FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER
t eanc 0 VOL. 29, NO. 18
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Taunton native asks rethinking
Msgr. Hoye joins
anti-Bitburg chorus
WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr. oDaniel F. Hoye, general secre tary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference, has urged President Reagan to reconsider his plans to visit a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, where Nazi soldiers are buried. The Taunton native, a priest of the Fall River diocese. who has served ,in Washington since 1977, in an April 29 statement termed a visit to the cemetery not "suitable." His statement was one of a series of criticisms and ques tions from Jews, U.S. miitary veterans, concentration camp survivors and others upset by Reagan's decision to visit the cemetery May 5. Reagan also was schedued to visit a Nazi concentration camp while in Germany.
"President Reag~n's observance of America's friendship with the Federal Republic of Germany over the past 40 years should be carried out in a way which ,is not divisive, and which avoids unnecessary hurt to the sur vivors of the wl1.r and to the memory of its victims," Msgr. Hoye said in his statement. He said, that "it is clear that the Bit.burg cemetery does not provide a suitable site for such a gesture. For this reason I urge the president to reconsider the visit." Msgr. I-Ioye said that in op posing the visit ": do not mean to imply any sense of collective guilt for the war or the Holo caust on the part of the Ger man people, living or dead." Included among the dead ~n the Bitburg graveyard are mem Turn to Page Seven
A special call
COpy OF RUSSIAN ICON
MOTHER OF GOD
" 'Tis the month of our Mother, the blessed and beautiful May"
Appeal Day Sunday Explaining the undertaking, Oi,er 20,150 volunteer solici tors wiH make house to house Bishop Daniel A. Cronin !has calls within their parishes from written to diocesan families, ask noon to 3 p.m. Sunday on behalf ing for their generous support of the 44th annual Catholic .of the 1985 Appeal. Charities Appeal. "We find ourselves once Visiting some 114,000 homes again," he wrote, "in the midst representing over 325,000 peo of the Catholic Charities Ap ple, the volunteers will ask peal. It is ,a special time when funds for maintenance and ex the good people of the diocese pansion of diocesan apostolates join together in witnessing to 'of education, social services, this year's Appeal theme: It Is health care and charity. Easier To Give than To Need.
"Through this joint effort, many vital apostolic endeavors throughout the diocese are sup ported. Because of the Catholic Charities Appeal, the church's mission has !been able to touch the lives of countless numbers oi people in all areas of the dio cese. "By the generosity of God's people in the parishes, the apos tolic endeavors and institutions of the diocese of Fall River have Turn to Page Six :
Sister Adrienne Bolduc, a Sis ter of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc recently assigned to Notre Dame rectory, Fall River, received an early morning phone call Wednesday, April 24. On the Hne was her former boss, calling to ,tell her of his naming to the College of Cardin als and asking "How are you doing over there?" Sister Adrienne said she was cverwhelmed at the thoughtful ness of Cardinal-elect Bernard F. Law in calling her just before facing a televised news confer ence on what had to be one of the busiest days of his life. "We talked three or four min utes," she said. "I congratulated him and told him I didn't want to take up his time when he was so occupied." The conversation, she said, was mainly in French. She speaks little English but the car dinal-elect "has a few' wordS of French." Sister Adrienne was at the car
dinal's residence in Brighton from 1974 until a few weeks ago, serving Cardinal Humberto Medeiros until his death in September 1983 llnd Cardinal elect Law from the time of his arrival in Boston last year. Related stories are on page 8.
SR. ADRIENNE BOLDUC