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Woman Doctor Heads Pro-Lifers

Abortion Veto Is Overridden

ST. LoUIS (NC) - A Protestant woman who is also a mother and physician has been elected president of the National Right to Life Committee at the organization's national convention in St. Louis.

Dr. Carolyn Gerster said that "being a woman, a mother, a physician and a Protestant" are the qualities that will help her as president.

Elected by the NRLC's board of directors, Dr. Gerster said she hopes her election will "demonstrate to the nation that this is not the conservative, male, Roman Catholic organization that our enemies try to depict." She succeeds another Protestant female physician, Dr. Mildred Jefferson, as president.

The organization, with an estimated 11 million contributing members from 1,200 chapters in the United States and Guam, is "non-sectarian, non-partisan and certainly non-profit," said Dr. Gerster, a cardiologist from Scottsdale, Ariz.

At the four-day NRLC meeting which followed her election, politicians were warned that the hot political issue of abortion is due to get even hotter.

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Pro-life forces gained a victory in Massachusetts last weekend as legislators, after bitter debate, passed a state budget and overrode vetoes by Governor Michael Dukakis of sections hanning state payment of abortions for state workers and welfare mothers.

The budget had been delayed for about a month due to lawmakers' disputes over the abortion issue. Its non-passage had resulted in payless paydays for many state workers and hungry days for welfare recipients whose checks were also delayed. _Representatives Charles Doyle and Raymond Flynn, Boston Democrats, led their customary fight for pro-life budget language. At one point Doyle declared that anyone voting for a budget version permitting state financing of abortions except in cases of rape, incest and danger to the mother's life, would be "responsible for the second slaughter of the Holy Innocents."

In his veto message Governor Dukakis repeated his oftenstated view that "women who are poor should have the same right to choose a legal medical procedure as do women who are fortunate enough to have a decent income or private medical insurance."

Boat People Aid Lauded by usee WASHINGTON (NC)-"Countless lives will be saved" by the Carter administration's decision to ask U.S. owned and registered ships to pick up refugees who have left Vietnam in small boats, according to John McCarthy, director of migration and refugee services for the U.S. Catholic Conference.

Administration officials have also guaranteed countries on the South China Sea that accept the boat people temporarily that the United States will speed up the travel of the refugees to the country of their choice, including the United States.

McCarthy has estimated that more than 10,000 "boat people" may have drowned in the South China Sea after leaving Vietnam.

He called the administration decision "a dramatic demonstration of the traditional world leadership role played by the United States in the area of humanitarian concerns."

A number of countries have refused to accept refugees picked up from boats, leading most boats to ignore pleas for help from tl)e boat people.

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•'We Want To Wish All a Good VATICAN CITY (NC) - Just days before beginning his summer working vacation, Pope Paul VI urged vacationers to use their time off as a chance to enjoy and meditate on the world around them.

Addressing thousands of people in St. Peter's Square at noontime July 2, Pope Paul said; "We simply want to wish all - even those who cannot leave their work, the suffering and the elderly, and especially children and youth - a good vacation."

"We must add a word of advice: Seek to deepen the vacation period with the virtue of contemplation. It gives basically

a greater joy than mere physical or natural enjoyments."

Contemplation, said the 80year-old pope, consists in "enjoying, knowing and admiring the great panorama of the world of beings surrounding us as though our spirit were its mirror through which a transcendent impulse passes."

Through contemplation, added the pontiff, "God is present present more than ever before." . "Let us not deny ourselves this experience," he said.

The pope said that he hoped everyone would be able to spend some time "with nature, amid pure and free air."

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He also proposed a three-point program for vacations: - "Fundamental reflection on the path our lives have taken."

- - "A period of two or three days set aside for spiritual retreats, a prayer meeting, or pilgrimage to a shrine."

- "Reading of a good book, which can give vacations new value."

The pope cautioned, however, that "not all books on the market conform to the needs of the spirit, and today we must often fear the lists of books offered to yo~th which are not edifying or invigorating."

Two Ordinations July 22 Two young men who have thedral at 11 Saturday morning, studied theology for the past July 22. four years at the Gregorian UniBishop Daniel A. Cronin will versity in Rome will be ordained ordain Rev. Mr. Normand Grenpriests for the Fall River diocese . ier of St. Jacques parish, Taunin ceremonies at St. Mary's Ca- ton, and Rev. Mr. Jon-Paul Gallant of St. William parish, Fall River.

served pastoral internship in Sacred Heart parish, New Bedford, in the Summer of 1976 and was assigned as a deacon to St. Theresa's, Attleboro, in 1977.

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Rev. Mr. Grenier, a Taunton native, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Armand Cayer. He graduated from St. Jacques grammar school and the former Msgr.

Coyle High School and entered St. John's Seminary in 1970. He

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New Ministries Urged for Nuns VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican congregations for Bishops and for Religious have urged nuns to "seek out and propose" new ministries for themselves.

The two congregations made the request in a jointly issued document called "Directives and Criteria for Relations between Bishops and Religious in the Church."

The document specifically asked bishops to make a .firm commitment to develop more fully the role of women Religious in the church.

"Once industrious helpers of the apostles, women must contribute their apostolic activity today within the church community by faithfully realizing their created and revealed identity, and by carefully turning their attention to women's increasing presence within society," said the document.

"Religious women," it continued, "should then seek out and propose new forms of apostolic service."

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RICHARD SYLVESTER, authority on St. Thomas More, received honorary degree at Georgetown University at symposium marking 500th anniversary of saint's birth.

Explosion Not Vel'y

Pro-Life Victory

UNITED NATIONS - The population explosion is showing definite signs of tapering off. New statistical forecasts by the U.N. Fund fOJ' Population Activities say the number of people in the world in the year 2000 may end up as low as 5.8 billion,. Previous estimates had been as high as 8 billion.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The new California budget approved in the wake of state voters' approval of Proposition 13 contains a major victory for pro-life forces - a reduction in funds for welfare abortions from the $34 million requested by Gov. Jerry Brown to $5 million.

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Must Stay With Poor

WASHINGTON-Two major committees of the U.S. Catholic Conference have called for the establishment of a national Catholic office for the handicapped, a proposal rejected by be U.S. bishops at their May meeting. During separate meetings in Washington, the/USCC Education Committee and the S:>cial Development and World Peace Ccmmittee also approved a proposed pastoral letter on the handicapped.

NEW YORK-Although "the road to Puebla may not always be smooth," the Latin American bishops must not abandon their commitment to the poor at their meeting scheduled for October in that Mexican city, said 62 North American Catholics and Protestants in an open letter to "our brothers and sisters in Latin America."

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ROME-The executive board of the Italian bishops' conference has stated that Catholic medical personnel may not take part in abortion operations, but should provide needecll post-operative care to abortion patients. The clarification was the bishops' 3ixth statement on abortion so far this year.

Disarmament Document UNITED NATIONS--The special U.N. General Assembly se:ision on disarmament has adopted by consensus a 32-page document on disarma:nent dealing with goals and priorities, :r:rograms of action and new negotiating disarmament machinery. The documen: includes both language on which there was agreement and points which were controversial and could not be reconciled.

Indecent WOlrds Banned

ROSEMARY HAUGHTON, British author, will speak on clltlture andcommuniity at 33rd Liturgical Week of Liturgical Conference, to be held Aug. 7-10 at Boston University.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the right of the Federal Communications Commission to ban Indecent words depicting sexual or excretory functions from ':he airwaves. The court, in a 5-4 decision, said the Fc!c could not censor broadcasts in advance, but could punish broedcasters for violations after the fact.

Hely Shroud TURiN, Italy - Nearly two million people are expected to come to Turin this summer to catch a glimpse of what may be the most extraordinary relic of Jesus of Nazareth in existence - the Holy Shroud.

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VATICAN CIlY-{)ne Catholic priest remains in the small African country of Equatorial Guinea following the expulsion of Spanish missionaries and the outlawing of Catholic w:>rship by the government, according to L'Osservatore Romano, which has reported that the government has closed all Catholic churches and banned! Catholic worship.

Rel'igi.ous Get Paid WASHINGTON - A federal agency which handles Medi<:are payments :1as withdrawn a directive which led to efforts to recover miLions of dollars in Medicare payments tc Catholic hospitals.

The Health Care Financing Administration withdrew its October 1977 directive stating that· Medicare would not pay the "imputed" costs of services provided by Religious working at motherhouses of orders which operate a chain of Catholic hospitals.

Africa Policy WASHINGTON.......Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, has told President Jimmy Carter in a letter that he "completely supports" U.S. policy on Africa to downplay major power confrontations and concentrate on helping African nations solve their own problems.

/ FATHER GREGOR RICHERT, one of the latest victims of African terrorists, was murdered at mission near Chishawasha, Rhodesia.

Bakke Reaction KANSAS CIlY, Mo. - The Supreme Court's decision in the Bakke case highlights the need for U.S. churches to support civil rights more actively, according to leaders of Project Equality, an interfaith program which publishes a buyer's guide of companies which offer equal employment opportunities.

Bishops Ask Peace LONDON-The Times of London has reported from Salisbury, Rhodesia, that the Rhodesian Catholic bishops have called on the country's political leaders to sit down together and work out a peaceful solution to the five-and-a-halfyear-old civil war.

Deductions OK ST. PAUL, Minn. - A three-judge federal panel has ruled that a Minnesota law which permits parents of students is non-public and some public schools to claim up to $700 in state tax deductions does not promote religion in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Boycott Supported

DR. CAROLYN GERSTER, Scottsdale, Ariz. physician and mother of five, is the new president of the National Right to Life Committee.

,PITTSBURGH - Nine religious leaders in southwest 'Pennsylvania, including two Catholic bishops, have announced support for the boycott of J. P. Stevens and Company products and have backed the company's 45,000 employees "in their efforts to achieve collective bargaining rights."

Indaa Won't Interfere NEW DEUlI, India - Prime Minister Morarji nesai has assured Catholics in India that the government will not interfere in the papal appointment of new bishops in India. His assurance came in a recent memo to five Catholic members of Parliament.

Censorship Lifted SAO PAULO, Brazil - The. government of Gen. Ernesto Geisel has lifted its six-year censorship of the Catholic weekly, 0 Sao 'Paulo, along with three other publications. Two of the others are independent, the third is considered Marxist. The action came before scheduled elections.

DR. EDMUND PELLEGRINO, president of Yale-New Haven Medical Center, will be new head of the Catholic University of America.

Siain Boy's Dad Forgives Crime

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River"':'"Thurs. July 13, 1978

NEW YORK (Nt) - Hugh B. McEvoy, 16, a seminary preparatory student who was shot July 3 by a passing teenager for "laughing," died in St. Luke's hospital after four days on life support systems.

But his father, Leo, a state parole officer, said he had "no animosity" toward the alleged assailant, 13, and his companion, 16, because religion taught him "forgiveness" ahd to "turn the other cheek."

During the hospital ordeal, the mother had told NC News, "If God takes him, that's the way it is."

The two teen-age suspects were arrested and charged with delinquency and homicide. Under New York law, the youths could receive no more than 18 months in jail.

The alleged assailant, 13, shot McEvoy point blank in the head after he and his companion asked what he and a friend, Peter Mahari were laughing at as they lounged against a fence railing on a Morningside Heights street. Nothing, they said.

"Toward the two boys who committed the crime, I have no animosity," the father told reporters at Cathedral Preparatory, where Hugh just finished sophomore year. "My faith in religion is one of forgiveness, turn the other cheek. It's what one has to do as a Christian, but it's not easy to do."

Friends described McEvoy as cheerful, an average student, an excellent debater, who ran in track and sang in the Glee Club.

At the news conference, Father Charles Kavanagh, seminary rector, read a message from Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York to the parents and their other son, John, calling for "more effective gun control legislation and the elimination of crime in our city."

WASHINGTON (NC) - "The function of a university is to create the future," said Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, newly appointed president of The Catholic University of America, during a press conference announcing his appointment.

New Head Comes to CU from Yale

Final Vows Brother Majella Marchand, the former Gerard Marchand, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Marchand of Attleboro, will profess final vows as a Little Brother of the Good Shepherd this Saturday in ceremonies in Good Shepherd Manor chapel, Momence, Ill. Brother Majella, recently appointed director of postulants and a formation team member, will be stationed at the Good Shepherd Manor postulate and will also continue working with the mentally retarded men he has served for the past seven years.

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The president of the Yale-New Haven Medical Center and professor of medicine at Yale's medical school, said he hopes to "realize more fully the aspirations of its founders" as Catholic University will be "how to bring together the i.nterest in liberal arts education with the realities of students who want to prepare themselves for a real role in the world today."

• T AT FALL RIVER CONVENTION: Mary Helen Madden (right) at Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women convention with Mrs. James W. Leith, council president, and Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

Women Parish Action Arm Says NCCW Executive Mary Helen Madden, 33, the new executive director of the National Council of Catholic Women, who has just been named by President Carter as one of 40 members of the National Advisory Committee for Women, is an energetic, enthusiastic lady' who takes in stride travels averaging 10,000 miles monthly.

Recently they brought her to Fall River, where she addressed the silver jubilee convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, reminding delegates that "women's organizations are the action arm of a parish or diocese" but that today's responsibilities are also social and political and extend to the entire world.

The buck stops with her for the efficient servicing of some 11,000 affiliates of the National Council, including the Fall River unit. She estimates that NCCW represents from 12 to 14 million women, and she won't even attempt to estimate the number of hours per week she puts in on their behalf.

'But she's not weighed down by it all, approaching her mammoth assignment with the same zest she brought to previous stints in the Peace Corps and as a usa organizer. Those positions took her to so many parts of the world that she opines if all else fails she could always get a job as a tourist guide.

Her present job was also preceded by four years with the National Committee "for a Human Life Amendment and by some months as a field worker for the NCCW, during which she got a feel for the huge organization.

She 'sees as a priority interesting younger women in council membership, and she hopes that present national emphasis on such "gut level" matters as peace and justice issues will convince young women to follow their mothers into parish and diocesan activity.

On such issues, she said that NCCW has not as yet taken a stand on the controversial neu-

tron bomb and she shares the regret of NCCW president Mrs. Bette Hillemeier over "missed opportunities" at last November's National Women's Conference in Houston.

The conference, said Mrs. Hillemeier, made her realize that NCCW has unused clout. She, like her executive director, hopes to leave an activist imprint on the organization, so that it will automatically be "counted in" whenever women's interests are in the ·spotlight.

"NCCW has for decades been in the forefront of many problems with which ERA concerns itself," said Miss Madden, discussing the controversial Equal Rights Amendment which has been officially opposed by the Catholic women's organization, although not by many other women and groups within the Church.

"We have long been involved with such problems as battered women, child abuse, teenage pregnancies and the stability of family life," explained Miss Madden, "but we're not for ERA itself because we see too many op~n·ended problems in its application and enforcement."

On the personal side, Miss Madden, born in Cleveland, grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of Seattle University. Her parents now live in Oregon.

"And we're all fanatic Notre Dame football fans," she added.

She directs a staff of 11 and she said that NOCW is in the front rank of organizations adopting staggered working hours for employees. "About half of us are on flextime," she said.

Except the director. She's on all-the-time.

The Gambia Is 40th VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Gambia, Africa's smallest nation, will soon become the 40th nation to establish full diplomatic ties with the Holy See since Pope Paul VI became pope 15 years ago.

He said a university's "best advertisement is successful students, a faculty with high morale and a board of trustees that has faith in the institution." Catholic University currently has 7,800 graduate and undergraduate students, its highest enrollment ever.

The Yale professor and administrator has chosen from "well over 100 candidates," Archbishop Hannan said.

Dr. Pellegrino, a 58-year-old native of Newark, N. J., holds a bachelor's degree and a doc-

torate in science from St. John's University, New York. He earn ed his medical degree at New York University College of Medicine, followed by an internship and residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York.

After two years' military duty as chief of medical service for the AAF Regional Hospital in Montgomery, Ala., Dr. Pell~ egrino held teaching and practicing positions in New York and New Jersey before becoming professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Kentucky College of Medicine.

He then spent seven years at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, becoming dean of the School of Medicine, vice president for health sciences and director of the Health Sciences Center. Prior to coming to Yale in 1975, he spent two years at the University of Tennessee as chancellor of the Center for Health Sciences, vice president for health affairs and professor of medicine and humanities in medicine.

Dr. Pellegrino has been married nearly 34 years to the former Clementine Coakley. They have seven children.

l07th ANNUAL SOLEMN NOVENA In Honor of Saint Anne

St. Anne's Church and Shrine South Main and Middle Streets Fall River, Massachusetts

JULY 17-26, 1978 3:00 P.M. AND 7:30 P.M. DAILY

THIS YEAR'S PREACHER REV. JOHN R. FOLSTER, Pastor

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This Year's Special Solemn Novena is Dedicated To The Grateful Memory of Father Marchildon, O.P. And The Devoted Dominican Fathers of France And Canada Who Brought This Great Devotion To Fall River.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Felli River--Thurs. July 13, 1978

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.the moorin~ Cheeky Charlie Chirps Childish Chatter The British royal family' has never been noted for brain power or even the claim to it. This was more than evident in some comments recently made by the more than powerless Prince of Wales. Co~ing as they did afer the embarrassment of his cousin's attempted-marriage to an Austrian Catholic baroness, they WE!re certainly not only out of order but also in very bad tastE!.

When one reflects that they were mouthed by the man destined to be the next head of the Anglican Church and self-styled Defender of the Faith,. one can partially understan'd the confusion existing in current British religious life.

Addressing, if you' please, the International Congress of the Salvation Army, the futurE! king stated that in times of moral uncertainty, "it seems worse than folly that Christians should still argue and bicker over doctrinal matters."

Well Charlie, future sovereign of a tainted throne, might it be suggested that if the royal family truly holds to this statement, it might begin to end the overt and obvious anti-Catholic laws still in force in England. Prince Charles might render credibility to his feelings if he personally undertook the task of removing the restraints that prevent a Catholic from ever becoming monarch.

It is interesting to note that many English news-

papers did in fact react to Charlie's slur on Catholicism by advocating such a princely action.

The religious correspondent of The Times of London commented that it was his feeling that constitutional restrictions on the British monarch"s religion should be abol·· ished, if unity between Catholics and Angelicans is to be realized. The comment continued to the effect that exclusion of Catholics from the throne must be considered "an absurd anachronism."

In support of this statement, it speculated on the legal ramifications of present anti-Catholic laws. For example, in the event that the present Queen were to heed her Archbishop of Canterbury's call for intercommunion and receive Communion from a Catholic priest, she would immediately and forever be deposed from the throne.

It is only too clear that the anglicized German house of Battenburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, commonly known as Mountbatten-Windsor, will. never relinquish its royal prerogatives for religious reasons.

If this be the case, and indeed it is, then the present incumbents and their offspring should keep their royal tongues from slurring remarks intended to inflame antiCatholic feelings in a land that still considers members of the old church second-class citizens.

One might also speculate wht~ther, if the so-called heir apparent is to continue publicly to announce his disdain for the Catholic Church; he should be given the opportunity to sit upon the Scottish Stone of Scone and be proclaimed King of England.

Indeed, Cheeky Charlie should be chided for his childish anti-Catholic chatter.

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Ambivalence on Abortion

By Thomas P. McDonnell

We live under a siege of ambivalence. Ambivalences, by nature and definition, are not easy things to deal with; but I propose to deal with several of them here, no matter what the anguish, for it is time we faced the mutual pain of Catholics and Jews in their attitudes toward the question of abortion. For tentative example, Catholics do not see as much help coming from the Jewish community on the side of pl'o-Iife as Catholics themselves are likely to give, despite the charges to the contrary of Congressman Drinan, to pro-Israel support in the Middle East.

Pro-abortionists - or, to use the new euphemism, 'pro-choice' - invariably use against Catholics th~ tactical argument that it is largely from this one Christian faith that the force and efficacy of the anti-abortion movement derive. I suppose, as my church press colleague Henry Gosselin of "Church World" (Maine) clearly affirms, this' is something we should be proud of; but the fact is that support for the pro"life side of the question is various and substantial.

The pro-abortionists, however, much prefer to point out that It is . the Catholic Church that is wholly responsible for the antiabortion movement.

If this is so, is it then fair to use against Jews the poll-indicated finding that theirs is the largest single religious group to register the least objection to the practice of abortion? No, I do not think this is quite fair, for it leaves out the true antiabortion fervor of Orthodox Jewry. It leaves out that Jews are no more monolithic in their views than are their more commonly accused Catholic brothers and sisters in this regard. It leaves out that a libertarian Jewish talkshow host, David Brud·

noy of WHDH, is rationally antiabortion. It leaves out that a Jewish candidate for U.S. Senator, Avi Nelson, is unambiguously anti-abortion, which is more than some Catholic politicians can say. It leaves out the exquisite anguish of columnist Philip Perlmutter, who, in a recent issue of "Jewish Times," pleads the case for a high moral respect (as opposed to contempt) for the pro-life movement, and so on.

I find the Catholic-Jewish ambivalence on abortion to be particularly painful because of our Christian origins in the very womb of Semitic life itself. Surely, we have derived from these origins the overpowering concept that all human life is a journey toward consciousness in God. Therefore, who are we to snuff out that life, arbitrarily, in its journey toward consciousness in God? What are the contrived legalisms of the courts compared to the enormity of killing off innocent life in its journey from darkness to light?

Can we conspire to commit a more pernicious crime than this?

If this in· turn is taken as a theological argument not quite acceptable to everyone, largely because one either has other concepts of God or does not believe in God at all, then I'd like to offer what seems to me the most human and powerful statement against abortion that I have ever heard anywhere in any medium. I mean the talk by John Powell, S.J. on a cassette tape titled, simply, "Right to Life." Identified as tape 46-8.

Father Powell's talk is available from Christian Conference Cassettes, 7613 Harmon, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72207. The tape costs $1.00, plus 50 cents postage, and you are free to duplicate the cassette and share it with other people.

I shamelessly offer you this commercial. In previous col-

umns on the subject of abortion, I have drawn pointedly from Father Powell's talk. Again, it is the finest Christian statement I know on the subject; and if you have ever placed credence in anything I have ever written as a columnist, I ask you to take my word for this. Paradoxically, it is not widely known that Father Powell is one of the bestselling Catholic authors in the United States today.

It is reassuring to my own views that Father Powell also considers it legitimate to draw a comparison between the silent holocaust of abortion and the methodical work of the Nazi death camps during World War II. As a theological student in Germany, he remembers the sign that visitors see over the entrance to Dachau, Dachau, the horrible monument, reminding us "that what happened here may never in the course of human history happen again." But it is happening again, in the United States and all through Europe, with the astonishing exception of West Germany. Does that tell you something that is too profound for tears?

Holocaust means a burnt offering. The poison of a sa,line solution abortion has the effect of napalming the outer skin of the unborn child. If we accept the killing of innocent life as the solution to a limited problem, then. how can any of us claim we are not standing by and watching, almost idly, another holocaust of our own making? We live in a land whose Supreme Court has ruled that no one has any rights prior to birth.

In other words. St. Francis of Assisi had no right to be Francis, Dante had no rigl}t to be Dante, Einstein had no right to be Einstein. Do you wonder why Solzhenitsyn indicts the Western world? (Again, please send for the Father Powell tape). ("'I.t St.ff Writer,

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Continued from Page One countries attended the meeting.

Besides seeking to step up the Letters are welcomed, but should be no political activities of its 11 mil- ,"ore than 200 words. The editor reserves lion members, the organization lIle right to condense or edit, If deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and reaffirmed its policy against vio- Include a home or business address. lent anti-abortion activities, drew numerous parallels between the pro-life movement and the civil rights movement and Dear Editor: There are some people who inendorsed non-violent direct actions such as abortion clinic sit- dicate that we must not vote for a candidate on one issue. Howins.

At the convention's close, Dr. ever, if the lives of all religious Gerster announced that the pro- newspaper readers were threatlife organization would pay a ened because militant athiests $5,000 reward for information were legally allowed to kill us, leading to the arrest and con· we would only vote for those viction of persons responsible candidates who would stop such slaughter. for burning abortion clinics.

In fact, we would not support "The National Right to Life "candidates, who are otherwise Committee condemns all forms highly qualified, if they refused of violence and recognizes the most serious violence as being to vote for legislation to protect our lives. the annihilation of" human life What kind of a society are wrought through abortion itself," anti-life legislators creating for she said. the future? Dr. R. A. Gallon The principal objective of the states: "Once you permit the NRLC is passage of a constitu- killing of the unborn child, there tional amendment known as a will be no stopping. There will human life amendment, which be no age limit. You are setting would supersede the 1973 Su- off a chain reaction that will preme Court decisions legalizing eventually make you the victim. abortion. To secure that amend- Your children will kill you bement, the organization works cause you permitted the killing for the election to Congress of of their brothers and sisters. persons committed to its pass- Your children will kill you beage. cause they will not want to sup"Those men and women who port you in your old age. Your do not understand the life issues children will kill you for your and will not vote to protect the homes and estates. U a doctor right to life will find it very, will take money for killing the very difficult to be elected to innocent in the womb, he will office," said Dr. Mildred F. Jef- kill you with a needle when paid ferson, retiring NRLC president. by your children. This is the Identification of every pro- terrible nightmare you are creatlife and undecided voter in the ing for the future." nation has been established as Jeremy Jackson the goal of a NRLC project now Silver Spring, Md. underway in 23 states, Felicia Goeken, of Alton, III., director of the project, estimated that the survey can be completed in a Continued from Page One year and a half.

General Griffin Bell announced Speaking at a workshop on that the United States would rethe project, Mrs. Goeken said the survey "will establish' to con- settle 12,500 boat people over gressmen that it is safe to be the next year. Another 12,500 have been resettled since last pro-life."

August.

In her keynote address to the The USCC has resettled about convention, Dr. Gerster, a Scot- half of the 164,000 Indochinese tsdale, Ariz., physician, reviewed refugees who have come into the the abolitionist" movement, call- United States since the fall of ing it "a movement like ours."

Vietnam in April, 1975.

"Just as no nation can sur· McCarthy said the usee will vive half slave and half free, resettle about the same percent· no nation can survive whose age of new refugees. very foundations are stained by In a meeting last month, Mcthe blood of its children," she Carthy and other voluntary agsaid. "Just as there is no such ency officials assured Vice Presithing as a little more equal, dent Walter Mondale and memthere is no such thing as a little bers of the National Security bit human."

Council that the agencies would The pro-life leader told her provide homes and jobs for all of audience, "There are still moral the 25,000 refuges approved for absolutes. Slavery was wrong admission into the United States. regardless of the considerable McCarthy, in praising the new economic advantages. Abortion administration action on the boat is wrong regardless of the socio- people, said the usec "reiterates economic problems it seems to its pledge to cooperate in this solve." effort in all ways possible." " MoCarthy has been outspoken At a meeting preceding the convention, the NRLC's board in support of help for the boat people. He discussed the issue of representatives passed resolutions calling for a human life. with Mondale and recently wrote a letter to President Jimmy Caramendment; condemning agenter saying that the United States cies which "endorse promiscuity in teen-agers" and encouraging and France helped refugees "healthy sex education courses;" fleeing Vietnam in boats in 1954 reaffirming that non-violence and 1955 after the· French lost "characterize all actions taken Vietnam. in the name of the National Right to Life Committee;" and Not the Answer vowing to work against federal ",Force is no remedy." :.- John financing of abortions.

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Major speakers at the gathering will be Rosemary Haughton," British Author and lecturer; Father J. Bryan Hehir, associate secretary for international justice and peace in the U.S. Catholic Conference; and Father Gerard S. Sloyan, professor of Religion at Temple University.

Other activities will include tours of historic sites in Boston and workshops and discussions on art; ecumenism, feminism, ethnicity and the practical planning and production of public liturgies as they relate to those concerns.

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Do Moral Theologians Ever Go to Parties?

Iy REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

A long-time ago I stopped reading moral theology books, figuring they were mostly worthless both intellectually and practically. I was tricked back into reading them last summer by the publication of "Human Sexuality" and promptly resolved never to do it again.

Recently, however, f read James Gustafson's magisterial "Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics," and once again I was appalled I>Y the intellectual poverty of Catholic (and Protestant) moral thought. Jim Gustafson is a very bright man who is unfortunately reporting on the work of men who have much to be modest about.

Back in the 1960s r reviewed the situation ethics debate -

Iy MARY CARSON

I sometimes feel my life is one big interruption. .No matter what I plan to do, something else happens and the original plans go down the drain.

I'm sure. this doesn't happen to everyone. Some people work to precise schedules. If Thursday moming at 10:30 is their time to go grocery shopping there could be a flood six feet deep and they would still go shopping. If one of their kids was going to get appendicitis, he'd know that he couldn't do

By MARILYN RODERICK

I just spent a delightful morning sitting on a sun dappled bench in a nearby university courtyard, surrounded by ivy-covered walls and a sense of. timelessness.'

Actually I was waiting for my daughter who was attending a .summer course, but in the process I enjoyed just sitting in a lovely setting doing nothing.

Sum~er is the time for such inactivJty. for long dreamy days when. ~t isn't that important to look a~ the clock, followed by simple meals made elegant by

Joseph Fletcher, Paul Ramsey, to banish such experiences from plines that throws great light on human nature. One gets the imand Wl'.S their inoral reflections.

Paul Lehmann Neither do they seem to have pression that moral theologians shocked by the superficiality and triviality of the discussion. acquired any wisdom from the don't even know they exist.

Many writers today refer to Catholic moral theolog~ans (with disciplines that study human some notable exceptions, such E.S nature. Some of them seem to three approaches to human beRichard McCormick) are nut have read Freud and other psy- havior: descriptive, normative choanalysts, but they have not and predictive. The descriptive much better.

They lack the theoretical wh;- absorbed the implications of the approach portrays the way dom that comes from incisi\l e psychoanalytic model of human people behave, normative deminds (like Jim Gustafson's) and nature. Sociology escapes them scribes the way they should bethe practical wisdom路 that comf'S completely, save when they are have, and predictive estimates from street experience. The telling us that moral decisions show how, under certain circumhandling of ethical problemss cannot be made by counting stances, a given proportion of the population will behave. impressive neither as a theoreti- noses.

When they do make use of Moral theologians are conscious cal intellectual exercise nor 8.S as practical personal guidance. social science research - as in of the distinction between norOne can safely forget almost the Catholic Theological Soci- mative and descriptive; apparanything the moral theologiars ety's report, "Human Sexuality" ently they do not understand -they aren't able to distinguish the predictive approach at all. currently have to say.

Descriptive analysis says that I think the main reason my between good social science and reaction to moral theologans :s bad social science. and appar- most American Catholics pracso hostile is that they seem to ently are unwilling to ask social tice birth control. Normative be so deficient in their undeJ:- scientists to make the distinc- analysis will say that that is not right (or, alternatively, that it is tions. standing of human nature.

There are two new subdisci- right). Predictive analysis will For the most part they don't seem ever to have walked the plines which. have enormous im- observe that, on the basis of streets of a neighborhood, played plications for moral -thinking: what we know about the history in a parking lot, gone to partiE'S . sociobiology and demographic of the biology of human nature, or hung around on street co,.- history. Both are new, uncertain . most human populations under ners. If they have done any of and controversial fields; yet circumstances of rapid populathese things, they have managed there is much in the two disci- tion growth will practice some

form of birth limitation. In trying to arrive at a calculus for moral judgment, such analyses simply cannot be ignored; yet as far as I can see, moral theologians keep right on ignoring them.

solved quickly.

An hour before one of my sons was to graduate. another son broke a leg. A week before we were to have three days vacation, my husband got pneumonia.

away. I've washed my hair at 3 a.m. and had one of them knocking on the bathroom door.

There doesn't seem to be a single thing I can do without someone else's needs having to be taken care of first.

I've got interruptions down to such a scie:1ce that I even get stopped from things I don't particularly want to do. The other day I had an afternoon off from work. It W8.S a cool day and I decided to clean my stove. (I know it's time when the grease is so thick I can't fit a roasting pan into the oven anymore.) I had just finished reading the instructions on the can of cleaner when I got a call from work . . . and had to go in.

Just once I'd like to do something without having someone say, "Before you do that . . . would you please take care of . . ." I've had dreams that I'd be riding down the aisle in my coffin and one of my kids would come running after me, "I still have to have these papers filled out for schoo!!"

lt I try to read, one of the kids has something ,"urgent" that must be answered right

Some days it would be easy to feel sorry -for myself. But then I get to thinking about another Mother. She was engaged to be married . . . and that was interrupted with' an unexpected pregnancy. She. was ready to

give birth, and had to make a trip to comply with the census laws.

She had hardly settled down raising her Baby, when she had to move to another country.

Her journey home from what should have been a joyful vacation was interrupted with a search for a missing Child.

What had she planned for the day she made the trip to Calvary?

Would she have preferred to be doing something else those days. she kept the Apostles together?

And what of her now? How many millions of people interrupt her every day? ". . . never was it known that anyone . . . was left unaided."

The problem is the interruptions. The challenge is how to respond to them.

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it until 11:55 - between tl:e schedule's allotment for putting groceries away and starting lunch.

I'm inclined to believe thut these people are the exception and tha~ most people operate somewhat the way I do. I can predict with absolute accuracy that whatever I plan, it's not going to happen.

When I sit down to a meal, the phone rings. If I'm on my way out the door to take one of the kids to a doctor's appoin::ment, another kid gets sick When I'm ready to leave to go shopping, the washing machine overflows.

Most times it's little things and the solution is to take care of it, then be a bit late for whatever I was supposed to do.

But other times things can't be

the fresh fruits and vegetable.. native to our area. Because of their freshness these taste pleasers can be served without a lot of fancy additions.

At the moment, Bibb lettuce, early spinacIi and late strawberries from our own garden are adding pleasure to our table.

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Recently, I have been in a number of situations where moral theologians and social scientists came together. I have the impression that the moralists find us curious creatures and are more than a little suprised to find that technically competent social scientists can still be devout Christians. They are even intrigued by some of the things we say.

At the Vatican III conference at Notre Dame, for example, the moralists were fascinated by John Kotre's ideas on generativity and Terry Sullivan's ideas on reconciliation (baffling notions to hear from empiricists, I guess). But as far as I could tell, it didn't seem to occur to anyone that generativity and reconciliation might be appropriate subjects for moral theological reflection.

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New Ministries Continued from Page One not primarily for the useful services they generously provide."

The 47-page document, laced with references to the "life in the Spirit" which must motivate every Religious, was drawn up by the congregations in consultation with religious orders and Vatican bodies.

"In these our times," said the document, "Religious are required to have that same charismatic genuineness, both lively and ingenious, for which their founders excelled.

"In this way they will commit themselves better and zealously to apostolic work among those, who today constitute truly the majority of humanity and are the beloved of the Lord - the poor and the mtle ones."

The congregations asked Religious to form associations among themselves on various reo gional and international levels 'but warned that statements made on social, economic or political matters should be brought before the local bishop before being issued.

The document approved of new forms of apostolate and also upheld the validity of traditional work in sch{)ols, hospitals and missions.

It said that nuns working in fields outside the usual mission of their order must maintain "substantial participation in the order's communal life and follow its rule.

"No apostolic commitment must be the occasion for deviating from one's own vocation," it said.

The document restated that bishops have the final say in many key decisions regarding the apostolic activities of sisters in their dioceses.

The document restated that bishops have the final say in many key decisions regarding the apostolic activities of sisters in their dioceses.

'But it also cautioned' bishops against "being masters among the faithful."

Bishops, it said, "should be justly aware of the primacy of the life in the Spirit which demands that they be both guides and members, truly fathers, but also brothers, teachers of the faith but also co-disciples before Christ, perfecters of the brethren, but also true witnesses of their own personal sanctity."

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Ordinations Continued from Page One His first Mass will be offered at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 23 at St. Jacques Church, with Father Mark Noonan of St. John's Seminary as homilist. A reception will follow in the church hall.

Rev. Mr. Gallant was born in Fall River and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gallant. He is a graduate of St. Jean iBaptiste grammar school and the former Msgr. Prevost High School. After attending Stonehill College from 1969 to 1971, he entered St. John's Seminary. His deacon assignment was at St. Joseph's parish, New Bedford, where he

served last summer.

The ordinand will offer his first Mass at 4 p.m. Sunday; July 23 at St. William Church. Music will be by the St. Mary's Cathedral Choir, directed by Glen Guittari, and the homily will be given by Father Francis V. Strahan of St. John's Seminary. The parish center will be the scene of a reception immediately following the Mass.

THE HDLY FATHER'S MISSIDN AID TD THE ORIENTAL CHURCH

"To preach the Gospel to the poor was my reason for becoming a priest." Father Michael says quietly. "I too am penniless, as you can see.

The Gospel is my people's only hope." ... His parish in Batlagundu, India, encompasses 60 square miles and includes 25 villages with a total population of over 80,000, of which only about 3,200 are Catholics-all of them extremely poor. Father Michael's church, built 75 years HE ago, is pitifUlly small. It can accommodate only NEEDS 250 worshippers. Most of those hearing Mass A are forced to stand outside in blistering heat or CHURCH drenching rain. Moreover, the ancient chapel is on the verge of collapse. Father Michael has plans for a new church, SUbstantially built of concrete and hardwood. From his poor parish· ioners, from his diocese and from other sources, he has collected a fund to begin work - but $4,000 more is needed to complete the church.

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PROVINCETOWN, St. Peter the Apostle, 11 Prince St.: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., 5:30 p.m. (except Sat.); confessions, Sat. 4-4:30 p.m.

SANDWICH, Corpus Christi, 8 Jarves St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon; daily, 9 a.m.

SAGAMORE, St. Theresa, Rte. 6: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m.

SOUTH YARMOurH, St. Pius X, 5 Barbara St.: Sat. 4, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m.

BASS RIVER, Our Lady of the Highway, Rte. 28: Sun. 8, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily (Mon.-Fri.), 8 a.m.

VINEYARD HAVEN, St. Augustine, Church and Franklin Sts.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:30 p.m., 6-6:30 p.m.

WAREHAM, St. Patrick, 82 High St.: Sat. 4, 6 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45, 7-7:30 p.m.

WEST WAREHAM, St. Anthony, off Rte. 28 (schedUle effective July and August): Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, 11 a.m.; confessions before each Mass.

WELLFLEET, Our Lady of Lourdes, 56-58 Main St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m. confessions, Sat. 4:30-5 p.m. and before all Masses; Tues. 7:30 p.m. Mass followed by charismatic prayer meeting; Holy day Aug. 14, 5, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 8, 11 a.m., 6 p.m.

TRURO, Sacred Heart, Rte. 6A: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 9:30 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 9:30 a.m.

NORTH TRURO, Our Lady or Perpetual Help, Pond Road: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, 11 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14, 5, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 8 a.m., 6 p.m.

WEST HARWICH, Holy TrinH.y, Rte. 28 (Khedule effective through Cofumbus Day week~ end): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9, 10:30 a.m, 12 noon; daily, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat., 3 and 7:45 p.m.

DENNISPORT, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Upper County Rd. (schedule effective through Labor Day weekend): Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessiqns, Sat. 3-4 p.m.

WOODS HOLE, St. Joseph: Sat. 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.; First Fridays, 7:30 p.m.; confessions Y2 hour before Sunday Masses.

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"There really isn't that much to it," says Mrs. Josephine Fletcher, casually dismissing a career that has included nightclub entertaining, many radio and television appearances and a stint of recording "top 10" popular songs; and now involves directing music for St. Margaret parish in Buzzards Bay and the Bourne Choral Group. All this while singlehandedly bringing up three children after the death of her husband.

It's a pretty impressive list of achievements for anyone. But Mrs. Fletcher, 48, has been totally blind since the age of six months.

"So I've never had to adjust to the loss of sight," she said, as if that explained everything.

It doesn't, of course. But her manner of handling her problem begins to. She has shared it, on request, at talks to Cape Cod schoolchildren.

"I tell them," she said, "that handicapped people are people, no matter what. Just treat them like anyone else. And don't be afrai4 to ask questions. Sure, some will snap at you, but. so will people without handicaps," For herself. said the ebullient Mrs. Fletcher, blindness is an "inconvenience, rather than a handicap."

As Drew, her 12-year-old son, . drifted in and out of her office, she talked during a break in her parttime job at the Bourne Community Center, where she makes daily "reassurance calls'" to elderly people living alone. If she turns up a need, such as for shopping, a doctor's visit or a household chore, she makes sure it's met. Sometimes, she said, hers is the only call a person receives all day and many conversationsare prolonged just to give a lonely oldster the assurance that. someone is interested in him or her.

"Some people I call from home

on the weekend, to make sure they're all right," said Mrs. Fletcher.

She said she has been told that her blindness was most likely caused by bird droppings, "which might have blown in my eyes when I was out in my carriage as an infant." At age 5 her parents sent her to Massachusetts' famed Perkins School for the Blind, where she boarded through her junior year in high school and where she received the vocal training that led her to her entertainment career.

She explained that her mother was her "eyes" for the New York nightclub scene and that she met her future husband at a show business restaurant. At the time he was a railroad employee, but -4 years ago, forseeing the demise of trains, he accepted a post office position on Cape Cod. where two of the three Fletcher children were born.

"I was fortunate when they were little," said their mother.

"We had very few accidents.

We had a fenced-in yard and I had bells on their shoes so I could tell where they were."

The children are Cere, 26, who is married, Heather, 13, and Drew.

All are musical "and not protective of me at all," chuckled Mrs. Fletcher. ''They're just like anyone else's children."

Drew and Heather board at St. Joseph's School in Fall River during the school year and their mother gives it high marks for inculcating good study habits.

"Heather's going to summer school because she wants to skip a grade."

Even without the children at home, however, Mrs. Fletcher has few idle moments. She meets with St. Margaret's choir weekly and currently is working with them on an interfaith cantata for presentation this summer. She is also the founder and

director of the Bourne Choral Group, which also meets regularly, and she keeps up her own vocal lessons.

She admits she plays piano and organ mainly by ear but she can also read and write Braille music, which has a special system of notation.

A constant companion is her Seeing Eye Dog, but she jokes that Minnie, 16, really needs a Seeing Eye cat. "Eventually I'll get another dog, but not while Minnie's living. It would be like a husband bringing in a new young wife."

In parting, Mrs. Fletcher summed up her personal philosophy: "I just want to lead a good life, make others happy and make them glad I'm around."

Deacon Program Sets Family Day Permanent Deacon candidates of the diocese will hold a family picnic day beginning at noon on Saturday, July 22, at La Salette on Route 6A in Brewster.

In addition to diocesan candidates, all deacons, candidates and their families who are vacationing on Cape Cod are invited to participate in the day.

Permanent deacon directors from neighboring dioceses have received special notice that members of their diaconaI communities" are most welcome to share in the program.

This day is an expression of diocesan interest in building diaconal community. Realizing that diaconal programs vary according to the needs of each diocese, it is also seen as an opportunity for sharing ideas and mutual concerns.

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Father Kennedy warned that when lay 'people think about their shared responsibility in decision-malting, they too often . think only in terms of wanting the power to make choices or decisions. But the priest pointed out the power lies at every stage of the decision-making process.

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These stages, he said, involve "fact people," who have the data and do research; "idea people," who can dream and come

up with a variety of alternative solutions "choice-makers," who can analyze and weigh facts, ideas and dreams and arrive at practical solutions; "implementers," who can put deeisions into action; and "evaluators," who study results and see what went right or wrong and why.

Sometimes "sound financial advice should not be followed" in the church because it can "destroy persons," Father Kennedy said. ''That may be justified in business theory . . . But it seems to me that has no place in the church . . . Making money is not a goal of the church . . . It is only a means . The primary goal of the church is the growth of persons."

Father Kennedy told the parish council members that he

believes the "veto power of pastors . . . makes sense in certain circumstances."

But there should be a possibility of appeal to the bishop and the pastor's veto power should be limited, the priest said,because it can "break the morale" of a parish council if implementation of its decisions is left entirely to the pastor or if a pastor vetoes a decision "simply because he disagrees with it. II A parish council should "not be a battleground of contention . . . not a collection of thinkalikes," Father Kennedy said.

"It is a microcosm of the church . . . of the family . . . In which there is a union of persons . . . in which there is love and respect for one another."

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A. A few years back Robert Paul Smith wrote a book called "'Where Di-d You Go?' 'Out' 'What Did You Do?' 'Nothing,''' Although written about younger children, that title sums up the conversation that frequently occurs between parent and teen.

'Formal dating for many teens is practically non-existent today.

A group of boys or girls drives around in a car, looking. for members of the opposite sex.

They stop at a drive-in or a pizza place for food and conversation, 'J1hey go "out," but they do not date formally. The old rule, "You may date at 16 but not before," is not relevant for today's teen.

Furthermore, the mobility a car brings means that it is virtually impossible for the parent to know where a teen is at night. Even a well-meaning teen cannot tell the parent where he will be. He is simply "out," Despite this casual style of recreation, :.t is possible for parents to discover and apply guidelines. Here are three ways.

1. What are the community practices? I am not advocating that parent;; go by the old teen argument, "Everybody's doing it. II On the other hand, to ignore what other children in the community do is to overlook a valuable guideline. Other parents also wish to bring up their chil-

dren well and safely. If other children are allowed to follow certain practices, you can probably let your child do so. If the seventh and eighth graders ferquent a certain local movie house on Friday nights, if the junior high holds dances once a month, if high school dances '!ast until midnight, it is probably all right for your child to participate in these activities.

2. See for yourself what is going on. If you are undecided about letting your sixth or seventh grader attend school dances, offer to chaperone. You will probably be warmly welcomed (the job is not much in demand). and you can unobtrusively learn what junior high social life is like.

3. Use common sense. Discuss with your teen. Make rules that are clear and fair. Since teens frequently do ride around or go from one place to another in the course of an evening, we find that regulating hours is more effective than trying to regulate where our child goes.

We think that 10 p.m. is an appropriate deadline through eighth grade, 11 p.m. for freshman and sophomores and midnight for juniors and seniors in high school. We modify these hours for special occasions, but they are appropriate curfews for our community. The practices of your community may vary. Once a child is graduated from high school, we no longer set hours.

The child is an adult and we expect him to be responsible for his own hours.

One special issue that troubles many parents is steady dating.

Rather than forbidding Susie to "go with" her Tom, we think parents should try to determine what is meant by "going together" and avoid overreacting. In junior high many young teens form pairs. Generally they are imitating older people, and they gain a certain status with their classmates. If ignored or tolerated, such matches usually last a few weeks, sometimes only a few days.

High school matches may be equally short-lived or they may become quite serious. To forbid a relationship totally is probably the least effective way to control a teen-age romance. A teen who wants to defy parents can do so. Parents cannot police a child at all hours. The older the teen, the more right and responsibility he has to make his own decisions. If you listen sympathetically, your teen may share his thoughts and feelings. If you clearly disapprove, it is doubtful he will communicate at all.

Parents cannot control everywhere teens go or everything they do. One of the best places for teens to recreate is in their own homes. If your home is a warm, friendly place where your children's friends are welcome, they will probably spend some of their leisure time at home. Control their going-out behavior by making rules that are clear and fair. Keep the lines of communication open by approachipg your teen with sympathy, support and trust.

Reader questions on family living and child care are invited.

Address to The Kennys, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass 02722.

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I have never had an affair with anyone, but is it wrong to have sexual relations with the one you intend to marry?

I have never felt this way about anyone before. My girl $8YS she loves me very much and would like to marry someday.

We have taiked of having sexual relations but I'm really confused.

I do want to marry her, but I also want to do what is right.

We need an answer that win help us. I know one of your answers may be that if you love each other enough you will both wait. We both want to be sure.

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Contrary to what one hears today, there is no evidence whatsoever that sexual intimacy before marriage increases the chances for a happy union after the wedding. If anything, the contrary is true, for some very practical reasons.

Many of the joys, adventures and excitement of sexual experience and fun can easily (much more easily than you might believe) become old hat. There may possibly even accompany this experience at least some sense of guilt. Sexual intimacy can thus become seriously blunted in its potential for helping couples in working patiently and tenderly through the tensions, uncertainities and new responsibilites of the first years of marriage.

Sexual-intimacy also tends to become almost obsessive, especially when divorced from other needs and responsibilities which accompany normal daily married life. Once sex is begun, it can 'become a kind of hovering presence for a young man and woman. When they meet for a date, they know how'the evening will end. . All ingenuity in finding and learning other ways of having fun together, in communicating their hopes and concerns and ideals, even in exploring how they can make some gift of themselves to others who need them- all this easily becomes crowded out and ignored. Sex is. always available, and it requires little in the way of thought, personal effort or unselfishness.

Your ideals and your love for each other are obviously deep, I hope you will keep them that way, and think through your moral decisions in this light. The payoff in happiness and peace of mind will be worth whatever it costs.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen c/o The Anehor, P.O. Box: 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

A. Catholic moral teaching remains, and is likely to remain, that sexual relations before marriage are wrong. Within the limits of our space here, I can mention only a few, but I believe very important, thoughts that may help.

First, you must realize that your desire for sexual union with the girl you love is not only normal, it is the way you ought to feel about her. Any man or woman who plans to marry and doesn't strongly want sexual intimacy with his or her partner is in trouble and needs a medical examination, psychiatric counselling - or a serious re·examination of the choice of partner.

Such a desire is, however, no basis, all by itself, for judging whether sexual intercourse is morally right or wrong for you.

As all Catholic-Christian moral doctrine, this Ohurch teaching of has not pulled out of thin air. The Church simply confirms by its own insight and belief what is common human experience - complete sexual intimacy between people who are not married is hurtful in serious ways that are usually not dreamed of beforehand, and it is therefore sinful.

The total self-giving that sexual intercourse involves implies Notre Dame S'isters an acceptance of responsibility ROME (NC) - The Sisters of and permanent, committed trust of another that you are simply Notre Dame De Namur yesternot able at this point to honestly day began their general chapter profess. No matter what you say at their generalate in Rome. you mean to each other, you do The 49 delegates to the gennot have the assured and prom- eral chapter will deal with agenised commitment to one another da items submitted by members that marriage brings with it. of the congregation who serve in The vows you profess, if you more than SO dioceses, including marry each other, will not be a Fall River, in Europe, North and mere legal formality making of- South America, Asia and Africa. ficial what was already there be- They will also elect a new superfore. As your family, friends ior general. and churoh will witness by their The Sisters of Notre Dame de presence, your promises will for Namur were founded in France the first time make your rela- in 1804 'by St. Julie Billiart and tionship more than just a private work primarily in education. In arrangElment between the two of the Fall River diocese the comyou. Oqly then will you have es- munity provided the original tablished the kind of permanent, staffing for Bishop Stang High public responsibility to and for . School, North Dartmouth, and is each other that makes sexual still represented on the school's intercourse an honest, truthful facuIty.

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''DYING IS A PART OF LIFE," says Dr. George Buesing. "If we deny the illness because we don't want to face the sad parts; or if we demand a cure; we lose the sharing; the growth and love that comes from that."

The 27-year-old Jersey City physician could have been counseling a terminally ill patient, but he was discussing himself, his approaching death and the changes he has made in his life since he found out a year ago that he is dying of leukemia.

Two days aft~r the diagnosis, Dr. Buesing joined the staff of Jersey City's Patrick House, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic where he had spent summers as a volunteer. Six months ago he married Sondra Edwards, a Patrick House social worker.

"At Patrick House I had seen people who need compassion and basic care," he says. "I became excited about medicine, about the physician as part of a team that was trying to help people to something more than freedom from disease."

A Christian with involvement in Catholicism through friends, Dr. Buesing says: "I believe in God, in Jesus Christ and in the ideas of Christianity. And the idea that 'all things work together for good' is the one that is most comforting to me."

Dr. Buesing feels strongly about helping people fulfill themselves. The effort to free people from drug and alcohol abuse is only part of it. He agonizes over "poor education, lack of skills, low self-esteem" and crime control methods which, he says, do not address the causes.

The physician's illness has brought him closer to his family and has led him to his rich life of service to the outcast.

"It's not good to die or be sick or· have to think about it," he says quietly. "But it's human if we share it with those around us. It can be a blessing if you use that time to live as fully as you can."

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Catholic Role II

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There is no Catholic constituency in this country. Almost all the political issues facing us have Catholics on both sides.

When a Catholic runs for office, some Catholics vote for him, and others vote against him - just as do Americans of other religious persuasions. So a Catholic public official, whether elected or appointed, represents Americans of all religious views. .

He is not expected to devote the ' powers of his office to causes in which only Catholics are interested.

On the other hand, he is not expected to leave his personal convictions behind him when he walks in his office door. To have no conviction is to have no backbone, and few Americans wish to be governed by jellyfish. We THIE HAPPY WARRllOR, Al Smith, speaks to a packed house in the Brooklyn Academy desire - indeed, we insist onleaders who understand the dif- of MusEc during his 1928 eampaign for the presidency. (NC Photo) ference between right and wrong, and act accordingly.

A Catholic serious about being a Catholic will derive at' least some of his ideas of right and wrong from the teachings of elected in 1922, 1924 and 1926. could loyally uphold the ConstiALSMITH the church. He will probably With his chosen aides, some of tution. They asserted that he

By Father Robert 1rrisco want to use these in his public the most influential of whom would let the pope gain control life in the same way he will Only one American Catholic were Jews and women, he pro- of the United States. want to use ideas of right and politician was so outstanding moted progressive legislation, Never having experienced in wrong that he came by in some that decades after his death he showing himself to be liberal in his career any conflict between other way. There is no reason is honored annually at a grand social questions but conserva- the demands of his religion and why he should not do this. If memorial dinner held under the tive in fisca.l matters. the duties of his office or any what he proposes is right, good patronage of the card:nal-arclclerical attempt to dictate pubAt the Democratic national people listen to him, regardless bishop of New York and atten1convention in 1924 he was no- lic policy, Smith was dismayed of where his ideas came from. ed. by leaders of both parties, minated by Franklin Delano at the fanatical prejudice his The civil rights movement of fanned into That man, Alfred E. Smith, Roosevelt, who called him, in candidacy had the past 2'0 years is an example flames. was the first Catholic to be n:>- Wordsworth's words, "Happy of how this comes about. Some 'Besides his Catholicism, howminated for the United Statfs' Warrior," a nickname that he Catholics were recruited into the ever, his known desire, to end presidency. He is so honored be- retained forever. movement by reflecting on the Since he had denounced the Prohibition and his identification teachings of the church, some cause of the integrity and hOlProtestants by reading their Bib- esty with which he engaged in powerful Kt. Klux Klan for sprea- with Eastern and urban interests les, some Jews by reading their politics, the steadfastness wi:h ding religious and racial hatred, also made him unacceptable to Torah. Others, of all faiths, or of which he professed and practic- however, he was passed over by many voters, particularly in the no faith, arrived at the same ed his faith, and the fidelity the delegates. Four years later South and West. In the election place by simply looking carefully with which he set an example as he won his party's nomination, he won only about 40 percent husband and father of a Cnrift- hut then faced the bitter opposi- of the popular vote; this seemed at the world around them. ian family. tion of the Klan's many Protest- to demonstrate that no Catholic The same thing is happening Turn to Page Thirteen The first child of native New ants who denied that a Catholic today With social justice. When Yorkers (a hard-working, shOlta question of social justice comes lived father and a resourceful, up, some of the people who rereligious mother), Al Smith WIS act are secularists following a born in a tenement house on the political ideology, some are CaLower East Side in 1873. He retholics who have read the papal ceived his only formal education By Father Joseph M. Champlin nullity is granted and a divorced encyclicals, some are Christians person may marry before a Casimply trying to love their neigh- from the Christian Brothers in a After a wedding celebration, bors, some are Jews following parochial school for eight years. the officiating priest must do tholic clergyman.

Though he owed his early adwhat they have been taught, l,Jntii recently, instances were some paper work. He enters deand some are just ordinary peo- vancement in public office to the tails in a marriage register, quite rare in which marriages ple who feel sorry for the vic- favor of Tammany Hall, in addi- sends a notice of the ceremony before a priest, later terminated tims of poverty and oppression. tion to his oratorical ability and to the church in which the by civil divorce or annulment, his outgoing personality, he was It is only right that public never tained by the prevalent spouse(s) was baptized and re- received Church decrees declarofficials should feel outraged at corruption of that political mac- turns the signed civil license to ing them null and void. Only injustice and should want to hine or of the New York State the appropriate governmental some obvious obstacles, ego force and fear, non-consummation, help the poor. Whether this is Assembly, to which he was first official. mental instability, constituted the teaching of their religion,or elected in 1903 and of which :!1e In the United States religious whether they have come to it in eventually became majority 1ÂŁa- nuptials performed by recognized grounds for an annulment. Moreover, the process involved ensome other way, it is still no der and speaker. clergy have legal force. ormous paper work and often more than right. â&#x20AC;˘ During those years in Albary, The reverse process, however, required years.

What the church teaches about he emerged as a champion of so- does not hold true in the CathoFortunately since 1970, in our people is respect for them. They cial welfare and reform. ThEn, lic Church. Neither civil marriare created by God, and they after serving in different capaci- ages nor legal annulments are country this procedure has been have an eternal destiny. The ties in New Y'Ork County and automatically accepted. In the substantially simplified and aca thorough celerated. My own diocese, to ilchurch insists on respect for this City, he was eJected governor of latter situation destiny and for the freedom to New York in 1918; t~ 1le Church procedure must be fol- lustrate, can now handle such a was defeated in 1920, he WQ t'e- lowed before a declaration of work it out.

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The first American cplonists had no intention of separating Church and state. In fact, they came with the idea of establishing elitist religious states purged of the decadent elements of the European homeland.

They came to create a total Christian society in which God's demands would be obeyed to the letter. Religion and the state would be one.

William Penn wrote, "Government seems to me a part of religion itself, a thing sacred in its. institution and purpose."

The Salem Contract of 1629 avowed, "We bind ourselves in the presence of God to walk together in all his ways."

Still, religion in the American colonies would not echo the established churches of Europe.

The clergy had less authority.

From the start, churches were managed by laymen.

The religious establishment was popular, not hierarchical.

The clerical-lay caste system that lingered on even in European Protestant states did not travel well across the Atlantic.

Yet, it must be said that some of the repressive measures and superstitions of the Old World floated across the seas. The Salem witch trials witnessed the tenacity of superstition and the triumph of irrationality. The persecution of religious dissidents threatened to make the new World another travesty of religious freedom and conscience.

It was the courage of people like Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson that broke the vicious hold of religious repression.

In founding the Providence community, Williams wrote, "I desired it might be a shelter for persons distressed by conscience."

In his defense of religious freedom, Williams declared that "the form of government in the Providence Plantation is democratic . . . let the saints of the Most High walk in this colony without molestation in the name of Jehovah their God, forever and ever."

A royal charter approved this approach in 1663. Thus was born the first commonwealth in modern history to make religious freedom (not just toleration) a political principle. Thus was born the American drive to separate church and state.

Other factors contributed to the growth of this idea. The new waves of immigrants were not so much passionate believers as ordinary people seeking economic betterman in a land of opportunity.

Collapse of the ideal of a perfect Christian state did not mean . the end of religious influence.

It simply shifted the emphasis from compelling people to belong to a particular religion to a voluntary membership.

Catholic Candidates Continued from Page Twelve could be elected president of the United States.

'Disillusioned by what he regarded as the irrational intolerance of the majority of his fellow citizens, Smith held no public office thereafter, but he remained prominent on the national scene for the rest of his life.

Receiving a substantial salary as manager of the new Empire State Building, he generously contributed money and time to Catholic charities throughout the Depression.

In recognition of his "liberal and constructive leadership in statecraft, business and private' charitable work," Pope Pius XI made him a privy chamberlain of the cape and sword in 1938.

After he died in 1944, nearly 200,000 persons filed past his bier in St. Patrick's Cathedral to pay their final respects.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By Father John J. Castelot lIn the late 1950s, a vibrant man made his presence known on the American scene. His name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. His youth,good looks, intelligence, sense of humor, ready wit, winning smile, athleticism, powers of leadership, personal magnetism, integrity and independence added up to an almost irresistihle charisma. But as a candidate for the presidency he suffered from an apparently insuperable handicap: he was a Catholic.

Anti-Catholicism had been bred into the American psyche from the beginning; sometimes subtle, sometimes vicious, it was always there, as American as apple pie. The AI Smith campaign of 1928 had unleashed a spate of venomous, often obscene anti-Catholic propaganda.

The message seemed unmistakably clear we will never tolerate a Catholic president. Yet the Democratic Party nominated Kennedy in 1960.

He was not only Catholic, but Irish, descended from poor immigrants. His paternal grandfather had been a saloonkeeper and Boston politician. His father, Joseph P., graduated from Harvard, was president of a bank at the age of 25, married the daughter of John (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, mayor of Boston, amassed a personal fortune in various ventures, and eventually became U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. He was determined that his children would break the Irish Catholic ghetto stereotype and be able to stand on their own two feet in the world at large.

Irish they would remain, and Catholic, too. John's mother, Rose, a devout Catholic, saw to the religious education of the children. But their general education was anything but parochial.

John graduated with honors from Harvard in 1940. His rise in the political world was meteoric. In election after election he won by an amazing majority, and w~nt from the House of Representatives to the Senate. In both houses he proved himself most able, demonstrating all the while that he could think and act in~ependently. In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier.

Soon afterwards, he ha<;l a ser~

ies of spinal operations 'and, while convalescing, wrote the popular "Profiles in Courage," which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1957.

His re-election to the Senate in 1958 by a plurality of 874,000 votes marked him as a front runner for the presidential race and in 1960, the Democrats nominated him on the first ballot.

His campaign was vigorous and :he was constantly put on the defensive about his religion.

He succeeded in convincing most fair-minded people, but there were strong blocs which refused to be convinced, and he defeated Nixon by only 119,450 out of 69,000,000 votes. He was the first Roman Catholic president and the youngest president ever elected, just 43. His popularitygrew at home and abroad and when he was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 11, 1963, the whole world was shocked. Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin summed up the universal reaction when he said that "a flame went out for all those who had hoped for a just peace and a better life."

Annulment Continued from Page Twelve process in as little as four months.

Us procedure, nevertheless, examines in depth the previous marriage. A person petitioning for an annulment must complete two forms - one about 30 pages long - secure at least four supportive witnesses and appear personally at a private, confidential hearing before several church matrimonial officials. The decision is given at the end of the interviews, but ordinarily will be checked by a second group of experts.

Money is not a concern. The usual annulment fee is $200, sufficient to cover the costs of paperwork and personnel, but should a petitioner be unable to pay that sum, his or her parish assumes the responsibility.

The acceptance of additional bases for annulments has opened the door for many divorced individuals who heretofore could not qualify. In particular, the church, accepting contemporary scientific research, considers temporary or permanent psychological inc~pacity for a true Christian marriage sufficient reason for a decree of nullity.

The church here seeks to balance two sometimes conflicting ideals; to uphold and preserve the unbreakability of the marriage bond; and to provide divorced persons with a fair and reasonably swift examination of their previous marriage and offer them the possibility of entering a second union should the initial liaison be declared null and void.

"Quickie" annulments granted without adequate investigation undercut the church's faith· fulness to Jesus' words about the permanence of marriage. Excessively long and burdensome procedures, on the other hand, can impose an injustice upon divorced individuals and deprive them of their right to marry.

A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

THE ANCHOR-

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Deus quer que todos os homens se salvem, nao isolados, como i Ihas perdidas no meio do oceano, mas formando 0 unico Povo de Deus: Foi a vontade de Deus santificar e salvar os homens, nao isoladamente, sem rela~~o alguma duns com os outros, senao constituindo um povo que 0 confessasse na verdade e 0 servisse na santidade. A iniciativa divina come~a entao a preparar esse povo que 0 proprio Deus val formando at~ a sua plenitude em Cri sto.

A Igreja 6 uma comunidade. 0 misterlo da Igreja ~, em primeiro lugar, 0 misterlo da ac~ao salv(fica do Pai, do Fi Iho e do Esp(rlto Santo no mundo, e da sua comunh~o com os homens. A Igreja convoca~ao e congrega~ao ou reuniao dos homens. No seu come~o, e iniciativa ~ obra divina e ~ao empresa::humana. Por 1550, na sua real idade mais profunda, a Igreja ~ uma comunidade de Graia com Deus em Cristo, por obra do Esp(rito Santo. Esta comunidade 56 6 compreendida na f~.

Mas a Igreja ~ tamb~m resposta dos homens, pois 6 uma· congrega~~o de cr~ntes e baptizados em nome de Jesus Cristo. E a comunldade do Povo de Deus, na qual, pela f6, a salva~~o, real izada em Cristo, se torna presente no mundo. Os homens sao congregados pela Palavra, e este acontecimento da congregaiao dos homens em torno da Palavra e mediante esta, no Baptlsmo e na Eucaristia e um acontecimento misterioso. Por isso, nunca poderemos compreender e expl icar, apenas pelo esfor~o dos homens, esse saito da incredulidade para a f~, do pecado para a grasa, da genti lidade para 0 cristianismo.

Em resumo, 0 mist~rio da Igreja 0 acontecimento comunitario da salvaf~o como obra de Deus e resposta dos homens. A actualiza~ao deste acontecimento e obra da Igreja, J qual, sendo Povo de Deus e Comunidade dos crentes 'em Cristo, e institui~ao vis(ve[ e realidade misteriosa, ~ue actua unida ao Senhor movida pelo Esplrito Santo, mediante o anuncio da Palavra, a celebrasao dos Sacramentos e dos servisos de todo 0 povo de Deus. Assim prova ser a Comunidade da Palavra, dos sacramentos e dos minist~rios, 0 novo povo de Deus, em marcha para 0 seu crescimento total, ate a medida da plenitude de Cri sto.

A aten 1ao da Igreja centra-se hoje na dignidade da pessoa humana, na sua responsabllidade, na abertura a comunidade, na sua total idade de corpo e esp(rito. Esta mental idade e 0 melhor antfdoto contra certos estados de despersonaliza9ao de que enfermava 0 catol icismo de ~pocas ainda recentes. 0 esforso por anular este desvio veio fazer nascer um cristianismo de op)ao pessoal e livre, respons&vel e comprometido. 0 enraizamento da Igreja nao se mede tanto pela ex- . pressao num~rica, mesmo maiorot~ria e poderosa, quanto pela exist~ncia duma comunidade de pessoa convertidas a Deus e dando testemunho do seu ser de crlstaos. Esta op~ao pessoal e I ivre, que termina numa conversao ou encontro com Cristo, est~ para al~m duma cultura, ide610gia ou conjunto de verdades . rei igiosas, sem a qual estas ficam desprovidas.de toda a fecundidade esplritual.

A Igreja ~ universal. Deve abranger todos os homens. Todos os, homens s~o chamados ao novo Povo de Deus. E por 1550 que este Povo, permanecendo uno e unrco, deve dilatar· se at~ aos confins do mundo intero e em todos os tempos.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese oi~ Fall River-Thurs. July 13, 19:'8

By Charlie Martin

TIME IN A BOTTLE If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do

Is to save every day 'til eternity passes away, just to spend them with you.

If I could have days last forever, if words eould make wishes some true, I'd save every day like a treasure and then again I would spend them with you.

But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them, I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

If I had a box just for wishes, dreams that had never come true, The box would be empty except for the memory of how they were answered.. by you.

Written and sung by Jim Croce, (e) 1972, 1973, 1974 - ABC Reeo~ds, Inc.

AN EGG HURLED from an angry crowd splatters against the shield of a Nazi protecting Frank Collin, leader of the National Socialist Party of America, as he speaks through a bullhorn at a Chicago rally after calling off planned Skokie march. (NC Photo)

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someone else like him should Christian prelates and political have been no surprise. lhe leaders for 1900 years have openA student wrote to me about story from the early Chul'ch ly and covertly, subtly and diSkokie, the Holocaust and anti- Fathers through our own times rectly fed the people of the westSemitism. He is a Catholic but· is a sorry tale of bigotry, de- ern world a diet of suspicion his best college friends are Jew- fensiveness and calculated sca)e- and hate against the Jews. ish. His letter is 10 pages long, goating.

Why has the Church remained and it's good to know that St. Hilary would not even llCso silent? To be fair to both youth are concerned about the sides, doubtless many clergy felt knowledge a Jew's greeting on horrors of the world.

The problem sometimes-is that the street! St. John Chrysost')m that people have enough doubts, we try to keep as much distance in 381 A. D. delivered sermons depression, problems, and cares as possible between ourselves charging Jews with the wors']ip of their own, and that they come and the horrors and injustices, of the devil and with being to church for a message of hope. whether they be a holocaust or drunkards, criminals and murBut God's children are no some other' act of men at their derers.

St. Jerome declared the sy:]a- longer children! They can take lowest.

People vent their spleen gogue a den of vice and '~he it! No matter what happens, we must believe through the doubts against the Hitlers and Amips Devil's refuge.

St. Ambrose warned his flock that faith will be restored and of the world without realizing one has to do more than that. against staining their honor by one day we will see things more clearly. Our faith is constantly We bear daily on our conscience talking to Jews! being tested in the presence of Let's stop being hypocrites.' the murder of innocents, without Let's stop blaming the German wickedness and evil. The Jewreally speaking out about it.

- In 1943, despite pleas from people. Even though the Nazis ish community has faced this the World Jewish Congress, the did not march to Skokie, we problem on such an enormous U.S. would not relax its immi- have other kinds of Nazis and scale' that it is no wonder they .find our Christian response to gration laws and -Britain would other places besides Skokie.

We belive ourselves to be evil difficult to comprehend. not admit children into PalesMy mind returns to Skokie, tine. Consequently, Hitler was united with all the saints llnd convinced that the Western martyrs, If so, then we are aU since it's very much in the news world did not care very much guilty, for there is no escaping today. Certainly it has the right about what happened to the our corporate responsibility for to provide for the safety and Jews. We did nothing in 1943 the holocausts' and murders of welfare of its citizens. For the because we didn't want to, not innocents, repression 'and scape- Nazis of Cook County to select because we couldn't. We don't goating that goes on under our Skokie, the community which very noses around the world. probably has more survivors of always act like Christians. the Nazi death camps than any The thing that troubles many We do very little.

Martin Luther, toward the other, is a calculated assault and college students who read a good deal is the way in which, end of his life, demanded that an obscene affront.

Someone asked me, "What through the centuries, we have the Jews be expelled from Gerprovided Biblical and theological many. According to Profe~sor about the Martin Luther King grounds for anti-Semitism. Fried Heer, he called for practical march through Marquette Park?" rich Heer of Vienna University measures! Bum their syna~og­ Not the same. They did not cry has probed with painstaking ues, confiscate all their books, "gas Whitey" or "death to the force them to do manual work. Whites:' In considering the Bill thorou~hness the ways in which the th~logical, biblical, ecclesi- He concluded by saying, ~'r have of Rights, we may believe the principle and form of free speech ological and psychological orien- done my part; I am excused."

The haunting question C1f why to be nearly inviolable but the tation of the western world made \t possible for Hitler to (in re:ation to the Holocaust) content of the speech is never enmay not be as hard to answer tirely irrelevant. do wh~t he did.

In a profound sense, Hitler or as we have pretended, because To limit the right of assembly

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Jim Croce's songs resonate with life, echoing feelings we know.

'Because of his death in a plane crash, there will be no new "Top Forty" songs by him, yet his songs are established as some of the most creative of the 1970s. ' "Time In A Bottle," a lyrical love ballad, was a gentle, romantic message, but it is true to life experience. The intensity of being in love changes certain perspectives. There seems a timelessness to our loving and sharing. Hours pass like minutes, and we wish "days would last forever."

Perhaps one of the truest-to-Iife lines ever musically written are Croce's words. "There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them:' That line challenges us not to take time for granted, and to remember that time is a ' gift. It is easy to fantasize that we are beyond time's limitations, but we need to look with appreciation at our gift of time.

To live in time is to live with trust and hope. A Christian knows and remembers that God has always acted in time. In an ancient time, he called forth Abraham to initiate a new people with a new relationship with him. At another time, God sent Jesus to reveal more fully his personhood. Even today, God's presence is made real' for us by the others who reach out to love us. God has chosen . the limiting framework of time to make known his unlimited loving.

Because God loves us today, we do not need magic bottles. And even when our todays are not as good or as fully alive as we wish, we realize that we are not abandoned to fate or destiny.

Today's time is most important. It is a time of faith, a time of hope, a time of trust. All of these qualities come sharply into focus when we find the person we will love always, a person we "want to go through time with:'

is a dangerous thing in a democracy, but to assault particular members of a community is also a dangerous thing to do and I believe we must say that our concern for the welfare of the survivors of those concentration camps must take precedence over the right of the 'Cook County Nazis to intimidate by signs, slogans, uniforms and banners.

The particular ordinances of Skokie may not be good; indeed they may be very poorly drawn.

I'm glad the ACLU is addressing those issues, but the larger issue may not be freedom of speech or assembly. Conflicts between public order and the freedom of assembly are never easy to resolve, but in this case the calculated cruelty of conflicting psychological pain on a particular segment of the community of Skokie or elsewhere, must be prevented.

To mean sincerely the hope that something like the Holocaust will never happen again is

going to require some massive rethinking, particularly on the part of Christians. We have not wrestled with our notions of the sovereignty and judgment of God in relation to that enormous tragedy.

Whether we like it or not, the ll..0locaust is an event in our history as Christians which may yet have a derisive role in the reformulation of our theological ideas and our relationships with theJewish Community, second only to the constituting event of Jesus Christ.

It would be strange and amazing if the death of our Lord in the year 33 and the death of six million Jews in the fourth decade of this century could become for us the two events by which our own identity is enlarged to include the children of Abraham, and our sense of destiny altered so that we would find our purpose one wittt them bearing witness to a Kingdom in which God is the Father of us all.

Interscholastic

Sports

IN THE DIOCESE

By BILL MORRISSETTE

Nazareth Hall Does Well In Olympics When one reads or hears of scholastic sports, one usually thinks of high school athletics; however, to my mind, the term should include sports at all levels.

Which brings me to calling attention to the outstanding performances of competitors from Fall River Nazareth Hall in the Special Olympics at Taunton High School. Nazareth Hall athletes won 32 medals for individual performances. Additionally, the Nazareth girls' relay teams placed second in the 16year-old and over class and third in the 15-year-old group. Gold medals were awarded to firstplace finishers, silver to runnersup, and bronze to third placers.

It was in the 50-meter and 200meter events that the Nazareth athletes made their best showing, winning 10 medals in each: First-place winners in the 50meters races were Lisa Couturier, Sherry Sousa and Paul Rebello. Second place medals went to Beth Ainsworth, Jennifer Demers, Marilyn Maurer, Theresa Ravenalle and Kim Werb-

inski, and finishing third were Tyleen May and Rick Nobrega.

Gold medalist in the 200 were Paula Chace, Demers, Ravenalle and Werbinski. Lisa Couturier, Linda Carreiro and Rick Nobrega won silver and Madeleine Duhon, Bob Greenhalgh and Bob Paradis bronze medals.

Duhon and Sandra Sardinha won gold medals in the long jump, with Ainsworth, May and Rebello earning silver, and Lee Terpak, Teddy Bernat and Paradis going home with bronze.

Duhon and Sandra Sardinha won gold medals in the long jump. Ainsworth, May and Rebello earned silver and Lee Terpak, Teddy Bernat and Paradis bronze. And in an art contest, Theresa Ravenalle received a special award for finishing third.

Although the young athletes performed remarkably well, their coaches who worked so hard and diligently so that these young people from Nazareth Hall and other similar groups could have their day must not be forgotten. Their patience, dedication and devotion are admirable.

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tv, movie news New Films In "Heaven Can Wait" (Paramount), a charming remake of the classic 1941 comedy-fantasy "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," Warren Beatty plays a past-his-prime professional quarterback named Joe Pendelton.

Just as he is about to make a comeback fate in the person of an over-eager celestial courier (a sober and bureaucratic Buck Henry) intervenes. Henry snatches Pendelton away from his body while he is out for a bike ride and just on the point of encountering, persumably with fatal consequences, two other vehicles in a tunnel.

The courier's superior, Mr. Jordan (James Mason), impressed by Pendelton's manifestreluctance to proceed any farther on his heavenly journey, checks the records and discovers that Joe has indeed a half-century of earthly time still alloted to him.

As it turned out, it's too late to undo the error easily since the bereft body has just been cremated. His patience wearing thin by now, the good-natured Pendelton insists that Mr. Jordan and his bungling associate find him a body at once. Joe is very choosy, however - after all, he had just got the old body into superb condition once more - and he won't take just any body. He wants one fit enough to lead the Rams to the Super Bowl.

For the time being, Joe reluctantly consents to accept a temporary arrangement and sets up housekeeping in the body of a ruthless and eccentric millionaire named Farnsworth who has just been done in by his faithless wife and her lover.

So well does everything go that Pendelton finds himself quite unwilling to give up Farns-

worth's body when Mr. Jordan returns to remind him of the nature of the deal. However, all ends happily.

"Heaven Can Wait" is a rare piece of entertainment. It succeeds in being very innocent and yet very wise and funny. There are only a few elements in it an extra-marital affair and a single profane expression used for comic effect-that put it beyond the range of even younger children. Morally unobjectionable for adults and adolescents.

In "Convoy" (United Artist), Kris Kristofferson is a freespirited trucker who finds himself turned into a folk hero when he leads a group of fellow truckers in a protest against harassment. Ali McGraw goes along for the ride. A muddled, ludicrous movie, this is probably director Sam Peckinpah's worst effort to date. The causal sex and disregard for the law are objectionable. Morally objectionable in part for all.

1978 Liturgical Week

Hockomock League Elects Officers Peter Sperandia, principal at Stoughton High School, has been elected president of the Hockomock League for the 1978-79 scholastic year. Don Edmonston, atheletic director at Stoughton, is chairman, and, Frank Cinelli, Mansfield, remains executive secretary-treasurer.

Commissioners of officials are: football - Gerry Cody (Canton, King Philip, Oliver Ames), Milt

Kelly (Foxboro, Franklin, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Sharon and Stoughton); field hockey Mrs. Mary Jennings (Foxboro, Mansfield, North Attleboro) Mrs. Sumner (Canton, Franklin, King Philip, Oilver Ames, Sharon and Stoughton); ice hockey - James Carbo; gymnastics - Mrs. Mary Woodruff; baseball - Will Cingolani; softball - Robert Ringuette.

AUGUST 7 - 10 BOSTON UNIVERSITY SELF AND SOCIETY: RECOVERY OF VISION

Immacs Plan Reunion Plans are moving along for the Immaculate Conception parish (Fall River) all-sports reunion scheduled for Aug. 13 at White's Restaurant in Westport. George (Sneaker) McDonald, well-known in CYO sports circles, is chairman of the committee arranging

the affair. His committee ineludes Ed (Hank) Harrington, Bill Wrightington and Oscar (Pete) Levesque, all former 1mmac coaches. Also on the committee are Richard Lafrance and Tom Marcoux.

Aldrich, Urban To Be Honored When Durfee and New BedHighs meet in their traditional football_game on Thanksgiving, that game will be the first ever on the football field at the new Durfee High School of Fall River.

The field will be dedicated to Malcolm (Mac) Aldrich former Durfee and Yale University football star. Later in the year, the new school's field house, where

Durfee will be playing its home basketball games, will be dedicated to Luke Urban, whose reputation as player and coach in several sports is well known.

Incidentally, the Bishop Stang Spartans will host Durfee in a night game on Saturday, Sept.

16, in the season football inaugural for both teams.

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A pervasive debate is the focus of the 33rd North American Liturgical Week: are we witnessing a regressive turn into self, an abandonment of social change and justice? How can we recover a common vision of spirituality and social action? In liturgy fragmented by privatization, how do we gain a sense of corporate action, of being church-a healthy sense that avoids "one of a crowd" impersonalism?

Major addresses: • Rosemary Haughton, theologian, author, founder of Lothlorien Community in Scotland,on culture and Christian community.

• J. Bryan Hehir, Associate Secretary for International Justice and Peace, USCC, on social ethics.

• Gerard S. Sloyan, author, Professor of Religion, Temple University. "Visions of Human Wholeness in the Bible and Liturgy".

Four thematic presentations on self and society: • Robert Hovda: Art and Liturgy • Robley Whitson: Ecumenisrri and Spirituality • Nadine Foley: Feminism • Virgil Elizondo: Ethnicity Four Boston.area tours, including seminars: • Salem/Marblehead: pre-revolutionary era worship and architecture.

• Concord/Lexington: revolutionary era sites.

• Quincy: federalist era and civil religion.

• Cambridge: Harvard University.

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The Parish Parade Publicity chairman of parish organizations are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be Included as well as full dates of all activities. pl.ase send news of future rather than past events. Note: We do not carry news of fundra ising activities such as bingos, whlsts, dances, suppers and bazaars.

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OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Rehearsals for the festival Mass of Our Lady of the Angels to be celebrated at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 13 are being held in the church at 7 p.m. each Wednesday. All adults are welcome to attend.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER

A summer outing for parish youth who have been confirmed will be held Saturday, Aug. 5 at Colt Park, Bristol, under sponsorship ot" the Being-Born Youth Ministry. Reservations may be made· following any Mass the weekend of July 22 and 23.

SACREI) HEART, FALL RIVER

Volunteer CCD teachers are needed for next year's religious education program, which is being prepared during the summer months.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER

A representative of the Verona Fathers will speak at ,111 Masses this weekend on the missionary work of his community.

The annual novena honori1g Good St. Anne win'begin Monday and will be preached by Father John R. Foister, pastor. Servnces will be held daily through Jt:ly 25 at 3 and 7:30 p.m.

tery ride Tuesday, July 25.

CVO has cancelled a trip to Fenway ·Park scheduled for July 29.

ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO Parishioners will honor Father Normand Boulet, transferred to Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 13, at a concelebrated Mass, followed by a farewell reception in the parish hall.

Correction Members of the Third Order of St. Dominic will meet at 7:30 tomorrow night at the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St., Fa)1 River. In' last week's Anchor the organization was incorrectly identified as the Third Order of St. Dennis.

Protests Disrupt Parliament Mass LONDON (NC) - The first Mass to be celebrated in the crypt chapel of the British Parliament since the 16th-century Reformation was marred July 6 by the shouted protests and insults of two Protestant members of Parliament.

As the Mass celebrated by Cardinal Basil Hume of Westminster was about to begin, the Rev. Ian Paisley shouted, "You cannot reverse 400 years of history in this service today." The Rev. Robert Bradford, also from North Ireland, also protested.

IBoth wel1! escorted from the chapel by police.

Mass. They were Lord ElwynJones, the -lord chancellor, and George Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons.

In a brief sermon, Cardinal Hume called for "the healing of ancient wounds." The Mass marked the 500th anniersary of the birth of Sir Thomas More, who held office· both as Lord Chancellor and speaker.

Cardinal Hume used a chalice made in 1529, the opening year of the Reformation Parliament.

"This chalice is not only a precious link with the past," he said, "But I pray earnestly today that the sacred use to which it will But two other Protestants, be put in a moment will prove to both holding high offices in Par- ' be an instrument for the healing Iiament, read the lessons at the of ancient wounds."

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER

Rev. Thomas Ray of the Maryknoll Fathers will speak at 311 Masses this weekend. .

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