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SERVING SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

t eanc 0 VOL. 22, NO. 35

CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

FAll RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1978

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Pope John Paul1s Ministry Begins at Outdoor Mass VATICAN CITY (NC)-At a solemn Mass combining ancient and modem rites, Pope John Paul I ceremoniously began the task of "presiding in charity" over 732 million Catholics. Marking the occasion, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has asked that each parish in the FaIl River diocese celebrate a special Mass of thanksgiving this weekend. He said he will be principal celebrant of such a Mass at St.

USCC Asks Court To Reject NLRB

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Stating that "the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board over teachers in Catholic elementary schools must be constitutionally forbidden," the U.S. Catholic Conferpnf'e has asked the Supreme Court to affirm an earlier court ruling that such jurisdiction violates the First Amendment. In a friend-of-the-court brief. the usec asked the court to uphold a 1977 decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Involving the NLRB and the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Fort WayneSouth Bend, Ind. The high court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case this fall. The USCC brief said NLRB jurisdiction over Catholic schools would constitute "governmental interference in the operation of a religious enterprise" and thus violate the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. Condoning such interference would also be inconsistent with prior U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the usee added. By asserting jurisdiction over Catholic schools, the NLRB fails to recognize the fact that the schools are part of the institutional structure of the Roman Catholic Church, the usee said. "We submit that there can be no protection of the inner workings of a church without a protection of the integrity of the institution as a whole and also in is various institutional parts," The brief added. Noting that NLRB jurisdiction over Catholic schools will allow the labor board, rather than church authorities, to decide when it can become involved in Catholic school labor disputes, the usee said such decisions should properly rest with the church if institutional integrity is not to be breached.

Mary's Cathedral at 4 p.m. Saturday and he invited all priests who find it possible to join him as concelebrants. An estimated 200,000 people watched from St. Peter's Square Sept. 3 and thousands more stood in adjoining streets as the senior cardinal-deacon, Cardinal Pericle Felici, placed the pallium, a simple strip of white wool with black crosses, on the shoulders of the new pope. The imposition of the pallium, an ancient symbol of authority worn by archbishops and the pope, took the place of a coronation with, the papal tiara which for almost 8. millenium stood for the pope's temporal and spiritual authority. Gone also was the sedia gestatoria (a portable papal throne),

and the triple warning "Thus passes the glory of the world" once given the new pontiff. Nevertheless much splendor and innovation marked the inaugural Mass of Pope John Paul. As no modern pope before him has, Pope John Paul began his ministry in silent prayer before the tomb of St. Peter within the world's largest Church. As the private ceremony began within, the crowds in the square sang verses of "Veni Creator Spiritus," as the bells of St. Peter's rang joyously. Four royal couples, heads of state, and bright-robed路 clergy from the Catholic Church as well as from Orthodox and Protestant churches, watched as more than 100 cardinal-concelebrants in Tum to Page Seven

Weddington Appointment Scored by Bishop Kelly WASHINGTON (NC) - Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Rshops, has asked President Jimmy Carter to reverse his decision to appoint abortion activist Sarah Weddington as his liason for women's issues. Ms. Weddington, 33, has served as president of the National Abortion Rights Action Leagup. She was the lawyer for "Jane Roe," the Texas woman whose case was part of the 1973 Supreme Court Roe and Doe decisions which struck down most state restrictions on abortion. Ms. Weddington has been general counsel to the Department of Agriculture. She was named to replace Midge Constanza who recently resigned as White House liason with women's groups. "I do not question Miss Weddington's character, talent or good intentions," Bishop Kelly said. "I do, however, question her ability to adequately represent to you the views of a very important segment of our so~ ciety - the millions of Americans who are deeply disturbed by the Supreme Court abortion decisions and who have dedicated themselves to seeking redress from what they regard as a very real evil in our society." Bishop Kelly said that NARAL "not only takes a strong and aggressive stand on abortion laws, a position critical of your ad-

ministration's stand, but also carries on heir efforts in a manner that demeans the religious convictions of Roman Catholics and many other citizens of this country." Ms. Weddington, like Ms. Constanza and a number of other prominent women in the Carter administration, disagrees with Carter's opposition to federal financing of abortion for poor women. Carter believes the government should pay for' abortions only if the mother's life is endangered if the pregnancy is carried to term or if the pregTum to Page Fifteen

'Poor New Pope' Asks for Mercy VATICAN CITY (NC) - Tossing away the forma. papal "we" and with it his prepared text, Pope John Paul I asked the College of Cardinals to "have mercy on the poor new pope who really never expected to rise to this post." In a meeting with the cardinals in the frescoed Consistory Hall, Pope John Paul asked dioceses to help each other. "Today there's a great need that the world see us unified," the new pope told the cardinals. "Together let's try to give the world a good show of unity, by Tum to Page Seven

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LATHAM, . N.Y. - Second-marriage readiness has emerg~d as a new aspect of pastoral care to the divorced 'which the Catholic Church must begin to deal with, according to an expert on ministry to separated and divorced Catholics. "Second marriages have a divorce rate of 44 per cent, even higher than the 37 per cent divorce rate of first marriages," Paulist Father James Young said.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Efforts to help Latin America's poor through land reform programs and foreign aid and domestic aid are failing according to United Nations experts.. Farm workers still live in misery despite increased progress in agricultural techniques and production, said Uruguayan economist Enrique Iglesias, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America, a U.N. agency.

'Foretaste of Heaven'

MARY MOTZ, who became a Catholic at age 85, recently celebrated her l05th birthday in La Mesa, Calif.

PITTSBURGH--To the Catholic writer and social activist, Dorothy Day, who made the six-day silent retreats more than 20 times over the years, the experience remained a "foretaste of heaven." The retreats, titled "An Encounter With Silence," were begun in the early 1940s by Father John J. Hugo and were offered through the 1960s. They were resumed four years ago and offered on a smallgroup basis. Now the is slating a full series of retreats for next year.

Education Coordinator WASHINGTOl'\ - Dominican Sister Cyrilla Zarek, former coordinator of education in the Department of Pastoral Care at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, has been named to coordinate education services to Catholic chaplains throughout the country.

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WASHINGTON-President Jimmy Carter and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D.-W.Va.) have promised to do their best to pass tre Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill. The U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Conference of Catholic Charities and several other Catholic organizations are members of- the Full Employment Action Council, which supports the bill.

Tax-Credit Plan

FATHER FRANCIS GARVEY is the new president of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains.

NEW ORLEANS-The Knights of Columbus reaffirmed their commitment to a tax-credit plan to aid parents of nonpublic school children in a serie:!; of resolutions adopted at their 96th annual meeting of the Supreme Council, held in New Orleans.

Karen Quinlan MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Karen Ann Quinlan remains alive and in a coma three years after her adoptive parents first sought court permission to unplug the mechanical respirator believed necessary to maintain her biologically alive.

Need Each Other NOTRE DAME, Ind.-The church needs the vitality of the charismatics, Bishop William McManus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., told participants in the National Conference on the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church. But, the bishop added, the charismatic movement needs the certitude of the teachings, the sacraments and the pastoral direction of the church.

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SISTER OF PROVIDENCE Hq len VOlkomener has been appointed national director of the Catholic Commission on Urban Ministry. She will work at Notre Dame University.

Czech Bishops Harassed . BONN, West Germany - A group of Czechoslovak intellectuals say two bishops in Czechoslovakia are being prevented from exercising their ministry, reports KNA, West German Catholic news agency. The 54 intellectuals appealed to the outside world to help prevent further government harassment of Bishops Julius Gabris and Jan Karec.

PoHcy of Life TRENTON, N.J. - Identical legislation has been introduced in the New Jersey State Senate and the Assembly to regulate the abortion business. Both bills declare that the policy of the state is to encourage live births. .

Covenant of Love CINCINNATI-A traditional parish and a charismatic community in Cincinnati have signed what one leader called a "covenant of trust and love" that acknowledges differences but affirms the communities' common heritage. St. Bernard Parish and the New Jerusalem charismatic community pledged to promote mutual concerns and understanding.

MRS. MARTINE WARD has been reelected international regent of the Daughters of Isabella.

Prayers for Summit WASHINGTON-Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Moslem leaders have asked members of their faiths to pray that the Camp David meetings between Prime Minister Menachim Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt succeed in achieving peace in vhe Middle East.

Coop Bank WASHINGTON-President Jimmy Car, ter has signed a bill creating a national consumer cooperative bank - a program he once opposed and now hails as a major part of his administration's urban policy. The proposal ha. strong support from church, consumer and neighborhood groups,

u.S. Opportunity WASHINGTON - The United States now has "an opportunity to do through peaceful means what we sought to do so long through war: to protect U.S. national interests in Southeast Asia by assuring Vietnam's independence from the domination of any outside power," according to a U.S. study mission which recently ended a week-long trip to Vietnam. Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans and other members of the study team reported on their trip before the U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee on refugees.

FATHER THOMAS COUGHLIN, the first born-deaf priest in the United States, says the Church is "uncomfortable" with the deaf.

Forming Consciences VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul I told diplomats at the Vatican that the Holy See's main service to the international community is the formation of consciences. He received members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See last week.,

Sponsorship Ends SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - The Costa Rica bishops' Conference has ended its sponsorship of the Central American Theological Institute despite protests by seminarians against the move. The institute is engaged in a wide range of formation progams for priests, Religious and lay leaders throughout Central America.

SISTER ALBERTA BECKWITH is the newly-named director of the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton at Emmitsburg, Md.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Sept. 7, 1978

Father Grasiano NCCC Delegate Father Peter N. Graziano, director of the diocesan department of social services, will represent the Fall River diocese at the 64th annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, to be held Sept. 14 to 18 in New Orleans. Women's issues and parish social ministry are the topics expected to dominate the meeting. They will be the focus of two major addresses, of workshops and of major policy statements to be voted on by the NCCC Congress, a body of 350 delegates representing NCCC's individual and agency members. Alexis Herman, director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, will address the nation's llu'gest private human services organization on "Women's Issues." She will discuss how Catholic Charities' efforts to help women achieve their full potential can contribute to the field of human services. "The Parish: New Life from Old Roots," will be the topic of Rev. Msgr. George A. Kelly, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Catholic Doctrine, St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y. He will examine historical and sociological changes in the parish and the renewed emphasis on parish input by Catholic Charities agencies.

Obituaries

Sister Francois Xavier Ploude, SSJ, 72, died Sunday at Blessed Sacrament Convent, Fall River. A Fall River native, she entered religious life in 1924 and taught at St. Roch's School, Fall River, St. Louis de France, Swansea, and St. Joseph, New Bedford. Her funeral Mass was on Tuesday at Blessed Sacrament Church and interment was in Notre Dame Cemetery.

Father John P. Cronin, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Church, Swansea, was principal celebrant Monday at rites for his mother, Mrs. Mary T. Cronin, 88, a member of St. Louis parish, Fall River. Over 50 priests of the diocese were in attendance at the funeral. Born in Ireland, Mrs. Cronin was a charter member of the women's guilds of St. Patrick and St. Louis parishes. She is survived by her husband and a daughter, Mary E. Cronin of New Bedford, as well as by her son.

Sharelife Beats Goal TORONTO (NC) The ShareLife campaign of the Toronto Archdiocese, the result of the archdiocese's split from United Way over abortion issues, has again exceeded its fundraising goal topping $3 million.

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Bishop's Ball Plans Begin The annual meeting to plan the Bishop's Charity Ball will be held Sunday, Oct. I, at 1:30 p.m. at White's Restaurant, Westport. Msgr. Anthor.y M. Gomes, diocesan director of the ball, announced today that invitations to the meeting have been sent to 150 committe members. This social event is set for Friday, Jan. 12, 1979 at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth. It will be the 24th annual Ball and records show that no other diocese has had such an event for such a continuous period of time. The ball will have as its

POPE PAUL VI waves from gondola along the Grand Canal in Venice, during a 1972 visit. His successor, then Patriarch of Venice, now Pope John Paul I, is at left, as Msgr. Pasquale Macchi makes sure the pope stays upright in his swaying conveyance. (NC Photo)

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New Pope Sees Grave Risk In Test Tube Conceptions VATICAN CITY (NC) Just before his election, Pope John Paul I said he feared that test tube conception could present "grave risks" to mankind. Asked by the Italian magazine "Prospectives on the World" to comment on the test tube conception of British baby Louise Brown, the future Pope John Paul said: "I share only in part the enthusiasm of those who applaud the scientific and technical progress after the birth of the English baby." Stressing that he was speaking "as a journalist" and not as a bishop, the then-Cardinal Albino Luciani said that the "possibility of having children through the test tube, though it may not provoke disasters, at least presents grave risks." The pope wondered if test tube conceptions would increase the risk of deformed children. "If this is so, will not the scientist faced with new problems look like 'the socerer's apprentice' unleashing mighty forces without being able to hold them back or dominate them?" The cardinal-patriarch said that science risks giving rise to a "baby factory," given today's "hunger for money and no-holdsbarred attitude to morality." The cardinal said that he, too, extended "most cordial wishes to the 'baby" Louise Brown, and that he could not condemn her parents if they acted in good faith. But he said that objectively he saw no reason to object to Pope

Catholic Women Arthur and Madelaine Warren, young singers whose repertoire includes pop, jazz, rock, standards operas and musical comedy, will be featured at the opening meeting of the Fall River Catholic Women's Club, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12 at Holy Name school hall. Mrs. Carroll K. Sullivan will be in charge of hospitality and Mrs. 'Norman J. Roy will be coffee hour chairman.

theme the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Fall River diocese. The ball planning committee, including representatives of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women sponsoring organizations, will assign committee responsibilities at the October meeting. Ball proceeds assist in maintaining and expanding three schools and four summer camps for exceptional children that operate under diocesan auspices and are open to all children in southeastern Massachusetts.

Pius XII's ruling on artificial contraception. He said that, according to Pius XII, if science helps only to accomplish the marital act or to continue a marital act already initiated, then there is no moral problem. But if science seeks "to exclude or substitute" the marital act, said the future pope, "the act is not licit since God has bound the transmission of human life to the conjugal sex act."

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A Wonderful Beginning As Pope John Paul begins his unique leadership role in the church and the world, it is more than obvious that the Holy Spirit has brought to the chair of Peter a warm and understanding pastor who likes to smile. What a wonderful example he already has given to all his brothers who have the care of souls. How many of us who have been in ministry a few years can recall the pastoral advice of not visiting parishioners in their homes or not attending their baptismal and marriage celebrations? What about the constant reminders that the priest must always be wary of the laity; that he must keep in mind that as a cleric, he no longer belongs in that category. The list of "no's" could go on and on. And what did it do for the church except divide the people of God, driving a wedge between people and priest. Well, fortunately the Church has come a long way in its reflections on the roles of laity and priest. Those who still cling to the old precautions face empty churches and blank stares. Those who have grown in the spirit of Vatican II, those who have the mind of John and Paul, realize that the priest is an integral part of the parish family, not removed from his people by the barriers of an artificial clericalism. Pope John Paul, by approaching the first days of his pontificate as a dedicated and caring pastor, should help us all to realize that the truly humble man and priest is a man who can still, amid the difficulties of life, find a way to share a smile.

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The Pope Bill Buckley Wants By Father John B. Sheerin

Bill Buckley is always readable. At times this veteran journalist is exasperating or mystifying, but he does catch and hold the reader's interest. In a recent column, Buckley wrote about the kind of pope he would like to see ruling the Catholic Church. He left no doubt as to his loyalty to the papacy. "I write as a consumer of Catholicism or as a shareholder in the enterprise, always with the underste.nding that the pope has all the voting stock." It has been generally taken for granted that Buckley is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. This is true of his political convictions but in this article he reaches out in a progressive direction in regard to certain major problems confronting the church. He feels that a celibate clergy is not essential to the vitality of the priesthood and he says that the binding force of "Humanae Vitae" (On Human Life) could be relaxed, making its teaching a general ideal to be striven for rather than a total ban on contraceptives. His column was entitled "The Pope I Want: A Consumer of Catholicism Speaks Out." Our new pope, John Paul I, was elected the next day. Does he measure up to Bill Buckley's expectation of what the new pope should be? At this moment of writing, we know little of Pope John Paul's future plans or aspirations but we do know that he is the son of a migrant worker and- that he has a very sensitive concern fo rthe poor. In his column, Buckley casts a suspicious eye on social action. He does not dismiss social action for the poor as unimpor-

tant but as something less important than ministering to the spiritual needs of men and women. He writes: "The pope, on the one hand, must unmistakably be the pope of the church of the poor, who feels the whiplash of hunger and pain and cold . . . but in so doing, he must also emphasize the church's primary mission on earth, which is to minister to the spiritual needs of man rather than to his corporal needs." In lact, Buckley says that the pope's ability to subordinate the material to the spiritual is "the highest skill his community can demand on him." He contends that men are destined to suffer the vicissititudes of life "but the pope is there to preside over an institution whose principal relevance is its irrelevance to the terrestrial, if not mundane, problem." What he says may be true in an abstract, impersonal sense. But today, since Vatican II, we don't talk that way. As the old manuals used to say, the goods of the spirit take precedence over economic goods. But that conjures up the image of plutocratic clergy singing vespers in cathedrals while the poor starve in the streets of Europe. We talk today not of abstract virtues but of acts of charity to poor persons. The emphasis is on the person. We don't "save souls," we save persons who are composed of body and soul. As Pope Paul said in his Ecclesiam Suam, No. 58, "Charity should assume today its rightful position, that is, the first and the highest scale of religious and moral values . . . Let this be so of the charity toward God, which his charity poured out upon us, and true also of the

charity which we should display toward our neighbors, that is to say, the human race." Or in simpler language,the starving man should be given food, not spiritual sermons. Buckley says that the new pope has got to be strong enough to acknowledge past mistakes, among them the mistakes of Vatican U. He focuses for instance on the liturgy. "The showplace of the church is the liturgy and here the reforms proved disastrous: a disfiguration of what was venerable and beautiful into a vulgar collegiality that is artificial, distracting and appropriately celebrated by the worst abuses against the English language in the history of syntax." Undoubtedly there are churches where the liturgical reforms have been disastrous but I think the new pope has bigger problems than syntax to worry about.

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Letters to~ the Edito~11

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Movie Ratings Dear Editor: Accepting responsibility for my own sins . . . and perceiving it to be a correct and Godgiven responsibility, I must therefore take issue with any device or statement that interferes with this responsibility in the name of the Church. Thus, I take great issue with the movie rating list, published in your last issue (Aug. 24). This, I believe is a regression to an outdated concept of Catholicism - one participatory . . . I, as a member of Christ's Body, referring to Him in most reverence. For me to view "1900" was not a sin. I saw in this film that the poor cry out for justice, the unloved for love, the scared without faith for human organization of strength-the rich to protect what they have (fascists) the poor get what they need (communists) ... In summary, in my faith, I did not perceive the Church to be worthless and Communism to be the answer after viewing this movie. Did you fear that I would? I felt an even stronger call to renewal, the reminder of my own weakness and dependence on Him for the guidance I need to love the unloved, feed the unfed, give hope to the unhopeful.

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September 15 Rev. Henry J. Mussely, 1934, Pastor, St. John Baptist, Fall River Rev. Brendan McNally, S.J., 1958, Holy Cross College, Worcester Rev. John J. Casey, 1969, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton September 16 Rt. Rev. Jean A. Prevost, P.A., P.R., 1925, Pastor, Notre Dame, Fall River September 17 Rev. Thomas F. McNulty, 1954, Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford September 18 Rev. Luke Golla, SS.CC., 1945, Seminary of Sacred Heart, Wareham Rt. Rev. Edmund J. Ward, 1964, Pastor, St. Patrick, Fall River September 19 Rev. Henry E. S. Henniss, 1859, Pastor, St. Mary, 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 Heart, New Bedford Rev. George Jowdy, 1938, Pastor, Our Lady of Purgatory, New Bedford

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Italian, German, some French and a little English seem to be the modern languages which Pope John Paul I speaks.

man is reportedly quite good. It is said that in the last year he has been learning English.

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A GIFT OF FLOWERS helps bedridden Sister Villana share in the joy of profession day for younger members of her community. At Fall River motherhouse of Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Sister Jane Theresa Kirby of Peru, N.Y. (left), pronounced first vows and Sister Susan Marie Flynn of Worcester took final vows at a liturgy followed by a reception for families and friends. (Sister Gertrude Gaudette Photo) Neither was it a sin for me to see Coming Home. Again I saw the sin of the strong suppressing the weak, the hungry seeking comfort and peace, the troubled some sign of hope. Again I felt compelled to pray for the cure of our ills and the indwelling of Christ in our lives. Did you think I would wish to commit adultery, commit suicide, or begin to hate America and become communist for the multiple mistakes we made in Vietnam? ... The renewal must be the time when the Church comes to life. We cannot afford to stifle as we have in the past the Eckharts, Evelys, Chardins. Today our Church has no Bonhoeffer, nor does it have a Buber, not even Evely or Chardin. I believe it is because the Catholic religion has been separated from the Catholic life by just such devices as the list and nonparticipation in our own lives. Our spiritual living is part and parcel of our living in the world. The message is love God above all things and other gods, love your neighbor. nonna Webster Truro

Choosing a Pope Dear Editor: The article in the "Anchor" of August 17th, commenting on lay participation in the election of a Pope, prompts this reply. Bishop Daniel Cronin's homily at the services in memory of Pope Paul the Sixth, in my judgment, told all that needs to be said. He left no doubt about the establishment of Christ's church, and the authority of St. Peter and his successors. .. One may ask, why does a lay person presume to be qualified to assist the cardinals in the selection of a new pope? Why does a lay person write a book or organize a group to counsel the princes of the Church in their secret conclave? Is it to gain recognition; is it to sell a book? Certainly a person who

can write a book should understand the connotation of the word "Theocracy." The Church is a theocracy and not a democracy. A quick reflection on the careers of the Popes who sat in the Chair of St. Peter during this twentieth century attests to the fact that the Holy Spirit guided the College of Cardinals in their selection of popes. M. Henry McInerney Centerville.

Doesn't Agree Dear Editor: I have just read the Kennys' response (July 13) to' a reader requesting guidelines for teenage dating and I want to say that rarely have I read an article in which I disagree with almost every suggestion! My husband and I don't feel dating, as a social custom, should be even considered among teenagers until they are 17 and 18. And then it should be primarily a prom or a special dance. We heartily support friendships between girls and boys and are most casual and relaxed with the young people who are friends of our children - reo gardless of sex. But expecting and sanctioning dating among your teenage children is oftentimes placing a needless prssure on them. We feel if home is a happy place where parents and children really enjoy being with one another, where there is affection and interest, particularly on the part of the parent, where there is humor as well as concern, teenagers will be content and not have the need for approval which is what most young daters are seeking. Let us encourage our teenagers to socialize, to get to know and appreciate each other in the natural atmosphere of school and church clubs, sports, etc., and leave dating to adults. Margaret Murphy Falmouth

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Liberation Theology Fai Is to Analyze Problems By

REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

John Shea commented recently in Commonweal that with theology the flight from reason does not necessarily guarantee contact with life. No better epitaph can be written for much of the theological effort of the last 15 years. There is, of course, a substantial number of theologians doing solid, rational work, and even a

few whose academic rationality manages to sustain some COIltact with life. But the Flakinef.s Demon has not been E~xorcised from theological activity. Consider, for example, on the Protestant side, the recent book, "Patterns of Grace," by Tom F. Driver of the Union Theological Seminary. For off-the-wall narcissism, Driver is hard to beat. Reinhold Niebuhr would be horrified and Paul Tillich profoundly offended to read his comment that salvation consists in the "descent into watery verbs." (He is arguing, if I can (:ut through the self-adulation, that the Real is Becoming, not Being

- scarcely a new philosophical observation.) But for some uptight Protestant academics like Driver, this swinging style gives them a sense of being "with it," being relevant, being in touch with things, "the way they are." On the Catholic side, liberation theology plays the same role. One of the mediocrities who writes for the National Catholic Reporter recently observed that I was "middle class" because of my "irresponsible criticism of liberation theology." It's hard not to howl with laughter. Who could be more middle class than the readers and writers of the National Catholic Reporter?

Liberation theology is a product of state-paid German theological faculties, propounded in Latin America by middle-class teachers and regurgitated in North America by middle-class academics. For all three groups it offers the marvelous titillation of pretending that one is radical, Marxist and revolutionary, in the "vanguard of the people." In fact, like most other middleclass fads, liberation theology is innocent of serious social and economic analysis. The void of understanding the problems of poor people in poor nations is unblemished by the rigors of either theological or economic

methods. German political theologians, at least, are in dialogue with the Marxists who dominate the university faculties. Latin America theologians, at least, are seriously concerned about the social and economic problems they see around them. But the American middle-class liberation theologians are innocent not only about the societies which produced liberation theology, but also devoid of understanding of their own society. They are eager to reflect路 on everybody's experience but their own. Like Tom Driver, they run from rationality but are nowhere near life.

That By MARY CARSON

Last week my family and I had a three day vacation. I walked along the beach at the edge of a large bay. Gentle waves rolled in, carrying bits of seaweed and algae, depositing them in a neat line at the high water mark, drawing a dark brown division between sea and sand. The sand behind the line of drift was soft and clean, as if

it had been that way since the would be better off without the beginning of time. The waves other. Liberals have powerful washed against the lower beach, plans that would revolutionize but never changed that portion everything, ibut the conservatives block their progress. Conahove the high water Hne. It reminded me of the situa- servatives feel threatened by the tion in the church between con- changes - things should stay servatives and liberals. The con- . as they always were. Each servatives hold fast, unaffected sometimes believes that there by the changing wash of the lib- would be peace without the erals. They may be battered, "at- other. tacked" constantly, but above But what would happen to that line of drift, they are un- that beach? If yc,u removed all changeable. the sand, there would be endThe liberals are constantly less ocean ... no place for anychanging - gentle movements thing to take root. If all the seemingly incapable of doing any water disappeared, the beach harm, then choppy seas batter- would become arid, endless desing each other as well as the ert. beach. Each needs the other. And At times each feels the church neither is an unchangeable as it

seems on a mild summer day. There are times of intense storm when waves pound against that beach violently. Tides reach higher than that sa.fe line of drift. The seas beat against the soft sand, carrying it away. A wide beach can become a steep crescent, eaten away by one spring's storms. But that sand doesn't just disappear. It's carried someplace else to wait. Another storm may toss it back on the beach, rebuilding what had been taken away. But while that shifting and changing is taking place, between the two is that line of drift. In it, life is being rebuilt. The sun dries the surface, but

underneath it is teaming with its own vitality. Time causes it to break down, replenishing the nutrients in the beach that farther up allows dune grass to grow. Bits are washed back with the waves, revitalizing little growing things in the water. There is no revitalizing drift line in the midst of an ocean nor in the desert. It occurs only where the sea and the sand merge and work against each other. Is it not the same with the church? The liberals find the conservatives drag everything to a standstill; the conservatives think the liberals are undermining their good work. Yet it is that interaction that revitalizes the church.

Carter Health Principles Called Disappointing By JIM CASTELLI

WASHINGTON (NC) - Two officials of Catholic organizations have called the Carter administration's national health insurance principles "vague" and "disappointing." Francis Butler, associate secretary for domestic social development for the U.S. Catholic Conference, said the principles are also misleading because they suggest that something is being done about national health

By MARILYN RODERICK

While I can casually mention that I spent the weekend in Boston, I hate to add that I spent it on my hands and knees scrubbing floors, but

insurance when no legislation will be introduced until later this year and the administraEon does not expect a program to begin until 1983. Mathew Ahmann, associate director for governmental affairs for the National Conference of Catholic Charities, cited two administration principles as "very troubling." , The first, he said, is the administration's support for coinsurance and deductible feutures. Ahmann said S-:lch features discourage poor people from seeking health care because they cannot afford the deductibles. The second major objection, Ahmann sa:'d, is that President

Jimmy Carter told Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), a major national health insurance advocate, that the administration program would be phased in with separate pieces of legislation. Ahmann said the NCCC favors phasing in a. program, but said it should be spelled out in one piece of legislation. Butler compared the administration's 10 principles with 10 principles offered jointly by the usec and t:,e NCCC at hearings sponsored last October by Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare Joseph Califano. He said the administration met the USCC-NCCC principles on three cases, opposed them on one and did not mention the

that is exactly what I did. Our daughter is in her second year at Boston University and she and three roomates are shari;r.;g an apartment replete with charm, individuality and the most unspeakable dirt imaginable. Such apartments have "endless possibilities" that about $10,000 and a commercial cleaning company could possibly a=:complish in six months. But the same results are expected of family and friends

with short tempers and bones that don't feel the way they used to. What it amounts to is that parents not only supply support, tuition money and labor but also every piece of furniture in the house that's not nailed down to their pleading offspring. All this in the guise of helping them become independent. One item that I do feel that every house and apartment filled with busy individuals should

others. The administration agreed with the USCC and NCCC that national health insurance should be financed through a combination of federal revenues and employer and employee taxes, that it should provide consumer representation and that it should maintain a pluralistic system of health care delivery. The adminstration opposed the USCC-NCOC position on deductibles. The USCC and NCCC called universal coverage, including coverage for resident aliens and aliens admitted to the United States for employment. The administration called for universal

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coverage for all citizens and made no mention of aliens. The administration made no mention of using national health insurance to promote prepaid health maintenance organizations, a position favored :by the usec and NCCC, but it did imply such support, 'Butler said, by saying the program should promote major reforms. The administration said private insurance programs should play a "significant" role in administering national health insurance with "appropriate" government regulation. The usee and NCCC said private insurers should play only a minor role.

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Outdoor Mass Continued from Page One white damask miters and golden Gothic chasubles walked solemnly to the outdoor altar. Smiling, tracing the Sign of the Cross and humbly bowing, Pope John Paul entered the square for the first time as pope. The crowd greeted him with resounding applause. More applause and cries at "Viva il papa!" broke loose as he sat for the first time on the papal throne, set up on a dais before the main portal of St, Peter's, below a huge stone bas relief and a 19th-century tapestry. Both art works portrayed Jesus' handing of the keys to Peter. Before the imposition of the pallium, the faithful invoked for the new pope in a litany the aid of Christ, Mary and 31 saints. Afterwards, the pope, wearing a tall golden mitre, received symbolic homage of obedience from the cardinals. One by one they bowed, knelt at the pope's feet and kissed his hands. Each received a kiss on both cheeks from the smiling pope, who conversed warmly with them, greeting each, said an observer, as if he were the first and only one to come before him. Throughout the ceremony, choir and people sang "Tu Es Petrus" ("Thou Art Peter.") After the Gloria, sung in alternating chant and polyphonic verses, the new pope prayed. "0 God, you chose me as Peter's successor. Make me be for your people the principle and visible foundation of unity in faith and communion in charity." After listening to the First Reading in French annd the Second Reading in English, the pope stood solemnly for the Gospel with the crucifix-capped papal crozier in his left hand. As a sign of church universality, the same Gospel was chanted in Latin first, then in Greek by an Eastern-Rite deacon. Pope John Paul himself emphasized church university and unity by beginning his short homily in Latin. He later switched to Italian, then to French and back to Italian. "With surprise and understandable trepidation," he said, "but also with immense trust in the powerful grace of God and the ardent prayer of the church, we have agreed to become Peter's successor in the See of Rome, taking on us the yoke that Christ has wished to place on our fragile shoulders." The pope used the formal papal "we" in his sermon. During his first week as pope, the pontiff tended to refer to himself in the first person singular. He said that "from the moment we were elected, throughout the days that followed, we were deeply struck and encouraged by the deep signs of affection given by our sons and daughters in Rome and also by those who sent us from all over the world expressions of their joy that God had again given the church a visible head." Speaking in French, the pope addressed the many ecumenical

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Continued from Page One sacrificing something now and then. "We have everything to lose if the world 'doesn't see us united," said the pope in his off-the-cuff remarks. The pope's spontaneous decision not to use the text prepared for him by Vatican officials caught the Vatican press office and the staff of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, by surprise. .

the life of a limited apostolate which I liked so much. "I always had small dioceses. Vittorio Veneto is a small diocese and even Venice for aU its great history is small - 430,000 inhabitants. "My work was among youth, workers, the sick, pastoral visits and so forth.

The press office distributed the prepared text as the words spoken by the pope and the Vatican daily printed the discarded speech. Only Vatican Radio - whose technicians recorded the pope's actual words - was able to report parts of what the already unpredictable pope sai4, at the closed meeting with the men who elected him. In his ad lib remarks the pope said that "in a certain sense I am sad that I cannot return to

Pope John Paul finished his talk with the words, as given by Vatican Radio: "Have mercy on the poor new pope who really never expected to rise to this post. Try to help me."

Presenting the program, which will be coordinated by Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, commission

chairman, will be Mrs. Richard Paulson, whose topic will be the structure of the council; Mrs. James E. Leith, council president, who will discuss membership. Also Mrs. William Grover, program planning; Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., publicity; Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, parliamentary procedure. Mrs. Raymond Poisson will chair a model meeting with district officers participating; and the seminar will conclude with a talk on personal commitment, by Mrs. Robert Bernier. District arangements committee members are Miss Claire O'Toole, Mrs. John Silvia, Mrs. Irene Pereira, Fall River; Mrs. Thomas Long, Mrs. Roy Franklin, New Bedford. Mrs. Clinton Rose, Mrs. Aristides, Taunton; Mrs. David Sellmayer, Mrs. George Landry, Attleboro; Miss Ethel Crowley, Mrs. Gilbert Noonan, Cape and Islands.

delegations sitting before him at his right. "Brethren who are not yet in full communion, we turn together to Christ our Savior, all of Us advancing in the holiness he desires and in the mutual love-without which there is no Christianity." A human touch was added to the solemn proceedings by a ubiquitous fly the pontiff tried unsuccessfully to brush away as he delivered his homily. And the papal zucchetto, the beanielike white skullcap he wore beneath his golden miter, remained rakishly askew during the parts of the two and a half hour ceremony when it was visible. Looking toward the diplomats, dressed in formal evening dress, gold-braided military uniforms or Arab and African robes, the pope continued: "We are deeply touched by your presence, you who preside over the high destinies of your countries or represent your governments . . . in your participatfon we see the esteem and trust that you place in the Holy See and the church . . . to help create a climate of justice, brotherhood, solidarity and hope without which the world would not be able to live." At the start of his ministry the pope invoked the help of Mary. "May Our Lady who guided our life with delicate tenderness

as a boy, as a seminarian, as a priest and as a bishop, continue to enlighten and direct our steps," he prayed in his homily. Applause puctuated his talk, yet not all the spectators were there to pay him tribute. Protestors opposed to the presence of Argentine President Jorge Videla at the Mass raised a banner from the obelisk in St. Peter's Square. Videla attended in the white uniform of a general. Other demonstrators lau~ched a dozen helium-filled balloons which sailed over the square trailing a banner reading: "Videla executioner." As a flaming sunset bathed St. Peter's Square, the pope held high the host and chalice, displaying them in three directions. About 200 priests from various nations distributed Communion as Pope John Paul gave the host to his relatives. Among them was Silvio Luciani, a relative who emigrated to Michigan / I in the 1920s. I Before communion time, a network newscaster remarked to the priest assisting him in his commentary on events in St. I Peter's Square, "It's to be hoped I not all the 200,000 people here I will take communion." I With just a shade of reproach I for the time and motion minded , American, the priest replied, "'I'm sure every Catholic will!"

The opening session will be held in Taunton at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Immaculate Conception auditorium at Bay and Alger Streets. The second session is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at Holy Name school hall at Pearce and Reed Streets, Fall River; and participants are asked to bring lunch. The date and place for the Cape Cod session will be announced at a later time. All members of groups affiliated with the diocesan council are invited to attend the sessions and the public is also welcome.

"I can no longer do this work," said the pope, "but you can."

The pope according to Vatican sources, also said that he hoped to work in cooperation with the Roman Curia, the church's central administration. He said it was a huge machine which he did not yet know how to run but that he hoped to learn.

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By James Fiedler DENVER (NC) Migrant workers are at the mercy of the element and the economy, says Sister Jean Michelle Alarid, who understands better than most the realities of the migrant life. "I'm a migrant myself," says Sister Alarid, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth who is coordinating the Denver Archdioceses' Migrant Ministry. "I have no home. Wherever 1 go, 1 also have to find a place to stay." The nun moves with the migrants when they leave their homes in Brownsville, Texas, and travels with them across the country. Currently she's working in northern Colorado with a team that includes a Brownsville priest and three Denver seminarians. The migrants must cope with the hot sun that beats on them during the day, the cold nights, and inclement weather that may prevent them from earning more money. They remain on the fringe of the economy because of wages controll.ed by farmers, some unscrupulous crew leaders who cheat them, disabling health problems for which they have no insurance, inadequate housing and some businessmen who take advantage of the workers' lack of fluency :In English. Most migrants, not surprisingly, do not want to continue in the type of work they do, Sister Alarid says. "The only reason they are migrant workers is because of the poverty and the lack of other jobs in Texas," she says. "They are forced financially to come here." Housing, the ministry team said, is the worst problem the migrants face. Houses on the farms for migrants often consist of only two bedrooms and a kitchen, with beds for two or three families jammed into the small rooms, and no running water. The farm work is a family affair, with everyone except the

younger children working the fields. The younger children generally are in day care centers or "migrant schools" trying to catch up on schoolwork they may have missed in the family's trek across the country. "They are all working for one goal," such as improving their house back home or buying a new truck, says Sister Alarid. "It keeps the family together." The family unity "is something beautiful to see, with everyone working together," adds Father Alfonso Guevara of Brownsville. "When they accomplish their goal, even the little kids can say, 'I helped.' " Sister Alarid, a native of Denver, has worked with migrants in Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio and Michigan. When the current season is over in Colorado, she will move on to Ohio, where migrants will be working the tomato fields. A great deal of the Migrant Ministry team's time is spent visiting the migrant families, helping them to use the services of government agencies that are available to them, assisting them in purchases or in dealing with local businessmen and aiding them in completing forms they may have to fill out, as well as sometimes acting as a go~be tween with farmers when there are misunderstandings. "We're trying to show them that the church cares, that it loves them, that they are a part of the church also," says seminarian Don Brownstein. Many people think of the migrants' work as hard but unskilled, but Father Guevara says "they are skilled workers . . . they are like artists." It takes a great skill with a hoe to weed the plants and thin them out without destroying a lot of other plants, he says. 'Both the priest and the nun agree that the migrants do not have a legalistic attitude toward their work. "The attitude of the migrants

is that; 'We're going to help the farmer and he will help us," says Sister Alarid. "They're not just doing a job . . . They think of their work as helping their fellow man . . .' by helping to put food on the table for others."

Pallottin·e Case Hurts Candidate BALTIMORE (NC) - Saying that the public has never forgiven him for his controversial plea bargain agreement with Pallottine Father Guido John Carcich, Attorney General Francis (Bill) Burch has withdrawn from the Maryland gubernatorial race. "U's an issue that continues to simmer," he said of the May agreement that gave Father Carcich probation in return for a guilty plea to charges he mishandled over $2 million donated to the poor. "I believe that was the reason for my falling in the polls," Burch said. Burch, 59, a conservative Democrat, was considered a longshot prospect in the September primary. He had support among blue-collar and Catholic voters and he gained state-wide exposure as a three-term attorney general. "The Pallottine thing had an adverse reaction," he admitted. "It wasn't going away. I'm glad 1 did it. It was the right thing to do. 1 bit the bullet and took the consequences. But 1 can understand how some people are uncomfortable," Burch said.

Workshop Father Bob Dufford of the St. Louis Jesuits will present a liturgical music workshop Monday and Tuesday nights, Oct. 16 and 17, at SS. Peter and Paul Church, 67 Southmayd Rd., Waterbury, Conn. Further information is available from Clare Doherty at the church.

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A beautiful metallic Prayer Plaque commemorating the Canonization of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first Americanborn Saint, is yours absolutely free. You will want to have this inspiring Prayer Plaque with you wherever you go. This permanent Plaque will be a source of inspiration and comfort to you and yourfamily for years to come. Let us send your free gift now. You need buy nothing, pay nothing. But you must mail your request by October6, 1978. Do it today.

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.. How To Handle a Teen Who Drinks By Dr. Jim and Mary Kenny Dear Mary: Last weekend my 16-year-old son came home drunk at 3 a.m. He has never stay....!!! out that late before, and he has never given us any trouble. The boys he pals around with seem to be nice boys. How should I handll.... him? What if it happens again? According to the law in our society 16-year-olds may not drink. The simplest solution may seem to be to follow the law, forbid your son to drink, and punish him severely if he does. While this solution seems simple, we do not advise it for several reasons. First, you cannot enforce such Ii rule with a 16year-old. He and his friends have access to cars. If they choose, they can get away from all adult supervision and drink. Even less can you enforce such a rule when a young man or woman is 18 or 20. One of the main jobs of parenthood is to prepare a chilrl for independence. In this case parents have the right and duty to teach a child about alcohol and drinking behavior. If he is going to learn to drink and make some mistakes in the process, it is far better he do so while he is at home than after he leaves home as a young adult. Teaching a child how to use alcohol is far more difficult than forbidding it, but it is the only approach which will help him in the next few years and throughout life. In regard to last week's episode, listen to your son. Try to find out what happened, who he was with, where and how much he drank. If you explode in anger or set down punishments immediately, you will cut off all communication. Tell your son how you feel. Do you feel all drinking is wrong? Do you feel drinking is all right at times but getting drunk is unacceptable? Try to share your own views and feelings. Try to talk about some of the problems he faces as a teenager. Does he know how to drink one drink slowly so that he consumes very little over a period of time? How might he handle peer pressure when he is with a group of boys for whom being "one of the crowd" means getting drunk? You cannot answer these questions easily any more than your son can, but if you

can talk together about them, you can help him clarify his thinking. Finally, formulate some guidelines regarding drinking. For example, here are the ones we use with our teens. 1. Never drive when you drink. If you drink even one beer, call parents for a ride home. It might be embarrassing, but it might keep you alive. 2. No beer or liquor in the car ever. Period. (For us drinking and driving is the number one prohibition. Getting drunk won't kill you. Getting drunk and driving can kill you and some other innocent motorist you hit.) 3. Set limits on how much you can drink, for example, three beers. Keep track from the first drink. There is no point in trying to count after you are too fuzzy to remember. Trust your limits and stick to them. Do not think you can add a few more because you don't seem to feel anything from what you have drunk so far. 4. You may drink at home. Your friends may drink at our house provided we have talked with their parents and the par-

ents know and approve. Your friends may not drive afterwards. They may stay all night at our house, or we will drive them home. Drinking with friends applies to an occasional weekend evening and a modest amount. We are not talking about a daily occurrence or about getting drunk. 5. Coming home drunk will carry a penalty spelled out in advance. Will these guidelines make your son a wise, sensible drinker? They will help. Growing up is rough, and there are setbacks. He may come home drunk again, and you will have to enforce whatever penalty you have established. The importance of setting guidelines is to spell out clearly what is acceptable and what is not. Persons who have learned how to handle alcohol are less apt to become alcohol users. Guidelines help him chart a path in dealing with a new situation, drinking behavior. Reader qusstions on family living and child care are invited. Address questions to The Kennys, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River 02722.

Rhodesian Bishops Beg for Peace SALISBURY, Rhodesia (NC) - Warning of "the imminent danger of total civil war in Rhodesia, with all its- frightful consequences," the Catholic bishops of Rhodesia have issued an urgent plea for an end to fighting in that country. In their joint "Plea for Reconciliation," the six bishops said that although "most of the ordinary people of this country" remain silent about the civil war because of fear for their lives, the church cannot do so. But, they added, being the "moral conscience of society" is not an easy task. "Those who preach peace are often mistrusted by both sides and may be accused of favoritism, opportunism and partiality," the bishops said. "They must even he prepared to become the victims of both the conflicting factions they seem to reconcile." Thirty-seven missionaries and families, including 19 Catholics, have been killed in terrorist attacks in Rhodesia in the last five years. The Jesuits and 12 English Pentecostals were killed in June. The government of

Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and leaders of the Patriotic Front have each placed blame on the other side. Directing their oomments to politicians and military leaders, the bishops asked them "to stop the war now before it destroys the country" and to"dismantle all the racial discrimination of the present political order." Such leaders, they said, must "assume full personal responsibility, both before God and before all mankind, for their decisions.

No Cead Mille Failte KILL~RNEY,

Ireland (NC)Irish government officials showed their displeasure at the proIrish unification leanings of an Irish- American group by ignoring the group, which came to Killarney for its recent annual meeting. The group, the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, has made no secret of its own displeasure with the Dublin government over what it considers Dublin's kowtowing to the British government on the subject of Northern Ireland.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Sept. 7, 1978

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) - The post-Vatican II changes in religious life were responsible for the sub~equent D1ass exodus of women from convents said Sister Mary Luke Tobin, who helped spearhead renewal efforts when she was president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women. The exodus stemmed from sociological reasons, she added in an interview here. "In the 1950s we had an artificial increase in religious life in America. There was a religious fervor in the country after World War n, and novitiates and Catholic and Protestant seminaries were fiIled. <But when that religious fervor wore off, so did the stimulation of many who entered religious life," she said. Many who entered religious life in the 1950s did so because they were foIlowers and left for the same reason added Sister Tobin, while others left because they "got caught :.n the trend of leaving." The drop in numbers however, has not lessened the impact of nuns on today's society, according to the only American woman to audit Vatican II. "One sister today can do what 25 could do in a system which had no room for accountability, creativity, responsibility or personal initiative. We still have passive members, but they are fewer than in the past." she commented. Sister Tobin said she was especiaIly pleased with the broader interpretations of poverty, chasity and obedience. "Poverty is now seen as living a simple lifestyle, maintaining a sense of modest living," she explained. Preferring the term "selibary" to "chastity," she said the vow still retains its traditional

meaning, but we now accept the fact that all people are sexual beings. "But celibacy still means giving up genitality," she added. "Obedience means accepting the decisions of a group made by the group," said the woman who spent the past 20 years in the administration of her community, the 730-member Sisters of Loreto. Sister Tobin does not see a specific church role for Religious. "The role of us all is to become as fully Christian as possible. The attention has to be on our role as Christians, not our specific roles as Religious in the church. Religious life is just a good way of activating Christian

life," she added. '~For the woman who has chosen religious life, it is easier to go deeper into Christian life since she is devoid of the restrictions of the family," she said. The renewal-oriented nun also criticized religious communities for not deepening their social concerns. "I would like to have seen the justice issues become deeper and more persuasive in religious communities. I see the gap between rich and poor growing wider each year. I would like to see sisters more involved in social justice questions. We haven't made an impact in this area with the vigor I would like to have seen," she said.

Bishop Affirms Sex Equality NEW YORY (NC) The head of the bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Church and Society, Bishop Michael F. McAuliffe, strongly affirmed principles of equality for women under the law, in ministry and in marriage during a dinner speech to the Catholic Daughters of America. He told 2,000 members of the Conference of Catholic Bishops' CDA - many of whom are antiERA - that when the National Administrative Board opposed his committee's position papers, favoring extension of the amendment deadline, "it did so on the grounds that the Supreme Court with its present constituency" would enterpret the constitutional amendment in the light of the high court's "infamous" 1973 decision to legalize abortions. "Reasonably that doesn't have to be," he commented, "but so judgments are made." The committee on women, he said, had been concerned with separting the issue of abortion from ERA and "we said the two

issues are not necessarily connected." "As a Catholic," said the bishop from Jefferson City, Mo., "I believe abortion is totally and fundamentally wrong. As a bishop I have a particular responsibility about safeguarding that teaching. "I disagree with people like Bella Abzug and some of the tactics she uses to spread her message. I think she holds that the ERA is a woman's ticket to abortion. How she can declare this is beyond my comprehension." ,Bishop McAuliffe told NC News that his c~mmittee had received a great deal of correspondence since the NCCB meet· ing in May. It appeared to him that people had not understood the legal reasons for which it had been rejected by the Board. "At any rate," he told the CDA, "it is the concern of all the bishops to support women's equality under the law. The seriousness of the issues demands urgent and extensive attention from the church at all levels."

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Keynote SEAITLE (NC) speaker, Father John Bertolucci, told the 1,750 people attending a Northwest charismatic conference that they should think of themselves as "normal" Christians. Father Bertolucci of Little Falls, N.Y., is chairman of the Albany Diocesan Service Committee for the Charismatic Renewal and a member of the National Service Committee. In his address he said, "The substance of the renewal, total focus on Jesus, is for everyone." The charismatic renewal is "just normal Christianity. It shouldn't be listed in the bulletin between the Altar Society and Rosary Club," Father Bertolucci said. He told the crowd to stop referring to "regular" Catholics as opposed to "charismatic" Catholics. That attitude, in itself, is divisive, he said. "But Jesus is for everybody. The Holy Spirit is for everybody. God has no stepchildren," he added. "The real Jesus, who is alive today, must be the focal point of any religious activity," he said. "You cannot take your eyes off the Lord. Focus on him, not on the problem," he said. "Learn what it means to walk, to be drowned in the person of Jesus Christ . . . day by day by day by day," Father Bertolucci continued. "I know where my feet are planted - in Jesus. I know who my head is . . . my bishop ana pope. And this leaves my heart free, free' to embrace all my brothers and sisters, Protestant and Catholic," he said, stretching his arms wide. He encouraged the crowd to study the Bible and the documents of Vatican Council II. "Through the aid of the Holy Spirit, you can follow the apostolic heritage and see the sacraments as actual interaction with God," he said. "Don't ever give up on our mother church. "You can follow her even as

you walk hand in hand with other Chritians." Father Bertolucci said. Auxiliary Bishop Nicolas E. Walsh of Seattle, in his welcoming remarks at the conference, said, "The renewal seeks to make members aware of what the Holy Spirit's presence means in daily life. "The problems of the charismatic renewal within the catholic Church, such as attitudes toward Scripture, healing and ecumenism, should be considered challenges," he said. Workshops at the conference focused on unity in the church, what charismatic renewal is, spiritual gifts, the healing ministry and unity among church leaders. Father Perron Auve, chairman of the Regional Service Com-

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fÂˇeeney followers Elect Leader WORCESTER, Mass. (NC) A court-ordered election has temporarily, at least, brought visible unity to the divided followers of the late Father Leonard Feeney who was excommunicated in 1953 because of his salvation teachings but later reconciled to the Catholic Church. Early this summer, Probate Court Judge Gerald D. MoClelhin ordered the followers to elect a leader as a means of solving their property dispute. Since the 1960s the followers have been divided into four groups. Although the groups share the same grounds, they live in different buildings and rarely meet. Elected by majority vote was Father J. William Gibbs, known as Father Gabriel, a charter member of the movement founded in 1949 by Father Feeney. He is doubtful, however, that the election will significantly unite the groups. It was one of the few times recently the entire 85-member

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I felt uneasy during my first Sunday afternoon visit to the English-speaking charismatic prayer group in Rome. For an hour and a half the several hundred participants from all over the world, predominantly clergy or Religious, alternately sang, sat in silence, read scriptural passages, offered comments or observations and stood to praise the Lord. The last activity made me uncomfortable. Within it, some persons raised their hands upward; others shouted phrases like "Praise You, Lord Jesus;" many moved their lips quietly in prayer or remained silent; quite a few mumbled or spoke loudly with unintelligible sounds. A curious phenomenon developed in this five-minute period of standing. The combination of joyful shouts, fervent words and "praying in tongues" grew louder and louder, formed a beautiful, almost musical sound and continued for a minute or two, then without warning or direction, subsided gradually until total silence prevailed over the gathering. Afterwards, the group sat resuming its alternating pattern of song, prayer, silence and reading. I was extremely skeptical about this matter of "prayer in tongues" in those days, but understand and appreciate the gift better now, more than a year later. We do know that at Pentecost all, "filled with the Holy Spirit," "began to express themselves in foreign tongues and make bold proclamation as the Spirit prompted them" (Acts 2,4). S1. Paul in his letter to the Corinthians states that "there are different gifts but the same Spirit" and lists one of those charism as the "gift of tongues" (1 Cor. 12, 4-11). Later in the same Epistle he remarked, "Thank God, I speak in tongues more than any of you" and expressed his hope, "I should like it if all of you spoke in tongues." (1 Cor. 14, 18-5). The Acts of the Apostles tell us that for many years in the early church some Christians were "speaking in tongues and glorifying God" and "the Holy Spirit came down on them and they began to speak in tongues" (Acts 10,46; 19,6). Charismatics see the Holy Spirit's presence within a believer as the key to praying in tongues. They cite this section from St. Paul's letter to the Romans in support: "The Spirit too helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be expressed in speech" (8,26).

Recently the Catholic world marked the 10th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's widely criticized encyclical opposing contraception, "Humanae Vitae." During these past 10 years the urgency of responsible family planning has been magnified by inflation, especially in health care and education, two areas vitally necessary for family welfare.

'THE THIRD WORLD IS THE TINDERBOX OF THE WORLD'

Justice and Peace: Fire of the Spirit By Father Alfred McBride Wars are usually fought for economic reasons. The propaganda may center on racial pride, love of country, manifest destiny or some other self- justifying motives, but behind most wars lies an economic ca1!se based on some form of injustice. J:f the whole world wants peace, i.t must provide justice for its peoples. When the working classes of Europe and the United! States needed justice they had to fight for it. The managers brought in their goons to club the workers into submission. So the workers brought in their clubs and fought hack. Mob violence at factory gates, doors of mines and in c:ity streets marked the unpeaceful achievement of justice for the workers of the West. Their will to win was matc:hed by their fists. They came.to the bargaining table with a clout won by force as well as by backing from the new social philosophy and the social teachings of the church. By and large the workers of the First World have won their battle. Other justice causes have still to be won, such as those for women and for the blacks, browns and other minorities in the capitalist countries. But clear-

ly the new and pressing social problem facing the West and the church is the rampant injustice that afflicts the peoples of the so-called Third World. Where are the new poor and afflicted? Underneath the 39th parallel in southern Asia, South America and! Africa. It used to be said in courses on European history that the Balkans were the tinderbox of Europe. Today the Third World is the tinderbox of the world. At least a billion people live in a pre-industrial, pre-democratic, pre-capitalist milieu, as though the 15th century still exists in the 20th century. Where is most of the 20th century? Fundamentally in the United States and Western Europe, with Japan, Australia and the newly rich Arab states as partners. Social critics claim that the health of the First World has been :built up by exploitation of the Third World, both during the period of colonialism and now through the policies of multi-national corporations. Our last two popes tried to draw the attention of the church and the healthy nations to the problems of the Third World. Both emphasized the institutional causes of injustice and spoke 'at length about oppressive

social systems that keep the poor. Such systemic violence can only increase the burden of injustice and create the powder keg for war. But the teaching is not just to avoid war, but the positive one that appeals to the conscience of rich nations to realize their moral responsibility to help poor nations to develop a decent standard of living. The popes have reasserted the right of the workers to bargain collectively and the need of governments to intervene on behalf of the poor. Catholics must begin to see that involvement in the cause of social justice is an essential part of commitment to Christ. In the papal teaching that the right to private property is limited by its social function, one is reminded of contemporary discussions about the limits of growth and the thesis that "small is beautiful." Aggressive acquisition of the world's goods has always been condemned as greed. Now it is seen as not even practical. In the last analysis the popes center the whole moral effort to seem justice around faith in God, the obligation of authority to serve the common good and the centrality of the family values of love, justice and truth.

The Second Vatican Council recognized responsible planning of family size as a conscientious decision to be made by the parents who must rear and educate their children. Neither the council nor !Pope Paul's encyclical approved of contraception and sterilization, methods of a family planning widely propagated by social and governmental agencies. In the United States the widespread use of contraception, sterilization and abortion has successfully reduced the birth rate to its lowest rate since the Depression of the 1930s. Simultaneously the climate of public opinion has swung heavily in favor of the so-called "contraceptive mentality." In this perspective, parenthood ceases to be a physical or moral obligation in marriage, and is only recommended for those who enjoy that sort of thing. The contraceptive mentality lakes a notable impact Âˇon tra"itional sexual morality. Couples who have excluded parenthood from their marriage often find it less stable. In 1977, in this country, one divorce ocurred for every two marriages. Similarly, premarital and extramarital sexual activity are Turn to Page Thirteen

Priorities By Eugene Geissler The following interview was with a couple in their 20s who have been married nine months: Q: Did you have savings when you married? Greg: Yes, about $1,000. There's about $400 left. We went into our savings for tuition, car repairs, and some special purchases. It's hard to replace savings. Jane works and I go to college full time. She takes care of the money. It goes for rent and utilities, food, transportation, tithing, health, student loans, phone, laundry, personals. We have about $70 for recreation and savings. But we haven't saved anything. Q: How do you feel about tithing? Jane: We believe in tithing and the promises the Lord made Turn to Page Thirteen

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Family Planning Continued from Page Twelve more readily excused as meaningful expressions of affection when the procreative potential of such activity is deliberately and effectively excluded. One study has shown a 33 percent increase in both premarital sexual activity and premarital pregnancies in the United States from 1971 to 1976. The epidemic spread of venereal disease offers further silent witness to the effect of the contraceptive mentality. Yet none of the members of the Papal Birth Control Commission who recommended a less stringent position on contraception would approve of this dangerous contraceptive mentality. They felt that contraception could only be justified within marriage for urgent reasons, never as a mere convenience or as a way of eliminating entirely the procreative responsibility from conjugal intercourse. The fact remains that despite opposition to the contraceptive mentality by all Catholic leaders, the current inroads of divorce and premarital and extramarital sexual activity within the Catholic community are distressing. Unfortunately, alternative methods of planning families

without the use of contraceptives remain largely unpopular and untrusted. Pope Paul challenged scientists to develop more accurate ways than the old rhythm method for married couples to know when their conjugal relations are fertile. Remarkable progress has been accomplished since 1968. The latest approach to family planning is called natural family planning and is more reliable than calendar rhythm. It has begun to emerge with new strength and appeal in direct proportion to the emerging health hazards of contraceptives. 'fohe Human Life and Natural Family Planning Foundation (1511 K St. N.W., Wash. D.C. 20005) has begun sponsoring regional workshops for teacher training. The Couple to Couple League (Cincinnati, Ohio 45211) has trained 160 teaching couples in over 20 states to conduct a prepared series of four programs for interested couples. The first decade since "Hllmanae Vitae" has seen tremendous erosion of Catholic ideals of marriage, family life and sexual morality. The second decade may see a renewal of marriage and sexual morality based on respect for the marvelous powers of conjugal love.

Priorities Continued from Page Twelve about that. It teaches us that we can get along without some of our money and helps keep our expectations down. Q: What improvement do you see in this economic picture? Greg: Not much immediately. My summer job pays for my tuition next year, perhaps a little will be left over. Jane will have to work another two years untii I finish school. Now I am the house husband. I had to learn lots of new things, e.g., I bake bread every week. It's cheaper and better, and a real satisfaction. After graduation I'll get a job and Jane will be a wife and mother at home. Q: What about !babies? Greg: We haven't planned on any immediately, but we haven't closed our minds to the possibility. There is never enough money; there are always hardships. If we leave ourselves open to life and to love, it cannot be wrong to have a child, even in the midst of uncertainty and hardships. We would worry, but we would be happy. Q: What do you think of twocareer families? Jane: A two-career family is not in our plans if we have children. I wouldn't want someone else taking care of my child. Neither would Greg. For some families, it is necessary, but much of it is based on a false standard of living. We are satisfied with our expectations of never being rich, or even comfortable. Q: Can you support a family that way? Jane: I'm sure there are others doing it on less than we make. We would like to have five or six children. Q: How do you react to fig-

ures showing it costs the average family $60,000 to raise and educate a child? Greg: That's scary, but you don't have to have it all at once, and it doesn't have to cost that much. Everything doesn't have to be new or the best. I'm sure it can be done with God's help.· Since I have been married, I have thought about things I took for granted before - about raising a family and being a father. It'~ challenging and exhilarating. Only after I met Jane did I see a plan for my life. The Lord's hand was in the way we met. It was a clear manifestation of his personal design for me. And I discovered I was open to it. Q: What do you mean, open to it? Greg: To God's plan for my life. If there were a child while I am in school, it would upset present plans and we would have to adjust. The child would be more important than getting a degree quickly. It would work out. A child would indicate God's faith in me, his giving me that kind of burden to carry would be a sign. Q: What about permanent housing? Jane: We would like to buy a house. Maybe it couldn't be rural, suburban or new. The city may be the only place where we can afford a house. Money is necessary, but it's not one of our basic values. Financial security can be a misleading goal and rob you of other things if you are not careful. Our basic values include a true and good marriage, a family in the Lord, open and active relationship with God; and work that serves others. The kind of work is more important than what it pays.

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braced that life is Sister Marie Bernardette Cormier, a New Bedford native who became a victim of polio at the age of 11 months and walks with the aid of canes and a brace. In New 'Bedford recently to visit two sisters and a cousin, Sister Madeleine Marie of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Blessed Sacrament Convent, Fall River, she discussed her way of life. She said she heard of the Lamb of God community through a magazine ad and explained that members engage in varying apostolates according to

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LET IT GO, .LET IT FLOW When Pm alone I sometimes get to thinldn' How it's gonna be when we're gone Are we movin' closer together Or is It take forwer and ever. Let It go (let It go) Let It Dow like a river Let It go Let It Dow through you Searehin' everywhere just tryin' to find the reason For misuaderstandlng and doubt Dol't't wanna preach it Push It or teach It Just take a good look all around. Walls are gonna fall and earth angel's gonna calion you To help you on your way Time spent together like hours forever (LIke llours forever) So don't ever let love slip away.

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The last rites for Pope Paul were beautifully done, low-key and with great dignity and catholicity. The emphasis on the soul, the hereafter and our immortality was what most impressed the youth who viewed the telecast. Throughout the Mass, one sensed that focus on the soul, that blessedness of the world to come. A young girl who called me said, "I learned more about religion from watching the pope's last rites than I ever did in CCD." I know what she meant. There it all was before her, explained so clearly and done with such dignity and serenity. Despite some pomp, there was simplicity and a sense of austerity and I think we all liked that. "The funeral had soul," said another young friend. And into the next day people were talking about the "future of the soul" and "do we have one?" Growing up, I read and heard so many versions of what the soul is supposed to be. One cannot escape it in the Church. I think that the sum total of all I've heard, read and thought about it is that the soul dwells in the body, yet is not of the body . . . the invisible soul is guarded by the visible body . . . the soul is imprisoned in the body, yet preserves that very body . . . the immortal soul dwells in a mortal tabernacle, and Christians dwell as sojourners in corruptible bodies, looking for an incorruptible dwelling with God. Justin Martyr, in a missive addressed to the Roman Emperor and his sons, seeking to defend Christians from persecution, solemnly reminds them of that death which is common to all persons, and of the existence followipg: "If death issued in insensibility it would be a godsend to all the wicked, but since sensation remains to all who have ever lived, see that ye neglect not to be convinced, and

to hold as your belief that these things are true." Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria, Origan, Tertullian, Cyprian, all had almost similar views concerning the soul. Cyrian said to his church at Carthage, when that city was swept by a fearful pestilence, "Vve ought not to mourn for our brethren, who, by the call of the Lord, have been delivered from the world, since we know that they are not lost, but se:lt before us; that they have taken leave of us to precede us. We Dught to long for them as We do for thm,e who are absent on a journey, or who have sailed on a distant voyage, but we should not lament them, nor should we put on black robes of mourning for them here, when they have put no white robes of glory there." In other words, Cypl'ian was advising his church not to give the heathen of his day occasion to accuse Christians of mourning for their loved ones as ~f they were extinct and lost. I have heard some holy elderly people say, "I wish to make haste and run to see my true native land." This is how they felt on their death beds. The annihilatiomsts, of course, give us a problem. They believe that when you die, you die, and that is the end. Too many of our young Catholics have fallen prey to this :kind of teaching. Believe me, we have spent many hours debating that question. It's strange how ,:>ften human nature prefers to 'believe the worst instead of the best about itself. For those who practically worship the body, it is good to remember that in the minds of thinkin~ people there is this deep,--fnborn, indestructible conviction that the body is not the person himself or herself, but rather a dwelling-place, an in.strument. There are those who sneer at Plato but I suspect what he said: "The shoemaker and the harper

are to be distinguished from the hand and feet which they use . . . a man is not the same as his own body." And Cicero, when he said, "We are not mere bodies, nor, when I speak to you do I speak to your body . . . for the body is, as it were, a vase or some receptacle of the soul." And Job when he described men as "them that dwell in houses of clay." And the apostles Peter and Paul when they spoke of the body as an "earthly house," "tent," or "tabernacle." We rest our case upon the argument that God is faithful to his works and word alike, that He cannot deny Himself, that He cannot make the soul to be a lie to itself; that He cannot make the soul with desires for which He ha:> provided no gratification. Not in mockery did He create us. We know where we are going and we know who awaits us.

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eyo Hockey Upcoming The Bristol County Hockey League, sponsored by the Catholic Youth Organization, will hold tryouts Sunday night in the Driscoll Rink on Elsbree Street, Fall River. Initial practices will start at 9 o'clock. Entering its sixth season, the loop expects teams from Fall River, Somerset, Westport-Dartmouth, New Bedford, Taunton and Rochester. There are many roster vacancies and newcomers are encouraged to attend their assigned tryout Sundays. Skaters in Bristol and Plym-

outh counties are eligible to participate in the league. They must be b~rn after Jan. I, 1956 and must be at least 16. All games are played on Sunday nights in the Driscoll Rink. Players are provided league jerseys and socks and must furnish all additional equipment. A 20-game schedule plus playoffs is planned. General tryouts are set for next Sunday but tryouts for the New Bedford and Rochester squads will be on Sunday, Sept. 17, also at 9 p.m.

High Schools Swing Into Fall Sports By next week the high school fall sports season will be underway. The soccerites are early starters and among season openers in that sport is a non-league game in which Bishop Connolly will play host to Diman Voke next Wednesday. The Connolly Cougars open their Southeastern Mass. Conference schedule two days later, away to the Bishop Stang High Spartans. Next Tuesday the Cougars will entertain the Old Rochester Bulldogs in a non-league cross country meet. The Connolly harriers visit Wareham next Thursday. Soccer and cross country are the only fall sports at Connolly. Also among early starters is Westport High's field hockey team which will scrimmage the Case High Cardinals at Central Village next Monday and visit Dighton-Rehoboth in an interdivisional game next Thursday. The Westporters' cross-country

team will be home Monday to Dighton-Rehoboth in inter-division action and is host to Case on Thursday in its conference opener. Competing in the conference's Central Division, the Westport High volleyball team opens its season at DightonRehoboth next Thursday. Dighton-Rehoboth is host next Thursday to Dartmouth in a cross-country opener, and, the Dartmouth volleyballers visit Old Rochester the same day in a non-league game. Durfee High's early starters are volleyball and cross country. In volleyball the Topperettes will be home to' Dighton-Rehoboth Tuesday and at Attleboro next Thursday. Both games are interdivisional. The Hilltopper harriers open next Thursday at Bourne. All home games for the Durfee volleyball team will be played in the new high school on Elsbree Street.

Hockomock Action Next Week The Hockomock League opens its cross country schedule Tuesday and its field hockey season next Thursday. The opening card in cross country lists North Attleboro at King Philip, Sharon at Franklin, Mansfield at Oilver Ames, Foxboro at Stoughton with Canton drawing the bye. :In field hockey, the season openers have Franklin at iFoxboro, Canton at Mansfield, King

Philip at Oliver Ames, North Attleboro at Sharon. Stoughton has the bye on this card. A basketball clinic will be held Saturday at Holy Name CCD center, New 'Bedford, with 10 to 13-year-olds coming from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 14 to 18-yearolds scheduled from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sneakers are the only equipment needed.

Weddington Continued from Page One nancy results from rape or incest. Carter also supports the court's Roe and Doe decisions. Ms. Weddington reportedly discussed her position on abortion funding with Carter shortly after the November 1977 International Women's Year Conference in Houston and made an impression on him. But Carter has not changed his position on abortion since then.

Ms. Weddington's appointment would mean that people involved in both the Roe and Doe decisions will have worked in Carter's White House. Dr. Peter Bourne, psychiatrist, who helped sponsor the Doe case, recently resigned as Carter's adviser on health and drug policy after it was revealed he had used a false name for an assistant in writing her a prescription for Quaalude, a controlled tranquilizer.

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DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN, SOUTH ATTLEBORO The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its first quarterly meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10 at St. Theresa's Church center, South Attleboro. Mrs. James W. Leith, president, will preside, and Mrs. David Sellmayer, president of District Council IV, will extend greetings. Hostesses will be Confraternity of Christian Mothers members of St. Theresa's parish. . OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Appreciation Night for parish workers will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 at White's restaurant. All those who aid the parish are invited as guests of the pastor. Active and associate CCD members are needed, the active to teach or help in catechism classes, the associate to support the program by prayers and donations. Holy Rosary Sodalists will sponsor their annual procession honoring Our Lady of Fatima at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, followed by the feast Mass at 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 17. ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOUTH Officers and new members of the Women's Guild will be installed at ceremonies in the church at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, followed by Benediction. Dinner will follow at Wychmere Harbor, Harwich. ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will begin its season at a Mass at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13. A coffee hour will follow in the ali-purpose room. New members are welcome and all women of the parish are invited to attend. ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FALL RIVER The Center for Natural Family Planning is offering a series of classes, beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 13 and 20. Each class will continue once monthly through December. More information is available from Mrs. Mariette Eaton, RN at the hospital. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, FALL RIVER Conferences are asked to complete their annual reports by Sept. 30 and return them to Catholic Social Services, 783 Slade St., Fall River 02724.

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CATHOLIC SCOUTING COMMITTEE, ATTLEBOROTAUNTON The committee will sponsor the Annawon Council Fall Religious Camporee the weekend of Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 at Camp Norse. Protestant, Jewish and Catholic faiths will be represented and a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes will speak. Further information is available from Father Normand Boulet, 387 Bay St., Taunton, 02780.

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DOMINICAN THIRD ORDER, FALL RIVER All Dominican Tertiaries and those interested in joining the Third Order are invited to attend a Mass and meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Rose Hawthorne Home, 1600 Bay St., Fall River, at which time chapter members will meet their new director, Father Giles Dimock, O.P. Officials stated, "We are honored to have Father Dimock, the head of the Providence College department of liturgy, as our chaplain."

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Syn;bols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide. General ratings: ~suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug· gested; 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; ~bjectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation!; C-condemned.

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Hondo" (1954) - A dassic western starring John Wayne, who, as a dispatch rider for the U.S. Cavalry, comes upon an isolated ranch tended <by Geraldine Page, whose husband !:las deserted her and her young son in the wake of an Apache uprising. A-I.

TV Films Saturday, Sept. 9, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Magnum Foree" (1973) -

Wednesday, Sept. 13, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" (1976) - Director Rob-

Clint Eastwood plays a bnltal detective who has no concern for legal niceties. Visually and thematically a thoroughly irre~;ponsible and violent movie. C.

ert Altman attempts to give his own interpretation to the Buffalo Bill legend. Buffalo Bill (paul Newman) is considerably downgraded by favor of his great antagonist Sitting Bull, but there is no -great depth or perception evident in the debunking process. The movie is entertaining enough in its way, however, with a few flashes of Altman's wit and brilliance. There is also some coarse languB.ge which may be trimmed for television. A-III.

God's Mind "The educator becomes God's mind, at work to help grow the best possible plants in God's garden." - Nels F. S. Ferre

Pro-Lifers Plan Speaking Tour SILVER SPRING, Md. - The Pro-Life Non-Violent Action Project will sponsor a nationwide speaking tour and a series of regional weekend workshops this fall and winter. The Action Project is a clearinghouse for information about pro-life sit-ins at abortion centers and the workshops and speeches will be aimed ·at providing information on how such sit-ins can be implemented. The tour aims to reach as many groups as possible by keeping the cost to each group at $35. To accomplish this, organizations are asked to be flexible with regard to speaking

dates and to provide board and lodging for speakers. Further information on the Action Project is available from P.O. Box 6325, Silver Spring, Md. 20906.

Not Superior ROME (NC) - Jesuit superior general Father Pedro Arrupe has urged churches of the Old World to give up their "superiority complex" and cultural monopoly in missionary efforts. In a letter to the world's 280,000 Jesuits, Father Arrope said that Western churches must take on a "new mental attitude" toward -local cultures in mission lands.

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