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FALL RIVER, MASS~, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1983
VOL. 27, NO. 10
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MATTHEW SWEENEY, Elizabeth Murphy and Shannon Irish make sure their fav orite saint isn't forgotten as St. Patrick's Day approaches. They're CCD students at St. Patrick's parish, Wareham. (Rosa Photo) =
Gromada named CCA head
Appointment of Joseph F. Gro mada of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, as diocesan lay chair man of the 1983 Catholic Chari ties Appeal was announced to day by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.
phase directed at professional, fraternal, business and indus trial organizations and a parish phase involving 19,500 volunteers visiting 107,000 homes in the 113 parishes of the diocese.
Gromada will head a campaign reaching into each of the five diocesan areas: New Bedford, Fall R~ver, Taunton, the Attie boros ~nd Cape Cod and the Is 'lands. 1t will see a special gift
Gromada, a Hfelong Fall River resident, was educated in city schools and has taken extension courses at the former Bradford Durfee Textile Institute, Rhode Island School of Design and
Southeastern Massachusetts Uni versity. Now retired, he was a quality control and pattern department supervisor at LeJ!:craft, Inc., in Fall River. He is active in his parish as a credit union board member and a Eucharistic minis ter. He is past president of the St. Stanislaus conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Turn to Page Six
By NC News Service Pope John Paul II's perilous trip to Central America is now history. In its course he con fronted some of the most press ing issues facing the region's people: violence, human rights, the need for dialogue, and the role of the church in alleviating social problems. --'In Costa Rica, the first stop of his trip, he told Central American youth March 3 that they "have to create a better world than that of your ances
tors" because if they don't, "the blood will continue to run and tomorrow tears will give witness to the sorrow of your children." -In Nicaragua, where he was greeted March 4 by an anti American speech from a leader of the ruling Marxist Sandinista junta and later interrupted by chanting critics during Mass, he called on the church to remain independent of partisan political ideologies and in public scolded a priest who has defied papal authority to remain a part of the junta. -In EI Salvador, March 6, he asked the people to "overcome the obstacles to dialogue," said that priests and bishops should promote reconciliation and ob served .that people want to live "far from terror and in a climate of democratic co-existence." -In Panama, he criticized contraception, abortion and ste rilization and told peasants they should not turn to violence to fight injustice because it "is not the route of Jesus Christ, or of the church, or of your Christian faith."
-In Guatemala, on March 3, three days before the pope's ar rival, the government had exe cuted six men despite pleas from the pope for clemency. The pon tiff expressed "deepest sorrow" at the executions while the Vati can called them "dramatic, un expected and unbelievable." Some of the most tumultuous events of the triP occured in Managua, Nicaragua, where Daniel Ortega, coordinator of the ruling Sandinista junta, greeted the pope with a denun ciationof the United States.
The visit to Nicaragua prompt ed unprecedented public displays as well. A shouting match occurred during the pope's homily at an open air Mass in Managua's ce~tral square. Several times Pope John Paul sought silence and at one point shouted: "The only hope for peace is in the church." But the chanting con tinued with cries of "power to the people" and "we want a church on the side of the poor." The demonstrations at Mass drew a sharp protest from Arch bishop Roman Arrieta Villalobos of San Jose, Costa Rica, head of the Bishops' Secretariat of Cen tral America and Panama. Vat ican Radio also protested, re porting government technicians had manipulated microphone controls to drown out the pope with Sandinista chants at sev eral points in the Mass. Also in Nicaragua, the pope encountered one of five priests who hold high government posts, remaining in them although Turn to Page Six
New assignments
The Most Reverend Bishop has announced appointments in volving changes of pastorates for two priests and the naming of a parish administrator. Effective Wednesday, March 23, Rev. Roland Bousquet, now pastor of St. Stephen parish, Attleboro, will become pastor of Our Lady of Grace parish, West port; Rev. Edmond R. Levesque, now pastor of Our Lady of Grace, will become pastor of St. The resa parish, South Attleboro; and Rev. Raymond A. Robillard, now associate pastor at St. Theresa's, will become adminis trator at St. Stephen's. All three priests are Fall River natives.
Father Bousquet Father Bousquet prepared for the priesthood at the Seminaire de 'Philosophie and the Grand Seminaire de Montreal in Can ada. He was crdained May 22, 1954, then serving associate pas torates in New Bedford, Fall River and Taunton parishes. ·From 1971 to 1972 he was secretary to the diocesan mar riage tribunaN and was then named administrator of St. Roch parish, Fall River, where he served until 1976, when he was named to the pastorate of St. Stephen's. Turn to Page Three