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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR'SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE RSLANDS

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fALL RIVER, MASS.,. , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1983

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New budget

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WAsfiiNGTOW (Nt) .- The 1984 budget President Reagan sent to .Congress Jan. 31 is much the same as \lis pr.evious two budgets: ':it" '-'incre1l&es' defense spending' 'while cut!ing several social programs .s\Jpported by church agencies in Washington.

The budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 also includes formal resubmission to Congress of the Reagan administration's tuition tax credits proposal, al­ though the tax credit package is . smaller than the one originally proposed by the administration last year. .

Also proposed - again for the third year in a row - are cuts in the postal service sub­

EXEMPUFYING THE PATRIOTIC THRUST of the Catholic Schools Week 1983 are students at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, greeting Stang alumnus Rod Bishop, now a U.S. Air Force captain and assistant admissions d:i~ector a~ the Ai~ Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Left of Capt. Bishop is senior Gerald Lanagan who has been nominated to the academy. Others, from left, Chris Faria, Ron Hebert, Deirdre Hayes. (Gaudette Photo)

'In God we trust, teach"

"In God we trust . . . and teach" is the patriotic theme for Catholic Schools Week 1983. Be­ ginning Monday and continuing' through Saturday, Feb. 12, it will be implemented in diocesan schools at Masses, prayer ser­ vices, open houses, science fairs and a variety of classroom pro­ grams.

Area chairpersons are coor­ dinating school activities. They are Sister Claudette Lapointe, RJM, greater Fall River; Yvette Desmarais, greater New Bedford; Anne Procopio and Edmund Borges, greater Taunton; ancll Pa­ tricia Carroll, greater Attleboro.

In Fall River today, Mayor Carlton Viveiros issued a procla­ mation recognizing Catholic Schools Week. Students from SS. Peter and Paul School were on hand for the event, following it with a tour of Government Center.

Also at SS. Peter and Paul, whose pastor is Msgr. Patrick J. O'Neill, former superintendent of

diocesan schools, children will speak at weekend Masses on the Schools Week theme and student compositions on the topic will appear in the parish bulletin.

At St. Stanislaus School, Fall River, there wili be a Schools Week Mass at 10:30 a.m. Sun­ day, followed by a science fair, open house and registration of new pupils for grades 1 to 8.

Other activities include pray­ er services, field trips, an ad­ dress at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday

by State Rep. Thomas Norton, followed by serving of a "spark­ ler-spangled" cake, and the writ­ ing of letters to parents asking them why they are sacrificing to send their children to Catholic school. Pupils will share the re­ plies to the letters at an assem­ bly next Friday.

Other highlights of the week at Fall River schools include poster and essay contests at Do­ minican Academy, Mt. St. Jo­ seph, ,St. Anne's and St. Jean Baptiste.

Holy Name is celebrating with a student talent show, a teacher-student volleyball game and a film showing. Proceeds from the latter will be sent to Sister Barbara Walsh, SUSC, Holy Name's former principal.. who is now working in the home missions of Appalachia.

Notre Dame plans a school parade and science fairs will be featured at Espirito Santo and St. Jean Baptiste. .

Nearly an schools will hold open~ouse throughout the week.

Included among New Bedford observances will be assemblies, a baHoon release, a potluck sup­ per and a Senior Citizens' Ap­ preciation Day at St. Joseph's School, where the week will be climaxed with a Friday half holiday.

At Mt. Carmel School there will be prayer services, a spirit rally, attendance at a Zeiterion Toheatre presentation of a proTum to Page Eleven

sidy that gives non-profit groups such as churches and the reli­ gious press reduced bulk mail rates.

Overall, the. budget calls for a 1984 deficit of $i89 billion. The administration says in its budget documents tha't much of that gap between income.' and expendi­ tures is due to a "structural de­ ficit" cau~e4:in part by rapidly increasing' s'ociel spending and the "dependency" that has been created by such spending.

To chip away at that deficit the administration is proposing what it says are significant changes in many government en­ titlement programs, such as food Turn to Page Six

Holy drays kept

VATICAN CITY (NC) - In a surprise move Pope John Paul II, has restored to the new Code of Canon Law the traditional 10 holy days of obligation to be observed throughout the Latin­ Rite Catholic Church.

A planned reduction of holy days was one of the most widely publicized aspects of the final draft of the code. Instead of fol­ lowing the recommendation of his commission, however, Pope John Paul reinstated the tradi­ tional 10 feast 'days.

They are: the feast of Mary, Mother of God, Jan. 1.; Epiphany, Jan. 6; the feast of St. Joseph, March 19; Ascension Day, a movable observance 40 days af­ ter Easter; Corpus Christi, a mov­ able observance; the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, June 29; the Assumption of Mary, Aug. 15; All Saints Day, Nov. 1; the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8 and Christmas, Dec. 25.

The six holy days currently ob­ served in the United States are: the fast of Mary, Mother of God; Ascension Day; Assumption of Mary; All Saints, Immaculate Conception and Christmas.

The new Code, however, ex· pressly allows bishops' confer­ ences to petition the Holy See

for permission to abolish obser­ vance of some of these days, United States Catholics have ob­ served only six by long-standing permission of the Holy See. Aside from tha~, the first thing that may surprise the ordinary Catholic about Ilhe church's new Code of .C:anon Law is that there are· not many.surprises.

For the inost part, the code, to take effect Nov. 27, simply puts into legal form many changes in church practice in ef­ fect since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s.

Unheard .of in 1917 but treat· ed in the new code are such con­ sultative structures as ~iocesan pastoral councils, mandated in every diocese "to the extent that pastoral curcumstances recom· Tum to Page Ten

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Friday, Feb. 4, 1983

Cancer clinic accredited

Served in diocese

St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has become the first in the Great­ er Fall River/New Bedford area to receive accredication for its cancer care program from the American College of Surgeons.

The hospital's oncology or cancer clinic serves surrounding cities and towns as well as Fall River. It has grown ,!)ignificantly since its inception in 1975 as an outreach program of Boston Uni· versity Medical Center.

The accreditation followed a lengthy and searching study of St. Anne's clinic.

"What is looked for is the comprehensiveness of a pro­ gram," said Richard Hellwig, MD, the hospital's chief of hema­ tology and oncology. "Do we have rehabilitation services avail­ able? Do we have a cancer reg­ istry? Are the services of sup­ port people such as an oncology dietitian and social ,worker avail· able? Are the services in- the major disciplines - surgeon, pa­ thologist, radiation therapist, radiologist, medical oncologist ­ available? St. Anne's has all of the necessary components in place. All medical and surgical subspecialities are available and have served as active participants

in the cancer program:'

Educational and prevention

programs also are high on the list of requirements. St. Anne's sponsorship of professional, edu­ cational, and consultative confer­ ences and cancer screening were important in making the accredi­ tation possible.

An example.of educational pro­ grams is a one-day seminar,

"The Psychodynamics of the Can­ cer Patient and Family," to be presented all day Thursday, Feb. 17, at White's restaurant, North Westport.

Melvin J. Krant, MD, medical director of the Equinox Hospice, Brookline' and pain clinic direc­ tor at New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, wili be the key­ note speaker.

He has done extensive re­ search and writing on cancer and its effects and assisted in the filming of two documentaries,

"Joan Robinsin" and "Just Hold My Hand."

The day is open to health care professionals, clergy, cancer pa­ tients and their families and vol­

·unteer workers in the field. It is aimed at developing skUIs of use

Memorial Masses were offered Wednesday at Our Lady of the Isle Church, Nantucket, and St. Francis Xavier, Hyimnis, for Father Raymond F. X. Cahill, SJ, who served in both parishes as associate pastor following his re­ tirement from the faculty of Holy Cross College, Worcester.

Father Cahill died last Sunday in Worcester. He had bee.n serv­ ing at St. .Mary the Morning Star parish in Pittsfield.

His funeral Mass was offered Wednesday at Holy Cross. Inter­ ment was in the comjnunity cemetery on the college campus.

A Worcester native, Father Cahill was born August 8, 1909, the son of the late John F. and Catherine '(O'Leary) Cahill. After two years 'at Holy Cross College, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1927.

MSGR.CHABOT He taught political economics at Boston College and earned' a tnaster's degree in economics in the course of his preparation for the priesthood. Ordain'ed in 1939, struction of a new church in Bishop Daniel A. Cronin pre­ he returned to the faculty of sfded and gave final absolution at 1957 and new parish center in Boston College from 1940 to the funeral this morning of Msgr. 1970.

1941, then taught economics at Gerard J. Chabot, 74, for 29 He would have celebrated his Holy, Cross a total of 29 years years pastor of St. Theresa of golden jubilee of ordination in before entering the parish minis­ . the Child Jesus parish, South June. try. He held a doctorate in econ­ Attleboro. Msgr. Chabot died on His survivors, in addition to omics from the University of Tuesday. his brothers, include four sisters, Massachusetts at Amherst.

Father Bertrand Chabot, pastor Claire Deschenes and Therese of St. Anthony's parish, New He was at Nantucket from L'Homme of North Attleboro, Bedford, was principal celebrant Yvette Hamel of Taunton and 1975 to 1979 and at Hyannis of his brother's funeral Mass at Sister Armande Marie, SUSC, of from 1979 until last year.

St. Theresa's. Among concele­ He is survived by two sisters, Sacred Hearts,Convent, Fall Mrs.' Mary Grant of Worcester brants was another brother, Very River. and Sister Patricia Cahill, RGS, Rev. Luc M. Chabot, OFM, .pas­ Interment was in St. Stephen tor of Our Lady of Perpetual of Madonna Hall, Marlboro.

Cemetery, Dodgeville.

Help parish, Chateau Guay, Que­ bec. Many diocesan priests were also present. Father Roger Gagne. pastor of St. Mark's parish, At­ .GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS tleboro Falls, .was homilist.

Among delegations at the fun­ • • •• • •• + ••••••••••••• , eral were members of, the Dioce­ STRASBOURG, France (NC) san Council of Cfltholic Women, - Peacetime use of the death for whom Msgr. Chabot was penalty in Western Europe may moderator until 1981. He was be nearing its end. fondly recalled by DCCW mem­ .

The five nations within the : The Post Office has increased from' bers for his ability to liven Council of Europe which still , 13 to 25 cents its charge to THE: lengthy meetings' with humorous have laws invoking capital pun­ , ANCHOR for notification of a sub·, anecdotes. ishment for peacetime crimes : scriber's change of address. Please' Born in 1908 in North Attle­ , help us reduce this expense by noti-: are to be given a document in , fying us immediately when you plan, boro, the son of the late Joseph the near. future which if ap­ " : to move. and Clara (Gamache) Chabot, proved, would oblige its signa­ PLEASE PRINT YOUR NEW : , ADDRESS BELOW , Msgr. Chabot attended 'primary , tories to forswear that use. and secondary school in Canada, Among the 21 member nations then entered the minor seminary of the Council of Europe, those , Name : in Montreal. He completed his which still retain a peacetime studies for the priesthood at St. .death penalty are Turkey, : Street Address , ROME (NC) - Pope John

Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and Greece, Ireland, Cyprus and lie­ II has beatified an Italian

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Bishop James' E. Cassidy. of 25 in 1939 after dedicating

After associate pastorates at , New Parish , - her life to ecumenism.

St. Jean Baptiste parish, Fall The beatification of Sister : Date of Moving : River; St. Anthony's, New Bed· Maria Gabriella Sagheddu at the VILA NOVA DE OUREM, Por­ : And please attach your OLD ANCHOR: ford; and St. Joseph's, Attlebo;o, Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the­ he was named pastor of St. tugal (NC) - A cour.t in Villa : ADDRESS LABEL below so we can' up- : Walls in Rome was the first such Nova de Ourem has ordered psy­ Theresa's in 1954. : : date your record immediately. chological testipg for Father ceremony at that basilica. It was He was named monsignor in Juan Fernandez Krohn, an iUicit· ' attended by representatives of August, 1949 and .dean .of the ly ordained priest who said he the Anglican, Orthodox and ~ Paste Old Address Label Here .. ~ Attleboro deanery of the'diocese tried to kiiN Pope John Paul II Lutheran churches and by rela­ in 1972. last May in Fatima, Portugal. tives and childhood friends.

In addition to moderating the The court decision came on the Sister Sagheddu participated ~ Clip this entire form and mall to: ~ DCOW, Msgr. Chabot was chap­ opening day of the trial against in the 1937 Christian unity week ~ 'fIlE ANCHOR ~ lain for the Attleboro Knights of Father Fernandez Krohn, who observance, then asked to spend ~ .

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Further information on the day is available from Pamela Clift, MSW, 674-5741, ext. 261.

Dr. Hellwig noted that volume of patients treated was also an accreditation consideration. A comprehensive community cancer program must see 300 or more new cancer cases each year. "Be­ cause our program is regional," he said, "we treat at least double that number annually."

The hospital's executive direc­ tor, Alan Knight, stated that St. Anne's community cancer pro­ gram has many components usually found only in a major metropolitan center. "I know of no other community hospital in Massachusetts or Rhode Island with such a program," he said.

To accommodate the growth of the cancer clinic, an application is on file with the state to con­ struct a new oncology/radiation therapy center at St. Anne's Hospital. .

Approval of the center, which would be built on the southwest corner of the hospital complex at Middle and South Main Streets, is anticipated within the onext two months.

Sr. Bourgeois Funeral services were held at St. Anne's Church, Fall River, for Sister Marguerite­ Marie Bourgeois, OP, 85, of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cather­ ine of Siena, who died Jan. 27 at St. Philippe de Laprairie, Que­ bec.

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Anne's School, Fall River, from

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Born in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, she was the daughter of the late Louis and Alice (Lecours) Bour­ geois. She entered religious life in 1921. Her assignments in addi­ tion to St. Anne's School includ­ ed service at St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, and as a reli· gious educator in northern New York State.

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Her survivors include a brother,

Samuel Bourgeois. and a sister,

.Mrs. Catherine Perreault, both of St. Hyacinthe.

Interment was in Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River. "

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• New rItes WASHINGTON (NC) - The Vatican's Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship has confirmed use of a new docu­ ment defining pastoral care of the sick 'for the United States, and approved new memorial days for three North Americans beatified by the church.

Use of the booklet, "Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of An­ oiting and Viaticum," will begin Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Ad· vent. The booklet will replace an interim translation used in the United States since 1974.

Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, NCCB general secretary, said copies of the booklet will be available after Sept. 1 for use in cate· chesis and preparation for the Nov. 27 implementation date.

Under the changes in memor­ ials approved by the Vatican, 'Blessed Kateri Teklilkwitha will be honored in an obligatory memorial on July 14, instead of April 17 (when commemoration was often superseded by Easter­ season events). Optional memor­ ials for Blessed Andre Bessette on Jan. 6 and Blessed Marie· Rose Durocher on Oct. 6 also were ratified.

The opening prayer of the Mass for Blessed Kateri Tekak­ witha, an Indian woman beati­ fied by Pope John Paul II in 1980, already has been confirm­ ed and approved.

English liturgical texts for 'Blessed Andre Bessette and Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, two French Canadians, are being prepared by the U.S. bishops' Committee on the Liturgy and Canada's National Liturgical Office and Episcopal Commiss­ ion on the Liturgy. They will have to be approved by the Vati· can; however, French-language texts alrady have been approved.

Msgr. Hoye said that until English texts are approved, ap­ propriate texts may be taken from the Commons of the Missal (Sacramentary and Lectionary).

Feb. 4, 1983

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has announced dates for the 1983 Catholic Charities Appeal. The drive will open Wednesday, April 13, with the traditional kickoff meeting, set for 8 p.m. at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

The special gifts phase will extend from April 18 to April 30 and the parish phase from May 1 to May 11.

Bishop Cronin said that the drive, entering its 42nd year, is a tribute to diocesan care and concern for human life. He noted that in the current period of economic stress, greater enthusi­

asm, support and generosity are needed than ever before.

"Those able to give m.ust meet with extrlll giving the needs of those thousands of people helped by the Catholic Charities Ap­ peal," summed up appeal organ­ izers, who said that the 1983 campaign theme is "For the Love of God, 'Someone in Need Needs You." _ _ _ _lllnlltll'lll'.""'_'tttIt"'"tmmnnrIIl_'........-.

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ture lost to fire last May 11. will be used for daily Mass and Approved by Bishop Daniel A. for small weddings and funerals.

Cronin, the new church will seat It will have its own altar, sta­ 600 persons. An adjacent chapel tions of the cross and tabernacle. will accommodate 150 people and A large parish center will be a preparation room an additional at the rear of the church, adja­ 50 for a total of 800 seats. The cent to the chapel and in con­ smaller areas will be separated venient proximity to new parking from the main church by plate facilities on Bedard Street. glass partitions, permitting their Detailed planning of the new use at ceremonies attracting a parish plant is now under way, large attendance. including interior and exterior As planned, the church will walls, windows, a belfry, land­ face Eastern Avenue on the scaping and liturgical adorn­ block bounded by the avenue and ments.

St. Joseph, Notre Dame and Be· dard Streets. It will be accessible from all sides by walkways.

Explaining the plans to parish­ VATICAN CITY (NC) - The ioners at all Masses the weekend role of women in today's society of Jan. 1 and 2, Father Ernest E. ought to be a "more extensive Blais, Notre Dame pastor, noted an incisive one," said Pope John that the church is fan-shaped. Paul II at a recent audience for The vestry will be at its entrance, delegates to a convention of the as will be a baptistry, reconcilia­ , Italian Feminine Center. He sug· tion room and crying room. The gested the vocation of women is latter will double as a waiting service "to every human person, especially the weakest, the poor­ area for wedding parties.

The chapel, said Father ~lais, est, the most defenseless."

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Notre Dame on drawing board

Plans are under way for con· struction of a new Notre Dame de Lourdes Church in Fall River, replacing the magnificent struc·

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Catholic Press Month February is Catholic Press Month. In these days of , alternative media choices, the printed word seems to have been relegated to the back seat.

In the marketplace the computer is king. On the sur­ face it would seem that all one needs, is software and hardware. Given these tools, one is given to' understand . that all knowledge is readily at hand. The microchip and the laser beam are revolutionizing communications.

For most people television is indispensable, especially with\ the arrival of cable TV. Indeed, all man's cravings seem catered to: constant news, the arts and a radical rainbow of entertainment selections.

Is it thus any wonder that people are becoming ignor­ ant of the printed word? Why read, spell or care about language when it all seems unnecessary? Slowly and surely, computer and television seem to be strangling ef­ forts to foster the love of words.

Less and less do people read or feel the need of reaf!- . ing in their lives. To many children, picking up a book is a drag. As a result, reading skills are on the decline and are in some circumstances disappearing. It is not uncom­ mon today to find college students on the second or third grade reading level. If this is the case in the world of edu­ cation, how much more desperate is the situation in the area of voluntary reading. . Newspapers and periodicals are struggling to keep up their circulation levels. Only by means of intensive adver­ tising efforts and often by dint of sacrificing good taste to sensationalism are many national magazines able to main­ tain their subscription lists.

If this be the case in the secular world, one should not be surprised at the struggles of the religious press. The constraints of denominational interest, curtailed budgets, small staffs and advertising restrictions, added to the prob­ lems shared by all areas of the printed word, compound the situation of church-sponsored newspapers.

Yet, despite these difficulties, few would say that the effort to educate and inform by means of print is useless or irrelevant. In fact, the opposite is true. If' permitted, machines will dominate man. It is obvious that the think­ ing person, the reading person, the skilled person will be the deciding factor in the battle between machine and mind. The future still belongs to the reader who can ex­ press himself clearly in his or her native tongue.

The work of religious information depends on the printed word, from the living Word of scripture to the handing on of that Word. Essentially, the Catholic press is dedicated to the Word and words. True, if cannot compete in .the marketplace with today's flashy gimmicks and fads.

It can, however, be a means to help change that social order.

An informed people, a knOWing people and a reading people can be a light in the darkness pervading our life.

Many problems in the American church stem from spiritual ignorance and religious illiteracy. The greatest challenge is to educate the adult Catholic.

By supporting the Catholic press and encouraging its circulation we can meet the challenge and help dispel the misinformation and lack of awareness unfortunately so prevalent among us. '

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Press-Fall River

CAmouc PRESS MONTH

'And he shall have it with him and shall read it all the days of his life.'

Deut. 17:19

Th,e nuclear threat

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Many Roman Catholics seem puzzled by the American bishops' involvement in political issues, but they are so intertwined with morality 'that it is impossible for the bishops to steer clear of them.

Many Catholics equate criti­ cism of our nation's foreign policy as a breach of patriotic duty, but nothing could be fur­ ther from the truth. The bishops are trying to offer us direction so that we can form our cons­ ciences on today's major moral issues.

The <;hurch's strong pro-life stance has placed its leaders squarely against abortion capi­ tal punishment. But the issue of nuclear deterrence is far more complicated. The bishops have deliberated on it at great length and publication of the' pastoral 'embodying their conclusions is expected in May. The bishops should be con­ gratulated for their courage in facing thorny issues. It is tragic that leaders of many other de­ nominations have consistently evaded such issues.

After their statement on the moral principles involved in the nuclear 'arms race, the bishops intend to adaress those occasion­ ed by capitalism. Archbishop

come visible once more that our Rembert Weakland of Milwau­ '. kee will chair the latter study, hearts will be truly moved and whose implications are expected peace based upon mutual under· to be as far reaching and con· standing rather than fear will be· troversial as those on nuclear come the rule and not the ex~ep­ tion. Countless faceless people arms.

Pope John Paul II's statement 'are not given the nourishment of last June to the United Na· .they need to survive because the two nations that have the, great­ tions offers the definitive guide­ est access to the planet's natural line for discussion of nuclear de­ terrence: "In current conditions, resources have the greatest wea­ deterrence based on balance, pons stockpiles in the history of certainly not as an end in itself, the world. but as a step toward progressive Unless we learn the tragic disarmament, may still be judged lessons of history, we might be morally acceptable." condemned to relive them. , Conventional warfare depended upon combatants who agreed with the cause at issue. Conven­ tional weaponry could theoretic­ DOES YOUR parish ally target military strongholds and avoid civilian casualties, His~, appear in Steering Points? torically, however, the destruc;:~ Just mail us your bulletin tion of Tokyo, Coventry and weekly and your parish Dresden showed that rules - are rarely followed in actual battle. too will be part of one of But is it increasingly obvious The Anchor's most popu­ that there can never be a just lar and thoroughly read nuclear war. "One man, one button" strife is the ultimate de· features. Send to humanization and now that the nightmares of Hiroshima and STEERING POINTS

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-Fri., feb. 4, 1983

Family Night

A weekly at-home program for families

sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry

OPENING - PRAYER Dear Jesus, when your apos­ tles tried to send the little child­ ren away from you, you showed us how to treat children. Help us to respect and appreciate the beauty of each child in our fam­ ily and to extend our concern to the needs of all children.

Amen.

TO THINK ABOUT We celebrate Mother's Day and Father's Day every year.

This Family Night we focus on • children to further build their self-esteem. To help each child feel special and loved in your family, you could have one Fam­ ily Night celebrating all the child­ ren or spend several weeks fea­ turing one child eacli week.

ACTIVITY IDEAS

glvmg clues about the person whose picture you have, such as: "This person is very considerate of our dog, Skippy. He feeds him every morning." Keep giving clues until the person has been guessed. Try to say only posi­ tive things, emphasizing the con­ tributions he or she makes to the family's life.

Middle Years Families FAMILY MOBILE Materials: paper, pencils, crayons, scissors, tape, string, clothes hangers. Slip one hanger through another hanger and tie together where they intersect. Design a name card for each child decorating it with pictures and symbols re­ lating to that person. Use string to hang the cards at different lengths on the mobile.

Adult Families If there are no children in your

Young Families WHO AM I? Materials: pic­ tures of family members, en· velopes. Place a picture of each family member in a separate eri· velope. Pass them around so that each person has an envelope but not their own picture. Take turns

him? To one of those unsung people who make up the category of Special Adult. They seem able to talk and listen to teens and help them sort out ~heir feel-

ing~ and problems.

Teachers, priests, coaches, neighbors, grandparents, bosses, and friends of parents all fit into this category. Something attracts the young person to these adults and enables him or her to confide in them. Trust is the bottom line and every teen needs' an adult like this.

Sometimes, though, parents resent this relationship. They feel hurt that their adolescent shares dreams and worries with someone other ·than themselves.

They're afraid that they're being discussed (and they probably are) and that family secrets and loyalty are being betrayed.

It's a natural fear but such par· ents underestimate the immense value of a special adult to their teen and to themselves. Sometimes a teenager is caught between parents and friends and needs to sort it out with another adult.

I had a student whose parents strongly objected to her boyfriend, a situation that set up a conflict of wills. She confided to me that' she, too, had reservations about her steady date and his values but she would lose face and stature at home bY'

SNACK TIME Fix something that the child­ ren especially like, a favorite treat.

ENTERTAINMENT If you have home movies or

pictures of when they would be a and discuss

the children taken were younger, this good time to show them.

SHARING -

Share a time when a child in the family made you happy.

- Share a time when a child taught you a lesson.

- Share a time when you were happy to be a child.

CLOSING PRAYER The closing prayer could be offered by one of the parents ex· pressing grateful appreciation for each of the children.

Special adults

Where does an adolescent go when he needs an adult other than his parents to talk to, one that won't judge

home, you can do something for neighborhood children, grand­ children, or for any child who has a need. Read Mark 10:13-16 and plan to do something special for children.

gIVIng him up. Her friends had convinced her that if she gave him up her parents would "win" and set future precedent for med­ dling in her life.

I got a day-by-day after-school account of what her parents, boyfriend and friends had said the previous night. I admit I got a little weary of listening and

reacting but after about a month,

the girl dropped the boyfriend.

She just needed someone to lis­

ten while she found a way of achieving what she knew she had to do.

My own special adult was also a teacher, a high school Spanish teacher who helped me sift the bewildering array of possibilities facing me after high school. My own teens have been as fortun­ ate,· finding special adults at school and at work in whom they can confide. I appreciate the time these adults have taken listen­ ing to and talking with my kids and I don't care if they have oc· casionally heard about my ob· stinacy, hard-heartedness and lack of understanding. It goes with the parent *erritory.

Priests; sisters and youth min· isters are invaluable as special adults .. in adolescent lives. A ' priest4eacher told me recently '. that his former high school students come bacl~ when they're married to ask about baptizing their children, finding a viable parish or handling marital diffi­ cultie'!l. So the special adult sta­ tus· remains far beyond high school for soine.

Some grandparents fill this

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role admirably. They are able to listen without jumping in with a statement, conclusion, or worse - advice that isn't wanted. "My grandpop is great," one teen told me. "I can tell hilI! anything and he just listens." He paused, "And he never tells my parents."

That, of course, is the secret of special adult effectiveness but it's also the hazard. At times the adult may feel parents need to know and he or she must choose between breaking trust with the young person or the par­ ents. That's being between a rock and a hard place.

Still, the vocation of special adult is vital in our society, one that we rarely recognize publicly.

As a parent, here's an open thank you to such adults. How about thanking yours this week?

Why not send them this column '\ .\ \, and a note!

Pen and Paper Piety

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, "How easy is pen and paper piety, for one to write religiously!

It is far cheaper to work one's head than one's heart to good­ ness, but if I do not desire to be good, II most of all deceive my­ self. I can make an hundred meditations sooner than subdue the least sin in my soul." ­ Thomas Fuller

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A California researcher, for instance, found that people's perceptions of how healthy they are have a major impact on whether they develop heart dis­ ease.

Dr. George A. Kaplan, of Cali­ fornia's Department of Health.

Services, reported that in stud­ ies of 8,000 California residents, "Those who perceive their health as poor had a heart disease rate twice as high as those who thought of their health as ex­ cellent."

Dr. Robert McCrae of the Na­ tional Institute· on Aging and Gerontology Research Center studied 120 people and found that those who were anxious and depressed were more likely to have what he called "false posi. tive angina pectoris," a condi­ tion which appears to be heart disease but isn't.

A University of Pennsylvania study provides some scientific evidence that in rats - perhllPs applicable to humans - a feel· ing of helplessness tends to re­ duce the body's capacity to fight cancer.

Medical research is showing that stress produces internal body changes that may effect the immune system, possibly leaving a person more vulnerable to many kinds of disorders.

Last week I' spoke. with Dr. Harold Wise, who practices in­ ternal medicine in New York. He spoke of how incomplete our understanding of illness is when it is considered solely from a "medical model that's focused under the microscope."

Wise works hard in his prac­

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i tice to inspire a person's will· to be healthy. He has continually seen that Sl person's will to live - and the attitude and help of the family - are critical in pa­ tients with serious illnesses like cancer. He thinks medical person­ nel haven't learned enough from the 10-year survivors of cancers.

Wise suggested these victims may have survived at least part­ ly because their wills had a posi­ tive effect on their immune sys­ tem, and thereby controlled or reversed the spread of the malig­ nant cells involved.

It is Wise's opinion that in five years cancer treatment will change significantly. He thinks such new· fields as psychoneuri­ immunology will play a much larger role as they become better understood and as medical per­ sonnel recognize that healing is impossible without harmony be­ tween one's physical organs and emotional states.

Some 25 years ago I read 3 book called "The WiJI to Live"

by Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker, a book thSlt has gone through 17 printings and been translated into all the major European languages. Its popularity was due, I believe, to its message of hope.

"A human being is something more than the sum of our medi­ cal specialties," Hutschnecker wrote. "To prolong life, we ought to regard the whole per­ son, his interest in living and his adjustment to life instead of de­ voting ourselves exclusively to his medical symptoms."

Jesus is called the divine Physician. Realizing that if we follow his teachings, the payoff may be internal peace, balance, maturity and love - all factors in the prevention of stress and anxiety - gives me new respect for that title.

It seems to me that medicine for the whole person is coming of age. Can it be that medical personnel are offering a blue­ print for health remarkably like that found in the 'New Testa­ ment?

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Polish visit seems OK ROME (NC) - Pope John Paul II will visit his native Po­ land this year, beginning June 18.

That announcement was made by the bishops of Poland in a letter read in all Catholic church­ ' es of that country last Sunday.

The pope's visit, scheduled since last fall, was cast into doubt when, during his audience of Jan. 12, the pontiff announced that he was entrusting to Mary the decision as to "if and how" the trip should take place.

No' formal invitation has yet been extended to the pontiff by Poland's communist government, but signs point to the, govern­ ment's intention of welcoming him. For example, the official government radio station broad­ cast the bishops' comments, in­ HAPPINESS ALL ROUND: Cardinal Michael Michai Kitbunchu Thailand's first car­ cluding a section in which the dinal, is surrounded by smiling children at convent school in Bangkok, the nation's hierarchy called on the govern­ ment to grant amnesty to poli­ capital. (NC/Wide World Photo) tical prisoners and tQ re-estab­ Iish "full social- justice."

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Last year, testifying on be­ half of. the U.S, Catholic Confer­ The primate of Poland, Car­ dinal-designate Jozef Glemp 'of ence and the National Conference Warsaw and Gniezno,- in ,Rome ,of Catholic Charitiell, Auxiliary to -receive his red hat, said in a . Bishop' Joseph. M. sufiivan of television interview· in Jan. 27 ,Brooklyn, N.Y., urged against that the papal visit "will take furt!ter entitlement programs be­ place without doubt in the month cause of the effect the adminis­ of June." tration's first-year cuts were al­ ready having on the poor.

The letter of the Polish hier­ Besides food stamps, adminis­ archy did not indicate an itin­ erary for the papal visit. Italian tration officials said other 'signi­ ficant changes were being pro­ 'news agencies had reported sev­ eral days previously that church posed in the subsidized housing and government officials had and Aid to Families with Depend­ ent Children programs, cuts in agreed upon papal stops at War­ _saw, Cracow, Czestochowa and which have been criticized sharp­ ly in the past by the USCC, pub­ Sczcecin. The government, how­ lic policy arm of the U.S. bish­ ever, was said to be opposed to the church's desire for a stop at ops.

While the USCC had no im­ Gdansk, the Baltic city which is the birthplace of the now-banned mediate reaction to the new Rea­ gan budget fo~ 1984, in previous independent labor union, Solid­ arity, and at an unnamed city in years it has submitted testimony the Silesian coal-mining region. or sent letters to Congress urg­ ing no new c)Jts. The letter spoke of the "great Here is a brief overview of torment" the Polish nation is some of the proposals in the new undergoing. budget: "S09ial life is being aggrava­ - . Tuition tax credits. The ad­ .ted," said the bishops, "by the ministration is proposing a cred­ drama of internal friction, in­ it for 50 percent of tuition paid justices, the violations of the to private ~Iementary and sec­ fundamental laws of man and ondary schoois with a maximum the trampling of human dignity." credit per independent of $100 in As a consequence, the letter 1983, $200 in 1984 and $300 in continued, "hatred in hearts is 1985 and beyond. Last' year's proposal was for a 'maximum growing." credit of $100 in 1983, $300 in "Let us 'rely on the state au­ 1984 and $500 in 1985. thorities," the letter urged, "tQ This year's proposal is identi­ grant amnesty and to put into cal to one approved by the. Sen- ­ effect other initiatives with the ate Finance Committee late last goal of re-establishing filII social yea~ • justice."

- Food stamps. The adminis­ The bishops asked that all· tration is proposing cutting the Polish Clltholics "pray togetner program by more than $1 billion in your families every evening, - from the current $12 billion reciting the Angelus and at least to $10.9 billion - by forcing re­ cipients to work for their stamps one deca~e of the rosary, to pre­ pare the: wily in Poland for the and by holding states liable for many of the overpayments the holy father."

Less, for poor administration says are being make a bad housing situation for the poor only worse. made in the program.

In the past ,two 'years both -.. AFDC. The budget calls for ,Bishop Sullivan and Auxiliary new AFDC cuts of nearly $1 bil­ Bishop Eugene A. Marino of lion, again through a workfare Washington ,have appeared be­ requirement and newly tighten­ fore' congressional subcommit- ed eligibility rules.· Such cuts have been criticized by both the : tees to call the food stamp pro­ ',gram anlt of, the, _mq~f effective l,JSCC and ,Catholic Charities. for stemming ,the, serious mal­ , - Postal subsidies. Arguing nutrition problems that existed that postal costs should, be paid in the United States earlier this by those who incur them, the ad­ century. Congressional' leaders ,ministration again wants to slice have said it will be difficult to mail subsidies that primarily find any new places to trim food benefit non-profit groups. stamps without harming .recipi­ Groups such as the Catholic ents. press argue that instead of cut­ -Housing. Theadministra­ ting the subsidy all at once it tion wants to cap new subsidized should be phased oilt, as was housing units at 85,000 per yeaI'. the case before Reagan's admin­ Last year in testimony before a istration. Congress in the past House subcommittee Auxiliary two years generally has resisted Bishop Jams Lyke of Cleveland cutting the postal subsidy, al­ said 500,000 units of low-income though not enough to prevent housing are lost annually through two postal rate increases in the decay, condominium conversions - past 13 months. . and other problems and argued - Defense spending. The new that not to replace them would budget continues the steady in­ crease in the defense share of total federal outlays. Defense spending will increase 14 per­ Father Jean-Dominique Pare, cent in 1984, to $245.3 billion.

- College costs. The budget O.P., of St. Anne's Church, Fall includes several proposals that River, was the celebrant last Saturday of a funeral Mass at may affect Catholic higher edu­ the church for his mother Au­ . cation, particularly since the higher cost of private colleges rore Pare, 89.

A native of Salem, she was the means that students in those daughter of the late Philibert and . schools generally are more re­ Helene (Gagnon) Morin. She was liant on federal loans and other a member 0 fthe Ladies of St. aid programs.

The administration proposes Anne of St. Anne's Church. increased funding for college She is survived by her hus­ band, Wilfred Pare; three sons work-study programs in an effort to emphasize the importance of in addition to Father Pare, Ray­ mond and Henri of Tiverton and student self-help. The budget al­ Louis of Ayer; four daughters, so proposes education savings ac­ Helene Felix, Fall River, Claire counts, earning tax-free interest.

- Medicare. ,Major changes McGovern, East Providence, Jeanne Lachance', Hilo, Hawaii, in Medicare are proposed, in· Lucille Lachance, Swansea; a cluding charging patients higher brother, Borther Alban Morin, costs for short-term hospital FIC, serving in Pakistan; a sister, visits in return for a newcatas­ Alice Mathieu, Fall River; 28 trophic program' -that would sharply reduce patient cost for grandchildren; and 27 great­ extended iIlness~s. grandchildren.

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CINCINNATI (NC) - A total of 490 unemployed persons have responded to an offer by the Col­ lege of Mt. St. Joseph in Cin­ cinnati of one tuition-free course this semester. Of those, 84 sign· ed up for weekend courses and 406 for regular day and even­ ing courses. Courses in computer science, accounting and manage­ ment were the first ·to be filled.

The College made the offer to the jobless in response to, Presi­ dent Reagan's request that pri­ vate institutions assist those af­ fected by federal budget cuts, said Karl Borden, associate dean of continuing education.

In another response to the worst national unemployment since the Depression, Catholic newspapers around the country have offered free advertising space to employers and the un­ employed.

Aid to Poland' CINCINNATI (NC) - The Na­ tional Council of Catholic Laity, the Polish American Congress and Catholic Relief Services are cooperating to provide assistance to the people of Poland, inolud­ ing medica'l supplies, layettes, shoes and clothing. In Poland, committees in the country's 8,700 parishes will distribute the aid locally without government in­ terference.

FATHER EDWARD MUR­ PHY, SJ, of the staff of Under '21/Cov~nant ,- House, Father Bruce Ritter's New York City shelter for home­ less youth, will be homilist at a regional meeting of the Seekonk and Attleboro pray­ er groups ~t 7:30 p.m. Mon­ day, Feb. 14, at St. Mary's Church, Seekonk.

All prayer group members are welcome to attend the meeting, which will include Mass.

Ordained in 1968, Father Murphy has been active in social justice and peace organizations. In 1978 he joined the staff of Covenant House as a counselor. He also supervises a residence for homeless boys located fn his native Bronx, N.Y. (Sie­ gel Photo)

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117 Rockdale :Ave., N.B. In 1982 over 2,955,000 new mission rosaries were made and ~OPIN}9~9'1}Days 996-6168 freely distributed to those in need. This was a 16 percent in­ crease over 1981. For the five­ year period ending in 1982, over 12,000,000 new mission rosaries were sent by Our Lady's Rosary Makers. per Person Per Nit. Obi. Dec. (Fri•• s.t. Nllbt.

During the past 10-15 years, Only) Min. 2 Nltea Rate Eff. Jan. 28 tbru Jun. India has led all other areas in 2S Hollda, Period. - 3 illite•. Lalt PIlI. IlIlbtl1 requests for rosaries followed by hra:her. the African nations, the Philip­ We have an indoor pool, saunas, co~or TV and pines, United States, South Am­ an unforgettable dining experience that sets us erica and Mexico. It is signifi­ apart. From 3 egg omelettes to succulent, A POIGNANT MEMORIAL to a baby never born, this cant that the largest number of blushing prime rib, our 8 COMPLETE meals per (NC Photo) little statue wears a bib and a warm cap. requests come from countries couple and our unique, private 8.Y.O.8. lounge that have never been Catholic. with live entertainment and dancing, make In the United States requests Shoreway Acres The Ultimate Value. come from aliens who come to Package now available at Green Harbor Motor Lodge.

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(A few of the statues are to babies who were not alerted but WOULD YOU LIKE to toss a who died in infancy or in pre­ bouquet in the direction of a be­ mautre birth, he said.) hind-tha-scenes worker In your The fathers and mothers of parish or organization: maybe the children bum incense and someone who keeps the altar leave flowers and note , such as linens spotless, Is always on one reading, "forgive your fool­ hand for parish suppers does ish father," Father Zimmerman a super Job In CCD or youth explained. He said the statues groups? Write to the Mall Packet! are a sign of reparation .or sor­ Let such plllars of the parish row on the part of the parents, know they're noticed and all" who want the babies' souls to pndated! come to rest after the violence of abortion.

He noted that there are about 7:00 P.M. 2 million abortions ;yearly in Pavarotti~ Japan.

The statue-memorials, as well as special prayer services for women who chose to end a preg­ OKLAHOMA CITY (NC) nancy by abortion have become St. Anthony Hospital in Okla­ increasingly popular recently, al­ homa City has named its cardio­ I vascular institute the Luciano though available since the 1950s.

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But with cathedral organs?

For a beautiful affirmative to that question, be on hand next Friday to liear the Allen organ at St. Mary's Cathedrai" Fall River.

Scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, with a snow date the same time the following night, the concert will feature Richard Grant, 1955 winner of the Young Organists' Competition of the American Guild of Organists.

Grant's program will include works of Bach and of selected English, American and French composers.

They will be heard on an or­ . gan played ·conventionally and producing exquisite sound - b~ computer.

When Grant or any organist. plays the instrument, he or she is in fact telling several digital computers within the organ con­ sole what notes and sounds are wanted.

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'Beyond the 80 stops, the or­ ganist can use a card reader built into the instrument. By in­ serting a punched computer card, he or she can add a clarinet stop, a Spanish· trumpet from Toledo Cathedral or a choice of hund­ reds of other sounds.

Another feature is a transpos­ ing device permitting the musi­ cian to play in any of 12 keys at the turning. of a switch that s.hifts the pitch of the entire or­ gan in chromatic sequence.

The technology of the "digital computer tone-generation sys-

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tem" was developed by Apollo space scientists.. A construction concept known as large-scale in­ tegration shrinks thousands of individl,lal components into a single dime-sized particle. The cathedral organ employs the equivalent of 300,000 transistors arranged into the tiny particles.

Glenn Giuttarl, the cathedral's director of music, is enthusiastic about the Allen organ, reveling in its tremendous capabilities.

He says he often slips into the cathedral at odd hours to play the instrument for his own ~e­ light.

Practically speaking, he points out that its tuning is computer­ controlled and "forever fixed," eliminating the need of periodic checkups. And extremes of heat and cold, a centuries-old prob­ lem for church organs, do not affect it. ·Giuttari doubts that even the keenest ear can tell the differ­ nee between the Allen sound and that of the conventional pipe organ.

Certainly the eye sees little change. In St. ·Mary's choirloft, the majestic organ pipes remain to delight ·the viewer, but behind them are the new Instrument's speakers. Another set of speakers is located inconspicuously on the right side of the sanct~ary.

Craftsmen accompanied the or­ gan to Fall River from its place of manufacture in Macungie, Pa., said Giuttarl. At· the cathedral they voiced an~ regulated It to meet.. the ·bu~lding· needs. 5t.

M~rY's. :added Giuttari, Is an

acoustic joy since its recent renovation.

"Previously," he explained, "many new sounds were lost, but the renovations, which Included 'hardening' the interior wood with a urethane finish, have given us splendid sound."

The cathedrai organ, the first . of its kind In the Northeast, has attracted many visits from musi­ cians and Giuttari welcomes all interested organists to try it out and ·experience firsthand the con­ tribution of the computer age to the world of music.

In addition to the Feb. 11 re­ cital, the cathedral music director . has announced a varied program employing the organ. To continue into May, it will include noon­ day recitals, choir programs and a presentation of the Faure Re­ quiem.

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Apart from ordination to the diaconate or priesthood and in· vestiture into the permanent lay ministries of lector and aCOlYte, whatever offices are open to the layman in the new code are also open to the laywoman. Non-ad­ mission to the permanent lay ministry of lector does not, how­ ever, prohibit a woman from serving as a reader at Mass by temporary delegation.

The laity are permitted to preach in church, though not to replace the ordained minister in - delivering the homily.

Perhaps the most striking ex­ p,ansion of the laity's role comes in the permission which a dioce­ san bishop can now give for lay people to provide pastoral care for a parish in areas where priests are scarce.

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The liberalization in the new code's approach is seen in itS

, allowing a priest in goOd stand.'­ ing ordinarily to hear confessions

in any area of the world without

obtaining the prior permission' of that territory's bishop, as' the 1917 code and present church practice require.

Where the old code listed 34 crimes punishable by automatic excommunicatiOn, the new has seven: abortion; apostasy, heresy or schism; desecration of the Eu. charist; doing physical violence to the pope; illici~ly ordaining a bishop; breaking the seal of con­ fession; and a confessor's' ab­ solving his accomplice in a crime.

Another liberalization in the' new code is its attitude toward cremation, which is permitted, so long as the person does not in­ tend by that choice to signify his opposition to the Christian ,faith.

In some cases; the 1983 code introduces' a new specificity.

While it retains the church's cur· rent prohibition against the in· volvement of priests and nuns in factional politics, it adds "labor unions" to the' areas in which such political activity is pros· cribed - all with the proviso that in certain circumstances church authorities might deem such activity as legitimate, either for the protection of the church's rights or for the common good.

While the 1917 code required a retrial at the appelate level whenever a declaration of nullity was approved in a marriage case, the new version requires simply a review by an upper-level three­ judge panel.

This is, however. a tightening

procedures under which Ameri­ can bishops have operated ,in reo cent 'years. Instead of a, retrial, a simple ,administrative review of a favorable anni1bne~t deCision 'by the national' conference of ,bishops was permitted.

A step is 'added,. therefore, to current practice. But canonlsts seem agreed: that neither the number of annulments, not the length ,of the proCedure' will be affected appreciably.

Many of the changes made by the pope were apparently techni­ cal, but, others were' more sub­ stantive~ Wherea~, for example the COml'niSsion felt that a per· manent deacon should be able to re~arty if his' wife: died, , such a permission does not appear in the code itself. The relevant paragraph from the draft was simply deleted from the final version of Canon 1087.

With regard to translations of the code, the original Latin docu­ ment will remain the sole offiCial text, but translations will be per· mitted, with the I Vatican reo serving exclusive rights to both them and the Latin.

In the U.S., the Canon Law Society of America hopes to pro· duce an English translation in about six months, working in co­ operation with the National Con­ ference of Catholic Bishops.

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On Steering Points Items FR IndlClltes Foil River, NB Indicates New Bedford.

The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will sponsor a weekend retreat March 11 through 13 at the Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth. The di­ ·rector will. be Father Dennis C. Kane, OP,of the factulty of Providence College.

ReservatiQns may be made with women's guild presidents.

The deadline is Friday, Feb. 25.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET

St. Patrick's .Cir~le, Daughters of Isabella, will meet at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in Old Town Hall. Refreshments.

The Holy Ghost Society· and -the Holy Name Society will, meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. An election committee report will be presented to Holy Ghost members and the HQly Name unit will hear a discussion of January activities.

The parish youth group will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday.

WIDOWED, NB

David Letendre, RN, will dis­

cuss How To Relieve Anxiety

through the Art of Relaxation

'at a meeting of the Widowed

Support Group set !or 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 14,at Sl Kilian's

rectory, 306 Ashley Blvd. All

widowed persons w.elcome. In­

formation: 998-3269.

MEMORIAL HOME, FR

Recent activi-ties included an Allegro Choir concert sponsored by the Catholic Memorial Home's activities department.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUm

'''Sundae Sunday," an ic.e cream social, will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the church hall. Continuous enter­ ,tainment will include balloon figures created by Ben Thatch­ er, -a magic show and a sing­ along wlth musical accompani­ ment by Tom Goux.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH

The youth ministry will spon­ sor a ski trip Thursday throug.h Sunday, Feb. 24 to 27. Infor­ mation: 993-8919.

Confirmation I students will attend a retreat 'at Our Lady of Providence Seminary, War­ wick Neck, R.I., tonight through ·tomorrow, leaving 'at 5:30 to­ night from St. Julie's parking lot.

DOMINICAN LAITY, FR

St. Rose of Lima Chapter will meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at Dominican Convent, 37 Park St. Mass will be offered and a spiritual program will follow.

SS. PETER

& PAUL,

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CYO members will attend 11 a.m. Mass Sunday. The CYO Council will meet at 7 p.m. Fri­ .day, Feb. 11.

Bible study discussions will be held following 7 p.m. Mass each Wednesday of Lent.

FIRST FRIDAY ,CLUB, FR

Former Boston Red Sox catch­ er Russ Gibson will speak at tonight's father-son supper meeting in Sacred Heart School, Fall River, following 6 o'clock Mass at Sacred Heart Church.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, FR

St. Louis Fraternity members will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednes­ day. Mass will be followed by a presentation. on the Jewish faith

by Rabbi Norbert Weinberg of Congregation Adas Israel. All welcome.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS,

POCASSET

"Choosing ,an Apostolate: Let Us Be a Caring People" will be -the topic of -talks by Father Edwin Dirig, OFM, and Betty Morris, SFO,ata meeting at 7:10 p.m. Tuesd-ay of St. Fran­ cis of the Cape Fraternity. The meeting will be held at St. John ,parish center in Pocasset and will include celebration of Mass.

An organ _recital featuring Richard Grant wiil beheld in the cathedral at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. )1. Rdreshtnents will fol:t~,,!.Jn the school hall. All wel­ ·:,r.t;OlJle. A women's bowling tourna­ m~nt will take place Sunday, Feb. 27.

The New Bedford Area Nu­ clear Weapons Freeze Group will sponsor an ecumenical panel discussion on the U.S. bishops' war and peace pastor-al -at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel. In connection with the program, -a Peace Drawing art contest has been held 'at St. Mary's Home. En­ tries will be on display Sunday.

All welcome. -, DIVORCED/SEPARATED, NB

The February program for the New. Bedford area support group for divorc~ and/or sep­ arated Catholics will include at­ tendance 8·t the ecumenical dis­ cussion listed above on Sunday.

Other programs, all at Our Lady's Chapel at 7:30 p;m. Sun­ day, will be Mass and social hour Feb. 13; a discussion on single-parenting by Mary Ann Besse Feb. 20; and a t-alk by Chris O'Neill on Religion in Time of Crises Feb. 27. An an­ nulment clinic is held at 10:30 a.m. each Saturd-ay at the chapel.

ST. MARY, NB

Parishioners knowing of shut­ ins wishing to receive holy. com­ munion '8t home may call Sister Rita at 995-6168. at. Mary's School was recog­ nized in the J.anuary issue of Today's Catholic Teacher, a na­ ,tional magazine, for its com­ puterprogram for parents and students. / O~.GRACE,WESTPORT

Transportation for a Teen Club roller skating and refresh­ ments trip to Swansea will leave the church parking lot at 6 to­ night. The club will hold a reg­ ular meeting at 6:30p.m. Sun­ day in the .parish center.

HOLY NAME, Fit

'Dhe parochial school will ac­ cept registrations for next year from 9 to noon Sunday, Feb. 6 and Feb. 13.

"How to Read the Bible," a five-we·ek course, will be pre­ sented by Father Richard De­ gagne on Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m., Feb. 22 through March 22, at the school.

Cub Scouts -and famil'les will attend 11:15 'a.m. Mass Sunday and a Blue and Gold banquet will follow in the sch()ol hall.

FIVE HOUR VIGIL

A five-hour vigil of reparation, held monthly in a diocesan church, will take place from 8 p.m. to 1 -a.m. tad'ay 'at St. The­ .resa's Church, New Bedforli.

The service will begin -and end with Mass -and will include a holy hour and recitation of ,the rosary. There will be a 10 p.m. coffee break. All welcome.

SACRED HEART, FR

Vincentians will meet at the rectory Monday evening.

CCD second graders are be­ ginning preparation for the re­ ception of first c:ommunion.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR

The parish credit union will

hold its annual meeting at 6 pm.

Sunday at its headquarters on

Sprague Street.

Boys wishing to become altar

boys will meet at 10:30 -a.m. to­ morrow in the upper church.

In observance of Catholic

Schools Week, parents and other

ST. MARY, SEEKONK

New -altar boys will meet at interested parishioners 'are in­

1 p.m. tomorrow. All boys will vited to join the schoolchildren meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the school for an address by State

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Rep. Thomas Norton. Refresh­

First penance will be received ments, in line with the patriotic

at 9 a.m. 'saturd'aY,'March 5, theme of SchoDls Week, will

with flrst ~ommunion following feature a "sparkler-spangled"

at the noon Mass Sunday, May cake, baked by school board

I, ,and Sunday, May 8. members.

A 7th grade CCD teacher is needed. Volunteers may con­ -tact the rectory.

A parish census is in ·progress.

Cards mailed to each family are

asked to be returned '<lssoon as possible.

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NUCLEAR FREEZE, NB

ST. RITA, MARION The Catholic Women's Club

will meet at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15,

in the rectory. A Catholic Press

Month program will focus on

Catholic books.

New altar boys meet at 3 p.m. each l!~riday.

BL.SACRAMENT, FR

D of I, SOMERSET

A 'book review and display will be pre~ented by Ruth and John Goldrosen of Charthouse Village Bookstore 'at a Women's Guild meeting at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday in the parish hall. Re­ freshments. Guests welcome.

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JAIME FONSECA, ,66, whose career with the Na­ tional Catholic News Service spanned four decades, died Jan. 22 of a heart attack at home. Fonseca began at NC News in 1942, edited its.

Spanish-Portuguese news from 1945-64, worked as a diplomat for his native Costa Rica from 1964-68, andre­ turned to NC in 1968 as Latin America editor.

He "was a journalist of immense energy and intense dedication," said Richard W. Daw, NC News director and editor in chief.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO Ash Wednesday Mass~ will

be at 8 a.m. and 12110 ·and 7:30 ·p.m. Ashes will be distributed -at those times and '8t 2, 4:15 and 6:30 p.m.

Confessions will be heard Monday through Saturday from 1 to 4 and 6:30 to 7.:25 p.m.

Sunday hours will :be from 1 to 4 ,p.m.' .

From Ash Wednesday, Feb. 16, through Saturd-ay, Feb. 19, a Lenten mission will be preached at the 12:10 and 7:30 p.m. Mass­ es by Father Richard Delisle, MS of LaSalette Center for Christian L-iving. Its 'theme will be "Come Back to Me - Don't Let Fear Keep Us Apart." Father Delisle, former director of La­ Salette Center, is active in par­ ish mission 'and retreat work.

PERMANENT DlACONATE

Permanent deaCons and ,their wives willattepd a day of recol­ lection beginning at 2 p.m. Sun­ day at the Family Life Center, N. Dartmouth.

DISTRICT I, DCCW

Fall River District I of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will present tableaux honoring Mary at 7:30 p.m.

Thusday 'at St. Louis de France Church, Swansea.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER

Coming events -at the N. Dart­ mouth center 1nclude a meeting of the Greater New Bedford deanery from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday; a day of recollection for confirmation candidates from St. Patrick's parish, Ware­ 'ham, also on Monday; man'age­ ment workshops for St. Anne's Hospital personnel Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; and a day of -recollection for Stang High School students.

ST. mOMAS MORE, SOMERSET

A spiritual book exchange will ,be sponsored by parIsh Vincentians, with books by parishioners contributed ·available in the church foyer for borrowing. It is hoped the vrosram will bestn by Lent.

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we trust'~'Continued from page one gram on the Underground Rail­ way of slavery days and a Fri-. day faculty luncheon.

Holy Family/Holy Name School plans art projects, a pamphlet contest and school .decorations, including . hangi~g the school banner outside and hiring a flashing sign to call attention to Schools Week. . Students will also write letters to church and government officials on the .value of Catholic educQtion and publicize proclamations of the the observance from the city and 'state government.

At St, Anthony School there'll be a contest for a new school seal, large door signs within the building, a science fair, a Thank You Day for all associated with the school and a mysterious Fuzzies project being under­ taken by fif.th graders as a sur­ prise for schoolmates. St. An­ thony's will be open to visitors throughout the week: At St. John the Evangelist SchooJ in Attleboro parents are invited to attend school during the week, which will begin with a 9 a.m. Mass on Monday at St. John Church.

Tuesday and Thursday are "no uniform" days; on Wednes­ day an assembly will be held to announce the winners of an essay contest. It will conclude with a rededication prayer ser­ vice. Friday afternoon will of­ fer cheerleaders' presentations

and basketball games. The week

will conclude with registration for Grade I on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

At St. Mary's Primary School in Taunton, children are com­ peting in essay and button con­ tests, with the winning button design to be made up in plastic for all to wear. At a Kids' Day, students will wear attire appro­ priate to what they hope their future careers will be.

Other Taunton area projects will include a community day, with students visi,ting community 'facilities, Masses, a communion breakfast, art exhibits and open houses. _ At St. Joseph's School, Fair­ haven, banner-bearing students will literally.take over the town as nearly 300· of them march through the streets on an hour-

long Spirit Walk. They'll return

tq hot chocolate and to an after­

noon Mass concelebrated by area

priests who~ ~yc;lUng parishion­

ers attend St. Joseph's.

Also on the agenda is Care

about Kids Day on Wednesday

when parents' will supervise

games, there'll be a free lunch

lunch for students and the pro­

gram will be tGpped off with a

performance of "Peter and the

Wolf" by the Cape Cod Ballet

Company.

Thursday will 'see an arts fes­

tival, with singing, drama and

art groups joining to present

.choral speaking' selections and

an art display. Also on the pro­

gram will be induction ceremo­

nies for National Junior Honor

Society candidates. ·Friday will

be Teacher Appreciation Day

with :a. luncheon and roses for

teachers and attendance at the

Zeiterion Theatre in New Bed­

ford for older students and at an

in-school movie for the younger

ones.

"The.n we _~ollapse," said Sis­

'ter Muriel Ann 'Lebeau, St. Jo­

seph's principal, no doubt speak­

ing for Schools Week planners

throughout the diocese.

The Diocesan observance of

the national week is spearheaded

by Father George W. Coleman,

director of the Department of

education, and Sister M. Laurita

Hand, PBVM, superintendent of

schools.

National O~ance

On the national level, Cath­ olic Schools Week is a joint project of the Chief Administra­ tors Department National Cath­ olic Educational Association. and the Department of Educa­ ton, United States Catholic Con­ ference.

Its purpose is to celebrate the blessings of God-centered edu­ cation available in Catholic schools from kindergarten through grade 12 and, especially this year, the religious freedom ~n the United States.

The theme, say the nati/)nal

organizers, "is an expr~ssion of

the need of Catholic~, Christ­

ians, and indeed all human be­ ings, to depend upon God, imd the further need to pass on that recognition of depen<1ence to young people.

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A bridge to the East

tiality of our own traditions."

Father Merton hoped he as a The ecumenical borders of the Catholic Christian could learn late 20th century are moving something through Buddhists, eastward. especially about contemplative Father Thomas Merton, a· prayer. 'world-famous writer and a monk A few hours after his speech, from Our Lady of Gethsemani on Dec. 10, 1968, Father Merton Abbey in Louisville, Ky., journey­ ed to the East at the end of his (or Father Louis, as he was known in his Trappist monas­ life to explore the spiritual in­ tery) was dead, the victim of an sights of non-Christian religions. accidental electrocution.

His final act was the delivery On his journey to the East h~ of a speech in Bangkok to an had met members of several international conference of mon­ world religions. He appreciated astic leaders, including Benedic­ tine and Cistercian or Trappist the variety of religious express­ ion in India, for instance, from monks.

In that speech,Father Merton the respected cows mingling in the city traffic, to Hindu myth­ stated his belief that "by open­ ness to Buddhism, to Hinduism ology.

He was interested in the Sufis, and to the great Asian traditions, we stand a wonderful chance of followers of Islam. Storytelling, learning more about the poten­ Turn to 'Page Thirteen

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My interfaith marriage

By Dr. Richard Lawless

Becoming a cosmic dancer

By Katherine Bird

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cosmic dancer, the world citizen, intended to be all-inclusive, the will be an authentic child of ihs author calls it "a base from "We live in a fantastic cen­ which to journey forth." parent culture but related close­ tury," enthuses philosopher Hus­ ly to all."

Smith, a retired Massachusetts ton Smith in "The Religions of Smith goes on to explain that Institute of Tecnology professor, Man." although people will continue to offers numerous reasons why It is a century of "incredible put down roots in their own people should seek greater under­ discoveries of science." But even families and societies, and to standing of world religions: aside from that, Smith writes, it have ,their own pe'rspectives, - 1.. The widely-traveled au­ is a century when- "lands across nonetheless, they can .no longer the planet have become our afford to be cast "in' the hard thor is convinced "the surest neighbors. China across the molds of oblivion to the rest" of . way to the heart of a people is through their religion, assuming street, Egypt at our doorstep." the world. it is still alive and has not fossi­ A student of world religions, Smith's book, "The Religions lized." He remarks, "The God­ Smith points out that communi­ of Man," is a classic introduction seekers of everY clime lift their cations media and travel by air for students taking their first voices.in the most diverse ways "have shriveled space." In addi­ look at the complexities of reli­ imaginable to the God of all lion, even those who never travel gions throughout the world. Not men." find that the issues of the world - 2. Smith also hopes that are thrust into their homes via greater understanding among newspapers and magazines and different peoples and different television. religious groups will aid world For Smith, the' narrowing of· Turn to Page Thirteen the gap between East and West

By Janaan Manternacll may tuJ11 out to be-the most mo~

It was the most important

mentous fact of the 20th century.

He says we "have been suddenly evening of the Jewish year. As

darkness settled over Jerusalem,

catapulted from town and coun­ try onto a world stage," a chimge Jesus and his chosen Twelve met

for the Passover meal.

that bears' enormous conse­ quences for all people.

They would re""1ember how About 2,500 years ago, Smith God freed their ancestors from writes, it took an exceptional slavery and celebrate his freeing presence in their own lives. person like the Greek philoso­ pher, So~rates, to state, "I am Judas Iscariot, one of the not an Athenian or a Greek but Twelve, was uncomfortable. He a citizen of the world." Today, looked from face to face. No one in Smith's view, all people need seemed aware of his dreadful secret. to strugglt tQwllrd this goal, Earlier, Judas had gone secret­ People nf,led, .he says, to be­ come cosmic dancers. "The Tum to page thirteen

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tone of our hope" at least, when he said that what we were doing More than. 14 years ago my was something that so far our wife Lisette and I began our churches only dream of becom­ journey together. Our marriage ing one in Christ. That message has had typical ups and downs. has been like a beacon, calling us But one thing has been special: back when w~ drift.

I am a Roman Catholic while Lis­ In times of sickness or crisis, ette is Episcopalian. Some people clergy from both our communi­ don't . see how a marriage of ties have supported us. A Bene­ members of churches so close in dictine priest officiated at the belief and practice. could have funeral of Lisette's father. An difficulties. But it's like two sib­ Episcopal priest was with me lirigs: you're closf~, but that when my mother-in-law died. doesn't mean not rubbing each And people of faith from our two other the wrong way sometimes.

In our humanness, Lisette and traditions have befriended us, I are sometimes quite unlovely showing us the Lord's love and toward one another, to our shame goodness through their own since we come from sister reli­ lives.

The parochial school principal gions. But as time has passed we

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The withered fig tree

By Father John J. Castelot For Mark, geography serves theology. In Mark's Gospel, Gali­ lee is the special territory for Jesus, the scene of his healing activity, the place of salvation.

Jerusalem, on the other hand, symbolizes antagonism, hostility.

Even during his Galilean minis­ try, opposition to Jesus comes "from Jerusalem;" it is there he will be killed. So during his final week, Jesus pointedly stays out­ side the city, entering only to attempt ,to melt. obduracy its leaders' obduracy.

Mark records a strange little incident in connection with Jesus' visit to the city. Jesus sees a fig tree, with no fruit. "It was not the time for figs."

He curses the tree, declaring it sterile (11:14). But if it was not the time for figs, why his reaction?

The unreasonableness alerts us: we are dealing with symbol­ ism. It emerges as one reads on.

What we have here is another example of Mark's bracketing, a writing technique in which two . Turn' to Page Thirteen .-.

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A bridge to the east Continued from page twelve singing and dancing are their pathways into mystic~l experi­ ence.

Zen Buddhism was an interest of Father Merton's for years; an interest nurtured by his corres­ pondence with Dr. D.T. Suziuki, part of which appears in Father Merton's book, "Zen and the Birds of Appetite."

The record of Father Merton's last days on earth is in "the Asian Journal," published after his death. Central in it is his en­ counter with Buddhism.

Tibetian Buddhism monks are taught to meditate by learned holy men known as rimpoches.

Father Merton exchanged views with a number of rim­ poches: his journal relates: "We started out early on a cold morn­ ing . . . looking for Chatral Rim­ poche . . . the greatest rim­ poche I have met so far . . .

Chatral looked like a vigorous old peasant ... He had a week's growth of beard, bright eyes, a strong voice, and was very arti­ culate, much more communica­ tive than I expected. We had a fine talk .. . covering all sorts of ground."

Father Merton wrote that he and Chatral "spoke about somE! points of Christian doctrine . . . the risen Christ, suffering . . .

The half-spoken message of our talk was our complete under­ standing of each other as peo­ ple who were somehow at the edge of great realization and knew it .. . that it was a grace for us to meet one another."

Of special significance for

For children Continued froIr' page twelve ly to the temple to meet with some of those who opposed Jesus.

Judas also was turning against Jesus. He had thought that Je­ sus would have led a revolution against the Roman occupation forces. But it was clear that Jesus was not about to do that.

So Judas made a deal. For 30 pieces of silver he agreed to hand Jesus over to his enemies.

Judas was ready to eat with Jesus as one of his closest friends. Then Jesus started to speak. "I want to tell you some­ thing," Jesus began. "One of you will betray me."

Judas' heart jumped. He glanced quickly around. The dis­ ciples were very upset. They looked at one another in utter amazement.

One after another they asked Jesus, "Surely you don't mean me, do you?"

Judas asked the same ques­ tion, trying to seem as cool as possible. .

Jesus answered. "It will be one who dips into the dish with me."

Judas was relieved that Jesus did not point him out in front of the rest. But what Jesus said next cut right to the heart.

"The Son of Man," Jesus said, referrin3 to himself, "is going to die, as tl}e Scriptures say he will.

But it will be terrible for the one who betrays me."

Judas got up and slipped out of the room into the dark night.

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Father Merton was his audience

with the Dalai Lama, the young Buddhist leader he described as having "obviously received a re­ markable monastic formation."

Father Merton reported the Dalai Lama insisted that no one could attain anything .in the spriitual life "without total dedi­ cation, continued effort, experi· enced guidance and real discip­ line."

Throughout the journal, one senses the "understanding be­ tween Father Merton and his Eastern brothers. Photographs of the monk with rimpoches and Hindu holy me~ grace its pages.

The one I like best is of the Continued from page twelve Dalai Lama and Father Merton peace. He quotes from President side by side, both in their reli­ gious robes. My first impression Dwight Eisenhower who once was of their strong resemblance 'said: "With everyone a loser in to each other. An inner light .any new war, a better under­ standing than ever before is es­ illuminated both. sential among people and among nations."

- 3. Studying world religions is likely to reveal the common humanity which resides in all Continued from. page twelve people. Smith is very conscious episodes, like arms of a bracket, that a religion blends universal enclose another account. principles with a local setting.

The curse of the tree is the But the universal principles, he first arm of the bracket. The adds, communicate something to second arm turns up in Chapter human beings throughout the 11:20, on the way back to Beth­ world, whatever their place or any when the tree is seen "with culture. ered to its roots."

He continues: "To glimpse The two arms of the bracket what belonging means to a Chin­ enclose the account of ' the ese; to sense with a Burmese cleansing pf the temple. "Clean­ grandmother what passes in life ing" is hardly the word! Jesu!>' and what endures; to crack the action is symbolic. Literally, it paradox of a Zen monk in Kyoti makes little sense. . . . to swing such things into The activities he disrupts are view is to introduce a whole new legitimate. People had to pur­ dimension into the glance of chase animals for sacrifice and spirit." they had to change their coins Smith thinks that a look in­ into the Jewish and Tyrian cur­ side other world religions "can rency which alone was accept­ carry a thousand derivative able for the temple tax. benefits, silent harvests of the Those who have turned the yield of wisdom, but the basic area into a 'den of thieves," are reward is the view itself." not necessarily dishonest. It is rather that they use the temple· as a cover-up for the godlessness of their daily lives.

Continued from page twelve The main thrust of the incident is expressed in the citation from grandmother died was one such .

Isaiah 56:7: "My house shall be person. The older women from called a house of prayer for all Lisette's parish who' stayed with her through a medical crisis were peoples."

The temple must be a place two others.

At home we celebrate our one­ to meet God in prayer, not a ness in Christ. place for empty ritual.

Real prayers, blessings at night Most important for Mark's gen­ and special activities in Advent tile Christians, the temple should and Lent provide a common be "for all people." The reaction ground. of the chief priests and scribes Added t6 parish events in both indicates that they got the mess­ traditions, home activities and age. They began to plot against customs become ways to shape Jesus. faith and build each other up.

But Mark is careful to point Increasing numbers of couples

out that the opposition came (in some areas, well over half of

from the leadership, not the peo­ all new marriages) reach acros'> ple. In fact, furious as the lead­ ers were, they were "afraid of religious lines to marry.

Like others, we hope to be him because the whole crowd was under the spell of his teach- special signs of the unity to . ing." which the Lord calls and chal­ Verses 22-25 of Chapter 11 lenges separated Christians. are sayings of Jesus which ap­ pear in other contexts in the other Gospels. For example, 'When you stand to pray, for­ DUBLIN, Ireland (NC) - Re­ give anyone against whom you lations between Catholics and have a grievance.. ."

Protestants in Northern Ireland Mark places the sayings here are expected to improve with as a sort of commentary on the the appointment of Bishop Ca­ temple incident. The true spirit hal Daly as head of the Diocese of religion is to be characterized of Down and Connor, which ·in­ by unwavering faith and a readi­ cludes Belfast, Northern Ireland's ness to forgive. largest city.

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Latighter

By Cecilia Belanger

What'.s

O'D your

mind?

A young girl once told me she .knew God gave us' laughter: it

By Tom Lennon adds to our faith and helps us to

preserve sanity because it brings

Q. I have had a Job at Wen­ dy's for the past six months and great release. .

have liked it very much. The one "How do you know that?" I

asked. .

problem I liave began about three months after I got the Job. Her reply: "Well, I know that

when I am angry and someone

My money never seemed to last says or does something funny

until payday. I nearly always and I laugh, I stop being angry.

run out of money about two or If I am depressed and' someone

three days before I am to be paid. makes a joke" I perk up and

(Ohio) thin~, 'Why am I so depressed?' .

A. 'Up the street one of my Of course it doesn't always work

neighbors has an attractive and but it works enough times to

industrious yard worker named try n."

Vicky. I turned to her for a possi· There is a deep movement to·

ble solution. ward health in good humor. It's

. Vicky stresses the importance been established that when one

of learning at an early age how · laughs one is helped physiologic­ to save and budget money. Her ally through release of tension. father taught her well, and she No one wants a "smiling Jack"

asked me to pass on an exam· ·.around all the time, but humor

pie which she wrote down for is important to a feeling of well­

me: being. One has only to think

"You work one week and may­ ·of politics and pompous politi­ be earn $20. So you set aside $5· · clans: how coul4, we endure with­ $10 of it. The next week you out the rapiers of wit bursting may earn $30 and set aside $10· · the balloons of pretension? Every $15.

In the last week of the so often someone comes along month you' may earn $35 and set and says: "The emperor has no $10.

By the end of the aside clothes" • • • and we not only month you have saved $25·$35!" laugh, we see things afresh. Hu­ Vicky stresses that you have mor has played an important role to have a regular job to 'start in history: Jonaihan Swift lam· TORONTO (NC) - A 13­ crucified . Christ against the director of vocations for the saving. Money from yard work pooning an antiquated govern·' week outdoor advertising cam· city's skyscrapers. They bear . archdiocese, said the message or from baby·sitting or from an ment; Cervantes puncturing paign daring young men to the slogan, "Dare To Be a on the signs is a modern ver· allowance can be saved too. feudal society; ·Boccaccio ques· choose the priesthood' has Priest Like, Me."· She plans her purchases care­ sion of Mark 8:34; "Anyone tioning the romanticism of the been launched by the Toronto fully. Before she finally joined a who wishes to be a follower The Archdiocese has set up Middle Ages.

Archdiocese. record club, she talked about of mine, must leave self be­ a special telephone line for in· . It's, said that humor exposes The campaign is using 35 the pros and cons with her moth­ quiries.

The number appears hind, take up his cross and the contradictions in us. W.H. outdoor posters and three er and father. on the billboards. come follow me."

Auden observed with regard to large billboards showing a Father Sean O'Sullivan, What Vicky neglected to men· Bertold Brecht: "Brecht was an tion was "impulse buying. "This admirable man, in the sense that gets a lot of people in trouble, one must surely admire someone scholarship grant from the Veter­ The C-C Mother's Club will and it may be your main prob· who_lived, in a Communist coun· . lem, , ans of Foreign Wars as first place meet Tuesday evening. try, but took out Austrian citi· Keep a record of your expen­ winner in the recent Voice of Mrs. Fredda Megan of the zenship, kept his money in a The adult chorus at the AttIe· ditures during the next month Democracy essay contest tradi· school science department was Swiss panko and hedged his bets boro school is seeking new mem­ and see how much money you among participants in a Labora· when he was dying by sending bers, especially tenors. Rehear· tionally sponsored by the patriot­ spend that you did not plan ic group. tory Safety Course recently held for a priest, just in case." sals are held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. ahead of time to spend. Check to A Catholic Schools Week Mass at Curry College under sponsor­ Both faith and humor are cop­ each Thursday at the school. In see how much impulse buying will be offered at 10 a.m.

Mon­ ship of the American Chemical ing mechanisms for dealing with preparation is a spring concert, you did and ask yourself how the incongruities of life. Both to feature songs from the 30s day"at the school, with parents .Society. much of it was really necessary. and friends invited to attend. help us get through the' incongru­ and 40s.

Fighting the impulse to buy go on, to endure. ous, to Mary Louise Hickey; a solo­ involves saying "no" to your· One thinks of Carl Sandburg: dramatist in her 70s, recently in­ self. This can be difficult in a Daily are death and despair troduced Feehan students to a THE 6LACK80ARD...

THE SECOND PROBLEM,

society that generally urges us to stood off by those who know rare theatrical art form develop­ IN FRONT'OF THE WHOLE say ~'yes" to all our desires.

MP:AM? VES, MAlAM ...

how and when to laugh." ing from the ancient art of story­ CLASS ...SECOND PR08LEM..

Vicky suggested a money jug In thi.s nation, the resources of telling as she presented adapta· that you can put "leftover" silver , humor and faith met in a special tions of two plays, "I Remember and bilIli in. She has saved a con· way in the figure of Abraham Mama and '~Majority of One." siderable amount of money this Lincoln.· All his life he used hu­ way. mor to ease pain and he was She also has a bank account. subject to frequent criticism for .'

Her grandfather started this ac· .it. There isa sto.ry of Lincoln AtCoyle-Cassidy in Taunton, count with a desposit of $400 'at the lowest point in the Civil Lisa Smith has received a $1050 1-8 ' which she cannot get at without War, with thousands. wounded her parents written consent until and soldiers dying on the' frozen .she is 18. Through her weekly mud flats of Virginia. saving she has made this account A congressman called him and his face as he threw the' book to grow to $600. was shocked the president read the. floor; He said, "Mr. "Arnold, FOR THE FIRST TIME You may not be lucky enough him some of his favorite stories if I could not get a momentary to have a grandparent who will IN· M'I LIFE, I BELIEVE from Artemus Ward, one of the . respite from the crushing bur­ den ~ am constantly carrying, . give you $400. But completely leading wits of the day.

IN SCHOOL PRA'IER! for free you can have Vicky's "Mr. President," said the con· my heart would break." idea of saving and of spending gressman, "Is it possible that The la\lghter of good'people is carefully and my idea of resist· with the whole land bowed in not without compassion. It helps ing impulse buying. grief and covered with a pall in them and others to be free from This may 'help you D1ake it to the presence of yesterday's fear· pain for awhile. Since suffering the next payday more easily. ful reverse, you can indulge in is a personal crucifixion the suf­ ( levity?" ferer welcomes to whatever Send questions to Tom Len­ , At those words, Lincoln's body balm can be brought to his lips ~;;~~~;;;;~~~~~ .non, 13.2 Mass. Ave. N.W., shook and tears streamed down to help remove the _bitter gall. .

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Friday, Feb. 4, 1983

By Bill Morrissette

portswQtch Father Donovan Hockey Game Upcoming Anthony Abraham, chairman of the Father Donovan CYO Scholarship all-star game com­ mittee, has announced that this year's event will be held on Thursday evening, March 24, in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River.

The game benefits the CYO Scholarship Fund which, since its inception in 1960, has distribu­ ted $32,000 in scholarship aid to nine seniors. A new $4,000 scholarship will be made avail­ able in June.

Originally the event was an all-star basketball game but this was changed 10 years ago to the skating format.

John Kineavy, principal at Dartmouth High School, has

again been named awards chair­ man. Plaques will go to the top threee players on each squad.

John Carey, director of CYO hockey and Durfee High School varsity coach, will direct the senior team. Gus Venice of Fall River South and Bill Cobb of Marion, two teams of the Bristol County CYO Hockey League, will direct the CYO all-stars.

Leonel Ventura, director of the Driscoll Rink, and Bob Richards, former Durfee coach, will be MCs. Bill Kwascinski will be official scorer and Jim McCarthy, dean of area hockey· referees, will be in charge of game offi­ cials.

Coyle-Cassidy in Toughie Tonight In a contest that might have a decided effect on the South­ eastern Massachusetts Confer­ ence Division Two basketball pennant race, Coyle-Cassidy and Dennis-Yarmouth collide tonight on the latter's court.

Entering this week's play, Dennis-Yarmouth was division leader with an 8-0 record. Coyle­ Cassidy, 7-1, was one game back of the Capesters. In their earlier encounter, at Coyle-eassidy, Dennis-Yarmouth was the win­ ner, 56-55, and it is expected that tonight's game will be as closely contested.

Other Division Two games to­ night have Old Rochester at Wareham, Fairhaven at Dart­ mouth and New Bedford Voke­ Tech at Bishop Stang.

In Division One games tonight Bishop Connolly is host to Barn­ stable, Bishop Feehan is at Som­

erset, Durfee at· Attleboro and Dartmouth at New Bedford.

Holy Family, in second place at the end of last week, visits Case, Diman Voke is at Seekonk and Westport at 'Bourne in Div­ ision Three tonight.

At the conclusion of the first half schedule Feehan's Kevin Landry was third in Division One scoring with 134 points and a 19.1 average. New Bedford's Bob Duarte 146, 20.8 ~as first and Peter McNally, Somerset, was the runnerup with 135, 19.2.

In overall statistics Holy Fam­ ily's Steve Lopes ranked among the top five with 196 points in 11 games for a 17.7 average. Also at the conclusion of first-half schedule, Steve McMullen of Coyle-Cassidy ranked sixth in Division Two with 107 points and a 15.2 average.

Wide Open, Hockomock Race Competition for the Hockomock League basketball crown is intense, with Foxboro, Oliver Ames, Sharon, Stoughton and Canton 'in the thick if the battle.

Some shuffling of standings can be expected as a result of

tonight's games in which Stough­ ton is at Oliver Ames, Franklin at Canton, Sharon at North At­ Ueboro and King Philip at Fox­ boro with Mansfield drawing the bye.

CYO Hockey New Bedford, which has al­ ready clinched the league's championship, posted a 6-2 vic­ tory over Marion in Bristol County CYO Hockey League play last Sunday night in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River. In the companion game Mansfield de­ feated cellar-dwelling Seekonk, 7-2.

The victory boosted Mansfield from a third-place tie with Mar­ ion to a tie with idle Fall River South for the runnerup spot. In~ terest now centers on final stand­ ings, w~ich will determine the playoff spits.

Tonigh,t's games in .the Driscoll Rink ha:ve Mansfield vs. Fall River So~th at 9 o'clock, Marion vs. Seekonk at 10.

The standings: New Bedford 13-1-1 (won, lost, tied), Fall River South 5-6-3, Mansfield 5-6-3, Marion 5-8-1, Seekonk 3-10·2.

Raps Playboy TV NEW ORLEANS (NC) - Arch· bishop PhiHp M. Hannan of New Orleans has criticized a local cable TV system for seeking Playboy Channel subscribers.

The archbishop said it' was "yet another appalling example of how smut peddlers in this coun­ try are continuing to m~)Ve, seemingly unchecked." Some 10,000 subscribers have already signed up for the controversial channel.

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sis upon things whizzing out at 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN you and murkily photographed, 993-2611 it's almost literally unmatchable, .. . . ..... ,. a perfect recipe for boredom and eyestrain. Some violence. A2, PGMontie Plumbing Films on TV Sunday, Feb. 6, 8 p.rn. (CBS) Heating Co. "Any Which Way You Can" Over 35 Years

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Eastwood re-creates the role of JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR.

Philo Beddoe, auto. repairman 432 JEFFIERSON STREET and free-lance streetfighter, who Fall River 675-7496 first time out was jilted by a skit­ tish prostitute (Sondra Locke).

This time she and Eastwood get back together and the plot cen­ ters about a match Jetween East­ NURSIERY INC. wood and William Smith with a "On Tho Cape" lot of money bet on the out­ ''WE BEAIlITIFY OUTDOORS" come. Because the movie is a Evergreens, Flowering Shrubs, Trees paean to machismo and because Lawn Fertilizer - Loam • Annuals its violence is permeated with landscape Design sleazy immorality, it is rated 0, 958 MAIN ST. - RYE. 28 R. EAST FALMOUTH Tuesday, Feb. 8, 9 p.rn. (CBS) 548-4842 "Caddyshack" (1980) Buf­ foonish comedy about a caddy's summer at a looney country club. Relentless vulgarity, main­ Savings? We have a ly humor sexually oriented. 0, R. high-interest plan for Wednesday, Feb. 9, 9 p.m.

(CBS) "The In-Laws" (1979) ­ every savings need!

Alan Arkin and Peter Falk are a dentist and a seedy agent drawn unexpectedly together when their children become engaged, plung­ ing Arkin into a wild adventure in a -corrupt Central American dictatorship. Very funny but Now 11 convenient offices some profanity. including Seekonk & Taunton.

Religious Broadcasting - TV Sunday, Feb. 6, WLNE, Chan­ nel 6, 10:30 a.m. Diocesan Tele­ vision Mass.

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Gra­ ziano, diocesan director of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island; and Rabbi Baruch Korff.

"The Glory of God," with Father John Bertolucci, 8:30 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 27. . "MarySon," a family puppet THRIFT STORES show with moral and spiritual 101 COLK.lm STRIIT perspective, 6 p.m. each Thurs­ NEW BEDFORD, fIlAIS. day, Fall River and New Bed­ ford cable channel 13. .

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tions" - The influence of reli­ gion on the American business community.

Sunday, Feb. 6, (CBS) "For Religious

Our Times" - Immigration in Los Angeles is the topic of this Gifts Books

first in a series on religion in America. for every occasion . ..

On Radio Charismatic programs are Baptisms heard from Monday through Fri­ First Communions day on station WICE 1210 AM: Birthdays Father John Randall; 9 to 10 a.m.

Confirmations and 11 to 12 p.m.; Father Edward Weddings McDonough, 8:15 a.m.; Father Anniversaries Real Bourque, 8:45 a.m.

Ordinations Father McDonough is also on OPEN DAILY WMYD from 1:30 to 2 p.m. each 10:00 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. Sunday.

Sunday, Feb. 6, (NBC) "Guide­ Q La Salette Shrine line" - Father Robert Dressman .

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

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug­ gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

New Films "The Year of Living Danger­ ously" (MGM·UA) is set in In­ donesia in 1965 and is the story of Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), a young Australian correspond­ ent who joins forces with Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a Chinese­ Australian cameraman. Through Billy he meets and has an affair with Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a British intelligence agent. Complications are sup­ plied by the violence and in­ surrection around them but there is an improbable happy ending.

Photography, much done in the Philippines, is effective, but the film's characterization is sketchy and there is a lack of coherence, focus and dramatic energy. Be­ cause of the love affair, it is classified A3, PG. "The Man from Snowy River" (Fox): A young man (Tom Burli­ son) tames a herd of wild horses and wins the love of a beautiful and spirited young woman (Sig­ rid Thornton) in this Australian Western based on a celebrated poem by A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, apparently the Robert Service of Australia. Kirk Douglas is on hand as twin brothers, one a rich rancher, the other a gold­ hunting eccentric with a wooden leg, who had a terrible falling out years before. The scenery and horses are impressive but the humans fare less well, Burlinson being too bland as the hero and D ..·uglas being out of place with his American accent. Young Miss Thornton, however, is a talented actress with plenty of emotive force. It is a fairly entertaining though far from inspired movie.

Some violence and mature as­ pects of the plot ruling out younger children, it is rated A2.

"Timerider" (Jensen-Farley): In this science-fiction Western a motorcycle racer (Fred Ward) finds himself whisked back to the late 19th century where he gets mixed up with some lowlifes.

Belinda Bauer is impressive as a Louisiana belle fallen upon. hard times, but the movie has nothing else to recommend it. Because of considerable though relatively restrained sex and violence, it is classified A3, PG. "The Treasure of the Four Crowns" (Cannon): A perfectly dreadful 3-0 movie about an at­ tempt, led by Tony Anthony, to

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How happy .a re OTTAWA(NC) - CARA, the cent of Canadians polled ina na-' Center for Applied Research in tional survey are "very happy" the Apostolate, has opened an or "quite happy." affiliate in Ottawa, CARA-Cana­ That makes Canadians happier, da, to provide research and edu­ as a nation, than Americans, 92 cational services to the Catholic percent of whom said in a.simi­ Church in Canada. Among its lar CARA-USA survey that they initial research findings: 95 per- were' "very" or "quite happy."

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Canadians' happiness-level rank­ ed alongside those of the people of Great Britain and the Nether­ lands (also both 95 percent) and a bit higher"than th~t of the peo­ ple of Northern Ireland (94 per­ cent) ~nd the Republic of Ireland (93 percent).

The surveys in Canada and -the United States, conducted for CARA by the Gallup Pol'i organ­ ization, are part of a look at 20 nations around the globe. Other nations polled initially include Japan .and those of Western Eu­ rope.

In the surveys about 1,200 people were questioned in hour­ long, face-to-face interviews on their religiolls, moral, famiiy,

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1983 CAlHOUC SCHOOLS WEEK CELEBRATE A TRADmON! February 6-12, 1983, is National Catholic Schools Week ­ a joyful celebration across the country of all Catholic schools. This year we are commemorating a tradition of ,good education, an education all of us can be thankful for.

SCHOOLS OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER' St. Michael School. Fall River SECONDARY SCHOOLS 55. Peter and Paul School, Fall River Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro St. Stanislaus School;' Fall River St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River Holy Family.Holy Name School, New Bedford St. John Evangelist School, Attleboro Holy Family High ,School. New Bedford Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, New Bedford St. Joseph School, Fairhaven Bishop Stang High School. North Dartmouth St. Anthony School. New Bedford Dominican Academy. Fall River Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton St. James-St. John School. New Bedford .

Espirito Santo School. Fall River St. Joseph School, New Bedford Holy Name School, Fall River SPECIAL SCHOOLS St. Mary School. New Bedford Mount St. Joseph School, Fall River St. Mary-Sacred Heart School. North Attleboro Notre Dame School. Fall River ' Nazareth Hall, 'Fall River Our Lady of Lourdes School, Taunton' Nazareth Hall-on.the-Cape. Hyannis St. Anne School, Fall River St. Mary Primary School. Taunton St. Vincent School. Fall River St. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River Taunton Catholic Middle School, Taunton St. Mary Home, New Bedford St. Joseph Montessori School, Fall River St. George School, Westport NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES Schoo~s in the Diocese of fall River admit students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights,

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privileges. programs. and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the schools.

Schools in the Diocese of fall River, to the utent required by Tille IX, do not discriminate against any appllcanlt em They do not discriminate on the basis of race, color. national and ethnic origin in administration of educational policies, ployee because of sel. They do not discriminate against .any student because of SeJ in any. educational ~rogram an admissions policies, loan programs, and athletic and other school· administered programs. activity. "

social, political and work values.

Findings also include the fol­ lowing: - Americans and Canadians are prouder to be citizens of their respective nations than are peo­ ple from Western Europe. In the poll 96 percent of Americans said they were "very proud" or "quite' proud to be Americans; 93 percent of Canadians said they were "very proud" or "quite' ptoud" to be Canadians. The average for Western European nations was 38 percent.

- More Americans than Can­ adians, Britans, Europeans or Japanese were willing to fight for their countries: 70 percent of Americans; 57 percent of Cana­ dians; 62 percent of Britons; 43 percent of Europeans; and 22 per­ cent of Japanese.

- When it comes to opting for "personal freedom" ("every­ one can live in freedom and de· velop without hindrance") as compared to "equality" ("no­ body underprivileged and class differences not so strong"), Am­ ericans lead the list, with 72 per­ cent choosing personal freedom.

They were followed by the Brit­ ish (69 percent), the Canadians (62 percent) and Western Euro­ peans (49 percent).

- Canadians have "quite a lot of" or a "great deal of" con­ fidence in the police (84 percent), the cburches or organized reli­ gion (69 percent) the educational system '(65 percent), the legal system (63 percent), the armed forces '(58 percent) and major companies (53 percent).

They had less confidence in the civil service (49 percent), the press (46 percent), Parliament (42 percent) and labor unions (33 percent).

In the United States, people put the armed forces, the police and organized religion in the top slots on their list. Europeans chose police, the armed forces and the legal system. Canadians had more confidence in major companies than did other na­ tions (the figure was 50 percent in the United States and 48 per­ cent in Great Britain).

- More people in Italy, the

United States and Canada claim

to be religious (whether they go

tQ,. church or not) than people in

European countries other than

Italy. In Italy, 83 percent of the

people polled said they were re­

ligious; the figure was 81 per­

cimt for the United States and

75 percent for Canada; the other

European nations had anaverag~

of 63 percent. More, French­

speaking Canadians (82 percent)

were likely to say they were re­

ligious than English-speaking

Canadians (72 percent).

- The majority of people .in

the United States (95 percent),

Ireland '(95 percent), Canada (91

percent), Great Britain (76 per­

cent) France (62 ,percent) and

Europe as a whole (75 percent)

say they believe in God.

- When it comes to, saying they ~ake "a great deal of" :pride in work', Americans lead the list (84'percent) ''followed' by Bri~ons (79 'percent), If.Jsh" (71 perc,ent), and Canadians (67 percent), com­ pared' to :J!lpan'ese '(37 percent).~' West Germans (15 percent), French (13 percentf and.' Euro­ peans in gen'eral (36 perc!,!nt).