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Mass. Senators Are Target

Of Pro-Life Marchers

TWO MARYKNOLL BISHOPS, both from the Fall River diocese, will mark their golden jubilees of ordination to the priesthood on Saturday. Left, Bishop Joseph W. Regan of Fairhaven; right, Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy of New Bedford. Story, other pictures on page 5.

Massachusetts Senators Paul Tsongas and Edward Kennedy were the particular targets of pro-life action during Monday's sixth annual March for Life in Washington.

The demonstration" which drew some 60,000 participants from all parts of the nation, including many from this diocese, marked the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decisions striking down most state laws against abortion.

Sen. Tsongas clashed with a large contingent of Massachusetts people who arrived in his office in mid-morning.

One pro-lifer later said that Tsongas responded to threats to withhold support by saying it would be better for his family

i( he were unseated. "He was very nasty and quite upset," said the pro-lifer. An aide to Tsongas confirmed that the clash had taken place, but said the newly-elected senator also told the group he respected their position and expecte~ them to respect his.

cular disfavor with the crowd.

More than 100 pro-lifers from Massachusetts squeezed into Senator Kennedy's office, urging him to address the question of when life begins. The senator, who appeared nervous in the presence of so many critical constituents, pointed toward his Tsongas, who repeatedly op- own proposal for teen-age pregposed pro-life measures while he nancy centers, which he said served in the House of Repre- will decrease pro-abortion pressentatives, "feels the Supreme sures on girls.

Preceding the confrontations Court decision was appropriate," with members of Congress, mor~ the aide said. than 1000 buses had converged Tsongas was not the. only on Washington in the early Massachusetts official to feel the hours of Monday. heat of the pro-lifers. Rep. RobDemonstrators, many making ert Drinan, the Jesuit former their sixth trip to the capital, dean of Boston College Law seemed more sure of themselves School, and Sen. Edward M." than in the past.

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New World Welcomes Pontiff As Histo~ic 路Journey Begins

CHANGE IS IN 'FHE AIR for Dominican Sisters of Presentation in Fall Riv.r as Sister Marie Ascension, shown with Miss Helen Kenney at St. Anne's Hospital, prepares to visit community's missions in India. She is being succeeded as provincial superior by Sister Mary Patricia, former regionfll superior in India, shown at final vows ceremony for an Indian sister. Story, other picture on page 3.

Pope John Paul II arrives today in the Dominican Republic to begin his historic week-long stay in the New World. It will include five days in Mexico, where he will preseide at the opening of the third general assembly of the Latin American bishops, and a brief stop in the Bahamas on his return trip to, Rome.

By the time the trip is over on Jan. 31, several million Mexican and Dominican citizens will have seen him in person and additional millions of other Latin Americans will have. seen路him on television or heard him on radio.

The papal trip put the third general assembly of the Latin American bishops, on the theme of evangelization, in the international limelight.

In addition, in Mexico, where the vast majority of people are at least nominally Catholic but where anticlerical laws restrict even priestly dress and prevent priestly missionary activity from abroad, the visit could have political as well as religious implications.

The Polish pope's choice of a Catholic Third World country for' his first trip abroad as pontiff was regarded as an important symbol of the directions his papacy may take in the years ahead.

When he announced the trip on Dec. 22 at his Christmas meeting with Rome's cardinals,

he referred approvingly to comments by others that "the future of the church is at stake in Latin America."

The Mexico trip, with its natural focus on evangelization, will certainly give pope-watchers a much clearer idea of the future of John Paul's papacy. By the end of the trip he probahly will have had more media coverage in one week than he received in all of the first three months of his pontificate combined.

In those first three months, Pope John Paul quickly showed a strong consciousness of symbolism. And his Mexico trip is designed to include several symbolic actions.

In Santo Domingo, the pontiff will be greeted by prelates from Latin America and the United States, including Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston and Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York.

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Tuition Credits Resurface In Catholic Schools Week With the slogan "Next to the Typical of school programs is Family, the Catholic School" that planned at St. Anne's and emphasizing the diocesan School, Fall River, where pupils jubilee year and the Internation- will make get-well cards for hosal Year of the Child, parochial pital patients, write essays on schools are observing Catholic the value of Catholic education Schools Week from Monday and make posters and banners through next Friday. Coincident- for the school and church. ally, tuition tax credit bills are Throughout the week "Apprebeing reintroduced in the Cong- 'ciation Days" will recognize ress. teachers and other school workDuring the week schools will ers, pupils and parents. A family hold open house programs for day will center on an at-home parents and friends, celebrate project for each family and a special liturgies and accept reg- prayer day will include a Mass istrations for next year, said honoring Schools Week and St. Sister Marion Geddes, RSM, dio- Thomas Aquinas, patron of cesan superintendent of schools. Catholic schools.

Radio announcements will also Coincidentally, on the nationcall attention to the observance, al scene educators are heartenshe said.

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d5. People.Places.Events-NC News Briefs ill Amnesty Asks Intervention

Priest Sentenced

LONDON-Amnesty International has asked the Catholic bishops of Latin America to intervene personally in cases of political prisoners, tortures, disappearances and killings in their countries.

VATICAN CITY - A judge in Milan Italy, sentenced a priest to four monthr and 10 days in jail for reminding doctors that they could conscientiously object to performing abortions. "The spiral of legalized repression has begun," said L'Osservatore 'Romano, Vatican daily, in commenting on the sentencing of Father Onorio Tosini, provincial superior of the Hospitaller Order ~f St. John.

Portuguese Pastoral, LISBON, Portugal-In a pastoral letter on the International Year of the Child, the bishops of Portugal praised accomplishments in child care and added that the right to life must be respected. "From the moment of conception the child is a human being with inalienable rights which must be defended," the latter said.

Aid for Divorced

ABP. JOSEPH-AURELE PlOURDE of Ottawa wants Ottawa Catholic schools to stop using a U.S. produced sex education course, would prefer a locally developed series.

TOLEDO, Ohio-Recently divorced persons in the Toledo Diocese need not spend time alone after their family has broken up nor try to make important decisions without feedback. Instead, they can take advantage of the diocese's Junction House and Hospice House program!' lccording to Franciscan Brother Martin Massier, founder of the programs.

Dutch Church Woes VATICAN CITY-The divisions within the Dutch Catholic Church may have been key topics of conversation in the Vatican as two important members' of the Dutch hierarchy came to Rome for meetings with Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Jan Willebrands, pres-ident of the Dutch Bishops Confere'nce, and Bishop Odrian J. Simonis of Rotterdam, Netherlands, a spokesman for conservative Catholics, met separately with the pope.

Haita Aid Asked MIAMI - Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy of Miami has appealed to President Jimmy Carter to offer asylum to "a relatively small and insignificant number of refugees from the poorest and one of the most downtrodden peoples of this hemisphere, one of our closest neighbors, Haiti."

ERA Supported

FATHER GEORGE ALMEIDA has been named Taunton area spiritual director for' the Men of the Sacred Hearts. '

WASHINGTON-Eight representatives of local and national religious groups, including the executive director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, met for half an hour Jan. 15 with Rosalynn Carter to express support for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Wbite House meeting was part of four "national days of prayer and action.... for the ERA sponsored by the Religious Committee for the Equal Rights Amendment and ERAmerica.

Pope Threatened ROME""';'A rightist group threatened to bomb St. Peter's Square at a time when Pope John Paul II will be speaking there, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

ANSA said it received an anonymous phone call from a woman saying she represented the rightist Green Brigades. She said the group would "drop a bomb on St. Peter's Square while the pope is speaking. The plan is ready."

IFeliow-Sinners BIll CLEMMER of South Yarmouth, a Boston College senior, was among 78 students particip8:ting in a miclwinter service program in Appal~chia directed by Glenmary Home 'Missioners.

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WASHINGTON - "Mr. President, Mrs. Carter, my fellow-sinners." That's the way Archbishop Fulton Sheen, 81, opened his address to the 27th annual National Prayer Breakfast - to a response that began with nervous laughter and ended with applause among the 3,000 people in the audience.

Reluctant Police WASHINGTON-Pro-life activists too!to the steps of the U.S. Supreme' Couri building last week - an area strictly offlimits to demonstrators - as they continued to step up the tactics which have resulted in numerous arrests for many of them. Approximately 25 demonstrators mounted the steps as Supreme Cour policemen closed in. The police appeared reluctant to arrest the demonstrators.

Czech Harassmen'{ VATICAN CITY - Vatican Radio r ported that regional administrative all thorities in Czechoslovakia have been in cre'asingly depr,iving priests of the author ization needed to carry out their ministry.

The authol1ities have taken these step' against the wishes of the bishops and of the laity served by the priests, Vatican Radio reported,

COED PEARL BAILEY, famed actress-singer, is just another stu'tent waiting in line for basketball :eason tickets at Georgetown University, where she is a sophomore.

Sister Protests WASHINGTON-The executive director of Network, an organization of nuns and others lobby,ing on social justice issue~ has told President Jimmy Carter, "It be comes increasingly difficult to believe that women's concerns and by extension the concerns of the poor and other minorities, are really taken seriously by your administration." Dominican Sister Carol Coston made her charges in a letter to Carter protesting his firing of Bella Abzug as co-chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Women.

Churches Interfering?

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-Nowhere do the signs of crisis for the farmer "show more clearly than in our churches, where spiritual faith and a belief in God are often relegated to the background as church leadership pursues secular goals," This was part of an attack on alleged interference by churches in the nation's agriculture made by Allen Grant, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation at its national convention in Miami Beach.

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CARDINAL ANTONIO, SAMORE talks to newsmen following his shut- , tie diplomacy o'n behalf of Chile and Argentina, engaged in a border dispute.

Guidelines Issued NEW YORK-In an effort to set the , stage for "a more reasonable handling of opposing views on homosexuality and abortion," the National Council of Churches' Commission on ,Faith and Order has issued guideline,S for ecumenical debate on those issues. The guidelines do not take a stand, but support the right of churches to influence public policy.

Shared Minestry DETROIT-Two eastside Detroit parishes have embarked on an innovative program of "shared ministry," which 'has been described as possible solution to the shortage of priests ;in the United States. 'Father Edward Wojdyla, pastor of St. David Parish, and his, associate Father John R. Chateau "will render pastoral care to Patronage of St. Joseph Parish," Both parishes will continue to operate as autonomous, separate entities.

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SCENES LIKE THIS at the U.S. Supreme Court were repeated frequently at Monday's sixth annual March for Life demonstr~tion in Washington.

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Ordination Set For James Mayo Rev. Mr. James M. Mayo of Our Lady of the Isle parish, Nantucket, will be ordained for the diocese of Savannah on Monday night in Warner Robins, Ga. Following a Mass and reception next Tuesday in Warner Robins, the new priest will offer a Mass of thanksgiving at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2 at Our Lady of the Isle. A reception will follow at Knights of Columbus Hall..

Rev. Mr. Mayo is the son of Mrs. Ellie J. Mayo of the Nantucket parish. His vocation to the priesthood received national attention following magazine and newspaper stories relating his bitterness after the death of his young wife and son in childbirth.

"I was very angry with God," he said. But over the years his attitude changed as he became involved in politics, ·Boy Scouting and work. At one time he held four jobs in an effort to keep himself occupied, and eventually became a policeman in Warner Robins.

He said he decided on the priesthood "after completing a project to raise money for a Boy Scout camp. When that was done, he realized he had run out of things to do," according to an Associated Press story.

"I took a vacation and played golf and I said 'yes' to the Lord.

That's when I made my peace and I felt relieved, happy," the story quoted him as saying.

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IN THIS 1971 PHOTO, Sister Patricia (left) and Sister Marie Claire (right) were leaving to establish their community's Indian mi ssion as Sister Marie Ascension, then provincial superior, bade them farewell. Now Sister Patricia is returning as superior and it's Sister Ascension's turn to visit India. Sister Marie Claire' was named a provincial councillor at the elections that brought the other changes.

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By Pat McGowan "With a mixture of joy and sadness, of expectation and regret, the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation of the Province of the United States express their deep gratitude to Sister Mary 'Patricia for having accepted to serve them and to Sister Marie Ascensi.on "for having served them so well."

With those graceful words the Dominican Sisters of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, Marian Manor, Taunton, and Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, announced the election of Sister Mary Patricia Sullivan to succeed Sister Marie Ascension as provincial superior.

Sister Mary Patricia comes to her new post from Kuttikad, Kerala State, India where she has since 1971 supervised establishment of a mission of her community. And Sister Ascension will leave for India on Feb. 1 to give temporary assistance to the community there.

Looking back on her years in Fall River, where she came from France as a young religious in 1949, Sister Ascension said' she had enjoyed every· minute of her w"ork at St. Anne's Hospital.

She nursed there and was on the faculty of the former school of nursing until 1965, when she succeeded the late Mother Pierre Marie as hospital administrator and provincial superior.

When asked if she missed the actual work of nursing, she said wistfully, "Yes . . . yes," but chuckled and added "These days, if you're out· of nursing for six months, it's a whole new world.

I would need a complete orientation to get back in the field."

The !joft-spoken religious said she had "schoolroom English" when she came to the United States and "really learned my English on the floor of CP2," the former designation of a pri-

vate-room ward at St. Anne's.

She spoke with enthusiasm of India, which she will be visiting for the sixth time, noting that the community in eight -years has established a 14-bed hospital and a novitiate and also teaches with another congregation in a parochial school.

She said vocations are flourishing there. "Our only problem is that we can't take all who apply 'because our novitiate is too small." ·Leaving her demanding Fall River job, Sister Ascension's parting wish is that St. Anne's Hospital obtain its pending certificate of need, enabling it to proceed with long-planned new construction.

For herself, her wants. are simple. "I'm brjnging just my clothes. I think we have a lot to learn from India in the way of simple living and I also think that the Dominican spirit of simplicity and joy blends well with the Indian culture."

Sister Mary Patricia Sister Mary Patricia's election marks the first time an American sister has been named provincial superior of the Dominicans of the Presentation.

The new leader is a native of SS. Peter and Paul parish, Fall River, and is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sullivan. She attended SS. Peter and Paul School and graduated from the former Sacred Hearts Academy in 1949 and from St. Anne's Hospital School of Nursing in 1952.

She entered the Dominican community in 1953. After her novitiate at the motherhouse in Tours, France, she was assigned "to Bagdad, Iraq, where she served in a clinic for 11 years.

She returned to St. Anne's Hospital for four years, then went to India. In her years there, she has seen 18 Indian sisters

join the community.

As superior, she will take up residence in the Dighton provincial house of the community.

Her responsibilities will include direction of houses in Washington, D.C. and Texas as well as in India and this diocese.

Serving with Sister Patricia as provincial councillors will be Sister Irene Therese Brodeur, Sister Marie William Lapointe, Sister Marie Claire Salois and Sister Michael Joseph Midura.

Elected as delegates to the community general chapter to be held in Rome in July were, in addition to Sister Patricia, an exofficio delegate, Sister Ascension, Sister Marie William and Sister Michael Joseph.

The elections took place at a provincial chapter meeting held this month at the community's Dighton house. The main task of the meeting was to revise the constitutions of the congregation in preparation for the July chapter.

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themoori~ The Boat People; Today/s Lazarus

In spite of the inflated American economy, have you ever really taken into consideration what people pay for dog and cat food? In most large supermarkets an entire aisle is devoted to pleasing the pet. Millions of dollars are spent each year in advertising to help the American public discern the development cycle of the family animal. From dog and cat country clubs to stores that cater to extravagant pet accessories, many Americans try to make a family pet human while at the very same time they treat their fellow humans in need like animals.

The perfect example of this 'crass indifference on the very lowest level of the ladder is the crisis of the so-called boat people. Thousands of Vietnamese are stranded aboard rotting hulks in the waters of southeastern Asia looking for freedom and justice.

Crowded like animals into floating cells, they are subject to the torture of the damned. Babies die, parents despair, the elderly starve. The hope of home is but a fleeting dream. The feeing of freedom is encased in despair.

The lamp of life itself is dimmed by injustice.

In this land where so many, even the pets, have so very much, the problem of the boat people is far removed from the reality of our lives. People are caught up in their own affairs or they somehow hope that if ignored the stranded refugees wm disappear from their television screens.

I This indeed is a sad but revealing commentary on our society and that of the entire so-called "civilized and free" 路world. It is more than evident that our Western scale of values has been destroyed in the abundance of a materialism gone mad. We have become jaded with the things of this world to such an extent that we have forgotten the gospel message of Lazarus, that beggar full of sores that , lay at the rich man's gate.

It would be well if we recalled how these two men completed their days. The beggar was carried off by angels, Luke tells us, while the rich man was buried in hell.

When people begin to ignore, overlook and avoid their brothers and sisters in need, then the unfortunate are not those who are the captives of man's madness but rather those who have lost all sense of responsibility to their fellows. .

It is true that this country and our Canadian neighbors have made noble gestures of intent. However, people are still dying in these ships of hell while diplomats play with their lives.

At one time this nation was home for the world's homeless. The Statue of Liberty in New York bears witness to that with its inscription: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Today, although these words are seemingly read only by tourists, they should be applied to the stranded boat people of southeast Asia.

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Communication Funds Hearings Set WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops will sponsor six days of public hearings during March to accept recommendations of priorities for using the national share of the Catholic Communication C If m p a i g n , which will be held for the first time in parishes throughout the country on May 27.

The hearings were scheduled for March 7-8 in Washington, March 14-15 in Chicago and March 21-22 in Los Angeles after a meeting iq New York of the U.S. Catholic Conference Communication Committee, chaired

by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph _R. Crowley of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind. The committee is responsible for promoting the campaign, conducting the consultation and recommending policy on the use of national funds.

The communication collection was approved by a vote of the U.S. bishops in November and could raise up to $7 million annually. Half of the funds will be distributed on a national basis by the bishops and half will remain in the dioceses for local media-related activities.

The theme of the first collection - which will be held in most dioceses on May 27, World Communications Day is "Share My Joy." The phrase is from the Gospel reading for the Mass of May 27, drawn from

John's account of the discourse of Christ at the last Supper.

At the New York meeting, members of the' usec committee decided that interested individuals and groups unable to attend a hearing will have until April 1 to submit comments in writing. Participants in the hearings will also be required to submit summaries of their recommendations in writing in advance.

Hearings in each city' will be preceded by a meeting of those designated as diocesan directors of the campaign with members of the USCC committee and departmental staff to review national and diocesan promotion plans. Educational and promotional materials directed to pastors, diocesan directors, educators and famili'es will be distributed widely in connection with the campaign.

A synthesis of recommendations received through the consultation will be prepared by the bishops' Public. Affairs Office and reviewed in May by a group of advisors now being appointed

by Bishop Crowley. A staff report. based on the synthesis and the advisors' responses will be reviewed by the Communication Committee at a meeting June 1314 in Washington.

The committee's final recommendations concerning use of

the funds received at the national level will then undergo the customary internal staff and committee process by which USCC budgets and programs are formulated for submission to other bishops at their semi-annual general meeting in November.

A 1976 survey indicated that U.S. bishops would like to see the national funds go to such projects as the production and distribution of television and radio programs and spot announcements; increased use of cable TV and other new and emerging electronic media; training of church-related" communication personnel; and special projects to assist the Catholic press.

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AT WORK IN THE MISSIONS, Bishop Joseph W. Regan (left) ministers to Filipino parishioners; Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy administers Two Maryknoll bishops, both fron;l the Fall River diocese, will mark their golden jubilees of ordination to the priesthood this Saturday.

They are IBishop Frederick A. Donaghy of New B~dford and . Bishop Joseph W. Regan of Fairhaven.

Both will observe the day at their mission stations, Bishop Donaghy in Taiwan and Bishop Regan in the Philippines, but offica Is at the Maryknoll motherhouse in New York said they expect them to return to the U.S. in June for the community's traditional annual celebration for jubilarians.

sacrament of baptism in Taiwan. Both bishops will celebrate their golden jubilees Saturday at their mission station. .

Maryknoll Bishops Mark Jubilees

At the outbreak of World War II in 1941, Bishop Donaghy remained in Wuchow carrying on extensive relief and service programs. Placed under house arrest by the Communists in 1950, he was imprisoned for nine months, then expelled to Hong Kong.

Subsequently the bishop was appointed regional superior of the Maryknoll Fathers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines. He directed mission activities in these areas until the late 60's.

Among his accomplishments was the foundation in 1958 of Bishop Donaghy the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts, Ordained in 1929, Bishop Don- the first women's community aghy has spent most of his re- founded in the Taipei diocese of ligious life in the Far East. He Taiwan. Its members serve in began his mission work in Kay- parishes, especially those with ing City, South China, where he' no resident priests. served under Maryknoll Bishop His current ministry includes Francis X. Ford. After 10 years, work with aborigines living in he was appointed prefect of the the mountain areas of the Hsinadjoining Wuchow mission re- chu diocese. Seventy-six this gion with a population of three month, he still walks mountain million. Named Bishop of Wu- paths to visit his people. chow in 1939, he was consecraBishop Donaghy is the son of ted in the diocese of Fall River the late Mr. and Mrs. James J. on September 21 of that year.

Donaghy of New Bedford. He attended city public schools and graduated from Holy Cross College, Worcester, in 1925. He Necrology I路 studied at St. Mary's Seminary, February 2 Baltimore, Md., before entering Most Rev. William Stang, Maryknoll in 1928.

D.O., 1907, First Bishop of Fall Another brother, the late River, 1904-1907 Father William S. Donaghy, S.J., Rev. IPatrick F. McKenna, was president of Holy Cross 1913, Pastor, Immaculate Con- College, Worcester. ception, Taunton Bishop Regan Rev. John L. McNamara, 1941, Ordained in 1929, Bishop RePastor, Immaculate Conception, gan has spent his 50 years as Fall River a missioner in China and the Rev. P. Roland Decosse, 1947, Philippines. He began his misPastor, St. Hyacinth, New Bed- sion career in Wuchow, China in ford 1929. Five years later he was February 3 assigned to the Kwelin area as Rev. Antonio O. Ponte, 1952, Vicar delegate of Wuchow. From Pastor, Our Lady of Angels, Fall 1938 to 1948 he served as SociRiver ety Superior for the Maryknoll Fathers in that area.

February 4 Rt. Rev. Hugh J. Smyth, P.R., Remaining in China during 1921, Pastor, St. Lawrence, New World War II, Bishop Regan was, Bedford, First Vicar General, like -Bishop Donaghy, placed Fall River 1904-1907, Adminstra- under house arrest by the Communists in 1950. After six weeks tor of Diocese Feb.-July 1907

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in solitary confinement, he was released and sent to Hong Kong.

Named Bishop of the Tagum diocese in northern Davao, Mindanao, in 1962, he was consecraThe following year he was . ted there on April 25. appointed group superior of the first mission team to work in He is a leading spokesman on Lipa, north of Manila. In 1956 basic issues of justice and peace, he became vicar superior of the taking a firm stand against vioPhilippines, then regional sup- lations of human rights. erior.

Born in Fairhaven on April 5,

1905, Bishop Regan is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William D. Regan. He attended Fairhaven High School and graduated from Boston College in 1925. He studied at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N.Y., for two years, before entering Maryknoll in 1927.

Bishop Regan has one sister, Sister Rita Marie, M.M., a Maryknoll Missioner stationed in Taiwan.

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A Strong Defense of Archbishop Rembert Weakland By

REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

It's unusual for me to defend hierarchs but I rise to defend the archbishop of Milwaukee against the absurd charge of making disparaging remarks about the pope.

I am in a unique position to know what Archbishop Rembert Weakland thinks about John Paul II. Over three years ago, I hap-

pened to have supper with him in Rome. I asked him who he thought the next pope would be. At the very top of his list of non-Italian candidates was Archbishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow - a man unknown to most papal prognosticators at the time.

After the controversy in Milwaukee erupted, I dug out my notes from that supper conversation to make sure I remembered correctly. At that time I noted that Abbot Weakland said of the archbishop that he was a strong and gifted man who would make a superb pope and would be a great surprise to

those who thought of him only as a theological conservative.

When I saw news accounts of the controversial press conference, I said to myself, "Baloney. I know what he really thinks about the new pope and his convictions are incompatible with these reports."

It may be argued that he ought to have been more careful of the words he used, since one is responsible to see that one's words are not torn out of context. Perhaps. Yet as one who has winced at what local reporters can do to a lecture, I can testify that the only way to prevent an inept and/or mali-

Tho,ulghts on Wee\k of By MARY CARSON

As a child and young adult I went to Catholic schools where I receved a solid foundation in the Catholic faith.

The catechism 'p!ovided me with answers if someone "outside the faith" questioned me.

But no matter how perfectly I knew the answers, if they didn't fit my friends' questions, they did little to explain the faith. .. IBut there was a greater djsadvantage. Some teachers tried to give the impression that only those with the faith would be saved. Those' outside should be converted, but prime importance had to be placed on preserving your own faith. Therefore, unless you were competent to convert outsiders, it was safest to avoid

.dous reporter from destroying is to say nothing at all.

The irony of the attacks on Archbishop Weakland is that he' probably knows more about Polish culture and society than almost any other non-Polish hierarch in the country. As primate of the Benedictines he often visited Poland and is extremely well informed on its problems.

The Poles are a proud, passionate and witty people. They have been pushed around in this country, even by the Church.

They have a lot of things to be mad about.

There is, however, a certain

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discussions of religion with nonCatholics for fear ,of being swayed in your own beliefs. .

As a result, I rarely discussed religion with anyone 'outside the faith. In fact, I rarely discussed religion with Catholics. What need was there? I had all the answers.

That, I believe now, was the greatest loss.

I find richness in the thoughts of other people. But I can only learn if my mind is open. If I go into a discussion firmly con-

kind of "ethnic" (we all have them . . . Poles, Italians, Irish, whatever) who is so obsessed with past wrongs that he can't tell friends from enemies.

When I first began my study of American ethnic groups, there were some Poles who were convinced that if an Irish priest was studying Poles he was up to no good.

With time, this propensity to see enemies even among your friends may pass. In the meantime, one must say to those Poles who are climbing all over Archbishop Weakland. "You should be so lucky as to have more friends like him."

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vinced that the other person is wrong, I don't listen.

For so many years I missed opportunities of learning how other people think. In fact, it is only recently that I've begun to recognize the importance of efforts toward ecumenism.

Sometimes there are differences but I can't believe that God expects all of us to think the same way about all things at all times. If God were fond of sameness, why are there myriad differences in His handiwork?

If outward differences are a

part of God's work, then why have I feared mental differences?

Why can't people hold different points of view? I think I was afraid of differences because I have seen them lead to arguments, rifts, even wars. I believed the way to peace was sameness, having all people believe the same thing.

That hasn't worked.

The way cannot be through sameness, but in learning to accept that others can hold a different point of view' without it destroying a relationship.

Church Priorities in the 96th Congress Listed By JIM CASTELLI

With the opening of the 96th Congress, Catholic and other church groups will pick up where they left off on some legislative battles and begin some new ones.

- There is a good deal of grassroots support for some new programs. and Congress may come up with some surprises.

On the domestic side, church

groups are likely to pay closer attention to the budget process because of the· controversy surrounding the Carteradministration's "austerity" budget.

- Groups will be working to increase funding in areas such as housing, jobs, food, health, education and welfare programs, but initial soundings from Congress make it likely that on a number of issues the churches will be defending the Carter budget against further cuts, particularly in the case of urbanpolicy initiatives.

National health insurance, which haS solid church backing, will be debated heavily in the new Congress. Press coverage

was focused on the differences between President Carter and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on this issue because of potential political conflict between the two.

But differences between Carter and Kennedy are far smaller than the differences between either of them and the powerful medical interests who want at most minimal changes in the health-care system.

The churches are also very interested in welfare reform.

There appears no chance for a major overhaul of the system but Congress may pass a scaleddown reform.

The issue of federal funding for abortion will come up· again and Catholic right-to-life offices are still working for a constitutional amendment to end legal abortion.

Tuition tax credits will be an issue again; the U.S. bishops plan to continue lobbying for them.

On another education issue, the U.S. Catholic Conference will continue to oppose creation of a separate cabinet Department of Education, which they believe would be stacked against private-school students. A number of predominantly Catholic Hispanic organizations, on the other hand, believe such a department

would strengthen bilingual education.

The National Conference of Catholic Charities will work for extension of Medicaid benefits to unwed mothers pregnant for the first time; such women a.re often cut off from benefits and have a financial incentive to abort.

Charities will also work for federal subsidies for the adoption of hard-to-place children and for improvements in Social Security.

Church groups will work for passage of an emergency international grain reserve, a proposal which died in the last days of the 95th Congress. .

New S,ul,it Silhouettes on Spring's Fas·hi!o,n Horizon By .

MARILYN RODERICK

The first fashions for resort wear are the robins of the fashion world. While most of us are not heading south, just a peek at what they will be wearing below the Mason-Dixon line can conjure up dreams of a day when the temperature will reach 70 and the winds will blow only from the south.

Pale colors will shine; cream,

peach, white, and pale pastels will be found in sweaters, slacks, skirts and above all suits. With the pales watch for a shock of color, hot pink, turquoise, bright yellow, to set off any type tan.

Many of the pales will be found in suits belted with narrow brightness, for slimness will be the word. Suits, dresses, slacks will be narrow and bodyclOSe, with gathers and fullness going the way of the north wind.

As separates have become a popular part of most cost-conscious women's wardrobes, because of their versatility, designers will coordinate many of their tops and bottoms with jackets. Muted plaids will accompany campanion solids and mix and match will be the game

for smart women.

Let's return to the belted suit because it's going to be. the one most important purchase this spring. The jacket is broad at the shoulders and nipped in at the waist. In most cases the belt is of a different materal than the suit, suede, leather, or a glossy patent, and waist-circling, to say the least, so back to the diets. Skirts vary from loosely pleated to slender and split.

Accenting these suits will be high-heeled sandals, printed scarfs and low-necked' blouses topped by a neck accent.

While. it certainly is difficult to think of spring with winter surrounding us, it is the time to pick up the best for spring. Designers generally place their top styles on the racks in late Jan-

uary and early February and by April, when we are thinking

spring, summer fashions dominate the scene.

Former CU Dean In Poverty Law WASHINGTON (NC) - The community. former dean of the law school The project, which will also of the Catholic· University of be run by Harvard law profesAmerica will join an experimen- sors Gary Bellow and Jeanne tal neighborhood legal service Kettleson, will take 25 students, project, envisioned as a "mini- who will spend their final year West Point" for poverty lawyers. of law school dealing entirely E. Clinton Bamberger, execu- with poverty law. tive vice president of the federBesides his Catholic Univerally funded Legal Services Cor- sity post, Bamberger has been a poration, will resign that post partner in a Baltimore law firm to participate in a new program . and head of the Office of Econwhich will teach poverty law to omic Opportunity's poverty law students at Harvard and North- unit. He is a member of the U.S. eastern universities and provide Catholic Conference's Commitlegal services to low-income resi- tee on Social Development and dents of ·Boston's Jamaica Plains World Peace.

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missionaries to the New World said Mass and the first church administration in the Americas was established. In the early 16th Century Cathedral of Santo Domingo, the bones of Columbus are enshrined.

The pope's calendar in Mexico City, where he arrives tomorrow, includes meetings with bishops fr~m all over Latin America, Mexican priests, Religious, seminarians, university students, athletes, journalists, sick children, Indians, and poor families.

When he first announced the trip, he said that his Mass Jan. 27 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, concelebrated with the Latin American bishops to mark the formal opening of their third general assembly, would be the central point of the trip. He called it "a religious pilgrimage to the feet of the Holy Virgin."

Of his trip the next day to Puebla de Los Angeles for the opening of the actual meeting, Pope John Paul said that its theme of evangelization has vast "theological, ecclesiological and pastotal, doctrinal and practical implications...

The announcement of the papal trip renewed speculation that Mexico and the Vatican might renew diplomatic ties. And Vatican observers considered it a reference to Mexico among others when the pope told diplomats in mid-January that he would like to see new diplomatic ties, especially with "nations and populations which at times had a centuries-old tradition in this connection."

The reaction in Mexico was a mixed one, however, and a debate. was set off 'between those who favored relaxing the government's official anti-church posture and those who insisted it should be maintained.

At first, those handling arrangements in Mexico talked of the pope's being received by President Jose Lopez Portillo and of a Mass being celebrated in Mexico City's huge Aztec Stadium.

As the debate rumbled on the organizers dropped any further mention of those things.

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PARTICIPANTS IN WORKSHOP SESSIONS at mid-winter conference of Massachusetts Knights of Columbus officials are, from left, John J. Donovan, state deputy; Father Kenneth B. Murphy, state chaplain; John W. McDevitt, past supreme knight; Newman A. Flanagan, state secretary. .'

Legion of Mary N'ew Resource NEW YORK (NC) - A Minnesota priest says the Legion of Mary could be the solution to many problems stemming from the declining number of priests in the United States.

Father Vernon J. Schaefer, pastor of two churches in the Winona Diocese writing in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, rejected the opinion that the Legion of Mary is outdated. ' "The cording devised answer prayer,"

parish 'Legion units.

"The obvious objection is that young people today won't give that much of their time to the parish. Don't sell them short.

They will surprise you," he said.

The Minnesota priest said the legion today "is coming into its own and will be ready to take its place to supply badly needed lay apostles to a church beset with a vocation crisis."

- Make "house-to-house visitations of the entire parish," which, Father Schaefer says, "may be the only contact with Catholicism that many people have, especially in cities."

- Systematically visit homes of "weaker Catholics," mainly' those who attend Mass infrequently.

- Perform what Father Schaefer calls "the healing min.. istry of the Legion," involving praying over sick parishioners and anointing them with oil.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The Internal Revenus Service says income from certain church - Instruct converts. bingo games that was previous- Do marriage preparation ly taxed is now tax-exempt because of a change in the federal . work and counsel those with marriage problems. tax law passed in October, 1978.

Before that change, income Father Schaefer, spiritual difrom church bingo games held rector to the Winona diocesan I'egularly and run by paid emlegion, recommends recruiting ployees was taxable. young people as the nucleus of Under the new law, such income is not taxable if the games Jerusalem Hostel are run according to state and local law and do not compete NEW YORK ,(NC) - In the with profit-making, tax-paying presence of the Catholic hierbingo operations. archy in the Holy Land and hunThe law affecting church dreds of local priests, Religious bingo games is part of a law and laity, Cardinal Terence requiring churches to pay taxes Cooke of New York blessed the on . income from businesses Notre Dame of Jerusalem hostel, which are not related to their as representative of the Holy religious function. The law was See. The huge building, nearly designe~ to protect commercial destroyed during the 1948 war, businesses from unfair compehas been restored as路 a pilgrim tition from churches. hostel and Catholic center.

It's Essential "A discipline of solitude and silence is essential for those who would acquaint themselves with God and be at peace." - E. Herman

In a CHRIS'T-CENTERED LIFE SHARE YOUR VISION WITH US TO SERVE. . . the sick the poor the lonely the young the elderly the neglected

Legion, operating acto its marvelous system in 1921, could be the to many a pastor's he declared.

Members of the legion, "wellformed spiritually and expertly trained in the work of the apostolate," could, he says: - Follow up on the parish census.

Ms. Joanne Manfra has been named New England board member for the North American Con-' ference of Separated and Divorced Catholics (NACSDC). She reports that the board, representing regions across the nation, met earlier this month in New Orleans, heard reports on growth of the conference and made plans. for a national meeting in July at Notre Dame University.

The meeting theme will be "Together in Ministry: Separated and Divorced Catholics Bring Strength and Healing to Their Church."

Ms. Manfra noted that further information on the meeting (lr on the conference is available from her at La Salette Center for Christian Renewal, 315 Topsfield Rd., Ipswich 09138.

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Tuition Credits Resurfac'e Continued from Page One ed by the reintroduction of tuition tax credit bills in both the House and Senate. ~ Last year the House passed a bill which included tax credits for tuition paid to private elementary and secondary schools as well as to college.

But the Senate rejected the credit for elementary and secondary schools and eventually all tuition tax credits were dropped by House and Senate tax-writing committees.

Catholic parents and organizations, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, were major supporters of tax credits.

The major sponsors of the Senate bill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Robert Packwood (R-Ore.), are expected to reintroduce their bill this year with one notable change: They will treat elementary and secondary school credits separately from college credits.

Last. year, supporters of the credit for elementary and secondary schools argued that by . linking the two, they were pro. viding constitutional protection for the lOwer school credit by

creating a broad class of beneficiaries.

This year, supporters believe credits at both college and precollege levels will receive greater support in separate bills.

College credits passed both houses last year by votes which suggested a veto could be overridden. Credits for elementary and secondary school tuition

passed by a relatively small margin in the House.

The Packwood-Moynihan bill would provide a credit of 50 percent of tuition' to a maximum of $250 per student in Fiscal Years 1979 and 1980 and $500 in 1981 and 1982.

The major tax credit bill in the House was introduced by Rep.

Bill Gradison (R-Ohio). It should provide a credit of 15 percent of tuition up to a maximum of $50 in Fiscal Year 1979 and $100 in Fiscal Years 1980, 1981 and 1982 for elementary and secondary schools.

It would provide a maximum credit of $100 in 1979, $150 in 1980 and' $250 in 1981 and 1982 for college tuition.

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'illusfrissimi' Dear Editor: Because the book "Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John' Paul I" gave me so much pleasure, I urge all priests, nuns and lay people either to buy it for their personal libraries or requet that it be placed in their public libraries,. because it is not only very uplifting (as he was) but so filled with joy and so easy to read as well.

God bless this joyful man whom we can feel sure was welcomed into the presence of God, whom he loved so .much.

Kathryn Nowak Marion

'Be A Priest' Dear Editor: Father, please be a Priest.

Don't try to be "just one of us."

God asked you to be different, So that we may get a glimpse of Him Through you. God has chosen you And given you divine powers to

Consecrate at Mass, so as to Put divin~ value into our offerings.

We need you there as a Priest.

We need you in the confessional To direct us as well as to absolve us.

We need you to do these things for us That we cannot do for ourselves.

We need you especially to be A man of prayer, to be an example To us, and our daily intercessor Before God. So Father, please be And remain a Priest of God. Alfred Blais Pawtucket, R.I.

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'Chestertonian Popes' Honored SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (NC)-The current issue of The Chesterton Review pays tribute to two "Chesterton popes" John Paul I, who included an imaginary letter to Chesterton in his book "IIIustrissimi," and John Paul II, whose homeland of Poland was close to Chesterton's heart.

The issue includes an English translation of Pope JOhn Paull's letter to Gilbert K. Chesterton, titled "In What a Dreadful World. . .;" Chesterton's articles on his 1927 visit to Poland, including the present pope's former Diocese of Krakow; and an article surveying all of Chesterton's writing about Poland.

"Chestertonians, like all the world, were saddened by the untimely death of the Chesteronian pope," said Basilian Father Ian Boyd in an editor's note which preceded the translated letter.

"They have, however, reason to

be glad that his successor is also 'Chestertonian' in the sense that he comes from a land which was especially dear to Chesterton and to the welfare of which Chesterton· dedicated both thought and energy."

The Chesterton Review is the journal of the 9. K. Chesterton Society. Chesterton, a British writer and author who converted to Catholicism in 1922, died in 1936. The journal is published at St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Vocations Crisis CHICAGO (NC)-n'he Archdiocese of Mexico City is facing a vocations crisis, as the number of Catholics continues to increase and the number of priests and sisters drops, according to a survey conducted by the Serra Club of Mexico City.

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First, separating your daugh- atmosphere.

Schedule time out for yourters is good. Make the separation brief, perhaps only for a self, ,even if brief intervals are few minutes, just long enough all you manage. Take your twins out to the library for for the quarrel to be forgotten.

Define which behavior is story hour, _and spend the hour most destructive or most diffi- relaxing. Hire a high school girl cult for you to live with. Discip- to come in for an hour after line this behavior and ignore the school, and take a walk or birest. You will be more effective cycle ride alone. Let your husif you limit your efforts to cer- band take the children on a tain problems. Trying to raise shopping trip or a picnic occaperfect children will turn you sionally, and stay home in your silent house. into a frustrated nag.

Recognize that fighting among Hungry, tired children fight more than rested, satisfied chil- siblings is normal. Discipline a dren. See that your children get few selected behaviors and igmeals and snacks at regular in- nore the rest. Take a positive attervals and that regular bed- titude toward the girls. Being a times are observed. You will good mother does not mean running a problem-free home but avoid many problem situations. coping effectively with the probyour Notice the good things lems you have. Good luck. girls do. Even little remarks such as, "You set the table niceReader questions on family ly tonight" or "You poured that living and child care are invited. milk very well" give a positive Address to The Kennys, cloThe tone to relationships.

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Missionary Death Toll Grows SALISBURY, Rhodesia (NC)A Swiss missionary priest who disappeared on his way to say Mass at a rural church was found dead at a black reservation in Rhodesia. :Father Martin Holenstein, 44, was shot to death. He was found three days after his apparent abduction by black nationalist guerrillas.

Father Holenstein disappeared five days after another missionary, German Jesuit Father Gerhard Pieper, was gunned down at a remote outpost in northeast Rhodesia.

Twenty-one Catholic missionaries have been killed in the Rhodesian guerrilla war. A total of 32 white missionaries and four of their children have been slain since black guerrillas began fighting Rhodesia's white minority government six years ago.

The guerrillas, based in neigh-

boring Zambia and Mozambique, also oppose the biracial government formed last March.

According to the Rhodesian militarY,guerrillas murdered the missionaries. Most Rhodesian church leaders consider guerrilla groups responsible for the murders, but they say the killings were not necessarily ordered by guerrilla chief.s Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.

Cincinnati Pledge CINCINNATI (NC) The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has formally committed itself to "responsible investment" of its funds and pledged to avoid investing in companies which "jeopardize world peace (or) race relations, flout traditional Catholic medical-moral ethics or ignore equal opportunities for all people." .

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The pope explained some doctrinal and scriptural problems with polygenism (some of which have been resolved in the last 30 years, incidentally), and says that no Catholic should hold that opinion (polygenism) since "it is OUR LADY of Angels Canot apparent" how it might be .thedral dominates skyline of compatible with certain Catholic Puebla, Mexico, where Pope beliefs.

"Humani Generis" labels belief John Paul II will attend the in more than one Adam and Eve assembly of Latin American a conject4ral opinion. It does bishops beginning next not call it erroneous or heretical. week.

By the way, there is no such thing as an "infallible council." (NC Photo) A particular truth may be taught infallibly. But the fact that some truths are taught solemnly in a conciliar or papal document ing from the moment of fertilidoesn't mean that everything is, zation without regard to age, even if it's in the same sentence. health, or condition or dependQ. I believe my daughter may ency."

In a statement accompanying be interested in entering a conthe announcement, Helms, now vent, but I'm at a loss about which to suggest. What would in his second term, said: "This be a good traditional convent for amendment would restore the her to write to? Restoring sen- paramount sanctity of innocent sible habits that distinguish sis- human life which has been the ters would be a great incentive foundation of our liberty. The for young women, I'm positive. right to life is the very precondition of all· our other rights. If (Mass.) it is diminished, every other A. Let's not get into a discussion of nun' habits at this right is open to attack and, p.erlate juncture. My only question sons may be subject to the gravmight be: Does your daughter est manipulation by science and have the same attitude about government." .

Anticipating the objection that sisters' habits and lifestyles as his proposal has no exception you have? What kind of religious community might she herself be clause, Helms said: "My amendment contains no specific exin'terested in investigating?

One thing is sure. There is ception clause to provide for enough variety in congregations cases when the mother's life of men and women today to suit may be threatened, because such anyone serious about dedicating a clause is not necessary. These his or her life to our Lord difficult cases can be handled through religious vows and ser- under the existing Constitution vice. Please suggest that your doctrines of due process and daughter write to the vocations equal protection of the laws." director, in care of the chancery Meanwhile, in Massachusetts office of your diocese, express the U.S. Circuit Court of Apher thoughts and hopes as clear- peals in ,Boston has upheld a ly as possible, and ask for ad- state law restricting Medicaid vice. I'm certain she'll receive payment for abortions: all the assistance she needs.

Under the ruling; Massachu, Question for this column setts need not pay for a Medishould be sent to Father Dietzen, caid abortion unless "necessary c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, to prevent severe and long-lasting physical health damage" to womFall River, Mass. 02722. en or in cases of rape or incest.

The controversial statute, enacted by the 1978 legislature joined in prayer vigils at Gon- over the veto of former Gov. Continued from Page One Their confidence stemmed at zaga High School in Washing- Michael S. Dukakis, is known least in part from pro-life suc- ton and at the National Shrine as the Doyle-Flynn Law. It bancesses in last November's elec- of the Immaculate Conception, ned the use of Medicaid funds tions. A recurrent theme in con- where an all-night Eucharistic for abortions except in cases of versations with pro-lifers from vigil began and ended with Mass. rape or, incest and when the life many states ,was that the move- A candlelight vigil was also of a woman is threatened.

The federal court injunction ment finally has the respect of held at the White House. last August suspended implem~n­ politicians.

Demonstrators were heartenThat theme also showed up ed by the announcement last tation of the law, requiring the in speeches from the Capitol week that Sen. Jesse Helms (R- state to continue to pay for all steps during the afternoon.

N.C.) has introduced a new hu- "medically necessary" Medicaid Several speakers noted that man life amendment to the Con- abortions.

Sens. 'Edward Brooke (R-Mass.), stitution to guarantee the right The appeals court's two to Dick Clark (D-Iowa) and Thomas to life of each individual from one decision' reaffirmed an earlJ. McIntyre (D-N.H.), were de- the time of fertilization; regard- ier ruling by U.S. District Court feated with major assists from less of age, health or condition. Judge Andrew A. Caffrey who pro-lifers.

The new Helms proposal declared that the staff restricPreceding Monday's demon- reads: "The paramount right to tion on Medicaid paYments was stration, many pro-lifers had life is vested in ~ach human be- valid with some exceptions.

By Father John Dietzen Q. Some time ago you said that Catholics may accept' the possibility that there were more than one Adam and Eve who originated the human race.

I have no big problem with this, but do have two questions.

How do you explain scriptural references such as St. Paul's remark, "Through one man (Adam) sin entered the world" (Romans 5,12)?

And isn't it true that many church councils, such as the infallible Council of, Trent, and several church documents refer to Adam as "the first man"?

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A. One point to remember in considering your questions is that neither Scripture nor the council you mention was addressing the question of polygenism (that is, whether there were many first parents). Therefore, one must be careful in claiming they answered a question that at that time had never even been asked seriously, if at all.

In answer to your first point, preachers and other orators quite commonly refer to wellknown historical characters to make a point, with no intention of declaring judgment on the actual existence of these characters.

When a priest, for example, refers to the Prodigal Son or the Good Samaritan, he is not professing a belief that these particular individuals of Jesus' parables ever really existed. They fit the point to be made, and that's all their mention really means.

Jesus did this, St. Paul did it, and so do conciliar decrees and other church documents. As mentioned above, these documents were not directly concerned with polygenism. But if· reference to the scriptural story of creation helped explain or support their teaching, they rightly had no hesitation in using it.

One of the few major documents to treat the subject directly was the encyclical "Humani

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MEXICO CITY (NC) - Mexican authorities are voicing con.' cern about the· number of people who will come to see Pope John Paul II during his visit here.

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In Puebla, Mayor Miguel QuiRESIDENTIAL roz Perez said some 1.3 million INDUSTRIAL Catholics are expected to be in COMMEROAL the city for the Sunday visit of 253 Cedar St., New Bedford Pope John Paul to open the 993-3222 sessions of the third genera,1 assembly of the Latin American bishops. Puebla has a population Need mortgage of 400,000. or home As workers feverishly added the last touches to preparations 'improyement money? at the Shrine of Our Lady of : Make NBIS your home port.

Guadalupe and the cathedral in Mexico City, security forces began moves to "insure a pleasant I and smooth stay for the pope," said Mexico City Mayor Carlos Gonzalez. \.

German Corona del Rosal, 6 convftlilftt oHicft chief of the municipal district 'll ~~========~ I where the Guadalupe shrine is located, said all streets around Tel. 548-0042 Est. 1949 it will have control posts to avoid overcrowding. There will be comfort and first-aid stations, and ambulance and fire prevention services.

Police issued a ban on side584 Main Street walk fires normally used by pilWest Falmouth, M~ss. grims in Mexico to cook and keep warm overnight. The sale Harold W. Jenkins, Jr. of alcoholic beverages in and Richard E. Gregoire around the area of the papal Directors functions will be forbidden, and street vendors relocated.

More than 10,000 policemen and members of the armed forces have been assigned tu security for these events. . '.

Among the first policing Do.n~·B~.'·Ames tasks was to stop the fraudulent ,.(0.·0. . . . . sales of tickets to the papal fUNERAL Masses and to private audiences.

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About one million peoplE! are expected at Constitution Square popularly known as the Zocalo in front of the cathedral to follow tre Mass and listen to the "Serving the Community papal message on loudspeakers.

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A20th-Century Spiritual Master

By Father Leonel L. Mitchell

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the religious masters of spiritual life a 20th-century married woman who lived happily with her non-churchgoing lawyer husband in a large city, London, and enjoyed yachting, motorcycle riding, and her' pet cats.

She was a poet, a novelist, a spiritual director and writer, and one of the first women to conduct retreats or address diocesan clergy conferences. A friend and disciple of the famous Catholic lay theologian, Baron Friedrich von Hugel, her most famous works are "Mysticism," publish. ed in 1911, and "Worship" pub· lished in 1936. Between them lies a remarkable spiritual journey and the development of a spirituality at home in our contemporary world.

"So many Christians," she wrote, "are like deaf people at concert. They study the program carefully, believe every statement made in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the eternal God." It was this symphony which Evelyn Underhill 'heard so clearly and helped many others, both in her own Anglican Church and beyond it, to hear and to play' their parts in it.

The title of one of her books, "Practical Mysticism for Normal People," expresses the heart of her spirituality. In it she wrote, "Mysticism is the art of union with reality." Most of us, she said, do not live in the "real" world but in an imaginary "world of common sense" formed of strands of fact selected because they conform to our men· tal picture of how things are,

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"The Mystic," she wrote, "is an artist of a special and exalted kind who tries to express something of the revelation he has received."

As her own spiritual life grew deepened under the direction of von Hugel, she spoke' less of reality and more of the love of God. She describes the spiritual life an "an amphibious life," not something separate from practical life, but its inner side which makes that life worthwhile. The practical man with no spiritual life is worse than Hans Christian Andersen's king with no clothes, she said. He is the clothes with no person inside them. '''One sees many of these coats occupy· ing positions of great responsibility.

"What is asked of us is not

necessarily a great deal of time . .. but the constant offering of our wills to God, so that the practical duties .which fill most of our days can become a part of his order and be given spiritual worth." This requires "a definite plan of life, and courage in sticking to the plan, not merely for days or weeks, but for years."

This spirituality leads ,to definite action, even political action.

For the church is God's tool to save the world, not a comfortable religious club. .

Evelyn Underhill came herself to Christ through her intense personal relationship with that reality she came to know as God. In this age when so many people who seek to experience that reality do no~ look to find it in church and sacrament, she can be a welcome guide.

Structured and Unstructured

By Father Joseph M. Champlin

This summer a family in our parish embarked upon a twoweek vacation trip halfway across the country to visit naive to think otherwise. But friends and relatives. what is important is to see if The journey followed a patthe' structures which we impose tern fairly typical for presenton others harm or curtail their day Americans: the excitement free growth and burden them of preparation and -anticipation; with things which we need to many new sights and sounds; face ourselves. 'long, hot hours on boring inter. Faith cotnes in here. Faith in- state highways; frequent packvolves clear and good relation- ing and unpacking of suitcases; ships - it cleanses our eyes to the pressure of being a guest; see holy and unholy structures the anxiety near the end for in ourselves and in the social home; the relief upon return of a regular schedule. ,systems which suround us.

They enjoyed the holiday, Jack Salamanca in his novel, "Embarkation," presents a char- were warmed by the welcome acter who structures his family from old friends or relatives, so tightly that they learn quickly and learned through their travels to hate him. Yet his is not an a bit more about our country external structuring which they and its peoples.

'But the lack of routine, the could protest - it is his own great enslavement to the passion unsettled way of living - wonof boatbuilding on the Eastern derful at the start as a fresh Shore of Maryland. His passion break from their customary dayfor his boats drives him to burn to-day mode of life - became down his family's home to get eventually more of a burden than a blessing. necessary money.

Their experience mirrors the But it is interesting that his youngest son, Jamed, is alone tension between ritual and sponuncontrolled by this psycologi- taneity which exists on many cal structure. Jamed is mentally levels of human activity. retarded and his feelings are too Ritual, that is, expected and clear to get caught in the in- repeated words and actions trigue of his' father's mixed-up makes us comfortable, but rna; passions. also produce boredom or leave Many of us think that· struc- us feeling trapped and suffocatures are outside ourselves and ted. indeed, many are. But those Spontaneity releases our spirwhich most impede us are those its and gives us a sense of freshwithin. Even in the unholy _ ness,- but may also confuse structures which have produced people and leave them uncoma kind of demonic poverty for fortable or awkward. millions in our world, there is Most of us, for example, rise first the structure in human and begin our days according to hearts which dominates, mani- fairly precise, long estahlished pulates and controls with its patterns. Shower, shave, breakneed for power. fa~t, paper.

We are ahle in this context to Interrupt the ritual, however, see clearly why Jesus asked for and see how inwardly upsetting a change of heart, a restructur· that can be. No hot water or a ing of all that dominates or con- faulty razor or a late paper boy trols us. and tpy pattern breaks down, my

Why Is Life Structured?

By Mary C. Maher

Grade school children may be ahead of their parents in understanding the importance of structure in human life. They have learned in the new math that all reality is structured so that aspects of it balance and maintain each other, moving toward ever more complete systems and ul1its. They know, too, that all structure which is natural and genuine has a force within it which serves to correct disproportionate growth in anyone part.

It may be harder to deal with inner than outer structures. For the former can either entrap us or free us.

Of course, structures can be unholy. We humans can use anything to control or manipulate others - and it does not need to be imposed from outside ourselves. For example, in front of my office here in Washington, each day a woman goes out into the line of heavy traffic on Massachusetts Avenue in her wheel chair. She stops all the cars while she hails a cab.

Obviously, she has used her infirmity to control others. Many such unholy structures flow from our needs and our imposition of them onto others, thus manipulating them. We impose our attention, our vulnerability, our ill moods onto others structuring Uieir lives as this woman dQes with her wheel chair.

Children can structure their parents' lives with temper tantrums, alcoholics their families' lives with their vulnerability. Depressed people can demand that others take on their pain.

We all manipulate and structure others' lives to fit our own in one way or another. It is

disposition becomes disturbed.

But we also grow weary of the repetitious' - school, job, housework - and need the vacation jaunt for a renewed appreciation of our routine.

The blend of ritual and spontaneity in Catholic worship carries similar tensions. Our liturgy is essentially ritualistic with repetitive words, symbols and actions. That makes for an easiness in public prayer, but simultaneously may lead to a weary, mechanical manner of moving through the familiar ·rite. Do you ever feel bored or grow inattentive during the priest's proclamation of the eucharistic prayer?

On the other hand, frequent variations or relatively unstructured services foster an atmosphere of freedom and newness.

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By Janaan Manternach

On'e day Jesus took a walk along the lakeshore. It was a beautiful day. The lake was calm. He sat down to enjoy the beauty of it all.

Soon some people noticed him. They began asking him \ questions. It wasn't long before a large crowd gathered. In fact, so many that they were almost pushing Jesus and each other into the water.

So Jesus climbed into a small fishing boat, sat down and talked to the people on shore.

He told them a story to make them think ahout their lives and about God. Jesus mostly taught by telling stories. They were the kind that helped people make more sense out of their lives but they also raised question~ about what they really meant.

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A Verdade E A Vida

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BAPTISMO, SACRAMENTO DA NOVA VIDA

Na noite da Vig{lia pascal, canta-se o "Pregao" sobre a ~gua baptismal. Neste hino percorre-se a B!blia para se tomar consciencia do profundo sentido deste elemento •. "' Recordam-se assim: as primeiras aguas sobre as quais pairava 0 Esp!rito criador e vivificador de Deus, as aguas do diluvio, as aguas do Mar Vermelho, a agua que brota de Jesus crucuifaicado.

Tambem a psicologia actual ve na aguaum dos s!mbolos mais profundos da psique de cada homem. Se da psicologia passamos as ci~ncias naturais, verificase que toda a vida da terra provem deste elemento. Na origem dos tempos, a vida, a nossa vida existia exclusivamente no mar. Ate a obstetricia constata que cada homem nasce da agua dentro das membranos do feto, e que essa agua tern a mesma composifao da agua do mar.

E este s!mbolo da agua que esta na origem da vida, que Cristo assume para significar e efectivar 0 renascimento e a nova vida do homem que 0 aceita na fee Deus, ao escolher precismente 0 elemento mais vital, 0 mais "maternal", para set 0 sinal eficaz do nosso nascimentoc~leste, ~e-nos em.relayiO com toda a hisioria da nossa vida: da vida terreste e da vida celeste que vern coroar' aquela.• o Baptismo incorpora-nos a Igreja, o Corpo de Cristo. Desse modo, 0 homem entra a~formar parte da comunidade eclesial atraves dum nascimento pela agua e pelo Esp!rito.

Pelo Baptismo nascemos e recebemos uma nova vida, a da ~gua e do Esp{rito. . d 0 nao ... e~ urn mere Por isso, ser b apt~za rito s!mbolico de.incorpora J80 a uma determinada sociedade. 0 Esp!rito Santo faz-nos nascer, torna-nos novos na e pela comunidade eclesial.

Se 0 nosso nascimento para a vida terreste nunca puramente individual, muito menos 0 nascimento em Deus que nos faz comunidade, fam!lia, povo de Deus, membros dQ Corpo de Cristo.

No Baptismo, por do Esp!rito santificador, entramos e permanecemos em Cristo, e Cristo entra e permanece em n6s; ficamoS cheios da graJa santificadora. o Baptismo lava toda a mancha do pecado'- Naqueles que sa'o assumidos por Cristo, ja n~o ha lugar para 0 pecado. A agua tambem significa ablulao . (lava) , alem de nascimento. 0 Baptismo arranca toda a raiz do pecado: original e pessoal (no caso dos adultos). 0 homem recome~a em p~gina completamente branca. Ficamos a ser filhos adoptivos no Filho.· Recebe-se 0 Baptismo para sempre.

Nunca se pode repetir, visto que nos leva a plenitude da vida, ao nascimento definitivo, imprimido urn "car~cter inde, level". Esta plen~tude da vida nova e din~mica: para isso infundem-se as virtualidades que nos capacitarao para vivermos essa vida, as virtudes da f~, da esperan~a e da caridade.

Pe~a for~a que recebemos, mediante o Esp{rito Santo, e seguindo 0 exemplo de Cristo, vencemos os nossos pecados, tornando-nos serviciais, pequenos, e pobres de esp{rito, ate que venha a nossa morte que nos liberta plenamente.

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For Children Continued from Page Twelve Jesus' stories are called parables.

In a way they are like riddles.

Here is the story told on that beautiful day: "One day a farmer went out to plant his crop. Some seeds fell on a hard footpath. Birds came and ate them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground. Soon little sprouts appeared, but they withered because they could not sink down any roots.

"Other seeds fell among thorn bushes. As soon as they sprouted, the thorn bushes choked them, but some seeds landed on rich, black soil. They took root, grew up and became beautiful, healthy plants. Now, everyone should take to heart what I have just said."

The people listened without making a sound. They liked the story. They had all watched farmers planting crops. Some had planted crops themselves. It was a good story. But what did it mean? What was J~us telling them about their lives? Even Jesus' apostles did not get the point.

So when the crowd left, His apostles asked Jesus what the story really meant.

So Jesus explained it to them: "This is the meaning of the story of the sower of the seed. The seed that landed on the footpath is like someone who hears my message about God's love without understanding it. Th~ evil one, like the birds, comes and steals away what was sown in this person's heart.

• "The seed that fell on the rocky ground is like' someone who hears my words and at first is very happy. But he has

no roots, no depth. As soon as he meets difficulty, he forgets my message and gives up.

"The seed that fell among the thorns is like a person who hears my words of God's love.

"The seed that fell on the good black soil is like someone who listens and accepts my word and lives according to it.

Such a person grows to be happy and loving."

Now Jesus' friends understood the parable. They happily explained it to other people.

Structured Continued .from Page Twelve They likewise may make it difficult for the congregation to participate and cause some to feel embarrassed or out of place.

Have you ever felt strange, not knowing the proper thing to say or do during a liturgy?

Today's revised Roman Catholic liturgical books combine in a rather remarkable manner both elements.

The core of a given ritual like the Mass remains rough!>' the same, but the wide variety of prayers, readings and blessings now available offers a freshness of official, prepared texts to be used within the fundamental structure.

Finally, Vatican II principles and introductory guidelines for each ritual open the door for quite creative, even spontaneous elements in our liturgies.

The delicate task for those planning good worship is to combine both the ritual or repetitious and the spontaneous or creative.

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By Cecilia Belanger The Bible stories of the Creation and Flood are stumbling blocks for many people. I would like to share a biologist's reading of them. He is Dr. William T. Keeton, an active member of his church. No atheist he!

In an address at Cornell University, he 'noted that his son was very young when he began having trouble with the flood account. "He asked me, 'If t!le animals went two by two into the ark and stayed there for months, what did all the predators eat? Did they eat all the other animals?'"

Another problem: biologists think there were about a million species of animals on earth at the time the flood might have occurred. It would have taken a tremendous ark to hold them all.

Again, what happened to plants during the flood? "We .are all aware that if terrestrial plants are covered by water for half a year, they would be in a rather sorry state. The dove's olive leaf would have surely been a rotten mess!"

So what are we left with when we look at a story such as this?

We are left with the fact that the Old Testament writers were not concerned with such details; they were trying to convey to the people of their time their feelings about their faith, their feelings about their God. The details Dr. Keeton enumerated were, to a large extent, irrelevant in terms of the Genesis writer's fundamental meaning.

He w&s talking about the obedience of Noah to the commandments of God. He did what God told him to do. And he was trusted God's word that he would preserve life even in the face of this great calamity.

So it seems that the real message in such a story has to do with the understanding of the ancient Hebrews of their God and with the obedience that is due when a job is given to a person, whether he be Noah, you or I. Indded, in some ways Noah was a forerunner of modern ecology, preserving life in the face of massive calamity.

Let us move on with Dr. Keeton to the story of Creation. He pointed out that the solar system is on the order of four to five billion.. years old, that the first human didn't appear on earth until much later, perhaps four million years ago, and that modern man didn't arrive until something less than a hundr~d thousand years ago (very recently in ellrth's history).

Now, this is surely not the Genesis sequence or time scale.

Dr. Keeton talked about five

SINGING SKIES AND DANCING WATERS

'What happened to plants during the flood?' billion years, Genesis about six days!

But if the Genesis story had 'been written in terms of billions of years and the solar system, it would have been meaningless to the people of its time.

All teachers know that one cannot always explain a difficult topic in complete detail to a beginning student. Yet we must often introduce young children to difficult topics. So we often do it in a simplified way. If we

Bishop Stang . By Suzanne Seguin Both boys' and girls' basketball teams at Stang High, North Dartmouth, are doing very well.

The boys' quintet, with successive wins over Holy Family and Dennis-Yarmouth, sits atop their league while the girls' squad is likewise in first place in their conference by virtue of victories over Wareham and New Bed~ ford.

Parents' night is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 31. Teachers will he available to discuss students' progress.

Acceptances will be sent out soon to incoming freshmen.

Stang had the largest numer of students taking its entrance exam since 1969.

The Junior "Ring Dance" was held Saturday in the school's gymnasium capping a weekend that started with a Mass on Friday afternoon. The event marks the receiving of school rings by the Junior class.

"Carousel" has been chosen as the spring musical. Tryouts for over 35 parts are under way and cast members will be notified by the end of the week.

Best wishes to Stang senior Kathy Fisher, New Bedford's Junior Miss, as she competes for the state title this week in Hyannis.

Junior Kathy Malloy, repre~ senting Stang, swam to a 12th place finish in the girls' all-state meet in the 100 yard freestyle event.

had to stand by all the literal details of stories told to tots in trying to explain the things they encountered, we would all be in a very bad way indeed!

Bishop Gerra rd Denise Gauvin, a senior at Gerrard High in Fall River, has won third place in the 32nd Annual Voice of Democracy Scholarship Program. The contest, sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 486, involved the taping a five minute script on the theme "Why I Care about America." Winners. will receive certificates, trophies and savings bonds in May. Denise plans to attend Boston University's School of Public Communication in the fall.

At a recent professional day, Tom Lavery of Rhode Island College worked with faculty members in-preparing recommendations for the 1979-80 school year curriculum.

I Members of Gerrard's ski club, led by Ronald Rathier, traveled to a New Hampshire ski resort last weekend, relaxing after mid-year exams.

The drama club, also directed

by Mr. Rathier, is preparing "A Kind of Hole" to be presented at a drama festival. Casts are being selected for two other productions, "Alice In Wonderland" and "Little Women" the club's annual "Spring Thing" ,presentation.

Appeal Planned NEW YORK (NC)-A coalition of New York state organizations opposing government aid to religiously affiliated schools has announced plans to appeal to the Supreme Court a recent federal District Court decision that the schools may be reimbursed for the costs of state-required testing and record-keeping.

Power of Love "He who loves brings God and the world together." - Martin Buber

So many years ago, I can't remember when Someone was waiting for me I had the answers to all of my questions Love was so easy to see I didn't know When I was younger, I should have known better I thought that nothing was new Through all the spaces and all of the changes What I lost sight of was you I didn't know - I didn't know I could see you in singing skies and dancing waters Laughing children, growing old And in the heart and in the spirit And in the truth when it is told My life became shady and I grew afraid And I needed to find my way back home I just couldn't see you - the thought that I had lost you I never felt so much alone Are you still with me?

I'm with you in singing skies and dancing waters.

Sometimes in evening, when daylight was leaving I thought I'd never see you again Are you still with me?

Are you still with me? I'm with you in If my faitQ should falter, and I should forsake you And I find myself turning away Will you still be there?

Will you still be there?

I'll be there in singing skies and dancing waters.

Written and sung by John Denver, (c) 1977, RCA Records¡ John Denver's music often offers insight into life's deeper levels of meaning. This song is a cut off his "I Want to Live" album. It addresses the reality of distance within relationships.

Love is not all closeness. For many reasons, distance can creep into even the closest relationships.

People may question whether their relationship is ending, or growing so far apart as never to be close again.

Distance, however, can bring perspective. Deeper feelings surface when we take the time and find the space to reflect on what a relationship means. Too easily we take others for granted and fail to realize the impact another has made on our life.

Consequently, our feeling distant from someone we love may be a surprise means of reaching a new level of closeness. God enters our lives in many ways and gives hope. We need to discover his presence as described in the images of the song, the "singing skies," the "dancing waters," the "wonder of children." He is with us as the center of all our loving, creating every closeness and filling every space.

Look to Christ, Teachers Told VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John Paul II told Catholic educators that Catholic schools should refer constantly to the teaching of Christ.

"In an era like ours, it is urgent, more than in the past, to preserve the image - the typology, I would say - of a Christian school which, in ever loyal observance of the general norms of educational legislation of the respective country, assumes as its point of departure and its goal the ideal of an integral education - human, moral and religious - according to the Gospel of ,our Lord," the pope- said to members of the Federation of Institutes of Educational Activity.

"Before programs of study, before contents of various courses

of teaching - you know it well - for an authentically Catholic school this unvarying reference to the higher and transcendent pedagogy of Christ the teacher is and remains essential," he continued.

"Deprived of this, it would lack the very font of inspiration.

It would lack its central axis.

It would lack that specific element which defines it and characterizes it amid other educational structures or other centers of cultural promotion," he said.

Most Pleasing "Love is the fairest and most profitable guest that a reasonable creature can entertain. To God it is the most acceptable and pleasing of all things." Richard Rolle

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IN THE DIOCESE

By BILL MORRISSETTE

Shea Smashing Connolly Records points averaging 22 per game, is second to Attleboro's Don Lonergan, who has 206 and a 22.9 average. Marlon Burns, Dartmouth, is next with 195 and 21.7 Somerset's Chris Gendreau is fourth with 168 points and a 21 average. Bob Gonet, Fairhaven, is fifth with 165 and 20-1.

Jim Papazian; of pace setting Bishop Feehan High, is the top Last Friday, he pumped .in 30 scorer in the conference's Dipoints in a Division One South- .ision Two. In six games he has eastern Mass. Conference game scored 131 points averaging 21.8. against Attleboro to reach a car- Another Feehan player, Paul eer high of 700 points, eclipsing Kelly, is tied with John Bowers, the record of 690 hy Mike Senay of Seekonk, for fourth place in 1976. He is within reach of with 97 points. Tom Baroa, of the season high of 456 at Con- Bishop Stang High, is sixth 39th nolly set by John Mitchell in 87. Bourne's Tracy Williams 1971. Entering this week, Con- tops the Division Three scorers. nolly had nine more games re- He has 81 points in five games. maining on its schedule. If he Kevin Chisholm, Ron Silvia and maintains his present average Scott Clemmey of division leader of 23-plus points per game he Coyle-Cassidy and Steve Weth-· erell, of Bourne, are also among will surpass that mark.

In conference, Shea, with 198 the top five scorers.

Bill Shea is in the process of rewriting the basketball books records at Bishop Connolly High. On Dec. 12, in a nonleague game against Dighton-Rehoboth he set a new school record for a single game with 42 points, surpassing the previous mark of 40 by Mike Travassos in 1973.

Feehan" Coyle-Cassidy Are Division Leaders Entering this week the Bishop Feehan High Shamrocks and Coyle-Cassidy High's Warriors were the only undefeated teams in Southeastern Mass. Conference basketball. Feehan was atoy Division Two with 6-0 slate, Coyle-Cassidy was leading Division Three with five wins in as many outings.

Feehan had a one-game lead over runnerup Wareham (5-1).

They meet next Tuesday at Feehan. Meanwhile, Wareham is host to Dennis-Yarmouth and Feehan visits Holy Family tomorrow night when Seekonk is at Old Rochester, New Bedford • Voke-Tech at Stang. Other games next Tuesday list Stang at Dennis-Yarmouth, Old Rochester at Voke-Tech, Seekonk at Holy Family Breaking out of a long losing streak, Holy Family

had won three games in a row and was tied with Old Rochester for fourth place, Coyle-Cassidy, with a one-game lead over Diman Voke, is home tomorrow to Bourne and travels to Falmouth Tuesday. Other Division Three games tomorrow are Falmouth at Case, Westport at Diman, while on Tuesday Bourne is home to Diman, Dighton-Rehoboth to Westport.

Still the leader in Division One, Dartmouth is at Taunton tomorrow and entertains Fairhaven Tuesday. Connolly, holding down fourth place has home games with Fairhaven tomorrow and Somerset Tuesday. Other games in Division One list Barnstable at New Bedford, Attleboro at Somerset tomorrow, Taunton at Barnstable, Durfee at Attleboro Tuesday.

Hockomock Pennant Race Wide Open The Hockomock Basketball League's pennant race is still a wide open affair with Oliver Ames, Canton, Franklin, Stoughton and North Attleboro all In the running.

In a key game tomorrow, North Attleboro is home to

Franklin as King Philip is at Stoughton, Foxboro at Oliver Ames, and Canton at Sharon.

North Attleboro has another home game Tuesday, against Canton. Also scheduled for Tuesday are King Philip at Sharon, Foxboro at Mansfield, Franklin at Stoughton.

South Gains in Hockey League Fall River South, although .held to a tie by last-place Fall River North last Sunday night, widened its lead over runnerup New Bedford in' the Bristol County Catholic Hockey .League at the Whaletowners were' upset

by Rochester. Taunton defeated Somerset-Freetown and climbed to a second-place tie with New Bedford, four points back of the pace-setting Southies. .

Rochester's victory boosted the Cape skaters to fourth place.

South now has 23 points, needs four more points in the remaining four games to assure itself of at least a share of the league title. New Bedford and Taunton have 19 points each, Rochester 13, Somerset-Freetown 1I,'North 10.

Next Sunday night's games, starting 'at nine o'clock, have Rochester vs. North, New Bedford vs. Taunton, Somerset-Freetown vs. defending champion South.

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

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

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

New Films "North Avenue Irregulars" (Disney-B.V.): A young minister (Edward Herrman) takes over a failing church and mobilizes a zany collection of parish women to combat illegal gambling. Herrman is very good and so are Barbara Harris and Cloris Leachman as two of the eager crime-fighters, but an excess of slapstick will make the film a little hard to take for most adults and older teen-agers.

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"Uncle Joe Shannon" (United Artists): A brillianfjazz trumpet player lands on Skid Row after the tragic death of his wife and young son. He regains his selfesteem and starts on the road back when he becomes unofficial guardian of a young boy 'who has even more problems than he. A hawkish film chockfull of embarrassingly bad moments, this is a picture better avoided. PG, A2 "Harper Valley P.T.A." (April Fools): When the hypocritical board of directors of a small town P.T.A. sends a nasty letter to a fun-loving 'widow (Barbara Eden), scolding her for her behavior and threatening to expel her daughter from junior high school, they get much more than they bargained for. Based upon

a hit song of the late '60s, this unsophisticated comedy is standard drive-in fare, though there are some talented actors involved. Some risque humor calls for an adult rating. PG, A3

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Paul VI Hall VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has dedicated the 7000-person capacity modern papal audience hall at the Vatican to Pope Paul VI in honor of his predecessor, who began the project in 1964. It was completed in 1971.

Films on TV Friday, Jan. 26, 9 p.ol. (ABC) - "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1976) - Peter Sellers is funny as Inspector Clouseau, foiling the machinations of his former superior (Herbert Lom), who has got control of a doomsday machine. The one-joke nature of the whole enterprise, however success through bungling - is wearing rather thin. Then, too, the sexual elements in -the humor, relatively restrained before, are becoming more prominent. PG, A3

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Tuesday, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. (CBS) - "Big Jake" (1971) - John Wayne stars as an old rancher who with two' sons tracks down a gang, headed by Richard Boone, that has kidnapped his grandson. A standard John Wayne Western, entertaining but more violent than necessary.

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SISTERS' RECOLLECTION DAY, OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, NEW BEDFORD The fourth in a series of days of recollection for sisters of the diocese will be held at 2 p.m.

Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St. under direction of Father Luke O'Connell, OFM.

ST. RITA, MARION A senior youth program will take place at the parish center at 7 p.m. Sunday.

New parish council officers are Dr. Frank Gifune, president; Mrs. Joan Donahue, vice-president; Mrs. Mary MacLean, secretary.

ADORERS' LEAGUE, FAIRHAVEN An hour of adoration will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday in Sacred Hearts Church, 352 Main St., ,Fairhaven. Rosary and Benediction will be followed by slides on the Holy Shroud and refreshments. Further information is available from Alice Beaulieu, telephone 995-2354.

The Blessed Sacrament is exposed in the church on First Fridays and holy days and will be exposed on Friday, Feb. 2 from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER The credit union will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday in the parish hall.

A family mission will be preached in English from Sunday, Feb. 25 through Thursday, March 1.

White cloth for making pads for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home is needed by the Council of Catholic Women.

Donations may be brought to the church. .

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Members of AI-Anon and AIAteen will speak at a fellowship meeting at 7:30 tonight in the school cafeteria.

A Marriage Encounter team meeting will be held at 8 tonight on the second floor of the school.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Registration for the parochial school will' be held after 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday in the principal's office. The annual credit union meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday in the lower church hall.

Extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist will deliver blessed candles to each shut-in of the parish. the weekend of Feb. 3 and 4.

Open school will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. every day next week.

Volunteers are needed for Christian Living classes beginning next fall. piey may contact Mrs. Patricia Pasternak or the rectory.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Spiritual Life and activities committees will me~t Tuesday night in Father Coady Center, the former at 7 p.m., the latter at 8:30.

The SIGN meeting scheduled for Monday has been moved up to tonight and will be incorporated into the Christian Unity Service at 7:30.

Gospel Thinking Seen Prime Need MINNEAPOLIS (NC) - Those involved in training others for the priesthood and religious life must challenge the young to give their lives in the same way that Jesus did, a nun told the . first Congress of Religious Formation Directors.

Franciscan Sister Jose Hobday, who recently completed an eight-year mission assignment in Arizona, said directors should see that the training they offer rings with the Gospel mentality.

She told the Minneapolis gathering that each person must go to the edge of his being to discover the living God, to know his total dependence on God and feel his own weakness.

Formation time is a time for "throwing the discus to the end of the earth and beginning to follow it," Sister Hobday said.

She urged directors to give young people many experiences but added, "keep it real - don't let them become fragile or elite."

"Read the Gospels, pray them, and when you speak to the young, speak out of the Gospels," she said.

Another nun, Dominican Sister Margaret Kiely of Tacoma, Wash., told the gathering that "there is no instant recipe for formation."

Sister Kiely, a clinical psychoanalyst and faculty member at

the University of Montreal, said "Religious must trust .in God and put their reliance on him. We must return to Gospel simplicity."

Religious life is for flexible people, not for bitter, angry people with brittle personalities, the nun said.

Jesuit Father Luigi' Rulla of the Gregorian University in Rome presented data showing that those. with psychological problems who enter religious orders do not improve with time spent in the community.

Psycological problems do not go away when formation ends, Father Rulla said.

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The monthly prayer meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. I, beginning with 7 p.m. Mass and continuing with a social hour in the parish center.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD The parish council will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday.

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.A holy hour for Eucharistic ministers will be held in the .church from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The intercessory prayer group meeting scheduled for last Sunday at 1 p.m. in the church has been rescheduled for this Sunday.

Open house will be held at the school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9 to 11 a.m. in observance of Catholic Schools Week. A parent's meeting is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, with Rev. Robert McIntyre speaking on "Dealing with the Child in Today's Society."

A family parish Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 4, planned by fifth grade pupils.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. TAUNTON Confirmation will be administered in the parish at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 3. ,Boys in third grade and above interested in becoming Knights of the Altar may contact Father Normand Boulet at the rectory.

Laynlen "Laymen are members of the people of God called to a total ministry of witness and service in the world." - Georgia Harkness

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