SERVING SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
t eanc 0 VOL. 22, NO. 33
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1978
20c, $6 Per Year
Tax-Paid Death OK'd in Mass.
Colleges Aided, NoOne Else
BOSTON (NC) - A federal appeals court has issued a temporary order for Massachusetts to resume taxpayer-funded abortions for welfare women. The 2-0 decision set aside a law enacted after long debate and over a veto by Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. The law held that the state could fund abortions for welfare reci· pients only if the woman's life was in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. But the temporary order did not touch the merits of the case, which will be decided after a court hearing Sept. 6. The challenge to the law was mounted by the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union and other abortion backers. State Reps. Charles Doyle (D-Roxbury, and Raymond Tum to Page Seven
WASHINGTON (NC) - Less than a day after approving tuition tax credits for college students, the U.S. Senate passed a Carter administration-approved plan to expand existing federal loan and scholarship programs for higher education. Approval of the rival proposals within 14 hours of one another drew sharp criticism from Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), sponsor of the second bill, who said after the 68-28 vote: "We have shirked our responsibility by passing both bills." Pell's bill, a slightly more generous version of the Carter plan, would increase from about $25,000 the maximum family income level for students eligible to receive tuition grants. The grants would range from $1,800 a year for students from families Tum to Page Thirteen
Cardinal Eduardo Plronio
Cantlnal Serpo PilnedoU
Golden Jubilee In Osterville
Deacon Hopefuls Apply Sept. 1 The diocesan office of the Permanent Diaconate announces that interviews for the second class of prospective candidates will begin Friday, Sept. 1. In a letter to pastors, Father John Moore, program director, indicated that the period of pre- application interviews will be held from that date through Nov. 30. Men who feel they are qualified and who are interested in the program should contact their parish priests of the office of the Permanent Diaconate for further information, he said. At present there are 17 men preparing for ordination as Permanent Deacons, 16 studying for the Diocese of Fall River and one for the Greek Melkite Diocese of Newton. On September 24 they will be instituted as Readers in ceremonies at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Permanent Deacon Program of· this diocese is an ongoing three-year study and prayer formation period, open to married and single men whose life is presently in some way a sign of service to the Church community. If married, a man Tum to Page Eleven
NEW FEATURE Titled Steering Points, a new feature makes its bow this week on page 13. Combining the longstanding Parish Parade eol. umn with news of diocesan and area orpnizations, it wiD provide a handy a11-ln-one-place reference to what's going on in the Fall River diocese.
Georae Bull Humt'
Cardinal Peride FeUd
Canllnal Jan Willebrands
CanIlnal GiUYaDni BeneW
Cardinal Aloblo Le·rschelder
Cardina"ls Go into Conclave VATICAN CITY (NC) - Initially, Vatican observers predicted that the conclave of cardinals which begins tomorrow its task of electing a successor to Pope Paul VI would be long, because there was no clear frontrunner, in 'contrast to 1963, when the then Cardinal Montini was an obvious favorite. Some cardinals interviewed recently however, have said that they know the other members of the College of Cardinals well enough to be able to reach a decision without much delay. At the conclave the United States will have the sec;ond largest national representation, with eight of the 12 U.S. cardinals voting.
The only larger national group is that of Italy, with 26 eligible cardinals. U.S. cardinals not eligible to attend the conclave because they have passed their 80th birthday are retired Cardinals James Mcintyre (92, of Los Angeles), Patrick O'Boyle {82, of Washington and Lawrence Shehan (80, of Baltimore). Those able to cast votes are: - Cardinal William W. Baum of Washington, D.C., who at 51 is the fourth-youngest cardinal in the world; - Cardinal John J. Carberry of St. Louis, 74; - Cardinal John P. Cody of Chicago, 70; - Cardinal Terence J. Cooke
of New York, 57; - Cardinal John F. Dearden of Detroit, 70; - Cardinal John J. Krol of Philadelphia, 67; - Cardinal Timothy Manning of Los Angeles, 68; S. - Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, 62; Also eligible, but in. Boston recuperating from surgery, is Cardinal John J. Wright, 69, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy. All of the nine eligible American cardinals were created by Pope Paul VI. The voting cardina.ls will enter the conclave at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow, Roman time, following Tum to Page Fifteen
Last Friday Bishop Daniel A. Cronin joined priests and people of Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Osterville at a Mass marking the parish's 50th anniversary. Concelebrants with the bishop were present and past pastors and associates at Our Lady of the Assumption and ushers and gift bearers were members of founding families of the Cape Cod parish. Music was by the church choir, directed by Mrs. Philip Boudreau, with Miss Grace 0' Connor as offertory soloist. A jubilee dinner followed the Mass. Parish History Those in attendance received a brochure outlining Our Lady of the Assumption's history since its formal founding in June 1928. . It notes that the gray- shingled, white-porticoed church is the heart of a Catholic community of 2500 year-round residents and of many huntlre more in the summer seaso _... parish covers 120 squa " emterville bracing, as well Marston's Mills, Cotuit, Santuit Tum to Page Seven
• what's inside • • clock rang
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• find the bishop............ p. 9 • last nun
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