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Cardinal Medeiros served God

Diocesan sorrow at the pass ing of Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros found expression Mon day at a Mass celebrated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin that saw St. Mary's Cathedral crowded to the doors' with priests, deacons, sisters and laity. Assisting Bishop Cronin were Very Rev. John P. Driscoll, pas~ tor of St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, who was homilist for the Mass at which the car dinal was ordained to the epis-' copate; and Rev. Joseph Oliveira, pastor of St. Michael's Church, . Fall River, where he was asso ciate pastor under the cardinal. Members of the cardinal's family were lectors and gift· bearers. . The-familY-J!lC)':1de.s,'hisl;l.r.oth ers, Manuel and Leonel, and his sister, Natalie Souza. They, their spouses and other family . members traveled to Boston after Monday's Mass to view the cardinal's body. Afterwards they participated in their second, • commemorative Mass of the day. The Monday service in Fall River followed a Saturday Mass, also in the cathedral and also celebrated by Bishop Cronin, that came only a few hours after the cardinal's death Sept. 17 of

a massive heart attack. ,Family members also attended Saturday's service which was the scene of a spontaneous outpouring of grief on the part of regular Massgoers who had not yet heard of the cardinal's passing. Prayers for the cardinal were offered in all diocesan parisheslast weekend and many churches scheduled special Masses for the repose of his soul. Two Masses were offered at St. Michael's Church, Fall River, the only parish the cardinal served as a pastor. Masses for the cardinal were offered at noon and 7 p.m. daily throughout the week at Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston. At Tuesday's Mass Bishop Thomas V.' Daily, archdiocesan administrator, was celebrant- and- homi- _. list. Those in attendance ,ineluded Ambassador John Volpe, Gov. Michael Dukakis and Lt.Gov. John Kerry. . The cardinal's funeral Mass was scheduled to be. offered today in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral. Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic delegat,e in the , United States, will be the main celebrant with the archdiocese's six auxiliary bishops and other bishops from the Boston Prov-

ince of the U:S. Catholic Church, including Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, among concelebrants. In all, about 1000 priests, 300 cardinals, archbishops and bish ops and 800 representatives of other faiths are expected at the Mass. i Cardinal William W.' Baum 'will represent Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Antonio Riberito, patriarch of Lisbon, will represent Cardinal Medeiros' native I land. Political fig~res expected inelude Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Gov. Michael, Dukakis, House Speak~r Thomas "Tip" O'Neill and 'Bqston Mayor Kevin Whit~. In an unusual choice for a highranking church official but according to his often-expressed wish, the cardinal will be buried in the; Medeiros family plot in St.- -..Patrick's,~C.emet!!ry,._ Fall'. River.' There he will lie beside his father, Antonio, who died in 1950 and his mother, Maria, who died in 1963. His :cortege will travel from Boston to FalllRiver immediately after t!>day's Mass. Some 7000 mourn~rs from Boston and the Fall River diocese are expected to attend the cemetery commit tal rite,S. 'Whatever God wants' At Monday's Mass, Bishop !

Cronin took as the theme for iife, a stalwart preacher of ra his homily "Whatever God cial justice and harmony,. his wants." He said that those life was consistent with his words, which appeared to be the words. last recorded utterance of Car"We are here today to' unite dfnal Medeiros, epitomized the as a· family in the diocese of prelate's Iffe and ddeath. Fall River to thank God for the "To understand Cardinal Me- grace he gave us in being able deiros, one must come to' Fall to give him one of our own in River and this cathedral," said the person of Cardinal Medeiros. Bishop Cronin. "The first time "We are also here to assuage he said, in effect, 'Whatever our sorrow and comfort each God wants," was in 1946 when other," said the bishop. he was ordained here. Departing from formality, he "Twenty years later he reo turned to the cardinal's family, , turned to this sanctuary to be seated in the cathedral's front ordained bishop. This time he pews, to say in griefstricken said ~Whatever God wants' tones: "We feel terrible - we more graphically as he chose as didn't expect this - we don't his motto 'Thy kingdom come,' know how to explain it - the the w:ords of the Lord's prayer cardinal has ,been taken from us. immediately preceding 'thy will "But the words come back to be done.' . us," he resumed, pulling him -. ".tis fitting," s~id the bishop, self together. ""Whatever God "that his last -wor<lsexpressed -_w!!.~ts: _~ _ca_~'~yp~ h~ar him the same feeling." saying it, even with a shrug of ,Discussing Cardinal Medeiros' the shoulders. "spectacular, phenomenal" -life, "That's the real reason for his Bishop Cronin said "he would life. And his life is not ended never have admitted" to such a - it's merely changed: 'What description. "All he really wanted ever God wants.''' was that his brothers and sisters One of the cardinal's last visits would see in him Jesus Christ." to the diocese came in June, As a bishop and cardinal, the when he officiated at the wed prelate "was a symbol ~ of the ding of a niece, Kathleen Me living truth," said 'Bishop Cronin. deiros Lapointe, at Holy Name. "A stalwart defender of human Church, Fan River.

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The Cardinal's Life BOSTON (NC) - Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, 67, who had headed the 2 million-mem ber Boston Archdiocese since 1970, died Sept. 17 of cardiac arrest, one day after he under went triple coronary bypass surgery. Doctors at St. Elizabeth's Hos pital said they were "stunned and shocked" at the sudden mas sive heart attack the cardinal suffered. At 6:30 a.m., they said, things were going as expected, but at 6:35, his heart stopped beating. Resuscitation attempts, includ ing open heart massage, failed. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas U. Daily of ·Boston has been named apostolic administrator of the archdiocese. Cardinal Medeiros was ·known for his pro-life statements, his stands against racial injustice and his efforts in favor of mi grant workers and prisoners. He had ,been a member of the college of cardinals since 1973 and served on the Vatican con gregations for bishops and for Catholic education. Cardinal Medeiros had been in ill health in recent years, suf

fering from high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis. In June 1982, he was hospitalized for seven days for treatment of ex haustion and high blood pres sure while attending a special meeting of the U.S. bishops at Collegeville, Minn. In' November of that year, while at a meeting of cardinals in' Rome, he was hospitalized again for blood pressure problems. The cardinal was involved in a number of controversies be cause of his stands on social justice issues in Boston and Brownsville. During the 1980 primary elec tion campaign in Massachusetts, he issued a pastoral letter urg ing Catholics to vote against candidates who supported legal ized abortion. "Those who make abortions possible by law - such as -legis lators and those who promote, defend and elect ,the same law makers-cannot separate them selves totally from that guilt which accompanies· this horren dous crime and deadly sin," the cardinal wrote. "If you are for true human freedom -and for life - you will follow your conscience when you vote," he said "You will vote to save 'our children, born and unborn.' " Critics said the cardinal vio lated the principle of separation of church and state by telling people how to vote. The issue was .injected into a nationally televised debate between presi dential candidates by a reporter who asked, "Should a president be guided by organized religibn on issues Hke abortion?" The cardinal later issued an-

problems in' the city's schools practice in a white neighbor could be found. hood. But violence recurred. In April' After two meetings of reli 1976, Cardinal Medeiros joined gious and community leaders at other religious leaders, politi- the cardinal's residence, the car cians and about 75,000 others in dinal joined the other religious a march called for by Mayor leaders in urging the people of Kevin White in -an attempt to Boston to sign a "Covenant of ease the tensions touched off by Justice, Equity and Harmony" to racially motivated beatings of a promote racial harmony in the white and a black man. city. Two weeks later, an interview The cardinal joined the lead with the cardinal in the Sunday ers of major religious organiza Herald Advertiser touched off a .. tions in the city Nov. 19 at an controversy. Cardinal' Medeiros ecumenicaJ prayer service on said he would not go to South Boston Common to launch a Boston to speak because of the campaign to bring the covenant likelihood of being stoned. He out to the city's neighborhoods said he was not afraid of being' to be signed by residents. s~oned, bU~ did not want !o proAccording to the covenant, Vide the city o~ ~oston With un- signers denounced "every form favorable pubhclty. of violence. in every neighborHe also said that '80 percent hood." of the Catholics in South Boston'ln a lengthy plea, in which did not attend Mass or go to his voice cracked with emotion, church and that their Jack of the cardinal said, "Racism church attendance contributed root. and stem and branches "to their attitude toward forced must now end forever, be driven busing." out of the minds and hearts, out His comments stirred reaction of the living rooms and neigh from a number of people, includ- borhoods, out of the social at ing Richard Laws, an official of mosphere and the institutions an anti-busing group. He asked, that make up Boston." "How does he know how many Cardinal Medeiros was named people are attending Mass in archbishop of Boston in Sep South Boston? We have not tember 1970. At his installation abandoned the church. The Oct. 7, the new archbishop said, church has abandoned us." "It is impossible to be a ChrisThe fC;lllowing. Sunday, in a tian without being concerned statement read at Masses in for every man, without being in eight Catholic cl1urches in South volved in the real-life situation Boston, Cardinal Medeiros apol- of every brother." ogized. "Your archbishop reArchbishop Medeiros restruc acted, after a long and anguished tured the archdiocese into three time, out of fatigue and anger. regions and espoused new minis These, as we know, cloud the terial approaches: the Life Re mind." source Apostolate to deal with In 1979 violence erupted again the drug problem; the Urban in the city following the shoot- Suburban Ministry for alcohol ing of a 15-year-old black youth ics; the permanent diaconate; during a September football and Urban Apostolate priest co

ordinators to bring together ministries in each eity of the archdiocese. In February 1973, Pope Paul VI named Archbishop Medeiros a member of t~e College of Car dinals. As a cardinal, he participated in the conclaves of 1978 which elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II. He also was a member of the Vatican Congre gations for Bishops and for Catholic Education. Cardinal Medeiros was born in Arrifes, Sao Miguel, in the Azores on Oct. 6, 1915, and at tended elementary school there. After graduation he worked in a wholesale store and in a law office until April 1931 when he joined his family in Fall River. He attended the Border City and Danforth Street Schools in Fall River and the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, prior to seeking employment as a sweeper in the Sagamore Mills in the Fall of 1932. On January 8, 1935, he entered B. M. C. Durfee High School from which he graduated in June 1937 as valedictorian. In the fall of the same year, Bishop James E. Cassidy sent him to prepare for the priesthood at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. After completing two years of college there. he was' given a scholarship to the. Basselin Foundation of the same Univer sity, with residence at the Theo logical College. He received a Master of Arts Degree in Philosophy in June 1942. He was awarded a Licen tiate in Sacred Theology in June 1946 and ordained to the priesthood in St. Mary's Cath~Tum to Page Seven

other pastoral following up the . "vote of conscience" theme with advice on formation of a right conscience. Racial tensions were a recur ring concern during Cardinal Medeiros' years as archbishop. His support of busing for' inte. gration made him unpopular among many of the white Cath olics in the city. In April 1974, at a hearing of -the Massachusetts legislature's joint committee on education, Cardinal Medeiros strongly sup ported the state's Racial Imbal ance Act, which was to involve the busing of more than 5,000 Boston-area students the follow ing fall. The day before he testified, more than 20,000 persons held marches and demonstrations in opposition to implementation of the act in Boston's schools in the fall. 'Cardinal Medeiros told the legislators that he considered racial imbalance in the schools to be part of the "deep problem" of racial injustice. Racial bal ance in schools "is not a total solution; still it is a beginning," he said. Racism is a "moral' sickness

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than one would like to admit when one begins to quote his own words. While planning this special issue of The Anchor in honor of our beloved Cardinal Medeiros, I tOQk a journey through back issues to reread those Moorings penned on the occasions of Cardinal Medeiros' nomination to the see of Boston and his elevation to the College of Cardinals. Some of those reflections have been validated indeed in his challenging life. ,In the commentary on, Ca'rdinal Medeiros' arrival in Boston, I wrote, "In this respect I feel that Archbishop Medeiros is a symbol' of the complete Americanization of the Church in this country. He is a true sign of the broadening vision and deeper concern of the post-conciliar Church. He has had to overcome his own provincialism and has learned in his own life to serve all the people of,God. "He will do this mBostoI:t as he has done it in Fall River and Brownsville., Coming as he does from outside New E;ngland, and yet knowing.it so very well, he will bring to the great see of Boston a new vision and a broadening borizon within its own territory to the social needs of all the Church. "It is impossible to predict and foretell the, outcome of the new archbishop's days in Boston. This will be the task of the future. However, one thing will certainly be true. He will bring a new excitement to the Church universal and' a new challenge t<;> th~ Church catholic." Indeed, this forecast was fulfilled in the cardinal's many efforts to bring the reality of 'Jesus to the multifaceted complexities of a huge metropolitan archdiocese. Yet amid all the challenges he faced as the chief administrator of the archdiocese of Boston, Cardinal Medeiros was always a' pastor. ' I would also like to share my thoughts when this humble man of God was given ,one of the greatest honors that his church could offer, that of elevation to the cardinalate. Despite the panoply of his installation, I wrote, "Cardinal Medeiros is still the same p'astor who walked the streets of the north end of Fall River, smiliIlg with his parishioners in times of joy and crying with them in their days of sadness. "He is still the sympathetic chancellor who greeted his fellow priests as brothers when they came to his office for help and direction. "He is still the same bishop who sympathized with the oppressed migrant farmers of southern Texas, caring in a very special way for the underdog-and the less fortunate. "He is like this because as all of us who have been touched by him realize, above all this world's glories, he is a wise and prayerful man.' It is these two qualities that have made him great. His search for knowledge, his respect for learning, have helped him understand how little man actually knows. His sincere andhonest' realization of God's will has brought to him a deep and abiding prayer life that certainly is his sustenance and substance as he , faces the challenges of his office in the Church. "In, these troubled times in the church and in the world, it is not ~ only comforting but also an ,abiding conso lation to know that our Holy Father has placed Archbishop Medeiros in such an important leadership role. "He now not only belongs to his family, his friends and his diocese but to the universal church, to the world,

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As such he will be a firm anchor and a harbor of assurance in the eyerchimging tides and currents of world events. "His red hat gives him a dignity of universal recognition but, it is! ~is personal qualities of prayer and wisdom. that September 24 give to each one of us a path to follow, a guiding light~ Rev. Joseph E. C. Bdurque: a beacon of hope." 1955, Blessed Sacrament, Pastor, It is this latter thought that summarizes best for this Fall River editor the life and times of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros. Each man and woman who comes to life has -the beautiful September 26 opportunity to enrich that most precious gift by his or her Rev. John J. Donahue, Assist own witne~s to its reality. ant, 1944, St. William, Fall River Cardinal Medeiros gave to life a richness and precious dimension that ,niany in our demanding world have failed September 29 even to realize could be theirs. Rev. J. A. Payan, Founder, , In qur efforts to be relevant and our exaggerated 'I ~99, St. Matthew, Fall River attempts, to be noticed" we so very often overlook those qualities -of life which indeed make it worth living. ' September 30 In death, the cardinal has once again reminded us that Rev. John J. Griffin, Pastor, ,wisdom and prayer are the cornerstones of a life of sincere 1963, St. Paul, Taunton > OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

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Cardinal's life Continued from page three dral, Fall River on June 15 of the same year by Bishop Cassidy. After ordination he was sent to assist Rev. Augusto L. ,Fur tado at St. John of God Parish . in Somerset. In November of the same year, he was assigned to the Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, St. Michael Parish in Fall River where he stayed until June 1947 when he was assigned for two months to assist Rev. Joao V. Resendes at Our Lady of Health Parish also in Fall River. . In the Fall of 1947, he was reassigned to Catholic Univer sity to study for his Doctorate in Sacred Theology. After finish ing his courses in 1948, he was assigned to Rev. William H. Harrington to assist him in ad ministering to the needs of St. Vincent de Paul Camp in Adams ville during the Summer. He remained with Father Harring ton until January 1949 when he was sent to assist Rev. Msgr. Antonio P. Vieira at Mt. Carmel Parish in New Bedford. After another Summer at St. Vincent de Paul Camp, he was sent by Bishop Cassidy to the North American College in Rome to do research for his doctoral dissertation on· the "De Mys teriis" and the "De Sacramen tis" of St. Ambrose. He later successfully defended this dis sertation at Catholic University in 1951 and received a Doctorate in Sacred Theology in 1952. Upon his return from Rome in 1950, he was appointed part-time assistant at Holy Name Parish, Fall River, and an aide to Rev. Msgr. James E. Gleason, chan cellor. When Bishop Connolly succeeded Bishop Cassidy on May 17, 1951, he appointed the. future archbishop as his secre tary, assistant chancellor, chap lain to Sacred Hearts Academy and Vicar for Religious. In April 1953 he was appointed vice-chancellor and some time later chancellor of the diocese. Pope Pius XII named the chan cellor a Domestic Prelate on \February 3, 1958 and Bishop Connolly appointed him pastor of St. Michael Parish, Fall River on October 5, 1960', while re taining his post as chancellor. In April 1966, Pope Paul named the future cardinal the

second bishop of the diocese of Brownsville, Texas. 'His four years as bishop of Brownsville were marked by close contacts with the people, whether it was sharing Christ mas dinn'~r ,with inmates of a county jailor "folloWing the crops" to share the Eucharist in Midwestern fields with migrant ferm workers. He demonstrated a strong commitment to social justice, particularly the collective bar gaining rights of farm workers. When he was consecrated bishop, the Brownsville Diocese - encompassing Texas' o)ower Rio Grande Valley - was in the middle of a bitter farm-labor strike. Urging both sides to settle their differences through nego tiations, 'Bishop Medeiros backed the farm workers' pleas for bet ter pay and decent living con ditions, and at the same time asked that help be given to struggling family farmers. He was a member of the U.S. Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Farm Labor, which helped set tle the dispute in California be tween grape growers and farm workers. He visited each parish in the four-county diocese to meet members of the diocese, mostly Mexican-Americans. He also established a diocesan tribunal, promoted teaching re ligion to public school children and encouraged the laity to take a more active role in church affairs. In July 1970, he traveled 4,000 miles in two weeks to visit camps for migrant workers in six Midwestern states and often celebrated Mass in the fields with the workers. During his four years as bish op of Brownsville, the diocese grew from 40 to 58 parishes and the number of priests increased from 81 to Ill. He was a sports fan and in 1978 when in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Paul VI, he asked an American reporter how the Boston Red Sox were doing in baseball. Told they had a substantial lead in the pennant race, he responded, "Deo gra tias."

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CARDI:NAL MEDEIROS,

One Of Our Own

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May He -Rest In Peace

Humberto ,Cardinal Medeiros

1915 -1983

/II, John, heard a voice from heaven say to me: "Write this down; happy now are the dead who die in the Lord!" The Spirit added, "Yes" they shall find rest from their labors, for their good works accompany them./I Book of Revelations

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OFFER THEIR PRAYERFUL SYMPATHY TO

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ESPECIAJ.)LY NATALIE, MANUEL AND LEONEL.

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The following interview with retired Bishop James L. Connolly Is reprinted from The Anchor for March I, 1973. It was writ .ten on the eve or the bishop's departure to Rome for the eon sistory that raised Cardinal Medeiros to the College or Car dinals. "We talked about God." That was how Cardinal-elect Medeiros spent his first few days with Cardinal Cushing, which were the last days of the Boston prel ate's life. Bishop James L. Connolly, re tired Ordinary of the Fall River diocese! recalls the statement a'3 typical of the cardinal-elect's attitude toward life. "I ·h~d asked him if he used his time with Cardinal Cushing to familiarize himself with the enormous task of.. heading the Boston archdiocese, and tnat was his reply," said the Bishop. "This simple man probably did more for Cardinal Cushing at the end of his life than anyone else could have done," added ·Bishop Connolly. He spoke as one of the cardinal-elect's closest friends in the priesthood, having known him since his ordination in 1946. Wheo Bishop Connolly suc ceeded the late Bishop Cassidy in 1951, among his first actions was the appointment of Father Medeiros as his 'personal secrp. tary, assistant chancellor :lnd vicar for Religious. Why did he choose him? "You

couldn't miss him," was his laconic response. Among Father Medeiros' duties was the deliver; ing of a monthly spiritual, confer- . ence to the sisters of the dio· cese. These homilies, given over a period of four years, are still remembered. said Bishop Con nolly, who soon named his see retary vice-chancellor, then chancellor of the Fall River diocese. In 1958 Father Medeiros bp. came Monsignor Medeiros and two years later he was appointed pastor of his home parish, St. Michael. Fall River. He ·becaMe a familiar sight to neighbors as he was driven between his parish and his office in the chancely building. "He has a license,". confided the ·Bishop, "but 1 think he only drove enough to convince the examiner that he could. I'd hate to be in a car with him at the wheell" Monsignor Medeiros was aghast at the news of his ap·

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This issue of The Anchor is a memorlai tribute to Cardinai Medeiros. Next week's issue will aiso be aimost wholly de voted to hfs memory. Our usual features and columns wm not appear this week or next. They will resume In the Issue of October 7.

pointment as bishop of Browns ville, Texas, said Bishop Connol ly. "'I can't do this,' he told me. But soon he realized that going to 'Brownsville was God's will for him and his attitude became 'Here 1 am, take me,' "With his immigrant 'back ground he felt very much at home ,with the Mexican Americans of Brownsville," cor. tinued .the Bishop, "and he won their respect by his handling of a farm dispute that was in prog ress when he c~me to the d:o cese. Under pressure that m:lO 11; terrific," The ·Bishop opined that the Cardinal-elect's handling of the Brownsville labor dispute was one of the factors leading to ;,is choice in 1970 as archbishop of Boston. In B~ston. noted Bishop Con nolly, the cardinal-elect has con· tinued his identification with the poor. "His pastoral on 'Man's Cities and God's Poor,' isslled last year, was a wonderful piece of work." The bishop said that an out standing characteristic of th~ cardinal-elect is his willingness to listen. "When he was in Fall River,he'd spend hours listening to people's troubles. He's still the same," Bishop IConnolly left for Rome yesterday with Cardinal-elect Medeiros. "He was my 'peritus' or official theologian at Vatican II," he said. "Then he came with me. Now I'm going with him."

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the Dec. 18, 1978,iIsue MJf 0 JornaI, a Portuguese-language weekly published In Fall River. \ It was written by Kathleen B. in my mind," the cardinal reCastro, 0 JOI'J\Ill,eneral IQ8Q- members. ager, on the oceasl oftbe eatHe arrived in F..all River at 15, dlna!'s selection as Luso-~er knowing only two words of Englean of the Year by the newslish - yes and cheese - the paper's edfton and readers. It latter learned on the transatlanIs reprinted with permission. tic crossing; and along with bis brother and sisteI' began his He wanted to be a painter as American education at what a young man - to follow in the was then the Lindsey Street footsteps of Domingo Rebelo, School. From there he was sent the Azorean artist. whom he to the Border City School where greatly admired. This love of he met Sadie Kerrigan, a teacher . art and desire to leave the farm- who played an important role ing life of Arrires brought Hum- in his life. berto Medeiros to the city of "She made a special effort to Ponta l)elgada, St. Michael, at help the imrnigfant children learn the age of 12 where he started English, and I remember her working as a Clerk for a promi- bringing in kitchen utensils and nent lawyer arid was "exposed other common items to go over UPPLY co. INC;. to the best minds in the City." the basic words we' needed to "All my thoughts. then were 'of become most familIar with. Atart - that and the hope of joiQ- the end of our first year Border City closed, and Sadie was ing my father in America. If tnsnsferred to the Danforth there were ideas of the priest- Street School - a school for hood, they were not uppermost children with special needs. "Although it was known as the 'Dumbell School', we Medeiros boys didn't care. Miss Kerrigan was going to, the Dan. ·forth School, so were we. As a matter of fact, it was Sadie Kerrigan who again questioned whether or not I had ever considered becoming a priest. And .it was then that I began to give it some serious thought." I Another teacher, of whom the Cardinal speaks in loving term9, is Margaret FJ.nagan, who was in charge of special classes in the 'Fall River public schools. She would take him through all .thec1asses, anow·ing him to display his artwork and also giving . him a chance to "practice" his English. , "She was a friend until the day "she died" the Cardinal told us. "She was a friend to all the poor in the city, but especially . to the Portuguese' poor. She helped me a great deal and I EPAATMENT OF EDUCA'1"DN will never forget her." Margaret Flanagan recognized 23 HIGHLAND AVENUE a genuine talent in young MeALL RIVER. MASSACHUSETTS 02720 deiros and together with Father . Silvia of St. John's Church in New Bedford, arranged for him to attend the Swain School of Design. "They paid my tuitir,n - about $25.00 a semester Alnd arranged transportation to school with a teacher, Miss McDonald, from Fall River's Nonh End who taught in New Bedforel. A Mr. Sweeney,. ,,!hl worked for the Standard-Times, would bring me home." But it was 1932, the country was in the height of the depres. "sion, and at 16'aumberto Medeiros had to leave school to tak:l .' a job at the Sagamore Mills. . "In the winter of '32 we didn't h41Ve a cent in' the house. My .. tather was verY sick, and we couldn't afford a doctor. I made 61 cents a day - that was when I ,worked. But the job was not steady and my brothers were too young to work. . "As bad as it was, though, we were never hungry. My father, who made $12 a week ciuring the farming season, had credit at a local grocery store. Can you imagine - he supported us, .. "','- :----

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paid off his winter grocery debt and also the debt for our passage to America on that money! _ ; I wanted to work to help him, but I knew by then also, tbet I wanted to be a priest." The Cardinal spent the next 4~years iothe mills -:- sweeping ....:. and during this tilDe things began to change tin the 4:ountry. Franklin Roosevelt hIld been elected president, wages were higher and the younger Medeiros . brothers were old , enough to work; "My father said I could return to high school, but it was January - mid-semester - and stUdents didn't.enter then. I was not 20 years old, and Msgr. Furtado of Somerset - who became a second father to me :... took me to see John V. Carro;I, then the principal nf nudee and explained to him that I wantd to be a priest. 'He has' taken French and English in night school and I have given him pri. vate lessons in Latin and Alge. bra. Test him and see if he's ready,' Furtado told him." . Medeiros was tested and placed in the second year of hiah school, graduating 2~ years later as valedictorian of his class. From there, he went on, with the help of scholarships aDd BishOp James Cassidy, to the Catholic University in Wasbmg,. ton, where he was again first in his freshman class. "A wonderful woman, Flotence Hutchinson of NeW ·Iied. ford, who read an article about'· me in the Standard Times when I graduated from Durfee offered to help with my college tuition. She wanted to send me to Harvard, but when I explained to

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wanted to be a priest aDd had decided on the Catholic U,niversity, she gave me $300 the final amount of tuition money I needed. Every week for that' first year, Florence sent ,rile $10 for spending money, and when I returned home with a plaque for scholastic achievements I caUed her ... I wanted to share my happiness with ht!r. After all, she had helped to make it possible. But I was told she had had, an accident, and she died before I ever saw her again." "·Florence was a Protestant, and the only time she had ever

set foot in a Catholic Church was to see a painting I had done .' of Santo Cristo which was hanging in St. John of God's in Somerset. It didn't matter to her what religion I practiced, she wanted to help, She was: a truly good person." Cardinal Medeiros grac:tuated from college, one of the top in his class, and followIng his ordination was assigned to various ~shes .throughout the Fall River diocese. During this time, he returned to the university for a doctorate and studied in Rome, . finally being given the dual as. algnment of assistant both at the Holy Name parish and the diocesan chancery in 1950. In 1951, he was named by Bishop James L. Connolly, as his secretary; and in 1960, became ~tor of St. Michael's ChUl'C.'h "":'h18 family parish. He served iii this capacity and as chancel, IQI' of the diocese until 1966, When he was named bishop of Bfownsvllle, Texas - an assignment where he felt "very much at home."

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ican culture very much like my OVll!l - with some of the same customs and superititions. 'We do the same things in the Islands', I often thought. The entire experience was a very moving one for me. I prayed with the migrant workers - followed them info the fields snd celebrated Mass. "The poverty I saw is. un· equalled - much worse than in the Azores. I got to know CeS,lr Chavez quite well, and I leamed a lot about the complexity of ·the issues there. People tend ~o blame the growers for the problems. "But the growers depend on the crops fot their livelihood. The crops are seasonal and the proceeds must 'last. them the resc of the year. If. they are fotc~d to provide better housing which is only used two or .three months out of the year - or to pay even minimum wages, many of them will lose their farms. The growers do not decide on the price of their product. Th~ large chain markets set th~ prices before the crops are picked.

"Sure, some of the growers are Catholic and the pickers are Catholic and some of the memo bers of the board of directors of the large chain stores are Catholic - but not aU Catholic~ are saints. The church is filled with saints and sinners, and not all its members see alike."

",I was saddened' to leave Brownsville, as I have been sad dened to leave any ~lace I have been. I grow to love the people. But I accept the. wishes of the Holy Father. I am a teacher, and I' administer the ~acraments. That is my job. "I know Boston is a political city, but I am not a politician I am a churchman. If Catholics are politicians, then the church i:; involved through them. Bu I am there as a pastor - a moral and ethical advisor," In elaborating on this point. the cardinal discussed the ~urch,es' role in the racial prob. lems plagUing Boston - problems which have become more . pronounced ~nce the mid-1970s. He spoke of the Covenant of, Justice, Equity and Harmon~', a new interdenominational tali· gious movement formed after CARDINAL MEDEIR()~ ~. hisiboyhood home in Arrifes, the shooting of a, young black player. Sao Miguel, Azores, in 1913.' It ... his first visit to his native land football "The church has been working I.

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"It is a very difficult situation, and 1W matter hoW you look at it, the people Seeding and picking the crops - those lowest on the totem pole - are getting a raw deal. They are the weakest. It's the people in government - those who are hired to solve these problems - who should do so. It' is their responsibility.

After spending four years helping to solve the migrant problems in Brownsville, Cardirial Medeiros accepted his assignment to the archdiocese of Boston in 1970.

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"He had great inner peace and gave it to those around him." That was the first comment .of Very Rev. John P. 'Driscoll, pas tor of St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, when 'asked for recol lections of Cardinal Medeiros. "The words that come to mind are holy, kInd, gentle, good and serene," he said as he sought to describe the man he had known since the 1930s, when the cardinal and Father Dris coll's sister, now Mrs. ,Lillian O'Boyle of Denver, Colo., were among the top four seniors in the 1937 graduating class of. 8MC Durfee High School, Fall River. "The name of the actual top student was never announced," said Father Driscoll. But both his sister and the cardinal were among 1937 graduation speak· ers. The New Bedford pastor's re lationship with the cardinal con tinued through their seminary days. As a subdeacon he par ticipated 1n the cardinal's first solemn Mass in June of 1947 and from 1954 to 1956 lived with him in the bishop's house. ,Father 'Driscoll was episcopal secretary and assistant chancel lor at that time and the cardinal was chancellor. Father Driscoll recalls many pleasant evenings of conversa·

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tion ,in the bishop's house, with some of the cardinal's favorite classical music playing in the background. "Although he had a driver's license, he never owned a car," said Father Driscoll. "He used to say, 'It's good not to drive be cause I always have someone nice with me in the car.''' He enjoyed bein~ a passenger, however, and Father Driscoll said that days off often found the two priests driving along the Massachusetts or Rhode Island coastline. "We always began our trips by saying the rosary," said F3 ther Driscoll. He added that t}1e cardinal, to the end of his lift', recited the 15~decade rosary daily. "That came before any thing." Father Driscoll accompanied the cardinal to Brovinsville, Te:v.., on the prelate's first visit to his new see. He was the speaker at the cardinal's episcopal conse cration on June 9, 1966. He was on hand in 1970 when his dear friend was installed as arch Ibishop of Boston and in ]9"'3 when he was created a cardir,al. "I have the holy cards frOM all those occasions and fr:Jm his priestly ordination in my prayerbook," said Father Dris coll. "'I have always ,carried them."

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of Bishops with and under their head, the Roman Pontiff, has succeeded to the sacred trust. As your bishop and shepherd I must and I' do .place Christ first in my life, Christ the Lord of the Church, whom she presents to the world now as in the past through her sacred teaching of· fice, through her faith, hope and love, manifested in the good work of all her children. It is to Christ that I endeavor to look at every moment for inspiration, for guidance and for strength. In every circumstance of my daily living, .1 keep asking myseif the very simple question which I heard very often from Father Anthony Vieban, the saintly rec tor of the seminary I was privi-

it is also an age of hope. How ever, it could be an age of des .pair, ~s -it is for some, if 'it is without Christ, the light of the world. My ,dear brothers and sisters, the program of life of our Lord Jesus Christ was very simple: He always sought the will of the father and carried it out to please him. Once, when his die; ciples were urging him to eat, he said to them, "I have food to eat" that you do not know about."; So the disciples asked one another, 'Has someone been bringing him food?' But Jesus , said, '~My food is to do the will of the o~e who sends me, and to complete his work." The program of life of Jesus

spirit; theirs ,is tile. kingdom or heaven." Who are the poor in spirit? They are the men and women from every human con dition: the rich and the 'poor, the saints and the sinnen, the learned and the ignorant, the enslaved and the free, all who are' aware that they are in nefOd of someone, that they are not suf ficient for themselves. If I am poor in spirit, then I am needy in spirit. As a D)an and as a Christian I believe that my first need is for God and that my sec ond need, which in a sense is ;]ike the first, is for my brothers. Since I need God, I seek him. I seek him everywhere because he can be found everywhere, but guided by the Scriptures and the

and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys'and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the foHowers of Christ. Indeed, noth 'lng genuinely human fails to raise an echo in tlteir hearts."

Y()ur Eminence, Cardinal Cush-' Ing; YoW' Excellency, the Apos Out of love for the Father, toUe Delegate; Your Eminences; through Jesus Christ, in the my . brother Bishops; my brother Holy Spirit, the whole Church is Priests; devoted Religious; es a dynamic community inescap teemed brothers of other reli ably involved with the total de gious persuasions; and my dearly velopment and well-being of all beloved brothers and sisters in men. This is its mission from . Christ: Christ, who came to free men As I stand before you, these froin their sin, to alleviate for words of our Lord Jesus Christ all its dire consequences, a'ld ring clear within me, "What the "that they may have life and Father has taught me is what I have it to the full." All the evil 'preach; he who sent me is with works of pride, arrogance, sel "\ " me, and he has not left me to fishness, lust, greed, injustice, myself, for' I always do what oppression and prejudice in the pleases him." I am certain that world are consequences of sin. as long as I try to please the In the words of Pope John XXIII Father through his Son in the "the Church does not offer to Holy Spirit, he will not leave. me men of today riches that pass, to myself and wiH always be nor does she promise them a with m~ and with you. merely earthly happiness, but , To do always what pleases the she distributes to them the Fathi:!r, I must, to use the words goods of divine grace which of St. Paul, "preach the Good raise men to the dignity of News, and not to, preach that sons of God and are the most in the terms· of philQsophy in efficacious safeguards and aids which the crucifixion ~of' Christ toward a more human life. She cannot be' expressed. .The lan opens the fountain of her life guage of. the cross may be iIlog~

giving doctrine, which allows ical to those who' are not' on the men, enlightened by the light of way to salvation; but those of Christ, to understand well what us w~o are. ion the way se~ ~t as they really are, what their lofty 'God's power to save '" '" '" If it dignity and .their purpose are. was God's wisdom that human and .finally, through all her chil 'wisdom' should notknow,.,(Jod, dren, she spreads everywhere the it was because God wanted to fulriess of Christian charity, and save those who have faith' there is nothing mO,re. effective through the foolishness of the than ~harityin eradicating the message we preach.'~ seeds of discord, nothing more I come to you my brothers and efficacious in promoting con sisters, in the spirit and tradition cord, just peace and the broth

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erly union of all." According to how to serve you as your 'bishop, Pope John, the Church has to 'your shepherd, your father and spread everyWhere the fulne3; your brother, with any show of of Christian love which is the' oratory or 'philosophy. r come source of all her energies be, simply to tell you what "God has cause it has its origin in God guaranteed." ,For as long as the who is love. Lord allows me to stay with you," ,For this reason, my dear the only knowledge II Il)ay claim brothers and sisters, it is impos to have is about Jesus, and only sible' to. be a Christian without about him ·as the crucified and being concerned for every man, the risen Christ. I cannot rely without being involved in the . on' any power of my ·own. Even now real 'life-situation of every if I ~ome to you full of hope and brother. Please listen to what confidence in the Lord Jesus St. James the Apostle has to say THE THEN ARCHBISHQP Christ and in His Church, I must

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admit that it is not without great fear 'and trembling." Personally . leged to attend, "What would is theprogrllm of 1ife of his Church I seek him in a special lows, "Take the case, my broth I feel too weak and too smaH for Christqo now,.' if he were in Church: It is therefore our pro manner in myself and in my ers, of someone who has never the task entrusted tome by the ~y.·plai::e?" " gram. By doing the will of the brothers who are made to his done a single good act but claims that he has faith. Will that faith ,Holy Father,but I believe I can Tbe 'Lord Jesus through Ilis Father, he Was to inaugurate :md image and likeness and have do all things in him who .is our Holy Spirit gives me .theanswer spread 'his reign upoo earth. As been redeemed or are being of- . save him? If one of the' brothers , strength and with yourindispen ~~ .his' own good .time and in the second : Vatican Council . fered redemption from the ~Ia or one of the sisters is in need of clothes and has not enough sable an~ loving cooperation. many ways, espeCially through teaches us, "Fpr this the Church very of sin through the blood food to live on, and one of you was founded: that by spreading Son. He of his only begotten In the measure of the grace the Scriptures and the teaching says to them, 'I wish you well; given to me and of my response of the Church. And should it the kingdom of Christ every. ibecame .our brother and our sa keep yourself warm and eat to it, I have been crucified with be his pleas~re to give me no where for the: glory of God th'~ vior out of infinite love for us. plenty'without giving them these Father, she might bring all men in spirit To be poor and needy Christ-and if I may be allowed' answer, then I have no answer, to .borrow St. Paul's expression but shall continue with his help, to share in Christ's saving re , is to be in love, with God and bare necessities ):>f life, then -and like him "I hope to live to live by faith in Him who demption; arid that through them man. It is to have the kingdom . what good is that? Faith is like that: if good works do not go " not with my own life but with loved me and gave himself up the whole world might in actual of heaven. with it, it is quite 'dead." the life of Christ who. lives in for.. me. I believe that only this fact be brought into relationship I feel that, especially from the 'with him." . me. The.Jife I now live in this faith can give ·us hope at any If St. James could speak that spirit of the first beatitude .body I live in faith: faith in the time but especially today when To do the will of the Father should flow the sincere and deep strongly concerning tile needs Son' of God who loved me and the children of God in their and spread th~ reign of Christ concern of every Christian for of the body, how much m ,:"~ who sacrificed himself for my search for him apparently rteglect throughout the world, I feel that all men. The Vatican Council's bravely must we hand on the sake." :to look for Christ who is "our all his disciples' must try to un constitution on the Church in message to our materialistic and AIl Christians indeed are to be way, our truth,. and our life." derstand a basi<; requirement set the World Today in· my opinion bewildered world that a man witnesses to this life of Christ Although this is an age of rapid down by the Lord himself when reflects this spirit whe.n it says, gains nothing ,if he wins the all over the world. The ~ollege change and consequent turmoil, he said, "Happy are the pocr in "The joys and hopes" the griefs Turn to Page Twenty

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Contln'ued f.rom Page Eighteen parables that she would be of this holy church of Boston. whole world and ruins his life! made up of saints and sinners, . May she grow in the knowledge If we are poor In' spirit we a~e because only beyorid the gates and love of the Son of God in :love with God and man and of death will she be perfect dnd without whom we can do noth make i ourselves available to nil glorious- with the glory of the ing. May, she. pray without . ceasing, for without prayer she our brothers, because through Blessed Trinity. cannot be faithful and live in our faith we know that they We are :bound· to ,love this need us and our message and Church on pilgrimage which we Christ and for him. May' Mary that *e need them. Our Lord are and such as we are with Immaculate, the Mother of the Church, be our constant guide Jesus ,Christ liimself was avail unswerving ~oyalty, if we are able to all. Het was availab!E; followers of Christ because th:r. and ~oving ,intercessor, as in to children, to the rich' young is the Church he loves. The simplicity of faith we pray her ptan, ~o rude and ignorant fish· Church in glory and the Church rosary while meditating on the ermen'l to despised tax colle<;· , in purgatory are one and the grace-giViing mysteries of ithe tors; to the sick. to the wom'ln same Church with us and make life of her Divine Son. On this taken in adultery, to the sincer~ the only Body of Christ. He has her' feast day, I place myself as well as to the _hypocritical no other Body to love. Neither anew at the service of ,the' fam members of the ruling class Clf do we have any other Church ily of God entrusted to me under her tender care. his 'aay, and to the timid ~ico to 'love. In our zeal for her re demuswho belonged to it. He newal we must always look to -Finally, permit me to let St. was aVailable to the, seemingly Jesus and .his love for this real Paul, in his letter to the Ephe affluent family of Lazarus with Church and not for an imaginary sians,. express my wish and illY whom he spent weekends; he one borri fcom utopian dreams. most fervent prayer for all of was available to the poor who Our task must be what His Holi. us today and in the days ahea1. flocked. to listen to him - and ness Pope Paul VI described in "This then," he wriies, "is what worked I miracles to feed them; his first address to the Council I pray,' kneeling before the he was, available to the public Fathers when he said "that here Father, from whom every fam sinner and allowed her to wash and at this very hour we should ily, whether spiritual or natural, his feet: with her tears of re p~oclaim Christ to ours_elves and takes its name: Out of his infi pentance and dry ,them with her to the world arourid us; Christ nite glory, may he· give .you the hair a( the risk of losing his our beginning, Christ our life power ,through his Spirit for rep~tati6n among the people as and our guide, Christ our hope your hidden self to grow strong, a holy man and a' prophet; he and our end...· so that Christ may live in your was available to the thief dying hearts through faith, and then, fAllow me, my brothers and planted in love and built on love, on the cross next to him and promised him the glory of para sisters to apply this thoug~t to you will with all the saint~ have dise. H~ was always available our beloved and venerable the strength to grasp the church. of the Archdiocese of breadth and the length, the to those: who needed him, be cause he i had come "to seek and 'Boston on this occasion. I para height and the depth;, until, ' save whJt was lost...' phrase the words of Pope F',aul knowing the love of Christ, VI, "0 let the ,People of God of, which is beyond all knowledge, The CHurch which is his MyS this portion of the Lord's flock tical Body is forever joined, to have the full awareness of the you are filled with the utter him as her head. Can she be relationship between ourselves fulness of God. Glory to him .Jess available and still be faith· and the 'blessed Jesus, between whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more' than we ful to him? But the Church, this holy church which we con can ask or imagine; glory be dearly beloved, is all of us who stitute and Christ from who'll believe in :Jesus and in his entire we com~, by whom we live, and to him from generation to gen message_ as presented for belief toward whom we strive. Let no eration in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. to us today by the sacred teach other light be shed on this ing office.he established in it to church, but Christ the light of Amen." guarantee! to all future genera the world. Let no other truth tions thaf he and his teaching be of interest to our minds, but are the same "yesterday, today the words of the Lord, our only and forever." To each one of us, Master! Let no other aspiration therefore, in the post assigned to guide uS,but the desire to be abo us in the Church by Christ him , solutely faithful to him! Let nc, self, are g~ven the privilege and other hope sustain us, but the MILLVALE, Pa. (NC) the responsibility to be available, one that, through the mediation More than 200 Franciscan sisters to have the courage to be a dis . of his word, strengthens .'ur representing six Religious com ciple of th~ cross-bearing Christ pitiful weakness: 'And behold I munities . marked the heritage and to seek him in every brother am with you all days, even unto they share through St. John Neu in order t~ enrich him and be the cbnsummation of the mann at the Mount Alvemia enriched b~ him. Every man has world.' "', motherhouse in Millville. . something to give us because in Ways in which the spirit of My brothers and sisters, may some mysterious manner Christ is in him. lit was he who said, the Spirit of the Father and of ' St. Francis and St. John Neu "oIn so far as you did this to one the Son continue to be the light . .m!!nn appeared in their found· ers were the focus of Heritage of the least of these brothers of Day II- meetings and studies of mine, you d'id it to me." And so the communities from Millvale, we'seek oUf brother because we Whitehall and Glen Riddle, Pa. EDICTAL CITAnON ,

believe' Christ ,is in us and in and Hastings-on-the·Hudson, Sy DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL

him. From; this belief is born racuse and Buffalo, N.Y. The FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSmS

what we today call the aposto Franciscans of Glen Riddle staff Since the actual place of residence , late of Cath6lic Social Action in ROSALIE SLOWIK JACINTHO is un. St. Mary's Home, New Bedford. all its form$ which the Church of known. has always :carried out through Sister Thomasita Heller, a We cite ROSALIE SLOWIK JACINTHO all her members as the Works to appear personally before the Tri. Millvale' Franciscan and member bunal of the Diocese of Fall River on of Mercy. , of the Heritage Day planning September 26, 1983 at 10:30 a.m. at I committee, said the day aimed ~t 344 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massa It is this Church, my brothers and sisters, which we love and chusetts, to give. testimony to establish: fostering closer unity among the Whether the nullity of the mar· tlix communities. "Generally we for which We suffer and. sacri riage exists in the JOCINTHO· are independent in our minis~ fice ourselves in imitation of SLOWIK case? 'tries, but we are more interested Christ who loves her and gives Ordinaries of the place or other pas· himself up her, so that at tors having the knowledge of the resi· in our likenesses in spirituality." the end he Alay present her to dence of the above person, Rosalie St. John Neumann founded the Slowik Jacintho must see to it that she the Father, as St. Paul puts it, is properly advisoo in regard to this ,first U.S. community of Fran "glorious, with no speck o~ edictal· citation. ciscan women religious in 1855 wrinkle or ~nything, ,like that, Henry T. Munroe at Glen Riddle near Philadelphia but holy and Ifaultless... , But the Officialis and from that communitY new Church in the world 'is a. pil.' Given at the Tribunal, foundations were established at Fall River; Massachusetts, , grim Church. Our' Lord has Buffalo in 1859 and at SyraClise on this, the 15th day of September, made abundarttly clear in many 1983. ,in 1860, she said. '

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Sept. 23, 1983

'Priests of the diocese will meetI next week at Falmouth for a prqgram of prayer and sharing based 0/1 a similar session held last year at Collegeville, Minn., for the bishops of the United States. Addressing ,the theme "Called and gifted as priests in the dio cese : of Fall River," Bishop

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The bait: child stardom in a movie to be called "Susan's Magic Carpet," a weekly salary of $1,800, and atrip around the world. The catch: the young girl chosen to star would have to "perform brief scenes of nudity."The patsies: seven sets of well-melming parents with no other fault than ambition .for their daughters. Enter Richard Cross, a plat,inum-tongued Englishman jailed in Avon Park, Florida since 1975, for asexual assault on two nine-year-old girls he had taken on'a "tour" of Dis ney World. Duping prison officials, a modeling agency, a photographer, his attorney, and several local businessmen, Cross masterminded an international child pornography business from his prison cell! When police in Seattle, Washington arrested his sidekick, Robert Lodge (a seventh grade school teacher), on May 31, 1983, they found 20,000 allegedly pornographic photographs of children in his house. Later arrests of men linked to Cross in Albuquerque and Alexandria, Virginia, turned up 1500 more nude photograp,hs of children and a collection of over 2500 "kiddie porn' videotapes. For the seven little girls in St. Petersburg, the story did not have a tragic ending. Their photos were apparently recovered before Cross could enter them into the un derground network which distributes child pornography. . Credit for that small silver lining must go to investigators forSenator Paula Hawkins of Florida who raised questions about Cross' activities, to afew law enforcement officials who didn't fall for Cross' line, and to two exceptional reporters for the St. Petersburg Times-Robert Barnes and Doreen Carvajal-who broke the story and forced a full scale official investigation. On reading of the tangled, pathetic affair-Cross claims to have been doing "undercover" work for out-of-state' chil~ protection organizations-I felt atwinge of despera tion.lt is, after all, one full year now since the United States Supreme Court gave its approval to an all-out attack on child pornography. That was in the case New York v. Father Bruce Ritter, OFM Conv., is the founder and President of Covenant House/UNDER 21, which operates crisis centers for homeless and. runaway youth.

Ferber, in which Covenant House p.articipated as represen tative of sexually-exploited children. And yet we stil/have no adequate federal law on the books to stop the marketing of "kiddie porn,". . Congress, it's true, has been working on it. The Senate has approved a bill-the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act of 1983-which would ban the production and distribution of virtually all child por nography. In addition-and extremely important-the bill . (sponsored by Senator Mien Specter [R-PAl) raises the . age limit of children protected from use in pornography to 18. (It has been 16!) The House Judiciary Committee, head ed by Representative Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (D-NJ), is con sidering a very similar proposal.

"We need firm, thoughtful, and vocal support to wake Congress up.!" But the Cross case points up dramatically one serious flaw in the current federal proposals. The problem is sim ple: nothing in current law, and nothing in the leading Con gressional bills, allows the victims of child pornography to recover any compensation from their exploiters. To make matters. worse, nothing in the current proposals would allow for special punishment of those who pursue child pornography as a business, with profit as their motive. Un less the bills currently pending are amended, those who organize to make and distribute child pornography will have nothing special to fear. As the Cross case shows, child pornography is a business, and a highly organized one. And none of the children used by Cross have the effective right to sue the pornographers for damages. A very simple change in federal law could make all the difference. We have asked Congress to include sexual ex ploitation of children as acrime covered by the Racketeer ing Influenced and Corrupt Organizations provisions. "RICO" makes it a crime to make a business of other c"rimes-such as transmitting gambling information; ship . ping contraband cigarettes, or transporting children for· use in prostitution. It gives victims of those businesses the right to sue for three times their actual damages plus at torneys' fees. . At present RICO doesn't cover child pornography. This is

the perfect opportunity to correct that oversight. But Con gress is going to miss that chance unless concerned voters around the country send a message to Washington. They've got to know that we will care. You're the ones who can make that difference. I ask alot from you, and I would never ask you to support something you don't believe in. But this is not acomplicated issue no one has made any sort of case against adding RICO as a tool against sexual exploitation of children. It only needs the firm, thoughtful and vocal support of voting citizens to wake Congress up. So if you can, call your Congressman and Rep. Peter Rodino (202-225-3436), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to express your support for adding child pornography offenses to RICO. The address is: U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. Nothing we do now can repair the damage inflicted on tens of thousands of children in making "kiddie porn". But we give them our prayers and we can do everything possi ble to protect kids from now on. Please join me in your prayers, in your letter-writing and, of course, in your finan cial support We can only be here for them if you are. ....i.-;s~rill"n;t;;;o;~ ~;;o;t;r;; ~inder in its treatment of children. Here's my gift of:

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