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In November 1975 the U.S. churches did the best job, he Catholic bishops called for real- said, and even there a large gap ization of the national hC1using , persists between housing needed goal set by Congress in 1949: "A and housing built. decent home and a suitable livIn their statement, "The Right ing environment for every Am· to a Decent Home: A Pastoral erican family."

Response to the Crisis in Hous. Today, despite efforts by dio- ing," the U.S. bishops described ceses throughout the United the dimensions of the housing States to provide housing for the crisis, explained why Catholics aIderly, the handicapped and ought to be concerned about it those of low and moderate in- and discussed various aspects comes, millions of Amedcans of the housing crisis and governmental activity in the area of are ill housed.

"The situation is worse" than housing.

While the dimensions of the in 1975, said Msgr. Geno Baroni, former assistant secretary of housing crisis have changed since Housing and Urban Develop- 1975, they remain startling, parment ·(HUD), now a special assis- ticularly in the context of the tant to Archbishop Jaml!S A. affluence of U.S. society.

The "Annual Housing S'urvey: Hickey of Washington.

Housing programs for the eld- 1978," conducted by the Bureau Tum 'to Page Six erly are the area in which

A HARLEM MOTHE;R plays with her baby in a heatless bedroom furnished only

with two mattresses. (NC Photo)

Center readying Father Ronald A. Tosti, di- spacious conference rooms, a rector of the Diocesan Office of library, a lounge and dining faFamily Ministry, has announced cilities. that he expects the office's new The building, formerly a conFamily Life Center at 500 Slo- . vent for sisters staffing the adcum Road, North Dartmouth, to jacent Bishop Stang High School, be ready for use by the end of can accommodate groups of up to the summer. A blessing: and 80 persons for days or evenings dedication ceremony is scheduled of recollection, parish programs for Sunday, Sept. 27. or diocesan events. Weekends The facility presently houses are available for overnight prothe Office of Family Ministry grams for up to 57 people and and will also include quarters meals can be arranged for both for the diocesan permanent dia- day and overnight events, said Father Tosti. canate program.

In addition it will have faciliThe central location of the ties for retreats and other pro- four-story center makes it easily grams, offering 28 double :rooms accessible from all parts of the and accommodations for a re- diocese and there is ample park~ treat director, as well as two , ing space available.

ANDREW BABOLA and his "crew put finishing touches on Family Center walls.

Motives a puzzle'

By Nancy Frazier ROME (NC)-When the threeday trial of Mehmet Ali Agca ended in Rome July 22, the italian court and the wat<:hing world remained puzzled over th,e motives for the young Turk's at· tempt on the life of Pope John Paul 'lI. The 23-year-old Agca refused to answer questions from -Italy's First Court of Assizes, demanding to be handed over to the Vatican court system or to be tried by a world court. He remained in his isolation cell at Rome's Rebibbia Prison for the second and third days of the trial.

After nearly seven hours of deliberation, two judges arid six

jurors sentenced Agca to life imprisonment plus 10 years, commuting the latter sentence to a year of solitary confinement, for the attempted murder of the pope and related crimes.

Actually, Agca could be released from prison in the year 2009, when he would be 51.

Under Italian law, anyone serving a life sentence can be granted "provisional or supervised liberty" after serving 28 years of the sentence.

If a court decides that he is eligible for such liberty, Agca could be released for a certain period of time and then required to return to jaiL But the court could also decide to release him Tum to Page Six

MEHMET AU AGCA stands inside bullet-proof box as his trial opens in Rome for . attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. (NC/UPI Photo)

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WINONA, Minn. (NC)-A reunion at St. Mary's College in Winona brought together Brothers of the Christian Schools and former brothers and their families.

Christian Brother Paul Grass of St. Mary's, said about 180 of the 350 men at the reunion were former members. Many of the ex-brothers said what they had learned affected them at work a~d in their family life. Many are deacons, lay ministers and volunteer parish workers.

WASHINGTON (NC)-The Senate has given overwhelming approval to a proposal to allow all taxpayers - not just those who itemize - to deduct their contributions to charity. The measure, which has been urged for several years by groups such as the National Conference of Catholic Charities, was approved 97-1. Proponents of the measure have argued that increases in the standard deduction over the past decade have caused fewer people to itemize deductions on their tax returns.

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LEBANESE CIVIUANS hear the good news of Jesus from Bible dis-

tributors on a Beirut street. Despite .unceasing strife, more than 17,000 Bibles and New Testaments have been distributed recently in the city. y

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WASHINGTON (NC)-The U.S. Catholic 'Conference has joined a coalition of 30 other groups and individuals to protest Congress' latest move in broadcast deregulation, tacking controversial deregulation proposals onto the mammoth Senate Budget bill. Among groups opposing the proposals are the Natdonal Organization of Women and National Education Association. If the deregulation proposals are passed, "!I think you'll see a difference in news and public affairs" programs, said Jesuit Father Donald Matthews, a usee representative.

ROME (NC)-Poland's new primate has ardent hopes for the continued expansion of the Catholic Church's freedom in the communist-governed country. At the same time, Archbishop Jozef Glemp said it is "not easy to predict" what the future of the church will be. The possibility of broadened activity for the church "is strictly tied to the entire struggle for freedom in Poland," said Archbishop Glemp, who was named to head the archdioceses of Warsaw and Gniezno by Pope John Paul II July 7.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference's Migration and Refugee Services (MRS), are gearing up to resettle Cubans who may soon be released from the federal prison in Atlanta. The Reagan administration has announced that it is beginning a program to release some of the 1,800 Cubans detained in the Atlanta federal pendtentiary and move 800 Haitians 'to 'Puerto Rico.

Gerry Wynne, director of the MRS office of program development, said that MRS can resettle 150 Cubans a month w~th its present capabilities, but "if we see a larger case load, we will have to expand."

GUATEMALA CITY (NC)-Nine priests and hundreds of lay workers murdered in recent years are part of "a carefully studied plan to intimidate the church and silence its prophetic voice," according to the Guatemalan bishops. The 17 bishops denounced the recent assassinations of three priests and "the killings in previous years of six other priests and a large number of catechists." Such deaths "cannot be taken as isolated, unrelated events," they said in a statement read at Sunday Masses July 12 in more than 330 parishes.

WASHINGTON (NC)-A priest from Northern Ireland has asked Congr~ss to investigate employment practices of U.S. firms operating there to determine whether they are discriminating against Catholics. In ,testimony before the Ad Hoc Congressional Committee for Irish Affairs July 22, Father Brian J. Brady of St. Joseph's College, Belfast, Northern Ireland, said evidence suggests that 34 U.S. subsidiaries in Northern Ireland "have become partners in perpetuating and indeed aggravating the pattern of anti-'Catholic discrimination in the manufacturing industry of Northern Ireland.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-The Vatican, in a "clarification to journalists," said ils penal code contains no capital punishment statute. The clarification was necessary because a prominent ItaLian daily newspaper has suggested that Mehmet Ali Agca, then on trial in an Italian court for the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, could face a firing squad if tried by a Vatican court. The Vatican Press Office said that the death penalty was 'abolished by the Vatican in 1969.

WHAT VILLAIN unhanded Pope John Paul II is the question in Rome ~s Vatican authorities try to find out how 10 percent of postcards issued by the Italian State Printing Institute depicted the pope minus his right hand. The authorized postcard is shown at bottom, the one above is now a collector's item. (NC/UPI Photos)

UNITED NATIONS (NC)-The Islamic countries will broaden their contacts with the Vatican as part of a general drive to promote a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. The Jerusalem Committee of the Islamic Conference, meetjng in Morocco in April, communicated its recommendations to the United Natdons, which' published them July 22. The commi1ttee decided to continue contacts with the Vatican to "convince it to recognize the Palestine Liberatdon Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," it said. The committee asked the Vatican to "condemn Israel's annexation of Jerusalem and its occupation of Palestinian and Arab teITitory."

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DCCW members planning for I{ansas City convention

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (NC) The nation's first Catholic television satellite networ:k will begin airing programs Aug. 15, according to Poor Clare Mother M. Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network, based in her convent in Birming· ham.

Eternal Word Network will broadcast viaWestar III satellite daily from 7 to 11 p.m. (EDT), Mother Angelica said.

The satellite will be used to reach cable TV stations which in turn can deliver the programming to homes.

The network is slated to provide catechetical program, those dealing with philosophy and theology, discussions, news programs, programs and entertainment - including shows called "Westbrook Hospital" and "This Is the Life." Old movies and "Lassie" also are to be a·ired.

Cardinal Silvio Oddi, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy, recently visited Birmingham and blessed the 10meter dish in the convent's yard which will be used to beam programs to the Westar satellite.

Women planning attendance at a convention of the National Council of Catholic Women, to be held Oct. 5 to 9 in Kansas City, Mo., will meet at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 6, at the home of Mrs. Aubrey M. Armstrong, 40 Beach Ave., Somerset. Mrs. Armstrong, a member of St. Louis de France parish, Swansea, is second vice-president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic, Women.

Mrs. Michael J. McMahon of St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall River, a candidate for second vice-president of the 10 million member national organization, said that women who have not yet decided whether they will go to Kansas City are also asked to attend the Somerset meeting.

Affiliate presidents should bring voting credentials with them to facilitate pre-registration.

Campaign guidelines will be

ALBANY, N.Y. ~NC) - If you were to name the best people in history, who would they be?

Readers of The Evangelist, Albany diocesan newspaper, chose a world-famous nun, three popes, a bishop and a saint.

Recently the 10 worst villains in history were selected in a poll of professors at the Catholic University of America in Washington.

Albany readers were: asked to name people whose efforts offset those of such villains as Stalin, Idi Amin, Hitler and Ivan the Terrible. The poll excluded Jesus.

The top vote getter was Mother Teresa of Calcutta "because of her shining example of seeing Jesus in the most pitiable forms of humanity," sajd a reader.

The three popes nominated for the best person in history were Pope John XXIII, Pope John Paul II and Pope Pius XII. American religious figures, the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, were also named.

The only saint on the list was Joan of Are, patroness of France.

Four American historical figures were chosen. Readers nominated Abraham Lincoln; Gen. John Pershing, commander of the American forces in Wodd War 1; Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Frankin D. Roosevelt, and Robert Kennedy, the assassinated senator from New York.

As a footnote to the vote, only one of the 10 worst villains in history was a woman. But four of 14 people nominated for the best people were women.

explained to delegates by Mrs. McMahon and Miss Ethel Crowley, president of the diocesan council. Miss Crowley, a member of Holy Trinity parish, West Harwich, is a candidate for the national nominating committee.

Mrs. Richard Paulson, Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, a past Boston province director of the NCCW, will serve on the convention elections committee.

Mrs. McMahon said that in addition to a bridal fashion show planned by the DCCW for Sunday, Sept. 27, to raise funds for the council's national office, Miss Crowley and Mrs. Armstrong will donate handcrafted items for convention fundraisers.

Miss Crowley has made a needlepoint bell pull and Mrs. Armstrong a framed crewel pic. ture of Our Lady of Good Counsel, patroness of the diocesan council.

Rose l'otino: cheerful giver FATHER OLIVEIRA

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Two appointments The Most Reverend Bishop 14, 1977 by Bishop Cronin, Daniel A. Cronin has announced served as a deacon at Espirito two appointments, both effective Santo. Since ordination he has Wednesday, August 5. been at the New Bedford parish.

Father John J. Oliveira, associ- He is a native of Taunton, where ate pastor at Our Lady of Mt. he graduated from the former Carmel Church, New Bedford, Coyle High School. He studied will hold the same position at for the priesthood at St. John's Espirito Santo Church, Fall Seminary, Brighton.

Father Avila, a New Bedford River, while newly ordained Father Stephen J. Avila will suc- native, was ordained July 18 by ceed him at Our Lady of Mt. Bishop Cronin after seminary studies at the North American Carmel.

Father' Oliveira, ordained May . College in Rome.

Handgun control backed by priests CHICAGO Parish priests are in favor of handgun control 'because they've seen what happens when there aren't sufficient restraints, according to Father Neil McCauley, president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils (NFPC).

"Priests who deal in day-today pastoral ministry are very

much aware how momentary anger can be turned into tragedy by the presence of a handgun," he said.

By a vote of 145-2, members of the NFPC House of Delegates recently endorsed a resolution urging stronger handgun control efforts.

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT Rev. John J. Oliveira from Associate Pastor, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, New .Bedford, to Associate Pastor, Espirito Santo Parish, Fall River.

FIRST PRiIESTLY APPOINTMENT Rev. Stephen J. Avila, Associate Pastor, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bedford.

Both appointments effective Wednesday, August 5, 1981.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC) - Rose Totino has given away more money than most persons see in a lifetime and she feels that "in the eyes of God those who sacrifice themselves are doing much more than I." Rose Totino, vice president of the Pillsbury Co., recently donated $135,000 towards expansion of Benilde St. Margaret's High School, the second largest private school in Minnesota.

With· her husband Jim, Mrs. Totino built a family restaurant into a huge pizza empire. "If you give of yourself. you give much; if you give materially, you give a little," said Mrs. Totino. She thinks that volunteers who deliver meals to the sick and read to the blind deserve more credit than people who write checks.

She has not always been in a position to write checks for charity. Her parents were poor when they emigrated from Italy in 1910. During the Depression giving a cake to a sick neighbor was the only charity she and Jim could afford, said Mrs. Totino.

"Now God has blessed us with good fortune," she said. "I consider it an extreme privilege to give away what God has given me."

Mrs. Totino does not attach significance to her wealth. "I think of the things you treasure most. Money didn't buy any of them," she said. "What we possess is not ours, and we must be good stewards of what is given to us."

When her two daughters were' growing up, Mrs. Totino said she advised them, "What you take with you after death is what you've given away. You'll never see a U-Haul behind -a hearse."

Wise investments, she said, have enabled her to amass the wealth she distributes. "I ask for divine wisdom" whenever a

major business decision must be made, she said.

The Totino's have owned their restaurant for 30 years. It evolved into a frozen pizza business which merged with Pillsbury five years ago.

"The Lord needs nothing from us but our worship," said Mrs. Totino. "We must love and serve one another and, w~ile we're not going to be saved by our works, they are- a manifestation of our faith."

Two bishops in Romania VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has named an auxiliary bishop in Romania, doubling the number of officially recognized bishops in the communist-run nation.

Bishop-designate Lajos Balint.

52, will be auxiliary to Bishop Antal Jakab of Alba Julia, Romania, the only other Romanian Catholic bishop whose appointment has been acknowledged by the Vatican.

Other priests have been ordained bishops in secret ceremonies, however.

The Vatican recently acknowledged the practice of clandestine bishops when its official daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, announced the death of Bishop Joan Duma, who was ordained to the episcopal secretly in 1949.

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Reversing Current Trends How do New Englanders in general feel about the issues that affect each of us in today's social order? Do they know to what extent their elected officials truly represent them on these issues?

These are but two of the many questions that come to mind as the Northeast struggles to stay in the mainstream of American life. There can be little doubt that as a region we are losing congressional seats due to a declining population. The high cost of living, the lack of skilled jobs, the inability of people to live off the land have forced many in this region to flee to the Sunbelt. New England indeed is a region of change.

To explore the situation, an organization known as the New England Institute for Political Research has been formed to measure area opinion on significant issues. This ongoing statistical survey is conducted in all six New England states with over a thousand interviews conducted per subject handled. Some of the findings are indeed interesting. Here are a few: Fifty-two percent of those surveyed did not know whethe.r their congressmen supported or opposed President Reagan's economic program. Yet 31 percent said that this was the most important issue facing the nation.

On other current issues the percentages are also noteworthy. For example, 42 percent disapproved of the Moral Majority, while 47 percent approved of tuition tax credits for private/parochial schools.

An overwhelming 82 percent felt that New England judges were too lenient in sentencing convicted criminals.

70 percent felt that cutting the federal budget was the way to get the economy on the move; 65 percent approved of a 10 percent federal tax cut for 3 years; 52 percent approved of increased defense spending and 45 percent stated that increased taxes will help bail out the endangered Social Security system. As an aside, it is noteworthy that many congressmen do not agree with their constituents.

As interesting as the above statistics are, what is alarming and disconcerting is the large percentage of people who have no opinion or knowledge of a particular issue.

In other words, many New Englanders act and vote in complete ignorance of facts and issues. If there is one item that this study surfaced it is that many New Englanders do not or cannot concern themselves with the farreaching social issues of our time.

Several concurrent questions flow from this appalling situation. What is the cause of this lack of knowledge? Is it due to a large school dropout rate? Are people developing the attitude of television robots to social issues? Is. the lack of interest correlated with the decline in ·public education?

Do politicians want to keep the voters in the dark?

There are so many variables that questions are limitless.

One thing, however, is indeed a certainty. Many people are not given all the facts either.by the media, the politicians or academia.

Decisions made this decade in this area will influence future generations of New Englanders. An informed citizenry will care and have concern about what happens to and in this area. A people kept in the dark by those whose responsibility is to inform will act and react in continued ignorance.

This should not be the case. Current trends should be reversed.

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'The good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.' Provo 27:9

A rich tradition

By Father Kevin J. Harrington False images of God have made the process of transmitting an authentic faith very troublesome. Liberalism in religious education has tended to impover-' ish students by transmitting to them only the convictions of the teacher and those portions of the heritage which back up his or her convictions. The result of ignorance and decline in what has been transmitted is nothing less than devastating.

To be sure, it is appropriate for the teacher to share his own insights and convictions with the student, but the student should be provided the entire body of material from which those convictions were derived in order to judge whether he finds the same things or other things more important and convincing.

Religious education would be less boring to students if the entire heritage were shared with them and they were given the opportunity to discover personal insights for themselves.

Such a procedure burdens the teacher but it provides maximal advantage to the young as they enter into their heritage and begin to appreciate their place in it.

A recent article in America magazine by Rev. James J. DiGiacomo, SJ, is entitled "Teaching the Next New Breed." In it the author, a teacher at Regis High School in New York City, relates the devastating effect upon his student's faith life when God is viewed only as a tender

lover and not as an omnipotent sovereign.

He quotes one of his brighter junior students who responded insightfully to these two questions: Why are people confessing less and enjoying it more? Why is the very notion of sin out of fashion?

The student wrote: "Man has recreated the role of God from an almighty king to an equal lover. This frees him from the guilt that a view of God as king would entail. This new look drastically cuts down the number of actions man considers serious enough to call a sin.

"Because this relaxed Christianity fits so well with our lifestyles, most people now think of such terms as mortal sin and eternal damnation as archaic and ridiculous. Sin has lost its cUlpability in the fact that man no longer shapes himself to the demands of Christianity, but that Christianity is now shaped by the needs and whims of man," A mature religious faith, Ultimately, must be submitted to and not chosen. People should not choose a religious tradition because they seek peace of mind or religious ecstasy. A commitment worthy of total allegiance must involve neither blind submission nor insincere self-seeking.

When a God as almighty king is highlighted, there is a danger of blind submission. When God as tender lover is highlighted, there is a danger of using religion for self-gratification. It should be noted that the word submission has an unfortunate

connotation of servility which is not implied here. What is meant is that mature submission which enables man by leading to wholehearted, not closed-minded, cdmmitment to that which affects us as right and true and good.

This was the faith that attracted intellectual giants such as Cardinal John Henry Newman. Such a faith cannot be taken from others mechanically.

Roman Catholicism, in sum, encourages us to appropriate personalized commitments from the richness of its broad and deep tradition.

(necrolo9OY) July 31 Rev. Daniel Hearne, 1865, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton August 5 Rev. Martin J. Fox, 1917, Founder, St. Paul, Taunton Rev. Thomas A. Kelly, 1934, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River August 6 Rev. Joseph P. Lyons, 1961, Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River

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CrISIS In a superb St. Anthony Messenger article, "'w hen Teenagers Lose the Faith," Dr. Michael Warren pinpoints an unfomfortable area of parent/teen faith relationships, Le. the shaky status (of parental faith and its effect on adolescents. Those of us who work with parents in our church are aware of many parents who want their young adults to embrace a faith they themselves no longer feel, who want them to grow in a faith they stopped growing in a long time ago, and who want them to believe what they are too apathetic even to discuss.

Vet, as Dr. Warren says, "Teen faith-development is intimately tied to the way adults practice their faith, and even beyond that, to the way whole pa.rish communities live their faith. Many of us adults know from friends our own age that halts or blockages in one's religious development occur as much during the middle years as during the early ones . . .After working with adults in Washington and New York for the past 10 years, I myself am convinced that the most serious problem with religious development is a sort of midlife numbness of spirit, a closingoff of religious questions which

is actually the atheism of the religiously half-awake."

To paraphrase Emily Dickinson, there's a sentence you can take your hat off to. Any aware Christian adult knows dozens of people who exhibit that "midlife numbness of spirit" but who are terribly concerned about the visible faith of their young.

Why? How can faith be so important in a couple's progeny when they have stopped growing in it themselves?

Or could that be the reason?

For a long time, I've suspected a relationship between the concern of some parents over their maturing offspring's faith and the lack of concern over their own waning faith. To simplify it, the more unsure they are about their own faith, the more desperately they seem to want it for their adolescent.

When I work with parents of teenagers who have slipped away from the pew and ask about their own faith life, they're apt to become defensive. They don't want to talk about that. That's their affair. What they want to know is why somebody isn't "giving" their adolescent faith.

I'm not implying that all parents who are concerned about \ their teen's faith have a faith problem themselves. They don't.

Good parents constantly exam-

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ine the faith life of all their children. But they examine their own as well. I'm talking about the parents who invest their faith in job, consumerism, and their teenager's faith behavior rather than in themselves.

Like Dr. Warren, I wish we could stop worrying so much about our collective adolescents' faith behavior and look more closely at that midlife numbness of spirit in the pew. He writes, "I would encourage parents to pay more attention to the quality of worship in their parishes . . .

What appears to be a crisis of faith can in fact be a crisis of "worship."

Again, he hits it right on the halo. Many parishes have little visible evidence of adult faith, even at Mass. Worship is obligatory, something to get through in as short a time as possible. If a good share of the pews in our parishes are filled with the religiously half-awake, how can we expect our young to be attracted to us?

Help promis.ed Even as they voted to end the minimum Social benefit: next Security March, members of Congress have also given notice that they want to do something about nuns and other religious caught in the middle of the debate.

"I have assured them (the nuns) that we are aware of the problem and will do something about it," said Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) as the Senate defeated by a 52-46 vote an effort to restore the minimum benefit.

Over on the house side, meanwhile, congressmen had voted overwhelmingly for a non-binding resolution urging that "necessary steps be taken to insure that Social Security benefits are not reduced for those currently receiving them."

Both the House and Senate voted earlier this year to rescind the $122-a-month minimum Social Security benefit as part of the Reagan administration's budget cuts. But now mllmbers are having second thoughts and hope to at least continue the minimum benefit for those already receiving it while striking it for future beneficiaries.

Members of religious orders are telling Congress that eliminating the minimum benefit would have serious financial implications for them since they are under a vow of poverty and were only permitted into the Social Security system in 1972.

During debate on the Senate

amendment to restore the mlmmum benefit Sen. Russell Long (D-La.) raised the specter of starving nuns unless the benefit was restored.

"They are being told that when their Social Security check is cut, they can go down and apply for welfare," said Long, referring to the Reagan administration's argument that needy recipients of the minimum benefit can have their loss replaced dollar-for-dollar through another program, supplemental security income.

"Well," continued Long, "every one of those dedicated women would have to say, "I am sorry, we made a contract with God Almighty. We took a vow of poverty and we are not going to ask the government to support us. We took a vow of poverty . . . and we would rather starve. " Long also questioned how "these dear older people, including the nuns" could have their minimum benefits cut by the government at the same time that Congress was voting to give tremendous tax savings to the rich.

A few minutes later, Dole, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, reminded Long that he was well aware of the nuns' plight, having invited their representative to testify on the issue earlier in July.

Dole said the issue might be taken care of in the conference committee which was working

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to iron out the differences between the House and Senatepassed budget bills.

In the House the issue of Religious and the minimum benefit was raised again, this time by Rep. Doug Walgren (D-P~.).

Noting that many religious communities borrowed money or sold their assets so they could raise the money necessary to enter the system after 1972, Walgren said elimination of the minimum benefit for Religious was "a harsh step, one that invites people in the system in one year and kicks them out in the next."

Several members of both the House and Senate said separate legislation might be the answer to the issues being raised by elimination of the minimum benefit.

One bill, introduced by Rep. James M. Shannon (D~Mass.), would continue the minimum benefit for members of religious orders under a vow of poverty and for individuals 80 or older.

The religious orders have asked that minimum benefit cuts be delayed for them until 1992, when they will have been in the Social Security system long enough to have earned the equivalent of the minimum benefit.

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A sort of feud

The feud between President Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill has no future.

It has the air of one of those faked TV wrestling matches with lots of grunting and groaning, but true mayhem nowhere in sight.

O'Neill has been pushed into the ring by desperate House Democrats, who cannot believe what they are seeing - their party threatened with extinction by a president they once regarded as a bad joke.

Reagan's managers are goading their man into taking on O'Neill as" the dream foil, the very caricature of an overweight, overindulgent, over-the-hill New Dealer. He is, they keep telling their tiger, the last remnant of Democratic dominance, and he is being nibbled to death by boll weevils in his party and beset by liberals who audibly wish he were leaner, meaner and less given to golf.

O'Neill, driven to participate in his first television talk show in three years, dutifully berated the men around the president as "selfish." The president, in a postscript to his press confer-" ence, accused the speaker of "sheer demagoguery" for suggesting that he did not grow up poor.

The speaker riposted at a Georgetown reception in stately third-person terms about the "respect" due to the speaker of the House.

The president then set matters back to the beginning with a soothing telephone call, which O'Neill later described as "exceptionally friendly."

The thing is going nowhere.

The president a"nd the speaker are nuable to conceal their mutual liking, which is hardly mysterious. They are contemporories of Irish origin and less inclined to trade ideological barbs than good stories.

Said the speaker, after the president's conciHatory call, "Politics is politics. We may disagree during the day, but come 6 p.m. we become friends."

O'Neill has spent his life happily supporting Democratic presidents and vigorously opposing Republicans. But his last Dmocratic president, a compulsive and pietistic Southerner who understood nothing about tickets, perks, appointments and serving hard liquor at the White House, was not exactly O'Neill's idea of a Democrat.

"The trouble," said a young aide at the Democratic National Committee, "is that Reagan looks like a Democrat, and he talks like a Democrat - if you don't listen to "what he is saying."

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That feeling of kinship inhibits many Democrats. Voters know perfectly well that cuts in student loans, abandonment of human rights, the rape of public lands, the diversion of money from day-care centers to the Pentagon, all come from the hand of Ronald Reagan. But he is so pleasant, they don't seem to make the connection.

At the Democratic congressional dinner, the band play~d "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." The program admitted they had nothing to say. No one spoke save Robert Strauss. He did not speak the name of the man he had served as campaign chairman, Jimmy Carter. The only Democrat he quoted was Franklin D. Roossevelt.

It is not wise to mention Carter at Democratic gatheripgs. He is unmourned and unmissed.

They have erased him from their minds.

Ronald "Reagan understands that the Carter card is his strong card with the Democrats. He played it on June 6 when he gave to Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy a special congressional medal in honor of Robert F. Kennedy one that he observed had "been waiting patiently to be presented." Reagan knew instinctively that he would get in no trouble with Democrats by reminding them of Carter's vindictiveness toward the Kennedys. Reagan is a politician. Carter was not, and that may be the Democrats' reaf indictment of him, and the reason O'Neill had so much trouble with him.

Recently, the two feudists were both on view at their best.

Reagan's press conference was lamentable from the point of view of drawing issues, or giving information, but his manner was most ingratiating.

O'Neill countered with a display of his own authentic charm. He and his wife were presented with a 40th wedding anniversary gift.

Strauss introduced him as a man who had taken his bride to a boxing match on their wedding night. O'Neill pinned it down.

It was the Louis-Conn fight, he said, as if that explained everything to serious people. Then he announced that he would, as he had done on every anniversary, sing their favorite song to Milly.

And he did. In a pleasant tenor, he embarked on "I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time."

The band eventually caught up.

He was a sensation, and for the first time the room was filled with warmth and cheering.

The contest is not as uneven as Reagan's men Iik~ to think.

Even so, it is not convincing.

The hearts of the combatants are not in it.

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Continued from page one of the Census for HUD, provides the latest figures on some dimensions of the housing crisis.

Of the 77.1 million occupied all year-round housing units in the United States, 1.79 million lacked some or all plumbing facilities, 1.1 million had no complete kitchen facilities, and 597, 000 had no heating equipment.

Some 12.3 million units were in disrepair: open cracks or holes in the walls, broken plaster,' peeling paint or holes in the floors.

Among aspects of the p,:oblem are: - Some people are ill-housed because they live in houses or apartments that are unfit for human habitation, lacking plumbing or heat, in general disrepair. , - Others are ill-housed because their quarters are too small for their family.

- The trend toward conversion of rental apartments into condominiums has forced many to relocate, often in less satisfactory quarters, and has increased competition for scarce rental units.

- What is called the "gentrification" of big cities - upper midple class individuals, couples or families moving into renovated townhouses in what have been low income areas - has displaced low inoome families.

- Inflation and high interest rates make purchase of a home impossible for a growing number of families.

- Production of housing continues to lag behind the need, particularly among people of low or moderate income.

A briefing paper on the 198182 budget issued by the National Low Income Housing Coalition points out that affordability is

the most critical housing problem facing low income people.

"A basic principle underlying most housing programs has been that people should pay no more than 25 percent of their incomes for gross shelter costs," the paper states. "Yet, in 1977, over 5.8 million households paid over half their incomes for shelter, including utilities. This was 8.9 percent of all households, but 15.1 percent of all black households, and 12.1 percent of all Hispanic households."

The paper notes that production of new or rehabilitated housing units has fallen 8.4 million units short of a 10-year goal of 26 million units set in 1968.

"The housing shortage is worst for rental units." the paper

states. "For the first time in a century, the stock of rental housing is shrinking, not expanding."

The paper points out that, at a 25 percent rent-income ratio, a household with an income of $4,000 can afford to pay $83 a month for rent and utilities. In 1970, there were 7,584,000 renter households with incomes below $4,000 and about 7,516,000 rental units available at $83 a month for rent and utilities. By 1977, however, while the number of renter households with incomes below $4,000 had dropped to 5,815,000, the number of units renting at $83 a month or less had dropped to 2,052,000, or 3,763,000 below the number needed.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (NC) -The government's refusal to grant permission to import news· print donated by the Vatican shows the government wants to suppress freedom of the press, according to the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Diocese of Georgetown..

The newsprint was for the diocesan weekly which needs it desperately if it is to continue publishing, said a press release -issued by the newspaper.

The government, which is often criticized in the Catholic Standard, gave no reason for the decision.

Earlier this year the government denied the Catholic paper permission to import newsprint saying it would be a drain on the nation's low foreign currency reserves.

This caused Bishop Benedict Singh of Georgetown to ask Archbishop Paul Tabet, apostolic delegate in the Caribbean area, for assistance, saying the paper was in danger of ceasing publication. Archbishop Tabet agreed to buy newsprint abroad and donate it to the paper so that no Guayan foreign currency would be needed.

Similar offers to donilte newsprint have been made by the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Anglican Church of Canada, but the government so far has not ruled on these requests.

The government allots the limited newsprint available in the country, granting almost all of it to the government-owned press.

Because of the lack of newsprint, the -Cathol-ic Standard has cut its size to' four pages from the previous eight. The only newsprint it gets is scraps from the pro-government press.

The Catholic Standard often prints information and letters critical of the government of Prime Minister Linden Forbes Burnham, especially regarding human rights violations, corrup· tion and the widespread poverty among the country's 800,000 inhabitants.

Motives a puzzle Continued from page one for an indefinite period of time, Italian judicial sources said Italy may try to find a loophole in its law to allow the Italian government to hand over Agca to Turkey, where he has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

Italian law forbids extradition of a person to a country with capital punishment, but the sources said Agca may be extradited if Turkey agrees not to execute him.

After hearing Agca admit in court that he shot Pope John Paul, a crime which calls for life imprisonment under Italian law, the court had little to do except for trying to decipher the man whom defense attorney Pietro d'Ovidio called a "psychological cryptogram."

The judges and jurors received no assistance from the defendant, who had been sentenced to death

in Turkey for the 1979 murder of a journalist and is described

by Turkish officials as a rightwing terrorist.

He refused to answer questions, rejected Italy's right to try him for a crime committed in Vatican territory and vowed to go on a hunger strike Dec. 20 if a world court does not hear his case, The next day, Agca stayed in his prison cell and sent a note to the court in broken English: "I don't coming. This is a protest."

Before the trial opened Agca had been variously described by Italian and Turkish police and experts on terrorist activities as a rightwing terrorist, an adherent of Palestinian extremist factions and a cold-blooded professional killer with no political convictions.

But d'Ovidio characterized his client as a Moslem religious fanatic. traumatized during his child-

hood by the effects of epilepsy and determined to gain worldwide fame by killing the pope.

But the ruling by the court was not the first "sentence" given Mehmet Ali Agca, said Vatican Radio in an editorial July 23.

"The first was that pronounced

by John Paul II from his hospital bed just four days after the serious operation which he underwent because of the assassination attempt of which he was victim." the editorial said.

"It was a sentence which the pope pronounced without trial. without interventions by witnesses, prosecutor or defending attorney," Vatican Radio added.

It repeated the words of the pope at that time: "I pray for the brother who struck me. whom I sincerely pardon."

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The Dlany concerns of the Holy See VATICAN CITY (NC) -- An increasing number of priests who left the active ministry are seeking to return, according to data in the 1,300-page L'Attivita della Santa Sede 1980 (Activities of the Holy See 1980.) ether facts and statistics show: -- The Holy See was represented at a record 214 int,ernational meetings last year.

-- Paraguay, Ecuador and Portugal inaugurated diaconate programs in 1980.

L' Attiva is an unofficial annual summary of papal speeches, documents and meetings. It also includes reports by Vatican offices and agencies.

Among papal events it includes on 1980 travels abroad and in Italy, speeches given and meetings attended by Pope ,John Paul II. That section take!l up 800 tightly spaced pages.

In department rep,orts, the congregation for the DI:>ctrine of the Faith reported that it "has cared especially for the rehabilitation to active pastoral service of numerous subjl~cts who, after some period of detection, have brought to matulrity signs of repentance. There have been further increases in requests for integration and rehabilitation by priests who for various reasons had previously obtained a dispensation from priestly obligations."

The congregation's office for priests reported that processing of requests for dispensations from priestly obligati.ons had been resumed in late 1980 after new norms had been published.

Shortly after Pope John Paul II took office in 1978 he had suspended the laicization. process for all but a few eli:ceptional cases until the matter could be restudied.

The record 214 int~!rnational meetings with Vatican representation continue a steady growth in the Holy See's involvement

with international organizations and issues.

A report from the Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship, which mentioned new permanent diaconate programs, also reflected concern over requests by widowed permanent deacons for permission to remarry.

"Instead of a dispensation to remarry, ordinarily one is advised to ask for reduction to the lay state with a dispensation from duties," the report said.

The congregation also expressed concern over authorization given to non-priests to confer the sacrament of the anointing of the sick.

"The minister of this sacrament is only the priest," the report stressed.

The congregation said in 1980 it had approved 1116 translations of liturgical texts for gen· eral use and 92 for special use.

Most approved translations were in European languages, but also approved were translations in native African languages, in an Andean Indian language, Quechua, and in Chinese, Ben·

gali (India) and Telegu (Philippines).

The Congregation for the Clergy emphasized its concern over redistribution of clergy, saying that it is not just possible or commendable but "necessary for the growth of the church.

It also expressed concern over use of lay persons in tasks ordinarily assigned to priests. It admitted that in mission territories and priest-poor Latin America the move might be necessary, but added, "in European countries such a solution is rather suggested by a tendency that is not completely clear . . . a tendency to present to young people a real alternative to the ordained clergy."

The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples reported that 32 of 36 new bishops in mission areas came from the native clergy.

It also reported increases in native vocations, seminarians .and seminaries, as well as distribution of more than $83.7 million to churches in mission lands.

Pope's life to be on TV NEW YORK (NC)-;-Pope John Paul H's life story will be por· trayedin an NBC TV feature movie to premiere dUl"ing the 1981-1982 Christmas season, according to NBC. Polish actor Cezary Morawski will play the role of Karol Wojtyla, now Pope John Paul, in "From a Far Country: Pope John Paul II." Morawski is a graduate of the Warsaw (Poland) State Drama School and has appeared on 'Polish TV and in movies.

NBC describes the film as a "biographical dramatization about the man who survived World War 11, entered the priesthood and ultimately was elected head of the Catholic Church."

The film port~ays Karol Woj-

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BUZZARDS BAY, St. Margaret, 141 Main St; Schedlule effective June 27; Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., daily, 8 a.m. Mon.Fri.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:45 p.m.

ONSET, St. Mary Star of the Sea, . Onset Ave.: Sat. 6:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 6:15-6:3f

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BREWSTER, Our JLady of the Cape, Stoney Brook Road: (Schedule effective June thru Labor Day): Sat. 5, 6:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 8, 11 a.m., no 11 a.m. on Saturdays; confessions, Sat. 4:15-5 and 6 to 6:30 p.m.

CENTERVILLE, Our Lady of Victory, 122 Park Ave.: Schedule . June 20-21 - thru Labor Day weekend, Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m. Sun. 7, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45, 12 noon; daily, 7, 9 a.m., First Fridays, Masses 7, 9 a.m., UItreya, 8 p.m.; confessions, Sat. following 9 / a.m. Mass.

WEST BARNSTABLE, Our Lady of Hope, Rte. 6A; Sat. 4 & 5:15 p.m.; Sun., 8:45, 10 a,m., daily 8 a.m. confessions, before each Mass.

CHATHAM, Holy Redeemer, 72 Highland Ave.: Schedule July 4, Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.

SOUTH CHATHAM, Our Lady of Grace, Rte. 137, off Rte. 28: Schedule July 4, Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m.

EAST FALMOUTH, St. Anthony, 167 East Falmouth Highway: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9, 10:15, U:30 a.m; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30-4:15 p.m., weekdays, any time by request.

EDGARTOWN, St. Elizabeth, Main Street: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 11 a.m.; daily, Mon.Sat., 8:30 a.m.; confessions, Y2 hr. before Sat. Masses.

FALMOUTH, St. Patrick, 511 E. Main St.: Schedule June 27-28 Sat. 5:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:45, 10, 11:.15 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.

FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, St. Thomas Chapel, Falmouth Heights Rei.: Schedule June 2728, Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.

HYANNIS, St. Francis Xavier, 347 South St.: Schedule effective July 4-5, Sat. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon, 5 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., 12:10 pm.; confessions, Sat. 4:00 - 4:50 p.m. and following 7:30 p.m. Mass.

YARMOUTHPORT, Sacred Heart, off Rte. 6A: Sat. 4:00, 5:15 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.; confessions before Mass.

MARION, St. Rita, 113 Front St. (schedule effective: June 27-28Aug. 29-30): Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily, 8:30 a.m.; confessions, Saturday, 4:305:00 p.m.

MAtTAPOISEtT, St. Anthony, 22 Barstow St.: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:30, 11 :00 a.m., daily 8 a.m.; Confessions 3:30-4:20 p.m.

NANTUCKET, Our Lady of the Isle. Federal St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.

Sun. 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 a.m., 7 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m. & 12:10 p.m. rosary before daily Masses; confessions, Sat. 4-4:45 p.m.

SIASCONSET, Union Chapel: Sun. 8:45 a.m. during July and August.

NORTH FALMOUTH, St. Elizabeth Seton, 481 Quaker Rd.: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:45, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:15-3:45, 4:45-5:15 p.m.

OAK BL:UFFS, Sacred Heart, Circuit Ave.: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:15, 10:30 a.m.; daily (Mon.Fri.) 7 a.m.; confessions, Sat. ~:15-5:45 p.m.

ORLEANS, St. Joan of Arc, Bridge St. (schedule effective June 20-21 through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:50 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass Wed. NORTH EASTHAM, Church of the Visitation (schedule effective June 20-21 through Labor Day):' Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 a.m.; daily Mass 9 a.m.

Mon.-Wed.-Fri during July and Aug:; confessions, Sat. 6:30-6:50 p.m.

OSTERVILLE, Our Lady of the Assumption, 76 Wianno Ave. (schedule effective June 27-28 through Aug. 29-30): Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7" 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

SANTUIT, St. Jude Chapel, Rte. 28: Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30-4:00 p.m.

SANDWICH, Corpus Christl, 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 YARMOUTH, 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.; confession8, Sat. 4-4:30 p.m., 6-6:30 p.m.

WAREHAM, St. Patrick, St.: Sat. 4, 6 p.m.; Sun. 10, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; a.m.; confessions, Sat. 7-7:30 p.m.

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WEST WAREHAM, St. Anthony, off Rte. 28 (schedule effective July and August): Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10 a.m.; confessions before each Mass.

WELLFLEET, Our Lady of Lourdes, 56-58 Main St.: Sat. 4 and 5 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m., confessions, before all Masses; Tues. 7:30 p.m.; charismatic prayer meeting; Holy day Aug. 14, 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.: Aug. 15, 8, 9, 10, 11 a.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 of Perpetual Help, Pond Road: Sat. 4, 5 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, 11 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14, 4, 5 p.m.; Aug. 15, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; Air Foree Base Mass Sat. and Vigil of Holy Day, 4:00 p.m.

MASHPEE, Queen of AU Saints, New Seabury: Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

WEST HARWICH, Holy Trinity, Rte. 28 (schedule effective June 27-28): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30.

9, 10:30, 12 noon; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3, 4:30 and 7:45 p.m.; Eve of 1st Friday, 3, 4:30 p.m.; First Friday, additional Mass at 11 a.m. and Benediction at 2 p.m.

POCASSET, St. John the Evangelist, 15 Virginia Road: Sat. 4, 5; Sun. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7:30 a.m.; except Thursday and Saturday; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45 p.m.

DENNISPORT, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Upper County Rd., (schedule effective July 4-5): Sat. 4:30 p.m..; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m. Daily 7:30 (effective July 6) Confessions, Sat. 3-4 p.m.

PROVINCETOWN, St. Peter the Apostle, 11 Prince St.: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 11 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m., confessions, Sat. 6:30-7:00 p.m. and by appoi'1tment.

WOODS . HOLE, St. Joseph: Schedule June 27-28, Sat. 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily 8 a.m.; Confessions Y2 hour before Sunday Masses.

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Priest reports on I{ansas City tragedy KANSAS CITY, Mo. {Ne) The scene at the Hyatt Regency Hotel immediately after the July 17 collapse of two walkways was one of great charity, according to the first priest who was allowed into the hotel.

"Everywhere there weJre people trying to help others," said Father James Flanagan. "Rescuers struggled to free people and those who were trapped tried to help keep each other's spirits up."

The collapse of the ws.lkways killed III people and injured many more who were attending a tea dance at the hotel.

Father Flanagan said he went directly into the rubble-filled lobby where he ministerE!d until 10 a.m. the following day.

There was the constan;~ worry of another collapse of the remaining walkway, he said, and workers would often temporarily clear the room in case more concrete fell. At other times everyone would be asked to be quiet

so that the workers could hear if anyone was alive in the wreckage.

Father Flanagan told of one group of people trapped together under an enormous block. The important thing was to keep talking to them and keep them talking .to each other, he said.

He prayed with them and told stories to keep up their hopes.

And although he never did learn their full names, he remembers their strong spirits.

One, whose name was Vince, asked him, "Hey Father, what's your name?" When the priest replied, "Father Flanagan," Vince said quickly, "Oh come on, I'm trapped down here, don't put me on."

Father Flanagan remembers another person pulled out of the wreckage who commented, "Well, my Timex is still ticking."

He told about a friend who said he had pulled his wife out of the wreckage through a hole that didn't seem big enough for

her. "It was a miracle," the man said.

Father Flanagan talked to a nurse who came to help at the hotel. Later he found out that her parents were somewhere in the wreckage. He described the fear of those trapped, their feeling that the wreckage was pressing down even harder, and recalled the stories of persons trapped next to someone who just stopped living before rescuers could reach him.

He also noted the compassion of firemen who gave him and other priests time to anoint an the bodies before removing them.

Four days after the tragedy Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis was principal celebrant at a memorial Mass for the III disaster victims.

He reminded the congregation at Kansas City's Immaculate that Conception Cathedral "Jesus is Lord of life and death.

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope John Paul II praised the "spiritual wisdom and pastoral realism" of St. Vincent de l?aul, in a letter ml:\rking the foulrth centenary of the saint's birt:lt.

The French-language le·~ter "'{as addressed to Father Richard McCullen, superior general of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentian Fathers), a.nd was dated May 12, the day before the attempt on the pope's life in St. Peter's Square. It was released by the Vatican last weel•.

The pope said that the 400th anniversary of St. Vincent's birth provided "an occasion for the religious families born from his charism, as for all the Christian people, to meditate on the marvels re~lized by God in tenderness and piety through a man who committed himself without reserve" to the priesthood.

The saint was born April 24,

1581, in Pouy, France.

After reviewing some key events in the !-ife of St. Vincent de Paul, Pope John Paul called him a "brilliant initiator of charitable and social action."

He described St. Vincent de Paul as "a modern saint," saying that if he came back to life now "one would find him unhesitatingly among the' poor, the new poor, within the urban concentrations of our time, as once (he was) within those of the rural areas."

Pope John Paul expressed the church's thanks to members of the Vincentian Fathers and to others inspired by the saint's principles, especially the Daughters of Charity and the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

Addressing a message to the Daughters of Charity, the pope said St. Vincent understood "undoubtedly the most profound asp~ct of femininity: Its vocation to tenderness and piety,"

"Without having known the feminist movements of our time," he added, "Vincent de Paul knew how to find in the women of his age, intelligent and generous, faithful and constant assistants," St. Vincent de Paul, who died Sept. 27, 1660, in Paris, founded the Congregation of the Mission in 1625 and the Daughters of Charity eight years later. The St. Vincent de Paul Society for lay men was established after his death.

He was beatified in 1729, canonized in 1737 and named patron of works of r;harity in 1885..

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is very active in the Fall River diocese. Last month the diocesan unit hosted the 16th Northeast Regional Vincentian Conference at Stonehill College, North Easton, and in September, 1982, members will be responsible for a national Voincentian convention expected to attract about 1200 people to Hyannis.

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Leasure-time activities are an obvious choice. The problem is that they do not start up automatically. If your husband has not pursued these areas before retirement, it will be more difficult to become involved now.

However, it can be done.

Hobbies are a real possibility.

Now may be the time to plant a garden, to learn to paint, to travel to interesting and historical places, to become an amateur photographer or to watch birds. The ideas are endless.

Friendships are another area for development. Why not reach out to people you might like to get to know better? Pot-luck supper groups, dinner invitations, social clubs, sports clubs and bridge clubs are but a few of the ways to begin new relationships.

Health and preventive medicine may suggest some activities.

How about an exercise program to develop the heart and lungs?

What about working as a family to eliminate junk foods and to develop more nutritious eating habits? Why not choose the present time to work on a program

to modify drinking or to stop smoking?

Volunteer work in the human services is another fine area.

Time is a gift which can be given to others in need. Scout leadership, big brother, tutor, crossing guard, Little League coach, hospital visiting and many others are worthwhile.

Religion is still another potential area for investment. Take .the time now to learn to pray.

People get lazy with formal prayers like the Our Father and Hail Mary. Adult Christians should feel at ease in the presence of God. Wordless prayer may take a little practice, but it can bring great peace.

Joining a prayer group, a study group or an adult religious education group can make us more aware of the Christian community in which we worship and more sensitive to the other members and their needs.

Retirement is an ending. It can also be a beginning. But beginnings don't just happen. They take some planning.

(Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited. Address questions: The Kennys; Box 67; Rensselaer, Ind. 47978).

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He's under foot all the time. He can't seem to figure out what to do. And he seems to be getting more depressed. We had something better, but it didn't happen. Now what should we do?

- Missouri A. I agree with your first thought. Early retirement is an unprecedented opportunity for something new and different in your life, a new direction. There are many responsibilities.

Probably your husband is wondering why he didn't stay employed and whether he should go back to work. Some persons retire from one career and begin another. One man at age 46 switched from optometry to landscaping.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Tuition tax credit legislation "appears doomed for this Congress and perhaps even beyond," according to one of its sponsors, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.).

But a spokesman for U.S. bishops disagreed. Bishop Thomas C. Kelly, U.S. Catholic Conference general secretary, responding to a letter from Moynihan .to U.S. bishops, said he "believes the legislation has the necessary support for enactment by the 97th Congress" and the backing of President Reagan. '~We fully expect that President Reagan will ,include provisions in his next budget submission to Congress to allow for early and expeditious action on this legislation. We also have no doubt that Sen. Moynihan, then as now, will continue to champion the cause of equity and parental rights in education," Bishop Kelly said.

Tuition tax credits would allow parents of children in nonpublic schools to receive tax credits for tuition. A proposal by Moynihan and Sen. Robert Pack~ wood (R-Ore.) would allow credit for half of tuition costs up to $500. lIn his letter Moynihan sa,id that although he continues to support tuition tax credits, "in all candor, the legislation appears doomed for this Congress and perhaps even beyond, unless the administration decides actively to press Congress to enact it.

Thus far they have not."

Moynihan noted that on June 24 he had moved his tuition tax credit bill in the Senate Finance Committee, which was then marking up a comprehensive tax

bill. The move failed, 10-5, with "Now, it's a question of timing, one abstention. of when it will be brought up," "The administration believes Anthony said.

Moynihan's letter also suggest· that enactment of tuition tax credits is incompatible with its ed that the bishops consider goal of a balanced budget. Al- other methods of aid to nonthough there is talk of a second . public schools, such as the protax bill next year, I doubt there grams auth.rized by the Elementary and Secondary Education will be one,"Moynihan wrote..

Act. The Reagan administration's In a memo to Bishop Kelly, education block grants, in prinJames L. Robinson of the USCC ciple at' least, benefit non-public Office of Government Liaison school students. stated that the Senate Finance "Tuition tax credits are a Committee vote should not be in- means, not an end -in themselves. terpreted as a rejection of tuition Those of us who care about aid tax credits but only as a rejecto non-governmental schools can tion of the action of including it usefully consider what other in the tax bill. means may be both suitable and In his response to Moynihan's feasible," Moynihan wrote. letter Bishop Kelly cited Rea"It's not a trade-off between gan's commitment to tuition tax tuition tax credits and other credits made during the presiden- things," Anthony said of Moynitial campaign and the recent tes- han's statement. "We could have timony of Assistant Secretary of both,"" the Treasury John Chapoton afFederal education' programs firming continued support for only assist certain children in tax credits. certain categories, he said, but "Given these repeated, consist- "one of the Ibig things about ent and very public pledges of tuition tax credits is that they support by the president and his help all children," administration, together with past congressional support from both Democratic and Republican members, we believe that there ATLANTA (NC) - Msgr. Jocontinues to be strong bipartisan seph G. Cassidy, 83, the oldest support for tuition tax credits priest in the Atlanta Archdiowhich will result in the enactcese, has been awarded the 1981 ment of this legislation by the Lumen Christi (Light of Christ) 97th Congress," the bishop said.

Award by the Catholic Extension Edward Anthony, director of Society, which collects and disthe USCC Campaign for Educa- tributes funds for the home mistional Assistance, said July 23 sions. The annual award is given that the tax credit issue is not to an exemplary home missioner dead but that "a lot will depend recommended by the bishop of on the efforts of the \\1hite a diocese. Msgr. Cassidy was House." recommended by Archbishop Anthony added that "the Thomas A. Donnellan of Atlanta. president has time and time Msgr. Cassidy has served comagain given his commitment" to munities in every area of the tuition tax credit issue. Georgia.

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How the Vatican works This Is the third in a series of articles by the NC News Service Rome bureau on how the Roman Curia, the cbU1'Cb's central administration Is nm.

- The Congregation for the Clergy is divided into three offices. The first is in charge of diocesan priests and deacons; It promotes the intellectual and pastoral updating of clergy, oversees cathedral chapters, diocesan pastoral councils and priests' councils, and seeks to prllmote better distribution of priests around the world. The second office is in charge of catechetics, promoting catechetical deyelopment and giving norms fClr the teaching of religion. The third office governs matters concerning the administration church property and goods. It also sets norms for adequate renumeration of priests and adequat1e provision for them in retirement or in case of sickness or disability.

Saints' Causes; the Congregation for Eastern Churches; the Congregation for Catholic Education, regarding universities; and the Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship, regarding liturgical texts and rites and some marriage cases.

- The Congregation for Saints' Causes is in charge of investigating the lives of and miracles attributed to persons considered outstandingly holy, to see if they should formally be declared saints.

- The Congregation for Catholic Education oversees the academic training and spiritual and pastoral formation of seminarians, the academic training of those in religious orders and secular institutes, all Catholic universities and colleges and institutes of higher learning, and Catholic faculties (departments) in secular institutions (a system common in many parts of Eu- The Congregation for Reli- rope). In a somewhat more gengious and Secular Institutes is in eral way it is also in charge of charge of all religious orders of Catholic elementary and high priests, 'brothers and nuns E~xcept schools. It is not in charge, howthose of the Eastern· Rit1es. It ever, of seminaries or Catholic oversees the rules of religious elementary and intermediate edlife and religious formation. It ucation in mission lands or unalso governs the rules of st~cular der the churches of the Eastern institutes, societies of laity or Rite. These are, respectively, unclergy who profess the evangeli- der the congregations for the cal counsels but do not practice evangelization of peoples and religious life in common as reli- Eastern churches.

While the Secretariat of State gious orders do.

- The Congregation fer the and Vatican congregations form Evangelization of Peoples,. also the legislative and adminstrative still known by its older name, core of assistance to the pope, the Congregation for the Propa- another arm of the Curia helps gation of the Faith, is nearly an the pope carry out his role, deall-embracing agency governing . fined by the First Vatican Counchurch affairs in missionary ter- cil, as "supreme judge of the ritories. It is in charge of r1egula- faithful."

That arm consists of three triting and coordinating missionary work. It has almost exclusive bunals or courts: the Apostolic jurisdiction over most of Africa, Penitentiary, the Supreme Court Asia, Australia and Oceania; of the Apostolic Signature, and parts of Latin America; northern the Roman Rota.

Canada; Alaska; Greenland; Ice- The Roman Rota, the lowland; Scandinavia; Albanill and est of these courts, is the parts of Yugoslavia. Its judsdic- church's main court of appeals tion is limited only by the com- for all church courts of lower petence of the doctrinal congre- rank. The bulk of its caseload gation; the Congregation for consists of marriage cases com-

ing on appeal from diocesan and metropolitan church courts. But it also handles other cases, including some criminal cases. The rota can also be a court of first instance for certain cases.

- The Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature is, as its name implies, the church's highest court. It deals mainly with questions of procedure and is responsible for seeing that the laws and rights are duly observed through the church's court system. It also handles certain cases assigned to it by church law, such as certain appeals of rota decisions and charges of wrongdoing by members of the rota.

- The Apostolic Penitentiary handles dispensations and absolutions from censures that are reserved to the pope, rules on the granting of indulgences, and is the church's court of the internal forum, that is, for resolving cases of conscience which cannot be resolved by normal juridical rules of witnesses and evidence. The penitentiary is also responsible for the priest-confessors, called minor penitentiaries, who hear confessions in Rome's four major basilicas.

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IThose myste'rious Cape churches .

In case you're wondering whether you identified last week's page 9 pictures of Cape Cod churches correctly: from top in the lefthand column, St. Anthony, East Falmouth; St. Elizabeth Seton, North Falmouth; St. Rita, Marion; 81. Joan of Are, Orleans.

Righthand, from top, Sacred Heart, Oak ,Bluffs; St. Patrick, Wareham (if you thought it was Holy Name, Fall River, you had lots of company); Holy Redeemer, Chatham.

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Silas and Timothy walked into the Corinth synagogue. It was the Sabbath.

They saw Paul leading a discussion. He was surrounded by people who did not believe that Jesus was God's promised Messiah. A number of them were upset with Paul.

Paul was also upset. The crowd not only disagreed with him but some people were insulting him.

Paul began to shake his cloak and robe. "I am not to blame," he exclaimed. "If you don't believe, that is your responsibility, not mine."

Finally he withdrew from the "COLLABORATION and communication often seem to be sides of the same coin." synagogue. The people J:!egan to follow him down the street but _ he eluded them.

1~==================================iI He went to the house of his Jewish Christian friends, Aquila and Priscilla. He had lived and worked with them since he came ties to be educated about local a parish takes place in a special

By Father Philip J. Mumion to Corinth. They were all tentand global injustice and to carry way among the staff members.

What happens when people out action that promotes justice. Staff collaboration, which can makers. That is how Paul supcollaborate? Many corporations, In the past, parishioners have take various forms, may mean ported himself.

Now Paul decided to move in schools, hospitals and other in- agreed to promote greater youth that each member of the parish with a gentile, a man named stitutions of society want an an- involvement in the parish and to staff feels that his or her special Titus Justus whose house was swer to that question. foster opportunities for spiritual leadership abilities are receiving right next to the synagogue.

Seeking it, school administra- growth. encouragement. Better coordinaThat situation, in which par- tion of parish programs may alJust after Paul moved in with tors consult parents, hoping the Titus one of the leaders of the result will be an increased abil- ishioners share in formulating so result. synagogue, Crispus, came to ity of parents and teachers to parish goals, came about after Of course, collaboration among him. He and his whole family serve together in the education several years of growing partici- staff members holds speCial chalhad decided to put their faith in of children. Some corporations pation by parishioners in the. lenges, too. It means being open initiate procedures to promote work of the parish. They were to suggestions and criticisms, Jesus Christ.

The Community of Christians greater understanding and great- years of reflection and collabora- respecting differences of opinion at Corinth grew steadily. But er teamwork among employees. tion. and differences of personality St. Joseph's experience is a and trying to achieve joint dethere were still those who opFamilies are concerned about posed Paul. collaboration too. Our complex strong example of a growing cisions. society places special demands phenomenon - the sharing of a One night the Lord came to In some dioceses, parish staff him in a vision. "Do not be on the time, energy and relation- parish community in the leader- members work together as offiafraid, Paul," the Lord said. "Go ships of family members - in- ship and work of a parish. cially appointed teams of priests, What are the advantages of on speaking out. Do not remain fluencing the family's lifestyle or as teams of priests, Religious silent. I am with you. No one for better or worse. Family mem- this kind of sharing? First, when and lay personnel who share in will harm you. There are many bers often find that if they are people share in the development the direction of the parish. But going to spend time together, if of goals, they tend to feel more even in many parishes where the of my people in this city."

So Paul settled down in Cor- they are going to contribute to responsible for carrying them more usual structure is maininth. He stayed there about a each other's lives and carry out out. They may develop a greater tained, with an appointed pastor, year and a half. Silas and. Tim- common responsibilities, they sense of the urgency of the efforts to promote collaboration othy worked with him to build need to collaborate in the work goals, as well. among the members of the parIn addition, when the people of being a family. up the Christian community. ish staff are underway.

It isn't surprising that at a of a parish collaborate, they tend Whether among staff members time when many of society's in- to understand better what the stitutions have collaboration on parish's goals are. This can lead or within the parish as a whole, their minds, people in parishes to a better use of the particular collaboration and communicaalso are exploring ways to share talents of each pl'!rson in the tion often seem to be sides of the same coin. Communication, it parish. in the work of being a parish.

By Lenore Kelly The thrust toward increased seems, is important within any When parishioners of St. JoParishioners at Our Lady seph the Worker Parish in Mar- collaboration in many parishes of society's institutions. Family Queen of Peace Parish in Lafa- rem, La., gather for their an- does not mean a "crowd ap- members, for example, need to yette, La., find that working to- nual larish assembly, they work proach," with every person do- communicate in order to be a gether is not always easy but close!} together in setting goals ing his or her own thing. The strong family. goal is to encourage clergy, reliIn the parish, a special kind can be rewarding. The parish, for the coming year.

This year they approved goals gious and laity to collaborate in of family, communication is simi50 miles west of Baton Rouge, larly important. It is part of the was the first interracial church calling for more parish efforts to a common mission. aid the positive growth of famSometimes the movement to- foundation on which collaborain the Lafayette diocese.

Building a cohesive parish ily life, and for more opportuni- ward increas~d collaboration in tion is built. spirit was no simple task. In the f~rst place, there are 14 neighborhoods within the parish. Moreover, Sunday liturgies are celebrated at two different sites.

Some 95 percent of the 900! parish families are black and attend Mass at the main church.

White parishioners, living in new developments bordering the parish, gen(;!rally attend Mass in a neighborhood chapel.

According to the pastor, Father Daniel Regan, one of the parish's six stated goals is unity.

He said that parishioners feel Turn to Page Thirteen

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Several concerns motivated Matthew to recast the traditional material about Jesus into a new Gospel. They had to do with preaching, liturgical celebration and controversy with people outside the Christian community.

A more fundamental situation was created by the dynamic life of the community itself. Matthew's community was experi· encing unsettling changes and its thinking about Christianity was developing; the material about Jesus had to be applied to this community if the community was to remain alive and vital.

Just as people today are Unsettled by events in the church's life - for example, changes in the liturgy - -there were those in Matthew's church who were upset by events. Matthew had to reassure them and that required prudence, tact and a generous dash of genius.

The ferment in Matthew's community bubbles up through· out the Gospel. Some people are allowing their charismatic gifts to blind them to the basic de· mands of religion (Chapter 7); community leaders are derelict in their duty, causing scandal to the faithful, leading to neglect of straying members and an insensitive lack of forgiveness (Chapter 18).

The great discourse of Chapter 24 points to the existence of false messiahs and prophets, persecution, betrayal and a lessening of love and zeal on the part of Christians.

All these factors indicate a community in transition, and the single most important factor in the transition was the change in the very makeup of the community. What had been a staunchly Jewish-Christian church was becoming more and more gentile.

It is hard for us to appreciate the trauma this caused many among the original members.

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It's hard

By Evelyn Eaton Whitehead Communication can be tricky.

Most of us know this from our own experience. It is a conviction shared by marriage coun· selors, family therapists and ,business consultants.

There are a lot of reasons for this. Our lives are busy; often we don't take the time necessary to listen well or to be clear about what we really mean when we speak.

But the reasons can go deeper.

Communicating with people means coming "up close." This can be comforting, exciting and even fun. But it also can be a strain.

In the course of a typical week - at work, at home, with friends and neighbors - we get close to other people at many points. Obviously, - situations vary. My relationship with my teen-age daughter, for instance, Turn to Page Thirteen

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It's hard Continued from page twelve is much different from thSlt with my immediate supervisor atwork.

But in both I am likely to sense the other person U(I close - close enough to influence me and to be affected, for better or worse, by my actions.

Friendship and love can be part of the experience of being close to people. Cooperation or conflict are other possibilities.

And here I think of the planning or problem-solving meeting, perhaps in a parish or schooL In all these situations" communication is important. Furthermore, it can get complicated a fairly normal circumstance when people get close to each other.

Let's take an example. I volunteer as a member of a group which will work closely together planning a youth ministry program for the coming year. After several weeks I begin to feel uncomfortable. The problem is not that anyone person has taken over. Rather, it is that I begin to feel these other people are getting too close to me. My sug-

gestion is only one among many.

My ideas look different to me after the group deals with them and makes changes.

I feel that things aren't going as they should. On the one hand, I react with a take-control kind of thought: "If only I could get them to do it my way!" On the other, I feel like dropping out: "They don't appreciate me anyway; it would be better for me to go off on my own."

With these feelings, communication becomes difficult. For it makes me more interested in defending myself than in sharing my ideas or listening well to what someone else has to say.

Furthermore, self-defense is not a stance that leads to open communication.

How does one move beyond feeling defensive? Many factors are involved: my own self-confidence; the emotional support I feel; the sense I have of what is at stake for me.

In addition, my convictions about other people can be a key factor in moving beyond' defensive feelings. What are other people for? If I value them only

According to Father Regan, Continued from page twelve "uneasy sometimes" but are there are already tangible reo slowly learning to listen to each sults. More people are involved in the parish, parish income has other.

Parish council member Stan- increased, and a parttime sister ley Arceneaux sees a new pride now works with religious educadeveloping among parishioners. tion programs. In addition, a "I've learned a lot and I've neighborhood improvement group changed, too," he reflects. By that has already offered assis"dealing with other people's tance in weatherproofing homes problems, I've developed a sen- was started. sitivity I did not have before."

Changes have come about in Mary Davis credits the activi- parish meetings too. "There's a tr.es surrounding the parish's -sense of trying to do the best 10th anniversary in 1979 for a thing for the whole parish, not closeness she thinks is beginning just for one segment," Arcento grow among parishioners. eaux says. "We argue with each "Before that time. people stayed other a lot but when a meeting apart. Now, after Sunday Mass, ends, we shake hands and go you can see the difference. It's away smiling." like a family gathering with everyone talking with everyone • else."

The idea of an anniversary celebration first surfaced in 1978 Continued from page twelve at meetings between former pas- ately and understandably loyal tor Father Val Pullman and his to the Law of Moses and to the newly appointed co-pastor, traditions and customs which Father Reagan. Both recognized made up the very fabric of their the need for developing a good lives. Then along come gentiles, working relationship and for fellow Christians, who did not focusing on the future direction relate to the Jewish law in that of the parish. way.

With the aid of a consultant This posed a real problem for from the Parish Renewal Office Matthew. He had to ease his in the diocese of Lafayette, the community into a new situation priests met each week for six while still respecting their sensimonths and then set out to get bilities. He did not want to reparishioners from all the neigh- ject those sensibilities, but borhoods involved in reviewing neither could he deny what was the parish's' history and chart- happening in his community. He ing its future. They felt the par- had to find a way to accept the ish's approaching 10th anniver- new without completely dessary would be an ideal time t,o troying the old. do this.

Matthew's desire to move with Father Regan says that the the times without turning his fact that the majority of adults back on the old is suggested, by hold down two or three or even the way he edits the saying four jobs meant that finding a about putting new wine in old convenient time for people to skins. In his Gospel, Mark.cau~ meet posed a special challenge. tioned against this, lest both But when people did begin to wine and skins be lost. work together they developed a Matthew's version ends, "No, new appreciation for each other.

One of 30 leaders trained to they pour new wine into new canvass each neighborhood, Mary wineskins, and in that both are Davis recalls walking from door preserved." to door, inviting people to a neighborhood meeting to discuss parish hopes. She said "A lot of people had misunderstandings about what the church is but I told them to come and see what for pregnancy help we have to offer." confidential A parish convention took suggestions compiled at neighborhood meetings and developed free pregnarlcy testing recommendations for the parish Let us help vou . We Care council which, in turn, developed parish goals. These cover the areas of spiritual development, parish membership and development, fiscal improvement and religious education. Two repreFuneral Bome sentatives from each of the 14 550 Locust Street parish neighborhoods serve on FaD River, Mass. the parish council.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 30,1981

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I ve been travehng b~ bus I~tely and ha~e ha~ many lOterestlOg con~ersatJonahsts as seat compamons. One was a young ma.n who wanted to talk about hiS father, in his forties, who had died two months earlier.

He told me of their hunting and fishing trips and his longing for the days when they had been companions in the forest. ''There are so many unanswered questions," he said, then quoted from Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet:" "Be patient towa,rds all that is unsolved in your heart.

Try to love the questions themselves."

My young friend told me that he has found great release in prayer since his father died. His father had taught him that God was always with him and near him. Out of his grief and anguish, his loneliness for his father, feelings expressed to God alone brought him trust and resignation when he needed it most.

"I still have a Father," he said.

A lady from France proved very ,energetic. She said she drove her Renault 90 miles an hour at home and wondered why the bus driver was holding 55.

She said she thought she knew more about the United States, after all her travels, than. her American friends. She commented on our violence and was surprised at all the precautions her friends took at night. "Are you

all in jail?" she asked.

Another bus companion was a Jesuit priest. We spoke of the fact that Christ has set us free and of the question often asked, "Why do we need to be set free?" .

Simply put, we must be freed ,because we are slaves: to doubtful social norms, social background, materialism. On my trip I met many people with no selfconfidence. TV commercials really do a number on some youth. "Unless you measure up to the commercials," said· one, "you feel as if you're good for nothing.

How deeply this kind of thinking affects our daily lives! Many people are truly serving idols.

And it is almost the same thing many scientists say about the environment: "Either we pay attention to the harmony and welfare of the whole or we pay attention only to some limited part."

We think we can produce chemicals cheaply and dump the waste into a lake or that we don't need to take care of nuclear byproducts or air poIlution. If this continues we will eventually pay the price and may be destroyed. St. Augustine put it another way: "We are either slaves of God or slaves of sin."

Either we orient ourselves towards the true, good and beautiful or towards a lesser good, becoming the slave of that good.

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LOUJIDES, France (NC) "Shake the world," Archbishop Helder Camara of Olinda-Recife, Brazil, told young people participating in ,the 42nd International Eucharistic Congress in U?urdes.

Speaking at a vigil for youths July 19, Archbishop Camara said: "We know today that a nuclear submarine can carry 20 missiles which can destroy 800 cities like Hiroshima or Nagasaki," the archbishop said.

"Is it not frightening?" he asked. "This could provoke a nuclear war capable of destroying all life on earth."

"Bread should be shared among all. Last year 50 million people died lof hunger and the United Nations says that twothirds of the world's population lives in subhuman conditions," he said.

"We must go to the root of the problem, we must go to justice," the archbishop said~ "Avoid the scandal of a small group of countries always richer because they crush the others, crush nearly all humanity," he added. . Also addressing youth was Cardinal Bernardin Gantin. At the final night service of the congress he asked thousands of

youth to "accept me :as your legate to the pope."

As such, the prelate said he would carry to "our holy father a message of hope."

His hope, the cardinal said, springs from the contacts with different cultural, national and artistic expressions, "which still reflected their fidelity. to the church, and it springs from all my contacts with the young of all the countries represented here."

The cardinal asked the young people to work to share affluence, freedom arid, most of all, faith so that the international dimension of the congress might be complete.

The young congress participants interrupted Cardinal Gantin five times with applause during his brief remarks and issued a statement of their own.

Responding to "the cries of unemployed workers, of underprivileged students, of dispossessed peasants, of citizens deprived of their liberty, of opponents tortured, of hungry men, of little-loved children, of young people without hope, of the poor always poorer, we delare our intention of acting together for a new world," the statement said.

By Charlie Martin

ALL MY LIFE'S A CIRCLE AU my life's a circle Sunrise and sundown The moon rolls through the nighttime Till the daybreak comes around All my life's a circle And I can't tell you why Seasons spinning round agaln The years keep rolling by It seems like I've been here before I can't remember when And I get this funny feeling That we will all be together again There's no straight lines to make up my life And all my roads have bends There are no clear-cut beginnings And so far no dead ends I found you a thousand times I guess you've done the same But then we lose each other It's just a children's game But as I find you here agaln The thought runs through my mind Our love is like a circle Let's go round one more time Written and sung by Harry Chapin, (c) 1976 by Elecktro Records

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By Tom Lennon Within the space of two days my kitchen radio sang to me three times about loneliness.

During a tribute to songwriter Irving Berlin a voice I did not recognize mourned, "All alQne, I'm so all alone." Later another unrecognized singer crooned, "Everyone must face their share of loneliness." And during lunch the next day Perry Como informed his listeners. "Yes, I know how lonely life can be."

The lyrics added up to a gloomy but true picture of the lives of many people. In some ways the loneliest person in the world is the immigrant newly arrived in a strange country. He has uprooted himself from a land that was home and held so much that was dear to him.

The immigrant is something like the exile, who also knows a special brand of loneliness far from home. In a real seDse every Christian, member of a pilgrim church, is an exile wandering far from that homeland that is heaven. A Christian should not be surprised if from time to time he feels a nameless, gnawing loneliness.

Who else is lonely? At one time or another, everybody. No one escapes this pain. The fouryear-old toddler who has no one to play with is left with an ache he does not understand. The eighth-grade girl who has no close friends may feel too deeply ashamed even to admit her lone-

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HARRY CHAPIN had many stories. Some were just for fun, like riding along in a runaway truck loaded with "Twenty Thousand Pounds of Bananas."

Others were collages of feelings and insights. "Taxi," "Mr. Tanner" and "Cat's in the Cradle" belong to this category.

None of us expected these stories to end so abruptly as they did on the evening of July 16.

But few of us realize how much death is part of life or how life has its own timetable. Harry Chapin's death came as a diffi: cult surprise for those who respected his music.

I wrote about "All My Life's a Circle" once before. But as 1 think of Chapin's death, this song has a new level of meaning for me. For all of us the hopefulness of life's journey seems expressed in the words, "there are no clear-cut beginnings and so far no dead ends."

Many would find hopefulness irrational. I do not. Many would say that death is the end to our life's story. I do not and apparently neither did Chapin.

I remember not only Chapin's music, but also his ch'illienge. A Chapin concert always included some personal word about world hunger. Chapin cared about the world's hungry and he challenged us to do likewise.

His songs and stories gave me courage. I am a better person because of who Chapin was and what he told us. He loved life and encouraged us to thin through the power of love.

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lin&Ss. The young man who has just broken up with his girl friend may cover up his lonely heart by determining never to fall in love again. The mother and homemaker who works many hours each day in solitude and who is often taken for granted by her family may silently mourn, "All alone, I'm so all alone." The father, facing a rebellious, Sharp-tongued teen-ager may want to weep for loneliness. And countless aged persons, often without relatives or close friends, may be so lonely they cannot describe it.

'Even Jesus was pierced by the sword of loneliness. "My God,

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my God, why did you abandon me?" he cried shortly before he died. (Matt. 27,46).

In some ways the world seems plagued by an epidemic of loneliness, and one may well wonder what to do about it. If you would like to do a little research on this disease, you might read "Living With Loneliness" by Eugene Kennedy (Thomas More Press) or "Loneliness" by Clark E. Moustakas (prentice-Hall, Inc.). You might also try talking to various people to see how they deal with their lonely moments.

You may hear all sorts of solutions. Join a club. Take up a hobby. Get into political activity" Help out in the parish. Do anything to be with people - or almost anything. For some persons these solutions work well and easily. But for others, and for various, complex reasons, these remedies fail, and the person remains lonely. , So what to do? In recent years we have had widespread campaigns to stamp out forest fires, polio, cancer, heart disease, poverty, hunger, and war. But I have yet to see a poster or sticker urging me to cure loneliness.

Could such a campaign be launched? Could you and your friends discuss these questions: 1. What causes loneliness?

2. Do we know anyone who is lonely?

3. What might we do to help him or her?

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eyo Baselball Season Nears End The end of its regular season only two weeks away, the Bristol County CYO Baseball League has several rained-out games to be rescheduled as well as three games that ended in ties.

Rain last week forced postponement of Monday and. Wednesday's games, South End vs.

Kennedy, Kennedy vs. Somerset, Central vs. Maplewood and North End vs. Central. Also on the make-up list are the Somerset vs. South End and Maplewood vs. Central games rained out earlier.

The tie games to be rescheduled are Central vs. Sometset and North End vs. Maplewood of July 1 and the 'North End-Central game of July 5.

Meanwhile Kennedy and pacesetting Maplewood meet at 6 tonight and Central and North End at 8:15 at Chew Memorial Park, Fall River.

Entering this week's play Maplewood was still setting the pace with a 10-3 record followed

by Somerset 9-6, South End 10-7, North End 8-8, Kennedy 7-9 and Central 0-14.

Sunday night's twin bill has South End vs. Somerset, North End vs. I<ennedy while on Monday it will be South End vs.

Maplewood, Central vs. Somerset.

The Fall River CYO Baseball League schedule last week was also disrupted by rain Monday and Wednesday. To be rescheduled are Our Lady of Health vs.

St. Michael's Club and St. William vs. Columbus, Immaculate

Conception vs. Swansea, St. Patrick vs. Our Lady of Health.

Tonight's games list St. William vs. Immaculate Conception at Lafayette Park, Columbus vs.

Swansea at Kennedy Park, both at 6 o'clock. A revised' schedule for the remainder of the season is to be released this week.

At the conclusion of last week's play defending champion Flint Catholic, 10-3, held a twogame lead over Immaculate Conception, 8-5, but runnerup Swansea, 7-2, was only one game back of the pace and one game ahead of Immaculate Conception. St. William was 7-7, St. Michael's Club 6-9, Our Lady of Health 5-8, Columbus 4-8, St. Patrick 4-9.

Joe Rocha, New Bedford High School's star, has been making headlines recently. Running under the colors of the Greater New Bedford Track Club he won the 5,000 meter race at the New England Junior Olympics meet in Greenwich, Conn. earlier this month and qualified for the National Junior Olympics in Nebraska next month.

Last Saturday the 16-year-old New Bedford High sophomore won two events in the Development Track meet sponsored by the GreatE:r New Bedford Track Club.

In that meet, held at the Greater New Bedford Voke-Tech High School track, Rocha won the mile run in the 16-17 age bracket in 4:38.4 and with a time of 9:58.3 won the two-mile run in the same age bracket.

Haberl 'Wins Higgins Trophy Kevin Haberl of the Cape area fired a 78 to place first in the Cadet Division (for players born on or after Jan. I, 1967), a showing earning him the Marty Higgins Trophy as outstanding golfer in the CYO Diocesan Golf Tournament at the Pocass.et Golf Course last Monday. Bill Doyle New Bedford, was tournament director.

Craig Compton, New Bedford, and Tom Tobey, Cape, tied for second place with 82s and Crompton won the runnerup spot on the first hole of sudden death overtime.

Bill Bourque, Taunton, and Alan Olivier, Fall River, had cl\.l'ds of 77 and 79 to lead the senior division. Scott Pearson, Cape, 78, and Rick Coleman, Fall River, 80, were tops in the Junior Division. Steve Hales, of France, qualifying from the Cape, 76, was the leader in thl~ Intermediate Division. Jim Jardin, New Bedford, 79, was second.

The first two in each division will represent the Fall River di-

ocese in the New Englands next month at a site and date to be announced.

Other scores: Cadets - Scott Borden, Fall River, 89; Mike Petrucci, Taunton, 82; Kevin Charves, New Bedford, 95; Mike Charves, New Bedford, 98; Mike McGrath, Taunton, 102; Bob Coleman, Fall River, 111.

Seniors - Dan Salmon, Fall River, 81; Dan Donovan and John Connor, New Bedford, 80; Bob Braga, Taunton, 82; Luanne Williams, Attleboro, 89; Greg Cabral, Fall River, 90.

Juniors Charles Flynn, Taunton, 82; Bill Coutu, Cape, 84; Jim Rodrigues, New Bedford, and Marc Lavigne, Taunton, 86; Mike Torres, Fall River, 90; Carl Oliveira, New Bedford, and Andy Vallee, New Bedford, 92; Joe Clark, Attleboro, 101.

Intermediates - Ed Hogan, Cape, 80; Dan Daley, Fall River, 81; Joe Kelleher, Cape, 83; Greg Boucher, New Bedford, 84; Jim Dutra, Attleboro, and David Bourque, Taunton, 85.

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man, because the cluttered plot throws the whole burden upon him. The adult romantic complications seem out of place in a movie aimed at children. Because of them, it has been c1assified A3, PG. Films on TV Frl'day, Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m.

(NBC) _ "The Slipper and the Rose" (1976): Richard. Chamberlain and Gemma Craven star ,in a very entertaining verison of the Cinderella story. AI, G. Saturday, Aug. 8, 9:30 p.m.

New Films (CBS) - "Nunzio" (1978): A "Arthur" (Warners): A rich well-acted and moving story and spoiled young man named about a retarded youth who fanArthur (Dudley Moore) who tasizes he's Superman. There is drinks to excess and pursues all a scene involving sexual misconsorts of women, falls in love duct which is suggested rather with a nice poor girl from than shown and a confessional Queens (Liza Minelli) in this at- scene that might give the wrong tempt by writer-director Steve idea of the practice of the church Gordon to make a modern ver. today. A3 PG sion of the screwball comedy of Religious Broadcasting the 30s and 40s. It doesn't quite Sunday, Aug. 2, WLNE, Chanmake it, despite good acting by nel 6, 10:30 a.m., Diocesan TeleMoore and Miss Minelli and a vision Mass. fine supporting performance by "Confluence," 8 a.m. each John Gielgudas More's gentle- Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. man's gentleman. Because of each Tuesday on Channel 6, is vulgar language and Arthur's a panel program moderated by promiscuity, it has been classi- Truman Taylor and having as fied A3, PG. permanent participants Father "Endless Love" (Universal): Peter N. Graziano, diocesan di· Scott Spencer's brilliant novel of rector of social services; Rev. Dr. obsessive love has been vulgar- Paul Gillespie, of the Rhode Is· ized by director Franco Zeffirelli land State Council of Churches; and writer Judith Rascoe into a and Rabbi Baruch Korff. This glossy fantasy about teen-age week's subject: How Responsible love which takes an inexplicable Are We? turn when the boy (Martin Sunday, Aug. 2,12:30-1:00 p.m.

Hewitt) sets fire to the house in (ABC) "Directions" presents which the girl (the ubiquitous "The Moral Masada," a look at Brooke Shields) and her family the price of freedom through the are sleeping, a stunt that earns centuries. The program includes the boyan extended stay in a a review of the Masada story, mental institution and changes when 960 Judeans fought off the lives of everyone involved. 5,000 -Roman soldiers and evenLovemaking and nudity are rela- tually chose to take their lives tively restrained, but because rather than live in slavery. Check they have no significant context, . local listings for time. the film is rated .a, R. On Radio "On the Right Track (Fox): Sunday, Aug. 2 (NBC) "GuideA small boy (televJsion celebrity line." The host, Marist Father Gary Coleman) lives in a locker Joseph Fenton, talks with Father at Chicago's Union Station and Joseph Fitzmyer, professor of makes a living as an entrepre- Scripture at the Catholic Unineur and shoeshine boy in this versity of America and author of thin comedy. How much you a new commentary on the Gospel like the movie depends upon how of Luke. Check local listings for charming you find Gary Cole- time.

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-parental guidance sug· gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil River-Thurs., July 30, 1981

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ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD

Knights of the Altar will meet at 10 this morning in the chapel.

Officers and Kadets will remain for a session in the parish hall.

The Immanuel prayer group of St. George parish, Westport, will join the parish group at 7 p.m.

Mass Wednesday, Aug. 5. Newcomers are welcome. Masses of healing will be offered at 7 p.m. each Wednesday of August, followed by a prayer meeting. St. Joseph's group will host a deanery meeting of prayer group leaders Monday, Aug. 3.

The deadline for annual parish calendar entries is tomorrow.

Any questions may be brought to the rectory.

The parish council will meet at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER

Sponsors for the annual Catholic Home appointment calendar are invited to contact Father John FoIster, pastor, at 674-5651.

The parish's third annual children's summer program is taking place through tomorrow at St. Anne's School.

LEGION OF MARY, NEW BEDFORD AREA

A curia meeting is set for 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3, in Sacred Heart sacristy, New Bedford. A holy hour will take place at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21 at St. Joseph's, also New Bedford. A picnic will be held, rain or shine, from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Holy Cross Fathers' grounds on Tucker Road, North Dartmouth.

BLESSED SACRAMENT FEAST, NEW BEDFORD

The 67th annual feast will begin today at Madeira Field, New Bedford, continuing through Sunday. Portuguese foods will be available and the Guy Lombardo orchestra will entertain.

Championship Clydesdale horses will be ()n view.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER.

The. school will open Wednes. day, Sept. 2, with half-day sessions the remainder of the week.

Students requiring immunizations may attend clinics scheduled from 9 to 9:30 a.m. every weekday through the end of August and located at the Carroll and Westall public schools.

K of C COUNCIL 88, FALL RIVER

A special election will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, at the council home.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FALL RIVER

Father Francis Okonkwo, C.S. Sp. spoke at all Masses last weekend, appealing for aid to Holy Ghost missions in Africa.

XAVIER SOCIETY, NEW YORK

Free services for the visually impaired include braille, large print and tape recorded books, periodicals and religious materials, all available on a loan basis. Information is obtainable from the society at 154 E. 23 St., New York, N.Y. 10010.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER

The parish council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday Aug. 17 at the church hall.

People in Your Community Depend Upon You. DONATING BLOOD IS A WAY TO HELP SOMEONE IN NEED

COYLE HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS REUNION

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER

Members of the class of 1961 of the former Coyle High School, Taunton, are planning a reunion during the third week of September. The location of the fuIl day outing envisioned will be determined by alumni response. Class members to be contacted are Clarence Rich, Norton; Pierre Paquin, New Bedford; Francis Mello, Bridgewater; or Joe Luiz, Assonet. Information as to changed addresses may be sent to 1961 Class Reunion, Norton 02766.

All children in public school should be enrolled in the parish CCD program. A prerequisite to enrollment is registration of the family in the parish.

LA SALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO

A Holistic Health Day will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8. Exercise, prayer and proper eating habits will be discussed by Father Andre Patenaude, shrine director, 'and nutritionist Ann Aboody. A "holistic lunch" will be a feature of the program. Pre-registration is requested by calling 222-5410.

The day will conclude with Mass.

The first annual Hispanic Day will take place from 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday Aug. 9, at the shrine with the purpose of honoring Mary and acquainting Hispanics with the message of her apparition at La Salette.

A Spanish Mass at 3 p.m. will be celebrated by Father Gerard Comeau, MS, who spent 19 years as a missioner in Spain. Music will be by a Hispanic choir. AIl Hispanics are invited.

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The Women's Guild board will meet at the parish center at 7:30 p.m. Monday for a planning session.

An ushers' workshop directed

by Michael Cote is set for 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10. Both veterans and new recruits are invited to participate.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN

Baptisms follow noon Mass on Sundays. Arrangements should be made at the rectory.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER

The parish expresses gratitude to the family of the late Albert Barre, who donated a communion plate in his memory. "May this instrument used at Euchar. ist remind us that he was and still is an instrument in the hands of the Lord," commented Rev. Maurice Jeffrey, pastor.

ST. RITA, MARION

Sixth and seventh graders will have an outing at Lincoln ParR on Monday. Those interested should call the rectory by tomorrow.

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Parish calendar planners will meet at 7:45 p.m. Sunday at the rectory.

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The Post Office has increased from 13 to 25 cents its charge to THE ANCHOR for notification of a subscriber's change of address. Please help us reduce this expense by notifying us immediately when you plan to move.

The availability of blood is critical and all types are needed all summer. So please, if you are between the ages of 17 and 65, weigh at least 110 Ibs and are in good health call your local chapter of the Red Cross to find out where and when you can donate at this important time of year.

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