10.29.82 by The Anchor

Canonists focus o'n revised: C'ode

By Jerry Fllteau

HARTFORD, Conn. (NC) Catholic Church lawyers of the United States focused on immin ent church law changes last week as they gathered here for \ the 44th annual convention of the Canon Law Society of Am erica. Papal enactment of the revised Code of Canon Law, replacing the code that has governed the Western church since 1917, is

expected within the next three months. In major addresses and semin ars more than 450 participants studied code changes and their implications for church life in the United States. The unusually high attendance was attributed to the imminence of the new code. Representing the Fall River dio cese were Msgr. Henry T. Mun roe, officialis of the diocesan tri

bunal, and father Jay T. Mad dock, its secretary and a notary. Reflecting increased accessi bility of tribunal and chancery posts to them, about 50, partici pants were womein, mostly nuns.

In a keynote address Msgr. John A. Alesandro of Rockville Centre, N.Y., outlined the major thrusts of the new code and called it "a workable tool of re newal" and a "valuable instrum ent of ecclesial reform."

"We are saved not by the law consultation and accountability, but by faith in Christ. The law in placing greater emphasis on , .. is no more than a tool for us the laity and its participation in to use. , , The only thing that church life, and in incorporating matters is that it is a workable . theological insights from Vatican tool," he said. II into the juridicial structure of church life. The, new code, he said, differs In the convention's major ad from the old in spelling out and protecting rights in the church, dress Father - James Provost, in simplifying the general law CLSA' executive coordinator and and giving greater flexibility to a leading U.S. expert on the new code, said that it, will present local practice, in reducing penal ties, in providing structures for Tum to Page Ten

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current nuclear policy more bluntly, spelling out their goal: WASHINGTON (NC) - "We to influence the U.S. government are sure of one moral imperative: . by fonning "a public attitude· a rejection of nuclear war," de which sets stringent limits" on clares the second draft of It U.S. nuclear defense policy. planned national pastoral oletter Even within the just war moral on war and peace by the Cath that acknowledges tradition olic bishops of the United States. "some legitimate use of force," "Our arguments in this pas says the new document, "con to!el ~t!st be -detailed and nu temporary nuclear strategies anced; but our 'no' to nuclear push the moral limits beyond the . war must, in the end, be defini permissible." tive aOO decisive," it says. Addressing specific issues con Th.e new draft repeats the cerning the use of nuclear weap moral condemnation in the let ons, the committee said: .ter's first draft; but goes beyond -"Under no circumstances that draft in giving a more de may nuclear weapons or. other tailed analysis of what kin-ds of instruments of mass slaughter be policies or policy goals it can used for the purpose of destroy support or must oppose. ing population centers or other It also goes further dn expli predominantly civilian targets." citly chaBenging the current ,in Although moralists are divided ternational political order and of fering an alternative geopolitical framework for achieving and maintaining peace and justice. At one point ,it caBs the 300 year-Old poHtical principle of ab solute national sovereignty obso: lete. FLORENCE, Italy (NC) Rejecting any simplistic solu Cardinal Giovanni Benelli, who tions to world peace or disarma was made archbishop of Florence ment, the new draft caUs for "a in 1977 after 10 years as a key major effort of intelligence and adviser to Pope Paul VI, died at courage" to overcome the "su his home Oct. 26, four days after preme crisis" of nuclear war suffering a heart attack. He was threatening the existence of the 61. earth.· The cardinal was considered The draft, released Oct. 22, is one of the principal candidates to be discussed at length by the for the papacy after Pope Paul's cou.ntry's bishops at their annual death in 1978 and was in an out-· meeting in mid-November. An spoken opponent of legalized extraordinary nationa:1 meeting abortion in Italy. seems 'likely to be called next His. funeral was held today in spring for the bishops to debate the Cathedral of Santa Maria del and vote on a final version. The Fiore in Florence. Burial was in draft committee is headed by the cathedral crypt. Archbishop JosephL. Bernardin He wa; struck by what doctors of Chicago. called an acute heart attack Oct. 22 at his residence and was The latest draft, 120 typewrit taken to ·a hospital. ten pages long, considerably ex On Oct. 25 he pleaded to pands and olarifies the contro versial 70-page first draft, that leave the hospital to die at home. Taken home, he died an hour became public in June. In the second draft, the five later. bishops on the committee oppose Tum to Page Sixteen By Jerry Filteau

DEBORAH PENTA, a senior' at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, is national grand prize winner of $1000 in an essay contest on "What My Vote Will Mean to Me" sponsored by the Fleetwood Reserve Association of Battleship Cove, Fall River. Her essay follows.

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The right to vote, granted to United States citizens of 18 years and older by the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a great honor and privilege for citizens of this country. This is exhibited in a .demo cratic society and it encourages us to take an active role in choosing the leaders of our govern~ent. My vote means that I wiU be able to take a stand and participate in the government and leadership of our country. The right to vote will enable me to make decisions based on my beliefs an dintegrity on the sub ject of the United States government. It will grant ple the grace of a bond between me and my fellow Ameri cans. Turn to Page Fifteen

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on questions of indirect attacks on civilians, "we nonetheless feel obliged, as a matter of practical moral guidance, to register our opposition to a policy of attack ing targets . . . (whose destruc tion) would devastate nearby population centers. The relevant moral principle in this case is the disproportionat€' damage which would be done to human life." -"We do not perceive any sit uation in which the deliberate initiation of nuclear war, on how ever restricted a scale, can be morally justified. Non-nuclear attacks by anot~er state must be resisted by other than nuclear means . . . We find the moral responsibility of beginning nu clear war not j:lstified by ration al policies." -As regards so-cal-led "lim ited nuclear war," "the issue at stake -is the real as opposed to the theoretical possibility" of keeping such El war limited and within the stringent bounds of the requiremer.:ts for a ju~t war. The range of gravely important questions surrounding those is sues "makes us skeptical about the real meaning of limited." The new draft calls the actual initiation of nuclear ·war "one of the worst polit-ic~l and moral evils whidh could be perpetrated," and comments: "The purpose of deterrence is to prevent this actuality, but the moral problem of nuclear deter rence relates to the method by whioh prevention is accom plished." The committee quoted from the official "U.S. MiHtary Pos ture Statement for FY 1983," an annual fiscal year policy state ment and situiation analysis by the office of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staif: "Deterrence de pends upon the assureq capabil ity and manifest wiU to inflict , damage on the Soviet Union dis proportionate to any goals that Turn to 'Page Three

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Vineyard Haven ,parish marks 25 years ,

Every priest on the island of natives Father William G. Camp its existence to the deep faith Martha's Vineyard, plus many bell and Father Thomas C. Lopes, and. extensive sacrIfices of the off-islanders, joined Bishop Dan and former pastors Father James poor of three different ethnic iel A. Cronin and Father Bernard F. Buckley, Father Cornelius J. groups who 'came to Martha's R. Kelly, the pastor of St. Aug O'Neill, Father Paul G. Con Vineyard to earn a living. istine's parish, Vineyard Haven, nolly and: Father Joseph F. 0' Portuguese from the Azores in a gala celebration of St. Aug , Donnell. Also present' were Msgr. and Madeira worked the whalers ustine's 25th year. Henry T. Munroe, Very Rev. Ed ·and tilled the land; Blacks were The -festivities began Oct. 16 ward C. Duffy, Rev. Clarence domestics; Irish women also with an organ concert by Nancy Murphy, Msgr. John J. Oliveira. domestics and their men worked Rogers following the 7 p.m. vigil Rev. James F. Greene, Father the sea and staffed the railroad. Edward J. Burns, Father George Mass. They reached their height at 3 F. Almeida. Kevan Nichols and Stephen p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, when Ferro were lectors for the Mass, Bishop Cronin was principal celebrant and homilist at a Mass the responsorial psalm was read of thanksgiving at the beautiful by Tommy Didato and the prayer of the faithful by Matthew Cook. church. Bearers of gifts were Sarah Coli Joining Father Kelly as con enere, Rosemary Richards and celebrants were St. 'Augustine Timothy and Bridget Uenicaud: Music was by the Trjo d'Estate of Cranston, R.I. New Car? New Boat?

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served as ,pastors iri' addition to those mentioned above: Father Joseph O'Donnell, Father Wil liam O'Connell, Father Paul Con nolly, who 'was at the same time pastor of Saint Elizabeth's, Ed gartown, Father James Buckley and Father Kelly, the present pastor. Due to the generous coopera tion of many groups and individ uals, several improvements in the physical structure have taken place, most notably with regard to the windows, which were re placed with stained glass. Owing in great part to the generosity of St. John's Society, the St. Augustine window now dominates the church interior. Through the efforts of the same group, a bicentennial window casts its colors onto the recon ciliation room. Other windows in the' church were donated by various individuals in memory of their loved ones: St. Augustine's does not enjoy an appreciable increase of sum mer people during the brief 10 week tourist season; yet due to the labor, prayer and pride of its mainly middle and low-income families, the parish flourishes as ; a family, even though at present '(1978) it only numbers some 548 adults and 294 children. ' , , As elsewhere, as the metro-, politan magnet, ,attracts the young, the old, stay and are buried here and the young leave ' in search of employment..

Salve Regina Katheryn LaPorte, a junior at Salve Regina College, Newport, is spending the academic year at Trinity and All Saints' College. Leeds, England, as the first reci pient of a reciprocal Trinity-Salve one-year tuition scholarship. The North Attleboro resident is an honor student and a staff member for the Salve newspaper.

Parish History A history of St. Augustine's was sent to The AnchOl' by the parish In 1978. Slightly updated, it follows: St. Augustine's Churc!'t owes

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Sister Evelyn Sister Evelyn K. Dailey, RSM, until her recent illness religious education coordinator at St. Dominic parish, Swansea, died last Friday in Pittsburgh. Born in Waterbury, Conn., slle was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Dailey of Provi dence. She entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1949 and was pro fessed in 1952. Formerly known as Sister Johnella and Sister John, she taught at St. James School, New Bedford, and St. Joseph a~d SS. Peter and Paul's schools in Fall River before being assigned to missions of her community in Belize and Honduras in 1962. On her return, she taught and was principal at schools in Rhode Island before in 1973 becoming religious education coordinator at Sacred Heart parish, Taunton. She served in' the same capacity at parisl\~s on Martha's Vine yard and at St. Mary's New Bedford, and Sacred Heart, North At~leboro, before going to St. Domiqic's. She was also coordinator for

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York, a museum trustee, propos ing such a show of Vatican art. Pope John Paul approved the tour a year later.

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IS sending a major collection of art and· archeological treasures to the United States for exhibits in 1983 and interest is booming. With 237 pieces, ranging from an .ancient Greek cup depicting Oedipus and the Sphinx to Ren aissance glories such as a Rap~ hael-designed tapestry to modern religious art, the show, "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art," opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Feb. 26 and runs there until June 12. It then moves to Chicago, where it will be on display until Oct. 16, then to San Francisco, for exhibit until Feb. 19, 1984.

Works in the exhibit will be drawn from the Vatican Muse ums, Apostolic Vatican Librrary, St. Peter's Basilica and the papal apartments. The tour is sponsored by Phil ip Morris Inc., through a grant to the Metropolitan 'Museum, which has oll'ganized the show, with local assistance from cor porations helping to bring the show to the three cities.

New York tickets at $4 each with a handling fee of 80 cents or $1.50 depending on the ticket outlet used,. are selling very well, according to Ticketron president Schmitt.

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Father Dagenais Bishop Daniel A. Cronin pre sided Wednesday at funera1 ser vjces at St. Anne's Church, Fall River, for 'Father Marc Maurice Dagenais, OP. Father Dagenais, 80, died Iast Sunday. Interment was in Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery, St. Hyacinthe, PQ, Canada. Ordained a Dominican priest in 1928, he had been stationed at St. A'nne's parish for 50 years. Born at Ville de Laval, Cana~.l, Father Dagenais studied for the priesthood in Ottawa. He came to Fall River after a year at the Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto and three years in par-

ish ministry in Ottawa. At St. Anne's he served as chaplain at St. Anne's Hospital . and assistant at the famous par ish shrine before being named an associate pastor in 1933. He remained in that capacity until 1969, when ill health forced his retirement. Even retired, however, his fel low Dominicans reported, "he continued to have a quiet minis try on behalf of friends and ac quaintances who came to see him at the rectory, wrote or tele phoned, seeking counsel and en

couragement." .

Teachers set 2-<1ay parley The annual two-day meeting for religious and classroom edu cators of the Fall River diocese will open Sunday at Bishop Con nolly High School, Fall River. A session primarily for catechists will begin at 1 p.m., offeriJ)g two presentations on the sacraments by Dr. Doris Donnelly of Prince ton Theological Seminary. It will conclude at 4:30 p.m. with a Euc~aristic liturgy at which Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant. Teachers in Catholic schools will attend an all-day session Monday, beginning at 8:15 a.m. and concluding at 2:15 p.m., al~ so at Connolly High.

missions of her community, working through the Society for the Propagation of. the Faith. She leaves a sister, Mrs. Mar guerite McDonald of Providence. Burial was in Resurrection Ceme tery, Cumberland, R.I.

Rev. 'Michael G. Foley, coor dinator of youth ministry for tfie Worcester diocese, will address the teachers on Catholic Educa tors - Bearers of Good News. His presentation will underline the importance of each teacher to the Christian formation of" students. Workshop topics will include ing,Pupil Motivation, Stress in Teaching, Computer· Education, The Teacher as Witness, Career Education and Developing and Maintaining Children's Self-Es teem. Convention exhibits will in clude textbooks and other teach ing materials. 'Bishop Cronin will again be principal celebrant at a Euchar istic liturgy scheduled for 1 p.m. Teachers and students from Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will lead congrega tional singing under the direction of George Campeau. . The admission fee' to Monday's program will include lunch.

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Election '82 Is Here

Would that the candidates. for next week's election

were equal to the importance of the issues at stake!

In the tidal wave of confusion creat~d by 'media fostered distortions, the current election has centered around personalities. The crucial issues. with which all of us will be forced to live long after next Tuesday have been buried in rhetoric and verbiage. The national media, too, have contributed to this muddying of the waters by their interest in unusual local races and candidates. Because of these antics, side issues have led the voter away from consideration of the funda mental problems that exist. Money has been expended to such an extent that one question,s the integrity of those accepting the handouts. Millions have been poured into the cult of the personality, even with the foreknowledge of limited returns. In keeping their faces before the public, many have, in the true sense, lost face. As we prepare to vote, it is vital tha~ we try .to overcome the temptation of casting our ballots on the basis of 1V clips, press releases and advertising flyers. Some how, if we are to form right judgments, we must close our eyes and ears to television and push aside the mounds of candidates' brochures, cards and leaflets. , . /We must recognize that there' 'are crucial issues that most candidates are hoping will not surface as the voters make their political choices. Human life questions, capital punishment, aid to Catholic schools, regulation of nuclear waste disposal facilities, handgun control; these are but a few of the problems that should have come to the fore in. this campaign. But .most politicians and their allies , have tried to avoid addressing such serious questions. None wishes to be put on the spot, lest he or she IQse politic~l 'It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be support. \ loosed from sins.' 2 Mach. 12:46. Seemingly the only thing' that matters is attaining political power. Life itself and the quality of that life are subjects that have been given but token attention, glossed over in the name of party loyalty. Should one dare to 'raise an issue with the faintest connection to morality, freedom or justice, he or she is the point of sending RIF notices parishioner in need of .counsel By Father ,Eugene Hemrick labeled a religious conservative or, even worse, a member of to priests. They are 4ying and ing. How does a priest compare the M9ral Majority. No matter what Catholic news retiring faster than we can re with a respected doctor school Spreading fear and in some situations even falsehood, paper, newsletter or magazine ed in psychiatry? . place them. many organizations previously considered nonpartisan have one .reads, the problem of the As many priests disappear, When a priest boards a plane growing shortage of priests shown their true colors. many are not being replaced by or bus in clerical garb, does his keeps appearing. If trends con other priests. Rather, roles once The League of Women Voters, the Massachusetts ainue, there is virtual certainty presence change the atmos Association of School Committees and the State Board of' that by the year 2000 we will phere? Is a· priest viewed differ thought· to be priests' alone are reexamined and filled by Education come to mind as groups that have be'en more have half the number of priests ently than a general in military being others. There are a number of garb or a 'well-dressed executive? than active in opposing aid to Catholic schools. It has even we now have. reasons for this. With fewer priests, would the been reported that opposition to Catholic school aid has Still the question arises: If it Although many questions have church become weaker in its is felt that priests really don't been a subject for discussion in public classrooms~ (Where been raised about the future, one differ from anyone else, will question about the present has efforts to change the conscious is separation of church and state in ·these tactics?) ness of government officials on there be concern about their Do we have too yet to be asked: , Once again, we urge all Catholics who, are regis,tered social justice and moral issues? diminishing numbers? Why voters to vote on Tuesday. In addition, in.accordance with many priests? Do these officials view priests should a young man want to If half our priests were to dis the mind of the Catholic bishops of Massachusetts, we urge as a group that can, make an become a priest? them to exercise their franchise with respectful adherence appear tomorrow" what differ impact? What disturbs me is that very ence would it make? Would the With half the number of to the moral guidance of their church. life of the church be endangered? priests we now' have, what few persons are asking what the As we cast our ballots in this election, let us remember difference is. What is a priest's That raises many other critical 'would happen to our doctrinal real value? I think we need to our brothers and sisters in the faith in such countries as questions. What do parishioners tradition? Since religious educa Poland and Northern Ireland who, precisely because they expect from their priests? What tion classes so ofteil are taught think this question through. If we don't ask the question are Catholics, do not enjoy the freedom that is ours. images arise in their minds when by the laity, what difference repeatedly and in a variety if Let us keep the freedoms we have and vote for those priesthood is discussed? would fewer priests make? .ways, isn't it just possible that 'rights now denied us. Democratic elections are not a Could other devotional prac Would a bishop find it more we will be led to believe that we luxury for us. They are a necessity. tices than Sunday Mass, c'onduct difficult to be a pastor for his . do, in fact, have' too many

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ed by ,someone who is not. a priest, suffice much of the time? Does a priest by nature of being a priest add a special extra to the Christian community spirit? Still more questions: If parish ioners need spiritual direction, how does going to a priest differ from confiding in a mature, edu cated person who is well founded in the faith but is not a priest? The same may be asked of a

diocese if he lacked priests? If really confronted with a situa tion in which there were no priests, could the important pas toral duties be continued -effec-, tively? We live in a period of history governed by a mentality which says that if a person cannot show his or her worth, that per son no longer should be retained. However, we have not come to

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Family Night

A weekly at-home program for famUies

sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry

OPENING PRAYER Father, we know as we come together for this Family Night that you are with us in a very special way. Help us to use this .opportunity to think and share and to have fun together. Let us never forget those who are less fortunate and remind us to al ways reach out to others in friendship and love. Amen.

TO THINK ABOUT Think abou't the vast number of saints, people who have suc cessfully lived as God, wanted them to and who now enjoy eter nity with the Lord. What does this mean for us and for our family? Let's explore it during_ this Family Night.

ACTIVITY IDEAS Young Families Talk about the good people you know and why you consider them "saintly." For Halloween, or perhaps as a pre-Halloween celebration during Family Night, have each one dress up as a fa

mous Christian from the past or present and have a Parade of Saints while singing "When the Saints Go Marching In.''

Middle Years Families Get a book of short, popularly written stories of well-known Christians. Divide the family into 'two groups; each chooses one historical or contemporary figure and then prepare a little play about that individual and put it on for the rest of the family.

Adult' Families Read Romans 8:18-27 and talk about how we all are destined for glory. Apply this to your lives on a very practical level. S~ACK

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Does anybody else re member something called toties quoties? It was a prac tice in the old church con nected with All Souls' Day. I don't know if it was more Irish than Catholic because many friends my age don't remember it at all, but it was an important faith practice of our childhood. We were taught that we could move a soul from purgatory to heaven by making a visit to church on All Saints' Day and saying 6 our Fathers, 6 Hail Marys and 6 Glory Bes. Since each had to be a separate visit in order to meet the indulgence requirements, we went into church, said 18 prayers for a specific relative, retreated to the sidewalk which marked, the boundary between church and world, then rushed back for an other visit. It wasn't unusual to see doz ens of others doing the same, a scene that must have mystified passersby. At dinner we 'proudly announced how many souls each of us had saved that day and it seems, in my fogged memory, that one All Souls' Day our fam ily alone was responsible for the release into heaven of over fifty souls. We don't pray for the souls in purgatory much anymore and I'm sorry about that, not because I'm worr\ed about them but be cause they reminded us that we are more' than just a family in time. We knew about those who preceded us and we prayed for them. We sensed that we were

truly a group of people who linked the past and future. We chose names to pray for' and in so doing we learned our roots. "Who's Aunt Gertrude?" we asked and we placed her in the famiy genealogy, as children rarely do today. "She was mar ried to your great-uncle Tom who ran a feed store," my moth er would reply patiently. The faith habit also gave us confidence that we, too, would be remembered after death by those who never knew us. It gave us our faith immortality. Today we're likely to pray in tensely for a loved one for a year or so after death and then figure the statute of limitations has run out. In researching my new book, I found that one of the traits of a healthy family is "a strong sense of family with many tradi· tions." The family with this sense honors its dead and wel comes its babies. It is defined as a group of people who share a history and a future. It sees itself, not as a small group existing in a particular place at a particular time but as a group in a continuum of time. It makes a point of remembering , those who have gone before. It visits cemeteries, tells stories and admits to its "characters" in family love. Its ancestors come alive, as did those in Alex Ha ley's Roots. It is rooted but not bound by those who have lived earlier. To be honest, I admit that 1 am not carrYing on the toties quoties tradition of my child

ENTERTAINMENT 1. Carve a pumpkin together.

M+A+S+H,

please don't go

Have each one sketch his or her ' idea of what the pumpkin face All I can say is that when should look like and then vote my hour strikes, I hope the on it. nation will afford me just a 2. If the family practiced the fraction of the sympathy it little plays about saints, you afforded bereaved football fans. might invite grandparents or a My time for the empty Mon- ' few friends in for the perform day night will be next February, ance and a treat. when M*A*S*H goes off the air. Monday night is gala for us SHARING M*A*S*H junkies. We get to - Share how you feel when watch it three times. That is not someone says you should be a to say we do not plan every saint. weekday evening around Dr. - Share the greatest obstacle Benjamin Franklin Pierce, racing you face in trying to become a home from work and being in saint. ordinately crisp with anyone who dares to call during the sacred CLOSING PRAYER half-hour when he is dispensing We thank you, Jesus, that you love and lechery, wisecracks and have called us to be your people, heartbreak, ideally with Radar to be saints in your kingdom. O'Reilly p'eeking over his shoul Help us, Lord, to live in the full der, clipboard ready, heart on ness of your love and to show sleeve. They make me feel better forth your care and concern to about life. Monday night mayhem has the others. May we help and support each other in responding to the same effect on many people. I'm not saying that we're any better call to be saints. Amen. because we like healers better than Steelers. But I am saying that we doubt we'll be swamped in the solicitude that engulfed those left staring at a blank screen';"" or each other - since By the players decided that $90,000 pay for six months' work was DOLORES not enough. The strike was presented as a calamity, reported in the same solemn tones as the massacre in Lebanon. Its effect on the na tional psyche was felt to be dev astating. I don't pretend to understand hood and that my children don't football, not to mention why it know much about those aunts means so much. to so many to .and uncles who were a special see men breaking each others' part of my childhood. I regret bones every weekend. It seems this but I don't know how to to me there's an awful lot of recapture it other than praying whistle-blowing to it, and a generally for the souls in purga tory. If I asked them to go in certain monotony about those and out of church on All Souls' pileups, which apparently are not Day, they'd look at me to see spontaneous, but are carefully if I were serious. I'm not but I plotted at strategy sessions with training films and charts. wish I were. I gather that, due to the num ber of injuries that occur, foot ball fans have to be almost as knowledgeable about orthopedics and anatomy as my beloved doctors at the 4077th. November 1 Baseball also requires its fans Rev. William H. McNamara, to carry a great deal of mental ,Pastor, 1924, St. Mary, Mansfield baggage. It's better, somehow, if Rev. Louis N. Blanchet, Assis you can reel off statistics. ,tant, 1927, St. John Baptist, Fall I prefer it to football, however, River because it involves fewer stret Rt. Rev. John F. Ferraz, Pastor, cher bearers, and one whole sum 1944, St. Michael, Fall River mer I faithfully followed the De Rt. Rev. George F. Cain, Pas troit Tigers. That was due to tor, 1953, St. Matthew, Fall Mark Fidrych. River You didn't even have to know what an outside curve was to November 2 A Memento for the repose of appreciate him. Something about the souls of our priest not on this the way he approached throwing that ball - the way he mani list. cured the mound, pawed the Rev. Joseph S.Fortin, Foun der, 1923, St. John Baptist, Fall ground and went into the wind mill windup - spoke to me. He River Rev. Michael V. McDonough, was acting out my apprehension when 'I am expected to write. Chaplain, 1933, St. Mary Home, But when he left, I did, too. New Bedford

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By MARY McGRORY

Hockey is a game 1 think 1 understand. Sometimes when the boys were playing on the solid black ice of Muddy Pond and the team was short, I was allow ed to fill in liS goalie. I used to watch hockey, too. I did not keep my eye on, the puck. I was looking for No.4, Bobby Orr. He was a great player, but I liked to watch him skate. He glided away from the pack, fin ishing every curve with perfect grace. But he's gone now, and so am I. Tennis? It's easy to follow, I'll say that for it - but due to the number of brats who play for the United States, I often found myself rooting for a for eign country instead of my own and I got self-conscious about it in politically mixed company. If McEnroe played Connors and I asked someone who I should be for, I just started an argument. Who needs conflict? M*A*S*H has conflict, of course, if you count the Korean War, which is its setting. Its therapy extends beyond making you laugh and, occasionally, cry. After you've watched Hawkeye, after being in the O.R. for 16 hours straight, still extracting with infinite delicacy a sliver of shrapnel from a teen-age soldier's stomach, you will think kindly of his whole profession. I dote on them all, except for the odious wimp, Frank Burns I don't just love Hawkeye, I love his father, back home in Crab apple Cove, Maine. And I like the replacements, too. I was crazy about Col. Henry Blake, and ,wept when he died. But. Col. Sherman Potter is a prince, too. After Radar went home after Uncle Ed's death, I had the same readjustment problem as everyone at the 4077th, but now Klinger is as solid with me as he is with them. I don't know what I will do without them. Like football fans, I will watch replays rather than nothing, but I know it can't go ,on. I sympathize with football fans, in their loss, in a way. Mine will be greater. The only thing that makes me hope that people understand is the fact that when the last epi ,sode of Mf,'AO:<S*H is shown, ad vertisers will be charged $450,000 per 30 seconds. That, I want you to know, is $50,000 more than they had to pay dur ing the last Super Bowl telecast. I hold that thought. It shows that, despite the hullabaloo over football, the United States has not ent~rely lost its sense of values.

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each other and to their childreen. The bishop challenged the hus- ' bands and wives to continue their witness to the values of mar ried life, especiallY, to their own children and grandchildren. In a moving moment, the jubilarians clasped hands as all renewed their nuptial promises.

Deacons for the Mass were Oscar Drinkwater and James Meloni, both marking 25 years of married life. Mrs. Drinkwater and Mrs. Meloni were lectors.

CHICAGO r(NC) - The Chic ago Archdiocese will not retain the services 0 fthe public rela tions firm of Janet Diederichs and Associates says Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Chicago. In a letter to Ms. Diederichs, the archbishop said he believed the archdiocese's own resources are sufficient to meet its public relations needs. Describing the reason for the change as "philosophical," the archbishop said, "I believe that our approach, as a church, to the public should be somewhat different from that of a business or secular organization." Expressing gratitude for ser· vices of the firm to the arch· diocese, Archbishop Bernardin said he was open to retaining it for special projects. An archidocesan spokesman said the Diederichs firm was paid $99,055 during the fiscal year that ended June 30 ~nd $27,954 for the July-September period. That quarter, he said; in cluded media relations services during the period of Archbishop Bernardin's installation.

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. Giftbearers were Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, St. Louis de France parish, Swansea; and' VATIVAN CIlY (NC) - Hun Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Arsenault, dreds of elderly, many in wheel F:ollowihg, the Mass, the St. Francis ,of Assisi parish, New chairs, were in St. Peter's Basi couples 'met individually with Bedford.. lica for the recent beatification the bishop. Each received acerti Mrs. Arsenault is coordinator of Jeanne Jugan, foundress of ficate as a momento of the oc for the diocesan Family Life the Little Sisters of the Poor. casion. Center, which arranged the third They came as representatives of _ annual tribute to couples wed the community of 259 homes for 25, 50 or more years. The center the elderly in 30 countries on six is directed by Rev. Ronald A. continents. Jeanne Jugan's apos tolate began in 1839 in St. Ser Tosti, Diocesan Director of Fam van, France, when at age 47. she iiy Ministry~ took in Anne Chauvin, an aged and blind widow, placed her in God her own bed and cared for her. "God . . . may not be known Also beatified at the ceremony .by reason, he may not be gotten were Father Salvatore Lilli, an by though nor concluded by Italian Franciscan priest, and understanding; but he may be seven Armenian companions,' . loved and chosen with the true martyred for their faith in 1895 lovely will of thine heart." in Turkey. Beatification is the An Epistle of Discretion last , step before sainthood.

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Coast Guard funds Dear Editor: Thank you for writing once again in regard to funding for the Coast Guard. I appreciate your kind words in The Anchor. As you may know, since I last wrote there have been two supplemental appropriations for Coast Guard funding. Together, they added more than $130 mil lion i~ funds for this important part of the Department of Trans portation. As you know, I have been very concerned that 'the Coast Guard receive the funding necessary to perform the many important functions which the Congress assigns. Be assured that I will continue to do my utmost to up hold and improve the state of the Coast Guard. Our coastal de fenses must not be neglected. PAUL E. TSONGAS United States Senator

Voters' rights Dear Editor: "Shall voter approval be re quired for licensing any low level radioactive waste dump or new nuclear power reactor in Massachusetts?" That is Question 3 on the November 2 election ballot. It was placed there by the signa tures of 103,000 registered Massachusetts voters the largest signature response to any referendum question in Massa chusetts history. The question offers the public its first opportunity ever to pass or reject, through the ballot. each future application for estab lishment of the above types of radioactive installations. It was prompted by the incred ible multimillion dollar .paybacks ' the state's electric utilities are trying to lay on ratepayers for projects which in many cases will' never be completed and by the state administration's avow ed intent to accept a, regional radioactive waste dump, despite the fact that other such installa tions have failed in keeping deadly radioactive poisons out of area air or groundwater. .The uncaring attitudes of the nuclear industries and the poli ticians who serve ,them echo our

national ,administration's crack

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Catholics concerned over the treatment of citizenry and church

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men concerned about oil explora tion's effect on the fishing grounds are "radicals" (Ronald Reagan); citizens concerned about safety and economic re percussions of runaway radio activity art "tools of Commun ism" 'Parnes Edwards, Secretary of Energy). It will take many years to straighten Washington out; but Question 3 - if passed in Nov ember - can go a long way to ward restoring public control of

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It does other good things, too. It involves our legislature in a vital advisory capacity on li cense applications; it protects continued operation of impor tant radiomedical services; it protects "home rule" in ques tions of siting any projects which the public may approve. Who ever stands with it sup ports voters' rights. Whoever stands against it stands' against the voter. Stephen Cook New Bedford

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 29, 1982

MEMBERS OF ST. MICHAEL'S parish, Swansea, celebrated the parish's 60th anni versary at a sung Mass marked by burning of a, construction mortgage and followed by a champagne toast in the church hall and later by a banquet and reception. From left, at the mortgage-burning, Mrs. Henry Dion; Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM; Deacon' Candidate Thomas Prevost; Father Clement E. Dufour, pastor; altar boy Raymond Prevost, nephew of Deacon ·Candidate Prevost; Mrs. Helena Lamarre; Manuel Silveira. Father Richard Gendreau was homilist for the Mass and a meditation was presented by St. MIchael's Liturgical ,Dancers. (Torchia Photo)

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The Boston Globe, not prone Harvard, as he thoughtperinan revolution the world needed was to long obituaries of young men ently, to· devote liimself fully to that of love. who have, in the world's eyes, work for social justice. His' teachers rem~~~ered him accomplished little, in life, de Then, influenced by peace for such thinking.. '.'J;phn was voted 15 paragraphs to him. activists who felt that abortion, one of the most remarkable There was also a long story in too, was a form of violence' and young men I have ever met," .the Boston Pilot. , injustice, he began participating said Father George McRae, SJ, Hundreds attended his funeral in abortio1'\.. clinic sit~ins, for' Stillman professor at Harvard, service at Our Lady of the An.· which he was never arrested, who was quoted in the Boston nunciation Cathedral in Roslin. ' largely, he thought, because the . Globe obituary. "He was the da!r and - hundreds . more a courts involved had' "Irish Cath embodiment of the Christian'

month's mind Mass at Holy olic judges and this was the spirit, a peace activist, inter

. Cross Cathedral, Boston. ested in working for the poor,

abortion issue." Who' was he? who put his whole life at the dis In the midst of this, John re Presciently, as it has turned turned to Harvard, took a position' of other people."

out, The Harvard 'Crimson an :parttime job counseling draft re And John Moynihan, director swered that question in its 1981 sisters at Cambridge's Pax Chris of the Boston Archdiocesan commencement issue, in a· long ti Center on Conscience and War Peace and Justice Commission, and beautiful. article by Cheryl and began working with Haley writing in The Pilot, declared: R.. Devall, titled "The Gospel Ac House, a Catholic Worker house "Friends of John Leary feel that cording to John." of hospitality in Boston. he helped make the gospel words It began: "As other graduating The night before he died he .of love, justice and peace be seniors anticipate sumers abroad, had slept on the Haley' House lievable by his every private and five-figure' salaries and advanced. floor, having given his bed to a - public action. If there is a new degrees, John Timothy Leary stranger in need. . hunger for justice, and peace on doesn't expect to go very far. The emergency medical techni this planet, it is because of peo Depending upon the mercy of cians who responded to the call ple like John Leary who stir th~ Massachusetts judicial sys for help after John collapsed on human hearts with their sheer tem, he may have no choice. a Boston sidewalk were puzzled. goodness. John fa~es up to two months' in "We weren't sure he was dead "If a new awareness is dawn the Billerica state corectional at first," said ·one. - "He was ing that we must end the fatal facility for distributing peace smiling. You don't often see istic oppression of war, it is be leaflets at Cambridge's Draper that." cause of people like John who Laboratory '(a leading cen'ter for John's longtime spiritual di-· have the courage to live totally research and development of nu rector, Father Charles McCarthy for peace. If there is hope for clear missile accuracy systems). of,. Our Lady of the Annuncia- . this world, it is because of peo It's doubtful however, that time , tion"Melkite Cathedral in Roslin ple like John who are willing to in prison will 'correct' John's dale,gave a clue to the smile in listen; to reflect and to under activism. Many previous brushes . his funeral homily. " stand human conflict." , with authority have proven him "John said the Jesus Prayer What about those friends of to be a shame~ess agitator." , thousands of times a day," ex John Leary? Universally, they His activism began in seven~h plained the priest. were devastated by his death. grade when he was nominated "Undoubtedly he died with it Gordon Zahn, retired univer to Vernon's environmental board., upon his, lips," later added a sity professor, author, lecturer In 1976 he was his hometown's youth coordinator for the Udall close friend, John Botean, also and grand old man of Pax Christi, who was himself jailed as a cons presidential campaign, missing . of Pax Christi in Cambridge. ' cientious objector in World War The prayer, "Lord Jesus attendance at the .Democratic national convention by the two Christ... Son of the Living God, II, who worked with John at the votes by which his candidate ha\le mercy on me, a sinner." , Cambridge Pax Christi office and is an ancient petition widely who loved him as a son, spoke lost the Vernon primary.. used in the Eastern rites of at the Holy Cross Cathedral At Harvard, John began tu Catholicism. John was deeply Mass of, the "qUiet constancy of toring Walpol.e State Prison in his faith and his complete aban mates and soon had his eyes interested in Melkite Catholic opened to 'violence, brutality and ism although he also' attended donment, to the will of God. the injustice inherent in the fact Roman rite Masses at the Paulist . '.. We miss the presence with apd other Boston wnich he graced every task and that prison populations are Center every issue," he said, his voice churches. largely black and illiterate. breaking. '~To know John was to see He began making connections. Others spoke' of hjs simple The prison experience led him First Corinthians, Chapter 13, to ponder the structure of society enfleshed, embodied, incarnate," wake at Haley House. "There he was, lying in an oid outfit sent in general. Moving into· politics, continued Father MCcarthy. he swiftly was immersed in hu He said that, young though he in for the poor," said one man. man rights and nuclear disarma was, John realized that "justice "You just wanted to hug him,''' ment causes. Eventu~lly he left . alone can be cruel" and the only Turn to Page Sixteen

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Is just war possible ••.

WASHINGTON (NC) - "Far from feeling that we have reach edthe point that just war tradi tion is no longer applicable, we have . . . reached the point where it is infinitely more im portant than it ever was," said Bishop John J. O'Connor, vicar general of the Military Ordinari ate, at a conference on "Justice and War in the Nuclear Age." The day-long conference, which took place dn Washington, was sponsored by rfue American Catholic Committee, a recently formed group of laity who re search, analyze and address con temporary issues, "from the full ness of Catholic tradition and .. . the rich social and political heritage" of the United States. Speaking on "Traditional Western Criteria for Justice in War" before an audience of about 150, Bishop O'Connor pri marily gave his views on the proper structure for debates within the church on nuclear war and, the applicability of the just war theory. . But many observations of the member of the drafting com mittee for the U.S. Bishops' pas toral on war and peace, seemed indirect criticisms of peace ac tivists in the country and within the church. "I am personally haunted by the question: 'What would the Good Samaritan have done if be had arrived as the traveller was being attacked? Would he not have intervened at all with force - abstaining from help ing the man?" he said. Those who would abstain

fnil use of nuclear force .or un conditionally condemn the nu clear deterrent strategy have honorable intentions, he said, but "important though intention is, it's only one aspect of hu man action and moral assess meJ:lt. (peopl~ must) realize that 'peace on earth' will not come about merely by gOQd inten tions." He.. also warned against fail ure to "make the distinction be ~ween personal responsibility and the responsibilities of a state." Bishop O'Connor did, however, make one direct criticism. He said that those who believe that the just war theory is no longer applicable are mistaken. "These people forget that the just war doctrine was developed out of a presumption of peace. (It served as a) criterion of de termining justification if peace is legitimately violated, which is what we are trying to do" in the present debate on nuclear arms. He said that the doctrine of just war arose out of values that uphold human dignity and worth and the belief that peace is not simply the avoidance of war.. Saying he found it difficult to imagine going straight from a reading of the Gospel to the for mation of public policy, he told conference participants that just war teaching provides the link between the two and is "infin. itely more important today than it ever has been in the history of the world." A much stronger criticism of the peace movement came from

• • • or STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (NC) - A growing number of Cath olics are rejecting all war be cause "any war between major powers would almost certainly become nuclear, however it be gan," the pastor of a Catholic parish in Pittsburgh told a nu clear disarmament seminar in Steubenville. The priest, Father Donald W. McIlvane, pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in Pittsburgh, said that, although Catholic teaching has traditionally recogniZed "that in some instances, the use of armed force could be justified," nuclear war has forced a dra matic change in church teaching. He cited the Second Vatican Council's "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World," which said, "Any act of war aimed. indiscriminately at. the destruction of entire cities or of· extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself. It merits unequivocal and unhesi tating condemnation." Father McIlvane conceded that, "to stretch miral principles to the limit," tactical nuclear weapons "might be justified." But he .warned that their use "would l~ad shortly, in real life, to a full·~cale and terrifying nu clear exchange." He said a growing number of bishops "speaking out and acting

Richard V. Allen, former na· tional security. adviser in the Reagan administration. He said the peac~ movement is danger ous "not only to the Reagan ad ministration but to the national security of the United States." . Attempting to establish the context for reliance on nuclear deterrence, Allen spoke of the "important . mistakes" in U.S. policy toward the U.s.S.R. over the past 20 years. One such mis take was the assumption in the early 1960's that the "Soviets would accept our nuclear superi ority '(and) put resources into the consumer, not military, sector. We wanted peace desperately and thought the other side would too." Though they do not threaten peace, said Allen, nuclear wea pons "also seem to be the only guarantor of our freedom." The true threat to peace, he added, is the "window of vulnerability, the threat of weakness." In the closing 'of the confer ence, Frank Shakespeare, former director of the U.S. Information Agency, summed up the themes that ran throughout the confer ence: that nuclear weapons are admittedly dangerous, that con cern for the avoidance ·of nuclear holocaust is· a genuine one, but that there are sound, moral rea sons for pursuing an effective deterrent against the Soviet Union. He said, "We have a re sponsibility to prevent. our own citizens from becoming martyrs - either literally to nuclear war, or living martyrs under the dom: ination of an atheistic power."

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on this evil" are effecting a "moral revolution" in the U.s. Catholic Church. He cited in particular Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, where a nuclear weapons assembly plant is located. He noted that Bishop Matthiesen had urged "persons involved in the production and stockpiling of .nuclear weapons to resign from such activities and seek employment in peaceful pur suits." Father McIlvane said Bishop Matthiesen has uttereCl what most other' bishops have yet to state: "If nuclear weapons are Immoral and cannot possibly be used for a good purpose, then it follows that a Catholic cannot be involved in the building of these weapons as a civilian, and cannot be involved with those sections of the military which would deliver those weapons:' Another speaker at the disarm ament seminar, the Rev. Peter Shidemantle, a United Presby terian minister who is chaplain' of Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, said: "As long as current trends continue, we will always find ways to justify further arms buildup. The point is that we cannot continuouSly . build up to cover every possible scenario of conflict with a nu clear umbrella and at the same

time be serious about nuclear disarmament." Mr. Shidemantle, who has led the campaign in Ohio for a freeze on nuclear weapons development , and deployment, said virtually every leader in the United States and the Soviet Union in the past 30 years has publicly stated that' a nuclear war "cannot have a winner." Yet, he said, th~ nuclear arms race "is a race which we con· tinue to run blindly, like two bumbling giants groping in the dark, involving not only hun dreds of billions of dollars a year, but also the energies, in telligence and i~aginations of some of the'most highly skilled people in the world:' He urged people to "refuse to remain victims to the unfolding drama of insanity,"

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Continued f.rom page one major challenges to the U.S. . church. Its provisions could cause re stl,1lcturing of policies and priori ties in order to meet the "funda mental" right of the people to hear the ,word of God and have access to the sacraments, he said, adding that new e~phasis on. consultative bodies in the ,church will also offer a challenge. The American experience with such bodies "has been disappointing." he said. "We will have ourselves to blame if we fail to take ad vantage of" the opportunities presented in the new code. A meeting resolution passed by a large majority urged the Nationl).l Conference of Catholic Bishops to "act promptly to es tablish" the regional and nation al tribunals the new code is ex pected to provide ,for. Another resolution ,called for establishment of a CLSA' com mittee to offer "advisory opin ions" on the new code providing expert but not legally binding guidance in 'matters not yet officially resolved. ' Examples of confusion, about

If Sister Aim Moore, assistant. superintendent -of diocesan schools, and Sister Patricia Mc Carthy, a teacher at St. Vincent's School, Fall River, are -.looking extra happy thes,e days, they have a reason. Marguerite Bourgeoys, found ress of their community, the Con gregation de Notre, Dame, will be canonized Sunday by Pope John Paul II. The two sisters wi1l join mem bers of their community in the Providence diocese, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, for a Mass at S5. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Providence, with Bishop Louis, Gelineau as prin<;,ipal I celebrant. A reception for the' sisters, their friends and their former and present pupils will follow in the cathedral hall. Saint's l.ife 'The new saint was' bom in Troyes, France" on April 17, 1620. In 1653 she left her native land for the pioneer colony of Montreal, then called Ville Marie. Her, intention was to establish schools for the Christian educa . tion of French and Indian child ren but circumstances prevented ~ her from starting that work for four years. In the meantipte, notes an official biography, "she reached out in her charity to alI the needs of the colonists. Not only did she instruct them in Christian doctrine, she visited and cared for them in illness, supported them in death and be reavement, and consoled them in every kind of trouble." In 1653, she opened the first , school in Ville Marie in a don ated stable. In the course of two trips to France, she later recruit ed several companions, gradu alIy forming the first uncloister ed community of women religious in the New World and establish ing a network of little schools

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ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, iFR CCD classes for all levels are held in the school buildin« be ginning at 2:45 p.m. each Mon day. SS. PETER & PAUL, FR Father Jay Maddock Grea-ter Fall RIver CYO 'dIrector, will speak at a CYO communion breakfast In Father Coady Cen ter followIng 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. To be installed at the Mass are CYO officers Kenneth Souza, president; Larry Mello, vice-president; Christine Men doza, secretary; John Sandler, treasurer. A Halloween party for parish children from kindergarten through 4th' grade will be held Sunday night, beginning with 7 ,p.m. Mass.

ST. RITA, MARION CCD teachers are needed for a 7th and 8th grade class meet ingat 11 -a.m. each Sunday. Vol unteers may contact rthe rectory. Those willing to play an ,instru ment at the Christmas Masses are also asked to contact the rectory. The Catholic Women's Club will hold a breakfast in the rec tory following 10 a.m. Mass Sunday Nov. 14.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER Events - at the North Dart mouth center include a weekend retreat for the widowed, begin ning tonigh·t, a LIfe in the Spirit seminar for diocesan priests at 1 p.m. Tuesday -and a Diocesan' Pastoral Council meeting at 7:30 . p.m. Thursday. "BROADEN HORIZONS" "A Day to Broaden Your Hori zons" will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. -tomorrow at Our Lady of Grace Church, Westport, co sponsored by the women's guilds of ,that parish, St. George and S't. John the Baptist, also of West port. Speakers will discuss the ology, natural family planning, the charIsmatic 'renewal, Birth right, the CUrs111o, Marriage En_ counter, youth and the church ~nd terminal illness. A pageant, Women in the Bible," will-close the program. ST.STANISLAUS,FR Parish couples married during this Czestochowa jubilee year are invited to -a dinner at the rect<>ry on the feast of the Epiphany, Sunday, Jan. 2.

CANCER CONFERENCE "Comfort and Care in Ad vanced Cancer," a conference for physicians and other health pro fessionals, will be' held Wednes day, Nov. 17 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Information: 738 8859.

ST.ANNE,FR A slide lecture. on the Holy Land will be given at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8. in the 'School by Assadour Antreassian, a Holy Lancl guide, archaeologist, au_ thor and lecturer. All welcome. . Parishioner Robert Raymond will be ordained for the ·perma nent diaconate Nov. 6. A Mass of thanksgiving will be offered at 7:30 p.m-. tonightJn the school.

SACRED HEART, FR A children's chorus to be heard at 10 a.m. Mass on Sunday is being formed. Those inter ested are asked to see Colette Waring after that Mass. The Women's Guild will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, for a Mass for deceased members. A meeting and calendar party will follow.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Rehabilita,tion staff members from Braintree Hospital will speak on various aspects of cere brovascular accidents' at a physi cian's education conference open to all medical professionals at 5:30 -p.m. Thursday in Room 112 of Clemence Hall -at St. AI1ne's Hospital. Information: 674-5741, ext. 258.

ST. MARY; NB CCD registrations close thIs Sunday. Canned goods for Thank,sgiv ing baskets for the needy will be collected at all Masses this weekend under 'auspices of the parish Vincentians. BL. SACRAMENT ADORERS The Adorers will 'hold exposi tion of the Blessed Sacrament following 8:30 a.m. Mass Monday until 8:45p.m. Monday night, at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairha ven. All welcome. Exposition will also be held at the same ,hours on Friday, Nov. 5. ,

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Prayer group members will meet for Mass at 7 p.m. T·hurs day. A prayer meeting will fol low.

CHARISMATIC LEADERS Diocesan charismatic leaders will meet at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. George parish 'hall, West port. All committed to tile cha rismatic renewal are welcome. Suggestions for future meeting rtopics will be welcomed.

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MARTIN J. KELLY (cen ter) of West Lothian, Scot land, was the guest lastweek of Father Daniel Freitas (right), diocesan director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. With them was Vito Gerardi, New Bedford. Kelly is the secretary of the international committee for the canonization cause of Frederic Ozanam, founder of the Vincentians. Gerardi is U.S. chairman of the com mittee. . Kelly is in the U.S. to pro mote activity on behalf of the Ozanam cause especially during 1983, the 150th anni versary of the Vincentians. While in the country he also planned to see John R. Sim mons, Mundelein, Ill., na tional president, and Atty. T. Raber Taylor, Denver, in- . ternational chairman of the canonization cause commit tee. '

Parishioner Thomas Prevost will be ordained 'for the perma nent diaconate Nov. 6. He will participate in 11 a.m. Mass Sun day, Nov. 7. A reception will follow in the ,parish hall. ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN CCD teachers will meet in the school at 7 tonight.

BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER GROUP, FR Life in the Spirit seminars for Fall River area prayer group members will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and continue for seven weeks at Blessed Sacrament Church chapel, S<>uth Main Street, Fall River. Information:

ST.. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET The parish committee plan ning a Thanksgivinl't Day Mass and dinner for the 'hand'icapped, shutins and lonely will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in ·the parish center. All welcome.

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ST. JUUE,N. DARTMOUTH Confirmation I students will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the church hall. A children's Halloween party will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. to morrow, with children meeting in the Stang High School park ing lot for a parade to the church hall. In case of rain, the party will begin in 1lhe hall.

TEENS ENCOUNTER CHRIST TEC members will hold a Hal loween party from 6:30 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at St. John's' Church hall, New Bedford. A girls' TEC weekend will be held from Nov. 26 through 28. Application deadline: Nov. 12. Information: 996-4576. ST. DOMINIC. SWANSEA Parishioners are urged to re citea mealtime family prayer distributed at all Masses for the intention of the success of the ongoing parish renewal week ends. 'I'he walls of ,the parish are being insulated to effect energy savings during the winter.

HOLY NAME, FR Registration for prep (grades 9 and 10) CYO basketball -teams will be -held from 1 to 2 p.m. tomorrow at the parish school. D OF I, ATTLEBORO Alcazaba Circle of tile Daugh ters of Isabella will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in K of C Hall, Hodges Street. Cake decoration will be demonstrated.

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Father Bruce Ritter

I WISH· I UNDERSTOOD IT' BETTER There's a mystery here-in this story-of grace and sin. I wish I understood it better than I do. Let me tell you what happened so you can try to un derstand it tqo. I never met him although he tried several times to see me. just dropping over, taking a chance I'd be in the Center. My staff tells me he's abig man, inches over six feet. A co~ple of times he sent over runaway girls too young to work for him. and once, areally sick youngster. He owns and operates the newest and raunchiest peep show and brothel in town just across the street: beautiful girls-25 cents a look. Over a dozen prostitutes work the place (average time with ajohn is 7to 20 minutes. for $20.00). The place is open 18 hours aday. Last week about three in the morning he came over again carry.ing a milk bottle filled with quarters. dimes and nickels. "This is for your kids," he said. "We like what you're doing. I'm in a bad business but I don't like kids get ling hurt. We collected this money from the girls and their johns for your kids." He handed the milk bottle filled with money to Peter, the young and by now bug-eyed, slack jawed. staff person on duty and walked away. "God bless you," he said. It came to $84.20. The next m'orning my staff told me what had happened. I was furious, I was outraged. I also laughed till I cried. Take it back. right away, I said. Tell him no thanks. Thanks a lot, but no thanks-tell him we appreciate the thought but no thanks. Thank him for sending the kids over though. I thought that was the end of it-just abizarre incident to add to the many hundreds of others. But he came back the Father Bruce Ritter, OFM Conv., is the founder and President of Covenant House/UNDER 21, which operates crisis centers for homeless and runaway boys and. girls all over the country.

next day dressed in a beautiful white silk suit, grabbed a broom to help Peter sweep the sidewalks. "He didn't have' the right to do that,'that Priest. He didn't have the right to refuse agift to God. I don't hurt anybody. I've got four kids. I got to make a living. I cleaned up my place, made the girls stop stealing and ripping off the johns. I go to church. I tithe. I gave the money to another church." He went back across the street. got into his gold Eldorado and drove away. The more I thought about it, the more the inexplicable mystery of sin and grace and love, of lying and caring, op pressed and obsessed me. I think he tried to do a- good thing. Yet what he does across the street is clearly evil. "God bless you," he said. He gives 10% of his "income" to charity. He runs a low-class brothel yet he cares .about runaway kids and people who help them. And. he wants very much to be understood.

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Feeding the Gentiles By Father John J. Castelot Jesus is in gentile territory when Mark's Gospel presents a $econd interpretation of the Lord's feeding of the multitude. In this account, Mark brings Jesus from Tyre to the Sea of Galilee by an implausible route. It would be like saying, on a broader scale, that he went from Minneapolis to Lake Michigan , by way of Duluth and Detroit. Mark clearly is more interested in theology than geography. In this gentile setting - the 10 cities, to the east of Galilee --, Mark first tells of the cure of a deaf and mute man (Chap ter 7:31-37). In the story, echoes are heard

of an Old Testament passage from the book of Isaiah: "Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears 'of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, and the tongue of the dumb will sing" (Isaiah 35- ' 5-6).

The cure of the deaf mute reveals to the gentile world that Jesus is the messiah. And, even though Jesus had told'the people not to, they "proclaimed it" (Chapter 7:36). The term used here for "proclaimed" is the same used to denote the preach ing of the Good News by' the early church. Proclaiming Jesus means pro claiming the Good News.

The crowd's reaction to this one miracle is astonishing. It sums up the enthusiasm with which the non-Jewish world greeted the Good New's. In this gentile setting, Mark now moves on to the ,feeding of the 4,000 with the seven loaves. The original event must have been handed down in more than one version. But this is not a second feed ing miracle; that is indIcated by the disciples' perplexed reaction. If the ,disciples already had wit nessed one such miracle, they would hardly ask; "How can any one give these people sufficient ~read in this deserted spot?" Turn to page thirteen

Tom's gift

II By Father James A. Black The doctor had confirmed Tom's worst fears. Only a few' weeks remained to him. The dis ease which had ravaged him had spread and a cure was out of the question. ' Father Bob ~ame in to visit just after the doctor had left. He placed a cross in Tom's hand. For a long time, Tom just looked at it. "I no longer just believe," he said at last. "Now I understand what Christian life and death are' all about." The hardest part for Tom and his wife was telling their five sons. It went fairly well, actual ly. Tom urged his family to puU together. They all prayed and talked and cried. Tom spoke with each son individually, sharing with ·'each his love for him and his pride, in being his father.

ful gesture of trust exchanged

The next few weeks were frus the sign of peace, knowing that

trating. Tom was out of the hos pital, but pretty much confined ev:en in this difficult hour the to bed at home. Yet he reaily Lord was present. , believed he was a lucky man. The funeral was concelebrated "If I handle, th,is right," he by' half a'dozen priests, before a thought, "people around me will packed church. The boys did the be able to see the presence of scripture readings and offered the Prayer of the Faithful, as the Lord." , . '- , It was important to Tom to Tom had requested. He had planned much of his tell others· what he believed: own funeral:' the role of his fam that God really cared about his people and was with them in ily, the' choice of 'pallbearers, much of the music. suffering. It wasn't so much a funeral as The night beforebis death, a triumphant send-off for a Tom asked Father Bob to watch man of faith who had shared over his sons after he died. that faith not only with his fam On Saturday, the family ily but with his friends. gathered. They prayed together Tom's family still has the gift several times during the day. he left. His death made each of ,It was during one of those times them more aware of the presence that Tom died. ' of th~ Lord in their own lives. The family members rallied Faith was his ultimate gift to around each other. They prayed his family and to all who knew the Lord's Prayer and in a beauti- and loved him.

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Michele Murray died seven years ago at age 40. A wife and the mother of four children, she was a poet, a novel ist and a literary critic. For the last several years before her death, she was book editor of The National Observer. She once described herself as a woman in love with literature. I met Mrs. Murray 12 years ago at a Fourth of July Mass.

of -living and dying

Over a picnic supper that fol lowed we discovered some things in common. We both grew up in New York City,' in ghettos of sorts: I in an Iris,h neighborhood in Queens, she in a Brooklyn Jewish enclave. (She beca~e a Catholic while studying Old Testament literature at The New School in New York.) We had both chosen to work, to study, to bear children, to,run households; and we saw links among the patchwork quilt

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shapes of our lives. Mrs. Murray best expresed her stance toward life in her long' and profound introduction to a work she edited, "A House of Good Proportion: Images of Wo men in Literature." She wrote, "There is no self' that reads and another self that moves ,through the rooms of a house, but only the single self unfolding from one action to anTurn to Page Thirteen

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·Coping with grief By Katherine Bird For a long time, cancer speci alist Dr~ Josephina Magno found it difficult to handle the death of children. The mother of six sons and a daughter, she ex plained, "I refused to get in volved with dying childen be cause it was too close' to home." Then she heard a speaker say: "Everyone has a mission in life. Some people need 90 )fears to carry out their mission; some need 15 years; some only five· months." "When I heard that, I felt much better," she said. , Mrs. Magno, a native of the Philippines who moved to this country in 1969, is executive di rector of the National Hospice Organization, headquartered in McLean, Va. Hospice has pioneered an ap- . proach to people suffering from terminal illness: it counsels and supports those who want to die at home, working with family members who then provide the primary care of the patient. Long ago, Mrs. Magno learned firsthand how to help people cope with a death in the family. Her physician-husband died of I cancer 26 years ago in the Philip pines when their children were young. Most comforting to her at the time, Mrs. Magno said, were the sympathy, and support of caring people. When someone dies, the physi cian said, friends can express sympathy through a hug or a touch, or with simple words. "Saying something brilliant or ,profound isn't necessary," she commented. Just something like, "I am here, tell me what you want me to do."

Mrs Magno observed, "No two families or individuals respond to death il1ike." Therefore, com munity members and friends should be sensitive to the special needs of mourning family mem bers." Sometimes mourners want to get back to ordinary life as quickly as possible, she noted; others may need some time before resuming daily duties. Follow ing the death of her closest friend, for instance, Mrs. Magno took five weeks off from her medical duties; and appreciated the tact of colleagues who reTurn to Page. Thirteen

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By Janaan Manternach Sarah stood at the w.ell chat ting with several other young mothers. She looked forward to this daily meeting.

Like the other mothers, she

usually brought her two young children with her. The children liked to play in the shade of the trees around the well. This morning~ Jesus and his short distance from the well. Sarah and the other women noticed Jesus. They had heard about how good he was and how .much he liked children. "I wonder if the teacher would bless our children," Sarah said to the others. "He is clearly a man sent by God." "Let's go over and ask him," Ruth suggested. The women gathered their children and walk ed over toward Jesus' and his friends. Two of Jesus' disciples saw them. Turn to page thirteen

The art of living and dying Continued from page twelve other, from making beds to read ing Tolstoy." She was steeped in imagina tion. Grateful for this gift, 'she offered it to others through her literary work. She wrote: "We cannot see ourselves as the peo ple we wish to be until we per ceive the wished-for life and self in our imagination. The imagina tion giveth life." How did she exercise her gift? Every morning after the older children were off to school, Mrs. Murray and 4-year-old Matthew settled down for several hours of writing. Her big desk and Mat thew's small desk dominated their dining room. The morning was Mrs. Mur ray's freshest time; she was alert and aware, and she gave this time to her art. (Her friends knew not to phone before noon.) After~ noons were for errands and car pools, cooking and talking with children. In the evening she and her husband read - from Dante to Walker Percy. When cancer struck swiftly and thoroughly, Mrs. Murray drew on her imagination to con tinue with her life-giving routine. There were poems to be written and books to be read. Her days were interrupted by operations and chemotherflpy but the threads of life were always picked up again. The week she died (she knew she would not live until Friday), she chose her final acts with care and deliberation. Cooking was symbolic of nurture, a part of creative domesticity which she valued as much as her writing.

And although she herself could no longer eat, she prepared a final meal for her family. Two days before her death she called a priest who had been close to ber, especially during her months of living with cancer. She wanted to be anointed, she said, while she was still cons cious, so she could fully savor the sacrament. "Would you come right away," she asked him? He did, of course. And later, at her funeral Mass we all could see that he was filled by her. It made her seem close at hand, almost tangi ble. During the last week of her life on earth, Mrs. Murray wrote a book review. The book was about death as an impetus to dis covering life in all of nature: "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," by

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Continued from page twelve ."Go away," they said. "Jesus is in the middle of an important lesson. He cannot be disturbed." But Jesus broke in. "Let the children come to me," he told his disciples. "Do not hinder them. It is to just such as these that the Kingdom of God be longs." Jesus welcomed the mothers and children. The mothers were overjoyed as Jesus held their children and talked with them. Then Jesus told them and his disciples something very impor tant as he picked up one of the small children. "I assure you," he said seriously, "whoever does not accept the reign of God like a little child shall not'take part in it." . Sarah was not quite sure what Jesus . meant but then slie thought of how her two children trusted her and her husband and depended on them for food, clothing and evrything else. They were eager to be loved by their parents, too. "Maybe that is what Jesus means," Sarah thought. "We need God just as my little boy and girl need their father and me."

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Annie Dillard. When these chosen acts were accomplished, Mrs. Murray spoke with each of her children and sent them off to school. Alone with her husband, she asked him to play her favorite Mozart rec ords, and to read her the psalms of her childhood. Thus she died, gently and pur posefully, with the same clarity of meaning that informed her life. Her dying was of a piece with her living, and it is this wholeness that remains in my memory. Whenever I ~hink about her or pray for her, ,I am drawn to a contemplative mood. It is as if I hear her say, "Live each day attfully, consciously, with fidel ity." I hope that my dying, too, may have those qualities.

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Continued from page twelve - Mark's first interpretation of the feeding, (6:34-44) with strong Old Testament overtones, would have been more at home in a Jewish-Christian commun ity. - The present. interpretation would be more at home in a gen tile church. But the story line is exactly the same. The event recalls the signifi cance of the Eucharist - how the Lord nourishes his people. Again, it is followed by a cross ing of the lake. But there are interesting diff erences. For example, in the first version of the story there were five loaves. But here there are seven. The number seven sym bolizes universality: Christ is now reaching out to all people. The eucharistic overtones are

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Coping Continued froIl' page twelve frained from urging her to return before she was ready. Father James Ewens, director of Milwaukee Hospice Home Care, also offers advice to .friends of mourners.

Stressing the importance of

long-term concern, he noted that many people rally around im mediately following a death. ' But when people have gone through "tremendous loss," it is important "to be present and listen" as the bereaverrtent pro cess is worked through. Father Ewens said this might mean "staying in touch with mourners for six, nine, 12 months follow ing a death." . ) Death is a profound mystery, Few people find it easy to cope with either the death of some one they love or anticipation of their own death. But those who expect an afterlife may find their belief a positive, sup portive help. For the most part, Father Ewens finds that, "people tend to die as, they have lived." He seldom sees "dramatic changes during the last days" before death.

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THE A,NQI;IO~;-I?iocese Qf, f.(I11 ,Riyer:..,.f.I'i." Oct... 29,. .1982. , .•come .are, performances....tQAight . '. . . and Nov. I, 4, 5, 7 and 8. ,. , Congratulations are· in or~er for Pamela Pratt and Joseph Mac Donald, named to the McDonald's All-American High School Marching Band. Each received a certificate of commendation. A recent speaker at Feehan , was Canon Ivor Jeffrey-Machin, a retired· Anglican priest from Bournemouth, England, whose interests include theatre and traveling. His topic was the rele· ' vance"of Shakespeare to modern theatre. Fel;!han parents have received a bulletin urging them to vote "yes" on Question"1 in Tuesday's election. An affiPJtative vote' favors granting aid to non-pub ,lie school students; . Feehan National Honor Society officers are Marthe-Ann Healey, president; Sharon Mullane, vice president;- Catherine Brandley, ,secretary; Roberta Florel.la, treasurer. At a meet of the Southeastern Mass. Conference of High School Math Leagues, Feehan placed as top scorer in the northern div ision, with junior Michael Holmes posting a perfect score. Senior Michelle Robert has been named the school's Century III Leader in a contest designed to identify students with leader ship abilities and interest in Am 'erica's'.future. She is eligible for state competition, leading to' a national conference. and contest in March in' Williamsburg, Va. Feehan's runner-up in the event was Charles' Cotter. .

HALLOWlEEN is' much on the minds of these unearthly creatures from Immaculate Cortceptio~ parish, Taunton.

By ~ia Belanger

support for friends, consolation for the grieving. 1982 marks the 200th anniver~ The early New Englanders sary of the' Bible's first printing used .the Bible as .a mirror of in America. Commi~sioned by the Continental Congress because their daily lives. They ·thought of copies were so scarce, the Bible ·their leaders as heroes and com· was, then as now; an important pared them to Moses and Joshua, source of spiritual guidance and the leaders of Israel. . Puritans drew their laws from those of inspiration. Moses, and named their towns We need the Good Book now after biblical places: Salem, Can more than ever. It is a place aan, Rehoboth. where young and old alike can In colonial times Jews came find courage, strength and faith. without rabbis but with Bibles. Laymen's National Bible Week Like the Christians, tiley saw is coming from Nov. 21 to 28, coincidlng with Thanksgiving, the American wilderness and the the only nonsectarian religious country's new little cities as a holiday and a perfect time to new Zion, a promised land, under pick up the Bible and read it for the guidance of God. When the nation was born, these believers yourself. Bible study groups are mUSh used the Bible to find ways' to rooming all over the country. give 'worth to their life together, Many people say they look for~ their public faith. Anyone, however, is free. to .ward to their' meetings more believe or not to believe. But the than to anything else they belong Bible needs no law tO'make its to. : At one such group someone way. It has survived both those asked "What does the Bible who ignore it Imd those who at tack it, remaining a: bestseller really do?" Well, it does not al ways s.ettle arguments' ·and it from year to year. does cause quite a few. It can present many difficulties for ~ishop those who do not look at what it is really saying. But from it Following a gala Spirit Week we learn that we have worth, so at the Attleboro school; Feehan much so that Someone died on ites held a· homecoming week-. the cross for us. end, including a parade, 'foot The Bible teaches citizens to ball game,' alumni liturgy and have .regard for' their nation reception and -- homecoming "under God" but to be prepared . dance. Also on the schedule was the opening performance of "The to choose God if the nation de parts from divine ways. Innocents," presented by the_ , The Bible teaches concern 'for Feehan Theatre Company with neighbor, love for the enemy," a cast of six students. 'Still to

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was among contestants in are· cent New Bedford Junior Miss Seniors at the Taunton school Pageant, performing an" original recently attended a Providence vocal solO,' "1;11 Sing It i'1 My College production of "A Mid· Song," accompanied by another summer Night's Dream," made Holy Family senior, Suzanne more enjoyable for them because Lafleur. alumna Elisabeth Figlock, '79, The sophomore class, accom had two major roles, while Ted panied by Sister Eugenia Mar ,Figlock "and John .Brady., both garet, recently ',visited the house June graduates, were members. of the Seven Gables in Salem in of the play's lighting crew. ' conjunction with their. st!1dy of The C-e band is looking for the novel of the sarrie name. A new members, especially players tour of Concord, including the of brass instruments. Rehearsals' .Old North .Bridge, Emerson .are during Monday activity House, the Alcott home, the Way side' and Sieepy Hollow Ceme period and after school on Thurs tery was also on' the day's pro day. gram. Math Club members are pre paring for the first New England Math League meet, to take place Tuesday; while school Krypto champs will participate in an in June Judson of Easton direct ternational tournament Friday, eo and John Devlin of Mansfield had a leading part in "The TV Nov. 5,at MIT. War," a drama on the problems of Vietnam war veterans pre . sented last night at StonehilI. Cheerleaders at the New Bed-, The Lockary Computer Center ford school got an early start by at the North Easton college has' attending Southeastern Massa. for the. past four years prepared chusetts University's Northeast summary crime reports for the Cheering Camp in July. Head Easton police department, en Cheerleader Judy Barboza won abling officials to analyze crime the "spirit megaphone" and the patterns and deploy ·resources squad won a trophy for deter with maximum effectiveness. 'mination, while ribbons were Directed by Profes.sor Ray Pepin, awarded to' .individual squad the computer work was originally members in specific techniques. ha'ndled by students, but now, The cheerleaders continued· Pepin says, his 13 and 10-year practicing through' the summer old sons have taken over, per and have held various events to forming a useful service and raise money for cheering jackets. , gaining hands-on computer ex· Senior Judith Anne Barboza 'perience.

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I'll FIND MY. WAY HOME You.ask me ·where to begin Ani I so.lost in my sin You ask me where did I faIl I'll say I can't tell you when But if my spirit is lost How will I find what is near Don't question, Pm not alone Somehow I'll find my way home. My sun shall rise in the east So shall my heart be at peace And if you're asking pte when I'll say it starts at the end You know your Will to be· free Is matched with love secretly And talk would alter your prayer Somehow you find you are there. Your friend is close by your side And speaks in an ancient tongue A season's wish Will come true '< ·All seasons begin with you One world we all come from " One world we melt into one· Just hold my hand and'we're there Somehow we're going somewhere Someh()w we're going somewhere. You ask me where to begin Am I so lost in my sin You ask me where did I fall I'll say I can't tell you when But if my spirit is strong I know it can't b~ wrong No questions I'm not wone Somehow I'll find my way home. Written and sung by Jon' Anderson and Vangelis, © 1981,1982 by WB Music Corp., Spheric B.V. and Toughknot Ltd.

His new song reminds us that home is first of all a space with· in us.

Most of us have a place that we call home, but unless this is a place where we feel renewed, we still lack the most important sense of home. What all of us can discover is how to carry our home within us. When we are at peace with our selves, we can change locations and stilI find that we are "at . home." But how do we 'attain slJch a feeling? When we are young, we may change schools; change friends or perhaps leave' home to go to school. Later in life we may change jobs and perhaps move from city to city. With so many changes, sometimes we grow restless, not sure where we really belong. Vangelis sems to think that we need to take' time to really know ourselves if we want to de velop a true sense of home. Even though our lives change, we can still be at peace if we have an understanding .of our origin in life and where ~e. a,re ,headed. Each of us possesses the po· tential to "find our way home" throughout life. And we can be sure that God is with us as a permanent resident of our inner home. Your comments are welcome. Address to Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood, Evansville, Ind. 47714.

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Marion Runnerup In Marion def~ated Seekonk, 6-1, and gained a second-place tie with Mansfield,. a 6-1 loser to Fall River South, in the Bristol County CYO Hockey League. Greg Smith scored two goals for Marion which led, 3-0, after one period. Chris MacDougall, Dave Plummer, Jim Duncan and Steve Quigley netted the other Marion markers while Bryan Perry scored for Seekonk. Sparked by Rick Coleman's three-goal performance, Fall River South posted its first victory of the season and climbed out of the league cellar into

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fourth place. Dan Heaslip, Rick Rodrigues and Kevin Taylor each scored one goal. Kevin Mc Grath accounted for the lone Mansfield marker. In next Sunday night's league twin bill in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, Fall River South will meet Marion at 9 and Seekonk takes on defending champion New Bedford at 10. New Bedford is setting the pace with a 4-0-0 (won,lost, tied) record followed by Mans field and Marion, both 2-2-0, Fall River South 1-2-1 and See konk 0-3-1.

Stang In 100th Grid Victory Coach Jim Lanagan's Bishop Stang High School Spartans posted their 100th victory _. a 22-20 triumph over Dighton Rehoboth's Falcons last Satur day - since football started at Stang in 1961. The Spartans' record over that span of time is 100-91-9. John O'Brien, athletic director· at Stang, was elated at the Spartans reaching the 100-win mile stone. O'Brien, who has missed only two of the Spartans' 200 games, praised the unselfishness of the school's footballers and their complete loyalty to the team concept, adding that "we had some good kids in the old days but we have some good kids now, too." High point of the Spartans' Division Three Southeastern Mass. Conference victory was the performance of quarterback Gerald Lanagan, who threw touchdown passes of 29 and 82

yards to ends Marcel Sirois and Bill Mosher. Stang, 5-1 overall, is 2-0-0 in conference play and is in a tight race with the Coyle-Cassidy Warriors (2-0-1) for the division crown. Coyle-Cassidy tied See konk· 12-12 last Saturday. In ' Division Two action Bishop Feehan nipped New· Bedford Voke Tech, 7-0, for its first. Conference games tomorrow are Durfee at Dartmouth, New Bedford at Barnstable, Falmouth at Attleboro in Division One, ·Wareham at Bishop Feehan, Bourne at Voke-Tech and Fair haven at Dennis-Yarmouth in Division Two, Bishop Stang at Seekonk, Old Rochester at Coyle Cassidy and Case at DightonRehoboth in Division Three.

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During the earlier years of our country; women were not recognized or endowed with this right. It wasn't until 1920 that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted women this privilege., This amendment means a great deal to me for without it I would not be granted the right to vote because of my sex. My vote will prove to recognize me as an equal and provide me with the courage to take Ii stand in the government of the United States of America. My vote will make a difference. It will acknowl edge or oppose, but whether or not I choose to support an issue, it will be my own individual opinion on the matter. My vote will provide me with a voice in the government of our country. As stated in the Declara tion of Independence, "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." This statement is perhaps one main principle that is the absolute· privilege in my right to vote. My vote will mean one way of expressing the pride and greatness of how truly blessed I am to be an American.

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jack dealer (Ken Wahl) whom he can always beat. As Willie loses job after job, Torn pursues him until Bonita persuades Willie to help her dispose of Harold. This black comedy attempt is an un qualified disaster. Because of vulgarity and foul -language, .it is rated A3, R. "Q" (UFD): This is an inept account of the feeding habits of a giant predatory bird, once an Aztec god ("Q" stands for Quet zalcoatl) now reduced to living in the peak of the Chrysler Building. Michael Moriarty plays a petty crook who discovers Q's nest and tries to parlay it into fame and fortune. Nudity, foul language and such touches as closeups of a gnawed and bloody skeleton dictate 0, R ratings. Saturday, Oct. 30, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "HalloWeen (1978) - An es caped lunatic menaces baby sitters in this crude ~xploitation movie with some nudity and a great deal of violence. 0, R Sunday, Oct. 31, 9 p.rn. (NBC) - "My Bodyguarc:V' (1980r - A young transfer student, bullied by a gang, hires a hulking boy to act as his bodyguard. Effective moments, but the emphasis on solving problems by a resort to violence makes it dubious fare for younger viewers. A3, PG Religious Broadcasting - TV Sunday, Oct. 31, WLNE, Chan nel 6, 10:30 a.m., Diocesan Tele

New Films In "First Blood" (Orion/FUm ways), Sylvester Stallone plays Jolin Rambo, a disillusioned Viet nam hero who reacts to police brutality by waging orie-man war against the police and· National Guard. As straight, quite brutal melo drama, "First Blood" is effective but on a more serious level, it falls short. Apparently intended to make a· statement about the plight of Vietnam veterans, it loses credibility because it is un abashedly manipulative. Due to violence and rough language, it is rated A3, R. "The AmItyville Horror II: The vision Mass. Possession" (Filmways): This "Confluence," 8 a.m. each film set in a period previous to Sunday repeated at 6 a.m. each the first Amityville movie, is Tuesday on Channel 6, is a half haunted-house story, half panel program moderated by wretched "Exorcist" imitation, Truman Taylor and having as with Burt Young as the brutal permanent participants Father paterfamilias. Because of nudity, Peter N. Graziano, diocesan dl-· depiction of incest, and portrayal rector of social services; Right of Catholic ritual and the priest Rev. George Hunt, Episcopal hood, it is rated 0, R. Bishop of Rhode Island; and "Concrete .Jungle" (Pentagon): Rabbie Baruch Korff. This week's topic: Father Kolbe and Other A cheap, exploitative, sex-and , Saints of Our Time. violence movie of the woman-in "The Glory of God," with prison genre. Much nudity. 0, R Father John Bertolucci, 8:30 a.m. "Endangered Species" (War each Sunday on Channel 27. ners): A hard-drinking, embitter "Spirit and the Brlde," a spirit ed New York City policeman (Robert Urich) goes West with ual growth program with Dr. his teen-age daughter and gets William K. Larkin, a psycho therapist, and Grace Markay, a in the middle of a bizarre mys recording artist, 7 p.m.. each tery, cattle mutilations that. in volve removal of vital organs. Monday, Fall River cable chan The bad guys turn out to be nel6. "MarySon," a family puppet right-Wl!ngers with shadowy government support, bent on show with moral and spiritual keeping up with Russia in germ perspective, 4:30 p.m. each Mon warfare. The film dissipates day, Fall River and New Bedford whatever promise it had in in· cable channel 13. Sunday, Oct. 31 (ABC) "Direc effectively staged melodrama tions" - Baptist seminarians in and violence. Because of vio lence, rough language, partial Switzerland discuss their train nudity, and a somewhat graphic ing and future ministry in East ern Europe. love scene, it i~ rated A3, R. Sunday, Oct. 31, (CBS) "For "Goln' AU the Way" (Saturn): A shoddy exploitation movie Our Times" - A look at Luther about the sexual yearnings of an-Catholic relations on Reforma tion Sunday. some high school students. Vul On Radio garity, nudity, sexuality. 0, R Charismatic programs are Classified by the U.S. Catholic heard from Monday through fri Conference as 0 - morally of day on station WICE, 1290 AM: fensive. The 'Motion Picture As Father John Randall, 9 to 10 a.m. sociation of America rating R and 11 to 12 p.m.; Father Edward restricted. . "JimIed" (United Artists): McDonough, 8:15 a.m.; Father Real Bourque, 8:45 a.m. Bonita (Bette Midler) is unhap Father McDonough .is also on ~ly mamed to Harold (Rip Torn), a seedy gambler who WMYD from 1:30 to 2 p.m. each Sunday. happens upon Willie, a black

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The 80th anniversary of the parish will be observed .·a,t 11 :30 a.m. Mass Sunday. A social hour and banquet will follow at VATICAN CITY (NC) - Call W:hi:te's resta.urant. . ing Catholic lay teachers "wit The Women's Guild will meet at 7 p.m. WedlreSday, Nov. 10, nesses to the faith in a privi for a Mass for deceased mem ledged environment for human bers. A regular meeting will. formation," it new Vatican docu follow. ment has urged they receive 'ade A reception and .testimonial from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. quate salaries, continuing edu 28. will honor Father 'Maurice 'cation and recognition as "fully Jeffrey, recently transferred to equal members" with priests the pastorate of St. George and religious of the school com Church, Westport. ParIshioners munity. The document, titled are. asked to contribute baked "Lay Catholics in Schools; Wit goods for the event. nesses to Faith," was issued Oct. CAM'ILLUS CLUB, ~ 15 by the Vatican Congregation MARTHA'S VINEYARD for Catholic Education, headed Little Friends of the Age4, 7 years old and younger, will visit by U.S. Cardinal William W Baum. the long-term care unit of Mar th,a's Vineyard Hospital at 3:~0 Intended' for Catholic lay ·p.m. tomorrow, wearing ,their teachers in both public and pri . Halloween costumes. vate schools, the document urges

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.A palanca party fora forth-' coming ECHO retreat will be held in the church hall follow ing 11 ,a.m. Mass Sunday. BL. SACRAMENT,. FR

New choir members' are needed and may contact Father Rene Levesque, ,pastor, or the choir director.

them to become "a living JIlirror, in whom every individual in the educational community will see reflected an image of one in spired by the Gospel." Discussing the support that should be offered to lay teachers, the document lists "an adequate salary, guaranteed .by a well de fined contract, and authentic re sponsibility" in the running of the school.

Simplicity

"As a man raises himself to wards heaven, so his view of the spiritUal world .becomes sim plified and his words fewer." Dionysius the Areopagite

How to get tickets f~r:

.''TheVatican Collections:

The Papacy and Art:' ..

...

Benelli

. Almost from the beginning, the popes collected-and preserved-great works of art. From ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, from pre-Columbian America, Africa and Oceania, from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.and from our own time. The results are a'priceless treasury of the artistic and cultural her~tage of man. Now, for' the first time in this countrY, we can view these masterpieces in an unprecedented, and stunning, loan exhibition from the Vatican at The' Metropolitan .Museum of Art in New York This_is one.exhibition no one will wqnt to miss-so please read carefully the ticket information below: ' '. TIcket infonnation: Tickets are now on sal~ fOf the New York showing at The Metropolitan

Museum of Art from February 26 through June 12, 1983. (From there, the exhibition goes to

Chicago and San Francisco:) Tickets can be obtained pnly through Ticketron: at $4.80 each

at any Ticketron office; or at $5.50 each by . - - .. calling Teletron. No more than 4 tickets will be sold to any individual. Only 500 tickets will be issued for each half-hour period for each 'specific day and' ticket holders must enter on the day and during the half-hour they have specified for their ticket or they may not be admitted. Tick~t holders may remain in the Vatican exhibition for as long as they wish and visit fhe rest of the Museum before or after viewing the exhibition. The Museum is closed on Mondays, open on Tuesdays from 10 to 8:45, Wednesdays throu2h Saturdays 10 to 4:45, Sundays 11 to 4:45. Local Teletron. numbers are: (212) 947-5850, (516) 794~3650,

(914) 631-0530, (201) 343-4200,

(609)344-1770, (215) 627-9532.

The U.S. tour of "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" is made possible through a grant to The Metropolitan Museum 'of Art by, the national sponsor:

Continued from page one For ten years Cardinal Ben elli was papal undersecretary of state under Pope Paul and left a definite mark on the Roman Curia, the church's central ad ministration, 'breaking the back of an ingrained curial system of patronage and political favors. He had a say in rtthe naming of bishops, curial officials, papal nuncios and delegates. All major proposals by various branches of the Curia passed his desk for review. He approved all major acts taken by Italy's bishops and personally handled even minute Vatican affairs. He took· a hand in assigning apartments to some . Vatican employees and kept tabs on even lesser officials, who were often surprised that he knew so much about them. In August 1982 Cardinal Ben elli hinted that Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, president of the Vati . can bank, should resign. The archbishop's dealings with the late president of the bankrupt Banco Ambrosiano, once Italy's largest private bank, were then being questioned. Giovanni Benelli, one of three children of middle class parents, was born at Poggiole di Nemio near Florence on May 12, 1921. He was ordained a priest on Oct. 1, 1943, and in August 1948 entered the Holy See's diplo~ rnatic service.

Peace Continued from Page Eight .And another dose friend who in 1978 had traveled across the continent with John, who was then 20, on the typically quixotic mission of picketing a California firm tliat manufactuered suction machines for abortion clinics, wrote heartbroken from India, where she now lives and is studying midwifery: "I feel as if the whole universe has to move to make room for this fact. John is dead. "0, I'm so sad. I feel such a hole in my heart. My mind keeps wandering to other things and then crashing into that: John is dead. Everything I see reminds me of him. . "It's lonely to mourn him here where no one knows him. Who would believe. a description of him? •.• "He was so good, so sweet. It's no wonder God wanted him, and he couldn't have gotten any better. There was no reason for him to stay with us except that he was. doing so much good. He was such' an inspiration for the rest of. us. . "The day we got the news I saw three babies being born."

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