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THE ANCHOR Friday, July- 12, .1985
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High court ruling hits schools
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WASHINGTON (NC) --: Paro chial· school supporters express ed dismay at the Supreme Court's .July 1 decision striking down programs allowing public school teachers to instruct stu dents in parochial schools. .A U.S. Catholic Conference offidal suggested that had' the high court been "principled" dn its reading of. the ConstitJ,ltion ii:. would have ruled differently. In twin 5-4 decisions the high court threw out· programs in ' New. York Cityllllnd Grand Rapids, Mich., in which public school teachers including . some parochial teachers hired to teach' after-hours public school classes - could conduct special classes in such subjects' as mathematics, foreign manguages and art in parochial schools. "We 'are surprised and sad ·dened ~y the remarkable ease by . .which the U:S. Supreme Court today nullified legislative judg ments aiming to assist the edu 'cation' Qf schoolchildren (in Grand Rapids and New York)," said Father Thomas Gallagher, seoretary for education for the u;s. Catholic Conference. The record did not reveal that any problems ar9se because teachers bad "crossed the invisi ble constitutional line and aided religion," yet ,because supporters' could not prove that no problem had ever' occurred, "the pro grams were voided," Father Gal lagher added. Robert Smith, executive direc tor of the Council for American Pl"ivate Education, termed the high court action "very disturb ing." The council is an umbrella group. representing organizations .of Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish, Quaker, seventh-day Adventist By NC News Service and other private schools. A Vatican .spokesman has , The Grand Rapids. program in termed "ridiculous" news reports · volved 'Catholic, -Lutheran, Bap
that Pope John Paul II has agreed tist, Seventh-day Adventist and
to write 'a weekly column fqr , Christian Reformed schools. newspapers owned by A'ustra Han press baron, Rupert Mur-' doch. In the United' States; "the pa A Mass of Christian Burial pers include the BostoQ Herald was offered Monday at" La~ . an~ the New'York Post. ':," Salette Shrine, Attleboro, for "The Holy Father is not going Father' Edward P. Versailles, to become a journalist," Vatican MS, .86, who died july 5. Born in Leeds, the son of the spokesman Msgr. Giulio Nicolini ,late Henry and cereline (La said July 8. vaBe) Versaille~, he entered the
LaSalette community dn '1914 as
a ,high 'school .student and' was
ordained in 1928 at the. Gregor
ian University in Rome.
St. Paurs parish, Taunton,
· During bis active ministry, he, . taught at LaSalette seminaries will present the sixth annual
in Enfield, N.H.; and Attleboro PaulE. F118ga Memorial Scholar ~nd served as an Army chaplain ship Road Race on July 27. The In World War II. 10 kiiJometer event will begin at He returned to military· chap 6:30 p.m. at· St. Paul's Church. '1aincy in 1951, first with the Air Proceeds from entry fees will Force and the~ with the Veter ans Administ118tion, retiring, in .be donated to the Paul E. Fraga . 1969 with the rank of lieutenant Memorial Scholarship. fund and colonel and thereafter serving at .to the' St. Paul's parish CCD' fund, in Fraga's memory. LaSalette Shrine. Father Versailles is survived Awards in the form of cash, by nieces a.hews. gift certificates, medals and tro phies will be presented to the . Forever first three finishers in each. of "When God gives life, ,it is six categories and to the oldest forever.",- Pope John Paul II" and, youngest f~nishers:
must be signed aM Include a home or business address and telellhone number for the purpose of verification if deemed ne~essary.
Adoration
WITH ESTHER TRACY, outgoing High Chief Ranger of the Catholic Association of. Foresters, are high school graduates, from left, Christine Robin, Pawtucket; Sharorie Levesque, Swansea; Heidi Des marais, Fall River; standing, Brian McDonnell, Boston; James Tremblay, ·New Bedford. AU'received scholar ship grants from the
frat~rnal
benefit society at its
recent convention in North Falmouth. Left, Catherine .P. Harrington, Fall River, incoming High Chief Ranger.
. Pope'~ not joining. Fourth Estate
~ Father Versailles
St. Paul's parish, presents race
Dear Editor: On June '27th, the members of Adoration of the Blessed Sacra ment of St. Margaret's Church or' Buzzards Bay, celebrated tlleir first anniversary. Members and friends attended evening Mass of the Holy Eucharist. ,After rosary and Benediction, all gathered in the parish center for' ~ soCial. Lemar Pipkins, group presi dent, Ifeported on the past year's activities and made a strong ap peal for members to take on an additional hour a week in order that we may keep adoration at St. Margaret's ill seven day event fro~ 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. During the 'summer >it ds very difficult to find enough volunteers to cover on Saturdays and Sundays. Lem,ar congratulated the memo bers .for their devotion to the Blessed S'acrament and for mak ing'it possible to hive the doors of our church in ,Buzzards Bay open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. for people to honor Christ's pres ence in the Eucharist. Rev. James F. Buckley St. Margarets' Buzzards Bay
However, a New York liteTary agent and lawyer, Arthur Kle banof, said he has' an agreement with the Vatican alIowing edit ing of the pope's "past; present and future" writings, to fit a weekly newspaper column. Topics would range from family life to globa! affairs, he said.. ~lebanoff,
who said he repre sents the Vatican Library for "publishing and Hcensing pur poses," .also said that reports. the pope would pen the column were wrong. The column, titled "Observa tions of Pope John Paul II," has I?een .sold <to the Murdoch syndi. cate and will begin running in
early September, Klebanoff said. Msgr. Nicolini said the writings and talks of the pope were al ready made public, and that "there is no need for an'y agree· ment' ;to publish' ,them, either completely or in part.".
Sister Paquette Funeral services took.· place yesterday -at Blessed Sacrament Church, FalI' River, for Sister Madeleine . Paquette, SSJ, 691, who died July 8. A Fall River native, the daugh ter of the late Louis and Rosa (Desmarais) Paquette, she en· tered the Sisters of St.· Joseph in 1932 and served for 36 years , in diocesan schools. . They were St. Mathieu, St. J:ean. Baptiste and Blessed Sac rament schools in Fal,1 River; St. ·Michael's School . .in Swansea; and St. Joseph and St. Theresa schools in New Bedford. She was also a homemaker for a FaH RiVeT agency. Her surVivors include five brothers, Bernard, Clement, Dominique and ~rent Pa quette, aU of Fa ~. ,er, and Louis P. .Paquette 0 Orlando', Fla.; and two sisters, Francoise Martin and .Colombe' Michel, both of. Somerset.
4th encyclicaJ issued by pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - Sts. CyrH. and 'Methodius, Greek brothers who brought Christian ity to the Slavs, knew the value of adapting religion to culture, said Pope John Paul II in the fourth encyclical of his pontifi cate, released July 2. The pope, the first Slav to head the Catholic Church, p118ised the saints for developing a Slavic alphabet and for translating the 'liturgy into the Slavic language. The ninth-century mission aries had an "up-to-date vision of the catholicity of the church" because they saw that truths could be expressed in ,many dif ferent -languages and cultures, the pope said. The 51-pag~ encyclical, "Slav orum Apostoli" (Apostles of the . Slavs), was released five days before the July 7 feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. It marks the 11th centenary of the evan· gelization of the Slavs by the . saints. Previous encyclicals by Pope John Paul 'are "Redemptor Hom. inis" (1979) on the relationship of the redemption to human dignity 'and human rights; "Dives in Misericordia" (1980) on mercy and its relationship to suffering; and "Laborem Exer~ cens" (1981) on labor rights.
A City's Soul "A city needs a soul if it is to become a true home for hu man beings. Its people must give it this souL" - Pope John Paul