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Controversies face U.8. bishops WASHINGTON (NC) - Lively controversies will face the Catholic bishops of the United States as they gather in Washington Nov. 10-13 for the fall meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference.

Documentation of the bishops' agenda was released yesterday.

Items of particular importance or popular interest include: - A closed-door session Nov. lIon the protracted controversy over the recent Vatican action instructing Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen to cede complete authority to his auxiliary in some key areas of governing the Seattle Archdiocese. Some observers consider the response of the bishops to the issue a critical factor in determining future directions of the Catholic Church in the United States.

- Votes Nov. 12 or 13 on a national pastoral letter, "Economic Justice for All," as well as an accompanying pastoral message and a follow-up plan to implement the pastoral. With five-and-a-half hours set aside to discuss them, those three items will occupy about one-third of the total public meeting time of the bishops over four days. Most of the controversy over the pastoral has not been among the bishops themselves, however, but between the bishops and their lay critics.

- Election of a new president and vice president. Ordinarily not controversial, officer elections this year are a focus of heightened interest because of growing concern over apparent divisions within the bishops' conference. Elections will also be held for chairmen of several conference committees.

- Opening-day speeches by the outgoing conference president, Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, and the papal pronuncio to the United States, Archbishop Pio Laghi. If either prelate addresses questions of tensions with Rome and within the U.S. church, their comments are likely to receive particularly close scrutiny.

- Criteria for general absolution. The bishops are to vote on a proposal stating the view of the bishops' Committee on Canonical Affairs that "the conditions envisioned by the law" for use of general absolution "are not verified" in the United States.

- A decision whether to create a new bishops' committee and secretariat for black Catholics and a new committee on marriage and family life.

- A decision whether to divide the Committee on Social Development and World Peace into separate domestic and international

committees. The bishops also are to decide whether they should change the Committee on Hispanic Affairs from "ad hoc" to permanent status.

During the meeting the bishops also will be asked to make five decisions regarding the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, including establishment of national statutes for the catechumenate.

The key norm to be discussed in the statutes is the establishment of "at least one year" as the normal period for the formation ofunbaptized adults converting to CatholICism.

Issues surrounding the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults are to be discussed by the bishops for some three to four hours. A twohour workshop on the topic is the main order of business on the afternoon of Nov. 10, and nearly two hours are tentatively set aside for debate and vote on liturgy matters the following morning.

Also up for a vote among liturgical questions are new texts of the Order of the Mass in Spanish and a decision on a new Eucharistic Prayer which, if approved, would be the first such prayer originally written in English.

The bishops must also vote on a new pastoral statement on the church's worldwide missionary activity, a resolution urging international efforts to end the "tragic impasse" of Lebanon's civil war, and a resolution calling on Soviet authorities to restore suppressed religious rights in Lithuania.

Faced with a world Synod of Bishops on the laity, to be held in Rome next fall, the bishops are to elect four delegates and four alternates to represent the conference at the synod.

The bishops also are to vote on a proposal to help U.S. and Mexican bishops regulate priest exchanges.

They are being asked to approve a 1987 budget of nearly $26.5 million, about $100,000 below the 1986 budget. A 13.3 cents-perCatholic diocesan assessment is expected to cover abo'ut $6.7 million of that, and the bishops are being asked to approve the same assessment for 1988.

A number of oral reports on particular topics have been tentatively scheduled for the meeting.

These include reports on Catholic Relief Services, on pro-life activities, on the celebration of the bicentennial of the U.S. hierarchy, on Hispanic affairs, on Latin America, on the planned 1987 visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States, and on the state of a dialogue between the U.S. bishops and men and women religious in their dioceses.

AT DIAMOND JUBILEE celebration ofSt. Dominic parish, Swansea, from left, Deacon Eugene Orosz, Father Arthur K. Wingate, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Father William G. Campbell. (Torchia photo)

75 years of love "St. Dominic's: 75 years of love" Bernard Percot, OP, was available read the sign on the sacristy wall at and able to speak English, French, the Swansea parish. It summed up . Portuguese and Italian. the prevailing feeling on Oct. 26 as As St. Dominic's first pastor, it parishioners attended a diamond fell to Father Percot to build a anniversary Mass and a following church, which he managed to do in banquet.

Reflecting the musical back- three months; and the first Mass ground of Father William G. was offered in the building on Campbell, pastor, the Mass of March 3, 1912.

At about the same time an area Creation by Marty Haugen was landowner purchased a small unchosen for the celebration. The Bach composition, "Nun Danket used Protestant church in North Aile Gott," arranged by Father Swansea and presented it to the Campbell, was the choral postlude. Fall River diocese, primarily for At the banquet, Harvey Lenon, the use of the many workers on his president of the parish St. Vincent farm. Named St. Francis Xavier de Paul conference, and Alzira De Chapel, it was served from St. Mattos, Women's Guild copresi- Dominic's until the hurricane of dent, spoke on St. Dominic's past; 1938.

Father Percot remained pastor Father Campbell spoke on its of St. Dominic's until 1927, conpresent; and Bishop Cronin looked tributing immeasurably to placing to its future.

A parish history was prepared the parish on a strong foundation. in connection with the anniversary. Excerpts follow: AN ARCHBISHSt. Dominic's History OP, a Jesuit on the St. Dominic's history goes back to 1911, when Bishop Daniel F. cutting edge of sciFeehan reaJized that the growing ence, sisters, deacons, number of Catholics in the Swansea area needed their own church, brothers, diocesan and rather than having to travel to Fall order priests: beginRiver or Providence to attend Ma·ss. ning on page 3, all A further need was for a priest talk about their lives fluent in several languages in order to serve the many immigrants who in this Vocations Issue had settled in Swansea. Fortunateof The Anchor. ly, a French Dominican, Father

He was followed by Father Louis Prevost, who served less than a year, then by Father Anthony O. Ponte, who was to remain 23 years.

During his pastorate the present rectory was built and the parish grounds were landscaped.

Of great importance to the development of. St. Dominic's was the inauguration of its Women's Guild, also during Father Ponte's pastorate. Members hiwe contributed significantly to the social life and financial welfare of the parish.

Father Ponte was followed by Father Thomas F. Walsh, who served from 1951 to 1954. His energy and love for his people accomplished much good during his brief tenure.

Father Walsh was succeeded by Father James A. Dury in October of 1954. His zeal, organizing ability and care of the church property and grounds are fondly remembered. It was during his pastorate that the parish St. Vincent de Paul conference was formed.

Father George E. Sullivan became the sixth pastor of St. Dominic's in 1957. He is recalled for his warm personality and outstanding qualities of care and love for parish youth.

The seventh pastor was Father William R. Jordan, who arranged St. Dominic's golden anniversary observance.

He was succeeded by Father Turn to Page 16

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On Monday Dominican Sisters of the Presentation Thomas More, Cecilia Michaud and Marie Emilia Gauthier leave Madonna Manor, North Attleboro. But a part of their hearts will remain at the diocesan health care facility, which their community has administered since 1966.

In a recent statement, Sister Dorothy Ruggiero, Dominican provincial superior, announced that the sisters would leave Madonna Manor due both to a decrease inthe number of the order's vocations and commitment to other apostolates.

The sisters will continue to serve at Marian Manor, Taunton, St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, and in several schools of the diocese, Sister Ruggiero said.

"We owe much love and many thank-yous for all the love and dedication you have given to us," a tearful Lorna Riordan, LPN, told the sisters at a farewell testimonial marked by hugs, kisses, tears and gifts. "We will miss you and above all, we love you."

"You have our love and support," answered Sister Thomas More, Manor administrator, who said that for 20 years the sisters had worked hard to establish Madonna Manor's high standards.

"We're convinced that you'll be able to carry them on. God loves you all," she said.

Msgr. John J. Regan, director of Diocesan Health Facilities. em-

phasized that Madonna Manor will remain in existence as a Catholic institution, with Father Justin J. Quinn, chaplain, meeting the spiritual needs of residents.

Msgr. Regan expressed deep gratitude for the support of the Dominican Sisters over the years and said that Madonna Manor will continue to serve the elderly of the Attleboro and North Attleboro area.

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To offer a positive view of the votes on Question I would be an impossibility from the viewpoint of those who hold life sacred. What is disconcerting is the realization that there are so many voters who reduce abortion to a mere lifestyle option supportable by tax dollars.

It is even more devastating to realize the number of Catholics who must have supported an anti-life amendment. Certainly it wasn't solely non-Catholics who made that election-day decision: the facts and figures speak for themselves. Catholics form 51.3 percent of the Massachusetts population, with the diocese of Fall River 60.7 percent Catholic; Worcester 51.6 percent; Boston 48.5 percent; and Springfield 44.5 percent.

It is thus obvious that many Catholics voted to sustain Medicaid-funded abortions in the commonwealth. This is tragic. It is not a mere matter of personal choice, it is a matter offaith. Someplace along the line many Catholics have found themselves able to separate the teachings of Jesus from thO$e of the mark.etplace.

One must quest.ion a faith that can on the one hand profess that Christ is the resurrection and the life and on the other destroy life for mere expediency. It is precisely this contradiction that demonstrates the inroads that secularism has made into Catholic life.

Indeed, morality and ethics seem to have little place in a world that teaches "if it feels good, do it," Life has indeed become expendable when church members are unable to take their faith beyond the church door, This is the heartbreaking conclusion to be drawn from Tuesday's vote against Question 1. .

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It described homosexuality as an "objective disorder" and linked legislation to protect homosexual behavior with increases in antihomosexual violence.

It said that use of Catholic facilities by pro-homosexual groups is "often scandalous" and called on bishops to withdraw support for such organizations.

Homosexuals who "seek to follow the Lord," the II-page document said, should be encouraged to practice self-denial in the name of the cross and to live "a chaste life." It said pastoral workers who treat homosexual activity as blameless ultimately demean and disappoint homosexuals.

The document, titled "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons," was signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the doctrinal congregation, and approved by Pope John Paul II. The letter quoted from a 1975 declaration on sexual ethics, which made the distinction between homosexual acts, which are judged as sinful, and a homosexual orientation or condition, which is not.

But since then, the new document said, an "overly benign" interpretation has been given to the homosexual condition itself, "some going to far as to call it neutral, or even good."

"Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder," it said.

Condemnation of homosexual activity, the document said, is supported both by Scripture and recent church teachings.

But it warned that groups within the church, or with close ties to Catholics, are trying to ignore or "undermine" these teachings. Others have tried to "manipUlate" the church by gaining its support for legislative changes regarding homosexuals, it said.

Citing the "grave responsibility" of bishops in clarifying church teaching, the letter said: "No authentic pastoral program will include organizations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral."

Bishops should be "especially cautious" of groups that "may seek to pressure the church to change her teaching, even while claiming not to do so," it said.

It said the church position "cannot be revised" by legislative pressure or by "the trend of the moment."

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themoorin~ Eliminating Uncertainty Some positive and hopeful signs with regard to priestly vocations surfaced in the recent report on United States seminaries from the office of Cardinal William Baum.

Noting that this was the first phase of a comprehensive study of U.S. seminaries, the"cardinal, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, said that the 38 post-college seminaries studied were characterized by usually good leadership on the part of their rectors and generally excellent example by staff priests. He also commended the seminaries for the attention given to balanced formation in the areas of spirituality, liturgy and pastoral ministry. All in all, he said, they were generally satisfactory.

However, the report also referred to areas of deficiency. In this regard, it is interesting to note that some seminaries are struggling with the concept of priesthood itself. Much of this fuzziness seems to be flowing from confusion as to the meaning of ministry. I n some instances, the bandying about of the term has led to a blurring of the concept of priesthood info a "generally undifferentiated" notion of ministry. Indeed, "min- . istry" is so often used in such a generalized way that it dissolves into meaningless nuances. We hear people refer, for example, to the doughnut ministry or the camping ministry. The effect, of course, is to dilute its real meaning and theological implications and certainly to obscure the reality of priestly ministry.

It is obvious that seminaries understand this distinction and the complementary nature of the ordained priesthood and that of all the faithful; but this understanding needs to be shared by all in the church.

Clarification of the place of the sacrament of holy orders in relation to the members of the body of Christ is indeed needed.

Young people seeking to discern their vocations need firm, concise and comprehensive guidelines, such as are taken for granted in most other fields. Graduate programs in law and medicine, for example, unhesitatingly set forth their requirements; but very often theologates, also graduate level institutions, fail to formalize their expectations and are afraid to demand excellence. Perhaps the hesitancy of many seminaries to hold their students to high standards has disenchanted many candidates.

It is obvious that young people are ready to assume the tasks, burdens and indeed sacrifices of medical school. Why should not the same spirit of resolve be evinced by seminarians? What is lacking in many cases is insistence on the best on the part of officials. Too often the result is a curriculum devoid of challenge.

The times are changing, as they must. Our young people are the products of what has been handed on to them. If we give them a blurred vision of priesthood, indifference and apathy can be expected. But if we define the goals and objectives of priesthood through a meaningful and authentic theology, perhaps we might once more ignite the spark and illuminate the vision that our world so desperately needs.

Every seminary should have a well-defined concept of the priesthood, not only modeled on the Lord but expressed in a manner intelligible to potential candidates.

There should be no identity crisis in seminaries. They must have a clear vision oftheir purpose based on a sound theology of priesthood and supported by a knowledgeable staff.

There are many in the American church waiting for such seminaries.

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The mystery of vocations

By Brother Eugene Belisle, FIC V ocation Director Brothers of Christian Instruction Although many people seem unconcerned about the mystery of vocations. there are also many Christians who try to alleviate the fears and anxieties that exist concerning the present vocation situation in the Church.

50 years ago the following of one's vocation was considered a sine qua non for personal happiness in the here and hereafter.

There was no "Yes, but. .. " about it. Today God's mysterious call to marriage, priesthood, religious or single life, and the undeniable power of grace are still recognized but the role of free and intelligent choice is also taken into account.

All vocations are divine calls; each requires a free human decision. Moreover, God's invitation to religious or single life, for example, must be accompanied by a real love for that way of life. The greater the love for that vocation, the more certain the call.

"No man is an island" therefore the all-important choice of vocation is a concern of the entire Christian community. Encouragement seems to flow naturally from friends of an engaged couple; but it is tragic that too often even family members, will keep silence, ignore or even discourage a wellqualified person who wishes to remain single or to enter a religious novitiate or seminary.

If, as Christians, we have at heart the true welfare, happiness and full development of all our brothers and sisters, we should

affirm and assist a qualified person in the pursuit of hisl her vocation.

What a grati'fying act of evangelization if. for example, because of our loving support a candidate for the religious brotherhood discovers his God-given talents and shares them with the Church for the betterment of our world.

Columnist Dolores Curran asserts that a common reason why parents do not encourage religious life or any other vocation is reluctance to pressure their children, because they do not want responsibility for possible future disappointment. In Curran's view this is an abdication of parental responsibility. "Part of the parents' role lies in guiding their children into the future," she points out.

God's choice of a "candidate" is usually transmitted through pers?ns, events, personal s~ills .and circumstances. A conSCientious Ch~is.tian does not make v?catio~al declsl~>nS based on ~eceptlon, Wish ~r whim; rather, options are ch?sen 10 response to God's mysterIous working in one's life.

Competition for a candidate has no place in the vocation field. The glory given God through a person's ministry is all that matters.

Only through collaboration among all God's people can the reinforcement needed to embrace one's call be guarnnteed.

We are all called to share Jesus with others in prayer and service.

The way to live out this invitation is revealed to us by God through human agents and requires a free choice.

Everyone plays an important

role in fostering vocations. 'Let us detect the signs. exemplify an authentic faith life, arrange contacts with models of the vocation under study and pray with confidence.

Let us help God's people to respond creatively to the needs of our world!

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A very special plant

By Deacon Robert A. Faria Reprinted by permission from the September issue of "The Current," newsletter of the permanent diaconate ofthe Fall River diocese.

When Father Freddie Babicluk of my parish [Our lady of lourdes.

Taunton] was preparing for his ordination in this year's class of diocesan priests, I thought about my ordination and a very special plant.

In October of 1982, while I was on retreat preparing for my ordination to the Permanent Diaconate, I, as well as the other candidates, received a small plant from Father Ronald Tosti, director of the Family Life Center and pastor of Christ the King parish in Mashpee. (The Family life Center is the home of the diaconate program.)

After the retreat, I took the plant home and it flourished quite well. I often thought of it as the "ordination" plant.

When Father Babicluk was in the theologate at St. John's Seminary, I told his mother that I wanted him to have the plant until his ordination and perhaps he could

pass it on to someone else in our parish eventually.

Everyone thought it was a good idea. Fortunately for us, Jim O'Gara of our parish had been accepted into the permanent diaconate program and was nearing the completion of the formation program.

Father Freddie and I decided that it was time to transfer the plant to Jim so at a dinner at the Babiczuk home, the transfer took place.

We at Our Lady of Lourdes are again blessed because one of our parishioners, Douglas Sousa, is a student at St. John's Seminary College in Brighton. preparing to become il diocesan priest.

It has been agreed that Jim will keep the plant and at the appropriate time it will be transferred to Doug.

Who would have thought four years ago. that that little plant would grow so much and vocations in our parish would grow right along with it?

God surely is blesssing Our Lady of lourdes!

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Nov. 7, 1986

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My spirit lives, serving the poor in a soup kitchen in Rochester, N.Y., serving the Haitians in the Bahamas, serving lepers in India, serving the spiritually poor of Japan. My spirit ' is the spirit of love, the spirit of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. My spirit lives in my brothers and sisters in the Sacred Hearts Community. Who am I? My name is Fr. Damien, the Leper Priest of Molokai. If yo~ really want to know me, look to my community. Are you interested in the service of love? Yes?

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Be all you can be Give all you 'are . . for Christ

By Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM Episcopal Representative for Religious

. for others as a Dominican Sister of the Presentation

In the Diocese of Fall River, there are 34 congregations of women and 12 congregations of men in apostolic life and one order of contemplative religious women.

Their services are myriad: educational and health care facilities, day care for children and adults, parish religious instruction for adults and youths, counseling services, spiritual direction, visiting the homebound and ill, chaplains in hospitals and in prisons, distribution of food and clothing to the needy, and more.

Perhaps the remarkable thing is that very few of them work alone or only with members of their own community. Most religious work with the laity and/ or parish clergy as well as other religious. Also, there are several intercommunity residences, where religious of different congregations live together.

This kind of cooperation is a valid witness to a society wracked by loneliness and separation.

This is not to say that religious have no problems. With multiplication of works and diminution of candidates, communities are struggling. The numbers' of aging religious are increasing, with fewer sisters and brothers to replace them in the apostolates.

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Psychologically, they are seeking ways to integrate young people in their 20s and 30s into communities with members 10 or 20 years older.

Theologically, some religious seek new definitions of Church. teachings.

But these struggles are the pains of growth. Religious and their congregations will continue to be devoted, professional doers of the Word. Together with dedicated laity and clergy, they will respond in love to the cry of those in need.

A Glorious Tradition Today's religious are heirs to a glorious tradition of sacrifice and service and it is appropriate as we consider vocations to look back at the roots of so many congregations that serve us today.

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Heirs to a glorious tradition

SISTER BLUTE with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. (Motta photo) They helped preserve the religious culture of specific national groups as well as providing education, health care, and the clothing, food and horne visits which today would be called social services.

The expansion of our country and its need for more workers, coupled with poverty, persecution and revolution in other lands brought unprecedented numbers to our shores and resulted in national enclaves, such as the "little Italys" or "Irish shanty towns" which dotted our larger cities. And each such center built its church and rectory, its school and con" vent and brought in sisters from its homeland.

Indeed, the Catholic school system is unique to the U.S. Church, educating immigrants to preserve and strengthen their faith while moving them steadily into the mainstream of American life.

Initially, the religious were immigrants, too, struggling to adapt their customs and traditions to the New World. But very soon new recruits to the congregations carne from this country and most communities became less and less dependent upon their motherhouses in other lands for additional members. Many native congregations were also founded.

Many religious communities, too, established universities and colleges and as the 20th century unfolded, their summer schools became centers for the adva'tlced education of religious who had spent their winters teaching.

In the 1950s, a landmark occurrence was the organization of the Sister Formation Program. On its advice, religious superiors kept young sisters in juniorates after first profession of vows until they had completed basic training and had obtained professional certification in teaching, nursing or social service.

With the large numbers of young women entering religious life and the greatly expanded demands for the services of sisters during the decade following World War II, this program was difficult for many religious communities; but realizing that it would bring about an improved quality of service on the part of religious, most congregations cooperated in it wholeheartedly, The 60s, an era of great social upheaval, were also a time of

change for the Church. Religious, accepting the challenges of Vatican Council II, looked to the needs of the people they served, studied the initial promptings which moved their founders and foundresses, and adapted their practices to modern times. As the American Church had shed its mission status and no longer was seen by most Americans as a church for immigrants, so the religious took a fresh look at its needs.

Realizing the destitution of the poor in city slums, the havoc wrought in families through alcoholism and drugs, the exploitation of minorities and women, many felt called to devote themselves to the alleviation of these and other social ills.

But the transition was not and is not easy. Not every religious in every community accepted the inevitable changes in dress, in lifestyle and in apostolate occasioned by this renewed vision of consecrated life. There was turmoil within communities as each congregation implemented the mandate of Vatican II to review its foundation and customs and renew its present practices.

Many religious of great good will left religious life, some discouraged at the new direction, others frustrated at the slow pace of change. Those who remain frequently question the why or the how, but never the fact of God's leading religious life within the Church.

The renewal is ongoing and will probably never end. The great accomplishments of the past are the foundation on which the works of the present and the future build.

Vatican II challenged laity and Religious alike to action on behalf of justice; both must cooperate in the building of God's kingdom here.

There is a bright future for religious in the church and in American society. Called to minister to their neighbors, whatever their need, they have found the traditions of prayer, community life and dedicated, professional service to the. poor have become stronger.

Often having to defend their way of life and their actions, they are constantly questioning themselves, their motives and their love for the Church and its teachings.

By such questioning, they become purified.

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 7, 1986

Fall River pastor appreciates vocation .

Priesthood = full life

By Joseph Motta

"If there were such a thing as reincarnation, I'd opt to come back a thousand times as a Catholic priest."

So says Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor ofSt. Stanislaus parish, Fall River.

The energetic and popular priest, known to parishioners and friends as "Father K," often speaks to groups of priests and seminarians, so The Anchor thought he would be a good person to ask about priestly vocations.

"The criteria for vocations realIy haven't路 changed," he said, noting that a desire for and liking of the work ofa priest, good moral character and adequate mental, physical and emotional health are required of seminarians.

Although there's been a "tightening of the belts" in the number of men who think they have vocations, he said, he does not see a "vocations crisis," believing instead that "the Lord wilI provide as He sees fit. , "I feel that the Lord is purifying us, pruning the vine, so to speak," he adds.

Emphasis now, Father Kaszynski said, is on the quality rather than the quantity of candidates for the priesthood. Vocation directors, he said,look especialIy for emotional and spiritual maturity and a strong desire to serve.

The New Bedford native, ordained in 1960, has witnessed many changes in the concept of what a priest should do and be.

"27 years ago priests were expected to be good at everything," Father Kaszynski said. "Nowwe're rediscovering ourselves and our own special talents and are reclaiming our own priesthoods. And there's much more ofa team spirit."

As an example, he pointed to his. parish school. While he's involved there on a daily basis, he said, as a sometime teacher and alI-the-time "sacramental image," he enables laypersons "to take their rightfu.1 places" in running the institution.

"Parish ministry can be handled by some very competent laypersons," he opined. "Many priests are beginning to realize that they're looked upon primarily as spiritual men,. and that the use of their talents is an outflow_of their spirituality. 10 or 20 years ago the stress was on our work; today the stress is upon our being priests.

I'm coming to understand more and more about my vocation through laypeople."

Father Kaszynski is very upbeat about this development. With lay persons assuming more parish responsibilities, he said, a priest is more able "to be another Christ in today's society," a task which requires time for both spirituality and service.

The Catholic Church is going through a period of much deeper spiritual renewal than was predicted, said the pastor. The emphasis is on grassr.oots spirituality, he is happy to report, namely the experience of God and the discovery of Him in people, signs, symbols and institutions. "I find this to be an extremely exciting time in the Church, so full of hope.

"Young people are beginning to discover that the Church has a purpose," he said. "The next step is to discover the priesthood."

"FulIness of life" is a personal benefit Father Kaszynski has come by through his ministry. "And I see peop1e.come alive through their experience in Christ," he said, "through their felIowship in the Church and with each other."

Outside of God's calI, Father Kaszynski said, the most important factors in encouraging vocations are the family and the parish.

Through everyday conversation and their attitude towards their parish, parents should let a son know that they would be happy and proud if he had a vocation, said the priest.

On the parish level, he said, simple measures such as frequent mention of the need for vocations at the Prayer of the Faithful during Mass go a long way in keeping the message alive in the minds of the young.

Trusting in God's promise to be faithful and supported through their own fidelity to each other, Sisters of Mercy dedicate themselves to apostolic service. From Catherine McAuley, their foundress, they have inherited a compassion for the dispossessed as the spirit oftheir community. Extending the Church's ministries ofteaching and healing, the service of the Sisters of Mercy is especially dedicated to the poor, the sick, the uneducated, and all those in any way wounded by contemporary society.

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All-day adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for the intention of vocations is typical of activities a parish can undertake to foster them, he said, noting that adoration has taken place during St. Stanislaus' annual vocations day, usually held in spring.

Factors inhibiting vocations include materialism and secularism, Father Kaszynski said. Both can be overcome "by focusing on the Lord," he notes. "Things will come together; as the person comes to understand his role of service, he'll be able to keep material things in their proper perspective."

New seminarians tend to worry about their studies and how much of a taste of priestly life they'll experience in the seminary, Father Kaszynski said. Many are concerned with celibacy. "WilI I be able to hack it?" is a common question, he notes.

As men come closer to ordination, the Polish-American priest added, they are especially concerned with the type of pastor they'lI work with, how effective they'lI be with parishioners, "burnout" and priestly fraternity.

"They're looking for a support system," Father Kaszynski said. . He urges men of any age who feel called to the priesthood to discuss it with their pastor or any priest with whom they feel comfortable.

"I never thought of my priesthood as a job," "Father K" concluded. "It's my life."

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Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Nov. 7, 1986

HE GAVE US AVISION OFAWORLD RULED BY LOVE In your own special way, you can make that vision, that world, a reality.

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THE FRANCISCANS Many years ago, a young man was called by Christ to "Go and Rebuild My Church." That man was Francis of Assisi. Because of his love for God and people, his dedication to prayer and his willingness to work, a new expression of faith took root in the Church. Many were called and dedicated their lives to.these same goals. Today God continues to call. ..

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Honoring those who serve the poor It's been a time of celebration at Rosary H ill Home, Hawthorne, NY, motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who serve at the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River.

Recently two sisters have taken final vows, silver, golden and diamond jubilarians have been feted and two postulants have received the Dominican habit and religious' names.

Taking final vows were Sister Mary Augustine and Sister Marie Edward. Sister Augustine, a native of Brooklyn, NY, is the daughter of the late Louis and Madeline Mottola and was formerly a beautician. Following profession of first \(ows in 1980, she was assigned to Rose Hawthorne Home, Fall River, and later transferred to Holy Family Home in Parma, 0., where she attended Parma Community Hospital School of Practical Nursing.

She graduated in 1985 and since has served at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta.

Sister Marie Edward, of Malvern, Pa., is the daughter of Marie and Edward Deutsch and a graduate of Immaculata College and Bry~ Mawr Hospital School of Technology. Prior to entering religious life, she was a volunteer at an inner city parish in Boston for two years. She professed her first vows in 1981. While assigned to Rosary H ill, she attended Cochran School of Nursing of St. John's Riverside in Yonkers and following her graduation as a registered nurse, she was transferred to Our Lady of Good Counsel Home in St. Paul, M inn., in 1985, where she now serves.

Receiving the Dominican habit and religious names were Nancy Lepore and Teresa Lukacl. . Ms. Lepore, now Sister Mary Francis, is the daughter ofYernon and Aurelia Lepore of Altoona, Pa. She is a 1965 graduate of Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoona and was formerly manager of technical services for Managistics, Inco of Bethpage, Long Island.

From Berea, 0., is Ms. Lukacl, now Sister Bridget Marie. She is the daughter of Jean and the late Martin Lukacl and a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University Agricultural Institute. She worked in the field of greenhouse management and as a nurses' aide prior to entering the Hawthorne community.

Silver Jubilarians Sister Mary Ambrose, from Floral Park, NY, is the daughter of Eugene and the late Mary McPartland. From 1961 to 1978 she served at Sacred Heart Home, Philadelphia, and while there attended St. Mary's School of Practical Nursing. In 1978, she was transferred to Rosary Hill and in 1980 to St. Rose's Home in New York City. While at St. Rose's, Sister Mary Ambrose attended the Helene Fuld School of Nursing of the North General Hospital of Joint Disease and grad\lafed as a T~.&i,stere~ nurse. S ~~ was appoin~ed to her preseftt pOS\tlOn as supenor ,

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Sister Mary de Porres is the daughter of Lena and Francis Connor of Chicopee Falls. After professing first vows in 1961, she was assigned to Rosary Hill and while there attended Grasslands School of Practical Nursing in Hawthorne.

From 1965 to 1975 she was at St. Rose's Home, then returning to Rosary Hill until she was appointed superior of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home in Atlanta in 1977.

From 1984 to the present she has served at Holy Family Home in Parma.

Golden, Diamond Golden jubilarian Sister Mary Xavier is originally from Springfield, where she graduated from Mercy Hospital Training School and was a public health nurse prior to entering the Dominican congregation. She served in Atlanta from 1939 until 1946, then at St. Rose's Horne, where she still resides and where she was for many years director of nurses.

Diamondjubilarian Sister Mary Theresa entered religious life July 5, 1926. She was honored on that date this year at a Mass and party in Parma. She has been in Parma since 1968 and previously served at Rosary H ill and in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Fall River.

Sister Theresa was the last postulant received by Mother AIphonsa (Rose Hawthorne) shortly before her death and is the niece of the late Sister Mary Stanislaus Klich, also a Hawthorne Dominican.

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Prayer makes the difference

By Joseph Motta The Sisters of St. Joan .of Arc lead a very simple life. Their days are spent in prayer and in ministering to the needs of the clergy.

Sisters Louise Levesque, Viola Morin and Florence Paquin are three of nine members of the community serving in the Fall River diocese; they're stationed at Fall River's St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral rectory. Others in the diocese work at Bishop Daniel A. Cronin's residence and at Notre Dame de Lourdes parish rectory, both in Fall River.

Why did the three women choose the St. Joan of Arc community?

They admit that the cooking, cleaning and sewing that are their main responsibilities "are not appealing to many women, because they're thought of as housework."

"What really struck me was serving Christ in his priests," said Sister Levesque, seamstress at the cathedral and a former vocation directress for her community. "We do what Mary did."

"She didn't teach or work in any professional capacity," added Sister Morin, the cathedral cook.

"She served Jesus and his apostles."

thing we will never do," the sisters try to imitate her virtues of great faith and obedience to God's will.

"St. Joan of Arc will be your ideal," reads a meditation Father Staub left the sisters, "who should always lift your spirits with joy . and admiration. How great and beautiful she is! What a model of valor, generosity and joy in the accomplishment of her vocation.

How you should love such a model and try to imitate her!"

Today, over 200 professed sisters do just that; 50 in the United States, serving in the archdiocese of Boston and the dioceses of Fall River, Providence and Worcester and the remainder in Canada. Th; order's motherhouse overlooks the St. Lawrence River in Sillery, Quebec. "Prayer is an essential part of our day," Sister Levesque said. "If it wasn't for the prayer, we'd just be housekeepers." The Fall River native said that there's been a recent "turnaround" in Canadian vocations. After years of "frustration" for vocation directors she said, Canada has seen a sub;tantial number of women join the order.

The sisters consecrate each day Founded in Worcester in 1914 by the late Assumptionist Father to the Sacred Heart for the labors Marie Clement Staub, the com- . of the world's priests. On the II th of each month, each cathedral nun munity's motto is "With Jesus through Mary, in the footsteps of spends an hour of adoration before St. Joan of Arc." the Blessed Sacrament for the inSister Levesque explained that tention of vocations. With all St. even though their patroness was a Joan of Arc convents in the U.S. soldier and carried a sword, "some- and Canada taking part in the

adorat~on, every day of every month IS covered. The sisters also note that they faithfully observe First Fridays.

A typical day for the trio sees them risi~g at approximately 6 a.m. They pray the divine office together, then each spends a halfhour in private meditation before attending 8 a.m. Mass in the cathedral's Lady Chapel.

After Mass, Sist"er Paquin, the trio's only Canadian native, cleans the rectory's first floor and tends to the always-busy telephone and doorbell. Sister Levesque whips the second and third floors into shape before tackling her sewing.

And Sister Morin takes to the kitchen.

"I feed the bodies so that they may feed the souls," she smiles.

Among her specialties are spaghetti and "coq au vin," a French dish of chicken with wine. She served the latter to Pope John Paul II during his 1979 visit to Boston. At that time the Central Falls, R.I. native seryed in the Boston archbishop's resld~nce as cook and community supenor.

"Prayer is the difference," she stressed, echoing Sister Levesque's earlier comments. "Anybody could d~ the work that we do if they just did the human .side of it. " Women interested in learning more about the Sisters of St. Joan of Arc may contact the cathedral sisters at 673-2833. They will provide basic information and glimpses into their lifestyle and will refer callers to their vocations directress.

RECITING the divine office are, from left, Sisters of St. Joan of Arc Louise Levesque, Viola Morin and Florence Paquin. (Motta photo) "Be ever read? to inconvenience yourself, in order to accommodate others."

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PHYSICS still flourishes at Jesuit high schools as demonstrated by Bishop Connolly students Patrick Daly and Tim Burns, observed by Father Laurence Langguth, 5J. (Motta photo)

HOW do I know the lord is calling me' to minister as a Hal Y CROSS BROTHER? HOW does my being a HOl Y CROSS BROTHER meet my need for prayer, community sharing, and service?

HOW do I pray to discover God's Call in my life as a HOl Y CROSS BROTHER? HOW do HOl Y CROSS BROTHERS respond to the needs of our own day?

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It may seem like a long way from the church to the laboratory in the high-tech age, but Jesuits today continue the tradition of priest-scientists such as Father Christopher Clavius and Father Matteo Ricci, 16th-century Jesuit mathematicians and astronomers.

Father Clavius, one of the most prominent scientific figures of his day, aided in establishment of the reformed calendar initiated by Pope Gregory XIII and by his endorse. ment of many of Galileo's discoveries helped ease some of the pressures on his contemporary. Father Ricci is best known as one of the first missioners to China, where his mastery of science was his main tool in gaining the admiration of the cultivated Mandarin aristocracy. His map of the world was the first with a true outline of the Chinese mainland and the first relatively complete world map seen in China.

Following in their footsteps is Father Tim Toohig, SJ, a physicist whose work with the minute particles that make up atoms has him involved with the Superconduding Super Collider (SSC), a proposed $4 billion nuclear particle accelerator.

The SSC will be 20 times the size and strength of any existing facility in the United States. Father Toohig and his fellow physicists believe that the particles broken down in the SSC may duplicate, for less than a billionth of a second, matter as it existed during the "big bang," which some believe to be the beginning of the universe.

Analysis of this data may provide information not only about the basic nature of matter but also the forces acting upon it - and maybe even some unified force that is the source ofall energy in the universe.

Father Toohig's work as a sci- . entist has taken him across the country and to Russia, but throughout his busy career he has combined his research with more conventional priestly activity. What follows is one Jesuit's account of how he sees both of his roles as "God's work."

It is reprinted by permission from the Fall 1986 issue of " Company," a magazine of the American Jesuits,'f)ublished at 3441 N. Ashland Ave., ChicagQ IL 60657.

At this point in time I am in Berkeley, California, on !lSsignment to the Central Design Group for the Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC is the next giant step in exploring the structure and origins of the universe, an "atomsmasher" some 53 miles in circumference which would fit comfortably around Manhattan Island.

The most economical and environmentally sound way to build such a device is to put, it in an

underground tunnel. So, in the last couple of years I have become the Art Carney of high energy physics. ("Sewer Priest" doesn't have quite the same ring as Father Hubbard of Alaska's "Glacier Priest. '') I can't give you a detailed theological explanation of how all this fits in with the vocation of a Jesuit priest. I do know that each step on the way has been prayerfully discerned and the succession of those discernments has led here to Berkeley and the SSC. Standing back from my work, the words of the psalmist always come to mind: "The heavens proclaim the glory of God...."

One of the wonderful thi'ngs about the work we are doing now is the relationship between the cosmos and the world within the atom that has emerged in the past few years out of work at other accelerator laboratories. The SSC will take us back to what existed within an unimaginably small fraction of a second of the beginning of the universe. It's really marvelous.

How did I come here? While studying theology at Woodstock in Maryland I spent summers here at Berkeley working on the design of what later became the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois. After finishing my theology studies I was at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.

Then I was asked to come out to Illinois and help with the design and construction of Fermilab, so in 1970 I moved to the prairies.

At Fermilab we were encouraged to carryon our own research in addition to our staff responsibilities. Along with some physicists from UCLA, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, and the Soviet Union we researched elementary particles that became accessible for the first time with the equipment there.

Based on the success of Fermilab and other accelerator laboratories, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel to the Department of Energy recommended in 1983 that existing projects be put aside and that a 20 trillion electron volt colliding proton beam machine the SSC - be designed and built with the highest priority. So here I am, back at Berkeley after twenty years, working on the design of this new accelerator. And the 'heavens still do "proclaim the glory of God." Father Timothy E. Toohig, SJ, 58, was born in Lawrence and attendedBoston College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in physics. He has a master's degree in physics from the University of Rochester and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

Church was his way out of poverty "I despised being on welfare. I hated powdered milk, powdered eggs, cornmeal. I resented wearing WPA clothing from the government. All of that stayed with me. It stays with you forever."

It is not surprising that the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter on the economy and Catholic teaching speaks out strongly against stigmatizing the poor. In "Milwaukee's Archbishop Rembert Weakland: Torchbearer for the Economic Pastoral." an article in the November"St. Anthony Messenger."freelance writer Charles Isenhart points out that the forceful language of the pastoral whose writing the archbishop has chaired is in part an echo of his own past. . Born in 1927. George Weakland grew up in Patton, a town of 3,000 in Pennsylvania's coal mining country. His father died in 1932.

Despite pressure to break up the familY and send the six children to foster'homes, his mother held things together. moving into a house with no cellar and no central heating.

George helped support the family with parttime jobs.

Influenced by Benedictine pastors in Patton, Weakland attended St. Vincent Prep School in Latrobe.

Pennsylvania, where he was an A student and was graduated with the highest medal for achievement.

Then came St. Vincent's College, followed by theology' study at the Benedictine College ofSant' Anselmo in Rome and intense music education in Europe and the United States. Taking Rembert as his religious name, the future archbishop was ordained a Benedictine priest in 1951. He graduated from J uilliard School of Music in 1954 and worked on a doctoral degree at Columbia University.

"The Church was my way out of poverty - the good education I received and the interest the Church took in me. That has colored my attitudes," he says. "The Church's mission to educatioJl is a great way of helping people out of poverty even now. One has to help people develop the skills...to contribute to the economy."

Archbishop' Weakland has in turn given his enormous talents to the church which lifted him from poverty. In 1967 he became abbot primate of the international Benedictine Confederation. Based in Rome, he traveled worldwide visiting the monasteries of 31,000 monks, aided by his fluency in six languages. He was appointed to the commission for implementing the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy.

I0 years later, in 1977, he was made the ninth archbishop of Milwaukee.

As a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), Archbishop Weakland was first appointed to the liturgy committee. A year later he became its chairman. He was later named an adviser to the Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, cochairman of the Roman Catholic-Eastern Orthodox Consultation, a member of the ad hoc Committee on Hispanic Affairs, and consultant to the committee writing a pastoral on campus ministry.

H is international background appealed to the U.S. bishops when they were looking for someone to lead the committee writing a pastoral letter on the economy. He was head 'of a large see that also had a high rate of blue-collar unemployment. Besides that, "So'

far as I knew. he did not have a public stance as either a liberal or conservative on the economic issues of the day," says Archbishop John Roach of Minneapolis-St. Paul. the NCCB president who appointed Archbishop Weakland to the post in 1980.

Many people ask whether the prelate's life as a Benedictine has influenced the pastoral - "the idea that the Benedictines are by nature communist, voluntarily so, and have everything in common" - but he doesn't think his concepts in economics have been influenced by that. People have distorted the document's "preferential option for the poor" and claim the bishops are "trying to create a welfare state." he says, adding that these commentators probably haven't read the pastoral and misunderstand the principle of "participating" in the economy. "We don't want people on welfare. We don't want people unemployed." he insists. What we are asking is that the poor be able to work and have a say how the economy is structured.

"I get the feeling, and it amuses me, that people are treating the bishops in a condescending way, as if we can't know anything about business," Archbishop Weakland observes. "But if YQU look at the annual budget ofa diocese the size of Milwaukee, our properties alone are insured for over a billion dollars. Then look at the portfolio we have for the pension fund and everything the diocese is involved in: social services, a big school system, cemeteries. You name it, we do it. So the experience a bishop has is better than most people realize, better than most of the professors who are talking to us."

The archbishop's colleagues on the pastoral committee include Archbishop Thomas Donnellan of Atlanta, Bishop William Weigand of Salt Lake City, Bishop George Speltz ofSt. Cloud, and Auxiliary Bishop Peter Rosazza of Hartford.

The NCCB has given the task of implementing the pastoral to a new committee headed by Bishop Anthony Pilla of Cleveland.

"I hope -they implement it on many levels over a generation."

Weakland says. "Probably the hardest of all is how can we help bishops and priests preach on the themes of the document without politicizing our own people. And down the road: What does this mean for the life style of the individual person? What is success in America? What goals do people set for themselves? I'm sure also that the bi~hops are going to focus on what should happen in the

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Church, in order that our credibility be first-rate."

AN INVITATION TO THE YOUNG MEN OF OUR DIOCESE IN THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS MEN CURRENTLY ATTENDING COLLEGE OR RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE, WHO ARE PONDERING A VOCATION TO THE DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD, IF YOU ARE GIVING THOUGHT TO A VOCATION '1'0 THE DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD, YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AN INFORMATION DAY ON THE DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD, TO BE HELD FROM 2 TO 8 P,M" ON THE SUNDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING, NOVEMBER 30, AT THE HOLY NAME PARISH CENTER, 121 MOUNT PLEASANT STREET, NEW BEDFORD, THE PROGRAM WILL CONSIST OF PRESENTATIONS, I;>ISCUSSIONS AND QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIODS - ALL CENTERED AROUND THE THEME OF VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD, THE PRIESTS ENGAGED IN THE VOCATION ApOSTOLATE WILL BE ASSISTED BY DIOCESAN SEMINARIANS. THE DAY WILL INCLUDE ALSO THE CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST, FOLLOWED BY THE SHARING OF AN EVENING MEAL.

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SOCIETY OF JESUS . The ~ociety ?f. Jesus of New England, inspired by its founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, is an international religiOUS order of Brothers and priests, with ten provinces in the United States alone.

The Society of Jesus in the Unit~d State.s sponsors co-educational colleges and universities, as well as. secondary schools. Jesuits continue to work in areas that directly address the needs of the suffering, ~ppressed. and P?werless. As community organizers, prison chaplains, and health care and hOUSing experts. JesUits confront the social problems of today. They staff parishes and retreat houses. They serve in numerous mission areas throughout the world as well as in the ~nited States, working with the native Americans. The New England Province mission areas Include Jamaica, Brazil and the Middle East.

The life-styl.e of t~e community is Qenerally adapted to the various types of ministry. A union of hearts and minds IS not merely an Ideal, but a challenge that emphasizes the importance of fraternal support and the need for a generous desire and openness to share with each other at a level of faith in the joys and sorrows, the dreams and hopes of each other. The Jesuits enjoy a simple manner of living.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS Accep~an.ce to the So.ciety comes after a mutual period of discernment and understanding of the JesUIt life, a capa~lty for prayer that would enable him to make the'Spiritual Exercises (a retreat) of 30 days dUring the first year of the novitiate. Other requirements are: Potential for a college education, member of the Catholic Church for at least 3 years and good physical health.

. Most men entering the novitiate have completed at least a few years of college but the dIscernment could begin during the high-school years.

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Second • sprln.g foreseen She's surprised to be greeted by name by someone she hasn't previously met and laughs when it's pointed out that "Sister Dorothy" is written in large script on her black windbreaker.

"I forgot I was wearing it." she said, explaining that the jacket's a souvenir of her role as coach of a basketball team at Our Lady of Fatima High School in Warren, Rl. Today, coaching days behind her, breezy, down-to-earth Sister Dorothy Schwarz is coordinator of the North American province of the Sisters of St. Dorothy. She visited The Anchor office to announce that the province is marking its 75th anniversary in the United States.

Friends of the community and alumni of Dorothean schools are invited to celebrate at 7 p.m. Nov. II at Our Lady of Fatima High School, where a Mass of thanksgiving will be followed by a reception and what will amount to a family reunion.

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and convent, she said, with provincial headquarters moved to Mt. St. Joseph Convent, Bristol, Rl. Asked about the vocations outlook for her community, Sister Dorothy said that although the province has but one novice, ''I'm a hopeless optimist and I really do believe in miracles."

She explained that of all sectors of the church she thinks men and women religious have taken the renewal mandates of Vatican n most seriously and that as a result they are "the segment most in touch with contemporary needs."

At age 41, she says that possibly, Worldwide, some 1,800 DOfolike Moses, she'll only see the theans staff schools, retreat houses, catechetical programs and services Promised Land from afar but that for the poor, elderly and youth. In she feels a second spring is in the North America, said Sister Dor- making for religious life.

"Dialogue and communication othy, she coordinates the work of 70 sisters in New York, Rhode skills have developed and it's Island and the Fall River diocese, interesting to see how the Spirit where community members are at moves - today we have interOur Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, community groups that share with New Bedford; Mt. Carmel, See- each other, whereas in the past konk; and St. Joseph, North Dighton.

Villa Fatima in Taunton, formerly the Dorothean provincial house, is now a retirement home WARSAW, Poland (NC) - Poland's bishops have abandoned pians for an independent agriculFATHER RAYMOND In- tural fund because the government trovigne, liaison to the cha- sought to control it.

In a statement, the Polish prirismatic renewal for the diomate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp of cese of Norwich, Conn., will Gniezno and Warsaw, called unacbe guest speaker at a Holy ceptable the government's demand Spirit breakfast to begin at that the agriculture minister have 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, veto power over the fund's proat White's Restaurant, West- grams to "correlate" them with port. A pastor in Old Say- government programs.

Such a veto would "contradict brook, Conn., he serves on the basic concepts of the foundathe national advisory board tion, especially its autonomy," the of the Catholic Charismatic statement said.

Cardinal Glemp, president of Renewal and was previously a the Polish bishops' conference, has member of the National Diasked the fund's organizing comocesan Liaison' Steering Com- mittee to explore other ways to mittee for the Renewal. help Polish farmers.

The fund had been intended to help private farmers improve their production through better tools and supplies.

Private farms account for more than 75 percent of the country's cropland, but private farmers are chronically short of money to purchase machinery and other equip~ ment -needed to modernize. They also have been unable to buy enough seed and fertilizer to bring their land to its production potential.

The church sought to raise $1.8 billion for the fund, mostly from the United States and Western European countries. It had received $28 million in pledges, including $10 million from the U.S. government. The U.S..Catholic Church reportedly had pledged $4 million.

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Strength is really coming forward from our weakness and need."

Sister Dorothy also said that communities are experiencing the gathering around them of auxiliary groups who wish to be linked to them in terms of spirituality and mission, either parttime or for a short fulltime period.

"We're doing this before regular structures are in place to handle it," she said, nevertheless noting it as a promising spinoff from traditional community undertakings.

"1 see an important future for religious life,~' she concluded.

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"Perhaps this is my little strength: I am attached to my religion and at the same time I am so deeply sympathetic to the other," said Joseph Lichten of the B'nai B'rith AntiDefamation League.

The former Polish diplomat began the first Catholic-Jewish dialogue in the United States more than 30 years ago. He also played an important role in formulating the Second Vatican Council's ground breaking guidelines on religious relations with the Jews in "Nostre Aetate," the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.

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However; it has been his leadership in interfaith dialogue which has garnered him awards, including Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great.

The order, founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1831, rewards individuals - regardless of their religious beliefs - for notable accomplishment or for personal character and reputation.

Lichten and his wife live in a fourth-floor apartment not far from the Catacombs of St. Priscilla in Rome. His book-lined study displays several photos of meetings with Popes Paul VI and John Paul II. A small red-and-white banner representing Solidarity, the outlawed Polish labor union, signifies his continuing contact with his Polish birthplace.

From 1945 to 1971 Lichten was director of the Anti-Defamation League's intercultural affairs department, dealing primarily with the Catholic community.

Lichten moved to Rome in 1971 to head the league's liaison office with the Vatican, a position he is retiring from this falL .

But Lichten's first Vatican contact came during preparatory work for the Second' Vatican Council, which he attended.

"People who were at the council even today form akind of spiritual family," he said. "We were so Involved with our work, day and night, we became a kind of an order, an unorganized organization."

At the council, Lichten gave every bishop a copy of a B'nai B'rith-sponsored survey of American anti-Semitism, "The Charge of Deicide and Anti-Jewish Prejudice Among Catholics."This study is said to have played an important role in galvanizing support for the statement on Jews in "N ostra Aetate. " "Fantastic progress" has been made in Catholic-Jewish relations in the 20 years since "N ostra

Aetate," Lichten added, a fact he said he hopes people will remember in the midst of continuing interfaith differences.

In his more than 40 years of service to interfaith relations, Lichten said, "I have seen so many saintly people within the Catholic community, among both the clergy and the laity, that this has made me think more deeply about my religion and what I have in common with them."

He never felt the desire to become a Catholic, he said, but his "knowledge of the concepts of Catholicism forced me to look deeper into the concepts of my own religion."

Today, Lichten combines a sympathetic understanding of church actions with respectful criticism.

On Vatican recognition ofIsrael, Lichten suggested current stumbling blocks such as the status of Jerusalem might be solved more easily and quickly with formal diplomatic recognition.

As for the future of CatholicJewish relations, Lichten said he thinks now is the time for true theological dialogue, even ifOrthodox Jews are unwilling.

"N ow we must go into theological issues, not to convince who is right, who is wrong, but to understand the differences," he said.

However, it is important the dialogue not remain at the Vatican level, he added, but filter down to the national, diocesan and parish levels.

"The Vatican is doing an excellent job, but how much is this penetrating the hearts and minds of the simple people at the parish level?" he asked. "How many priests have read, have taught the people about Nostre Aetate?"

Lichten expressed pleasure at being named a Knight Commander of St. Gregory.

"They say this is on the lay level equal to being a monsignor," he said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Nov. 7, 1986

TO CELEBRA TE OUR PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722,. Name of city' or town should be Included, as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: We do not carry news of fundraising activities such as bingos, whlsts. dances. suppers and bazaars.

We are happy to carry notices of spiritual Ilrogram$, club meetlnlls, youth prolects and similar nonprofit activities. Fundralslng proJects may be advertised at our regular rates. obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675·7151.

On Steerlnll Points Items FR Indicates Fall River, NB Indicates New Bedford.

ST. KILIAN, NB Widowed Support Group meeting 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10, rectory basement; George Vezina will speak on energy conservation; all widowed welcome; information: 998-3269.

ST. BERNARD, ASSONET Family Life evening 7 to 9 p.m.

Sunday; psychologist and family therapist Joe Ryan will speak on "Spirituality and Family Life"; information: Paula Kelley, 644-2309.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, POCASSET St. Francis of the Cape Fraternity meeting 7: 10 p.m. Tuesday, St. John the Evangelist Church, Pocasset; Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, will celebrate Mass and speak; all welcome; information and rides: Robert ColIyer, 563-2654, Upper Cape; Dorothy Williams, 394.4094, Middle and Lower Cape.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Mass 2 p.m.

'Sunday, church.

BLUE ARMY Five-hour vigil in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary begins 7:30 tonight, St. Rita's Church, 113 Front Street, Marion; all welcome.

SACRED HEART, FR Preceding a recent meeting of the parish Women's Guild, Father Edward J. Byington offered Mass for deceased members; chef Eddie Domingos demonstrated holiday table decorations made with fruits and vegetables.

Christmas pageant 2 p.m. Dec. 21; first rehearsal I p.m. Nov. 8, church hall; all parish children to grade eight welcome to participate; adults welcome to assist with costumes and rehearsals; information at rectory.

ST. PATRICK, FR Holy hour 2 p.m. Nov. 16, lower chapel.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Men's Club meeting 7 p.m. Sunday. Kolbe Corner, school.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Parishioner Edward A. Zink recently received the "Significant Other" certificate from the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women; the award recognizes husbandly support of a wife's council activities.

Special needs community education program 7:30 tonight. A film on sexuality of the developmentally handicapped will be presented by Mary Conroy, R.N., family life education director at St. Margaret's Hospital, Dorchester.

D of I, SOMERSET Among new officers ofSt. Patrick Circle, Daughters of Isabella, are Patricia Isserlis, regent, and Elizabeth Almeida, vice-regent. They were installed by Massachusetts state regent Elaine Leger at ceremonies also attended by state vice-regent Lillian Reilly and international viceregent Mary Whitney. Area columnist John McAvoy was speaker.

CATHOLIC WOMEN'S CLUB, NB Guest night 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Wamsutta Club. New Bedford. features fashion show and refreshments; all welcome.

HOLY NAME, NB Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

Monday features speaker from Plimoth Plantation.

ST. ANNE, FR Den One Cub Scouts meet 2:30 today, school. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after II :30 a.m.

Mass today; hour of adoration 2 to 3 p.m. today. A space program and NASA presentations were recently held at St. Anne's School.

EMMAUS Emmaus weekend retreat Dec. 5 to 7, Cathedral Camps Retreat House, E. Freetown. Information and applications: Alison Robinson, 993-3732; Father William F. Baker, 222-0399.

GALILEE REUNION Galilee monthly reunion 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Cathedral Camps Retreat House, E. Freetown; Mass will be offered; Kerry Ann Martel and Don Brine will witness.

HOLY NAME, FR Youth group meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, school.

ST. JOSEPH, FR Brownie Girl Scout Troop 1082 meets 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays; new mem-. bers grades one through three wel- . come.

ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY Parishioner James C. Lopes recently received the "Significant Other" certificate from the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women; the award recognizes husbandly support of a wife's council activities.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Prayer group meets 7:30 p.m.

Mondays. Alcoholics Anonymous 7 p.m. Wednesdays. church hall. Vincentians meet after 10 a.m. Mass Sunday. Children's Mass 10 a.m.

Nov. 16; Mass of presentation for second graders II :30 a.m. Nov. 23.

Mass for faithful departed 7 p.m.

Nov. 14. Youth softball 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, North School field. Adult Bible study 9:45 a.m. and 7:05 p.m.

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Parish ministry workshop 2 p.m.

Sunday, church hall. CYO basketball team forming; interested boys grades six through eight may contact rectory, 992-7000. Sacred Hearts Association meeting after Mass 7 tonight; new members welcome. Mass to celebrate church's 20th anniversary and to dedicate St. Ann's Chapel 10 a.m. Nov. 23.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH The parish is establishing a Knights of Columbus council; interested parish men 18 and older may obtain information after all weekend Masses. Women's Guild meetingfollows 7 p.m. Mass for members Wednesday; guest speaker: Father Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation. Children's choir rehearses 4 p.m. Fridays.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO . All Souls Masses requested by parishioners will be offered at 9 a.m. each Saturday of November.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET A memorial book listing names of deceased relatives and friends of parishioners is located near the sanctuary.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE . Ultreya 7:30 tonight, parish center. Parishioners Mr. and Mrs. Vladas Zidziunas are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Parishioners knowing of anyone in need of Thanksgiving assistance may call the parish office, 775-5744.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Parishioners Joseph and Jessie Motta are celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary. .

BLUE ARMY .Tonight's five-hour vigil begins With 7 p.m. Mass in honor of the Sacred Heart, St. Rita's Church Marion. '

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FATHER Theodore E. Dobson, spiritual director of the <;harismatic Renew'al for the archdiocese of Denver, will lead "Mary - Creation of the Spirit,"a program open to all who wish to enrich their knowledge and experience of Our Blessed Mother, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 15, People's Chapel, LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. Registration information: 222-5410. ,

COUNTRY CHRISTMAS FAIR ST. MARY'S CHURCH HALL

ST. RITA, MARION Babysitting available during 10 a.m. Mass Sundays, rectory/parish center.

ST. ANTHONY, E. FALMOUTH Night of recollection 7 to 9:30 p.m. Nov. 17; Father Theodore Dobson will speak on "How the Lord's Supper Can Change Your' Life"; information: Marian LeBlanc, 748-2297.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR New choir members needed; rehearsals 7:45 p.m. Mondays; all welcome.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA First Friday exposition of the Blessed Sacrament through holy hour at 7 tonight.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Family retreat next March 7 and 8, Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham; parents and children of all ages welcome, including single-parent families.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Fridays, small chapel. Children's choir rehearses after 10 a.m. Mass Sundays.

Thanksgiving Day dinner in conjunction with Holy Ghost parish, Tiverton, R.I., noon Nov. 27; seniors and anyone living alone welcome; no charge. but donations will be accepted; reservations by Nov. 20:'rectory, 672-5473.

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Iteering pOintl Continued from Page 15 ST. JAMES, NO Young adult enrichment course for parish teens grades 10 to 126:30 p.m. Nov. 10, parish center. CYO meeting 2 p.m. Sunday, church hall.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Parishioners are participating in today's World Community Day of Prayer.

DCCW, FR Fall River District Council of Catholic Women meeting 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 13, Sacred Heart parish hall, Fall River; speaker: Dr. Jeremiah J. Lowney, a dentist involved with aid to Haiti. Volunteer training program for RESPITE, a national Council of Catholic Women program helping elderly and homebound, 10 a.m.

Nov. 15, St. Patrick's church hall.

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ST.STEPHEN,ATTLEOORO . High school parishioners will initiate a youth group at an evening of pizza and bowling Nov. 16; interested teens may contact the rectory, 222-0641.

ST. MARY, S. DARTMOUTH Catholic Adult Religious Enrichment evening of recollection 7 p.m.

Nov. 19, parish center; resource person: Father Robert A. Oliveira, diocesan director of continuing formation.

VINCENTIANS, FR District council meeting begins with 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday, Notre Dame Church, Fall River. Communion breakfast Dec. 7, Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, with 9 a.m. Mass celebrated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET A replica of the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the Black Madonna, will be at the church for 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday, followed by rosary.

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Invalid Equipment For Rent or Sale Guild meeting I p.m. Wednesday, Sur,;cll C,rm.nls - Bird· IPPB Mlchin.s - Jobst church hall, featuring a fashion show of cruise wear and holiday outfits ~ • Hollist.r - Crutch.s - Ellilic Stock;n,s with guild members as models. Adult Sur,;cll & Orthop.dic Applilnc.s choir rehearses 7:30 p.m. Thursdays; "HII, • Trusses - 011l.n - ' Oly,.n Milks, Tents & CH•••, Re,ulltors • Approved For M.diclre children's choir rehearses 4 p.m.

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ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Prayer group meets 7:30 p.m.

Tuesdays, Visitation Hall. Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help at 8 a.m. Mass Wednesdays.

DOMINICAN LAITY, FR St. Rose of Lima chapter meeting 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 begins with Mass; meeting at Dominican Academy, 37 Park Street, Fall River.

ST. JOSEPH, NO Thanksgiving eve celebration Mass 7 p.m. Nov. 26. Prayer group Bible study 7 p.m. Wednesday, rectory basement; prayer meeting and Mass 7 p.m. Nov. 19, church.

LEGION OF MARY, NO Holy hour Nov. 21 begins with 5 p.m. Mass, St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford. Senior meetings 6:30 p. m. Tuesdays; junior meetings 2:45 p.m. Fridays; all in St. Joseph's rectory basement.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, ACUSHNET Ecumenical Thanksgiving service with Acushnet Wesley Methodist Church 7 p.m. Nov. 25, church.

SEPARATED AND DIVORCED, FR Greater Fall River area support group for separated, divorced and remarried Catholics meeting 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Our Lady of Fatima Church hall, 560 Gardner Neck Road, Swansea.

EMBA TTLED Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausenjoins a demonstration in Bangor, Wash., against deployment of the Navy's newest Trident nuclear submarine.

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D of I, NO New Bedford Daughters of Isabella meeting 7 p.m. Nov. 18, VFW Hall, Park Street.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Thanksgiving liturgy Nov. 22, sponsored by St. Patrick's Scholarship Club, will. be celebrated by Father Joseph D. Maguire; music by parish junior and senior choirs; St. Patrick's School of Religion students will participate; all welcome to attend and share in homemade refreshments after Mass in church hall; information: Claude Karalekas, 548-6893.

75 years of love Continued from Page One James A. McCarthy and Father Leo Curry, both of whom had short tenures. During the interim between October 1969 and February 1970,. diocesan vice-chancellor Msgr. Thomas Harrington was parish administrator.

At that time Father Daniel A. Carey was appointed pastor. He was to remain at St. Dominic's for 10 years, a period of great growth for the parish which almost overnight expanded from a membership of 400 to 1,000 families, due to construction of many housing developments in the surrounding area.

It was obvious that expansion was needed and plans were made for an all-purpose parish 'center where some Masses could be held and where religious education classes and social activities could be accommodated. The center, 50 by 120 feet in size, was dedicated in May 1975. It can seat 500 persons for Mass and includes a large kitchen, restrooms and storage space.

Also in 1975 the parish began to be served by parochial vicars as well as pastors, with Father James E. Greene the first, at St. Dominic'sfrom 1975 to 1979.

Offering weekend assistance from 1979 to 1983 was Father Paul Carrier, SJ, a Bishop Connolly High School faculty member.

Present Clergy In June 1980, the present pastor, Father Campbell, came to St. Dominic's, bringing with him the gift of music and a deep love of liturgy.

Today the parish boasts one of the finest music ministries in the diocese, including a choir, a folk group and a hand bell section.

In 1983 Father Joseph A. Richard, AA, succeeded Father Carrier as parochial vicar. H is love of the Eucharist brought the community

a spirituality centered on God's love for the church on earth.

As a new pastor, among Father Campbell's first decisions was to name the parish center after his predecessor, realizing how proud Father Carey was of it and of not having left the parish with a mortgage on it. A dedication planned, Father Carey returned for the occasion of the naming of the center.

In the fall of 1980, a parish council was organized, and from it ministries were developed in the areas of the Eucharist, lectoring music, education, social action and spiritual life. The role of the lay person became a priority in the parish life. Eucharistic ministry, ministry of the lector, music ministry, education ministry, social action ministry, and Spiritual life ministry all began to function.

About the time that Father Campbell came to St. Dominic, a parishioner, Eugene Orosz, was ordained to the permanent diaconate. Under his leadership many parishioners are involved in visitation of the sick in homes, hospitals, and nursing homes, the Eucharist is brought to the sick and shut-ins weekly following Sunday Masses and prayer services are offered at the Country Gardens Nursing home.

A word must be said about a woman who gave much to our community in the short time she served St. Dominic's, the late Sister Evelyn K. Daily, who coordinated the CCD program until her untimely death in 1983..

Presently Mrs. Ronald Nadeau is in charge of religious education and has carried on and improved the traditions inaugurated by Sister Evelyn.

Rev. Arthur Wingate, the present parochial vicar. has served St. Dominic's since February 1985, coming to the parish from St. Mary's, Norton.