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Widow of Pacific veteran sues U.8.

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By Pat McGowan

Mrs. Wanda Seveney, a woman with haunted eyes, pulls out a thick sheaf of much-read letters, articles and document.s.

All relate to her husband's death two years ago, aftllr 32 years of mysterious illnesse!;.

She is convinced that Benjamin Seveney died of radiation sickness and she has filed II million dollar suit against the U.S. government.

He was "never sick a day," she said until, on duty with the U.S. Navy, he witnessed two 1946 atomic blasts in thl! Pacific at close range and afterwards helped to clean contaminated ships.'

No precautions were taken during the blasts, she said. "The men were tolji to put their heads

down and cover their eyes during the actual explosion. Then they looked up and saw the bright mushroom cloud. Ben said his eyes stung for about an hour afterwards."

But it was not until two years later, when the couple were on their honeymoon, that his troubles began. From that time, said Mrs. Seveney, he suffered a bewildering array of illnesses of unknown origin.

Eventually most of his intestines were removed and several arteries were replaced. At the time of his death at age 51, "he looked like a 90-year-old man," said his wife.

She now lives in St. Anthony's parish, Portsmouth, R.I., but she and her husband were natives of St. Patrick's parish, Fall River, and were childhood sweethearts.

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Benjamin, she said, w.as a special kind of man. "He never complained of his sicknesses.

God gives us as much as we can carry and Ben sure carried much.

But he was always concerned about others."

For many years, she recounted, he did not suspect that his 1946 exposure to radiation might have caused his multiple problems. But, her suit claims, the government had been aware of the hazards of radiation exposure since the 1950s and never notified any of the veterans at risk in the matter.

Mrs. Seveney pointed out that the Veterans' Administration has thus far dragged its feet on allowing claims for radiation-related disabilities.

But more and more cases are coming to light of children with

multiple health problems born to radiation-exposed fathers.

One embittered Maine veteran, himself incapacitated with what he believes to be radiation-related ailments, termed the situation a "genetic holocaust." He said he had one normal child, born before his Army service, but that- four children born subsequently are severely and multiply handicapped.

In the case of the Seveneys, both their daughter, born after her father's Navy service, and a 10-year-old grandson suffer from genetic deficiencies, including eye and stomach problems.

Th~s situation has been addressed in Mrs. Seveney's suit.

She said her lawyers reason that although the government claims immunity from damage clailns resulting from physical liability

incident to military service, such immunity does not extend to clailns of family members.

Mrs. Seveney does not know if her suit will be successful. ·But she says she has to pursue it. Her husband asked her to do so on his deathbed, on behalf of thousands of veterans like himself, their children and their children's children. "It's too late to help me, but maybe you can help someone else," he said.

Mrs. Seveney is trying. The once retiring housewife has appeared on television and has given numerous newspaper interviews, "working not only for Ben but for other vets denied service-connected benefits."

She is active in the National Association of Atomic Veterans and hopes to organize an area Turn to Page Six

A new style of teaching Pope's audiences are fascinating

By Jerry FUteau

VATICAN CITY (NC) - For the past year Pope John Paul II , has engaged in what Vatican observers and sources describe as a new, fascinating and different style of papal teaching.

The object of their comments is the weekly papal general audience.

Since last September the pope's weekly talks - with a , few exceptions on special occasions' - have been discussions of man;iage.

But the series of talks, unlike any other papal audience talks in modern history, has been an in-depth philosophical and theological reflection, complete with footnotes, on the nature of marriage and the husband-wife relationship.

Last week, for instance, describing the sexual union of married persons as "a right . . . and the sign of their communion of persons," the' pontiff said, I "adultery is therefore seen not only as the violation of a right, but as the radical falsification of this sign of the personal comm~ion."

ALTHOUGH IDS general audience talks often seem above the heads of 'his hearers, Pope John Paul II doesn't neglect the pastoral aspects of his role as chief shepherd of the church. (NC Photo)

The talks are meant to be a contribution to this fall's world Synod of Bishops, which will discuss the role of the Christian family in the modern world.

"He's setting a framework for the synod," said a Vatican

source involved in synod preparations.

The source described the talks as an effort to begin the synod from the perspective of revelation and reflection on God's word, rather than using contemporary sociological data and cultural trends as the primary frame of reference.

The audience talks, according to several sources, were probably written for the most part during the summer' of 1979, while the pope was living at his summer villa in Castelgandolfo.

It is believed he consulted with specialists in a variety of fields, including medical science, Scripture, philosophy and systematic theology. But the writing is almost all his own.

"I can't comment on his an-

thropology or theology. That's not my field," said a biblical scholar in Rome. "But his sources for biblical exegesis (interpretation of Scripture passages) are excellent."

A major criticism of ,the talks is that scarcely anyone among the thousands of visitors at the Wednesday general audiences understands the complex, intellectual analyses and arguments that he is making.

Every week his addresses abound with statements far more complicated and difficult to understand than the following - a comment on what the pope called "the theological aspect of the ethos of the body" as seen in Genesis: "Humans enter the world and, Turn to Page Six

What motivates Catholics WASHINGTON (NC) Results of a first-of-its-type survey on people's motivations for joining, leaving or returning to the Catholic Church describe the typical convert, dropout and returnee.

The typical convert is a young woman influenced by her Catholic husband, the dropout is a teen-ager and the returnee is likely to be an older person who either feels guilty about having left the church or who wants

to be a positive example for children. .

The survey was made by Dean Hoge, a sociologist at the Catholic University of America, with the assistance of Paulist Father Kenneth McGuire, an anthropologist, and. Marianist Brother Bernard Stratman, a communications specialist.

In its course more than 200 interviews were conducted in Baltimore, Detroit, Providence, ,Turn to Page Six

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WASHINGTON (NC)-,AIthough the proposal had strong support, the Senate Finance Committee backed down from including a tax break for donc)rs to charity in a $39 billion tax cut bill. Instead, the proposal will be offered as an amendment when the I>ill reaches the floor of the Senate.

LUGANO, Italy (NC}-The Vatican may be a future target in the terrorist fight for Armenian independence, according to a terrorist leader who was ir.lterviewed by a Lugano newspaper. Armenian nationalists have claimed responsibility for more than 50 terroI'ist actions in Europe in the last five years.

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN, among speakers at the 6th provincial congress of the Holy Name Province of Secular Franciscans, held at Stonehill College, pauses after a concelebrated Mass to greet Geraldine K. Hollman, province regional director. (Allen Photo)

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (NC}-Martin Meehan, 34, a prisoner ,at Long Kesh pI'ison in NoJ1thern Ireland ended a 66-day hunger strike recently, folll)wing an announcement by Amnesty In:ternational that lit would 1nvestigate circumstances in British jails in Northern Ireland. Meehan is serving a 12-year sentence in connection wdth the conspiracy kidnapping of a ,British army informer 1n July 1979. He was near death when he ended the hunger strike and had received the last cites of the Catholic Church.

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DUBLIN, Ireland (NC}-Jesuit Father [Daniel 'Berrigan, who was imprisoned for destroying draft records during the Vietnam War, said that prisoners at the Maze Prison near Belfast jn Northern 'Ireland are 路suffering dnhuman treatment.

WASHINGTON (NC}-There is no contradiction between dialogue with nonChristians that is respectful of their beliefs and preaching and teaching the message of Christ, said Archbishop Jean Jadot, the new head of the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Christians. He contiinues as apostolic delegate in the United States u::ttil he leaves for Rome this month.

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ALEXANDRIA, La. (NC}-Because Catholics generally have considered themselves second-class citizens ,they tend Ito be "shrinking violets" poLitically, said an Qfficial of the Catholic League for ReHgious and CiV'il Rights. Michael Schwartz said Caitholics are too often willing to surrender their linterests in the political arena.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (NC}-Rigbtwing military regimes are La1~n. America's only bulwark against the expansion of communism, according to susp,en-aed Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. He toured seminaI'ies run by his followers dn Ar.!rentina, Chile and Uruguay.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (NC}-For the second time since il:he July milita:ry coup, the Bolivjan Bishops' Conference has reacted strongly to attacks by government and right路 wing groups on Archbishop Jorge Mancique of 'La paz for his d~fense of I:.uman rights.

DES MOINES, Iowa (NC}-During the last school year the state of Iowa provided almost $5 milHon to students attending non-public schools, including about $3.7 million to students attending Catholic schools ,the state Department (If Public In~ struction said.

WASHINGTON (NC}-A House subcommittee holding hearings on public school prayer was reminded again of differing opinions within the religious community. A representative of a Catholic parents' group charged the Supreme Court's school prayer decisions have led to bias against religion in public schools but officials of several mainline religious organizations expressed concern that "voluntary s(:hool prayer would be coercive and meaningless."

PRINCETON, N.J. (NC)-A majority of Americans continues to ta:kl~ the middle ground in the polarized debate over abortion, according to the latest GallUp Poll.

The poll showed that only 25 percent of Amel'icans believe that aborVicln should be legal under all circumstances and only 18 percent believe abortion should be illegal under all circumstances.

NEW YORK (NC}-Bishop 'Edwin B. Broderick, executive director of Catholdc Relief Services (eRS), announced that a iBolivia Emergency Fund has been set up to a,id victims of the recent coup !in thai!: South American country.

DES MOINES, Iowa (NC}-Msgr. Luigi Ligutti, former executive secretary of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, has heen named recipient of the Iowa Award, given once every five years to a distinguished ,Iowan or former Iowan by the Iowa Centennial Memorial Foundation.

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DURING ST. PETER'S SQUARE AUDIENCE, Pope John Paul II is fascinated by gift of stereo viewer with pictures of his U.S. trip.

LOUVAIN, Belgium (NC}-Michel Falise, a French economist, is the new president of the 'International Federation of Catholic Universities. He is president of the UniverSiity and Polyt~hnic Federation of Lille, France.

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Bond sales gratifying The recent floating l)f a $7 million bond issue for construction at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has received a nlpid and enthusiastic response from investors, say hospital officials.

In less than" two days, they note, Fall River reside:nts purchased over $550,000 ill bonds, more than double the amount predicted to sell in the. area.

Many potential customers were placed on waiting lists, and officials of B. C. Ziegler and Co., a Wisconsin-based investment securities firm underwriting the St. Anne's project, said that over three times the number 4)f bonds allotted to the Fall River area could have been sold.

National sales were equally rapid. St. Anne's bonds were one of the most popular inv.~stments offered by Ziegler in some time, said Thomas Thorson, a company official. He sald the facts that the hospital is a Catholic institution and that it is located on the Eastern seaboard contributed to investor interest.

"Another $7 million iHsue will take place, "perhaps next year.

We are telling callers that they will be notified when that sale is planned," added Thorson.

Leaders of St. Anne's Hospital were also 'pleasedat the local response to the hospit~ll as an investment opportunity.

"This means to us that Fall River believes that St. Anne's Hospital is an institution with sound fiscal management and a very viable future," said James F. Lyons, executive dirE:ctor.

Mrs. Diafe:rio Father Vincent F. Diaferio, pastor of Holy Rosary Church, Fall River, was principal celebrant of a funeral Mass last Saturday for his mother, Mrs. Grace Diaferio, 88, who died Aug. 27.

Born in Italy, she immigrated to Boston in 1916, where she lived until 1971, when she moved to Fall River. She is survived by three other sons and tWI) daughters. Interment was in St. Michael's Cemetery, Jamaica Plain.

(necrolocw September 19 Rev. Henry E. S. Henniss, 1859, Pastor, St. MaIY, New Bedford September 20 Rev. Simon A. O'Rourke, 1918, Chaplain, United States Navy Rev. Omer Valois, 1958, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford September 21 Rev. George Pager, 1882, Founder, Sacred Healt, New Bedford Rev. George Jowdy, W38, Pastor, Our Lady of Purgatory, New Bedford

September 24 Rev. Joseph E. C. Bourque, 1955, Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River

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GOLDEN AND DIAMOND anniversaries in the religious life were marked at a jubilee Mass by these Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena. Seated, Sister Emmanuel Thibault and Sister Marie Mathieu Dutil, marking 60 years; standing, Sister Mary of the Cross Landry, Sister Irene Putney, Sister Mary of Carmel Lord, Sister Andrew Mary Leger, golden jubilarians. (Sister Gertrude Gaudette Photo)

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MIAMI (NC) - North Miami Walsh said. "It's just a remark- of Mary. Sept. 8 is the feast of Avenue suffers from prostitu- 'able phenomenon, completely in the birth of Mary. tion, alcoholism and other skid the spirit of total chastity," he Mother Teresa's order has row problems. But soon it will added. missions in New York and Dehave a gentler influence as well.

According to Archbishop Mc- troit and more than 400 schools, The area has been chosen by Carthy, Mother Teresa had few Inissions and hospitals throughMother Teresa of Calcutta as the requests. She stressed that her out the world. The Nobel Peace site of a new mission to be staff- sisters should work with the Prize recipient is being honored ed by four of her Missionaries "poorest of the poor" and that by a stamp issued by the governof Charity. The nuns, three from they officially begin on a feast ment of India.

India and one from North America, are to open the Inission officially Sept. 8, according to Msgr. Bryan O. Walsh, director of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami. They are DANIEL J. JUDGE, D.M.D. to work with the area's "shopping bag ladies" and with a ORTHODONTIST • women's prison.

University Trained Specialist Msgr. Walsh said Mother Teresa had visited MiaIni in 1974 83 1 PLEASANT STREET and was concerned about conditions in the city.

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"The whole thing has happened in the last two or three weeks," Msgr. Walsh said.

He said the sisters' efforts would complement the work carried out in the area by the Brothers of the Good Shepherd.

At least initially the sisters llre to live in a rent-free house.

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Again Poland Orice more it is Poland. From Czars to commissars, this nation has played a unique role in the history of Western Europe, in our own time serving as the catalyst for a transformation of the entire Western world.

When one tries to understand the national tenacity of the Polish people, one must view this nation in the wake of events that have caused that same Western world to tremble. The Polish workers during the past weeks have once again shown the world that their country is not afraid to champion human rights and freedoms.

Poland's history has been that of seemingly endless efforts to assert its self-identity, to preserve its land and to defend its faith. From the days when its Russian, Austrian and German neighbors partitioned it, pillaged its people and drained its land of natural resources, Poland has always sought to be itself.

Poland is therefore very special in the struggle for national identity and self-determination. This sense of being special has given the Poles courage to take risks in the defense of their national, social and religious rights. Amid its so-called Communist neighbors, Poland is indeed very different.

One cannot predict whether or not the victory of the Polish workers will be squashed by the paws of the Russian bear. What can be said is that Eastern European Communism, as we have known it, will never be quite the same again. Because of what has happened in Poland, the insecurity of the dictator will certainly be reflected in other attempts in other places to placate the workers.

The very fact that the Communist government was forced to ask the help of the church to pacify the workers is another indication of the unique determination of the Poles. Unlike their neighbors and fellow religionists in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, the Poles have never let the Communists or the Nazis crush their religious spirit. In spite of every obstacle put in their way by the descendants of Marx and Lenin, they have proven beyond all doubt that religion is not the opium of the people.

As a nation Poland has shown all Europe, capitalist West and Communist East, that religion can be a sustaining force of life.

As an aside, there is also the unavoidable fact that路 the present Roman pontiff is far more than a passing consideration in the present national life of Poland and indeed the world. A Polish pope is not only unique in the world of religion but also in the world of Eastern European politics, a factor that the Russians certainly have to consider.

It is true that there have been other upheavals in the Communist world. But what has happened and is happening in Poland seems to have a very special effect. There must be many nervous party leaders in East Berlin, Prague, Budapest and indeed in Moscow itself. The Poles have once again shaken the world!

If there is one thing that all of us can learn from this international event it is that no opposition can truly conquer a people who are determinedly motivated. Rendering the things that are Caesar's to Caesar and the things that are God's to God, the Polish people once more have shown the world that no one can take them for granted.

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Validity of Anglican orders

By NC News Service The question of the validity of ordination in churches of the Anglican Communion has arisen again in connection with the decision of the U.S. Catholic bishops, approved by Pope John Paul II, to develop provisions for admitting married clergy of the Episcopal Church to priesthood in the Catholic Church.

The Episcopal Church in the United States is one of the member churches of the Anglican Communion, churches in communion with the See of Canterbury, principal diocese of the Church of England.

Since the establishment of the Church of England in the 16th century after King Henry VIII's break with Rome, the question of the validity of the ordination of priests and bishops in that church, and in those in communion with it, has been a matter of controversy.

The question continues controversial, despite the declaration

by Pope Leo XIII in 1896 that Anglican ordinations are invalid. Theologians disagree about whether or not that declaration, in the bull, or most solemn form of papal document, titled "Apostolicae Curae," was infallible.

Pope Leo himself later said he intended to settle the question irrevocably.

In a communication on the U.S. bishops' decision concerning the Episcopal clergy, Cardinal Franjo Seper, head of the

Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said it is possible for married clergymen among the Episcopalians wishing to become Catholics to be ordained and to function as Catholic priests after ordination. The doctrinal congregation will consider cases individually.

Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the Episcopal priests will be ordained either outright or conditionally.

The requirement that the Episcopal clergy be reordained is based on the Catholic Church's position, expressed by Pope Leo, that Anglican, and therefore Episcopal, orders are invalid.

After extensive study and consultation, Pope Leo reached that conclusion because of the defectiveness of the ritual used in the ordination of Anglican bishops and priests from 1552 onwards, with slight modifications.

That ritual was developed by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury, chief architect of the Protestant Reformation in England from 1547-53, with the assistance of English churchmen and several foreign reformers.

Their writings show their agreement with Martin Luther, John Calvin and others in rejectioI\ of the Catholic doctrine of the Mass and the sacrificing priesthood and their denial of any real objective presence of

Christ in the sacrument of the Eucharist. The ordination rite embodies their views.

According to Catholic doctrine, the sacramE:nt of Holy Orders principally confers the priestly powers of consecrating the body and blood of Jesus Christ and of offering the sacrifice of the Eucharist. For an ordination rite to he valid, the form, or words USEd, must signify bestowal of these powers.

The Anglican ordination rite, Pope Leo said, not only makes "no clear mention of sacrifice, or consecration, or priesthood, of the power to consecrate and offer sacrifice, but, as we have already indicated, every trace of these and similnr things remaining in such prayers of the Catholic rite as WE,re not com路 pletely rejected, WllS purposely removed and obliterated."

The Anglican ordination rite displayed the character and spirit of the English Protl!stant Reformation, Pope Leo said. "Moreover," he continued, "incapable as it was of conferring valid orders by reason oj' its original defectiveness, and remaining as it did in that condition, there was no prospect that with the passage of time it would become capable of conferring them."

In recent years, however, there have been several requests for a reappraisal of POPE~ Leo's declaration.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Sept. 4, 1980

Off to college This week we're sending our oldest child off to college, a thousand milE!S and a lifetime away fro~ home.

It's different from sending her off to kindergarten. We knew that she would be discovering other authorities for the first time in her life and we anticipated the "but teacher says" mentality. We welcomed it because it was the first step toward independence.

College or work life is different. This is the last of real parental influence on a ylJungster.

From hire on, we pray that the values we modelled take hold.

We hope they are strong enough to ~t the test of life today.

Most important, even though we may still be paying some bills, we pray that we are strong enough to really let gel and allow her to become her own person.

I reflect that when my dad finished grade school and was confirmed, he was considered a man and worth a dollar a day in farm help. He was :l3. Much of our country was sllttled by couples under 20. An awful lot of young men gave their lives for our country at agle 18. So sending a nearly 19-yeur-old off

is hardly newsworthy.

It's time to let go but it isn't easy to let go. I don't suppose .it was easy generations ago, either. While'the separation isn't . final, as it was in the case of emigration, we know that from now on, visits back home will be temporary. The cord severing is taking place now, not in four years when she graduates.

It's easy to joke about not losing a daughter but gaining a telephone but there's a lot more to it than that. Like all other phases in parenting, it teaches us more about ourselves than our offspring. The flood of feelings upon leaving home come back to me. I recall how nervous I was that first day of college when nobody cared who my parents were or about my high school record. I was on my own.

So I did what my new and equally nervous friends did put on a show of .bravado. I don't think that exterior ever quite comes off. That might be all right, too, because responsibility and independence via college or work give us a first opportunity to be ourselves as we see us. Prior to that, we are adjuncts of our families. We are viewed through their eyes, and

'The s·acraments The other day I was asked sincerity of a request or the if I could design a question- state of conscience? Which of us cah claim the power, with or naire that pastors might ad- without sociological help, of minister to people seeking reading the human heart?

the sacraments for themselves or their children. It is hard for pastors, I was told, to d€~cide who is a Catholic and who isn't.

Hence they find it difficult to know whether certain persons ought to be given the lbenefit of Catholic marriage for themselves or Catholic baptism, Confirmation and First Communion for their children.

Couldn't sociologists devise a "test" which would help the parish priest decide whether to administer the sacrament or not?

For a moment I thought we were back in the pre-Vatican church where sacramEmts were denied to people at pastoral whim, even though thle code of canon law was and is quite explicit as to the right of the Christian people to receive the sacraments.

The "creeping guideline" mentality has taken fiml root in many clerical personalities. Not knowing what else to do to justify their executivEl position in the church, many priests have taken upon themselves the right to decide who is worthy of the sacraments.

It would be hard on Mary Magdalene or Zacchaeus or even Simon Peter, all of whom had either very weak faith or very bad morals or both.

Maybe there are times when the priest should not iCldminister the sacraments to those seeking them, but such instances ought to be extremely rare.

How can a priest judge the

If a person wants the sacrament, ought we not trust the Holy Spirit who presumably is at work somehow or the other in the desire for the sacrament?

To be very unecumenical for a moment, we have the Protestants beat on imagery, the Jews beat on content and the secular humanist beat on both. The inspirational power of the sacramental system is awesome. Why must we add rules, tests, guidelines, regulations (some of which are in clear violation of the Code of Canon law) to what may be the best system of religious instruction and religious challenge and reassurance which human ingenuity has ever devised?

I fear that the answer is that many of us priests know that we are very poor at the art and craft of instructive celebrating.

We don't do the sacraments well and we know we don't do them well. So to reassure ourselves of our masculine competency we set ourselves up as judges instead of liturgists.

We have no right to demand that people promise to go to church every week before we permit them a church marriage or before we baptize their children. If such rules were applied in Italy, there would be few sacraments administered from one end of the year to another.

Nor do we have the right to impose tests or regulations or promises that go beyond church law. If a parent is willing to as-

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we may not fulfill that image or be that person at all.

Many individuals become different persons away from home and we'd better be prepared for that. Blaming the university for a changed child may soothe us but it isn't very helpful. We have put the basic material into that child. The professors and friends are merely working with what we have sent, values and attitudes that we have nurtured.

It's almost an axiom that our emerging young adults will not be just older children of ours.

They will become their own persons and they have a right to do so. We did.

Yes, we're sending our daughter off to college, not away from us but to a new and formative part of her life. We'll miss her a lot but we're excited for her.

She deserves adults and ideas other than us and we think the world deserves her because she's pretty special. Please say a prayer for her - and for us.

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sert that the child will be raised a Catholic, and if the sponsors are willing to commit themselves to something like the Apostles Creed, then we assume the role of the Holy Spirit if we say that they are not Catholic enough to deserve the sacraments.

Instead of a sociological test, what pastors need is a course on the celebratory administration of the sacraments. For that training, however, you don't need a sociologist. You need an actor or a TV announcer - or maybe an abnormal psychologist who will free celebrants who have been locked up in legalistic straitjackets for much of their unhappy lives.

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Agent Orange hush job The Veterans Administration is sticking to its guns on Agent Orange.

Anew, soothing orange folder features a picture of VA Administrator Max Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran, saying, once again," . . . "We do not yet know precisely how dioxin (one of the elements in Agent Orange) affects humans."

One of the reasons the government does not know is that it has gone to great pains, over the last 10 years, not to find out.

It has not granted compensation on a single Agent Orange claim.

A study Congress mandated seems never to get done. Only EPA, of the several agencies involved, has declared that Agent Orange is "harmful to humans."

Yet thousands of Vietnam veterans are suffering from chloracne, a severe skin rash; weight loss; unexplained liver and stomach disorders; tumors.

They have fathered deformed or stillborn children. Some have died at unusually young ages of cancer.

They have one thing in common exposure to Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant of which 12 million pounds were sprayed on Vietnam's fields and forests to drive the Viet Cong to where they could be bombed, pacified, subjected to "search and destroy" or some other lethal scheme.

In 1970, the late Sen. Philip Hart, D-Mich., who had the moral radar denied many of his kind, conducted hearings. He concluded, that "the chemicals which make up Agent Orange may in the end appear to be much ado about very little indeed. On the other hand, they may ultimately be regarded as portending the most horrible tragedy ever known to mankind."

It is a horrible tragedy for afflicted veterans and their families. And it is also a scandal with classic Washington symptoms. If the VA has stonewalled, the manufacturer, Dow Chemical - of napalm infamy covered up. Dow executives failed to inform the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Defense about the spray's toxic qualities.

An English-born doctor, Samuel Epstein, of the University of Illinois, was one of a dozen witnesses to testify before a House Veterans Affairs subcommittee on a bill for relief for Agent Orange victims introduced by Rep. Tom Daschle, D-S.D. He noted, in an angry English accent, that dioxin is "the most toxic synthetic chemical compound known" and "the most potent known carcinogen."

"I am just a simple scientist," he observed.

Another "simple scientist," Dr. Jeanne Stellman, who with her doctor husband Steven made

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a privately funded survey of veterans, asked a simple question: "Would it be beyond reason to go to Vietnam to make soil tests?" It was answered with embarrassed silence: Trafficking with Vietnamese on a humanitarian venture is an electionyear no-no.

Dr. Stellman said she found it strange that veterans should be calling her, instead of the VA, for help.

But the impetus for inquiring into the terrible' "carry-out death" that Vietnam veterans brought home with them has come from Congress and private citizens.

The country has been warned - "alarmed" is how a disapproving representative of Amvets put it - about its baneful effects, largely through the efforts of Bobby Muller, a paralyzed veteran who runs Vietnam Veterans of America from a wheelchair. He nudged Congress to hold hearings last year and got a grant from the Ford Foundation to set up an Agent Orange hotline, so that veterans could call in data the government Q~clines to amass at least seemingly in the lifetime of the victims.

The most affecting and irrefutable witness was Chris Johnson. a mild, bespectacled 30year- old Vietnam veteran from Rapid City, S.D. He went to war from high school in 1969, believed he was fighting for his country. He served only three months with the 11th Armored Cavalry in a heavily sprayM area. He lost his right leg in combat, and spent 14 months in Fitzsimmons Hospital being rehabilitated.

He quit electronics school.

The final blow came with the birth of a son last August, with multiple defects: club feet, deformed hands, a hole in the heart, cysts on the liver and brain. The baby lived 10 hours.

Then last December, in the DAV magazine, Johnson read about Agent Orange. The symptoms were exactly his. He was a man transformed. He called up Daschle and told his story. He hunted for other victims, organized a South Dakota veterans organization, took their suicidal calls, reassured them that they were not alone - and not hypochondriacs. .

To him, the VA's orange folder on Agent. Orange is "just a bunch of propaganda."

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Family IJleeds are studied

Moslem message

WASHINGTON ~NC) - Calling it a turning lloint for the White House Conference on Families (WHCF), its chairman, Jim Guy Tucker, l1,as announced that after a year of planning and meetings its uction phase would begin.

The conference's 1I5-member National Task FOl'l~e met last week to combine recommendations passed by 2,000 delegates to three regional conferences.

The proposals now move to legislative, executivl~ or private sector consideration.

The recognition of the value of homemakers, adopted at ·two NEW OFFICERS of St. Raphael Province of the Sisters of Providence with Sister of the three national conferences, Loretta Schafer, third left, superior general, are Sister Mary Catherine Guiler, first coun- was approved by 94 percent of cillor; Sister Francis Michael Driscoll, reelected provincial; Sister Michaela Galvin, sec- the delegates.

The highest-ranlced recomond councillor. Sister Francis and Sister Mary Catherine will work at the community's at all three mendation Fall River provincial house and Sister Michaela will remain on the faculty of Immaculata conferences adopted called for familyPreparatory School, Washington, D.C. oriented personnel policies by employers such as flexible working hours, job sharing and part· time jobs.

"I wish someone could get to elected pope he might now be In conjunction with this, TuckContinued from page one Continued from Page One as it were, the most intimate him" to tell him he should be giving these· audience talks as er said 100 of the largest prichapter. She welcomes inquiries pattern of their future history, talking at a level people can lectures to his students at the vate companies will :meet to confrom those interested at tele- with awareness of the nuptial understand, a Vatican official University of Lublin in Poland, sider their role in fllmily life. phone 401-624-6955. where he taught.

Efforts to preven.t drug and meaning of their own body, of commented.

"All the people I hear fromWhatever reaction one may alcohol abuse were also highly On the other hand, a scholar their own masculinity' and femnot one of them is going to live," ininity. Original innocence says said, "I kind of admire him for have to the appropriateness of recommended as was a revision she said sadly. such material for general audi- of taxes to aid famiJ.ies. that meaning is conditioned it."

The need for home care for She too is a victim. "Every 'ethically' and furthermore that, One often gets the feeling that ences, it is something new for day for 32 years I saw my hus- on its part, it constitutes the fu- if Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of a pope to engage publicly in his the elderly as an a:,ternative to band dyfug." ture of the human ethos."

Cracow, 'Poland, had not been own theological research and institutionalization was an imwriting. And it is here that portant issue for the delegates. ,--".,"~"""""""""',.,""""""""",. """""""",--,. ; some observers see a significant They urged giving families and aspect of the pope's thinking the elderly a choi.ce through about his role in the church. changes in Medicaid-Medicare Here is a summary of the way policies.

Of the 35 items adl)pted by the one analyst expressed it: three conferences "Prevention The pope views confusion and SCHOOL CALENDAR 1980 -1981 and treatment of adolescent lack of sound theological perspectives as one of the main pregnancy" ranked 21st and MONDAY THRU FRIDAY problems - and the source of "Support ratification of ERA" many other :problems - in the ranked 33rd. Recon:unendations approving abortion and homochurch today.

SEPTEMBER 1980 OCTOBER 1980 NOVEMBER 1980 DECEMBER 1980 ~ sexuality were not listed.

Regarding the immediate pur1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 ~ 3# 4# 5# Support for abortion ranked 9 10 11 12 6 7 8 9 10 8 3 4 5 6 7* 8 9 10 11 12 ~ pose of the talks as a contribu- 15th out of 15 recommendations (13) 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 10 (11) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 , tion to the synod on the Chris- at two of the three conferences.

(20)b 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 122 23 24 25 26 ~ tian family, he is seeking to di27 28 29 30 31 29 30 24 25 26# 127 28) 29 30 311 ~ rect the thinking of the synod 20 days 21 days 17 days 15 days , fathers toward the affirmation -----,----~ of the fundamental Christian beFEBRUARY 1981 JANUARY 1981 MARCH 1981 APRIL 1981 , liefs about marriage and family Continued from page one (1 21 2 3456 1 2 3~ as the basis for discussing conOrlando, Omaha, San Antonio, 6 7 8 9 [2 3 4 5 6] 5 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9 10 ~ temporary problems, instead of and Oakland.

12 13 14 (1st 16* 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16# (Ina ~ beginning with the problems.

The study pointed to the need (16 17 18 19 20) 19 20 21 22 23 23 24 25 26 27* 120 21 22 23 24) , In a broader perspective, he for a "facilitator," someone to 23 24 25 26 27 26 27 28 29 30 30 ~ V U ~ ~ ~ is, by his example of teaching, help the potential Catholic take 19 days 15 days 22 days 16 days ~ telling bishops the kind of thing the steps toward conversion. The JUNE 1981 MAY 1981 Total Days 180 , he expects 'from them as the family can be the "facilitator" ( ) = Holiday or vacation; no school session ~ chief teachers and guardians of in many cases, but it can also 1 2 3 4 * End of Quarter. Examinations given during this week; ~ the faith in their own dioceses. spark alienation from, the church, 1 5 report cards issued within week following. , Supporting this analysis was Hoge said.

8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 [ ] = Catholic Schools Week ~ the pope's recent apostolic let12 13 14 16 17 19 15 15 18 11 He said that family tensions a = Good Friday , ter marking the 16th century are often responsible for teen18 19 20 21 22 (25) 26 27 28 29 b = Catholic Education Convention ~ centenary of St. ,Basil the Great. agers leaving the church. He # = Half days (bus transportation permitting) , 20 days 15 days Basil, bishop of Caesarea, was added that teen·agl~ alienation an erudite theologian and litur- from the faith is so common J-The end of the school year is determined by the fulfillment of the school attendance requirements of ~ gist as well as an ascetic and throughout the Christian denomMassachusetts State Law and the approval of the Diocesan Education Office. ~ pastoral bishop. The whole tone inations that it is almost normal 2-Sessions shall be suspended whenever the public school sessions in the city or town are suspended ~ of the papal letter suggests that statistically.

Others who drop out of the due to. inclement weather. , Pope John Paul sees the ideal bishop as one who combines per- church include "weary drop3~n the day preceding a vacation if public scho 01 sessions close prior to the usual time, G.atholic ~ sonal holiness, pastoral zeal and outs," who lose theil' motivation schools may close at the same time. ~ deep learning. or discover they h,!ld none in 4--Special holidays proclaimed by the civil authorities for their respective cities or towns are to be ~ For the pope to engage in serio the first place; "lifl~style dropobserved. ~ ous theological study, writing outs" who have prclblems with the church's moral teachrings; preaching, in addition to his and 5-Schools may not take additional free days or close sessions early without the consent of the Diocesan ~ "spiritual-need dropouts," who heavy schedule of diplomatic, office. ~ pastoral, administrative and seek spirituality in other church6-Elementary school graduations may be held on or after June 2. High school graduations may be ~ ceremonial duties, is a signal to es Or faiths; and "anti-change held on or after May 27. ~ other bishops that thill is an im- dropouts," who refulle to accept portant part of .their pastoral the post-Vatican II changes in ...."., ,...................... PARENTS: CLIP AND SAVE :, ministry. the church, the survey showed.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - In his first public message as head of the Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Christians, Archbishop Jean Jadot has expressed "sentiments of brotherhood" to the Moselem world.

The message marked the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month.

"Faith in God remains our common ideal for the building of a society in which all men recognize each other as brothers walking toward good in the light of God," Archbishop Jadot said.

"Is this not a pressing reason for Moslems and Christians to engage in frank and open col·biboration for the progress of man and the extension of peace and fraternity, in the free profession of the religion proper to each?" he asked.

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Schools se.~k to saye fu.~l PROVIDENCE, R.I. (NC) The effort to save energy has prompted schedule changes at some Catholic schools in the Providence Diocese.

Pupils at Holy Trinity School, Central Falls, began school Aug. 18 and will have all 11ebruary off.

Four Providence schoclls started Aug. 25, and one, St. Edward's, will be on a 'four-day week, closing each Monday during the winter. All will extend their Christmas or mid-winter February vacations.

Two high schools, Our Lady of Providence Preparatory Seminary and Mt. St. CharlEls Academy, Woonsocket, opened Aug. 25 and will close early in June.

Father John Farley, diocesan vicar for education noted that the Central FaIls and Providence schools could change the;lr schedules fairly easily becat;;se they are not dependent on public school transportation.

"In . areas where Catholic schools are dependent upon public school transporta1ion, it would be more difficult to change the calendar," he said.

Father Farley also said many schools are' saving enl~rgy by lowering temperatures, installing insulation, covering windows with plastic and improving heating system,s.

Father Joseph Hynes, pastor of St. Teresa's School in Providence, which closed for three weeks last Christmas nnd two weeks last February, llaid the parish saved 2,498 gallons of oil during the heating SE:ason by the closings, by lowerir.lg temperatures and by insulating.

EDJCTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAll FALL RIVER, MASSACHUlimS

Since the actual place of residence of GERAlD RICHARD ROBBINS is unknown.

We cite GERALD RICHARD R09BINS to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on September 11, 1980 at 1:30 p.m. at 344 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of th,! mar· riage exists in the SAMSON· ROBBINS case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Gerald Richard RobbillS, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Henry T. MOMoe Officialis Given at the tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this, the 26th day of AU8ust,

1980.

EDJ.CTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUllETTS

Since the actual pl~e of rEisidence of JAMES FARREll JR. IS unknown.

We cite JAMES FARREll JR. to appear personally before the Tribullal of the Diocese of Fall River on ~eptember 9, 1980 at 2:q<l p.m. at 344 Highland Av~nue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the mar· riage exists in the RIl:HARD· SON· FARREll case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of thEl residence of the above person, James Filrrell, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation.

Henry T. Monroe Officialis Given at the tribunal, Fill R!ver, Massachusetts" on thiS, the 26th day of AUl,ust,

1980.

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Queen, pope to, meet soon

MARIACm MUSICIANS, here greeting Pope John Paul II during his 1979 visit to Mexico, typify the vibrant Mexican church experienced by Father Graziano. (NC Photo)

Diocesan priest discovers Mexico· In the following report Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan di· rector of soeial services, describes bis impressions of the church in Mexico.

Last month Father James E. Murphy, director of the Spanish Apostolate in Taunton, and I boarded a plane for Mexico City.

It was the beginning of an unforgettable experience and a time of grace.

Several months ago Bishop Cronin requested that I represent him at the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Basilica of the same title in Mexico.

Little did I know what a memorable trip it would be!

Five years ago our diocesan Spanish Apostolate managed to obtain the missionary services of four members of the Guadalupe community. Their arrival in the fall of 1975 was impressive. Many diocesan Hispanics traveled to Greene Airport in Rhode Island to welcome them with cheers, hymns and embraces. Since then they have been an integral part of our Spanish Apostolate.

However, it is one thing to be with the sisters in our environment and another to be . with them in their own country.

• • Although my stay In MexICO was only for five fleeting days, the impact of that church and its people on my consciousness was f f fl t' ar rom ee mg.

The church in Mexico is alive.

If there is one word to describe rall . . f M . my. o~e unpresslon 0 eXtco It IS FAITH. One could touch Faith by simply being with the people The M .. 0 church h s sutexIC a fered much even during our own lifetimes. The reasons are my· riad and rooted deep in history.

Su ft·Ice I't t 0 say, h owever, th at

today, despite many technical legal constraints upon the church, particularly in the field of education, there does seem to be a growing understanding between church and state.

One walks the streets of Mexico City and knows he is in a nation almost totaIly Catholic.

Churches are everywhere, yet one does not see a priest or sister with any outward garb or symbol of dedication. This is still forbidden by Mexican law.

In the sacristy of the Basilica just prior to the sisters' jubilee Mass, it was quite an experience for me to see large numbers of bishops and priests in lay attire. Vestments were placed over business suits as they prepared to offer the Holy Sacrifice.

One sensed a closeness between bishops and priests and in turn between clergy and people. I queried a number of bishops, priests and sisters about the state of the Mexican church.

I received the same reply from all. They saw the church as alive and perhaps stronger now than at any time in its glorious past.

Most dioceses, many seminarians and religious communities of women are doing quite well, including several with an apostolic thrust completely 20th century in roots and outreach.

The Mexican church is on the move!

I could not help but reflect upon the old adage that where the church suffers the most, she truly flourishes the most. She appears vibrant and relevant in the lives of the people. When they look to the church, they see strength. When they look to their clergy, they see leadership, advocacy, service and strong direction.

One gets the impression that although the Mexican church is

not computerized, highly organized or technically programmed {and I do not mean to imply that such activities are not worthwhile, she is effectively moving the people of God of all ages to be a people of prayer and service.

The family unit seemed intense and strong. It was especially refreshing to see Mexican men actively involved in worship and in caring for and teaching their children.

In some nations the church has an exaggerated feminine image enhanced by a distinct absence of men, but in Mexico men as well as women are seen in churches and shrines. Perhaps since so many of the clergy'have been leaders of the oppressed and as recently as the 1920s have even suffered death for the faith, men see the church as strongly credible.

All is not perfect in Mexico, to be sure. Too many people are living in poverty and are unemployed or earning less than a living wage. Education needs to be expanded. Better housing and health care are serious needs. Agriculture needs major reform and uplift.

Yet, despite these and other serious problems. I saw a nation on the move. And I saw a church on the move, strong, fuIl of hope and energeticaIly relevant.

A powerful experience for a five-day summer trip.

Priest arrested

ROME (NC) - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip of Great Britain will meet Pope John Paul II Oct. 17 during the royal couple's week-long visit to Italy, the British embassy has announced.

It will be the queen's first visit to Italy since 1961, when she met Pope John XXIII at the Vatican.

Possible discussion topics at the meeting are the establishment of fuIl diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the Vatican and a possible papal visit to England next year.

In 1979 Britain agreed to regard the apostolic delegate in Great Britain and his counsellor as diplomatic agents and to treat his property and communications as those of a diplomatic mission. But this fell short of fuIl diplomatic recognition.

The possibility of a papal visit to 'England has been mentioned often in Vatican circles by those who say the pope will want to make a courtesy caII on Queen Elizabeth in return for the October meeting.

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE Graduate Programs: Biblical Studies Religious Studies Religious Education Beginning September 15: Fall offerings: Eighteen courses, each meeting two hours once a week: Mon. - 3:45-5:45 The Eucharist and Introductory Hebrew 7-9 P.M. Epistles to Romans Tues. - 4-6 p.m.

ReI. Education II 3:45-5:45 The Sacraments, Gospel of Matthew 7-9 P.M. Intro. New Testament Wed. - 3:45-5:45 Theology of Spirituality Thurs. - 3:45-5:45 Existential Theology Prophetic Faith 7-9 P.M. Dominican Spirituality New Testament Theology Fri. -- 9:30-11:30 A.M. ReI. Education I 3:45-5:45 Moral Problems Today

NEW YORK (NC) - Father Sigitas Tamkevicius, 42, a member of the Catholic Committee Inquire: for the Defense of Believers Rei. Studies Dept., Graduate Programs Rights, was arrested in mid-June Providence College in Lithuania and is currently Providence, RI 02918 (401) 865-2274 awaiting trial, according to the Lithuanian Information Service, -. headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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was fun, We were delighted at the response to our Kateri Contest, announced A1,lg. 8 in connection with the confused inscription reprinted on the right.

We've been deluged with replies (well, 40, plus others that arrived after our Aug. 21 deadline). They included one that queried indignantly, "Where did you find that picture?"

I~ was distributed by National Catholic News Service and depicts a \ mural in St. Joseph Cemetery and Mausoleum in Columbus, Ohio, where officials did a super job of jumping the gun on Kateri's canonization.

Father David M. Schilder, cerneteries director of the Col- . umbus diocese, said the mistake was due to a misreading of an article on Kateri Tekakwitha in Columbia, the Knights of Columbus magazine.

He said that when he discovered the mistake, he went out to the mural and said: "Look, dear heart, we've goofed. We've promoted you when you aren't officially there' yet.

I'll tell you what: "We'll pray for 'your quick canonization if you'll pray for the financial success of St. Joseph Cemetery, so that its beauty may reflect the beauty of the souls whose bodies rest in this place."

Father Schilder added that he believed the error was "a divinely directed mistake."

Now, our contest: a good many of you joined St. Joseph's Cemetery in jumping the gun on Kateri's canonization. You weren't thumbnail biography of our . heroine. reading your Anchors.

Then there was Sister James Kateri was beatified on June Marie, SUSC, of Taunton, who 22 of this year, as reported in clipped the whole Kateri story our issue of June 26. from another diocesan paper What about 1932? Thafs the that didn't run a contest and year her cause for canonization sent it to us. "I can't take any was introduced in Rome. In 1943 credit, though," she chuckled. she was declared Venerable, After all this, who won? Renow she's Blessed and, as one of member, we said "the best exour contestants wrote, "I know planation," thus leaving ourshe'll become a saint in a couple selves a loophole in case we_ of years." ended up in a.n Alice in WonderFifteen of you sorted out the land situation ("All have won above correctly, but a dazzling and all must have prizes"). array of other possibilities came Really, every entry was terriour way from imaginative sub- fic, including those of two 11scribers. year-olds, Cheryl Lamb of New Several offered grammatical Bedford and Bernadette Boutin improvements on the inscription, of Fall River. some understood it to mean that But everyone will probably Kateri was married and wonder- agree that te1enager Kateri Mared why, in that case, she would tel of Feehan High in Attleboro have taken a vow of chastity, had what yoU! might call a headwhile one truly sharp-eyed start in the matter - as well as reader pointed out that the "h" giving an excellent and correct in Tekakwitha is the only non- account of her namesake's im< capitalized letter in the inscrip- portant dates. tion.

We've decided that she and Another reader questioned the Manuel Medeiros of North Fairdescription of Kateri as both aus- haven are co-winners, he because tere and charitable, saying that he did the neatest all-around job one quality seemed to cancel . of wrapping up the whole Kateri chronology. He closed by writout the other.

And Maurice Stebenne, a ing: "Perhaps the person who longtime Kateri fan, sent in his created this picture was a bit entry, unfortunately after our premature in his. thinking but deadline, 'on Kateri stationery, he shares in all our thoughts complete with pictures and a that we will live to see the day

when the Lily of the Mohawks will receive the tithl she justly deserves, that of Saint."

And the prizes? We thought you'd never ask: $10 to each winner.

Congratulations to alI, including, soon, St. Kateri!

Hanoi churches. largely dislllsed' HANOI, Vietnam (NC) Catholic churches ill Hanoiappear to be historical monuments rather than places of worship, according -to an article by Reuters, the British news agency.

"Except for two hours a day from 5 a.m. to 1 n.m. ..,. the large iron 'doors of the Frenchbuilt Queen ~f Peace cathedral 'remain closed. AftEir years of neglect, the building looks like a relic," said the article.

It quoted Dao Tam Chau, a 30-year-old official ~It the Vietnamese foreign minsitry, who said he was born' a Catholic and attended church regularly as a child.

"I do not go to church more because I want to dl) more use-. ful things," he said.

"The government I!oes not interfere with religion. But neither do we allow religion to interfere in state affairs," Chllu added.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Sept. 4, 1980

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victims of economic change and Falmouth Home For Funerals lon~-standing so~al injustices Father Wuerl, vice re~tor of often must struggle for existence St. Paul Seminary, Pittsb1,l,l'gh, in intolerable living conditions from 1969 to 1979 worked for in crowded urban centers. the Vatican's COngregati,OD for Those that belong to racial the Clergy as secretary to the minorities or to immigrant groups :.:~~~ ... late Cardinal JoIm Wright, prefind it espec~lly difficult to claim _ . - . _ ... -." r--...·----·· ...--... -' feet of the congregation. The their legitimate social rights.

475 MAIN STREET world Synod of Bishops opens Even when problems are so FALMqUTH; MASSACHUSETTS 02540 in Rome Sept. 26. The following great that social,po}itical and (NEXT TO ST, PATRICK'S CHURCH) article is the second of a tw&o economic changes seem urgently 540-4172 part series. needed, measures often are not EDWARD F. SAUNDERS JOHN H. GRANSTOM The 1980 world Synod of Bishtaken unless concerned persons DAVID M. CHAPMAN ops has as its theme the role of press for effective social action. the family in the modern world.

Christians, the Vatican CounIn particular, the bishOjps will cil pointed out, should cooperate examine the church's t1eaching with others of good will to in-: on marriage and the C:!uistian sure that the policies ()f their concept of family. governments give attention td As the meeting's l:lriginal these ills. working draft pointed out, "Since Part two of the synod's draft._.~iIlil_t;::::l.... scientific and technologic:al propaper concentrates on the doc",~ _ ~ __ . __ gress is bringing profound trine concerning marriage and ~ ~ changes to the world with inthe family.

The sacramental and Ideal retirement situation for those living olone and I creasing rapidity, all institutions ecclesial or communitarian asII are subjected to crisis. Accordpects of marriage come to the ~, who appreciate gracious living: ingly, the family also carmot esfore in this section. The docu- ';, cape having an identity crisis. ment points out that "since in a rl~' Elegantly Furnished The importance of this c:risis is marriage and the family. of • Professional Nurses all the greater because the famChristians you have a participaily is the primary and fundation in the mystery of Christ • Appetizing Meals mental cell of all society and as through a permanent sacrament, • Companionship, And Much More a result the happiness of the there is much more here than in whole of society is cO:!lnected Call 675-7583 . a purely human agreement." with the welfare of the family."

The marriage agreement or Between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. More than 15 years have gone covenant is, according to the 391 HANOVER STREET by since the Second Vatican synod, "expressed once in mu'Wi_I! Council, interpreting thle signs tuaJ consent, but is lived Iii of the times, spoke about the throughout a lifetime of recipropastoral and dogmatic aspects of cal self-giving and acceptance." the nature and function of the For the Christian understandChristian family. This decade ing of marriage this covenant is and a half has seen a profound truly the beginning of a new change in the church ~lnd the human reality before God, beworld. fore the married couple and beThe change has been marked fore society. In this manner a mainly by two characteri.stics: a vUlole complex of new relationradical development in society's ships 'and communications is way of thinking and the rapidity brought into existence. Accordof the process of change. All of ing to the synod, "The desire GENERAl.. CONTRACTORS this affects how we see the famand the will for the permanence ily today. and indissolubility of the mar"'2 MERIDIAN STREET The Catholic understal1:ding of riage covenant is part of its very TttI. 614-3932 6144//76 the nature of the family has its essence." roots in the Old Testament. The The 1980 synod of bishops is growth of our perceptior.. of the to study the role of the family.

RESIDENTIAL - INSTITUTIONAL The choice of this theme is the COMMERCIAL result of the almost unanimous decision of the synods of the REFERfNCU UPON REQUEST Eastern churches and the bishops' conferences around the world, together with the suggestion of the departments of the Roman Curia. In these last years "SERVING THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF FALMOUTH FOR OVER 30 YEARS" the Apostolic See and the bishops' conferences, and even individual bishops in several countries, have quite frequently published documents on the family.

The 1980 synod is alsl"' ,'logical consequence of t~. ological currents generated by the 1971, 1974 and 1977 synods.

As the document itself points out, "There is a clear connection with the themes of the three preceeding sessions of the synod which dealt with justice in the world, the ministerial priesthood, evangelization and, finally, with catechesis."

• LOCATED IN THE QUIET VILLAGE OF WEST FALMOUTH JUST MINUTES To face these questions and FROM FALMOUTH CENTER. offer hope and guidance to the • HANDICAP FACILlTJES AND AMPLE LIGHTED PARKING AREA. Christian community as it strug• CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT DIRECTORS. gles to reinforce the concepts of • TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Christian family and marriage DIRECTORS in the modem world, the bishops Harold W. Jenkins, Jr. Richard E. Gregoire from around the world will POPE PAUL VI was the principal celebrant at the Mass gather in Rome for one month, 548·0042 opening the 1977 World Synod of Bishops. (NC Photo) beginning Sept. 26.

By Father Donald WlJerl

Christian family carries us through the pages of the New Testament, the writings of the fathers of the church, the experience of centuries of generations of believers who have lived out the rich vocation of parent, and the multitude of teachings and instructions that have come from the teaching office of the church.

The Second Vatican Council in reassessing the concept of family noted that the marital companionship between a man and a woman is "the primary form of interpersonal .communion." Moreover, it is "the beginning and the basis of human. society" and its mission is to be "the first and vital cell of society."

Although each marriage as contracted by the free decision of the two persons involved, it is neither they nor the laws and customs of their' community that alone determine what marriage is. God has also indicated his plan.

The family is not the product of artificial convention; it is not established by nor is it subject to essential change by any higher human authority.

The synod's working\paper begins with a statement on the situation of the family in the modern world. It notes that "in all regions can be found a new awareness of the pastoral importance of the Christian family."

A more ominous note is struck. As the paper points out: "In the years since the close of the Second Vatican Council the institution of divorce has been introduced to the legislation of almost every nation, including those traditionally called Christian. Statistics show that in some areas one marriage in three leads to divorce."

This statistic brings into relief the many needs of the family today. Families that are the

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I find myself constantly spanking her because she will not obey simple commands. like: "Come here," "Stay out" (out of drawers, cupboards, etc.), and "Don't scream" (she loves to hear herself scream, I think).

She just stands there saying no or completely ignoring me. First I ask her nicely but by the fourth or fifth time, my patience has left and I am harsh with her.

I realize I am not a patient person. So far I've only spanked her, but I hate myself terribly afterward. Why can't I go just ODe day without spanking or hollering at her? Am I sick? After all she is only a baby and she should be happy and full of smiles and laughter. She is when she's around ber father.

I love ber so very much and I want her to grow up happy and wanting to be with her parents, come home for visits and have fond ehildhood memories.

These are things I don't have. I couldn't &ear it it I lost both my parents and my ehild. My husband and I get along very well and he is great with ber. I hope you can help me before It is too late. (Mo.) A. Thank you for your vivid account. You clearly point out that life with young children is

not all sweetness and roses. I .certainly do not think it is too late. I see some real strengths in you, and you can build on these to become a good parent.

Despite an unhappy childhood, you are coping as an adult. You recognize you are not patient.

Each of us has developed different personality traits. It is not the tendency to impatience which is wrong but acting on that impatience in ways that hurt others. You are distressed because you spank your baby all the time. Let us take the situations you describe and choose other means of discipline.

First, 'she won't "come here."

An l8-month-old child is at the very earliest stage of discipline.

Although toddlers know a few words, they are basically physical creatures. Thus, to be effective you malee all your discipline physical but without spanking.

In this case, when you say "come here," simply go get her.

At age three or four she will come in response to your verbal command, but not yet.

Second, she won't "stay out of drawers, cabinets, etc." An 18month-old sees no reason to stay out of the most fascinating places in the home. There is no way. you can convince her this is desirable. One way might be to invoke fear of dire punishment, a course you do not wish to take. A better way is to child-

proof. Tie cabinf~ts together.

Lock them. Put v2,luable things up high. If she loves pots and pans, let her play with them.

They are the cheapest, most sturdy toys around, Getting into everything is perfectly normal for a toddler, and it passes as she grows older.

Third, she won't "stop screaming." Everyone frolD the littlest baby to the oldest senior citizen loves attention. YllUr daughter has discovered hoVl' to get it. If you really want he:r to stop, the most effective cour~e is to ignore it. Screaming will not disappear immediately, but if it draws no attention, it is much less fun. No attention. No screaming.

Finally a word about ~panking.

You mention that ~rou are short on patience, that you hate yourself for spanking nnd that you have only spanked so far. For you and for any parent who fears he might lose control when spanking a child, I strongly reconunend that you never spank.

The danger of losin,g control and physically abusing your child is too great. To re<:ognize your tendency is simply honest and wise. Instead try the techniques mentioned above: Cllrry out commands physically, childproof and ignore undesirable behavior.

Questions on famUy living and chl1d care are lnvi.teeI. Address to the Kennys c/o 1be Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass.

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The area of the country that has been hardest hit cropwise this year is of course the midwest - from whence come the crops , to feed our livestock. Therefore j prices on beef, pork, poultry and eggs will doubtless rise this winter. Now may be a good time to stock your meat freezerl In our home we mostly enjoy the fresh native vegetables in season, not when they arrive on I the supermarket stands in January, tasting of every chemical

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J;4 cup finely min<:ed basil, or tarragon 2 hard boiled eggs 1. Peel tomatoes after dipping them in boiling w~lter. Remove and discard the cent-ers and seeds and chill the tomato shells. Beat an egg along with lhe flour and sugar, stir in milk and cook until thickened. Add the vinegar and pour the mixture over the cream cheese that has been softened. Add salt, pl~pper, pickle and herbs. Fill tomatoes with this mixture, top with hard-boiled egg and chill again..

Fried Green Tomatoes Cut firm, plump, green tomatoes into ~ inch slices and dip in milk an dthen flour..' mixed with salt, pepper and a little brown sugar. Fry slowly in half margarine and half vegetable shortening until crisp, brown and tender.

B:p. Lamont to retire UMTALI, Zintbabwe (NC) Bishop Donal Lamont, 69, of Umtali said in an interview with the German Catholic news agency KNA that he has submitted his resignation to Pope John Paul n.

Bishop Lamont recently returned to Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) after three years of exile under the former whiteminority regime.

A Carmelite missionary from Northern Ireland. he was one of the leading white spokesmen for \

black majority rule in Rhodesia.

In 1977 he was stripped of his citizenship and eJtpelled. The government said hf~ refused to report guerrillas in his diocese and encouraged priests and nuns to do the same.

Bishop Lamont said he wanted to retire to Ireland by the end of this year but that he first wanted to tour Ew'Ope to raise funds to help rebuild his wartom diocese, which has a Catholic population of about 1,000 whites and 80,000 blacks.

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By Father JOM Diec:en Q. We just returned j1rom a visit to Europe. 1bis was our first time there, and Wl~ were embarrassed twice by being nearly kept out of churches we wanted to visit.

One place was in Rome. I thought we were dressed very modestly, but they thou,ght we were not, I guess.

If a church has become a public museum, do church lluthorities have a right to set standards of dress for those who

come in? (Texas) A. Some churches in Europe and other countries no longer serve as regular places I,f worship and are in effect museums - the Pantheon in Rome, later known as the Church of Our Lady of Martyrs, is a g()od example.

However, travelers should recognize that most churches even if they are old, historic and loaded with items of interest are still churches and lire primarily for that purpose. They are not museums.

- If we make the comparison, they are no more museums than the golden-domed mosque of Omar in Jerusalem. Though sightseers often regard tais venerable spot (where Sc,lomon's Temple stood) as a playground, it is in fact a house of prayer as befits the mosque. Rules of propriety and decency are not only tolerated; they are E!xpected by thoughtful and civilized visitors.

Nevertheless, if one considers such rules to be unreasonable, it might be helpful to protest politely to someone in charge.

Frankly, I am a little surprised at the experiences you had, I believe the regulations in most places are very rea.sonable, much more so than thley were perhaps five or 10 years ago.

Q. One a1most never hears anything about the rules of the observaoce of Sunday -- servile

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(California) A. It most certainly does. We have to start with the j1act that the importance of Sunday as the Lord's day never did depend on the "rules" for the day. They depend instead on what the day is: the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus and of our resurrection with him.

For this reason, not because it is a church law, we Christians have always seen this day as a unique day of worship when we should offer the Eucharist to praise, thank and be glad with God for this central eveltlt of our faith and for all it has :meant to the world.

You must be aware that the whole "forbidden" work idea developed in a radically different agricultural labor socie:ty. It is futile and misses the point entirely to discuss (as w.~ used to do) whether crocheting" garden-

ing or changing the oil in the car are allowed on Sunday.

Our aim is rather to have our home and our activities reflect, on that day above all, the peace, joy, and contentment and love that should be ours because of what Jesus has done for us.

While old rules may be deemphasized, there is no downgrading of Sunday. Just the opposite. This is another example of how much more faith and generosity it takes to seriously think through what it means to be a Christian, than it does to simply follow a few regulations and feel we have fulfilled our obligations.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

Suit against NCCB dismissed WASHINGTON (NC) - u.S. District Judge June 1. Green has dismissed a suit by the Costello Publishing Co. of Northport, N.Y., against the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) for breach of anti-trust laws.

The company claimed in a 1976 suit that the NCCB Violated anti-trust laws by discouraging sale of a book titled "Morning and Evening Prayers," which the firm intended to distribute in the United States. The publisher had declined to submit the text for approval by the NCCB in accordance with church law.

In granting the defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint, Green noted that the NCCB is responsible for approval of liturgical texts for use by Roman Catholics in the United States.

The judge added that "concomitantly, the NCCB has the duty to discourage the dissemination and use of unapproved liturgical texts in the dioceses of the United States."

She held also that the free exercise clause of the First Amendment prohibits federal courts from reviewing ecclesiastical decisions and observed that a controlling decision by the U.S. Supreme Court forbade judicial review of such decisions even where allegations of religious impropriety were raised.

Wilfred R. Caron, general counsel of the NCCB, said the decision established an important precedent. "While we hope there will be no appeal Judge Green's decision is clearly correct and should survive any challenge," Caron said.

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II Religi=1

By Brother Leo Kirby, FSC

II The journey II

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Perhaps the greatest gift a caring community can give to brothers and sisters in religious congregations is a sense that all Christians are pilgrims on a journey home to the Father.

Lay people and religious share the same human experience within different contexts. Their pilgrimage becomes richer when both travel together, rather like friends. on a trip who experience both the difficulties and the joys of travel while keeping their eyes on their journey's end. This is a simple analogy, but one that differs markedly from models held by many, both in parishes and in religious communities.

People tend to label and stereotype religious, it seems. This is done in good will, often unconsciously, and has roots far back in history.

On the one hand, the religious is put on the defensive with questions that have no easy answers.

"Is religious life dead?"

"Why are so many brothers and sisters leaving?"

"Don't you think the changes have done more harm than good?"

"Do you realize that I wouldn't encourage my daughter or son to enter religious life today?"

Even a casual conversation can turn into a paralyzing struggle to defend and explain the very core of life's meaning. As one religious remarked: "I'm going to visit some friends. Please be prepared to put me back together when I return."

On the other hand, some persons label religious more subtly by means of unreal expectations which effectively preclude any real relationships between religious and lay persons. People who label can be shocked when a member of a religious order proves to be totally human, flawed or even broken in some way.

The parish community grows when it avoids labels and becomes more aware that the healer often needs healing, the strong need strengthening and the consoler needs consoling.

A simple yet profound ministry emerges when the religious is considered a person called by the parish to live a vowed life of service in community. In a practical, concrete sense, how can this be done?

1. Allow Religious to speak freely and openly of the Lord.

Rather than merely asking for prayers, begin to pray with religious so that together all may build up the body oUhe church.

This spiritual companionship is a great and powerful gift, one largely untapped, yet waiting.

2. A mutual sharing of joys and sorrows, without judgment and without expectation can develop from spiritual companionship. From this base a sense of mission, an ability to listen to the cry of humanity, can emerge and help people to share their pilgrimage back to the Father.

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SISTER JOHN WITH NOTRE DAME PRESIDENT FATHER THEODORE HESBURGH

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By Richard Conklin

In the early summer of 1972, Sister John Miriam Jones took a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine and some cheese to her favorite mountain outside Colorado Springs. She went up the mountain as a microbiologist at the University of Colorado. She came down as the highest-ranking woman administrator at the University of Notre Dame.

Sister John had at first turned down an invitation to join the provost's office at Notre Dame, but the offer persisted. She consulted her religious community, the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. Their response, "Think it over," precipitated the day on the mountain.

"I kicked stones around a lot, thinking about how free I was at this stage of my life," she recalls. "Then a small voice said, 'How free are you if you are unwilling to take a risk for growth?'

The woman who came down the mountain that day was answering a call in much the same way she had as a college freshman: with a keen sense of God's personal concern and a desire to respond with the deepest commttment. In 1943, that meant entering the novitiate. Almost three decades later, it meant the challenge to assist in the development of coeducation at a previously all-male university.

Sister John holds a master's

degree in biology and a doctorate in microbiology from Notre Dame.

Earlier, she had been a teacher and administrator in elementary schools in Illinois, Ohio, New . Mexico and Colorado. (She continues to teach microbiology at Notre Dame.)

Her role during the transition to a coeducational intellectual community at Notre Dame can best be summarized by reading the presidential award citation presented to her last spring. "By gentle persuasion, irrefutable logic, patient argument and discussion, she has been markedly successful, translating general coeducational policies into accepted workaday procedures.

Anticipating and ideI;ltifying potential problems before they became major campus issues, she

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smoothed tt.e way for coeducation to be accepted as a way of life."

The transition completed, Sister John moved on to other responsibilities. She now signs affirmative action reports, sits on the faculty board in control of atheletics, reviews tenure decisions and helps determine enrollment policies. She also serves on the boards of Mt. St. Joseph College, Cincinnati, and her own community.

Her years at Notre Dame have taught her to come to terms with the loneliness of those living apart from their religious community. "There is a very effective spiritual support system at Notre Dame. One has friends and worship is as easy to come by as it is prayerful," she comments.

A visible witness

By Father John J_ Castelot Paul paid one of his highest compliments to the church of Thessalonica: "As regards brotherly love, there is no need for me to write you. God himself has taught you to love one another, and this you are doing with respect to all the brothers throughout Macedonia" (1 Thess.

4:9-10).

For Paul, love was the most important element in the life of Christians and communities.

Therefore, he was upset when it was lacking.

Paul took seriously the teaching of Jesus in the Last Supper discourse that his followers are to love one another. For Jesus, nothing replaces mutual love as the hallmark of true discipleship. He intended this to be the distinguishing characteristic of the authentic Christian community.

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know your faith

Often referred to. simply as Religious, sisters and brothers are imperfect people who support one another in their weaknesses and strengths. Religious are not a splendid army drl~ssed in battle array but a community of travelers singing and dancing and crying on the way, Many changes have taken place among Religious during the past 15 years. At times those changes have un.settled some Catholics. And there have been occasions when changes were abused.

According to 1980 statistics, there are 126,517 sisters and 7,941 brothers in religious life in the United States. By comparison, there were HiO,931 sisters and 11,623 brothel'S in 1970.

Religious serve in varied ways.

Sometimes they f,:>llow tradittional paths in teaching, nursing, counseling and t:rison work.

Other Religious are investment advisers, lawyers, conservationists and editors. ~:ome live in large religious communities or in smaller communitiE:s with perhaps only three or four members.

Sometimes brothers live with priests, sometimes with other brothers. Occasiomilly religious live alone or with a parent.

But the most important change for religious is undoubtedly found in an altered perspective.

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II For children II

By Janaan MaJlternach It was morning all Jesus stood beside the Lake of Gennesaret.

Crowds of people had come out to hear him. They were so eager that they were almost pushing Jesus into the watElr. Jesus noticed twl:> boats tied nearby. The fishE:rmen were washing their nets. He walked over to Simon's boat, climbed .into it and asked S[mon to row out a little from shore.

Then Jesus began to speak to the people about God's way to happiness.

When he finished he turned to Simon and said: '''Pull out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch."

Simon smiled with disbelief.

It was late morning and the hot sun was high. "Ma:ster," Simon said, "we have worked hard all night. That's the time to fish this lake. But we (:aught nothing. There's little chance that we'll catch any fish at this¡ time of day."

Jesus smiled. It was clear to Simon that he was ~:erious about letting out the nets. Rather than argue, Simon shrugged his shoulders and said,. ''Rabbi, if you say so, I willloW'er the nets."

They watched the weighted nets sink into the water. In a moment Simon felt II strong tug.

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A Verdclde E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

Todos Os Homens: Sao Filhos De Deus Estes nossCls·dias sao de consiencializa9aO e denGncia de todo e qualquer racismo: x:acismo de cor de pele, de si tua9aO eccmomico-social, de cu!tura, de desemrolvimento, de religiao de fronteiras e de historia. As organiza9S,s internacionais, tendentes a construir urn mundo em que todos os homens possuam direitos iguais, vaose impondo, apE!Sar das suas deficiencias, ditadas quer por prementes tradicionalismos quer ainda por mais for-: tes interesses pes~oais e de grupo.

Testes do l3eu tempo, os jovens insurgem-se contra urna sociedade organizada por escalSes, em que os direitOB" sao diferentes e diferente e a f·rui9ao dos beltlS comuns. Mas tambem esses jovens sle arregimentem em classes eu grupos. A· l'Uta de classes, com reindic9Ses just.as e outras queoprimem vai tomando 0 lugar das lutas entre os povos, sem as vencer por completo.

A Igreja e uma comunidade de fe, em que todos se encontram como irmaos.

As celebra9Ses liturgicas intentam precisamente isso: todos ali reunidos na mesma fe, e para olouvor do mesmo Deus, Pai universal, descobrem-se como irmaos e devem regressar a vida dando as maos. Mas tambem actualmente se encontram as cisSes dentro da Igreja e os cristaos nao dao grande exemplo de caridade: um nada os ergue uns contra os outros. o homem encontra-se na Terra. ~ da Terra e nao pode negar 0 seu parentesco Intimo com tudo quanta povoa a Terre como esta nao e urn mere e ocasional produto do Universo em evolu9ao.,.Ha um sentido na eVQ,IU9aO, sentido esse que se orienta para 0 homem, que surge na Terra por urna aC9ao especial de Deus: Fa9amos 0 home:m qual nossa imagem e semelhan9a.

Deus escolhe um povo para preparar o Seu grande a.nGncio em Cristo. Esse povo possui os: defei tos historicos dos outros povos E! tera de ser preparado para que ven9aL tudo quanta 0 impede de encontrar Deus; como Pai universal, sem limites de rac:ismos, de classes ou situa9Ses. Apesar desta longa prepara<;ao, apesar das VOZE!S fortes dos profetas , esse povo cont:inua na linha tradicional de classificax: as pessoas perante Deus: Cristo e apont:ado a dedo e denunciado como contraric) a ordem estabelecida porque fala e come com os pecadores e os gentios. o anuncio do Evangelho aos gentios cria nestes uma euforia bem compreensivel: ninguem E; condenado, todos podem encontrar Deus porque todos sao filhos de Deus, aindcl que filhos desencaminhados ou prodj~gios. Mas esta euforia pode originar urn outro racismo, este a20ra de fundo cristao: serao os cristaos filhos dJLlectos ou privilegiados de Deus?

S. Paulo :Lnsurge-se contra este perigo. Nao SE! vence um racismo por outro racismo, mas pelo amor: nao se vence urn erro substituindo-o por outro, mas opondo$lhE! a verdade.

A visible witness Continued from page twelve and the early Christians were conspicuous for their love. If any single factor was most responsible for the amazing growth of Christianity, it was this example of love, a living proof that people could live together in harmony.

However, a change occurred after Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D., thereby recognizing Christianity as a legitimate religion.

Christians could live in the open, build churches and expand. This proved a lOlixed blessing. As communities grew in size they became, paradoXically, less obvious signs of love and support.

Surely not by coincidence, communities of Religious made their first appearance at this time. These communities were not trying to be special; they were simply trying to give visible witness of unique Christian love. Their witness was impressive. Groups of religious lived together happily without any of the natural bonds of love to unite them, such as blood relationship or sexual attraction.

Today Christianity has taken still another turn. Some religious, especially women, are moving from large communities dnto a variety of ministries.

Some people find this disturbing. But what would the church do without the dedicated zeal and expertise of these people?

The growing complexity of pastoral ministry and the alarming shortage of vocations to the priesthood makes their active presence a providential godsend.

They are doing what people did in the early churches, contributing their Spirit-given gifts to build the body of Christ.

In doing so, however, Religious have sacrificed in varying degrees the love and support

For children Continued from page twelve was so large that the nets were almost breaking.

Simon shouted to his friends who were still on shore. They jumped into their boat and rushed out to help pull in the nets.

The two boats almost sank under the load of fishes.

Simon was astonished. He fell down before Jesus and said: "Leave me, Lord, I am a sinful man."

The others, James and John, the sons of Zebedee the fisherman, were just as amazed.

Jesus said gently to Simon and his partners: "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people."

The men quickly brought their overloaded boats to shore. "Who is this man?" they wondered in their hearts. "What can he mean by catching people?"

On shore, people gathered to see the unusual catch of fish.

And Simon, James and John then and there left everything - the fish, their boats and nets, their business. They walked off with Jesus. They became his first followers.

they found in community life.

As a result, they can feel terribly lonely. The parish is now their family, and should try to supply the love and warmth they have sacrificed for wider service. No one can carry on for long without real love that is given practical expression.

Religious Continued from page twelve speak of their vows of chastity, obedience and poverty. In years past the vow of chastity stressed law and prohibition more than life and love. Today the person who makes a vow of chastity simply chooses Christ as his partner for life. Love reflects the very essence of consecrated chastity.

This love for Christ spreads to other people. The religious is not one who refuses to love others. Chastity can be real and still be full of passion, fire and affection. There is some risk in this. But the greater risk is that without this dynamic view, it could appear that Religious are barricading themselves against the world. Religious should be hooked into life, not sheltered from it!

Again, in the past the vow of obedience was often identified with rules and regulations. Today the symbol of obedience is often the human ear. The symbol connotes a listener, one who listens not only to commands but also for the cries of those in despair. Religious listen in order to love.

Finally, for many Religious the vow of poverty no longer means simply giving up things, but sharing them. The symbol of poverty has become the. open hand. Gospel poverty suggests a willingness to share not only goods but also time, talent and especially love.

One of the most obvious changes in religious life is the change of religious habit. Some sisters have modified their garb, some no longer wear an identifiable garb. And some wear hab· its only while on duty.

But this change is only exterior. It is the inward change that needs to be unQ.erstood.

The journey Continued from page twelve The current Christian journey is marked by a massive shift in values which has had an overwhelming impact both in religious and parish life. When family values ebb within a culture, so does religious life.

3. Clearly, religious and laity need each other as witnesses to the value of fidelity. Perhaps "fidelity" expresses the most important thing Religious and laity can give each other. Religious must see lay persons faithful to God's call in their lives.

Similarly, parish communities need to see religious brothers and sisters faithful to a single-hearted love of the church, their religious congregation and the people they serve.

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EILEEN POTTS WITH MOTHER TERESA

'The joy of Christ risen'

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BERLIN, N.J. ~C) - "Never let any thing so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen" is the favorite prayer of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India. It is also the inscription on the headstone of Eileen Potts' grave.

Above the prayer is a reproduction of a photograph of Miss Potts with Mother Teresa.

Miss Potts, daughter of Wilpiam and Elizabeth Potts of Somerdale, N.J., died Nov. 18, 1979, at 24 of an undiagnosed form of cancer.

Mother Teresa was "the best thing that ever happened in her life," according to Miss Potts' father.

The photograph, taken by Robert S. Halvey, of the Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times, was treasured by Miss Potts and that's why it was reproduced on the headstone.

It was taken when Mother Teresa, in the area for. the International Eucharistic Congress, visited Miss Potts when she was recovering from one of her operations.

Later, when she knew she did not have long to live, Miss Potts .asked her father if the photo, along with Mother Teresa's favorite prayer, could be used on the card that would be given out at her viewing.

"Her friends used to kid about the photo," said Mrs. Potts.

"They told her it looked like a holy card."

Miss Potts had been active in community services in the Philadelphia Archdiocese in high school. She enrolled at the University of Scranton, but in 1974 had two operations after she discovered a lump under her arm.

After recuperating she returned to complete her freshman and sophomore years at Scranton. Following her sophomore year, Miss Potts decided to leave school for a year to work on plans for t~1e 1976 eucharistic congress in Philadelphia.

She served as vice chairman of the YOUG1 committee and as a coordinator for SIGN (Service

in God's Name) to collect pledges of hours of service. Miss Potts was also a national coordinator for the congress and while engaged in this work she first met Mother Teresa.

However, she was not able to attend the event for which she had worked so hard. In June 1976 she again became ill.

It was in August, while recuperating from surgery, that she was visited by Mother Teresa.

Miss Potts, who had previously received a congress medal, offered it to Mother Teresa as a gift for a friend of the nun's choosing. Mother Teresa accepted it, but said the medal and its chain would be used for the key to the tabernacle in the chapel of the motherhouse of her community, the Missionaries of Charity, in Calcutta.

There, Mother Teresa told Eileen, she would be remembered in prayer each time the door was opened.

Miss Potts graduated with her class, in spite of another operation and radiation treatment and went to Washington to work in youth ministry. There she became the first lay member of Our Lady's Missionaries of the Eucharist.

Mother Teresa visited her again after Miss Potts had surgery in June 1979. From the time of this operation until her death in November, Miss Potts was home for a total of only three weeks. ,She re-entered the hospital for the last time Sept.

18, 1979.

While a patient, Miss Potts received tickets to Pope John Paul II's Oct. 3 Mass in Philadelphia. Although heavily sedated and lying on a stretcher, attended by a nurse, Miss Potts was among the thousands who attended the pope's Mass.

"When the pope entered the cathedral," Miss Potts said later, "we were only a few feet away.

I felt that all of us - me, the holy father and all the people there - were praying to God at the same time, 路路and he was listening."

Why do people insist on thinking so little of themselves?

Certainly one should not go around boasting, but there is a limit to self-denigration.

Let us consider those men and women who spread the gospel throughout these United States long ibefore they were united.

They were a noble army that helped launch the power that made this nation what it is. They stepped into the wilderness and carved a path in Christ's name.

They weren't professionals.

They didn't apologize for their Jack of degrees. They were a 3tout and resolute company that believed in the sovereignty of God. It was amateurs who set sail .0 the new world. They looked ~1ardship in the face and over:.ame. They wanted freedom lrom tyranny, freedom to worship. Like the prophet Amos,

the preachers were laymen. As penniless end caml~ years of arinspired amateurs they spread dors and endurancl~s which have the gospel through the land. left a pel'Jl.lanent influence on They all had Bibles. I am re- the United States. minded of an early evangelist The idea of God was wrapped whose New Testament needed up in people of c(lurage, humilrebinding. The binder found ity and constancy. We need there was not enough room along more itinerants! the spine to print its full title.

I was discussing' these early So he just put the initials TNT. preachers with a young writer.

A divinely inspired mistake, for "How did they star.ld it?" he askthe Bible is a very explosive ed. The answer is that they substance! didn't. They died in their 20s These amateurs for Christ and 30s, but no group of young looked on the world as their people ever lived more fully the parish. They shared the early gospel truth, "He that loseth his Christian dream, a vision of hori- life shall find it." zons far beyond native roads and They called themselves God's cities.

Plowmen. Their blades went I find their itinerancy so re- . deep into the life of the young freshing. They were everywhere, nation and once they put their on annual salaries of $30. All hands to God's ploy they never most possessed were a pair of looked back. Theil' lives are a saddlebags, some books and lens through which we catch a some old clothes. glimpse of those who made Between their penniless arri- straight in the de,sert and the val in the New World and their wilderness a highway for God.

By Charlie Martin

IN AMERICA Well the eagle's been flyin' slow And a lot of people are sayin' that America's fixin' to fall But speaking just for me And some people from Tennessee We got a thing or two to tell you all This lady may have stumbled But she ain't never fell And if the Russians don't believe it They can all go straight to hell We're goona put her feet back on the path of Righteousness and then God bless America again.

And you never did think that it ever would happen again In America, did ya You never did think that we would ever get together again Well we damn sure fooled you We're walkin' real proud and we're ta1kin' real loud again In America You never did think that it ever would happen again.

From the Sound up in Long Island out to San F'rancisco Bay Everything in between them is our home And we may have done a little bit of fighting amongst ourselves But you outside people best leave us' alone Cause we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks )h just go and lay your hand on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan And I think you're goona finally understand.

SWig by the Charlie Daniels Band, written b~, Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain, Taz Digregorio, Fred Edwards, Charlie Hayward, Jim Marshall, (c) 1980 by Hat Band Music

mE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND blends a livEly fiddle and a country approach to lyrics with a rock music style. Perhaps its popularity stems fl:om this.

"In America" refll~cts a resolve to overcome recent problems in the United States and to reestablish the natioll's leadership position.

It is difficult to know how seriously to take th:is son's message.But it does reflect an attitude and a certain nostalgia for a time when a nation's greatness was equated with power and dominance.

However, the earth has become a small placl~ where nations need to reo:lgnize their dependence on each other. Domination and power will be replaced by cooperation and mutual assistance, or all nations will face eventual disaster.

Jesus invited all of us to be brothers and sisters of the same Father. History holds many sad examples of times when such good news was igncired, but the needs of today's wodd affirm its importance more tban ever.

No nation possellses the resources 路to survive alone. In a nuclear world, any act of war holds the possibilitJ of worldwide holocaust. We must learn to live as 'brothers and sisters, regardless of past p:rejudices.

As today's disciples we cannot grow indifferellt to worldwide problems or lose our perspective by wishing for yesterday's world. We need fewer bombs and missiles. As a world community all peoplH must move closer together by !lharing education and foods ~Ind by discovering other way:s to handle conflict and misunderstanding.

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~,.,ports watch Cyel Hockey Upcoming The Bristol County CYO Hockey league, entering it!; eighth season, will begin tryc1uts and practices at 9 p.m. Sunday evening in the Driscoll Rink on Elsbree Street in Fall River. All who wish to play must report at that hour.

Participation in the league is open to all Bristol County skaters born on or after Jan. I, 1959 and at least sixteen years old. All games will be played on Sunday evenings. High school players are eligible to play the complete season if their coaches follow the Headmasters' Rules.

Rev. Paul F. McCarri<:k, diocesan director, notes that there are many roster vll.cancies and that an opening exists for 8.n entirely new team if skater:; from a particular area would m:e to gain

admission to the league as a unit.

Players are provided jersies and socks but must furnish all additional equipment. Injury waivers must be signed. Cost is $50 per season. A 20-game schedule, plus post-season playoffs, is planned.

Additional information may be obtained from CYO Hall in Fall River, telephone 672-9644.

In another CYO activity, Kennedy routed Central, 15-2, in the deciding game of the bestof-three final in the post-season playoffs of the Bristol County CYO Baseball League. Kennedy won the series opener, 8-0, but Central forced the final into a third and deciding contest with an 8-7 victory in the second game.

Higlh School Soccer Set High school soccer will soon be underway, with a number of non-league games scheduled.

Next Wednesday, Bishop Connolly High's Cougars will host the Durfee High Hilltoppers. Another diocesan school, Holy Family, will visit the Durfe:eites one week from tomorrow, when Connolly will be at Somerset High.

In still another non-lengue contest next Wednesday, Westport will be home to Grellter New Bedford Voke-Tech.

When the Southeastl!rn Mass.

Conference launches its schedule on Sept. 17, Bishop Stang High will be home to Holy Family and Diman Voke will host Connolly.

New in high school fall sports is the Hockomock Soccer League which will make its debut on Friday of next week with six schools participating in the new loop.

The opening card hils Sharon at Foxboro, Franklin at King

Philip and North Attleboro at Stoughton.

In field hockey, the Stang Spartanettes open their season next Thursday at Somerset. Next Wednesday Westport will be home to ~ase High of Swansea.

There will also be some action in croSs country next Wednesday with Case at Westport, but the Hockomock League gets the jump on the others with a full schedule next Tuesday listing King Philip at Foxboro, Canton at North Attleboro, Franklin Jt Oliver Ames and Stoughton at Mansfield. Sharon has the bye on the opening card.

Kenneth Perreira has been named assistant soccer coach at Westport High School. Ted Pettine, who coached Bishop Connolly's soccer team to an outstanding record last year, is the new varsity coach at Westport High.

u.s. nnssion aid rises NEW YORK (NC) -- Despite rising living costs and trends toward isolationism in the United States, American Catholics have increased support to the missions, according to Archbishop D. Simon Lourdusamy, sel:retary of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

In an interview at the Society for the Propagation of the Faith's New York office, the s.rchbishop gave a generally optimistic picture of mission advanc:es in developing countries. FI~aures of this ta'bleau, he said, include: - More dioceses alre assigning personnel to developing countries.

- Affluent countries, such as the United States and West Germany, have maintained a steady flow of material aid EUld clergy to poverty-ridden countries.

- Ecumenism in the missions is alive and well, with Catholics in mission areas working sideby-side with other groups.

"What makes a good missionary?" the Vatican official asked.

"You have to be physically strong, happy in your vocation and open-minded," he said.

"Gone are the days when missions were a one-way street of only giving. We are now eager to receive something from mission countries, and this enriches the universality of the church."

How It Goes "Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth into action; actions form habits, habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny!' - Tyron Edwards

tv, movie news 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 suggested; 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 only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4--separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation): C-condemned.

New Films "Battle Beyond The Stars" (New World): A young volunteer (Richard Thomas) goes on a hunt to hire mercenaries to defend a planet. threatened with conquest by an intergalactic tyrant. This film has some style and humor and is moderately entertaining. The sexual nature of many jokes, however, makes it mature viewing fare. PG, A3 "The Kidnapping of the President" (Crown International): A dynamic-laden terrorist handcuffs himself to the president of the United States in this routine thriller, well-directed and wellacted. The villains are not formidable enough, however, to up the excitement and suspense quotient. There is also much 'graphic violence, definitely ruling out younger viewers. PG, A3 "The Mountain Men" (Colum-

bia): Charlton Heston plays a trapper who has outlived his era. What this film celebrates about the trapper's independent way of life is the dehumanizing effect of the struggle to survive in the wilderness. Profanity, violence and rape are among objectionable ingredients in a clumsy narrative centered on a Blackfoot warrior's revenge attempt on Heston for taking his squaw. R,B "Smokey and the Bandit, Ir' (Universal): This sequel to the 1977 sleeper hit once again matches ,Burt Reynolds, Sally Fields and Jerry Reed against sheriff Jackie Gleason. This time Reynolds and company have to truck a pregnant elephant across several states with Gleason in inept pursuit. The result is prett~ much a live version of a Road Runner epic. Vulgarity and crude sexual references make it questionable for younger viewers.

A3 On TV "Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services; Rev. Dr. Paul Gillespie, of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. This week's program will deal with penance and reconciliation from the Christian and Jewish perspectives.

"Bean Sprouts," a five-part, half-hour series airing on PBS from Monday through Friday, Sept. 15 to 19 (check local listings for time) is a genuinely entertaining and rewarding family series.

It is about a group of 8-to-12year-old Chinese Americans and their inner city, ethnically diverse school chums. Part documentary, part drama, each program consists of short sequences devoted to such themes as personal identity, ethnic differences, family relations and school problems.

Shot in San Francisco's Chinatown with the cooperation of its residents, the programs are warm and affectionate, showing kids just being themselves. Producer-director Loni Ding has filmed an experience rather than a lecture on appreciating one's own cultural heritage and that of others.

PBS, apparently unaware of the rare accomplishment and wide potential of the series, has buried it on its daytime schedule.

One can only hope that enough youngsters discover it so that local stations will realize that the series deserves rebroadcast at a time more accessible to family viewers.

Films on TV Sunday, Sept. 7, 8:30 p.m.

(ABC) - "The Longest Yard" (1974) - Burt Reynolds is an imprisoned ex-pro quarterback who leads a team of fellow convicts against a team made up of guards. This film has a careless, slapped-together look and relies heavily on foul language. A3 Tuesday, Sept. 9, and Wednesday, Sept. 10, 8 p.m. (CBS) "Across the Great Divide" (1977) - This is a family film from the company that gave us the enormously successful "Adventures of the Wilderness Family," featuring the same winning formula of attractive adults, children and animals photographed $lgainst gorgeous scenery. The plot has to do with two self-reliant orphans whom a charming gambler (Robert Logan) guides to Oregon in 1876. G, Al

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 9 p.m.

(CBS) - "The Last Hard Men" (1976) - This is an ugly, distasteful Western about an escaped convict (James Coburn) determined to get revenge upon the retired sheriff (Charlton Heston) who put him in jail. The movie makes a half-hearted attempt to say something about the Old West but all it really has on its mind is rape and other brutality. R,B

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The Council of Catholic Women will sponsor a parish day of devotion to Mal"lj on Monday !he ~east of her nativity. A~ 1llummated crown will adorn the head of the sanctuary statue of Mary this weekend, copies of the Memorare will be distributed and the. prayer will be recited at all Masses.

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Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. Publication must be promised. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid, Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. I have had my request granted. Publi· cation promised. A reader. lAdvtJ AJ.R.

BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, FALL RIVER

A reception and piano recital will be offered Wednesday, Sept.

10, with an exhibition of art by artists in residence from 6 to 8 p.m. and a following piano concert by Miss Judith Conrad, a member of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River. Her program will include works by Villa-Lobos, Bach, Liszt and Granados. The public is invited and there will be no admission charge.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FALL ·RIVE·R A .credit lecture on "Maturity Onset in Diabetes" will be offered to medical personnel at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in Room 112 of Clemence Hall. The speaker will be Dr. Leo Kroll of the Joslin Clinic, Boston.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER

Father Fernando Veiga will preach at the annual procession in honor of Our Lady of Fatima, to take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13. The Mass of the feast will ,be celebrated at 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 14.

DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN

The Council will hold an executive board meeting at 2 p.m.

Sunday at St. Mary's School, Illinois Street, New Bedford.

Miss Adrienne Lemieux, president, will preside and members of Council District I will be hostesses.

HYACINTH CIRCLE, DAUGIITERS OF ISABELLA, NEW BEDFORD

A meeting originally set for Sept. 16 has been changed to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9 due to an election day conflict. At that time a Mass for deceased members will be offered at Holy Name Church on Mt. Pleasant Street. Mrs. Julia Morris will preside at a following business session at which officers will be nominated for the coming year.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER

The Women's Guild will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday for Mass

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and installation of officers. A banquet will follow at 7:30 p.m. in the church hall.

CCD TRAINING DAY, GREATER FALL llUVER

Somerset and Swansea CCD coordinators will ~ponsor a religious education training day for Greater Fall River area teachers from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21. The program will take place in St. John (If God parish center, Somerset. Advance registration may be madl~ through any area parish.

SSe PETER AND FALL RIVER

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The Women's Club will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in Father Coady Center. A presentation will be made by an instructor of aerobic dancing.

Altar boys will meet in the church at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.

CYO advisers will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in thl~ parish hall.

The SIGN folk group will rehearse at. 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the choir room. Those unable to attend should contact Father Stephen Fernandes. The regular choir will begin rehearsals at 7::30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15. All are invited.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER

Deacon Frank Mis will lead prayer for Holy Rosary Sodalists at 1:15 p.m. Sunday at the parish grotto. A business session and social hour will fcUow. The Women's Gu:Jd will meet following 7 p.m. Mass Wednesday. Prospective members are invited to the sessioll, which will include a wine and .:beese party.

ST. JOHN OF GODl • SOMERSET

The Circle of Love prayer group will meet for Mass and a meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11.

CCD teachers and aides are asked to attend 9:41i Mass Sunday, Sept. 21 for a religious educators' commissioning ceremony.

DOMINICAN THIRIt ORDER, FALL RIVER

Dominican Third Order members will meet at 7:30 p.m. Fri.<!ay, Sept. 12 at ROSEl Hawthorne Lathrop Home, 16<10 Bay St., Fall River.

HOLY NAME, NEW BEDFORD

Women's Guild members will begin their season by attending Mass at 7 p.m. Monday, followed by installation of officers. A business meeting and. social hour will be held in the Pllrish center.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Registrations are being accepted for the CCD pro!:ram, which will begin the week of Sept. 21.

Volunteer aides are also needed for the program. Th<lse interested may call Mrs. Jacqueline Brodeur, 678-1510.

St. Anne's Little I..eague will hold its 25th anniVI~rsary banquet Sunday, Sept. 21 in the school.

BLESSED SACRAMIM ADORERS, FAIRHAVEN

Exposition of the messed Sacrament will take plllce from 9 a.m. to 10 p.rn. tomo.rrow in Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven.