FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
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VOL. 29, NO.9
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fALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAV, MARCH 1i 1985
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Bishop D'Arcy
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By Pat McGowan
"What are your problems with our children?" asked Janet lobinson. Responses from her audiences t Bishop Connolly High School, a1'l River, and the Taunton ~atholic Middle School came lowly at first but rapidly athered momentum. Soon a 3rest of arms was waving. "She won't get Qff the tele ,hone." %::-,····.f.·.,.·.· •. . "They talk back." ~ "They fight." "The radio's too loud and it's n all the time." "He whines." ~~i "She must have the last word." I" "Sloppy room, sloppy olothes, I, loppy everything." I "They won't go to sleep at tight." "They never listen to me," "There's always an excuse," Mrs. Robinson, who has been counselor, school psychologist, eacher at levels from nursery chool to college and is, most nportantly, the mother of three oungsters, ages 8, 9 and 16, is :ast Coast representative for the ee Canter organization. Canter is a Ca'lifomia educa ar, with Marlene Canter the uthor of "Assertive Discipline ar Parents," a $12.95 book of ,hich 144 copies sold out in Fall :iver and Taunton. "We had to order nearly 150 rlore copies," said Sister M. ,aurita Hand, P.BVM, diocesan uperintendent of schools, who rganized the recent Bishop Con olly and TCMS workshops. The $12.95 was on top of a $5 dmission fee charged a tota,1 of lore than 850 parents at the wo ,locations to hear a lecture n the principles of assertive iscipHne. What it adds up ,to is that lany parents feel that somehow ey've been pushed out of the river's seat by their children. hey want to· know what to do out it. Teachers in the Fall River hool!! got some answers early is aClldemic year. w.Oen they tended a workshop similar to at offered the parents. Moms KIDS ARE EXPERTS at driving parents crazy. Some d dads Joined the act when dio san school officials, wanting ways of coping were discussed recently in Fall River and Taunton. Story at left. (NC Photos) Turn to Page Thirteen
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WASHINGTON(NC) - Pope John Paul oIl has named Auxili ary ,Bishop John M. D'Arcy of Boston to succeed Bishop WiI· Iiam M. McMa.nus of Fort Wayne. South Bend, Ind., who 'retired at age 71 after heading the dio· cese for nine years. 'Bishop IJ.'Arcy,'s installation as bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend .Is scheduled for May 1. Named an auxiliary bishop of Boston in 1974, he was born in Brighton, Mass., Aug. 18, 1932. He studied at St. John's Semin ary, Brighton, and was ordained to the priesthood Feb. 2, 1957, in Boston. He studied ascetical theology at the Pontifical Angelicum Uni versity in Rome where he re ceived a licentiate in theology in 1966. He was named associate pastor at 8t; Mary Church in Beverly, Mass., in 1957. He was later named spiritual director of 'St. John's Seminary before being named an auxiliary 'bishop. Bishop O'Arey said his em phasis in 'Fort Wayne-South Bend will be '''on the pastoral areas about which I have learned so much here in Boston." He 'listed those as the hunger for spiritual renewal, the importance
of pastoral appointments and priestly formation, reaching students on college campuses, and the interrelation of priests, religious and laity. Archbishop Bernard F. Law of Boston praised Bishop O'Arcy's "years of parish work, his com mitment to priestly formation at St. John's Seminary and a decade of untiring labor as bishop. "As regional bishop of Lowell (the northern region of the arch diocese) for four years, Bishop i)' Arcy has enhanced the pres ence of the archdiocese in that city, in Lawrence and through out the Merrimac Valley," Arch bishop Law said. "He has made this area feel an integral part of this huge archdiocese," Also commenting on Bishop D'Arcy's appointment, Bishop Oaniel A. 'Cronin said: "I have learned with joy of the appoint ment by the Holy Father of Bishop John O'Arey as Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend. I convey sincere congratulations to Bishop O'-Arcy and assure him of my prayerful good wishes. He will bring to his new diocese great qualities of leadership which will redound to the spirit· ual benefit of ,the People of God Turn to Page Six
Philippine rescue
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philip Filipino Army pines ~NC) troopers in a -I5-minute gun bat tle Feb. 25 rescued a Catholic ibishop and eight companions who were kidnapped by Moslem sep aratists Feb. 22, ,the Philippine News Agency reported. Bishop Federico Escaler of Ipi! said the rescue came as the II kidnappers and their victims were resting alongside a creek in Zamboanga Province. The bishop said the group had stopped after a six-hour walk when someone shouted to the kidnappers to surrender because they were surrounded. Bishop Escaler said a gun bat tle erupted between the troopers, who had heen searching for the kidnap victims, and the kidnap pers, who scattered and escaped. He said he believed one kidnap per was struck in the arm. The bishop said the kidnappers had spoken of demanding a ran som equalling about $16,000, but had been unable to contact inter-
mediaries Ibecause of the wide spread army search. He said the abductors were -led by Hassan Talip, commander of the Moro National Liberation Front. The bishop also said tha,t dur ing the nearly three-day capti vity he had to talk some of the kidnappers out of molesting wo men in his group. The group in cluded three nuns. 'Bishop Escaler was traveling to Zamboanga City ,with 10 com panions Feb. 22 when armed men stopped ,their mini-van and forced them into the hills. Two retired teachers with the bishop who w(~re released shortly after the abduction reported the inci· dent. The bishop said he and his group were tirst tBlken to a rebel camp in the mountains where they were given rice, salt and a cooking kettle. The kidnappers took the group's personal belongings, in Turn to PBlge Six