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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAV, AUGUST 18, 1977

HOW THEY VOTED Here is the voting record of area representatives on the Doyle-F1ynnt WI prohibiting use of state funds for abortions: DEMOCRATS AGAINST ABORTION FUNDING: Lynch (Barnstable, Sandwich); Peck (Freetown, Dartmouth); Raposa (Dighton, Somerset, Lakevllle); GllIet (Fall River); Long (Fall River, Westport); Correia (Fall River); Norton (Fall River, Somerset); Goyette (New Bedford); Coury (New Bedford); Lopes (New Bedford); MacLean (Fairhaven, Acushnet); Aleixo (Taunton); Boffettl (Rehoboth, Taunton); Aguiar (Seekonk, Swansea).

DEMOCRATS FOR ABORTION FUNDING: Almeida (Bourne); Cahlr (Falmouth); Filosa

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(Mansfield); Pina (New Bedford).

DEMOCRATS NOT RECORDED: Volterra (Attleboro); Viveiros (Fall River, Somerset).

REPUBLICANS AGAINST ABORTION FUNDING: (Attleboro, Poirer North Attleboro); McDowell (Brewster, Dennis,Yarmouth); Deeas (Marlon, Wareham, Mattapoisett); Conway (Nantucket.

REPUBLICANS FOR ABORTION FUNDING: Cahoon (Chatham, Wellfleet, Orleans, Eastham, Harwich, Provincetown, Truro); Lombardi (Mansfield, Easton, Norton)_ INDEPENDENT FOR ABORTION FUNDING: McCarthy (Martha's Vineyard).

Emotions Run High At Seekonk Hearing

By Pat McGowan On the same day that the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 156-69 to prohibit use of state funds for abortions, an emotional hearing was held at Seekonk High School on the issue of whether or not the town should amend its zoning bylaws to prohibit abortion clinics.

The issue surfaced when citizens learned that Dr. Charles H. Mandell, a radiologist on the staff of the Union-Truesdale

Hospital, Fall River, was interested in establishing such a clinic in the small community, together with family planning and counseling services.

According to an informal tally kept by a meeting participant, Seekonk followed the state lead in opposing abortion. Clinic opponents outnumbered proponents in the ratio of four to one.

A few days later, however, Dr. Mandell said his decision on the clinic would await both a state Tum to Page Four .

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Light, Healing Are Themes Of New England Congress IBishop Daniel' A. Cronin will lead some 200 diocesan delegates attending the 29th New England Congress of Religious Education, to be held tomorrow through Sunday at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The Ordinary will preside at a special gathering for Fall River delegates scheduled for Saturday night and will join the other bishops of New England 'for a concelebrated closing liturgy at 4 Sunday afternoon.

The fourfold theme of the congress is Light, Healing, Community, Service and the huge meeting will offer participants four focus speakers, each giving a three-part in-depth presentation of his or her topic. It is suggested that delegates follow one c1f the speakers throughout the congress and choose from

Seek Gutsy Jobs, D'eacons Advised NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) Permanent deacons of the United States were told to seek out the "gutsy" ministries "of the street" and were warned against becoming liturgical functionaries during the first national Diaconate Institute for Continuing Education, held this month at Notre Dame University.

"The ministers of the street are not necessarily ministers of the sanctuary," said Bishop William McManus of Fort WayneSouth Bend, Ind. The Church in Turn to Page Seven

NOT ONLY INCREASED space for parish activities but a boost to the ar~a economy and a demonstration of diocesan growth are provided by construction in two parishes. Left, Father John Murphy, pastor, in-

among the scores of topics that will be handled at seminars, discussions that will support the major theme chosen.

Focus speakers are: - Mrs. Doris Donnelly, pro'" fessor of Roman Catholic the-

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Human Ministry of the People of God." - Father Robley E. Whitson, director of the United Institute Bethlehem, Conn., and past theology department chairman of Fordham University, whose topic will be "The Living Scriptures; The Message of Light."

At the Saturday night diocesan meeting, Bishop Cronin will speak, followed by Father George Coleman and Father Michel G. Methot of the Diocesan Department of Education. Father Andre Patenaude, MS, well-known folk composer and singer and associate pastor at Our Lady of the Cape parish, Brewster, will offer music and lead song at a prayer service and diocesan delegates will share their impressions of the congress.

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Changes Listed

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Several staff changes have been announced within the Diocesan Department of Education ology at Princeton Theological by Rev. George W. Coleman, Seminary, who will discuss "The Director of Education. Leaving Search for Spiritual Experience." the Department for new assign- Father Bryan Hehir, As- ments are Sister Barbara Mesistant Secretary for Internation- . Carthy, O.P., former Coordinaal Justice and Peace, U.S. Cath- tor for Schools and Sister Rita olic Conference. His topic will Pelletier, S.S.J., former Associate be "The Social Mission of the Director for Youth~CD. Gospels."

Sister iBarbara joined the - David J. O'Brien, director School Department in 1970, havof the Institute for Justice and ing served as principal of DomPeace, Stonehill College, North inican Academy, Fall River, and Easton. He will consider "The assumed the duties of superTum to Paie Three Community Dimension of the SR. RITA PELLETIER

spects new parish hall for Holy Name Church, New Bedford; right, Father Stephen Salvador, associate pastor at St. John of God parish, Somerset, checks progress of church building.

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ill People.Places.Events--NC News Briefs ill Bomb at Loulrdes

Bolivia Is Pro-Life

LOURDES, France - A bomb exploded during the night between Aug. 13 and 14 in the concrete dome of the underground Basilica of Pope Pius X at the world-famous shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. It was the first such incident in th history of the shrine.

Many windows were shslttered in the adjoining Bernadette Hospital. About 20 patients suffered shock and one had a heart attack.

LA PAZ, Bolivia - In what observers attribute to Church influence, Bolivia's government has hardened its stand against birth control practice and abortion. Undersecretary of Health Dorian Gorena told the openiqg session of the Bolivian Congress of Gynecologists and Obstetricians that any attempts to curb births artificially are considered "an attack against the country itself."

Traditionalist Church?

NEWEST BISHOP: Bishop Thomas Kelly, OP, was ordained Monday as an auxiliary for the Washington, D.C. archdiocese. He will also continue as general secretary for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference.

LONDON - The traditionalist followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who have been attending Mass each Sunday in the unlikely setting of the Great Western Hotel at one of London's main rail terminals, may soon have a church of their own in the English capital. They have been negotiating to II~ase a former congregational chapel in Islington from the United Reform Church.

Reactions V'ary WASHINGTON - Reaction to President Carter's plan to curb illegal immigration and to deal with thl;l illegal aliens already in the United States ranges from denunciation by the Hispanic community to mild criticism by Church officials and others who recognize it as an important, yet flawed, response to what the Presi路 dent called "one of our most complex domestic problems."

Recommends IDeath

I ONLY ONE: Franciscan Sister Mary Hargrafen is the only nursenun in the US military. You can call her Sister, Mary, Captain or Nurse.

"I respond equally well to all," she says.

MICHAEL NEWMAN, editor of the San Diego diocesan newspaper a.pd a permanent deacon, has been selected for the 1977 Pope John XXIII Award by the Italian Catholic Federatton for his work in Catholic journali~m and the Cursillo movement as well as for his aid to Catholicism in southern Africa.

TORONTO - An Anglkan Church of Canada task force has recommended that severely retarded infants be allowed to die. The recommendation is contained in a report suggesting that it. may be morally right to kill newborn infants with severe brain damage. The report is not a policy statement of the Anglican Church, but rather the work of the 11member Anglican Task Force on Human Life.

Full Employrnent WASHINGTON - Bishop Joseph A. MoNicholas of Springfield, III., has urged dioceses and parishes throughout the country to reflect on the enormous costs of joblessness and the need for full em路 ployment during the week of Sept. 4-10, which has been designated as Full Employment Week. The bishop is chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Committee on Social Development and World Peace.

Peer Pressure BOYSTOWN, Neb. - Peer group pressure is the most important factor shaping junior and senior high school students' attitudes toward alcohol and drugs, according to a study by Ronald Akers, a sociologist at the Boys Town Center fo rthe Study of Youth Development.

Natural Family Planning MANILA - The Catholic Church in the Philippines has placed a new stress on natural family planning education in the face of an intensified population control effort by the country's martial law regime.

It'll Never Happen PORTLAND, Ore. Despite gains made by the Communist party in controlling the government of Italy, the country will never go Communist, according to Father Vittorio Farrari, a Milan priest who is visiting friends in Portland.

Paid Killers TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras "We know from reliable sources that there is a band of paid killers who now have contracted to kill priests and nuns," the Pastoral Commission of the. Honduran Bishops' Conference has declared. According to the commission, a recent assassination attempt on a U.S. priest Father Richard Preston - at a rural parish in Olancho province is part of a wider pattern of persecution, including death threats against native and foreign missionaries.

Network Report .WASHINGTON - A voting record issued by Network, an organization of Religious lobbying on social justice issues, shows that eight members of the 95th Congress agreed with Network on 13 of 13 key votes involving issues such as human rights, increased food aid, economic stimulus and military spending between March and July. One senator and one representative voted against the Network position on all 13 issues.

Missioners I<:illed

Death in Golden West

SALISBURY, Rhodesia - Two white women missionaries - a. doctor and a nursing Sister - were killed Aug. 9 by black nationalist guerrillas at St. Paul's Roman Catholic mission in southwest Rhodesia, government spokesmen in Salisbury said. Dead were German-born Dr. Johanna Decker, 59, from Munich, and Sister, Ferc\inan,da Pioner, 53, a native of Austria.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The death penalty was restored in California Aug. 11 after the State Assembly overrode Gov. Edmund G. Brown's May 27 veto of the measure. In June, the state Senate had overridden the veto with exactly the two-thirds majority required. The Assembly override also mustered a bare two-thirds majority.

Unrepresenf'ative

WASHINGTON The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has entered an employment discrimination suit on behalf of a Polish-American electrical engineer who has charged that his Eastern-European surname relegated him to the bottom quarter of his former employer's rating curve. Carl Kubaszewski of Chicago filed suit after he was laid off from his job with Motorola Automotive Division.

CLEVELAND - The approximately 200 pro-life and pro-famiily delegates to the International Women's Year conference in Houston will try to show the nation that the gathering is "by and large, anti-life" and unrepresentative of most American women ,accord:ing to Pat Pichler, vice president of Ohio Right to Life and an elected delegate to the Nov. 18-21 conference.

NO PAYCHECKS: Mrs. Angela Falciani has served as a teacher and now as assistant principal at St. Joseph's School, Swedesboro, N.J. for 25 years at no salary. She says it is her way of expressing gratitude for God's blessings.

BOB HOPE is the recipient of the Father Flanagan Award for service to youth.

Polish Bias

FATHER WILUAM MciNNES, president of the University of San Francisco, has been elected president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

Changes Listed Continued from Pa~e One vision and curriculum coordination. With the reorganization of the Department of Education, she became Coordinator for Schools.

Sister BaI'bara has served as Secretary for the New England Curriculum and Supervision Association and as an officer of the executive committee of the Supervisor's division of the National Catholic Educational Assn. She leaves the Department of Education to begin study toward a master's degree in religious studies at Fairfield University in Connecticut.

Sister Rita Pelletier was named Director of Religious Education of the Diocese at the time of the reorganization of the Education Department in 1973. Previously she was principal of St. Joseph's School, New Bedford.

Sister Rita has been a member of the executive committee of the New England Directors of Religious Education. She will assume the duties of religious education coordinator for St. Mary's parish, New Bedford.

Staff members coming into the Office of Education are Rev. Marcel H. Bouchard and Sister Mary Laurita Hand, PBVM. Father Bouchard, who holds a master of theology degree in Sacred Scripture, has recently returned from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he earned a

lector of sacred theology degree in systematic theology with a concentration in spiritual theology.

He will serve as part-time assistant within the Office of Religious Education while serving part-time as an assistant pastor at Notre Dame Church, Fall River. Post-Confirmation and Scriptural programs for adults will be his major responsibility and he will also establish liaison with youth ministry programs within the diocese.

Sister Mary Laurita Hand, a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose Motherhouse is located in Fitchburg, Mass., will assume the duties of Assistant Superintendent of Schools. She has taught at the elementary and secondary levels and has had a wellrounded experience in curriculum development.

The new assistant superintendent holds a master's degree in English from Rivier College, and has studied at Exeter College of Oxford University, England; University of the .Pacific, California; Western Washington State College, Washington; and Clark University, Worcester.

De'sappearing Act? In our last issue we promised a feature this week on a teenage magician. He Is as elusive as a magician should be, but we hope to tell you about him next week.

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Her responsibilities will include curriculum development and visitation of all parish elementary schools in the diocese.

As the only member of her community working within the diocese of Fall River, Sister Laurita will reside with the Sisters of Mercy at St. Theresa's Convent, New Bedford.

Serving as Director of Religious Education will be Rev. Michel G. Methot. Since 1973 and the reorganization of the Department of Education, Father Methot has served as the Associate Director for Adult Education, including the Directorship of Continuing Education of Clergy and Campus Ministry.

He will assume his new responsibilities in addition to his present duties. He is presently also the part-time assistant pastor at St. Michael's Church, Ocean Grove.

Completing the professional staff of the Department of Education are Sister Marion C. Geddes, RSM, Superintendent of Schools, and Sister Theresa Spa~ row, RSM, Coordinator for Religious Education.

The staff looks forward to the challenge of the new academ.ic year and encourages all to avail themselves of the resources of the Catholic Education Center, 423 Highland Avenue, Fall River, telephone 678-2828. The Center is open daily, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Birthright Sets Lecture Progrann 'Birthright of Fall River will present "An Evening with Dr. Donald DeMarco" at 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29 at Bishop Connolly High School on Elsbree Street, Fall River.

The Fall River native, educated in Canada, the United States and Europe, is a professor of philosophy at St. Jerome's College, Waterloo, Ontario. He lectures extensively and is a columnist and feature writer. His topic will be "Abortion in Perspective" and the public is invited to attend. There will be no admission charge.

FOES OF CHILD pornography demonstrate in San Diego, said to be center of "child sex-slave racket" estimated to involve thousands of children in production of pornographic films, books, pictures. (NC Photo)

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"While it is true that it is a terrible thing to fall in the hands of the living God in judgement, it is a much more terrible thing to fall out of his hand." - Albert T. Mollegen

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The speaker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Americo DeMarco of SS. Peter and Paul parish, Fall River. He graduated from B.M. C. Durfee High School, Fall River, and Stonehill College, Easton, before attending the Gregorian University in Rome and St. John's University, Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y., where he earned his doctorate. He has long been active in the Birthright movement. ",.,,"',11"""'"'_

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themoorin~ Moral Issues and Political Accountability The recent vote in the Massachusetts House on the DQyle-Flynn bill produced some surprising votes from area legislators. From our count, Representatives Almeida, Cahir, Filosa, Pina, Cahoon, Lombardi and McCarthy voted against the bill and thus in fact approved the use of state funds for abortions. Representatives Viveiros and Volterra for reasons of their own unfortunately abstained from indicating their preference in this matter, leaving one to wonder where they stand on the abortion issue.

Now these men represent yarious sections of our diocese that are overwhelmingly Catholic in population.

Either they have ignored the preference of the electorate in this matter or they are ignorant of the feelings of their constituents who sincerely believe that abortion is murder.

Naturally, there are some who will use the tired cry of abortion proponents that this is now a "Catholic" issue.

So what! It is about time that Catholics stood up to be counted on the important moral issues of our day.

Why must we hide from the reality of issues that affect our society and be ashamed to make our views known to a materialistic world? Why should we be afraid to let people know that our faith is not just a once a week affair and that we too have a voice in the world's marketplace?

Why should we sit on the sidelines and refuse to let our elected officials know that their vote is offensive and repulsive? There is no reason whatsoever that should silence the Catholic voice of Southeastern Massachusetts or any other area of the state or nation!

We urge our readers to write to these men. Let them know our position on the abortion issue. Demand a reply.

If they fail to respond, then take it up at the ballot box in the next election.

It is imperative that we act swiftly, with determination and effectiveness. The right to life issue is crucial to the very existence of our human family. Already there 路is a group in Canada advocating the murder of retarded infants.

An Anglican Church of Canada task force has recommended that severely retarded infants be allowed to die by starva-" tion. If this doesn't remind one of the madness of Hitler's Third Reich, what would? How would our representatives feel about this issue especially if they are, at this stage in their political lives, supporters of abortion?

It is evident that there are many issues involved in a pro-life position that are and will be introduced. into the various branches of government. The Catholic community should be aware of these issues, how they are viewed by our elected officials and insist on public accountability.

It is so very easy to sit back and let the world pass by.

If we continue to take the easy road then life itself will

pass us by. 1t is crucial that we let our political representatives know that they can no longer play the game of politics for the sake of politics when lives are at stake. They must know where we stand, no matter what the cost of personal inconvenience.

On our part, this paper will make a determined effort to publicize the position and votes of the men and women who have been elected to public office from the various areas of this diocese, especially in the important areas of basic moral issues.

Hopefully this will give our readers the needed encouragement to take a good clear look at the voting records of those who claim to be their publie servants and forcefully demand from them an accountability that will truly reflect the confidence placed in them by the electorate.

Letters Welcome Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters should be brief and the editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

ph'ot.om,editation A car window . . . shattered . . . a gaping hole . . .

The car smashed head on . . . The fate of the driver ... may be guessed ... from the extent of the damage.

It was an accident . . . the kind of thing . . . no one expects to happen to oneself . . . a totally unexpected tragedy . . . a meaningless moment . . . that changes a lifetime.

Not a pleasant sight . . . the place of unforeseen death or injury . . . Not a pleasant thought . . . the possibility of the same . . . happening to me . . . but the sight . . . and the thought . . . may be graced . . . with life-challenging questions.

What was the driver of that car living for . . . at that unexpected moment? . . . What was important to him or her? . . . What is important to me . . . as I go from day to day? . . . What am I living for?

A life-changing accident ... can cause us all . . . to ponder deeply ... what is really important to us ...

An accident invites us ... to pra~ over Jesus' words: "What profit would a man show ... if he were to gain the whole world . . . and destroy himself in the process? . . . What can a man offer . . . in exchange . . . for his very self?"

(Matthew 16:26.)

Seekonk Hearing Continued from Page One Supreme Judicial Court ruling in a similar abortion clinic case in Southboro, Mass. and the outcome of Seekonk's representative town meeting, to be held Sept. 12. The zoning bylaw amendment will be voted on at that time. .John Pozzi, chairman of the town planning board, made it clear at last week's meeting that "we are speaking to the issue of land, we cannot speak to the issue of morality," He explained that lhe purpose of the evening WBLS simply to give board membelrs "the sense of the meeting" and aid them in arriving at a recommendation on the proposed

clinic to present at the representative town meeting. ,But speakers for and against the clinic obviously felt the real issue was abortion. John Ghiorse, a Seekonk resident and well-known television meteorologist on Providence Channel 10, received prolonged applause when he declared that "an abortion clinic could be called a' murder clinic, as much as the concentration camps of Dachau and Auschwitz," 路路But ,Bill Baird, who operates abortion clinics in Boston and New York, spoke with equal emotion in favor of abortion, vowing that if the proposed clinic is not erected, "I will come

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into your town and immediately set up a clinic here,"路 Baird excoriated the Catholic Church, indicating it is the prime opponent of abortionists, and proclaimed, "We're every bit as noble as you pretend to be."

Twenty-year-old Marcie Adler of Boston, who sat with Baird, declared she was grateful to have had an abortion at age 17. "I don't think any woman has to be a breeding machine for anyone else" she said.

(Some days after the meeting, however, Baird told an interviewer on a 'Boston radio station that he expected anti-abortionists would succeed in adding a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution, probably within two or three years. He said pro-abortionists are apathetic and that he expected the Massachusetts legislatur.e would override a Iiomised Governor Dukakis' veto of the DoyleFlynn bill.)

Following the meeting, which had been planned to last four hours if necessary, but which actually took less than two hours, Mrs. Elsie Chandley, a leader of pro-life forces, said she was "very proud of the citi'zens of the town. <Baird was not able to agitate anyone,".

She said that although she had no inkling of what recommendation the planning board will make to the Seekonk representative town meeting, she is confident that the expressed will of the majority of those at the hearing will prevail.

Many at the meeting had high praise for the way in which it was conducted, with clinic opponents and proponents granted separate time periods in which to speak, thus avoiding confrontations between individual speakers.

Sampling Views A feeling of decency outraged came through in views expressed at the meeting. A sampling: "We moved from California to Seekonk in 1969 because we liked the feel of the land, what it had to offer and what it didn't.

From a grammar school principal: "I would be at a loss to explain to my own children or to the school children of this town why we were permitting such a clinic," "I would prefer to live next to a landfill than to an abortion clinic."

"I have many happy memories of Seekonk. I would like always to have happy memories."

"I am marrying a resident of Seekonk and we have chosen to live here because of its small town atmosphere. If a clinic is built we will not live here." !But possibly the last and most poignant word belonged to 11year-old Lisa DiAngelo, who will go into sixth grade next month: "I enjoyed growing up in Seekonk the way it is and I wouldn't want it to change. If there's an abortion clinic, I think it will change,"

Necrology August 27 .

Rt. Rev. Francisco C. 'Bettencourt, 1960, Pastor Santo Christo, Fall River August 29 Rev. Joseph De Villandre, D.D., 1921, Founder, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro

Supports Cause Of Unborn, Aged

Two Diocesans In Washington At Encuentro Father Charles Soto, CFM, directpr of Regina Pacis Center, New Bedford, and Father James E. Murphy, in charge of the Hispanic apostolate in the Attleboro and Taunton areas, are among delegates to the Segundo Encuentro Nacional Hispano de Pastoral, to be held today through Sunday in Washington, D.C. With' other delegates from across the nation they will consider over 100 resolutions bearing on all aspects of Church service to the Spanish-speaking.

Among the J:esolutions are proposals which call for increased recognition of and respect for Hispanic culture in Church evangelization efforts; an active role for the laity in Church ministry; and total amnesty for illegal aliens.

The resolutions were initiated at local, diocesan and regional encuentros attended by clergy and laity earlier this year. The national Encuentro is sponsored by the Committee for the Spanish Speaking of the National Conference of Catholic BishopsU.S. Catholic Conference (NeC B-USCC).

More than 400 official delegates, including a 30-member delegation representing migrant farm workers, will vote on the resolutions. Observers and other special guests will raise the total Eucuentro attendance to about 800.

CBS television crews will tape portions of the meeting, including a panel discussion on the project with Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M.; a Spanish~speaking nun, and a migrant worker. The program will be broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EST Sunday, Aug. 21.

A message from Pope Paul VI will be delivered as' part of the opening session today, while Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, will deliver the keynote address.

Dirty 'Soap' ABC-TV will televise the program "SOAP" scheduled, despite criticism leveled at the network by religious groups, including the U.S. Catholic Conference (useC) Department Communication.

The network cited democracy and pluralism as reasons why the show which reportedly insults various Catholic beliefs and symbols must go on.

SISTER MARY ELLEN MAHON, SUSC of St. Louis Convent Clarksville, Md., will pronounce final vows at a liturgy to be celebrated Holy Name Church, Fall River, at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 20, by Father Maurice Lebel, SJ. A reception will follow at the Holy Union Sisters Convent, 570 Rock Street, Fall River.

Sister Mary Ellen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Mahon of Mt. Ephraim, New Jersey, entered the. Holy Union community in September, 1966. She received a bachelor's degree in theology from Trinity College, Washington, D.C., taught at St. Francis de Sales School, Patchogue, Long Island, and was chairperson of the religious studies department at the former Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River.

She is presently engaged in .vocation education work for the Immaculate Heart Province of her community as well as in the archdiocese of Baltimore. This summer she . addressed the Holy Union Sisters International Renewal Program in Rome on the topic of spirituality.

Attempts to pressure ABC into canceling the half-hour series, scheduled to begin Sept.

13 at 9:30 p.m. EDT, constitute "prior censorship," the network said in a statement released shortly after the usec criticized the program as a violation of the National Association of Broadcasters' code of standards.

INDIANAPOLIS (NC) Archbishop Joseph 'Bernardin of Cincinnati, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), has called on the U.S. government to "practice what it preaches" by extending its human rights foreign policy to the unborn and the aged in this country.

The archbishop made the call on Tuesday in a speech before the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council convention in Indianapolis.

Application of the concept of human rights to domestic concerns and problems begin with "the most fundamental of rights: the right to life," Archbishop Bernardin said. "When this right is violated - as it is in many ways in the United· States today - discussion of other rights becomes hollow and even cynical."

The NCCB president called abortion "a crucial test case for our respect for the right to life" and said the recent Supreme Court rulings that the government is not constitutionally required to pay for medically unnecessary abortions and that state hospitals have no obligation to provide them are "wel~ come . . . especially in light of what had previously seemed the court's almost unqualified commitment to abortion."

He then outlined a five-step program on abortion, which would include: - "Vigorous efforts" to oppose existing or proposed legislation which would require the expenditure of taxpayers' money for elective abortions.

- Support of legislative activities to provide "effective and acceptable" alternatives to abortion, including improved preand post-natal maternity and child care and improved programs for adoption and foster care.

- Stepped-up efforts in the private sector to provide similar supportive services to women before and after childbirth, as well as to their children. "This is a moral imperative of the highest order for the Church," the archbishop said.

- Support of legislation and public policy which will deal with social problems "wbich influence some women to consider abortion as a solution to personal or family difficulties."

- Continued and increased efforts" for passage of a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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By REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Mary and Ellen Lukas, in their book, "Teilhard," describe a chance meeting between their hero and his enemy, Reginald Garrigou-La'Grange at a party in Rome. The former was a native dreamer, a strange mystic and scientist out of the deserts of China; the latter a powerful, prestigious Dom-

What Would inican, a Roman theologian, a man who had the confidence of the pope and the curia. They chatted pleasantly and then Garrigou, with the urbane self-deprecation of a busy, powerful man, moved away. Teilhard remarked to a friend, "There is the man who wants to bum me."

Garigou and his allies did not quite bum Teilhard; but they made his life miserable and unhappy. He died in a hotel room in New York because there was "no room" for him at "America" house and he had been ejected from a Jesuit rectory which was being "redecorated." He was not sure that any of his books would be published and died convinced he was a failure.

Garigou, of course, was a success.

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MARY CARSON

It's always dangerous to joke about sacred cows but that has never stopped me before. The pro-life movement frequently links the "abortive-contraceptive mentality."

The premise is that if you accept contraception you are automatically pro-abortion. I believe this premise has strangled the pro-life movement.

Statistics show that about 85% of Catholics approve of contraception. Even if they don't ap-

By MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS

Bishop Joseph F. Donnelly, Auxiliary of Hartford and Chairman of the Bishops Committee on Farm Labor died suddenly at his residence in New Haven, Conn. on June 30.

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But as Gerald McCool notes in his "Catholic Theology in the 19th Century," Garrigou and his cronies won the battle and lost the war. They destroyed the' FrE!nch Jesuit theological revival in 1950 with the encyclical letter "Humani Generis;" but it was in reality the end of their own brand of traditional Thomism. The Thomism of the Jesuit Ambrose Marechal (the interwar teacher of the iFrench Jesuits) would tum up again as the transcendental Thomism of Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan.

Who reads Reginald GarrigouLaGrange these days?

I asked a friend of Lonergan how the Romans missed him when they cleaned out the French Jesuits. "Bernard is Irish," replied the friend

It is easy to become angry when reading ~·Teilhard." While it is fashionable to patronize him in certain circles today, he is still probably the most important Catholic thinker of the first half of the 20th century. Essentially a mystic visionary who saw the unity of a religion and science and the development of humankind towards the cosmic Christ, he was sacrificed on the altar of the most rigid philosophical literalism and the most reactionary ecclesiastical politics.

Would it happen again? Sure-

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prove of abortion they are not accepted by pro-lifers, who ,have already determined that because they accept contraception they are pro-abortion.

Based on such logic, we could draw all sorts of catch phrases that ought to devastate Christianity..

No one gets hurt . . . except possibly those who are spending the, milk money for their bingo cards. But it's for a good cause.

So your kids do without milk for a few days ... it's following thE! commandments to contribute to the support of the Church.

Once you accept capital punishment, you will accept euthanasia. From there you will accept killing any undesirable - the retarded, the aged - and from that . . . the unborn. Therefore, the "capital punishment - abortive mentality."

Besides, if the Church sponsors bingo it must be all right, and you have the "blessed bingo mentality." .

Everyone knows that many Churches must have bingo to survive. Now, in the strictest sense, bingo is gambling. Yet bingo is nice, harmless gamoling.

meaning, I take it, that he knew how to keep a low profile and be properly obscure, unlike the naive Teilhard.

But bingo is rather tame for many people. If they are going to spend the money anyway, why not have them spend it on a good Church-approved project -Las Vegas nights.

These must always be handled. with greater discretion than bingo. They're for bigger stakes

MARILYN RODERICK

Today is clear and cool, an oasis in the midst of the hottest summer on record, a summer that has taken its toll of frayed nerves and weary bodies during day after day of sticky, intense heat.

Such a summer coming on the heels of frigid winter causes

Basrement?

and you wouldn't want some kid betting his lunch money.

And you really don't want to teach children that gambling is a good thing.

With legislation of marijuana in restricted circumstances, maybe the Church could also sponsor pot nights. Maybe they could combine a double event . . . pot luck in the cafeteria and pot party in the basement. Of course, they wouldn't sell the pot, just an admission charge to cover the evening.

Blanket legality apparently isn't really the criterion. A Las Vegas night is legal in the parish church is not at the comer bar. Evidently what is important is that it be Church sponsored, giving it dignity, acceptability.

If a woman sought counseling

from a priest because her husband regularly lost his paycheck, needed to support the family, with a bookie, the priest would undoubtedly recommend that he get help from- Gamblers Anonymous.

Suppose the same man regularly dropped his paycheck at the parish Las Vegas night?

Once the Church approves of these things, it's obvious that the morality changes a bit. But if the "abortive-contraceptive mentality" is true, then why not the "bingo-marijuana mentality?"

Why stop at marijuan~? People spend money for all sorts of questionable things the Church could tap. If gambling is all right, where do you stop?

Offers Trilbute to Apostle of Sqcial Justice Few bishops in recent AmeriDuring those years, in mediacan history have come to the ting more than 2,000 laborepiscopate so well prepared to management disputes, he joined promote the Church's apostolate the- hands of labor and managein the social order. Appropriate- ment in peaceful and equitable ly, Bishop Donnelly's episcopal solutions to their problems. motto and the details of his epis- Th':>se years of service were uncopal coat of arms reflected his der the patronage of St. Joseph long-standing and effective in- the, Worker, Bishop Donnelly's volvement in this phase of the baptismal patron. The lily, sympriestly ministry. His coat of bolic of St. Joseph, was reprearms featured two clasped sented by the fleur de lis, the hands, symbolizing his 20 years French form of the lily, in the of service on the Connecticut clasped hands.

Board of Mediation and ArbitThe bishop's episcopal motto ration and his 15 years of ser- expressed the guiding principle vice as chairman.

of his many years of devoted public service. "Peace, the Work of Justice" signified his dedication to the principle that peace can only come from the application of justice.

His services in the field of Catholic social action labor education, labor-management relations, interracial justice, housing and urban renewal, were inspired by his conviction that only when the rights of all are respected will it be possible for men and women to live together in happiness and peace.

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ly not. A contemporary Teilhard would simply ignore _the Roman authorities and publish his books. Power, in the absence of the ability to impose consent, becomes worthless. The Gamgous of today get appointed to commissions and even eventually obtain their coveted red hats, but they can no longer silence towering thinkers.

If Teilhard were alive today, however, he would still be an outcast. The unusual, the gifted, the original, the creative are still out of place in the Church - victims of rigidity and envy as much as of Roman authority.

Rome may have changed somewhat since Teilhard's fatal heart attack in the Manhattan hotel room. But clerical envy has not.

one to evaluate the effect of weather on people and even animals.

A friend commented that during a particularly torrid spell last week in the course of an hour she heard three people complain about their jobs,. even though two were working in air conditioned facilities. Tempers become hair-trigger, eyes heavy and even thoughts vague as we plod through seemingly endless hazy heat.

Today is a preview of things to come and one almost feels that with a taste of civilized

weather, one could even consider a lretum to the kitchen. By the first of September most of us vim have had those "your kind of place" hamburgers right up to our ears and palates will yellm for well-prepared food.

Appetites surely wane in the hot sumer months but ~ the Indialn summer days of fall roadside stands and pleasant weather. tum our thoughts and out tastebuds back to the delightful task of cooking and eating good food.

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During the last 10 years of his life, Bishop Donnelly made perhaps his greatest single contribution to the cause of social reform by the effective manner in which he carried out his arduous duties as chairman of the Bishops Committee on Farm Labor. As his staff assistant, I was in contact with him at least once or twice a week and traveled with him to the West Coast on countless occasions as he worked tirelessly - on occasion, for weeks at a time - to mediate the California farm labor dispute.

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Continued from Page One these days of "diminishing parish communities is "out there" on the streets, he told the 100 The Legion of Mary of the deacons and 50 wives attending Fall River Diocese will hold its the meeting. annual out-door picnic on SunMsgr. Ernest J. Fiedler, execuday" August 28th from 12:30 to tive director of the U.S. bishops' 4:00 p.m. on the grQunds of the committee on the Permanent DiHoly Cross Fathers, Tucker Rd., aconate, said he believes AmeriNorth Dartmouth. can permanent deacons have AlI active and auxiliary memthree major concerns today: the bers, as well as their relatives betterment of relations between and friends, are invited to atpriests and deacons; the da!lger tend. of becoming liturgical functionMsgr. Thomas J. Harington, aries; and the problem of cleriDiocesan Director for the Legcalism, with deacons one step ion of !'4ary, will preside at in the authority structure.

Benediction of the Blessed Sac"The permanent diaconate has rament which will conclude the reached the stage of adolescence program. in a complimentary sense," Msgr.

Those attending are asked to Fielder said. "We have rushed bring their own box lunches into adolescence and should be and, if possible, chairs. astonished that we have grown so quickly. There are the vigor, insight, progress, desire for free- . dom and independence. But also ture Joe Wise, liturgist, comdeacons suffer from the dependposer and singer, tomorrow CIDLDREN PARTICIPATE enthusiastically in singalong with "Father Pat," Rev. night, and Alexander Peloquin, ence, insecurity and awkwardAndre Patenaud~, MS, associate pastor at Our Lady of the Cape parish, Brewster, who founder and conductor of. the ness of that age.

"An alb and ribbon doesn't has drawn 1000 visitors weekly to a series of Summer concerts on church grounds. Ac- Peloquin Chorale, on Saturday. make anybody ... You need to companying him is Sister Lucille Gauvin.

To accommodate those who be recognized as a man of sermight have to choose between vice, a living sign of the sacrapresentations offered at the same ment of service." The liturgical time, many- speakers will be ministry, he said, only takes on Continued from Page One ly in the news for a controver- is Secretary of the Agency of taped and cassettes of their talks its proper aspect when the deasy over her position as a reli- Human Services for the state of will be available about one hour Sister Rita Pelletier con is recognized for his service later. Orders will be received Preparation for the congress gious in a state agency respon- Vermont. in the community. and cassettes will be available Msgr. John Egan, director of have been. made by a committee sible for abortion funding. She Evenings of Music will fea- at the congress exhibit area. the Center for Pastoral and So- representing all the dioceses of cial Concerns at Notre Dame, New England and Sister Theresa praised the diaconate movement, Sparrow, RSM, of the Fall River saying' that deacons had come Diocesan Department of Educathrough despite' "hostility and tion was responsible for the 64apathy" from some of the clergy. page congress "bible," listing "Men like yourselves .will take all speakers and other essential f on the tough gutsy apostolates information for delegates.

Among three outstanding rewhich are reflected in the news A kind word, a smile reflect Sister's co.ncern for this of each day from every city," ligious edu!=ators to whom the woman afflicted with leprosy in Ghana. Like missionaries everywhere, she brings a moment of Msgr. Egan said. "The perman- program is dedicated is Sister brightness to an otherwise dreary life. ent diaconate did not come a Rita Pelletier, SSJ, cited for Sister's visits mean more than just medication or moment too soon. Questions "many years of leadership and fresh bandages; they are living proof of Christ's which are presently unresolved dedicated service in the field of love and healing concern for the sick and religious education in New Engwill be resolved by you." unfortunate everywhere.

There are now more than land.

Through your sacrifices for the Propagation of the Faith, Sister Rita, leaving the Dioc2,000 permanent deacons in the YOU help bring the easing presence of a missionary United States, with 2,700 candi- esan Department of Education to those whose lives are otherwise unbearable. dates in training. Out of approxi- after four years. of service as mately 170 dioceses, 120 have Director of Religious Education, diaconate formation programs. will take up new duties as coA second national institute is ordinator of religious education for St. Mary's parish, New Bedplanned for next year. ford.

She will participate in the congress as a reader at one of This Sunday will be another the major liturgies, scheduled for first for the .c1ass of prospective 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the concandidates for the Permanent cert haIl in the Fine Arts Center Diaconate of the Fall River di- of the University of Massachuocese. The occasion will be a setts.

Also on the convention profamily day to be held at Sacred Heart Seminary in Wareham gram is Father Roger Chauwith the theme of ",Family Shar- vette, M.S., president of Mark ing - A Step in Building Dia- IV Presentations of La Salette Shrine, Attleboro. Father Chauconal Community."

The event will be a first vette will offer a seminar, remeeting for the families of the peated four times, on communi18 candidates. It follows a home cations dynamics, titled "Even visitation program that has been Jesus Had Five Senses."

The presentation is described Name _ carried on during the summer by the Office of the Permanent as "a journey through John's Address _ Diaconate and that has pro- Gospel with emphasis on Jesus the Communicator, who uses all vided the opportunity to meet City State_ _- - - - Z i p _ the families, as it were, on their his senses to proclaim the kinghome grounds. It also gave chil- dom of God." ANCH 8-18-77 Send your gift to: Other Features dren of the candidates an opporOther convention features will tunity to ask any questions they THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION might have concerning the pro- include a discussion of "WomOF THE FAITH gram their fathers are about to an and the Faith Community" undertake, alleviating any anxi- by Sister Elizabeth Candon, lateeties they might have about the Most Re\". Edward T. O'Meara The Rev. Monsignor John J. Oliveira路~ important events that the future National Director OR: Diocesan Director will bring to their own family wives and children to share with Dept. C. 366 Fifth AYenue 368 North Main Street environment.

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"Vatican Switches on yasectoA marriage involving a stermies." i1ized male may of course be .In fact, informed sources have annulled on other grounds, pointed out to NC News that however, and it is here that the the ,Doctrinal Congregation's / question becomes complicated, decision that semen produced in the official said. the testicles need not be present Catholic teaching on marriage, for conjugal intercourse means holds that the prior intention not a relaxation of the Church's never to have children invaliattitude toward sterilization, but dates a marriage: that is, no a tightening up of marriage court marriage is validly contracted procedures. where one or both of the part"The Holy Office .(the former ies harbors such an intention. name for the Doctrinal CongreA man who has had a vasecgation) wants people to know tomy during courtship to insure they are getting married for that his will be a childless marlife," one Church official told riage might not enter a valid NC News. marriage despite the Doctrinal "Remember, this is a purely Congregation's ruling, another legal question, not a moral one. Church official said.

The Church is not saying, 'It's But once the condition exists all right to get vasectomies," - and vasectomies are rarely he continued. "What the Church reversible - the person's disis saying is, 'You may not get position could change, several married, then expect to have the Church spokesmen pointed out. marriage annulled because of a That person is left with a conpreexisting vasectomy,''' dition which he cannot alter, "The law is extrinsic to per- but if he is contrite an4 harsons," the Church official said. bors no continuing will not to "All the Holy Office is doing is have children, he could marry judging the act." validly.

Vasectomy, the severing of the The second churchman, who ducts that carry sperm from the serves as top official on his ditesticles, will always be judged ocesan tribunal, said,:, "Rome wrong by the Church, the offi- always had doubts about cial 'said, because the prohibi- whether vasectomy was an intion does not stem from Church validating impediment. Since legislation, but from the natural there was doubt, it permitted law. such marriages. The Rota, when While vasectomized males had it came to invalidating, declared been allowed to marry in the that there was no true semen Church, the Roman Rota, the after vasectomy; therefore there Church's highest marriage trib· was impotence and the marriage unal, had been annulling such was invalidated. marriages upon application from The Doctrinal Congregation the parties. decision "does not relieve the According to the Rota, since parish priest of the Obligation vasectomized males ejaculate no to question couples about their sperm, that substance which intention of having children. We they do ejaculate is not "true have still to deal with the quessemen," They are therefore im- tions of intentions and attipotent, and incapable of con- tudes," he noted.

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ligation - and it is an obligation - to contribute his fair share, to the best of his ability, toward the financial responsibilities of his particular parish community. Parish priests almost always give every benefit of the doubt in making allowances for families and individuals who cannot give as much as they might like. To arbitrarily cut people off from the services of the Church would unquestionably be wrong.

However, this is not the whole story. People who continually ignore their financial responsibility to the Church, who place a very low priority on carrying their fair share of the burden with other members of their parish, not infrequently manifest the poverty of their faith in other ways as well.

Certain basic requirements of commitment to the Catholic faith, including some assurance that the parents intend to raise their children as Christians and Catholics, are absolutely required before baptism can take place. Similarly, couples may come to be married and demonstrate such immaturity of marriage, that the priest may seriously question whether this boy or girl should (or even could) enter a valid mariage in the Church.

In other words, a priest has no right to baptize or marry people simply because they present themselves for these sacraments. If any requirements are lacking, he has a responsibility to refuse, or at least delay the ceremony until the situation is changed. In such instances, the individuals involved may protest that they are being discriminated against for financial reasons, when both they and the priest know the facts are otherwise.

Q. I am reluctant to talk to my parish priest about this problem, but I need help from someone. Two months ago I found out that my husband was involved with a white woman.

(We are black.) Later I found out that she Is pregnant by him.

What do you advise me to do?

At this point I'm so confused.

I can't forgive him and am very unhappy living with him now.

He's a truck driver and is away five days out of a week. Of course, he blamed me for what happened; he says that I neglected him and that is why he turned to this woman for love and companionship. We have six children, aged five to 16. Please help me make a decslsion. I can't do it alone. (La.)

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A. I understand how terribly hurt you must be by this tragic action on the part of your husband. Certainly you cannot make a wise decision without sharing the problem and exploring your alternatives with someone you trust.

On the other hand, it is impossible for me to advise you helpfully at this distance. So many feelings of all involved must be explored, and so mUch of the past and present history of your relationship with your husband needs to be considered, that you need someone with whom you can sit and talk out the problem.

Don't be too quick to count out your parish priest as a consultant. I realize the situation is embarrassing to you; but you will not scandalize him, and he has probably helped many others in similar dilemmas. Beyond that, try a wise relative or friend, or a professional counsellor you can have confidence in. But don't try to go it alone. You need all the suport and encouragement you can get from someone who is interested in you and your children.

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

Growth Is Seen In Tertiaries NEW YORK (NC) The world head of the largest branch ·of Franciscans sees a renaissance in devotional life among Catholics which is reflected in the renewal of the Franciscans' Third Order with two million lay and 150,000 Religious members. In the Fall River diocese, tertiary groups are active in St. Louis parish, Fall River, and at Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford.

Father Constantine Koser said that after the Second Vatican Council the Third Order had many dropouts. But it now appears that the Third Order is being revived with a more flexible style of operation.

"Our decline was due to a general decline in devotional life," Father Koser said. "Young people did not· want the institutions.

Now the number of fraternities is spreading again."

Many members considered such practices as wearing the Franciscan scapular and saying a daily office to be outdated, and there appeared to be no substitute for these externals, the Franciscan leader said. But today, lay persons are rethinking the meaning of the centuries-old Franciscan spirit in terms of evangelizing the modern world, he added.

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Forgiveness

By Russell Shaw Forgiveness is one of the hardest things in the world. "Beware of the man who does not return your blow," that master of paradox George Bernard Shaw wrote. "He neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself." ILike much that he said, this remark catches our attention by turning Christian truth upside down. But it also expresses a truth of its own - the truth of unredeemed humanity, for whom giving and receiving forgiveness do not come easily.

It is very different for those who presume to call themselves followers of Christ. At least it should be. The theme of forgiveness sought and granted runs through the New Testament. Nowhere does it receive clearer and more memorable expression than in the parable of the Prodigal Son. Most of us identify easily with

one or the other of the sons of the story - the prodigal who squandered his inheritance in riotous living and returned home abjectly penitent, or the narrowly righteous older son who complained that his father was too ready to forgive. But the real hero of the tale is the father. In fact, the parable could as well be called "The Prodigal Father."

He stands for Christ's loving Father and ours - for God who is ready to forgive us with almost prodigal generosity, if only we ask.

Asking is all-important, and we have to mean it when we seek God's forgiveness, for God can hardly forgive us for evil deeds which we intend to commit again if the occasion arises.

The central point of the story, however, is the father's eager willingness to forgive. It stands in sharp contrast with the older son's resentful attitude. The father's response to his penitent Turn to Page Thirteen

II Forgiveness Here and Hereafter

By Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin What is it like to die?

"All pain vanished."

"There was a feeling of utter peace and quiet, no fear at alL" "After I came back, I cried off and on for about a week because I had to live in this world after seeing that one."

"I heard a voice telling me what I had to do - go back and I felt no fear."

These are comments from persons who, after being pronounced clinically dead, were resuscitated and returned to speak of their experiences with the life which follows death.

Dr. Raymond A. Moody Jr. interviewed about 150 such individuals, and published his research in a remarkable text, "Life After Life." (Mockingbird Books, Box 110, Covington, Ga. 30209; also available as a Bantam paperback.)

One of the most common elements in the accounts Moody studied was the description of an encounter with a very bright light. Of unearthly and indescribable brilliance, it still did not hurt the subjects eyes or prevent them from seeing other things around then.

Moreover, this light was judged to be a personal being of love and warmth utterly beyond description. That person of light seemed to ask them: "Are you prepared to die?" "What have you done with your life to show me?" "What have you done that is sufficient?"

Those could prove unerving barrassing, but the resuscitated barrassing, bu the resuscitated people insisted they were not asked in condemnation or as an accusation or threat. Instead, this warmly loving and accept-

ing being of light apparently wished to stress two important aspects of life: loving other people and acquiring knowledge.

The clinically deceased individuals also saw their entire lives reviewed before them in an instant. One noted: "All through this, he kept stressing the importance of love.

The places where he showed it best involved my sister; I have always been very close to her, He showed me some instances where I had been selfish to my sister, but then just as many times where r had really shown love to her and had shared with her.

"He pointed out to me that I should try to do things for other people, to try my best. There wasn't any accusation in any of this, though. When he came across times when I had been selfish, his attitude was only that I had been learning from them, too."

I found many fascinating parallels between these reports and some of our common Catholic Christian beliefs or practices.

Consider, for example, these quotes from the Introduction to the new Rite of Penance: " . . . The Son of God made man lived among man in order to free them from the slavery of sin and to call them out of darkness into His wonderful light . . .

"By a hidden and loving mystery of God's design men are joined together in the bonds of supernatural solidarity, so much so that the sin of one harms the others just as the holiness of one benefits the others. Penance always entails reconciliation with our brothers and sisters who are always harmed by our sins . . .

Forgiveness: Does It Help?

By Father Alfred McBride Forgiveness scenes are among the most touching in human memory. Jesus bringing forgiveness to the woman taken in adultery. Pope Paul VI and the Orthodox Patriarch locked in a friendly embrace after 1,000 years of hostility between their two churches. Protestant and Catholic women in Northern Ireland marching arm in arm for peace after untold centuries.

Parents coming to prisons to comfort their wayward sons and daughters.

Despite the centrality of this Gospel teaching, the act路 of forgiveness remains one of the most difficult forms of love to promote. Whose family does not have at least one instance where some intimate relatives refuse to speak to each other? Tally up all the crimes of passion committed by those whose capacity for violence was greater than their power to forgive.

Where is the Christian parish that is able to boast that it has purged itself of its last proud person who had been too wretchedly stubborn to offer the palm of peace to an alienated other? Total the body count in wars fought over real or imagined insults.

Listen to the excuses: She can't talk to me that way. I won't put up with his insolence. . This is the last straw. Don't put your foot in this house again.

I've had enough of your face and guff. After all I've done for you, look at the way you treat me. You aren't worth the room you take up. How did I earn a son like you? If I had known what you were like when I mar:ried you. And so on.

Sound familiar? We don't have a garden of Eden yet. The Kingdom of heaven may be here, but sometimes its luminosity and healing peace have yet to be :fully experienced.

One reason so many people :find it hard to forgive is that they think it won't work. They haven't seen the forgiven party healed and cured. They find that the offender too often keeps repeating the wounds. Sick of being abused and betrayed, people :finally give up in despair, having come to the conclusion that forgiveness is a nice idea that doesn't work.

The apostles ran into such a situation. They knew how stub'born human nature could be and were puzzled that Jesus spent so much time talking about forgiveness. Surely he must see how useless it was in so many cases. Still they tested him on the matter. "How often must I ;Forgive my neighbor and brother?

Seven times?" In allowing for seven acts of major forgiveness they thought they were being somewhat generous.

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They knew that He didn't just mean 490 times, but always. He didn't argue with them on the reasonableness of forgiving. In fact most of the time it seemed unreasonable. He called on them

to make an act of faith in the offender, by believing that ultimately no one is beyond redemption. While alive they are capable of being reached, touched and healed by forgiveness.

Love of God and Neighbor

By Father John J. Castelot When we think of living the Christian life, it is sometimes easy to narrow our sights and distort our perspectives. Many are tempted, for example, to view it almost exclusively in terms of their direct relationship with God. But the Christian life is lived by human beings in a real world in interralation with other human beings. That is why, when Jesus was asked which commandment He considered the greatest, He unhesitatingly quoted the command to love God completely, utterly, but then hastened to join to it the command to love one's neighbor.

The two go hand-in-hand.

One of the路 most important aspects of the love which we must show each other is a readiness to forgive. In the crush of daily life we are constantly hurting and being hurt" creating situations which can be corrected only by forgiveness and a willingness to accept forgiveness: It is not surprising, then, that the New Testament issues repeated calls to forgiveness, to reconciliation. ",Pardon, and you shall be pardoned" (Lk. 6,37). The Gos-

pel of Luke has been called the Gospel of Great Pardons, of Forgiveness. Only he records that astonishing prayer of the dying Jesus: "Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing" (Lk. 23,34).

One day Peter asked Jesus; "Lord, when my brother wrongs me, how often must I forgive him? Seven times?" "No, Jesus replied, "not seven times; I say, seventy times seven times" (Mt. 18,21-22). Then, to drive home His point, He told the story of the mericless official who owed his master an immense sum of money. He pleaded and pleaded and the master went all the way and simply wrote off the debt.

This official, in turn, refused even to be patient with a fellow employe who owed him a trifling sum. He had him thrown in jail. When the master heard about it he was furious, and the story ends on this powerful note: "Then in anger the master handed him over to the torturers until fie paid back all that he owed. My heavenly Father will treat you in exactly the same way unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart" (Mt. 18, 34-35).

Deplores Public Attitude Towards IS on of Sam l

NEW YORK ~C) - A priest who had offered himself as a hostage for the killer known as "Son of Sam" shortly before police arrested a suspect Aug. 10 criticized the general public for its vengeful attitude toward the suspect.

Capuchin Father Canice Cartmell said he felt "pain - no question about it," when he viewed the crowds screaming "kill," at 24-year-old David Berkowitz of Yonkers, the man who allegedly killed six young people during a murder spree that lasted just over a year.

Father Cartmell had offered himself as a hostage to the killer on Aug. 5.

At the time he said, "I felt 1 had to do this . . . I think 'Son of Sam' is basically a sincere man, maybe a little off, but a man like anyone of us. Even if he's not a religious man," the priest said, he felt that the killer might wish to talk with "someone he can trust, someone who won't give him away, because he is full of fear," Father Cartmell, who promotes

his order's missionary activities from an office at St. John the Baptist church in midtown Manhattan, said the vengeance demanded by crowds that gathered in Brooklyn for 'Berkowitz' arraignment does not speak well for the condition of the society.

What is needed, he said, Ts not anger and violence directed at a possibly deranged man, but a renunciation of such feelings.

Father Cartmell, a native of the tough Hell's kitchen section on Manhattan's West Side, was not taken up on his offer to meet and talk with "Son of Sam," No one claiming to be the killer contacted him, but he said he still feels the offer was demanded of him. "Priests, rabbis, ministers - all have to give witness. A spiritual .dimension must be present," The priest, who said he is known as "Father Alleluia continued "There must be justice, but the element of mercy must not be left out either," He is called Father Alleluia, he said, because that has been his constant prayer and greeting.

.Directory Ready for Bishops' OK WASHINGTON (NC) - The project director for the National Catechetical Directory said he is optimistic that the country's bishops will give final approval to the document at their November meeting.

Recommendations submitted by the bishops will be analyzed and acted upon during a meet路 "It means 'Blessed be God.' and whatever happens to me, that is what I respond," "If someone praises me, I say it; if someone curses me, I say it. Our mission is to die well and go home to God," he said, and he would have been willing to stare down "Son of Sam's" .44 caliber revolver if it would have helped, he added.

ing of the bishops, Committee of Policy and Review and at the November general meeting, further modifications could be made from the floor.

The document, if and when it receives the endorsement of the bishops' conference, will give direction to all religious education in the United States, including pre-school through adult programs.

Sister Mariella Frye, associate project director, pointed out that the document has been produced through what she said was "the most massive consultation in American Church history - even more massive than the Call to Action" (the October, 1976, Detroit gathering which made recommendations for Church action on social issues.)

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"This is unique," she said, pointing to a copy of the 224page directory, "because so many people have had a hand in developing it. People can look at it and say, 'I recommended that.'

"There's a tremendous amount of wisdom out there in people we've never listened to before," she continued, and much of it, she said, has gone into the work.

The directory is not a catechism, Msgr. Paradis and Sister Frye emphasized. It is, rather, "a reference work . . . a source work . . . a help in catechizing," since it was earlier determined that it was impossible "to develop a document addressed simultaneously to the trained catechists and the untrained parent,"

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Forgiveness Continued from Page Twelve younger son does go beyond the bounds of good sense, even beyond the bounds of justice. Such forgiveness can only arise from profound love.

But it is love-God's love and ours, modeled on His - that Christianity is all about. A person who loves as God does (or tries to love that way) will be ready to forgive (or try to forgive) as generously - as prodigally - as the father in the parable. One who doles out forgiveness according to narrow justice will imitate the older son.

To act that way makes perfectly good sense humanly speaking. But as Christians we are called to more than good sense in regard to forgiveness and much else besides.

If we can err in our approach to forgiving others, we can err

just as badly when it comes to forgiving ourselves. Basically, there are two ways of doing this: by being too hard on ourselves, and by not being nearly hard enough.

The latter happens when we seek forgiveness from God and other people without being really sorry. The other extreme is to be almost neurotically concerned with our past, repented misdeeds.

In everyday life, forgiveness comes to us through other people. Instead of bypassing the human, as He might have done, God works with and through it.

Thus the sacrament of Reconciliation, in which we experience God's forgiveness and renewed communion with Him, very naturally involves an experience of reconciliation with our fellows in the faith.

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Accompanying the Bishop Gerrard contingent will be Sister M. Albertus Clancy, RSM, Miss Rita O'Loughhn and Mrs. John Grobe.

The theme for the week-long session, sponsored by the Christian 'Life Communities (CLC) of the New England states, will be Acceptance of Self, Others and Christ.

Officials describe SICA as "a fun-filled time, a sharing time with one an·other, an awareness time ' - a healthy awareness of Christ."

Christian Life Communities are active at 'Bishop Gerrard and Bishop Connolly High Schools and are an outgrowth of Sodalities of Our .Lady formerly in existence at most Catholic high schools. Area delegates have just returned from the 11th biennial national CDC convention in New Orleans.

"AS A CHRISTIAN, I spend a good deal of my time in jail." Father Smangalisso Mkatshwa is under ind~finite nighttime house arrest in South Africa because of hiS activities as a Catholic priest.

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By Cecilia Belanger

We sat under trees, across tables; we walked and walked, and all the time we were talking, talking, the young people and myself.

We discussed many religions but focused on the Christian faith. In this column I shall talk about Catholic youth and of Stephen M. Menard, son of how close we became. The faith Mr. and Mrs. Leon Menard Jr. does indeed bring people toof 640 Garner Neck Road, Swan- gether in a very special way. sea, has been awarded a $500 I won't say they all attend scholarship by the Saint-Jean Mass, but I can say that six out Baptiste Educational Foundation. , of 10 do. None of them used He is entering his ~econd year drugs, smoked or drank. They of theological studies for the credited their behavior to parpriesthood at St. John's Semin- ental discipline when it counted. ary in Brighton.

They had parents they could deMore than 47 students this pend upon and who were always year have received scholarships there when needed. Religion was from the Saint-jean-Baptiste a big influence in their lives beEducational Foundation, a trust cause they discussed it at home fund established by the Union and their parents explained Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the nation's what needed explaining. Parlargest fraternal society for Am- ents did not over-react when a ericans of French descent. doubting Thomas said, "I have Grants are awarded to stu- to find out for myself." dents majoring in French, theIn this group were two stuology or special education. dents from Nigeria. "What do you like about the Christian faith?" II asked. They replied that it was not easy to become Thomas G. Motta, a June a true Christian and that the graduate of Bishop Stang High cost is what makes it worthSchool, North Dartmouth, and while. the son of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur An early mystic, Baron Von -~ Motta, New Bedford, has received the Eagle Scout award, Hugel, made the same observahighest recognition in the Boy tion, that there was a "costingness to the Christian faith."

Scout program.

Digging further into the mean, His "Eagle project" was the marking of the parking area at ing from the Latin one comes Stang High School. He received up with "to .stand with at a the honor at a Mass celebrated particular price." at Boy Scout Camp Cachalot by "I either-want to be a real Father Allen Beauregard.

Christian," said one student, "or A junior assistant scoutmas- not at all." ter of North Dartmouth Troop One of the Nigerian students 74, Motta holds 26 merit badges and 12 awards, including a life- said, "There's nothing to stop guard medal. He is assistant you, Steve, from becoming the . aquatics director at Camp Cach- best Christian you can be. Just alot, where he also instruct:> remember the disciples, Peter, camper!! in life-saving techni- James, Johncmd Philip. Remember they were on their own afques.

He belongs to the Scout Order ter Jesus had taught them what of the Arrow and is active in Ex- they must do. We promised to plorer Post 176 of the organiza- be with them just as He is with u.s." tion.

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Students from Bishop Gerrard and Bishop Connolly High Schools, Fall River, and Bishop Stang, North Dartmouth, will be among delegates from all parts of New England attending a Summer Institute of Catholic Action (SICA) to be held Sun'day, Aug. 21 through Friday, Aug. 26 at Our Lady of Providence Seminary, Warwick Neck, R.I.

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Tricia. a pre-med student, said, "The apostles were left free to preach. They knew what they were supposed to do and they didn't let anyone stop them.

Today if you try something like that you're thrown in jail."

Then "Just think, seven men "of honest repOrt" set aside to do the business of the young church. That's exciting!"

The second Nigerian student, a girl, said, "Yes, but it wasn't easy. In the midst of their success the enemy struck. And the target was Stephen, one of the seven. He was the first example of the claim on which the Christ:an faith is based. We know Stephen today from another tiime and another place, as well as did his contemporaries, by r,eceiving his spirit in our hearts."

Vince picked it up. "I think the account of Stephen's persecution is the story of men at their most cruel and malicious.

Here you have perjured testimony, they refused to listen to his defense, they (reading his book) "ran upon him with one accord" and killed him. That s.Dunds like today. It is the perfl~ct description of a malignant evil which escapes now and then in human history: in Nazi concentration camps, in the military purges of dictator governments, in the lynching of American blacks and wherever mob violence overrules reason."

Stephen Ryan said he had 'been named after the martyr and that he was glad. "Gives me slomething to live up to."

It began way back then. Stephen illustrates the power of the gospel to reach beyond those who had known Jesus face to face. He also shows that the Gospel stands in sharp contradiction to the world and that the reward for taking it to heart as one's faith is, inwardly if not literally, to become a martyr.

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'PEACE OF MIND' Now you are feeling Kindo low about the dues you've been paying, Future's coming much too slow and you wanta run, IBut somehow you just keep on stayin'.

Can't decide on which way to go .•• yea, yea, yea • • • I understand about indecision, But I don't care if I get behind.

People Iivin' in competition, All I want is to have my peace of mind.

Now you're climbing to the top of the company ladder Hope it doesn't take too long ••.

Can't you see there'll come a day When it won't matter ••• Come a day when you'll be gone •.• yea, yea, yea ••• Take a look ahead.

Take a look ahead, yea ,yea, yea, yea.

Now everybody's got adviee ••• They just keep on givin' Doesn't mean too much to me, Lots of people have to make believe they're livin' Can't decide who thy should be • • • yea, yea, yea ••• (c) 1976 CBS Inc. Written by: T. Sholz - Performed by: Boston If you were asked "What do you want out of life?", what would your response be? Would your answer be different now than it was last year, or five years ago, or ten years ago?

Since each person is unique, the approach to "what I want out of life" would greatly differ. Even if several persons came up with the same word to express their yearnings in life, there would still be individual differences as to how those desires would be approached.

Possibly our yearnings are for a good and fulfilling life or a life of service to others. It might spread further through bearing and fostering children. A life-work might p!ovide th.e . feelings of satisfaction that make life a worthwhile expenence.

The Boston group sings about the desire to have peace of mind. In a life of competition, of trying to "climb to the top of the company ladder," of wanting to ru? from life, ~f getting a lot of advice from others, of deCISion, there IS the need to get some of· the possibilities 0 flife-styles mentioned above but there is no doubt that this appealing quality is in opposition to s o m e . . . .

Success at any cost, ruthless busmess practices; greed, pleasure at any cost, being caught in the rat race of co.mpetition, all lead one down a different path than that which . , might lead to peace.

The word peace is often used by Christ and He Wishes it continually for His apostles. After Hili resurrection, the first words that He uttered were "peace be with you."

What do we want out of life? There are so many options that we can easily get confused and misguided. No ma.tter what type of work we might do or what approach we mIght take, one possibility is offered by a person who has had an incredible impact on the lives of many people. That person is Christ and His gift is Peace.

crown without bearing the cross.

Stephen reminds us how costly it is to be a true Christia~.

He reminds us that speeches, time and energy are not always enough to give, but that there are times when one's very life must be given in order to make a faith and a freedom a reality.

There have been martyrs in our day. And they have won re·ligious liberty for us, the exercise of political freedom, our liberty to think and speak as we see the truth, our right to dissent, all these gifts have come to us because someone, somewhere, won these rights for us.

If we, are called upon to bestir ourselves and pay something too, we should not grumble.

The Alumni secretary of a famous college received a note from a graduate declining attendance at a class reunion.

On a line asking why, he wrote simply, "As a Christian, I spend a good deal of my time in jail."

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Attleboro, Cape Cod CYO Golf Winners Attleboro and Cape Cod golfers topped the field in the 18th annual eyO Diocesan Golf Tournament at the Pocasset Golf Club last Monday.

William Vine, Attleboro, shot a 74, to win the senior division championship. Matt Szulik, New Bedford, and Paul Saunders, Fall River, tied for second place with 75's. Szulik eagled the extra hole in the sudden death playoff to take second place.

Saunders, who birdied the extra hole, was third.

Mitch McCullough, Cape Cod, was the winner in the intermediate division with a 77. Joel Goncalves, New Bedford, and Jeff Massoud, Fall River, with 78's, tied for second pla.ce. In the sudden death playoff, Goncalves birdied the extra hole, on which Massoud was par. Consequently, Goncalves took the runnerup spot and Massoud was third.

Attleboro's Jim Bell topped the junior division with 76 and Patrick Shaw, Fall River, was runnerup with 78. Peter Kelly, Taunton, defeated John Connor, New Bedford, in the sudden death playoff for third place.

They had tied for third place over the regulation course with 81's. Bell was awarded the Marty Higgins Trophy, emblematic of being the outstanding golfer in the tournament.

'Brian Stewart, Cape Cod, shot an 80 to win the cadet division championship. Paul Saunders, Fall River, was the runnerup with Steven Donnelly, Cape Cod, third. Saunders was 88, Donnelly 90.

The winner and the runnerup in each division qualified for the New England CYO championships later this month. Third place finishers alternate.

Others who turned in cards were: Senior Division - Steve Zazrid, Cape Cod, 76; Barry Higham, New Bedford, 78.

Intermediate Division - Martin Sowa, Fall River, and Dan Donovan, New Bedford, 81; George Saxon, Taunton, 85; Bob 'Braga, Taunton, 87; Mike McAuliffe, 88.

Junior. Division - Jim McAuliffe, Attleboro, 83; Greg Barrett, Attleboro, 84; Jeff Stewart, Cape Cod, '85; Mike Alves, Fall River, and Jim Donovan, Attleboro, 88; Richard Vieira, Taunton, 91.

Cadet Division - Steven Donnelly, Cape Cod, 90; Jeff Reilly, Fall River, 94; Mike Stone, New Bedford, 96; Michael Dix, Attleboro, 97; David Bourque, Taunton, 100; John Bell, Attleboro, 105.

(Special thanks to Bill Doyle, of New Bedford, the tournament director, for his co-operation).

Taunton eyO Awards Members of the Sacred Heart Jr. CYO of Taunton, and their families recently attended an outing at St. Vincent de Paul Camp in Westport. At the picnic, championship jackets were presented to coaches and players of three championship teams at Sacred Heart.

Awards were given to coach

Jayne Ross and her cheerleading squad, winners of the First Annual Taunton CYO Cheerleading Tournament. Also receiving jackets were coach Jim Martin and members of his champion Junior B team. The highly successful Junior A team, coached by Fred Rheaume, received; jackets for winning the

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FATHER RENE PATENAUDE speaks to members and friends of St. Anne's Junior Baseball League at ceremonies dedicating playing field of Fall River parish in his honor.

During Vacation, Plan Service . CASTELGANOOLFO, Italy (NC) - Pope Paul VI has recommended that Christians use vacation time to consider how they might serve their neighbors more generously.

That we live in a complicated and overwhelming world "should prompt, in this moment of rest~ a personal thought," Pope Paul said. "This personal thought cannot :be dictated by discomfort and disgust at living immersed in a troubled and suffering society; nor can it be an astute and prudent plan of egotistic interest alone, to profit from the sad circumstances of a people to improve one's own fortune, or to withdraw from the increasing annoyances of social, economic or political life. But it must be a recovery of brotherhood, solidarity and love: What can we do for the common good?

"We should now ask ourTaunton Junior CYO championship. This team also went to the finals of Diocesan play before 'bowing to Our Lady of the Assumption ·Parish from New 'Bedford.

selves: How can we serve at least a little the needs that surround us? Are we not aware of the cry of so many suffering people who do not find loving and provident aid? Could we not in planning our personal activity include some good proposal of service to the cause of the good of others? Why not profit from vacation time to renew generous intentions for the service of our neighbors?"

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OUR LADY OF HEALTH FALL RIVER Manuel Martins is chairman of a committee planning celebration of the parish patronal feast this weekend on the church grounds at Somerset and Rodman Streets. Saturday's activities will continue from 6 p.m. to midnight and incLJde a lawn party, bazaar, games, money raffle, Portuguese and American food specialties, an auction, rides and a band concert. Sunday's schedule includes a procession at 2 p.m. for all memo bers of parish organizations, followed by a lawn party. The public is invited and parking is available.

Donations from parishioners may be brought to the rectory at any time this week.

ST. 'FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD Mrs. Bertha !Bessette is chairperson of a public whist party to take place in the church hall at Mill and Newton Streets at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28.

OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION, NEW BEDFORD A yard sale will be sponsored by the parish from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27 and from 8 a.m. to L p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28 in the church hall and parking lot. Concurrently, a braised beef dinner will be served in the hall from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and a pancake breakfast will follow all Masses Sunday. A cake sale will also be held and refreshments wiIl be available during the yard sale.

STâ&#x20AC;˘. JOHN BAPI1ST, CENTRAL VILLAGE Women's Guild members will serve a lobster supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20 in the church hall. Tickets are available from any member and may be reserved by caIling 636-2378 or 636-2251.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The 1923 Club will begin a new 20-week session Monday, Sept. 5. Prospective members may call Merna Renaud, telephone 674-4437, for further information. ..Parishioners are needed for lectoring and for the parish choir and may call the rectory to volunteer their services.

A foliage tour will take place Monday through Wednesday, October 10 through 12, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Further infomlation will be forthcoming on registration and other details.

'Parishioners are invited to a final profession ceremony fOt Sister Mary Ellen Mahon, SUSC at 2 p.m. Saturday in the church.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A novena in honor of the fest of Our Lady of Czestochowa on Friday, Aug. 26 begar.. yesterday and parishioners are asked to attend daily Mass as often as possible until that date.

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