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$90,000 IS sent to Azores relief At the Easter season of new life, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has transmitted $90,000 to Bishop Aurelio Granada of the diocese of Angra, Azores. The money is the proceeds of a disaster relief collection taken up in the Fall River diocese immediately following a severe New Year's Day earthquake in the Azores.

A letter from Bishop Cronin accompanied the check. Its text follows: Your Excellency, It is with a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction that I enclose herewith a check in the amount of $90,000, representing a gift from the Bishop, the clergy, the religious and the faithful laity of the Diocese of Fall River to you and to the people of God of the Diocese of Angra, our brothers and sisters, to assist in the relief of the devastation

caused,. by the dreadful earthquake which occurred in January of this year.

As you know, immediately upon hearing of the disaster, I called for a special collection to be taken up in all the parishes of the Diocese of Fall River to gather funds to transmit to Your Excellency for use in relieving the misery of victims of the earthquake and to help rebuild churches and diocesan institutions.

The generosity of the good people of the Diocese of Fall River to this plea has been most gratifying, indeed. That unique fraternal bond of .affection which unites the Diocese of Fall River to the ,oiocese of Angra, birthplace of so many of our faithful, has seldom been more apparent.

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Their fin·e·st hour WASHINGTON (iNC) "Catholic schools are probably at their finest hour," Basilian Father Frank H. Bredeweg said in a summary of a National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) .statistical report.

Despite a slight decline in enrollment, Father Bredeweg, an NCEA consultant, said in terms of academic offerings, class sizes, and facu·lty degress, experience and certification, Catholic schools are in excellent shape.

Conditions in the Fall River diocese bear out this statement.

Three out of five high schools report waiting lists for the coming academic year. They are Bishop Feehan in Attleboro, which will be at an alltime high of 950 students; Coyle-Cassidy in Taunton, which filled enrollment for September last month; and Bishop Connolly in Fall River, which has absorbed as many students as possible from Bishop Gerrard. The girl's high school, also in Fall River, will close its doors in June.

At Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, assistant principal Robert Zukowski said that September enrollment is near capacity now and it is possible that a waiting list will be needed. And at New Bedford's Holy Family, the only parochial high school in the diocese, principal William Gushue said that enter-

ing enrollment is holding at its normal figure of about 75 students.

Nationally, there was a decrease of 79,0000 students in 1979-80 in Catholic elementary and secondary schools and 83 schools were closed or consolidated, according to "Catholic Schools in America, 1980," published by NCEA and the Fisher Publishing Company.

"Catholic schools continue to stabilize. Most large scale reviews of diocesan school systems have been completed and obvious closings or consolidations .have been effected," the report stated.

"Administrative and budget procedures have been improved, with resulting better management. The drastic movement of people from city to suburbs during the 1960s, a significant factor, since Catholic schools were built in the cities, was slowed.

Finally, and most important of all, Catholic parents and students continue to enthusiastically support Catholic schools" the report concluded.

In view of the loss of schoolage population and the financial difficulties faced by any private school today, "the increased significance of private schools is indeed remarkable," said Father Bredeweg.

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JUBILARIANS CONCELEBRATE Chrism Mass with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. From left, front, Rev. John Martins, Rev. Rene Levesque, Rev. Roger Gagne; rear, Msgr. Alfred Gendreau, Rev. Jose Avila, Msgr. Henri Hamel, Rev. Edmond Levesque.

Admission rite on Sunday The second class for the Permanent Diaconate of Hie Diocese of Fall River will be. admitted to candidacy at 5:00 p.m. Sunday in the Cathedral Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Fall River.

Nineteen men wiU be admitted to candidacy for this diocese during a Mass at which Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin will be principal concelebrant.

Assisting Bishop Cronin will be Father John F. Moore, director of the permanent diaconate program, and Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, cathedral rector.

Msgr. John J. Oliveira will be master of ceremonies and Father Horace Travassos minister of music. The cathedral choir will be directed by Glen Giuttari.

The admission to candidacy for diaconal ordination is celebrated when the prospective

Youth Preparations are being finalized for Phase 2 of the youth ministry training program of the Diocese. Entitled Alive in Youth Ministry: Accepting the Challenge to Minister, the program will be held at St. Margaret's Education Center, Buzzards Bay, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12.

Those who have not registered can register between 10 and 10:30. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will begin the program at 10:30

candidates have reached maturity of purpose and demonstrated other necessary qualifications.

The present class has been in the formation program of the permanent diaconate since last September.

During the admission to candidacy ceremony, class members will publicly express their intention to pursue their desire to be ordained as deacons. The bishop then accepts their intention.

Sunday wiU be the first occasion in the dioceSe at which the newly revised Roman Pontifical text of the Admission to Candidacy ceremony will be employed.

Priests of the diocese are invited to join Bishop Cronin as Mass concelebrants and the faithful are invited to be present at the ceremony.

The prospective candidates and their parishes follow:

Richard Victor Boucher, St. Joseph, Attleboro; Chester Benny Cesolini, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet; George-Albert Joseph Collard, ..st. Mathieu, Fall River.

Michael John Concaison, Our Lady of the Assumption, New Bedford; Jose Antonio' Crespo, St. Joseph, Attleboro; Robert Aime Cyr, St. Theresa, New Bedford.

Antonio Miguel daCruz, Our Lady of the Assumption, New Bedford; Timothy Francis Desmond, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Robert Anthony Faria, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton.

Robert Delphis Lemay, Our Lady of All Saints/Our Lady of the Assumption, (Otis Air Force Base) Osterville; Roland Philias LePage, St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, So. Attleboro.

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finalized with a message of welcome and encouragement.

Dr. and Mrs. William Coleman ot Mystic, Conn. will be the leaders of the day. Parents of teenagers themselves, they have long been involved in religious education, have written religious education texts for both junior and high schooi levels, have lectured· throughout the country, and now publish a newsletter on youth ministry.

The purpose of. the day is two-

fold: to provide information to youth and those who work with youth; and to offer a forum for sharing successful ideas and projects.

The program is sponsored by the Religio.us Education Office of the Department of Education and has been planned in conjunction with the Youth Ministry Advisory Group, members of which helped present Phase 1 of the training program last fall.

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) - A petition signed by 1,000 people in Nicaragua has asked President Jimmy Carter not to send further military aid to El Salvador.

WASHINGTON (NC) ~ The federal budget resolution scheduled for debate in Congress "represents a misguided approach to fighting inflation that runs counter to the general welfare of the American people," according to a coalition that includes the U.S. Catholic Conference.

JACQUEUNE MANCINI (left) and Anne Pineault, operating room nurses at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, inspect plaque dedicating the cystology room of the hospital's operating suite to the memory of Dr. Francis J. D'Errico, a former president of St. Anne's medical staff.

ROME (NC) - "The Holy See is convinced that the peace and survival of Lebanon are essential elements for equilibrium and peace in the Middle East," said Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state, on his return from a five-day factfinding mission in Lebanon.

SEATTLE (NC) - The 68 persons found guilty of trespassing in February during protests against the Trident nuclear submarine, including priests and nuns, were given jaii terms and fines ranging ,from six months and $500 to 60 days' suspended sentence with three years' probation and a 1$50 fine.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul iII has named Boston-born Msgr. William Murphy, 39, as undersecretary of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission.

BOSTON (NC) - The Massachusetts school prayer law was struck down because "prayer is necessarily religious, not secular," according to an explanation from the state's Supreme Judicial Court.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul -II has given the title of monsignor to -Father Frederick R. McManus, 57, dean of graduate studies at the Catholic University of America and a widely known canonist and liturgist.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Recent meetings in the Soviet Union between Russian Orthodox and Catholic delegations were successful in furthering ecumenical relations, according to Novosti, a Soviet press agency.

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PIDL SCAFFIDI, captain of the Niagara University basketball team, shoots a basket. Although crippled by cancer and requiring knee braces to walk, he" set school records in the game and inspired his teammates.

He died last month at age 23. (NC Photo)

AUSTIN, Texas (NC) - Texas bishops have criticized a suggestion by the chairman of the state Department of Human Resources that welfare women be sterilized if they have a second child.

DES MOINES,lowa (NC) - Plans to build an interfaith Church of the¡ Land commemorating Pope John Paul Irs visit to Iowa last October are underway, with early May slated for groundbreaking ceremonies.

PANAMA CITY, Panama (NC) - If some leftist movements grow within the church, it is the fault of government repression and not because of church encouragement, said Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City. "There is common cause between the churches and the left and other groups against repression and violence," he said after returning from the funeral of murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, El Salvador. <

WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic Extension Society, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the Glenmary Home Missioners and the ,Paulist Office for Evangelization are joining to develop and promote a training conference for Catholic evangelists scheduled for Aug. 21-23 in Washington.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Federal programs that assist elementary and secondary education, especially in non-public schools, will be studied at a workshop co-sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Conference's Department of 'Education and the Catholic University of America's School of Education. .

MSGR. JAMES W. ASIP, 67, director of the Brooklyn Society for the Propagation of the Faith, beats New York transit strike by riding his 10speed bike to work. His l"-shirt reads "Asip's the name, mission's my game." (NC Photo)

LANSING, Mich. (NC) - Father Norman rA. Dukette, 89, t~e oldest black priest in the United States, has died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Flint, Mich.

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Father Edmond R. Levesque, for years an associate pastor at St. George parish, Westport, where Father Morais was pastor for 21 years, was homilist.

Born in Fall River, Father Morais attended Notre Dame grammar school in that city and St. Hyacinthe minor seminary in Canada. He completed his studies for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and was ordained in 1925 by

Sr. Lusignan Funeral services were held last week for Sister Anne Marie Lusignan, RJM, 76, who died at Jesus Mary Retirement Center, Fall River, where she had served as a nurse's aide for the past four years.

Born in St. Guillaume, Canada, she came to Fall River in 1917 and entered the Jesus Mary community in 1930. During her religious life she taught in schools in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maryland.

She is survived by three sisters, Sister Gertrude Lusignan, RJM of Holy Family Convent, Woonsocket; Mrs. Cecile Moquin, Fall River; and Mrs. Edward Dupuis, Manchester, Conn.; • and three brothers, Albert of Fall River; Arthur of Hartford, Conn.; and Gerard of Long Branch, N.J.

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During his pastorate the sprawling country parish grew in numbers to the point of being subdivided twice. It is the mother parish for Our Lady of Grace, North Westport, and St. Julie BiIIiart, North Dartmouth.

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The Case for Private Schools The interest that a diocesan newspaper must manifest in support of the educational activities of the church must be more than mere tokenism. Editorials in support of nonpublic, private schools are written to uphold the fundamental rights granted to citizens by the judicial decrees of this country.

Because of the many grave difficulties faced by public education in the current social milieu, the role of private or non-public education has become even more i'mportant in upholding the moral fi~re of our nation.

This is reflected in recent educational statistics which clearly indicate that as the school-age population continues to decline, private schools are holding their oyvn.

In a recent address to national representatives of nonpublic education, Dr. Edward D'Alessio, Deputy U.S. Commissioner of Education, Office of Non-Public Education, noted that this trend was due to several factors; and stressed the importance of realizing the various ways in which non-public schools serve the public interest.

He listed the following contributions: 1. They provide quality education in secular fields of study, thus equipping students with the knowledge and skills to contribute in a meaningful and significant way to our nation's economic, social, cultural and political life;

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2. They render a significant service "in educating the minorities, the poor and disadvantaged;

"Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.'

Ps. 132:1 3. They represent significant savings on taxpayer's

costs for public education; 4. They make'viable and operative the right of parent路 choice, under law, in education; 5. They proclaim the place of moral values in education.

The deputy director readily admitted that this nonpublic form of education is markedly different from its public counterpart. Yet there are many parents who want and appreciate that difference.

It is refreshing to note that a federal official has something positive to say about private education, even if he owes his job to the fact that the government now has an office of non-public education. It really is about time that the federal bureaucracy realize that private education deserves more than governmental tokenism.

There are 20,000 private elementary and secondary schools in the United States with a current enrollment of more than five million students. During the past five years there has been a marked private school enrollment increase. In fact, as the general school age population decreases, private schools are showing a marked growth potential. .

However, this growth is not without pain 'in our present inflated economy. Would one dare to hope that somehow this federal office might in the near future suggest that tax relief of some fair and constitutional nature be granted to those parents who dare witness to the basic democratic tenet of freedom of choice? Parents should not be penalized because they choose to uphold their constitutional rights!

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True, univer'sities SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (NC) - Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, said that a Catholic university's acceptance of divine revelatibn does not prevent it from being a true university.

Acc~ptance of divine revelation is the most important fact about the Catholic university, Father Hesburgh said in an address at Seton Hall University.

"The fact that the world has greatly changed .since the high Middle Ages of our Western history does not diminish the need for a university that does its thinking and its teaching, its research and its service in an atmosphere of faith in God and his word, aware of his providence and his grace," Father Hesburgh said. "The Catholic university should be such a place, a kind of spiritual oasis in a world that is so often in intellectual and moral disarray and doubt."

Faith in truths beyond reason "does not mean in any way that the Catholic university should be any less a university in the full modern sense of that word," said the Notre Dame president.

"Like all modern universities, the Catholic university must be autonomous and free, a place where the human mind can range as widely as possible. All universities must be without walls, places where all the important questions facing modern men and women are plumbed to their depths, where all manner of answers inspired by a firm faith in God and his word."

Father Hesburgh said that in

Catholic universities must include a "philosophical and theological dimension" because "all human problems have a philosophical and theological dimension, if one plunges into them deeply and not superficially."

He continued: "Human happiness are not merely matters of biology, chemistry or political science. Human destiny is more He contended . that without than history or geography. Love philosophy and theology "whole- and hate, war and peace, freeness of vision will not ultimately dom and bondage, compassion be possible, nor will a profound and brutality are not merely a sense of human dignity and matter of genes. Family and parenthood, fidelity and dedication sanctity and integrity prevail." transcend sociology. Values do Father Hesburgh rejected the not emerge from science and view that Catholic universities technology. Even law must look cannot be true universities be- beyond itself for its reasoned cause they are committed. "Uni- ordinances and civilizing misversities today," he said, "are, sion.

Father Hesburgh argued that through their distinguished faculty, committed to a wide variety the current discussion of human of intellectual attitudes: agnosto- rights in the United States and cism, scientism, relativism, sub- abroad has no intellectual underjectivism, with all their varia- pinning "if it is not found in the tions too numerous to mention. transcendental dignity of the I would submit that I can live human person."

Father Hesburgh also urged with all these commitments, freely chosen, sincerely em- Catholic universities to be open braced, but it would seem only to the views of others. We fair that they also live with our should listen to everyone and be commitment, freely chosen and ready to discuss anything with sincerely embraced, especially anyone," he said. "Especially, since all of these other com- we should respect everyone's mitments are limited to one or intellectual sincerity and' hope another way of knowing, while for open-mindedness, not necour commitment is open to all essarily agreement, with what ways of knowing, science, the- we and they have to say, what ology, artistic or poetic intuition, we anc~ they also believe or hypothesis, analysis, and synthe- . doubt. Openness to all is the sis of all kinds, but each with best way of bringing all together their proper freedom and limita- across the gulf of deep-set misand prejuunderstandings tions." .

Father Hesburgh stressed that dices." a Catholic university there is an assured presence of the disciplines of philosophy and theology "that seek. ultimate rather than merely proximate answers, eternal rather than solely temporal solutions, to the truly great questions and problems that have beset human beings since they began to think, to question, to r~ason on earth."

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The trust trap "Don't you trust me?"

How often do we hear from budding and blooming ado-

lescents? As familiar as it is, it usually catches the parent in midauthority. Our first reaction tends to be defensive, i.e., "Of course, we trust you. It's just that . . . " and we mumble things about earlier broken trust or not trusting their friends.

We dislike facing the question itself. Do we trust them? Sometimes yes, other times no. Whichever, we need to prepare ourselves to deal with the inevitable trust trap.

It's often used to make parents feel guilty for setting a rule or demanding a standard. When we say, "Come home right after the dance," and the youth reacts with, "What's the matter, don't you trust me?", we should be confident enough of our loving parenthood to say, "That's another question. I want you home right after the dance because ..." and state the reasons.

Sometimes, we simply have to respond to the question honestly, "I'm not sure I do trust you on this but I'd like to, so maybe if you keep this rule a few times, we won't need it in the future.'~

But the best way to deal with the trust trap is to turn it

around. How often do young people refuse to trust their parents? When we set a rule and our motivation is questioned, the youngster is revealing a basic distrust of us. He presumes the rule is set for our convenience, not his protection. .

A common example is when we ~et a rule regarding use of the car and we hear, "Oh, don't worry, I'm not going to wreck your precious car." At this point it's perfectly reasonable for the . parent to react with, "Don't you trust me? Don't you believe me when I say I'm concerned for your safety?"

Or when we limit a friendship and our teenager says, "Don't you trust me?" we should feel free to respond, "And you don't trust me if you don't think I'm genuinely interested in your welfare. Why don't you trust me in this?"

Family trust is a precious commodity, not a charge to be flung about idly, if we get emotionally upset and defensive when we hear it from our offspring, we're cheapening it. Even though we may be angry inside, it's preferable to react calmly to the issue, dealing with the situation at hand rather than the question of trust.

Then - and this is an important followup - we should

Our intelligentsia A quarter of a century .ago, there was a lot of self-criticism about the absence of a Catholic intelligentsia. Led

by Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, many Catholic writers lamented the fact that there were so few Catholic intellectuals. No one considered that half the Catholics in the United States at that time were either immigrants or the children of immigrants and that it takes at least a generation after immigration to produce scholars.

Nor did they consider that Msgr. Ellis' data' represented past and not present career choices of young people. Indeed, Professor James A. Davis had already published evidence that Catholics were choosing academic, intellectual, artistic and literary careers at a rate higher than that of white Protestant Americans.

But the official leadershfp of the church (hierarchy and its national staff) is scared stiff of smart and well-educated people.

The clergy would have to be even more guilty about their bad sermons if they realized that their congregations are packed with people better educated than most priests.

So everyone preten'ds that the church is not failing to take seriously its obligations to minister to schools and intellectuals.

The excuse is tha.t, after all, there are not that many such people.

In fact, a quarter of the younger faculty at the top universities in the country are identifying Roman Catholics. A third of the Catholics under 30 have or expect to have graduateschool degrees. Even some of the elite private universities like Princeton, Harvard and the University of Chicago are willing to admit Catholics to faculty positions.

• The secular academy is virtually unaware that it is going through its second great transformation in the last half century. Between 1945 and 1955 a quarter of the professorate became Jewish. Between 1965 and 1980 a quarter of the professorate became Catholic. The first change was both highly visible and quickly noted. The second change is almost invisible, both because the prejudices of the academy say that it's not possible and because Catholic ethnics are inclined to be discreet.

It does not follow, however, that the change is any less basic or less important. All that follows is that the change will be accomplished before anyone knows it.

The church is content to ignore its own intelligentsia. The institutional church does not have and does not want a presence in university scholarship.

The so-called Catholic universities go out of their way to hire non-Catholic faculty so that there will be nothing distinctively

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deal with the question or trust at a later time, not forgetting it until the next outburst of "Don't you trust me?" Perhaps a couple of days after the incident, the parent can bring up the idea of trust. "Remember when you said I didn't trust you the other day?

Do you really think I don't?"

Many parents don't trust their children enough. Others trust them for too much. It's hard to know where to draw the line and, as always, we walk the tightrope between extremes.

But sadder than the parent who occasionally misjudges trust in his child is the parent who caves in at the charge, "You don't trust me." This child is using the trust trap as a device to get his way. He plays on his parents' uncertainty in setting standards. Ironically, the question itself betrays lack of trust in the parent. He is manipulating his parents in a way that is demeaning to both himself and his parents because he wants to be able to trust them to be parents.

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'Jimmy ,s,eeks advice Dear Abby: I am a Christian gentleman with good teeth and a big job. My problem is I cannot get out of town. I don not want to leave home. I am happily married, and we have a nice place with a rose garden. But I would like to get out and around the country to defend my reputation. People are saying all sorts of things about me, people who want my job and couldn't do it for five minutes.

I am not really lonely, although my wife is away a lot. I give her the plane and she flies around telling people that I really care about them. I also have a lot of folks come by and I'm on the telephone a lot, so you see I'm not out of touch.

It is awful the way people turn on you. I bailed out New York City with loan guarantees, and when they should have said thank you March 25, they said "drop dead" instead. It is unfair.

I was pained about the Jewish voters. They had reason to be grateful to me. I spent almost two weeks at Camp David getting things settled in the Middle East. But just because of one miserable vote in the U.N., which I later plainly said was a mistake - and for which Cy Vance took the blame - they were against me four to one.

I sent Muhammad Ali to Harlem to tell the black people that I love them. Wha\ did they send back? A "message." How can I rebuild the South Bronx when I have to build up our national defenses?

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cooperate with my voluntary wage and price guidelines. They didn't seem interested. I suppose they think that just because I have decontrolled oil prices, I am on the side of big oil. I often have criticized their lobscene profits.

I feel that if I could get out' of Washington, I could explain everything. The reason I can't is because of something I said in February. I said I was not going to resume business-asusual until our hostages came home.

I had no way of knowing how long it would drag on. I have done many things, encouraged prayers and the ringing of church bells, but nothing seems to work. At first, everybody except that other person admired the way I handled it all, but people are fickle, aren't they?

I am surprised the Russians have not withdrawn from Afghanistan. I thought the Olympic boycott would bring Brezhnev to his knees. Why blame me because our allies won't play?

They're acting like some of our own athletes. The young tend to be selfish. How else can you explain the response of students to my call for registration? I prom'ised them they will not be drafted. How could they doubt me?

The reason I am writing to you is that everybody around here is stumped. You can see the trouble. If I go .out and remind people of the wonderful things I've done for them, the press - a large part of the problem, of course - will yammer that I've given up on the hostages and am out campaigning for my life.

I know of only one diocese in the country - Tucson, under I went out the other day to the amazing leadership of Bishop Frank Green and Msgr. Tom speak to the National ConferBut the longer I stay here, Calahane - that makes a sys- ence of State Legislatures. But the more people will expect me I was disappointed in the legistematic attempt even to be nice to do something. Should I ask to its professorate. There may lators. I used to be one myself, the other person here for a de-" be other dioceses which have at- as I told them, but they didn't bate, so they'lL stop talking tempted seriously to keep in clap a single time. They were about me and start talking about touch with their intelligentsia sulking because I'm cutting state him again? and I'll happily nole them if I'm revenue sharing. informed. At this moment, howSigned: I told them what I am not goever, I have to say that Tucson ing to do. I most certainly will Desperate Jimmy is the only place I know that ac- .not impose mandatory wage and knowledges that it has a pro- price controls, which, as you fessorate within its boundaries know, are being pushed by a - and does not seem to be large person of Irish descent Next week's Anchor will be a either embarrassed or threatened who goes anywhere he wants in special Marriage Issue. Our regby that fact. this country and says anything . ular features will not appear. he likes about me.

Material submitted for Steering So the church ministers to the Points, therefore, should concern poor and the minorities and that It is absolutely not true that I events happening on or after is its obligation. It ignores its won't try controls because this members with Ph.D.'s and even other person is for them. He April 24. feels virtuous for having done doesn't bother me at all - I so. Many of the readers of this know he could never get my column (and most of ~he priests job - but I feel it is my duty THE ANCHOR and bishops who still bother to to point out "political coward(USPS·545·020) Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, read it) will also feel virtuous ice and demagaguery" whenever Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 because they ignore the Ph.D.'s it occurs.

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he found his own community according to the Franciscan rule.

At that time, the bishop knew of no women qualified for such an undertaking, but concurrently three young women in Philadelphia had approached a Redemptorist pastor in the city expressing their desire to establish a Franciscan community. When Bishop Neumann received this news, he saw it as the will of God fulfilling the papal recommendation.

Thus begun, with Mother Mary Francis Bachmann as foundress, the new community expanded its responsibilities through the years frqm the care of working girls to teaching and nursing; conducting schools, hospitals and programs for the elderly; serving in campus ministry; providing guidance and direction to prisoners; serving on hospital pastoral teams; conducting retreats; directing religious education programs on all levels; working with minority groups; caring for "street ladies;" and staffing social service agencies and diocesan offices.

The theme for the anniversary celebration has been announced

by Sister Rose Cecilia Case, general minister, as "Rooted in faith, Anchored in hope, An. mated in love."

She said the celebration would be based on love, praise of God and sharing of presence and goods "in a fitting response in justice to the needs of the church and its poor."

The observance opened yesterday with a Mass at St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. The year to come will include celebration of significant days in community history and will conclude with a closing Mass on April 9, 1981.

In New Bedford, the Sisters of St. Francis have been at St. Mary's Home since its opening in 1894, giving thousands of boys and girls the next best thing to family. care.

In early days the home sheltered as many as 200 children at one time, mainly from povertystricken families. Today the enrollment is about 35 youngsters, reflecting the trend towards placing children in foster homes rather than in institutions. The children in care, however, frequently have problems far more serious than those of earlier days and the demands on the sisters, although different, are no less intense than in the past.

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An extended youth workshop offered at no charge to young adults of all denominations will be a feature of the 1980 Catholic Charismatic Conference of New England, to be held at the Providence Civic Center the weekend of Sept. 5 to 7. Larry Alberts of the Servants of God community of Minneapolis will speak and music will be by Jon ·Polce.

Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, will preside at a Sunday liturgy with rBishop Louis Gelineau of Providence as principal celebrant and Bishop Raymond A. Lucker.of New Ulm, Minn. as homilist.

Father John Bertolucci of Little Falls, N.Y. will be master of ceremonies for the conference.

Speakers will include Father Joseph Lange, Auburn, Ms., Dr. David duPlessis, Oakland, Calif., Father Real Bourque, OMI, Washington, D.C., and Ms. Barbara Wright of Providence.

These fashions· will be different A highlight of the annual convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, to be held Saturday, April 26 at CoyleCassidy High School, Taunton, will be a "visual narrative" of women who made Bible history.

"Real live models will display fashions that are really qualities," say organizers. They will include Patience, Faith, Trust, Wisdom and Nobility.

"A model is defined as a replica of the real thing, a person who represents or displays merchandise or a pattern to be· followed," continue the planners.

"It is generally agreed that these models are all three and must be seen and heard to be truly appreciated."

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Continued from page one April 25 Rev. John J. Wade, 1940, AsCorpus Christi, Sandwich; Richard Joseph Murphy Sr., St. Fran- sistant, Sacred Heart, Fall River Rev. Raymond J. Lynch, 1955, . cis, Hyannis; Robert ·WUfrid Pel:Chaplain, Catholic Memorial land, St. Stephen, Attleboro.

Home, Fall River Continued from page one Thomas ·Francis Prevost, St. The process of collecting Michael, Ocean Grove; Robert April 27 and tabulating· the proceeds Benoit Raymond, St. Anne, Fall Rev. Francis J. ·Bradley, D.D., of the collection taken up in River; John Lawrence. Rogers, 1925, Rector, Cathedral, Fall each parish here in the DioSt. Stanislaus, Fall River.

River cese of Fall River has now Rev. Romeo D. Archambault, Lawrence Alan St. Onge, St. ,been completed, and I can Theresa, New Bedford; Joseph 1949, St. Anne, New Bedford think of no more appropriPatrick Stanley, Our Lady of April 28 ate time to transmit to you, Victory, Centerville.

Rev. Stanislaus J. Goyette, dear Bishop, the total real1959, Pastor, St. Louis de ized. 'In this most sacred France, Swansea season, when we celebrate the Paschal Mystery, please April 30 Continued from page one know that with our gift, we Rev. David F. Sheedy, 1930, send, as well, the assurance "Many parents, students and Pastor, St. John the Evangelist, of prayerful unity with you educators believe that education Attleboro and the people of the Diomust include the values and conRev. John A. Hurley, 1900, siderations of religion and the Pastor, St. Mary, North Attlecese of Angra. May the behavior that such beliefs call boro Risen Savior, the beacon of forth, that secular knowledge is hope for all mankind, bring May I in no way compromised by the in a most special manner a Rev. Francis J. Quinn, 1882, integration of religious values full measure of His graces and that personal and institution- Founder, Immaculate Concepand blessings to you and to al discipline is essential to the tion, North Easton; Founder, Sathe faithful of the Diocese cred Heart, Fall River process." of Angra.

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Do It Now "Time is so fleeting tltat if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking about him".-Hans Christian Andersen

the mail pocket Letterl ere welcomed. but should be no more than 200 words. The editor reserv.. the right to condense or edit. If deemed necessary. All letters must be signed Ind Include a home or business Iddress.

Two ingredients Dear Editor: Last September 'I enrolled both my sons in St. Mary's primary school, Taunton. Myoidest son had spent the previous five years in a public school system where he had experienced every learning hardship possible.

Instead of a "can-do" attitude, his low self·image was reinforced by a system that believed children should learn at their own pace. In less than a year he has gone from "Failure" to "Average" achievement. He is fortunate to have a teacher who has convinced him that he can do well with a little effort.

Our children are not only learning the basics, they now have a much broader understanding of their religion. Christmas was much more meaningful this year.

I know there are many parents experiencing the same dilemma Viltth public education.

They want to know why this is so with their high budgets and extravagant "teaching aids." It is obvious to me that they lack the two main ingredients necessary for children to learn; dedication and discipline. Along with love, there is much of this at St. Mary's.

Marie V. Campo South Easton

Erroneous columns Dear Editor: r am a resident of another state and diocese who spends a lengthy annual winter vacation on Cape Cod. My many relatives and friends residing on the Cape provide me with copies of "The :Anchor" which I find both informative and beneficial.

The Anchor editorial on January 24, 1980, regarding the writings of priest-sociologist Andrew Greeley made me feel that a great weakness, in an otherwise excellent paper - the publication of ,Fr. Greeley's erroneous columns - was being recognized. His columns, when appearing in a Catholic publication, are a matter of considerable lengthy and confused conversation that is to me a matter of growing concern.

When .Fr. Greeley recently stated that Pope John Paul II by censuring Fr. Hans Kung had "cut himself off from the Catholic theological community" he really showed his lack of Jove and respect for the Vicar of Christ and his divinely instituted Church. ,I hope The Anchor will soon reinforce its own editorial position by discontinuing the publishing of his erroneous and damaging columns.

John F. Fox

Dear Editor: With the modern trend among youth questioning "What do I get from the Mass?" I thought you might find a spot in your Anchor for the answer I herewith enclose.

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IBy every Mass you can diminish the temporal punishment due to your sins, more or less, according to your fervor.

By devoutly assisting at Holy Mass you render the greatest homage possible to the Sacred Humanity of our Lord.

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"I KNOW THE LORD is holding and keeping him for me" says Mrs. Richard Gallegos of her son Bill, one of the hostages being held by Iranian militants in Teheran. (NC Photo)

Prayer keeps her going

By James Fiedler PUEBLO, Colo (NC) - "I miss him and I worry about him . . . but I know that the Lord is holding him and keeping him for me," said Mrs. Richard Gallegos, mother of Marine Cpl. William Gallegos, one of the 50 hostages being held by Iranian militants at the U.S. embassy in Teheran.

The latest American contact with the hostages came Easter Sunday when three clergymen, including Father Darrell Rupiper of Omaha Neb., conducted services for them, meeting them in groups of two or three.

Father Rupiper said the hostages declared they were well treated and receiving good food, but were anxious to .get home.

He said he did not think they knew of the progress of the negotiations for their release.

"God has been so good to me . . . He's let me see Bill every so often on television before I go off the deep end . . . even though I can't touch him."

The Gallegos home in Pueblo, on a street of well-kept, modest homes, is easy to spot. A U.S. flag and a crepe-paper yellow ribbon showing sympathy and support for the hostages wave from the wrought-iron porch columns.

I had arrived at the Gallegos home a few minutes after a phone call from Chicago had informed the family that their son could be seen in an NBC news filmclip that evening on the 130th day of the U.S. hostages' captivity.

Dick Gallegos, the father, had come home early from his work as a forklift driver at the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company.

"They're good people there," Teresa said of the Pepsi Cola plant. "They're some of the greatest people in this town."

Dick said the company lets him off whenever something important happens - like his son's appearing on TV. And they paid his wages when he went to Washington for a gathering of the hostages' families, Dick said.

Before the program started, Mrs. Gallegos talked about her son, her feelings: her faith.

"At times you do get a little desperate," she said, "but yOll ask the Lord again and again to hold him and keep him well for you."

She said that the hostage situation had made her "more religious."

"I always heard people talk about praying to God and how God answers prayers . . . but I never knew what they meant '·Td go to church, say my prayers . . . when crises came . .. but it wasn't a total day and and night trust in God . . .

"When this happened . it's day and night . . . it just doesn't go away ...

"For some reason, I feel Bill is holding his faith also."

In a recent letter she received from Bill, she said, the Marine told her, "The only one I have to trust in is God and he will deliver us when the time is right."

As a child, Bill was religious, Mrs. Gallegos said softly, with tears in her eyes. "He had a crucifix given to him when he was born . . . When he would get sick as a child, like when he would catch a cold, he would say, 'I feel awful . . . please bring me my Jesus' . . .

"When he left for Teheran, I bought him a Christ medal, and I had inscribed on it: "With love from Mom and Dad.' I gave it to him and told him, 'Never take it off!' . . .

"I wonder if he's able to wear it now," she said.

The Gallegos have four children: Bill, 21; Ramon, 17; Letizia, 18; and Richard, 19.

The NBC Ev~ning News came on then, and a crew from KOAA"TV in Pueblo was there to film the family's reactions and comments on their son's appearance.

"There's my baby," she cried when Bill first appeared on TV. When it was obvious that the segment was over, she said, "Oh God, is that all?"

A few minutes later, more composed, she said, "I just thank the Lord . . . I do believe he does answer prayers . . . The Lord does answer prayers . . .

I had wanted to see something again to show me Bill is fine · . . The Lord has answered my prayers."

Mrs. Gallegos has lost about 30 pounds since the seizure of the American hostages by Iranian militants. She had a slight stroke about a year ago and consequently has no side vision in her left eye. And she is on medication.

"If God wouldn't have been so good, I probably would have had another stroke," she said.

The family has received nearly 1,000 letters and cards from people saying they are praying for Bill Gallegos. "They send religious medals . . . prayers · . . All say the same thing keep your faith" Teresa said.

Describing how she goes through her days, she said, "I cry a lot . . . I scream a lot . . .

I take medication . . . I pray a lot . . . I just beg God if that's the word ... He must be listening . . .

"The times when I feel low · . . The times when I wonder what to do ... I always pick up the Bible."

Dick spoke up: "Faith keeps you going."

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Man of many wardrobes Ask Father Albert J. Ryan to describe himself, and he is likely to say that he is "a man of many wardrobes."

Father Ryan, an assistant pastor of St. Mary's Church in Taunton, doesn't limit himself to clerical garb. He is also likely to be seen wearing a fireman's slicker or the uniform of an Air Force Reserve major.

In adition to his parish duties at St. Mary's, Rev. Ryan is the chaplain for the Taunton Fire Department, and serves as the staff chaplain for the 439th Tactical Airlift Wing at Westover Air Force Base, near Chicopee.

The 439th TAW is an .Air Force Reserve unit, and Rev. Ryan heads a staff of three chaplains who tend to the spiritual.needs of Westover's parttime fliers and support personnel.

One weekend a month, and for two weeks during the summer, Chaplain Ryan trades his black clerical garb for a set of Air Force blues and devotes himself to a different type of ministry.

That can mean celebrating Mass in a pilot's briefing room, hearing confessions in an airplane hangar, or counselling an airman on a flight line.

"It's different from secular parish work, but I enjoy it" Father Ryan said.

"I spent eight years on active duty as a chaplain with the Air Force, but I enjoy being able to combine my civilian responsibilities with' a part-time military career. It is truly the best of both worlds," he said.

A native of Boston, Rev. Ryan was ordained a priest in 1958 at Litchfield, Conn. He taught in a seminary and was involved in parish work until 1966, when

he decided to enter the regular Air Force as a chaplain.

He says the decision was motivated, at least in part, by "brotherly love." .

"My brother was a career Air Force recruiter, and he signed me up," Father Ryan says with a smile.

FATHER RYAN He served on active duty at various stations from 1966 until 1974. The assignments included tours in Greece and Thailand, as well as at several stateside airbases.

After leaving active duty, Father Ryan returned to parish at St. Mary's work, serving parish, North Attleboro, for three years and at St. Mary's, Taunton, since February, 1979.

Last year he was incardinated as a priest of the Fall River diocese.

He has retained his officer's commission with the Air Force Reserve and for the past four years has traveled to Westover for a weekend each month.

Chaplain Ryan's staff at Westover includes another Cath- • olic priest, Chaplain (Capt.) William Charbonneau, and a Protestant minister, Chaplain (Capt.)

Francesco Passamonte.

"Ecumenism is a very real word in the military chaplaincy, because we share facilities and try to help everyone, regardless of religious affiliation," Father Ryan said. "We view our job as _ that of bringing the liturgy to our Reservists, and being available to assist them with problems or concerns." .

Despite the fact the chaplain only sees his "flock" once a month when military training sessions are held, Rev. Ryan feels the chaplains do have an opportunity to make an impact.

"We offer a neutral, nonthreatening atmosphere which may help people to talk with us a~out problems or spiritual concerns that they would be reluctant to discuss with their local clergymen," Father Ryan said.

Rev. Ryan occasionally rides as a passenger on some of the airplanes flown by the Westover Reservists, and has the opportunity for travel when the 439th is deployed, or when he attends an Air Force school or conference.

"I truly enjoy my service as a chaplain with the Air Force Reserve," Father Ryan added.

"I like the people, and find that my duties offer a change of pace.."

'Washington for Jesus' rally WASHINGTON (NC) - Catholic leaders preparing for the April 29 Washington for Jesus rally on the Mall have said they hope that the event's political undercurrents won't drown its prayer power.

Washington for Jesus, a broad coalition of charismatic evangelical and Protestant churches and other groups, expects to bring a million Christians to Washington April 29, the date in 1607 when English settlers at Cape Henry, Va., planted the first cross on American soil.

Father John Randall, pastor of St. Charles Church in Providence, R.I., and a member of the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the United States, is on the rally steering committee.

Father Michael Scanlon, president of the College of Steubenville, Ohio, will speak at the rally with Father John Bertolucci, another leading Catholic charismatic.

Leaders of several Catholic charismatic prayer groups and communities from the Washington area are also participating as local sponsors.

"I had fears of the political use of the event," said Father Randall. In fact, the steering committee recently revised a paper pinpointing specific political issues. It is now concentrating on the spiritual purposes of the rally.

Father Randall said he' got "enthused about the rally, particularly as I began to read and study about our American heritage. It truly was meant to be 'one nation under God.' " Father Randall sought endorsement of the rally from Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Lyons of Washington and Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Bishops will be in Chicago that day for their general spring meeting.

The results of meetings with Bishops Lyons and Kelly did not produce an official endorsement, but a list of bishops' names.

Father Randall wrote a letter to the bishops informing them of the rally and "what they could do pastorally to encourage Catholics to attend."

"There was concern about the (political) undercurrents of the

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rally," said Ed Horan, staff memo ber of the bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Charismatic Renewal who sat in on the meeting with Bishop Lyons and Fath.er Randall.

"Since the beginning, many have had fears of this turning political. There have been fears that this rally could be tied to efforts to establish a Christian voting bloc, and the support of the Catholic bishops would obviously be a powerful tool in drawing Catholics."

In the letter the priest tells the bishops that the rally has three purposes: "to raise up the lordship of Jesus;" to "pray for the civil authorities in our nation as Paul enjoins us" and "to be an expression of unity in the body of Christ."

He added, "I feel this could be perhaps the largest grassroots ecumenical gathering of God's people this country has yet seen.

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Next comes preparing the soil.

For me this means turning over my compost heaps and preparing them for use in April and May. Once the compost is ready a time which varies with the amount of heat and rain in April, the major job begins of spreading it about an inch thick all

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2) You will probably need to stay with your young child for all or most of his practice sessions. If you know a little about music, it helps. Even if you do not, however, you can help him organize, a difficult challenge.

Know what music has been assigned. See that he practices all his music. See that he goes over the difficult parts. Most children like to skip the hard parts and play what they already know well. Your task is to encourage him to practice the difficult parts. At the same time listen to the things he does well.

The child gets pleasure and satisfaction from playing what he already knows. Help him balance the easy and the difficult.

3) Consider what outside incentives you might offer. Enthusiasm for music might be enough to motivate your child.

However, after Ii while, treats

and rewards might also help to provide incentive. Food, money or a privilege might all be used as rewards. You might give a star for each practice. Four stars (four days) in a week merit a small treat; five stars, a medium treat; six stars, a big treat.

You can help your child by finding a regular time, helping with the practices and providing incentives. If you start lessons, continue long enough to give them a good try. Expect occasional grumpy days. In general, however, music should be fun.

If your child develops a real dislike for practicing, stop lessons and introduce music in other ways. Select records which will expose him to music of all sorts at home. Consider the school band where most practicing can be done during school time. Or consider piano at a later age when the child is more mature and better able to structure his own time and practicing.

The most important goal is not to make your child a great musician but to give him knowledge and a liking for the great gift of music.

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Along with the compost I spread as much well-rotted manure as I have on hand or can get.

This is used in the vegetable garden as well as the flower beds.

As' soon as the soil is workable the job begins of turning over the vegetable garden for a planting of the eatly spring vegetables, including radishes, lettuce and peas. Actual planting is held off until the soil has been prepared with compost and manure.

The point to all this is obvious.

Too often we plant new flowers or vegetables in the existing soil while giving very little thought to the condition of that soil. Ten hours work on the soil prior to planting is worth 50 hours after-

wards.

I recommend to beginners that they take the time to have a soil analysis done before they begin planting. If need be, buy an inexpensive soil analysis kit and do the job yourself. Once you find out what is deficient in your soil you can easily rectify it and begin gardening on a sound basis.

Trial and error can befrustrating and expensive when it comes to the garden. But once your soil is in good condition, it is loose and friable, draining reasonably well and containing sufficient nutrients, you are on your way to a green thumb. Without reasonably good soil, it is next to impossible to expect to grow good plants. Fertilizing heavily after the fact can help in the short run, but will most likely not lead to a successful long term garden.

Notre Dame ban NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) . The University of Notre Dame will observe a ban on Campbell's and Libby's products as a result of a student referendum that supported migrant workers in Ohio tomato fields.

With half the undergraduates voting, 2,012 favored the ban and 1,321 opposed it.

The vote was a victory for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, which has accused agribusiness firms of using their leverage as crop buyers to discourage Ohio tomato growers from signing contracts with unions representing migrant workers. The firms maintain

they are neutral third-parties in the dispute.

Bishop William E. McManus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., supported the ban, which covers dining halls, a fast food and delicatessen operation, and vending machines.

A year ago, Notre Dame students approved a boycott of Nestle products because of allegations that the parent company has distributed infant formula in underdeveloped coulltries with harmful results.

In 1973, students voted a boycott of non-union lettuce and the university maintained that boycott for five years.

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By Father John Dietzen Q. This summer [ attended a charismatic meeting and liturgy at a retreat house in our dIo· cese. The basket of hosts was passed around. One lady in our group was not Catholic so [ passed the basket to a Catholic.

Another Catholic lady took the .basket and handed it to the non..

Catholic, who took it and received the host. She also drank the wine froin the chalice.

Has the church given its approval for this? Also, may Catholics receive Communion at non-Catholic services? Some· of my friends have told me they do.

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A. According to your description of the ceremony, I wonder if perhaps this was not a celebration of the Eucharist but rather what is called a paraliturgical service. Such a service is not an actual liturgy in the official Catholic sense; it may have many similarities to the Eucharist.

I have been present several times at a "sharing of the bread and wine" ceremony which is obviously intended to recall the Last Supper, but which everyone present understands is not a real Mass.

If the ceremony you attended was an actual eucharistic liturgy, there were a lot of serious problems about it. First of all, a non-Catholic member of the group unquestionably should not receive the Eucharist under these circumstances. If the priest in charge knows it is being done, he should kindly but clearly explain the Catholic teaching and policy about Communion of nonCatholic Christians at a Catholic Mass.

I also have serious concerns about the whole liturgy you describe, again assuming it was a valid eucharistic. ceremony. The bread should under no circumstances be "passed around" as you describe it either before or after the eucharistic prayer.

Communion should be distributed by the priest or other eucharistic minister in the proper way for the symbolism of the Eucharist to be fulfilled.

The same goes for drinking from the cup.

Catholics should not receive Communion at ~n official eucharistic or "Last Supper" liturgy in a Protestant church. Again, however, sharing the bread and wine at a para-liturgical devotional ceremony with people of other faiths is certainly permitted.

Obviously at least a few people in the ceremony you attended were confused. Whoever is in charge of such a ceremony should make clear to everyone, for the sake of their own consciences, the precise nature of that ceremony.

Q. I am a devoted Roman Catholic going with a girl who belongs to a Ukrainian Catholic Church.

I need to know whether this

Father Michel G. Methot, diocesan director of religious education, and Sister Doreen Donegan, SUSC, assistant religious education director, wiIl represent the Fall River diocese at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education, to be held April 13 to 17 in St. Petersburg, Fla.

is a Catholic Church. If we are married, will this be accepted. by our church without any changes on the girl's part?

Please answer as this is very important to us, but do not use the name of the church. I will know it is my question. (pa.) , A. The Ukrainian Rite is one cif the Eastern churches under the pastoral authority of the Bishop of Rome.

As is the case with many Eastern Rites, however, this rite has undergone a tumultous history, including current severe pressures and persecution under the Russian Communists in the countries of eastern Europe. As a result of these centuries-old conflicts and divtsions, there are today Catholic and Orthodox groups using the Ukrainian Rite.

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Ukrainian Rite Catholics are as much a part of our church as are Latin Rite Catholics, though certain permissions and delegations are normally required before a marriage can take place between Catholics of these different rites.

It happens that the church you mentioned in Pennsylvania is one of the Catholic churches of the Ukrainian Rite. Your question, however, is a wise one, and should be asked by anyone contemplating marriage with a person who belongs to a different rite. If a Latin Rite Catholic wishes to marry someone from an Orthodox church, long and complicated preparations might be required before the marriage can take place.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Diet· zen c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

CCA business phase to start The Special Gifts phase of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal will begin Monday, April 21.

During the phase over 850 volunteer solicitors will make over 5000 calls on professional, fraternal, business and industrial organizations in southeastern Massachusetts.

Joseph B. McCarty of Taunton, diocesan lay chairman for the Appeal, said, "I thank our volunteers on behalf of Bishop Cronin for their wiIlingness to assist the Appeal."

The chairman asked solicitors to make their returns to their respective area directors in the Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro and Cape Cod sections of the diocese.

The Parish phase of the Appeal will be launched at a kickoff meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

The program wiIl focus on the impact of the electronic media on the American family and the implications of. this impact for religious educators. Workshops and discussions will consider in particular the influence of television on American cultural, social, economic and religious values.

Hands-on sessions will introduce delegates to new audiovisual equipment and there will be instruction in parish use of electronic media.

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Youth Continued from page one With information from this group, the Colemans have planned their presentations to meet the specific situations of diocesan parishes. Each parish is encouraged to send a representative group of adults and/or youth.

Pre-registration is not necessary, nor is it necessary to have attended last fall's program.

The day will close at 4 p.m. with celebration of the Sunday Eucharist.

She won't go LUCKNOW, India (NC) Mother Teresa of Calcutta winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize, says she will no longer participate in ceremonies honoring her.

"The public gaze that has fallen on me after I received the Nobel Prize is hindering normal work of service to the poor and I have decided not to participate in any more receptions," she said at the Jyotinagar Leprosy Home in Lucknow, in north India.

Mother Teresa, the 69-year-old founder of the Missionaries of Charity, has received many other honors, including India's highest civilian award, since accepting the Nobel 'Prize in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10.

At that time, she asked that the traditional awards banquet not be held and that money which would have been spent on it be donated to the poor.

Father William MCCaffrey, of religious education for the Providence diocese, is meeting committee chairman for the convention.

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The problems of divorce

By Antoinette Bosco Everyone remembers how bouncy and cheerful Mary R. used to be when she and her husband and three small children .first moved into the suburban area where she still lives.

Only now they worry about her.

She rarely smiles, doesn't mix with neighbors. The house is unkept, with grass overgrown, shrubs untrimmed and the shingles in need of painting.

The change in Mary happened quite suddenly, three years ago when her husband walked out and left her to complete the job of rai!;iing her children, now aged 11 to 15, with no income.

I talked to her recently. She was about to have a birthday and her attitude was, "I don't care if I ever have another birthday." Her latest depression had been caused by her two sons having a fight over a game of chess.

"Everything in my life is chaos," she said. "If anyone was trying to locate me; they couldn't miss my house. It's the one !hat needs the paint.

"Inside, it's the one with the broken chairs, the leaky washing machine and the holes in the rug. We had beans and rice again for dinner. How can I raise a family on $150 a week? Yet, that's what I'm trying 'to do and, Toni," she said, her eyes filling with tears, "I'm not making it - not financially and not emotionally."

Mary's situation is not unique.

Thousands of mothers are in a similar distressing state. They are trying to cope with single parenting and the nagging feel'jng that they're failures while at the same time b'eing plunged into poverty.

A high percentage of families headed by a woman are poor.

In dollars, the median income of mother-headed families nationally is from $6,400 to $7,000 annually. That's poverty.

Psychologists verify that poverty itself is a leading cause of depression. All too often depress: ion is looked upon as sadness.

Now we know that depression may look like sadness, but it is, in reality, suppressed, quiet anger, caused by the sense of being unfairly abandoned by husband and God, and left trapped in a situation you don't like and can't leave.

When a mother is in this disabled state, there is a spillover effect which settles like gloom. over the family.

How can a family' move out of this condition and restore itself? I don't have a formula. I do. know, however, that unless the divorced mother can lead herself and her children back into the flow of life where hope and expectation abound, she and her family are in trouble emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually. There is a maxim that says: "The mark of God's presence is joy."

Conversely, where there is no joy, it is the sign that trust in a loving God has faded. . Healing is needed, because divorce leaves terrible wounds.

As a first step, Ii divorced mother has to do something, has to find the power-source that forces her to act in a way that triggers a change in her life.

She can try for a better job, join a support group such as Divorced and Separat~d Catholics or Parents Without Partners, take an adult education course to learn new skills or, if her depressed state has become too severe to be jolted or turned around by her own efforts, she should seek professional help in the same way that one seeks

medical help for body illnesses.

In severe cases, the mother should seek help from her parish. Catholic Charities, local family service agencies, and-or local public social services offices.

Some divorced mothers have told me that they have too much pride to' ask for help. I have responded that the help needed is temporary, and the caring people in these places are professionals whose goal will be to help her and her family regain optimism and independence.

Sometimes, just knowing that you don't have to suffer through a disabling period alone is all you need to begin your return to feeling alive again.

After divorce, a mother has to understand and accept the fact that her life has been thoroughly altered. There is no emptiness like that which emerges at the grave of a relationship, especially one which pledged to make you become one with another, living permanently as "two in one flesh." But to stay in that state of emptiness is the continuation of violation' to self and family. There is an individual and comunal responsibility for a family disabled by divorce to find help and healing and rejoin the living.

"CATHERINE . . . found nothing but bills that she could not meet."

How would Jesus respond?

Catholics have done a wonderful . job' of sponsoring foreign Catherine sat alone in the kit- families. Perhaps we should also chen. Five-year-old Susan and think about adopting one-parent . three-year-old Tommy were fin- families that aren't making 路it ally in bed. She looked through financially. Moral support helps the mail and found nothing but but it doesn't feed, clothe ,or bills she could not meet on her $8,000 a year salary. Suddenly house a family.

We think of the parish as a the dirty dishes on the table and the silent house were too much Christian family. Family memfor her. Loneliness engulfed her. bers care about one another.

She put her head down on the When one member is having a rough time, another family table and wept. background of Christ's risen

By Father John J. Castelot member gives consolation. No There are many Catherines. glory, statements about his huone is a stranger, an outsider.

One of the least familiar manity with its. attendant weak- They are the divorced women Clearly, as Christians, we a~e books of the New Testament is ness stand out in especially raising a family alone. Some called upon not to exclude anyseek help through community the so-called Letter to the He- striking relief. one.

This means that we should and parish. Sometimes they brews. I say so-called because go out of our way to make the This picture of Jesus, one with come through, but not always. it is quite unlike a letter. It is divorced and their families welhis .brothers and sisters in naThen there are the Catherines more like a majestic address, a come to our homes and parish ture and experience, excluding who never ask for help.

Some. stirring proclamation of the activities. risen Lord and hi~ eternal priest- only the actual experience of times they win. Sometimes they sin, corresponds exactly to the There are those of us not in lose. They bring to mind the hood. Of unknown authorship, it begins with a solemn, almost impression one gets from reading Gospel story of the Good Shep- the work force. We are horrie poetic introduction which cli-路 the Gospels. Even though they herd who lost a sheep and did when the children are dismissed from school. Why not invite a maxes as follows: "This Son is too are in their own way colored -not rest until he found it.

Every parish has people who mother or two to send her chilthe reflection of the Father's by their authors' faith in Jesus glory, the exact representation as Christ and Lord, they show are lost. Perhaps they feel that dren home with ours after of the Father's. being, and he . him as a man among men, com- because their dreams of a happy ,school? And how about fathers sustains all things by his power- pletely involved in and sympa- marriage went unfulfilled. God and mothers making a special ful word. When he had cleansed thetic to the human condition. has abandoned them. Or perhaps effort to know little Johnny or He was not a strange visitor they feel that the parish is fam- Susie who has no father or no us from our sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the from another planet, observing ily oriented and they don't be- mother at home?

Majesty in heaven, as far sup- the lives of earthlings without long any more. Their reason erior to the angels as the name comprehension or empathy. He isn't important. What is imporhe has inherited is superior to too was an earthling, "tempted tant is that they are suffering theirs" (Hebrews 1, ,3-4). in every way that we are" (He- loneliness and often poverty.

What is a Christian supposed This rather sets the tone for a brew,s 4, 16), and-his heart went

By Janaan Manternach great part of the composition out to his suffering brothers and' to do about these people? and, as a result, against this Turn to Page Thirteen . First, we need to find out who One Sabbath Jesus and his they are, not an easy task in disciples were walking to the large parishes. But it wasn't synagogue. They enjoyed walkeasy for the Good Shepherd to ing through the golden brown find his lost sheep either. grain, ready for harvesting.

The parish census is one As they walked, the disciples means. Visits to a divorced per- felt hungry. So they plucked off SOI)'S h'ome will ultimately reheads of grain, shelled off the veal Whether or not that person husks and ate them. It made a needs parish support and in- rough meal, but satisfied their volvement. hunger.

The church certainly recogA group of Pharisees watched nizes a need for ministry to the them. Then they approached divorced and parish groups for Jesus and angrily' protested. this are now common and offer "See here!" they shouted, "Don't much attention on the spiritual you see that they are doing level. But material assistance what is forbidden on the "Saband social acceptance are often bath!" lacking.

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By Angela M. Schreiber

Letter to the Hebrews

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A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

A Pedra Angular e As Pedras Vivas . Cristo e a Pedra Angular do edificio espiritual de pedras vivas que e a 19reja. "Aproximai-vos d'Ele, pedra viva •.. E vos mesmos, como pedras vivas, entrai na constru~ao durn edificio espiritual." ~ de fixar bern 0 simbolismo para pdermos compreender perfeitamente a afinidade e comunhao existente entre Cristo, pedra angular, 'e os cristaos, pedras vivas. .

Perpassa por todas as pedras do edificio 0 influxo da pedra angular, que se traduz ern firmeza, coesao,unidade, beleza harmonica. A pedra angular durn edificio marca assim, a sua presen~a ern cada urna das pedras desse edificio e no conjunto, no todo. Tanto mais quanta a pedra angular e ainda a Pedra viva, diriamos mesmo: a fonte e manancial de toda a vida, vida que se difunde pelas outras pedras ern rela~ao directa a sua proximidade e compenetra~ao corn e$sa pedra angular. Ha como que urna tranfigura~ao, urna transforma~ao das partes no todo: as pedras e os diversos elementos,sem perderem 0 seu cunhoproprio e a sua especifica fun~ao, integram-se e abrem se a unidade do conjunto.

Do sirnbolo 'podemos passar descoberta da realidade de fe: Cristo e 0 Filho unico do Pai, 0 unico Mediador entre Deus e 0 homem, 0 unico Redentor que Se deu por todos na cruz, "que res suscitou dos mortos como primicias dos que hao-de ressuscitar." Eie tern ern tudo a primazia. o que Cristo e e 0 que se efectua por Seu intermedio esta circunscrito· a Sua Pessoa divino-hurnana. Ele redimiu-nos activamente. Nos fomos redimidos passivamente, A. resposta que nos dermos, tudo quanta fifermos activamente como cristaos, funda-se sempre sobre essa primeira realidadelevada a cabo por Cristo. Reconhecemo-lo na fe e damos disso testemunho.

Dar testemunho e 0 que confere forma unitaria a todo 0 nosso ser e agir cristao de pedras vivas. ~ como que 0 estrato mais visivel. Cristo incarna, vive, age diante do povo, executa as Suas obras e prega a Sua mensagem maravilhosa, morre e ressuscita por nos. Escolhe urn pequeno grupo que presencia, retem a mensagem e as ac~oes, de modo a poder dar testemunho quando Ele morrer e ressuscitar.

As pedras vivas do edificio espiritual testemunham e mostram a presen~a da pedra angular.

Mas ha mais. Cristo nao so fala e age diante dos homens~ Anda corn eles e convida-os a ir corn Ele. ·Recorde-se a imagem do Born Pastor. 1sso acontece na elei~ao dos Apostolos, e noutras cenas evangelicas de chamadas, onde deparamos com 0 convite "vern e segue--me", quer dizer: "vern atras de mim", nao ern sentido local, mas no sentido de rela~ao mestre-discipulo: "0 discipulo segue 0 mestre na medida ern que e admitido no mundo interior do mestre e neIe introduzido espiritualmente."

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For children Continued from page twelve Jesus knew what the Pharisees meant. They were saying that the disciples were preparing food to eat on the Sabbath. This was one of the 39 forms of work forbidden on the Sabbath.

Jesus knew how strictly these Pharisees interpreted the law and he decided to challenge them.

"Have you not read what David and his men did when they were hungry?" he asked the Pharisee. "Remember when King David and his colleagues went into God's house. They were hungry. The only bread was the holy bread, which no one except the priests was allowed to eat.

David and his men ate it. No one condemned them," The Pharisees were silent.

They knew what Jesus was telling them. They should look at the spirit of the law as well as at its letter.

"If you really understood the law," Jesus continued, "you would realize the importance of this text," Jesus then quoted from the prophet Hosea. Hosea had God saying to his people, "It is mercy I desire and no~ sacrifice."

Hosea was teaching that God's law' commands love, mercy and compassion more than anything else.

"If you had understood the meaning of those words," Jesus concluded. "you would not have condemned these innocent men,

my disciples. People are not made for the Sabbath, the Sabbath is made for people,"

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HOW DOES A PERSON discover his or her identity while growing up in a world of pressures? "The Logical Song" carries a message about this.

Counselors Interviews for positions as counselors at the Cathedral Day Camps operated by the diocese in East Freetown will be con路 ducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13 for boys and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 20 for girls at the camp's main office on Route 18. Applicants must be at least 16 years old. Further information is available from the camp, telephone 763-8874.

Coyle 路 Cassidy A course in Level II basic computer programming limited to 10 students will be offered by Sister Mary Catherine three time a week before school during April and May. Faculty member Michael Patota will be the Taunton high school's representative at the April 19 Boston Marathon.

Congratulations go to Jim Hoye '79 for making the Holy Cross College dean's list.

One in 4,000 Eleven-year-old Brian Wilson of Holy Family parish, Mobile, Ala. is one in 4,000. He was chosen from that many youngsters to star in "Palmerstown, USA," a seven-part CBS television series now being seen on Thursday 'nights.

Producers for the series are Alex Haley of "Roots" fame and Norman Lear, best known for "All in the Family." The plot deals with the friendship of a black and a white boy in the rural south during the 1930s.

The eighth child of nine, Brian's interest in acting follows a family tradition. His mother, a media specialist at Holy Family school, and all his brothers and sisters are involved in acting.

He has participated in 20 or more productions as a member of the Pixie Players, a children's theater group.

He enjoyed making "Palmerstown" and enjoyed even more his friendship with Jermain Johnson, his black buddy.

"It was nice to have a friend on the set. We were like brothers," said Brian. On school days the boys worked four hours and spent three hours with a special tutor.

On weekends, they went sightseeing, visiting attractions such as Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm and Universal Studios. Brian's favorite outing "was getting to wade in the Pacific Ocean, and the water came in and got us all wet," His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Doug Wilson, share his enthusiasm for acting. "It is a philosophy of our (amily," said Mrs. WUson, "that God entrusts us with talents to benefit others.

"Since we have been urged as Catholic Christians to assume some responsibility in the mediacommunications field, we are hopeful that Brian's talents will be instrumental in some small way in spreading the word of God. We have prayed regularly to God for guidance,"

By Charlie Martin

. THE LOGICAL SONG When I was young It seemed that life was so wonderful A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical And all the birds in the trees Well they'd be singing so happily Oh joyfully oh playfully watching me.

But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible Logical, oh responsible, practical And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable Oh clinical or intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the world's aSleep The questions, run too deep for such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?

I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am.

I said now watch what you say Or they'll be calling you a radical A liberal oh fanatical, criminal Oh won't you sign up your name We'd like to feel you're acceptable Respectable oh presentable A vegetable.

At night when all the world's asleep The questions-run deep for such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?

I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am Who I am, who I am, who I. am.

Sung by Supertramp, written by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, (c) 1979 by Almo Music Corp. and Delicate Music, international copyright secured

The person in the song feels confused. Many values are pressed on him. Yet he has not been helped to find himself and his questions about life remain.

"Who am I?" is a question that keeps replaying in his consciousness.

The God who called us into life also gave us freedom to co:. create our lives. Ours is the responsibility to decide what values will guide us, guide our lives. Sometimes' we want to assert independence and proclaim the importance of our decisions.

But an equally important part is listening. Especially when there is conflict with authority for example, teachers, coworkers or parents - the maturing person realizes there is a responsibility to talk about it.

It can be difficult to confront group pressures, especially those exerted by peers. Courage enables us to act on our chosen values and form our lives. Sensitivity helps us understand the views of others, even if ultimately we choose not to conform with them.

"Who am I?" is a life-long question. Life's experiences wiH' ask a person to re-define the answers to this question many times. But life will always hold mysteries. For it is from God, who is ever-greater than the limits of our understanding.

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By Cecilia Belanger From a letter: "I still do not understand what 'religion' means, not deep down inside me. I can read what it is, but I can't feel what it is. I've stopped inquiring because those 1 ask always put on this superior attitude and 1 immediately feel put down."

This is not the first such letter I've received. Religion is not easy to define. It means different things to different people. For many it is associated with ritual or prayer. William James centers his classic, "The Varieties of Religious Experience," on the feelings of the路 religious person; and Rudolf Otto in "The Holy" analyzes the moment of . prayer as one of awe and reverence before the Divine Thou.

Both authors reduce religion to momentary acts or feelings.

There are those who see religion as a rational conviction and personal commitment, something which influences or conforms one's existence in its deepest roots. While individual acts pass, the religious conviction or habit stays with us 24 hours a day; and while sentiments are momentary experiences beyond our control, religion is an enlightened attitude towards the world based on the acceptance of God, life after death and a final positive sense for this creation.

The religious commitment is an optimistic one. Even though evil seems to pervade man's behavior towards his neighbor, evil is a pass路ing destructive act or a series of them, which do not touch the basis of our life; this basis is our character, our habits.

The religious conviction is creative because on the basis of faith we commit ourselves to bring about these values in which we believe. A solid, unfanatical religious commitment helps us in establishing a clear scale of values out of which we acquire balance and equilibrium in our lives.

Middle School Five Taunton Catholic Middle School students received awards in the Region III science fair held last month at Durfee High School, Fall River. They were Sohel Rahman, first place; William Zoll, second place; Geoffrey Mulvey, third place; Ann Marie Enos and Carol Silveira, honorable mention.

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The Christian Life Community at the Fall River girls' high school recently sponsored a 12mile walk-a-thon with proceeds benefiting area needy. . Five teams of students and faculty will compete in "Almost Anything Goes" this afternoon, participating in games, stunts and relays.

A Red Cross bloodmobile will be at Gerrard tomorrow during the school day. Faculty, students, friends and family members will be among donors and the public is also invited to give blood.

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Holy Name, St. Mathieu Diocesan Champs Holy Name and St. Mathieu of Fall River have won the three CYO diocesan boys basketball championships.

The Holy Name hoopsters won two of the titles. In the Junior Division the Holy Namers defeated Holy Family of Taunton 49-43 in the opener of their best-of-three series. They followed this with a 46-35 victory for a sweep of the series and the diocesan crown.

In the Prep Division, Holy Name romped to a 60-44 decision in the first game of that series and went on to win· the championship with a 63-51 decision for a sweep of that final against Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton.

Joe Stanton sparked the junior Holy Namers in the first game with 23 points and scored 13 in the second game, in which J,eff Emonds led Holy Family with 18 points. In the second game, Holy Family's Brian Sullivan was the leading scorer with 23 points.

Steve Emonds was the scoring star for the prep Holy Name quintet with 18 points in the first game, 17 in the second.

St. Mathieu defeated Our Lady of Assumption, for the senior title of New Bedford, but this series went the full three games.

In the first game, in Fall River, St. Mathieu, with outstanding performance by Paul Turgeon (29 points) and Paul Chabot (24 points), outlasted the Assumptionists83-72.

The New Bedford champions 'knotted the series with a 75-70 victory in the Kennedy CYO Center, New 'Bedford. Sonny Silvia of OLOA was high scorer with 25 points. Chabot and Turgeon tossed in 17 and 16 respectively, for St. Mathieu.

The third game was played in the Kennedy Center and was a real thriller with St. Mathieu eking out a 57-56 victory and capturing the senior championship.

Turgeon led St. Mathieu with 16 points while Byron Costa and Tony Gomes tossed in 15 and 12 points, respectively, for OLOA.

High School Baseball in Full Swing High School baseball teams are involved in non-league games on many fronts. Among games this afternoon are Diman Yoke at Dartmouth, Apponequet Regional at Upper Cape, Seekonk at Somerset and Old Colony at Bristol-Plymouth.

Tomorrow Holy Family is host to Case, Bishop Connolly High entertains Fairhaven at Lafayette Park, Fall River, Greater New Bedford Yoke visits Diman Yoke and Mansfield is at Dighton-Rehoboth.

Games scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday list Durfee at Brockton, Somerset at Falmouth and Bishop Stang at Dartmouth.

The Old Rochester Regional

High School's April Invitational Softball Tournament will be held at the host school in Mattapoisett on April 24 and 25.

Nauset Regional of Cape Cod, Durfee High, Norwell High and Old Rochester are the participants. On the opening day, Durfee will meet Norwell at 10 a.m. and Old Rochester opposes Nauset at noon. The championship final is set for noon, the consolation final for 10 a.m., April 25. If rain or poor .field conditions' force a postponement the tourney will be held on April 26.

After the championship .game there will be an awards luncheon in the cafeteria at Old Rochester High. School.

Hockomock Notes The Hockomock Baseball League opens its season today with a four-game card listing King Philip at Sharon, Canton at No. Attleboro, Foxboro at Mansfield and Franklin at Stoughton.

Oliver Ames has a bye.

Monday it will be Foxobro at Franklin, Mansfield at Canton, Oliver Ames at Kil}g Philip and Sharon at No. Attleboro with Stoughton having the bye. Next Wednesday's games are King Philip at Stoughton, Foxboro at Oliver Ames, Canton at Sharon and Franklin at No. Attleboro.

Mansfield has the bye.

Franklin, 13-3, won the varsity baseball championship last year in a hotly contested pennant drive. Sharon and Foxboro, 12-4,

were in a second-place tie and King Philip finished in fourth place with at} 11-5 slate only two games off the pace.

At Stonehill Tenure as of September, 1981, has been awarded to Father Louis Manzo, CSC, Father Francis Walsh, CSC and Robert A. Rosenthal of Stonehill College, North Easton. John D. Hurley has been promoted to the rank of professor and Peter Beisheim, Ralph J. Bravaco, Father Manzo, Maurice Morin, Mr. Rosenthal, Soo Tang Tan and Father Francis Walsh have been named associate professors, all effective this September.

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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 explanation); C-condemned.

New Films "A Small Circle of Friends" (United Artists): A Radcliffe girl falls in love with two Harvard boys, becomes the mistress of first one, then the other, then both at once in this film set in the late 60s and ~arly 70s, during the days of student anti-war activity. Of local interest because part of it was filmed at Bridgewater State College, as looking more like Harvard than Harvard itself, the film has, however, little merit. The characters are bland, boring and sometimes obnoxious and the view of sexual morality is offensive. R,B "The Tin Drum" (New World): This film version of the famous novel .by Gunter Grass relates the adventures of a German boy who decides on his third birthday not to grow any bigger as a protest against the absurdity of adult life. The film is a serious attempt to recreate a world swept away in the cataclysm of Nazism, but it founders 'in an attempt to combine graphic

slice-of-life realism with wild impressionism. Its graphic depictions of sexual activity, moreover, are offensive. B "The Serial" (Paramount): A young husband and wife try to cope with the trendy lifestyle of an affluent California suburban community. Sometimes very funny, this film is an unstable mix of good satire and run-ofthe-mill situation comedy. Its use of nudity and foul language is offensive. R,B On TV "America Lost and Found," 9 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 18, PBS, is a film record of the Great Depression from 1932 to 1940.· It reminds viewers that the U.S. overcame an even worse period than that of today.

"Here's to Your Health," 7:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 19, PBS, begins the second season of a consumer self-care series of medically sound health advice. The premiere program deals with everyday aches and pains.

Films on TV Sunday, April 13, 9 p.m.

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HOLY REDEEMER, CHAmAM Father Georges Bissonette, former president of Assumption College, Worcester, and for many years a Catholic chaplain in Moscow, will speak at the annual parish communion luncheon at noon Sunday, April 20 at Wychmere Harbor Club, Harwich Port. Dr. Anne Raleigh McCarthy is chairman of the event, sponsored by the Association of the Sacred Hearts.

CURSIL,"-O PROGRAM, FALL RIVER DIOCESE A men's Cursillo will be held at a La Salette Center for Christiim Living, Attleboro, from A'pril 24 through 27. A commissioning service for sponsors is planned for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16 at. the La Salette monastery.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, CHAmAM .

'Pope Paul VI Council, Chatham Knights of Columbus, will sponsor a series of Mid-Lower Cape Cod open houses in West Harwich, Chatham, Brewster and Orleans. Open to all Catholic men, the programs will fea. ture "12 Reasons Why You Should Be a Knight of Columbus," a talk by past state deputy John Howland.

The first open house will be 'held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16 at Holy Trinity church hall, West Harwich. Dates for the subsequent programs will be, announced.

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ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER Daily Masses are celebrated at 8 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. in the Lady Chapel.

The Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who have recently establlshed a monastery for retired members in Fall River, are offering their Easter Week prayers for the Cathedral parish.

DOMINICAN LAITY, FALL RIVER Members of the fraternity of Dominican Laity will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 28 in the meeting room of the Dominican Priory, 818 Middle Street, for a special observance of the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Catherine of Siena, Laity patroness. Mass in the priests' chapel will be followed by a discussion of the life of the saint

by Very Rev. Robert Blais, O.P., spiritual director of the Laity.

Members will also be invited to share their impressions of their patron. Former members of the group are welcome to attend.

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ST. RITA, MARION The Women's Group will meet at ~ 7:30 p.m. Monday. Brian Scott, Marion Chief of Police, will speak on "Young People and the Police Department." All parish women are welcome to attend.

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Saturday. The musicians will also be heard at the 4 p.m. liturgy I Saturday. . ~.

The Cathedral Choir will sing -..- - - - . - - . - - - - - - - ' for the Admission to Candidacy ceremony for the permanent diaDIVORCED, SEPARATED conate, to be held at 5 p.m. Mass TAUNTON AREA Sunday.

The Taunton area Ministry to Divorced, Separated and Re- ST. JOSEPH, married Catholics will hold a NEW BEDFORD meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday, April The rosary, a Mass of healing 13 in St. Joseph church hall, 19 and the monthly charismatic Kilmer Ave., Taunton. A sup- prayer meeting will begin at portive self-help program will 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 16. be discussed and all are welSt. Joseph Seniors' Club wiII install officers on Sunday. come.

Five vacancies will exist on OUR LADY OF ANGELS, the parish council in June. Those FALL RIVER interested may submit their Children of Mary will hold a nameS this weekend.

Father's Day banquet in the church hall following 5 p.m. ST. HEDWIG, 'NEW BEDFORD Mass Sunday, May 11.

St. Hedwig Seniors, marking BLESSED SACRAMENT their fifth anniversary, will atADORERS, FAIRHAVEN tend a Mass for deceased memThe Adorers will hold a holy hour from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, bers at 11 a.m. Thursday, April April 15 at Sacred Hearts 17. A banquet and entertainment Church, 382 Main St., Fairhaven. will follow in the parish hall. ...

Refreshments will follow. All are invited to attend.

VOCATION WORKSHOPS WEST END, N.J. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Workshops for vocation directors and major superiors, sponsored by the National Conference of Religious vocation directors of men, will. be held May 7 to 9 in West End, N.J. and Sept. 10 to 12 in Staten Island, N.Y. Further information is 'available from Father James Vedros, OSC, 1307 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago.

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ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will meet Wednesday, April 16. .A parish day of recollection is planned for Sunday, April 27.

SEPARATED & DIVORCED, CAPE COD AREA A meeting for separated and divorced Catholics will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at 5t. Anthony's Church hall, East Falmouth. It is hoped a support group will be formed under direction of Father John Ozug, area coordinator for this ministry.

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FALL RIVER The newly organized parish council has Norman Berube and Claire Petrin as president and secretary pro tem. Eucharistic ministers, also a new parish undertaking, are visiting shut-ins each Sunday. Seven parishioners have been commissioned for this ministry.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The rosary will be led by one of the parish priests at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the home of Linda Viveiros, 39 Paul St., Somerset, in connection with observance of the Holy Ghost feast. The ceremony will take place at the same time Friday, April 18 at the home of Michael Correira, 28 Orlanda St., Swansea.

-Women's Guild ~embers will elect officers at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Quilling will be demonstrated.

"Constant Concern For Those In Need"

CHARISMATIC LEADERS, FALL RIVER DIOCESE Charismatic prayer meeting leaders will meet at 10 a.m.

Saturday at St. Stanislaus 'School, ,Fall River, with memhers of the 'Diocesan Service Committee.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Coffee and doughnuts will be served following 10:30 a.m.

Mass Sunday.

A penance service for First Communion candidates and their parents wiII be held at 2 p.m.

Sunday.

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CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL Diocese of Fall River 1942 - 1980

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER A . Family Olympics program will be held from 6:30 to 9:30 tomorrow night at the Anawan Street CYO, pitting teams from Sacred Heart and Holy Name parishes.

SAORED HEART, NORTH ATTLEBORO Parish 'Boy Scouts welcome donations of used uniforms. The troop is planning work on the Ad Altare Dei religious Scout program.

A tea from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday will honor the Holy Union Sisters and is part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the parish.

Mrs. Therese L'Homme, chairperson, notes that all are invited.

A Family Night celebration is planned from 8 p.m. to midnight.

Saturday, April 19, also a part of the parish anniversary observance.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The parjsh team captured the CYO Girls' Basketball League crown by defeating Holy Name in the playoff final to close the season with a 19-1 record under Coach Margaret Rioux.

Beginning this year the annual picnic will be held in June instead of August. Dates are 21 and 22. An organization meeting will be held tonight at 7 in Father Coady Center.

Msgr. Henry T. Munroe will confer the sacrament of confirmation on a class of 40 April 14 at 7 p.m. , The annual spring CYO bowling tourney will be held Monday, April 21 at 1 p.m., at Westport Holiday Lanes. App;iications must be returned by April 17.

Thirty-Ninth" Annual (all For Herp For the Works of Charity, Mercy, Sodal Service and Education to All People in Southeastern Area of Massachusetts ... The Appeal provides care for all regardless of Race, Color and Creed ...

The Appeal is supported by Fraternal, Professional; Business and Industrial Organizations.

Special Gifts Phase April 21 to May 3

One of the Beneficiaries of the Appeal will be St. Anne's Hospital, the only Catholic Hospital in the Dioc·ese, for its Modernization Program.

Parish Appeal May 4 to May 14

The Appeal Provides Care for the Unwanted Baby, Youth, Engaged Couples, the Sick, the Poor, the Elderly, Family life, Education and Other People in Need.

Sunday, May 4 12 Noon to 3 P.M.

Honorary Chairman

19,000 Volunteer Solicitors will visit 106,000 Homes in th.e Areas of Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro, Cape Cod and the Islands.

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. Bishop of Fall River

Diocesan Lay Chairman Joseph B. McCarty of Taunton

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