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VOL. 29, NO. 16

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Cheers 'for us

By Antoinette Bosco We've just completed our annual national ritual of preparing tax returns and sending Uncle Sam what may be due. This year I have a strong urge to praise those of us who still pay taxes.

By and large, taxpayers are not too well-off finan­ cially, are probably solidly middle class and are still old-fashioned enough to believe that all Americans have a duty to pay a share of the country's bills.

Unfortunately, not all Americans feel the responsi­ bility, morally or ethically, to pay taxes. Just read a few of the financial publications. The gist of many of their articles is how to cut your taxes.

One magazine to do this was "Money," a Tme-Life magazine which devoted an entire recent issue to the "tax problem."

The lead article was written by a man named Niles Howard. He detailed how three individuals "made fortunes but paid no taxes last year." He showed that in 1982, the most recent year monitored by the Internal Revenue Service, .46,701 couples with incomes of $40,000 or more paid absolutely no income tax.

He then discussed three individuals, with combined incomes approaching $300,000, who managed to avoid the traps "designed to prevent the rich from going tax free." They knew the loopholes and used them to their advantage.

Does that mean that the rest of us are some kind of fools, willingly giving Uncle Sam what we hope is a fair share of our financial responsibility? I always used to say that I didn't mind paying my taxes. I saw it as my share of the "rent" for the privilege of living in th~s great country, driving its roads, taking advan­ tage of its. educational opportunities and sharing in the need to take care of my neighbors who haven't the means to take care of themselves.

Yes, it is time for tax reform! I hardly think tax .. avoiders should be set up as models for the American ideal.

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FATHER EDMUND FITZGERALD, director of the Diocesan Department of Pastoral Care for the Sick, among ministries supported by the Catholic Charities Appeal, blesse~ Madeleine Boardman, Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, a patient in the medical in­ tensive care unit of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. The' unit was a gift to the hospital made possible by Appeal funds. (Gaudette Photo).

Bishops' synod postponed

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The 1986 world Synod of Bishops on the role of the laity has been post­ poned until the .fall of 1987 be­ cause bishops need more time to prepare for it, the Vatican an­ nounced A'pril 12.

The one-sentence announce­ ment said the decision was made

·by Pope John Paul II after he received numerous requests for a delay.

"Many bishops' conferences asked to be given more time for consultations now that they have to also prepare for the 1985 ex­ traordinary synod," Archbishop Jozef Tomko, secretary general

of the synod, told National Cath­ olic News Service .after the Vati­ can issued the announcement.

In January the pope, in a sur­ prise arinouncement, said an ex­ traordinary synod would take place Nov.· 25-Dec. 8 to analyze the teachings of the Second VatiTurn to Page Six

44th Appeal kickoff meeting

Addressing the annual kickoff meeting of the Catholic Chari­ ties Appeal, held Wednesday at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, Bishop Daniel A'.

Cronin called special attention to the Appeal's financial state­ ment (on page 2 of this Issue of -The Anchor).

"This report contains a rather 1mpressive testimon\al to the generosity of the people of our diocese," said the ,bishop.

"We were blessed with an un­ precedented rate of success a year ago, receiving in excess of $1.5 million. As you will see in reviewing. the printed report, we have expended every penny realized In the 1984 Catholic

Charities Appeal and have, in fact, experienced a modest de­ ficit in our funding operations.

"Social Services," continued the bishop, "remains the most significant single area for dis­ bursement of funds realized in the Catholic Charities Appeal, and over 20 percent of ;the pro­ ceeds of last year's very suc­ cessful campaign were allocated to the works of Catholic Social Service, some $312,000.

"Our agency outreach has been enriched in this past year, with the relocation of the Cape Cod and New Bedford offices to new quarters. We certainlyanti­ cipate continued demand for the counseling services, for sensitive

assistance to unwed mothers, and for all the other activities conducted under the auspices of this ·important diocesan agency.

"We allocate 'a good deal of money, last year a total of $70,000, to special apostolates, Including the Hispanic ministry.

During this current year, we have been devoting careful study with a view to improving our apostolic endeavors for persons deprived of sight, with hearing impair­ ment and other physical disabili­ ties.

"Our hope is to provide better coordination of such activities as our guilds for the blind and ministry to the hearing-impaired.

Likely, a central diocesan Office

will be established when our studies have been completed, and I can ,already foresee the need for increased subsidies for this worthy, needed activity.

"Please respond with gener­ osity to our Appeal this year to assist us in translating plans and studies to reality, for the bene­ f.it of the wonderful people who experience these special needs."

Praising priests and religious involved in Pastoral Ministry to the Sick, the bishop said that in addition to work now being done, initial study is being given to needs at area hospitals where no formal chaplaincy is present· ly organized.

"More than $300,000 was al·

lotted to our diocesan education­ al endeavors from the proceeds of last year's Catholic Charities Appeal," continued the bishop, "nearly half of this for the main­ tenance of our centraoJ diocesan Off.ice, which provides direction for our catechetlcal activities and supervision for our diocesan and parochial schools. Scholar· ship aid fo~ pupils, capital ex­ penditures at two of our dioce· san high schools and the dloce· san subsidy for the Nazareth program consume the remainder of this allocation."

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NCEA speakers tell educators

Bring needs of world into classroom

ST. LOUIS (NC) - Classroom education must ,reflect the needs and problems of today's world, speakers told delegates to the 1985 National Catholic Educa­ tional Association convention held last week in St. Louis.

Those in attendance included 20 principals and classroom teachers from the FalI River dio­ cese, led hy Father Richard W. Beaulieu, who will succeed Father George W. Coleman as diocesan director of education on July 1.

U.N. Assistant Secretary-Gen­ eral Robert MulIer urged the educators to design a "daring" curriculum which could be taught in alI Catholic schools on the planet. He said the Catholic school is the ideal place to de­ vise such a curriculum because the church is universal and al­ ready has a "globa! perspective."

'Muller's remarks on global education highlighted the, con­ vention's theme, "Gateway to Global Understanding."

Archbishop Rembert G. Weak­ land of Milwaukee spoke on the bishops' proposed pastoral on the economy and on justice for the poor, while astronomer Carl Sagan warned against the dan­ gers of nuclear war that threaten the entire world.

U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett addressed the 82nd annual convention on the right of parents to choose where they will send their child­ ren to school.

In his address Archbishop Weakland said care of the needy ",is a matter of justice . . . not one of charity."

The archbishop, who heads the committee drafting the pastoral on the economy, said many peo­ ple view the poor as objects of voluntary char.ity and protest against forcing taxpayers to meet their needs. ' "Justice is not based on the biblical sense on my tax-deducti­ ble contributions, but on the needs of others that have to be , met," the archhishop said. While charity makes people "feel good, justice often frightens us and asks uncomfortable questions about the values of society and how we might have to change our lifestyle to meet the needs of others."

In answer to criticism that the pastoral on the economy is "naive" ,the archbishop sa,id, "I wiU admit we do not discuss adequately in the second half what you might calI the' econ­ omic trade-off to the solutions that we have picked. We do need some kind of economic conclus­ ion to the letter, not just a reli­ gious conclusion."

Sagan told the educators that no reI.igious or political belief is worth the extinction of the hu­ man race. He warned that the threat of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union 'increases as the number­ of nuclear weapons increase. "

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At a press conference after his Auxiliary Bishop J. Terry ference secretary for social de­ ental c~oice "the key that will speech, Sagan said he was per­ Steib of St. Louis told conven­ velopment and world peace and sonally impressed by Pope John open the door to a better educa­ tion for aU our children" and tion delegates that black Cath­ an architect of the bishops' peace Paul II's knowledge of the nu­ clear war issue and the Vatican's said parents should be able to oI.ics want to be givers as well pastoral, received the C. Albert as receivers.

Koob Award, NOEA's top honor. efforts to educate peQple about choose "environments thataf­ firm their own best principles, it.

"We have the gift of our black The annual award, named for He was one of 17 scientists "schools where, their own values culture and values which have Father C. Albert Koob, NCEA will be extended instead of 10st." who met last year at the Vati­ been informed and infused by president from 1966 to 1974, can under sponsorship of the Two of the most promising faith," said Bishop Steib, on~ of goes to an individual who has Pontifical Academy of Sciences instruments of choice are vou­ 10 'black U.S. bishops. contributed outstandingly to to study effects of nuclear wa~. chers and tuition tax credits.

At the conventio~, 'Father J. Catholic education.

The meetings resulted in a re­ port presented to Pope John Paul.

At the press conference Sa­ gan said the U.S. bishops' 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace was a good document, but said he thought that the bishops' in­ terest in it was declining.

Several critics had objected to Sagan and other convention speakers and to the convention theme of global understanding.

They had called Sagan an atheist. .

At a press conference Sagan $1,506,507.30 I. Total.Received,.Net Proceeds 1984 Appeal described himself as an "indepen­ II. Disbursements Made or Allocated dent" with regard to religion. He said he could accept as a defini­ Fiscal Year Beginning July I, 1985 tion of a supreme being as "the A. Social Service and Child Care sum total 'of the physical ,laws $312,000.00 of the universe," but as to the I. Catholic Social Services existence of (lod he told a ques­ 142,500.00 H. Saint Vincent's Hom~ tioner he, would have to examine (debt service) the evidence.

70,000.00 iii. Diocesan Special Apostolates At a convention workshop" 86,000.00 Patricia Tierney, coordinator for IV. Saint Vincent de Paul Camp Catholic schools in St. Augus­ 67,000.00 677,500.00 v. Catholic Youth Organization tine, Fla., warned ,that "our heads are in the sand if we think tl1at (abortion is) not happening in 184,000.00 our schools, even grade schools."

B. Pastoral Ministry to Sick ' She said the minimal increase in pregnancies reported among Catholic high school students ­ c. ' Education despite data that shows sexual' activity among U.S. teens has 140,000.00 I. Diocesan Education Center ,increased 67 percent in the past 50,000.00 ii. Nazareth Apostolate 10 years - may indicate a grow­ 50,000.00 ing number are seeking abor­ iii. Scholarship Aid Program tions.

IV. High School Capital Expenses

Catholic Charities 1984 Appeal Report

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Active campus ministry urged WASHINGTON (NC) - Cath­ olic campus ministers must "tap the renewed interest in religion found among many collegians today" and counter the ag­ gressive proselytiiing by other religions, according to a pro­ posed pastoral letter hy the U,S. bishops on campus ministry. A first draft of the letter, prepared by a committee headed by Bish­ op William 'B. Friend of Alex­ andria-Shreveport, La., has been--­ sent to the bishops for review.

"In our consultations we heard many complaints ,that students' today know HtUe about religion in general and about their Cath­ olic faith in particular," the docu­ ment stated.

"This lack, of knowledge makes it difficult for them to achieve the personal growth they desire." It also makes them vul­ nerable to aggressive" prosely­ tizing by some fundamentalist groups on college c,ampuses, the draft letter added. ,

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D. Pastoral Endeavors i. Diocesan Family Life ii. Catholic Charities Office iii. Membership - National & State Conferences and Associations iv. Permanent Diaconate v. Development Priestly Personnel vi. Campus Ministry vii. Communications viii. Miscellany: ecumenics, vocations, liturgical, etc.

91,500.00 60,000.00 52,560.00 44,000'.00 37,100.00 24,000.00 17,500.00 14,313.00

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Excess of Disbursements over Receipts Net Proceeds ofthe 1984 Appeal Disbursements Made or Allocated Deficit

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D of I State Circle to meet in Falmouth

Massachusetts State Circle of the Daughters of Isabella will hold its annual state convention April 26 to 28 at the Sheraton­ Falmouth in Falmouth. it ,is an­ nounced by State Regent Elliine M. Leger of Fitchburg.

The Daughters of Isabella is an organization of over 155.000 Catholic women ,in the United States and Canada. It is devoted to assisting churches and chari­ ties through volunteer services and financial contributions. Its motto· is "Unity. Friendship and Charity."

Some 27 local regents. repre­ senting 2.600 Massachusetts members of the organization, are expected to attend the conven­ tion as delegates,along with over 200 State Circle members. Also expected are state regents and members from the Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine and Ver­ mont State Circles, chaplains, family members and friends.

Convention . speakers'" will "1n­ elude Internatiollal Regent Juli­ ette Leclair of Montreal; State Chaplain Rev. James Lanergan of Framingham; International Secretary-Treasurer Mary Whit­ ney of West Newbury; Inter­ national Director Antoinette Carlo, of New Haven, Connecti­ cut; and Mrs. Leger.

A banquet closing the parley will foJ.low instaUation of new officers by the international re­ gent.

Founded ,in New Haven in 1897 as a sister organization of the Knights of Columbus and named

Sister Oliveira The Mass of Christian Burial was offered April 13 at Villa Fatima, Taunton, for the repose of the soul of Sister Eduarda Roque Oliveira, 98, who died there Apr.i1 10.

Providence Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth A. Angell was principal celebrant and Father Marcel Bou­ chard, associate pastor at St. Julie iBilliart parish, North Dart­ mouth, was homilist. Numerous priests from the FaU River and Providence di.oceses were con­ celebrants.

Born in Beira Alto Melo, Portu­ gal, the daughter of the 1ate An­ tonio Augusto and' Emilia d' Almeida (Roque) Oliveira, Sister Oliveira entered the Sisters of St. Dorothy ,in Portugal in 1907.

In 1911, she left Portugal dur­ ing a time of religious persecu­ tion, coming to Providence, where she worked with Portu­ guese immigrants.

In 1913, she moved to Staten Island, N.Y. and from there to Holy Rosary parish, Reading, Pa., where she was a teacher and community coordinator from 1915 to 1939.

Following recuperation from anaccid~nt which left her par­ tially paralyzed, Sister Oliveira returned to Providence, where she taught from 1942 to 1969, when she retired to Villa Fatima.

She is survived by three nep­ hews.

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after Queen Isabella I of Spain, ' the Daughters of Isabella are in­ volved in four charitable projects in Massachusetts: in the Fall River diocese they do volunte,er work for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, the Guild for the Blind and other apostolic works; in Boston they contr·ibute to the Cardinal Cushing Memorial Fund; in Worcester they aid the Youth Guidance division of Cath-' olic Charities; and in Springfield they give financial support to' a television Mass for shutins. .

The D of I have selected sup­ port of Catholic family life as their inte!national _cause and have pledged to raise $1 million endowment for the National Cen­ ter for Family Studies of the Catholic University of America.

The endowment wiH provide scholarships in family studies and maintain a core staff of center VINCENTIANS Russell April, (left) president of Attleboro District Council, and Ger­ educators and researchers. As of February, over $577,000 had' ald Lanoue chat with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as he visits an area meeting at Our Lady been raised toward -the $1 mil­ of Mt. Carmel Church, Seekonk. (Rosa Photo) lion goal. .

'D of I membership is open to any practicing ·Cathol.ic woman . over age 16.

Portuguese bishops rap new law

Medal of Freedom for Mother 'Teresa

LISBON Portugal (NC) - 'Por­ of the Vatican Congregation for that the matter is too complex tugal's bishops have said a new Catholic Education which said tor ,legislation to resolve. law which makes family planning that "sexuality of men and wo­ "We consider this legislation and contraceptive dnformation men is not only physical but al­ inadequate, unacceptable from available is undermining so psychological and spiritual." the scientific, moral and religious .wASHLNGTON (NC) - Moth­ widely the role of families in sex edu­ The bishops' statement said standpoint," the bishops' state­ er Teresa, founder of the Mis­ that the state has a duty to work ment said. It is "an attempt to sionaries of Charity in Calcutta, cation.

The law fails to consider the with families in sex education, cure the symptoms without at~ India, is among recipients of the 1985 Presidential Medal of Free­ 'family "to whieh belongs the particularly with the growth of tacking the roots of the prob­ primary right of education," the pornography and eroticism aim­ lem." dom.

Portuguese bishops' conference ed at young people. It also said The problem should be solved The award, the nation's high­ said in a pastoral statement. that family planning or responsi­ through "wise collaboration of est civilian honor, celebrates out­ "This law, now made public, ble Parenthood should include the state with parents' associa­ standing work in various activi­ takes the responsibility away sex education. tions and religious institutions," ties, including the -arts, educa­ from the family, who may not But the pastoral statement said the statement said. tion and national affairs. know what is happening to their Recipients, chosen by the presi­ children in the field of sexuality." dent, are ,to be honored at a White House luncheon May 23. . The !Iegislation makes family planning services available in Mother Teresa, reached in Cal­ RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (NC) groups." all health centers and hospitals cutta by the Associated Press, Latinamerica Press reports -Catholic officials in Brazil have which have gynecological se'c­ said she found out about the there have been three recent vio­ called for withdrawal of a state­ tions. It wlso requires informa­ award through newspapers two lent confrontations between state owned oil comp'any from a re­ tion to be provided on contracep­ days after it was announced in in the area, workers and Indians mote region of the Amazon, say­ tive methods and where contra­ Washington. "No one except you resulting in the deaths of two ing the company's activities en­ ceptive supplies are available.

- has called me yet," she said.

Petrobas employees. danger area Indians.

The bishops' statement said Although there has been no Church officials also have "If they give me the award I that there are plans to create caHed for distinct boundaries of public acknowledgment of Indian will accept it for the glory of centers.where youths may obtain tribal land in the Javari River deaths, Catholic missionaries in God and the good of the poor contraceptives.

Valley in remote western Brazil. the' area say the Indians have people," she said.

The statement said the family Both church groups they say burned, then abandoned dwell­ She said she would not be at planning legislation reduces hu­ ings and villages after the con· that when Petrobas, the oil com­ the White House May 23 because man se~ua\.ity to its biological pany, explodes nitroglycerin ,in frontations. They say this prac­ "I will be in Rome then." eiement only. seeking oil, it "constitutes a tice is customary after the death Other recipients of the 1985 of tribe members. . It quoted a recent statement great danger to the ;indigenous medal are entertainer Frank Sinatra, late TV journalist Frank: Reynolds, -late musician Count Basie; marine sciences expert Jacques-Yves Cousteau; former The Anchor has greeted spring the diocesan paper is. seen as an not take into account the in­ U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirk­ ,come of commuters living and with an eyec8tching red, white excellent advertising medium. patrick; retired general and test and blue advertisers' kit, pre­ Total paid circulation is 29,000 spending money in the diocese pilot Charles E. Yeager; andac­ who work, for instance, in senting area businesses with but a readership survey just con­ tor Jimmy Stewart. compelling reasons for 'taking cluded indicates that many Rhode Island or the Boston area.

In addition to Bristol and Barn­ papers are read by several per­ Mother Teresa was chosen for space in the only weekly news­ stable counties: Nantucket and sons, providing a multiplier ef­ paper covering most of South­ her humanitarian efforts, Rey­ nolds, for his contributions to eastern Massachusetts, including fect estimated at up to 100,000 Dukes counties and the towns of Marion, Wareham and Matta­ readers. journalism, Sinatra for efforts in Cape Cod and the islands of Nan­ poisett in Plymouth County are Also noted in the kit are sta­ entertainment, arts and public tucket and Martha's Vineyard. the Fall River diocese. in tistics ,fndicating that retail sales Designed by Anchor business service, and Mrs. Kirkpatrick for The advertising kit, which in­ her work in national interests manager Rosemary Dussault and­ ·in Bristol and Barnstable coun­ ties, the two -largest counties of cludeslocal and national rate

by Clement E. Daley, the kit in­ and national security., cludes a map of the four cities the five served by The Anchor, cards, is available from Miss Dus­ sault at The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, and 46 towns in the Fall River total $2 biIlion annually. Pay­ diocese. With a total ,population roll disbursements for the entire Fall River 02722. She may be ~ CATHOLIC CHARITIES of over half a miIlion people five-county area total over $2.3 reached by 'telephone at 617­ that is over 64 percent Catholic, billion annually, This figure does 675-7151 or 617-675-7048.

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Communicating to America As the Catholic church moves more and more into the field of modern communications, it is facing some new situations. ' , First and foremo,st, the American media are unique, influ­ enced by the national taste for affluence and libertarianism which leads many to claim the right to do anything they please so long as they do not hurt anyone. This attitude has in the past decade altered the society in which the church exists. Indeed, in line with the pervasive philosophy that money is power, the message of the church is too often viewed as little more than some self-help gimmick. , The fact is that despite;the efforts ofT. V. Pentecostalism few Americans,are reaily a'ware of the true challenge of the Gospel message. ,When George Gallup tells us that only four in to teenagers in this country can name a single gospel, it means that the church has a lot of work to do and that religion carries less and less weight in the public arena. For the church" in short, these are extraordinary times and extraordinary deci­ sions are required of her if she 'is to be true to the Gospel ,,' mandates. " But her task is becoming more and more difficult. The United States church is a very complex entity wnich for years' has been viewed as a somewhat stolid and impenetrable force in our democracy, separate,. immigrant, foreign'.

But the whirlwind post-World War II,Americ,a has cha~ged' that ,image. The churdi, is seen as 'having go'ne beyond its humble, ethnic origins. while its recent involvement in basic' peace and justice issues of American life has placed it in the forefront of controversy. , :; Indeed, the outspokenness ofthe American Bishops on such issues as war: and the economy has surfac~4.~ greater' d,iyersity of ideas in the church. Many feel that such episcopal position papers have induced a greater~ pluralism, among church members. Some hold that widening gulf is being created between the' goals and objectives of the American bishops and the rest of the American church. The qllestion yet ;to beJacedjs, how much diversity, pluralism and variety of id'eas can the I church take?

Considering all these matters, one might well ask how Catholic communicators of this complexsittiation are doing.

Believe it or not, they are doing pretty well.

Kenneth Briggs, the religion editor of The New York Times; feels that Catholic communication in recent years has taken on a great degree of sophistication. He see training of personnel, techniques employed and the growing grassroots desire to rise ' to the challenge of the times as positive and emphatic.

Supporting his view is the ongoing transformation of the Catholic communications world from a largely closed and defensive stance to one of openness and accessibility. The result of this cooperative attitude is a church gain in both quantity and quality of media exposure. Despite residual uncertainty and tensions that lingetamong various American Catholic communities, the church in general is growing in both candor and professionalism in the world of communications.

However, it must be remembered this is only a start. The church, despite all the difficulties it may face among its own members and in withstanding, Where necessary, the national mind, has no choice but. to continue to find ways of carrying out its evangelical mandate. This mission will not be enhanced by authoritarianism or inteIiectual coercion. The 'church will, affect our world only by.fearlessly, honestly and openly com­ municating the Uood News of the faith that underlies all slle does.

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Fighting against porn:

By Michael Gallagher Pornography is a serious issue.

NEW YORK (NC) - News­ It should not occasion the giggl~s week magazine recently ran a cover and smirks it sometimes provokes story on the fight against porno­ in otherwise intelligent and fair­ graphy, thus anointing'it with minded people. n:tedia respectabilty withheld up to For those inclined to treat it now. lightly, 1 offer the testimony of a True, the overwhelming empha­ letter sent to Newsweek after their sis was on the efforts of feminists. story appeared. , There was no mention of'the Na­ From a man with a fashionable tional Consultation on Pornogra­ subu'rban New York address, it phy held in Cincinnati last fall and reads: "I can 'understand how por­ attended by more than 500 Pro­ ,nography might offend some wo­ testant ministers and laityJrom all men. Nevertheless, my wife and 1 over the country. enjoy X-rated n:taterial, and we, The conSUltation was the occa­ resent deeply the efforts of any­ sion for a speech by Cardinal body who wants to prevent us Joseph Bernardin of Chicago in from easy access to it." which he illustrated how the strug­ This ·chilling letter illustrates all 'gle against pornography is very, too well how far the concept of the much a part of the "seamless gar­ common good has departed from ment," or consistent ethic of life. egocentric American society.

Nor was there mention of the 'If 1want to smoke, for example, effective anti-porn campaigns of 1 should be allowed to smoke such organizations as the Phoenix­ wherever and whenever 1 wish . based Citizens for Decency Through because smokers have'rights, too. the Law; the National Federation . And if 1 can afford a gas guzzler or for Decency, founded by the Rev. a stretch limo, 1have every right to Donald Wildmon, an articulate and resourceful Methodist minis~ do so. And don't talk to me about harming -the national interest or ter from Tupelo, Miss.; and Mor­ depleting natural resources for ality in Media, founded by Jesuit Father Morton Hill, who has long ~ future generations. My lifestyle is more important. espoused this cause.

It follows that in order that our OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER The feminists are altogether on trendy suburban couple can have Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River target in declaring that porno­ easy access to pornography, our 410 Highland Avenue

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men, and we owe them a debt of delicatessens and drugstores through­ gratitude. (That the media should PUBLISHER out the country. take them more seriously than the Most Rl!v. Daniel A, Cronin, 0,0., 5.1,0.

The secorid aspect of this kind Protestant and Catholic clergy and FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR EDITOR of thinking is even more disheart laity is, of course, a teIling com­ ,Rev. Msgr.

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less consumption of natural resour­ ces. The pronography industry, however, which is overwhelmingly dependent upon photoghraphs and movies, devours people.

We may argue as much as we like about the effect of pornogra­ phic movies on the viewer" but who would care to deny that they have a horribly dehumanizing effect upon the young men and women who appear in them - even when, as is often not the case, they do it voluntarily.

If you think otherwise, have a little talk with Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House for abused and runaway youth.

Mr. Wildmon's National Fed­ eration for Decency is sponsoring a national day of picketing April 27 directed· primarily against 7Eleven stores. , Why? Because, as Mr. Wildmon eloquently puts it, "A massive day of picketing will give hope to mil­ lions of Christians - discouraged by the silence of the Christian community - that something can be done, and to the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims of pornography who wonder ifanyone cares about them that someone .does care. " Will the national media take note of the picketing? Don't count on it.

There'd Be Few "If wombs had windows, there would be very few abortions" ­ Dr. Matthew Bulfin

The Fat Child

He is 35 years old, trim, successful in work and mar­ riage and very bright. But he never forgets his childhood misery. "I was a fat child," he said, "and it still haunts me. When I go back to class reunions, I'm still .identified as Tubby. Nobody ever saw anything in me except my fat."

Parents of fat children know what he means. When people meet thin or average children, they com­ ment on their personality, talents, humor or looks, but when they meet a fat child, they can't get beyond his girth.

"My, he looks well-fed," and "What a big girl you are," are their first reactions. Mothers of fat ba­ bies find themselves defending their feeding practices and hearing all kinds of warnings and advice. I know, because I had one who turned into a stringbean of a child.

Yet I underwent all kinds of unne­ cessaryanxiety.

Society today views overweight as a moral weakness. Yet mothers know that three children can eat similarly and one can look like a scarecrow while another can be considered fat. It seems unfair to deny the fat child the same food freely offered to the other simply because he or she inherited differ­ ent fat cells.

One mother told me that she was breastfeeding her fat infant who was taking no other food.

Incredibly, her pediatrician told her to let the baby cry in hunger rather than allow him to build up fat cells. The baby was all of 2 months old. Imagine that mother's anguish.

Fat children suffer terribly at the hands of other children. They are ridiculed incessantly and their self-esteem plummets, regardless of their gifts and talents. Many develop defenses like misbehavior and self-ridicule to deal with their size. And little is done 'in adult society to help them deal with it.

That's why I am pleased to men­ tion a book for fat children between the ages of seven and II. Entitled, Mom, How Come I'm Not Thin?

by Bill and Enid Bluestein (Comp­ Care Pubs.), this book won the Brandeis University Library Trust Award for Achievement in Child­ ren's Literature.

It's a sensitive book that focuses on the feelings of a 10-year-old girl who is fat and miserable. The authors base much of the book on Bill's own experience as a f~t child and a formerly fat adult.

According to Bill Bluestein, "Most parents would do anything to help their child lose weight. But all that overweight children know is that no one likes them for the essence of what they are."

For Dolly, featured in this book, life is just one humilitation after another, from hopeless clothes shopping trips to the teasings of

Missing Mass

THE ANCHOR-Diocese ofFall River·-Fri., Apr. 19, 1985 By DOLORES CURRAN

their own explanations of the decline.

A large number felt the church has become too wishy-washy. Ac­ cording to them: Missing Mass is no longer thought of as being a mortal sin; priests and nuns' are portrayed as weak and confusing teachers; permissiveness and self­ determination are championed more tha'n clear-cut church laws.

This atmosphere, some believe, encourages laxness on the part of some and turns others off.

Other letters suggest that.othe closing of a number of Catholic schools and poor religious educa­ tion have caused a void in knowl­ edge about Christ and the church among youths. Without a religious foundation, they ask, how can you expect someone to desire the Mass?

Some people feel strongly that many of our church buildings do not reflect a house of God. The tabernacle and crucifix are hidden away, music is uninspiring, preach­ ing is poor, glib remarks by priests during the liturgy and handshak­ ing detract from the Mass.· Of all the reasons I have heard, lack of a good religious education concerns me the most. If single people aren't going to Mass because they feel the parish speaks to fami­ lies only or if there is a feeling that liturgies are poor, the remedies for correcting the situations are much easier to find than trying to encour­ age a person to attend Mass who has very little idea of Christ.

The former problems call for improvements between people who know what they want out of Mass

and a parish. The latter problem concerns people who have no foun­ dation in religion and wouldn't know what to criticize if asked. A long proce~s of structuring their religious knowledge base is needed.

Several years ago there was a statistical report titled, "Where are the 6.6 million?" It found that more than 6 million youths on the elementary and secondary educa­ tion levels were receiving no for­ mal religious education. Two up­ dates of this report show that we have reduced the 6 million very little.

What concerns me is that reli­ gion is rich with a wisdom that speaks to our times and should become part of us at the earliest stage of our life. What also makes me anxiousis knowing how impor­ tant the adolescent years are in religious development. . When I think of a child who is deprived of knowing the life of Christ, the Old Testament and the teachings of the apostles, I feel he or she is like an orphan without the warmth of a father or mother.

For the adolescent there are few guiding principles that equal those f0l!nd in the commandments, pro­ phets, Beatitudes and teachings of the church when it comes to mor­ ality, social justice and the threat of nuclear war.

From the letters I have received so far, it would seem two underly­ ing problems face those concerned with low Mass attendance. One is how to make the liturgy a com­ munity worship in which everyone feels welcome and leaves spiritu­ ally enriched. These improvements, difficult as they may be, are man­ ageable. But how do we get at the second problem posed by the miss­ ing 6 million and make religious

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her thinner schoolmates. She learns - about heredity, about calories, about beauty, outside and within.

This is an important book for schools, libraries, and parents. One out of four children in America has a weight problem. This story is invaluable to them and their fami­ lies. It includes long-needed an­ swers for any frustrated parent who must deal with that painful question, "Mom, how come I'm not thin?"

And while we're at it, let's look at our responsibility as "other" adults to fat children. Are we helpful, sensi­ tive, and caring or do we become part of that vast and critical mass that ridicules and condemns the fat child who already feel worthless?

We talk a lot about fostering traditional values but when it comes down to it, we tend to feed into society's superficial values ofattrac­ tiveness, slimness and control.

When a fat adult or child comes into our midst, do we really see them as individuals worth know­ ing or do we write them off as freaks, regardless of their other gifts and caring?

By

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education a top priority for them?

If we don't get a handle on this soon I am afraid that, 10 years down the road, the 6 million may be added to the numbers of those not attending Mass.

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Q. I have a disturbing question -Be properly disposed. That is, and I don't know anyone else to he or she must be aware of no approach. My first cousin and I serious offense against God which are in love with each other. It is a would contradict the union with beautiful relationship, but the real­ him professed in the Eucharist. . ities are difficult. What do the The bishop of a diocese may church's rules say about our get­ allow reception of Communion by ting married? (California) other Christians in certain other A. According to the general law "urgent necessities." In some indi­ of the Catholic Church (Canon vidual instances, for example, a 1091) any relationship up to and including the fourth degree (what bishop has allowed non-Catholic we usually call first cousins) is an parents to receive Communion at the marriage of their Catholic son impediment to marriage. or daughter.

For a serious enough reason, In all such cases, however, only however, the bishop ofthe diocese the local bishop (not the parish can dispense from this impediment priest) has the right and responsi­ for a first cousin. In some other bility to judge whether intercom­ cultures marriage of first cousins is far more common than it is in our munion should tuke place. own. In those countries dispensa­ Q. Our Catholic newspaper tions by the church for such mar­ quotes a woman who spoke of the riages also are relatively common. FocoBare' Movement and how it In most U.S. states your prob­ gave her strength to live what she lem would be more with civil law believed. I've never heard of this than with canon law. California groul). Is it a retreat program or happens to be one that has no law what? (Illinois) prohibiting marriages between first A. Focolare is one of several cousins. At least 30 other states movements or types of spirituality not only prohibit them but some which have done much in this cen­ have rather severe legal sanctions tury for lay men and women to for resident couples who travel to deepen and enrich' their Christian another state to enter such a mar­ lives. riage.

The name itself comes from the You also wondered in your let­ ltaliaQ word for fire and is said to ter why laws against first-cousin marriages even exist. They are sl'ggestthe meaning "carriers of fire." Officially called the World­ based on social and health reasons which, upon a little reflection, are wide Focolare Movement (Work of Mary), it began in Italy during rather obvious.

World War II when a few young A few ancient cultures appar­ girls, horrified by the destruction ently allowed some type of mar­ riage relationship even between and terror of the war, sought a way to bring about the unity on earth brother and sister and parent and for which Jesus prayed. child. However, for the familial Through the Years, this theme of and physical health of their socie 2 ties, marriage between relatives to unity has become the cornerstone some degree was forbidden by of its ideals, with the conviction every major code oflaw with which that the only solid base of unity, we are familiar, 'even those which the one reality that will last, is God predate the Jewish law of the Old himself. The moveme'nt has flour­ ished particularly since Vatican Testament.

Council II, when its ideals were If you're serious about a possi­ ble marriage, please talk with your seen to be stressed often in the parish priest soon. He will advise council fathers' commitment of the church to the cause of political, you on the steps you must take. social and religious harmony and Q. In response to a recent ques­ unity among the people of the tion you stated that there are occa­ world. sions when a non-Catholic may Focolare has a number of move­ receive Communion in a Catholic church. I would appreciate your ments or groups within itself. Some explai,ning what those occasions single members, called Focolarini, live in separate communities (FQ­ are. (Pennsylvania) colare Centers). While they work A. The requirements for this kind of intercommunion are given in businesses or professions as in an instruction from the Vatican other lay people, they follow the evangelical counsels of poverty, Secretariat for Promoting Chris­ tian Unity (June 1972, and in the obedience and chastity. new Code of Canon Law, Canon Another group are volunteers, 844.) who attempt by their lives to trans­ Five conditions must be fulfilled form all of human activity accord­ for administration of the sacra­ ing to the Gospel and the spirit of ment of the Eucharist, penance the movement. and anointing of the sick to non­ The first official approval.ofthe Catholic baptized Christians. The movement by the church came person involved must: -Be in danger of death or in from Pope John XXllI in 1962. In 1978 Pope Paul VI also encour­ urgent need (examples: during per­ aged the movement, saying, "Be secution or imprisonment); -Be unable to have access to a faithful to your inspiration which is so modern and so fruitful." minister of his or her own faith; -Ask for these sacraments on" Headquarters are in Rome, but his or her own initiative; it has national offices in several -Have faith in these sacraments countries. One may be reached at in accord with the belief of the Box 496, New York, N.Y. 10021.

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VATICAN CIlY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation because of age of Brazilian Archbishop Helder Camara of Olinda·Recife, an out· spoken critic of the series of military governments which' ruled Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s. , Archbishop' Camara was· a strong critic of human rights abuses by Brazilian security forces in the 1960s and 1970s and an internationally recognized speaker for social justice. He 'was also an ' outspoken critic of capitalism saying' that, as practiced in Latin America, it was detrImental to the pcior by w.idening the gap, bet~een rich and poor.

1 His criticisms caused him to , -~ be tagged "the Red bishop," be­ , IT'S BISHOP'S NIGHT at 'New Bedford Catholic Woman's Club. Enjoying the oc­ casion ar~ from 'left, Mrs. Alfr~d W. Cyr, fii:st vice-president; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin; cause of numerous allegations that he was a Communist. .

Miss Ma~ Elizabeth LaRoche, preSident. (R<?sa Photo) Archbishop Camara also has criticized Communism and has .! said the all~gations were an ef­ fort to discredit hil'!l.

"My vocation is to announce the Gospel and to help create a their faith' to secular society church, in the 'light also of new more human world," he said in , Continued .from page one through "work itself, education, needs." it 1984 interview with National . can Council and to mark .the The Second Vatican Council Catholic News Service.

20th anniversary of the end of ·the family, politics, the economy, culture and· mass media." It resulted in major reforms of the ','I was born 'in a poor area," the council. , also· warned of the "persistent liturgy, strongly promoted ecu­ Archbishop Camara said. "When "Many bishops' conferences menical dialogue with other I was growing up, it was easy to meet only once a year, making danger of a scientific· and tech­ Christian churches and empha­ nical development'" insufficiently see that ,local problems, could it difficult for them to consult sized shared authority between rooted in ethics and religion. not be solved locally. 'I learr~ed . with the laity and to consult the pope an'd the bishops. that problems have a national Pope John Paul, in announcing among themselves for. both sy­ The council was conducted in . .and international dimension." nods," said Archbishop Tomko. the extraordinary synod, said its He said that conditions im­ The arch,bishop said the synod aim was "to favor the further four sessions spread over three posed on Brazil for repayment i~troduction It began Oct. II, 1962, and study and constant years. on the 'laity probably' would. be of intern~tional loans were op- , of Vatican' II in the life of the ended Dec. 8, 1965. held in Octobe.r- 1987. pressing the poor "and grinding On Feb. 19, the Vatican reo them down even further." :leased a preparatory document The archbishop also said on the role of the hiity" to be during the interview that his 1MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) Schlaefer told reporters he was resignation "is only from the dio­ used as the basis for !=onsulta­ nearing the village of Las Brisas, cese." He said he would continue -:- American-born Bishop Salva­ tion by ,bishops' conferences. tor Schlaefer, apostolic vicar of about 125 miles northeast of "to work both inside and outside The 40-page document stress­ Managua, when several armed of Brazil." ed the need for the-laity to bring' Bluefields, Nicaragua, was ,in­ jured April 11 when the jeep meI1 lying along the roadside at­ He noted that church. people " in which he. was riding was am- . tackeQ. such as himself who cri,ticize the bushed in northeastern Nicarag­ He said a hand grenade ap­ political situation' are unpopular ua. parently hit the jeep and explod­ 'with goverriments.

Bishop Schlaefer, 64, was ed.

"At one time the Catholic FUNERAL HOME He said he shouted at them bishops of Latin America thought wounded in one hand and his 550 L<>cust Street lower back, and his face was that he was the ·bis!}op of Blue­ it was a pastoral necessity to Fall River, Mass. fields, and they apolog,ized. scratched.

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Silence isn't freedom; bishop tells' editors' WASHINGTON '(NC) - Reli­ gious freedom cannot be obtained when religious voices are kept quiet, Bishop James W. Malone, president of the National Confer­ ence of Catholic Bishops, told journalists April 12.

"We do not purchase religious freedom at the price of silencing religious voices," the bishop told members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washington. . "Separation of church and state should not mean separa­ ting the church from the life of society, for that would be to silence the public voice of reli­ gion, and to do that would be entirely unacceptable," he said.

Bishop Malone said critics often cite separation of church and state as a reason why the bishops should not speak out on such issues as abortion, U.S. nu­ clear policy, or the economy.

But he said the critics' real moti­ vation is disagreement with the bishops' conclusions on those questions.

"To be ,blunt about it, I don't believe these selective critics of ours deserve serious considera­ ·tion," the bishop said. However, he added, the churchmen should take seriously the criticism of Catholics and others "who have a sense of the uniqueness of the American experiment in religious pluralism and a principled con­ cern for keeping the lines of the delicate relationship between church and state clear."

Bishop Malone said the issue of religion and politics has taken on new urgency because of the moral aspects of questions cur­ rently at issue; everything from in vitro fertilization to nuclear war.

He told editors of the linkage the bishops find between abor­ tion and nuclear war as threats to life and explained that the bishops' "conditional moral ac­ ceptance" of nuclear deterrence "requires 'that we remain in­ volved" in the debate over nu­ clear weapons.

He also reiterated the bishops' rejection of a military solution to the conflict in Central Ameri­ ca and their belief "that long­ standing injustice and human rights problems" are the primary cause of unrest in that region.

On the domestic scene, the bishops are focusing on economic justice because "the poor are with 'Us," despite overall econ­ omic improvements, Bishop Ma­ lone said.

"A: syndicated columnist recent­ ~y

wrote that anyone who Wish­ ed to make pronouncements on the U.S. economy should spend a month ,in Youngstown, Ohio. my ,town," he said. "Having spent more than a month there, I can testify that the pain is real, in spite of our national '1'e­ covery," The .bishop heads the Youngstown diocese.

He was dater questioned by the editors on such topics as whether the church's "preferen­ tial option .for the poor is con­ tradicted by its positions regard­ ing family planning, and whether

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Catholics who YOted for Presi­ dent Reagan will back the econ­ omics pastoral.

"The Catholic Church ,recog­ nizes the need for family plan­ ning" and endorses natural fam­ ily planning, Bishop Malone an­ swered. What the church op­ poses is forced family planning that violates a person's cultural traditions or religious beliefs, he added.

He acknowledged that many Catholics were staunch Reagan supporters in the 1984 election and that "we may be facing an unsympathetic reception to our views" on the economy. He saia the pastoral letter is intended "to address what the economy is do­ ing to people and wllat the econ­ omy is doing for people. "

Two concerts at cathedral Honoring the 300th anniversary of the births of Bach and Handel, St. Mary's Cathedra'I, 'noted for its excel\ent acoustics, will be host next week to two unusual concerts. At 8 p.m. Friday, April 26, the offering is A Concert for Organ, Baroque Orchestra and Choir, with Kevin Francis Birch as or­ ganist, the Schola Cantorum of Boston directed by Frederick Jodry and a baroque orchestra playing instru~ents of the period.

The program will include Can­ tata 150 and Fantasia in G Major by Bach, a Handel organ concerto and works by Schuetz.

At the same time Saturday, April 27, A Spring Concert of Music for Two Choruses will be presented by the Greater New Bedford Chora,1 Society and the Sippican Choral Society of Mar­ ion.

The groups numbering 100 singers in all, will sing .anti­ phonal selections written for two facing choruses sometimes echoing, sometimes complement­ ing one another.

To be heard~ are compositions

by Bach, Handel, Schuetz, Gab· rieli, ·Palestrina, Pachelbel and Gallus.

Directors are, for New, Bedford, Gerald P. Dyck and for Sippican judith C. Dautel. The accom· panist will be Corinne Peck of Sippican.

AT ANNUAL Adult Recognition program, held this year at Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville, are, from left, Janice Lynch, St. Mary's parish, New Bedford, win­ ner of the St. Ann Award, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Paul Fournier, Sacred Heart parish, North Attleboro, recipient of the St. George Award. (Rosa Photo)

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What's a priest to do?

By Tracy Early

NEW YORK (NC) - Priests struggling to understand their identity in a time of unusually rapid change can find it more in their office as church leaders than in specific functions they perform, Jesuit Father Walter Burghardt said in 'a recent ad­ dress.

Some pr.iests, he said,' have sought to find the meaning of their ordination in the specific functions it enabled them to perform which others could not.

But then they realized that only a small percentage of their time was spent on these functions, he said.

If priests place the emphasis in their office of church leader­ ship, he said, then everything . they do - "with the exception of sin" - can become a part of their priestly ministry. '

Father Burghardt, a theologian at Georgetown University in Washington and editor of the journal Theological Stucfies, gave the keynote address for a con­ vocation on vocations held by the Brooklyn Diocese. It brought together about 800 priests to con­ sider what could be done to fos­ ter vocations to the priesthood.

Father Burghardt' told the priests that he was ordained in 1941 and served nearly half his 44 years in' "sacerdotal tran­ quility." He said that he had ex­ perienced "no temptation to be other I than ,a priest," but that events in the church and in the world had made it necessary to wrestle with the question of what wa,s permanent about the priesthood.

In the early years of his priest­ hood thousands of young men wanted its "status," he said. The priestly life brought "stability and security."

Now, after the changes brought

by Vatican II, Vietnam and other events of recent decades, he said, the priesthood no longer ensures status or inner security. Priests have gone through the "soul­ searing" experience of trying to answer the question, "Who am I?" he said. .

Simple, clear-cut answers can-, not be found in Scripture or church tradition, Father Burg­ hardt said. Finding a clear an­ swer to the meaning of priest­ hood ,in church history was also impossible because its expression was not identical through all the centuries, he said.

"The joker here is history it­ self," he said. "The church's ex­ perience itself is chockful of change." At different periods, he said, emphasis has fallen on the jurisdictional, the l;ultic, the pastoral and the monastic. models.

In recent struggles over iden­ tity, Father Burghardt said, some priests have tried to interpret the meaning of their priesthood "in terms of something distinc­ tive to themselves, what they alone can do," But then they realize, he said, that in actuality they spend most of their time doing other things, which they often suspect the laity could do better.

An answer being. offered by wntemporary theology, Father Burghardt" said, is to go beyond the special functions to the con­ cept of "church office," with office understood not primarily' in terms of authority or an in­ stitutional structure but a "rela-, tionship of responsibility." .

"The ordination of a priest is a celebration by which a person assumes office in the church and can act in the name of the com­ munity," Father Burghardt said. ",Priesthood is a social reality.

The church trusts me as ,its rep­ resentative leader, and I dedi­ cate myself to a life of service to the church."

The demands of faithfulness to Christ the high priest are uri­ changing,. he said, bU,t ,the priest as an ordained leader is· "re­ sponsible to a church in motion." /

Parental NEW YORK - Priests must begin reeducating parents about the importance of encouraging their sons to enter the priest­ hood, Bishop .Francis Mugavero of Brooklyn told priests of his diocese during a day~long meet­ ing on the priestly vocations

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One point that repeatedly emerged during the day's pro­ gram of addresses, group discus­ sion and general reflection was the need for priests to project an attractive image for young men who might Qe considering ordination. But some priests ex­ pressed discomfort with this em­ phasis and said natural human weaknesses made it unrealistic to expect they could always radiate

urged . rector, said about 40 ordinations happiness and satisfaction.

Bishop Mugavero, though, were expected over the next placed much of the blame for the five years.

During the day the priests vocations crisis on parents and then met in small groups to the values of society.

Young men with an interest in brainstorm ways to foster voca· tions. the priesthood are often dis­ The discussions brought a wide couraged by parents urging them range of suggestions, from fur­ to enter law or some other high­ paying profession, he said. "We ther highlighting of the priest's must reeducate them about the own role in stimulating voca­ blessing that comes to a family tions to declarations that not when it has a young man or· many more vocations could real­ istically be expected in the Am­ dained to the priesthood," erican society of -today unless He also called on the priests the church changed its position to work more actively in en­ on celibacy and ordination of couraging potential priests. women. .

'Bishop Mugavero acknow­ In the afternoon, the priests ledged that priests would not were addressed by Cistercian necessarily stay' so exuberant Father Basil Pennington, a native "that we will do a breakdance of the 'Brooklyn Diocese who is every day." But he said it was now vocations director for his important that "our people see order. a joy iiI us."

Father Pennington said that As an indication of the dim-, priests had given up the' possi­ ensions of the crisis, Bishop Mu­ bility of physical fathering in gavero noted that his diocese order to "generate life" more - the largeat in the nation that fully in a spiritual"way.. Much of is not an archdiocese - ordain· the pain priests currently ex­ ed 32 men in 1960 and only four perience, he suggested, comes in 1984. Father Fernando Fer· because "we don't sense we are rarese, diocesan vocations di· fathering."

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Former Polish ambassador baptized PHILADELPHIA (NC) - For­ mer Polish ambassador to the United States'Romuald Spasow­ ski has been baptized by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, who also adminstered the sacrament of confirmation and gave Spas­ owski the Eucharist for the first time.

The former ambassador, 64, who protested imposition of mar­ tial law' in Poland and defected while assigned to the United States in December 1981, took

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A PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts is also the occasion for jubileee celebrations at the community's house of prayer in Fall River. Fron,t left, standing, Sister Helene Wood, provincial superior; Sister Margaret Woods, celebratmg 50 years of religious life; Sister Brigid McCoy, regional superior; seated, Sister Virginia Ma­ chado, marking 75 years in the Sacred Hearts community. (Gaudette Photo)

P'rovincaal assembly, jubilees

Memorable weel{.end"

By Pat McGowan Last weekend was memorable for the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts on Fall River's Hood Street. Not only was their :wa­ c,ious convent the site of a pro­ vincial assembly of their com­ munity but they celebrated the jubilees of two of their members: Sister Virginia Machado, the former Sister Marie du Divin Co­ eur, marked 75 years in relig.ion; and Sister Margaret Woods, for­ merly Sister Mary Veronica, celebrated 50 years.

The assembly took place last Saturday. Presided over by Sis­ ter Helene Wood, provincial su­ perior, it was attended by sisters from all parts of the farflung Sacred Hearts provdinces, head­ quartered in Honolulu.

Sister Dolores Pavao, who is stationed in Fairhaven and dir­ rects the lively CCD program of St. Joseph's parish in that town, explained that provincia,l head­ quarters for the sisters used to be in Fairhaven, where Sacred Hearts fathers, brothers and sis­ ters have served for decades.

With declining vocations on the east coast, however, it seem­ ed more practical for prov.incial headquarters to move elsewhere.

The east coast-based sisters had a choice of where to affiliate and decided to join the Hawaii pro­ vince of the community, becom­ ing -Iast November its East Coast region, with Sister Br.igid McCoy as regional superior. She is based in Mt. Rainier, Md., where she is

active in justice and peace min­ istry.

Last Saturday the sisters met to reevaluate "how faithful the community has been to its con­ stitutions," said Sister Pavao.

Primarily a spiritual gathering, it was not a time for practical de­ cisions, usuaHy handled at com­ munity chapter meetings. Parti­ cularly noted was that the meet­ ing came during a year of ob­ servance of the 150th anniver­ sary of the death of~he com­ munity's foundress.

Provincial Superior Sister Wood, a native of Ha­ waii who claims Hawaiian, Chin­ ese, German, English, Irish and Portuguese ancestry, is serving her second· term as provincial superior.

She visits each house of her farflung province, every six months, coming to the east coast for the first time in 1983, when consideration of affiliation be­ gan.

"Our charism is living together in community, expressed .in our compassion and missionary in­ tent towards those in need of God's word," she said.

She noted that there are near­ ly 100 sisters in the Pacific Pro­ vince of the Sacred Hearts com­ munity, including those in the East Coast region.

The community pioneered in Hawaii. in 1859 being the first religious community to reach the island and to start Catholic schools.

"Actually we started for the islands in 1846," said Sister Wood, "but we lost sisters, priests, brothers and a bishop in a disastrous shipwreck and it took until 1859 to pull ourselves together and send another group."

Discussing the general picture of church life in Hawaii, she said it "has quite a way to go in developing lay responsibility.

The people still need time to ac­ cept the changes' in the churcH." Jubilarians It was frosting on the cake

for Sister Wood to share the ju­ bilee celebrations of Sisters Ma­ chadoand Woods. The obser· vances came last Sunday, begin­ ning with a Mass of thanks­ giving followed by a banquet.

Sister Machado, 99 in Febru­ ary, was born in Portugal, one ,of 21 children. She entered re­ ligious life in 1908 in Spain and made her religious profession in August, 1910, in France.

In the same month she came to Fairhaven, where she remain­ ed until the Sacred Hearts Sis­ ters moved to Fall River in 1980.

During her 70 years in the peace­ ful Fairhaven convent, also the site of the former Sacred Hearts Academy, she taught at the acad­ emy and a nearby parochiaI school, supervised boarding stu­ dents and enjoyed needlework.

For many years she was also re­ ceptionist at the Fairhaven con­ vent.

A sister, now deceased, was

also a member of the Sacred Hearts co'mmunity and she still has a sister and brother in Por­ tugal as well as many nieces and nephews. She last visited her native land in 1961.

Sister Machado speaks fluent Portuguese, French and English and is also conversant with Span­ ish.

Sister Woods Sister Woods, a Fairhaven na­ tive attended Sacred Hearts Academy in that town and after entering religion made her novi· tiate and was professed in Paris.

She studied at the former Sa­ cred Hearts School of Education, Fall River; Rivier College, Bos­ ton College and Fordham Univer­ sity and during her active life taught elementary grades and Latin and religion in the high school division of Sacred Hearts Academy, where she was head­ mistress from 1949 to 1962.

From 1962 to 1968 Sister Woods taught and was an ad­ ministrator at Sacred Hearts Academy in Honolulu. Returning to Fairhaven in 1968 she again taught and was involved in ad­ ministration. In 1979 she went to Mt. Rainier, Md., where she is active in parish work, missionary projects and peace and justice issues.

the names of Francis and An­ thony as a sign of his new birth.

"I am perfectly sure I made the right decision, the only de­ cision possible," the former dip­ lomat said of his 'acts ,in seeking political asylum and becoming a Catholic. "Now, I feel that I have truly joined the Polish people in their struggle for free­ dom. Most PoEsh people are Catholic and I am one of them now."

With tears in his eyes, seated beside his wife, Wanda, a Cath­ olic, Spasowski said he hoped his personal decision to become a Caholic would "encouarge the Polish people to be strong in the faith:' "The Polish people will pre­ vail," he added. "There is noth­ ing stronger than faith. When the Polish people see that some­ one who had been a Communist and a government official has be­ come a Catholic, yes, it will help them to resist the opposition.

Cardinal Krol compared Spa­ sowski's life to that of St. Aug­ ustine, whose mother, St. Moni­ ca, prayed for his conversion over many years. "Our Spasow­ ski was raised in a spiritual vac­ uum, but like St. Augustine, he could write 'you have made us for yourself, 0 Lord. Our hearts are restless un~i1 they rest in you: " Spasowski denounced the October 1984 killing of Father Jerzy Popieluszko and a more recent attack on Father Tadeusz Zeleski, 29, a Cracow priest ap­ parently tortured and burned by a masked intruder.

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She has ha~ professional help and medication, which was stopped seven years ago when she became pregnant. She gave t~e baby up for adoption.

At this point she still seems to need a degree of self·discipline so she can hold down a job. She becomes overly involved on a per· sonal basis and alienates herself from people because they resent her interference.

We have four other children who have developed well and are competent and self·reliant. We some­ how have failed her.

She has worked and shared expen· ses at different times. 'However, she runs up'bills, gasoline and tel­ ephone in particular. Can you say at this point, stay with a full-time job and pay your own way or leave home? How do you push without shoving?

She does show a good amount of effort but not continuously. She has spent a good part of these years "giving up her baby." This I think she has behind her. Please give us an answer. - New Jersey.

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You have identified some rea­ sons you think 'she has problems, namely conflicts with her father, difficulty in personal relationships and giving up a child for adoption.

Be sure to distinguish befween problems and excuses.

Each life poses problems. The problems may be very real, as in YOllr daughter's case. However, they are not an excuse for failing to get on with the rest of life. You are doing your daughter a disser­ vice if you decide that her prob­ lems are an excuse for taking care of her for the rest of her life.

The behavior you mention, run­ ning up telephone and gasoline bills, are clearly child behavior. In paying these bills you are treating her like a child. I fail to see how paying for her gasoline will help her deal with her feelings about giving up a child. I can clearly see from her position that it would be very comfortable to use dad and mom's ca~ and let them pay for the gas.

Stop letting her use the' car and the telephone until she can pay for their use. Your "kindness" may be depriving her of some strong mot­ ivation to do for herself.

She mayor may not be ready to live on her own. I cannot tell from your letter just what her capabili­ ties are.

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You are experienced parents.

Talk with your husband to try to be more objective about assessing her strengths and weaknesses and to recognize her good points. If she is getting help from a mental health professional, tell him what you propose to do in regard to your daughter and ask for his evaluation.

Being indulgent is not always kind. Being tough is not always mean. For example, ifyourdaugh­ ter had a physical disability, you might still have to be tough and insist she use her existing capabili­ ties to the maximum. The same reasoning applies to her present situation.

Protect her when life and limb are involved. But do not encour­ age her to remain a child by doing for her, particularly in non-essen­ tials. Trust your wisdom and judg­ ment as a parent, but be tough enough that she is forced to get on with her life.

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By Antoinette Bosco There's a television commercial that starts out, "Memorex brings you a slight exaggeration." I smile every time I hear that line. You see, I have long been convinced that a slight exaggeration is a phenomenon of our times.

I was particularly aware of this a few years ago when it seemed that everybody I knew had suddenly devel­ oped "allergies." If they didn't like tuna fish, it was because they were "allergic" to it. Cigarette smokers sud­ denly found that a huge percentage of non-smokers were now not merely repulsed, but actually "allergic" to the invasive smoke.

In stories of poor health the slight exaggeration becomes a veritable art form. People who call in sick for work always have.a temperature in the I03-degree range. Aches are arthri­ tis; headaches are migraines; a cold is the flu; a rash is dermatitis.

I met a slight exaggeration recently.

A woman who had to weigh at least ISO pounds was .talking about her new dress - her new "size 10" dress.

he' had hit he'r just once, in a fit of anger.

Mention a charity and I know one woman who will immediately tell you that she supports that cause, whatever it is. Her husband exposed her ~light exaggeration by laughing once when she mentioned all the money she had sent to the Leukemia Society. She had given $1 during a door-to-door anneal.

One of my acquaintances will talk about all, the books she's read this month. Her slight exaggeration is that she only reads the reviews. But who knows the difference? Better yet, who cares?

And people missed work at changes of seasons and in the middle of sea­ sons because of "allergies," a terril which seemed to get more and more vague as it escalated in use.

When I was teaching at a college, one of my students used to talk about how her father beat her merci­ , lessly. Only once did she get off her slight exaggeration and admit that

I'm not sure why people feel the need to exaggerate. Maybe it makes them feel more important; maybe it's just habit; maybe it's done with no thought at all; or maybe they think they're not interesting unless they exaggerate.

Slight exaggerations are also used more and more today by people who try to beef up their credentials. Pro­ fessionals still talk about the scandal that developed a few years ago when a Washington Post writer won a Pulitzer Prize for her investigative reporting - which turned out to be a piece of fiction.

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Recently, a man named John C. Michaelson withdrew from a post he had been appointed to by New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. The reason: a slight exaggeration. On the strength of his having been a."scholarship student at Oxford and an adviser to the Vatican," Michaelson was named to oversee the economic develop­ ment of the state of New York. It turns out that Michaelson merely attended Oxford and was a low-paid employee at a London-backed con­ cern where he worked on the Vati­ can account.

Meanwhile, so long as we call' it a Slight Exaggeration - instead of what it really is, lying - my guess is the puffery will go on and on.

Church seeks communications update

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Pontifical Commission for Social Communications has called for studies on modernizing church com­ munications throughout the world, including study of a possible inter­ national data bank for church infor­ mation.

On the list of study items are: -Means for speeding transmis­ sion of Holy See documents through­ out the world, and speedy receipt at the Vatican of documents from bishops' conferences and possibly from individual bishops; - The feasibility of an interna­ tional data bank; - IssiJing major documents in Arabic for use in the media of Arabic-speaking nations;

- A strategy for evangelization through the media for greater presence of the church in media.

The commission also called for statements covering ecumenical co­ operation in communications, porno­ graphy and violence in the media, and for recommendations "for guarr anteeing authentic Catholic represen­ tation in the communications me­ dia."

Members of the commission met with Pope John Paul II, who told them that modern media should unile people through "the shared experience of what is reported or even through simultaneous pres­ ence at one event Ihrough elec­ troniC' links which span the globe and reach even into space."

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What are assault and battery?

By ATTY. ARTHUR MURPHY

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RICHARD MURPHY

There ar~ some'words that .come in a 'pair. If you hear ,"salt," you expect "pepper" to follow. If there is ','bread," '''butter'' must be nearby. Some combin~tions get slurred together collapsing .the components. into one word. Thus "h~m and eggs" may sound more like "Hammin­ egz." .

-Lawyers also use ,phrases with

two distinct elements that over time have becqme nearly insepar­ able. "Assault and battery" is an example of two distinct offenses that are often lumped together.

Generally, assault is the threat or unsuccessful attempt to inflict !tarm upon another, while battery is the actual infliction of harm.

For example, if you throw a punch at someone but miss, you have committed an assault but not a battery. Although battery without assault is less common,' neverthe­ less, a physical intrusion upon a sleeping person would be such an example.

Usually a person threatens harm to another and carries' out the threat by harming the one threat­ ened. The threat (assault) and the harm (battery) often occur together.

Because the two offenses usually "travel" -together, the phrase "as­ sault and battery" developed.

But what does this catch-all term cover? Suppose you are threaten'ed and harmed by another? What can you ,do? Well, one of the purposes of law is to protect citizens from injury. If you'are a victim you can sue your'assailant to, win damages f~r harm su"ffered.in assault and battery. In 'addition,

the state can arrest the offender and prosecute for assault and bat­ tery.

Assault consists of acts which are attempts to do bodily harm to another as 'well as acts intended only to frighten or threaten some­ one. Criminal assault requires the apparent ability to carry out the act. Criminal assault does not require an actual intent to carry out the threat and it does not mat­ ter whether the victim actually believed he was in danger.

For example, words alone will not constitute an assault but words accompanied by an overt gesture 'may give the gesture or action a threatening quality. A threatening gesture, even if it is just a bluff, is an assault when accompanied by fhe apparent ability to carry out the act. :rhus, a menacing gesture with an unloaded gun is an assault because the person with the gun has the apparent ability to carry out the threat. The rationale for this result is that the law of crimi­ nal assault tries to d.iscourage all threats to the public order, not just those likely to 'be carried olit.

A successful civil suit for assault requires more' elements than does

a successful criminal prosecution for a~ault. For example, you must prove that you were in fear of actual physical harm. So you will not win an as~ault suit if the threat was not to your immediate well­ being. "I'm going to break your legs next week" will not do.

Nor will you win if a reasonable person would not have been appre­ hensive under the same circum­ stances. An especially fearful or timid person does not receive spe­ cial treatment.

Battery is the intentional and unjustifiable use of. force upon another. You cannot, for example, commit a battery while sleepwalk­ ing or while flailing your arms in an epileptic seizure because bat­ tery is a voluntary act.

As 10Qg as your act is inten­ tional, you will be liable for any injuries resulting. It does, not mat­ ter that you did not intend harm; only your act need be intentional.

You can c'ommit a battery by hit­ ting someone with a thrown rock or by encouraging your German shepherd to bite someone. No actual physical contact between victim and the offender is necessary.

Rather, the requirement is that

your intentional act produces some offensive physical contact.

No minimum amount offorce is needed in order to have a battery.

Indeed, any "offensive" contact will do. For example, a battery case could involve kissing an unwil­ ling date.

Yet a certain amount of physical contact is inevitable in daily life and not every offensive jostling is a battery. Thus you could not rec­ over damages from someone who bumps into you at Filene's base­ 'ment, or from someone who tugs at your sleeve to find out the time.

Penalties are stiffer for more serious assaults and batteries. These are called "aggravated" assaults 'and batteries. Included would be assault or 'battery with intent to murder, rape, rob or use a danger­ ous weapon.

On the other hand, the courts recognize situations where use oJ a reasonable amount of force may be justified. These include self­ defense, defense of property, de­ fense o( a third party, preventing a crime and parents punishing their children.

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ThePortugii'ese Comm'unity Health Care Committee of St. Anne's Hospital, 'Fall River, has reported on its activities during its first year.

'Ronald Ponte, hospital director of social work and committee chair­ man, said the committee was estab­ lished to deal with language and cultural barriers faced by non­ English speaking Portuguesepa­ tients.

"I believe the major achieve­ ment has been a heightened sensi­ tivity,to the problem," said P0tlte. ' "The hospital staff is more attuned to the impact of hospitalization o,n non-English speaking patients and as a result can provide better ser­ ,', vice to them.~' In order to facilitate communi-' cation, bilingual signs have been posted throughout, the hospital, the patient handbook and various brochures and manuals are being translated, into Portuguese and Por­ 'tuguese language courses have been offered to staf(members.

Additio~ally,'twobilingual infor­ mation desk receptionists and six bilingual'representatives, the lat- :, ter trained to gath,erfeedback and , address patient concerns, are on ' the hospit-al team. " , The committee is also active in community outreach, plac,ing twice monthly health .tip articles in,0 Jornal, an area Portuguese-lan­ guage newspaper..

Portuguese co'mmunity aware of good health practices.

"It is important," he said, "that Portuguese-speaking patients and their families be able to communi­ cate their concerns and fe~lings to our staff. Also, through outreach programs, we want to provide them

with information and services which will help them be aware of what's available in health care and what they need do to 'stay well.;' ; In its second year, the commit­ tee plans to expand its activities. It will,Jor instance, adapt the 0 Jor­

nal health column for use on the area's foreign language television.

"We're confident that our broad­ ened activities will have a positive effect on the health of the Portu­ guese community," declared Ponte.

. Also, the,hospital's SJiAPE pro­ gram of health screening and edu­ cation was presented to members ofEspirito Santo parish, Fall River, and health information was, dis­ tributed at the annual Santo Chris­ to feast.

Ponte said that the committee is not only concerned with making hospital services more accessible to Portuguese-speaking patients but also with making the general

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By Msgr. George G. Higgins

The first draft of the U.S. bishops' pastoral on the econ­ omy has revived an old issue on which there is ample room for honest disagreement.

Most Catholics generally agree that in some cases the church ought to speak out on contro­ versial socio-economic problems, but ,they frequently disagree about who should speak for the church and how the church's position should be arrived at; They are also ambivalent about the specific role of bishops.

While many people can readily think of -issues bishops ought to address, they are just as likely to have another .list of issues on which they prefer the bishops play it cool.

I recommend they read the late Jesuit Father Karl Rahner's essay, "Function of Church as Critic of Society."

The essay begins by stating that the church has a significant role to playas "critic of society" - a ~le Father Rahner believed is not being exercised as often an das effectively as circum­ stances require.' However, the essay continues, it ,is bad theo­ logy to assume this role must be carried out always or even prin' cipally by the hierarchy.

Although Father Rahner ac­ knowledged the bishops' distinc­ tive role in th.is area, he warned that their public-poloicy pro­ nouncements should be under­ stood as "prophetic instruction in social criticism," which "im­ plies a practical appeal to the freedom of Christians and 'of. the world . . . which leaves unim­ paired in those to whom it is addressed the freedom to make ,historical decisions of their own as their personal creative respon­ sibility."

He also insisted that such pro­ nouncements are quite differ­ ent from doctrinal propounce­ ments and, of their very nature, "are subject to criticism on the part of the faithful and the

world."

Thus while he emphasized the right and duty of bishops to make public-policy pronouncements, Father Rahner believed the main 'promoters of social criticism in the church "are the Christians ,in general ... the so-called laity themselves."

"Christian~ themselves are something more than mere recipi­ ents of directives from the offi­ cial bodies," he said. "They have to develop an autonomous ini­ tiative of their own for they alone are responsible." But, he concluded, "no one has the r,ight to claim the authority of the church ~xclusively on 'llis ow.n behalf and' in defense of his own opinion."

I don't believe many Catholics at present 'are psychologically prepared to do this. Most of us tend to veer from one extreme to the other, at times content to pass the buck to the bishops, at others brushing them aside as irrelevant. The mature Cath­ otic will want to take a stand somewhere. between ,these twO extremes. . That's what the econo.mic pas­ toral tries to do, modestly sug­ gesting how certain ethical prin­ ciples might be applied while explicitly stating that its rec­ ommendationsare open to hon­ est disagreement.

It a1so tries to follow a later essay, "The Church of Con­ crete' 'Directives," in which Father Rahner urged bishops to have the .courage for concrete imperatives and "directives," even in rega~dto. socio-politjcal actions.

BIshops face a. dilemma, he wrote: to put forward abstract principles which "upset no one" or 'to offer their own private opinions "which ... interest no one." He felt bishops could be more active in social criticism if they did not always have to choose between putting forth something as a matter of faith or simply remaining silent.

How to wash a frying pan

By Hilda Young

Always save the frying pan until last. You never know. The house might catch on fire, there could be an air raid or the power might go out. Then you wouldn't have to wash it at all. Can you imagine how you'd feel if you had spent all that time washing it and it was aH in vain?

In the event none of the above occurs try the soaking routine.

Drop the pan in the sink. Leave the kitchen. Sometimes a good strategy is to cover the dish­ water with suds to camouflage the frying pan.

When your mother or father discovers the pan, say "Yeah, I know. I was just letting it soak."

Your fa·ther will ~eply, "In hopes it might dissolve into rust?"

When all escape routes have been blocked and you are act­ ually faced with scouring the pan, take a position at the sink with hath elbows on the edge of the counter and iegs stretch­ ing back so that you are at an angle and roughly resemble

someone being prepared for leg irons.

Say, "This stuff is never go­ ing to come off."

Ask, "Who fried this stuff on here?"

- Groan, "How come I always get the yucky frying pan when I'm on d·ishes?"

Now take the pan out of the water and look at it. Scrape at it with 'a table knife. Make lots of scraping noise to punish everyone. Accent the scraping noise with ittle grunts and in­ teHigent comments ,like "sheesh" and "maaaaann." .

Say, "I'll take out the garbage for someone for a week if they finish this pan."

'When someone takes you up on the offer, say, "Dad probably won't let us do it anyway."

Make a big produotion of scrubbing with the scouring pad.

Shift from foot to foot. Rinse the pan severa'l times. When you hold it up to the light, note that some of the cooked-on food can stiU be seen.

When no one is looking, slip it into the oven.

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He also calls for immediate fed­ era.! 'loans or loan guaran'tees to tide farmers over the current crisis, which he says has been caused by factors largely out­ side their control.

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Another 'major category of dio­ cesan activity for which the an­ nual Catholic Charities Appeal provides' funding· explained the bishop, "is the broad range ·of pastoral ,endeavors, our Fami'ly Life ministry, the Permanent Dia­ conate program, ecumenics, com­ munications and participation in national and cstate-wide confer­ ences and associations.

"During this past year," he add­ ed, "we have sought to improve our campus ministry _at South­ eastern Massachusetts Univer­ sity, where the presence of cam­ pus ministers, 'a· priest- and'a sis­ ter, has proven to be of great assistance to students, and we have placed the ministry at Wheaton College on a more stable financial basis. Currently, we are completing plans for the expansion of our Catholic pres­ ence at Bristol Community Col­ lege, and we expect to add to our staff a religious sister for full-time ministry at the BCC campus."

'Bishop Cronin expressed deep appreciation for Special Gifts contributors to the Appeal and reiterated his gratitude for the "enthusiastic cooperation of peo­ ple like you gathered here this evening which enables me, as bishop, to insure the continued operation and growth of our vital apostolic activities. I thank you for your help. We are counting upon you!

"And my thanks are but an echo of the gratitude of countless beneficiaries . . . youthful, some of them, senior citizens, those who share our Catholic faith and those who do not, handi­ capped and retarded brothers and sisters, those who are victims of the fragmentation of family fife . . . so many friends, in need, served by our diocesan agencies and apostolates.

"We shall be able to provide, in the name of Christ, assistance for the healing of wounds of obody and saul, for the alleviation of pain, if our Catholic Charities Appeal in 1985 proves, as I truly anticipate it will, to be success­ ful. It is, certainly, •... better to give than to need.'

Lay Chairperson In her remarks to the audience

at Bishop Connolly, 1985 CCA lay chairperson Emma.~. An­ drade pointed out, "This' year, more than ever, as prices es­ calC1-te, . it is our obligation .to provide funds to keep these worthy programs viable. Let us all work in a concerted effort to make the Catholic Charities Ap-' peal of 1985 a most successful one. We must emulate the great work of past campaigns, and es­ pecially -the excellent perform­ ance of the· 1984 campaign work­ erschaired by Jim Quirk:

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Buddy Braga music, under di­ rection of Joseph Braga~ pro­ vided music for the meeting.

Kenneth Leger of Fall River ,led renditions of the' National An­ them and God Dless America and the children of Nazareth Hall School gave a well-received presentation of dancing and sing­ ing.

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Twisted Sister's intention. rect grants to students i1'1 private The program will run from , We've got, the right ~to choose' a~ This' is' not' ',to' say that the schools, ,provid!ng, .for i!1stanc~, 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday May theme of defiance, could not at for:te~tb09ks or other general 3 and Saturday May 4. In pre­ Thell"e ain't nOrway'we'1l1ose it This Is,our life" I' ' ': times' be appropriate. However, needs. " vious years it has drawn a large such a'n attitude must 'be .focuse~ This is our song ,. , '. " attendance, from ,Taunton and He 'noted that as a Massachu­ We'lll flght the powers thiltbe just in' a p'psitive direction if it.:is to setts, legislator he had voted for ' surrounding communities.

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there all, night, cold and shiver­ ing.

Says Jeff, "I don't rthink I'll , forget th'at night as long as I live," , Mark had been in a college seminary j~st two days when some of his new buddies invited 'couple of beers" him out fo'r at night. Mark, can't remember all that happened, but he does know ithat he drank more than he ever meant ito.

The police caught' up with. him ·in 'another city 50 miles away: , Clad, only in his underwear, he was banging on the door, of a funeral home and 'shouting all kinds of crazy, things about "Mister Death:" Mark was not kicked out of the seminary. But .the moment when he first 'returned to chapel and faced all his classmates was, he said, the deepest humiliation ,of his life. " In case you' still don't get the picture,alcohol is a treacl1erous recreation. Try to picture every ;glass containing an alcohQ!ic beverage as having the ~abel, '. "Handle with extrem'e caution."

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Because of emotional prob- threw him in a .cell and left him

MOVING 'IN THE HIGHEST CIRCLES are steeple­ jacks Tim and Linda O'Neil, here repairing the steeple of St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Savannah, Ga. They're mem­ bers of a family that travels the nation plying its ~rt.

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portswQtch Connolly Wins Tourney Crown Coach Don Chouinard's Bishop ConnoHy . High School baseball team is the new champion of the Old Colony Regional High School tourl1ament.

Sparked by the brDlliant pitch· ing of senior Doug Britland, the Cougars pounded out 12 hits in a 10-0 shutout of Greater New Bedford Voke-Tech in the ,tourney's championship final last Saturday. .

Britland, who went the distance of seven innings, struck out eight batters, walked none and drove in one run.

The victory avenged Connolly ,losses to Voke-Tech in 1983 and 1984 and enabled the Cougars to break Voke-Tech's domination of the tournament. Connolly thus becomes the first team to win the championship other ,than VokeTech, which had taken the tiNe in all four previous seasons.

At the plate Rich Harrison and Ron Avila each had three hits in five trips. Avila and Tim McCoy each drove in two runs. Voke· Tech's Paul Arruda was 3 for 3.

Br.itJand and Harrison (who. was six for nine in the two tourney games) shared most valuable player honors.

Connolly had gained the championship final with a 6-5 decis-

ion over Old Rochester a week earlier.

In the consolation final last Saturday, host Old Colony nip­ ped Old Rochester, 2-1. Bryant (PeeWee) Davignon in a strong performance on the mound for Old Colony aUowed only four hits and struck out n.ine batters.

Andy Pender, Old Rochester's pitcher, also aUowed only four hits.

In another tournament - first Dartmouth High baseball tourna· ment - the host school defeated Holy Family, 7-2, in the semifinals and routed New Bedford High, 12-6, in the championship . final. New Bedford had defeated Bishop Stang High, 6-1, in the semis.

In the consolation game Mar­ cel Sirois pitched a three-hitter and struck out nine as Holy Family blanked Stang, 2-0, in the tourney that was held last Sat­ urday.

Stang had better luck in boys' track posting an 108 to 36 vic­ tory over Taunton High School.

The Spartans won 16 of the 17 events and swept the mile and high hurdles. hi girls' track. it was Old Rochester 140, Dartmouth 88, Ap­ ponequet Regional 48.

School Sports Today And Tomorrow Connolly visits Case and New Bedford ,is at Dartmouth in boys tennis today whi:Je in baseball Somerset is at Dartmouth and Middleboro at Wareham today.

Softball action Hsts Westport at New Bedford, Voke-Tech at Seekonk, Bourne at Wareham and in giI'ls' ,tennis it is Durfee at New Bedford, Dartmout~ at Old Rochester. Fairhaven i. at Dartmouth in girls' track, West­ port v,isits Voke-Tech and Dart­ mouth is host to New Bedford in golf. All events are scheduled for 10:30 a.m

Baseball games tomorrow have Durfee at Tiverton, 11 a,m.; Stang at New Bedford High, 10:30; Apponequet at Old Ro­ chester, 10:30; Wareham at Mar­

tha's Vineyard, 1 p.m.

Softball games Ust Taunton at Durfee, 11 a.m.; Dartmouth at Stang, 10:30; New Bedford High at Fairhaven, 10:30; Ware­ ham at Martha's Vineyard, 1 p.m.

Also tomorrow in the Somerset Relays in ginls' track at 10 a.m., the Attleboro Relays in boys' track.

Hockomock League Games Starting next week the Hocko­ mock League will stage varsity and boys' tennis games ~n Mon­ days, Wednesdays and Fr.idays.

Next Monday (April 22) it will be North Attleboro at Foxboro, Mansfield at Stoughton, Oliver Ames at Franklin and Sharon at King Philip, Wednesday's games are Franklin at North Attleboro, Canton at Oliver Ames, Sharon

at Mansfield and King PhiHp at Foxboro while Friday's card lists North Attleboro at Canton, Mansfield at Foxboro and Stoughton at Sharon. King Philip is host to Franklin on Thursday, April 25.

The schedules are the same for varsity softball and girls' tennis except that the order of home games ,is reversed.

Won't undo council COLUMBIA, Mo. (NC) - The special Synod of Bishops called

by Pope John Paul .J'I for Nov. 25-Dec. 8 to d'iscuss Vatican II will not be the council's "un­ doing," says Archbishop John L. 'May of St. 'Louis. At a.press con­ ferenceduring a forum on reli­ gion and international relations,

he said agenda issues might in­ clude the concept of a world church, collegi-aJi.ty, the teach~ ing role of bishops' conferences, and the shortage of priests.

Solutions to the shortage are not likely to include married priests or women, priests, ,he said.. '

tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-I3-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PC-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved fOI children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4--separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

I-lfOT E Please check elates and times of. television and radio programs against local list­ ings, which may differ from the New York network ~ed­ ules supplied to The Anchor.

New F1Jms "Alamo Bay" (Tri-Star) On the Texas Gulf Coast in 1979, Vietnamese refugees working as shrimp fishermen arouse the animosity of local citizens who

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feel their livelihood is being taken away from them. Good material gone awry because of melodramatic plot involving adultery and shallow character­ izations. Because of some nudity and violence, it is mature fare.

A3, R "The Last Dragon" (Tri-Star) A kind of black Kung Fu musical that doesn't take itself too seri­ ously in which a good martial ex­ pert vanquishes a nasty one.

Banai story line but lively, high­ spirited performers. The violence is restrained and there is some vulgar 'language, but for the most part this is innocuous. A2, PG-13 Religious TV Sunday, April 21 (CBS) "For Our Times" - Douglas Edwards reports on political ' activism among religious leaders.

Religious Radio Sunday, April 21 (NBC) "Guideline" - Eileen Egan, au­ thor of "Such a Vision of the Street," a new book on Mother Teresa, is loday's guest.

THE ANCHOR ­ Friday, April 19, 1985

"We've had to make our own.

We couldn't get them in Can­ ada," says Sheila Roberts, an administrator at St. Patrick's School in Vancouver, British Col­ umbia. "But they're not nearly as good as these." ' She doesn't need to be sold.

She turns to Connell. "Can you sell them to Call1ada?''

"There's a heavy (tax) duty on them up there," he tells her.

"It's ,bureaucratic. It'll probably cost about $20 more."

She orders 100 anyway. "My teachers are asking me for them all the time."

From a peer, another salesman in a nearby booth, and a v.eteran of the exhibition hall circuit, comes high prmise for Connell and his product.

"Those things will iast for· ever and have been uound for­ ever. But I've never seen any­ body sell them like he can."

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St and duplicatmg eqUipment.

Assocla Ion conven Ion 10 • Louis April 8-11, he had orders "The chalk costs mone~," the for 25,000 ll-by-13-inch Mason- n~n s~ys, he,r sales resistance ite chalkboards made by the stlffenmg a bit.

company he owns, World Re"Chalk? Are you kidding?

search of Tyler, Texas.

There are whole cliffs of the "Last week .at a principal's stuff a~aila~le. You kno~ about meeting in Denver we sold ~he whlte..chffs of Dover. Chalk 45,000," Connell said.

IS cheap, Connell says as he Other merchants at the show gets ready to close a deal.

may rely on fancy booths or He adds to the nun, "This is high-tech whiz-bang to attract 'Little House on the Prairie,' this people to their products. Not is back to basics."

Connell. His approach is as oldIn less than five minutes she fashioned as his product. signs in order for 50 slates at . A clutch of peopl~ always $1.59 each. "Reduced from $2.95 seems to linger around his booth, each," Connell adds. She leaves one of the smallest and most looking quite pleased. sparsely adorned in the hall. Be"See what I mean?" he com­ hind him is a hand-lettered sign ments to an .observer. "People that reads, "slates." In front is see the value in this product. a table, ·a few samples of he Kids love 'em, teachers love em." products and a one~inch stack A nun fro~ Lake Zurich, III., of orders, most for 50 to 100 comes along and joins :in the slates. conversation at Connell's booth.

He unabashedly says that the ."He's right. Kids love them" slates are the fastest-selling item . said Sister Cecilia West a me~­ lin schools today. her of the Daughters of Charity.

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But the chalk issue rears its "Compu ters. ? I' ve seen mo~e ugly head again. parentS' who have Ibought their " ,. .. kid a $500 computer at age 5 . I don t like the chalk dust, or 6 and what does the kid do? Sister West tells Connell. One He plays with the box that's of her colleagues from Lake what he does." ' Zurich, who says she loves ~he It isn't that Connell harbors boards, adds fuel to the fire. any hostility toward the co~pu- "The dust gets in my contacts." ted industry. "Computers are fanConnell feigns amazement over tastic, but people are just ,try- the dust prDblem. Showing a box ing to plug the kids in too early of chalk that he uses, Connell It's insane, absolutely dnsane...· says, "Use this kind and that Up walks a prospect; Connell won't happen." begins his pitch. It's smooth, To the observer, he declares, polished and direct.

"I can't believe it. I haven't "What grade do you teach?" heard that problem since I've "First grade," repiles a nun been here.... Before the chalk from Kansas. . dust settle·s, he's rescued by an­ Early grades are prime turf for other customer.

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THE ANCHOR~Dioceseof Fall River-Fri., Apr. 19, 1985

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Women's Guild communion break­ fast: following 10 a.m. Mass April 28, with Sister Dymphna, RSM, of Cape Cod Hospital as speaker. All parish women welcome.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE "Fountain Square Fools" will per..: form in the parish center at 7:30 p.m.

April 22. The Fools are professional actors, mimes, musicians and dancers from Cincinnati who dramatize bib­ lical stories and religious themes in ST. PATRICK, FR. program suitable for all ages.

The parish gratefully acknowledges Cub Scout registration for boys 8 a gift of a memorial set of vestments, to 10: 8:30 p.m. April 24"center. - , donated by the Donnelly family.

SACRED HEARTS SEMINARY, Congratulations to Ann Hughes, WAREHAM whose name for a Women's Guild Healing prayer conference: 9 a.m. cookbook, "St. Patrick's Recipes to I p.m. April 27, conducted by from around the Globe," was the Drs. ,Hugh Boyle and Joanne Hughes, winning entry in a title contest. Guild dealing with praying for healing and members will meet at 7:30 p.m. May obstacles to receiving it. All welcome.

6 at the school and attend a com­ ST.ANNE,FR munion breakfast at White's restau­ Girl Scouts and leaders will attend, rant following 9 a.m. Mass May 19. the Natick Folk Festival April 20.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Fellowship Welcome Home: 7:30 Scholarship applications now avail-, p.m. April 24. ~ble,at rectory. Deadline May I. Bike Rodeo, April 27,schoolyard.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR MASS. CITIZENS FOR LIFE, Committee meetings, April 22, ,CAPE COD 7:30 p.m., education, school, social Meeting 7:30 p.m. April 23, Egg concerns, Father Coady Center; April and I restaurant, 521 Main St., 25, 7 p.m. administration, Coady Hyannis. Information: 428-5402; Center.

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On Steerlnl( Points Items FR Indicates Fall River, NB Indicates Now Bedford.

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ST. STANISLAUS; FR Poland pilgrims arrive at 'Cogan April 20. Bus will arrive in Fall River in time for 4:30 p.m. Mass.

Acolytes'pilgrimage inJune: meet­ ing April 21 following 10:30 a.m.

Mass.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Father Ronald A. Tosti will host the first anriual pastor's apprecia­ tion party. To be included on the guest list, please contact the rectory.

ST. JAMES, NB Pro-life committee meeting: rec­ tory April 21 8 p.m.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Babysitting service available in parish center during 9: IS a.m. Ma~s each·Sunday.

St. Vincent de Paul meeting: fol­ lowing 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

ST. JOSEPH, NB Legion of Mary Holy Hour: 5 p.m. today. Public invited.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Catholic Charities Appeal: meet­ ing for area captains 7:30 p.m. April 22, rectory.

ST. ANNE HOSPITAL, FR Use of beta blockers in treatment of blood pressure will be discussed at a physicians: conference in the hos­ pital service building at 8:30 a.m April 24. ' The oncology department will spon­ sor lectures on psychosocial issues in cancer nursing at 6: IS p.m. May 2 and May 9. A preceding dinner is optional. Information: 674-57.41, ext. 441.

"Your Generous Gift Fulfill!! The Need Of People In Need"

"It Is Easier To Give Than To Need"

CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL

Diocese of Fall River

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Forty-Fourth Annual

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"Your Generous Gift Fulfills The Need of People in Need" For the Works of Charity, Mercy, Social Services and Education to All People in the 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 Gift Appeal ­ April 22 to MayS Honorary Chairman Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. Bishop of Fall River Diocesan Director ' Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes Diocesan Lay Chairp~rson Mrs. Aristides A. Andrade, , Taunton '

Parish Appeal ­ May S to May IS 20,500 Volunteer Solicitors will visit 114,000 Homes in the Areas of Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton, Attleboro, Cape Cod and the Islands'.

The Appeal provides care for the Unwanted Baby, Youth, Engaged Cou­ ples, Marriage Counselling, the Sick, the Poor, the Elderly, Family Life, Educa­ tion and many other people in need.

This Message Sponsored by the Following

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ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Annual appreciation/ get acquaint­ ed evening: May 4. Information at rectory.

Music ministry: The formal choir will sing monthly at 4 p.m. Saturday Mass. New members welcome. Infor­ mation: Mrs. Osuch, 994-3405.

Paraliturgy for first communion children and parents: 7 p.m. April 23.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Coffee and doughnuts served after each Sunday Mass in tl)e church hall.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Mass 2 p.m. April 24, Country Gardens nursing home. Parishion­ ers invited to arrive at I:30 to assist patients into chapel.

D orl, AT'fLEBORO Meeting of Alcazaba Circle 65: 7:30 p.m. May 2, K of C hall, Hodges St. May baskets will be made for area shut-ins.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO Meeting: May 3, 7:30 p.m., St. Theresa parish center, South Attle­ boro. Guest speaker: ,Father Mau­ rice Proulx.

Banquet June I, King's Inn, Lin­ coln, R.I. COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS, SOMERSET This self-help group for bereaved parents will meet 7:30 p.m. April 22 at St. Louis de France School, Buf­ fington Street, Swansea. Discussion topic: "Anger and the Grieving Process. "

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA Holy hour: Sunday 7 p.m.

Coffee hour: Sunday morning after each Mass, youth center.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH Women's Guild meeting: April 22, 7:30 p.m. Slide presentation on Vat­ ican. All parish women are invited.

Youth group: meeting 6:30 p.m.

April 21.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Women's Guild meeting: April 22.

NOTRE DAME, FR Choir rehearsals resume April 23.

Sister Antoinette Lord, s.j.a., rec­ tory cook for I ~ years, has taken up duties in Brighton. Sister Adrienne Bolduc, s.j.a., is her replacement.

She was formerly at the archbishop's, residence in Boston, where she cooked for Pope John Paul II dur­ . ing his 1979 Boston visit.

HOLY NAME, FR Youth Group presidential nomi­ nation papers available from Father Richard E. Degagne. Election of officers will take place at a general meeting May 19.

Youth retreat weekend May 3-5 at Peacedale, R.I. Information availa­ ble at rear of church.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Parents of first communion children: meeting April 22, 7:30 p.m., parish center.

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Vatican writer rejects

Rahn:er ecumenical views

VATICAN CITY (NC) - A 1983 book on ecumenism co-au­ thored by the late Jesuit Father Karl Rahner is "absolutely unac­ ceptable" because it implies that Christian unity could be achieved by allowing pluralistic views on church dogas defined after the fourth century, according to an article in the Vatican newspaper.

"Not then,- nor today, can the church modify its message," Father

Dani'el Ols, a French Dominican

who teaches Mariology at Rome's Domincan-run Angelicum Univer­ sity, wrote in L'Osservatore Ro­ mano.

The contents of the book "are not such to permit a real progress of the ecumenical movement, but above all imply arid propose a true and profound subversion of the Catholic faith, and as such are absolutely unacceptable," he said in a recent front-page article.

Father Rahner wrote the book with German Father Heinrich Fries in German. The English title is "Unity of the Churches - An Actual Possibility."

Father Ols says that the book proposes that church union should be based on the Christian truths expressed in the Bible, the Apos­ tles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.

It presents eight conditions on which Christian unity could be based.

The first condition is accepting as binding the "fundamental truths of Christianity" expressed in Scrip­ ture, the Apostles' Creed and the creeds of Nice and Constantinople. . Among other conditions, the authors propose a "realistic prin­ ciple of faith" in which "partner" churches would neither reject one another's dogma nor impose their dogma on one another.

The book implies that a plural­ ism of Christian doctrine can exist

in a' unified church, Father 01s said.

"Even if it is not said openly, this can be nothing else than another basis of, if not the idea, too long proposed even in circles professing Catholicism, that there are two types of dogmas: those of the so-called 'united church' and

those which, after the division, a 'divided church' affirmed on its

own authority," said Father Ols.

Fathers Rahner and Fries also proposed that "Partner churches acknowledge,the meaning and right ofthe Petrine service of the Roman pope to be the concrete'guarantor of the unity of the church in love and service." In their introduction, they wrote that "unity is a matter oflife or death for Christendom at a time when faith in God and his ' Christ are most seriously threa­ tened by a worldwide militant ath­ eism, and by a relativistic skepticism.....

Priest honored NEW YORK (NC) - Msgr.

John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, an Irish priest who founded Boys' Town and Girls' Town of Italy, has been honored by the Foreign Press association in New York with its first "World Humanitar­ ian Award."

The award is given to "an indi­ vidual whose deeds and words have had a major impact in the field of human rights and human- , ity," said Roy Murphy, associa­ tion president.

The association has 400 members stationed in the U.S. They repres­ ent news media in 60 countries.

Msgr. Carroll-Abbing was work­ ing at the Vatican during World War II when he began caring for homeless youths. In 1945 he estab­ lished the first of what became nine Boys' Towns and one Girl's Town.