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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1979

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Parish Teams Meet, P-repare Diocesan Day of Devotion

LEADERS AT THE Puebla meeting of Latin American bishops are, from left, Bishop Dario Castrillon, Pereira, Colombia; Archbishop Alfonso Lopez, Medellin, Colombia; Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. (NC Photo)

A practice "day of devotion" was held throughout the diocese Sunday as teams who will pre~ sent the day in their own parishes on April 1 or a date near that time met in five locations to experience the day and receive instructions on preparing it themselves.

A committee headed by John , Levis of Attleboro met monthly for a year and a half to develop an instruction kit for the day, intended to deepen Christian awareness within parish and diocesan communities and to be a spiritual highlight of the diocesan jubilee year. The kit was distributed Sunday to the parish teams.

Members will now set up their own meetings to tailor the basic pr.ogram to their parish requirements. Many options are offered within the Day of Devotion structure, noted Mr. Levis.

He said that in asking for the parish days, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin asked only that they "be available to all members of the diocese and be kept as simple as possible."

IRS Alters Rule

On School Bias

PASSERSBY STUDY diocesan jubilee year exhibit in Monarch Appliance window, Fall River. This week the display is at K Mart, Swansea; Feb. 19 to 24 at D&D Sales, Fall River; Feb. 26 to March 3 at Durfee Trust branch, Fall River Shopping Center; and March 5 to 17 at Harbor Mall, Fall River. It will visit every area of the diocese during the jubilee year. (Torchia Photo)

WASHINGTON (NC-The Internal Revenue Service has revised a set of controversial guidelines ajmed at denying taxexempt status to private schools which discriminate on the basis. of race.

The new proposed guidelines appear to meet the major objections raised by the U.S. Catholic Conference and other Catholic school interests.

IRS has made allowances to help schools, such as many church schools, which have nondiscriminatory policies but which have insignificant minority enrollment due to either low minority church membership or the geographical location of the parish a church school is meant to serve.

In general, the new guidelines seem more clearly aimed at IRS' original target - the so-called "Christian academies" or "segregation academies" established in many areas to avoid public school desegration efforts.

With those guidelines in mind, said Mr. Levis, his committee developed the instruction kit.

"It is our feeling," he said, "that each parish can by using its own resources follow the di-, rections and- conduct a Day of Devotion suitable to its needs.

"The day can be simple or expanded. We have tried to cover all aspects of planning, thinking

of parishes where such a day has never been experienced and those who have had days of reflection in the past.

"The day is actually a culmination of days already conducted," explained Mr. Levis. The original committee was broken down into geographical areas from the Fall River diocese.

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DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER FALL RIVER. MASSACHUSETTS

BISHOP'S OFFICE

Dearly Beloved in Christ: Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, during his recent visit to Mexico, received the members of the press corps in special audience. He stressed to them the importance of constantly safeguarding the truth in reporting the events of the day. ' The Catholic Press has always been especially conscious of its responsibility to the truth and has consistently sought to present the truth, in particular the truths of faith, in a clear and forthright manner.

In this regard, The Anchor, our diocesan newspaper, has carried on that tradition well and, for many years, has been a valiant arm of the Catholic Press in this portion of the Lord's vineyard.

As you know, this i~ Catholic Press Month, and we have set aside this weekend as Anchor Subscription Weekend. As Bishop of Fall River, I would like to see our Catholic newspaper in every home of the diocese.

This is my constant goal: complete family coverage. , The Anchor is an invaluable help in that ongoing formation and education in the Faith so necessary for all of us. It assists us in properly understanding the events of the day in the light of the Gospel, explaining clearly and concisely what the Church teaches on contemporary issues. No secular newspaper, no matter how complete its coverage, can provide that total service to the Faith which The Anchor affords. The Catholic press, The Anchor in particular, is indispensable to a well-informed Catholic popula,ce.

Please be assured of my sincere gratitude for all efforts to encourage the work of the Catholic Press.

My prayerful wish is that the good Lord give success to this very important diocesan endeavor.

Faithfully yours in Christ,

Bishop of Fall River

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VIENNA, Austria-Diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the Soviet Uniolt' are not beyond the realm of possibility, according to Cardinal ,Franz Konig of Vienna. The cardinal said the election of Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla as pope brought "a new wind into Vatican relations with the East."

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, will address the opening session of the National Charismatic Conference for Priests and Deacons, scheduled fpr June 25-29 in Steubenville.

Braceros Opposed WASHINGTON-Bishop James Rausch of Phoenix, Ariz., chairman of the bishops' Committee on Farm Labor, has asked President Jimmy Carter to reject any demands from the president of Mexico for a new bracero program, a labor arrangement which would bring cheap Mexican labor into the United States. Carter is scheduled to meet President Jose Lopez Portillo in Mexico in the middle of February.

FATHER JOSEPH MOERMAN of Belgium is the originator of the idea of the International Year of the Child.

It's Not Wanted WASHINGTON-The U.S. Catholic Conference has reaffirmed opposition to creation of a' separate cabinet-level Department of Education. The USCC argued that it eould become dominated by public chool interests at the expense of private school interests and would "further increase federal interference in both public and private education in areas that rightfully belong to parents and the local community.

Extension Asked WASHINGTON-A delegation of religious leaders, including representatives of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Council of Churches, has asked the West German government to extend the statute of limitations for Nazi war crimes. The delegation met with West German Ambassador Berndt von Staden, who said he would inform his government of路 the group's views but declined to predict whether the group's efforts would be successful.

DR. JONAS SALK, developer of the Salk polio vaccine, will receive the Father Flanagan Award for Service to Youth from Boys Town.

QualiHed Support WASHINGTON-Church groups dealing with farm issues support the ultimate goal of farmers protesting in Washington - strengthening family farms - but not their immediate demand - a sharp increase in federal price supports. Some 3,500 farmers, many with tractors, converged on Washington last week with a list of demands and plans to stay until those demands were met.

Will Affect U.S. Church PUEBLA, Mexico-The guidelines that wUI be approved by the Latin American bishops "will have a heavy impact on the church in the United States," said Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

"One instance is the preferential option for the poor taken here. Such leading themes include the liberation of the poor.

The ecclesial community has to become poor to help the poor better."

Lmberat~on

BISHOP-DESIGNATE GERALD SCARfONE, OFM has been named coadjutor bishop with right of succession of the diocese of Comayagua, Hpnduras. Members of his community serve parishes in the Fall River diocese.

Theology

PUEBLA, Mexico - Calling liberation theology "an emotion charged issue," Brazilian Bishop Candido Padin said it has made positive contributions, but those using it for political ends deprive it of a Christian context. The bishop heads the diocese of .Bauru, Brazil, and is considered one of the most articulate defenders of the poor among the hierarchy.

Givers Unite WASHINGTON - The Coalition of National Voluntary Organizations and the National Council on Philanthropy .have begun a "collaborative relationship" and established a committee to study the possibility of forming a new organization.

Cult

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WASHINGTON - An "information meeting on the cult phenomenon in the United States" chaired by Sen. Bob nole (R-Kans.) brought an almost phenomenal response. Hundreds of members of the Unification Church, defenders of religious freedom and foes of religious cults packed a Senate hearing room for the ses~ion.

BISHOP JOSEPH VATH of Birmingham, Ala. has appealed to Catholics to contribute to a defense fund for a retarded black man accused of rape.

Aid to Boa'( P'eople HONG KONG-Caritas of Hong Kong, Catholic welfa.re agency, has offered to expand its refugee services because of the increase of Vietnamese boat people arriving in Hong Kong. Caritas contacted the Hong Kong government in late January and offered to provide a variety of social and spiritual services to incoming refugees at no cost to the government.

Not Worldwide OTTAWA - Criticism by Pope 'John.

Paul II of priests in politics "must not be interpreted as an application to the worldwide church," said Father Andy Hogan, Canada's first and only priest who is a memb~r of Parliament. "ThE' pope was speaking to the Latin American situation. An this is important," he said.

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WASHINGTON-Pope John Paul II has appointed Msgr. John J. Nevins, 47, and Msgr. Augustin Roman, 50, as auxiliary bishops to Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy of Miami.

Aborigines' Rights

SISTER IRENE KRAUS, president of Providence College, Washington, has been elected president of the American Hospital Assn.

SYDNEY, Australia - The Catholic Church in Australia should use its resources "to support the struggle of aboriginal people for land rights, restitution and compensation, self-determination, dignity and identity," according to the 1979 Social Justice Statement. The statement was issued by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Australian bishops.

M;grant Survey WASHINGTON - The U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs is surveying dioceses on their programs of pastoral care, social service and social advocacy on behalf of migrant workers. A questionnaire exploring the migrant situation has been sent to each of the nation's 170 Catholic dioceses.

Says It Was Bigotry NEW YORK - Sen. Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) accused Catholices of tolerating a level of anti-Catholicism in official govenrment circles hat would be permitted against no other ethnic or religious group.

He attributed the defeat of tuition tax credit legislation to outright anti-Catholic bigotry.

FATHER PATRICK F~LL, U.S. Catholic Conference representative for Catholic schools, told an HEW hearing that Catholic schools see themselves as "partners with public education."

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Charities Drive Starts in April Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has announced that the 38th annual Catholic Charities' Appeal will begin April 23 with a special gifts phase continuing through May 5.

From May 6 through 16 the parish phase of the drive will be conducted.

School, Fall River.

Bishop Cronin emphasizes that the diocese has always been distinguished by its concern for human life, made concrete at the time of the yearly appeal, which funds 'a variety of services for area residents, regardless of creed.

A kick-off meeting will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 18 at Bishop Connolly High

This year's drive will be part of a year-long observance of the diamond jubilee, of the diocese.

SCHOOL PROBLEMS!·

''ear a 1he Olild PATRICK McCARTHY, the newest addition to the staff of the Catholic Counseling Service of the diocese, talks to a client at the New Bedford office of the Diocesan Depart;ment of Social Services. (Rosa Photo)

Catholic Counseling Service Grows Testifying to the need for trustworthy counseling in family, marital and individual situations, the Catholic Counseling Service of the diocese has enlarged its' staff of fulltime workers.

Patrick .McCarthy, formerly a psychiatric social worker at the Family Life Center of the archdiocese of Oenver, is now with

the Diocesan Department of Social Services. He is it counselor at the departmenfs New Bedford office four days a week and is at its Hyannis office for one day.

A member of St. Anthony parish, Mattapoisett, Mr. McCarthy is married and has two children.

He holds graduate degrees in

Puebla Is Indecisive PUEBLA, Mexico (NC) -Balloting on drafts of a final document of the third general assembly of the Latin American bishops showed much indecision on the part of the delegates. Almost half the delegates abstained and one-fifth sought improvements in preliminary voting.

The vote on drafts for the documents's 21 main subjects took place last week. The conference was originally scheduled to close on Monday but organizers changed the date to Tuesday to allow further work on the drafts.

The final document must be approved by the Vatican before publication and this may take several .months.

The only draft receiving approval was the one on human development. It says that "human development is to foster human dignity, to liberate man from the servitude of sin and its consequences in order to reach human coexistence according to

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February 27 Rev. Joseph N. Hamel, 1956, Founder, St. Theresa, New Bedford February 28 Rev. Philip Gillick, 1"874, Founder, St. Mary, North Attleboro March 1 Rev. James F. Masterson, 1906, Founder, St. Patr,ick, SomersetRt. Rev. Peter L. D. Robert, P.R., 1948, Pastor, Notre Dame, Fall River

man as .the son of God the Father in communion and responsible , participation."

The draft on basic Christian communities, "comunidades de base" in Spanish, was rejected as too weak. Veteran observers said one of the main expectations of the meeting was that it would give support to this widespread movement, which i,s more informal than the traditional parish structure and tends to organize people around the practical issues affecting their lives.

Some 300 bishops, priests, Religious and lay persons, delegated by 22 national bishops' 'conferen~es, dealt with draft proposals from 21 committees.

Each of the committee proposals was circulated to the other fommittees for consultation.

Several factors prolonged the debates.

Besides recasting the guidelines of the original 200-page working document, the bishops wanted to incorporate in the draft the teachings Pope John Paul II expressed during his visit to Mexico, particularly his address to the assembly, said some sources. Delegates were also concerned that the Puebla document be better and more advanced than the document issued in 1968 at the last general assembly of the bishops in Medellin, Colombia.

"Many _of these bishops read the sign on the wall, and were also responsive to the message they get from the Christian communities," said one bishop.

social work and theology from St. John's College, Brighton, and Boston College._

Delegate Named OAS Observer VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II named Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the Qnited States, to be the first permanent observer of the Vatican at the Organization of American States' (OAS). .

The 31-year-old organization . of 24 American countries has its headquarters in Washington.

The pope also named Msgr.

Clemente Facc/mi, assistant in the apostolic delegation, to be adjunct obsenoer at the OAS. Archbishop Jadot, a 69-yearold Belgian, has been apostolic delegate in the United States since 1973. He will be present Sunday, March 11, for the Mass. at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, which will be a high point of diocesan jubilee year observance.

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EDICTAL C~TATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS Since the actual place of residence of DAVID MEDEIROS CARVALHO is unknown.

We cite DAVID MEDEIROS, CARVALHO to appear personally before the Sacred Tri· bunal of the Diocese of Fall River on February 20, 1979 at 1:30 P.M. at 344 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Massachu· setts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the mar· riage exists in BOUSQUET· CARVALHO case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, David Medeiros Carvalho, must see to it that he is properly advised in regard to this edic· tal citation.

Henry T. ~unroe, Official is Given at the Seat of the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, on this, the 12th day of February 1979.

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Faith, Freedom and Constitutional Rights There are those in public office who would have us believe that the Catholic Ch~rch should be silent on each and every issue that is a matter of public, legislative or judicial record. Even some Catholics in elective office feel that the Church should be seen and not heard.

Well, for those people who wear their convictions of faith on their sleeve, let's get the record straight. The Church cannot be passive when government becomes the judge and dictator of issues involving fundamental gospel teachings.

Pope John Paul II has not told priests to be silent on these matters. In fact, as a subject of a totalitarian state, he was himself often an outspoken critic of governmental policy affecting the life of the Church in his native Poland.

To be sure, our great nation has not yet become a complete stereotoype of "Big Brother." Yet we cannot say that we are not on the way to this Orwellian horror. It ha~ been the state and its agencies that have shaped secular morality for a materialistic society. Indeed, the concept of separation of church and state is fast becoming a fantasy since government has decided to play God. This fact of American life was made only too obvious . in the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act to be unconstitutional.

What the Court did was again to take away from the states and the people much of their power to protect fetal life.

As Justice Byron White 'reflected in his dissenting opinion: "This is a further constitutionally unwarranted intrusion upon the police powers of the state."

Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secr~tary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, made a most significant statement in response to the Court's action when he stated: "The Couit has abandoned its constitutionally defined role and has acted solely as a maker of social policy, a policy \Jhich the people rightly reject."

It is more than obvious that the state has once more determined that the basic issue of whether or not life shall be permitted to exist is a matter for government to decide.

In effect, this serves the views of those who hold that human life is, as Bishop Kelly puts it, "viable only when someone wants it to be viable."

This recent act hy the Supreme Court should be seen as one more link in a chain of decisions which are not only destroying our fundamental rights but are also determinedly disregarding our American heritage of religious liberty.

In effect, government wants to gag the churches when moral issues are at stake, be they concerned with abortion, workers' and taxpayers' rights, welfare reform, or any of the myriad other issues involved in protection of constitutional liberties.

It is especially imperative that elected officials who are only Sunday Catholics realize that if they wish to continue in their offices they must be men and women of faith for the remainder of the week.

They must be vocal in defending the religious freedoms given the Church under the Constitution as well as being forceful in word, deed and act in upholding their religious principles when they are attacked by a government that is rapidly turning this land into a completely materialistic '\ secular state.

"In God we Trust" should mean more than four empty words printed on the back of a dollar' bill. After all, what is ,~hat bill worth today?

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Convention To. Center on Family WASHINGTON (NC)-The ex- complex legislative issues relatecutive committee of the Nation- ing to death and dying. al Council of Catholic Women The executive committee, also has opposed federal funding of completed plans for its 39th an"in vitro" fertilization research, nual convention, to be held Oct. denounced living will and natural 21-25 in PittsJmrgh, and andeath act legislation, and re- nounced scheduled spring instiaffirmed its commitment路 to work . tutes, and other educational profor a human life amendment to grams for local councils ot Caththe Constitution. olic women.

Those actions were among the The convention wili center on results of the 41-member com- the U.S. bishops' pastoral plan mittee's JaT,!. 22-25 meeting in for family ministry, which calls Washington. The meeting was for a variety of programs in supchaired by Bette Hillemier of port of the family at all levels Olivia, Minn., NCCW president, of the church and for a decade and attended by Bishop Kenneth of research and development in J. Povish of Lansing, Mich., rep- the family ministry field. The resenting the bishops, Laity convention program will be Committee, and Msgt. W. Louis aimed at motivating women to Quinn of Washington, represent- active involvement in diocesan ing NCCW priest-moderators. and parish efforts to implement The committee's statement on the plan. "in vitro" fertilization research . The committee announced that _ test-tube babies - said such the NCCW International Affairs research results in the destruc- and Family Affairs commissions tion of the embl"楼o, the first will sponsor an Institute on the stage of human life. It recom- International Year of the Child mended fostering programs to April 1-4 in New York. It rechelp childless couples adopt chil- ommended that local councils of dren in need of homes and the Catholic women present procontinuation of other fertility re- grams on the Year of the Child search. and actively participate in ot~er On death and dying legislation, the committee supported church teaching that extraordinary means to preserve life need not be used and called proposed living will and natural' death act laws. undesirable and unnecessary. It urged diocesan affiliates to become better informed on

observances in their communi~ies.

In other action, the committee: - Announced that a legislative-leadership institute for Catholic women will路be held in Washington April 30- May 2.

- Directed its family affairs commission to he.lp families concerned with the attraction of young people to cult movements by providing information on understanding and coping with cults.

- Pledged the NCCW to cooperate with the American Immigration and Citizenship Conference, which provides inter-organization coordination in serving immigrants.

- Appointed committees to study the issues of day care and of the treatment of women in Social Security to form NCCW positions for input to congressional committees preparing legislation.

- Announced a program aimed' at educating Catholic women to respond with service and caring to the needs of women in correctional institutions.

Editor's Note Response to Anchor editorials should be made by mail, not by telephone. It has always been the policy of this editor to publish such letters when they are editorially tele~ vant. Those who wish to make a statement of position should do so in this manner and not by phone.

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

Items Needed Dear Editor: We are st.1 in need of religious articles for the work of the Lord. The articles we received were shared by many priests and nuns. Please send us more articles, such as rosaries, statues, medals, scapulars, used religious Christmas and Easter cards. Used clothes too are requested.

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Come On In! Dear Editor: May I say Thank You for the many hours of enjoyable reading The Anchor has given me. I'm a nurse in a local nursing home where one of my ladies was receiving The Anchor and she would pass it on to me.

I'm sorry to say that Tuesday she passed away, so my time of reading The Anchor has come'to an end. -I did enjoy it and will say Thank You and God bless you again.

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Dear ,Editor: I'm extremely upset and apFather Paul Cruz, St. Thomas Church, palled with an article that appeared in the Feb. 1 issue of Sasthamcotta P.O., The Anchor, entitled "Possible Kerala, India Nuclear Holocaust Described."

The mere fact that it appeared in The Anchor indicates both irresponsibility and .ignorance. I Dear Editor: can understand and even appre.

Two years ago I appealed to ciate ignorance of nuclear you for rosaries, medals and po~er and our overall energy other small religi<:ms objects. I situation in general, but I canreceived thousands, which I sent· not tolerate actions based on to missions in Sierra Leone, it, for that is where irresponsiGhana, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, bility lies.

Malawi, Zambia, India, Papua !Based on The Anchor's quote: and New Guinea.

"Dr. Caldicott said the only I have had dozens of enthusi- solution to save the world is astic letters of thanks from the 'eliminating the nuclear reactor' missionaries in the above places with its potential for creating - and appeals for more. The the plutonium necessary for Rosary is BIG on the missions. making bombs," your article In many places, the villagers quotes a number of factually gather each evening for a com- incorrect statements, including mon rosary. I have to appeal to that one..... you once again for your help.

"Caildicott's attempt to relate Father Patrick Kinnerk nuclear power with nuclear Irish Holy Ghost Fathers weapons is a standard scare tac48-49 37th Street tic that is used by other scareLong Island City, N.Y. 11101 mongers who use emotion

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"Did Dr. Caldicott give any alternatives to nuclear power?

Right - the answer is no . . .

Even a paucity of knowledge enables one to realize that solar and wind power are not in· terchangeable with nuclear and won't be in the foreseeable fu· ture, and probably never. I do NOT mean that these technologies are no good - I'm saying that they cannot supply baseload electric power, but they should be used where they are feasible....

I work in the nuclear industry . and I'm proud of it, because nuclear energy is safe, environmentally clean and economic.

The nuclear capacity on line today is actually saving 'the lives that would be lost if that power were generated by other technologies....

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Youth Ministry Advisory Group Is Organized Father 'Marcel Bouchard, assistant diocesan director of religious education, has announced formation of a youth ministry advisory group, which held its first meeting last month.

Composed of youth and adults involved in youth ministry and representing all areas of the diocese, the new group will provide information concerning young people and offer suggestions as to how the diocese may best serve their needs. Members will aid Father Bouchard .in developing and coordinating his work in this field.

He in turn will bring their input to the Council of Priests and to other diocesan officials working with youth.

Group members, in addition to Father Bouchard, are: .

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REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Before he sold mit to Berriganite enthusiasts, Jesuit Edward Duff once remarked that there was a tendency in the American church to indulge in mass masochism.

The self-hatred of American Catholics in the late '50s was indeed intense. Monsignor Ellis's research had demonstrated that Catholics were not seeking schol-

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MARY CARSON

Throughout the Old Testament there are references to God as a God of justice.

After much wrestling with it, I've come to the conclusion that God is. not just. I believe that the references to His justice come out of the times for which they were written. The writers of the Old Testament were living under extremely unjust condi-

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arly careers. One had only to pick up the most recent issue of Commonweal or America to find some new acerbic criticism of what was wrong with the American church and the American . Catholic people.

This tide was turning even then, and since 1960 a new Catholic intelligentsia has emerged, both solidly Catholic and professionally intellectual. The evidence that Catholicism is no bar either to economic success or intellectual excellence in American society is now so overwhelming that even Catholic liberals don't bother to deny it. Still the self-

tion.s They saw God as the answer to all their problems. God's way should offer an improvement in the human condition. Therefore, justice was one of God's attributes.

I see justice as the neutral line in behavior with injustice beneath it, but love above. Justice is concerned with a fair exchange, injustice seeks only the benefit of self. But love goes beyond self and strives for the benefit of the beloved.

If I think about this in terms of God I find it impossible to equate Him with injustice. If He were concerned only with Himself, He would have given up on

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In the '40s and '50s American Catholicism looked not to its own experience, but to that of French Catholics for ideas and wisdom. As time went on we shifted our focus first to Germany then to the Netherlands and now to the Third World, particulary Latin America.

At one time we adored the French prophets who got on the American lecture circuit. Now it is the Latin American liberatio~ theologian who arrives upon the scene to denounce America and stir up. bands of hero-worshiping followers. Cardinal Jean Danie-

creation long ago.

But while I know He is not unjust, I don't believe He is just either. Justice is beneath Him. Justice would imply that He is concerned that He get a fair return on His gifts to us, and that we get what we deserve for our behavior.

Certainly, there are times when this seems true. The plots of a million stories are based on the principle that evil fails and good triumphs. But these stories are fiction.

Life is not fair or just. Evil often seems to triumph. I fit didn't crime would cease.

On a basis of justice, I cannot

lou has been replaced by Juan Luis Segunda as the Pied Piper to whom docile, servile American Catholics look for inspiration.

Segunda, like Danielou, comes from a part of the world where the church has failed abysmally for hundreds of years. There is no evidence that his liberation theology has any effect on either political or religious life in Latin America.

Liberation theologians, like their conservative enemies, stand in the ser~ice of political regimes, the latter the Old Regime end the former what they hope

accept all the grief I see. But if I can accept that God moves beyond justice, to love, then tragedy can make some sense.

If God loves me and is concerned for my good then within every heartache - and within every joy - there is something for my good, something by which I can improve, or something by which I can offer good to others.

The difficulty is in seeing that good!

Often it is easie, to see as I look back on past heartaches.

Was the birth of my eighth child "good?" She was born mentally retarded. Twelve years later I can see an enormous amount of

will be the New Regime. But the enthtusiasts of liberation theology don't seem to notice the similarity.

So everything has changed and nothing has changed. Itinerant Jesuits are still holding forth what is wrong with the United States, how American Catholics can achieve salvation if they will only follow some imported vision.

There is one major difference, however. Whatever he has to become in later years, in the 1950s Jean Danielou was a competent theological scholar. No one would make that claim for Juan Luis Segunda.

love she's brought into our lives, but in the midst of grief it's often difficult to see the good that is there. It does become easier as my love of God grows.

As I love God better, I will be able to look on tragedy in a new light.

Rather, the trials we struggle through are opportunities offered by our Lover because He knows that within them lie the seeds to our own growth in love.

It's not easy. But it makes more sense than believing that every heartache is the judgment of an autocrat. And it's more valuable than wasting time questioning, "What did I do to deserve this?"

Test Tube Babies: Questions of Ethics, Funding By JIM CASTELLI

WASHINGTON (NC) - The ,birth of Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" in Enland last summer touched off a heated political-ethical debate in the United States.

That debate became more than theoretical in the United States last fall when a Tennessee couple asked the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to end its moratorium on federal funding of in vitro fertilization research.

Under federal law, that ban can be ended only on the recom-

By MARILYN RODERICK

It is difficult to imagine that daffodils will ever bloom, tulips raise their heads and violets appear in

mendaton of an Ethics Advisory be cautious and a few endorsed Board appointed by the HEW 'funding under specific circumsecreta,ry. stances.

Such a board began hearings A Catholic moral theologian in September and may have' a on the board, Jesuit Father Richrecommendation by early March. ard McCormick of Georgetown Califano told the board to con- University, told NC News he besider questions such as "Will lieves in vitro fertilization is not this research lead to selective inherently wrong in all situabreeding, to attempts to control tions. the genetic make-up of offspring or'to the use of 'surrogate parBut he said he opposes federal ents' where . . . ,rich women funding of the procedure because might pay poor women to carry of the "cumulative impact" of their children?" ethical questions sUl'rounding The scientific community the issue. strongly backs fedeJ;'al support "I'm only guessing," Father for in vitro fertilization.

McCormick said, "but I think I'm in a minority on the board."

A number of Catholic spokesCatholics opposed to in vitro men testified at board hearings. fertilization on ethical grounds Most opposed both the procedure most frequently cite the bypassitself and public funding for it; ing of normal sexual reproducothers asked the government to tion in married coup\es and the

the firigid wastelands that border our homes at the present. As I write, the temperature hovers around zero, icy snow covers the garden and our main thought is keeping warm. Spring seems 'far away.

However, a trek to a mall yesterday reassured me that a lot of people' have faith in spring. While I'm not a big fan of malls (too warm. tiring and boring), the glimpse I got of spring-filled windows did lift,

my spirits', The colors for spring are the brightest I have ever seen, kaleidoscopic jewel tones. Fabrics are fragile, feminine and f10aty and the spring silhouettes take advantage of this as well as of the beautiful colors.

These hues are carrying over into spring and summer sweaters, again in the jeweled colors and perfect to ward off the airconditioning chillies that are a hazard of warmer weather. They

similarity to abortion as prob-, lems.

It is pointed out that the procedure involves destruction of embryos found defective and not implanted in the mother's womb.

Some critics see this procedure as worse than abortion.

"The Supreme Court stated that an embryo or fetus is not entitled to the protection of the law when its continued existence conflicts with the rights' of the mother," Vincentian Father Nicholas Persich of St. Thomas Seminary in Denver told the board.

Federal funding of in vitro fertilization, he said, "would active-ly support and positively cooperate in the disposal, or killing, of countless embryos and, I would suspect, fetuses - whose existence conflicts with the

are lacey, feminine and perfect teamed with linen skirts and silk blouses, A current magazine has a selection of them to knit or crochet - so lovely I'm tempted to try my hand at making one. The urge seems part of the widefopread return to woodburning stoves, natural foods and the creation rather than buying of beautiful things. Perhaps there's something to be said for the re-

rights of no one."

But Father McCormick says the disposal of some embryos is not in itself enough to make the procedure immoral. ,Father McCormick said an embryo does not have the same rights the first 14 days after fertilization that it does after that time (when implantation normally takes place) because more than 50 per cent of such embryos normally abort spontaneously before implantation.

He said that if the percentage of embryos destroyed in in vitro fertilization is no g,reater than the number spontaneously aborted in normal situations, if the procedure is used on a married couple using their own sperm and ova and if there is no intent to abort a deformed fetus, tbe procedure can be ethical.

assessment of values brought about by the high cost of living.

Mediator WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr.

George G. Higgins, U.S. Catholic Conference secretary for special concerns, has been named special mediator in a dispute between the United Farm Workers of America and growers in California's 'Imperial Valley.

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Publishers Vi'e For Papal Books WASHINGTON (NC) - Winners are beginning to emerge from the competition among American publishers for the right to publish some of the .writings of Pope John Paul II, a prolific author· before he was elected to the papacy.

So far, Seabury Press has obtained rights to two books, the Daughters of St. Paul are publishing a collection of the pope's speeches, and Random House is producing a volume of his poetry. While he was Cardinal Karol Wojtyla the pope wrote six books, more than a hundred articles, and a fairly large quantity of poetry.

One of the pontiff's books, "Love and Responsibility," has been claimed by both Seabury and a San Diego firm, March Enterprises.

While the dispute is being settled, Seabury will publish this month "Sign of Contradiction," the lenten conferences preached to the Vatican household by Cardinal Wojtyla in 1976, ·and "Fruitful and Responsible Love," an essay he presented at a family conference in Milan, Italy, last summer.

Random House will publish next month a collection of 42 poems by the pope titled, "Easter Vigil and Other Poems."

The 'volume to be published by the Daughters of .St. Paul will contain 109 speeches delivered by the pope from Oct. 16, 1978, to the end of last December..

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Year of Child Leads to New Attitudes NEW YORK (NC)-The United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Child in 1979 is "bringing a new awareness in the world of our attitudes and behaviors toward children," according to the Belgian Catholic priest who originated the idea for the year.

general of the International Catholic Child Bueau of Geneva, .

Switzerland, since 1967, first proposed the International Year of the Child in a January '1973 letter to the secretary general of the United Nations. He is chafrman of the Non-Governmental Organizations Committee for IYC.

He applauded the Girl Scouts for their long history of recognizing the potential in all children and providing opportunities for them to discover and express their own special talents and abilities.

Addressing the Girl Scouts naThe priest said he believes the tional board of directors in New York, Father Joseph Moerman breakdown of the family is at said that "when you speak with the root of many of the problems leaders of movements and with being studied during the Interthe man in the street, it is evi- national Year of the Child..

Continued from Page One . dent that adults now accept more Each area had members on the and more the idea that children "When I analyze it, the origin committee. Thes'e committee should have the possibility to of many of the problems besetmembers attended a Day of De- express themselves." ting children is the family crisis," votion in January where the kit he told the Girl Scout national was tested and the committee But obstacles still remain, he board. "It involves either broken was trained. Bishop Cronin com- said, due in part to the failure families or families not skilled missioned the committee on that of adults to realize that children in the art of parenting. The famday to go out into the diocese are more sophisticated now than ily crisis is symptomatic of the and do likewise. Parish com- . in their day. "They treat the crisis in our society. mittees were commissioned in child as the child that they were, Father Moerman said concern their turn. even though today's children ma- .

"This approach has several ture earlier and have a greater about the needs of children will benefits; it allows each parish need for self-expression than not stop with the end of the Year the freedom of having a day tail- those of earlier generations," he of the Child. "Each nation will be running its own program, and ored to its own needs; it gives said.

• zeroing in on the problems afthe parish the responsibility of "Adults need to give children fecting its children," he said. "At planning and conducting the day; and allows the Day of Devotion opportunities to express their the end of the year, we will know to be conducted simultaneously thoughts and feelings - through what the most important probspeaking, art, planning their lives lems are worldwide and will be throughout the diocese.

"The day is aimed at a renew- and particularly in decision-mak- able to plan long-range proal of faith. It is a one day affair. ing in the family," Father Moer- grams."

However, we encourage parishes man said. "Don't hide problems to continue such days. We feel from ·them. They need experithat persons having experi- ence. We need to let children enced such a day will want more participate in life:' and hope they will be offered.

Father Moerman, secretary Also, for those interested in diocesan-wide experiences, we recommend speakers' nigh,ts on the Permanent Diaconate, Marriage Encounter, Cursillo, Charismatic Renewal, Prayer Meetings, Echo, Emmaus, Special Retreats, etc.

"We pray that all will be guided by the Holy Spirit in planning and conducting their days.

(Oyer 50,000 Sq. Feet) Mayall the treasures of each parish shine forth!"

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WASHINGTON (NC)-ProcedurEis for sponsoring Southeast Asian refugees are outlined in information kits distributed by the U.S. Catholic Conference's Migrlltion and Refugee Services.

Resettlement directors in the nation's 170 dioceses have received the packets to help them prepare sponsors for a new wave of refugees.

They include suggestions for organizing the resources of dioceses and local communities to assist refugees, along with fact sheets offering suggestions on ways sponsors can help in the refugees' transition to a new life.

Some 48,000 Southeast Asian refugees authorized to be resettled in the United States need sponsors. Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, president of the USCC, has given President Carter assurances that U.S. Catholics will provide homes and jobs for up to 7,000 persons a month.

The information kits are available from the Migration and Refugee Services at 1312 Massachu: setts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

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About a month ago we had a pitch-in dinner at our home.

That's not so unusual. We have been doing that with the same group for nine years. The hostess provides the meat and assigns the other courses. The host arranges for a program after dinner usually an interesting visitor who happens to be in towil.

This time, however, was different. For the first time in nine years the men provided the dinner and the women arranged the program. I cooked my specialty, barbecued chicken. Actually, aside from boiling water, that's the only thing I can cook.

It was enjoyable to call the other men. We had detailed discussions about what kind of vegetables and desserts went with chicken. Several of the men suffered acute anxiety attacks on the day of the dinner.

Six of our eight men cooked their own contribution. The other two left town on sudden business. The six of us spent more than an hour and a half explaining how cleverly we had overcome all obstacles to get our dish on the table.

Mary - planned the program.

She held a discussion of sex role sterotypes. To provide some data, she passed out a list of 50 adjectives. Our task was to check the five that best characterized the real male, the ideal male, the real female, the ideal female, and our own spouses.

There were some interesting comparisons. Overall, the real female was seen as emotional, dependent, protective and insecure. The real male was seen as materialistic, aggressive, authoritative, critical, insecure, hardworking and lustful. The only common adjective was ''insecure," perhaps reflecting a part of the human condition.

The ideal male and female had much more in common. The ideal female was seen as intelligent, adventuresome, attractive, compassionate and creative. The ideal male was seen as adventuresome,. compassionate, intelligent, loving and responsible.

Note that adventuresome, intelligent and compassionate appear as ideal qualities for both sexes.

Apparently they are good "people" traits.

Neither females nor males saw the real female as "adventuresome," but both sexes wishes! that females were. Both sexes saw females as "emotional," but neither sex thought that was an ideal trait.

Everyone saw the real male as "hard-working." Males' saw this as an ideal trait while females did not. Apparently the ladies want their men home more.

Females would like to be "independent," but only one male

listed "independent" as an ideal female trait.

We surprised ourselves with our sexual prejudices. The switch in sex roles with the males cooking and the females running the show provoked a lot of thought. We finally decided, despite some of the psychological differences we listed, that males and females are not all that different.

Both sexes get insecure when called upon to achieve; lonely when without companions, and fearful when facing the UJ!known. They value stimulation, intelligence and compassion. The differences are great, but hurrah for our similarities too.

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After Five Years: A. Catechetical Directory

By Stephenie Overman WASHINGTON (NC) - After more than five .years of sifting through thousands of suggestions, discussing several hundred amendments and writing five drafts the National Catechetical Directory Committee has a finished document.

Sister Mariella !Frye, coordinator for the implementation of the . directory, said copies of the directory will be shipped March 6.

Work on the document, prepared to provide pastoral standards and guidelines for the catechesis of all U.S. Catholics, was begun in 1973.

The National Catechetical Di~ rectory Committee is made up of 12 people - two lay women, two nuns, one lay man, one brother, two· priests and four bishops. "It gave us a microcosm of the church," Si~ter Frye said.

The . directory' committee worked with the bishops' Committee of Policy and Review.

Msgr. Wilfred H. Paradis was director of the project and Sister Frye, a Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart, was associate director.

"This was the first time £ri the church that there was such a broad consultation," she said.

"Anyone in the church was free to make suggestions. It was a real experience in shared responsibility. It involved thousands of people who now have a vested interest in the directory and are

part of the development.

"We wrote to every diocese and a coordinator was named in each diocese to let the people know about the, project, to make documents available," Sister Frye said, explaining the consultation process that went into the directory. For the first consultation, she noted, "we said, just tell us what should go in a national catechetical directory."

After analyzing the first set of suggestions, more than 17,000 of them, 14 writers prepared the first draft. The response to the second consultation was more than 76,000 suggestions. "They had a document to react to," Sister Frye said.

She said the data was computerized and that the directory committee then went through to find the key issues and compose a second draft. .

Each diocese was asked to analyze the draft and submit a diocesan report from which a composite could be drawn.

"The third draft was sent to the bishops, saying 'this is where we are' and asking for further suggestions. There was some feegback and we incorporated that," Sister Frye said.

The fourth draft was discussed by the bishops at their November 1977 meeting. The bishops had been asked to submit amendments and Sister Frye said 313 were submitted. Of these 34 or 35 were incorporated into the

document.

"When the bishops' meeting opened they worked on the directory all four days they met," she said.

The fifth draft, after the bishops' meeting, was sent to Rome for approval.

"That was finished about the time Pope Paul VI died, which held it up again,"· Sister Frye said. "It was given final approval in October 1978." • She said Rome asked for several changes and that one suggestion dealt with revelation, which had been a key issue throughout the process and the subject of lengthy debate at the bishops's meeting.

"There was division between

static and dynamic understanding of revelation," Sister Frye said. "To resolve the dilemma, revelation in the strict sense was capitalized and in all other ways a small 'r' was used."

Rome asked that revelation be used only in the stl'ict sense, "In other modes· in which God shows and shares himself, other terms are used."

Such constant re-examination, and redefining, . consultation drafting led to the long five-year process of preparing the directory. But, finally, "I delivered the directory to the printers Jan. 22," Sister Frye said. After it is shipped March 6, she will see to its distribution. "Then it's up to the U.S. mail."

Jesuits Study Investment Steps WASHINGTON (NC) - The Jesuit Conference has published a nine-page booklet explaining the U.S. Jesuit understanding 'Of investment responsibility and outlining specific practical steps to be used in expressing that responsibility.

The publication, titled "Investment Responsibility and the U.S. Jesuit Conference," was prepared by the Jesuit Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, which was created in November 1974 by the 10 U.S. Jesuit provincial superiors to study specific shareholders' resolutions to be voted on by the various prov-

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by Father Theodore V. Purcell, research professor at the Jesuit Center for Social Studies at Georgetown University. The booklet includes a general statement on Jesuit investment policies, an explanation of the advisory committee's role and a list of its members, brief descriptions of several major issues investors might face and a selected bibliography.

It is available from the Jesuit Conference at 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Fal'l River Nestle Boycott Is Largest· in Nation Fall River, with a population of nearly 100,000, is the largest city in the nation to have joined a boycott of Nestle products, mounted as a protest of' the giant food firm's marketing practices in Third World countries.

As a result, items such as Nestle's Quik, Taster's Choice coffee and Nescafe are not used in cafeterias of city schools.

The action received a 4-3 vote of the Fall River school committee last August, said Dr. Patrick Foley of the committee. It was suggested by students of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, who attended the August meeting to explain the boycott action. It is also backed by Mayor Carlton Viveiros, added Father David Hare, S.J., of the Connolly faculty.

Father Hare said that the boycott protests Nestle's campaign to .push infant formula sales in developing countries. The use of such formula in the Third World has led to an almost epidemic situation dubed "bottle baby disease."

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by the bottle baby 'syndrome yearly.

Mothers are led to believe that the Nestle formula is far preferable to their own nutritious breast milk, said Father Hare.

They are given free samples of formula by "mother-craft nurses" whom they are led to believe are medical personnel. (Frequently, by the time the sample is used their own milk has dried up, and they are therefore forced to continue with the high-priced formula.

A heartbreaking sidelight on the situation is that often a mother, unaware that her child has starved to death, will lay his bottle on his grave, "because he loved it so much."

Father Hare said that the Connolly students supporting the boycott are part of a coalition of medical and health professionals, nutritionists, church groups, consumer organizations and members of Congress, all asking consumers to discontinue using Nestle products in an attempt to pressure the company into halting formula promotion in developing countries Where evidence links bottle feeding with increased malnutrition and death among infants.

mothers unable to read directions for preparing powdered infant formula dilute it with contaminated water, causing diarrhea, malnutrition, dehydration Connolly graduates, said Father and very often death. Even if Hare, have gone on to organize water is uncontaminated, very the boycott at such institutions often the mother, in an effort to ,as Providence College, Boston stretch the expensive formula, College and Syracuse University. will over-dilute it, in effect starv- Several dioceses, including Aling her baby to death. It is ~sti­ bany, N.Y. and Providence, have mated some 10 million babies in also gone on record as supportThird World nations are affected ing the action.

Explanatory material has been sent to diocesan schools apd Father Hare said he is hopeful that they will join Connolly in the boycott. He added that he i., "more than willing" to go anywhere in the area to speak on the subject.

"If any, group will get five or more people together, I'll go," he declared.

In addition to the products listed above, the boycott includes Nestle's Crunch and other Nestle candy bars, Jarlsberg cheeses, DeCaf, and all Crosse and Blackwell products.

Pontiiff Decries Arms Race VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has told directors and students at the Defense College of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that the arms race is incompatible with social development efforts.

"The 'condition of the edifice of peace depends on the firmness of the principles of its foundation. And so I would hope that, at the core of you activities, there would be a reflection on the great principles ~elated to peace, and a renewed dedication on your part to their application,'" he said.

"The cause of peace is effectively fostered when the dignity of the human person is upheld," he added.

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Bishop Aids- Man ,Accused of Rape BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (NC) The bishop of Birmingham has become involved in a controversi,al ,case involving three charges of rape against a mentally retarded black man.

-Bishop Joseph Vath has warned that. the man's rights may be denied because he' is retarded and black.

Bishop Vath has also allowed diocesan churches to be used to collect a defense fund for the man, Tommy Lee Hines. . Hines has been convicted of one rape on the basis of a confession he made after his arrest last summer. _ His attorney is now appealing that verdict on the grounds that Hines did not receive a fair trial because of pretrial publicity.

Hines still faces trial 'on the other two c.harges.

The case has received national SISTER UNDA PEARSON, director of the House of attention and has been the.focus Ruth in Los Angeles, helps women make a new start in of controversy in Alabama, where , life. (NC Photo) the Ku Klux Klan has demonstrated against Hines.

Bishop Vath noted in a letter read at all Masses in the diocese that he had called for "calm deliberation and judgment" when Hines was arrested last summer.

"Since then," he said, "we have LOS ANGELES (NC) - Spme- , Three other Sisters of St. learned of the financial need of where in Los Angeles today there Joseph of Carondelet share duty Mr. Hines and his family as he is a baby girl named Linda, the hours with Sister Pearson. The attempts to pursue his human namesake of Josephite Sister home is supported by their sti- right to appeal the first decision.

Linda Pearson, who delivered the pends and by the charity of any-, We are concerned that no person baby this fall in the living room one who wants to help. It is should be denied his-her human of the House of Ruth in Los owned by the Catholic Worker right to appeal due to lack of Angeles.

Community, which provides it finances."

"The diocese has no desire to Delivering a baby is only one rent-free, but the sisters pay invade the legal process or to ' of the new experiences that taxes and utilities. prejudge any case before the Although the most obvious Sister Pearson, a (ormer school teacher, has had since she began benefits provided by the House law," Bishop Vath said. "However, we do feel as a Christian directing the six-bedroom House of Ruth come to the women who community that we should be alfind refuge there, the sisters who of Ruth for women who need a staff it also feel enriched by lowed to assist" in the defense new start in life. fund.

"Our hope is that women who their contacts with the women. ..As your shepherd in Christ," "Their ability to cope is inspircome here can start a new life he said, "I am appealing to those with a home, security and a job," ing, their ability to keep going in who so desire to make a contrithe face of such frustrations, .... she said. "We're not an emerbution to the Tommy Lee Hines gency shelter, but a place where Sister Pearson said...It's a beau- Defense Fund that will be prewe can take some time to help tiful experience to see women sented to the family." help each other." a' woman establish herself."

Bishop Vath said in an interSince the house opened in Ocview with One Voice, the .Birtober, 17 women - ranging in Bosto~ Prelate Sets mingham diocesan newspaper, age from 17 to 60 - and 11 chilthat he spoke out during Hines' dren have stayed there. Some' Knock Pilgramage first trial becaus'e "I was conBOSTON (NC)-Cardinal Hum- cerned that this case might have have been beaten or abandoned by their husbands; others are berto Medeiros of Boston will been disposed of in a summary teen-age mothers rejected by lead a pilgrimage to the Shrine fashion in which this retarded their families. The average stay of Our Lady of Knock in Ireland person would be given very Aug. 9-23 to commemorate the little opportunity to have any is three to four weeks. centennial of Marian apparitions kind of defense."

"There's not a woman here in the village of Knock. who didn't start life in most difHe said he called for "justice" The Boston pilgrims will be in to be done in the trial. "When I ficult circumstances," said Sister Pearson. "Most had' to leave Knock on Aug. 15, the feast of say 'justice,' I guess I am saying home early, had to struggle to the Assumption of Our Lady, and that it is difficult for a mentally survive. There's not a day spent will also visit Rome. retarded person, because of soAccording to the story of ciety's attitude, to receive the without trying to improve themselves and get out of difficulties Knock, Mary, Joseph and St. kind of fairness that the average John appeared at a church in person would receive," Bishop and problems."

Knock on Aug. 21, 1879, in a Vath said. "They are like depenEarly parenthood is one of the blaze of heavenly light. A dioce- dimt children and they need lawmain reasons for the women's san commission in Ireland ac- yers and people to defend them. problems, the nun said. "The cepted evidence of the appariwomen who came here were, on "For that reason the Catholic tions as "trustworthy and satisI an average, 15 years old when Church, and especially our comfa,ctory." they had their first child," she mitment to the mentally re, said, adding that many of them tarded, should prompt us to take have little education and few job some stand on this matter, to let UN Agreement skills.

LONDON - In a letter to them know that we are willing The House of Ruth tries to Western church leaders and to stand behind them." help the women work out their statesmen, Russian and Lithu"Again it seems to me that as problems by assisting them in anian Chrisians have called for Christians we ought to respond applying for government relief a United Nations agreement in a Christlike fashion with both and finding housing or jobs for giving international recognition the Victim and the mentally rewomen who are ready to leave to the religious rights of be- tarded perpetrator if he is guilty the home. lievers. of the crime," Bishop Vath said.

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What is this unforgivable sin?

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A. This passage has always caused discussion among Christians, because it seems to contradict the numerous times Jesus clearly teaches that as long as a sinner is alive, there is hope for return to God if he only repents.

In fact, the church has officially and formally taught precisely this at least since the year 251, when it condemned a heresy called Novatianism. According to tpis anti-Catholic teaching, anyone who renounced the Christian faith in time of persecution could never come back.

St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas and many others believed that by the "sin against the Holy Spirit" Jesus meant the sin of final unrepentance, which is the refusal to repent of one's rejection of God through a serious sin, even at the moment of death. This probably is still the most c9mmon view, since it is a total, final rejection of all the helps the Holy Spirit offers us to turn away from evil and toward God.

Perhaps another way of saying the same thing is that anyone who deliberately and maliciously refuses the helps which the Holy Spirit gives to keep us from sin in the first place sins against the Holy Spirit. As St. Thomas says, many gifts of the Spirit are meant to help us avoid· sin in our lives. The gift of hope keeps us from despair. The gift of fear of the Lord keeps us from presuming in the wrong way on God's mercy and love, and so on.

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Whatever the meaning of this Gospel passage may be, the on~ all-essential truth to remember is that, if we have sinned, God our Father is always there with open arms to receive us back to him, and the Holy Spirit is always ready to help us go there.

Q. I read with interest your recent answer that Communion in the hand is not allowed in Rome.

In 1975, I made a pilgrimage. to Rome with the retarded and handicapped. We celebrated Mass in the North American College, in Saint Peter's Basilica and in Saint Paul's Outside-the-Walls.

If Communion in the hand is forbidden in Rome, somebody should tell the Roman priests, or else a lot of good priests will be going to hell. Only 'a pure-bred ostrich could say that this prac· tice is forbidden in Rome. (Ohio) A. I didn't say it wasn't done in Rome. I said the bishops of Italy had not approved it.

If "good priests" are going to hell for giving Communion in the hand, legally or not, there isn't much hope for any of us. I'm counting on God having a better set of priorities than that.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mas. 02722.

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"Unless some accountability is brought to bear on these corporations," Bishop Gumbleton said, "we will not see much improvement in the lot of the poor and hungry."

New Officers NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The executive board of the National Sisters Vocations Conference has elected Benedictine Sister Gertrude Wemhoff as executive director of the group and Dominican Sister Jane Doherty as her associate from an unprecedented slate of 46 nominees and nine finalists.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has accepted an offer from the government of the Ivory Coast to make the papal representative to that nation dean of the diplomatic corps.

As a result, Archbishop Bruno Wustenberg is automatically elevated from apostolic pronuncio to apostolic nuncio.

The Vatican Press Office said. the offer was made "in consideration of the high moral values that the Holy See represents."

The Vatican now has nuncios in 34 counfries. When its representative is not dean of the diplomatic corps he is called a pronuncio.

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"Every Minute 20. Starve' KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (NC) "Every minute $500,000 is spent on arms across th'e world and 20 people starve to death," according to Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit.

He is president of Bread for the World, a Christian citizens' lobby concerned with hunger issues. He made his comments at a regional Bread for the World meeting in Knoxville.

He said that while individuals can help by simplifying t~eir own eating habits, "there must also be a drastic reform of public policy, especially in the structure of this country's foreign aid program."

Bishop Gumbleton said that "the dev~loped world feeds .more cereal to its livestock than is eaten by the total population of underdeveloped countries."

He al~o criticized the role of multinaiional corporations in food distribution, citing a report

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By Janaan Manternach

Stories about Jesus were circulated in the several Christian communities for a long while before being written down by the evangelists. Usually they were transmitted independently, but once in a while the traditions would crisscross and, especially if the stories were similar in some way, the details of one would get confused with those of the other. A fascinating example of this is the story of the penitent woman in Luke 7,36-50 compared with that of the anointing at Bethany in Mark 14, 3-9; Matthew 26, 6-13, and John 12, 1-8.

The anointing of Jesus' feet with perfumed oil is really quite incidental to Luke's story, and while he identifies the host at the outset simply as "a certain pharisee," suddenly in verse 44 he calls him Simon.

In Mark and Matthew the anointing is an essential part of the story, and the host is identified as Simon "the leper."

In John's version the scene is the home of Martha and Mary, sisters of Lazarus, Mary does the anointing and her drying Jesus' feet with her hair is quite out of place, while the same gesture on the part of Luks's anonymous sinner confusedly wiping away her tears is perfectly 'in place. Later tradition muddied the picture even further by making Mary Magdalene the sinful woman, an identification without any basis in the Gospels. ,In any event, Luke's story is a moving eample of Jesus' love for sinners, his response to their love and his impatience with self-righteous people who would have nothing to do with them.

We are not told the occasion, but a pharisee invited Jesus to join the guests at a dinner he was giving. Jesus accepted and reclined with the others. The Jews sometimes copied the Roman mode of dining while lying o~ cushions around low tables.

Thus their feet, from which they usually removed their sandals, stretched out away from the tables. It is easy, then, to visualize the se-en'e that followed.

A woman drifted in and stood at Jesus' feet, eventually falling to her knees there. She was apparently a prostitute with a wIde reputation. Suddenly she broke into uncontrollable sobbing and when she saw her tears trickling onto Jesus' feet, she hurriedly tried to wipe them away with her hair and her kisses.

Once upon a time a phar,isee named Simon invited Jesu!j to dinner. Simon was a good man who was trying to keep God's law. Like other pharisees he belived he kept it better than most of his fellow Jews.

The pharisee was disgusted and scandalized. "If this man were a prophet," he thought, "he would know who and what sort of woman this is that touches him - that she is a sinner" (Luke 7,39). Jesus knew very well what he was thinking, and Turn to Page Thirteen

Jesus accepted Simon's invitation. He joined the other guests around the table. Many Jews in Jesus' time ate lying down, as the Romans did. Their heads faced the table, with their feet stretched out away from it. Apparently that is how Jesus and the other guests were eating.

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'Your verdict on others will be the verdict passed on you/

How Can IAvoid Judging Others?

By William Ryan When you are' 20, goes the saying, you judge other people.

When you are 30, you judge them less severely. And when you are 40 you understand how' the poor devils got that way and wonder why you didn't turn out as decently as they did.

Unfortunately, the old saying is not really correct. It is true that with time generally comes a certain insight and compassion for others. But it is ,also true that there is a nagging tendency throughout life, probably to the moment of death, to render judgments on the rest of the human race.

It's a problem.- After all, did not Our Lord say, "If you want to .avoid judgment, .stop passing judgment." Those are strong words. And he added: "Your verdict on others will be the verdict passed on you. The measure with which you measure will be used to measure you. Why look at the speck in your brother's eye when you miss the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take that speck out of your eye,' while all the time the plank remains in your own?" (Matthew 7. 1-4).

It's a tall order but we must strive to understand and live up to it. It may help, though, to put matters into prospective by considering what we are trying to avoid. To begin with, a certain amount of judging others is surely an indispensable part of life.

The employer must make a decision about the person he is going to hire. His choice usually involves a, much broader range

of questions about the prospective employee than the matter of the skill needed for the job. Usually his thinking will pertain to such questions as honesty and reliability, as best as he can determine them. Such questions as these and many more call for some sort of judgement. No one would suggest, nor do the Scriptures, that such matters be left to the toss of a coin.

Life has chaos enough without adding to it by failing to use a vital faculty. At any rate, the emphasis in the Old Testament . concept of judgement is not on punishing the wrongdoer, but on the vindication of the righteous (2 Samuel 18, 31). When the prophet Isaiah scourges Israel, And in he New Testament juagment is seen as a result of rejecting the life offered by Jesus, for with the ultimate loss comes the ultimate jugment (John 3,18; 5,24).

So we see that the kind of judgment which we are to avoid pertains to something altogether diferent from holding an opin'ion of others, even a severe one. We

all make judgments about other persons ana we must. What we must not do is to pretend to see info their souls. Never j\,dge- a man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins, goes the Indian adage, and it's a thoroughly Christian sentiment as well.

When we are worried about the judgments we have made about other, or worried over how we can avoid doing so again in the future, there is probably no better mediation than the Last Judgment as depicted for us by St. Matthew (Matthew 25, 31-46).

Those who fed the hungry, gave drink to the thirsty, welcomed the stranger, clothed the naked, comforted the sick and visited the confined are rewarded because they welcomed the Lord.

Those who did not are condemned because they rejected him.

It is a startling scene: at one and the same time a reminder of the criteria by which we will one day be judged and the ample opportunities that yet remain to make up for the judgments we have rendered on others.

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The once more popular devotion to the Sacred Heart is usually credited to the life and zeal of St. M~rgaret Mary Alacoque.

Frail in health, strong of mind and passionate by nature, Margaret Mary grew to young womanhood in a French family during the 17th century - a time when women in the church were

not expected to contribute much to devotional awareness. Trained by Jo~n Eudes, himself later p'roclaimed a saint, she had many visions in which the Lord appeared to her asking her to invite devotion to him, helping us to understand his humandivine nature.

Margaret Mary received the 1.'urn to Page Thirteen

As they ate, a woman slipped into the room. Someone had told her Jesus was there, and she stood quietly behind him, holding a jar of perfumed oil.

Jesus did not see her at first.

But the pharisee and his guests did. They were shocked. This woman was a public sinner.

Good people went out of their way to avoid her.

As she stood there, she sensed how they felt, but she knew Jesus did not feel theat way about her. Somehow she knew he accepted her and forgave het, She felt so relieved just being near him that she began to cry.

Her tears fell down on Jesus' feet.

She bent down and dried them with her long hair. Then she poured perfumed oil from her jar over his feet and kissed them, Simon and his guests could not believe their eyes. Here was a public sinner approaching and touching Jesus. The pharisee began to think in his heart, "If this man, Jesus, were really a prophet, he would know she was a sinner and would draw back from her," Jesus sensed what his host was thinking. "Simon," Jesus said, "let me tell you a story.

Two men owed money to a certain money lender. One owed 500 coins. The other owed only 50. Neither was able to pay, so the money lender cancelled both debts. Now, which of the two men was more grateful?"

Simon answered, "I suppose the one who owed 500 coins. His debt was larger." "You are right," said Jesus.

He then turned for the first time to the woman who was still weeping behind him. He looked at her, but spoke to Simon the pharisee. "Simon, do you see this woman? I came to your home, but you did not wash my feet as is customary. This woman has washed my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not welcome me with the usual kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet.

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Chesterton. 0 grande escritor catolico inqles, fal~-nos com humor daquele jornalista que endere90u um telegrama a Imprensa inglesa em que anunciava a sua grande descoberta: as Ilhas Britanicas. Uma descoberta sencional.

Muitos, hoje: causam-nos a mes~ ma impress~. Inventam constantemente formulas de ora9ao, maneiras de se adentrar'nos misterios de Deus.

Todavia, ja ha muito tempo que Jesus nos ensinou a rezar. Quando rezardes. dizei: "Pai nosso, que estais nos ceus •.. " Tem sido esta a ora9ao universal do povo cristao atraves de todos estes seculos, No entanto,' podemos perguntar: Continua a ser valida1 Nao havera motive para aventurar-se a uma descoberta na ora9ao? Por outra parte, como explicar 0 cansa90 de muitos oerante formulas feitas de ora9ao, que nao lhes dizem nada? o Pai Nosso resiste a qualquer mundan9a e sensaQao de cansa90. Antes de mais, dir-vos-ei que procureis deixar-vos penetrar pela forQa transcendente do Pai-nosso, como se o ouvIsseis pela primeira vez. Como os Apostolos, como os primeiros cristaos, como aque1e monjiq russo que nao sabia nem queria outra ora9aoi como Santa Teresa, que condensava a sua ora9ao no Pai-nosso ...

Portanto,. que todos os sentem cansa90, roti~a ou aque1es a quem ia nao diz nada, rezem devaqar: Painosso ...

Por que a recomenda9ao do Painosso? Simples~ente pe10 seu valor intrinsico e pe1a simolesidade origina1'do mesmo. 0 Pai-nosso e, fundamenta1mente 0 encontro do fi1ho com 0 pai.

Temos de reconhecer que 0 Painosso e experiencia vital que Cristo tinha do Pai. Dispoe-nos logo para o dia10go com urn ser simu1taneamente proximo e transcendente, tota1mente outro, a Quem chamamos Pai. o Pai-nosso, a ora9ao do Senhor suscita imediatamente em nos a re1aQao dum eu, fi1ho de Deus, com alguem que e meu Pai. Ate nao descobrimos isto, nao teremos compreendido toda a novidade da ora9ao.

Ha tempo, 0 celebre cientista Von Braum fez umas dec1ara90es sobre a ora9ao e, concretamente, sobre 0 Pai-nosso. Fa1ava do grande poder de tranquilidade e de seguran9a que suscita na nossa vida este.dia10go com Quemsabemos que nos ouve porque e nosso Pai. Hoje, mais do que nunca, precisamos de encontrar este Pai amorose que encha 0 vazio e a so11dao da nossa vida. Quantos orfaos andam no mundo sem saberem que tem urn Pai. o Pai-nosso e ponto de partida da vida humana. A nossa vida, corn os seus problemas e misterios, carece de sentido, se nao se refere a Deus.

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

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Continued from Page Twelve Jesus - fully human and fully revelations between 1673 and divine - is a concept we spend ~ 1675. The first commissioned a lifetime attempting to underher to spread devotion to the stand. But .through the centuries Sacred Heart; the second request- since his birth, he has made his ed Communion and the Holy reality known to us in countless Leica - Nikon - Bolex - Hasselblad Ampex • Sony • Panasonic Hour of reparation; the last ex- ways. Through others he helps pressed a wish for a specified us know his presence. And 267 MAIN STREET day in honor of the Sacred through our own experience we FALMOUTH - 548-1918 Heart. She lived the devotion, learn to know him.

ARMAND ORTlNS; Prop. and amid contradiction and. opHe often appeared to Margaret ~ position worked for its' recogniMary crowned with thorns. Betion within her order.

The France of her time was ing fully human, he had 'been experiencing a religious drought. spared no human pain; and being The love of God had grown cold. divine, his pain was incompreLargest In this last quarter of the 20th hensibly great. He told her that she should make up for mancentury, he, too, are familiar Religious Store with spiritual barrenness. It is kind's ingratitude to him so far On Cape Cod time to examine again what de- as she was able. This was to be done by frequent Communion;' . Complete line of Religious Articles for votion to the Sacred Heart is Religious Communities and Organizations especially on the first Friday of as well as Retail about.

Father Karl Rahner, a great .each month, and by an hour's john & Mary Lees, Props. theologian and an interpreter of vigil every Thursday night in 428 MAIN STREET HYANNIS, MASS. 02601 this devotion, says: "If, then, the memory of his agony in Gethsehumanity of Christ, or better, mane.

775-4180 the man Jesus, has an abiding A final revelation was made salvific significance, if this man within the octave of Corpus and his human reality as such Christi in 1675, when our Lord Tel. 548-0042 Est. 1949 is an intrinsic element in the saicl to St. Margaret Mary, "Befinal fulfillment of our own sal- hold the heart which has so vation and not only in its em- much loved men that it has poral history, and if each indi- spared nothing, even exhausting vidual's salvation is unique, then and consuming itself in testi584 Main Street it cannot be denied that a per- mony of its love. Instead of sonal . relationship to Jesus gratitude I receive from most West Falmouth, Mass.

Christ in person and intimate only indifference, irreverence, love is an essential part of Chri1l- sacrilege and the coldness and Harold W. Jenkins, Jr. tian existence. By the fact that scorn that men have for me in Richard E. Gregoire a person finds God, that he falls, the sacrament of love." Then he Directors as it were, into the absolute, in- asked that a feast of reparation finite and incomprehensible be instituted on the Friday after abyss of all being, he himself is the octave of Corpus Christi not consumed into universality, (now the feast of the Sacred but rather, for the first time, be- Heart). comes someone absolutely unique. This is so because it is only in this way he was a unique relationship to God in which this FUNERAL Continued from Page Twelve God is his God, and not just a SERVICE universal salvation which is asked if he could tell him someequally valid for alL" ("Founda- thing. He recounted the. story of tions of Christian Faith:-') two men who owed a money Howard C. Doane Sr. Gordon L. Homer lender vastly different amounts Howard C. Doane Jr. Robert L. Studley of money. Since neither was HYANNIS 775·0614 able to repay, he wrote off the South Yarmouth 391·2201 Continued from. Page Twelve loans. In answer to Jesus' quesHarwich Port 432·0593 Jews, but she has anointed my tion: "Which of them was more grateful to him?" his host anfeet with perfume."

"Simon," Jesus continued, swered: "He,. I presume, whom "that is why her sins are for- he forgave the larger su~." given, great as they have been.

The point of this story would Sales And Service Her many sins are forgiven beseem to suggest that the womcause of her great love. Little Fall River's Largest is forgiven those whose love is an had already been forgiven and was pouring out her gratiD'isplay 01 TVs smaiL" As Jesus spoke, everyone at tude. But there is another lesson RCA - ZENITH - SYLVANIA table became silent. Simon and which he wants to get across.

He reminds Simon of his smug 1196 BEDFORD STREET his guests knew in their hearts discourtesy' in not showing Jesus what Jesus meant. They thought 673-9721 they were keeping God's law any of the conventional marks . better than most people - cer- of hospitality associated with tainly better than this sinful such occasions and contrasts woman. But Jesus was telling that mean behavior with the them that they were missing lavish attentions showered upon him by this "sinner." "I tell you, the whole point. God was a God of forgiveness, of understand- that. is why her many sins are her great ing,of compassion. His law was forgiven - because of a law of love and. mercy. God love. Little is forgiven the one looked most of all to the love in whose love is small" (Luke 7, 47). people's hearts. Jesus was saying he found more love in this Once again, Jesus assures her of her forgiveness and bids her woman's heart than in theirs.

In the great silence, Jesus go in peace. For' Jesus, then, spoke to the woman. "Your faith-inspired love leads to forsins are forgiven," he' said gent- giveness, no matter how despicly. able public opinion may judge At this tq.eother guests look- a person to be. And all the while THRIFT STORES 'ed at each other with amaze- the complacently self-righteous, 301 COllETTE STREET ment. "Who is this," they asked so sure of their own acceptance NEW BEDFORO, MASS. one another,' "that he even for- and of the rejection of those "be1150 JEFfERSON BLVD. gives sins?" Only God, they be- neath" them, close their hearts WARWICIl, R.I. lived, could forgive sins. Who is to the saving power of human (lit. .5 South· Airport Ellt) this man, they wondered. and divine love.

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Homecoming is a word that means different things to different people.

I found that out when I was visited by a young college acquaintance.

"I felt strange about many things my first trip back home after leaving for college myself, my parents, my town, the people. ,I felt they'd remained the same and only I had changed."

While we were talking the phone rang and a girl we both knew, recently married, asked, "Are you busy?"

Can you go home again?

I'm never too busy for friends. .

So she joined us and soon we were deep into this idea that innocence." They were no longer They get out the silver, cook once you leave home things .children and even though they special meals and talk, laugh and change. ,knew their parents were always cry far into the night.

The . newlywed said, "Even there, the feeling remained that For them and for all of us though I visit my parents, it's a door had been closed, a chap- ' do 'come home in the truest we not the same." ter had been filed. sense when we don't get hung What has changed?

We talked about the love of up with idolatry, power, success, Well, for one thing, the umbilical cord has been cut. Yes, one parents. The father in the para- achievement, other people's apreturns from college for a visit, ble of the prodigal son is one of proval, all those things that keep the married son or daughter re- the best examples. He did not pulling people away from God, turns for holidays, but they do care about the grief and disgrace their true home, the things that not come home in the sense of a the son had brought him. He keep us from being truly human son or daughter still-being reared wasn't concerned about family with ourselves and each other. within the bosom of the family. reputation. His heart went out to his child with unconditional This is what I am hearing.

Young people are moving from love.

During this last week before their homes into apartments. It A child who is received back vacation, students are complethas nothing to do with whether by the family after he or she has they -love their parents or not. seemed to break every rule· in ing assignments and preparing It does have something to do the book can turn out to be the for a week of skiing. On Monwith the times, the great changes, most grateful person in the day incoming freshmen and the moves for more independence. world. And this is one time, as their parents attended a registration and open house evening.

Eden Was Safe in the parable of the prodigal, Even though the doors of Eden, that you can indeed go home There was an opportunity, for students to register for elective in this sense, have not been again. courses, to be measured for uniclosed, homecoming is diffeerent.

But then there is the way forms, and to tour the school.

The old bedroom is there, stuffed animals remain, books are left the elder brother responded to Recently, Sister Mary Faith, behind, but you close the door, it his father's treatment of the principal of the Attleboro is not closed to you. You are wayward son. After all, said the school, congratulated Donald elder, he had stayed home, kept growing up.

Payton, a sophomore, on his My college friend: "I know stu- his nose clean, done things he first solo airplane flight. Donald dents who can't 'wait to go home. didn't. want to do, and this was has been taking lessons for the Others force themselves. As for how he was being repaid! past three years and his instrucme, I love my parents but 'SomeBut not all brothers and sis- tor said that Donald is the first thing has changed." ters .feel this way. Many are of his students to qualify as so You can't go home again? overjoyed when a stray 'returns. young an age. Donald, who must Some would like to. Some would wait until he is 17 to obtain a like to 'return to the fetal posiprivate pilot's license, hopes to / tion and not have to make decipursue a career in flying. sions with consequences, some The Bishop Gerrard chapter The Feehan Math League has of which they like and many of of the National Honor Society attained third place among the which they do not. . has held induction ceremonies . There are youths one meets for new members, with Martha total 18-member Southeast Conwho prefer certitiude in their Carroll, president, Valerie Per- ference Math League. There is lives. They'd rather have some- eira, Denise Letourneau, Louise one more meet, to take place body else look after them. But I,.eblanc and Denise Gauvin as March 6, before the final playoffs of eight schools in the Leamore and more we are running student speakers and State Sen. into the other kind. "I want to Mary L. Fonseca as guest gue. Feehan's score is 253 points. First place Connolly High meet the world eyeball to eye- speaker.

School has 259 points, and secball," they will tell you. "I want New members are Susana orid place Dighton-Rehoboth has to make my own choices, my own mistakes ,and I hope to Campos, Tambra Neto, Ana Al- 257 points. meida, Michele Bailey, Jovita learn from them."

On 'Tuesday, ·Feb. 27, the Back home, parents wait, won- Campos, Rosa Campos, Audrey Fathers' Club will meet in the der and worry. And the goo~ Harenza, Laina Ouellette, Eliza- Religious Education Center and beth Pavao and Gwena Ward. ones stand -by. on March 5, the Women's Auxi,I ask~d my two young guests liary will hear Sister Lucille Mcin what way did they feel difSelf-Giving Killop, ,president of Salve Regina ferent, now that one was experi"You give but little when you College, Newport, who will encing college and the other give you possessions. It is when speak on Irish culture. Fathers marriage. you give of yourself that you will be invited to attend this Both said there was' "a'loss of truly give." - Kahlil Gibran. lecture.

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HOLD THE LINE It's not in the way you've been treatin' my friends It's not in the way that you hold me It's not in the way that you say that you care It's not in the way that you stay'd till the end It's not in the way that you look' • Or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line Love isn't always on time It's not in the words that you told me It's not in the way you say you're mine It's not in the way tliat you came back to me It's not .in the way that your love set me free It's not in the way that you look Or the things that you say that you'll do Hold the line Love isn't always on time Written by David Paich, sung by Toto, (c) 1978, CBS Inc. The rock group, Toto, came info being in 1978. As individuals, these musicans have contributed their talents to such recording artists as Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, and Gary Wright.

Toto's first chart hit is their current single, "Hold the Line."

This song examines various aspects of romantic relationships. Why are we attracted to another? ,Is it the person's looks? Or the things they say, or perhaps their personality? It it because of the other's faithfulness to the relationship?

All these questions will be answered differently by different people. Relationships rarely depend on a single factor. We cannot answer completely why we love another. Love remains a gift and a mystery. We can point to ways the relationship meets needs in us, but a growing relationship holds elements of love's mystery that defy definition.

The song repeats the line, "Love isn't always on time.'; Not only are we unable to define love's growth but we are also unable to program its time schedule.

The aspect of timing in relationshi~ is important. Rarely are two people on exactly the same level of need. We often enter relationships uncertain of what we want or where the relationship may lead. This is healthy because relationships need space for spontaneity.

Love can never be forced. Dialogue and patience are essential to it. People may fall quickly in love in paperback novels or the late-late' night ~ovie, but in reality love takes time; reflection and decision. None of these happens instantly. ,For those who do move rapidly into romance and perhaps even, marriage, there still remain decisions, and ·questions.

Lovers soon discover that love takes waiting and few of us wait patiently or comfortably. Yet life teaches us that often our most savored accomplishments arrive through hours of work, and a journey through both passing successes and discouraging failures.

To those with the strength to embrace love's waiting, a new dimension of life unfolds. To love is to live life on its fullest level.

On this much more significant level of meaning, love is always on time.

Pro-Abortcon Booklet Criticized by Priest A Benedictine priest active in the pro-life field has asked Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano to explain why public funds were used to produce a pro-abortion booklet written by a- physician.

Father Paul Marx, executive director of the Human Life Center at St. John's University· in Collegeville, criticized the booklet, "Abortion, the 'Bible and the Christian Physician," -by Dr. Roger W. Rochat.

The booklet, said Father Marx in a letter to Califano, "is full of

lies, promotes abortion and is a total misrepresentation of the Bible itself. I would like to know why HEW would use tax money to produce this kind of deception."

In the booklet Dr. Rochat wrote, "Christian physicians, particularly medical missionaries, are in a unique position to help slow population growth by providing abortion, contraception and sterilization Services."

The booklet also says among benefits of legalized abortion is a drop in the infant mortalitY rate.

Interscholastic Sports

IN THE DIOCESE

By BILL MORRISSETTE

.Stang Girls In Hoop Tourney, The Bishop Stang High School's girls' basketball team will compete in the second annual New England Catholic High School Invitational Basketball Tournament.

The Spartanettes will meet Cardinal Spellman High in a Class B game in East Weymouth High School at two p.m. next Monday. If they win, they will advance to the finals at Boston College on Feb. 25th.

The Stang boys varsity team will be home tomorrow night to Wareham in a Division Two Southeastern Mass. Conference season finale. Wareham was tied with Bishop Feehan High for division lead going into last

Tuesday's night's games. Feehan is host to Seekonk in another finale tomorow night, when Holy Family entertains New Bedford Voke-Tech, and, Old Rochester is home to Dennis-YarmOUth. ·Feehan and 'Wareham have already qualified for Eastern Mass. playoff berths.

Coyle-Cassidy, still the division Three leader entering this week, closes its conference schedule at Dighton-Rehoboth tomorow night. Runnerup Falmouth winds up at· Bourne and Case is home to Diman Voke on the division's final card of the season. Coyle-eassidy and Falmlmth will also reach the postseason playoffs.

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General ratings: C-suitable for general viewing; PC-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; .B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanationl; C-con.demned.

"Max Havelaar" (Atlantic): -Based on a classic Dutch nC?vel, this is the story of a brave, idealistic consular officer in mid-19th century Java who attempts, almost single-handedly, to see that justice is done to the natives and to end entrenched corruption.

The acting, especially Peter Faber as Max Havelaar, is excellent and the re-creation of the era is superbly done. Although the pace is languid, the focus blurred, Connolly Also Still in Running and the story lacks dramatic Bishop Connolly High's hoop- Jan. 16, Durfee nosed out Con- force, it is for the most part engrossing and entertaining. Two sters, needing to win t)Vo of its' nolly, 61-60. or three instances of violence three remaining games, will be home to Durfee on Division Martha's Vinyard and Nau- make it mature fare. R, B One's final card tomorrow night. set, t~e top two teams -in the On Television If the Cougars lose to Durfee, Cape and the Islands League Roots: The Next Generations, they could still clinch a post- will represent that loop in post- to be shown the week of Feb. 18 season berth with victories at season play, for which Appone- on ABC, will not disappoint those home over Holiy Family Mon- quet Regional and Bristol-Ply- who viewed its forerunner. Covday and at Dighton~Rehoboth mouth of the Mayflower League ering the period from 1882 to Feb. 23. Both games are non- have also qualified as has Oli- 1965, it carries a black family leaguers. Durfee met pace set- ver Ames, the Hockomock Lea- from the years of Reconstruction ting Dartmouth in a Division gue titlist. Hockomock aiso to the 1964 p~ssage of the Civil bile game Tties(Jay night. The rings down the curtain on its Rights Act. . result of that game is not regular season tomorrow night This is a series to be shared known at this writing' but if with Oliver Ames at Mansfield, by the family, because it is cenDurfee was the loser it would Canton at ~taughton, Sharon at tered in the strength and values have to win over Connolly to- Franklin, and, North Attleboro of family life, and also because morrow and at Brockton next at King Philip. The eventual it fosters a commitment to Thursday, to qualify for post- runnerup in the Hockomock achieving human rights and inseason· play. When they met in League will also qualify for terracial justice - an aim of the Luke Urban Field House on post-season play.

Christian social teaching. Because of scenes depicting racial Shea, Papazian Still. Top Scorers hatred and violence, parents Bill Shea of Connolly and Jim in 14 games, and, Chris Gen- should exercise prudence in alPapazian of Feehan still con- dreau, 243-18.7 in 13 games. lowing very young children to Mter Papazian jn Divsion watch. tinue to set the scoring pace in their respective conference div- Two are Mark Bowers, Seekonk, Sunday, Feb. 18,8-9 p.m. (PBS) isions. Shea with 234 points in 226-18.8, Kevin Brogioli, Ware-. "Legacies of Vietnam.." The Viet15 games for an average of 22.3 ham, 217-18.1, Gary Cathcart, nam war's effect is still being not only tops Division One but Holy Family, 208-17.3, and Paul felt, as this documentary shows, the entire conference. Papazian Kelly, Feehan, 205-17.1. is the top scorer in Division Two with 245 points averaging 20.1.

Tony Williams, of Bourne, Among the top scorers in Divis- Kevin Chisholm, Tim Leary and ion One are Marlon Burns, Ron Silva all of Coyle-eassidy, Dartmouth, 305-21.8, Don Lon- AI and Dave Costa of Diman ergan, Attleboro, 300-21.4, John Voke and Bob Wilson of FalGonet, Fairhaven, 253-18.1, Tim mouth are the leading scorers in Claflin, Attleboro, 258-18.4, all Division Three.

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Thursdlly, Feb. 22, 8-9 p.m. (pBS "The Invisible Flame."

When the world's supply of oil and gas is exhausted, this "NOVAn program shows that a possible energy substitute might be pydrogen - the zero-pollution fuel that will never run out.

Saturday, Feb. 24, 1-2 p.m.

(CBS) "The Seven Liveliest • • .

But Who's Counting?" A group of distinguished artists and critics provide an informal introduction for y.oung people to the popular arts - with Lillian Gish serving as a most knowledgeable guide to film.

Saturday, Feb. 24, 9-11 p.m.

(CBS) "Silent Victory." With her mother's encouragement, a deaf girl's determination to overcome her handicap leads to success as a Hollywood stuntwoman and racing driver in a dramatization with Stockard Channing playing the real Kitty O'Neil.

Sunday, Feb. 18, 12.30 p.rn.."Directions" (ABC)- "Priests or Social Workers: The Catholic Church in Latin America"- An evaluation of the Latin American bishops' assembly at Puebla.

Films on 1V Sunday, Feb. 18, 9 p.rn. (CBS) - "Marathon Man" (1976) Dustin Hoffman stars as an introspective student who finds himself involved with a terrifying fugitive Nazi, played by Laurence Olivier. Heavy on violence and exploiting the tragedy of the Holocaust, this film is the kind of anti-human thriller that only a society as indifferent to secular graces as to moral values could embrace as legitimate entertainment. R, B Tuesday, Feb. 20, 8 p.rn. (CBS) - "White Lightning" (1973 Burt Reynolds is an Arkansas moonshiner paroled in order to get the goods on a county sheriff .heavily on the take - who also murdered Reynolds' kid brother.

Reynolds is about as credible as his hair-piece is undetectable.

But the supporting players are excellent, and the direction is crisp. A3

gained the tie on a pair of lastperiod goals. South now has 28 points in the standings, Taunton 22, New Bedford 21, North 16, Rochester 15, SomersetFreetown 12.

Monday is the last day for filing entries for the Attleboro C. Y. O. Duskpin Bowling Tournament to be held in the Attle~ horo Bowladrome next Thursday, Feb. 22. Entry forms may be obtained from Father Normand Boulet at the Immaculate Conception rectory, 387 Bay Street, Taunton, or at the Attleboro Bowladrome, 182 East Street, Attleboro.

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Hockey League Closes Season The Bristol County Catholic Hockey League rings down the curtain on its regular schedule with the usual three-game program Sunday night in the DriscoIl Rink, Fall River. Taunton and Rochester clash at nine 0' clock, Fall iRver North meets Somerset-Freetown at 10, and, champion South takes on New Bedford at 11. Post-season playoffs start on Feb. 25.

Last Sunday, New Bedford defeated Somerst-Freetown, 4-1, but the o~er two games ended in ties. South and Rochester tied 2-2, North and Taunton, 3-3.

New BEldford scored three goals in the second period. Rochester

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We are happy to carry notices of spiritual pro$rams, club meetings, youth projects and simIlar nonprofit activities.

FundraIsing projects may be &dvertlsed at our regular rates obtainable from The Anchor business office. telephone 675·7151.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK The parish choir is seeking new members. Rehearsals are held at 7 p.m. Monday in the CCD annex.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Parish CYOers interested in competing in the annual bowling tourney are asked to register with Father Stephen Fernandes.

CYO .members in grades 8 to 12 have been invited to a dance at Our Lady of Grace parish hall, Westport, Feb. 23.

A bus will leave the rectory parking lot at 7 p.m.

ST • MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER Music at Sunday's 10 a.m. lit· urgy will feature a composition

by Handel for flute and keyboard with· Susan Vacchi as guest instrumentalist.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Men of the parish, including Holy Name Society members and grammar school boys, will receive Holy Communion today.

Father Matthew V. Reilly, O.P. will conduct a mission in English from Sunday, Feb. 25 through Thursday, March 1 at 7 o'clock each night. A mission for children in grades 2 through 8 will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

ADORERS LEAGUE, FAIRHAVEN The league will hold its monthly holy hour at 7 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 25 in Our Lady of Lourdes chapel of Sacred Hearts Church, 382 Main St. Father Paul Guido, OFM, pastor of St. Kilian Church, New Bedford, .will speak on preparation for Lent. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.

NEW JERUSALEM PRAYER

COMMUNTY, FAIRHAVEN The community will sponsor a charismatic Mass at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Sacred Hearts Academy 334 Main St. A prayer meeting will follow and all are inyited to attend.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The parish council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the lower church.

The charismatic prayer group will meet at 7:45 tonight in the lower church

ST. RITA, MARION Elementary pupils in CCD classes will attend a circus night at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22.

A Marriage Encounter information night will be held at the rectory at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Rev. James Carey, rector .of . St. John's and St. Stephen's Episcopal churches in Fall River will speak on "The Family in Scripture" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18 in the school cafeteria.

Mr. Carey, who is active with the Fall River South End Youth Center, holds degrees from Har· vard and the General Theological Seminary in New York City.

He was ordained in 1955 and served ch~rches in <Baltimore before coming to Fall River in 1966.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) Catholic lay leaders from most of the nation's 50 states are expected to attend an invitationonly National Assembly of the Laity March 16-18 at the University of Notre Dame.

Major speakers will include Sargent Shriver, former director of the Peace Corps and the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity; Michael Novak, fellow of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington; Ed Marciniak, president of the Institute of Urban Life in Chicago; Jesuit Father John A. Goleman, assistant professor of religion and theology

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XAVIER SOCIETY FOR BLIND, NEW YORK A Catholic calendar in Braille is available free to any sightless person, as are Sunday missalettes, also in Braille. Further information is available from the Xavier Society, 154 ·E. 23 St., New York, N.Y. 100010.

FEBRUARY IS

SAFE ENERGY ALLIANCE, FALL RIVER A. film on atomic power development and the nuclear power cycle will be shown at 7:30 tonight at Citizens for Citizens hall, 264 Griffin St. It will be the first of. a six-part series to be presented the third Thursday of each month.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Final registration for a series of lectures on the sacramental program for adults will be held at 7:30 tomorow night in the parish center. Father Stephen Salvador is. offering the series.

The Women's Guild will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 in the center. Members are requested to bring gifts for a March project.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Due to the holiday, there will be no COD classes this weekend. A teachers' meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the parish center. Plans will be made for Lenten projects.

Confirmation candidates will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday for interviews. Altar boys will meet at 1i a.m. Saturday with the pastor.

TACT youth group will meet Monday at 345 Hanover St. Elderly parishioners needing help with grocery shopping, snow shoveling, light housekeeping or special errands are asked to contact Michael Cote, telephone 678-0873.

Youth group members are available to give their assistance.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Knights of the Altar will meet tomorow at 6:30 p.m. in the parish hall.

The Bloodmobile will be at the Seventh Day Adventist Church from 2 to 8 p.m. today and parishioners are urged to donate.

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