07.18.86

..

,

FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

VOL. 30, NO. 28

•

Friday, July 18, 1986

FALL RIVER, MASS.

Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly

•

58 Per Year

.Mary Joy Gonsalves

A .miracle girl

n

By Joseph Motta tally disabled, a condition previously thought always to accompany Last month, a nature trail for the syndrome. visually disabled Girl Scouts at Their father says that fact Wind-in-the-Pines Girl Scout Cenprompted a doctor to note that ter, Plymouth,· was dedicated to the memory of a very special Scout "Mary and Martin have changed our medical books." from South Dennis.

The couple are also the parents Mary Joy Gonsalves, who died Jan. 21, 1984, at age 17 of of three healthy sons, Jeff, 3D, Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome, a rare Craig, 27, both Cape Cod masons genetic disease, had completed re- like their father, and Damien, 17, a quirements for the Gold Award, dance student. Both older sons are Girl Scouting's highest recognition, . professional arm wrestlers, their father proudly notes, and will apdespite multiple handicaps.

Her parents, John and Anita pear in a fihl) being made on the Gonsalves of Our Lady of the sport. Craig is married and has Cape parish, Brewster, discussed given the Gonsalves their first grandchild, a girl. their daughter's life.

Mary Joy attended the former They knew from birth that she was ill, they said, because a pre- Nazareth School in Hyannis from· viously-born son, who has also age 5 to 13, her parents said, but died, suffered from the. same syn- decided herself to attend DennisYarmouth Regional High School, drome.

Maroteaux-Lamy, which only where she quickly made the honor occurs if both parents are carriers roll.

"I was always honest with my of the gene that causes it, prevents physical growth after about age 3, children about their limitations," causes blindness and impaired hear- Mrs. Gonsalves said, "but I always ing and eventually confines vic~ stressed the importance of doing tims to wheelchairs. Worldwide, all that they could," In addition to her exceptional only about 15 cases are diagnosed academic performance and achieveeach year.

Mary Joy lived longer than any ments as a Girl Scout, Mary Joy other person with the syndrome, took riding lessons and in January her parents said, and neither she 1983 m~de an ECHO retreat. nor her brother Martin were menTurn to Page Six

ANITA AND JOHN Gonsalves with a photo of Mary Joy. (Motta photo)

Checking in with the Class of '85

By Joseph Mott.a After a year at any vocation, an individual should ·be allowed to speak about his or her experience.

Poets, pirates, plumbers and priests mightappreciate the opportunity.

Priests'! Why not'!

• • •

Ordained by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in June 1985 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, were Fathers James A. Calnan, David A. Costa, Michael R. Dufault, Philip N. Hamel, Michael K. McManus and Jose M. Sousa.

All are parochial vicars in diocesan parishes, with the exception of Father Sousa, recently assigned to graduate studies in canon law at .St. Paul's University, Ottawa, Ontario. Previo·usly he was parochial vicar at Espirito Santo parish, Fall Rl'ver.

All recently discussed their firstyear impressions.

Father Calnan Father Calnan, at Corpus Christi parish, Stlndwich, enjoys the Cape Cod lifestyle.

"I like getting out and meeting the parishioners, he said. "You learn an awful lot from them. You learn what their needs are."

The New Bedford native, who will witness his younger brother's marriage this year, is very happy with his lot.

"The bishop gave us good first assignments," he said. "The parish rectory is a very happy home."

• Father Calnan's housemates are pastor Father George W. Coleman and parochial vicar Father Felician M. Plichta, OFM Conv.

Like most of his classmates, Father Calnan finds the priesthood "a very hectic and busy lifestyle" with very irregular hours.

"You can't work on a 9 to 5 schedule," he laughed.

When asked if celibacy was a concern for a young priest, Father Calnan spoke in favor of it and its benefits.

"Our celibacy says that we're available," he said. "We're free to minister."

The 28-year-old isn't afraid to talk about vocations, particularly from the pulpit. He also stresses that he's recognized that a lot of parishioners, especially young persons, would like to become more involved· in church activities, but "need the contact," or the invitation, of a priest.

Asked where he sees himself in

25 years, Father Calnan replied, "HopefUlly, I'll still be doing parish work somewhere in the diocese.

"I love parish life."

The Cape priest was both director and coordinator of the parish religious education program this past year.

"It was a challenge," he said, noting that he looks forward to working with Sister Doreen Donegan, SUSC, who will arrive in the parish Aug. I to take over the coordinator's position.

Corpus Christi parishioners are enthusiastic about adult education, added Father Calnan, citing the parish Bible study group's request to meet all summer.

Father Costa When The Anchor arrived to interview Father David Costa at St. Thomas More pat:ish, Somerset, he was writing a homily, an enjoyable undertaking for him.

Calling the high points of his priestly ministry his ability to cele'brate the Eucharist, reconciliati'on parish retreats and weddings: Father Costa said his vocation "is always going to be a challenge. If there's no challenge, something's wrong."

He especially enjoys working

with parish children, and says that St. Thomas More parishioners in general are "very enthusiastic, supportive and affirming.

"I don't think you can be taught what I've experienced," he said, looking back to his seminary years.

"You have to experience it yourself." He gratefully notes, however, that the ,advice and direction of Msgr. John J. Regan, St. Thomas More pastor, have helped him, Always smiling, Father Costa has a talent for piano and a strong singing voice that can inspire parishioners.

"Our example speaks louder than anything we could ever say," noted the Taunton native. "If we're happy as priests, let's show it."

When told he shows it himself, Father Costa replies, "I'd do it again."

Father Dufault "The year as a whole was full of firsts," says Father Michael Dufault. "Everything was a new experience."

Serving at Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, Father Dufault reiterated what a number of his .classmates felt about their seminary training.

"It prepared us very well academically," he said, "but there is no way of preparing for situations that will be experienced, because nobody knows what you're going to see."

In his own case, he said, early in his ministry he received a latenight phone call requesting that he anoint a woman who had suffered a heart attack. When he arrived at the scene, Father Dufault found she had been deceased for several hours. His initial reaction was one of shock, he said..

"It was a very emotional moment," he said, "and also a very rewarding experience because you're a valued presence and a source ofcomfort to the survivors."

Father Dufault has no problems with a priest's lifestyle. His ministry has been "all high points," and he credits Father John A. Perry, his "understanding and helpful" pastor, with helping make his first year so pleasant.

"The parishioners are the same way," the Fall River native said.

"They are just so receptive, loving and giving of themselves. It's so easy to serve them.

"And I'm in awe each time

Turn to Page Eleven

I~

2

Msgr. Hoye denies NCCD is stalling civil rights bill

THE ANCHORFriday, July 18, 1986

Black Catholic .newspaper planned NASHVILLE, Tenn. (NC)-A Catholic newspaper focusing on the U.S. black Catholic community is scheduled to begin publication this fall; according to publisher J. Winston Peebles, president of Winston-Derek Publishers Inc. of-Nashville.

Peebles said the newspaper, tentatively named The Catholic Mentor, will begin publishing Oct. I. "The Catholic press over the centuries has not given any respect or notice or concern, as a matter of fact, to blacks in the media. There is no black input whatsoever," Peebles said, noting that the newspaper would showcase black writers who, he said, "do not have a chance to utilize their talents" in ihe Catholic press. .

At the Catholic Press Association national convention in June in Columbus, Ohio, Peebles was the only black among the estimated 400 delegates.

Peebles also views The Catholic' Mentor as an opportunity to evangelize and educate black Catholics. "There is a new climate (in the church) toward the evangelization of black people. A black Catholic newspaper would serve as an important instrument in procuring black members and converts," he said.

The paper would also be a means ofestablishing a bond among black Catholic communities in the United States, Peebles said. He hopes for contributions to its columns from the 10 black U.S. Catholic bishops. '

Obituaries Sister Virginia The Mass of Christian Burial was offered this morning at Mt. ·St. Rita Convent chapel, Cumberland, for Sister Mary Virginia Quinlan, RSM, 84, who died Tuesday.

A teacher in the Fall River diocese throughout her active life, she taught at St. Joseph's School, Fall River, for 14 years; was on the faculty of Holy Family High School, New Bedford, for 23 years, for 10 of them as principal; and completed her teaching career at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, from which she retired in 1980.

SisterVirginia was a New Bed. ford native, the daughter of the late Matthew and Bridget (Casey) Quinlan. She entered the sisters of Mercy in 1.922.

Sister Naomi

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN congratulates Fall River native Craig Pregana on his admission to candidacy for the transitional diaconate and the priesthood. The ceremony took place at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. (Motta photo)

No harmless porn, says··Father Ritter WASHINGTON (NC) - Even sexually explicit material that is neither violent nor degrading is harmful to society, Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter says in a personal statement included in the final report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography.

Father Ritter, founder of the New York-based Covenant House for runaway youth and a bitter 'opponentofpornography, was one of II commissioners appointed last year by Attorney General Edwin Meese to examine the issue of pornography.

The commission's lengthy report was released last week.

While acknowledging that not all commissioners would agree, Father Ritter said he "would affirm. that all sexually explicit material, solely designed to arouse, in and of itself degrades the very nature of sexuality and·as such represents a grave harm to society and ultimately to the individuals that comprise society." .

One of the commission's most controversial conClusions is that there is a link between violent or degrading pornography and antisocial or violent behavior.

The commission, however, deadlocked on whether nonviolent,. nondegrading sexual material can be considered harmful, a fact Father Ritter said, "represents a major failure of the commission. " The priest.said the commission's decision to categorize sexually explicit material had drawbacks.

positions he took during the commission's work which he said might seem "somewhat out of character."

The first issue was the commission's belief that the printed word, as opposed to photographs, deserves special consideration because of its unique relationship with the constitutional right of free speech and the right of political dissent.

The priest said he voted to uphold the "special preeminence of the printed word" in order to "send a strong signal to the public that we do not favor a return to times when the repression of unpopular ideas was part our political landscape."

Father Ritter said he also voted against extending the "indecency standard" that applies to broadcast television to cable and satellite television.

He did so, he said, because "citizens 'have a right to be concerned about who and what are going to regulate what they may see on cable television."

Because applying the indecency standard to cable television would ban most mainline Hollywood films, Father Ritte'r noted, it is unlikely that "such a blanket pro-

I

He said he is nonetheless certain that all the commissioners deplore the increase of "sexually explicit and frequently violent and degrading materials" on both broadcast and cable television.

Father Ritter said the commission's desire for sex education for children "leads us directly to a central dilemma of our nation's pluralistic democracy" - providing such education in a religious and . ethical context.

The priest concluded by voicing "concern over the .well-nigh universal eroticization of American society."

"I urge therefore that our fellow Americans examine and debate our logic and conclusions carefully," he said.

Laity handbook issued by usee

WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops'laity secretarial has issued a handbook to stimulate diocesan and parish-level discussions of lay people's role in the church and society, particularly in the work place.

The secretariat urges such dishibition would be tolerated by the ;:~~l~~jority of the American cussions to promote lay participation in preparing for the October 1987 world Synod of Bishops in Rome'on the laity.

The handbook, titled "Work and Faith in Society," encourages dioceses, deaneries and parishes to look at "the laity's role as the major Christian presence in the places of work and the places of culture," said Dolores Leckey, laity secretariat executive director. It . offers planning suggestions for local lay consultations, including themes, sample agendas and ways to devel': op feedback from participants.

The handbook is available from the Office of Publishing and Promotion Services, U.S. Catholic Conference, 1312 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

"The weakness of our approach . . .lay in the easy temptation not to The Mass of Christian Burial examine the underlyingsexu.al was celebrated July 11 atSt. Mary's behavior depicted in all classes of Convent, Bay View, East Provipornography and to make fundadence, for Sister Marie Naomi mental ethical and moraljudgments Burns, RSM, 74, who died July 9. about this behavior," he said. . A Central Falls native, the daughFather Ritter said the commister of the late James M. and Nora sion "literally ;an for the hills" in (Corrigan) Burns, she entered the refusing to take an ethical or moral Sisters of Mercy in 1952. She position on matters such as preserved at St. Mary's Convent, Fall marital or extramarital sex.

River, and at various assignments The greatest harm of pornogin the Providence diocese, retiring raphy, he added, "is caused by its in 1981 to Mt. St. Rita Health ability - and its intention - to Center, Cumberland, R.I. attack the very dignity and sacredShe is 'survived by a brother, ness of sex itself, reducing human Edward J. Burns Sr. of Warwick sexual behavior to the level of its and a sister, M. Adelaide Smith of animal components." .G~Jl.tJ:al Falls,.»oth in Rh.odeJ.s~and .... " ...Father.Ritter also explainedtw.o.~ .....FATI:lER RITT.ER

.'- ..

WASHINGTON (NC) - Responding to a demonstration earlier this month at the U.S. bishops' headquarters in Washington, the general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops said the bishops are not toblame for the stalled progress of a major civil rights bill in Congress.

Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye. said the Civil Rights Restoration Act, caught in a fight over abortion, is being blocked by congressmen encouraged by the National Organization for' Worrien, which sponsored the protest demonstration.

Proposed after a 1984 decision by the Supreme Court which narrowed the scope of civil rights laws, the bill would broaden coverage of four federal civil rights statutes which bar discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age or handicap in programs which receive federal funds.

The bishops' conference has made its support for the bill contingent upon addition of various changes, including a measure that Msgr. Hoye called an "abortionneutral amendment" but NOW calls an "anti-abortion" measure.

The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Thomas J. Tauke, R-Iowa, and Rep. R. James Sensenbrenner, . R-Wis., would prevent abortion from being included as a right under antidiscrimination laws and ensure that no institution would be required to offer abortion services.

Msgr. Hoye, in a statement issued after the NOW demonstration. which brought about 25 picketers to the NCCB headquarters, said the Tauke-Sensenbrenner amendment should be backed by all parties, "except those who insist that the federal government must force institutions to support abortion in the name of civil rights."

New president Brother of Christian Instruction Joseph Martin has been elected president of the National Association of Religious Brothers for a two-year term. He will be inaugurated in June, 1987, at the annual NARB Assembly, to be held in St. Louis. He was elected last month at an assembly in San Antonio.

A native of Detroit, Brother Martin is a graduate of Walsh College, Canton, O. He also holds graduate degrees in theology and education'. His most recent assignment has been as campus minister at Youngstown State University.

In September he will begin a year's study of spirituality..a t Holy Names College, Oakland, Calif.

Four Brothers of Christian Instruction are faculty members at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

Input asked

DURBAN, South.Africa (NC) - South African Catholics have been asked by their bishops to share their views on controversial nonviolent methods for ending racial discrimination in the country. Many opponents of apartheid advocate use of ecol1omjc sancProvidence tions and disinvestment by foreign "Divim; provi.dence is like a con- firms in South Africa to bring stant, unending confirmation of pressure for change. Others feel the work of creation in all its va- . that adverse effects on employriety and richness." - Pope John ment would outweigh' benefits to Paul II be gained. ' .. '"

THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., July 18, 1986

3

Important to all TORONTO (NC) - The study of theology is important to everyone, says the superior general of the 26,OOO-member Jesuit order.

"What is done in the study of linguistics may interest only'some linguists," Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach said in a speech here. but

"all that is done in'theology must interest every human person, and especially members of the people of God." The priest spoke at Regis College, a Jesuit theological school within the Toronto School of Theology.

Montie Plumbing & Heating Co.

OUR LADY'S RELIGIOUS STORE

Over 35 Years of Satisfied Service Reg. Master Plumber 7023 JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. 432 JEFFERSON STREET

Fall River

936 So. Main St., Fall River CREED ROSARIES 11:00 To 5:30 Sunday Thru Saturday

Tel. 673-4262

675路7496

PRAYER and laying on of hands mark transition of leadership ceremony at Dominican motherhouse in Fall River. (Gaudette photo)

New leaders for Fall River Dominicans In a moving service at the Fall River motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, leadership passed from prioress-general Sister Barbara A. McCarthy to her successor, Sister Elizabeth Menai'd~ . : Prayers centered on God's concern for each person as she or he moves toward the future. A candIe, also used at the community's recent general chapter, symbolized the onward journey.

Sister Barbara presented the new administration with a community coat of arms fashioned in ceramic

by Sister Gertrude Gaudette and a handcrafted bowl, symbolizing women with open hearts and minds.

She and Sister Donna Brunell, a180 an outgoing administrator, prayed for the new leaders and laid hands on them, a gesture repeated by all sisters present.

In accepting the role of prioress-

....

general, Sister Elizabeth spoke of completed high school at Domini"new beginnings always present at can Academy and entered the contransition times" and added that gregation in 1958. . "the call for each of us at the presIn religious life, she taught for ent time is to be totally open to a 14 years in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Fall loving God who constantly calls us River and New Haven, then was forward in faith and trust to a new formation and 'vocation director creation, a rertewed sense of being' 'for Iie'r community for' eight years. loving companions on our life's ~rom 1982 until the present she journey, and to a joyous sense of has bee'n codirector of a Christian being women ofthe Church in our Life Center in Salem, N.H., where time." she served a 13-parish cluster, speThe service concluded with sing- cializing in adult enrichment proing of a Carey Landry hymn, "Com- grams in scripture, spirituality, litpanions 'on the Journey," with urgy and allied subjects. accompaniment by Sister Lucille Gauvin.

Sister Elizabeth Sister Elizabeth, a native of' Mooers, N.Y., came to Fall River in 1956 as an aspirant to the Dominican community, having come into contact with it through members who were religious education teachers in Mooers. As an aspirant, she

FAMILY REUNIONS & RETREATS -. OUR SPECIALTY Consider SEASIDE, the quiet village on the ocean in Bass River, Cape Cod. .

We'U Package according to your individual needs.

SEASIDE 135 South Shore Drive Bass River, MA 02664 617-398-2523

ST. JOHN OF GOD FEAST AND LAWN PAR.TV

-

27.

PARISH GROUNDS BRAYTON AVE., SOMERSET

NEW Dominican leaders, from left seated, Sister Elizabeth Menard, prioress-general; councilors Sisters Julie Pintal and, standing, Louise Levesque, Louise Synan, Linda Rivers.

(Gaudette photo)

4

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July

18, j'986 ,

'

themoorin~

the Ii ving Wo rd

Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast The recent drug-related deaihs of Len Bias and Don Rogers have again spotlighted a serious general problem that is also fast becoming a sports plague. .

There are pros and cons as to methods of dealing with the ever-increasing use of drugs by college and professional athletes. Some would say that they have become scapegoats for drug abusers from other walks of life and because of their achievements have been unfairly treated by the media. This may be true and the hearts and flowers sports followers perhaps have some legitimate gripe about the zeroing in on recent drug overdoses by athletes.

However, it is obvious even to the merest sideliner that serious problems exist that are not only destroying athletes but also making a monkey of the entire world of sports.

For many college and professional players, it'~ a matter of too much too soon. They Just cannot handle their fame and their exaggerated salaries.

Many personal failures of atheletes stem from their inability to cope with a sports arena which has become nothing more than a financial marketplace.

Colleges and universities are not without blame in the process of marketing athletes. They want the television bucks and the notoriety that accompany a so-called winner. As a result, recruitment is all important and on many campuses scholastic . ratings for athletes are a farce. .

For all practical purposes, "social promotion" produces functional illiterates. Some degree-holding professional athletes cannot read or write on even the primary school level.

This indeed brings into question the responsibility of. a college to its entire student body, not to mention the community as a whole. What right has a school to use and abuse a person merely for financial gain? Why should the alumni of a given school write the curriculum for notable athletes? What justification can be conjured up by schools who exploit stu. dents for their own prestige? ., " These are but a few of the questions colleges should' be facin'g' if they are to restore their credibility as educational institutions..

Of course the world of professional sports also has a lot of explaining to do. Its refusal or inability to monitor its internal problems provides constant headlines.

If love of money is the root of all evil, then professional sports is in there rooting. There is no salary limit if a given superstar is at stake for a particular team. After all, the fans and advertisers will foot the bill.

With unlimited funds, pro athletes are consequently sitting' ducks for the pusher. So many come into the pro world without the judgment and maturity needed to face its realities, pressures and difficulties. They simply fall apart.

It is imperative that the powers that be in the various areas of the professional atliletic world get hold of the reins and control their runaways.

It is also up to fans to begin taking a hard look at their own adulation of false gods and heroes. Sports has done so much good for so many without drugs, bribery or' corruption. ~il足 lions of fans are drawn into its orbit for the sheer excitement of athletic encounters or, as ABC Sports phrases it, !'the thrill of victory and the' agony of defeat." , In this. world drugs have no phice or meaning.

This is the world that must be restored, renewed and rebuilt..

Colleges, universities, pro teams and fans alike should join together to assure that what can and should be done is accomplished before coc~ine becomes the ultimate umpire of athletes' lives. .

NC/UPI-Reuter photo

SOUTH AFRICAN SQUATTERS WATCH HELPLESSLY AS VIGILANTES DESTROY THEIR SHACKS

"As wood to fire, so an angry man stirreth up strife." Prov.. 26:21

Summ.er offers time to read declared that his students have

By Father Kevin J. Harrington memorized more minuets than had . Summer offers leisure time for the greatest musicians of previous reading. This summer, instead of centuries. . heading for the bookstore, I went But he laments the lack of discithrough my own bookcase for previously insufficiently appreci- pline that leads present composers to cater to the short attention span ated treasures.

The lyrics of the old Tony Ben- of their listeners. He feels that one nett song: "Love, like youth, is cannot say that he or she truly wasted on the young," can ap- appreciates music until o'ne can propriately be applied,to the clas- creatively express one's deepest sics of music, art and literature. .thoughts and feelings through this One of the saddest ironies is the medium.

The saine standard could be extent to which adults who wish to transmit their cultural heritage to applied to the other arts. But teachchildren actually create in those ers should not wholly despair. Cerchildren intense dislike for that. tain songs, poems and masterpieces of prose seem to stick heritage. What a tragedy!

People must be sensitized to through the years. It should also their cultural heritage before they be remembered that a good teacher can appreciate or judge it fully. So not only passes on to students his much education is packed into so or her own area of expertise in the few years that too often the clas- field of our cultural heritage, but sics are not given their due. Librar- something of the entire cultural ies are relatively empty in the . tradition. Some educators, howsummer. Indeed, a librarian once ever, tend to impoverish students told me that in general libraries are by transmitting only thier own places where young people do re- convictions and insights and those quired book reports and flirt while portions of the heritage reinforcthe elderly read popular magazines ing them.

In my case, my return to my and gossip.

Our cultural c1ass"ics are en- bookcase was fruitful. Almost 20 grossing because they involve the years ago I' read the Saroyan play body and the emotions as well as "The Time of Your Life." It conthe intellect. Never before have tains the line: "Living is an art, it is young people listened to music so not bookkeeping." As a college much as today. A music professor freshman the line did not strike me

as memorable. TodaY,it suggests that everybody's life can be a work of art.

Our God-given talents, dispositions, joys and sorrows need to be shaped' into significance. That which makes music, art and literature attractive is a quality called .beauty, and it has everything to do with the ~ay a life or a work of art is shaped. . .

Creation and the arts involve design and that includes unity, variety, balance and harmony.

Things called ugly or boring usually lack one ofthese four qualities.

Science, however, teaches us that creation is a long process fraught with many risks. Our life, if it is to be well-designed, has a wholeness that is called holiness. And our life, like creation, is also a long process fraught with risk. But the search for God's will brings unity to life amidst the variety of our experiences. This search carries with it an ever-unfolding sense of vocation that brings us the sense of balance needed to live in harmony with both God and man.

This summer, I hope todig into all those classics which I hastily skimmed in my college days.

Learning, like love, may be, as the Tony Bennett song goes on to say, better the second time around!

Mood control "I had a terrible weekend," a wife said. "My husband was moody the entire time. He slumped around and groused at me and the kids. But you know what really bugged me?

"When someone dropped in on Saturday and again when we went to church on Sunday, he was charming and cheerful. Then when we were alone he went right back into his bad mood."

She speaks to a familiar pattern - the person who falls into temporary moodiness at home. He or she is pleasant outside the home but is a bear to live with when in a dark mood.

Moodiness is tough on families.

The moody person withdraws, answering in monosyllables or not at all, refusing to be pleased. And the family tiptoes around trying to find the cause.

"I have to play search and destroy when he's in one of his moods," a woman said. "When he's mad at his boss or the dog, why does he take it out on us?"

It isn't always the husband, of course. Wives and kids, particularly teenagers, can lapse into sullen silences and daylong frowns. When this happens, the rest of the family usually takes it personally. "Why is she mad at me?"

The moody person may be depressed for no identifiable reason. He just doesn't want to be

school's classrooms. He was all things to everyone: confessor, counselor, teacher; one who consoles, celebrator of joyous occasions, pillar of strength.

The trends.are changing and so is the physical presence of a pastor to his parishioners. He is not going to be around as much as in the past, even though parishioners will continue to feel his influence deeply in their lives.

What is causing the change in a pastor's life? For one thing, pastors no longer have as many parochial vicars sharing the burden of pastoring with them. Therefore, they are not as free as' before to be with parishioners. Manyparisheswhich once had two or three priests now have only one.

In one Eastern archdiocese, the new expectations of a pastor were described as follows: "The role of the pastor will continue to shift from direct personal service to parishioners to that of moderating specialized ministry, parish organizational needs and extra duties."

It was recommended that the "dio.cese secure sufficient numbers of pastors with the qualities needed for moderating."

There are now approximately 164 lay ministry training centers preparing the laity to serve in parishes that have been reduced to one priest or that have increased their services. The new role of the pastor will be to moderate not only these laypersons, but also the many permanent deacons who now serve on the parish level.

By

happy. When others try to cheer DOLORES him up, it deepens his gloom.

- All of us are moody at times.

But it's the chronically moody per- CURRAN sons who create family tension.

These people often use their behav-ior to get attention and to control others. They assume the family will accommodate them and the son that he must go to the source grumpier they become, the more for relief, not to innocent parties. the family accommodates. them. It Naturally, there are times we becomes a family game, with the should be sensitive t6 situations pouter always winning. that cause a loved one temporary How, then, do families deal depression. That's what being effectively with a chronically moody family is all about. But if one member? By acknowledging and member is chronically moody and then ignoring her. By saying some- uses his bad mood to manipulate thing like, "We'll stay away from the family, it becomes destructive you, dear. We can see you're hav- and childish. ing a bad day." .

Dr. Peter Purpura, a Long Island This response puts the responsibility where it belongs, on the psychologist, says, "A partner's moody one, not on the family. It withdrawal conveys the sense that tells that person that she's the one you don't exist. It is a quiet, sullen with the problem and that the fam- accusation that you and the world ily will cooperate by staying away have failed to m~ke him happy."

Mood control is learned in childand refusing to kowtow to the bad hood.

That's why we must not mood.

When the moody one is ready to reward children who use moods to interact pleasantly again, the fam- manipulate others. We must teach ily will be there, but they're giving them that we are not going to notice that they are not going to allow'f their moods to affect us. allow her to make them miserable Instead of trying to make them happy we can encourage them to just because she is.

Another way of dealing with it is find their own way out of bad to confront bad moods openly. moods.

"Look, I'm not the one who chewed If we permit their moods to sabyou out at work or who stole your otage family harmony, we are equalizer. If you're going to take it teaching them to be moody spouses. out on someone, look elsewhere." And future families will inherit the This response tells the moody per- ,problem.

The future pastor It used to be that the pastor was there, whether it was a parish picnic, a wake, a wedding or one of the parish

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 18, 1986

Many of the services the pastor was once personally responsible for are being taken over by the laity and permanent deacons. The pastor's new role is to ensure that the services are performed well . and in accord with the spirit of the, church.

No doubt pastors will complain' that they were not ordained to be moderators or administrators. They will argue that the role of pastor is to be with the flock wherever' it . may be and whenever it calls. The compJaint also will arise that the pastor's role is growing impersonal or that he is dealing only with an elite group of specialists.

'Father Yves Congar, a wellknown theologian, advocated 30 years ago that there be a clergylaity pair rathel"than a team to run a parish. I believe that if pastors looked at their role in this light it could very well make their entrance into the 21st century a refreshing experience.

The concept of a clergy-laity pair makes the relationsl\ip of a pastor and the laity similar to the relationship in marriage. In this role, a pastor, like an _unselfish husband and father, is cast into a different thinking mode. He no .longer says to himself, "I wasn't ordained for this." Rather like many parents who were thrown into a give-and-take situation in order to keep family life going, he

THE ANCHOR (liSPS-545-020), Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass, Published weekly except the week of July 4 and the week after Christmas at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price by mail. postpaid 58,00 per year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor. P.O, Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722,

By

FATHER'· ElJGENE HEMRICK finds himself saying: "This is our family and as with all marriages we sacrifice ourselves for the benefit of the family... ' , His new role may mean less personal satisfaction in giving personal service, but it can blossom so that he gives others the joy of serving that he knows so well. If such, an attitude is cultivated, the loneliness of being a pastor in a onepriest parish could be transformed; instead he inherits a family whose close ties make his new role one to be desired.

July 19 Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, D.O., 2nd Bishop of Fall River 1907-1934 Rev. Francis M. Coady, Pastor,.

1975, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River July 10 Rev. Joao Medeiros, Retired Pastor, 1983, St. Elizabeth, Fall River July 13 Rev. Patrick F. Doyle, Fourider, 1893, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River Rev. George B. McNamee, Pastor, 1938, Holy Name, Fall River July 15 Rev. Raymond R. Mahoney, SS.CC., Retired, 1984, Our Lady of Assumption, New Bedford Rev. Michael J. Cooke, Pastor, 1913, St. Patrick, F.all River

Pre-Cana courses valuable

5

By

FAJ'HER JOHN

DIETZEN Q. My daughter and her fiance attended Sunday afternoon marriage preparation classes with other couples at a distant church. These classes were boring for her, she and about their partner that they said, because she had taken college felt would serve them to great courses which covered all aspects advantage in their marriage. I am of married life. . not aware of the specific program My daughter's friend was mar- in your parish. It seems to me, ried just a couple of weeks ago at however, that what I have said our parish. She told my daughter may help to put the experience of that she would never again go your daughter and her friend in through what she and her fiance some proper perspective. had to with our parish priest. The marriage talks were very dull, she Q. What is the church's teaching told my daughter. The 100 or more on when the second coming of questions they were asked to answer Christ will take place? Watching were personal, she said, and none Christian evangelical television, I of the priest's business. noticed that a lot of emphasis Is If my daughter refuses to answer put on the theory that the events these questions can our pastor taking place today bring us very refuse to marry them? (Louisiana) close to the end times described In , A. All dioceses in our country the book of Daniel and Revelation. now have some form of required They also go on to describe the preparation programs before marriage. In more and more places "rapture of the church," the trlbuthese programs take two forms. altion period, the defeat of the One is some type of pre marriage Antichrist In. Armageddon, the class or series of conversations second coming of Christ, etc. Is with trained married couples about there a Catholic book that addresses . various aspects of early marriage. Itself to this subject? (Florida) These "classes" take many forms, A. Yes, there is a good book. It's from a series of lectures in a preCana program to weekend Engaged called the Bible. In it Jesus says Couples Encounters. very clearly, "You know neither Understandably, the quality of the day nor "h~ hour.... ~ccording these programs varies from time to to our, Chnstl~n tradltl?n, even time and place to place, depending the rest ofthe Bible doesn t take us ·on leadership and participants:Not': ,mIJc~ closer to the answer. everything willappeal to everyone.

First of all, most of the book of I have found, however, that much. Revelation and a good part of the -depends on the attitude of the book of Daniel are made up of a people attending. Usually couples type of literature quite well known who attend with an open mind and during the century or so before · who feel they still may have some- and after Christ, caIied apocalyptic. thing to learn find these courses' . .. useful in some way. At least they Generally, apocalypt!c wntl.ngs appreciate the church's concern .were composed o~ ~ Wide vanety · for every possible care to prepare of sym~ols .and VISions, many of the future bride and groom for a th~~qult~ bizarre, suppo.se.dly contammg veIled ocpult or dlvme, mesgood and happy marriage. ~.

The other element common to _. ~ages. Often!,too, an ~ngel or other most marriage preparation require- mess~nger would be mtroduced to ments is an instrument to help.the. explam t~e messag~ ,- though the couple evaluate their agreements, explanatlon~ sometlmes.~ere .hardstrengths and weaknesses in im'por- ly more clearthan the vIsion Itself.

We find al.l of this both in Daniel tant aspects of the early years of marriage. , a n d ~evelatlO.n. . .

A typical such instrument is the . Without bemg;at all fllppant,!t Premarital Inventory used in num- IS no exagger~tI.on that ~rtam erous Catholic churches and by groups of-Chnstlans have had a .many Protestant churches as well. field day with all those visi~ns for The future bride and groom re- - the past 18 or 19 -centu,nes. In spond to 143 statements, indicat- . every c~ntJJry, perhaps even, every ing that they agree, disagree or are generation, one finds movements unsure about that statement. Sub- which make frightening' predictions jects covered include in-laws, chil': of the end of'the world. dren, interpersonal communicaThe list· of th~se phenomena tion, sexuality and several' other from history is almost endless. major categories" One example is particularly interResponses are then tabulated in esting. Revelation 20:4 speaks ofa such a way as to give the couple a period of 1,000 years between the profile of their strengths (in agree- first coming of Christ and his ment) and weaknesses (where there return. is still some disagreement) in e a c h ' .

Other predictions may have been of these categories. wrong, said many "prophets" of Some individuals might find cer- the day, but now the real year 1000 tain of these statements somewhat is definitely approaching and the personal, but if the priest or other end is near. person working with the couple Obviously they were wrong, as knows how to help them interpret the information, the bride and have been a host of others in the centuries that followed, groom can learn much from it.

To answer your· question: the I have personally given the Premarital Inventory to perhaps 300 church has no teaching whatsoever couples; everyone without excep- about the specific time ofthe second tion has reported discovering val- coming of Christ and the events uable information about themselves that might accompany it.

.6

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 18, 1986

Pope convinced women's ordination is impossible

Lay leadership seen hope for future of church . WASHINGTON (NC) - Most among students identified as camU.S. Catholics, when asked about pus ministry leaders.

Among other views revealed by a growing priest shortage, think it is more important for the church the surveys: to develop good lay leadership in - Only a third of Catholic parishes than to recruit more adults surveyed said they thempriests, says a report by Catholic selves had been affected in some University of American socioloway by a shortage of priests. Among . gist Dean Hoge.

Catholic student leaders in camAsk,ed in a 1985 survey to choose pus ministry, 37 percent said they between those priorities, 54 perhad been affected. Among Catholic, cent of Catholic adults called resstudents in general, 27 percent tructuring parish life with more reported that experience. participatory leadership a higher "Ordination of women was favpriority, while 32 percent consiored, by 47 percent of the adults dered it more important to recruit and 49 percent of student campus more priests. The rest saidthey did ministry leaders. " not know or could not choose.

"Ordination of married men was Among Catholic students in college, the preference for more lay favored by 63 percent of the adults leadership was even more marked. and 51 percent of the student Students in general favored more leaders. participatory leadership by 74 percent to 19 percent. Students hold- From a list of possible reducing leadership roles in campus tions in priestly activity. both adults ministry were 72 percent to 18 per- and student leaders objected most cent in favor of changing the style strongly to not having priests availof parish leadership. able to visit the sick or dying, havHoge, researching questions ing less than one Mass a week, not about vocations and future church having a resident priest in a parish, leadership under a grant from the and having only deacons or lay Lilly Endowment, oversaw exten- ministers available to officiate at sive surveys last year to determine marriages. attitudes and views of U.S. Catholic - They objected least to mergadults, college students and priests. ing of parishes, reduction of the The second of his not-yet-fin- number of weekend Masses, bapished series of reports on the study's tism only by deacons or lay peofindings was devoted to summariz- ple, and reduced availability ofthe ing and comparing the views on , sacrament of penance. the priest shortage held by the - Asked what kind of changes general Catholic adult population might help or hurt the church, a,nd by Catholic students in col- both adults and student leaders lege. At colleges, separate surveys indicated especially strong supwere conducted among the general port - above 70 percent - for Catholic student population and more frequent informal relation-

BOGOTA, Colombia (NC) Pope John Paul II said he is convinced it is "impossible" to change the church's ban on ordaining women.

Pope John Paul also said the decision of the Anglicans to ordain women has caused problems in dialogue with both the Catholic and the Orthodox churches.

The pope addressed the issue.in a question-and-ahswer session during his visit to Colombia earlier this month.

Previously the Vatican had released texts of letters between the pope, Cardinal Joannes Willebrands, head ofthe Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, 'and Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, Eng~ land.

In his letter, Archbishop Runcie proposed to the pope "the !Jrgent need for a joint study of the question of the ordination of women to the ministerial priesthood," which already has been approved in some churches of the Anglican Communion.

Asked if the Catholic Church could ever alter its present position on ordination of women, the pope told National Catholic News Service,,"1 am convinced that that is impossible."

He said the Anglicans know the approval of women priests by some Anglican communions "creates a difficulty for the dialogue not only with the Catholic Church but also with the Orthodox," the pope said.

Nevertheless, the pope said the Anglicans "should continue their dialogue with the Catholic Church."

When asked what benefits could come from dialogue with the Anglicans on the ordination of women question, given the Catholic position, the pope answered, "I don't know."

In a June 17 letter to Archbishop Runcie, Cardinal Willebrands said "the ordination of men" to the priesthood is the "unbroken tradition" ofthe Catholic and Orthodox churches.

"Neither church understands itself to be competent to alter this tradition," he added.

Cardinal Willebrands also said the question will continue to be a part of'the Catholic-Anglican dialogue. But, he said, "the most immediate question will be about how the ordination of women in some parts of the Anglican 路Communion affects progress toward fuller communion between us."

Archbishop Runcie in his Nov. 22,1985, letter said that "tradition is open", to the ordination of women "because the exclusion of women from priestly ministry cannot be proved to be oC'divine law.'''

ships between priests and laity, more small groups in parishes, greater lay participation in decision-making, more influential roles for women and paid lay counselors on parish staffs. ' - Ideas that received the least support were greater stress on obedience to priests and 'letting parish priests live outside rectories. Just over one-third of Catholic adults ~hought these ideas would be helpful, and only one of every four or five student leaders favored them.

Hoge said the "near-ullanimous acclaim" for "more personal and participatory parish life" provided "important information for church leaders."

One group of 14 questions about priestly tasks, which was asked only in the survey of student leaders, began with "the assumption that priests today have too much work to do," Hoge said.

The "main message" from those responses, he said, "is that, apart from marriages, baptisms and preaching in Mass, most of the work currently being done by parish priests could be reassigned to deacons or lay persons. And if priests are overworked, much work should be reassigned, including supervision of buildings and grounds, maintaining financial books and organizing youth ministry and sports programs, CCD classes and charitable undertakings.

No Evil in Atom "There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls." - Adlai Stevenson

A miracle girl Continued from Page One

/ "\

The following fall, she attended SPEC-ECHO, a retreat for special needs persons held at Wareham's Sacred Hearts Seminary retreat center.

Participation in the Special Olympics and playing tambourine for the St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, prayer group were also highlights' for her, her parents said. .

Mary Joy appeared with the group on a ~iocesan. television, Mass," her father added. ; "Each day she fulfilled some' kind of goal, ~ he said:' , ' '.' ' , "Mary Joy was a very reverent person," commented Iier mother. '~She meditated twice 'a day an,d had tremendous faith. She strengthened our faith."

The young woman cherished路 her prayer time, her parents said, and often spoke of her joy at being free to worship. She met Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at her confirmation ceremony and "they shot the bree'ze for awhile," Gonsalves smiled.

"We shared great times together," her mother recalled. "There was a lot of laughter." She remembers rising at 4:30 a.m. to help Mary Joy with'the time-consuming task of readying herself for a day at school.

"We had our best laughs at those times. She'd call me 'Wacko Mom.', Her sense of humor was fantastic."

One of the few things that an-

noyed Mary Joy, the Gonsalves Compassionate Friends, a support said, was being addressed because group for bereaved parents which of her small stature as if she were a' meets at 7:30 p.m., the third Wedchild. nesday of each month at the ShawBut "scores and scores" of peo- mut Bank in Chatham. pie have told them how knowing On the parish scene, Gonsalves their daughter had changed their is a eucharistic minister and a lives. , ' member of the Men of the Sacred "She was definitely' a very spe- 'Hearts, a group that escorts a tracial person," Our Lady of the Cape veling statue of the Pilgrim Virgin pastor Father Rene J. Caissey, to parishioners' homes; and Mrs. MS, said....Thoughtful, caring, gen- Gonsalves is an Altar Society mem'ber and a former teacher of relierous and faith-filled." gious education classes. Both are The Gonsalves note that clergy Cursillistas. and friends h~ve been. tremendThe couple's home is adorned' ously supportive. Helpmg o.thers with wide assortment of religious: in their turn, they lead a chapter of articles and many family pictures.

It is often used for ultreyas, Cur-' sillo followup gatherings for study, and discussion.

"The miracle part of Mary Joy," her father said, "was when she would say 'I accept whatever the Lord gives me. His will be done.' .. . At dedication ceremonies for the nature trail, Dorothy E. McCarthy, executive director of the Plymouth Bay Girl Scout Council, s,aid "We honor the memory of an extraordinary young woman who was an inspiration to those of us who knew her."

"Mary Joy left us quite a legacy and indomitable spirit," said Penelope B. Wasem, advisor to Senior Girl scout Troop 749.

A red ribbon was cut to open the nature trail. A portion of it now lies at the feet of a statue of St. Jude that stands in the Gonsalves MARY JOY AT AGE 15 'home.

"

"~\",

'."

.

K of C totals rise

Untried ..It is not that Christianity has been tried and found wanting. It is

that Christianity has been found difficult and left untried." - G.K. Chesterton

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (NC)Rising $1 I million from 1984 totals, 1985 donations by Knights of Columbus totaled over $66 million, while members of the fraternal organization logged over 23 million hours of volunteer service, according to a survey conducted

by K of C headquarters in New Haven.

The funds benefited church agencies and the sick, needy and handicapped, while volunteer services aided community assistance and blood donor programs, needy families and disaster victims.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Juiy 18, 1986

Handicapped aids listed by CP victim

Nigeria refuses missioners entry

7

CINCINNATI (NC) - Break down the physical and attitudinal barriers that prevent disabled ROME (NC) - Catholic misCatholics from participating fully sionaries are being refused entry in the life of the church, urges into Nigeria, according to a Vaticerebral palsy victim Jo Ann Balcan publication. linger.

Fides, the Rome-based publicaWriting in Catholic Update, tion of the Vatican Congregation published by St. Anthony Mesfor the Evangelization of Peoples, senger Press, she said, "Won't you said that "Catholic priests invited please open your doors and invite to work in Nigeria by local bishops us in? We so much want to be part are being refused permission to of the parish and believe that we enter the country." truly belong. We who have disabilAunique devotional tour to Medities also have many gifts and Fides also reported that the imtalents to offer.... Why not recjugorje in beautiful, charming migration department has sent ognize and accept our differences word to the nation's general secreYugoslavia - site of Marian as potential gifts and tools for the tariat that the immigration "quota" Apparitions to six young people building up of parish life?" is filled, so additional church work"I'm very adamant for this .ers may not enter Nigeria. beginning in 1981.- it is cause," Mli. Ballinger said in an Missionaries have frequently reported that they continue to interview. "I think that people been denied entry visas in the past, have to realize we all have the see Mary until this day: Fides reported, but last February . same human needs." an immigration official had advised Although cerebral palsy has imthe bishops that problems stempaired her speech it need not preming from the country's immigraSPACE. LIMITED vent her from practicing her faith, tion policy would cease. . she said.

In February, the Nigerian bishShe cited examples of a woman ops voiced opposition when the who serves as a lector from her country reportedly joined the Orwheelchair and another with ganization of Islamic Conference.

Down's syndrome, who is a euchaThe bishops called for Nigeria's ristic minister. And a 13-year-old withdrawal from the conference Down's syndrome child is an altar CALL OR WRITE and decried the lack of previous server in his parish, she said.

OUTSIDE A suburban Havana church, Mother Teresa public debate on the matter.

Alerting people to problems announces that her community will establish a mission in TOM CARROLL . However, a Nigerian government faced by people with handicaps is spokesman said that the country (NCj UPI-Reuter photo) Cuba.

FOR BROCHURE a major obstacle, she continued. did not join the Islamic body. He "We don't want to be just an object said that a private group, with no' of charity but a vital part of the authority to do so, .had made the church and community. That can commmitment in Nigeria's name. be done with love, compassion The spokesman did not name the and a realization of our worth as group. human beings."

A government study on the incichurch leaders were arrested, and Ms. Ballinger called for buildHAVANA(NC)-Cuban President has yet to be made public, the . church schools were closed. Church ing of ramps.aM other facilities dent Fidel Castro told Mother Termembers were purged from uni- spokesman·said. for the handicapped in churches esa during a one-day visit earlier "With its religious pluralism," versities and forbidden to join the and schools, for language avoid- this month that he would grant her the bishops said, "Nigeria cannot Communist Party. ing prejudice or a patronizing tone request to establish a mission in as a state become a member of an and for support for families with Cuba.

In the past year, however, a international body whose objechandicapped children. draft of the Communist· Party's tives are essentially the promotion HIGHLAND . She announced the agreement She suggested that parishes form next five-year plan recommended of one particular religion. " during a visit to a suburban Havana TRAVEl SERVICE advisory committees to implement that religious belief be respected church.

About 47 percent of Nigerians fuller participation of handicapped by all Cubans and criticized dis- are Moslem. About 34 percent are 260 New Boston Road "I am very happy to be here with members. crimination against believers. . Fall River, MA 02720 Christian.

Conduct surveys to determine you and to give you the good news Government permission for the 617-676-8228 In Tune needs and promote awareness of that very soon, please God, our church to hold a national meeting those needs through homilies, she sisters will be with you," said the "Prayer is the world in tune." in February was seen as another said. She also urged "Access Sun- nun, founder of the Missionaries -Henry Vaughan positive sign. . days," during which parish mem- of Charity and winner of the 1979 bers with disabilities wQuld plan Nobel Peace Prize for her work the liturgy and serve in various lay among the poor. ministries. On the personal level She indicated that her sisters Ms. Ballinger said, Catholics should . would be involved in activities of a befriend and aid fellow Catholics more spiritual nature than their with disabilities. usual work with the poor and Bishop of Fall River destitute.

The government claims mateA SUMMERTIME RECEPTION rial poverty has been eradicated in PRESENTED BY NEWARK, N.J. (NC) - A the communist island-nation.

DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN "The spiritual poverty of hunger, comment by Cardinal Joseph of nakedness, of homelessness, is Ratizinger, head of the Vatican THURSDAY, AUGUST 7.7:00 P.M. much more difficult than material doctrinal congregation, that the poverty," Mother Teresa told CubRenew program for parishes is an Catholics packed into the under study at the Vatican is HYANNIS. MID-CAPE HGWY. church. "nothing out of the ord.inary," said EXIT 6 • RT. 132 Waving handkerchiefs, they a statement by Renew's national Bishop Cronin will receive people of the office. An official of the National cheered wildly as she walked down diocese & summer residents . the aisle with Havana Archbishop Conference of Catholic Bishops REFRESHMENTS, HORS D'OEUVRES also said the cardinal was "very' Jaime Ortega. clear" that the Vatican congregaMsgr. Carlos Manuel de CesMUSIC & DANCING BY THE tion was studying the program "in pedes, general secretary of the Cub~ CHATHAM BARS INN COMBO conjunction with" the U.S. an bishops' conference, said Mother bishops. The Wanderer, a layTeresa would return to Cuba at a $15 PER PERSON edited national Catholic newsdate as yet undecided for the founpaper which has often criticized dation of the inission.

Tickets are available at every rectory in the RECEPTION WILL BENEFIT the Renew program, had reported He also said Castro's decision to diocese and from members of the Council _THE CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE that Cardinal Ratzinger had said of Catholic Women allow the order's mission was "very Renew was being studied by the positive" and marked a new stage This Message Sponsored by the Following congregation he ~eads. in the improvement of churchBusiness Concerns In the Diocese of Fall River state relations.

In the past, Cuban church-state FEITELBERG INSURANCE AGENCY DURO FINISHING CORP. Caring relations have been strained. When GLOBE MANUFACTURING CO. GEORGE O'HARA CHEVROLET-CADILLAC "Caring is the Christian thing." Castro took power in 1959/ forGILBERT C. OLIVEIRA INS. AGENCY - Baron Friedrich Von Hugel eign priests were expelled, many

A

JOURNEY OF FAITH

Oct. 17-24

$1·099

Castro lets Mother Teresa open mission in Cuba

"AN EVENING ON CAPE COD WITH BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN"

Review's. routine

SHERATON - REGAL INN

8

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 18, 1986

CAPE COD IF YOU WISH TO SELL OR BUY A HOME IN THE . SANDWICH AREA OF CAPE COD, PLEASE GIVE US A CALL.

WINTERS REAL ESTATE 78 Route 6A • Sandwich, MA 02563

(617) 888-7661 Member: National Association of REALTORS" Member; Cape Cod Multiple Listing Service

Night and Day 24-hour banking,

FALMOUTH HEIGHTS

MOTOR LODGE . WITH THIS COUPON $1.00 off room rate per nit~ 50¢ off boat trip 5 MINUTE WALK TO BEACH & BOAT TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD 146 FALMOUTH HEIGHTS RD.. FALMOUTH, MA02540

C~lIE'S "110II10_ e_I ....I.. ·

OILCO••INC.

• FUEL OIL·

·2·WAY RADIO

OfRCI 4' OAl.GIO¥I

617·548-3623

AVI~

FOI nOlAn 14 Houf i_ICY Cho,lei .Velolo. P,el ..

fAll IMI

Msgr. Hoye investigating concerns about appointment WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr.

Daniel F. Hoye is investigating concerns of bishops surrounding appointment of Jesuit Father Michael Buckley to the bishops' doctrine committee, and says he hopes to annoupce a decision in the matter soon.

The general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, had named Father Buckley May 30 to become executive director later this year of the NCCB Committees on Doctrine and on Pastoral Research and Practices..

Questions about the appointment were raised last month, as· more than 200 U.S. bishops met in Collegeville, Minn. According to several bishops, much of the concern focused on a National Catholic Register report that Father Buckley had signed a 1977 statement dissenting from a new Vatican declaration .on the ordination of women. Some bishops had also received materials on Father Buckley sent out by Msgr. George Kelly, a New York priest who heads the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and is often identified with conservative ecclesiastical views.

Msgr. Hoye told National Catholic News Service, "I am aware of the concerns expressed by certain people about the appointment of Father Buckley. I am in the process of investigating those concerns.

"I am seeking the advice of the leadership of the conference," Msgr.

Hoye continued. "I will make a decision about the status of the appointment in the not-too-distant future."

He declined to say anything else about the matter.

Father Buckley, atheology professor ~t the pontificalJesuit School

of Theology at Berke)ey, Calif., "Because Catholics United for did not answer telephone messages the Faith and The Wanderer reguesting comment. apparently have been able to exerHe was described by several cise considerable influence in bishops who know him as a deeply Rome," he added, there is a "prespiritual, loyal priest and theolo- sumption" that trouble looms if gian. Archbishops John Quinn of either of those conservative Catho- ' San Francisco and Thomas Kelly lic organizations latches on to an 'of Louisville, Ky., praised him issue. highly but declined to comment on CUF is a conservative lay organthe controversy regarding his ization based in New Rochelle, appoin·tment.

N.Y. The Wanderer is a national Several bishops who were con- Catholic newspaper published in tacted refused to talk at all about St. Paul, Minn. the controversy, and others would Bishop Lucker said that when speak only off the record.

One willing to talk publicly about .the bishops in Collegeville learned it was Bishop Raymond Lucker of of the National Catholic Register New Ulm, Minn. article, which raised questions Bishop Lucker and other about Father Buckley's views and sources said the apparent difficulty the appropriateness of appointing over Father Buckley's appointment a theologian to the doctrine comto the two bishops' committees mittee who was identified with a concerns the fact that in 1977 he position of dissent, there was a was one of 23 theologians on the general feeling among the bishops faculty of the Jesuit School of that "they (the conservative press) Theology at Berkeley who signed a are not going to let this die.... If public letter dissenting from a Vat- we go ahead on this, we're going to icim declaration on the ordination have a big fuss on our hands."

Bishop· Lucker said he hoped of women. The theologians also the Buckley appointment would upheld the possibility of dissent as a legitimate act of "loyal oppo~ be made solely "on the qualifications of the person in question." sition. " "I would hope that if they found "It's evident that the Holy Father wants to tighten up, he wants to Father Buckley to be a qualified have more uniformity in statements theologian - as he is - they of belief. That has an impact around would stick with him," he said. the world and in this country," . "He's a competent person who would bring credibility to the Bishop Lucker said.

The result, he said, has been office...

He said that the question being "clearly a shift to the conservative" raised did not concern orthodoxy among U;S. bishops as a whole.

Asked if the bishops seem to be or competence, but a pragmatic influenced more and more by actual "fear" that a conservative camor anticipated pressure from the paign against the priest would Catholic right in their· decision- "make it impossible for him to . making process, he said "Oh, yes, I operate effectively in that depart- . ment. " think that's the threat. "

Gala arrangements committee listed Members ofthe Diocesan Coun- Proceeds willbenefit diocesan charcil of Catholic Women executive .ities.

Arrangements committee memboard form the arrangements committee for the annual summer gala, bers are Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, "An Evening on Cape Cod with DCCW president; Mrs. Raymond Poisson, 5th vice-president; Mrs. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin."

To be held this year on Aug. 7 at Raymond Lavoie, Organizational the Royal Suite of the Sheraton Services chairman; and board memRegal Inn, Hyannis; the evening bers Miss Dorothy Curry, Miss will feature music for dancing by Theresa Lewis, Mrs. Harry B. Loew, the Chatham Bars Inn· Combo. . Mrs. David Sellmayer, Mrs. James Hors d'oeuvres and ·canapes will Quirk, Miss Adrienne Lemieux, I Mrs. Manuel Nogueira and Mrs. be served..

Tickets are available at all par- James Bla!=kmore. ishes and from DCCW members.

Also committee members are Msgr. Anthony M:Gomes, DCCW moderator; and Very Rev. Edward C. Duffy, Cape and Islands district moderator.

Hostesses for the event, all DCCW past presidents, are Mrs. Emmett Almond, Mrs. Gilbert Noonan, Mrs. Aristides Andrade, Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., Mrs. Richard Paulson, Mrs. Michael J. McMahon and Miss Ethel M. CrowIy.

New Shroudtheory

PROVIDING FINANCIAL GUIDANCE

&COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP IN SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETIS SINCE 1825,

CD BANKOF NEW ENGLANDA .

BRISTOL COUNfY

Member F.D.I.C.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The image of a man on the Shroud of Turin may have been caused by heat from a crucified body react- . ing with limestone particles absorbed by the cloth from a Jerusalem tomb, according to a new theory by two scientists writirig in Biblical Archaeology Review.

Archaeologist Eugenia Nitowski and crystallographer Joseph Kohlbeck said their theory is based on recent tests of Shroud fibers and research on first-century tombs in Jerusalem and on the physiology of crucifixion. The image on the l4-foot-long linen shroud is be- . lieved by many Christians to be ' that of Jesus Christ. .

Easier "It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." . - Adlai Stevenson

CAPE COD gala planning committee members, from left, Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Mrs. Raymond Poisson, Mrs. Raymond Lavoie.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., July 18, 1986

.In Nicaragua

Government actions protested WASHINGTON (NC) - Nicaragua's recent exiling of two prominent Catholic churchmen and closing of the opposition newspaper have drawn 'sharp international criticism from church and secular sources.

The Nicaraguan government said it had moved to protect the country from fifth columnists supporting U.s.-backed counterrevoluti,onary forces, generally referred to as contras.

The exiled clergymen, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega of Juigalpa Prelature and Msgr. Bismarck Carballo, top aide to Nicaraguan Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo, have denied taking sides with the insurgents.

The exilings drew angry comments from Pope John Paul II, in Colombia at the time. The U.S., Spanish and Brazilian bishops' conferences, among others, protested the move against the churchmen - as did individual U.S. bishops.

Nicaragua's bishops said government anti-church pressure was building.

The head of the Maryknoll Missioners - one of whose members, Father Miguel D'Escoto, is Nicaragua's foreign minister - said in a message to the country's leadership· that the exilings "can only lead to a hardening of positions" among the adversaries.

The New York Times sajd editorially that the Sandinistas seemedto have betrayed their former democratic allies by exiling the churchmen and closing La Prensa, the opposition newspaper. A U.S. congressman compared Cardinal Obando Bravo's situation to that of an American missionary bishop who spent 10 years in a communist Chinese jail.

Bishop Vega, vice president of the Nicaraguan bishops' conference, was expelled from Nicaragua July 4. ~e wasgranted asylum in Honduras.

Father Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua's minister of culture, said the bishops hands were "bathed in the blood' of all Nicaraguan war victims." A government communique accused him of having a "criminal and unpatriotic attitude.

But Bishop Vega denied the charges. He also denied that his meetings with conservative U.S. organizations in Washington were aimed at winning support for a $100 million Reagan administration-supported contra aid bill that passed the House of Representatives.

He said his object was to reveal human rights violations in his homeland.

On June 28, Msgr. Carballo was refused reentry to the country after attending a conference' in Paris aimed at seeking means· to recon,cile Nicaragua's opposing groups.

He reportedly ,told the conference that the Nicaraguan church is persecuted.

In a July 8 interview with National Catholic News Service, the monsignor said the Nicaraguan government is trying to silence the church.

Speaking through an interpreter, he said he believes that Cardinal Obando Bravo might be subjected to some government action.

For instance, if the cardinal were to visit another country, he might not be allowed to return home, Msgr. Carb,allo said.

9

Cornwell Memorial Chapel, Inc.

HALLETT Funeral Home Inc.

5 CENTER STREET WAREHAM, MASS.

283 Station Avenue South Yarmouth', Mass.

DIGNIFIED FUNERAl SERVICE DIRECTORS CEDIU E. CDRNWELl EVEREn Eo UHlMAN

Tel. 398-2285

295·1810

We're Better .Together

F=~ Members Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

KI~ to

Bring The

Aft.. Clr•••1

- 5 Exciting Dolphin Shows Daily ? \ Over 20Q LiveAn~mals! " Feed The Animals In Our Petting Zoo

r

-:p:-ciF-;;h-;m;:;----

I

BISHOP VEGA celebrates a Mass in Honduras for Nicaraguan exiles. He was expelled from Nicaragua July 4 with only his passport and the-clothes he was wearing. (NCj UPIReuter photo) , On JUly 5, Pope John Paul II said Bishop Vega's expulsion offended "the requirements of liberty" and violated "a man's and a citizen's basic rights."

Bishop James W. Malone, the head of the U.S. bishops' conference, said in a telegram to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that the exilings represented a "new and dangerously repressive policy."

Brazil's bishops expressed similar misgivings, saying that "freedom of expression is indispensable to' the democratic regime, which should be able to live with the criticisms of its citizens."

The Conference of Major Superiors of Men said penalizing the churchmen violated basic rights, and it urged the government to reconsider. The protest also noted the conference's "deep regret" over congressional appr~)Val of $100 milli~n to aid, thecontras.

The Nicaraguan government is "increasing the pressures and threats" against the church, the Nicaraguan bishops said. Their letter, pUblished in the July gedition of the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said the "physical and moral security of bishops, priests, religious an(l the faithful is constantly threatened:'

In a July 10 editorial titled "The Sandinista Road to Stalinism," The New York Times said that the "depredatic>ns of the CIA-sponsored (contra) army .neitherjustify nor explain the totalitarian trend in Managua," Nicaragua's capital. ' It said the Sandinistas had targeted Cardinal Obando Bravo "not just for defending his institution, . but also for advocating reconciliation among all Nicaraguans." The exilings of Bishop Vega and Msgr.

Carballo amount to "secularexcommunication," the newspaper said.

-The newspaper said while La Prensa operated it was evidence MILWAUKEE (NC) - Prothat the Sandinistas felt obliged to posed Vatican rules for Catholic their "former allies" in the revolucolleges and universities could tion. But that "sense of obligation prove beneficial for Catholic eduand tolerance has evaporated," it cation, said Bishop Adam J. Maida said. of'Green Bay, Wis. He said church Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., comauthorities "act properly when they pared Cardinal Obando Bravo to ' seek to protect the integrity of Bishop James Edward Walsb, an their institutions." Bishop Maida American Maryknoll missionary commented in a speech in Miljailed for nearly 10 years by comwaukee and in an interview with munist Chinese. the Milwaukee Catholic ,Herald.

The Chinese accused the bishop The proposed Vatican norms give of being a U.S. spy who "personhierarchical authorities, presuma- ,ally directed" counterrevolutionary bly bishops, the power to control activities, Hyde wrote in a comhiring and firing of pforessors on mentary for the Wall Street Journonacademic grounds and say that nal. the bishops must ensure that uni"The false charges against Bishop versities observe prindples ofCathWalsh...are very similar to those olic doctrine.

• pressed against Cardinal Obando Bravo," the congressman wrote.

"The irony is that the falsehoods Substitutes against the cardinal' are being "We know too much and are spread," he wrote, "by'the foreign convinced of too little. Our literaminister of Nicaragua, Miguel ture is a substitute for religion and D'Escoto, who is himself a member so is our religion.,!' ,- TS. EliQt of Maryknoll.

School rules

SOt Off Clrild's Admission _ nlII CDWON

I Aqua Circus of Cape Cod ,,,-eo.z.oaoe-' ...... A II ....- A¥-I& .... 2., W. MA rnSoUU) Open 9:30 a.m. ta 9 p.m,

IEII~~~lr~=CISTS

DEH,MARK'$ Pharmacy

Invalid, Equipment, For Rent or Sale

. @) ·

Sur,iClI Glrmenls - Bird· IPPI Mlchines - Jobst Hollister - Crutches - EllStic Stockin,s Sur,iClI I Orthopedic Appli.nces • Trusses -.(lr"en - ' Or"en Mlsks, Tenls & Re,ul.tors • Approved for Medic.re

'0

i\

•

"HII'

(HA,.,

~ - •.-;....

24 HOUR OXYGEN SERVICE

;e1-2~ 2~ HOUI EMEllfNCY PlfSCllPTION Sf.VlCf It 0\

[

'613 M.in St., Dlnnisport - 3..2219 550 McArthur 81Yd~, ,Mi. 21, PlCllllt - 563-2203 30 II.lln St., Orilins ~ 255-0132

riI:!

PflCOOtMOOl, •

'.

509 Kimpton, St, NI. Bedford - 913-0492

(pARAMOUNT PHARMACY) -

.

.r

·7he~

.Gope'GO/O!I1'

'Df(jJ'%f)oge DON'T, VISIT

Falmouth and stay at just any Motel!

Cape Colony offers so much more!

A WATERFRONT RESORT Beach. Pool Beautiful accommodations at reasonable rates 60 Surf Dr., Falmouth, MA 02540

617-548-3975

~

10

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., JUly 18, 1986

Cuban dialogue encouraged ROME (NC) - Pope John Paul II has encouraged Cuba's Catholic leaders to .continue their dialogue with the communist· government of Fidel Castro so they can "bring the church to everyone" in the country, a Cuban archbishop said in Ro~e. But Archbishop Pedro Meurice Estiu of Santiago de Cuba said a papal ttip to the Caribbean island nation appeared unlikely in the near future and would depend 6n the church there being given more freedom.

piping systems

inc~

X·RAY QUALITY PIPE FABRICATION . SPRIN~LERS • PROCESS PIPING PLUMBING. GAS FITTING. HEATING

32 Mill Street (Route 79) P.O. Box 409 Assonet, MA 02702 644-2221

"Russia will spread her errors throughout the world causing wars and persecution of the church."

Mary at Fatima

July 13, 1917

ChangiJig 'hehavlor patterns'

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: My stepmother has been finding fault, accusing us of things we don't know anything about as long as I can remember.

We have been married 36 years, so it is that long at least.

My father passed away in 1979.

Since then we saw to it that Mom got to church every Sunday, holy day and to other devotions she wished to attend. We took her to the doctor, to wakes, funerals and annivenaries. She s.ays we never take her anyplace. I have one brother and five" sisten, and she brags about how much they take her out.

Last year she called one day and told me I was "black." I asked what she meant and she said, "I won't tell you." I finally told her she would have to have someone else take her to church until she would tell us why I am "black" and why she kept accusing us of so muth. She still won't tell.

We seven children are having a party for her 80th birthday. I kn,ow we won't feel very welcome, but we like to be with the rest of the family.

Some friends told me they would visit her more often but can't stand to listen to her ridicule my husband and me. Some say she is getting senile, but she wasn't senile when she started. Should we just ignore her? (Iowa) Thirty-six years of helping a woman who gives you abuse is a wonderful record; Bless you for your perseverance.

Why does your stepmother pick

on you and your husband? Disorganized and suspicious thinking are sometimes symptoms of senility or Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's victims lose the capacity to deal with various aspects oflife.

If this is so, your stepmother may have been bad-tempered in the past, but now suffers irreversible brain changes.

Whether her behavior .is due to Alzheimer's disease or personality factors, I doubt that heart-to-heart talks will bring improvement. Your letter gives one clue which may help.

A basic principle of human behavor is that human beings continue to behave in ways that payoff and stop behaviors that do not. I suspect your mother's abuse pays off for her, and the most obvious clue is that it gets attention.

She said somett,ing which upsets you. Over and over you ask her what she means. That's attention.

You continue to be upset, continue to ask her. More attention.

Some people seem to enjoy saying and doing things simply to "get a rise" out of others. Maybe it adds spice to their otherwise dull lives.

Your mother may be carrying on such an activity.

The attention you give her for this behavior actually may ensure its continuance. Changing a pattern that has persisted for 36 years . is not easy. However, if you sincerely would like to improve the relationship, here are some things you might try. ' 1. Work on your self-esteem.

You and your husband are OK.

Your friends recognize and resent the negative things she says about you. Caring for a disagreeable elderly person is widely recognized llnd respected as a kind but difficult thing to do.

2. Once you recognize that the negative remarks are her problem and not a reflection on you, try humor. You might remind her that "black is beautiful." Or you and your husband might call yourselves the "black sheep" of the family.

Her abuse touches some sensitive nerves in you. But if you can see humor in some of her charges, you will take a big step toward defusing her meanness.

3. Call on your husband for help and support. In dealing with elderly parents, the child, even the child over 50, carries the "baggage" of the entire earlier parent,.child relationship. Your spouse does not carry this "baggage" in regard to your stepmother. Use hisjudgment and support when you need another person to remind you that "you're OK." Once you free yourself a bit from reacting to her every word, your behavior should come easily.

Of course you want to see your relatives. Attend the birthday party and wish her well. Help her when you can, be glad you have many other relatives to help her as well, accept her as she is and get on with / your life. .

Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address the Kennys; Box 872; St. Joseph's College; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978•.

Innovative youth ministry

115th Annual Solemn Novena in honor of

of four, were keenly conscious of . taine, who holds a master's degree this. With a few other lay people, in religious studies from" AssumpThere is"a need to develop new they went to Archbishop John tion College, Worcester. models of collaborative ministry" Whealon of Hartford to propose Ms. Fontaine offers the 300 among priests, religious and lay that he send a priest to serve as a. Catholic youth in her territory ~he people, according to the 1984 report youth minister to their large area. opportunity for person-to-person by a task force on church person-' contact with a representative of nel planning established by the No priest was available, Mrs. their faith - someone willing to National Conference of Catholic Harney reported, but the archlisten to problems, answer quesBishops, the Conference of Major bishop had been approached by tions, share needs and inspire good . Superiors of Men and the Leader- Yale Divinity School saying that Saint Anne Church and Shrine ship Conference of Women Reli- Catholics trained in ministry want- works.

South Main and Middle Streets. Fall River. MA Besides running youth groups in gious. The report called for the ed to find places where they could July 17 to 15,1986 at 3:00 and 7:30 p.m. daily in the shrine both parishes, St. Mary's and St. training of lay people as "profes- use their skills.

This year's preacher: Rev. Herbert T. Nichols sional ministers" in light of current .

With the support of the arch- Bernard's in Sharon, Conn., she needs. bishop, including some financial counsels and runs discussion groups July 17 • Lord. teach us'to pray of Recently I had the privilege help, and the eilcour~gement of at the private schools and prepares July 18 - Our Father in Heaven. hallowed be Thy name meeting a group of lay people who their pastor, Father Joseph Forte young people for confirmation.

July 19 - Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done Under Ms. Fontaine's guidance, came up with a model for ministry of St. Mary's in Lakeville, the July 20 - Give us this day our daily bread youth of all faiths have. particiJuly 21 - Forgive us ... as we forgive that, I believe, fits that recommen- Harneys and other lay people set July 22 - Lead us not into temptation "but deliver usfrom evil dation. up the Northwest Connecticut pated in Crop Walks to raise money July 23 - Whatever happened to the Amen?

These people live in a rural part _ Christian Youth Ministry, and for famine relief. Youths in her July 24 - For the Kingdom. the Power and the Glory are yours of northwestern Connecticut served hired Yale Divinity graduate confirmation classes perform 20 July 25 - Prayers of the Family by a regional high school and the George Noonan as their first youth hours of community service.

She has begun a much-needed On Saturday, July 26, the Solemn Feast of Saint Anne, devotions will be held in site of three private prep schools. minister. the shrine at 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Masses will be celebrated in the upper church at 7, Alcoholics Anonymous group for With only two one-priest parishes "Everyone tells us what we've 8,10, II a.m. and 12 noon. A special Mass of.the Feast will be held in the shrine at teens, with 24 participating at the opportunity for in the area, the done is unique," said Mrs. Harney.

7:30 p.m. followed by a candlelight procession outside the church, weather permitting. The anticipated Sunday Masses will be celebrated in the upper church teens to have contact with the Noonan stayed five years. 18 time of this writing. And she has at 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. church was rather limited. months ago the board hired as been a witness for ecumenism as a John and Elyse Harney, parents their second minister Sharon Fon- member of the Northwest Clergy Association, and as a speaker at an area Lutheran church and a private Episcopalian school.

What the lay people initiated is WASHINGTON (NC) - The tremendous, because the Catholic Department of Education's 1985- youth ministry, in the persons of 86 honor roll of outstanding ele- both Ms. Fontaine and Noonan,. mentary schools includes 34 Cath- has made an enormous difference olic schools among 210 public and to all area young people, not just -(OMPLETE HEATING SYSTEMS 60 nonpublic institutions, the Catholics. Testimony to this The Catholic schools are in Cali- came from the Episcopalian school aLES " INSTAlLATIOIlS "OMPT DELlVEIIES fornia, Connecticut, Florida, chaplain, who wrote to Mrs. HarDIESEL OIU Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, ney: "You (and we) have been 24 Louisiana. graced with someone very special.

HOUR SERVICE Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, She could scarcely make a more 465 NORTH FRONT ST Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, admirable witness to the possibilNEW BEDFORD Nevada, New York, Ohio, Penn- ity ofrich and faithful life in her sylvania and Texas. church and tradition."

By Antoinette Bosco

SAINT.ANNE

O~ Co.,

..9nc.

OIL BURNERS

992-5534 I 999-1226J I 999-1127 I

I!itBI ,

HEATING OIL

Honor roll schools

-

~--

.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River~Fri., July 18, 1986

I

I

I I

11

I I

I j

Bishop discusses Hispanic drain

I

I

Protestants have been successSAN DIEGO, Calif. (NC) The U.S. Catholic Church is in ful in converting Hispanics, he danger of losing its 21 million His- noted, because they learned Spanpanic members if it cannot halt ish and they recruited Hispanics as their flow into fundamentalist ministers.

The Catholic Church too must groups, says Bishop Ricardo seek ways to better train its Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M. The "Protestant leakage" of His- , members, he added. panic Catholics is "due to the prosyletism offundamentalist groups.

We haven't done a whole lot" in the Catholic Church to counter (Undated) (NC) - The I I bishthis flow, he added.

Bishop Ramirez was in San ops of Brazil's Maranhao state Diego to speak on the Third have barred the governor, the police .

Encuentro of Hispanic Catholics chief and officials of a political organization from the sacraments, held in Washington last year.

He told a gathering of priests saying the officials blamed the that one important idea to emerge church for increasing land-reform from the encuentro process was violence. Archbishop Miguel Fenelon Camara Filho of Teresina, that of collaborative ministry.

Dialogue and listening between Brazil, said the. officials "exclude pastor and laity are needed to run themselves from the church coma parish, he said. Neither can munity" through "calumnious administer a parish alone, the bish- statements and their anti-evangelical behavior." The bishops also op added.

Bishop Ramirez said that dio- said the authorities "owe explanaceses throughout the country are tions" to the people about land-' currently holding meetings to grabbing, murder and human rights develop a pastoral plan for His- violations. panics. Their ideas will be discussed by the U.S. bishops at their annual meeting in November. A final Hispanic pastoral plan is expected to be issued by the U.S. ASUNCION, Paraguay(NC)Since mid-May, Catholic officials bishops in two years. and the 32-year-old military govThe church should reach out to ernment of Paraguay have clashed, those coming to the United States from Latin America, Bishop with Asuncion Archbishop Ismael Ramirez said. "We must do this in Silvero cancelling a traditional InSpanish," he declared. "We can't dependence Day Te Deum Mass wait for (Hispanics) to learn in the capital's cathedral and in a Liturgy of the Word homily critiEnglish. " cizing violence, including that of police. The archbishop said that No !laste "true peace is only possible where there are unity and equality, jus"A wise man does not try to tice and freedom." hurry history." - Adlai Stevenson

Sacraments denied

t

THE CLASS OF '85 with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at ordination ceremonies. From left, Fathers Michael McManus, Michael Dufault, Philip Hamel, the bishop, Fathers David Costa, Jose Sousa, James Calnan. (Gaudette photo)

celebrate Mass," Father Dufault added. "It's a privilege."

He espeCially looks forward to eucharistic celebrations at Easter and Christmas, he said, noting that planning floral decorations for the church on those holidays is a source of enjoyment.

Being a Cape priest, particuiarly in the summer, presents a challenge, he says.

He remembers the first Mass he celebrated at Our Lady of Victory, on a July weekend.

Looking at the church, overflowing with year-round and summer parishioners, as well as many weekend Cape visitors, he said he 'turned to Father Perry and commented "I didn't know there were that many people in the world."

Father Hamel "A really nice thing about priesthood is that you can help someone who's hurting get back into a good relationship with,the LQrd." .

So says Father Philip Hamel, since ordination parochial vicar at Our Lady of Grace parish, North Westport.

"I like the lifestyleofa priest," says the Taunton native, most of whose first-year memories center around the parish religious educa-, tion program, which "took up the bulk of' his time.

He emphasizes how 'impressed he's been w.ith the dedication of CCD teache'rs.

"I try to be as human' as I can be," Father'Hamel said of his ministry. "I'm just myself." He likes teasing people, he said; and is _ happy that parishioners erijoy his approach. , Calling the Our Lady of Grace parish family "supportive" and his pastor, Father Roland Bousquet, "a super guy," Father Hamel'says he's disturbed by some of the reasons people stray from the church.

"The doors are always open," he'll say to a nonchurchgoer. ' Both sides of his family, he relates proudly, have produced a good number of priests and religious, '

..... "

",',

...

;,.

"I grew up with four priest uncles and a sister aunt," he smiled.

Father Hamel fondly remembers Father Walter Woods, a professor at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, telling the class of '85 to "expect the unexpected." ' "I like the priesthood very much," Father Hamel said. "There are things. they don't teach you in the' seminary, like how to run a CCD program, but it's been good just the same."

Father McManus "It's difficult to explain how I feel when I'm celebrating Mass," says Father Michael McManus.

"It's such an overwhelming, humbling experience."

Serving at St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall River, where there's "no typical week," Father Mc-, Manus enjoys all his resp()nsibilities.

"The year has been what I expected it to be," the Taunton native said. "It's a busy pll.rish and the, people ~t the Cathedral are, very, very nice. .

"People don't'realize the tre-, mendous impact their being faithfilled and good ha~,,?n a priest. It deepens our faitll t!lo."

I

....'i

I

I

I

Violence scored

The Class of '85 Continued from Page One

i

I

Recently Father McManus was appointed diocesan vice-chancellor for finance and administration.

He said that some of its responsi~ilities will parallel those he had at the Taunton city hall. He expects to enjoy his new job, he said.

"It's been a very happy, busy year," he concluded, "full of many enrichin'g experiences' and spirit~ ual growth."

Father Sousa "The seminary strove to present ideal situations," said Father Jose Sousa, beginning preparations to leave for his Canadian assignment.

"For example, a parish doing everything as per Vatican II instructions. ."But you have to recognize the parish as it is, and you have to be a part of it.

"I've learned a lot at Espirito Santo," the former parochial vicar said. "It was a year of adj~sting -making your way into the parish .. and the people's hearts."

His situation was ell.sed, he said, because he had served his diaconal year at Espirito Santo. , .

What the St. Michael, Azores, native prizes most about his minisA former teacher'at Coyle '~nd ' try 'is cete~nlting ihetsacram~~,s , Cassidy High School, Taunton, he . and the Eucharist. says that "It's a'privilege to witness '!In all hone~ty, I lookfonyard' the marriages of my friends and ' to saying Mass every day," he said. former students and then tobapServing in an ethnic parish pretize their children. sents special challenges to a priest, "There'~ a sense of Closeness and Father Sousa said. also the realization that a priest is At Espirito Santo; he explained, just God's instrument. We become more aware that God's doing the priests try "to.help facilitate comwork, not us. I stand in awe of munications" between Portuguesespeaking recent immigrants and that. " Born in 1954, Father McManus the English-speaking Portuguese whose families have lived in Ameris the oldest in his ordination class.

His work experience after gradua- ica for several generations. tion from Holy Cross College, "You have to reach out in difboth as a teacher and as adminisferent ways," he explained, "and' trative assistant to the mayor of meet the needs of both groups," Taunton, has helped him, he said. which follow widely differing life"I needed more time to answer styles.

God's call."

The immigrant community is A short time ago, he said, he very traditional, he said. "Their attended the 10th reunion of his faith is so tied in with their culture college cla~s, His classmates were and social activities. "very supportive" of his vocation "The people here are just terdecision, he said.

l

I

I

"'. 1 j j

j j

j

j

l

j j j j j

j

F ALL RIVER'S CathetineP. Harrington~ ldt, passes the gavel of 'High Chief Ranger of the Catholic Association of ' Foresters to her succe~sor, Mary C" Cahalane of Boston. rific. Just wonderful. I think of them as my family.

Father Sousa said his. greatest challenge at the church was working with parish youth. He has established two organizations, one for ages 13 to .17, the other for 18 t() 25-year-olds.

The former, he said, began with a retreat for parish confirmandi; the latter meets to discuss growing in the Christian life and faith.

"The thing I've enjoyed doing most is working with the parish couples', groups, religious organizations which discuss Catholic married life.

"I've developed a lot of great.

·',:':,1,'·

j j j

I

friendships:I'm goingto miss a lot of things.",

j

j

• • •

, "We're six men with very different personalities," Father Calnan said of himself and his ordination classmates, "but we're also six' men; who can sit down to dinner and enjo'y each other's company."

He said that .the fraternity the group has developed is a great source of comfort, support and strength, and that the six get together regularly.

"I'd be happy," he said, "to have anyone of my five classmates as my parish priest if I were a layperson. "

I I

I

I

I

I

. ' ,,"'

12

Papal trip meets stumbling blocks

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 18, 1986

Brazil land reform urged Brazilians must' "remedy and VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope John Paul II has asked Brazilian prevent, in this immense and beloved President Jose S~rney to imple- country, situations of poverty and ment agrarian reform in his coun- economic imbalances," he said.

The Brazilian bishops are strong try "with courage and wisdom."

The reforms must have "the accep- supporters of agrarian reform, and tance and participation ofall," the were strong critics of the military pope said July to at a Mass he government's landholding policies. celebrated for Sarney and a group They are midway in a yearlong study and action program on the of Brazilian government officials.

The pope's backing of agrarian land issue in a country where 1.2 reform came two weeks after percent of the rural landowners church-supported rural workers 'control 45.8 percent of the arable demonstrated in front of the pre- land while 50.4 percent control a sidential palace in the Brazilian mere 2.4 percent.

The pope strongly supported capital of Brasilia urging land reform and an end to violence against land reform in a series of speeches during his 1980 visit to Brazil. those advocating such reform.

After the morning Mass, the About 90 percent of Brazil's 130 pope held a 35-minute private meet- million population professes Catholicism. ing with Sarney.

At the end of the meeting, the P9pe again supported agrarian reform.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Dia"Agrarian reform can't be a failure because it is a problem of logue is the only true alternative to violence and war, Pope John Paul social justice and democracy, and it is necessary to defend demo- II said in a message to a United cracy," the pope told journalists Nations' conference commemorating designation of 1986 as an intercovering the event.

Before leaving Brazil, Sarney said , national peace year. ."History shows that dialogue is the visit would be "a good moment to reflect about Brazil's social prob- the unique, true alternative to the lems and get advice from the pope." destructive options of violence and When Sarney took office in 1985 war," the pope said.

Because people have different he became the first civilian to hold the post since a 1964 military coup. values and approaches, dialogue Although he was chose.n by an does not mean there will not be electoral college rather than popu- . tensions, he said, noting, however, lar election, it marked an impor- that if differences are confronted tant step in returning the govern- sincerely, one can recognize the rights of both sides in a dispute, he ment to democratic rule. said.

Only dialogue can solve,the probDuring the Mass, the pope asked lems .of Eas~ and West ~nd :bring,a I ~razilians.to. oyercome ,"hat~ and violence". and to solve their social better'understanding'of the viewproblems through di!llogue and ,points that divide the North and South, he added. reconciliation.

Dialogue's answer

,

Angels exist, says pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - While a belief in angels is not the "central content of the word of God," they do exist and have played an important role in salvation history, said Pope John Paul II. , The pope commented at a recent general audience in St. Peter's Square. He said many people have doubted the existence of angels, including the Sadducees at the time of Jesus.

"But all of the church's tradition is unanimous in affirming that they do exist," he said. "One would

have to alter sacred Scripture itself if one wished to eliminate this teaching," he added.

While stressing that angels are not the heart of revelation - "that is, the truth about God and about the salvation of all men and women" - the pope said the truth about angels is "inseparable" from this revelation.

"At certain points in salvation history, angels have had a fundamental role to play in the unfolding of human events," he added.

Church promotes 'Science VATICAN CITY (NC) - "Far from being opposed to authentic scientific research, the church desires to support and further such endeavors," Pope John Paul II recently told college science students participating in a Vatican Observatory summer school in observational astronomy and astrophysics.

The pope said he was "happy to ~ponsor~lJis ~cttoo!,"the first ~uch endeavor' since Pope Leo XIII founded the current observatory in 1888.

Pope John Paul added that he hoped some of the student's, from colleges around the world, would become research scientists.

He also asked them to use some of their time at the observatory to reflect on peace. ' "Peace is essential for true progress in your science," he said. "Be plel1 a!1d women oJ peace and let the peace in your minds and hearts become the peace refle.cted in your lives and daily work." ,

WARSAW, Poland (NC) - Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski said there will be a third papal visit to Poland, bu.t it will depend on guarantees "that the visit best serves the good of our nation."

The visit also might depend on changed attitudes by the Polish bishops regarding "realities in Poland," Jaruzelski commented recently.

The Polish bishops, who have accused the communist government of human rights violations, invited Polish-born Pope John Paul II to a national eucharistic congress in June 1987. ' It would be the third visit to Poland by the pope since his election to the papacy.

"There have been two visits already and there will be a third.

We have to talk to him so that the visit best serves the good of our nation, state and peace," Jaruzelski said.

The bishops are strong supporters of the illegal trade union movement Solidarity and have asked the government to grant amnesty to many of its jailed leaders.

Jaruzelskidid not say when churchstate talks about the trip might take place.

In Rome, sources said there are stumbling blocks over aspects of the pope's itinerary for the third visit.

Papal organizers want him to visit Lech Walesa, founder ofSolidarity; Gdansk, birthplace of Solidarity; and the tomb of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, Solidarity supporter who was kidnapped and killed, ~y, ,membe,rs of, foll~,nd's security forces, said 'the sources.

Government officials oppose these proposals, they said.

.

·Moral problems 'seen in proposal on terminallyilJ ,

·~I

I.

'

WASHINGTON(NC)-Apro- 'provided to sustain life if the person ever is near death with no real posal to eliminate disparities among hope of 'regaining health. state laws on treatment for the The church teaches that while 'terminally ill raises "new'and significant moral'problems" and calls -one may not take life or withh'old ordinary treatment, one need not for "serious debate," says the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life take extraordinary means to 'prolQng life.

Activities., .. !'The am~iguityof key terms in The committee, headed by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, of Chi- ·the.uniform act's 'definitions' section ,creates tne pOlential for. a cago, expressed concern that the proposal, ~'the Uniform Rights of much broader application," said the committee's statement. ,; the Terminally III Act," could lead to ethically unsound legislation It pointed Ol,1t tJtat the proposal that further compromises "the right could be read as authorizing withto life and respecrfor life in Amer- drawal of life-sustaining treatment ican society." . in cases where the patient could The model legislation was· relive a long time with treatment but leased in January by the .National would die quickly' without it.

Conference of Commissioners on "Thus the potential for abuse is Uniform State Laws, an organizagreater 'here than in laws whose tion of judges, law'professors and scope is clearly limited to patients attorneys-appointed by governors in the final stage of a terminal to formulate model laws. condition," the statement said.

It has been proposed to all states The proposal also says it will in order to eliminate disparities not affect any existing responsibilamong state lawson withholding ity to provide measures such as and withdrawing life-sustaining nutrition and hydration to protreatment. Such laws have been mote comfort. enacted in most of the 50 states However, the committee called over the past decade, according to that approach "a serious lapse," • the pro-life committee's statement. saying "the law should l<stablish a Like most "living will" laws, the str<~ng presumption in favor of proposed uniform act is intended their use."

A third criticism concerned pregto authorize withdrawal of life'sustaining treatment from patients nant women. in the final, stage of a terminal "The Uniform Act explicitly alcondition, the committee said. lows a pregnant woman to refuse A "living will" is often defined treatment that could save the life as a statement made by a mentally of her unborn child whenever she competent individual specifying lim- fulfills the conditions of the Uniits to the type of medical treatment form Act," it said, thus going

beyond the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision legalizing al>ortion.

The committee said other problem areas in the proposed act include: .

- Immunities for withdrawing life-sustaining treatment that are so broad as to reinforce the act's "bias" in favor of withdrawal.

- The act's tendency to exclude

family m~mbersfrom the decisionmaking process: .

- "Vaguely worded" directives which provide little help to a patient in understanding the scope of power being granted to a physician.

THE POWER OF THE PRESS extends to supplying shade for these sisters listening to Pope John Paul II during a general audience in hot St. Peter's Square. (NCjWide World photo)

THE ANCHOR-~ Friday, JUly 18, 1986

Women'S .lib 'problems' -. . with class, not gender?

Hong Kong assured religious freedom

By Msgr. George G. Higgins

also thinks that NOW's singleWhen the proposed Equal Rights minded support of abortion on Amendment was defeated, three demand is ill-advised, morality well-known "liberal" journalists, aside.

She says: "We simply have to Walter Goodman, Marion K. Sanders and Pete Hamill, writing in widen the pro-choice agenda. Let The New Yorker, The New Repub- us demonstrate in the streets and lic and the Village Voice, said the fight for the benefits needed to do women's liberation movement was a better job for the children we choose to have...Easing the lives largely to blame.

They contended that the women's of working mothers, ensuring a movement was perceived by many better start in life for children working-class women as an elitist these are among the central probmovement with no feel for the lems of our age. Put them at the problems of middle-America's top of the feminist agenda and the average homemaker. Even worse, movement will have a new lease on they said, too many vocal support- life." .

The brief section on the feminiers of the ERA, intentionally or not, showed a contempt for the zation of poverty in the proposed family-related and other cultural 路U .S: bishops' pastoral letter on the values highly regarded by many economy closely parallels Ms. Hewlett's findings. The pastoral women.

Hamill quoted one housewife: points out: "The past 20 years have. wit"They're the limousine liberals and they don't know what it is to live nessed a dramatic increase in the the way we live. We want equality, number of women in poverty. This but they want to open a woman's includes women raising children alone as well as women with inadebank or run a magazine."

Hamill concluded: "It might be quate income following divorce, time to start asking again whether widowhood or retirement. More our problems aren't more a matter than one-third of all female-headed of class than a matter of gender. " families are poor. Among minorAt the time I said that while I ity families headed by women the supported ERA I thought the 路wo- rate is over 50 percent.".

That statement is fleshed out in men's liberation movement ought to take Hamill's point seriously. I exhaustive detail by scholar Ruth Sidel in "Women and 'Children am still of that opinion.

In "A Lesser Life: The Myth of Lost: The Plight of Poor Women Women's Liberation in America" in Affluent America" (Viking, (Morrow, 1986), distinguished 1986). She demonstrates from the scholar Sylvia Ann Hewlett makes record that, despite the popular image of the 1980s woman as a the point again. She writes: "It is sobering to realize that the briefcase-toting career trailblazer, ERA was defeated not by Barry the reality is that women and chilGoldwater, Jerry Falwell or any dren constitute the vast majority .. combination of male chauvinist of the poor.

Given this situation, the United pigs, but by women who were alienated from a feminist movement States is clearly in the middle of a the values of which seemed elitist crisis. Yet NOW is not perceived and disconnected from the lives of as concerned primarily about this matter. Instead, NOW president ordinary people."

Ms. Hewlett argues persuasively Eleanor Smeal goes around the in a follow-up newspaper column country trying to revive the ERA that it is an exercise in futility for and campaigning for abortion on the National Organization of Wo- demand. , Ms. Hewlett thinks this shows men to spend so much time and energy agitating for ERA. She poor judgment. I agree.

I

Revolving trash

By Hilda Young grown man to want to hang on to A reader wrote in last week and his fourth-grade dental hygiene claimed I am not telling the whole manual," I told him.

"0K," he huffed, "out with your truth about our family move. "You haven't told us yet what you are box of mildewed plastic bibs." doing about the discards," she "Since you have no sense of claimed. family history," I retorted, "then This reader is a hard person. out with your coffee can of rusty We have come to discover that, bolts." in a family of six, one person's dis"Same for your half-knitted card is another's treasure. The only thing we've all agreed may be sweaterfrom I 957,"he said cruelly.

"This is ridiculous," I said. "We thrown away is an empty towel ~pool on~ of the children had been have to. work. as a team. Let's saving. . decide how to get rid of the chilAnd that was only after we con- .. drens' junk." vinced our youngest son he could We set the alarm for 3 a.m. have another as soon as we get While they slept we carried dead settled in the new place. batteries, lone roller skates, fishI no sooner throw something in ing pole grips, an outdoor therthe garbage than someone else mometer shaped like a Coke bottle " pulls it back out. "Mom, you can't and other treasures to the trash .trash my baseball bat," yelped our bin. oldest son, before I had a chance to camouflage it under other We found them all back on the garbage. kitchen table the next morning.

"You haven't used thatthing for It's ugly when you have to eat with a 14-year-old wearYears. And ii's broken in three breakfast ing a paper-mache mask she made places," I pointed out.

"But I hit my only Little League in the second-grade.路 home run with it," he pleaded.

.. Not Free

My husband is just as bad. "I don't think it makes sense for a

"A hungry man is not a free man." - Adlai Stevenson

13

\

','.'dt

f

'l'\;:;'~

:','!'~~:~,h rl;}<~

1'(lSlE \\'1'11

HAVE YOU been yearning for a map of Vatican City?

This six-stamp block has it all for you. (NCj KN A photo)

Feminization of poverty is policy statement topic WASHINGTON (NC) Catholic Charities USA, in a proposed policy statement on the "Feminization of Poverty," has called for pay equity, a higher minimum wage, affirmative action employment goals and guidelines, and Social Security coverage for at-home mothers.

In the proposed statement; published in its Charities USA magazine, Catholic Charities offers more than a dozen recommendations for improving conditions it says help keep women poor. They include low salaries, employment discrimination because of women's potential childbearing roles and lack of adequate recognition of women who care for children and the elderly.

The statement developed from a poll of and discussions by Catholic Charities USA members during 1984 and 1985. It will be discussed at regional Catholic Charities USA meetings. .

The statement declares that women constitute a disproportionate number of the economically disadvantaged. It adds that feminization of poverty must be understood in terms of elderly women, "the. unemployed,.displaced homemakers, single parents, battered women and "bag ladies" and with regard to such issues as adequate housing, wages, pensions and Social Security.

-----

The document notes that "feminization of poverty" js a new for an old problem. It cites MERCY Sister Maura Fee- . term the Old Testament example of the ley, vicar for women religious widow Ruth, who had to lie at the for the Diocese of San Ber- foot of a man's bed to get his attennardino since 1979, has been tion, so he would marry her and named diocesan chancellor keep her from.poverty.

while remaining vicar.

She becomes the fifth woman to be chancellor of a diocese or archdiocese in California and the first noncleric to hold thejob in San Bernardino.

As chancellor she will sit on the bishop's 'administrative council and attend meetings ofdirectors ofdiocesan departments, agencies and offices, the presbyteral council and diocesan pastoral council.

"There were in Ruth's time and there are now societal, community and family pressures on women that force them to relinquish their dignity as persons for a role,".the statement said.

It recommended, among other things, that:

.'-Workers be paid "for the value 9f the work perform.ed, i.e., according to the concept of 'pay equity,' .rather than a~cording to gender." Too often, according to the statement, certain positions are considered "women's jobs" and given low pay; women ear.n 64 ce,\ts for every dollar earned by mep.

HONG KONG (NC) - The Chinese communist official responsible for overseeing religious affairs has assured Hong Kong clergy that freedom of religion will be respected when China takes over the island colony in 1997.

Ren Wuzhi, director of China's Religious Affairs Bureau, said China's "liberal policy on religious freedom will make overseas people understand the progress made in China and give it credit."

Ren met with Protestant ministers during a recent visit to Hong Kong.

Also during the trip, he and other Chinese officials were told

by Hong Kong's Catholic bishop that China's liberalizing policies were comparable with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

"Since the third Plenum (of the Chinese Communist Party) in 1978, China has adopted a liberal policy to promote internal reform and to accept technology from outside," said Hong Kong Bishop John Wu. "The church has also 'opened up' by emphasizing free dialogue" after the Second Vatican Council, he said.

According to Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao, a communist newspaper, Ren told the Protestant ministers that China will follow the principle of mutual non-interference in administering religious affairs in Hong Kong after 1997, when the territory reverts from British to Chinese control. .. Programs now being carried out

by Hong Kong religious bodies will be allowed to continue, he said.

In December 1984, Britain and China signed' an agreement formally transferring the island colony to Chinese sovereignty when Britain's lease expires in 1997. The agreement provides for a "one country, two systems" arrangement, under which Hong Kong will be allowed to retain its capitalist economy for an additional 50 years. The territory has 270,000 Catholics out of a total population of more than 5 million.

Catholics in China are not allowed to acknowledge the authority of the Vatican. The government-run National Association of Patriotic Catholics has its own priests and bishops, ordained without the permission of Rome, and descibes itself as a "church of the Roman tradition. " be stepped up to ensure that a divorced parent who does not have custody of children helps provide for their adequate support. . - Tax liabilities for the poor and working poor be removed.

- The federal government .retain a commitment to affirmative action policies, particularly as they affect women, since current affirmative action policies that reflect hiring goals and timetables for federal contracts are under attack.

- The right of women workers to organize within private, public and Catholic" Church institutions be supported.

- Social Security be revamped so husband and wife share earnings credits and so that work women perform at home in caring for children or the elderly is adequately ackno,wledged.

'- Women be provided equal access to education, including programs to prevent young mothers from becoming dropouts, jobrelated skills training and kindergarten-through-university educational opportunities.

-

Child support enforcement

~ Government, private and non'profit sectors cooperate to provide adequate, affordable 1ind nondiscriminatory housing.

14

THE ,ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., July 18, 1986'

Wounds

By Cecilia Belanger I received a letter this morning so full of pain and anguish that the words almost leaped off the pages.

The first question the writer asked was: "Where do the wounds go, the pain?"

My first thought was of Jesus.

Where did his wounds go? What became of his pain, his scars?

I hear that cry so often: "What about my pain, my scars, my wounds? I can't erase them no matter how hard I try."

You can't erase. But you can overcome. And you can survive.

Christians are a waiting people.

We wait for ultimate answers. Wait: ing paid ofHor the disciples. Without unlocking any doors, Jesus appeared in their midst. "Peace be with you," he said. And for those of us who write paIn-filled letters, "Peace be with you" and Jesus with his pain, wounds and scars will enter into our hearts, locked

What,'s on y~ur mind? /

doors and all. He'll walk right through. His touch will heal and pain will abate, but our scars will 'remain as his did.

We always need to see his wounds. Perhaps the letter-writer needed someone to see hers.

We've all been wounded in some way, betrayed by someone we love, maybe. "One of you will betray me," Jesus said.

Have you felt let down, that no one had time for you?

"Could you not wait with me one hour?" he said. He's the only one to go to, the only one who understands.

Christ is always with us, even when we are left with broken pieces of brea4and an empty room. It is Qur faith that will ease the pain and salve the wounds. Scars remain as witness to a truth, that someone was unkind, just as Jesus' scars remained.

Touch his wounds and peace be with you!

By

A SIGN at a Louisiana service station suggests that even God needs time off. (NC photo)

TOM

,

LENNON

Q~ How can I relate to people

whose minds 'can't be changed?

(Ohio) A. One:way is,to let such a person present 'his or, her views on a particular subject and tlten you . present yours. If the two of you are ' in agreement, fine. If you do not agree, th~n yOll can simply agree to disagree.

these questions,' watch' out. You will find it helpful to examine yourself closely an,d to consider some serious changes in your attitudes. " , You will' be a much happier and contented person if fou can learn to let other people be,themselves and have their own outlook on life

an4 their own opinions.

Let yourself relax as other peo'But life is sildom that simple, is pie express 'their ideas. Consider •,it? Argu'ments do have a way of what truth, the,re may be in these breaking out when two' people ideas' and, whether 'you. perhaps , disagree.. " , should alter your 'own opinions -And you may be surprised to somewhat. hear.what several friends who have ' This does not mean you cannot read your, question ihink a1>,out it. express your ideas and disagree. , They are wondering if you want 'By all ineans do so, but in a I to change' other'.people's~minds relaxed way~ ,'. " ' ' :' because ,you ,ar.ereal\y the one . If necessary, letthere be,a gentle I· whose mind caimot be changed. A clash' of ideas' - withou't either :' disturbing thought, right? side seeking to dominate ani:t with:' My friends hav~ other unset- ,out either"person being strongly " tling questions:Iike·t~ese. 'determined to change the other , Does,' the qu~sti~ner want to person's' mind'.' .. mak~ '~er~ain thl\t'everyone he or.

Try, in a reason~ble;way, to live ,she knows thiilks "correctly," or and let live. That "old ,cliche has exactiytheway she or he ,does? " SOgle wisdom'to it: ' SeQd questtons to Tom Lenn~~, Does the questioner unconsciously want·to run everyone else's life? ,1311 Mass.:Ave. N.W., 'WashingIf you 'an~wer "yes" to. either <;If ton, D.C. ,20005• .

.

,',

"

_..

THIS young Ohioan uses a the summer heat. (NC photo)

batt~ry-operated

fan to beat

.,

.lORN COO(jARMtJ..LEN-<

="ltO"'~ ~ ~~~[~~~;fIJ~r .

.'

. .

'

','

"Rain on the Scarecrnw' de.

"~ , , ' , scribes !he"pain and ',uncertainty ~ :',J rc~:li~~J~~~~?J~f>u~~}~~~!i ~,.~.

I

By Charlie ~M.rt4n

,ON THESCARE!CR,O,}V' ri»W on a wooden cross ' ,'" ~rd in'the I)arn .. dreer empty acres be'...,. far~1 , y , y di~ ,.:, cI this land , the fence

d_"

.

used lobe 'my farin" and the', many' farmers who face the loss' of theirfarms. The listener senses ' that the spIrit and hope~ many farmers 'ties' buried underlthe "97 crosses planted, in the c01lrtliouse' yard. w <. '" . " , ' , " ' ' ' . , , '

of

.

~,,'"

..•"¥~~

,~"

,.'

,T.her,easo.!1s be~lI<;1 America' ;:

farJ,ll,t>rqbl ,

Ql,t!.~aze . '

~

~

,

ex.:

".~Jlld ec DOUUC factct,fS·c.o '.' t~ng.to t e~tvot

THE ANCHORFriday, July 18, 1986

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Filin Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG·13-parental guidance strongly suggested- for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens, Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults, and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation!; O-morally offensive.

NOTE BISHOP Daniel A. Cronin and Anchor editor Father John F. Moore display the first-place Best Editorial award The Anchor merited at the recent ~atholic Press Association convention in Columbus, O. (Kearns photo)

Universal catechism valuable tool, says -pope

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

"Ciub Paradise" (Warners) Robin Williams and other comics frolic in the Jamaican sun. The VATICAN CITY (NC) - A relationship to the Vatican Curia. mild satire of the Club Med scene universal catechism, used as a reffeatures Jimmy Cliff, his music erence for locally produced cate- "It is true 'that there is no lack of and predictable drug and sex ref· chisms, could end instructions and valuable contributions by bishops' erences which do little for the interpretations opposed to offiCial conferences, but 'the growth of funny bone. A3, PG 13 church teachings, says Pope John their structures and influence also "The Great Mouse Detective" give birth to doctrinal and pasPaullI. (Buena Vista) - This feature-length toral problems resulting from the He has expressed hope that the animated adventure concerns a unive,rsal catechism would be ready logic of their development and tiny girl mouse who seeks the aid their importance," the pope said. by 1990, the 25th anniversary of of Basil of Baker Street, a wordly "The desired study, therefore, the end of the Second Vatican detective who foils the evil Ratiwill concern doctrinal aspects about - Council. ' gan (don't call him a rat) and frees He also spoke about a study of the nature and authority of bishops' her captive papa mouse. AI, G he added, also sayconferences," the nature of bishops' conferences.

"Hard Traveling" (NewWoricO The 1985 extraodinary Synod ing that it will involveconsulta-.:..

This fact-based story of Depreswith local church leaders and tions of Bishops recommended the cate,sion-era injustice deals with a downCuria officials. chism and the bishops' conference and-out farmer convicted of murstudy.

It is hoped to have a preliminary der.

A bleak warning of conditions report ready by autumn on a synodThe universal catechism rec'omcausing social injustice, its sensimendation stems from the "demand recommended study about whether tivity marks it as a labor of love. of subsidiarity can be the concept currently felt in the church for 'a "My American Cousin" (Specgreater clarity and doctrinal secur- applied to the Catholic Church. trafilm) This tender reminisity to put an end to teachings or Subsidiarity says that authorityinterpretations offaith and morals and responsibility for issues should cence of growing up in 1950s Canwhich disagree among themselves be exercised at the lowest level of ada portrays a Californian teen or are opposed to the universal society capable of dealing with the whose visits to his pre-teen cousin provides a disturbing contrast to magisterium," the pope said. specific matter. the staid and conventional lifeDrafting the universal catechism The pope said the study of sub- will involve consultations with the sidiarity is "strictly linked to that style. Some passionate front-seat world's bishops, he told a meeting of the nature and scope of bishops' teenage cuddling in this winner of six Canadian Oscars. A2 of the Vatican Curia, the church's conferences." central administrative agencies, and "Next Summer"(European CiasThe study is being done by the cardinals in Rome. council ofthe Synod General Secre- sics) - How each of three generaOn June 10, the VatiCan an- tariat. The pope did not say if the tions defines the naure of loving nounced that a 12-member com': preliminary report would be made relationships; all-star cast includes Claudia Cardinale, Jean-Louis Trinmission had been formed to pre- public. tignailt, Philippe Noiretand Fanny pare the document. It is to be Subsidiarity is "a subtle ques- headed by Cardinal 'Joseph Rat- tion, which originates in problems Ardant. With charm and humor, zinger, head of the Vatican Con-' of a social, not ecclesial, nature," each' member of this large family , grapples with love, sex and margregation for the Doctrine' of the the pope said. riage in a family context. A3 Faith. , To avoid using the term "subsi"Nothing hi Common"(Tri-8tar) After a draft has been prepared diarity," Vatican II and the Code there will be "consultation ,with of Canon Law "have encouraged - ' A witty and wise portrait of a the Eastern churches and with - participation and communion young, ad agency superstar who bishops' conferences," the pope among church organisms," the pope -must settle accounts with his parentsbefore it's too late. Tom Hanks said. added. e'xcels in this seriocomic movie The pope also announced that a " As you can see, it is not only a , featuring insightful performances synod-recommended study on the theological and doctrinal nature question of terminology, but also _by Jackie Gleason and Eva Marie Saint. Some profanity and sexual _ of bishops' conferences is to be of concepts," he said.

"The conciliar ecclesiology, rich politics. A3-Recommended, PG headed by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, head ofthe Vatican Congrega- in new ideas and tenns, is al~o careful not to create' unnecessary tion for the Bishops.

"Under the Cherry Moon"(WarThe study will aim to clarify tensions between the theological ners) - Prince -and his comic "doctrinala,nd pas,toral problems" and pastoral order," he said. , sidekick Jerome Benton try to resurthat have arisen because oftbe rect the sensual_' mystique of a growth and development ~f bishRudolph Valentino in this shimops' conferences, he said., , , mering black~and~'white male fanSharing Authority , The pope did not mention any tasy about black American gigolos "Having been endowed with the specific problems. During the trying to strike it rich in the resort synod, however" d~legatl,:s dis- : gifts of reason and free will, men city of.N~ce, Fran~e. It's t90 sexuagreed ab6ut whetherbishops' con- and women share in some degree ally oi-ient~c;l for youngsters and ferences shared in the -church's in God's absolute authority over' has a distorted view of loving teaching authority and about their the world." - Pope John Paul II relatio~ships. .

Films on TV Sunday, Juiy 20, 8-10:45 p.m.

EDT (ABC) - "Jaws" (1975) The shocker about a virtually indestructible great white shark which terrori,zes a Long Island resort town. Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw and Roy Scheider grapple with the power' of the beast in a story about· integrity and disho-' nesty. Some bloQdy scenes in the movie theater version. A3, PG Friday, Juiy 25, 9-11 p.m. EDT (CBS) "Dragonsiayer" (1981) This medieval fantasy features Peter MacNicol as a young sorcerer's apprentice who must save a town from a dragon. Pictorial beauty and a fine supporting cast, some violence in the theatrical version. A3, PG Saturday, July 26, 9-11 p.m. EDT (ABC) - "Wanda Nevada"(1979) - A gambler (Peter Fonda) wins an orphan (Brooke Shields) in a poker game, then goes gold hunting with her in the Grand Canyo~.

Indian ghosts and a couple of vdlains complicate matters but this is aimless, mature fare. A3, PG Sunday, Juiy 27, 7-9 p.m. EDT (ABC) - "Herbie Rides Again" (1974) - Herbie is a Volkswagen endowed with human qualities that aids feisty grandmother Helen Hayes in foiling real estate baron Keenan Wynn's attempts to raise the world's highest building on the site of her San Francisco firehouse home. Basically a series of special effectS chase scenes and slapstick antics. AI, G Monday, Juiy 28,9-11 p.m. EDT (NBC) - "I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can"(1982) - Jill Clayburgh is a successful documentary pro-. ducer whose dependency on drugs, other people and her own crippling self-image take over her life.

Nicol Williamson is the boyfriend whose effort~ to help develop into a kind of sadistic dependency. The theater version h~d rough language and the agony of rehabilitation was emphasized. A3, R Saturday, 'Aug. 2, 9-11 p.m.

EDT (CBS) - "Outland" (1981) - It is high noon on the moon (Jupiter's 10) and Sean Connery's integrity places his life in jeopardy as he fights, off terminators dispatched to 'silence .him before he tells what he has learned about a deadiy mining operation. Violence in the theatre version. A3, R , Religious TV Sunday, July 20, (CBS) - "For Our Times" c- The first in a series ofM'arshall Efron's "Simplified and Painless Sunday School" retells the creation story and includes a visit to Thomas A.Edison's laboratory. . Religious Radio Sunday, July 20 (NBq ~'Guideline" - Jesuit Father Del-' mar Skillingstad of the Gregorian Uni-versity in Rome discusses its theological~enter~ ,

Card. Law named VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has named Cardinal Bernard F. Law· of B'oston as a member of the Vatican Congregation for Religious and Secular Instit\ltes. The congregation has jUl'isdictionover institutes 01 reli-' gious, societies of the apostolic life, third orders arid secular insti- ' tutes.

'15

WALL~ALL·

A COLLECTION OF "RPFUl FLOOR

HINTS BY 'Al' GARANT

GARANT FLOOR COVERING CO. FAll RIVER 1801 SO. MAIN ST. (Showroom) 30 CRAWFORD ST. (Warehouse) Carpet & Vinyl Floors • Manninrton • Congo~eum • Ceramic Ti:e • Armstronl

674-5410

0Nl. Y FULL ·L1NE RELIGIOUS 81FT STQAE ON THE CAPE

.... -

• ONII: _

.111; •• 1:31

·0'"'''''' Sullivan's Religious Goods

Ny.",,,, 775-4_

, 42....'" 51 ,

John & Mory ~~~s. Props.

679-5262 LEARY PRESS

SHAWOMET GARDENS 102 Shawomet Avenue Somerset, Mass.

Tel. 674-4881 ' 3Vz room Apartment 4Vz'room Apartment Includes lIeat, 1I0t water, stove reo friprator and maintenance serYlce.

Mortgage & Home Improvement Money?

Of Course!

Now 11 convenient offices including Seekonk &£ T~unton.

Religious Gifts & Books for every dC,basion , . , B~ptisms

, . . FirstCommunion's Birthdays , C'onfirmations Weddings - Anni~ersa~ies Ordinations

m

OPEN DAILY 10:00 A.M, to 7:30 P,M,

,La Salette Shrine T ~'ROt:Jt~ R

Park,Str!!et 118 Attleboro, Massachusetts

16

. .' ~ '. '.

THE ANCHOR'-Dioceseof Fall River~Fri:, July' IS, 1986

.

. , "

..

"

-.,.

."."

Iteering pOintl PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River; 02722,. Name of city' or town should be included as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: We do not carry news of fundraisln, activities ~uch as bin,os, whlsts, dances, suppers and bazaars. , We are happy to carry notices of spiritual I'rORram., club meetinlls, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities. Fundralsin, projects may be advertised at pur regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675·7151.

On Steerinl! Points Items FR Indicates Fall River, NB indicates New Bedford.

GRADU ATIN G nurses' aides at Fall River's Catholic Memorial home arrive for recognition ·ceremony. "Your love, devotion and dedication are a joy to behold. It takes a 'very giving person to be a nurses' aide," the 45 graduates were told by Sister M. S"hawn Bernadette Flynn, O.Carm., home administrator. (Motta photo) ,

An Ireland without nuns?· DUBLIN, Ireland (NC) - Ireland is facing a shortage of women religious and might have none by the year 2050, says Father Paul Byrne, secretary general of the Conference for Major Religious Superiors in Ireland.

There are about 14,000 sisters in Ireland and Northern Ireland~ Last year, Irish convents .lost about '360, while taking in about 120 new members, Father Byrne said.

In the 1950s, there were 15,000 nuns in Ireland. accordine to

••••• ••••• •• •

church statistics. Today six out of 10 Irish nuns are over age 50, and 20 percent ofthose are 70 or older.

The priest said the older nuns may have difficulty relating to young new arrivals.

"It is also unnatural for relatively so few young people (to be) looking after so many older people; it is usually the other way around," he said.

He said younger nuns must support an increasing number of aging dependents, although nuns' earning incomes outside the con-

vent are taxed as single people and are nor given tax allowances for "dependent" nuns, as they would be for relatives in secular life.

No Wiser "Government cannot' be wiser than the people." - Adlai Stevenson .

cD

GOD'S ANCHOR HOlD'

.......................

Send up your·

Parish Balloon!

••

•

.'

• ••• ••• •••• • •• • • • •••••

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Parish prayer group meetings begin with 7 p.m. Mass Wednesdays; Fellowship until 9:30 p.m., church basement; all welcome. Sister Dorothy Schwarz, SSD, will offer a scripture course in September.

CATHEDRAL,FR New pastor Father Barry W. Wall will be installed at 10 a.m. Mass August 3. Coffee and pastry follow, school; Cathedral band concert, featuring John Moitoza Band, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 17, school yard.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Solemn observance of the feast of Blessed Kinga(Cunegunda)at 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST.JOSEPH,ATTLEBORO Parish seniors' card party I p.m. today, church hall.

675·7151

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Hearing regarding the hospital's application to the State Department of Public Health for a IO-bed Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit: 6:30 p.m. July 24, Fall River Heritage State Park.

"Take "two"

STANFORD, Calif. (NC) - It O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE . wasn't until he was grown, said New York concert pianist Marie DeRosa, daughter of parishioner Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Dr. Louis De Rosa, will perform at Weakland, that he realized that Craigville Tabernacle 8 p.m. July 29. "the God I worship is one that ifhe caught my hand in the cookie jar Performance open to public. would probably say, 'Nobody's ST. THOMAS MORE, looking, take two. '" .

SOMERSET God is a God of love, the archMrs. Mary Kc;lley has been appointed coordinator of religious edu- bishop told graduating seniors at cation.

Stanford University.

"I've grown very leery," he said, ST. PATRICK, FR Holy hour 2 p.m. July 27, lower "about anyone who tries to interchapel. pret God's mentality to me or for m.e. So when I hear preachers get ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, up and say that the victims of POCASSET Church open weekdays until noon AIDS are being punished by God, for adoration of Blessed Sacrament. I get worried about the victims of cancer, arthritis, and all the other ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA ills out there.

Folk choir rehearses 7 p. m. Thurs"And I find it very annoying eJays, parish choir 8 p.m. Thursdays. when people say because there's a New members welcome. great catastrophe, God is punishST. MARY, SEEKONK ing us."

Parish blood drive 6 to 9 p.m.

The archbishop urged the seniors Aug. 12, CCD center; youth softball - "people who have had the ad6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, I to 3 p.m. Wed- 'vantages" - to reach out to socinesday, North School field. ety's "outcasts."

ST. ANNE,FR The chairman of the U.S. Guided tours of St. Anne's Shrine bishops' committee writing a pasI t04 p.m. daily, beginning in shrine toral letter on the U.S. economy near confessionals. said the outcasts today are "the mentally ill, those who are thrown SACRED HEART, FR New pastor Father Edward J. out on our streets, who can't earn a Byington will be installed at 4 p.m. living, who are mentally un.stable, Mass tomorrow. A reception will and they roam our streets and follow, parish hall. Parishioners and they're being exploited by everyfriends' invited. body."

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Those "who cannot participate Parishioners interested in becom- in our society, who lack the skills ing lectors .may call the rectory, to find jobs today - all of these 672-1523. . have to become integrated into our society and in that way we show God's presence," he said.

Archbishop Weakland said that "God's justice means he wants us LONDON (NC) - Lay people, to be God-likeoin the sense that we must become more involved in the treat others as they should be church because the church's mis- treated." sion must be, shared, say the BritJesus, he said, told the poor, the ish bishops. In a document pre- disenfranchised and the outcasts pared for the 1.987 world Synod of that they had value.

Bishops on the laity, the bishops "When you take thousands of said those consulted believe "being people who are nothing in society a Christian rather than being a and tell them that they are worth Catholic has become the priority:" something, that is revolutionary.

Discussing lay involvement in the And that's what the Sermon on the church, Cardinal Basil H ume of Mount was all about. Jesus takes Westminster said it is "not because 4,000 outcasts, the lame, people bishops and priests need help in without work, and tells them, 'You thejob they have to do, but because are worth something, and your: the mission of Christ is shared by heavenly father is as concerned all baptized people." about Y0,u as about anybody else."'

Lay involvement

FOR INFORMATION CALL

ST. MARY, NB Rosary before 7 a.m.. Mass weekdays.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON .

Parish support group for widowed persons meeting 7:30 p.m. July 21.

Gues~ speaker Father Raul Lagoa, 'chaplain at Morton Hospital, Taunton, on coping with grief.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Father Andre A. Patenaude, MS, will offer an outdoor concert 4 p.m. t~morrow, Garden of Worship. Sister Lucille Gauvin, OP, will also per- form. Twilight Mass follows, 7:30 p.m., Garden of Worship. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Cafeteria open for evening meal. For summer concert schedule, contact the shrine, 222-5410.