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WASHINGTON (NC) - During his first four years in offiice, President Carter has had a mixed record on issues of concern to American Catholics.

The president's threatened veto of a tuition tax credit bill and his support for a separate Department of Education are two examples of positions which clearly upset Catholic officiills.

But Carter, now safely the 1980 Democratic presidential nominee, also has received high marks from church officials for his support of a foreign policy based on human rights, his Middle East peace initiatives, the successful conclusion of the Panama Canal treaties and his efforts - until the Soviet invasion of Mghanistan - on behalf

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record mixed on Catholic concerns of the SALT II agreements.

And on a historic day, Oct. 6, 1979, Carter became the first president to receive a pope at the White House.

Carter's relationship with Catholics got off to an inauspicious start partly because of his position on abortion. Meeting with six Catholic bishops on Aug. 31, 1976, the former Georgia governor repeated his opposition to an amendment to the Constitution on abortion.

There also was some worry during the 1976 campaign that Carter's Southern Baptist beliefs might raise the same suspicions with Catholics that John F. Kennedy's Catholicism had raised with evangelicals in 1960.

But after his inauguration, Carter's first move as president

pleased the religious community: he gave an unconditional pardon to Vietnam-era draft resisters.

During his first year in office, Carter began setting the framework for his human rights policies. In a speech to the Organization of American States he said the United States would "stand beside those nations which respect human rights and promote democratic ideals."

He repeated his pledge in a commencement address in 1977 at the University of Notre Dame.

At Notre Dame the president received an honorary degree along with three churchmen wellknown for their outspokenness on human rights: Cardinal Stephen Kim of Seoul, South Korea, Cardinal Paulo Arns of Sao

Paulo, Brazil, and Bishop Donal Lamont of Umtali, Rhodesia.

A year later, during a presidential trip to Brazil, Carter met again with Cardinal Arns and with Cardinal Eugenio Sales of Rio de Janeiro to discuss human rights and other topics.

Carter's work on the two most controversial treaties of his presidency - the Panama Canal pact and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) also was praised by church groups. At one point, the administration credited the religious community with helping to swing the Senate vote in favor of the Panama Canal treaties.

And besides praise from U.S. Catholic churchmen, the SALT accord also was applauded by Pope John Paul II, who said

"we must hail with satisfaction" its signing.

After Pope John Paul came to the United States in 1979, Carter said his visi.t to the White House had the potential for being one of the most beneficial ever by a world leader. "I was very thrilled to meet him," Cartet said.

The president had possibly his most serious disagreement with Catholics over tuition tax credits.

During his 1976 campaign Carter promised "to find constitutionally acceptable means to help parents of non-public school students." But when tuition tax credit proposals began working their way through the House and Senate, Carter threatened a Turn to Page Eleven

The Angels Rejoice Mary has been taken up into heaven, the angels reioice and "bless God with songs of praise.

The Virgin Mary has been taken into the bridalchamber of heaven, where the King of kings sitteth on a throne amid the stars.

Mary has been taken up into heaven, the angels reioice and bless God with songs of praise.

We run on the scent of thine ointments. The young maidens love thee exceedingly.

Mary has been taken up into heaven, the angels reioice and bless' God with songs of praise.

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daughter, blessed art thou of the Lord, for through thee we have partaken of the fruit of life.

Mary has been taken up into heaven, the angels reioice and bless God with songs of praise.

Fair and beautiful art thou, 0 daughter of Jerusalem, terrible as an army in battle array.

Mary has been taken up into heaven, the angels reioice and bless God with songs of praise.

- First Vespers, Feast of the Assumption

FATHER JON-PAUL GfALLANT AND MSGR. THOMAS J. HARRINGTON ADMIRE NEWLY REDECORATJ~D STATUE OF OUR LADY AT ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-"The church would not be faithful to the Gospel if it were not close to the poor and if it did not defend their rights," Pope John Paul II said in the longest interview he has granted since becoming pope. He spoke with his long-time friend Jerzy Turowicz, editor of the leading Catholic newspaper in Poland.

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LONDON (NC)-Government proposals for a new British nationality law fall short of recommendations made a year ago by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and -Wales. In one area of disagreement, the bishops had stated that a new nationality law should recognize "as a matter of principle that our -national identity is multiracial," but the government proposals do not make that statement.

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TRENTON, N.J. (NC)--The New Jersey Supreme 'Court gave two Episcopal dioceses in the state control over the property of seceding churches. The court majority ruled that hierarchical churches, including the Catholic and Episcopal churches, have a right to property of their individual parishes although parish incorporation papers do not specify this.

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (NC)-In an address to 2,000 participants of the Family Congress of the Americas, Mother Teresa of Calcutta said "the greatest misery of our time is the generalized aborting of our children."

NEIL MICHAUD, past president of the New England Catholic Council on Social Ministries, passes gavel to Father Peter Graziano, diocesan director of social services and NECCSM incoming president. (McKay Photo)

(UNDATED) (NC)-Pllpal intercession for nine Italian Salesian priests in Iran accused of spying received a cold reception from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's Islamic revolution. Khomeini said Pope John Paul II should be sending messages to President Carter condemning treatment of arrested 'Iranians in the United States.

MEXICO CITY (NC)-Four Jesuit missionaries in Chiapas state said police and federal troops killed at least 13 Tzeltal Indians in a land dispute and that many more were feared (lead when about 700 families were ejected from their homes on the Gololchan estate.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (NC)-The Middle East 'Council of Churches has criticized Israel's decision to declare formally that Jerusalem is the undivided and eternal capital of Israel. The council cooperates with the Catholic Church in the region. . NEW YORK (NC)-Five Catholic bishops and several other Catholic officials were among 36 religious leaders who signed "A Religious Call to Conscience" warning that draft registration would be the first step toward war. The bishops were Bishop Carroll Dozier of Memphis, Tenn., Auxiliary iBishop Thomas Gumbleton of !Detroit, Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle, Auxiliary Bishop 'Peter Rosazza of Hartford, Conn., and Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond.

EILEEN POTIS, who died last year at age 24, was so pleased by a 1976 picture of her with Mother Teresa of Calcutta that her parents had it reproduced on the headstone of her grave in Berlin, N.J. The picture was

by Robert S. Halvey of the Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times.

KEENE, Calif. (NC)-1'he United Farm Workers of America union is demanding a hearing on an Internal Revenue Service ruling that refuses to accept the volunteer status of UFWA's president Cesar Chavez, and many of his top aides.

(UNDATED) (NC)-Although no written agreement has been reached between J. P. Stevens and Co. anc: the textile union it has battled for 17 years, the long dispute is reportedly nearing an end. A national boycott of Stevens products, supported by many religious groups, continues.

(UNDATED) (NC)-A nun and a priest involved with Cuban refugees at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., attributed recent riots to refugee tension over delays in processing and to -a "bad press" which has scared away sponsors.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (NC)-Sister Marie Paral, a Sister of St. Francis of the Holy Cross, has been named by' Bishop Aloysius J. Wycislo of Green Bay as executive secretary of the diocesan pastoral council, one of the diocese's highest leadership posts.

EL VIEJO, Nicaragua (NC)-The recall of Vincentian Father Ricardo Ortiz, a well-known supporter of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, has sparked a controversy in EI Viejo, a dty in the Leon IDiocese. Parishioners charged the priest's espousal of liberation theology led to his removal. The bishop had no comment.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Father Frank J. Murphy, 49, former superintendent of schools for the Washington Archdiocese, has been named the National Catholic Educational Association's assistant to the president for rese&rch and development.

CHRISTIANS, JEWS AND MOSLEMS hold the Old City of Jerusalem sacred and feel access to its holy places may be threatened by the decision to make a united Jerusalem the capital of Israel. ( NC Photo)

ST. LOUIS (NC)-Father Timothy J. Toohey, director of the pastoral care department at St. Mary's Health ::::enter in St. Louis and chaplain of St. Louis County Hospital, has been appointed executive director of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains by the association's board of directors.

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Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be a featured speaker at the sixth provincial congress of the Secular Franciscan Order, to be held today through Sunday on the campus of Stonehill College, North Easton. Its. theme is "Christianity, Franciscan Style."

Hundreds of lay Franciscans from the eastern United States have registered for the congress, to include community worship, workshops, special conferences, planning and development.

Serving as host fraternity will be St. Anthony's Fraternity of St. Anthony's Shrine, Arch Street, Boston. Arthur F. Ward' of Rockland, recently ordained to the permanent diaconate, is chairman of the host committee.

Among other homilists and speakers will be: Very Rev. Alban A. Maguire, O.F.M;, Provincial, Holy Name Province;

THE PAPAL SCHEDULE for West Germany calls for stops in Cologne, Bonn, Osnabruck, Mainz, Fulda, Altotting and Munich. (NC Map)

Fr. Benet Fonck, O.F.M., General Spiritual Asst. Secular Franciscan Order in the United States; Fr. Edwin A. Dirig, O.F.M., New England Spiritual Asst. Secular Franciscan Order, Holy Name Province.

Father Anderson to national post WASHINGTON (NC) - Father Ronald G. Anderson, co-chancellor of the diocese of Brownsville, Tex., since 1971, has been named executive director of the secretariat of the U.S. bishops' committee on Priestly Formation and Vocations.

As co-chancellor he served with Rev. Joseph 'Po Delaney, originally a priest of the Fall River diocese, who went to the Texas see in the 1960s at the request of Cardinal Humberto

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The source said Pope Pius VI visited the Marian Shrine at AItotting, next to the Austrian border, when he went to Vienna in 1782.

The cities on the papal visit have a wealth of Catholic history and culture which the pope is expected to use as a symbolic base for what may be one of the major themes of his trip: European unity on the basis of its common Christian culture.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II will vis:,t seven West German cities on a fiveday tour Nov. 15-19.

A communique issued by the Vatican Press Office confirmed the trip following two months of rumors.

Father Pastore said the pope was invited by the West German bishops and civil authorities "on the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of St. Albert the Great."

The planned papal stops are Cologne, .Bonn, Osnabruck, Mainz, Fulda, Altotting and Munich, Father Pastore said.

West Germany - ba.rring the unlikely event of another papal trip abroad before then - will become the eighth trip outside Italy and the 17th country visited by Pope John Paul since his election in October 1978.

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Hope Springs Eternal There are many in today's church who feel that our seminaries should realize what they are essentially all about in the process of priestly formation.

Since the days of turmoil and tumult that splintered and shattered many seminaries in the late sixties and early seventies, the depletion of priestly vocations is indeed a hard , fact that many a bishop wishes he did, not have to face in the shepherding of his diocese.

Between the numbers who have left the priesthood and the lack of new vocations, the future does not look too promising even for the optimistic.

At present there does not seem much hope for an immediate solution to this crisis. And, let us not play with words, for the church in this country, it is a crisis. To face it honestly, one must take a long, hard look at seminary education since the days of Vatican II. Few, save a few brave souls, have done this.

There can be little doubt that this subject is of prime concern to our Holy Father. In his travels, he attempts to address it straightforwardly and guilelessly.

This indeed was the situation during his Brazilian visit.

His reflections should not be bypassed as merely pious platitudes, but should be seen as a serious attempt to remedy the harm and hurt that have been inflicted on the people of God. ' Nor should the pope's concern be ignored by the U.S. church as though directed to a social milieu foreign to us.

He speaks for us all.

In a meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with over 10,000 priests and semi'narians, the Holy Father again repeated his views on seminary education. They are not only consistent with his reflections on the subject in other lands but also persistent in their sense of urgency and need.

Quite clearly and understandably he states that the Second Vatican Council "has confirmed the way followed by the church through the centuries is the right one and' it must not be abandoned." , He continues, "the formation of a priest and of a religious cannot be left to improvisation. It is up to the church to test the authenticity of a.call and guide its development."

The pope readily admits that seminaries must be updated and that this is one of his constant concerns. Yet this update must be in "total fidelity to the magisterium and to the living tradition of the church." In his entire process he states that balance and courage are necessary, especially on the part of all involved in priestly formation.

It would be well if the theologically and socially oriented dilettante would heed the spirit and heart of these papal reflections. Instead of making seminaries a seedbed for discord and discontent, as has been the actual.situation in some American institutions, Catholic universities must remember that they are just that, Catholic in their fidelity to the Church, not narrow and national.

American seminaries will be a true test ground of reaction to the papal attitude. If those who have the care of priestly formation continue to dedicate their efforts to novelty, then vocations will indeed continue their downhill spiral. If, however, they realize that responsibility for such training demands a corresponding accountability to the church, from pope to parish, then hope springs eternal.

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The sacrament of penance

By Father Kevin Harrington

sins should make us more aware of God's mercy. Confession Few sacraments have under- should open us to experiencing gone as much change and re- Jesus. Penance is rightly called vision as has the sacrament of the sacrament of reconciliation penance. Each sacrament is an because it unites us with the opportunity to encounter Christ, . Lord, who suffered and died for but it is a sad fact of our his- us to set us free from the bondtory that this particular sacra- age of our sins. ment has often been neglected.

Many factors keep us from Nevertheless, it is important that discovering the true meaning of it be understood. this wonderful sacrament. First, The sacrament of penance has we are not accustomed to adan interesting evolution. It was mitting that: we are at fault; only recently that it became second, we do not relate our perfamiliar to all Catholics. Fre- ~onal history of sin and redempquent confession and confession tion to the larger history of salof venial sins were not always vation. Perhaps the new rite of normative in church history. penance will eventually help A'nd none of the changes promp- both priests and penitents to put ted by the Second Vatican Coun- this sacrament into a biblical cil were meant to eliminate perspective. either. The fact that people have The gift of forgiveness is a avoided this sacrament cannot constant reminder that we too be denied, but it fell out of favor are an integral part of salvation even before the changes. history. Telling our own history Unfortunately, many Cath- through a humble act of confessolics dread confessing their sins. ion is an act of trust in the power They look upon the option of of God's redeeming action in our confessing face to face with utter midst. horror. They have been trained We are all in need of an exto look upon their faults as a odus from the intense social source of shame, thus many pre- pressures and attitudes that can fer to confess in a dark confess- enslave us. Sin distorts our visional to an unknown priest. ion and mal~es us believe that But confession must not be we are mere victims of our sina means of evading one's duty to ful history. accept responsibility for one's Forgiveness restores the true actions. Ideally, sorrow for our freedom to which we are called

by our baptism. We are not bound by what we have done, for there is a future for us beyond our right to expect. Confession must ultimately reconcile us with the Good News and lead us to give thanks and praise.

Obviously, the Eucharist provides us with the perfect opportunity for this. The practice of receiving the sacrament of penance before approaching the Holy Eucharist should be encouraged.

We are constantly bombarded with values that run contrary to the teachings of the church. A counterfeit freedom is offered by our culture. Fulfillment takes priority over friendship, fidelity and social justice; possession of material wealth takes precedence over spiritual values. Man becomes something less than what he has been called to become.

Sin, in short, degrades man's sense of his dignity by questioning his freedom. But the grace of forgiveness challenges us to live together in peace, joy, love and kindness, learning to trust and find God in each other.

The Test "Too little doth he love thee who loves anything with thee which he loves not for thee." St. Augustine

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Rosary Catholics real and details of the Nativity, Visitation, and other facets of their human lives are basic to their faith while these details are sometimes brushed aside by family has a tradition cf saying others as trivial. a rosary together every day of Joyful Catholics like rituals car travel, and a couple of years and prayers that speak to their ago, I noticed that the .same in- daily lives but they aren't interdividuals always picked the same ested in reflecting on theological mysteries when it was their turn issues. They'll choose a May to choose. Not only that, their crowning over the Stations, a choices seem in tune with their risen over a crucified Christ, and outlook on life. Reflecting fur- prayers of hope rather than dether, I reca!Ied the same thing spair. They tend to look for when I was young. Certain fam- what's pleasant in scriptures, ily members always chose the. what's good in people, and joyful mysteries, other the glor- what's hopeful in the Church, ious and others the sorrowful. even it it means blinders at Since then, I've pollee. various times. friends who admit they, too, Sorrowful Catholics are those have favorite mysteries.. I won- who put the Passion of the locus der what our choices tell us of Christ's life on earth and place about ourselves. Instead of being everything else in relation to it. labeled traditional or renewal, They stress the Nativity not so conservative or liberal, or other much as a joyous occasion but modern categories of Catholics, as a prelude to the Crucifixion, perhaps we'd be better catalog- and Easter as the other end of ued as Joyful, Sorrowful, or Good Friday.

Glorious Catholics. I dOll't know They prefer crucifixes that if this analogy' bears Elny kind show the agony of Jesus. They of scrutiny but reflect with me tend to pray as unworthy beings on three types of Catholics we to a fearful God. Hell is very commonly meet. real to them and they are surThere's the Joyful type, the rounded by sin, their own and person who is very much inter- the world's. They feel uncomfortested in the humanity I:>f Jesus, able when people smile at Mass the Holy Family, and other per- and they would prefer mournful sons in the Bible and Church. church music to joyful. Church Mary and the saints are very and God are serious business and

With the Feast of the Assumption upon us, I'd like to talk about people ,and the mysteries of the rosary. Our

Bad Marian art In' my rose garden there is a statue of Mary. You can picture what she looks like from the fact that little kids ask, "Hey, what's thnt snake doing crawling around that lady's foot?" It is not the blue of her cloak that is so bad '- that's faded through the years. But the rose of the lining, no matter how faded, is still hideous.

Each year, when I say my August 15 Mass in the garden with the kids all around, I apologize to Our Lady of Harvest Time. And, by now, I even have a certain sympathy for my fading modonna, even if the teenagers term her "gross."

The problem remains: Where can you get a good outdoor statue .of Mary - one neither hideous nor horrendously expensive?

If the religious symbol that produced Chartres, the Ave Maris Stella and the Memorare does not produce respectable devotional art today, one might respond, the fault isn't with the blue-collar ethnics for whom the symbol is still religiclusly importantbut with the cultural elites, who have betrayed the best of their own heritage.

The liberal National.catholicReporter-reading elites have written off Mary as irrelevant in an ecumenical and feminist age.

As always, Catholic faddists are behind the most recen'~ fashion.

Womanly deities are back in again.

The Cannes Film Festival prize this year went to "All That

Jazz," in which God was presented as a woman (indeed as Jessica Lange, who has come some distance since she was King Kong's girl friend).

Mexican-American Catholics rally round Our Lady of Guadalupe to demand their rights in the church and in society.

Yet modern Catholic music, painting, sculpture, poetry and storyteIIing that claim to be Catholic have nothing at all to offer about the most powerful religious symbol of the past 1500 years, indeed, the core symbol of Western culture, if you want to believe Henry .A:dams.

Something is wrong.

You may wish to ridicule the thousands of pilgrims who throng to Lourdes, Knock, Fatima and the Shrine in Washington. Yet their numbers increase every year. Perhaps they know a secret the elite have somehow missed.

Or perhaps the mediocre high culture of American Catholicism is such that nothing worthwhile is going to be produced by anyone. When, for example, the tunes of the St. Louis Jesuits pass as great or even good church music, artistic standards have clearly sunk to the subbasement.

There are presently two great American Catholic novelists: Walker Percy and Joyce Carol Oates. They compare favorably with any European Catholic writers of the last century. Yet the American church and its selfanointed cultural elites barely

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they don't see much hope in today's Church.

Glorious types are tbose who know primarily a risen Christ.

They tend to stress the divinity of Jesus over the humanity.

Prayer is far more important than social concern or justice to them and they resent church involvement in social justice spheres. They get upset because the parish spends too much time on education, fund-raising, and activities, and not enough on prayer.

They wish they could get their families, pastors, and pewmates to pray as they pray and they often say so. They tend to be despairing of people but hopeful of God, affective rather than reflective, and scripture rather than theology oriented.

Well, there they are, three types commonly found in the pew, worshipping together. I leave it to you to judge. Is it stretching it too far to draw an analogy between types and favorite mysteries? Probably, but it's an interesting way of looking at ourse1ves and our faith. I'd like to hear your reaction.

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know of their existence.

Perhaps the reason we have miserable statues of Mary is that our Catholic culture is unable to produce anything not miserable.

And if by mistake something good appears, we quickly destroy it.

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Rev. Joseph DeVillandre, D.D ., 1921, Founder, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro September 3

Rev. Thomas J. McGee, D.D., 1912, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton September 4 Rev. Joseph P. Tallon, 1864, Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford Rev. John J. McGuire, 1894, Founder, St. Peter, Provincetown

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NRA has gun on Congress The National Rifle Association seems to be holding a gun to Congress' head.

It opposes passage of the Kennedy-Rodino bill, which would put teeth in the modest 1968 handgun-control bill, and it is pushing a measure of its own, which would have the effect of repealing the 1968 law.

NRA has persuaded hunters and other long-gun owners that any move on pistols is really aimed at them.

The handgun-control lobby is as a cap gun to a cannon when compared with NRA, which has the support if not the membership of some 20 to 30 million gun owners and a purse of $30 million. It is as generous as it is militant. More than half of the sponsors of its bill have received NRA' campaign contributions.

Only one name on the list of co-sponsors has pained the discouraged handgun control people, that of Democratic SenGeorge McGovern of South Dakota, who has previously supported handgun control.

McGovern is in an uphill reelection race against Rep. James Abdnor, an ultraconservative.

The NRA runs daily ads telling South Dakota farmers and hunters, "George McGovern wants to take your guns away."

The chairman of Handgun Control, Inc., Nelson Shields, whose son was killed in the Zebra shootings by a .32 caliber handgun, says he is "shocked"

by McGovern's sponsorship.

A spokesman for the liberal senator says that McGovern did not cave in to NRA pressure and that he has not changed his basic anti-Saturday-night-special stance.

"He is just responding to a flood of complaints from South Dakotans about the excesses of ATF (the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms branch of the Department of the Treasury, which enforces gun travel)," the spokesman says. "The NM hasn't let up on him."

Shields, however, sees it as further distressing evidence of the NRA's ability to intimidate lawmakers.

The NRA is one of several single-issue groups that are making life hell for liberal candidates, and with a singular ferocity.

The American public got its first taste of the rampaging fury of the gun owners at a New Hampshire candidates' forum last February.

John Anderson, then a Republican presidential contender, observed that he thought it was not unreasonable to require gun owners to register their purchases, just as car owners do.

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ties hurled at him, you might have thought he had proposed to divest the audience of its wives or homes.

His brother-candidates crawled before the gun owners, taking a pro-gun position that was subsequently written into the Republican platform. Sen. Kennedy was not present or represented. President Carter's son, Jack, spoke of the family's hunting tradition.

Advocates of gun control lament the lack of leadership on their forgotten issue. Candidate Carter was an ardent champion but a control bill drafted in the Justice Department has languished on the president's desk for two years.

Kennedy soft-pedaled his advocacy during the caucuses in anti-control Iowa, and only began speaking out during the primaries in New York and Pennsylvania, where high handgun casualty rates make it more acceptable. His bilI, incidentally, would require would-be purchasers to swear they are not felons or drug addicts and set a waiting period during which local police and the FBI would verify the oaths. It would also transfer enforcement from the bugaboo ATF to the Department of Justice.

Handgun Control, Inc. staged a demonstration on Capitol Hill last week, and not a single senator or congressman turned up.

Victims and relatives of victims of handgun assaults told their harowing stories to an audience consisting mostly of themselves.

Dorothy Lowenstein Dipinitio, the sister of former congressman Allard Lowenstein, who was murdered by an ex-mental patient, testified.

So did Courtney Knowles, a George Washington University law student and a summer intern at Handgun Control, Inc. She broke a long silence about being raped at gunpoint by three assailants in Los Angeles.

"It was difficult," said Ms. Knowles, "but there's an incredible amount of tragedy about guns and your fear goes up to anger. I couldn't run and I couldn't fight, and I kept trying to talk them out of it, but they had a pistol at my head and they said they wouldn't mind raping a dead woman, so I stopped talking. I don't see why Congress should be silenced by such a small number of people on the other side." One local television station covered the afflicted gathering.

In a campaign year, when "government regulation" is the root of all evil, coming out for gun control is suicidal - no matter how many die for lack of it.

this visit absolutely necessary."

Bishop Manning, one of four Americans in the 23-member Bolivian hierarchy. is a native of Baltimore. Visiting for a month in the Paterson Diocese. he will conduct a number of mission talks.

However, they pointed out that Bishop.Manning said that none A:mericans should try to under- of the 18 political parties which stand the complicated events in had entered candidates in a June both the civil and church spheres presidential election had suffiwhich precipitated it. cient maturity to form coalitions Bishops Gennaro Prata of La capable of governing and that paz and Thomas R. Manning of the military was frightened by Coroico expressed support for the prospects. the statement of the Bolivian The arrest of militant priests hierarchy which condemned the and nuns stands as testimony to takeover and its effect on the the junta's fears about elements political process. Political fac- of the Bolivian church. he noted. tors were primarily responsible "Some church people from for the coup, which took place other parts of the world are very July 17 when a three-man junta naive about the local situation. took over the country "to avoid And some religious are dedicaleftist terrorisrp and economic ted to a kind of sociological chaos."

Utopia," he said. "They really Bishop Prata, who handles- don't seem to be interested in many financial details for the preaching the Gospel. Some are Bolivian bishops' conference and leftists and some. by their own for the country's Catholic Uni- admission. are Marxists. versity, was in the U.S. to deal "Now, you get a military man with financial problems which who sees everything in blackhe said have been aggravated and-white terms, hearing leftists by the coup. He said he regret- doctrine from church people. ted the necessity of his trip at and he can't understand w~y the this time. church doesn't take a stand "I think I could work effec- against them," the bishop contively to get some of our people tinued. "The church has to come released from jails," he said. to grips with this; it's a serious "But our financial _crisis made problem."

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Bishops discuss Bolivia, post-coup role of church The bishops of Bolivia have opened an office to provide aid to those arrested by the country's new regime. It is estimated that some 2000 political prisoners, including priests and nuns, have been arrested in raids on churches and other parish properties since last month's coup. which brought Gen. Luis Garcia Meza to power.

Also reported arrested was an American reporter. Mary Helen Spooner, 28. of St. Louis. a contributor to the National Catholic Reporter who has written stories critical of the new government.

A statement from the bishops declared. however. that the government has promised to halt arrests of priests and has also said that troops will not break into parish houses without prior authorization of church authorities.

Meanwhile, two bishops serving in Bolivia agreed in separate interviews that the coup has made the general outlook grim for both the population and the church.

AFTER RECEMNG crosier from Archbishop Jean Jadot (right), Archbishop James A. Hickey, new head of the Washington archdiocese, acknowledges congregation's applause. (NC Photo)

'I love you. 1 love you.'

WASHINGTON (NC) In front of" his Washington predecessors. 96 bishops, representatives of other faiths. an applauding crowd and TV cameras.

James A. Hickey. 59. was formally installed Aug. 5 as archbishop of Washington.

He was officially escorted to the archbishop's chair, the "cathedra," by Archbishop Jean Jadot. apostolic delegate in the UnIted States. and Cardinal William Baum and Patrick O'Boyle, former archbishops of Washington.

He succeeds Cardinal Baum. now prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education.

The Mass of installation at St. Matthew's Cathedral in downtown Washington on a steamy summer day drew priests. ecumenical and civic representatives. the media. special visitors

and friends of Archbishop Hickey from his previous Sees of Cleveland and Saginaw. Mich.

"What does a father say on being united with his family?

What does a brother say to newly met brothers and sisters?" he asked in his homily. "Only this: I love you. I love you."

The man known for his efforts to include lay people as well as clergy and Religious in his episcopal administrations was welcomed by archdiocesan "greeters" lay people, blacks. whites, Religious. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts. youths and adults.

Prominent ecumenical guests included clergy, bishops or other representatives of the Greek, Russian and Armenian Apostolic Orthodox churches; the Lutheran, Baptist. Methodist, Christian" and Episcopal churches, the Jewish community and the Buddhist Vihara Society.

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Abortion lalvs Dear Editor: Americans have now had seven years to witness the results of permissive abortion laws. Instead of a decreasing .rate of child abuse, we have see,n sharply increasing child abuse, even though women have had the legal option of destroyir.,g their "unwanted" unborn children.

This is hardly surprising, since abortion is the most severe form of child abuse, and sets an example of violence.

The West German Supreme Court, in striking down an "abortion-request" law, wrote the following opinion: "Let other nations do as they please. We know from bitter experience the enormalities that result from denial of the sanctity of human life; the assumption that some lives are 'worthless' and hence disposable at the whim of the individual or the will of the State ... Human lifl~ represents an ultimate value. It is the living foundation of human dignity and the prerequisitl~ of all other fundamental rights."

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"Caligula~" Dear Editor: The decision of Chief Justice Elam of the Boston Municipal Court in the matter of the film "Caligula" indicates that there is serious value in the c:ommercial portrayal of debauchery.

That decision dismays cClncerned citizens and the community at large in respect of public decency. One thing is clear - the history of judicial exculpation for pornographers continues.

We are proud that enforcement officials of Massachusetts gave vigorous defense of the Massachusetts law against public obscenity. Even the judge acknowledged that the film was purient, and without any serious literary, artistic or scientific value.

But he found that the film's public exploitation of debauchery for profit has saving political value, because it carries the vibrant message that excessive power feeds corruption. Well, that is an unhappy fact of American and universal experience, which in no sense needs vile presentations on the screen to be proved.

The decision contains a glaring flaw in judicial logic. The court argues expressly that it is important to be aware 01: periods of historical degradation "lest they be allowed to repe,:lt themselves." But it is or should be obvious that one of the best ways to repeat historicnl' degradation is to sanction the vilest exhibition of that dell;radation for public entertainment.

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to offer you in terms of joy, THE ANCHORserenity and love for yourself Thurs., Aug. 14, 1980 and others," she said.

Sister Hobday suggested exStill Silent amining possessions in light of "Jesus is at all times assailed needs as opposed to wants and replacing possessions instead of by false witnesses and while accumulating them. For exam- wickedness remains in the world ple, "if someone gives me'a new is ever exposed to accusation. dress for Christmas, I give one And yet even now he continues of myoid dresses to the poor silent before these things and so that I don't accumulate a lot makes no audible answer, but of clothes," she said. places his defense in the lives She also suggested people improve their health by not spend- of his genuine disciples." ing money on junk food, and Origen that they choose active rather than passive recreations favoring activities that are not "attached to money."

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SISTER JOSE HOBDAY "The people on my block do SHEET METAL not look upon this kind of sharJ. TESER, Prop. ing as a matter of generosity, RESIDENTIAL they see it as a manner of jusINDUSTRIAL for God, your neighbor or even SPOKANE, Wash. (NC) tice," Sister Hobday said. "No COMMERCIAL Too many possessions clutter be at peace with yourself. one has a right to be lodged in 253 Cedar St., ~ew Bedford people's lives and drain their "But when you have little, super security when other 993-3222 creative and spiritual resources, . • . . .. . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 0. you discover how much God has people are in need." says Franciscan Sister Jose Hobday.

Sister Hobday, an American Indian and lecturer and advocate of Native American spirituality, urges Catholics to adopt a simple lifestyle and share their personal property with the poor. but on every Word that comes from the mouth of God! She was in Spokane to direct a workshop, "The Power of SpiritMatt. 4:4 - uality and Ministry."

That is how Our Lord defined His priorities.

She will be in the Fall Rivet' ~ Sunday and Monday, The Word of God is essential if we are to live Oct. 19 and 20, 110 speak. at' a fully as His children. Yet so many-some religious education day for CCD 3, billion-do not know this! personnel on Sunday at Bishop That is why missionaries work to bring the Connolly High School, Fall River, and at the fall clergy conWord of God-the Bread of Heaven ference for priests of the dio-to those who hunger for it. Please offer cese on Monday. Her topic on up some of your "daily bread" that they both days wIll be spirituality. might 'know the "A simple lifestyle gives a Bread of Life! person a greater freedom for loving," Sister Hobday said. "It is the means to an end and that end is love, joy and more opportunities to serve God and neighbor."

A low income has nothing to do with a simple lifestyle, she pointed out. Each person or family, rather, must decide on "a level of living that is valid and Christian for them," she said.

Individuals must live within those self-imposed limits, sharing possessions with others and donating surplus goods to the poor.

I~~ Because I heve been unusuelly blessed I will meke e secrifice thet others mey heer the Word of "People mistakenly believe God. Enclosed is my gift of: 0 $5 0 $10 0 $15 Other $ _ that because a lifestyle is called simple, it is easy," Sister HobNeme day said. "It is very hard not to accumulate possessions, especiAddress ally when adverstisement, neighCity Stete Zip bors and even well-meaning friends' and relatives pressure Pleue uk the missioners to remember my spccielintentions in their Messes end preyer. you to buy more things or give them to you.

Send your gift to: ANCH 8/14/80 "When you limit yourself, however, you do not deprive THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH yourself," she said. "If your Rev. Mlgr. Williem J. McCormKk The Rev. Monsignor John J. Oli\leira' home is cluttered with a lot of Netlonel Director D' D' • Dept. C, 366 Fifth Avenue OR: lOeesan Ire.etor I things that constantly bombard New York, New York 10001 368 North Mam Street and distract you, then it will Fall River. Massachusetts 02720 :be extremely hard to find time

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The 70-year-old Belgian archbishop, who has been appointed

by Pope John Paul II to head the Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Christians, said he has been impressed by the generosity of U.S. Catholics and the rising level of intellectual life among them.

"You know, when I came here in 1973," Archbishop Jadot said, "I discovered very quickly the level of comfort .and wealth in the United States. It hurt me very much to see this.

"Two weeks before leaving Cameroon (where he was apostolic nuncio until his U.S. appointment), I was in a village in the heart of the tropical rain forest. It was a small village of about 5,000 Christian people.

Their church was a shack. They asked me to help them raise $10,000 for what they thought would make a fitting church.

"Five weeks later - three weeks after I came to the United States - I was visiting a parish and the pastor was showing me his renovations, especially his new mosaic pictures, with cost $90,000. And so, now, I think sometimes, after seven years here,. I have lost the feeling of poverty in the rest of the world," he said.

"I also made another discovery in 1973, one I was not ready for," Archbishop Jadot continued. "The church in the United States is a lot ~ore intellectual than I had thought. I have b.een pleasantly surprised to see the quality of your theologians."

He added, however, that "the church in the United States would be better off if more gifted young priests would do more theological studies." By this, he said, he meant more post-graduate work in theology and philosophy.

"For too long," he said, "priests here have studied social work, psychology and sociology - all necessary, of course but we need real scholars in theology.

"Of course," he went on, "we have to look at the U.S. church an dsee where the clergy are coming from. This is a new country, populated historically by many poor immigrants and, according to statistics, this is the first generation of Catholics who have been college-educated.

It takes time to make a generation of scholars."

Archbishop Jadot said he sees a rift between clergy and laity in the church in general. One reason for this, he said, is the lack of clarity about the roles of the clergy and the laity.

"Priests sometimes don't understand the responsibility of the laity and the laity don't understand . the role of the

priests. They sometimes want to do each others' jobs; and sometimes," he smiled, "the priests do everythin and the people are very happy to let them.

During h:is trips to Africa and Brazil, the pope has said the organization of social and political life according to Gospel values is the special work of the laity," the archbishop noted.

"This is really their role in the church.

Catholics have something to give to society. The role. -of the church is not direct collaboration with society, not establishing formal church-state relations.

Rather, it is to give value and meaning to life.

In the United States, you have not had many people well trained for this job, especially on the national level," Archbishop Jadot said.

"For many years in this country, Catholics were better trained in local politics than on the national level. This is changing, however. In some of our Catholic universities there are schools of international affairs. They are highly regarded and so in future years you will have some specialists."

The archbishop said he has noticed a major change in the mood of .Americans. "They are becoming more conservative at every level," he said.

"There is one thing that is very obvious. North Americans have a rE!Sentment of other countries. They say: "We are the good guys. After all we've done for you, why don't you love us?"

"And I understand this because Americans have done a lot, but Americans must begin to have a broader view. They tend to consider their own problems and their own well-being first and not to be as concerned for the traditions and cultures of other countries."

Archbishop Jadot said lack of education and information about other countries is a problem and . that the U.S. press provides inadequate coverage of international news.

"You know, when I was in Cameroon, in a town of 135,000 people in the middle of the tropical forest, I learned more about the rest of the world by reading the stenciled newsletter they had there.

"Outside of a few newspapers like The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post, media in the United States gives poor coverage to the rest of the world," he said.

"This strengthens this trend to parochialism and much has to be done to open people to the universal dimension. This is a big concern of Pope John Paul II: that Catholic people. in the United States become sufficiently aware of their responsibility to the whole world and the whole church.

"Actually," he added, "the average U.S. Catholic is probably more open and aware of the world's problems than a lot of other people."

The apostolic delegate coordinates the consultation process involved in the appointment of new bishops. Many observers believe the consultation process has been broader and more open during Archbishop Jadot's tenure.

"I have only applied the rules that were issued in 1972," he said. "My predecessors did not have the advantage of those rules."

Many observers have also credited Archbishop Jadot with the appointment of bishops who are inclined to take a pastoral approach to moral issues. But he said: "I do not appoint bishops; th~ pope does."

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Third, your niece's life seems to be reduced to soap operas and housekeeping - Ii real dead end! Perhaps you can help get her interested in something outside. A woman at home must plan her own time every day.

Such freedom is not easier than a formal job; it is harder. Some women enjoy being home with children full time. Others do not.

Your niece's super housekeeping shows she is neither lazy nor undisciplined, but she does appear to be bored.

Physical activity is wonderfully relaxing for a tense, restless person. Could you encourage a friend or relative to get her involved in bicycling, jogging, bowling? Could you or a friend invite her to a club, an arts or crafts demonstration, a discussion that might interest her? Don't give up if the first attempts do not interest her.

Your niece's children are getting erratic, ineffective punishment when they need loving, consistent discipline. However, before your niece can improve, she needs to. know that the people around her love and support her. Show her that you love her.

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You might teach the 9-yearold to bake cookies or bread.

You might take the little boy for a picnic at a playground or take the~ both to the zoo. Whatever you do, there is great value for the children in the message: "Aunt Ann likes to be with us."

Second, enlist help from her wonderful husband. If you can take the children for a weekend, suggest that he take her off.

Perhaps a marriage encounter or enrichment weekend would help your niece relax and express herself. Don't force this, however. Perhaps they would both prefer a simple weekend alone together.

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Perhaps it is the back to basics trend that has brought about this return to the classics in clothes.

It has certainly come at a time when the cost of clothing is astronomical; and this type of mix and match dressing will certainly give everyone more milage from clothes.

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This type of "signature" can be color, a special piece of jewelry

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There will be expense involved if you choose to become one of the preppies, meaning that your initial investment will be high, because today good clothes cost money - but they will be such a major investment that you will wear them for years and years.

As I have often mentioned in this column, this has always been the . European attitude towards buying clothes.

So keep this trend in mind and when you're shopping buy carefully and well, never yielding to impulse.

Father Gauthier The Rev. J. H. Leon Gauthier, 66, a Fall River native who was successively a Brother of Christian Education, a distinguished educator and a priest of the Manchester, N.H. diocese, died last Friday in Manchester.

His funeral was held yesterday at St. Anne's Church and interment was in Notre Dame Cemetery, both in Fall River.

Father Gauthier, a graduate of the University of Montreal and St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vt., was a religious brother in his early life, then, entering the field of education, taught, was a principal and then superintendent of schools in Middletown, R.I. He then taught at Johnston and Tiverton high schools until 1968, when he became associate professor of French at Rhode

Island Junior College.

He was ordained for the Manchester diocese in 1977 after seminary studies at St. Meinrad, Ind. and Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans.

During his career as an educator Father Gauthier was active in promoting French language and cultur~, receiving the Order of Academic Palms from the French government in recognition of his efforts. He held the Marian Medal from the Fall River diocese. and was active in the Knights· of Columbus, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and affairs of St. Anne's parish, Fall River.

He is survived by three sisters, including Sister Emelia Gauthier, OP of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation.

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By Father Joltn Die:lzen Q. Sometinlu it seems that I am the only one who worries and is depressed by eternity and Ufe hereafter. It frightens this man of 73 that he will go on and on after death. M:~ cholce would be just to be reunited with our departed family and call it a day. My weary bones say I have been around long enough. Almost every month one of my former scboolmates takes his leave. rm ready to join them except for the specter of eternity. Any help in thils? (I1linois) A. Believe me, you are not alone. Something of your experience is shared by everyone, especially as she or he advances in years. Your question is simply your way of expressing one of the major elements in the ageold experience of the human family, the fear of death. It is not so much death itself, but the wonder of what is on the other side that give one the shivers.

Even Jesus could not explain that fear away, and he· did not try. However, one of his: favorite expressions was, "Don't be afraid." And there is nothing about which he was Illore emphatic in that statemlmt than about the fear of death. . I believe his entire attitude can be summarized likE! this: "I can't begin to explain to you what is on the other side of death. I can only tell you, as I have tried to prove, that the heavenly Father loves you and that where you are glling will be your home just as it will be mine. Just try to do as I have told you, and then trus:t me."

That may sound E:xtremely simple, but it really is what we might call the last will and testament of Jesus. I urge you to read the Gospel of St. John, Chapters 13-17, where Jesus at· tempts, among other things, to prepare the disciples (and us) not only for his death but also for our own. Everything revolves around his promise that he is going before us to prepare a place for us, that where he is we also will be and that the joy that is his will be OUlrs to the full.

As 1 have said before in this

column, Jesus really does not tell us too much about life after death, probably because he knows we could not wlderstand if he tried.

Only a few great saints have found the experience of death a joy, and to be honest, some· times 1 wonder about them. For the rest of us, what God asks is a calm, grateful acceptance of his will and trust that the Father will surely answer th(~ moving prayer of Jesus that all. his family, all his friends, will be in his company in the glory oj~ eternity.

(John 17:24) That may not be all we would like to know about eternity; but it far surpasses what mankind once dreamed it wc,uld ever know.

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Q. The son of a non-Catholic friend of mine was recently mar· ried to a CathoUe girl My friend tells me they had a nup-

tial Mass and her Episcopal min· ister assisted at the ceremony.

My daughter was married to a non-Catholic, but she could not have a nuptial Mass.. We are wondering if the rules have changed that much In recent years? (California) A. Formerly a nuptial Mass was not allowed in interfaith marriages. The ceremony might include scripture readings, a homily, prayers and blessings, but not the celebration of the Eucharist.

Today a nuptial Mass is possible at the marriage of a Cath· olic to someone of another faith when two major conditions are fulfilled. First, the non-Catholic partner must be a baptized Christian. The church assumes that a Christian would have enough understanding of the meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ and of events at the Last Supper to make the celebration of the Eucharist is a significant prayerful part of the marriage ceremony for both the bride and groom. You are surely aware that most non-Catholic Christian churches celebrate, at least on certain occasions, some form of the Lord's Supper which has many things in common with our Catholic celebration of the Eucharist.

Second, both bride and groom must desire a Mass at the marriage ceremony. The reason for this, of course, is that the marriage ceremony should be an honest reflection and expression of.the faith of both partners, not of only the bride and groom.

The pastor of the non-Catholic partner may share in several ways ip the marriage ceremony with blessings, prayers and so on.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Diet· zen c/o The Anchor, p.o. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

Evangelizer WASHINGTON (NC) - Mrs. Florence Conley, program director of the St. Louis Archdiocesan Commission on Evangelization and mother of nine children, will receive the 1980 Paulist Fathers' National Award for Catholic Lay Evangelization Among the Unchurched.

The award will be presented Aug. 23 at a Mass during the second annual National Catholic Lay Celebration of Evangelization, to be held in Washington.

Father Edmond Fitzgibbon of the St. Louis commission called Mrs. Conley "the heart of the entire effort of this commission.

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Other issues and events during Carter's term in office have included: - Abortion. Despite the initial displeasure of the U.S. bishops with Carter's stand on an abortion amendment, they later praised him for saying he would call on .Congress to do all it could to eliminate federal funding of abortions.

- Jobs. Efforts to pass the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill received the backing of Carter as well as several Catholic groups such as the usee.

But there also was some disenchantment with Carter's efforts earlier this year to balance the federal budget because of the effect a balanced budget might have on the government's full employment efforts.

- Nicaragua and EI Salvador: After the overthrow of Nicara raguan 'President Anastasio Somoza, the usec praised Carter adminstration efforts to help the new government recover from the country's civil war. But the bishops were critical of the administration's military aid package to the current government of El Salvador, saying it was being used to suppress legitimate dissent.

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By Father John J. Castelot

By Mary Kenny

My friend, Mary Sue, is a young woman whose family consists of herself; her husband and their three children. Until his death last winter, her 80-yearold grandfather lived with them.

"When I see you in church with your father, it always makes me sad," she confided to me. "He reminds me so much of my grandfather, and I miss him so much."

In an age which often views the elderly as a nuisance, Mary Sue's comment struck me forcefully. Some families might take in an older parent out of sympathy or a sense of duty. But Mary Sue was telling me that her grandfather's presence enriched her life. She and her family mourn his loss.

Why does one family view living with Grandpa as a duty while another family views it as enrichment? A positive approach is one factor. Differences emerge when people of varied ages live together, but conflicts can be looked upon as opportunities for growth.

The keys are openness and compromise. Suppose Grandma wants. to .help with supper, but she gets in her daughter's way.

Two women in one kitchen is a classic dilemma. A compromise might be found in having her take charge of dinner a certain number of nights each week.

Both women then can benefit from Grandma's willingness to help.

Compromise is usually not new for families. When children are small, parents decide where the family members will go, what they will do, when they will come home. When children reach adolescence, however, this changes. Older children say what they want to do and they and their parents must adjust to each other. Harmonious living can involve similar compromises with the older generation as well.

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He beams at his wife. "Well, how does it feel to be a grandma?"

"Grandma," she muses aloud.

"I'll have to get used to that.

Somehow I just don't feel that old." .

The arrival of a first grandchild can be an emotional minefield or a celebration of life.

Most likely it is a bit of both.

A grandchild can reveal something of the mystery of God's love and the wonder of life.

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The legacy of grandparents

By Fr. Comellus van der Poel

The generation gap is bridged in a family where three generations interact in friendship, respect and love.

It is said that a nation which does not know its history is doomed to repeat its mistakes.

That statement helps us understand why close ties among generations are so important. Yet they are not easily achieved.

Children often seem little impressed by the experiences of their parents although frequently quite interested in family history.

Perhaps much of the answer to this seeming contradiction lies in the nature of the maturing process. The young want to

admire earlier generations but they also want to live in today's world without being restricted by their practices. They want to experience the past as an inspiring legacy, not as a construction harness.

The young are a bit like immigrants in a new country. Although an immigrant may not wish to go home; he may dream of the old country and wish to visit it.

In the formation of a human

personality, the grandparents' role is obviously secondary to that of the parents. Nonetheless, it is very important. Grandparents are. people with deep love for their grandchildren.

Children notice these feelings.

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Grandparents can also be very important in the education of their grandchildren. In constructive relationships they communicate a sense of personal security, the wisdom of the past and the knowledge gained by experience.

Physical weaknesses and the possible need of grandparents for assistanc,a can develop compassion and generosity.

The relationship of parents and grandparents is important too. Consciously or unconsciously, children see how they will eventually behave toward their own parents. Children watch and hear how parents relate to grandparents. When the relationship is one of love and respect, the respect of children for their parents can 'be strengthened.

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If any society is to function smoothly, its members must respect each other's roles and a<:. knowledge each other's contributions.

The Christian community. too, should accept and live by this time-tested rule of human conduct. Rugged individualism is completely out of place among Christians.

St. Paul strove to foster unity among his converts..

He frequently used the human body as an illustration of mutual cooperation. He develops this analogy in an especially pituresque passage in the first letter to the Corinthians (12:14-22); "Now the body is not one member, it is many. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand I do not belong to the body,' would it then no longer belong to the body? If the body were all eye, what would happen to our hearing? As it is, God has set each member of the body in the place he wished it to be. There are, indeed, many different members, but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I do not need you,' any more than the head can say to the foot, 'I do not need you.' Even those members of the body which seem less important are in fact indispensable" (1 Corinthians 12, 14-22).

Simply stated, people need each other. One of life's most agonizing experiences is loneliness. Without others, one's very being as a human is threatened.

But being-with-others is a twoway street.

People must give themselves to others in a positive and creative love. Equally important, they should ,be open to the love and service of others.

This seems almost painfully obvious; however, it is by no means simple. Being open to other people requires effort, prudence and sensitivity. In some situations the desire to love and to serve may annoy and even Tum to Page Thirteen

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By Janaan Mantemacb

Mary and Joseph were eager to raise Jesus in the traditions of the Jewish people, so when he was eight days old, they invited friends and relatives to the important celebration of the circumcision, still celebrated by Jews today. The circumcision is a sign that a Jewish boy is part of God's people.

On that day, Joseph proudly announced that the new baby was to be called Jesus, the name God's messenger gave Mary nine months earlier. Jesus means "God saves." It was a great day for Mary and Joseph.

A few weeks later Joseph and Mary took Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem to offer him to God. The law of MQses said every firstbom male child was to be consecrated to God. Turn to page thirteen

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THE ANCHORThurs., Aug. 14, 1980

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Vivemos mlln mundo em plena evolu~ao. 0 genero humane encont:a~se hoje nume idade nova da sua histor~a, concretizada por mudan~as profundas e rapidas que se estendem gradualmente ao mundo inteiro. Provocadas pela inteligencia e pela actividade criadora do homem, reflectem-se no proprio homem, nos seus juizos, nos seus desejos individuais e colectivos, no seu modo de pensar e de agir, tanto em rela~ao as coisas como aos outros homens. E assim e que ja se podefalar de uma verdadei ra metamorfose social e cultural, cujos efeitos se repercutem ate na vida religiosa. o homem descobre todos os dias, nas coisas enos outros homens, novos valores. 0 reino dos ceus e, de facto, aquele tesouro escondido e sempre novo de que nos fala 0 Evangelho. Hoje,mais do que nunca, torna-se dificil situarse no mundo e julgar esse mundo. Salomao pediu a Deus a sabedoria para poder julgar 0 seu povo e discernir 0 bern do mal. Essa deve ser tambem a nos sa atitude.

Toda a sabedoria vern do Senhor Deus e perman.eceeternamente com Ele •• A palavra de Deus nas alturas e a fonte da sabedoria e os seus caminhos sao os mandaIr.entos eternos.

Esta sabedoria que no Antigo Testamento e con.siderada como uma irradia9ao do proprio Deus, no Novo Testamento revelou-se como Alguem. A sabedoria veio sa.lvar 0 mundo. Ela existia desde 0 principio e incarnou. Ela e a revela~ac> do proprio Deus.

Esta sabe:doria derramou-se pouco a pouco no cc>ra~ao dos homens, transformando-os t.otalmente, ate possuiram uma imagem ma.is ou menos perfei ta da verdadeira sa.bedoria. Desta comunicabilidade nos fala 0 Livro da Sabedoria "El a se d erra.ma de gera~ao - em gera~ao nas almas justas, transformando-as em amigas de Deus e profetas.• " Enquanto estamos no mundo, devemos trabalhar para a constru~ao desse mundo que Deus nos entregou,. e descobrir todas as possibilidades e valores queele possui para, aproveitando-os, podermos eleva-los e dar gloria de Deus que os criou.

Mas, para aproximar 0 mundo desta plenitude em Cristo, nao podemos esquecer que e necessario partir do proprio mundo como valor em si mesmo. Cada vez mais 0 homem sente esta verdade. Porque 0 mundo continua a sua evolU9 ao e nao se importa com 0 que possam dizer. 0 homem trabalhando pe10 progresso, fomentando a cultura e descobrindo sempre novas for9as na natureza, reconhece que 0 mundo e valor em si mesmo, vendo-se ate, muitas vezes, ele proprio ultrapassado pelo progresso que fomenta. o homem, trabalhador deste mundo maravilhoso,criado por Deus,criando novas condi90es de vid~,fazendo dos homens seres solidarios com 0 mundo e com os outros homens, aproxima 0 mundo da sua plenitude.

Continued from page twelve ful reminder that earthly life does, indeed, end.

No amount of reading or reflection can truly prepare people for the roles of parenthood or grandparenthood.

New grandparents must realize that their children are now parents too - even if they do not seem to totally appreciate what parenthood involves. Grandparents can help in several ways.

One of the greatest gifts they can give their children is to support them as parents and to help them develop confidence.

Grandparents can encouarge their children by honestly admitting that they too were once confused and concerned, that they felt suddenly aware of how little they really knew about taking care of babies when their first one arrived.

New grandparents can find themselves almost unconsciously in competition with the other set of grandparents. What did "they" give the new baby at birth, for its first birthday, at Christmas? Why is it that a baby nearly always favors "our" side of the family?

How many young parents have been angered by everyone especially a new grandparent who wants a piece of the action, which in this case is a child? Yet grandparents are, indeed, a part of that child.

Grandparents can play a unique role in a new grandchild's life. Who can better teach that child his or her family history?

Who can better help parents avoid the mistakes the grand-

For children Continued from page twelve Just as Jesus' parents finished this traditional ceremony, a remarkable old man came up to them. His name was Simeon. He was very close to God and the Holy Spirit led him to the temple just at the moment Joseph and Mary were there with Jesus.

Simeon took the baby into his arms and praised God. "Now, Lord, I am ready to die," he prayed. "You have allowed. me to see the Savior of your people."

The old man blessed Mary and Joseph and their child. "This child," he told Mary, "will be important to many people. Many will be for him, but some will oppose him. A sword of sorrow will pierce your heart because of him." ~s Jesus' parents puzzled over Smieon's words, a very old woman came up to them. Anna prayed most of the day and night in the temple and fasted almost constantly. She was overjoyed to see Jesus.

As she too held Him, she thanked God with tears in her eyes. She too knew that this child was very special. She sensed he would somehow show people the way to be free.

After all this had happened, Mary and Joseph took Jesus back to Nazareth, where he grew up. He became strong, increasing his wisdom and understanding. God's favor was clearly on him.

parents may have made? Who can better share what faith was meant to them?

Who can teach this child about his own mom or dad the way grandparents can? No one else can add this dimension to the child's understanding of himself and his family.

One body Continued from page twelve antagonize, especially if it is misinterpreted.

Grandparents, for instance, are proud of their grandchildren.

Their love and concern can easily make them critical, perhaps unfairly, of the way those grandchildren are being raised. Then their love becomes divisive, a cause of tension.

From another point of view, parents can be understanding of the grandparents' love and grateful for its depth. Parents may benefit too, from a ~illingness to learn from an experience that is not yet theirs.

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Compromise Continued from page twelve Openness and compromise can smooth life but they cannot enrich it. Families like Mary Sue's reach out to the elderly parent.

They value the gifts and talents which make him or her unique.

Mary Sue's grandfather was a superb craftsman in wood. The family made room for his woodworking tools. As a result, the house is filled with beautiful carved bowls and other wood items. Similarly, families which value and applaud Grandma's abilities as a cook recognize her as a human being who contributed to the household.

Grandpa repeats endless stories of long ago. Tolerating this repetition is a compromise in deference to his age.

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By Charlie Martin

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I don't know why we still live together We're so far apart so much of the time I don't know why this beautiful weather Is breaking my spirit and tearing my mind all apart And you so lovely and you so sad Have you lost your purpose, the falth that you had If life is a question I don't understand If time is the reason, then nobody can In my heart it is just an illusion It's not even real Much more than you think It's much more than you feel My ears are still ringing, there's nothing to say Why look to the ocean to wash me away There goes my best friend, there goes my last dime If love is the answer, I'm wasting my time .In my heart it's Just an illusion It's not even real It's much more than you feel Do you feel Is this real How I feel In my heart Written and sung by John Denver, (c) 1979, Cherry Lane Music

"IN MY HEART" is a cut off John Denver's new album, "Autograph." The song takes us on an inner journey and focuses <>n the contradictory feelings we sometimes experience.

Several conflicting feelings are mentioned: affection and dis. tance, belief and mistrust, hope and despair. The song reflects on a relationship in which two people have grown distant. The person in the song does not know how to reconcile his con~ tradictory feelings.

If we look at our own lives, we can find our own contradictions. Often emotions do not fit together like pieces of a giant puzzle. Life is bigger than logic.

We must use our personal gifts to understand life's meaning.

One gift is imagination. Thinking in ordered, logical patterns is important, but it is also im. portant to expand our vision.

Imagination helps路 us to see alternatives that we previously may have passed by. It may be impossible t<> explain totally why we love someone, but we may be able to talk for hours about the ways the person fits into our lives.

Perhaps our contradictions and misunderstanc-ings are gifts in disguise, designed to bring us closer to others. If we can risk sharing with another what bothers us, a bond may be built with that person. We may still fail to completely understand all that is within us. But by sharing our feelings, we may gain a companion who knows us and cares about us. Such is the brotherhood and sisterhood that Jesus announced.

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By cecilia Belanger

I received a letter from a father who says his wife irritates him because she is forever telling their eldest son to "go out and make a name for yourself."

He said that at least half a dozen times a week she hurls this demand across the dinner table.

That she is the kind who feels that if <>ne's name isn't on the news, in bright lights across a marquee, or on everyone's lips, one is not a success.

The son is ready to climb the walls, as well he might, and there seems no way of stopping this ambitious mother.

In her defense, she is not the only <>ne who rails at her children to make names for themselves or to leave a mark on the world or some such vain remark.

There is only one Name, one imprint on this w<>rld and it is not man's. Those who built the Tower of Babel tried to make names for themselves, the Hit-

lers and the Napoleons, the dictators and emperors since recorded history. And what did it avail?

The human race's capacity for self-deception is awesome.

"Make a name for yourself "no matter what that name stands for, so long as it is blazoned across the skies and on everyones's lips. This is what confuses youth. We just won't let them develop naturally into their <>wn selves, their own being.

I get letters from adults who were the victims of parents, ambitions, parents trying to make the child an extension of themselves, thwarting his or her natural development.

We all have a name. We are children of God and that is name enough. Vfe don't have to prove anything. God has already d<>ne it for us. All we need to do is try to follow his rules and they are not that hard.

People will scOff and call you an idealist. So what else is new?

Yet, it is the idealism of children that Jesus talked about, a certain innocence that is also wise.

The idealism of children is a beautiful thing. It is children who want to路 save the seals, save the whales and save the world. It is children who sell cookies for causes, bake bread for brotherhood, save pennies to fight pollution, have walkathons against war. What is so funny about that?

Ellen Goodman wrote in the Boston Globe: lWe raise our Boston Globe: We raise our built-in disillusionment alarms.

We allow them their ideals until they are 14 or 18, or 22. But if they don't let go, we worry about whether they will be able to function in the real world.

It's all quite mad. We regard toughness as adult, cynicism as grown-up."

Goodman adds that this s<>called realism that adults devour may be the true "junk food" of our time.

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~ ...ports watch Macl)herson To Be Honored Bruce MacPherson, former head coach of footbE.ll at New Bedford High School, will be honored at a testimonial dinner on Thursday evening" Aug. 21, in Thad's Steak House on Ashley Boulevard, New Bedford.

MacPherson resigned the post at New Bedford High to accept the position of director of physi-

cal education and health in the Melrose public school system and head football coach at Melrose High. Recently, Bob Liljedahl, who had been MacPherson's assistant, was appointed to succeed the retiree. Liljedahl will be the master of ceremonies at the dinner.

McDI)nald Makes Big Move Chris McDonald oJ Tiverton certainly the most successful product of the Fall River' CYO boxing program, directed by Ron Comeau, is leaving the amateur ranks, having signed. a threeyear professional contract.

The 19-year-old holder of several Southern New England and New England crowns in Golden Gloves and AAU boxing is expected to make his first pro appearance next October in Las Vegas or London. Mennwhile, he and other promising newcomers to pro-fessional boxing will appear in a televised press conference in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, next Tuesday. . Chris gained natidnal exposure when he reached the heavyweight final of the National AAU championships in Ma.y and appeared in the televisc~d final of the Olympic trials in June. Although the loser in those bouts he made an impressive showing, especially in the Olympic final, which many feel he had won.

Mark Bomback, former Durfee High ace pitcher, seems to have found himself with the New York Mets of the National League. Last Sunday, Bomback, who was at one time with the Pawtucket . Red Sox" threw a sevenhitter as the Mets defeated St. Louis, upping his season

record to nine wins against three losses.

Before Sunday's game, he had pitched 101 innings over which he allowed 108 hits, struck out 36, walked 43 and had an earned run average of 4.07.

The lull between summer and fall sports affords an OPPOrtUIlity to take a look at the showing of former high school athletes from within the diocese in professional baseball, according to latest statistics available.

In the pitching department, Paul Langfield, formerly of Somerset High, has appeared in 12 games for the Utica Blue Jays of the Class A New York-Penn League. He has four wins, two losses and an ERA of 3.97. In 43 innings on the mound he yielded 32 hits, fanned 34 batters and walked 33.

Another former Somerset star, Greg Gagne, is hitting .264. In 250 appearances at the plate he collected 66 hits, including 15 doubles, three triples and a pair of round-trippers. He also drove in 23 runs and scored 29.

Former Durfeeite Pete Khoury now with the Fort Lauderdale Yanks of the Class A Florida State League was hitting .265 with 13 hits in 49 at bats. He had two doubles, three triples, four RBIs and seven runs scored.

Cmteau, Attar in Games Mike Croteau, of Dartmouth High, and Mike Attar, of Somerset High, who will both enter the junior class in their respective schools next month are competing in the 1980 United States Youth Games which opened yesterday and will run through Sunday at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

They are members of the.

Massachusetts team that will compete for individual and team honors in the basketball segment of the games, in which hundreds of school athletes from throughout the country will participate.

The competition is open to youths 15 years and younger.

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CHICAGO - How long should a prayer group stay together?

After all, even the Apostles separated and went their own ways in the early church.

In the current issue of U.S. Catholic, published by the Claretian Fathers and Brothers, executive editor Robert Burns suggests that prayer groups might consider a "sunset law" that would cause them to dissolve after they had prayed together for a reasonable length of time.

"Groups with a considerable interchange of membership might stay together fruitfully for a longer time than tight little groups," says Burns. "But any relatively small praying group runs the risk, I believe, of falling into spiritual incest, looking in increasingly and becoming less and less interested in the kind of outreach that prayer is intended to engender."

Burns concludes: "Praying together shouldn't mean staying together."

tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

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

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and. adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents: A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A~separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation): C--condemned.

New Films In "WlUle and Phil" (Fox) writer-director Paul Nazursky 芦An Unmarried Woman") takes up a three-sided love affair.

It begins in 1970 when Willie (Michael Ontkean), a sensitive high school teacher, meets Phil (Ray Sharkey), a cocky fashion photographer, as the two of them are coming out of a Greenwich Village movie house.

Soon, despite differences in temperament and background Willie is brooding Jewish; Phil is frenetic Italian - they are on their way to close friendship.

The trio is completed when Willie and Phil meet Jeannette '(Margot Kidder). From Kentucky, she has come to New York to become somebody, but at the moment she is in danger of being evicted for non-payment of rent.

Margot likes both young men at first sight and at second or third sight loves both of them, and both reciprocate. But, by mere chance, it is Willie whom she moves in with and, quite some time later, marries. iMazursky's film focuses on the fortunes 'of this all-American trio - Protestant, Catholic and Jew - over the entire decade of the 70s. They experiment with LSD together. Willie turns to Eastern mysticism, later decides he wants to be a farmer, and still later abandons Jeannette and his baby daughter for a . pilgrimage that leads through a commune in Hawaii to a Buddhist monastery in Nepal.

Jeannette loses patience enough to start living with Phil, but not enough to divorce Willie and marry Phil. Finally, as the 70s end, Willie returns without having found Nirvana.

There is always something reassuring and appealing about a Mazursky film, even when you have significant reservations about it. Mazursky likes people and he maintains an unabashed regard for the works of the past.

Though Mazursky is certainly a moralist, however much one might differ with some of his implications, the nature of the theme and its treatment make "Willie and Phil" strictly mature viewing fare. R, A'3 "Caddyshack" (Warners): Another offspring of "Animal House," this vulgar slapstick comedy has something to do with a caddy seeking a college scholarship, but its main con路 cern is to present an obnoxious

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collection of characters. Lewd jokes and nudity. R,B "My Bodyguard" (Fox): A transfer student, harassed by bullies at a Chicago high school, seeks the aid of a huge classmate. There are good moments and believable characters, but the storyline is uncertain and the violent conclusion far-fetched.

LEARY PRESS Though the picture tries to be on the side of the angels, its moral stance is dubious. The hero and his father, for example, indulge in voyeurism each for evening, peeping into apartment every occasion . .. windows through a hI$h-powered telescope. And a teacher, Baptisms presented favorably, describes Birthdays Romeo and Juliet as "kids who WEtddings have the hots for each other, .Anniversaries but they can't do anything about Ordinations it because they live in a society . Confirmations in which you can only do it if I First Communions you're married." Dubious material for younger viewers. PG, OPEN DAILY A3 10:00 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. "Prom Night" (Avco Embassy): This grisly little pack- , age aimed at the youth market , concerns a revenge killer stalk- , ing high school victums during I Shrine the prom and slashing their Park Street - Route 118 throats when they stray from Attleboro, Massachusetts the dance floor. R,B "Used Cars" (Colwnbia): It's hard to believe that any movie would, be so tasteless as to atUNFAILING PRAYER tempt to wring laughs out of the TO ST. ANTHONY fatal stroke of a sympathetic character, but this foul-moutho Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of ed, amoral comedy about rival Saints, your love for God and Charity used car dealers does just that. for His creatures, made you worthy, There is extravagant nudity on when on earth, to possess miracudisplay but no trace of wit or lous powers. Miracles waited on your intelligence. R,C word, which you were ever ready to

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Films 00 1V Sunday. Aug. 17. 9-11 p.m.

(ABC) - "SupPort Your Local Gunfighter" (1971) James Garner plays an ingenuous conman who tricks a small town into believing that an innocuous rummy (Jack Elam) is a dangerous gunslinger. This Western comedy meanders through predictable plot twists and cliches before reaching its happy ending. A2 Tuesday. Aug. 19. 9-11 p.m.

(CBS) - "Islands In the Stream" (1977) - George C. SCott is an expatriate American in the Bahamas who is jolted out of his self-pitying sense of failure by the demands of World War II. Franklin Schaffner has directed this adaptation of the posthumous Ernest Hemingway novel with considerable success in focusing upon the interior world of the central character, the prototypical Hemingway hero acting with style under pressure.

A2 Tuesday. Aug. 19. 9-11 p.m.

(NBC) - "Ode to Billy Joe" (1977) - Based on a popular song, this is the story of two Mississippi Delta teen-agers (Robby Benson and Glynnis 0' Connor) whose romance ends in tragedy when the boy leaps off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Not even the considerable charm of the acting nor the beauty of the setting can overcome the thin, contrived plot and insufferably cute dialogue. A3

speak for those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged by this thought, I implore of you to obtain for me (request>. The answer to my prayer may require a miracle, even so, you are the Saint of Miracles. 0 gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the Sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms: and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 14, 1980

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The newly repainted statue of Mary in the east yard of the cathedral has been enhanced with nighttime illumination. It will be blessed and rededicated following 6:30 Mass tomorrow, the feast of the Assumption.

New parish council members are Richard Kelley and Robert Vandal.

Frank Ricci has been named as the new school principal.

The 75th jubilee Mass and banquet for the parish are set for Sunday, Sept. 14. Work on painting and redecorating the main church entrance has begun.

Volunteer helpers may call Roger Charpentier, 695-2070.

Sister 'Doris Desrosiers, Roland J. Dubuc and Romeo Villemaire have been appointed special ministers of holy communion to bring the Eucharist to elderly or shut-in parishioners. Arrangements for this service may be made by calling the rectory.

Those in third grade and above wishing to become altar servers may call Rosemary Achin, 695-0105 or Michael Kelley, 695-0334.

Parishioners interested in helping with the CCD program may call Sister Pauline Louise at 695-5424.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD

Only 16 openings remain in the parish Senior Citizens' club, which has 84 active members.

The unit's first outing will be a Doat trip on the Cape Cod Canal Thursday, Aug. 21.

ST. RITA,

MARION A parish picnic is planned for Sunday, Aug. 24 at Washburn Park.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, NORm DARTMOUTH Adult volunteers are needed

by the pari,sh religious education program and are asked to notify the rectory if they are willing to serve as teachers, aides, office workers or telephone contact people.

SERRA INTERNATIONAL, NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE

New 'England Serra Clubs will meet the weekend of Oct. 24 through 26 at Dunfey's Hotel, Hyannis. All New England bishops have been invited to participate, in addition to diocesan vocation directors and Serra chaplains. Gerald Murphy of England, new Serra International president, will speak at the conference of the vocations fostering organization.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK CCD teachers are still needed for the fall program on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings.

Confirmation candidates are reminded to review their study material this summer in preparation for September testing.

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Junior Foresters will hold a hayride this month. The annual outing took place in July.

ST. ANNE,

FALL RIVER Parishioners Joined in congratUlating Father Clement M. Paquet who marked his 50th anniversary of profession in the Dominican Order on Aug. 4.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD

A representative of the St: Francis Xavier Mission Society will speak at all Masses this weekend.

The staff of the parish school will meet today for a day of recollection in preparation for the coming academic year.

The Couples Club is planning reorganization and invites all married couples in the parish to join.

STONEHIU COLLEGE, NORm EASTON

Registration for the evening classes will be held through Friday, Sept. 5, with classes beginning Wednesday, Sept. 10. Over 125 credit courses are offered, including many in the business field. An open house at which further information on degree and non-degree programs will be available will be held from 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the College Center.

Such information is also available by mail or telephone from the college at North Easton 02356, telephone 238-1081, extension 258.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER

CYO members planning to attend an outing to Rocky Point on Monday are reminded that signed permission slips must be turned in at the rectory by tomorrow. Rain date for the outing is Tuesday.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST,' POCASSET

An ultreya for Upper Cape Cursillistas will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the parish center.

Next year will mark both the

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FALL RIVER Father James Bregola of the PIME Fathers will speak at all Masses this weekend about his community's work in the foreign missions.

School uniforms may be picked up Wednesday, Sept. 3 in the school hall. An opening of school Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, followed by coffee and doughnuts in the school hall. There are a few openings in grades one and two only.

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CCD registration for first graders, new students and confirmation candidates will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, Aug. 24 in thEl CCD office. Children must bE! accompanied by an adult and a baptismal certificate is requi.red for those not baptized in the parish.

THANKSGIVING Novena To St. Jude o Holy St. Jude, Apostle, and Martyr,

lI'eat in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful Intlll'cessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return, I promIse to make your name known, and cause you to be invoked.

Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. Publication must , be promised. 51. Jude pray for us all who Invoke your aid, Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. I have had my request granted. Publication promised. A reader. lAdvt.J M.P.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, ADORERS, FAIRHAVEN

Adorers will hold their monthly holy hour at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26 at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven. Following the service, conducted by Father Thomas Landry, refreshments will follow in the church hall.

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A Holy Land pilgrimage is planned for February, 1981.

A planning meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 31 in the lower church.

Those atteriding previous pilgrimages are also invited to attend. Films of this year's trip will be shown.

A family picnic for confirmation candidates and youth ministry members will be held Saturday at Colt Park, Bristol, R.I. Those needing transportation should meet in the schoolyard at 9:30 a.m.

Choir members will be commissioned at 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

Children in the parish school or CCD program are asked to meet at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24 in the church for a meet-yourteacher program which will ininclude a commissioning service for the teachers. The evening session will be preceded by a day of renewal for the teachers.

"Czestochowa Days" will be held from Saturday through Aug. 26 and will include special prayer services before all Masses and prayers for special intentions for world, church, parish and individual needs.

50th anniversary of the parish and the 25th anniversary of ordination for Father James W. Clark, pastor. A commemorative history is in. preparation and those with pictures of important events in parish life which they would be willing to lend for publication are asked to contact the rectory.

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