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DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSjl CAPE & ISLANDS Vol. 27, No. 32

Fall River, Mass., Friday, August 19, 1983

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'An indescribable joy'

Pope at Lourdes

By Nancy Frazier LOURDES, France (NC)-The sick, the mother of Christ and a 19th century peasant girl were the stars of Pope John Paul fi's Aug. 14-15 visit to Lourdes.

Tohe pope devoted one of the final acts of his more than 30­ hour visit Ito the world-famous Marian shrine to the sick and crJppled. .

Ignoring the warnings of se­ curity-conscious French police, who had encouraged him to greet the crowds only trom the bullet­ proof "popemobile," Pope John Paul passed on foot through a throng of 2,000 sick people Aug. 15. !Before leaving France for Rome on Monday, nearly an hour behind schedule, he described the vJslt as "an indescribable joy" and said he would remem­ ber the 1983 feast of the As­ sumption as "one of ,the most beautiful of my existence.....

The feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15, celebrates the bodily assumption into heaven of the mother of Christ.

Pope John Paul's trip marked the first time a reigning pope had vJsited Lourdes.

The pope originally had been scheduled to visit Lourdes in July 1981 for the International Eucharistic Congress, but the visit was postponed af,ter the pope was severely wounded in the May 13, 1981, attempt on his life.

One of the trip's most drama­ tic moments came as Pope John Paul kissed many of the sick people who had come to Lourdes in hopes of a cure.

Visibly moved and smiling, the pope passed among scores of wheelchairs and stretchers in front of ,the grotto where Mary appeaTed to St. Bernadette Sou­ birous 18 times' in 1858.

"Neither just nor unjust, suf­ fering Temains, despite partial explanations, difficult to under­ stand and dimcult to accept even for ,those who have faith," he said.

Earlier on Aug. IS, Pope John Paul had celebrated Mass on the shrine's ~eadow for about 250,­ 000 peop,le.

He sa\fi he had made the pil­ grimage to Lourdes "not only to honor, by this solemnity of the Assumptjon, ,the birth of Mary into heaven, but also to honor the blellsed moment of her earthly birth."

The pope equated the Holy "I am filled with joy to have Year of Redemption, scheduled at last been able to add Lourdes to end next April 22, with Ad­ ito the chain of Marian shrines vent. ,The Holy Year of Re­ that I am able to visit through­ demption "is preparing the out the world in order to pray church for the great jubilee of there with my fellow Christians," the second millennium (of he said at the Tarbes~Ussun air­ Christ's birth) in the year port, 10 miles from Lourdes, 2000," the pope said. shortly before his departure. , "But Advent is most particu­ Although 'Pope John Paul vi8­ ,Iarly the time of Mary," he said, ited Lourdes at the .invitation of "It is In her alone that the ex­ church authorities and not as a pectation of 'the whole human guest of the government, he was race concerning the coming of . greeted on arrival by French Christ Teaches its climax."

President 'Francois Mitterand, a As part of the preparations for Socialist. French Prime Minister the second,millennium of Chr:ist's Pierre Mauroy attended the de­ birth, ,the pope suggested that parture ceremonies. the current holy year should also The pope also met for an hour be a commemoration of the with Mitterand Aug. 14 in Tar­ 2,OOOth anniversary of Mary's bes, France. The topic of Cath­ birth. The Catholic Church has olic schools ,in France was be­ no official date for Mary's Heved to have been a key theme.

In an address to an estimated birth.

Throughout the visit, Pope 200,000 people after a candle­ John Paul spoke about his faith light procession that evening, in the events at Lourdes 125 Pope John Paul pointedly criti.' years ago and the shr:ine's role cized the Socialist government's In the church as "an exceptional plan to nationalize the Catholic schools. place of grace."

Calling for an end to religious P.ope John Paul's first stop throughout the after reaching Lourdes Aug. 14 persecution was at the groUo, where he world, he Hsted among the op­ drank a glass of the spring pressed groups "parents who are Turn to Page Six water.

Go-ahead to study

By JeJTY FUteau

WASHINGTON (NC) The final working plan for a Vatican­ commissioned study of U.S. seminaries covers everything from the academic and spiritual formation of seminan,ans to such questions as the type of photo­ copying machines in seminary libraries and their frequency of use.

The 103-page plan, the result of nearly two years of consulta­ tions and development, was re­ cently approved by the Vatican and was made public Aug: 17 after it had been mailed to the country's bishops, seminary rec­ tors, and superiors of men's re­ ligious orders.

It establishes comprehensive norms for evaluating a semin­ ary's effectiveness and sets up two main phases for individual study of each of the nation's Catholic theological seminaries.

The first phase will consist of an advance written report in response to an extensive ques-

tionnaire. In it the seminary will provide detailed information on its adminisrative structures and personnel, finances, research fa­ cilities, faculty qualifications, student body, academic,spiritual and pastoral programs and fu­ ture planning.

The second phase, the heart of the study, will involve three­ day visits to each seminary by a five-member team of experts composed of two bishops, one religious superior and two priests from seminary facilities.

The team will meet with the tocal bishop and seminary trus~ tees, administrators, faculty, students and other designated groups in order to analyze in tlepth the quality and effective­ ness of the seminary's spiritual, liturgical, pastoral and academic .preparation Of. its students.

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ACTIVE IN the things of the church as she has been throughout her 90 years, Carrie Silveira of St. Mary's parish, South Dartmouth, makes pads for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Horne, Fall River. (Rosa Photo)

Always involved

90 years of action

By Pat McGowan

guese, however, was to stand her in good stead later in life.

"I have a policy of' always But first, after her gradua­ being involved."

That policy has brought Carrie ,tion from Dartmouth High Silveira of St. Mary's parish, School, she worked in New Bed­ South Dartmouth, into lively ford clothing stores, often being contact with movements, people driven to work by her father ~n and activities of the church a horse-drawn carriage in the early years. For m while she also throughout her 90 years.

She was born .in Oak Bluffs operated her own bridal salon. at a time when ,the Martha's But then came World War II Vineyard town was known as and Uncle Sam beckoned her to Cottage City. The reason for the New York City to translate change, she explains, is that in Portuguese ~etters In the U.S. the 1890s the municipal ,treas­ 'Office of Censorship. After the urer absconded with ,the town need for censorship ended, she funds, so embarrassing the citi­ remained in the lBig Apple, work­ zens that they changed the ing first ~n ,the goverment's Cottage City name in an effort General Accounting Office, then to escape their unwanted noto­ returning to ,the world of fashion r.iety. via a position at the Arnold Con­ In 1902 the Silveiras ,left Oak stable emporium.

Bluffs for farm life on the main­ But for Carrie work was more land, where one of little Carrie's or less a backdrop to the exciting jobs was feeding the pigs, a Catholic life of Manhattan in the chore for which she recalls she 40s and early 50s. She met had to stand on a pail because Father James Keller, MM, foun­ she was so tiny. . der of the Christophers and was Her parents had immigrated later 'to arrange a New Bedford from the Azores in the 1870s, appearance for him; she joined her father from P.ico, her mother an early interrardal study group from Fayal. Only Portuguese was di'rected by famed civil rights

spoken at home with the result advocate ,Father John LaFarge,

that when Carrie and her' six SJ; and frequently slJw Bishop

Fulton J. Sheen, both at St. Pat­

younger 'brothers and sisters en­ rick's Cathedral and as a mem­

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Drivers' prayer

THE ANCHOR-Diocese _of fall River-fri., Aug. 19, 1983

MUNICH, West Germany (NC) - West Gerinan drivers weav­ ing perilously through speeding Autobahn traffic might slow down' a bit if they begin to say the Our Father for Drivers, dis­ tributed by Munich churches.

Weave peace, LCWR told

BALTIMORE (NC)-Some 700 tolic delegate in the United members, affiHates and guesfs·. . States, was the main celebrant at the Leadership Conference of for a Mass August 15, the feast of the Assumption.

Women Religious' national as­ He praised the "clear presen­ sembly in Baltimore heard nuns urged to be "weavers of peace" tation of Marian devotion" pro-' ;in the church, religious life' and vided by ·the nuns for the liturgy; society.

Sister Flaherty told the meet­ Major superiors of nuns were ing that "peacemaking has al­ '. urged .to be ministers of "unre­ ways been a part of our mis­ . lenting reconciliation," even sion," but added that "what we though the good news they (nuns) have really been about; bring, like .the good news of and very earnestly for the las t 20 years, is weaving ever so Jesus, "is painful and threaten­ ing to a lot of people." slowly, but equally as surely, ~l The messages of peacemaking whole new fabric, of apostolic: and reconciliation came from religious life in which the domi·· nant strand of peacemaking is Sister Helen Flaherty of the Sis­ ters of Charity of Cincinnati, becoming . . . more visible." ,A}lluding to conflicts num; outgoing LCWR president, and Sister Juliana Casey, a provin­ have undergone during their re.. cial of the Sisters, S'ervants of newal 'since Vatican iII, Sister the Immaculate Heart of Mary Flaherty said that the "signs of the times challenged us to exer· While aimed primarily at pro­ jecting the peacemaking role of cise our prophetic role."

"We did examine, and cri­ women in a world preoccupIed tique," she said. "'We did strate­ with force and violence, includ­ ing the danger of nuclear arms gize and we did take public escalation, the messages also reo stands on important issues of ferred to internal healing and the day. We did not allow dis­ reconciliation within the church couragement or public criticism to remove our hands from the and f'eligious communities them­ Iloom," she said. selves.

Si.ster Casey, a consultant to The talks by Sisters Flaherty and Casey were ,twin keynote the committee that developed the bishops' war and peace pas­ addresses for the Aug. 14-18 as­ sembly.

The meeting was toral, called on assembly par­ marked by an -unprecedent~d ,ticipants to counter the raw number of closed "organizational power of force and violence with CHICAGO (NC) - The U.s. sessions," one of which featured a "truer kind of power," the bishops have forced the Atileri· dialogue between Archbishop power of Christ. can public to look at the abor­ "We, Roman Catholic reli­ John R. Quinn of San Francisco, gious, citizens of the Unite.! - tion and warfare issues in rela­ who heads a U.S. bishops' com­ States and of the world, are tionship to one another, Father mission mandated by theVati­ J: Bryan Hehir, chief adviser to asked to think in new ways be­ can to work with religious com­ the U.S. bishops' committee on cause everything has changed ­ munities in assessing their re­ newal since Vatican II. except the word of God in our war arid peace, told pro-life di­ Archbishop Pio Laghi, apos­ rectors meeting in Chicago. midst,"" Sister Casey said.

The brief prayer goes, "Our Father whO" art in heaven, lead .us not into temptation to speed, pass dangerously· and drive recklessly. Deliver us from evil: traffic jams and pollution."

Catholic and Lutheran groups for safe driving, who composed promoting the prayer, and emphasize that .Ioving one's neighbor involves driving safely.

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Withdrawal asked VATICAN City (NC) - Fifty Latin American bishops have asked all "foreign powers" in Central America to withdraw and to ignore requests from governments and opposition groups to intervene in the re­ gion, Vatican radio reported.

The station said the bishops made their appeal in a document ap­ proved in Bogota, Colombia, dur­ ing a preparatory session for a meeting of the Latin American Bishops' Council.

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Life issues

F'IFTH ANNUAL , I OLD FASHIONED FAMll.Y FAIR Saturday and Sunday

Looking at the Catholic Church's stand on abortion and war, "therf:' is almost no one else in the Am­ erican political spectrum tl)at holds ,those two positions the way we hold them," he said. He explained that to put the abor­ tion and warfare issues together "is to force our culture to look at .what it means by defending life ahd to look at its policies in both areas and it is to give the Catholic Church the opportunity to demonstrate what a consistent ethic of life is."

As a public service, we wish to alert readers to the potential danger of eastern equine encep­ halitis. a disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes.

State officials warn residents of the New Bedford, North Dart· month, Tauntollt Ra~ Eas· ton and Westport areas in particular to avoid fresh water -swamps. wear long-sleeved cloth­ ,ing and long pants, use mosquito repellent and stay indoors at dusk, the mosq~toes' most ac­ tive period. , The Editor

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 19, 1983

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Ball meeting announced

The annual -Bishop's Ball plan­ ning meeting will take place at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at White's restaurant, Westport.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, ball director, said 150 committee members have been invited to attend.

The 29th Ball is set for Fri: day, Jan. 13, at its traditional site, Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth. -Bishop Daniel­ />(. Cronin, following custom, will be the guest of honor.

The Sept. 18 meeting will be attended by representatives of the Diocesan Council of .Cath­ .olic Women and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Ball honor­ ary cosponsors. Committee as­ signments will be made at that time.

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Continued from page one dence Guild meetings for po­ tentia,l street-comer speakers at the Sheed and Ward publishing house. There she recalls meet· ing journa1ist Gretta Pa'lmer and "a friend whose husbaJ1d had a very expensive magazine. I be­ lieve his name was Luce, he was a multimillionaire and his wife became an ambassador to Italy.

Gretta and her friend would sit in -back at Sheed and Ward watching and listening. Both be­ came Catholics later."

So much for Clare Boothe Luce, herself now an octogen­ arian.

-In general she likes the post­ Vatican - II church, except that she prefers receiving the eucha­ rist oln the mouth rather than the hand. "But I Jike standing to receive," she notes. She also ie; pleased by ,the vernacular lit­ urgy.

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BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN, with Very Rev. Edward C. Duffy, pastor, greets par­ ishioner during a recent visitation to St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis. (Naylor Photo)

under the direction of Father ford bookstore and as a baby­ Daniel Lord, S.J. sitter until her retirement 16 "He was so witty -and made years ago. so many converts," she said.

But retirement is a relative "But he was dying 'of cancer and term. For Carrie Silveira it has in a wheelchair the Jast time he included taking - courses at spoke to us."

Southeastern Massachusetts Uni­ She attended labor ethics versity and much activity, with classes for five years three senior citizens' groups.

She is a faithful reader of the nights weekly, she said, and was also active in a group organized Wall Street Journal and Forbes at Manhattanville College of the Magazine, depending "for facts" Sacred Heart with the goal of on them rather than on local securing admission of applicants publications.

A longtime member of St. to religious communities regard­ Mary's Guild, South Dartmouth, less of race.

During her New York years she makes cancer pads for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home Carrie became a Franciscan ter­ in Fall River and for years at­ Another memorable encounter tiary, an affiliation she con­ tended the annual convention~ tinues at Our Lady's Chapel in was with the -Baroness Catherine of the Diocesan Council of Cath­ de Hueck, founder of Harlem's .New\ Bedford.

"Work stopped every day at olic Women.

Friendship House, now continued She keeps a wary ear out for in Canada as Madonna House lin 4 p.m.," she summed up, "and anti-Catholic statements on radio evenings certainly were fiUed Combermere, -Ontario. talk shows and does not hesitate to the utmost."

Carrie begged clothing for the to call a host or hostess if guests The Manhattan, days ended, ",tell lies about the church." needy of Harlem and also read however, when Carrie found she weekly to a blind woman be­ Also via telephone she was a friended by -Friendship House could' not make enough money workers. She also volunteered to support herself in a day of coordinator for the area's for­ at New York's Calvary Hospital rapidly rising prices. Thus in the mer Fish group, an ecumenical for vicitims of advanced cancer. early 50s she returned to her project that filled needs falling family's over 200-year-old house between the cracks of organized Also on her crowded schedule in the Dartmouth area which she social services. was attendance at the famous now shares with two sisters, Although personally liberated Summer School of Catholic Ac­ Mary, 88, and "kid si~ter" all her 90 years, Carrie only tion sponsored annuaUy for Frances, 75. likes women's lib "to a certain many years at Fordham Univer­ . She worked in a New Bed- extent." sity by the Sodality of Our Lady "If you make a man feel in­ ferior, that isn't right. Equal pay for equal work-that's as far as I go," she declared.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 19, 19~3

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A Curse on Our House

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Much of the fallout from the turmoil of the sixties and seventies is just beginning to settle upon us. Hardly any aspect of life has been spared the turbulEmce and: trauma that those years, now seen in retrospect, inflicted upon us. .

From religious life to campus confusion, from family breakdown to social upheaval, from abortion to pornogra­ phy, few areas of our' daily existence have escaped the biting aftereffects that are the inevitable result of unbridled license. \ .

Now another plague from this time has descended upon our house, one that wi.ll haunt us for years to come. The young are now crowding our mental hospitals. A draJ;llatic, increase in 18 to 34-year-olds, many of them the confused survivors of the drug culture of the 60s and 70s, are placing an enormous. burden on care facilities for the mentally disturbed.

The huge number, almost 162,000 a year, has reversed the pattern of declining population in state mental hospitals.

One director of such an institution has stated that some young patients are so far gone they will never again relate to any other human being.

The National Institute for Mental Health and most state officials agree that there are some very specific life patterns emerging in this national tragedy. \ Many who went through the 60s and 70s with all kinds of dislocation in their lives continue to abuse' drugs and alcohol. Many refuse drug treatment or therapy and many are street people still clothed in the \tattered remnants of their so-called counterculture costumes.

Most are schizpphrenics, victims of disorientation, out of touch with reality. Some are victims of severe depres­ sion, some of behavioral disorders, others exhibit chronic antisocial behavior. And many, it seems, suffer combina­ tions of these problems, attributed to drug use or brain damage due to drug use: A common denominator seems to be regressive behavior.

Resistant to improvement despite heavy reliance on tranquilizers and other,modern drugs and advanced therapy and rehabilitation, this new wave of suffering souls has surprised and shocked many resPonsible. for their care.

In fact, most persons treating these patients agree that they are·. a new breed, sicker, more hostile, more difficult to treat. .

As one sociologist put it, "they don't even act like the old passive, dependent and compliant long-term patient.

They are more vocal, demanding and aggressive, true prod­ ucts of their; world." . Well, the sad thing is that their world is our world. . What we allowed to be sown by our complacent and per­ missive social attitudes has now grown to become a plague on our house. What makes the picture so bleak is that there seems little hope of controlling, let ~done decreasing this tide. If the present pattern continues, many forecast that few houses will escape untouched.

This appalling development should warn all of the serious situation at hand. We can no longer afford toplay cops and robbers with the world of drugs. Every means at this country's disposal should be employed to drive the drug pusher from business.

Those who feed youth drug nightmares should be dealt with justly, swiftly and effectively. If new laws are .needed, let them be enacted. When time runs out on youth, it runs. out on all. • .

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Fall River Mass. 02722 ' 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most, Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., SJ.D. EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR Rev. John f. Moore Rev: Msgr. John J. Regan .

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'The Lord alone was his leader.' Deut. 32:12

• • .}\ .mISSIOner SANTIAGO ATITLAN, Gua­ temala i (NC) - Two Oklahoma bishop~,.· 20 o~her .people from Oklahoma and more than 2,000 Tzutuh~1 Indians marked the second anniversary of the murder of Fat~er Stanley Rother in San­ tago. Atitlan.

Father Rother, an Oklahoma missiortary working at Santiago Atitlan, was shot to death July 28, 1981, at the mission rectory.

He had been pastor of the Gua­ temalan Indian parish since 1968. I ' .

Three .men were convicted of the murder in January 1982, -but the cohvictions were overturned by a· Guatemalan court in June 1982 for "insufficient evidence." \ Whe~ the convictions were an­ nounc~d Archbishop Charles Salatka of Oklahoma City, w:ho sponsored Father Rother, said he believed "the actual killers re­ main unarrested and unconvict­ ed." , Church sources in Guatemala had s~id that the killers' were strangers to the village, but the three arrested were local men.. . Arc~bishop Salatka and Bish­ op Eusebius Beltran of Tulsa ,led a pilgrimage from Oklahoma to the is6lated Guatemalan village for the anniversary.

Among the pilgrims were Fathet Rother's parents, Franz and Gertrude' Rother of Okar­ che, Okla.; his sister, Precious Blood Sister Marita Rother of Wichita, Kan.; and 11 Okla­ homa ~iocesan priests.

A small chapel and school named after Father Rother were dedicated a few miles from the main parish church.

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bishop Salatka was the princI­ pal celebrant ilt a Mass in the 400-year-old parish church.

Some 2,000 Tzutuhil parishion-, ers crowded into the church fot· the celebration. / A decorated casket was open at the front of the church. It had been built by a Tzutuhil Indian to bear Father Rother's body to Oklahoma, but it did not meet international specifications, so it remained in Santiago Atit­ Ian. Father Rother's body is bur­ ied in Oklahoma, but his heart is buried in the floor of a shrine behind the main altar in the Santiago Atitlan church. The In­ dians had asked that, after em­ balming, the heart be sent to the village. , , A large wreath'.and a photo­ graph of the priest marked the cciiner of the rectory room where he was shot.

The parish at Santiago Atitlan has been without a pastor sin~e Father Rother's death. Six nuns, Missionary Carmelites of St. Teresa, work in the parish and a priest from a neighboring town celebrates Sunday Masses.

Archbishop Salatka told the congregation that he would send a pastor as soon as possible.

Bishop Beltran said another priest might be assigned within a year for the parish and its 20,000 Tzutuhil Indians.

Mr. and Mrs. Rother planned to stay. at the mission for a month and help with some of the projects started by their son.

"We took a tour out 'at the mission farm and some 'of the things that Stan had been work­ ing, real hard on are discontin­ I

ued," Rother said. "Stan had an irrigation system that is not being used. The equipment is de­ teriorating."

In the sacristy after the Mass, Bishop Angelico Melotto Maz­ zardo of Solola, Guatemala, told the visiting priests that some day they would be celebrating the official feast day of Stanley Francis Rother, martyr, on July 28.

Memorial cards distributed by the Diocese of Solola bore a prayer to Father Rother, "mar­ tyr of Christ." Missionaries in the area report that many peo­ ple venerate him as a saint. Arti­ cles of his clothing have been cut into small pieces and attach­ ed to cards as relics.

The cireumstances surround­ ing Father Rother's murder 're­ main controversial.

Archbishop Salatka has writ­ ten to the U.S. State Depart­ ment and to President Reagan urging a more complete investi­ gation of the case. .

The Guatemalan government claimed that Father Rother was killed during a robbery, but church groups were skeptical, saying the priest's death may have been another effort to in­ timidate the church in Guate­ mala.

Father Rother had been criti­ cal of killings and disappear­ ances of local leaders while Gua­ temalan security officers were camped near Santiagp. Atitlan.

Information gathered by Gua­ temalan chuoch offici~ls lists at least nine unsolved murders of priests in 1980-81. Many of the priests worked with Indians in poor rural areas,

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-fri., Aug. 19, 1983

Family Night

A weekly at-home program for famiiies

sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry

OPENING PRAYER Dear Jesus, if there is any­ thing you want for us it is clear­ ly the gift of peace. You wished us peace over and over again during your Ute here on earth.

You showed us how to be peace­ ful and to. be makers of peace.

Help us to have the courage to make peace. Amen.

TO THINK ABOUT War, violence, anger, fighting do not provide the atmosphere for happiness. Jesus tells us that if we want to be happy we have to be at peace, at peace with ourselves and with others. This Family Night can be well spent if we look at ourselves as peace­ makers. A familiar song says, "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."

ACTIVITY IDEAS Young Families PEACE BANNER Materials: banner material, either paper or fabric, scissors, and glue. Talk about war and peace, fighting and making up, friends and ene­ mies. Choose a peace symbol ­ an Indian peace pipe, an olive branch, the circle with a "Y" in the center, the peace word "Shalom," or another peace sym­ bol you create. Make a banner

using your symbol to hang in your home as a reminder' that we all want to be peacemakers.

Middle and Adult Years Families Have a discussion on the fol­ lowing questions: How are disputes settled in your family? a. Between children? b. Between parents?

How are disputes settled be­ tween you and your friends?

Can you remember an incident which made you so angry that you used violence? Could that dispute have been settled in any other way?

Are there kinds of disputes that can be settled only by vio­ lence?

Did you ever act as a "peace­ maker?" Do you remember the incident?

After the discussion form a prayer circle and pray for peace within yourself, at home, in the entire world.

SNACK TIME Prepare some ice cube treats ahead of time by dropping a fresh fruit berry on a toothpick into individual ice cube units, then fill with fru,it juice and freeze.

ENTERTAINMENT Have a family songfest. Sing of as many songs as you can think of that mention peace.

SHARING -

Share how you feel after watching a. violent TV show.

Share how you feel after making up with someone with whom you have ar­ gued.

CLOSING PRAYER St. Francis' Prayer for Peace - Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is sadness, let me bring joy, where there is darkness, ,let me bring light, where there is doubt, faith, where there is injury, pardon. o Divine Master, grant that I may . not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is ,i.n dye;. ing that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

The old ball game

There were these three little boys who played to­ gether every day and, as little boys are wont to do, they invented a new game. It began the day Ricky found an empty margarine contaiuer. Hap­ pening to have a tenpis ball in his hand, he put the two together and began to toss the ball and catch it in the container. He tossed It higher and higher and then started turning around in circles before he caught it.

Lost in joy, he didn't see his two best friends approach. "Let me try it," said Mark. So Ricky did and they had a wonderful morning playing their new game before they were called to lunch.

After lunch they met again to play the game. only this time Mark and Larry brought their own plastic bowls. The game grew' to consume their summer play hours. They gave it a name, Bowl Ball, and they devised a number of simple rules like how long you could keep the ball ,bouncin~ in and out 0 fthe bowl before passing it, how many points you got if you could turn around twi~e and still catch it, and how to penalize a dropped ball.

Beforlt long, the neighborhood kid population was playing Bowl Ball ami teams gradually came into being. These teams changed

By from day to day as kids switched best friends, went on vacation DOLORES or had fevers. But the collective children spent hours of fun in CURRAN the long summer evenings play­ ing Bowl ,Ball.

With rules and dreams came fights, of course. The kids set­ tled them themselves, using the children on the side. When a ,tools kids have always used ­ fight broke out, parents solved arguing, hOllering, accusing, cry­ it. They rearranged their own ing and going home, only to re­ work and recreation so as not turn an hour later to resume ~o miss a game. play. .

Eventually the parents began 'But one child cheated and to feel guilty when they couldn't hogged the ball so much that he be there to watch. A:nd the kids was eventually refused partici­ felt, guilty when they played pation. He went home and sulk­ poorly because their parents ed for a week or so and his par­ were watching. The kids stopped ents decided it was time to step ,innovating and arguing and be­ in. They called the kids together gan playing the parents' game. who now numbered over 20 One August day, when Ricky boys and girls. The parents said, found himself on an unpleasant "This is a good game and it is team and apologizing to his par­ good for you to play it but you ents for his poor coordination need adults to run it." he decided Bowl Ball wasn't And the parents called other much fun after all and he quit. parents and they set up a league, By then, his two best friends wrote out rules, volunteered as were in the championship play­ coaches, printed a schedule, offs and didn't have time to just bought ,tee shirts, and defined play anymore. They always had regulation equipment. (Only a practice or games or needed to certain' size margarine container work on their skills. would do.) Because it wasn't fair So Ricky started watching for .Jittle kids to play with big television all day and his par­ kids, they set up a pint-size and ents wondered why he didn't go quart-size league. out and play anymore. But when And the parents pulled up lawn they asked him about it, he just chairs to watch. They cheered shrugged and changed the chan­ their own team and coached their nel.

Peace with justice How do you react to criti­ cism? When your boss or your spouse or kids or your in-laws or your parents or friends or colleagues say some­ thing negative about your per­ formance on your personality, how do you take it?

Do you become angry? Indig­ nant? Defensive? Do you lash out hotly? Do you become abus­ ive? Do you justify yourself loudly and bumptiously?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then we have some­ thing in common.

I once g~ve up my Catholic press column for over a year because an editor complained that my theology was outdated.

So I quit in a snit. I'll show him!

I picked up my typewriter and went home. Wasn't that wonder· ful? So adult. So mature. So Christian.

My ego bruises easily. You can probably identify with me.

Hurt feelings are not something we talk a lot about, because we don't like to admit we're thin­ skinned and sensitive.

But go ahead and admit it, be­ cause we can turn this' short­ coming to' our spiritual advan­ tage. St. Paul preached: "En­ dure your trials as the disciple of God, who deals with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not dis­ cipline?"

Loss of face due to criticism has always been a terrible trial for me. I can't stand being put in my place. I deeply resent any sort of put-down, deserved or not. I'm as stuffy and self­ righteous as can be, even though I mask these pompous traits by kidding myself in print. Don't anybody else kid me, though, in print or in person, or I'll ex­ plode with sick emotions. I like to do all the kidding of me, thank you.

St.' Paul continues in his epis­ tle to the Hebrews: "At the time it is administered, all discipline seems a cause for grief and not for joy, but later it brings forth the fruit of peace and justice to those who are trained in its school."

Peace and justice. Peace and justice are what we all want, for ourselves, for each other, for the world. St. Paul seems to be say­ ing that if we react to trials in the right spirit, if we accept them humbly as the discipline of our loving father, God, then these trials can become a powerful spiritual offering in behalf of peace and justice.

I don't exactly understand how this works, but I can grasp it intuitively. God brings good out of evil. Suffering can be transformed into joy. W get closer to God as we rid our­ selves of self. These are para-

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doxes of spirituality that our experiences have verified. We may not be able to explain them, but our faith has authenticated them. We can believe that if we offer our trials humbly to God, He will put them to work for peace and justice. . Possibly the, most gracious, amiable, prayerful man I am privileged to know is Msgr.

James Wilders, executive director of the Pope John Paul II Center of Prayer 'and Study for Peace, locate<l in Our Lady of the Ros­ ary Church, the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, at 7 State St. in Manhattan. Great work for peace, both spiritual and sci­ entific, is underway at the cen­ ter headed by Msgr. Wilders. who is also pastor of the church.

A special Mass and prayers for world peace are said daily, and a worldwide network of prayer has been established.

"Religious orders, veterans' hospitals and military bases near and far arc praying daily for peace with justice as part of our prayer network," Msgr. Wilders, a priest for over 40 years, was telling me the other day.

"And we're reaching out to as many hospitals and nursing homes 'as we possibly can to pray with us. We have prayer cards printed for distribution.

The prayers of the suffering can have a tremendous influence for peace. Suffering offered to God can work wonders."

I picked up one of the cards, which can be obtained by writ­ ing to the Pope John Paul II Center of Prayer and Study for Peace, 7 State St., New York, N.Y. 10004. I'rri going to try to pray for peace whenever my pre­ cious feelings are hurt. Care to join me?

Here's the prayer: To heal, not to injure; to help, not to hurt; to strengthen and sustain with patience, compassion and trust.

To unite, not to divide; to counsel, not to condemn; to reason and reconcile through peace, understanding and love.

Can't Do It "We cannot become saints merely by trying to run away from material things."

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WARSAW, Poland (NC) Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw and Gniezno is recovering well after an urgent gall bladder' operation, churc" officials said.

They said the 53-year-old car­ . dinal was admitted to the hos­ pital Aug. 9 with an inflamed gall bladder.

On the same day the New York Times reported that Cardinal Glemp had halted discussions with the Polish government on a multibillion dollar farm aid fund because of disagreements over human rights issues.

A day later an Associated Press report said the talks only had been recessed until a Sep­ tember meeting between the car­ dinal and Gen. Wojciech Jaru­ THE LONGSTANDING CONTRIBUTION of Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes to .amateur zelski, Polish prime minister and head of the Communist Party. football as played at NQtre Dame University was recently recognized whe.n he was Both stories had Warsaw, Po­ named to life membership in the $ational Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. land, datelines and quoted un­ Msgr. Gomes, who combines chaplaincy of the Fighting Irish team. with his assignments named .c,hurch sources.

The New York Times story cited a high-ranking church ad­ viser as saying Cardinal Glemp is disheartened because he feels a series of new laws that formal­ ized many martial restrictions "broke the twice-given promises of the general to the pope that martial law would be Ufted."

as pastor of Our Lady of Angels pa~sh, Fall River, and director of the Catholic Charities Appeal and annual Bishop's Ball, holds the certificate near an aerial view of the Notre Dame campus and a drawing of the I'log cabin chapel," one of the l:lniversity's original buildings. (Torchia Photo) I i

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Continued from page one The ~atican's .Congregation work in field placements and "a Polish-born Pope John Paul II sampling" of recently ordained for Catholic Education, at the remet twice with Jaruzelski during seminary graduates and their .quest ot'Pope John Paul II, in­ his June trip to Poland. stituted the U.S. s~minary study . pastors or religious superiors. in September 1981 in coopera­ The visitation team's written The AP story said Catholic officials were not happy with report, evaluating strengths and tion with' the National Confer­ the new laws but church sources weaknesses of the seminary and ence of ~atholic Bishops. Bishop said there is "no reason to fore­ " making recommendations, will John M~rshall of Burlington, 'Vt., cast a worsening of relations be sent to the seminary rector former head of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Priestly' Forma­ and competent bishop or reli­ with the state." gious superior for comment, will tion, was named to head the The farm aid plan would set be reviewed by an advisory study. : up a church-state foundation to group of bishops, and, if needed,.

Father Donald Wuerl, rector help Polish farmers. The church will involve further consulta­ J)f St. ~aul Seminary in Pitts­ would provide the money, ob­ tions, before a final report is burgh and Bishop Marshall's astained from coll'tributions drawn up. sistant for the seminary study, abroad, but needs state approval The final report will go to the said that the evaluation instrum­ to launch the project. Church Vatican's Congregation for Cath­ projections envisioned a fund of olic Education, with copies to . ent took nearly two years to_ complete because of the exten­ $2 billion to "$4 billion. the seminary rector and the re­ , sive corisultations and the pilot Before the formal ending of sponsible bishop or religious su­ testing that went into its de­ . velopmept. martial law July 22, the. Polish perior.

If the Vatican congregation parliament enacted a series of Initial' drafts were drawn up recommends any changes. to the measures to strengthen the gov­ in consttltation with the priestly seminary, the responsible bishop ernment's powers to control na­ formatidn committees of the Na­ tional life. These included ~ ser~ or religious superior will ordin­ tional Conference of Catholic ies of temporary "emergency" arily be expected. to report with­ Bishops I and the Conference of in six months to a year on ac­ measures lasting two-and-a-half Major Superiors of Men, the na­ years, toughening of the penal tion taken to address those rec­ tional ~rganization of religious code, tightening censorship and ommendations.

The new study instrument making membership in illegal or­ will be used to evaluate the 58 ganizations such as the indepen­ dent union Solidarity punishable theological seminaries in the United States. Variations on it by up to three years in prison. are yet to be completed for eval­ Church sources said that since uation of some 200 other institu­ the pope's trip, Cardinal Glemp tions preparing candidates for' 'has repeatedly pressed. Jaru­ the priesthood. These include zelski to end martial law, declare houses of formation, theological amnesty for political prisoners unions and collegiate (pre-theo­ and restore the jobs of people logy) seminaries. punished because of anti-govern­ . While theological seminaries' 'ment political activity. generally unite academic, spirit­ ual and pastoral formation under a single administration, houses 1he Standard of formation and theological "What' a fine place this world unions involve two or more dis­ would b,a if Roman Catholics tinct in,stitutions, usually one ad­ tried' to ~eep up with St. Francis . ministering the academic pro­ gram and another in charge of of Assisi r" - Peter Maurin 0

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order heads, Father Wuerl said.

Before a fourth draft was taken to Rome in July for Vatican ap­ proval, he said, the third draft was sent to all the country's bishops, major superiors of men and seminary rectors for com­ 'ment. In addition two volunteer seminaries, St. John's in Brigh­ ton, Mass., and St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill., under­ went team visitations and evalu­ ations last spring under the draft instrument to give a practical test of its effectiveness. .: The first seminary visitations will take place in -the coming school year, the priest said, with eight visits scheduled in OCto­ ber and 11 in February.

He said ,Bishop Marshall hopes to complete evaluation of theo­ logical seminaries within two years.

In the meantime, work will continue on the evaluation in­ struments for the other priestly formation institutions to be studied, with an "optimistic" goal of completing the' whole study within five years, he said.

The basic evaluation plan is modeled upon an already exist­ ing plan under which more than_ 50 U.S. seminaries have recently been evaluated under auspices of the priestly formation com­ mittees of the U.S. bishops and major superiors.

There are two major differ­ ences between the new study and .earlier evaluations: the earlier ones were undertaken only at a seminary's request while all 'seminaries at college level and above are rquired to participate in the new study; and the new reports will, go to the Vatican,' where previous evaluations remained within the United States..

Continued from page one refused the possibiHty of secur­ ing for their children an educa­ tion built on their faith."

"Today, to prisons, concentra­ tion camps, hard labor, expul.­ sion from one's own country. have been added other forms of punishment, less remarked upon but more subtle: not a bloody death, 'but a sort of civil death; ,not only segregation in a prison or in a camp, but permanent r,estriction of personal freedom or social discrimination," Pope John Paul said. .

"There are hundreds and hun­ dreds of thousands of witnesses to faith, very often ignored or forgotten by public opinion, he added.

"They are believers forced tl) meet secretly because their reli­ gious community is not author­ ized," the pope said. "They are parents who are refused the possibility of securing for their children an education built on their ·faith."

The ,French church and the pope have strongly criticized the plan to nationalize Catholic schools. Apparently the Mit­ tE'rand meeting produced no im­ provement in the situation.

Asked about the issue after the meeting, the ,French presi­ dent said: "The affairs of sta tc in France are the affairs of the state, 'and' each one understands it very well."

The visit,. Pope John 'Paul's 19th trip abroad since his elec­ tion to the papacy in October 1978, had been preceded by sev­ eral incidents of anti..catholic violence, including a bombing in Lourdes and a bombing at a Catholic newspaper office in Toulouse, about 90 miles away.

About 3,500 'policemen and civil guardsmen handled security for the visit, and no violent, in­ cidents occurred at Lourdes dur­ ing the pope's stay.

Pope John Paul's day in Lourdes Aug. 15 included meet­ ings with priests, nuns and young people.

The pope's activities were thrown off schedule primarily because of ,the enthusiasms of the youths, who interrupted the pope numerous times with ap­ plause. "r am not the guilty one if my speech took ,too long," !he joked at the end of the talk.

"You who are the guilty ones, if you want a papa,) blessing, calm down."

The delay caused the papal plane to leave France about an hour behind schedule.

The pope made no public statement at Rome's Ciampino airport upon arrival ~n (Italy. He went at once by car to his sum­ mer residence at Castelgan­ dolfo.

Still timel.Y SAN FRANCISCO (NC) The just-war theory has never been more timely, Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco told' a group of Catholic educators at the University of San Francisco.

Speaking of the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter on war and peace, Archbishop Quinn sai4 the just­ war theory forms the basis for the pastoral and the theory "is not obsolete at aiL"

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No Matter "God accepts the gbOd will

and the labor of his servants, IlQ matter how we feel." - JWian of N()I'Wich (13th ~tury)

Va., current president i'>f the' student body, suggestec,Ufte ~" to seniors graduated last May. He said he hoped it would become an annual project.

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August 20 Rev. Bernard H. Unsworth, Retired Pastor, 1982, St. Mary, New Bedford August 22 Rt. Rev. Manuel J. Teixeira, Pastor, 1962, St. Anthony, Taun­ ton Rev. William R. Jordan, Pas­ tor, 1972, St. Louis, Fall River Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, Retired Pastor, 1980, St. Joseph, Taunton

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Rev. Thomas Clinton, Pastor,

1895, St. Peter, Sandwich August 24

Rev. Peter J. B. Bedard,

Founder, 1884, Notre Dame, Fall River

(starts Sept. 12, 1983) Biblical Studies Epistle to the Romans

August 25 Rev, Joseph F. Hanna, Found­ er, 1974, Holy Cross, South Eas-' ton

IN TIDS 1980 PHOTO, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin joins members of Our Lady of the Assumption parish, New Bedford, in celebration of the parish's 75th anniversary. Luiz Andrade and Rosa Lopes present a banner inc,orporating a map of the Republic of Cape Verde as Father Raphael Flammia, SS.CC, then pastor, assists the bishop. The' present pas­ tor is Father Thomas McElroy, SS.CC. (Rosa Photo)

Cape Verde diocese marks 450th year Of particular Interest to Cape VerdeaD Cathollcs In the Fall River dJoc:ese, many or theDl . members of Our Lady of the As- .' sumptlon parish, New Bedford, the first Cape Verdean parish In the United States, Is a recent letter from Pope John Paul D to . Bishop Paulino Uvramente Evora or the dJocese or Santi· ago, Republic of Cape Verde.

in his letter and in this Holy Year of Redemption, I pray that "grace and peace be given to you in abundance" (1 Pet 1:2).

Today, therefore, the Church of Cape Verde, while reflecting on her past achiements, yet ever conscious of her divine and hu­ man mission, will ever remain attentive to the inspiration of The letter was occasioned by the Holy Spirit which has al­ celebration of the 450th annI· ways guided and assisted the one versary or the diocese, c0m­ and only true Church of which prising all the Cape Verde Is· she, too, is a part. lands with a population of Indeed, the Spirit has been 320,000 persons, 91.8 percent of with the Church since the day whom are cathoDe. Excerpts when Christ the Lord with "his follow: peace, the peace which the world It is 450 years ago that the cannot give," sent - the first call to salvation began to echo missionaries to an encounter in these Atlantic Islands, even with men of all times and places from the very moment of their to bring to them, in fraternal in­ discovery; for tradition has it vitation and as a gift, the an­ that when the discoverer stood swer which is so profoundly hu­ upon the wet sands of the shore, man: the quest for truth, the de­ he signed himself with the Cross. sire for god, the hunger for lib­ erty, the longing for beauty and It is this gesture and the in­ the inaudible and constant call vocation of the Most Holy Trin­ of conscience. ity upon the new land that mark­ With this point of reference, I ed the beginning of evangeliza­ tion to such an extent that less am certain that this reflection than 200 years -later it would by the Diocese of Cape Verde, cause the famous orator, An­ while maintaining constant at­ tonio Vieira, S.J., to write that tention to the inspiration of the there already was a flourishing Holy Spirit coupled with the Christianity made possible by courage shown in the past, will have more and more value for the local clergy, "the people be­ the future. ing of such a docile mind as to The happy coincidence, your accept all that it was taught."

450th anniversary and the Holy For this glorious past, blessed Year of Redemption, which I be God, who by the action of the sincerely hope will be com­ Holy Spirit has showered upon pletely a "year of grace from the the people of Cape Verde the Lord,"-leads me to address the blessings of redemption. beloved faithful of the Diocese To this very day the present of Cape Verde wit~ the repated generatiQn is being called with 'call: "open the doors to Christ, such m~rciful love to accept the Redeemer of mankind, Jesus C~rist and to receive the through reconciliation. girts thlJ.t the shedding of his Thus reconciled with God and precious, blood makes possible. with their brother, in so far as With the words of St. Peter all are members of the one hu-

man family, they are in a better position to join forces with all men of good will, in the building there too of a world more hu­ man, more fraternal and more reconciled for the pursuit to­ 'gether of the common good, without being lured by material­ istic proposals for a complete solution to the problems of man' and of society at large.

Yet this young nation, even at this historic celebration, finds itself in dire straits caused by periodic droughts and unemploy­ ment, causing a constant fool­ hardy emigration of many of ber inhabitants: in like manner, the diocese faces many diffJculties to maintain its full effective vitality. Moreover, there must be taken into account 'the innumer­ able inhabitants, the less for­ tunate, those "little ones" for whom Christ showed so much compassion.

This "presence," Our Lord's call to those in need, at some moment will bring about ample opportunity for authentic mercy and call for human solidarity, not codified in terms of rights and duties, but demanded by a clear vision of interdependence These obligations, not being norms of strict justice, assume penetrating powers within the human spirit and regulate the very order of justice demanding to become in practice a civiliza­ tion of love," demanding open programmes for a perspective of universal and harmonious in­ volvement of all men in one and the same human family.

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At this point, let me address

the ecclesial community of San­ tiago of Cape Verde with the same show of ,love and affection were I actually standing before you; and since I find that desire so strong within me, 'let me say this: Courage! Your Heavenly Father, who is always good and' provident, well knows your many needs. '

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Hence, with ardent wishes that

the Church in Cape Verde may reflect and attain more and more such gifts of the Kingdom for each and every person, I implore through the intercession of Our Lady of Grace, as she is invoked as Our Mother of Confidence, Mary Most Holy, that the glory of God,' which shines on the face of Jesus Christ, may shine for everyone through the Holy Spirit.

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Friday, Aug. 19, 1983 )

Royals wed in 'church

By Robert Nowell LONDON (NC) Cardinal

George Basil Hume of West­

minster has defended the

church's decision to let Prince

and Princess Michael of Kent

regularize their marriage, saying

"it would be an injustice to with­

hold this permission any longer."

The Anglican prince and Aus­ , trian-born Catholic princess mar­ ried civilly in 1978 after Pope Paul VI refused to grant them a "­ dispensation to marry in the 'Catholic Church. On July 29 of this year the couple exchanged vows before a priest after Pope John Paul II gave a dispensation for them to have their marriage validated..

In an Aug. 4 statement Car­

dinal Hume confirmed what had

been widely assumed, that the

central issue. in both the 1978

and 1983 decisions concerned

evidence of the princess' will to

Ne Photo raise the children in the Cath­

olic faitp. A promise to make

such an effort is required of the

Two supporters of family farms. "

Catholic partner bdore the church will give a dispensation

for a mixed marriage.

"It is the will to make the ef­ fort which counts,' even, if that the demise of family farms and, ning farmers as originally in­ effort doe~ not necessarily lead

By Jiin tickey the onset of corporate-based tended. to success," the cardinal said.

WASHINGTON (NC); --. The 'farming: and a growing concen-.

Bishop Dingman listed an 11­ He noted that before their future of family-based farming 1978 marriage Princl;! Michael continues' to be a major concern tration of land ownership in point agenda for meeting public policy needs of the family farm. promised to have his children , of church groups, as evidenced America.'

The Catholic rural life group's Among his proposals were: baptized and raised as Angli­ by recent testimony delivered to ~ Evaluations of the impact cans. His bride-to-be, then Bar­ a congressional committee by testimony was delivered by oness Marie-Christine von Reib­ the National,Catholic Rural' Life Bishop Maurice Dingman of Des of proposed legislation on fam­ Moines, Iowa, at a July hearing ily farms, much like existing re­ nitz, was quoted in a newspaper Conference. in Des Moines conducted by the quirements for environmental im­ interview as spying, "I think it Though family farms some­ congressional. Joint Economic pact statements or for state­ is a question of who is head of the family and in this case the times have been likened to the CommiWl!e'chaired by Sen. Roger ments .on the fiscal impact of new laws; head of the family happens to Model T Ford - useful in their Jepsen (R-Iowa).

- Limits on the ability of in­ be an Anglican. I would clearly day l>ut impractical and ineffi­ "The reality is indeed grim'" vestors or investor-owned com­ Bishop Dingman said, citing sta­ make an effort to allow my chil­ cient in these modem times ­ dren to understand about my re­ supporters of such farming say, tistics sh,owing that the number panies . to acquire land /or specu­ ligion, and I think Prince Mi­ family operations should not be of family farms continues to latlOn; dwindle.; .

- Elimination of the fa\or­ chael would not be adverse to allowed to die because they pre­ able tax treatment given capital them choosing my religion if they serve important values and the He remarked that urban­ ' wanted when they come of age." land itself. oriented 'val~es and the media gains since such treatment works And though Washington can­ message'of personal consumption to the disadvantage of small and Cardinal Hume said that the prince's 1978 promise "and other not be blamed for all of the fam­ have undermined the family' low-income farm families;· indications were judged at that ily farm's problems, advocates farming ethic - Progressive taxation of of living in balance I ' time to exclude any realistic ex­ of family farming say public with nature' and without excess. property so that modest holdings pectation that the princess policy set by Congress has play­ ,But why is the church inter­ would be encouraged and large ed a major role in bringing about ested in the issue?

would be able to make the ef­ holdings would be taxed at a forts still required by the According 'to Bishop Ding­ higher rate; church's law. man's_ testimony, there is a moral - Grants, low-income loans "It is now clear.... he contin­ perspective at the heart of the and other forms of assistance to right when he married the Cath­ ued, "that the competent au­ family, farming question. Not' encouarge new families to enter olic baroness. farming; thorities in Rome have been Englan4's 1689 Bill of Rights only is s~ch an agricultural sys­ ,satisfied, and indeed impressed, and 1701 Act of S'ettlement bar tem the ,best way to preserve ..... Tax incentives encouraging by the evident and consistent 'the throne to "all and every important human values, such as retiring or bereaved ,farm fami­ efforts of the princess over the person that .. . shall profess thrift, sharing, and commun­ lies to sell to small, beginning or years to convey to her children the popish religion or shall marry ity respo~sibility, but, it also is tenant farmers; a genuine love and knowledge a papist."

- Reform of federal lending the best way of, assuring that of the Catholic faith.

Cardinal Hume emphasized , the land I will be preserved for agencies to restore "their origin­ al purpose of providing assis­ , "Furthermore, it has now be­ that changed circumstances and future generations. come clear that, should the chil­ Land i$' a stewardship from tance to small and struggling new evidence I~d the Catholic farmers." ' 'dren of the marriage wish to be­ Church to grant the dispensation God, but: the emphasis in Am­ Because farm policy is at 'an' come Catholics of their own denied in 1978. He also defended erica on private ownership can volition in the future,then no the church against complaints often ignore "the duty to con­ important juncture, family farm obstacles would be put in their that it had caused confusion and serve and', restore the land and groups already are preparing for way;' except .of course that they scandal by not giving a fuller the oblig~tion to see that the 1985, when current legislation would be deprived of the right explanation of the reasons for land's benefits are for everyone." expires and a new farm ~ill will of succession to the throne."

Among elements contributing have to be enacted. That bill reversing its' 1978 decision.

The couple's two children, could well determine whether "No further evidence of this to the dis~ntegration of the fam­ four-year-old Lord, Frederick and changed situation can be reveal- ily farm,: according to Bishop any of Bishop Dingman's sug­ two-year-old Lady Gabriella, , ed without infringing family pri­ Dingman, :are tax laws encour­ gestions will be enacted and, ac­ are 19th and 20th in line of suc­ aging farm land speculation and 'cording to family' farm advo­ vacy and the appropriate confi­ cession to the throne. Prince Mi­ dentiality of information given federal credit policies t~at have cates, will for better or worse chael, 16th in line of succession to pastors," the cardinal de­ extended iloans to all farmers, set farm policy for the rest of in 1978, had to give up that clared. not just ~o struggling or begin- the decade and beyond.

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WASHINGTON (NC) Leaders of the 20th anniversary March on Washington say they will re­ vise their policy papers to as­ sure Jewish groups that a Mid­ Ie East plank is not an attack on U.S. military aid to Israel.

They also denied that dissen­ tion over other issues is brew­ ing in the ranks of the broad­ based New Coalition of ,Consci­ ence, which is sponsoring the march Aug. 27.

Catholic support for the march "looks good," according to a U.S. Catholic Conference staff member, and one Catholic wom­ an who participated in the civil rights March on WasJlington 20' years ago recalls it "as, a picnic, ,.with the Lord."

The March on Washington for Jobs, Peace and Freedom, sched­ uled for Aug. 27, is one part of a year-long "mobilization" by the New Coalition of Conscience, which -includes civil rights, labor, religious, .peace, environmental­ ist and women's groups.

Press reports speculated that labor groups representing de­ fense workers would have trouble with positions taken by the march., No Catholic groups, have voiced public opposition to the, march,Charlotte Mahoney of the usce's Department of So­ cial Development and World, Peace said.

The USCC is one of the more than 725 endorsers' of the"march, many of them Catholic groups.

Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington, a co-chairman of the march, has been invited to speak at the march, according to an archdiocesan spokes­ person.

Catholics from across the country are expected to partici­ pate in a pre-march interfaith serviced sponsored by the Na­ tional Council of Churches at the Metropolitan African Metho­ dist Episcopal Church in Wash­ ington, Aug. 26.

The Archdiocese of Washing­ ton is inviting, Catholics from across the country to a prayer service near the White House shortly before the march begins.

The 1963 march "was like a picnic with the Lord and thou­ sands of people", said Peggy Roach of the Archdiocese of Chicago's Human Relations and Ecumenism Office.

"There was a spirit of joy ­ everyone felt like we could do it'" she said.

Coretta Scott King, Dr. King's widow and an organizer of the 1983 m~rch, said it is not nec­ essary to duplicate the 1963 march.

"That moment in 1963 should stand on its own because it stands as a unique event in his:' tory," she said.

"The beauty was the quietness during Dr. King's 'I Have a Dream' talk," said Lilian Queen of the Archdiocese of' Washing­ ton's Office of Social Develop­ ment. "Everyone was attentive - it was as though everyone was frozen," she said.

'Personal parish' formed

for ex-Episcopalians

Cornwell Memoria'

Chapel, Inc.

By Pat Windsor

Creation of the Anglican iden­ tity parish stems from Vatican A "persona·l parish" for for­ approval in 1980 of a pastoral mer Episcopalians who join the by the U.S. bishops to develop Catholic church was established terms under which Episcopalians in San Antonio, Tex. on the feast could become Catholics while re­ of the Assumption in an action taining some elements of their its founding pastor called "the former tradition. shape of ecumenism to come."

"This is a historic time for us The first such parish in ihe and for the whole Catholic United States, it will be led by Church," said Father Phillips.

Father Christopher Phillips, the "We are part of a small but first married former Episcopal strong movement amongst Ang. priest to become a Catholic pas­ licans to return to the Catholic tor according to Father James Church while retaining a distinc­ Parker, assistant to Bishop Ber­ tive liturgical use and ethos." nard Law of Springfield-Cape The liturgy, pending its ap­ Girardeau, Mo., Vatican delegate proval in Rome, is to follow the for admission of married Epis­ order of the Latin Rite while in­ copal priests to the U.S. Catholic corporating characteristics from priesthood. the Anglican tradition.

A "personal parish" differs A second AngUcan identity from a territorial parish in tak­ parish also has been approved ing in people with certain quali­ fications, in this case, former by the Vatican but not yet for­ Episcopalians, Father Parker mally established, according to Father Parker, also a former said.

Called an "Anglican identity Episcopal priest.

"We are now in contact with personal parish," it. will follow the Latin rite of the Catholic several (other) parishes making church, but retain elements of this request," he added.

The increasing movement of Anglican tradition, said Father Episcopalians to Catholicism has PhilHps. Designed for former Episco-. followed several controversial palians who became Catholics changes in the Episcopal church, such as the ordination of wom­ but cherish their Anglican heri­ tage, the parish will consist of en, revision of the Book of Com­ mon Prayer and revision of the 20 families. marriage law to allow divorce Rather than hindering ecu­ menism, establishment .of the and remarriage.

Anglican identity parishes will Many Episcopalians had justi­ promote it, Father Phillips said. fied staying in the Anglican "I believe this is the shape of church to work toward restoring ecumenism to come," he said. union with the Catholic church, He predicted Lutherans may but left because "for the first be the next group to request full time in Anglican history, the communion with the Catholic churches began to make doc­ Church, because their sacra­ trinal decisions which violated mental theology closely resem­ Catholic traditions," said Father bles that of Catholicism.

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Bishop calls Lebanon

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC) ­ Lebanon must remain a Chris­ tian stronghold against the law of Islam that rules most other countries of the Middle East, Maronite Bishop Francis Zayek said.

That is why American Maron­ ites, most of them of Lebanese descent, are doing all they can to preserve Christianity in their homeland, said the bishop, whose Diocese of St. Maron, based in Brooklyin, N.Y., serves Maronite Catholics throughout the United States. The bishop frequently visits Maronite par­ ishes in Fall River and New Bed­ ford.

Bishop Zayek, in St. Paul for the annual convention of the National Apostolate of Maron­ ites near the end of July, said in an interview that Christians are "second-class citizens" in most of tl,le Middle East.

"But Utat has never happened In LebaQon," he said. ."Lebanon has alwaYs been a land of re­ . fuge where Christians and Mos­ lems worship in freedom.

"We 40n't want Islamic' law.

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What's on your mind?

Q. Is It wrong t~ want to cIIe

sometimes?

A. Last spring the evening newscasters showed us people whose homes and belongings had been washed away by floods.

In one area an earthquake com­ pletely destroyed some dwell­ ings.

Several desperate owners cried on camera. And who could blame them if they felt like giving up the struggle or being angry with God or wanting to die on the spot? , Other misfortunes can send a person into deep depression.

Parents getting a divorce, a pregnancy outside marriage, a betrayal by a trusted friend, get­ ting kicked out of school - such events can shatter emotions.

In the course of a, lifetime ghastly things can happen to us.

Long ago the psalmist complain­ ed, "My sufferings, Lord, are terrible indeed; keep me alive as you have' promised!"

Do you think that writer was ~inking of suicide?

On the night before his cruci­ fixion Jesus told his friends, "The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me."

Perhaps at that point he wisped he could quietly die and pass into eternity.

Both the psalmist and Jesus, however, held fast to life and to

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DON/T LET IT END God's .will. Although it's not wrong to want to die at times, it would be wrong and a serious mistake to give in to that feel­ ing and kill yourself.

But how to resist these waves of despair?

Many years ago a young friend of mine was having a terribly difficult time. He was tempted strongly to commit sui­ cide, But 'his' girlfriend - told him again and again, "Good times' will come again." Those five little words stuck in his mind and carried him' through the temptations to kill himself.

He is much older now, and he has seen many good and wonder­ ful times. Also he has helped many unfortunate people who would not have been helped if he had killed himself when he was young.

Don't be afraid of ,powerful feelings. that threaten 'to over­ whelm you in the midst of mis­ fortune. If the feelings persist, teU someone about them ­ someone who can help -you.

And always keep in mind those five wonderful words the young woman repeated so often to her desperate friend: "Good times will come again."

Send comments and questions to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

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Pictures of you still make me cry Trying to live without your love It's so hard to do Some nights rn wake up ,I'll look at your pWow Hoping that I'll see you there. , - But I get up each day

Not much to say

I've nowhere to go

Loneliness fiDs me up inside

'Cause Pm missing you

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A chane..e to remember the love

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The other ,side of pain Sometimes those who have descended into the lowest depths of 'life have found in those depths the power of renewal. pain?"

Jesus in" his earthly ministry I heard it twice this week, from a teenager and from· an did suddenly and locally what God' is doing eternally. AS C.S. elderly lady.

I can't remember where, but Lewis said, we yield to dis­ once I came across a reference couragement when release from to "the. other side of pain." Let's pain for ourselves or those' for whom we pray dQes not happen think about that.

To start, this business of pain quickly. We think that what and healing perplexes many happened in biblical times can­ people. The confusion points to ,not happen to us. But if our two great truths about God: he growth toward wholeness came sometimes heals only after a instantly, we might not assimi­ lapse of time, and he allows and late it. even wants us to struggle with We take for granted that pain him so that we can penetrate the is an enemy we must fight. The darkness of- pain and on its medical profession finds ways to other side find a truer knowledge relieve it and philosophers try of ourselves and of him. to explain it. We can be grate­ Louis Braille, blinded iii early ful to them, yet something about childhood, growing up 'with only pain eludes our efforts to re­ a few books to feed his bnght lieve and explain it.

We know that some pain is mind, worked out a system that brought unbounded light to blind our o.wn fault and some is the and _sighted _people alike; and consequence of living in this 'the same kind of object, small imperfect world. But some we and pointed, was both the cause cannot fathom yet.

The ancient prophet-poet who of his ac;cident and the tool of wrote the Old Testament Book his invention.

A physiotherapist, helping a of Lamentations wrestled with patient recover use of an in­ the paradox of suffering -in a jured part of the body, says, spirit that foreshadowed Christ "Push yourself past the pain ' in Gethsemane: ". . . though he cause grief, yet will he have point and it will get better." ,~ Cecilia Belanger How often do we hear the question "Why does God allow

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You got my loving baby

Every single night

.Don't let it end n'm begging you Don't let it end this way.

Don't let it end Baby we could have so,much more Don't let it end Honey please don't walk out that door Don't let it end I'm begging you

Don't let it end this way

No no no no no no

What will I do

If -you say we're through?

I need you to stay

Honey don't let it end this way.

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compassion . . . for he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children Of men . . . " And thl!D there's the question: "But we live in the Christian era; why I should we find our­ selves str6ggling with the same paradox?'"

Our Ldrd answers with an­ other par~dox: "In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheei-; I have overcome the 'world." I Why dqes God allow pain? It may be th,at he wants us to ask that question, not -in a self-pity­ ing sense, of "Why didn't you keep this from happening?" but rather ,i~ the soul-searching sense of "What are you trying to show Die through this experi­ e~ce?" : We were discussing T.S, Eliot one evening and how he de­ plored thb' central ,feature of modern secularism - the as­ sumption that we can have a no established society with' I ­ norms.

He believed that secularism is not only banishing the establish­ ed church; (as more ai1cf more people say they believe in God but not in organized religion), it is also banishing the a'ssump­ tion that commonly accepted re­ ligious values are needed for a stable society.

Eliot, writing at the beginning of World War II, put forward the argument that only a renewal of Christian culture can rescue society.

"It is my contention" he wrote, "that we have today a culture which is mainly negative, but which, so far as it is still posi­ tive, is still Christian. I do not think, that -it can remain nega­ tive, because a negative culture has cased to be efficient ina world where economic and spirit­ ual forces are proving the effi­ ciency of cultures which, even when pagan, 'are positive; and I believe that the choice before us is between the formation of a

Have you ever had to end ~ relationship? The loss and anger and even grief that result can make our lives very unhappy.

Throughout the six years I've written this column, I have shared ideas from other readers and my own experience, on how to keep relationships alive. But some dating relationships and some friendships can:t be saved and it's best to realize that fact.

Making the decision to end a - relationship, however, is always painful and frightening. People wonder if they can make it with­ out the' other person.

How can a person know if he or she should end such a rela­ tionship? Like most painful de­ cisions, there are no clearcut an­ swers. But there are some signs that can help people.

Do you find a particular rela­ tionship colors the rest' of your life negatively? Are you project­ ing on to others the pain you are experiencing? For example. are you taking out your anger on others? Are you irritable and critical of their actions?

Such behavior may indicate that the negative effects of the friendship or the relationship with someone you're dating are greater than you realize.

A second area for considera­ tion is.a feeling of emptiness.

The song speaks of the loneli­ ness and pain caused. But even more difficult is the emptiness of knowing that someone you care about brings little or noth­ ing into your ,life. Sometimes people realize the emptiness, but don't know what to do.

Every friendship and dating relationship has stressful times.

- But sometimes people try whole­ heartedly to improve things with little success. When this hap­ pens, it can be another sign that it may be time to end this par­ ticular relationship.

I invite teen-agers who have ended a relationship to share their experience. What are the signs that a relationship is not working? How do you find heal­ ing for the pain that results?

Please address correspondence to Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Indo 47714.

new Christian culture or the ac­ ceptance of a pagan one."

Eliot was arguing against the secularism that seeks to estab­ lish an open society based upon the rejection of a God "up there" in the sense of a metaphysical "Other" who establishes aU the rules from outside the game.

He does not beJieve it possi­ ble ·to maintain a neutral secu­ larism which refuses to use God as an explanation for all that is and will not accept the necessity for metaphysically imposed norms.

Eliot believed that such a neu­ tral society would create a vac­ uum, and that we must utimate­ ly see society as a battlefield for the gods (Are there not all kinds of gods hefore us today?) ,He further believed that if we are not v,igilant all kinds of ideo­ logies will take over society.

In SOme ways he has been proved right. We must not al­ low Christ to be pushed out of the world.

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portswQtch Maplewood Advances To Semis Defending champion Maple. wood swept its quarter-finals against South End and advanced to the best-of-three semi-finals in the postseason semi-finals of the Bristol County CYO Baseball League.

Maplewood blanked South End, 3-0, Sunday night an~ com· pleted the sweep of the series with an 8·1 victory Monday night at Chew Field, Fall River.

In the semi-finals Maplewood will meet Somerset.

Kennedy defeated Anawans, 11-6, in their quarter-finals opener Sunday but Anawans deadlocked the series with a 5·3 victory Monday. All games are at Chew field.

North End, which led the league in the regular season with an 18-7 record, and runner· up Somerset, 15-10, automatic­ ally drew byes in the quarter· finals. Maplewood, 13-12, was third followed by Kennedy, 10­ 14-1, Anawans, 10-15, and South End, 8-16-1.

Our Lady of Health, after Monday's games, had already clinched the league crown with

an 18-4 record and had one more game remaining on the regular schedule, against Immaculate Conception. The team will have a bye in the quarter-finals.

In games last Sunday it was St. William 10, St. Elizabeth 0; Swansea 8, St. Anne 2; Our Lady of Health 14, St. Patrick 0; Im­ maculate Conception 11, St. Mi­ chael's Club 1. In the lone game Monday Swansea topped Notre Dame, 8-5, breaking a third· place deadlock with the losers.

After Monday the only games remaining on the regular sched­ ule were Our Lady of Health vs.

Immaculate Conception, St. Mi­ chael's Club vs. Notre Dame, St. William vs. St. Patrick and Swansea vs. St. Anne. The out­ come of those games was to de­ termine the playoffs pairings.

Entering 'i'ueday's action St. William was in second place with a 16-7 record followed by Swansea 15-8, Notre Dame 14-9, Immaculate Conception, 13-9, St. Anne, 8-15, St. Michaels Club 11-2, St. Patrick 6-17, St. Eliza­ beth 2-22.

St. Anne Tourney Success With an entry list of about 140 the first St. Anne's Hospital Charity Golf Tournament at the Fall River Country Club Tuesday was an assured success.

The fourth annual Days' Health

and Sports Open Bench Press Contest will be held at 4 p.m. to­ morrow at St. Joseph's County Fair, 17 Adams Street Fair­ haven. Weigh-in time is '3 p.m.

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NOTE Please check dates and tImes of television and radio programs against local list­ ings, which may differ from the New York network sched­ ules supplied to The Anchor.

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

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

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which. however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

ballads sung by Peter, Paul and Mary on "Evening at Pops," air­ Ing Sunday, Aug. 21, 8-9 p.m. on PBS. Conductor John Williams and the Boston Pops Orehestra join in concert with this popular 1960s trio. Nostalgia flows with "Weave Me the Sunshine" and "Jet Plane," but ",puff the Magic Dragon" gets the biggest re­ sponse. Concluding with Bob Dy­ lan's "Blowing in the Wind" and Wood Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," these are songs of the people and have as much to 'say about love and peace today as when they were first written.

Friday, Aug. 19, 1983

CRS aids Sri Lanka NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic

Relief Services will contribute

$25,000 to aid refugees and dis­

placed people in the war-tom

country of Sri Lanka, according

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The funds will be used by the

Sri Lankan Catholic Church to

provide emergency assistance to

people disabled by recent reli­

gious rioting and those families

whose major wage earner was

killed in the violence.

In Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon,

more than 200 people have died

Religious Broadcasting - TV Sunday, Aug. 21, 10:30 a.m., since fighting broke out July 23

WLNE, Channel 8, Diocesan . between the Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic groups.

Television Mass.

"Private SChool" (United The CRS donation will pro­

"Confluenee," 8 a.m. each ArtIsts) Despite heavy publicity obviously aimed at teens, this Sunday on Channel 8, Is a panel vide clothing, shelter, sleeping

film is grade-B pornography program moderated by Truman mats and kitchen utensils for

thinly disguised as comedy. Taylor and having as pennanent 500 families in the area of Col­

From the vulgar lyrics of the participants Father Peter N. Gra-' umbo, the capital of Sri Lanka.

opening song to the closing scene ziano, diocesan director of social It is part of a larger program

services; R{gbt Rev. George sponsored by the Catholic bish·

where the graduating class sim­ Hunt, Episcopal Bishop of Rhode ops of Sri Lanka to help 165,000

ultaneously indulge in an ob­ Island; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. people who have suffered total

scene gesture to the headmis­ destitution or lost their jobs

tress, there is an unremitting This week's topic: Potpourri. through ,destruction of factor·

"The Glory of God," with stream of sexual scenes, jokes ies and towns.

'and dialogue. This is a film to Father John Bertoluoci, 7:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 27. be avoided. R, 0 Besides the emergency aid,

"MarySon," a family puppet CRS will continue its ongoing

"The Star Chamber" (20th Century-Fox) Michael Douglas show with moral and spiritual assistance in Sri Lanka, includ­

ing support of small-scale econ­

plays a judge disillusioned by perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs­ omic development projects.

the legal technicalities that force day, Fall River and New Bed­ ford cable channel 13. him to free defendants he con­ "Spirit and the Bride," a talk siders guilty. After he joins a + • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • J' secret group of judges who mark show with William Larkin, 6 for execution those who have p.m. each Monday, cable chan­ nel 35. escaped legal penalties, he real­ GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS izes that the judges themselves, Sunday, Aug. 21, (ABC) ­ are no better than the criminals. "Directions" - The new home­ The film raises questions about -less as seen in Phoenix, Ariz. crime, law and vigilante justice Sunday, Aug. 21, (CBS) ­ but in a confused way, shedding "For Our Times" - Last of three Montie Plumbing

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past and present stars in a dis­ "Guideline" - Today's guest is GIFT STORE

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TWO 1983 GRADUATES of Coyle and Cassjdy High School, Taunton, are scholarship recipients. Robert Caraci (left), St. Ann's parish, Raynham, has been awarded the Note: The feature film, "The Vera Czahar Scholarship for a Raynham resident planning Wiz" (1978), originally scheduled a career in business. Cardaci will attend Suffolk University for,Aug. 20, 8-11 p.m. (CBS), will and major in marketing. Christopher Masterson (right), Im­ not be shown on that date but on Sept. 20, 8-10:30 p.m. maculate Conception parish, Taunton, recipient of a grant TV Programs from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union of NEW YORK (NC) - Just liall River, will attend the University of Massachusetts, right for a summer's evening is the pro~ram of folk music and majoring in aeronautical engineering.

Vatican pavilion NEW' ORLEANS (NC) - Con­ struction of the Vatican pavilion for the 1984 World's Fair is "right on schedule," according to John Screen, general manager of the pavilion. Screen said the building will be completed by the end of the year so the in­ side can be finished to museum standards as a fitting display for the Vatican treasures which will be exhibited. The Archdiocese of New Orleans will sponsor the exhibit, along with a second building containing historical in­ formation, art works and 'Objects of religious significance from the six dioceses in Louisiana.

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Program. Wl).en I saw should we search deeper into were seven pictures the religious beliefs of ,the fam­ taken by Mr. Edward Rosa ac­ ilies of all the children who leave companying your report, I w~s home for the first time to work.

People of all religions have a ecstatic. . ..

WASHINGTON (NC) - Al­ You both .deserve our very serious obligation to teach their grateful thanks. All of the other children -to have healthy minds though many Catholics do not members. of the Program with and bodies so they will be able find their parishes helpful, many whom I have -talked, as well as to refuse the temptation to act have a new commitment to par­ ish life, according to a report to the host I parents 'involved, are in an un-Godly manner~ . . . the National Conference of Cath­ as thankful as I am for the sup­ , With the powers of 'reasoning, olic Bishops. erb article. We thank you and children can either accept or re­ Letters .re welcomed, but should be no fuse. It is evident that alcohol Mr. Rosa.

The Parish Project, whose more than 200 words, The editor reserves Our children 'left last eveiling and sexual promiscuity were members worked from 1978 to the right to condense or edit. All letters must be sl8-~d and Include a home or for home~ This is always a very not encountered for the first' 1982 as staff to the bishops' Ad Dear Editor: business addreSs and telephone number for th'l purpose of verification If deemed emotional time both for the time while working as pages.

Hoc Committee on the Parish, After reading "Marian pope to ne~sS8ry.

It was approximately 27 years children ~lid for the host fami­ cited impressions on the general Lourdes" and "The Assumption of Mary," (An,chor, Aug. 12), I lies. They all looked as though ago that prayer was banned quality of parish life, as well must ask. a question that has th~ Cape I Cod sun and air had from the schoolroom. The pages as statistics from studies of par­ Dear Editor involved were seven years old at ishes, in. its final report, "Par­ ,been bothering me. Why is one benefited ,them.

In addition, they had about that time - they are now 27. ish Life in the United States."

With so many people going church after another in this area hungry and so much conce111 ceasing to have a morning Mass twice as ~uch luggage as when Schools and churches can only Many Catholics are "unhappy came.

This included their approximate one-quarter percent about where and how to dispose on Saturdays, Our Lady's day; they • I of waste materials I would like 'especially when Mass could be gifts for the people at home, as each in attempting to teach reli­ with the liturgy and preaching, to apprise your rea,ders of how said in her honor if not desig­ well as gifts from their Ameri­ gion and moral ethics. The fam­ unwilling to accept the teaching .ily has the greater part in teach­ of the church, at least skeptical they can tum "waste" into valu­ nated otherwise. This must hurt can friends. able help for the missions and our Patroness!

About an hour ago I had a ing and guiding children to be .that the parish pertains to the , circumstances and challenges of poor people aTound the world.

Also wish daily Mass could be call from' Anne McKinstry, the God-fearing and God-loving, also If they save their cancelled stressed from the' pulpit. The chaperon," and·everyone arrived cementing the moral ethics in their lives," said the report, is­ sued at the end of July. stamps, especially foreign and help received there is so power­ home saf~ly. Can't you imagine their minds. commemorative ones, and send ful ,in our lives. A few words all the talk going on at home at I also feel that Mr. Crane The report said part of Cath­ them to our Oblate stamp bu­ from the celebrating priest to this mom~nt? should have been as harshly olics' discontent comes from reau, we Oblates of Mary Im­ give us the benefit of his wis­ Again, 1thank you and The censured as Congressman Studds changes in their needs, which maculate can sell them and raise dom in understanding and trying . Anchor' for your caring and con­ in spite of 'his tears. are calling for new responses thousands of dollars for the to live the Gospel would be cern.

Marion H. Teixeira .from parishes. As Catholics be­ missions.

New Bedford deeply appreciated and .bring us come better educated and "more Eliza~eth H. Sweeney Please help us tum needy -lives closer to God. cosmopolitan," they may seek Director, Cape Irish' into rich, productive ones.

Realizing how overworked our­ more persuasive preaching and Children's Program Father Daniel Crahen, OMI priests already are, I only want more prayerful ·liturgy than they Dear Editor: Oblate Stamp Bureau to express -these thoughts, hop­ once needed, it noted, adding 1669 Merriline Street· Like ~ichard Nixon and Spiro that "it is not surprising that jng they will be considered if Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221 Agnew, Congressman Studds parishes have difficulty adjust­ possible.

Dear Editor: I Pearl 'Knowles I'm reacting to "The Decent would have been most wise to ing to meet these needs." resign.

Attleboro Thing To lilo" (Anchor editorial, However, the report said, "re­ The failure of the media and Dear Editor: P.S. Thank y~u for the won- July 29). i ,I don't agree with the House of' Representatives markable examples of initiative ' Please accept my sincere derful Catholic newspaper that much of the article, but I am a under the speakership of the apd ministry exist throughout thanks for, publishing my ap­ really keeps us informed. On bit tired of all the articles point­ unctuous professional politician the country," and there is "great peal (for religious articles and this feast of the Assumption ling the fii:tger. at Congressman Tip O'Neill, to so constrain indi­ concern among people about . used Christmas cards) in your will pray especially for our Studds.· .cates the amorality of our so­ their religious life and wide­ 'I would 'like to ask where was ciety.. paper. I had written my appeal priests to have our Holy Father's spread interest in the church to three editors but only you devotion to Mary. the :'code of moral action shaped .

The prevailing 'attitudes to­ which can be the basis for fur­ answered. Thank you most s i n - b y Catholic thought," or any ward murder, corruption, TV, ther development." cerely. I prayed for you, conother religious thought pertain­ films, abortion, pornography However, the best develop­ tinue to pray for you. May Jesus ing to the pages who "are wards show clearly that our nation IS bless you and all your dear and Dear Editor: of the Congress." Where were poised 'on the edge of an· abyss. ments in parishes remain too near ones.

Thank you for sending me the their morals? They had already The Moscow men will push il. dependent on individual parishes and parish initiatives, added the Father Antony John copy of The Anchor: reached th~ age of reason when over. repon.

St. XaVier's Church Your article pleased me very they' were seven years old. Can Congressman Studds showed a Mavadi P.O., Puthur, Quilon mUCh. You certainly did beauti­ we 'blame the expulsion of cold arrogance, while Congress­ The report discusses parish _Kerala, South India fully in covering the Cape Irish' prayer in the school alone, or man Crane displayed a measure styles, what makes an effective of contrition. Studds now joins parish and how dioceses can help ~ the select coterie of the English­ parishes. men Philby, McLean and Blount Effective parishes, it says, as prey for the scavenging KGB. tend to have team style opera­ Their crime was treason. tion, frequent staff' meetings, :Pray allow me to commend you on your view. You stand parish' councils and minipar­ ishes or subcommunities. almost alone.

Key challenges to parishes are Bernard McCabe seen as liturgy and preaching, So. Yarmouth ability to help people deal prac­ • ';>­ • tically with their concerns and a democratic style of leadership.

Persons in nearly 21 percent Dear Editor: May iJ respond to your edi­ 'of parishes surveyed were very torial regarding 'Congressman satisfied with their parish's per­ ~ formance in these areas. Persons Studds?

I .too am saddened and dis­ in 45 percent of the parishes had mayed concerning his conduct. "high medium" satisfaction.

I do believe that he is contrite, recognizing that it was a griev­ ""II"","I""""'I1II1I""""""""',I/III"U"1111IIlI"""""""""IIII/I'IIIIIII'IIl'lj"'lll"I' ous mistake oil ;his part, for Studds is an outstanding repre­ l~llP.M. pages, male and fema·le, are sentative and has been caring wards of ·the Congress. ' and very responsive to his con­ II do feel, contrary to your stituents of the 10th District. statement, that Congressman Christ showed us compassion, Studds has had several discus­ love and forgiveness in his brief sions with reporters, stating .to life on earth ­ cannot we, if we them his grievous error and has are guided 'by his teachings, do suff8!ed agony over this. the same?

FOOD -,GAMES -ENTERTAINMENT I am not in agreement with Did not Christ also state: "He the 'lifestyle of homosexuals but who .is without sin cast the first I do feel ·that Christ loves' each stone"? . one of us.

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