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Plope Paul VI (annot Retire, .Vatican Newspaper Declares VATICAN OITY (NC) - The Vatican newspaper said in a page editorial last week that Pope Paul VI cannot retire from office because of the singular, divinely established character of his office. "The ministry of Peter (papacy) cannot be confused with the presidency of a republic or with a managerial contract, nor can the Church be confused with a democracy," wrote L'Osservatore Romano vice-director Father Virgilio Lavi. "The papacy is a permanent ministry which according to law can be interrupted before death only by the real impossibility of exercising it. "It is on those grounds that the hypothetical retirement (of the Pope) discussed in the text of canon law is based," wrote the priest. The editorial marked the second time in three days that Father Lavi had responded in the newspaper to rumors that Pope Paul might resign on his 80th birthday Sept. 26.

AT BEGINNING OF SCHOOL YEAR, Bishop Daniel A..Cronin meets With staff of Catholic Education Center. Seated, from left, Father George W. Coleman, director of education; Bishop Cronin; Sister Marion Geddes, RSM, superintendent 'of schools; Miss Grace Taylor, office manager; standing, Father Marcel H. Bouchard, assistant in the office of religious education; Sister Mary Laurita Hand, PBVM, assistant superintendent of schools; Father Michel G. Methot, director of religious education; Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, coordinator for religious education; Joseph Monaghan, diocesan maintenance coordinator.

Religious Arts F'estiva I Theme The diocese of Fall River and the Council of Churches of Greater Fall River will co-sponsor a Religious Arts Festival the weekend of Nov. 4 through 6 at the Central Congregational Church, Rock Street, Fall River, Rev. Robert Bell of the First United Presbyterian Church, Fall River, is chairman of the coordinating committee planning the Turn to Page Seven

Only Community Founded in Dioc,ese Gathers Members for Study Days' In St. Philippe, Quebec, in Plattsburgh, N.Y., in New Haven, Conn. and in Acushnet and North Dartmouth in this diocese, convents of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena stood empty at the end of last month as all but four members of the only community founded in the

diocese gathered at their Fall bers of the diocesan congregaRiver motherhouse for a two- tion discussed Dominican spiritday study of their Dominican uality, how St. Dominic resheritage. , ponded to the challenge of his Led by Father William Hinne- time and the special apostolic busch, OP, internationally known' mission of the Dominicans. scholar on the history of the A highlight of the meeting was nearly 800-year-old Order of distribution of new crosses and Preachers, 108 of the 112 memTurn to Page Seven

SISTER ANITA PAULINE, prioress general of Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, shows "picture wall" of all members of congregation to Father William Hinnebusch, OP. At right, she distributes crosses

The priest maintained that the Pope is not in the same situation - practically or theologi路 cally - as bishops, whom the Pope himself urged to submit resignations at age 75. The bishop of a diocese, said the editorial, "is a true mission路 ary who must expend himself to the extreme, even physically" through meetings with his Turn to 'Page Seven

Lavanoux Award To Ade Bethune Father Kevin Tripp, chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, New 'Bedford, and chairman of the New England Liturgical Committee (NELC), has announced that the organization will confer its Maurice A. Lavanoux Award on Miss Ade Bethune of Newport, R.I. The presentation will be made at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30 at Ochre Court of Salve Regina ,College, Newport, during a Mass to be celebrated by Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence. The Lavanoux Award recognizes original and creative design within the liturgical cultic arts. Miss Bethune is internationally known for her work in religious arts, including painting, tapestry, stained glass and church design. She is the founder of the St. Leo League, an organization of individuals can路 cerned with the creation and dissemination of, liturgical art. The award ceremony will fol路 low the annual meeting of NELC, to be held at Ochre Court Turn to Page Seven

bearing new international insigne of Dominican Order to infirm members of community at ceremony held at Fall River motherhouse during two-day study of Dominican heritage.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Iijver-Thurs., Sept. 8, 1977

ill People·Places.Events-NC'News Briefs ill Food Problems WASHINGTON - The general secre.tary of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCe) has urged the Carter Administration to proceed cautiously in curtailing wheat production, to press ahead vigorously in negotiations for a grain reserve system, and to cooperate with other nations to increase supplies of surplus food to the world's needy. "In our view, these actions would go a considerable way toward easing the problems of mounting wheat surpluses and depressed prices," said Bishop Thomas C. Kelly in a letter to PrElsident Carter.

Exploitative Stl'ucture SISTER MARIELLA FRYE has been named an advisor to the US delegation to the international Synod of Bishops to be held this fall in Rome.

LONDON - The social and economic structures that a new government of Rhodesia will inherit when a transition to majority rule is made "are founded on entrenched exploitation," said exiled Bishop Donal Lamont of Umtali, Rhodesia, in a pamphlet published in London last week.

Capital Punishment? WASHINGTON - Abortions on District of Columbia women surged far ahead of live births in 1976 after a neck and neck battle the year before. While in 1975, abortions on Wa.shington residents outnumbered births by fewer than 100, the 1976 margin jumped to 3,310, with 12,945 abortions against only 9,635 births.

Ask Chile Information

CARDINAL JOHN DEARDEN of Detroit is back at work on a limited schedule after suffering a heart attack four months ago.

SANTIAGO, Chile - A group of French leaders, including two Archbishops, has asked Chile's military government to pro. uce information on 11 persons missing after detention and to reestablish individual guarantees for its citizens. All of the detained Chileans have families in exile in France.

Praise Car:ter BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A telegram of praise to President Carter, signed by four Soviet prisoners and published by an underground Catholic periodical in Lithuania, has reached the West. A translation was released by Lithuanian Catholic Religious Aid in Brooklyn.

'Pressure Works Here' BUENOS AIRES U.S. President Jimmy Carter's human rights policy is an important instrument for improvement, according to several South American Catholic churchmen at odds with the region's military govt~rnments. "By using economic pressure, Carter can help more than the Church," said a Paraguayan bishop. "Paraguay is economically dependent on the U.S. Pressure works here."

Education Symposium

WINIFRED TRABEAUX, national regent of the Catholic Daughters of America, will conduct a regional workshop in Hartford Sept. 17 and 18 for New England and New York affiliates of the 180,OOO-member organization.

WASHINGTON - Representatives of 25 national organizations engaged in the Church's educational mission will meet with diocesan education officials at a symposium aimed at identifying major problems in the Church's. educational apostolate and devising solutions to them. The symposium, to be held Sept. 19-21 in Arlington, Va., wilL be a first, according to the U.S. Catholic Conference's Department of Education, which will sponsor the gathering.

Says Treaty Needed PANAMA CITY - Archbishop Marcos G. McGrath of Panama City has warned against blind rejection of the proposed Panama Canal Treaty. He declared that anyone who knows the facts will recog-

nize the· need for a new treaty as a matter of justice.

Irish Reaction Mixed WASHINGTON - While government officials in nuhlin and London welcomed President· Jimmy Carter's proposal for economic aid to Northern Ireland and his call for an end to the fighting there, the Carter plan . drew ridicule from parties to the struggle as well as from a spokesman for the Bronx~based organization widely held to be aiding forces seeking to oust the British from Ulster.

Want Siege Ended MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A coalition of democratic groups, including the Social Christian party, has asked the Nicaraguan government to lift its state of siege, divest the army of political functions, and grant general amnesty to political prisoners.

SterHization Statistics WASHINGTON - Mothers involved in 7.8 percent of live births of legitimate children in 1972 were sterilized for either contraceptive or medical reasons right after delivery, according to a National Center for Health Statistics survey.

ARCHBISHOP MARCOS McGRATH of Panama City has warned against 'blind rejection of the proposed Panama Canal Treaty.•

Food Conference GENEVA, Switzerland - Secretary of Agriculture Robert Borgland will be among 150 participants in a conference on the moral implications of U.S. food policy Sept. 9-10 in Chicago and Peoria, III.

The conference is being sponsored by SODEPAX (Committee on Society, Development and Peace), Geneva-based ecumenical social action venture of the World Council of Churches and the Vatican's Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission.

Three Choices CHICAGO - Administrators of 365 congregations of nuns were given three choices at their annual meeting in Chicago. They were told they could go backwards and merely be a labor force in the Church," stay as they are and probably die, or move ahead and risk a lot. The choices were offered by Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, addressing the opening session of the meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

PARTICIPANTS in National Congress on Evangelization walk in procession along Minneapolis street.

Less Is More? VATICAN CITY - Pope Paul VI has suggested fewer Sl;lnday Masses, with more people attending each, in order to encourage more sense of community in the celebration of the Lord's nay. ~n a message to an Italian liturgical congress, the Pope reminded Catholics that a constant goal of the Church is to encourage Sunday assemblies in which the congregation is "numerous and striving to work together" as a community.

Cape Town Arrests WASHINGTON - Father Basil van Rensburg and three Catholic nuns were arrested Aug. 25 for participating in an illegal procession in downtown Cape Town, South Africa, according to a U.S. State Department Official. They were among seven persons arrested during the protest, aimed at the South African government's new p01icy of demolishing squatter camps for black people which are located outside areas officially designated for black or colored (mixed-race) residence.

IT'S A WHILE since breakfast and a while to lunch. In the meantime, this churchgoing tot settles for nibbling a parish bulletin.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fan River-Thurs., Sept. 8, 1977

Bishop Gelineau Decries 'Soap'

l ,PROVIDENCE, R.I. (NC) Following a preview of several episodes of ABC-TV's fall series, "SOAP," Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence has said the Golston's attorney argued that 'BOSTON (NC) - The Massaprogram "diminished the respect chusetts Supreme Court Judicial Salem was killed by the doctors for a way of life we value." Court has ruled that "brain who pulled the plug on the resThe bishop's comments were death" not the traditional pirator, not by the blow from made after an Aug. 30 viewing cessation of heartbeat and res- Salem. of several episodes of the series piration - will be used to deThe trial Judge, Walter Mcin the company of management fine death in homicide cases. Laughlin, ruled that the blow personnel from the local ABC The ruling came in an unusual was the cause of death. The affiliate, WPRI-TV. "Overall, I Massachusetts high court upmurder case. see them as a poor use of mass held his decision. It is the highcommunications resources," he An 18-year-old, Dorchester, est state appeals court in the said in a written statement isMass., man, Siegfried Golston, United States to accept the brain sued Aug. 31. was convicted of hitting Ronald death definition. The Providence station had Salem, 34, in the head with a The Supreme Judicial Court withheld a decision on airing baseball bat. Doctors removed said its ruling was narrow and "SOAP," until after the bishop a large portion of Salem's brain was confined only to the homiviewed it. But later the same in an- effort to save him. His cide cases. day as the bishop's statement heartbeat and respiration were Salem's defense also argued was issued, Edwin W. Pfeiffer, maintained with the use of a that if the respirator had not vice president and general manrespirator. been unplugged, Salem might ager of WP,RI-TV; announced IBut after two "flat" brain- have lived for more than a year SISTER KATHLEEN PETER McCANN with her parthat the station would show wave tests, doctors declared Sal- and a day after the blow. Under "SOAP." . ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCann, at her profession of em dead. With his wife's per- Massachusetts law, an attacker The controversial series, final vows at St. Thomas More Church, Somerset. mission, he was removed from whose victim does not die from scheduled to be aired beginning artificial life support systems the attack injury for a year and Sept. 13 at 9:30 p.m. EST., has and his heartbeat and respiration a day can, be charged with atbeen critized by several religious l stopped. tempted murder, but not murder groups, including the U.S. Cathl or manslaughter. The high court olic Conference, for its depiction rejected this argument. of sexual immorality, racism and to persist. Two years lat&, violent behavior. Golston's lawyers relied on' however, it had and she entered the Black's Law Dictionary def"The network claims that its She's a sparkling, blue-eyed Edward McCann, and her three the Mercy community. approach should have a good inition of death as cessation of effect by demonstrating the be- "new nun" who doesn't even sisters, college students Martha heartbeat and circulation. In former times, she said, most havior of the program's char- . possess a religious habit. But and Ellen, and Frances, married prospective Sisters entered reSupreme Judicial Court Jusacters as extreme and unworthy Sister Kathleen Peter McCann, and a first grade teacher at ligion straight from high school, tice Robert Braucher said in the Dominican Academy, Fall River. who last week professed final of imitation," Bishop Gelineau Twelve years of grammar and some from eighth grade. To- court's ruling that "the traditionsaid, adding that he believed the vows as a Sister of Mercy, is as day the Sisters of Mercy, as do effort to redeem the series was committed to her vocation as high school under the auspices many other communities, require al definition of death as the cessation of the heart beat is any black-robed nun of yester- of .the Sisters 'of Mercy at the "quite weak." that a candidate have two years erroneous." former St. Joseph's School and year. "In any event. it·wiUhardly. ",Black's Law Dictionary . . . "There's a core of peace in the former St. Mary Academy of work experience Or two years ov.erride 'the diminishing .of. re~. of college before· entrance, alspect for essential moral values knowing that Christ has' called' of Fall' River were what turned though there is a "pre-candi- does not freeze the medical defsuch as are present· in marriage you," she said, "and it makes Sister Kathleen towards religi- dacy" program for younger wom- inition for all time, and its references to respiration and puland family life, which. are par- external structure, clothes and ous life, she said. But when she entered the Uni- en. sation must be taken to refer to ticularly held up to ridicule," such things, very secondary." Six and a half years ago, when versity of Massachusetts at AmBut, she summed up, whether spontaneous rather than artifithe bishop said. "In addition, supported functions," . the treatments of marital fideli- Sister Kathleen, now 26, enter- herst, she added, few of her yesterday or today, "basically, cially Braucher said. ty, race, homosexuality, truth- ed religious life, she was among friends expected her voclltion you have a call or you don't." fulness, religion and crime at the first .Sisters of Mercy to adbest superficial and often of- venture along new paths of forfensive. Television can be used mation, away from the more or less lockstep postulancies and for such better things." novitates of former years. Bishop Gelineau said he is She enjoyed the journey, but "also concerned that the scheduled air time brings the program admits that there's "more amwithin views of 18 million chil- biguity in translating the vows dren, according to national sta- of poverty, chastity and obeditistics. Therein, I find a potential ence into 1977 terms than there used to be." She points out too SEPTEMBER CLASSES STARTING for great harm." He urged those who share his that today's religious life is FISHER CAMPUSES - ENROLL NOW concern "for quality in mass "hard on people who need strucATTEND 2 NIGHTS A WEEK; EARN FULL MAXIMUM BENEFITS. ture," because the individual has media, (to) make their views GET A COLLEGE DEGREE IN LESS THAN 2 YEARS. so much freedom in life style known to local station managedecisions. ment" he also said he is giving SOUND EDUCATION Business ELIGIBLE VETERANS - SEPALife style for today's religious serious attention to drafting a Management Courses to enable RATED WITHIN THE LAST TEN pastoral letter to all Rhode Is- in the Fall River diocese, as you to advance faster; broaden YEARS MAY ATTEND FISHER JUST your opportunities. 2 NIGHTS A WEEK AND RECEIVE land Catholics on broader issues elsewhere, can mean living in FULL BENEFITS. TELL US YOUR in mass communications and the an apartment with two or three NEXT TERM STARTS: SEPT. 19th FAMILY SIZE & WE WILL TELL other Sisters, rather than in a entertainment media. & OCT. 18th. YOU EXACTLY HOW MUCH YOUR Pfeiffer said the station had large convent, wearing slacks, MONTHLY TAKE·HOME WILL BE. decided to air the series because, pantsuits and other casual TIME SAVER - Walk in and sign and sharing common clothing, up. No registration fee for anyone. REGISTER NOW while some viewers might be Office open (Our Veterans Affairs Office will 9 am to 8 pm. Mon·Thurs; 9 am offended by it, others will feel feminine concern over hairstyles assist vets in filling out all forms to 4:30 pm Fri. Call or go in cheated if deprived of a chance and hemlines. for the VA) for answers to all questions. For Sister Kathleen, however, to make their own judgement. home base is the convent at St. Vincent's aome, Fall River, For catalog or answers call or visit Storiehill Enrollment where she is a social worker, inCONTINUING EDUCATION Some 524 new students will volved in one to one counseling begin studies at Stonehill Col- with 21 youngsters ages six to lege today, 468 freshmen and 16, and in charge of the home's the remainder transfer and part- volunteer program. For the foreseeable future, she time students. The freshman class represents all states and ·expects to remain at the home, 1903 two foreign countries, with 70 meanwhile completing requireBOSTON CAMPUS WORCESTER CAMPUS FALL RIVER CAMPUS ATTLEBORO CAMPUS percent of its membership from ments for a master's degree in 108 Beacon Street HOlYNAME HIGH SCHOOL BISHOP CONNOllY HIGH SCHOOL BISHOP FEEHAN HIGH SCHOOL Boston, Mass. 02116 Worcester. Mass. 01604 President Ave. Exit Rte. 24 Exit 5 - Route 95 Massachusetts. Classes at the social work at Boston College. Telephone: 536.4647 Telephone: 754·5341 Telephone: 675-0171 Telephone: 222·6040 She is happy to ,be in the Fall North Easton campus began today, foJIowing a 9 a.m. Mass of River area, near her Somerset the Holy Spirit. home, her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

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are provided for poor people, both those who work and who can't work. "oBut the abuses are being eliminated in this program, the abuses that people can make more money not working on welfare than they do if they get a job; the abuses that create confusion and complexity, fraud and cheating; the abuses that divide one member of the family from the rest of the members of the family. Those are all being eliminated. "I think the elimination of those adverse parts of the present program will do a great deal to restore the beneficial image of the' word welfare if it is used." ,

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Sept. 8, 1977

themoorin~ Difficulties of Being Charitable , In an age when so very many believe that the government will take care of all our needs, it was indeed refreshing to read the Annual Survey of the National Conference of Catholic Charities. With such heavy emphasis being placed on a national welfare system, sometimes we forget the tremendous efforts of the private sector to help -the needy of this land. Always in the forefront of this effort has been the Catholic Church and let's not forget it. For example, the National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC) has a current membership of 550 agencies in 147 dioceses as well as 340 institutional and other group members. These members in the past year served over four million people. The major programs of service were counseling, unmarried parents, information and referral, child welfare, emergency assistance, programs for the elderly, and family life education. The major social issues dealt with by NCCC were welfare reform, family life, respect for life, tax reform, world hunger, national health insurance, the elderly and urban crisis. In its efforts to be of service to its members this organization' spent in excess of $336 million. It is obvious that this single organization of the Catholic

Church has made an impressive contribution to the welfare of the American people. However we must keep' in' mind that it is by no means the total Catholic contribution, which would have to include parish efforts, Catholic hospitals and schools, the Campaign for Human Development, individual diocesan charities and many others. The next time some of our local friends in national and state politics begin to take credit for the great work they are doing with reference to charitable efforts while at the same time taking potshots at the Catholic Church, ask them to take a good look the generous efforts that Catholic people everywhere are making, be it on the local, state or national level, to help better the lives of their fellow men.

Young Louis gazes intently . . . at passing scenes · .. as he rides an amusement park train ... His whole being seems centered . . . on what he sees. He images . . . the contemplative . . . in all of us . · .. the capacity . . . perhaps too little exercised for looking at the world about us. . . sensitively . critically . . . with wonder ... and appreciation. Christian contemplatives of all ages . . . learn to look at what is before their eyes . . . and notice there · .. captivating signs of God's presence ... They experience . . . as did St. Paul . . . that the visible world · . . reveals the beauty and power . . . of the Creator (Romans 1;20). St. Ignatius Loyola ... summed up the contemplain teaching people ... tive tradition of the Church "to see God ... in all things" to look at the world · .. as a sacrament ... of God's love. The Psalmist assures us that . . . "The heavens tell out the glory of God ... the vault of heaven reveals his handiwork." (Psalm 19;1) ... Gerard Manley Hopkins ... translates this ancient insight ... into modern poetry . . . "The world . . . is charged . . . with the grandeur . . . of God." Lord ... open our eyes ... Teach us to see!

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Because the Church has taken a· very strong stand on • moral issues that government has undertaken to legislate, it is fashionable in some quarters to sweep aside with By Jim Castelli ridicule and derision everything that the Church does in our WASHrNGTON (NC) -Dursociety, including its charitable efforts. It would be well ing the Plains, Ga., press conferif people of this mentality began to realize the real hungers -ence at which President Carter of the human family. revealed his Administration's

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As Catholics, we should be proud of the work being done by the Church to relieve the sufferings that plague so many of our brothers and sisters. To be sure, we could do more; but this is no valid criticism of what actually is the case in the here and now. With expanded vision and mutual cooperation, the charitable work of the Church will expand in relation to the missionary zeal of its members. It would be most unfortunate if we ever became complacent in this matter. Then our critics would really have something into which to sink their teeth.

As the Church faces difficult days in the future, we must always be I:1indful that there are millions who will still look to us for their very life support. Difficulties must not become obstacles that will deter us from the essential charitable mission each of us has as a member of the Church. The crying needs of man must not be stifled by the shouts of those who would oppose the Church in every aspect of its mission.

Letters Welcome Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters should be !Drief and the editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All l~tters must be signed and contain a home or business, address.

welfare reform proposal, a reporter asked: "Mr. President, in your statement you obviously avoided using the word 'welfare' except to say the system was a failure. Does this mean you believe the word has become too stignatized, that under this approach you are advancing you hope the word itself would become obsolete rather than rehabilitated?"

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Carter answered this way: "I think there is a great deal of stigma attached to the word 'welfare.' 'I can't shape the vocabulary of the nation, obviously, but we have decided to call this program, during its -work phase, a program for better jobs and income. This is what' we are trying to do. "I think the people of the country, according to my own interaction with them during the campaign and as President, and also my -own information derived from public opinion polls, don't like the word welfare, but they do favor the programs that

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This exchange points out the importance of the use of language in politics, the dangers of superficial examination of public opinion poll results and the complexity of public attitudes. Politicians and interest groups use language so subtly that many people don't recognize that the choice of just one word may result from a conscious effort to spread propaganda, to make a point. For example, politicians try to label one another "radicals" or "reactionaries." Abortion opponents try to make a point by calling themselves "pro-life" rather than "antiabortion;" supporters of legal abortion prefer • the label "pro-choice" to "proabortion." More recently, supporters of rights for illegal aliens - foreign born persons living in the United States without legal status - have begun calling these people "undocumented workers," a ,much less emotional description. Carter is correct that "welfare," once an honorable word used to describe well-being, has become stigmatized. "This is because it has become associated with a particular system or, more accurately, a lack of a system - instead of a concept.

Necrology

Sept. 16 Rt. Rev. Jean A. Prevost, P.A., P.R., 1925, Pastor, Notre Dame, Fall River Sept. 17 Rev. Thomas F. McNulty, 1954, Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford Sept. 18 Rev. ,Luke Golla, SS.CC., 1945, Seminary of Sacred Heart, Wareham Rt. Rev. Edmund J. Ward, 1964, Pastor, St. Patrick, Fall River Sept. 19 Rev. Henry E. S. Henniss, 1859, Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford Sept. 20 Rev. Simon A. O'Rourke, 1918, Chaplain, United States Navy Rev. Omer Valois, 1958, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford Sept. 21 Rev. George 'Pager, 1882, Founder, Sacred Heart, New Bedford Rev. George Jowdy, 1938, Pastor, Our Lady of Purgatory, New Bedford

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Catholic Press Survey Subject steering points, "When we get right down to it, do we really believe that prayer can help free the drug addict or the alcoholic from his addiction? Or is referral to a federal clinic the best we can do?" Father Francis MacNutt, OP Director of Merton House Charismatic Center, St. Louis

"The large, impersonal parish is in real trouble in many areas. The small community of Christians, patterned. along family, friendship or neighborhood relations, provides a stronger and more personal environment for evangelization." Father Frank Ponce, Coordinator, Hispanic Pastoral Encuentro

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"Do not the thousands who are dying of hunger in Bangladesh, India, Africa or Latin America have a more urgent need of bread than we have of whiskey, champagne or the excessive first course?" Father Pedro Arrupe, Jesuit Superior General

Berna rd Theroux .TribQte 路Planned: Father R' Gabriel Blain, 0.禄., pastor of St. Anne's Church, Fall River, is chairman of a committe organizing a testimonial honoring Bernard G. Theroux, to be held Sunday, Sept. 11 at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea. Mr. Theroux, for 路25 years secretary of St. Anne's parish, recently resigned his position to pursue a career as an accountant and also to give more time to his new office as a deacon of the Providence diocese. He is well known in the Franco-American community as a pioneer in the recognition of their contribution French culture has made to the New England area, serving as president of the French Cultural Assn., and the Cheverus Coupcil of l'Union St. Jean-Baptiste. He is a director of St. Anne's credit union and active in many other Catholic and civic organizations. , Professionally, Mr. Theroux is owner of an accounting and secretarial services firm and is director of regular ,French language radio and television programs on area stations. His honors include the Marian Medal of the Fall River diocese and several awards from the French government in recognition of his work for the advancement of French culture. He attended St. Anne's parochial school, the former Msgr. Prevost High School, seminaries in Canada and St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vt. He is married to the former Lorraine Desrosiers and the couple has four children. Tickets to the Sept. 11 testimonial are available at St. Anne's rectory.

ENRICHMENT COURSE: An eight-month enrichment course for Greater New Bedford religious education teachers began last week at St. Mary's School, New Bedford. From left, examining textbook, Shari Sherman, St. Kilian parish, New Bedford; Raymond Yates, St. George, Westport; Norma Meehan, St. Joseph, Fairhaven.

NCCW Head Dismayed at NAWR Action WASHINGTON (NC) - The "Certainly, this leaves very president of the National Coun- few areas that do not concern cil of Catholic Women (NCe our two organizations," she said. W) has expressed dismay at the Mrs. Horsell said that implerejection of a resolution at the mentation of many Call to Acrecent National Assembly of tion resolutions is a priority Women Religious (NAWR) con- among federation members, and venti on which 'called for coop- .that -the' latest- issue of Catholic : eration between -the two groups. Women', the NCCW publication, "At this time, when women, emphasizes human rights for particularly Catholic lay women women in its lead articles. and women Religious, should be NCCW opposition to the Equal reaching out in support of each Rights Amendment ~ERA), she other to serve the needs of wom- said, is based on the ERA's amen and humanity, NAWR's state- biguity rather than the priniciple ment that cooperation is not de- involved. sired because we have basic The ERA was a major topic 'ideological differences' is hard to at the August NAWR convenunderstand," said Mrs. Arthur tion in New Orleans, with deleHorsell, NCCW president. gates agreeing not to meet in Mrs. Horsell noted many areas states where the ERA has not which concern both groups been ratified. among them, the poor, good health care for all, fair housing, an adequate minimum wage, equal employment and educaRev. Mr. Hervey L. Vanasse, tional opportunity, justice for son of the late Mr. and Mrs. women in society and the Ovila Vanasse, New Bedford, Church, and ministry to the will be ordained to the priestaging. hood today in St. Mary's Church, Castle Rock, Washington, by Archbishop Raymond G. HuntOffer Nursing Course hausen of Seattle. On Acutely IU Child A former permanent deacon A six-session course ' for in the Seattle archdiocese, he nurses on care of the acutely pursued studies for the priestill child will be offered from 7 hood after the death of his wife. to 9 p.m. on six consecutive He is the father of two daughters Tuesdays, beginning Sept. 20, and has seven grandchildren. in Clemence Hall, St. Anne's He will celebrate a Mass of Hospital, Fall River. thanksgiving at 10 a.m. Sunday, The series. is sponsored by Sept. 18 at Sacred Heart Church, the Cooperative Continuing Ed- New Bedford, his former parish. ucation Program for Nurses of It will be followed by a dinner St. Anne's and the Union- Trues- for his five brothers and four dale hospitals. Faculty will be sisters and their families, most provided by the University of of whom live in the New Bedford Rhode Island College of Nurs- area. ing. Enrollment will be limited Following a brief stay with and registration forms are avail- family members, he will return able from the university's exten- to Castle Rock, where he is assion division on Promenade signed to St. Mary's parish. Street, Providence. His studies for the priesthood ,Further information is avail- were undertaken at St. Mark's able from the staff education Monastery, South Union, Ky. and department of either of the at St. John Vianney Seminary, sponsoring hospitals. Kenmore, Wash.

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The rejected resolution, which had urged cooperation between the two organizations "in areas of actual concern," was proposed by the NAWR, and .not the NCCW, Mrs. Horsell said.

ROCKVILLE OENTRE, N.Y. (NC) - Preliminary resuts of a U.S. study of Catholic reading habits and attitudes toward the Church will be presented at the lith World Congress of the Catholic Press in Vienna in October. The study, conducted by the Gallup Poll for the Catholic Press Association, is the first of five stages in a larger study of Catholic attitudes and reading habits. The remaining four stages, involve detailed studies of Catholic newspaper and magazine readers, personal interviews at Gallup headquarters, and a conference to analyze and implement findings. Other Catholic press organizations and publishers around the world are also making special reports on the state of the press in their countries, bas.ed on the Congress theme, "A Press for the People."

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REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

James Lynch's new book, "The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness," is one of the strongest arguments for marriage, family, and by implication, local community to come down the beach in a long time. I'm

New 'Book Has Implica tions tor' Religious Life sure Catholics will ignore the needs ffiends to survive physcolbook, however. Greeley's law ogically. It is now clear that he again: When someone else dis- needs them to survive physically covers a truth, we've just for- too. gotten it. As I see it, there are three opBut I wish to reflect in this tions: 1) The church abandons column on the implications of c,elibacy completely, save as an Lynch's book for the priesthood ideal for a few cloistered monks and religious life. I am at that and nuns (this may well happen; age now at which I see many of if it does, then a later age will my contemporaries being torn rlediscover celibacy). 2) Priests apart by the loneliness of the and nuns learn in their' training crisis of the middle years. The years how to have sustained thesis of "The Broken HeaI1" fdendships with those who are that loneliness has profound im- 'not clergy or religious. plications for physical health 3) The structures of the priestraises some disturbing questions for those of us who still believe hood and the religious life be rein the validity of the' celibate formed internally so that inoption ( as a free choice): it was stead of driving one another to clear all along that the celibat~ lonely early graves we provide

support and reinforcement for one another. Ideally, opinions two and three should be combined. In the present state of things, three is very unlikely. That leaves us with option two: find friends elsewhere or run the risk of premature death (a la James Lynch) from a broken heart. I found myself a number of years ago pretty much thrown out of my own archdiocese (the offense is not what I write, since it isn't read, but that I write.) It was one of the best things to happen to me because more or 'less without paying much attention, I ended up with my closest friends beyond the boundaries of clerical culture,

something I otherwise would never have imagined. The crisis of the middle years is much less lonely for me than for my age peers who are forced to lean on the frail supports of clerical friendship. It is curious that in all of the sound and fury coming out of the various clergy organizations like the NFPC we, hear little if anything about the m~diocrity and the envy of the clerical culture. Maybe the leadership of such groups understands that in revised structures of the clerical life and among priests whose friends are beyond those structures, their leadership would be even less important than it is.

Wants Pres.:ription for Lack of Communication Iy MARY CARSON

Hospital emergency rooms draw strange emotions from people. Those on the inside know what's going on and talk to everyone. Those in the sitting room retreat into an impenetrable shell. And these emotions can be the opposite of the person's normal behavior. Recently my husband and I made an early morning trip to the hospital. Dan was having severe pains in his ~hest.

A competent nurse took him. I was sent to wait. Waiting rooms are horrible. There is nothing to do but wait. The others who are waiting are locked inside themselves. Small talk doesn't start. After over an hour of waiting, I decided to break that silence. Others must be as alone and anxious as I. Possibly if I made an effort to talk it could help both me and others. But no one wanted to talk. The waiting room makes me wonder what problems others are carrying. The couple who came in together . . . I guessed it was he who was ill. She was ushered inside. A mother held a frail 'baby in her arms. But what was wrong? I offered to hold the baby while

tll1e mother called a cab. She doctor before it was finally uations exaggerate - but typify seemed' not to hear me. diagnosed as pneumonia. - so many of life's problems. Dan is quiet - a listener. He The biggest strain is the lack of A young woman waited alone. Her husband returned from that rarely strikes up conversations communication. A rift develops between inner chamber and they left, with strangers. Yet he had talking quietly to each other, the tracked down' all the answers friends. Possibly it would be tension in her face starting to to the grief in the waiting room. cured faster if they talked to The baby has cerebal palsy each other. An argument starts ease. Those inside, the sick, have and needed oxygen. A man between husband and wife. One problems and are being cared brought in on a stretcher had clams up - unable to talk. Fricfor. But much is happening to had a stroke, but he also has tion develops between parent those left to wait. They are diabetes and a heart condition. and child. One refuses to listen. Such sicknesses can't be cured hurting. In some ways their pain The older woman . . . she may by two weeks of antibiotics and may be deeper than that of the not make it ... It seemed curious that we had rest. injured. switched our normal patterns. I'm not even sure if they can I'm generally a talker, yet I Most of the grief out in that be cured; but the remedy certainprobably said fewer than 30 waiting room was due to lack ly isn't in being isolated, cut off words in those two hours. of communication. Even though from each other. It's probably Finally I was allowed, to 'see the patients are under greater tie<Lup in lov.e. .Top bad we c~n't my husband. His heart was- fine, physical stress, those waiti,ng are j4st take !l pill every four hours . . . but there was fluid in his under a severe' emotiomil drain. ' instead. We'd be quicker to try lung. He'd have to see another It seems such emergency sit- it.

Explains ChlLlrch's Stand on Right-Âˇto-Work Laws By

MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS

What is a right-to-work law? It is one that forbids labor and management to sign contracts establishing a union shop. Under a union-shop agreement, the employer can hire whomever he chooses, but every new employe, after a certain trial period (usually 30 days). must join the union. The TaftHartley Act, like the Wagner National Labor Relations Act before it, allows lah:>r and man-

agement to make union-shop controlling. But the Taft-Hart- It is subject to a number of agreements. But, unlike the Wag- ley Act does per:nit the states reasonable qualifications or rener Act, Taft-Hartley specifi- to adopt more severe regulations strictions, including the requirecally allows the states to out- of unions than obtain under fed- ment that all workers covered eral law. The result is a series under a collective bargaining law such agreements. It is easy to unde[Stand why of devious devices - so-called contract in a given plant be reorganized labor is opposed to right-to-work-Iaws - aimed in quired to join the union which such restrictive legislation. But practice at circumventing labor's represents them. There is nothing new about why are so many Catholic, Pro- right to organize. Supporters argue that right- this theory. It is a standard part testant and Jewish clergymen and church-related agencies op- to-work legislatioi.1, which pro- . of Catholic social teaching. posed to legislation which, on ,hibits the union 5 lOp and other So much for social theory. At the surface, appears to be so forms of union security, is nec- the practical level, the basic obconsonant with the American essary to guarantee the free ex- jection to right-to-work legislaercise of what they consider to tion is that it practically forces tradition -of economic freedom? Because" in this case, appear-' be one of the inalienable rights of conflict between labor and manances are deceptive. Right-to- man. Again, the question arises: agement. By denying the union work legislation is not really de- Why are so many churchmen effective security in a given signed to protect the right to and church-related agencies op- plant, such legislation puts labor work. It is aimed at neutraliz- posed to legislation purportedly perpetually on the defensive in ing labor's right to organize. No d.esigned to achieve this end? relation to employers. The union state may legally act directly The right to work without be- itself is weakened by having against lagor's right to organize I.:mging to a union is not an to divert so much of its money since federal law in this case is absolute or unconditional right. and energies to its continuing

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MARILYN RODERICK

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it alters your cooking habits? How was I to know that the chef at the Golden Arches was to become their favorite and that only short-order cooking would be acceptable, because what American teen-ager or even pre-teen has time to sit down and eat a full-course meal? I used to complain when a meal consisted of a few milkspilling incidents but now I would even welcome that if I

could manage to get everyone sitting down at the same time. Every now and then I feel very guilty about this and I make an extra effort to have something I think everyone will enjoy. However, I always pick the night that Jason's "eating over the Siedels," Meryl announces she's already hit her grandmother up for something to eat and she's not hungry and Melissa decides roasted chicken just isn't her

thing, she'll get something later. The grand finale to my afternoon of cooking is usually that Joe and I sit down by ourselves. Then there is the other problem associated with the appetites of teenagers - they love junk food. The first reaction to the groceries I have spent an hour or so accumulating is, "Ma, there's nothing to eat here." This statement, of course, brings a warm feeling to my heart,

struggle for existence. Labormanagement relations are poisoned by the suspicion engendered by the situation. If the controversy over rightto- work legislation were centered in large industrial states with powerful unions, one might possibly believe that abuses by unions have provoked such legislation. But the right is centered in newly industrialized areas, mainly in the South, where unions are struggling to gain a foothold. They are striving to obtain better conditions for workers in these areas and also to protect union workers elsewhere from sweatshop competition. This being the case, it seems evident that the real motive behind right-to-work legislation is opposition to unions as such.

Lacks? somewhat akin to rage. I have attempted to thwart this bit by having them do some of the shopping and it does work fairly well. Very few complaints are heard now from the youthful members of our family except that Joe and I can't find a thing to eat. Oh well, there's always the Golden Arches. Because I hate to be labeled a quitter and because I truly do Turn to Page Seven

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AT WHAT IS BEUEVED to be the first such event at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, members of the catechetical team of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk, together with their families, enjoy a day of recollection combined with a cookout, swimming and sports. Left, Mrs. Cath-

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Pope Cannot Retire, Says Newspaper

Continued from Page One Continued from Page One event and Father Horace Trav- people, pastoral visits, study of assos' and Sister Ann Boland, "infinite pastoral problems," and SUSC are among Catholic memo other tasks. bers. "Their ministry demands a Theme of the festival will be type of physical energy, of total "The Art of Hoping" and ex- and ceaseless availability in all hibits and presentations will ex- 'sorts of unforeseen circumplore artistic expressions of the stances which can only be mainmeaning of hope in modern so- tained with difficulty after a ciety. certain age," said Father Levi. Each parish and church in the "But the Pope's ministry, beGreater Fall River area has been sides being unique, is also difasked to create a banner for ferent under many aspects," he the festival and church members said. "His is a task of direction are encouraged to create art on from above demanding - more the theme of hope in the cate; than physical energies - a quick garies of painting, sculpture, and alert mind, a heart full of creative writing, photography, charity, and a deep and proven weaving and tapestry. There will experience to 'confirm' his be a special display of children's brethren." art. In carrying out this "superior Churches are also asked to and singular mandate of divine' lend for the purpose of display origin," according to Father works of art such as paintings, Lev1' "age does not create for banners and chalices. Futher information will be announced shortly on the festival program, which will' include Continued from Page Six drama, contemporary music, chilenjoy cooking, every now and dren's workshops, films and ecuthen I have to try something menical worship. new and different just to keep ~y sanity. This dish is perfect for a brunch or late Sunday meal with bacon, ham or sausContinued from Page One age chains to the Sisters. Designed Blueberry Pouffe Rhodes by Sister Gertrude Gaudette, 3 egg yolks, (save the whites, they incorporate the new interthey will be needed later in national Dominican insigne the recipe) within a simple cross. % cup sour cream Another highlight was a "picIf.J cup milk ture wall," also arranged by Sis1 teaspoon grated orange ter Gertrude, who went through rind archives dating from the com% teaspoon nutmeg munity's foundation in 1891 to pinch salt collect and mount photographs 1 cup sifted flour of every Sister in the congrega3 egg whites tion, living or dead. pinch salt Also part of the program were % cup picked-over blueberries prayer sessions including slide 1. In a large bowl combine presentations and group discussion, renewal of religious vows the egg yolks, sour cream, milk, and a workshop in preparation orange rind, nutmeg and salt. for a general chapter meetiQg of Stir in the sifted flour. 2. In another bowl beat the the community to take place egg whites with a pinch of salt next year. until they hold stiff peaks and fold them into the yolk mixture. Fold in the blueberries and THE ANCHOR pour the mixture into a buttered Second elns Posta.e Paid at rail River, Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 1 % quart souffle dish. HII/lland Avenue, rail River, Mass. 02722 3. Bake the mixture in 375 by the ClU,ollc Pre.. of the Diocese of rail degree oven for 45 minutes or River. Sub,crlptlon price by mall, postpaid '5.00 per Yllr. until it is puffed and browned.

the Pope the practical problem it poses for bishops." The editorial also responded to those who feel that the Pope

Lavanoux Award Continued from Page One at 3:30 p.m. NELC is an association offering educational pro. grams to serve liturgical renewal in the New England states. Since 1959 it has sponsored lit. urgical days and workshops emphasizing the inner meaning of the liturgy.

Padre Pio Fete A celebration accompanying formal unveiling of the first Padre Pio monument in the United States will take place Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct.' 1 1'n Nom'stown, Pa. Padre Ales路 sio Parento, an aide to Padre' Pio, will be present for the occasion, to include a concelebrated Mass, dinner and a reception. Further information is available at telephone 955-9631 or 996-0332.

, To La Salette Brother William Rush, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., who professed first vows as a La Salette Brother at ceremonies held last month in Enfield. N.H., has been assigned to La Salette Shrine, Attleboro.

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will or should retire at age 80 since he himself barred cardinals who have reached that age from voting in papal elections. "An old man, at a certain point, is prone to look back and live in a past of remembrances or perhaps regrets," said the priest. "Hypothesizing that an over80 Pope might involuntarily succumb to this weakness, such a situation would cause no damage to the Church's future since the Pope does not name his own successor. "It is a different story for those who elect the next Pope," judged the writer. Both Paul VI and the Second Vatican Council _ which recommended that 'bishops, but not the Pope, be asked to resign at 75 _ are concerned "that the Church not be governed by a gerontocracy (rule by the elderly)," said Father Levi. "It is logical that he remain at his post to direct the progress of a great community of be'lievers like the Catholic Ch\H'ch whose needs he was able to know and fill only from that position," he added. Regarding Church tradition, Father Levi said that "only one ,Pope if! history retired voluntarily." Of that Pope, Celestine V, the路 priest said that "by being the exception he only confirmed the rule." Pope St. Peter Celestine laid down the tiara in 1294 after only 122 days of chaotic reign.

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OUR LADY OF LOURDES, rrAUNTON The annual feast of Our Lady of Lourdes will be celebrated Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 10 and 11, on the church grounds, beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday with a procession and continudng at 9:30 a.m. Sunday with a concelebrated Mass followed at 1:30 p.m. by a procession through parish streets. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will greet par路 ticipants as they return to the church and will then celebrate Benediction. The feast will close at 9 p.m. Sunday with return of our Lady's statue to the rectory from the place of honor it will occupy on the grounds during the two-day event. Concurrently with religious activities, the feast will offer games, booths, Portuguese and American foods, auctions, raf路 fles and other entertainment. "Battles of the Bands" will take place both days, featuring the Taunton City Band and the Fall River Santo Christo Band. ST. MARY, MANSFIELD

The Catholic Women's Club will meeet at 8 tonight in the ohurch hall. All parish women are invited to attend. Entertainment will be offered by the Harmonettes. The annual parish chicken barbecue will take place Sunday, Sept. 11 with seatings at 1 and 4 p.m. It will be accompanied by a money raffle, a flea market for children and one for adults, and varied booths.

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House and three other groups of Father Feeney's followers. The present 50-member St. Therese House includes Father Karam and Father J. William Gibbs. The other groups include the 14-member St. Anne House, under the direction of Sister Theresa; the 13-member St. Anthony House, under the direction of Broth.er Hugh and Brother Francis; and the five-member St. Pius X House, directed by Sister Maria Regina. Scattered among the four groups are 47 charter members who were active in the movement where it began, in Camb-

'Boy Priest' Day

Seen Vanishing MEMPHIS, Tenn. (NC) Father Victor Ciaramitaro said the day of the "boy priest" is rapidly vanishing in the United States. "In the future, 1 don't think we will have any more 'boy priests' like 1 was when I. was ordained,". Father Ciaramitaro said. "And I'm all in favor of it because 1 consider it a very healthy trend." Father Ciaramitaro, director of the Memphis diocesan office for ministry formation, entered the seminary shortly after he was graduated from high school. Looking back on it now, he said, he feels it was a "case of putting the cart before the horse. The vocations director said that until a few years ago young men entering the seminary did not give much thought to celibacy. "Today, the seminary professors are talking about celibacy -it has come out of the closet."

Good Are Merry "The good are always the merry." - St. Francis of Assisi

ridge, Mass., and who took up residence in Still River in January, 1958. The fact that attorneys have been brought in to help divide the group's propE;rty disturbs members of the community: "Bringing in attorneys are not how we wanted to mediate this situation. This isn't a battle over riches or property. Our disagreement is over attitudes, lifestyles and how to pursue our commitment to the Church," said one of the Brothers, who joined the center more than 30 years ago. Members of St. Therese House described that community as more intellectual and more open to the integration of tradition with modern currents of thought. At St. Anne House, "we intend in the future to remain what we have always been in the past, the Slaves of the Im· maculate Heart of Mary, with the same aims as stated by Father Feeney," according to Sister Theresa, the prioress. Once a division of property is brought about,Father Gibbs said he hopes the cool relationship among the. groups will become more cordial. "I hope we become good friends and neighbors," he said. St. Therese House, where Latin rings out three or four times a day in the chapel, was made a semi-public oratory by Bishop Flanagan last November. It is not a place of escape from modem life, but a community seeking stability in' unstable times, members say. "With .us, the new Mass has never been an issue," said Father Karam. "Our objection to the changes in the Mass is not on theological, but esthetic, groullds." Father Feeney, he went on, "used to cringe at the thought of a priest saying to the congregation, 'De Lord be 'wich ya."

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Parish Parade Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor. P. O. Box 7. Fall River. 02722. Name of city or town should be Included, as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: the same news Item can be used only once. Please do not request that we repeat an announcement several times.

ST. JOSEPH, AlTLEBORO Cub Scout Pack Committee officers are Father Normand Boulet, Roger ,Paille, John Ferns, Donald Lavin and Donna Paille. Foster homes are needed by area social service agencies and any families interested in this work are asked to call the rectory. S8. PETER 'AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The Home and School Organization will open its season with a meeting and social hour following 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday, Sept. 13. New members and school faculty will be welcomed. Social events planned by the organization are a meat pie supper and dance Saturday, Nov. 5; a New Year's Eve party and February and May events. All parish women are invited to join the group, which has as president Claire Machado, aided by Lucille Pavao, vice-president; Joyce Dalton, secretary; Brenda Mendoza, treasurer. The parish Sign Group is seeking a guitar player. yolunteers may contact Carol Bell or Joseph Pavao, telephone 679-5904. The Woman's Club will launch a new series of whist parties at 1~30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 in the Father Coady Center, it has been announced by Mrs. Edna Duffy, who has been directing the events for 11 years. Mrs. William T. Marum Jr. and Mrs. Albert Feijo are co-chairmen of the first party. Four new teachers have been named to the faculty of the parochial school, which will have Father Stephen A. Fernandes, new associate pastor, as chaplain. The new teachers are Sister Eleanor Little, RSM, Sister Eileen Kitchen, RSM, Sister Conrad Sandewell, RSM and Steven ,Arruda. Parents, other relatives, and friends of pupils are invited to a Mass asking blessings on the new school year, to be celebrated at 1 tomorrow afternoon. School enrollment stands at 250, with a few openings in each grade, announced Sister Leona Misto, RSM, principal. She also said that parishioners with special skills or talents are invited to share them with pupils during one-hour "mini-courses" to be scheduled on Fridays. ST. THERESA, NEW BEDFORD A Marriage Encounter information night will follow 7 p.m. Mass Sunday, Sept. 18 and will be held in the church hall. All couples are invited to attend the informal free session. Refreshments will be served. ST. ANN, RAYNHAM "Food for Thought," presented by George Treani, will form the progra~ for the first meeting of the Women's Guild, to take place Wednesday night, Sept. 14. Cutting, freezing and serving of meat will be discussed and there will be a question period.

"I'M EXCITED," said Maryknoll Sister Marian Teresa Dury, New Bedford missioner, on her way to Musoma, Tanzania, where she will study the Kiswahili language. The veteran missioner first went to Tanzania in 1965 to open Marian Secondary School, the first girls' secondary school in the nation. For the past three years she has been stationed at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, N.Y. Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Mr. andMrs. Thomas A. Dury, she attended Holy Name School and Holy Family High School, then graduated from Seton Hill College, Greensburg, Pa., and earned a master's degree in nursing at Yale University School of Nursing. She served as an Army nurse and earned an M.S. in nursing education at the Catholic University of America, before entering the Maryknoll Sisters in 1953. Besides her work in Marian Secondary School, Sister Marian Teresa also worked in a maternity center and participated in "safari" clinics, part of the Tanzanian efforts to provide rural health care. After language study, and orientation to changes in Tanzanian life, Sister Marian Teresa will share her teaching and nursing skills with Tanzanians struggling with poverty, ignorance and disease. Recently the missiot:ler was in New Bedford to visit her sister, Mrs: Helen Mello, and her brother, 'J. Joseph Dury. She is the sister of the late Rev. James A. Dury, diocesan priest, who worked in North Attleboro.

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OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Holy Name Society officers will be elected at a breakfast meeting following 8 a.m. Mass Sunday, Sept. 11. Volunteers are needed in all areas of the parish CCD program and may leave their names at the rectory.

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER The Spindle City 2 Plus 2, a barbershop quartet, will entertain members of the Women's Guild at their first meeting at 7:30 p.m, Monday, Sept. 12 in the parish hall. Miss Virginia A. Martin will be hostess for the coffee hour.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER Parishioners interested in being CCD substitute teachers or aides are asked to contact Father Bruce Neylon at the rectory or Sister Romana, telephone 676-0898. Those leaving the parish, whose children will not b~ in CCD classes, are also asked to contact Father Neylon. Those interested in playing or singing in a folk group, which would present liturgy once monthly, may call Sister Bar'bara at the parochial school, telephone 674-9131, or Father Neylon. Rehearsals for the regular parish choir will resume at 7 tonight in the church, and anyone wishing to join this group may call Father William Campbell at the rectory. Due to response to the foliage tour announced for Oct. 10 through 12, there is the possibility of adding a second bus to the trip. Those wishing to reserve places should call Father Campbell. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A solemn sung Mass of the Holy Spirit at 10:30 Sunday morning will begin the new school year for the parish school and its CCD and adult education programs. Parents of public school children are asked to meet at 6:30 Sunday night in the school hall for CCD registration. The Men's Club will sponsor a chicken barbecue from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18 at the school. A parish penny sale will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, also at the school. Bowling leagues for children and adults are being formed. Further information is available by calling 674-1905. ST. LOUIS, FALL RIVER '~rother Sun, Sister Moon," the Franco Zeffirelli film on St. Francis of Assisi, will be shown in the parish hall at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12. The public is invited and there will be a small admission charge. Members of the Third Order of St; Francis will hold a theme Mass on "Fidelity" at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14. A fraternity meeting will follow in the church hall. Any interested persons are invited to attend. The unit will hold its first communion breakfast at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, also in the hall. Tickets are available from any member. A "Gospel Gleanings" study session has resumed, following 6:30 p.m. Mass each Tuesday. ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOum New officers and members of the Women's Guild will be installed at Benediction services at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.13 in the church. Dinner will follow at· 6:30 p.m. at East Bay Lodge, Osterville.

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science are indispensable parts of this. Marriages break down in the area of ~ommunion of conjugal. life. This means that the partners do not succeed in establishing a relationship which is constructive for their own development or for the development of their children. Instead of being a mutual support, they become a threat to each other. Instead of feeling that their partner conveys to them a sense of dignity and personal . value,' the partner seems to be a source of rejection. -Instead of being a reason for happiness. their life together becomes an opportunity for anxiety and discontent. In such circumstances the life of the couple, which is meant to be a living expression of the concerned and generous love of Christ for the Church, has become exactly the opposite. If the couple discovers this change of direction early enough, counseling can frequently correct the situation. Such. counseling can be a long and painful process, but if successful, the mutual happiness is a worthwhile reward; and the pain of counseling cannot be compared with the agony of separation. In many instances, counseling is not successful, and when divorce follows various other aspects of their relationship are disrupted. The mutual covenant which the couple entered is partly broken. On the couple's part, it seems to cease to exist. On the part of the society (Church) liowever, it does not automatically cease. In the Church's doctrine this covenant has been en· tered into before God as an unbreakable covenant which will continue until the death of one of the spouses. This causes a special hardship on many people. IBefore dealing with this specific point it might be good to study what happens in the minds and in the feelings of those whose communion of conjugal life has failed. Next week: "At the Breaking Point." (In the Fall River diocese, infonnation on support groups for divorced or separated

Catholics, active in several areas, is available from Father Michel G. Methot' of the diocesan office of adult education, 423 Highland . Avenue, Fall River, telephone 678·2828. Advice in specific cases of divorce or separation is available at the diocesan Mar:riage Court, 344 Highland Avenue, telephone 675-1311, or from any parish priest.)

Pope Emphasi%es Need of Fidelity IQASTELGANOOLFO, Italy (NC) - No one can claim to be a member of the Church if he does not maintain fidelity to the Church's magisterium (teaching authority)" Pope Paul VI told thousands at an open air audience at his summer resi· dence. ~ "People who say they are part of the Church and yet are not faithful remain outside," said the Pontiff. "The Church is a faithful people which accepts the invitation to accept a faith which is not vague, uncertain or exposed to free interpretation - a type of faith which is found even among good people today. "Faith is rather subject, humbly and joyously, to a well-defined and reassuring magisterium." The Pope's words appeared to be aimed at least in part at rebellious French Archbishop Mar. cel Lefebvre and his followers. The archbishop, while defying papal orders are rejecting much of the Second Vatican Council, insists that he has not left the Church and is an exemplary Catholic. The Pope said that men today try to avoid being pinned down by the. obligation to be faithful. But he asserted that membership in the Church transcends "all borders of time and history, of blood and nationality, of space, special interests and class." The only quailification necessary to be part of the Church' said the Pope, is faithfulness to the magisterium.

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A. The sign of peace has been reinstated by the Church as. a way of expressing in word and A. The dietary laws of the action what we express sacramentally just a few moments Jews of the Old Testament were later. established for a complicated Whether it's because they've combination of religious, health never had it explained or be- , and cultural reasons. Christians, cause they have some sort of including Catholics, are in no psychological aversion to touch- . way obliged to follow them. ing another person, especially in It is true that Jesus respected church, or for some other reason, some people apparently want these regulations most of the nothing to do with the sign of time in His Iife, but that was peace. They seem to see no because He was a Jew, living contradiction between deliber- in a Jewish culture, and dealing ately ignoring those around them almost exclusively with fellow at the sign of peace, and then Jews. At the same time, He freapproaching the altar with these quently showed that He considsame people minutes later to ered Himself above those laws receive Holy Communion. This and was able to change them if is perhaps one evidence of the He wished. Not only did He reenormous job the Church has to- fuse to bind his future followers day in trying to straighten out to such regulations, He insisted our understanding of what this that they are obligated to, and would the identified by, other· Catholic faith is· alI about. things than what they eat and I have several times seen the rebuffs you speak of experienced drink. by the people in the parish where (Questions for this column I am pastor, although I am proud should be sent to Father Dietzen. to say our own parishioners are c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, extremely thoughtful and warm Fall JUver, Mas& 02722~ -

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Church and State in History By Father John J. Castelot IRelations between Church and State have a long and complex history. In our time the problem should perhaps be stated more accurately in terms of religion and politics. Should. spokesmen for religious values and interests concern themselves with political affairs? If so, to what extent? The Bible gives no clear Eind detailed answer, but it does offer some thought- provoking insights. !In Old Testament days, the law of the land was the Law of Moses. The basic charter was the Covenant of Sinai, specified further by the Davidic Covenant of 2: Sm. 7, where Yahweh is presented as saying of the occupant of the throne of David: "I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he does wrong, I will correct him with the rod of men and with human chastisements" (2 Sm. 7, 14). We gain particularly valuable

.Our Lady Today I By Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin

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The Church and Politics

get the politicians to close all the bars. In the 1970s, the CathFor the last 1,600 years the olics are trying to get the poliChurch has been involved in ticians to close all the abortion politics in one way or another. clinics. What must be rememSometimes this worked well, as bered is that any 'alliance bein the Dark Ages, when the bis- tween the church and politics hops and monks helped society will usually resolve itself in achieve some sense of order and terms of power and money. develop a useful agriculture. Either the religion wants the Sometimes this worked badly as state to enforce some favorite in the Middle Ages and the Re- moral issue on its (the reliformation when the churches gion's) mind, or the churches (Protestant and Catholic) be- want some kind of financial came embroiled in power plays, break. , armies and coercive violence. Then there are times when reThe American experiment of ligion seems to refuse to want separation of Churc:, and state to get involved in politics. Reand the secularization of the call the comparatively weak reEuropean nations has disentang- . sponse of the Christian churches led the churches from politics to the Nazi persecution of the in a formal sense, though of Jews in the early 1930s. Not course the church and state, even just the case of the death camps, in America still are entangled. but the beatings, lootings and State-paid chaplains serve in pillagings of Jews and their the military. A federally salaried property prior to the "ultimate clergyman prays each day at the solution." The impression seems to come opening of congressional sessions. Church proper:ies and re- that religion will shake hands ligious orders are tax exempt. with the politicians when it faPolitical candidates keep a canny vors its sectarian self-interest. eye on church positions as they The ever present possibility of this institutional self-interest compose their platforms. The influence of religion on added to the painful reality of politics is perennial. In the the corrupting influence of pow1920s, the Baptists were able to Turn to Page Thirt.een By Father Alfred McBride

Since around the time of Vatican II, Catholics in the United States, have, for known and unknown reasons, generally cooled in at least their exp~essions of honor for Mary, the Mother of Christ. A visit to ancient Holy Land churches, however, quickIv indicates that sLch a lessening ~f our Lady's role in the. Church's life dangerously ig-' nores an age-old and rich Christian heritage. ,Both Latin rite and Oriental Roman Catholic churches in Jerusalem, along w lth the wide variety of Orthodox shrines, always include a sta.tue, a mosaic, a' painting or an ikon of Mary. Most often the Christ child and our Lady are together, with decorative words unhesitatingly telling us she is the Mother of God. Mary's role for Christians today patterns itself, of course, after her Son and 'also parallels the function of a mother or wife. We might simplify this by viewing her and their task as at once that of comforter and challenger. Sometimes we need the consoling word and support of a mother. Need we suggest that, Mary, comforter of the afflicted, health of the sick, refuge of si nners, help of Christians, has the ability to raise us up. But sometimes we need a challenge from a mother or a spouse. VIe require a fj rm word, a mother's gentle but insistent prodding. Mothers know how to do this, a::ld wives likewise. Moreover, and equally important, they possess the wisdom to discern when comfort is called for and when Turn to Page Thirteen

insights from the activity of the a sacred responsibility to speak prophets. They did not confine out, even at the cost of vast their activity to the "sacristy." unpopularity and downright harThey were deeply involved in assment. The New Testament situation affairs of state, on the national and international levels, and was quite different from that of pulled no punches in their criti- the Old. The arly Christian comque of political policies. Two munities were, like the prophets, and outstanding examples are Isaiah completely independent and Jeremiah. The former had were, moreover, in no position a bitter and frustrating encoun- to address political questions as ter with King Ahaz over his such, apart from occasional projected alliance with Assyria, scathing denunciations of pagan a move which the prophet saw culture in general (Rom. 1, 18as disastrous from both religion 32). They advocated respect for and national independence. He and compliance with civil law. opposed the king boldly, but to , Paul spells out this attitude in no avail. The Assyrians came, Rome. 13, 1-7. It is a sort of defeated Ahaz' enemies, but commentary on the famous made Judah a satellite of the words of Jesus: "Then give to empire. The results were disas- Caesar what is Caesar's, but trous indeed. give to God what is God's" (Mt. Some two centuries later Jere- 22, 21). miah courageously opposed both This saying has been variously official and popular policy, interpreted, but in the words of which called for entering into an John L. McKenzie, it "offers no . alliance against Babylon. He was basis for a theory of politics. a lone and lonely battler, but Jesus certainly did not intend to God had given him a mission divide the world into areas beand, in spite of everything he longing to Caesar and God, each fulfilled it. Of course no one with his respective and excluslistened, and the result was the ive jurisdiction. Nor did he solve destruction of Jerusalem in 587 the question what belongs to and the ensuing Babylonian Ex- Caesar and what belongs to ile. God. This he left to the personThe fact is that there ate many al decision of.. e/ilch. mao. wh.o political question'S which have iiiust solve' the problimlof the serious moral implications. In opposing claims of God and such cases religious leaders have Caesar."

Relating to Politics By Wililam E. May

The Church teaches that human beings are by nature social and political. "Man's social nature makes it evident," Vatican II teaches us, "that the progress of the human person and the advance of society itself hinge on each other." ("Gaudium et Spes," par. 25). Our social life in turn gives rise to political communities, which have as their purposes the flourishing of human persons and the attainment of the common good. This common good must not be confused with what can be called the "public good" of other animal groupings, such as hives of bees or termite colonies. The public good of such groupings consists in the good functioning of the whole, and to it individual members are totally subordinated. The common good of human political communities is quite different, precisely because their members are persons with inviolable and inalienable rights. Because we are persons, we are related to the political community, as wholes to a whole. The common good of the political community, is a good common both to the whole community and to all those within it. The Christian is obliged to promote the common good of society. Like Jesus, he is to be a person who exists with and for

others. In seeking to promote the common good, he is, in effect, seeking to fulfill the call of Jesus to love. Without love justice is impossible, for only from the loving heart will flow the actions necessary to secure human rights and dignity. Thus the Christian has a religious and moral responsibility, to collaborate with others路 in working for the common good of the political community. He cannot be indifferent to the injustices of the political community, for by indifference he changes from an innocent to a guilty bystander. What, in practice, .does this entail? It's very difficult, indeed impossible, to offer detailed prescriptions, but some general guidelines can be given. The Church itself exists to remind us who we are: irreplaceable, priceless, images of the living and loving God redeemed through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Through his life the Christian must make his fellow citizens aware of their dignity and destiny; he must enable others to come to see that no one lifts himself up by his own bootstraps, as it were; we need a . boot to which we can attach those straps; a.nd that boot is the human community in which the sanctity and inviolable rights of persons are publicly recognized and legally protected.

Jail American Nun in Rhodesia LONDON (NC) - Four mem·bers of the Rhodesian (Catholic) Commission for Justice and Peace have been arrested by the Rhodesian government, an official of the London-based Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) said. One is an American nun. Those reportedly arrested are: - Sister Janice Mclaughlin, a Maryknoll Sister from Pittsburgh who only recently went to work for the commission; - John Deary, a Rhodesian white, who' is chairman of the commission; - Father Diater Scholz, a German Jesuit, commission vice chairman; - Brother Arthur Dupuis, a Canadian Christian Brother, organizing secretary. According to CUR, the first three have been released on $1,000 bail. Sister McLaughlin was still in jail at the time of the report (Sept. 2).

Our Lady Today Continued from Page Twelve challenge is the needed response. Mary similarly challenges us to be more when we are tempted to retreat or remain too comfortable and complacent. I found it interesting that Pope John XXIH, certainly a man deeply immersed in our own world, expressed in his diary, "Journal of a Soul," personal disapproval of prelates who became too specifically engaged in political activities. On the other hand, Bishop Topel, Spokane's quite prophetic shepherd, publicly acknowledges that he became more deeply and concretely involved in social issues after a significant intensification of his prayer life. Mary, Mother of the Church, was and is a dominant figure in the spiritual lives of both those leaders. Their involvement, I am certain, came and comes only after much inner conversation with the Lord and His Mother.

All are charged with violating the Official Secrets Act and causing "alarm and despondency" (a crime in Rhodesia). CUR, which in the past has published exposes of government terrorism and human rights violations smuggled out of Rhodesia by the justice and peace commission, said it is suspected that the arrests were intended to forestall publication of a new report by the commission. Earlier reports have accused Rhodesian security forces of torture and murder in the conduct of the government's anti-guerrilla campaign. They have been banned in Rhodesia. According to CUR, the commission has decided to withhold publication of its new reo port, at least for the time being. Several other Catholic and Protestant missionaries in Rhodesia have been arrested and jailed in recent years on charges of siding or failing to report the presence of guerrillas. Earlier this year Bishop Donal Lamont of Umtali, a prominent Catholic opponent of white minority rule in the country, was expelled after he admitted not reporting to the government of guerrillas in his diocese.

Church, Politics Continued from Page Twelve er and money means that the involvement of religions with the state should be carefully measured and constantly evaluated. Should the Church work with politicians? A foolish question. It has to . The question is how. The principle of the common good and humane treatment is a starter for any pragmatic future. It has happened in some places at some times. It can happen today.

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tomar a serio a palavras de Jesus na Ultima Ceia: "Isto 0 Meu Corpo ... Este 0 calice do Meu Sanque ... " Escolhem na B{blia 0 que entendem e rejeitam 0 que nao compreendem, porque a interpretam cada urn a sua maneira. A verdade e que nao foram os primeiros a oroceder assim. Precisamente Quando Jesus prometeu, em Cafarnaum, a Sant{ssima Eucaristia, passou-se 0 mesmo com a maior parte dos Seus disclpulos. Afirma solenemente que dara a Sua carne como comida, que Ele e 0 verdadeiro P§o do Ceu ... E muitos, apesar de terem visto, no dia anterior, 0 milagre estrondoso da multiplica~ao dos paes, murmuraram contra esta afirmacoes do Senhor. E Ele insiste, para fi car bern c1 aro, mesmo que muitos' se v~o: "A Minha carne e verdadeira comida ... Se nao comerdes a Minha carne e nao beberdes 0 Meu Sangue, nao tereis a vida em vas." A maioria foi-se embora, dizendo: "Duras sao estas palavras e quem as pode escutar?1I Entao Jesus volta-se para os Apostolos perguntando: "Tambem v6s quereis retirar-vos?1I E Pedro responde: "Sen hor, par~ quem havem9s de ir? Tu tens palavras de vida eterna enos acreditamos e sabemos que es 0 Santo de Deus. A Eucaristia e urn misterio de fe e uma . locura de amor, desse amor infinito de Cristo, que "tendo amado os Seus que estavam no mundo os amou ate ao extremo." Por isso exige fe: "Ninquem pode vir a Mim se 0 Pai que Me enviou 0 nao atrair. 1I a Senhor quer dar a todos os homens essa luz maravilhosa. Mas nem todos a recebem. liDs homens amaram mais as trevas do que a luz porque as~suas obras eram mas." A f~ exige humildade. E precise tornarmo-nos como meninos, sabendo que 0 Senhor pode tudo e so "Ele tern palavras de vida eterna so Ele e a pr6pria Verdade. Uma pequenita de quatro anos perquntava a mae: Porque nao me da 0 senhor Padre aquela coisinha branca que da aos outros meninos? Porque Jesus escondido que esta ali, respondeu a mae. E porque esta escondido? Por causa dos homens maus? N~o minha filha. Para podermos recebe-lo. Aquela menina ficou contente. N~o necessitava de mais eXPlica~oes. Para isso escondeu. Para ser nosso alimento. A preparar esse prodfgio, Jesus fez todos os milagres, mostrando que era de verdade 0 Filho de Deus, igual ao Pai, Sobretudo tres deles estao especialmente orientados para a Eucaristia: 0 primeiro que fez, mudando, em Cana, a aqua em vinho, e as duas mUltiplicasoes dos paes. Diqamos muitas ·vezes a Jesus na Eucaristia, como Pedro: "Sen hor nos acreditamos. 1I Nao Te vejo, nao Te sinto, mas nao importa. Basta-me que Tu 0 diqas. au como Sao Tomas de Aquino: A vista, 0 tacto, 0 qosto nada sabem: So no que 0 ouvido sabe se ha-de crer. Creio em tudo 0 que 0 Filho de Deus veio dizer. Nada mais verdadeiro pode ser Que a Propria Palavra da Verdade. A Eucaristia e ainda penhor de vida eter na e da resurrei~ao gloriosa: IIQuem come a minha carne tern a vida eterna e Eu 0 ressuscitarei no ultimo dia, A com~nhao une-nos mais tambem a todos os que estao unidos a Cristo. IIUma vez que , h a urn so pao, nos embora sendo muitos , for, mamos urn so corpo, porque todos participamos '" Aumenta em nos ~ do mesmo pa~. 0 desejo de ajudar tambem a todos os homens, pois nos incendeia no mesmo fogo d.e Cristo. a Senhor quer que nascomunquemos.

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By Cecilia Belanger come through? That is what I think if I were to name five matters. Does he believe what things that infuriate me, one of he is saying? Does he live it? What greater sermon was them would be the remark that preached that Isaiah's: "Comfort "sermons are not important." How often have I heard that ye, comfort ye my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to from both clergy and laity! Jerusalem, and cry to her that And how often have people of all ages said to me, "I wish I'd her warfare is ended, and her iniquity is pardoned . . . " heard a good sermon today -A good preacher, inspired of how I needed it!" This is one of the ::nany ques- God, knows how to preach fresh tions youth and I discussed this disclosures of the saving pressummer. To the majority, ser- ence of Jesus Christ. I believe that God is Jesus Christ discloses mons are very important! Why should preaching have Himself in human history, priority in the church? Because . through the sacraments of it is God's chosen means of pro- preaching and the Lord's Supper. This does not, of course, claiming the Gospel. The earliest record of our preclude other ways hy which Lord's ministry is described: God manifests Himself -- the "Jesus came into Galilee preach- world of nature, the events of ing the gospel of God." And cer- history, the "still small voice." tainly our Lord's manifesto Preachers are not superior permakes prominent the place of sons. We can all be preachers. preaching: "The spirit of the And we should be. The preacher Lord is upon me because He has is not a unique person but he . anointed me to preach good has a unique calling. He is not exceptional; it is the message news to the poor. It is not always eloquence that that makes him or her so. But makes a good preacher. Does he speaking forth the word of the

Lord, telling His unique story, this is what makes the preacher seem larger than he is. His authority does not reside in his own person, but in the truth he proclaims, his credentials reside in the one to whom he bears witness; and the power of his message resides in the Kingdom to which he points with hope. And what is the test of a great preacher? It lies in whether his preaching dramatizes and contemporizes, acualizes, the life and ministry of .fesus Christ. Does he touch us with the power of the new creation; does he transform us with the presence of the one who mal{es all things new; is he able to re-enact in words the agony of the cross and the glorious resurrection; does he invade our history with the holiness of Christ? Is he able to show us in words how suffering is tram,formed into glory? Does his life show us any thing unusual, or has he conformed to the ways of the world, thus making his talk a hollow thing?

Area Teenagers Attend CLC Convention Twenty Christian Life Community (CLC) members from Bishop Connolly. and Bishop Gerrard High Schools, Fall River, together with adult advisors and members of a Fall River Young Adult CLC, were among delegates to the 11th Biennial National CLC Convention, held in New Orleans. Their report follows: Tired but very happy and spiritually refreshed from the experience of sharing with over six hundred other participants at the convention the 'pilgrims' were in a reflective mood. The theme, "Gifted in the Lord: Ministers in His Kingdom" had been supported by the daily liturgies, small faith-sharing groups, guided experiences of prayer and most of all, by spirited, well-prepared presentations about the need to become in-

creasingly aware of one's gifts and be willing to offer these through a variety of ministries in the Church.

Several reflections were vocalized on the 36-hour bus trip back to Fall River from the convention site. Ed McGuire, a Connolly junior, commented that "Convention '77 made us a clc)ser-knit and stronger body of Christ's workers. It also made us more aware of the problems in the world which need answers and solutions. The convention encouraged us to strive more generously in resolving these problems by using the gifts which we have been given." Brother Leo St. Pierre, FIC, a Connolly teacher, felt that "the Lord was calling us to action by u~ing our gifts and talents for the growth of His kingdom." Sherrill Faris, a member of Hope, Young Adult CLC of Fall River, came away from the Convention more convinced than ever that "God has given us

Remember the days of the old schoolyard We used to laugh a lot, oh don't you Remember the days of the old schoolyard When we had imaginings and we had All kinds of things and we laughed And needed love . . . yes, I do Oh and I remember you Remember the days of the old schoolyard We used to cry a lot, oh don't you Remember the days of the old schoolyard When we had simplicity and we had Warm toast for tea and we laughed And needed love • • • yes, I do Oh and I remember you. You were my sweet love, my first sweet love My lovey dove, my love lovey dove No matter what place, which ever the place I still see your face, your smiling face In childish dreams, inside my dreams Like King and Queen, God save our dreams Though time may fade, though time may fade It ain't never too late, to learn about love Learn about love. Written by Cat Stevens ,(c) 1974 Ashter Music, B.V., ASCAP Cat Stevens, in his first single from his new album,helps us look at our past again, especially "the days of the old schoolyard." As we look back, the images are usually pleasant ones "when we had simplicity." U we are honest, we would admit that our past is not always as beautiful or joyful as our memory first leads us to believe. Yet there is a real value in looking back. Tracing something from its origin to the present gives us a clue as to how it has formed our lives. What is true of love in this song is true of lots of things in our lives. If we take the time to recall, we can see how they have guided us through the years. In this way we can trace the growth of our talents, or the pursuit of some ideal or the presence of our God. Presently, we the Dameans, are nostalgically looking over our past and the writing of tqis column on. popular music. We see that our appreciation of music has deepened as well as our ability to express ourselves. But we find an urge to seek new ways of expressing what we have discovered through workshops and writing new music. To give ourselves time to develop such area,s, more fully we will soon discontinue writing Life in Music. We have learned a great deal about music, people and ourselves time to develop such areas more fully, we will "remember the days" of this column. But most especially "we remember you" who have read and responded to what we have done. May music continue to be a pleasant part Of your present time, leading you to discover that "it ain't never too late to learn about love."

many gifts. He has told us quite loudly that we must become responsible for using these gifts to do His will." Tim Shea, also a Connolly junior, felt the convention had "conveyed the message that we should be ministers in His kingdom and not just those who are ministered to. It was a call to action!" Many New England groups have been involved in apostolic and charitable works over the past few years. Now, they sense a greater need for spiritual formation. To this end the 45 New England CLC delegates have decided to embark this fall on a formation program recently published by the National CLC leadership community which has Father Paul Roy, S.J., a former Connolly faculty member, as chairman of its formation team. At national elections held during the convention, Brother Theodore Letendre, FIC, of the Connolly faculty, was re-elected vice-president. Bishop Louis Gelineau of Providence will continue as the movement's episcopal moderator. New England region-

representative to the CLC national !board is James Milan, North Windham, Me. The regional Jesuit promoter is Father Richard Roos, SJ, Portland, Me. Regional CLC co-ordinator is Daniel Lebrun, Taunton.

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short-term goal of 50 to 85 blocks each day. She's also reached another goal, losing 100 pounds and maintaining her weight at 120 pounds. The nun thinks everyone should walk. "All sorts of things enter your mind," she said. "I think about other people who are riding, who should be walking and getting exercise. And, among other things, I also do a lot of praying." Sister BeUewag has cut her walking down to about 40 blocks a day, but has now begun a new practice - jogging. "I've only been at it a few days and I'm finding it's a lot more difficult than 1 thought," she said. "You see other people zipping right along, piling up the miles and seeming to have no struggle along the way. I. do two blocks and poop out. 1 guess it will take time."

IN THE DIOCESE

By BILL MORRISSETTE

Somerset New Diocesan Champion Somerset Catholic, the league's Western Division champion, is the new Fall River CYO Baseball League titlist, as a resuit of its 3-2 victory ov.er Immaculate Conception, of Fall River, the Eastern Division champion, in the deciding game of their best-of-three series for the league crown. Additionally, the victory . brought Somerset its first diocesan baseball championship.

Somerset won the series opener, 6-5, at Hanson Memorial Field, Somerset, but Immaculate Conception deadlocked the playoffs with a 6-3 victory in the second game, at Lafayette Park, Fall River. The "rubber game," played at Chew Field, Fall River, featured outstanding pitching performances by Steve Pereira for Somerset and Gerry Perry for. Immaculate Conception.

High School Sports Start Next Week Soccer and cross-country get the jump on the other high school fall sports with some action set as early as next Tuesday, when Bishop Connolly High will entertain Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High in a cross-country meet, an inter-divisional engagement. One week from today Bishop Feehan High will be host to Connolly on the Southeastern Mass. Conference's opening card, which also lists Case of Swansea at Bourne and Bishop Stang High of Dartmouth at Wareham. Meanwhile, some conference schools will participate in the Northeastern University meet this Saturday.

Although conference ,soccer does not begin until Sept. 21, non-league games have been scheduled by some schools. Among those exhibition games are Holy Family High at Old Colony Vocational at 3:15 p.m., next Wednesday with a return game two days later, Sept. 16, under the floodlights, 7 p.m., at Fort Rodman Field. Connolly also has two away exhibition games on tap for next week prior to starting its conference schedule. The Cougars will meet Diman Voke Tuesday and take on Durfee (at Britland Park, Fall River) in afternoon contests.

Football Action Only Nine Days Away High school gridders are putting in strenuous practice sessions in preparation for season openers Saturday, Sept. 17, when many schools will engage in exhibition games. Eight of the nine schools in the Hockomock League will see action on that day in non-leaguers. Those having home games are Foxboro hosting Westwood, Stoughton at home to Randolph, Mansfield entertaining Norton, Oliver Ames host to Southeastern Regional, Sharon home to Cardinal Spellman High in afternoon games, and Franklin entertains Attleboro at 7:30 p.m. In away games the schedule lists Canton at Silver Lake and King Philip at Marshfield. North

Attleboro will be home to Bishop Feehan High at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 16. Other non-league games on Sept. 17 include BridgewaterRaynham at Middleboro, Stang at Fairhaven, Bourne at Falmouth, New Bedford Voke at New Bedford, Taunton at Plymouth-earver, Taunton at Plymouth-earver, Whitman-Hanson at Hanover, Barnstable at Hyannis, Stang at Fairhaven, Case at Warren, R.I., Seekonk at Coyle-Cassidy, Martha's Vineyard at Cohasset, Dennis-Yarmouth at Duxbury, Bristol-PlyNantucket at Norwell, Old Rochester at West Bridgewater.

CYO Hockey To Start The Bristol County Hockey League sponsored by the CYO enters its fifth season at 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, when tryouts begin at the Driscoll Rink in Fall River. Participation in the league is open to all skaters in the Bristol County area born after January I, 1956 and at least 16 years of age. All games are played on Sunday evenings. A limited number of high school players are eligible only if they follow local Headmaster's rules. Teams this season are expected to represent Fall River, Somerset, Westport-Dartmouth, New Bedford, and Taunton. There are many roster vacancies so newcomers are encouraged to attend

their assigned Sunday tryouts. 'Players are provided league jerseys and socks but must furnish all additional equipment. Injury waivers must also be signed. Cost is $40 per season, and a 25-game schedule is planned. Tryout dates and times are: Fall River, Somerset and Swansea, 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11. New Bedford, Taunton, Seekonk, Dighton, Fairhaven, Acushnet, Raynham skaters, 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18. Attleboro Area, Westport, Darmouth, Freetown, Lakeville, 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. Skaters from Tiverton, Bristol and Warren areas may try out on any date given.

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Walks, Loses 100 Pounds OMAHA, Neb. (NC) Sister Dativa Bellewag is observing three milestones in 1977: her 25th year with the Sisters of St. Francis, her 50th birthday, and the first time she's walked 25, 000 blocks in a year. The Omaha-based nun set that goal for herself early last year after participating in a 12-mile walk for charity sponsored by a local college. Although she felt good about the money raised for a worthy cause, Sister Bellewag felt even better about her own response to the walk. "I felt good and wasn't even tired," she said. " As a matter of fact, I came out of it in better shape than many of the others who were a lot younger." So Sister Bellewag, who then weighed 220 pounds, decided to find out just how far she could walk in a single day. So she walked . . . and walked and walked, stopping after 350 blocks. She went to shopping centers, through downtown Omaha and several times through the same neighborhoods." I wondered what those residents who saw me must have thought each time I walked by their house," she said. "Maybe they thought I was casing their homes or something." Although it was the first and last time Sister Bellewag attempted such an endurance feat, the 350-block walk did encourage her later when she decided to walk 25,000 blocks in a year. A native of Verdigre, Neb., a town that has since been renamed Walnut, the Franciscan nun said she is ,,'a country girl at heart" and has always enjoyed walking.. But it wasn't untill she joined a weight reduction program in May, 1975, that she began to walk in earnest. Sister Bellewag, who doesn't drive "because I never learned how," said she ignored buses

and offers to ride to her weight reduction meetings. She also walked to Mass at churches several miles away, fulfilling a

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (NC)-Sterilization as a means to control population leads to "dehumanization and mechanization of man," said Bishop Manuel Talamas of Ciudad Juarez. The bishop, who heads the social communications office for the Mexican Bishops' Conference, said population growth can be guided through education in responsible parenthood, moral awareness of the implications of procreation for the family and society, and "better control of man's emotions."

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