FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETIS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY; AUGUST 20; 1981
Neutron plan is deplored
Feehan site for deacons
By Jim Lackey
WASHINGTON (NC) -- The head of the U.S. bishops has questioned the Reagan acllministration's decision to produc:e neutron warheads, saying their production may "gravely impair future prospects for reversing the arms race." In a statement released Aug. 12 Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, prl~sident of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, also questioned whether current .U.S. policymakers are almost uncons,:::iously removing the barriers to nuclear war. "There seems to be renewed interest in policy circles today about the possibility of fighting and containing a nuclear war," said Archbishop Roach, citing what he called a "significant difference" in the context of decisions made in the Carter and Reagan adminstrations on neutron warheads. In 1977 the Carter administration announced plans to develop neutron warheads, which release large amounts of radiation necessary to kill people while leaving buildings and other objects intact. But President Carter essentially reversed himself in 1978 and decided to defer thE~ir production. Archbishop Roach said the Reagan administration's decision on neutron warheads should be evaluated in the light of Pope John Paul II's 1979 speech at the United Nations. In it the pope asked whether anyone in the modem age could really believe "that the breathtak:;ng spiral of armaments is at the service of world peace." The Reagan decision is also being strongly condemned by Catholic peace and social justice groups, who say the neutron weapons are immo:ral and could help lead to nuclear war. "We are not persuaded. by the assurances that use of the neutron bomb will be, or even could be, limited to strictly military targets," said Pax Christi U.S.A., the American branch of the international Catholic peacle movement. "And if it were possib:le," Pax Christi continued, "it would still not meet the traditional tests of the 'just means' of warfare." The neutron weapon kills with a huge dose of radiation while avoiding the massive blast which leveled tliroshima and Nagasaki. Reagan administration officials said the weapon would be parTum to Page Sb:
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The diocese of Fall River will host the fourth annual New England regional assembly of the permanent diaconate on Saturday, Sept. 26, at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. With the theme "The Deacon and His Family," the program will include speaker Msgr. Ernest Fiedler, executive director of the U.S. bishops' committee on the permanent diaconate. He will review and discuss a recent survey of the status of the program in this country. Workshops will be conducted by deacons, deacon candidates and their wives on family, work, parish and interdiaconal relationships, as well as on parish and diocesan ministries and the situation of celibate deacons, either unmarried or widowed. His Excellency Bishop Daniel A. Cronin of Fall River will be principal celebrant of the day's liturgy, assisted by permanent diaconate directors of the New England dioceses. Deacon James J. Meloni Jr. of Attleboro will be deacon for the Mass. . Diocesan organization of the event is under direction of Rev. John F. Moore, Fall River director of the permanent diaconate.
SHARING HONORS at Blessing of Fleet ceremony in New Bedford are Rev. John F. Hogan, in foreground, pastor of St. Julie Billiart parish, North Dartmouth, and Rev. Constantine Bebis of New Bedford Greek Orthodox Church. (Rosa Photo)
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Crowds best papal tonic VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II had his busiest weekend in three months Aug. 15-16, making two appearances at his apartment window in the Vatican before flying to greet another crowd at his summer residence in Castelgandolfo. The 61-year-old pope, released from Rome's Gemelli Polyclinc Aug. 14 and required to spend at least six more weeks convalescing from an assassination attempt May 13, addressed a crowd of 80,000 in St. Peter's Square Aug. IS, the feast of the Assumption of Mary. About 50,000 people came to the square Aug. 16 for the pope's noon Angelus address, and another 4,000 were waiting in the courtyard of the papal summer residence in Castelgandolfo, about 15 miles from Rome, that afternoon. Pope John Paul appeared healthy and in good humor, often departing from his prepared
texts to joke with the crowds. "It seems that crowds of the faithful are better for him than any medicinal tonic," said one Vatican official. The size of the Aug. 15 crowd startled Roman observers and even the pope, because the italian capital is usually .empty on "ferragosto," a national holiday which most Italians spend at cooler places such as the beach or in the mountains. "Thank you for your presence, which certainly doesn't correspond to the traditions of these days, when Rome becomes empty," Pope John Paul said after his 20-minute talk, which also included greetings in French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish. "Let us see fulfilled in Mary the unity with Christ for which we long and follow her example in listening to the word of God in our hearts," he said in English.
The pope reaffirmed the church's belief in the dogma of Mary's bodily assumption into heaven and said Mary "participated in the glory of (Christ's) resurrection" through the assumption. Before leaving the window, Pope John Paul told the crowd that he was sweating "not because of illness but because of the ferragosto sun." Rome temperatures were in the 90s during both noon talks. In his Angelus address Aug. 16 the pope asked prayers for Catholics in Hungary, where, he said, there exists a "grand heritage of faith, morals and culture which had its beginnings in the person and mission of St. Stephen." He also announced his imminent departure for Castelgandolfo and said he would appear each Sunday on the courtyard balTum to Page Three
NEW ORLEANS (NC) Church-run law schools may discr.iminate on the basis of religion and still receive accreditation, the American Bar Association has decided. By a narrow 147-127 vote the ABA's House of Delegates, meeting in New Orleans, decided to amend its standards and grant accreditation to the law school at Oral Roberts University, which requires students and faculty members 'to take an oath affirming their belief in Jesus Christ. Previously, Oral Roberts had been denied' accreditation for its law school because it was not in compliance with ABA standards forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, color.. religion, national origin or sex. Graduates of law schools without ABA accreditation cannot take bar examinations to be li-'-' censed as a lawyer in most states. . The new standard adds the following to the existing standards: "Nothing herein shall be conTurn to Page Seven
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 20, 19i1l
ROME (NC)-Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe, 73, superior general of 27,000 Jesuits throughout the world, is tn markedly improved condition, said community officials. On Aug. 7 Father Arrupe suffered a stroke which left his right side paralyzed and his speaking ability severely hampered. The announcement by the Jesuits on Aug. 17 said that Father Arrupe's speech had improved and that he was regaining some movement of the right side. American Jesuit Father Vincent O'Keefe is temporary Jesuit vicar general.
TORONTO (NC)-The Inter-Church Committee on Human R'ights in Latin America asked the Canadian government to "demand full explanation from the Guatemalan authorities and seek full independent international investigation of the circumstances of the death of Raoul Joseph Leger." Leger, a Catholic lay missionary with the Quebec Foreign Mission Society, was killed in an explosion July 25 when Guatemalan security forces attacked a private home. Leger's body was burried immediately by Guatemalan officials, but his identity was not made public until Aug. 3. The inter-church committee is a Canadian ecumenical group, headquartered 'in Toronto.
SECURITY SURROUNDS Pope John Paul II as he leaves the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome after being pronounced in good condition after the May 13 attempt on his life. (NC/UPI Photo)
INDIANAPOLIS (NC)-A nun has been appointed assistant chancellor of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Providence Sister Loretta Schafer's appointment to the new post was announced A'Jg. 14 by Archbishop Edward O'Meara of Indianpolis. He said, "we need a person with sister's background and talent to share the administrative and pastoral responsibilities of the diocese." Sister Schafer, 64, was formerly superior general of the 1,060-member Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana. Archbishop O'Meara asked her to assume her new posit,jon the same day she was succeeded as supericr.
ROME (NC)-An anonymous letter writer told Italian police that he and two other people were in St. Peter's Square May 13 to help Mehmet Ali Agca in his attempt to kill Pope John Paul II. The writer, who identified himself as an Italian and by the initials G.V.M., said that he, Agca and two German-speaking accomplices worked for an organization which wanted to eliminate "this uncomfortable but authoritative Pole." The duties of the German-speaking accomplices, were "to shove people out of the way to free Agca" from the crowds after the shooting, according to the letter published by the Rome daily, II Tempo.
SISTER CAROL REGAN, SUSC (centef), new superior of Fall River province of the Holy Union Sisters, with her councillors, from left, Sisters Mary Lou Sullivan, Ann Kernan, Doreen Donegan, Bernadette Sullivan. (Torchia Photo)
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (NC)-Joe -Borowski, who began what he said was a threemonth fast for the legal protection of the unborn in Canada May 1 broke his fast on day 80. Borowski was fa.sting to oppose legalized abortions in Canada, where hospitals perform an average of 1,300 abortions a day. Borowski abandoned the fast because his lawyer told him that if he died the pro-life court case he initiated three years ago would die with him. The court case challenges abortion laws, saying they contradict the Canadian Bill of Rights.
ROME (NC)-A 37-year-old Italian nun was shot and killed by bandits Aug. 10 near Moroto, Uganda, according to a communique issued at the motherhouse of the Combonian Missionary Sisters in Rome. Sister Liliana Rivetta, a native of Gavardo in the 路Brescia Province of Italy, had worked in Uganda since October 1969. According to the missionary sisters in Uganda, Sister Rlivetta was traveling in a Land Rover when bandits attempted to rob the cargo in the vehicle. She was killed by a single gunshot.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (NC)-The Costa Rican Bishop's Conference has warned that the traditionally peaceful democracy of their country 'is in grave jeopardy because of widespread deterioration of moral and economic conditions. They blame parents, teachers and politicians for allowing the situation to develop in the Central Amel"ican country. "We must correct these evils in order that this oasis of peace in a turbulent world may preserve the virtues and values for which it is admired by many," they said in a pastoral letter timed to coincide with the start of the campaign for the elections next February.
BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN visits youngsters at Nazareth Camp, Westport. (Torchia Photo)
LONDON (NC)-The need for "attitudes of reconciliation rather than revenge" has been stressed by Archbishop Derek Worlock of Liverpool, England, and Anglican Archbishop David Sheppard of Liverpool in a joint statement issued in the aftermath of the r路ioting that broke out in July in the Toxteth area of the city. "The whole community must accept some responsibility for the deprivation in Toxteth and for failing to react positively to the many reports and forewarnings issued in these last years," the bishops said.
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Riv,er-Thur. Aug. 20, 1981
New programs at Stonehill This September over 1000 adults are expected to enroll in more than 125 courses to be offered by the evening division of Stonehill College, NOIth Easton. New courses will include "Shakespeare on Film," a social history of American medicine and "Self-Assessment a::ld Career Development." A new program for rE,gistered nurses offering a bachelor of science degree in nursing will build on the foundation laid in nurses' training. Although specific courses in this program will not be offered until September, 1982, applications are now being accepted and students are encouraged to begin taking prerequisite and general studies courses this year. Other Stonehill eveni,ng programs lead to degrees in business
DCCW Ilridal style show Heirloom wedding gowns representing each of the liO years since the National Council of Catholic Women was organized in 1921, will be seen at a bridal style show to be sponsored by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women on Sunday, Sept. 27. The dresses, most belonging to DCCW members, their mothers or grandmothers, will be modeled by women from the five deaneries of the Fall River diocese. The event will take place at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea, following a 12:30 p,m. social hour and a 1 p.m. dinner. Proceeds will go to the nation-
Sr. ElizabE~th A funeral Mass wa:; offered Tuesday at the CathoEc Memorial Home, Fall River, for Sister M. Elizabeth Joseph, O.Carm., 58, who died at the home after a long illness. Born in KUllkenny, Ireland, she came to Philadelphia as a child and entered the Carmelite community in 1940. She served at hOUSE!s of the community in Staten Island, the Bronx and Hyattsville, Md., before coming to Fall River. She is survived by a brother, Thomas Delaney, of Haverstown, Pa. Interment was at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Germantown, N.Y., where thE! communitys' motherhouse ,is located.
SIster Agnes Sister Agnes (Lydia) Boissoneault, 87, of the Domi::lican Sisters of the Presentation of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, died Aug. 9. She served at the hospital all her religious life with the exception of a period in France and the years 1962 to 1969, when she was superior of Marian Manor, Taunton. She was born in St. Croix, Canada, where two surviving sisters, Mrs. JeanneUe Lemay and Mrs. Gerard Lemay, reside. A brother, Henri, lives in Sanford, Fla. Among her nephews is Rev. Laurent Lemay of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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administration, criminal justice, health care administration, psychology, social studies, sociology and public administration. The college division of conferences and institutes will offer a program on Food Service Supervision in Nursing Homes beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8. Officials said the 90-hour course meets federal requirements for dietetic supervisors. The continuing education department will hold an open house Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. in the college center on the Stonehil~ lo~er campus. Information will be available on all parttime, evening and weekend programs. Information may also be obtained by telephoning 238-1081.
al council to help meet its operational expenses and fund future needs. The diocesan style show is one of many fundraisers being sponsored by councils of Catholic women throughout the nation. The work of the NCCW was recognized by Archbishop John R. Roach, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, who said in a congratulatory message: "You should be rightly proud of the enlightened and dedicated service which your members have given both to the church and to so many segments of contemporary American society. Yours is a record with few parallels in the history of U.S. Catholicism." There will be a general meeting of the committee planning the bridal fashion show at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Francis of Assisi church hall, Mill and Newton Streets, New Bedford. Reports on ticket sales and a "gift-o-rama," also to be featured, will be given at the meeting. Honorary cochairmen for the bridal show are Miss Ethel Crowley and Miss Adrienne Lemieux. General chairmen are Mrs. Aristides A. Andrade and Mrs. Michael J. McMahon. Other officers are Miss Lydia Pacheco, secretary, and' Mrs. Richard M. Paulson, treasurer. District cochairmen are Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs. Manuel Nogueira, Fall River; Mrs. J. Robert Costa and Miss Theresa Lewis, New Bedford; Mrs. William Grover and Mrs. Anthony Margarido, Taunton; Mrs. Edmond Messier and Mrs. Madeline Paradis, Attleboro; Mrs. Gilbert路 Noonan an Mrs. James H. Quirk, Cape and Islands. Other chairmen are in charge of table gifts and prizes; reservations; the gift-o-rama; publicity; fashion show arrangements; hospitality and ticket sales and charts. Commentators will be Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs. McMahon.
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Father Jose A. F. dos Santos, CM, associate pastor at St. John Baptist parish, New Bedford, and Father Timothy J. Goldrick, associate at St. Lawrence parish, also New Bedford, will be among speakers at the third annual National Catholic Lay Celebration of Evangelization, to be held at the Hartford CiV'ic Center starting tomorrow. Many lay persons from the diocese will also be in attendance at the program, to include over 100
workshops and seminars, concerts and praise and liturgy services. Father dos Santos will discuss Portuguese participation in the Catholic chaI1ismatic movement and Father Goldrick's topic will be the successful "We CarelWe Share" program which he organized last fall in the Fall River diocese. Up to 18,000 persons from all parts of the east coast are expected at the three-day program.
Sister Carol is superior FATHER LEO POL路 SELLI, CSC, a native of Holy Rosary parish, Fall River, has been named pastor of Most Holy Trinity parish, Saco, Maine. He -is one of nine children of Mary Polselli and the late Gaetano Polselli. A 1962 graduate of Stonehill College, North Easton, he spent two years in Chile as a Peace Corps member before entering the Congregation of the Holy Cross. He returned to Chile as a deacon and was ordained at Holy Rosary in 1970. Prior to his new appointment he was on the' staff of Holy Cross novitiate, W ate rf 0 r d, N.Y., served as a director of Family Rosary, Inc., in Albany and ministered to the Hispanic community of the Albany diocese. He also taught religion and was superior at Notre Dame High School, Bridgeport, Conn. and was vocations director for the eastern province of his community. He holds a degree in counseling from Fairfield University.
Story denied ROME (NC) - A spokesman for William A. Wilson, President Reagan's personal envoy to Pope John Paul II, denied a Communist Party newspaper's' story that Wilson had asked the Vatican to remove some priests and nuns from Latin America because of "subversive activities." The report in L'Unita said Wilson had sent a list of priests and Religious to the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy, asking that they be removed from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
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Sister Carol Regan was installed as provincial superior of the Holy Union Sisters' Fall River Province at a liturgy celebrated Monday, Aug. 17, at Holy Name Church, Fall River, by Father John Murphy, S.J.路 Sister Carol, the daughter of Francis Regan of Sacred Heart
Tonic Continued from Page One cony at the papal summer residence. The crowd broke into applause when Pope John Paul said he would go to Castelgandolfo "according to the recommendations of the doctors." "I see you agree with that, that you support it," he said in response to the cheers. "That way it will be easier for me to obey the doctors." Pope John Paul seemed most lively with the smaller crowd at Castelgandolfo, where he spoke for nearly half an hour without a prepared text. "We will have to get together as soon as possible," he told residents of the small town on Lake Albani. "But you must understand, I come from GemeIli and those (doctors) are following me here, they are checking up on me." During his stay in Castelgandolfo, expected to last until the end of September, Pope John Paul's health will be constantly monitored by his personal physician, Dr. Renato Buzzonetti, and another member of the nine-man medical team which cared for him at the GemeIli Polyclinic. After arriving by helicopter around 6 p.m. the pope was greeted at the papal villa by groups of Poles and Italians singing folk songs and by various groups waving banners. To the singers he said, "I see that you have made some improvement since the last time." Eyeing the signs, he asked, "Aren't those the same ones 1 saw this morning in St. Peter's?" The light tone was counteracted by the presence of a large number of Italian and Vatican policemen and security guards, brought to Castelgandolfo to prevent another assassination attempt like that of May 13 in St. Peter's Square. The papal residence was also lit by 300 new lamps which are designed to prevent an assailant from reaching the building without being seen.
parish, Fall River, is a graduate of the former Sacred Hearts Academy and an honors graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York. She taught in Fall River and New York on the secondary level and has studied at the Graduate School of Social Work of the University of Maryland. Sister Carol has served as a member of her community's general council in Rome for the past six years. In this position she has visited Holy Union communities in Africa, Latin America and Europe as well as in the United States. Previously, she was province personnel director. She will now serve for five years as provincial of sisters who minister in the New England states, New York, Maryland and Florida as well as in their congregation's African missions. Provincial councillors who will serve with Sister Carol are Sister Mary Lou Sullivan and Sister Ann Kernan,' stationed in Baltimore; and Sister Doreen Donegan and Sister Bernadette Sullivan, stationed in Fall River.
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Sunset and evening Star Closing of the Washington Star places our nation's capital in the demeaning position of being a one-newspaper town. Despite the obvious efforts of Time, Inc. and its expenditure of $85 million in the effort to salvage the Star, it just could not gain the circulation or advertising needed to make it viable. It is not alone in its fate, which has befallen or soon may befall many other newspapers. Soon, it seems, most major cosmopolitan areas will become subjects of a onenewspaper dictatorship. .. There are many reasons for the creation of this new American monster, the one-newspaper town. The flight of people to the suburbs from the city created immense vacuums, filled in most areas by non-English speaking immigrants. Nor should the change in American lifestyles and social habits be overlooked. Americans are no longer dependent on newspapers for information. Few spend time with the printed word when they return from work. This part of their day has been taken over by today's cyclops, the television. "Tum on the TV!" is the cry in homes, not "What news is in the paper?" , . Americans go to work later. If they read a paper, it is in the morning, on the way to work, after the kids have gone to school, before the job begins. Once the work whistle sounds, people are on the move. By the time the proverbial rat race is run, who has time to read? A snooze before supper and then it's off to Little League meetings and the like, with, of course, a half hour taken out to watch one's favorite news reporter. But the most dangerous trend, one that will continue to be a factor in closing newspapers and will ultimately, if unchecked, become a national disaster, has nothing to do with unions or postage rates. It is one that all of us have allowed to become America's disgrace, one that is already raising havoc in colleges as well as in industry; namely, the inability of many Americans to read. Millions of our citizens cannot read a newspaper. Not because it is printed in English and they have another mother tongue, but rather because their literacy is on the level of "See Spot run." True, many of our cities have vast populations that do not use English as their first language. That does not mean they cannot read. What is alarming is that so many young people born in this land, supposedly educated in our schools, have a most difficult time understanding anything more than the comics and sometimes not even them. The multitude that cannot get beyond a fourth grade reading level increases daily. Public education, long since reduced to the functions of babysitting and providing police patrols, can no longer guarantee that its students will understand what they read or recognize what they see. Colleges must offer special courses in remedial reading while in public places signs and symbols are fast replacing words. Hope for appreciation of the beauty of language is but a forlorn and fading dream. Given these circumstances, is it a wonder that newspapers close, why the written word can no longer sell, why one-newspaper communities abound? If the situation is to 'change, beginnings must of course be made in the home and school. But considering the current status of these basic institutions of learning the setting of the Star may be but the herald of a new d~rk age.
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• A family grIeves By Rev. Joseph J. Driscoll (Father Driscoll is Associate Pastor of St. Michael's Church, Bedford. In this article, he describes how the parish, gathering as a family, ministered to its Father in the Lord, Rev. John Farrell Wallace, .who died on July 17, 1981, after a long illness.) We miss him already. Three days ago we buried our Father John Wallace in the great liturgy of Resurrection amidst singing and praise and glory to our God. But it was a liturgy that had begun weeks before, actually months; and, looking back, even years. For "liturgy" means "common work." And the "common work" of worship last Monday was preceded by the "common work" of a family called .st. Michael's who gathered together. not only in prayer but in the care of a father in his health, in his sickness and ultimately in his dying. We want to share with the extended family of Church not only the Liturgy of the Resurrection but the Liturgy of Life and Death which we brought to Monday's celebration. John Farrell Wallace, priest and pastor, came as father to the family of St. Michael's some eleven years ago. And like any family there were ~he good times and the bad, the sickness and the health, and there was the death when we did part. When several weeks ago the doctors recognized that Fr. Wallace's struggle with cancer had tipped more to sickness, the need for round-the-clock nursing care led to the inevitable direction of a nursing ~10me. A fleeting thought of bringing him "home" to his church family almost went by because of the
fear of so awesome a task, no matter how well-intentioned. But could we? After consulting with the doctor, a few phone calls to parishioners who were nurses, the possibility began to become reality. Within a few days an overwhelming response of nearly 40 nurse-parishioners and the nursing care plan began. A week later we brought our father home to his family. For the next ten days Fr. Wallace's repeated acclamation resounded in the words: "It's so good to be home. It's so good to be with my friends. It's so good to be with those who love me. It's so good ..... We laughed with him, we cried with him. We fed him his supper, we bathed his frail body. We spoke of the future, we remembered the past. And we prayed with him. A group of parishioners wired up a speaker from the church to his room to make him a. part of the daily .Eucharist and the special ministers left the assembly with cup and plate in hand from the common table. Some of the family nursed him, others helped lift him, shave him, read him his mail. Some baked food for him and all the family prayed for him. On the night before he died, as our father was passing away to the Father, his parishioners and his brother, sisters, nieces and nephews gathered close to him in vigil. We anointed him with the oil of salvation for the strength of t:he final journey. All night long we prayed with him and for him, we hugged him, held him, reassured him. In the morning at :ÂŁucharist we heard the Passover reading from Exodus and we prayed for him in his
Passover. And when he breathed his last he was home with his Church. That's when we could culminate this long liturgy with song and praise and glory to our God. At every liturgy there is the all-important role of priest-presider. The presider is one who leads and enables the whole assembly to be one. With all that our family did for our father we recognize that he was still the presider. For it was his openness and receptivity that led and enabled a whole parish to be family. At the final liturgy of Resurrection, we sought to ritualize the "common work" of the final weeks. Many of the 40 nurseparishioners gathered to sit as a body in the Church. Six of them placed the pall on the casket, seemingly appropriate that those who cared for his bodily needs now clothe him with the symbol of immortality in his glorified body. All the nurses present escorted the casket in procession out of the Church as a whole family acclaimed our God as holy. The nurses were a significant part of the final days. And yet they represented a whole family who sought to celebrate the liturgy of life and death with their pastor. . So we miss him already. And yet like the tree that another parishioner planted on the grounds of St. Michael's an hour before the Funeral Liturgy, we have planted our hearts a hope, a strength, a new life that Father John Wallace gave us, his family, before the final Passover. Reprinted by permission of The Pilot, newspaper of the Boston archdiocese.
23 reasons "Twenty-three yea r s you've been married," marvelled a young fri'end. "I didn't know people stayed together that long." Then slyly, "Can you give me 23 good reasons for staying married?" "More," I replied. But here are twenty-three: 1. I never have to change the oil. 2. He doesn't notice when the kitchen or my hair is a mess. 3. His mother says, "'I'm glad he married you." 4. His teens think he's the greatest possible dad. 5. He can't stand liver either. 6. It doesn't bother him when people ask him what it's like being married to me. 7. He says, "Let's get away,
just the two of us:' 8. He didn't make fun of me when I was 'learning to swim at 40. 9. He doesn't ask me where's the change. 10. He likes his family better than TV football. 11. He doesn't chew tobacco. 12. He tak.es his sons fishing when he'd rather stay home but they don't know it. 13. He laughed when I told him Phyllis Schlafly has to ask her husband's permission to give a talk out of town. 14. He eats leftovers. 15. He chose me. 16. He's not embarrassed to pray with his family. 17. He's got a nice smile.
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18. He doesn't ask why there are little bumps in my gravy and not in his mother's. 19. He enjoys spending time with his kids and talking about their interests. 20. He bought me a typing chair instead of a frypan one Christmas. 21. He says, "You're not fat." 22. He's not afraid of growing older - with me. 23. He's willing to put in for another year of marriage.
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your spouse works, Congress has bestowed a new tax break on you: a slice in the so-called "marriage penalty" that taxes working married couples higher than if they were single. Ending the marriage penalty has almost universal appeal. New Righters like it because they feel the current structure encourages young unmarried couples to live together rather than marry. Feminists like it because the present tax discourages working wives. It taxes their earnings higher than their husbands' since they are treated ;as if were stacked on top of them. But others say that by eliminating this inequity Ccngress. is simply creating another, and that in another 10 years or so the newly oppressed group will be coming to Washington to demand a fair shake just as working couples did after the marriage penalty was "created" in 1969. The problem, according to tax experts, is that any time you create a tax break for one group you almost automatically increase the tax burden on another. That's what has been happening to married couples and singles since before 1948 as Congress periodicall~, tinkers with the tax system to try making things more equitable for both. Prior to 1948 about a dozen states had "community property laws" in which the husband usually the lone wage earner could file a joint return and split his income with his wife, a decided tax advantage. Taxpayers in other states couldn't do that, so in 1948 Congress acted, extending the benefits of income splitting to all marril~d couples filing joint returns. That, however, automatically created a perceived bias against single taxpayers, who paid as much as 42 percent more in taxes than a one-income family. Congress, bowing to pressure
from singles, in 1969 lowered the differential to no more than 20 percent. Thus there was still something of a "marriage bonus" for one-worker married couples, who continued to enjoy a tax advantage over their single counterparts. But by lowering the taxes for singles Congress widened the marriage penalty, an effect which became much more apparent through the 1970s as more two-worker marriages were created. On a total income of $25,000 a married couple might pay $3,399 in taxes, depending on deductions, dependents and other factors. But if the same husband and wife were single and each earned $12,500, their tax liability would be $3,170 a $229 penalty for being married. The disparity grows at higher tax brackets. Under the new law, couples filing a joint return for 1982 will be able to deduct five percent of the lower earning spouse's income from their total adjusted income. The deduc-
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tion will jump to 10 percent in 1983. But while slicing the marriage penalty had overwhelming support in Congress, some analysts are beginning to charge that, by the same token, it makes the tax system somewhat less fair to one-income families. Why, for instance, should a one-income family earning $50,000 a year pay more in taxes than a twoincome family earning the same? There is also speculation that religious and pro-family groups might say that the new tax break is a disincentive for twoincome couples considering giving up one job so someone can stay home and raise the baby. The real problem is that there is no perfectly equitable tax system covering all categories of taxpayers.
IRISH WOMEN perform sad ritual of banging trash can lids on Falls Road, Belfast, to signal death of hunger striker. (NC/UPI Photo)
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a fallen ,cause? The enjoyment of reading and some basic skills in writing are the good companions of a long and difficult journey, meaning life itself, but a sense of dismay caused by an increasing illiteracy rate among the young is enough to dog one's tracks like an unwanted hound at the heels. A couple of decades ago, educators were just beginning to discover that Johnny couldn't read. Suddenly, years later, it is big news to us that Johnny's brother, now a college student, can hardly put an intelligible English sentence together, let alone punctuate it properly. Even the educated are partially illiterate. Television news programs, for example, are rich sources of poor English usage. I have not heard a TV or radio newscaster, either nationally or at. the local level, who has not used the word 'unique' as a comparative or who has not abused the numerical compatibility of nouns and verbs, etc. Big deal, you say, but it's the disregard I can't abide, the careless lack of respect for the language itself, and so I hope you won't mind if I ramble on a bit about this craft of words that has held me in thrall for most of my life. In the beginning was the sentence. I have had an abiding passion for the English sentence ever since my first literate love affair with the muse of poetry, no less, while still in high school. It turns out that some of our greatest poets were exceptionally good writers of prose - the Keats of the letters, for example, and Emily Dickinson's less wellknow but superlative letters in this country. On my own, I began to read Hazlitt, Swift, Thoreau, and Emerson and even copied down, which is to say sedulously aped, what I took to be their best sentences and paragraphs. I believed that by doing so, with 'diligence and care, some of their qualities as accomplished writers would have to brush off on my own emerging efforts as well. Eventually, anyway. Mainly, though, it was through Emerson that my love for the sentence inevitably developed into a preoccupation with the English aphorism. I used to go to the town library on sunny afternoons, when, as a night worker I should have been sleeping during the day, and there I'd extract all those hard and glittering nuggets from Emerson's Journals and list them separately according to subject matter and chronological order. In this way, and on the presumption that I would be the first one to compile the definitive collection, I filled half a dozen looseleaf notebooks with Emerson's aphorisms and fancied myself a brilli-
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ant critic at a very early age. God knows where those notebooks are today, which I had kept for years, or to what frivolous winds their pages have been scattered forever. To this day, however, nobody has published the kind of book I had in mind to do. I think about sentences even while commuting. Riding in a train is nicely conducive to thinking up whole sentences and parts of others depending, of course, on the length of ride and one's disposition of mind. It is almost certain, when I put my mind to it, that even as the sun begins to rise from behind Big Blue Hill in Milton, the train to Boston will have produced in me enough creative intuitions to last well beyond the Norwood and Dedham marshes that reflect in their various textures and colors, any given season of the year. My heroes are not those neanderthal types who, for the grossest possible amounts of money, bash each other to smithereens in hockey rinks and prizefight rings and on professional football fields across the land, rather my heroes are the men and women who make definite contributions to the continuity of the arts and sciences as civilizing agents of the human race - I mean the poets and philosophers and the saints themselves. In particular, because I am closest to them both in practice and aspiration, I mean the writers. Good writing is a fotm of civility even when good writers themselves are barely civil to one another. And yet, though the writer may be a scoundrel, there is something very moral about writing well - or, as Oscar Wilde said, the fact that a man is a poisoner should not be held against the purity of his prose. All in all, though, I tend to favor writers with whom I have much in common. Gore Vidal is a marvelous writer who leaves me with nothing more to share than our rudimentary bond as .members of the same species, and even then I wonder. I like the writing of John Updike and Walker Percy and prefer their nonfictional prose to that of their more celebrated novels. My roster of admiration must certainly include the civilized prose of Malcolm Muggeridge, William F. Buckley, Jr., Daniel P. Moynihan (though trying desperately to think of some liberal stylists), John Kenneth Galbraith, Henry Fairlie, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Mary Gordon, Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Pritchett, Andrew Porter, Red Smith, John Cheever, Wilfrid Sheed, Jacques Barzun, Helen Vendler, Hugh Kenner, and Robert Penn Warren. literacy lives!
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Neutron plan Continued from page one ticularly effective in Western Europe to repel Soviet tanks and infantry while only minimally damaging property. Pax Christi, in a statement by its national executive council reo leased Aug. 11, called the decision "patently immoral" and said that not objecting to it "would be a betrayal of our obligation as followers of Christ tb give witness to his truth in the cause of peace." The statement criticized the "moral insensitivity" of the Reagan administration in announcing its decision as peace groups around the world were marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The announcement came Aug. 8. The anniversaries of the bomb· ings of the two Japanese cities in 1945 are Aug. 6 and Aug. 9. The' administration's decision also criticized by two organizations of nuns and by the president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils (NFPC).
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Dominican Sister Mary 0' Keefe, co-director of the National Assembly of Women Religious, said the decision "must be deplored by all thinking people." The National Coalition of American Nuns called attention to its 1977 statement on the neutron bomb. In a letter to president Carter the organization called the bomb a "monster" and said, "If we develop it, we will use it." Father Neil McCaulley, NFPC president, . said the Reagan ad· ministration decision to resume production is "the kind that' brings the human family to the brink of self-destruction." Another who noted the irony of the timing of the announcement was Coadjutor Bishop Michael J. Murphy of Erie, Pa. In a homily Aug. 9 marking the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Bishop Murphy commented, "What frightful progress we have made. In 36 years we might have banned the bomb. Instead we have perfected it."
WASHINGTON (NC) - The life Amendment Political Action Committee (LAPAC), a Washington-based pro-life group has shifted positions on the proposed "human ,life bill" and now says it supports the measure. When the bill first was introduced last January, some prolife groups talked, saying it could delay enactment of a human life amendment to the Constitution. The bill falls short of an amendment but, according to its supporters, would allow states to reenact abortion restriction laws struck down by the 1973 Supreme Court abortion decision. Paul A. Brown, LAPAC director, said his organization's early opposition to the bill was due to the "vague and ambiguous language" of the original bill. He said the ambiguity was clarified when the Senate subcommittee which held hearings on the measure approved II slightly modified version and sent it to the full Senate Judiciary Committee.
Fr. Corriveau CMSM leader Father Ernest Corriveau, MS, was named to the executive committee of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men at the organization's annual meeting, held this year in Milwaukee. Father Corriveau is superior of Immaculate Heart Province of the Missionaries of La Salette. Provincial headquarters are in Attleboro. Other officers are Oblate Father Ronald Carignan, president; and Divine Word Father Terry Steib reelected vice-president. At the meeting CMSM members approved resolutions on a
wide range of issues. Delegates: - Voiced opposition to the arms race, neutron bomb, nu· clear weapons, MX missile, aid to EI Salvador and Reagan administration cuts in education and human services funding. - Supported handgun control, the Equal Rights Amendment and improving methods to laicize priests. - Expressed hope for a meeting with the U.S. hierarchy to discuss pastoral planning. The statements on the arms race, EI Salvador and laicization were unanimously approved.
Nuns to meet in Indv tI
Some 600 leaders of 80 percent of the religious Women's congregations in the U.S., including several from the Fall River diocese, will meet in Indianapolis Monday through Friday of next week for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. With the theme "Intersections: Women Committed to Justice," members will mark the 25th an-
niversary of the conference, reflecting on its history and planning for its future. The program will include sessions on nonviolence; politics; world poor; the emerging church; the theology of work; and lifestyle in an age of limits. A major feature will be an exhibit of art by U.S. women religious. 137 pieces by 73 artists will be in a display open to the public.
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Bishop Thomas C. Kelly, general secretary of the, U.S. Catholic Conference (Uscq, has asked the organization sponsoring a tour of the United States next month by the South African national rugby t('am to reconsider itl'l position. "What is involved is not mere. ly sporting compeUion but an important indicator of the attitude in this country toward South Africa's racial policies," Bishop Kelly said in a letter to William Haffner, treasurer of the Eastern Rugby Football Union, which invited the team, the Springboks, to come to the United States. Opponents of apartheid, South Africa's policy of strict racial segregation, are planning to hold demonstrations in Chicago, AI· bany, N.Y., and New York City
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when the Springboks play there. Bishop Kelly sent an identi· cal letter to Richard Moneymaker, president of the American Rugby Football Union, which is fielding a national team to play the Springboks in New York City on Sept. 26. The other two games of the tour are scheduled for Chicago on Sept. 19 against the Midwest Rugby Union and for Albany, N.Y., on Sept:. 22 against the Eastern Rugby Football Union. The Springboks are now playing in New Zealand and their visit there has sparked demonstrations leading to hundreds of ar· rests and requiring expenditure of more than $2.3 million for se· curity. In his letters, Bishop Kelly quoted from 21 statement made on May 1 by the administrative board of the Southern American Bishops' Conference, who said "the few changes for the better in South African sport which have been maC:e in recent years result from sports boycotts." The great inequality between black and white citizens in South Africa is evident in sports as well as other aspects of life, the South African bishops said. "We wish to encourage all attempts to bring about real change in South Africa by nonviolent means," the bishops said. "Sport boycotts are an effective means of applying pressure for change."
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While several pro-life groups supported the bill, saying it would serve as an interim step to the full constitutional amendment,others questioned its political wisdom, noting that it might provide an easy way out for legislators opposed to an amendment and might be tied up in the courts. Further action on the bill.has been delayed until another Senate subcommittee holds hearings later this year on a human life amendment. In an effort to extend the 14th Amendment's protection for the "person" to the unborn, the bill would establish that life begins at, conception.
Ball meeting September 20 The annual Bishop's Ball planning meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20 at White's restaurant, North Westport. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, ball director, said that meeting invitations have gone to 150 committee members. The 27th annual midwinter social event, to be held Friday, Jan. IS, at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Westport, will benefit diocesan schools for exceptional children and camps for both the exceptional and under· privileged.
Jubilee Mass 'Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant of a Mass at 5 p.m. Sunday, Ott. 4 at St. Mary's Cathedral, arranged by the diocesan Office of Family Ministry . to honor couples observing silver, golden or other significant wedding anniversaries. Those wishing to attend should notify their pastor.
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Dear Editor: A friend of mine, over 70 at the time, said somethirlg to me that I found quite enlightening. She said "Do you realize that when some people shake hands during Mass it is the (mly time they ever touch anothe:r human being." Having come from a large family and with a grE,at many friends, her words came as a surprise and really impr(~ssed me. We don't stop to think that there are many people alone in the world who would welc~ome the warmth of a friendly hllndshake. A short while ago, a young woman in my office, II convert to Catholicism, told me that she wasn't keen about going to Mass because she found Protestants at church services much friendlier than Catholics. Could our lack of warmth be one of the reasons why a great many young adults do not attend Mass? Genevieve E. :Foley New Bedford
Dear Editor: The great feast of the, Assumption of the Mother of God reminds us of God's enormous love for her by granting her the unique and beautiful gift of assumption into heaven body and soul. As co-redemptrix of the human race she shared not only his glory but also his anguish. Each of us in our own way is called upon to carry his cross. Theologians state that those truly devoted to our Lady will find, like herself, much sorrow, pain, alienation, suffering, rejection and criticism. But our Savior will sustain them and unite them to himself, the Suffering Servant. Mrs. Jean Quinn South Dartmouth
The scapular Dear Editor: I understand that when some children receive first holy communion they are not e:nrolled in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's scapular confraternity and :so do not receive a scapular. I feel it is unfort\llnate that these children, having received the S·on, do not in this way honor and appreciate the love of his mother; and arc~ deprived of this blessed scapular. Pope John Paul II has said that he is never witho\;lt his scapular and has gained much profit from it. Pope Paul VI cites Vatican II in exhorting the faithful to hold in high esteem the prflctices and devotions to the Blessed Virgin approve4 by the teaching authority of tbe church in the course of the centuries. The rosary and the scapular are among these practices. All priests have the faculty to
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THE SUMMER PROGRAM of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, is over but pleasant memories linger for participants. Directed by Sister Denisita Sullivan, RJM, it had Mrs. Judith Costa and Mrs. Ann Keshur as teachers. Erica Watkinson (left) and Christine Keshura display sign during field trip to home of Jeanne Gilbert, Rehoboth. The pony looks as if he'd like to sign up for next year. (Jeanne Gilbert Photo)
He charges Salvadorans are 'guilty as hell' WASHINGTON (NC) - Six Salvadoran servicemen held in the slaying of four American churchmen last December are "guilty as hell" even though they may never be convicted, according to the current U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Deane R. Hinton. Hinton made his remarks in a wide-ranging interview on the El Salvador situation with the Associated Press. The Salvadoran government confirmed last May that six servicemen had been arrested in connection with the killings of the four churchwomen, whose bodies were discovered last Dec. 4 in a shallow roadside grave. The four - Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clark, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay volunteer Jean Donovan had last been seen alive at the San Salvador airport. While personally believing that the six members of the armed forces are guilty, Hinton said the rules of evidence in the Salvadoran court system are "very different" from tbose in the United States. "The evidence that will be used in court is not normally the kind that would bring convictions in the Salvadoran legal system," said Hinton, who was appointed ambassador to El Salvador by the Reagan administration in April, replacing Robert White.
enroll in the brown scapular; all true lovers of Mary and their children should wear it worthily, meditate on its spiritual significance and recognize it as the traditional sign of a life lived in, through and with Mary, our mother, given to us by her Son. Constance Zygiel New Bedford
Hinton also said he does not disagree with human rights groups in the United States which complain about widespread abuses by Salvadoran security forces. "There are a lot of things in San Salvador that I don't like
one little bit," said Hinton. "But what they (the human rights groups) don't seem to understand is that there's something worse that could happen," Hinton added, referring to U.S. attempts to prevent a communist takeover in EI Salvador.
Theology school proves popular A Hungarian correspondence school for theology has graduated its first students and the three-year program is so popular applicants are being turned away. The course founder, Tamas Nyiri, said the program is unique in communist-ruled Eastern European countries. He and Catholic officials have indicated the theology-by-correspondence program will help train
(necroloQY) August 22 Rt. Rev. Manuel J. Texeira, 1962, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton Rev. William R. Jordan, 1972, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River August 23 Rev. Thomas Clinton, 1895, Pastor, St. Peter, Sandwich August 24 Rev. Peter J. B. Bedard, 1884, Founder, Notre Dame, Fall River August 25 Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, 1974, Founder, Holy Cross, South Easton August 27 Rt. Rev. Francisco C. Bettencourt, 1960, Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall River Rev. Hugh A. Gallagher, 1978, Pastor Emeritus, St. James, New Bedford
lay people to fill the gap as Hungary's clergy get older and seminarians decrease. 'Prospective employment of lay people in certain types of church activity would be grounded in Vatican II directives on lay involvement and viewed against a background of declining numbers of priests. In 1960 there were 3,722 Catholic priests in Hungary but only 2,790 in 1979. About 67 percent of Hungary's population of 10.6 million professes Catholicism. A~ger
"Anger is like a stone cast into a wasp's nest." - Malabar . proverb
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Reagan administration has givln "a green light all the way" to tuition tax credits, according to Patrick Murphy, associate director of the U.S. Catholic Conference Office of Educational Assistance. The green light Murphy sees is a statement by Martin Anderson indicating that the administration hopes to propose a tuition tax credit to Congress next year. Anderson, Reagan's assistant for policy development, made the statement Aug. 13 at a breakfast meeting with reporters. "This coming out so early after the passage of Reagan's initial economic recovery program is a good signal," Murphy said Aug. 14. "It shows tuition tax credit is a high priority." Murphy hopes the next big step will come at Reagan's State of the Union address in January. "In his budget message to Congress he will have to include the projected revenue loss from tuition tax credits." Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard McNamara said, "there is still a lot of work to do yet" on tuition tax credit and Murphy agreed.
ABA Continued from page one strued to prevent a law school from having a religious affiliation and purpose and adopting policies of admission and employment that directly relate to such affiliation and purpose so long as notice of such policies has been provided to applicants, students, faculty and employees." The new policy is expected to have little or no immediate impact on law schools at Catholic universities since most have had no problem complying with standards forbidding discrimination on the basis of religion. The Oral Roberts law school, opened in 1979, requires students to swear an oath of religious belief, pledging to follow the example of Christ. Faculty members also must support and exemplify the code, and hiring includes tests of religious belief. The ABA accreditation committee had found Oral Roberts in "substantial compliance" with all other standards.
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IN SCENES at EI Virtud refugee camp in Honduras, top, Dr. Annette Wenzel of West Germany examines a patient; center, a baby rests in a makeshift hammock; bottom, a man prays for a family member who died in the camp. (NC/Kl\~A Photos).
NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has sent about $30,000 worth of food, medicines, clothing and cash this year to aid Salvadorans who have fled to Honduras from their war-torn country. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees estimates that at least 305,000 people have fled from El Salvador to all countries in Central America in the past year hecause of violence and hunger in their homeland. Of the total, 70,000 are in Honduras, 110,000 are in Mexico, 90,000 in Guatemala, 20,000 in Nicaragua, 8,000 in Costa Rica, 5,000 in Belize and 2,000 in Panama. Some 50,000 displaced persons remain in EI Salvador. More than 26,000 Salvadorans have been killed in political violence since a coup in October 1979. Thousands more, perhaps 35,000, have sought asylum in the United States during the past year. CRS aid to the refugees is in addition to relief programs provided for Hondurans, which last year amounted to more than $2.8 million. eRS programs for Honduras refugees include: - Providing milk for children and nursing mothers and baby formula, baby food, fish, eggs, meats and vegetables at camps in Santa Rosa de Copan, the first Honduran diocese to aid Salvadorans. There is also distribution of cooking utensils, seeds and garden tools. Five nutrition centers care for the neediest refugees. Funds are also used to buy tents, tables, chairs and sewing machines, which refugees use to mend donated clothing. - Providing medicines for distribution by Honduras Caritas, the local Catholic relief agency, and the Medical Brigades of the National University. - Providing money for an access road to La Virtud, the largest refugee camp, which must be completed before September rains set in. It is estimated to cost about $90,000. The Honduran government has pledged $55,000 and CRS has provided half of the balance. Other funding agencies are to provide the rest. Should the road not be completed on time, more than 11,000 refugees will be isolated. - Along with the National Emergency Committee (CEDEN), eRS is increasing supplies of com, beans, rice, flour, coffee and salt supplies at La Virtud. CEDEN 'and others are training some 50 refugees to raise chickens. About 90 percent of the production will go to the refugees. - At Colomoncagua, a camp with 5,000 refugees, more than 200 children suffer from acute malnutrition. SeveraJ die each week. Funds for an extensive program will secure. three months of a balanced diet for the entire population of the camp. Afterwards refugees will rely on their own vegetable gartlens and the chicken projects.
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Cape Cod gives Irish kids break from turmoil By NC News Service
Things are different in America, Brian Longridge, 14, has found. "It doesn't matter that I'm a Protestant and you're a Catholic over here. And I guess that's a good thing." It does matter in Longl'idge's home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the conflict between the two religions has gone on for centuries. Longridge is one of 63 youngsters in the Cape Cod, Mass., Irish Children's Program, now in its seventh summer. Fifty of the children visited Cape Cod for the first time, while 13 others, including Longridge, returned this summer at the expense of families that have sponsored them in previous years. "We want to give the youngsters six weeks of peace away from the violence and turmoil of their Belfast hometown," said Robert O'Donnell, director of the program and a member of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis. The youngsters left the Cape Aug. 10. With Joseph O'Malley, program treasurer. of Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville, and Mrs. Alyce Hayden, its cOlordinator, also of Centerville, O'Donnell has discovered that the Cape Irish Children's Program is a year-round activity, merely reaching, its peak during the summer, "We run fundraisers throughout the year," he said. The program pays expenses for firsttime visitors, while returnees are sponsored by the families that invite them back to the Cape.
"We've had five youngsters ourselves," said O'Donnell, who termed the experience "very rewarding." As director, he's on tap for any problems that may arise among the children, mostly 9 to ll-year-olds, but he said that they are few: "A bit of chickenpox one year, some toothaches and quite a bit of homesickness during the first few days." O'Donnell paid tribute to Cape merchants who over the years have provided boat trips to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, free admission to roller and ice skating rinks and visits to Heritage Plantation in Sandwich to the Irish youngsters. This year's treat was soccer shirts emblazoned with the program's name. Traditionally the children's stay is climaxed with an ecumenical service, this year held at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Barnstable, and offered by Father David Myers of that church and Father Robert Donovan of St. Francis Xavier. The Cape program began in 1975 through the efforts of Father George Cobbett, then at the Barnstable church. It has spun off similar efforts in Boston, Providence, New York and several other areas, said O'Donnell. He noted that his committee has a slide presentation available which members are glad to take to communities on and off the Cape. He can be contacted in Hyannis at 775-6868. When asked how close the children are to the fighting in Belfast, John McCullough, a Belfast public school teacher who accompanied the group to Cape
Cod, pointed to a sandy-haired boy of about 10 and said, "his father was murdered in December." "The degree of their exposure to the violence usually determines just how angry they may be," McCullough said. Father Philip Jacobs, pastor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Buzzards Bay, also involved in the program, agreed that many of the children had had "negative experiences" in Belfast. "That is why the program is designed to create a positive at· mosphere where Catholics and Protestants live side by side and we hope the children will remember this when they return to Belfast," he said. In Northern Ireland Protestants and Catholics live in different neighborhoods and, for the most part, attend separate schools, according to McCullough, In some ways McCullough thinks the children "are oblivious to the turmoil and trouble around them. Unfortunately, it will probably not remain that way for very long." "I just try to think about other things; things that have nothing to do with the fighting," said Maureen Dempsey, an 11year-old Catholic. "I don't really know why there's so much fighting and I don't want to have to fight," said Michael Mullin, an ll-yearold Protestant. "But it probably won't change, at least not while I'm alive. Sometimes I want to go back home because I miss my family. But when I'm in bed here at night and it's so quiet, I'd like to stay here for just a little longer."
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Last week we answered a letter from a reader who felt uncomfortable visiting older persons. We gave some suggestions to improve the quality of the contacts. Here are some more thoughts on visiting elderly friends and relatives. 1. Listen to your older friends carefully. Give them your complete attention. Maintain eye contact. Don't assume you know what they have to say. Sometimes, if they ramble while· talking or catalogue their complaints, it may be difficult to be patient. However, as you listen you will get clues about their current hopes and fears, their interests and feelings. These may be quite different from what you expected. You may be able to select some positive areas which you can encourage. 2. Spend quiet time together. You may find that you can read a book or write a letter at their house. Just being there is important. There may be an opportunity for you to watch a ball game or television musical program with them away from
the noise and bustle of your own family. 3. Tell them wha't is happening in your life. Older people may be interested in hearing about your family or friends or whatl~ver you are currently doing. 4. Enc,ourage success even in small doses. Watch for fatigue and the blues. Don't overwhelm them by pushing too hard. On the other hand, be supportive of their enthusiasm and achievements. 5. Don't be critical. Admire their appearance and possessions. Keep your conversation positive. Ignore, if you can, their faults and failings. 6. Don't argue with older people. You ~llay have differences of opinion, hut don't get locked ina confrontation. If you contradict them frequently, you will dry up any conversation.
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freshments in her own home. Let your elderly friend give you the gift he has planned. Satisfactions for the elderly come from planning things, doing what they are able to do and giving gifts. 8. Ask them: Is there anything at all I can do for you? Then listen to their answers. They will tell you what they want. It may not agree with what you think they need or would like to do for them. But accept the fact that they know their own minds and try to do what they have asked of you. Older people can try your patience and even your temper. They can seem selfish and petty. The above suggestions will help you get past the preoccupation with mundane details, the memory lapses and the negativism to the person who is your friend. The elderly need your focused attention and love as th~ come to the close of their lives. Look to them carefully, and you may find a quiet wisdom in return. Reader questions on family living and child care are invited Address to The Kennys; Box 67; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.
New horizons SAN JOSE, Calif. (NC) - "1 atmosphere of trust and sharing. Ruth Spencer, regional chairwas devastated when my marriage broke up ... I was comfort- woman of the conference, said able that God still loved me but the sessions show participants I was not so certain about the that they are not alone in their church. I had witnessed the ex- grief. clusion of divorced Catholics so Mrs. Spencer, who w'as a many times before, I felt ex- widow with three children, said cluded also." she remarried "for all the wrong Mark Schaffer, a divorced reasons." After 10 years, her Catholic in San Jose, Calif., is second marriage was annulled. not alone. A recent study by the Because of her own grief, she Canon Law Society of America said she could help others overrevealed there were 225,720 div- come their sufferings. orces involving Catholics in 1975. The group participates in variMOre than 30,0<:'0 marriage cases ous activities to meet their were decided in church courts spiritual needs, such as home in 1979. liturgy celebrations and special A support group for divorced retreats. Social events and and separated Catholics has been speakers are also scheduled at helping people such as Schaffer. meetings. Called New Horizons, it is sponAlthough the church is besored by Holy Family Church in coming more active in ministry San Jose, Calif., and it gives for the separated and divorced, support and encouragement to many problems remain. separated and divorced CathNew Horizon member Joe olics. Lucas recounted his difficulties Schaffer was uncertain what with divorce: to expect the first time he went "The separation came as a to a group meetihg. But he. dis- surprise to me, and I went to covered a caring group of men , our pastor for help. His response and women who shared a com- was devastating - he said that mon grief. he was going on vacation the "I felt very warm, welcomed next day and why do we always and unthreatened," said Schaffer. wait until it's too late before "I carry the same feelings one coming to the parish church for and a half years later." help." New Horizons, started in 1976, Eventually Lucas said he talkis one of 800 s:milar groups in ed to other priests who gave him the United States and Canada, understanding and advice. including many ::n the Fall River Schaffer describes the way diocese (see list at the end of divorce has changed his life. "I this article). Most hold member- know I am not bad and evil beship in the North American Con- cause of this thing called divference of Separated and Div- orce. My life has changed in a orced Catholics, based in Boston. spiritual way. I feel closer to The Jesuit pastoral team at God than E~ver. I also feel closer Holy Family actively supports to the church, although I recogthe group. Rap sessions are held nize there is still much work to every two weeks, stressing an be done in this area."
Groups for separated and divorced Catholics are active in every area of the Fall River diocese under direction of the Office of Family Ministry. Times and places of meetings foIlow: - FALL RIVER AREA - Our Lady of Fatima parish, 530 Gardner's Neck Rd., Swansea, 7 p.m., second and fourth Wednesday of each month, Father John P. Cronin, director; - NEW BEDFORD AREA: Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford, 7:30 p.m. every Sunday, Father Edward HaIloran, OFM, director; - TAUNTON AREA: St. Joseph parish, 19 Kilmer Ave., Taunton, 7 p.m., last Sunday of each month, Father Herbert Nichols, director; - ATTLEBORO AREA: St. Mark's parish, 105 Stanley St., Attleboro Falls, 7:30 p.m., third Sunday of each month, Father George Bellenoit, director; - CAPE COD AREA: St. Anthony's parish, 167 E. Falmouth Highway, East Falmouth, 7 p.m., second Sunday of each month, Father John Ozug, director.
Inaction scored LONDON (NC) - A parliamentary report has accused the British government of doing too little to combat the racial disadvantage faced by Britain's 2.4 million non-whites. The report by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee focused on Liverpool, where rioters recently looted and burned buildings and battled police.
O~~lon corner By Father John Dietzen Q. You recently answered a question about Protestants receiving Communion in the (:ath· oUe Church. You said that they may do so providing they believe In the Eucharist as Catholicll do. I certainly disagree with your answer. I would report any non· Catholic receiving CommuJl1ion. I never heard of this before. (California) A. The question you refE~r to asked why Protestants <:ould ever receive Communion in a Catholic Church, since the Eucharist is a sign of unity. In my response I noted the require::nent - that Protestants "have a faith in the sacrament in confol'mity with that of the church" .- is only one of the necessary conditions before such a Communion. These conditions are not new. They have been reported often in the Catholic press, including in this column, during the past 15 years, and are contained in the "Directory for the Application of the Decisions of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican Concerning Ecumenical Matters," approved by Pope John Paul VI in April, 1967. As the directory points out, - since the Eucharist and other sacraments "are both signs of unity and sources of grace, the church can for adequate reasons allow access to those sacraments to a separated brother." Other conditions in addition to the one noted above are: 1. The situation must involve danger of death or urgent need - for example, in time of persecution or in prison. 2. The individual has no access to a minister of his or her own Protestant community, and spontaneously asks a Catholic priest for the sacraments. 3. The individual is rightly disposed for the sacraments. (This means that to receive the Eucharist, for example, thE! Protestant should be conscious of no unrepented serious sin, and should be in the state of grace.) The local bishop, or the bishops' conference of a particular country, may judge other cases of "urgent necessity" to be suf· ficient for a Protestant to reo ceive Communion. An instance would be allowing a Prot.estant spouse to receive Communion at the Mass of his wedding to a Catholic. This could be pennitted (and has been, I've heard) by the local bishop if the aboveconditions are fulfilled. So don't jump to conchsions if you see this happen. It may be in perfect accord with the regulations of the church. Q. My nephew is marl1rlng a non-Catholic and asked. the priest if their marriage cerl~mony could have two recitations of the vows, one for the priest alld one for the Protestant pastor of the bride, who will also be pJ:"eSent. The priest said this was im· possible. I thought this was done often now in other churches, so why can't it be done in our parish? (Ohio)
A. No, this procedure is never allowed in the Catholic Church, nor in any Protestant church that I know of. For one thing, it could create considerate legal confusion over the marriage that might be detrimental to the new bride and groom. Both by general church law for the entire world, and by regulations of the bishops of the United States, it is not permitted to have two separate religious marriage services, or one service which would include both the Catholic and non-Catholic marriage ritual. You may be thinking of the marriage of a Catholic to a person of another faith (or of no faith) which takes place before a judge or Protestant minister rather than before a priest. As I've explained several times before, it is permitted now, on condition that a dispensation is obtained for such a marriage from the Catholic party's bishop. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen, St. Mark's Parish, 113 W. Brad· ley, Peoria, Ill. 611606.
Agca prison site changed ROME (NC) - Mehmet Ali Agca, recently sentenced to life imprisonment for an attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II, has been moved to a maximum security prison about 100 miles northeast of Rome. Agca, a 23-year-old Turk convicted July 22 after a three-day trial in Rome, was in solitary confinement at the Marino Del Tronto maximum security prison near Ascoli Piceno, Italy, officials said. He was moved from the Kebibbia prison on the outskirts of Rome, where he had also been in solitary confinement. Officials did not say whether he would remain at the Marino Del Tronto Prison or be moved to another jail in the future. Agca was taken from the Re· bibbia Prison on Aug. 10. Several days earlier members of the italian Parliament had called for an investigation of the prison, saying it was overcrowded and lacked water at night and that its cell temperatures sometimes reached 104 degrees.
Togo gets nuncio VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Holy See and Togo will establish diplomatic relations and appointments of an apostolic nuncio by the Holy See and of an ambassador by Togo are expected shortly. A former German colony in West Africa, Togo achieved independence in 1960. About 20 percent of its 2.5 million citizens are Christians. The addition of Togo will bring to 100 the number of countries having diplomatic relations with the Holy See.
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Response-ability By Father Philip J. Murnion Response-ability. What is it? How can we make it grow? Perhaps some will say I'm playing fast and loose with the word "responsibility." But it helps to look at it this way. Responsibility reflects an ability to respond. But who's responsible? What should we respond to? The parish is people and parishioners are recognizing more frequently that they are able to develop a sense of responsibility for their parishes. There is, in other words, a growing realization that all Christians are the church - just as Vatican Council II stressed. The church is a people of God. Parish councils, religious edu-
cation classes in homes, and the services parishioners provide for youth, the aged, the separated and divorced, are some ways for Christians to accept and exercise greater responsibility for their parishes. In my travels I meet many people whose sense of responsibility for their parishes is strong. I have noticed that many such people have participated in a Cursillo (or "little course" in Christianity), a Marriage EncOunter or in the Charismatic Renewal. Often these movements underscore the significance of baptism as a sharing in the life of Jesus. People who experience a Cursillo or Marriage Encounter weekend often develop an appreTum to Page Thirteen
For children By Janaan Manternach
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Priscilla and Aquila welcomed Paul back to Ephesus. The whole Christian community celebrated his return. It had grown much larger while Paul was away visiting other Christian churches. Some new disciples apparently knew little about what it meant to' be a Christian. One day Paul met a group of 12 new disciples. Impressed with their enthusiasm, he wanted to test their knowledge of the Christian way. "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?" Paul asked them.
It was an obvious question. Ever since Penecost those who carne to believe in Jesus had experienced the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in their lives. But these recently converted disciples had not had this experience. They glanced at one another in puzzlement. "We have not so much as heard that there is a Holy Spirit," they answered. Their answer puzzled Paul as much as his question had puzzled them. "How were you baptized?" he asked. "With the baptism of John," they immediately responded. They were referring to the Tum to page thirteen
The meaning of the term "leadership" is elusive. The word is tossed about all the time. We assume there is common understanding of what leadership is. 'But is there? Do people agree on what quaEties wake up a leader? Certainly it's easy enough to name some. leaders. St. Francis of Assisi qualifies. A solitary voice at first, Francis pursued his vision of Jesus into a life of absolute poverty. He inspired by the force of his own example. A man of simplicity, he didn't ask for followers. But today thousands follow his way of life. In the well-known novel, "East of Eden," John Steinbeck portrays a charismatic Irish leader, Samuel Hamiton, who never held public office and struggled mightily to support his many children on a bleak California farm. Hamilton possessed the. gift of laughte:" the heart and language of a poet. A man who radiated warmth and compassion, people carne to him for comfort and wisdom and sometimes changed their ways after talking with him. Then there is Pope John Paul II. Firm and strong, yet approachable and especially winning in his love of children, he leads through courage and force of character. His spontaneous forgiveness of his would-be assassin showed how he also leads by example. This look at leaders hints at the problems of defining leadership. Each leader has his or her special brand of leadership. In an interesting but rather murky entry, Webster's Third International Dictionary refers to a "leader" as a "guide, a conductor; one who plays a direct role and wields command or influence; one who has a following in any sphere of activity or thought." That leaves great room for variations on the theme! In the United States, 11 premium is placed on leadership. Beginning in early childhood, people are taught to develop leadership qualities. Children as young as 7 are evaluated for leadership potential in some school systems. But perhaps ::eadership's very elusiveness is advantageous. Perhaps this draws attention to the many roles to be filled by leaders. Leaders in parishes, for instance, are caI:ed into various quite different Itinds of service.
In fact, the same Christian may act as a leader in several different circumstances. While managing a home, for instance, a parent is a leader in raising children, developing compassion, understanding and consistency in the process. The same parent may carry out leadership roles in a parish, perhaps in a low key way by serving on a committee, perhaps more noticeably as head of a committee striving to obtain public services for the poor. This role may require an ability to work for concensus. Yet again, in the civil community this parent may lead in his or her voting precinct or as a fundraiser, positions which
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may require ability to speak in public. Obviously, one person may draw on several abilities when serving as a leader. It is thus hardly surprising that leadership varies as it does from one person to another. Finally, people talk about leaders! Every four years in the United States, the national sport of electing a new president leads to countless discussions of what a leader is. The public's perception appears to change, depending on what problems seem most important at a given time. No wonder it is so difficult to develop a concensus on leadership.
Jesus the teacher By Father John J. Castelot It seems Matthew had a definite structure in mind for his Gospel - one that scholars have stuggled to decipher. Within this structure, his portrait of Jesus is offered. According to one popular view, Matthew's Gospel consists of five booklets with a prologue and epilogue. An alternative proposal divides Matthew's Gospel into three principal sections and is' strongly promoted by Jack Dean Kingsbury, a modem student of Matthew. Kingsbury's proposal calls attention to the person of Jesus and, for this reason, is somewhat more attractive than the division into five sections centered on the theme of the kingdom -a view which can create the il;llpression that the Gospel is a rather impersonal catechetical work. The portrait of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel has features in common with that offered by the Gospel of Mark. But Matthew is not just a copy of Mark. In Matthew the post-resurrection titles "Lord" and "Son of God" appear more frequently. Matthew also either omits or softens Mark's references to the strong emotions of Jesus. Let's compare two passages, one from Mark and one from Matthew, (Mark 3:4-5 and Matthew 12:12). Both tell of the man with the shriveled hand whom Jesus cures. Mark describes Jesus as angry and "deeply grieved" because people closed
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It's Jesus By Judy Ball Less than a decade ago the writing was on the wall for St. George parish in Cincinnati's central city. Membership had declined drastically. The parish needed new life to survive. The medical report is now complete. And the news is good: St. George parish and Newman Center is a growing, thriving community which has not only managed to preserve and cherish the old but also to nurture a spirit that continually attracts new life. Much of that new life has come from students at the nearby University of Cincinnati campus, particularly since the 113-year路 old Franciscan-run parish merged with the campus Newman Center in 1974. Hundreds of jeans-clad college students faithfully attend daily Tum to page thirteen
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Continued from page twelve ciation of how God's gifts are found in everyone; how they themselves have gifts that can contribute to parish life and the development of the Christian community. Who, then, is responsible for the parish? Many people: pastor and staff members; parishioners; the bjshop; and, in some areas, regional vicars and deans. If response-ability is to he furthered in parishes, people must hear over and over about God's call to them - in prea(:hing,
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teaching and through opportunities for reflection on the meaning of Christ's life. Second, they need the skills and support to respond to needs of the community. Third, opportunities for re: sponding should be well-coordinated by parish leaders. Finally, everyone who becomes active in parish life should encourage others to do the same. In this way, the circle of response-ability will widen. St. Paul wrote often of the many parts of the body of Christ and their need of each other. All members of the parish share responsibility for each other and for the life of Christ that the parish tries to make incarnate.
Continued from Page Twelve and weekend liturgies and take an active role in parish prayer groups, retreats and social justice projects. Continued from page twelve But students do not represent the whole picture, says Francis- eral tendency on the part of can Father Joseph Rigali, pastor Matthew to soften the implicaand head of the six-member pas- tions of Jesus' humanity and to toral team. "Many people feel at accentuate his divinity. home here," he says, ref1erring Another distinctive trait of not only to area residents but Matthew is the presentation of others who make up the 750 Jesus as the realization of the families that belong to the par- hopes of Israel. Over and over ish. Most see St. George as a again, he points explicitly to the community where they are ac- words and deeds of Jesus as the cepted, valued, welcomed, and fulfillment of Old Testament prochallenged to grow. phesies. Jesus is the long-awaited One such is Tony Leininger, "Messiah, son of David, son of 20, a UC architecture student Abraham." who last Holy Saturday was reIn Matthew, Jesus also ceived as a Catholic, along with emerges preeminently as the 20 other catchurnens. Before teacher, one characterized not coming to college, says Tony, only by profound wisdom but alCatholicism just wasn't "invit- so by supreme authority. While ing" to him. But at St. George's, Mark gives us surprisingly little he explains, "people are very of the actual teaching of Jesus, proud of the parish. Everybody Matthew presents it in great dehas a direction." tail. The Sermon on the Mount Another is Mary Provos:~y, 26, is the most familiar example of a mother of two, wife of a UC this. . student and another recent conBut if Jesus is a teacher, he is vert. She sees in St. Georges, "a also a man of action and each of place where I can grow in my his discourses is preceded by a own faith." She says: "I had section recounting his activity. thought a lot about Catholicism One whole section, Chapter 8-9, but was intimidated by it. But is devoted to this aspect of Jewhen I came here I was not." sus' ministry. He not only Lifelong Catholics also f.ind St. preaches love and compassion George a special place _. from he practices it, especially in an aged Italian woman who has terms of healing. lived in the parish most of her Jesus demonstrates that it is life to young and growing fami- actually possible for a human lies and college studentll who being to live according to the practice their maturing faith ideal he holds out to his discithere. ples: "You must be made perfect "There's a spirit of peacle, hap- as your heavenly Father is perpiness and prayer and that's feet." Thus, by word and examcontagious," says Father Ken ple he forms the disciples who Schoettmer, a diocesan pr::est on will make up his community. the pastoral team. "Everybody is here because he wants to be here. People are proud to belong to the parish." Continued from page twelve What makes St. George work? Why do people flock to it? Why baptism of John the Baptist.. It was now clear to Paul that do their talents and gifts blossom there? Why are weekend their knowledge of the Christian liturgies crowded with young way was not accurate. Their . and old, educated and uneduca- faith was still immature. So Paul ted - all praying and ilinging gradually drew them deeper into together. How can such a di- knowledge of Jesus and of Chrisverse, unlikely community work tian baptism. "John's baptism was good," so well? Some would say it's a pastoral Paul began. "It was a sign that team that is prayerful, open to you turned away from sin. But the Lord and committed. Some John himself used to tell people would say the answer lies: in the about a man who would come rich diversity of the parish com- after him, a man in whom they munity. should put their faith. That man But the pastor has h::s own is Jesus. To be a Christian we convictions. "It's Jesus Christ. I need to be baptized in Jesus' really believe Jesus is behind it name, not John's." all," says Father Rigali. The 12 were excited by Paul's
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words. They immediately asked to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then, as Paul placed his hands on their heads the Holy Spirit filled each person. The Spirit's presence filled them with peace and courage. Some of them began to speak in tongues, in unusual languages and unfamiliar words. Others spoke prophecies. They all spoke words inspired by the Holy Spirit. Now the 12 were really Christians. They thanked Paul for helping them grow in faith.
He had summered on Cape Cod for many years, said Father John J. Brennan, SS.CC., Holy Redeemer pastor. He retired to Chatham some seven years ago after suffering an incapacitating stroke. A native of Newark, N.J., and a graduate of Fordham University, Ryan in 1933 opened the Ryan-West Bank Note Co., engravers of stocks and bonds, in New York City. He became well known in church circles, however, for his designing of coatsof-arms for bishops. Ryan also created coats-ofarms for the archdioceses of Washington and Atlanta as well as the dioceses of Savannah, Ga., and Norwich and Bridgeport, Conn. Ryan's wife, Alice, a son, two daughters, three sisters and four grandchildren survive him.
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Her faith will go to pageant By Martha Wyatt TULSA, Okla. (NC) - When Miss Oklahoma, April Lynn Clayton, 22, goes to Atlantic City in September to compete in the Miss America pageant she will take along a strong belief that God is with her each step of the way. Miss Clayton -said her faith began growing as a child when she went to a pari.. h. school and attended Masse.. in California. where her family then lived. NoW she attends Mass at Immaculate Conception Parish, Po· teau, Okla., with her family. She credited her parents and her parochial education in California with being great influences in her faith. "At the time, when you're a kid, you don't think of the Catholic school as different from any other. But I think I learned more there," she said.· Her memories include wearing uniforms "so we were all on an equal footing, no one better than anyone else," and Sister Anthony's history class in seventh and eighth grades. "She was 70 years old by then," Miss Clayton said of Sister Anthony. "My class was the biggest and the
worst. But she was so interest· ing she could hold our attention for the full 45 minutes." The family moved to Cameron,
APRIl. LYNN CLAYTON Okla., a town near the Arkansas border with a population of 300, when she was 16. At the end of her junio:r year in Poteau High School, she made a "Search," a religious camp weekend, with a
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DENVER (NC) - The teenager, outfitted with a safety helmet, boots and ropes, was tackling a beginner's climb. Slowly, picking out handholds and footholds in the rock face, she made the ascent. Finally, she was reaching and stretching for the top, with the support of instructors and other students. She made it. She challenged and won. "Facing a challenge" and striving for a goal is the key lesson of the Christian Outdoor Leadership School (COLS), now in its seventh year. Rock climbing is one part of a COLS session that teaches students that if they can surmount their fears they can sunnount anything. The physical challenges are fun and part of something deeper they give the students "something to reach out and take hold of," said COLS director Bob Cook. "It helps you to realize your own potential for overcoming fear . . . We're talking about seeing the frontier disappear, but to overcome fear is a frontier," said Cook. "We want to create. 'possibility' people, people who realize their own potential. We're out experiencing creation, experiencing your own need for interdependence." COLS doesn't stress independence so much as interdependence, Cook said, adding that the youths "need each other." "The rock climbing is not to make climbers but to help us transcend, or go past, the greatest limitation to ourself, which is fear," said John Stanek, COLS program director. "Some of the students say they can't climb but maybe the.y never tried it. You can say that about your whole life, that you can't do this
or can't do that, but if you transcend fear, you can do anything," said Stanek. COLS is sponsored by the Catholic Youth Services of the Denver Archdiocese. The threeweek sessions involve students from 16 to their early 20s from Colorado and across the country in a mountain wilderness experience, a physical, mental and spiritual challenge. Groups number about 20 students and four instructors. They use three different camps: a base camp at which improving physical conditioning is stressed through rock climbing, hiking, running and a rope course; a camp at a higher elevation where emphasis is on survival skills; and a final camp from which students leave for two-or-threeday expeditions. Time is reserved daily for conferences on anything from spirituality to wilderness survival and each group has a chaplain. Cook said there are few "worldly attachments," It's just the basics - tents, sleeping bags, meals, conversation around the campfire. A bath is usually a jump into an icy waterfall or stream. Students are enthusiastic about the program. "I needed some adventure, something to strive for . . . I knew it would be tough," said Denise Perez, 17, of Denver. "It's something to go for. At the end of three weeks, if I can accomplish it, I'll know I can do anything," "I feel it's the first hurdle in a long, long race," said Mac Collette, 17, of Englewood, Colo. "It develops character in you," Laurie Heitpas, 18, of Kaukana, Wis., said COLS "has been a lot of fun, praying and singing together and sharing feelings,"
By Charlie Martin
TAKE IT ON THE RUN Heard it from a friend who Heard it from a friend who Heard it from another You've been messing around They say you've got a boyfriend You're out late every weekend They're talkin' about you And it's bringing me down But I know the neighborhood And the talk is cheap when the stc,ry is good And tales grow taller on down the line But I'm tellin' you babe That I don't think it true babe And even if it is Keep' this in mind You take it on the run baby If that's the way you want it
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Then I don't want you around I don't believe it, not for a minute You're under the gun but you take it on the run You're thinking up your white lies You':re puttin' on your bedroom eyes You say you're coming home But vou won't say when If you're leavin' then keep on running
And you need never look back again Written by G. Richrath, sung by REO Speedwagon, (c) 1980 CBS, Inc.
friend. There her faith was strongly affinned, she said. "In two and a half short days I was finding out what he (God) meant in my life and I was finding myself," she said. Miss Clayton is now preparing for various competitions that are part of the national pageant. She reads to keep up with current events and daily has workouts at a fitness center and three hours of rehearsals for her talent entry, a dance. She said she enjoys the public relations part of her title, including driving a car labeled "Miss Oklahoma." Her pageant competitions are a family affair. Her mother and sister help pick her clothes and follow her perfonnances closely. She hopes to get a master's degree in business from Harvard University and participate in comm~nity theater in the future but the Miss America pageant is foremost in her mind right now. "I love competing," she said. Interviews with pageant judges don't worry her, she added. "I will answer how I feel. I'm not made up of how others think of me, I'm me."
REO Speedwagon has spent most of its career playing small Midwestern cities, but it now enjoys a national reputation and a number of top chart hits. "Take It On The Run" looks at fooling around while being committed to a serious relation· ship. Its message is simple: "If you're leaving, then keep run· ning and you never need look back again," Apparently rumors have reached one partner's ears. He does not think that they are true but if they are he wants no part of her. Authentic commitment to another is built through honest dia· logue, beginning with onseself. Anyone enjoys the attention and caring of a committed love relationship. But what about its responsibilities? Are you ready to settle down into one primary relationship? Have you experienced other relationships so as to have a basis for choosing? What do you plan in tenns of job or school? Do you know the difference hetween love and infatuation? If these questions have not been thought through, you are not ready for a serious love relationship. The second part of the dialogue must be with the one you care for. You must examine these questions together. When differ· ences occur, honesty is best. Christians value their own and others' feelings. "White lies," unfaithfulness and broken promises conflict with this reo spect for ourselves and others. We can avoid this conflict by honestly evaluating our readiness for a serious commitment. How do you know when you are ready to go steady or be engaged? Share your thoughts with other readers by writing to this cohuwr. Charlie Martin, 4705 Boulevard Place, Indianapolis, IncL 46208
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portswQtch Gau'"in Ranks High Dave Gauvin, fighting out of the Fall River CYO, has been ranked eighth nationally in the 119-pound class by the United States Amateur Boxing Federation and sixth by the National Coaches of America. Now in his fourth seaHon ,in competition, Gauvin, whe> will enter the senior class at :Bishop Connolly High School next month, has the enviable record of 30 wins against one .Ioss. Obviously pleased a,t this turn of events, Ron Comeau, CYO director of boxing and Dave's
coach, is hopeful that the high rankings may gain Gauvin an invitation to the Pan-American games in January. Meanwhile, Comeau has arranged three more fights for his protege, believed the only amateur boxer in this area -to gain such high rankJings in either association. Comeau will take Gauvin and several other CYO competitors to boxing shows in Montreal next month, Nova Scotia in October and Bermuda in November.
eyo I)layoffs Underway Semi-finals in the postseason playoffs of the Bristol County CYO Baseball League are scheduled to get underway Sunday evening at Thomas Chew Memorial Park, Fall River. Maplewood, first place finisher in regular season play with a 17-6 record, and Somerset, 16-9, runnerup, drew byes in thE! quarter-finals. In best-of-three quarter-f.inals third place North End, 14-12, met sixth place Central, 3-20, and fourth place South End, 13-13, tangled with,fifth place Kennedy, 11-14. Both series will continuE! Tuesday night with Maplewood vs. South End or Kennedy being the first game, Somerset vs. North End or Central in the nightcap. If needed, third games will be played next Thursday evening. Aug. 30 and Sept. 1 and 8 have been set as the dates for the best-of-three final.
Entering this week's play there was still one more berth to be filled in the post-season playoffs of the Fall River CYO Baseball League. Swansea, with a 15-4 record and two more games to play this week, Flint Catholic, which has finished its regular schedule with a 13-8 slate, and Immaculate Conception, 12-8 and one more game to play, had already gained post season play. St. William, 9-9 and three games remaining, St. Michael's Club, 10-11 in the final standings and Our Lady of Health, 8-11 and two more games to go, were the contenders for the fourth spot. Al Vaillancourt, league coordinator, said playoffs could start tonight if all four contestants are determined. Otherwise the postseason play would likely start Sunday.
Miscellaneous Notes Looking for a job as varsity field hockey coach? Get ill touch with Peter Looney, athletic: director at Apponequet Regionnl High School, Lakeville. Coyle-eassidy, 'Bishop Feehan and Bishop Stang Highs ure the diocesan highs on Case, High School's varsity football schedule. The Coyle Warriors will entertain the Cardinals on Sept. 26, Feehan's Shamrocks will be home to the Swansea gridders on Oct. 21, and Case visits Stang's Spartans on Nov. 14. ,In cross country, CasE! visits Bishop Connolly High on Sept. 22
and is home to the Cougars on Oct. 9. In a home-and-home setup, Case entertains Coyle-Cassidy on Oct. 6 and visits the Warriors on Oct. 23. Connolly and CoyleCassidy are also the only diocesan schools on Case's volleyball schedule. Connolly is home to the Cardinals on Oct. 2 and at Case on Oct. 21 while Case is host to Coyle-'Cassidy on Oct. 5 and away to Connolly on Oct. 21. There are no diocesan schools on the Durfee High football schedule but the HiUtoppers meet Malden Catho)ic on the latter's gridiron on Oct. 10.
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New Films "Camouflage" (Libra Films): This 1977 Polish import is an essay on the corruptive nature of bureaucracy and the destructive games it makes people play. The setting is a summer institute on linguistics during which an older professor takes pleasure in trying to disillusion a young and idealistic faculty newcomer. In the institute's beautifully bucolic setting, the cynical veteran casually explains how to use the system to further one's career. Soon the novice knows from bitter experience that academia is concerned with more than knowledge and truth. Simple yet complex, the film's success lies in its intelligent script and the perceptive direction of Krzysztof Zanussi, among Poland's leading directors. Zanussi's latest work, "The Man from the East," a film biography of Pope John Paul II, will premiere shortlyon NBC. "Camouflage," because of its mature theme and several sexual situations, is classified A3. "Under the Rainbow" (OrionWarners): According to movie folklore, the off-screen drunken carousing by the diminutive actors playing Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz" shocked 1938 Hollywood. That legend has surfaced as the central premise of a dim comedy further burdened with slapstick subplots involving a mad assassin and Axis spies. Romance is supplied by a Secret Serv·ice agent (Chevy Chase) and a studio assistant (Carrie Fisher). Because of coarse language, double entendres and bawdy situations - as well as the taste· less stereotyping of little people - the movie is rated A3,PG. Films on TV Sunday, Aug. 23, 9·11:20 p.m. (NBC) - "Audrey Rose" (1977) - A low-voltage thriller about a supposedly reincarnated 11-yearold girl who becomes an object of contention between a man claiming to be her father in her previous life and her shocked parents, the plot is thin and uninvolving. Some graphic scenes show the girl suffering acute anguish. A3, PG. Sunday, Aug. 23, 9:11:18 p.m. (ABC) - "The Way We Were" (1973) - Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand are ill-matched lovers in a now-funny, now-serious story sweeping from ivy league idylls in the late 1930s into World War II and on to
Hollywood in the post-war era of blacklisting. There is simply too much material here to avoid trivializing the period and events in favor of its glamour. Slick but diverting. A3, PG . Thursday, Aug. 27, 9-11 p.m. "Burnt Offerings" (NBC) (1976) This inept horror movie relies heavily on visual shock. Its fidelity to the Robert Narasco novel upon which it is based stacks the odds hopelessly against Oliver Reed, Bette Davis and Karen Black. A3, PG Friday, Aug. 28, 9-11 p.m. (NBC) "24 Hours of the Rebel" (1977 - theatrically released under the title "9·30-55," the date of actor James Dean's death, the film concerns its effect on Arkansas college students. Honest though it is, the film fails to build much sympathy for its principal characters (Richard Thomas and Deborah Benson) or explain why they were drawn so compulsively to Dean. Several scenes of youthful sexual exporations rule it out for other than mature viewers. A3, PG Friday, Aug. 28, 9-11 p.m. (ABC) - "FM" (1978) - This is a lightweight film about a radio station taken over by its disc jockeys because they won't contaminate their music with unsuitable commercials. Jokes are feeble and characters uninteresting. Some highly suggestive dialogue and a sequence of a woman throwing herself at a disc jockey while he is on the air make the film adult fare. A3, PG Religious Broadcasting Sunday, Aug. 23, WLNE, Channel 6, 10:30 a.m., Diocesan Television Mass. "Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services; Rev. Dr. Paul Gillespie, of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. This week's subject: Aging in America. Sunday, Aug. 23, (ABC) "Di· rections," looks at the American Jewish Committee. Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the AJC continues its work for peace and justice. Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the university of Notre Dame, is a guest. Check local listings for time. Sunday, Aug. 23, (NBC) "Guideline" Father Joseph Fenton interviews Sister Lora Ann Quinonez of the leadership Conference of Women Religious about problems facing American nuns today. Check local listings for time. '
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BLESSED SACRAI\fENf ADORERS, FAIRHAVEN The Adorers' monthly holy hour will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25 at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven. Father Henry Creighton, SS.CC., will officiate and refreshments will follow.
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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Confirmation candidates will be invested at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9. Starting dates for other CCD classes will be Sept. 21 for 7th grade; Sept. 26 for grades' 1 through 6; and Oct. 3 for kindergarten. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Czestochowa Confraternity members will meet for spiritual direction during either of the Masses on Wednesday. , Prayer Days are being held through Wednesday, the Solemnity of Our Lady of Czestochowa. At 6:30 p.m. Sunday Anointing of the Sick will take place in a ceremony open to parishioners and non-parishioners. Father John Darcy of Warwick, R.I., will preach. OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION, NEW BEDFORD CCD registrations for grades one through 12 are now being held. Prompt' registration is urged so that materials may be ordered for September. Parents may call the parish center, 9947602, from 10 a.m. through 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA Tomorrow is the feast of St. Pius X, who established the Fall River diocese. Veneration of the saint's relic will take place following 9 a.m. Mass. Religious education teachers are needed to conduct classes at home or in the parish school. I' "The books are appeai109, the children love you and you're spreading God's word," say CCD officials in asking for assistance in the program and noting that teacher training is available. Application forms will be available this weekend for women wishing to join the parish Women's Club. PRAYER 'GROUPS, NEW BEDFORD DEANERY Area prayer groups are sponsoring a family outing from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday at Our Lady of the Lake Camp, East Freetown. "Food, chairs, grills and guitars" should be brought. The event will be canceled in the case of rain. SANTO CHRISTO, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will sponsor a trip to the Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine, Auriesville, N.Y. Sunday, Oct. 4. Those wishing to participate may call Hilda Silvia between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 672-7872. , The council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8. New members are welcome.
CHRISTIAN LIFE FELLOWSHIP, SONIERSET An international and ecumenical tent meeting will take place Monday, Aug. 24 through Sunday, Aug. 30 at Slade's Farm Park, Rtes. 6 and 113, Somerset, with services held from 7 to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 1 to 4 and 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Monday's opening speaker will be Father Pierre Lachance, O.P., of St. Anne's Shrine, Fall River, and Father Andre Patenaude, M.S., will lead the La Salette Singers Thursday ev,ening, Aug. 27. Other speakers and musical groups will be heard throughout the week.
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Officers will be installed at a DEAF APOSTOLATE, dinner dance Saturday, Sept. 12 FALL RIVER DIOCESE at the Council Home, 1492 ColThe apostolate's education umbus Dr., Fall River. program for all ages will reopen in the fall. Those wishing to enBLESSED SACRANIENT, roll in classes or to assist with FALL RIVER teaching are asked to contact the apostolate office at St. CCD teachers will meet at 7 Anne's Hospital, Fall River, 674p.m. Monday in the chapel. HOLY NAl\fE, 5741 or Father Joseph Viveiros, The Women's Guild will meet director, at St. John the Baptist FALL RIVER at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. rectory, New Bedford, 992-7727. Rehearsals for The Music Man, 9. Also scheduled to begin in to be produced by the parish, Rosary-makers will resume late September or early October , will begin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, their meetings on Wednesday, Aug. 31, in the school hall. are sign classes. Sept. 30. Those interested in BIRTHRIGHT, making rosaries for the missions BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER NEW BEDFORD AREA may call Mrs. Anita Joseph, 673GROUP, FALL RIVER The organization is in need of 8686. The group will sponsor two baby and maternity clothes. DoBread of Life prayer group Life in the Spirit seminars for Fall River deanery prayer group nors may call Betty Flanagan, will meet at 7:30 tomorrow night members. The first will start at 996-2568, or bring items to the for prayer and liturgy. Healing 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8 and Birthright center, 398 County and prayer ministry will follow St., New Bedford. at 10 o'clock. the second at the same time Thursday, Sept. 10. Both will continue for s~ven weeks and ~~'--"-'--'----------,------------------------., will be held in the chapel of Blessed Sacrament Church, Fall River. Those wishing to attend should contact Fred Demetrius, 644-2375, or Sonny Ferreira, 6255344.
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ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Father Rene Belanger of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers will make an appeal for his community's missions the weekend of Aug. 29 and 30. The parish fellowship will meet at 7:30 tonight in the school cafeteria.
ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD The parish acknowledges the gift of a chalice from Mrs. Joseph Bettencourt and her family in memory of Joseph Bettencourt. It will be used in the convent chapel and the chalice now there, memorializing Florida Healey, will be sent to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for use in a mission church. Altar boys will have an outing to Rocky Point on Monday. Persons" interested in working on a sewing project in the early fall are asked to contact Father John F. Moore, pastor. VoluntElers for choir member· ship are needed and it is also requested that parishioners consider membership in an intercessory pJrayer group to be formed this full. Parish organizations are, asked to submit their calendars of events to the rectory by the end of August so that a complete schedule may be published.
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