FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER
FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
VOL. 30, NO. 29
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Friday, July 25, 1986
FALL RIVER, MASS.
Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly
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East Freetown's Cathedral Camps where youngsters enj oy antics of Tammy Rousseau, Lisa Gill and Janet Costa. (Breen photos)
Holy Union community marks U.8. centennial Members are klso in the African nations of Cameroon and Tan-' "Our call is to be at the heart of zania. the world revealing God's love. .. Commemoration of Holy UnThat quotation from the Con- ion's century of service in the Unistitutions of the Religious of the ted States began Jan. I with a day Holy Union ofthe Sacred Hearts of common prayer and will close appears on a calligraphed calendar in the same way on Dec. 31. A especially designed for the com- prayer day is also planned for Oct. munity by former student Rose- 19, the actual anniversary date of the sisters! arrival in the United mary Santiago Parandelis. . The calendar, distributed to every States. But the centerpiece of the year member of the international congregation, is one aspect of a multi- of celebration will come Aug. 16 to pronged celebration of its 1886 19, when some 225 sisters from arrival in Fall River from France both U.S. provinces will meet for to begin an apostolate that today four days of looking back at the sees members teaching, directing past and towards the future. Coming from the Holy Union parish religious education programs and working in nursing Generalate in Rome for the obserhomes, at retreat houses, as cam- vance will be Sister Ignatius Loypus and hospital ministers and in ola, superior general of the Holy Union community, and her three diocesan offices. In addition to Fall River, the general councilors, who include two U.S. Holy Union provinces, Sister Alice Arsenault, a Taunton native who was a campus minister Immaculat~ Heart of Mary, head": quartered in Fall River, and Sacred at Assumption College, WorcesHeart of Jesus, in Groton, serve in ter, before taking up her present the archdioceses of Baltimore, Bos- assignment. ton, Miami and New York and the COnlJ'elatioD History dioceses of Albany, Brooklyn, Long-range projects undertaken Louisville, Pensacola-Tallahassee, in connection with the centennial Providence, Orlando, Rockville observance include a history, "Holy Center and San Angelo. Union Women in the U.S.A.," By Pat McGowan
written by Sister Grace Donovan, Ph. D., a Fall River native who is a campus minister and instructor at Stonehill College, North Easton. An anniversary logo was designed by Raymond larOche, brother of two Holy Union sisters, for use on province communications, stationery and publications throughout the centennial year. It features maps of areas of community ministry, the Holy Union insignia and the prophetic words of founder Father John Baptist Debrabant, "Go to America." A time line depicting events in American history linked to events in the Holy Union community was the work of Sister Rose Lamb of Taunton, former director of religious educaiion at St. Mary's parish, South Dartmouth, who will stud·y art in England in the coming year. The time line will be displayed during next month's celebrations. "Reflection papers" have been prepared by several sisters on topics associated with the spirit and history of the community. They are being used for centennial year discussions in individual convents. Turn to Page Six
Still in limbo
Nuke test ban WASHINGTON (NC) - For more than 20 years, Catholic officials and other religious leaders have been urging the superpowers to enact and implement a ban on testing of nuclear weapons. They've been only partially successful. In a much-heralded and stillremembered move, President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan in 1963 adopted a limited test ban treaty. That agreement banned aboveground testing but not underground tests, which both sides have continued to permit. Two current proposals for test ban progress include: - Resumption of negotiations, terminated six years ago, on a major test ban treaty. - An end to U.S. refusal to join the Soviet Union's unilateral test ban moratorium, adopted in August 1985 and set to end a year later. Ironically, a unilateral ban on testing initiated by Kennedy in 1963 is seen as one of the factors that influenced Khrushchev to agree to the test ban treaty that year. Now the Soviet Union and the
United States are moving back to the nuclear test ban bargaining table despite the Reagan administration's publicly expressed doubts that the upcoming negotiations will produce a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. In the meantime U.S. testing continues. The 14th announced U.S. nuclear test since the Soviets began their test ban last August took place in Nevada July 17. Church leaders from Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI to Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago to Protestant and Jewish representatives to rank-and-file church members have had the more comprehensive ban in mind since the early 196Os. Pope John, for example, wrote that justice demanded "that the arms race should cease, that the stockpiles which exist in various countries should be reduced equally and simultaneously by the parties involved, that nuclear weapons should be banned...." Pope Paul congratulated Kennedy, Khrushchev and MacMillan on the 1963 treaty and said it was a "a pledge of harmony" for the world. Turn to Page Six