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Bishop Cronin Pleads

Preserve, Foster Values Of Sunday Observance

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Largest group of Extraordinary Lay Ministers of Eucharist commissioned by Bishop Cronin at Cathedral ceremonies last Sunday are these members of St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis. Also named a minister but absent due to hospitalization was Thomas Laughlin.

Bishop Commissions 52 Lay Ministers Of Eucharist Most Rev. Daniel A. 'Cronin, S.T.D., 'Bishop of Fall ,River, commissioned fifty-two Extraordinary Lay Ministers of the Eucharist during an . afternoon Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, Jan. 23.

Among the Eucharistic Ministers there are 27 men and 25 women who will aid priests in parishes and institutions throughout the Diocese.

The following were commissioned: St. Stanislaus Parish, Fall River: Thomas Pasternak and Mrs. Celia Wilowiec.

St. Mary Parish, No. Seekonk:

"The Lord's Day must remain holy for us," insisted Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, in a pastoral letter he has sent to all the priests of the Diocese for their use in parish work.

"The precept that Catholic faithful are gravely bound to participate in Holy Mas,S on Sunday remains in effect," the bishop explained to all.

Bi~hop Cronin has stated that he was concerned for Sunday observance following the read-

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Price 15c $5.00 per year Vol. 21, No.3, Jan. 27, 1977

Pro-Lifers Brave Frigid Weather In Washington

Maurice W. Cotton and Edward R. Ring.

St. James Parish, New Bedford: William N. Wing and Sr. Muriel Balch, OLVM. Despite a 38 below zero chill St. Mark Parish, Attleboro Falls: John R. Levis, John Ross, factor and disappointing response by area legislators, some Philip E. Lindstrom.

St. Julie Parish, No. Dart- 75 pro-life demonstrators from mouth: Joseph Taffee, Dennis the Fall River diocese joined Ryan, Martin King, John Augus- thousands in a March for Life in Washington last Saturday, tine.

St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hy- the fourth anniversary of the annis: Robert O'Donnell, Edward Supreme Court's abortion deLariviere, James Brown, Edward cisions.

Neither Sen. Edward M. Ken-' Rutherford, Richard Hart, Richard Dresser, Thomas Laughlin, 'nedy nor Congresswoman Margaret Heckler was available to Turn to Page Four speak to diocesan marchers, said Mrs. Pam Smith, Swansea, among organizers of area 'participants. .

"As we went by office doors we could see the pro-life roses that had been sent to legislators on nearly every desk - but at The Bishop explained that the Senator Kennedy's office they new Parish woul4 be formed were put out of sight in a closed once construction of the Church room," she recounted. now being built on a beautiful Jack Horner, an aide for Marsite off Quaker Road in North garet Heckler, met with the diFalmouth is completed. Con- ocesan group, said Mrs. Smid'i, truction is expected to be com- and indicated that the congresspleted in April. woman planned to push for pubIn announcing the new Parish, lic hearings on the part of a Bishop Cronin explained that committee studying the possi路 long and careful consultation bility of a human life amendhad preceded the decision. The ment to the constitution. If the prelate explained to the group hearings are held, said Horner, that the venerable Parish of representatives from the Fall Saint Joseph in Woods Hole, River diocese will be invited to from which the new Parish to be appear. dedicat~d to Saint Elizabeth SeActivities for the pro-life day ton would, in large part, be for- in the nation's capitol began at med, will continue in existence. 9, a.01. with lobbying efforts Turn to Page Seven Turn to Page Seven

New Cape Parish to Honor Saint Elizabeth Seton Bishop Cronin has announced his intention to establish a new parish in the North Falmouth area under the patronage of the first native-born American saint, Saint Elizabeth Seton. The occasion of the' Ordinary's announcement was a meeting of the Women's Guild of Saint Joseph's Parish of Woods Hole, held on Thursday evening, January 20, 1977.

Many of the members of the Guild who were present for the gathering will be affiliated with the new Parish once it has been canonically established. The Bishop's announcement was greeted with enthusiasm and joy by those present at the meeting.

ing of the reports given him by the Deans and visitators during their visits to parishes' during December. "The Visitation was conducted well before the recent terribly inclement weather occurred," the Bishop said, "and the decline in Church attendance must be recognized as a very real source of pastoral concern."

"Coupled with this," the Bishop told the priests, "we now wit-ness in the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts a renewed scrutiny of laws regulating the Sunday observance. We may anticipate a good deal of publicity about this study, at the very least, with a further erosion of attitudes about the Sunday observance. Actual relaxation of civil laws regulating business operations on Sunday and the like may well result."

Text of the letter may be found on page three.

No Women Priests Says Vatican

By Jeny Filteau WASHLNGTON (NC) - Women cannot become priests in the Catholic Church, the Vatican's top agency for Catholic belief declared Jan. 27 but it deliberately avoided discussing their possible role as deacons.

In an 18-page formal declaration approved by Pope Paul VI, the Vatican's Doctrinal Congregation said that it "judges it necessary to recall that the Church, in fidelity to the example of Our Lord, does not consider herself authorized to admit women to priestly ordination."

While explicitly excluding women from "priestly" ordination, the document did not take any stand' on the ordination of wo-

men to the diaconate. According to a commentary released along with the document, that question was purposely excluded and left to a future discussion.

In a lengthy explanation of its position, the congregation cited among its reasons "the Church's constant tradition," "the attitude of Christ," and "the practice of the Apostles."

At a number of points the Doctrinal Congregation backed its reasons with citations' from Scripture. A majority of the Pope's Pontifical Biblical Commission agreed during a study of the issue last year that Scripture alone does not give a sufTurn to Page Seven

Rev. Thomas F. McMorrow Dies; Funeral Tomorrow After only .six and a half theological studies at St. Mary's years in the ministry and pla- Seminary in Baltimore. Most gued throughout his priestly Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., ministry with poor health, Rev. Turn to Page Ten Thomas F. McMorrow, associate pastor at Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville, succumbed to his long illness and died on Monday, Jan. 24.

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will be the principal celebrant of a funeral Mass at Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville, tomorrow morning, Friday, Jan. 28, at 11.

Rev. FrancisB. Connors, pastor of Our Lady of Victory Parish, will be the homilist.

Son of Joseph C. and Mary (Grandfield) McMorrow, he was born in Taunton and graduated from Msgr. Coyle High School in that city.

After having attended' Resurrection College in Kitchener, Ontario, Can., he went on to FRo McMORROW

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After Near Century, Sacred Heart School To Close

Hails Spirit of St. Louis

Life To Be Cherished End to End

New Public Education Policy Asked

Taunton CYO Grammar School Hoop Toumey

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ITEMS FROM NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE-----

National Expand 'Nuns' Jl9le MUNDELEIN, Ill. - Chicago's priests' senate has asked '~he archdiocese to help expand the role of nuns in pastoral ministry. The motion passetl without opposition following a discussion emphasizing that a greater role for nuns in par-. ish work should not jeopardize their traditional roles as teacher3 and hospital workers.

Apostolate to Alocholics LOS ANGELES ...,... Acceptance of alcoholism as a disease brings new hope to alcoholics ana a new apostolate to the Church, a recovered alcoholic priest said here. This acceptance means more effective help to alcoholics and their families, according to Father John Cunningham of Chicl;lgo, executive director of the National Clergy Council on Alcoholism which met last week at Loyola Mar:vmount University. Some 250 priests and Religious-most recovered alcohoIlcs -attended the conference.

Borders of Baltimore has appointed a committee t~ review the progress of the, fund-raising branch ·of the Pallottine Fathers here in meeting archdiocesan guidelines on fund raising issued last spring. The archbishop announced the appointment of the committee as Maryland Attorney General Francis B. Burch informed the state's Board of Public Works that a Baltimore grand jury will issue hundreds of subpoenas in an investigation of the fund-raising activities of the Pallottines.

Urge Arms Cutoff WASHINGTON - Twelve political and religious groups have called a recent State Department report on· human rights in six countries "superficial" and have urged the Carter Administration to cut off arms sales to five military governments. In a letter to Carter dated Jan. 17, the organizations also asked the new chief executive to declassify and release to the public more information on human rights conditions in countries receiving U.s. military aid.

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.- Bishop-Rausch TO'Phoenix -

Sees Pope Today

.. ".. WASHINGTON....;; Bishop James S. Rausch, .

General Secretary of the National Conference of ROME - Vice President Walter Mondale Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Catholic Conferwill visit Pope Paul VI today, just a week after ence since Dec. 15, 1972, has been named to head his inauguration. The visit was confirmed here the Phoenix, Ariz. diocese. Bishop Rausch, 48,

by American embassy officials on Jan. 20, the has served on the USCC staff since January, day President Jimmy Carter and Vice President 1970, when he was named Associate General Mondale took office.

Secretary. He was named an auxiliary bishop of his native St. Cloud, Minn. diocese in March, 1973.

Appointment of a new NCCB-USCC Secre-ROME - By a vote of 310-296, the lower tary is expected shortly. house of the Italian parliament has passed a bill which provides for free abortion on demand .in the first three months of pregnancy. The bill was attacked by the Vatican as a victory of BALTIMORE - Archbishop William D. "prearranged ideological projects, party logic

Italian Abortion Bill

To Check on Pallottines

and demagogic pressure over real deep reasoning and recognition of the values hanging in the balance."

Charges Are 'Rubbish' VATICAN CITY - Vatican officials here have privately dismissed as "rubbish" a magazine's claim that Pope Paul VI has not excommunicated rebel Archbishop Marcel Lefebure for fear of losing financial backing from conservative businessmen. The Vatican has made no official comment to the second installment in a series by the Italian weekly L'Europeo on the Vatican's real estate holdings in Rome. But Vatcan officials have said privately that the bulk .ot the magazine's latest charges go so far beyond the truth that they do not merit serious response.

Schools Defy Apartheid JOHANNESBURG Several Catholic in South Africa and Namibie (South West Africa) have openly defied apartheid policies by admitting black, Indian and colored (mixed-race) pupils to previously all-white classes, it was reported here.

Associated Press said about 40 non-white students joined whites in five schools in the Johannesburg area, two schools in Port Elizabeth welcomed 32 nonwhites, and two schools in Windneok, Namibia, enrolled a few nonwhites. s~hools

Reject ~ishops' Statement BOGOTA, Colombia Christian leftist' groups, chiefly led by priests and nuns, have rejected as a minority report "siding with the bourgeois," a recent condemnation of leftist Christians by the Colombian bishops. The priests and nuns charged that the bishops' November statement, "Chtistian Identity in Action for Justice," was drafted by a small group of aides influenced "by the ideas of the exploiters, who wish passive acceptance of social injustice."

Necrology Feb. 1 Rev. Msgr. Micha~l J. O'Reilly, 1948, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton.

Rev. Anatole F. Desmarais, 1975. Pastor, St. ~rames, Taun~ ton.

Rev. Msgr. Patrick Hurley, 1968, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton.

Feb. 2 Most Rev. William Stang, O.D., 1907, First ·BIshop of Fall River 1904-07.

Rev. Patrick F. McKenna, 1913, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton.

Rev. John L. McNamara, 1941, THE ANCHOR Seco"d Class Posta,e Pltld at Fall River, Mass. Published every lhursday at 410 Highland' A"enue, Fall RI\er, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of th Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid $5.00 per year.

Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River.

Rev. P. Roland Decosse, 1947, Pastor, St. Hyacinth, New Bed· ford.

Feb. 3 Rev. Antonio O. Ponte, 1952, Pastor, Our Lady of Angels, Fall River.

FEB. 4 Rev. Msgr. Hugh J. Smyth, P.R., 1921, Pastor, St. Lawrence, New Bedford, 1st Vicar General - Fall River 1904-07, Administrator of Diocese Feb.-July 1907

FEB. 9 Rev. Msgr. John J. Kelley, 1963, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River Peter J. McKt.ne, S.J., 1972, Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River

FEB. 10 Rev. Edward L. O'Brien, 1966, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield

t, L PARISH CLOSES: Bishop Cronin, center, and Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, left, concelebrate Mass at St. Hyacinth Church, New Bedford, as Rev. John J. Oliveira is master of ceremonies. The occasion was the closing of the venerable French national parish, due to decline of membership caused by changing population patterns.

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DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

OFFICIAL ASSIGNMENT Rev. Mr. John A. Raposo, as Deacon at Sacred Heart Parish, Fall River, effective ~esday, -Feb. 1, 19~7.

PASTORAL LETTER ON SUNDAY OBSERVANCE January 25, 1977 Dearly Beloved in Christ, From the earliest days, Sunday has been revered by the Christian people as the Lord's Day. Thus, the Acts of the Apostles records, "On the first day of the week ... we gathered for the breaking of bread." (Acts 20:7)

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SACRED HEART PARISH SCHOOL, FALL RIVER

Sacred Heart Parish School to Close After 92 Years of Educating

The sanctity of the Sabbath observance which the very first Chris- . tians inherited from their Jewish forebears was soon transformed to the Sunday observance. It was appropriate, indeed, that the faithful of the early Church should set Sunday aside as a day of worship Sacred Heart Parish School in of the parish so as to be able to At the time of its dedication it and celebration, for Sunday had a unique meaning for the Christian Fall River will bring its 92-year properly minister to today's par- was described as "ultra-modern community. It was on Sunday, "the first day of the week," that history to a close in June of this ish needs yet lessen the econo- .... the 'dernier cri' in modernJesus our Lord rose from the dead. And as the Apostle Peter re- year. The announcement of the mic burden. ity." minds us, through the Lord's Resurrection, we were given new closing of the school was made Envisioned are: the rental or The parish facility comprises birth, a birth unto living hope, a 'birth unto salvation. (1 Peter 1:3) at all Masses this past weekend. sale of the present 20 classroom three floors of classes, 20 in Astronomical prices that have school, cafeteria and auditorium; number. The building also conWith the passage of time, the sanctity of Sunday was further become an unbearable burden the sale of the present tec:tory tains one of the 'city's 'iargest deepened. It became a day of rest and freedom from work, given for the parish and a dwindling on Winter Street, the transform- auditoriums with a seating capato reflecting on the mystery of our recreation in Christ, so that .enrollment were attril:luted as ation of the present parish con- . through the spiritual and physical refreshment which it afforded causes for the closing of the vent into a parish center and lty of 800. an ample,' mOdernlylighted stage with dressing Christians might return, truly renewed, to their daily labors. Sun- parish school.' rectory; the change of the lower rooms and a motion picture day became a day of obligation, when members of the community The decision was reached un- church into a large parish hall booth. of faith were gravely bound to participate in Holy Mass, the perfect animously following more than and CCD Center.

It was announced at the openact of worship and the renewal of the very Paschal Mystery itself. a year's "tudy and discussion by In announcing the closing of ing that soon talking pictures Ultimately, the Sunday observance was given the protection of ec- the School Finance Board, the the parish school, Rev. John R. would be introduced and "a steclesiastical and civil law. We 'hope that this will continue. Unfor- Parish Finance Board and the FoIster, pastor, paid tribute to reopticon machine would be 10tunately, however, as we know so well, in recent years there have Parish Council. The Diocesan the Holy Union Sisters who had Turn to Page ThirteeD been numerous relaxations of the Sunday observance in many Education department reviewed staffed the school since 1885, parts of our country and, indeed, in many parts of the world. the findings of the parish groups This, their original foundation in Here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for example, there and reached the very same con- the United States, Father FoIster is emerging a reassessment of the laws regulating Sunday work clusions. Most Rev. Daniel A. pointed out, has for nearly a and the operation of business establishments on the Lord's Day. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall century provided the Sisters Whatever might be the outcome of this process, I would remind River, reluctantly confirmed the with the strength and inspiraall Catholics of the Diocese of Fall River that it remains our re- findings and authorized the clos- tion to found all kinds of apostolates throughout the Diocese and ligious duty to preserve and foster, in our own lives, the values ing of the parish school.

Expenses last year amounted the nation. contained in the Sunday observance.

The present school building to $110,454,46 and represented The Lord's Day must remain holy for us, even if it should no a $30,000 debt for the already was opened in 1931 by Most longer be favored with the protection of the civil law. The precept burdened parish. Twenty years Rev. James E. Cassidy, DD1;>., that Catholic faithful are gravely bound to participate in Holy ago the enrollment of the school LL.D., then Apostolic AdminisMass on Sunday remains in effect. The Second Vatican Council, in was 700 students. The present trator for the Fall River Diothe Constitution on the Liturgy, reaffirmed this obligation and enrollment is 154 students of cese. spoke of the Sunday observance: whom only 90 are parishioners The large edifice was describof Sacred Heart Parish. ed as the most modern educaBy tradition handed down from the apostles, which took its The closing of the· school is tional facility at the disposal of origin from the very day of Christ's resurrection, the Church the first step in a restructuring the City of Fall River families. celebrates the paschal mystery every seventh day, which day is appropriately called the Lord's Day or Sunday. For on this day, Christ's faithful are bound to come together in one place.

They should listen to the Word of God and take part in the Sunday, then, should be a time for families to be together, a day $1389 N'::~~~k April 18th Eucharist, thus calling to mind the passion, resurrection and for gatherings with friends and relatives, a time for visiting the Ireland France glory of the Lord Jesus ... The Lord's Day is the original feast sick. It should be a time for wholesome relaxation and enjoyment.

Italy Vatican day, and it should be proposed to the faithful and taught to It must remain a day given to the renewal of the whole person, Portugal Spain them so that it may become in fact a day of joy and of free- spirit, soul and body.

Shannon Bunratty Limerick , What a tragic loss it would be if the Sunday observance were dom from work. (No. 106) Killarney· Kerry Cork Blarney Waterford Dublin In recent years, we have' seen the revival of the Sunday Vigil, obscured or even lost to this generation. I earnestly pray that this Lourdes Rome Naples Fatima Lisbon Madrid celebrated on Saturday evening. Masses at which the faithful can will not be the case. Ultimately, it is the obligation of all of us, fulfill the Sunday obligation are celebrated on the Vigil. This clergy and faithful alike, to preserve the significance and the An audience with His Holine.., practice does not, in any sense, detract from the sanctity of Sun- sanctity of Sunday. I urge each and every one to truly maintain Pope Paul VI, il Ichedulod, al wen 01 a compr.henliYe tour of Vatiday; rather, it enhances and emphasizes the holiness of the Lord's in his or her own life, and to inculcate in family life, a profound can City. The•• or. only a fe. of the high Ipot., Wri'. or call today Day. For, from the earliest times, Sunday was considered as be- reverence for Sunday as the Lord's Day. , . - - lot your d.tailR ilin.,atyl - - 1 ginning not after midnight of the preceding day, but from "first Devotedly yours in Christ, I :.vM~uIR~g~nOIlY ,="1 Vespers" of that day, late in the .afternoon. The venerable Christian 114 51. ~';l Square 711111 , I ~:~to;:,'lh:'~S 027Ml I tradition, for example, of celebrating the central mystery of Faith I Please send your colorful fold.rl I on ¢e occasion of the Easter Vigil is but one instance of the anINom. ..... . tiquity of Christian practice in this regard.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 27, 1977

Educational Discipline We are fast becoming a nation that is heading down the road to a caste system of the "haves and the have nots."

One reason for the development of this imbalanced society is our tre.ndy educational philosophy and its practical application in daily school life. Students, if we can use that term, have been reduced to the learners and the non-learners. Education exists for those who wish to learn. For the rest, schools exist merely as a public baby sitting service.

Why? Education and educators have lost a basic sense of discipline. The learning atmosphere so necessary for the classroom has been destroyed by indulgent parents, aitxious lawyers and tired teachers. For many young people, the classroom has become merely a day care center. The authority of the teacher has no force or meaning and the desire to learn has been abolished by super-idealistic and rather unstable educational philosophies.

Recently educators have once more begun to realize that the educational process demands discipline, the selfdiscipline that only study can bring to a mind that 'seeks to know and wants to create. If students truly seek knowledge, they must be given the essential tools to achieve this goal. Above all, they must realize that in their own lives, discipline is the key 'to knowledge. The truly disadvantaged child, who is merely warming a seat in a classroom, is the child who has never been taught this essential le.sson of life.

Illegal Aliens Something is really out of joint. There are close to eight million American citizens out of work. At the same time there' are: according to recent estimates, over eight million illegal aliens now living and working in the United States.

Let it be made quite clear that this editorial does not call into question the movement of legal immigrants to ~e shores .~f this )and.After aU, most of us are the children and grandchildren of people who came to these shores to seek _political freedom an(l personal dignity. lmmigration quotas have been 'established by Congress. Of course, the feasibility of these quotas is another matter of discussion. What we have to face now is that quotas have very little meaning. The illegal alien has seen to this.

As a result, havoc is beginning to take its toll. What can you do when so many employers encourage illegal aliens -to sew their clothes, work their fields and clean their floors while the legal immigrant and the naturalized citizen can't find work. The masses of illegal aliens are' buried in the teeming cities or the empty countryside where it is difficult to seek them out for deportation. They are protected by their slave masters who work them for long hours with low pay, blackmailing them by constant threats, of exposure to legal authorities. The illegal aliens are a sorry lot because they are exploited and abused by fear for the benefit of the flesh merchants of greed.

For the good of the aliens themselves and for the good of the nation, Congress should really begin to realize the scope and depth of this problem. Custom and immigration services should have the manpower and resources to make some attempts to reduce the flow of illegal aliens into this country. Above all, not only should the illegal alien be deported but the employer who has hired and sheltered such a person should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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JESUS IS LORD A busy street ... a downtown university campus . . people on their way to class or work.

Above them is posted . . . on two huge signs . . . someone's profession of faith ... "Lord" ... "Jesus."

This most ancient' profession of faith in Jesus Christ ... "Jesus is Lord!" (Romans 11 :9; 1 Corinthians 12:3) . . . dominates this contemporary urban scene . . . The very ordinariness of the situation . . . suggests the real meaning . . . of so extraordinary a belief.

For to confess Jesus as Lord . . . is to believe He is present ... with gentle power ... with saving strength ... in people'S hearts as they live their daily lives . . . on city streets . . . on campuses and in offices . . . in factories and on farms . . . everywhere . . . always.

To proclaim Jesus as Lord ... affirms th~t His presence . . . makes a decisive difference . . . in all of life ... that His influence gives meaning and direction to everyd'ay living ... that He is the key that unlocks life's mystery.

"Lord" ... "Jesus" ... Bold signs ... calling us to follow St. Paul's urging . . . "Continue to live in Christ Jesus the Lord . .- . Be -rooted in Him ... and built up in Him ... growing ever stronger in faith . . . as you were taught . . . and overflowing with gratitude." (Colossians 2:6-7)

'A Still Timely Editorial (On the occasion of the opening of the Sacred Heart Parish School in Fall River, the Fall River Herald News published the following editorial, dated Monday, May.9, 1932.)

, "FOR GOD AND COUNTRY" Over the front door of the nowbuilding Sacred Heart School at Linden and Pine Streets, Fall River, appear in large letters the

words'

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY Every child passing through that entrance into that building during the many years of the school's existence will inescapably receive and bear about with him (or her) thereafter, in ever路 growing clarity, the conviction that "For God and Country" means Americanism, Manhood and Womanhood, Citizenship, Duty, Patriotism.

Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River-No better lesson could be con410 Highland Avenue ' veyed in all the classes and tests Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER of any school, high school, col路 Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. lege or university in this or any EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR other country.

Rev. Msgr. Johll Regan Rev. John F. Moore, M.A. Such slogan should be embla~leary Press-Fall RivI'

zoned over the portals of EVERY , school in this Nation of ours.

Instead of allowing the thought of God to be treated with studied complacence as an antique abstraction, the way too many American students are now brought to think by their materialistic instructors! And instead of allowing the thought of Duty to Country Even Unto Death to be treated as a contemptible absurdity, the way whole cohorts of "teachers" in too many of our Amerkan schools, not of church affiliation, are constantly conveying to young minds in evident attitude if not in actual word.

"For God and Country" are the words opening the Preamble to the Constitution of the American Legion.

Such words bluntly deny that any lesser reasons such as mere life, peace, progress, success, are sufficient to fill the area of any human soul.

Such words affirm with ringing precision that the little child and the grown man and woman will find their highest exemplification only in such works as are truly in .line with the purpose of the (,reator and with the service of Native Land.

Commissions Continued from Page One Sr. Patricia Louise MSST, John Sheehan, David Bisbee, Thomas C. McGarry.

St. Margaret Parish, Buzzards Bay: John Enos, John Hill and Anthony Vieira. . Mt. St. Joseph School, Fall River: Sr. Francis Callan, SCQ. $t. Luke's Hospital, New Bed路 ford: Sr. Elizabeth Anderson, OLVM; Sr. Eleanore Calouro, SSD; Sr. Jeanne Lavallee, esc; Sr. Brigid McCoy, SS.CC.; Sr. Sheila Russell, OP. Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford: Sr. Beatrice Duchesne, SCQ; Sr. Claire O'Brien, SCQ; Sr. Ludovine Gardin, SCQ. Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton: Sr. Virginia O'Hare, SUSC: Sr. Doreen Donegan , SUSC; Sister Vera Hebert, SUSC; Thomas Whalen.

Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro: Sr. Elizabeth Doyle, RSM: Sr. Mary Faith Harding, RSM; Sr. Patricia Harrington, RSM; Sr. Sheila Sullivan, RSM. Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth: Sr. Eleanor Mary, SND; Sr. Kathy Barden, RSM; Henry Fortin, James McNamee.

Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River: Sr. Elizabeth McAuliffe, RSM; Sr. Patricia St. Pierre, SSJ; Miss Marjorie Morin; Mrs. Donna Fournier.

Set Charismatic Day in Attleboro Father John Randall, a founder of the Word of God Community in Providence, Rhode Island, and former pastoral team member at St. Patrick's parish -there, will be a ,guest speaker at an all路day conference and praisegathering to be held Saturday, Jan. 29, at Attleboro High School.

Among musicians who will perform during the day and will aid in leading an evening of "singing and sharing" will be . Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S., formerly director of La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, and now associate pastor at Our Lady of the Cape Church, Brewster.

More than 2,500 persons are expected to attend the conference, to begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. Special programs for children ages 5 to 14 will be provided, with cartoons, filmstrips, short stories and craft sessions planned for three age levels.

Arrangements have been made for deaf, handicapped and disabled persons. Further information on this or on any aspect of the program is available from Dennis Splain, Attleboro, telephone 222-5408.

Other speakers in addition to Father Randall will be Rev. E. I. Osborne, pastor of Deliverance Revival Tabernacle Church, Roxbury; Rev. Freedom Wentworth, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Bridgewater; Rev. Peter Marshall, pastor of East Dennis Community Church; Dr. Carl Stevens, founder and president of The Bible Speaks, an international Scripture ministry.

Cosmo de Bartolo, a director of the Full Gospel Businellsmen's Fellowship International, will deliver the dinner address and lead the evening singing program.

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Sister Josephine Was There

STUDY MINISTRY: Bishop Cronin addresses meeting of clergy serving Portuguese parishes in diocese. Topic of gathering was needs of ministry to newly arrived immigrants from Azores and other areas of Portugal. Assisting Bishop are Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, vicar-general, left, and Rev. John J. Oliveira, vice-chancellor.

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Letters to the' editor

Letters are welcomed, but should be no more than 200 words. The editor reserves the right to condense or edit, if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and include a home or business address.

Legion-of Mary Dear Editor: It was back in April of 1969, after persevering invitations by the Spiritual Director and other members to come to a Lli!ldon of Mary meeting, that I finally decided I would at least give it a try.

As I began my training at the weekly meetings and assignments, I found that I was attracted to the Legion and even if at times I did not care to go, it seemed as though there was a magnetic force that was driving me on.

I feIt the need to have a purpose in life and a sense of wanting to' help others to grow in the love of God. Mter quite some time, I could really feel that I belonged and then I began to really want to become a true Legionary of Mary.

The work was not always easy but I noticed that even then, there was a happy feeling of satisfaction which came from doing one's duty at all cost.

Now, after almost eight years of active work in the Legion of Mary, I still find myself wanting to do even more to spread the Legion, knowing personally the tremendous good which comes with faithful dedication to Mary's work of crushing' the head of the Serpent and spreading the Reign of God in the world.

Miss Alice Beaulieu New Bedford

They Need Help Dear Editor: One of the saddest things anywhere are the numerous burnouts in the little homes in Appalachia. Creekbed roads are inaccessible to a fire engine.

People who are really poor to start with end up with nothing.

OL\r numerous requests from the IPissions at this time of the year are for kitchen utensils,

staple foods, bedding, linens, hygiene items, and, of course, warm clothing.

We have found that anyone of us in a comfortable home can pack a box for such a family, and send it to the mission. It is a great reminder of the blessings God has given us and the obligation we have to help others.

St. Luke reminds us when he repeats Jesus' words, "To whom much is given, much is expected."

If anyone will write us, we will send the names of two missions who could really use this type of help.

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Spirit of St. Louis Dear Editor: As I admired our Christmas aItar at St. Louis Church (Fall River) I reflected on the many changes our St. Louis has seen.

How often had our parishioners just begun to know our priests when transfers were made and it was a new beginning again.

About two years ago we were informed that once again our pastor and assistant were to be replaced by two Franciscan Fathers. Unknown to us at the time was our great good fortune, for Father Paul, OFM and Father Ciro, OFM brought with them such individual and unique personalities that they have overtaken us all.

More important than renovations, which they have also made, they have restored the true "Spirit of St. Louis" - at times with merely a touch, a word, a sign, but most of all by just being themselves. It is found in the warmth and friendliness of our social affairs, the solemnity and profundity of our religious gatherings but above all manifested at the communion rail where Father Ciro recites your name with distribution of the Host, exemplifying the feeling that you are not only special to God but to him as well.

At the Friary door is no finer

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example of "Knock and it shall be opened to you." No number is required, no picture to produce to identify you as a Catholic, no Social Security number needed before cashing in your sins for the grace of God. All are welcome and you never leave quite the same as before you entered.

'Evelyn Martin Fall River

Who's In Charge?

Dear Editor: This is the anniversary occasion of the advisement of the American people that the protection of their lives under the Constitution, so confidently entertained, was inapplicable to a whole category of the people, gestating humanity . . .

In a notable commentary, the German philosopher, Emmanuel Kant, observed that in his judgement government under republican form was best for man.

He advised in this relation: "If a republic is sick - find the functioning oligarchy."

The presence in an alleged republican government of a vitally functioning agency at once capable of effectuating its own will and dominion in objectives of government and effectually beyond response and control of a lawful electorate is incompatible with republican government.

The exercise of this legitimate criterion, immediately and indubitably, discovers the functioning oligarchy. No specious argument legitimately controvert the conclusion of this criterion.

The people of this republic contracted for a republican government. They are entitled to that republic. Under the terms of the Constitution, the sovereignty of the people, not specie fically granted government, remains the possession of the people. Logically inconceivable ment legitimately controvers the right to life by a seat of sovereignty to an adventitious agency claiming supreme authority. . Charles B. Sullivan Assonet

WASHINGTON (NC) - Next to Jimmy Carter there may have been no one happier to be attending this year's presidential inauguration than Sister of Mercy Josephine Maria Thomas.

Just a day before she stood bundled ankle to neck on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, clutching her pocket Instamatic, the nun received a very special gift from the students of Sacred Heart School, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where she is principal.

"Be sure to write that my children at Sacred Heart collected the money and sent me here," instructed the nun. "Sent me here by air," • She was among 5,000 people who braved sub-freezing morning temperatures Jan. 20 to pray for Jimmy Carter, the nation's 39th president whose "born again" style was reflected in many of the events marking the birth of his Administration.

Part of Carter's expression of that feeling was the 35-minute Lincoln Memorial prayer service, dominated by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., whose address was often interrupted with "Amen", "Praise the Lord" and "Yes Sir."

Later, 'Father Joseph Miller, pastor of St. Vincent De Paul Church, Washington, D. C. gave substance to the feeling that permeated the group: "There seemed to be a spirit of fraternity, hope and love among the people in prayer un· ited," he said.

The service prompted reflections on the past and predictions of the future. "I think there has been a long tradition of religion in the national enterprise," said Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul·Minneapolis, who gave the benediction at the swearing-in in front of the Capitol. "The Inaugural prayer service is a reflection, both historically and in the present that religion plays a vito al role and assumes a precious place in this country,"

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 27, 1977

Dorothean Nuns Attend Renewal

Blu,e and Wlhit,e FI,owers C,h:oic,e for Ma,ry Gard,en

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick As we have mentioned, flowers for a Mary Garden should be blue or white. In a sunny location this is fairly easy, since there is a wide range of choices, however, a shady spot is quite limited. Beginning in early Spring one can use snowdrops and crocus in bulbs and continue tion to the size and location of the Mary statue. Large white with hyacinths, which are rhododendrons, for example, particularly nice because may by beautiful but may dwarf they are sweetly scentec;l. In bulbs there are white daffodils and tulips and also shades of tulips tending to purplish blue.

These bloom from as early as March with the snowdrops through to late May with the late-flowering tulips.

By looking very carefully for bloom time it is fairly easy to plant bulbs in the Fall which will allow a lengthy period of bulb flowering for the Mary Garden. The advantage to using bulbs is that their foliage is rather limited and therefore even though it remains after the flowers have disappeared it is nQt so intrusive as some of the other perennials.

In our garden we have an abundance of forget-me-nots which are a lovely blue and which bloom in May. These are small in stature but lovely in a mass planting and ideal for a Mary Garden. Blooming at about the same time are the azaleas, which come in lovely shade of white and can he used effectively in a large- garden, although I prefer the smaller plants which offer more control over the size of the garden. Other Spring flowering plants include white poppies, white and blue iris, and the smaller perennial groundcovers such as periwinkle, ajuga and alyssum.

The Spring garden is easier to control and plant than later gardens, but care must be taken to ensure that bloom is in propar-

01 State Unit Names Two Diocesan Women At the annual state meeting of the Daughters of Isabella illI) held in Auburn, Miss Alice Miller was elected as State Guard and Mrs. Katherine DiRenzo as State Trustee. Both are from the Fall River diocese. The state unit is headed by Miss Marie P. Hart, North Brookfield, regent.

Resolutions adopted included statements supporting religious radio and television programs, involvement in Right to Life activities, development of vocational awareness programs and promotion of means to "restore and increase knowledge and devotion to Mary, the Mother of God."

a small statue. On the other hand, small groundcovers may be lost in a large garden. I tend to think of delicate flowering plants in connection with a Mary Garden' but selection of such plants can be difficult and time-consuming.

In The Kitchen , If there are any very special kitchen items for which you've . always longed, now is the perfect buying time. My hairdresser ' for instance, bought a fantastic non-stick set of frying pans from France at almost half price.

Such items that are not necessarily within our budget during the year just may become pos' sible at sale time.

My dream is to have a large, large kitchen with a fireplace and comfortable chairs so that I can spend time reading while waiting for some delightful dish to cook. This dream room would have two stoves, two ovens, and every imaginable kitchen gadget.

A food processor would have an honored place and while antique utensils would be used as decorations, such up to the minute inventions as a cordless electric sifter or a no-stick aluminum ice cream scoop would he there.

The kitchen, the area where we spend most of our time, should be the heart of the home, and yet very often it is the dullest room in the house, unimaginative, uninviting and isolated.

What better to have for a dream kitchen, however, than a dream recipe such as this delicious chicken casserole.

Chicken Cashew Casserole 2 medium-sized cans chow mein noodles (reserve a few for topping) 2 cans cream of mushroom soup, undiluted 6 whole chicken breasts, boned, skinned, cooked and cut into large pieces 2 4-ounce cans of cashew nuts 'h cup canned chicken broth undiluted 2 cups chopped celery 'h cup chopped onions 1) Mix all the ingredients together, except the noodles.

When ready to bake, add noodles, mix well and top casserole with a few reserved noodles.

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FOR HOSPITAL: Friends of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, present $1000 check to Rev. Edmund Fitzgerald, chaplain, for emergency fund administered by pastoral care program. Prese,ntation came at annual luncheon of group at which an additional $10,000 was presented to hospital itself. At left, Mrs. Richard p~ Cosimini, Candlelight Ball chairman; right, Mrs. George Solas, hospitality committee co-chairperson.

Low P'eri,ods May Be Times To Stu,dy O,u路r Pr,oblems Do you ever get depressed? I'm not talking about major psychological problems that need medical help. Do you ever just feel low from the every day worries, cares, frustrations, and disappointments? Silly question. I guess it happens to all of us. I find such a mood. It's easier to it generally happens to me pray . . . maybe because the when I'm extremely. tired. mind and heart are already Everything looks bleak. closer 'to Him. Problems have no solutions.

Everything I touch breaks . . . from dishes to hearts. It's impossible to do everything I must,

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Iy MARY CARSON and sombody brings one more job for me.

Eventua:lly it passes. Some little thing happens to break the cycle - some bit of good news, or some problem resolved. From there I climb back to a more normal outlook.

And the climb can continue to high spirits, a feeling of optimism, confidence, faith enthusiasm.

But I realized something the other day. One reason the "blue moods" are so difficult for me is that I have an unrealistic outlook on life. I ride along with a high mood getting things done, but I feel guilty when I'm depressed and, spend all my time fighting the depression.

Yet if it is a good thing to take advantage of the high moods, why can't I do the game with the low ones?

For example, when I'm in one of those highs I can see goodness and overlook the faults.

Frankly, I feel closer to God in

Sisters of St. Dorothy of the Fall River diocese, who staff Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, New Bedford, and Villa Fatima Provincial House, Taunton, recently attended a renewal program directed by Sister Kieran Flynn, RSM. With the theme of "Who and Why Community," Sister Kieran discussed the spirituality of contemporary religious life, emphasizing that its ultimate norm is the following of Christ.

The religious noted that each individual must discover "Who is the person God, my Father, is calling me to be for the Kingdom." Saying that Christ's mission was "mystery loved and lived, not mystery solved," she pointed out that the Saviour's mission was one of healing and calling forth life in others.

SUIter Kieran listed as elements of contemporary spirituality the knowledge that one is called to receive the "total extravagance" of the Father's love; the search for "littleness loved," and the realization that penitents are more open to his love than the self-righteous.

Sister Laurentia Sister Mary Laurentia Smith, RSM, 83, who taught in schools of the Fall River diocese for 51 years, died last week at Mt. St. Rita Health Centre, Cumberland, R.I., where she had retired in 1971. Her funeral Mas~ was last Saturday.

Born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the religious was the daughter of John and Margaret (frainor) Smith. She entered the Sisters of Mercy in Fall River in 1917 and made profession as a religious in 1920.

Diocesan schools where she taught included Mt. St. Mary Academy, St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Joseph's in Fall River, and Holy Family High School, St. Mary's and St. Kilian's in New Bedford.

She is survived by a sister in Canada, Sister Mary Edmund.

Value in Lows -But why can't there be some value to the low moods? When our minds are in the depths why not use that time to meditate on poverty, illness, and despair?

When we are in a high, agreeable mood, we can get along with the devil himself. But when we're low do we ever really think about the people who annoy us . . . the others in our families, fellow employees, people at Church. Sometimes Rev. Louis R. Boivin, pastor of more can be learned when we're depressed. When we're high we St. Louis de France Church, dismiss their. behavior as "sim- .Swansea, was principal celebrant of a funeral Mass Monday ply human." 'for his mother Mrs. Mathilda Maybe the best time to ex- (Mador) Boivin, who died last amine why another person is week at age 97. so difficut to get along with is The Mass, at St. Jacques when we're depressed ourselves.

Church, Taunton, was concel~颅 Think through all the problems brated by many priests, includand insecurities that make peo- ing Rev. Lucien Madore, chapple that way. Maybe we can un- lain at Mt. St. Joseph School, derstand enough to help.

Fall River, and Rev. Wilfred It may be that the low moods Nadeau, S.J., both cousins of we experience are the mind's Father Boivin. Rev. Raymond way of forcing us to look at Robillard, associate pastor at some of the problems we brush St. Jacques, was the homilist. aside when we~re in a good Born in Ste. Anne de la Pomood. catiere, Quebec, Mrs. Boivin, the But maybe using those depths daughter of the late Odilon and to probe areas we so often Philomena (Rouleau) Mador, leave untouched are really the resided in Taunton most of her most valuable times for our- life. She is survived by six selves . . . valuable, not in that daughters as well as by her they are what we like to do son. They are Sister Anna Imel. . . but valuable in what we da, SUSC, Lowell; Sister Emmust do to grow. ma, SSJ, New Bedford; Sister Next time you are depressed, Pauline Louise, 5'USC, North try it.

Attleboro; Mrs. Alma Pelletier, I'm in one of those 'lows right MrS. Maria Donnelly and Mrs. now. I'm working on it.

Rita Bedard, all of TaQnton.

Mrs. Boivin

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 27, 1977

O'Connell, Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Bishop, Jan Freeman. In right picture, Bishop prepares to enjoy supper with parishioners. From left, Bishop, Father Powers, Rev. Joseph F. Wiseman, CSC, Pat Stone, Rev. John J. Oliveira.

AT WOODS HOLE: Bishop Cronin attends covered dish supper at St. Joseph's parish, Woods Hole, where he announced formation or' new St. Elizabeth Seton parish. Seated from left, Pat Stone, Regina Dionne, Martha Vaccaro, Ann White, Women's Guild officers; standing, Barbara

New Parish on Cape Continued from Page One He noted that a .commission is presently looking into the matter of parish boundaries which will eventually divide the Town of Falmouth into orderly parQchial units.

Father Joseph L. Powers, presently Pastor of Saint Joseph's Parish in Woods Hole, was present at the gathering. Bishop Cronin indicated to those in attendance that Father Powers would assume the Pastorate of the new Parish and take up residence in close proximity to the new Church.

The new Church on the Quaker Road site is being constructed by the V and V Construction Company of East Falmouth.

Holmes and Edwards, Inc., of Boston, are architects for the

new house of worship which will include, along with a beauitful church facility, a parish center for catechetical programs and activities.

Bishop Cronin reported to the Guild members on his tour of the construction site, conducted with Father Powers and representatives of the contractor and architect earlier in the day. Significant progress in the building programs was observed.

Bishop Cronin promised the members of the soon-to-be formed parish that he would present, as a special gift to the parochial family, a first class relic of Saint Elizabeth Seton and mementos of the Canonization Ceremony, for which he had been present in Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican on September 14, 1975.

No Women Priests Continued from Page One ficient basis for excluding women from the priesthood.

A central point in the congregation's explanation was that "Christ is a man," and this has symbolic meanings which preclude the ordination of women as priests.

"And therefore," the congregation said, "unless one is to disregard the importance of this symbolism for the economy of revelation, it must be admitted that, in actions which demand the character of ordination and in which Christ himself, the author of the covenant, the bridegroom and head of the Church,

Vatican Period'ical In Engrish Edition CHICAGO (NC) - The Institute for Religious Life here is planning to publish in Englishlanguage version of Informationes, a periodical of the Vatican Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes.

The new publication will be caned Consecrated Life, Inform'1ltiones publishes papal statements, Vatican decisions and decrees, documents, statistical informlJtion, and a chronicle of even~ of interest to Religious.

is represented exercising his ministry of salvation - his role . .. must be taken by a man."

The congregation also cited the "permanent value of the attitude of Jesus and the Apostles," saying that constant Church practice in the light of that attitude "has a normative character; in the fact of conferring priestly ordination only on men, it is a question of an unbroken tradition throughout the history of the Church, universal in the East and in the West . . .

This norm, based on Christ's example, has been and is still observed because it is considered to conform to God's plan for His Church."

The Doctrinal Congregation's declaration, signed by the Prefect Cardinal Franjo Seper, and Secretary Archbishop Jerome Hamer, is entitled, "Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priethood."

Its negative conclusions come at a moment of rising ferment in the Catholic Church over the issue, which his been fed particularly in North America by the recent ordinations of women by the Episcopal (Anglican) churches in Canada and the United States.

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Pro-Life March Braves Cold Continued from Page One directed at the few congressmen who came to their offices on the icy Saturday morning, and ended ~even and a half hours later with the marchers shouting their determination to return each year until路 a constitutional amendment protecting unborn human life is enacted.

The weather- numbed demonstrators greeted a succession of congressmen with glove-muted applause as one by one the speakers vowed to work for passage of a constitutional amendment banning abortion.'

A new face in the Capital, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), compared legal abortion to the situation that路 prevailed in Nazi Germany. He called abortion "an epidemic that has to be stamped out now."

Hatch called the Hyde Amendment "a ray of hope'" in an otherwise bleak picture.

"I continue to be astonished at the abortion decisions, and

surprised that they remain unchanged after four years," Hatch told the crowd.

"Let me leave you with this sobering information," the Utah legislator continued: "While I've been talking to you, 36 children have been killed in abortion."

Perhaps the most militant note of the day was struck by Sen. Morton Downsy of Seal Beach, Calif., who pledged that should no action on behalf of a pro-life amendment be undertaken, " We will withhold our taxes."

The declaration drew cheers from the crowd, as Downsy, an early supporter of President Carter who dropped his support because th,~ Democratic convention did not adopt a plank favoring an anti-abortion amendment, nodded to affirm the point. .

Several prominent political leaders s~nt messages of solid-

arity with the crowd, among them Sens. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and Jake Gam (R-Utah), along with former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, the mention of whose name drew a highly favorable r.esponse from the crowd.

The marchers, whose tightly bunched numbers at one point stretched from the Capitol grounds to 14th St. - that is, within two blocks of the White House - reassembled for more speeches at the Ellipse.

Among the speakers were Dr. Dr. J. C. Wilke of Cincinnati, a pro-life author and lecturer; and West Virginia State Sen. H. Darrell Darby, who was prominent in opposition to the Democratic party's abortion plank during last July's convention in New York.

One group of about 200 marchers assembled at the White House gates and began chanting, "We want Carter," But the gathering was broken up quickly by parade marshals and police.

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FREEZING BUT FIRM: Freezing fingers, toes and noses did not deter diocesan pro-life demonstrators from joining the Washington March for Life last Saturday. At left, ll-yearold Maire Reilly of Holy Name School, Fall River, one of youngest diocesan representatives; center Rev. Thomas L. Rita, pro-life coordinator; far right, Mrs. Pam Smith, ~aker of Fall River's conspicuous banner.

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THE ANCHOR-Dioctlse of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 27, 1977

Life Is .a Continuum: To

"They were little people, a.nd powerless, and inconvenient to'have around according to current ideology," writes Rev .H~rbert F. Smith, S.J. "So they took them naked by the tens of thousands and by the millions, and with no explanation burned their bodies. Buchenwald? Auschwitz? Yes and No. "They were innocent, but they were also powerless and inconvenient, so they were liquidated by various means and then their bodies were bumed. But some were used in mOJ'le 'humanitarian' ways: They were taken alive and naked and forcibly used as human guinea pigs things were done to them that you (we hope) wouldn't do to a pig. Concentration camps? Yes, but also No. "For you see, they were killed in many ways. They were not merely herded together naked and gassed. They were attack~

ed one by one, these millions of which we speak, and killed.

Some were deprived of all aid and left to die naked and exposed on sterile tables. Some were submerged alive in salt solution that burned eyes and mouth and lungs and burned off the outer layer of skin in a fiery death.

"Many others - usually the smallest - were cut and torn into a hundred pieces all mashed and mingled together - arms and legs, eyes and brains - in a dough of recognizable human parts. However they died, they were thrown into incinerators.

But on occasion they were just put in plastic bags and thrown in the local dump.

"How could this go on even in Nazi Germany, you ask? 0 but now we are not talking about Nazi Germany. We are ta'lking about Little People, U.S.A. We are talking about the babies aborted - millions of them so far - by doctors without Hippocratic oath, by the methods just described.

"How could they let it go on?

You asked yourself that about the people of Nazi Germany.

Now ask yourself that about yourself. How in God's Name do you let it go on? Have you lifted a finger against it? Or have you secretly adopted the ideology which produces it?

Not racial supremacy now, but the supremacy of the born over the unborn. The new ideology has names too: Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth), or SelfFulfillment, or Medical Profiteering in Death Traffic. Does it sound as sick as Nazi superracism? That's because it is. And it is here. The sickness is yours, American!

"POSTSCRlPT: There was a complaint. It was against throwing their bodies in the lo~al dump. The law stepped in. It set aside the offer to give the little bodies Christian burial, while it considered the legality of throwing even their bodies into dumps- though since they have no legal right to their own

bodies, it's hard to find anything "illegal" about it. It all has to be 'legal, you see. As in Hitler's Nazi Germany. So now the crematoria are probably used more extensively, thanks to the justice of the law. Cheap fertilizer, anyone?"

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ST. CLOUD, Minn. (NC)In today's society there is a great need for parents to spend time with their children, to prove to them they really care, said Dominican Sister Elinor Ford, founder of an organization to pro. mote. parental involvement in education.

"Parents today give children so many things," Sister Elinor said here. "But the children do not perceive the parents care because what . the children are not things.

They want the time of their parents." <

Youngsters today question whether their parents· really want to be bothered with listening to them, she said in an interview with the S't. Cloud Visitor, newspaper of the St. Cloud diocese.

Parents, on the other hand,

"are frightened by their children," Sister Elinor said. "They don't understand their chiIdren.

Parents have lost their confidence in their ability to be parents."

She recommended that "parents stop looking for a book to give them the answer, and instead. concentrate every day, or at least every week, on just spending time alone with each of their children."

The inability of many youngsters to read or write or add "is not so much due to the teaching techniques as it is due to the fact that young people are not getting enough of what I call 'familying support,'''.

Sister Elinor said.

"In many homes both parents are working. There are many families with only single parents. Young people are going home to empty homes; they are all alone.

"In the case of both parents working, when they do come home they are so tired and weary - because one parent is working to put food on the table and the other parent is working to pay the government for putting food on the table that they can't relate to the young people.

"And in the meantime the young people are 27 hours a week in front of the television.

The refrigerator is like a revolving door because nobody sits down to eat anymore."

Sister Elinor's observations were confirmed by a recent U.S. Census Bureau report that an estimated 1.8 million U.S. children, aged 7 through 13, are unattended by parents, relatives or agencies, from the time they 'leave school until a parent returns from work.

A study published in late 1974 found that "the average family in the United States spends less than 30 minutes a week in familying," Sister Elinor recalled.

No Happy Addicts The realization of how devastating this inattention is to youngsters led Sister Elinor to

organize a communication network for parents, teachers and students across the country in order to resolve some of the problems by breaking down separation between generations.

Children who are happy come from a happy environment and show it, she said. The children, who are unhappy, hostile and alienated are the ones who turn to drug and alcohol addiction.

"We've never found a happy drug addict yet. These are the young kids who are basically unhappy by th-eir body language, by their facial expressions."

To prevent the development Of fear and hostility in children, parents "have to start from the time the child is two years old to spend time each week alone with each child, because it's the only w.ay the child is going to perceive 'My parents really care about m~,' " Sister Elinor said.

At the same time, Sister Elinor said, "the school has to work with the children and say "Listen, your parents really care about you. Now stop giving. them a hard time.' " .

This is what she calls· "parent partnership."

"If a child can feel 'My father and my mother, no matter what I do, will always listen to me,' that is a blessed child," she said. "That child wilt always come and tell the parents everything."

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MIAMI (NC) - Those who choose not to be parents must maintain contact with children or the future will have no reality for them, anthropologist Margaret Mead said at Barry College here.

Many people today do not want to accept the responsibilities parenthood involves, she said in a keynote address to a national consultation on young adult ministry sponsored by the National Council of Churches.

"Now there are many young people who do not intend to get married, or if they do marry, do· not intend to become parents.

There's a whole portion of our population that could be termed, Not Yet Parents, or' No Longer

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Be Cherished End to End Parents, or Never Have Been Parents."

Emphasizing that there is room for all these lifestyles, Miss Mead said: "Those who do not choose parenthood are free fora wider responsibility.Free from the need to have to gain material goods.

Free to spend half their time, if they want, or even more in doing things for other people."

But those "who choose not to be parents must maintain contact and close relationships to children or the future will not have any reality for them," she said. "There are a few saints who have always been able to embrace the whole human race but they are in a limited number. We have to see that it's totally necessary to be sure that the young people who decide against parenthood and for oth.er forms of responsibility never lose closeness to children.

"The best way to do this is to build three-generation communities where they are close both to older people and close to children so that at the same time they embrace a wider freedom than parenthood they're also close to the past and close to the future."

During the 1950s, people were expected to be parents no matter what, said Miss Mead, adjunct professor of anthropology at Columbia University and curator emeritus of the American Museum of Na.tural History.

Those who couldn't have children of their own "were expected to adopt at least four wellborn, illegitimate children of impeccable parentage," the 75year-old anthropologist told more than 300 participants in the consultation. "I estimated, at one point, that we needed 5 million well-born illegitimate children to fill the need."

She continued: "If you look to the 1950s, when we were the most married country in the whole world - not always mar·ried to the same person, but steadily married - you see that our aim was to be married from puberty to senility."

Specialized Responsibility Society can't go on with a situation "in which people get married miscellaneously, get divorced a year later and present us with a nation of children from broken homes," Miss Mead said.

She emphasized "that parenthood is a particular, special[zed responsibility while children are young and that people who enter parenthood are accepting certain responsibilities and certain losses of freedom for both men and women."

The present time is "probably the worst period in history to be a parent of a teenager and it's the worst period in history to be a teenager with parents on the other side of the gap," Miss Mead said.

Before her address, Miss Mead told NC News: "We need to find out where young people of today' are going. They are all over the place - in school, out of school, in

marriage, out of marriage. The old definitions don't hold today.

So we need new definitions of responsibility. Young people have to provide those definitions thems~lves. People are faced with the possibility of doing things but that doesn't mean we will."

During her formal presentation, the noted anthropologist outlined several concepts and definitions which need to be changed.

"We divide society up between the people in school and the people who got out. One of the most important things I think we have to do is get rid of the notion that there's a great difference .between people in school and out of school; to get rid of the idea that you have to get rid as much education as you can because you're never going to get another chance."

Commenting on older adults returning to school, Mead said she wasn't sure "that means something very good because universities have suddenly discovered older people are a source of income."

NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla. (Nq - Jesus Christ "provided for H~s mother not by investing in insurance or purchasing a condominium in Florida - but by giving her into the care of a friend," a Dominican theologian said here.

Dominican Father William J. Finan, lecturer in moral theology at the Dominican Ho.use of Studies, Washington, D.C., noted how Jesus provided for Mary, "a mother and widow, separated from those she loved most," and protected her against loneliness and the "evils of old age."

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In an address to the annual meeting of the Mariological Society of America at Our Lady of Florida Retreat House here, Father Finan found in Gospel references to Mary examples of dealing with such contemporary problems as the plight of the elderly and' teenage pregnancy.

He recalled that Jesus, dying on the cross, placed His mother in the care of His disciple, John.

"The GQspel narrative adds: 'From that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home,' " the priest said.

Mary at that time was lonely, widowed and sad, Father Finan said, like many people today.

While modem medicine and technology allow people to live longer, "only those who are blind will deny the evil of old age," he said.

"Decaying family structures remove the environment in which parents and grandparents might live out their last years with, at least, a minimum of dignity. Elderly people must trust in things, in money saved over the years, in the government.

Too often there are no beloved persons in whom they can trust."

colleges during their pregnancies? Is it a deeply, shameful event for parents?

"A study of Mary and Joseph would lead us to refashion our attitudes. Mary was not scorned and cast out by the one who loved her. ShEl was accepted more dearly. We must treat our women in 1977 in the same way, maintaining family ties."

Advice for Pastors Father Finan had some advice for pastors and others: "We cannot coolly urge old folks to trust that God will take care of them when they have been trained to think Social Security will be their salvatioq. If we are to depend solely on God in our old age, we must begin as Mary did, in the early years . . . God alone must be our final refuge. . .

"I am not urging that discouraged elderly people today should suddenly be confronted by the example of Mary and chided to imitate her . . . (but) the preacher in recent years has failed to lead Americans to depend solely on God." Father Finan also warned that harsh, un-christian attitudes and behavior toward unmarried, pregnant girls may drive more of them to abortion.

"What attitudes have become customary in our culture? Even among Catholics? How do we treat unwed mothers? Are they public sinners? Are they a scandal properly kept out of sight? . Have unwed mothers been forced to withdraw from Catholic

VATICAN CITY (NC) In the first Vatican comment on the G~lry Gilmore execution, Vatican Radio said that it was a woefully inadequate response by American society to the needs of a troubled

man.

The radio also said that "disquieting legal and moral questions are left unanswered" by the firing-squad execution of Gilmore at a Utah prison Jan. 17.

"The Salt Lake City execution cannot but evoke a great deal of pity," the radio said in an editorial. the day after the execution.

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Unlike Vatican Radio, the Vatican daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano printed neither a comment nor a news report on the spotlighted execution.

Last summer, responding to questions from the American bishops, the Vatican Justice and Peace Commission sent a memorandum supporting abolition of the death penalty for ethical reasons.

Noting in its editorial that eight black nationalists were hanged in Rhodesia the same day as the Gilmore execution, Vatican Radio harshly criticized what it called the "bias and double standard of public opinion."

"Yesterday while Gilmore fell under fire by his executioners, eight black nationalists were hanged on the gallows of the racist government of Ian Smith in Salisbury, but one would look in vain for a trace of this news on today's front page," lamented the broadcasts.

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By Father John Dietzen Q. What does one do when he is sent from the confessional and told not to come back until he has committed a mortal sin?

Does that mean we should never go to confession? I know a number of elderly people who are facing this problem.

AT TESTIMONIAL: Among well-wishers at testimonial for Msgr. Patrick J. O'Neill, retiring director of the Diocesan Department of Education, is Francis J. Kilgrew, superintendent of Somerset public schools, himself planning retirement as of Jan. 31. At right, Rev. John Myers, president of the National Catholic Educational Assn. and chief speaker at testimonial, chats with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, also a speaker.

Urges New Public Education Policy A call for a new policy in public education was sounded. by Rev. John F. Meyers, president of the National Catholic Educational Assn., as he spoke in Fall River at a testimonial banquet for Msgr. Patrick J. O'Neill, retiring director of diocesan education.

Noting that Catholic educators are intensely interested in public school programs "because 75 percent of our youngsters are in public schools," Father Meyers said that American Catholics should work actively for public education that emphasizes individual as well as social ethics.

"Many youngsters have never been taught right from wrong," he declared, pointing out that social ethics stress such matters as equality, humanitarianism, ecology and equitable foreign policy, but that individual ethics, concerned with a person's own actions, are neglected.

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"A happy balance is needed," he averred.

The educator said that religious groups must work together in striving to incUlcate respect for individual ethics. °'1 would submit that we have had too much religious competition and too little religious 'cooperation," he commented, adding that the Church's main concern should be "theology, and not sociology. We have been hearing a lot about liberation and too little about redemption."

Other Emphases Similarly, the priest' said that emphasis on justice is excellent, among Christians there must also be other emphases. Quoting Ted Sizer, he said, "There. are other important qualities such as civility, a sense of humor, compassion. The friendly act, the consistent smile,· the cheery good morning, the going briefly out

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Father Meyers stressed that "all have roles in Catholic' education: parents, teachers, bishops and pastors," pointing out that Msgr. O'Neill, in assuming the position of a fulltime pastor, was by no means abdicating the responsibility of a teacher.

Also speaking were Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, State Sen. Mary L. Fonseca, representatives of public, independent and diocesan schools, Sister John Elizabeth S.U.S.C., diocesan school superintendent, and Msgr.

O'Neill, who paid tribute to Bishop Cronin and to the staff of the diocesan education department.

Fr. McMorrow Continued from Page One fourth Bishop of Fall River, ordained him a priest at St. Mary's Cathedral on May 2, 1970.

His first assignment took him back to his home town when he was assigned as associate pastor at Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton. On June I, 1971, he was transferred to Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville, as associate pastor.

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A. About the only advice I can give to you is to do as the priest says; don't go back to him - for such a confession.

Go to another priest - and there are many of them - who do not have such a rigid view of the nature and purpose of the sacrament of Penance.

A confession of this nature is usually called a "confession of devotion," that is, only veniel sins or previously forgiven serious sins are told to the priest.

Such confessions have been and still' are strongly encouraged by the Church. The introduction to the new Rite of Penance, for example, stresses the value of "confessions of devotion" as having its own kind of healing power.

"Those • who through· daily weakness fall into veniel sin draw strength from a repeated celebration of Penance to gain the full freedom of the children of God," says this document.

Frequent and careful celebration of this sacrament, it continues, "is not a mere ritual repetition or psychological exercise but a serious striving to perfect the grace of Baptism so that, as we bear in our bodies the death of Jesus Christ, His life may be seen in us even more clearly" (paragraph 7).

In other words the sacrament of Penance is not only for the forgiveness of sins but for many other spiritual benefits - the growth of purity of heart; a living spirit of sorrow in humility before God; an increased openness of our hearts to the healing power of God for sins of the past; a more intimate sharing in the saving power of the sufferings of Christ, and so on.

Naturally we must never allow such confessions to become mechanical or superficial without a true spirit of sorrow. Also, we shouldn't forget that sins can be forgiven in many other ways - prayer, penance, good works, and especially in the Eucharistic sacrifice, which should always remain the center of our spiritual lives.

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of our lives Is Christians, as Jesus and St. John tell us often in the New Testament, is love of our brother; and more of our brothers are hurt grieviously and more lives are ruined by gossip than we can· imagine.

To answer your question, of course it is still sinful to lie in charging another with certain faults or defects (calumny). Obviously, this is a moral wrong. it can be just as wrong, however, when our gossip concerning someone else is true (detraction).

Understandably, there may at times be good reason to tell another's faults, to a child's parents, for example. It is grossly wrong, though, to consider that because a story about another' is true, one is at liberty to spread it around.

An individual's good name is among his most precious possessions. Once someone ruins another's good name, it is nearly impossible to correct and heal the damage. The fact that one gets a kick out of always being there with the latest tidbit is no justification for tarnishing something so valuable. A person's· faults are a matter between himself and God. The rest of us should keep our noses out.

QueStions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen in care of The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River 02722.

(Copyri~ht (c) 1977 by NC News Service)

Volunteers Discover Jerusalem Artifacts

JERUSALEM (NC) "The mountain of the house of the Lord" was the prophet Micah's description of the Temple Mount, focal point of life here for 3,000 years. Since 1968 the area has become the site of intensive archaeological activity - performed largely by volunteers from all over the world.

'Under the supervision of professionals, the volunteers work 52 weeks each year in a drive to trace the history of the ancient part of Jerusalem. The rewards can be extraordinary.

Last spring, about 30 feet under the surface in a charred roo~, two valuable discoveries were made.

One of the finds, a four-handled ceramic jar in perfect condition, was apparently used for preparing food. Arrowheads dating from about the sixth century Q. Why don't we hear any B.C., the time of Nebuchadnezmore about malicious gossip? zar's destruction of Jerusalem, Two friends of mine have been were also found in the room. really hurt and their reputations almost ruined by people talking Bicentenri'ial Book who didn't know half of the WASHINGTON (NC) - Bifacts. It Is sad. Isn't gossip stUi centennial essays which appeara sin? Where in the Bible is ed in the Catholic press have there anything about this kind been compiled in a book, ''Caof talk about other people? tholics in America." The 60 es-

A. It seems to me that the ·sinfulness of malicious gossip is probably more Ignored than that of any other sin. The basic rule

says in the 270-page volume were issued weekiy by the National Catholic News Servide. beginning in July, 1975.

-THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-:-Thurs: Jan. 27, 1977

Church Not Uncritical Of American Ethos In the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, U.S. Catholics and the institutional Church here have gone far beyond explaining that their religion does not conflict with Americanism, far beyond simply defending the Catholic faith and the rights of the Church in the public order. est. Rather, 'we hope that voters will examine the positions of The institutional Church is candidates on the full range of now fully prepared to dis- issues as well as the person's sent, not from the American political system, but when necessary from the prevailing political ethos and specific govern-

By MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS

mental programs. The old charge that the Church in the United States was uncritically committed to the American ethos is no longer valid or, in any event, not as valid as it appeared to be until a few generations ago.

I will pursue this point by speaking specifically, not about the People of God in all its diversity, but about the so-called institutional Church as represented in certain matters by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC). This conference is the agency through which the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), as the parent body, normally carries on its public social action and public policy programs. The USCC issues policy statements and conducts studies in such fields as family life, social action, immigration, communications, etc. Increasingly since the end of Vatican II, the conference has concerned itself with a wide range of public policy issues, sometimes in support of ~nd, at other times, in opposition to existing government policies.

Mission Not Confused It is important to emphasize that the conference does not confuse the mission of the Church with that of government, but rather sees its ministry as advocating the critical values of human rights and social justice.

It is equally important to emphasize that the bishops who administer the conference do not seek the formation of a confessional or sectarian voting bloc, do not endorse political parties or candidates, and do not attempt to instruct people on how they should vote.

The bishops made this clear in a widely quoted statement, Political Responsibility: Reflections On An Election Year, issued in February, 1976, in anticipation of the recent presidential campaign. The pertinent section of this important statement reads: .

"We specifically do -not seek the formation of a religious voting bloc; nor do we wish to instruct persons on how they should vote by endorsing candidates. We urge citizens to avoid choosing candidates simply on the personal basis of self-inter-

understanding of the important link between faith and politics and to express our belief that our nation is enriched when its citizens and social groups approach affairs from positions grounded in moral conviction and religious belief."

It was expected that this official policy statement would make it clear to all concerned that the institutional Church is not a one-issue Church and that it is completely non-partisan in the exercise of its educational and prophetic ministry in the area of public policy. Within a few months after its publication, however, because of a misunderstanding over the position of the institutional Church on the public policy aspects of the abortion controversy, the bishops found it necessary to reaffirm their political neutrality in even more specific terms. They did this in a statement by the NCCB Administrative Committee which reads in part: "As bishops we have a duty to make clear the moral and religious dimensions of secular issues, to point to God's word as an authentic norm for social and political life, and to make clear the practical requirements which spiritual and moral values impose upon efforts to achieve a more just social order. At the same time, we are not supporting religious bloc voting nor are we instructing· people for whom to vote. Rather, we urge that citizens make this decision for themselves in an informed and conscientious manner."

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To Georgetown WASHINGTON (NC) - Two top Ford Administration officials - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary William Simon-have been named to posts at Jesuit-run Georgetown University. Kissinger was named to a joint position as Visiting Professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and as a counsellor at the school's Center for Strategic and International Studies. Simon a Catholic, was named to a three year term on the university Board of Directors.

Pope Paul Urges Efforts Towards Intercommunion VATICAN CITY (NC) - In a Christian Unity Week talk, Pope Paul VI urged Christians "not to stop in midstream" in ecumenical relations but to work toward full unity with intercommunion.

At his general audience Jan. 19, the Pope lauded "growing accord on the doctrinal level and positive convergence .•. even on such funda.mental questions as the reality of the Eucharist, ministry and authority in the Church."

The Pope was clearly referring mainly to the advance in CathNEW JOB: Brother An- olic-Anglican relations, hightone Freitas, MSC, a native lighted by the release that same cif a new agreed theological of Fall River, who has served day statement on authority in the 16 years in the South Pacific Church. as captain of vessels operaUrging Christians not to "beted by the Missionaries of come entrapped in acquired habthe Sacred Heart, has been its nor stop in midstream" in assigned to "land duty" at a ecumenism, Pope Paul said, "We monastery of his community must redliscover our unity common participation in Youngstown, 0., where he through in the single Ecucharist." will combine study with· The pontiff emphasized, howmaintenance work before ever, that intercommunion -

beginning study for the priesthood in September. In the South Pacific he made to missionaries located on eight groups of islands, four supply runs yearly, logging 6000 miles annually in 85,000 square miles of open sea.

Cimabue Crucifix Again on D'isplay FLORENCE, Italy (NC) - Ten years after muddy flood waters swirled about it, Cimabue's imposing, yet heartrendingly damaged crucifix was placed on display in the Basilica of the Holy Cross here.

The stunning black and gold elements of the medeival Italian artist's huge crucifix were once again placed on public view after 10 years of painstaking restoration.

But what visitors now view of the ·"corpus" of Jesus is only 30 percent of the original-all that remained after five-year-high flood waters took their toll on Nov. 4, 1966.

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full sharing in the Eucharistcould not yet take place and top Vatican ecumenical officials have emphatically denied press reports claiming that he has personally approved the contents of the authority document, drawn up by leading Catholic and Anglican theologians.

Officials of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity said here that the secretariat's president, Cardinal Jan Willebrands of Utrecht, the Netherlands, had given the goahead for publication of the document, authored by the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission. (ARCIC).

But they denied that Pope Paul, Cardinal Willebrands or any other high Cchurch officials outside ARCIC had approved in principle the contents of the document.

French Dominican Father Cristophe Dumont, secretariat consultor, said in a critique of the ARCIC document prepared at the request of the secretariat that "no Church authority has made any judgment as to the content of the document, and the commission did not ask them to do so."

Top Church officials, the Dominican said, were aksed only ~'to judge whether the work was sufficiently serious to warrant publication on the responsibility of the theologians of the commission alone, for the purpose of receiving criticism and suggestions about its work."

Expand Nuns' Role MUNDELEIN, Ill. (NC) Chicago's priests' senate has asked the archdiocese to help expand the role of nuns in pastoral ministry. The motion passed without opposition following a discussion emphasizing that a greater role for nuns in parish work should not jeopardize their traditional roles as teachers and hospital workers.

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Key speakers for the gathering, sponsored here by the Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania, will include Bishop Bernard. J. Law, of Springfielcl-Cape Girardeau, Mo., chairman of the ecumenical and interreligious affairs committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; Dr. Claire Randall, general secretary of the National Council of Churches; the Rev. Arthur Simon, executive director of Bread for the World; and Bishop Roy Nichols of the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church, chairman of the Christian Associates.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Is Being Born Again Possible Today?

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Getting rudely edged out of traffic by a car bearing a "Be Reborn in Jesus" bumper sticker is disconcerting. What should a "reborn" Christian b.e like not in a picture but on a highway, in an office, on a soccer field, in a beauty parlor, at worship? What should this radical Christian claim of Baptism as rebirth be like? In every age great Christian thinkers have grappled with the implications of that question. They have offered images appropIiate to their time but not always to ours. And most of us have sought its meaning in the concrete events ·of everyday life, happily or unhappily touched by theological theory.

We in the United States are aware of a revival of "Born Again Christians." The executive office of our land houses one. That makes some uneasy.

That uneasiness may have historical base: baptized Christians for centuries carried out des-

truction. The rape of Indian land throughout the southwestern United States was done by the baptized. One the other hand, we are hoping the Carters may make it clear to this nation's people that there are serious moral implications toward others which rebirth in Christian insists upon.

Baptism is not always understood in relation to Gospel life.

Recent writing on evangelization has made it clear that people need to know the Gospel in • order to 'live any measure of sacramental life.

We have all been born, yet none of us has any consciousness of that birth. We might blanch if someone said, "I remember the day I was born it was such a hot, August day."

Consciousness about our birth grew gradually. We all struggled to exit a womb and then gradually to adjust to the world we forged ourselves into.

Meaning of Birth We metaphorically learn that Tum to Page Thirteen

The Unfolding of a Person

By Gerard A. Pottebaum

All kinds of people claim to be "born-again Christians," including our new President Carter. But what might this experience be about?

Some describe it as a sudden dawning, perhaps at a religious service. Others awaken through a profound personal crisis. But most of us hack along, more sure of being on-again, off· again, than born-again.

We're t01d with biblical assurance that unless we're born again of water and the Spirit we shall not enjoy life everlasting.

So we have water poured on us, and we hope the Spirit acts, as He's . not so easy to manage since He moves where He wills.

But the question lingers, what does Baptism really do about rebirth?

It is probably. safe to say that Baptism doesn't do anything about rebirth, not automatically, not like a water-cooler responds to the button we push. Baptism can, however, provide us with a sense of rebirth, if we can recognize other expressions of rebirth in our lives, or come to sense that all of life is a beingborn, not again, but as part of the same birth-event, the unfolddescribed them as extraordinary, ing of a perSOn. but that was it.

Sometimes we take that exThe New Testament, spoke of pression "born-again" too liter-' "acts of power" in the Synoptics and "works" or "signs" in ally, and fall into the dead-end John. All these words, since that Nicodemus confronted, and they were general, applied to a wondered how he could fit back wide variety of acts and events', into his mother's womb to be from what we would call the born again. Being born in the providential all the way through flesh can be seen as part of the to the truly extraordinary. And same birth event which we celeso the crossing of the Red Sea brate in Baptism. In Baptism we was not a "miracle" in the same articulate in sign and· gesture sense as the raising of Lazaru~ what we believe to be so when human life took flesh again' in from the dead. lit is proper, then, to speak of the newborn person. You can't the miracle of life, one which have one without the other. elicits wonder from the human Must Work at It heart. Closely allied with this That's obvious from one point phenomenon is the miracle of of view: You can't baptise somebirth. There is something almost one who has not been born. mystical about the expression on However" you say, a person can Tum to Page Thirteen be born and not be baptised. Being born is not a choice a person That's automatically part 'Ask Youths Return makes. of one's getting here. But being SANTIAGO, Chile (NC) - At baptised is not automatic, and the request of relatives, the that is just the point: one's BapChilean government bas begun tism - one's coming to life to work for the return from the is something each of us has to Soviet Union of 178 youths work at. It's far from automatic. studying there under programs It is a choice we make: how to started by Chile's former Marx- live so that I'm not just going ist government in 1972. through the motions of being alive.

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"ONE'S BAPTISM is something each of us has to work at. It's far from automatic," reminds Gerard Pottebaum. A young couple brings their twin sons to be baptized and start the long journey of the Christian life. (NC Photo) we make about how to live to the question, "Is being born again possible today?" we are confronted with a struggle more difficult and profound than the Church faces in renewing the baptismal rite so that people might enjoy more fully a sense

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of being born again. We are confronted with the struggle to become persons in a mass culture, in which one seems to find fewer and fewer opportunities to enjoy being recognized as a person.

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Communion of Saints

By Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin

When heavy set, usually smiling Andy Lukach left his Wilkes Barre, Pa. home three . summers ago, there was neither joy in his heart nor radiance upon his face.

This young man faced a 5,000 mile trip across the Atlantic, four years of seminary training in a foreign country, and community life with a group of strangers, all American, but from 44 States and 85 dioceses.

The prospect of entering first theology at the North American College (NAC) here in Rome certainly excited and challenged him. Yet anxiety about the unknown, as well as the pain of separation . from loved ones, dampened his enthusiasm.

Andy also carried at that time an additional burden which caused lines of sadness. in his •usually cheerful face. His mother had died of cancer but a few days before his departure. . Last month Andy received an

early morning telephone message from the United States. His father had died suddenly, leaving Andy and a younger brother the only surviving members of that family.

A heaviness came over faculty and students as word of this popular seminarian's newest cross filtered throughout the community.

The instructors learned of it during our regular staff meeting. We went to the front door hoping to give him our group support before his trip to the airport, but he had already left.

Brother Christians A notice on the bulletin board announced the news and listed his . home address. The next day's mail box contained many cards and aerograms addressed to him with consoling messages from his brother Christians, the N.AC. faculty and students. ' That night during our com· munity Mass, a concelE:brating Tum to Page Thirteen

God Brought His People to New Birth

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valley floor littered with !lkeletal fragments scattere" heIter-skelter. As1(ed bv God if those bones could live again, he stammered, "Lord God, you alone know that." Then in his vision he saw the bones come together, become enfleshed and alive, until finally a vast, vibrant army stood before him. It was thus that God promised to bring His exiled, hopeless people to a new birth. The whole incident (Ez. 37, 1-14) is described in terms suggestive of a creative rebirth to a new life.

The reality of rebirth through water and the Spirit is brought out clearly in the Fourth Gospel's account of Jesus' dialogue with Nicodemus. These are the crucial verses: "Jesus gave him this answer: 'I solemnly assure you, no one can see the reign of God unless he is begotten from above.' 'How can a man be born again once he is old?' retorted Nicodemus.

'Can he return to his mother's womb and be born over again?'

Jesus replied: 'I solemnly assure you, no one can enter God's kingdom without being begotten of water and Spirit' (In 3;3-5)."

(Copyright (c) 1977 by NC News Service)

Sacred Heart

Continued from Page Three the faces of a youn~ couDle lookin~ at their first born child.

Oh, they know they are biologically responsible for the squirming little Ibundle. But there is something beyond the biological there, something tangible, undefinable, something which we call, for want of a better word, life. It is the result of a truly creative act, and while human beings can fashion, produce, they cannot, strictly speaking, create. The transition from nonlife to life calls for a dimension which transcends the merely biological, a dimension which can properly be called miraculous, "ordinary" through it may be. .

Creative Rebirth With this as background, it may be easier to appreciate more fully what the Scriptures say about rebirth to a new life.

This new birth, too, involves a creative dimension, one that is strongly reminiscent of the first creation, when God called all things from non-being to being.

In Ezekiel's famous vision of the Dry BOJJes, the prophet saw a

The Unfolding Continued from Page Twelve This lack of recoltnition happens so regularlv, we've ~rown to expect it. When we are made to feel, for inst~nce, that being a person is less important than being a machine purchased from a certain store, one has a hard time feeling born at all, much less wonder about being born again. But when one person recognizes another, then one can enjoy a sense of being born, again and again and again. That's what Baptism is about: People recognizing in each other the presence of the Spirit, human life renewed, and affirming that life through our care for each other. If we can do that, then being born again today is not only possible, it can be a very pleasant experience, something to celebrate every day of our lives.

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Communion Continued from Page Twelve priest prayed from the third eucharistic prayer: "Remember John Lukach. In baptism he died with Christ: may he also share his resurrection, when Christ will raise our mortal bodies and make them like his own in glory."

Andy's suffering and his father's death ,brought home a bit more clearly to us the doctrine of the communion of saints.

At every Mass in tnt: t:u.charistic prayer we put this doctrine into practice through the intercessions. These "make it clear that the eucharist is celebrated in communion with the whole Church of heaven and earth, and that the offering is made for the Church and all its members, living and dead, who are called to share in the salvation and redemption acquired by the body and blood of Christ." (Roman Misslll's General Instruction, no. 55 g).

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Bishops' Synod In September VATICAN CITY (NC) - The fifth world Synod of Bishops, called by Pope Paul VI to discuss "Catechesis in our 'time, with special reference to catechesis of children and youth," will open here Sept. 30, the Vatican has announced.

Synods are meetings of residential bishops, Vatican officials and representatives of religious orders of men. They are held at least every three years to advise the Pope on a topic which he himself chooses.

The last synod with over 200 participating churchmen was held in October, 1974. The synod discussed evangelization in. the modern world.

Concern over religious education in the United States has .been heightened in recent months. Msgr. Wilfrid Paradis, associate secretary for research, policy and program development of the education department of the U.S. Catholic Conference, recently reported that about 6.6 million American Catholic children in elementary and secondary schools received no formal religious instruction..

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Is Being Born Again Possible Today?

Continued from Page Twelve meaning of birth thousands of times throughout our lives. We learn it in the dialectic of learning dependence and independence in life. We learned it when we got up for school on days we did not want to and found (sometimes!) the day was good after all. We learned the pain that the fetish of avoiding pain brings the first time we owned up to chilldhood pranks. We learned that collecting pleasure is a dangerous way to abort pain.

We learned what to share with whom and how to live when we discovered we had hurt others or they had hurt us.

We learned with whopl the secrets of our spirit were safe and who would throw them out with casual rejections of us. We learned that we must learn!!

Baptism and its imagery or rebirth took on the very human coloration of life itself. It was not a once and for aU job, like walking into a river or suddenly' "catching the Lord Jesus." Baptism was a life in the very way Jesus said it would be. Only the Gospel could help us trace out what some of the implications of that life were.

The choice of birth imagery for Baptism is not arbitrary. It is primary to the inspiration of Christian Scripture. It is given to us in a sacrament to speak to us and of us - of the deepest and simplest ways of living the gift of our lives. Baptized "into the death and resurrection of Jesus, we are given the power

of living into the fullness of His strength.

We may not choose to proclaim our baptized state by toting the Bible around on the streets of our cities and asking people to be reborn in Christ.

We may even find that offensive. The quality of our lives is that which we know speaks.

That fact is humbling, for we know that often we live opposed to the quality that we proclaim that the Gospel invites. But that itself is part of the rebirth which day in and day out we say that we live - error and insight, help given to others and help withheld, love understood and love misunderstood, aversion and affinity. Baptism has never claimed that rebirth takes us to superior realms of life beyond the human. made very clear in its beauty in the flesh of Jesus Christ.

There are always people in the water any time anyone of us decides to wade in deeper; people who will sponsor further life in us, perhaps especially when they demand ·we be true to ourselves.

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Continued from Page Three cated in the booth eventually."

The original facultv comDrised 20 Reli~ious with additional facilities for the periodical visitations ot a school nurse, school doctor and school dentist. The . school is heated by steam and is "100% protected by an automatic sprinkler system." The present facility is tied in to Fall River's modern fire alarm system.

Below the auditorium are a large cafeteria and kitchen.

'In announcing the closing, the pastor paid special tribute to the parishioners who, for a decade of decades, had supported the large school and especially those who for the past two years had studied and debated the burdensome operation of the school in the inner-city parish.

Father Foister was also grateful that the past year's honest study, discussion and debate concerning the school did not degenerate into rancour or selfpity. The past, the priest said, was a tremendous witness to the Faith. Present adjustments ,as painful as they may be, he concluded, must be characterized with the same zeal to, in new but determined ways, to give witness to the Faith, be concerned with the welfare of all and face enthusiastically yet realistically the great opportunity to live the Faith openly and proudly today.

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lyn, Mrs. S., and Mr. M.: I've been reading and rereading your notes and letters and mulling over how best to answer you in this column. The thing you have in common is your disappointment in how things have gone in our country the past few years. ,~ Have you ever read Chesterfield's letters to his son? Well, DOUBLEHEADER: Bishop Joseph M. Breitenback, at the point of almost imitating Grand Rapids, Mich., had a neat solution to problem of his style I want to say a few which team to support at basketball game between two things good that have happened in this envied land of ours, and high schools in his diocese .He brought caps for both teams, I hope you will take the time switched sides at halftime. (NC Photo) to think about them and perhaps agree.

A Hasidic rabbi once said that every man should always carry two coins. In one pocket should be a coin with the legend, I Am But Dust and Ashes.

In the other pocket should be MIAMI, Fla. (NC) - A "typiSpeaking at one workshop. a coin with the legend, cally traditional model to ex- Father Paul Shanley described For Me Was the World Created. plore a very untYPical reality" his "exodus ministry" to BosThe same advice can be given was the way one participant de- ton's homosexuals. to a nation as well as to ourscribed the four-day national "When you drive people into selves. consultation on young adult the ghetto you don't have the Yes, we have all been quite ministry which closed here in right to criticize what happens busy feeling disenchanted and. mid-January. in that ghetto," he said. "The alienated -and some things same can be applied to people The meeting gave some a have been done of which we who have been driven by society cannot be proud. But - on the glimpse into what was described into extreme lifestyles." other hand some things have as the "underculture," the world Originally assigned to work been done of which we can be of gay bars, Christian communes with runaway youths, Father and drug rehabilitation centers very proud. The trouble is we dont always know these things operating just below the surface Shanley began .his ministry to homosexuals after winning ap-· have happened. That voice with- of acceptability. in us has been drowned out by "I felt it was a good example proval from Cardinal Humberto all the shouting and the timult. of the possibilities of ecumenical. Medeiros of Boston.

They Need Church said Catholic Milton R. Konvitz, in a bi- cooperation," Bob. Burke of the youth worker, "I thought then I would 'cure centennial meditation, reminds which attracted the sick' and would absolve us that although 40 million im- convention migrants came here to America, young men' and women repre- them from their 'sins' to bring' without whom this country senting 50 Catholic dioceses them back to God," he said "But would still be a wilderness, the and 20 Protestant denomina- instead I found they were no more sinful than we are, and fact is that they were accepted tions. they also had God before I came grudgingly; welcomed with one "It also provided an opportun. hand and repulsed with the ity for an exchange of ideas and along."

The priest argued that the other. Some states set limits programs. The convention used on acreage aliens could own; a typically traditional model to Church should open itself to some states allowed aliens to explore a very untypical real- homosexuals, because "they are hurting and in need . . . and hold title only at the will of ity." because in many cases they are the state. States excluded aliens victims of us Christians who from many professions and call- """""'"''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, trample over them in our mad ings. Alien dentists, physicians, attorneys, or teachers were ex- Court held 'such laws unconstitu- race to heaven." . cluded fram their professions in tional. Justice Blackman said Speaking on the ministry to many areas. that a classification based on single people, Jan Harayda, a When Congress passed an alienage is inherently suspect, writer for the United Methodist act in 1938 for public employ- like classifications based on race . Church, expressed concern that ment as a form of relief for the tlr national origin. Aliens, he singles "have many critical unemployed, it· extluded aliens. said, are a minority for whom needs nobobdy is serving."

"They are often not promoted In most states old-age benefits "heightened judicial' solicitude in jobs because they are thought were restricted to citizens, and is appropriate." some states even excluded aid After centuries of injustice, irresponsible or immature," she to blind aliens. our country is fulfilling the com- sai~, "and the churches often To show you how far we have mandment of equality. One re- neglect their spiritual needs in come, a revolutionary break calfs the many times Scriptures their stress on family life and with this shameful record came alludes to aliens. The stranger social action progl"ams."

Ms. Harayda advised churches in 1971. In a case involving was always treated so kindly Arizona and Pennsylvania, by the Hebrews, who knew to "stop talking to singles about what it was to be in a 'foreign marriage and begin to help them whic~ excluded aliens from wellive their singleness." fare benefits, the Supreme land.

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Life In Music

By The 'Dameans NEW KID IN TOWN There's talk on the street It sounds so familiar Great. expectations Everybody's watching you People you will meet They all seem to know you Even your old friends Treat you like you're something new Johnny-Corne-Lately The new kId in town . Evel"Ybody loves you So don't let them down You look in her eyes The music begins to play Hopeless romance Here we' go again But after a while You're looking the other way It's those restless hearts that never mend Johnny-Come-Lately The new kId in town Will they still love you When you're not around There's so many things You should have told her But night after night You're willing to hold her, just hold her Tears on your shoulder

By John David Souther/Don Henley/Glenn Frey.

(P) 1976 Asylum Records

In recent years, while writing this column, we have noticed that the pop music scene has swung away from themes which once dominated the charts. There is no longer the same preoccupation with nostalgia or social commentary.

And now the "Top 100" reflects the loss of those concerns.

We are currently in a 'kind of "holding pattern."

It can be see:l in the many sonps co\ ering themes of everyday love. "New Kid in Town" is about shallow love. It is sung to a boy who has suddenly become popular with his friends.. Maybe he has developed into a great athlete, or fin-' ally has a musical group that clicks together. Whatever the case, he is now known as "Johnny-Come-Lately," the new kid in town.

The great thing about the popularity is the feeling that loneliness now be replaced by satisfying and lasting relationships. It is his hope that popularity will do good things for his love life.

But the song says differently. Johnny-Corne-Lately is shallow. in his love. Because he is playing love the cheap way, his story will be one of "hopeless romance here we go again." . As the song says at the beginning, "it sounds so familiar."

Surface beauty and talent do not seem to last very long.

There is little that can replace good, hard work in love. If it is not to be shallow it requires opening yourself to growth and serving the other.

(Copyright (c) 1977 by NC News Service)

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Washington Grammar School ,Basketball Tournament will be held at the CYO Center at Taunton Catholic Middle School, Summer St. (Rt. 140) in Taunton. Any area grammar school quintet is eligible. The only rule is that all players must attend the school and be in sixth, seventh or eighth grade.

Registration closes Tuesday, Feb. 1 and teams may register by writing to Rev. Leonard Mullaney at Immaculate Conception Rectory, 387 Bay St., Taunton, Mass. 02780. A $10.00 fee must accompany each entry. Trophies will be presented to first through fourth place finishers.

This is a 16 team, single elimination tournament and applications for entry will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Games will be played on Feb. 12 and 13 for opening round competition, with quarter finals on Feb. 20, semifinals Feb. 21 and championship and cQnsolation games on Feb. 23.

By BILL MORRISSETTE

Sharon Setting Hockomock Pace Entering this week, Sharon High was still setting the pace in the Hockomock Basketball League. The League leaders were undefeated in seven outings but Stoughton (6-1) was only one game back of the pace. First-round play concluded last Tuesday night and wl)en the second-round and Foxboro at Stoughton. schedule gets underway toIn Hockomock hockey Saturmorrow night Sharon will be day night Canton is home to at King Philip, StQughton will be host to North Attleboro, Oliver Ames visits Mansfield and Franklin goes to Foxboro. Tuesday night's games路 have King Philip at Canton, Mansfield at North Attleboro, Sharon at Franklin

King Philip, Stoughton is host to Franklin and North Attleboro' entertains Oliver' Ames. Next Wednesday Canton will be at Franklin, Oliver Ames at King Philip and North Attleboro at Stoughton.

Durfee's Hilltoppers Rolling Along Durfee High's Hilltopper hoopsters, who opened their secondround schedule Tuesday night at Bishop Connolly High and finished their first-round schedule last night at home to Dartmouth seem to be rolling along to their third straight championship in Division One of the Southeastern Mass. Conference.

The Durfeeites, who combine a potent offense with a tight defense, take on Attleboro in the Bank Street Armory, Fall River, tomorrow night and meet Taunton Tuesday night on the latter's court.

. In other Division One games tomorrow night Holy Family is at Dartmouth, Bishop Stang High at New Bedford and Taunton at Barnstable while Tuesday night Connolly visits Attleboro, Stang is host to Dartmouth and New Bedford entertains Barnstable.

New Bedford is in the runnerup spot and at this stage appears to be the only threat to Durfee's pennant hopes. Barring unforeseen developments ,the division championship might well be decided when the two meet in Fall River next week.

Tight Race in Division Two Somerset and Wareham are the race could be even tighter staging an exciting battle for the or one of the trio well on the Division Two crown, but Fair- way to the coveted title. haven, in third place at this writing, could be a factor.

Other games tomorrow night Wareham is host to Fairhaven list Falmouth at Coyle-Cassidy, on tomorrow night's Division Old Rochester at Bishop Freehan Two card in a contest that could High and Dennis-Yarmouth at have a telling effect on that pen- . Seekonk. Tuesday night it is nant race. Somerset has a bye Wareham at Falmouth, Dennistomorrow and visits Fairhaven Yarmouth at Old Rochester and Tuesday night, by which time Seekonk at Feehan.

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Sacred Heart Home Tomorrow In Mayflower Sacred Heart of Kingston is路 home to Blue Hills at 6:30 tomorrow night in the Mayflower League and at Southeastern Regional at 3:15 Tuesday afternoon.

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ST. THERESA, SOUTH ATTLEBORO

The Confraternity of Christian Mothers will meet for a pot-luck supper at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7. Husbands will be welcome at a small admission fee.

A business session and entertainment by the Wheatones will follow. Members will attend their monthly Mass at 9:30 a.m.

Sunday, Feb. 6.

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With the theme of "Love Is," a buffet dance will be sponsored Saturday night, Feb. 12 in the church hall by the Couples' Club.

Music will be by The Excels and arrangements are in charge of Gene and Lucie Benoit, with Jesse and Tillie Costa in charge of tickets. Reservations may be made by calling 674-5427.

ST. JOHN BAPIlST. CENTRAL VILLAGE

Veronica Beaulieu, Ladies' Guild president, will be chairman of a whist party to take place at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3 in the parish hall on Main Road.

Door and table prizes will be awarded and refreshments will be served.

The unit will sponsor a record hop from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, also in the hall. Young people ages 11 and older are invited.

ST. MARY. NEW BEDFORD "Olde Munich Nite" from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Jan. 29 in the school hall will feature German foods and music by th~ Deutschmeister German Band.

The event is sponsored by the parish Religious Education Board.

HOLY NAME. FALL RIVER The 1923 Club will begin a new session Sunday, Jan. 30, continuing through June 12.

New members may apply at the rectory.

A school fundraising auction will take place 'at 7 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 5, Information and pickup. service may be had through Jean Beaupre, telephone 674-3029.

A rummage sale is scheduled for Saturday, March 26 and donations of clothing, shoes and white elephant items are requested. Mrs. James R. Charette, telephone 678-4637,' may be contacted for further information.

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Holy Rosary Sodalists will meet in the church at 3 p.m. ~unday, Jan. 30 for rosary and Benediction services, to be followed by a meeting in the church hall for election of officers and other !business matters.

A Marriage Encounter information night is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, also in the hall. All area married couples are invited to attend "to learn how to make a good marriage better."

HOLY ROSARY, TAUNTON

Maximilian Kolbe Guild and the Hol~. Rosary Sodality will co-sponsor a buffet dance from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Feb. 12 at Coyle & Cassidy High School, • Adams Street. Music will be by the John Sowa Orchestra. Tickets are available from members of both organizations and will also ,be on sale at the door.

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The parish will sponsor a Mardi Gras dance from 8 p.m. to midnight Friday, Feb. 18 in the church hall. Music will be by the Noteables and wearing of costumes is optional. Tickets are available at the rectory and will also be on sale at the door.

A meat pie supper and penny· Members of the Confraternity sale will be sponsored Satur- of Our Lady of Czestochowa day, Jan. 29 in the school hall will hold a spiritual guidance by the Women's Guild. Supper day Wednesday, Feb. 2. servings will be at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. and the penny sale will follow at 7:30 p.m.

ST. JOSEPH. TAUNTON A Valentine party will follow the meeting of the Women's Guild scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 1. Guests are welcome. .

The parish social committee will hold a coffee, hot chocolate and doughnuts social following 7:30, 9 and 10:30 a.m. Masses this Sunday. All parishioners ar~ invited.

ST. STANISLAUS. FALL RIVER

Vincent'icins to Meet

Greater Fall River Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will meet for Mass at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1 at St. Louis de France Church, Swansea. A business session and franks and beans supper will follow Mass.

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Cub Scouts will meet tomorrow afternoon in the school building. The drop in center will be open from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow for young people in sixth grade and above.

Only the Spirit

Boy Scouts will hold an overnight camping trip, leaving at 9 a.m. Saturday.

"Only the Spirit, if it breathes upon the clay, can create Man." -Antoine de Saint Exupery

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ST. JAMES. NEW BEDFORD A "Snowflake Dance" will be held from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 29 in the parish hall, 233 County St. Dancing to the music of Art Perry's band

will be followed by a continental breakfast. Part of the proceeds will benefit the graduation fund of eigth graders at St. James-St. John School. Tickets are available from students and will also be sold at the door. In charge of arrangements are Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Walsh and Mr. and Mrs. William Reed.

HOLY ROSARY. FALL RIVER

Mrs. Waren. Dearden and Mrs. Marcel Fournier are chairpersons of a Mardi Gras buffet and dance to be sponsored by the Women's Guild at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12 in the church hall. Tickets for the event, which will feature Italian foods, are available from Mrs. Phil Fata, Mrs. Roger Toni and Miss Jo Ann Dearden.

ST. CASIMIR, NEW BEDFORD St. Casimir Circle will sponsor a whist party at 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 6 in the parish hall, 2056 Acushnet Ave.

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