08.20.82

Family Night program to begin here

In September the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry will Inaugurate a Family Night pro­ gram which wUl be supported

by The Anchor with a w~y Famlly Night Program Outline with activities for young, middle year and adult families, even in­ cluding snack suggestions.

In the following article, the originators of FamUy M~t,

Terry and Mimi Reilly of Phoe­ nix, Ariz., share their reasons for developing it: We welcome the opportunity to tell you about Family Night, a program that has been deeply rewarding to us as individuals and as a family. It is a program we developed in response to the hunger we all share to experi­ ence as families joy, love, peace,

and a real sense of oneness. We had become acutely aware of the emptiness in families: words were spoken but no one heard; funny stories needed to be shared but stayed within little and big hearts; laughter and tears were left unattended.

We wanted to do something about this in our own family but it seemed there was so little

opportunity. Our lives were bursting apart at the seams with ­ the hustle and bustle of busy­ ness.

An endless list of rushed breakfasts, school, work, sports, lessons in this and that, com­ mittee and community meetings, scouts, 4-H, dentists, hair ap­ pointments, shopping, telephone calls, doctor appointments cram­

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med our days and weeks and were spilling into years.

We began to thin out our overcrowded schedules and sought to spend more time to­ gether but as we did so we be­ came more and more aware of an obstacle to the unity we so craved.

The TV, intended as a pleasant Tum to Page Six

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Death penalty?

By Jerry FUteau When convicted murderer Frank Coppola was electrocuted in Richmond, Va., Aug. 10, he was only the fifth man to be ex­ ecuted in the United States since 1967, but there are indications that the death penalty will be­ come more common nationwide.

Massachusetts voteFs, for in­ .stance, face a referendum this faIl on a constitutional amend­ ment that would allow the state to reimpose the' death penalty.

The Catholic bishops of the state have issued a joint statement opposing the reintroduction of capital punishment. An effort for a similar referendum in Ore­ gon failed earliet:., this year to gain enough signatures to go on the baIlot. The U.S. return to capital punishment for crimes in­ volving murder goes against the trend in other western countries and against new thrusts in Cath­ olic teaching.

There have been growing caIls for abolition of the death penalty within the church, and use of the penalty for personal crimes, even murder, has practically dis­ appeared in western Europe in the 20th century.

A 1981 world survey concluded that: - Twenty-three nations, most­ 'ly in Western Europe, the Am­ ericas and Australia have abol­ ished the death penalty totally or (in the case of some federal na­ tions) in some states. .

- Another eight have abol­ ished it but reserved the right to reinstate it for certain crimes in time of war.

- Eight more have abolished it except for crimes of treason or assassination attempts 011 heads of state.

- The rest of the world's na­ tions - including most in Asia, Africa and the Eastern Europe Tum to Page Six

Success recipe

MILWAUKEE (NC) - Inner­ city private schools succeed not by taking the cream of the stu­ dent crop but by creating a dis­ tinctive educational environ­ ment, according to a study con­ ducted by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Liberties.

Nearly 4,000 parents of stu­ dents in 54 elementary schools completed a questionnaire on why they were sending their children to private schools.

The four-year research project included schools with at least 70 .perce~t minority enrollment in New York, Chicago, Los Ang­ eles, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Deroit, Washington and New ark, N.J. Jesuit father Virgil Blum, de­ signer and supervisor of the pro­

ject, called the schools "islands of hope in the poorest areas of the nation's urban landscape."

Researchers said their findings help disprove the pervasive myth that Catholic schools are elitist.

According to the league's re­ port, 80 percent of the sample schools accept academically weak public school transfer stu­ dents frequently or sometimes and· 56 percent accept public school transfers with disciplinary problems frequently or some­ times.

In a typical year, 61 percent of the schools expelled no stu­ dents. No school in the sample expelled more than two students in any year.

"Perhaps the most striking finding of our survey was the Tum to Page Eleven

Father John P. Hogan blesses fishing boat at 13th annual Blessing of the Fleet at New Bedford State Pier.

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Immigration bill rapped WASHINGTON (NC) --. The US. Catholic Conference views "with grave concern" many of the amendments to the Immigra­ tion Reform and Control Act of 1982 passed in the Senat~ Aug. 17, said Msgr. Daniel Hoye, usec general secretary.

In votes Aug: 12, 13 and Aug. 17 the Senate modified parts of . the bill, then passed the measure ~ 81-18. The act, which limits im­ migrants to 425,000 ~ year, was sent onto the House 'for debate.

Msgr. Hoye said he h~pes an improved co~promise bill can be passed as a result of House changes.

The Senate, by a 86-14 vote, modified amnesty provisions for illegal aliens, setting back the residency date for permanent and temporary resident status.

Msgr. Hoye said in a statement Aug. 17 that by prolonging the periods required to establish per­ manent and temporary residence, "we are only putting off to an­ other day the time when the prob­ lem will ultimately be resolved even for those who may qualify.

"As for those disqualified simply by date of residence ­ and their number may indeed be large - the government is still saddled with the insurmountable burden of apprehending and ex­ pelling them, while the undocu­ mented themselves face contin­ ued exploitation by unscrupulous employers. Surely the head and heart of America can do more," .he said.

. The Senate rejected, 65-35,

Sen. Walter D. Huddleston's

(D-Ky.) amendment to subtract the number of refugees admitted to the United States' and· the number granted asylum from the total number of regular immi­ gra~ts admitted the following year.

Msgr. Hoye. said the USCC "was heartened" by the defeat of the· Huddleston amendment be­ cause the amendment would have resulted in "every refugee and asylee admitted blocking the ad­ mission of a regular immigrant the following y;ear."

The amnesty: amendment ac­ cepted by the Senate was a com­ promise drawn up by the Rea­ gan administr~tion and intro­ duced by Sen. Charles E. Grass­ ley (R-Iowa). It would provide a cut-off date for eligibility for permanent residence status for those who arrived before Jan. 1, 1977, a cut-off date for tempor­ ary residence status for those who arrived before Jan. 1, 1980 and a three-year waiting period for those in temporary status to apply for permanent status.

Msgr. Hoye said, "We view with utter dismay the erosion of the family reunification founda­ tion of our system of selecting immigrants."

As the bill stands, he said, "the immediate relatives of U.S. citi­ zens are included under the an­ nual nUmerical ceilings, the fami­ lies of permanent resident aliens are weakened by the disqualifica­ tion for' relative preference of adult unmarried sons and daugh­ ters."

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BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN celebrates Mass at Our Lady of Victory Centerville, in the course of a p~storal visitation to the parish. (Rosa Photo)

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WASHINGTON (NC) -' The 'Senate debate on abortion which began Aug. 16 was expected to Iast as long as' a week but was not -likely to include cons~deration of the Hatch amendment favored by the U.S. bishops.

A proposal to permit a vote on the Hatch amendment as part of the Senate's abortion debate feU apart when Senate negotiators failed to reach agreement on a format for the debate.

Instead the Senate was expected to consider only an antiabortion bill proposed by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) as an amendment to a bill .raising the debt limit.

"I woul d expect us to be on abortion all week," Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R­

Tenn.) told reporters shol"t1y be­

fore the abortion debate began.

The deba'te began with a fili­ buster by Sen. !Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) even before Helms made public tlhe .new wording of his proposed legislation. Packwood read for more than two hours from a book on' the history of abortion, before the Senate ad­ journed for the day. The book was "Abortion in America The Origins and EVdlution of National Policy, 1800'·1900," by James C. Mohr.

Helms" new proposal was ex­ pected to·· be similar to the hu­ man life bill he introduced mast year. That biB was an attempt ,to reverse the Supreme Court's 1973 abortion decisions by de­ claring that life beg:ins at con­ ception. Helms .sa1id, however, that he would not puSh a section he had included in last year's bill granting legal "personhood" to the unborn.

He said his current amend­ ment would make the ~e~s defini­ tive statement that "scientific ev;idence demonstrates the Hfe of each human being begins at con­ ception."

'Pro-life groups favoring the Hatch amendment said they still have a promi'se from Baker to bring tlhe measure, sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), to the floor for debate .after the

diffic.lt IBut Curtis J. Young, executive pass because of filibustering. director of the Christian Action A filibuster can be ended only Cbuncil, 'a coalition of Protestant by .the' vote of 60 senators, but PrllO"Hfe groups, said that even if Young predicted that enough the Hatch amendment were to 'votes to end the filibuster could pJss the Senate it could not be. be gathered because the Senate pJshed through the House before will be eager to ~eave Washing­ die close of the 97th Congress. ton for its recess.

If approved, ,the Helms meas­ !Young also predicted a "dramatic . debate and a dramatic ure would go ,to the House as a v6te" on the Helms measure. "rider" to the debt limit bill. The ~He said the vote was too close House, which already has ap­ tol call but remarked ;fIhat changes proved the debt limit biU, would Helms was making in the meas- then be forced to vote on the ute would make lit more difficult Helms proposal before the debt fo~ anyone to vote against it.

Hmit measure could go into iYoung denied that Helms was effect. watering his bill down to make it The Hatch amendment cannot mbre attractive to wavel"ing .leg: be attached to the debt limit biM islators. He also denied that the beca,use as a constitutional ;)oCI .. k of'a ·time agreement on the amendment is cannot be attacned a~ortion debate would make the a'i a rider to other measures.

'Everything 'great is final' SAN FlMNCISCO (NC)­ Archbishop ,Pio Laghi, apostolic d~legate ~n the United States, w~rned men and women Reli­ gibus against making temporar~ cdmmitments to the religious I life. l"EVerything great· is final," said ArchbiShop Laghi ~n a hom;, H~ Aug. 16 at the joint annual assembly of the Leadership Con­ fetence of Women Religious and ,I the Conference of Major Supe­ ri6rs of 'Men. "All Hfe-determin­ ing.commitments are irrevocable; ,ndt because they cannot be taken b~ck (plainly they can) but be­ ca6se, in making such commH­ m~nts, we define ourselves as pe1rsons and so establ:ish the pa, rafneters of success and failure, oflgenerosityand selfishness, not merely for our lives but for our I verv selves.

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"one of the worst aberrations ofI <?ur times,"· the archbishop said, "is the :idea that one can be a IreligiOuS - or a priest or a spouse - for a time. This is the vehr denial of the gift. Those who adopt this attitude lend th~mselves but ,they do not give , I themselves."

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Listing priorities for religious in the United States, the apos-

toIle delegate said one is "the effort to insure that prayer is an attitude toward life, so that prayer and me mutually enrich each other. This implies that prayer will lead Religious to in­ volve themselves in real Hfe, while real...l,ife experences caU for ~ntense mo~ents of prayer."

Another prior,ity is "the prefer­ ential option for the poor," Arch­ bishop Laghi said.

"This opti.on," he continued, "does not imply the exclusion of anyone ... but it does call for a preference for the oppressed and victimized and a constant effort to draw closer to them."

In exeroising the preferential op­ tion ,for the poor, he said, "it is necessarY to avoid certain dan­ gers - lack of adequate prepa­ ration, lack of personal maturity, or lack of evangelical motiva­ tion."

Another prtor.ity, Archbishop Laghi said, "concerns the pres­ ence, already substantiaI and rapidly growing, of so many His­ panics in the United States ­ their large number (almost 25 percent of our Catholics), their religious and human values, their need for full acceptance in the church and society."

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in plot?

NEW YORK (NC) - When Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul 11 last year, he was prob­ ably part of an international con­ spiracy. directed by the Bulgar· ian secret police, who in turn were acting for the Soviet Union, said a recognized expert in Eu­ ropean terrorism.

Claire Sterling, author of last year's widely acclaimed book, "The Terror Network," offered her conclusions in a 14-page article in the September issue of Reader's Digest.

She said many in the West be­ lieve the Soviet Union wanted the pope removed "becaus~ he is -a Pole . . . He is undeniably the spiritual father of Poland's Solidarity trade-union movement . . . Solidarity is an intolerable threat to the very foundations of the Soviet empire." .

She said that Agca, a 23-year­ old .Turk already branded as a right-wing terrorist, was prob­ ably chosen for the job because it also served Moscow's purposes to alienate the West from Turk­ ey, a NATO partner that "was singled out for systematic demo­ lition by the Soviet Union as early as the mid-1960s."

Citing evidence from a four­ month investigation, Ms. Ster­ ling linked Agca to an interna­ tional smuggling and gun-run­ ning rig headed by a Turkish­ born "Godfather" in Sofia, Bul· garia who, according to an un­ named defector from the ring, "is under the control and super­ vision of the Bulgarian secret service."

Ms. Sterling accused Western governments of bungling, "poor teamwork" and "official indiffer­ ence" which, she said, caused them to miss a number of op­ portunities to cast more light on the assassination attempt.

"There is hard evidence that Agca was an instrument in an elaborate international plot," she wrote. "Whether through negligence, nearsightedness or indifference, not a single country concerned has pressed an investi­ gation to the end."

She particularly scored fail­ . ure of Western police to follow up on three alleged links between Agca and Bulgaria, two of them alleged associates of the Turkish "Godfather," Abuzer Ugurlu, who is now imprisoned in Istan­ bul, Turkey, on gun smuggling charges.

The Vatican did not make any immediate comment on the al­ leged Soviet-guided, Bulgarian­ directed conspiracy outlined by.

Ms. Sterling.

The hypothesis that Agca act­ ed as part of a communist con­ spiracy originating in Eastern Europe has been raised before along some of the same general lines Ms. Sterling argued.

Last September, two months after his trial, the ltaliaJ;l court panel that convicted him issued a 51-page opinion in which it . said he was "only the visible part of a conspiracy." It said it did not have sufficient evideence, however, to identify his co-con­ spirators or their motives for trying to kill the pope.

Sister Michael Joseph, the Holy Union sister with the long­ est record of service in the Fall River diocese, died last Saturday at Sacred Hearts Convent in Fall River. She would have been 101 on Sept. 25.

Father James Sheerin of the Irish Society of St. Patrick, a cousin, was principal celebrant at her funeral Mass, offered Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River.

Born in Ath]one, County West­ meath, Ireland, Sister Michael Joseph was one of five sisters in the Holy Union congregation.

Sisters Mary Constance and Mary Alice, both deceased, also served in the Fall River diocese; Sister Agnes Josephine died in Wales; and Sister Ludovica died in Eng­ land. They were the daughters of the late Bryan and Rose (Led­ witp) Martin.

Sister Michae] Joseph entered religious life in 1900 at the com­ munity's motherhouse, at that time, in Douai, France. She came to the United States in 1901, im-. mediately embarking on a long career of education in Taunton, where she served in Immaculate Conception and St. Mary's gram­ mar schools. In 1912 she taught the first freshman class of boys and girls at the former St. Mary's High School. .

In 1914 she moved with St. Mary's classical course to a small annex where as teacher and later as St. Mary's principal she took part" in the growth of sec­ ondary education in Taunton un­ til the 1960s, when ill health forced her semi-retirement.

A memorial Mass offered yes­ terday at St. Mary's Church, Taunton, gave her friends and former students in that city the opportunity of paying her trib­ ute.

Sister Michael Joseph was among the first members of her community to earn a degree at the Catholic University of Am­ erica. Through the years she taught many boys now priests, some of them already golden jubilarians. She also conducted many high school equivalency programs and nurses' preparatory courses. Also a talented musician and artist, she pursued those activities as long as her health permitted.

Sister Michael Joseph was noted for her devotion to the Sacred Heart. Even in her last years she distributed badges and literature on the devotion to all with whom she came in contact.

She loved life, said Sister Bar­ ·bara Kirkman, who cared for her after her health failed. "Every morning we'd say to her, ""Mi­ chael, the gift of another day!' and she'd say 'Thank God!' "

Nukes opposed The VIctory Noll Sisters of Huntington, Ind., have announced oppositio~ to the nuclear arms race, advocating a bilateral nu­ clear freeze and pledgIng to In­ crease public awareness of the nuclear question as a mora] prob­ ]em.

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Friday, Aug. 20, 1982

Ball planners to meet The annuai Bishop's Charity Ball planning meeting will b.e held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

19, at White's restaurant, West­ port.

Invitations to the meeting have gone to 150 committee members, said Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, ddiocesan ball director. He said the 28th annual winter social event, to be held Friday, Jan. 14, at Lincoln Park 'Ballroom, North Dartmouth, will have Bishop A. Cronin as guest of honor, and will be co-sponsored by the Di­ ocesan' Council of Catholic Wo­ men and the Society of St. Vin­ cent de PSlUI.

TEENAGE MEMBERS of St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth, enjoy a CARE program at the Diocesan Family Life Center in North Dartmouth. From left, Kevin McBrien, Christy Evans, Jennifer Bullock. (Rosa Photo)

c.t\RE serves diocesan youth

Committee assignments imple­ menting all aspects of the ball will be made at the Sept. 19 meeting. Ball proceeds benefit diocesan schools and camps for underprivileged and exceptional children. The facilities are open to all Southeastern Massachu­ setts youngsters in need of their services.

Sex 'guidelines

Say CARE and most people time difference is accounted for to the "call to holiness" and on think ~'package." But the acro­ the place "the Eucharist should by the fact that the center's pro­ WASHINGTON (NC) - Arch­ nym has another meaning in the gram includes diimer; parishes hold in their lives. bishop Thomas C. Kelly, former Fall River diocese. To hundreds often hold a supper following Father Furtado noted that al­ general secretary of the U.S. the session. of teens it means Call to holi­ though CARE has no followup Catholic Conference now Arch­ ness; Action; Response; Euchar­ CARE has become a popular component, as 'do programs for bishop of lLouisville, Ky., has de­ ist: an intense four or five hour part of preparation for confirma­ older teens, he has met candy­ fended usce guidelines on sex spiritual program. tion, said Father Furtado, but it striper volunteers at Charlton education, saying "They do not The person responsible for can equally well be used by Hospital who had :·signed up be­ give directives to educators but cause CARE had awakened them offer suggestions which must be Fall River's own CARE is Father other teen groups. Based on Is­ Steven R. Furtado, a chaplain at aias 49:15: "Can a woman forget to their responsibility to serve weighed and interpreted in a Charlton Memorial Hospital in her infant? .. and if she should others. prudent, tentative and even cau­ the see city. He is also director forget, yet I will never forget CARE may be unique. Its di­ tious manner." The guidelines of TEC, Teens Encounter Christ, you," .it stresses the importance rector said he had not heard of were published in May 1981 and a weekend retreat program for 17 of each individual to others and a similar younger-teen program critics have charged that they to 25-year-olds. to God. in any other diocese. omit essential elements for a He said he developed CARE Projects, such as the making Those interested in CARE may Catholic approach to sex educa­ with TEC leaders who recog­ of banners, are a part of the pro­ contact Father Furtado at 678­ tion and could be harmful to the 5881 or ~he Family Life Center formation of "truly Catholic nized the need of a spiritual pro­ gram, whIch includes presenta­ . gram for younger teens. tions on how teens can respond at 999-6420. adults."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 20, 1982

living word

Life and Liberty Once more the Senate of the United States is immersed in the abortion issue.

Senators Hatch and Helms have introduced measures that would stem the tide of abortions currently engulfing' America.

Many Senators, including those from our common­ wealth, can be counted upon to support abortion. They would have us believe that it is merely a matter of "free choice." By any other name, it is just another pro-abortion positio~.

Senators Kennedy and Tsongas ,can. alas, always be counted on by those opposing a person's right to life. This is tragic but their voting records are sufficient proof of this statement. It is unfortunate that so many Massachusetts voters fail to read the record and instead listen to mere rhetoric. ' Perhaps the organization most angered by the Hatch and Helms attempts to protect life is Planned' Parenthood.

Across the nation, it has run full-page newspaper ads urg­ ing readers to support the continuance of abortion legisla tion. Their corny punch line is that the decision to have a baby could soon be between a. woman, her husband and her senator.

Threateningly they warn that if the Senate reverses current abortion laws, one will be deprived of the right to free choice. Employing real scare tactics, they declare that . , NC/KHA PIlato pro-life people want to impose their own religious beliefs , IIN TIlE FORMER EXECUTION CHAMBER OF A NAZI PRISON, A PRIEST AND MINISTER the general public (this ploy, by the way, is an increas­ COrUCT S~VICE HONORING MEMBERS OF WORLD WAR n HITLER RESISTANCE MOVEMENT ingly us~d political tactic).

Planned Parenthood and its many strange bedfellows, 'Evil matched with good, life matched with death, sinner matched with man such as Citizens for a Free' Choice, fail to mention that the .f piety; so everywhere in God's works thou wilt find pairs matched, one d~isi<m to have a baby is not a political issue. 'f' against, the other.' Ecclus. 33:15 In writing the Declaration of Independence, the corner­ 'stone of American freedoms a~d rights, Thomas Jefferson recognized that first and foremost among ,our rights was that to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Four­ teenth Amendment reaffirms this right. ' Seen in this light, the right to life is more 'than a is to be faithful to its members When draft registration re­

By John Leary religious issue, despite what Planned Parenthood would who conscientiously refuse regis­ 1980, no one foresaw sumed in Recently I talked to a young have us believe. It is more than a political issue. It is tration and to its own identity as it how massive resistance to a constitutional right. Planned Parenthood does not view mad who had refused to, register would be; Recent statistics in-' the Body of Christ. for ~he draft. I infonned David unborn life as possessing that right.

The church may need to re­ "of the penalties he risked by not dicate that at least 675,000 of It is imperative that all Americans be made aware of regi~tering (up to five years in those required to register with ceive its ancient tradition of the real issues at hand during the days o~ this so-called jail») and questioned him to be Selective Service have not done sanctuary, in the fullest sense of that word. Fonnally, sanctuary surel that this decision was truly , so. new abortion debate. Because life has such basic theo­ is the immunity from arrest Some may be uninfonned or his.j logical ramifications, the Catholic voice cannot be silent traditionally granted to those misinfonned about their legal A11 such telephone calls are on this issue. It is no longer a matter of shaking one's duty. Others may represent the who take refuge in churches. It troubling, but David's was es­ head and throwing up one's hands in helpless despair. 'peciklly distur~ing. His father self-centered apathy of which has most recently been offered It is a time for action. For Catholics abortion is not had Ithreatened to tum him in if non-registrants as a group are to Salvadorean refugees in the just a matter of religious belief, important as that is. It is he ~id not register within a so often accused. But many have U.S. who face deportation. Many also a matter of upholding cur constitutional rights~ As an week. He phoned again a week made a conscious and conscien­ churches granted similar asylum tious choice not to participate to draft refusers during the Viet­ important segment of society, Catholics have no choice late~, in need of a place to stay. in a process they consider im­ nam war.

His father had turned him in and but to protect a person's right to'life. Let there be no had !demanded he leave home as moral.

Sanctuary in a larger sense mistake, the totality of life is at stake. well. ' Some of the most vocal and means a compassionate, concrete Nbt all who decide that they , visible non-registrants have been response to the dilemmas faced We urge our readers to write both Massachusetts

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Senators on this issue.

I)on't give up on them. Let them know how you feel, even if they once again refuse to support your rights. If they continue to ignore you, express your displeasure, at the ballot bo~. ' By 'doing this; you wiU help give aU Americans the chance to live. ' After aU, it's theiIr right.

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canqot in conscience register for Catholic. Some have reluctantly , by many non-registrants. In the draft face the same immediate registered, declaring themselves David's case, this meant provid­ and harsh personal consequences conscientious objectors. But ing temporary hospitality. For as D'Iavid. Bti,t all must struggle others find registration itself an others, legal help, family coun­ with tough personal questions irreconcilable conflict between seiing, jail visitation, and vari­ abo~t their beliefs and the deep their conscience and the -law. ous other kinds of support will How is the church to respond to be needed. conflicts thse values may pro­ vok~' in themselves and others. their dilemma, and support them In, their 1980 statement, the bisJiops identified, registration as in making a difficult faith choice?

Fdr draft registration is more thad a controversial poUtical _ Educational and counselin~ "part of the broader political­ question about American deter­ pr,ograms are needed. The U.S. moral issue of war and peace in the nuclear age." It is, for -young min~tion or the need to "send . bishops pledged diocesan agen­ Catholics, the point where this the Russians a signal." It is a cies to ~uch efforts in their Feb­ broad and complex issue be­ diffi9Ult and divisive personal ruary, 1980, statement on regis­ choice which some of the young­ tration and a recent survey by ,comes painfUlly personal and ~st Iand most impressionable Pax Christi - USA indicates real. members of our society have that 40 of 66 dioceses responding The author is a staffpersOn tor been I forced to confront. It is, have initiated or approved such the ,Pax Christi - USA Center on moreover, an, important moral programs. This is an important Conscience and War in Cam­ and bastoral issue to which the step ilJ" helping those of draft age bridge, and a member of the chur9h must respond clearly and reach a mature decision. But Catholic Worker community in tangibly. more is demanded if the Church Boston.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 20, 1982

Military chaplains

Military chaplains are coming into a lot of criti­ cism today for being part of the military complex but I wonder how many of their critics realize how invaluable they are to families who are trying to be healthy in an impersonal and mobile military climate.

All pastors meet human needs in their work, undisclosed in their job descriptions, but I be­ lieve the military chaplain is the unsung hero of our pastoral class.

He exists in a largely secular, sometimes pagan, environment, often being the only resource open to individuals with deep human needs. I reflected on this after sitting in an office of such a chaplain, waiting to be squired to a parenting workshop and listening to him care for just one of a dozen routine duties.

A pregnant 18-year-old Italian war bride had been severely abused by her young soldier hus­ band. The situation was so hope­ less that she was returning home to Italy. The chaplain had stayed up all night to receive overseas calls from her family. She was so emotionally drained that there were fears for her unborn child.

The chaplain had other rou­ tine and pressing duties to meet. but he took time to comfort and assure her in such a caring way that she would soon be back in the loving arms of her family

that it brought tears to my eyes.

I've found such men all over the military. Civilians and even military personnel don't realize the scope of pastoral work that goes on behind the chaplain's duty reports. Two priest chap­ lains in Germany shared with me their despair over being un­ able to meet all of the deep needs of individuals and families entrusted to their care.

They counsel troubled marri­ ages, work with depressed and alcoholic dependents, provide grief support for those whose parents back home die, arrange for emergency trips and trans­ fers, work with alienated teEms in a foreign environment, try to offset pagan influences and com­ bat loneliness, and build family support systems. They don't have the resources of a stable com­ munity to help them. They can't call in a local resource or dial a safe house. Many are one, two or three-man staffs meeting the spiritual and human needs of a post the size of a large city.

To attack these men for sup­ porting war is so grossly unfair that it is unconscionable. They serve as an oasis of hope for families in a difficult and im­ personal desert. They go to bed exhausted and frustrated, real­ izing that someone out there needs them but knowing those needs have gone unmet. In addi-

By DOLORES CURRAN

kick in this country, in which exercise plays a large part.

A casual look at magazine

racks shows a proliferation of magazines devoted to health.

Even most general :interest maga­ zines have articles devoted to exercise and good health.

In addition, a whole new field, sports medicine, is developing around the increasing number of injuries people are experiencing wh41e they e>leroise for their health. Joggers suffer from knee and foot injuries, for instance. \ Exercise is an essential part of keeping the body working prop­ erly. Think of what happens to a pond which has no source of fresh water; dn a short time it gets stagnant. People who don't exercise may feel sluggish.

People often use the excuse that they are too tired to exer­ cise. In truth, getting tired may be the result of too little exer­ cise. People frequently discover that exercising gives them an enormous amount of energy they did not have before.

Many also find their appeNte ,is controlled better; they don't need to eat as much. Often they don't need as much sleep either.

My favorite exercise is swim­ ming. I took my first lesson at the age of 40 because it was such a great challenge. It is the best exercise anyone can take

up, for swimming exercises every part of the body.

Yoga ~s another terrific exer­ cise. I took lessons f~om a priest from India for a while. He' was a marvelous teacher and 'I ~oved Yoga.

He explained that people must be in control of their bodies to he totally integrated persons, sli?itualbly and physically. He thought we needed to surrender ourselves to the spiritual side of life and to God, and that this could be done in conJunNon with Yoga.

Yoga is not a violent exercise, but it is tremendously effective because it combines breathing control with control of muscular development.

The teacher usually ended class by having us lie flat on our backs, with our palms lifted to heaven. Then he encouraged us to let our thoughts drain out of our bodies. This was a· way of suggesting the idea of sur­ rendering ourselves totally to the non-physical world. At the end of a yoga session, I felt totally . relaxed, physically and mentally.

Yoga, as he taught it, wasn't a prayer, but rather a precondi­ tioning exercise, putting one in a frame of mind where one felt better able to pray.

The bottom line- on exercise

Center and Circumference "God is all center as that he looks to all, and all circum­ ference 'as that he embraces all."

- John Donne

.By

MARY McGRORY

I did not write about page tion ,to providing spiritual sus­ tenance in the form of CCD, liturgies and sacramental pre­ paration, they must also serve as marriage counselors and family mediators. ":Maybe what we're doing is wrong," one told me, shaking his head in frustration, "but if fami­ lies didn't have us, where would they go?"

It's a question that deserves a careful answer from war critics.

If we're willing to support peace­ keep(ng forces aroUM the world and if these troops deserve a family life, then we must be will­ ing to support the hard-working chaplains who make life richer for them. \.

They are pastors in the tru­ est biblical sense of moving from place to place with a nomadic people whose needs are even more complicated than those of civilian society. They touch hun­ dreds of people for a short period of time. They give up a lot to serve a particular segment of God's people and for this they deserve gratitude, not criticism.

Duty to keep fit

You almost have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to be conscious of exercise to­ day. We are on a health

Reading beats reporting

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By

ANTOINETTE BOSCO

would seem to be that it's a moral responsibility. Exercising and generally taking care of our­ selves are ways of showing God we cherish the bodies he gave us. It's part of our job as Chris­ tians.

[necrology]

August 22 Rt. Rev. Manuel J. Texeira, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton Rev. William R. Jordan, Pas­ tor, St. Louis, Fall River August 23 Rev. Thomas Clinton, Pastor, St. Peter, Sandwich August 24 Rev. Peter J. B. Bedard, Founder, Notre Dame, Fall River August 25 Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, 'Founder, Holy Cross, South Eas­ ton August 27 Rt. Rev. Francisco C. Betten­ court, Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall River .Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher, Pastor Emeritus, St. James, New Bedford

boys, sex and drugs on Capitol Hill this summer, al­ though it was probably my duty. I resented the intrusion of scandal on our summertime calm in Washington, which is, except for the weather, delight­ ful. The mighty and consequen­ tial are not much in evidence. It is a time for eating raspberries and watching fireflies. Many evening parties move outdoors, and it is possible to tune out the babble about the space shuttle and the flat tax and go unde­ tected.

But there is another reason, and I must be honest about it.

I fell in with Jane Austen, the great enemy of incivility and squalor. A friend bequeathed me her collection of books by and about my favorite author.

I fought down temptation for a while, thereby, I think, win­ ning Miss Austen's approbation.

I turned my attention to page boys and cocaine addicts. But then I thought a few pages of "Mansfield Park" might refresh my mind and sharpen my per­ ceptions of these disgraceful events.

You who lov~ her too can guess the rest. Miss Austen took me by the throat in the first sentence. Here it is, and why it hooked me I leave you to judge: "About 30 years ago, Miss Maria Ward Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield .Park in the county of North­ ampton, and to be thereby raised to' the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and conse­ quences of a handsome house and large income."

Six hours later, I turned out the light. I had reluctantly left Fanny Price at her father's wretched house in Portsmouth, uncertain of the progress of her beloved cousin Edmund's court­ ship of Mary Crawford, await­ ing with her wonted flutters and nerves the arrival of the post hom Mansfield Park, where all were in grievous turmoil caused by the elopement of Henry Craw­ ford and Maria Bertram Rush­ worth. My interest had not flag­ ged. My eyes had given'out.

Early on - I say this without any pretense of rationalizing, a practice of which Miss Austen disapproves - there had been the odd flicker of relevance. For instance, the odious Mrs. Norris, a penny-pinching busybody who torments the terminally torment~ able Fanny, lives in a modest dweI.ling . called . "The White House." Fanny herself takes re­ fuge from her frequent alarms, headaches and shrinking spells in an old schoolroom called the East Room.

Thin, I know. But in the larger sense, I told myself as I galloped

along, much applied to what was murkily unfolding.

Miss Austen speaks insistently of the necessity of proper edu­ cation - and did not Rep. Paul Simon, D-Ill., point out long ago the i'!1poI1ance of reforming the page school?

And Miss Austen reminds us that the most promising charac­ ters can be blemished ·by the wrong associations. Mary Craw­ ford is a betwitching girl, and as the besotted Edmund says, of a true sweetness of disposition.

But early commerce with mer­ cenary and vain people has warped her view. The scales fall from Edmund's eyes finally when - as he recounts in horror to Fanny - Mary bemoans not so much the evil of what his sister and Henry Crawford have done as the folly of being caught.

"No harsher name than folly given! So voluntarily, so freely, so coolly to canvass it. No re­ luctance, no horror, no feminine, shall I say, no modest loathing.

This is what the world done."

Ma~ Crawford is a modem character. I can imagine her in Washington. She is pretty, witty, ; elegant and musical - Edmund is enthralled when she plays the harp. She is opinionated and out­ spoken. She means to marry money; she has no use for clergymen, she tells Edmund, due for the living at Thornton Lacey, to his face..

Edmund is sweet, but a little stuffy. He and Fanny are a pair of prigs clucking over Mary Crawford's cutting, although un­ assailably accurate, remarks about her scoundrel uncle. ("Very wrong, very indecorous," says Edmund.) And Fanny, an early Elsie Dinsmore, can be a trial. I guiltily rejoiced when her cousin Tom called her a "creep­ mouse."

But Miss Austen stands by her heroines, and when I got up early the next morning to follow Fanny back to Mansfield Park, I decided, as was the author's wish, that she is a dear girl. Ed­ mund's obtusesness is almost canceled by his kindness. I sigh for the lost Crawfords. Fanny, married to Henry, might have become merry. Edmund, witJi Mary, might have laughed more.

'But I do not quarrel with Miss Austen, who, despite her high irony, is unrelenting in her cele­ bration of virtue and right-mind­ edness. Two properly formed characters deserve each other.

I realize that she would· cen­ sure me for devouring "Mans­ field Park" in one gulp. She de­ plored unrestrained indulgence.

But you can see that I could not judge undetailed excesses on Capitol Hill. How can I, at this time, pass judgment on addicts of any kind?

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Death?

Continued from Page One and about half in the Americas - retain the death penalty for other crimes besides wartime crimes, treason, or attempts to kill a head of state.

For Catholics the moral right of a state to impose the death penalty has traditionally been upheld as a common, doctrine, based on the' ~ight of the state' to use the necessary means to protect its citizenry and uphold the common good.

Bank head denies wrong VATICAN CITY '(NC) -

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born Archbishop Paul C. Marcin­ kus, 60, president of the Vatican bank, has categorically denied wrong-doing in a ,1973 securities counterfeiting scandal. and prom­ ised that the facts in a current controversy involving the Vati­ ,can and the now-liquidated Banco Ambrosiano will event­ ually be made clear.

In a telephone conversation with NC News Aug. 13, the arch­ bishop- confirmed comments made earlier to a Wall Street Jolirnal reporter but declined to talk further about the 1913 case or about the Banco Ambrosiano situation that is still under in­ vestigation.

Archbishop Marcinkus . de­ scribed as "absolutely fantastic" allegations that he or the Vati- \ can bank was involved in a scheme nine years ago by or­ ganized crime figures to borrow money on counterfeit stocks and bonds of U.S. corporations.

He confirmed that he was in­ terviewed at the Vatican in~early 1973 by William Aronwald, then head of the New York office of the U.~. Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force, in relation to, the investigation.

But said he had "never heard of any of the names" of those in­ volved in the case.

The archbishop, a native of Cicero, Ill., who has headed thd bank since 1971, declined to dis­ cuss specifics on the relationship between the Vatican bank and the Banco Ambrosiano, which was liquidated by the italian government Aug. 6.'

The Vatican and the arch~ bishop have consistently declined comment on reports quoting Italian investigators as saying that the Vatican bank gave the Banco Ambrosiano "letters of patronage" that were used by the Italian bank in making some high·risk loans through its over­ seas subsidiaries., Many of the loans were reported to have been made to Panamanian finance companies.

These letters of patronage put the Vatican bank's prestige' be­ . hind the loans, but did not legal­ ly require the Vatican bank to guarantee the loans.

On June 13 Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state, announced appointment of a three-man team of independent banking experts to conduct a Vatican investigation of the links between its· bank and Banco Ambrosiano.

Vic,e-chairman WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr.

Lawrence J. Corcoran, 65, retir­ ing executive director of the Na­ tional Conference of Catholic Charities, has been -ele«ted vice­ president of Independent Sector, a coalition 'of voluntary groups, corporations and non-profit or­ ganizations, including the NCCC and the U.S. Catholic Confer­ ence.

FamiI~ Night program COntinued from page one. means to' relax, was destroymg our personal relationships. We found ourselves flicking each other on and off as quickly and with as little thought as we changed the channel.

We were discovering that we needed not only times to stay at home but a means of staying o tuned in to each other: some· thing to do. So we develope'd Family Night. With friends, we developed outlines,' "formats,"" as we call them, of simple activities discove'red through trial and error to be useful in achieving our purpose.

In the beginning, Family Night felt a little strange and scary.

We'were all so out of the habit of sharing that we often felt, awkward and a bit uneasy with' one another. As time went on, however, Family Night wore well, as comfortably as a pair of old slippers.

The . outlines we developed were quite simple: opening prayer, something to think about, activity ideas, snack ~ime, entertainment, sharing, and closing prayer.

It was a little slow at first. We stumbled and sometimes hesitated, but we soon found that the bounds of love and trust

WithIn' the family were being ~ent we felt closer to brother, strengthened as we became ac­ Sister, Mom, Dad, son, daughter, cust~med to an open, direct, and spouse, or to the Lord. We-lea~n­ honlt way of communicating ed new games and songs, tned who each of ,us is in the family. out new craft projects, enjoyed "The fact that a condemnation H ving a definite time each unusual snacks, laughed and hug· of the principle has' not bee!l wee~ to. celebrate Family Night ged a l o t . . ' helped Immensely. We learned As you get mto, ,the rhythm formulated up to now does not to t~k about things we had not of your 0"Yn Family Night, all take away any of the urgency of talketl about before but wished sorts of creative things will hap· working to abolish, in practice, I ' we could, we learned to manage pen. Friends who have teenagers the dea th penalty, and to develop the moral and soc'ial reasons that fail ute, pain, hurts, and fears, often spend Family Night shar­ and ~o share joys, successes, an~ ing Scriptures and then hold a ,can contribute to' this," he said. hapWness. We are convinced', rap time to share problems. In_ In 1981 an editorial in Civilta 'Family Night can do the same our own family we take turns Cattolica, the influential Rome· having each family member be for ~our family. based Jesuit magazine argued in The formats are meant to be a in charge of the evening. (It . detail that none of the three gUidt Don't hesitate to adapt takes no special qualifications as major traditional arguments for the~ to your own needs as fa 'a teacher to lea~ Family Night.) punishment of crimes - the pro­ famlE. Plan ahead, as some sugFor our family, one of the tection of society, dissuasion and gestions will require advance most precious moments in Fam­ expiation for the crime - can prep4ration. The important thing ily Night is the sharing time. We be used to justify the death pen­ is to Ibring the family together in ,share a joyful moment from the alty. It concluded that no crim­ spite of busy schedules and to :past week, a time of loneliness inal act can remove a person's rediscover what's really impor- or of anger; sometimes we share "inalienable right to life." tant In life - your family - and. ,a moment when we felt especi­ to faii in love again. . ally close to another family memIn 1976 a study paper by the FafilY Night has become for ,ber or close to God. Mom and Pontifical Justice and Peace Com· us t~at special night each week Dad share their struggles and mission, delivered in response that !we set aside to spend at joys, too, and our children see to a request by the U.S. bishops home with each other playing us as we truly are in our search on the matter, noted that Old and ~haring, praying and learn- and journey through life.

Testament references to the ing Js a family. We found we Learning to have Family Night death penalty do not in them­ werel sharing many things: a is learning to pause one night a selves justify it for today. There joyful movement from the past week as a family and to be re­ is no convincing evidence sup·' week~ a time of anger, embar- freshed together. porting the deterrence argument, rassrttent, or lone'tiness; a moHappy Family Nighting! the commission paper said. It noted that recent popes have stressed the "medicinal" or cor­ rective aspect of punishment, but the death penalty "negates the and Ilecturer Harry Blamires;. ,pact on society is less than had possibility" of, this.

Card~nal Humberto Medeiros; been hoped.

It questioned the humaneness Father Bruce Ritter of New York Enthusiasm, however, was City'~ Covenant House; Ralph high at last weekend's gathering, of a "merely vindictive" penalty Martin, editor of the New Coven­ climaxed on Sunday afternoon and said that this "goes against ant ~agaZine;' and Father John ,by a Marian Mass at which Car­ the Catholic tradition. It con· Randall, a member of the renew­ dinal Medeiros appealed for cluded by supporting "a pastoral aI's *ation~l Service Committee prayers for the Middle East. attitude that says: for the ethical The Boston College Liturgical values involved and because of and a PrOVidence pastor.

SI I k . d' t d Dancers were part of the liturgy the lack of probative arguments 'th teYtehra h s~ea et~s In Ica e processional as were hundreds of . to the contrary, the abolition of a e c aTlsma IC movemen t t' t b f ' 'tal .h has a need to return to its roots priests, deacons and bearers of capl "pums men IS 0 e a­ and rbcapture the "spirit of '67," candles, altar breads, banners vored. whenl Catholic renewal began and art work.

In 1974' and again in 1980 the with a group of Christians at Highlighting both the youth U.S. bishops as a body stated Duquesne University in Pitts­ 'mini-conference and the Satur­ their opposition to capital pun. burgH. Since that time charis­ day Civic Center program was ishment. In both cases debate matidl m~etings have been_ held Dion, a '60s pop music star who showed real divisions within the throurhout the nation and thou­ said he had made millions, of nation's hierarchy on ~he issue sand of prayer groups have dollars by the time he was 20 but a strong weight of views in been established. But renewal but found his life empty until he favor of the abolition of capital leade s feel that their lasting im· discovered Christ. punishment.

ThonsandJ pray in Providence Up to 14,000 charismatics, in· cluding many from the Fall River diocese, attended sessions of the New 'England General Conference for the Catholic charismatic renewal, held last weekend at the Providence Civic Center. A ,mini.conference for youth held Saturday afternoon on the'lawn of the Rhode Island statehouse attracted some 1,500 .. . . additional participants.

In addition to New Englanders, representative~ of 32 st~tes. ,and numerous foreign countnes were at the three-day meeting.

With the theme "Do Whatever He Tells You," delegates heard talks by Mother Basilea Schlink, . founder of the Sisterhood of Mary; Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence; British author

But in recent years there has been, if not a denial of this rigpt, a marked shift in emphasis by the church.

One of the most official ex­ pressions of this shift came in a 1980 speech by the papal nuncio to the European Community, Archbishop Igino Cardinale, urg­ ing ministers of justice of the member nations to work toward abolition of the death penalty.

"The church considers it nec­ essary that politicians feel --sup­ ported by it in their efforts to make penal justice more humane, and in particular to create those social, pschological and juridical conditions that will make the death penalty useless," the a'rch­ bishop said.

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UNDATED (NC) - Govern­ ment funds used for the arms race should be diverted to pro­ grams improving the environ­ ment, according to a U.N. report on environmental problems. The United Nations Conference on the Gospel Environment, held in Nairobi, Kenya, in May, with 130 countries represented, discussed a report that says "military ex­ penditures liose considerably dur­ ing the decade, especially in de­ veloping countries. The reversal of the arms race and its under­ lying spiral of costly technology would do much to release re­ sources needed to assure the fu­ ture of mankind and the human environment."

Rose Hawthorne Dear Editor: We are completely over­ whelmed with your generosity in devoting a complete issue of the Anchor to us in our jubilee year, and want to offer our heartfelt thanks to you and your staff for your goodness to us.

When we consider all the work, research, and time in­ volved in collecting the material you did, we are in awe of your undertaking. What a surprise to see that even the advertisers joined inl Our grateful thanks to them, too.

God bless and prosper the work of your apostolate of the printed word.

You may be s4re of the pray. ers of all here at our Home.

Sister Marie Cordis, O.P. Rose Hawthorne Home Fall River

Coast Guard Dear Editor: Thank you for your recent letter expressing concern about funding for the Coast Guard.

President Reagan appreciates your taking the time to share your views with us. The points you raised have been carefully noted.

Sincerely, Linda Perryman The White House Washington, D.C.

Valued efforts Dear Editor: Thank you for bringing my at­ tention to the letter you received from the Executive Office of the President as well as to your editorial response.

The Coast Guard prides itself on its hard working and dedica­ ted professionals whose respon­ sibility to the public is tremen­ dous. Your timely and public support of our people and their efforts is deeply appreciated and your outspoken concern rein­ forces our determination and en­ thusiasm.

Thank you again for openly expressing your solicitude and for alerting me to your much valued efforts on behalf of the Coast Guard and the public we serve.

Sincerely, W. E. Caldwell Vice Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard New York, N.Y.

WOULD YOU LIKE to toss a bouquet In the direction of a b~ hind-the-scenes worker In your parish or organization: maybe someone who keeps the altar linens spotless, Is always on hand for parish suppers or'does a super Job In CCO or youth groups? Write to the Mall Packet!

Let such pillars of the parish know they're noticed and ap­ preciated!

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Sacred Hearts Seminary

Wareham seminary is a 'lively place

By Pat McGowan Weatherwise, this has been a good summer, with August get­ ting more, than its usual quota of perfect days. And on August 2 Father Richard McNally, SS. CC., got a job to match the weather; he was named retreal;f coordinator at Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham, a 125-acre waterfront paradise of woods, beach, sea and sky.

Of course there's more to the job than fringe benefits. The young native of St. Joseph's par­ ish, Fall River, will expand the seminary's already popular re­ treat program, he explained..

Previously Sacred Hearts offered facilities to groups bring­ ing their own directors; now, with the addition of Father Mc­ Nally to the staff, it will also mount its own programs.

This is not to say that a lot hasn't been already going on at Sacred Hearts; this weekend, for instance, will see its fourth an­ naul old-fashioned family fair, an undertaking masterminded 'by Sacred Hearts Brothers Joseph

Fandel and Damien O'Hare with the assistance of scores of Cape Cod supporters, known as Friends of the Sacred Hearts.

The two-day extravaganza, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday, will include enter­ tainment, rides, a flea market, games, music and lots of Sacred Hearts' famous food, all in the seminary's peerless setting.

Fair proceeds will help the new retreat program get under way, said Father McNally. At age 32 he has just returned from several years of study in Rome, where he earned a licentiate in spiritual theology at the Pontifi­ cal Gregorian University.

He is enthusiastic about the expansion of Sacred Hearts' re­ treat schedule, noting that the seminary's beautiful surround­ ings practically guarantee rest­ ful reflection and' relaxation to even the most harried visitor.

Originally an estate belonging to a Boston attorney, the build­ ings and grounds comprising the seminary were purchased in 1943 by the late Bishop James

That's a relief

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The andient ·Egyptian obelisk in St. Peter's Square is stable but slightly damaged by the weather, Italian fire officials told the Vatican.

At the request of Vatican au­ thonities, Fdre Chief Elveno Pas­ torelli recently led a 10-man in­ spection team on Ii ,three-hour check of the obelisk's phySical state.

The firemen used a 150-foot­ long ladder to reach the top of the obeliisk and took photographs of various sections of the ~troc­ ture to ascertain whether it Jiad been damaged by atmospheric conditions.

"There's nothing to worry about. The obelisk ds stab1e," PastorelH sand later."

The fire official salid he would return to the Vatican with~n 10 85-foot-tlll1~

days with a more detailed report based on the photographs and a list of suggested "superficial" re­ pairs to be made to :the obelisk.

Pastorelli sand the preliminary iinspectiiori showed some corro­ sion of the bronze base of the obelisk and the metal Hnes hold­ ling up the cross at the top, but that there was no danger to passersby.

The 350-ton obelisk, which once adorned Nero's circus, where St. Peter was martyred, was placed dn St. Peter's Square at the order of Pope Sixtus V. Nero reigned from A.D. 54 to 68. lt took 44 winches, 99 work­ ers, 140 horses and four months to move the obelisk to its present ~ocation in 1586. More than half a century ilater, Bernini buli:lt the 284-column colonnade that now surrounds it. "

E. Cassidy and' turned over to the Sacred Hearts community.

They were used exclusively as a seminary for some time and in recent years have also been the scene of paris!l picnics, Marri­ age and Engaged Encounter weekends and Teens Encounter Christ and other youth retreats.

Already a busy place, the 54­ year-old estate is ready for an even more active f\,lture.

Including this weekend's fair.

Including its less outwardly lively but far-reaching effects on those who come within its wel­ coming walls.

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Another stumbling block for wh~n a major cereal manufac­ Gonya said that an important many banks is storage space and tur~r gave it three railroad cars full I of cereal which it quickly incentive for food companies, to refrigeration and freezer capaci­ dist5ibuted throughout the United contribute surplus goods is the ties. But very few offers of food 1976 tax reform act, which offers are turned down by Gleaners States.

Bht Gene' Gonya, Gleaners substantial tax benefits by allow- with 42,000 square feet of stor­ ing companies to deduct the cost 'age space and an additional 500 fou~der an'd director, is dis­ satiffied about' a major problem of the food plus one-half of its . squ'are feet of freezer and cooler appreciated value. facilities. thaj persisfs. .

Besides offering a greater One problem that many food, " here's still an awful lot of ~ foo being wasted, especially on , banks suffer is lack of transpor- . variety and quantity of food the agricultural level," Gonya tation, according to Gonya. Food than most food banks, Gleaners' is there, but many times the general distribution center saves said. "A big part of our opera­ tionl lately has been soliciting smaller banks can't afford to agencies time, money and energy. o c01~panies and large farmers so In five years the huge bank have the food tran'sported to them or to purchase truck,S :or has redistributed nearly 12 mil­ that when they do have a sur­ plu~ they'll donate it rather than vans. lion pounds of food to the poor, destroy the food." , . Gleaners has a fleet of two inf~nts, ill an~ elderly.

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TheJ Catholic Church's n~w emPha is on compassion for and ministry to the divorced is "an eve~t unimagined in such a short tim~ as .11 years," said Paulist . Fat~er James Young, a national leader in ministry to divorc,ed Catholics.' . F~ther Young, rector of the Paunst Seminary in Washington na'tl'onal chaplal'n ,to the and!

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He focused on Pope John Paul II's advocacy of ministry to the divorced in his recent. apostolic exhortation, "Familiaris Consortio"(The Community of the Family).

In the 'exhortation the pope said, "Let the church pray for the divorced, encourage them and sho~ ~erselfa merciful mother and thus sustain them in faith and hope."

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statement of church attitudes toward the divorced was unheard of.

It symbolizes dramatically the compassionate pastoral attitude towards people in broken marri 7 ages that has emerged in Catholic thinking in' the past decade, he said.

"It never ceases to amaze me," he sal, 'd "that so many peop1e h h . . . convictions w 0 ad no rel'Iglous at all have found a home in the Catholic Church through the div­ orce ministry that has grown up around this conutry in the past 11 years."

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The following article is the Deacons are a special sacra­ age, nor did it originate with the second installment of an inter­ mental sign that the church must Third World at the council it­ view with Msgr. Ernest Fiedler, not be allowed to forget. That's' self, as some people think. executive director of the National why Francis of Assisi's being a The issue got to the Vatican Conference of Catholic Bishops' deacon at his particIar time was Council by way of Germany.

Committee on the Permanent a very good sign.

After the Allies entered Germany Dlaconate. It is reprinted with He never pretended to be a in 1945, several Catholic men set pennisslon from U.S. CAm­ priest. He was a deacon and he up an organization in Freiburg Durfee ~ oue, published by Oarettan . held that fact up for the church to help the homeless people, as AttlEboro~ National~ Publications, 221 W. Madison to recognize. That kind of sacra­ our bombers had' quite effective­ St., Chicago, IL 60606. It will mental visibility in the church ly demolished the city. The peo­ appear weekly until the entire is a bit different from the com­ ple began calling themselves Members Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. mand all of us have to serve one dea.cons, and the movement grew interview has been presented. another. throughout Germany.

• S~ \are deacons supposed to let Eventually they went to Father But donlt you think laypeople It be "mown that they are dea­ inferior if deacons are held Karl Rahner, S.J., told him what feel p'harmacy REGI~~~~R~~fJ~~:CISTS cons? Or Is It like a secret they were doing, and a~ked him up OJJI a higher plane? s~lety?.

Deacons shouldn't be on a to formulate a basic theology, Invalid Equipment For Rent or Sale tt's not a secret society. I ran higher plane - that's the point. which he did. Then through Rah­ "0 • Surgical Garments - Bird· IPPG Machines - Jobst into a wonderful man in England • Hollister - Crutches - Elastic Slocklngs ner, other people became in­ are seen It's a bad thing if they • Surgical A Orthopedic Appliances who worked in a factory; he volved in the development of • Trusses - Oxygen - Oxygen Masks, Tents & or better than lay­ as higher never made a big announcement WHI H .

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That's how tian communities, and many of That's besides the specific minis­ the council. try he has, say on weekends, in them are doing just that, and with much success.

How old do you have to be the church.

I know of some deacons who before you can be ordained a Another man was a doctor, but he didn't have any patients. are already serving as "pastors" ~~?

Ml&we~ . in small rural parishes. They The minimum age is 32 years, He was in cancer research, and cannot officially be named pas­ when' he was training to be a 6 months. deacon he wanted to see how tor, but they are functioning as . No messing around there, hm? pastors nevertheless. In Alaska, Actually, that age limit is quite he could apply medicine to min­ for example, many of the Eski­ istry. He figured, "Okay, I cer­ a story, which I can't go into \\ tainly have the gift of healing, I mos live in areas which a priest in detail because it would take or twice a can reach only once guess, because I passed med . too long. The original document school; so how am I going to use year. )J listed 35 as the limit for mar.

Deacons there have been or­ that?" He went down to skid ried deacons and 25 for celibate. . ........:~_.;;:;j/ -Then an uproar was raised be­ row and rented two rQoms and dained for those communities, cause of the distinction between set up a free clinic. He staffed and the trend seems to be grow­ it all alone two nights a week ing. Some day I would like to do married and unmarried, and it ~ for then first year or sO: Now some historical research on the was made 35 for both in this there are other doctors and early churches in Rome. Some country. But this was in 1968. nurses helping him. One night, of those were actually called during the height of the racial I tension; it was evident to plenty he said, the last person who diaconal churches..

You mentioned deacons in came into ·the clinic was a very of bishops that many of the old man who obviously hadn't areas where there are no priests. leaders in the black community . had a bath for six months. The Was the shortage of priests a were weH under 35. doctor said, "I was on my knees major reason that the Second To make a long story VatiC8JII CouncIl recommended after much discussion, someshort, with a scalpel trying to- straigh­ kind ten out his bunions and all of a that the permanent dlaconate be bishop suggested we ask for a Bristol County, N.A. sudden the thought occurred to started up again?

MEMBER FDIC limit of 30. Which we did - and No, deacons aren't simply an Rome responded by "splitting \.. .J me ·that I'm doing this totally freely because I believe in Christ emergency measure. In fact, the difference" and setting the '--~~~------------------­ and I have the gift to serve him when the council began in 1963, minimum at 32 years, 6 months. the number of seminarians was more wholly."

Nert week: Could a Daniel at one of the all-time highs. It Why not do that kind of ser­ type be a deacon?

Berrigan didn't come from a priest short­ vice and remain a layperson? """"""""""""""""""""-,,, Why become a deacon? Does or­ dination make a difference.

Yes, I think it does, particu­ larly in a ministry of service.

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Dear Dr. Kenny: Both my hus­ you want to arrange situations By being available to your ~ and I work full time. We so that trouble spots never oc­ children in an unhurried way, h~ve two children, ages no and . cur. you make bedtime a highlight of 8.\ They spend the time after Suppose. everyone gripes and the day instead of a hassle. This school with· my mother, and we is short-tempered in the hour hour with your children may be pibk them up after work. I am· before dinner. You might put even more important than the often tired and irritable and fear your lO-year-old in charge of time you spend on household I ~m neglecting them. I want to making a simple cheese and chores. bJ a better par~nt. . crackers appetizer. Perhaps the Be careful that your job does Iplease dOlit tell me to stop . 8-year-old . could make salad· not lead you to resent your chil­ wrrking. I. need to work. W~ while dad sets the. table. dren. Look for opportunities to need the eXtra . money.

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Start dinner with a blessing. improve the quality of the limit­ I , ed to have Ii career of my own'.

Plan conversation at dinnertime. ed time available with your child- . ,I think I was a worse parent Insist that each person have his reno And work to improve your w en I wasn't working. Please or her say without interruptions skill as a disciplinarian in achiev­ hllP me. - Illinois or put-downs. ing the results you want.

Reader questions on family Is bedtime a pr9blem? You Yo are not alone in having living and child care to be an-. liTited time to be with your might make the hour before bed­ time a special time to be with swered in print are invited. Ad­ c~ildren. The non-custodial par~ your children. A boy might like dress The Kennys, Box 872, St. e~t in a divorce or separatiol) a9d the single parent who must to play a game or' show you. a Joseph's College, Rensselaer, magic trick. A girl might like Ind. 47978. wprk face similar problems. . IThe first suggestion is a cau­ -',ti<;m. Be careful of your tired times. It is very easy to view t~e children as inconsiderate ' . nllisances.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (NC) - Par- says parents should help child­ ents can pelp make that very im- ren to get ready for the kinds C~ildren sometimes sense their portant first day of school more of group activities they will en­ p~rents' low points and ask for f . k' d attention at the hardest possible enjoyable and easier or their counter In In ergarten. m6ment. You will be tempted to youngsters, suggests DorQthy "Encourage the child to sit re'lact angrily. Don't. If you find Webb, psychologist for Rock· . at the table and to use scissors you cannot be civil, then leave ford Diocesan Catholic Charities. and crayons," she said. A parent tHe scene and let your husband "Just taking the youngster for can encourage the child to sit take over for a while. a walk to the school building still for a short period of time .

Plan some good times. You and then back home - before and t 0 foc us 0 n p erformlng a the building is open for the year" 'f' t k need not sit back and pray that speci IC as . du always have strength enough, is a good idea, she said. "Talk During that first day - and Y with the child about the kinds . to handle what comes. Take the for some time afterward - many d b h' initiative. Arrange for quality·, of th,ings that go on inside the ch'ld I ren "won er a out w at IS . on at h orne wh'lleth ey are ti e to be with your children. school building." gomg The psychologist believes this "'d M W bb "Th Take them shopping with .you. . h gone, sal rs. e. ey gentle introduction to t e school, need. assurance."

H ve a picnic .lunch in the park. without the usual crowds and Plan to watch a few special TV confusion of the first day of If there are preschool-age chil­ sHows with popcorn and lemon· class, can help youngsters feel dren in the family an effort more confident about the place. should be made "not to do fun a e.

Learn something' together.

Children can also be prepared things until the older ·youngster Take drawing lessons. Work on through their daily activities," returns from school, or until he a :craft as a team. Plant a win. Mrs. Webb said. "Invite other or she is used to the classroom d9 and schedule," suggested Mrs. " w box full of flowers or a children over to play and en­ garden. courage the kind of interaction Webb. That kind of planning can +fou may want,to improve your that takes place in the class­ avert feelings that everyone is di~cipline skills. Read about ch!ld room. Teach children the value· at home having fun except for di~cipline with your husband. of sharing and getting along with the youngster in school.

Here are some general books others."

"Reassure children after w~ich should be especially help­ Mrs. 'Webb thinks some young­ school. Let them know you are ful: "How to Discipline With sters might benefit by spending happy to see them come back," Lo~e,,, .Fitzhugh. Dodson, New a few hours away from home she said. This is particularly im· Arperican Library; "How to each day at some day ca~p portant when there' is a new RefllY Love Your Child," Ross where they would take part in baby in the family because the Campbell, Victor Books; "Whole directed activities with other school child will 'be wondering· Life Parenting," James and Mary children. about his or her status.

K~nny, Continuum.·· "Independent actions should "Be there when the child gets The best parenting .skill is' to be encouraged," the psychologist back, if you can. Set some time arJange matters so that correc­ said. "youngsters should know aside to listen about the day, but tio~ and punishment are un·. their names and addresses." try notto ask a lot of questions," neressary.. Preyention is a good At the same time, Mrs. Webb said Mrs, Webb.

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In the April issue of Homiletic ·and Pastoral Review, a magazine for priests, Father Marx, former professor of sociology at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., said he is struck by "the astounding ignorance of the vast majority of people, married or unmarried, about procreation."

"Whatever is taught in biology courses," he said, "it obviously is not the details of the human re­ productive system, into which the good Lord has built" a means of fertility control that makes it unnecessary, even stupid, to resort to contraception, abortifa­ cient pills and devices, the veter-­ inarian approach of sterilization, and surgical abortion."

Father Marx continued, "The .,.,oman is infertile most of the .ime: a couple who learn to rec­ 19nize the signs of her cyclic ~rtllity qave the very best means of birth control, religion aside."

Among reasons for ignorance of NFP and for the low incidence of its use by U.S. Catholics, Father Marx said, is the fact that U.S. priests "are almost totally ignorant" of the method.

Millions of U.S. Catholic couples, he said, "have already been denied ready access to in­ formation and instruction by in­ decisive priests and diocesan bureaucrats who have been en­ couraged to regard NFP as a frill of somewhat less importance than playing bridge to benefit the parish Altar and Rosary Society."

Pope John Paul II promoted natural family planning for more than 20 years in Poland, Father Marx said, and as archbishop of Cracow directed his priests "never to witness the marriage of any young couple who did not know God's way of controlling their fertility."

Among the ways of promoting NFP in the United States, Father Marx suggested: - Every diocese would in­ clude natural family planning in its marriage preparation program and "no Catholic couple should enter marriage without a con­ fident understanding of this human, loving way of birth regu· lation."

- A natural family planning center should be established in every Catholic hospital "not only to train its nurses (and doctors?) but also to serve members of the community, especially maternity patients who want such informa­ tion."

- Every seminarian should be required to take "a thorough, orthodox course" in Christian sexuality and natural ' family planning.

Ed. note: In the Fall River di­ ocese, NfP Information is avaIl­ able from Sr. Lucille Levasseur, SMSM, at the Office of Famlly MInistry, 999-6420, and from Mariette Eaton, RN, St. Anne's Hospital, 674·5741.

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A specialist in community organization, middle man­ agement and Afro-American studies, she is fluent in Por­ tuguese and Spanish.

Miss Monteiro will direct services to individuals and community groups within the New Bedford deanery.

FATHER BERNARDINE SMITH of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis will speak at Masses at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, See- ' konk, the weekend of Aug. 28 and 29, for the benefit of his community's missions in India and Brazil.

School Prayer WASHINGTON (NC) A Knights of Columbus official has endorsed a proposed constitu­ tional amendment to allow prayer in public schools, but ex­ pressed doubts that the states should determine what prayers students should recite.

In testimony before the Sen­ ate Judiciary Committee, John' Murphy, deputy supreme knight of the Catholic men's organiza­ tion, pledged the Knights would work for passage of the amend­ ment and add~d that it is "be­ cause we are a family organiza­ tion that we are so concerned" about the issue.

The amendment would circum­ vent 1962 an4 1963 Supreme Court rulings that forbade offi­ cial prayer or 'Bible reading in public school classrooms. Presi. dent Reagan backs such an amendment and in May sent to Congress wording for such an amendment.

Continued f.rom page one degree to which the inner-city private schools opened their doors to public school trans­ fers, even in cases where the transfers were clearly not the most desirable or ideal students," according to the study.

"Our study of inner-city pri­ vate schools found that back­ ground factors do not overwhelm the effects of the schools them­ selves. In other words, even when·' 'family backgrounds are considered, the individual schools were found to have a difference.

"The data indicate that school factors appear to actually com­ pensate for family background deficits," the study continued: For example, it showed that the school has the greatest impact on improving behavior for child­ ren from poor homes.

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To maintain standards of per­ formance which permit them to carry out a distinctive mission the inner-city schools "have taken on the goal of attempting to shape the behavior and atti­ tudes of their pupils," the study continued.

There exists in the private schools a board and powerful consensus over goals and policies between the schools and the par­ ents, according to the survey, and a strong element of parental involvement and commitment. .

Seventy-five percent of par­ ents surveyed reported that the school encouraged their sugges­ tions. Seventy-one percent re­ ported that the school requires their involvement. Ninety-five percent reported that they are treated-by the school as if their

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The report said there was no evidence for the alleglltion that private inner-city schools help foster increased racial or class segregation or encourage "white flight" from urban public schools.

Finally the researchers said that "present education policy is in dire need of change if the educa­ tion provided by inner-city pri­ vate schools is to continue" and called tuition tax credits or edu­ cation vouchers ways to "make the future more secure both for the .schools and for the families who use them."

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By Father John J. Castelot

II Living faith

By Neil Parent

Mark ends chapter 4, a "para­ ble chapter," with two short parables similar to the Parable Qf the Sower. The~r emphasis is, however, different In the first parable, a man "scatters seed on the ground," then lets nature take its course, The seed develops to maturity "without his knowing how it happens." Emphasis is on the inevitability and mysterious na­ ture of growth. 'Later, he "wields the sickle, for the time is ripe for harvest."

Those words, a quotation from the Old Testament, refer to the ultimate realization of God's reign; The point at issue, how­ ever, is that the hoped·for con· summation, of salvation history is in the hands of the Lord of history.

People must do their part but can do nothing to hasten the final outcome.

As Paul writes in the First Corinthians: "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. This means that neither he who plants nor he who waters is of any special account, only God, who gives the growth."

In its original setting, this 'parable may have been directed to those impatient at the delay of God's kingd,om, who perhaps complained when God did not grant them immediate success.

It was necessary to remind them that God would bring his king­ dom about in his own good time.

Another meaning was perhaps that Christians should not get discouraged at apparently fruit­ less ministry. They had to trust ·that God would certainly bring the whole mysterious growth process to fruition.

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One day, my 4-year-old .daughter and I came upon two dead mice in our yard; My daughter began ,to cry.

"Are they dead?" she asked. I said they were and suggested that we bury them.

We dug a small hole and put the mice in it.

At this point, with tears run. ning down her cheeks, my daughter asked: "Are we going to be put in the ground when we die, Daddy? How will we go to heaven if we are put in the ground?" .

Stunned by her questions and groping for answers, I nearly wept myself when she asked: "Will you and mommy die be­ fore me? Will I have to bury you?"

Moved beyond words, I took her in my arms, squeezed her tightly, and kissed her wet little 'Today fewer parents are full-time homemakers.' face. I can't recall now precisely what I said to her, but gradually she became comforted.

We filled the tiny grave, said"" a brief prayer and walked back therine BI d to the house in silence.

Forms of 'home entertainment Wars, as he returns to ,his king·

By Ka r Such incidents are the stuff , rave altered as well. Television, dom in 1t1)aca., .

As the' eldest in a family of mcluding cable TV, plays a from 'whicl) family life is made.

Gone for 20 years, Odysseus They are also th~ st~ff by which eight children, it occasionally oc­ major role in many homes. is presumed, dead. by ~any. He faith is exercised.. 'curred to me how lucky I. w:/s: F:lectronic games played on tele- returns t~ ~md hiS wife,. Pene­ Family life" is .an "incredibly 'My home was a haven of secur­ ~ision sets are also very popular. lope, reslstmg the woomg of rich and complex mixture of hu· ity and love. ./ :"', numerous nobles who want to But the hOme has. lost none of marry her and take over the As a· teen-ager, I' wanted the man experiences. When my ts .importance as a center of k' d daughter . began asking her clock to stop;' P was afraid that ' ..

A" • t ' mg om. annthand security. s 'm pas troubling question~, I knew, that change would destroy our fam. ,I es ' eo Ie 'ather around their Confident that one day Odys­ . something more was going on ily ~nity.,; " ~:arttfs Pto g celebrate' family seus would return, Pene,lope tells It wasn't 'that things were' per­ than the burial of two dead ~ . .. " ' h e r wooers she cannot, choose among them until she finishes mice. fect. My brothers arid sisters and frIendship and, love., At the same time that God I engaged in endless squabbles , I Long ago, the., Greek, poet. weaving a new garment. Nightly was stirring her awareness of and jealousies. tIomer wrote movmgly of home she' unravels her day's work, life and death, he was causing My parents have opposite per- ~nd family in "The Odyssey." thus putting off the, day of me to' confront my own thoughts sonalities, wl)ich some!imes This epic poem relate~ the ad- choice. caused friction for them arid us. and feelings .on these issues. entures of .the warrIor Od~s,Eventually, Odysseus is re­ The family, as Pope John Paul. My father, .an educator and eus,a sU~lvor of the TrOjan united with his family and takes II reminded us, is meant to be a writer, delig)lts in Masses. with , , control of his kingdom. "domestic church" - im authenGregorian chant, in traveling and The Odyssey epitomizes the tic Christian community. As reading:' enduring values people associat~ such, the full .range' of Christian with the family. The lure of his My mother, a full-time mother, faith is frequently played out in own home is powerful for Odys­ the routine matters of family prefers folk· Masses, classical

By Janaan Manternach

By Father James A. Black Seus despite many obstacles a~d life: treading bedtime stories to music and television. For her, a temptations. preschoolers, coping' with teen- lovely evening means playing , , Demetrius felt· sorry, for him­ A. J, Scardino and his wife,

In addition, Odysseus and age rebellion, quietly sharing the board games with one or more elf. All around him people were Loislyn, have an "ironclad rule"

Penelope are committed to each that Sunday is family day, re­

events of the day over coffee visiting children. uying, selling, bargaining, talk­ But, despite occasional strains, ihg, laughing and arguing. Few other and so are willing to suffer served for enjoying each other's

with one's spouse.

I knew I could count on my fam- Jven noticed him sitting in a for the sake of their relationship, company around the house,

It is not easy for the family ily's love and support.

Still today, commitment ' watching TV ballgames or per·

'to be the domestic church in to· The clock,' of course, never doorway. means that family members will day's world. Where society em· stops. Family relationships and "I wonder' what it's like to give freely of their time and haps spending 'time on their boat.

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phasizes . material .possessions, lifestyles change. Today, fewer ear people's voices," Deme- energy for each other.

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It takes more' than living to­ children, ranging in age from

ure, Christianity stresses sim- makers. Over 50 percent of U.S. I Demetrius was 'deaf and could gether to make a family and a five, to 24. The parents try to

plicity of life, altruistic love and women are employed outside the hardly speak., He could' make home. It takes commitment, con­ treat each as an individual, so

self-denial. home, as are most men.

Tum to' page thirteen cern and love.

As in the earliest days of the each will feel important.

church, many families today are A professional safety engineer. taking steps to ensure that faith A. J. is president of a small remains central to their life to· . accident prevention and investi­ gether. For example, television gation company. shows that play up violence and I visited the family last sum­

sex are boycotted. mer and A. J. and I went fish~

Some families plan one night ing.

a week together in family activi­ One warm morning we headed ties, focusing on their faitn .for a marshy area, set the an· through prayer and informal re­ chor and rigged our rods. After · '-­ ligious instruction. They recog­ a while we began talk mg. nize that to be an authentic "Why did you settle here?" I Christian community they must asked. "Since you travel so much spend time. together. it seems it would be more con· This is done sometimes at venient to live in a l~rger city." great sacrifice, especially where He said he had been involved ~any legitimate commitments in several different businesses Tum to page thirteen Turn to Page Thirteen

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Continued from page twelve and had encountered .shady business practices, which had caused him and his wife much suffering and difficulty. ''.I had to be able to live with myself," he said. "Loislyn and I really prayed a lot .about it. We wanted to do what was best for ourselves and our familr. We were both originally from this area, so we decided to move here and set up our own busi­ ness." Lolslyn is the bookkeeper for the firm.

A. J. went on to say, "I knew I needed a partner to help me make important decisions and to have a major say in the run­ ning of the company. I finally found the ideal person - the Lord."

With this partner, A. J. found new strength to run his business.

In thanks for the Lord's help, A. J. and his family pray to­ gether regularly and participate in parish activities.

Today they are getting along fairly well, putting their fourth child through colIege while the younger children are in Catholic schools.

"We wanted to have a business that could help people," said A.J. "and we wanted the child­ ren to grow up in a good fam­ ily-oriented environment.

"We also wanted to be able to do things together as a family," he said. "Thus far, with the Lord's help, we've succeeded:' His explanation is logical: "After alI, can you think of any­ one whom you would trust more than the Lord?"

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Some families celebrate their common faith through Christian service, translating their faith into action by helping others.

The big and small events of home life are ways in which God communes with us. They are also the means by which we as fam­ ily members support and en­ courage each other as fellow disciples of Jesus.

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Continued from page twelve Demetrius' face lit up. Sound strange sounds, but few people poured into his ears! He shouted with excitement. This was the could understand him.

• Just then a group of his old best day of his life. ,"Jesus has done everything classmates and neighbors ran up.

They signalled Demetrius to wel1!" the people sai<i to one an­ other in amazement. "He makes come with them.

"Where 'do they want me to the deaf hear and the mute speakl" go," he wondered. A young wo­ man finally wrote in the dust: "Jesus, the Jewish healer, is coming."

Demetrius, a Roman and, not ' Continued from page twelve . a Jew, had heard many rumors about this Jewish wonder-worker tard seed, the contrast is be­ but had never expected to meet tween the smallness of the prep­ Jesus. aration and the immensity of the Just then Jesus himself came results. The figure is agricultural around the comer. Demetrius' but it is not intended as a friends began to plead with him. botany lesson.

"Look at our friend here," they Although not really "the small­ begged. "He can't hear. He can't est of earth's seeds," the mus-, speak plainly. Place your hands tard seed is very tiny, especially on him'" when contrasted with the shrub Demetrius looked up at Jesus. which in, the" tropical climate PIe tried to ask for help. But around the Lake of Galilee grows only strange sounds came out eight to 10 feeVhigh. of his mouth.

Once again Mark is intent on Jesus placed his fingers in encouraging his community.

Demetrius' ears. Then he spit quite understandably It would on his own right hand and wonder whether a smalI, poor, touched Demetrius' tongue with powerless group like itself could his moist finger. He said to . ever grow into God's universal Demetrius, "Ephpheta," "Be kingdom. The parable assures opened!" them that it can and will.

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ROME '(NC) - It's not un­ usual to see a black-cassocked priest on Rome's streets.

But when the "priest" is Am­ erican actor Gregory Peck, closely followed by men in Nazi uniforms, nearly everyone stares.

Peck was in Rome in early August filming a U.S.-British­ Italian television movie on the life of Msgr. Hugh J. O'Flaherty.

Msgr. O'Flaherty, an Irish priest who worked at the Vati­ can's Holy Office (now the doc­ trinal congregation) during World War II, is credited with helping perhaps thousands of escaped Allied prisoners of war flee Rome during the German occupation.

He was called "the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican" after the code name of a fictional character who aided French·' nobility marked for death during the 18th century French Revolu­ tion.

The Irish priest retired from his Vatican duties in 1960 and died in 1963 at age 65 in Cahir­ civeen, Ireland.

"He never did tell his own story," said American Jesuit Father Robert Graham, historical consultant for the three-hour ' television movie.

Father Graham, who special­ izes in World War II Vatican history, said the most famous story about Msgr. O'Flaherty in­ volves his escape from a house in Rome while German soldiers were waiting outside to arrest him.

He fled to the basement, where coal was being unloaded, bor­ rowed a coalman's cap, smeared coal dust on his face, climbed out a basement window and walked back to the Vatican past the Germans.

"Black and Scarlet," stars the 66-year-old Peck as Msgr.

O'Flaherty, Sir John Gielgud as Pope Pius XII and Christopher Plummer as S.S. Police Chief Col. Herbert Kappler.

Msgr. O'Flaherty was honored for his wartime work by the U.S., British, Italian and Greek gov­ ernments and by the Knights of Malta and the Jewish community in Rome.

He worked with AllIed under­ . cover agents in helping the es­ caped prisoners and set up about 60 apartments in Rome to hide them until they could be spirited from the city. He also gave them money and sometimes allowed them to stay at the Vatican.

According to Father Graham, the priest was not motivated by partisan feelings toward the Allies but simply by Christian charity.

When the Allies occupied Rome he turned around and helped German and fascist pris­ oners escape, added Father Gra­ ham.

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long and weary but a God who gave us his only Son is not going to f9rget us now.

We must see the spiritual meanings and values in our times, difficult though that may be. God says, "I have used even the bad things for good purposes.

I have also used the good things to trip up the indolent and con­ ceite,d." All things can work to­ gether for good. There is no need to despair or ,keep saying, "What's the use?" We must look ahead as did the prophets of old.

We are afraid to declare, as Jeremiah did, "Though all else forsake me, yet will I trust him."

As a result of our timidity, our convictions and hopes are gradu­ ally softening and eroding under the pressure of complex times and opinions. One sees it in the press, hears it in sermons, reads it in letters.

We still do not trust God enough. Trusting God is respond­ ing with steadfast action when the outcome' is uncertain. I saw this as I was growing up among the adults in my life. I never saw such faith! No matter what happened, God was there. They felt a new day would dawn and God would come to 'the rescue.

Meantime, they would be con­ tent with and accept what hap­ pened, having' put up their 'best 'struggle, '

By Cecilia Belanger

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A VACATION HIGH POINT for young members of St Mary's parish, Fairhaven, was participation in "Summer Surprise," a one-week prograrrl. including music, religious instruction, arts, crafts and games and concluding with a chmdren's Sunday Mass. Parti­ cipants did the readings, actea out the Loaves and Fishes 40spel as it was read and forme<;l' the offertory procession. A party for children and parents fopowed in the church hall. It was all put together by Mrs. Elaine Ferreira, parish r ligious education' coordina­ tor.' .

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WASTED ON THE WAY Look around me

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REFRAIN: And there Is so much time to make up everywhere you turn , Time we have wasted on the way

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-I' A common saying today tells 4s to "go for it." But what to go ~or is left undefined. The song echoes this approach to life.

But there is more to life th~n t~e, new and adventurous. Chris" tlans also take into consideration "(hat is loving and caring, both ' for themselves and others.

There I ' ~re ~imes, however, when we s~e that a new goal or activity. will enhance our own lives and those of others. Then I think we should "go for it."

But to act without thinking i to risk unnecessary hurt. We 81 so need to evaluate how seri­ o,'usl Y we ta~e our Christianity. lfave .we "gone for it" in this area? Have we opened ourselves tp the real challenges of being 'a Christian? Have we realized that tf' be Christian means to, hOl,d S ecial value~? ' So I ask you, what are the blest ways to "go for it" in lif,e?

Share your thoughts with me and I will share as many as P~bSSible with other readers.

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I asked a Bible student if read­ ing about the prophets of old had taught him anything: His an­ swer was, "Yes, they gave me a perspective and they teach, us to deal in hundreds of years and not just focusing on daily events in 'the newspapers.

I asked another why he felt that nobody. loved him. This an­ swer was, "It's hard to live when you have no affection or spirit­ ual support at home. I even feel that God does not love me and I should know better than that.

I know people don't love me.

Sometimes I feel like .blowing the works."

The first boy did have love and support at home, someone who did not laugh at him for his interest in the Bible.

Some young pe'ople have told me they read the Bible in hiding, as it were, for fear someone will see them. They would not dare 'mention our friend of la'st week's column, one Jeremiah.

Some youth have no one to believe in them. We know from experience that sometimes peo­ ple in that spot turn against God. But we need to pray that the stony hearts will change because people do change. Our God is a redeeming God whois at work always. The job of redemption is

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SANTA BARBARA, Ca,lif. Declaration of Independence, (NC) -Peacemaking is an art proposed a federal peace office," and a science, Santa Barbara We have four service academ­ author Frank K. Kelly believes, ies," .Kelly said. "We have sev­ and he would like to see it eral war colleges, as they are taught at a national peace acad­ ,called. So it certainly would be emy. appropriate for the U.S. as the For the first time in history leading nation of the world, cer­ "we know quite a lot about the tainly we're leaders in military technology and military power, art and science of conflict reso­ lution. We all know there are to be a leader in the field of going, to be conflicts in human conflict resolution." life. But we don't have to have violent conflicts. We do· know a great deal more than we used to know about how to conduct mediation, arbitration and con­ ciliation procedures. These tech­ Steven Cobery of Bishop Con­ niques .can be taught, people can be trained to be professional 'nolly High School, Fall River, was among students recently peace makers," he said.

Kepy is a former journalist, completing a six-week summer speech writer for President Harry science program in environmental Truman and vice president of' biology and biological computer simulation sponsored by Provi­ the Fund for the Republic, dence College.

He said a majority of the Sen­ The program in its eighth year, ate has cosponsored a bill to offers gifted high school students create a peace academy and more than 100 members of the an opportunity to study with House also support the proposal. professional environmentalists.

'Cobery was selected for the The U.S. Catholic Conference has endorsed the peace academy program on the basis of acad­ proposal ,as 'have many other emic performance, recommenda­ tion by Connolly officials and religious organizations. participation in extracurricular "I see it as a' modern embod­ ' ment of what Our' Lord was activities. talking about" in the Sermon He took part in lectures, dis­ on the Mount, Kelly said. cussions and biology and com­ The project, he noted, is the puter laboratory sessions asL'well revival of an idea first proposed as several field trips and three in 1799 "when Dr. Benjamin days of "on the job" experience Rush, -one of the signers of the at environmental sites.

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Friday, Aug. 20, 1982

By Bill Morrissette

portswQtch CYO Semi-Finals Sunday Post-season playoff semi- Sunday evening with the team finals of the Bristol County CYO finishing first opposing the Baseball League get underway fourth-place team, the runnerup at 6 p.m. Sunday at Thomas tangling with the third-place fin­ Chew Memorial Field, Fall River. isher.

Defending champion MapleBecause of deadline require­ wood will meet South End or ments it was not possible at this Somerset and North End, runner- writing to determine the teams up to Maplewood in the final in the playoffs beyon<l the fact standings, will oppose Kennedy, that Notre Da~e had clinched which finished in third place. first place.

Maplewood and North End, first Immaculate Conception, Our and second placers, automatic- Lady of Health, St. William and ally advanced to the semi-finals. Swansea were contenders for the Kennedy swept its best of other three playoff berths. three quarter-finals with Central,.

The Collies swept both halves 21-0, and 9-2. In the other of their schedule on their way quarter-finals South End defeat- to the championship of St. ed Somerset, 6-5, in the series Anne's Junior Baseball League opener but South End dead- and also captured the Father locked the series with a 5-3 vic- Patenaude Tournament, named tory in the second game on Scott for the league's founder. The Towers' two-run homer in the dual champions will be honored seventh inning. The deciding . at the league's annual banquet at game was played Wednesday 1 p.m. Sept. 19 in St. Anne's au­ evening. ditorium. The league is the only Highlight of Kennedy's shut- such intra-parish unit in the out of Central in the opener was diocese. the no-hit, no-run pitching of The team is managed by Dave Dias, who missed a per- James Arruda with George Per­ fect game because of the only eira as coach and James Mellen walk he issued. Somerset rode assistant coach. On its roster to victory in its first game with are Timothy Donnelly, Christo­ South End on Carl Terry's bases- pher Almeida, Kevin Arruda, loaded double in the seventh.

Carlos Amaral, Antone Skomiro, The Fall River CYO Baseball Jeff Pereira, Scott Reis, Chris­ League rang down the curtain tian Stanton, Todd Johnson, on its regular season yesterday Mark Bohun, Eric Bileau, David and its post-season playoffs, in- LePage, Jason Lebeau and Paul volving the top four teams, will Valiquette. ge,t underway at Lafayette Park

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

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

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

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

New Films "Barbarosa (Universal): Coun­ try-Western singer Willie Nelson plays Barbarosa, a grizzled out­ law and 'unwilling participant in a feud with the aristocratic Mexi­ can family he married into. The patriarch (Gilbert Roland) keeps sending out young men to kill him, and Barbarosa, with in­ 91'easing regret, keeps killing them. The outlaw also saves the' life of a cloddish young farmer (Gary Busey), on the run from a feud. The two become friends, have various adventures and, at the fadeout, 'Barbarosa's man­ tle falls upon the farmer's shoulders. Because the inevita­ ble violence is rather ·restrained, this film is rated A2, PG. "Night Shift" (Ladd Co.-War­ ner Bros.): Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton, the night crew at the New York City morgue, turn the place into a call girl service. The situation allows for little but smirks and the few laughs are sight. gags mainly about what passes for life in Fun City. Winkler again strikes out in trying to make the transition from TV sitcom to the big screen, but Keaton shows promise in his role as a frenetic zany. Because of the film's theme and nudity, it is rated O,R.

Coyle-Cassidy and Bishop Fee­ Rick SwaIm, who has had con­ siderable success as swimming han are the diocesan highs on coach at Durfee High School, has coach Debbie Johansen's Con­ been appointed director of nolly volleyball team. The Cou­ aquatics at Clark University in garettes will be home to Coyle­ Worcester where he will also be Cassidy on Sept. 17, to Feehan men's and women's varsity . on Oct. 29. They will visit Coyle­ coach.

Cassidy on Oct. 13, Feehan on Oct. 5. They open their regular Under his tutelage, Durfee na­ Film on TV tators won three Southeastern season at Bourne on Sept. 14.

Sunday, Aug. 22 8-11 p.m.

Mass. Conference crowns, four (ABC) - "Airport '77" (1977)­ sectional championships in state This third film offspring sired by competition and a state title. At the best-selling Arthur Hailey this writing there has been no novel has to do with a huge 747 announc~ment regarding his suc­ crashing ipto the ocean, trap­ cessor.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Father ping a host of major stars in its Holy Family and Bishop Stang Donald Wuerl, a theologian, watertight fuselage. It's pretty High Schools are the' only dioce­ seminary rector and secretary silly but entertaining, with little san schools on the soccer sched­ for 10 years to the late Cardinal violence but some mild profan­ ule of Bishop Connolly High John Wright at the Vatican, has ity. A2, PG School.

Religious Broadcating - TV been named executive secretary Sunday, August 22, WLNE, Holy Family visits the Cougars to Burlington', Vt. Bishop John Channel 6, ·10:30 a.m., Diocesan on Sept. 16 and entertains them A. Marshall, papal representa­ Television Mass. in New Bedford on Oct. 12. Con­ tive for a study of all U.S. Cath­ nolly will be home to Stang on olic seminaries.

"Confluence," 8 - a.m. each Oct. 5 and at Stang on Oct. 28, The study is being conducted Sunday repeated at 6 a.m. each the final game of the season. for the Vatican's Congregation Tuesday on Channel 6, is a Again coached by Father for Catholic Education, which is panel program moderated by Arthur Pare, Connolly opens at in charge of seminary education Truman Taylor and having as . permanent participants Fat,her Diman Yoke on Sept. 14. Other around the world.

Connolly games are Sept. 21, Father Wuerl, ordained in Peter N. Graziano, diocesan di­ rector of social services; Right 1966, was rector of St. Paul Col­ Old Roc!tester; 24, at New Bed­ ford Vokfl-Tech; 27, Dartmouth; lege Seminary in Pittsburgh Rev. George Hunt, Episopal 30, at Wflstport; Oct. 8, Diman until his new appointment. He Bishop of Rhode Island; and Yoke; 14, at Old Rochester; 19, was also director of the Pitts: Rabbi Baruch Korff. This week's topic: Where and Who Are To­ Voke-Tec~; 22, at Dartmouth; 25, burgh Institute for the Continu­ day's Visionaries? ing Education of Priests.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 20, 1982

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ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH

Registration for CCD classes follow all Masses Ithis weekend. ~onfirlliation candidates .and their parents will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 in the chthch hall to discuss revised requirements for reception of the sacrament. lie monthly family rosary an Benediction service will ta 'e place at 7 p.m. Sunday. wi~l

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ST.DO~C,SlVANSEA

Lectors are needed for week­ end Masses. Volunteers may call the rectory.

ST. 'ANNE, F'R

Eucharistic ministers who visit the sick are asked to pick up a copy· of an instruction .pamph1et in the sacristy.

O.L.GRACE,WESTPORT

The Couples' Club will hold its first meeting· of· the new season .at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. New members welcome.

'J;'he Council of Catholic Wo­ men will open ·its season at 6:30 p.m. -Wednesday Sept. 1. Vice­ president Carol Pratt will be in­ stalled. New memb'ers welcome.

Prior to the opening meeting, the council will inaugurate a 10­ week .exercise program at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the parish center. Information: Pat Bou­ 'chard, 636-8652.

The Teen Club will 'hold a picnic from noon to 6 p.m. Sat­ urday, Sept. 4, at St. Vincent. de Paul Camp, Westport.

ST; MARY, NB

Choir practices wUl resume in September. Those interested in joining may call Jackie Vardo, 995-2115. Also needed for the Advent and Christmas season are flutists, violinists, and trum­ peters. A workshop on the seas­ sona1 music will be held Friday, Sept. 24, for which registration wUl close next Wednesday. In­ formation: Jackie Vardo.

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Ifindergarteners will be wel­ corped at a party at 11 a.m. Sat-; urqay, Aug. 28, in Father .Coady Center. It is noted that vacancies eXi~t in grades 2, 5 and 6 in the pa~ishschool. It will open Wed­ nesday, Sept. 8, with .a start of sc~ool Mass scheduled for 1:15 Friday, Sept. 10.

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I This' organization for parents 4- course in personal finance who have lost a' child will meet has been added to the evening at 7:.30 p.m. Monday at St. Louis iculum. Intended to assist in de France youth center, Swan­ . cu~rl of personal finance sea. Information: Mrs. Georgette deelopment pIa nin,£{ and decision making, it LeComte, 676-8458. wil include material on invest­ me ts, securities and ·retirement ST. THOMAS MORE, plabning and will begin Wed­ SOMERSET . .

Maryknoll Bishop Joseph W. nes~ay, Sept. 8. Information: . .

Regan, a native of Fairhaven, 238rl081, ext. 377. will speak at all Masses this' ST MARGARET, weekend on behalf of his miss­ BUZZARDS BAY ions in the Philippines. ' annual parish. Bible Parents of CCD students in ·C~:he had' an enroll­ third through sixth grades are me tp ofat 60Onset children. Boys from . asked to note that bus transpor­ parish. are also attending St. tation is provided from school the Vincent de Paul Camp, Westport. to classes, but that parents must arrange to bring the 'children home.

PRmSTS' PRAYER

D~alogu~ of Peace

Priests of the' diocese will "!ATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope, meet at 11 a.m. Monday at St. . Johp Paul II 'has chosen "The Julie's Church, No. Dartmouth, for prayer and sharing. Lunch Dia~OgUe of Peace: A Challenge for Our Time" as the theme of.· will follow. All priests are wel­ come. ne~ year's World Day.of Peace, Jan.11. Pope Paul VI established ST. STANISLAUS, FR The sacrament of ,the sick will the World Day of Peace in 1968.

BL. SACRAMENT, FR be celebrated at 3 and 6:30 p.m. The Vatican statement anounc­ Plans are being made for the -Sunday as part of the annual ing the theme said that "The parish's 80th anniversary, to be Czestochowa 'Days observance. marked Sunday, Oct. 31, with a dialcgue of peace today 'presents Solemn ex-position of the ~ass 'and banquet.

Blessed Sacrament will take the world ,with a challenge . . . pla.ce Wednesday and Thursday, to t rn from violence and force FAlWLY LIFE CENTER An 11th Step Weekend for the vigil and feast of Our Lady' · . .\ to abandon empty rhetoric women members of AA will be of Czestochowa and a solemn held today and tomorrow at the' consecration of icons will be · . . (and to) enter into a true dial· gue...·' held at7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27. center in North Dartmouth.

FOURTH ANNUAL OLD FASHIONED FAMILY FAIR . S~turday and Sunday . August 21 -:. 22, 1982 10:00 a.m.·- 6~00 p.rn: Sacred Hearts Seminary-Great Neck Road- East Wbrehat:n, Mass.

Just fqllow the'ARROWS

Women are vital to church in. China

By AI Antczak

validly but illegally consecrated.

Two of the bishops were conse­ LOS ANGELES (NC) - China cra(ed with the permission of is behaving toward the Catholic Rome before the (communist) Church in a manner that makes . takeover. All the bishops who reconciliation between the two are free belong to the patriotic almost impossible, said a Vatican church." official who specializes in church The Chinese communists came relations with China. to power in 1949.

The official, Father Josepll J. "There are, as far as we know, Spae, a consultor to the Vatican. two bishops who are in jail for Secretariat for 1'Ion-ehristiims, more than 25 years," Father Spae said Chinese Catholics are under­ added. "One of them is Bishop going a persecution that has in­ Ignatius Kung Ping-Mei of tensified in recent years.

Shanghai. He has been in jail "It is a church of martyrs," he for 28 years. The other is a bish­ said. "We watch with partiCUlar op from Mongolia." rapture the role of women in "Many of the illegally conse­ that .church because it is really . crated bishops were forced to the women who, being less sus­ marry." said the Vatican. official. pect and enjoying greater free­ "They had to go through a civil dom, have kept the church alive, ceremony which they probably especially the sisters." could not avoid."

One of China's 48 bishops reo Father Spae, a Missionary of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, pudiated the patriotic association worked in ,Mongolia prior to and ordained 53 priests outside World War II and is a survivor that church, he said. The bishop of wartime Japanese concentra­ . was jailed, tortured and died a tion camps. He was interviewed martyr, the priest said.

"Ninety percent of the faith­

by The Tidings, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. ful remain loyal to Rome and reo Chinese Catholics are in the fuse to have any dealings with .the patriotic priests, although same situation as English Cath­ olics in the 16th century 'under in. order to receive the sacra­ Henry VIH "when Catholics by ments some will go to churches staffed by patriotic priests," he being Catholics were unconsti­ tutional," said the Belgian-born said.

"Contrary to all expectations priest.

To assert· state cpntrol over and to what we thought two years ago, the number' of Cath­ the chu.rch the Chinese govern­ olics loyal to Roine has in- , ment has established the Nation­ creased by leaps' and bounds," al Association of Patriotic Cath­ olics, Father Spae said, dividing Father Spae added.

"While we know that the num· Catholics into a camp loyal to the Vatican and a camp loyal to ber of Catholics at the time of liberation in '1949 wa"s 3.9 mil­ the patriotic association. lion, it stands now, according to Belonging to the patriotic as­ sociation are 48 bishops, five of our best calculations, at be.tween them recently consecrated, he 5 million and 6 million," the said. "Forty-six bishops are Vatican official said.

Hispanic friars

charge discrimination

MESILLA PARK, N.M. (NC) - Following a meeting here, sev­ eral Franciscan provincials said they were shocked at reports from .Hispanic friars that they have received insensitive and dis­ criminatory treatment from mem­ bers of their order.

Twenty-one Hispanic friars took part in the meeting and par­ ticipant!! stated that all but two -told of misunderstandings of Hispanic culture and customs.

Franciscan Father Louis Vi­ tale, minister provincial of the California Province, said, "It's painful to me to hear your stor­ ies arid realize that so many of us have not seen, recognized or heard your pain and hurt. I guarantee that this meeting made us aware of that hurt and will force us to act, and act quickly."

The Hispanics plan a summer meeting of U.S. Hispanic Fran­ ciscans to establish a national support system.

They suggested setting up a national Hispanic Center for Theology, establishing an inter­ provincial Frandscan house of studies and' producing Spanish radio spots to promote vocations.

But they turned down' a sug­

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The U.S. Franciscan Confer-. ence will act on the suggestions in August. It is also sponsoring a Chicago meeting for black Franciscans similar to the one in Mesilla Park.

In a news release the director of the Franciscan Communica­ tions Office, Father Roy M. Gas­ nick, reported stories told by Hispanic friars.

According to the release, one young Hispanic friar said, "An­ glo friars don't understand His­ panic culture, Hispanic customs, and many make wrong judgments about us. We are a loving, touch­ ing people and I've been accused of being gay because I've em­ braced other Hispanic friars."

Another Hispanic, not yet or­ dained, was reported as saying, "We are a minority in the order, but nearly a majority in the U.S. church. Just about 50 percent of all U.S. Catholics are Hisp~nic;s.

If you want more Hispanic vo­ cations, you will have to pro­ vide for more Hispanic fOrma­ tion, and less than .a tokenism attitude in the provinces toward Hispanic culture and needs."