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MANY OF THE: WORLD'S nearly billion Catholics greeted Pope John Paul II at his historic Boston Common Mass in October, 1979.
Catholics topl three-fourths billion mark VATICAN CITY (NC) There were over three-fourtl:.s of a billion Catholics in the world at the end of 1979. A rounded-off figure of 763, 644,000 church members was given in the latest "Statistical Yearbook of the Church," iSllued in July by the Vatican. The yearbook said that the number of Catholics in 1979 was 24,214,000 more than the previous year. Since world population grew at roughly the same rate, the percentage of Catholics in the world remained the same, 17.8 percent, the yearbook said. North American Catholic:ism
stood out in several areas of the statistics: - A notably higher percentage of its baptisms were adult baptisms than was the case in Europe or Central and South America. - It had the highest rate of mixed marriages in the world except in Oceania. - It processed four out of five church marriage cases that were completed throughout the world during the year.
mission regions of Africa (30 percent of all baptisms) and Asia and Oceania (each slightly over 10 percent). In Europe less than one percent of baptisms were among adults, and in Latin America (including Mexico) the figure was less than two.
Adult baptisms - defined for the statistics as baptisms administered to anyone over seven years old - were highest in the
In the world as a whole, eight out of every 100 marriages involving a Catholic was a mixed marriage, that is, one in which
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But in North America - the United States, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, and St. Pierre and Miquelon - seven percent of the baptisms were adult.
the other partner was non-Catholic. But in North America the percentage was 33.9. In the United States, 222,666 marriages were' recorded involving two Catholics, while 126,548 involved a Catholic and a non-Catholic. In Canada 54,772 marriages involved two Catholics while 15,540 were mixed. In Oceania 46.4 percent of the church-recorded marriages were mixed. The bulk of these occurred in Australia and New Zealand, both countries with Catholic minorities and substantial Protestant majorities.
In church marriage courts 55,943 out of 70,652 decided worldwide were in North America. Of those in North America, 53,646 were in the United States. The U.S. figure in 1979 was nearly a 20 percent increase over the country's 1978 figure of 44,900 cases decided. U.S. church lawyers have attributed the high number of American marriage cases to the special permission the U.S. church courts have to use simplified procedures which dramatically reduced the time, man power and paperwork required to handle marriage cases.
Papal operation planned
ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) _. A meaningful work in a country ROME (NC) - Pope John Paul priest who was among six Mary- where one is labeled subversive II is "clinically cured" of a viral knollers who left EI Salvlldor for housing visitors unknown to infection and will probably last May to avoid potential local authorities and where one's undergo a second operation withdanger to their lives, announced life is in danger for allegedly in a week, his physicians said July 29 that they have rea(:hed saying Mass in an area con- Aug. 1. a joint decision with their sU(leri- trolled by the opposition. In their 26th medical bulletin ors and Bishop Arturo Rivera He said Maryknollers have since the May 13 assassination Damas of San Salvador not to been particularly suspect by the attempt on the pope, the ninereturn to the war-torn Latin Salvadoran government of col- member team of doctors at American nation. laborating with the insurgents Romes's Gemelli Polyclinic said The pri.est, Ma~knoll Father since the discovery last spring that the 61-year-old pope no John Spalll, a natIve of Troy, .. that a priest of the order, Mary- longer has any symptoms of the N.Y., made the announcement knoll Father Roy Borgeois, was cytomegalovirus infection which at a ~ress confer:ence July. ~9. living at a guerrilla camp. Father brought him back to the hospital He saId that despIte recogmtJon Bourgeois was missing for 10 June 20. "During the next week further by S.~!vadoran church leader.s ~f days and feared dead. Two Marythe I~portance of ~aryklli:lll s knoll nuns had already been checks will be made in connec~ork III EI.Salvador, they a~e among four missionary women tion with the decision relating to .the conclusive surgical intervenunable to IIlsure our safety III killed last December. tion," the bulletin said. the light of the increasing activity of death squads" -and recomA spokesman for Maryknoll Dr. Emilio Tresalti, chief mediFathers said that there would be cal officer at the hospital, said mended that they not return. Father Spain said it is no no Maryknoll announcement of the operation on the pope for longer possible (or him and the the withdrawal from EI Salvador reversal of a temporary colosother ~aryknollers three but it has the society's approval tomy would take place "probably within a week," priests and two sisters - to do Turn to Page Six
Vatican Radio said the operation would be performed with total anesthesia and would last about an hour. "The operation does not present particular risks except for the simple generic risk inherent in an abdominal operation of a septic nature," it said. Tresalti said he was "perfectly convinced" that Pope John Paul would "recover his full physical efficiency" within a month or two after the second operation. "The pope's psychological and moral state is beyond that of his physical recovery, which is not yet complete," he aded, "He is perfectly himself, and even enriched by this experience," Pope John Paul is expected to remain at the hospital for one or two weeks after the operation and then go to the papal summer in Castelgandolfo, residence Italy, until late September or
early October. "At present the pope is very well, he is working normally and has regained weight," said Tresalti. Father Romeo Panciroli, director of the Vatican Press Office, said Aug. 2 that Pope John Paul takes two or three walks each day around the II th floor of the hospital, greeting other patients and sometimes going to a window to bless visitors below. The pope went to the window of his room three times July 31 to greet 75 Polish Boy Scouts who came to Rome from the Archdiocese of Warsaw, Poland. The young people were singing Polish songs outside the window. Pope John Paul also went to his window July 2~ to greet groups of people who had come to Rome on trips originally scheduled to coincide with the pope's weekly general audience, Father Panciroli said.
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MANILA, Philippines (NC)-U.S. support for President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines is a mistake, according to Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila, a critic of Marcos' human Ilights record. The cardinal added that high-level corruption in government is strengthening Filipino communists. While attending Marcos' inauguration, U.S. Vice President George Bush praised the 'Philippines president.
CONVENTUAL FRANCISCANS of 81. Anthony Province meet in Chicopee to mark the 75th anniversary of the province. The community serves in Holy Cross Church, Fall River, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Bedford, and Holy Rosary, Taunton.
WASHINGTON (NC)-In another effort to limit federal funding of abortions the House has voted to end abortion coverage for government workers in federal health insurance programs. The sponsor of the measure, Rep. John Ashbrook (R-Ohio), said that federal health plans last year paid for 25,000 abortions at an average cost of $625 each with taxpayers paying 60 percent of the cost of federal health Iinsurance benefits. <'Both the House and Senate have agreed to ban Medicaid-financed abortions, yet we have no ,ban on taxpayer-funded abortions for federal employees," said Ashbrook. -
NORRISTOWN, Pa, (NC)-Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, his brother Philip and six other peace activists calbing themselves the Plowshares Eight received prison sentences July 28 for their parts in a break-in at a General Electric missile assembly plant last September. Judge Samuel W. Salus ill revoked the defendants' bail immediately. "The bottom line is that the defendants violated criminal law and liberty has its bounds," Salus said before the sentencing. Philip 'Berrigan, 57, a former Josephite priest, said, "We are willing to go to jail for our version of the truth."
BEIJING (NC)-In an open challenge to the Vatican, 32 Chinese Catholic bishops assisted in ordination rites July 24 for five bishops whose appointments have not been approved by the Holy See. The four-hour ceremony, fiilmed for Chinese television, took place at Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Beijing (Peking). Among the five . ordaining prelates was Archbishop Francis Wang Hsueh-ming of Suiyuan, China, who was appointed in 1951 by 'Pope Pius XII but later joined the National Assooiation of Patriotic -Catholics, which does not recognize the Vatican. The Vatican had no immediate comment on the ordinations.
WASHINGTON (NC)-House and Senate conference committees have agreed on more provisions for radio and TV deregulation opposed by church and public interest groups. The measures, backed by the Senate and broadcasters, extend TV station licenses from three to five years and radio licenses from three to seven years and set up a lottery system to pick station license recipients rather than selection of the best qualified applicants by the FCC.
SUPER MOM Lenore 8chtenz of Denver, Colo., who has been a foster mother to 59 babies under the auspices of Catholic Community Services, rel~xes with grandsons Scott Stout, 6, and Joseph Schlenz, 7. (NC Photo)
CARACAS, Venezuela (NC)-Lech Walesa, leader of the independent Solidallity union movement in Poland, was nominated for the 1981 Nobel Ueace Prize by a labor organization and a human rights group 路in Latin America. Argentinian Adolfo Perez Esquivel, head of the Service for Peace and Justice lin Latin America and winner of a Nobel Prize himself, made the nomination from Buenos Aires, Argentina, saying that the struggle of Polish workers for freedom was personalized by Walesa.
NEW YORK (NC)-The Federation of Catholic Teachers (FCT) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are embroiled dn a legal battle, each claiming the other owes it at least $70,000. The Catholic union voted earlier this year to disaffiliate from the parent AFT, headed by Albert Shanker, because of AFT opposition to tuition tax credits. The actiori led to an AFT lawsuit claiming that the FCT owed it $70,000 in ,back dues. -But the Catholic -group has countersued, claiming that Shanker reneged on a promise to return that portion of the dues to fight for the goals of non-pUblic schools.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC)-Catholic newspapers ,in the United States should emphasize the teachings of the pope and the bishops more strongly instead of concentrating on controversy in the church, said Sister Mary Kathryn Mayer, a staff aide who works for the English-language edition of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. She said it is "so obViious" that Catholic newspapers should be the "right arm" of the church. But many papers tend to confuse Catholics with the negative statements made by critics of the church, she said.
CECIUA MARACHINA of Tongo, Ghana, speaks English and French and is determined to become the first blind newscaster in her nation. Here site reads braille outside her mud hut home. (Missionaries of Africa Photo)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (NC)-A religious controversy has followed a request by the Dominican government that a Canadian priest-worker, Sacred Heart Father Benito Emilio Dostie, leave the country. After Dominican immigration authorities requested, but did not order, Father Dostie to leave, Bishop Roque Adames of Santiago said the priest-worker was taking bread out of the mouths of Dominican workers. But the Dominican Confederation of Religious Superiors disagreed, saying, "This kind of move always hurts those who work for the poor."
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Funeral rites were hel.d last Friday at St. Joseph Church, Fairhaven, for Father Damien Veary, S8.CC., 65, who was pastor of St. Anthony's parish, Mattapoisett, from 1954 to 1960 and again from 1965 to 1969. His last assignment was as a chaplain at New England Medical Center, Boston. Born in Fairhaven, the son of the late William and Levanie Veary, he attended St. Joseph's School in that town and Holy Family High School, New Bedford. He entered the Saccr-ed Hearts community in 1936 and was ordained in 1943. He was vocations director for his congregation until 1950, when he entered the Navy chaplain corps, serving in Korea. His first assignment Ito Mattapoisett followed his return from the Navy. In 1972 Father Veary became a hospital chaplain, serving at various hospitals beforl~ his final assignment. He is survived by thJree broth· ers, William of Acushnl~t, Russell of Fall River and Clifton of East Dennis; and by a sister, Mrs. Frances Donnelly of New Bedford.
Sr. M. Alo~rsia Sister Mary Aloysia Smith, 85, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary who taught in Fall River and was superior of her community's houses in both Fall River and New Bedford in the course of her religious life, died last Friday at St. Joseph Hospital, North Providence. Funeral services tool!: place on Monday. A native of Boston, Sister Aloysia entered the F'ranciscan Missionaries community in 1914. She was superior of sisters in Malta from 1936 to 1948, also serving as mistress of novices for part of that time. In retirement she taught arts and crafts and English·language classes at a Providence day care center. She is survived by one sister.
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BISHOP JAMES E. WALSH, M.M., then 79, offers his first Mass at a Hong Kong hospital while recuperating from 12 years of imprisonment by the Communist Chinese.
Hero-bishop dead at 90 MARYKNOLL, N.Y. (NC) Bishop James E. Walsh of Maryknoll, 90, the last Christian foreign missionary to serve in China, who survived 12 years in Chinese communist prisons, died July 29 of a heart ailment. He had returned the previous day to Maryknoll from St. Agnes Hospital in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been since July 19. He had previously expressed a wish to die at the seminary rather than in a hospital. Maryknoll priests celebrated Mass in his room on the day he died but he was not fully aware of what was taking place, a spokesman for Maryknoll said. Bishop Walsh was one of the first four members of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, popularly known as Maryknoll, to be assigned to China and was Maryknoll's second superior general. He had been living in retirement at the Maryknoll Seminary near Ossining, N. Y., since his release at the age of 79 in 1970 from a Chinese prison. ~ Arrested by the Chinese communist government in 1958 and accused of counterrevolutionary activities, including spying for the Vatican and the United States, he was sentenced at the age of 67 to 20 years in prison. In July 1970 the bishop was taken from the Ward Room Prison hospital in Shanghai and sent to Hong Kong and freedom. The official Chinese news agency said he was released before completing his sentence because of old age and ill health. Border police said he told them, "I am very tired and I'm glad to be out."
At a news conference in Hong Kong a week after his release Bishop Walsh attributed his arrest to having sent a letter, at the request of a Chinese bishop, to a Hong Kong bank to secure funds for church purposes for a friend. Importation of money was against the law. After 18 months of interrogation morning, noon and night, he signed an admission that he was a spy "in a legal sense" because "I was fed up," he said. Describing his imprisonment, Bishop Walsh said: "There were periods of harassment and personal suffering. The monotony of daily confinement in a small room for 12 years, waking up each morning and trying to plan
how I would occupy my time so as to maintain my sanity and ideals as a priest and missioner to the Chinese people, was especially hard to bear. At the time, I am grateful to almighty God that, for the most part, I was treated with basic human dignity and given the basic necessities." From the time of his imprisonment until his release the only non-Chinese he' saw was his late brother William, former Maryland state attorney general, who was allowed to visit him for three days in 1960. Their conversation, - however, was ordered confined to family matters. Born in Cumberland, Md., April 30, 1891, James Edward Walsh was the second of nine children of William Walsh II, a lawyer, and his wife, Mary. At age 21 he entered the newly established Maryknoll Seminary with the first class of six young men to study for the foreign missions. He was ordained at Maryknoll on Dec. 7, 1915. Three years later he was one of the first four Maryknoll missioners, including the society's co-founder, Father Thomas F. Price, to be assigned to China. In 1919, after the death of Father Price, Father Walsh became Maryknoll's superior in China. In 1927 Pope Pius XI named Father Walsh, then 36, to be the first bishop of the vicariate of Jiangmen in south China. He was ordained a bishop on May 22 on Sancian Island, where the great 16th-century Jesuit missionary, St. Francis Xavier, had died. "The task of a missionary," Bishop Walsh said at the time,
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"is to go to a place where he is not wanted but needed, and to remain until he is not needed but wanted." In 1948 the Holy See appointed him executive secretary of the Catholic Central Bureau in Shanghai, which coordinated all missionary, cultural, welfare and educational activities of the church in China. In 1951 the Chinese communists ordered him to suspend all activities of the bureau and he was under nearly constant surveillance from then on. The bishop was an avid reader and writer, producing six books, including the popular "Man on Joss Stick Alley," and a score of articles on mission life and work. He is survived by four sisters, two of whom are nuns. His funeral Mass took place on Tuesday at Maryknoll.
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Keep the Door Open There will be much discussion of the Reagan administration plan to control the floodtide of illegal aliens. There are those who would order a moratorium on all immigration to the country. Conversely, many would find J!ny attempt to order our immigration policy an infringement of human rights. Between these extremes a vast voice cries for action in the present chaotic situation which is fast becoming a plague on our house. The borders of the United States can currently be compared to a roof that leaks like a sieve, impossible to patch. The flood is beyond control. A new roof is needed. From every direction illegal aliens pour into America, into its marketplaces and slums, where they live in darkness and fear. They are so numerous their numbers cannot even be estimated. From the Canadian forest and from the almost limitless bays of the Caribbean, the alien reaches this land for the most part with only his dreams and hopes. These people deserve our understanding and consideration. After all, most legal residents of the United States are the heirs of immigrants. There are few surviving native Americans. Those most anxious to correct the situation of illegal aliens are often themselves the product of alien ' roots. Yet uncontrolled immigration would be and is a situation that undermines the very order of society and its structures. Of its nature it leads to complete disregard for law. From the problems of immigrant abuse to the counterfeiting of documents, it is nothing less than a shredding of the fabric of American life. The rights of those who live and work under law and seek that law's protection are ignored and indeed debased by inaction in this matter. . Thus it is time that positive steps were taken to correct this threat to our nation and its way of life. Measures such as support and expansion of border patrols and fining of employers of illegal aliens should be encouraged. The concept of positive identification should be adopted but in such a manner that it does not infringe on constitutional rights. We have had enough of big brother government. Those who profit from illegal immigration for the purpose of exploiting workers should receive the most severe penalties. Indeed, it would be hoped that any new laws governing illegal immigration would have such exploitation as a primary concern. To be sure, complications of illegal immigration can1'!0t to be solved easily or hastily. Yet they must be addressed now by our government and ourselves. Current proposals, in general, are a step in the right direction, but they are only a beginning and ought to be viewed in this light. The various suggestions from the white House should be openly debated in Congress but they should not be buried in the red tape of politics as usual. Illegal immigration is a pressing issue and a reality in all our urban life. It cannot be ignored as something that will eventually go away. In this matter, furthermore, the law should be sympathetic and compassionate to those who yet see this land as their dream. The door to the fruition of those dreams should never be closed because of fear. \
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'Bear ye one another's burdens.' Gal. 6:2
How influential By Michael Gallagher
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, whose organization is the best known member of the Coalition for Better Television, predicted some time ago that there would be a need to boycott companies sponsoring shows deemed objectionable by the coalition. No smart businessman goes out of his way looking for trouble. And so, Falwell argued, sponsors would surely see the light once they realized they were running the risk of alienating a significant portion of the buying public. Events have proven Falwell right. Beginning with Procter and Gamble, the major television sponsors have met with the coalition and expressed what I presume is the Protestant equivalent of sincere contrition and a firm purpose of amendment. And the coalition has called off, or at least postponed, its threatened boycott. So, despite the television industry's protestations of defiance, despite the labor of innumerable public relation consultants churning out speech after speech meant to make various network presidents and vice presidents sound like Patrick Henry before the Virginia legislature, the coalition has won, if not the war, at least an easy victory in this first confronta-
tion. But will prime-time television be any less banal? Will it be any less materialistic, both in its program content and in the products it tries to make us want even if we never before realized we needed them? Last fall at a convention of the International Catholic Film Organization in Manila, Philippines, Father Gaston Roberge, a French Canadian Jesuit working in Calcutta, India, made an extremely perceptive observation about exploitative sex and violence in the movies. The sensational depiction of evil in the movies, said Father Roberge, certainly can have pernicious effects. But actual evil really affecting people here and now and making them suffer has a far more pernicious effect. (I think that a brief stay in Calcutta would benefit most of us a great deal and clarify our insights immensely.) Robert Coles, a child psychologist and author of "Children of Crisis," uses a different starting point to come to a similar conclusion in his fine article "What Harm to the Children?" in the June-July issue of Channels, a new magaine devoted to television. Coles by no means absolves television of blame. There can be no serious argument, h·e says, that the major networks are pur-
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veyors of trash. His genius as an observer, however, is to be alert for the as-yet-unasked question, the insight that will put things in a different perspective. In this case it comes from a dedicated teacher. She tells Coles, yes, she is distressed about the amount of television viewing her pupils indulge in. But, she says, "You've got to ask yourself why these kids sit and stare at those shows." Television is regularly blamed as one of the elements breaking down family life, but, for a particular family, a considerable breakdown has to precede the· pernicious effect of television. Otherwise why would parents leave young children unsupervised and thrown on their own resources for long periods of time? Often, Coles writes, both parents are away from home, working to keep up with the bills they're incurring in an attempt to provide what they think of as a better life for themselves and their children. When they're home and ready to unwind. "they eat too much; they drink too much; they watch a lot of television." Even if networks radically altered their programming for th~ better, how much, Coles asks, would that change the "essential (existential) situation" of children such as these?
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Sibling rivalry A few years back I wrote a column on the fighting that was going on between the two expressions of Marriage Encounter and suggested that they heal themselves as they taught those in marriages to do. Some predictably defensivemail came in f:rom both sides, reminiscent of sibling squabbling, each justifying its own stand and charging the other with bad faith. I am happy to say that both expressions seem to be coming out of adolescence and are finding separate identities as young adults. Both focus on enriching marriages, but Worldwide Marriage Encounter, based in New York, states the additional purpose of enriching the church through its enriched marriages while National Marriage Encounter, based in Minnesota, opens its arms to a wider group ecumenical and remarried couples - and focuses on social ministry as well. At least, that's how I experience the differences in action in local parishes around the country. What the national offices (parents) say and what the local offspring do are often as dissimilar as they are in any other family. And activity vuries from diocese to diocese and parishes within a diocese, depending upon the confidence of leadership couples in determining couple needs in their own al路ea. Some are faithful to the national format, many are innovative.
But what I want to talk about here is the maturing of the ME young. For awhile, they tended to become ingrown, focusing on themselves. In some areas and with some couples, Marriage Encounter became their church, ME priests and leadership couples became their spiritual leaders. In many parishes, they withdrew if those of the other expression were in leadership or if they didn't have pastoral support while in other parishes they accepted leadership as long as they were permitted to put pressure on other couples to become encountered. These adolescent behaviors have all but disappeared and today we find encountered couples in the forefront of family ministry in the church. They have a keener vision of what family ministry is about than many master-degreed religious educators. I would hate to operate without them. Just as youngsters need a family for training and security while preparing to go out and find their own giftedness, these ME couples have used ME as their security and training ground to become confident enough to step into the bigger church and serve. And gifted they are. I find them in leadership positions all over the country. A good number of diocesan family life departments are headed by couples who became energied for the church through ME. They are writing, teaching, and modeling
By DOLORES CURRAN
ahead for tuition tax credits. Until shortly before, the dramatic tax cut vote in the House July 29 the Reagan administration had said it wanted a "clean" tax bill from Congress, one stripped of all special interest legislation and containing primarily an across-the-board t2lX cut for the American people. Other tax changes would have tl) wait for a second tax bill. But now it appears that there won't be a second tax bill, since almost everything thE! administration had promised in the second bill has now appe~lred in the first. That mayor may not make a difference in the final outcome of the tuition tax credit effort. But it has led Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y,), a prime sponsor of tuition tax credits, to wonder openly how strongly the administration will push them since it won't have a major tax vehicle to send to Congress later this year. Both 1>efore and aftE~r his election President Reagan said he favored tuition tax credits. But when he unveiled his economic recovery program, hE! revealed
his hope that a clean tax bill could be passed first. In that speech he listed four tax issues among those to be sent to the Hill after passage of the initial tax bill: indexation of tax brackets, reduction of the "marriage penalty," tuition tax credits and changing the "unfairness" of the inheritance tax. As it turns out, tuition tax credits is the only one of those four not included in the tax cut approved by Congress. It was not for lack of trying, however, that tuition tax credits didn't make it in this first bill. Moynihan attempted to add the credits to the Senate bill when it was being considered in late June by the Finance Committeee. but garnered only a handful of votes. Tax credit supporters at the U.S. Catholic Conference contended that the vote merely reflected congressional concern about loading the first tax bill with additional tax breaks. But Moynihan indicated recently that he thinks the administration may be backing off its support for tuition tax credits because of its concern for balancing the federal budget. That concern has surfaced elsewhere in the tax debate as well. For instance, supporters of the proposal to allow all taxpayers - not just those who
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Star for other families. When I give major talks at diocesan conventions, I can t>e sure there will be a number of workshops led by ME'd couples who have become specialized in family communication or family spirituality or lay ministries - areas they never considered as church activity in their early marriages. Best of all, there are signs that the graduates are reconciling as well. In Retorno, the group for p 0 s t mar ria g e - encountered couples, leaders are finding couples of both expressions who do not want to carry on the old family feud. They would rather forget that and get on with caring and ministry. In this sense, ME is its own best example of family. Thrice in the past year, I have worked with groups made up of graduates of both expressions and nobody has asked, "Which Marriage Encounter?" the first and determining question asked in any church grouping just a few years back. Although some of its adolescent passages may have been stormy, it has turned out to be an admirable, faithful and caring adult, one for whom the rest of us in the church family can be grateful.
Tuition credits By approving a massive tax cut with all kinds of added incentives Congress has slightly altered the road
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itemize - to deduct their charitable contributions had to agree to phase in their tax cut over a several-year period because of its resulting loss of tax dollars to the Treasury. Only in 1985 and beyond will the new deduction result in more than a $1 billion annual loss to the Treasury. By comparison, tuition tax credits if passed in their current form are expected to cost the Treasury $2.7 billion in lost revenue in 1983, rising to nearly $7 billion by 1986, according to John E. Chapoton, assistant treasury secretary for tax policy. The Reagan administration, of course, wants to balance the federal budget by 1984 and is seeking additional places to make cuts to meet that goal. So while the Reagan election was viewed last fall as giving tuition tax credits their greatest chance of passage, the forecast has been complicated both by the initial tax cut action and the overriding concern for balancing the federal budget.
Don't worry, I'm not gong to weep all over you. I've just lost a newspaper - and so have the people of Washington. We of The Star are sad. But we're mad, too. We've lived with uncertainty and the fear of death for several years now. But we could give our anxieties only a certain amount of time. The great thing about working for a newspaper is that there is always a deadline coming up, and someone else's trouble to check out. It is a most exacting and diverting trade. Colleagues on other papers have treated us like the wives or husbands of a mate who is terminally ill. We couldn't go to a pres~ conference or the congressional galleries without someone drawing us aside and saying, "How IS The Star?" My answer was a bit sharp, I f~ar. "We're alive," I would say before they offered to do the funeral lunch. "It's all we ask." Now the life-support system has been pulled. Our most reliable newsroom rumor-monger failed us in the end. Lance Gay, our environmental reporter, who kept a close eye on corporate wildlife, this week chronicled only the prolonged absence of the editor at the headquarters of Time Inc., where people we did not know made mysterious decisions about our fate. If we didn't understand them, they didn't understand us. The gulf between the weekly and the daily, between structure and free form, between reverence and cheekiness had never been bridged. To us, they were Roman generals, who came to the provinces and found natives who had their own ideas and not the slightest hesitation in expressing them. We acted as if we thought we owned the paper. That's because, in a way, we did. In 1974, when the angel of death hovered close, we were faced with a choice, take a 20 percent pay cut euphemistically called a "fourday week" - or let it die. I remember that black day in December. Young faces, with little children and big mortgages came to my door. "Do you think the paper is worth saving?" I would ask to end the lugubrious exchanges. The answer was always yes. We tried. We knew about the circulation and the advertising, we certainly knew about the mechanical failures that lengthened our days and shortened our nights. A fiendishly expensive monster called the Logicon, a technological marvel which ate our stories and "went down" on deadline, seemed more of a threat to our survival.
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We soldiered on. We had to spell our names to Capitol Hill press aides, we found that peo路 pIe hadn't even read stories about themselves. But we thought somehow we would make it. We were going on the pledge of Time Inc. The empire bought us from Joe Allbritton, the Texas tycoon who bought us from the family which had owned the paper for 100 years - and who hadn't understood us too well, either, although he tried. As we understood it, Time would stand by us, ragged and poor as we were, for five years. Wenesday night, I went home, planning to write a Sunday column about a small victory for the underdog that had been won in a Congressional Conference Committee on food stamps. Sen. John Melcher, D-Mont., an unpretentious and dogged man, had been fighting to keep them for people in alcohol - and drug路 abuse programs. The Senate had said no on the floor, but unexpectedly "receded." Naturally, with my background, I am especially interested in rescue stories, and I was all set to write something upbeat. Thursday morning just before eight, the phone rang. It was Harry Kelly, the national editor. "I want to tell you something. Time is closing The Star in two weeks." Well, there 'was no time to reo pine. The Sunday copy has to be in by noon on Thursday. No cosmic thoughts intervened. The space must be filled. I arrived at the building to see the usual crowd of reporters, who have gathered periodically over the years when the ace of spades was supposed to be the next card up. I told my lucky colleagues, with notebooks and microphones and solvent institutions behind them, that路 death had come when I had it least in mind. We had not, I might say, at that moment, been officially informed. They asked me why the paper had failed. I said I didn't know. I told them ~ was proud of The Star and hadn't wanted to work anyplace else for going on 34 years. People here are asking each other what they're going to do. We all know. Until tomorrow we're going to be telling you what goes on in this city and hoping to make you think about the scandal and the outrage of it - the capital of the Western world a one-paper town.
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Test-tube baby attempt deplored News that America's first testtube baby clinic has produced a pregnancy in one of its patients following in vitro (outside the womb) fertilization has been deplored by the clinic's opponents. If carried to term the baby · would be the first test-tube child born in the United States. The clinic, operated by Norfolk (Va.) General Hospital and Eastern Virginia Medical School, -opened in 1980 over opposition · from residents encl religious
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LONDON (NC) - Pope John Paul II sent a message of ceft.o gratulations to Prince Charles on the occasion of his marriage to Lady Diana Spencer and a Catholic prelate participated in the wedding service of an heir to the English throne for .the first time since the 17!th century. "On the happy occasion of your wedding to Lady Diana Spencer," the papal telegram to the Prince of Wales said, "it gives me great pleasure ta offer my best· wishes to your royal highness and your· bride.
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here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people. And find out about your next-door neighbors. Do you know who they are?" - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
to the riches of his grace, that they may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit in love and joy and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord." iNot everyone was happy with the ecumenical aspect af the wedding. The Rev. Ian Paisley, founder and head of the Free Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland and a member of the British Parliament, refused an invitation to the wedding because of Cardinal Hume's participation.
Quit Continued from page one because of the dangerous conditions in the country. Father Spain, who was a pastor for eight years in northeast El Salvador said "The slaughter in El Salvador is intensifying. I have seen reports that in first nine days of July alone 293 people were pUlled from their homes and killed by paramilitary forces. In the first six months of 1981, more than 9,000 people have been killed."
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"I pray that almighty God will bestow upon both of you his richest blessings of peace and joy in many happy years of Christian married life and in the high service to whi~h yeu have been called." During the wedding in Lonon's St. Paul's Cathedral Carinal George Basil HUft1;e of Westminster said this prayer: . "Almighty God, you send your Holy Spirit to be the life and light of all your people. Open the hearts of these your children
NEW YORK '(NC) The "electronic church" - the mainly Protestant fundamentalist TV evangelists - should not disturb Americans as much as the New Right's attempt to coopt it, the secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference's Department of Communication said. "Undoubtedly, the New Right will, if given the opportunity, capitalize on the conservative tendency of the electronic church," the secretary, Richard Hirsch, said. "How one deals with the lobbying tactics of political action committees in the American political process is, of course, a major question which pes weD beyond the electronic: church and 8Uist be talked ahout as a political rather than a media question." Nielsen ratings for electronic church programming are relatively insignificant and likely to remain so, he added. Hirsch spoke at the annual meeting of the National Commission of B'Ra} B'rith's Anti-Def. .atiGfl Leaglte.
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Father Stanley Rother of Okarche, Oklahoma, murdered at his .Guatemalan mission parish, was eulogized as "a saint" and a "wonderful, devoted priest" during a congressional hearing on violations of human rights in Guatemala. In testimony presented to a joint session of the House Subcommittees on Human Rights and on Inter-American Affairs, Mrs. Frankie B. Williams said Father Rother "was not a social activist" nor did he "instigate any deeds against the Guate-' malan government." "He was a conservative, carpenter-like person who only performed his pirestly duties and loved his people as they loved him . . • a wonderful, devoted priest." His death July 28 is believed the first confirmed murder of an American missionary. The Tutujil Indians, for whom he gave his life, buried his heart in the parish church of Santiago Atlitlan during funeral services attended by most of the town's population. His body was shipped July 31 to Oklahoma City. Father Rother, who came to Santiago Atlitlan in 1968 on assignment from the Oklahoma City Archdiocese, was shot to death by unknown assassins in
his rectory early July 28. He and his associate pastor, Father Pedro Bocel, a Guatemalan, had fled to the United States in January after learning their names were on a death list. The priests returned to Santiago Atlitlan in April. Parishioners in Santiago wanted to bury his body in the local parish, a church source said, but "knowing that his parents wanted it, asked during its embalming if they could keep his heart, a small consolation after a real loss for them; they loved Father Rother so dearly." Father Bocel came out of hiding to attend the funeral, the source reported. In Oklahoma City funeral services were held at the cathedral Aug.3. Mrs. Williams, a medical secretary from Wichita, Kan., spent four vacations at Father Rother's parish of Santiago Atlitlan help. ing in health programs. The matter of activism had been taken up by Rep. Robert K. Dornan '(R-Calif.) when he asked State Department officials at the hearing to press the Guatemalan government for a full investigation of the murder July 28. "In my own faith, this man was a saint. But tell me, was he a liberation theology activist?" asked Dornan, a Catholic.
Stephen Bosworth, deputy assistant secretary of state who presented the views of the Reagan administration on renewing military aid to Guatemala, answered that "there is no indication that he was a reformist but a humanitarian, who showed concern for the people." Mrs. Williams, when asked to substantiate that Father Rother was killed "by a paramilitary death squad," ex;plained that he had been under the threat of death from rightists and police since October. She said: "The causes of unrest in Guatmala are not communism. Anyone who believes it is communism does not want to face the reality of what is happening. It is hunger, the gutlevel need to eat, to survive. The \: government has blocked all means of change and hope for these oppressed people, she said. "You have to know how honest, innocent and unsophisticated these people are to realize the brutality. "I am not a social activist, but the brutal madness of the terrorizing, kidnapings, to~ures, mutilations and killings 'by the security forces in Guatemala has me here today, to implore you: do not send any economic aid, any military equipment, nothing, nothing!"
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Runners Dear Editor: Thank you for the article on Pete Strudwick (July 2) and Terry Fox (July 9). I used to run myself but had to discontinue due to knee injuries. In this International Year of Disabled Persons it is encouraging to know that two superstars: in the running world overcaml~ their handicaps. John C. Russell Boston
'Appeal Dear Readers: I am an American mis.sionary in Africa. I come to you as a beggar of the Lord, imploring your help. You can help us wit:~ little packages of everyday things, religious articles, soap, pencils, inexpensive jewelry, and ar..y little thing you might consider helpful in our poor missions. Acknowledgement of your kind gift will be made upon your request only, due to the high cost of postage. So let me thank you a million times now, in advance, with my whole heart, for whatever you have given or intend to give to make Jesus loved, and for the spread of His Gospel message in Africa. Brother Julius, O.F.M. Cap. Fatima Mission P.O. Box 15, Zambesi, N.W.P. Zambia, Central Africsi
SISTER EILEEN ANN KELLEY, reelected secretarygeneral of the Sisters of Providence (left) and Sister Francis Michael Driscoll, superior of St. Raphael province of the community, at a recent general chapter at St. Mary-ofthe-Woods, Ind. Sister Eileen is a former councilor for St. Raphael's province, which has its headquarters in Fall River. Other new officers are clinical psychologist Sister Anne Doherty, superior general; and Sister Mary Maxine Teipen, first assistant.
15 Million Inactive Catholics; - Dr. Nathan Jones of the National Office for Black Catholics, speaking on The Challenge of Evangelizing 80 Million Unchurched Americans; - Dr. Marina Herrera, Hispanic Catholic serving on many ecumenical boards and programs: The Challenge of Evangelizing in an Ecumenical Framework; - Richard Mishler, a member of an ecumenical community in, Ann Arbor, Mich. who has had bilingual evangelistic experience in Latin America and the U.S. will speak on "Do You Know Jesus?" Archbishop John F. Whealon of the archdiocese of Hartford, host of the celebration, will speak on My Vision of Evangelization and Bishop Howard Hubbard, Albany, N.Y., will be the homilist at the closing liturgy.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (NC) - Rep. Clare Dunn, 46, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and the first nun to be a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, was killed in an auto accident July 30 in Arizona. Killed with her was Sister Judith Lovchik, 45, a member of the same order, who was her legislative aide. Their car was hit head on by a car coming from the opposite direction on the wrong side of the road, according to the State Department of Public Safety. The other driver, a Mexican, Sergio Noperi, 22, was treated at a local hospital and was held for investigation. ' Authorities said other passengers in the Noperi vehicle fled into the desert and may have 路been illegal aliens. Sister Dunn was elected to the Arizona House in 1974. Assistant minority leader, she was considered one of the House's more articulate and liberal members and was serving her fourth term at the time of her death. As a legislator, she supported economic justice, the Equal Rights Amendment, special care
centers for unwed pregnant teenagers as an alternative to abortion, a human life amendment to outlaw abortion, and other such bills. She described politics as a means of furthering the "message of peace and justice of the Gospel." Again, as she told the Theresians of America in 1978, "social ministry . . . is not an extracurricular activity. We do it because it is integral to faith." She commented then: "Loving one's neighbor is measured by our service to one another, by our determined good-will to the neighbor, a deliberate decision of conscience that can make terrible demands upon us, our time, our security, and yes, even our lives,"
Mercy Seasons Justice "Mercy that is truly Christian is also, in a certain sense, the most perfect incarnation of equality among people and therefore also the most perfect incarnation of justice as well, insofar as justice aims at the same reo suit in its sphere." - Pope John Paul II
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Speakers at a Lay Celebration of Evangelization to be held Aug. 21 through 23 at the Hartford Civic Center will include, in addition to Father Jose A. F. dos Santos and Father Timothy J. Goldrick, both of New Bedford, keynote speaker - Father Anthony Ballagamba, IMC. Father Ballagamba is a worldtraveling evangelist and executive director of the Washingtonbased U.S. Mission Council. His The Blue Army of OUJ~ Lady topic will be World Visions of of Fatima will hold a meeting Evangelization. Also to be heard: and holy hour at 2:30 p.m. Sun-' Mrs. Virginia Finn of the day at Our Lady of Fatima Campion Renewal Center, CamChurch, New Bedford. All are invited to attend the bridge, who will give a major program, dedicated, say officials, address on The Challenge of to promoting the Fatima and ful- Evangelizing 49 Million Active filling requests of the Blessed Catholics in the United States; Anthony Cushing, - Mr. Virgin for prayer, especially the rosary, penan r - and consecra- Allentown, Pa., author, evangelist, lecturer, who will discuss tion to Mary. The Challenge of Evangelizing Holy hour participant!! pray for world peace, the renewal of home and family life and the conversion of Russia and the remainder of the world. VATICAN CITY (NC) - Tiny Diana Pereira, a Blue Army representative, said "All are wel- Monaco gets an archbishop but come to come and learn how you loses some of its ruler's privican start the Blue Army in your leges concerning church. affairs, according to a new convention parish." Information is also available between Monaco and the Holy from Father William Babbitt at See. Our Lady of Fatima recto!,;)', 995Under the convention Prince 7351, or Mrs. Anne Levasseur, Rainier III renounced the 1887 Raynham, 822-6866. privilege of Monegasque princes of nominating bishops, canons, pastors and assistant pastors in the principality. The government will continue BELLEVILLE, Ill. (NC) -- The Teens Encounter Christ c:onfer- to promote the building, mainence (TEC), a national organiza- tenance and operation of parish tion, has named Sister Ma!';)' Neu- and religious works, the Vatican rihr its first fulltime eXE!cutive announcement said. It said that the elevation of office in Belleville. Sister' Neurihr is a member of the Con- the Diocese of Monaco to an gregation of the Adorers of the archdiocese was in response "to an aspiration repeatedly presentBlood of Christ.
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- The Committee for the Family was founded in 1973 to study family 'life problems in pastoNi perspective. ...... TIle PeRtlfk:el 8ibIic:al COIIIIRission _ the international Theological Commission are commissions of scholars of scripture and theology who provide in-depth study of various topics for the pope and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. - The Pontifical Commission for the Neo-Vulgate was established in 1965 to provide a new, authoritative Latin version of the Bible with the tools of modem scripture scholarship. The Pontifical Abbey of St. Jerome for the Revision and !Emendation of the Vulgate is assigned to use the best historical scholarship available to recover, as nearly as possible, the original texts of the Latin Vulgate Bible by St. Jerome, which was the official Bible of the church for centuries. Other pontifical commissions are in charge of early Christian archeology, the historical sciences, church archives in Italy, sacred art in Italy, and the pontifical shrines at Pompei and Loreto in Italy. Offices in the Roman Curia are almost too numerous to mention. Leading the list is the Apostolic Chamber. Headed by the Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, who heads the church between papacies. The Apostolic Chamber administers the goods and temporal rights of the church when there is no pope. Among the most important are the offices which administer the financial affairs of the Vatican, those which handle papal appointments and cere~onies, the Swiss Ouard Corps ~hat guards the pope and the Va~ican's borders, and the offices responsible for gathering and publishing annual statistics and the Vatican's official yearbook.
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Dear Dr. Kenny: My father is 79 years olcl. Mother died two
years ago. Dad lives alone about two miles from our house. He is becoming more forgetful, more irritable and a Ibit shaky. He can't hear well. We are afraid for him to drive his car. We have offered him a room with us, but he has refused. He Is not helpless enough to need a care center, but I don't think he should be living alone either. Any suggestions? (pennsylvania) A. You have specified a very common and very difficult time in the life of an older person: that in-between time when they can't live alone and yet are not appropriate for a care center. Family is the best answer to this dilemma. There are three options. First, your father can live with you. This is not always possible or desirable. In your case, father has already refused. Second, some of you can live with him. Perhaps older children
can take weekly turns at grandpa's, eating the evening meal with him and spending the night. This might be beneficial for the children as well as grandpa. Third, grandpa can live alone. Even in this case, there are many things which your family can do to ease his life. Since you live nearby, he might eat some or all of his evening meals with you. An occasional card game before or after dinner might liven up the visit. You might spend some time with your father doing a review . of his life. Use a tape recorder or take detailed notes. This is your heritage. Listen to the stories of how and where he grew up, what jobs he held, how he met your mother, how he began his family. See that he gets daily exercise. It is not healthy for anyone to sit down or lie in bed all day. A 20-minute walk each day will do wonders. Someone may have to walk with him to make sure he goes. Diet is another area to watch.
Meals-onWhether through Wheels or careful shopping, make sure that his meals are nutritious. His hearing deficit may prevent him from enjoying television. Get a good speaker with a long wire. Attach the wire to his television set (some sets have a jack for this purpose), and position the speaker close to his better ear. Make a point to spend some time at his house. When you have a task such as letter writing, which can easily be done anywhere, do it with him. Perhaps some family members would watch a ball game or two at your father's house. While aged people may fail in physical ways and need care, they also value their independence. Families can make several adjustments to help an elderly parent live alone with support. (Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address questions: The Kennys; Box 67; Rensselaer, Incl. 47978).
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MILWAUKEE (NC) - To protest Citibank's $50 million participation in a $250-million loan to the government of South Africa, Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee has ordered the sale of $300,000 of Citicorp's floating rate notes. Citicorp is a holding company of which Citibank is a part. A floating rate note is a financial instrument bought or sold at the interest rate prevailing on the day of the sale. The sale was recommended by the Archdiocesan Committee on Corporate Responsibility. South Africahas been under attack for its system of strict racial segregation, called apartheid. Archbishop Weakland said that "racism, because it is a violation of basic human dignity, is a sin against God and his will for all people. I support the conviction of the Committee on Corporate Responsibility that the archdiocese has a moral responsibility to handle its investments in such a way as to promote the greatest good for others," "The archdiocese cannot in conscience receive financial benefit from the kind of evil that is inflicted in South Africa upon its non-white residents," he said. "The archdiocese cannot act in such a way as to condone the injustices and discriminati~ns that occur in the areas of health, education, employment and freedom of movement and speech," the archbishop added. "Financial loans to such a country will only continue to perpetuate these evils," The committee said that because the archdiocese has affirmed its opposition to racism it is expected to follow investment policies reflecting that principle. Guidelines established by the committee call for with-
drawal of deposits from financial institutions making loans directly to the South African government. "The archdiocese should encourage those corporations whose activities help to break down barriers to full participation by non-whites in the South African economy and society; it should seek to change policies of those corporations whose activities can be shown to support or sustain institutions or practices which discriminate along racial lines," the committee said. Withdrawal of deposits and selling stock in Citicorp and Citibank have been followed by other organizations, churches affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Harvard University. The national and world councils of churches and the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church withdrew accounts from Citibank. Five Catholic groups also decided to
not buy Citibank bonds, certificates or deposit or notes. They are the Connecticut province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Sisters of Loretto, Adrian Dominican Sisters, Dominican fathers and brother of the St. Albert Province in Illinois, and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Ky. The Diocese of Birmingham, England, announced plans last fall to sell its stock in five companies because of the policies of their subsidiaries in South Africa. In 1977 the' Archdiocese of Westminster, England, took steps to sell all but one of its shares in a South African mining company. In November 1980 the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, the international aid agency of the Canadian Catholic bishops, transferred all its accounts from the Royal Bank of Canada to protest the bank's decision to provide loans to South Africa and Chile.
Vatican backs free pre-schools • VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican recently called for establishment of free pre-school programs in all European countries for children at least three years of age. Archbishop Sante Portalupi, papal nuncio to Portugal, made the call at the 12th session of the Permanent Conference of European Ministers of Education, held in Lisbon. "The goal must be, in fact, that all parents who so desire should be able to entrust their children free of charge to a preschool educational service," he said. Archbishop Portalupi added that parents should be consulted in every phase of the pre-school
program and noted that "pluralism will guarantee the parents free choice of the educational establishment for their children, in conformity with their system of values, and their philosophical and religious convictions."
More abortions MOSCOW (NC) - Abortions now outnumber the annual 5 million live births in the Soviet Union,·according to Alexander Smirnov, deputy chief of the Department for Social Problems and Population. He did not give the figure for abortions· and said Soviet officials did not intend to restrict them.
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Aug. 6, 1981
uestion corner By Father John Dietzen Q. Can a person receive Holy Communion more than: once a day without special permiiWon? It has been done during s:peclal seasons of the church, I have heard. I don't think it is right, but I see folks who go alt two Masses and feel it is all right. (Mbmesota) A. The church's regulations did once provide that Communion be received only once ~l day. Several years ago, however, those rules were considerably relaxed, allowing Communion more than once on a number of :specitied ,ccasions. As a practical guide there are two categories of such occasions. The first would be special ritual Masses - - weddings, funerals, Masses for baptism or anoi.nting of the sick, etc. One might, for example, attend a weddin.g on saturday morning and then atteDd an anticipated Sunday Mass the same evening. Holy ComJftUI'lion may be received both times. Also, if someone serves a ministerial role such as lector at a second Mass, he or she may reeeive Communion again. Another possibility, though not very common, would be when ODe fulfills two Mass obligntiolls in one day. For example, if a holy day faUs on Saturday, one could atend Mass for the holy day Saturday morning and an anticipated Mass for Sunday on Saturday evening, and rElceive Communion at both liturgil~s. It will help to understand these policies if one is aware of two concerns the church considers in such matters. First, and most basic, is that the normal practice should be that (unless there is a serious sin) ODie receives the Eucharist whenever one participates in the Mass. This is I believe fairly well understood by most Catholics today. Reception of Communion is an integral part, not an optional extra, in the celebration clf the Eucharist. On the other hand, the church knows from experience that some Catholics are tempt,ed to treat sacred things superstitiously. I once knew a lady who proudly and piously claimed she attended 11 Masses - at least the "essential parts" - every Sunday. To prevent people from collecting Communions in a similar fashion was one reason fCtr the church's stricter once-a-day rule in the past, as well as fOlr the clear, if broader, policy today. It trusts that people's deeper and fulier awareness of' the meaning of the Eucharist will discourage any abuse and at the same time prompt them to receive Communion whenevE~r appropriate - even more than once a day. Q. I irk my relatives and friends because I won't seek medical help for any iJl1ness. They claim it's due to stubborness. My argument is: :ru go next week if my time is up
whether I go to a doctor or not. Am I right or wrong? A. Sorry, but you don't give anywhere near enough information for a helpful answer. How serious is your illness? How much help will medical assistance he? How old are you? And what responsibilities have you to others? A father at age 45 with six growing children obviously has a more serious obligation to seek medical advice for a serious illness than does an old man of 80 whose ehildren are all adults. But however right or wrong your conclusion may be, I can't say much for your argument. By the same logic, you could drive your car recklessly or stop eating, arguing that when your time is up you'll die anyway. Our responsibility is to take reasonable care of our health and protect it as well as we can, whether dangers to it come from inside or outside. Questioas for this column should he sent to Father Dietzen, St. Mark's Parish, IlI3 W. Bradley, Peoria, m. 61806.
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MARYKNOLL SISTER Pamela Beans, 28, was hit by a car and killed instantly as she stepped from a bus in Puente Alto, Chile, where she worked with the disadvantaged. She was a native of Burbank, Calif.
Many diocesan parishes, especially those serving Catholics of Polish extraction, will conduct a special collection this month for the benefit of "Tribute to Poland," a food relief campaign being conducted by Catholic Relief Services. "Contributions," noted a letter from the Fall River chancery office, will assist "in the relief of the good people of Poland who are suffering because of problems of a very grave sort in the distribution of food." It is noted that persons who do not contribute through a parish collection may send donations directly to the chancery office at P.O. Box 2577, Fall River 02722. All moneys will be forwarded to CRS, which has in place a massive food shipment program. The project was given a boost by President Ronald Reagan who told Cardinal John Krol of Phila-
delphia, national chairman of the fundraising effort, that he endorsed a plan for CRS to buy surplus food at favorable prices from the U.S. government for immediate shipment to Poland. According to Cardinal Krol, the food includes flour, powdered milk, cheese and butter which U.S.' farmers do not want dumped on the U.S. market. The food cannot be shipped directly to Poland without a group like eRS intervening to purchase it because of laws prohibiting U.S. donations of food to communist countries, he said. In addition to the food purchased by CRS, Cardinal Krm said the American Agriculture Movement has agreed to contribute "tons and tons" of additional food for the Polish relief effort. He said the Teamsters union will provide free shipment of such food within the United States.
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New Code of Canon Law not expected until 1983 VATICAN CIlY (NC) - The new Code of Canon Law, in preparation for 18 years now, is not likely to become the general law of the church until about 1983, Cardinal Pericle Felici said.
She travels for Christ MANITOWOC, Wisc. (NC) Life on the road is challenging for Mary McGinnis, 65, who is spending her summer working in the Travelers for Christ program in Wisconsin and North Dakota. The program known internationally by its official Latin name, Peregrinatio Pro Christo, was developed hy the Legion of Mary after Vatican II as a response to a call to the laity to undertake the "delicate, difficult and unpopular" mission of evangelization. Miss McGinnis, retired after 41 years with a Minneapolis insurance company, is working as an unpaid, fulltime volunteer. The Legion of Mary pays for her gasoline but she meets all her other expenses. In two-week programs, legion members take their vacation time at their own expense for training in parishes. When they return to their home parishes they spend two hours weekly visiting homes if their pastor approves. "The saddest thing we hear, and it comes from Catholics and non-Catholics, is 'a Catholic has never called on me in my home for this purpose before,'" said Miss McGinnis. The Legion of Mary, founded in 1921 in Ireland has three priorities: to evangelize and convert, to console and to work with both disenchanted and prac. ticing Catholics to bring them into close union with parish life. The program is low key. People usually just want to talk about God in general rather than discuss fine points, explained Miss McGinnis. "We just try to plant a seed," she said.
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JACK MOONEY of El Paso, Tex., is this- year's recipient of the Paulist Father's Award for Lay Evan.gelization. He is associate director of the El Paso diocesan Center for Evangelization and Catechesis, with special responsibility for development of renewal programs and small faith communities within parishes.
Nobel winner to marry BELFAST, Northern Ireland Nobel Peace Prize-winner Mairead Corrigan will marry her brother-in-law, Jackie Maguire, in Rome Sept. 8, her associate in the Northern Ireland Peace People Movement, Ciaran McKeown, said on July 29. The deaths of three of Maguire's children on a Belfast street in August 1976 led Miss Corrigan and Betty Williams to form the peace movement. A getaway car driven by an Irish Republican Army guerrilla who had just been shot by a British soldier struck the children. Maguire, 39, and his wife Anne, Miss Corrigan's sister, emigrated to New Zealand but returned to Belfast, where Mrs. Maguire committed suicide 19 months ago. Since then, Miss Corrigan, 37, has cared for the one child, Mark, who survived the crash and a girl, Joanne, born later. .(NC) -
replace the current law until some time in 1983. Cardnal Felici noted that the latest draft of the new code was distributed to bishops and selected experts on a "reserved" or strictly confidential basis. "But," he commented wryly, "we know In an article in the Vatican that confidential or secret things newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Felici, president are always the ones sought after of the Pontifical Commission for the most." He complained that "not a few the Revision of the Code of CanOn Law, warned against using people" have begun to treat the the latest draft of the new code draft of the new code "both in as if it were already church study and acting as a norm of life." law. He compared the long proHe said that draft, sent out last year under secrecy, will cess of drawing up the naw code. undergo final revisions at com- . with the process by which the decrees of the Second Vatican mission meetings this October. "The one who will then give Council were formulated. "What the 'schema' (draft) the force of was finally approved by the law will be the pope, the (council) fathers was preceded church's supreme legislator," by lengthy collegial studies. and thousands and thousands of wrote Cardinal Felici. changes and modifications." he "Then," he added, "there will said. have to follow an appropriate He said full understanding of period of 'vacatio legis' between the new Code of Canon Law will the publication date and effective date of the new law." He require the kind of extensive noted that when Pope Benp.c.ict study that scholars gave the XV promulgated the cu rent council documents. Code of Canon Law in IP.7, it did not go into effect until a year later. Pope Benedict made only a few laws in the new code effective immediately. FUNERAL HOME, INC. Although Cardinal Felici did ROGER A. LA FRANCE CLAUDmE A. MORRISSEY not set a precise timetable for DANIEL J. SULLIVAN C. LORRAINE ROY passage of the new law, the techFUNERAL DIRECTORS .\ nical aspects of incorporating amendments from' the October 15 IRVINGTON CT., NEW BEDFORD meeting, presenting the fmal 995-5166 text to Pope John Paul II for his approval, printing the booklength document and distributing it to bishops' conferences Montie Plumbing before it is offcially published, Heating Co. all add up to an expectation that Over 3S Years formal publication is unlikely of Satisfied SEtrvice before some time in 1982. Reg. Master Plumber 7023 If the pope follows the 1917 JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. precedent of not putting the code into effect until a year 432 JEFFERSOt4 STREET after its publication, the new Fall River 675-7496 church law would not actually
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Communicating well By Evelyn Eaton Whitehead Everyone needs to communicate. So it is encouraging to realize we can improve in that department. To express love for my spouse, to discipline my children well, to get the job done effectively at work - these require that I share with others some important part of myself. Our values and ·attitudes are important in what we do to communicate better, but often we sense that they are not enough. To improve as a communicator I may have to act differently. And it is possible to "get better" in our behavior. Learning to listen well can be the most important communication skill. To listen well is to listen actively, alert to the full message. What you share with me in-
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"THE PASTOR is called to be the celebrant of the sacraments and much more."
Difficulties of leading By Father Philip J. Murnlon Most people agree that leadership· is difficult to exercise today, whether in church or government, neighborhoods or universities. . Institutions and their leaders inevitably have their own interests. Individuals within the institutions wonder whether those interests are compatible with theirs and consequently feel entitled to assert their own concerns. So the exercise of leadership is challenging. But it remains very important if people are to accomplish anything. It is not surprising, therefore, that leadership is the most frequently discussed factor in parish life. It is noteworthy that where parishes are achieving their goals, parishioners are likely to credit the leadership, usually that of the pastor. Where parishes experience difficulties, complaints also focus on the pastor. Recently the church in the United States has begun to pay much closer attention to the special demands of pastoral leadership. For the pastor is called to be the celebrant of the . sacraments and much more. He is a manager, a spiritual guide, an administrator, a counselor, a teacher and an organizer. In addition, he is expected to be available to people most of the time. He is expected to take deep interest in his parishioners and to see them in the hospital, in their homes, in his office. Only partly in jest, a Baltimore priest recently observed: "In the old days, the pastor de-
cided what was to be done, decide what he could do and assigned the rest of his assistants. Today, the parish council decides what is to be done, the assistant chooses what he will do, and the pastor gets to do what no one else wants to do. " Dioceses and national organizations are beginning to provide training programs for pastors to help them develop the skills and confidence necessary for the sort of leadership that encourages others to exercise leadership as well. What kind of leadership do people want? It is a simple question; but the answer is complex. People seem to want leadership that helps them develop in their relationship with God, that listens to them, is sensitive to thei' needs, relates to them as per~ >ns. But it is a fact that such leadership will be exercised in various ways. Some parishes will have an organizational style; some a family style. Some will be focused on spiritual development; some on social action. Some parishes will emphasize individual needs, others will emphasize support for the customs and culture of various national and ethnic groups. It appears that there is no one right style of leadership. Parishes vary in size, in their economic and educational backgrounds. One parish has many children, another many aged and so on. Good leaders try to find ways of accomplishing the church's goals in and with a given community. It is a complex task.
People gathered early for the trial. Crowds streamed through the streets of downtown Corinth to the city square. The Roman governor or proconsul was coming to judge Paul. Paul had been going to the synagogue regularly. He was allowed to teach but some Jews thought he was teaching against the law given them by God, the law they loved. They had brought charges against Paul. At the appointed time the governor entered the city square. His name was Gallio. Related to some of the most famous men in Rome, he held power over life and death in the whole Roman province of Achaia. Gallio sat down on the large stone judgment seat in the center of the city square. The square was packed with people eager to watch the trial. Gallio called for the accusers to state their charges. The spokesmen for those Jews upset by Paul stood up. The crowds became silent. IIThis fellow," they charged, "is teaching people to worship God in ways that are against the law." . The judge, Gallio, looked bored. The crowds began to murmur. Was this a trick? What law were they accusing Paul of breaking, the Roman law or the laws of the Jews? For a while Gallio let them Tum to Page Thirteen
eludes your words and silences, your tone of voice and gestures, your ideas and emotions. To listen is to pay attention. If I cannot pay attention it will be difficult for me to really hear you. If I do not listen it will be hard to understand and respond effectively to you. Listening does not mean that I must always agree with you, but it does mean that before agreeing or disagreeing I will try to be sure I have understood what you are saying and what it means to you. To communicate well, I must be able to speak as well as listen. I must be able to share myself with you in ways that fit me and our relationship. My sharing will be different with different people. To work together on a volunteer committee, for example, does not mean that participants must become close friends. But it does mean they should be able to share ideas and plans. To share, I must first know myself, my ideas, needs, goals and feelings. Then I must be able to express these in ways that suit the different relationships in my life. To communicate better at work, for example, I may need to get better at sharing ideas. To communicate' better with my friends, I may need to grow more comfortable in sharing feelings. Confrontation, correctly understood, is a vital communication skill. The word refers to more than the ability to deal with conflict. To confront is to be able to share information that is significant on an emotional level. The emotions involved in a confrontation need not always reflect conflict or anger. For example, to tell you I love you is to give you information that has emotional significance. But while confrontation involves more than conflict, the negative emotions conflict can reflect are often a problem for people. Many people are afr~id of anger in themselves and in other people, having experienced discord that arises when people disagree. Value seen in "keeping the peace" may seem to rule out the disunity so often coupled with conflict. But conflict is a normal, expectable part of any relationship whether marriage or teamwork or community living - in which people are close to each other. When people meet over a
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period of time, especially if significant values or important issues are involved, we can expect differences. Sometimes these differences will just seem interesting. But they can involve disagreements, misunderstanding, discord. It is here that the experience of conflict begins. The challenge of effective communicatio~ is not to do away with signs of conflict or, worse, to refuse to admit conflict when it does arise. Rather we can learn to recognize signs of disagreement as they arise and face them before a problem gets out of hand. We can try to work out between us some acceptable ways of facing these· problem areas and the feelings they provoke. Then the normal conflicts we experience can actually contribute to our relationships and work.
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By Father John Castelot The situation in Matthew's community presented him with a real challenge. Some Jewish Christians were dismayed at the entrance of numbers of gentiles into the Christian community. It appeared to them that there was a gradual lessening of concern for their Jewish past and teachings - for the law of Moses and the customs that had grown up around it over the centuries. Matthew had to reassure them about God's plan of salvation, which did not call for rejection of God's law but which did seem to call for a change in attitude toward it. He demonstrated the point in many ways, but perhaps his briefest summary of it is in the Gospel's Chapter 5, verses 17-20. Because this passage is so brief, it is rather dense and, at first sight, rather confusing. It introduces a series of sayings of Jesus in which some provisions of the law are modified. How strange, then, to read these verses: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets. I have come, not to abolish them, but to fulfill them. Of this much I assure you: Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter of the law, not the smallest part of a letter, shall be done away with until it all comes true." Tum to Page Thirteen
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The law Continued from page tWlelve Is there a contradiction here? There is an insistence that the law of Moses is inviolablle and a subsequent, indeed immediate "tampering" with that law. What appears to be a contradiction is resolved by consideration of Matthew's overall view of God's plan of salvation. The purpose of Jesus' mission. was not to annul the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them. But how? By carrying them c,ut to the letter? Matthew doel; not use the word "fulfill" in that sense when speaking of the activity of Jesus. It is rather a matter of his bringing out the full potential of something not fully realized up to that point. Obviously this cannot take place without some sort of change. But if there can be no change "until heaven and earth pass away," how can this fulfillment take place? Well, from Matthew's point of view, heaven and earth had passed away: A changed world situation was creat,ed by the cosmic event of the deathresurrection of Jesus. From the vantage point of Matthew's generation, between the years 80 and 90, it had indeed all come to pass. And the law still retained its validity, but as intrepreted by him who says at the end of the Gospel: "Full autthority has been given to me both in heaven and on earth; go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations . . . Teach them to carry out everything I have commanded you." (Chapter 28: 18-20) The death-resurrection ushered in a new era. It was II cosmic, earth-shattering event, and Matthew underscores this by adding apocalyptic, cosmic images to his account of the event: "From noon onward, there was darkness over the whole land until midafternoon . . . Suddenly the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, boulders split, tombs opened. Many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised." The gentile guards at:claim Jesus as "the Son of God!" This symbolizes the entrance o:f gentiles into the church, a revolutionary event whose implications are spelled out in the words of the risen Lord: "Go, thei~efore, and make disciples of all the nations." A new phase of salvation history has begun. .
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Continued from page twelve talk. People shouted accusations against Paul. Others spoke up in his defense. Finally Gallio raised his hand for silence. He was ready to pronounce his judgment. A heavy stillness fell over the crowds. "If this were a crime or a serious fraud," Gallio said angrily, "I would give you a patient and reasonable hearing." Paul's accusers began to grumble, They knew right away that they were not going to win their case. Gallio continued. "Since this is a dispute about words and about your own law, work it out
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He's baseball manager and man of faith DENVER (NC) - Felipe Alou is well into his first season as manager of the Denver Bears, and he's confident his team is going to come on top. "Winning is difficult . . . there's only one winner ... But winning takes work," he said. Forty-six-year-old Alou is a quiet, modest man. During a recent interview he talked little about his own impressive major league career, but easily about his love for baseball, his family and his faith. Alou, who was raised a Catholic, said he is "thankful to God for everything I have," adding that his parents were responsible for his strong faith. "By the time I was seven years
yourselves. I refuse to judge such matters." With that Gallio dismissed Paul's accusers from the court. He got up from the judgment seat and began to leave the city square. Emotions ran very high in this particular incident. Paul's accusers were angry. They dared not attack Paul, now that Gallio had refused to condemn him. They could not attack Gallio, because he was protected by the Roman guards. Suddenly they all pounced on ,Sosthenes, a leading man in the synagogue. It wasn't entirely clear why he had angered them. But they took out their frustration on him. As Gallio was leaving the city square, he heard the commotion but he paid no attention. He went back to his mansion. He was not about to get involved in a religious fight. Paul went back to the house of Titus. There he and his friends praised God.
old, I knew there was a God," he said. "I could feel him. I've been in so many tight situations that God has gotten me out of. I trust him. I'm aware of him." A native of the Dominican Republic, Felipe is the oldest of the ball-playing Alou brothers. He, Matty and Jesus made baseball history when all three went to bat in the same inning for the San Francisco Giants on Sept. 10, 1963. Later all manned outfield positions. In 1956, Felipe came to the United States already signed with the San Francisco Giants organization. Describing the start of his baseball career, Alou recalled, "When I was young, nobody could throw the baseball faster or hit harder or run faster than I could . . . "But then I got with the Giants and saw those who could . . . it was a great incentive for me . . . I knew right off the bat to be good I had to work hard." Alou dropped out of college to sign with the Giants. As the oldest of six children, he felt he had to help support the family, and baseball offered him that opportunity. He said he plapned to play a few years, earn some money and return to school to become a doctor, but baseball became his life. "I thought it was my turn to do something," Alou explained. "My parents worked hard . . . they provided for us and they gave all of us the incentive to work hard, just by their example." He is also very frank about the spiritual side of life. "I believe God's the Father and Jesus Christ is the Savior, and that's most important . . . it's the only thing that has to do with eternity ... I'm one thousand percent sure about that," said Alou.
"These are the good old days," according to TV host Hugh Downs. He was our guest on a recent Christopher Closeup TV show and when I asked him about his views on the state of our troubled world he said,' "I'm not a doom monger. I think that was fashionable to say about 10 years ago. You know, that our moral decay was such, the pollution of our environment was such that we might as well pull the covers over our head and give up. That's not true. In many ways, as much real troubles as we have now, these are the good old days." He backed up his opinion with two examples: In the year 1900 in the U.S. there were approximately twice as many hard drug addicts per capita as there are today. In the year 1926 there were roughly twice as many fatalities per passenger mile in automobiles as there are today. What's the point? Downs put it simply, "We lose sight of our growth and tend to focus on the troubles. In many ways it was worse in years past. I think we're moving in the right direction." Whether you agree with Downs' view of things or not, you have to admit he makes a good case for an optimistic outlook on life. In past centuries it wasn't safe to travel beyond your own village because of roaming bandits. This is still the case in many parts of the world. Ignorance about bacteria left people at the mercy of unexplained epidemics. Millions died of minor ailments before they were 40 years old, not to mention the astronomically high rate of infant mortality. Famine and hunger still plague the earth, but in earlier times they devastated whole continents. Today people over 50 can remember living through the Depression when there were no welfare checks and people were out of work for two or three years. In the face of all this the human race bas endured. The American experiment beckoned hordes of reamers to the 'New World.' The age of the rugged indiviualist was born. Great men and women pioneered their way across this continent and built a great nation, the United States of America. We come from a long line of survivors. We are the progeny of strong people. Our heritage is built on courage and persevereance. What we have today is the fruit of the vision and sacrifice of our forebearers. Let us value this present moment in history. Let us be grateful. Indeed, these are the good old days. For a free copy of the Christopher News Notes, send a stamped, self·addressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48th St., New York, N.Y. 10017.
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Pope John Paul speaks to students The following remarks are excerpted from aD address given earUer this year by Pope John Paul n to the student body of Santo Tomas University, Manila. Like Jesus, I would like to speak to you of your own special vocation. The Second Vatican Council pointed out that Catholic universities should prepare their students to be "truly outstanding in learning, ready to undertake responsible duties in society, and witnesses in the world to their faith" ("Gravissimum Educationis," 10). I would add that if you are to fulfill your threefold mission as fully mature adults, servants of society and representatives of the Gospel, you must today live to full your vocation as young people, as university students and as real Catholics. First and foremost, be genuine young people. To be young means possessing within oneself an incessant newness of spirit, nourishing a continual quest for good, and persevering in reaching a goal. Never try to ignore then the irresistible force that is driving you toward the future
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You will agree with me that it is worth your while to accept self-discipline, which not only indicates strength of character but also offers valuable service to others. The effort involved is one that fits in perfectly with your lives as young people in the field of sports. Even as far back as the time of St. Paul, Christian mortification was spoken of in these terms. The young athlete who is prepared to undergo hard training in order to improve his sporting performance should be generous about the self-discipline required for his fully human training. As young people, you look to the future. You must decide in .what direction you want to go, and then keep an eye on the compass. Young people do not like mediocre ideals. They prefer to launch out into the deep. Dear young people, strive to build a character that is strong, rich and consistent, one that is free and
responsible, sensitive to genuine values, a character that accepts the superiority of "being" over "having," one that pereveres in challenges and shuns escapism, facile compromise and heartless self-centered calculation. In going forward along the path of truth, you have an ideal model: Christ in his hurtlanity, Christ the man. Notice that he is not only your goal: he is also the way that leads you where you are going. And on the way he acts as a shepherd; he even gives himself as food for your journey. If you model your youth on Christ, you will find the whole process summed up in a single word in Luke's Gospel. The word is that Jesus "grew" - in wisdom, in stature and in favor with God and man. Christ's words "follow me" should also strike a special chord in your hearts. Accepting Christ's call is a sure way of responding to your vocation to be a fully ma-
ture adu1t. "The direction that society will take tomorrow depends mainly on the minds and hearts of today's university student" ("Gravissimum Educationis," note 33). This wise observation by Pope Pius XII is an invitation to you to be aware of the privilege' and the responsibility that so many of you have as young people in an institute of higher learning. The university offers a whole array of excellent means for completing youI' formation. You must not, however, think of yourself alone. You are called to help build up human society. As university students you have at your disposal abundant means that must learn to know and appreciate fully. The 'word "university" originally meant a society of professors and students. The university offers its members intense It community experiences. strives to be a training ground for experts who will take up
NEW YORK (NC) - I read Scott Spencer's "Endless Love" before seeing the movie and admired both Spencer's insights and the felicity and precision with which he expressed himself. The title refers, I think, not just to the obsessive love between David Axlerod and Jade Butterfield, but also to the loves that form their environment that of David's mother and father for each other, of Jade's mother and father for each other, of both sets of parents for their children, of David's parents, committed Socialists, for the poor, and of their old comrades in, the movement for David's mother and father in their adversity.
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STUDENTS SUCH AS THESE at youth rally at 51. Anthony of Padua Church, Fall River, are' called on by the pope to "build a character that is strong, rich and consistent."
Endless Love By Michael Gallagher
key positions in the human family. The Second Vatican Council was well aware that young people in a university "are conscious of their importance in the life of society and are anxious to play their part in it all the sooner" ("Gaudium et Spes," 7). Your desire is laudable, your youthful impatience understandable. But you must prepare yourselves carefully now for your nobl~ service in the future; because the effectiveness of your service will be in direct proportion to the resources of truth that are yours. A university student must have a permanent program for capturing truth. It is no easy task. It demands study and persevi!rance, generosity and self-sacrifice. Needless to say, the conquest of truth must be carried out with respect for different viewpoints and in open dialogue with others: a dialogue that in every field reaches particular intensity in a
The book's compassion is remarkable. David, for example, paroled from the mental institution to which he has been committed for setting fire to Jade's house, gets a job picketing a small store run by an old couple who happen to be selling overalls that aren't union made. When the old couple see David, a look of fear and wisery comes into their eyes. David, a Jew himself, is sure that if he looked at their forearms, he would see a faded number tattooed there. He feels shame and pity. The David of the movie version, a glossy teen-age fantasy, has no such thoughts. We learn nothing about his job. Instead we get treated to a spectacular party at Jade's house and hear
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university. Thirdly, I would have you note that the Catholic faith that you profess fits in perfectly with your two other characteristics of being young and of being university students. The catholicity of the church has within it an intrinsic dynamism in perfect accord with the enthusiasm of youth. The very words "catholicity" and "university" sound almost synonymous. Neither the church nor the university admit boundaries. In the vertical dimension there is a difference, in that the church is not content with a merely hypothetical openness to transcedence: she professes that such openness is a fact. For a young university student, being a Catholic is not just something extra. It gives an incomparable power both for building a better world and for proclaiming the kingdom of God. As young Catholic university students, you are called to work in harmony with students of different religions and ideologies, in a common effort to advance truth, to serve man and to honor God. You are called to sincere ecumenical collaboration with all those who are your brothers and sisters in Christ. But at the same time you are called to make a specifically Catholic contribution at the university level to the evangelization of culture. As Catholics you must confess Christ openly and without embarrassment in the university environment. I conclude with a loving and grateful remembrance of the Virgin Mary. Although her affection is for all, the young have special need of her care, particularly today. She is queen of the apostles: both those of the church's beginning and those in present-day history. Her presence is as discreet and effective today as at Cana of Galilee. May she be with you always. May she intercede for you with her divine Son, as she did then in order to prevent a shadow falling on the happiness of the bride and groom.
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the banal theme song computergenerated for the movie. In the hook, David describes how he and Jade walked through a gigantic model of the human heart in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. The heart was a marvelously apt image for the love was about to engulf them, deeply rooted in the physical but so overpowering that its origin had to be something more than physical, like the miracle of the heart itself. The movie begins with the perfunctory finish of the heart tour, which becomes part of a field made by Jade's class. The next stop, and the first dialogue, occurs at a planetarium. David puts his head on Jade's shoulder as she looks up at the simulta-
tion of a starry sky. Brokoe Shields tries to look soulful but it comes out dopey as she asks: "David, what would you do if I died?" This is the kind of banality that, like the most of feeble one-liners that pockmock the movie, Spencer himself is incapable of. Spencer's novel, alas, was bought by one Keith Barish, a rich realtor who is now giving his suppressed cultural longings vent by outbidding everybody on the block for filmable "properties." "Endless Love" it could be argued is essentially unfilmable, but since Barish hired Franco Zeffirelli to direct, this isa moot point. In Zeffirelli's hands, everything becomes unfilmable. Beside his recent inept remake
of the "The Champ," he has twice done in Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Taming of the Shrew" - made a fatuous life of St. Francis of Assisi, "Brother Son and Sister Moon" and, for American television, directed a slipshod pasteltinted life of Christ, "Jesus of Nazareth," which, like Pontius Pilate, seemed inspired solely by the desire to offend as few people as possible. All of which verifies what Evelyn. Waugh wrote after a melancholy Hollywood experience involving his "Brideshead Revisited." Every g()od novel has something unique about it, Waugh wrote. If a Hollywood mogul buys it, the first thing he does is hire somebody to remove that quality.
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ports watch Letendre Hoop Coach At Connolly Marc Letendre is thl~ new head basketball coach at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River, it has been announced by Mrs. Michelle LetendrE!, the school's athletic director and Letendre's wife. Marc is not a newcomer to Connolly coaching ranks. He coached basketball at that school from 1972 to 1977 under thencoaches Len Alves and Stan Kupiec before moving over to New Bedford High where he was jayvee coach for three years under head coach John Pacheco. A native of Fall RivE!r and now a teacher in the New Bedford public school system and a resident of that city, LE!tendre was baseball coach at Connolly for seven years through 1H80 before accepting the post of head
baseball coach at New Bedford High this year. Twice his Connolly Cougars gained post-season baseball tournament berths, and, in 1980 won their Southeastern Mass. Conference division championship. Letendre succeeds Stan Kupiec who says he was not rehired because of a controversy with the school principal over a disciplinary matter involving three members of the jayvee team who were suspended and the possible expulsion of a fourth. The school has made no official pronouncement on the Kupiec matter. In his final season (1980-81) at the helm Kupiec piloted the Cougars to a 17-3 record and a berth in the Eastern Mass. playoffs.
CYO Baseball Notes Rev. Paul F. McCarrick, CYO diocesan director, announces that post-season playoffs in the Bristol County CYO Baseball League will begin with the bestof-three quarter-finals on Aug. 16. In that round the first and second-place teams have byes, the third team will meet the sixth and the fourth will meet the fifth. Meanwhile the revised schedule for the remainder of the season has North End vs. Maplewood, Kennedy vs. South End. starting at 6 tonight at Thomas Chew Memorial Park, Fall River. Three tie games and five rained out games are reschedulE~d for next week. At the conclusion of last week's play Maplewood wns still setting the pace with a lead that seemed comfortable enough to carry the team to the regular
season championship. Somerset, South End and North End were involved in a close fight for the runnerup spot. The Fall River CYO Baseball League in which Swansea, Immaculate Conception and defending champion Flint Catholic are the chief contenders for the league crown, is also nearing the end of its regular schedule. Entering this week's play Swansea, 9-2, was the leader with Immaculate Conception, 115, second and Flint Catholic, 105, third. Because several of its players were involved in Legion -baseball the Swansea team had several games to make up and tonight, in its fourth game in as many days, will meet Immaculate Conception at Ruggles Park. Columbus and St. Michael's Club collide at Lafayette Park.
Football Arbiters Meet Classes for candid'ates f1:>r the Southeastern Massachusetts Football Officials Associatil:>n began last night in Somerset Lodge's meeting rooms. Sessions will be held on succeeding Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. with Frank Simmons as instructor. Written examinations will be held early next month. Walter Quinn, assoc:iation president, said that regular meetings for all members will begin next Wednesday, also at Somerset Lodge. Other association officeJrs for the 1981 stlason are Philip Curry Franklin, vice-president; Arthur Marchand, Somerset, offici.al interpreter; George Aguiar, Swansea, secretary-treasurer. Directors are past president Warren Najarian, Rockland; James Pallidino, Mansfield; Charles Connell, Fall River; Tony Monteiro, Fairhaven, and Richard Enos, Taunton. Milton E. Kelley, Taun-
ton, is again association commissioner. Holy Family High, New Bedford, Bishop Stang High, North Dartmouth, and Bishop Connolly High will be in Division Two in Southeastern Mass. Conference soccer this year. Holy Family and Stang join Greater New Bedford Vocational High School and Old Rochester High in Division Two East while Connolly is grouped with Westport, Dartmouth and Diman Voke in Two West. New Bedford, Barnstable, Falmouth and Dennis-Yarmouth make up Division One East while Durfee, Somerset, Taunton and Attleboro are in Division One West. Each team will play twice against the other teams in its own section and once against teams in the other section of its division.
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New Films "Blowout" (Filmways): A movie soundman (John Travolta) records an auto accident, rescues a young woman (Nancy Allen) and then attempts to bring 'to light an assassination plot in this thriller that is short on thrills and long on sadism and banality. Because of nudity, violence and amorality, it has been classified C, R. "The Eye of the Needle" (United Artists): A proficient and deadly German spy (Donald Sutherland) is distracted from his mission when he encounters a love-starved woman (Kate Nelligan) on a bleak island off the coast of Scotland in this thriller based on a Ken Follet novel. It does not make a very absorbing film, however. We watch inoffensive people done in by the spy's swift stiletto and then, finally, we're supposed to sympathize with him. But Donald Sutherland's lack of warmth precludes sympathy and cancels out Kate Nelligan's vibrant performance. The needlessly graphic depiction of the love affair earns Band R ratings. "Zorro. the Gay Blade" (Fox): George Hamilton plays a Spanish aristocrat in old California who discovers that his deceased father was Zorro, legendary righter of wrongs and champion of oppressed peasants, in this one-joke comedy. In his father's black costume he seeks oppressed peasants. When an injured foit benches him, his long-lost twin brother, Ramon (Hamilton again), raised as an Englishman and a fop to his fingertips, takes over. Ramon favors pastels over drab old black, however, and you imagine how he carries on. Despite an energetic performance from Hamilton, all this is a drag in more ways than one. Ron Leibmann rants as the villainous alcalde and Brenda Vacarro mugs as his wife. Lauren Hutton looks lost as the romantic interest. There is occasional mild vulgarity and the homosexual aspect is amiably farcical. A2, PG Films on TV Friday, Aug. 7, 9 p.rn. (ABC) - "The Possession of Joel DelShirley Macaney" (1972) Laine plays a woman whose brother is possessed by the maleviolent soul of a dead youth in this thriller that lays on the shock effects very heavily. A4 Sunday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m. (NBC) - "Family Plot" (1978) - A rather limp Hitchcock thriller about a semibogus medium and
her boyfriend (Barbara Harris and Bruce Dern) who foil a pair of slick kidnappers. Frequent vulgarities in the dialogue. A3, PG Religious Broadcasting Sunday, Aug. 2~ WLNE, Channel 8, 10:30 a.m., Diocesan Television Mass. "Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 8:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Channel 8, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services; Rev. Dr. Paul Gillespie, of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. This week's subject: Hiroshima/Nagasaki: Morality of Nuclear Weaponry. Sunday, Aug. 9, 12:30 -1:00 p.m. (ABC) "Directions" presents "Helen Keller: In Her Own Story," a documentary about her life. Miss Keller is seen at her home where she took an active part in this film. Check local listings for time. On Radio Sunday, Aug. 9 (NBC) Guideline." Marist Father Joseph Fenton interviews Father Ellis DePriest about Byzantine Catholicism. Check local listings for time.
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FALL RIVER DIOCESE, ST. JOHN OF GOD, FIVE HOUR VIGIL SOMERSET A five-hour vigil held monthly A prayer meeting will begin in various churches will take at 7 tonight with Mass. Prayer place from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. to- group members will hold a picmorrow at St. Theresa, New Bed- nic Sunday at St. James Conford. The vigil will begin and vent, Nanaquaket Road, Tiverend with Mass and will also in- ton. Those attending are asked clude a holy hour and recited to bring their lunches and musirosary. A coffee break wm take . cal instruments for a singalong. place at 10 p.m. All are welcome. In case of rain the event will take place at the parish center ST. ANNE, in Somerset. FALL RIVER Gifts for distribution to area A parish family picnic is plan- nursing homes may be brought ned ·by the board of education to tonight's or September's for noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. prayer meeting. 16, at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown. The day will end with ST. MICHAEL, Mass. SWANSEA Knights of the Altar will meet HOLY CROSS, at 10 this morning in the parish FALL RIVER hall. The session will be folA triduum honoring HI. Maxi- lowed by a special meeting for Milian Kolbe, OFM Conv., who officers. sacrificed himself for another ST. DOMINIC, prisoner at Auschwitz, will be SWANSEA held at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday through Schedules for Christian docThursday with Mass, a homily trine classes and parent meetand veneration of a relic of lJI. ings for the fall term have been Maximilian. Father Claude J ar- announced and may be obtained mak, OFM Conv., of the Fran- at the religious education office, ciscan seminary in Granby will 675-7002. conduct the services. All are welcome. SERRA INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL CONFERENCE ST. STANISLAUS, The 17th New England regional FALL RIVER conference of Serra International Those wishing to participate will take place in Manchester, in a youth ministry camp Aug. N.H. Oct. 23 and 24. Further in17 through 19 should contact formation is available from P.O. George Wrobel this week. Box 1076, Manchester N.H. "Czestochowa prayer days" 03105. will be observed Aug. 15 through 26 and petitions of parishioners IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, will be prayed for at a special FALL RIVER A parish family picnic is schedMass each of those days. Special morning and evening services uled for Sunday, Aug. 23, at will also be conducted 'each Cathedral Camp, East Freetown.. Wednesday of the month. SACRED HEART, A retreat for parochial school FALL RIVER faculty will be held Sunday Altar boys will attend an outthrough Tuesday at Sacred ing at Lincoln Park Tuesday, Hearts Seminary, Wareham. Al- leaving the rectory yard at 6 so at the seminary, a day of p.m. Permission slips will be recollection Sunday for Choris- needed and parents wishing to ters, CCD teachers and confirma- accompany the group are weltion team members. come. A similar day of recollection will be held at the seminary for BLESSED SACRAMENT, parish intercessors on Sunday, FALL RIVER The parish picnic will take Aug. 16. Organization heads are re- place Sunday at Colt State Park, quested to submit announce- Bristol, from 10 a.m. on, with ments of parish events from Mass being celebrated about Sept.1 through Dec. 1 to Father 3:30 p.m. The parish council will meet Robert Kaszynski, pastor, by at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. Monday. 19 in St. Dominic's Room, also ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, the site for a CCD teachers' FALL RIVER meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. The annual parish picnic will Monday, Aug. 24. take place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday at Dave's Beach, ST. JOSEPH, Jefferson Street, Fall River. Am- FAIRHAVEN Rosemary McLellan of Milton erican and Portuguese music will be heard and refreshments will has been named new principal of the parish school. be available.
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This farm grows new hope GARRISON, N.Y. (NC) - At one time the big white building at Graymoor in Garrison was a farmhouse. Even today the corn grows high. But the facility is now New Hope Manor and gardening is more for therapy than food. On land owned by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, New Hope is a drug rehabilitation center for women. Begun 11 years ago by Father Dan Egan, who wrote the book "Junkie Priest," New Hope has about 40 residents from 17 to 27. Its present director is Brother Joe Buettner, whose staff of 11 are almost all professionals and religious. While drug rehabilitation cen""lC1llllttIKlllllUlIlIIllIIllllllllllllnlnimmlllll.Ullllltlllll'UlllllIIllIIllIIlIIlIIlII'11.11"""
SS. PETER & PAUL, FALL RIVER The parish administration com· mittee will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. The parish council will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13. ST. RITA, MARION Confirmation candidates are providing babysitting service during 10 a.m. Mass each Sunday. A trip to Lincoln Park for 4th and 5th graders will be held Monday, leaving the rectory at 1:30 p.m. and returning by 5:30 p.m. Those interested in going should call the rectory today. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD
Advance notice has been given of a parish mission to begin the weekend of Oct. 24 and 25 and continue for a week. The event, to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis, will be conducted by a Franciscan friar.
ters are common, New Hope is unusual in that it rs "God-oriented." It stresses education as a form of therapy and its program is considered so good that it is almost a guarantee that those who finish it will remain drug free. Unfortunately, many addicts find it too hard and drop out, which is why graduation classes are very small. Most new arrivals - the typical resident is white and middle class - are referred by courts or social workers and there is usually a waiting list. The program normally takes two years from reception to outpatient status. In the "house" - New Manor itself - residents work their way up through four levels. Privileges and responsibilities increase as they move up the ladder and take part in the strenuous character-building process. The successful move into a halfway house in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and as a final step live with other New Hope graduates in private homes. When they come into the program, Brother Buettner said, "they don't want to go through the hassle of going to school, working out' their problems, building principles and connecting with the hub, which is God. "It's a rough program because they have to change their habits and attitudes. But we are more concerned with attitudes than habits." Dominican Sister Susan Dunn, director of activities, explained the therapy process. "It is tied in very much with the· philosophy of creation and decreation. You can move toward creation or decreation and drugs are decrea-
tive. Through different tools in the program we try to get the girls to first value creativity out· side themselves and then eventually within. "For example - the gardening. It takes an everyday effort to make that garden grow. And school makes the mind grow, it gets them hooked on ideas. And if they can come up with values that are' workable and make them independent of drugs and of us, then we know we have done our job." Brother Buettner sees addiction as "really more of an escape than anything else, which is why we don't zero in too much on drugs but attitudes, what responsibilities they have to themselves and society." Often parents feel guilty and they are included in therapy sessions. Sister Dunn said parents are told that 'the choices their children made don't necessarily have a connection with the way they were brought up." But 'Brother Buettner has a word ·of advice. "The big problem is that parents don't listen to their kids. Take time to listen. It might not prevent the problems we see here, but at least they'll know what is going on." New Hope costs about $300, 000 a year to run. Some funding comes through federal and state grants, some from Catholic Charities and a lot through contributions.
Pro-lifers meet OMAHA, Neb. (NC) - Prolifers at the 1981 National Right to Life Convention in Omaha passed an infant formula resolution, voted for officers and received a letter of support from President Reagan. The infant formula resolution urged the U.S. government "to be supportive of breast feeding throughout our foreign aid programs in the Third World" and called on baby formula manufacturers "to employ advertising policies consistent with the highest ethical standards and to insure promotion of sound medical and nutritional programs for consumer health and safety in the use of their products throughout the world." The pro-lifers also encouraged pressure on employers to eliminate insurance programs which pay for employees' abortrons and to offer positive moral and financial support to pregnant employees. Dr. John C. Willke, a Cincinnati physician, was reelected president of the National Right to Life Committee. Other officers are Jean Doyle, Sarasota, Fla., executive vice president; Dr. Carolyn Gerster, Scottsdale, Ariz., vice president internal affairs; Marjorie Montgomery, Louisville, Ky., secretary; Phil Moran, Salem, Mass., treasurer.
Jesus' Way "In the churches we run the danger of dealing only with the well-scrubbed and (of screening) out those who in one way or another are especially troubled. If we are to go Jesus's way, we must have special compassion for those at the edges of social groups and those who do not fit in." - Michael Warren