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VOL. 25, No. 17
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Deacon :heads me·et Father John F. Moore, diocesan director of the permanent diaconate and editor of The Anchor, is in charge of general arrangements for the annual (:onvention of the National Association of Permanent Deacon Di:rectors, to begin Monday in Boston. With the theme, "The Deacon Director: Refining the Vision," the four-day meeting at the 57 Park Plaza Hotel will study the role of the director in the over- all diaconal program. The keynote speaker at TLlesday's general session will be Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., whose topic will be "The Vision of a Ministering Church." Father John Shea of the archdiocese of Chicago will offer "A Guided Reflection of the Spirituality of the Director"
at Monday evening's opening session. Cardinal Humberto Medeiros will preside and give the homily at a Wednesday afternoon Mass which will have the New England bishops,·' including Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, as concelebrants. Msgr. Ernest J. Fiedler, executive secretary of the Bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate will address a Thursday general session on "State of the Diaconate from Perspective of the Executive Office." Convention workshops will consider relationships of deacon directors to deacons, families, priests, the institutional church and each other. Election of national officers will conclude the convention.
USCC opposes aid WASHINGTON (NC) - After obtaining support of two leading Salvadoran church offic:ials the U.S. bishops have issued a new statement reiterating their opposition to military intenrention in EI Salvador by either the United States or the Soviet Union. The statement also defended four American women missionaries murdered in EI Salvador last December from criticism that they supported the country's leftwing guerrillas. "We continue to have ser:ious
doubts about and substantial differences with U.S. policy toward El Salvador," remarked the statement, released April 13 by the U.S. Catholic Conference. "Specifically, we wish to reiterate our opposition to military aid and intervention by the major outside powers. We oppose intervention in any form by the Soviet Union and its Allies; we likewise oppose U.S. military aid or intervention in the war," the statement said. Prior to its release it was Turn to Page Six
St. ViIlcent Day Sunday, the 400th anniversary of the birth of St. Vincent de Paul, has been designated Na. tional S1. Vincent de Paul Day. In the Fall River diocese Vincentians will distribute explanatory pamphlets at weekend Masses and in some parishes Vincentians will attend Mass as a body and receive corporate communion. The observance is the first such event for Vincentians in the U.S., note national officers. It
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also marks Ozanam Sunday, observed by members on the last Sunday of April in commemoration of the anniversary of the birth on April 23, 1813, of Frederick Ozanam, founder of the Vincentians. The Vincentians are the oldest lay directed charitable movement in the U.S., founded in St. Louis in 1845. The organization has some 36,000 active members and conferences in about 90 Turn to Page Six
FATHER THOMAS LOPES, chaplain at Morton Hospital, Taunton, administers the 3acrament of the Sick to Mrs. Annie Perry of Our Lady of Lourdes parish, also in Taunton. (Rosa Photo)
"A Lot of People Are Depending on You"
CCA needed more than ever must be all the greater in order to continue the education of our precious Nazareth children. "Usually, at this time of year, all of our apostles make out preliminary budgets. These are finalized after the annual Appeal in early May. Frankly, we're e"Periencing difficulty in making Speaking at Bishop Connolly coherent forecasts for the NazHigh School, Fall River, to rep- areth apostolate precisely beresentatives from all parts of the . cause of the uncertainty prodiocese, the prelate said "You voked by restrictions in the pub' and I are well aware of belt- lic sector. tightening procedures which are "My sense is that we'll depend affecting the public sector, not even more heavily upon the genonly in education of youngsters, erosity of those who support but in many other facets of civic the 1981 Catholic Charities Aplife. peal in just this one facet of our "We do not yet have a clear overall program of service to perception of the full conse- God's beloved children who are quences of such restrictions in in need."· the public sector regarding fundINoting that the cost of energy ing of worthy programs like our in every apostolate involving Nazareth schools for exceptional buildings, Bishop Cronin said children, however I do have a that preliminary budget projecsense that your generosity to our tions in all such areas are "for1981 Catholic Charities Appeal midably higher than in the cur-
The high cost of energy plus "uncertainty provoked by restrictions in the public sector" have made it difficult to forecast the 1981-82 needs of agencies served by the Catholic Charities Appeal, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin told workers at the annual campaign kickoff meeting.
rent fiscal year" and declared that "we must rely upon a gen· erous and enthusiastic support of the 1981 Catholic Charities Appeal to avoid any curtailment of our outreach." The bishop named pastoral ministry to the sick as an "essential element in the overall program of restoring sick people to good health" and said the diocese hopes to supplement its already extensive program by adding priestly personnel to the ministry staff at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. He forecast "modest economies" in the Hispanic apostolate, made possible by greater levels of "self-help" within the Hispanic community and by the settling of the Guad~lupanas Sisters, who serve the apostolate in a New Bedford convent. Recalling St. Paul's description of the "overflowing joy" experienced by the people of MacedoTurn to Page Three