FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER fOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD &THE ISLANDS
VOL. 31, NO. 25
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Friday, June 19, 1987
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Papal trip bitter pill for Reds
BISHOP DANIEL A. Cronin congratulates Antonio F. Medeiros, right, of Espirito Santo parish, Fall River, and John M. Sullivan of St. Bernard parish, Assonet, upon their admission to candidacy for the transitional diaconate and the priesthood. The rite was held June II at St. Vincent's Home chapel, Fall River. (Motta photo)
WARSAW, Poland (NC) Pope John Paul II's June trip to his homeland was a spiritual balm to Poland's often-frustrated Catholic population and a bitter pill for the country's communist government. Church and government planners had said the visit would be carried out in the spirit of dialogue. But in speech after speech, the pope challenged government policies. He called firmly for respect of religion, but also went into specific problems of labor, free associations, 'education and health care. Throughout the visit, the statecontrolled press kept alive the theme of the pope and the government as partners in an emerging "constructive coexistence" between church and state, a phrase used by Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski on the trip's first day. In a speech that was an ode to state socialism, he cited the closeness of socialist policies to the pope's encyclical on work, "Laborem Exercens." In the days that followed, the pope responded with increasingly pointed language. He let his audiences know he was speaking both "to" and "for" them, and the
encounters seemed to confirm the church's role as the protector of Poland's political opposition. The trip gathered steam as it progressed, culminating in an unprecedented eucharistic procession through the streets of Warsaw June 14. As Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, the pope fought unsuccessfully for years to lead a similar march through Krakow's main square. Soon after his arrival, it became clear that the Solidarity movement, dissolved by the government in 1981, was to be a touchstone of his social critique. In Tarnow, the center of southern Poland's farming region, where he beatified Karolina Kozka, a local teenager killed while resisting an attempted rape, the pope on June 10 called for "full realization" of the "Rural Solidarity" agreements to aid private farmers, which the government never implemented. In stops June 11-12 in Szczecin, Gdynia and Gdansk, Baltic shipping centers where Solidarity was born during strikes in 1980, he said the word "Solidarity" was the Turn to Page Six
11 new deacons In the third such ceremony in the history of the Fall River diocese, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will. ordain 11 men to the permanent PARISHIONERS GATHER at St. Mary's Church, Mansfield, for blessing and dedica- diaconate at a Mass at 11 a.m. tion of new parish center by Bishop Cronin, assisted by Father Armando Annunziato, left, tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathedral. Current regulations for the perpastor, and Msgr. John J. Oliveir~, chancellor. (Rosa photo) manent diaconate state that qualified unmarried men age 25 and older are eligible for admission. They may not marry after ordination. Qualified married men age 35 and older may be ordained with the consent of their wives. Permanent deacons work in parishes and in other ministries under direction of the bishop and the priests with whom they are associated. Tomorrow's service, to which admission will be by ticket only, will include participation by the deacons' wives, who will bring the ordinands' vestments of office to the altar, handing them to assist. ing priests or deacons, who will vest the candidates. The ordination will be in the context of the Mass, following the MARKING THE 25th anniversary of Marian Manor home for the aged in Taunton, Gospel. It will include the rites of Sister Dorothy Ruggiero, OP (left), provincial superior of the Dominican Sisters of the Calling and Presentation of CanPresentation who staff the home, and Sister Marie Therese, OP, its administrator, chat with didates. The presentation will be made by Father John F. Moore, Bishop Cronin at a celebratory banquet. (Rosa photo)
diocesan director of the diaconate program. After ordination, accomplished by the laying ofthe bishop's hands on the head of each candidate and a prayer of consecration, the new deacons will be vested and the bishop will present each with the book of Gospels. Music for the Mass and ordination will be by the Diocesan Choir and instrumentalists, directed by Glenn Giuttari. Deacon Manuel H. Camara will be deacon of the word, Deacon Robert D. Lemay will be deacon chaplain and Deacon James M. O'Gara will be deacon ofthe liturgy. Servers will be diocesan seminarIans. Sons and daughters of ordinands forming the offertory procession will be Tara Murray, Suzana Moniz, Marc Bousquet and Timothy Dresser. A reception for the deacons at St. Stanislaus School, Fall River, will follow the Mass. Throughout the weekend they will be further honored at family and parish celebrations. (Pictures and biographies of the ordinands are on page 2.)