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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
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FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1985
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,Tauntonian to head 1985 Charities Appeal
Bishop Daniel A. Cronin to day announced appoi~tment of Emma R. Andrade to head the 1985 Catholic Chari'ties Appeal of the Fall River diocese. A native of Taunton, she is a lifelong member of St. Anthony's parish in that city. The widow of Atty. Aristides A. Andrade, she has one child, Atty. Peter R. Andrade. Before retiring .in 1981, she was employed for 44 years in Taunton Superior' Court, for 20 of those years as an Assist ant Clerk of Courts. Mrs. Andrade's church-related
activities have included serving as president of both the Diocesan Council" of Catholic Women and the Taunton district of the coun cil. She has also headed the Queen's Daughters and St. An thony's Women"s Guild and is presently a director of MarIan Manor home 'for the aged in Taunton. She has served the Taunton community as a director of the Greater Taunton United Way, the Old Colony Historical Society and the Mansfield Finance Com pany. She is also a corporator of
the Taunton Savings Bank, a At age 19, Mrs. Andrade was member of the Morton Hospital among founders and was first president of the Portuguese Corporation and Taunton coor American Civic Auxiliary of dinator for the tricentennial cele Taunton. Her present activities bration of Bristol County. The 1985 OCA chairperson has include presidency of the Taun received the Marian Medal for ton Quota Club and service as outstanding service to the church scholarship chairperson of the and was cited by the Portuguese Taunton Woman's Club. She is a volunteer for a men· American Foundation for service to the Portuguese-American com -tal health clinic thrift shop and munity. She was named 1984 for Women in Community Ser "ice,an organization aiding dis· Woman of the Year by the Taun ton Business and Professional advantaged young adults to ob· Women's Club, of which she is tain job training. She is also an active member of FriendS of the parlimentarian.
Taunton Library, the Old Colony Historical Society and the Am erican Cancer Crusade. Bishop 'Meets PrIests In other Appeal news, Bishop Cronin, meeting last week with priest directors of the campaign, expressed optimism that the 1985 drive would surpass last year's record·breaking total of $1,S49, 527. Since 1976, the first year the 44·year·old Appeal surpassed the million dollar mark, the Appeal Turn to Page Seven
Women's
Housing before guns, s~ys prelate
)lastoral discussed
WASHINGTON (NC) Arch· bishop John J. O'Connor ,last week told a congressional sub-' committee that spending federal funds on weapons while the poor lack housing is "wrong." The archbishop, chairman of the IU.S. Catholic Conference Committee on Social Develop ment and Worlq Peace, address· ing the House subcommittee on housing 'and urban development, said the government must re main committed to providing low-cost housing. Asked by subcommittee mem bers how the government could afford to do so at a time of high deficits, he answered that "it gets awfully difficult just from a commonsense viewpoint to see the enormous amounts of money going into weapons expenditures ... when there is this desperate need - and I'd have to say it's wrong." Archbishop O'Connor, who as a Navy chaplain reached the rank of rear admiral, acknow ledged the need for a strong na {ional defense. However, he said, the government must provide de fense "not only against foreign potential adversaries but defense against everything that makes people vulnerable in our own society." He praised the ingenuity of ilitary personnel and said they ould find a way to do more ith ,less money. President Reagan's proposed iscal 1986 budget reduces sub· idized housing assistance from n anticipated $25.3 billion in otal spending by the end of fis al 1985 to $12.3 billion for fiscal 986.
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Sex ism, patriarchy and women's or dination topped the many issues' of women in the Catholic Church that got ,new attention last week. A committee of U.S. bishops getting ready to write a pastoral letter on women held its first hearings, gathering in Washing· ton to listen to testimony from nine national Catholic women's organizations. The bishops' hearings also oc casioned an alternative hearing in Washington sponsored by the 'Committee of Concerned' Cath olics, a group angered at the Vatican because of its conflict with some U.S. women religious over abortion views. I Common to both hearings I were anger at the church's all : male power structures, calls for ~ eliminating sexism in both the : church and society and pleas for : ordination of women. The bishops also heard wom I en urging them to promote •stronger family life and tradition I al moral values, to give more at· I tention to pastoral care of women in all situations, to advance lay ministries of women, and to strengthen lay women's organ izations in the church. They also heard requests to link sexism with racism and to write a pastoral letter on men as well as on women. At the alternative hearing some speakers' also argued for
new attitudes in the church in
, areas such as abortion, steriliza
tion, artificial hirth control and
lesbianism. That hearing was held
at a Lutheran church after the
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