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Habemus路 Papam! John Paul I By John Muthig

VATICAN CITY (NC)-"Habemus papam," intoned the church's senior cardinal-deacon, Cardinal Pericle Felici. And he announced to the world the new Pope John Paul I, Cardinal Albino Luciani, patriarch of Venice. The news was greeted with surprise and joy by the 100,000 people who had quickly flocked to St. Peter's Square by 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26 to receive Pope John Paul's first apostolic blessing. One of the first acts of the 65year-old pope, choosing the double name John Paul, was immediately understood by all as a sign that he intends to continue the policies and style of his predecessors. Thundering applause greeted Cardinal Felici's announcement of the cardinal's election. The crowd cheered "Bravi! Bravil" (plural of Bravo!") at the 110 cardinal-electors gathered on the balconies of the world's largest church. As they waited several minutes for the new pope to put on his white cassock, red mantle and stole, many passed around the day's newspapers to show one another what the new pope looked like. At 7:32 he appeared on the

central balcony, flanked by the papal masters of ceremonies, Msgrs. Virgilio Noe and Orazio Cocchetti. Pope John Paul waved and opened his arms to the crowd with quick, determined movements. In his high-pitched, sensitive voice, he sang the introduction to the apostolic blessing. His voice wavered slightly as he traced the Sign of the Cross over the crowd, bathed in the sunset's rose-colored light. The choice of Cardinal Luciani, the third pope this century to come from Venice, was immediately interpreted by observers as showing a clear desire by the cardinals to have a pastoral pope. The new pope had given strong leadership in the conservative Venice region but was not very well known outside that area. Except for a three-year term as vice president of the Italian Bishops' Conference, Pope John Paul has been engaged almost exclusively in pastoral activityfirst as a priest in several parishes, then as bishop of Vittorio Veneto in the Venice region, and finally as patriarch of Venice. An intellectual and frequent contrihutor of newspapers in the Venice area, 'as a cardinal he

was quick to come out with early statments on a variety of issues, ranging from the kidnapping of Aldo Moro to criticism of the Italian communists. He is regarded as a staunch anti-communist. Several years ago he wrote a book entitled "Illustrissimi" about the lives and thought of

modern philosophers. His election shocked Rome for several reasons. The fact that he was chosen was a surprise because he was not anywhere near the top of the list of most people'~ predictions on who would be pope. The quick election perplexed the city and the world espe-

cially since the smokestack of the Sistine Chapel where the voting took place kept belching forth unclear signals. But the insistence with which the smoke kept shooting out, however, convinced many Romans that the new pope had been chosen. Turn to Page Two

Bishop Joins World Leaders In Rejoicing at Election Joining church and national leaders throughout the world, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has expressed his delight at the accession to the papacy of John Paul I. His statement follows: "I was overjoyed at the news of the election of the Patriarch of Venice, Albino Cardinal Luciani, as the Supreme Pontiff. "The choice of his name by the new Holy Father has had a profound impact. He wants the world to understand that his intention is to carry on the wonderful work initiated by Pope John XXIII in calling the Second Vatican Council and the implementation of that Council by Pope- Paul VI. The inspired work of Pope John XXIII, carried on

in the apostolic mar.,ner of Pope Paul VI, will be the extraordinary challenge to the new Pope, who, with great courage and decision has chosen the name of Pope John Paul 1. "May God give him wisdom, strength and length of years, and above all, may the Lord Jesus be side by side with His Vicar on Earth as the Pope shepherds the Church as Successor to Peter, to whom Christ gave this unique ministry." In other quarters, words like compassionate, witty, gentle and scholarly were mentioned often as Catholic Church leaders in the United States reacted to the election and pledged their support and prayers to the new-

pontiff. Cardinal John Wright, the only eligible U.S. cardinal who did not participate in the conclave, called the ..,ction "a stroke of good fortune for the intellectual life, for urbanity and for simplicity of soul." He said Cardinal Luciani was "a man of unusual interest who should prove to be an unusual pope." The cardinal, prefect of the Vatican Clergy Congregation, was recuperating from surgery at the home of Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, who was in Rome for the conclave. He had high praise for Cardinal Luciani's book, "Jllustrious Men," which he described as "a Turn to Page Seven

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New Pope: IPoor Are Real 'Treasures of Church l Continued from Page One Fleets of yellow taxis descended on St. Peter's Square. Thousands of Romans walked or ran through the city, with its sidewalks just cooling off from a hot August sun. Just before Cardinal Felici's appearance, an announcement came over the square's loudspeakers advising the stiD-perplexed crowd to look to the central balcony. Enthusiastic youths screamed and adults caught their breath. Unlike previous announcements of a new pope when they understood who the new pontiff

was upon the announcement of his first name, the crowd was silenced at the Latin word "Albinum." Most Italians in the square and almost all foreigners admitted they had never heard of the new pope, but all beamed at having seen the historic announcement. They cheered loudly at the announcement of the pope's double name. He is the first pope since Simon Peter to :l:1ave borne two names. After his first blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and to the world), Pope John Paul re-

entered the Baroque Hall of the Benedictions at the second-level of the basilica. He reappeared several minutes later to wave to and bless the several branches of the Italian military who had paraded into the square, joining the already present Swiss Guard who wore armor and dress uniforms. The huge bells of St. 'Peter's swung wildly and drowned out the ruffles and flourishes played by a military band in the sq"tJare to honor the new pope. The ruddy-faced, bespectacled Pope John Paul appeared to be

fighting back tears during his balcony appearances, but he was grinning broadly. By, 7:45 he left the basilica balcony which had been draped with a huge maroon and white tapestry bearing Pope 'Paul VI's coat-of-arms. Indicating the pastoral orientation of the new pope, officials recalled that two years ago he sold a cherished pectoral cross and gold chain to, start a fund drive for the mentally retarded. He had received the mementoes as a gift from Pope John XXIII when Pope John made him

bishop of Vittorio Venete in 1958. In his pastoral letter announcing the fund drive, Cardinal Luciani wrote: "I authorize and urge pastors and rectors of sanctuaries to part with gold, chains and rings offered by the devout to God or Our Lady as an act of homage or thanksgiving." His own contribution, he wrote, "is a small thing compared to the use it will have. Perhaps it is worth something if it helps people understand that the real treasures of the church are the poor."

Family Rejoices With New Pope

Solemn Mass Set At 6 p.m. Sunday

CANALE D'AGORDO, Italy (NC) - Edoardo Luciani, 61year-old retired teacher and brother of Pope John Paul I, said his brother has had "perfect self-control" since his youth and has "never sought promotion." Luciani, in a telephone interview with NC News two hours after his brother's election was announced, said that the new pope has always been very close to his family. In an emotion-filled voice, Luciani said that he learned the nE!WS of the election from the television. "Our 12-year-old son - he's our youngest cried as he watched the Benediction. Albino always said that he and my son are "special friends," said the pope's brother. Pope John Paul I, 65, formerly Cardinal Albino Luciani, patriarch of Venice, and his younger brother grew up in northern Italy. Luciani remembered his brother as "very vivacious" 1n elementary school he was always first in his class. "From age 12 he was always master of himself. I never remember seeing him lose control of himself. "As I grew up I came to understand that I should never be surprised by anything he did whether it would be to remain as assistant pastor in a country parish or rise to posts of highest responsibility," said the retired elementary school teacher. "I am certain that my brother has never sought promotion and I know in fact that since he became bishop ha has tried to resign several times," said Luciani. , He did not give details of why his brother wanted to resign. . "I remember that when he was proposed as bishop he tried to say that his health was too frail for the job," said the pope's brother. Luciani said that he last saw his brother 20 days ago in Venice. "I visited him once or twice a month," said the pope's brother. "Often I would stay for dinner to discuss personal questions and

VATICAN CITY (NC) - A solemn Mass to be celebrated by Pope John Paul I "at the beginning of his ministry" has been scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 3 at 6 p.m. (noon EDT) in St. Peter's Square, said the Vatican Aug. 29. The Vatican would not confirm reports that Pope John Paul has chosen not to be crowned with the papal tiara during the Mass, but several sources indicated that he had rejected its traditional use.

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then I would sleep over in the patriarchate residence." The pope's father, a Socialist glass artisan, died in 1952 at age 80. His mother died in 1948 when she was 69. Edoardo Luciani and his wife, also a school teacher, have 10 children, five girls and five boys. The new pope, Luciani saidl, celebrated the wedding Masses for two of his sons and three of his daughters. The day before her uncle became pope, one of Edoardo's daughters left for the central Italian city of Macerata where she is joining the Halinn army.

Motto of Pope Is IHumility" VATICAN CITY (NC) - A man of humble beginnings, Pope John Paul I has chosen as his papal motto th.e same brief theme that he used as patriarch of Venice: "Humilitas." That word, "humility," which was also the motto of St. Charles Borromeo, still characterizes the life of the new pope, who was born into a migrant laborers family 65 years ago. On the brief vacations '(seven days each year) that t.e allowed himself during his years as head of the Venice Patriarchate, the future pope was known to enjoy

spending his time on the bocce courts '(bowling greens) and in a small trattoria (an unpretentious restaurant) engaging in conversations with the patrons. Although his worker-father was a Socialist organizer, Pope John Paul's mother was a devout Catholic. While Italian socialism is gen-

eraly quite anti-clerical, young Albino Luciani's father' respected his son's decision to enter the priesthood, and even was known to attend church. Like his predecessor Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul has been generally considered to be of frail health, although he appears more robust than Pope Paul.

The new pope, said a spokesman, has also decided not to use the papal portable throne (sedia gestatoria) for the ceremony, but will walk in procession into and out of the square. If the Vatican sources are correct, Pope John Paul, who simplified his installation ceremony in Venice in 1969, will be the first pope in modem history not to begin his reign with a coronation.

Pope Paul VI was crowned with aÂˇ tiara, donated by Catholics of Milan, but never again wore it.

Pope John Paul Outlines His Program VATICAN CITY (NC)-In a 10-page Latin speech to the College of Cardinals one day after his election, Pope John Paul I laid out the general program he wants to follow during his pontificate. Sitting beneath Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, Pope John Paul said that he wants to: -Continue in the true spirit of Vatican Council II, without yielding to those who push too hard or others who drag their feet. -Promote ecumenism "without giving in on dectrine and without hesitation." -Continue the revision of church law to "conserve intact the church's great discipline" and maintain each Christian's liberty through "solid and sound juridical structures." -Stimulate the preaching of the Gospel to all men and promote "serene and constructive

dialogue" even with non-Catholics. -Give greater weight to the con~pt of shared decisionmaking both through the world synods of bishops and through participation of the world's bishops in the work of the Roman Curia, the church's central administrative offices. -Work for peace and social progress and against hunger and illiteracy as well as for a more ~ust international economic system. The pope gave the speech, addressed to his "dear sons and daughters in the entire Catholic world," at the end of a Mass he concelebrated with the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. On the evening of his election, Pope John Paul has asked the cardinals to remain in conclave until the next morning in order to be able to concelebrate Mass with them.

"In what for us is an hour of trepidation, but also an hour comforted by divine assurances, we salute all our children. We would like to have them all present here to look them in the eye, to embrace them, and to infuse courage and confidence in them," said the new pope. .Besides revealing the main points of his program, the pope also extended special wishes to various groups, including youth, those involved in evangelization, persecuted Catholics, the sick, prisoners and residents of various needs areas of the world. "We want to continue to bring to life the inheritance of Vatican II," said the new pope. "Its wise norms must still be brought to fulfillment. "We must be vigilant lest a generous yet unforeseen push betray its contents and meaning or lest fearful forces which tend to put on the brakes slow down Turri to Page Eleven

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Reaffirms Labor Support

WASHINGTON (NC) - Catholic support for the Labor Law Reform Bill is both historically and morally appropriate, said Msgr. George G. Higgins, secretary for research in the U.S. Catholic Conference, in his 1978 Labor Day statement. Emphasizing that the bill will benefit both employers and workers, Msgr. Higgins said he was restating the USOC's strong support for the bill on the occasion of labor's national holiday because the proposed legislation "has encountered so much' opposition and has stirred up so much bitterness,"

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Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher Funeral This Morning Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher, 88, retired pastor of St. James parish, New Bedford, died Sunday at Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven. Bishop Cronin will be principal concelebrant for his funeral Mass at 10 this morning from his former parish. One of New Bedford's most popular priests, Msgr. Gallagher's outstanding characteristic was his love for and interest in people. For years he listened to their problems, helped them out of their difficulties, rejoiced in their good fortune and kept them in his prayers. Members of St. James parish - and many non-parishioners were his family, close to his heart, continually in his thoughts. He was a man of deep charity who understood human weakness and was more interested in steering sinners back to the Lord than in exacting due penance. He delighted in children and one of the highlights of his year was the annual "graduation" of pre-primary children of the parish. And the sick at St. Luke's Hospital found him a frequent and gentle visitor. His friends were from all walks of life, including people he met when he mediated a 1928 New Bedford textile strike, when he organized and headed the

School B'eckons

Once Again Some are pleased, some aren't, but school bells ring next week for 10,311 diocesan youngsters enrolled in elementary and secondary schools of the diocese. Add to that 50,260 enrollees in parish CeD classes, which will swing into action during the next month, and the diocese has a total of 60,571 children under Catholic instruction, up nearly 500 from last year, reports the department of education.

New Bedford office of the diocesan social services department, when he was chaplain for the Catholic Physicians' Guild and for the Knights of Columbus, when he was a member of boards of directors for many New Bedford organizations. He will be rembered for his tirelessness and for his whimsical sense of humor,. but most of all for the indelible impression he has left of a good man and a good priest. Msgr. Gallagher was born in Taunton Feb. 17, 1890, the son of the late William H. and Bridget (Goodwin) Gallagher. He attended Taunton schools and graduated from Holy Cross College in 1912. After studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, he was ordained May 27, 1916 by the late Bishop Daniel Feehan. He served a total of 39 years at St. James, both as curate and pastor, and was also pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Woods Hole, St. Mary's, Mansfield, and St. Kilian's, New Bedford. He was made a domestic prelate in 1958 and a prothonotary apostolic in 1966, the year he marked his golden jubilee in the priesthood.

AFT Won't Back Tuition Credits WASHINGTON (NC) - The American Federation of Teachers has vowed to withhold campaign support from congressional candidates who favor tuition tax credits - an issue AFT President Albert Shanker says could mean "life or death for public education as we know it," The union claims tuition tax credits for parents of private elementary and secondary school students would siphon badly needed money from the nation's public schools and cncourage segregation.

The bilI would amend sections of the National Labor Relations Act to expand the National Labor Relations Board, speed up union elections, provide union access to the workplace, require businesses .to pay penalties to employees they have harassed for union activities and block lahor law violations from federal contracts. It was sent back to committee after a 19-day Sen-

ate filibuster in June. Technically,' the bill can be brought back to the Senate floor for a vote at any time. But most observers agree it is dead for this session of Congress. Catholics interested in social justice issues were very active in labor management relations during the 1930s and 1940s, Msgr. Higgins said, but that activity decreased in later years

because of "the mistaken notion that ... the basic right of workers to organize is no longer in dispute," As a result of recent events in the farm and textile industries, however, Catholic interest in labor issues has been on the upswing again, he said, and the usec and other Catholic organizations have backed the Labor Law Reform Bill.

Senate Rejects N'ew School Aid WASHINGTON (NC) - The Senate has rejected a proposal to provide $25 billion in new federal aid to private elementary and secondary schools over the next five years by a 60-30 vote. The vote came on a motion by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) to strike an amendment to a five-year authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act offered by Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.). Hollings also led the opposition to tuition tax credits for p:rivate elementary

and secondary schools which the Senate rejected 57-41 the previous week. One reason for the lack of support for the amendment was that the U.S. Catholic Conference agreed with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that the bill was unconstitutional. HEW also said the bill would be impossible to administer because it called for direct grants to thousands of individual schools.

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A Gift of the Spirit A pope with a new name and a new vision has been called by the Spirit to shepherd the People of God on their journey to the Father. This seems the best way to put into words the events surrounding the election of our new Holy Father, Pope John Paul I. The rapidity of the conclave and the swift proclamation of Albino Luciani as the new leader of the Catholic Church took most people by surprise, to say the very least. Despite the predictions of men, the cardinals of the church, with remarkable solidarity, handed over to the Pattiarch of Venice the keys of the kingdom and the burdens of the papacy. A former director of CCD, a residential bishop for twenty years outside of the Vatican curia, and a patriarch who likes to ride a bicycle, Pope: John Paul has the potential of bringing the Church a style of leadership she needs at this particular moment in her long history. A mild and gentle man blessed with an engaging smile, he served as a council father for the entire period of Vatican II. But unlike so many whose voices echoed through St. Peter's during those: historic days, Pope John Paul had to try to put the conciliar decrees into effect in his own diocese. It is in this area of pastoral expertise that he will bring the Church what few of his peers could offer the viewpoint of a practical pastc1ral administrator. Looking at the life of Pope John Paul in this light, it can easily be seen that he has a truly singular gift to give the church and world. The eight American cardinals who participated in the selection process which gave us our new Holy Father, said to a man that his election was the work of the Holy Spirit. In this age of rapid growth of devotion to the same Holy Spirit, the election of Pope John Paul should give us all the confidence that under his leadership the Church will continue to renew herself. He is a man whom the Spirit has chosen. May it be suggested that all of us who are witnesses to these exciting days of new beginnings manifest our loyalty to the new Hnly Father. He needs our support and our prayers. The follOWing message was conveyed by cable to His Holiness Pope John Paul I by the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin: HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN PAUL I VATICAN CITY MOST HOLY FATHER, IN UNION WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH, THE CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND FAITHFUL LAITY OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER JOIN ME IN EXPRESSING OUR PROFOUND JOY AT THE ELECTION OF YOUR HOLINESS AS SUPREME PONTIFF. WE CONVEY TO YOUR HOLINESS OUR SINCERE SENTIMENTS OF AFFECTION AND LOYALTY AND THE OBEDIENCE OF OUR FAITH. WE PRAY ALMIGHTY GOD TO GRANT YOU STRENGTH, GOOD HEALTH, WISDOM, COURAGE AND .LENGTH OF YEARS. YOUR HOLINESS, KINDLY GRANT US YOUR APOSTOLIC BLESSING. BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN BISHOP OF FALL RIVER

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Pope Paul, Conserver of Unity By Father .Tohn E. Sheerin

Press accounts have attempted to evaluate the significance of Pope Paul's 15-year reign. Some lauded him for his a::hievements, otbers rather grudgingly conceded that he had kept the church together during one of the most perilous periods of its history. In fact, th:;s latter accomplishment may well prove to be his greatest achievement. Those who minimize his success in holding the church together fail to recognize the extent of the danger in the 1960s. Science, secularism, the new morality, aU the anti-supernatural forces of modern society were exerting a tremendous influence on Roman Catholics. Pope John had launched the church on a new era of freedom after centuries of discipline and traditional theology, but Pope Paul had the difficult task of steering the bark of 路Peter safely through tumultuous times to a more peaceful Catholic way of life. As Lincoln saved the Union, Paul may prove to be the pope who saved the unity of the church in a time of religious revolution. A1l>ert Outler, Methodist observer at Vatican II, was one of the first theologians to call attention to Paul's effectiveness in maintaining unity. More than many Catholic theologians, Outler was aware of the role of the papacy as the focus of Catholicism.

There are those who say that Paul should have shared his authority with the bishops, that the Synod of Bishops created by the Second Vatican Council should have been given more than mere advisory power in order to take the church out of the Middle Ages and into the democratic freedoms of the 20th century. But Paul felt that he had Ibeen chosen as father and shepherd of his worldwide Catholic family and that he had to be faithful to the trust confided in him as God had confided it to Peter. This was evident in the furor over the encyclical "Humanae Vitae." The opinion among theologians favored lifting the ban on artificial birth control. Some 600 American Catholic theologians and a papal commission took issue with "Humanae Vitae." Paul listened to their arguments but he felt that a powerful papacy was the will of God for the Church and that he would do God's will regardless of criticism. Maybe it was an incorrett decision; certainly it was not infallible, but it may have been a fortunate decision at that time in view of the diminishing concern for papal power. Paul's concern for the unity of the whole Christian church, became evident in his many allocations and addresses to Christian church leaders not in full communion with Rome. Recently I had occasion to read addresses to Orthodox Ecumenical Patri-

arch Athenagoras of Constantinople and to the Armenian, Syrian Orthodox and Coptic leaders as well as his exchanges with the archbishops of Canterbury. These addresses reveal a profound devotion to the cause of church unity, not a mere theological concern but a deeply emotional dedication to unity that came from his heart. Never for a moment did he suggest a union of Christian churches that was a mere paper document. He conceived of Christian unity as a burning devotion to the will of Christ as expressed at the Last Supper, "That they all may be one as Thou, Father, in me and I in Thee: that they also may be one in us . . . " 'Realistically, however, Pope Paul realized that his reverence for the papacy impeded church unity. In several talks he said that "the papacy was the greatest obstacle to Christian unity." Not insuperable, but a hurdle requiring profound Christian study. Paul will be remembered for his anti-war speech at the United Nations, his great social encyclicals, his abolition of the Index, his herculean work in implementing the reforms of Vatican II. 路But his supreme concern was saving the papacy. He strove to hold intact, at a time when the authority of the papacy was diminishing, respect for that authority as the divinely appointed conservator of the life of the church.

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Three Venetians This Century VENICE, Italy (NC) - All of usually reserved and conservative Venice poured out into St. Mark's Square and the city's "calle" '(canal-side sidewalks) Aug. 26 to celebrate their patriarch's election as pope. "We didn't think he'd get elected," said an evening porter at Venice's Bonvecchiati Hotel, "but it's beautiful news and we are happy." The bells from St. Mark's towering campanile rang out joyously for 10 minutes when the news came that the canalcity's Cardinal Albino Luciani had become Pope John Paul I. Many Venetians poured into the mossaic-lined St. Mark's Basilica where a Saturday evening Mass was in progress as the news was announced. When he first arrived in Venice as patriarch in 1969, Venetians say that Cardinal Luciani personally went to parishes to teach catechism to youth to get an idea of the state of the diocese. ,Pope John Paul is the third pope in this century to come to the throne of Peter from the, maritime city of Venice. Both Pope John XXIII and Pope St. Pius X were Venetian patriarchs before becoming pope.

God Forgive YOU! "God forgive you for what you did to me!" were Pope John Paul's first words to his fellow cardinals following his election. The report on his wry reaction came from Cardinal Joseph Hoeffner, who related it in a pastoral letter to the people of his diocese of Cologne, West Germany. The pope also humorously referred to the "danger" in which he found himself as his peers were about to elect him. He said he was comforted by the cardinals sitting beside him, who reminded him of the prayers for the new pope being offered by the people of the world and also assured him that God would give him strength proportionate to the burden of the papal office.

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September 8 ,Rev. Thomas Sheehan, 1868, Founder, Holy Trinity, West Harwich. September 10 Rt. Rev. Felix S. Childs, 1969, ,pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, Fall River. ' Rev. Hugo Dylla, 1966, Pastor, St. Stanislaus, Fall River. September 12 Rev. John J. Galvin, 1962, Assistant, SS. Peter & 'Paul, Fall River. September 13 Rev. Charles A. J. Dopovan, 1949, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton.

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Shroud of Turin Goes on Display

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Enter Community, Make Profession Two Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts made final profession in their communities this month in separate ceremonies in Sacred Hearts and St. Joseph churches in Taunton. A third young woman was received as a novice in a rite at Holy Name Church, Fall River. Sister Peggy Fromm, daughter of the late Milton 'Fromm and Mrs. Fromm of Baltimore, made her profession at S~cred Heart Church. Receiving her vows were Sister Marilyn Spellman, provincial superior, and Father Walter Sullivan, Sacred Heart pastor. Father John Kinsella of Baltimore was principal celebrant of the Eucharistic liturgy. Sister Peggy, a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, where she majored in theology and was the recipient of the institution's Theology Medal, entered the Holy Union community in 1966. She has taught in New Jersey and at St. Mary's school and the Catholic Middle School in Taunton. For two summers she administered. a summer program in Appalachia and for the past three years she has been religious education coordinator at Sacred Heart at Taunton. With -Brother Joseph Moore, esc, a former faculty member at Coyle and Cassidy High School, also in Taunton, she has co-authored a high school religion program, "Good News from Matthew," which will be published this fall. Sister Paula At St. Joseph Church, Sister Paula Coelho's vows were received by Sister Marilyn and Father George Cerniglia, SM, of

MESSAGES OF CONGRRATULATIONS on the occasion of the enthronement of Pope John Paul I are being accepted at our office for the next two weeks' editions. For information write or call: THE ANCHOR Rosemary Dussault, Adv. Mgr. 410 Highland Ave. P.O. Box 7 Fall River, Mass. 02722 Telephone 617-675-7151

Baltimore, also principal Eucharistic celebrant. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Coelho of Taunton and a graduate of Coyle and Cassidy High School and Trinity College, Washington, D.C. She taught at the Taunton Catholic Middle School for five years and is now stationed at St. Louis School, Clarksville, Md. Sister Mary Beth Sister Mary Beth Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Baker of Parkville, Md., was received as a novice at Holy Name Church, with Father Richard Beaulieu, principal of Coyle and Cassidy High School, as Eucharistic celebrant. The novice IS a graduate of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, where me majored in mathematics and secondary education and was active in campus activities. She has been an affiliate of the Holy Union community for the pa~t year, residing at Coyle

and Cassidy convent while teaching at the Taunton Catholic Middle School, where she will continue as a faculty member.

Jesus-Mary Nuns Mark Jubilees Some 200 religious, relatives and friends attended a jubilee Mass and dinner held last Sunday at Jesus-Mary Retirement Center, Fall River, in honor of nine jubilarians of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Sister George Sauvageau and Sister Clementine Tetrault marked their 65th anniversary of profession, whi,le Sister Therese de I'Enfant Jesus and Sister Maria Lanoie celebrated 60 years. Observing 50 years of religious life were Sister Jeanne de Rouen Riohard, Sister Heliodore Ethier, Sister Hilda Beaulieu, Sister Henriette Brussette and Sister Irma Beauparlant.

TURIN, Italy (NC) - In the shadow of gray skies overhead and a papal election that captured the world's attention, the Holy Shroud of Turin went on public display in the Cathedral of St. John, Aug. 27. More than 80,000 pilgrims, some in stretchers, filed past the cloth believed to be Christ's burial garment on the first day of the exhibit, which is scheduled to continue until Oct. 8. The cloth, which bears the negative imprint of a man's body, is displayed behind bulletproof glass in the Renaissance cathedral. Even Turin's communist mayor, Guido Novelli, greeted the elChibition of the shroud, calling it "a special moment, not only for believers, but for all the people." He termed the showing an opportunity for "men, women, youth and workers to learn, to discuss, to discover a reality complex and difficult, but at the same time interesting and stimulating." Souvenir hawkers set up their wares outside the cathedral, where the crowds began assembling at 5 a.m. Some of the gaudier items included sweatshirts with Christ's face, and trays shaped like shrouds. The exposition is only the third chance the public has had to see the shroud this century. The last showing ended Oct. 12, 1933. Since then only private showings have been held.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 31, 1978

We Need Priests·Who Are Well Educated Preachers Iy REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

I've discovered recentlY that there is a new vocation in the Church: directors of field education. A "field educator" is somebody responsible for the "field" education of seminarians, the one who supervises the seminarian when he

Iy MARY CARSON

The past few weeks there has been a lot of speculation about what kind of pope is needed to move the Church ahead. But what about the laity . . . what will the new pope need in the way of followers? As a mother, I see a direct parallel between the relationship of pope to laity and parents to children. When my children were little, I needed them to do what they were told: As toddlers .they

JIM CASTELLI

Labor Day 1978 is not a very happy time for much of American labor, which has come under stronger attacks than it has seen in decades. . And bad news for labor is often bad news for the Catholic Church, which has been perhaps the strongest supporter of the labor movement in the United States in the past century. Millions of Catholics, shaped by church teaching, have joined

JOSEPH RODERICK Traditionally, transplanting is done in the spring and fall, although some people do all their transplanting in the spring because th~y think fall transplanting will lead to winter kill. Actually, this is far from the case.

wanders off to discove: what life is like in the "real" world. Seminaries have elaborate field education and clinical pas· toral programs. At the same time, they offer one course ir. hom;· letics, maybe two at most, in which the future clergy are a> legedly taugU to preach. I do not question the diligence and the sincerity of the people involved. I should like to obs,erve that I think it is all foolishness. The time spent by seminarians running around to hospitals, religious education cen-

didn't have the judgment to wear shoes and raincoats, eat properly, sleep enough and not 'beat each other to shreds over the ownership of a toy. At that time I needed children who would follow my ir.:sl:ructions. If they didn't, I had to make them follow. But my children are grow:} now. The relationship is very different. What do I need from adult children? I need their love. This is far different from the dependent love they had as infants. As y,)ung adults they can fend for themselves. So they don't love me in return for my care for them as they did when they were little. There is a mature love now which is very different, and frankly, much more rewarding.

ters, catechetical programs and even attending the much-touted "deacon year" is merely a way to escape the serious responsibilities of intellectual development and the serious acquistition of the most important ministerial function, preaching the word. What does it profit your parish priest if he is (:ertified as a skilled educator but he can't preach worth a hoot? The time, energy and effort wasted on "practical experience" ought to be devoted to the intellectual development of the future priest and to his training as a preacher.

It will be said that one can do both. Perhaps, though it may take a miracle to make available the required number of hours in a day. But no one should be ordained who has not read the plays of Shakespeare and the poems of, let us say, Hopkins and Thompson. Young men not been exposed to literature and ideas are semiliterate at best. If the choice is between Shakespeare and teaching catechism to teenagers, then one must come down solidly on the side of Shakespeare.

The post-conciliar years produced a wave of pop psychology that swept the American seminary. What we have now is a vague, diffident, pop- Rogerian counseling style with a heavy emphasis o'n feelings, usually inarticulate, and vague verbal meanderings which ibear only a remote resemblance to English.

That mature love is reaching out, a caring . . . not in return for anything . . . but simply an adult concern for another per· son who is very important. That love doesn't manifest domination nor subordination on either side.

mine. While they don't have to conform to my values, I do need them to recognize that my' values are important to me. The thing I do not need from them is blind obedience. If my grown children do only what I tell them to do, it diminishes my worth as a parent. It would indicate that I never taught them to think for themselves, to take responsibility for their own actions. It would mean that instead of teaching them to be adults, I've limited their growth.

the laity preferred the former. Catholics accepted being treated like toddlers - spoon-fed, forced into compliance, told everything they could or could not do. Tht may have been good for the Church in the past. But considering the world today, that attitude, I believe, would be as devasating to our new pope as if my grown family behaved like infants. I believe that today's laity has grown up. If it can accept its maturity, then we should be able to work together in love and respect, never insulting our leadership by blind obedience. I believe the future of the Church, with such a mature laity, will be the most richly rewarding time in the last 2000 years!

I need their respect. But respect at this time in their lives is not the same as it was when they were children. For now they are adults with ideals and responsibilities of their own. These don't always, agree with mine. But I do need them to respect the things th8.t are important to me, as I try to respect their opinions. We do not always agree. There are times when their opinions are almost the exact opposite of

So, if my parallel is correct, what the pope needs from the laity is similar to what' I need from my children. The question is whether lay persons consider themselves infants or adults. In the past it seemed much of

It is time someone put a stop to all this and insisted that priests are supposed to be able to talk intelligently and imaginatively for at least 10 consecutive minutes.

Labor Day Not Very Happy Time for American Labor and influenced unions, from steel-workers in the Northeast to farm workers in the Southwest. On another level, labor and the church have been allies in many qattles over social justice, 011 issues from civil rights to full employment to labor law reform. Labor's complaints this year were summed up in July by Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers Union, the nation's largest union. Fraser resigned from a labormanagement group formed ;by th.e Carter administration to help control inflation. He said he had th:e greatest respect for the individual member~ of the group, but could. not continue in the

I like to evaluate plant loca.. tion now and to make transplants while the garden is still before. me. For instance, II buy m;ilOy small plants each year and plant them in out of the way ploaces until they have grown a little. This week I moved five small azaleas which I have been growing for two years and also transplanted a number of day liEes. Transplanting procedure is simple. I water the plant to be trllnsplanted thoroughly one or' two days before lifting it. Then

"facade" that labor and management had anything in common. He accused busbess of discarding the "fragile, unwritten compact" between business and· labor and of waging "a onesided class war . . . against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old and even many in the middle class of our society." "At virtually every level," Fraser said, "I discern a demand by business for docile government and under strained corporate individualism. Where industry once yearned for subservient unions, it now wants no unions at all."

a new hole is dug, usually three times the size of the root system of the new plant, and filled with a mixture of compost and wellrotted manure. The plant is then dug, placed in the new location and tamped down so that it is solidly in place. The soil is then covered with about half an inch of compost and the transplanting job ,is completed with a good watering, which is kept up for two or three days or until the plant shows 'sigils 'of taking hold. With sufficient water prior to

Fraser's biggest complaint one shared by most labor leaders - is business' opposition to labor law reform. The administration's labor law reform bill would have streamlined union election procedures and eliminated many delays used by business to block union elections. The bill passed the House by a wide margin and had 58 votes in the Senate, normally enough for a healthy victory, but two short of the number needed to block a filibuster led by conservatives. The bill was returned to committee and is now generally seen as dead' for this session of Congress. Fraser called the business

cold weather, chances for winter kill are diminished and the plant usually makes a successful transition to its new location. The main problem with transplanting at any time is that the plant may suffer from drying be-

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campaign against the bill "the most vicious, unfair attack upon the labor movement in more than 30 years. "Corporate leaders knew it was not the 'power grab ;by big Labor they portrayed it to be. Instead, it became an extremely moderate, fair piece of legislation that only corporate outlaws would have need to fear," The U.S. Catholic Conference supported the labor law reform bill and Francis Butler, usec associate secretary for domestic social development, said business blocked the bill in the Senate with the same kind of delaying tactics the bill was designed to stop in industry.

cause the root system is disturbed. This may cause the plant to enter the cold season in poor conditio!}; but with the attention to watering, there should be few oher problems with moving plants at this time of year.

Gratias!

First things first. Just before the conclave began, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, a worried look on his face, beckoned an American journalist and whispered, "How are the Red

Sox doing?" Told that, at the time, they were ahead in the American League, he murmured a fervent "Deo gratias!" and returned to more spiritual considerations.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Riv,er-Thur. Aug. 31, 1978

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Volunteers Play Big Part at Festival Over 150 volunteers from all parts of southern New England have aided in preparations for La Salette Shrine's sixth annual Family Harvest Festival, which begins at 7 tonight on the shrine grounds on Route 118, Attleboro, and will continue through Labor Day. With an old time country fair theme, festival hours will be from 7 to midnight tonight an~ tomorrow and from 1 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Daily entertainment events are scheduled with the Plainville Fife & Drum Corps launching the festival tonight. Other entertainment will feature bands, singers, a magician, Star Wars characters and Father Pat, a La Salette priest who has produced four record albums. A special

program of children's entertainment is being planned for Saturday afternoon. There are no admission fees to the festival and no charge for the entertainment. More than 50 booths will feature foods, handicrafts, plants, raffles an dgames. Many food booths will feature national foods such as Portuguese beef bar-b-q, chow-mein sandwiches, linguica, Syrian salads and Canadian baked beans. Also planned are a giant flea market, a rummage sale and a large midway. On Labor Day several large raffle prizes will be awarded, including a 1978 automobile. The distinctive feature which attracts hundreds to the festival, is its family spirit. Over three

Rejoicing At Election Continued from Page One volume of imaginary critical letters sent to the real authors of classics in many languages pointing out wherein he agreed or disagreed with them." !By electing Cardinal Luciani a!i the church's new leader, the conclave "has given us a witty supreme pontiff who delights in combining love of literature with love of the word of God," Cardinal Wright said. In Washington, Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, called Pope John Paul I "a man of deep spirituality, of compassion for the troubled, of concern for the errant and of love for humanity." He told a press conference he believed the III cardinals voting in the conclave chose Cardinal Luciani because "they saw in him the qualities all of us wanted: a pastoral man with a wealth of experience as a residential bishop and someone who has taught dogmatic and moral theology and knows very well the teachings of the Catholic Church he now has primary responsibility for. "But maybe from a human point of view," Bishop Kelly said, "that smile that we all saw

on the balcony at St. Peter's today, that would get to a lot of us." Pledging the support of all U.S. bishops, priests, Religious and laity to the new pope, Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, said John Paull's nearly 20 years as a bishop and almost nine years as patriarch of Venice "have given him the opportunity to develop strong pastoral qualities and an interest in the great problems of justice and peace." Because the new pope came from a laboring family, "his heart is open to the poor," Archbishop Jadot said, adding, "We pray that the Holy Spirit will give in abundance to Pope John Paul the graces of light and strength which he will need in the exercise of his demanding ministry." Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, NOCB president, said John Paull's "years of pastoral experience, his dedication to the highest spiritual ideals of the priesthood, his marked love for people, quiet gentleness and willingness to listen have made him many friends, Catholic and non-Catholic, and won him widespread respect and affection."

hundred volunteers will be staffing booths and most will live at the shrine with their families for the five days of the event. Each morning they will meet with the La Salette Fathers and Brothers to celebrate the Eucharist in the morning and they will conclude each day with night prayers. It is this sense of Christian fellowship that visitors sense as they enter the festival grounds. 'Proceeds from the festival help support the Shrine, now in its 26th year, and its many ministries.

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Important Dates in The Life of Pope John Paull Here are some of the most important dates in the life of the newly elected Pope John Paul I. - Oct. 17, 1912: Born Albino Luciani in Forno di Canala (now Canale d'Agordo) in the Diocese of Belluno in the Dolomite Alps of northern Italy. ' - July 7, 1935: Ordained after studies at the Gregorian Seminary of Belluno and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. - 1937: Returned to the Belluno seminary as vice-rector and professor of dogmatic theology. - 1947: Named secretary of the interdiocesan synod of the FeItre and Belluno dioceses and vicar general of the Belluno Diocese. - Dec. 15, 1953: Appointed bishop of Vittorio Veneto in northern Italy. - Dec. 27, 1958: Ordained a bishop by Pope John XXIII in St. Peter's Basilica. - April 18, 1962: Issued pastoral letter, "Notes on the Council," in which he instructed his people on the nature of the

approaching Second Vatican Council. - 1968: As bishop of Vittorio Veneto, he was one of the first bishops to affirm the finality of the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" ("On Human Life") in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the church's teaching against artificial birth control. - Dec. 15, 1969: Pope Paul VI named Bishop Luciani to head the patriarchal See of Venice. - Feb. 3, 1970: Took possession of the See in solemn ceremonies at St. Mark's Cathedral. - 1971: Took part in the world Synod of Bishops discussing priestly ministry and justice in the world. at the personal invitation of Pope Paul. - 1972: Elected vice-presi· dent of the Italian Bishops' Conference, a post he held until 1975. - September 1972: Hosted Pope Paul during the pontiff's visit to Venice. - March 5, 1973: Pope Paul made him a cardinal.

- 1974: Participated in the synod of bishops discussing evangelization. - 1977: Took part in the synod of bishops discussing catechesis (religious education). - Aug. 26, 1978: Elected pope by a two-thirds-plus-one majority of the 111 cardinals in the conclave on its first day of balloting. He chose the name Pope John Paul I.

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-In his ment what would happen. first public talk, Pope John Paul "But as soon as the danger I won' Rome's heart by speaking began to form around me, two off-the-cuff about his secret elec- colleagues seated next to me tion and his most embarrassing whispered words of encouragement. Get together with Fernandes now and arrange for a moment. "One said, 'Be strong. If the began to speak The new pope Community Day for your grc1upl It's an easy way to Lord gives a heavy burden he in an informal style from the raise funds. Your members shop at F~rnandes on your balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at also gives the strength to bear Community Day, and Fernandes Super Markets will noon the day after his election it.' contribute to your organiza1'ion 5% of the amount "The other one said, 'Don't be despite the formal setting and the presence of 300,000 total afraid, in all the world there are your members spend! . so many people praying for the strangers. OR WRITE: FOR COMPLETE new pope.''' Quickly dropping the formal VIRGINIA SPATCHER INFO The new pope, vested for the "we," the new pope began: "YesTELEPHONE FERNANDES SUPER MARKETS ' , . , ) 380 SOUTH WORCESTER ST. terday morning I walked tran- first time in public in his simple VIRGINIA SPATCHER _r.;/ NORTON, MASS. 027&& &17 285·7771 quiJly to the Sistine Chapel to white cassock, said, "When the • vote, never imagining for a mo- moment came, I accepted. Then they asked me what name I wanted to take. "I thought for a little bit and reasoned in this way: Pope John (XXIII) consecrated me here in this very basilica with his own hands. Then I happened to become his successor in Venice, a city full of his memory." NATIONALLY ADVERTISED He said that Pope Paul VI • FINE fURNITURE. ELECTRK APPLIANCES "not only made me cardinal but • CARPETING Installed by Experienced Mechanics also a few months before made Open Daily and Monday, Tuesday me blush before a crowd of Thursday & Friday Evenings 20,000 near St. Mark's Square (Over 50,000 Sq. Feet) (in Venice) when he took off his DIAL. stole and placed it on my shoulFERRY ST., FALL RIVER NOS FAILAMOS PORTUGUES ders. "My face has never been so EJeddinl br: NICHOLS .. STONE red," he confided to the 300,000 Appliances by: Furniture br: SEAU' E1ROYHIU onlookers and to millions more ECLIPSE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE RCA FRIGIDAIRE BURLINGTON HOUSE who watched the televised cereHEYWOOD WAKEFIELD DOWNS CARPETS TEMPLE·STUART WHIRLPOOL MAYTAG mony.

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"Besides during his 15 years as pope, he showed me and the whole world how to love, serve, work and suffer for the church of Christ. "For this reason I said that I would be called by this name. "I don't have the wisdom of heart which Pope John had," said Pope John Paul, who as pope has kept the motto he took as bishop - "Humilitas" (Humility). "Nor do I have the preparation or the education of Pope Paul VI," he added. "But I have their job, and I I must seek to serve the church. "I hope you will help with your prayers," he concluded. His brief talk was certainly one of the few times in history that the majestic central balcony of St. IPeter's, always reserved for the most solemn of occasions, served as the scene for such a heart-te-heart talk. The Romans, many of whom dabbed their eyes with handkerchiefs, realized that. Said one: "It seemed to me almost as if the grandiose central balcony was lowered to the level of the common man." After his talk, Pope John Paul recited the noontime Angelus in a calm voice. He added three "Glory Be's," and then gave his blessing.

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cluded a response .coneemlng Communion under both species. But I believe you misunderstood the question. You responded by explaining why Communion under both species Is proper and In aecord with the symbolism of the Euebarist, as the body and blood of Christ. I believe the question was meant to be: Are people pennitted to come to the altar and give themselves Communion (by taking the cup)? Or must the priest give it to them? Would you please explain? (Ohio)

A. You and a lot of others called my attention to this facet of the question, which lobviously missed. In all cases, whether it is the host or the cup that is received, the Eucharist should be given to each individual by the priest or other eucharistic minister. This is the procedure provided for in the rite for ministering Communion, and it is, even more so, in accord with the Liturgical dialogue which the church has always seen as inherent in giving and receiving the Eucharist. Just as the entire eucharistic celebration is a communal worship activity, involving give and take through the sharing and participation by everyone present, so Holy Communion is a faith-sharing part of that celebration. The minister, as one of that community, offers the Eucharist, and invites the "Amen" - the declaration of faith from the one who will receive. The church's present rite for administering and receiving Communion is intended to reflect and preserve that understanding and make each reception a J;eminder and a new act of faith in who and what we are. Practices contrary to this procedure are not unusual today, but they miss something valuable, and are not liturgically sound. Q. Several months ago a dear friend and I attended the fun-

eral of another friend In the CathoDe Church. My friend Is a Lutheran and is very devoted to her church. At Communion time, this lady went up to receive, and the priest gave her Holy Communion. How could she receive in our Catholic Church If she Is not a Catholic? I didn't want to question her about It for fear of hurting her feelings. (pa.) A. According to our Catholic teaching and understanding of the meaning of the Eucharist, she should not, of course, have received Communion. In fact, many Lutherans are equally strong in their restrictions about their members' reception of

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Mint Souvenirs For Interregnum VATICAN CITY (NC) - A silver coin with a face-value of 500 lire but costing 5,000 lire (about $6) will be issued by the Vatican Sept. 25 to commemorate the. interregnum, the Vatican has announced. One side of the coin bears the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Jean Villot, chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church. The coat-olarms is surmounted by the umbrella and crossed-keys, the symbol of the vacant Roman See. The obverse bears a represensation of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove with the words: Veni Cancte Spiritus Stato della Citta del Vaticano I(Come Holy Spirit - Vatican City-State). The Vatican said that mail orders will be filled as long as the supply lasts. It advised that no C.O.D. orders would be accepted. Mail requests, it said, must hiclude payment of 5,000 lire plus 1,000 lire (about $1.25) for registered mail delivery outside Italy.

The Vatican also said that checks should be made out to "Governatorato della Citta del Vaticano - Ufficio Numismatico." In addition to the coin, the Vatican has also issued a series of interregnum stamps and an interregnum medal, the latter minted in gold, silver and bronze.

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Program Continued from Page One its magnificent thrust for reo newal and life," he said. He recalled that the church's "first duty is to evangelize. . . To study every means, seek every path, 'opportune and inopportune' (2 Timothy 4, 2), to sow the word." He asked for the cooperation of men of good will to end "blind violence which only destroys and sows ruin and grief." Speaking of the world's bishops, the new pope said that "we want to strongly augment the value of collegiality by making use of their efforts in governing the - universal church both through the ·structure of the synod and through the structures of the Curia in which they participate by right." The new pope, considered to have. been" elected for his great pastoral experience, gave a special salute to "pastors and those who are dedicated to the direct care of persons often living in bad conditions or real poverty." He especially greeted young people and asked families to "hold the line against the destructive ideologies of hedonism which snuff out life." The new pope warned Catholics against the temptation to make "autonomous decisions which ignore moral laws, bringing modem man to run the risk of reducing the earth to a desert, the person to a robot and brotherly coexistence to a collectivized leveling of society, intro" ducing often death where God instead wills life."

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George Meany has been called the outstanding labor leader in the free world, perhaps the most influential labor leader in modem times. Though he rose from humble beginnings as a plumber in New York, he has never forgotten his early career nor been ashamed of it. Several years ago, in the face of criticism from a government official who was an attorney, Meany responded that he would rather live in a town without lawyers than a town without plumbers. Young George joined the Plumbers' Union in 1915 but showed no particular interest in union affairs until after his father's death in 1918 and the death of an older brother in World War I, when he became the sole support for his family - six younger brothers and sisters, his mother and maternal grandfather. In 1919, he married Eugenia McMahon, a dedicated member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. He began to take an active role in union concerns and went on to become president of the New York State Federation of Labor and secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor. He was elected AFL president in 1952. When the AFL joined forces with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Meany's election as president of the new entity ended 20 years of civil war between the organizations. Two years later, Meany brought about the removal from the AFL-CIO of Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters Union for its refusal to accept the union's code of ethical conduct. Several years later, AF,L-eIO suffered the departure ,of the United Auto Workers for a complex of reasons based, most observers agree, on policy and personality clashes between Meany and Walter Reuther. So within a dozen years, Meany lost what labor columnist John Herling called "the most corrupt union and the one with the highest reputation for integrity and social responsibility." Nevertheless, he and the AFLCIa have sustained the losses and grown stronger. Msgr. George G. Higgins of the U.S; Catholic Conference, who has known Meany for many years, says, "Meany has the reputation of being a blunt, plain-spoken man who, right or wrong, always says exactly what he thinks. He does so even, or especially, to political bigwigs who have a way of intimidating lesser mortals. In fact, he is one of the few men I know who is generally more deferential to ordinary folk than he is to the great and the mighty.

The governments of the Western world fluctuate between the capitalist free-enterprise system and the socialist state-controlled system. The variations in between allow doses of greater or lesser freedom to the economic system. The governments tended in times past to intervene in the plans of owners and managers in order to protect the rights of workers. Now in the rich nations everything is large; big government, big business, big labor. Some would say the only little one left is the consumer. But only a century ago, the story was quite different. Basically there was only big business. Government, labor and consumer were shifted by the winds of the growth of industrial empires of iron, steel, railroads and other products at the rate swifter than had ever been known before. The population explosion of those days supplied the hundreds of thousands of workers for the assembly lines. 'Literally overnight a laboring class was born, unlike any previous labor force.

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Cardinal James Gibbons By Father John J. Castelot

Imagine one of the most powerful and popular presidents of the United States saying to a Roman Catholic Archbishcp; "Taking your life as a whole, I think you now occupy the position of being the most respected, venerated, useful citizEm of our country." No need to imagine; former President Theodore Roosevelt said that to Cardinal James Gibbons in 1917. iCardinal Gibbons' life was full and eventful. He died just three months before his 60th anniversary as a priest. He had been a bishop for 52 years and a cardinal and acknowledged leader of the American church for 35. But these are cold statistics. Just who was James Gibbons? He was the oldest son of Irish immigrants. Born in Baltimore in 1834, he was taken back to Ireland at age three. The family move was motivated in the vain hope it would benefit the father.'s health. But after his death the mother in 1853 brought her five children to New Orleans. James worked in a grocery store, then entered St. Charles College in Ellicott City, Md. In 1861 he was ordained a priest of the Baltimore archdiocese. After four years of pastoral work combined with a chaplaincy to the troops at Fts. McHenry and Marshall, he was named secretary to Archbishop Spalding and later assistant chancellor. In this capacity he had a hand in preparations for the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore (1866). Among council results was establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina. of which Father Gibbons was made

head, being ordained a bishop on Aug. 16, 1868. His territory covered 50,000 sq. miles and he had a Catholic population of 700, with only three priests to help him. Hardly had he taken charge when he had to leave for _Vatican Council I (1869-70). In 1872 he was named bishop of Richmond, Va., and for five years furthered the progress of the church in Virginia and North Carolina. In 1877 he was named ninth archbishop of Baltimore and became, at age 43, head of the primatial See of the country. There was as yet no apostolic delegate in the United States, so Gibbons had to do double duty. This was not much to his liking; while he possessed great powers of leadership, he was not by nature an innovator. He was unenthusiastic about the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884), over which he presided as apostolic delegate, and even less excited about the projected Catholic University of America. If there had to bEl such an institution, he would have preferred to see it in Philadelphia rather than in his archdiocese. Yet he conducted the preparations for and the conduct of the council with typical industry and skill, and when the bishops voted for Washington as the site of the university, he became its first chancellor. He did his work well; in fact, he later saved the university from an untimely death because of bankruptcy. The skill and diplomacy which he manifested in these important enterprises led to his being created a cardinal by Leo XIII in May, 1886.. Tum to Page Thirteen

Even as late as the year 1.800 a farmer's mentality pervaded the idea of relationships between manager and worker. It reflected closeness to the land, ready food, slow production, familiar surroundings. True, the cities had developed guilds, but they were more like managers than workers and they emphasized individualized craftsmanship. Now the cities were dotted with mills. No more the simplicity of a warm homey circle. No more the soothing noise of a craftsman's cottage on a narrow city lane. Now it was bellies of fire eating up the coal from long lines of men with their shovels. Now it was hunched women and children sitting at long tables doing piecework in cavernous rooms with practically no light, heat or fresh air. Wages had risen little higher than in farming or guild times. The work was harder, more dehumanizing and less satisfying. Social reformers pushed weak governments to help the workers by controlling the greed of the managers. When states would not listen, the workers formed unions for a show of strength. Because many organizers found little sympathy from the church, the labor movement in parts of Europe possessed an anti-religious character. The writings of Karl Marx only served to increase the laboring man's hostility to the church. IBut in 1848 the German 8isMp Von Kettler issued a series of reform proposals that took a careful route between the extremes of capitalism and socialism. By 1869 he told the bishops of Germany that this

was the most important issue of ' their time. It must be noted that the average European Catholic at that time still thought in pre-industrial Revolution terms. So even if church leaders wanted to bring about reform, they needed to educate the Catholic lay leadership as well as the clergy to its necessity. Eventually such movements took hold and the church came to back them. Leo XIII wrote an encyclical, '\Rerum Novarum," that began enlightened social teaching in church circles; and Cardinal Gibbons fought for the rights of an American labor movement, the Knights of Labor, to function without church condemnation. Some conservative bishops wanted Rome to condemn the Knights, probably fearing the presumed power of Marxism or some form of atheism would take them over. Gibbons - and Cardinal Manning of England feared that failure to back the unions would lead to the loss of the working class. As it turned out, their defense of labor won. A century later, however, big labor is a partner with big government and big business. What is the little consumer to do?

II Pure Praise By Father Josepb M. Champlin "Prayer for Jesus was not so much speaking to God but listening to Him and responding with his life." Are you perfectly comfortable with that statement? I was not when I first read the sentence in the otherwise excellent textbook we use for our eighth-grade public-school students during religious instruction classes. Now, after more careful reflection, I still grow uneasy at the implications behind this assertion. The author appar~ntly wished to stress that prayer must be more than recited words, that it involves listening to the Lord as well as speaking to him, and that it should flow over into our daily living. I agree totally with those points. , My concern centers around the text's inference with regard to prayer of pure praise and thanks. While in other sections of that particular chapter a few references are made to worship of the Father, little or no attention was given to adoration and thanksgiving. The prayer of petition comes easily for most of us. Likewise, we have become more conscious that unless our prayer life afTurn to Page Thirteen

Cardinal Gibbons Continued from Page Twelve As the United States' foremost representative of the church, he dealt with many delicate problems. A dedicated churchman and a sincerely patriotic statesman, he exhibited tact and practical prudence. He opposed out-of-hand, indiscriminate condemnation of all secret societies and accordingly came to the defense of the Knights of Labor, an organization previously banned by the Canadian hierarchy. In a similar spirit he resisted the move to put the works of Henry George, an economist, on the Index, wisely surmising that such a move would accomplish little more than to provide those writings free and unwarranted advertising. In both instances he was aware of the danger of fostering the idea that American Catholics were living under a foreign, Roman dictatorship. He displayed the same wisdom in handling the touchy suggestions of nationalistic conflicts within the very pluraHstic church of the country and settling controversies arising from the parochial school system. As the century drew to a close, he had to as· sure Leo XIII that European

fears of a heresy dubbed Americanism were groundless. His involvement in and contributions to local and national affairs were far-reaching. And he found time to write articles for many publications, secular and

Catholic, including a book long a classic in the field of Catholic apologetics: "The Faith of Our Fathers" (1876). Having served church and country equally well, he died in Baltimore on March 24, 1921.

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Pure Praise Continued from Page Twelve fects our everyday activities, it lacks authenticity. However, the prayer of praising our Creator, or simply acknowledging our dependence on God for existence itself, of recognizing the Lord's dominion over us - this mode of prayer and its value seems harder for contemporary persons to grasp. On the surface it appears I get nothing from such prayer. In addition, preoccupation with the here and now world has greatly diminished interest in a God who is beyond, others and yet to come. We discover in the Bible, on the other hand, frequent exhortations to such prayer or praise. The letter to the Hebrews both touches that sensitive nerve of secularism and encourages us to offer adoration: "For here we have no lasting city; we are seeking one which

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See the curtains hangin' in the window In the evening on a Friday night A little light a-shinin' through the window Lets me know everything's all right Summer breeze makes me feel fine Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind See the paper layin' on the sidewalk A little music from the house next door So I walk on up to the doorstep Through the screen and across the floor Sweet days of summer -J the jasmine's in bloom July is dressed up and playing .her tune And I come home from a hard day's work And you're waitin' there Not a care in the world See the smile awaltin' in the kitchen Food cookin' and the plates for two Feel the arms that reach out to hold me In the evening when the day is thrQugh

• Il(nlIB4(O)IRlllXnl~YJ 11 HONORING A NATION JII .1 WOIRKING TOGETHER

Written by James Seals, sung by James Seals and Dash Crofts, (c) 1971, Dawnbreaker Music The subtle harn:.onies and creative lyrics of Seals and Crofts have enriched pop sounds throughout the 1970s. Their concerts offer a blend of mellow sounds, plus the hoe-down effect of Seal's championship fiddling. "Summer Breeze" speaks of that good summertime feeing, but listening to it brings about such a feeling in any season. Summer is a special time. Life- slows down in pace, and we often have new opp~rtunities to appreciate the world around us. Summer also brings a new chance to appreciate the people in our lives. There is time just to be and to share. Whatever the gathering, summer seems to relax us and foster the type of sharing that deepens friendships. The song speaks of simple things: a smile, a meal for two, an embrace, the soft light of a lamp in the window. Too often we undersell the value of that which is given freely and simply. Many times persons are touched far more than we realize by our simple gifts of caring. The best part about any type of gift is that we are remembered. While we seldom may be able to give expensive presents, any of us can give of our time, our support or our caring. The Gospels show that Jesus well understood this type of giving. His thoughtfulness was the simple yet profound gift of loving. This is a good time to reflect on how we are using the gift of our summer. Are we looking for ways to share this season with others? Have we taken the time to notice the summer world around us? Summer is a gift from the God of all gifts and now is the time to take advantage of its opportunities.

It's the men Icmd women who make up our work forces that SE~t the wheels of America in motion. Labor Day is 1:1 tribute to all who take pride in their work ... and work as a team ito get the job done. For only through the efforts of aH of us working together, can we hope to better the standards of American life. Let's share this day proudly.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 31, 1978

Interscholastic

Sports

Where Are Schoolboy Stars of Yesteryear? with 67 hits in 309 trips. He has 25 RBIs and 30 runs scored to his credit as well as five doubles, three triples and one homer. Mark Bomback, also of Fall River, is with Spokane in the AA Pacific Coast League. In 17 games he had pitched 113 innings, winning five games and losing five. He had an earned run average of 3.66. He struck out 93, walked 34 batters. Tom Farias of New Bedford is with ,Bristol in the AA Eastern League. He has pitched 47 innings, won six games, lost 4 for an ERA of 4.79 Alan Ripley of North Attleboro is now with Pawtucket in the AAA Eastern League. He has pitched in four games, won one, lost two and his ERA is 3.36. In walks and strikeouts he has 10 ~ach.

Hockomock Names All Star Track Teams Franklin High School captured eight of the 14 berths on the 1978 All Girls Hockomock Track Team. Others on the all-star combine are: Donna VanBeaver, North Attleboro, discus; Jay Corliss, Foxboro, javelin; Nan Plummer,

King Philip, shotput. Miss Corliss set a meet record of 112.6" in javelin. Alternates are Carolyn Morton, a junior, who h.as been elected captain of the Mansfield High team for 1979; Micki Callahan, a senior at King Philip; and Joan Camara of Oliver Ames.

Dupont Stars At Northeastern Roger Dupont, a 1974 graduate of Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School, has been awarded his fourth varsity letter in track at Northeastern University. Considered among the best

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IN THE DIOCESE

By Bill MORRISSETTE

The lull preceding opening of fall sports gives an opportunity to take a look at fonner schoolboy stars from the area of the Fall River diocese: Mark Kaeterle, New Bedford, is with Elmira of the Class A New York-Penn League. Latest figures show that in 108 times at bat, Mark collected 18 hits, scored 12 runs, drove in as many for an average of .167. He has two home runs, two triples and one double to his credit. Pete Khoury of Fall River is with Oneonta in the same league. He has a batting average of .282 based on 51 hits in 181 trips to the plate. He has scored 23 runs, driven in 25, 12 doubles, four triples and three homers. Ed Rose of Onset is batting .217 for Winter Haven in the Class A Florida State League

shot putters in New England, Dupont has had an enviable record at Northeastern and is hoping to make the United States squad in the 1980 Olympics to be held in Moscow. He was a standout at Diman.

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· gestedi R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3--approved for adults onlYi 8---{)bjectionable in part for everyone; A4---\'leparate classification (given to films not morally offensive Which, however, require some analysis and explanation); ~ondemned. Interiors (United Artists) is the latest production of writerdirector-actor Woody Allen. Its plot involves three sisters, their demented mother, their father and his new wife, played respectively by Diane Keaton, Marybeth Hurt, Kristin Griffith, Geraldine Page, E. G. Marshall and Maureen Stapleton. The mother can't stand being rejected by her successful lawyer husband and her suffering pyramids through the film as her daughters work out facets of her grief and their own guilt scarring each other and their mates. The world of this film lacks God, meaning or hope. It is suitable only for mature views. R;

A4. "Eyes of Laura Mars" (Columbia). ,Faye -Dunaway plays supersuccessful New York fashion photographer Laura Mars, whose camera limns tragic scenes of brutality and gore with almost sadistic clarity. Suddenly Laura Mars starts having visions in

which she sees" the Murders of one friend after another as the crimes are actually being committed. A police detective, played by Tommy Lee Jones, enters to help her choose among suspects. The most execrable aspect of this kinky film is its exploitation of sex and brutality under the guise of raising questions about the social responsihlity of the artist. R, C. "Girlfriends" (Warners). Two young women, one aspiring to be a photographer, the other a writer, share an apartment in New York. The would-be writer gets married while the photographer perseveres through loneliness and chance encounters to her first exhibit and serious romance. The chief virtue of this work is that it is an independent effort peopled with credible, ordinary characters. It is exploratory in describing what women are making of their new !independence, but it is not casual entertainment and its treatment of sex and use of profanity are objectionable. PG, B. The Magic of Lassie" (Lassie Prod.) This old-fashioned movie has a standard plot: wealthy vintner Pernell Roberts who owns the California vineyard adjoining that of grandfather Jimmy Stewart has designs on both Stewart's 200 acres and his dog. Roberts trumps up some pedigree papers to prove the dog is his and takes Lassie to his man-

sion in Colorado Springs, from which the dog soon escapes to begin his trip home (this time by boxcar, truck and shanks' mare) while grandson Michael Sharrett starts out on his own to find Lassie. Suitably frightening things occur along the way, but kindly wrestling coach Mickey Rooney and thoughtful waitress Alice Faye come to the aid of dog and boy. G, AI. "Big Wednesday" (Warners). Three young men spend their time boozing, fighting and womanizing by a California beach, their surfboards in readiness for the Great Wave to come on some special Wednesday. John Milius' trivial as well as offensive glorification of the male bond offers viewers little save scenes of nature's grandeur. PG;

B. "Scalpel" (Avco Embassy). A plastic surgeon remakes the face of a beaten up go-go dancer to resemble that of his runaway daughter in order to cash in on a $5 million will left in his daughter's name. Naturally after he and the girl succeed in getting the money and having an affair along the way, the reaJ daughter returns with some plans of her own. True to its title "Scalpel" indulges in a certain amount of gore; the film's casual approach to the value of human life, its unnecessary use of female nudity and its treatment of the incest theme render it offensive. PG; B.

TV Will Cover Sunday's Mass NEW YORK (NC) The unprecedented coverage by U.S. television networks of events in Rome since the death of Pope Paul VI disproves accusations that the networks have an antireligious bias, according to Robert Buesse, U.S. Catholic Conference secretary for communication.

uous coverage right through Sunday's Mass." All three major U.S.' networks have agreed to broadcast Sunday's solemn Mass, to be celebrated by Pope John Paul "at the beginning of his ministry." The networks have some 90 staff members currently working out of Rome, he added.

"We've certainly never seen such continuous coverage of events from Rome," he said. "This was tremendous evidence of the ability and willingness of the networks to provide contin-

Prejudice is "our method of transferring our own sickness to others, our ruse for disliking others rather than ourselves." - Ben Hecht

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FIVE HOUR VIGIL, SANTO CHRISTO, FALL RIVER A five-hour vigil will be held from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. tomorrow at Santo Christo Church, Columbia Street, Fall River, beginning and ending with Mass and including recitation of the rosary and a holy hour. Refreshments will be served at 10 p.m. and all are invited to attend all or any part of the program, held monthly at various diocesan churches. ST. MARY, SEEKONK Beginning Sunday, Sept. 10, the present 11 a.m. Mass will be celebrated at 11:30 a.m. ST. STANISLAUS, IFALL RIVER . A parent-faculty meeting will be held at 8 p'.m. Wednesday, September 6 in the school hall. Registrations for a youth weekend, "Putting Things Together," will be accepted after each Mass this weekend. To be held in Gloucester the weekend of Oct. 7 through 9, the program is open to all confirmed youth through age 21.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Grades 1 through 8 will begin classes Wednesday, Sept. 6, with nursery and kindergarten children beginning Monday, Sept. 11. Uniforms must be worn beginning Sept. 11. Senior citizens are invited to attend an open house and organizational meeting at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6 in the school basement. A marriage Encounter information night will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 in the school. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER New schedules can be picked up in the sacristy by altar boys, lectors and special mini~ters of the Eucharist. The 1978-79 school year begins Wednesday for a full day. All parishioners are invited to an opening of school liturgy at 1 p.m. The Administration committee will meet Tuesday and the social concerns committee, Wednesday, both at 7:30 p.m. in the parish hall. Vincentians will

meet at the same time Thursday. Barbarli Lee, Woman's Club president, invites all parish women to an open meeting Monday, Sept. 11. BENEDICTINE BLATES, FALL RIVER DIOCESE Oblates will sponsor a day of recollection Sunday at Portsmouth .Abbey, Portsmouth, Rhode ·Island, beginning with Mass at 9:30 a.m. and followed by conferences at 11 :30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Breakfast and dinner will be served. Reservations open to Oblates and friends, ma; , be made at the abbey or with Mrs. Frank S. Moriarty, telephone 672-1439. BENEDICTINE OBLATES, FALL RIVER ALl Dominican Tertiaries and anyone interested in joining the organization are asked to attend a meeting to be held at the Rose Hawthorne Home, 1600 Bay St., Fall River, beginning with Mass at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8. Chapter members will meet their new director, Father Giles Dimock, O.P., who heads the Providence College department of liturgy. CATHOLIC NURSES, CAPE COD AND ISLANDS The Cape and Islands chapter of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday., Sept. 13 at St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth. A guest speaker wjll discuss "Canon Law and Parental Responsibility." New m~mbers are welcome.

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