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Recovering pope anxious for action

DARTH VADOR of Star Wars infamy will attempt to take over Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham, as a highlight of the retreat center's annual family fair. Will evil triumph? Come and find out, say center officials.

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By Pat McGowan "Once people come, they keep coming." That's how Jim Civilinski of S1. Margaret's parish, Buzzards Bay, sums up the appeal of Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham.

Established in 1943 as a seminary for the Sacred Hearts community, the 125-acre waterfront property is now also a retreat and conference center.

It offers sun, sea breezes, roiling meadows and privacy for contemplation and introspection.

So do many places. The pluses at Sacred Hearts and the reas,:>ns 250 people are going to sp'~nd the weekend of Aug. 22 and 23 running an old-fashioned family fair for its benefit are two in number.

They are Brothers Joseph Fandel and Damien O'Hare, workaholics both, who routinely put in IS-hour days maintaining buildings and grounds, cutting grass, lending a hand with retreat cooking and doing a superb public relations job in the Cape Cod community.

On a recent sunny morning Brother Damien took time from all that to show visitors around the seminary's 35-room main house and its spacious grounds.

The complex, including a boathouse, stables and assorted outbuildings, was built in 1928 by the late Robert Herrick, a E:oston attorney who was U.S. ambassador to France during the presidency of Frankin Delano Roosevelt. The president stayed

makes it work at the house several times during his term of office, noted Brother Damien.

The estate was later turned over by Herrick to Massachusetts General Hospital for possible use as a convalescent home. The plan never left the drawing boards, however, and in 1943 the buildings and grounds were purchased by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy and turned over to the Sacred Hearts community. They were dedicated as a seminary later that year.

In recent years the estate has' also' become a spot for parish picnics and other events. Parishioners of St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, held a day of recollection and a retreat there this week, for instance.

Marriage and Engaged Encounter couples, Teens Encounter Christ and various ecumenical and family groups lrom as far away as Virginia have also used the facilities said Brother Damien. The house can accommodate about 40 people in double bedrooms, he said, and numbers are more flexible when teens and children are willing to bed down in sleeping bags.

The estate grounds include a large corral, now a convenient parking area, that formerly held the Irish horses favored by Herrick. There are also tennis and handball oourts and a beautiful private beach overlooked by a boathouse.

Among many small islands visible from the beach is a former holding island for lepers.

"They were kept there until they could be taken to the federal leprosarium in Louisiana," explained Brother Damien, "and as late as the 1930s the Sacred Hearts fathers from Fairhaven would go there by boat to say Mass for them."

The historical vignette provided an interesting link between the diocesan Sacred Hearts community and the famous Father Damien of Molokai, also a Sacred Hearts Father, who spent his life caring for lepers of the Hawaiian Islands.

Nowadays the former estate is as busy as ever it was in the days it hosted a president; and presiding over its comings and goings are Bmthers Damien and Joe. Several years ago, their hospitality and "fantastic courtesy" to a visiting group from St. Patrick's parish, Wareham, within whose boundaries the estate lies, gave rise to the family fairs.

Civilinski, then in St. Patrick's parish and a member of that group, said "We got to love the place and what it stands for.

-But we soon realized that the brothers needed physical and monetary assistance. We got together a permanent committee of about 12 people from the Cape and New Bedford and called ourslves Friends of the Sacred Hearts. We started out with suppers and sales, that sort of thing. Then we decided to have one big fair instead of many small events.

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VATICAN CITY -(NC) - Four days after Pope John Paul II underwent a second intestinal operation at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, his voice was strong and clear in an Angelus message taped from his hospital bed.

The pontiff prayed that "no one may lack bread" in his native Poland and noted the third anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI. Vatican sources said preparations had been completed at the papal summer residence in Castelgandolfo, about 15 miles south of Rome, for the pope's arrival for a two-month period of further recuperation from an assassination attempt May 13.

In a medical bulletin Aug. 8 Pope John Paul's nine physicians said that their patient's "postoperative progress is proceeding regularly ... The general conditions remain good."

The pope began taking liquids orally Aug. 7 and his intravenous feedings ended shortly afterwards.

But one member of the papal

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team, Dr. Giancarlo feared that Pope John Paul may not allow himself sufficient time to recover fully from his injuries.

"He is full of projects, of good ideas," said Castiglione.- "But like every patient he too has to convalesce. I am convinced that he will not spare himself and therefore our concern is that he wants to begin too soon."

It was reported that the pope spoke with his doctors 15 minutes after being wheeled into the recovery room following Aug. 5 surgery to reverse his colostomy.

An Italian newspaper said he opened his eyes, smiled and said to his doctors: "Thank you once again. I bless you."

According to Vatican Radio, the pontiff recited the breviary and concelebrated Mass on the very afternoon of the operation.

About 6 p.m. on Aug. 5, said Vatican Radio, the pope, lying in his bed, concelebrated Mass with Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli and one of the pope's personal secretaries, Father Stanislaus Dziwisz.

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time' Scouts were doing good deeds for each other last weekend.

Members of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, including Boy and Girl Scouts, sheltered and fed 22 boys and five adult leaders from a Dalton, III. troop after their bus broke down on Route 24 in Tiverton.

Father John R. Foister, St. Anne's pastor and Fall River fire department chaplain, was alerted to the boys' plight by the Somerset disaster team late last Friday afternoon. He went to the breakdown site.

By that time the youngsters had been waiting on the highway six hours as mechanics tried fruitlessly to repair their bus.

Passersby had provided soft drinks but it was a weary bunch of Scouts that Father FoIster loaded into his chaplain's wagon and transported to S1. Anne's school.

There Girl Scouts joined the action as mothers waiting for their daughters to return from a parish-sponsored camping trip were hastily pressed into service to obtain fast food chicken dinners for the Scouts.

Meanwhile Father FoIster returned to the highway to pick up the Scouts' sleeping bags and knapsacks, aided by S1. Anne Boy Scout Michael Michno.

Then the Girl Sqrut campers returned, led by Mrs. Michael Michno, Michael's mother.

"We had been camping all week and we were exhausted," she said, "but we were put right to work."

With parents and assorted siblings, the Girl Scouts formed a human chain to transport the boys' gear into St. Anne's School.

"The boys were eating and we didn't want their dinner to get cold," explained Mrs. Michno maternally.

In the school other volunteers had set up cots from S1. Anne's nursery school for the boys.

Next morning Mrs. Michno led the Girl Scout mothers in preparing blueberry pancakes for the boys and their leaders. Then, as efforts continued to get them back on the road, they toured the battleship Massachusetts and the Marine Museum and played baseball with St. Anne Turn to Page Seven

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LONG BEACH, Calif. i(NC)-St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach has made a commitment to provide stand-by medical support to the Department of Defense under a new program called Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System. Sister of Charity Mary Lucille Desmond, the medical center's administrator, signed an agreement to commit 50 staff beds for U.S. casualties if a large scale foreign war breaks out.

PANAMA CITY, Panama (NC)-Before 10,000 persons in 'Panama City's cathedral, Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City eulogized Gen. Omar Torrijos, former head of government in Panama, for "his great awareness of God's mercy."

Speaking at Torrijos' funeral the archbishop said that "in the spirit of the Gospel, he was a very human, compassionate man who ... believed in the dignity of the human person, of the humblest andl the poorest, and made them feel that dignity.

A FIREMAN checks damage in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, after an IRA attack. (NC Photo)

WASHINGTON (NC)-Officials of organizations promoting natural family planning have criticized a Population Cris.is Committee Report arguing that NFP should be given lower priority than other birth control methods in government-funded programs. The report said that NFP methods are unlikely to make a major impact on birth rates. Lawrence J. Kane of the Human ,Life and Natural Family Planning Foundation countered that the report was a "hatchet job occurring at a time when the issue of family planning funding is before Congress."

ROME (NC)-Two West German magistrates went to Rebibbia maximum security prison on the outskirts of Rome to question Mehmet Ali Agca about two murders committed last year ,in their country. Agca, the 23-year-old Turk sentenced to life imprisonment July 22 for the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, refused to talk to the West Germans except to say that he had never visited their country. Both murders involved Turkish citizens living in West Germany who were believed to have ties with the Gray Wolves, a I1ight-wing Turkish group to which Agca allegedly belonged.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-After five months of parliamentary maneuvering Congress has cleared the major obstacle to the nomination of Dr. C. Everett Koop as U.S. surgeon general. The obstacle, a law which mandates retirement at age 64 for members of the Public Health Service, which includes the surgeon general, was removed by House-Senate conferees during consideration of the massive budget reconciliation bill sent to President Reagan at the end of July. Koop, 64, an路 outspoken opponent of abortion, must be confirmed by the Senate before taking office.

A NUN from a home for blind children near Warsaw accepts food donated by police who confiscated it from a black market operation. (NC Photo)

INDIANAPOLIS (NC)--eatholic schools in the Indianapolis archdiocese are denying transfer requests from public school children seeking to avoid court-ordered racial desegregation. Court-ordered busing of some 6,000 black students in metropolitan Indianapolis is scheduled for fall. Principals have refused more than 100 students following parent interviews.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Witnesses at a Helsinki commission hearing deplored the flight of Uytautas Skoudis, a Lithuanian-American imprisoned in the Soviet Union because of his protests against restrictions on religion in Soviet-ruled Lithuania. The 52-year-old geologist born in 'Chicago, is in a labor camp in Soviet Mordovia. Noting that about 95 percent of Lithuanians are baptized Catholics, Rep. Millicent Fenwick (R-N.J.), who preseided at the hearing, said, "This faith in CathoHcism endures despite the anti-religious activities of the SOVliet Union."

WASHINGTON (NC)-iPresident Reagan, fresh from his twin victories on the tax and budget bills, said that E~conomic issues, especially Social Secul1ity, will continue to dominate his administratio:n. In an interview with The Washington Star he declined to say he would work as actively on the sooial issues of abortion, school prayer and busing as he has on his economic program. But he repeated his opposition to abortion.

NEW YORK (NC)-A priest jailed for contempt of court in 1979 has been credited with contributing to renewal of' a South Bronx area notorious for bad housing, high crime, unemployment, widespread drug use and poor health care. The priest, Father 'Louis R. Gigante, 49, associate pastor of St. Athanasius Parish in the South Bronx, is president of the Southeast Bronx Community Organization, non-profit housing development company which sponsors rehabilitation and construction of apartment buildings for low-income tenants.

FATHER JERRY WARD, an air force chaplain, poses with "Honkin' Padre," his stock car. He finds dirt-track auto racing a good way to reach youth. (NC Photo)

NEW YORK (NC)-EI Salvador is "running out of time" in its struggle for democratic and socioeconomic reform because military leaders appear to be succeeding in establishing an. armed dictatorship, according to Emilio Maspero, secretary of the Latin American Confederation of Workers. The confederation is an independent organization based in Caracas, Venezuela, which emphasizes the need for radical changes to benefit workers.

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Vatic~Ln Radio de-scribes nuclear war -horrors VATICAN CITY '(NC) - On the 36th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, Vatican Radio reminded its worldwide audience of the horrors of nuclear war and recalled words spoken last February at Hiroshima by Pope John Paul II. Calling the 1945 bombing "one of the most atrocious events in our age," Vatican Radio described its effects in detail. "At 8:15 in the morning," the broadcast said, "Hiroshima had 343,000 inhabitants; 120,000 of them would die instantaneously, 80,000 would be wounded, and many o~: those would die later after horrible suffering."

The broadcast told of the destruction wrought by the fourton atomic bomb's blast. "Within 300 meters (about 330 yards), people literally evaporated; within a kilometer (five-eighths of a mile) everyone, or almost everyone, died right away; and they were the more fortunate ones, because those who had been from three to four kilometers (from the hlast) took several weeks to die. Those farther away escaped for the moment, but later many of them suffered from lukemia or went blind."

Commenting that the weapon used at Hiroshima seems "like an innocuous plaything" compared to those of the present day, Vatican Radio noted that "nations in possession of such weapons have amassed in their

THE MOST Reverend Daniel A. Cronin has confirmed the appointment by Very Reverend William Davis, SS.CC., Provincial of the Sacred Hearts Fathers, of Father Larry W. Morrison, SS.CC., as associate pastor of St. Anthony's Church, Mattapoisett, effective Saturday.

A native of Indianapolis, Father Morrison was ordained in 1979 and previously served in Texas.

Father Boniface -Jones, SS.CC., present associate pastor at Mattapoisett, will enter semiretirement, due to ill health, but will remain active in parish mini.stry.

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arsenals enough power to destroy the whole world many times over."

Also on Aug. 6, at an anniversary ceremony at Hiroshima's Peace Park, Mayor Takesi Araki addressed a crowd of 40,000.

Araki whose arms and hands are covered with scars caused by radiation from the bomb, told the group that "the arms development race . . . threatens to drive the world's population to the brink of destruction."

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At the ceremony the names of 2,757 people said to have died in the past year from diseases attributed to after-effects of the bomb were added to a memorial notebook.

Also in connection with the Hiroshima anniversary, five church-based peace groups, including Pax Christi USA, the Catholic peace movement , have announced a new effort to abolish nuclear weapons.

Called the New Abolitionist Covenant, the effort recalls the movement of Christians in the 1800s to abolish slavery.

"Although it then seemed like an absurd, unattainable goal,

abolitionists insisted that God required nothing less," said a statement by the five groups.

Besides Pax Christi they are the Fellowship of Reconciliation, New Call to Peacemaking, World Peacemakers and Sojourners.

"The nuclear threat is not just a political issue any more than slavery was," said the statement.

"It is a question that challenges our worship of God and our commitment to Jesus Christ."

The statement said the potential for wholesale destruction by nuclear weapons makes their possession an offense against God and humanity, no matter what the justification.

"At stake is whether we trust in God or the bomb," it added.

The statement also said that continuing to spend "hundreds of billions of dollars in preparation for war while millions go hungry is a grievous failure of compassion and an affront to God." The new Abolitionist Covenant grew out of a group of Christians who began meeting a year ago on the need for a new movement against "'the deadly - momentum of the growing arms race."

They said over 150,000 copies of the covenant would be distributed to churches.

ROME (NC) American Father Vincent T. O'Keefe has been chosen as temporary vicar general of the world's 27,000 Jesuits during the illness of the Jesuit superior general, Father Pedro Arrupe.

Father O'Keefe, 61, one of the order's four assistant generals since 1965, was chosen on Aug. 10 to govern the society because of the incapacity of Father Arrupe, who suffered a stroke Aug. 7.

A medical bulletin on Aug. 10 said Father Arrupe, 74, was responding favorably to anticoagulant therapy to dislodge the blood clot in his brain which caused the stroke.

He was stricken as he arrived at Rome's airport after an 11hour flight from Bangkok, Thailand. The flight followed a twoweek visit to the Philippines to celebrate with Filipino Jesuit communities the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in the Philippines.

Doctors said on Aug. 10 that the partial paralysis of the right side which Father Arrupe suffered . from the stroke was receding. Mobility of the right leg, according to the medical report, was increasing. Father Arrupe was still unable to move his right hand and was having difficulty speaking because of the immobility of the right side of his face, although there was slight improvement in these areas since the first day, said the medical report.

Doctors prescribed absolute rest for Father Arrupe for at least four days and said that another medical bulletin would be issued Aug. 17.

In 1980 Father Arrupe had announced his desire to resign as Jesuit superior general because of his advancing age, but the pope had asked him to postpone his resignation.

Should he resign from his post, Father Arrupe would become the first superior general in the order's history to do so.

Father O'Keefe, a native of Jersey City, N.J., was ordained to the priesthood in 1950. He was president of Fordham University from 1963 to 1966.

He is well known to American television viewers as the color commentator for papal ceremonies.

A TRAPPIST MONK recites rosary as he strolls through covered walkway at St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer. The scene is from a documentary on monastic life to be presented from 9:30 to 11 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, on ABC television. (NC Photo)

Canon law unit adds 2 Americans VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has expanded the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of Canon Law to include 36 new members: 18 cardinals, 11 archbishops and 7 bishops.

Latin American, Asian and African churchmen predominate in the new group.

Until now the commission has been composed of 36 cardinals.

The Americans among the recently announced appointees are Cardinal John Cody of Chicago and Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati.

Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia was already a member.

The commission's task is to revise the general law of the church, which was last done in 1917.

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A Twist of Fate But a few short years ago, the nation was ready to bury the Republican party. The Democrats rode high.

How could the nation ever return to a two-party system? Who could ever be found to revive the Grand Old Party? Would there ever be a day when the elephant would once more be able to sit on the donkey?

These were a few of the whimsical questions asked as the Democrats pursued their goals of guns and butter.

But time has proved that people forget very easily. The Watergate tragedy in the long run was not so much a setback for the GOP as an event that changed the national mood. The turmoil of the late sixties and early seventies left the vast majority of Americans upset and even angry.

Something had to be done; someone had to come along.

Well, those wishes have come true for those who felt that all had been lost. Like the New England weather, which changes as you wait, so too American politics. Out of the West rode the smiling cowboy of yesteryear. Ronald Reagan has accomplished and is still achieving that which was thought to be impossible. He has brought back to the nation the two-party system.

Yet it is difficult to use the old party labels in exactly the same路 way. There is a notable difference. What is currently happening before our very eyes is perhaps the development of new party identities. In place of Democrat and Republican, it would seem that the terms liberal and .conservative would more appropriately describe the current composition of Congress.

It is precisely because of this that the president has been able to swing the nation to his side. Not the Democratic vote but rather the Democratic conservative vote has proved to be the swing on which the Reagan success has been able to ride.

Like voices from the past, yesterday's powerful, today's enfeebled democratic liberals sing a tune that few would rate well on the charts. .There were very few even in his own party who thought that the Hollywood matinee idol could assemble an alliance that would substantially reshape national policy. Like an old rerun on late night TV, Ronald Reagan kept trying, kept campaigning, kept playing the crowd until, to use an old Democratic expression, he kept his rendezvous with destiny.

Whether one likes it or not, Ronald Reagan has once more established the influence of the executive branch over Congress. Perhaps for the first time since the unique days of FDR, a president can control the people on the Hill.

The only thing with which the opposition can counter is fleeting glimpses of Camelot.

If the Reagan economic plan works, if he is able to continue charming the American public, if he continues to uphold issues dear to the middle class, then Ronald Reagan will have one of the longest runs of his long career.

As a look at the past 20 years of American politics proves, the whims of the public are many. But most people like a good show. Ronald Reagan is giving a great performance.

The democrats have nothing but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. They will have to get a few more instruments to join their band before they can even think of harmony. Even then it will be difficult to form a unified and organized marching group. For the Democrats this is indeed a twist of fate.

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OfFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIV.ER 410 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.lD. FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR EDITOR Rev. Msgr. John 1. Regan .

Rev. John F. Moore. . . . Leary Press-Fall River

A COUPLE SHARES A QUIET MOMENT AT MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER CONVENTION

'And now there remain faith, hope and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.' I Cor. 13:13 .

The peace priority

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Few actions generated as much outrage as the attempted assassination of O'.1r Holy Father.

Just four days after the shooting, the Pope's attitude of forgiveness was evidenced by these words uttered from his hospital bed: "I pray for the brother who struck me, whom I sincerely pardon." Unfortunately, the healing of forgiveness is not as fast 31: the Pope's physical healing.

To refer to the universally respised Mehmet AI: Agca as one's brother is an example of true forgiveness. To be willing to forgive is to fulfill the beatitude: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called God's children.

This incident recalls an analoguos situation that occured at the tum of the century and involved St. Therese, the Little Flower who at age 14 read a newspaper account of a notorious murderer sentenced to death.

Wishing at all oosts to prevent him from going to hell, she prayed intensely for him. The murderer repented on the day of his execution and this provided St. Therese with a sign of hope for the rest of her life.

Pope John Paul II has showed us -by example that being a peacemaker is his first priority.

Peace can only be achieved by working together for justice. The violence that struck the Vatican on May 13 is a violence that reaches out to every area of our turbulent world.

The Holy Fatl:er's first ency-

clical, Redemptor Hominis, "contains a strong warning against the kind of injustice that leads to violence.

Commenting on Matthew 25: 40, "What you do to the least of my brothers, you do unto me," the pope wrote: "We all know well the misery and hunger on OUI(" globe could have been made fertile in a short time, if the gigantic investments for armaments at the service of war and destruction had been changed into investments for

HOLY DAY Saturday is the feast of the Assumption. a holy day of obligation.. Catholics should assist at Mass once for the holy day and once for Sunday.

[necroloQY) August 14 Rev. Haphael Marciniak, O.F.M., Conv., 1947 Pastor, Holy Cross, Fall River August 15 Rev. Charles W. Cullen, 1926, Founder, Holy Family, East Taunton August 17 Rev. Cornelius O'Connor, 1882, Pastor, Holy Trinity, West Harwich August 18 Rev. Msgr. William H. Dolan, 1977, Pastor Emeritus, Holy Family, Taunton

good at the service of life," Mehmet Ali Agca was brought to court surrounded by bulletproof glass. He was a product of both hunger and misery and he learned by way of terrorism that violent crime pays.

The pain the pope experienced was an indirect result of the pain that warped the thinking of Agca.

To dismiss him as a "nut" is only wishful thinking. No doubt his behavior is horrendous, however murky his motives. What is more horrendous is an attitude that isolates his particular madness from the madness that occurs constantly throughout the world.

Peace needs to be our first priority. Arming to the teeth is not the way to achieve it. The Reagan administration may be responding to a mandate as indicated by the polls to increase military spending; however, we are all ultimately accountable to more than just the opinion of the majority.

To achieve peace we may have to sacrifice, to give up some luxuries. Eventually we must stand up for the lofty ideals of freedom and justice upon which our nation was founded.

Few people will be willing to stand up for a nation whose only priority is seen as prosperity and freedom from armed conflict involving its own sons.

Each generation must make its first priority to be God's children and work toward a peace based upon justice, not the fear of annihilation.

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Family friends I am sore today, long un)used muscles teilling me that I shouldn't play volleyball against a bunch of young people. It was them against us - parents versus kids - and not only did they beat us, but they topped it off with the ultimate indignity: "Don't worry, Mom and Dad. We'll drive home. You rest."

There are times when compassion is cause for homicide.

It was not a wild party but one of those pleasant bonuses of family life that comes along .all too rarely - a da~r spent with other families who are good friends. There are families where parents like the other parents but the kids can't stand each other. There are families where parents have to force politeness toward each other for the sake of their children's friendships.

But once in a rare while there are families where the whole family enjoys the other whole family. We are fortunate to know several such families.

Years ago when our ehildren were quite young, we and four other families gathered together as a sort of religious extended family. Monthly we met for Mass or a prayer liturgy, some reli-

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gious discussion for the adults, DOLORES story telling for the children, and a noisy and somewhat messy CURRAN potluck we euphemistically called agape meal. We had an aggregate of 16 children, the eldest of whom was 14 or so.

That 14-year-old is now mar· ried and the stepmother of two When one little girl was crushed in a faraway state. Her family by a freak auto accident a few moved to Minnesota and while years ago, it affected us all. Forthey are still missed, another tunately, she survived after a younger family, much liked by harrowing six months and was all, eventually assumed their one of those who whipped us in place. At one point it seemed as volleyball.

Yesterday, we were concerned if y.oe had babies and toddlers in all corners, but those babies and because the youngest of the toddlers are now in junior and group was suffering a separated senior high while their older muscle from a swimming injury. brothers and sisters are in col- Just like a family. Lots of hurts and lots of pleasures, only they lege or the work world.

One just graduated from Notre are shared by more than parents Dame. His sister holds a respon- and siblings.

I think this ·kind of family sible position as head of a department in a fine hospital, an- friendship is invaluable in our other sister is a buyer for a increasingly mobile and depersports outlet. A graduating senior sonalized culture. It makes up from one of our other families for brothers and sisters who are was named state drum major· too far away and friends who this past year. I could go on move on. On the way home from about their collective honors, our gathering yesterday, our and their parents' as well, but I children commented, "Gee. that was fun," and "Aren't we lucky won't bore you.

The point of all this is that to have them?" When that comes each of us feels a bit of owner- from children aged 12, 16 and 19, ship of each of these kids. Like- you know it's got to be somewise, we hurt when they hurt. thing special.

Immigration policy A Reagan administration proposal for sweeping reforms of U.S. immigration policy, like many of the plans before it, is running into a buzzsaw of opposition.

The plan, sent to Congress.

July 30, includes: - "Legalization" opportunities for many illegal aliens presently in the United StatEls; - Fines of up to $1,000 for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens; - An experimental guest program allowing 50,000 Mexican laborers to enter the United States temporarily each year for nine to 12 months, and - New border enforcement meaures costing $40 million, plus an additional $35 million jFor construction of detention centers for aliens caught lrttempting to cross the border illegally.

Many of the ideas, which will not become effective unless Congress decides to enact the proposals, were being criticized from all sides. Some, for instance, said that the guest worker plan was not large enough while others said no sueh plan should be implemented.

The legalization, or amnesty, proposals are also likely to be controversial.

"I suspect that 8 million unemployed Americans would question the wisdom of an amnesty policy which rewards lawbreakers," said Sen. John East (R-N.C.) shortly before the Reagan plan was unveiled.

But proponents of amnesty who say many of the estimated 3.5 to 5 million illegal aliens hold jobs that would not other-

wise exist - charged that the administration's proposals amounted to a new form of slavery and would prove to be "antifamily."

The administration has suggested that aliens must show 10 years of continuous residence in the United States before they could apply for permanent residence status. In the meantime, they would pay taxes but would not be eligible for food stamps, welfare or unemployment compensation and would not be allowed to bring their families into the country.

"This is like going back to slavery," said Javier Rabadan of the Chicago-based Interfaith Coalition for Justice to Immigrants. He argued that it would force "second-class citizens" to work and pay taxes but be eligible for none of the benefits of "first-class" citizenship.

Another member of the same coalition, Dorothy McIntyre, contended that the plan would convert into "official policy" the already tragic situation of families split while the husband seeks work north of the border.

Plans for a guest worker program also have been loudly criticized in the past by religious and Hispanic organizations who recall the "bracero" program closed in 1964.

"A guest worker program would mean the end of the United Farm Workers if it became an elaborate program, as undoubtedly it would," said Msgr.

George Higgins, retired U.S. Catholic Conference secretary for special concerns, at a press conference denouncing such a plan.

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Others argue that a guest worker would increase Mexico's economic reliance on the United States and that the guest workers themselves would be little more than slilves.

But some Western congressmen want a larger program, saying many low-paying jobs in their region go unfilled.

Possibly equally controversial is the administration's proposal to fine employers who hire illegal aliens, coupled with rejection of a proposal for a counterfeit-proof national identity card so legal workers could prove their right to a job.

Employers say they should not have to shoulder the burden of determining the residency status of potential employees, while Hispanic groups fear fines might discourage employers from hiring anyone who looks like a foreigner.

That concern also was raised five months earlier by. the USCC when a bipartisan immigration commission appointed by President Jimmy Carter made a similar recommendation.

"Since the recommended sanctions may raise the specter of discrimination, this is a matter of serious concern to the Catholic Conference," Bishop Thomas Kelly, USCC general secretary, said then.

Training to be a • p;rlllCeSS Before her marriage, the new Princess of Wales received some basic training in how to wear a crown from Queen Mother Elizabeth.

Certainly, in such matters as the proper angle of the champagne bottle in regard to the prow, the scissors to the ribbon, the fetching princess could have no better ooach. .

But she really does not need one. She has been peerlessly prepared for the royal life. She is a former kindergarten teacher.

It is a conditioning nonpareil.

Every morning of her brief career, the former Lady Diana stepped into a panorama of aggressions, anxieties, rivalries, storms and emergencies that will, except for the size of the participants, be pretty much what she will face as people curtsy to her instead of grabbing her around the knees in greeting.

She is, as a result of her experience, a seasoned translator of garbled messages, which is terribly important for someone who will be mingling with politicians and other public figures.

Five-year-olds can be quite verbal and occasionally eloquent.

But the thoughts sometimes come out in confusing sequence, like airplanes on a runway that take off in the wrong order.

Thus a child may suddenly scream, '·'1 hate you," when what he really means is that he needs desperately to go to the bathroom and wishes you had noticed sooner.

That exact thing would never happen at a formal reception.

But in the event that a Cabinet minister suddenly begins ranting about high taxes, she will at once suspect the real problem perhaps tight shoes or collar.

She cannot pat him on the head or wipe his nose, as she might have done for a small sufferer in her nursery school. She will guide him gently to the buffet table, knowing of old how milk and cookies can soothe the unquiet spirit.

Prince Charles, of course, has gone to sea and under it, has parachuted, sky-dived and performed many feats to prove his fitness for the throne. But his bride will be able, with her background, to explain certain incidents that might baffle someone who had not spent considerable time at "Show and Tell."

She would have, for instance, no problem interpreting the conduct of Rep. John Le"Boutillier, the young Republican from New York, who startled all by his attack on Speaker O~Neill. He called the head of the House "big, fat and out of control - just like the federal government."

It was frightfully rude, of course, and the kind of talk that

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Nor would she experience any difficulty in deciphering the origin and causes of the recent rumble between Secretary of State Haig and UN Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick. That kind of thing is familiar. Alistair, you see, regarded himself as the vicar of the crayons. He always gave them out at coloring time. But one day, when he was bent over a Chinese puzzle, the teacher asked Hilary to take over, whereupon Alistair retreated to the corner in a deep sulk and mute tered to his little cohorts that he had arranged the crayons in the right order and told Hilary exactly how to give them out and, in fact, deserved all the credit for the success of the operation.

Lady Diana, in her old life, would perhaps have praised Hil· ary and sought the earliest opportunity to address the class on the subject of "sharing."

She plans to take her husband in hand, she revealed in an exchange with Chris Evert Lloyd, who visited her in the royal box at Wimbledon.

Mrs. Lloyd asked why the prince was not present. "It is because he can't sit still," said the new princess, connoisseur of squirmers. "He is like a great big baby, but one day I hope to calm him down enough to enjoy it."

There speaks the kindergarten teacher. She sees the child in the man. She knows that in the right hands, he will come along nicely.

The prince is under the impression that the royal family is training his new wife. He will find out, in due course, that she is training him.

The prospects for the marriage could not be better. Here you have a young woman with a peerless understanding of human behavior, and a prince who is nothing less than a phenomenon in the modern world - a young man who wishes to please his parents and do the right thing.

They should live happily ever after.

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Tricentennial NEW YORK(NC) - A Mass concelebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral by Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York, Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic delegate in the United. States, and six other bishops marked the tricentennial of the founding of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Established by St. John Baptist de la Salle, a French priest, the con. gregation of lay Religious, usually called the Christian Brothers, has 10,200 members in more than 70 nations around the world.

By FatherCatoir The accident happened late at night - almost morning, in fact - along a secluded street in an affluent suburban community. It had been a pleasant summer day.

But these are just incidentals.

The accident could have happened - indeed, has happened - at any time in Any Town, U.S.A.

Colloquium Twenty-two Sisters of Mercy from Salve Regina College, Newport were among participants in a recent conference of the Mercy Higher Education Colloquium at Gwynedd-Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley, Pa. Documents from the pope and the U.S. bishops were discussed and acad.emic awards were presented. Sister Sheila Megley, vice-president and academic dean of Salve Regina, is the colloquium chairperson, Sisters of Mercy operate 19 U.S. colleges.

TIDS HALF-TON piece of limestone found in ancient Palestine is believed part of an ancient copy of the Ark of the Covenant. (NC/UPI Photo)

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It is thought to be the first such find.

The archaeological team found the limestone section of the ark shortly before conflict increased

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in the latest spate of fighting between Isra.el and Palestinian forces near Lebanon.

Made of white limestone, the stone shows two rampant lions and a scallop shell designed to hold an eternal light. It was found in the ruins of a Jewish temple believed to date from about 200 A.D. According to Eric and Carol Meyers, Duke ·University religion professors involved in the discovery,' t.he stone is from a copy of the original Ark of the Covenant. As described in the Bible, the original gold-plated Ark of the Covenant was used in ancient Israel to carry the stones of the Ten Commandments. It disappeared in biblical times.

The scholars believe that copies of the ark were used later, still in ancient times, to hold scriptures.

Announcement of the find was made jointly by Duke University in Durham and the American Schools of Oriental Research in Cambridge, Mass.

A search for the original ark is portrayed in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark." The actionfilled adver.ture film is packing theaters but it raises questions about its treatment of the ark as subject mat~er, according to Michael Gallagher, a critic for NC News and a staff member of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

Red concessions WARSAW, Pol.and (NC) ' A proposed program for reforming the Polish Communist Party includes increasing cooperation with the Cathilic Church. It will be discussed at a party congress in July. The program says the party favors "extending the platform of cooperation between the state and churCh." The program would also allow non-communists to hold government positions and hinted that independent trade union Solidarity members could be candidates for the legislature. About 90 percent of the 36 million Polish people professes Catholicism.

Those who lived nearby heard the squealing tires followed by the "whuump" that ended in eerie stillness. They said it was a grim scene. There was enough illumination so that anyone who wasn't completely numbed by the horror could figure out what happened.

The driver had careened around a curve (he was famili~r with it and enjoyed taking it at high speed so passengers would slide into each other), lost control, jumped the curb, caromed off a fire hydrant and smashed head on into a tree on the other side of the street, reducing the car to a jagged mass if metal and shattered glass.

Despite their injuries, two young people were able to stagger out. Two others lay crumpled inside and had to extricated. The driver was 17. All had been drinking and empty ·beer cans rattled around the floor of the car. Miraculously, all survived.

Later the parents of the driver were to ask: "Why? Why did it happen? Why were they drinking? We've warned them so many times."

Jimmy - we'll call him that - could answer their questions, but it's not likely that he will.

However, from what he's said to counselors and friends and confidents, it's not difficult to put his story together. It goes like this: "We didn't mean any harm.

We just wanted to have some fun - to have a good time.

Mom and Dad always seem to have a good time when they're drinking. It's the only time I see them laugh anymore. Otherwise they're fighting or each one is going off alone. But at parties it's not that way.

"Life hasn't been fun lately, what with the fighting and Mom 'nagging about school and Dad scolding me about being irresponsible and immature. And I guess I am. But that night I wanted to be able to laugh."

Jimmy and his friends might be able to laugh again - someday. I hope so. I pray that he will be able to forgive himself, that his still-developing faith will see him through this crisis.

And I pray that the parents of other Jimmys will pause to consider the values they are really passing on to their children.

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Dear Editor: The "Housing Crisis" article and the picture of the Harlem JOOther on page 1 of the July 30 Anchor really upset me! The socalled "wisdom of men" disclaims poverty in our nation; there are "near poor" but only because they refuse t() help themselves. .,.

How many wonder if the Harlem mother is an addict, an alcoholic, a gambler, maybe a Haitian refugee or, get this, a lazy broad who motherl; children for AFDC monies. Surely we've all painted these pictures.

Would you care to "throw the stone" or maybe you'd like to reconsider and try to see :poverty as it really is and learn with your heart. The greatest offense against poverty of any :form is our inability to first :forgive.

Without this there can be no giving in the name of charity..., We good people fraternize with one another-upstanding, churchgoing and supporting, family-loving, smiling, . hardworking Christians - yet we kill one another the whole daly long.

Our minds and hearts fail to deliver the poor. Those who thrive on the miseries of the p>oor include all of us, whether by material gain or by omission to truly uplift a very real living part of Jesus' body..., If Christ is in our neighbor, how can we allow Him to sleep in a heatless, roach·riddEm, barren flat? ...

For some time I have been writing on the word "underprivileged" as is used with the St. Vincent de Paul summer camp.

It's a lousy title!

Anyway, this script came about. What you do or fail to do with it doesn't matter - it's been said!

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Scholars nam,ed WASHINGTON - Father Carl J. Peter, dean of the School of Religious Studies at thl~ Catholic University of America has announced appointment of five scholars to a chair in American Church History endowed by the Catholic Daughters of tll1e Americas.

The appointees follow: Philip Gleason, professor of history, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., 1982; Monsignor James P. Gaffey, dean of studies, St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park, Calif., 1983; Sister Margaret Carthy, O.S.U., Jormer dean of the Graduate School, College of New Rochelle, N.Y., 1984; Father Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J., associate professor of religious studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 1985; and Father R. Emmett CUrri!D, S.J., associate professor of history, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1986.

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Finally, after a farewell spaghetti supper cooked by the St. Anne's Scout moms, they took to the road once more, having had to buy another bus.

The Illinois Scouts had already been on the road three weeks, said Mrs. Michno, attending a Boy Scout jaboree in Washington,' D.C., touring th'e capital and taking in other sights en route.

When they came to a halt in Tiverton they were on their way to Cape Cod. The youngsters were unfazed by the mishap, said Mrs. Michno, taking it as one more adventure on their trip. "And could they eat!" she added. "One boy had four plates of spaghetti and five pieces of watermelon. We thought he'd burst!"

But the adults were very very grateful for St. Anne's helping hand and overwhelmed by the generosity of New England hospitality.

For the St. Anne volunteers, coordinated by Mrs. Michno and her husband Edward, leader of the parish Boy Scout troop, the weekend was an object lesson in what Scouting is all about.

"Our children helped and so did the children of the other parents," said Mrs. Michno. "We try to tell them Scouts isn't just camping and getting badges you must live it, too. We think they did that this weekend."

But she admitted that by Saturday night "We were all numb!"

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The availability of blood is critical and all types are needed all summer. So please, if you are between the ages of 17 and 65, weigh at least 110 Ibs and are in good health call your local chapter of the Red Cross to find out where and when you can donate at this important time of year.

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BREWSTER, Our Lady of the MARION, St. Rita, 113 Front St. Cape, Stoney Brook Road: (schedule effective: June 27-28· (Schedule effective June thru Aug. 29-30): Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. Labor Day): Sat. 5, 6:30 p.m.; 8:30, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily, 8:30 Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, . a.m.; confessions, Saturday, 4:308, 11 a.m., no 11 a.m. on Satur- 5:00 p.m. days; confessions, Sat. 4:15-5 MAlTAPOI:SElT, St. Anthony, and 6 to 6:30 p.m.

22 Barstow St.: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; EAST BREWSTER, Immaculate Sun. 8, 9:30, 11:00 a.m., daily 8 Co~ption, Route 6A: (Scheda.m.; Confessions 3:30-4:20 p.m. ule effective July and Aug.): Sat. 4:30 and 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:30 and NANTUCKlET, Our Lady of the Isle, Federlll St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.

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Sun. 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 a.m., 7 BUZZARDS BAY, St. Margaret, p.m.; daily, 7 a.m. & 12:10 p.m.

141 Main St; Schedule effective rosary before daily Masses; conJune 27; Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, fessions, Sat. 4-4:.45 p.m.

10, 11 a.m., daily, 8 a.m. Mon.SIASCONSET, Union Chapel: Fri.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:45 p.m.

Sun. 8:45 lI.m. during July and ONSET, St. Mary Star of the Sea, August.

Onset Ave.: Sat. 6:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 a.m.; daily, 9 NORm FALMOUTH, St. Elizabeth Seton, 481 Quaker Rd.: a.m.; confessions, Sat. 6:15-6:3C Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:45, 9, CENTERVILLE, Our Lady of 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily 9 Victory, 122 Park Ave.: Schedule a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:15-3:45, June 20-21 - thru Labor Day 4:45-5:15 p.m. weekend, Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m. Sun. 7, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45, 12 noon; OAK BLUFFS, Sacred Heart, daily, 7, 9 a.m., First Fridays, Circuit Ave.:. Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. Masses 7, 9 a.m., Ultreya, 8 p.m.; 8, 9:15, 10:30 a.m.; daily (Mon.confessions, Sat. following 9 Fri.) 7 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 5:15-5:45 p.m. a.m.. Mass.

WEST BARNSTABLE, Our Lady of Hope, Rte. 6A; Sat. 4 & 5:15. p.m.; Sun., 8:45, 10 a.m., daily 8 a.m. confessions, before each Mass.

CHATHAM, Holy Redeemer, 72 Highland Ave.: Schedule July 4, Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.

SOUTH CHAmAM, Our Lady of Grace, Rte. 137, off Rte. 28: Schedule July 4, Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m.

EAST FALMOUTH, St. Anthony, 167 East Falmouth Highway: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30-4:15 p.m., weekdays, any time by request.

EDGARTOWN, St. Elizabeth, Main Street: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 11 a.m.; daily, Mon.Sat., 8:30 a.m.; confessions, Y2 hr. before Sat. Masses.

FALMOUTH, St. Patrick, 511 E. Main St.: Schedule June 27-28 Sat. 5:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:45, 10, 11:15 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. .

FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, St. Thomas Chapel, Falmouth Heigllts Rd.: Schedule June 2728, Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun, 8, 9, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.

HYANNIS, St. Francis Xavier, 347 South St.: Schedule effective July 4-5, Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon, 5 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., 12:10 pm.; confessions, Sat. 4:00 - 4:50 p.m. and following 7:30 p.m. Mass.

YARMOUTHPORT, Sacred Heart, off Rte•..6A: Sat. 4:00, 5:15 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.; confessions before Mass.

ORLEANS, St. Joan of Arc, Bridge St. (schedule effective June 20-21 through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:50 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass 'Wed.

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

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

SOUTH YARMOUTH, St.' Pius X, 5 Barbara St.: Sat. 4, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m.

BASS RIVER, Our Lady of the Highway, Rte. 28: Sun. 8, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily (Mon.-Fri.), 8 a.m.

VINEYARD HAVEN, St. Augus. tine, Church and Franklin Sts.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:30 p.m., 6-6:30 p.m.

WAREHAM, St. Patrick, St.: Sat. 4, 6 p.m.; Sun. 10, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; a.m.; confessions, Sat. 7-7:30 p.m.

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WEST WAREHAM, St. Anthony, off Rte. 28 (schedule effective July and August): Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10 a.m.; confessions before each Mass.

WELLFLEET, Our Lady of Lourdes, 56-58 Main St.: Sat. 4 and 5 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m., confessions, before all Masses; Tues. 7:30 p.m.; charismatic prayer meeting; Holy day Aug. 14, 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.; Aug. 15, 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.

NORTH EASmAM, Church of the Visitati4)n (schedule effective June 20-21 through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 a.m.; daily Mass 9 a.m.

Mon.-Wed.-Fri during July and Aug.; confessions, Sat. 6:30-6:50 p.m.

TRURO, Sacred Heart, Rte. 6A: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 9:30 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 9:30 a.m.

OSTERVILI.E, Our Lady of the Assumption, 76 Wianno Ave. (schedule tlffective June 27·28 through Aug. 29-30): Sat. 4:00 and·5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

NORTH TRURO, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pond Road: Sat. 4, 5 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, 11 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14,4,5 p.m.; Aug. 15, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; Air Force Base - ' Mass Sat. and Vigil of Holy Day. 4:00 p.m.

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

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

WEST HARWICH, Holy Trinity, Rte. 28 (schedule effe,etive June 27-28): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9, 10:30, 12 noon; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3, 4:30 and 7:45 p.m.; Eve of 1st Friday, 3, 4:30 p.m.; First Friday, additional Mass at 11 a.m. and Benediction at 2 p.m.

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

DENNISPORT, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Upper County Rd. (schedule effective July 4-5): Sat. 4:30 p.m..; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m. Daily 7:30 (effective July 6) Confessions, Sat. 3-4 p.m.

PROVINCETOWN, St. Peter the Apostle, 11 Prince St.: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 11 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a..m., confessions, Sat. 6:30-7:00 p.m. and by appointment.

WOODS HOLE, St. Joseph: Schedule June 27·28, Sat. 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.; Confessions Y2 hour be· fore Sunday Masses.

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ThIs is the fifth in a !~eries of articles by the NC News Service Rome Bureau on how thE! Roman Curia, the church's central administration, is run.

VATICAN CI1Y (NC) "Each of the Vatican congregations has a specific area Ilf specialization - bishops, prie.sts, education," said an American official of the papal Secretariat of State. "What we do is pick up the odds and ends."

That role, especially u:r:tder the energetic and popular PClpe John Paul II, includes everything from preparing a daily briefing book of world news to finding a Chinesse language scholar in the middle of Tokyo to answering the tens of thousands of letters sent to the pope daily.

It also means coordinating the activities of about 300 Vatican diplomats throughout the world, planning international papal trips to the last detail, 2.nd slaving over translations of major papal documents to assure that official versions in sev,en languages coincide with the sense of the pope's original Polish.

"Pope John Paul's needs are numerous, unimaginable," said the official, who recalls the search for a specialist in Chinese in the Japanese capital of Tokyo when the pope decided to speak in Chinese during an address in Hiroshima, Japan.

The official, who asked not to be named, described 66-year-old Cardinal Agostino Casa.roli, the papal secretary of state, as "the pope's number one coLaborator in the day-to-day running of the church."

Sometimes that collaboration is obvious to the public, as when the cardinal represented Pope John Paul at the recent funeral of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland, in Warsaw.

Private consultations ta.ke place twice a day or more, even since the pope's hospitalizat::on after an assassination attempt May 13.

At the Vatican, Cardi:r:tal Casaroli is assisted by Spani:sh Archbishop Eduardo Martir.:ez Somalo, his undersecretary, and about 150 priests, nuns and lay people.

Father John C. Nienstedt, a priest of the Detroit arl:hdiocese and one of the youngest staff members at the Secretariat of State, compares his present duties to a previous POS1~ as personal secretary to Cardinal John Dearden of Detroit.

"A local bishop does not have the global responsibility nor the governmental responsibilities that the pope does," hE: said.

But both jobs involve dealing with "the nitty gritty nuts and ?oIts," Father Nienstledt said.

And at the Secretariat of State "the holy father is very much in charge. He sets the tone."

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AT HIROSHIMA the pope holds. a doll presented to him. During his visit to th~ Japanese city the Secretariat of State had to find him a Chinese-language scholar. uage section, which receives more correspondence than any of the other seven language groups.

to the supreme pontiff both in the care of the universal church and in dealings with the departments of the Roman Curia."

An oath of confidentiality taken by each secretariat employee precluded any discussion of the contents of the letters he handles. Father Nienstedt said each letter is "brought to the holy father's attention" and receives a personal response signed by an official of the Secretariat of State or by the pope himself.

"Sometimes we try to redirect the problem to the person responsible," he said.

To achieve better coordination, Cardinal Casaroli convenes a monthly meeting of the heads of all Vatican departments and holds membership on each of the nine congregations.

In addition, Father Nienstedt said, staff members at the secretariat often include letterwriters "in their own prayer life."

Although correspondence involves a major part of their work, officials in the eight language sections (polish, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and Latin) also provide translations of papal messages and documents issued on his foreign trips. Sometimes they also do the translations for messages and documents given at the Vatican.

After sections complete a translation, they come together to check their versions against the Polish original, said the American official of the secretariat.

The discussions are held in Italian and the four-member Polish-language section - created after the October 1978 election of the church's first Polish pope - reigns supreme in the talks, he added.

Pope Paul VI's 1967 apostolic constitution, "Regimini Ecclesiae Universae," on the reform of the Roman Curia says the Secretariat of State "has the work of the most proximate assistance

Sometimes Pope John Paul himself chairs the monthly coordinating sessions to keep an eye on "the odds and ends" and . "nuts and boIts" of his domain.

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5. Bring a child along. Children can reach oldsters where adults fail. Old people generally enjoy children in moderate doses.

6. Touch them. Older people need physical contact. When talki~g with them, it may be important to put your hand on their arm, hold hands or put your

arm around them. Remember, touch is an eloquent form of communication with a message of love.

7. Walk with them. Get outside if at all possible. If they cannot walk, push them in a wheelchair. Your visit may provide a rare chance for physical exercise. They need to move around to keep their bodies functioning well.

'S. Ask them about their past.

What was it like growing up?

Take time to do a life review.

You may want to take notes or bring a tape recorder to preserve their reminiscences for future generations.

9. Be yourself. This is a key to enjoying your visits. Don't put on an act. Plan to get as much out of your visits as you put into them. Tell your favorite stories. Laugh. Relax and enjoy yourself. And enjoy your friend.

The elderly have something to give you if you have the time and vision to accept it.

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Many potential tourists have apparently answered that question, with a firm no.

Foreign arrivals in Italy are down 15 percent from 1980, the first drop in a decade, and officials are attributing 'that drop, at least in part, to the absence of the pope as a drawing card.

Pope John Paul II is hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic, still suffering from the aftereffects of an attempt on his life on May 13.

The pope has held no public audiences since he was shot, though he has prerecorded talks each week to be 'broadcast on Vatican Radio and played in St. Peter's Square each Sunday noon.

There is no way, of course, to ask a potential tourist why he did not come to Rome, but government officials assume that the pope's absence is a key factor.

"It is a supposition, naturally," said Luigi Coppe, a spokesman for the Italian Office of Tourism.

"We cannot know for sure and there are certainly many factors.

But thousands of people would normally fill St. Peter's Square each week for the pope's audiences. Now, of course, there is no one."

It will probably be well into the falI before the pope resumes his traditional Wednesday audiences at St. Peter's. Following an operation to reverse a colostomy necessitated by the shooting, his physicians have predicted a 10-day postsurgery hospital stay and then a two-month con-

valescence at Castelgandolfo, his summer residence, 15 miles from Rome.

Father Thomllc; Powprc::. dirertor of the .u.S. office for visitors to the Vatican, also believes the pope's illness is a strong factor in the tourist decline.

"Father Powers, a priest from the Diocese of Albany, N.Y., said that in an average summer, which is a ;;>eak tourist season in Rome, his office would have 1,100 requests a week from Americans for tickets to the Wednesday audiences.

Father Powers attributes the tourist decline chiefly to a drop in the number of U.S. visitors.

"This morning," Father Powers said, "a mother and her daughter came to our 'office for some information about the Vatican Museum. ThE!y said that earlier today they had been on a city tour bus and they were the only Americans among the 50 people on the bus. Now in a normal summer, most of the tourists on that bus would be Americans."

The drop in U.S. tourists this year, which many long-time residents of Rome have noted, is particularly surprising in light of the strength of the U.S. dollar which makes tourism a bargain for Americans. The current italian exchange rate is 1,240 lire per dollar, an increase from 850 lire only 10 months ago. This means that a U.S. visitor can get a full-course meal at a good Roman restaurant for under 10 dollars.

Tourism offcials also cite other reasons for this summer's decline in foreign visitors to Italy.

They blame the country's 21 percent inflation rate, frequent strikes amo:1g transportation

and hotel workers, and wide press coverage of such events as the bombing of Bologna's railroad station a year ago, several murders of public figures by Red Brigarde terrorists and the attempted assassination of the pope.

One Italian not unduly disturbed by the tourism drop, however, is the mayor of Castelgandolfo, who visited the pontiff last week to urge his town's most famous resident to hurry home.

Mayor Marcello Costa had a brief audience with Pope John Paul II, giving him a chest full of fish caught in lakes around the town.

Except for Italian President Alessandro Pertini, Mayor Costa was the only politician to see the pope since the assassination attempt.

Love Continued from page one "This is our third year and we now have a larger ecumenical group that comes to help us when the old alarm goes out.

Tony Camuti from St. Patrick's is our chairman this year."

Also among helping groups, added Brother Damien, is Bishop Feehan Council 2911 of the Knights of Columbus, whose members, mostly from the Buzzards Bay and Plymouth area are staunch friends of the seminary, supplying tables, chairs and other donations for the use of retreatants.

In short, the whole story of Sacred Hearts is that of people helping people. But it's all sparked by the dedication and love of Brothers Damien and Joe.

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The church and housing

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The activities of the archdiocese of Boston in th(~ housing field illustrate both cooperation among church, government and private enterprise ;and the variety of housing needs that such cooperation seeks to meet.

The Boston archdiocesan Planning Office for Urban Affairs, set up in 1970, has beer.. involved in development of four mixed income townhouse communities in the Boston suburbs. It is also assisting in construction of two apartment complexes for the elderly and handicapped and it is a housing consultant for tenant and community groups.

Each townhouse community consists of attached hCluses, is racially and economica::Iy integrated and is owned by a cooperative. Msgr. Geno Baroni, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban DevE!lopment (HUD), called the developments the best thing of their kind that U.S. church has done in housing.

A cooperative is a form of ownership in which II single mortgage and deed are }Ield by a corporation in which each resident holds shares. The number of shares held depends on the size of the townhouse ~cupied. Each resident-stockholder- is :responsible for a proportionate share of the mortgage, taxes and other expenses, and has a vote in the affairs of the cooperative, which is managed 'by an elect,~d board of directors.

The developments are open to persons of low, moderat,e or high income. Each individual or family purchasing a home must make a down payment. ranging from $210 for a one··bedroom townhouse to $420 for four bedrooms, but people of low income can qualify for state or federal subsidies to meet monthly payments thereafter.

A low income family is expected to pay 25 percent of its income monthly, and the: subsidy makes up the difference between this amount and actual monthly costs. Payments include the homeowner's share of the cooperative mortgage payment, real estate taxes, insurance, maintenance costs, employee wages and .operating ,expenses.

For a three-bed-room townhouse in North Andover, for instance, community this payment is $670 a month, including heat and water but not electricity. Some low income residents pay only $50 of this amount. High income residents paying the ful.l amount can of course deduct their share of the mortgage and real estate taxes from their income tax.

Each townhouse community has a central meeting hall with lounge and kitchen, a swimming pool, tennis courts and a playing field.

With federal funds, the Boston .. Archdiocese is also sponsoring construction of two apartment complexes for the elderly and handicapped, one of 80 units in Boston and one of 101 units in Lynn. In both cases, new buildings will be attached to rehabilitated convents.

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He spoke at a seminary workshop on The Housing Shortage: A Moral Challenge, sponsored by the Boston archdiocesan Justice and Peace Commission.

"The church must make every effort to influence public policy and the mechanisms of the housing market, to reduce the cost of housing and develop additional revenues," Father O'leary said. "It must be a voice that makes the marginalization of the poor as important a concern as the margin of profit in the housing industry."

Citing an estimate that about 250,000 poor and near-poor people live in Boston, the priest noted that the sharp increase in the price of housing greatly increases their difficulty in finding homes. "The median price of new homes has increased from $37,000 in 1974 to $69,000 in 1980," he said. "By 1984 the estimated cost of a new home will reach $100,000. There is almost no new housing being constructed for the poor."

The abandonment of buildings and the influx of upper class citizens to the inner cny have added to the housing shortage, Father O'Leary said. The displacement of the poor by affluent citizens buying and renovating inner city property "is becoming more and more a public issue, as Boston is now being

reclaimed as resource and residence of the affluent," he said.

Another workshop speaker, Joseph Corcoran, president of a company, which has built mixed income communities in Weymouth and Lynn, said he is "on the supply end of building new housing and of renovating existing units. Yet as fast as we can get housing up in the city, we are losing housing for low and abandonment.

"It's like going up a down escalator. If the abandonment increases at the rate that it has been, there is no way that we are going to be able to produce the number of units required to stay even."

One reason for this, he said, is that the Reagan administration is committed to eliminating all the programs developers have been using to fund low income housing.

"For instance," he said, "in the last 10 years our company has built about 3,500 units of housing. About 80 percent of it was government financed lowincome housing, the rest being market-value private housing. I'd say that in the next five years that ratio will be completely reversed, and the only reason we'll build 20 percent low-income housing is because the government requires us to."

A Mystery "We are the people of God, a pilgrim people stumbling along the road to eternal life. The church is a mystery that cannot be fully contained within the terms of any image - images, like poetry, have an elusive quality. They say much more than the words we use to convey them." - Archbishop Peter L. Gerety, of Newark, N.J.

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Laity working together By :Lenore Kelly

know your faith The Gospel of the Church

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Matthew was faced with a new situation. He wanted to reorganize the traditional material about Jesus for presentation to his community.

He respected the general outline of the material about Jesus as drawn up by Mark. But within that framework he moved with great freedom and originality and came up with a quite different presentation.

However, Matthew did not in· clude with his Gospel a table of contents. As a result, scholars have had to try to figure out what structure he had in mind by analyzing the text itself. Not unexpectedly, different scholars see a different structure or organization in the Gospel. Only a few suggested outlines, however, have gained widespread accep'" tance.

Perhaps the most popular is that of the American scholar, Benjamin Bacon. He observed that the same refrain, in almost identical words, occurs five times in the Gospel, each time as the conclusion to a long discourse of Jesus.

Its first appearance is at the end of the Sermon on the Mount in Chapter 7: "Jesus finished this discourse and left the crowds spellbound at his teaching. The reason was that he taught with authority."

On the basis of this observation, Bacon concluded that the -body of the Gospel was structured along the lines of five booklets, each one made up of a narrative that leads to a long instruction by Jesus.

His theory tied in nicely with Matthew's obvious concern for his Jewish-Christian readers: The five booklets would then parallel the five books of the Jewish Law called the Pentateuch (five scrolls) which introduce the Old Testament. Jesus, then, could be seen as the new Moses, promulgating a new Torah.

According to Bacon's view, the body of Matthew's Gospel was introduced by a prologue which is found in Chapters 1 and 2, where we read of the birth and infancy of Jesus. Bacon also thought the Gospel concluded with an epilogue made up of the passion, death and resurrection accounts. The prologue would be a fitting introduction, not only to the main themes of the Gospel but also to its structure, for the infancy section is built around five explicit Old Testament citations.

Attractive and well-grounded though Bacon's proposal is, it has its flaws. Perhaps its great· est weakness lies in its relegating the all-important chapters on the passion, death and resur· rection of Christ to the status of

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an epilogue. Surely they are more than that!

But in spite of its weaknesses the proposal has its merits, if only because it calls our attention to the care with which Matthew drew up his presentation. His structure interests people, because we are so certain that he did have a structure in mind.

If we follow this idea of five booklets within the Gospel of Matthew, we are likely to find that in each booklet he is presenting thoughts about the kingdom of God and developing some aspect of that theme.

Booklet 1 would be found in Chapters 3: I to 7:29, the charter of the kingdom.

Booklet II: Chapters 8:1 to 11: I, the dynamic of the kingdom.

Booklet III: Chapters 11:2 to 13:53, the mystery of the kingdom.

Booklet IV: Chapters 13:54 to 19:1a, tne conduct of the kingdom.

Booklet V: Chapters 19: Ib to 26:2, the consummation of the kingdom.

While. Matthew does not identify the kingdom as the church, quite obviously he sees the two as related.

For this reason, his has been called the Gospel of the church.

Shirley Moriarity is not surprised at the way the role of the laity has developed at the Church of the Risen Christ in Denver, Colo., during its 13 years as a parish.

"In parish life today," Mrs. Moriarity slllid, " you see staff and parishioners working together, supporting each other, reaching out and listening to each other."

After years of being an active parishioner, Mrs. Moriarity in July 1980, joined the parish staff as a full-time pastoral assistant.

"The church has always been the center of my life," she comments, "but now it has become even more important." In her position, she works with the elderly, previously married people and with scripture study programs.

Mrs. Moriarity likes the way

in which new programs are developed today in the parish.

"Now the emphasis is on people," she says. Years ago, the staff decided which programs the parish would sponsor. "Now they go out and talk to parishioners and listen to them. Eventually, a program is built around the needs which have been uncovered."

Mrs. Moriarity has followed that approach herself with senior citizens and finds they are thrilled with the results. Formerly, she thinks, no one was giving leadership to elderly people who were not sick. Through her efforts, the elderly now can join a very active Silverado Club which meets regularly for classes, Yoga and crafts. She also arranged for the elderly of the parish to use the Denver bus system for transportation to numTurn to Page Thirteen

For children

By Janaan Manternach Paul stayed quite a while in Corinth, then decided to move on. He asked his friends Aquila and Priscilla to go with him.

So one day the three of them said goodbye to the other Christians in Corinth. As they left, Paul must have wondered who would take his place of leadership there.

The three sailed to Ephesus.

Priscilla and Aquila decided to settle down there. Paul stayed with them a short time, holding discussions in the local synagogue. The people wanted him to stay to tell them more about Jesus, but Paul told them he could not stay just then.

"God willing," he promised as he left, "I will come back to you again."

Paul left Ephesusand spent some time visiting other Christ-

ian communities, encouraging them in their faith.

About that time a remarkable man arrived in Ephesus. His name was Apollos and he was a Jew. He was an expert in the Jewish Scriptures, which we today call the Old Testament. He was a convincing speaker and preacher.

Apollos also knew much about Jesus and the Christian way of life. He seemed filled with the Holy Spirit.

He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath. He began to speak there about Jesus. Priscilla and Aquilla were excited when they met him and even more excited when they heard him in the synagogue.

They invited Apollos to their home. They spent many hours telling him still more about JeTurn to page thirteen

Nurturing leaders

By Father Philip J. Murnion Some people are born leaders.

The rest of us have to learn the skill.

Few people consider themselves leaders. Yet if we consider leadership as helping others act, most of us do this sometime during our life.

What goes into leadership?

Certainly, vision ranks high: the ability to see what might be. For if a person is able to see various possibilities, he or she can help others see them too.

In a parish, the basic vision is that of faith. It is a vision of new freedom which sees the possibilities of love; a vision which gives Christians the power to overcome death. Yet this vision must be described in a way that can be easily grasped and it must be translated into very concrete terms.

To do this, leaders need to know the hopes and fears of the

people with whom they work.

For leaders, vision alone isn't enOl gh. Nor are relationships with people.

Leadership also involves skills.

Some people come by them nalurally, but for the most part they can be learned and improved.

Let's look at skills that are valuable in parish life. These include teaching, counseling, organizing and communicating.

Other skills involve the ability to plan, resolve conflict, manag€~ personnel, buildings and money.

From this cursory look at skills, it is obvious that we should involve many people in parish life, for no one person can have all these abilities. It is clear also that leaders should continue to improve their skills.

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Nurtllring leaders Continued from page twelve given task? Or, have you. attended meetings where the agenda was not clear or responsibilities were ill-defined? The lack of g~od meeting skills can quickly dampen enthusiasm and willingness to do one's part.

Again, have you ever been in a group where people did not really listen to one another? Or where a few people made decisions that served only to alienate other people of good w:ill?

Realizing the need, many parishes sponsor leadership training programs. They have found that offering people help in becoming leaders will lead more of them to involvement in parish activities.

Many parishes also EIre finding it helpful to spell O'llt, often in written form, the skilI:s necessary for each leadership position.

This helps people to know what will be required of them and makes it easier for committees to search for people with special skills to fill particular positions.

For instance, the head of a financial committee will need

Laity Continued from page twelve erous area cultural and social activities.

Mrs. Moriarity looks forward to addressing the needs of the increasing number of divorced, separated and widoWE!d members of the parish. "Just when you start one program, you see another segment of the parish that needs attention," Bhe says.

Another longtime padshioner, Bette Anderson, has been in.volved in religious education for a number of years and recently has published a booklet outlining a program for studying Scripture. So it was natural for the new pastor, Msgr. William Jones, to turn to her to explore possibilities in this area.

With help from the pastor and Mrs. Moriarity, Mrs. Anderson adapted her program to fit parish needs, devising a 28-week course of scripture study. An ecumenical program, half its 150 participants are non-parishioners.

Members meet weekly to hear a Catholic or Protestant minister, then break into groups for discussion led by trained leaders.

Few have dropped out, even though members are expected to spend several hours studying the Bible at home in preparation for the discussions.

Mrs. Anderson believes an important ingredient in the program's success is the pastor's encouragement. "People need to know that a program hus the OK of the pastor," she says.

She also thinks that there are many talented people in parishes who are willing to be involved if they are asked and then encouraged. "Parishioners should let the staff know their experiences and talents," ShE: says.

Msgr. Jones concludes, "The greatest consolation I have experienced at this parish is the support and prayerfulness of the parish community. They look at the pastor as one who works and prays with them in a God-centered way."

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Although the Archdiocese of Philadelphia had said it was willing to pay for the platform, the city insisted on making the payment, saying it was treating the pope like any other visiting head of state. In a ruling a month after the papal visit, U.S. Court Judge Raymond J. Broderick ordered the city to seek reimbursement from the archdiocese for $204,569 in construction costs. His decision was later upheld by an appeals court.

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some accounting expertise while the parish council president may need communication and organ· ization skills.

Some dioceses too offer leadership training to sisters, priests, lay people and seminarians to help prepare them for ministry on the parish level.

From my experience as director of the U.S. bishops' Parish Project, I realize that parishes greatly increase the chances for accomplishing their objectives by working regularly on skills.

When St. Paul described the early church, he pointed out how various people were gifted as teachers, administrators or prophets. All the gifts were needed, he wrote, and the Spirit intended them for the work of the church.

Parishes today still need to know and use their gifts.

Continued from page twelve sus. They helped him learn even better what it meant to live as a Christian. Aquila and Priscilla were very impressed with Apol· los. He reminded them of Paul.

For some reason Apollos did not want to stay in Ephesus. He wanted to go to Corinth. So the Christian leaders in Ephesus wrote letters of recommendation 'for him. They urged the Chris· tians in Corinth to welcome him.

The Christian community fully accepted Apollos. He brought them much stength and encouragement. He was obviously a great leader.

Apollos soon spoke out publicly against those who opposed the Christians. He debated with them about Jesus. He helped con· vince many that Jesus was the Messiah.

Paul soon heard about this important new Christian leader. He was happy that God had sent someone like Apollos to take his place of leadership in Corinth.

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II Corruption

By Cecilia Belanger

II Marriage II

Political corruption concerns tomorrow's adults almost as much as the issue of war and peace.

There are two kinds: petty and great.

Petty corruption can be personal, as in the giving or taking of bribes. I call it petty because it affects few people and is usually self-limiting, used mainly to sustain friends, not convert en路 emies.

But big political corruption is something else. It seeks through authority to appear good; it seeks to shape the system for personal gain. Often it is not recognized until too late.

By Tom Lennon Q. In the past two years, three of my relatives have gotten divorces. I think I'd be afraid to get married. And yet in a way I think I'll want to when I'm old enough. Can you tell me bow to avoid an unhappy marriage?

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A. Ten thick books could be written to answer your question - and maybe even they wouldn't be adequate. In this limited space I can only give you one step to take, and what I'm going to give you is a list of questions.

When you become serious about someone and think you might like to marry that person, ask her or him to sit down with you for a long talk. Try to answer together the following questions: - After we're married, who will prepare meals - and when?

- Who will wash the dishes?

- Would you ever hit one of our children as a punishment?

- Should we both have jobs?

If not, which one of us should stay at home?

- Who will dust and run the . vacuum cleaner on weekends?

- Will we have a joint bank account?

- If we have only one car, what will we do with it?

- How many children would we like to have?

- Is it important for a child to have brothers and sisters?

- How much money should we save up .before we get married?

- Who will make the bed, and who will change the sheets at laundry time?

- How much health insurance should we carry? What about life insurance?

- Who will make house repairs and try to unclog clogged drains?

- What kind of apartment can we afford?

- Will we ever be able to afford a house?

- Whose parents will we eat Thanksgiving dinner with the first year?

- What recreational activities will we engage in?

- Are you a "night person" or a "day person?" If I like to go to bed early, are~ you going to have the television turned up loud and make a lot of noise when you come to bed?

Finally, you and your prospective spouse might find it interesting to complete, in writing, the following: "The JOarriage license (that 'little piece of paper') is a symbol of ...

Your essay may consist of one word or 600.

Questions for this column may be sent to Tom Lennon, 1312

Mass. Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005.

It's Dangerous "Judging others may be a dangerous thing; not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself." - Rochefoucauld

Petty corruption is usually seen as unjustifiable but big corruption can be made to appear justified.

Let me quote Machiavelli, the master of big corruption; "J\ prince," he says, "is often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against faith, to act against humanity. He must not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained to do so.

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SWINGING SCOUT: Robert Johnson of \楼ilmington, N.C. relaxes at National Scout Jamboree at Fort Hill, Va. Some 30,000 Scouts participated in the weeklong program.

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By Charlie Martin

WINNING One day I was on the ground When I needed a hand Then it couldn't be found I was so far down that I couldn't get up You know and one day I was one of life's losers Even my friends were my accusers In my head I lost before I begun.

I had a dream but it turned to dust And what I thought was love That must have been lust I was living in style When the walls fell in And when I played my hand I looked like a joker Tum around fate must have woke her 'Cause lady luck she was waiting outside the door.

I'm winning I'm winning I'm winning I'm winning and I don't intend losing again Too bad it belonged to me It was the wrong time and not meant to be It took a long time and I'm newborn now I can see the day that I bleed for If it's agreed that there's a need to play the game And to win again Sung by Santana, Written by Russ Ballard, (c) 1977 by Island Music Ltd.

I HAVE another question for you. A few weeks ago I asked readers to write to me about peer pressure. I've received interesting letters and will be writing about them soon.

What I want to know now is: Have you discovered a winning formula for your stage of life?

What do you think it means to be a winner?

In Santana's song we hear of a person who was losing with love.

Losing can erode our self-confidence. We may wonder what is wrong with us. Maybe we develop a sense that we're not OK. However, we are not helpless before the whims of fate. Life always molds new beginnings.

W:inners admit failures and move ahead. Sosers keep repeating the same steps, going deeper into failure and depression.

To begin winning, start asking some difficult questions. What changes can be made in your values, attitudes, behaviors?

Winners know that the truth, even when painful, empowers change.

Christians are called to help each other be winners. They know that we move ahead not by stepping over each other, but by walking ahead together.

Those are a few of my thoughts abollt winning and losing. It's an important subject because it affects the way we feel about ourselves. What are your thoughts about this? Write me and I'll share as many as possible of the ideas I receive.

Correspondence may be mailed to Charlie Martin, 4705 Boulevard Place, Indianpolis, Ind. 46208.

If leadership cultivates this ability to know when to indulge in the "noble lie, the people must learn to recognize it.

Consider the Supreme Court and the Korematsu case. Korematsu was among thousands of Japanese-Americans who had their property expropriated and were put in internment camps during World War II. He sued the United States for his freedom and restoration of his property but he was denied on grounds that what the government did was constitutional.

Dissenting, Justice Robert Jackson wrote one of the most magnificent statements in American legal history: "A judicial interruption that路 will sustain this military order to intern the Japanese is a far more subtle blow to liberty than the order itself. A military order, however unconstitutional, is not apt to last longer than the military emergency itself. But once a judicial opinion rationalizes that military order to show that it conforms with the constitution, the Supreme Court, for all time, has validated the principle of racial discrimination.

It is corrupt to make an evil end appear authorized and good.

And such an action continues to corrupt. It infects not only the original parties to the transaction but. all of us.

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Again, those Cape churches Cape Cod churches pictured in last week's issue, page 9: from top in lefthand column, St. Peter, Provincetown; Queen of All Saints, Mashpee; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Onset; Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster.

Righthand, from top, St. Joseph, Woods Hole; St. Patrick, Falmouth; Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville.

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Twenty-six athletes from diocesan high schools halve been named to all-star team~; in various Southeastern Massachusetts High School Conference sports.

The Shamrocks from Bishop Feehan High School gadned allstar status and another was named an alternate. Bishop Stang also has 10 of its Spartans on the stellar lists and there are five Connolly High School Cougars and one Coyle-cassidy Warrior.

The Feehan contingent is catcher Billy Hyland and third-baseman Mark Schmidt in Division Two baseball; Tom McNulty in boys tennis in which 'Bob McGrath was named an alternate; Anna Ison and Martha-Anne Healy in girls tennis. The tennis selections are in Division West.

In Division Two girls' tracks the Shamrock selectees are junior Mary Roque, 3,000 yard run and two-mile run and junior Erin Brennan, 400-yard run. Rick Quinn and Pat Cunningham are on the Division B golf t.eam and in boys' track, Division B Large Schools, John Gill was the 440yard run selectee.

Stang's outfielder Kary Farnworth is on the Division Two

baseball team. Niki and Lisa Demakis are the Spartanettes on the girls' Division East tennis team and Joe Duchaine is the alternate on the boys' team in the same division.

Stang placed four on the Small Schools Division boys track team. They are Dave Talty, high: jump; Peter Shaffer, ~O-yard run; Tad Pierce, one mile; and Paul Downey, high hurdles. In the Division Two girls track team Stang placed Marttra Demeo in the javilin throw. In Division A golf the choice of Mike Stone was to be expected. He is joined on that stellar aggregation by team mate Ed Hogan.

Andy Reilly, Connolly's outstanding .performer, was named to two slots on the Small Schools Division boys' track team - the triple jump and the 100-yard run.

Three Cougars were named to the Division Two Baseball team. They are first-baseman Dave Lima, pitcher Jeff Palmer and utility Rick Orton. John Sheridan is on the Division West tennis team. Utility player Ann Lamb is Coyle-Cassidy's stellar choice for the Division C softball team.

CYO 1i)layoffs Start Sunday Post-season playoffs in the Bristol County CYO Baseball League get underway Sunday evening at Thomas Chew Memorial Park in Fall River with the best..of-three quarter-finals, in which the first and secCind place teams have automatic byes.

The thirdplace team will meet the sixth place team, the fourth opposes the fifth. Maplewood had already won the leaguE~ championship at the end of :play last week and Central finished sixth.

In the semi-finals it will be firstplace against fourth or fifth, second place against third or

sixth, also in best-of-three series.

The Fall River CYO Baseball League will end its regular schedule next week. Meanwhile, Immaculate Conception meets Columbus at Lafayette Park and Our Lady of Health opposes Swansea at Father Kelly Park at 6 tonight.

Entering this week Swansea, 12-3, was setting the pace followed by Flint Catholic, 12-6, Immaculate Conception, 11-7, St. William. 8-8, St. Michael Club, 9-10, Our Lady of Health, 6-10, St. Patrick, 6-12, and Columbus, 4-12.

Stone New State Champion Bishop Stang High's Mike Stone is the new Massachusetts junior golf champion. Mike, who plays out of the AllendaJe Country Club in No. Dartmouth and will enter the senior class at Stang next month, posted a 7and-6 victory over Fran Quinn of the Pleasant Valley Country Club in the final of the title tourney.

Rick Carter, head c:oach of

football at Holy Cross College, was guest speaker yesterday at a luncheon sponsored by Holy Cross alumni and friends at Venus deMilo Restaurant, Swansea.

Old Colony Regional High School will hold physicals for all students, including incoming freshmen, interested in participating in fall sports from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Arkansas bishop joins ACLU suit LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (NC) Bishop Andrew J. McDonald of Little Rock has joined 22 other plaintiffs in a suit filed by the American Civil LibertiE!s Union (ACLU) to overturn an Arkansas law requiring that "creationscience" receive equal time with

evolution if either theory is taught in a public school. Teachers and education groups among the plaintiffs believe the act, to become effective in the fall of 1982, "abridges the academic freedom of both teachers and students, the complaint said.

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

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PC-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

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

New Films "Victory" (paramount) is a very entertaining World War II movie.

A sports-loving German major (Max von Sydow,) who once played soccer on the German ~a­ tional team, approaches a maverick British officer (Michael Caine), a former professional soccer star, about arranging a morale-building game between British prisoners of war and some soldiers from a nearby base.

The soccer sequences alone are worth the price of admission, with soccer immortal Pele showing his exquisite form.

"Victory," despite flaws, is buoyant and satisfying entertainment. Though a war movie, it has no rough language and almost no violence. It's suitable for the whole family. AI, PG. ''Wolfen'' (Warners): A superior thriller about a New York enaced by wolflike creatures which are in a sense punishment for our rapacious society. Albert Finney is a hardboiled, nearly burned out detective called in to investigate three brutal and inexplicable murders. Despite fuzzy moral indignation and other shortcomings, "Wolfen" is never dull. But violence and graphic blood and gore rule it out for all but the mature. A3,R Film on TV Saturday, Aug. 22, 9·11 p.m.

(CBS) - "Day of the Animals" (1977) - Leakage into the atmosphere depletes the ozone layer and in the higher altitudes provokes wildlife into a wholesale attack on human 'beings, or at least what pass for, human beings in this silly movie. There is an attempted rape and much other violence, but most of it so inept as to be hardly credible.

A3,PG TV Programs

"The Monastery," 9:30-11 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 20, ABC: This unusual documentary, several times postponed and now slated for the Aug. 20 slot, depicts the

life of the Trappist monks of St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer.

Its extraordinary feature is the rare view it offers of the life of the spirit as experienced by con· temporary Christians searching for God, Since Vatican II the Trappists at St. Joseph's have become more involved in service to others and have de-emphasized some aspects of their monastic tradition, such as total silence and mortifications. This "leap from the 16th to the 20th century" was difficult, especially for older monks, but viewers can judge for themselves the spiritual value of the changes.

Perhaps most striking is the openness of the monks in talking about the joys and difficulties of their vocation. Her sensitive treatment of their life certainly justifies their confidence in producer-director Helen Whitney.

Religious Broadcasting Sunday, Aug. 16, WLNE, Channel 6, 10:30 a.m., Diocesan Television Mass.

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Channel 6, 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: Capital Punishment.

Sunday, Aug. 6, (ABC) "Di· rections." Father Bruce Ritter, director of Covenant House, a haven for runaways in New York City, is interviewed about the causes, magnitude and potential solutions to this growing social problem. Check local listings for time.

On Radio Sunday, Aug. 6, (NBC) "Guid~ line." Father Joseph Fenton interviews Ms. Geraldine Greene about the changing American family. She heads the Scarsdale, N.Y., Family Counselling Service. Check local listings for time.

Gifts of Spirit "There is continuing evidence that most people of the church look primarily to their parishes in their desire to deepen their union with Christ and responsibility for one another. It is equally evident that there are great gifts of the Spirit for enhancing the life of the parish community." - By Bishop Edward O'Leary

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Iteering pOintl ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Confirmation candidates will sponsor a baseball card and comic book swap and viewing session from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the church hall.

ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA Garden flowers are welcomed for the altar and may be brought to the church before noon on Friday or Saturday.

Parish youth group members will hold elections Wednesday, . Aug. 26.

A "Bible Fun Time" program will be held in the church hall from 9:30 a.m. to noon Aug. 24 through 28. Sister Theresa Sparrow, director, also notes that teachers are needed for the fall CCD program.

CAHEDRAL MUSIC, FALL RIVER Vespers for the feast of the Assumption will be sung at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, preceding 4 p.m.

Mass.

The John Moitoza Band of Newport will offer a free concert at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the schoolyard, playing from their unique fire engine "stage."

ST. RITA, MARION The annual parish golf tournament open to those)6 and older, is set for 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, at Rochester Golf Club. A sign-up sheet is at the front of the church.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Volunteers are needed to assist with patients at a Mass at 10:30 this morning at Country Gardens nursing home.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Parishioners are asked t.o notify the rectory of sick or,shut-in persons wishing to receive holy communion at home.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER The Bread of Life prayer group will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow for teaching, witness, liturgy, healing and prayer ministry.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, NEW BEDFORD Our Lady Queen of Angels fraternity members will meet at 10 a.m. Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel for a formation session and business meeting, followed by Mass.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER The parish ultreya will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the home of Raymond Morin, 1097 S. Main St. Registrations for the parish nursery school will be held Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Aug. 24 through 26 from 9 to 11 :30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m.

A parish picnic is planned for noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown. The day will end with Mass.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Prayer worksho;?s will be held periodically follow.ng 7 p.m. liturgy on Wednesdays in the lower chapel. They will consist of a teaching and a period of prayer and are open to all adult parishioners.

LA SALEITE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO A Marian Day on Saturday, the feast of the Assumption, will -begin at 12:10 p.m. with an out路 door Mass. Father Donald Pradis, MS, will be homilist and the choir of St. Bonaventure's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., will sing then and throughout the day.

A 2 p.m. healing service will be conducted by Father John Randall of St. Charles Borromeo Church, Providence. The parish music ministry will offer music.

A 7:30 p.m. twilight Mass celebrated by Father Andre Patenaude, MS, and followed by a candlelight procession and open house will conclude the day, which is open to all.

An open house will also follow 7:30 p.m. Mass Saturday, Aug. 22. At that time the sisters of St. Paul's Priory, Newport, will discuss the lifestyle of their contemplative community of handicapped members. The program is part of shrine observance of the International Year of the Disabled Person and is open to the public.

PASTORAL MUSICIANS, FALL RIVER DIOCESE Fall River dioc~san chapters will hOld a directors' meeting at 7:30 p,m. Tuesday at St. Mary's Cathedral school.

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By Sister Martha Mary McGraw OKLAHOMA CITY (NC) Father Stanley Rother, Oklahoma priest who was murdered in Guatemala, was called the "beautiful American" who went forth from his own country to share the love of Christ.

Archbishop Charles Salatka of Oklahoma City, principal celebrant imd homilist at the Mass of Christian Burial Aug. 3, voiced the hope that the American government would pursue the investigation of the murder to a successful conclusion.

"Americans should burst with pride at the Iremembrance of this beautiful American, Stanley Rother," he said. "I trust that the American government will not rest until the truth of his death is brought to light, including. the realities in Guatamala which conspired to harm him."

The archbishop has disputed the Guatemalan government's explanation of the murder. Officials said Father Rother was killed during an attempted robbery at his church.

"My lack of acceptance of this explanation is made in view of the whole context within which the murder occurred, as well as in light of information received from reliable sources both ecclesiastical and secular," said Archbishop Salatka.

The prelatE~ said he had written to Secretary of State Alexander Haig about the murder. In that letter, he added, he quoted a statement of the Guatemalan bishops, who pointed to a "studied plan" that "exists to intimidate the church and silence its prophetic voice" through murders and violence.

"My conscience does not allow me to stiand by and see misleading impressions of Father Rother's death easily swallowed 'by the people of Okiahoma," the archbishop said.

Father Rother was buried in the red vestments of a martyr, wearing a stole made for him by the Tutujil Indians of Santiago Atlitlan, where he had served for 13 years.

The Mass was celebrated at Our Lady's Cathedral in Oklahoma City. He was buried in Holy Trinity Cemetery, Okarche, Okla. Following the graveside prayers offered by Archbishop Salatka, family and friends filed by to touch ~md to kiss the casket. That Father Rother was a martyr, shot down because of his loving care for the oppressed Indians he served was expressed over and over again by friends and former missionaries who came from distant parts of the United States.

Father Rother was shot to death in his rectory at 1 a.m.

July 28. His parishioners, as soon as word was spread, came and stood in the square in the front of the church, silently praying for their pastor. About 1,000 stood there all day, silently facing the church, praying.

At 3 p.m. the day of the murder 25 priests gathered at the

mission church in Santiago Atlitlan to concelebrate Mass for Father Rother. The people at路 tended this Mass. At 9 that night more priests came to concelebrate another Mass which the people also attended.

On July 29 two bishops and 39 priests concelebrated Father Rother's funeral Mass in Santiago Atlitlan. To enable more people to be present the benches were

FATHER ROTHER removed from the church. More than 2,500 Indians stood within the church and thousands more stood outside.

At this Mass Father Rother's heart and the gauze with which his blood had been carefully saved were buried in the church.

This was done at the special request of the Indians and approved by ecclesiastical and civil authorities. No one was loved by the Indians so much as Father Rother was loved, a former staff member of the mission said, even though the priests who had preceded Father Rother were also loved.

Raymond Bailey of the staff of the American embassy in Gua路 tamala said, "When I saw the scene at the church, with hundreds of people standing looking toward the church, it was like their god had died. It was a sight I'll remember the rest of my life."

When the Indians learned that Father Rother had been murdered they set to work to make him the most beautiful casket they could. By afternoon they had constructed a simple wooden casket, smooth and shiny. However, it did not meet international regulations for transfer of bodies, so the priest's body was embalmed and placed in a metal casket.

Father Rother's is believed to be the first confirmed murder of an American missionary in Guatemala, although 40 to 50 un路 armed Guatemalan citizens die daily at the hands of unknown killers, acoording to Amnesty International, private organization monitoring human rights violations.

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