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GOP offers Catholics mixed bag

By Catherine Haven

DETROIT (NC) - The 1980 Republican Party platform will have obvious appeal to Catholics on some issues, but seriously differs with the U.S. bishops' positions on matters such as defense spending and foreign ,aid.

But Ronald Reagan's selection of George Bush as his vice presidential running mate, far fl:'Om being castigated by right-to··life groups, is being greeted with either cautious optimism or outright support.

Reagan promised right-to-life groups that if nominated his

running mate would be someone who agreed with Reagan's support for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. And the right-to-life groups had been saying Bush would be "unacceptable" because he refused during the primaries to support the amendment. ·Bush instead favored the "states rights" approach to abortion, which would allow individual states to make abortion illegal but would not set a national ban.

The reason for the change of heart about the selection of Bush, the pro-life groups say, is

the promise that Bush will support the Republican platform's call for constitutional amendment on abortion despite his position during the primaries.

In language more appealing to Catholics than its 1976 plat. form, the party supports a constitutional amendment protecting the right to life of unborn children and backs tuition tax credits for private education.

The U.S. bishops also support a constitutional amendment on abortion and tuition tax credits.

But the platform also calls for increased military spending and questions aid to some Cen-

tral American governments such as Nicaragua.

The bishops, through thelir civil action arm, the U.S. Catholic Conference have urged against increased military spending because of the potential impact on U.S. domestic programs.

They have also urged that aid be given Nicaragua to help that country recover from its civil war.

In a lengthy section on education, the.GOP states that federal education policy must acknowledge parental rights and responsibility. It proposes a tuition tax credit for parents of

students in private education on the elementary, secondary and college levels.

The platform is being praised by many party staffers as a demonstration of the party's concern for issues that cut across ideological lines.

"I think that the party is trying to demonstrate that it is more open," commented Michael Baroody, director of public affairs for the Republican National Committee and editor-inchief of the platform. "We've learned in the past that we can't win elections merely by apTurn to Page Seven

75 years of presence noted Seventy-five years of presence in the diocese of Fall River are being marked by the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation. A high point of the year-long observance will come at 2 :p.m.

Saturday in St. Anne's Church, Fall River, when Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant of a Mass of thanksgiving for what the. years have brought.

The Mass, to be followed 1>ya reception in St. Anne's SC:hool hall, is open to all and special guests will be alumnae of the former St. Anne's Hospital School of Nursing, which some years ago amalgamated with other city nursing schools to form the nursing program. at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

The jubilee year will close Friday, Nov. 21 with a Mas!; at

The Heights, Dighton, provincial house of the community. Among celebrants will be Cardinal H}lmberto S. Medeiros and Bishop Cronin, joined by many area priests. All will be expressing gratitude for St. Anne's contribution to the diocese since the pioneer members of the community arrived in 1905 to establish the small hospital that has become one of Southeastern Massachusetts' major providers of health care.

Today the community's ministry in the diocese has expanded to include administration of two homes fo rthe aged, Marian Manor, Taunton, and Madonna Manor, North Attleboro; as well as catechetical work in St. Mary's parish, South Dartmouth, and St. Peter's, Dighton. In the Turn to Page Six

SISTER MARY PATRICIA AND SISTER MADELEINE CLEMENCE REVIEW THEIR COMMUNITY'S mSTORY

Bishop backs charismatic·conference In a letter to the priests of the diocese, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has urged attendance at the second New England General Conference for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, to be held the weekend of Sept. 5 to 7 at the Providence Civic Center.

"Many of you will recall first conference, in 1978," wrote, "when 14,000 people ed the center with prayer praise.

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"I should like to encourage you to participate in the conference.

No doubt many of your parishioners will be in attendance and your presence will be a source of encouragement for them.

There are several especially important sessions which I might mention: 1. On Thursday evening Sep-

tember 5th, beginning at 4 o'clock in the Civic Center a special "Priests' and

Deacons' Day" will be held featuring Father John Bertolucci, Father John Healy, Father Joe Lange and Bishop Daniel Reilly of Norwich, all well respectep leaders in the Catholic' Charismatic Renewal.

2. The formal beginning of the General Conference will be on Friday, September 6th, at 8 p.m. Many fine speakers will address the vari-

ous sessions over the course of the weekend.

3. On Sunday, September 7th, the closing concelebrated Liturgy will be held at the Civic Center at 2 p.m.

Bishop Louis Gelineau of Providence will be principal concelebrant and Bishop Raymond Lucker of New UIm, Minnesota, will be the homilist.

"While it is evident that not

every priest may feel the desire to be involved in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, it is important that all priests have an awareness of the movement so that they may be of assistance to those members of their parishes who are associated with the Renewal. Participation in the forthcoming conference will be one especially fine to manifest appreciation of the efforts of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal."

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 24, 1980

WITH 19 AND 20-YEAR-OLD men registering for a possible draft, U.S. Catholic dioceses have taken steps to help the registrants understand what the draft means for them. Programs include counseling centers or referral services, training for clergy and Religious and high school-level educational efforts.

MILWAUKEE (NC) -. Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee said in commentary on a Vatican document that he will continue to work for translations of the words of Consecration in the Mass that do not offend or seem to exclude women. He chairs the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Liturgy Committee.

TIDS BRAZILIAN shoeshine boy earns about 75 cents a day. He is one of seven children, including a six-year-old, also a shoeshine boy. His poverty, together with that of millions of his countrymen, drew world attention during Pope John Paul's tour of Brazil. (NC Photo)

TUCSON, Ariz. (NC) -.Bishops James S. Rausch of Phoenix and Francis J. Green of Tucson have asked U.S. Attorney General 'Benjamin Civiletti to give "humane and compassionate consideration" to 14 Salvadoreans who survived an attempt to illegally enter the United States through the Arizona desert.

CHICAGO (NC) - A group of Chicago Catholics has again criticized the way the Chicago Archdiocese reports its finances and urged parishes to withhold payments to the archdiocese until a more detailed archdiocesan budget is released. An archdiocesan spokesman said that the group's criticism was "inaccurate and imbalanced."

LONDON (NC) - Debate at the Church of England's general synod on proposals that the church join with four other churches in covenanting together as the first step toward organic unity showed strong opposition to such a move. The other churches are the Methodists, United Reformed Church, Moravian Church and Churches of Christ.

WASHINGTON (NC) -- Congressional hearings on the patenting of new life forms have been urged by leading officials of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish groups.

Their concern follows a Supreme Court ruling that new life forms created in the laboratory are patentable.

WYOMING'S DEVIL'S TOWER is the focus of "The Special Edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a longer version of the science fiction hit film released in 1977. (NC Photo)

MEXICO CITY (NC) -- Anti-clerical groups kept bishops from testifying on a bill to legalize abortion in Mexico. Following a tradition of anti-church laws, anticlerical groups protested an nvitation to the bishops to testify.

MIAM'I (NC) - Monthly meetings with leading black Catholic laymen in Dade County were inaugurated by Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy of Miami amid unrest that followed civil disorders in May.

A U.S. MEDICAL team which investigated health conditions amid the fighting in El Salvador reported killings of doctors ,nurses and patients and said there is a dire need for medicine and food at refugee camps opened by the church.

LONDON (NC) - The Catholic bishops of Europe will publish in September a major document calling on Catholics to face up to their present and future responsibilities as Europeans ,said Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England, president of the Council of European <Bishops' Conferences.

ROME (NC) - Ualian Catholic doctors are opposed to a government proposal which would legalize marijuana and allow heroin to be administered in hospitals.

The Catholic physicians' organization said the steps would mask the problems of drug dependency, not solve them.

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KATHLEEN BENTLEY, 15, of Kingston, N.Y. asked for a Japanese pen pal last year. Instead, through a mixup, her request was published in Ghana's only daily newspaper. To date she has received nearly 4000 responses from the African nation. (NC Photo)

WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops' family life representative, Father Donald B. Conroy ,has been named director of the new National Institute for the Family, effective Oct. 1.

THE ANCHOR-Diol:ese of Fall River-Thurs., July 24, 1980

Pilot editor dead at 38, Father Francis J. Rimkus, 38, managing editor of The Pilot, the Boston archdiocesan newspaper, died Monday oj: cancer at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Brighton.

Cardinal Humberto ~Medeiros was the principal celebrant of his funeral Mass this m<lrning at St. John's Church, North Cambridge. Father Eugene Sullivan, archdiocesan superintendent of schools, was homilist.

The Anchor and the Fall River diocese 'were represented by Father John F. Moore, Anchor editor.

Father Rimkus had bElen associated with The Pilot since 1972 and became its managing editor on Jan. 1, 1977.

During the visit of P~)pe John Paul 11 to Boston last fa.ll Father Rimkus helped direct a press and public relations information center. He assisted in the preparation of news releases, conducted press conferences for journalists assigned to cover the papal trip, provided commentary for the me· dia and worked closely with Secret Service agents in the assignment of news personnel.

While Father Rimkus was covering the pilgrimage of Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston to France in 1978, Pope Paul VI 'died. Father Rimkus flew to Rome and remained there a month to cover the funeral and the conclave in which Pope John Paul I was elected.

Father Rimkus had also traveled through the Middle East with a group of editors belonging to the Catholic Press Association and accompanied. his reportage with photos he had taken.

As managing editor of The Pilot, Father Rimkus instituted a number of innovations, including the Op Ed page, the Sports Corner by Clark Booth, expanded coverage of parish affairs and the illustrated Life LinEls series.

Born in Cambridge, Mass., on June 29, 1942, Father Rimkus attended St. Columbkille's elementary and high schools in Brighton and St. John's Sem:.nary College.

He is survived by his father, Frank Rimkus, and two sisters, Mrs. Robert Bean and Miss Maryann Rimkus.

Iran officials close Tehran Catholic school A spokesman for the Ministry of National Education told Radio Tehran that the closing was ordered after the discovery of "documents which demonstrate the existence of relations between (the school's) directors and Israeli organizations."

ROME (NC) - Iranian officials have closed a Catholic school in the capital of Tehran and said the Italian Salesians who run it are Israel spies, according to reports in several Italian newspapers.

The reports said the Andishe School, founded by the Slesians in 1944, was shut down July 16, shortly after the Iranian government announced the iminent nationaliation of all .non-Moslem schools.

The Salesians connected with the school "have been put under surveillance and are forbidden to leave the territory," the spokesman added.

The Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan said the documents discovered at the school by three inspectors of the education ministry, in early July, are more important than those found in the embassy of the United States in Tehran."

Jubilee fete on Saturday Friends and relatives of Sister Mary Smith of the Sisters of St. Anne will mark her golden jubilee in religious life, at 1 p.m.

Saturday at a clambake at G & G Sandler Pavilion, Rehoboth.

FRANK J. SHEED

Frank Sheed to l(.eynote evangelization program Frank Sheed, noted Catholic lay evangelist, author and founder of Sheed and Ward publishing house and a frequent visitor to the Fall River diocese, will be the opening night keynote speaker for the second annual National Catholic Lay Celebration of Evangeliiation to be held next month in Washington, D.C. "For over 50 years Frank Sheed has been a street preacher, apologist, author, lecturer, publisher and dedicated witness to Christ," said Father Alvin Illig, CSP, executive director of the three-year old Catholic Bishops' Committee on Evangelization and a guiding force behind the National Lay Celebration. "As a Catholic layperson he was involved in sharing his faith in Jesus Christ long before most of the Catholic community began to rediscover the essential role of the laity in evangelizing the· unchurched and the inactive Catholic."

Sheed, the recipient last year of the Paulist Fathers' first national award for Catholic lay Evangelization, will address an expected 3,500 latity, priests and religious who will be in Washington 'A:ugust 21-23 for the three days of prayer, study, teaching and witness that will make up the' celebration.

"With 32 workshops featuring contemporary lay models of evangelization from around the nation, and with six major presentations delivered by laypersons active in evangelization, this program is designed to train Catholic laypersons for their essential role in the new age of evangelization now dawning on America," Father Illig said.

FATHER RIMKUS

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"Frank Sheed in a unique way symbolizes what the National Lay Celebration is all about,"

the executive director of the Bishops' Committee added.

Vatican officials had no immediate comment on the closing of the school. It came several weeks after Iranian officials shut down the St. Louis Institute in Tehran, a 140-yearold Catholic school run by French Vincentians. No reason was given for the St. Louis closing.

A native of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, Sister Mary was a professor of home economics at Anna Maria College, Paxton, and also taught at other schools of her community. In semi-retirement, she is on the staff of a rectory near her home at St. Anne's Convent, Marlboro.

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In partnership with the Catholic Church Extension Society, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and the Glenmary Home Missioners, the Paulist Office for Evangelization is sponsoring the celebration, which will be co-hosted by the Catholic University of America, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the Archdioceses of Washington and Baltimore.

Among those present for Saturday's celebration, which will include wellwishers from as far as California, will be Sister Mary's sister, Sister Margaret Smith, also a member of the St. Anne community.

August 8 Rev. William Bric, 1880, Founder, St. Joseph, Fall River

The religious observance of the jubilee came last April at the Marlboro convent.

Father Illig has visited the Fall River diocese several times in connection with the bishops' evangelization program. Many of his suggestions have been incorporated in a campaign that will be mounted throughout the diocese this fall with the goal of inviting every resident to learn more about "the friendly family of American Catholics."

Vatican Agrees to association

August 13 Rev. Edward J. Sheridan, 1896, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton Rt. Rev. Leonard J. Paley, 1964, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis

Father Timothy J. Goldrick is in charge of the campaign, which follows a pilot project conducted last year in Somerset and Swansea.

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August 12 Rev. Victor O. Masse, M.S., 1974, Retired Pastor, St. Anthony of Padua, New Bedford

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has recognized the new association representing Vatican employees as a legitimately constituted body. The Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Vatican Employees was formed in late 1979 with the participation of over 1,000 of the 3,000 Vatican employees.

It is the closest thing to a union permissable under Vatican law.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 24, 19,~O

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Preiudiced Pens In recent editions of two area secular dailies, featured articles with a definite anti-Catholic bent made print. One defamingly called upon Pope John Paul II to put his money where his mouth is as a reflection of his Brazilian trip. In the other garbled mess a local "gal" offered a sentimental subversion of the Catholic position on abortion. These interventions into the faith life of the Catholic Church are but samples of the insensitivity and crassness that many secular journalists feel they must exhibit in this area of timely reporting.

It is interesting that these same two censuring scribes, together with their counterparts on the national level, would never dare to ridicule or defame the chief rabbi of Jerusalem or the national leaders of the black caucus.

What this really indicates is that the secular media in general consider the Catholic Church, its leaders and beliefs, fair game for any deceptive and indeed dishonest reporting. What they would hesitate even to think when it comes to other religions, they readily publish in the case of the Catholic Church.

This is indeed unfortunate. It indicates that bigotry and bias are alive and thriving in many newspaper rooms.

It also reflects a mind set that seemingly thinks the Catholic populace can be leash-led like a puppy dog in obedience school.

There is absolutely no need for Catholics,- especially in this area, to have to put up with a continuous stream of derogatory reporting and scoffing stories in local papers.

Let路 Catholic businesses have the courage to threaten advertising curtailment; let Catholic readers fuse a united show of support for their church; let Catholics have the zeal to call on the good offices of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in cases of open prejudice.

This paper is the only Catholic voice in the Southeastern Massachusetts newspaper. world. As such, it attempts to bring its readers church news and events that would never be covered in a secular paper.

It also has the responsibility of informing Catholics of areas of concern which, if left unmonitored, could lead to curtailment of religious freedom and all that entails.

Not one Catholic in this area or any other section of this state or country should have to tolerate the antiCatholic liberalism that is offered as a supposed voice of social conscience. .

Let it be made quite clear, even to those Catholics who would seek journalistic fame at the price of their religious convictions, that the church as it pursues the work of the Gospel need not compromise or dilute its teachings for any reporter or newspaper.

Father Frank Rimkus The Anchor has lost a dear friend. In the years of the current editorship, few people have been. so helpful and supportive as Father Frank Rimkus, managing editor of The Pilot of Boston. His talents and abilities were always available to us.

This week Father Rimkus was called -home to the Father after a very short journey in this life. Yet in the time allowed him he helped and was loved by many. What he did for this editor will ever be gratefully remembered.

In such memories, cherished in many hearts, he will always live.

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POLITICAL CONVENTION SCENE

'Unless the Lord build the 'house, they labor in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city; he watcheth in vain that keepth it.' Ps. 126:1

Charismatic Conf路erence

By Father George E. Harrison Eight diocesan priests were among the nearly 1000 priests and deacons from 15 countries, six Canadian provinces and 48 states who attended the 6th national Charismatic Conference for Priests and Deacons held last month in Steubenville, O. The diocesan priests were Msgr. Henri Hamel and Fathers Joseph Costa, Luiz Cardoso, Americo Moreira, OFM, Gastao Oliveira, John J. Oliveira, Jose dos Santos and myself.

The conference was described

by Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, president of the University of Steubenville, on whose campus it was held, as the most important yet held. The first four conferences concentrated on the normal life of the Christian, centering on one's relationship with Christ. The past two have emphasiz~ "the truth of the Apostolic Church and our being rooted in the Church."

The meeting opened with Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn. blessing the striped tent used as a gathering place with water, salt and blessed oil as a place sacred and set apart for worship and praise.

Team members presenting the conference, led by Father Scanlan, were Bishop Albert H. Ottenweller of Steubenville; Rev. James J. Ferry, Newark, N.J.; Rev. Everett Fullam of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Darien, CT; Deacon James Hepp of the Minneapolis-St. 'Paul archdiocese; Rev. Charles Irish of St. Luke's Epis,

copal Church, Akron, Ohio; Bishop Lucker; Ralph Martin, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Bruce Yocum of the Word of God community, London, England.

Bishop Ottenweller discussed parish renewal in the Steubenville diocese, asking his hearers "to share the pain of the renewal and to encourage my priests in their work."

Ralph Martin, a founding coordinator of the Word of God community in Ann Arbor and author of several books, called on the assembled clergymen "to come back to God." He warned that the clergy are now entering a time of choosing what they arE! called to do and be.

The choice, he said is to accept the word of God and take a vital and active part in nourishing the people.

Rev. Charles Irish, national coordinator for the Episcopal Charismatic :FeHowshi,p, spoke on the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Continuing with the theme "rooted in the church," Irish said, "As the Apostolic Church was led by the Spirit, we too will be led by the Spirit."

At a conference open to the public, Bishop Lucker was the featured speaker, sharing his personal experience as to what it means to be "rooted in the church." He emphasized that rootedness implies a life of prayer, service and respect for the teaching authority of the church.

Father John Bertolucci, a well

known charismatic preacher and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Steubenville, was a homilist at one of the convention liturgies.

A highlight of the convention was the opportunity afforded for brother priests and deacons to minister to one another. The fruits of such personal ministry included forming of new friendships, renewal of acquaintances and establishment of support groups for the future.

During one week, several talks and prophecies prepared participants for future trials and called them to lives of patient endurance.

With that message fresh in our minds we accepted with joyful patience an airplane malfunction on our homeward trip which stranded us in Albany, N.Y. As we awaited evaluation of

the problem we spent several hours in prayer and song. During that time other passengers initially manifested tension and anxiety, but as we continued many somber faces became joyful and several people joined us in our expressions of praise.

Eventually it was found that the mechanical difficulty could not be remedied at that time and we deplaned and boarded a bus to Boston. Nevertheless, we reached the Fall River diocese in ample time to minister to our people with the faith of Peter and the zeal of Paul on the feastday of these apostles.

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This is the first anniver- class was aggrieved at having to . sary of our last swimming wait a half hour or more pripping wet and shivering, or for lesson. Rejoice with me. A having to wait dry because it year ago now I caDle home was hot and steamy in there. and suggested we burn a swimming towel in celebration, instead, my newly-graduated swimmer wanted to go swim-' mingo My spouse didn't understand my screech.

I had driven to l;wimming lessons for 14 straig::tt years.

Only three children. How could that be?

Well foolishly, I was a typical pushy mother of first child and enrolled our eldest of four. She had a good time paddling around for three years .before she decided there might be some merit in learning to swim. I enrolled our second at six and our third at seven a few years later.

All of them are good swimmers. They better be. Swimming lessons have to be the pits for mothers in the summer. First of all, if there are two or more children, the unwritten law is that their lessons are never held at the same time. W,~ have a choice of spending our summer at the pool or spending it driving between home and the pool.

I chose the former.

That meant I came armed with books, notepads, sewing, and/or lunch, depending upon the hour (s) of the .lessons. It also meant that the child who WB.S waiting for or had just completed his

Neither seemed to notice that Mom waited either way.

Secondly, it meant that if I came armed with books etc. the child knew I wasn't watching him always, an occupational hard reserved for mothers in the summer. If we aren't watching them splash as young ones, we're supposed to watch them pitch as middle-aged kids, and tan as teens.

Thirdly, there was the problem of whether to sign up for lessons at the outdoor pool and be cancelled half the season, or at the indoor Olympic size sauna. At first, we elected the outside. So did the wind, low temperatures, and thunderclouds. Finally, we learned and signed up for indoor lessons.

I wonder, have any of the people who design swimming lessons ever sat on the sidelines of an indoor pool in July where the temp. outside equals the humidity inside? What pools need is an air-conditioned cry room for mothers where "Watch me, Mom" can be piped in.

Finally, there's the trauma of swimming categories and Tests.

Classes come in many castes: beginner, intermediate beginner, advanced beginner, beginning in-

A loss for pope Church attendance is increasThe promotion of Arching.

Among Catholics in their bishop Jean Jadot, the pope's late 30s turned off 10 years ago personal representative to by the birth control issue, the the American Cat hoI i C level of church attendance is

Church, to a new responsibility in Rome is a major blow to American Catholicism. It also deprives the pope of one of the few men who would teU him the truth about the condition of the Catholic church in this country.

In the early 1970s, the thenarchbishop Giovanni Benelli came to the United States on a fact-finding mission for Pope Paul VI. He was horrified at the inaccurate and misleading reports sent to Rome by delegates since the end of Vatic:an II. Jadot was assigned to the United States to improve the quality of the American hierarchy and to tell the truth.

An intelligent, charming, thoroughly honest ~an devoid of personal ambition Jadot quickly became the best apostolic delegate the United States has ever had.

In his seven years, he pulled no punches in his reports to Romes. He made many enemies among the old guard in the American hierarchy. They have campaigned vigorously against him and they are nllt bothering to hide their glee at his departure. But the celebration may be premature.

The present time is very delicate for the Vatican and the United States. The pope cannot afford to be reprElSented by the typical inept diplc,matic service bureaucrat.

almost as high as that of their parents in the early 1960s.

In 1963, on the other hand, 70 percent of American Catholics were willing to say that it was certainly true that Jesus handed church leadership over to Peter and to the popes. Indications are now that the percentage has fallen to 25 percent.

In 1974, a third of the American Catholic population said that it was certainly true that under some conditions when speaking about faith and morals the pope was infallible. Now only about 15 percent of American Catholics agree to that statement. Even among those who receive Holy Communion every week, it is impossible to find a majority willing to commit themselves either to papal leadership or papal infallibility.

These figures, I contend, are shocking. They represent a change in attitude towards the papacy in a population once perhaps the most loyal in the world.

(Let me add for the record that I do not approve of the change, much less rejoice in it. I believe the papacy is one of the strongest resources available to Catholicism. I lament the decline of its influence among American Catholics.)

Nor will the pope recapture his influence over American Catholics by issuing new orders, for those orders will simply be

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 24,1980

By DOLORES CURRAN

termediate, and so on. Overlaying these is a curious structure of amphibious nature: tadpole, frog, lily pad, and the like. It is a great trauma if a child is placed in the intermediate beginner class while a friend the same age lands in the beginning intermediate.

Placement is determined by the end of the season swimming Test. I've wiped up tears on those who didn't quite survive the cut because their sidestroke was wide and I've' cut down those who did survive it because they were making life miserable for those who didn't. All in a summer's lifetime.

But now ours can all swim, allelulia. As I've written before, they also left me alone in the shallow end of the pool, so along the way, I also learned to swim.

But it was hard as an adult.

There was nobody sitting on the sidelines to whom I could call, "Watch me, kids."

So this year we're all swimming and I'm not driving to a single lesson. I'm not losing my zest, just gaining a summer.

Maybe I'll write a book.

By REV. ANDREW GREELEY

ignored.

I have been astonished at how little attention has been paid to the renewed liturgical regulation of several weeks ago. I could not find in a brief and informal survey a single parish which previously had "altar girls" which intended to stop the practice.

A bishop remarked, "I'm not going to go around looking for violations of the regulation. If they are reported to me, I'll tell the priests who are responsible to stop, but that doesn't mean they will. What am I supposed to do? Fire half the priests in my diocese?"

And a priest commented, ''The pope and the bishops can no more control what we do in house liturgies then they car. control what married people do in their bedrooms."

Jean Jadot told the truth about the paradoxes of American Catholicism, which is why some church leaders rejoice at his departure. His successor will almost certainly align himself with those who will reassure the pope that the cheering crowds during his visit meant that people still respect his authority.

Such false information will hurt American Catholicism. It will hurt the pope even mQre.

Horatio¡ Alger

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By MARY McGRORY

reborn Required reading for this campaign season could be "Where's the Rest of Me?" The title comes from a line in a movie called "King's Row," in which it was spoken by the man who could be elected president of the United States in November.

It's the autobiography of Ronald Reagan, written with a collaborator named Richard G. Hubler, a writer of negligible literary skill and taste who suffers from terminal dependen,ce on the cliche.

Although it was written in 1965, and ends before Reagan's political career evolved, the book is instructive. It is the selfportrait of a regular guy. Ronald Reagan is a person almost totally bereft of intellectual curiosity. He does not question what happened to him in his life.

He had little occasion to. He has led - and this may marginally comfort those who are unnerved by his shallowness - an almost trauma-free existence.

The only conflicts in his life appear to have come from the outside - from scene-stealers and communists and government.

He was, it should perhaps be noted, what Richard Nixon wanted most to be - a varsity football player and a sportscaster. This at least holds the promise that he won't have to bomb small countries off the map to make up for what he missed. .

Ronald Reagan, according to this account, always got what)le wanted. The right people took a shine to him at the right moment. The right words came to ~im when he tried out for radio.

The man who said in Nashua, N.H., "I paid for this microphone, 'Mr. Green," had a long training in ad lib.

His childhood was passed in unembittered poverty in small towns in Illinois. His father drank, but the problem was seasonal and manageable. Jack Reagan went on sprees, but was, betimes, amiable.

Reagan's mother, Nelle, loved everybody and expected to be loved in re~urn.

Ronnie had an idyllic romance with a high school classmate, a minister's daughter. He went to the college of his choice, Eureka, a place of wholesome endeavor and fun which could have had Edgar Guest as its laureate.

He spent a little time on the football bench and brooded that the coach hated him. But even that episode had a happy ending. The misunderstanding was cleared up, and he for the "next three seasons averaged all but two minutes of every game."

One Christmas Eve, in 1931,

as he told us in his announcement speech, his father brouglit home a blue slip. The family weathered it. Ronald decided he wanted to be a sports announcer. Soon he was in the press box, playing second fiddle to an old hand. A piece of yellow paper from the director was handed over. "Let the kid finish the game," it read.

He wanted to be a movie star.

He went to California to report the spring training of the Chicago Cubs. A friend from his old radio station introduced him to an agent, who arranged a screen test. Reagan was hardly back home in Des Moines when the telegram offering a seven-year contract with Warner's came.

In Hollywood, it was the same.

He was a quick study, he did . what his agent told him to. He cheerfully made B pictures by the dozen. He wasn't a perfectionist, he wasn't temperamental.

Everyone was, as usual, nice to him.

World War II took him only as far as Culver City and ser': vice in a movie unit. This first brush with government and its wanton wastefulness dented somewhat the Democratic liberalism he had unquestioningly accepted from his father.

But his real political education began with his involvement in the Screen Actors Guild. Interestingly, Reagan stresses his admiration for the stars, who didn't need union protection but organized for the benefit of the lesser lights who did. That policy of noblesse oblige is one he has not conspicuously copied in his political thought about the less fortunate occurence of those years was his first-hand acquaintance with labor thuggery and communist infiltration. Reagan with copious quotes from the House Un-American Activities Committee, traces the efforts of the Reds to take over Hollywood.

He spoke out against communism. He was smeared, threatened, took to carrying a gun.

There was a down side to this exhilarating ideological combat.

His wife, Jane Wyman, got sick of waiting for him to come home from the meetings. They were divorced. But this turned out for the best, like everything else.

As a new bachelor, he met Nancy Davis, aspiring starlet, who was always cast as the perfect wife - -and indeed has been such in real life for Ronnie.

No wonder he makes speeches that sound like the te:ÂĽts of Hallmark greeting cards, except when he remembers the Russians. If he gets to the White House, there will be apparently, no "splendid misery."

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ME parley in California LOS ANGELES (NC) - The 1980 Worldwide Marriage Encounter International Convention, to be held in Los Angeles in August, will feature two Jesuit priests as speakers.

They are Fathers John Powell, author and lecturer, and Charles Gallagher, who helped develop the Marriage Encounter movement. Father Powell has published 10 books, including "Why Am I Mraid To Tell You Who I Am?" and "The Secret of Staying in Love." He is a theology professor at Loyola University, Chicago.

Father Gallagher of Elizabeth, N.J., served on the executive secretary team of Marriage Encounter from 1969-74. He helped spread the movement in New York state and then to other areas of the United States and the world.

About 15,000 participants from 50 states and 49 nations are expected at the convention, to. be held on the campus of the University of Southern California and in the Los Angeles sports arena.

Cross is burned CULLMAN, Ala. (NC) - In the wake of an offer by Benedictine monks to house 150-200 Cuban refugees, a cross was burned near the entrance to the go-year-old abbey and there are news reports of threats made against the religious order by the Ku Klux Klan, although an official of the order said he did not receive any threats.

Housing no go BOSTON (NC) Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston has decided not to go ahead with a plan to build a low - and moderate-income housing development on land owned by a parish in Scituate, Mass. Parishioners opposed the plan and the cardinal is seeking an alternative site.

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WASHINGTON (NC) ..".. A Jesuit specialist in the theological and philosophical views of the late Jesuit Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is skeptical of a report that Father Teilhard knowingly helped fake a discovery of prehistoric human remains.

The allegation that Father Teilhard was a knowing accomplice in the Piltdown Man hoax was made by Stephen Jay Gould, a Harvard University historian of science, in the August issue of Natural History, published by the American Museum of Natural History.

Gould said that Father Teilhard was a willing accomplice of Charles Dawson, the British MEDICAL STUDENTS Donald Cappadona, Peter Wade and Jennifer Patten (from naturalist who unearthed fossils left) tour the pediatric unit of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, with James F. Lyons (cen- in gravel site near Piltdown, ter), executive director, and Edward Penn, M.D., chief of pediatrics. The students are par- England, between 1912 and 1915. ticipating in a six-week clinical rotation program offered by St. Anne's in its capacity as a One of the finds consisted of teaching hospital affiliated with Tufts New England Medical Center. They will study chil- bone fragments which were assembled to form a skull having dren's illnesses as found in community hospitals. the cranium of a man and the jaw of an ape-like creature whose teeth appeared both ancient and human. An almost identical find in another gravel cial of the congregation. From pit seemed to indicate that such sentation could not survive Continued from page one latter, an extremely successful or possibly, even remain - in the beginning they flourished, a creature had existed. summer program is currently be- France, at least it might be able now including three houses, a Believed to be as· much as a to survive in foreign lands," novitiate and 21 sisters, 18 of million years old, Piltdown Man ing conducted for parish youth. whom are Indian.

Additionally, Sister Katheleen wrote Sister Madeleine. was considered a "missing link" 'In 1975 it was voted that the in man's ancestry.

Murphy has been assigned to In 1904 the French superior fulltime work in the diocesan visited -Fall River and land was vice-province become a province..

Father Teilhard, then 31, just apostolate to the deaf. With bought for the future hospital, "It looks to the future with ordained and studying faleonFather Joseph Viveiros she has with the community paying in confidence," wrote Sister Made- tology, assisted Dawson in the coordinated a summer family. cash for both the land an dthe leine. "It now is of the United· discoveries. program including several field following construction costs, a States. It also is deeply and ferIn 1952, three British scientists trips and a games crafts project. total of $108,000. vently of the Presentation. And proved that the Piltdown Man's Worldwide, the Dominican The first patients were admit- it is the charism of Marie Pous- teeth had been artificially filed Sisters of the Presentation serve ted on Feb. 6. 1906 and the first sepin, its foundress, that it en- and stained to suggest age and in 13 provinces and vice-prov- Mass in the hospital chapel came deavors to live with the enthus- that ancient animal bones from inces, with their motherhouse in the following day. iasm of its youth and the plural- faraway lands had been placed Tours, France.

Over the years the hospital ism of its members, whose apos- in the gravel pits to suggest age The U.S. province, smallest grew to its present stature and tolates spand half the world." more forcefully. Radioactive carand youngest of the 13, never- correspondingly the work of the bon dating proved also that the theless covers the largest terri- Presentation community in the cranium came from the skull of tory, with missions in Massachu- United States expanded. a modern man. setts,Washington, D.C., Texas However, for most of the time Most of those familiar with and ~ndia. It numbers 75 pro- since the congregation had been the case have believed that fessed members, three novices in the United States, except for Father Teilhard, a beginner in WASHINGTON (NC) and three postulants.

14 years from 1906 to 1920, Grants for eight more national- paleonthology, was duped by lIn addition to their work in young women wishing to enter its level communications projects Dawson. the ,Fall River diocese ,the sis- ranks had had to travel to France funded by the new Catholic Gould relied on corresponters staff clinics for migrant for their novitiate, a factor tend- Communication Campaign have dence between Father Teilhard workers in the Brownsville, ing to limit vocations to French- been approved by the U.S. Cath- anc;l Kenneth Oakley, one of the Texas diocese, outreach health speaking applicants. _ scientists who exposed the Piltolic Conference. care programs, ·apostolic proTo remedy this situation, in Eighteen grants were an- down hoax, to reconstruct what grams for the Spanish-speaking 1960 an American novitiate was nounced last April, bringing the happened at the digs. Gould and varied health and mission established in Dighton, followed total number of campaign- said Father Teilhard lied to programs in IIndia. in 1961 by erection of a U.S. funded projects to 26, funded cover up what he could no longer remember.

Hospital History vice-province of the congrega- for a total of $836,614.He theorized that Dawson and Sister Madeleine Clemence, tion, with the late Mother Pierre The new projects include two O.-P., long director of St. Anne's Marie as vice-provincial. television program series, one Father Teilhard faked the disHospital School of Nursing and 'In the following years new on marriage enrichment and one coveries as a joke and the joke ran out of control. subsequently a faculty member missions were accepted: the on the letters of St. Paul. in the SMU nursing program, is nursing homes in Taunton and Jesuit Father Thomas King, Also included are funds for also community archivist. ;North Attleboro and the Rosary delivery of National Catholic a professor of theology at In a history of the U.S~ prov- House of Studies in Washington, . News Service stories to Third Georgetown University and a ince, she notes that the early D.C. World commWlications; journal- specialist in Father Teilhard's 1900s, when the Dominican comIn 1969 the' St. Anne's com- istic training with emphasis on theological and philosophical munity came to Fall River, were munity formed four communities: minorities; a project on the feasi- views, said he didn't know that difficult times in France, with a one at the hospital, one at the bility of a Catholic video news the famous Jesuit paleontolopolitical climate intensely hostile Dighton novitiate; one at the service and projects to study gist was " a prankster." to Catholicism and to church in- school of nursing; and one at the creation of a Catholic press serThe priest also pointed out stitutions. congregation's infirmary. vice agency and another to aid that, at the time Father Teilhard At that time a request came During this time the vice- pro- Third World journalists attend- was working with Dawson, his to Mother Josepha, ,then. the vincial headquarters had remain- ing the World Congress of the letters to his parents expressed community superior, from the ed at St. Anne's Hospital, but in Catholic Press in Rome this fall. enthusiam about the discoveries. pastor of St. Anne's Church in 1971 they were moved to DighThe U.S. Catholic Conference "He tells them about the enthusFall River, for sisters tQ estab- ton by Sister Marie Ascension, Communication Committee also iasm for scientific work they had lish a Catholic hospital. successor to Mother Pierre Ma- voted a supplement for Dabar developed in him," Father King "Mother Josepha must have rie. Also in 1971 the Indian miss- Productions, which is develop- said, adding that Father Teilseen in this letter a providential ions of the vice-province were ing a nationally syndicated Cath- bard would not have written answer to some of the difficult- begun under direction of Sister olic televiston magazine pro- that way about participation in ies confronting her: if the Pre- Mary Patricia, now U.S. provin- gram. a fraud.

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The sin of Adam and Eve prompted the custom of enhancing the beauty of the body by wearing appropriate clothing - hence the origin of the much forgotten virtue of modesty.

If a young mother tells her teenage daughter, "You may not wear a bikini to the beach," the young girl will say, "Be modem, Mother. Even The Anchor approves of bikinis . . . See . . . " I know a newspaper cannot survive without ads. We all overlook ads in secular newspapers of bikinis, as well as ads by lawyers announcing low rates for divorces and doctors cheap rates for abortions.

Is it too much to expect our diocesan newspaper not to be so "modem?"

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CARDINAL JOHN F. DEARDEN, 72, has resigned as archbishop of Detroit, the seventh largest Catholic Church jurisdiction in the United States.

At a news conference the cardinal, who has headed the Detroit archdiocese since 1958, said: "Impaired health has limited my ability to be involved in many of those pastoral activities that are my responsibility. I feel a sense of frustration in not being able to shoulder my share of the burdens of pastoral service to our people."

The cardinal, who suffered a heart attack in 1977 and has been forbidden to take on evening assignments, added that he did not "intend to buy a rocking chair."

He noted that his more lution 306 to achieve overall military and technological su- than 21 years as head of periority over the Soviet Union, the Detroit Archdiocese had to create a strategic and civil spanned the periods before defense to protect the American people against nuclear war, to and after the Second Vatiaccept no arms control agree- can Council. What he had men which jeopardizes nuclear found most challenging, he security, and to re-establish ef- said, was trying to bring infective security and intelligence to the life of the church the capabilities. insights of the council.

The platform calls nuc;1ear The cardinal, whose stateweapons "the ultimate military ments and actions during guarantor of American security and that of our allies," and sup- the Second Vatican Council, ports the deployment of the MX won him the nickname "the missile and development of the unobtrusive liberal," was B-1 bomber. the first president of tha Conference of The party also rejects a peace- National time draft and says that under :Catholic Bishops from its President Carter the all-volun- establishment in 1966 until teer force has not been given a 1971. During those years of fair chance to succeed. tension in the church boThe platform deplores grow- tween Catholics in disagreeing anti-Semitism in the Soviet ment over the council's Union and supports the right of Soviet Jews and others seeking meaning, Cardinal Dearden religious freedom to emigrate. repeatedly stressed the imIt reaffirms the party's com- portance of communication mitment to press the Soviet and reconciliation.

Union to implement the United In an address to the conNations Declaration on Human Rights and the 1975 Helsinki ference at the end of his agreements on European securi- term as president, Cardinal ty and cooperation and human Dearden cited achievements rights. he considered especially sigFor the first time in 40 years, niificant: the Republican platform com- Reorganization of the mittee also includes a plank conference to provide "a which addresses the problems of black Americans and uses firm basis for the collaboralanguage which refers specifi- tive efforts that the future will demand of us. cally to black Americans.

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Continued from' page one pealing to Republicans, who are barely a quarter of the electorate.

Also pleased with the pl.atform was Precious Blood Father Donald Shea, ethnic and religious liaison for the Republican National Committee. It is absolutely made to order for Catholics. If we can't articula.te this well in the Catholic community, it's our own fault. Just look at the whole section on family, right to life, and tuition tax credits. You can't get any stronger statements."

Father Shea, on sabbatical from St. Joseph's CoUege in Rensselaer, Ind., said that, regardless of the results of the presidential election in November, the Republican Party plans to introduc~ a tuition til': credit bill in Congress in J;anuary, 1981. He said he forsees riO difficulty in getting it passed.

In its platform, the party supports equal opportunit:y and equal rights for women, yet criticizes federal interfercmce or pressure upon states whkh have refused to ratify the ERA. Regarding foreign policy, the platform supports preserving world peace by keeping the United States strong. The Republican Party commits itself to "an immediate increase in defense spending" to "ultimately reach the position of military superiority that the American people demand." The platform supports house Concurrer..t Reso-

7 - Betterment of relation- THE ANCHORships within the church Thurs., July 2.4, 1980 among its members by the adoption of due process procedures and the establishAnLEBORO'$ Leading Garden Center ment of the United States Catholic Advisory Council, CONLON 6through which priests, reliDONNELLY gious and laymen collaboraSouth Main Q Wall Sis. ted in decision-making; ATTLEBORO - Development of closer 222-0234 relations with other national hierarchies; - Initiation of the Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops' anti-poverty program. for pregnancy help

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John Francis Dearden was born Oct. 15, 1907, in Valley Falls, R.I., the eldest of five children. When he was 11 the family moved to Cleveland, where he attended grade and high school and St. Mary's Seminary.

In 1929 he entered the North American College in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 8, 1932. He then earned a doctorate in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome.

Following parish and seminary assignments, he was named coadjutor bishop of Pittsburgh in 1948, he became bishop of that diocese in 1950 and archbishop of Detroit on Dec. 17, 1958.

Pope Paul VI named him a cardinal in 1969.

The tall (6-foot-l) cardinal, who speaks with the· trace of an Irish brogue, was named in 1971 by a panel of civic leaders as one of Detroit's "Ten Big Wheels," the "elite 10 whose power and influence help run the city," the automotive capital of the United States. Of Cardinal Dearden, one panel member said: "This reticent man has tremendous power and influence which he doesn't use very much, but when he does, that which he sets out to do happens."

Sterilization law RICHMOND, Va. (NC) - In calling for repeal of a law under which thousands of patients in Virginia mental institutions were sterilized between 1924 and 1972, Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond urged Catholics "to be pro-life across the board."

Calling forced sterilization of the mentally impaired "inhuman," Bishop Sullivan deplored the silence of public officials about the practice, the support of some of them for it and their deception of the persons sterilized.

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Catholic Rights· League Besides providing legal support in lawsuits involving religious freedom rights, the Catholic League for. Religious and Civil Rights has protested vigorously against anti-Catholic defamation.

The League staff generates a steady barrage of letters to offensive newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and public figures, calling attention to their demonstrated lack of sensitivity towards Catholics. More often than not, it is a thankless task.

"It's like trying to fight a forest fire with a garden hose," says Michael Schwartz, the League's director of public affairs. "We regularly see examples of the most outrageous stereotyping, as well as direct attacks on Catholics or the Church, and usually the person responsible for it is unable even to understand why anyone would be upset. After all, he figures, isn't that the way Catholics are?" .According to Schwartz, people are by nature reluctant to acknowledge their own prejudices.

"I suppose that the first people to speak out against anti-Semitism and racism encountered the same problem," he says.

The first thing the League must accomplish, says Schwartz, "is to convince people in the media and in public life that they should expect Catholics to be offended when, for example, they urge that the Pope be strangled, or when they call the Church detrimental to the world, or when they accuse Catholic schools of teaching unAmerican values. Even if they don't stop doing such things, at least they ought to realize that Catholics have a right to object, and that they are going to object to that kind of nonsense."

Despite the f:rustration there have been bright spots. In 1978, for example, when Boston Magazine published an article personally insulting Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, protests from the League and from local Catholics were taken seriously enough to cost the editor and the author of the article their jobs. And the New York Times, which for years had consistently singled out Catholics in abortion-related news stories, despite reprimands from the National News Council, finally ended the practice after local Catholic League activists convinced the executive publisher that it was a prejudicial tactic.

"Anti-Catholicism," says Schwartz, "is America's oldest and deepest-rooted prejudice, and the fact that people are generally unaware of their own antiCatholic attitudes makes it even harder to combat. We will never wipe it out completely, any more than racism has been wiped out completely, but we will expose it, we will make it less respectable, and we will confine it to the fringes of society."

Apart from its day-to-day skirmishes, the League directs

its energi1es toward long-range educational projects and efforts to represent the interests of Catholics in the formation of public poHcy. Catholic League spokesmen have presented testimony to congressional hearings, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and the White House Conference on Families. The League publishes a monthly newsletter, which not only reports on ilts own activities but also discusses issues from a perpective that is rarely presented elsewhlere. And in 1978 the League undertook a study of inner city private schools by which it hopes to shift the focus of the debate over aid to education.

Previous proposals to aid nonpublic education, have almost always foundered on the shoals

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of separation of church and state. But the real issue, as Father Blum steadfastly asserts, is the right of parents to choose the type of school they wa~t for their children - a. right he says should not be predicated on the ability to pay.

Catholic League researchers visited more than 50 private schools in eight major cities ~ schools which serve low-income, minority families - to ascertain the quality of the education offered in the schools, their prospects for survival in an inflationary economy and, above all, why parents willingly make tremendous sacrifices in order to pay tuition for their children at these schools, when free public schools are readily available.

"The issue," says Father Blum, "is quality. 'Poor children today are over-whelmingly assigned to the worst schools, and their families do not have the economic resources to pay the tuition that might liberate them from these institutions. So the cycle of functional illiteracy, unemployability and poverty is repeated for another generation.

They may not know it, but the poor in this country, most of them non-Catholics, are victims of the anti-Catholic prejudice that has stood in the way of freedom of choice in education.

This just shows' that Catholics have an obligation to organize and protect their rights, not only for our own sake, but also for those other helpless people who suffer when religious freedom rights are suppressed."

Contraception "inhuman interference' he says PHILADELPHIA (NC) "Contraception is an inhuman interference in a supremely personal, profound act," said Benedictine Father Paul Marx, director of the International Symposium on Natural Family Planning (NFP) in Philadelphia.

"A couple that practices natural family planning never excludes God and God is always the third party," he said.

"Contraception interferes with the natural human process. It makes one of the partners a thing and gives the idea that sex is onl.y for pleasure," he added.

The symposium was co-sponsored by the Human Center at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., and the Philadelphia arc:,diocesan Family Life Bureau. Father Marx is founder and president of the Human Life Center.

The purpose of the sixth symposium was to educate counselors, family life directors, parents, educators and clergymen in the methods, psychology and spirituality involved in natural family planning.

Father Marx, publisher of the

International Review of Natural Family Planning, told why he felt the symposium was important.

"Most couples don't know where babies come from," he said. "They don't know the signs and symptoms of oncoming ovulation or that ovulation has even occurred.

"I'm a sociologist and I always wondered why people didn't teach people before marriage about the human reproductive system which is so unique and into which is built a system of birth control.

"NFP has developed from the rhythm method, which is the 'Model T' of NFP, to a very sophisticated method."

Father Marx stressed his belief that NFP is a safe means of birth control. "I've never met a woman who couldn't practice NFP," he said.

"I've done two seminars with the University of Minnesota, which is tied with the Mayo Clinic," the priest noted, "and if this were nonsense a big medical i,nstitution like that wouldn't waste its time."

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EDGARTOWN, St. Elizabeth, Main Street: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 11 a.m.; daily, Mon.Fri., 8:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 11 a.m.-12 noon, 3-3:·45 p.m.

FALMOUTH, St. Patrick, 511 E. Main St.: Schedule. June 28-29, Sat. 5:30, 7 p.m.; Su:n. 7, 8:45, 10, 11:15 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.

St. FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, Thomas Chapel, Falmouth Heights Rd.: Schedule June· 2829, Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.

HYANNIS, St. Francis Xavier, 347 South St.: Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon, 5 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., 12:10 p.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-~i p.m. and following 7:30 p.m. Mass.

YARMOUTHPORT, Sacred Heart, off Rte. 6A: Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-5 p.m., Sun. before 9 a.m. Mass.

MARION, St. Rita, 113 Front St. (schedule effective: June 28-29, Aug. 30-31): Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily, 8:30 a.m.; confessions, Saturday, 4:305:00 p.m.

MATTAPOISETT, St. Anthony, 22 Barstow St.: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. daily 8 a.m.; Confessions 3:30-4:20 p.m.

NANTUCKET, Our Lady of the Isle,6 Orange St.: Sat 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 a.m., 7 p.m.; daily, 7:30 a.m., 12 noon; rosary before daily Masses; confessions, Sat. 4-4:45 p.m.

SIASCONSET, Union Chapel: Sun. 8:45 a.m. during July and August.

NORm FALMOUTH, St. Elizabeth Seton, 6 Shaume Rd.: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:45, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:15-3:45, 4:455:15 p.m.

OAK BLUFFS, Sacred Heart, Circuit Ave.: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:15, 10:30 a.m.; daily (Mon.Fri.) 7 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 5:15-5:45 p.m.

ORLEANS, St. Joan of Are, Bridge St. (schedule effective June 21-22 through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:50 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass. Wed. NORTH EASTHAM, Church of the Visitation (schedule effective June 21-22 through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 6:30-6:50 p.m.

OSTERVILLE, Our Lady of the Assumption, 76 Wianno Ave. (schedule effective June 28-29 through Aug. 30-31): Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

SANTUIT, St. Jude Chapel, Rte. 28: Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30-4:00 p.m.

MASHPEE, Queen of AU Saints, New Seabury: Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:00, 10, 11:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

POCASSET, St. John the Evangelist, 15 Virginia Road: Sat. 4, 5, 7 p.m; Sun. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45 p.m.

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SANDWICH, Corpus Christi, 8 Jarves St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon; daily 9 a.m.

SAGAMORE, St. Theresa, Rte. 6: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun.. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 24, 1980

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny

should condemn their father because it is their duty and beDear Mary: A few weeks ago cause you want them to do so. you wrote a column explaining First, you are trying to tell how parents should react to their your adult children how to feel. children living with an unmarried Not surprisingly your efforts partner. My concern is quite the are not working. You can't tell opposite. How should children others, young or old, how to react when a parent is living in feel. Feelings belong to the persin? son who has them. They cannot . After 20 years of marrige, my be dictated by an outsider. husband began a life of drunkenSecond, you do not tell other ness and revelry. After 10 years adults how to act. You are tryof this, I left and we divorced. ing to convince your children Now after several more years, that they should defend you by he settled down somewhat but condemning their father. Obis living with a woman friend. viously they view the situation I have not objected to the in a different way. They are children speaking to their father caught in th,~ middle of their or inviting him to their homes. parents' breakup after 30 years I do object to them including of marriage. Most likely they the live-in companion. continue to love you both. They In the old days when a mother cannot and do not wish to take was "wronged," it was custom- sides. ary for the son to come' to her You indicate you have been defense. One SOD criticizes me divorced for several years, yet if I say anything against the your feelings of anger and bitsituation and visits them fre- terness still seem fresh and quently with his family. He ig- . alive. It appears that your chilnores my wishes and feelings dren are coping, and even your and says it is no longer my busi- husband has made a new life. ness, but a person's feelings You seem to be suffering the don't change that easily. I think most by keeping alive a situahe should have more regard for tion settled several years ago. his mother. (Kentucky) You say rightly that feelings don't change easily. However, A. You pose a question then answer it yourself. The if you want to change, if you real issue here is the relationship want to ease the terrible burden of a parent and an adult child. of your feelings, you can begin You suggest that your children by acting in new ways. Here

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How to change attitudes are some starters.

1. Can you get a change of scenery? Take a trip or go on a vacation with a friend or a relative.

2. How can you reach out to your sons, your daughters-inlaw, your grandchildren? Stop telling them how to feel. Instead, find ways to show your love for them. Take your grandchildren on an outing. Invite the children to stay with you for a few days.

Buy or, even better, make a gift for a daughter-in-law and surprise her with it. When you invite your children over, avoid making demands in regard to their father.

3. What other people might need a..d welcome your friendship and love? What lonely neighbor might welcome a visit? How could you help in your church or in community volunteer organizations? Could you surprise someone with an unexpected letter, birthday greeting or friendship card?

You might not be able to change feelings, but, if you try, you may find that positive activities and concerns in a new direction can crowd out anger and bitterness.

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

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month for picnics all that we remember is the pleasure they gave us.

I still enjoy reading picnic recipes and planning my own perfect picnic menu. At this point I'm into the loaf of freshly baked bread, a jug of wine instead of coffee and instead of "thou" a marvelous piece of . cheese, with perhaps some cold fried chicken on the side.

But needless to say no picnic will ever taste as good as those of our youth because the extra zest of memory has been added.

This is a great salad to prepare early and. either tote with you to the beach or keep refrigerated for your return.

Curried Turkey Rice Salad 1 cup uncooked rice 1 package (10) ounces frozen green peas 1 medium onion finely chopped ~ cup vegetable oil

July is the month of cookouts and picnics, a pleasure if they are your type of eating. If you are fortunate enough to have a husband who enjoys cooking outdoors, then you can welcome the hot, sticky weather that makes kitchen cooking almost impossible (unless your kitchen is air-conditioned) and move your dining into the back yard.

I have never been able to do this because Joe just doesn't like eating or cooking outside; however, he does make some concession to the impossiblity of hot weather cooking and settles for salads that can be put together in the cool of the morning.

I myself have always loved picnics and looking back with nostalgia, the picnic lunches my mother and grandmother packed for the beach just have to have been the best in the world. .

In my memory one of the most outstanding items at those LOS ALTOS, Calif. (NC) picnics was a huge jug of coffee Vietnamese Catholics in the which I was allowed to sample. United States will hold their It was strong and laced with first national c:onvention at St. evaporated milk and to this day, Patrick's College, Los Altos, if I come across this type of Calif., July 23-27. brew, memories of those Sunday Participants will include Archpicnics come floodin.g back. bishop Jean Jadot, apostolic Naturally the good old days delegate in the United States, always seem much better when who will cleb:rate a Mass of viewed from a distance. Gone Thanksgiving July 27; Archare the memories of the mos- bishop John R. Quinn of San quitoes, ants and other insects Francisco, president of the Nathat were uninvited guests. Forgotten are the hours of work by tional Conference of Catholic the women of the family in pre- Bishops (NCClB); and Bishop paring these picnics. Thankfully, Rene H. Gracida of Pensacola-

1 tablespoon curry powder 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 ~ cups sour cream 1 teaspoon salt ~ teaspoon pepper 3 cups diced cooked turkey 1 cup minced carrots 3 tablespoons chutney 1) Cook the rice following label directions. Remove from heat; cool, and spoon into a large bowl. Cook peas, drain and add to rice.

2) Saute onions in oil in a small skillet until soft. Add curry powder and lemon JUice and cook stirring several seconds. Remove from heat and mix with sour cream, salt and pepper. Add to rice and peas, mix well. A'dd the turkey, carrots and chutney, mix well and refrigerate, covered, two hours or longer.

3) To serve, spoon salad over lettuce leaves.

Vietnam parley Tallahasseee, Fla., who chairs the NCCB Migration and Tour~sm Committee.

All the convention Vietnamese community leaders will share experiences and reflections, hear lectures by Vietnamese and American experts and attend workshops on such issues as spiritual growth, participation in church and civic activities, n~w approaches to their native country . and church, and a strengthening of the community bond among Vietnamese.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 24, 1980

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By Father John Dieo:en Q. In the light of the I.resent controversies concerning celibacy in the priesthood ][ have two questions. Do we have any examples of a celibate Ufe in the Old Testament? And when was celibacy for the priesthood made mandatory in our church??

(Saskatchewan, Canada) A. To my knowledge, we are not certain that any biblical figures in the Old Testament were celibate. The very idl~a of a celibate life for men or women was repugnant to the Hebrew culture as to most cultures' at that time. For a woman to be unmarried and childlesll was shameful. For men and women, marriage and a houseful was seen as a mark of God's blessing.

The first general law in the Western cDurch obligiIllg the clergy to a celibate life elid not appear until the later part of the fourth century. This occurred through the decrees of several popes, beginning with Pope Damasus (366-384), and numerous local councils in Africa and Europe.

During the next 700 years the marriage of priests, deacons and bishops was -unlawful ift the Western church. The movement toward celerical celibacy finally culminated for the universal church in the 12th century at the First and Second Lateran Councils, when such marriages were considered not only illicit but also invalid.

Much later, at the Council of Trent in 1563, the law of clerical celibacy was reaffirmed. However, against enormous opposition, the council firmly d.eclared that priestly celibacy was a matter of .church law, not divine law. This means that the church' could change its legislation concerning celibacy and priests would no longer be obliged to observe it. The church did this for deacons at Vatican Council II, when it instituted a married permanent diaconate.

The road of clerical c:elibacy has been rocky through the centuries, particularly in the early Middle Ages and again in the period before the Protestant Reformation. Rocky or not, i.t seems clear that the church is not prepared to easily alter a !practice which has been so intimate a part of its life for the past 17 centuries.

Q. Must both godparents at a CathoDe baptism be members of the CathoDe faith? Can one be a Catholic and the other of an" other religion? A friend 01 mine who is DOt Roman. 4:&tboHe (Russian Orthodox) was recently godmother for her friend's baby. Is this permIssIbIE~? (New Jersey) A. At least one Catholic godparent is required for baptism.

This Catholic should have received all the sacramlmts of Christian initiation ,..... baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist.

In place of a second Catholic sponsor, a Christian of a Protestant denomination who may

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be a relative or friend of the family, may serve as a Christian witness of the baptism with a Catholic sponsor.

A Catholic, incidentally, .can do the same for a member of a 'Protestant denomination.

In both cases, of course, the responsibility for the Christian education of the' person baptized belongs to the godparent who is a member of the church in which the person is baptized.

An even closer participation is permitted when the person to be baptized is a member of one of the separated Eastern churches, which would include the Russian Orthodox. A member of one of these churches may be godparent, together with a Catholic godparent at the baptism of a Catholic infant or adult.

Your friend therefore acted quite properly in being godparent at the baptism, at least according to the regulations of our church. In all such instances the individuals involved shoull1 be sure that their action is not contrary to the regulations of their own church as well.

For those interested, questions of interfaith participation in worship are presented in detail in the "Directory for the Application of the Decisions of the Second Eeumenical Council of the Vatican Concerning Ecumenical Matters," May 14, 1967.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen c/o The Anchor, p.o. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

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o Holy S1. Jude, Apostle, and Martyr,

JESUIT FATHER Francis L. Filas has discovered what he thinks is the imprint of a coin from the time of Pontius Pilate on photographs of the Shroud of Turin.

The world-famed shroud bears the bloody imprint of the face and body of a man believed to have been Jesus Christ It has been preserved in the Cathedral of St. John in Turin, Italy, since the 16th century.

Father Filas found the coin imprint over the right eye of the shroud image. It fits the supposition that coins Were placed on the dead man's eyes to keep them closed, a custom followed by primitive people until' very recent times.

great in virtue and rich in miracles, llear kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful Intercessor of all who invoke JOur special patronage in time of nee , to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known' and cause you to be invoked.

Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys and G1orias. Publication must be promised. S1. J~de pray for .us all who invoke your aid, Amen. ThiS Novena has never been known to fail. I !lave had my request granted. Publi路 cation promised. A reader. lAdvt,) l.l.

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Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys and G1orias. Publication must be promised. S1. J~de pray for ~s all who invoke your aid, Amen. ThiS Novena has never been known to fail. I have had my request granted. Publl路 cation promised. A reader. lAdvt.l H.C.C.

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Data for the initial report came from a questionnaire prepared by the committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the Directory for Masses with Children published in 1973 by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship, as well as of three eucharistic prayers for children issued in 1974. The committee received 2,095 responses to the questionnaire.

They indicated that more time was needed for implementation and evaluation of the use of the eucharistic prayers. . BCL R~ports also mdludes musical settings for the ,acclamations used in the eucharistic prayers for children. Permission has been given to reproduce the musical settings for local church or school use only.

Reprints must include the copyright notice and the statement as given at the end of each setting of acclamations. The accompaniment music may not be reproduced in any manner without explicit copyright permission.

ALAN D. KNIGHT has been named assistant director of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, where he will manage ancillary and support services and conduct general administrative functions.

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Janaan Manternach One day Jesus told a surprising story.

"Two men went up to the tem· pie to pray," Jesus began. One was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector."

• The people were immediately interested. They could easily imagine the great temple at Jerusalem. "The Pharisee," Jesus said, "stood up in the very front where everyone could see him. He did not even bow his head as he began to pray out loud so all could hear him."

The Pharisees were among the most important religious leaders in Jesus' country. They observed God's law carefully.

Most people thought they were special. Jesus, however, sur· prised the people by talking about a Pharisee who was very proud of his own good deeds.

Jesus continued his story.

"This is how the Pharisee prayed. 'I give you thanks, 0 God, that I am not like the rest of men - grasping, crooked, adulterous - or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I pay tithes on all I possess."

The Pharisees did indeed live more strictly than the law required. They fasted even from water every Monday and Thursday. They gave 10 percent of their income to the temple.

But what about the tax collector? These men were disliked by almost everyone. They collected taxes for the hated RoTurn to Page Thirteen

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The kids at Resurrection School in East Los Angeles call Adolph Soria "The Six Million Dollar Man." "Why do they call me that?" ask~ the former paratrooper who is a volunteer school-yard supervisor in the lively MexicanAmerican parish.

"Because sister told us you got a new heart," the kids reply. , "I don't have a new heart," Adolph responds, "but I did have my heart repaired."

What is new for Adolph and his wife, Dora, is a new outlook on life. Two of their four children have already left home and the context of their lives has changed. They. have less work, more leisure, more time for community involvement. On the other hand, they have developed a vivid awareness of their wi'nerability to physical illness. , The interplay of these factors has led to a deeper spirituality.

"We have a new closeness to each other and to our children," said Dora. "And to God," adds Adolph emphatically. "We are closer than we have ever been."

All this did not come easily.

The couple's life together began Nov. 8, 1942. The next day Adolph left for the army where he served as a paratrooper.

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WHEN CIDLDREN have left the nest, parents once again haye time to enjoy each other. (NC Photo)

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By Rebecca Christian

I remember as a teenager coming home late one night. My parents were so involved in a discussion of philosophy that they forgot to reprimand me.

Their marriage lingers as a lesson for my own marriage. No matter how tired or busy they were, my parents always had time to communicate with each other.

They were wrapped up in their children's lives. We worried that it would be painful for them when we left home. For a time it was.

Mother had no interest in life outside the home. The cookies in the blue crock were fragrant and homemade. The making of valentines, Christmas decorations or doll clothes was never outlawed for fear it would mess up her spotless kitchen. Except for a stay in the hospital, I cannot remember an afternoon when she was not waiting for us after school.

My father, a school teacher, moonlighted to help make ends meet. When home, he was aI'ways available to us.

By inclination and because of the money too, my parents barely hired a babysitter. Instead we had family night every Friday, usually joined by another impecunious family for popcorn, monopoly, stories and skits.

The past 10 years have radically changed that bustling household. When we first left home, Mother was incharacteristically blue. Dad's voice was wistful during Sunday telephone calls. He invariably asked; "Are you coming home soon?"

Despite their freedom to be alone again in more silence, privacy and affluence than they had enjoyed in 30 years. my parents faced new responsibilities and problems. Two of their own

parents died. The surviving parents became increasingly dependent. They encountered bouts of illness themselves and a daughter's divorce.

But after several years, they are experiencing a sort of personal renaissance.

They seem less rigid in their expectations of each other although they have not entirely rewritten their roles. If Dad were widowed, Mother jokes, he would have to remarry before accumulating a full load of dishes and laundry. She would not pump her own gas if it cost a nickel a gallon, he counters.

isfying. Homemakers, freed after many years, are ofte~ eager to Many ,couples subject their try their talents in a wider lives to i::ltense scrutiny when world than the home. At a time their last child leaves home. when the careerist turns again The empty-nest syndrome ofto the family, the homemaker ten finds husbands and wives wants to go beyond it. Often the discovering to their dismay that result is conflict. they must relate to each other Yet another factor is the nuface-to-face again. clear structure of U.S. families.

Immersed in family life and Grandparents, brothers, sisters, careers, couples often avoid conaunts and uncles no longer are fronting each other with probto offer loving easily available lems, but when children leave home, confrontation can be support. Couples are forced to avoided no longer. Alone again, obtain most of their emotional couples face a time of opportun- fulfillment and satisfaction from each other. Some pschologists ity and risk. feel this puts great pressures on Statistics show that the second highest divorce rate in the' marriage.

Ideally, couples will successUnited States for several years has been among couples, married fully navigate this stage in their for 20 years or more. Catholic lives, reassessing and reaffirmcouples have much the same ing their relationship and reaching new appreciation of each divorce rate as others.

Why are the middle years so other.

Christian couples can turn to difficult? In my counseling of familiar biblical images for enmiddle-aged women and in talking with persons concerned about couragement. A traditional metamarriage, several points have phor for marriage is God's faithfulness to his people. This is for emerged.

First, the mood in U.S. society example, by the faithfulness of today strongly favors individ- the Old Testament prophet, Hosea, whose ,wife was a harlot. ual fulfillment.

But most husbands and wives When she finally returned to discover that marriage demands him, Hosea welcomed her.

Churches today are developing cooperation and compromise, sometimes meaning that individ- various kinds of marriage supual desires are postponed or port. Many dioceses and parishes provide marriage counseling, and changed.

A second point involves the often parishes offer varied kinds stages of adult growth and be- of marriage enrichment. Marriage havior, Yale psychologist Erik Encounter Weekends are designErickson and Gail Sheehy, au- ed to make good marriages betthor of "Passages," have des- ter by focusing on communication. Some parishes offer couple. cribed these stages.

To loosely paraphrase: career- to-couple ministry. Sometimes ists may reach their peak to dis- weekend workshops or retreats cover careers alone are not sat- are geared for married persons.

A time for everything

By Father John J. Castelot

Today Dad cheerfully takes The Book of Ecclesiastes has Mother out to dinner when she fascinated people for centuries. does not feel like cooking. She Just about everyone is familiar just as happily asks a neighbor ,w1th its opening lines. Says boy to shovel the walk when Qoheleth: "Vanity of vanities!

Dad cannot face the snow. A All things are vanity!'" perfectionist, Mother has always Job had wondered why a good found it tiring to entertain. She man should not be blessed with and Dad, who likes social life wealth, health and joy. Qohelmore, solved this old conflict by eth goes further, insisting that joining several couples for a even these things are illusory monthly restaurant outing. and disappointing. Speaking in There have been a few false the name of the wealthy Solostarts. Mother's attempt to ini- mon, he complains that he has tiate a nightly walk fell as flat tried every pleasure money could as Dad's arches. His attempt to buy in this search for happiness, take her to the movies flopped but "all was vanity and a chase when she announced that "The after w~d, with nothing gained under the sun" (Eccl, 1).

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The author of Ecclesiastes has been called a cynic, an epicurean, a fatalist, a skeptic, the first existentialist. And there are passages in the book to substantiate practically every charge.

This is a' baffling little book. It seems to be a tissue of contradiction.

The author is apparently bored stiff with everything. He finds a sad melancholy in the unchanging order of the universe.

The wretched condition of humanity depresses him so much that death seems preferable to life, even though he can wax eloquent about the pleasures of earth.. ' Turn to page thirteen

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de Paul Society too and we care Continued from page twelve for the poor."

Their first son, George, was Faith and church are no longer born when Adolph was overseas.

Homem E 0 Seu Destino Futuro routine for the ex-truckdriver Then came Armand.

Adolph was a truckdriver for and his wife. Middle age has ~ um facto. 0 homem moderno des22 years until, in his early 50s, sharpened awareness of a differcre duma vida para alem da morte. Inhealth problems forced his re- ent range of values for the couple. tirement. queritos fei~os mesmo entre catolicos "Now we have so much faith By then the couple's older sons denunciam uma diminui9ao da fe na viwere on their own. Two younger and so much peace of mind," da eterna. 0 homem deseja sobreviver children remained at home but Adolph comments. nos seus descendentes, nas obras que Adolph and Dora were lonely, Dora adds: "It seems we have realizou, na fama que conquistou, mas even with Lupe and Michael. so much more love in the famtern uma ati tud.e ceptica perante 0 AThen Adolph had a heart at- ily." lem. tack, leading to open heart surEntre nos, muitos acreditam por gery. medo. Medo de serem condenados, se The couple turned to their pastor, who counseled them and nao acreditarem. Nao e a ~legria de Continued from page twelve prayed"for them. saber que a morte e a porta da vida man government and many had "I found out you can't blame sem ocaso; nao e a esperan~a a~egre grown rich by cheating the taxGod," said Adolph. "I had kind que levava 0 1\.postolo a afirmar: "Deof blamed him for my bad payers. The crowd wondered sejamos sair deste corpo para habitar health. But God got me through what the prayer of the tax colcom 0 Senhor. n the operation. After this, I don't lector could be like.

Sao muitas as causas da diminuiquestion God any more. That Jesus continued "The tax coloperation brought all seven of us lector stood in the back of the 9ao da fe na i.mortalidade. closer to God. temple. He bowed his head, Aliena9ao. 0 Cristianismo tern si"Now I am busier than ever. I ashamed even to raise his eyes do acusado de olhar para 0 ceu, em walk a lot. I'm two hours a to heaven. All he did was strike vez de olhar para a terra; de alhear day in the school yard. I enjoy his breast over and over as he os crentes de construir a felicidade working there and the sisters repeated, '0 God, be merciful to neste ,mundo, prometendo-Ihes urn parafeel more secure with a man in me, a sinner,''' Iso no outro. 0 Cristianismo, acusa the yard. I'm in the St. Vincent The crowd was touched. Una crItica marxista, afirmando que like the Pharisee whose prayer "pobreza terrE~ste e igual a riqueza boasted of his own goodness, celeste", tern mantido a massa na subthe tax collector prayed, trusting in God's goodness. missao aos seus exploradores, I~mbalanContinued from page twelve do-a com a pr()messa duma felicidade Then came Jesus' surprising Social injustice, the success of celestial edE~sviando-a de se empenthe wicked and the misfortune of conclusion, "Believe me,'" Jesus the good, the uncertainty of a told the crowd. "this man, the hara fundo na constru9ao da cidade person's destiny - all these tax collector, went home at dos homens. Apesar de a critica ser things simply tear his heart out. peace with God. The other, the exagerada, nac) haja diivida que 0 paHis state reflects the torment Pharisee, did not. For everyone raiso cristao tern tido 0 seu que de of thinking people at that stage who trusts in his own goodness aliente. Por isso, e precise gritar: 'in the history of revelation. With will be brought 10. Those who nao se salvarii no outro mundo quem no idea of adequate retribution place their trust in God's goodnao se esfor9ar por salvar este. in the hereafter, serious thinkers ness will be raised up," Seculariza9ao. 0 ConcIlio proclawere understandably stumped about the meaning of life. Under mou 0 valor e a autonomia do temporal the circumstances, Qoheleth is a bondade das coisas deste mundo. lsnot really so self- contradictory.

ROME (NC) -Father Richard to tern de provocar uma crise num penMcCullen, a 54-year-old Irish His book is rather like the jotsarnento catol:lco medievalista e manitings of a man thinking out loud. priest, was elected superior genqueIsta que d~:!sprezava as coisas preThe writer has a question. All eral of the Congregation of the sentes ern favor das futuras. "Desprethe possible answers run through Mission (Vincentians) at the conzar as coisas da terra" era, entao, his mind and are rejected. Read- gregation's general assembly in ing his book is like eavesdrop- Rome. palavra de ordem. 0 Concilio ensinou ping on a monologue. But his a valoriza-lal:;. Daqui uma crise e 0 He succeeds Father James W. answers are not final.

Richardson, an American. perigo dum horizontalismo radical.

He knows there is a final anPragrnati~no. A nossa civiliza~ao Founded in 1625 by St. Vinswer about life, even if he canda tecnica e das ciencias positivas not put his finger on it. Mean- cent de Paul, the Congregation cria em nos uma necessidade de experwhile he offers a positive sug- of the Mission has about 4,200 irnentar tudo, de medir tudo. As coigestion which is wisely realistic. members.

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sas quenao fc:>rem experimentaveis, que nao cairen'i sob a al9ada do senslvel, parec~n-nos irreais, aern interesse nernimportancia.

Temos de i!nunciar hoje a imortalidade. Devemos evitar que este aniincio se transfor;me numa alienaQao ou num desprezo pela:s coisas deste mundo.

Porque "nos, :segunda a Sua promessa esperamos ceu:; novos e uma nova terra, onde habi·ta a justi9a." .Professando a ressu:rreiQao'do corpo e 0 advento do homem novo, devemos evitar, ainda, uma ap:resentaQao da salva9ao futura em te~nos que conduzam ao menosprezo do cc:>rpo humano. lmporta insistir na dim4:msao escatologica da Salva9ao e no seu aspecto colectivo.

Portanto, a escatologia crista tern acentos rlevolucionarios: este mundo, em esta.do de pecado, por muitas coisas, passa para dar lugar ao mundo novo, aos ceus novos e a terra nova.

It says, in effect: "Perfect hap-

piness is not to be found here on earth. You can expect to be moderately happy .if you don't make perfect happiness the goal of your strivings. Enjoy the pleasures God sends your way and remember that you will be called to account for your use of them."

Alone again Continued from page twelve Country Girl" in 1954 was the last film worth seeing.

Both revel in being grandparents. They have more time for church affairs and they are traveling a bit.

My father sells educational aids, an endeavor that has blossomed into a thriving mailbusiness. The result is a parttime job for Mother by day and satisfying evening and weekend work for both.

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During his recent trip to France, Pope John Paul n spoke at length to French youth on topics of interest to teenagers everywhere. In the coming weeks, The Anchor will present excerpts from his ta1ks.

By Charlie Martin

When you walk into a room Your beauty steals my breath away When you look into my eyes I find it hard to find the words to say Wanna run away and hide I just got to let you know Feel so tangled up InSide I should've never let you go Anyone can make mistakes And we both have made our share But a life too hard to bear I don't care who's right or wrong Only know that I love you so Why did I have to write this song I should've never let you go Why in all the wide, wide world Have I run into you here Wish I could disappear I'll never understand Why I even give a damn When you walk into a room You know I stand on shaky ground I've built so many walls around me Now the walls are tumbling down You're the kind I can't forget Let the tears begin to flow I have _only one regret I should've never let you go

"And behold, a young man came up to him, saying; 'Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?' And he said to him; 'Why do you ask me about what is good; one there is Who is good. If you would enter into life, keep the commandments.' And he said to him: 'Which?' And Jesus said: 'You shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, honor your father and mother, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself." ''The young man said to him, 'All these I have observed, what do I still lack?' Jesus said to him, '~f you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.' When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions'" (Matthew 19, 16-22).

Why did Christ enter into conversation with this young man?

You will find the answer in the Gospel account. And you, you ask me why, wherever I go, I wish to meet the young people.

And my answer is: Because to say "young" is to say a person whfA, in special land decisive manner, is in the process of being formed.

I am not denying that all his life long a man is being educated. We say that "education begins even before birth" and continues to the end of our days.

Yet with regard to formation, youth is a particularly important period, a time of richness and decision. And if you think about the dialogue between Christ and the young man, you will find the proof of what I have just said.

The questions asked by the young man are essential; so are the answers.

The questions and the answers are essential, not only for the young man in question and for his situation at that time; they are also of first importance and essential for today. That is why in answer to your question as to whether the Gospel has the answer to man's problems today, not only do I say, "The Gospel has the answer," but I go further: The Gospel alone has the full answer, since the Gospel goes thoroughly into the depths of the problem.

Letting go is very difficult.

Yet all of IUS have to let go at one point or another in life.

New job or school opportunities arise and take us away from previously established relatiot:lships. Our health may change and leave us unable to do all that we did in the past. Ultimately we will be asked to let go of life itself and encounter the mystery of a death that leads to a new fullness of life.

SHouurVE NEVER LET YOU GO

There are many dialogues in the' Gospel. One that I find particularly eloquent is the dialogue between Christ and a young man.

The times in life when we have to let go are emotional times and they are times when we are chaJlenged to' grow.

Letting go is a process. Our psyches are not prepared to break away suddenly from people or situations that have enriched our lives. Our feelings need to be faced and integrated with our lives a step at a time.

For example, sometimes people find they are angry at having to leave behind a person or situation that has touched them. This anger should not be ignored or denied. People will learn much more about themselves and be better able to really let go if they face their anger and explore the reasons why it exists.

Sung by 'Neil and Dara Sedaka, written by Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody, (c) 1978, Kiddio Music Co. and Kirshner Songs, April Music Publishing

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NEIL SEDAKA and his daughter Dara teamed up to produce this song, which tells a story about relationships that do not endure.

In the song, a relationship has ended, but we are not told why.

We sense, however, that n'either individual in the song is happy to have let the other go, and at least one of them realizes that love remains alive within the relationship.

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As painful as it may be, there are times when people need to close the door gently behind them and move on to new experiences b life. When this gentle closing involves a relationship, we may fear that love will never come our way again.

But if we da.re to continue interacting with others, face the uncertainties ,'/ithin us and open ourselves to life's power, new ways will be found to love and be loved.

Life is a journey, a process of learning how to love better.

Those who have the courage to keep choosing life will find love again.

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The life of Jesus shows how God walks with people even when life seems broken. To find a future full of promise people sometimes must let go of the past. That is the time to open ourselves to the newness that God is bringing about within us!

OCUI on youth

It's good for youth • to questIon

By Cecilia Belanger For years adults have said, "Why do you allow young people to ask such and such a question?

They shouldn't ask those questions."

Since those questions have to do with their faith, they are not • only allowed but encouraged to ask them. I believe in the free action of the individua~ mind and I've never had a student who when he or she asked a question, did not do so with respect. And since God did not make me a robot I don't intend creating any of my own!

I know that the church, the Body of Christ, is mighty enough to accomplish its end in all of us. There is nothing, no need, that Catholicism at its best cannot fill. So long as the spirit lives, the love and spirit of our Lord, it, like the central fires of the earth, can heave up mountains.

We have labored to be a free people in this nation. Our fre~­ dom allows us to make judgements of conscience. Yet even today there are those who labor to be free in this country. I would need a computer to add up all those people who tell me they would like to write letters to church weeklies but that they are afraid to stick out their necks.

We must be able to roll with the punches, to expect- to be criticized and taken to task. It's too easy to speak of sweetness and light. It's safe, yes, and one doesn't get bruised, but if you believe in something and feel you must speak out, by all means do so. lf you are right then there is that consciousness of working with God that is more strengthening than all human support and against which no arrows or criticism can prevail.

I enjoy reading the speeches Pope John Paul II delivered to the youth of France. They were elevating and inspiring. He made it clear that Christ was not merely a bright light to be admired, but was to become a reality in their own lives and souls.

I keep hearing about "the times." It's okay to bewail the times, but we mustn't waste our breath. We must strive to make them better, to carry to whatever we do a trustful spirit.

Sometimes youth become discouraged easily. "But through Christ one' can do justice to one's whole nature. Through him, the heart, intellect and conscious can enter a life filled with his spirit. Don't ask for easy conditions. Don't look for beaten paths through which one may move mechanically.

The longer we live the more we realize that the circumstances that tried our souls, that tasked all our faculties, that carried us out of ourselves, are those for which we should be most grateful.

By Bill Morrissette

portsWQtch Cape Area CYO Golf Today Qualifiers from the Cape area for the 21st CYO Dioc:esan Golf Tournament next Monday will be determined today liS the cadet and junior candidates vie at the Dennis Pines Country Club, the seniors and intermediates at the Bass River Country Club. Dick Maxwell is the director for the Cape area tourney.

The Attleboro area will be represented by Richard Walsh and Greg Theriault in the senior division; Carsten Hartvia and Pat Cunningham in the junior division; Greg Pasevento (73) and John Rullo (79) in the intermeriate division; and Michael Dix (37) and Joanne Barrett in the cadet division.

In the senior division, Walsh, Theriault and Joe Wagner were tied, all firing 76s, for first place. In the playoff, Walsh took first place, Theriault second. Another playoff was required in the junior division as Hartvia and Cunningham each. turned in 76 cards. Hartvia won the playoff for the first place and Cunningham, thus, finish,ed second.

Still another playoff was required for the Cadet Division, this one for second place. Miss Barrett and Brian Theriault tied with 46s. Miss Barrett was the w.inner in the playoff.

Bruce Cwiekowski was director of the Attleboro area tourney, held at the Norton Country Club.

Qualifying from the Taunton area are: Rick Mulcahy (72) and Billy Bourque III (,r4) in the senior division; David Bourque

(73) and Bill Mulcahy (74) in the intermediate division; Jeff Smith (76) and Jim Dutra (77) in the junior division; Timmy Dermody (84) and Tim Cook (87) in the cadet division.

Dutra and Ron Souza tied, at 77, for second place in the junior division. Dutra was the winner in a two-hole playoff. The Taunton tourney, at the Hering Run Country Club, was under the direction of Larry Masterson. The Bourques are brothers as are the Mulcahys.

Representing the Fall River area in the diocesan tourney will be Wayne Wood (78) and Jerry Silvia (80) in the senior division; Dan Salmon (74) and Greg Cabral (79) in the intermediate division; Gilbert Gabriel (80) and Mike Carberry (85) in the junior division; Joseph Reilly (90) and Roy Nery (96) in the cadet division.

The New Bedford area's delegation is Bob Hickman (72) and Mike Gonsalves (77) in the senior division; Ed Hogan (77) and John Connor (80) in the bitermediate division; Mike Stone (73) and Gary Boucher (81) in the junior division; John Coleman (89), Andy Valley (89) and Tim Tobey (91) in the cadet division.

A highlight of the diocesan tourney, which will be under the direction of Bill Doyle, will be presentation of the Marty Higgins Memorial Trophy to the outstanding player. Doyle was director of the New Bedford area competition, Jim Leneghan, Jr., of the Fall River tourney.

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

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

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

New' FilniS "The Children" (World NorthaI) An orange radioactive cloud turns a group of children into nasty creatures bent upon murder in this cheap, amateurish horror film. Much blood and gore. R,B "The Final Countdown" (United Artists) The nuclear carrier Nimitz slips: through a time warp and finds herself off Pearl Harbor on Dec. 6, 1941, the eve of the Day of Infamy. The clever premis of this exciting melodrama is not developed in wholly satisfactory fashion, but it makes for superior summer fare. Some brief violence. PG,A2 "Honeysuckle Rose" (Warners) Country Western singer Willie Nelson makes his film debut inauspiciously in this trite little story about a triangle involving a singing star, his wife and a young singer. It has been done better before - quite often, in fact. Coarse language, the use of marijuana, and the implications of the plot make this adult fare. PG," A3 "Mad Max" (Filrnways) Motorcyclists and police clash in some barbarous future era. The movie has some clever touches, but the violence is far too graphic. R,B "Middle Age Crazy" (Fox) A

man who has just celebrated his 40th birthday undergoes a midlife crisis and abandons his adoring wife for a brief affair. Bruce Dern and Ann-Margret are excellent in this sometimes moving, sometimes satiric domestic drama. Everything is resolved too neatly, but there are some good moments. Some profanity and the theme make this mature fare. R, A3 Films on TV Sunday, July 27, 9 a.m. (ABC) - "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (1974) Richard Dreyfuss plays an ambitious young man who discovered that making it in the world is not everything. Some crude religious and sexual references in this otherwise rather well-presented and serious film make it strictly adult fare. R, A4 Sunday, July 27, 9 p.m. (NBC) - "Airport ·'77" (1977) - This third film offspring sired by the best-selling Arthur Hailey novel has to do with a huge 747 crashlanding in the ocean and sinking, trapping a host of major stars in its watertight fuselage.

It's all pretty l?illy but entertaining enough. There is no violence to speak of but the theatrical ~rsion contained some mild profanity. PG, A2 Tuesday, July'29, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Network" (1976) - A television anchorman (Peter Finch) has a mental breakdown on camera. His ratings go up at once, and a shrewd, ambitious executive (Faye Dunaway) centers a whole new concept of programming around him over the protests of a more humane executive (William Holden). A vulgar, sprawling, heavy handed movie that is meant to be satire, "Network" is seldom on-target and quite often foul-mouthed.

There is also some nudity. R,B

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cluding 10 doubles, three triples and one homer. He has driven in 16 runs and scored 18.

Former Durfeeite Peter Khoury, now with the Fort Lauderdale Yanks in the Class A Florida State League was hitting .261 in his first 92 trips to the plate. Pete had collected 24 hits, scored 11 runs and drove in eight.

In the pitching department, New Bedford High's Pete Slattery, now with the Medford A's of the Class A Northwest League had an A-I record and Somerset High's Paul Langfield is 1-0. In five starts each, Slattery pitched 15 innings, Langfield 11.

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ST. ANTHONY, TAUNTON

The annual parish feast will be held this weekend on the church grounds. A feast Mass , will, be celebrated at 11 a.m.

Sunday and an outdoor procession will follow at 2 p.m. concluding' at the church with a sermon and Benediction.

ST. ROCH, FALL RIVER

The Council of Catholic Women will sponsor a one-day pilgrimage to the Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, N.Y., on Sunday, Aug. 31.

The day's program at the shrine will include a Mass celebrated

by Mohawk Indian priests, with music ,by a Mohawk Indian choir.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK

Some openings are still available for a family retreat to be held the weekend of Sept. 26 at La Salette Center, Attleboro.

ST ANNE, FALL RIVER

The Feast of St. Anne will be marked Saturday with hourly Masses from 7 a.m. through noon and a 7:30 p.m. Mass followed by a candlelight outdoor procession.

Devotions will be held in the shrine at 2, 3 and 4 p.m. and the shrine relic of St. Anne will be available for veneration throughout the day. Confessions will be heard for one half hour before each Mass.

Also on Saturday the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation will mark the 75th anniversary of their arrival in the diocese with a 2 p.m. Mass to be celebrated by IBishop Daniel A. Cro-

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER

A bus trip to the Springfield fair on Sept. 14, a foliage trip Oct. 5 and a' New York show and shopping trip Dec. 6 will be sponsored by the Women's Guild. The unit will hold an installation banquet Wednesday, Sept. lOin the church hall.

ST. RITA, MARION

Third to sixth graders will hold a trip to Lincoln Park from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday, July 28.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER

Donations of furniture in good condition are asked for a senior citizens' drop-in center to be opened in the parish hall of neighboring St. Luke's Church at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2.

Donors may call SS. Peter and Paul rectory, 676-8463, to make arrangements for items to be picked up between July 28 and 31.

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The Ladies' Guild will hold a meeting and its annual cookout at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12.

Members are asked to meet at the religious education center, bringing lawn chairs and bathing suits; Casual clothing is suggested.

NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS, AURIESVILLE, N.Y.

'Polish Day will be observed Sunday at the National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, with services beginning at 1:30 p.m. and concluding with a 4 p.m. Mass with Bishop Stanislaus Brzena of Ogdensburg, N.Y. as principal celebrant.

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1\ Day of Healing and Restoration conducted by Father Edward McDonough, CSSR, is planned for Saturday, Aug. 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Father McDonough has been involved in the charismatic renewal since '1974. He holds a healing service each Sunday at Mission Church, Boston, and leads an intercessory prayer group nightly at St. Patrick's Church, East Cambridge.

Parish women are invited to join the Sacred Heart Bowling League. The new season begins in September at Durfee Lanes, Westport. Further information is available from Rita Mitchell, 672-3694, or Rita Caouette, 6788972.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET

A concelebrated Mass at 11 a.m. Sunday will honor the parish patron, St. John of God. Rev. Henry Arruda, associate pastor at Immaculate Conception Church, New Bedford, will be homilist.

Following the Mass an outdoor procession and band concert will take place, beginning at 2 p.m.

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The Pilgrim Virgin statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be enshrined in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Harrington Jr., 928 Elsbree St. at 7:45 p.m.

Saturday and parishioners are invited to attend the enshrinement ceremony. The statue will remain with the Harrington family until 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2.

LA SALETTE CENTER, ENfIELD, N.H.

The society offers free textbooks for use by blind students, including many CCD religious education series. Further information is available from Xavier Society, 154 E. 23 St., New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Parishioners are asked to avoid parking in front of area businesses when attending weekend Masses and, in general, to follow directions of the volunteer p~rking lot attendant.

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Region One Council will meet at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1 at St. Catherine's Hall, Manchester.

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Lorraine Moniz of Tiverton was grand prize winner at last weekend's parish summer festival.

Volunteers are needed in various parish ministries, including that of organist at the 4 p.m.

Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday Masses, teaching in the religious education program and lectoring.

Acts, chapter 4, will be discussed at the regular Bible study meeting from 7 to 9 tonight in the rectory basement. All are welcome.

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