FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
t eanco VOL. 29, NO.6
FALL RIVER, 'MASS., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1985
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Throughout Latin trip
Unceasing effort
urged by pontiff
By NC News Service
"The vision of the world and life given by the Gospel and ex During his sixth trip to Latin plained by Catholic social do£: \merica, Pope John Paul II trine, impels constructive actio'l lainted a bleak picture of the much more than an ideology, no 'egion's social and spiritual life matter how attractive it ap md asked Catholics to gain pears," he said in Peru. ;trength from a legacy of almost Peru is the home of Father ive centuries of Catholicism in Gustavo Gutierrez, a leading ;eeking solutions. liberation theologian who es "This evangelization work pouses Marxist sociological con lever ends. Each Christian gen cepts. lration has to add its part to In each country, the pope ad he effort," the pope said. dressed reality. In oil-rich Vene Catholics were challenged to zuela he lamented vast poverty lVercome social problems rang· and told Venezuelans that they ng from corruption in public life • can improve the situation be o unfair international economic cause, besides oil wealth, their 'elations prejudicial to under· democracy allows political flexi leveloped countries. They we~c bility in seeking solutions. lxhorted to attend Mass more I~E_cuador ~nd_ 'p'.~ru, th~ pgpe. Iften and to stimulate vocation:; emphasized integrating Indians n the priest-poor region. Into national society. The aim, said the pope, Is to Indians are a large portion of nake Latin America an example the population but are at the 'or the world that Christianity :an work to create a harmonious bottom of the social, cultural, economic and political ladder. loclety. In Ecuador, where 30 percent .Prior to the Jan. 26-Feb. 5 of the 8.6 miUion people are In /isit to Venezuela, Ecuador, >eru and Trinidad and Tobago, dian, the pope called Indians my "dearest sons." he pope said he emphasizes La "The profound values of your :in America so much in his travels because about half of peoples are not merely folkloric .he world's 800 million Catholics realities but are living realities which you have maintained, ive there. Yet, as the pope stressed wit~ grave difficulties, through out centuries," he said. throughout the trip, it is a re In Peru, where 45 percent of ~ion where practice of the faith the 18.3 mililon population are· IS lax and education in Chris Indian ,the pope praised the In :ian social teachings lacking. Bishops were asked to develop ca moral code contained in the 'new and effective pastoral ini- . three precepts: "Don't· be a .thlef, don't be lazy, don't lie." tiatives" based on the "new his The pope called for greater In t:orical context" of the region. tegration of Indians and their Youths were asked to con ,truct "-the peace of the year values into national societies and into church life. WOO." In Peru, the pope confronted Priests and religious were en the problem of guerrilla vio :ouraged to engage -In social ac· lence. In a visit to the mountain :ion within church guidelines. All Oatholics were asked to city of Ayacucho, where a Mao narrow the "intoler~ble abyss" ist guerrilla .group has ,its base Qetween rich and poor, yet of operations ,the pope said dia arned to remember the rich logue, not violence, is the way to social change because "evil is ho are poor in spirit. The preferential option for the never the road to good." He also oor must take into account asked relatives of people kmed 'ail classes and forms of poverty in the guerrilla war "to forgive hich exist ,in our world and those who have done you evil Iso look at so many rich people because they know not what" ho are terribly poori" he said. they do." In several speeches, the pope The pope indirectly confront said that much of Latin Ameri d the issue of currents of fiber tion theology which uncritically ca's social problems are the re corporate Marxist concepts by sult of international economic' relations which are unfair to th~ . teadily criticizing ide<;>logies de 'Turn to Page Six ' iathlg from Catholic teachings. ' .., ,
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IN ECUADOR an Indian woman awaits the pope's arrival. .(NC/UPI Photo)
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Inclusive language coming?
By NC News Service Msgr. Daniel Hoye, general secretary of the National Confer: ence of Catholic Bishops, has notified the U.S. bishops that the Vatican is fonping an inter· national commission to. study "inclusive language" in liturgical texts, an issue 'of persistent con cern to the hierarchy i~' both the U.S. and Canada. Msgr. Hoye 111so. ,notified the
bishops that beginning with Feb. 24, the first Sunday of Lent, U.S. Catholics will hear two changes in the fourth eucharistic prayer of the Mass. Inclusive language avoids use of masculine nouns or pronouns to refer to groups of people that include women. Since 1980 the U.S. bishops have been seeking Vatican approval for a series of inclusive language changes .. in
,the eucharistic prayers of the Mass. Of the 1980 requests, the only change that the Vatican has ac cepted so far was dropping the word "men" in the phrase "for all men" at the end of the Con secration. In ~ Jan. 10 memorandum to the U.S. bishops, Msgr. Hoye said that the Vatican € o ngrega. ,Turn to Page ~wo