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Should. priests go, stay?

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) - A call by the Nicaraguan Bishops' Conference to priests in the Sandinista government to quit their jobs has stirred controversy.

Four priests involved said in a "first response" that they pledged their "unbreakable commitment" to the Sandinista revolution. They were supported by other priests and 20 basic Christian communities.

"We declare that those priests who at present hold public posts and engage in factional functions must leave them at once and fully rejoin their priestly ministry," said a conference statement.

"Otherwise we consider them to be in open rebellion and disobedience to the legitimate authority of the church" and "they become subject to church sanctions due in such case," the conference added.

Directly involved are Maryknoll Father Miguel D'Escoto, foreign minister, Father Ernesto Cardenal, minister of culture; Father Edgar Parrales, minister of welfare; and Jesuit Fern:mdo Cardenal, coordinator of the Sandista Youth Movement.

Like many other priests, religious and lay leaders, the four supported the Sandinista rebellion against the 45-year-old Somoza dynasty. They agreed to take key government posts ,after the victory of the revolution in July 1979. They said the emergency conditions justified their action.

Initially the bishops gave

priests temporary permission to accept government posts because of the emergency situation.

The four priests said in a statement June 8 that they serve the government "in loyalty to our people, which is the same as saying fidelity. to God," and "we shall continue to do so from any place and circumstance in which our service is needed."

The statement, however, was labelled a "first response" to the bishops. Church sources said this indicated the priests' willingness to negotiate a solution.

Delegates from 20 basic Christian communities marched seven miles June 9 to the apostolic nunciature to deliver a letter addressed to Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, papal secretary of state, asking that the Vatican allow the priests to continue in government as "the hope of the people."

Fifteen priests joined the criticism of the conference statement, saying it was "detached from reality, without reference to the exceptional circumstances under which our country is still living." The clergy statement, issued June 12, supported "the fidelity to the Gospel" of the priests in government, and added: "The opportunity, for the first time in history perhaps, to accomplish a church action and make this revolution a Christian one is being jeopardized, and we regret this. In the past most revolutions were made against the church or without the church."

In Rome, where he attended a meeting of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua said June 12, "I think the majority of the people support the request of the bishops' conference.

It is not clear if all seven Nicaraguan bishops agreed with the conference statement, which was not signed by the member bishops but carried only the'seal of the conference.

Bishop Ruben Lopez Ardon of Esteli said from Mexico, where he is under medical care, that he did not know the statement was being drafted and that he disagreed with it. Bishop Juian Barni of Matagalpa was also out of the country at the time the document was drafted.

The papal nuncio, Archbishop Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, when asked about the warning, was quoted as replying that he was surprised by it and the drastic terms in which the document was drafted.

The Vatican discourages priests from holding government posts or engaging in partisan politics. After the Sandinista revolution Vatican spokesmen said the decision whether to allow priests to accept government posts was left to the Nicaraguan bishops.

Before leaving for Rome Archbishop Obando said the conference statement was issued after consulting with the Vatican.

Later, the archbishop was quoted as saying that "it must be sadly acknowledged that the church in Nicaragua is divided."

Youth important at Young people will play an important part in Saturday's Mass for the handicapped and disabled, to be celebrated at 1 p.m. in the gymnasium of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

Students from Nazareth School, Fall River, will be minor ministers of the Mass, which will have Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as principal celebrant and homilist; and youth group representatives from St. Louis de France parish, Swansea, and St. John of God parish, Somerset, will aid volunteers from the Fall River Distric't Council of Catholic Women

in serving the refreshments to follow the liturgy.

B'oy Scouts, directed by Father Martin Buote, diocesan director of Catholic Scouting, will be ushers for the occasion; and members of the Bishop Connolly High School community have handled physical preparations for the day.

Dennis Polselli and Victoria Kitchen, readers for the Mass, are young products 'of Catholic schools. For the occasion, Polselli will represent the Catholic Guild for the Blind and Miss Kitchen the Catholic Guild for the Deaf.

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The Mass is part of the worldwide observance of 1981 as UN International Year for Disabled Persons. It will coincide with a liturgy at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, to be attended by disabled persons from all parts of the world.

The Fall River Mass will be signed for the deaf and special areas of the Connolly gymnasium will be reserved for the blind, deaf and those in wheelchairs. Communion will be brought to these participants at their places by priests and deacons.

DAVID ROY of Nazareth Vocational Center checks blocks made by students for pediatrics ward at St. Anne's Hospital. Nazareth YOI.:ingsters wiil be minor ministers at Saturday's Mass for the handicapped.

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National Cursillo center nixes ecumenical program NASHVILLE, Tenn. (NC) The National Cursillo Center in Dallas, a Catholic organization, has pressured the United Methodist Church to change the name of its spiritual renewal program from "Cursillo" to "Emmaus."

In an interview with The Tennesee Register, Nashville diocesan hewspaper, the Rev. Robert R. Wood, director of spiritual formation for the United Methodists' Upper Room agency in Nashville, said he does not anticipate any major changes in the spiritual renewal program. But changing the name of the weekend retreats was "very painful," he said.

Mr. Wood said the National Cursillo Center had complained about the practice of intercommunio'n during the weekend retreats and also about their ecumenical character.

Mr. Wood said a "franchise agreement" has been set up by the center with guidelines to be followed by non-Catholic organizations wishing to use the name "Cursillo."

"Cursillo" is Spanish for short course. The Cursillo movement, begun in Spain, provides a short course in Christianity during an intensive long weekend retreat.

One guideline, Mr. Wood said, was that the Catholic Church would have the final decision on disputed matters without Methodist input. The Methodists could not accept that, he said.

Another guideline to which the Methodists objected, he added, said that only Methodists should participate in weekends held at the Methodist center.

The Methodist policy, Mr. Wood said, was that retreatants should belong to a particular denomination and become more active members of that denomination after their cursillo.

Mr. Wood said, however, that the United Methodist Church's close association with the Catholic Church in this effort will not diminish. Under the new name, the programs will have "as much Roman Catholic involvement as before," he said.

The United Methodist Church, with about 9.8 million members, is the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States. It has sponsored weekend spiritual renewal programs based on the Catholic Cursillo movement since 1977 and about 5,000 persons have participated in .them, Mr. Wood said.

Stats show more priests VATICAN CITY (NC - Catholic vocations statistics show a net increase in diocesan priests for the first time in more than a decade.

According to 1979 data from the Vatican's Central Office of Church Statistics, there were 258,663 diocesan clergy at the end of 1979, 212 more than in 1978 and the first net increase since the post-Vatican II vocations crisis of the mid-1960s.

The number of priests in religious orders declined by 145 during 1979, to 157,733. But that rate was far lower than the average decline of 1,600 a year in the previous five years.

Similarly, the number of brothers and professed men relligious not yet ordained priests dropped by 901, an annual figure lower than the average loss of nearly 1,800 a year in the previous five years.

The figure for nuns in 1979 was 964,742, a startling drop of 20,000 from the previous year.

Between 1973 and 1978, the number of nuns declined at a much lower rate, averaging slightly more than 10,000 a year.

The number of permanent deacons continued a steady rise, with 6,676 permanent deacons at the end of 1979, compared with 5,562 the previous year.

The number of full-time catechists was also significantly higher, 198,427 compared with 173,835 in 1978.

The increase in the number of diocesan priests, plus the lower rates of annual loss in the numbers of religious priests and Brothers, gave statistical proof to predictions that the male vo-

cations crisis was bottoming out.

The substantially higher annual loss in 1979 of women Religious was not explained.

But if viewed in terms of Catholic education or catechetical training, the loss of nuns was at least partially offset by the dramatic increase of nearly 25,000 additional catechists.

In geographical terms, Europe was the main loser in Catholic apostolic workers in 1979, dropping from 831,721 in 1978 to 822,285 in 1979.

Africa posted' the greatest gains, with 171,157 apostolic workers in 1978 and 191,278 in 1979.

The United States and Canada lost ground slightly, from 262,942 apostolic workers in 1978 to 261,445 in 1979.

FR. RITA

FR. VANASSE

Priests assigned, appointed Three priests are affected by assignments and an appointment announced by the Most Reverend Bishop.

Rev. Bernard Vanasse, assistant at St. Pius X parish, South

Nuclear power OK, they agree NEW YORK (NC) The United States should move ahead with the development of nuclear power, participants in a symposium in New York City on the moral implications of energy agreed.

Though solar and other forms of energy should aAso be developed, they said, moral arguments offered by anti-nuclear forces against any reliance on nuclear power are not convincing.

Held at the Harvard Club, the symposium was sponsored by the Jesui~founded John LaFarge Institute and funded by the Washington-based Committee for Energy Awakeness, an industry group.

In a paper on theological principles related to nuclear power, the Rev. William Pollard, a retired nuclear scientist and Episcopal priest serving as associate pastor at St. Stephen's Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn., asserted that nuclear energy is the most natural kind of energy from the perspective of creation as a whole.

"If we were to take an imaginary space flight out among the stars, we would be totally surrounded at all times by natural nuclear power plants," he UNrr.ED NATIONS (NC) Despite objections from com- said. "God has made more numunist-ruled countries, the Uni- clear power plants than anything ted Nations Economic and Social else," Recalling the teaching of the Council has recommended that the General Assembly adopt next Book of Genesis that man has autumn a declaration of the elim- been given dominion over the ination of intolerance and dis- earth, Father Pollard said this crimination based on religion power should be used to make and belief. The vote was 45-0 nuclear energy a blessing rather with Bulgaria, Byelorussia, East than a curse.

The John LaFarge Institute Germany, Poland and the Soviet ' Union abstaining. Sister Janet was established by the Jesuits Carrol, representing the Vatican's at America magazine in 1963 in observer mission at the United memory of Jesuit Father John Nations, welcomed the decision. LaFarge to conduct symposiums The document says: "No one on interracial relations, ecumenshall be subject to discrimination ism, international affairs and by any state, institution, group other contemporary topics with of persons or person on grounds philosophical and theological of religion or other belief," implications.

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Yarmouth, will assume the same post at St. Louis de France parish, Swansea.

Rev. Gerald A. Hebert, ordained June 6 for the Fall River diocese, will be assistant at St. Thomas More parish, Somerset.

Both assignments are effective Wednesday, June 24.

Rev. Thomas L. Rita, while remaining director of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, will assume the directorship of St. Mary's Home, New Bedford. His

appointment is effective July 1.

Father Vanasse, ordained May 31, 1978, has served in South Yarmouth since that time.

Father Rita, ordained May 2, 1970, served as associate pastor at St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, and St. Anthony's, East Falmouth, before being named associate director of the Diocesan Department of Social Services in 1976. His duties later expanded to include the directorship of St. Vincent's Home.

Cause introduced for Opus Dei head ROME (NC) - The Rome Di- dedicate themselves entirely to ocese has started the process the apostolate and intense pracfor the beatification of Opus tice of spiritual life without Dei's founder, Msgr. Josemaria , abandoning their social environEscriva de Balaguer. ment or secular professions or A decree by Cardinal Ugo Po- occupations.

According to Opus Dei, among letti, papal vicar for the Diocese of Rome, has ordered the intro~ thousands of letters petitioning duction of the Spanish-born Msgr. Escriva's beatification are priest's cause at the diocesan requests from 69 cardinals and 1,300 bishops, more than a third level. of the world's hierarchy.

Msgr. Escriva, born in Bar¡ One of Msgr. Escriva's books, bastro, Spain, in 1902, founded Opus Dei in 1928. At the time of "The Way," has beeen translated his death in Rome in 1976 the in- into 34 languages, with some 3 stitute had 60, 000 members on , million copies published. ., five continents.

Opus Dei, also known by the more formal name of Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, is an association of Catholics who

GOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL ASSIGNMENT Rev. Bernard Vanasse from Assistant at St. Pius X Parish, South Yarmouth, to Assistant, St. Louis de France Parish, Swansea.

FIRST PRIESTLY ASSIGNMENT Rev. Gerald A. Hebert, Assistant, St. thomas More Parish, Somerset.

Both effective Wednesday, June 24, 1981.

APPOINTMENT Rev. Thomas L Rita to Director, St. Mary's Home, !'few Bedford, while continuing to serve as Director, St. Vincent's Home, Fall River.

Effective -Wednesday, July I, 1981.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The British government should review the demands of prisoners in Northern Ireland which have led to the current wave of hunger strikes and grant some concessions, according to the committee on Social Development and World Peace of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

Bishop Mark J. Hurley of Santa Rosa, Calif., chairman of the committee, issued a statement backing the position of a similar commission of the Irish bishops' conference. _ The Irish commission had asked that inmates of the Maze prison be allowed to wear their own clothes at all times, that opportunities for iassociation among prisoners be increased and that the question of prison work be reviewed to insure its culture and educational value and to preclude demeaning tasks.

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US bishops 'back Irish confreres

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DISCUSSING FORTHCOMING Evangelization Celebration in Hartford, from left, Father Ronald L. Genua, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Alan A. Fretto, Father Horace Travassos, Father Timothy Goldrick. (Torchia Photo)

East coast Celebration is planned Father Timothy Goldrick, associate pastor at St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, will be among workshop presenters at the third annual national Catholic Lay Celebration of Evangelization, to be held Aug 21 through 23 in Hartford.

SAmNAW, Mich. (N'C) - After deciding to sell or lease his 20-room, $200,000 mansion, Bishop Kenneth E. Untener, 43, of Saginaw is looking for a home.

"I have my youth," the itinFather Goldrick was coordinaerant bishop said. "I might as tor of the recent diocesan outwell spend it with the people. reach program, "We Care/We I envision spending three to five Share." It is considered a model months in an area and moving to of its kind, said Father Horace somewhere else. I could even Travassos, chairman of the Dihouse-sit for someone, I guess." ocesan ·Ecumenical Commission, Freedom to move. about the "and' there is much interest in its diocese is the main reason Bishdetails. op Untener gave for his new lifeThe Hartford celebration, servstyle, which he indic,ated could ing the east coast, is one of three continue for several years. "It's planned for August. A west coast a big house. Maintens.nce is exparley will be held in' Portland, pensive and it's not energy-efOre., and the midwest program ficient. It seems I could save a will take place in St. Louis. lot of money . . . But primarily Representatives of the Hartthe idea grew from a Ileed to get ford planning committee were to know the people better."

The bishop will move in early recently in the diocese to explain August, first to St. Mary's Ca- the event. Alan A. Fretto, lay thedral parish in Saginaw for a coordinator, and Father Ronald few months then to Bay City, L. Genua, general coordinator, said the program will include Mich. studies of theological and scripBishop Untener said he does tural foundations of evangelizanot think his presence will make tion and techniques of outreach. things "too close for comfort" Workshop topics will include among parish priests. "I wouldn't want to get in their way. What diocesan programs such as Fall alienated Catholics, I might do is house-sit where River's, people are gone for six months street preaching, door-to-door out of the year or rent a small outreach and programs for place. There are a1so parish youth, families, minorities, the rectories with lots of room, and ~der,ly and the handicapped. missions that sometimes have empty priests' houses. Where I stay will depend on w:hat's available.

SAN SALVADOR, El SalvaThe Saginaw Diocl~se covers dor (NC) - Bishop Arturo Riv7,000 square miles but the bish- era Damas, apostolic administraop does not plan to be more than tor of San Salvador, has called 45 minutes away from his chan- on Salvadorans to stand up' cery office. against Soviet and U.S. interBishop Untener, who was in- vention, stop violence and achieve peace this year. "Our stalled seven months ago, is a native of Belle Isle in the De- problem seems to escape domestic control and to become introit River. creasingly part of the internaA Family tional tensions and conflict be"What did Christ do to save tween the two big world powmen? He gathered them together ers," he said in a homily at San into a people, a family, that they Salvador cathedral. Bishop Rivmight become sons a.nd daugh- era has made repeated calls for ters of God, brothers and sisters negotiations toward a political in him." - Archbishop Joseph solution to end the two-year armed conflict.

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A Very Special Need Announcement of the expansion of the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry comes not a moment too soon. The need for it is made only too obvious by figures recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics.

The heartbreaking evidence is that about 1.8 million divorces were granted in 1979, almost three times the 395,000 granted in 1959.

The breakdown indicated that there were 22.8 divorces for every 1,000 women in the population. This figure alone has doubled in the last 10 years.

The most pathetic statistic offered by the center concerned the fallout from these divorces in the shape of affected children.

The center estimated that in 1979 1.8 million children under 18 had divorced parents as compared, for example, to 562,000 such children in 1963. It was also reported that the average number of children per divorcing couple diminished to one by 1979.

These facts and figures gleaned from the registers of 30 states are frightening. As far as adults are concerned, we have millions of heartbroken and alienated men and women with minds and lives scarred by their experience of personal grief and bitterness. Many of these hurting people try to ease their pain with booze, dope or both. Searching single bars for companionship, often .they end in tragic situations.

Yet the injury of such situations penetrates more deeply into the hearts of children affected by such adult choices.

Caught in the vise of anguish and fear, they become the neurotic and even the psychotic throwaways of divorce.

Tom by divided loyalties and legalities, they often become fractured, shattered personalities. Unable to comprehend the hijinks of the adult world, many children of divorce become social rejects and juvenile malcontents. No one has as yet honestly attempted to understand these children fully.

As a result of the adult world's inability to accept mature responsibility in this matter, the entire scope of family life, the very heart of our society, is threatened.

Hardly a family today but must make adjustments and arrangements for a divorced member. The concepts of stability, trust and faithfulness are shaken to their foundations. The religious life of families is devastated; indeed the very moral fabric of American life is being tom apart.

The church, of course, must come as healer to the men, women and children of divorce. She must also do everything she can to reenforce existing marriages as well as to strengthen marriage preparation efforts.

Because of the current desperate need, the in-depth development of family life ministry now underway in this diocese should receive the welcome, support and encouragement of all members of the faith community.

The need is special; the response must be special.

We as a church or a people cannot afford to let this need go untended.

We have no time for future speculations.

Soap opera fantasies have become social nightmares.

All are affected; all must respond.

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FATHER'S DAY

'A wise son heareth the doctrine of his father.' Prov. 13:1

The whisper of divinity

By Father Kevin J. Harrington

Consider what God has made.

Within creation lies a sense of order that should astound us.

William James once said: "Come, let us gossip about the universe."

Scientists specialize in this gossip. Their curiosity should literally get the best of them. As previously unexplored depths are probed, we confront our limitations and become aware of the complexities of the natural order. This is particularly evident at either end of the spectrum: microscopic or macroscopic.

In the past decade great discoveries have been made in the field of particle physics, with scientists coming ever closer to discovering an elementary particle. Attempts to express such a particle's behavior according to a set of fixed laws have thus far proven fruitless; yet mathematical formulas dealing with the subatomic world point to that world's elegance and grace.

Making sense out of nonsense and order out of chaos is rightly the domain of man. Since he is made in God's image, it should not be surprising that he has such a capacity.

Once it was universally believed that the sun was the center of the universe. Astronomy, however, has taught us that our solar system is but one star among billions of stars in but one galaxy among millions of galaxies.

Conventional methods of describing the natural order break down when confronted with the vastness of the universe.

Yet the complexities of modern science must not isolate us from the astounding truths it reveals. If we refuse to bury our heads in the sand, we will benefit greatly by reflecting upon these new discoveries.

On the subatomic level the laws of probability and chance operate more than do the socalled fixed laws. This has vast significance in areas traditionally the concern of philosophers, such as the nature of space, time and matter. .

As we confront our limits in precisely describing nature on the microscopic and macroscopic levels, we cannot help but wonder if the "moreness" we con-

front is the whisper of divinity in creation.. Design can be found at every level of creation and as we cOntinue to explore the nature of space, time and matter, we discover a more and more complex but no less beautiful world.

The truths of modern science, that have held up under rigorous scrutiny, need to be embraced, not avoided. The truth shall set us free.

Science cannot answer questions that are in the domain of religion but science can reveal to us a world that has the signature of the Creator upon it.

To a faith-filled person, con- " templation of the beauty of creation leads to the quiet awe and wonder of prayer. The eyes of faith can never be blinded by the truths of science.

Mankind may appear small against the backdrop of the universe, but no other creature known has probed so fearlessly the nature of space, time and matter. Knowledge of their mysteries brings with it a sense of awe at God's creation and a feeling of responsibility for it.

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God I)less America If my fading memory serves me, I don't believe I've ever written on gun control. I'm going to tackle it here, knowing full well that before the print is dry, the antigun control lobby will have called all 74 editors who subscribe to this column.

Editors, beware. The NRA makes Nestle publicists look like amateurs. They are aggressive. They have dol.lars, politicians, and a colossal disregard for the fact that 68% of the American public favors gun control.

They don't and that's democratic enough for t.hem, thank you.

I' am constantly impressed by their ability to offset public outrage before it even occurs. With in hours of our latest American assassination, the gun enthusiasts were feeding media people memos predicting public overreaction against handguns.

The general tone of these press releases warned that the liberal radicals will once again blame the gun, not the assassin, and that¡ the real Americans, those red-blooded supporters of the Constitution, defenders of the Republic, and protectors of the family must once again stand up for God, country, and guns.

Never mind that the alleged assassin had four guns taken away from him in Tennessee on one day and that he rearmed himself three days later in Dallas

without any difficulty whatsoever. According to NRA logic, that merely proves that gun registration doesn't work.

Never mind that we require more references to get car insurance or open a charge account than to buy a gun. It's an old American right. Europeans are baffled by our attitude and so am I. How can otherwise intelligent Americans buy the pablum that guns don't kill people?

Are we to assume that President Reagan's attacker would have had the same results with a knife? Or a garotte?

Assassinations, like robbery, rape and other American pasttimes, depend upon guns. What about those of us who want to .feel safe in our society, who prize personal security without being forced to arm ourselves .because everybody else has arms?

What are our rights?

A common argument is that we need to arm ourselves for self-defense. With 55 million handguns in existence in America, we'll need another 55 million to protect ourselves against those. And when we get 110 million armed, the other half of our society will deserve equal arms. Maybe a handgun as a baby gift?

I feel strongly on this for a personal reason. Readers may recall that some years ago. I wrote about an alcoholic neighbor who took her own life. When

By DOLORES

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I told my nine-year-old about her death, he, who played with her son, said, "Oh yeah, I knew she had a gun. She kept it under her pillow. Freddie showed it to me lots of times."

If one day we had received a visit from the police informing us that our son had been killed by that handgun while Freddie was showing it to him, we would not have accepted that guns don't kill people or that Freddie's mother had a right to that gun. The NRA will support to its death those premises. Let's help it to its death.

There's a new organization called Handgun Control Inc. Its address is 810 18th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. I urge all readers who want their rights protected without having to arm themselves to join. Their most recent ad showed a revolver painted with stars and stripes.

The overline read: "Last year handguns killed 27 people in Japan, 52 in Great -Britain, 212 in Canada, 86 in Italy, 17 in Sweden, 43 in Australia, 94 in West Germany, 11,000 in the United States.

God bless America."

LEAD against the tide With a fine disregard for the temper of the times, a group of law-enforcement people have organized to stop the death penalty. They call themselves LEAD (Law Enforcement Against Death), and their president is John Buckley, erstwhile sheriff of Middlesex County in Massachusetts.

Buckley is an ebullient man accustomed to being in the minority on a political issue. He is a liberal Republican, and he ardently supported John Anderson in the recent election.

He is opposing the death penalty because it is there. He uses the analogy of the conquest of Mt. Everest. "It took many years, and many tries. Each little team went up so far, proved their equipment and made a base camp. The others who came after finally made it."

He knows that the new Congress is hardly in a mood to listen to him and the other 33 law enforcement experts who want to tell the country that the death penalty is no deterrent to crime, and in fact only brutalizes the society that imposes it. is a barbaric practice which has no place in a civilized society," they say in their statement. "It works in favor of the worst and most dangerous criminals who are rarely executed; it discriminates against racial minorities, the poor and the uneducated; it diverts money and resources from the larger battle against crime; and it flies in the face of an international trend toward abolition."

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Bishops Church involvement in the gun control debate has gone on for several years, including one episode when a progun lobby urged Catholics to withhold their contributions to the church until the U.S. Catholic Conference, the national public policy agency of the U.S. bishops, ceased its anti-gun "propaganda."

One of the church's initial involvements in the debate came in 1974, when the bishops included gun control in their overall "Respect Life" program.

Early that year Cardinal John Cody of Chicago in a letter to his pastors linked gun control with abortion. Refe.rring to recent shooting deaths of two Chicago policemen, the cardinal, who at the time was chairman of the bishops' pro-life committee, said he was' concerned "not only for defenseless unborn" but also for "human life whenever it is undElr attack or threatened."

Then when the annual respect life observance rolled around in October, stringent gun control legislation was listed as one of the program's aims.

"The continued manufacture and sale of firearms is a serious threat to law and erder, and it makes it easy for the cardinal or the emotionally unstable person to seriously harm others," said that year's respect life study guide.

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The next year the bishops through their social development and world peace committee published a major statement favoring a national firearms policy including a ban on Saturday Night Specials, a several day cooling off period between purchase and actual possession of a handgun, registration of handguns and licensing of handgun owners, and more effective and better enforcement of existing handgun regulations.

"We realize this is a controversial issue and that some people of good faith will find themselves opposed to these measures," the bishops acknowledged.

But handgun control, they added, while not eliminating gun violence, would be "an indispensible element" in any resolution of the problem.

In 1978 the committee reiterated its position in a broader statement, "Community and Crime." It expressed shock at the level of crime in the nation and listed handguns as one of several areas where crime control initiatives should be taken.

It also was in 1978 - when emotions surrounding the handgun debate were -particularly high because of proposed new Treasury Department gun regulations - when the Citizen's Committee to Keep and Bear Arms urged members to boycott Catholic schools and church collections because of the bishops' involvement in the issue.

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"Gun-owning Catholic parents with children in Catholic prochial schools could tell their pastor in polite but no uncertain terms that they're going to yank their kids out of those schools unless they're guaranteed that this anti-gun USCC propaganda is kept out of the school curriculum," the organization suggested.

It argued that anti-handgun legislation would leave the poor defenseless because the poor would no longer be able to purchase inexpensive handguns for their protection.

One of the more dramatic handgun protests took place in 1975 when a Columbus, Ohio, pastor sponsored a 20th century equivalent of the beating of swords into plowshares by urging parishioners to turn in their handguns "as a protest against America's frontier mentality."

Eighteen handguns were turned in and melted down into metal crosses for delivery to area members of Congress.

Individual bishops and dioceses, meanwhile, have issued their own statements favoring gun restrictions.

The president takes an OppOSe ite view, despite his own recent brush with death. So does the chairman of the Senate Judiciary who wants a national death penalty, which, most people think, would be voted through as fast as a Pentagon budget.

But LEAD, undeterred, has opened up an office in Boston, is raising money from foundations and is planning to provide testimony in courts and education for the public.

Right now, there are 700 men and women on Death Row in the 35 states which have the death penalty. The reason for the upsurge in its popularity is not hard to find. The 1980s promise to be the most murderous decade in our history. In Los Angeles County alone, last year, 2,331 killings were recorded.

It is possible, at least, that there might be fewer crimes if there were fewer guns. It would seem as logical as not having cigarettes around when you are trying not to smoke.

But that argument is drowned out by the well-funded thunders of the National Rifle Association, which has convinced the nation's

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hunters that any restriction on handguns would lead to restrictions on rifles and a violation of the "citizens' right to bear arms."

The rise in crime has been by a rise in gun purchases. More and more alarmed city dwellers are arming themselves against the threat of armed intruders.

Paradoxically, more than 80 percent of the American people favor gun control. All they lack is the passion, money and firepower of the gun lobby, which is the most feared of all singleissue organizations.

By 1990, there will be an esti, mated 90 million handguns in private possession. Poiticians know the figures - 10,000 people are killed annually by hand. guns - but they also know that opposition to the NRA can be dangerous, and in the West suicidal.

"Gun control," says Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. of California, "is like unilateral disarmament.

It frightens people." mat~hed

The president is against it. He voices the same argument against gun control that is used by opponents of the death penalty namely, that it doesn't work.

"I firinly oppose (these controls) - whether for the registration or confiscation of firearms; they would not reduce crime," he once declared.

The murder of John Lennon, minstrel of the '60s, was supposed to shock everyone, especially his adoring contemporaries, into action. It followed by days of the death of a popular Washington doctor, Michael Halberstam, who also was shot on his own doorstep.

Handgun Control, Inc., the modest operation headed by Nelson T. Shields, whose son was killed by a handgun in the Zebra murders, took in a record $150, 000 in the immediate aftermath.

But the entertainers who were supposed to rally around their slain comrade and raise money for a gun-control war chest are hiring bodyguards instead. And the people who grew up listening to John Lennon singing "Give Peace a Chance" decided they had no chance against the gun lobby and the politicians.

The death penalty obviously hasn't stopped crime. Neither has the arming of America. And just because frightened and vengeful people want to think so is no reason not to point out the facts. So we have to be grateful to LEAD and Handgun Control, Inc., even if we can't be exactly hopeful of their success in suggesting there is some other way.

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Her methods are now in world"We believe that euthanasia or wide use."

This was a point taken up by assisted suicide is a socially dangerous and negative answer William Rees-Mogg, former edito a problem that should be tor of the Times of 'London, who tackled by other means," said chaired the award ceremony.

"The care of the dying is a Dame Cicely Saunders, the 62year old Anglican pioneer of the spiritual charity of profound imhospice movement, after re- portance as well as a practical ceiving the $299,000 Templeton . work of nursing," he said.

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"Dame Cicely had the insight Giving its reasons for award- to see that this could not adeing this year's prize to a woman quately be carried out through who has specialized in the con- a mechanistic approach to meditrol of pain in cancer patients, cine and that the care had to the Templeton Foundation said: extend not only to the dying "She has challenged the material- persons themselves but also and istic assumption that underlay particularly to their families. much of modern medical prac- Yet at the same time she saw that this care had to be performed to the highest standards of modern scientific medicine," he added.

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by Father Patrick J. O'Mahony. investment adviser to the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, and known for his support of third world human rights and development projects.

Father O'Mahony made the suggestion in a Catholic Truth Society pamphlet, "Money The Christian Dilemma."

Churches are in a strong position to influence the conduct of companies, he said.

"They are· transnational in character and, therefore, in an ideal position to provide a moral critique of the impact of business, both on an international and national basis," he said.

But, added the priest, churches, Christian organizations and individuals could offer "a more positive contribution than merely monitoring the use of their investments" by adopting a policy aimed not simply at getting the largest possible profit but at aiding the well-being of mankind.

Father O'Mahony said churches should transfer their funds from companies operating "in South Africa or elsewhere, whose actions are entirely exploitative, or indeed where there is a serious doubt about their moral performance."

These funds should then be used in housing associations which would give the churches a return of 1 percent below bank rate while helping ensure that the homeless and poor receive housing.

(necrolo9!iJ June 19 Rev. Hormisdas Deslauriers, 1916, Founder, St. Anthony, New Bedford June 20 Rt. Rev. James J. Coyle, P.R., LL.D., 1931, Pastor, St Mary, Taunton June 21 Rev. Desiree V. Delemarre, 1926, Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River Rev. Francis D. Callahan, 1948, Pastor, St. Patrick, Wareham Rev. Clement Killgoar, SS.CC., 1964, St. Anthony, Mattapoisett Rev. David O'Brien, 1976, Retired Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River June 22 Rev. Alexander Zichello, 1977, Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford June 24 Rev. Bernard F. McCahill, 1907, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River June 25

Rev. Raymond J. Hamel, 1960, Chaplain, St. Joseph Orphanage, Fall River Rt. Rev. Louis A. Marchand, 1941, Pastor, St. Anthony, New Bedford

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One must realize that it is not the kids who choose certain music but mainly record company executives of an older generation who decide what is to be played on the air waves (radio is by far the strongest music- promoting medium in the U.S.).

In Great Britain kids l~xhibit a considerably larger freedom in choosing what they want to hear via the music press and word of mouth: consequently, what British kids listen to is drastically different from what American kids listen to. Young Brits are insistent about finding out about new and exciting music, unlike American kids, who ha.ve little choice The only incentive to change has been provided by small record labels, usually tied to the British or European music industry. How many AmerIcan kids can you honestly name that listen to the likes of Ultravox, Orange Juice or Cabaret Voltaire? Perhaps if kids WElre offered this alternative they would take advantage of it and the result might be a decrease in what you call "sexual permissiveness" in lyrics.

Lastly, how can one denounce someone who thought that love, the essence of Christ's preachings, was the key to me? I fail to see Lennon's connection with the rock music culture that Mr. McDonnell criticizes.

I hope Mr. McDonnell reconsiders his statements and explores the rock genre a little further. There is something to be said, even if one must search through the mist of trash to find it.

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Most had been Nazareth students for 13 to 15 years, first at Nazareth Hall School for exceptional children, then at the vocational center, for students to age 22.

"The sacrifices of parents and the support of the bishop, made possible by the generosity of diocesan residents and businesses, have kept these young people at Nazareth," said Sister Roger.

Noting that 1981 is the International Year of Disabled Persons, the director said that FalJ River is one of the few dioceses offering vocational training for exceptional young adults.

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306 special ministers of Holy Communion were commissioned

by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in recent ceremonies at St. Mary's Cathedral.

The candidates were commissioned for Mass, for service to the sick and shut-in, or for both ministries.

Their names and parishes follow: FALL RIVER AREA Blessed Sacrament Normand Dube, Loretta Lussier, Lawrence Medeiros.

Espirito Santo Antonio Borges Jr., Hilda B. Tavares.

Immaculate Conception Lomer Lapointe, Eleanor Wrobleski.

St. Louis Robert Berube, Theresa Bouchard, Patricia Burke, James Chandonais, Marion Fahey, Jeanne Menard,Arthur Pragana, Janice Delisle.

SS. Peter & Paul George Ayers, Florence Boulay, Mary Cunningham, Mary Feijo, Margaret Hyland, William H. Hyland Jr., Robert Latinville, Alice Marum, William O'Neil, Ruth Stankiewicz, Helen Sullivan, Thomas Walmsley, John Wilding, Sabina Wilding.

St. Mathieu Albert Vaillancourt, Doris Poisson.

St. John of God, Somerset Agnes Barboza, Olive Rego, Mary Silvia.

St. Dominic, Swansea Sister Evelyn Dailey, RSM, Kathleen Di Napoli, Michael Flanagan, John Gibney, Edouard Lacroix, Marina Orosz, John Pavao, Vivian Rego, Ruth Santos, Laurie Walters.

Our Lady of Fatima, Swansea Paul Flanagan, Peter Hoss, James Powers, Sister Denisita Sullivan, RSM. st. Michael, Swansea Joseph P. Janson, Anne LeBreux, Anthony Maced'Onio, Gerard N. Tremblay.

Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River Mary Medeiros.

St. Anne's Hosp'it&l, Fall River Sister Karen Champagne, Cynthia Arruda, Sister Therese Brodeur, Jeanne A. Menard.

NEW BEDFORD AREA Holy Name Walter Carter, John Macedo.

Immaculate Conception Jose Costa, Hilda Josinski, Mary

Medeiros, John Mello, Eugenia Ramos.

St. Ann Normand R. Cayer, Dorina Thivierge.

St. Anthony of Padua Sister Cora Bourgeois, CSC, Sister Alice Leonard, CSC. , St. James Maureen Lewis.

St. Joseph Doris Cote, Edgar L. Gobeil, Rene L. Jacques, Aline Lamarre, Leonard Poyant.

St. Lawrence Sandra Watkins.

St. Mary Peter Abraham, Lawrence Burns, David Caron, Robert E. Comeau, John Curry, Beatrice Houde, Roger LaCoste, Raymond Maranda, Leonard Oliveira, Denise Pelletier, Dennis Steliga, Ann Tremblay.

St. Theresa Lillian V. Belisle, Norman E. Belisle, Lucille A. Brassard, Normand A. Brassard, Paul Carrier, Jeanne A. Flint, Charles R. J. Jodoin, Joyce A. Jodoin, Nancy C. Nadeau, Roger H. Nadeau.

Our Lady of Fatima Aime Goyette, Robert Roy. Sacred Heart Deborah Andrews, Muriel Denault, Arsene Duval, Bernard LandrevUle, Donna Manning, Florence Pion, Eugene Sasseville, Joseph Scammons, Joseph Sylvia, Roger Varieur, Jeanine Sasseville.

St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet' Laura Martel, Rober,t Mullin, Joan O'Neill, Maurice Pepin, Sister Simone Rodriques, SSJ, Bertha Santos.

Sacred Heart, Fairhaven Cecile A. Bolton, Daniel Bolton, Arnold C. Stephens.

St. Julie Billiart. No. Dartmouth Bernard Audette, Elizabeth King, William McMahon, Carl NathO!, qoris ~olyx:arp(), ,Elizabeth Quinn, Russell Robinson, Allison Robinson.

St. John the Baptiste, Central Village Edward L. Alex, Michael McCarthy, Claire Sullivan.

Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford Sister Julien Eymard Lapointe, Sister Cecile Fortin, Sister Mary Marquerite Beaulieu.

St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford Constance Bernier, Dorothy Ellis, Florence S. Gonsalves, Mary K. Harding, Katherine F. Hart, Edward Macedo, Pauline Macedo, Claire J. Marotte, 'Dennis F. Marotte, Norma Meehan, Imelda Tardi.

Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven Sister Mary Carmel Cecilia 0' Connor, O. Cann., Sister Mary Francis Meno, O. Cann., Sister Mary lVeronica MaliausId, O. Carm.

TAUNTON AREA St. Paul, Taunton Judith Arsenault, Philip Arsenault, Robert C. Beru'be, Robert Hill, Terarlyn A. Hill, Arlene Kotkowski, Eugene McCaffrey, Sandra Pina, Irene Tosti.

St. Ann, Raynham Eileen Alden, Kathleen Carroll, Antoinette Carvalho, Bernice Fountain, Catherine Poirier.

St. Jacques, Taunton Frederick P. Andrade, Yvette R. Hamel, Paul Ouelette.

Marian Manor, Taunton Sister Ann Marie Legendre, O.P. Morton Hospital, Taunton Robert S1. Onge.

Taunton Catholic Middle School Sister Grace Martin, SUSC, Sister Patricia Mulryan, SUSC, Daniel W. Thompson.

ATTLEBORO ARI~A St. John the Evangelist Lucille Felix, Eileen Hill, Magdalene Kogut, Florence LeBlanc, Robert Marrah, Daniel Sullivan. st. Joseph Bernard Barselou, Richard Boucher, Robert Dubeau, Donald Lavin, John Morin, A1bert Nuttall, Henri Paradis.

St. Stephen Paul Gaudreau.

St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, South Attleboro Irene Dufour, Sister Jeannette Gignac, CSC, Dorothy Lamarre, Martin McCann, Bernard Sirois.

Sacred Heart, 'North Attleboro Alber.t Lapierre, Bernard Poirier, Sister Pauline Louise Boivin, SUSC. St. Mary, Mansfield Louise Capone, Paul J. Burke, Frances N. Dennis, Catherine H. Muise, George Tarutis, Joan Tarutis, Kerry L. Wallace, Frank Baldini. st. Mary, Seekonk Judith Araujo, Mary-Sue Barney, Monica Lanoue, Alfred H. L'Heureux.

Immaculate Conceptio:n, North' Easton Jane Carroll, John Carroll, Maureen T. Curtin, Albert Dallaire, Arlene Dallaire, David Howard, Daniel C. Keliher, Mary Ann Newman. _ Holy Cross, South Easton James Carey, Margaret Carey, Constance Dumoulin, Philippe

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Evangeliz'ation needs media WASHINGTON (NC) A pioneer study, commissioned by the Pallottines and re1Elased in mid-June, found that people respond positively to dire,:t 'evangelization television and radio spots.

Test markets chosen for the study were Washington, Hartford, Conn., Charleston-Huntington, in the Wheeling-eharleston, W. Va. Diocese, and Miami.

The project involved airing 276 television messages on seven stations and 552 radio spots on 14 stations. They generated 2,485 telephone responses asking for a free booklet on the Catholic Church.

Although the evangelization effort was aimed at segments of the 12 million inactive Catholics and the 80 million unchurched in the United States, 58 percent of the respondents said they were Catholic and 90 percent described themselves as strong churchgoers.

Pallottine Father Rlllph F. Firneno, provincial of thE~ order's Immaculate Conception Province, Pennsauken, N.J., does not see that as a problem. "They're an audience that is looking for help also ... they're looking for more. People are looking for someone to talk to."

Now, according to Peter V. O'Reilly, the question is "How can we initiate or maintain a Catholic presence on radio and television?" He sees thl~ media as vital to the future of evangelization. "If St. Paul were alive, he'd be off his donkey and on television by now," he said.

O'Reilly has worked with the project since it was started by Paulist Father Alvin Illig of the Paulist Office for Evangelization.

The Pallottines (the sodety of the Catholic Apostolate) "took up the ball from him," last year, said Father Firneno.

"I wouldn't be surprised that in the next two years every diocese will be doing what these four dioceses have tried to do in evangelization . . . and because of the seed planted by the Pallottines, I think there's going to be a big tree of evangelization growing all over the country," said Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford.

"It's generally agreed," Father Firneno said, "that radio and television can be effective tools for evangelizing both inactive Catholics and the unchurched.

But very little hard data have been gathered until now to measure their effectiveness.

"Our research has raised as many new questions as it has provided answers. But that is positive too. Our research efforts will bear full fruit only as other diocesan and national efforts are undertaken that will furnish comparative data. What we have done is provide a

benchmark for future data."

In the future Father Firneno hopes to have Cathilic programming on the major television networks with direct evangelization spots, managed on a diocese-by-diocese basis. "There are lots of things we're trying to do at the same time, such as find new talent, like (the late) Bishop (Fulton) Sheen, if I can think .that big," he said.

"Once we put this thing on, we've got to find the means of keeping it going," he added.

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MRS. OCTAVE JUSSEAUME with her son, Father Lucien Jusseaume, pastor of St. Roch Church, Fall River, on the occasion of his 40th ordination anniversary, celebrated by parishioners at a Mass and reception.

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Dear Dr. Kenny: I am the mother of 6-year-old twins, boy and girL My husband and I have always found it difficult to cope with them. The biggest problem is they are extremely dependent qn each other. I cannot do something without the other being there also. Tlte one being sent off feels rejected and throws such a temper fit I cannot continue to work with the one I was with. rve tried to work with them together, but then they start competing against each other for my attention. My husband and I both have tried taking one and going in separate rooms, but this doesn't seem to work well either.

My friends and family don't understand the problems of having twins. I feel my twins only need each other and couldn't care less if mom and dad were around or not. ....., Kentucky.

A. There are different opinions about the best way to raise twins. Some parents emphasize togetherness. They select matching names, have joint birthday parties, buy identical clothes and react to them as a unit.

Other parents, such as yourselves, struggle fOlr separateness.

They look for ways to individual-

ize the children.

Why not get your cues from the children themselves? What do they want? Yours seem to be giving you a very clear message that they want to be together, at least for now. I would support, or at least be tolerant, of their dependence on each other.

All children grow through ages and stages with many radical changes along the way.

Sometimes parents forget this and worry that they must correct any non-adult behavior when it occurs. That is not true. It is often important to support children in their needs of the moment so that they may be free to grow.

Your twins want to be together now, a very common reaction for first-graders whether they are twins or not. Their sibling or special pal becomes like a security blanket as they face the new and bigger world of school. This will pass and is likely to pass more quickly if you let it be and don't try to fight it.

You go on to say that they want to be together, but they compete, argue and fight when they are. This too is a very normal part of being 6-year-old siblings. Wise parents see beyond the arguing to the security and

• nIce strength the children give each other. .

Psychologist Harry Harlow, in his experiments raising infant monkeys, discovered that unmothered monkeys grew up to be abnormal. They missed the physical contact, the touch and concern that characterize maternal love. However, he also found that when motherless infant monkeys were raised togehter, they grew up normal. Somehow, in their rough-and-tumble play, the infants gave eac:h other security and support.

I agree that other people do not understand the spec:ial problems of raising twins. Two are more than twice as much work as one. They have a way of ganging up on parents, and they can really wear you down.

The converse.may also be true.

Two can be 11l0re than twice as much joy as one. All world cultures have treated multiple births as having a unique Sind even mystical significance. Problems, yes, but grace too. Enjoy your twins. Enjoy them both separately and together.

Questions on family Uiving and child care are invited. Address to the Kennys c/o The, Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass.

02722.

Dialog continues WASHINGTON (NC) Representatives of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops '(NCCB) and of the Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) have agreed that the question of or· daining women to the priesthood continues to be a matter of public debate in the church and the world. .

This was one of the conclus'ions expressed in an interium report on the dialog between the WOC and the NCCB Committee on Women in Society and the Church. The report, released by the NCCB May 28, has been sent to all the bishops of the country.

The official magisterium, or teaching authority, of the church has "studied and restated the tradition that excludes women from the ordained priesthood," the report said. "Despite this fact, however, all the participants agree that the matter continues to be one of public debate, discussion and ongoing writing and study in the church and in . the world.

"Thus, the first question for consideration is whether the issue itself can be regarded as definitively decided, or as open and requiring much further exploration."

The interim report covers three dijalog sessions held betwteen December 1979 and last July.

Six representatives of the WOC and six representatives of the ·Bishops' committee participated in the dialog sessions, which were panned in March 1979 at the direction of Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, then president of the NCCB. The second critical question

concerning the role of women in the church "has to do with the relation between Christ and culture," the report said.

"Given the truth that the church always carries its treasure in earthen vessels," it continued, "how does one distinguish between the treasure of the Gospel and the earthen vessels of passing social system that teaching and institutional forms in the. past? Does the exclusion of women from full participation in the church belong to the mind of Christ or to the influence of culture, a culture which may be inadequate and even unjust?

Noting that Catholics disagree on the question of women's participation in the church, the report said: "While the magisterium has stated otherwise, some theologians have come to the acceptance of women's full participation, particularly those theologians influenced by the Second Vatican Council. The Catholic Biblical Association has expressed its view that there is no true impediment to the priestly ministry of women on the basis of New Testament exegesis.

Women, too, are divided by different experiences. On the basis of the dialog, we recognize the need for further exploration of the reasons for these differences.

"A fuller sharing of information, knowledge and experience among various sectors of the church - women, pastors, bishops, male and female theologians, and biblical scholars - is needed," the report continued.

"Only when a much. fuller dialog between these different persons,

who represent and reflect different areas of expertise and experience, has taken pIace, can we approach the conditions for a genuine 'sensus fidelium' (sense, or understanding, of the faithful) on the issue of the full participation of women in the church and in society.,"

What Counts "What children want to hear from their parents is not what they can learn from books. but what gives meaning to the parents' lives, what values they hold to."

Archbishop Joseph Plourde of Ottawa

MARK J. McMANUS, CPA, has been named comptroller at St. Anne'~ Hospital, Fall River, coming to the post from experience at Children's Hospital Medical Center. Boston.

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uestion corner By ·Father John Dietzen

Q. In response to a quelmoo about annual confession you. tell us, ''The obligation of confe!>Sion during Easter season Is stilll as It always has been, binding only If it Is necessary for an individ· uaI to be able to receive the Eu· charist."

I refer you to the church can· on: "If anyone denies that each one of Christ's faithful of both sexes Is bound to confess ,once a year according to the reJplla· tlon of the great Lateran Council • • • let him be anathema."

How do you explain yow' an· . swer In the light of this statement? (Del.) A. The best - in fact, the only - way for us to discover the prop~r meaning of a moral or doctrinal statement of the church is to examine how the church itself interprets that statement.

So here, in spite of the seeming absolute command of yearly confession, the fact is that, in its sacramental practice and regulations, the church has always, at least as far as I can determine, meant this to apply only where a mortal sin had to be confessed.

The context of the Council of Trent' scanon, and even more the context of the Fourth Lateran Council statement to which you refer, support this interpretation. Moral theologians, old and new, agree almost without exception.

If you wish a specific example close to home, refer to the Baltimore Catechism number t:hree, which was, for decades before Vatican II, the most official and authoritative expression of beliefs and practices of American Catholics. Question 293 asks: "What is meant by the ,commandment to confess our sins at least once a year?" The, answer: "By the commandment to confess our sins at least once a year is meant that we are strictly obliged to make a good confession within the year, jf we have a mortal sin to confess."

I trust you realize this is: not what the church recommends, it is simply the bare minimum required. If one is in the state of mortal sin, he must receive the sacrament of penance within the year. Of course, if one is guilty of serious sin, he would netld to go to confession simply to fulfill the other annual sacramental obligation, to receive the Ew;harist sometime during the Easter time.

Q. Aren't most Catholic publications very conservativ.l? It seems to me they should take a greater stand in leading the people. How do you explain this?

(Ohio) A. I couldn't explain it be: cause I don't believe it is true.

If you are speaking about social and political issues as they relate to the teachings of the Catholic Church, apart from the comparatively few which openly espouse and present a clearly rightwing viewpoint, I believe the more common feeling is that most Catholic publications are,

if anything, on the liberal side.

It seems clear, in fact, that most Catholic magazines and newspapers are, especially in matters of social justice, war and peace, the liturgy and similar concerns, more liberal than the majority of Catholics. But, for that matter, so are the encyclicals of the popes and the official statements of the American bishops during the past few generations.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Diet· zen c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

Death is natural; don't prolong it .

TORONTO '~C) - The Catho1'ic doctor should be guilty neither of hastening the moment of death for the terminally ill nor of "the fault of prolongation of dying," according to a statement by the Toronto Catholic Doctors' Guild.

Death is a natural event, said the statement on care of the dying. "The physician should deal with it in its natural context and the treatment should be both reasonable and humane."

The ~tatement was issued after a year of discussion on euthanasia by members.

For Catholic doctors "it is an important moral duty to stand in defense of the weak, the unborn, the insane, the retarded and the terminally ill," it said.

Regarding the terminally ill, the doctor must always offer the patient the ordinary and extraordinary means at his disposal to sustain life, the statement said.

Although the patient has a moral obligation to use the ordinary means, he may decide to forego extraordinary means if they would impose excessive hardship, it added.

The statement by the Canadian doctors added that when medical resources are limited in relation to the needs of several patients, those who can benefit most should be chosen for treatment regardless of their social or economic status.

Violence feared GASGOW, Scotland (NC) Violence and sectarian strife are "near inevitable" should the planned visit by Pope John Paul II to Scotland next year take place, said the Rev. Andrew Herron, former moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (presbyterian).

Everyone has a responsibility to be an influence for restraint and tolerance, he added. Dr. Herron said the pope had a right to visit Catholics in Scotland, but that the visit could revive sectarian rivalries. Sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland have spread to Scotland and recent marches in Glasgow by opponents and supporters of· British rule in Northern Ireland have led to street clashes.

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"The lyrics are just different," she explained.

"All jazz has· its roots in spirituals," she said. "The slaves were constantly calling on Jesus to help them.

They also had great devotion to the Blessed Virgin."

A self-taught p'ianist, earning money by age seven, Miss Williams was one of eight children deserted by their father and supported ·by their mother's work as a maid.

Cry of alarm VATICAN CI1Y I{NC) - The Lebanese ·bishops' delegate to the International Vocations Congress asked participants to return to their countries with "a great cry of alarm, an SOS," for the situation in Lebanon. In a special report to the congress, MaroniteRite Bishop Ibrahim Helou of Sidon, Lebanon, described the effects of the "atrocious war" in his country, but said that vocations to the priesthood and religious life were nevertheless flowering in the war-torn nation.

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Hope: beyond pie in the sliY

By Father PllUlip J. MumioR Hope is an important commodity. In recent years people have rediscovered something about its meaning, including the fact that it is not merely "pie in the sky."

Hope is not primarily the expectation that things will get better later. No, Christian hope entails the conviction that people have a role to play in giving their lives direction. They do not have to accept as fate whatever events might occur.

In other words, Christians are not simply victims of-other, more powerful people. Rather, by our decisions and actions, we accept responsibility for much that

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Time is of the essence

By David Gibson

It's 6 a.m. The young man 30, a husband and the father of three young children - rolls slowly out of bed, shaves and showers, dresses and prepares his light breakfast.

At 7, about 15 minutes before his wife wakes up to begin getting their oldest child ready for school, this man boards a bus for work. He expects to be in his office about 8:10.

He will not get home until about 6:30 p.m., having added about two and one-half hours of commuting time to his office hours. About 12 and one-half hours into his day, he begins to spend time with his family.

For this man, one of life's big problems is the lack of time. He wishes he could spend more time with his family or at least more of his best, most rested, time. Most men and many women in his suburban community share his difficulty.

There are other people pressed for time: - The homemaker chauffering teens, consulting with teachers, performing volunteer activities and generally being all things to all people; - The single parent of young children who wonders when he will do even hlJs mandatory grocery shopping; - The working mother who has no help but still must vollunteer for the school-~Iated

services expected of parents; - The teacher swamped by work and home-related activities who must, for her career, return to college to pursue an advanced degree. .

It is almost customary nQwadays to remind people that they do, after all, have it better than their ancestors who worked 12 and 14 hours a day. Modern technology, health care and transportation combine with other elements of progress to make life easier, it is said.

Nevertheless, many people feel immensely hassled and feel they are not doing their best in some Turn to Page Thirteen

For children

fulfills a similar role in the case of a parish.

This is the purpose of planning in a parish: to exercise hope as a decision ~lbout the future.

In the past 10 years, many parishes have discovered planning techniques, borrowing tools fashioned in the business world or in management schools. Often, parishes. have adapted these tools as guides for: - defining broad goals; - spelling out specific objectives; - determining how to achieve those objectives; .

- deciding what time period is involved; Tum to page thirteen

When dreams come true

By Lenore Kelly

One of life's problems is the lack of time.

happens in our lives and decide how to relate to those around us.

1n these terms, hope becomes a responsibility we share with God rather than the point at which our responsibility ends while we wait for God to take over.

Christian hope requires us to plan, therefore, if it is not to be reduced to wishful thinking. In planning; we first assess our situation, looking at it as much as we can with the eyes of Christ.

Second, we consider our talents and material resources.

Third, we decide how to use them.

The above thoughts have to do with individuals. But planning

The members of one Louisiana parish. found that dreams can come true when people work together to plan for their future.

In 1978, the people in St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Marrero, La., a 1,200-member, racially integrated community\ near New Orleans, moved into a new parish complex. Encouraged by the parish staff, parishioners reflected over the period of a month on their past history.

Oldtimers from the original mission church were interviewed and pictures were recovered from attics. During liturgies and parish gatherings, past joys and struggles were shared, especially

the racial strife faced in the 1960s. /Equipped with a sense of where they had been as people, parishioners then began a monthlong period in which they thought together about the future. Father Douglas Doussan, the pastor, says, "We encouraged parishioners to get in touch with the Spirit within them, to express their deepest hopes and desires for the parish."

To facilitate this, people attending weekend liturgies were asked to complete this statement: "It would be a great blessing for St. Joseph the Worker parish if . . . " Then, some people were invited to step up to the micro-

phone to share their dreams aloud. Among more than 200 statements were some asking that "all grow in their love for one another" and that "the poor have all their needs met," Parish council member ~rulie Breaux, who grew up in the parish in the 1950s, said she was impressed by people's openmindedness.

The 16 most often-heard responses were labeled "impossible dreams." A staff member, Sister Kathleen Pittman, says they "were too difficult to attain completely in a lifetime but they did set the direction toward which parishioners could strive."

Soon after, 100 parishioners formulated four achievable goals Tum to Page Thirteen

Was Paul really an apostle?

By Father John Castelot The lot of persons in authority is not easy no matter what they do, someone seems' ready to Jump on them.

Paul was no authoritarian.

But the fact that he founded Christian communities put him in a position of leadership and responsibility. If he asked for material support, his adversaries would scream that he was out to feather his own nest. Since Paul did not ask for support, some claimed he really did not have apostolic authority and didn't dare ask because he had no right to ask.

This is the importantproblem Paul addresses' in Chapter 9 of the first letter to the Corin-

thian Christians.

He asks: "Am I not free? Am I not an apostle?" And answers the questions in inverse order, taking up first the more important one of his apostleship.

The fundamental requirement for an apostle, in the strict sense of the term, was a personal experience of the risen Lord. Alluding to his conversion experience, Paul asks: "Have I not seen the Lord?"

The other requirement ,was a commission from that same Lord.

Rather than simply claim such a commission, Paul points to the obvious success of his work as proof that the Lord really sent him.

Paul says: "And are you not

my work in the Lord? Although I may not be an apostle for others, I certainly am one for you. You are the very seal of my apostolate in the Lord," This puts him on a par with the other apostles. He has a right, like them, to board and room.

These are perfectly legitimate rights, as he illustrates with examples from everyday life and even from Scripture. Any laborer is worthy of his hire whether he is a soldier, a farmer or a shepherd.

If the other apostles have these rights, how can the Corinthians conclude that Paul does not? In fact, he says, "If others have Turn to Page Thirteen

By Janaann Mantemaeb

Paul and Barnabas were teaching and preaching in Antioch.

One day Paul said, "Let's go back to the towns where we preached Christ earlier. We should see how our brother and sisters are doing."

"Why don't we take John Mark along?" suggested Barnabas. John Mark was his cousin.

Paul objected. He remembered how John Mark had deserted them during their first missionary journey.

"Mark is not worthy to go Tum to Page Thirteen

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A Verda.de E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

Sera Autentica A. Nossa Vida?

Autenticidade, literalmente, significa a qualidade de ser eu proprio e nao outro, verdadeiro, genuino; 0 contrario da autenticidade e a alienaQao, a falsidade, a hipocrisia, a incoerencia. o mundo de hoje e profundamente sensivel a esta qualidade, exigindo-a ern cada homem e mais ainda nos cristaos. Muitas das pessoas mais validas, sobretudo jovens, afastam-se de nos, sentindo ate desprezo pela religiao professada por personalidades: Religiosas ~a igreja, pagas na rua; fa lando muito de Deus e fazendo pouco pelos homens; ir..capzes de fal tar a urn acto cultual e insensiveis aos problemas dos irmaos E! a urn serio compromisso terreno; Agarradas, ern nome de Deus e da religiao, a cost:urnes, tradiQoes e mentalidades que nao passaro, a maior parte das vezes, de falsas seguranQas, e atrozmente fechadas e, por ironia,tambern em nome de Deus continuamente criador e renovador) a todo 0 movimento, aos novos valores e is novas maneiras de ver a coisas; Exigentissimas em determinados aspectos da vida moral, e falsas na maior parte dos outros: negocios, relaQoes familiares e sociais, empanhamento na vida ...

Seguidoras de urn Cristo ressuscitado e libertador, e sempre agoirentas de calamidades, em continuas lamentaQoes, permanentemente deprimidas,cheias de medos e ~em dinamismo; Crentes nurn Deus que e vida e fonte de vida, origem e fundamento da nossa propria personalidade e dando testemunho de uma religiao que, em vez de vivificar e personalizar, da a impres sao de matar e alienar; Adoradores do unico Deus, que quer ser adorado em espirito e verdade, e carregados de idolos, superstiQoes e magias; Dizendo-se Povo de Deus, Corpo de Cristo, Igreja, ou Assembleia Santa, vivendo e rezando egocentricamente; Proc~amando que a nossa salvaQao vern de Deus, e profundamente auto-suficientes, orgulhosos da nossa virtude; Invocando 0 Espirito do Senhor, que renova constantemente a face da terra, desbravando campos e caminhos novos, e dogmat.icamente aferrados a nossa verdade, .identificando-a corn a Verdade.

Membros de urn povo peregrino a caminho dos novas ceus e da nova terra e sem esperanQa e disponibilidade, presos a cada estaQao que nos recebe.

A eucaristia julga a nossa vida.

Que Deus acompanha a nossa marcha e anda inserido na nossa vida; que somos urn povo, uma familia; que podemos beber 0 calice do Senhor e do nosso redentor ; que nao basta dizer Senhor, Senhor para ser cristao; que pratiquemos todos os preceitos do Senhor.

Seja a Eucaristia alimento e expressao de urn povo peregrino, empenhade na construQao deste mundo e do Reino de Deus.

For children Continued from page twelve with us," Paul insisted. "Don't you remember how he just left us in the middle of our mission?"

Barnabas became angry. He liked his cousin.

Paul got angry, too. He had another reason for being angry with Barnabas. This argument about Mark brought it to the surface.

"You haven't been acting honestly, Barnabas," Paul said. "On the one hand you say the gentiles do not need to obey the Jewish law. Yet now you refuse to eat with gentiles." ''You are afraid of what our Jewish Christians will say. So you do one thing yet preach another. Why don't you live according to what you teach?"

Paul's words really angered Barnabas. He knew Paul was right but he really felt more at home with the Jewish Christians than with the gentile Christians.

"If that's how you feel, Paul," Barnabas shot back, "you can go wherever you wish. I'm going to take Mark and start our own mission."

"That's fine with me," Paul retorted. "I'll find a more honest companion."

The two men parted in anger.

Barnabas and Mark went to Cyprus. There they did great work for the Lord.

Paul chose Silas, a leader of the Jerusalem community, as his new companion.

Silas, who had been working

Hope Continued from Page Twelve - specifying who is responsible for various activities; - evaluating an event or program after it is concluded, determining how well objectives were met and what prevented fuller achievement.

Such an approach has several advantages. It ensures wide agreement about what must be done. It is realistic about resources of time, money and people. Also it is very clear about responsibilities. Furthermore, by evaluating what has been done, a parish can learn how to improve its future apostolate.

Such planning tends to involve the pastor and staff, the parish council and others as needea.

It requires cooperation and doesn't work well if it doesn't reflect responsibility and maturity. But good planning can promote a sense among people that they are part of each other's

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in Antioch spoke Greek well and was a Roman. These gifts would be of real advantage on the mission.

The Christians of Antioch prayed together for Paul and Silas. Then the two missionaries set out for Syria and Cilicia but they first went to Derbe and Lystra to encourage and strengthen the Christians there.

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Time

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Continued from page twelve of life's important areas.

Lack of time can be depersonalizing; people who care about each other race through each other's lives like speed boats in the night. They make a lot of noise but they don't see each other very well.

Of course, plans to change things .can end up in the wishful-thinking category. Perhaps the young man we spoke of daydreams during his bus ride about an 18-hour work week that allows all the time he wants for pursuing home-base activities.

Pleasant thoughts. But that young man - and all of us should concentrate on using well the time already available and on creating some new time for the people in our lives.

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Paul Continued from page twelve this right over you, is not our right even greater?"

Others had not worked for the Corinthians personally; Paul had. He chose not to use his legitimate rights "so as not to put any obstacle in the way of the Gospel of Christ."

In no way has Paul abrogated his rights or his apostleship. His reward is the satisfaction of carrying out his mission in full freedom, with complete unselfishness.

Dreams

Continued from page twelve based on these dreams. They dealt with spiritual growth, getting more youth involved in parish activities, leadership and finances.

Then, during three meetings in the spring of 1979, the parish council considered objectives for the coming year. Ms. Breaux calls the entire process a "unique experience. Never before in my life had anyone asked me to build the future as I would like liv~. , it to be."

To reach the top goal of "inA note of caution: although they may use planning tools, creased spiritual growth among parishes must remember that parishioners," the council recthey are not primarily business ommended scripture instruction organizations. A parish is a and efforts to achieve greater community in which personal re- involvement of inactive parishioners. Sfaff members then were lationships have priority.

The parish will always be called upon to implement these something of a messy family. It recommendations. may try to keep order in its reA second parish assembly in lationships and responsibilities early 1980 evaluated progress but it will probably never be and another is planned for 1981. able to get everything organized, According to Ms. Breaux, "It for love resists organization. wasn't all a pipe dream! You can Nevertheless. at its best, par- draw a line from early 1979 to ish planning seeks to put the today and see a whole lot of mission of the parish into the things that have been accompbest possible practice. lished."

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faces from the past

By Cecllla Belanger

~~==FILM RATINGS~~~ A-I Approved for Children and Adults Fish Hawk

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A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents Amy Bustin' loose The Devil and Max Devlin The Earthling

Hardly Working Improper Channels Kagemusha Midnight Madness

Oblomov Popeye Private Eyes Tess

I was browsing in an antique shop when some 'old photographs caught my eye. When I inspectA-3 Approved for Adults Only ed them more closely I saw that they were family photos such American Pop The Dogs of War The legend of the as "you find in a grandparent's Alligator The Elephant Man lone Ranger attic.

Atlantic City Eyewitness Modern Romance I thought how sad it was that .Back Roads The Four Seasons Nighthawks Byond the Reef Galaxina Nine to Five photographs that once had so Blues Brothers Going Ape Ordinary People much meaning to someone were Brubaker The Hunting of Julia Outland strewn on a counter for strangCafe Express Raging Bull The Incredible Shrinking ers to finger.

Cattle Annie & little Woman Resurrection Britches Inside Moves Sea Wolves In one a little girl of about Caveman It's My Turn Secondhand Hearts three was sitting solemnly next The Jazz Singer Charlie Chan & Curse Seems like Old Times to her mustached father. Anof Dragon Queen Kill & Kill Again Superman II Clash of the Titans King of the Mourrtain Thief other pictured a crew of carCutter and Bone The last Metro Tribute penters, sleeves rolled, tools in Death Hunt lion of the Desert hand, in front of a newly raised What do his eyes see? barn; a third was of husband and wife, he crisp and confident B - Obiectionable in Part for Everyone above his shoestring tie, she anywhere and everywhere. All phone calls, the sending of little alert and a trifle severe in her Moses had to do was bend down gifts, the meal shared, the dozen All Night long Happy Birthday to Me The Postman Always to pick up what he needed. and one things that people~ who high-collared taffeta.

Altered States The Hand Rings Twice Why, I wondered, do these pic- Stones were everywhere, while call each other by name do for Private Benjamin Any Which Way You Can Knightriders the gold calf was rare. one another.

Excalibur Scanners tures appeal to us, we who know Polyester Stir Crazy The Final Conflict neither subject nor kin? Are we What we really need is at our Let us remind ourselves too fascinated by faces from the feet. It is through the ordinary that those who sometimes critipast? round of life that we achieve cize us also love us, that the A-4 Separate Classification So many of these sepia-toned the stamp of the divine. All of friend who seems to be taking us photos, removed from frame and us can participate in the miracle apart really cares and that he album, wander anonymously in that transforms daily obligations or she, too, is engaged in the (A Separate Classification is given to certain films which while not the nether world of the estate into a sacrament. sacrament of dailyness. Let us morally offensive, require some analysis and explanation as a proauction and the private sale, the People often tell me they are appreciate that divine gift while tection against wrong interpretations and false conclusions.) images no longer bound to one bored and discouraged by their we can still be called by name!

Fort Apache, the Bronx la Cage aux Folies la Cage aux Folies II home. Should this be? Should we routine lives. The humdrum of This morning a young man not take better care of the preparing daily meals, of doing told me he didn't like to see anyphotos of those we loved? Or dishes, of preparing for classes, body unhappy, that he would do C - Condemned being no longer anchored to one the apparently inescapable rush anything to erase the gloom epoch, cut loose from the parti- after more and more dollars to from another's face. He is a genThe Howling A Change of Seasons The Fan cularities of period and person, sustain life, the monotony of a erous fellow, considerate and Cheaper to Keep Her Mel Broks' History of Friday the 13th Part II are they gathering meaning far thousand and one things - it all helpful to many. He said, "I City of Women Funhouse the World: Part II Eyes of a Stranger He Knows You're Alone Squeeze Play beyond anything the photogra- seems so insignificant to many. don't care about things for mypher or his subjects could have They wonder if there is any point self. I'd rather see somebody (This listing will be presented once a month. Please clip and save imagined? Has time mysteriously to the rat race. else happy." for reference. Further information about recent films is available transformed them from fragThat was an ordinary person Yet these people are often dofrom The Anchor office, telephone 675-7151.) mentary representations of a ing very important things of talking. And the words were named life into images reveal- which they are unaware. In the sweet. ing the spiritual life in us all? antique photographs, tl\e little Let us go from photographs to girl pressed her cheek so carefully stone tablets. There is a charmagainst her father's, being careing story about the tablets of ful not to disturb the waxed end Moses. People wondered how he of his mustache. One could sense could have carried them down a the gratitude of the farmer tosteep mountain. According to ward that barn-raising crew; one this legend, the explanation was could admire the courage of that simple. The words themselves couple, he affecting aplomb and made the stone lighter. But when she toughness, as they faced up Moses on his return found the to the humbling task of rearing people worshiping the golden another generation. calf, the words slipped off the Mothers and fathers wonder surface and vanished. Only then cjid Moses become aware .how about their mundane daily obllavy they were and dash them ligations, even though they may • the ground so that they broke. not raise the question. There are Clearly, the tablets themselves many answers to be given in a lifetime. The cameras that are ~.'~ ..•...' :ensable while their recording us may not answer F ~ . .·.message, their essence, ',was'. the finger of God. . questions, but they do give some Moses could return to the moun- kind of affirmation. tain, as he 'did, and bring back Sometimes the faces of ortwo other tablets, but we see dinary people shine with a here how the spiritual message beautiful light reflecting their transcended the material. inner closeness to God. Faces of hardened criminals have become Byco~trast, once the calf was destroyed and the gold scattered, transformed through steadfast nothing of value was left. All commitment to God and have that remained was spiritual reflected it.

FATHER ROBERT S. KASZYNSKI, pastor of 81. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, blesses It is the inconsequential acts emptiness.

The story of Moses teaches us that elevate our lives. The letters an oak tree planted in honor of his feastday and the 75th anniversary of St. Stanislaus that what we need can be found we write one another, the tele- School. (Torchia Photo)

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portswotch Spartan,ettes Win State Crown The Bishop Stang High School girls' tennis team is the new Class B state champion.

The Spartanettes defeated Revere, 3-2, at Newton South High School in a hotly contes:~ed state final. After winning only one of the three singles matches the Stang girls won the first doubles match and went on to victory by taking the other doubles.

In the singles Stang's Nicole Demakis dropped a 6-1, 6-1 decision to Maria Lochiatto. Lisa Demakis evened things up with a 7-6, 4-5, 6-1 victory over Revere's Daria Lochiatto but Revere regained the lead on Carla Maricalch's 6-2, 6-3 triumph over Stang's Elise Bilodeau.

The doubles team of Desiree Burba and Julie McLaughlin put the Spartanettes back in the running with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Patty Neil and Sandy Shea.

Stang's Mary Johnston and Chris Clandy defeated Kris Collar and Josephine Russo, 6-2, in the first set of the final match of the title playoff. Collar and Russo rallied for a 6-1 victory in the second set leaving the teams tied once again and the championship to be decided on the third set. When they were tied at 6-6 in the third set a tie-breaker became necessary to decide the winner. Johnston and Clancy won the tiebreaker, 5-2, for a 7-6 victory and the state crown.

Feehan's Athletes of the Year At Bishop Feehan High School William (Bill) Hyland was awarded the Msgr. John J. Shay Trophy as boy athlete of the year and Paula DeYoung received the Sister Virginia Quinlan Trophy as girl athlete of the year.

David Lima was the recipient of the Athlete of the Year Award at Bishop Connolly High School.

He also received awards as most valuable player in basE~ball and soccer.

Also receiving MVP awards were Dan Daley, golf;1 John Sheridan, tennis; Andy Reilly, track; Brian Shea and Ed Kehoe, basketball; Les Wilkinson, hockey; Jere Holland, cross rountry; Gwena Ward, volleyball; Liz Eudenbach, softball; Lisa Landry, che.~rleaders; Elaine Desrosiers, jaYVI~e cheerleaders.

Sheridan a;}oo received the Sportsmanship Award, Wilkinson the Most Versatilll Athlete Award. Rick Gray received the Peter Machado Memorinl Award, Tom Stringer the Brother Daniel Caron Award.

Highlight of the sports award dinner was the surprise presentation of an Appreciation Award to Dr. James Sabra in recognition of gratis services he performs for the Connolly athletes.

At Diman Yoke Ernie Bacon was named the school's Athlete of the Year as well as outstanding player in basketball and baseball. He received the awards at the school's annual awards banquet.

Receiving outstanding player awards were Ken Rheaume, cross country; Joe Moniz, soccer; Glenn Jone, tra(:k, Mark Pacheco, golf; Ken Ayala, tennis.

Paul Berlo received the Henry Saraiva, Jr. Memorial Award in baseball.

New Bedford High's Joan Smith, who won the state's long jump title less than two weeks ago, became the New England champion with a 17 foot 11 Yz inch leap at the 'New Englands

in Concord, N.H., last Saturday.

Amy Dawson received the team's MVP award at Old Rochester Regional High School's Gir.ls' Spring Track banquet.

Other awards went to Jenny Gifford, second MVP in track; Diane Cook, second MVP in field; Linda Couto, ,most improved; Christine Williams, rooltie of the year; Dana Lyn Hartley, most dedicated. Miss Dawson also received the New Bedford Road Race Scholarship Award, which she will use at Boston College in the fall.

Results in the opening week of the Bristol County CYO Baseball League were Somerset 8, North 3; Maplewood 10; South End 4; South End 11, Kennedy 2; Maplewood 5, North 0; Kennedy 9, North 8; Somerset 5, Maplewood 4; Maplewood 4, Kennedy 3; Somerset 4, South End 3.

Champion Foxboro first-baseman Mike Delaney, shortstop Scott Tilley and outfielder Glenn Morrissette are on the 1981 allHockomock baseball team.

Others all-stars are catcher Dave Carlucci, pitcher Bill McInnis, second-baseman Tom Cornetta of Franklin; pitcher Steve Adams and designated hitter Steve Davidson of Oliver Ames; thirdbaseman Scott Cossette, King Philip; infielder Dave McKitchen, No. Attleboro; outfielder Richard Mosley, Canton; outfielder Dave Nutting, Stoughton; and outfielder Dean Morse, Sharon.

Bigotry scored HARRISBURG, Pa. (NC) The Pennsylvania Conference on Interchurch Cooperation, representing the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and the state's seven Catholic dioceses, has issued a statement warning against the dangers of bigotry. It was prompted by the appearance of anti-Catholic comic books in stores and a recent rise in Ku Klux Klan activities.

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

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanationl: C-condemned.

New Films "Alligator" (Bedford): The old chestnut about the baby alligator that grows to monstrous proportions after being flushed down into the sewer system becomes a moderately entertaining thriller with some tongue-incheek asides. Although the creature has a selective appetite, devouring villains for the most part, the violence earns it an A3 rating.

"Bustin' Loose" (Universal): This might be the first R-rated movie made for a family audience. The R is for -language, that of Richard Pryor, a freckless, mean-spirited ex-convict who is transformcli after driving Cicely Tyson and eight orphans of various hues and disabilities across the country in a rickety bus.

Outrageously contrived and sentimental, it has, however, a fair share of laughs. The rough language, moreover, rules out the younger children who would enjoy it most. A2, R. "Clash of the Titans" (United Artists): Greek mythology plays second fiddle to unenthralling special effects in this reworking of the Perseus-Andromeda legend. Though the cast features some great names (Laurence Olivier, Burgess Meredith, Claire Bloom, Sian Philips, Flora Robson), the talent is helpless in the face of lackluster direction, uninspired script and grandiloquent dialogue. A real mess of a movie. Because of incidental nudity, it is classified A3, PG. "The Haunting of Julia" (Discovery): Mia Farrow, a griefstricken mother who has just lost her young daughter in a tragic accident, moves into an od furnished house which holds the kind of unholy secret you'd expect to find in this kind of place and this kind of movie.

Mudded and tedious, it lacks the inner logic of a good ghost story.

Because of violence depicted and described, it is rated A3, R. "Improper Channels" (Crown International): Moderately entertaining comedy about an exasperated father (Alan Arkin) who battles with a welfare agency and its computer after his daughter is taken from him on untrue charges of child abuse.

A few mild vulgarisms. A2, PG. "Supennan IP' (Warners): Sequel is far better than the original. This time the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) is matched with three supervillains from his hometown. The prob;:.

lem is that he has shed his super powers in order to live with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) as a mere man. But all is not lost.

Unfortunately, the love affair of the principals and some violence make this more suited to mature viewers. A3, PG. . "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (Universal): Klinton Spilsbury plays the young man who loses his family to murderous outlaws and forsakes a legal career to become the masked champion of justice. The routine plot has to do with the efforts of the Lone Ranger and Tonto to rescue President Grant from a villain intent on setting up his own nation. Violence and occasional rough language rule this out for younger viewers. A3, PG. "Outland" (Warners): Sean Connery is a befeaguered federal marshall in what seems to be a futuristic "High 'Noon" set on 10, one of Jupiter's moons. The film deals with a friendship between the marshall and a woman doctor who is the only one to support him when the chips are down. Because of its fairly graphic violence, it is rated A3, R. Films on 1V Sunday, June 21, 9 p.m. (ABC) - "Bite the Bullet" 1975) Gene Hackman stars in this great offbeat Western about a 700-mile horse race. Pretty thin entertainment. Some .violence.

A3 I$unday, June 21, 9 p.m. (NBC) -4."Loving You" (1957) - An Elvis Presley vehicle about a young singer transformed into an overnight sensation by a press agent. Offensive dialogue.

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HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from noon to Benediction at 7 p.m. on Sunday, the feast of Corpus Christi. Families are invited to visit the church during those hours to pray for vocations.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Sunday will be a day of Eucharistic devotion, with the Blessed Sacrament exposed following noon Mass until a 5 p.m. Benediction service, preceded by a holy hour. Families are asked to make a visit during the afternoon.

HOLY REDEEMER, CHATHAM Special features of a Mass last month for first communicants were presentation at the offertory of letters written by the children to Pope John Paul II expressing their joy at reception of the sacrament; and the giving of a rose to each mother by her child at the Sign of Peace. Jacqueline Carlin crowned the statue of Mary.

A reception in the parish hall followed the Mass.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, DIOCESAN CENTRAL COUNCIL The council will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Corpus Christi rectory, Sandwich. The Cape Vincentian council has been reorganized under leadership of Frank C. Miller and will seek to bring parish conferences into a united group. Cape parish officers and any other persons interested in becoming Vincentians are invited to Wednesday's meeting.

MEN OF THE SACRED HEARTS, FAIRHAVEN Fairhaven members will sponsor a 12-hour vigil of reparation Friday, June 26, the feast of the Sacred Heart, beginning at 8 p.m. at St. Mary's Church, North Fairhaven, with a concelebrated Mass of the Sacred Heart and ending at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, June 27, with a Mass honoring the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Area clergy, Knights of Columbus and members of the public are invited to attend all or part of the observance. Refreshments will be available throughout the night.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The Youth Ministry will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the school hall to discuss a summer camporee.

ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD A holy hour sponsored by the Legion of Mary will begin at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. All are welcome.

ST. MARY, MANSFIELD A reception from 2 to 4 p.m.

Sunday in the rose garden will honor Father Arthur Wingate, to be transferred to St. Mary's parish, Norton. All are welcome.

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Mass Sunday.

A Mass for the closing of school will be offered at 10 a.m. today.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER New parish board of education officers are Raymond Brodeur, president; Anne Tremblay, vicepresident; Normand Morrissette, secretary; Steven Marciszyn, treasurer.

At parochial school graduation ceremonies, outstanding achievement awards from the Home and School Association went to Werner Brion, Sharon Kolb and Dean Medeiros. High school scholarships from the association went to Dennis Renaud, Sharon Kolb and James Harrington.

Michelle Aub'n and James Harrington merited St. Anne's Credit Union Outstanding Citizenship awards and the Ernest J. Lavoie Memorial Scholarship, initiated this year by the Parish Committee, was awarded to Rick Snizek.

Altar boy service awards were presented to Roger Chouinard, James Harrington, Dennis Renaud, Rick Snizek and Joseph Wilson.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Women's Guild board members will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the parish center to plan for the coming year.

Confirmation candidates will hold an outing Saturday at Roger Williams park.

ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA At an open meeting at 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 25, parishioners will discuss rental of the parish school to the public school system. At 8:30 the same night, the parish 60th anniversary steering committee will meet.

Knights of the Altar have been established in the parish and the first officers are Steve Cardinal, supreme grand knight; John Silveira, vice-supreme grand knight; Ken Kawa, knight scribe; Raymond Prevost, knight treasurer.

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ST. MARY, SEEKONK Those interested in serving as lectors are asked to notify Father Francis L. Mahoney, pastor. A meeting will take place following 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday for those interested in becoming special ministers of holy communion to the sick and shutins.

LA SALETIE SHRINE. ATTLEBORO A white marble statue of the Sacred Heart will be rededicated at a 3 p.m. outdoor Mass Sunday, with Father Donald Paradis, MS, as celebrant and Father Maurice Lebel, SJ, as homilist.

Music will be by Father Andre Patenaude, MS, and the Reconcilers.

A 24-hour prayer vigil will take place in the People's Chapel beginning at 12:10 p.m. Mass Friday, June 26, and concluding at the same Mass the following day.

The vigil will commemorate the feasts of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart. Families, prayer groups and religious communities are encouraged to participate in it and to make individual reconsecrations to the service of the church. During the 24 hours processions around a newly rededicated Garden of the Sacred Heart, together with hymn singing and recitation of prayers, will also take place.

FALL RIVER COUNCIL 86 FALL RIVE RCOUNCIL 86 New council officers are Richard Duddy, grand knight; Paul White, deputy grand knight; Armand Cousineau, recorder; Herve Forcier, treasurer.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN The folk group will rehearse from 7 to 8 tonight. Song books are now available, with contributions still needed to cover their cost.

Formation of a youth fellowship group is planned for the fall, with membership from other area parishes of young people of confirmation age and oLder.

The Couples' Club will hold its annual business meeting at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28, in the church hall.

No apartheid JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (NC) - Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, a leading black opponent of apartheid, said he would work with South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha to bring about social change in the country. "We are prepared to en.gage with him in that enterprise, but not in anything less which is designated to perpetuate white supremacy," said the bishop. "We are committed to working for fundamental change by peaceful means. We are equally committed to seeing that apartheid is dismantled." In April the South African government confiscated Bishop Tutu's passport after he criticized the South African government during a trip to the United States and Europe.