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World Synod opens

VATICAN CITY (NCr-As the and priests who Me members of . stressed the church's role in seeking "·reconciliation betwee:l sixth general assembly of the the synod. world Synod of Bishops got un­ Focusing on the synod's theme, men and societies . . . overcoJm­ derway, Pope John Paul II in a . "Reconciliation and Penance in ing the destructive powers of surprise move let it be known the Mission of the Church," P'lpe hostility, hate and the will to destroy." that he was willing to give the John Paul called it "a most ur­ In one of the first interven­ synod more power. gent theme" and one of the most tions in the synod itself on the fundamental ones facing the The pope was open to letting theme, Cardinal Carlo Martini church. the synod's decisions have bind­ of Milan, Italy, said the synod Citing Christ's call to "repent ing "juridical authority.... as well must probe the relation between and believe in the Gospel" he as moral force, Archbishop personal sin and moral evilc; in Jozef Tomko, general secretary said that for Christians the man­ society. date of conversion through the of the synod, announced Sept.

The cardinal said that the 29 at the first business session power of the' cross and the Gos­ synod's theme could be boiled pel's "saging word" is the central ,of the g~thering of more than point in "that eternal batt!e of down to three basic points: 200 Catholic bishops. "the relationship between sin good versus evil." and the tensions and divisions in Earlier that day the pope for­ The pope emphasized the sac­ mally opened the synod with rament of reconcHiation as a the contemporary world; the Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, '''particular responsibility" of the need for change of heart to effectively overcome them; the which he concelebrated with the church in helping people be rec­ cardinals, archbishops, bishops onciled with God. But he also Tum to Page Fifteen

Rosary can combat evil

FATHER'O'REIUY

Changes announced

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has announced a retirement and as­ signments and appointments af­ fecting 10 priests of the Fall River diocese.

Retiring as of Oct. 12 is Fa­ ther William H. O'Reilly, pastor of Immaculate Conception par­ ish, Taunton.

Father William P. Blottman, assistant at St. Mary parish, South Dartmouth, will become pastor of St. Rita parish, Ma­ rion.

Father Paul E. Canuel, assist­ ant at St. Jacques parish, Taun­ ton, will become pastor at St. Joseph parish, Attleboro: ,Father Colement E. Dufour, pastor at St. Michael parish, Ocean Grove, will become pas­ tor of St. George parish, West­ port. ,Father Roger J. Levesque, pastor of St. Joseph parish, At­ tleboro, will become pastor of St. Michael parish, O,cean Grove.

Father John J. Steakem, ad­ ministrator of St. Rita parish, Marion, will become pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton. ,Father Normand J. ,Boulet, as­ sistant at St. Anthony parish, New Bedford, will become assist­ ant at St. Jacques parish, Taun­ ton.

Father William F. O'Neill, as­ sistant' at Immaculate Concep­

tion parish, Taunton, will be­ come assistant at St. Mary par­ ish, South Dartmouth.

All assignments are effective Wednesday, Oct. 12..

Tribunal Appointments The bishop has also made three appointments to the dioce­ san marriage tribunal.

Father Armando Annunziato, pastor of St. Mary parish, Mans­ field, and ,Father John R. FoIster, pastor of St. Anne parish, Fall River, are named pro-synodal judges.

Father Lucio B. PhiHipino, pastor of Immaculate Concep­ tion parish, North Easton, is named a defender of the bond.

The appointments were effec­ tive Oct. 1.

Father O'RellIy Father O'Reilly, a native of Fall River, was born Jan. 21, 1910, the son of the late John F. and Ellen Perkins O'Reilly. HQ graduated from DiMC Durfee High School in Fall River and from Providence College, then entering St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, to prepare for the priesthood.

Ordained May 22, 1937 by the late ,Bishop James E. Cassidy, he served as an assistant at Nan­ tucket, Cape Cod, Fall RiveramI Taunton parishes before b~ing Turn to Page Two

VATICAN Cofi'Y (NCr-Reci­ tation of the rosary is needed to fight the "spirit of error and evil" in the world, said Pope John Paul II Oct. 2 at a Mass dedicated to Ma,ry.

Speaking to 100,000 peopt~ during an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square on World Maria:l

Day, the pope said the rosary had taken on a new. significan-:e during the Holy Year of Re­ demption.

"The rosary is full of greater purposes than in the past. It's not a matter of asking for great victories, Jike those at Lepanto and Vienna, but rather of ask·

ing Mary to make us brave com­ batants against the spirit of error and evil," the pope said.

The rosary, the pope added, is not "simple repetition."

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8th annual procession

Members of the Fall River diocese will l?articipate in the eighth annual Columbus Day candlelight procession and Mass for peace on Monday evening.

Gathering at St. Mary's Ca­ thedral, Fall River, at 5:30 p.m., they will proceed to Ken­ nedy Park, a distance of about a mile, carrying candles, reciting the rosary and singing Marian hymns in Portuguese, ·French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Eng­ lish.

At the park 'the Mass for peace will have as its principal concelebrant Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. U will be distinguished in this Holy, Year of Redemp­ tion by being an event at which the Holy Year indulgence may be gained.

Those unable to participate in the Mass and procession due to illness or age will be eligible to gain the Indulgence by uniting themselves spiritually with the diocesan celebration.

Holy communion will be dis­ tributed at the park Mass; and in view of the special nature of

the program, those who received . ria with altarbreads for each communion earlier In the day parish group. The ciboria should will he able to do so again.

Tum to Page Sixteen Sick people in wheel chairs, invalids, or disabled persons should proceed directly to the park where a special area will he set aside for them close to the altar. Other than in diffi­ cult cases, only one person should accompany each sick person.

Candles for the occasion will either be available at parishes or may be brought by partici­ pants.

Each parish group should be accompanied by a priest or lead­ er who will direct recitation of the rosary and singing of appro­ priate songs. Each group will sing and pray individually in the language of its choice.

All priests are invited to con­ celebrate, each providing his own alb and stole. Those 'lead­ ing groups In the procession may vest in the basement of St. Louis a special s~ction church as soon as the proces­ begins on page 3 sion arrives at the pMk. Priests are asked to bring labeled cibtl­

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FATHER BLO'ITMAN

FATHER DUFOUR

. FATHER CANUEL

::.FATHER LEVESQUE

Changes announced Continued from page one named administrator of St. Pete~'s Church, Dighton, in 1961.' In 1966 he was named to his present pastorate.

While serving at St Paul's parish, Taunton, Father O'Reilly was from 1942 to 1951 chaplain at Taunton State Hospital.

In 'retirement lie will reside at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. .

New Pastors :Father Blottman, a native of New: Rochelle, N.Y., was born April 7, 1934. He graduated from Attleboro High School and Holy Cross College and served in the Army: for two years before entering St. Philip Neri -School, Boston, and then St. John's seminary, Brighton, to prepare for the ptiesthood.

He was ordained Feb. 13, 1965, and subsequently served as an assi~ant at Holy Family parish, East Taunton; St. Mary, North, Attleboro; and St. Joseph, Fall River, before being assigned to St' l Mary, South oDartmouth.

While in North Attleboro, Father Blottman was assistant ar~a direct?r for the CYO. Father Canuel was born Dec. 15, 19!!O, in Fall River. He graduated •from St Michael School, Swansea, and Msgr. Prevost Hi~h School, Fall River, ;then at- \ tending Assumption College, . Worcester, before entering St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore.

Following ordination May 21,

1966, 'he served at iBlessed Sac­

rament and .Immaculate Concep­

tion pa.rishes, Fall River, St. P:1t­

rick's,: Wareham, and Our Lady

of MtJ Carmel, Seekonk, before

joining the St James Society to

serve :the Quechua Indians of

Peru. i

Returning from the missions,

he .was at St Stephen's pari';;l,

Attleboro for a brief period be- I

fore being assigned to St. Jacqu~s.

.His •diocesan service includes

New pastor

FATHER STEAKEM

FATHER. ANNUNZIATO

,Bishpp Cronin has accepted . the. resignation of Reverend Thomas Grannell, SS.CC., frl)m the' pastorate of St. Joseph's

Parish; ,Fairhaven.

In r~sponse to the presentation . made by.Very Reverend William Heffron, SS.ce., Provincial, Bishop' Cronin has appointed Reverend Columban Crotty, SS.CC.\ to serve as pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Fairhaven, effective Oct. 1.

Fath.er Crotty, who has been ordained for 25 years; holds the Licentiate in Canon Law from Catholic University. He is pres­ ently ;Vicar Provincial of the Eastern Province of ,sacred

Hearts-Fathers. He has been on

the. Japanese mission, served in

Rome and .engaged in vocation work :for the Sac·red Hearts community.

Appointment FATHER FOLSTER

FATHER PHILLIPINO

Bishop Cronin has appointed

Father 'Joseph A. Martineau as

chaplai~ for the Knights o'f Co­

lumbus; Fall River Council No.

86, effective Oct. 3. I

a term on the Priest's Senat~, now known as the Priests' Council.

Father Dufour was :born June 12, 1929 and was baptized at St Mathieu's Church, FaN River.

He attended St. Mathieu's School, Msgr. Prevost High.

School and Assumption College before entering St. John's Sem­ inary, Brighton. .

- He was ordained Feb. 1, 1958, then served hriefly atSt Mi­ chael's parish, Swansea, before being transferred to St. The­ resa's, New_ Bedford, where he remained nine years. Ten years of service at St. Anthony's, alsll in New, Bedford, followed. In 1977 he.was named to his present post. .

Father Levesque, also a Fall River native, was born Jan. 12, 1934. He attended Notre Dame

grammar school, Prevost High School and Assumption College

before preparing for the priest­ hood at the Grand Seminaire of Montreal.

Ordained April 25, 1959, he served in New Bedford, Attle­ boro and Fall River parishes ')e­ fore being named administrator' of St. Elizabeth's parish, Edgar­ town. He serVed there for four years before his appointm~nt as pastor of St Joseph's, Attleboro.

He has been assistant chap­ lain for New Bedford area Boy

Scouts and in 1970 served as

diocesan. director of Scouting.

Father Steakem, born in the Bronx, N.Y., attended grammar and high school there and in Pawtucket.

After attendIng Providence College he entered St, John's ~eminary, Brighton, and was ordained Jan. 30, 1960.

'From 1960 to 1969 he was as­ sistant at Immaculate Concep­ tion parish, North Easton, then serving at St. Kilian's, New Bed­ ford, and St. Julie's, North Dart­ mouth. He was named adminis­ trator of St. Rita's in 1978.

Father Steakem was chaplain at Bishop Feehan High Schooi in 1963 and .1964 and was a faculty member of Bishop Stang High School thereafter. He was New Bedford area CCD co­ chairman and has also served on the diocesan personnel board.

Tribunal Members

Father Annunziato was born in Taunton Oct. 10, 1931. Or­ dained Dec. 16, 1956, he has been pastor of St. Mary's since 1981. Previously he was pastor of St. James Church, New Bed­ ford, and administrator of St. Bernard's Church, Assonet.

He has directed hoth St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, amI St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, and in 1958 was named a tribu­ nal advocate.

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OFFICIAL RETIREMENT 'Bishop <Cronin has' acceded to the request of Reverend William H. O'Reilly that he be relieved of the Pastorate of Immaculate Conception ,Parish in Taunton and enter into retirement. ,Father O'Reilly has tendered his ·resignation from the Pastorate. ·EffectiveWednesday,· October 12, 1983, Father O'Reilly will retire from the Pastorate of the Parish and move to the Catholic Memorial Home in ,Fall River.

ASSIGNMENTS Reverend William P. Blottman, from Assistant, St. Mllry's

Parish, South Dartmouth, to ,Pastor, St. Rita's Parish, Marion.

Reverend Paul E.' Canuel, from Assisant, St. Jacques Parish, 'raunton, to Pastor, St. Joseph's Parish, Attleboro. . Reverend Clement E. Dufour, from Pastor, St. Michael's Parish, Ocean Grove, to Pastor, St. George's Parish, Westport.

Reverend Rogert J. Levesque, from Pastor, St. Joseph's, Parish, Attleboro, to Pastor, St. Michael's Parish, Ocean Grove.

Reverend John J. Steakem,·from Administrator, St. Rita's Parish, Marion, to Pastor, Immaculate C~nception Parish, Taunton.

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Reverend Normand J. Boulet. from Assistant, St. Anthonys' Parish, New Bedford, to Assistant, St. Jacques Parish, Taunton.

Reverend William F. O'Neill, from Assistant, Immaculate Conception Parish, Taunton, to Assistant, St. Mary's Parish, So. Dartmouth.

All assignments effective Wednesday, October 12. 1983.

TRIBUNAL APPOINTMENTS Bishop Cronin has made the following appointments afecting the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River: -Reverend Armando Annunziato, Pastor of St. Mary's Parish in Mansfield, as a Pro-Synodal Judge. ......Reverend John R. FoIster, Pastor of St. ,Anne's Parish in Fall River, as a Pro-Synodal Judge.

-Reverend Lucio B. Phillipino, Pastor of Immaculate

Conception Parish in North Easton, as a Defender of the Bond.

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RESPECT LIFE IS WAY OF LIFE

Respect for life is a way of This mission is fulfilled not Residents and third..year stu­ The grant is the ,largest private life at St. Anne's Hospital, the only within the hospital walls dents at Tufts University Medi­ foundation gift the hospital has philosophy on which the hospi­ but in many community outreach cal School staff the ward on a ever received. tal was founded and according programs such as Family Begin­ 24-hour basis and total parent C~mmenting on it, Leila At­ to which it continues to serve nings and the Fall River Child ' involvement is encouraged and wood of Fall River, a neice of nurtured. the greater Fall River commun­ Protection CounCil. the deceased benefactors and a ity. ' Foundation Grant foundation trustee, stated, "We Now in its second year, Pro­ That philosophy underlies ject HELP (Hospital Emergency One of the fastest growing , are interested in the new center Catholic health care in general Lifeline Program) aids the at­ hospital departments is that of and pleased to be able to sup­ and embraces a holistic recogni­ risk and frail elderly to main­ oncology. St. Anne's is embark­ port it especially because it will tion that· the total well-being of tain an independent lifestyle ing on construction of an On­ be a facility which will provide an individual embraces his or while ensuring their safety and c:ology/Radiation Therapy Cen­ care to all people throughout her body,< mind and soul. At St. well-being through installation ter that will 'house one of the Greater Fall River. As a regional Anne's~ this understanding is of a home electronic communica­ most sophisticated community center, it will be available to and manifested in every phase of pa­ tion system providing constant hospital cancer treatment pro­ used by patients from through­ tient care, community service contact with the hospital' emer­ grams in the country. The new out the Greater Fall River/New and interpersonal employee re­ gency room. Because of HELP facility will allow Greater Fall Bedford area including Charlton lations. some participants have been able River residents to receive the Memorial Hospital and St. to avoid nursing home place­ best in chemotherapy and radia­ Luke's Hospital."

Caring, in fact, is St. Anne's ment, while others already in tion therapy without traveling In making the grant to St. constant trademark. It is high­ Anne's, trustees noted the foun­ lighted during the' Respect Life ,such facilities, have returned to to Providence or Boston. month of October, when time is their own homes.

The project recently received dation's longstanding interest in St. Anne's Hospital is a region­ a tremendous boost when the the fight against cancer. Trust taken to express gratitude to those who make the hospital al center for optimum pediatric Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donald­ vice-chairman Wilson Curtis of possible and to reflect upon St. and oncology care. The child­ son Charitable Trust, a private Swansea pointed out the impor­ Anne's sacred mission of caring ren's ward implements an inno­ foundation operating under the tance of the Fall River project for the whole person, in sickness vative treatment method involv­ trust laws of New York state, in serving an area of high can­ cer'incidence. ing nurse, physican, and parent. contributed $225,000 to it. and in health.

"It is, -he added, "an excellent complement to the trust's tradi­ tional research support in the cancer field."

In response to the gift, St. Anne's executive director, Alan D. Knight, said that' the grant "has given tremendous initiative to our program. It's a strong endorsement of the Oncology I Radiation Therapy Center which will be an extremely valuable addition to the area. q'he grant provides a big boost to our cam­ paign to raise $1 million to help make the Center possible."

Curtis, commenting on the shared use of facilities by area hospitals and charitable organ­ izations, noted that such com­ munity spirit !has prompted many other Donaldson Charitable Trust gifts to local agencies.

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LIFE!

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Respecting All Life It is unfortunate that there is confusion developing in

the ranks of those who claim to be pro-life. It is discon­ certing to note that many people are developing a buffet mentality when it comes to the very important area of respecting life.

The idea that one can pick and choose life issues is more than revolting: But there are those who are deeply committed to one life-centered effort and at the same time violently at odds with others. '-­ \

Examples of such selectivity abound. Some expend all their energies on the effort to re~oke pro-abortion legislation yet vociferously oppose the bis,hops' pastoral letter on peace.

Many would travel to the ends of the earth to save a whale but at the same time do not hesitate to advocate legalized abortion.

Others are so involved in so many causes they overlook the problems of the aged and the abused child.

Many people concerned with the quality of life and the environment feel that the only way to control human populations is via the policies of Planned Parenthood.'

So many contradictions are developing in the area -of life concerns that there is emerging a grave danger to all life. If one is for life one should be for all life~ It must be made evident that one cannot involve oneself only in life causes which ,are popular and the thing to do. There are . many unpopular aspects of life legislation that should be addressed if one is to be logical and consistent~ It makes little sense. for instance, to support the rights of the unborn while at the same time advocating the execution of every criminal on death row. ­ . Those caught up in the right to' life movement must at the same time support, those with respect life concerns. At the same time, respect life supporters should champion the rights of the unborn.

The month of October is dedicated to life issues under the heading of Respect Life. It should be a time for all who have care and concern for life to consolidate forces and ideas, to form a unified front, to put aside personal priorities in favor of the general welfare of all life.

The horrendous legai intrusion into the sacred as clearly. evidenced in many decisions of the Supreme Court is a real­ thr~at to life. The law is supposedly the instrument whereby the innocent are protected, the helpless defended and the' abusers healed. . It should not become an instrument of terror, threat and intimidation. Yet it has become just that for life in its most defenseless stage. .

- This month is a time .for all who. believe in Divine Law to rededicate their energies and efforts to activity in favor of all life.' It is. a 'time when division iiI the right to life movement should -be eradicated. In the face of today's life-threatenin-gforces, if our house is divided against itself it ~ not merely fall, but be l.egally destroyed.

If we respect all life, we will not permit this to happen.

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ADELE' LOMBARD, 7 MONTHS, WON OVER ALL COMERS AT A NEW J,ERSEY BABY CONTEST

'Truly: you have formed my inmost being; you knit m~ in my mother's womb. giv~ y.ou thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made; wonderful are yqur works.' Ps. 138: 13-14 . "

Seniors gift, challenge

Americans - and presumably 25 percent that are Catholic ­ are living longer, thus' present-, ing a gift and a challenge for civil and religious society, ac­ cording i to Msgr. Charles J. Fahey. Msgr. F.ahey, director cf the Third Age Center at Ford­ ham Universjty in New York, writes i~ the 1983 Respect Life Program manual that "it is ap­ propriate to 'suggest that the Church 'affects and is effected by a grqwing older population." , At the time of Christ, he note'>, "only on~ person in 10 could ex­ pect to Hve to the age of 50" while "~e majority of persons bprn in the United States today can anticipate living well into their 80~. That\js a significant change even since the tum of this century when only half the - persons born lived to their 50th year." ,

Delegates to the 1971 White House ~onference on Aging acknowl~ged that "spiritual well-being" was just as impor­ tant to ,the elderly as health care, housing and food, ,the au­ thor says,and a similar stance was taken last year. by the United Nations General Assem­ bly when aCting upon recom­ mendations of the World As­ sembly oJ;lAging in Vienna. The Church's challenge for older adu'1ts is i the same as it is for aU Catholics, lMsgr. Fahey writes, and that is "to direct,

enrich and support the spiritual movement of God's spirit, fo, this, is the essence of spirituality. lives of its members." The el­ derly, he adds, "have enonnOU!l The Lord communicates to men and women in the Third Age res~urces of holiness and grace to share' with the entire peopll~ of their lives, as he does to all of us, through a tangle of of God." The Church is challenged thoughts and emotions. Prayer especiaUy at the parish level to can help unweave this tangle.

The Church can school old('r bring its theological and pas­ toral resources to bear on the persons immeasurably in thio; spiritual dimension of aging. One regard, Msgr. Fahey says. way of doing this is through prayer, he writes. ",If 'by prayer we mean 'talk­ ing to God and God to us,' then thoughts' and emotions; moni­ tored by others, bec<?me poten­ October 10 tial recepticles of gr:ace. . . .

Thoughts and emotions peculiar Rev. James C. J. Ryan, A'ssist­ to the elderly are often - occa­ ant, 1918, Immaculate Concep­ sioned by changing roles and tion, North Easton role loss resulting from retire­ October 11 ment, the departure of' grown children from the home, the Rev. James A. Downey, Pas­ death or illness of a spouse, or tor, 1952, Holy Ghost, Attleboro one's own crisis of. limitations.

October 14 The older person is then forced Rev. Msgr. Edward B. Booth, to re-examine the meaning of Pastor Emeritus, 1972, St. ~ary, Hfeand .mortality, of interper­ sonal relationships, as well as No. Attleboro his or her sources of identity Rev. Dennis M. Lowney, and self-esteem.

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'''Many young mothers who rate supporters of apartheid !lna in order to be wanted a child The followJng 'article by Fath­ er James T. Burtchaell, CSC, partisans of racial equality, who must have been planned, nor had every desire to get pregnant, might both proclaim that no un­ . even her assertion that 800,000 . with great expectations that the professor Qf theology at the Uni­ versity of Notre Dame, appears wanted blacks should, exist in unwanted children are born here baby would resolve one of their South Africa, but who would each ye~r(a statistic which she many problems, find themselves in "Respect Life," a manual an­ nually published by the National have devastatingly different contrive<I for the occasion), that even worse off thap 'before. Their Conference of Catholic Bishops' dreams of how that might be snagged;, my attention: It was baby does not - or is not able her argument that exterinination to meet these needs." ' achieved.

Committee for, ·Pro-Life Activi­ of the unloved would somehow lHelfer's colleague, C. Henry ties, which has granted permis­ The public wisdom in ~eri­ eliminat~ hostility towards ,chU­ 'who coined the term Kempe, 'Sion for its use. ca, I learned from Time maga­ "the battered child syndrome," Curiosity. recently drew me on zine, was· that "without legal dren in our land. observes: "Basic in the abuser's a journey of five year's duration, and affordable abortion, many Battered CbUdren

attitude towards infants is the during which I studied abortion lives in progress are hopelessly Still, kll this dogmatic assur­

and infanticide. After some de­ ruined; the unwanted children ance that unwanted children were conviction, largely unconscious, that children exist in order to cades as an invited guest in very often grow up unloved, at .risk Pf mistreatment led me satisfy parental' needs." other people's consciences' I had battered, conscienceless, trapped to the literature on child abuse.

considered myself beyond .sur­ Quite contrary to the claims and criminal." This was rein­ Here a ~urprise awaited me. Dr.

prise. This research project, how­ of those defending abortion, par­ forced by a spokesman for Am­ E. F. Lenoski, then of the Uni­ ever, would surprise me. 'ents likely to abuse their child­ ericans United for Separation of Deep within the movement for Church and State: "It is a low versityof Southern California ren are unlikely to consider abor­ Medical, School, had" published abortion freedom lies the con­ form of cruelty to insist ruthless­ re/search' findings that battered tion. Aborting parents may not viction that no unwanted child ,lyon bringing into the world a or a.bus~d children were much desire their children, but abus­ should ever be born. ing parents do desire them, child for whom there is no wel­ I was of the same mind,but come . . ." The same message more likely than normal children though in a pathetic way. to issue: from desiredpregnan­ aware that the words held a came from Betty Benjamin, presi­ If the two groups of parents' different wisdom for me than dent of the Minnesota Abortion cles. They were more likely to have a~ytliing' in common, ac­ to'" be of legitimate birth, and I .• they do for pro-choice partisans. Rights Council: "Among the cording to another child abuse Every child, I believed, has a 800,000 unplanned, unwanted have mothers who displayed sat­ expert, Brandt Steele, it is "the isfaction with their pregnancies.

claim on our love: not only our 'children born every year in the assumption that the rights, de­ own children, but those whose U.8'., many become loved and Here was a suggestion that sires, and ideas of the adult take wer~, in some

abused children families cannot or will not re­ wanted. Unfortunately, many grotesque way, wanted children. full precedence over those of the ,ceive them. others end up as battered child­ Ray HeIfer, a leadIng authority child, and ~that children are es­ Here were people' who be­ ren, delinquents and criminals. in the f~eld, has explained that sentially the pr~perty of parents lieved that if a mother had no Studies of battered children re­ abusive parents'were often them­ who have the right to deal with welcome for her offspring, her veal a high percentage of unmar­ selves the victims of estrange­ their offspring as they see fit, child would 'be better off if ried and unwanted pregnancy, ment and abuse as children, and without interference." eliminated before birth. We or forced marriage among the crave a child as a person whom

Abortion and abuse stood to­ stood far divided. abusive parents." they cart cherish and in whom gether, I found, not at odds.

The same distance would sepa­ It was not her implication that they can find satisfaction.

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that children were chattels of their parents, to be disposed of in conformity with their parents' interests. This was, for me, a new and provocative insight.

InfantIcide Next I was caught up short by a view .;.... common enough today but strange to me - that .infanticide, even if wrong, is not very -wrong, because its victim -is so insignificant. I had been raised to think that cnmes were more savage and detestable when their victims ~ere weak or un­ defended or of low account. . . .

But to my astonishment here were distinguished scholars, like , ethicist Charles Hartshorne, ar­ guingthat killing infants is only mildly objectionable because they are not yet our eqltals.

To do away with the unborn is still 'less troubling, since they stand still· farther from our grown status. The same for the hopelessly senile or o~ers who have no claim to "the respe~t due to normal human beings.".

Glanville Williams, a Cam­ bridge law professor who was very influential in the abortion movement in both his country and ours, agrees with this pers­ pective: "Infanticide appears to our generation to be a crime less heinous than ordinary mur­ der . . • "The victim's mind is Tum to Page Fourteen

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1979. of silver and galdenwedding an- . with~ mo,tIt ~l""~ SO Operating since 1981 from a niversarles. " • years of marriage aM a feW 60" Spacious building ad)·oiDing' BishThe tatter eVAnt took place or more years. Every ~ of y , OJ) Stang H~ SChool. North last Sunday at St. MarY's Ca- the diocese was repreleDted with 4'1 parishes sending couples.

'Deaeott and Mrs. teo ~( , St. J~b PBJ¥h. ~$W ~ and Mr; and- ~n. 'AlthurPlres, St. Marys Cathedral 'were be~ 'iit gifts. Mr. '~LMn. WUlliUn Giblin ~ ,., ~ P~c;k'. parish, Wareham, 'were IectorS~ AU were marking silver 8fti1iversaries. ~r FaDlUy MiDistry ilet&i'ties include an evening program for confirmation candidates and ,~-,~. , <~ ~ <lther yOuth groups; Teens En-, • '. counter Christ and Engaged and .'

Marriage Encounter weekends, .... well oth· ~, er mam~ ~.... ration options; and ministry to • Lifeline/Drug Dependency Clinic divorced' and separated Cath• Social services oo~.

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The Catholic Deaf Apostolate, one of the most active diocesan tion. for young couples, sessions service agencies, is headquarter,f9rfamiltes'andan at-henne eel at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall ,*eekly Family Night program River, aftd is directed by Father Family ministry personnel are Joseph Viveiros and Sister Kath/' av~e. t-oparishes for talks. leen Mgrphy. OP. andUliD settiltg up programs; Father Viveiros, also~te' , "aD.d. Jnst:iuctor coURIes in _the pa~ at St. Anlhony of Padua , .' ~ N~ Family, PIanaing parish, FallR1ver. has been with , ,~ are willing to· meet ~th tbe Deaf Apostotate siftce 1976. ~" through arrangepaent '-Members are organiZed into with the Family ~ ~ . ChaPtet: 91 oftbe InternatiOnal 'Catholic Deaf Association. Its telephone 999-6430. " initials, !CJ)A, atsostand tor the ~1·1i' -organIzation'Slnotto.,"In Christ

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Modern technology ~ _ ' to the aid of the deaf by way of .~ teletypewriter telephones with which· messages can be from one phone to another. Thcf Deaf Apostolates has an ongom& program of 'placing these phoneS inJUembers' homes. ': A recent higblig'ht of late activities was a first-evei first communion Mass for hancIh eapped children of' crysta( Springs SChool, Assonet. ~, ',apostolate hopes to make tb8' moving event an annual occur.. rence.

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Many meQ1ebers' ~~. dioceSe were in attencfaJ;lc::e. .

The objectives of ~<Councit are to unite catholic 011J8niza~' tiohs of women. f.npurpoie, ~; ~OD and ~,:~.;;~ sooii1l, educational and Charitable, endeavoq: ~,furtIlerspinF ual and material' undertakings, w.hk:b ~ay be. terommencJed to u.,~ Di~n Council by ~ and work as a part 0{ ~ ~ Council of Catholic' W~~lDthe interests of the Na~ Catholic Welfare eon. ference.

There are five Disticts: District 1 - FaD River; District 2 .. ' New Bedford; District 3 - Ta~ , toD; DistriCt .. • Attleboro; and: District'5 - Cape and 'I1le Bix diocesan COJDtftf8sions,'

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Sister Katheleen, ~so a memher oLtbe social 8errice depart-' ment at st. Anne's Hospital, provides direct service to beariJlg impaired patienbi· by assisting are qurdl?~UIlitiie$., Famthem in encounters Wtib heaith Ily AffaiDolDtetJ)ational Affain" persennel aRd indIrept setvice by Community, Affairs, ~;,: educating sud1 penoonel to rec- tron and 5ervices, and I4isIa' ognize and meet the needs of tive.

Two 'National ~tidns" the deaf.

She is also on eanas an inter- are affiliated: Daughters ~ Isa- . preter to poUc:e,' firemen and bella and Ladies AuiUiary, ' lawyers in 'It1Jatloae involving AOH. The Fall tUver ; Diocesan, deatpersons oct as II sideDDe is"' has taught sign' 1aJ)guage to Council of' Catholic ..several members Of her Domini- 'a member of the Boston 'Prov- . can community. sign' Jan8uage in(:e with the DioceSan -councns' lessons are also offered regular- of Maine, New Hampshire and" ly to all comers in New Bedford Vermont.

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encouraging couples to..examtne themselves and their relationtates through the five districts, ship, thew - identity ~, married ~ . a cli8triet bas a diocesan people; theJr ~ttonshrP to' the lrisident' 10 years. wor~ ~,live m:;, and J;he ,JIf,ilCe ~t . Rev.erend Daniel A. G04t haS in lbeir mUriage. ' ~Din ~ 'Bish,qp ,.Con,The j)tOgram is ~On the ~9PY as. honorary ppcw presJ. bellef that feeUngsare very imdqt. Mrs. W., Harry Manning' portant ,in hum.relatiouship.s :w~ the firstp~ent and the and :~ustbe exptessedre~y late ~. J. Joseph. Sullivan the be.tw1!en busband and 'wife. first .~tor.., .

For Catholics the Enc:ounter . Now serving the 22,000 meQ1- weekend .COD8istil of a serieS of ~ of theDCCW are Mrs. o..vid presentati~ ,~ven' by' t,bl:ee ~Yer. ~dent; Mrs. AuCathoiic, coUples JDd, a priest, brey ~ first vie:e-presi- who' share their personal ~­ dent; ~ Dorothy cUiiy. sec- ences. in. ~erstanding and livvite-PJ:eSident; Miss Mar- ' fDj oUt their vocations. galet McCarthy, third. vice-presiThe. experieDce is esselltially dent;' Mrs. JOluJ ~tt,. fourth private fer each couple~ attendvice-president; Mrs. -Edmund ing, a,lthgugh many as 2O"or 30 other' coupleS may be sharing ~" fifth vi~ent.

- ' Miss Mary ElizaQetb LaRoche, the weekend.

M:ording secretary; Mrs. Hany Throughout ~ Fall ''River B. ~,corresponding secre- diocese Marriage Encounter intary; Miss Claire O'Toole. treas- formation nights are regularly' UlW. scheduled ancl,~lJl par~ ish bulletins. Alternately" further' informatioll qn the 'program c' is available ftom", the diocese , _Acti~e tbrouatKAat tile 'll'aH OffiCe of Fam8yt,Mmiatry, tel.

999-6420. ' " ~ diocese, thE! Knights of COlumbus is a Catholic fraternal tamny service organization and the funds teceiv~ throU~, various activities enable the !J'be" charismatic Renewal is order to engage' in important active in· the F~ River dioce~ philatltbropic viark. Locally, the with prayer groups in oPeratio~ generosity and' sacrifices of in- in every area. The diocesan 'dividual members in their liaison tor the renewld is Fatber cils accouilt for a great variety Robert'S. KaSiynsId," pastor of «. dHUitable works. . ,'..en ~'tbe 10000'iiid ' . e St. Stanslaus ~, Fan Riyer.

NationaDy" the InOvebaent '1e9'iJs 'these aeu 'of \,~ •. '.rtectiOn ()f a, basic meaSltre originated with a h8ndful of Duquesne University 'Students of. 'a civilization - namely. bow and faculty members in the 1966much a society does for those 67 acadenuc ~ and spread Jeut. able', to help tIleJnsel1Yes. 1be Knights were founded in from there tp NOtre, Dante, 1882 by Father Michael J; Mc- Mi~gan State University, the Givney. a New Haven parish University of Michigan and to . priest. 'I1le order came into an other campuses and cities throughout the country.

America not always friendly to Aecording to a Gallup poll re· Catholics, so unity became esported in the Feb; 22, 1980, issential to survivid. sue of Cbristianity'Today, 18 per The o&lig8tion of cbarity adopted as central to the teach· cent of adult Catholi~ in the U.S. - nearly 6 million - coninP of Jesus, and the ideal terni'ty encompassed the mean- sidered themselves charismatic.

The movement is also strong in ing of the C1Irist!aIl family.

Canada and is active in at least The .truIf intemational.' frame 75 other countries, involving ~ the order is reflected in the more th~ 300,000 participants. fundamental . of patriotism, Scriptural keys to the renewal . wherein Knights reflect a love of are: / the symbols _and substance of Christ's promise to send the their OWn country.

Holy Spirit upon the Apostles; the description. in the Acts of the Apostles, of the effects of , Now 35 countries tile coming of the Holy Spirit with its propam' of Mmding upon the Apostles on PeJttecost; St. Paul's explanation, in the good marriages great," the Marriage Encounter movement' fo- Letter ~ the Romans. of the . . . on contemporary marriage, c~arismatic gifts (for the good ~yeat term. ~ office -r0-

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Amo~ the mov.ent's strongest poJnP of emphasis aJe prayer, openneSs to the Holy Spirit, co~ty8lCperie~ and the sharing of spiritual gifts. ' The, ~ristic form of the renewal is the weekly prayer meeting, ,:a a-therilw, WJucb'· inclwles . periOclsof spontaneous prayer, singing, sharinc of ex~ence >'andtestUDony, fellowship an4 teaching.

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With'Father 'Peter N. Graziano ~tivedirector, the diocesan Department of' Social Ser~ vices has offices in Fd'River, Attleboro. New 8ecIford and Cape Cod. It is the central.' orpnization in the diocese of Fall River for receiving and conveyiDg input and outreach into the pastonal reabn of social service, soclQl advocacy and various ,apostolates. It is the cIrurch's priJlcfpal agency to which the following caft relate: diocesan departments. parishes, iMtitutions, and either Catholic, groups. aU church f)'Mgrams of social service, ~al advocacy and special apostolates, all. non-catholic organizations and agencies' in allied fields,

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Current regulations for the Society spread ,rapidly to many countries. The originAl Amer- diaconate state that qualified un. Continued from Page Nine ican foundation waS established married men age 25 and older fUnctions as a .convenGr in order in.1845 at St. Louis. )be or- are eligible for admission. They ganization is eurrently function- . may not marry after otdinittiOn. to faciHtate coD1DlUJlieai.lons Qualified m8nied men age 35 ing- in 112 countries, carrying on among diocesan groups. its person-to-'person aposto!ate and older may be ordained with The departnlent seeks awaretbrougheSOO.OOO- active laYPer- the consent of their wives. ness of the. presence of Christ After a four-year' formation sons organized into' 50,000 DUwithin the Church's social inisClear groops, mostot which are period, permanent deacons work ston and a heaIthyinterchange in parishes' and in other minisPariSIl-eentered. . of ideas and communication. tries under direction of the bishIt is an ed~c;ative foree and . Projects typiCallY'financed atid spokesman for the ebURSh's Ikloperated by VincenpaulCouo- op and .the priests with whom .claI mission in its relationship .clls include: the operation of they.re associated.

A deacon may administer. bapwith other diocesan departmerrts, StJJJ1Jrier camps for underprivi. tism, witness marriages,o'fieiate agencies, institutions, parishes leged youngsters;th~ organized at funerals, distribute commUnand with the non-Catholic COT:1visitation Of the aged. the hos-' ion ~ 'preach the Word of GOd. munity. pitali%ed, the imPrisoned and Active in nearly evf(U'Y c;lioce- the homeboUnd;-the sponsorship In furthering the church's missan parish, the St. Viac:ent de of employD1ent services; the sion of service he may deVelop Paul Society does.~.~y «'-its awardlni . of: scholatships to ministries to the sick, to the .6irtbright" active ~t . gOo4 .•. works secreUy~assistin~ needy .stUdents; the providing of aged, to prisonets, to students, ~ afoceSe. .'" a volunteer, non- .f8lQilies and individueJs Infbnlr entertainment'and IiftIl regu;ariy to the poor, aDd to newly arprofJt _ aDd . . nondenominational of need. But, it ~JIblkeiaead- or on special holidays to those rived imJirlgratiu. organization dedicated tobelping iines,as' in the case otlastJMr's in homes for the aged and nursunwed mothers wbowisb to have disastrous Notre 'Dame fire, ing homes; the operation of centheir babies. It offers medieaI _ wben Vincentian ~~n~ ~t';' ters for homeless men; rehlibili· The .cli'~. department of Shelter, clothiDg, lepI tOO traeted nationalatteDtion a'1d tation prograJDllling for phYsiPastoral Care for the Sick is di· fmlpIoyment assistance and acclaim../ .- . _ cally arid mentaUyhandicapped whatever else might be needed ' The society began in 1833, persons; assisting the victims of rected by.FafberEdmund J. Fitzin a particular situation. when a small gropp, 9f CathOli~ ,}oc8l. and nati<mal disasters; the gerald who SUl*Vises programs Ii1 ~Fal1River diocese theJ"!students at Pari..-'Soibonne were care of iminiarant families; th~ at St. Anne's' and Charlton are chapters in Fall River, New challenged to show how religioQ providing of Christian burial Memorial. hospitals, Fall River, Morton HOSpital, Taunton; St. Bedfonl, AttleborO· and Taunton. made any difference to the' :t9tb for those who die· penniless.

Luke's, New Bedford; Sturdy "URdu the' guidance of the century .world. The chalteoitgeJ Memorial.

Attleboro; 8nd Cape Holy Spirit, the essence of oar students decided to "go to lh.

Cod Hospital; Hyannis. .

Service is love:' say. officials 't)f poor" and cboseSt. ViQcent He is also involved with a " TwentY·fivemen ate currently euc~tic minister program that serving as permanent deacons in sees members of diocesan parishes bringiRg holyconui1union the Fall River diocese. .In· the earlychureh, besides on a' weekly basis to nursing bishops and' priest$, . some dea- home residents and other shutins.

CODS were ordained to serve the Realizing. that Jl time of illchureb and Iitlp- ChtistiaJis. For the past seven centuries,·'this ness or death is a time when sacred order 'Was received. almost patie~ and their families are exclusiv'!}y by thole eventually eSpecialfy open to the workings of the Spirit, pastoral workers to be ordained pri~~ However. ·the Second Vatican are trained in the skills needed Council recommended that the to assist at stressful and anxioUs

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Many :lasting' fri~ have ~ped as a result of personal counseliDll'" ".

I A telephone hotline is maintained by each diocesan Birthright group and is listed under Birt:b!igbt in area telephone directories.

This weekend Birthright mem'" bets will hold a convention at LaSalette Center for Christian Living in Attleboro.

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. Special~ attention is pea to such ueas as "chronic ilbtess, diseases such as cancer, bereavement of family. members and the death of children and yo~' persons.

Rose Hawthorne The Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home of Fall River is a 35-bed facility established by the Hawthorne Dominicans in 1932 aJid named for the' founder Of 'tftis religious conunUnity. It· provide. care for incurable cancer patients.rOf ttl races and creeds who are unable to pay for adequate nursing care elsewhere.

The ~oal..of the. sistets ~,tq a1~iate pain and anxiety and give comfort - spiritual, ~~ logical and phy.sical - knowing that they cannot ~. _.'

The Atmosphere is homelike and peaceful in a beautiful setting overlooking Mount· Hope Bay: Bright and cheerful' fumish~ ings, •flowered ~sheeta. pictures. plants, and the social atniQ@phere of small wards create a climate where the sick feels welcome and loved..

Nursing care is focused reliev~ pain and maintainmg maximUIQ comfort. Twenty-~ 110ur care is provided and the attending physician visits ~ce a week, Well-balanced diets, attractively served meals and recreational .fCtlvities such as .TV; radio, booD, arts and crafts are provided.

The spiritual care is. of great importance. There is a chapel on the prem~ with daily ~~ and Holy Commonion. A resickmt chaplain visits the patie~ts daUyi Clergymen. of. all denominations are weIceme.

The psychological care helps the patient to accept siclmeas and its resulting Umitatioos.He or .she is given realistic' ..... ' rather than false hopes. Emotionalsupport is baSed on individual need&.

The work of the sisters is supported by the generosity of' a sympathetic public. No renumeration is accepted from patients or their families. In accordanCe with their Rule, the sisters trust the loving providence of God. It has never faUed them.

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"When I was anxious', You calmed all my' fears, When I was thirsty, You gave me to drink,

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The SkIba of Milwaukee discusses 12th annual "Respect Life" pro- how the 'Church'sstands on abor­ gram, sponsored by the National tion and nuclear war are based Conference of Catholic iBshops, on, the same commitment to hu· continues throughout October man life. The "trivialization" of and stresses the 'value and dig.'-\ human life is seen when people nity of human life from concep· call an unborn infant "inc6nvEm· tion to death. ient," the bishop explained. "A Although life~affirming actio simila.r type' of attitude. often' vities are stressed this month by preval1s when we hear diSCUSS­ the bishops' Committee for Pro. ions of plans for war • . . " 1 Life Activ:ties, chaired by' Car· In the manual, Miriam J. dinal Terence Cooke of New Barth, coordinator of the Buf­ York, pro-life educational pro­ falo diocese Respect Life pro­ grams ,continue year-round. gram, explains a program in her The NCCB Respect Life office diocese which helps pregnant has distributed a program packet women. TIle director of the Dio­ which includes a manual to help cesan Development Program for dioceses, parishes, schools and Natural Family Planning, Msgr. other Catholic organizations pro· James T. HcHugh, writes about mote Pro-Life projects.

Christian marriage and natural The mamial includes an essay family planning.

The church's response to the on Christians' responsibility to moral questions raised by tech­ children, especially the handi­ capped, by Holy Cross Father nological advances in the field James T. Burtchaell, professor of human reproduction is ev­ of theology at the University of plained by Jesuit Father John Notre Dame.

Connery, Cody professor of thea­ "We are to stand as godparents logy at Loyola University of to the children of the world," Chicago.

Father ·Burtchaell said. "We are The "gift, challenge and grace"

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Continued from Page Three Association, and Charlton Mein­ orial Hospital Atwood Tower.

Foundation trustees, in addi­ tion to Ms. Atwood and Curtis, are Marjorie Atwood Dempsey, Newport; the Durfee-Attleboro Multibank, Fall River; Dr. Eliza­ beth Atwood Lawrence, Westport Harbor; and Atty. William E. Murray, New York City.

St. Anne's is not awaiting completion of the new center to offer outstanding care to cancer patients. In keeping with prin­ ciples of holistic medicine, the oncology team includes a social worker with the responsibility of helping patients and families cope with the realities of the disease. Part of that help comes in the form of a support group that meets regularly to share ex­ periences and assist members.

There is also close cooperation with Hospice Outreach, an or­ ganization that works with homebound patients, with the A'merican Cancer Society alld with the Ostomy Support Group, among others.

One of the hospital's newest outreach programs is SHAPE, a health and· education program

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It is an expansion of the health fair concept which had its begin­ nings in the Fall River area through St. Anne's sponsorship in 1981.

The SHAPE (Screening, Health", Awareness, Prevention, Education) program was estab­ lished through funding from the Aetna Life and Casualty Foun­ dation. This pilot project will focus initially on businesses em­ ploying 100 or more individuals.

Hospital personnel will go to the company site and set up· screening stations and educa­ tional displays for one day. Em­ ployees will choose the screen­ ings in which they would like to participate and may have ques­ tions answered' by attending medical professionals and through literature.

St. Anne's Hospital also spon.' sors many outpatient c'inics, in­ cluding the Lifeline Clinic where substance abusers may receive medical treatment and counsel· ing. There are also venereal dis­ ease, a parttime endocrinology clinic and the city weekly tuber­ culosis testing clinic.

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NEW t>YORK (NC) - Calling to the well-being of God's human the days of his illness a "grace­ family - abortion, euthanasia filled period of my ute," Cardinal and infanticide - are falsely Terence Cooke, 63, of New York, presented as useful and even re­ who is dying of leukemia, urged spectable solutions to human Catholics to defend life in all its family and social problems," forms. the cardinal wrote.

"It is at times that life is The cardinal said that life is threatened," wrote Cardinal "no less bea\ltiful when it is ac· Cooke in a pastoral letter, that companied by illness or weak­ the Lord gives us a special grace ness, hunger or poverty, mental to appreciate the 'gift of life' or physical handicaps, loneliness more deeply." . or old age."

Cardinal Cooke, in a letter to Chairman of the bishops' the Archdiocese of New York to Committee for Pro-Life Activi· be read in churches Oct. 9, urged ties in the United States, Car-' Catholics to "rededicate your ef­ dinal Cooke promoted Respect Life Month and encouarged forts for the sancitity of all hu­ man life" during Respect Life Catholics to work to "counter­ Month in October. act the contemporary threats to Alluding twice to his own ill­ life." ness, tqe cardinal affirmed the Referring to his illn~ss as a "gift of life," and called on Cath­ time to ."experience suffering in olics to defend life in their daily union with Jesus," the cardinal lives aqd public institutions. said he is thankful for the op­ "It is tragic that in our time, portunity to continue his "apos­ concepts which are disastrous tolate on behalf of life,"

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but they cherished their child­ should be under no illusion that Continued from Page Six not sufficiently developed to en· ren' and' would not wish to be parental instinct alone will pro­ vide a welcome and a haven for able it to suffer. from the con· deprived of them. Their dis­ templation of approaching suf­ . satisfaction was not with their children. . . . ; , ,ST. MARY'S CHURCH HALL fedilgor death . . . It leaves no children, but with their physi­

Accepting Chlldren ; , Main St., Fairhaven, MA'. . • gap in any family circle, deprives cians. Many had changed doctors The acceptance of children is no children of their breadwinner ' in search of one who would take a willful act. It is a' choice. It SATURDAY, OCT. 8th OCT. 9th . or thei~ mother, no human be­ an interest in their youngster. can be a duty. When one is with The doctors admitted to Dar­ • 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. • ing of' a friend,. 'helper or comchild, one is obliged to provide ling that they felt unprepared,to for that child. Nevertheless, not panion.·'" . .

• China • Glassware • Pottery • Old Toys • Collectibles • Old Jewelry • I was left with much to re·· treat patients with chronic de­ • Depression Glass • Furniture • Post Cards • Oriental ·Items • every necessity is necessarily • Antique Dolls· Aset of H. 'Qulmter • Comic Books • Baseball Cards .• flect upon by this doctrine that fects. . .. honored. And this is one obliga­ ; FREE ADMISSION REFRESHMENTS AVA~LABLE • Even personnel - 'skilled in tion of which women and men it was worse to take on some­ ~ ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••I one your own size than to pick physical rehabilitation or edu­ will not acquit themselves ex­ on a 'kid. cation of the retarded confess a cept by self-determination. There falling off of interest when their are adults in great number who There were other bewil,der­ ments 'to follow. I had known .efforts no longer yield measure­ do not rise to the occasion. It is able improvement.

One has much no small thing to receive a small that youngsters born with vari­ .

I to contemplate at the prospect person into one's -life. . . .

QUS h~ndicaps often perished be­ fore leaving hospital nurseries, of these helping professionals It is an old notion among For Mort gages because of decisions agreed upon who would not care simply to Christians that to accept some­ SInce Home ,Improvement Loans by the~r parents and qoctors. care. . . . one else as yours, for better or Others ,were abandoned by their .1851 .

History as' we can recover it for worse, until death, requires families to institutions. One im­ discloses a rec~rring disposi~ion, an .onset of motivation, stamina ~'agined especially impoverished nOt all that infrequent, to abort, and forbearance that only God '~ :'~,' All depoSIts & accumulat.ed dividends are insured in tull . l.5J 4 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS ''''::'::couples! daunted by the expense abuse and annihilate children could give. Men and women can of keeping a handicapped child when they are not welcome.' mate or even marry with a lesser KV close by. The evidence suggests, This is done, not simply by psy­ ,4 So. Main SLl335 Stanord RdJ570'Robeaon SLlSomeraBt ,PI8Z~ lliie, 6) . '. - however, 'that it is the .affluent, chotically hysterical, mothers, empowerment, but they cannot maintain.

L ~~_..:.... ~-....;.....;.-~ not the' poor, who may be willunderworld quacks or denizens If this be our reckoning· of the ing to :free themselves of their of perverse and' primitive cul­ bonds of promise, no less could handicapped young. tures. It is accomplished by your be true of the bonds of blood.

As one doctor reports: neighbors down the street and by In the Christian view, only the "Couples who are success-orient­ medical school professors who Father can enable us to be gra­ ed and' have high expectations describe the process in learned cious enough to do something for their children are likely to­ journals. Ours is country in as natural as being good fa~hers institutionalize their mentany which to be very young can be or mothers. And if we do that, deficient offspring rather than very risky, and where only the there is hardly anything human­ Keep them at home. The a!.'gu­ narrowest of presumptions as­ , . ly. greater to which we could ment that mongoloids raised in sures children' of love and pro­ aspire. A dev'oted parent is an Durfee ~ the hoqte perform better than tection. In many countries the occasion for celebration, not , those raised in an institution is medical profession struggles. to merely what you have a right AttlEboro~ .National~ rarely' persuasive with such par­ -·reduce the rate 'of infant mortal­ 'to expect. . . . ents." •.. ity, but in our country infa~t Witnessing Our Convictions Me'mbers Federal Depositlri~uranceCorporation.

When medical staffs volun­ mortality is itself partly .the l·._.

If we lived up to our inherited teer tCt eliminate unwanted in­ work of physicians. This raises fants, by' denying them .either heavy questions for' every man beliefs in this matter - openly nourishment or' medital .treat­ and woman among us, including and consciously - we would ment, it; can be qUite painful ....:. those who wou\d never raise a stand out as starkly' as Luba­ vitcher Jews in Brooklyn, or DENMARK'S Pharmacy REiUS~~:~~~r~T~~::CISTS. for the staff. Dr. Anthony Shaw, hand to smite or slay a child. Amish farmers in rural Pennsyl­ who haS reported that ·the fatal And the more so for those who neglect 'of handicapped infants believe . their Parent disclosed vania, or Hare Krishna young­ InvalJd EqUipment For Rent or .Sale, is comnion practice at the' Uni­ his presence to them by sending sters in the airports, or Jeho­ .surgical.Garments-Bird.IPPBMachineS-JObst vah's Witnesses' ringing your versity of. Virginia Medical Cen­ a child, and believe in a Lord '0 • Hollister - Crutches - Elastic Stockings If we lived out our doorbell. ter, complains of this strain., who said we could be his inti­ Surgical & OrlhopedlcAppliances deepest convictions about fam­ "Standing by and watching a mates only if we' were trans­ WHlll' • Trusses - Oxygen - Oxygen Masks, Tents & ily we would startle both our­ ,salvageable baby die is the most formed and came to him as chil­ CH"., ' . Re.gulators· Approved For Medicare selves and our neighbors, to repel emotionally exhausting experi­ dren.•.• '~~ 24 HOUR OXYGEN SERVICE some, to be sure, but to benefit ence I know . . ; to stand by in

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Since 'the decision to let the teenage mother. A' couple near­ child die rested ultimately with ing the ninth month of preg­ To take the abortion conflict the parents, it was· difficult to nancy suspect a handicap in their as telltale: any convictions we understand why the doctors ac­ child and, procUre her abortion ,have that are faith·~ostered ought cepted 'this task of destruction, but the infant emerges alive; the to show forth. Instead of being , ,which they described as "ardu­ insists. the attending unnerved. by the red, white and father ous, agonizing, distasteful."

Per Person Per Nlte Obi. Oee. (FrI. & SIt. physicians . destroy· her "or he blue accusations that our faith 45 NlgIIh On'" Min. 2 Nltea Rate Eft. Sept. 9 Since no further medical care would throw her In, the trash is showing, we should ,be re­ ., tllru Nov. 28 ItoIIda' Perlodl. :I NltOl. : was to be allowed, why not pre­ can himself;". one of them' lieved that it is, and confess to " sent the parents with their in­ plunges a syringe into' her heart chagrin if it is not. .

We have an indoor pool, saunas, color TV and " fant and send them home to What could be more embar­ to remove blood but is spooked' an unforgettable dining experience that sets us starve him or her themselves? when the child cries, and will go ' rassing to Christians than the apart. 'From 3 egg omelettes to succulent,

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World Continued f~om page one church's duty to bring the mr:n and women of today, by heart­ felt conversion and penance, to a reconciliation to which they ardently aspire deep down."

While affirming individual confession and absolution as the norm for the sac·rament of recon­ ciliation, Cardinal Martini said general absolution is licit in some circumstances "for the greatest spi,rit~al good of the faithfuL" Debate over the extent to which general absolution should be allowed was expected to be one of the more controvers'.al issues confronting the synod.

Current church norms restrict it to rare occasions when indivi­ dual confession by all penitents is not possible.

Before synod members began work on this year's topic, they heard reports on the' synod ir: general and on results 9f the last synod, held in 198()' and dealing with family ute;· It was in the general report that Archbishop Tomko an­ nounced that the pope favored a synod "document which would not only be developed from synod proposals and approved by the synod, but which wO'lld have "juridical authority . . . binding for, the whole church" over and above the moral au­ thority of the synod as a repre­ sentative body of the wo!"!d's bishops.

The archbishop noted that, like any' other document for the whole C!)Ufch, such a synod do,:­ ument WO\lld require papal ap­ proval ~efore it would be juri­

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The In a report on the effects of Administrative Board of the U.S. t~e family .life synod, Auxiliary Catholic Conference has voted d' t 't' 'Bishop Javier Lozano Barragan to ur e e t g xpan mg Ul Ion ax 'd' h d l$' . C' of MEOOc~ Ity S~1 It a pro· credit benefits to include public duced . wlde-r?ngll~g effects cn as well as private schools.

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Cardinal Joseph Hoffner of Funeral Ho.,-.e Inc. Cologne, West Germany, said in 283 Station Avenue a~ intervention the next day, however, that negative influen('t's South Yarmouth, Mass. attacking the institution of mar­ riage are among the serious is­ Tel. 398-2285 sues the 1983 synod must con­ tinue to face.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Friday, Oct. 7, 1983

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PUILlCI" CUIIMII .,. Isked to submit news Items for this column to The Ancbor, P.O. Box 7, Fell River, 02722. Name of city or town, should be Incllided as well· as fUll dates of all activities. please send news of future rather titan past events. Note: We do not carry news of fundralslng activities such as bingos, whlsts, dances, suppers and bazaars.

We .,. happy to carry notices of spiritual programs, club meetings youth proJects and sImilar nonprofit actIVities. Fundrafslng pro­ Jects may be advertised at our regular rates. obtelnable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675·7151.

On Steering PoInts Items FR IndIcates Fall River. NB IndIcates. New Bedford.

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ST. RITA, MARION Babysitting service: 10 a.m.

Mass each Sunday by confirma­ tion candidates.

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K 01 C, FR Council 86 Knight of Month: Msgr. Joseph R. Pannoni.

Supreme K of C Knight Virgil Dechant will be heard at 12:10 p.m. Monday on Station WALE in a Columbus Day ,address.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, DOMINICAN LAITY, FR

SWANSEA Holy Name Society: ~uided St. Rose of Lima Chapter:

meeting 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, Do­ tour of New England Power Co., minican Convent" 37 Park St., 7 ,p.m. Oct. 19. Parish men in­ vitedto attend with children beginning with Mass for Car­

age 12 and over. dinal Medeiros.

Parents' Night: Oct. 12, youth 5-HOUR VIGIL

center.

Tonight from 8 o'clock to 1

HOLY NAME, FR a.m., St. Mary's Church, Taun­ October devotions: rosary .5 ton. All welcome. . p.m. daily; rosary and Benedic­ tion 3 pm. each Sunday.

ST. ANNE, FR Basketball tryouts: boys Sun­ Annual St. Jude Novena: Oct. 20 to 28, preached by Father day afternoon Oct. 9, girls Sun­ Pierre Lachance, OP. Theme: .day af.ternoon, Oct. 16, school Encountering Christ in daily life. hall. Coaches needed; volun­ teers may call 672-6376 or 679­ ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET 6732.

Marian devotions: 7 p.m. each SACRED HEART, FR Tuesday and Thursday ()f Octo­ October devotions: 7 p.m. each ber.

Youth ,group meetin'g: 7 p.m. Tuesday in chapel.

Sewing group meeting: 1 p.m.

Oct. 16, parish center. All 11th and 12th graders welcome.

Oct. 11. All welcome.

DEAF APOSTOLATE HOLY CROSS, FR Weekly novena to St. Anthony Sign language classes: Thurs­ days, 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 13 through of Padua: each Tuesday, begin­ Nov. 3, Regina Pacis Center, ning 4:45 p.m. with' confessions, New Bedford; Fridays, 7 to 9 novena, petitions, Mass in honor p.m. Nov. 4 through 25, Clem­ of the saint. ence Hall, St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. Mondays, 6:30 to 8:30 ST. THOMAS MORE, p.m. through Nov. 21, St. SOMERSET Holy Year Novena: 7:15 p.m.

Joseph's CCD Center, Taunton.

Mass and social: 2:30 p.m. Oct. each'~Tuesday through Nov. 29, 23, St. Mary's Church, Taunton. Consisting of vespers and Bene­ ' . CCD class arrangements: ,Call diction.

Planning meeting: 7 ,o'clock or write Deaf Apost~late, 243 tonight. for Thanksgiving dinner F()rest St., Fall River 02721. for ·parishioners.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Paintin~"party: 10 a.m. tamor­ Bishop Jerzy Dabrowski, aide ,row :to pamt the back of the old church. Volunteers welcome. to Cardinal Jozef Glemp,pri­ mate of Poland, will celebrate IMMACULATE. CONCEPTION, Mass at 11 a.m. Oct. 22 for rep­ TAUNTON resentatives of all Polish ,par­ Birthright training ,program: ishes in the diocese.

October devotions: 20 minutes 7 to 9 ,p.m. for five Tuesdays before each daily Mass; 4:10 ,beginning Oct. 11 at 93 Wash­ p.m. Saturday; 8:40 a.m. Sun- . ington St. day.

ST. JAMES, NB Holy Rosary SodaUty: proces­ First communion candidates sion, Mass and brunch begin­ and parents are asked Ito attend ning 8:15 a.m. Sunday.

9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. It is Men's Club meeting: Oct. 16. ,the first of a series planned for this group.

FIRST FRIDAY CLUB, FR Youth group meeting: 7 pm.

Meeting: tonight following 6 o'clock Mass at Sacred Heart Oct. 13, parish hall. Sixth Church: music by Clover Club; through eighth graders invited.

Fall River School Superinten­ ST•. PIUS X, S. YARMOUm dent John Correiro as speaker.

Women's Guild: meeting 1:30 p.m. Oct.. 11, parish hall, in­ SSt PETER & PAUL, FR

October devotions: prIor :to 4 cluding program, by Michael O'Connor,· "Strictly ,for the p.m. Mass each Saturday.

Choristers: needed for 4 p.m. Birds." Guests welcome.

Mass Saturday. Reh~arsals 7:45 ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA ,p.m. each Monday.: Parish council: meeting 7 p.m.

Oct. 9, ·parish center.

CA'11HEDRAL, FR·, Youth Group: pizza .party 7:30 October devotions: prior to

noon Mass dally, led by Ladies' to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 in center. All welcome.

Guild members.:

OL. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE BL. SACRAMENT. FR . High school CCD classes begin Living rosary: Oot. 13, with Women's Guildhostiilg District Oct. 16,5 to 7:30 ,p.m. in the parish center. / , Council of Catholic Women.

Ultreya: 7:30 tonight, center.

Children's, choir: rehearsais ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL Cancer Support Group: 7 to 9 begin 4 p.m. Oct. 14. All chil­ dren welcome. p.m. Wednesday. Rm. 112, Cle­ mence Hall. Information: 674­ CAPE COD COUNCIL 5741, ext. 262.

OF NURSES NOTRE DAME, FR 'Meeting: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12, Women's Guild: meeting Oct. St. Pius X Church, S. Yarmouth.

Speaker: Dr. Joseph _,Ryan, 24, Cottell Apts.

"Adolescence: Spiritual C~re."

LaSAL~TTJ,: CENTER, Information: Delores Saritos, ATI'LQORO 775-3371.

Evenipgs ()f Prayer: Oct. 17, SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR 24, 31, '{:30 to 9 o'clock. .

Meeting: 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12, Wom~n's Retreat: Nov. 11 throu~h 13. Information for beginning with Mass. All wel­ come. bothpr~grams: 222-8530. o

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The ,European naval victory over Moslem Turks at Lepanto in 1571 was commemorated by Pope Pius V,' who in the 16th century instituted tod~y's feast of the Most Holy Rosary. The Battle of Vienna in 1683 Aiso was a European victory over Turkish forces. 'Both battles pre­ served Christianity as the domi­ nant religion of Europe.

Pope John Paul, in his sermon and later at his weekly Angelus talk, addressed several thousand members of Marian movement.; and associations who had come to the Vatican for the special day of prayer.

In remarks in Polish after the Mass, the pope urged his cOlm­ trymen to "say the rosary for the church, for peace in the world and for the fatherland,"

The Oct. 2 Mass also com­ memorated ,Pope John Paul's anniversary as a bishop, ~TRY MAJ<E HIM UNI7ERt;TAND THA.T ALTAR 6QYS; 25th and a congratulatory message [7ON'r aREA.!< INlO COMPUTER ~. " was read by members of 75 par­ ishes in Rome.. Pope John Paul was ord~ined as auxiliary bishop I ST. MARY, SEEKONK _ SECULAR FRANCISCANS, of Krakow on Sept. 28, 1958.

First Friday' Mass: 7 tonight, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape Fra­ offered for eucharistic ministers On Oct. I, the pope joined and their families. ,Holy hour ternity: mini-retreat, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 9, Miramar several ¢ousand people in a will follow Mass.

Retreat House, Duxbury. Fa­ small Vatican square to rec:te HOlLY NAME, N~ ther Wilfred Hept, OFM, retreat the rosary, a practice initiated Women's Guild: meeting 7:30 master, will speak on Christian p.m. Oct. 10. Norman Erickson Living from a Franciscan View_ during the Holy Year every fir::t Saturday of the month. will present "Do You See What point. Guests welcome.

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ST. JACQUES, TAUNTON The Building Blo~k Youth ST. MARY, NB Bible study: 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. Group will sponsor a Life in the 11. ~

Spirit seminar for Taunton area -- Tuesday morning group: Oct. CCD teachers, beginning at 7:30 Continued from Page Two p.m. Oct. 13 and continuing each 25. : Father FoIster, born in .Fall October devotions: rosary Thursday through Nov. 17 at daily preceding 7 8;m. Mass. the parish CCD study center. River Dec. 6, 1931, was ordained Needed: additional ushers for Interested teachers may contact Dec. 20, 1958, at the North 11:30 a.m. alld 7 ,p.m. Sunday their ,parish CCD coordinator.

American College in Rome.

Masses; Saturday sacristy work- ~ MEMORIAL HOME, FR After serving as assistant at Fall ers; lectors.

Activities today. include a CAmOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB,

Christmas crafts· workshop and River, New Bedford and Swan­ a games ·and exercise session, sea parishes, he was temporary NB :

administrator at St. Louis de Meeting: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12, both this morning.

The employees' annual cook­ Wamsutta Club. Harpoon Har­ France parish, Swansea, priest out will take place from 11 a.m. in charge at St. Louis parish, monizers ;w:ill· sing. to 2:30 ·p.m.

ST.ANNE,NB A Halloween party is planned Fall River, and pastor of Sacred October devotions: ,rosary will for Oct. 27. Costumes may be Heart parish, also Fall River, precede t~e 11 a.m. daily Mass. worn. before being named to his pres­ ent pastorate in 1977..

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WASHINGTON(NC) - The Iished by the Vatican Congrega­ Navajo language has been ap­ tion for the Sacraments and Di­ proved for use in the liturgy vine Worship, which has been in the di~ceses of the, United informed of the NCCB Adminis­ States by the Adlninistrative trative Committee's action.

I ' Committ~ of the National Con­ ference of: Catholic Bishops.

Bishop Jerome Hastrich of Gal­ lup, N.M., requested the action.

Continuflld from page one His diocese includes the largest Navajo reservation in the United be taken in advance to the St. Louis basement.

States. ' Each parish is also asked to For a language to be consider- . supply men to help organize and ed a liturgical language it must be actually spoken by people, direct the procession. They it must be taught in school and should report to ,Father John Raposo at St:- Louis basement at it must be approved by the epis­ copal conference as a liturgical ·5:30 p.m.

Parishes wishing. to partici­ language. ' pate in carrying the statue of Those conditions were estab­ Our ,Lady of· Fatima at the h~ad of the procession should have Wo~ks Both Ways their representl;ltives ,report to "Be 'not angry that you can­ Father· Joseph Costa at St. not make' others as you wish Mary's Catl;ledral chapel at 5:30 them to be, since you cannot p.m. It, is' suggested that such make yourself as' you wish' to representatives wear a distin­ be." - :Thomas a 'Kempis guishing i~signia. .

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Active ,in emergency medical services, he has saved many lives and has dissuaded many Braga Bridge suicide attempts in the course of his involvement as chaplain of the 'Fall River fire department.

He was acting editor of The Anchor for over a year between 1975 and 1977.

Father Phillipino, a native of Taunton, was born June 6, 1930; and ordained April 2, 1960. He was assistant at 'lJoly Name parish, New lBedford, and Im­ maculate Conception,Fall River, before being named administra~ tor of St. Bernard's, Church, Assonet, in 1977 and pastor in North Easton ,in 1978.

He is also associate director of the Diocesan Health Facilities.

Philosophy "A little philosophy inclin­ eth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about :to religion," Francis Bacon