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ill People· pi8~.Events-NC News Briefs (b Christ thEl Worker COCHIN, India - God sent his only Son to be born as a carpenter's son a workman -- and in turn, Christ selected his disciples from the laboring class, the HI bishops of Kerala State noted in a pastoral letter emphasizing the dignity 0 f labor.

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'Last Supper' Grant MILAN, Italy - Italy's Ministry for Cultural Patrimony has appropriated 250 million lire ($275,000) to save Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" from mildew damage.

VINA, Calif. - Christian and nonChristian monks fro:n East and West gathered at the Cistercian Abbey of New Clairvwx in Vina, Calif., recently for a week-long s}mposiur.1 aimed at examin:ng whethe, conternpla.tives must update their understanding of themselves and their role in the modern world.

'(:all t'o Brotherhood' DAYTON, Ohio - In an attempt to increase visibility and correct misund.erstandings about the ministry and lifestyle of men Religious, the National Assembly of Re:igious Erothers is planning "A Call to Brotherhood" in two or three years. The plan was announced at the gr:lUp's annual meeting in Dayton this month.

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BErrE IDLLEMEIER, president of the National Council of Catholic Women, says the 14 million~member organization didn't use its clout at last year's National Women's Conference, but that it has learned its lesson.

EVE,n Preparations Help' MONJ:EVII:EO, Unguay - Preparations for the Third General Assembly of the Latin American bishops are themselves yieldin~ positi"e benefits for ':he ch'Jrch, according to one of the bishops involved. Bishop Her-be .Seijas of San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay, said that the thinking, reflection and frank debate among bishops, prie;;ts, Religious and laity on the theme of evangelization and present realities are "already a giant effort w:th imrJediate beneficial results."

"rortlJre in Guinea :"olEW YORK - Torture has beco~ne an "es.;ential part of the machinery of repression i ' since Gui:1ea's independence in 1958, Amr..esty International charged in an ll-pagE "Briefing on Guinea" released in New York June 21. The organization uqed President Ahmed SekOlJ Toure to take immediate and effective aC'~ion to improve the human right's situation in G.linea.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The bishops of Hondt.ras have protested the few light slmtencES handed down over the murder:; of peasant baders and priests two years agJ. "Leaving public crimes unpunished or covering them up encourages criminals and takes away the guarantees due honest citizens," they said.

FATHER CARL ARICO, New Jersey {amily life bureau director, says pro-family groups should organize polit~cally.

Struggle

LA :?AZ, Bolivia _. Native priests and U.S. rnissionaries in Bolivia have protested a U.S move to put 45,000 tons of stockpiled tin on sale in the world market. The~r called the move "economic aggress: on" against Bolivia, a majOi~ tin exporter.

ConteimplaNves Meet

BISHOP EUGENE LaROCQUE of Alexandria-Cornwall, Ontario, has called for separate English and French Catholic schools in Frenchspeaking regions of the province.

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MUNSTER, West Germany The secretary general of the (West) German Bishops' Conference, Msgr. Josef Homeyer, said in a speech in Munster June 18 that the church in East Germany is engaged in a "mortal struggle for survival."

P'ilgrims Atone SAO PAULO, Brazil - Some 75,000 pilgrims from Rio de Janeiro were among the latest of the many thousands who have come from all parts of Brazil to the national shrine of Nostra Sehora Aparecida (Our Lady of the Apparition) to atone for a recent burglary attempt that left the venerated statue broken in three pieces.

General Absolution

BISHOP CHRISTOPHER ABBA of Nigeria thinks his country will one day be sending missionaries to serve black communities in U.S.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Bishop Carroll T. Dozier of Memphis, Tenn., whose 1976 general absolution ceremonies brought international notice and a rebuke from the Vatican, called for wider use of such ceremonies. In a talk delivered at the seventh annual Notre Dame Conference on Pastoral Liturgy, Bishop ,oozier said additional study and discussion of the subject are also needed.

LBberation Theology NEW YORK - More than 200 Catholic and Protestant specialists in the application of liberation theology to current political, radal and economic problems received advice during a threeday New York workshop from the Rev. Robert McAfee Brown, a veteran of civil rights and Vietnam protests in the 1960s.

Saigon ·Bishop Freed V:ATICAN CITY - Vatican officials. have said that Saigon's Coadjutor Archbishop ,Francis Nguyen Van Thuan has been released from prison where he was sent for allegedly cooperating with the American CIA. The officials said that the news came in a telegram from a reliable church source in Hanoi.

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Lefebvre Ordinations VATICAN CITY - The "schismatic intentions" underlying the activities of suspended traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre will become clear if the archbishop goes ahead with unauthorized priestly ordinations scheduled for today, said the Vatican spokesman, Father Romeo' Panciroli.

German Abortions Rise

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WIESBADEN, West Germany - The West German government's statistics office has said that there was one legal abortion for every 7.8 births in West Germany in the first quarter of· this year, a significant rise from the number for the same period last year.

NEW YORK - A pioneering survey by the George Gallup organization and a eoali':ion of 30 Protestant and Catholic: groups shows 52 percent of Americans who attEnd church reject legalized . abortions for married. women. But 61 percent of the unchurehed feel it should be possible for a pregnant married woman to obtain a legal abortion if she does not want moril children.

ANTIGO, Wis. - LQqking back lit bis expulsion from iHoJ\duras, Capuchin' Father Evarist Bertrand said he f~lsthe spiritual retreats he fostered among youth in Danli, his rural parish, raised suspicions among the Central American nation's military rulers and were responsible for his ouster.

Retreats WeJ'e Suspect JACK PARDEE, head co~ch for the Washington Redskins football team says, "I' go to Mass ev~ry day to pray for Christ to be with me in my .d~cisions."

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President Named At Connolly Bishop Cronin announced today that, following upon consultations he had undertaken with Very Reverend Richard T. Cleary, S.J., Provincial of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus, certain administrative changes would be implemented at Bishop Connolly High School.

Principal feature of the structural reorganization of the administration of Bishop Connolly High School is the appointment, made today, of Reverend Peter Farrelly, S.J., as President of the school. The proposal, made

by Father Cleary, the Jesuit Provincial, was confirmed by Bishop Cronin, who, as Ordinary, formally appointed Father Farrelly to the new position.

In making the announcement, the Chancery Office of the Diocese of Fall River explained that Father James O'Brien, S.J., would continue to serve as chief academic officer of the Diocesan boys' high school located in the See City. Father Farrelly would serve as the administrative head of the institution. It is anticipated that the division of responsibilities will provide for more efficient and effective operation of the school.

The new President, Father Farrelly, 58, is a native of Providence and a graduate of La Salle Academy and Rhode Island College. Following his ordination at Weston College, he was a director of the Jesuit Shadowbrook Fund from 1955 to 1957, then entered the U.S. Army as a chaplain, serving at many posts in the United States, Central America, Europe and the Far East. He retired in 1977 as a colonel.

He has spent the past year as a Fellow of the Vatican II Institute, Graduate Theological Union, University of California at Berkeley.

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SERRA CLUB PRESIDENTS of diocese meet with Bishop Cronin, from left, Anthony Dire, Attleboro; Joseph C. Murray, Taunton; the bishop; Michael J. Coughlin, Fall River; Joseph C. Motta, New Bedford. (Torchia Photo)

Pope Begs for Disarmament, Reaffirms 'Humanae Vitae' VATICAN CITY {NC) - As he completed the 15th year of what he called his "fleeting and now almost over papacy," Pope Paul VI pleaded with mankind to remove the threat of enormous and terrible nuclear destruction."

Also, in his first direct mention of "Humanae Vitae" (On Human Life) in years, the pope restated the encyclical's teachings on artificial contraception, taking advantage of the 10th anniversary of its promulgation to do so.

On the anniversary of his election to the papacy, Pope Paul said at his weekly general audience that the arms race is a "colossal error in the' history of human life."

He said that the program of his papacy has been to put the principles of the Second Vatican Council into practice and to "strip the church of every artificial ornament" so that her poor yet radiant face might be seen.

Speaking of the arms race, the Pope asked: "What will tomorrow be like if the murderous arms which are spreading and growing explode?

"What if a madman becomes head of a nation which has these arms-what will happen to humanity?" asked the Pope.

In a second major address last week, the pontiff told the College of Cardinals that Humanae Vitae was a painful document to issue, "not only because the

issue was serious and delicate, but also - and perhaps even more important - because there was a certain climate of expectancy among Catholics and in the wider sphere of public opinion which anticipated that changes, relaxations or liberalizations of the church's moral doctrine and teaching on marriage would be made.

"It seems to us," continued Pope Paul, "that the decade which has passed since its prom-

Nine persons represented the Fall River diocese at a meeting earlier this month at Salve Reigna College, Newport, of the New England Catholic Council on Social Ministries.

They are Msgr. Patrick J. O'Neill, Father John P. Cronin, Father Thomas L. Rita, Father Joseph M. Costa, Sister Mary Laurita, PBVM, Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, Sister Rose de Lima, RSM, James B. Carson and Mary Lou Mancini.

With a general theme of "The Many Ways of Serving," the twoday meeting offered workshops in caseworker techniques, the psychology of aging, welfare reform, parish outreach and peace and justice education.

In a keynote address, Monsignor Leo Battista of Worcester, NECCSM president, stressed the need to regionalize efforts.

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the moori~--, Crossing the Bar Amid the gaiety of the happening, the laughin,5 CI'oyvds and the sun-browned tourists, there IS a. very serious meaning to the annual blessing of the fleet in Provincetown. For those who go down to the sea in ships,. the significance of this year's ceremony was only too obvious.

The fishermen of Provincetown had a special memOlY of the captain and crew of the "Cap'n Bill," wh:l.ch went down this past February with the loss of all hands on board.

But the fun loving day-tripper or the c:asual summer visitor often forgets what the blessing of the fleet meaLS to those who receive it.

So often, it takes a tragedy to make us realiz~ the beauty of the fragile gift of life given us by God. At the time of the blessing of the fleet, all of us should call to mind with grat.tude the men who cast their nets into the sea and the families who send them forth.

From Provincetown to Chatham, J\'antucket to Ne'N' Bedford, our fishermen daily risk their lives as they seek food and livelihood from the ocean depth~, which often claim them as their own.

To these men and their families the "sunset and evening star". of Tennyson's poem have unique significance.

When they put out to sea, they pray that there wJI be no' "moaning of the bar."

For us, may the blessing of the fleet remind us of our debt to the men of our diocese who sail the ocean tides.

May it also be a moment when we recall those who have crossed the bar.

Perhaps this year especially the words of the Navy Hymn will have deep meaning for those of us who liv~ by the sea, enjoy its harvest and prayerfdly remember our fishermen: Eternal Father, strong to ~ave, Whose arm hath ruled the restless wave, Who bids the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep, o hear us when we cry to t lee For those in peril on the sea.

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No Nukes Wouldn't it be great if we could harnes,; some of the wonderful warmth of these summer da~rs fJr the wlnte ~ that is to come? :Mother Nature is supplying the energy; we are just too slow in realizing that it is br free.

All we want to do is spend vast sums buildir. g more monuments to man's folly. Somewhere along the line. someone has sold us a bi.ll of goods telling us that the atom is peaceful. This is. nonsense. Thr atom was hom of violence. The atom is bred in violence.

The "no-nukes" slogan tells us more than we ~te will路 ing to admit about our ability to self-destruct. . Energy, we should realize, is' but ("ne phase of the nuclear controversy. More and more we are earning to thE knowledge that the destructive capabilities of th= man produced atom far outweigh its useful potential. Nuclea' energy, power and weapons have become a Frankenstein fast getting out of control. Now we see that man's very existence is threatened. .

"No nukes" might seem a mere slogan of the few, but it really makes sense for the many.

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Solzhenitsyn Roasts the Americans

By Father John B. Sheerin Periodically in history, a skeptic appears, assails an idea or a people, and wins acclaim. So it has been with Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A few years ago he unleasheci an attack on the whole Sovi,~t system. We Americans we~e ready and willing to agree with him because he presented a. strong case. So we revered hin:: as a modern prophet.

At H'irv"lrd University, on June 8, he lambllisted our American way of life as corrupt and decader: t and pictured us as a country going to the dogs.

This time we did not agree with him and for good reasons. His ominous oratory was neither accurate nor prophetic.

At Harvard he said路 he could not recommend the American way of life as an ideal. In fact, he claimed "I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours." Our "cowardice, complacency and selfishness" are just too much for the Russian author. Only three years in America, he fancies himself an expert in American democracy.

The Russia.n literary giant declared at Harvard: "The forces of evil have begun their decisive offense. You can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses."

He is particularly unhappy about the prying press, our TV stupor and olIr "intolerable mu-

sic." It all adds up to our lack of spirituality. "The human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer ... " Underneath these abstractions, he seems to be saying that we need a courageous spirituality.

"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West these days."

1 have heard America berated for many shortcomings but not for lack of courage. The day bebore Solzhenitsyn accused America of being cowardly, President Carter threw down the gauntlet to the Soviets, telling them they would have to put up or shut up, they would have to choose cooperation or confrontation, and that America was wellequipped for either. It may have been a tough speech, indiscreet and undiplomatic, but it was not timid or cowardly. Yet Solzhenitsyn delivered his scathing attack on American political and intellectual bureaucrats.

He cited also our defeat in Vietnam as an example of our moral weakness, reserving his choicest rhetoric for those who protested against the Vietnam war. Had he been close to the American scene he would have known that America faced up to its responsibilities bravely. The American people searched their consciences and came to the conclusion that the honorable thing to do was to stop the bloodshed. There w~s no lack of courage on the part of troops or people.

Solzhenitsyn says the root of the decay in Western civiliza-

tion was the Renaissance, that it was the humanism born of the Enlightenment that got us into our troubles. Before burying Western civilization, however, and I include American civilization, we might do well to take a look at the Second Vatican Council. The Russian liminary loathes the human:sm that came out of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and we must agree that both periods had their dark spots.

But the Second Vatican Co:!ncil speaks well of humanism, the humanism of men like Thomas More and Francis DeSales, Henri de Lubac and Jacques Maritain. As the Council document, "The Church Today," says: "The human person deserves to be preserved; human society deserves to be renewed. Hence the pivotal point of our total presentation will be man himself, whole and entire, body and soul, heart and conscience, mind and will."

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Parliament Mass To Honor More LONDON (NC) - For the first time since the Reformation, Mass is to be celebrated' in the Crypt chapel of the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament).

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FIFTY YEARS of togetherness are marked by this quintet of Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena of Fall River, who entered their community as a group in 1928 and are now celebrating their golden jubilees. From left, Sister John of the Cross, Sister Beatrice, Sister Mary Pius, Sister Angela, Sister Helen. (Sister Gertrude Gaudette Photo)

Teachers Quit Federation PHILADELPHIA (NC) Charging that the American Federation of Teachers has been insensitive to the problems of Catholic teachers, the first Catholic teachers' group to join the national organization has become the first to dissolve those ties.

Members of the Association of Catholic Teachers Local 1776, representing more than 1,100 lay teachers in Philadelphia archdiocesan high schools, voted 960-101 for disaffiliation during a referendum in late May and early June. Over 93 percent of

Hispanic Study HUNTINGTON, Ind. ....:. A major Gallup study to obtain information about Hispanic Catholics in the United States has been announced as the initial project of a new Hispanic communications center established

by Our Sunday V.isitor.

The major impetus of the center will be "to promote the expression of Christianity in terms relevant to today's Hispanic community."

It will research Hispanic needs and will produce books and audiovisual materials in addition to the already existing Spanish edition of Our Sunday Visitor.

The Gallup study results will be available in July from Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Ind. 46750.

Pro-Life Head WASHINGTON - Father Edward M. Bryce, director of the Pittsburgh Diocesan Office for Justice and Peace and past chairman of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, has been named staff director of the Office for Pro-Life A,ctivities of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. He succeeds Msgr.

James T. McHugh, who will pursue a program of continuing education.

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the membership voted in the referendum.

John Reilly, ACT president, said the ,philadelphia group has several times asked the AFT "for more sensitivity and awareness of the problems which we as teachers in Catholic schools face." But he said "the final blow" came when the Catholic teachers received a "special emergency issue" of American Teacher, the official publication of the AFT, calling for the defeat of tuition tax credit bills in Congress.

In that publication, AFT President Albert Shanker charged that tuition tax credits

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to parents of non-public elementary and secondary school children "will destroy public schools."

By dissolving its ties to the AFT, the Philadelphia union also lost membership in the AFLCIO. But Reilly emphasized the ACT's allegiance to labor, saying "We still feel we are part of the labor movement and committed to the labor movement.

The Association of Catholic Teachers is the largest Catholic teachers' union in the country.

It had been a member of the American Federation of Teachers for 11 years.

The war is over in Lebanon-at least techWAR'S nically. But the news tells you the fighting AFTERMATH and the atrocities are still going on.... Our priests-Monsignor Nolan, Monsignor Foster, and Monsignor Mahowald all visited this war-torn land while hostilities were still going on. All came back with harrowing stories of brutality, suffering, hunger, and poverty.

Churches and schools desecrated and destroyed ... men and women murdered in front ,of their children ... families torn apart.

....'0" As always, it is the innocent-the refugees, A CRY the very old and the very young who suffer FROM THE most. They need help-urgently-for medINNOCENTS icines, for food, for shelter, for clothing and to rebuild their homes, their churches and their schools. Please give what you can -$500, $50, $5-as soon as you can. Tomorrow may be too late for too many!

OBITUARIES Sister Kathleen

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Sister Kathleen J. Kenton, a Discalced Carmelite, daughter of the late Katherine M. and Frank W. Kenton of Attleboro, died earlier this month at the Carmel of the Holy Family in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Bishop Cronin presided and gave the absolution Monday at the funeral Mass of James F. Mayhew, father of Rev. Thomas C. Mayhew, pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Seekonk.

The Mass, concelebrated by many priests of the Fall River diocese, was offered at Holy Family Church, Rockland, Mass.

Born in Brooklyn in 1930, she IUoved with her family to Attleboro at age 10, where she was a member of Holy Ghost parish and active . in the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate. She attended Mt. St. Vincent College in New York City and entered religious life in 1952. She had served as sub-prioress and as a member of her community's' novitiate formation team.

She is sUr¥ived by a brother, Gerard, in Attleboro.

Henry Bouchard The funeral Mass of Henry R. Bouchard, father of Rev. Marcel H. Bouchard, was offered Tuesday at St. Joseph Church, New Bedford, with a large number of diocesan priests in attendance and Bishop Cronin presiding and imparting absolution.

Father Bouchard is associate.. pastor of Notre Dame Church, Fall River, and assistant diocesan director of religious education.

A woman from New York has sent us her collection of 50-cent pieces; another woman sent precisely $188.43-the exact amount of her savings account. Some gifts from priests measured in the hundreds of dollars.

Catholic organizations throughout the country are sending support.

Extraordinary events-have now created extraordinary new suffering. Countless thousands of human beings need help. The threat has not yet passed. Will we forget again? Please help today-in an extraordinary way.

Mrs. Delano 'Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presided and some 40 priests concelebrated at a funeral Mass Tuesday, June 20, at Sacred Heart Church, Taunton, for Mrs. Isabelle Delano, mother of Father Kenneth Delano, associate pastor at St. Patrick Church, Fall River.

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The crypt chapel is adjacent to the Westminster Great Hall, where Thomas More was tried, and it is almost certain that the saint prayed in the chapel if he did not in fact attend Mass there.

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July 7 Rev. James E., Lynch, 1965, First Pastor, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans July 8 Rev. Edward J. Murphy, 1887, Pastor, St. Mary, Fall River July 10 Rev. Pie Marie Berard, O.P., 1938, Dominican Priory, Fall River Rev. Maurice E. Parent, 1972, Pastor, St. Michael, Swansea

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How Can You Befriend Those Who Lie About YOU? , Iy 1tEV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

lo"gue with the National Council of Churches. One wo\;)d hav€ hoped that American ProtestantE would have beccme more sym· pathetic to the role of Cath· olic schools in provi': ing th€ only available freedom of edu· cational choice, :;>articu: arly fOl black Americans in tbe inner cities.

How can you befriend those who lie about you?

However, the NCC 'is well That's what American within its rights in continuing Catholics must ask them- the tradition of the Protestant selves as they ponder the future of ecumencial and interreligious cooperation in the face of the virulent attack on Catholic schools launched by the National Council of Churches and a number of other religious groups who have hastily thrown together a Coalition to Save the Public Schools, designed to defeat the tuition tax-credit bill introduced by Senators Packwood and Moynihan. The coalition has stirred up all the old fires of anti-Catholic nativism.

How can you talk to people who ~o that sort of thing to you?

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I am not suggesting that support for Catholic schools is a condition for continued dia-

Iy MARY CARSON

David Berkowitz has finally been sentenced to life ill}prisonment for the "Son of Sam" killings. The families and friends of the victims have been interviewed repeatedly. I believe a few of them may be more dangerous than Berkowitz. Vindictiveness, hate and revenge overpower their intelligence.

Granted, I have never lost a child in a senseless killing. Possibly I would feel differently if it had been one of my daughters who was dead. So I cannot know

stand against a:d to schools. One can only that it would be nice looked at the historical their opposition.

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The NCC can OppOSE. aid to Catholic. schools if it VII ants to, but when it lies about them, it forfeits alI right to b~ taken seriously as a dialogue partner.

It is no secret that thn tuition tax-credit plan is aimed 'primarily at aid to Cdholic primary and secondary school s. The Southern segregated academies will be excluded from the program. The tax-crE,dit plan is not a conspiracy of the hierarchy, whose support for it h!ls been underwhelming.

the anguish tho,;e people are suffering.

But I am cO~1cernecI about how some of them are handling that anguish and how it i3 affecting the rest of so::iety.

Violence has been co:nmitted . . . and some are caLing for more violenc'e and asking society to condone it. I doubt anyone would condone Berkowitz' having killed those young people, but I am afraid that some, deep in their hearts, wish mob rule prevailed and Berkowitz' had been lynched.

It seems o:ne of the greatest weaknesses in human na~ure that when we are hurt we want revenge. We teal::h it to our children. "He hit you? \-Vell, hit him back!" We accept it in our own minds, and cull it "justice."

IBut it doesn't HtOp there because the one who is l:urt ai-

It is merely an attempt to deliver on the promise to aid parochial schools which has been endorsed by every presidential candidate of both parties since 1964. Opposition to the taxcredit plan is opposition to Catholic schools. It is in that context that one must read the ads of The Coalition to Save Public Schools.

The very t,t1e of the coalition is the first lie. Help to Catholic schools will certainly not destroy public schools. It may enhance somewhat, but only somewhat, educational freedom of choice. Is the Coalition conceding that in a free mark€t place the public schools would lose? They're not good enough to compete? Or is the title "Coalition to Save Public Schools" an appeal to the old nativist b:gotry that Catholic schools ,are s:>mehow less "American" than public schools?

The ads inform us that tuition tax credit would benefit the rich. The implication there is that Catholics are somehow richer than other Americans. In fact, their in::ome is about the same as whi':e Protestants and

ways wants E. pound and a half of flesh to satisfy his claim. The scales tip the other way and violence begets more violence.

Yet this trait of nature that causes us to respond in kind can also be cne of our greatest strengths . . . because when we are loved w€ want to love in return. When someone is kind to us, we become more gentle.

When someone forgives our faults, we try harder to improve.

When we love and are loved, we grow; when we hate and are hated we bec:>me barbarian.

Yet we have a strange set of values in our society. Retaliating for hurt is accepted as a "strength" - it's macho,· it's virlie, it's power. Responding with love when we've been hurt i~ considered lily-livered, weak, old-womanish.

Why do we associate hate

less than that of Jews.

American families, both Catholic and non-Catholic, who will benefit from tuition tax credit on the whole make less money than do the subsidized bureaucrats of the National Council of Churches. The tuition tax credit would be of special help to those black, non-Catholic parents who exercise their right of educational freedom of choice by sending their kids to Catholic schools 'because they are so much better than most urban public schools.

The ads also hint that parochial schools are "exclusive," that is, they don't admit everyone - hinfing broadly' that they are only for members of one religious denomination. This is another lie, as the large numbers of non-Catholic blacks in innercity Catholic schools demonstrate. The staff of the National Council of Churches is well aware of the extraordinary increase in .black non-Catholics attending Catholic schools. It lies in the newspaper ads it sponsors because it thinks it can get away with lying about Catholics.

with strength and love with weakness . . . particularly when it is much more difficult to love?

To love, to forgive, to help those who have hurt us, to seek the good of the other takes far more courage, strength, and fortitude. Aside from going against the belief of much of society, it apparently is against human nature.

If human nature can be defined as the way people in general tend to 'behave, then vindictiveness is human. The history of man has been one of revenge, extracting justice for wrongdoing, punishment of crime. Civilization has grown only when men try to curb these tendencies.

Christ Himself tried to show us how it was possible to love, how mankind would be better

Finally, and most vile of all, the ads suggest that Catholic schools are racially segregated.

In fact they are not. Two-thir~s Qf the Catholic students in the coiJntry are, in racially integrated Catholic schools-far more than public school children. To call Catholic schools segregationist is an unconscionable lie.

It is an article of faith among American liberals, including the staff of the National Council of Churches, that Catholic schools are filling up with people fleeing the racially integregated public schools. However, the fact is that white attendance at Catholic schools is declining, while black attendance is increasing sharply.

The Coalition to Save the Public Schools is lying; and it knows it's lying. The National Council of Churches is supporting lies and knows it's supporting lies.

I'm sure we will go on having a dialogue with those wretches at the NCC because we want them to think we're nice fellows.

It's like inviting someone to keep kicking you in the teeth.

because of love. But it must not be a natural· tendency for man.

For two thousand years later, we are still screaming for blood!

I wonder what the course of Christianity would have been had Christ's mother been interviewed after the Crucifixtion and instead of quietly buryi.ng her Son and, then going about building His message of love, she had behaved differently.

Where would we be today had she screamed from the foot of the Cross, "I won't be satisfied until I see Pilate dead." "If I could get at him, I'd strangle him with my own hands." "He killed my Son; I'll have no rest until he's dead too!"

The progress of Christianity hasn't been tremendous. But had Mary called for revenge I believe we'd all be back in caves, promoting that "justice" that is barbarism!

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President Jimmy Carter ,ployment bill; Carter told them and some of his top aides Ihe would put the "full weight" met last week with more I of his office behind the bill. the discussion, Hamilthan two dozen black South- tonDuring Jordan, Ce:rter's top political ern ministers who had come to express their support for the Humphrey-Hawkim fuI:.

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One of the deJ.ights of the flowers on tall spikes.

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they did on the Panama Canal treaties, the bill would pass.

Carter met with the ministers only a few days after he addressed the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in' Atlanta, urging them to become

more active politically and praising their resolution supporting human rights at home and abroad. Press reports indicated Carter's appearance was partly an' effort to shore up support among Baptists in the South.

ing season, start them in rows almost immediately and then transfer them to flats for winter storage in a cold frame. They ciln then be planted in the spring. Those we have left in the garden have about a 50% mortality rate.

Because delphiniums grow quickly, they are heavy feeders.

We gave ours two to three

inches -of horse or cow manure in the spring as they emerge from the ground. From mid- April to mid-June they grow from four to five feet tall.

In many respects delphiniums can be treated as annuals, but they have the added advantage of being excellent background plants because of' their height and flowering habits.

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CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES at Our Lady of the Assumption parish. New Bedford, participate in three preparatory ceremonies before receiving the sacrament. Left, sponsors recall their responsibility of sharing Christ as they light tapers from paschal candle for their candi-

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dates; center, sponsor gives candidate a cross, the special sign of a Christian; not pictured is a "spirit pin" ceremony, reminding candidates of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Right, Bishop Paulino Evora of Cape Verde administers Confirmation. culminating the two-year cate,chetical program.

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Denials, Denials 'wASHINGTON (NC) - Secretary' of Health. Education and Welfare Joseph Califano has denied he' acted under pressure in telling Patricia Fleming, a - 'black, divorced woman designated executive director for the White House Conference on Families, that she must' accept a co-director.

Califano also denied that he had told her the co-director must be 1l white, male Catholic from an intact family.

Califano's denials l!-t a press conference followed denials from Catholic leaders who had rejected charges by some Black, women's and civil Hberties groups that they fo~ed the co-director arrangement because they objected to the appointment of a divorced woman as execuive director.

Ms. Fleming resigned her post after being told of the co-direct- , or arrangement. Robert Hill, re~h director for the National Urban League; said he does not believe that Califano's demand for at co-Qirector was made "be-cause Mrs. Fleming is divorced.

I believe it was made because she is Black."

"There's no test of race or religion for any job in this place," Califano told the press conference.

Shortly before Califano told Ms. Fleming of the eo:.etirector decision, Father Andrew Greeley\ charged in a column syndicated in secular papers that Califano was "incredibly inept" for naming a divorced woman to head the conference.

"I was not subject to any pressure, I was certainly not subject to pressure by a' columnist who has reviled me in the past year with a measure of consistency not matched by anyone else in the press," Califano said.

. 'The Best Thing We ,Can Do For "The best thing we can do for youth is to be the kind of people they .can look up to," says Father Ri~ard Wolf, SJ, of the faculty of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

His declaration came at a seminar on "Adolescence: The' State of Normal Abnormafity," sponsored by Citizens for Citizens, Fall River, and Lesley College, Cambridge.

Father Wolf and Rev. Donald Mier, pastor of Somerset Baptist Church, shared a panel on religion and the adolescent, discussing the attraction of cult groups for teenagers and teen attitudes to organized religion.

Pointing out that surveys show that three out of four teens are basically "well-adjusted kids" Mr. Mier said that "symptoms" of adolescence include self-hatted, psychological orphanhood ("my parents don't love me,") and criticism of aduhs and the established church.

"They're Ar.chie Bunker types at that age," he said. '''Nothing's right."

The pastor opined that joining simplistic cults is often an indication of moral immaturity on the part of teens.

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"They're sensitive to sham in The seminar was held at Vnadults and they look for authen- ion-Truesdale Hospital, Fall Rivticity and integrity. They will er and was attended by profesmake role models of those in sionals in the fields of medicine whom they find such qualities." social work, health and educaThe priest said that in a pray- tion. er group with which he is assoPope ,Warns I,talians ciated better than one quarter of the members are teens, and comVATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope mented that 150 of the'-450 stu- - Paul VI has urged doctors and dents at Bishop Connolly volun- hospital personnel not to particitarily participated in retreats pate in any' way in abortion during the academic year. operations, as legalized abortion made its debut in Italy. The He quoted one young person pope also took responsibility as saying ''You don't get to for a public statement warning know God until you're hurting." Catholics that anyone who parand added, "Kids don't turn to ticipates in an, abortion is autOG.od in calm hours. Nor do most matically excommunicated. adults."

Mr. Mier told seminar participants that young people, like adults; may be divided into those accepting "pre路 conventional, conventional and post-conventional moralities," categories developed by sociologist Arthur Kohlberg. ' He said pre-conventionalists tend to operate out of fear and their religion is often based on reward.

Conventionalists "do things because it's socially acceptable, without thinking much of why Father Wolf cautioned, how- they're doing them, and tend toa law and order mentalever, that adolescents should not wards ity." be overly-categorized.

Post-conventionalists, he said, "I see a fairly good desire "opt into a social contract" and among young people to have;' relish and develop spiritual ex- do things "because this is'how , perience," he said, while noting society operates:' 'Beyond these categories, he that his experience is at a private Catholic high school where added, comes situation ethics, at least some students or their demanding individual judgments ... parents would \ be expected to on moral issues. have an above-average interest Both speakers agreed that with in religion. adolescents, as with everyone, "There's much idealism and "goodness without knowledge is openness to the transcendent weak and knowledge without among youth," he continued. goodness is dangerous."

Accountability Key Tofundraising CHICAGO (NC) Recent scandals mean future fundraist ing campaigns for religious pur-;' poses will have to stress openness and accountability, according to fundraisers.

"Scandals have made people cautious, almost sU$picious, and only candor can bring back a favorable atmosphere," said Trinitarian Father Edwin Dill, director of his order's mission office in Silver Spring, Md. He was among speakers at a seminar conducted 'by the National Catholic Development Conference to explain the church's new fundraising guidelines.

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Is Symbol Of Love When Eugenia FJU"Yniarz made arrangements for some of her friends to visit St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, to view its huge Resurrection tapestry, the work of over 300 parishioners, it was no ordinary outing. , For Miss Faryniarz, a cerebral, palsy victim, it was a pilgrimage to her home parish, where she had worshipped throughout her childhood.

Now an adult and living in Highland Heights, a national model of living facilities for the handicapped, but at the other end of Fall River from St. Stan-' islaus, she can visit the church only infrequently.

But when it. was announced that parishioners had created the third in a series of massive altar hangings, she was determined to view it, and to share the expedition with Highland Heights friends. !In short order she signed up Sister Therese Anne, t,he tapestry's planner and coordinator, for a private viewing and lecture. lined up transportation on Fall River's new hydraulic bus for the handicapped and loaded . her friends aboard, including six in wheelchairs, two on crutches and a dozen others in need of assistance to walk.

St. Stanislaus was equal to the occasion, calling on parochial school eighth graders to assist the visitors into the church aDd planning a rosary serVice in addition to Sister Therese' Anne's lecture.

Explaining the symbolism of the tapestry, the Felician nun said it showed Jesus as lifegiver, trampling the gates of !tell and taking Adam and Eve by the hand. Bolts, broken chains and keys are scattered on the bottom of the hanging to signify ,the freedom won by Jesus for those held captive by sin and death.

RESURRECTION TAPESTRY at St. Stanislaus Church, Fan aiver (top picture) is admired (bottom picture) by residents of Highland Heights, Fall River, as Sister Therese Anne, CSSF, its planner and coordinator, explains its symbolism.

The community of faith is symbolized by King David and King Solomon, signifying prayer and wisdom, and by John the Baptist, standing for -conversion.

The tapestry, said Sister Therese Anne, is 20 feet wide and 16 feet high, made of donated materials valued at well over $1000.

She said i~ was made of individual pieces of satin, velvet, bro-

cade, suede and other fabrics, taken in sections by individual families for home sewing, with large background pieces sewed in the school hall by volunteers.

"When the finished 'homeworks" were brought in, they were placed in the background and sewed down/' she explained.

The finished product, she said, represents the combined efforts

of over 300 parishioners, ranging from 15 months to 87 years old.

"It· is not just an ordinary work of art;" she concluded. "It is an expression of love and it bears. a deeper mess.age--that the power of God works through community, people workfug, praying, loving and sharing together."

Alcoholic Nuns Need Treatment KENMORE, Wash. (NC) this thing too far." As a result Alcoholism and Related Drug Approximately 18,000 nuns she decided to prove that she Problems. or 12 percent of the U.S. total could drink like everyone else, Father Royce stressed that al- are alcoholics, but only about She is currently in treatment coholism is an illness like di300 are recewing treatment, again~ abetes, not a question of moral Benedictine Sister Stephanie "The alcoholic woman is trap-. depravity or weak will. No one Wardle told participants in a ped by a double standard," Sis- has a stronger will than an alNorthwest regional conference of ter Wardle said. "While the in- coholic who needs a drink, he the National Clergy Council on toxicated man is labeled as com- said. He or she will get a drink Alcoholism. ic and tolerated when he loses "come hell or high water or Sister Wardle, family coun- control, a woman -in the same '.. prohihition" when the thirst is selor and education coordinator condition is scorned as weak, on, the priest said. in the Diocese of Boise, Idaho, pathetic and disgraceful. "If she To tell an alcoholic woman to said alcoholic nuns sometimes is a sister, the reactions are in- pray for the grace to "drink suffer relapses because of tbe tensified." like a lady" betrays a total igactions of their own communinorance of the whole physiology ties. After a period of sober Other spea}{ers Jt the three- and psychology of addiction, time, the nun is told it should dllY regional· conference at St. Father Royce said. The' nature be time for her to stop attend- Thomas S~minary in Kenmore, of alcoholism, he said, is to diming meetings of Alcoholics An~. Wash., included Jesuit Father inish free choice over drinking. onymous or other recovery pro- James E. Royce,· director of the Speaking of her experiences grams. alcohol studies program and with other nuns with alcohol and In one case, Sister Wardle . senior professor of psychology drug problems, Sister Glodowski said, a nun had been sober for at Seattle University; Benedic- said she became involved with over a year when her commun- tine Sister Jean Glodowski, prin- the' Alanon prOgram to better ity' had a celebration where al- cipal of Sacred Heart School in cop~ with the problems of others. cohol was served. When she re- <Boise; and Father John P. Cun- '~I feel the greatest sin we comfused to drink, she was admon- ningham, executive director· of mit in community is the sin of ished that she was "carrying the National Clergy Council on omiSSIon," 'she said. "We think

that it's charity to leave well enough alone, padding the storm cloud we live with and bit by bit we end up burying our charity." .

She advised participants in, the . conference that the best way to help an alcoholic recover is to remove ignorance, acquire ,an adequate a~tude based on knowledge and have the courage to practice these principJes when dealing with an alcoholic.

Father Cunningham described the illness of akoholism among clergy as something which has been "swept under the rug" for too long. Although the NCAA had its beginning 31 years ago, >it was only in 1977 that the U.S. bishops' made an official' statement on alcoholism ana the clergy, he said.

"The basic principle of recovery is a virtue called h!JDlilitY," \ he added. Those who are afflic.ted by alcoholism mU$t adDiit· that "I cannot 'control drinking, drinking controls me,"

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Q. In the Bible discussion group, we came across a pasto Catholic sage that spoke of God "testQ. According teaching, when does the pope ing kidneys." What is the meanspeak infallibly? Is it in an en- ing of this strange phrase? cyclical, or what? Could you (Tex.) give an example of such a A. Among ancient peoples, teaching? (Mass.) the kidneys were often considA. While still on earth with ered the seat of a person's his disciples, 'Jesus told his fol- deepest affections and intenlowers he would be with them tions. They were frequently always, _and that the Spirit he combined in this meaning with would send would keep them the heart, which we still refer always in the truth. to as the center of feelings of It is our Catholic belief that love, hatred, and goodness. this promise is fulfilled in part This is also the reason that by the fact that, under certain kidneys, or kidney fat, were conditions, the Holy Father, as among the choice parts of an the focal point of Catholic unity animal that the Jews were comand faith, is invested in a special manded to sacrifice to God, in way personally with this prom- the book of Leviticus. ise of Jesus, to keep the church The more common traditional free from error. word in the English Bibles for This unique certitude of truth this part of the 'body is reins - infallibility - is present, we coming from the Latin word for believe, when the pope speaks kidneys, "renes." More modern precisely as chief shepherd and translations generally give the teacher of the church, on matters meaning for us, rather than the of divine _faith or morals, and exact word. In the seventh clearly intends to use the full psalm, for example, God is depowers of his role in the church scribed as Searcher of the mind in that solemn manner. This, we (or soul) and heart, rather than believe, is the service he is call- the kidneys and the heart. ed on to offer his fellow CathQ. A friend claims that some olics as chief bishop in the Catholics are members of the church.

Ku Klux Klan. I thought this The infallible nature of a' was an anti-Catholic group, and teaching depends not on the that Catholics are forbidden to type of document in which it is belong to it. (La.) included, but on the intention A. The Klan did form a large of the Holy Father, made clear part of the wave of anti-Cathin the statement itself. Theoreti- olic bigotry which lasted through cally, it could be on the back of many decades of the 19th and an envelope.

20th century in our country.

The latest doctrine con$idered The KKK's focus today is to be taught with such infallibil- largely racial. Catholics have ity was that of the Assumption never been forbidden to join the of Mary, declared by Pope Pius organization, to my knowledge, XII in 1950. The last one before and undOUbtedly some still do. that, in 1854, concerned the Im- None of them, however, has maculate Conception of Our ever attempted to explain -how Lady.

Christian beliefs and principles Toward the end of a long en- can coexist with the policies cyclical, analyzing the long his- and activities of the Klan. tory of the doctrine of the AsQuestions for this column sumption through the centuries, should be sent to Father DietPope Pius defined the teaching zen, c/o The Anchor. P.O. Box 7, with these solemn words: Fall River, Mass. 02722.

"We 'have poured forth prayers of supplication again and again to God, and have called upon the Spirit of Truth. Now, Congr'e~s for the glory of Almightly God, -PROVIDENCE, R.~. (NC) who has lavished his special affection upon the Virgin Mary; The New England Congress of for the honor of her Son, the un- Religious Education, made up of dying King of the Ages and Vic- II Catholic dioceses in six tor over sin and death; for the states, will hold its 30th convoincrease of the glory of that cation Aug. 17-19, 1979, with the revered mother; and for the joy theme "Families; Living, Learnand exultation of the entire ing, Serving." church: The plans were announced in By authority of our Lord J~­ Providence by Father William J. sus Christ, of the Blessed Apos- McCaffrey, president of the ortles Peter and Paul, and by our ganization. The site for the conown authority, we pronounce, gress is to be announced in the declare, and define it to be a near future. The congress will divinely revealed dogma that the be open to Christian educators, Immaculate Mother of God, the theologians, psychOlogists, comever Virgin Mary, having com- munity service and family life pleted the course of her earthly leaders, parents, singles, clergy, life, has taken body and soul in- Religious men and women, and bishops. to heavenly glory."

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The use of capital punishment involves "deep moral and religious questions as well as political and legal issues," said Msgr: Francis J. Lally; pointing out that the U,S. bishops declared their opposition to the death penalty in 1974, a position was recently reaffirmed in a statement entitled "A Community Response to Crime."

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True Freedom II

By Father Joseph M. Champlin

By Father Alfred McBride

A businessman in Ohio rises on Wednesday' at 5:30 a.m. and showers and shaves, then drives to his church for an hour of Scripture study. He and a dozen Presbyterian Colleagues have met regularly for over a year.

Their backgrounds are diverse, but their common, prayerful reading of God's word has led them to a loving concern for each other's needs.

- A limousine driver at the St. Louis airport plugs a tape deck into his cigarette lighter. The stack of recordings on his dashboard are all Gospel songs. Moreover, the driver does not hesitate to say "Praise The Lord," tell passengers about his conversion to Jesus or stress how his approach to life has changed.

A wife 'and mother near Los Angeles, gets up at dawn before her family. In quiet, she reads the Bible and prays for a solid hour. Once alienated from church, this daily prayerful study has restored peace to her inner life and deepened her lOVE: for the family. .

Those cross-country examples tyPify the interest in Bible read.. ing and common prayer which has swept the United States in the past decade. Many Roman - Catholics, more scripturally oriented since Vatican II, have been caught up in this praiseworthy movement.

In a practical paperback, "Reading Scripture as the Word of God," (Servant Books, 23'7 North Michigan, South Bend, Ind..

46601), George Martin suggests several specific ways to help us in our approacli.

First, he recommends 10 min.utes daily reading the Scliptul1!.

The reader during such a session should neither seek "to cover a certain amount of material nCir . .. attempt to milk the fw;t ounce of meaning from every single verse."

Instead, Martin' views this fLS "careful reading, with pauses to reflect on the meaning of whllt is being read. It is show readin,g, leisurely reading, with attentic.n to detail and nuance. It is reading with a deliberate yet natur,a} pace, that allows us to linger over a single striking verse or tho~ght before continuing on."

Secondly, the author urgles study of the Bible, "God dOles not call all of us to become Scripture scholars, but he does expect us to use the means available to better understand bis word to us."

Martin, finally, encourages Christians to pray with the Bible.

There are, of course, unlimited other methods for praying in general and, more specifically, with Scripture. George Martin reminds us, however, of the Our Father, of New and Old TeS1:ament prayers or. hymns of fldoration and praise and parti<:ularly of the psalms.

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Although freedom has always been a Christian ideal in theory, it has been a difficult one to put in practice by politicians and churchmen of all persuasians.

We know that Romans persecuted the early Christians and refused them freedom of religion.

But then Christians adopted a hard line against persons of other religions once the power was in their hands.

The Reformation is a sorry tale of deprivation of religious freedom by both Protestants and Catholics. Think of Bloody Mary Tudor in England and the ruthless Thomas Cromwell in Ireland. In our own day, statutes against Catholics still exist on the books in Switzerland and similar statutes against Protestants are on the books in Spain.

While neither country implements its outdated laws to any great extent, neither has it stru~k them. from the record. of society. More and more, too, Totalitarian regimes, such as the moral responsibility of in- Russian and Communist China, dividuals is being replaced by pay lip service to freedom of reo welfare programs and public or- ligion, but in fact curtail its exganizations or government pension and make every effort to policy. suppress it.

The Inquisition may have disInsidiously, this affects our view of. ourselves as persons of appeared, but the issue of religindividual worth, capable of 'ious freedom is still very much making viable decisions on the alive, Vatican Council II felt it things that matter. We who are 'was so important that it devoted Christians are immeasurably a major decree to the matter. fortunate in that our individual- In the course of two years, five corrected versions of the text ity is reinforced in our faith. were produced. The council FaThe Gospel message is in- thers publicly debated the issue tensely personal, calling for an three times. Six hundred handindividual response and con- written interventions were handstantly reaffirming the impor- ed into the committee preparing tance of each pwson in God's the final decree. A great many view. And in Christ we can ob- Council observers were consultserve an individuality honed to ed as to their opinions on the perfection, one so in harmony matter. with God's life in Him that they The document, in effect, reare utterly one. moves the note of compulsion from r~ligious beliefs and practices. It speaks of religious freedom as a human right.

One way to see the dramatic difference in thinking on the there should be one religion .in matter of religious freedom is to the world, the Roman Catholic, compare a statement from the .and it should be the state relig- Synod of Toulouse {l299) and its . ion. treatment of heretics and the far iRealistically, however, when different teaching of Vatican II. this is not the case, as in the Synod of Toulouse-"Whoever United States, religions should allows a heretiC to stay on his be protected by the state, espec- property either for money or any ially minority religions like Ro- other case, if he confesses or is man Catholicism. This smacked convicted, loses his property forof illogical opportunism, with ever, and his body is to be handthe church demanding religious ed over to the civil authority for freedom when it was a minority punishment. The house where a while not admitting religious heretic is found must be torn freedom in principle. down and the property must be Murray's position was that cqnfiscate'd. If anyone who is church-state relations were his- tainted with heresy freely gives torically conditioned in every up the heresy, he is not allowed age and could not be resolutized. to live in the house where he One could not take the situation formerly lived, in case the house that existed in the Christian is under suspicion of heresy."

Middle Ages, a situation which Vatican II-"The human perwas itself determined by histori- son has a right to religious freecal circumstances, and make it dom. This freedom means that the absolute, unalterable, divine- all men are to be immune from Turn to Page Thirteen Turn to Page Thirteen

Individuality: Threat or Blessing?

By Beryl Newman

As with all God's gifts, it is difficult to define individuality in terms of threat pr blessing. It is rather like addressing the question 'to life itself. Individuality, like life - and for that matter, the promise of salvation -- is something we possess froIT. the first moment of existence.

We are conceived, born, live, die and enter eternity as individuals, special and distinct in person, mission and relationship to God. In itself, individuality neither threatens nor blesses, but is a fact of being. It is what we do with it that decides how we are affected by it. One coule say that it lies latent, embryonic, until we call it into maturity in ourselves.

Individualiy is a question of responsible choices and decisions and, above all, integrity. It is a seeking cut, a being true to one's "essence of being."

And this entails a lifetime of reflection and steady growth in self-knowledge, an increasing awareness of how we stand before God. It means facing responsibili,:y for what we do and the kind of person we are, not in a negative, breast-striking, "mea culpa" sense, but in the assurance that we have the capacity to shape ourselves and our lifestyle more nearly to what we are' meant to be.'

Today more than ever, we need to understand the nature of individuality. We are involved in a ten-ible negation of the individual in the reliance on computerization and mass control systems in almost every level

,"'odern Jesuit leaves Stamp on History

By Father John J. Castl!lot The early 1960s were known in some circles as the Johannine Age, profoundly influenced as they were by Pope John XXIII in Rome, John F. Kennedy in Washington, and Jesuit Father John Courtney MutTay. You may never have heilrd of John Courtney Murray (19041967). Theologians' names do not appear in the news media frequently, but their quiet work has an impact far beyond what the public imagines, Father Murray worked and suffered for years to formulate a realistic doctrine of religious freedom and the church-state relationship. The result was Vatic3nII's historic "Declaration on Religious Freedom," a doctrine which brought together American experience and classical Roman theory in a long overdue alliance.

Born in New York, John Courtney Murray, was educated at Boston College, Woodstock College (Md), and the Gregorian University in Rome. At Woodstock he formed a deep, lasting friendship with Father Gustave Weigel, also a Jesuit theologian.

In 1945 Cardinal Mooney of Detroit urged Father Murray to work on a serious study of the Catholic position on churchstate relations. The published results alarmed the traditionalists, who used the American Ecclesiastical Review to publish their sometimes acrimonious reactions. Their position was the generally accepted one. , It held that both church and state were perfect societies, each with its own sphere of competence. However, since the church is supernatural as well as natural, it is by nature and purpose superior to the state. Ideally"

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secretary for education, said several issues remained unresolved. He said he expected to hear the Office of Education's final proposals on all aspects of the private school office at. a meeting scheduled for the near future.

A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Jtego

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cristao vive na fronteira entre dois mundos: aquele em que decorre desde agora a sua vida, e esse outro que esta, para a l'em d a vida presente e se esconde em Deus.

Esta no mundo mas nao do mundo.

Da! que a vida se the apresente como combate, se deseja permanecer fiel a voca~io a que se sente chamado, vocayto santidade e ao apostolado.

De resto tal exig~ncia foi sempre uma constante na vida dos crist~os, desde 0 princ{pio da 1greja •.Nao consta que os primeiros cristaos tenham encontrado um ambiente de compreensao e de apoio a ~outrina que pregavam e viviarn. Perante as exigencias do mandato que haviarn recebido e 0 mundo paganizado que os rodeava, adoptararn a unica atitude digna: lancaram-se por todos os caminhos do mundo, cheios de audacia e valentia, no desejo de levarem a todas as gentes a mensagem de que eram portadores. Neste esfor50 generoso e abnegado muitos deles encontrara~ 0 6dio e a morte.

A fortaleza aparece assim como virtude indispensavel na vida do cristao. Fortal~za que nao ~ humana pois n~o deriva das forgas do hornern mas assenta em Deus. Apoiados n'Ele tudo podemos. Diante da missao que e convidado a realizar no mundo concreto em que vive, 0 cristao nao se deixa assaltar pelo pessimismo ou pelo desinimo que paralisam, mas confia no poder da gra)a.

Num ambiente onde parece crescer o materialismo, onde as preocupa~oes espirituais parecem dar lugar a urn indiferentismo pr~tico que leva as pessoas a afei9oarem-se mais ~s coisas do mundo do que as de Deus, 0 cristao sabe que nao deve deixar de ser luz, sal e fermento. Conseguilo-a na medida em que se sentir animado pelo esp{rito de Cristo. o cristao sabe que as armas com 'que luta nao sao humanas. 0 segredo da sua fortaleza nao 0 encontra em si mesmo, mas em Deus. Por isso nKo se impressiona demasiado com aquilo que, segundo os criterioshumanos, pode aparecer como fracasso. Se a sua fe e confian~a estao postas em Deus, sabe que tudo 0 que sucede ser~ para bern. 0 cristao acredita na Provid~ncia divina.

A fortaleza crista assenta na humildade: 0 que ~ fraco, segundo 0 mundo, e que Deus escolhe para confundir 0 que e forte. Sendo assim o cristao nao devera cair na tenta~~o'de esperar do seu apostolado frutos imediatos ou ~xitos espectaculares. o cristao precisa de ser forte . na fe para fazer 0 bern; 0 que e" Justo e para evitar 0 que e mal.

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Modern Jesuit obedience were rewarded when Continued from Page Twelve ly ordained standard. Theology he was asked to participate in simply cannot ignore history. It Vatican II as a theological exshould work out a set of princi- pert. Here he made a singular ples that would so transcend his- contribution, winning the adtory as to be validly applicaJ:>le miration of all. The American to a wide variety of situations. hierarchy, which had always The state has no authority to been sympathetic to his position, coerce men in their choice of a rallied to it and sponsored its creed, likewise the church 1n its adoption by the council in the spiritual mission does not rely landmark "-Declaration on Relion the power of the state for its gious Freedom."

The declaration affirmed a development and life. The church is entitled to freedom to preach basic Christian principle; the the Gospel and to appeal to con- dignity of the human person. It . was a document of which to be science.

If religious freedom is to make proud, and Father Murray was any sense, it should be rooted, a man of whom to be proud and not in variable historical circum- to whom to be grateful. stances, but ultimately in the dignity of the human person.

While it is true that "error has no rights," it is likewise true Continued from Page Twelve that error is rarely found in the coercion on the part of individabstract. It usually exists in per- uals or social groups and of any sons, and persons in error, pre- human power, in such wise that cisely because they are persons, in matters religious no one is to do have rights. be forced to act in a manner Unable to counter his argu- contrary to his own beliefs . . . ments rationally, opponents All people are bound to adhere played their hole card. They to the truth, once it is known, drummed up enough support in and to order their whole lives Rome to have him silenced. in accord with the demands of Word came from his superiors truth. However, men cannot disin 1954 that he was no longer to charge their obligations in a write anything on the subject. manner in keeping with their He could have rebelled, but he own nature unless they enjoy did not. He never even referred immunity from external coercion to the ban. as well as psychological freeIn his continued teaching at dom."

Woodstock, he concentrated on For freedom, Jesus has set us a different area, the problem of free. May we seek and use it God. His fortitude and humble wisely.

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By Cecilia Belanger James Reapsome, editor of "Youthletter," wrote recently, "In my nine years of writing Youthletter, I've never written anything about gambling. The report in this issue about illegal teen gambling proves again how a trend in adult society has filtered downward to affect the lives of young people."

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With the advent of more and more legalized gambling, the nation's youth are feeling the effects of it. Fifteen states have lotteries, three have off-track betting operations, and at least 32 have horse racing.

Although the legal minimum age for legal betting is 18 in most places (except Nevada, where it is 21), there is virtually no checking the ages of youth who come into betting parlors or candy stores - where lottery tickets are sold. Even if there were a way to stop the use of false identification cards, other hindrances to enforcement are crowds at tracks, and the thousands of lottery sales places. For example, New Jersey has 4,000 such outlets and no one checking fulltime for youthful violators.

The extent of the problem of illegal teen gambling is hard to measure. A spokesman for Gamblers Anonymous says, "I see high school kids spending their lunch money on the lottery, Lotteries and other forms of gambling are publicized all over.

Parents are doing it, and kids say: "Hey, there's nothing wrong, with it." .

One sign that more and more teens are hooked on gambling is the fact that kids as young as 14 are coming to Gamblers Anonymous meetings asking for help in overcoming the habit.

There are an estimated four million compulsive gamblers of all ages across the country, and GA officials say that the number of young people in that category has been growing steadily over the last several years.

A spokesman for the National Education Association commented on the gambling problem: We're not saying it hasn't increased; we're just not aware of it, compared to teenage drinking and drug abuse," Meanwhile, members of Gamblers Anonymous are touring hundreds of high schools to alert teens to the fact that gambling rarely pays. However, it is hard for young people to kick the habit, especially if they have not experienced' serious losses.

Dr. Robert Custer, who helped to start the nation's only federal treatment clinic for gamblers, is trying to get states to provide money for research on compulsive gambling among youths and adults and its link to legalized betting. He says that recently all the compulsive gamblers he has treated had gambled illegally as youths.

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'Goodbye Girl'

'The extent of the Droblem of illegal teen gambling is hard to measure/ nually surveys its entering fres'l- fill their schedules with mornman class. The latest returns ing classes only, the teens asked show that this year's class is that freshnen be required to highly motivated and hard- take a course on the last period of the day. The students who working.

Located in Washington, D.C., asked for the changes admit Georgetown is not the typical there will be problems in getting state or community college. adjusted to them, but they think More than half of the freshmen that in four years the situation come from large urbar. centers; will be turned around.

David Hirsch, student senate about one-fourth have lived overseas; 28 percent are flue:lt president, commented: "The sitin one or more foreign languages; uation was significant not that and half of them finished in the it was bad, but that it could be top five percent of their class. better," Academic excellence appears to be one of their prime goals, but academic effort is not their sole occupation. Nearly nine O-.1t of 10 earn some part of thEir college expenses, most by workKENSINGTON Md. {NC) ing during the school year and Seventeen-year-old Linda Falcao some by working summers. has received more honors in the past several months than many More Strueture Some students are asking br people win in a lifetime. The more structure, less free tirre. high school senior was one of This is surprising to many ex- 121 students across the country perts who thought the way to recently named a 'Presidential develop enthusiasm and initia- Scholar, in addition to having tive among gifted teens was to won a National Merit Scholargive them less requirements and ship and being named a Ben more choices.

Franklin Scholar by the UniverEight years ago Beverly Hills, sity of Pennsylvania.

Calif., led the way in implementThe eighth child of a family ing this idea. Teens had be of nine gir:.s, Miss Falcao takes choice of being in school wh,~n her honors in stride. "I'm happy they had classes. However, in- about being a Presidential stead of using their free tir:te Scholar because it makes everyfor further educational pursuts, one else ha.ppy - my teachers, many of them went home to parents and friends - but just watch television, or drift~d like one of the路 other winners around town and the beach. said, it's nice to have, but I It wasn't that they were get- don't feel any different," she ting into trouble. Rather, as the said. president of the student senate Presidential Scholars are selecexplained in asking for mere ted from more than two million structure, "they weren't USilg College Board examinees - two from each state, the District of their time as well as they could," Learning centers that were Columbia, Puerto Rico, Amerisupposed to add fun as well as cans living abroad and 15 chosen enrichment went unused as stu- at large - on the basis of test dents rushed -to leave school as scores, essays, activities and early as possible. Rather than teacher recommendations. The continue permitting students to program, started by President

. Secure in Faith, Says Top Scholar

All your life you've waited for love to come and stay And now that I have found you You must not slip away I know it's hard believin' the words you've heard before But darlin' you must trust them just once more.

'Cause baby goodbye Doesn't mean forever Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean we'll never be together again If you wake up and I'm not there I won't be long away 'Cause the things you do my goodbye girl Will bring me back to you.

I know you've been taken afraid to hurt again You fight the love you feel for me instead' of givn' in But I can wait forever For helpin' you to see That I was meant for you and you for me.

So remember goodbye Doesn't mean forever Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean we'll never be together again.

Tho' we may be so far apart You still will have my heart So forget your past my goodbye girl 'Cause now you're home at last.

Reorded by David Gates, (c) 1977 by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer and Warner Bros., Inc. All Rights Reserved.

A quick glance at this song's lyrics will show that it deals with a familiar problem in relationships. There are times when we have to say goodbye to people we love. The song infers an even more painful reality, that sometimes these goodbyes signal the end of the relationships themselves. Faced with this possibilitY,one can question if relationships are worth the pain of loss, or the hurt of rejection. .Further, there are natural processes when goodbyes .flow from a change of location or life situation. For many people 10 schools, May and June bring a separation from relationships that have been significantly life-giving during the past four years.

Certainly goodbyes teach us more about our relationships.

Wherever we go, we bring our past experiences of giving and sharing, and thus our enhanced potential to do so again.

The song also states, "goodbye doesn't mean forever." There is truth in the statement that we are never the same when we have been authentically loved. Opportunities to share thoughts and feelings may be lessened, but by using opportunities for communicating, relationships can grow to new levels of closeness. However, there are no magic formulas.路 Goodbyes do cause painfulness and how this hurt can be creatively used in a relationship depends on prior openness and commitment. Again the song says, "tho' we ~ay ~e so far apart, you will still have my heart," Such a promIse wl11 bring meaning no matter what the distance se~arating friends.. .

I suspect that goodbyes will always brmg some ambIgUIty and uncertainty. Perhaps our most creative hope is to fill ea~h relationship with trust and love. Doing this insures that the pam we 'may face in goodbyes will be an affirmation of what has .been .shared, and a promise of what can be shared for a future stIlI to unfold.

Lyndon Johnson in 1964, awards bronze plaques to the students in a White House ceremony with the president.

Miss Falcao is a parishioner at St. Albert the Evangelist Parish, Silver Spring, Md., where she attended grade school for four years. She attends public high school "because the cost has become prohibitive" for Catholic secondary schools but all her sisters attended parochial grade and high schools and several attended Catholic colleges.

"My mother is a little upset about my college plans," ,she said. "She would have preferred a Catholic college to the University of Pennsylvania,"

Her parents, however, have stressed religion at home, she said, so not going to a Catholic college probably won't shake her faith. "I feel secure enough in my religion that I should be able to hang onto it wherever I go," Miss Falcao feels strongly about abortion. "I would like to see a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion," she said, adding that she has marched in pro-life protests in Washington. She also disagrees with the ERA "because it's tOQ vague.

Justice, equal rights and equal pay have already been secured -by other legislation."

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Films on TV

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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 8 P.M. (CBS - "WHERE THE LILIES BLOOM" (1974) - An engaging film about how four orphaned youngsters survive and prevail in Appalachia. A young teenager tries to keep the death of her father a secret to save the family from being split apart.

Highly recommended. Second of two parts. Morally unobjectionable for all.

By BILL MORRISSETIE

Shaker Top Connolly Athlete Joe Shaker outstanding athlete of the y~ar" at Fall River Connolly High, closed his school boy career by topping the Cougar baseball team in batting this year.

A four-year starter, also tops in ice hockey and soccer, he captained the Cougars baseball team this yea:. In the .fall .he will enter Creighton Umverslty in Omaha to study pharmacy.

Joe Amarello was also an important figure at the plate for Connolly, with an average of

.353 on 18 hits in 51 trips. Peter Ferreira w~s anoth~r ~ower c~n­ tributor, wIth 23 hIts m 67 tnps for an .average of .343.

Loo~m~ ahead to fall at Connolly, It IS noted that the Cougars will open their soccer. season at home to Diman Yoke in a non-league game on Sept. 13 and launch cross-country action Sept. 12, at home to Old Rochester in a non-league meet.

Rev. Arthur Pare, S.J. will coach soccer, Brother Michael Barnaby, FIC will be crosscountry coach.

GARY BUSEY stars in "The Buddy Holly Story," a film featuring 12 song hits by the rock and roll pioneer.

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Sports Awards At Dighton-Rehoboth Dave Dupont is boy athlete of the year and Elaine Kinder is the top girl at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School. Dupont starred in football, ice hockey and track and will attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Miss Kinder as well as athlete of the year, was named MVP in field hockey, basketball and softball. She will attend Yale University.

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sea has also honored its outstanding athletes. Katie Murphy was designated MVP in girls' track and field and in gymnastics.

Other MVP recipients were Paul Rodriques and John Pobzesnik, baseball; Renee Daniello, Colleen Chase and Siobhan Kelly, softball. Rodriques and Miss Daniello also received scholarship awards.

Hockomock All-Star Tennis Teams Announced Frank Cinelli of the Hockomock League, has released boys' and girls' all-Hockomock tennis teams.

The singles players on the boys teams are senior Jeff Charloff, Sharon; sophomore Greg Dean, North. Attleboro; and freshman Chn~ Lyons, Stoug?ton. Charloff IS named captam of the all-star team: Chosen for the double are semor ~on Adler and freshman Charhe Mathews, Sharon; sophomore Glen Feder a~ Steve Grant, North Attleboro: . .

The gIrls team hsts semor Karen Haug, North Attleboro, first singles; senior Carol Sloter, second singles; sophomore Laura Joslin, King Philip, singles; junior Cindy Phillips, Oliver Ames, second singles; seniors Debbie Minkwitz and Joanne Almeida, Canton, first doubles; juniors Lori Bullock and Patti

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tv, movie news New Films "THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY" (COLUMBIA) follows in straightforward fashion the meteroic and tragically abbreviated career of Buddy Holly, one of the pioneers of Rock 'N' Roll, from his' initial success in 1956 to his death in a plane crash in 1959 at age 22.

Cole, King Philip, doubles; senior Kay Gallotta and junior Lisa Though there is nothing realRiley, North Attleboro, doubles. ly objectionable in visual terms, The Attleboro Area Cya golf the film does not gloss over the tournament will be held 'fues- defects of its hero and his friday, July 18 at Norton Country ends - rock stars on tour, for Club and will be open to youth example, are not always models from ages 12 to 26. Application of behavior-and thus there is fee is $2 and applications are some material present hetter available at area rectories or at - suited to mature viewers. Morthe country club. ally unobjectionable for adults.

Thomas J. Folliard, presently "THE CHEAP DETECTIVE" athletic director and head basketball coach at Bryant Col- (COLUMBIA) stars Peter Falk lege, Smithfield, R.I., has heen as a Humphrey Bogart-like San named to the same posts at Francisco detective searching Stonehill College North Easton. for the murderer of his partner, smashing an international smugNamed a top New England gling racket (headed by John coach for the past five years, Houseman, doing a Sidney Folliard has coached teams to Greenstreet interpretation) and participation in NAIA champion- helping a 'Free French agent ship play and in NCAA regional gain passage to Oakland. tournaments. He has received Some of the humor, as one several Coach of the Year might suspect, is adult in nature. awards.

Morally unobjectionable for adults.

"CORVETTE SUMMER" UN· ITED ARTISTS)...... .8 IllOt-tOObright California high school senior of Billy Budd-like innqcence goes to Las Vegas in search of a stolen Corvette Stingray.

There he becomes involved with a girl no brighter than he who is determined to become a glamorous prostitute. He also learns that his shop teacher, whom he respects and admires, is in league with a car ring who stole the Corvette.

JI AT GRADUATION from Catholic Memorial Home geriatric training course, from left, Sally Rose, RN, assistant nursing director; Ana Maria Medeiros and AIda Menezes, two of the 35 graduates; Betty Garvey, LPN, inservice coordinator.

His character becomes tarnished for a time when he himself goes to work for the ring, but he regains his ideals in a slambang conclusion. A too complacent attitude toward his affair, however makes an objectionable rating necessary. Morally objectionable· in part for all.

"MATILDA" (AlP) Elliott Gould is a seedy promoter who discovers a down-at-the-heels kangaroo act and with the help of sports writer 'Robert Mitchum steers the beast to a bout with the heavyweight champion of the world. This movie is so clumsy and inept that it is embarrassing to sit through. Though Grated, the realistic boxing match is not the sort of thing most parents would want younger children to see. Then, too, Ita!ian-Americans are not likely to

TUESDAY, JULY 4, 9 P.M. (CBS) - "POCKET MONEY" (1972) - Paul Newman and Lee Marvin star in this only so-so comedy about a couple of bumbling con-men in the contemporary Southwest. - Morally unobjectionable for adults.

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,FRIDAY, JULY 7, 9:30 P.M. (CBS) - "BANK SHOT" (1974) - George C. Scott stars as a skilled safecracker sprung from jail in order to direct a bank robbery. A fast-paced, enjoyable comedy. Morally unobjectionable for adults.

SATURDAY, JULY 8, 9 P.M. (CBS) - "THE FRENCH CONNECTION" (1975) - Tough, unorthodox New York detective Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner (Roy Scheider) track down a massive heroin cache in this tense, exciting, very violent look at the darker side of law enforcement. Academy Award winner for best picture but definitely not for younger viewers. Morally unobjectionable for adults,' with reservations.

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New officers of the Parish Committee are Ernest J. Lavoie. president; Joseph E. Toole, vicepresident; Albert Vezina Jr. and Roger Mercier, treasurers; Cecile Michno and Lucille Gauthier, secretaries.

Elected to the Home and School Association are Sister Lucille Gauvin, OP, Paul Antaya, Sister Marie Roland, OP, Mrs. Lauraine 'Palmer, Mrs. Joan Maltis, Mrs. Mary Gamache and Mrs. Michno, IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER

Mrs. Edna Cook, Women's Guild president, has announced that the annual parish picnic will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, July 9 at Our Lady of the Lake Camp, East Freetown. Games, swimming and family relaxation will be on the program. Refreshments will be available and families may also bring picnics. Outdoor cooking facilities are provided at the camp.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Women's Guild members at· tended a concelebrated Mass followed by a welcoming party for F'ather Francis L. Mahoney, the new pastor. The unit also sponsored a testimonial last Sunday for Father Edward C. Duffy, the former pastor.

In other activities, plans were presented by Joan Faria for next sleason's meetings and Jean Brackett was hostess for an International Night supper.

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FALL RIVER The Women's Club will sponsor a day trip to New Hampshire and two theatre parties at the Warwick Theatre during the summer months. Information is

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The Brayton Club will meet in the parish center after 9:45 a.m. Mass Sunday, July 2.

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