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AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, SURE AND FIRM -HEB. 6:19

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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1977

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Abortion Remains Crucial Problem

St. Joseph's Parish Council

The Watchword Is Mission At St. Joseph's, Fairhaven At St. Joseph's parish, Fairhaven, they've thrown away the book: the book that says you have to run meetings according to Roberts Rules of Order "read the minutes, old business, new business, let's go home."

What the parish council (and they don't call it that; it's the Council of the Local Church of St. Joseph) is doing, slowly and sometimes painfully, is feeling its way towards an entirely new model of how such groups should work.

It has a lot to do with the concept of responsibility on the part of parishioners: responsibility to the local church, the town of Fairhaven, the nation and the world.

"Everything shouldn't depend on the priest," maintains Father Martin Gomes of the five-member St. Joseph "corporate ministry" staff. The others are Father Ambrose Forgit, pastor, Father Thomas Grannell, Sister Mary Bernadette and Sister Eleanor eyr. All are members of the Sacred Hearts Congregation.

Father Gomes said the newstyle council has its roots in a workshop on corporate ministry held five years ago in .NewOrleans and attended by representatives of the Sacred Hearts community. Since then several Sacred Hearts parishes have introduced the corporate concept and 1977 has been St. Joseph's year.

Actually, transition from traditional parish council operation began last October, said Father Gomes, when the possibility of a different model was presented

to members. Completed plans were approved by councillors last March and preparatory work began, involving lectures, workshops and even "homework" for participants, all pointed towards achieving a clear vision of what the mission of the local church should be.

Through the summer, homework and meetings continued, culminating last Thursday night at the September council meeting, where a large banner reminded the 35 participants that the Church is "together in ministry" and cut-outs of the church, a town map and a globe chal-

Mark 90 Years At St. Mathieu Members of St. Mathieu's parish, Fall River, will celebrate its 90th anniversary Sunday, Sept.

25. Emphasis will be laid "on the spiritual aspect of life together as a parish community over the past nine decades,". said Father Adrien E. Bernier, pastor. Other festivities were ruled out due to the proximity of the parish centennial.

On Sept. 25 ceremonies will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a recital on the newly renovated Hook and Hastings church organ by Stephen E. Long, minister of music for Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, who will offer "Grande Piece Symphonique" by Cesar Franck.

A concelebrated high Mass will begin at 5 p.m. with Father Thomas M. Landry, OP, as homiTurn to Page Seven

lenged them to "be in mission" to fellow parishioners, Fairhaven and "even to the ends of the earth."

Following the new-style meeting pattern, proceedings began with prayer, last week based on the call of Moses to leadership and his hesitant response.

Led by Father Gomes, the prayer put the councillors into the shoes of Moses and the Israelites. Like them, said the priest, "we hesitate in responding toa call to leadership, but because the Lord is with us, giving what we need to accomplish his mission, despite all risks and doubts we must still decide to be the Church and lead it into the 21st century."

Father Forgit then summarized the work accomplished by the council in the preceding months, noting that it had arrived at consensus on '''statements of concern" in five areas: worship, word (education), motivation, finances and services.

Objectives andJDeans of reaching them had 'been listed for each area, even to specifics of names and dates.

"Such a comprehensive study could never have been accomplished by a pastor or parish staff," said Father Forgit. "Only a council 'together in ministry' could even hope to attempt it."

Study of the over-all plan called for two actions, councillors decided: engagement of parishioners in general and organization of many more parishioners "in the tasks of mission." This will be accomplished during the Turn to Page Seven

From Washington to Boston to Seekonk, abortion remains a major and crucial issue for proponents and opponents.

In Washington a House-Senate conference committee has returned to working out an agreement on federal funding for abortions.

In Boston, the state House and Senate approved the DoyleFlynn bill banning the use of publtc money for abortions, but Governor Michael Dukakis vetoed it Tuesday.

And in Seekonk opponents of a proposed abortion clinic to be built in the town have had their position undermined by a state Supreme Judicial Court decision that a similar situation in Southboro could not ,be circumvented by way of a zoning bylaw change.

As The Anchor went to press the Seekonk representative town meeting had not reached discussion of the zoning amendment and there was doubt that the matter would come to a vote, given the court decision.

In a related action, abortion activist ,Bill Baird appeared at

the Monday session of the Seekonk meeting, challenging area Catholic clergy to a debate on the human life issue.

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How They Voted Here is the voting record of area senators on the DoyleFlynn bill prohibiting use of state funds for abortions: A G J\ INS T ABORTION FUNDING: Republicans John F. Aylmer (Cape and Islands); John F. Parker (Attleboro, Taunton, Dighton, North At· tleboro, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Swansea.)

Democrats Mary L Fonseca (Acushnet, Fail River, Freetown, Somerset, Westport); George Rogers (New Bedford, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Matta· poisett.)

IN FAVOR· OF ABOR· TION FUNDING: Democrat Robert E. McCarthy (Lakeville, Mansfield,. Norton.)

C~techetical Sunday

Theme 'Together in Ministry'

Catechetical Sunday will be observed in all parishes of the diocese this weekend. Bishop Cronin has urged all to make the observance the occasion of a renewal of dedication to the catechetical apostolate.

In a letter sent to all clergy, the Bishop noted that the theme of Catechetical Sunday this year is "Together in Ministry."

The theme suggests the necessity of involving all parish members in the ministry and apostolate of catechesis, or religious education. Sound, well-organized and fruitful programs are to be fostered for pre-adolescents, high school students, parents, adults, even senior citizens and special students.

'Bishop Cronin lauded the priests and sisters of the Diocesan Department of Education and urged parochial clergy to make use of the central diocesan office for ·assistance in special catechetical endeavors.

In a letter which will be read at all Masses of obligation this weekend, Bishop Cronin develops themes from the Scriptural lessons of the Mass in calling upon members of every parish family to support and sustain the catechetical apostolate.

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Father Maddock To Rome Studies Bishop Daniel A. Cronin announced today the assignment of Father Jay T. Maddock to graduate studies in the field of Turn to Page Eleven

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ill People.Places.Events-NC News Briefs ill Study Adult Baptism

'Better Bishops'

WASHINGTON - The Committee on the Liturgy of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops is undertaking a yearlong study on the U.S. implementation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

NEW YORK - Bishops Charles A. Buswell of Pueblo, Colo.; Raymond J. Gallagher of Lafayette, Ind.; and Ernest L. Unterkoefler of Charleston, S.C., have been cited as "better bishops" by St. Joan's International Alliance, a Catholic women's group.

Japanese Cat'holics TOKYO - There were :386,095 Catholics in Japan's population of more than 110 million as of last Dec. 31, according to the latest figures published by Tosei.

Japanese Catholic news agency.

Aparthe'id Inadmissible

CARDINAL TIMOTHY MANNING of Los Angeles will be among US delegates to the World Synod of Bishops, to begin ,at the end of this month.

ARCHBISHOP RAYMOND ETTELDORF, papal' pronuncio to Ethiopia, is an authority on the life of Blessed Sharbel Makhlouf, the soon to be canonized "Hermit of Lebanon."

VATICAN CITY - Thl~ Vatican delegate to an international conference on racial discrimination has declared that the Church considers apaltheid a "manifest and inadmissible affront" to human dignity which "must be eliminated."

Archbishop Girolamo Prigione, papal nuncio to Nigeria, said il1: his speech to the World Conference for Attion Against Apartheid that the Church is trying to "avert bloody recrimination and further useless suffering" in its efforts to stop racism.

Teenage Pregnancies WASHINGTON..:.. Officials of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USOe) and the National Conference of C,a:tholic Bishops (NCCB) have urged U.S. bishops to take an "independent approach" to the problem of teenage pregnanc:y and illegitimacy. in light of ,Planned Parenthood's current effort to initiate or increase sex education and family planning programs in schools and other agencies. Msgr.

James T. McHugh, director of the NeCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. and Father Donald B. Conroy, USCC representative for family life, said in a letter to all bishops that Planned Parenthood's efforts can be expected "to grow in magnitude and intensity in the months ahead."

Nuns Injulred NIANILA - Several nuns belonging to the faculty of Manila's St. Theresita's College were injured when soldiers and policemen broke up a human rights symposium held by some 500 students. The gathering, held the last week of August, was broken up with tear gas and firehoses. A number of students were also arrested.

Fan:-ily Viollence WASHINGTON - Rep. Barbara Mikulski' (D-Md.) has introduced legislation to curb violence within families.

Family violence is an "'invisible problem" responsible for one in four murders in the United States every year, she said.

Provi'dence Porno PROVIDENCE - The Providence Visitor, diocesan newspaper in Rhode Island, has reported that a multi-miIlion dollar distribution network for pl:>rnography operates out of Providence, but that because of a lack of state laws on smut, police and public officials can do nothing about it.

, Black Homiddes FATHER LOUIS GIGANTE, a New York City councilman, has told a grand jury he will not testify about his cQnversations with a reputed Mafia leader. He claims priestpenitent privilege.

The homicide rate for young, nonwhite males in Cleveland is almost three times the national averagl~, according to a new study by researlchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

The study reflects a national trend showing that homicide has bec:ome the number one cause of death for young black men.

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NEW YORK - J. P. Stevens, 'a southern textile firm with corporate offices in New York, says it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court :-uling that it was in contempt of court :'or failing to obey an order to comply with federal labor law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York said Stevens had a "well-earned' reputation" as a "continuous flagrant ',riolator" of the National Labor Relations Act.

Has Jaundice WARSAW - Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, 76, primate of Poland, has been ::J.ospitalized with jaundice. Prayers have 'been said in all Warsaw churohes for :his recovery. He underwent minor gall bladder surgery last February and since then has missed some church functions on health grounds. He has been spiritual :leader: of, Poland's 30 million Catholics "ince 1948 and has been a strong opponent of the country's Communist government.

What Else Is New 7 As the 1977-78 school year opens, Cat::,olic school officials across the country "ay that it will cost more to educate about the same number of students as :!.ast year. Most school superintendents :report that enrollments in the elementary and secondary schools are about the "ame as last year, but all of those con~acted agree that Catholic education costs more than it did a year ago.

CATHOLIC EDITORS across the nation have been asked to publish the above composite sketch of an unidentified suspect in the June 13 murder of Roberta Elam, a postulant of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Wheeling, W.Va. He is described as a dark-complexioned white male with shaggy black hair, about 30, of medium build and about 5 feet 10 inches tall. He was driving a 1969 "faded blue, rusty, dented" Chevrolet Impala, probably with West Virginia plates. Authorities say he could be anywhere in the country and ask that information be transmitted to the West Virginia State Police.

Restrict Cardinal VATICAN CITY - Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, president of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission, was ordered by ';he Marxist government of Benin to reo :~rain from travel and public appearance during part of the. newly created cardinal's recent visit to his homeland. The Jovernment order came after the cardinal celebrated Mass in honor of victims of last January's armed conflict in Benin (formerly Dahomey).

Right On, Down Under SYDNEY, Australia - At their end-ofAugust meeting in Sydney, the Austral:~an bishops thanked the Commonwealth government for its recent decision to reo ject the establishment of abortion clin::cs in the Australian Capital Territory.

FATHER THOMAS McGLYNN, famed Dominican sculptor, died this month at age 71 in Glen Cove, N.Y. He is noted for his representation of Our Lady of Fatima.

Holy Cross Racism WORCESTER The president of Holy Cross College has called on students to eliminate the racist attitudes which caused problems last year between :Jlack and white students at the school.

, Economist Dies LONDON Ernst Friedrich Schu::nacher, author of "Small is Beautiful" and pioneering 'advocate of technology on a human scale (his book is subtitled " A Study of Economics as if People Mattered"), died suddenly last week, just ,after addressing a conference atMoral Rearmament headquarters at Caux, Switzerland.

FATHER DIETER SCHOLZ is under expulsion order from government of Rhodesia in South Africa, charged with violation of Official Secrets Act.

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Faher Graziano At NCCC Meet NEW YORK (NC) - "Building Community through Faith and Service" will be the theme of the 63rd annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC), scheduled for tomorrow through Tuesday in New York. Father Peter N. Graziano, director of the diocesan department of social services, will represent the Fall River diocese.

Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, will deliver the keynote address. Other major talks will be given by Gov. Hugh Carey of New York; Archbishop Ignatius J. Stracker of Kansas City, Kan.; Uris Bronfenbrenner, professor of human development and family studies at Cornell University; and Peter L. Berger, professor of sociology of Rutgers University.

During sessions at the meeting, delegates will hear reports from Rashley .a. Moten, president of the NCCC board of directors, and Msgr. Lawrence Corcoran, NCCC executive director; debate and vote on policy statements on "National Urban Policy," "Distributive Justice and Taxation," and "Family;" set future program concerns for the conference; and debate and vote on annual NCCC resolutions.

More than 50' workshops, some running concurrently, have been scheduled during the fiveday meeting. Among the topics to be covered are taxes, rural ministry, the elderly, child-rearing, world hunger, child abuse, unmarried parents, death and dying, the divorced, community organization, drugs and alcohol, welfare reform, the Hispanic family, and day care.

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Diocesan Council Protests 'Soap' The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women has joined a nationwide coalition organized by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights to protest "Soap," ABC-TV comedy series which premiered Tuesday night.

The diocesan unit, in cooperation with the National Council of Catholic ,Women (NCCW),

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will ask members of affiliates to monitor the program, listing its local and national sponsors.

Such advertisers will be contacted by council representatives who will present their views on "Soap", which has been decried not only by representatives of religious organizations but by professional critics for tasteless-_ ness and lurid portrayals of perverted morality.

"If advertisers are sensitive to the broadcast needs of the American public, especially the needs of the family, they can refuse to place their advertising in the program on the grounds that they do not want to be associated with the presentation of the content matter of 'Soap,' " declared Mrs. Arthur Horsell, NCCW president.

Bishop Cronin has appointed Reverend Valerian Czywil, O.F.M., Conv., as assistant at Holy Rosary parish in Taunton.

Presentation of Father Czywil's name for this appointment was made by Very Reverend Marion Tolczyk, O.F.M., Conv., Minister Provincial of the Franciscan Friars of Saint Anthony of Pad-' ua Province.

Necrology Father CzyWil will replace BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN, accompanied by Father Father Joseph Paszek, O.P.M., SEPT. 24 Walter A. Sullivan, pastor, blesses new religious education Conv., in the Taunton parish.

Rev. Joseph E. C. Bourque, and parish social center at Sacred Heart parish, Taunton. Father 'Paszek is being assigned 1955, Pastor, Blessed Sacrament to duties outside the diocese of Fall River A r~ception for the bishop followed the ceremony.

Fall River.

SEPT. 26 Father Czywil, a native of Rev. John J. Donahue, 1944, Lawrence, Massachusetts, has Assistant, St. William, Fall Riv路 Msgr. Lawrence J. McNam- balance goes to the national been active in parochial minis- er try since his ordination in June ara, executive director of the CHD. SEPT. 29 of 1937. His most recent prior_ In the Fall 'River diocese local Campaign for Human DevelopRev. J. A. Payan, 1899, Foundassignment was at St. Louis er, St. ~atthew, Fall River ment (CHD), the U.S. Bishops' grants have been made to such Parish in Portland, Me. projects as youth groups, Birthdomestic anti-poverty program, right organizations, the Spanish will visit the Fall River diocese apostolate, halfway houses and Wednesday, Sept. 21. immigrant assistance units.

He will inspect the Southeastern Massachusetts Advocacy Center '(SEMAC) in New Bedford, among 135 self-help p.rojects in the nation to receive Glenn Giuttari has been named aid from the national CHD office, and will meet at Bishop Con- director of music for St. Mary's nolly High School in Fall River Cathedral, Fall River, it has with diocesan educational per- been announced by Msgr. John MIAMI~C) - County Judge Dominic Kop's belief that a fe- sonnel, clergy, religious and Regan, rector. tus is a person has helped a laity.

Giuttari, who has been interMiami woman to beat a traffic im music director at the caMsgr. McNamara said that the ticket. thedral since last February, will . national CHD is distributing over The woman was charged with serve as both organist and choir $7 million this year to projects driving by herself in a traffic director. He comes to the post such 'as SEMAC. This is the lane reserved for car pools. !3ut from the faculty of Salve Regina highest annual amount awarded when she showed up in court College, Newport, where he diin the seven-year history of the with her new born infant and rected the music program. agency. told the judge that she had been A graduate of Brown Univereight months pregnant when she Additionally, individual dio- sity, where .he has also' done For Information Call Toll Free: 1路800-372路2740 was cited, Judge Kop found her ceses make CHD grants to pro- graduate study, Guittari is a or write Box 336, So. Attleboro, Mass. 02703 innocent. jects in their own areas from founding director of the ProviFALL RIVER - Tuesdays 6 PM Because a fetus is considered moneys given in an annual CHD dence Singers and a harpsichorRetail Clerks Union Hall, 291 McGowan St.路 a person, "there were two people collection, scheduled this year dist with the Rhode Island Civic FALL RIVER - DOWNTOWN - Wednesdays 9:30 AM in the car," the judge ruled. for the weekend of Nov. 19 and Chorale Orchestra and the ProviFall 'River 'Inn, Milliken Blvd.

Later, he added, "I think it's a 20. One fourth of such funds dence Recorder Society. With ATTLEBORO - Mondays 1 PM & 7:30 PM good ruling, not a bit frivolous." remain in local dioceses and the his wife, Joanne, he is a founder V.F.W. Building, 196 Pleasant Street and director of the Rehoboth FAIRHAVEN.....:.. Wednesdays 8 PM VFW, 126 Main Street Music Festival. The couple live NEW BEDFORD - Tuesdays 6 PM & 8 PM, in Rehoboth.

Thursdays 10 AM VFW, 929 Ashley Blvd.

NEW BEDFORD - DOWNTOWN - Wednesdays 10 AM Appoint Nun Intern YMCA, 25 South Water Street For Archdiocese NORTH AnLEBORO - Thursdays 7:30 PM IBALTIMORE (NC) - FollowK of C Hall, '287 Smith Street ing up on his recent pastoral NORTH DARTMOUTH - Wednesdays 7:30 PM Smith Mills Congregational Church Parish Hall, letter on women, in which he 11 Anderson Way (off Rt. 6) promised to appoint them to ASSIGNMENT PORTSMOUTH - Tuesdays 9:30 AM & 7:30 PM high administrative posts, ArchRamada Inn, Jet. Routes 138-114 bishop William D. Borders of Rev. Jay T. Maddock, from Assistant, Sacred Heart parish, SOMERSET - Mondays 7:30 PM, Baltimore has named Mercy SisTaunton, to graduate studies in canon law at the North Thursdays 9:30 AM, 6 & 8 PM, 970 County St. ter Sharon Ann 'Euart, 33, to inAmerican College in Rome, effective Wednesday, September SWANSEA - Tuesdays 7:30 PM tern as an administrator in the 21, 1977.

Knights of Columbus, 143 Old Warren Road archdiocese.

TAUNTON - Wednesdays 10 AM & 5:30 PM APPOINTMENT She will spend 10-week periods YMCA, 71 Cohan net Street in each of the five organizaWESTPORT - Thursdays 7:30 PM Rev. Horace J. Travassos, as co-chairman of the Diocesan Westport Grange, Main Street tional units of central services, Ecumenical Commission, effective September 8, 1977. the administrative branch of the archdiocese.

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CHD Head Plans Visit to Diocese

New Argument

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL

Music Director For Cathedral

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themoorin~ So Fat We Are Poor

Have you heard any recent radio commercials glorifying health spas or read any newspaper ads promoting reducing salons? They all promise the overweight American a fountain of youth and a figure to go with it.

The new health craze based on the "body beautiful" concept has created a billion dollar industry in this land of plenty. From Charles Atlas to Gloria Stevens, we have becon'ie a people addicted to the sensual rather than the sensible.

One of the fundamental reasons that health spas and reducing salons are doing such a business is that Americans in general eat too much. Not 1 0nly that, but they eat enormous amounts of the wrong foods. Have you tried any of the new brands of cereals?

Yet we find it difficult to push ourselves away from the table. We just can't say no to our appetite. Of course, we are given little encouragement from slick advertising and soupy sales that entice us to buy more, eat more and unfortunately grow more in weight and girth. .

To lose this extra poundage resulting from our constant and careless consumption of everything that is made or gr9ws, we have turned to the health spa mystique as a refuge from our sins.

Now, creating a new industry that lives off the fat of the land is an integral part of the great American ideal of free enterprise. From the economic viewpoint, it gives jobs to people who can purchase more food who in turn are forced to use the fruits of their labors.

The vicious circle never comes to an end because appetites are never satisfied. Indeed, this is a sad commentary on the obviously hedonistic attitude that has permeated not only American eating habits but the entire way of life that so many people in this nation presumably prefer.

If you think that this commentary on our "fat" problem is rather exaggerated, reflect for a moment on Mother Theresa and her work among the starving poor of India.

Think, if you can bring yourself to it, of the millions of children in Africa who dig in the dirt to fill their bloated stomachs. Consider the real poor in our own land who live from hand to mouth each day to stay alive. For every American' who has to lose weight because of overeating there is another human being starving.

Now, objections are not being made to necessary exercise or to those moments in life when we can sit down to a good meal. The fault rests in the fact that just as basics and stables are disappearing from our social life, so too are they evaporating from our eating habits. The result is more than a profile in courage. When one reflects on the time, efforts and money spent by Americans to lose weight gained by overeating, one must include that the situation is a sad commentary on our social existence within the human family.

The "body beautiful" is more than an advertising slogan to make us part with a few dollars. It is a reflection of the "playboy" mentality that has not only made fools of us all but has also driven us into a narrow materialistic frame of mind which blinds uS from the real hungers of man.

The next time you are tempted to reach for that extra tasty morsel, try to realize how poor and undernourished we really are' when it comes to the fundamental and basic concepts that sustain life itself. In a very real way, we are so fat that we are the poorest of the poor.

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.

photom'edita,tion Emily and Louis turn an ordinary lunch . . . into a fascinating world of make-believe . . . French fries become tiger fangs between Emily's teeth ... as Louis the lion crouches in the thick jungle . . . behind trees of straws, cups and paper bags.

Their gentleness belies their pretended ferocity · .. The fun in their eyes ... attracts more than scares · .. Lions and tigers they surely are not . . . but two charming children .... enjoying a world they have the power to create.

Spmething of the child lies deep within each of us . . . sometimes hidden and unsuspected . . . perhaps even studiously suppressed . . . a capacity for simple and unaffected playfulness . . . an ability to let go of life's seriousness ... and enter into a world of spontaneity . . . freedom . . . creativity . . . and fun . . . the world of play.

The child in us . . . is shaped in the image and likeness of God ... t~e Creator ... long perceived by Jews and Christians as a playful God ... exuberantly imaginative joyously free.

At the creation of the world ... divine Wisdom · .. God's creative Word ... and only Son ... was at play: "When he set the heavens in their place . . .

I was there . . . his darling and delight . . . playing in his presence continually . . . playing on the earth, when he finished it." (Proverbs 8; 22-31) Perhaps that is why one day long after . . . that same divine, playful Word of God ... Who Himself ' became a little child .'. . cautioned us overly serious humans ... that "unless you become as little children · .. you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18; 3).

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By Jim Castelli WASHINGTON (!\'C) - Some people have compared President Jimmy Carter's effort to finalize a new Panama Canal treaty to Woodrow Wilson's efforts to win U.S. approval of the League of Nations.

This may be overly dramatic, but the treaty fight will certainly be a test of Carter's political

leadership - particularly of his ability to change public opinion, now against a new treaty.

Carter took one step to get people to change their minds about the treaty when he told a press conference that he had changed his own mind. He said he was not convinced a year ago that a new treaty would be "advantageous" to the United

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States, but he is now.

The major factor, he said, is that he got Panama to agree to guarantee that the canal would be permanently neutral - open to all nations - after Panama takes over the canal's operation in 1999. Th~ agreement includes a provision that the United States can defend that neutrality indefinitely and without limit.

White House staffers and other treaty supporters make some additional points in its favor. They say that Panama is now having economic problems which led it to accept terms more favorable to the United States in exchange for more money in tolls. At the same time, the White House points out, Panama will be paid a yearly fee from canal tolls, not from the U.S. Treasury.

The major argument for the treaty, supporters say, is that it. will prevent possible violence in Panama and will improve U.S. relations with Latin America by diminishing its colonialist . image.

The answer to what kind of selling job Carter does will apparently have to wait until at least early 1978. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd says the Senate, which goes into recess in October won't get to the treaty before then because it will be working on the Administration's energy proposals.

The White House doesn't want to wait that long because it doesn't want the treaty to become an election issue next year.

But it also looks as if the White House needs the time to make its own case and counter efforts by treaty opponents.

The opponents led by Senators Strom Thurmond (RS.C.) - are off to a running start. W6rking with groups such as the American Conservative Union, they have begun an "educational" campaign against the treaty and have promised to filibuster against the treaty in the Senate. The Veterans of Foreign Wars has also come out strongly against a treaty.

The treaty opponents make three basic arguments. One, they don't believe the proposed treaty would adequately protect U.S. access to the canal after 1999.

Second, they believe the United States is bargaining under duress; Helms calls the negotiations "blackmail." Third, they hold that the United States built the canal and made it a source of national pride which should be kept.

While polls show 70 percent or more of the American.. people against the canal treaty, the only active lobbying against a treaty so far has come from conservative groups. But there have been three major defections from those generally regarded as conservative: teading conservative figures such as Sen. Barry Goldwater, Sen. S. I. Hayakawa and columnist William Buckley; big business; and military leaders. .."1'1"1"'"11I11111."'111"'''·_.'"..'.....'_......._'''''.111''''''11''''''1''''00'"'_

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CONTRASTS IN PANAMA: The Panama Canal Treaty, if ratified by the U.S. Senate, will give a larger share of canal revenues to' Panama and turn the canal over to the Latin country by the year 2000. Panamanians

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expect the new revenue to improve quality of life for all citizens. Left, a view of the canal; right, slums in the city of Colon contrast with apartment buildings in rear. (NC Photos)

US, Panamanian Church Leaders Attend, Canal Treaty Signing

By Jim Castelli WASHINGTON (NC) - When Bishop Thomas Kell~, geperal secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), left the Washington headquarters of the Organization of American States, where some two dozen heads of state observed the signing of a new Panama Canal treaty Sept. 7, he took a bus home.

That bus missed the White House, where demonstrators marched in protest against the Administration's "red carpet" treatment for some visiting Latin American leaders with poor human rights records.

"I almost wanted to get off the bus and march with them," Bishop Kelly told NC News.

But he didn't, he said, because he had been convinced by President Jimmy Carter and Administration officials earlier in the day that the United States could use the visit to pressure those leaders to end human rights violations.

Bishop Kelly represented the U.S. Catholic Conference (US CG), the civil action arm of the NCCB, at both the treaty signing and a two-hour briefing at the White House on the treaty and strategies for winning Senate approval.

The Church in Panama was represented by Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City.

The Catholic Church in the United States and Panama has been in the forefront of those supporting a new treaty.

The treaty, which has been negotiated over a 13-year period under four presidents. would give control of the canal to Pan ama by the year 2000 and would guarantee the United States both access to the canal and the ri~ht to defend it.

'Bishop Kelly said Administration officials addressed political and other considerations at th'e briefing, but Carter discussed the moral issues involved.

Carter was "very impressive," Bishop Kelly said, and "his concern for the moral dimensions of this problem are certainly at

the level of the bishops.'"

The bishops in Panama and the United States have argued that every nation has the right to sovereignty over its own resources a~d that Panama had a right to control the canal because Panama's geography was a resource which made the canal both valuable and possible.

Bishop Kelley said he felt the USCC "was very much respected by the White House" for its position on the treaty.

The human rights protest was not the only protest to accompany the treaty signing. Americans who oppose the treaty and want to keep the canal under American control demonstrated in Washington. Americans working in the Canal Zone protested the treaty with a candlelight march. And Panamanian students protested the treaty because it would allow the United States to intervene militarily to protect the canal on an open-ended basis.

The major target of the human rights protest was President Augusto Pinochet Ugarta of Chile. His regime has been accused by international agencies, including the Catholic Church, of human rights violations, including torture and imprisonment of political opponents.

The demonstrators also protested the presence of heads of state of Argentina and Uruguay.

Carter had scheduled a series of private meetings, turning the treaty signing session into a U.S.-Latin American summit.

Bishop Kelly said Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew :Brzezinski, had emphasized the importance of those meetings in applying personal pressure on human rights issues.

The human rights demonstration was organized by the '1n-

It's for Us "In the Creator's plan, society is a natural means which man can and must use to reach his destined end. Society exists for man and not for society." Pope Pius XI

stitute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington think tank, and other groups concerned about human rights.

An important organizer was

Isabel Letelier, widow of Orlando Letelier, former ambassador in the United States for Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allande, whose government

was overthrown by Pinochet.

LeteHer and Ronni Moffitt, an IPS staffer, were assassinated a year ago in Washington when a bomb blew up in Letelier's car.

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"Both those who had lived together and those who had not reported a slow and insidious decline in ':he meaningfulness and intimacy of their marriage." It was a throwaway line in an article in "Human Behavior" (showing that living together was not an effective way

By MARY CARSON

My husband and I just celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary It's hard to believe we've been married that long. It's also very gratifying that our marriage just keeps getting better. We've spent half our lives married to each other, and are looking forward to the years coming.

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MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS

Recently we discussed the work of the International Labor Organization (ILO), oldest of the specialized UN agencies and the only one with a tripartite (government-labormanagement) system of representation. The ILO at that time was faced with the possibility that the United States might decide to leave it.

Religious ASI)ect of Human Intimacy Needs Study of preparing for marriage). After 13 months (on the average) of marriage, young couples we're already finding their marriages on the decline. A poignant judgment on the age of liberation and sexual revolution.

IBut also a poignant judgment on the church. For the decline in the meaningfulness and intimacy of a human relationship is not normally either a sexual or a psychological problem, though it has such implications. .Jt is a religious problem. One can go through the repeated painful experience of death and rebirth, which is part of the rhythm of all deep human relationships, only if one believes that one exists within a relatively benign

While these thoughts make me feel good, there are others that creep in . . . What would it be like if one of us died?

As readily as I can anticipate our celebrating our 75th anniversary, it is not impossible that tragedy can strike. We've seen it happen to friends. There is nothing to assure us we are immune. The death of a spouse is the most shattering strain a person can encounter. The thoughts are terrifying.

In those deep, reflective moments, I wonder . . . Suppose life were like a science-fiction movie, and God came to us and said that it was time for one of

Our

"protective envelope" (to mistranslate Karl Jaspers, perhaps) which validates and reenforces the anguish of resurrection.

And so to young and not-soyoung people who are looking for the protective envelope of benignity and reassurance for risk-taking, we provide the negative restrictions of the Holy Office and the bland secular humanism of the CTSA's "Human Sexuality." Is there nothing in the wisdom of cnr heritage, nothing in the rich symbols of our tradition which can illumine the ambiguities of meaningfulness and intimacy, the terror and the delight, the shame and the routine, the dreadful death and the painful rebirth which are the

us to die. The choice was ours.

Who should go first?

Of course we don't have control of such _ things, but it pmmpts serious thought. [ spoke to my husband about it and found he had been thinking along the same line. Each of us had been trying to answer thllt question, wondering which on,e would be better 8 ble to carry on alone.

Independently, we had each come to the same conclusion. He felt he should shoulder the responsibility; I felt I should.

Christ said, "Greater love than this no man hath than he lay down his life for his friends."

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warp and the woof, the fabric and the substance of human love?

They ask us for 'bread .and we have given them stones.

How come?

Why as far as I know is there virtually no work being done

by Catholic theologians and social scientists about the religious meaning of human intimacy which goes beyond moral theology and beyond faddish attempts to keep one step behind the current fashions about "liberated love"? .Why are we echoing the dead prohibitions of the past and the dead fads of the present?

At the "Vatican Ill" meeting at Notre Dame, a number of us

tried to open up the "newagenda" question about human intimacy. We were told that human sexuality does not mean the same thing in Calcutta that it does in Chicago. Doubtless this is the case - though I doubt that it means something different. 'But so what? Why are theologians so hesitant to develop a spirituality of sex out of the Catholic tradition of love? Does not every parable of Jesus speak to us of love? Could not one do a whole theology of intimacy out of the parables?

The revolution of rising expectations about sexual fulfillment has offered us one of the great religious opportunities in human history.

Why are we blowing it?

Each of us loves the other enormously. It would seem that to follow Christ's teaching, each of us should offer to die.

Going on alone would be an enormous burden. The aloneness, the emptiness . . . coupled with the responsitiility of raising the family.

Often at the wake of a husband or wife, the grief is expressed for the deceased. "If only he could have lived." "She was so young."

We are wishing that the deceased could continue in the warmth and love of the partner.

But we should also recognize the role of the survivor.

A surviving husband is giving his life......for the sake of his wife. A wife, carrying on alone, is offering a complete sacrifice of love for her husband.

Yet the more I think about it, the more I become convinced that laying down your life is not necessarily dying. It can be living . . . offering to take on the enormous responsibilities that it would require to continue raising a family . . . alone.

If we really believe all we say about eternity, then the prospects of Heaven are marvelous.

Offering to lay down your life could be selfishness; continuing .to live could be complete sacrifice.

from ILO Would Bring on Chaos

We thought this crisis was in is possible that the United danger of being oversimplified States, which served official noby the media as a simple matter tiCI! in November 1975 that it of East-West (or U.S. versus .intended to disaffilillte from the ILO at the end of two years, will Third World) power politics.

It was our impression, ,in either withdraw that "letter of other words, that so much at- intlmt" or delay taking action tention was being centered on and in the meantime look for a the short-run crisis in the ILO compromise solution.

Why did our government wish that its essential long-term work was being neglected and its ba- to disaffiliate from the ILO? sic purposes' were being largely Basically, because it was comignored by the media. Unfor- ple:tely exasperated by the way tunately this is still pretty much in which the Communist bloc andl some of the AI'Sb and Third the case.

Be that it may, there is now World member nations were some reason to hope that the systematically misusing the ILO political crisis, though still ba- for purposes unrelated to its sically unresloved, may be sim- basic goals.

It was hoped that the July mering down. In other words, it

ILO conference would face up to this problem and work out a compromise solution. Had that happened, the U.s. probably would have cancelled its notice of disaffiliation.

This matter, however, must be decided by November by a Cabinet-level committee. When this committe met in Washington last month it decided that the 1975 "letter of intent" should remain in force, but that any recommendation - such as extending the letter for another year - would be deferred until a mid-October meeting.

II think that was a very wise decision. Moreover I hope that in October it will be decided

Fall Styl,es 5ioft, Feminine, By

MARILYN RODERICK

The chill is already in the air and one really feels the needs to shop for fall clothes that not only look good but keep one warm. Look for nonfur stoles, capes and very large coats that will fit nicely over suits, sweaters and separate jackets. The necessity for big

coats is apparent when you realize that a lot of dresses to be worn under them will have the new bulky shape.

The blouson is the newest look and while some of us remember it well from other periods of fashion, it is still a refreshing change. This look appears in blouses as well as dresses and its loose top shape gathered just below the waistline is good on the tall or even medium slender figure. However, while it does disguise some bulges it reany isn't that flattering to the smaller woman, who may find it overpowering.

either to withdraw the letter of intent or let it lapse until further notice. I think it would be a serious mistake for the U.S. to disaffiliate from the lLO. If we were to do so we would be playing right into the hands of .those member states which are determined to use the ILO for their own purposes. In our absence, there would be nothing to prevent them from changing the nature of the organization to advance their own interests and, in the process, hastening the demise of the [LO. The United States cannot afford to let this happen. Nor can the American labor .movement afford to give up the fight.

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Soft and softness are the two Jersey, sheer wool, fine crepes and even pleated chiffon are words that apply to every thing app,earing on the fashion scene. used for day and dark fashions Out of Paris has come the Gi- because they lend themselves Gi look after that delightful so well to the blouson shape. young lady immortalized in While stiff fabrics are not that song and story. One of the most popular you will still find softly beautiful creations from this de- textured suede a fashion favorsign concept is a black suit with ite, even thinner and more plia wrapped cummerbund waist- able than in the past. line topped with a bolero jacket and a frilly jabot-fronted blouse..

Amazing Grace A look that is all woman, all "If the self is faithful to the charm, with at the same time just the right touch of innocence. shaft of 路light piercing through from grace, new graces will Blecause of the softness of the pour in, provided the self. does new fashions, you will see fab- not resist them." Father rics that fall and drape well. Adrian van Keam

If you enjoy clothes, you will adore shopping this fall. The only catch is that prices are so high, one outfit will break your bankroll!

Foresters' Retreat

Catherine P. Harrington is in charge of arrangements for the 26th consecutive retreat of the Catholic Association of Foresters, to be held at Miramar Retreat House, Duxbury, the weekend of路 Sept. 30 under direction of Rev. Lawrence Poetz, SVD. Reservations, open to friends as well as members, may be made with her at 159 Shawmut St., Fall River 02720.

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Watchword Is Mission Continued from Page One first three weeks of October, when homilies and "handouts" at all weekend Masses will alert all members of St. Joseph's to the council plans.

The "multi-assault blitz" will culminate Oct. 15 and 16 with a slide presentation, "This Is Our Congregation," at all Masses, followed by distribution BROTHER LEO ST. PI· of sign-up sheets on which parERRE of the faculty of Bish- ishioners may indicate the type lOP Connolly High School, of service they wish to offer the Fall River, has pronounced community. final vows as a Brother of Despite the difficulties of enChristian Instruction at his listing total parish support for a program, the councillors are community's headquarters optimistic. "Impossible task?" in Alfred, Me. Father Rich- queried Father Grannell. "Not ard Wolf, SJ, Connolly prin- while the council is grounded in cipal, was principal celebrant prayer!" for the profession Mass, asHe added that the parish has sisted by Father Raymond already had extensive response Monty and Father Arthur de to various programs, li.sting a Mello of this diocese. Also ,CCD program. operatmg 44 .. .. classes weekly With 92 volunteer partIcIpatmg In the cere- workers; and a country fair that, mony were students and for- as well as turning in a healthy mer students of Connolly profit, created "such an atmosand the former Prevost High phere of community that it led School to widespread requests for more '. f . . such affairs, 'and next time you A natIve 0 BrunswIc~, can count on me to help.'''

Me., the son of Mrs. LUCIe There is also an active parentSt. Pierre and the late Leo teacher group supporting school A. St. Pierre, Brother Leo is projects. the brother of Brother Louis "If the Church is a train St. Pierre, FIC, also on the speeding into the 21st century, Connolly faculty, and of with ma~y ?,lem~ers just along Roger, Joan and Sister Anne for the ride, said Father Gran-

Marie St. Pierre.

The newly professed religious, who is on sabbatical leave from Connolly to study spiritual direction at the Institute' for Spiritual Leadership in Chicago, holds a degree from Walsh College, ,Canton, 0., and is a candidate for a master's degree in theology at St. Bonaventure University. At Connolly he taught theology and business, served on the school's chaplaincy team and was an advisor for student and young adult Christian Life Communities.

Highlights of the new model council meetings come at the end, with a "closing conversation" or on-the-spot evaluation of what has taken place, highlighting its gift~, insights, burdens and challenges. Consensus was that members of St. Joseph's council felt happy with their year of work and confident of their future, as they turned to their final item of business.

All Have Tales, Says Professor AU literature, says English Professor Frank Phelan of Stonehill College, Easton, is in some way autobiographical. "Everyone has at least one story to tell," he continues. "Their own."

He will offer a workshop this Fall at Stonehill College to help people tell that story in a marketable manner.

"People have many reasons for wanting to tell their story," he said. Some may wish to share their heritage, while others may want to advocate a cause."

'His workshop, "Telling Your

It was a "sendout" or closing prayer, at which they were formally sent forth, empowered by the meeting, "to teach, to witness, to share their faith."

"We want to stop band-aid ministry," concluded Father Gomes. "We hope this new method will enable us to do longrange, methodical planning to achieve our goal of forming a community aware of the past and looking to the future to bring about a better now."

Story:' will begin at 9:00 a.m. this Saturday and will be held on four other Saturdays extending into December.

Professor Phelan has been in various textbooks, as well as in such magazines as the New Yorker.

Further information on the workshop is available from Stonehill College.

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St. Mathieu Continued from Page One list and music by a combined choir comprising members of St. Mary's Cathedral Choir and the Canticum Novum Singers, both of Fall River, and Trinity Church Choir, Worcester.

To be heard will be "Missa Brevis Joannis de Deo" by Haydn, accompanied by a small chamber ensemble, as well as a brass choir.

The Council of Catholic Women will be hostess for refreshments in the parish hall following Mass.

Parishioners, former parishioners and friends are invited to attend the celebration.

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McConnell will serve with cochairman Mrs. Rose Aleixo of St. Anthony parish, Taunton, who is responsible for Catholic Girl Scout and Camp Fire Girl activities in the diocese.

Father Martin L 'Buote of St. Joan of Arc parish, Orleans, is diocesan Catholic Scouting _chaplain, aided hy area chaplains.

They include Father Normand Boulet of the Attleboro-Taunton; Annawon Council area, who has announced that the area Catholic Committee on Scouting will sponsor a religious camporee at Camp Norse, Carver, from Friday, Sept. 30 through Sunday, Oct. 2.

With a theme of "World Brotherhood with God," the program will include a Mormon presentation, a celebration of the Jewish Feast of Succoth, a Protestant service and a Catholic Mass incorporating :Indian elements. Information will also' be given on the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

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No Longer Baby-Sitters, Declare Nuns ,CHICAGO (NC) - "We will no longer be the baby-sitters of the world," Sister Joan Chittister told members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) meeting in Chicago this month. "We are rediscovering the values of traditional ministries but we will not continue to btl only a labor force for hospitals and schools."

Sister Chittister, who ended a term as LGWR president during the organization's general ass4~mbly, was addressing more than 500 adminstrators of some 3'55 congregations of nuns at the assembly, which was aimed at assessing the present focus of American nuns and projecting their future.

In her talk, Sister Chittister reviewed the history of relig:ous groups, in the United States, and pointed out that each change was met with hostility.

But, she said, "Only those who can change survive." Sixty-six pl~rcent of the communities founded before 1880 no longer eldst, she said.

A major change has been in the attitude toward vows, she SElid. Formerly it was considered that one vowed to keep rules, SEster Chittister added, but now "we see the purpose of vows is teo gain life and gi ve life."

The outgoing LCWR president outlined the organization's four major goals during 1976-77 to, articulate a theology of religious life; to begin education for justice that will lead to systematic change; to promote study, prayer and action on women's issues; and to move toward m~imum cooperation wi,th other groups and individuals to achieve shared goals.

The first goal was the subject of a year-long study by a special LOWR committee. According to Dominican Sister Jeanne 0' LElughlin, committee chairperson, the panel's study showed that current problems cannot ,be, solved by old approaches, because _the old contain innate blockages.

Sister Joan Doyle, new LCWR president, said the Chicago assembly "seemed tl) affirm the

things we've been doing this year." The LCWR executive board met Sept. 1-6 in LaGrange, Ill., to evaluate questionnaires distributed at the meeting and to set priorities and allocate funds in line with the results of that survey.

'In a talk to the assembly, Sister Doyle said: "Today we are very concerned about the woman question, about woman in the Church, about other women, about the Equal Rights Amendment. This year we will search out how many women are ministering in the Church and how the Church is ministering to women."

She predicted that in the 1990's structures will free ·Sisters, who will no longer be "docile and dependent" but will instead become more involved in decision-making on all levels of Church and society.

ter Barbara Thomas, past LCWR president, told the assembly.

A number of informal "conversations" were also said during the assembly on subjects ranging from vows and contemporary spirituality to the future of religious life and the Church in transition.

Mercy Sister Margaret Farley, assistant professor of ethics at Yale University, spoke on the growing conflict between the desire to maintain integrity in Church ministry and the desire to remain loyal to the Church and Church law.

Part of the solution to that problem, she said, is for nuns to see themselves not only as transmitters of truth but as persons responsible for assisting in the Church's search for truth.

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Sisters will no longer "fill slots in the Catholic Church" SACRED HEART, but will be involved in a variety TAUNTON of emerging ministries such as drug and alcohol rehabilitation, The parish council will meet theological professorships in at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, Catholic and state colleges and beginning the season with a seminaries, and elective public Mass of petition for guidance offices, said Sister Doyle, a na- . and support. All parishioners are tive of Chicago and president of invited to attend. the Sisters of Charity of the Women's Club members will Blessed Virgin Mary. attend Mass at 7 p.m. Monday, Our founders set out to Sept. 26. An open meeting will change a system but we have follow to which all parish wombecome bound into the very in- en are invited. stitutions which they set up to St. Vincent de Paul Society bring about that change," Sis- will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in the rectory.

Iresh Bishops Issue Can for Justice DUBLIN (NC) - In a sweeping broadside against injustices in Irish society, the bishops of Ireland have called for new efforts at every level to elmininate poverty, chronic unemployment, and individual and corporate forms of cheating and stealing.

They urged deliberate discrimination in favor of the poor to end poverty and endorsed the principle of a guaranteed minimum for each household.

Baby-sitting service will be offered during 9:30 a.m. Mass for children ages six months to kindergarten, beginning Sunday, Sept. 25. Also on Sept. 25 high school students will hold an evening meeting to make plans for an overnight trip the following weekend.

Th-ior to his departure for .study in Rome, Father Jay T. Maddock will be honQred at a farewell party from 2 to 4 p.m.

SundllY, Sept. 25 in the parish center. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ross are in charge of arrangements.

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'Catechetics in Our Time'· Topic For World Synod of Bishops VATICAN CITY (NC) - The 201 participants in the upcoming world Synod of Bishops will attempt to draw up a list of top priorities for teaching the faith at a moment of widespread "uneasiness" regarding catechists, said the synod's general secretary at a Vatican press conference.

Polish Bishop Ladislaw Rubin told reporters at a pre-synod briefing that the synod "does not intend to present a thorough picture of the prospects for catechetical renewal in the world, nor author. a practical, complete guide for pastoral activity."

According to the general secretary, the synod will decide upon "some priority 'choicas' which emerge from the current catechetics a situation worldwide and from theological and pastoral reflection."

Quoting from the synod working paper, Bishop Rubin said that the synod will examine the "uneasiness which results often from concern about being obedient to the faith and from the need for renewal in methods of catechetis."

The fifth world synOd opens Sept. 30 with the theme "Catachetics in our time with special reference to the catachesis of children and youth."

-Bishop Rubin announced that the three synod presidents chosen by Pope Paul VI are Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Hyacinth Thiendoum of Dakar, Senegal, and Cardinal Antonio Ribeiro of Lisbon.

In recent years, Cardinal Thiandoum has acted several times as papal gO-between with rebel French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who preceded the cardinal as archbishop of Dakar.

Nine Americans will participate as full synod members.

Among them is Cardinal John

Wright, who as prefect of the orate with the synod special Vatican Congregation for the sescretary, iBishop Jose Manuel Clergy is the top Vatican official Esteps Liaurens, auxiliary of for catachetical matters. In 1970 Madrid.

Bishop Esteps is among the his congregation produced the 'General Catachetical Directory" world's most highly respected detailing norms for teaching the authority in catechesis.

The experts - five men and faith.

The four American representa- seven women - do not have tives elected by the National the right to participate in synod Conference of Catholic -Bishops deliberations.

As in the past, the Pope (NCCB) include the conference president, Archbishop Joseph named no women among synod Bernardin of Cincinnati; the vice members.

He did name the Christian president, Cardinal John Carsuperior general, berry of St. Louis; Archbishop Brothers' Basterreches, John Whealon of Hartford, Brother Pablo Conn., and Bishop Raymond among those specially chosen to participate, and Jesuit Father Lucker of New Ulm, Minn.

Cardinal John Dearden of De- Edouard Dhanis, a member of troit, elected among the top the Pope's International Theolfour, withdrew for health rea- ogical Commission.

Other penal appointees are sons.

Pope Paul V-I appointed among Florence's Cardinal Giovanni 19 specially named synod mem- Banelli, who as' papal underbers Cardinal Timothy Manning secretary of state waS among the Pope's closest advisers; Munof Los Angeles.

The Pope also specially named ich's Cardinal Josesph Ratzinger; Ukrainian-rite Bishop Joseph Cardinal Ugo Poletti, the Pope's Schmondiuk of Stamford, Conn. vicar for the diocese of Rome; Benedictine Abbot Primate and Cardinal Pericle Felici, who Rembert Weakland, also an Am- heads the Commission for the erican, is among 10 superiors of Revision of the Code of Canon religious orders of men elected Law. Others include Colombian as synod representatives by the Union of Mela Religious Sup- Bishop Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, eriors. secretary General of the Latin Bishops' Council The Ninth American synod American member is Ruthenian-rite Arch- (CELAM); Polish Bishop Andre bishop Stephen Kocisko of Mun- Maria Daskur, president of the hall, Pa. Pontifical Commission for SoAmong 13 experts in catache- cial Communications; and Cansis appointed by Pope Paul to adian Bishop Edouard Gagnon, help synod members are two vice president of the Vatican American nuns: Sister Regina Committee for the Family.

Casey, superior general of the Of the 142 synod members Missionarly Sisters of the Sacree elected to represent bishops' conHeart and a native New Yorker, ferences 34 are Africans, 44 are and Sister Maria de la Cruz from .the Americas, 19 from Aymes, a Helper of the Holy Asia, five from Australia- OceanSouls nun from San Francisco ia and 40 from Europe. who is a teachmember of the About half did not attend the International Catechetical Coun- 1974 synod on evangelization. cil. The council is a consultive The great majority of synod body to the Vatican Congrega- members were not yet bishops tion for the Clergy. at the time of the Second VatiThe experts' task is to collab- can Council (1962-65.)

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ago that one could no longer be denied Catholic burial regardless of his standing in the Church if that was his request. This was to include persons married out of the Church, those who didn't go to Mass for other reasons but still supported the Church, and so on. But this isn't happening in some of our communities.

Why?

A. The general rules on Catholic burial have not basically changed . everywhere in the United States, to my knowledge, though bishops and parish priests normally tend to go as far as possible in giving individuals every opportunity for a Catholic burial, if it is clear that this is what the deceased man or woman would want.

You may be referring to some reported practices in several European dioceses, particularly in France. Not long ago it was announced that full Catholic burial would not be automatically denied to divorced and remarried Catholics if they have kept their attachment to the Catholic faith during their lifetime and at the time of their death. Evidence of this attachment would -be the religious training of their children, attendance at Mass, etc.

In these instances, bishops have pointed out that" this policy has no relation to the permanence of mariage, or to the right to receive the sacraments. It simply expresses the link the Church keeps with those who are baptized.

Q. This question caused quite

a disagreement at our study club: when a priest leaves the priesthood, can he still offer Mass and hear confessions? I am a convert to the Catholic faith, and I remember the priest saying, "Once a priest always a priest." But some of my friends disagree.

A. When a person is baptized,

he is, as you know, established in a permanent basic relationship and identity with Jesus Christ - an identity that will always be there.

Something very similar happens when a man is ordained to the priesthood. He is established to a new and special relationship to Jesus, which involves certain functions and responsibilities in the service of other Christians, and of all persons.

The "power" to fulfill these services - for example, offering the sacrifice of the Eucharist or administering the Sacrament of Penance - is, therefore, never lost. Some old catechisms used to say that the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Orders "place an indelible mark on the soul." The phrase is poor beCause it can be misunderstood; but it does carry the message

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Hence, personal priestly powers to fulfill these .services are never lost. However, a man who has "left the priesthood" may not normally offer Mass or hear confessions. For excellent and obvious reasons having to do with the spiritual good of all, the Church forbids such a man to exercise these functions except in extreme emergencies - for instance if a dying person wished to go to confession or receive the Eucharist, and no other priest was available.

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

Father Maddock Continued from Page One canon law. Father Maddock will be enrolled in Casa Santa Maria, the house of graduate studies affiliated with the North American Collelte in Rome.

A native of Attleboro, the son of Mrs. Mary Maddock and the late James W. Maddock, Father Maddock graduated from Msgr.

Coyle High School, St. Thomas Seminary, Blomfield, and -St. John's Seminary College. He completed his theological studies at the North American College in Rome and was ordained Aug. 2, 1975 at St. Mary's Cathedral by Bishop Cronin.

Since ordination he has served at Sacred Heart Church, Taunton, whose parishioners will honor him at a farewell party in the new parish center from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. In charge of arrangements for the event are Joan and Bob Ross, assisted by a large committee.

Five Appointments Other appointments made by Bishop Cronin are: -Father Horace J. Travassos,. assistant chancellor, as cochairman of the diocesan ecumenical commission, ~ollabor­ ating with Father :Edward J. Bums, pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, Fall River.

-Father Steven R. Furtado and Father Arnold R. Medeiros, to the Pre-Cana Apostolate in the Taunton Deanery.

-Father Daniel L. Freitas to Spiritual Moderator of the Diocesan Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

-Father Edward J. Sharpe to Spiritual Moderator of the St. Vincent de 'Paul Society, Fall River Particular Council.

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Catech'etical Continued from Page One that their contribution, while indispensable, does not diminish the responsibility shared by all members of the parish community.

Also carrying out the Catechetical Sunday theme will be the weekly television Mass, to be carried at 8:45 a.m. Sunday on Channel Six. Father Michel G. Methot, diocesan director of reo Iigious education, will be principal celebrant and homilist and concelebrants will be Father George W. Coleman, director of education, and Father Marcel H. Bouchard, assistant for religious education.

All areas of the diocese will be represented at the celebration, with music provided by St. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River, and lectors, members of the offertory procession and the congregation coming from Confraternity of Christian Doctrine teams at St. Kilian, New ~ed­ ford; St. John, Pocasset; Sa£red Heart, Taunton and St. Mary, North Attleboro.

Also a reader will be Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, diocesan coordinator for religious education.

Continued from Page One Meanwhile, Dr. Charles Mandell, Fall River physician who wants to build the Seekonk clinic, said he plans to go ahead with it, although he has not yet chosen a site nor applied for a state-issued "certificate of need."

In Washington In Washington, coathangers, roses and sharp words were the order of the day as a HouseSenate conference committee returned to working out an agreement on federal funding for abortion.

The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), began by launching a campaign to send coathangers to Rep. Daniel Flood (D-Pa.), the head of the House conference group, to symbolize self-induced abortion and to argue that a million women a year had abortions before they were legal.

The March for Life, an anti-

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The group lias been sending him paper roses for several months.

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Enthusiasm"· sparked by the black revolution in the 19608 has "slowly dwindled away," he said. "There is not a strong identifiable leadership in the back community," issues are not clearly defined, and the country is not preoccupied with racism and racial justice.

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is now shown to be the cosmic Christ, center of the whole uniNothing could be more obviverse and head of the Church. ous than the fact that the modThat Church is not just a local ern Church is in a ferment of community, but the universal ideas, ,ministries, structures, Church. Salvation is not only theologies. This understandably something to be achieved in the disturbs many people. There future; it is realized, actualized should be no question of chance, in the life of the Christian. they feel. The Church is one, Again, there was no uniform and that's that! They sometimes structure in the Church. Some wish we could go back to the ideal, untroubled days of the were fairly well organized (Phil 1, 1), while others, like Corinth, apostolic Church, the Church of were largely charismatic. the New Testament. Such an atOne serious division almost titude betrays a woeful ignorsplit the Christian movement a~ce of history. wide open, and that was caused The fact is that the Church by the question of the admission has been changing ever since it of Gentiles into Church. The was born, and the Church of the very first Christians, all devout New Testament was far from Jews, insisted that if Gentiles being either ideal or untroubled. wanted to become Christians, It enjoyed a basic unity, but a they had first to become Jews. unity amid diversity. Take the When Peter baptized the Roman matter of theology. Just com- Cornelius without benefit of cirpare the Gospels of Mark and cumcision, he had to justify his John; read them one after an- behavior by appealing to a heavother and it's like being in two enly vision (Acts 11, 1-18), and different ideological worlds. And in spite of the rosy ending to in between the two, Matthew the story as told by Luke, this has his theology and Luke his. was apparently accepted as an They all agree in the essentials unusual exception. For when of the Christ-event, but they Paul began a wholesale convercertainly did not simply parrot sion of pagans, there was an upeach other. roar, quieted only by the comThe Pauline literature is an- promise reached at the so-called other clear illustration. Paul Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15; was creative, innovative, preach- Gal. 2). Even then, the friction ing his own version of the Good continued, as Paul's subsequent News of Christ. ThE Church at , career shows.

It is only natural to idealize Jerusalem, took a rather dim view of this, but it is important the apostolic Church and to to note that they did not silence sign after the good old days. But him (see Gal. 2). Ant. even with- it is reassuring to know that in the letters of Paul, you can they were days of ferment, too. see his ideas growir,g on many Through it all the Church repoints. Turning frQm his own mained united and grew strong. letters to later writings which Without the ferment, indeed, it came to be attributed to him, would have been much less dythere is a development in the- namic. In looking for unity, it ology. In Ephesians, for instance, is easy to forget that unity withthe historical, saving of Christ in diversity is a dynamic unity.

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Biblical images seem to indicate an association in which all members are united with a single heart. But in actual life we see Christians hostile even to the point of sometimes killing orie another. What has the bibilical imagery to do with the ampirical reality of the Church?

As a first step in answering this question we may note that . there have always been sharp divisions among Christians, even when the New Testament was being written. Authors such as Luke, Paul, and John penned some of their most glowing tributes to ,church unity in order to meet crises in which that unity was being sorely tasted.

In Jerusalem itself there was bitter conflict among Christians

who spoke Hebrew and those who spoke Greek.

Even sharper was the conflict between the Jewish converts and those converted from paganism.

The so-called "council" of Jerusalem worked out a compromise by drawing up special canonical regulations for non-Jewish Christians. ,But even this expedient did not prevent an angry confrontation between Peter and Paul (Gal 2, 11-14).

The Christian community at Corinth was torn by factions and divisions. The occasion was, in part, loyalty to different human teachers, such as Paul, Apollos, and Peter. Conscious of the overriding importance of unity, Paul did nothing to strengthen his own party at Corinth. Instead he applied all his skill and eloquence to effect a reconciliation.

He 'reminds his Corinthian readers that no one is baptized in the name of Paul, but only in the name of Christ, who can-

Celebrating the Difference

By Michael Warren

One of my more vivid childhood memories is passing a Protestant church in Somerville, Mass., and being tempted to go in. I was with a group of fellow sixth-graders, and we were cUJ;:ious about the Protestants. We had been told it was sinful to worship in a Protestant church, and somehow we had extrapolated that notion to mean that it was sinful to even enter one.

However, we must have settled our moral scruples, since we finally decided to have a quick peek through the front door. Our moral anguish resolved, we dashed up the stairs to the door, only to find it firmly locked!

Coming from an Irish immigrant neighborhood, I see now that we children (and not my own mother, who clearly had a unitive consciousness) defined ourselves against many different groups. "They" were Protestants or Jews or Blacks or Italians or public school kids or the Harvard crowd that rounded their r's and talked like sissies. "We" were Irish and Catholic and went to St. Joseph's school

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Further, Paul asserts, all genuine gifts of the Holy Spirit help to build up the Body in unity, so that whatever divides the community or separates believeJ,S from it cannot be truly from the Spirit. Finally, he stresses that the greatest gift of the Spirit is charity. iIn our day there is a widespread fear that the maintenance o:f unity may suppress a healthy diversity of style and expression within the Church. The New Testament gives no ground for such fears. The biblical images suggest a unity with ample s(~ope for variety. They represent the Church as a people of many tribes, a house with many dwelling places, and a body with many organs. In its actual practice the early Church allowed for great varieties in the expression of faith and in the structures o:f leadership.

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I'm glad those days are over.

I'm glad the children I know get excited when they have a celebration of cultures in school, including ethnic foods, costumes and dances. The procedure evokes the biblical notion of a coming eschatological feast when all peoples shall sit and share a feast of unity.

My hope is that the understanding of unity-in-diversity fostered by such activities will break down some of the attitlide of diversity-as-bad which I seemed to have had as a child.

An early realization that unity does not mean uniformity will help young people to be comfortable in a Church that is one, but at the very same time it is ethnic to its roots. .

Han.s Kung pointed out recently that we should not consider the local Church as a mere section or province of the real "Church." The local Church is the Church and can fully represent the cause of Jesus Christ..

II find many implications in this position. The Word of God is meant to be native speech.

As a catechist, the most exciting times of my life have been when I have listened to the Word of God being articulated by teens (or adults) as their own word. Sometimes a well-meaning adult will want to jump in and correct inaccuracies in what the young person is saying. My response is: "Shhhh. Listen. The Word of God is coming to life on those lips. It is like a baby learning to speak by uttering incomplete syllables. This. person' is discovering faith-speech.

Listen."

Like children discovering and celebrating their ethnic roots, local Churches are called today

not merely to tolerate but to love differences. Our' attitude is to be that of parents with regard to their children. Every parent I have ever known has spoken glowingly about the very different personalities they find in their children. To parents there is something astonishing yet beautiful about these differences. One family, very different children - unity in diversity.

The lives of all of us are filled with differences" that can only be overcome through love. We can see a prize example of this reality in sexual differences. Men and women differ physically and psychologically in subtle yet real ways, bridged only through love.

And in our Christian churches, it is the presence of Jesus Himself, ,Lord and Christ, that is the source of our unity. If He summons us to anything, it is to love one another.

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By Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin Recently two other faculty members and I left Rome's North American College 'by car for dinner in one of the city's countless restaurants. A scheduled massive protest demonstration by Italian college students and young people had, we thought, fizzled out because of the continuous rain that day.

However, as we passed the jail near our seminary we saw about 200 riot policemen and soldiers lined up ready for battle.

We altered plans and headed back toward St. Peter's, only to discover a traffic jam and obvious signs of turmoil ~fter a short delay we crossed the Tiber and made our way to the "Via Conciliazione." Suddenly we noted a fire ahead and moments later passed two cars burning in this avenue of reconciliation.

As we neared the Vatican, home of Paul VI, the man who said to the United Nations, "War no more, war never again," I spotted a slowly advancing column of riot soldiers on the opposite side of the boulevard.

For -the rest of that evening I could not get those ugly sights out of my mind or an eerie feeling from my heart.

This morning we passed a store whose two main windows had been shattered during the Saturday evening demonstrations.

Someone had printed on the wall between the two boardedup windows a phrase familiar to all Christians, "Peace on earth to men of good will."

We wondered if it had been written before, during or after the violence.

'When interviewed, one protesting student simply explained Turn to Page Thirteen

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ST. JAMES,

ST. mOMAS MORE, SOMERSET The Ladies' Guild will hold its The Women's Guild will hold first meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wed- its installation banquet tonight. nesday, Sept. 21. "Roots and Choir rehearsals began TuesShoots," a plant demonstration, day at 7:30 p.m. Prospective will follow a business session. members may attend the next Officers for the year include session, at the same day and Elizette Quadros, president; Lu- time. cille Kolbeck, vice-president; The 1000 Club ends Sunday Diane Frenette and Joan Pierce, and a banquet will take place secretaries; Kathleen Walden, Sunday, Oct. 16 at the Coachtreasurer. men restaurant, Tiverton. The HEART youth group will hold a ST. STANISLAUS, pizza party and dance tomorrow FALL RIVER night, for members only. ProsA prayer-study session in prep- pective members may contact aration for a Holy Land pilgrimDawn Cabral, telephone 8-6852. age to be held next April will The unit will sponsor a yard take place at 6:15 p.m. Sunday, sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sept. 8 in the school hall.

Saturday, Sept. 24, outside the An adult education series beold church. Proceeds will beneginning Wednesday, Oct. 5 will fit Indian missions in North Dabe conducted by Father Robert kota and donations may be made Kaszynski and a course in Poto Dawn Cabral. lish culture and language will CCD teachers will be commisbegin Friday, Oct. 7, directed by sioned at 9 a.m. Mass Sunday Father Marian Ogorek. and a coffee hour will follow A parish penny sale is schedthe ceremony. A booklet exuled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, plaining the parish CCD proSept. 24. Donations may be left gram will be distributed to famat the rectory. ilies with children enrolled in Commissioning of CCD teachclasses. ers will take place at 10:30 a.m.

HOLY NAME, Mass Sunday. Students are askFALL RIVER ed to be present for the occaPublic school children are asksion. ed to register for religious education classes after any Mass this weekend in the rectory conference room. Baptismal certiContinued from Page Twelve ficates should be brought for the reason for the demonstranew students. tion: "We have no hope."

The Women's Guild will begin Italian Universities are overnew season with a reception its crowded and unemployment and tea Sunday, Sept. 25, to among graduates high. Hopelesswhich prospective members are ness seems to have gripped many invited.

They may contact Mrs. caught in the vise of those twin ' Michael Coughlin, telephone problems.

672-7713.

The turbulence and destrucBoys in fifth grade and older tion in Rome that night are who wish to become altar boys hardly conditions limited either may contact Father William to Italy or to our current period Campbell at the rectory. of history.

A prayer service for all who A candidate for confirmation have indicated interest in the sitting before the bishop should parish 'Ministry of Intercessory clearly understand; then, that Prayer will be held at 3:30 p.m.. these following phrases of his Sunday, Sept. 18 in the church. homily have real meaning and Any others who would like to practical application to their join this group are asked to call present and future lives.

Father Bruce Neylon at the rec"In our day the coming of the tory.

Holy Spirit is not usually marked by the gift of tongues, but we know His coming by faith.

Continued from Page Twelve He fills our hearts with the love Far from proposing an unrealof God, brings us together in istic ideal, the New Testament one faith but in different voca- realistically portrays the strugtions, and works within us to gle of the early Christians to make the Church one and holy achieve the unity that Christ . . . to build up the holy people willed for his Church and sugof God in unity and love" (Arti- gests motives, measures, and cle 22, Revised Order of Confir- models that are still of great mation). value today.

NEW BEDFORD

Hate and Love

How Can We?

"CARS BURNING in this avenue of reconciliation"

A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego Estatfsticas recentes chamam a nos sa para a baixa senslvel da assistencia dos fleis a missa dominical.

Estas cifras nao nos podem deixar indiferentes: elas nos interpelam e obrigam a urn exame de consciencia, pois se a fidelidade a este preceito nao e 0 unico criterio para avaliar da vitalidade religiosa, nele temos urn dos sinais revel adores bern marcantes.

Reflectamos neste problema diante do Senhor, pedindo-Lhe que Ele mesmo nos esclare~a sobre 0 significado de semelhante descida e qual a reac~ao que se nos impoe.

Antes de mais, parece importante que nao nos deixemos enclausurar numa vis~o puramente sociologica das coisas. A vitalidade crist~ nao se mede em cifras nem em numeros, mas em profundidade.

Jesus'nunca afirmou que os Seus discipulos seriam maioria do mundo: fala de fermento na massa e'de sal. Tudo isto s~o slmbolos a lembrar-nos que 0 poder do Esplrito nao se mede em termos quantitativos.

Os Apostolos eram apenas doze para levar a Boa Nova ate aos confins da terra. Os primeiros cristaos estavam engolfados numa massa paga e, mais que uma vez, tiveram de derramar o seu sangue por fidelidade ao Senhor.

Depois que o'cristianismo, com Constantino, se tornou religiao do Estado no Imperio romano, a "qua lidade" crista foi mais duma vez vltima do seu exito quantitativo, em detrimento do empenhamento pessoal de cada baptizado. ' Ontem ainda, nos haviamos conhecido urn estado de cristandade no qual uma popula~ao quase homogenea vivia a sua vida religiosa e profana ao mesmo rit~o da liturgia, enquanto que hoje 0 cristao esta emerso num mundo pluralista onde tudo se poe em questao. Esta situa~!o obriga-nos a tomar consci~ncia de nos mesmos, da nossa identidade crist~, pessoi e colectiva.

Convida-nos a fazer uma peregrina~ao as fontes do cristianismo e a ~ituamo-nos no pro路 longamento da Igreja primitiva. Embora n~o seja uma imagem sem sombras- basta ler sro Paulo para disso nos convencermos- ela permanece para n6s uma fonte de agua viva, tradu~ao proclamada e vivida do Evangelho e de seus imperativos maiores.

Aquilo que na leitura dos Actos dos Apostolos, que nos des creve a hist6ria da Igreja nascente, nos supreende e a ansia de cada crist~o em espalhar, por todos os lugare! onde se encontrava~ 0 testemunho da sua fe.

Demasiado numero de cristaos, ate praticantes, nao sentem assaz que 0 cristao e urn encarregado de miss~o, urn homem a quem Jesus Cristo confiou outros homens, urn homem que nao aceita a fe apenas para si e para os seus, mas a confessa e proclama, pois sabe que Jesus declarou: Todo aquele que der teste路 munho de mim diante dos homens, Eu dare; testemunho dele diante de Meu Pai que esta nos ceus.

Aderir a fe, ser baptizado na agua e no Esplrito Santo, era para'o cristao dos primeiros ~eculos partilhar tambem 0 silencio e a alegria a sua volta, era traduzi-la em palavras e em actos, no discurso do dia a dia em pleno cora~~o do paganismo que os cercava.

Partilha dos bens, cuidado dos pobres, a colecta de Paulo em benef{cio dos pobres de Jerusalem 0 testemunha, hospitalidade generosa para com os irmaos em viagem, tudo isto nascia, como por encanto, duma fe vivida em comum.

(A continua~ao deste artigo sera publicada a semana que vern) aten~ao

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Life

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In

Music

By The Dameans

A TIME FOR EVERYTHING

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NINE JESUIT PRIESTS of the faculty of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, concelebrated a Mass of the Holy Spirit at the opening of the academic year. Among them were, from left, ~ather John Foley, Father William Cullen, Father Richard Wolf, principal and main celebrant, and Father Arthur Pare. Similar Masses were offered at all diocesan primary and secondary schools.

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By Cecilia Belanger

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We live in times when nothing is sacred!

There were similar times, ancient times, but we were not living then, and the.re was nothing we could do about it.

But we can do something now about this coming wave' of public blasphemy in novies and television.

Why wait till it strikes? It will then be too late.

We have accepted Jesus as our Savior. We have accepted His references. We believe (do we not?) that He is the true image of God's authority. And if we do, then now is the time to stick our necks out. The day has come.

Counter-culture can sometimes be good. When Christ proclaimed love as ultimate value this was counter-culture in His day. The Renaissance was counter-culture. So was the Enlightmen.t.

But what was propagandized, pushed, publicized, and championed at the end of the sixties in America was an emergence of a paltry sub-culture, blown out of proportions 'by its commercial marketing as a novelty, based on the misuse of the word "liberation."

I have talked with many youth who thought they were "liberated" but who are. now anxious and eager to get back to a more conservative, responsible way of life.

Liberating a society from reason and civility is a contradiction in terms. But this was all the sub-culture had to offer. It lives by disdaining old wisdoms, one's religion, even while it adulates old clothes, irr,agery and nostalgia. The contradiction lies in the fact it refuses from "old-

God Help Us "To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men."

- Cesar Chavez

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ness" what is worth It;~lfning, even while it imitates it in external paraphernalia.

What is so strange in the liberal mind is that while it admires the Indian, :Black, Puerto Rican and other groups' faithfulness to the past (as we do) - respecting their tradition as a treasure, and old cultural view. - yet by the same token, these same people perceive no beauty in real American patriotism, in Christian legends and so forth, caUing this corny, icky, reactionary.

So we have a culture that -is ripe to be taken over by the porno producers. We will be inundated with the subcultural foaming at the mouth about mythical 'trepressions," w~,ich will saturate the air with the odor of immaturity, which the media will promote to "high fashion," where it will be propounded with idiotic zeal, not 'by youth, but by people well over forty.

It is hard to understand why that which was once respectable chose the "new" cultural tawdriness of laissez-faire over the intellectual discipline and artistic responsibility of the past.

Editors and reviewers have succeeded in erasing the distinction between dirty .literature, dirty

fi:lms, bawdy films, pernicious fi1ms and what is truly worthy.

Why powerful? Because their advertising is non-stop. When youth read about these films, books, whatever, extolled in the pnpers, there's no end to the confusion and mass-frustration that is stimulated.

It's time we of the Christian world, at least, showed porno pE~ddlers that their garbage is not what WE want!

Who among us can call himself Christian and not wish to do all in his power to stop this foul attempt to make of this a godless world?

Jesus sustains us, His tendernE!SS and concern are with us alw,ays, the blessings He has offeredl us as none other has, His character such a union of moral bElauty and grandeur, His example so pure and persuasive, the events of His life, how can w,e forget them and stand by and allow others to besmirch His· purity? He expects something more from us besides lip service and eJ11()tion. He expects courage. If we cannot measure up, then all these years we havebElen confining ourselves to the mlrrowest, safest views of Christianity!

IParents to Meet St. Ignatius Women's Guild of Bishop Connolly High School F~lll River will meet at·7:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 19 in the school.

New officers will be installed and a social hour will follow.

The 'Parents' Club of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will meet at 8 p.m. TuesdElY, Sept. 20 in the gymnasium.

Instruction will be offered in line dancing and new dance st,eps.

NOTICE Diocesan hip schools

are as:ked to send news and photogr'aphs of activities to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River m~722 for inclusion on this page.

The third chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastics in the Bible begins: "There is an appointed time for everything."

These wise words have reflected the journey of human lives for scores of centuries and today serve to summarize the feelings that we, the Dameans, are experiencing. After almost six years of writing this column, we have decided that it is time to move on to other things.

As most of you know, we are four Catholic diocesan priests working in three different Louisiana dioceses. We' have been together as a group for nearly 10 years and have five albums of our own compositions. We travel once a month as a group to give workshops, concerts and spread the Good News of the Kingdom through our music.

Our decision to discontinue this column is to enable us to use our time and creative energies for our music and to develop our interest in liturgy (the worship of the Church).

We felt that this final article might reflect some of what the column has meant to us. We all agreed that it helped us to be in touch with probably the most influential media of our society.

Gary mentioned that he was impressed, and often inspired, with the way many people struggled with the words to songs and did not simply accept uncritically the values that songs portray.

Darryl felt the column helped him to discipline his thinking and enabled him to express himself more clearly and concisely.

In reminiscing about some of our favorite songs, all agreed it wasn't easy to decide on anyone since we have each written about 70 articles. We all felt that we enjoyed commenting on the the songs that touched our own personal experiences.

There were difficult moments of writing the articles often they were due when we were busiest in our parishes, as at Holy' Week or Christmas. Then sometimes we bombed out in terms of both the lack of popularity of the song or the general response from the readers: the scathing letters we received after Ute "I Am Woman" article; our sadness with the response to "Tonight's the Night" with the awareness of the wide gulf in attitudes between adults and teenagers; and the up-tightness that was felt when certain vulgar words to songs were printed and our realization that people got more upset over the words than over underlying damaging value of life.

With regard to what we attempted to accomplish by our articles: we wanted to encourage people to question and hopefully better understand themselves, life, and God who is the source of all life and love.

All of us, Gary, Mike, Darryl and Buddy, offer you thanks for your support, as well as your challenge to us.

There is a "time for everything under heaven" and we offer thanks to you and the Father for this time.

The Parish Parade ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER

SS.PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER

The Cathedral Choir is beginning rehearsals for 1977-78 with a full program for liturgy and concert planned. Friday evening rehearsals prepare for 10 a.m.

Sunday sung service. Interested singers may contact Glenn Giuttari, director of ~usic, after services or through the Cathedral rectory.

CCD teachers and helpers will be commissioned at 9:30 a.m.

Mass Sunday, Sept. 18. Religious education classes will begin Sunday, Sept. 25. New students and first graders are asked to register before that time. Teachers and helpers are needed for grades 8 and 9.

NOTRE DAME, FALL RIVER Vocations were the theme of a Mass marking the opening of the parish school, and an open house last Tuesday gave parents the opportunity to inspect school facilities.

'Primary grade teachers will offer a demonstration of the "Open Court" language arts program Thursday, Oct. 13, and PTA meetings throughout the year will continue explanations of school activities.

A planning meeting for adult advisors of the Sign group will take place at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18.

Parents and children who will receive First Communion this year are asked to meet Sunday, Sept. 25, following 9:30 a.m.

Mass.

ST. HEDWIG, NEW BEDFORD A cake. sale sponsored !?y the parish choir will follow all Masses this weekend. Donations of pastry are requested.

Interscholastic

Sports

IN THE DIOCESE

By BILL MORRISSETTE

Connolly Netmen to be Honored City, state and federal dignitaries are expected to join in the tribute to be paid Bishop Connolly High's state Class B tennis champions at a Recognition Banquet at 7 p.m. Sunday in White's - on - the - Watuppa, North Westport.

Rev. William J. Cullen, S.J., of the Connolly faculty, will be "Magister Ludi" or "master of fun" for the event, at which state championship trophies will be presented to Brother Daniel Caron, FIC, the school's athletic director, and Ted Pettine, tennis coach.

Mike Haynes and Steve King of the New England Patriots will be the gu~st speakers. Haynes was named rookie of the year in 1976.

On the way to the school's first state championship ever in any sport, the Cougars posted 26 wins against only one loss.

Tryouts scheduled by the Bristol County Hockey League, sponsored by the Catholic Youth Organization, will continue Sunday night, starting at nine 0' clock, in the Driscoll Memorial Rink, Fall River.

Scholastic Soccer and Cross-Country Underway Although scholastic football does not break into the fall sports schedules until tomorrow and Saturday, there is action to report in soccer and cross-country.

In soccer, the action has been limited to pre-season exhibition games as far as the Southeastem Mass. Conference is concerned. Holy Family and Old Colony Vocational, which met on the latter's pitch yesterday, meet again, at seven o'clock tomorrow night, at Fort Rodman, New Bedford.

Connolly visited Diman Voke Tuesday and takes on Durfee at Britland Park, Fall River, tomorrow, when Somerset is host to Diman at Hanson Memorial Field, all games being scheduled f or 3:15 p.m.

Today the Hockomock League opens its cross-country schedule with Oliver Ames at Mansfield, Sharon at King Philip, Franklin at Foxboro and North Attleboro at Stoughton. Canton, which has the bye today will be home to King Philip Tuesday when Mansfield will be at North Attleboro Sharon at Franklin and Foxbor~ at Stoughton. Oliver Ames has the bye on Tuesday's schedule.'

Schools in the Southeastern Mass. Conference's Division III also open their cross-country season today. On the' opening card Case is at Bourne, Connolly at Feehan and Bishop Stang at Wareham. Next Tuesday it will be Feehan at Case, Westport at Stang and Bourne at Connolly.

Divisions I schools open conference play Tuesday. In Division I Falmouth is at Barnstable, Dartmouth at New Bedford Voke, and, Old Rochester at New Bedford with Dennis-Yarmouth draWing the bye. Division II conference action starts Monday with Coyle-Cassidy at Taunton, Attleboro at DightonRehoboth, Seekonk at Diman Voke. Somerset has the bye.

The Dennis-Yarmouth Cross Country Classic, the Somerset Invitational Meet, and, the Northeastern Track Club Invitational Meet provide the highlights of this week's cross-country action.

Most schools launch their football seasons with exhibition games this weekend. North Attleboro will entertain Feehan at 7:30 p.m., tomorrow and Franklin is host to Attleboro Saturday, also at 7:30 p.m. on the exhibition circuit.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO The parish recreation committee will hold the first of a series of monthly coffee hours after the 9:15 and 10:30 a.m.

Masses this Sunday. Commissioning ceremonies for CCD teachers will be held at the 10:30 Mass.

Cub Scouts will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the parish hall.'

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC)The place of athletics in high school and the conduct of both participants and spectators in sporting events are outHned in guidelines adopted by four Louisville Catholic boys' high schools.

They deal with general principles and specific activities at sporting events.

"Goals of the athletic program should be meaningful to all students in a school and to citizens in the community," the guidelines say. "Athletics should be a meaningful, valuable community activity, and (should) further loyalty, school spirit and healthy competition."

Each school is asked to communicate publicly, for example in programs sold at games, what the guidelines mean.

Concerning coaches, the guidelines say, "We expect coaches to serve as a positive example of fair play." They are asked not to criticize officials and to "be

Stress Spiritual Side of Sports CHICAGO (NC) - The need to emphasize the spiritual aspects of sports is the goal behind a new training program for coaches the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) is planning in Chicago.

"There's a need to teach young people moral and spiritual values," said Father Marcel J. Pascisk, CYO associate director.

"One very important way of reaching our youth is through sports. You can use sports to bring the Gospel to our young men and women," Father Pasciak, 29, said.

The program, also used in other parts of the country, would be required to attend either a weekend program or three weeknight workshops. Workshops would 'include presentations in such areas as Christian ethics, psychology of youth, coaching responsibility and motivating for the coach.

"It is not that Christianity

has been tried and found wanting. It is that Christianity has been found difficult and left untried." - G. K. Chesterton

"All sorrow and all joy come from love." - Meister Eckhart

ST. THERESA, NEW BEDFORD A Marriage Encounter information night· will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday in the church hall.

There will be no charge and couples are invited to attend.

ST. JOHN, POCASSET The Women's Guild will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20 in the Pocasset Community Building. Mrs. Gilbert Noonan will speak and a potluck dessert will follow the program.

Left Untried

positive in their remarks" when interviewed by the media.

About players, the guidelines say, "We expect players to serve as a positive example for spectators by exercising self-control and good sportsmanship, and by accepting both victory and defeat with pride and compassion." Players are asked to shake hands with opponents at the end of games and never to "rub it in" when an opponent makes a mistake.

Cheerleaders and students should "keep all cheers positive" (cheer "for our team, don't jeer their team"); and avoid efforts "to distract the opposing team's efforts."

Students are asked to "respect the players and supporters of the opposing team, in word and action, before, during and after a game." And the guidelines "expect" parents and other spectators to obey state athletic rules and state laws that forbid the "sale and use of alcoholic beverages at high school contests."

Even the media and lawenforcement agencies are covered, with media asked to "report events in a responsible manner;" avoid "editorializing regarding ijle quality of officiating, judgment of coaches or player competency;" and refrain from using "trigger words" like "kill, shot down, smashed and battIe." Law enforcement officials are asked to keep playing areas clear of spectators and to provide "planned, surveillance of (an) area during and after the game."

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Regional information on diocesan priesthood is offered, along with a section devoted to the permanent diaconate and other options for laymen. Also included are postcards to be used for obtaining further information on communities of interest to a particular reader.

The Parish Parade' ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE, SWANSEA A family picnic from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday will be part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the parish. Families are asked to bring their lunches and beverages and watermelon will be served. Games for all ages will be on the agenda. In case of rain the event will take place Sept. 25.

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Parish Parade Publicity chairmen of parist: organIzations are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7. Fall River, 02722. Name of city N town shOUld be included, as well as ful, dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: the same news Item can be used only once. Please do not request that we repeat an anPouncement several times.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER

(Together All Christians Today.)

It will sponsor a youth retreat the holiday weekend of Oct. 9 and 10 at Cathedral Camp.

Catechists will be commissioned at 10 a.m. Mass Sunday, Sept. 18 and OCD classes will begin the following Sunday. A lector workshop is slated for Monday, Sept. 26 and an open parish council meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, both in the parish center.

Sr. JOSEPH, A flea market will take place AITLEBORO from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, .

Boy Scout and Cub Scout uniSept. 24, and an auction will forms are needed for the parfollow at 7:30 p.m. B3th events will be held in the school hall ish troop.

Volunteers to care for the sacand donations may be left at risty and sanctuary are requestthe hall the week of Sept. 18.

Parish youth have organized ed. Those interested may cona group to be known as TACT tact the rectory.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, F1LLL RIVER

ST. MAmIEU, FALL RIVER

BLESED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER

The winter schedule of Masses is now 'in effect, with Masses on the hour, 7 a.m. through noon and at 5 p.m. on Sunday and the Saturday vigil Masses at 4 and 5:15 p.m.

The Council of Catholic Wom-' en will sponsor a Crazy Hat Dinner Dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 in the parish hall, with music by the Highlighters.

Tickets are available from Mrs. Charles Auclair, chairman, council officers, or from the rectory.

The Women's Guild will sponsor a bus trip to the Springfield fair Sunday, Sept. 18, leaving from the church at 9 a.m. The unit will be hostess to a presidents' meeting of the District Council of Catholic Women at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in the church hall.

ST'. LOUIS DE FRANCE, SWANSEA ':Ladies of Ste. Anne will meet Wedne~day, Sept. 21, beginning their program with Benediction at 7 p.m. Georgette LeComte is chairman for a card party and sodaI hour to follow in the parish hall.

New officers are Colette Golden. president; Rita LaRoche, vice-president; Vivian Belanger, secretary; Doris Proulx, treasure,r.

SCHOOL'S OPEN OBEY THE

SIGNS

New council officers will be installed at 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday, Sept. 27. To be seated are Mrs. Auclair, president; Mrs. Paul Audet, vice-president; Mrs. Edward LeBlanc, treasurer; Mrs. William LeBlanc and Mrs. Gerald Poisson, secretaries; as well as directors an4 committee chairmen.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The Couples Club will sponsor a dance in the school hall at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17. The public is invited and music will be by the Casino Royales. Refreshments will be available. In charge of arrangements are Mr. and Mrs. Manny Fernandes and Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Durand.

. A Mohawk Trail bus trip will leave from the church at 8 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 2. Final trip payments should be made by Sun- . day, Sept. 25; HOLY CROSS, SOUTH EASTON

Tickets are'on sale at the rectory and from planning committee members for a dinner dance to be held at 7 p.m. SatOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL urday, Oct.路 15 at the Derby Room of Raynham Park dog HELP, NEW BEDFORD track clubhouse. The event will The annual parish festival will climax a week of religious and take place this weekend. Fea- social activity .celebrating the tures will include Polish and 10th anniversary of the parish American food specialties, a and will be sponsored by the meat pie supper at 6 p.m. Sat- Women's Club with Mrs. Clarurday and live music both Sat- ence J. Boucher as chairman. urday and Sunday. Activities_ Music from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday will be hy the Tommy Oliviera and 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

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A rummage sale is planned for 2 to 4 and 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 27 and 28 in the hall. Donations may be brought to the hall from 2 to 4 or 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept.

26. If pick-ups are needed, Mrs. Joan Lord (telephone 676-1336) or Mrs. Helen Ouellette (6744050) may be contacted.

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