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VOL. 22, NO. 39

FAll RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1978

His Holiness Pope John Paul I

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Pontiff Died Quietly, Alone VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul I, whose surprise election only last month catapulted him into the world's limelight, died quietly and alone in the Apostolic Palace on the 34th day of his pontificate as he worked on personal papers in his bedroom.

A Vatican announcement said death came about 11 p.m. Sept.

28 from a heart attack.

The 262nd successor of St. Peter was found dead by his private secretary, Irish Father John Magee, at 5:30 a.m. Sept.

29.

Pope John Paul, son of a socialist laborer, would have cele'brated his 66th birthday Oct. 17.

Instead, his funeral Mass was celebrated yesterday, in a sad THE BODY OF' POPE JOHN PAUL I as it lay in state repetition of rites held less than Vatican.

(NC Photo) two months ago for his predecessor, Pope Paul VI. Televised worldwide, with costs partially undrwritten by the Knights of Columbus, 'the Mass was presided over by Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, 85, dean of the College of Cardinals.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Tlis the full evangelization of all The final resting place of Pope is the text of the last speech those who have been baptized.

John Paul is located in St. given by Pope John Paul I. The In this, the bishops of the church .Peter's Basilica crypt, across pope read the speech in Engl'.sh have a pr.ime responsibility. Our from the chapel-tombs of his during an audience for a group message must bea clear propredecessors and namesakes, of Filipino bishops, headed by clamation of salvation in Jesus John XXIII and Paul VI. He is Cardinal Julio Rosales of Cebu, Christ. With Peter we must say the 147th pope to be buried to Christ, in the presence of our who were making their "ad within St. Peter's.

Iimina" (official five year) visits people: "You have the words of His tomb is within a sarcophaeternal life" (In. 6:69). For us, to the pope and Rome. gus adorned with two 15th cenDear Brothers in Christ, ic' evangelization involves an explitury bas reliefs of angels. It is welcoming you with deep af- cit teaching about the name of directly across from that of Pope fection, we wish to recall at Jesus, his identity, his teaching, Marcellus II. passage found in the breviary. his kingdom and his promises.

Pope John Paul had suffered And his chief promise is eterThis passage has struck us forcepoor health from his childhood. nal life. Jesus truly has words fully. It concerns Christ, and At a recent general audience the was spoken by Paul VI on his that lead us to eternal life. Just pope told crowds that his mother visit to the Philippiries. "I must recently at a general audience, had carried him constantly from bear witness to his name: Jesus he spoke to the faithful about one doctor to another. . is the Christ, the Son of the eternal life. We are convinced He was very susceptible to living God . . . He is the Idng that it is necessary for us to climatic changes and after his of the new world; he is the emphasize this enement, in order ordination in 1935 he spent a secret of history; he is the key to complete our message and to year in a sanatorium to recover to our destiny" (13th Sunday of model our teaching on that of from tuberculosis. the year: Homily of November Jesus.

He recently told a group of 29, 1970). On our part we hope From the days of the Gospel, sick pilgrims that he had been to sustain you, support you and and in imitation of the Lord, who hospitalized eight times and encourage you in the great mis- "went about doing good" (Acts operated on four times. sion of the episcopate: to lPro- 10:38), the church is irrevocably The most serious operations claim Jesus Christ and to evang- committed to contributing to the relief of physical misery and were removal of gall stones elize his people.

Among the rights of the faith- need. But her pastoral charity when he was bishop of Vittorio Veneto, Italy, and an eye opera- ful; one of the greatest is the would be incomplete, if she did right to receive God's word in not point out even "higher tion three years ago. all its entirety and pu.rity, with needs."

Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, In the Philippines Paul VI did dean of the College of Cardinals, all its exigencies and power. A precisely this. At a moment great challenge ~f our day is was immediately advised of Pope John Paul's death and he hurried to the papal apartments.

The cardinal said that when of Canale d'Agordo (formerly his wife and several of his 10 he entered the pope's bedroom, Forno di Canale) Oct. 17, 1912, children.

The pope's sister, Nina, lives the pontiff's head was tilted Pope John Paul lived in poverty slightly to the right and his face and sometimes went to bed! near Trent with her husband Ettore Petri and two children. hungry. "bore his usual smile."

His socialist father, who went . The young Luciani's father Cardinal Confalonieri venerato Switzerland or Germany Giovanni was home only a few ted the body and then offered a Mass in the pope's private every year in search of work, months each winter until he encouraged his ll-year-old son found work as a glassblower chapel.

Immediately afterwards, the to enter the minor seminary at at Nureno, an island near Venice. The children grew up very pope's vicar for Rome, Cardinal Feltre.

In summers, the young semin- attached to their pious mother, Ugo Poletti, and the president the Vatican Council for the Pub- arian returned to Canale d' Tancon.

A small copybook used by Allic Affairs of the Church, Arch- Agordo and worked in the fields bishop Agostino Casaroli, con- in his black seminarian's cas- bino Luciani as a fourth grader was preserved by a relative in celebrated a second Mass in the sock. . chapel.

The pope's brother Eduardo, Canale.

In a composition, Albino LuBorn Albino Luciani in the a retired schoolteacher, still lives small Dolomite Mountains town in the Luciani homestead with ciani wrote that the family's

in the Clementine Hall in the

Pope John Paulls Last Address Emphasized Eternal Life when he chose to speak about the poor, about justice and peace, about human rights, about economic and social liberation - at a moment when he also effectively committed the church to the alleviation of misery - he did not and could not remain silent about the "higher good," the fullness of life in the kingdom of heaven.

More than ever before, we must help our 'people to realize just how much they need Jesus Christ, the son of God the son of Mary.

He is their savior, the key to their destiny and to the destiny of all humanity ...

Our greetings go to all your local churches, especially to the priests and Religious. We encourage them to ever greater holiness of life as a condition for the supernatural effectiveness of their apostolate. We love and bless the families of your dioceses and all the laity. We ask the sick and the handicapped to understand their important part in God's plan and to realize just how much evangelization depends on them. To all of you, brothers, we impart our special apostolic blessing, invoking upon you joy and strength in Jesus Christ.

diet consisted of polenta (corn meal grits), barley, macaroni and vegetables. They rarely ate meat.

The youngster said that he especial!y liked "carfoni," a 10c~1 dessert.

As a boy he began reading intensely, a habit he continued throughout his life.

Despite health problems, Albino was a diligent but "too vivacious" youth, according to his school teachers.

In his copybook, he wrote a letter to his mother confessing a lie. "Dear Mamma," he wrote, "you sent me to Cencenighe to buy medicine and you gave me 12 lire.

"On the way I lost two lire and I told you that It cost seven lire instead of five. 1 never had the courage to confess that I lost two."

After graduation from the Feltre minor seminary, Albino Luciani entered the major seminary at Belluno, his home diocese.

He would return there as teach-路 er and vice rector soon after ordination.

Ordained July 7, 1935, at age 23, he earned a doctorate in theology from Rome's Gregorian University.

His dissertation, done under the direction of Jesuit Father Charles Boyer, dealt with the problem of the soul in the works of Italian philosopher Antonio Rosmini.

After his bout with tuberculosis, he returned for a time to his hometown where he served as assistant pastor and taught religion to local students preparing for work in Belgian mines.

In 1937 the young priest returned to the Gregorian Seminary in Belluno where, in addition to his job as vice rector, he taught theology, sacred art, canon law and other subjects.

In 1947 Bishop Girolamo Bortignon of Belluno made him pro-vicar general of the diocese and asked him to organize the upcoming diocesan synod.

Bishop Bortignon also named him head of the diocesan catechetics office. In that office the future pope wrote his first book, "Catechism Crumbs," a short manual of how to teach religion.

He revised it in the early 1960's and it was published in six editions, including a Spanish edition published in Colombia.

The manual told teachers to speak about religion in clear terms to childrCll and to use games and good, lively examples in explaining truths of faith.

In 1954 Msgr. Luciani became vicar general of Belluno.

After Pope John XXIII's election in 1958, the new pope shuffled episcopal appointments in the northeastern section of Italy in order to fill the vacancy he left in Venice.

Pope John asked Bishop Bortignon, former Belluno bishop later sent to Padua, who could take over the Vittorio Veneto See. Bishop Bortignon immediately suggested Msgr. Luciani. It was a name already known to Pope John. He and Msgr. Luciani had made several train trips together.

Pope John ordained him bishop in St. Peter's Basilica two days after Christmas in 1958.

As bishop of Vittorio Veneto, the future pope was known for his pastoral activities, good preaching, and spirit of consultation with the priests of the small diocese.

Upon arriving in his new See on a gray day, Bishop Luciani said; "I come without five cents and 1 want to leave without five cents."

As bishop of the unimportant See of Vittorio Veneto, Albino Luciani participated in Vatican II.

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Brother Accepts Will of God Relatives of the late Pope John Paul I reacted to his death with tears and disbelief, but his brother Eduardo Luciani said he accepted the sad event as the will of God. "My brother's greatest achievement was, I believe, to go out and encounter the spirit and soul of the people," said Luciani, who a~ _61 was four years younger than his brother Albino. He was in Adelaide, Australia, attending an Italian film festival, but planned to return to Rome Sept. 30.

"I had a special link with my brother," said Luciani, the head of a regional chamber of commerce in Italy. "He looked after us as children when our father was in Germany. We were very emotional when we learned of his election (as pope) but we weren't surprised."

Declining to speculate on whether the emotion of becoming pope had affected his brother's health, Luciani ani said the pontiff had had some trouble connected with his heart 15 years ago, but his doctor had said there would be no health problems on becoming pope.

One of the first to receive the news was Pia Luciani, Eduardo's daughter and the pope's neice, who said she "could hardly believe my ears" when she answered a phone call from the Vatican informing the family of the pontiff's death.

Miss Luciani then informed Father Rinaldo Aldrich, a parish priest in the pope's hometown of Canale d' Agordo, who interupted a Mass to announce the news and then tolled the church bells to inform other villagers.

Amalia Luciani, one of the pope's cousins still living in Canale d'Agordo, said: "The great joy for his election has been suddenly faded by the unexpected death."

Tight Budget VATICAN CITY (NC) - The conclave, estimated to cost nearly $5 million, is putting an unexpected strain on the Vatican's already tight budget.

Major conclave expenses include a month's extra pay to Vatican employees for their overtime hours, air travel for Third World cardinals, preparation of the conclave area and costs of the solemn rituals.

Conclave costs are partially recovered by sale of commemorative stamps, coins and medallions issued by the Vatican.

Jubilee Choir The Diocesan Jubilee Choir will rehearse at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathedral School. There will be a readthrough of Bach Cantata 140 and Haydn's Te Deum. Competent singers are welcome to join the group, which will be heard at events throughout the jubilee year. Information is available from Glenn Giuttari, telephone 2:)2-4304.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS form an honor guard at consecration of diocesan Memorial Mass for Pope John Paul I, conceleqrated by Bishop Cronin and priests of the diocese at Holy Name Church, Fall River. (Torchia Photo)

Homily at Memorial Mass The following homily was preached by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at Solemn Memorial Mass concelebrated by him and priests of the diocese Monday night at Holy Name Church, Fall River: Through the extraordinary medium of television, that marvelous means of modern communication, the whole world saw on August 26th, just a few weeks ago, the radiant smile of the new Pope. The sadness felt by all at the death of Pope Paul VI was quickly turned into joy as Pope John Paul I appeared on lhe balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and gave his first Apostolic Blessing to those gathered before him in the square of St. Peter's and to the whole world as well.

Men everywhere took courage路 and joy at the thought that the Church once again had a Supreme Pastor to guide the pastoral care of the people of God. Few there are who do not look to the enlightened leadership of the Pope for guidance in personal, spiritual problems and in world affairs as welL Therefore, to see a路 new Holy Father assume the position of Vicar of Christ, successor of St. Peter, gave assurance to one and all that once again the Church had its good Shepherd.

The words of the Gospel according to John, proclaimed this evening, come quickly to mind: "I am the Good Shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me," (John 10:14) And indeed the people of God recognized in Pope John Paul I the Good Shepherd who would 路Iead them to safe pastures, lead them to their God. And likewise those not of the fold, those many in the world who still search, pray, and work for that unity which Christ himself so desired, looked upon Pope John 'Paul I and remembered words further on in the Gospel, where the Lord says: "In the same way that the Father knows me, I know the Father; .lor these sheep I will give my life. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must

lead them, too, and they shall hear my voice. There shall be one flock then, one Shepherd."

It seemed almost as though the whole world, under the leadership of this new Good Shepherd, would unite in an effort to bring about the rule of God on earth: peace, fraternity, harmony and fellowship among men. The infectious smile, tIle warm and friendly manner, the obvious interest in the ordinary person, the saintly affection for children -all 'these 路combined to excite the world and to give joy and peace and encouragement to the hearts of men.

Each day that brought news from Vatican City was a further confirmation of the wonderful pastoral style of Pope John Paul I. We eagerly looked forward to reading about the audience which he would give each week because from that news would

come a further manifestation of the love that the new Pope had for people and for the souls entrusted to his care. His witty remarks, his simple manner of teaching, and his ability to s~ in ordinary words a message of profound spiritual insight gave us the realization that we, indeed, were blessed with a Supreme Pastor who would lead the world nearer to God. Then, the morning of September 29th, just a few days ago, came the shocking news that during the night Pope John Paul I had died. Emotions of the deepest sort moved one and all as a result of that sad announcement from the Vatican. The world once again became forlorn at the loss of the Pope. The flock was without a shepherd again in such a short period of time. We thought obviously about the magnificent work that

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could have been accomplished, as we saw it in our human vision, had John Paul I continued for many years as the Pope.

We remembered instantaneously the radiant smile. That smile will certainly be the hallmark of Pope John Paul I. And it will be the quality, perhaps, that will remain in our memory the longest. And what a way to be reqlembered - the smiling Pontiff.

Many asked why; many began to speculate on all the good that would not be done. Some even began to fear that the death of the Pope, in such a short period of time, might conceivably cause insurmountable difficulties for the Church.

However, a calm spiritual analysis of this had human situation gave greater understanding to those who remembered the words of St. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, which we heard read moments ago: None of us lives as his own master and none of us dies as his own master. While we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and when we die, we die as his servants. Both in life and death we are the Lord's.

Romans 14:7-8.

These words lead us quickly to realize that it is the will of God that determines when we shall die, and it is in the providence of God that Pope John Paul I was called to his Master.

If we were to review this whole matter from our limited human perspective alone, we would do it, perhaps, another way. If the plans for the Church were left to us, we perhaps would organize the whole situation differently. And certainly, if it had been left to us, Pope John Paul I would have continued to live and to be the Supreme Pastor.

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Text of the Telegram transmitted by the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, to Cardinal Villot on the occasion of the death of Pope John Paul I. SEPTEMBER 29, 1978 HIS EMINENCE JEAN CARDINAL VILLOT VATICAN CITY THE PEOPLE OF GOD OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MOURN THE DEATH OF OUR SUPREME PASTOR, POPE JOHN PAUL I AND JOIN THE WHOLE WORLD IN PRAYING FOR THE BLESSED REPOSE OF HIS SOUL. STOP. WE CONVEY THIS HEARTFELT EXPRESSION OF OUR SINCERE CONDOLENCES. BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN BISHOP OF FALL RIVER

DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER FALL RIVER.

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BISHOP'S OFFICE

September 29, 1978 I was profoundly saddened at the news from the Vatican that Pope John Paul I has died.

The flock of Christ is without its Supreme Pastor.

This grieves us all. But the particular manner which Pope John Paul I brought to his ministry we shall greatly miss. He was a warm, loving and caring shepherd of souls and within a very short period he was able to manifest that personal style to the whole world. All men loved him and all will mourn his passing.

May the Lord Jesus grant His servant and Vicar on earth peace and eternal rest.

'Blessed ~re the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.' Matt.5:3

Lists Lengthen for Papabili-Watchers A glimmer of hope has sparked a new interest in the Vatican that prayerfully will not be diminished by the passing of Pope John Paul I. With fatherly care and smiling love, he gave the world a vision of what can be done by the Holy Father. The message should not be lost in the ploys of power as the Sacred College once more fulfills its only function.

May the joy of John Paul remind the cardinals that the people of God are searching for a leader who is willing to remain human amid the trappings of the papacy.

John Paul, we pray, now rest in peace. Your pastoral days of cheerful sharing will not be forgotten.

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By John Mlilthig Italian Bishops' Conference, is Who might succeed Pope John . generally regarded as lacking the charisma needed to ~overn Paul I? As occurred after the death of the universal church.

The three leading residential Pope Paul VI, so on the day Cardinals, then, would be Palerafter Pope John Paul's death mos' Cardinal Salavtore PappaVatican-watchers began passing lardo, 60, Neapolitan Cardinal around a laundry list of names Corrado Ursi, 70, and Rome's which grew longer by the hour.

Cardinal-vicar Ugo Poletti, 64.

Presuming - and this is a big Although he is relatively presumption - that the cardinals young, Cardinal Pappalardo has will want to elect another Italian eight years of pastoral work becardinal who heads a diocese, hind him in rough, povertythe choice narrows down to a stricken Palermo plus papal diphandful. lomatic corps experience.

Cardinal Giovanni Colombo of Cardinal Ursi has headed with Milan reaches retirement age (75) great skill the socially backward in December and probably would city of Naples, which is plagued not be chosen. by staggering percentages of unWhile Car4inal Colombo may employment, housing so poor be considered too old, Cardinal that apartment buildings oocaGiovanni Benelli - though very sionally collapse, and mounting well known - would probably drug traffic.

Cardinal Poletti has had a be viewed as too young at 57.

He is also a newcomer to dioce- rough five years as papal vicar san ministry after a long, contro- of Rome. He has still not reached a harmonious relationship with versial Curia career.

Genoa's Cardina.l Giuseppe Rome's leftist city government Siri, 7-2, according to Newsweek and is equally unpopular with magazine, led the voting in the the Roman Curia.

But he is a skillful politican first ballot in August with 25 votes. Even if the report is and cannot be discounted as a accurate, many observers feel "papabile," as the Italians sucthat the very conservative and cinctly call the likely papal cansickly cardinal would not be didates. elected.

If the cardinals returning to Cardinal Antonio Poma, 68, of Rome for their second conclave Bologna is the right age. But the in two months reverse their precardinal, who is president of the vious direction and now decide

against the formula of an Italian cardinal who heads a diocese, the field is again wide open.

Collaborators of Pope John Paul路 said he left Venice last August planning to vote for intelligent, urbane Cardinal Aloiso Lorscheider. The Brazilian Fraqciscan, head of both the Brazilian Bishops' Conference and the Latin American Bishops' Council, is considered a likely favorite of church progressives. At age 54 he is very young to be a papabile. Yet the cardinal has had serious heart problems.

Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli, head of the Secretariat for NonChristians, reaped a good portion of votes in the last conclave, said Newsweek. Before the last conclave he was widely touted

by Vatican-watchers as one of the leading candidates.

At 68, he has experience in both the Curia and diplomatic corps and as auxiliary bishop of Milan. Although he has critics, he is affable and has an engaging smile as Pope John Paul did.

Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, must again be considered as路 a papabile of sorts.

And Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, head of the Congregation for Religious, is also in the running, despite his young age (57). He is an Argentinian of Italian-born parents.

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BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN (center) chats with Father James Haddad, keynote speaker at Religious Education Day held Sunday at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. Left, Father Michel Methot, di ocesan director of religious education. (See center spread for another picture)

Azorean Bishop To Take Part In Candlelight Procession As has become an annual Columbus Day custom. thousan~s will gather in Fall River on Monday for a candlelight procession and concelebrated Mass in honor of Our Lady.

For the occasion, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be host to the Most Rev. Aurelio Granada, coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Angra, Azores, who will be visiting the diocese as house guest of Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, VG, at Mt. Carmel rectory, New Bedford.

Bishop Cronin met Bishop Granada in 1972 when the Fall River Ordinary visited the Azores to participate in a meeting of the Portuguese Episcopal Migration Commission, of which the then Father Granada was secretary.

Participants in Monday's procession will gather by parishes at St. Mary's' Cathedral at 5;30 p.m. Monday and will walk in procession to Kennedy Park, a little less than mile distant.

As in the past, parishes and organizations will carry flags and banners and individuals will hold lighted candles. Each group will sing and pray in the lang7 uage of its choice, led by a designated priest or lay person.

The rosary will be recited at least once during the procession by each group and hymns will have a Marian theme.

Once again this year, upon arrival at Kennedy Park, participants will recite the rosary.

Leading the decades in different

languages will be: Msgr. John J. Regan, English; Rev. Antonio Tavares, Portuguese; Msgr. Alfred J. Gendreau, French; Rev. Robert Kaszynski, Polish; Rev. Vincent F. Diaferio, Italian; and Rev. James Murphy, Spanish.

The priests will also offer petitions for the General Intercessions in the varying languages.

Following the rosary, Mass will begin, with Bishop Cronin as principal celebrant. A special area for the disabled will be reserved near the altar.

At communion time, priests will pass among the crowd distributing the Eucharist. It is noted that those who may have received communion earlier in the day may receive again on this special occasion.

Each parish will designate 10 men to serve as marshals for the

Ecumenists Set Saturday Parley

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Father Horace Travassos, cochairman of the Diocesan Ecumenical Commission, will be among panelists at an .ecumenical workshop, the first of its kind in Massachusetts, to be held Saturday at Assumption College, Worcester.

His topic at the all-day meeting will be "Ecumenical Marriages and the Baptism of Children." The keynote speaker will be Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, professor of ecumenics at Union Theological Seminary in New York.City, who was an official observer at the Second Vatican Council.

Other workshop sessions, with the over-all t}leme, "How to Fulfill Our Ecumenical Mandate," will deal with intercommunion, teaching values in public and private schools, ecumenism and the charismatic movement, orthodoxy, educational programs for ecumenism and ecumenical cooperation on social issues.

The program, which will stress practical and pastoral approaches to ecumenism, is open to clergy and laity and further information is available from Father Travassos,. telephone

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INDIA: TOMORROW'S MOTHERS THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH

procession and Mass and as escorts to the priests distributing communion. Parish representatives will also assist in carrying the traditional statues of Our Lady of Fatima in the procession.

As in the past, it is expected that Monday's diocesan manifestation of devotion to Mary will serve as an expression of faith for both participants and spectators.

In the poor mountain area of Jellippara young girls in every family are idle and unemployedeasy prey for temptation into a life of indolence and vice. The Carmelite Sisters there want to open a vocational school where the girls can learn useful crafts like dressmaking, typing, home economics-along with religious instruction so the girls may become self-supporting now and good wives and mothers tomorrow. The future of India is in their hands-and yours. Only $5000 will build a fully-equipped school for these young women. Build it yourself and name it for your favorite saint as a Memorial for someone you love. Or, give what you can towards its construction so that these young women may be taught to lead a decent, productive and moral life.

INDIA'S FUTURE LIES IN WOMEN'S HANDS

PD Applications Well Underway The pre-application process for the formation of the second class of prospective candidates for the Permanent Diaconate is now well underway. As previously announced in The Anchor, this period of interviews will continue until the: last week of November. At that time the men approved for application will begin the detailed process of admission.

This second class will begin its formal pursuit of ordination to the Permanent Diaconate next September. It should be noted that, under a change in our diocesan program, this process of application will not be held for another three years. In other words, the third class of deacon candidates will not begin studies until 1982.

Considering that the age cutoff for applicants to the diocesan diaconate program is 62, it would be well for pastors and associates to note this scheduling change.

In this regard, emphasis is once more placed on the fact that most candidates are encouraged to pursue the Permanent Diaconate with the support of their parish priest. To be sure, there are still some clergy who have hesitations and doubts.

Perhaps, until the first class of Permanent Den.cons are ordained, these uncertainties will remain. However, it is more than gratifying to know that many priests active in parish ministry have taken a deep interest in the Permanent Diaconate.

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,Moral Theology State Continues To Be Depressing

The state of Catholic moral theology continues to be depressing, as the shootfrom-the hip responses to

Medicine and Ethic~" by William E. May (Franciscan Herald Press) is doggedly conservative, innocent of sociological and biological infOrmation and grimly determined to resist and deviation from the old traditions.

Thus May dismisses the Catholic ethical thinkers working with the concept of "the proportionate good" as "consequentialist."

the recent "test-tube baby case" emphasize. I have three moral theology books sitting on my desk - enough to make one wonder whether the discipline ought to be abolished.

The first, "Human Existence,

A more moderate book is "Has Sin Changed?" by Sean Fagan, S.M. (Michael Galzier, Inc.). Fagan's moral emphasis is 011 "person-centered morality," the "whole person" and "whole··

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ness in growth." This is fair enough, of course, but once a moral theologian begins to talk about wholeness and growth he moves into the area of social science scholarship, and Father Fagan seems utterly innocent of social knowledge. The evidence for example, that parents are still the principal moral and religious educators of their children is overwhelming. Father Fagan .seems unaware of it.

On the liberal side is "Sexual Morality - A Catholic Perspective" by Philip S.. Keane, S.S. (Paulist Press). It should be said in Father Keane's defense

that not only is there much that is useful in this book for the pastoral worker (as there is in Father Fagan's), it is by far the best text available in English on Catholic sexual morality - far superior to the Catholic Theological Society of America's report of a year ago. Still, the book is badly hindered by the author's distinction between "ontic" evil and "moral" evil, a distinction which clearly has been devised to effect some sort of compromise with "Humanae Vi" tae."

distinction. I doubt very much that church authorities will be willing to accept it. I am also virtually certain that few married couples will accept it either.

There is nothing in any of these books, all dealing in. one way or another with sex, which would indicate that the authors are aware of either the poignancy of human problems or of the richness of the research literature in other disciplines.

What we need is a spirituality of sex. The church seems quite incapable of producing . that just now. Instead we proI fear that Father Keane fails vide answers for questions that between two stools with that no one asks anymore.

Bobbi·e Walnts: tih,e Better Part of Both Worlds Iy MARY CARSON

My 12-year-old retarded daughter is convinced she's a boy. You might think the problem comes from the fact that we named her Roberta, and her nickname is Bobbie. But that didn't bother her for 11 years.

Her "identity crisis" really began a year ago when she started to mature physically. Because her mental development is that of a six-year-old, explaining to

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The church's concerns in the Middle East are clear, Pope John Paul summed up befoie the Camp David meeting when he said a just peace would have to resolve the problem of the Palestinians, the security of Israel and the status of the holy city of Jerusalem.

The American bishops issued a major statement on the MidIe East in November 1973. Here are their recommendations compared' with what came out of Camp David.

her was impossible.

I needed help, so I called my real, true, loyal, best friend who is: a nurse and who always says, "If there ir-:; "n"th;.,'"! I can do for you, let me know."

I told my friend that I hadn't gotten anywhere explaining "these marvelous changes" to Bobbie. I was in for a shock.

My friend didn't want the job . . . not that month, the next .'. . nor any other. She knows that Bobbie can be very stubboorn.

I tried talking to Bobbie agair.:.

"Now you're a big girl ... just like your sisters . . . just like me. I like being a girl . . . " "Yilu're a girl. Good. You can have it. I'm a boy."

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She has decided that boys do not wear bras. She gets dressed for school in the morning and tolerates putting one on. ·The minute she's home from school, she changes and then I n_ot only have the fight of trying to g~t her to put it back on ... I have to find it first. She hides them.

The .other day I started to pack her lunchbox. I found that

the previous day she hadn't waited until she got home from school to change.

Yesterday I thought we were finally making real progress. She came to me with her doll precisely wrapped in a receiving blanket.

I was elated.' This was a real stride. I admired the baby, then asked, "What's your baby~s name?"

"Sue. S - U - E. Sue." "That's a nice name for a baby. And are you the baby's Mommy?"

"NO. I'm the baby's FATHER!" I'd be upset except that I remember being a little girl who was much happier with a pocket

knife and a slingshot than with dolls.

Having eight children hasn't changed me much. One of the best times Bobbie and I had this summer was a game of catch with a football.

Some might try to cure Bobbie's identity problem with rigid discipline. Others might recommend a psychiatrist. I believe that time will take care of it.

The .other day she borrowed her older sister's nail polish and did a rather commendable job on herself - right up to her knuckles. I didn't get around to nail polish until I was 18.

Basically, I believe it's not so much that she doesn't want to be a girl - she just wants the better part of both worlds.

American Bishops Have Taken Stand on Middle East 1. The bisops called for "recognition of the right of Israel to exist as a sovereign state with secure boundaries."

The framework for an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty certainly provides this, and Israel's security would be protected if the framework ror handling the Palestinian issues on the West Bank of the Jordan is implemented.

2. The bishops asked "recogn:ition of the rights of the Palestinian Arabs, especially the refugees; this involves, in our view, inclusion of them as partners in any negotiations, acceptance to their right to a state and compensation for past losses to be paid not only by Israel but also by other members of the international .community responsi-

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the act, gently reminding Bobbie in subtle little ways. Any time we can, we praise her, "That's a good girl."

Instead of being happy with the praise, she's indignant. "I'm not a girl. I'm a BOY! B-Q-Y. Boy, BOY BOY!" Every month, like clockwork, the battle is renewed.

Carmelite monastery in San Diego, California. This delightful meatless cookbook was a g:ift and I couldn't think of a nicer present. Replete with dozens of meatless dishes it certainly would be a welcome addition to anyone's cookbook collectior.:.

It set me thinking about cookhooks and cooking magazines for people who appreciate such items under their Christmas

ble for the 1948 partition plan."

The framework recognizes "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and their just requirements."

It includes the Palestinians as partners in negotiations on the West Bank and gives the West Bank autonomy during a fiveyear transition period that will lead to a final, mutually agreed upon decision on sovereignty.

It also holds out the possibility of claims commissions.

3. The bishops called for and the framework agreed to the acceptance of United Nations Resolution 242 as the basis for negotiations. It calls for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied during the Arab-Israeli wars and respect for the sov-

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ereignty and security of the states involved.

4. The bishops asked that the involvement Of the United States and the Soviet Union be coordinated through the UN. At the time, the bishops were concerned about the possibility of a U.S.-Soviet imposed settlement. But the American role by no means suggests this.

5. The bishops asked "continued reliance on the UN diplomatically and through its peacekeeping machinery."

The framework requires that the UN Security Council endorse the final peace treaties resulting from the Camp David agreements.

6. "Given recognition of the unique status of the city of Jeru-

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salem and its religious significance which transcends the interests of anyone tradition," the bishops said, "we believe it necessary to insure access to the city through a form of international guarantee.

"Moreover, the character of the city as a religiously pluralist community, with equal protection of the religious and civil rights of all citizens, must be guaranteed in the name of justice."

Egypt and Israel still disagree on Jerusalem. Israel says the city will remain the capital of Israel; Egypt says East Jerusalem should be returned to Arab control. Israel does allow open access to Christian, Jewish al!d Islamic holy places in Jerusalem.

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Chairmen For Annual Ball Chairmen to direct various aspects of the 24th annual Bishop's Charity Ball, to be held Friday, Jan. 12 at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth.

They are Mrs. Stanley Janick and Robert Coggeshall, decorations; Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, hospitality; Mrs. James A. O'Brien, presentees; Norman Hathaway and Lester Reed, hall; Miss Margaret M. Lahey, theme.

Thirty-six parishes have been named to participate in this year's presentee program. Each will select one young lady to be presented to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin during one of the ball's traditional highlights.

The parishes are: St. John, St. Stephen, St. Mary and Mt. Carmel in the Attleboro area; St. Margaret, St. Patrick, St. Joan of Are, St. Augustine, Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Elizabeth and St. John in the Cape and Islands area.

St. Mary, Holy Name, Notre Dame, St. Anne, St. Louis, St. Michael, St. William, Santo Christo, St. Bernard, Our Lady of Grace and Our Lady of Fatima in the Fall River area; Assumption, St. Boniface, St. Francis of Assisi, St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph, St. Kilian, St. Theresa, St. Mary and St. Rita in the New Bedford area.

Holy Rosary, Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Mary, St. Paul and Immaculate Conception in the Taunton area..

This year's ball marks the diamond jubilee of the Fall River diocese. Proceeds will benefit camps and schools for exceptional and underprivileged children.

Sister Ann Sister Ann Jones, 68, for 20 years a teacher in the day care nursery of Mt. St. Joseph School, Fall River, died last week at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec, Canada.

A native of Omaha, she was the daughter of the late Frederick and Winefred (McConaty) Jones. She entered religious life in 1928. She is survived by a sister, Sister Mary Lea, of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Mercy, and by two brothers.

Her funeral took place Saturday at the Quebec motherhouse.

SISTER ANN with day nursery children and a school benefactor.

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.POPE JOHN PAUL I met Daniele Bravo, a fifth grader, during one of his last general audiences. "Do you always want to be in fifth grade?" queried the pope expecting a negative answer. "Yes," said Daniele, "so I can stay with my teacher." (NC Photo)

Bishop's Homily Continued from Page Three Yet, upon calmer reflection, we realize full well that the world is the Lord's, that we belong to him, and are under his providential care. We realize, also, that the Church his Church - is likewise guided by the mysterious ways of his providence. And so, the words of the Prophet Ezechiel, which we also heard earlier in this Mass, come to mind: Thus says the Lord: I myself will look after and tend my sheep. As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark. I will lead them out from among the peoples and gather them from the foreign lands; I will bring them back to their own country and pasture them upon the mountains of Israel. In good pastures I will pasture them ... I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest,

Sr. Marie Marc A funeral Mass was celebrated fuesday at St. Anne's Church, Fall River, for Sister Marie Marc, OP, 77, who died Sunday. She had been a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Fall River, for 57 years and had been on the faculty of Dominican Academy, Fall River, for 10 years prinor to her retirement five years ago.

Born in Warren, R.I., she was the daughter of the late Alphonse and Dorilda (Chouinard) St. Laurent. As well as at Dominican Academy, she taught at St. Anne's School, Fall River, at St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, and in Plattsburgh, N.Y., where she was also active in catechetical work.

She is survived by a brother an dsister.

says the Lord. (Ezechiel 34: 11-13;15)

Channel 27 at 8 Monday night.

Therefore, we continue to be confident that the Church of God, under the direct providential care of the Lord himself, will once again be blessed with a pastorally minded Shepherd who will assume the unique position of Vicar of Christ on earth, Successor of Peter, and become the Supreme Pastor of the Church to lead the flock of God. We mourn the death of Pope John Paul 1. It is fitting that we do so. However, we also thank God for the wonderful gift he gave us in allowing us the radiant, smiling Pontiff, John Paul

Bishop Flanagan Silver Jubile'e Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of Worester will mark his silver jubilee of episcopal ordination at a 10:30 a.m. Mass Monday in Worcester Memorial Auditorium.

Assisting him will :be some 40 bishops, including three cardinals, 400 priests and many dignitaries from other Christian faiths. Cardinal John Cody, a classmate of Bishop Flanagan, will be homilist.

The Mass will be telecast on ,Chanel 27 at 8 Monday night.

Birthday Party Is Postponed A birthday reception and dinner planned for tomorrow night at the Condesa restaurant in Somerset for Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros has been postponed to Friday, Nov. 10, due to the death of Pope John Paul 1.

Tickets already purchased will be honored at that time and they are still available from Joseph Costa Jr., Fall River, general chairman; and from area chairpersons Miss Evelyn Almeida, Fall River; George Mendonca, New Bedford; and Mrs. Emma Andrade, Taunton.

I, to be our Supreme Pastor, even if only for such a short period of time.

As we pray together for the repose of the soul of the deceased Pope, we likewise raise our minds and hearts in prayer to the good Lord, begging him to favor the Church,. through the Holy Spirit, with another saintly Pontiff who will lead the Church of God, who will guide the people of God and all mankind, to a greater understanding of those inscrutable truths - that good news - revealed to us by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so that, through the ministry of his Vicar on earth, the world will recognize Jesus as Lord, as Shepherd and Guardian of the souls of men. Then, indeed, there will be but one flock and one shepherd.

May God love and bless you all.

A spokesman for Cardinal John Wright raised hopes that the delegation of nine voting U.S. cardinals may be complete during the upcoming election for a new pope when he announced Oct. 2 that the cardinal "intends to be in Rome for the conclave," Cardinal Wright, prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Clergy, has been recuperating in Boston from eye and leg surgery. He had been advised against attending the last conclave by his doctors, and was one of only three cardinal electors who were unable to participate.

The phrasing of the announcement by Father Don Wuerl, the cardinal's secretary, left open the possibility that Cardinal Wright's physicians will again advise him not to travel.

Meanwhile, the other eight U.S. cardinal-electors - along with one American cardinal who is ineligible to participate in the papal election - were converging on Rome. Cardinals Timothy Manning of Los Angeles, William Baum of Washington and Humberto Medeiros of Boston had artived by Oct. 2.

Scheduled to arrive later were Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia; John Dearden of Detroit; John Carberry of St. Louis; John Cody of Chicago; and Lawrence J. Shehan, retired archbishop of Baltimore, who cannot attend the conclave because of his age.

Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York had not finalized his travel plans by the afternoon of Oct. 2.

The two other U.S. cardinals - James Francis McIntyre, 92, retired archbishop of Los Angeles, and Patrick O'Boyle, 82, retired archbishop of Washington - are in ill health and had no plans to attend the papal funeral or conclave. Both are ineligible to vote because of age and neither attended the last conclave.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John Paul I was not holding "The Imitation of Christ" when he was found dead, Vatican Radio said.

Changing its own report of Se,pt. 29, Vatican Radio said that he was found dead holding "some sheets of paper containing his personal writings, such as homilies, speeches, reflections and various interventions."

Vatican Radio recalled that "all news media" were saying on Sept. 29 that the pope held "The Imitation of Christ," the famous 15th century manual of spiritual devotion Ibelieved to be written

by Thomas A. Kempis.

Vatican Radio said that it had "echoed this unanimous report, considering it a sure datum not needing particular cheGking."

Vatican Radio continued; "No edifying motive or intent, as some have suggested, prompted Vatican Radio to transmit the news, taken for certain by all, as has been said. After due checking, we are in a position to say that the pope, when he was. found dead the morning of Sept. 29 held in his hands precisely some sheets of paper containing his personal writings, such as homilies, speeches, reflections, and· various interventions."

"You will in fact breathe VATICAN CITY (NC) "Dear Jesus, I'm under attack. ,air. If your faith is a heap of 'He's a bishop and cardinal,' good fruit, there will be an they're saying. 'Yet he's writing army of mice assaulting it.

"If it is a piece of clothing, letters to everyone Mark Twain, Dickens, and who knows a hundred hands will try to tear who else.''' it from you. If it is a house, the demolition men will try to disThe late Pope John Paul I's mantle it piece by piece." letters to the famous - or to the On how women should dress: "ilustrissimi" (Most illustrious), as the collection of letters is en- "I think a woman must first try titled - were written for the to please her parents, brothers, Italian monthly, Messenger of sisters, and above all her husband ... And these people want St. Anthony, during the 1970s. their woman to be beautiful and They are now being reprinted, elegant, but within a frame of issued on cassette tapes and modesty which makes her even photocopied. They are also being more beautiful and morally translated for American readers fresh:' (To Maria Theresa of and will be published by Little Austria).

Brown and Co. On the energy crisis: "The The book reveals its author breakneck race for prosperity as a poor often hungry child and the mad use of nonessential who read voraciously. On his things has compromised indisreading list were classics by pensable goods: air, pure water, Charles ,Dickens and Mark silence, inner peace, rest.

Twain. Both were singled out "We thought that the petrolby the patriarch of Venice to eum pool was like a bottomless receive "illustrissimi" letters. well of St. Patrick. Now we see The letters show that the pope suddenly that we are down to w·as a pastor close to his the last drops. flock and concerned with very "We hoped that once the oil pastoral questions: how women should dress, the elderly, swear- stopped we could count on nuing, keeping the faith, sexual clear energy, Ibut they tell us that production of this leaves love, adolescence. dangerous radioactive wastes:' Recipients include 34 men (Letter to Charles Dickens) (among them Hippocrates, G. K. .On new morality: "Today a Chesterton, Guglielmo Marconi), permissive morality is proposed. four women (the two St. Ther"Some propose completely esas, Penelope, Empress Maria liberalizing laws on contracepTheresa of Austria), one bear tion, abortion on demand, free (the bear of St. Romedius) and divorce, pre-marital sex, homoone wooden boy (pinocchio.) sexuality, drug use.

The last series is a letter to "It's a high tide, an advancing Jesus. cyclone. Before it what can a Among the sensitive and prac- poor bishop do?" (Letter to St. tical thoughts of the Venice pa- Luke) triarch were the following.

On conduct of public officials: On bishops: "Some bishops ",I am for correct and consistent are like eagles who soar with behavior from public officials. magisterial documents on a high One reason is that they, through level. Others are like nightin- their conduct determine the edugales who sing the praises of cation or the lack of education the Lord wondrously. But others on youth ... are poor wrens who only chirp "The wise official doesn't let on the last limb of the ecclesial himself be taken in by appeartree trying to come out with ances or by praise. He guesses some thought or other on vast the temperament and ambitions issues. of others from their phy~iogno­ "I belong to the last category." my and actions.

(In a letter to Mark Twain.)

"They push him to act quickly On abortion: "Have you heard and he feels that it is not yet the congresswoman? Liberalized time. They tell him that it is abortion for the advancement of 'better to wait and his sixth women. But will it be real ad- sense tells him .that he must vancement? . . . move quickly. Later the facts "In many cases abortion frees prove him right:' (Imaginary exmore the woman's partner husband or not - - from nuisances and brothers, permitting him to give way to his sexual desires without assuming related duties. ,"It is a retreat rather than an advancement for woman vis-a-vis man:' (Letter to Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni).

On his own empty stomach as a youth (to Pinocchio): "On certain occasions, an egg, or even a was shelter from· your hunger and represented for you a radiant deep want. It was the same for me."

On keeping the faith as a youth (to Pinocchio): "On your journey toward autonomy you, Pinocchio, like most all youths 17-20, will butt up against the reef of problems of faith.

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change of letters between the patriarch and St. Bernard of Clairvaux) On change: "There are those who get an idea into their head, bury it there and continue to guard it jealously all their lives without examining it or seeing what has become of it ·after so much rain and wind and the storms of events and changes . . . Life is a very different thing:' (Letter from St. Bernard) , On humility: "When I receive a compliment I need to compare myself to the ass which carried Jesus on Palm Sunday. I tell myself: That ass, as he heard the applause of the crowd became proud and began to nod thanks right and left like a prima donna:' (To King David) On vacations: "Vacation means rest. But there are those who know how to take it and those who don't. It is like dusting: Some housewives think they are dusting, yet they a_re only moving dust from one place to another:'(To 8th-century Deacon Paul)

Telegram Comes Posthumously CAN DIEGO (NC) - In an ironic twist of fate, a telegram expressing Pope John Paul I's sorrow at the recent San Diego air disaster arrived at the San Diego diocesan offices the day after the pope died.

"Pope John Paul sends expression of his sorrow at great loss of life in air disaster," said the telegram to Bishop Leo "Maher of San Diego and signed by Cardinal Jean Villot, papal secretary of state. Arriving Sept.

29, it referred to a Sept. 25 crash which killed 151 people, the worst air disaster in U.S. aviation history. Pope John Paul died of a heart attack Sept. 28.

"His prayerful sympathy goes to all families of the victims upon whom he invokes strength and consolation of Christian hope," the telegram said. "He asks God's help for all those working to provide for the common good in this hour of tragedy:'

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On October I, 1978, Sister Aurora Avelar and Sister Mary Luongo celebrated their 50th anniversary as Sisters of St. Dorothy. The lines and shadows of the 50 years of this commitment have etched a magnificent picture of smiling faces, faith and hope. 路Besides teaching at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in New Bedford, these Sisters visit senior citizens, the sick the troubled, assisting the parish

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Interregnum Laws Again Govern Church

By John Maher

VATICAN CI1Y (NC) - With Pope John Paul's sudden death Sept. 28, for the second time in two months the Catholic Church faces an interregnum.

The period of transition from the reign of one pope to that of his successor is a time in which decisions are made that will affect the lives of millions.

The principal actors in the transition play roles defined during the nearly 2,000 years in which 262 men have followed each other as successors of Peter, the chief of the apostles.

These roles in the interregnum, or period when the Apostolic See is vacant, have been defined as they are today in part to avoid recurrences of the 40 times when two or more men claimed simultaneously to be the validly elected successor of Peter.

When Pope John Paul I died unexpectedly, the laws for the interregnum established by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI, automatically went into effect. Had John Paul lived longer, he might have changed some of the transition laws, as each of his three predecessors had.

Pope Paul's rules for the interregnum and the election of a new pope were issued on Oct. 1, 1975, in the apostolic constitution "Romano Pontifici Eligendo" ("On Electing the Roman Pontiff").

During the vacancy, the College of Cardinals governs through daily general and particular congregations. The first general "<ongregation was held last Saturday.

Major decisions are taken by majority vote of general congregations, which consist of all the members of the College of Cardinals, unless they are legitimately prevented from attend-

ing. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, 85, the subdean, Cardinal 'Paolo Marella, 83, or the senior cardinal preseides over general congregations.

Daily decisions of a routine nature are left to particular congregations. The cardinal camerlengo or chamberlain, Cardinal Jean Villot, 72, secretary of state under Popes Paul and John Paul, heads these congregations and is joined by three other cardinals chosen by lot from those who have the right to elect the pope.

When Pope Paul died, his death was verified by electrocardiogram, and Cardinal Villot did not perform the traditional but now outdated ritual of striking his head three times with a silver hammer and calling out his name.

Cardinals in charge of Vatican congregations lose their positions with the death of the pope. Although the new pope is free to make new appointments to all these positions, Pope John Paul simply reappointed for the remainder of their normal terms all those in office under Pope Paul.

After the pope dies, cardinal electors who are Rome must wait 15 days before entering into the conclave. The College of Cardinals may delay entry beyond that time but must begin the conclave after 20 days have passed. The conclave that elected Pope John Paul started 19 days after Pope Paul's death.

Entering the last conclave were 11 of 114 eligible cardinals, including Pope John Paul, then cardinal patriarch of Venice.

With his death and that of Cardinal Valerian Gracias of Bomay, India, since the conclave, the number of cardinals now eligi-

ble to vote is 112.

There are three valid methods of election. The first is by unanimous acclamation expressed freely and aloud. The second, by delegation, occurs when every cardinal elector present agrees to choose a group of cardinals an uneven number from nine to 15 - to carry out the election according to agreed instructions.

The third and most usual method is by scrutiny or ballot, with two voting sessions every morning and afternoon until a candidate receives two-thirds of the votes plus one. Voting takes place in the Sistine Chapel.

In the past, ballot cards were burned after each voting sessio~ with wet straw to produce black smoke if there was no election, and without straw to produce white smoke when a new pope was elected. But in the conclave that elected Pope John Paul, two new elements were added. The votes were burned only at the end of each morning and evening session in the event of no election - after every second vote instead of after each vote - and chemicals for black or white smoke substituted for the traditional damp straw.

When a cardinal elector is elected pope, the cardinal dean, or the cardinal first in seniority, asks him if he accepts the election and what name he wishes to use. When Cardinal Luciani chose John Paul I, he was the first pope in history to choose a double name. If the one elected accepts and is already a bishop, he immediately has full and absolute jurisdiction over the whole church. If he is not a bishop, he is immediately ordained a bishop. The conclave is then over. Each cardinal elector then makes an act of homage and obedience to the new pope.

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By William Ryan They come from many walks of life but their common goal is to give witness to the love of Christ in the community in which they live and work. Their neighborhood storefront organization called Christian Help in Park Slope (CHIPS) provides services to both poor and wellto-do in the Prospect Park section of Brooklyn.

Inspired by and in many ways similar to the Catholic Worker movement, CHIPS is also differ ent. Unlike the Catholic Worker people who devote full time to soup kitchens and hospitality houses and usually shun involvement with. bureaucratic structures, most CHIPS members hold excellent jobs and are deeply involved in established society. Yet they help the poor.

"It is not easy," said one participant, "but through Christ we get the strength and help to do this, and the store has stayed open."

Ed Mohler, a co-founder, says one key to understanding CHIPS is to know the neighborhood in which it grew. Assistant professor of children's orthopedic surgery at Downstate Medical Center at King's County Hospital, Dr. Mohler is not the sort of man you expect to find running a soup kitchen in his spare time.

But Dr. Mohler is unusual, and Park Slope is an unusual neighborhood. There are about 75,000 people. Park Slope "is a beautiful mixture of humanity," Dr. Mohler says. "Within a fourblock area, you find super rich to destitute poor. It is a naturally integrated neighborhood that has seen many changes. It's heavily Italian and Spanish; .there are upper-middle-class, professional people, all kinds of people. Most of them are involved in the struggle to meet the urban challenge. We try to be open to that too."

"We found out we had the know-how to get things done, but always we felt that we should be doing more," Dr. Mohler says. CHIPS was born out of that determination.

"We searched to see what could be done. We visited various places, including the Catholic Worker, but their operation seemed rather big for what we had in mind," Dr. Mohler remembers. Then they saw a small soup kitchen in the Bronx and decided to do something similar in Park Slope. The entire group committed themselves to settling on the store site which became CHIPS. They fixed it up and financed it in April, 1973.

By Father Alfred McBride There have always been two approaches to those who are unjustly treated, a care for their immediate needs and a fight against the forces that create the injustice. The prophets of the Old Testament were well known for their courageous struggle against the social evils that produced misery among the disadvantaged.

The prophet Amos captured this sentiment when he thundered, " Woe to you, who are at ease in Zion, you who cause the hunger and sorrow of the poor" (Amos G,l).

The religious attitude toward injustice should be one, then, of suring the symptoms (corporal works of mercy) and curing the causes (social reform) of injustice. Two great women DOROTHY DAY of the church have in our time characterized and modeled these basic approaches. Mother Teresa of India has devoted herself to curing the symptoms of ing Mass, the beginning of a injustice. Her work and that of

By Father John J. CasteIot strange irresistable attraction her sisters among the poor of Dorothy Day is one of those for the church.

Calcutta and other parts of the rare Catholics who has be Her aimless travels took her' world has reawakened the Goscourage to take the Gospel to Europe, Chicago, New Or- pel call in sensitive hearts everyseriously and live according to leans, and finally to a cottage where about the need to care the Beatitudes. She has taken on Staten Island, where she en- right now for those without 'seriously the teachings and di- tered a common-law union with anyone to help them. rections of the social encyclicals Forster Battingham and, strangeDorothy Day of New York issued by Leo XIII and his suc- ly again, found herself praying symbolizes the other aspect of cessors down to our own day. and attending Sunday Mass. On the message, namely the ChrisThese teachings have guided March 3, 1927, her daughter, tian responsibility to cure the her life. She was born in 1897 Tamar, was born and she had causes of injustice. In 1932, the in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her father, a her baptized in June. She and third year of the depression, Scotch-Irish Calvinist, hailed Forster separated an<~ in De- when every' fifth American was from Tennessee; her mother, an cember she herself was baptized. unemployed, Dorothy Day and Episcopalian, came from Ma~'l颅 While covering the Washington Peter Maurin began the Cathboro, N.Y. When she was six, hunger marches for Common- olic Worker Movement. Through her sportswriter father took the weal and America, she went to its houses of hospitality, farmfamily to California, but after the Shrine of the Immaculate ing communes, discussion groups, the San Francisco earthquake, Conception and prayed for an study clubs and publications, they moved to Chicago, where answer. It came in the person members of the movement it took them a while to get on of Peter Maurin. spread the social doctrine of their feet.

Maurin is a legend all by him- the church and have saved A bright, serious high school self, but his spirit and ideas have countless lives from tragedy. student, she won a college dominated Dorothy's life. A Like Mother Teresa, Dorothy scholarship and spent two years French peasant immigrant, he Day does indeed take care of at the University of Illinois. For- was a devout Catholic, a mod- the symptoms of injustice, but mal education left her cold, but em Francis of Assisi. Completely she is dedicated to social reform she read voracious;ly and detached from material things, that would stop those injustices thoughtfully: all of Dostoevskj's he was notoriously uncaring from happening in the first works and stories of Gorki and about his personal appearance. place. She has spoken against Tolstoi. Her consuming interest Bursting with ideas, he was at those who would say that the in social problems led her 路~o a loss as to how to implement only solution to social probjoin the Socialist Club. Followthem. When George Shuster, lems is to be found in atheistic ing a not unfamiliar route, she editor of Commonweal, sent him radicalism. "Is it not possible," gave up religion and became ::n to Dorothy Day, a new era was said she, "to be radical without general a non-conformist. born. being atheistic? May we not Throughout her life, she has Since Dorothy's strong suit protest, expose, complain and never been content merp.ly ';0 was journalism, he suggested point out abuses and demand alliviate the poverty of the that she put on a paper to enunreforms without the overthrow underprivileged; she has shared ciate his principles and bring of religion?" it. Her work brought her into the teaching of the social enIn her work throughout 46 contact with all sorts of left- cyclicals to the masses. On May years of tireless effort, she has wing people, especially Mike Day, 1933, when 5,000 socialists lived to see her ideals assume Gold, later a steady contributor and communist gathered for a more and more acceptance. Few to the communist Daily Worker. rally in Union Square, she and people have done more to popuAfter an arrest and jail sentence three young men were on hand larize the teaching of the social in Washington for picketing the with the first issue of the Cath路 reform encyclicals of the popes White House with a group of olic Worker. and the programs for the resuffragists, she returned to New Wider distribution brought contruction of the social order York. Here, inexplicably, she encouragement and support, and by the church. found herself dropping in to St. the Catholic Worker Movement In our own time, this discusJoseph's Church for early morn路 began its long, fruitful march. sion revolves around what is

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called institutional injustice and systemic violence. The magnitude of political, financial, educational and communications institutions has accelerated the possibilities of injustice far beyond what now may seem a simple time in 1932.

The effect is felt in the United States by the racial and ethnic minority groups and in the Third World by the millions upon millions of people who have little recourse against systematic violence other than the moral force of Christian insight such as that of Dorothy Day - or an alliance with nations whose philosophies are totalarian and promise bread in tum for the loss of freedom. It is Dorothy Day's hope that Christians will rise up to cleanse the temples of the First World, those sources of injustice, so that the oppressed of the world may know the wonder and dignity of a self-fulfilling life.

In the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, (or pe~haps they in hers) Dorothy Day's militance is that of non-violence.

She prefers to use the guns and swords of the spirit. She stands :by the faith that produces a soul force far greater than the bombs of the powerful. In her opinion, "Right makes right." Her own work stands as the most eloquent tribute one could find to pay her. She has been there when we needed her.

EGO Trip

By Father Joseph M. Champlin Father Tom Scanlon has been teaching religion at Philadelphia's Cardinal Dougherty High School for many years.

On weekends, he assists in a parish, is the presenting priest at a Marriage Encounter or directs with others a new program for youth called EGO. EGO, an acronym for Encountering God in and with Others, is an attempt to apply Marriage Encounter principles and techniques to the needs of teenagers.

Two couples, a priest and six teen-agers form the presenting team on each weekend.

EGO adopts the four thrusts of a regular Marriage Encounter: the I, we, and God, and we, God and the world phases. A monthly follow-up program tries to solidify and deepen the personal growth realized from this intensive weekend.

Bob King, age IS, made an EGO, liked it and told his Marriage Encounter parents: "Now I understand better what you are doing. If we teens get the kids and you the adults, we can really change the world."

Pope John Paul's Last Days Were Busy

By John Muthig VATICAN CITY (NC) - The last two days in the life of Pope John Paul I were very full, even for the spiritual leader of 700 million Roman Catholics. Not everything that happened during those two busy days has yet been made public. But the principal activities included: Wednesday, Sept. 27: The pope rose as usual before dawn, shaved with his electric razor and offered Mass, with his two private secretaries and four housekeeping sisters assisting.

Due to the large number of people holding tickets for the weekly Wednesday audience, Vatican officials decided to hold one audience for the Germanspeaking in St. Peter's Basilica at 11 a.m. and another audience for the others at 11 :30 in the modern audience hall.

The meeting with many thousand German-speaking pilgrims and tourists marked the first time that Pope John Paul I had presided at any public ceremony within the huge basilica.

It was also the first time that he spoke publicly as pope in his !halting German. A week earlier at the 'general audience, he had confessed that he was very bad at speaking foreign languages and said he often made a fool of himself when speaking a foreign tongue in Venice. At the general audience in the Nervi Hall, the pope gave a four-page talk from memory in Italian. Then, again for the first time, he read a summary of his Italian talk in French, English and Spanish.

He entered and left the modern hall in the sedia gestatoria (portable throne). The pope had ordered the chairbearers to walk more slowly than they had in the past so that the crowds could see him better.

The audience in the modern hall was spirited. The pope's theme was charity, and to make a point about Christian love, he called a fifth-grader up from the crowd to answer questions.

The pope, who once said that he visited with 2,000 school students each week as patriarch of Venice, wasn't taken aback in the least when the student,

Daniele Bravo, gave a totally unexpected answer to his ques tions.

After the audience the pope met with' Melkite-Rite Patriarch Maximos V Hakim of Antioch and Archbishop Joseph Tanil, Melkite bishop of Newton, Mass., for 20 minutes.

Patriarch Maximos said that the pope was laughing and smiling "in a child-like way" throughout the audience.

The pope restated to the patriarch his desire that Lebanon remain a free country and place of dialogue between religions.

Not much is known of what happened Wednesday evening.

Thursday, Sept. 28: Pope John Paul began the work day with a series of private audiences. He received African Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, president of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission. together with several high officials of the commission.

The visits were part of a series of getting-to-know-you meetings between John Paul and heads of departments of the Roman Curia.

The pope met with the cardinal and the officials until about· 10:30 a.m.

He then received the papal nuncio to Brazil and the nuncio to the Netherlands. The nuncios gave the pope a running rundown on the situation in those nations.

That same morning the pontiff received Cardinal Julio Rosales of Cebu, the Philippines, and eight other Filipino bishops. He gave them a formal speech in English on the importance of working for social improvements without playing down the church's mission .to preach "higher goods."

After one more private audience that morning, the pope broke for lunch.

He started reviewing papers after lunch and signed his last official letter, a Latin letter to Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck, apostolic administrator of ErfurtMeiningen, East Germany, on the 700th anniversary of the construction of the Church of St. Severus at Erfurt.

At 7:30 p.m. Secretary of State

Cardinal Jean Villot went to the pope with normal business. The cardinal later said that the pope showed no signs of fatigue or ill health.

At 9 p.m. Pope John Paul spoke by phone with Cardinal Giovanni Colombo of Milan. "He spoke with me personally for a long time in a very normal voice," said the cardinal afterwards. "There was no sign of fatigue in it or of physical illness.

"He asked me as he said goodbye to pray for him. He was full of serenity," said Cardinal Colombo.

Just before 10 p.m. the pope's Venetian secretary, Father Diego Lorrenzi, told the pontiff that a young Roman communist, Ivo iini, had been shot dead as he read the party paper, L'Unita, on a street corner.

"Even the young are killing one another," the pope reportedly told his secretary.

With those thoughts the pope walked toward the large, austerely furnished papal bedroom on fourth floor of the palace.

He had chosen to sleep in Pope Paul's old bed - a white hospital-like metal bed.

The large wooden bed of Pope John XXUI still stood in the bedroom. Pope Paul never wanted to move it out and his successor had left the bed there, too.

Pope John Paul lit the light, went to bed and picked up his personal papers for the last time.

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The Pop,e Who Smiled

By John Muthig

cession of gondolas which had traditionally welcomed new patriarchs to Venice, so in 1978 he shelved the triple-crown papal tiara. .

He tried also to do away with the portable throne (sedia gestatoria). But his small stature

The outstanding moments of the pontificate, however, were John Paul's meetings with the common people.

At the audiences he told them stories about matrimony, family life and staying right with God. "Marriage," he once said laughingly, "is like a golden bird cage. Those on the outside are dying to get in, while those on the inside are dy.ing to get out."

In his three general audiences Pope John Paul gave four·page speeches on faith, hope and charity - speeches delivered from memory without the help of notes.

He told the Romans that the church of Rome would be a real Christian community only if it regarded the poor as its "real treasure."

The only change in Vatican foreign policy engineers by this pope was to make a statement that the "security of Israel" was a prime factor, along with the fate of the Palestinians and the city of Jerusalem, in any peace settlement in the Middle East.

The Vatican had not publicly alluded to Israel's security in previous Middle East comments.

The pope's folksy style carried over even to formal me~tings. .

On Sept. 21 Pope John Paul astonished 55 American bishops received in "ad limina" visit when he threw open the meeting to questions. Such official epuiscopal visits to the pope were much more formal under Pope Paul VI. The "poor little pope," could never keep his white papal skullcap in place. He always looked uncomfortable and stoopshouldered on the baroque or Renaissance thrones he occupied.

But the people 10veQ him.

parents followed their daughters' school schedules during a mini class day; and had the opportunity to meet faculty members.

Under a new advisor program, each Gerrard student has been assigned a faculty member ·as a personal advisor.

Sister Elizabeth McAuliffe, principal, and Ms. Marjorie Morin, discipline coordinator, recently attended a leadership workshop at Bishop Connolly High School.

gifts in various measures to various individuals," said a high Curia official. "That still holds today. It would be cheapening the Gospel to think that there are only one or two possible ways to be pope in 1978."

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Millions will remember Pope John Paul I as the pope who smiled at the world.

His 34-day pontificate, despite its brevity, brought a revolutionary new atmosphere to the Vatican - a relaxed, joyful parish atmosphere.

From the moment Pope John Paul first appeared on the imposing central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica Aug. 26, he disarmed the world's 732 million Catholics by speaking on a human scale of everyday things as no other modern pope has done.

Neither the huge crowds nor the blinding television lights nor battalions of reporters who tailed the- pontiff during his monthlong reign discouraged him from speaking simply, or from admitting "I don't know anything {about five feet five inches) ahout this job."

He ran the Vatican as a coun- made it impossible for the huge crowds to see him. try pastor would his parish.

With characteristic humility, Up with the farmers at 5 a.m., the pope spent a half hour medi- Pope John Paul began using the tating and reading his Liturgy throne again.

Whenever he appeared in pubof the Hours in the morning lic, his talks were always interquiet.

At his general audiences, he rupted by deep bass voices from . laughed, told stories and especi- the huge crowd yelling "Viva iI ally smiled. Twice he invited pap."

His beautiful smile whipped children up to the throne at the audience to "help out" in mak- up excitement in the crowds. ing a point on Christian living. He always left functions giving The pope, who ate like a can- his blessing and calling smilingary and grew up eating polenta ly to the crowd: "Be good, calm (corn bread grits), was mystified down."

Cardinals who live in Rome by the meals offered him in the Vatican. The day after his elec- were all amazed at the enortion Cardinal Jean Villot opened mous crowds that the pope's a bottle of precious Dom Perig- Sunday noon blessing attracted non champagne ir.: his honor, but . in his short reign. In previous about 15,000 the humble new pope did not pontificates, people usually attended the know what it was.

Pomp and circumstance were short rite if the day was sunny.

But John Paul I attracted the crosses of his life.

As he had in 1969 cancelled nearly 100,000 each week for the glorious triumpha"listic pro- his talk and hIessing.

Bishop Fe·ehan Next week, Sister Alice Fontaine will particpate in an educators' tour conducted by the U.S. Air Force at Kessler Air Force Base in Mississippi.

Spirit is mounting as the Atleboro school anticipates Saturday's game with Attleboro High.

Tomorrow there will be a rally, with the band, color guard, twirlers, cheerleaders, and the Spirit Club performing. Saturday evening there will be a student council sponsored dance in the cafeteria. <Recently a group of students accompanied by Mrs. Pamela Van Deusen attended "Man of La Mancha" in Boston.

Bishop G'errard Big Sister.,Little Sister Week is in progress at Bishop Gerrard High in Fall River, with the purpose of welcoming freshmen to the school community.

Tomorrow, a Life Educational Van will be at the school and students will view displays explaining fetal development and emphasizing the value of life.

At a recent parents' night,

Pope's Legacy

By John Muthig VATICAN CITY (NC) What legacy will the 34-day pontificate of Pope John Paul I leave to the 263rd successor of St. Peter?

Certainly it would be hard for the next pope to backtrack on certain stylistic changes made

by Pope John Paul.

On the other hand, it would be unrealistic and unevangelical, say some veteran Vatican observers, to expect the new pope to be a carbon copy of the pope with the broad smile.

"St. Paul told the Corinthians that the spirit gives a variety of

"I loved the style of Pope John Paul, but in a sense I'm convinced it was God's providence which gave him a short reign," said a U.S. priest who is a long-time Rome resident.

"Already grave problems requiring great experience and vast knowledge to solve were coming to the pontiff's attention. In his beautiful, Christ-like simplicity, would he have been able to handie them?" the priest wondered.

Hospitals Merge DETROIT (NC)-Two Detroit hospitals - one Protestant and one Catholic - with long traditions of service to Detroit's East Side have joined resources to become a single hospital organization. It marks the first time in the United States that Protestant and Catholic hospitals have con· solidated with Protestant involvement continuing.

PD Applications Continued from Page Five only for the good of the Church but also for the mutual support that deacon and priest must share within the framework of Holy Orders.

It should be recalled that the Diaconate was restored by the bishops. of the world during the days of Vatican II, anticipating the Church's growing need for the ministries of Sacrament, Word and Charity which at that time were principlilly shared only with bishops and priests.

The bishops of the council reflected on the office of the deacon, as exercised in the first few centuries of the Church and decided to restore the diaconate as an active and permanent ministry open to married and single men.

By ordination, the deacon shares a threefold scope of service with Bishop and priests.

Catholic tradition has recognized the sacramental nature of the diaconate as a sharing in the ministerial priesthood of Jesus Christ. The deacon, it must be stressed, enters into a special fraternal relationship with all ordained priests of the Universal Church.

In whatever service he performs, he must be recognized as one who shares in a proper and distinct way in the priesthood of Christ, as one who is a servant of Christ and His Church.

Because of this sharing of Orders, the Permanent Deacon is not to be considered a mere altar boy or glorified janitor.

In some situations many already participating in the Sacrament of Orders who have failed to understand or grasp the reality of the restored order of deacon,

Pontiff Died Quietly, Alon·e Continued from Page Two tered with gusto into small group debates.

When Venice's Cardinal Patriarch Giovanni Urbani died in 1969, Pope Paul chose Albino Luciani to be spiritual head of the canal city. .

At his own insistence the new patriarch entered his See without the triumphalistic procession of ornate boats and gondolas which had welcomed Venetian patriarchs for centuries.

'Patriarch Luciani's personal humility and concern for the poor were dominant characteristics of his nine years in Venice.

The patriarch urged his priests to sell unused gold and precious objects for the sake of the poor.

He shied away from galas offered by Venetian high society and would go only to charity affairs when the hostess insisted that his presence would prompt other high authorities to attend.

At such functions, the patriarch was often seen in a corner shyly sipping a drink.

Patriarch Luciani usually went to bed after watching the evening television news which finishes at about 8:45 p.m. in Italy.

He was llimost always up at 5 a.m. to begin the day with a

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could easily fall into this limited mentality.

It must be repeated time and time again that the permanent Symbols following film reviews indicate diaconate is a true and real both general and Catholic Film Office sharing in the Sacrament of ratings, which do not always coincide.

Orders. Those who have the General ratings: G-suitable for gen· faculties of active ministry must eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sugalways be aware of this fact, gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for lest they try to relegate the diachildren or younger teens. conate to some infereior state or Catholic ratings: Al-approved for feel, for their own selfish rea· children and adults; A2-approved for sons, that the order of deacon has little relevance to the ex- adults and adolescents; A3-approved for pression of ministry in their par- adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification ish. (given to films not morally offensive As attempts are made to continue building our diocesan dia- which, however, require some analysis conal community on solid and explanation); C-condemned. grounds of cooperation and "In Death on the Nile" (Paraunderstanding, it is more than gratifying to see how many par- mount) a beautiful but ill-tern· ish priests have shared their en- pered heiress (Lois Chiles) is thusiasm for this work that the murdered on a honeymoon Lord has begun. In such a spirit, cruise on the Nile. Attempting the hopes and ideals of the Vati- to solve the crime is Hercule can Fathers will truly be realized Poirot, Agatha Christie's famed by those who witness in Holy sleuth, played by Peter Ustinov.

Orders to the spirit of fraternal Suspects include Mia Farrow, charity that must be realized be- George Kennedy, ,Bette Davis, tween Bishop, P.riest and Dea- Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury and others who might have con. profited from the murder.

Reminder Photography, acting and plotThe office of the Permanent ting are good, although wounds Diaconate is now conducting and murder are too graphically pre-application interviews of portrayed for the very young. prospective candidates for its (PG, A3) second deacon class, which will "Warlords of Atlantis" (Colbegin studies for ordination umbjia) Two young scientists next September. This process (Doug McClure and Peter Gilfor the third class will not be more) are trapped in an underundertaken until September sea kingdom, where they meet 1981. Therefore, those presently beautiful Cyd Charisse. But she interested in the Permanent Dea- is not reason enough to see this con Program of the Diocese and dreadful movie, filled with papdesiring to discuss the possib- er-macher monsters, wooden ility of participation in this sec- dialogue and leaden comic relief. ond class should contact: (PG, A-2) Rev. John F. Moore, Director "A Wedding" (Fox). The cenPermanent Diaconate Program tral plot' has to do with the P.O. Box 7 bride's unmarried sister being Fall River, MA 02722 pregnant, allegedly by the groom.

The view of human nature is a little too jaundiced and the humor is often offensive - especially the treatment of the half hour of meditation and re- sister's pregnancy - as is a citation of the Liturgy of the gratuitous bit of nudity. (R,B) "Up In Smoke" (Paramount).

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A mindless comedy about two He maintained that schedule during his 33-day pontificate. California potheads (Cheech While in Venice, the patriarch Marin and Tommy Chong) in allowed himself only seven days search of marijuana to "inspire" a year of vacation. He almost Cheech's rock group. Their travalways took it at the Marian els lead to a stash in Tijuana sanctuary of Pietralba, a shrine and pursuit by bumbling narhe used to visit as a boy with cotics cop Stacey Keach. The jokes, when not witless cliches his mother.

While on vacation, the car- about the pleasures of the drug dinal often ate in a small local culture, depend heavily on the restaurant and sometimes play- titillating and the scatological. ed bocce (a lawn bowling game) (R,C) with local residents.

MoviC!S on TV After the death of Pope Paul, Sunday, Oct. 8, 9 p.rn. (ABC) his name rarely appeared high - "The GumbaJl Rally" (1976) on lists of papabili. To anyone - A mindless movie about a who mentioned that he might cross-country car race featuring be elected pope, Cardinal Lu- a cast of characters as indistingciani quoted a Venetian proverb: uishable as the cars they drive.

"You don't make gnocchi (an An inept combination of speed Italian pasta dish) out of this on the road and leering sex at dough." the pit-stops. (B) On the first day of balloting, Tuesday, Oct. 10,9 p.rn. (CBS) Cardinal Luciani was elected - Jacqueline Susann's "Once Is pope by his 110 fellow electors Not Enough" (1975) Kirk in one of the shortest conclaves Douglas stars as a washed-up in history. movie producer who marries a At the time of his death he rich woman (Alexis Smith) so was just beginning to settle he can continue providing his into the papal office after a daughter (Deborah, Raffin) with month of time-consuming and a luxurious lifestyle. When the solemn ceremonies of inaugura- daughter falls for a hard-drinking novelist (David Janssen) as tion.

old as he is, Daddy isn't too happy. As the title should make amply clear this trashy movie is about sex among the "beautifu" people. (B) Sunday, Oct. 8, "The Church in Latin America: A. Preview of puebla," 5-6 p.m. EDT (NBC) Protestants, Jews and Catholics around the world will be focusing attention on a crucial meeting of Latin American bishops beginning Oct. 12 in Puebla, Mexico. In this NBC television special, Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City, Panama, is joined by Maryknoll Missionary Sister Rosemary McCormack and Thomas Quigley, advisor on Latin American affairs to the U.S. Catholic Conference, in a discussion of the issues that make this third general assembly of the Latin American bishops of such international importance - issues that have put the church over the last decade on a collision course with repressive regimes as it has undertaken the protection of the poor, the defense of human rights and the struggle to change unjust social and political structures. Philip Scharper, editor of Orbis Books, serves as moderator of this usec presentation.

Carter's Mother At Funeral WASHINGTON (NC) - Mrs. Lillian Carter, the mother of President Jimmy Carter, headed the U.S. delegation to the funeral of Pope John Paul I. Vice President Walter Mondale, who met with Pope John Paul after his installation, was originally scheduled to head the delegation, but changed his plans because of heavy activity in the closing days of the current session of Congress.

Mondale issued a statement on the pope's death and then discussed the pope with reporters.

"He was a man of deep compassion," Mondale said, "He was terribly worried about the devastation in Lebanon.

"Indeed," Mondale said, "just minutes before we heard of his death we received a personal letter signed by His Holiness to President Carter expressing his congratulations on the s~ccess of Camp David. j

"It is saddening, shocking, indeed unbelievable that this remarkable personality should be taken from us ~o quickly."

Bishop's Night Three barbershop quartets will entertain at the annual Bishop's Night program of the Fall River Catholic Woman's Club, to be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at White's restaurant,Fall River, and to honor Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

To be heard are the Narragansett Bay Chorus, Three Rights and a Wrong and the Spindle City Two Plus Two.

THE ANCHORThurs., Oct. 5, 1978

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Did John Paul Have a Will?

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Vatican officials are unsure whether Pope John Paul II left a written last will and testament. ' In conversation with his secretary, Father Diego Lorrenzr, the pope recently said that his own testament "would not exceed a half page or 14 or 15 lines," said Vatican Radio.

Vatican officials suspected that the pope may have written at least a few notes for a last will and testament.

The papal apartment, however, is under sealed locks. It will not be reopened until a successor is elected.

Pope John Paul owned practically nothing.

When he arrived as bishop in Vittorio Veneto, Pope John Paul declared: "I have arrived here without five centesimi in my pocket and I want to 'leave here without five centesimi."

The "cenesimo" (centesimi is the plural of centesimo) is the smallest unit of Italian currency and is so valueless that it has been withdrawn from circulation.

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FIVE HOUR VIGIL, OUR LADY OF GRACE, WESTPORT A five-hour First Friday vigil of reparation to the Sacred Hearts will be held from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. tomorrow at Our Lady of Grace Church, Westport. The program will begin and end with Mass and will include the rosary and a holy hour. There will be a coffee break at 10 p.m.

All are invited to participate in all or any part of the vigil.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, FALL RIVER The club will hold its annual Bishop's Night at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 at White's restaurant, North Westport, with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as guest of honor.

S1r. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The rosary will be recited before each weekday Mass during Oetober and will be prayed OJ: Sundays at 8:40 a.m. in Polish ar.:d at 5:30 p.m. in English.

Nearly 200 parishioners are studying the Gospel of John at wl~ekly sessions from 8 to 9:30 p.::n. Thursdays in the school hall. All are invited to join the group.

The Women's Guild is sponsoring a shopping and theatre bus trip to New York City Saturday, Nov. 4. Reservations may be made with Nell Gromada, telephone 672-5464.

Youth ministry advisors and young people will 'spend the Columbus Day weekend on a "putting-things-together" retreat in Gloucester.

OUR LADY OF THE CAPE, BREWSTER The Women's Guild will hold a covered-dish supper at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 in the church hall. A talk and slide

show will be given by the pastor, and guild moderator, Father Rene J. Gelinas, on his missionary work in the Philippines.

Guild officers are Ruth Hanlon, president; Peggy Lefebvre, vice-president; Evelyn McSheffrey, secretary; Charlotte O'Connor, treasurer. The unit operates a thrift shop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, NORTH EASTON The Women's Guild will present a lecture on flowering house plants and bottle terrariums by Mrs. Eleanor Kopp at 8 p.r.:1. Monday, Oct. 9 in the parish hall. A business session will follow. Guests are welcome and transportation may be arranged with Joan Miller or Rosemary Gouldrup.

BENEDICTINE OBLATES, FALL RIVER DIOClESE Oblates will hold a chapter meeting at 2:30 p.m. Saturday路at Portsmouth Abbey, Portsmouth, R.I., beginning with Mass and continuing with a conference, vespers and dinner. Reservations may be made at the abbey or with Mrs. Frank S. Moriarty, 672-1439.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Parishioners wishing to participate in Monday's candlelight procession honoring Our Lady of Fatima may make reservations with Mrs. Mary Thomas, 6740568.

Men interested in joining the Holy Name Society are asked to contact the rectory or Richard Maynard, 673-3145.

THIRD ORDER OF ST. DOMINC, ROSE HAWTHORNE HOME, FALL RIVER The Third Order of St. Dominic will hold its monthly meeting Friday, Oct. 13 at Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, Fall River, beginning at 7:30 p.m. with Mass celebrated by Father Giles Dimock, O.P. of Providence College, chapter director. Prospective new members not already affiliated with other Third Orders are invited. lHOLY TRINITY, WEST HARWICH The Ladies' Association will hold its first meeting of the season at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Hall auditorium. Jazz pianist Marie Marcus will entertain and the public is invited.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET The St. Vincent de Paul will sponsor a Mass for shut-ins and the disabled at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 21 at the Civil Defense Building on Riverside Avenue.

Those in need of transportation may contact the rectory or telephone 673-5623.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The spiritual life committee will sponsor a service at 11 a.m. .Saturday in honor of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

A family education program to be held one Sunday a month will begin Oct. 15 and consist of meetings by age groups, a whole group meeting and a liturgical service.

FIRST FRIDIANS, FALL RIVER Dr. Philip Silvia will speak at a supper meeting of the Fall River First Friday Club following 6 p.m. Mass tomorrow at Sacred Heart Church. His topic will be "The Notre Dame Incident," an account of an event in the history of Notre Dame Church, also Fall River. Dr. Silvia, a member of the faculty of Bridgewater State College, researched the matter in the cours,:~ of preparing a doctoral dissertation.

Others to be heard at subsequent club meetings include Fire Chief Louis A. Shea Jr. in November; Father William Cullen, SJ in December and Father Thomas Rita in January.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Team members are needed for the parish confirmation program.

Further information is' available from Mr. Cote, telephone 6780873.

An adult education committee is being formed and those interested are asked to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24 in the parish center.

A OCD open house will be held in the center from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22.

The Women's Guild will meet Monday, Nov. 6. The October meeting was cancelled due to the death of Pope John Paul.

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER Music of the St. Louis Jesuits will be heard at the 10 a.m. Sunday liturgy.

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