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Part of the Columbus Day_ crowd of some 2,000 persons, at the l'Oth annual,dioces~ncandlelight procession and Mass for peace in Fall River.
Msgr. Ellis takes .long view of election
WASHINGTON (NC) - Reli gion in politics this year, "has drawn some rather shriU cries" but is nothing new, according to Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, dean of American Catholic church historians. . He referred specifically to the presidential campaigns of 1928 and 1960 when Alfred E. Smith and 'John F. Kennedy, both Catholics, headed the Demo cratic Party ticket. "There is a sort of built-in
tension" between the church's aims and the state's, and in one form or other it will Ibe with us to the end of time," said Msgr. Ellis, who teaches church history at The Catholic University of America.' He said history offers a "mod est" but nevertheless "real" con tribution to the 1984 debate ove,r the place of religion in politics. Msgr. EiHis made his comments in an opinion article publiShed
Oct. 4 in the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington. ' Msgr. EHis said the church has a duty "to speak. out on political questions that have a direct bearing on matters rela ting to the moral order" because "there is l}~ such thing as a total divorce" between the two realms. He also defended the U.S. bishops' stance of addressing such issues but refusing to align themselves with politica,1 parties
or candidates. Statements by the leadership of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops this year, he said, mirror the admonition iso, sued in 1858 and repeated in 1884 by the U.S. bishops assem bled in Baltimore: "Do not, in any way, id~ntify the interests of our holy faith with the for tunes of any party." He noted, however, that bish ops have not always followed that injunction. "For example,
Bishop John Hughes of New York in 1841 put up a Catholic ticket .. . in an attempt to gain some measure of fairness for Catholic children in the public schools than largely dominated in New York !by Protestant in fluence." Msgr. Ellis also recalled that in 1894 Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul, Minn., had "actively campaigned for the Republicans" in New York, provoking public Turn to Page Six
Diocesan Council plans; Information Sunday
Members of the Diocesan Council' of Catholic Women will spread the word about their or ganizat~on the weekend of Oct. 27 and 28. At Saturday and Sunday Masses, representatives of parish affiliates wHI speak ei,ther be fore the liturgy or after com
munion about the work of the DCOW, which numbers 22,000 members in five diocesan dis tricts. The DCCW wiJI, also be the homily topic' at the diocesan television Mass on WLNE Chan nel 6 at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 28. Rev. Horace J. Travassos, spiritual
director for the DCCW Commu nity Affairs Commission, win be ,the celebrant and executive board members of the organiza tion wtiIl be in the congregation. Information Sunday wHo! honor Our Lady of Good Counsel, DCCW patroness. A prayer ser- ' vice dedicated to her, to which
all DCCW members and mod erators are invited, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 28 at St. Louis de France Churoh, Swansea. Celebrant for the service will be Rev. James F. Lyons, New 'Bedford district moderator, and Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be guest of honor.
A tea wiH follow the prayer service. Involved in plans 'for the weekend are Mrs. David Sell mayer, diocesan president; and Miss Theresa Lewis, New Bed ford district president and tea chairman, assisted by Mrs. RayTurn to Page Six
USCC-backed civil rights bill shelved
THE ANCHOR Friday, Oct. 12, 1984
Installations announced By NC News 'Service Bishops will be installed in Florida's'two new dioceses Oct. 24 and 25. . A:uxiliaryBishop Thomas U. Daily of Boston wiHbe instaHed as first bishop of Palm Beach Oct. 24 at St. Ignatius Loyola Cathedral in Pal~ Beach Gar dens, Fla. On Oct. 25, in the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Venice, Fla., Auxiliary Bishop John J. Nevins ,of Miami will be installed as first bishop of Venice. " Archbishop 'Pio La~i, apos tolic pronuncio' in the United States, and Archbishop -Edward A. McGarthy of Miami will 4ead the installation ceremonies. The Palm Beach Diocese has a Catholic population of 103,000 and is comprised of five coun ties: Palm Beach and Martin from Miami Archdiocese 'and St. Lucie, Okeechbee and Indian River from the Orlando Diocese. The Venice Diocese has a Catholic population of 115,359, and is made up of 10 counties: Collier, Glades and Hendry from Miami; Highlands from the Or lando Diocese; and Charlotte, De Soto, Hardee, Lee, Manatee and Sarasota, formerly of the St. Petersburg Diocese.
World Food Day Oct. 16 NEW YORK (NC)-With the theme "Sow Seeds of Peace in a Hungry World," Catholic Relief Services is mobilizing Catholic groups across the nation to ob~ serve World 'Food Day Oct. 16. The annual event was begun , in 1981 by the U.N. ,Food and Agriculture Organization and 'is observed in 150 countries. In a message of support issued at the time of the initial observ ance, 'Pope 'John Paul, II said food day was intended to make everyone "aware' of the' serious and urgent problems of hunger end malnutrition, and to mo bHize the energies of aH in order to tackle these problems to- , ,gether." Among the events scheduled on or neal' Oct. 16 are a national ' teleconference with Jesuit Father William Byron, president of the Catholic University of America, as speaker; a "famine banquet" in the Archdiocese of Milwau kee; and a two-day conference at ·Penn State University in con nection with a' meeting of the . Pennsylvania Catholic 'C~mpus Ministry Association. 'CRS is encouraging prayer,
fasting, study, politica1 action
and fund raising in response to
,the needs ofa world in which
statistics show 450 milUonpeo
plealwllYs go hungry. Among
points of special emphasis are
hunger ameng children, the Afri
can drought and the needs of
refugees in Central America.
BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN at·'recent Annual Portuguese Pilgrimage to La Salette Shrine, Attleboro. Portuguese persons' from all parts of New England attended the event at which Bishop Joaquim Ribeiro of Portugal was ,principal celebrant and homilist at an out door Mass, followed by blessing of the sick.
Papal retirement ,pro~edure sllggested TORONTO (NC) - Cardinal Gerald' Emmett Carter of Toron to says that the lack of retire ment rules for popes "could be dangerous" for the church ...:.. particwarly if a pope becomes senile. "I sometimes wonder if we're not tempting God by not ihaving some procedure," the cardinal said on a Toronto radio pro gram called "Let's Discuss It." The program aired during Pope John Paul II's Sept. 9-20 trip to Canada. Cardinllil Carter said he con si<.lers Pope John Paul the kind of man whose sense of responsi bility might move him to create retirement rules. But the pope .hasn't mentioned the idea. "at least not to me," the cardinal said. He said that it might be a good idea to set a retirement
deadline for popes, suggesting 75 or 80 as possible ages. Car dinal Carter, who is 72, said the age should be set by church sta tute, Seventy-five is the mandatory retirement age for bishops. Car dinals. may vote in papal elec ~ions until age ,80. "-I think it's unfortunate that we don't have a provision for this and at times it could lbe dangerous," the' cardinal said. But he' also noted that there are no rules preventing a pope from retiring voluntarily. Cardinal Carter said that there was concern toward the end of Pope Paul VI's reign about the pontiff's health, but although the pope might have thought· of re signing "he never got around to it." . Pope Paul, suffered from
chronic arthritis and other health problems. He died of" a heart at tack in 1978. The closest thing to a public suggestion for his resignation came five months before his death when ,a leading Spanish Catholic maga~ne noted tre pontiff's failing health and said it was time for "extraordinary decisions." Asked about Pope John Paul's fatiguing travel schedule, Car dinal Carter said that even at ,the Vatican, the pope's daily schedule can be "kiHing." The cardinal said that during his visits to Rome, he observed that the pope never relaxes. "Every time, he sits down, it's some kind of meeting," the car dinal said. "He never seems to take any kind of relaxation. even with ihs meals." ' I
Scripture program announced The diocesan Department of Word," by Rev. Richard Rohr. ,Education is sponsoring a fall It will, be followed by small Scripture program, "Gleanings group discussions incorporating, from Scripture," with a format both Father Rohr's insights and of study, discussion and prayer. .reactons to the readings com~ 'pleted previously. Designed for catechisrts, teach ers and other interested' adults, the four-session program will be presented at 'the Catholic Edu
cation Center: conference rooni
at 423 Highland Ave., Fall River, on Oct. 24, Oct. 30 and 31 and Nov. 7 and 14. Preceding each meeting, par ticipants will be' asked tocom~ plete designated readings. Oct. 24' and Nov. 7 and 14; the program will be offered from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and repeated from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 30 the program will be offered from' 7 to 9 p.m. It will be repeated Jrom 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 31. The Oct. 24 program will be
gin with a 45-minute taped pres entation; "Introduction to the
nie -session wiU close with reflective consideration of a Scripture' passage chosen to complement Father Rohr's pres entation. Participants will share their reactions to the passage and will conclude by formulation of prayerS based ~n.. the discus sion., The same format wiH be fol 'lowed for eacll. session of the program. The subject for Oct. 30 and 3'1 wiH be, "Engaging the Imagination in Biblical Interpre tation," presented thy Father Eugene La Verdiere, who will also present the topics for Nov. 7 and 14. They are "The Nature of 'Gospel"~ on Nov. 7; and "The Spiritullility of Christian Ministry ~n the Synoptic Gospels" ''On Nov. 14.
Registrations for the series should be' sent to the Catholic Education Center before Oct. 15.
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Republican-controiled Senate has shelved a major civil rights measure backed by the U.S. Catholic Conference in order del' to clear the way for passage of 'a continuing resolution nee<! ed to keep the federal· govern ment operating. After a last-ditch compromise effort fatted, Sen. B()b. Pack wood, R-Dre., chief sponsor of the bill, yielded to,· Sen. Onin Hatch, R-Uta'h,' \.,.ho -ltad. 1,300 , amendments on tap ,to delay a vote on the bill indefinitely, even if it meant' shutting down most government agencies. 'The move to table drew an angry castigation of the Senate from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a)-Mass., another of the bilt's chief sponsors. "Shame on this Senate," Ken nedy shouted tw,ice. He said , senators were giving up on the most important legislation of the year to conduct "business, as usual" and adjourn on time. The vote to table the bill passed 53-45, with senators vot ing 'largely along party lines. 'Packwood and Kennedy voted to make the bill a top 'priority in Congress every year until it is passed. The brII, called the Civil Rights Act of 1984, was designed to ban discrimination against minorities or on, the basis.of sex, age' or handicaps th.rougnoutall ~nstitutionsreceivrng 'federal funds. The House of RepJ;"esent atives had passed it by a 375-32 vote in June. ' The legislation was framed to reverse the Grove City College decision of the Supreme Court last February. In that case the court narrowed interpretation of existing civil rights leg,islation, saying Ithat if 'a c()Hege or higher ,educational institution is found guilty of sex discr,imination in a given program, only .federal funds to that program, can be cut off, not all federal assistance . to the institution. The U.S. Catholic Conference had supported the new civil rights legislation. 'In a letter to Hatch in June, Msgr. Daniel Hoye, usee genera:1 secretary, 'called discrimination "a direct assault on the dignity of the person" and said the bilt ad dressed "the very heart of the c,:ivi'l rights prote.ctic?r:"S, w:hich have beenenaded o~er. the. last '20 years."
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MANLLA, Philippines (NC) Cardinal Jaime L. Sin will pay what his office characterized as part sentimental journey, part historical visit to the People's Republic of China Oct. 27-Nov.6 at the invitation of a govern ment-sponsored agency. Cardinal Sin, whose fa4lher was Chinese, said he was going "in a spirit of friendship and dialogue." He said he hoped the visit would help buHd closer relations between the Chinese and Filipino peo ples.
. THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 12, 1984
Surrogates wrong
VATICAN CITY (NC)" Using a surrogate mother to have a chHd is morally wrong because it violates "the biological and spiritual union of the parents," said a recent editorial in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osserva· tore Romano. The editorial, titled, "Regarding the Question of Mothers for Rent," advocated adoption or dedication to the children of others as a solution for couples with biological or medical impediments to having chi,ldren.
'New vision' CHICAGO (NC) - Chicago's religious leaders have vowed to work toward a "new vision" for the city 'which rejects racism and stresses a reconciled, united community. An Iinterfaith state ment on the matter was issued
LEADING PRAYER at Cardinal Medeiros' grave, from left, Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, Cardinal Antonio Ribeiro, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Rev. Dr. Jose BaceJar e Oliveira, SJ.
Hundreds 110nor Fall River's cardinal Cardinal Humberto Medeiros quest of Cardinll'1 Ribeiro. woqld have been 69 last Satur At the cemetery Cardinal Ri day. The day was remembered beiro, who was raised to the at his graveside in St. Patrick's Sacred Col,lege March 5, 1973, Cemetery, Fall River, by over the same date as Cardinal Med 100 friends and family members. eiros, led traditional prayers for There they were Jed in prayer the dead in Latin. Then, addressing the gathering by Cardinal Antonio Ribeiro, Patriarch of Lisbon; Fall River . in Portuguese, he said "If Car Bishop Daniel A Cronin; Msgr. dinal Medeiros were witlh us, Luiz Mendonca, diocesan vicar; we would be .celebrating his and Rev. Jose Bacelar e Oliveira, anniversary - but he is with us, 51, president of the Catholic because from an eternity he is joined with us. We have prayed University of Portugal. Cardinal Ribeiro and Father for him in Latin - now with Oliveira were in New England to attend a fundralsing banquet for the university held hi Bos· ton last Saturday night. The event was sponsored by Following on t1he Aug. 12 for the Association for the Develop ment of the Catholic University mal dedication of the new St. of Portuga:l, founded lin 1976 by Joan of Arc Church in Orleans, Cardinal Medeiros at the re a "dedication week" Oct. 21 to 28 will mark completion of all finishing details. The program follo~s: Boleslaw F. Ginalski, 73, better - Sun., Oct. 21: Mass of known as Bill to Anchor staff thanksgiVing 11 a.m.; open members, died OCt. 10. For over house 2 to 4 p.rn.; vespers and Benediction, 4 p.m. 40 years he had worked part time as a linotypist at Leary - Mon., Oct. 22: Mass' for Press, Fall River, where The deceased parishioners,: 8 a.m.; Anchor is printed, and lIlis speed, Jiving rosary, blessing of, .new accuracy and good' humor were outdoor Marian statue, 7:30 legendary.', " ' p.m. ' , ;B~rn' in 1LQwell, he" had Bived --' Tues., Oct. 23:: healing in Somerset' f6~:the pa~t 30 yeilrs 'Mass celebrated by Father and was rettred from' his' luII. Franklin Darling of Springfield, time occupation as a linotypist a, parish native, 7:30' p.m. for the Fan River Herald News. Charismatics. and prayer group The' son of theiate Stanley members especially invited. and Mary Ginalski, he is sur - ' Wed.,. Oct. 24: Mass of vived by:'lhis wife, Katherine anointing for sick and elderly, (Janiak) Ginalski, two sons, 1 p.m. William 'Ginalski of Phoenix, Ariz., and Paul Giomski, of . - Thur., Oct. 25: men's holy Somerset, six grandchildren and hour, 7:30 p.m. - Fri., Od. 26: children's one grea:tgrandchild. A brother, Edmund Ginalski, and a sister, hour, ·3 p.m.; ecumenical holy Mrs. JOllephine Gleniewicz, reo hour, 7:30 p.m. - Sun., Oct. 28: organ re side in J¥bertson, N.Y. His Mass of Christian Burial cital and dedication, 2 p.m. Father John iF. Andrews, pas will be offered at 9:30 a.m. to morrow at 5t. Stanislaus'Church, tor, noted that all the week's Fall River. Burial will be at St. events are open to aU parish P,atrick's Cemetery, Somerset. ioners and frien<!s.
Dedication week in Orleans
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your permission we wHI say a decade of the rosary in Port~ guese." Following the recitation, the cardinal placed a wreath at the grave of his foriend. He then greeted memlbers of Cardinal Medeiros' family and others present. He, !Bishop Cronin and most of those at the cemetery continued to St. Michael's Churdh, Fall River, where Cardinal Medeiros was pastor from 1960 to 1966 and where scores of additional friends and parishioners waited to attend a memorial Mass celebrated by Cardinal Ribeiro. Bishop Cronin extended an riffical welcome to the prelate prior to the Mass, for which the designated concelebrants were Msgr. Mendonca and Father Jo seph Oliveira, pastor of St. Michael's. Other celebrants were Portuguese priests from the Boston archdiocese and the Providence and Fall River dio ceses. Cardinal Ribeiro began his homily in Italian, in which both he and Bishop Cronin are fluept, expressing gratitude for the bishop!s welcome. Continuing in .Portuguese, he extolled Cardinll'1 Medeiros; urging his hearers to imitate ,the prelate's virtues. Bearing the gifts at the Mass were the cardina,I's sister and brothers, Natalie Souza and Leonel and Manuel Medeiros. MusiC ~hoir. . was by,theparish .. .
'Charter for CWV . '
WASHINGTON (NC) ..:.. Cath olic War· Veterans of the United States of America Inc. has been honored by ,Congress with· a .federal charter. The organization ,is the 59th nationally to receive ,the congressional recognition. CWV, w1hich wHI celebrate its 50th annIversary in 1985, serves hospitalized veterans in 65 veter an medical centers and 18 state veteran homes. It has 326 posts in 21 states.
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by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and signed by 18 other religious leaders. It was responding to what the deaders described as "serious div,isiveness" and ",tragic schism" within the city.
Life savers SMITHVILLE, Tenn. (NC) A Tennessee state council of the Knights of Columbus is trying to save the life of a member by raising the thousands of dollars needed for a heart transplant. Lany Stevens, 29, of St. Greg ory Parish in S'mithv,Hle, suffers from a progressive heart disease which can be reversed only by replacing his damaged heart with a healthy one. In mid.September the Knights h2d raised 'between $1,300 and $U,500. mostly at a stat~ Knights of Columbus con vention and' another statewide meeting, according to former Grand Knight John Meyers.
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The 'Arrogance of the Few This past' Sunday, a group calling itself the Catholic Committee on Pluralism and Abortion ran a full page ad in the New York Times, addressing itself to the basic mes sage that the Holy Father and the bishops of the church are mistaken in their view on ~bortion. The ·signatories proposed that ~ithin the church there' are a diversity of opinions on the subject. Their paid ad vertisement stresses that there shOuld be an awareness and acceptance within the church of abortion as a moral choice.' , They also stresed that priests, religious and legis lators who explore areas of moral and legal freedom on the abortion question should be exempt from cen~ure. . . Attempted credibility w~s given the ad ~y the usual· list of signatures which included professors m such col leges and universities as Notre Dame, Manhattan and Mar quette and a scattering of padres and. representatives of religious women affiliated with such. communities as the Sisters of Charity of New Jersey, the Maryknoll School of Theology and the Sisters of Notre Dame. It should be obvious that the appearance of such an ad in such a paper at such a political time did not happen by chance. It is nothing more than a public relations at tempt by the so-called free choice fo~ce to raise funds; 'a deliberate attempt to cause confusi.on, doubt and divisive ness in the American church and an open defiance of church teaching as enunciated by the pope and toe· hier archy. . . The posifion here espoused represents an attemp~ by the pro-choice forces to reduce Catholic moral, and e~ical teachings to nothing more than the results 9f.~ sociolo~ical survey. The Word and the handing on of the Word are not mere acts of probability. Moral principles given us by divine revelation are not matters for popularity polls. Somewhere along the line theological speculation has become a substitute for the covenant of faith that is ours as the people of God. A Catholic should not be guided merely by what other people are doing or saying. If one honestly wishes to' resolv.e doubt or hesitancy with' regard to faith or morals, . one need only apply the consistent teaching that truth.can be arrived at by the sincere seeker who takes into account the teachings of Jesus and his. church. An ad of this type is even more odious when signed by men and women who at one time promised to obey their freely chosen superiors. ~ It is tragic to see those who .have been educated and nurtured in the church become her adversary in a time of moral need and concern. It is' imperative today that all in the church have the courage to decry the intrusive attitudes of such 'organiza tions as Catholics for a Free Choice and now the Catholic Committee on Pluralism and Abortion. To help finance such organizations is no more than support of an attempt to shred into pieces the Mystical Body of Christ. At this time in Christian history we certainly should not have to be intimidated by the arrogance of the few.
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Liberation .theology By Msgr. George G. Higgins Coverage in several U.S. Periodicals of a recent Vatican document on liberation theology was less than satisfactory. The doqIment, a 36-page "Instruc tion on Certain .Aspects of the Theology of Liberation," was ds sued by the Congregation for .the Doctrine of the Faith in September. In rare agreement, two news papers on the political right, The Wanderer and The Wall Street Journal, and The Nation, a left ist magazine, ~rroneously left the impression with their readers that the Vatican had condemned any and all forms of Latin Am erican -liberation theology. '. In fact, the ~nstruction ex plicitly distinguished between Vt~rious types of liberation theo ~ogy and in measured and care fully nuanced language, criti cized only those forms which '''in an insufficiently careful manner" use certain concepts "borrowed from various currents of Marx ist thought." The Wanderer, an independ ent national Catholic weekly, said the document repudiated "the so-called theology of .libera ,tion, branded it as a 'perversion of the Christian message' and . incompatible with the Christian's view of humanity,' " Its headline, "Holy See Repudiates Marxist
'Liberation Theology' "implied The document offers no sup that aU forms of liberation theo port for that statement. Ideologically slanted journal logy had been declared Marxist. But the document didn't say ism makes for' strange bed that. It did not describe as Marx fellows. The Journal and the Na ist any par.ticular form of libera tion never, dn my memory, ,tion theology or any individual . agreed on anything other than liberation theologian.. 1t 'simply the alphabet and the multiplica warned against 'certain devia tion table - until now. tions, or risks of deviation, in Christopher Hitchens, a regu certain unacceptable forms of lar columnist for The Nation and .liberation theology, specifically a militant agnostic, opposes Hb ,those which borrow uncritically eration theology, not because it from Marxist social analysis. is Marxist, but because it is too Exegeting the document religious. The liberation theo ,through its own ideological lens, ~ogy movement, he says, "seems .The WaH Street Journal inform to believe ,that politics and reli ed i~s readers that liberation· gion are one and the same thing, theology is nothing more than a and seems able to garner sym "publicity gimmick" cooked up pathy on the left for this sinis by communist politicians in . ter idea," Hitchens claims that the ·pope, Latin America "to sell·' them speaking infaUibly "ex cathedra," selves'in civilized world society," has decreed liberation theology But what about those Catholics essentially wrong. And if you .in Latin America who promote don't bel,jeve that, Hitchens con ,liberation ,th~ology? The Journal cludes regarding the current can't make up its mind. U.S. debate on religion and poli It described them, ·on the one tics, "then you are not a Cath hand, as naive souls who seek olic, and your argument col "Christian comfo~t dn the utop lapses in a welter of ,Hlogic ian dreams qf Karl Marx," but which is ugly to see and boring later in the same editorial said to listen to," "Latin American liberation theo-' The pope, of course, said noth logists (sic) and their many sup ing of the kind. Moreover, to porters in the American Cath suggest that the document was olic Church" are committed an exercise in papal infaUibiJdty Marxists determined to help es is downright silly. Even a self tablish totalitarian Marxist styled agnostic ought to know governments in Latin America. better.
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tunity to use the educational theories we were discussing. Often teachers get little whelming? quality time with their students. I had this feeling recently If they are 1ucky, they told me, while giving a seminar on teach ,they might have 15 good min ing sltiUs for religion teachers. utes out of an hour's class per The seminar began with a dis week. cussion of the value in accept - Many religion classes are com· ing a student where he or she posed of heterogeneous groups is. This approach contrasts with of students who don't know efforts to force adult thinking on each other, who are on different students without first under levels of development or who standing their experiences and don't want to ,be there. AU too thinking? often, their parents are less sup We went on to discuss other portive in encouraging them to points such as: be industrious or ~especUul of -complimenting students on their religion teachers. their work. Not only should Yet even though the odds that teachers use such words members of this seminar group as "good," "excellent," "well would go back to an ideal teach done," but they should take ex ing situation were slim, one out tra time to specify what jn par standing quality stood out among ticular makes a performance them - their enthusiasm and good: What did the student say, goodness placed them at the top reflect or do that made this of the zeal scale. work. outstanding? As I 'looked at the group, I -speakirig to the higher as relll1ized it included many Pll{ pirations of students. How can ents as weH as single persons. teachers encourage their students Then a consoling thought struck to move beyond a good effort me. and ,try to make it the best? I wondered how many par I was happy with my presenta ents had begun aduJ.t Hfe armed tion until we began to talk about with idealistic principles for ,the real world in which these child.rearing or home Hfe, only religion teachers teach. Then I to awaken to the reality of wet
Have you ever had the sudden feeling that what you are doing is futile, that the odds against you are over
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 12, 1984
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EUGENE HEMRICK diapers and children's colds. Some may have awoken to a broken marriage. I was sure too ,that many of the single persons in the group had faced problems which brought them pain and unctlr tainty - a job in jeopardy, a valued friendship broken. I think it would be safe to say that at one time or other every person in my seminar had been through some type of gristmill. Yet most not only survived, tbey were willing to invest their effort again. . ~o it seems t~ me that religion teachers bring a strength to ,their task that is often forgotten by others - ,the insights derived from their experiences in life, the maturity that has grown in them over the years through -the sacraments, ,through their life of faith and through their responses to difficult circumstances. Tl\usting in their resilience I believe that most are more s~c cessful at applying good princi ples of teaching than many peo ple might suspect.
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Q. Whatever happened to the prayer to 51. Michael alter Mass? I understand that it has been dropped. But I believe it was in stituted by Pope Gregory, who said It was to be prayed after every Mass. What happened? (Louisiana) 1'.. You refer to what are us· ually caIled the Leonine prayers, after Pope Leo XIII who institu ted them in the last century. As you indicate, these prayers are now officially dropped. The reason is that they were among many changes and additions to ,the Mass over the past 400 years which tended to obscure the true meaning and essential parts of the celebration of the Eucharist. In establishing basically what we have come to call the Tl'liden tine Mass, Pope ,Pius V (in 1570) thought he was going back to the ancient Roman Mass-which he was not, since many ancient texts familiar to us were un known to the scholars of his age. In spite of his declaration that this form of the Mass was to be used "ad perpetuam rei memo riam" (a common phrase in im portant papal documents, mean· ing in perpetuity), numerous popes afte~him did not feel By", bound to his form, just as he did The story was told to me standards or vaiues contrary to not feel hound in such things by a couple of weeks ago. A 13- the peer group. We nod, we un· DOLORES previous popes. year-old got a three-colored derstand and we compromise. At any rate, when Leo became punk haircut without wam,But Jet's consider the counter CURRAN pope in 1878, he was in effect a ing his parents. The fa~i'ly was response by parents: ".All par· voluntary "pl'iisoner" in the Vati leaving a few days later for a ents don't approve." To young can, a consequence of papal con- _ family reunion and golden wed- people that's irrelevant, unfair filicts with the Italian revolution ding anniversary in rural Ameri. and ignOl;ed. They don't try to ary movements. In 1884 he or ca two staJtes away. Aware of understand or compromise, part· sons. that we are in· dered certain prayers to be said 2. The other is the transistory nature of adoles- ~y because we've abdicated our terdependent when it comes to after Mass "for the freedom of cent fads, the parents did not rigihts to peer pressure. peer approval. Kids are embar the church." 'Later he added a want their son to be ~abeled I know kids have peer pres rassed if their parents are far prayer ,to St. Michael. Pius X punk for life by cousins and sures. They must dress alike, be out, make a scene, or drink too added the invocations to the other relatives so they decided have alike and conform in order much. Their. friends ask ques Sacred Heart and Pius XI made to leave him with friends at to be accepted. If they strike the intenti{)n "for Russia." out on their own, they're friend- tions and make snide comments home. - even 'pull away. Part of the diff,iculty was that, He was furious and charged less and lonely ......: the worst But so are parents entitled to as with some other changes, that his parents didn't under. thing that can happen to them peer approval. If their chHdren people began to see these pray stand him, peer pressures, or at this age. . ers as part of the Mass, making adolescent approval. "AU you But I wonder if kids have any get in trouble, sport' weird hair think about it what people inkling that their parents have dos, or drink too much, parents . the dismissal of the end of Mass at least purposeless. Thus, ,long think," Ihe said, with nary a to play the same game. We want are ,embarrassed,Our friends ask questions, make comments before Vatican CouncH II <the thought for irony and paradox. to be liked and respected by Where is it wribten that peer peers, too. We may not ~ike a and, sometimes,. pull away. When· rule for their use was relaxed. pressure belongs to the young? joke but we smi,le at it rather we assert this as a valid reason The Leonine prayers were ex plicitly suppressed by the Sacred Thb:\kpeer pressure and the than !be accused of not having a for standards of be.havior, kids Congregati{)n for Rites .'in 1964. mind conjures images of adoles- sense of humor. We hold a' drink get furious. They don't care what Q. What do you tlrlnk of cent gangs, alcohol, drugs, and in our hands aU' night, even if our friends, co-workers, or the neighbors think. That's our prob parents who arrange to have general headaches for parents we don't drink. lem. . their bodies cremated immedi and other authorities. But when We don't strain the conversa-' ately after death? One of our What's fair for one is fair for did we turn peer pressure over <tion by bringing up unpopular to youth as their private hell? subjects. We Usten to the boss's the other. I'm not suggesting parents is hopelessly Ul and can die at any time. They live on our standards be dependent upon Parents have peer pressures, fish stories and pretend to 'be one coast ami we live on the too, and I think ,it's time we ~et lieve them. Like adolescents, society's approval but that the other. I was home for a visit fair adolescent is as considerate our young know. it, because it's we're constantly called upon to within the last month and it of his parents' need for peer ap when adolescent and parent peer pretend and to smile. would be a big financial drain proval as he expects his parents pressures face off that we inThe difference between adoles to go back again to attend the to Ibe of his. herit the conflict. When. youth cent and adult peer pressure is funeral service for a "can of have aU the weapons and under- two-fold: 1. We have developed ashes." standing on their side, parents more resourctlS to deal with so If the body were there for a THE ANCHOR lUSPS-54S-D20). Second Class are the misunderstood ones. cial pressures and these we Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published viewing I can see going home to Our youth lay claim to peer should share with our kids. In weekly except the week of July 4 and the after Christmas at 410 Highland Aven. the service. I also feel that view pressure as an explanation of stead of pretending we never week ue, Fall River, Mass. 02720 by the cath ing the body after death has a olic Press of the Olocese of Fall River. their behavior. "All the kids do . had their pressures or of serving Subscription price by mall, postpaid $8.00 therapeutic value for the family. it" is a famBiar wail heard by as critic, we can teU them how per year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA It makes the "t;oodbye" more par:ents whenever we aS$ert we learned to be Qur own per- 02722.
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realistic and final. What should we do? (Mass.) A. Your letter emphasizes something I have suggested often in th'is column. No mem ber of a family, it seems to me, especiaIly parents and grandpar ents, should provide for. their own cremation without discuss dng it very carefully and sensi· tively with their chi-Idren. When people get older, and especiaHy if there is 18 financial bind, they may feel that crema tion is the only way to go, if you'll excuse the expression. They forget the point you make ,in your 1etter, ,that a funeral with the body present and burial of the body can be an important part of the grieving process and of understanding 'and accepting the death of a loved one. This is particularly true of younger people, though it might be said to some degree of all of us. Cultures in other parts of the world may differ but we can not wipe out our own cultural background simply because something is more convenient. Cremation is allowed by the church, as I have explained, and in some instances may be the appropri'ate ]plan for an indivi dual or couple to make. But it should be done with love and concern for how it wiH affect one's family. I suggest you talk to your parents about this, perhaps even send them a copy of th.is column. I hope that way you will come to 'a caring and 'agreeable deci sion for all of you. Q. We recently received a new associate pastor at our par ish: He was incardinated into our diocese. What does that mean? I thought once you were ordained you remained within your dio cese. What would prompt such ant occurrence? What are the procedures? (Wis.) A. You are correct in that every diocesan priest is incardi nated (affiliated) with some dio cese, to serve under the bishop of .that diocese. However, sometimes family, health or other reasons make it desirable for a priest to move from one diocese to another. This is arranged through and with the two bishops involved and of course in consultation with the priest himself. This may occur not only after ordina,tion, but whHe the student is still 'preparing for the priest hood. ..A free brochure expJa.ining! C..atholic regulations about cre mation and other funeral prac tices is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Father Dietzen, Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., Bloom ington, D1. G1701.
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COIIo,ell ' Continued from ,Page One mond ,Lavoie, Mrs. Anthony
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'dent, in charge of decoration~; and Mrs. Anthony Geary, han :dling special d~vitations. In other DCCW news, three , :members and Msgr. Anthony ':M. Gomes, diocesan' moderator, wiil represent the diocese at the biennial' general assembly of the Natiorial Council of Catholic ,Women, to be held Oct. 15 through'18 in Salt Lake City. The members are Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., a past OCCW
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of Gonzaga University lin Spo kane, Wash., will give the key- note address. Other speakers will discuss reconcHiation, outreach to His panics and Pope John Paul II's recent talks on the family.
CLNCINNATI (NC)-A'rohbish op Daniel E. PHarczyk of Cin cinnati has ·requested that the topic of declining Mass attend ance be put on the agenda of ,the Nov. 12-15 meeting of if;he Nationa'1 Conf~ence of Catholic Bishops. At a meeting of the Cincinnati Archdiocesan Pastoral Council he suggested that changing atti tudes might be the reason for declining Mass attendance, not ing that in the past, Catholics thought' it was a mortal sin to miss Mass'on Sunday" '.' ' "There is no IQnger that"atti tude," lie said. '''Moroe :and' more people regard 'them~lves as good Catholics even if. they BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN was guest of ho'nor at the traditional Octobe~ living don't go to Mass every Sunday." rosary program held last week by the Fall Ri ver .District Council of Catholic Women at ,Archbishop Pilarczyk said he Sacred Heart Church. From left, Father Barry W; ~7an, host church pastor; Mrs. Edmond submitted the, proposal to the Antaya, program chairman; the bishop;' Mrs. David Sellmayer, diocesan council presi NCCB because he, thought de dent; Mrs. Raymond Lavoie, district president; Msgr. Anthony M, Gomes, diocesan: and clining Mass attendance.is prob ably a general phenomenon, bet district council moderator. (Torchia Photo) ter remedied at the nationa'l ,level. ' GaIlup figures on 1983 ,!Mass attendance among U.S. Catholics indicate attendance is increasing slightly, up to 52 percent com tipped his hand in· favor of a the 19808 find certain Catholic pared to 47 percent in 1977. Continued from page one ire from New York bishops, and paritsan 'position," the historian politicians not only declin-ing to However, 1950 Gallup figures in take their cues from bishops on dicate that about 70 percent of that in the 1930s Father Otal'l1es said. Coughlin was an ardent pOlitical U.S. ,Cathol,ics 'attended Mass , If there are new elements in moral issues but publiCly oppos 'partisan, eventually founding his the current religion' and politics ing them," Msgr. ·Ellis wrote. then. own political party. debate, said Msgr. Ellis, they He did not expand on his view In 1975, Wil:liam McCready of of thai development, except to However, particanship of that are due to the "radically altered say that it "probably woU'ld have the National Opinion Research kind by church officials was t.he situation" . of the Catholic astonished the grandparents of Center in Chicago said a study by' his group indicated that exception rather than the role, Church in Amerjca today. both the politicans and the changing Catholic attitudes to Msgr. Ellis said. Catholics, he said, have c;ome bishops."
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He held up as "the nearest into "the American mainstream." the papacy accounted in part for thing to an ideal" the stance of They no longer face the wide- "the tangled skein" of the cur
severe' Catholic declines in Mass spread 'suspicion as "a 'foreign' - rent debate overreligi~n in Cardinll'1 James Gibbons of BaUi attendance. ' power and influence" which, be- politics, the historian wrote, but more, who died in 1921. "Na Mass attendance by .He said tionally famous for his con tween the 1840s and 1940s, led it can help people avoid "the U.S. Catholics had dropped more spicuous adherence to his duty to "five major organized cam- curse of 'presentism' by showing than 30 percent from 1963 to that the problem is not some as a citizen, yet 'as a bishop of 'paignS against t!he church." 1974. the church he never publicly "The changed conditions of thing new."
Long vie\\r, of election
Love and Witness MIAMI ~C) - Catholics can radica:lly change society, through love, .Al'chbishop Edward Mc Carthy of Miami said in a pas toral letter beginning a year of Love and Witness in the arch diOCese. "We can incite a gentle but powerful revolution sweep ing aside greed, consumerism, secularism and materialism," he said in' a 7,500-word pastoral letter printed in The Voice, arch diocesan newsweekly. "This Gospel transformation 'of our w9rld by the miracle of love lis not an impossible dream! One of every four people in South Florida is Catholic. Many other faiths are equally commi1Jtted to 'change in the world of our day," he added.
Pope plans trip to Netherlands
Pope meets Latin bishops With NC News reports Pope John Paul II completes a whirlwind trip to Spain, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico today. His announced program in cluded meetings with Spanish Catholics in, Zaragoza, Spain, and men and women'religious in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 'The trip was centered on a meeting of Latin American bish-, ops and celebrations marking Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The pope left home Wednesday afternoon and arrived at Zara goza for an evening visit to the Basilica of Pilar. Leaving Zaragoza yesterday
morning; he arrived in Santo Domingo in mid-afternoon. After Mass at an arena, he met briefly with Dominican Republic Presi dent Salvador Jorge ,Blanco and , visited the city cathedrat He met last night with Domin ican Republic bishops and Latin American bishops. The Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) plans to meet in Santo Domingo today to begin prepa rations for the 500thanniversary of Christianity in the region, to take place in 1992. Today,' plans called for the pope to 'participate in an ecu menical meeting, lead the Litur gy of the Word in Santo Dom ingo's Olympic Stadium, and
meet with diplomats before leaving the Dominican Republic MILAN, Italy (NC) -:- Pope for the short night to Puerto John Paul II plans to visit the Rico. Netherlands May 11-14, 1985, After welcoming. ceremonies said a Dutch archbishop quoted in Avvenire, an Italian Catholic in San Juan,' the pope is sched uled to celebrate Mass in the 'newspaper published lin Milan. city's central plaza. He then Avvenjre reported that the plans' to meet with Puerto Rican visit was announced at a press bishops and, then with clergy, conference by Archbishop Adri men and women religious and anus Simonis of Utrecht, Nether se~1nari~ns in a sports arena. , lands. The Archbishop said'the The pope is scheduled to leave pope's schedule would include San Juan late tonight, arriving meetings with religious, govern ment and church officials and in Rome Oct. 13. . the Jewish community, as weIl The trip is his second to the Dominican Republic, which he as peace and security dW'ling a visited on his way to Mexico in visit to the World Court at Th,e 1979. It is the first papal trip to Hague. About 40 percent of the Puerto Rico. Netherlands' 14.2 minion popu 3 . lation is Catholic. 'Since Vatican II, the Dutch Catholic Church GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS has faced divisions among the hierarchy, olergy' and laity re garding application of council reforms. Pope John Paul caIled a special synod of the Dutch bishops at the Vatican in 1980 HALLETT . at which they pledged to foster unity. Funeral Home Inc.
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devoted considerabte space to the N.E. bishops' address to ¢he voters on the responsibilities of citizenship. The alleged timing and purpose of the address was to "assist people 1n :reflecting upon the principles which are rooted in our faith in anticipa tion of the exercise of oUf prlvi ~ege and 'I'esponsibUity of vot ing. . . . ." As our teachers, 1 acknowl edge the bishops' authority, right and duty to instruct. !However; I do have a sincere disagreement that their statement "does not take positions for or against po Iitica'l candidates." By stating that abortion Is THE DECISIVE issue in this campaign, the N .E. bishops stand shoulder to shoul der with Jerry F~well in en dorsing Ronald Reagan. Let me state that I. am pro life and believe that abortion is a heinous crime. But, when making a deoision, I want to know aU the. facts. When the N.E. bishops take a stand on a serious moral issue, it should be presented that way. iNot as dogma. Give us aU the facts, not just those that support a particular point of view. In conclusion, let me state that along with abortion, sexual abuse of children is a national disgrace. 'In our own diocese, we have a candidate for political office who plied a young page with alcohol .and engaged him in a hom()~ :relationship. I can't recall reading one word in
The Anchor about ,the responsi bilities of citizenship on this moral issue. Why? '1 don't be lieve for one minute that the N.E. bishops aren't concerned. Walter J. iBums Jr. Fall River With regard to the last para graph or Mr. Bums' letter, an editorial or July 29, 1983, strong ly suggested that the congress.. mau In question resign his of
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Make it easier Dear EdItor: I have been 'a Catholic aU my Hfe. 1 have been prQud to go to Mass and Communion every morning, but I crdnge at ,the co ordinated, broad-scale attack the Beading Catholic prelates are. making against the· Democrats. Reagan is reaping the benefits. The Catholic bishops were wrong when they came out against . Geraldine Ferraro's views o~ abortion. The bishops need fo teach Catholics to op pose abor-tion for themselves. They should do a better job with Catholics. They should not ex pect the government, to ban by maw what cannot be banned by preaching or example. Mondale and 'Ferraro ihave been battered by the clergy-Jed assault like no presidential ticket before them. 'We Catholics are the ones who were perse cuted on these shores not too long ago, and now our bishops are attempting to do the same thing. I say to the church - support government a,id for pregnant mothers, give the sick, homeless and unemployed better treat ment, make it easier for young women to bring up a baby. If the mother feels wanted, the baby will be wanted. Esther C. Martin North Falmouth
:.'. Guinea archbishop visits homeland CONAKRY, Guinea (NC) Archbishop Raymond-iMarie 'rchidlmbo of' the Vatican's 'Council· for the Family visited iConakry tin September for the !first time since he was released from a Guinean prison in 1979. , All Africa Press Service said the visit of. the former arch bishop of Conakry signified re turn of normal relations between the church and Guinea following overthrow of the government of ,the late President Ahmed Se kou Toure. Catholics form !less than 1 percent of the country's population. In 1971, the archbishop, 62, a Guinean member of the Holy Ghost Fathers, was sentenced to llife imprisonment after being charged With conspiring to over throw Toure's government. He was released In 1979 following negotiations between the Vati can and the Guinean govern ment. The archbishop resigned his see a few days after release. When President Toure, who
died earlier ,this year,was elect ed in 1961 his government con fisoated church schools and ex pelIed Conakry's -French-born' Archbishop Gerard de MHleville, Archbishop Tchidimbo ·replaced Archbishop de Milleville. In 1967, Toure ordered all foreign .missionaries to 1eave, saying he wanted to Africanize the Guinea church. That order left only Archbish op Tchidimbo and eight Guinean priests for the country's 26,000 Catho1ics.
Twin he.ads BOCA RATON, Fla. (NC) Sister Immaculata Murphy, an Irish-born Sister of Mercy WIho has spent all of her religious life in Florida, has been elected su perior general of the Sisters of the Union of too Sisters of Mercy of too dioceses of Cork and Ross in Ireland. Sister Mur phy's twin brother, Father Con Murphy, is prOVincial superior of the Society of Missionaries in Afrl~ll.
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Doug and Maryann By Hilda Young I remember h~w funny Doug used to be at parties after a drink or' two. Everyone liked Doug, As a matter of fact, we couldn't understand why Doug's wife Maryann never laughed much with us. Just probably used to his antics we thought. Yet gradually she seemed to stop even smiling, and would nag Doug about his drinking, when she thought none of us would hear. And he did seem -to be drinking more. "I was thinking about the :ride home," she sa,id recently. "I was thinking about how I'd plead with him to ~et me drive, about the. times he'd been stopped by the police, about the scene he'd probably have with the baby sitter, about how he'd probably head right for the scotch the minute he set foot in the house, about the smell of him in bed. I'd be saying a 'Ha,j-J Mary' under my breath that the kids wouldn't wake up." The kids did wake up. Often. "When they w~re tiny, they'd ask why daddy was acting so funny. Now they just say, 'Oh, he's that way again.''' Couldn't she get him to slow it down? Didn't he see what he was doing to the kids, to her, to himself? . , ';He would always feel so ashamed, so guilty. Sometimes he would stop for a day or two.' But never long. . . . "The promises. His promises and contrioteness would have filled an ocean," she said wJth a touch of pain and bitterness. "I honestly used to start to' become almost nauseous when he'd swear it wouldn't happen again." She drew in 'a deep breath and her voice quivered. "But you know, they weren't reaHy lies. He just' needed them Eke he needed the ·alcohol. They oame together in the .bottle." Maryann said she'd empty the bottles dn the sink. She'd threaten to leave him if he didn't get help. She'd be mean. Her worry and concern started :to turn into anger ~nd ha,te. She started going to a counselor to see what might be wrong with her. . "They keep telling me to stop rescuing him, to 'let him hit bottom. How do you do that?
How do you decide to just stand aEJdeand watch someone you love slow-ly,kiH themselves?"
But somehow she did find the coumge to do what is hardest sometimes when people we
,love are in trouble - move aside. "It seemed selfish at first," she said. "But one morning I looked in the mirror and found , a tired, worn-out, sad woman sbaning back. I looked 70, not 36. "The disease was kiHing both of us - and infecting the kids. They had stopped bringing frien~s home. They were suHen. Their grades dropped. They shut us both out. God forgive me, he moved out." '~aryann doesn't know what the future hoids. But she has hope. She has aearned enough about' a'lcoholism to know fairy tale endings are not the norm. Her life has become manageable. The chi! dren are doing better in school and seem a little happier. , DOug has already tried one treatment program' wIth only temporary success. But he tried.
By Father James Powderly
such advice is inexcusable you might say it cries to heaven for vengeance.' Would anyone teN you to do nothing if some one you loved had cancer and didn't want to see a doctor? We have now come too far in the field of alcoholism, especiaHy with the success rate of the in tervention methods of employee assistance programs, to take a giant step backwards and wait for the alcoholic to hit bottom.
I'm an ,alcoholic. And I'm a priest. If it serves no other pur pose, starting an 'article with those two sta,tements at least gets your attention. The great miracle of my life is that I am no 10nger drinking or a drunken alcoholic. Because 10vJng, concerned people who knew when I was in trouble with alcohol found out what to do, I have been in recovery from I said eadier that I know liter this, problem for over 16 years. These friends, and they were ally hundreds of people; men, friends in the truest sense of the women, and yes, teenagers too, word ·because they risked my who are happily and gratefully wrath, my anger, my hostHity, in recovery from alcoholism. and a lot more, didn't always Very near 100 percent of them know exactly the best thing to would tell you that their recov ery began because others cared do in the light of today's re search and knowledge, but -they enough to force them' to get never gave up on me and ,they help. They may not have wanted help· in the beginning, but they never stopped trying. went along with it to avoid some I am aLive today because car ing people like Cardinal O'Boyle, greater loss. For the last few' years, I have Father Joe Dooley, the late Mon been offering workshops in our signor Joe Corbett, some mem bers of my family' and some parishes on the basics of ako other friends, espedaHy some holism and the most cUrrent A.A. people, wouIdn't wait for knowledge on intervention. So me to hit bottom - they knew far, 18 parishes have provided that bottom for ,the alcoholic is the opportunity for these work the grave 'or the ins.ane asylum. shops (they're free), -and the re What prompts me to write ports that I have received tell this now is an article by Hilda me that they have been worth Young that appeared in the the time and the effort. When people have closely followed the Catholic Standard (of the arch diocese of Washington, D.C.) current techniques of interven Ms. Young's article ,teLls tJ.1e tion, in most cases the alcoholic story of her friend Maryann has sought treatment. Where it whose husband Doug had an has fa,iled, it has usually been alcoholic problem. (It' is - reo because ,the intervenors feM back into. old ways of, thinking and printed at left. Editor) deviated from the recommended I ,congratulate the Standard methods. for printing the story, for H told The message that I would like ,in capsule form the story I :hear ,repeated 10 to 20 times' a week to get across is simply this: if in my work as Consultant on anyone you know and 'love has analcohol'ism problem, you are AI~oholism for the Washington archdiocese. It it accomplishes not 'alone. It is the second or' nothing else, the story tells many third leading illness in our coun Standard readers who have had try today. Help is available. a similar family problem that Don't be afraid or embarrassed to seek direction from a quaH they 'are not -alone. In ·the story, Maryann "has fied alcoholism counselor. And learned enough about a'lcoholism if, like the wJfe in the story, you to know ·that fairy-twe endings are told to stand aside and wait for your 181coholic to hit bottom, are not ,the norm." that counselor to get out of tell Unfortunately, this is too often the troth of the matter, the field of a1coholism and you but we know now that it does seek help from someone else. not have to, continue to be like 'Parents often teLl their young sters not to, get caught up in that. My life has been ,a fairy tale ending for the last 16 years -tha,t old belief that "it can't hap and I am privileged to know pen to me." Well, maybe the IiteraUy hundred~ of others who .fairy-ta'le endings are not yet can say the same thing, the norm, but I have known an The real villain in the story awful 'lot of famiLies who have by HHda Young, and the viHa.in come to "-live happily ever after" in so many famHies whose olives alcoholism. are continually being wrecked, ,Please, if you know an alco is not the illness of alcoholism, holic, Hke you have told your which always has and probably children, don't believe that the always will be with -us. same happy ending can't happen The great tragedy of the story ,to you. 'Break through the chains by Hilda Young is. ,the couple of ignorance of this iHness and waited so 'long to seek help. -learn what you can do. My final And when the wife finaUy did, question to you is: if your way she. was, told to stand aside and -trying to improve the situa wait for him to hit bottom. Her tion ,hasn't been working, why me, her husband's life, and the not try someone else's way? children's Jives were all in What have you got to Jose? shambles,and she is told to do Reprinted by permissiOlJi from nothing! the Catholic newspaper of the In the light of current knowl edge available about a'1coho'lism Wl1llhington, D.C. Archdiocese, and :. interv.ention,· techniques, The Catholic Standard.
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Wol~ld's Catholics prepare for l\'Iission Sunday The world's 800 million Cath olics will celebrate as one com munity of faith on Oct. 21, World Mission Sunday 1984. It is the day when, as Pope John Paul II said last year, "the Church, Mother and Teacher, caring for the good of aB, ex tends her hand through the So ciety for the Propagation of the Faith to gather aid from people of good wilt"
Mission Sunday collection goes to needy U.S. dioceses and nine percent to mission areas in the Near .East. Commenting on World Mis sion Sunday Msgr: lWiHiam J. McCormack, nation8!1 director of the Propagation of the Faith, said "Our Holy Father has re minded us that there ar,e many who do not yet know of 'the un fathomable riches of Christ' especially the poor and aban doned who turn to the mission Church for help: refugees in Africa and Indochina, the suf fering poor in Latin America, the homeless and hungry in India.
"Mission Sunday is the focal point of our efforts each year," said Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Fall River diocesan director for the Propagation of the Faith. "We try to promote an appreciation of the church's universal and missionary identity, as well as "That is why we stress -as the raise funds for the needs of the theme of World Mission Sunday mission church. And the people this year the words of St. Paul, of the Fan River diocese have 'How can they believe, if they always been generous in re have not heard?' We ask Amer sponse to those needs, which in- . acan Catholicl;l ito consider too crease' every year." how can they hope, how can Last year's Mission Sunday they survive if w~ do not reach collection in the United States out to help them?" amounted to som'e $17 miBion. The Propagation of the Faith 51 percent of that total went is charged by the pope and bish towards the $40 million United ops to foster a missionary spir.i~ States contribution to the world among Catholics, and to gene wide general fund of the Propa rate support for the missions. It gation of the Faith. This fund is an integra'! part of church life is used to support pastoral pro in over 100 countries and is grams and evangelizing efforts established in every U.S. diocese. of the church in some 800 needy dioceses, most of ,them in coun tries of the developing world. In addition, 40 percent of the ST. LOUIS (NC) - Despite enormous problems, the Cath olic Church in Africa is growing, said Archbishop John L. May, recently returned from Zaire, where he attended a meeting on the church and human rights. Poverty, i1rIiteracy, despotism, tribal factionalism and language barriers are among church prob lems, said the archbishop, but @J:p he noted ,that vocations are in .creasing. The African bishops ~o~ are drafting a 'pastoral letter on ""IlJ"p. 'TIanw's no t.Gt'Olion /rom )'OUf miuion ,.sponsibili,.,. R........ bn WOTId MiuiDn SundDy. economic development and social Octobn 2/,,11' .f justice for release in .1985. -. '. -
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By Msgr. George G. Higgins Sometimes it is a delight to be proven wrong. Recently I wrote about some of the historical· and biblical problems 'presented by most of the well-known passion' plays performed in the United States and Europe, and I lamented that I knew of no contemporary ver sion that could serve as a model of how a responsible passion play might be presented. ' Happily I have now heard of one that goes a ,long way' to ward this goal. It is "A Passion ,Play," by Catherine de Vinck, a Catholic poet of great sensitivity and compassion. While I am not a poet and therefore not in a position to of fer a critical literary review of Ms. De Vinck's remarkable dramatization, I can. say that simply reading the text was a moving spiritual experience for me. Her vision is deeply religious and ,in many ways thoughtfully profound. It ,expresses the full meaning of Christ's passion as called for, iby the catechism of ,the Council of Trent in the 16th century, but seldom achieved in practice: . "In this guilt are involved all those who fall frequently into sin; for, as our sins consigned Christ the Lord to the death of the cross,' most .certainly those who waJIow in sin and inequity crucify for themse'ves again the Son of' God. This guilt seems more enormous in us ,than in the Jews, since -according to ,the epistle: If they had know!1 it, , they would never have crucified the Lord of glory; while we, on the contrary, professing to know him, yet denying him by our actions, seem in some sort to Jay violent hands on him (ijeb 6:6; 1 Cor. 2:8)."
Ms.· De Vinck's version of the passion is not so much a histori cal rendering as a spiritual medi tation. 'Indeed, on I the level of history it could bt! faulted for faiUng ,to challenge the erron· eous notion, for example, of Pilate as sort of a pious searcher for truth when in fact he was a bloodthirsty tyrant. ' But ,:'A Passiol1 Play" chal.lenges us on a deeper level than · t . I . . h IS orlca reconstruction, and It
is on the level of faith that it ' p~o~ides a model for other deplctlOns. . By stressing the Jewishness of Jesus and that of many 'of the pJ;imary actors on all "sides" of the drama, Ms. De Vinck is especially effective in focusing
our attention 'on Jews' humanity. By stressing the details of each person's story as it unfolds, the significance of Christ's life, death and resurrection for all humankind' is brought into sharp relief. We become part of the
drama, with all its human ambi guities and divine grace. . A passage from Jesus's words to the weeping women of Jerusa l~m illustrates the clarity and challenging urgency of Ms. De Vinck's use 'of ,language: "My sisters, in my dying I 'sing Kaddish with you. I am not a God of nowhere, but Myriam's son; my roots stand firm in your soil, Israel! With you I mourn, with you I am sent by cattle car. ,to sealed rooms deep into a smoky darkness. Who is killing me? A few Romans, a handful of Jews? Here and now, yes; but my death grows elsewhere, hangs in a thousand evil trees. The hands that kill, hold .the club, aim the gun, drop the bomb; the eyes that hunt me glow at all hours - Rome, Con stantinople, Auschwitz, Hiro-
shima, Babi Yar - names are tattooed on my flesh, numbers are carved in my wrists while the world wri~es its history with the iron alphabet of war."· Catherine de Vinck was born in Belgium and came to America after World War 11. Her words speak the language of a bitter experience and deep hope. Her "Passion Play" can be ordered from Alleluia Press, .Box 103, Allendale, N.J. 07401. .
It's Dechantagain OITAWA -(NC)-The Knights of Columbus Board have elected Virgil C. Dechant to his ninth term as supreme knight of the
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The Greatest "To fall in Jove· with God is the greatest of all.romances; to seek him, the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement." - Raphael Simon
Helping troubled -workers By Antoinette Bosco A former journalism colleague has, been getting ill on the job with severe stomach distress. He carries a popular antacid medication around with him. On several occasions he has had to take Itime off 'at work to lie down. His coworkers are con cerned about him. What they don't know 'is that his teen-age son has had a breakdown and is in a state of severe depression. Because of suicide threats, he occasionally needs round-the-clock care. This has continued for severa'l months. In addition to his understand able distress as a father seeing the son !he Iloves in such terrible pain, he hps another reM worry - money. The cost of in-patient pschiatric care is out of sight. This man's medical plan has just about run out of coverage for his son's hospitalization. There's no way he can pick up the costs. Medication and 24 hour nursing care add up to about $2,000 a week. Though unfortunately not available to my friend, there is a new movement in the business world to !help employees suffer ing stress from personal ,prob lems. Employee Assistance 'Pro gram is usually what it's termed. Under the program, businesses' add a social worker to their staffs. He or she helps workers with problems unrelated to their jobs but nevertheless, affecting their job performance. The University of Connecti-
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cut's school of social work trains students for this field. Its director of field education, John Conldin, calls it "a trend of the future." What is the rationale behind the new program? Companies realize it is important to help workers through personal c~ises. And in many cases, Conklin ex plained, it is to the company's benefit to do so rather than to hire and train a new employee. More and more companies ,are beginning to respond understand ingly to workers once highly productive who begin losing time on the job. Companies may grant these workers what they call, on the record; "sick oJeave" to help them cope with what MSGR, THOMAS J, HARRINGTON meets with permanent deacons at opening meet ever their personiW problem may be. ing, of post-ordination program. The session took place at the Diocesan Family Life Center Employee Assistance Pro in North Dartmouth; (Rosa'Photo) grams, now being instituted in some ibanks, inslH"ance compan ies and industries, are an' im- ' portant move from the top down to recognize new pressures on American workers. ' BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (NC} and hurt the poor, citing figures material goods. Instead, he pro They show the business world's Neglect of the poor was the that 26 minion people Jell below nounces very harsh words willingness to do something focus of ,the Nationa'l Conference the poverty, level as a result of against those who use their pos about these problems because of Catholic Charities' annual the cuts. He also said taxes sessions in a selfish way, with they value their workers. meeting in 'Bal Harbour' Sept. paid by poor famIlies doubled out paying 'attention to the needs The National Association of 27-Qct.2. of others. between 1980 and 1983. Social Workers will sponsor a The Conference, which pro '''Our aUernatives are clear. Father Drinan also cited the coHoquim on Employee Assis motes programs and Ilctivities fel,lowship or annihila· Either recently released Vatican docu tance Programs next year. of U.S. Catholic communIty and ment on ldberation theology, say tion; Either East-West reconcili It is an encouraging sign of socral service agencies, has a ing that it "should not in any ation and North-South equaliza human concern when businesses membership including 545 dio way be interpreted as a dis tion or war on everyone by take on this new progratl) asa cesan' 'agencies, among them avowal of aU those who want everyone," he said. benef,it for their workers, recog Catholic Social Services of .the to respond . . . with evangelical Hunger is a problem of dis nizing it is one with good reo .Fall River diocese. spirit to help the poor." tribution, the cardinal said, not turns for the company too. At the "irst genera" session CardinaoJ do Nascimento said of having too many people and Jesuit Father Robert' Drinail ',blamed the Reagan administra he spoke "on behalf of millions too mUe food. Jennifer James, a newspaper tion for waging "a war against of starving children, homeless old people and scourged youth columnist and radio commenta· the poor." tese delegation did not consider tor with a doctorate in cultural . The next day, Cardinal Alex who have almost no hope." . the Vatican's proposal accept· andre do Nascimento of Lu He is president of Caritas 'In anthropology, stressed in another able. No details of the proposal bango, Angola, criticized the tern'ational, an international as session it was not material were given. United States and the rest of sociation of Catholic charities weaoJth hut spiritual fulfillment Malta;s Federation of Parent the developed world for failing and development organizations. that matters. Teacher Associations '(FPTA) to meet their obligations· to the "I am not here to pass judg "Instead of searching for supports archbishop Mercieca's world's poor. ment upon the First World," re quantity, people are beginning contention that the church can Father Drinan claimed that said. "Nowhere does Christ con to look for quality in their lives," not offer tuition·free education. Reagan tax .cuts helped the rich demn the mere possession of Ms. James declared. It said that "apart from the fin ancial impossibility of a no fees situation, the other COnt:li tions (of oJicensing) amount to total control without appeal, a total destruction of the identity and character and autonomy of church schools." Denying Prime Minister Min tofrs contention that the issue behind the tuition battle is opening Caholic schools to stu dents from poor families, the FPTA reported that the arch diocese repeatedly has said that "over and above those students that it already keeps free of charge, it is ready to guarantee free education to those, at the ,secondarY devel, who' genuinely are. unable to pay."
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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Mal ta's Prime Minister Dom Min toff met Oct. 4 wilJh Vatican Secretary of, State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli in Rome in an unsuccessful effort to re solve a dispute over private schools in Malta. Further talks are scheduled on the issue, which has festered into a major church-state con flict.
The conflict arose in April when Mintoff's government ordered Malta's predominantly Catholic private schools to offer free secondary school education. The Archdiocese of Malta said dt could not· afford to comply with the order. A law passed by Malta's par liamentdast April also allowed the minister of edu<:ation broad authority to set Iicensnng require ments for Catholic schools. Crowds of up to 100,000 Mal· tese have demonstrated recently hi support of Archbishop Jo seph Mercieca of Malta. On Sept. 28, progovernment mobs vandalized diocesan offices. The archbishop decided to postpone the scheduled Oct. 1 opening of Malta's Catholic schools because of the unrest. Neither the Vatican nor Malta released details following the Oct. 4 meeting. However, on Oct. 5, t~e Vatican press office released 'a statement intended, it said, to correct Maltese radio and telev1sion reports w1hich had erroneou~ly <indicated that an accord had. been reached. The statement said the Mal
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OCtober 14 Rev. iMsgr. Edward B. Booth, Pastor Emeritus, 1972, St. Mary, North Attleboro Rev. Dennis M. Lowney, Assis tant, 1918, Sacred Heart, Taun ton OCtober 19 Rev. Manuel A. Silvia, Pastor, 1928, Santo Christo, F"U River
AT THE 25th ANNUAL Mass and communion supper held jointly by the Attleboro and Taunton Districts of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, Bishop Daniel A. Cro nin greets Mrs. George Bauza, left, Attleboro district president, and Mrs. Estella Marga rido, Taunton leader. (Rosa Photo)
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River":"Fri., Oct. 12, 1984.
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civil matter, the one' suing . case it lbelieves. The standard of usually has ,to prove the case proof tells the factfinder how by a "preponderance of the evi persuaded:it must be to accept .dence." As you will see, neither the version of the party' which standard is particulal"1y easy to has the burden' of proof. meet. Iii a criminal case, the fact The proving party, whether finder must be persuaded "be the government lin a' criminal· yond a re~onable doubt" to de case or the plaintiff in a civi'l cide a case for the government. case, carries what is called the ,In a. civil' case, the plaintiff need "burden of proof." This meaps only prove its case. by a "pre-, that the party. has a continuing ponderance of the evidence" to duty to prove to the factfinder enable the factfinder to decide for the plaintiff. , - either a judge or. jury those .facts its theory of the, The government, which is the case requires to be proved. If, accusing party, has the burden after hearing from both: sides, of proving beyond a reasonable' the factfinder is not persuaded doubt all the elements of the that the proving party has proved crime of which the defendant is these facts, the proving' party. accused. loses. , To convict a person of shopSay for example, that Jones mting, for example, the govern contracts with· Smith' to buy ,ment must prove all the fonow some of Smith's property; Jones ing elements beyond a reason pays Smith a deposit but then able doubt: 1) that the person decides against buyjng theprop- .. intentionally carried away the erty and demands that Smith store's merchandise; 2) that the return tlJe ; deposit. Smith re~ .person intended to deprive the fuses, pointing to the..contract. store owner of that merchan Jones sues Smith, claiming the' dise; .and 3)' that the person contract is iilegal. ,Jot:les ·.then .,.failedto pay for' the merchand has the burden ofproof. He" must ise. Al,l the accused must do to prove those facts necessary· to establish that the contract is il win is. to raise a reasonable legal. doubt in the minds of the factThe standard of proof is dif finder on any 'One of these three ferent fr~m the burden of proof.. elements. For' example, if the ,The .standard of proof comes evidence 'leads the factfinder to into play when the role of the believe that the accused acci factfinder is discussed. One ,of ,dentallY forgo~' to pay for the the' factfinder's functions is to ' merchandise, the second element weigh all the evidence offered is not proved beyond a reason at a trial and~ decide whatl are" able d~ubt.. . ' the true facts' of· a case.' More Defining J;easonable doubt, of course, is extremely difficult. broadly, the factfinder must de <;ide which side's version of' the , In Massachusetts, to prove be
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. Contributors to the 30th an nual Bishop's: Chal"Hy ,Ball of the fan River diocese, to, be held ·Jan. 11 at Lincoln Park' ,BaH Toom, North Dartmouth, will be listed in a commemorative book let, to :include seven categories of .supporters. _ . . " They .are In Memoriam, $200 or more, entitling the donor- to four baU. tickets; Very Special Fl'iend, $150, four tickets; Guar antor, $10.0, three tickets; Bene factor (b9x, holder), $100, two tickets;. 'Booster,$75, two tick ets; Sponsor, $50,. one. -ticket; Patron; $25, one ,ticket. In Memoriam and Very Special ,Friend categories arespeciaUy >listed, in,:the pooklet, while Guarantors and Benefactors are Hsted on gold pages, Boosters and Sponsors, on silver and patrons on white. Listings' may be given mem bers of the Society of St.. Vin cent. de Paul or the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, ball cosponsors. They may 8;lso be sent to Ball Headquarters, P.O. Box 1470, Fan River 02722. ( BaH proceeds benefit .excep tional and underprivileged chil dren a,t Nazareth Hall schools in Fan River and St. Vincent de Paul Camp, and Catholic 'Boys' and Nazareth day .camps, all in Westport.
fused to pay, the beneficiary would have to prove by a pre ponderance of the evidence that the insured did die accidentally. This standard centers on the quantity and quality 'of the evi dence whereas the criminal standard of proof tends to center' on the state of the factfinder's mind in response to the evidence. In Massachusetts, a proposi tion is proved by a "preponder ance of the evidence" df it is made to appear more likely or probable <than not. In other words, the' (actfinder must be Heve the proposition after hear ing evidence from both sides but the factfinder does not have to be free of all doubts about the proposition. Many legal experts doubt that <the ,average juror reaUy applies this standard. :They say that, as far as the average juror is concerned, evi dence will "preponderate" when it is more convincing to the juror than the opposing evidence. The standard of "clear and convincing" proof is a standard that requires more proof than a mere "preponderance of the' ~vidence" standard but less proof than 'would persuade a jury "beyond a reasonable doubt." One situation where this standard is applied ,is where oral evidence is relied on to estab lish the contents of a lost will. The ~aw in Massachusetts is that such evidence must be clear and convincing, 'i.e., . "strong,. posi tive and free .f.rom doubt." The Murphys' practice law in Braintree.
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AMONG FALL RIVER area lBishop's Ball workers are, left to right, Daniel Shea, decorating committee; Mrs. Eugene Gagnon, hospitality; Mrs. Mary Furtado, decorating; Mrs. Raymond Lavoie, Fall River district president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, ball cosponsor with the Society of Vincent de Paul; and Mrs. Anthony M. Gomes, the ball's diocesan director.
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Tribunal changes authorized WASHINGTON (NC) - U.S. bishops can appoint lay judges to diocesan marriage tribunals and can fonn trial courts with a single priest-judge if necessary. A Vatican decision on these matters was sent :last June to the U.S. bishops in a routine mailing from ithe Na'tional Con ference of Catholic 'Bishops. There was no publicity about it at the time, however. National Catholic News Service Ilearned of it in October after a Vatican decision on terms of office for pastors was announced. In November 1983 the U.S. bishops had voted to ask Vatican approval to make three options available to otlhem: dimited ten ure for pastors, use of lay judges on diocesan courts, and use of single clerical judges to try certain cases. Msgr. Daniei Hoye, NCCB generai secretary, notified the bishops in a J,une 1 detter of the Vatican rulings concerning use of one-judge courts and ap pointment of day persons to three-judge courts. The response from the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, he said, was that its approval was not required for the NCCB to make these op tions available to its member bishops. 'Both cases involve only proce dural laws, so are not proper material for the kind of "decrees" by bishops' conferences which require Vatican approval before they become official, the Vati can agency said. The June 1 detter included a form that each bishop was asked to flU in to notify the NCCB if he intended to use the :lay judge option or the single clerical judge option or both. Because of the high number of marrIage cases' tried in U.S. diocesan courts, the U.S. Ibishops had been leading supporters of the use of lay judges and the single-judge option when ,the new Code of Canon Law was being written. . That code, published in 1983, I'etained ithe ali-clericat, three judge court as genera:} church law. But it a:lso permitted bish ops conferences to approve ex ceptions if they felt they were mer-ited in their territory. ' Canon 1421 says :that bishops' conferences can permit lay per sons to be appointed as judges and to serve on collegiate tri bunals. oCanon 1425 says which cases, includi~ most marriage cases, are to be tried by a three-judge collegiat~ tribunal. But it says the bishops' conference may per mit a bishop to appoint a single judge, whO must be' a cleric, where it is impossible to form a coHegiate tribunal.
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country," Bishop Ricardo Ra mirez of Ls:s Cruces, N.M., told participants in an early October teleconference on Hispanic min istry. Relaying the message of the bishops' 1983 pastoral letter on Hispanic, ministry was the pur pose of the Mingua'l teleconfer ence, sponsored by Inter-Univer sity Cooperative Research and originating in New York City. Conference participants at 13 U.S. 'Jocations heard talks by four speakers, followed by 'local and national discussions. ' Bishop Ramirez caHed on Catholic universities, schools, parishes, pastoral dnstitutes and communication media "to chan nel their efforts of research, theologica'i reflection, technical development and personnel in the direction of Hispanic people's needs." Miguel Cabrera, Archdiocese of Miami coordinator for the third National Encuentro, told teleconference participants, "We must become 50 percent spiritual counselor and 50 percent de fender of social justice. "It is ,important to make sure CmCKENFEED: Father ,Thomas W. Rogers of Yukon, that Hispanic values 'and His panic styles of leadership not be Pa. feeds his chickens. Sale of their eggs pays for their upkeep and eventually they'll go into chicken noodle soup Gocked dnto structures which pre vent a complete giving of our which will 'be sold to benefit the parish CCD program. selves to God, to the church, to our brothers and sisters. We think a change of attitude 1s necessary among our leaders, both religious and Gay, a con version to an attitude much more pastoral ,than administra tive," Cabrera said. 'It is necessary, he said, to The future of ministry in the "The Future of ~nistry" by maintain a sense of unity and church in New England will be American church historian Dr. communication among Hispanics, the topic of a symposium to be David O'Brien, Holy Cross Col considering and respecting all held Oct. 15 to 17 at Mont Ma lege; 3) "Effective, Cooperative groups as equal. To achieve this, rie ,Conference Center in Holy Ministry: A Vision or a Catchy we must know the, pain of each oke. Slogan?" by Barbara Ann Radt to make it our own and accept Twelve persons from FaU ke, Instructor at LasaJile Univer each other for what each of us River diocese wiII join with dele sity and' Emmanuel ,College; 4) ds: a Hispanic, a child of God." gations from the 10 other New "Ecclesial Mission Groups: To Father Joseph FitzpatJ'ick, England dioceses and from 16 ward 'Being Church'" by Sister professor emeritus of sociology sponsoring organizations and M. Shawn Copeland, O.P., asso at Fordham Univel'$ity, said it is institutions of higher 'learning ciate professor, St. Norbert Col important to clarify ways His to hear papers, and discuss lege, De Pere, Wisc. panics can contribute to the U.S. means of promoting effective Sponsoring and participating church and to identify their parish-level ministry on the organizations for the symposium needs. part of clergy and laity. follow: New England Conference Hispan'ics are a young and Attending from this diocese of Catholic Bishops, Institute of poor population. he noted, and will be Ms. Mary Elizabeth la lack enough priests and religious Roche, New Bedford; Ms. Judy Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College, Em of their own background to min Sul:Jivan, South Yarmouth; Rev. manuel College, National Assem ister to them. John A. Perry, Our Lady of Ibly of Religious Brothers, New The major task for Hispanics Victory parish; Centerville; Sis England Catholic Conference of and the church, said the priest, ter Ruth Curry and Mr. and Socilli1! Ministry, New England is mlltintaining continuity of ,Mrs. Gerald Foley, Family Life Conference of Diocesan Directors Hispanic culture in the transition Center, iNoJ'th Dartmouth. of Religious Education. to American life. ' A1s~Deacon and Mrs. Joh~ New England Directors of Olga Villa Parra of the Span Schondek, Taunton; Michael J. ish Speaking Commission, Notre Donly, Coyle and Cassidy High Youth Ministry, Providence Col Dame, Ind., recalled the history School, Taunton; Mrs. Mary-Lou ,lege, St. Michael's College, Sis of Hdspanic ministry in the Mancini, Catholic Social Services, ters of St. Joseph of Boston, Society of Jesus of New England, , United States, including 1972 and FaH River; Rev. Marcel H. Bou Weston School of Theology, Na 1977 national pastoral encuen chard and· Sister Doreen Done tros. The third encuentro, a gan, SUSC, Catholic Education tional Association of Catholic Diocesan Family Life Ministers, meeting of U.S. Hispanic Cath Center,Fall River. National Association of Parish olics will be in Washington in' Particiopants represent a'variety Au~t 1985.' Participants wiU of ohurch ministries, including 'Coordinators/Directors of Reli gious Education. work towards developing a na bishops, the diaconate, religious tional Hispantic pastorai plan. National Organization for education, pastoral ministry, youth ministry, social justice, Continuing Education of Roman family me, Hturgy and campus Catholic Clergy, National Or Do Your Best ganization of Lay Ministers and ministry. '~Use what ta,lents you poss WiJoliam H. Sadlier, ~nc. They wHI discuss four papers: ess. The woods would be sment if no birds sang there except 1) "Roots and Realities of a The Sadlier company plans to those who sang the best." Priestly People" by Reverend publish a book based on sym Hugh ,Crean, Springfield; 2) posium findings. AnQn.
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By Charlie Martin
, ,DANCING IN THE DARK
SEVERAL readers asked that I ~eview Bruce Springsieen's ~atest hit, "Dancing in :the Dark." Although greatly different in style and approach ,to music, Springsteen rivals Michael Jack son in the popularity department. Both continue to build their popularity with concert tours. "Dancing in the Dark" de scribes a person frustrated with life and depressed' about con tinuing in the same lifestyle. He is :'·tired and bored" 'with him
iget up 'in ~...evenin:g' self. gOt nothing to say The.frostration.spills over 'into the singer's relationship with his 't' I ~~ '~e fn the::morning , . girlfriend. He eomplains that the .-1 ,go. t9bed f«;elipg the same.. way relationship is, unint~resting. ,.: I aln~t.nothlng but t!red , " , '~an Pin just'tlie!Cl,~ bored with,~yself . What can individuals do to , HeY"iherebaby icc,tdd use just a little help. pull 'themselves back up when ~Olf can't, .start, a' fire 'Jife offers' less than 'they" ex peeted? .. Y.Oll.ean't start aT,fire without a spark " ' Th f" . l' that This gwis for hill'e ' . e Irst step IS to rea Ize Even 'If 'W~te jUst dancing tn the 'dar" .... no' orie needs to feel: trapped. .Message keeps, getting closer" ," ',' ." " Alternatives exist. But rarely can Radio's OD ami' inoviilg around the place a . person . find alternatives " by; working all alone.. . I~eck ,iny', I~' iD the mirror I want to change my clothes, my hair, my ta~e '
".. .Honestly sharin~ your feelings Man I ain't getting 'nowhere just Uvlng iD a dmnp Uke tl1i~ "' ,~Ith, a t~sted fnend ,~an h~lp , There's something happeDlog somewhere~ '. , ." . m developmg. ~. ~ew ViewpOint Baby, I just know. that there is. and new pOSSibilIties for change. You' sit around getting ~Ider ' ." .. Second, peopl.e n~d to try out, There's a joke somewhere and it's' on me ;" : ',. '~ , change, 'takmg small steps first.· , .. PU shake this world off mys~ders '. Come on baby the laugh's on'me. Fore.xample, f81~mg to achle~e Stay 011': tile streets of this town' .a certam grade-poInt average In And they'll be carving. y~ up all right Fre.nch does not keep. you from They say you got to Stay hungry . ~ r y m gdrama: mechamcal drawHey baby Pm just' about' starving' tontght. In~ or chemIstry - , areas ~~at . I'm dying for some attention might ~ffer new op~rtumtles I'm si~ of sitting around here trying to write this 'book f?r achievement. T~ng a step '~Ike that ~an put enjoyment back I neeJl a love reaction Come' on DOW baby glmme just one look.' In your .l~fe.. . I: . . You can't start a fire sitting around Surpnsmgly, It. sometlJ~es erYJng over a broke heart .. takes only a small step to bnng ThIs gun's for hire n '~' person back into the light of Even If we're just dancing in the dark.
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Christmas card with it cash gift' inside for Pte 'pastor; , Jerry's parents had given him $5 for the pastor's gift together . with a,greet!ng card., d~sioh? '(New".J~) ',." ' ,.Two days.later Jerry's mother, A. Many years ago,' just 'a while cleaning house for, the few d~ys ~fter Christmas,'! holidays, had found the O1rist visited a couple with ,four chil mas card crunched beneath"the dreJl, When 1 arrived the child cushions 'of the sofa. The $5 had' ren ,were all ,out- . play.ing. gotten no' farther than 'jerry's' ":.' Within fi~ minutes I sensed wanet. that something waS' wroIlg. Al His parents were' heax:tbrokeri thoUgh th~ house was beauti by their son's action. The day I fuMy. "decQratetf· for, ,,€IiristmaS, was there,. they were stewing no evidence ;of Christmas cheer aJternately. over how awfuLJerry exi~ted; .:f:he.' -:nothet a*d,. fa~J1er was and how they'd 'brave'to be seeJD~ b~ly ~~le:to'manage a much stricter with all their chil smde :., '..' ," .. dren. , , ,: ..... When 'I could stand it' no Fora while, they were· very longer,. '1 asked, "What the heck strict. ,But the passage .of ,time is wrong .here?" Then the' story revealed that Jerry was not a came'out.' . born thief and neither were the Their ~ldest boy, Jer:ry, was in other children. Slowly the par eighth, grade, and' before Christ- . ent!! relaxed. mas bis class· 'lhad' planned' a Something similar is likely to specia'1 surprise for' the' pastor. happen in your case. Your par-, Each student was to bring, ,in a ent~ understandably dis ents' to tlust you _d bow that you can make goOd decis10ns ~ one 'of bfo~ ~r sisters has made a ID()raJW wrong
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Bishop Feehan ,Feehan faculty member 'Sister Mary Enda Costello, RSM, spent the Summ.es' at John Carroll Uni versity, Cleveland, working on a project for 'The Center for' Learning. The Center~ a non '. profit organization, offers ren gious and edu'catlonalmaterials to. high schools. Sister Mary Enda worked in the aJ'ea of worhl literature, developing, student • .~entered leaming, aids. '
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Colleges 'renewed the Fall' Rivet' school's accreditation, the ac creditors were "profoundly 1m pressed" by The Program, which seemed to them to "epi tomize the nature of the com munity;' and to be "essential to the very essence of the school." This year, with Father Wolf on sabbatical, The Program is directed by 'Father Jolm How ard, who has placed 120 stu dents with 18 Fall River agencies including St. Vincent's Home, several elementary schools and nursing homes, and the Rose Hawthorne ~athrop Home. In addition to many hours of voluntary service, The Program involves regular class sessions, reading. of works on CIu1stian service and participatiOn groUp sessions to reflect on the over all experience.
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Today,' October, 12, 'C~nnolly will anticipate Vocation Aware ness~eek witb,a Mass offered by ~wo _n~wly ordained Jesu:it~. Father Charles Kelley will, be .principa,l' celebrant' and Father Michael McFarland )'Iill preach. Father'Kelley's ttaiolng is in guidance and .'he expects to' bl;! assigned to the hi&h sChool apos~ . tolate; . .Father , McFarland,' a computer engineering, 'Ph.D. teaches at 'Boston College. "',
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Are we talking enough about this problem? Even the libera'l Europeans are wondering what is going on. We must call one another to a sense of purity. The best way to protect children is to be pure oneself. I doubt that God has patience with those who sexual<ly abuse children. We make excuses for them, but ,unless people change, nothing is going ,to change. Are we' waiting for fire and brim ston to rain down on us?
People of another generation say their concern ,is that we no longer honor God with our bodies. ,With drugs, alcohol and . cigarettes we harm them, heed ~ess that they are the crown of God's creation. ~ When we .speak of poverty, we should also think of poverty of SO\l1.· Blessed are. the' truly poor in spirit, who seek purity rather than material goods. . It is ,time w~ aU returned to that concern, a priority, with Jesus, who as.ks ,us. tofollQw him'.... He~ is among .~s" sufferil}g in' the - boai~s Qf, ,purabl,lsf;!,(1 chikiren,..', , r " . :',: I ' , ; I ;
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", A, survey of colleges being, at tended by Connolly's '84grad\i= ates shows that 46 diffet'ent schools have been chosen,: 'with most, 36 studentS, elect· ing " SMO, nin~'" ~vi~enee College, eight uRI, seven' each Stonehill and UMass arid. six Northeastern. Othef' . schools with Connolly representation include ,Be, BU, Wheaton, Bridgewater, Colby, Holy Cross and St. Michael's. In all,· 148 out of 156 students have gone on to higher education, 31 of them..to (;atholic:"eollegeSi ""~ ': o
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Spartans Regain Winning Form In a non-league contest last weekend the iBshop Stang High School Spartans bounced back into the win column via a stunDing 21-0 victory over the Fair haven High Blue Devils. The victory boosted Stang's recont to three wins and one ~oss (to Dartmouth, 9-0, a week earlier) while Fairhaven is now 2-2. Neither team has yet comp eted in Southeastern Mass. Con terence play. Stang is dn Divis ·ion Three, Fairhaven in Division Two. Tomorrow the Spartans visit the Bourne High Canalmen in still another non-league con test. Stang's first conference game is at Dighton-Rehoboth on Oct. 20. Tomorrow ,Fairhaven is host to Bishop Feehan High in a Division Two game. When a team' ends a long win less streak the fact is worth mentioning. The Old Colony Couga;rs posted a 38·14 victory over the Notre Dame Crusaders last weekend. It was their first victory since Nov. I, 1980 when they outlasted Norton 18-12. Since then Old Colony lost 28 and tied one. In a Division One encounter Dartmouth opened its confer.
ence action with an' overpower ing 28-7 rout of Barnstable, which was also making dts div ision debut. Somerset dn its second 'Divis ion One conference sortie nipped Durfee High, 12-7. Despite the loss Durfee showed continued improvement in this rebuilding year.' Continuing its winning " ways Apponequet Regional de feated Norton, 7-0, for its f~urth victory against no defeats, all in Mayflower League's play. Some other results ~ast week end: Greater New Bedford· VokeTech 24 Seekonk 6; Wareham 18, Old Rochest~r 16. Hocko-' mock League results: Franklin 8 Mansfield 6; Oliver Ames 28 King Philip 13; North Attle boro 22 Stoughton 6. Games tomorrov.4: Falmouth, at Durfee, Attleboro at Somer· set, Barnstable at Dennis-Yar-. mouth, Dighton-Rehoboth at Coyle-Cassidy, New Bedford Yoke at Tabor Academy, See konk at Providence Country Day, Mansfield at Canton, Sha ron at Stoughton. Hockomock' games' at 7:30 o'clock tonight i}jst Oliver Ames' at Franklin, North Attleboro at King PhiHp.·
CYO Hockey Fan River South defeated New at 9 p.m. Sunday in the curtain Bedford 4-2 and Mansfield raiser of the usual twin bill.·New romped to a 9-3 decision over . Bedford and Fall River North Somerset in Bristol County meet at 10. CYO Hockey Lea~e games last The Southies have won their Sunday. starts this season. Mansfield is In a battle of unbeatens, Mans- 1-0, New Bedford 1-1, Fa!ll River field takes on Fall River South North 0-1, Somerset 0-2.
lHigh School Soccer Entering this week New Bed ford High was still the leader in Conference Divsion One soc cer with a 6-0 record, followed by Dennis-Yarmouth 5-1, Bam stable 4-1, FaImouth 2-2, Dur~ fee 2-3, Attleboro 1-6 and Som erset 0-6. A:nother New ·Bedford school, Yoke-Tech, was setting the pace in Division Two with an 8-0 record. Dartmouth, 6-2, was in second place followed by West port 5-3, Old Rochester 4-3-1 (won, lost, tied), Diman Yoke 4-4, Connolly 3-4-1 (won., aost, tied), Holy Family 1-7 and Stang 0-8. Connol1y and Old Roches ter played the only tie game of the season thus far, a 1-1
deadlock. Games today: Diman Yoke at Holy Family, Bishop Stang at Westport, Old Rochester at Yoke-Tech, Bishop Connolly at Dartmouth, New Bedford at Attleboro (seven p.m.), Barn stable .at Durfee, Somerset at Falmouth. Hockomock League socx:er. games today are Sharon at Stoughton.' Canton at Franklin, Oliver Ames at Foxboro, North Attleboro at King Phi,lip. Enter ing this week Foxboro, 5-0, was in first place. Next were King ·PhHip, Stoughton and Franklin, each 3-2, Sharon' 2-2, Ol1ver Ames 2-3, Canton 1-4 and North Attleboro 0-4.
Coyle-Cassidy Football On TV Varsity Coyle-cassidy football games of Nov. 3 and 22 wil'l be televised on Taunton' Cable Channel 27. The !Nov. 3 game is against Taunton, that of Nov. 22 against Feehan~ The Taunton game wil1 be televised Nov. 20 and 21 while the Fee han game wiU be aired Nov. 29 and 30. The Warriors' cross-country
team, defending champions of the conference's Division Three; wi'll visit Stang next Tuesday and entertain Connolly OQ OCt. 22.
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New Film "Until September" (MGM-UA) A young American woman gets involved with a suave French man who wants to juggle a wJfe, two children and her as a mis tress - but she wants to play for keeps. This limp and unin ventive 'romance depends on abundant nudity to sustain in terest. Because of this and its benign view of adultery, i,t is rated O,R. Religious Television Sunday, OCt. 14 (CBS) "For Our Times"-Report on a World Council of Churches meeting in Budapest. Religious Radio Sunday, oct. 14 (NBC) "Guide 1Ine-' - Critic Michael GaHagher discusses the film n.ting system of the U.S. CathoLic Conference.
Laity director .discusses women's place in church .
TOLEDO, Ohio (NC) - To achieve fuHness of community in the church, men and women need to "stay in community," be willing to be "persons of dia logue," and to respect each otlher's differences, says Dolores 'R'. Leckey, executive director of the National Conference of'Cath olic Bishops' Committee on the Laity.. Mrs. 'Leckey spoke at a recent public meeting that was part of a plenary session of the Toledo diocesan Priests' Senate. She asked, "What are men running from?" after recounting a conversation with a priest she characterized as "a friend ofthe women's movement in the church." She said he talked about his "fears ,that as more and more women chose to study for ministry in the seminary, he wondered if :it womdn't dis courage men' from doing so, be cause, he said, miliistry would come to be viewed as a worn· . an's profession. "I thought about that and about how such a scenario had indeed OCCUlTed in the. past with. other occupations: secretaries, Ubrarians, nurses, elementary teachers.". Mrs. Leckey cited a thesis that until men· become directly :in volved in infant and child care, society will not be able to "counter the strong pull toward sex-determined roles and ¢h~ unconscious fears that support these roles . . . " She said, "When boys can identifY with nUNurlng fathers and see their mothers 'coming and going,' as wen as the re verse, a new sensitivity and openness is possible. "Will this not help men to re claim the parts of their own inner experience that they, as a group, have delegated to wom en?" she asked. Jesus' washing the feet of his disciples, feeding them and offer-
ing his own life were "vividly maternal acts," said Mrs. Leckey. She urged women in the church to be persistent in pur suing their goa.Js, like the Cana anite woman with Jesus. "He seems amazed at her faith and her transparent, tenacious love. He's caught in it, and it changes him ... "That story is our story. We women of the church owe it to those who come after, our daughters and sons, our grand· children, not to ,let go. Love de mands that we hang on," she said. On the subjeot of achieving community, she said men and women should be willing to "stay aJ; the table" to "listen, to learn, to empathize.'" She said that differences between men and women should be respected. "It would be tragic if we women lose our capacity to' recognize our own neediness and vulner ability and that of others. Every one is vulnerable '-7 knowing it is the point." Mrs. Leckey noted four con~ tributions of women: ....;;. "The readity of difference. Women are different from men. This doesn't mean they are lesser or tbetter, just different." - "The .gift of fresh aang uage. Rather than relying. solely on language of rational analysis, often brittle and bloodless, wom en can introduce new metaphors to both church and society." - "The practice of empathy .. '. It is associated with. imag ination. I think of empathy as a 'crossing-over experience,' a . standing with another . . . and viewing the world from that perspective." "Guidance of men. They (we) can help men navigate the deep waters of empathy and wIner· abidity and generosity, to move to peace with one another and wnh aU the .·different others."
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D of I, NB Hyacirith CirCle, Daughters of Isabella: meeting 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16, K of C. Hall, Pleasant and Campbell Streets. A slide pre sentation will be shown and plans. for installation of officers Nov. 4 at Century House will be finalized. ST. JAMES, NB
Mass for first communion can didates and parents: 9:30 a.m. Oct. 14r preceded by session in church hall at 8:45 a.m. ' ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAIL, FR
Cardiac lecture series: 2 p.m. Oct. 18; 10 a.m. Nov. 1; noon Nov. 8, all in hospital Service Building. Nursing professionals' pro gram on value systems: 8a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Oct. 25, Clemence Hall. Information on both pro grams: 674-5711, ext. 2480. ST.ANNE,FR
Singers, especially sopranos and altos, nleeded for parish choir. Information: parish office, 674-5651.
Parishioners are bidding fare well to Sister Rita of the Sisters of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc who staff ,the rectory and welcoming her replacement, Sister Louise.
Youth ·group general meeting followed by rollerskating: 7 p.m. .Oct. 14, school. Retreat weekend participants will meet a,t 6 p.m. Oct. 19 in schoolyard for bus transportation.' Bible study: 7 to 9 p.m. each Tuesday, school.
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Family Masses begin this Sun day in Eastham, with coffee and -- doughnuts servfed 'following O.L.MT.CARMEL,NB 9:30 a.m. Mass monthly. Host Youth interested in joining a families may volunteer by call folk group are asked to contact ing Mrs. Cliff Paquette. Similar' Father Steven Furtado. Masses,will begin in Orleans in Choir rehearsals: English November.
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day; Junior, 7 p.m. each Mon- day, both in the choirloft.· Young Adult Group officers: Anthony Vaillancourt, president, ' ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, Michael Ma.rtin, vice-president; SWANSEA . Marc Cobery, treasurer;' Chris Ladies of Ste. Anne: meeting tine Arruda, secretary. Parishioners are requested not Oct. 17 in parish hall following 7 p.m. living rosary ceremony to park in the schoolyard until in the church. Kathy Givens will after 2:30 p.m. on school days. discuss weight loss and nutri- ST. JOSEPH, NB ' tion. ' Legion of Mary meetin~s: 6:30 New members will be received p.m. each Wednesday, changed at 9:30 a.m. Mass Oct. 21. A com 7 p.m. ' munionbreakfast will follow at from Prayer meetings: 7 p.m.. each Magoni's restaurant with Father Richard Beaulieu as principal Wednesday. All welcome.' St. Joseph Seniors: bus trip speaker. today, and Oct. 23; Halloween party Oct. 18. O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Joint day of recollection ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, , with District Council of Catholic POCASSET . Women: beginning 9:30 a.m. Parish council meeting: even Oct. 20, church hall, under di ing 01 Oct. 17, parish hall; all rection of Father Robert Camp parishioners welcome~ bell. All welcome. Participants From tomorrow until the asked to bring a sandwich; des weekend of June 22 the Satur ser.tand beverage will be pro day vigil Mass will be offered vided. at 4:30 p.m. There will be one Mass only. HOLY ROSARY,TAUNTON Coffee and doughnuts will fol Holy Rosary Sodality com low 10:30 a.m. Mass each second munion dinner; following 4:45 and fourth Sunday until the end p.m. Mass Oct. 13, .parish center. of May.. Nonperishabl,e items, includ ing medicines and roodstuffs, a.re ST. JAMES, NB Ladies' Guild: mee.ting 7:30 collected at the church doors for shipment to Poland under p.m. Oct. 17, parish hall. Anti que and homemade dolls will be sponsorship of parish Vincen discussed. tians.
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Coffee and doughnuts are served ,following 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Masses at O.L. Vic tory and following 10 a.m. Mass at O.L. Hope mission, West Barnstable. ' Miracle Soup Kitchen holy hour and Benediction: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14. Prayer meeting: 7 p.m. Oct. 17. All welcome. ' CHARISMATIC RENEWAL
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Vincentians: meeting 1 p.m. Oct. 13, rectory. Beginning this weekend, parishioners are asked to contribute nonperishable foods in preparation for distri bution of ThaYIksgiving baskets. ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET
Parishioners are asked to be setting aside usable items for the Thanksl(ivin~ clothing drive. The parish will sponsor a Thanksgiving dinner open to all. ~in
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Celebration the feast of Our Lady of Clairvaux: 11 a..m. Oct. 13, address on "Mary' and Contemplation" by Father' An dre Patenaude. MS, based on the soirituality of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, followed by Mass at 12:10 p.m. All welcome.
Diocesan leaders will meet all day ,tomorrow at St. Stanislaus School, Fall River.
Women's Guild: p.m. Oct.. 16.
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The parish has recived gifts of audiovisual equipment for the CCD program and new altar boy robes from the Falmouth K of C Council. Nursery service for children 6 and under is available during 10 a.m. Sunday, Mass. FAMILY LIlFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH
Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses: conference 9 a.m. Oct. 13. ' Stang High retreat days: Oct. 15 and Oct. 17. Connolly High retreat day: Oct. 16.
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A newly established pastoral council has as members the par isn .priests, the permanent dea con, the religious education co ordinator, the school principal and representatives from the parish organizations and groups. David Caron has been named chairman and Mrs. James Mc Cafferty secretary.
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MILWAUKEE (NC) - At the heart of the abortion issue are dead babies and' grieving mothers, said Jesuit Father Robert Faricy. Father Faricy, who teaches at the Gregorian University in. Rome, was one of several _ speakers at a Post-Abortion Re conciliation Training Day in MH·, waukee which drew more than 100 participants, 'including about" 80 priests. The day was preparatory to an archdiocesan ,post-abortion outreach program to be cal'led "Project Rachel." It is named for a woman described in the Old Testament book of Jeremias as "weeping for her children and refusing to be, comforted for them, because they are not," yet still having hope for the future. An objective of the training session was to identify people willing to participate in Project Rachel, said Vicki Thorn, co- director of the archdiocese's pro iife office. Ms. Thorn said that 25 to 40 percent of U.S. women who re ceive abortions are Catholic. She said that recently more wo men who have had abortions have been willing to discuss them. The program wiU be modeled after existing projects in St. Paul, Minn., Youngstown,' Ohio; and Buffalo, N.Y. At the tra'ining session, Father Ken Metz, archdiocesan liaison for Charismatic Renewal, asked ' participants to imagine them selves or someone close to ,them being pregnant. 'IIt's scary," he said, noting ,that "scariness". is what causes some pregnant women to feel so much panic, guilt, and fear that they decide to have abortions. Father Metz, a membe~ of the,
Association of Christian Thera pists, stressed that ministering to women who have had abor tions does not eliminate the need to publicly oppose abortion. "When you're ~n the pulpit, preach like hell," the priest said. But when in the confessional, one must minister "with the love and gentleness of Christ," he said. ' Father Faricy said that when a woman confesses to bim that she has had an abortion, he asks if she would Hke him to pray or offer a Mass for ,the aborted baby. "Every woman, especially every Catholic woman, knows that there was someone alive and now that someone is dead," he said. He believes women who have had abortions need to know that the baby and God for give her before she, can forgive herself. . Not everyone who has had an abor.tion must face excommuni cation, said Father Eugene Fitz simmons, a canon lawyer who spoke on "the crime of abortion." Girls under age 18, women who are unaware of the canon law or penalty, and women who are "compelled by grave fear • . • or by' reason of necessity or of grave inconvenience" lITe exempt from censure, he said. "How many times have wom en had abortions out of fear, or because of what they saw as grave inconvenience, or because they believed ,it was necessary?" Father Fitzsimmons asked. "If we are reading the same canon !law, we see that yes, they committed the crime of abortion, but no, they do not contract the canonical censure." He suggested that priests question carefully to determine a woman's state of mind at the time of an abortion.