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HER COFFIN: . THE GARBAGE CAN THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH
HOW The Sister was moving among the slums of a city MANY in India. Unbelievably, she heard sobbing comMORE? ing from a trash barrel. Brushing aside the flies and the vermin, she looked. Beneath the filth and debris was an old lady crying from tearless eyes as her life slowly ebbed away. Tenderly the Sister lifted her, placed her on her shoulders and took her to the Hospice for the Dying. Before she died, the old lady told the Sister, ""m not crying because I was in the garbage. I'm crying because my son put me there. He had to. There was not enough food for the family." ... Tragically, this scene will be replayed many more times. But you can help to lessen it. Will you? Here is how ...
WILL 0 In the hands of our native Sisters your gift in YOU any amount ($100, $75, $50, $25, $10, $5, $2,
HELP? $1) will fill empty stomachs with rice, fish, milk, vegetables. Our priests can start a model farm for their parishioners and teach them how to increase their crop production for only $975. We will tell you where it is located. 0$15 a week will enable an aged person to spend his or her declining years with simple dignity cared for by our Sisters.
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THEY The Victory Centre for Women, at Guruvayoor, HELP is conducted by the Franciscan Clarist Sisters; THEMSELVES it is specifically for the rehabilitation of handicapped girls and women. The building they now' live in is old, has no ventilation, and is actually dangerous for them. Both the Sisters and the women they serve are financially unable to construct the training and lodging centre required for the work with handicapped and deaf students. They need $6,000. Would you help to provide a future for them? Why not do it in honor of someone you love, perhaps as a family project? YOUR Have you made your Will? Did you remember
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HONORED FOR their service to the Diocesan Department of Education at a recent farewell reception were Sister Doreen Donegan, SUSC, director of religious ed ucation, second from left, and Sister Patricia Halliday, SND, assistant director, right. At Holy Name Church parish center, New Bedford, well-wishers included Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, third from left, and Father Richard W. Beaulieu, department director. (Rosa photo)
Thousands of documents' sought Continued from Page One candidate for a subsequent subpoena. "Based on reasonable review of the subpoenas and of case developments, tne USCC-NCCB and many Catholic dioceses and entities face the specter of several years of discovery," he said: "It is -realistic to expect that the discovery process would divert church resources away from pastoral and policy efforts in the pro-life area to attend to the very detailed discovery planned by the plaintiffs." Documents that Abortion Rights Mobilization has demanded include: - Any documents reflecting "financial support by the USCC, the NCCB, or any state Catholic conference, archdiocese, diocese, or parish church" for activities of 12 state and national pro-life organizations. - All documents indicating "involvement of any church personnel," from national officials to parish employees, in any of those 12 pro-life organizations. - All "communications, memoranda; directives, letters or any similar documents" between national, state, diocesan or parish employees
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or the church regarding "compliance or lack of compliance'with" provisions ofthe Internal Revenue Code for tax-exempt charitable organizations or support or opposition to political candidates. The subpoena asks names and addresses of top state Catholic conference officials since 1974 in California, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Caron EDICTAL CITATION DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER. MASSACHUSmS Since the actual place of residence of THOMAS R. MCMAHON is unknown. . We cite THOMAS R. MCMAHON to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on May 27. 1986. at 10:30 a.m. at 344 Highland Avenue. Fall River. Massachusetts. to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage is proven in the BARNES·MCMAHON case? Ordinaries of the place or other pastors having the knowledge of the residence of the above person, Thomas R, McMahon. must see to ilthat he is properly advised in regard to this edictal citation. Henry T. Munroe Judicial Vicar Given at the Tribunal. Fall River, Massachusetts, on this. the 12th day of May. 1986.
~ May 24 Rev. James F. Clark, Founder, 1907, St. James, New Bedford Rev. Patrick Heran, S.S.B.c.c., Former Rector, 1985, Sacred Heart Seminary, Fairhaven May 25 Rev. Michael P. Kirby, 1925, St. Mary's, North Attleboro Rev. James V. Mendes, Administrator, 1961, Our Lady of Angels, Fall River May 30 Rev. Jordan Harpin, O.P., 1929, Dominican Priory, Fall River Rev. Edmond J. Potvin, Pastor, 1937, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River Rev. James M. Quinn, Pastor, 1950, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro
noted that two of those, South Dakota and Virginia, have no state Catholic conference. Data on bishops and pro-life directors since 1974 are sought by the subpoena in the archdioceses or dioceses of Washington, D.C.; Arlington and RichmoJ1(t Va.; Baltimore; Brooklyn and Rockville Centre, N.Y.; Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pa.; Worcester, Mass.; Fargo, N.D.; Sioux Falls, S. D.; St. Paul and St. Cloud, Minn.; St. Louis; San Antonio, Texas; and San Diego.
Haitian bishops ask reforms PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti(NC) - The bishops of Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, have listed literacy, agrarian reform and employment as three priorities for their nation. In a pastoral letter, the bishops also called for decentralizing political, economic and social power to promote development in provinces; eliminating "corrupt elements" from public administration; and ending "mistrust, back-stabbing, lies and scams." "The first priority of these people is literacy," said the bishops. They have launched a campaign to make 3 million of Haiti's 6 million people literate within the next five years. The primary goal of agrarian reform should be "equitable distribution of land," the bishops said, noting that the incomes of 4 million Haitians depend almost entirely on agriculture and that "not even 22 percent of the urban population earns a salary." The bishops suggested decreasing the price of basic commoditites and organizing a public works program to fight unemployment.