FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER
t eanco VOL. 26, NO. 27
I=OR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSEnS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1982
Lebanon war end asked by pontiff By Father Kenneth Doyle VATICAN CITY (NC) - The "uncertainty and suffering" in Lebanon has been "prolonged for too long," said Pope John Paul II last Sunday in calling for a quick solution to the conflict in the wartorn country. The pope spoke from his apart ment window to 40,000 visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square for his noontime Angelus mess , age. "We renew our prayers for OI"r brothers of Lebanon," said the pope who several times since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6 has asked for an end to hostilities. "In the capital of Beirut," the pope said, "the population is suffering from the bombings and is exhausted from deprivations." "The prolongation of the seige increases the threat of hunger and of epidemics and the night mare of the victims and brings even greater suffering," the pope warned. As he spoke, land and air battles raged at West Beirut, where ,Israeli forces have be seiged about 5,000 guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organ ization. Also in the area under seige are numerous civilian resi dents, estimated to number' as many as 500,000. The chance of a quick accord for the evacua tion of PLO troops from Leban on, as demanded by Israel. were growing slender as various pro posals to guarantee a safe with drawal' of the PLO had been re jected by one side or the other. The negotiations are a com plex series of talks involving U.S. and Lebanese officials as mediators between Israel and the PLO. "Hopes, delusions and fears repeat themselves continually in these days," the pope said, "ex tending a situation of uncer tainty and suffering already pro longed for too long." "May almighty God inspire the parties in conflict' with thoughts of peace and may he give wisdom to all those respon sible, so that the understanding announced and. invoked for so many days can be reached rapidly," the pope prayed. On July 9, Radio Jerusalem reported that the pope had sent an appeal to Israel's President Yitzhak Navon asking for re spect for a cease·fire in Leban on as a step toward the recogni. tion of the "just aspirations" of those involved in the conflict.
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Archbishop is named for Chicago WASHINGTON (NC) - Arch bishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, 54, a former president of the U.S. bishops and a former general secretary of the bishops' Washington offices, has been ap pointed the new archbishop of Chicago. Named July 10 by Pope John Paul II, he will be installed Wed .nesday, Aug. 25, at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. The appointment ended length ty speculation on the successor AT A GIRLS' TEC weekend, Father Steven R. Furtado officiates at renewal of mar to Cardinal John Cody of Chic riage vows of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Benedetti of St. Julie's parish, North Dartmouth. ago, who died April 25. Even be for..e the cardinal's death, Arch· Looking on are retreatants Tracy Cooper, St. John's, New Bedford; and Gail Pregna, St. bishop Bernardin had been Louis, Fall River. The renewal ceremony is part of a instructional program on marriage. thought the leading candidate to The stoles worn by participants symbolize the Christ-life within them. (Rosa Photo) head the nation's largest arch diocese. The new head of the Chicago archdiocese was general secre tary of the National Conference of Catholic "Bishops and its pub· lic policy arm, the U.S. Catholic By Pat McGowan certs; in exchange for which one TEC, Teens Encounter Christ, a Conference, from 1968 until his to slip 'in a few instruc highly successful ·retreat pro hopes with NC News reports appointment to Cincinnati in tional words. gram. Trying to excite teens about the 1972. (That position is now held -In the FaH River d'iocese that IBut many catechists are un Good News of Christ is rather by Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, a easy with t.hat method, feeling it assertion has been proved for t.he ',ike trying to give a valuable Taunton native and priest of the smacks of bribery; they also last six years as teens' have par 'liece of jewelry to someone who Fall River diocese.) think it should be possible to ticipated in TEC weekends, fol· neither wants it nor appreciates abandon gimmicks and trust ;lowed by monthly reunions; held In 1974 Archbishop Bernardin '.ts worth. was elected NCCB/USCC presi Chl1ist who said "I, if I be lifted alternately in Fall River and dent for a three-year term. That's how catechists often up, will draw all things to my New Bedford and designed to He is currently chairman of an feel at the conclusion of a high self." keep t.he good work going. ad hoc bishops' committee pre school or CCD religion class. But how ,to )iift him up? TEC, like ECHO, another teen paring a pastoral letter on the In drumming up attendance "We have learned that it is program used in the Fall R,iver moral and religious dimensions there's the time·honoredap God who draws aN of us to him . diocese, ,is based on the -CursHlo of war and peace. He also is a ryroach of :\uring youth vaa ,enter self and we need not bribe any retreat model. TEe serves the member of the permanent Turn to Page Nine tainment: sports, dances, con- anyone," say the organizers of council planning the 1983 inter national Synod of Bishops in Rome and of the Pontifical Com mission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law. Born A'pril 2, 1928 of Italian immigrant parents in Columbia; S.C., Archbishop Bernardin was ordained a priest there in 1952 after preparing at St. Mary's Seminary and the Catholic Uni versity of America. He held several administrative posts in the Diocese of Charles ton, S.C., until his 1966 appoint ment as an auxiliary bishop in Atlanta.. His appointment to Chicago came four days after the U.S. attorney in Chicago announced , that a federal grand jury probe into possible misuse of church funds controlled by Cardinal Cody had been called off with no indictments. In his statement, released the BISHOP LAWRENCE GRAZIANO, OFM, assisted by Father Maurus Muldoon, same day the appointment was OFM, blessed children at Regina Pacis Center, New Bedford, during a Hispanic fiesta announced, Archbishop Bernar in honor of St. John the Baptist. Bishop Graziano, formerly a missionary bishop to EI din said he was going to Chic Salvador, n'ow works with New York City Hispanics. Father Muldoon is Regina Pads ago with only one desire: "to do Tum to Page Three director. (Rosa Photo)
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