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diocese of fall river

t eanc 0 VOL. 23, NO. 19

FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1979

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Bishops'Meeting Is Introspective

Vatican Details Poland Schedule

By Naney Frazier

CHICAGO (NC)-As the U.S. bishops talked about how to add a new dimension - interaction - to their action orientation, they might well have taken a major step toward improving communications among themselves.

The slow pace of their May 1-3 meeting and its emphasis on public and private discussions, disappointed some reporters more accustomed to statements and resolutions, but the broad topic of the meeting - the purpose and goals of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops-U.'S. Catholic Conference - was important to the bishops.

The meeting opened with a call from Archbishop John R. Turn to Page Seven

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has announced details of the visit to Poland in June

by Pope John Paul II. lt described the nine-day visit (June 2-10, as having "the religious character of a pilgrimage to (his) native homeland in the year dedicated to the ninth centenary of the martyr St. Stanislaus, bishop of Cracow.

This is the schedule: ~ Saturday, June 2: The pope arrives in Warsaw, Poland, at 10 a.m. and is greeted by "the top authorities" of the government and by the Polish bishops.

From the airport he goes to Warsaw's ~athedral, the Basilica of St. John the Baptist, then to the Sanctuary of the Merciful Mother of God, patroness of Turn to Page Seven

Educators Meet At Feehan High

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A VERY SPECIAL MOTHER: Michael Kapulka and his mother, Paula, with Richard (Convention pictures on page~ . , I. Hardy (left) and James R. Sawyer, grand knight and financial secretary for the Falmouth 8, 9.)

Knights of Columbus. The Knights gave Michael the electric communications board at right Carrying out the evangelization theme of the American bish- of picture. (Falmouth Enterprise Photo) ops, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin encouraged' delegates to the annual two-day diocesari education convention to "go like Paul to the Gentiles" in their work with stu'-. dents. .

A very special mother is pre- pipestem arms and one leg, said thought of institutionalizing MiHe spoke at the major路conven- paring for Sunday's Mother's his mother. chael, she said. "When he was tion Mass, celebrated last Friday Day festivities. She is Paula Kaborn we were in Worcester and Since his birth until about a at Feehan High School, Attle- pulka of St. Patrick's parish, week ago he slept in his parents' we had an Irish Catholic pediaboro. Behind him hung the win- Falmouth, and her best gift will bedroom so they could monitor trician with a large family of ning banner in a diocesan jubilee be a smile from her son. his breathing, precarious because his own. Everyone just took it year contest, a striking hanging for granted Michael would stay Michael Kapulka, 10, cannot his throat IS so small that the at home." submitted by Our Lady of Mt. or cold puts him slightest cough speak. He cannot sit up or hold Carmel parish, New Bedford.

'Because he cannot speak. and his head erect without assis- at risk of choking. Now he has such a limited range of mo"Diocese of Fall River-Family shares the room of his brother tance.But "he latches onto your tion, it has been almost imof the Lord's Own Choosingheart," says his mother, who Stephen, 8, and his father will possible to discover Michael's Keep on the March of Service" install an intercom system to describes him as the neighbormental level. Doctors have it read. hood celebrity, never happier keep tabs on him.

The convention mood of opThe boys have a beautiful re- placed it at 18 months to 2 than when surrounded by people. timism was caught .by the glee lationship, said Mrs. Kapulka. years, said Mrs. Kapulka. But she thinks it is more than that. club of Holy Family High School, Michael, the size of a five- "Stephen loves to help me with "He knows everyone," she New Bedford, which provided year-old, suffers from a central Michael and he brings all the music for the liturgy, notably an nervous system disorder which neighborhood kids in to meet said, "and recognizes new people outstanding rendition of "Wood doctors have been unable' to him." quickly."

Hath Hope" by John Foley, SJ. diagnose. He can move only his Turn to Page Seven There was never the slightest The young people earned two ovations during the Mass.

Thursday's keynote speaker, Sister Lucille McKillop, RSM, warned her audience of over The initial reports from some child care, social services and 1979 Honor Roll. With the co1200 classroom and! religious edur of the 113 parishes and the, other apostolic endeavors of the operation of priests, soli<:itors cators from the Fall River and special gift donations have diocese. I hope every parish will and contributors, last year's Providence dioceses that science, made the total Clf the路 Appeal at have its reports filed at Head- record appeal of $1,111,699 can not the flow of capital," is to- this date $390,396.84. quarters in Fall River by week- be surpassed in this the Diamond day's critical force. The president Jubilee Year of the diocese."

Melvin B. Gonsalves of Tea- end. of Salve Regina College, Newport, ticket on the Cape, this year's It is noted that supplements Parishes which surpass their pointed to the effect of the diocesan lay chairman, said: 1978 final totals will be enrolled carrying parish and special gift Three Mile' Island nuclear acci- "The first reports from some in this year's Honor Roll. One listings will appear in the next dent as an example of the influ- parishes indicate a most favor- hundred parishes were on the few issues of The Anchor. Such ence of science. able and generous response by Honor Roll in 1978. Rev. Msgr. listings will not be carried by SuggElstions for catechists the people of the diocese to' Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan di- the daily newspapers in the were given by Dr. Michael War- 'Bishop Cronin's call for the sup- rector of the Appeal said: "We diocese. Parish totals and leadren of ~e faculty of St. John's port of the apostolates of chari- are anticipating that every par- ing area parishes are listed on Turn to Page Seven ty, mercy, education, health and ish ~ 113 - will be on the page 2 of this issue.

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Children's Days in observance of both National Hospital Week and the International Year of the Child will be held today and Saturday at Clemence. Hall of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

Today's program, for children from diocesan schools and the Fall River and Westport public school systems, will include films, puppet shows, demonstrations of medical equipment and distribution of information about health careers.

Saturday's program will be held from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Planned for Greater Fall River families, it will include health care information for parents as well as repeating today's program for children. Refreshments will be served.

The Year of the Child, explained hospital officials, is intended as an occasion for examination of health, education and social programs available to the world's children; while Hospital Week is celebrated by nearly 200 Massachusetts hospitals and 7000 nationwide.

New children's programs at St. Anne's include a pre-hospitalization puppet show for tots, designed to remove fear of unknown hospital procedures, and immunization and health record form for parents to maintain, pediatric handbooks in E~glish and Portuguese and a lecture service for junior and senior high school students.

New social services are concerned with child and spouse abuse, play therapy an4 counseling and group suppprt for families of children with chronic illnesses.

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catholic charities appeal Leading Parishes ATILEBORO AREA 15,101.50 St. John, Attleboro St. Mary, Seekonk 9,543.00 St. Mary, Mansfield 8,003.00 Mt. Carmel, Seekonk 7,451.00 Holy Ghost, Attleboro 6,418.00 CAPE COD AND TIlE ISLANDS AREA St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis 20,586.00 St. Pius X, South Yarmouth 15,810.50 Holy Trinity, West Harwich 9,770.00 St. Patrick, Falmouth 8,421.00 Assumption, Osterville 8,085.00 FALL RIVER AREA Holy Name, -Fall River 15,342.00 Our Lady of the Angels, 14,898.50 Fall River St. Thomas More, Somerset 7,318.00 St. Patrick, Somerset 7,176.50 Cathedral, Fall River 6,892.00 NEW BEDFORD AREA Mt. Carmel, New Bedford 13,346.25 St. John the 'Baptist, 8,577.00 New Bedford Holy Name, New Bedford 6,621.00 St. James, New Bedford 6,269.50 St. Julie, North Dartmouth 5,525.00 TAUNTON AREA Holy Cross, South Easton Immaculate Conception,

North Easton Immaculate Conception, Taunton St. Mary, Taunton St. Paul, Taunton'

5,876.00 4,099.00 '3,754.00 3,198.00

Parish Totals ATILEBORO AREA Attleboro' Holy Ghost St. John St. Joseph St. Stephen St. Theresa Mansfield--St. Mary North Attleboro 'Sacred Heart Seekonk Mt. Carmel St. Mary

6,418.00 15,101.50 5,243.00 5,464.00 4,841.50 8,003.00 2,519.00 7,451.00 9,543.00

CAPE COD AND THE JSLANDS AREA

Buzzards Bay-St. Margaret 6,001.00 Centerville-Dur Lady of Victory 5,215.00 ·Falmouth-St. Patrick ' 8,421.00 Hyannis-St. Francis 20,586.00 Nantucket-Our Lady of the Isle 5,050.00 North Falmouth-St. ElizabeUl 5,341.00 Seton 2,322.00 Oak Bluffs-Sacred Heart 3,483.00 Orleans-St.Joan of Arc 6,794.00 8,085.00 , Osterville-Assumption

Pocasset- St. John 4,690,.00 South Yarmouth-St. Pius X 15,810.50 Vineyard Haven- St. Augustine 1,951.00 West· Harwich-Holy Trinity 9,770.00 FALL RIVER AREA Fall River St. Mary's Cathedral: 'Blessed Sacrament Holy Cross Holy Name Our Lady of the Angels Our ·Lady of Health Holy Rosary Immaculate Conception Sacred Heart St. John the Baptist St. Joseph St. .Mathieu St. Michael St. Patrick SS. Peter and Pal.\) St. Stanislaus St. William SantQ Christo Assonet-St. Bernard Central Village-St. John Somerset St. John of, God St. Patrick St. Thomas More Swansea Our Lady of 'Fatima St. Louis de France St. Michael

6,892.00 1,637.00 1,806.00 15,342.00 14,898.50 4,338.00 2,248.00 3;454.00 4,280.25 2,791.00 4,033.00 1,753.00 4,293.00 4,592.00 6,133.00 3,483.00 3,272.00 6,594.75 4,130.50 2,378.00 5,558.00 7,176.50 7,318.00 6,172.00 6,692.00 3,483.00

NEW BEDFORD AREA New Bedford Holy Name 6,621.00 Mt. Carmel 13,346.25 Our Lady of Perpetual Help 2,125.50 .sacred Heart 3,020.00 St. Anthony of Padua 2,458.50 St. Boniface 535.00 St. Francis of Assisi 2,409.00 1St. Hedwig 1,044.00 St. James 6,269.50 St. John the Baptist 8,577.00 Fairhaven.

St. Mary 3,140.00 Sacred Hearts 1,040.00 Marion-St. Rita 2,566.00 North Darmouth--St. Julie 5,525.00 South Dartmouth-St. Mary 4,865.00 Wareham--St. Patrick 3,484.50 Westport-St. George 3,962.00 TAUNTON AREA Taunton Immaculate Conception Sacred Heart St. James . St. Joseph St. Mary St. Paul North mghton-St. Joseph North Easton Immaculate Conception South Easton-Holy Cross

4,099.00 3,030.00 2,591.00 3,025.00 3,754.00 3,198.00 1,400.50 5,876.00 6,794.00

ill People· Places·Events-NC News Brief§:~m God, Si; Rumor, No

Pro-Life Dilemma

WASIDNGTON - There is mounting frustration among Catholic press editors about the apparent immortality of a rumor that has led 11 million people one American in 20 - to write to Washington protesting a threat to God and country that does not exist. A petition f;:om Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's best known atheist, to .ban all religious broadcasting has supposedly been submitted to the Federal Communications Commission. It has resulted in the FCC offices being flooded with letters demanding they reject the non-existent petition.

TORON'ft) - Two Catholic priests concerned with promoting social justice in Canada and abroad are candidates for Parliament in the current federal election campaign. Fathers Andy Hogan and Bob Ogle also face the dilemma of being pro· life and running on a party platform that favors abortion.

Israelis Protest VATICAN CITY-Pope John Paul II has named Melkite-Rite Archbishop HilaTion Capucci visitor for the Melkite-Rite communities of Western Europe. The appointment drew an immediate protest from the Israeli embassy in Rome.

Archbishop Capucci, 57, was released from an Israeli prison in 1977 and returned to the Middle East in January without Vatican permission.

Kung Approves

JESUIT FATHER Walter BurghatQt is the winner .of the 1979 St. Franci$-d.e Sales Award of the Catholic Press 'A"9SIl.

MILAN, Italy-The encyclical of Pope John Paul II is great "because it announces a new Christian humanism," said Swiss theologian Father Hans Kung.

"In the light of Christ, he places at the center of man, his dignity, his fundamental private a~d social rights," said Father Kung, director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tubingen, West Germany.

Intercommunion Warning VATICAN CITY-Pope John Paul II has cautioned against eucharistic sharing with non-Catholics, saying the Eucharist can be shared only aft~' full Christian unity is achieved. The pope made this statement at an audience with the 15 bishops 'Of the Antilles. ' ,

He's Surprised BOMBAY, India - The legislator who introduced a controversial religio.n bill in the Indian Parliament is surprised at the vigorous protest demonstrations against ibis measure. O. P. Tyagi, a member of Parliament from the ruling Janata Party, said the bill does not pose a threat to minority religions, 'Qut would protect them from forced conversions.

Ug'anda Murder VATICAN CITY-Father Lorenzo Bono, 63, an Italian missiona~ in Uganda, was killed in late April, apparently by soldiers still loyal to deposed Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada. Pope John Paul II an· nounced the missionary's death to over 150,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square for the Regina Coeli, the church's midday prayer during the Easter season.

MlNNEAPOUS-ST. PAUL Archbishop John R. Roach joins -protest against Nestle Co. on St. Paul Cathedral steps.

Father Michael G. Methot, diocesan director of religious edu· cation, represented the Fall River diocese at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Diocesan CCD directors, held recently in New Orleans.

Under a three-year plan adopted at the meeting, directors will emphasize adult orien· ted programs, new educational ministries and better recognition of catechesis within church apostolates.

The 270-member conference, representing 152 dioceses, cited the new Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, evangelization models and family catechesis as areas of concentration. They called for broader educational opportunity and pastoral training for parish catechists and pledged support for regional and national organizations of parish directors of religious education.

The group will also seek to establish liaison with liturgists and clergy educators in efforts to implement the U.S. bishops' initiatives in support of the new initiation rite and evangelization. Members will attempt to clarify the relationship of religious education and family life offices in diocesan structures and will establish communications with the National Office of Black Catholics,. Hispanic, and Native American secretariates.

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To 1980 Synod CHICAGO (NC) - The present and past presidents of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the chairman of its . Commission on Marriage and Family Life, and a leading Hispanic archbishop will represent the United States at the 1980 international Synod of Bishops. in Rome.. which will deal with family life.

They are Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, president of the NCCB and the U.S. Catholic Conference; Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, immediate past president of the NCCB-USCC; Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis Stafford of Baltimore, chairman of the family life commission; and Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M. Each delegate had been nominated .by his respective region to attend the synod, a gathering of bishopS from around the world called to advise the pope.

Vatican Stamps VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican will issue four stamps to commemorate the ninth centenary of the martyrdom of St. Stanislaus, patron of Poland.

They will be issued prior to !Pope John !Paul II's scheduled June trip _to this native - land and should J>e _ordered by May 12 from Ufficio Filatelico, Governatorato Della Citta' del Vaticano.

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Adult Programs Get CCD Stress .

StatueSlessing On Mother's Day

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WASHINGTON, N.J. A six-ton bronze statue of our Lady will be blessed by Archbishop Nicholas Elko of Cincinnati in Mother's Day ceremonies at the national headquarters of the Blue Army here. 'thousands are expected to attend the event, according to Ann Levasseur of Fairhaven, president of the diocesan division of the Blue Army, an organization dedicated to prayer and penance for world peace, as reqested by Our Lady of Fatima.

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AT DINNER: At St. Luke's Hospital Ap9reciation Dinner, from left, Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Sister Eleanore Calouro, Alfrej J. Smialek, Father Steven R. Furtado.

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St. Luke's Appreciation Dinner The fifth annual Appreciation Dinner for volunteers who serve the Catholic Ministry in St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford was held last Sunday.

Father Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Director of Pastoral Care of the

Mrs. O'Broen Attends Washington P'arley Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., legislative chairman for the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, represented the diocese at a recent Legislativel Leadership Training Institute sponsored in Washington, D.C. by the National Council of . Catholic Women.

The institute was a prototype for a program to be presented throughout the nation in 1980.

Participants heard discussions on involvement in the political process and practical approaches to political responsi. bility as well as meeting representatives and senators. Mrs. O'Brien met with Congress. woman 'Margaret Heckler and visited the office of House Speaker Thomas O'Neill.

Other activities .during the three day program included presentations on aging, on justice and peace issues and on parlimentary procedure techniques.

Ecumenism BAY CITY, Mich. (NC) The Knights of Columbus hall in Bay City was shared by Masonic Shriners and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus on a recent evening, but there was no animosity.

When some 40 Shrine members, wearing fezzes, entered the hall for the first time, they did so under the arched swords of the Colors Corps of Council 414' Knights of Columbus. Then Grand Knight Levi S. Steinhoff presented chief rabban William Gregory with .a ceremonial key to the hall.

The two groups - one formerly known as anti-Catholic and the other strongly Catholic - were initiating a policy of sharing facilities one evening a month. The clubs meet separately but come together for refreshments.

Sick for the Dioces~ of Fall River, was the principal speaker.

He noted the importance of volunteer service, especially at a time when compensation is a, primary consideration for many.

Alfred J. Smialek, executive director of St. Luke's Hospital, brought the greetings of the administration. He said th~ hos-

Sister Therese Funeral services were held Monday at Jesus Mary Convent, Fall River, for Sister Therese of the Infant Jesus, RJM, 83, who died last week.

The former Marie Jeanne Jalhert was born in Spencer and enter. 10 . ed the Jesus·M ary commumty 1916. She was superior at Jesus Mary Academy, Fall River from 1955 to 1959 and then repre. sented her commumty at th e Jesus Mary general council in Rome. She was subsequently superior at a Belgian Jesus Mary convent until her retirement in 1969, following which she lived in Hyattsville, Md. and most recently at the Jesus Mary retirement center in Fall River.

She is survived by a sister, Sister Mary Edmund, a Trappistine of St. Mary's Abbey, Wrentham.

Not How To Do It "It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God." George Macdonald.

pital is honored to have so m~ny persons willirtg to give selYice to the institution. Mrs. Janet Koska brought the greetings of the Office of Volunteer Services.

Father Kevin F. Tripp, coordinator of Catholic ministry at St. Luke's, noted that in 1975, at the first Appreciation Dinner, 19 volunteers had given 1,248 hours of service. He announced that . this year 42 persons gave 5,044 hours.

Father Tripp also introduced Brother Robert A. Vozzo, C.S.C., a former student in the Catholic ministry training program at St. 'Luke's now cordinator of Catholic ministry at the Community . I Syracuse, N.Y. General Hosplta, The St . L uk esc ' h ' a Iso apiam pointed out that four of the original Sister-Volunteer Visitors of the hospital are now . 'stry qual'f' I Ied for fuJI -t'Ime mlm to the sick: Sister Eleanore F. Calouro, S.S.D., Sister Sheila Russell, O.P., Sister Honora M cHugh, R.S.M. and Sister Margaret Mary Smith, R.S.M. 'It was announced ·that nine students have been accepted for a summer Institute on Religious Ministry at St. Luke's. The stu" . dents, sisters and semmanans will come from all parts of the nation.

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Justice, Not Smiles

As the energy crunch continues to oppress American citizens, Jimmy Carter tells the consumer to hoof it, walk, don't drive; as filling station brawls continue to grow each day, Jimmy Carter tells the consumer to get used to the tension; as lin~s of automobiles continue to lengthen at the pumps, Jimmy Carter tells consumers that they must get , used to this new way of national life.

Yet, while Jimmy Carter continues to lecture the ordinary 'man, while he continues to preach a message of sacrifice to the consumer, while he plots and plans new ways of chiding the hard-working taxpayer, he refuses to face the reality of the heart of the present crisis in this country: namely, the seven major oil companies.

They are the real difficulty that the present administration 'and Congress have yet to face. Mouthing words of promise, the president and his cohorts have consistently refused to balance the scales of justice. Blaming public greed, they have refused time and time again to enact concrete and honest measures that would restrain corporate greed.

Just reflect for a moment on some of the basic facts that were released last week by one of the major news services. The Department of Energy, funded by our taxes, reported that these oil companies have recently overcharged consumers some $1.7 billion. The report stated that these latest complaints bring to about $3.5 billion the amount that the refiners have drained from the pocketbooks of their customers. The facts are based on audits of the major refineries from August 1973 through March 1979.

The oil companies naturally deny these allegations and will appeal the findings of the Department of Energy. While they file these appeals their quarterly earnings mysteriously grow at an astonishing rate. Their profits are staggering, their excuses outrageous.

'- Now, if the present administration were truly interested in curbing inflation and stabilizing this energy blackmail, wouldn't it be logical for it to preach a message of equal restraint to big busifiess? Shouldn't our erected officials double their efforts to seek ways of helping their constituents in this very difficult situation? Couldn't government once more use the power of antitrust laws to control the avaricious cravings of an industry that just refuses to control its monetary gluttony?

It is about time that the president and his energy advisors realize that they must no longer place the blame for' the energy crisis on the consumer. By vote and public pressure they should be made to deal with the situation in a manner that is fair, impartial and morally upright. To date, they have failed miserably to execute an energy policy reflecting integrity of purpose or honesty of decision.

The burden that has been unjustly placed on the backs of Americans has not been alleviated in any manner whatsoever by the one-sided and indeed prejudicial approach of the present administration. Indeed, it has done nothing more than add a few more stones to the heavy backpack of the taxpayer.

Justice is action, not a mere smile. The morality of the present issue is more than clear. Unfortunately, Washington is "Still in smog.

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Pope Expected To Name 'Cardinals Soon

By Jerry Filteau VATICAN CITY(NC) - The naming of a new papal secretary of state has touched off speculation that Pope John Paul II will announce a group of new cardinals shortly.

On April 30 the pope named Archbishop Agostino Casaroli pro-secretary of state and proprefect of the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church. He also named Archbishop Giuseppe Caprio pro路路president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. All three posts traditionally are headed by cardinals. Cardinal Jean Villot, who died March 9, held all three.

Many observers quickly concluded that the pope would announce a 'consistory soon to make the two appointees cardinals. If so, he will almost certainly name as cardinals a number of archbishops heading Sees which traditionally are administered by cardinals.

If a consistory is to be held before the pope's trip to Poland (June 2-10), it would have to be announced within days. The need for travel arrangements for the future cardinals and other preparations means that there must be an advance notice of at least two weeks.

Some observers argue that by filling the positions left vacant

by Cardinal Villot and not announcing a consistory at the same time, the pope has in ef-

fect freed himself of the need to call a consistory for a while.

Precedent can be found for both views.

Pope Pius XII named Msgrs.

Giovanni 'Battista Montini and Domenico Tardini pro-secretaries of state in 1952 without making them cardinals. Msgr.

Montini, who would later become Pope Paul VI, was made archbishop of Milan, Italy, two years later. Msgr. Tardini remained monsignor and prosecretary of state until Pius' death in 1958.

On the other hand, Pope John XXIII reappointed Msgr. Tardini as pro-secretary of state in November 1958 and called a consistory for December in which' he made him a cardinal.

Among archdioceses that traditionally carry a red hat which do not have cardinals at the helm now' are Venice and Turin in Italy; Mexico City; Armagh, Northern Ireland; the pope's former archdioceses of Cracow, Poland; Toulouse, France; and Baltimore.

The pope from Eastern Europe might want to increase the number of cardinals in communistruled countries. There is even a rumor afloat that he plans to name a cardinal in the Soviet Union.

Recent deaths left Japan and Vietnam without cardinals and Sri Lanka's only cardinal retired -almost three years ago.

Cardinal Valerian Gracias of Bombay, India, died last year.

Cardinal Paul Yu-Pin, the only Chinese cardinal, also died last year after years in exile in Taiwan. Sources say a replacement for him, however, is likely to be postponed until the Vatican finds out if it can normalize relations with China.

There are also three Vatican congregations whose prefects were reappointed on a temporary basis. If the pope decides to replace these, he could draw from the existing field of cardinals or could name men who are not already cardinals. If he does the latter, he will almost certainly want to make them cardinals quickly.

In fact, if he does not call a new consistory quickly, it may be because he has not yet decided whom he will put in these positions and wants to delay a consistory until those decisions a're made.

Cheap Grace "Cheap grace without discipleship, is grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ." - Dietrich iBonhoeffer

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Letters to the Editor

Save Old Missals, He Says,

letters are welcomed, but should be no tIlore than 200 words. The editor reserves lIle right to condense or edit, If deemed necessary. All letters must be sl&/led and Include a home or business address.

Not for Himself Dear Editor: Please mail me half a dozen April 19 Anchors. I find it especially good and would like to give them to friends who don't get the Anchor.' I enjoy the articles, especially "The Mooring."

Some people, even Catholics, don't realize what good the charities do. A lady said to me today, "The bishop has so much money." I told her he doesn't use it for himself.

That's why I want to give these Anchors that tell what the charities do with the money from the Appeal.

Marion McGrath Raynham

Self-Control Dear Editor: Having heard so much about teena~ers being instructed on birth control, the article on planned parenthood (Anchor, April 26) was interesting. It's good to know Dr. J. Ford disagrees on pushing such programs on teens.

The way the morals of America are going, it's obvious Satan is running loose.

It se~m~ people. a.1 all, age{l are being mislead terribly by "free love" propaganda and selfish views on sex.

Advising teens to use contraceptives is making them believe that sex is a must.

In the first place, fornication is a serious sin that can bring eternal damnation, also contact (can lead to) disease, which may make one sterile and deprived from having a happy marriage later on.

"The world needs self-control, not birth control."

Let us pray that parents pray daily with their children and bring out these facts on modesty and sex behavior before they (may) be doomed to destruction to body and soul.

Praise be to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

J. B. T. New Bedford

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A GIRL SCOUT of Troop 1089, Fall River, receives ,"I Live My Faith" medal from Father Raymond Cambra in ceremonies at Immaculate Conception Church, Fall River.

Fourteen Scouts from Troops 1089, 1095 and 1102 received the award. They were prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCarthy, Troop 1089 assistant leaders. (Torchia Photo) ...

D'Alessio First In Schools Post WASHiNGTON (NC) - Edward D'Alessio, U.S. deputy commissioner for non-public education, said his appointment presents an opportunity "to be a facilitator of partnerships between the public and private sectors.

He is the first person to serve in the 'newly created post designed to assure equitable treatment for non-public school students eligible for federal education aid.

D'Alessio, a former education official with the U.S. Catholic conference and president of the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, Mass., said, "At no time has the atmosphere at both HEW and the Education Division and in particular the Office of Education, been more conducive for maximizing the potential participation of private school students in those federal educational programs for which they are eligible than it is now," he said.

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By Jo-ann Price NEW YORK (NC) - Throw- Sacred Heart novena devotions ing out your old Latin~English and noCturnal adoration socimissals, devotional pamphlets eties?

"Things were not regarded as and holy oards? Don't - hisgood or virtuous unless they torians may need them.

That is the advice of Jesuit were tough or unpleasant," Father William J. Leonard, cu- Father Leonard observed. He rerator of the Liturgical Collec- called that the practice of fasttion of Boston College library ing from midnight gave him a and superior of America House .headache every Sunday. "It was a combination of stoicism and in New York.

Father Leonard sent a call Jansenism and the Irish liked across the land in a recent is- it."

'Liturgical changes, social sue of America magazine for missals, breviaries, rituals, cate- action interests, Scripture rechisms, seminary. textbooks, search, and, above all, the Sechymnals, novena ,books and holy ond Vatican Council changed cards that U.S. Catholics used the face of the church entirely, doing away with many rigors. between 1925 and 1975.

The collection is being . "People today can look back gathered at the library to help and say we really were crazy," future historians understand the Father Leonard noted. "And we style and mood of American had the nerve to criticize the Catholicism during a period of Pharisees." Today's church is tumultous change. All gifts are "infinitely purer in spirit" he welcome, Father Leonard said, said.

The urgency of collecting including such curiosities as holy-water fountain pens and church memorablia, he noted, clicking confessional counters. can be pointed' up by the experi"Kids today have no concept ence of the past. Some time beof what Catholic life was like fore the fourth century, for exas most of us knew it," said ample, the church switched Father Leonard, 71, "and those from Greek to Latin for its litof us who lived through the urgical language.

"But we don't know exactly earthquake are too close to it to explain adequately what hap- when or how," he said. Docupened." ments of the time could have "Culturally, we Catholics helped later historians pinpoint underwent a tremendous change the answers. in thinking. It may be that no When the collection is put other period of church history together, he said, it will be can compare with the changes available at the new $15 million in the church in that time." library at Boston College. The Father Leonard, himself a address for gifts is the Liturgidistinguished theologian, recall- cal Collection, The University ed some of the strictures of the Librarian, Boston College, Chestpast. Whatever happened to the nut Hill, Mass. 02167.

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Was It Pope John Paul's First -Serious Blunder? the U.S. bishops did not, get it, until too late for most to use it in their Tuesday sermons to their priests.

So most 'priests and laity formed their judgments on the basis of limited and inaccurate press accounts, for which the Vatican 'Press Office, not reporters, is to be blamed.

The document is considerably better when read in its entirety.

It is not doctrinal nor a disciplinary statement, but exactly what it claims to be, an exhortation.

However, even as that, it is ultimately a failure. I am convinced personally that it is a good thing for humankind to have a certain number of com-

mitted celebates as religious leaders. I am convinced that you can make a powerful religious and psychological case for such celibates. I do not think, however, that the pope succeeded in making such a case and that most of those who bothered to read his exhortation will dismiss it as the "same old thing."

Furthermore, the pope reveals little understanding of the problems we priests encounter in our ministry. I suspect that what he says might be quite pertinent in his native Poland, but it does not resonate with the condition of the clergy in most of the rest of the world.

He is mistaken if he thinks

he can keep unhappy men 'in the priesthood by denying them dispensations from their priestly vows. He may be correct when he says dispensations are not the 'answer to the' problems of the priesthood, but cutting. off dispensations is an even worse answer.

John Paul'll is, extraordinarily gifted, charming and charismatic. He has demonstrated repeatedly his capacity to grow, change and respond to advice.

The ball is now in the court of the bishops of the world. Are they going to bluntly and candidly provide feedback for John Paul II? Are they going to say "Holy Father, you bo~bed!" or are

they going to deceive him by permitting him to think that the exhortation was a huge success?

On the answer will depend much of the future of Catholicism as an organized religion between now and the year 2,000.

One priest who has been patiently waiting for a dispensation complained bitterly: "His compassion extends to Nixonlike archbishops who don't accept replacements, but it doesn't extend to poor guys like me who simply can't take it anymore."

I wonder how many bishops are going to have the courage to tell the pope that such judgments are being made?

To judge by periodicals, you'd think exercise was this countrys national pastime.

Practically every newspaper

years ago. My sister-in-law and I joined a women's physical fitness class. That was when I discovered what a severe case of uncoordination I have. I drowned my grief in hot fudge sundaes immediately afterwards.

Within a few weeks, by skipping class and rigidly following the after-class therapy, I was able to completely block from my mind the fact that I have two left feet.

and magazine has at least one article on the latest exercise program. Considering the stickto-itiveness of the average American, in 550 years these exercises will give you the physique of W. C. Fields.

I went on an exercise kick

All this enthusiasm about exercise raises a great mystery.

Why are certain exercises more beneficial than others? Why isn't mowing the lawn just as muscle toning as walking five miles?

Why isn't washing the car as

firming for the upper arms as push-ups? ,Putting up the screens ought to be just as efficacious as a set of tennis. And certainly weeding, trimming hedges, and pruning shrubbery ~hould be as helpful a body builder as calisthenics.

I'm convinced the only solution is a best selling book, written by a man -- preferably one with a moderate Mr. America shape. (If the book were written by a woman it would be dismissed as wifely propaganda.)

But suppose a man compiled a list: for upper arms, chest and shoulders - rake lawn, wash windows; waist and stomach turn over plant 'and vegetable garden; to strengthen legs-re-

move garbage from attic, cellar, and garage; all-around toner mow lawn with hand mower.

These recommended exercises should be accompanied by a calorie-burning list: painting and papering 400 calories pE': hour; moving furniture - 300 to 500 per hour; polishing kitchen floor - 150 per hour; repairing appliances - 200 per hour; sweeping sidewalks 100 per hour.

A companion book, by a teenage model, would be for my daughters. Why not such ado, vice as sweating - wJ'til~ 'work~' ing - clean's the pores? Hoelri.'g out junk from under bedroom furniture slims the waist. Dishwater is the best pre-soak for

a manicure. Possibly the book could be endorsed by Dolly Parton with a statement that she got that way by folding laundry.

If the fad took hold, I wonder if some enterprising priest could extend the theories to Mass.

Suppose he proved that genuflecting is good exercise for the upper thighs; singing tightens a double chin; the glazed look from long homilies is restful for the eyes; and 350 calories per hour can be burned off working on the parish bazaar. ,Properly handled, it could, reVlVEI, an interest::in路路'Char.d1I' .:Think of it! New -enthUsiasm for church AND spring cleaning!

It should be no more difficult than raising the dead.

REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Pope John Paul II made his first serious blunder in his Holy Week exhortation to the clergy. I say that as one who fully agrees with him and as one firmly committed to maintaining ecclesiastical celibacy.

Part of the problem continues to be the inability of the Vatican to deal with the media.

Distribution of the exhortation was badly mishandled - ev~n

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MARY CARSON

Draft Revival Possibility Arouses Strong Feelings By .JIM

CASTELLI

Some scenes from the 60s may soon be repeated battles over the draft.

The United States has not had a military draft since 1973 but there is discussion in Congress about reviving it. Supporters claim that military reserves are dangerously low.

There are even proposals for moving into full-fledged universal national service - in effect drafting all young people to

By JOSEPH RODERICK

I am convinced that the use of compost in our garden is the most important ingredien~ in whatever success we

serve in either military or civilian service.

Most discussion has focused on proposals to require all 18year-olds to register for the draft. But critics see this as a back-door effort to bring back . the draft itself.

Early opposition to reviving the draft came from pacifists but now mainstream groups are paying attention.

The matter fits two strong constructive trends against each other: One is the growing sense that America should become much stronger militarily, the other is the sense that government has intruded into too many lives too often and should act only when absolutely necessary.

Catholic spokesmen in America have traditionally opposed a peacetime draft. Bishops and others have also supported the right of selective conscientious objection - the right of someone who is not. a pacifist to claim conscientious objector status in a particular war he believes is immoral.

Jesuit Father Robert Drinan (D-Mass.) argues that "peacetime conscription, when the nation was not immediately threatened, has never been approved by the Supreme Court.

It violates one's constitutional rights to free speech and ex~ pression, travel and privacy, and deprives one of the right to a trial by a jury of one's peers."

'But beyond the civil liberties

issue, there is real question about whether there is any need for a draft. Some 40 congressmen who sent a letter opposing the draft to President Carter, said any shortfalls in the allvolunteer army can be handled by improved recruiting techniques. Others say better use of women in the military can solve many problems.

enjoy in growing plants.

We have discovered that the compost mulch slowly disappears as the earthworms pull it down into the soil, making the soil richer and more fiable. As it disappears, we replenish it.

are constantly being emptied and replenished.

from the garden into the compost heap except grass clippings.

I object to the latter because they mat and tend to give an unpleasant odor as they deterirate.

Obviously, one must have a source of compost in order to keep the process moving. 'We have four-foot square by fivefoot high compost bins which

Three sides are ,built up to a convenient height and the fourth is built as compost is addea to the bin. We layer six inches or so' of green material, cow or horse manure to a depth of about a half inch and then six more inches of refuse until the bin is full.

We place all vegetable matter

Father Drinan argues that the all-volunteer army is more than adequate to meet U.s. defense needs.

Other issues come up in the draft debate: - A recent Harris poll found that 47 percent of men between 18 and 29 oppose draft registration. A peacetime draft would

In building the bin we do allow about a half inch space between planks to allow air circulation and during very dry weather we add water if the materials in the,' compost are

likely face the same kind of refusal to register that took place during the Vietnam War. draft proposals - Some would have Congress waive existing privacy iaws to allow the government access to tax files, voter registration lists and school files to locate people for registration. Such an attempt would be met by strong opposition th~oughout society.

- Finally, any effort to revive the draft will bring up the question of whether to draft women. Despite what some Equal Rights Amendment opponents have claimed, Congress already has the right to draft women. Most observers believe a new draft would have -to include women.

not green. During the gardening season we use at least four bins of compost.

If time allows and to speed ' up the composting process we turn over each bin at least once during the season. That is, we take all the decomposing matter in a bin out with a pitch fork and, then turn it back into the bin. This is difficult but it does speed up compost,ing.

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Bishops' Meeting Continued from Page One Quinn of San Francisco, NCCB路 usec president, for the bishops to cultivate "a preferential but not exclusive love for the poor" and a greater advocacy role on behalf of the oppressed of the world.

It closed with approval of a resolution to explore "the value and feasibility" of holding a Puebla - style "extraordinary meeting which would focus on some of the issues facing the church in the United States."

The !bulk of the meeting centered on a report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Structure, Frequency and Agenda of the General - Meetings of the NCCB-USCC. The discussions will continue, and final action may be taken, at the bishops' November meeting in Washington.

"The report presumes the selfevident fact that the bishops believe they form a community," said Archbishop Bernardin, chairman of the ad hoc committee. "But it asks whether the functioning of an episcopal conference provides time and structure for the kind of dialogue, reflection and exchange which will allow us fully to experience the meaning of episcopal communion and to make full use of the episcopal conference as a collegial instrument for our special ministry in the church."

The bishops spent much of the first and third days of their meeting considering that and other questions raised by the report.

The rest of the meeting was mainly taken up with discussion of committee reports on topics ranging from doctrine to women in the chl,lrch, from church-government relations to liturgical matters. >During his report as chairman of the bishops' Committee on Women in Society and the Church, Bishop Michael F. McAuliffe of Jefferson City, Mo., gave each bishop a copy of a petition he had received earlier from the Women of the Church Coalition.

The petition, signed by more than 13,000 people in 47 states and 15 foreign countries, said that the second argument in Sec路 tion V of the "Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood" "demeans all women and priests by claiming that male physical sexuality is the fundamentally important element in the priestly representation of Christ." Archbishop Quinn later said the NCCB-USCC would not take action on the petition but. would send it to the Vatican along with other materials from the spring meeting.

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GREAT DAY: Father Gerald T. Shovelton, pastor of St. Ann's Church, Raynham, and Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, triumphantly burn the mortgage. Observers, from left, Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Father William E. Farland, Father William F. Morris. (Gilbert Photo)

Bishops Beg Somo.za To Stop Killings MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) - The bishops of Nicaragua have rebuffed an overture by President Anastas.io Somoza and instead have pleaded with him to stop his troops from killing people indiscriminately.

The plea was in answer to a secret message Somm~a sent in February to the head of the Nicaraguan Bishops' Conference, Bishop Manuel Salazar Espinoza. It proposed a meeting of the general with the bishops.

At the same time the government faced growing opposition from civilian movements and .armed guerrillas. Opponents, especially youths, occupied churches in protest against reported atrocities by the National Guard, Nicaragua's only security force. By March, insurrection had broken out several cities. ..It seems useless to continue

in search of meditatio~, because there is an obvious disregard not only for God, but of all sense of human love," said the bishops.

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"In response to our stand and pastoral documents regarding 'events which are obviously immoral, we only received insults, vexations of all kinds or misunderstanding from the (government) press and radio," they added.

The message was signed by Bishop Salazar after the draft was approved at the special meeting of the bishops. It was released in late April.

In a statement of his own, Bishop Salazar said "It cannot be tolerated any' longer that men be executed without any trial, as if the law of the jungle prevailed. Troops march back and forth through our streets spreading terror, cutting down 0

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Book Award "Faith and Fatherland" by Rev. Anthony J. Kuzniewski, a Jesuit seminarian, has won ilie 1978 book award of the University of Notre Dame Center for the Study of American Catholicism. His book studies the struggle of Poles to maintain allegian~e to their faith and culture in the predominantly German and Irish church of early 20th century Wisconsin.

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lives. Not even children are spared."

Continued from Page One Church circles have been parWarsaw. Then he goes to Carticularly fearful of further redinal Wyszynski's residence, for prisals since a Somoza-backed resolution was approved by the the night.

At 6 p.m. he meets with top National Assembly. .government, offioials, The resolution charges the - Sunday, June 3: He meets church with interfering in polio with youths, who join him for tics and attempting to "destabiMass at 7 a.m. at St. Anne lize the regime . . . by employ'Church. Then he leaves for ing the theology of liberation, Gniezno, primatial See of Powhich is essentially a Marxist land. . theology."

At 11 a.m. the pope meets The bishops' message said it people of the archdioceses of would be better if the govern- Gniezno and Poznan. He rement devoted more money to turns to Gniezno and celebrates food than to weapons. a pontifical Mass next to the The message, dated March 27, cathedral. was published by the independ- Monday, June 4, the Feast ent daily La Prensa of Managua of Mary, Mother of the Church: at the end of April. Asked about At 11 a.m. the pope celebrates the month's delay, a conference Mass and preaches at the Shrine spokesman said publication was to Our Lady o( Czestochowa on the only way left to communi- Jasna Gora (WiIl of Lights) just cate with Somoza. outside' Czestochowa.

He will stay at the Monas路 tery of Jasna Gora during his stay in Czestochowa. when he attended nearby Camp - - Tuesday, June 5: He Happy for the nandicapped, "he celebrates Mass at 7:30 a.m. for did more than the rest of us," the Religious at Jasna Gora. At said his mother. "He even went 10 a.m. he takes part in the horseback riding, with some- 169th plenary conference of the one holding him on the horse." Polish bishops.

She admitted that 24-hour-a- Wednesday, June 6: He day care of Michael for the past celebrates Mass at the shrine at 10 years has been tiring and has 8 a.m. At 11 a.m. he meets with kept her from such small free- diocesan and Religious priests. doms as running out to the At 5 p.m. he celebrates Mass and store or to visit a neighbor delivers the homily for workers without aranging for a sitter, of Gorney Slask and Zaglebie but she feels that the pluses far Dabrowskie. outnumber the. minuses.

At 7:30 p.m. he returns to "He's such a joy - he laughs Cracow, his former archdiocese. and loves. He draws people to - Thursday, June 7: He visits him."

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska and his . Mrs. Kapulka paid tribute to home town of Wadowice in the Michael's teacher and to rela- morning. In the afternoon he tives, neighbors and friends, in- goes to Oswiecim (Auschwitz), cluding those new friends, the to visit the l?ite of the World Knights of Colllmbus, whose War n Nazi concentration gift is further brightening Mi- camp and pray in the cell where chael's life.

Blessed Maximilien Kolb~ died.

"They're all really fantastic," At 4 p.m. he celebrat~s Mass she said. and preaches at Auschwitz.

And so is she. And Mother's The Mass is for the victims of Day is the time to say so. the concentration camps.

A Very Special Mother Continued from Page One For three years he has attended special classes at Mullen HaIl school in Falmouth and a few weeks ago received an electric communications board from the Falmouth Knights of Columbus.

With it, says his teacher, Miss Suzanne Johnson, it is hoped his horizons will widen. It was described in a feature story in the Falmouth Enterprise as "an upright board with rows of squares containing piCtures of Michael's favorite things. There is chocolate ice cream, there are stars, there is a kIss. "A small light goes on when Michael hits a switch. The light travels across the' panel and stops where Michael wants it to stop.

"Sitting in front of the board with his mother, Paula, and his teacher beside him, Michael demonstrated his new device.

Dressed in a blue turtleneck and blue, slacks, Michael beamed as 0

he was congratulated for labor路 iously lifting his tiny arm and striking the switch.

"He didn't tum down the chocolate ice cream which was produced when he lit up the right square. He liked the blue star that was put on his left hand. But his face beamed when he was kissed by his teacher. "'These are the objects we know he likes, or think he likes,' said Miss Johson. 'When he gets this home his family will take pictures of other things and put them in the panel,' she said.

"Ultimately Miss Johnson hopes to put pictures 'in the machine representing different categories of objects.

"So, if we put in all pictures of animals, say, we can ask Micael to tell us where the cow is, and he can show us." ,But even without the board, Michael's horizons are wide. He goes everywhere with his family and one memorable summer

Continued from Page One University, Jamaica, N.Y., Friday's main speaker. He said that religious educators should reo member the spiritual experiences of their own childhood, be person-centered and "allow the Good News to 'be good news for us, news in the sense that we want to shout it to others."

Dr. Warren described his sense of "the Church handing itself on" when he attended a catechists' Mass and said that catechists occupy a place of unique importance in the Church.

"I don't want to downgrade a Knight of St. Gregory, for instance, who is usually a person who gives a lot of money to the church, but he is to a catechist as a beauty queen is to a good mother," declared the educator.

A wide variety of "round robin" workshops were held duro ing afternoon convention sessions and many exhibitors displayed education-related materials. Also on view were banners and other art works from diocesan schools.

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Dear Dr. Kermy: My husband and I are fed up with high school sports. Our young athletes miss breakfast and dinner with the family because of practices. Even worse, we think that athletics are teaching some false values.

"Win at all costs" is surely not Christian. Nor is it right to treat the other team as the enemy.

Why can't we teach sportsmanship? What can parents do? I think the high school sports, 'program is ruining our family life.

A. There are surely some problems with competitive school sports. You have labeled these problems nicely, and I see no reason to add further com· ments. You are right. Competi· tion and winning may run contrary to family values and pose real problems for parents.

School sports are meant to serve two functions: to tone the body through the learning and practice of physical skills and to teach sportsmanship. A win·atall-costs philosophy may neglect both.

'But the increased participation of girls in organized high

school athletics gives reason for optimism.

The immediate temptation is for girls to buy the whole athletic program as it currently exists, to train intensely and to put winning "ahead of everything else, just as the boys do. But suppose girls take a broader view. They can lead high school sports into paths closer to the \ original objectives.

I am not suggesting that girls avoid competition. Like it or not, we live in a competitive society. We cannot live outside our society, and I see· no evidence that it is going to change drastically in the next few years.

Women need not engage in dogeat-dog competition for the rest of their lives, but they do need the capability to compete if they are not to be unfairly handicapped in our society. Sports is a valuable and effective way to teach competition.

Some sports are by nature comp~titive. In these sports girls as well as boys need to learn to play intensely, to want to win, yet to be gracious in losing.

ComPitition, however, is not the only virtue to be learned by athletes. In some competitive

sports the beat·the-other-fellow aspect can be minimized. In baseball and volleyball, players cal\ change sides during the course of the game. All players play intensely, whatever side they happen to be on. Emphasis is on participation, teamwork, fun and grace rather than mere winning.

Not all sports need to be competitive. Gymnastics, synchronized swjmming, figure skating and many other sports can be learned to perform for the public rather than to compete against others for points. Grace, beauty and mastery of physical skills are emphasized rather than winning.

I hope that as girls participate in school sports in increasing numbers, they will enjoy playing and competing. But I hope they will do more. I hope they will develop new sports, lind play other sports to emphasize participation, skill, grace, teamwork and fun. If they do, all of us, men and women, will be the richer for it.

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Musicians Warned on IFalse Notes he quoted Jesus' words: "It is your love that I want and not your sacrifice."

In a plea for simplicity, Father Gelineau said the liturgy has hecome overcrowded with too many words, songs and gestures. "We must do less in order to do well," he said.

Reflecting on how pastoral musicians must "serve the rites in order to serve man," the French priest said liturgical music must not only please musicians but their fellow men.

He urged them to keep all in mind: the young and the elderly, the cultivated and more simple folk, those wanting exuberance and those wanting more silence.

"We can't force our tastes on anyone," he told the musicians, Describing the' convention 'but must find "what's good for participants as "people of song," a particular congregation."

On the opening day of the conthe elderly Russian-born baronparticipants heard ess asked: "Do you hear well vention, before you sing? Do you hear Benedictine Father Godfrey Diekparents killing innocents? Do mann, editor of Worship magayou hear the wars, the cry of zine, call for a return to the the wounded --' those wounded sacred in our liturgies. by bullets, by loneliness, by "Casualness in worship is the others who don't care? You must death of 'true religion," he said. listen to the world around you." "We must recover a sense of Mrs. Doherty, who spoke on the sacred in our liturgies. Lit"The Importam:e of Prayer for urgists must teach an active the Musician," said that prayer participation that includes re"is throwing yourself into God's flective silence." burning heart. In order to do In his keynote address, Father this, one must have the cour- Gelineau spoke about the image, the heart of the child." portance of gathering to worLove, rather than law, also ship, an act that he said is eswas emphasized in a second sential to Christianity. talk by ,Father Joseph Gelin"l'he church was born of sight eau, who had earlier'given the and sound," he said. "The Acts convention's keynote address. It" of the Apostles records the 'great was the first appearance in Am- noise when the crowd gathered,' erica of the French composer, the day 3,000 were baptized. author and liturgists.

That event represented the epiNoting that the sacraments tome of participation. are meant for man, not for God, "Sight and sound are of vital

CHICAGO (NC) - After four days of hearing liturgical music performed by renowned musicians, ,composers and choirs, some 3,400 persons attending the second annual Pastoral Musicians' Convention in Chicago heard a warning about false notes.

It came from -Baroness Catherine de Hueck Doherty, founder of Madonna House Community in Combermere, Ontario, who cautioned them about approaching God's table without love for their fellow men.

"We must become men and women in love with God," she told them. "Do we love everyone as Christ did? Let's examine our consciences lest we have a false note to our singing."

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concern to our liturgies, and your task as pastoral musicians is to convey the response of those gathered to the word," Father Gelineau added. "Christian liturgy must reflect our joy at being together as a worshipping people."

More than 40 musicians and liturgists spoke in workshops and seminars throughout the week. A record of the opening night's song session is to be released in the future.

Next year's convention will be held in Providence and a large delegation from the Fall River diocese has already made plans to attend, said Father William G. Campbell, diocesan music consultant.

Crusade Opposed

By Pro-Lifers BOSTON (NC) - The board of directors of Massachusetts Citizens for Life said it opposes formation of a new group which its founder says will serve as an umbrella organization for local pro-life groups.

The new organization,the Right to Life Crusade, was launched by Dr. Mildred Jefferson, a Boston surgeon who was three times president of the National Right to Life Committee until she was defeated in a re-election bid Jast year by Dr. Carolyn Gerster 'of Scottsdale, Ariz.

Massachusetts ,Citizens for Life said it will retain its affiliation with the National Right to Life Committee. Its statement added, "We view with sorrow current attempts from within and without to fragment the prolife movement." .

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Mary has been referred to after a hysterectomy, at a later with this title,by the way, from age when child-bearing years the earliest centuries of the are past, and so on.

No moral obstacle to sexual church. 'l.'hat title for her was, relations exists in these circum- in fact, jealously safeguarded by stances. The possibility of the Christians not primarily to honwife becoming pregnant and or her, but to ,be sure that the bearing a child is not a moral church preserved its proper belief about Jesus himself being the requirement for interco1.!rse.

The situation you present is incarnate God. Serious questioning of the title fundamentally not much different from your viewpoint as the mother of God as applied to wife. Regardless of how it Mary only began when certain started, you have a condition of Christian groups denied the divsterility !!l. your marriage which, inity of Jesus (that is that he is both God and man) after the at, ·.e~st. ol};. 'yo~r p~ut,.: (Hd ii~t~. and does not' now imply any time of the Protestant Reformation. . sinful intention or deliberate Questions for this column wrong action. There is no reason why you would be required should be sent to Father Dietto abstain from sexual relations. zen, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box However, you cannot ignore 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722. another element in the situation. Your married life, including Liberation Theology your sexual life, is not carried Is Topic for LCWR on as two individuals isolated from each other. Therefore, since Sister Marilyn Spellman, the cause of the sterility in your SUSC, Sister Brigid McCoy, marriage was deliberate, it is SS.CC., Sister Louise Synan, important that you help YO\lr OP and Sister Barbara Mchusband overcome and correct Carthy, OP, were superiors from any sinful conscience, and any the Fall River diocese attending continuing intention of viola- the spring meeting of Region I ting his responsibilities in re- of the Leadership Conference of lationship to God in the matter. Women Religious. It was held at Mont Marie Center, Holyoke, Q. I trust. you will be willing in conjunction with New Engto answer a question from a land Journey, a convocation for Protestant who is greatly puzzwomen ministering in the led about the reference to Mary church. as the mother of God. God is the The program included a discreator, without beginning or cussion on implications of libend. Mary was born of earthly eration theology, led by Sister parents. Why do Catholics then Joan Guertin, SUSC, and an excall her the mother of God? planation of a ministry readi(Mass.) ness assessment service avail, A. . You are not alone in being able from the Association of puzzled. The same question is U.S. and Canadian Theological frequently asked by other non- Schools.

Catholic Christians. The answer Sister Barbara ·Peterson, Rebegins with different beliefs gion I chairperson, outlined about Jesus himself. According plans for a mini-convergence on to our Catholic belief, Jesus is social justice to be held June 11 truly and completely both God through 15 at Mont Marie in and man. God the Son, the sec- conjunction with the New Engond person of the Trinity, came land Conference of Major Suto this earth and took on a hu- periors of Men. man nature. In doing this, he A documentary film on women did not stop being God, of in ministry was shown and delecourse, J>ut he became also per- gates participated in a closing fectly human. As the Letter to para-liturgical service with Sisthe HebreWS puts it, he is "like . ter Lorraine Gagnon, provincial us in everything except that he of the Sisters of St. Anne, as did not sin." homilist.

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Thomistic Poet

By Father Adrian van. Kaam

By Father Alfred McBride

While we should pray and strive for the gift of maturity we wiII never reach it completely.

It is more a life orientation than a static state. We can only ask ourselves: Are we on the road to maturity? First let us think about psychological maturity.

A mature person is one who has begun to care for the wholeness of his life. He tries to grow beyond the volatility of childish sentiment and youthful excitements. His life becomes less impulsive or compulsive. He begins to live by wise reflection, basic inner conviction and lasting commitment. He accepts responsibility for the life direction and life form he has discovered to be his, no matter how pedestrian and prosaic this life may seem to others.

He is no longer obsessed by the extraordinary and the spectacular. His need to be noticed, to be popular and liked is diminishing. He grows in generous solidarity with others in society and community. He accepts and copes wisely with the sufferings. and limitations everyday life imposes, on all human beings. He is at home with his own failures, limits and imperfections.

Without excessive guilt feelings he tries to make the best of his life in a relaxed and gentle way. No longer does he drift off in dreams, idle fantasies, floating idealism. He forbids himself the debilitating pleasures of playing fantasy games with the harsh realities of today and of tomorrow. He probes the facts and tries to improve the human situation a little every day, leaving the rest in the hands of God. What about Christian spiritual maturity? This is a gift grace alone can bestow on us. This usually attunes itself to our progress in psycological maturity.

Our loving Creator allows us the time to grow leisurely to our spiritual ripeness in faith in accordance with the created rhythm of our human unfolding.

All things in His creation unfold in their own good time. So does the human creature in both his life of grace and nature.

The maturity of Jesus is the measure of our spiritual maturity. St. Luke writes of him: "Jesus, for his part, progressed steadily in wisdom and age and grace before God and men" (Luke 2:52). Notice well: Jesus grew not only to human maturity before men but aiso to spiritual maturity before God. Only when our Lord had reached full human and spiritual maturity was he moved by the Spirit to begin. his public life and to approach his hour with the full responsfbility of one who has Turn to 'Page Thirteen

Dominican Father Walter Farrell (1902-1951) possessed the poetic instinct, although his years of philosophy at Fribourg, theology at Rome could well have stifled that instinct. His genius was to take the knotty abstractions of the sacred sciences and translate them into down-home comparisons which offered average readers an entry into the intricacies of academic debate and teaching.

This talent appears most prominently in his masterpiece, the four-volume "Companion To The Summa," published when Mortimer Adler of the University of Chicago was launching a nationwide interest in reading the great books of the Western world, among them the Summa of Thomas Aquinas.

'Father Farrell had a way of simplifying the dense presentations of Thomistic philosophy without betraying the substance of the teaching. Where Aquinas would state his case in tight chains of logic, Father Farrell restated the matter with easily understood metaphors. He did not choke the reader with his poetry, but used just enough to help him visualize what Aquinas was trying to say.

Father Farrell was able to unpiece the chains of logic enough to see what human situations might be sensed there. He did not destroy the logical sequence, so much as spread it out more so that the reader could relate the line of argument to contemporary situations. Employing Father Farrell's own bent for comparisons, one might venture to say that he let air into the medieval rooms, sunlight to fall upon the texts, oxygen to stimulate circulation.

Quibblers and purists of Father Farrell's day were loath to see the value of his work.

Guardians of approved texts never like to see popularizers tamper with the unadulterated original. But the "Companion To The Summa" is as faithful a rendition of the spirit and thought of Aquinas as one could reasonably expect. And Father Farrell himself would maintain that his purpose was to lead people to savor the original.

Those who knew 'Father Farrell praised him for his way of bringing his listeners to in-depth appreciation of religious matters.

The Confraternity of the Precious Blood published a small book, "My Way Of Life," based upon the writings of Walter Farrell. Much of it is taken from the "Companion To The ~umma" and it reads like a modern version of the "Imitation of Christ" in the sense that it is full of spiritual maxims with a ring Turn to Page Thirteen

Jesus walking on the water

Jesus Walks On The Sea

By Father John J. Castelot The first three Gospels contain many parables, stories told

by Jesus to get across a particular point. Occasionally we meet a parable of another sort, ,a story about Jesus which proclaims the faith of the church in his identity and activity, fully realized only after the resurrection. Such a parable is the story of his walking on the waters, which reflects the situation of the early Christian communities rather than that of the lifetime of Jesus. It sends them an urgent message, beset as they are by difficulties which threaten to overwhelm them.

For the early Christians, the sea was an object of awe, a dark, mysterious thing, the spawning place of evil. It was possessed almost of a personalality of its own, so much so that in the story of Jesus' calming the storm (Mark 4:35-41), he addresses the tossing waves in the same terms he used in exorcising a demon (Mark 1:25). It was also a natural symbol of death.

Such thinking' is reflected in many passages in the Old Testament, where rescue from the deep is a frequent figure for salvation. ' Indeed, "the fit," the shadowy abode of the dead, was located beneath the waters under the earth. Jesus, the risen Lord, had conquer~d death; he could walk victorious over the waters.

All these ideas are used by Mark to profess his faith in the identity of Jesus and to reassure his church that, however strongly the winds might be blowing against them, no matter how dark it was or how alone

on the waters they seemed to be, the victorious Lord, triumphant over the deep waters of death, was always with them.

The geographical and Chronological setting for the parable is obscure, but Mark had to get the disciples on the lake and Jesus on the shore. And so, afraid of untimely enthusiasm after the feeding of the multitude, Jesus "insisted that his disciples ,get into the boat" and go on ahead while "he went off to the mountain to pray" (Mark 6:45-46). It was already dark and the wind came up strong, right in their faces.

The going was slow and laborious, and it was already "between three and six in the morning" when he came walking calmly on the water, just like 'Yahweh of old.

At this point we read something very puzzling: "He meant to pass them oby." This makes little sense until we recall that the same expression was used in the Old Testament in pass-

ages where God was said to "pass by" someone in order to let him catch a glimpse of his "glory" (Exodus 33:18; 1 Kings 19:11). Mark is telling us that this is a revelation of the triumphant risen Lord and, indeed, the reaction of the disciples is exactly that of the group in the upper room on Easter night: "They thought it was a ghost" (Mark 6:49; Luke 24:37). Again, he reassures them with words commonly used in "divine visitation" scenes, and his identification of himself is even more reassuring: "It is I" (in the Greek this is literally "I am," the equivalent of the divine name).

"He got into the boat with them and the wind died down."

Although they did not understand (Mark 6:61-52), they felt secure. And this was Mark's message to his church: the risen Lord is with us in our struggles; don't be afraid; he has conquered the waters of destruction and death lind is in the boat with us.

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By Jaoaao Manternach Jesus had spent almost a whole day teaching a large crowd of people. At the end of the day he took five loaves and two fish and fed all of them. It was a wondrous moment for his disciples and the crowd but a draining one for Jesus. He needed time to be by himself, time to sift out aU that he was feeling and experiencing.

His disciples, amazed at the multiplication of food, wanted more than ever to be with him.

So when he said he wanted to be alone, they wanted to go with him. But Jesus insisted that they get into their boat and go to the other side of the lake.

Then he went up on the mountain by himself. When he ha~ spent almost the whole night in prayer, he decided to rejoin his friends. It was about three in the morning.

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A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego A Esperan1a

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A esperan9a 1 para viver, de tal modo que n~o podemos ter uma exist~ncia verdadeiramente humana sem ela.

Somos, durante a vida, seres imperfeitos atraidos fortemente para a felicidade.

Poderemos errar no caminho, mas procuramola enquanto caminhamos. .

Esta aspira9ao, por~m, come~a a ser verdadeira Esperanya quando temos a confian1a de que alcancaremos os bens que desejamos.

A Esperan,a crist~ tern, pois, duas facetas: a consci~ncia de que algo nos falta, com 0 consequente desejo de 0 alcan~ar;~e a confian,a de que 0 conseguiremos. a Senhor apareceu em sonhos ao Rei Salom~o e disse-lhe: Pede 0 que desejares que eu te darei.

Se Ele fizesse a mesma proposta a cada urn de nos, que Ihe pedirtamos? Qual seria 0 nosso maior desejo?

Pode haver diversos desvios em nossos desejos e aspirac~es.

J . , • Ha' pessoas contentes conslgo proprlas.

Nada desejam sobrenaturalmente. Assim como alguns, com a doenra, perdem 0 apetite de comer, de modo an~logo ha quem viva enfartado como se de nada precisasse. E a tibieza. Ela tern precisamente esta caracter1stica: dizes: "Sou rico, enriqueci-me e nada me falta"; e 'n~o sabes que ~s urn desgra~ado, miseravel, pobre, cego e nu. (Apoc 3:17) Para despertar desejos salutares, e indispensavel aumentar os conhecimentos, frequentar meios de formaJ~o. Aquele que vive em casa terrea, ~ luz do petr61eo e come~dop~o seco, mas quenunca conheceu outra possibilidade, vive contente e embrutecido na sua vida de mis~ria.

Entre as pessoas que nos parecem mais pr6ximas de Deus n~o sera dif!cil encontrar algumas satisfeitas consigo proprias. Acham que-j~ deram ao Senhor tudo 0 que the podem dar; olham para os que vivem afastados, como se eles fossem padr~o da sua vida, comparam-se e acham-se melhores.

Daqui a tibieza vai apenas urn passo,ou melhor, isto ~ j~ tibieza; e daqui se pode tombar num abismo ainda ,mais profundo: a presun~~o de se salvar sem merecimentos.

Se comparassemos os desejos duma crian. a com os d~m adulto, notar1amos uma grande diferen~a. A crianya perde-se em banalidades, enquanto 0 adulto vai ao essencial.

Mas tambem 0 adulto, muitas vezes, n~o deseja os verdadeiros bens, os essenciais.

Salom~o procede d~ modo diferente, ao pedir: Dai .•. ao Vosso servo,um cora~~o compreensivo, para distinguir 0 bern do mal.

Que desejos temos n~s na vida? Jesus diz-nos quais h~o-de ser os nossos: Que aproveita ao homem ganhar 0 mundo inteiro se, depois, perde a sua alma? . E 0 momenta de examinarmos as nossas lntenJoes, as metas do nosso actuar. Pod~ acontecer que num plano te~rico aceitemos esta atitude fundamental, mas que na pr~ti­ ca 0 descuremos, porque nos dispersamos em muitos inJteis. Um ponto de refer~n. .desejos .

Cla mUlto lmportante e saber para onde se dirigem habitualmente osnossos pensamentos:, pois onde estiver 0 teu tesouro, a! e~tara 0 teu coraJao. Conduz~dos por Jesus e 0 Espfrito Santo ,. d e lutar pela penovemos os nossos proposltos santidade pessoal, de vender tudo para comprar 0 tesouro de que nos fala Jesus. ~

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When the disciples saw someone walking' toward them on the water, they were terrified.

"It's a ghostl" they cried.

Jesus reassured them. "Get hold of yourselves! It is I. Do not be afraid!"

Peter, the spokesman, wanted to he sure Jesus wasn't a ghost.

"Lord, if it is realy you tell me to come across the water," he said.

Jesus loved Peter very much and was delighted that he had enough imagination and faith to expect that the water would hold him up just as it was supporting Jesus.

"Come!" Jesus said. Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water, moving' steadily toward Jesus. .

Everything was going fine until Peter realized what he was doing and was again aware of how strong the winds were. His fear returned! He began to sink and cried out, "Lord, save me!"

Jesus at once stretched out his hand and caught him. But he was disappointed. "How little

Thomistic Poet Continued from Page Twelve of truth exerting an immediate impact. These sayings, now read as spiritual consciousness raisers, were originally written as theological comment.

Why should one advert to this? Because it means that theology can be written in such a way as to satisfy both an academic interest and a spiritual hunger: The enormous popularity of "My Way Of Life," (still in circulation 28 years after its author's death) among people of all walks of life testifies to a personal holiness in the man in addition to a marvelous skill in speaking the profound with honest simplicity.

The last 20. years have witnessed a decline of interest in Aquinas, but great minds are not so easily laid aside. As interest in Aquinas revives Father Farrell's fine books remain to help.

Maturity Continued from Page Twelve found his unique life direction.

The spiritual maturity of Jesus is based upon a full-grown faith. Such a faith presupposes a personal conversion during our growing up and implies a personal encounter with and an unshakable commitment to our Lord..

Conversion means that we begin to live out of a basic Christian conviction rooted in love for Christ instead of childish sentiment and youthful excitement. Christ becomes the lasting motivation of our life and that life becomes centered and whole, no longer carried about by the minds of incidental fads and doctrines.

faith you really have! Why did you falter?" he exclaimed.

In silence Peter and Jesus climbed. into the tossing boat, once they were in it, the wind died down.

The others in the boat were awed by what Jesus, their friend had done and they expressed their renewed faith in him by declaring, "Beyond doubt you are the Son of God!" .As they headed on against the winds, the disciples re.alized they could always trust Jesus. They passed on this story to us so we too could grow in trust in Jesus. Because he is with us, we can keep our heads above water!

Parish Survey One-Nun Job PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (NC) If Sister Mary DeCleene has sore knuckles, it's understandable. From noon into the evening hours every weekday for the past 27 months, she has knocked on doors of members of St. Gabriel Parish in Prairie du Chien.

The visits were designed to help parish leaders get more in touch with the 750 Catholic families within the parish. And the success of the venture whiCh led to several changes in parish operations - is due in large part to Sister DeCleene, who met over two-thirds of the families herself.

The eight-question survey of parishioners could perhaps have, been more easily completed during Sunday Masses, but St. Gabriel's parishioners "wanted a more personal visit" from a parish representative, Sister DeCleene said. Families not visited by the School Sister of Notre Dame were contacted by the priests or parish council members.

Sister DeCleene spent her mornings during those 27 months teaching.' third-graders at the parish school. After lunch she left te:x:ts and ·chalk to ask parishioners about their participation in parish events and knowledge of parish policy, needs they felt were not being met and whether they knew of "any suffering people in your neighborhood who are not being cared for."

The parishioners responded enthusiastically and the survey resulted in a change in Mass schedule, a religious education program for pre-school children, establishment of a teen center and expansion of high school religious education programs from once a month to once a week.

Perhaps more importantly, the survey found two parish families living in poverty conditions. St. Gabriel's responded with financial assistance that allowed them to move from substandard living condit~ons into better accomodations. '

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May 10, 1979

By Charlie Martin

DANCIN' SHOES

EVERYONE'S HAPPY at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, as Principal George Milot watches presentation of $1400 scholarship to Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School to Christine Tabor. Making the award, which was a' complete surprise to Christine, was Mrs. Katherine Shaw of Katharine Gibbs. (Sister Gertrude Gaudette Photo)

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Catholic churches are starting to cash in on one of the strengths of Protestant churches - deveioping specialized youth ministries with fulltime youth pastors. In fact, demand for Catholic youth ministers is so great that churches who want them can't find them and institutions can't train them fast enough.

Seven dioceses have their own youth ministry training programs: Duluth; Seattle, St. PaulMinneapolis, iSan Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Tuscon. An independent training center is being developed in Paterson, N.J., and two Catholic colleges are now offering BA degrees in youth ministry.

The new idea is to move away from youth education toward such things as social programs and community service.

Typically, new Catholic youth programs include such things as coffee houses, drop-in centers, field trips, sports, Bible study groups, week-end retreats, teen Masses, social activities and service projects.

Undergirding each facet of the program is an emphasis on the ministerial rather than the organizational. Father Rudy Ber· anek, coordinator of youth activities for .the U.S. Catholic Conference, says, "A ministerial appproach means building relationships. When programs develop because of relationships, it's a whole different ball game."

So far, most Catholic youth ministers are serving in suburban churches because those churches have the money. On the otller hand, according to John Epgles, youth minister of Winnetka, Ill., there are parishes tl1at can afford a youth ministe~ but don't feel they need one. Some say that youth min,.....----

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Engles discounts such reasoning. "Our eyes have to be opened to where kids are at," he says. "They face disillusionment and loneliness. There are family troubles. There's lack of significant adults in their lives.

They don't feel loved. They don't feel comfortable with the church."

"They don't come to church," he continued, "so we have to reach out to them. We have to show them that the church has something to offer."

This thinking represents a profound change from the past, when many Catholic churches ignored their young people, or took them for granted as members. Most programs and activities were aimed at adults and it was assumed youths would be~ come involved in the church as they grew up. But no age group should be ignored for another.

The church should be for all.

It is obvious that for many Catholic youth the old church ties are gone; the doctrinal programs drove many of them away or perhaps it was the way in which doctrine was presented.

Irene Friend, youth ministry ,coordinator for the Chicago diocese, says diocese and local parishes need to look at the needs of young pedple and develop a ministry around those needs.

"So far, not many' churches are trying to help disaster kids (those with serious drug problems, for example), but rather those who are hurting because of more general home and social problems."

Some by-products of the trend toward youth ministry are the number of Catholic youths who are becoming youth

ministers themselves or who are going on to seminaries.

Changes are in the making changes for the better.

People are beginning to listen and there are fewer cries in the wilderness.

, -Holy Family Sophomore Kathleen Hudon has received a leadership certificate from the Hugh O'Brien Youth Fellowship Foundation as the 'most oqtstanding student of the class of 1981. HF's representative at the annual student government day in Boston was Wendy Garafalo.

Also at the New Bedford school, students participated in a marathon dance sponsored by the Booster Club, with 11 couples dancing from 10 a.m. until midnight to win a purse of $250 divided 11 ways. Jeanne Bedard and Kathleen Hudon won an additional award as top pledge-getters.

The school's triple trio placed third in the treble category of a choral contest held in Maryland, while the entire glee club wilIpresent a concert, City Lights, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday in the school auditorium.

Members covered themselves with glory at the annual education convention, where they provided music for a convention Mass celebrated by Bishop Cronin.

Five students enjoyed spring vacation with a quick trip to London and Paris. They were accompanied_by Sister Laurette, SUSC.

The Only Sacrament "Marriage is the only sacrament which transforms a human action into an instrument of the divine action." - Jacques Leclerc

Too many long conversations No one is hearing a word Just trying' to escape the frustration Till the song in the night can be heard Put on your dancin' shoes Throw out those worn-out blues Here's one to love and to chance For a spin on that wheel of romance.

Too slow to unriddle your problems Too lonely for someone to care Long lonely silence keeps haunting Till a song in the night finds you there.

With a face like an angel, she's waiting She smiles and looks over at you You've yearned for the situation Now finally your dreams have come true.

Put on your dancin' shoes Sweep her, away with you Here's one to love and to share Caught on that wheel of romance Dance all night long (c) 1978 by Canal Publishing, Inc'., published under licens~

by Chappell Co., Inc., International Copyright secured.

Nigel Olsson's ~<Dancin' Shoes" is soft and easy listenin~. Its message is clear. There are times when we need a break from our problems. Olsson's suggestion is to "put on your dancin' shoes."

Our need to get away from routine is a healthy one, though it do~s not have to be found only in "dancin' shoes." For some, it may be in hiking shoes, for others, old work shoes take one away to tour the garden or into some house project.

Balance is not a quality easily achieved. Sometimes we forget that we need time away from projects and tasks. We can become completely task oriented, especiaUy when deadlines press upon us.

The maturing individual feels and responds to this need for space away from pressures.

If we locate all our energy in one part of our lives, we fail to understand or appreciate other aspects of olirselves. We cannot do everything. However, a failure to explore various 'areas of interest leaves us less than the whole person God made us to be.

To attain balance we must examine our interests, needs and dreams. Part of this process includes recognizing our total responsibilities. Jobs and school deserve a sizable portion of our energy.

But we should also perceive the importance of responsibilities to ourselves, our friends and our God. We need to discover which sets of "extra shoes" add to ,our happiness. The God who gave us life invites us to experience this gift fuUy.

Bishop Connolly At the State Invitational Math Team Competition held at Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, the Bishop ConnoUy math team, competing in the small school division, finished in second place in a field of seven schools.

F'amily Is Topic F'or Pro-Lifers CINNCINATI (NC) - Several thousand pro-lifers from the United States and abroad are expected to gather in Fort Mitchell, Ky., for the June 21-24 National Right to Life Convention. It will feature speakers on the theme, "The Family; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow."

They will include William ·C.

Brennan, a St. Louis sociologist, Dr. Jack WiIlke of Cincinnati, president of ,the Ohio Right to Life Society, Dr. C. Everett Koop, a surgeon at Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, and Dr. Pat Dunn, a New ?:ealand physician who has worked extensively with amniocentesis.

In addition, the convention will feature workshops OJ) sitins, how to set up politiCal action committees, fighting federal involvement in abortion, women's rights and abortion and the human life amendment.

Pray Always' "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fuUness of your joy and in your days of abundance!" -Kahlil Gihran

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By BILL MORRISSETTE eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug· gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for -children or younger teens.

Parish League In 24th Season Catholic ratings: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for. field was dedicated to Father St. Anne's Junior Baseball adu Its and adolescents; A3----approved for League of Fall River opened its Patenaude, the league's foundadults only; B-objectionable in part for 24th season last SUl).day at the ing chaplain. Rev. Jean D. Pare, Father Patenaude Baseball Field, OP, is noW chaplain, officials everyone; A4-separate classification adjacent to the parish school on are. Richard Charette, president; (given to films not morally offensive Forest Street. It is the only in- Alfred Heinig, vice-president; which, however, require some analysis traparish organization of its Normand. Morrissette, recording and explanation); C-condemned. secretary and . commissioner; kind in New England.

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Father Patenaude, who founded the league, was missing from the opening ceremonies for the first time since the loop's inception. Long assigned to St. Anne's parish, he is recuperating in Montreal from an illness that affected him while on a visit to the Canadian metropolis.

Two years ago the league

Theodore ,Proulx, umpire-inchief; Paul 'Beaulieu, player agent; Arthur Simard, senior director.

The four-team league has single twilight games Mondays through- Wednesdays.. It' will conclude its season July 24, with the annual awards banquet slated fO,r Sept. 2.

Spartanettes Post Track Victory The Stang girls' track team posted an impressive 76-42 victory in a dual meet against Dartmouth High. Stang winners were Jean Laughlin, javelin; Ann Hudner, high jump; Ellen Vera, hurdles,-' 440 and long jump; Stephanie Hiller, two-mile run; Cathy Curry, 1DO-yard dash;.

Kathy Caswell, mile; Cathy Curry, Denise Higgins, Chris Wood and Ann Hudner, 440 relay; Kathy Malloy, Connie Bettencourt, Kathy Caswell and Stephanie Hiller, mile relay.

Dartmouth's winners were D~rlene Berg, shot put; Chris Gardner, discus; Cheryl Cummings, 880.

The S,tang girls have a dual meet at Somerset this afternoon, another at Falmouth next Tuesday and will participate in the state/'cQaches meet Saturday.

Dartmouth is home to Old Rochester today, at the coaches' meet Saturday and home to Attleboro Tuesday. Except for the Saturday meet, Somerset's girls will be ,idle after today's Stang encounter until the divisional meet on May 19.

In boys' track, the Connolly Cougars have dUlil meets at Fairhaven today and at Old Rochester Tuesday before a divisional meet at Case High on May 19.

Case Heading For Another Crown Undefeated in.. five div,ision contests, as of last Friday, the Case High Cardinals seem headed for the Division Two West Southeastern Mass. Conference crown. Tomorrow the Cardinals will he, at Coyle-Cassidy, and next Wednesday they entertain Diman Yoke. Tomorrow's games also list Connolly at Diman, Dighton-Rehoboth at Bishop Feehan, and Seekonk at Westport.

Next Wedn!,!sday Connolly will host Coyle-Cassidy as Feehan visits Seekonk and Dighton-Rehoboth is home to Westport.

Entering this week Taunton was still setting the pace in Division One, a half-game ahead of runnerup Somerset, 1 Y2 games ahead of third-place New Bedford. Somerset was home to Taunton last Monday. Tomorrow's Division One schedule has New Bedford at Stang, DennisYarmouth at Taunton, Durfee at Somerset, Attleboro at Barn-

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stable. Next Wednesday Stang will host Somerset, Taunton goes to New Bedford, Barnstable to Dennis-Yarmouth, Attleboro at Durfee.

Falmouth and Dartmouth were still running a neck-and-neck race for the Division Two East title with Old Rochester still within reach of the leaders. To'day Holy Family is home to Greater New Bedford VokeTech, Old Rochester is' at Bourne, Dartmouth at Fairhaven, and Falmouth at Ware, ham. In games next week, Holy Family is at Old Rochester, Falmouth at Yoke-Tech, Wareham at Fairhaven; 'Dartmouth at Bourne on Monday, Holy Family at Dartmouth, Fairhaven at Yoke-Tech, Bourne at Wareham, Old Rochester at Falmouth on Wednesday. The division crown may well ride on the Falmouth at Dartmouth game on the season's final card on May 24.

"Manhattan" (United Artists) stars Woody Allen as Isaac Davis, a successful TV writer whose wife (Meryl Streep) has left him for another woman and has written a book about it.

Meanwhile Isaac is pursuing an afair with a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) and a heterosexual triangle is going on, involving Isaac's best friend, best friend's wife and a woman journalist_ and critic. Isaac leaves Mariel for the journalist, who then leaves him for his best friend.

Isaac then attempts to return to Mariel hut she is indefinite about whether she will accept him. The film as a whole is clever, full of amusing oneHners, but preoccupied with sex to the almost total exclusion of all else. R, A4 "Battlestar Galatica" (Universal): Lorne Greene shepherds the remnants of the human race through the perils of space in search of the lost planetary colony called Earth. Thig release of the pilot film of the recently cancelled television series is bland and pedestrian in every respect. PG, Al "Fedora" (United Artists): A down-on·his-luck Hollywood producer (William Holden) uncovers a strange secret when he tries to persuade a legendary and forever-young actress named Fedora (Marthe Keller) to come out of retirement to star in a movie he wants to make.

But the premature revelation of Fedora's secret drains entertainment potential. Some adult situations make it mature viewing fare. PG, A3 "Walk Proud" (Universal): A sensitive, inarticulate Chicano

youth (Robby Benson) trapped in a morass of machismo and gang warfare, goes straight when he falls in love with a dentist's daughter (Sarah. Holcomb). Benson is not at all credible as a Chicano, whatever allowances the script makes for his parentage, and while seeming to deplore violence and lawless behavior, this film does not offer enough of a counterweight. PG, A3 On Television May is "sweeps" time and as the networks compete for ratings and profits, viewers are offered . more than the usual number of quality programs.

Among them, and one of the best: "Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love," Monday, May 14, 9-11 p.rn." NBC, the true story of a couple who refused to accept the medical verdict that no one could help their·autistic infant son.

Working with him 75 hours a week, they bring him to normalcy. The program depicts their trials and triumphs.

"Walking Through the Fire" May 15, 9-11 p.m., is the story Hodgkin's disease - cancer of the lymph nodes. It is a compelling dramatization of the 1977 book hy Laurel Lee which told of her seemingly hopeless struggle with this often terminal illness.

• Mrs. Lee was seven months pregnant with her third child when she was told she would have to start immediate radiation treatments to save her life.

She refused an abortion, bore a healthy child, and endured a lengthy series of debilitating treatments, although deserted by her husband.

"Walking Through the Fire" is a picture of a strong woman who refuses to give in to .her personal fears of physical pain.

Bess Arqlstrong plays the role with determination" and warmth.

Unusually rewarding dama, recommended for family viewing.

TV Movie Sunday, May 13, 9:00 p.m.

(ABC) "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) Two charming bank robbers (Paul Newman and Robert Redford), with the passing of the Old West, find themselves out of touch witI:1 the times. A3

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Men of the Sacred Heart will escort a statue of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima -to the church on Saturday, (ollowing 7 p.m.

Mass. It will remain in the church through Saturday, May 19" with special Marian devotions to be held each evening following the 7 p.m. Mass. The event is sponsored by the parish Legion of Mary, which announces that refreshments will follow the first night of. the devotions.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER

The Holy Name Society will hold a communion breakfast and meeting following 8 a.m. Mass Sunday, May 20. Also on May 20 the Council of Catholic Women will hold an installation banquet following 5 p.m. Mass.

Confirmation will be administered at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 22.

The summer Mass schedule will begin Sunday, June 3 and is announced in the parish bulletin.

The Espirito Santo feast will be celebrated the weekend of June 1 through 3. August Gagliardi is president.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK " Diane Manning will speak at a mother-daughter communion breakfast to follow 8:30 a.m.

Mass Sunday, May 20. Reservations may be made with Elsie Chandley, 761-6768.

ST. ,JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE Jo-Ann Frllibetti crowned our Lady at ceremonies held Sunaay, aided by A. C. Frabetti as crown bearer. COD class memo bers formed an arch for the service.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON A living rosary will be sponsored by the Women's Guild at 6:30 p.m. ~onday, May 21 at the Marian shrine on the rectory grounds. Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services, will speak at a supper to follow in the church hall.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER The Scout committee will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in the rectory. .

First Communion will be given at a Mass at 2 p.m. Sunday, Mother's Day. ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FALL RIVER A spring series of four Natural Family Planning classes began yesterday and will be held once monthly. 'Further information is available from Mrs. Mariette Eaton, RN at the hospital.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The May procession will take place at the 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Children who made their first communion last October are invited to participate.

Senior CYO will meet at 7 and social concerns committee at 7:30, both on Monday night.

The Women's Club is sponsoring a three-day bus trip to Montreal, Oct. 19-21. Reservations can be made 'with Margaret O'Neil at 676-8084.

Youngsters are encouraged to use the school playground outside of school time, but not when cars are parked there.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, Special services will ,be held CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, SOMERSET at 7 p.m. daily from Monday FALL RIVER Father Andrew Greeley will 'Parents of first communi- through Friday, with speakers cants will meet at 6 p.m. Sun- including Rev. John F. MOQre, speak at Bishop Connolly day, May 20 in the parish center. Anchor editor, Rev. Kenneth High, 'Fall River, at 7:30 p.m.

Rosary devotions will be held Suibielski of Central Falls, R.I., Sunday, May 20, under auspices at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Rev. Senior F. Banas, pastor of of the Catholic Woman's Club. home of Carlos da Silva 125 Va- Blessed Virgin Polish National Tickets will be available at the Church, Fall River, and Rev. Ed- door. rao Ave., Swansea.

The fourth dominga for the ward McDonough, C.SS.R. of Church,. Roxbury, STANG ASSEMBLY, Holy Ghost Society will be at Mission .known for his healing ministry. FALL RIVER the home of Carlos da Silva, Bishop Stang Assembly, Fall 125 Varao Ave., Swansea. The Parishioners are asked to offer rosary vyill be recited at 8 p.m. one day of fasting this week to River Knights of Columbus, will hold an awards night at 6 p.m. tomorrow. pray for special blessings dur- Wednesday at Council 86 Home, ing next week's observance. Columbus Drive, Fall River. The ST. STANISLAUS, Prayers in honor of St. Stanis- first annual Dominick J. MaxFALL RIVER Observance of the 900th an- laus will precede',. each Mass well award will be presented, in addition to honorary life memniversary of the death of St. this week. bership cards and 25 and 50 Stanislaus will begin with a sol- ST. PATRICK, year certificates. emn Mass at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, FALL RIVER with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as Timely Advice principal celebrant and homilist.

Father Edward ·P. Doyle OP An evening prayer service will will celebrate his 40th anniver"Work as if you were to live be held at 6:30 p.m. with music sary of ordination at a Mass of 100 years. Pray as if you were by recording a,rtist Jon Polce and Thanksgiving at 11 a.m. Sun- to die tomorrow." - Benjamin his vocal group. day, May 20.

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Senior citizens will meet Monday, when officers for next year _will be nominated. A program on nutrWon will be presented.

The unit plans a bus trip to Rockport and Gloucester Tuesday, June 19.

LA SALETTE SHRINE, ATfLEBORO Mothers will ibe honored Sunday at the 11 a.m. Mass, to be celebrated by Father . Gilles Genest," .and a 3 p.m. service to include Benediction and a blessing for mothers.

ADULT CONFIRMATION, FALL RIVER DIOCESE The sacrament of confirmation will be administered to adults at 10 "a.m. Mass Sunday, June 3 at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Anyone wishing to be confirmed should contact his or her rectory as soon as possible.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO New Ladies' Guild officers are Carla LaPlante, president; Kathy Pratt, vice-president; Jean Guilino, secretary; Eleanor Kennedy, treasurer. They were announced at the guild's annual banquet, held earlier. this month.

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