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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1978
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The Hidden Power ofPrayer By Father John B. Healey
FATHER HARRINGTON
In ~YC Ministry To Hispanics Father Kevin J. Harrington, chaplain to the Hispanic community of the Attleboro deanery, is attending a summer institute for workers in the Spanish apostolate sponsored by the Northeast Pastoral Center for Hispanics. He is spending the summer in New York City gaining increased conversational proficiency in Spanish and ministering to Hispanics in a large Bronx parish. In mid-August Father Harrington will return to Attleboro, where his headquarters are at St. Joseph's rectory. There are at present some 12,000 Hispanics in the Fall River diocese, served by Father Charles Soto, OFM in New Bedford and by Father James E. Murphy in Taunton as well as by Father Harrington.
Recently I thought up a sure-fire plan that could radically change for the better our general spiritual condition in, say, two or three years. It could be called a hidden power strate· gy because, at least in its beginnings, it requires a measure of simple trust and faith. It is, in fact, a deceptive approach because it is so very simple, direct and easy (in a sense) to put into practice. It is not really new in Chritian history. Actually, over the centuries those who have tried it and stayed with it maintain that it is guaranteed to succeed. It is the kind of thing that can be readily underestimated, downplayed, looked askance at( or considered too simplistic for serious application. Anyway, here it is. 1) Before every parish council meeting in every parish,- aU present will spend one hour (not a minute less) in praising Jesus Christ together, reading Scripture aloud to one another, listen. ing attentively to one another's expressions of faith, gratitude and petition to God, observing periods of silence and meditation, singing joyous songs together, etc. etc. It is most important that there be no prepared "agenda" or discussion during this entire hour. 2) The priests in every rectory will do the same together with
those on their pastoral team at least twice a week; 3) Religious will do the same at least twice a week; 4) Every grade in Catholic schools will do the same (for at least a half.hour) at the start of every school day; 5) The Diocesan Pastoral Council and Priests', Sisters' and Brothers' Senates will do the same for an hour before every general meeting and before every executive committee meeting. 6) Every major diocesan meet-. ing (for whatever purpose) will do the same. Well, there it is. The nature and source of this "hidden power" is, of course, mentioned widely in the New Testament. The usual word for it is "Spirit," sometimes Holy Spirit, a.k.a. Paraclete. This power always manifests itself in the set-up described in No. 1 above since Jesus Christ promised this would happen (cf. Matt: 18:1920).
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The immediate effects of this hidden power are described in the New Testament in various ways some of which are unity, peace, joy and love. Some long· range effects of this power, described again in the New Testament and borne out continuously by those who have adhered to this play, are: 1) A growing sense of belonging with other believers that is sometimes called Mystical Body or church or community. It becomes clear that there is some forceful inner dynamic at work fashioning love and unity among those who bring such great personal and spiritual differences to the operation. (It is really the Spirit again, creating from within what can never be imposed from without.) 2) A deeper personal relationship to Jesus Christ. Since every personal relationship is different from every other one, we cannot generalize about this. Many say that He becomes more a reality in their lives, more approachable, more human, less fearsome. They say thoughts and feelings about Him occur at the strangest· times and in the most surprising circumstances. This, they say, puts one's whole approach to the Eucharist on a deeper, more satisfying level, especially when celebrated with other believers. Once this hidden power Tum to Page Three
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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has increased the prestige and status of the Holy See's top representative to the United Nations by making him an archbishop. The Vatican announced last week that Msgr. Giovanni Chell, 59, the Holy See's permanent observer at UN headquarters since 1973, has been named archbishop - the rank given to papal nuncios (ambassadors). It also announced that archbishop Jean Ruff, nuncio to Iraq and Kuwait, will become the Vatican permanent observer at UN offices in Geneva, Switzerland. The Geneva Post was previously held by Vatican diplomats with the rank of monsignor. The changes clearly indicate that Pope Paul wants to enhance Tum to Page Seven
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Cath· olic schools should pay recently imposed unemployment compen· sation taxes "under protest" pending further study of the issues involved according to a memo from the U.S. Catholic Conference's legal counsel. The advice came from USCC General Counsel George Reed in memos to Catholic diocesan attorneys, state Catholic Conference directors and superiors of religious orders which run Catholic schools. But Reed contended that the Labor Department's ruling that the taxes apply to Catholic schools resulted from faulty interpretation of federal law. The Labor Department opinion holds that 1976 amendments to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act require Catholic elementary and secondary school employees to participate in state unTum to Page Seven
WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference has asked the Supreme Court to reverse its 1973 abortion decisions and to restore constitutional protection to the unborn. "Let us wipe the slate clean and start anew," the usee said. The USCC made its comments in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in Beal V. Franklin, a case involving an appeal against a Pennsylvania law which requires doctors who perform abortions to do all they can to save the life of a viable fetus. The court will hear oral arguments on the case in its fan team. The brief was prepared by George Reed, usee general counsel, and Patrick Geary, usec assistant general counsel. The usec has been denied permission to offer an oral argument in the case. The USCC said the court Tum to Page Seven
POOLSIDE at the William P. Sweeney home in Falmouth are children from St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, enjoying their third annual outing sponsored by the Falmouth Department of Public Works. The splash party was followed by a barbecue and the children were also presented with rosaries by the Falmouth Knights of Columbus.
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Farm Strike
NEW YORK - Two American nuns representing the Notional Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry assailed Soviet curbs on human rights, calling on the U.S. government to consider closing 37 ports and boycotting the 1980 Olympics as a way of reacting "measure for measure." Sisters Am Gillen and Gloria Coleman recently returned from a twoweek trip to five Soviet cities.
DENVER - Whatever happened to the farm strike? It is merely lying low and concentrating on political activity, according to Father Andrew Gottschalk, rural life director in the archdiocese of Denver, who predicted that "they'll wind up their tractors again" if prices are still depressed next fall.
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ARCHBISHOP JOHN QUINN, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, is recovering satisfactorily from removal of his gall bladder earlier this month.
SALISBURY, Rho:lesia - The mass slaying June 23 of 11 English Pentecostal missionaries and c:hildren in Rhodesia nas brought the c:onfirmed missionary death toll during th~ five-year ~uerrilla war to 33. Bodies of missionaries and their families who ~ taffed Elim Mission Emmanuel near Umtali were found clubbed, axed or stabbed to death.
Nestle Accused NEW YORK-Menbers of the National Catholic Coalition for Responsible Investment have accused be Nestle Co. of providing "misleading s'ld inaccurate" information in a mailing f 0 Catholic educa.tors on the contoversy over the company's infant formula used in Third World countries. "Nestle is responsible for mass sale and promotion of baby formula in :;>oor countries to women who do not have access to sufficient financial resources or adequate sanitary c:onditions to safely use an artificial milk powder," the Catholic group said.
McEvoy Program
FRANCISCAN BROTHER Seb,astion Tobin has business afoot, crafting handmade sandals in his New York City workroom for his 900-member community.
NEW YORK - Gov. Hugh Carey said after attending the funeral Mass of 16year-old Hugh McEvoy, a semina.rian who was shot point blank by a teenager early this month, that he would work with the father to create a "Hugh McEv,oy Crime ,Prevention Program" financed by state lottery funds. The victim's father, Leo, is a parole officer with the state Narcotics Commission.
Notl' Responsible SANTIAGO, Chil~ The military junta has denied re~ponsibility for missing persons, disappointing relatives who ended a hunger strike in June after government officials premised church mediators a case-by-<:ase .~eport.
Peace Appeals VATICAN CITY -- Pope 'Paul VI and the Rev. Philip A. Potter of the World Council of Churches are among Christian leaders who ar,pealed for peace as a new wave of warfare swept Lebanon. Maronite-Rite Patri<rch Antoine Khoraiche of Antioch also issued a peace plea after Syrian troops in Lebanon began a large-scale crackdovm on Christian military forces in July.
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HOLY GHOST FATHER Corneliws Van der Poel, family life director for the Detroit archdiocese, says an "~nnulment attitude" towards marripge has entered the Catholic com~unity.
tBOSTON Abortion activist B~II Baird of Boston has asked a federal judge to strike down a Massachusetts law banning taxpa;re:r-funded abortions recently enacted over the governor's veto. A spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union also said his organization plans to fight the restrictions against ~bortion fbancing. Baird, who has long been involved in abortion clinics and counseling, has asked the District Judge Andre\\ A. Caffrey for an injunction against enforcement of the law.
HumanDtas Prizes LOS ANGELES The writers of "Special Olympics" and episodes of "Family" and "All 'In The Family" have received the 1978 Humanitas prizes to talling $50,000 for "humanizing achievements in television." The awards were presented July 10 during ceremonies in Los Angeles by the Human Family Institute.
Won't Do Abortions VATICAN CITY - Most obstetricians and gyenecologists in Italy have officially declared that they will not perform abortions. A new Italian abortion law, which went into effect June 6, gave doctors and medical personnel one month to sign official declarations as conscientious objectors to abortion. .
FATHER VINCENT J. GIESE, former publisher who followed a delayed vocation to the priesthood, has been named editor of The Harmonizer, newspaper of the Ft. Wayne-South Bend diocese.
Father Helps Out UNION, W. Va. - With only about 10 Catholic families participating in the new St. Andrew's Monroe County Parish, being pastor is not a fUll-time job for Oblate Father James MacGee. So he has become "supply pastor" to the three area Presbyterian churches, using their ritual and program.
Sioux Deacon RAPID CITY, S.D. Victor Bull Bear of Kyle, S.D., has been ordained a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Rapid City by Bishop Harold J. Dimmerling. An Ogala Sioux, he is the fourth Indian ordained a deacon for this diocese. He will minister to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation residents.
Rhodesia Responsible? WASHINGTON - The government of Rhodesia has denied charges by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young that it may have been behind the recent murders of white missonaries in Rhodesia, but Father Rollins Lambert of the U.S. Catholic Conference justice and pea~e office said Young "may well be right," because in the past government troops have disguised themselves as guerrillas.
MSGR. GEORGE HIGGINS has received an honorary doctorate from Georgetown University in recognition of his long labors in the social justice field.
Reward Fund .P.ROVIDENCE, R.I. Dr. Mildred Jefferson, former president of the National Right to ILife Committee, has announced appointment of Boston attorney and former FBI agent Raymond D.. Jennings as director of a newly-established Right-to-Life Reward Fund, which will pay for information leading to the conviction of anyone involved in attacks on abortion clinics. Dr. Jefferson said the fund was set up to deal with "repeated, reckless and unfounded accusations" against pro-lifers in connection with arson attacks on abortion clinics.
Favor Returned HOMEDALE, Idaho - For more than 10 years, priests and nuns in the Boise, Idaho, Diocese have been staffing a parish in Cali, Colombia: In late July, Henry Carmona of the Cali parish will return the favor when he is ordained a priest of the Boise Diocese.
RICHARD SYLVESTER, 51, one of the foremost St. Thomas More scholars in the world, wllo la'st month delivered the keynote address at an international More symposium at Georgetown Unjversity and received an honorary degree from the institution, died last Sunday of a heart attack.
MILWAUKEE (NC) - If your parish women's group is dying out, it's probably because it's not meeting the needs of today's world. That's the message women in the Milwaukee Archdiocese are hearing from Marilyn Bowman, parish council coordinator for the archdiocese Office of the Laity. Mrs. Bowman, who recently addressed nearly 300 members of the archdiocesan Confraternity of Christian Mothers at their annual meeting, told the group she had just talked with a woman's group "in a parish where half the schoolchildren are black. "There was not a black face among the women's group," she said. "I had to challenge them: 'What are you doing to meet the needs of your parish?" A Christian women's group "can't devote itself to its archives," she said. What worked 20 years ago may be totally out of tune with today. Just as "Vatican II called individuals to renewal, so are organizations challenged to choose new goals," painful. as that may be at times. "Ninety percent of what it heard is soon forgotten, but most of what is done is 'not forgotten," she observed. "The church was a profound reservoir of wisdom and knowledge to share, and its adults need to be active participants rather than passive recipients." Calling the women to "mature Christianity," she noted that "living by justice and love" rather than in fear of "breaking the rules" is the call Christ issues today. "How can the real values of the Gospel be internalized if we remain on lower levels of maturity and development?" she asked. "Giving and forgiving, self-denial and death in order to live, suffering persecution for doing what God requires are mysterious values far beyond our natural comprehension to become part of our lives easily." Maturing to the point of internalizing values is called "selfactualization" by contemporary psychologists. "In religion," Mrs. Bowman said, "we speak of it as holiness, and the spiritual woman is influenced by values such as truth, goodness, beauty and simplicity." While employment outside the home is seen as one route toward this self-actualization, it is not the only valid option. the speaker continued. "A woman, such as myself, who hates housework should not berate herself. Housework should not be equated with the raising of children." Nurturing children is far more important than diShes and cleaning, she said. Mrs. Bowman encouraged women to find interests outside the immediate family as well, noting that "volunteering to serve in parish ministries" is a common way for this to begin. THE ANCHOR Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fa II River. Subscription price by mall, postpaid ".00 per year.
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THE ANCHORThurs, July 20, 1978
Live in Present, She Tells Women
11-Year-Old Released After p'apal Plea
STUDENTS OF Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia find solace- in prayer after many of their classmates were swept to their deaths in catastrophic floods last November.
The Hidden Power of Prayer Continued from Page One thing catches on in a group it does something to them that makes them seeem unreal to hard-thinking, practical people. They are clearly more joyful, more enthusiastic, more optimistic. They keep mentioning the will of God somewhat the way Jesus spoke often about doing His Father's will.
If this plan is accepted and persevered in, it will change the atmosphere and direction of many parish councils, rectories, convents and some diocesan gatherings as well. In classrooms, it will calm down children and make them love the subject of religion more than arithmetic and social studies and may even put it on a par,
in enjoyment with gym. There is no way of telling what else may happen until the plan' is tried. This is so because, in this hidden power strategy, the Spirit takes the lead when we are tuned in to Him. It is well known that He is full of surprises. Reprinted by pennission of The Tablet, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Pope, President Score Soviet Justice Pope Paul VI joined a growing list of those protesting the sentences handed down by Soviet courts to dissidents when he rebuked Soviet authorities in a talk from his summer residence in Castelgandolfo. The papal criticism of the verdicts in the trials of' Viktoras Petkus, Alexander Ginzburg and Anatoly Shcharansky came shortly after L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, reported that it was "struck by the gravity of the sentence" handed down by the Soviet courts. Petkus, a Lithuanian Catholic activist, was sentenced to three years in prison, seven years in a hard labor camp and seven years of internal exile 1Ior alleged anti-Soviet agitation. Ginzburg drew eight years at hard labor for the same offense, while Shcharansky was sentenced to three years in· prison and 10 years at a hard labor camp for espionage. While the trials of Ginzburg and Shcharansky were well publicized, there was little reported in the West about the petkus trial in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital city until the country was seized by the Soviet Union in 1940.
Heads Community Sister Rose Cecilia Case, a native of Pottstown, Pa., has been named superior general of the Sisters of St. Frances of Philadelphia, who staff St. Mary's Home, New Bedford. She holds degrees in music and religion and has taught on all levels from elementary through college classes. In Rome, she aided in preparations for the canonization of St. John Neumann.
Lithuanian-American leaders criticized the scanty press coverage of the Vilnius trial as well as the sentence handed. down. Father Casimir !Pugevicius of Brooklyn, N.Y., executive director of Lithuanian-American Catholic Services, called the sentence "deplorable," but said he was particularly upset by the virtual press blackout on the Petkus trial. 'President Jimmy. Carter, who was in West Germany for the economic summit meeting when the trials ended, said, "We deplore this action by the Soviet government." But he added there was little that could be done except to bring opinion to bear on the Soviets. Carter had earlier personally denied prosecutor's allegations that Shcharansky had spied for the CIA. Other Western government leaders, including Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany, also criticized the Soviet regime. Sen. Jacob Javits (RN.Y.) and Sen. Daniel P. Moyni-
Ordination Invitation Clergy, religious and laity are invited to Saturday morning's ordination ceremony at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. In a Mass beginning at 11 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Normand Grenier of Taunton and Rev. Mr. Jon- Paul Gallant of Fall River will be ordained to the priesthood by Bish< op Daniel A. Cronin. Priests wishing to concelebrate are asked to bring amice, alb, cincture and stole. Those wishing to participate in the rite of laying on of hands are asked to vest in cassock and surplice.
han (D-N.Y.) called for the Western countries to restrict trade with the Soviets in retaliation for the sentences. In its July 15 front-page editorial, L'Osservatore Romano reported its grave doubts that the rights of the accused were being protected during the trials. The Vatican paper also spoke of "political manipulation" of the trial and raised doubts about the "very process of detente" because of the trials. Italy's President Sandro Pertini, a Socialist, appealed to Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev to see that justice was done, while Italy's Communist Party expressed "deep unease" about the way the trials were conducted. The pope's Castelgandolfo talk hit the Soviet Union for playing fast and loose with commitments it made in the Helsinki pact, to which the Holy See is a signatory.
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THE CALL TO SHEPHERDHOOD ... is the call of the Lord to a life of ·religioul conlecration * growth through prayer *fratemal Iharing * ..rvice and dedication *the giving of lelf. It Is the call to oHer spiritual and temporal aniltaMe to the *tranlient poor *the phYlically and mentally handicapped *the elderly Gaged and troubled prielll • • • in Imitation of Jelul, the Good Shepherd, through expressions of "Charity Unlimited" We hear the call to Shepherdhood; We hear and we say "YES, LORD" We are the LITTLE BROTHERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD For further information write: Vocation Director, P.O. Box 260, Momence, n:inois 60954 ....
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themoorin~ Blue Season for the Fleet On the occasion of the blessing of the fleet in Provincetown, this paper featured a photo-story and editorial on those who go down to the sea in ships. The men who earn their livelihood from the sea have for decades played a very special role in the economic life of Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the Islands. Much is owed to the husbands, wives and families who have faced the uncertainty and peril of the oceans to reap for us a bountiful harvest. For this reason and others, this paper has firmly supported all legislative efforts intended to benefit the fishing industry. For example, our efforts in behalf of the concept of the 200 mHe limit were made known even in the Congressiona.l Record. Now our fishing industry faces two major problems that must be addressed and not ignored., as is so often the case in many areas of governmental activ'ity. These issues revolve around the .Federal imposition of fishing quotas and the challenge of cheap Canadian imports. Because this country's waters have been overkilled by other nations, our Washington bureaucracy has decided that our fishing fleet must pay the price for foreign intrusion. In essence, the quotas on the species and amount of fish that may be taken from American waters by American fishermen are unrealistic a.nd unreasonable. The Federal government has actively begun a policy of enforcement of quotas which is not only disputed by the fishermen themselves but is also considered detrimental to the entire future of the industry. To be sure, there must h~ sound conservation efforts. However, those who fish the sea and know it better than 'any political appointee should have more than a mere consultative role in the determination of fishing quotas" Apart from the difficulty in the matter of quotas, the intrusion of Canada into our domestic fishing scene defies understanding and is devoid oit reason. The Federal government, in its policy of political appeasement, has alilowed Canadian fishermen an unfair competitive advantage over our own native fishing industry. Our neighbors to the North have a duty-free fish ma.rket in the States. Because they are subsidized by their own government, Canadian fishermen can undercut ours. To add insult to injury, Washington's delay in solving this situation i.s now hurting our own fleets..TItis inactivity on the part ot our government is nothing mc)re than a game of State Department politics. This paper calls for our elected representatives to do everything they can to put an end to these unfair prac· tices. We urge the support of all efforts to stop the abuse that our fishing industry must take from our own govern·· ment. No longer should the fishermen of our area or any other be used as mere pawns in Washington's diplomatic games.
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Clamshell vs "Nu·kes" By Father Jolm B. Sheerin, CSP The Clamshell Alliance is a group of men and women who have organized to protest construction of a nuclear plant in Seabrook, N.H. They aim to stop construction of other plants as well, throug'1 direct action, ral. lies, petitions, teach-ins and nonviolent civil disobedience. Clamshell staged a three-day, legally sanctioned protest against the Seabroo~r construction in late June. Som.e 15,000 people crowded into a sunbaked area, many of them local people who had previously entertained some doubts about Clamshell and its goals. Also in June, some 200 Clamshell demonstrators came to demonstrate by means of nonviolent occupation of offices of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Paulist Fathers at our Washington Seminary gave Clamshell permission to camp on the seminary grounds. Their bright tents, sleeping. bags and knapsacks splashed color against the green grass and trees of our grounds. As they slept in their tents on .the eve of their demonstration, the heavens opened and Washington was deluged with a terrific hurricane, the worst in Washington in the last 20 years. The demonstrators fled to our main seminary building, fearful of winds and falling trees. And
yet it was the most orderly "-take-over" you could possibly imagine. The 200 slept on our floors, making scarcely a sound. Next morning they were off by 7:30 a.m. to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission building to present their grievances. This little army on the march was just about the best-organized and best-behaved corps of demonstrators in American history. The instructions they received from Clamshell officials reflected the tone of their activities; no open fires, no drugs or alcohol, stay in the designated camp area at St. Paul's; keep the noise down. They left their seminary sleeping quarters spotless even though they had to rush for the SUbway. This was an extraordinary contrast to the demonstrations of the 1960s. The demonstration had a happy ending when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered that construction be suspended indefinitely at the _Seabrook, N.H., nuclear plant. This order is no guarantee of total cancellation of the construction, but the 200 demonstrators were jubilant. Their 56-hour vigil had produced an impressive effect and some of the Clamshell. spokesmen called the commission's decision "the beginning of the end of nuclear power in America. Hopefully, the h~ndwriting is
on the wall as far as "nukes" in America are concerned. The behavior of the demonstrators will become widely known and I believe that their non-violence and reasonableness will make a deep impression on Americans. During the 1960s, I was a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam and our organization was less given to violence than other anti-war groups. I discovered, however, that the radical violence of some of these other groups was helping to prolong the war. My firm conviction was that the American people would have turned against the Vietnam war years earlier than they did if the radicals in the peace move· ment ha.d been less violent, more reasonable in their tactics. Clamshell has presented to the American people a marvelous example of what can be done to counteract the insanity of the nuclear arms race by means of an intelligent and persuasive reliance on non-violence.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. July 20, 1978
Police Explain Operation ID
Liturgical Week Is Canceled
Police departments of New Bedford and other diocesan communities are asking citizens to participate in "Operation Identification," under which owners mark valuable possessions with either an engraving pen or an ink marker, both of which are available from police departments. Also available are window decals indicating that items have been marked. "It has been shown conclusively that homes and businesses displaying decals are less likely to be burglarized; that marked valuables are less likely to be stolen; and that if they are taken, they are more likely to be recovered," say police department officials. Engraving pens are used for steel, glass, plastic, wood or other hard surfaces, while ink markers, employing invisible ink which becomes visible under ultra-violet light, are used for soft goods such as furs, paintings and· valuable papers.
Vincentians Members of the Greater Fall River Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will meet at St. Vincent de Paul Camp, Westport, at 3 p.m. Sunday for a program postponed from last Sunday. A Benediction service will open proceedings and Vincentians are urged to bring their families to enjoy camp facilities. Refreshments will be served. Conferences are urged to send contributions toward the purchase of blankets for the camp to the council treasurer, Joseph Tinsley, at 543 High St., Somerset 02726.
Pope Asks Ceasefire VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has deplored the bombing of a Christian section of Beirut and has called for immediate restoration of the Lebanese ceasefire. At a weekly general audience Pope Paul said that he has been involved in diplomatic activities to restore peace between fighting Moslems and Christians. In recent days 132 people died and about 500 were injured in fighting. Pope Paul said of Lebanon: "We wonder with anguish, when will this sad Calvary of the Lebanese people finish?
ing the Liturgical Week. A third factor was the withdrawal of Max Thurian, a monk from Taize, who said unexpected responsibilities within his community had forced him to cancel his talk on "Self and Society; Recovery of Vision." The program committee had been unable to find a comparable speaker on short notice, Sister Collins said.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Sponsors of the Liturgical Week, held annually since 1940, have cancelled the 1978 gathering scheduled for Aug. 7-10 in Boston, citing low participation, conflicts with other liturgical programs and the withdrawal of a major speaker. Benedictine Sister Mary Collins, president of the board of directors of the Liturgical Conference, announced the Washington-based organization's decision to cancel the event. She praised Father G. Thomas Ryan of Boston for his work in organizing the week.
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Sisters Assist 'Longest Walk' WASHINGTON (NC) As nearly 3,000 American Indians converged on Washington for the political, spiritual and educational activities which mark the end of their five-month crosscountry walk, Catholic involvement continued in a somewhat haphazard, but enthusiastic, manner. More than a dozen members of the Council of Religious Women in the Washington Archdio-
cese volunteered last Sunday to help at Greenbelt Park, where some 2,800 Indians are encamped in less than ideal conditions. The Longest Walk's stated goal is to defeat 11 "anti-Indian" proposals in Congress, none of which has been given serious legislative consideration. But it is also a spiritual walk, according to organizers.
association is "The Way," a book written by Msgr. Escriva in 1928. It has been translated into 34 languages and has sold three million copies. At the Mass, marking the 50th anniversary of Opus Dei as well as the founder's death three years ago, the Opus Dei president general, Father Alvaro del Portillo, quoted a passage from "The Way." "You, too, have the duty to make yourself a saint, yes, you," said Father del Portillo echoing Msgr. Escriva's words. Opus Dei members are gathering information for the beginning of the beatification cause of their founder, who is buried in the association's Rome headquarters. Letters have been arriving at Opus Dei headquarters describing favors and conversions brought about through Msgr. Escriva's intercession. The Holy See requires that a beatification cause may not be formally begun until five years after a person's death. In his homily Father Del Portillo urged Opus Dei followers to give the sacrament of penance the "privileged place" which Msgr. Escriva gave it in his life. Opus Dei members lead intense spiritual lives and keep in close contact with one another
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A Powerless One-Fourth of the .Population Iy
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Catholic director for the White House Conference on the Family would be like "having the Pope's son in here" (meaning HEW).
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There were no outraged cries protest. No complaint from . the U.S. Catholic Conference, no A lot of folks think I ex- d.emands that the name of the aggerate about how anti- aIde be revealed (I have a pretty Catholic the Carter adminis- good idea who he is, by the no apologies from Mr. tration is. Well, try this on way), Califano, no investigations frorr. for size. the White House. The summer The Washington Post recently weekend passed quietly. quoted an unnamed aide of Can you imagine what would HEW Secretary Joseph Calihave happened if a Califanc fano as saying that to have a 0.(
Iy MARY CARSON
Do you ever feel there is just no time for things you want to do? You'd like to go back to school, learn to scuba dive, play tennis, or read
a good book, but pressures and responsibilities always keep you from such things. I'm not talking about things you can't afford to do - that's another problem. Is there something you deeply want to do and all that is stopping you is the time to do it? If so, you can find the time . . .' if you choose. You need three pieces of paper, a pencil . . . and some
brutal honesty with yourself, Head one paper "Want," the second "Must," the third "Ought." Write down on the first sheet the things you really want to ·do. It may be only one or two items, Usually these are big dreams _. Getting a master's degree in an, thropology; redecorating you:' whole hmlse; developing a corn· rnunity youth program; research· ing your family history. Bu': 3rou may find yours is a list oj' many little things: visiting your aged aun'~; going to a museum; a day's shopping by yourself; building a piece of furniture; L day home, alone; learning L hobby. 'Be careful what you put or. this list. Items must be impor·, tant enough that you are willin{; -to give up other things to malw time for them. "I want to, bu': don't have the time" is ofter,
aide had spoken a similar insult about Jews or blacks? Why the difference? Why can a government employee gratuitously slur American Catholics with a hoary prejudice that was supposed to have died when Kennedy was elected? Why wasn't the HEW insult in headlines in every paper in the country? The answer is that Catholics don't seem to care. The National Catholic News Service did not carry the story. There were no editorials in Catholic papers, the Catholic weeklies couldn't care less.
So we get blamed for racism because we wonder about a conference on the family presided over !by a divorced mother of three, and HEW gets away scot free when it insults the Pope and disqualifies us from a position in the government on religious grounds. It's our fault for taking it sitting down. One-third of the people who voted for 'President Carter were Catholics. Many millions more Catholics voted for him than did blacks. Yet the black leadership has a stronghold on the administration and we are insulted
and excluded from office because of our religion. II don't blame the blacks for using their political clout effectively. On the contrary, political influence for one-eighth of the population is long overdue. My problem is rather with Catholics. We are one-quarter of the nation and we have no clout at all in Washington. We are insulted, laughed at, made scapegoats. It will keep up. It will get worse . . . until enough Catholics wake up and shout that they've had enough.
another way of saying, "I really furniture, blinds, nooks and anything from that list. Either it -becomes important enough that don't want to do that at all." crannies. you must do it, or you change Be honest. Only list things that ~ut I finally realized that your opinion of it and decide are really important to you. when I was letting housework you really want to do it ... but rule me I never had time for Now take your "Must" list. don't waste your time on someWhat do you have to do? If you things I wanted to do. So cleanthing you only "Ought" to do. hold a job, you must go to work. , ing stays off my "Must" list unUnfortunately, survival necfor less there's a good reason If you are running a household, essitates taking care of the you must see that the family it being there. If company is "Musts" first. And there will be coming, I clean. If something is eats, sleeps and has enough periods in your life when they clean laundl"'J so they don't re- so upset it's bothering me, I can take practically all of your cycle underwear. If you are clean. As long as I'm two steps time. But keep striving toward ahead of the Board of Health, working and running a housethe things you want to do. hold, you need these lists more that's clean enough. Get started on your goal. Even than anyone, because most days If you've committed yourself if it's only 10 minutes a week you'll feel you don't even have to community work, committees, that you can devote to it, it's a time to breathe. or volunteer work, these go on beginning. Once started on what Think before you put clean- your "Must" list. If they get out you want to do, you'll find the ing on your "Must" list. I used of !land and start to consume things you "Must" do are fewer to think the world would stop more time than you can afford and get done faster. turning if I didn't do spring and then either move them to your The benefits are twofold. You fall house cleaning. I thought it "Want" list ... or resign. will have time to do the things was a mortal sin not to overThe third step is crucial. Take you want to do and more imhaul the stove and refrigerator every other chore and put it on portant, you'll gain a new perevery month, and it was sacri- the "Ought" list - and forget spective on how you value your lege not to :iust all woodwork, about the whole list! Never do time. I
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The Family ImpaGt Seminar, which is trying to find ways to assess the impact of public policy on families, has issued an interim report on
its work that should be of in· terest to anyone concerned with families and with the delayed White House Conference on Families. The seminar has done it~; homework. It has compiled a bibliography of books, maga· .:ines, research centers and gov· emment publications with infor· mation about families as well, liB un inventory of nearly 306 fed· llral programs affecting families.
Many of the seminar's preliminary findings are not new, but others provide food for thought. One declares that families have five basic functions: to exist and stay together as the "building blocks" of society; - to provide for basic material needs of members; - to care for non- economic physical, emotional and intellectual needs of members;
- to coordinate and manage their own affairs; - to help members cope with the larger institutions of society. The seminar also stated the values it will use in examining the impact of public policies on families: - wellbeing of families and their ability to care for their members; -
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Sex Guidelines for the Married By Dr. Jim and Mary Kenny
Dear Dr. Kenny: My wife and I have been happily married 101' 14 years, and we have three cbildren. We are both 34. We want to &mow what is moraI1y pennissible for us in sex. I went 12 years to a Catholic school but this was never taught. We are too ashamed to ask as Christians. We both want eternal life so we don't want to do anything wrong. A. Let uS begin with a more positive approach to sex. Sex is a great gift. It is fun. It was intended to be. Sex is important. Sex is the· process by which humanity re-
news itself. Each child born h: n combination of a man and f. woman -- living testimony of the love two people have for one ~lI1other.
Sex is beautiful. When se}: nnd love go together, it is an incredibly bonding act. It tien people together like no other act, Good sex and deep love can make for an almost mystical ex.. perience. You need to meditate on the nOOve ideas. Talk with your wife nOOut ihem. I would like to see you approach sex from a more positive direction. I recommend that you reae! the chapter, "Fostering the No· bility of Marriage and the Fam·
ily" in "Constitution on the Church in the Modern World" published by the United States Catholic Conference, 1312 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 200{)5. An excerpt will help you understand how the church views sex in marriage; "God himself is the author of matrimony, endowed as it is with various benefits and purposes . . . The biblical word of God several times urges the betrothed and the married to nourish and develop their wedlock by pure conjugal love and undivided affection . . . Such love, merging the human with the divine, leads the spouses to a free and mutual gift of them-·
selves . . . it far excels mere erotic· inclination, which selfishly pursued, soon enough fades wretchedly away." I do not know from your letter what specific actions you are worried about. -But you say that yo~ are "too ashamed to ask as Christians." Sex in marriage is not shameful - God Himself gave it to us. You should present your specific questions to a priest whom you know and in whom you have confidence.
In general, in married sexual love, any touch, any kiss on any part of the body is all right. Consideration dictates that whatever you do should be enjoyed by
both partners in the marriage act. You have been blessed by a happy marriage. Getting valid answers to your questions is important to keeping it happy. Your union is pleasing in God's eyes and your questions will not shock him nor those he has put on earth to act for him. Reader questions on Iamily living and cbild care are invited. Address to the Kennys, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.
The Echo "Joy is the echo of God's life in us." - Abbot Marmion
Secret Bishop Dies in Rumania
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. July 20, 1978
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican announced last week that a secretly-ordained Byzantine rite bishop died in Rumania at age 64. Both the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, and Vatican Radio announced the death of Bishop Julio Hirtea, one of six bishops ordained clandestinely after the forced incorporation of the Byzantine rite into the Rumanian Orthodox Church took place in 1948. The Byzantine rite in Rumania had about 1.5 million members in 1948. The six bishops ordained publicly before the government suppression were put into prison and all have died. One, Bishop Julio Hossu of Cluj-Gherla, was made a cardinal in pectore (secretly) by Pope Paul VI in 1969, Cardinal Hossu died in confinement in an Orthodox monastery in 1970. Of the six clandestinely ordained bishops, four are still living, but are permitted no public ministry. Shortly after the secret ordination of the six, the government imprisoned them. The survivors have since been released but are under surveillance. The Vatican has continually sought restoration of the once flourishing Byzantine rite in Ru: mania, but neither the government nor the government-supported Rumanian Orthodox Church has been willing to discuss the matter. Bishop Hirtea's name has never appeared in the Annuario Pontificio, the yearbook listing aU bishops and high church officials.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC) - Lamenting "deplorable cases" of nuns who dress in civilian clothes, the four bishops of Buenos Aires have asked reli-
Tax Continued from Page One employment compensation programs, despite a "church" exclusion in the law. The usec position is that Catholic schools are components of the church and therefore excluded. But by its opinion, Reed said, the Labor Department is "setting a precedent counter to Supreme Court decisions and Internal Revenue Service regulations governing the status of church-related elementary and secondary schools. "The broader issue is whether government has the authority and competence to define 'church' and its various missions and, to determine where a church and-or its missions fit or do not fit into the traditional American constitutional concepts," he added. Some Catholic educators fear that the new tax oould lead to the closing of already financially troubled schools. The 1978 amendments took effect on Jan. 1, 1978, and the taxes became payable in some states in April.
Mainstream's OK NEW ORLEANS Bishop Joseph A.' McNicholas, Springfield, Ill., keynote speaker at the annual Catholic Hospital Association meeting, told 1,200 delegates, including many from the Fall River diocese, that Catholic hospitals should stay in the American mainstream and not apologize for their presence.
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Court Reversal? Continued from Page One should not have even decided the abortion cases - Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton when it did because of procedural problems in those cases. The usec said it realized that reversing the 1973 decisions, and subsequent abortion decisions, would be difficult. "Nevertheless," it said, "we submit that to persevere in decisions which have been wrongly decided and wrongly arrived at can only produce new and greater difficulty." The usee said Roe and Doe were wrong because they ignored modern scientific evidence that the fetus is human. The court replaced a biological definition of life with a sociological definition, the usce said. The usce said that "it is generally true that fetal life is viable if it is left alone." The brief said the legal status of a viable fetus became an issue only because the court's decisions had created a new category of "potential life."
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YARMOUTHPORT, Sacred Heart, off Rte. 6A: Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-5 p.m., Sun. before 9 a.m. Mass.
MARION, St. Rita. 113 Front St. (schedUle effective through Sept. 3): Sat. 5, 6:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily, 8:30' a.m.; confessions, Saturday, 4-4:30 p.m. MATfAPOISElT, St. Anthony, 22 Barstow St.: Sat. 8 a.m., 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m. NANTUCKET, Our Lady of the Isle, 6 Orange St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 a.m., 7 p.m.; daily, 7:30 a.m., 12 noon; rosary before daily Masses; confessions, Sat. 4-4:45 p.m. SIASCONSET, Union Chapel: Sun. 8:45 a.m. during July and August. NORTH FALMOUTH, St. Elizabeth Seton, 6 Shaume Rd.: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:45, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:15-3:45, 4:455:15 p.m. OAK BLUFFS, Sacred Heart, Circuit Ave.: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:15, 10:30 a.m.; daily (Mon.Fri.) 7 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 5:15-5:45 p.m. ORLEANS, St. Joan of Arc, Bridge St. (schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:50 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass. Wed. NORTH EASTHAM, Church of the Visitation (schedule effective through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 6:30-6:50 p.m. OSTERVILLE, Our Lady of the Assumption, 76 Wianno Ave. (schedule effective through Sept. 3): Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m; daily, 7, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4:15-5 p.m. SANTUIT, St. Jude Chapel, Rte. 28: Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4:15-5 p.m. MASHPEE, Queen of AU Saints, New Seabury: Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4:15-5 p.m. POCASSET, St. John the Evangelist, 15 Virginia Road: Sat. 4, 5, 7 p.m; Sun. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45 p.m. PROVINCETOWN, St. Peter the Apostle, 11 Prince St.: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., 5:30 p.m. (except Sat.); confessions, Sat. 4-4:30 p.m.
SANDWICH, Corpus Christi, 8 Jarves St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon; daily, 9 a.m. SAGAMORE, St. ~eresa, Rte. 6: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m. SOUTH YARMOUTH, St. Pius X, 5 Barbara St.: Sat. 4, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m. BASS RIVER, Our Lady of the Highway, Rte. 28: Sun. 8, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily (Mon.-Fri.), 8 a.m. VINEYARD HAVEN, St. Augustine, Church and Franklin Sts.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:30 p.m., 6-6:30 p.m. WAREHAM, St. Patrick, 82 High St.: Sat. 4, 6 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-3;45, 7-7:30 p.m. WEST WAREHAM, St. Anthony, off Rte. 28 (schedule effective July and August): Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10,. 11 a.m.; confessions before each Mass. WELLFLEET, Our Lady of Lourdes, 56-58 Main St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m. confessions, Sat. 4:30-5 p.m. and before all Masses; Tues. 7:30 p.m. Mass followed by charismatic prayer meeting; Holy day Aug. 14, 5, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 8, 11 a.m., 6 p.m. TRURO, Sacred Heart, Rte. 6A: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 9:30 a.m.; con· fessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 9:30 a.m. NORTH TRURO, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pond Road: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, 11 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14, 5, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 8 a.m., 6 p.m. WEST HARWICH, Holy Trinity, Rte. 28 (schedule effective through Columbus Day weekend): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9, 10:30 a.m, 12 noon; daily, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3 and 7:45 p.m. DENNISPORT, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Upper County Rd. (schedule effective through Labor Day weekend): Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-4 p.m. WOODS HOLE, St. Joseph: Sat. 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.; First Fridays, 7:30 p.m.; confessions Y2 hour before Sunday Masses.
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Don't let the Irish names fool you. Take.charge Kelly of the coffee-with-cream skin and melting dark eyes is from Korea. Darkly handsome Kevin is from India. And winsome Maura is a Bay Stater. But they're all Mulligans and all have the middle name of Jude, a tribute to the saint of the impossible, who had a lot to do with bringing them together, says their mother. In between making phone calls seeking lodging and jobs for two Irish college girls new-. ly arrived in the U.S. with no plans for the summer, Mrs. Mulligan explained her brood. Gathering them together started, she said, when she was told by doctors that Maura would be the only child. she could bear herself. "My husband and I feel that it's God's will that it happened that way, because that's how we got into pro-life work and then into adoptions." Her husband Eugene, a Boston telephone oompany executive, has been involved with Massachusetts Citizens for Life for five years, serving on its state board of directors and as Cape Cod chapter president. The Mulligans have also been active with Birthright, sharing their attractive home with young expectant mothers in need of shelter. Such concern with babies led naturally to the field of adoptions as the Mulligans decided to expand their family, first with Kelly and then with Kevin. Foreign adoptions involve a sea of paperwork, they quickly disoov~red, and there was no one to help them with the multitude of 'fQrms to be filled out - "up to 85 for one adoption," said !\frs. Mulligan. 'But, once experienced them-
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MOTHER TERESA gives Kevin a bottle. By nature she's a doer, as evidenced by the fact that she was the first person turned to in the case of the Irish girls, whom, incidentally, she efficiently fixed up for the summer. She is willing, she said, to counsel families interested in overseas adoptions and said they can contact her through The Anchor. She has assisted dozens of such families and said that on one occasion she was asked by a social worker, "What's your referral fee?" The professional was dumbfounded when Ronnie Mulligan repled, "Nothing. The greatest gift in the world is going to Logan airport and seeing parents receive their babies when they're flown in from overseas."
Her own two have been with her since Kelly was three months old and Kevin was an undernourished one-year-old rescued by Mother Teresa of Calcutta from the streets of India. A family treasure reproduced with this article is a picture of Mother Teresa giving Kevin a bottle. How does Maura feel about her brother and sister? "She thinks she's the mother. I almost have to fight with her over who's to take care of them," reports Mrs. Mulligan. She admitted, however, that when Maura started school, she was apprehensive that classmates might make remarks about a little girl with a Korean. sister and an Indian brother. "When she came home crying, I thought my fears had been justified," recounted Mrs. Mulligan. ",But the problem wasn't a different brother and sister from everyone else - just a different lunchbox." And Maura herself wisely observed, "Jesus made us all the same on the inside and different on the outside." She is supportive of her father's pro-life activities as well, often helping him and other members of Citizens for Life to pass out leaflets at church doors. "She's better at it than we are," said her mother. "If people don't take a leaflet, she follows them down the aisle and tells them, 'You have to take this. It's to help the ba'bies. " No one can accuse any Mulligan of not helping the babies.
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Choosing the Next Pope NEW YORK (NC) - An international group of Catholics has formed a special committee aimed at briefing members of the College of Cardinals and other interested persons on the qualifications of future candidates for pope. Philip Scharper and James F. Andrews, co-chairmen, announced in New York that the panel will be known as the Comcommittee for the responsible Election of the Pope. "The purpose of the committee is to gather information and make it available not only to the cardinals themselves, but to interested individuals throughout the world," Andrews said. "There is so little known even in the corridors of power ahout the inner elite who elect from among themselves the next pope," he added. Scharper is editor-in-chief of Orbis 'Books, and Andrews is chairman of the board of Sheed Andrews and McMeel, publishers. Among the initial members of the committee are Douglas Roche, Member of Parliament of Canada; Rafael Moya, editor of Mexico's La Buena Prener; Robert G. Hoyt of Christianity and Crisis magazine; Sidney Callahan, author; Edward Grace, NTC News, Rome; and John P. MeMeel, chainnan of the board and president of Universal Press Syndicate. Andrews also referred to the about-to-be-published "Inner Elite; Dossiers of Papal Candidates" (Sheed Andrews and McMeel), which profiles and ana,lyzes the positions of each of the active members of the College of Cardinals, from among whom the next pope is expected to be selected. The scheduled publication date of :he book, written by Gary McEoin, is July 29, the tenth anniversary of the papal encyclical "Humanae Vitae," which condemned artificial contraception. Andrews said that the book represents three years of research on the cardinals to obtain their views on the reign of Pope Paul VI and to enlist opinions and facts about their peers in the College of Cardinals. 'Paralleling these interviews, he said, are others with lay authorities, theologians, politicians, editors and other concerned persons. The results of the interviews were surprising, Andrews said. "Some couldn't even pronounce the names of their fellow cardinals," he said. "More alarming was the fact that a cardinal's perception of another cardinal seldom watched the views of the men and women who lived in the prelate's domain and had an opportunity to observe the man closely over a period of years." Other members of the committee are Father Frank Maurovich, Religious News Service; Nizita Riley of Deaconess Hospital; Richard Senier, National Religious Television; Mary Carson, syndicated editor, Journal of Ecumenical Studies; Leonard Swidler, professor of religion, Temple University, and editor of the Journal of Ecumenical Stud-
ies; Sally Cunneen, author; Joseph Cunneen, editor, Cross Currents, and Patricia Gaughan, director, moc - North America.
A Commentary By Father' Andrew Greeley The next papal conclave is apparently a red-hot item. Malachi Martin's shabby, disgraceful book, "The Final Conclave, has hit the New York Times bestseller list. Sheed, Andrews & McMeel has just published a much more important volume, "The Inner Elite: Dossiers of Papal Candidates" by Gary MacEoin and a group called the Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope. It should be read by anyone convinced, as I am, that the next papal election - whenever it is held may shape the fate of Catholicism for over half a millennium. Given the fact that an election of a pope can come only upon the death of the previous pope, discussing papal elections is a grisly business. One must pretend that the incumbent pope is never going to die, and thus leave the matter of an election of a new pope to frantic, lastminute discussions among jetfatigued cardinals. Unless and until there comes a custom of a limited term of papal service or of retirement after a certain age, this combination of grisly, hackroom speculation and public pretense that nothing is going on will continue to do enormous harm to the Church. The Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope has taken a major step toward breaking with this shabby hypocrisy and "The Inner Elite" is well worth readiQg. It is jammed ;with useful and interesting information, and is an enormously helpful corrective for MaII
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lachi Martin's madcap romanticism. Still, I feel compelled to state a number of reservations. 'First of all, Gary MacEoin sees the world in simple monotone colors, in which everyone can be conveniently arranged on a single one-dimensional scale stretching from left to right. The Third World is mostly good, North America is mostly bad; liberals are good guys, conservatives are bad guys. I would wager that many if not most American bishops, whom MacEoin dismisses as "conservative," run far more consensual and consultative dioceses than do many of his Third World heroes. Thus Archbishop Bernardin of to whom MacCincinnati Eoin is cruelly and gratuitously unfair -is surely a far more democratic bishop than most 'Of. MacEoin's Third World saints. He also thoroughly misunderstands the story of Cardinal Paulo 'Bertoli, who walked out on his curial job and resolutely refuses to accept another because of his dissatisfaction with the way the curia operates, to the existing power structure is simply a display of ignorance of the facts. These criticisms are not meant to detract from the historic importance of the "The Inner Elite." It may well be that MacEoin is the only journalist in the world capable of assembling such a volume, and while I profoundly regret that his quasiMarxist perspective has simplified the issues and the problems of the next conclave, I must admit that a one-dimensional description of the cardinal electors is better than none. There is another point. The Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope observed in a press release that, given the tremendous importance of the papacy, it is astonishing that there never has been such a committee before. The committee ought to read a little more history before it claims to be the first group of lay persons to get involved in worrying about papal elections. For at least half a millennium the bishop of Rome was elected by the clergy and laity of the city of Rome. At a later date, the German emperors (most of whom at that time were called Otto) intervened to take over control of the election process, because the vote of the Roman laity had been usurped by the most powerful of the aristocratic Roman clans (Colona, Orsini, etc.). In the centuries since, dukes and princes have repeatedly c,oncerned themselves with the outcome of papal elections. At one election Catholics would rather forget, the ineffable Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles in the movie, if you remember) controlled all but two electors (by bribes). So the committee is in fact following an ancient and sometimes honorable tradition. The uniqueness is that its members are not kings, emperors, princes, dukes or Orson Welles. They are rather professional men and women concerned about the church.
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Where Your Catholic Charities Dollar .Goes Following the record-breaking Catholic Charities Appeal recently concluded, it seems a good idea, by way of expressing appreciation to contributors, to step behind the scenes of what is probably the most diverse of the agencies funded by CCA proceeds. It's the department of Social Services and Special Apostolates. headed by Father Peter N. Graziano, who recently sent a report of 1977 activities to all priests and deacons of the diocese. In an accompanying letter he said: "In that the Social Services and Special Apostolates department operates in your name, I am conscious of the fact that it should be accountable to you." Noting the greatly increased services offered by the agency in the past few years, he' said "None of this could have been accomplished without the encouragement and support of Bishop Cronin and the hard work of Msgr. Anthony Gomes and all of you in conducting the Catholic Charities Appeal. "Were it not for the Appeal, our specialized services would be severely curtailed and few,
if any, of your people would be able to receive assistance under the sponsorship of the church and in the name of the caring Christ." Father Graziano's report lists services to unmarried parents, for which no fee is charged, as "the Church's primary social service in the area of pro-life . . . caring for unmarried parents (mainly teenagers) and their families in most trying situations, through counseling and social work." Most young people come to the agency through area Birthrig~t organizations, he said, having been persuaded to choose life rather than abortion. If nee- . essary, foster care is provided for infants after birth. During the year ending June 30, 1977, the report states, 41 unwed mothers and eight unwed fathers were seen representing every area of the diocese. Of the mothers, 21 kept their children and 11 placed them for adoption. The adoption services of the department made 14 placements of American children during the -year, with eight adoptions finalized. However, there are 115 hopeful couples still on the wait-
ing list for babies, the report indicated. In the field of international adoptions, eight children were placed and six adoptions finalized, mainly involving Korean youngsters. To care for the needs of the emotionally troubled, said Father Graziano, Catholic Counseling Services offices have been established in New Bedford, Fall River and Hyannis. Those using the services have the assurance that no actions contrary to Catholic practice will be suggested to them and although counseling is on a fee basis, no one is tumed away for inability to pay. In the year covered by the report, a total of 359 persons received 1,376 hours of counseling, noted Father Graziano. He said most problems are marriage-related, followed by parent-child difficulties and that those using the service ranged in age from teens to senior citizens. Another service of the counselors, he added, is preparation of psychological profiles where requested by other diocesan agencies and of pre-marital evaluations for parish priests, especially in the case of very young couples.
The diocesan Spanish apostolate, the report indicated, serves the pastoral needs of nearly 12,000 persons, primarily from Puerto Rico. It operates at centers in New Bedford, Attleboro and Taunton, offering spiritual social service and cultural programs. The spiritual part of the apostolate includes such Spanish language exercises as Marriage Encounter, Teens Encounter Christ and charismatic retreats and ongoing charismatic prayer groups.
Summing up, Father Graziano said: "The department either directs, coordinates or is diocesan liaison with a broad spectrum of church-related social and pastoral activities, primarily on behalf of the needy, distressed and discriminated against. It's basically an umbrella organization for the social ministry at the church in the diocese." Or, in the less elegant words of one contributor to the Cath·olic Charities Appeal: "It's a pretty good place to put your bucks."
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Catholic Schools: AClimate of Faith By F'ather Alfred McBride The' most remarkable invfntion of the U.S. Catholic Church has been the Catholic school system. No other nation, befcre or since, has anything quite like it. Every other country, Catholic or otherwise, either SUppOlts religious schools from public funds or else suppresses thEm (as in Russia and China). In the United States, the voluntary support of Catho lic people maintains 7,000 elementary scl~ools, 1,700 secondary schools and 250 colleges 81d universities. This astonishhg achievement rests upon the vision and dedication and tenacity of Catholics past. It will endure with the hope, faith and determination of Catholics presel'l::. By Brother John D. Olsen, C.F.X. The f.irst Catholic school in "There is no threat to the sys- the cohtinental United States tem of parochial schools when opened in New Orleans in 1n7. an emphasis is placed on adult Conducted by the Ursulines, it education. These programs can was intended to train you 19 indeed support each other and girls in religion and other skills develop 'total education' for all for mabtaining a family. Catholics." A Sulpician priest, Father WilThese words come from the liam DuBourg, encouraged Elizadissertionof Father C. Albert beth Seton to open the first free Koob, a Norbertine priest who Catholic school for poor childr~n received his doctorate. from the on Paca Street in Baltimore in Catholic University of America 1809. When Father DuBourg this May. moved to New Orleans in 18:,2, Such a perspective is typical he lured 53 trained teachErS of a man who has devoted over from Europe (Cincentians, Chr,s35 years of his life to Catholic tian Brothers, Ursulines, SistErS education and has moved the of the Sacred Heart) to op~n Catholic school system and to- mission schools along the Mis,ital Catholic education into a ssippi, and estahlish a "spirit<: al posture of prominence in Am- center" for the renewal of Catherican society through his lead- . olic school teachers in St. Louis. ership and foresight. Anotl:er Sulpician, Father GaFather Koob was born in briel Richard, rooted Catha lic Philadelphia and educated at St. education in the Michigan terriAloysius parochial school, tory. Practically a founder of t:le Southeast Catholic High School city of Detroit, Father Richard and St. Norbert's College. At designed a plan for Catholic eduSt. Norbert's Abbey in ,De Pere, cation in the Detroit area Wis., he was ordained a priest (with special ~ocus on girls' a:ld in 1945. He taught in the Catholic high schools of Philadelphia until 1948 when he became assistant principal then principal at Southeast Catholic High School (now Bishop Neumann By William E. May High School). During this year the Knew In 1961, he accepted an executive post and eventually the Your Faith series has center~d presidency of the National Cath- on the history of the church as olic Educational Association. In a living, developing community his work with the NCEA, Father of people. It has thus stress~d Koob promoted excellence and the changes that have tak~n uniqueness of purpose among place and are taking place withthe Catholic schools of this in the church and its people. There is surely no doubt that country. He saw competition as a very change has effected and conhealthy means toward improved tinues to affect the middle-ag~d American education. In 1968 he Catholic, who sometimes wonwrote, "Why shouldn't it be pos- ders whether the church of his sihle to challenge our nation's or her youth is the same as t:'le schools' improvement by ex- church of today. ploiting the advantages of a I believe that it is important, competitive system?" But com- in the midst of a historically depetition was not all he sought. veloping church, to keep in At the same time he chal- mind certain basic truths about lenged all of American education the church and its people that toward cooperative planning, a are unc:'1anging and to consider sharing of talent, the opening of one kind of change t1:at is abprivate doors to the inner city, solutely indispensable for t:le the sponsorship of joint train- Catholic, whether middle-agEd, young or old, Turn to Page Thirteen
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Between 1829 and 1884 (the mother; an all-American woman; year of the Baltimore Council), strong, determined, courageous, 44 orders of nuns and 12 orders profoundly and sincerely reli. of Brothers took root in the gious, and, in the course of United States. The troops were time, genuinely heroic. Her canonization on Sept. 14, ready. The immigrants were coming. The bishops had stated 1975, as the first native American to be so honored was. the their policy. Then came the Oregon road- official and universal proclablock. In 1922, the state of Ore- mation that she had exploited gon passed a statute, outlawing all her potentialities of nature A Protestant iBible was used non-public schools, as a threat and grace to an amazing degree. and the Protestant interpreta- to the growth of public schools. Elizabeth Ann was born iIi tion imposed. Catholics contest- The' public schools were good New York City Aug. 28, 1774. ed this violation of religious con- enough for everyone, and non- Her' father, Richard Bayley, was scious in 1854 in the Donohoe public schools were undemo- a prominent physician and first case. They lost the decision. cratic, fostering religious preju- professor of anatomy at King's This was reinforced by the dice, the law contended. The College, the present Columbia Eliot case in 1859. A Catholic Sisters of the Holy Name of University. Her mother's father family instructed its son to skip Jesus and Mary fought the case was rector of St. Andrew's EpisBible class. The teacher whipped and won in the famed Pierce copal Church on Staten Island. She lost her mother when she the boy. The parents sued the decision of 1925, guaranteeing teacher and lost the case. More- freedom for non-public schools , was very young and felt the loss keenly throughout her over, the school district sus- to survive. growing years. A devout Episcopalian, she loved the Communion service, and with her sister, attended as many as possible, even on the same Sunday. Sermons fascinated her and Among unchanging truths are makes radical demands upon us. the following: The kind of change absolutely she st~died privately so as to - First of all, the truth that indispensable for all Christians apprecia,te them more intelligentthere really is a God who cares and all human beings is that ly. In his homily on the occasfor us and loves us, the one to which we are challenged by ion of her canonization Pope who will never abandon us and Jesus, who summons us to re- Paul remarked that "to this (Episcopalian) church goes the who is always ready to help us, form our lives. ' on one condition only, that we This change is a change of merit of having awakened and let him. heart, a conversion, and it is fostered the religious sense and - Second, the truth that the one that we must constantly Christian sentiment which, in kingdom of this God, a reign of effect in our lives if we are to the young Elizabeth, were naturally predisposed to the most love, justice and peace, has al- be what we are meant to be. spontaneous and lively manifesready begun. It will come to This essential change is rooted fulfillment only in the "end in another central and enduring tations." At 19, she married a prospertime," but what is most impor- truth mediated to us through tant is that it has already taken the church: the truth that. we ous young businessman, William Magee Seton. 'the couple had root in history through the In- are sinners. carnation, life, death, and ResWe are good "con" artists, and five children - two sons and urrection ::>f our savior and we are particularly good at con- three daughters. Then financial brother, Jesus. We enter this ning ourselves. What we must reverses had such an adverse reign when" in baptism, we die recognize is that we are in effect on William's health that to the "old man," and rise to a need of constant reformation a sea voyage was recommended. They traveled to Italy, where new life. and that in this task of turn- Third, the truth that we ing from sin to God, he is they stayed with the Filicchi are to put God and his reign of there to help us, and his grace family in Leghorn. But Willove and justice first in路 our is mediated to us through the liam's condition worsened and lives and that life in Christ church. Turn to Page Thirteen
Indians) as well as a plan for public education in the whole Michigan territory. Co-founder of the University of Michigan, Father Richard was its first vice president. He capped his career by serving as the first Catholic priest in Congress. Catholic schools might never have grown so much had it not been for the militant persecution of Protestant Nativists in the 1840's and Protestant domination of the public schools. In the latter case it was customary for public schools to hold regular Bible classes and religious services.
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Mother Seton Continued from Page Twelve he died at Pisa just six weeks later. He was buried in Leghorn and the Filicchis did their best to comfort Elizabeth. She was very impressed by their kindness, by the sincerity of their Catholic faith and the happiness they so evidently found in its practice. Study and prayer convinced her to follow their example, and when she returned to New York in 1803, her mind was made up. Reaction was violent but on March 4, 1805, she was received into the church by the pastor of St. Peter's, New York. Reaction was devastating. Nearly all her friends and relatives turned on her, her funds were low, and when she opened a little school to support herself, the opposition forced its closing. . A move was even made to evict her from the state. She was just about to leave for the more Catholic surroundings of Canada when Father William DuBourg, superior of the Sulpicians, asked her to found a school near St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. He offered her a little house next to the seminary, which has been preserved by the Sulpicians over the years and is now a place of pilgrimage. Not only pupils came to her. Young women interested in her work joined her, and before long, she was mother of another family, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. In 1809 she was given another house in Emmitsburg, Md., and here her little lJ'Oup took definite shape, with a rule adapted from that St. Vincent de Paul had given his Sisters of Charity. Elizabeth had special permission to keep her own children in her care. The two boys were at school with the Sulpicians in Emmitsburg, and the girls joined her in her work - all drawn together by the strongest ties of love. Two of the' girls died in their teens; Katherine lived to assist her mother on her deathbed. The little group was dedicated to the material and spiritual welfare of all in distress - the poor, the sick, prisoners, the insane. But their special dedication was to the education of the young. Calls began coming from various places for their services, and Elizabeth gathered and trained a'bout 50 sisters, founded schools and orphanges in New York and Philadelphia, and furnished the domestic staff for the Boys' College at Emmitsburg. She was only 46 when she
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Father Koob Continued from Page Twelve ing programs. He sought an orientation of education toward values, to responsibility for meaning and toward excellence for all schools in a system which allows freedom of choice and idealizes and desires good education for all. It has often been said that the strength of a person is challenged in suffering. On Oct. 28, 1972, a grating gave way beneath Father Koob in a shopping center, and he fell 30 feet, suffering multiple injuries. Although full recovery was considered impossible, by March of 1973, this man was once more moving about and engaging himself, in simple ways at first, then more energetically, in the work of Catholic education. By the fall of 1974, Father Koob was again writing and speaking publicly on behalf of Catholic schools. The schools, he said at the time, "will give witness to Christ by serving those who need education. Somehow the Catholic people will find the means to support these schools because they are so vitally important to both the church and the nation. "Catholic schools serve as social mission by teaching reading to all in the local area who seek help as the nation strives to eliminate functional illiteracy," he added. Father Koob's insights are terse but persuasive. Predictions made have almost always been on target. On the question, "Are Catholic schools necessary?" his own words speak his conviction: "My look back convinces me that Catholic education today is more vigorous than it has ever been. The nation and the church can count on Catholic educators to perform in their usual first-. class fashion. I am proud to be one of their number and proud of the work that they are doing." Father Koob's strength was evident in the self-discipline and energy which he brought to his academic course work and finally to his major dissertion study on adult education in the church today. Certainly, his commitment to this program was evidence of his belief that learning is a lifelong task and that it is a vital part of the church's mission to be engaged in total education.
He'll Reach Out Even to Flunkers HARTFORD, Conn. (NC) Bishop Peter A. Rosazza, the first Spanish-speaking bishop in the history of the Hartford Archdiocese, was ordained at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, with Spanish music and a bilingual ceremony featuring his commitment to the Puerto Rican community. Bishop Rosaza, who is ItalianAmerican, is auxiliary bishop of Hartford, heads the archdiocesan
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died on Jan. 4, 1821. The memory she left was warm, for she had never ruled by domineering, but rather by loving and leading with an· irresistible charm which captivated both her sisters and her pupils.
Spanish apostolate, and has served as co-pastor of a predominantly Puerto Rican parish. "I hope you will be a prophet for liberation," Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford said during the ordination ceremony. As the congregation laughed, the archbishop said he hoped the new prelate would reach out "to those who speak Spanish and to those who never passed Spanish One."
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A EVANGELIZASAO A experi~ncia mais simples ens ina-nob que todo 0 homem se interroga, se encontra frente a frente, em certos momentos, com aspectos misteriosos da sua vida. Algumas dessas perguntas poderao ser respondidas pelo progresso cient!fico, cultural, social, po1{tico ou moral. Mas outras .... .. d interroga~oes persistem, nao se encontran 0 resposta que the venha daque1es campos. 0 homem nro pode atravessar a sua exist~ncia , terrena, sem se perguntar pe10 sentido ultimo da sua aventura humana. 0 homem nao , ~ apenas uma soma de problemas que varias tecnicas do saber e da organiza~~o ir~o resolver um dia, com exito abso1uto. ~ mist~rio para si mesmo e para os outros. E no centro das suas interrogasoes esta, a pergunta pe10 mistlrio. Tera a vida um sentido ultimo para escapar ao absurdo? Podera 0 homem vencer tantas a1ienajoes que,o subjugam ainda? E principa1mente, podera a1gum dia veneer as a1iena)~es fundame~tais do mal, da solid~o, da ang6stia, do erro, da morte? Que significa evange1izar e evange1izaJ.~o? Evange1izar ~ propor uma "nividade". Nao ~ fazer uma demonstras~o, mas propor uma Boa Nova, que ilumina as interroga~~es fundamentais da exist~ncia e a interpe1a para 1he dar uma resposta. o ponto da partida da evange1iza~ao este: 0 evangelizador, depois de se dar conta dessas interrogas~es fundamentais em si mesmo, entra em comunha"o com outros. Depois de estabe1ecer esta solidariedade e parti1har os mesmos problemas, prop3'e-1hes uma vida ' que ele mesmo esco1heu e que procura responder ao chamamento de Deus como Cristo 0 viveu e no-lo transmitiu no Evange1ho. Na verdade Cristo entrou no mundo e na hist~ria dos homens para viver inteiramente a condi~ao humana. "Em tudo igual aos homens, excepto no ' pecaQo". Foi assim que Cristo reve10u 0 sentido da sua exist~ncia. Romem, p1enamente homem, nao fugiu aos riscos e amiguidades da vida. Antes se propos resolver as suas contradi5~es. A sua presen~a, os seus actos, explicitados pelas suas pa1avras, formaram , essa Pa1avra da vida que "penetra ate a medula"; que pire em d,1vida, orienta, i1umina, move, converte; que constantemente se propoe, mas dao imp~e, at~ 1ibertar definitivamente , "Y' o homem da sua ultima a1ienasao, que e a morte. Pe10 anuncio da Boa Nova, feito por Cristo, sabemos que evange1izar nao ~ impor uma ideo10gia ou um sistema re1igioso que seja erecieo provar baseando-se em aigumentos. ~ antes uma atenfto profundidade da vida. Cada exist~ncia apresenta a profundidade do seu mist~rio, e Cristo, Pa1avra divina, ,. i1umina-a e reve1a-1he 0 seu sentido proprio. Se evangelizar A l chamar a tenclo de ~, outro para a experiencia da vida que a1guem j~ fez, ~ tamb~ dar-1he a conhecer aqui10 que s,e~ve de fundamento a convic51'0 da sua experiencia: a solidez da promessa de,. Deus. ,. Para Deus, falar e prometer. Cristo e a promessa "rea1izada", feita carne, entre1a~ada com a hist6ria. As promessas de Deus sao palavras de liberta~~o, dirigidas ao hom~m, propondo-lhe e prometendo~lhe a libertasao do mal, do absurdo, do erro, da solidto, da morte. Para Deus falar ~ promter, mas nro impor. Deus deixa intacta a liberdade humana mas propoe uma alian~a entre ele e 0 homem. Para 0 homem, escutar e abrir-se livremente a promessa de Deus e acreditar.
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GREENSBURG, Pa. (NC) When Greg Fisher was born 18 years ago in Pittsburgh, the doctor who delivered him suggested he be institJ,ltionalized immediately and that his parents never see him. Born with one arm extending only slightly below the elbow; a full arm with a crippled hand, two of the fingers of which grew together; and legs that ended just below the knees, Greg Fisher went home with his parents, against the doctor's advice. The deformities were caused by a virus his mother contracted in early pregnancy. Last month classmates at Greensburg Central Catholic High School stood and roared their approval as Greg Fisher walked across the stage at commencement ceremonies to receive the Bishop Lamb Award, which goes each year to the senior judged by classmates and teachers to be outstanding in personality, talent, aptitude, social skill, service and Catholic attitude. "He has been an inspiration to us," said his mother, Mrs. Marvin Fisher of Export, Pa. Greg Fisher's road from the hospital nursery to his triumphant graduation was arduous. . As a second grader, he was
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fitted for his first pair of artificial legs. Until then, he walk~d in specially fitted shoes. Corre::tive surgery was need~d to prepare his legs, and by t:le time he was 12, he had also undergone several operations on his hand.
He now enjoys generally excellent health. with a few problems. "Now I have this little problem with my legs wearing out," he says, "Since I've stopped growing, we haven't had to replace them, and the bearings in my knees go bad, I was really worried about one of them wilen I was dancing at the prom. :~y family says it's time forny 10,000-mile checkup."
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"Nobody cares about my opinion!" He had a book on ecology in one hand and a candy bar in the other. He looked tired, dusty, lonely. I met him in a Greyhound bus terminal and he told me he had been backpacking all' over New England. Our conversation began when he picked up a folder I was reading which had slipped to the floor. He was interested when I told him that I too am' an ecology buff. We talked some more, then the subject turned to religion. He said he was searching for Jesus and. searching for himself. "But I don't talk about these things with people. Nobody cares about my opinion. They think r'm nuts!" "I care," I said. "The people who care are like ships in the night. We meet them, then they disappear and we're lonely again."
I couldn't argue that one. We exchanged addresses. His bus arrived and out the d:>or went one of the nicest young men I'd ever met. Jesus is meeting young pecple like my backpacking friend more than halfway. We see tl'.em coming along the dusty roads, the asphalt roads, the p18ces where there are no roads at alI. He's there in the woods w nen they're lonely, ever-present, letting them talk and ramble lnd get it all out. Back in civilization you're not supposed to cry or 'be lonely or wish for something you haven't got. Recently II visited a young girl I hadn't seen in four year,;. I couldn't get over the change fn that young face. When I first met her she was vivacious, alI lit up with. me and expectations. What had happened? Who and what had put out the light? We talked for a long wnile. It wasn't a pretty story. WJrds alone do not help the Caroles of the world. They need someone
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When he began high school, where his classes were on any of three foors, Fisher became depressed, his mother, who has five younger children, said. "I told him he always wanted to be treated like everyone else" she said. "And that's what the kids at Central were doing. Of course very few of them knew at that point that he was walking on artificial legs. He cere tainly never advertised the fact." Despite his handicap, Fisher has earned a driver's license. He also rebuilt the family station wagon after. it was hit by a truck. His immediate plans are to earn enough money to pay for his own education. He will begin attending Gannon College in Erie, Pa., :in the fall, and plans eventually to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology to study photography. This summer, he is working at the Catholic Accent, newspaper of the Greensburg Diocese, as a photographer. Fisher's birthday is Jan. 22, on which day in 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down most state abortion laws. Since 1974, he has spent every birthday in Washington, D.C., walking with the pro-life marchers who seek to make abortion once again illegal in the United States.
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with them in their time of need. Answers and even solutions aren't eno".1gh. They .need physical presence, the right presence. People give too much advice over the phone. How can you look into a person's eyes over the phone? It's like dropping a dime in the beggar's hat and not taking the time to look into his face. What good are we if we cannot or will not participate in the loneliness of another? I like to see Jesus emphasized, not so much as Miracle Worker, but as one who identified with pain, lovelessness and rejection. It's that big, all-encompassing heart the lonely are seeking when they search for Jesus through another. Why are songs about loneliness so popular with youth? The question answers itself. It's not the multiplication of loaves al'ld fishes that makes Jesus so great. It's the tears He was able to shed, the arms he held out to the lonely, the safety they felt in those arms. They didn't have to go through any third degree in a cold office, listening to a cold voice. He knew, and He participated, and they felt it. You don't need a colIege education to care. Perhaps we've left too much to experts and people with degrees. That goes for the church, education and government. The ordinary person has more common sense than most of the experts!
By Charlie Martin
WE JUST DISAGREE Been away, haven't seen you In a while; How have you been? Have you changed your style? And do you think that we've grown up differently? Don't seem the same Seems you've lost your feel for me. So let's leave It alone, because we ean't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guyS; there ain't no bad guys. There's only you and me and we Just disagree. Pm going baek to a place that's far away• How about you - have yo~ got a plaee to stay? Why should I care, when I'm just trying to get along? We were friends, but now It's the end of our love song. Written by J. KnIeger, sung by Dave Mason, (e) Columbia Records, Ine. "We Just iDisagree" is a song about conflict and disagreement. Two people were close friends, perhaps even lovers. But conflict developed. Apparently they llad no creative way to deal with the feelings. Consequently, they parted, rather than work through the sit\lation together. Later they meet and confusing feelings arise in one of them. Perhaps he still cares, but this confuses him, for the anger and conflict also remain. So he states, "·Let's leave it alone, because we can't see eye to eye. There will be no new tries to resolve the conflict, for now it's the end of our love song." Conflict and disagreement are real factors in our lives. In any of our relationships we always remain individuals. We have individual values, ideas, and goals. They help form the person we are, and it is important that we diSCover which of these qualities authentically reflect us. Yet our values and ideas are not always in agreement with another. This is natural - a reflection of our own individuality. Even being in love is no magic situation where disagreements always resolve themselves. Other qualities are necessary, and the first is communication. Honest communication is work. It is not an automatic ingredient in a relationship. One of the sad feelings in this song is that it infers thai'"'lWo' people still care about each other. Yet the conflict seems to become an obstacle they cannot remove. The song gives no reason, and we can only infer. Certainly openness, respect, and even forgiveness are necessary parts of a growing relationship. They are key words in the gospel, and many times we hear Jesus chalIenge to be this type of person. Conflicts and disagreements will always be with us. Perhaps we can approach them a~ chances to build better relationships and to put the gQSpel into action in our lives.
Community for Singles ·FAIRLAWN, N.J. (NC) - In an attempt to provide a support system for singles who find that the average parish does not meet their needs, a group of priests, religious and lay persons has established a new type of community in the Newark Archdiocese. Called '\Berakah" - Hebrew for "Blessing" - the new community has six residential facilities for organizers and has set a limit of 12. The same facilities will provide a gathering place for young people associated with the community.
except for occasional "one-shot" faith experiences. There is very little "in the way of sustaining experience" for singles on the parish level, he added. Many parishes "plug people into 'work' things, such as teaching ceo," he said, but few offer singles something for their own enrichment.
Behind the move is Franciscan Father Richard Husted, a former retreat master.
Father Husted said Berakah hopes to attract young people between the ages of 18 and 30 who are attempting to defin'e their lifestyles in a Christian context. It will not be a religious' community nor will it stress formal membership or philosophy, he said.
Most parish programming is "geared for family involvement" and not to the needs of those in transition, said Father Husted. "We don't have much to offer people who are on their own,"
If the community can secure large enough quarters, sijch as a former convent. rooms will be rented to those desiring to live a community life, the Franciscan priest said.
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Taunton, Fall River Qualifiers Announced place in that division, and, Jelinski thus became the other qualifier. In the under-26 bracket, Gerry Gaborian and Paul Corcoran tied at 81 for first place. Gaborian broke the tie on the second extra hole to become the No. 1 qualifier. Corcoran, taking second place, will join Gaborian in the diocesans. Qualifying play in the Attleboro area was held last Tuesday but results were not available at press time. Qualifying tournaments in the New Bedford and Cape areas are scheduled for tomorrow. In New Bedford, play will be at the Country Club of New Bedford while the Cape qualifying round is set for Dennis Pines Country Club and the Bass River Country Club. . . The diocesan tournament IS scheduled for 1 p.m., on July ~1 at the Pocasset .Golf Course m Pocasset. It wIll be under the direction of Bill Doyle, of New Bedford. Each area of the ~iocese is e?t.it~ed to two entr~es m each dIvIsion. The two fmI' t ' h d' . . f h a .IS s m eac IVlslon t e .0 . diocesan tourney Will represent th F II R' D' . h e a Iver lOcese m t e Ned Englan~ .CYO tourney next month. AddItionally, the Marty H'Iggms . T rophy WI'11 b e award ed to the outstanding diocesan golfer. The late Mr. Higgins was golf pro at the Fall River Country Club for many years.
Soccer Schedules Released By Westport, Durfee Although it is still mid-summer, high school schedules for fall sports are arriving at this desk and among them are the soccer schedules for Westport High and Durfee High. Both schools open with away games on Sept. 20, Westport at Barnstable, Durfee at DennisYarmouth. They will again be away on Sept. 22, Westport at Diman Yoke, Durfee at Falmouth. In their first home appearances of the season. Westport will be host to Falmouth and Durfee to Diman on Sept. 27.
The remainder of the Westport schedule is: Sept. 29, at New Bedford; Oct. 4, Dennis-Yarmouth; 6, Taunton; 11, Durfee; 13, Barnstable; 18, Diman; 20, at Falmouth; 25, New Bedford; 27, at Dennis-Yarmouth; Nov. 1, at Taunton; 3, at Durfee; 6, Bishop Connolly High. Durfee's remaining games are Sept. 29, at Taunton; Oct. 4, Barnstable; 6, New Bedford High; 11, at Westport; 13, Dennis-Yarmouth; 18, Falmouth; 20, at Diman; 25, Taunton; 27, Barnstable; Nov. I, at New Bedford High; 3, Westport.
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As of press time the following golfers from Taunton and Fall River areas have qualified for the 19th annual C.Y.O. Diocesan Golf Tournament: From Taunton, Matthew Quintana was winner and Bill Bourque runnerup in the senior division for golfers under age 26. Bob Braga and Jack deCambra finished first and second, respectively, in the intermediate division for those under 19. In the junior division, under age 16, Mark Scowcroft topped the field with Michael Beaulieu finishing second. Tim Benoit and Don Denboy were first and second, respectively, in the cadet division, under 13. Playoffs were necessary in all but the under-13 division in the Fall River area competition. In that division John Coleman posted a 47 over nine holes to take first place. Don Daley, with 55 was the runnerup 'M'k C b '87' d l e a r erry s was goo . h' f e 0 h t i~ Ut~e ~n~:~16I~r Ir~t t PI~ce . ac e ut MIke Alves and Drew Chapman 'ed f th d I'f . tl or e secon qua I ymg berth 'th 89 AI h WI s. ves won t e sudden-death playoff on the 19th hole and will 'oin Ca _ b' . J r erry m the diocesan tourney. John Hackett, and Kevin Jelinski tied for the lead in the under-19 division. Hackett parred the 19th hole to gain first
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â&#x20AC;˘ news. tv, movie New Film "Stingray" (Avco Embassy): Two youths buy a car, unaware that its trunk contains a large quantity of heroin and monlty. A murderous trio, led by a vicious woman disguised as a nun, are after both items. The result is a movie-long car chase interspersed with brawls and violent kililngs. The violence and low moral tone are objectionable. Morally objectionable in part for all. Film on TV Monday, July 24, 9 p.m. (NBC) - "Breezy" (1973): William Holden is a recently divorced 50year-old businessman involved with a 17-year-old girl in this male soap opera which is offensive because of nudity and rough language. Morally objectionable in part for all. Tuesday, July 25, 8 p.rn. (CBS) - "Tom Sawyer" (1978): A delightful musical remake of the Mark Twain classic starring Johnny Whitaker as Tom, Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly and Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher. Morally unobjectionable for all. (Second of two parts.) Tuesday, July 25, 9 p.m. (NBC) - "Darker Than Amber" (1970): Rod Tayor is a Florida salvage operator who saves a mysterious woman from drowning and, after the subsequent murder, tracks down the killers. Taut and well acted but excessively violent. Morally ol;>jectionable in part for all. Tuesday, July 25, 9 a.m. (CBS) - "Man on a Swing" (1974): A shopping center murder leads to intriguing complications involving a clairvo>\ant. Despite a plot full of holes, there are fine performances by Cliff Robertson as a dogged police chief and Joel Grey as an erratic medium. Morally unobjectionable for adults. "Friday, July 28, 9 p.rn:. (ABC) - "Beautiful But Deadly" (1973): Titled "The Don is Dead" in its 1973 release, this violent, dull
non-variation on "The Godfather" adds absolutely nothing to the original. Anthony Quinn is in the Brando role; like his model, Quinn has a hard time keeping youngsters out of trouble in the narootics trade, preferring himself to stick with loansharking and similar "clean" trades. This is the sort of cheap rip-off that has given Hollywood filmmakers a bad reputation. Morally objectionable in part for all. Friday, July 28, 9 p.rn. (CBS) - "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970): Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) looks for a missing husband, and his search takes him to Loch Ness where he meets the monster and several other people. Uncertain in tone - hovering between respect and ridicule -the film is only moderately entertaining. Morally unobjectionable for adults. Saturday, July 29, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Juggernaut" (1974): A luxury liner is hit with a bomb threat. Richard Harris is the heroic leader of a team sent to dismantle the explosives, a grand, fast and suspenseful entertainment. Morally unobjecttionable for adults and adolescents.
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The Parish Parade are asked to contact William Manville, 673-8181, or Jolm Stevens, 678-9127.
Publicity chairman of parish organizations are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be included as well as full dates of all activities. please send news of future rather than past events. Notel We do not carry news of fund raising activities such as bingos, whlsts, dances, suppers and bazaars. We are happy to carry notices of spiritual programs, club meetings, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities. Fundraislng projects may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675-7151.
Youth Director WASHINGTON ~C) - A 23year-old woman has been namEd representative for youth activities in the U.S. Catholic Conference and director of the Nation 11 CYO Federation, filling a p::ut formerly held by priests. Marisa Guerin, specialist. ;n youth activities in the usee Education Department for the past three years, succeeds Fatlwr Rudy Beranek.
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SOMERSET Rev. John Raposo will be homilist at 11 a.m. Mass Sunday, July 30, when parishioners observe the feast of St. John of God. ST. STANISLAUS. FALL RIVER A class for apprentice acolytes will begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 24. Boys entering 4th grade or above are eligible and must bring a note of permission from parents to the first class. Parish festival awards winners are Helena Desrochers Bee Shanahan, Robert Tabak' and Barbara Rasmussen. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER A CYO trip to Nauset Beach has been canceled. A Marriage Encounter informaHon night will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 30 in Father Coady Center. All are welcome and refreshments will be served. ,Parishioners with donations for an auction to be held at the annual picnic Saturday, Aug. 12
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".But I never saw any real opening to work full time," Straub said. That :s, until he watched WPIX, an independent New York station, broadcast the nationally popular CBN program, "The 700 Club."
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That desire had taken him into the permanent diaconate program in his home diocese of Paterson, 1\.J., and he worked for a time with Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter in the Covenant House for runaway· teenagers in Manhattan.
"The 700 Club," said Straub, "is a talk show, a lot like the Johnny Carson Show." It's founder and host, who started CBN 18 years ago in Portsmouth, Va., is the Rev. Marion G. Robertson, a lawyer, businessman and minister, described by some as "the next Billy Graham." Straub, intrigued by the show, wrote to CBN offering his services. He was interviewed and subsequently hired as assistant general manager of operations and once-a-week director of "The 700 Club." He left his New Jersey parish in the middle of training for the permanent diaconate, but will continue preparation in the Richmond, Va. Diocese. After nearly 15 years at CBS, Straub also relinquishes seniority and security to go with CBN. "I really believe strongly the Lord is calling me there," he said. "I really feel I have something to offer. This is a tremendous opportunity to serve God with the experience he has allowed me to have at CBS," he added. Straub is excited about the future of CBN, whose $50-miIIion world headquarters is under construction on a 200-acre site in Virginia Beach. "I believe it's going to be the fourth TV network," said Straub. It is "an alternative," Straub added, "offering entertainment drama, movies and situation comedies that are truly family ori-
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HARTFORD, Conn. (NC) Gov. Ella Grasso of Connecticut has signed a bill providing state money for busing private school students and another requiring nearly all stores to be closed on Sundays. Both measures were strongly supported by Catholic groups.
Censorship Scored SAO PAULO, Brazil (NC) i Cardinal Evaristo Arns of Sao:" Paulo has sharply criticized a recent decision by Brazil's Supre~e Court upholding govern. ment censorship of the Catholic weekly 0 Sao Paulo.