, in charge of the school, expressed his thanks for their service, going into its third year.
A native of Yorkshire, England, Sister Cunningham holds advanced degrees from Marquette University, Milwaukee, and Facultes Catholiques, Lyons, France. She serves on the executive council of the National Couucil of Churches' Commission on Faith and 9rder.
Pope Paul VI has said that the Church cannot ordain women to the priesthood. Recently a document in which the Pontifical Biblical Commission said that scriptural grounds alone do not warrant excluding
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WASHINGTON (NC - The Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) has chosen a woman as its new vice president, a position from which she will atomatically move up to the presidency next year. Sister Agnes Cunningham, S.S.C.M., chairma,n of the department of historical theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, III., defeated Franciscan Father Kenan Osborne of Berkeley, Calif., to become the first non-priest' ever slated to head the organization.
ordination of women, the study is concerned simply with the way to present the teaching and traditional 'practice of the Church, which have been clearly expressed many times· by the Holy Father," said the statement released by Father Romeo Panciroli, interim director of the Vatican press offic~.
The moms supervise schoolyard, lunchrooms and study halls during recess and lunch periods, with their schedules coordinated by Mrs. Costa. S{)me, she said, are mothers of current pupils, but others, whose families are grown, come simply because "they love children and have time to share," As well as at the lunch, the mothers were honored by a bicentennial "hats-off" bulletin board display in the school, which featured an Uncle Sam hat tipped in tribute to them.
women from the priesthood was made public here. The Vatican press office statement was released in response to journalists' questions.
Rev. WilHam Ribando, CSC, former chairman of the theology department, of King's College. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was elected provincial superior of the Holy Cross Fathers' Eastern Province at elections held in North Easton. He had been acting provincial for the past 18 months to fill an unexpired term. From headquarters in Bridgeport, Conn. he will supervise the • work of more than 200 Holy Cross priests 'and brothers in 10 northeastern states, along with missionaries in several foreign countries, military chaplains, and priests in this country. A native of Williamsport, he received an AB in philosophy from StonehiH College and STB and STL degrees in theology from the Gregorian University, Rome. He was awarded a doctorate in theology from the Catholic University of America in 1970. !Named to the provincial council were Rev. James Doyle, CSC, and Brother James Miller, CSC. Rev. Frank Roche, CSC, was elected assistant provincial treasurer. All are associated with King's College.
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Opposes March of Dimes BOSTON (NC) - The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has passed a resolution opposing the policies of the National Foundation - March of Dimes and pledging noncooperation with the anti-birth defects organization. The lengthy resolution lauded the foundation for some of its programs, but requested it "to discontinue that portion of its . activities that screens for birth . defects unless· the purpose is to enhance and continue the life and well-being of the unborn child."
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FALMOUTH ST. PATRICK 'Schedule effective weekend of June 26-27 Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 and 5:30 P.M. Saturday Eve-5:30 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM.· Saturdays 8:00 A.M.
FALMOUTH HEIGHTS ST. THOMAS CHAPEL Schedule effective weekend of June 26-27 Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, \1: 15 A.M. . Saturday-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM.
HYANNIS ST. FRANCIS XAVIER Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, II :00, 12:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. and 12:10. P.~.
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WEST HARWICH HOLY TRINITY . Sched.ule effective July 3 • Sept. 12 Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:30, and 12 Noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:00 P.M. Confessions: Saturday 4:00' and 7:45 P.M. DENNISPORT UPPER COUNTY ROAD OUR LADY OF THE ANNUNCIATION Schedule effective July 3 - Sept. 12 Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M. Confessions: Saturday-3:45 P.M. WOODS HOLE ST. JOSEPH Schedule effective June 19-20 thru Labor Day Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (9:00 A.M. Sat. only) Co~fessions: ~ hour before Sunday Masses NORTH FALMOUTH (Meg.nsett) IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Schedule effecti'ofe June 19-20 thru Labor Day Masses: Sunday--...s:OO, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. Saturda, Eve.-4:15 and 5:30 P.M. Daily-9:00 AM. Confessions: ~ hour before Sunday Masses
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IN ALTIPLANO: Campesinos of Bolivian altiplano where Father Donald J. Bowen serves as St. James Missionary arrive for festive gathering By Rev. Donald Bowen The Indians of the Bolivian altiplano, with whom I have worked and lived since 1973, are a people whose ~ife beats closely with the rhythms of the earth and whose welfare is held from year to year in the caprices of its yield. In their land, a vast stillness hovers over the craggy hills, adding to the secrets they hold and sealing them with peace. The quiet is broken only by the wind rushing past like unseen ghosts. Great silences separate one village from another. The slightest motion of someone in a remote field or on a distant ridge becomes a singular event interrupting the emptiness like a tiny sail arising from the flat horizon of the sea. Maybe this explains why the passing of strangers in the campo, the Bolivian countryside, isalways the occasion for a warm and friendly greeting. It is indeed something out of the ordinary because the distances Which separate people serve to restore to each individual the preciousness he holds for the other, even in a fleeting enoounter. Such surroundings, matched by the way of life here, lend themselves easily to a new experiencing of solitude and alone-' ness. This is something quite different from more familiar patterns of urban and industrial me where we often shy away from solitude because it frightens us. 0
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Here there is no escaping it. One is dwarfed in the vast aUencompassing reacH of a land that shrouds itself in the El{ldless passing of days and weeks and seasons. The people, however, give unmistakable testimony to the values inherent in their way of life. There is among them a constant, child-like reverence and wonder for the wind, the rain, the mountains, the eternal motherhood of the earth, the year-in and year-out cycle of patient growing and harvesting, and finally for the unanswerable questions of being born and dying. They have kept an element often lost today in our quick access to packaged or canned goods, shelved and waiting for us where they can be had as an easy purchase, well distanced from the once Hving story of their origins. This cheats and robs us of something for which we are the poorer. The campesinos live in a manner where both the nearness and -beyondness of things meet in a simple, unmolested world. Life in the campo assumes a
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deeper within the recesses of his own being where ultimately, however weakly at first, the and aloneness growing out of the campo allows one to move God who has and continues to meet us there can be found. In that interior and pathless 0
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faith, prayer, and a spiritual awakening find their beginnings. New Delight Contrary to what might be expected, this brings a new capacity for knowing 掳and becoming present to so much that exists outside of ourselves also. Such solitude offers the advantage of establishing ourselves at a respectful distance from common day to day business so that things often crowded out of our lives can lay a claim on our consciousness. Entering there at their own leisure they gain a freedom for speaking to us in a new way and disclos.ing treasures that have previously remained hidden from us. Solitude thus creates and encourages a place for growing together in a more intimate acquaintance with all that surrounds us. A new delight and fresh wonder for everything can take root there without fear of being called upon to serve other ends. I see the plains and the mountains and the rivers. They should be the same every day, and still they're not. There is an unspoken mystery to their presence that is new each time 0
I stand before them, like the waves of the sea that to an unquickened spirit can appear to be nothing more than a dull, monotonous, unchanging motion burdened by a constant sameness. But in truth the reality is always new, ever changing, ever capable of路 revealing itself more and more. And so it is that here in the campo communication easily unfolds .between one's self and the world about. This kind of solitude should not be mistaken for isolation. Rather it proves to be the 掳necessary prerequisite to arriving at a genuine desire for community. Testing of this aloneness and solitude cannot but help us also to participate in and understand better the loneliness of the aged. the sick and dying, the widowed and divorced and abandoned, the powerless, the imprisoned, the exile and the refugee, the minorities, the poor, and the illiterate who all in one way or another suffer a lonely exclusion from each day's passing events and from the forces that determine them. This movement outwards to others must begin, however, in the quiet depth of our own spirit, in that secluded privacy where we first allow ourselves to be called by God and to be touch~d by Him in the uncopied way by which he names each of us personally with the exciteTurn to Page Fifteen
Fortunato Cuaquira, Mrs. Cuaquira and couple's children. Catechists extend service of missioner throughout vast area he serves.
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Says Figures on Untaught Children Are Misleading
Civil'Righters Say Busing Measure 'of Last Resort
The leadership of the American church quotes statistics like the Devil quotes scripture. The latest bit of statistical flim-fIam is the datum that "six million" Catholic children receive no religious instruction at all. The statistic itself is dubious in its precision; in In 1963, the "unchurched" fact, it is little more than a the fallen away and the nonguess. Even more dubious is practicing - were about 17 perthe implication that the phe-, cent of the Catholic population.
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.gious instruction in 1963, it was about one-third. But the worst part of the phony statistic is the picture it implies of millions of children eagerly waiting for religious instruction and to whom the church is not reaching out with the saving word of God. It is one more weapon against Catholic schools, for the implication is that if the money that goes to the schools were turned over to CCD, they would go into the highways and byways and set up programs for those who currently want them but don't get them. In fact, the use of the quotation by bishops is a tribute to the ability of the CCD partisans to keep Catholic schools on the defensive and to engage in immoral blackmail in the name of their superior zeal for spreading the gospel. You will note, incidentally, that no one ever says who the s~ million kids are, where they live, from what ethnic backp,round they come, or - most critically - what the likelihood of their attending any religious instruction program might be. Those who toss the datum around do not know and apparently don't even feel the need to know. You have to wonder about either their sincerity or their intelligence. Well,' I know who they are, and if the CCD folk want to find out, they're going to have to pay for the analysis and the report, as I am tired of provid~g free research for the church only to have it distorted beyond recognition. Children of Unchurched But I'll give them one hint: most of the children who receive no religious instruction are the sons and daughters of the unchurched - those who were born Catholic but no longer define themselves as such, or who still define themselves as Catholic but no longer go to church 'even once a year. If such young people are not getting religious instruction, the reason usually is that their parents don't want it. All the CCD programs in the world will not change that fact.
Now they are more than 35 percent. The pertinent question is not the providing of religious instruction classes for their children but to reclaim them for the church. I would suggest that American Catholics have not even begun to think about the problem, much less to research its causes or to initiate programs. However, if all the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in preparation of the catechetical directory (which even the bishops will not read) had been used instead to stu.dy the unchurched, we might begin to know something about why they have gone forth from the body of the faithful and what it might take to get them to return.
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Salt of Earth Dear Editor: I would like to inform the people of the area about the National Right to Life Convention held in Boston. My deepest impressions were not simply that pro-lifers' are anti-abortion but that they are the salt of the earth and work for not only the unborn hut for the girl with the problem of pregnancy and the unwanted and old and the betterment of society as a whole. That the salt of the earth people are great and small, young and old and in between. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, black and white and yellow. They are people who live 'life and live it to the fullest. People who care and make great sacrifices for our future. The pro-life movement is growing into a revolution in this country and indeed throughout the world: a revolution that will save lives, not destroy them. As our forefathers fought to gain us freedom and justice for all, so too, let us join in the new revolution for the right to life of all Americans. Let .each of us stand and be counted, for we are either for .life路 or against it. We either work for the right to life or by our silence we work against 'life. The convention ended in historic Faneuil Hall, where I came across a quote from Thomas Jefferson, "The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first, and only legitimate object of ,good government." Mrs. Rosemary L. Achin 'Chairman, Wareham Buzzards Bay Chapter Mass. Citizens for Life Inc.
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Recently President Gerald Ford met for 90 minutes at the White House with a delegation of 16 civil rights leaders (representing more than 100 national organizations) to talk about the Administration's proposed anti-busing measures. I took part in this meeting as segregated schools and then only a member of the executive in a limited number of school committee for the Leader- districts. As 'one who meets with ship Conference on Civil them frequently on a variety of J UBI LA R I AN: Father Norman DuKette, 85, oldest black priest in America, celebrated his 50th anniversary' as a priest.
List Eucharistic Ministers Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist recently commissioned by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin totaled 104, serving all areas of the diocese. Their names and parishes follow: Fall River Area St.' Anne: .Andre A. Plante, Joseph E. Toole; SS. Peter and Paul: Edmond Audette, Edmond Machado, Sister Leona Mistoe, RSM, Edward D. Tyrell; St. Stanislaus: Jean Drzal, Ernest Krupa, Frank Mis, Fernando Nobrega, Chester P. Szargowicz, Sister Mary Felicita Zdrojewski, CSSF; St. Louis de France, Swansea: A'lbert J. Couture, Armand A. Francoeur, l\oland A. Moses; St. George, Westport: . Sister Jacqueline Kirouac, CSC, Sister Florence Sabourin, CSC. New Bedford Area St. James: Edward MacKay, Leonard L. O'Brien, James M. King, James L. Giblin; St. Lawrence: Elmer C. Cunningham, John J. Finni, Emile J. Monfils, Sister Mary ElizaJbeth McNiff, RSM; St. Joseph, Fairhaven: Manuel Brun, John B. Davidson, Mrs.. Dorothy Fortin, Mrs. Delphine B. Lanagan; St. Julie, North Dartmouth: Gerald Hickey, Claude Lamontagne. Attleboro Area St. Mark, Attleboro I:a'lls: WiI'liam Connelly, Albert Gallant; Aime Joseph Grenier; St. Mary, Seekonk: Joseph Gerald Philip Lanoue, Ernest Wilfred Trahan; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk: Alfred R. Benoit, John I. Brown, William O'Neil, Leo William Tasca; St. Theresa, South Attleboro: Sister LuciHe Hotte, CSC. Cape Area Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster: Brother Richard Denomme, MS; St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay: John Gordon, Neil McCallion, Gordo E. Oliosi, Arthur E. Wills; Our Lady of Victory, Centerville: Henry L. Murphy, Sr., John F. Norton, Stephen B. O'Brien, Sr., Anthony J. Silvestri; St. Anthony, Falmouth: Philip Tripp; St. Patrick, Falmouth: Jerry McCay, Paul G. Simpson; St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis: Sister Anita Marie, MSMBT. Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville: Edward Barry, Mrs. Florence Buckingham, William Carpenter, Myron Chaput, LawTurn to Page Fifteen
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current problems, I have found them to be very realistic and anything but doctrinaire. The real doctrinaires are those people in and out of the Administration who, instead of using their moral leadership to advance the cause of integration and quality education, are wittingly or otherwise - playing politics with the busing issue by trying to turn public opinion against the courts. Our defense of the courts and our criticsim of the Administration's plan to limit their jurisdiction is not meant to foreclose discussion of busing as such. This controversial issue should be debated on its merits, with due emphasis on the importance of seeing to it that, if and when busing is deemed to be necessary in any given situation, it be so programmed that no part of the white community is excluded and no particular segment of the community feels that it is being unfairly singled out. . But to say that busing should be fairly and equitably administered is a far cry from saying that the courts should arbitrarily be prohibited by law from ordering busing as a last resort. Many legal scholars think ~hat this kind of legislation is unconstiutional, but, whether constitution~ al or not, it is clearly "misguided and mischievous."
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order busing and to place a time limit on such court orders. Mention was also made of a parallel plim on the part of the Justice Department tQ appeal an appropriate busing case to the Supreme Court. Pros and cons of busing were not on the agenda: It is necessary to emphasize this, for there is a false impression that the civil rights movement is carrying on a doctrinaire crusade in favor of busing as a kind Of panacea. That simply is not true. Irving Kristol, one of America's leading neo-conservative (or ex-liberal) writers, is one of those responsible for creating this mistaken impression. In an . article in the Wall Street Journal just a few days after our meeting, Kristol ~poke of the "ideological fanaticisn1" of busing supporters and suggested that there is an urgent need fo;r "new research on the social psychology of the busing crusade." The clear implication of his uncharacteristically sarcastic e~say VATICAN CITY (NC) is that, unlike ordinary Ameri- Along with other embassies and cans, "whose common sense . diplomatic centers, the. aposrenders them immune" to ideo- tolic delegation in Saigon has logical fanaticism, supporters of been closed, it was announced busing are doctrinaire elitists. here. They are sick in the head, he It has not been decided yet suggested, and completely out of whether a new papal mission touch with reality. will be opened in Hanoi, the Figment of Imagination capitol of Vietnam. The matter I have .respect for Mr. Kristol is still being studied. and for the magazine he helps Meanwhile, newly-created Caredit, "The Public Interest," but dina'l Joseph Mri Trin nhu on this issue I am afraid that he Khue of Hanoi, said in a talk is the one living in an ivory on Vatican Radio- that his elevatower. The "busing crusade" he tion to the office "is a sign of talks about so self-assuredly is the Pope's sympathy and solicilargely a figment of his imag- tude for my country, which, ination. Civil rights leaders look after so much sacrifice, has upon busing as a temporary last- courageously achieved unity resort means of desegregating and independence.
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KNOW YOUR FAITH APastor's First Steps
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Parish life slows down in most churches during the summer months. This e,~sier pace is welcomed and needed by the priests, teachers and other personnel, Ibut it can provid~. an excellent period for short' and long-range planning by the staff.
By FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN
Dates for sacramental programs, curricula for religious instruction classes, themes for worship cele~rations and texts for adult education are some of the areas suitable for discussion throughout vacation time. However, parish planners need also to look at the wider picture - both the past year's overall record and the future's long-range projection. How did we do? Where should we be going? What steps will take us there?
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My columns in this unhurried reflective season will follow that pattern. I intend to sketch some general principles and sp~cific procedures designed to budd a collection of people into a believing, praying, caring Christian community. Guidelines tested by experience-my own and others may prove helpful for a priest coming new to a post, for a council seeking to revitalize a s'luggish parish, and for involv.ed members wishing to promote mner growth in the Church. If we can maintain that St. Paul was the man most responsible after Jesus, for the first cent~ry spread of Christianity, then we may similarly state that a priest stiB remains the person most responsible for the vitality of any parish. Show me the shepherd and I will show you the sheep. He establishes a tone, gives inspiration and provides the direction. . Here are some hints for the recently appointed pastor or the just transferred associate. Sl1ART SLOWLY. While a friend of mine began his pastorate by an "Our world is moving too fast, we can't wait" apTurn to Page Thirteen
Paul: Fiery Little Preacher By STEVE LANDREGAN
"As I was traveling along approaching Damascus around noon, a great light from the sky suddenly flashed all about me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you, persecute me?' I answered, 'Who are you, sir?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazorean whom you are persecuting." (Acts 22:6-8). Thus Luke, who tells us more about Paul than Paul tells us about himself, relates the incident that· altered the course of Christianity by converting Saul the persecutor into Paul the Apostle. The encounter between Saul and the glorified Christ is related three times ,by Luke (Acts 9:1-9, 22:5-16, 26:10-18) and is
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referred to directly once by Paul (Ga 1:12-17). Unlike Peter, Saul's name was not changed to Paul by any mandate of Jesus. Two names, one Roman or Greek (Paul) and one Hebtew (Saul) were common among those Jews scattered throughout the Ancient Near . East by exile, persecution or commerce. Such Jews were described as Hellenized, ref~rring to their adoption of the Greek language and many of the cultural customs of the Greco-Roman world. Paul indeed, was such a Jew. Born in Tarsus, in what is now southeastern Turkey, he held Roman Citizenship, a privilege acquired only by family position and' wealth. He was of the tribe of Benjamin, the same tribe as Turn to Page Thirteen
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No one in modern times can ever forget the Nazi holocaust of 6 million Jews. That disgraceful act of genocid~ is both a horrifying and humbhng monitor for human conscience. The pity of it is that it was part of a long history of pogroms against the Jewish People and the concomitant anti - Semitism which inspired and abetted such tragedies. The story of Esther shows how old this moral sickness is and how much we should always be alert to avoid any possible recurrence. '. The setting of the story IS' during the Exile. The Babylonian king was flooking for a fresh addition to the royal harem. Mordecai, a Jew who has wOh favor with the king for uncovering a treasonous plot, quietly put forward his beautiful adopted niece, Esther, as a candidate. No mention was made of her religion. To his great joy, she was chosen and was made queen. At the same time the king appointed a self-important autocrat named Haman as the prime minister. Haman did not like Jews. He liked them even STORY OF ESTHER is related by Father Alfred Mcless when he was unable to Bride. The Babylonian queen, a Jewess, saved her people solicit from Mordecai the kind of groveling submission he ex-. from threatened extermination by a dinner pa~y ple.admg pected from all underlings in with her husband, the king. (NC drawing by Ene SmIth) the court. Haman decided that all Jews were 83 feet high - about the next two days were ones of in the kingdom should be ex- height of a six-story building. festival - even carnival. The terminated on a single day. He story of Esther was read at the Origin of Purim painted for the king a picture of synagogue and the congregation the Jewish people as a separatMeanwhile Haman arrives for would interrupt the reading ist group, disloyal to the mon- the intimate dinner with the with rousing curses against Haarch and disdainful of the of- royal couple. Now Esther makes mand and his kind. The meeting ficial religion. They had no in- her plea that she and her people closed with a solemn blessing tention of changing and would be spared from the coming des- of Mordecai and Esther. remain a clear and present dan- truction. The king realizes the The feast usually was accomger to the throne. Best to get horror to which he is committing rid of them all. The king agreed himself. Frantic, he goes to the panied with exchange of preand a day chosen by lots (lot- garden and paces up and down sents and the giving of alms to the poor. While it retained this tery) was picked. ·to get his thoughts straight. HaTerrified by the turn of af- man goes to the queen's couch, religious overtone, it was really fairs, Mordecai went to Esther planning to plead with her for more like a Mardi Gras with the and told her she must reveal her mercy. The ·king returns at the wearing of masks, parading and religion to the king and prevail moment and says, "Will he also dancing. In fact, so wild could with him to stop the slaughter. violate the queen while she is the party become, the rabbis After three days of fasting and with me in my own house?" laid down a law that one must prayer, Esther, relying both on (Esther 7,8) The king ordered stop drinking when one could both her God and her incan- Haman to be executed on the no longer say "Cursed be Hadescent beauty, dared to ap- very gibbet he had prepared for man!" "Blessed be Mordecai!" proach the king and prepare him Mordecai. And the king revoked The Esther story is a reminder to reverse the judgment. Chap- the decree of execution of the again of how close we can come to repeating the genocidal atter four describes her approach Jewish people. tempt of Haman-and the need to the king with all the poetry and drama the sacred writer This story gives the origin of to purge anti-Semitism from our can summon. Without seeming the Jewish feast of Purim. The souls. irreverent, it was a real stage name comes from the Babylonentrance. ian word "Pur," meaning lotHer strategy was to invite the tery. It recalls a projected genoking to a private dinner pa~y cide from which the Jewish peoand move him to the pomt ple narrowly escaped and rewhere he would be ready to tains its popularity, especially grant a most urgent request. during times when the Jewish Dinner party number one suc- people are experiencing a wave ceeded. She now arranged for of anti-Semitism. It was celea second banquet with Haman brated in ancient times during as the special guest. Meanwhile .the months of February and Haman, so offended by Morde- March. cai's refusal to be a sycophant, The rabbinical writings say it ordered gallows to be built and ,Mordecai hanged thereon. ,":,ith began with a fast. The evening LEARY PRESS oriental love of exaggeration, lamps were m and the people the author writes the gallows went to synagogue to pray. The
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that first Gentile community at Continued from Page Twelve the great Israelite King whose Antioch. It was while Paul was name he bore. The orthodoxy of serving as teacher at Antioch Publicity chairmen of parish organization. are asked to submit news items for this his family is attested to by his that those previously called Nazcolumn to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town shOUld early training in the law as a oreans or followers of The Way be included, as well as fUll dates of all student of the greatest rabbi of were first called Christians. activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: the same news While early sources indicate the time, Gamaliel the. Elder item can be used only once. Please do not request that we repeat an announcement that Paul was physically unat(Acts 22:3). several times. It is not known when Saul tractive, nevertheless his great OUR LADY OF ANGELS, came to Jerusalem, or whether scholarship, his fiery but persuaFALL RIVER or not he was there during the sive personality and his compulThe Holy Ghost feast will be public ministry of Jesus. Scrip- sion to preach the Gdspel (1 Cor celebrated Saturday and Sunday, ture is silent on the point. He is 9:16) destined him for the role July 17 and 18 ·at the Holy first mentioned in the Acts of of missionary preacher. Ghost Portuguese Social Club the Apostles (Acts 7:58) as being Pattern Emerged grounds on Flynn Street, off present during the martyrdom .Singled out by the Holy Spirit, Bay Street. The crowning will Saul and Barnabas were comof Stephen the Deacon. tak~ place at II a.m. Mass SunAs a rabbi Saul apparently missioned missionaries by the day, July 18 and the procession saw in the embryonic Nazofean Antioch community about 48 will follow at 1 p.m. from the sect the seeds of a heresy capa- A.D. There emerged the pattern parish hall. All are invited to ble of shattering the Pharisaic that was to mark Paul's missionSoupas on Sunday. teaching of the Law as the means ary labors the rest of his life. Holy Rosary Sodalists will of salvation. He became a zeal- He would preach first to the attend 8 a.m. Mass Sunday, ous and feared persecutor of the Jews in the synagogue of a city, July 11, followed by a meeting. infant church. Not content to and when they rejected the GosMembers will sponsor a cake root out Christ's followers in pel, as they often did, Paul and sale the weekend of July 17 Jerusalem, Saul went to the his companions would turn to and 18. High Priest and obtained what the Gentiles. The feast of Our Lady of Anamounted to a license to harass Following his first journey, the gels will take place the weekand persecute Nazoreans in dispute arose over whether a efld of Aug. 6 through 8 and a Damascus. Gentile must first become a Jew planning meeting is scheduled before being baptied. It was deComplete Conversion for 7 p.m. Monday, July 12. Saul's conversion was com- cided in Paul's favor, but never plete and immediate on the road really died out and is thought by OUR LADY OF VICTORY, to Damascus. In Galatians Paul some scholars to be the ,"thorn CENTERVILLE PAUL, THE FIERY PREACHER, was' "the chief instruwrote: "But the time came when in the flesh" given to him that A charismatic' prayer meethe who had set me apart before he might not become conceited . ment by which the obscure Jewish sect of Nazoreans had ing will take place in the church become a worldwide religious movement destined to change hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow. I was born and called me by his (2 Cor 12:7). favor chose to reveal his Son to Paul and Barnabas had a dis- the course of history," writes Steve Landregan. (NC Photo) The monthly Echo reunion is me, that I might spread among pute before the second missionscheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, the Gentiles the good tidings ary journey and Silas became his July 16. concerning him. Immediately, companion (Acts 15:36-39). It The Women's Guild will sponwithout seeking human advisers was on the second journey that sor a fashion show Thursday, Continued from Page Twelve spiritual results and obviously Aug. 12 ,at East Bay Lodge. or even going to Jerusalem to Paul carried the Gospel to see those who were apostles be- Europe (Acts 16:9ff). This same proach and escaped without ma- widen yOU! knowledge of the Applications for St. Vincent fore me, I went off to Arabia; journey produced Paul's most jor hostility, I think he is an ex- people for whom you are res- de Paul Camp, Westport, for the ponsible. later I returned to Damascus dismal failure. It occurred in ception which proves the rule. period from Aug. 16 to 28 are Normally, parishioners resist WIN THEM OVER. First im- available from Stan McLean, (Ga 1:15-17). Athens (Acts 17:16-34) where But the Nazoreans were not his only attempt to use a philo- change and inwardly resent dif- pressions are important. There- telephone 775-9595, during the too quick to clasp their new sophical approach to preach the ferent approaches unless they fore, smile, be friendly, show day. brother to their bosom. Even Gospel was met by ridicule and clearly meet existing wants or your love. Talk about how glad obviously correct poor situa- you are to be here, not how sad Ananias to whom the Lord ap- mockery. you feel ieaving there. peared in a vision and ordered to But upon the heels of failure tions. Consequently, I recommend minister to Paul, argues with the came success and when Paul Praise them for the good you Lord pleading that "I have heard preached the simple Gospel of initiating no' major innovations 'see; overlook for the present from many sources about this Jesus crucified to the Greeks of for six months. Don't be so what eventually must be cor936 South Main St. man and all the harm he has Corinth, the "sin city" of the threatened by your predecessor rected. and so unsure of yourself that Fall River done to your holy people in Jeru- Greco-Roman world responded Be swift to serve the sick and (Corner Osborn St.) salem." The Nazoreans' intelli- and re-founded the most famous you immediately cancel all his quick to befriend the young. gence system must have been (and troublesome) of all his programs and begin your own Having walked into their homes BRIDE'S BIBLE projects. effective because Ananias then churches. and won over their hearts, then And Religious Articles Praise the man :before you, yet added, "He is here now with Paul's third journey took him make no apologies for yourself. ,you can lead them along the Tel. 673-4262 authorization from the chief to Ephesus, the center of worpilgrim way to our Father. MEET YOUR PEOPLE. The priests to arrest any who invoke ship of the Greek fertility godshepherd needs to know his your name," (Acts 9:13-14). dess, Artemis, where the Gospel sheep, the teacher, the students, But for Paul there was no encountered the first pagan hosturning back. The rest of his life tility (Acts 19: 23-40). He reo the priest, his parishioners. Pausing in vestments at the was based upon his brief encoun· turned to Corinth to settle some ter with the Risen Christ. It pro- disputes and then went to Jeru- main entrance after celebrating One-Third acre lots in exclusive area of Swansea. Choose vided the basis for his claim to salem where the imprisonment Mass and greeting parishioners your own home site now and build at a future time - or be an Apostle (1 Cor 9:1) on began that eventually took him is one way of meeting your people. Moving around the sparsely let us help you in planning your home to be built by our equal footing with the Twelve to Rome. populated church before 7:00 who were witnesses to the resurcarefully selected builders now. Builders welcome - all It was his R!oman citizenship rection (Acts 1:22). The only that enabled him to appeal his a.m. 'Eucharist and saying 'hello' reasonable offers co,:,sidered. Easy access to Routes 6, difference he saw in his witness case to the emperor's tribunal to each of the 68 worshipers is 136 and 195. Located near Swansea Country Club. another. Standing outside prior of the Risen Christ was a chron- when it became bogged down in ological one. His alone was post- Caesarea (Acts 25:1-12). And it to and following the liturgy FOR INFORMATION AND DETAILS CALL 401-463-6100 when 'not the celebrant, a third. Pentecostal (l Cor 15:5-10). was his Roman citizenship that A name is the most important Ananias was not the only fol- earned him the privilege of be- word in the human language. lower of Christ suspiciOl~s of ing beheaded instead of cruci- Learning it as fast and as best Paul. After finding himself un- fied. you can should be high on the welcome among Christians and By the time Paul's martyrdom priority list of things to do. Jews, Paul returned to Tarsus occurred in Rome in 67-68 AD, Flipping through the emptied, and lived in semi-retirement un- the fiery little preacher whose discarded mail-it-monthly offer· til summoned by Barnabas. life had been turned around on ing envelopes will fix names and The hatred of those Jews who a dusty road near Damascus, had addresses in a marvelous living §~ /7~i~ an!7!oan ~~ooiak'on considered him a renegade become the chief instrument by computer, your human memory. 1029 Route 28 (Box 280) • South Yarmouth, Mass.• Phone 398-6088 would pursue him the rest of his which the obscure Jewish sect of Those facts, lightly embedded Orleans Shopping Plaza • Rte 6A,{)rleans, Mass. • Phone 255-5211 life and his total acceptance by Nazoreans had become a world- into the mind by a cursory INSURED SAVINGS . the Christians would only come wide religious movement des- glance, will come back with reAT HIGHEST RATES ALLOWED BY LAW from the Gentile converts. tined to change the course of markable frequency when, later, - - - - - F O R YQUR CONVENIENCE WE ARE OPEN - - - - Paul was not the founder of history: a change brought by you talk in person to the inthe Gentile church, rather he was God through Paul's preaching of dividual who owns that name 9104:30MoncIaJthruThursclar • 9106: :00 Frldl1 • 91oNoon~ sought out by Barnabas (Acts the Gospel of Jesus crucified, "a and dwells in that house. -REMEMBER: WHERE YOU SAVE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE - - 11 :25-26) to serve as a teacher stumbling block to Jews, and an A home visiting parish census, Your savinls insured by FSlIC.•n .,ene, of the federaicovernment of the "great number" of believ- absurdity to Gentiles" (1 Cor begun immediately and continers won over to the Gospel by 1:23). ued consistently, will bear rich
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GET CLOSER Darlin', if you want me to be closer to you, get closer to me. Darlin', if you want me to love love only you, then love only me. Darlin', if you want me to see see only you, then see only me. ,Boy: there's a line, I can't cross over It's no good for me and it's no good for you. Girl: And there's a feelin' deep down inside me: I can't explain it and you're wondering why. Boy: You say we've been like strangers, But I'm not the others ' You can wrap 'round your fingers.
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it doesn't make a difference where you. go to church. You said something about Christ's spirit being neces"I know people don't think sary to a church. I agree I'm as good as they are bewith that and where you cause I don't go to church don't find it how can you and particularly their church. call it His church? Where I love Jesus and I think you don't find love how can about Him a lot. I am 21 you say "by their love for and have been let down a one another you will know good deal in my life, but them, etc. No one showed Jesus is the one who'll never me any love where I went, let me down. I know that so I got out and now I deep down in my heart." know what Christian love R.S. is." Mark C. . One of the greatest wrongs to I, too, have always believed Christ is to despise the charact- that we come together in the er, the virtues and the spirit in church as God's children. That a disciple of His who does not we meet to adore God, to open go to a certain church. our souls to his spirit, and by Externals are unimportant to recognition of the common Him who looks on the heart. .Father, to forget all di'stinction One should think no man or among ourselves. I'm happy that you have found woman better or worse for the church they belong to. Try them out for yourself that the spirit by their fruits. . of Christianity is not shut up in There are too many in our one place and that it triumphs midst who have literally driven over the insincere, the hypopeople away from the church crite, the prideful and all the while. they held forth in their rest. Religion will always be an inown pride and conceit. This is an area in which the Church ward life. We know this not should be doing some mending from report but by consciousness, by the prostration of the and investigating. soul before God. Who among us , can tell the most abject creature "I stopped going to church that he is not as good as we are? because I didn't feel that Perhaps he has found God in his the one I was attending was solitudes, in his repentance, tn a church as Christ would his surrender, something he wish it to be. I began going might not find in congregations. to different churches and Congregations can be cold and really found what I needed heartless. I was told that only in another. I'm sorry I could last week by a woman not given not find this in my own. I'm to exaggeration. sure they are not all alike, There is one perfect bond, and but I happened to be un· we cannot say it enough, and lucky. I took all I COUld take and left. Now I'm treated that is the love that Christ has sealed in the hearts of those truly as one of God's chil· who follow Him. dren. They needn't tell me
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God Awaits Our Coming Continued from Page Ten ment of His love for us. God truly is one who is excited in His love for us. 'But that excitement, gentle and inexpressible, often goes unrecognized because we drown out its quiet voice by choosing the exterior and noisy part of immediate attractions to fill our loneliness. Little do we realize that in so doing the hurt we seek to erase is the very passagewllY into the heart and fullness of our existence where God Himself, patient and trembling with expectation, awaits our coming. Immersed in Life And so it happens in this silence of valleys and hills that an immense Godwardness can be discerned in all things, each wearing its own color, giving off its own song, uttering its own praise of Him who is over all and in all. The colors especially. In their naturalness they give a sense of returning to honest beginnings. There are no additives, no neon trickery. The campo in
so many ways offers new possibilities for awakening to the natural beauty of things. These surroundings have often moved me to question what it is that is so distinctive about the lives of people who inhabit this ,land. I think I've come upon the answer. They are totally immersed in 'life with their fields, their planting, their harvesting, and their animals. Quite different from us who often keep ourselves far removed from the processes of life, ensconced in machines and plastic and all that is fabricated. It all, finally, reminds me of a point made by James Carroll in his book, "A Terrible Beauty," where he speaks of conversion and prayer as a matter of "seeing connections." This, I think, is the special gift of solitude. It grants us time for seeing new connections amidst the world in which we live and for looking beneath realities where it is possible to be refreshed in truth that holds all things in unity.
'Radio 路Priest' Looks Back ROYAL OAK, Mich. (NC) Father Charles E. Coughlin, the "radio priest" of the 1930s who once had an audience of 40 million listeners, called his broadcasts of minor importance compared to his duties as a parish priest in a letter to 800 foHowers across the country. "Like any other serious minded priest, my chief accomplishment was being a dedicated and well-intentioned' parish priest," the letter stated. "My only regret is that I did not accomplish more; that I wasted time on frivolous projects." The letter, written last March before the 84-year-old priest's second heart attack in two years, was sent to supporters still on his mailing list. . Appraising his life, Father Coughlin labeled himself "first of all, a sinner who, at times, succumbed not only to petty vanity but to many types of worldliness." Father Coughlin said that 50 years ago he assessed his "knowledge of Scripture, theology and papal encyclicals; then seizing the God-given opportunity of addressing millions of persons of all faiths I entertained a semi-fal'1acious hope of winning them into the ranks of the Church Militant. Not Difficult "A:3 the years flowed by . I began to realize more precisely that the battle was not against flesh and blood; or could it Ibe won before the Church Militant and its soldiers experienced in a mystical manner the seemingly disastrous passion of Jesus Christ." Father Coughlin said when his radio shows were removed from the air, "it was thus not difficult for me to obey my ciVil and ecclesiastical superiors." He asked the 'letter's recipients, "the few remaining friends I have on earth," to pray "with me that our seminaries will be repopulated; that our convents will be readorned with devoted' maidens of Christ; that the halls of our parochial schols will ring
again with laughter; that the missionary Fathers will carry the Gospel to Russia, China, Cuba - to the entire world." Father Coughlin, who recently celebrated his 60th anniversary as a priest, served as pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower until he retired in 1966.
Ministers Continued from Page Eleven renee Coleman, Richard Curley, Robert Elskamp, Pa-ul Finn, Carolyn Gilligan, Mrs. Deidre Greelish, Romeo Lafond, William McQuillen, John D. Medeiros, Joseph P. Monteforte, Robert O'Brien, John O'Donnell, Charles Page, Francis Powers, Thomas Powers, Frank M. Rafferty, Paul Roina, David Sheehan, John Shields, Robert Sims, George Souza, Lawrence Stein, John Swift. St. Pius X, South Yarmouth: Mrs. Anne Collins, Richard Frechette, John A. Malloy, Robert K. Sullivan; St. Patrick, Wareham: Charles Cassidy, John B. Grenda,_ Thomas F. McDermott, Charles L. Vander Staay; Holy Trinity, West Harwich: John M. Kel'1y Jr., Robert A. Welsh Jr. Taunton Area Immaculate Conception: Leonard Domenic Pagnotto; Sacred Heart, Raymond Harrison, John Kelly, John E. Reilly; St. Mary, Sister Mary Catherine Duerr, John J. Connors, Sister Frances Lynch, George R. Powers; St. Paul; Frank L. Tosti; St. Ann, Raynham: Joseph Mador, Albert Ribeiro.
Our Judge "Now conscience suggests to us many things about that Master, Whom by means of it we perceive. But its most prominent teaching, and its cardinal and distinguishing truth, is that He is our Judge. In consequence, the special attribute under which it brings Him before us, to which it subordinates all other attributes, is that of justice-retrib- _ utive justice." -Cardinal Newman
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Death Penalty Continued from Page One court said that the death penalty is unaccepta:ble when it is the mandatory punishment for a crime without exception. According to the Associated Press, 572 men and 10 women on death rows in 30 states were , awaiting the court's decision. The American Civil Liberties Union estimates that almost 60 per cent of the condemned are non-white and poor. Further Erosion Citing the 1974 statement by the U. S. bishops opposing capital punishment, Francis J. Butler of the Department of Social Development and World Peace, U. S. Catholic Conference, said, "This decision can only mean a further erosion of the value of human life and an increased brutalization of our society." "It is important to note that in the context of the actions which may be taken as a result of this decision that Christ teaches us that we must be bearers of His love and forgiveness to those who are -most distant and alienated from our society:' he said. In Worcester, Mass., Bishop HE'S A HELPER: Wilburn Burkhalter, 65, works 44 Bernard J. Flanagan scored the hours a week as an' unpaid volunteer in an Arizona pro- court's decision on a number of . gram for retirees. Driving an aging truck, he picks up points: "I feel the restoration of the donated foods from wholesalers, supermarkets and other death penalty at this time is sources and delivers them to 51. Mary's Food Bank in counter to the Christian crusade Phoenix, which distributes them to charitable agencies of respect for life," he said. "I and needy families. Burkhalter himself lives on small VA question also whether the death and social security pensions, says his volunteer work penalty is a deterrent to grave crime," helps keep him "in pretty good shape." Bishop Flanagan added that the death penalty is applied un: fairly, saying that the "affluent and clever have. often been able Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news items for this Entertainment will be provided to avoid it" while the "poor and column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall all three days in addition to the not so clever have not." River, 02722. Name of city or town shOUld be included, as well as fUll dates of all booths and other activities, and activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: the same news there wil~ be ample parking item can be used only once. Please do not request that we repeat an announcement available.
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SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The annual three-day parish picnic will take place the weekend of Aug. 13 through 15 on the parish grounds. Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, associate pastor, will be general chairman, aided by Mrs. Stanley Janick, and Norman Hathaway, co-chairmen. The first two nights will feature chowder-fritters and meat pie suppers, both served at 5 p.m. in the air conditioned Father Coady Center. An auction and Las Vegas Night will follow Friday's supper. A flea market will open at 9 a.m. Saturday and midway booths and a Las Vegas program will open at 1 p.m. A penny sale wiH feature the evening's activities, beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday's program will include booths, the Las Vegas program, Portuguese and American food service, a 7 p.m. penny sale and awarding of $1000 in cash prizes at 9 p.m., to close the three-day event. .
ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The annual parish summer festival will be held the weekend of July 17 and 18 at Westport Fair Grounds. Donations. for booths and raffles may be 'left at the rectory or school any time this week or next. The Men's Club will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 11 in the school.
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Illegally Ordains 13 Priests ECONE, Switzerland (NC) Steering a collision course with Pope Paul VI, traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre has illegally ordained. 13 priests despite. the Pope's recent public appeal for an end to the archbishop's dissident movement. One American, Daniel Dolan from Detroit, was among the newly ordained. In a colorful preconciliar ceremony the archbish~p also ordained 13 subdeacons, despite a 1972 papal decree that abolished the subdioconate. Archbishop Lefebvre, 70, former superior general of the Holy Ghost Fathers and former archbishop of Dakar, Senegal,
heads the suppressed Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, which refuses to fol'low liturgical reforms since the Second Vatican Council. In a rare public rebuke of an individual, Pope Paul VI on May 24 appealed to Archbishop Lefebvre and his followers to "become aware of the profound wounds" their movement is causing the Church and to heed his repeated calls for obedience. Under Church law the ordinations are considered sacramentally valid but illegal. For a person to be ordained legal'ly, he must ·be attached to a lawful diocese. or religious order or institute.
Beware Those Mimeographed Songs! By CLIFF FOSTER WASHINGTON (NC)-Parishes reproducing music for homemade hymnbooks without the permission of composers or publishers are liable to stiff fines if a court decides they have run afoul of the badly outdated, but nonetheless valid, federal copyright law. Although violations of the law occur daily, usually inadvertently rather than maliciously, prose-cutions are relatively uncommon. But churches in some parts of the country reportedly have been fined for compiling songbooks without the permission. The notion of copyright, as old as the country itself, was first
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spelled out in a 1790 statute, which has undergone three revisions since then, the latest in 1909. Commonly marked by an· encircled letter "c" on the title page, a copyright ensures that authors, composers, researchers and others have full rights over the use of their work. To ignore the copyright and reproduce material without permission is bluntly called "pirating." The U. S. bishop's Committee on the Liturgy in a 1969 statement drew attention to the dangers of unfair use of copyrighted material when it stated: "The practice of private reproduction by photocopiers and other devices substantially diminishes the legitimate royalties due composers and authors for their works. In addition, the loss to publishers of legitimate profits limits their ability to produce materials of quality and diversity. Ultimately, these deprivations wili seriously harm music and worship in the United States." The U. S. Senate recently passed a biM 97-0 which would among other things overhaul the law to resolve the thorny issues raised by photocopying materi:1J, currently outlawed without permission of the author. The House of Representatives is expected to act on the bill this summer. It's Infringement But until a revision is signed and depending on its scqpe - the copyright regulaations set down by the Congress of 1909 carry the force of law.. and as a result, rules regarding photocopying of copyrighted material are determined by courts, which up to now have said that even making a single unauthorized copy of a work, regardless of intent, constitutes infringement. Sister Joyce LaVoy, chairwoman of the Miami archdiocesan Liturgical Music Commission, explained recently to The Miami Voice, archdiocesan newspaper, that churches break the copyright law ''whenever they or their representatives
make their own copies to avoid purchase of music." The only exception to that, she said, is if the composer authorizes use of his work or if the copyright on it expires. A . copyright protects material for an ini,tial period of 28 years and can be renewed once for 28 more. After that, the material is in the public domain and iubject to use without restriction. However, Sister LaVoy pointed out, when new words are written for old music or old words are set to a new tune, copyright laws govern use of the new portion, if it is protected. Furthermore, the nun advised that churches or groups wanting to use copyrighted material take a number of steps to ensure they are on the right side of the law. First, permission to use material must be obtained from the copyright holder, she said. Then, proper forms must be filled out, payment made, and notice of permission to reprint affixed to the copies. Once these steps are completed, the nun advised the applicant to do two more things:· "Be proud that you have taken the time and cared enough to do things correctly, and relax, knowing that if your church is examined by any music publisher, you are within the law."
Eventual Resurrection "For thE!! human soul is immortal, and continues after its separation from the body. Yet union with body is essential to it, for by its very nature soul is form of body. Without body it is in an unnatural condition; and what is unnatural cannot go on forever. Therefore the soul, which is perpetual, is not forever apart from the body, but will be reunited with it. The soul's immortality, therefore, seems to demand the eventual resurrection of the body."-St. Thomas Aquinas, "Contra Gentes," 3, 79, 13th century.
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