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FALL RIVER MASS., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1981

Families for Prayer

By Pat McGowan

Sister Mary Manning, SND, is a lady with a large mission.. She wants to fill New England with praying families.

She will explain how she hopes to work that miracle at a day for parish family ministers to be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Dio(:esan Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth.

Her presentation on the "Families for Prayer" program will begin the day planned for representatives from the 51 dio(:esan parishes that have appointed family enrichment coordinators under auspices of the Office of Family Ministry.

Also on the program will be a presentation by Bill and Patty Coleman on a "total education

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program" themed Together in Prayer: Together with Jesus.

Workshops on various aspects of family ministry will be offered by Deacon and Mrs. Leo Racine, Deacon and Mrs. John Schondek and Jackie and Walter Coyne. Sister Lucille Levasseur, SMSM, will explain Billings Natural Family Planning, in which she offers instruction and is also training teacher couples.

Families for Prayer The Families for Prayer program, said Sister Mary, is an outgrowth of Father Patrick Peyton's famous rosary crusade with its slogan "The family that prays together stays together."

As time went on, said Sister Mary, it was realized that families were asking for more than

the rosary, for a home-centered prayer program growing out of a . parish context.

To meet this need, Families for Prayer was developed. After pilot trials in a few areas it has been expanded across the nation.

In the Fall River diocese it is now in use in Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, and SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River. Previously it was implemented at St. John the Evangelist, Pocasset, while a Portuguese version of the program is now in preparation at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, New Bedford.

As New England regional representative of Families for Prayer, Sister Mary crisscrosses the six-state area explaining its mechanics.

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Bishops differ on Hatch amendm,ent At the annual Washington meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was among critics of the proposed Hatch human life amendment to the Constitution.

Saying that the amendment had merits but that it seems to permit unborn children "in the wrong state at the wrong time" to be aborted; Bishop Cronin aligned himself with other bishops who questioned the amendment because it does not ban abortion outright, instead granting Congress and the states power to reenact abortion restrictions struck down in 1973 by the Supreme Court.

It was endorsed by Archbishop John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, NCCB president, and Cardinal Terence Cooke of New.York, head of the Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, in congressional testimony Nov. 5.

But Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston. said in Washington, "In my conscience, as it is at this point, I don't see how

I could" support the Hatch amendment.

He said the measure would allow some states "to destroy innocent human life" if they so choose.

"I think there's much confusion coming from here," he said of the NCCB. He also said that the NCOB backing of the Hatch Amendment contradicts testimony he and other prelates gave before a congressional committee in 1974, when the bishops said they did not favor a "states' rights approach." (fhe Hatch Amendment has been called a states' rights measure by some.)

In other action at the bishops' meeting, which ends today, participants: - ¡Considered a statement on Latin America' which criticizes the U.S. for addressing Central America in terms of global security rather than the needs of the region's poor; - Heard education researchers Msgr. William Baumgaertner of the National Catholic Educational Assn. and Father FranTum to Page Three

Nuclear arms race • a major concern

In a family Sietting, a mother explains the symbols of the cup and bread to her child.

American bishops are continuing to tackle the moral issues of the nuclear arms race, which Pope John Paul II said Nov. 11 threatens to annihilate "not just a country or a continent, but all of mankind today."

At the bishops' national meeting this week a progress report on issuing a national pastoral statement on war and peace issues was to be presented and several bishops have added their names to the list of at least 30 who have spoken out individually or in small groups on the question in recent months.

"A bilateral reduction of arms will not begin until something unilateral happens," said Bishop Francis Quinn of Sacramento,Calif., in a plea for a unilateral first step toward disarmament to end the arms race.

His fellow Californian, Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, in early November made his second major statement on the topic in a month, warning in a speech in Los Angeles that the psychological and poli-

tical barriers that have made nuclear war unthinkable to most people are being eroded by the defense policies and rhetoric coming out of the nation's capital.

He called even deterrent possession of nuclear weapons immoral as a "long-term policy" and said that governments have a "grave moral obligation" to end the arms race.

In October, in a statement issued in connection with the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin called the killing an "occasion for world leaders to initiate serious efforts to bring peace." He added that the "current senseless buildup of conventional and nuclear weapons is fraught with the very real peril that a worldwide conflagration can burst forth."

Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans struck a different note with a column in his archdiocesan newspaper. Although he, too, advocated an Tum to Page SIx

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SISTER CECILE LEBEAU, CSC (left), immediate past president of diocesan Council of Women Religious, congratulates Sister Aileen Johnson (center), new treasurer, and Siste~,;Dorothy Byrne, president.

PRINCIPALS AT installation rites for Bishop Cassidy Assembly, New Bedford, Knights of Columbus, from left, David Lira, faithful captain; Arthur Govoni, faithful navigator; John J. Donovan, vice supreme knight and master of New England area K of C.

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Visit hinted to homeland VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II strongly hinted that he will visit 路Poland in August 1982 to help celebrate 1he 600th anniversary of the alTival at Czestochowa, Poland, of the icon of the Black Madonna" patroness of Poland.

The hint came in the pontiff's reply to an request from Polish primate Archbishop Jozef Glemp of Gniezno and Warsnw.

On Nov. 7 in the Vatkan audience hall Archbishop Glemp issued a formal invitation to the pope in front of 4,000 pilgrims of Polish extraction who had come to Rome from 25 I::ountries to celebrate the opening of a Polish visitors center.

In response, the pope said that for a long time he has felt called to revisit his homeland and that "it is possible that after this invitation I will not be able to resist this feeling."

The visitors center was built with funds contributed by the international Polish ,::ommunity.

Named the Pope John Paul II Polish Oasis, it will provide informational and pastoral services and guest rooms ~for some of the increasingly large numbers of visitors from. Poland.

Leadet:Q,f l,~~e U.S. delegation at the papal audience was Rep. Clement J. Zablocki (D-Wis.), who together with Cardinal John Krol of P1)Uadelphia was instrumental in raising from Poli.sh Catholics in the United States the major part of the center's $2 million cost.

The pope told his fellow Poles that he made no pretense of hiding his special feeling fOJr Poland.

"Being through divine providence the successor of St. Peter in the chair of Rome, I wish with the same love to serve the universal church, all the local churches, every nation and every person. But I cannot cOllceal the particular link which I feel profoundly and which ur.lites me with the church and with the nation from which I come"and with all my fellow Poles who live both in the fatherland and outside of it," he said.

Mrs. McCarthy Father Robert C. Donovan, associate pastor at St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis, was the celebrant last Saturday of a funeral Mass for his grandmother, Mrs. Catherine A. McCarthy, 95.

The liturgy took placE~ at St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Brookline.

"Gram" figured frequently in Father Donovan's homilies, both at St. Francis Xavier and at St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro, where he was previously assigned.

Born in County Roscommon, Ireland, she came to th,e United States as a child. She is survived by four children, including Mrs. Robert J. Donovan of Brookline, Father Donovan's mother; and Sister l\f. Louisita SSJ, stationed in Boston.

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DIRECTED BY GLENN GIUTTARI, a chamber orchestra with Ann Danis as principal rehearses for a concert of Haydn and Mozart it will offer tomorrow at Barrington Presbyterian Church in Barrington and Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral. Both performances will be at 8 p.m. The program will include the Exultate, Jubilate, portions of Solemn Vespers and Ave Verum by Mozart; and Little Organ Mass and The Heavens Are Telling By Haydn. Also to be heard is a Handel organ concerto.

First convention for MeL FIAMINGHAM, ~ass. (NC) About 175 abortion opponents were asked to support the human life bill in the U.S. Congress during the first state convention of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, held in Framingham earlier this month.

"Pro-lifers are. no longer viewed as a bunch of crazies carrying fetuses around in jars," said John P. Mackey of the national Ad Hoc Committee in Defense of Life.

He noted that there have been a number of successful efforts at federal and. state levels to cut back public funding of abortions since the 1973 Supreme Court decisions that overturned most state restrictions on abortion.

But he cited the human life bill

currently before Congress, which would declare life begins at conception, as a key battle for abortion opponents.

"Only by continuing to send mail to your elected officials can we win what I can promise you is going to be a close fight," Mackey said.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), has passed subcommittee hearings and faces the Judiciary Committee in the Senate. An almost identical bill has been introduced in the House but has made no progress.

Mackey said the bill has an important political. advantage over anti-abortion amendments to the Constitution because it requires

Bishops differ Continued from page one cis Scheets, director of the CARA-Lilly路 study of seminary finances, recommend that seminaries meet declining enrollment problems by p'roviding increased educational opportunities for laity; - Heard a report from Bishop Mark J. Hurley of Santa Rosa, Calif., on a proposed pastoral letter on health and healing.

Discussed yesterday by the bishops was the national telecommunications network of the church, to become operational next year..

A board of directors headed

by Bishop Louis E.Gelineau of Providence has been appointed for the network and it has been incorporated in Delaware as the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America, Inc. Eighty-nine of the 171 U.S. dioceses have indicated their intention of joining the system within its. first three years of operation.

With the concurrence' of the USCC Administrative Board the starting date for the network's full program and information

services schedule (five hours a day five days a week) will be September 1982. An experimental service to the dioceses will be introduced in March.

only a simple majority vote by legislators for passage, while a two-thirds majority in both houses plus state ratification is required for a constitutional amendment.

"It will be one heated debate," Mackey said of the human life bill, "but if the bill passes, we've just seen the beginning. No matter what the court decides, we win."

MCL, which' counts 7,000 members in the commonwealth, said it plans to make the statewide convention an annual event.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi spent 40 minutes in private conversation last week, speaking in English without interpreters.

The Vatican released no details on the talk but Vatican sources said it centered on world hunger and underdevelopment, the nuclear arms race and the role of non-aligned nations in confronting those problems.

Mrs. Gandhi gave the keynote address later in the day at the 21st conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome.

The cost of one intercontinental missile, "could plant 200 million trees, irrigate 2.5 million acres, feed 50 million malnourished children, buy a million tons of fertilizer, erect a million small bio-gas plants, build 65,000 health care centers or 140,000 primary schools," she told the conference.

In another address to the conference, Edouard Saouma, the Lebanese director general of FAO, said the latest statistics show that between 15 percent and 25 percent of the' world's children suffer from "moderate malnutrition" and 3 percent are severely malnourished.

Mrs. Gandhi, who arrived in Rome Nov. 9 for'a four-day visit, last visited the Vatican on July 8, 1955, when she was received

by Pope Pius XII as part of the entourage of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, then Indian prime minister.

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Cape Vincentians mark anniversary i'5illi;;;;~~: Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will preside at an anniversary Mass at 7:30 p.m. Monday at St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth.

The liturgy will mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of .the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the Cape Cod area. It will also kick off activities in preparation for a national Vincentian convention, to be sponsored next September in Hyannis by the Fall River diocese.

Arrangements for Monday are in charge of Frank C. Miller, president of the Cape District Council of the Vincentians.

The occasion will also afford the opportunity for 'members ,to meet Father John F. Andrews, recently appointed district spiritual advisor.

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An Age of Heartbreak Have morals and ethics become a thing of memory?

Are we witnessing the dawn of absolute paganism? Have virtue and its reflected qualities become an, archaic way of life? ' These questions certainly do surface when one considers the almost complete disregard of marriage either as sign or sacrament. Each day more and more of our own Catholics toss off the responsibilities' of this state of life by fleeing to the local probate court in search of the fastest divorce possible.

The value to our society of marriage as a sacrament is more and more disregarded. The sign value of marriage is for many merely a legal convenience. For, some it might involve status; for most not even that.

A prime catalyst in bringing about this national disregard. for marriage is surely our new "liberal" attitude toward ,premarital sex and illegitimate births.

According to federal government figures, the number of illegitimate births has increased so rapidly in the past decade that one out of every six babies born in the United States is illegitimate.

Even though the number of abortions has dramatically and tragically increased, among unmarried teens there are still three live births for every five abortions. It is estimated that about 1.4 million children live with teenage mothers and that more than half of those mother:s are unmarried.

A- prime reason for this rise in illegitimacy, is increased ~exual activity among young people in our hedonistic society..,Jlte Playboy mentality has' naturally given rise to the Brooke Shields syndrome.

So:little value is placed on responsibility, never mind conscience, that in some areas teens consider it a status ~ymbolto have a baby.

At a time when teen suicides are at an alltime high, one might well correlate this self-destructive mentality with the lack of inherent self-acceptance and self-esteem.

What makes this situation even more frightening is that no one can tell you if the number of illegitimate births will ever level off. No one can predict if there is any hope of stemming the tide of vice that is destroying American teen life as we have known it. No one can even begin to guess how many young people will become old before their time because they cannot distinguish between true freedom and license.

This year alone the federal program for aid to dependent' children will exceed $7 billion. With an everincreasing rate of illegitimacy, this figure will be another factor in keeping the budget out of balance, one more, of the uilpredictables of a free society.

Stricter laws are not the answer to this problem any more than is cutting the budget or penalizing people. The only answer is some real attempt to restore a moral climate in which young people can live without having to prove something to each other via games of sexual roulette.

The adult world created this problem. It must now begin to face its consequences.

Those who truly believe in the Judeo-Christian ethic should no longer merely react. They must begin to act with positive programs and alternatives that will assure ;our girls and boys that the teens need not be an age of heartbreak.

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of gaining such control wi,thout regard to either the natural ~aw or the 'law of God. One of the greatest dangers of democracy is the formation of a totalitarian state through majority rule. The judiciary branch of our government is supposed to check that tendency. Hence, if a majority of' the people in Little Rock, Arkansas oppose integration of the schools, the courts must uphold the Jaw against the majority. Today the Supreme Court seems able to legislate a morality quite foreign to any previous moral code in history.

mistaken notion of free choice and the day of reck0':liIi~ will come when we wi:l:l have to an· swer to Christ the King and not to a pollster. "'Whatsoever you do to the lea!!t of my brothers, that you do unto me." ,

The last Sunday of the liturgical year is designated by the church as the feast of Christ the King. Modern minds may not be accustomed to this royal title and may find others more appeaHng. In tlhe noblest and truest sense, however, this title is most appropriate. Christ is king of aU his Father's creation, for in Jesus all things find their purpose, salvaRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (NC) tion and fulfillment. And Christ's - Masses of thanksgiving inkingship truly continues on earth volving bishops, religious congrein us. Weare commissioned as gations and public officials are his royal people and we have a planned in 134 countries, reports tremendous responsibility.

Any effort by the church to Deo Gratias, publication of the We live at a time in which there seems to be great conflict caB attention to the failure of Brazilian World Crusade for between mankind's expanding the government to fuUill its role 'Thanksgiving.

The crusade, sponsored by the confidence in its own power over , as protector of the common good Catholic bishops of Brazil, prothe universe and Christ's words, is criticized in the press as Chris"Apart from me you can do noth- tian Ayatollahism. Perhaps a dis- . motes worldwide celebration of tancing from the viewpoint of special Masses in November to ing" (John' 15:5): , We must not be seduced into history could prove enlightening. give thanks to God and is based on the U.S. holiday of Thanksequating human progress as No particular form of govern- giving. judged in worldly terms with the ment has ever been endorsed by Archbishop Carmino Oocco, power of the kingdom of God. the church as a whole. St. ThomMan seems to relish advances in as Aquinas, for example, favored apostolic nuncio to Brazil, said technology as means of establish- a constitutional monarchy. He the crusade has been successful ing control. Contraception, abor- was aware of the abuses that in making Thanksgiving a "sation and euthanasi!l. are all means could exist under a totalitarian cred .celebration for almost the entire human family and a festistate; however, his rea:Iistic as- val of the peoples that we hope sessment of the nature of man will make shine the rainbow of EDICTAL CITATION kept him from endorsing a pure world peace."

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FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS The dignity of 'law is that it is Since the actual place of residence of perceived as rooted in nature and BELLAMARIE COSTA BRAGA is unknown, We cite BELLAMARIE COSTP. BRAGA to affirmed by God. The Ten Comappear personally before the Jribunal of mandments found their way into the Diocese of Fall Iliver on November November 25 30, 1981 at 1:30 p.w-.at 344 Highland our nation's legal code because Avenue, Fall River, Massachusetts, to our founding fathers shared a Rev. Philias Jalbert, 1946, Pasgive testimony to establish: concern for our common good. tor, Notre Dame, Fall River Whether the nullity of the marBut, today the word aduUery riage exists in the BRAGA November 26 has disappeared in favor of the COSTA case? ,less p~jorative "affair" and the Rev. James R. Burns, P.R., Ordinaries of the place or other pas1946, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall tors having the knowledge of the resi· word murder has disappeared in . dence of the above person, Bellamarie favor of "abortion" and "euthanRiver Costa Braga, must see to it that she is asia." The secular press issues properly advised in regard to this edictal poUs indicating changes in atticitation. tudes fostered by that same press THE ANCHOR (USPS-54S.()20). Second Class Henry T. Munroe Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published Officialis and declaring ,that church efforts Postage every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall Given at the Tribunal, River.

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Thanking people Some people just can't appreciate your running that ersay thank you. I taught rand for me," the kids are bound once with a man like that to imitate.

There's more to this than good and a bunch of us had a con- manners.

It indicates a deep aptest to see. who could get him to say thanks first. As I re<:all, nobody won. He Was utterlY' unconscious of the need to thank others. We deliberately held the door open for him when his arms were loaded with books, we brought him dozens of ,cups of coffee in the teachers' lounge and we even chipped in to buy him a birthday gift, waiting breathlessly (and in retrospect, unkindly) to see what hll would say.

He opened it suspiciously and said, "What's the jOkE:?" We smothered our laughter and he never realized the point of our gesture, thank God. Some others can't accept thanks. They brush off any attempt with embarrassment or humor. I suppose a psychologist would have an explanation for these behaviors but I believe that being able to thank others and to accept thanks is the basis for being able to truly thank God. It begins early in family life where simple expressions of gratitude are as natural as asking for a snack.

Parents are the original models here. If they show simple appreciation for each other's actions, as in, "Thanks for dinner" or "I

preciation and respect for others.

One of the most likable men I know is a highly successful 75year-old man who always makes . people feel appreciated. Every time we are with him, whether it's in a restaurant or a meeting, he leaves in his wake people who feel better for having had the privilege of being around him for a little. He isn't obsequious nor is he perfunctory in his thanks. If a waitress brings a menu, he smiles at her and utters a simple thank you. If a subordinate disagrees with him at a meeting,· he reflects and says something to the effect that he's grateful· for an opposing perspective on the subject.

People like he who thank so naturally are people who have a focus outside themselves. They don't thank others because it's polite to do so or to curry favors. They thank them for making their lives a little fuller, a little more pleasant.

Sometimes when I work with parents, I ask them to keep a record of how often they hear thank you in their home on a routine day. Some never do. One of them most common complaints I hear from mothers is that they

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don't feel appreciated. Yet many show little appreciation for their children's or spouse's routine contributions around the home.

If I am grateful for peace, then I must be grateful to those who work so hard to insure it. God is working with and through them. (Why is it easier to thank God than to thank them?) If I am grateful for family, then I need to thank God for them and them for being family. If I am thankful for work, then I need to thank both God and readers.

And I do. Publicly. Here and now.

Thanksgiving is a season when we focus on our gifts from God. We thank Him for our country, our bounty, and each other. We thank Him for our health, our faith, and our work. But often we fail to thank others for their role in His gifts. Our gratitude to God extends from our gratitude to others - whether it's community servants, church servants, teachers, bus boys, or bus drivers. If God works through people, then it follows that we can thank God through people.

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Fighting for aIr Church groups which fought and lost the radio de,regulation battle several months ago ago now have a new skirmish on their hands: the proposal to repeal the "fairness doctrine" and the "equal time" rules which govem broadcasting.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is urging Congress to eliminate t:he rules on the grounds that broadcasters should have the same freedom as print journalists tel determine what information they will take.

The fairness doctrine mandates that radio or television stations which air one side of a controversial issue - such as aborton - must allow air time to opposing views. Equal time means that broadcastE:rs who give a political candiclate air time must offer oppon1ents the same amount of time. Mllgazines, newspapers and other print media do not operate under those restrictions.

In addition to sayirg the rules shackle their free speech rights, brolidcasters aver they 2tllow the government, at license renewal time, to judge the degree of controversy of a particular issue and decide whether "reasonable opportunity" for airing opposing views was given.

But ~ackers of the Jules, including most mainline church groups, counter that U.e physical limits on the number of broadcast signals means those who control the airwaves must

be required to air a variety of viewpoints. The print media do not have such limits because there is an unlimited number of printing presses and copying machines, giving almost anyone some way of publishing his or her ideas.

In many ways the new debate is a rerun of the radio deregulation debate, which peaked earlier this year with an FCC decision approving the easing of several rules applying to radio broadcasters, such as rules specifying that radio stations ascertain and address co~munity needs and provide a specilic amount of non-entertainment programming, such as news and public affairs shows.

In that debate, as in this one, broadcasters argued that the rules proposed for repeal were antiquated, written when there were far fewer .radio and television stations.· ·With today's greater selction of channels and greater competition, the broadcasters maintain, there is a greater desire to serve news and public affairs needs and plenty of room to air a variety of views.

But opponents of the eased rules, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, say the picture painted by the broadcasters is not entirely accurate. While cable TV is beginning to blossom and while major metropolitan areas have dozens of stations, opponents of deregulation note that many localities are still years away from access to cable.

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areas have no local radio stations, relying on distant communities for information.

While groups such as the usce and some Protestant denominations. have allied thmselves, other fundamentalist churches especially those with their own broadcasting outlets - have taken the opposite position. Evangelist preachers in particular have said that the fairness doctrine could force them to allow advocates of homosexuality and abortion to come on the air whenever they take a strong position against those practices.

Though radio and TV deregulation has had much support on Capitol Hill, proposals to repeal the fairness and equal time rules may not have as much. Rep. Timothy E. Wirth (D-Colo.), who heads the House telecommunications subcommittee, has said repeal proponents have not looked at "today's broadcasting realities" and that public access to a full range of opinions is still far in the future.

Also working against repeal is a political factor: legislators probably won't be too eager to vote away a rule which assures them air time whenever they're attacked or someone runs against them.

Powerful dove,· tailed gavel Sen. Mark. Hatfield, ROre., is leading a charge to reduce defense spending.

Ordinarily, this would give the administration as much pause as hearing that the Salvation Army was mounting an attack on the White House.

But one of the few disadvantages, from Ronald Reagan's viewpoint, of having a Republican Senate is that Hatfield, the most notorious dove in the president's party, has become chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where he is in an excellent position to do something to the Pentagon's enormous allowance.

Hatfield, an organizer of congressional prayer breakfasts, is genuinely religious and his philosophy on foreign policy·was formed in his own experience. A Navy officer in World War II, he was among the first Americans to enter Hanoi after the Japanese left and was persuaded that Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist leader who could be a friend.

Also, he found himself among the ruins in Hiroshima - he knew the bomb had saved his life but wondered about the cost to mankind - and was forever lost to the Reagan enthusiasm for nuclear weaponry.

During the debate on the AWACS sale, which he "wearily" opposed, he spoke of the "tragic flaw" in our foreign policy: "the notion . . . that we as a superpower can somehow enhance the prospects for an enduring peace by arming nations and cultures with ever more sophisticated weapons of war.

We are not the only nation of the world that embraces this notion, but because of our status as the world's largest peddler of arms, we have a special moral requirement to examine it."

The president noted this strain in Hatfield. When asked in an interview about Hatfield's negative AWACS vote, he replied airily, "He is opposed to any arms sales. He believes the world would be better off without arms."

Almost any other senator, particularly a member of the newly martial GOP, would be horrified at the suggestion that he was a closet unilateral disarmer. But Hatfield, when asked for his reaction, seemed pleased that the president had noticed.

How much he is actually heeding Hatfield is entirely another matter. The president has more or less committed us to an openminded arms race in the Middle East. He plans to spend $181 billion. The dispute within the

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administration over the need to do more ended in a triumph for Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Budget Director David Stockman, when asked if anything wquld be done to slash at least waste and fraud in Defense, replied in effect, that it was over.

Hatfield thinks that an additional minimum of $2 billion can be sliced by lopping off $45 million worth of public relations specialists, not to mention a $2.3 million helicopter that can't fly, a $195 million radar system that doesn't work and 480 historians and museum curators.

He is also taking aim at the MX and the B-1 bomber.

He talks about these things in his office at a turn-of-the-century open-front desk with an oldfashioned telephone on it.

"We are accelerating the erosion of the infrastructure of our society. We are weakening our education system - they want to cut the Fulbright program in half; we are endangering health care, transportation, .resource management. What we are saying is that we can let it deterioate because we are building more bombs. But if we don't have a strong economy and a strong people, what is our national security?"

This is, of course, precisely the same kind of "priorities" argument they made, to little avail, throughout the Vietnam War. The only reason anyone might pay attention in this era of increased, and apparently popular, belligerency is that as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he has a fighting chance of making it stick.

Also, he has allies within his own party, members who, for reasons often different from his, are digging in their heels against the additional domestic cuts demanded by the president in the interests of Pentagon spending.

Hatfield is in charge now, which means that he can tell those who wish to add billions for defense projects that they must subtract those sums from favorite domestic projects.

For instance, Sen. John Stennis, R-Miss., ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, is a doughty ally of the Pentagon. But he is also interested in the Tennessee Tombigbee Dam. Hatfield will inform him that he can't have both.

It is doubtful that the mild and thoughtful senator from Oregon will ever convince the hawks that he is right in thinking that arms do not produce peace. But after 15 years of crying in the wilderness, he has a gavel in his hand, which is the only weapon he wants.

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By a vote of 68 to 24, the Senate has confirmed the nomination of Dr. C. Everett Koop, 65, as U.S. surgeon general.

His age was an initial barrier to his nomination but the under65 requirement was waived. Opposition then centered on his outspoken anti-abortion stand, his alleged opinions on women and his alleged lack of experience in public health. Forces against his confirmation were led by Sen Edward Kennedy.

A strong supporter was Sen. Orrin Hatch, author of a controversial proposed human life amendment to the Constitution.

Koop's outlook on abortion, his advocacy of "the value of traditional roles for women" and his background (or lack of it) in public health should, not bar the appointment, said Hatch in October, when Koop's nomination was being discussed by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.

"These are matters of great public debate," )Ie added, "and I can conceive of no reason why advocacy on these issues should affect Dr. Koop's fitness to be surgeon general."

Through the family prayer program she came to know him as a truly spiritual person who had been self-conscious about showing that side of himself to his family. "Now we can really talk to each other," reported the daughter.

Before beginning her present work, Sister Mary was a teacher and principal in the New England area for some 30 years. She calls Families for Prayer "possibly the most rewarding ministry I've never had. I have a sense of reaching families that I never experienced in the school structure."

Nuclear Continued from page one end to the arms race, he emphasized the Soviet threat to world peace and declared that "the United States has a moral right to have a deterrent power sufficient to protect our freedom and the freedom of the West."

In clear disagreement with the thrust of comments by a number of other bishops, Archbishop Hannan presented the moral argument in favor of possession of weaponry which, even if its use is considered immoral, is necessary as an effective deterrent against use of the same weapons by an aggressor that does not have the same moral scruples.

As the U.S. bishops' meeting opened in Washington Nov. 16 the 1981 edition of "World Military and Social Expenditures" was released in the same city.

It reported that military expenditures budgeted for 1981 around the world totalled $550 billion - the equivalent of the total annual income of the poorest half of the world's population.

About $100 billion of this, said the report's author, economist Ruth Leger Sivard, went toward increasing the world's nuclear stockpile.

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For the unborn Dear Editor: There are special occasions in the life of <the Spirit when reasonable persons realize that there are no human solutions to the problems facing them. Some evils can be conquered only by prayer and fasting. However, God expects His friends to do their work and aiterally bE,g Him to crush the profound eviJs caused by the blindness and malice of humans, inspired by the demon.

We feel that such a moment in history exists presently in our country and Western civilization.

It has to do witlh the trs.nsmission and acceptance of human life.

Many centuries ago St. Dominic fought against a simi:Iar movement created by tht~ Albigensians who vigorously taught that giving birth to babies was morally evil. The anti-forces today are far worse beCaU!le their main motive that we disl:ern is atheistic materialism.

Inspired Iby the Dominican ThireJ, Order Community of Coarsegold, CaHf., who have been working against tlhll abortion movement for many years, we feel that a solemn novena of prayer and penance commencing

Nov. 30 and concluding Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, will be an efficacious means to ask God's mercy to intervene in our country and save it from self-destruction.

We wou:Id ask you to pray the roslM'Y, fast and attend Mass for this intention, especially the defeat of the pro-abortion philosophy. We are confident that God wiU give new Hght and new inspiration for oW' aand and the global community.

Most Reverend Thomas J. Drury, Bishop of Corpus Christi; Most Reverend ,Lawrence P. Graves, Bishop of AlexandriaShreveport; Most. Reverend John L. Morkovsky, Bishop of Galveston~Houston; Most Reverend Lora J. Watters, Bishop of Winona, et al.

Christ the King Dear Editor: Time for us to wash our robes in the blood of ,the Lamb is limited and we have no idea just how :limited. Only God knows when He will take us ihome. It is therefore important that we, as transient wayfarers in this troubled world, take every opportunity offered to make effective use of those Godgiven channels of sanctifying grace, the sacraments, to truly wash our soiled robes in the blood of the Lamb, whHe there is still time.

For the greater glory of God, and .to provide an oppoJltunity to personally draw closer to Him, a program is planned for Sunday, the feast of Christ the King, at St. Mary's Ohurch, Fairhaven.

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Citing a Harvard University proval of his or her criminal beMaryknoI:! Father Thomas study which found that 80 perhavior together with a strong Payton, justice and peace coor- cent of the prisoners in U.S. willingness to accept that in- dinator for the National Federa- prisons are not dangerous to dividual's reintegration into so- tion of Priests' Councils (NFPC), society or to themselves, she ciety as a contributing member." disagrees. "There is a trend," he noted that the cost of keeping Most jails do not do this, said said, "toward having chaplains someone in prison at, for inFather Robert Schramm of De- paid by the federal or state stance, the Rahway, N.J., correctroit, .coordinator for ministry government. tional facility is $26,000 a year. to correctional institutions. Most "If you're an employee, your She said a mother of four, "a jails are "holding facilities, primary responsibility is for the lovely person," cheated on welcages for people who are poor security of the prison," Father fare to the amount of $8,000 and and can't afford to pay bond," Payton said. In some cases, as was sent to prison. "I don't apwith the exception of those being when prisoners tell a chaplain prove of cheating on welfare, held on first degree murder about a planned breakout, that but she had to give up her apartcharges, Father Schramm said. responsibility conflicts with the ment and her children. Why not "We see jail and prison minis- chaplain's obligation to keep con- say pay the money back with try as advocacy of those op- fidential what prisoners tell him, interest?" pressed by the prison system, the priest said.

Sister of Charity Dolores The NFPC's position, he said, Brinkel, director of the criminal who are generally black, generis that "no jail is a good jail; justice ministry in the Archdioally poor," he sa:id.

Sacred Heart of Mary Sister there have to be alternatives." cese of Kansas Cty, Kan., said Catholic prison ministry her main work has been involveClare Kelly, a member of the ment in the passage of the Kansas Community Corrections Act in 1978.

The act, she said, provides a state subsidy to countries wishing to develop community corrections programs. It allows judges to sentence offenders to work at a community agency under intensive supervision, to drug or alcohol treatment, or to make restitution.

Sister Brinkel said her office has also sponsored five seminars for the public at Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing. A total of between 300 and 400 people came into the prison for a day, talked to the prisoners and discussed with one another criminal justice issues related to their professions. "The seminars provided a great opportunity for citizens to see where their money was going and to be more realistic about what prison is."

Another project in which she is involved, Sister Brinkel said, is called "Seventy Times Seven," from the injunction given by Jesus in the Gospel to forgive others 70 times seven times, or without limit. The project offers parishes slide-tape show, a discussion paper on the theology of forgiveness, a model workshop and suggestions for worship, education and action on prison-related issues.

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In an age when womEm were in a markedly inferior relationship to men, often man::pulated and frequently brutalized, Francis exalted them and took them into partnership, as he did with Clare, the woman who helped him found the Poor Clares.

For Francis all of nature was one, and all of it was G'3d's. He insisted that, along with the flowers and the shrubs, E!Ven the weeds should be treated tenderly because they had a roll~ in preserving the balance of nature.

And when his brothers went to chop wood, he told them not to cut the whole tree, so that it could grow new shoots.

Because Francis' message has relevance for contemporary problems of environmental protection, Pope John Paul II in 1979 proclaimed Francis the patron of ecology and the current Franciscan year of celebration will be marked by the convlming of an international ecologkal congress.

Francis has often been referred to as a lover of nature, but in reality it was not nature, but loved. "Nature" would have been too conceptual for Francis. For him, love was always individfreed one day from a trap, the lambs that he ransomE:d when he met their master leadi:ng them to slaughter, the worm that he picked carefully off the path so that it would not be crushed.

Francis said that if he ever got the chance to speak. to the emperor, he would ask him to decree one thing: that o:n Christmas everyone should scatter grain and corn on the roads so that the birds eould have an extra share on that day. This, said Francis, would be done in honor of the God who showed what he thought of the aninlal kingdom by being born between an ox and a monkey.

This particularization of love marked Francis' way with human beings, too. He loved the leper, whom he hugged and gave money to ; the man suffering from the cold to whose :;houlders he transferred his own c:loak; the robbers to whom he gave his goods. Each was worthwhile, because each had been carefully crafted by God, according to Francis.

Francis called himself "an ignorant man and an idiot," and in a certain sense he was a sharp critic of education. He ordered the abolition of the Franciscan house of studies at Bologna in 1220, and he once gave

Friend of God and Brother of Creation away to a poor woman the only book in the religious community in which he lived, the New Testament.

But as church historian Robert ·Payne wrote: "If learning .meant knowing the songs of the peasants and loving them, Francis was learned; when he sang, with the soft, eager heavy voice, peasants stopped work and ran to listen."

Francis feared learning only for its danger of distracting the student from the knowledge that mattered most: the understanding of God and his love. In fact, his life has provided great sources of learning for others.

For instance, an international cultural congress met in Rome recently bringing together an international group of medieval scholars to discuss Francis of Assisi's influence on history, art and poetry.

For Francis poverty also was more than a concept. There were practical reasons for it. To begin with, this was· how Jesus lived. But Francis had other reasons, too.

When the bishop of Assisi said to him, "Your way of living without owning anything seems to me very hard and difficult," Francis answered, "If we possessed property, we should need arms to defend it."

Francis and his early followers settled in huts of clay and interwoven branches, and they worked for their meager food or begged for it. Never did they store food, but depended daily God and human generosity.

Poverty, for the little poor man, meant more than simply going without things for the sake of mortification. More important was the fact that it allowed him to share everything he had with others.

The lesson has carri~ through history. The mayor of Al!sisi announced recently that to celebrate the Franciscan jubilee properly, each Italian is being asked to give 1,000 lire (about a

dollar) and each town 100,000 lire (about $100) to support starving children in Asia and Africa.

Francis' approach to God also was through the tangible. The first person known to have built a Christmas crib, Francis did so because he wanted to see God in a graphic, tangible way. And when he was about to die, he stretched himself out on the bare earth in the pattern of a cross, because he wanted to die as his master did.

For Francis, the divine was never far away, always at one's fingertips. He wanted everyone else to know, too, that Jesus was more than a truth taught by family and tradition. Instead, Francis taught that the Lord was a friend to learn from and count on.

The romantic troubadour who sang his way across Italy had far from an idyllic life. He suffered the stigmata, the wounds of Christ, though he was reluctant to let others know. Near the end of his life his sight failed him almost totally. Before he died in the year 1226, he anguished over the direction of his religious communities which were becoming property-bound and striving after formal education.

But he never lost his sense of the nearness of Christ or of the reality of Christ's support.

Shortly before his death his words to those who saw value in his way of life were these: "I have done what I had to do; may Christ teach you your part."

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Dear Dr. Kenny: My 16-yearold son from my first marriage is still communicating with his natural father. To say the least, his natural father is immoral and non-religious.

He lives with women and openly talks about it to my son.

He makes fun of the church and has succeeded in talking my SOD out of his faith. My son does not go to church anymore and won't even discuss it with me.

He hero worships his father and wants to go live with him when he is 18.

I tried to set a good example all these years. I read the Bible to hlm every night, had rosary meetings in my home, went to Mass and Conununion every day, novenas, all-night vigils - all of which my son partlcipated In up until last year when his fatlwr got hold of him. How could he have lost his faith so fast?

How do I act in regard to all this? Do I remain a constant, loving mother, undlanged in my attitude toward him? Or' should I show my anger and disappointment and try to IlIiscourage him from falling away? (Fla.) It is not unusual for adolescents to question their religious practices. In' fact, adolescents

question almost everything about their family life. This seems to be part of growing up in our culture, a growing away from family toward independence.

You worry that your son has lost his faith. I doubt that. At worst he has lost his family patterns of prayer and Mass attendance. This may be temporary.

Faith is an adult mental attitude, a belil~f in Jesus Christ and God. Faith is a risk, a daring assent.

I find it difficult to imagine that children are sufficiently mentally mature to have "faith" in God. They are capable of obedience and good habits. They are capable of love. They can even parrot: the externals of a creed. But children and adolescents are not yet mentally ready to fashion a complete act of faith.

Don't judge your son entirely . by what you observe. The possibility that he will still develop a mature adult faith is not lost.

You are worried that your exhusband will lead your son astray morally or devotionally. If it does happen, I hope it is temporary. If it must, I hope it happens while the boy is still young. for then he is likely to return to your home when things go sour.

The alternative is to control him' so tightly that he cannot make mistakes, and then let him go when he reaches adulthood.

If he stumbles then, he will not find it easy to return to your counsel. Better that he err now than later.

Your son needs freedom in order eventually to develop an adult faith. Without such freedUln, faith is. not possibi~.only habit and obedience.

Your son has the right to: make his own choice about where to live. In a divorce the courts grantS young 'adolescents the right to choose their custodial parent at age 14. In two short years your son will legally be an adult.

So love your son. Continue to set a good example for him; Do not be angry with him if he chooses to visit or live with his father. .

Allow him to make important choices "about .his' life; Learning to make decisions is very important in growing up. At the same time, keep the prayers and home fire burning.

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ST.JULm,NO.DARTMOUTH

A Thanksgiving litu.rgy is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wed.nesday.

A four-session Advent program will take place the four Sundays of Advent. Registrations will be accepted fo,llowing all Masses this weekend..

Altar boy classes will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday Dec. 5 for boys in fourth grade and up.

ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE

In preparation for thE! parish centenary next June the church is being renovated. A nl~W roof and exterior painting have been completed and interior painting is soon to begin.

Also as part of the celt~bration a parish history booklE!t is in preparation. Those with pictures or other material regard:ing past events are asked to contact Father James Dalzell, pastor.

PSL, BOSTON

A Parental Stress Line for parents experiencing problems with children or with child abuse is a statewide counseling service offering a 24-hour "telephone lifeline to parents feeling desperate and alone." Its tollfree number is 1-800-632-8188.

D OF I, BOURNE

Mother Cabrini Circle, Daughters of Isabella, will hold installation ceremonies for new officers at 2 p.m. Sunday at Captain Barlow's restaurant, Monument Beach. State regent Mary Whitney and ·area regents and officers will be among ~:uests.

ST. FRANCIS XA VmR, HYANNIS

A Marriage EncountE!r community night will be held at 6:15 p.m. Saturday in the church hall.

All encountered couples are welcome.

Further information Manny and Sandy Amaral, 3947294.

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New CYO officers are, Debbie Gagnon ·and Mark Soares, copresidents; Daivd Ost'!, vicepresident; Wendy Amara.l, secretary; Daryl Rousseau, treasurer.

A ski trip is planned for .January.

New members are welcome.

ST. LOUIS, FR

"The Hiding Place," a film depicting the true story of Corrie ten Boom, a Nazi prisoner of war who became ·a world famous evangelist, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, in the church hall. No admission, all welcome.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR

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An ultreya palanca Mass will be held at 7 tonight at the home of Ray and Edna Morin.

A Youth Weekend will take place at Peacedale, R.I., beginning tomorrow.

The parish credit union annual meeting is set for 2 p.m.

Sunday in the school auditorium.

ST. MARY, NB

A ski weekend is planned Jan. 15 to 17. Information: Bob Kocor, 994-9147.

Parish children will participate in a 7 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve Mass.

A family renewal program will take place during Advent, beginning Monday, Nov. 30 through Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 7 o'clock each night, with a triduum presented by Father Robert Kaszynski. Wedding vows will be renewed at a 7 p.m. Mass Monday, Dec. 7. At the same time Monday Dec. 14, children will present a pageant and the program will conclude Monday, Dec. 21 with a penance service.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR

Sister Lucille Levasseur, SM SM will speak on the Billings nat~ral family planning method at 7 tonight in the Father Coady Center. It is emphasized that this ·is a more ,accurate technique than the rhythm method formerly in use.

Groceries for needy parishioners will be collected at a 7 p.m.

Thanksgiving Eve Mass.

ST. JOSEPH,

FAIRHAV~N

All parishioners are invited to join a clean-up group that will work on the parish hall from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29. Volunteers are asked to bring paint brushes, drop cloths and ladders.

The Couples' Club Christmas party is scheduled for Sunday, Dec.6.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER FAIRHAVEN

A schola is being formed and instrumentalists are sought for programs for Christmas and other special services. Those interested may contact the rectory or Anna Crebo, organist.

A children's choir will meet at 3:15 p.m. each Friday in the parish center.

First communion candidates will a~nd a special Mass at 7:10 p.m. tomorow in the church.

Christmas pageant rehearsals for first through third graders will be held at 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29,and Sunda.y, Dec. 6. The pageant will be held at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 13.

The Women's Guild will meet for Mass and a program on silk flower ararngements at 7 tonight.

DCCW, CAPE & ISLANDS

The District Council of Catholic Women will hold an open meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Holy Trinity church hall, West Harwich.

The Carmelite Sisters of South Dartmouth will benefit from foods brought to a Thanks- . giving Eve Mass scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday. Cider and doughnuts will be. served in the parish hall followmg the Mass.

HOLY NAME, FR

The Catholic Women's Club will meet in the church hall ·at 6 tonight for a potluck supper.

Entertainment by the Swansea Chorale will follow.

B.L. SACRAMENT ADORERS, FAIRIlt\.VEN

Father Larry Morrison, SS.CC. will celebrate Mass and speak at the AdQrers' monthly holy hour, to be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven.

As of Nov. 30, daily Masses will be celebrated at 8 and 9 a.m. Announced Masses scheduled for 7 a.m. will be offered at 8 a.m. unless otherwise advised.

The parish choir and brass chorale will be heard at Masses at 10:15 a.m. Sunday and 7 p.m.

Thanksgiving Eve. Food items are requested for the Thanksgiving Mass. They will be donated to the needy.

BL. SACRAMENT, FR

Groceries for the poor will be offered at a 6:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve Mass. Participants may also bring bread or pastry to the Mass to be blessed for home use on Thanksgiving.

The Women's Guild will hold a Christmas party Wednesday, Dec. 9..

The Bread of Life prayer group meets at 7:30 p.m. each Friday in the church.

SACREDBEA'RT, FoR

Confirmation candidates will participate in a petitioning service at 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

A children's Christmas program will be presented for family members and friends Sunday, Dec. 20.

Families are urged to join a special Christmas Choil1 ,as a group. The first rehearsal will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow ·at the rectory.

DEACONS, FR DIOCESE

The annual Bishop's Night will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the FamilY 'Life Center, North Dartmouth.

LA SALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO

Father Andre Patenaude, MS, will lead a healing service at 2 p.m. Sunday. Music ministry will be by Ms. Barbara Garneau and the service will include laying on of hands and team prayer for individuals. A schedule of future healin~ services is available from the shrine office, P.O. Box 538, Attleboro 02703.

ST.DONDNlC,SlVANSEA

New ·altar boys will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday in the church.

Holy Communion is being distributed to parish shut-ins by special ministers under direction of Deacon Eugene Orosz.

ADVENT SERmS, SOMERSET SWANSEA

Area parishes will .sponsor an Advent series of lectures by Father Paul Carrier, SJ, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, 9 and 16. They will be held at St. Dominic parish center, Swansea.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK

Parents will meet at 7 p.m.

Sunday for a discussion of youth, alcoholism and drugs,: led by Alice Healey and John Gendron.

Canned gods are requested !for a parish Mass of Thanksgiving at 11 :30 a.m. Sunday.

ST. RITA, MARION

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Young men and women between the ages of 19 ar,.d 35 are invited to participate in the Emmaus retreat program. Further information: Father Bmce Neylon, 679-6732.

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• • .Receiving Vs. gIVIng

By Father Philip J. Mumion

One S~nday I was celebrating Mass in the detoxification ward of the municipal shelter for men on the Bowery in New York City.

During the Mass I acknowledged how difficult detoxification was for the m~n and asked if they would offer their suffering that day as a prayer that my nephew, who was being baptized that day, might have a life of growth in wisdom and grace.

Then I asked them to let me know if they would do this. On the way out of the chapel each one stopped and solemnly promised me the gift of this prayer.

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By Lenore Kelly

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I was deeply struck by these men who, at a time when it might seem they could do nothing for anyone else, were so willing to tum their distress into a gift for an unknown child.

What was true for the men of the Bowery is as true for everyone. There is no one who cannot give - not even those who have profound needs of their own. We all have abilities but they are not always recognized by others or by ourselves.

St. Vincent de Paul had something to say about this. He once observed, "The poor will never Tum to page thirteen ~'.' ;

Communicating truth

By Father John Castelot What impression would an injudicious display of the spiritual gift of speaking in tongues make on non- Christians who might attend a liturgical gathering?

In speaking about this, St. Paul can hardly suppress his annoyance and impatience. In Chapter 14 of the First Letter to the Corinthians, he admonishes the people: "Brothers, do not be childish in your outlook. Be like children as far as evil is concerned, but in mind be mature."

In other words, Paul is saying, "For crying out loud, grow up!"

The following quotation from Isaiah is used by Paul as a thinly disguised threat: "In strange tongues and in alien speech I will speak to this people, and even so they' will not need me, says the Lord."

The Israelites had refused to listen to the clear message of the prophet. All right, the prophet continues, if that is the way they want it, God will send invaders who will scream at them in a foreign tongue.

This allusion puts speaking in tongues in a bad light. It also serves as a transition to Paul's main argument.

"The gift of tongues is a sign, not for those who believe but for those who do not believe, while prophecy is not for those who are without faith but for those who have faith."

The transition here is not completely logical, for Paul will go on to ihsist that the gift of tongues is anything but a gift for unbelievers. But before he

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develops that line of thought, he points out how those who do not believe and who do not have a true understanding of the spiritual gifts, cannot appreciate the gift of tongues in its proper perspective: as a sign.

They misuse the gift and for them it becomes not a sign but a toy, a gimmick.

Now that Paul has relieved his annoyance, he gets down to his real concern: the impression made on an interested nonChristian attending a Christian liturgy. Suppose several of the faithful get up at once and start trying to outshout each other in foreign languages.

What is the visitor to think?

He or she will be sure that the house of the Lord is a madhouse.

The bizarre antics will seem like the shrieking of self-deluded ecstatics in the pagan mystery rites.

When this happens, according to Paul, the value of the gift as a sign will be lost. It will be a sign pointing to the nearest exit.

Christians have a mission to communicate the truth to non· believers. Paul says this mission is effected much more positively through the gift of prophecy, by virtue of which an intelligible message is communicated in an inspring and moving way.

This kind of message touches . people's minds and hearts and wills impressing on them that they are in vital contact with the at. ~ive presence of God. When non-Christians hear this, Paul says, they will exclaim in wonder, "God is truly among you."

And instead of running for the exists, they will worship God.

Half-empty or half-fuJI?

Half-empty or half-full?

By Theodore Hengesbach Have you seer.. the TV announcement which shows a glass of water? A voice asks, "Do you think this glass is half-full or half-empty? If you answered half full, the Peace Corps may be for you!"

The message is clear and unforgettable.. The Peace Corps wants a volunteer with a positive attitude - or.e who focuses on what a situation. has going for it, not on what may be lacking. In other words, the volunteer's work is to build on the good that already exists.

What is true for the Peace Corps volunteer is true for the rest of us. Probably most of us have received and given negative criticism. Probably most of us have also received and given

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a pat on the back. One can leave us discouraged, while the other is delightful and can spur us on.

An especially poignant example comes to mind. Several years ago, my daughter, Heidi, came home from 1st grade clutching her language arts workbook. On the cover in bold red characters had been written: "13 wrong."

My daughter was clearly ashamed of her workbook and was not too anxious to have us see it. As it turned out, the workbook contained well over 500 separate items to test skills and comprehension. Thus, instead of "13 wrong," she had "487 right."

I would have been proud to have carried home a workbook with "487 right" scrawled on the cover. We explained this to her but she remained unconvinced. In her mind, she had failed. What could have been a positive, joyful supportive experience was rather a time of frustration and shame.

In this situation, a change of perspective on the part of the teacher would have had beneficial results.

Happiness in life and progress toward personal and career objectives are dependent, it seems to me, on identifying the positive elements of one's life situation and building on them. In addition, most of us appreciate and need the support of others.

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"Reach Out" is the motto of St. Agnes Parish on Milwaukee's north side. The words are seen everywhere - on T-shirts, jackets, posters - and indicate the active involvement of parishioners in their neighborhood.

At St. Agnes, where about half the parishioners are black arid half elderly whites, issues of justice are high priorities. The parish is actively involved in Northside Neighborhoods Together, a community organization that focuses on self-help.

Father John Kern, co-pastor and a board member, said the group recently organized a basketball benefit game to raise funds for a program to promote street safety in the area. The action followed the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old neighborhood boy.

Over a five-year period, 100 St. Agnes families have prepared, served and enjoyed a monthly dinner with 400 needy people at St. Benedict's, an innercity parish.

A senior-citizen couple, Joe and Ruth Hart, volunteer three mornings a week in the parochial school tutoring second and third graders.

In 1970 parishioners decided to make the parochial school a focal point for "helping children break the cycle of poverty."

Accordingly, doors .were opened to non-Catholics, providing them with quality education and religious values.

Today, 86 percent of the mostly black student body of 385 is non-Catholic, enrollment has stabilized and most children read' well above their grade level. In addition, St. Agnes has opened a day-care center and an afterschool supervision program for children of working parents.

Many elderly people in the parish have picked up on the Tum to Page Thirteen

For children

By Janaan Manternach

Jesus was talking to a crowd of people on the mountainside.

The crowd grew as he talked.

"You know the commandment," Jesus said. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

Heads nodded. Everyone knew that 'ancient law. It had a positive purpose. If a person was slightly injured in a fight, that person was not to kill the attacker. Such problems needed to be solved in a just way.

But Jesus said: "What I say to you is this. Offer no resistance to injury. When a person strikes you on the right cheek, turn and offer him the other. If anyone wants to sue you in court for your shirt, give him your coat as well. Give to the man who begs from you. Do not turn your back on the borrower."

These words puzzled the people. "What can the teacher mean?" they whispered. "If someone hits us. we are not to Tum to Page Thirteen

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• • Receivilng vs. gIvmg Continued from page twelve forgive you the good you do them, unless it is done with love."

Do we treat the poor with love if we look upon them simply as people with needs? Perhaps they need more than therapy, more than mere alleviation of needs.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta often speaks this way. Whim she received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1979, she told her distinguished audience: "The poor people are very greslt people. They can teach us so many beautiful things . . . Thl! poor are very wonderful people." The poor, she added, hungllr for love.

People are poor in innumerable ways. It may be ths.t they lack education or expertise for a given job. They may be spiritually poor or disconsolate. They may be without friends or lack someone to care for them in sickness.

The parish is a people who minister to one another's needs.

It is a place to which pe(lple in need can tum.

It can also encourage those who are in need to give to others and to experience the opportunity to exercise as well as receive charity.

Senior citizen programs, for instance, can provide opportunities both for the aged to be served and to serve others.

Many older persons feel their abilities are still respected when

For children Continued from page twelve strike back? This is a strange teaching. Who could live that way?"

Jesus saw their looks and overheard some of their comments. But instead of softening his words, Jesus set down a still greater challenge.

"You have heard tht! commandment 'You shall love your countryman but hate your enemy,''' he went on.

The crowd had heard of that too. No commandment actually said you should hate your enemy but many took it for granted that you would hate tho,se who hated you.

Jesus continued: "M:, command to you is: Love your enemies, pray for your persecutors."

"Love the Romans who tax us?" people in the crowd grumbled. "Are we to love the Samaritans who attack our religion?

How can we love those who hate us and hurt us?" they asked.

Jesus did not soften his command. He told the crowd: "This will show that you are sons and daughters of your heavenly Father. For his sun rises on the bad and the good. He sends rain down on the just and unjust. If you love those who love you, what merit is there in that? Do not tax collectors do as much?

"And if you greet your brothers only, what is so praiseworthy about that? Do not pagans do as mucp? In a word; y':>u must be made perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," Jesus stated.

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they can serve as eucharistic ministers in pursing homes or call shut-ins as part of a telephone· reassurance program.

So aiso with young people. It seems that the most successful youth programs are those demanding service to others. Youth ministry is often by as well as to youth.

There is a terrible tendency in our society to tum citizens into "clients," to make capable people feel that they must depend on professionals for all they need. Sometimes this danger exists in the church too. A way of avoiding it is to make sure that people are given the opportunity both to contribute to and to benefit from the services of the Christian community.

Half-empty?

Continued from page twelve This is the underlying philosophy of a small-group discussion program called Human Potential Seminars, developed by educator James McHolland.

"We use only about 10 percent of our growth potential," he claims. An important reason for this, he thinks, is that people often have a negative perspective. They are not encouraged to do more because they are afraid they will fail.

To counteract this, the human potential seminar assists a person in identifying his or her successes, satisfacti~ns and accomplishments. The seminars also aid people to become more conscious of personal strengths and abilities and to identify values and motives for action.

According to McHolland, a person can then set goals, attempting to realize similar and even better that a positive sense of self breeds success.

It seems to me that this approach is a pleasant and effective strategy for life on the Peace Corps model, I prefer to see life as at least "half-full." Only then can the sometimes necessary negative criticism, given in mercifully small and infrequent doses, be endured and turned to positive effect.

'Reach out' Continued from page twelve parish motto of reaching out.

Herman Stolper, 78, a parishioner for 32 years, heads the senior citizen group and as a parish council member, often chauffeurs for Crossroads Interfaith Program which provides service to the aged and shut-ins.

Stolper is one of 25 volunteers serving lunch each day to 100 elderly people in a section of the school cafeteria, at the same time pupils are having lunch.

The older people often settle arguments among children and, on special occasions the youngsters make table decorations.

Each year this pa,rish of 350 families holds an appreciation night for the' 200 workers in parish· programs. Council chairman Charles Davis explains the philosophy succinctly: "We are to b!! servants to others."

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At the annual meeting in Milwaukee of the National Catholic Vocation Council Father Elizondo said that today minorities do not find seminary studies to be their biggest difficulty. "We've never asked for watered down standards for minorities," he said.

"The poor deserve the best. But we must re-examine the ways we prepare people. Many of our minorities who have entered convents and seminaries have found them too high class, too rich."

He urged the vocation personnel to live among minorities.

"Go out to the poor to learn from them," he said.

"Celebrate their feasts. Sing their songs. Know their aunts and uncles, their relatives. Minorities are not hateful. They want you around.

"Die a little. Open the doors of your convents and seminaries - not only to invite us in, to invite yourselves out," he said.

How to blend with faith and different cultures was "the most burning question the early church had to face if it was going to go beyond the bounds of Judaic Christianity," Father Elizondo said. After the Second Vatican Council Catholics realized that Catholicism did not have to be European, he continued.

Hispanic families often do not want their sons or daughters to enter convents or seminaries because they are afraid they will lose them, Father Elizondo said.

"They enter a convent or seminary. Then when they come home they become ashamed of who they are."

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THE ANCHORThurs., Nov. 19, 1981

The Christ

By Cecllia Belanger As one watches films of the hungry, Ute persecuted, the weary and the heavy laden of the world one thinks of the Christ and his sympathy for each child of humanity with whom he came in contact.

"I am come a light into the world." And such a light! Across the centuries it has gladdened the midnight gloom of many a soul.

Though - authors write books and books about our Savior they will be unable to convey his real spirit. Only attempts can be made. So now and then one makes an - attempt to bring Christ closer to those who hunger for him and wish to meet him.

Religion is. still a problem for many of our youth. Some have broken away from traditional theology. Still others remain with the frailest of threads. But this is not because they do not wish to believe. It is the "what" that troubles them. Their early religious training has often been deficient and incredible.

Jesus, however, fascinates our youth as no other. To sincere seekers after truth one can still say, "Read the New Testament.

Read Jesus' words for yourself and think about them."

Sometimes a column can turn into a confessional. One is the recipient of letters from writers willing to open their hearts to strangers in a way they could not to their friends and family.

And they do so with amazing frankness. To answer them to the best of one's knowledge and experience is why we're here.

Christ and his teachings, as they apply to one's own life, are of primary concern to many youth. Often their outpourings are passionate and always they are sincere.

Christ insisted His words were life and spirit and were not to be taken in their narrow literalism; and it is thus we must communicate them to our youth.

When Jesus speaks, it is our heart that is profoundly moved.

It was Pascal who said, "The heart has its reasons which reason does not know."

I belive that deep within youth there is an inextinguishable faith in Christ. We owe youth gratitude for their spirit of inquiry because through it they often bring us all closer to our Lord and Savior.

OCUI on youth

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By Tom Lennon Q. S~路 of my buddies got into an x-rated movie downtown. I would like to go to one of these pornographic movies just to cheek it out. Do you think that would be OK? A. First of all, better not say you want to go to a pornographic flick "just to check it out." That's an evasion of the truth, a lie you are telling yourself.

About your main question: A man who is a good friend of young people and has talked to a lot of them, Father James DiGiacomo, thinks it would be well to bring back the old idea of "an occasion of sin."

Your grandparents and perhaps your parents would know that this phrase refers to any person, place or thing that is likely to lead you to commit a sin and so go against God's plan for your happiness.

One example: If a man with a very serious drinking problem deliberately goes into a bar and has a drink, he is likely putting himself in an occasion of sin.

A sleazy x-rated movie, a real

hard-core pornographic film, is intended by its producers to arouse strong sexual desires.

With great expectations enkindled by such a movie, a young person is likely to end up either totally frustrated and unhappy or may seek to fulfill her or his desire in some sinful w~y.

FOr a young person with a normal sexual appetite, attendance at such a mDvie seems very likely to be an occasion of sin.

So, in the words of Father DiGiaCOmo, "What's wrong with just saying avoid the occasion of sin?"

Porno movies can have a devastating effect on a person. Recently Mother '::"eresa of Calcutta said the greatest danger for American youth is sexual impurity.

Freewheeling sex, whether it involves a pornographic film or hopping into bed at the end of a first date, is dangerous because it is founded on and fosters selfishness. And selfishness is at the heart of unhappiness.

Happiness, however, is what God urgently desires for us. He wants "sexual relationships to be a source of great joy that will

By Charlie Martin

ENDLESS LOVE My love there's only you in my life The only thing that's right My first love you're every breath that I take You're ev'ry step I make And I, I want to share all my "love with you No one else will do Your eyes tell me how much you care Oh yes, you will always be my endless love.

Two hearts, two hearts that beat as one Our lives have just begun Forever I hold you close in my arms I can't resist your charms And love I'd be a fool for you I'm sure you know I don't mind 'Cause you, you mean the world to me I know, I know I found in you my endless love.

Oh and I, I want to share all my love with you No one else will do And yes you'h be the only one Oh no I can't deny this love I have inside And I'll give it all to you my love My endless love.

Sung by Diana Ross and J,.ionel Richie, Written by Lionel Richie,

"Why do you come to see my sister all the time? Don't ypu have .one of your own~"

(e) 1981 by PGP Music and Brockman Musie, rights administered "路by Intersong Music

enrich the lives of men and women. Such relationships can be genuinely joyful only within the context of strong and dedicated marital love.

You also might be interested to hear that many people find that such films are usually devoid of love.

The sexual intercourse depicted in them is often grossly animalistic, an exclusively physical act in which two people use each other for their own selfish pleasure.

Such selfishness doesn't lead to lasting happiness.

Interdependence WASHINGTON (NC) A United Nations conference on economic assistance to the world's poerest countries is an opportunity to develop "moral interdependence" among nations, according to the president of the U.S. Catholic Conference, John R. Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis.

The archbishop noted that the long-term goal of the two-week meeting in Paris is to transform the economies of the poor nations.

"ENDLESS LOVE" speaks of intense closeness, so much that the one loved becomes "ev'ry breath that :: take," "ev'ry step I make."

Such ideas are common in today's romantic music. But what do readers say about love's intensity?

A young man in Kalamazoo wrote: "In my first year at路 Michigan State, I met a young woman. We became so close that we spent nearly all our time together. Grades fell, relationships with friends became strained, and we went through many breakups and reconciliations.

Yet I learned that we need to know when it is good to be close and when it is good to leave the other alone."

From Pennsylvania: "we must cultivate space and distance along with our drive for intimacy. When we enter into a rhythm between closeness and space, we discover the perspective that allows intimacy to grow."

A 16-year-old reader from Rolla, Mo., noted how much time it takes to form a love commitment. "Lovers must take the space and time to accept each other the way they are.""

How is endless love best achieved? What do you think?

Readers may write Charlie Martin at 4705 Blvd. PI., Indianapolis, Indo ,16208.

Youth needs pinpointed MILWAUKEE (NC) - Church ministry to youths is improving, but more efforts are needed, according to young people interviewed at the national Catholic Youth Organization (eYO) convention.

The CYO convention in Milwaukee drew more than 2,000 young people from throughout the country. Its theme was "Youth: A Rainbow of Hope."

Though the church has "adopted youth ministry as policy," said Dan Hefter, 18, of Milwaukee, "they're still not hitting the unchurched youth. There should be more ministry to people on drugs, to people who have had abortions."

Hefter, a member of the CYO national board of directors, said the church worries too much about money and not enough about people.

Many young people think the church is old-fashioned, he said.

He cited a recent Mass where he was looking forward to a good homily and instead heard a long financial report. "I felt like screaming," he said.

Many priests are not interested in young people and at Mass direct their homilies to the children or adults, said Cindy Mott, 18 of Brillion, Wis. "They should be interested in youth. We're the church of tomorrow."

Many young people think church is boring, said Lori Robinson, 16, of Racine, Wis. The parish should sponsor more "church-related events for young people" rather than just emphasizing Mass attendance, she thinks.

The church is ministering well to those between 13 and 18, said Franchiell Spencer, 23, of Kansas City, Kan., but those between 22 and 30 are not involved in her predominantly black parish.

Among convention speakers was Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House, a shelter for runaway teen-agers in New York City's lower east side and Under 21, a 24-hour crisis center.

The centers provide shelter, food, clothing, social and medical services to 12,000 to 15,000 teen-agers yearly. Last year they sent 2,000 runaways home, according to Father Ritter.

"Have compassion for my kids," Father Ritter pleaded.

Coyle-Cassidy An arts festival will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Taunton high school. On the program will be the C-C band, folk group, dancers and two one-act plays produced by the Drama Club.

Also to be seen is Paul Dion, offering "Mime in Concert."

"Latin Club officers are Ted Figlock and Walter Precourt, consuls; Ann Zopatti, vice-president; Michael Wilson, secretary; Betsy Denault, treasurer.

Highest C-C scorers in a recent New England Math League contest were Donna Brezinski, Toni Jane Silveira and Scott Lazarz. Team score was 13.

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By Bill Morrissette

portswQtch Spartanettes In Hockey Final Bishop Stang and Wareham High Schools posted victories last Saturday in the semifinals of the Eastern Massachusett:; South Sectional field hockey tournament.

Lisa Demakis scored the winning goal on an assist from Mary Beth Bruce in the second overtime period of the Spartanettes game against Walpole.

Wareham, sparked by Lisa Spinola, who scored two goals defeated Hingham, 3-1, in the

other semi-final.

Stang's gridders did not fare as well, however, dropping a 30-18 decision to Case in a Southeastern Mass. Conference Division Two encounter. In another Division Three game the Bishop Feehan Shamrocks routed the Seekonk Warriors, 21-0, and, in still another Division Three game the Bourne Canalmen pinned a 27-12 defeat on" the Coyle..cassidy Warriors.

"'Traditionals" Thanksgiving Day brings on the high school football "tradi· tionals."

Among rivalries attracting the most attention is the ICing-running series between New Bedford's Crimson and Fall River's Durfee Hilltoppers. This year the game is set for Durfee's Malcolm Aldrich Field. Dating back to 1893, this rivalry is the seventh oldest in the state.

Both teams are in Division One - the so-called Super Divission of the Conferencc! - in which New Bedford finished runnerup to Taunton and Durfee finished in fourth place in the four-team division. New Bedford has dominated the series.

Another intense rivalry will be on display as the Somerset High Blue Raiders meet the

Case High Cardinals in a series that began in 1930. Somerset, the Conference's Division Two titlist, will put its 9-0-0 record on the line and will be aiming for another Super Bowl invitation.

On the Cape, interest will be centered on the Wareham at Bourne game. Wareh~m, 7-0-0, is setting the pace in Division Three. Bourne is the runnerup with a 6-0-1 slate. Wareham's Vikings can win the division crown with a win or a tie.

Other conference games Thanksgiving Day: New Bedford Voke-Tech at Dennis-Yarmouth, Dartmouth at Fairhaven, Barnstable at Falmouth in Division Two, Seekonk at Dighton-Rehoboth in Division Three. In a nonleague game Old Rochester is host to Old Colony. As usual all holiday games are at 10 a.m.

Parochialsi In Hoop Shoot Tourney The 10th annual Elks Hoop Shoot Foul Shooting Competition is now underway with finals for the Fall River area set for Dec. 21 in the LukE! Urban Field House at Durfee High School.

Fall River parochill.l schools are assigned to the following divisions for the preI.iminary rounds: North - Holy N;ame, St. Michael, St. Vincent. South Dominican Academy, St. Jean Baptiste, SS. Peter and Paul.

East - Espirito Santo, Mount St. Joseph, Notre Dame. WestSainte Anne, St. Stanislaus.

Further details are a.vailable from Abe White, telephone 6727070 or Donald F. MontJ.e, director of Health and ·Physic:al Education in Fall River public

schools. White is Youth Activities Chairman for the Fall River Elks as well as director of the hoop tournament. Montle will assist White.

Pace-setting Fall River South, scoring two goals in the last two minutes of the game, defeated Marion, 5-3, and defending champion New Bedford blanked Seekonk 6-0 in Bristol County CYO Hockey League play. Next Sunday night's games in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, starting at nine o'clock pit Seekonk against Somerset and New Bedford against Marion. Fall River South is now 5-1-1 (won, lost, tied), New Bedford 4-2-0, Seekonk 34-0, Somerset 2-4-0, Marion 1-5-1.

Fall River Basketball The Fall River Area eyO has begun its season at Anawan Street hall, Fall River, Fahetr Bruce M. Neylon, area director, announced that 68 teams will take to the court this year, 12 more teams than last year with additional teams in every division.

TherE! are 25 junior te:ams, 12 prep teams and 19 senior teams competipg in the bo~,s' and young men's division.

The jl,mior girls' division is beginning its fourth seaslon with

12 teams plus an additional four teams from last year's program.

For the third year in a row, the Holy Name Junior and prep teams will try to retain their diocesan championship titles under coaches Jeffrey Medeiros and Manuel "Sonny" Rapoza.

Father Neylon estimates that some 700 children and young adults will be participating in this year's Fall River area CYO basketball season. Games will be played seven days a week at the Anawan Street hall.

tv, mOVIe news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation!: C-condemned.

New Films "Caligula" (penthouse): This somewhat altered R-rated version of the X-rated original is just about what you'd expect, a dreary, exploitative movie awash with sex and violence, which brings no 'insight to the figure of the historical Caligula. C, R "Time Bandits" (Avco Embassy): This latest Monte Python romp features a gang of greedy but essentially good-hearted . dwarfs who have stolen a map of creation from the Supreme Being and, with an adventurous boy, scamper down its structural flaws to land themselves in a variety of historical epochs. A sometimes amusing and always intelligent movie, "Time Bandits" seems, however, to be unsure where it's going. Much of it could appeal to youngsters, but then some typical Python black humor intervenes. Because of the latter, involving Violence, it has been classified A3, PG. Films on TV Sunday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m. (CBS) -"Mary Poppins" (1965)-Julie Andrews plays the governess with aU sorts of tricks up her sleeve in this television premiere of the much-loved Disney classic.

Al Sunday, Nov. 22, 9 p.m. (ABC) - "Moonraker" (1979) - James Bond {Roger Moore) saves the world from a deadly shower from outer space. The usual Bond fare with the usual stylized sex and violence. A3,PG Wednesday, Nov. 25, 8 p.m.

(CBS) - "The Muppet Movie" (1979) - Jim Henson's Muppets make their movie debut. Delightful and highly recommended.

AI, G Religious Broadcasting Sunday, Nov. 22, WLNE, Channel 6, 10:30 a.m, Diocesan Television Mass. ."Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan directpr of social services, Rev. Dr. Paul Gillespie, of the Rhode Is~and State Council of Churches; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. This week's topic: Tanksgiving.

Sunday, Nov. 22, (ABC) "Directions": an interview with Dr. Morris Abrams, who heads the President's Committee for the Study of Medical Ethics.

Sunday, Nov. 22, (CBS) "For Our Times" reports on the search

for peace and justice of the Mennonite Church and examines church efforts to train its youths in. !luclear responsibility.

On Radio Sunday, Nov. 22 (NBC) "Guideline" - Jesuit Father Thurston Davis of America magazine discusses Catholic political 'leadership with Marist Father Joseph 'Fenton on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of President John Kennedy's assassination.

Commitment SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (NC) - A renewed commitment to Catholic schools is spreading throughout the world, according to Cardinal William Baum, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education.

"Parents everywhere," Cardinal Baum said in an interview, "are eager for an education in . which their own values, their convictions, the faith in Jesus Christ, their love of the church are accepted, integrated with the rest of education."

Universally, the cardinal sees a desire among parents for the kind of education Catholic schools provide. "I see this as very encouraging and as a deepening commitment of the part of the Catholic laity," he said.'

Though the future of Catholic education seems bright, Cardinal Baum said, it is not without problems. "In many parts of the world the Catholic Church and other churches simply are not granted the freedom to maintain their own schools."

The economy in many parts of the world also poses a problem for Catholic schools. "Economic problems of this sort are certainly universal. But this has always been true. This kind of education has always suffered a bit because of a lack of resources."

But, he added, "at the same time the struggle is probably healthy," noting that "we appreciate those things for which we struggle."

On ecumenism, Cardinal Baum said "the future is good." The ecumenical movement has made much progress compared to the situation 20 years ago.

"Christians today not only acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but they acknowledge one another as sharing that faith," he said.

The United States is blessed by a good ratio of vocations to its population, said Cardinal Baum, the highest ranking American at the Vatican. He added that the international vocation picture, viewed as a whole is encouraging.

The cardinal, describing the problems in vocations in the Western world, said young people in the west have trouble making personal commitments because theological speculations cause confusion among the young.

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