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Sacred Hearts community celebrates 75 years' PI.. double celebration wall in order Sunday at St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven, as members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary observed the 75th anniversary of their first permanent foundation in the United St.ates and the 75th birthday of St. Joseph's parish, mother church for the congregation's United States missions.

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jubilee Mass with Bishop Daniel St. Joseph's.

A Cronin were Bishop Joseph Members of the Sacred Hearts Regan, MM, a Fairhaven native; congregation present represented Bishop Brendan Comiskey, SS. foundations in Washington, D.C., ce., auxiliary bishop of Dublin; Rome, Ireland, England, Japan Very Rev. Jan Scheepens, Sacred and Hawaii.

Hearts superior general; Very Rev. Fintan Sheeran,' vicar genThe Fairhaven foundation, said eral and former Fairhaven' pro- Father McClenahan, now headvincial superior; Very Rev. Wil- . quarters for the Eastern United liam B. Davis, present Fairhaven States Sacred Hearts province, provincial; and Father William gave birth to a daughter province MoClenahan, SS.CC., pastor of on the U.S. West coast and to

provinces in Ireland, England and Japan. One third of the East coast province members are missioners, serving in Japan, the Bahamas and with Mother Teresa in India.

Sunday's celebration, which included a banquet at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea, began a busy week for the Sacred Hearts community. On Tuesday Bishop Comiskey ordained

Brother Augustine of St. James parish, New Bedford, to the Sacred Hearts diaconate.

Yesterday saw a meeting of major superiors of the English speaking provinces of the congregation and on Saturday a chapter meeting for those provinces will begin at the Sacred Hearts seminary and retreat house in Wareham. It will be atTum to Page Six

Birthright volunteers convene in ~~orth Easton

Abortion is top concern in Italy, Massachusetts

Birthright volunteers from all chapters in Massachusetts, including the newest unit, that on Martha's Vineyard, will meet this weekend at the Holy Cross Fathers Retreat House in North Easton. Birthright is a volunteer organization dedicated to assist· ing women and girls in problem pregnancies.

The three-day program will begin tomorrow night with individual workshops directed at specific jobs within the Birthright organization, such as fundraising and telephone counseling.

Saturday's program will bEigin with registrations at 9 am., followed by a 10 a.m. workshop on "The Teenager and Her Preg. nancy," presented by Ron POinte of St. Anne's Hospital, l!"all River.

A pan!!l discussion will follow on "HoW Can Birthright Become Streetwise?" Panelists will be Carol Dinklege, a psychologist

In Italy and in Massachusetts abortion has become a top issue in recent days. In the commonwealth, implementation of a new law requiring minors to receive the permission of their parents or a judge before obtaining an abortion has been stayed by a federal court.

In Italy, Pope John Paul II has entered a heated political situation several times in recent weeks by speaking out strongly against legalized abortion.

In Boston the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last Saturday granted a request by Planned Parenthood and others to delay implementation of the new abortion law until an appeal can be heard.

In addition to requiring permission for minors for abortions, the law requires women seeking abortions in Massachusetts to sign a consent form at least 24 hours before the abortion. The

with the Barnstable school department; John McNamara," MD, chief of pediatrics at Brockton Hospital; Robert Turillo, director of the Life Resource Residence; Sister Theresa, a former worker at New York City's Covenant House for teenage prostitutes and runaways; and Joni Jackson, a social worker with the Fall River diocesan department of social services.

The presentations will deal with the truth about teen pregnancies, including medical complications, and with streetwise youth, drug use and abuse and the work of Covenant House.

The afternoon program, to be conducted by Francis Mara, Director of the Children and Youth Project of the Brockton Multiservice Center, and Janice Anderson of Brockton Catholic Charities, will deal with counselTum to Page Eleven

SISTER GIULIANA

Family Day K highlight of diocesan celebration of the sixth centenary of the death of St. Catherine of Siena will come Sunday at the Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, 37 Park Street, Fall River. There Tum to Page Six

form describes the procedure to be used in the abortion and outlines the development of the fetus.

Behind the current Italian controversy is a signature campaign for two referendums by the Italian Movement for Life.

Each referendum needs half a mililon signatures by the end of September to be included on a . national ballot.

The first referendum would nullify all articles in Italy's current abortion law that legalize abortion.

The second would declare that true therapeutic abortions are not illegal.

Pope John Paul entered the fray during several visits to italian towns. In Siena last Sunday, for instance, he said it was a "patent contradiction" to defend human rights and at the same time back abortion.

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CHICAGO (NC) - The Knights of Columbus' board of directors ha,s elected Virgil C. Dechant of New Haven, Conn., to a fifth term as supreme knight. A native of Kansas, Dechant ha dserved as supreme secretary of the society for a.lmost 10 years prior to his selection as the chief executive officer.

LOS ANGELES (NC) -- Auxildary Bishop Thaddeus Shubsda of Los Angeles and 29 priests signed a petition asking the Akron Department Store to disc:ontinue selling J. P. Stevens products. ,Federal courts and the National Labor Relations Board have found J. P. Stevens guilty of repeatedly violating labor laws.

MEMBERS OF ST. PATRICK'S PARISH, Falmouth, embark aboard Island Queen for a two-hour night cruise of the Cape Cod shoreline. All proceeds were donated by owner Charles Bardelis to the parish.

ROME (NC) - A world of more :than 3:5 billion city dwellers, dependent on food from dwdndling rural areas, helpless to cure pollution-related diseases killing mlillions and battered by unemployment, crime and povel1ty, was the picture' emerging from discussions of the year 2000 by 60 big-city mayors at a recent international conference tin Rome.

CLEVELAND (NC) - The Cleveland Diocese has reaffirmed its ban on admitting to Catholic schools students seeking to avoid desegregation in public schools.

NEW YORK (NC) - A Ne wYork City Council Committee has approved the renamling of a block on East 43rd st. in Manhattan as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Place.

LA PAZ (NC) - "Human dignity and freedom to preach the Gospel face a tough test" under Bolivia's m'ilita.ry rulers, the country's Catholic bishops said in a statement issued last week. They said the military tis violating human rights.

WASHINGTON (NC) -- Father J. Bryan Hehir, .u.S. Catholic Conference associate secretary for international justice and peace, has crlltJidized U.s. support for the South Korean government, which, he said, emphasizes military :;ecurity at the expense of human rights and democratic institutions. He testified be:Fore the House subcommittee on Asian andl Pacific affairs.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop Jean Jadot, who is returning to Rome after seven years as the apostoIic delegate ~n the United States, made a cl)urtesy call on President Cal1ter at the White House. Archbishop Jadot will leave thEi United States tomorrow.

WARSAW, Poland (NC) -National radio transmission of SundaJr Mass wili beg,in in Poland this Sunday. The weekly transmission of Mass on SI:ate radio, unprecedented under Poland's communist government, was one of the concessions won by workers at the end of massive strikes in August.

NEWARK, N.J. (NC) -- The EpiscopallDiocese of Newark has temporarily broken off dialogue with the Catholic diocese of Newark and Paterson, N.J., because of the U.S. Catholic bishops' dedisJon to seek means of receiving dissident Episcopal clergymen into the Catholic priesthood.

RICHMOND, Va. (NC) - A prayer for motorists printed on offil~ial state highway maps in North 'Carolina' has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court in Roichmond.

WASHINGTON (NC) -- Francisco Villagran, who resigned as vke president of Guatemala over human rights ~ssues ,sa'id Catholics who side with ,Indians are persecuted in that Central American country.

BY DAY (center picture) Lisa Donahoo, 22, an honors graduate of the Catholic University of America, works in the' Life Amendment Political Action' Committee office in Washington. She has been arrested a dozen times for participation in abortion clinic demonstrations and as a result of her last arrest was sentenced to spend 30 nights in the District of Columbi jail (bottom picture) where she reads her Bible as she awaits lights out. (NC Photos)

ROME (NC) - Pope John Paul II wdll spend seven to 10 days dn the ,Philippines at the end of January 1981, said Italian news reports from Manila.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Msgr. Robert J. ColI of Allentown, Pa., one of I~he orliginators of the Rice Bowl Lenten fasting program, has been named asSistaqt executive ~tector of Cathomc Relief Services, the overseas aid agency of the U.S. Catholic community. He succeeds Msgr. Andrew Landi ,reNring after 36 years with CRS.

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commend Father James McCarthy, who resides at Sacred Heart Parish and who very admirably assists Father Leduc in the care of souls here.

"I wish also to express gratitude to the devoted Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts who, since 1923, bave maintained a wonderful presence in this parish and who currently staff Saint Mary-Sacred Heart Consolidated School.

"We give thanks today, also, and very importantly, for the marvelous way in which you, my dear people, have heard the Word of God proclaimed here

and have acted upon it.

"For the wonderful way in which you have cooperated with the many graces and blessings which the good Lord has bestowed upon each of. you and upon Sacred Heart parish, we give hearty and humble thanks to Almighty God on this festive occasion of the Triumph of the Cross."

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Sevlenty-five years Members of the Sacred Heart Father Joseph De Villandre as Church, North Attle:boro, last first pastor of Sacred Heart Sunday concluded their year- Parish. His pastorate extended long celebration of 75 years of for nearly 20 years. Under his parish life. The observance be- pastoral care, in collaborating gan with an eveninl~ Mass at with the bishop, plans were furwhich Bishop Daniel A. Cronin thered for the construction of a was principal concelebrant, with church.

Father Roger D. LeDuc, pastor, -'In 1905 land was purchased and Father Richard L. Chretien and actual construction of the as designated con.celebrants. church building began with Many other priests associated ground breaking ceremonies on with the parish in the past or May 1, 1909. The lower level of present were also cor..celebrants. the church was completed by /\. jubilee banquet ::n the par- the next year, and for 20 years thereafter the sacred mysteries ish hall followed the Mass.

Mrs Normand Jette was chair- were celebrated there. person of the parish jubilee com"Upon the sudden death of mittee. Its activities through the Father Villandre, Bishop Feehan year included a service of anoint- appointed Father Louis A. Deing of the sick, organization of quoy to shepherd this faith coma parish Explorer SCOlJt post, in- munity. His parochial ministry troduction to the palish of the spanned 14 years and witnessed tradition of 'Enthronement of construction of a parish school the Sacred Heart in homes, ac- and completion of the upper companied by celebration of church where we are privileged home Masses, and a parish fam- to worship today. ily night.

"Father Villandre and Father Sisters associated with the Dequoy contributed much, in parish were honored B.t a sisters' those early days, to the formatea in the courSe of the year, tion of this parish as a vibrant while the parish council was re- community of faith. activated and Friday ievening de"Yet, as your parish history 'votions for the intention of par- proudly recounts, Sacred Heart ish needs were instituted.

Church has continued to be The feast of the Sacred Heart blessed with priests outstanding was marked with a parish no- in their dedication and devotion. vena and an outdoor Mass on Many will recall fondly the the feastday itself. memory of Father Victor Masse In his jubilee hom:ily, Bishop who succeeded Father Dequoy, Cronin recounted the history of . Father Alfred Bonneau, Father Sacred Heart parish.. Excerpts Joseph Larue, Father Omer Lusfrom his remarks follow: sier, and Father George Daigle, "It all :began on September 4, your pastor until his death a 1904, when this parish was es- little more than a year ago. tablished by Bishop William "I take this significant occaStang for the specifilc purpose sion to congratulate your present of ministering to the pastoral pastor, Father Roger Leduc, for needs of the many French Can- the evident pastoral zeal and adian Catholics who were emi- dedication with which he colgrating to our diocese in good- laborates with me, as Bishop, ly numbers. in service to the people of God "Bishop Stang appointed of this parish. I likewise wish to

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themoori~ The Why of It All Very few people have addressed one of the more curious aspects of the continuing abortion conflict - the fact that no one is mentioning or ,dares to mention why so many people are involved in the abortion process in the first place.

Is it mere coincidence that the advocates of fetal killing -also fail to take a negative stand on the moral issues of fornication and adultery?

Has our society become so enslaved by its headlong quest for pleasure that we simply push aside morality and advocate a carte blanche policy of "anything goes"?

This indeed seems to be the situation. As a result of our crass hedonism, unwanted pregnancies clog our legalized abortion mills. Abortion is regarded as only a means to end a messy situation so that those involved may begin another ride on their perverted merry-go-round All of this is now considered socially acceptable and indeed most normal. Fun at all costs is the name of the game. Responsibility and accountability have been completely overshadowed by a social order that condones unlimited laxity and licentiousness. Supported by the courts, encouraged by legislation and demanded by libertines, restraint and discipline are fast becoming but a national memory.

To many Catholics and indeed to many brothers and sisters of other religious persuasions who affirm ethics and morality, the American moral scene is swiftly becoming one of moral perversity and vengeful vice.

Not that one expects the human family to assume the false trappings of Victorianism or prudish Puritanism. Such legally enforced moral behaviors have already proven fiascoes. .

Yet there must be a middle way that we as a people have yet to search out. If virtue does rest in this middle way, then we are certainly bankrupt because so few seem to care.

The subject of moral responsibility has been' pushed aside by those elements that want what they want when they want it. They laugh when one speaks of trying to be , pure of heart and mind or when one opines that there is a difference between sex and love or that men and women are able within themselves to exercise self-control and self-restraint.

If there is to be some solution to the moral depravity that permeates our society, it will surely be found in those moral concepts handed down to our nation by our JudeoChristian heritage.

The relationships given to us by this tradition have always been the moral backbone of our American way of life.

'Personal respect, individual integrity and moral rectitude are areas of lif~ that once again should be stressed in moral formation.

Education programs to help develop the sense of right living should be made available to all in this land who have suffered the heartbreak and suffering of personal depravity.

Above all, our churches, synagogues; homes and schools should again become sanctuaries where virtue is exalted and chastity encouraged.

When moral credibility is reestablished, perhaps there ~ill be a noticeable decline in abortions. Immorality, the prime force in this abhorrent procedure, would have little i~petus if virtue once again ruled man's life.' After all, when it comes to the bottom line, virtue is indeed the why of it all.

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Catholic 'press vs. IRS

By Jim La,ckey Parts of the Catholic press have been angry in the past two years over a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service on the extent to which tax-exempt, nonprofit .organizations can participate in political campaigns without running afoul of the law.

The ruling, published in May 1978 and revised a month later, said in its final fonn that such organizations can publish the results of position. surveys of political candidates as long as the surveys cover "a wide variety of issues" and a.s long as the organizations stick to educational purposes and shew no bias or endorsements in their efforts.

Those in violation could have their non-profit status removed.

Now that we're in an election year, attention is being refocused on the issue. During the primaries, the editor of the San Antonio archdiocesan newspaper, Oblate Father Brian Wallace flung a boldface "Nuts" in a headline at the IRS and then told readers of, Today's Catholic that Ronald Reagan is "the only presidential candidate who is clearly opposed to abortion."

And recently the House approved an amendment sponsored by Rep. Philip M. Crane (R. Ill.) which would prohibit the IRS from using any of its funds to remove the tax-exempt status' of any organization which publishes the results of position surveys of political candidates.

While many have identified the IRS as the main culprit in this struggle, Crane noted that

the problem dates back to a 1953 tax measure approved by Congress. Lyndon B. Johnson, still 10 years short of being president but already a powerful senator fmm Texas, pushed through a prohibition on overt political activity by charitable and non-profit associations.

The measure, proposed allegedly because Johnson was irritated by a non-profit organization's opposition to his 1952 reo election, was approved without committee consideration or floor debate which might have derailed Johnson's anger, Crane noted.

Far from being just a Catholic issue, the 1953 legislation and the subsequent IRS ruling have affected lots of tax-exempt non-profit organizations which used to survey candidates on particular issues and then publish the results. Environmental groups, black groups, Protestant church groups and others all are struggling with the IRS requirement that the groups must deal with a variety of issues and must not give even the slightest hint of endorsement.

Their concern about the issue is slightly dil:ferent. While the Catholic press complains that the law and the ruling violate its free press rights, most of the other tax-exempt groups say their inability to fully participate in the political process puts them at a disadvantage compared with corporations and trade associations .which can pour lots of money into lobbying activities and endorsements.

But the IRS responds that it can do nothing about the law

and that the voter guides often are little more ths,n political treatises in disguise, thus putting the groups in violation of that law.

One argument being advanced by those who favor the law is that tax-exempt organizatwns should not be allowed to give political endorsements because they are, in effect, subsidized by taxpapers who may I)r may not agree with the organization's goals. If they want ito continue ,such endorsements, they can voluntarily give up their taxexempt status.

Tax exemptions. however, are not a privilege but a constitutional right for chllrches and charitable organizations, according to A.E.P. Wall~ editor of the Chicago Catholic, Chicago archdiocesan newspaper.

Churches ought to be free to operate and to speak I)Ut without the government threatening to raise their taxes, says Wall. Such a threat to.a church's finances could constitute a violation of the Constitution's g\:larantee of freedom of religion.

Crane, while stopping short of endorsing the repeal of the Johnson amendment, said the IRS ruling against candidate surveys, even if the :surveys focus on only a small 'number of issues, was a violation of the organization's free spt~ech rights.

"Clearly this unautt.,orized action is a blow to tax.exempt organizations which pliJY a critical role . . . by infofJning- their memberships on mSljor policy issues," he said.

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Catechetical Sunday us- them, I proposed that the first sign of a healthy parish is that it DOLORES ually deals with :religious works toward the goal of shared education in the parish but . ministry. These are the hallCURRAN I'd like to expand the hori- marks of such a parish. zons of it and us a bit to talk - Each person is expected to about a broader vision of parish be a responsible member of the ministry. parish regardless of status. No I was in a group of parish "I'm just a lay person so I going on."

- The parish expects the management people last year shouldn't be expected to serve." staff to be miracle workers. If who were talking about how to - Each is expected to mature the miracle isn't worked, then it get more done with I,ess staff. both in the faith and in the parOne suggested that instead of ish and this includes laity, reli- seeks a new DRE, youth minister, or pastor. hiring a full-time director of re- gious and clergy. ligious education, it would be - It expects its volnteers to - This parish focuses on more advantageous to the parish relationships. There's a cons- work or teach toward no definto hire two part-time DRSs. cious effort toward the spiritual, able goals. "Because we've alThere was a moment"s silence social, and relational develop- ways done it that way" seems to and then, almost in unison, the ment of the pastoral team, staff, take the place of goals and evalthree DREs present said. "There's and parish community. If a re- uation. no such thing as a part-time re- lationship is hurting, it is faced, - It tends to make the pastor ligion coordinator." responsible for everything or not glossed over.

They were right. If a full-time - This parish tries to inter- write him off as being irresponparish worker - be :It pastor, act adult to adult. People solve sible for anything. youth minister or DRE - is problems and enjoy successes to- Some parishioners claim expected to put in 100 hours a gether. It isn't a case of Father's more right to ownership of the week, then a part-time is expec- problem but our success. parish than others, Le. newted to put in 40, which is con- In this parish, people tend comers, those not in the school. sidered a full-time jo'J in our to support and affirm one an- those who supported the presociety. other rather than compete with vious pastor more vigorously, Hiring two instead of one isn't or denigrate one another. etc. the answer. The anSWE!r to par- It unwittingly fosters perNow, what are the indicators ish revitaliation lies in involving of need in a parish that doesn't petual adolescence over maturmore than the traditional 10% have a goal of shared ministry? ing laity. This perpetual adolesof parishioners who take any - There's a common "why cence is often fostered by a laity part at all in the parish as do-ers. don't they" mentality. that would rather remain adThe other 90% are receivers.

- We find a lack of shared olescent than take responsibilWhen I asked a few years ago vision in a parish without shared ity and a parent-pastor who to list the traits of a healthy ministry. A commonly heard would rather take total responand unhealthy parish as I saw plaint is "I don't know what's sibility than share the ministry.

Cath.olic novels In the old days wle used to argue about whether such a thing as a "Catholic novel" was possible. I hav(~ the impression that the weight of opinion in such learned journals as Commonweal and Cross Currents was against the possibility of a Catholic novel. Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Francois Mauriac, Leon Bloy, Georgeis Bernanos, I guess, were only writing what seemed to be Catholic novels.

The argument is dead and buried and only Greene continues to write, as elusive and mysterious as ever.

I suppose most Catholic literati would now agree that there is no such thing as fl Catholic novel. Nonetheless, this summer two dazzlingly brilliant Catholic novels have appeared Joyce Carol Oate's "Belle Fleur" and Walker Percy's "The Second Coming." Both are well on their way to becoming classics and both are conclusive evidence, if we need any, that the baton of Catholic intellectual and cultural leadership has passed from Europe to the United States.

Ms. Oate's twisted dark visions intrigue and Eilude me, though I think that the dazzling flash of lightning that occasionally illumines her Gothic night is a mystic's view of God crashing into the confusion of the human condition.

Dr. Percy is much less obscure.

In the closing pages of "The Second Coming," Will Barrett,

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his shaky hero, decides that God REV. may have sent him a sign after all in a flaky and attractive ANDREW M. young woman: "Is she not a gift and therefore a sign of the GREELEY giver? Could it be that the Lord is here, masquerading behind that simple, silly, holy face? Am I crazy to love both, her and him? I want . . . no, not want, destroy it, to ignore it. I supI must have and will have them pose that both Percy and Oates will be reviewed in Catholic both." journals and they both will be There in a few short lines is patronized by unknown critics David Tracy's Catholic imagina- with nonexistent literary sensition, as succinct a summary of bilities. Twenty-five years ago Catholic sacramentality as one Catholic journals waxed enthusicould possibly hope for. I sus- astic about Catholic writers of pect the only reason the secular modest talent. Now we ignore critics let Percy get away with or patronize or insult writers of such blatant Catholicism is that enormous talent. ' they don't understand what he is I confess I do not understand up to. this desire to destroy our own Ms. Oates is hard to classify. talent. It would have made Percy now can legitimately sense in a pre-Vatican immigrant claim to be an American Gra- church but it does not make ham Greene though his vision is sense today. substantially more comic than Walker Percy is a subject for Greene's. Yet I think it is fair to say that both authors are vir- a biography by Robert Coles. tually invisible in the Catholic Joyce Carol Oates is profiled in community, that they get per- The New York Times. Catholic haps one-twentieth as much at- journals ignore or patronize tention as did the European them both. Something is proCatholic novelists in the '40s and foundly wrong.

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More about Billy Joel Lisker is a small, balding, equable lawyer, the perfect kind to make your will.

He is also - unfortunately for Billy Carter and his brother Jimmy -the head of the foreign agents registration unit and a bloodhound at heart.

While the president was dashing through town begging votes from labor leaders and the B'nai B'rith, Lisker was up in the Senate Caucus Room, gently shredding the picture Billy Carter had drawn of himself in the same setting as a persecuted rustic whose life was ruined by his brother's election to the presidency.

Lisker described, with neutrality - and valor - how the attorney general withheld critical evidence from the investigators and ordered a delay just as they were closing in on their prey.

When asked, Lisker regretfully characterized Benjamin Civiletti's actions as "unfortunate."

The good news from the hearing, for the public anyway, is that, in spite of the attorney general, we seem to have an excellent Justice Department. Lisker and his associates, John Martin and Mark 'Richard, who are equally professional and committed to the law, managed, in the end, to treat Billy Carter like any other citizen and hauled him into court.

It wasn't easy. Billy was "less than candid," Lisker said with characteristic understatement.

Martin called the president's brother's deportment "reprehensible."

The Billy who came out of Lisker's testimony was hardly the subdued victim of his own Aug. 21 appearance. He was an arrogant scofflaw who ignored or defied the Justice Department and only came on as all cooperative after he was tipped off Lisker would only hint by whom - that the jig was up.

The system began to work, to borrow a Watergate phrase, last Jan. 16, when Lisker, goaded into action by press accounts of the "Libya-Arab-Georgia Friendship Society," traveled to Americus to interview Billy. He was thinking along the way, he said, about "how to break the ice" and hit on the subject of guns, knowing it to be of interest in the area. . Billy was forthcoming about firearms, but not about money.

He denied, in the caucus room, that the subject ever came up.

He had, of course, just pocketed $20,000, the first installment on the $500,000 "loan" the Tripoli terrorists had promised him. He was out of touch with Justice for six months thereafter - except to complain that Lisker was "leaking information" about him.

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Lisker had other sources, however, and by the time Billy came to the Justice Department on June II, he knew quite a bit.

With the presidential primaries safely over, the attorney general felt free, on June 6, to tell his underlings about Billy's $220,000 take.

Even so, at the showdown Billy was still swaggering, claiming his "business deal" with the Libyans was none of the government's business, and breaking off in mid-course to keep a White House appointment with Zbigniew Brzezinski. Lisker escorted him to an "FBI cab" he had put Billy under surveillance. Billy took the wrong cab, warned that he was going to tell his brother on Lisker, and Whirled off. He never showed up again that day.

Late in the afternoon, Stephen Pollak, one of the two new lawyers Billy had acquired through the good offices of presidential counsel Lloyd Cutler, called to say he had advised Billy not to return.

The attorney general, when apprised of events, was "upset" and "irritated" about the surveillance on Billy and counseled a delay of 10 days "to see what happens."

Lisker's description of Billy was devastating, but nothing compared to his characteriation of Billy's "loan."

What, asked Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., had triggered the first $20,000 payment on Dec. 29? Lisker answered that "one thing was true" - Billy needed money.

But that had been true, Lugar pressed, on Sept. 29 and Oct. 29.

Why more so on Dec. 29?

"I personally felt that it was because of the fact that Billy Carter was instrumental in arranging the Nov. 27 visit of El Houderl (the Libyan charge d' affalres) with Dr. Brezezinski . . . and a subsequent visit with the president."

Chairman Birch Bayh, who is running, too, sought to clean up the blot. How did Lisker know?

'Lisker's reply made it worse.

Just last weekend, he had learned from "knowledgeable," unrevealabl~ sources that the visits were the explanation for the money - which he politely forebore to call a payoff.

The Nov. 27 meeting with Brezezinski, we were told, was arranged at the instigation of Rosalyn Carter to "help with the hostages."

Now, thanks to brave Lisker, Jimmy Carter is faced with a charge that he used his great office to help his money-grabbing brother - and used the hostages to try to cover it up.

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. Charities parley Father Peter N. Graziano, director of social services, is representing the Fall River diocese at the 66th annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities which began today in Rochester, N.Y. With· the theme "Christians Confronting Challenges," key speakers Bishop John E. Mc· Carthy of the diocese of Galveston-Houston and Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan CD-NY) will speak respectively on Social Ministry as

an Essential Component or the Parish and Progress for the Poor: Continuing Challenge for the 80s.

The Parish "The parish is meant to be a group of Christians who pray and worship together and who extend that worship in ~ir lives by helping each other with spiritual, emotional and financial support." Bishop Howard Hubbard

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WHY NOT NAME ONE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SAINT?

Here's a sampling of mail from hungry southern India. It says in gist that God will be at home there if people have a place to pray ... From Umikuppa, one of the poorest areas of Kerala, India, Father George writes, "We have completed construction of the foundation of our new church, but rising costs have forced us to discontinue work be· cause our parishioners are too poor to contribute any more." Since they will provide the labor free, only $2,000 is needed to complete the structure. ... $4,000 will build a church in PonneduthanKuzhi, India.... $5,000 will provide a chapel in Walayar for the poor Catholic workers there....

How many churchless villages ate there in south· ern India? Here in New York we have requests for 55 of them, all approved by the Holy Father....

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Sacred Hearts Community Continued from page one tended by Father Seheepens and Father Sheeran.

Not forgotten on Sunday was the fact that the celebration was for the parish as well as the congregation. Representatives of every St. Joseph's organization took part in the offertory procession and congratulatory citations from government officials were read at the anniversary banquet.

In his homily Bishop Cronin recalled the early years of -the Sacred Hearts eongregation, "when, at the invitation of Bishop William Stang, first bishop of Fall River, the Sl:.cred Hearts Fathers and Brothl~rs came to the United States and to our beloved diocese to establish here in Fairhaven their first American foundation. ."They came in order that they might collaborate with BishoD Stang in the pastoral care Of souls in this portion of the Lord's vineyard: the Diocese of Fall River. And through these seven· ty-five years the S'!lcred Hearts Fathers have consistently ministered to the spiritual needs of the good people of this diocese in cooperation with its bishop."

Commenting on the history of St. Joseph's parish, the bishop noted "that this grand parish was the first parochial undertaking in which the Sacred Hearts Fathers collaborated with Bishop Stang. The parish was established in the year 1905. On May 19th of that y,ear, .the first band of Sacred Hearts Fathers arrived in the Dio(:ese and established residence at the Monastery here in Fairhaven.

"Two days later, on May 21, 1905, the first parochial Mass was celebrated in Phoenix Hall, at Center and Main Streets, Fairhaven. Historical f,ccounts tell us that there were less than 50 Catholics present on that occasion.

"On February 11, 1906, Bishop Stang presided over the dedication of the original wooden church. This structure would serve the needs of the parish for about 20 years.

"However, the growing influx of Catholics into the Fairhaven area soon necessitated the building of a new church. It was on September 14, 1914, precisely fifty-six years ago today, that Bishop Daniel Feehan laid the cornerstone for the beautiful structure within which we worship today.

"Saint Joseph's parish has indeed grown over these 75 years: from the original congregation of less than 50 communicants to nearly 2,000 families. And, as your parish history makes clear, the Church has experienced marvelous growth here because the number of those who believe has steadily grown over these many years.

"My dear people, the wonderful priests who have served here through the years and who cur-

rently minister in this parish community, have dOlle much to build up the Church., the Body of Christ, in this parish.

"I likewise wish tel express a word of profound gratitude to the devoted Sisters of the Sacred Hearts and of Perpetual Adoration who, since 1908, have staffed the parish school. My dear Sisters, your dedication to the apostolate of Catholic: education has without a doubt, had a tremendous impact upon this community through the years, and continues, to this day, to provide the youth of S,t. Joseph's parish with a wonderful formation in the faith. I thank you very sincerely, and I thank as well, the devoted le,y teachers associated with you in this important apostolate."

Family Day included discussions, prayer serContinued from page one members of all branches of the vices, an April banquEit and Mass 700-year-old Dominican Order and a photo slide exhibit of will gather :for a Dominican scenes associated with the life of St. Catherine.

Family Day. The program will begin at 1 Still to come are a workshop p.m. with a welcoming address on feminity and celib!lte women

by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. It in November and a December will continue with two confer-. speaking program, hath sponences by Sister Giuliana Caval-' sored by the Park SI~reet Domlini, OP, who has made the inicans. study of St. <;atherine of Siena On Tuesday, Nov. 18, memher life work. bers of Fall River Catholic A concelebrated liturgy with Woman's Club will honor the Father Robert Blais, OP, as prin- saint, who is their piiltron, at a cipal celebrant and Father An- 7 p.m. Mass at Holy Name toine M. Lanoue, OP, as homilist Church. will conclude the formal proSunday's lectures B,re part of gram. A buffet supper will fol. a tour that has takell, Sister Gilow.

Dominican Sisters of the Pre- uliana to nearly every Dominisentation and of the Congrega- can institution in the nation to tion of St. Rose of Lima will speak on various aspects of St. join the host community, the Catherine's spirituality.

Dominicans 01' St. Catherine of Last April she direc:ted an In~ Siena, for the day. Also pres- ternational Congress of Catherent will be Dominican Fathers inian Studies in Rome. Its conand Brothers from St. Anne's cluding Mass was l~oncelebra­ parish, Fall River, and Domini- ted by Very Rev. V:lncenzo de can Laity from chapters meet- Couesnongle, master general of ing at St. AnIle's Church and at the Dominican Order, and Pope the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop John Paul II. The latter described Home, also in Fall River.

St. Catherine as the "most reSunday's eVI~nt is a high point splendent jewel of the Dominiin a "Catherine year" that has can Order."

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The true secret Dear Editor: I cannot resist a word of congratulations, appreciation and indeed relief, as I finish perusing your latest editorial analysis entitled: Again Poland. I do this on the actual eve of my own departure for that same Poland.

It is a blessed relief to read an article which dares to bare the true secret of Poland's strength and determination which is nothing less than faith - a concrete faith exprl~ssed in firm community bonds. Every Polish child is taught, ~md this despite 35 years of Communistic propaganda, that he or she is to be identified and countedi as one who is commited to Jesus Christ, to His Gospel, to His Cross and to the Church. A practic:u guide as to how this looks in daily living is the Mother of God, especially venerated in her Icon of Czestochowa.

Adolph Hitler, during a visit to Czestochowa, was heard to remark that he could not fathom what it was that made these folk so "different;" after all, he said, the only things thE!y possess are faith and the Virgin of Czestochowa. Perhaps these are the elements, treasured, nurtured and shared which can YElt augur events in Church and e:ivil society which few to this time have dared to dream l)r even hope forI Thank you again, Father Moore, for once again encapsulating in 10 simple paragraphs the essence of what is proving to be one of the most fascinating and faith-building phenomena which recent history has been privileged to witness and be part of!

Rev. Robert S. K:1Szynski St. Stanislaus Parish Fall River

Holy DaY8 Dear Editor: The clergy are not living up to their responsibility. Why are the days of obligation to hemor our Blessed Mother being shortened?

People are not complaining about going to church em these holy days of obligation.

Jesus said "Pick up your cross and follow me."

But the changes that Illfe to be made are keeping the people from showing their devotion. Are you trying to keep thE: people away from the house of the Lord?

Jesus also asked Lucia (one of the children of Fatimll) what was being done in the world to establish devotion to the Immaculate Heart of his mother.

And in view of this, instead of increasing devotion it iis being lessened to our most precious heavenly mother. Why? The old ways are the best. The world may change but faith does not because God is always the same and our faith comes to us from God. So instead of pleasing Satan

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SACRED HEARTS COMMUNITY principals at Fairhaven jubilee, from left, Father William McClenahan, SS.CC., Very Rev. Jan Scheepens, SS.CC., Very Rev. William B. Davis, SS.CC. (Rosa Photo) let us all in good faith with all our hearts and souls' keep serving our Lord Jesus Christ and our Blessed Mother.

Instead of decreasing holy days, let increase them. The clergy has plenty of help now.

In the old days they worked more faithfully and did not complain and they were more respected because they were more devoted to the works of the Lord. Let us stop loving ourselves so much and start loving Jesus instead.

Mrs. Mary Loura Taunton

'Again' Poland' Dear Editor: May we congratulate you on your beautiful column which we enjoy reading !in The Anchor every week. Especially Sept. 4, "Agalin 'Poland,'''' which was most inspiring to us of Polish descent.

May our heavenly Father and Our Lady of Czestochowa bless you most abundantly. God love you! We love you too.

Walter and Helen Soczek Antoinette Orzechowski Stella Kocon

Poem for Mom Dear Editor: This is a copy of a message my daughter sent to me and I just wondered if it could be printed in a paper as beautiful as The Anchor. It would please her and an 83-year-old mother.

Thank you.

Mrs. Lillian Ouellette Fall River Oh Mom! before you go I must tell you this, How very much I love youYou're the one thing - I will miss!

Do you remember way back when We were all so small And how you always lined us up And made us stand so tall?

You had to take, just one last look Before we went our way You were so proud of each of us, Too bad, our youth couldn't

stay.

You've been the BEST, MomAll your life Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will You've always made us happy be principal celebrant and homiYou've always showed such list at a 3 p.m. liturgy Sunday loyalty at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro.

And never let us down.

The service will culminate I wonder if you really know three days of prayer in obserOf just how many times vance of the anniversary of the You've been the strength apparition of Our Lady of La behind us all Salette in the French Alps 134 That's why we've traveled far! years ago tomorrow.

There are no men, in any land Mass will be celebrated at 7:30 Who stand taller than my p.m. daily at the outdoor shrine brothers chapel. Celebrants and homilists And we all know, deep in our will be Father Andre Patenaude hearts tonight, Father Donald Paradis -It~s..._been only. cause, you're . lomorrow and Father Rene Caisour MOTHER! sey Saturday. Music will be proI'd change some things - if I vided by the Reconcilers, Our could, Group and the Cursillo Singers With. others I wouldn't even successively on the three evenbother, ings.

But the one thing I would never change I lived to call you my Mother!

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The family evening meal can and should be a joyful, peaceful gathering, but it has some build-in elements of explosive tension. Dad comes home, a tired and hungry male, hoping for a good meal and peace. Mom, who may also have been at work, is reaching the high point of a hectic day, trying to cook on aU burners and be attentive to all arrivals.

Youngsters pile in with muddy shoes, dirty hands and growling stomachs that make them irritable..A cross word or hurt feelings can suddenly explode the peace that dad was looking for.

Or there may be just two adults, wondering what to say to each other, and they start talking about the bad hews in the newspaper. They eat in a depressed mood, conducive to ulcers. There are also widows and bachelors eating alone, with the feeling that no one loves them.

Loneliness can make any meal insipid.

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Don't just automatically say the beautiful words which are an echo of the words of the Angel and the Virgin Mary, but think about them and what they mean for you.

The Angelus has been arranged for recitation by two or more people. When the family says the Angelus at the evening meal, one leads the prayer and the others respond. This is the way the Angelus has I been said by sisters, monks and Christian families for 600 years.

When the church bells rang in the morning, at noon and in the evening, Christians paused to remember what God, did for us in sending his Son to be our broth-

er and Redeemer.

He sent an Angel to the Virgin of Nazareth to ask' if she would be the mother of a redeemer for mankind. She said yes, and we thank her and honor her by addressing her in the words of the Angel. "Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women ... " If we call ourselves Christians, we should daily recall how Jesus became our brother. Maybe the reason why many of us have difficulty living the Christian virtues is because we forget who we are, what Christ did for us and what he wants to do for us after our death.

He wants to bring us to live in perfect happiness with him in the company of God the Father.

Praying the Angelus at the evening meal is a splendid way to help each other remember these important truths.

Why say the Angelus together as a family? Because the family is where we do most of our important living. It is where we most deeply influence those we love.

Praying to,gether in the family is a basic step toward being good to each other, kind and forgiving. The evening meal is practically the only time a modem family gets together aM the Angelus is a good way to get minds and moods on a high level. Eating is important for the body, and prayer is important for the soul!

The Angelus at the evening meal is a good way to build the intimacy for which many families long but which they do not know how to find.

If the father leads the prayer, he may well realize what it means to be the spiritual leader of his family, not just its breadwinner and table-referee. He should feel akin to God the Father in his responsibility for the children he and his wife brought into existence' with God

the Creator. He will be encouraged to look on them with greater love and w:ith the spirit of forgiveness for their faults.

As the mother anll children respond to their part of the Angelus, they will be raised to think about Christ and his mother Mary. Perhaps all might join hands around the tahle to emphasize their unity.

Recitation of the Angelus and a short grace takes just 80 seconds, in which we reaffirm our faith, love and hope in Jesus Christ and express our affection for Mary his mother, begging her to help us now and at the hour of our death.

The family Angelus is a simple, practical way of seeking Christ's peace, the peace that comes from lookini~ at life· as Christ did, and from practicing the Christian virtuE!S which are so easy to forget.

Angelus cards, in English and Portuguese will be distributed in the parishes of the diocese this weekend, supplied by Bishop Cronin. They bear a picture of the Mother of Perpetual Help on one side. On the oth'er side is the Angelus and a brief' grace.

If the families of America re- . tum to prayer, we can expect an . answer to the Angf~lus petition: "Pray for us, Holy Mother of .

God, that we JIlay become worthy of the good things promised us by Christ."

(necrolcmY) October 6 Rev. Stephen B. Magill, 1916, Assistant, Immacul:ilte Conception, North Easton OCtober 7 Rev. Caesar Phares, 1951, Pastor, St. Anthony of the Desert, Fall River Rev. Msgr. Arthu:r G. Dupuis, 1975, Pastor Emeritus, St. Louis de France, Swansea

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 18, 1980

Something for everyone The Adult Education Committee of St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, has announced six program offerings for the com~ ing year. Topics include scripture, family life, liturgy,. moral issues, prayer life and tb.e Genesis II program.

A weekly scripture course began at 7:30 last night and will run for 30 sessions. TilUght by Sister Patricia St. PierrEl, SSJ, it will focus on the study of the Old Testament, presenting an understanding of the Bibll~ for today's Catholic. Sister St. Pierre is a faculty member of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, and she holds a masters degree in scripture from Providence College.

The course will be held in the parish CCD Center on Church Street.

Parenting and marriage will be featured topics at the monthly family life programs, also to be held in the center. The first session will be on Wednesday, Sept.

24 at 8 p.m. and will be titled "Understanding the Behavior of Children from Birth through Age 14." The speaker will be Father Robert J. McIntyre, administrator of St. Aloysius Home, Greenville, R.I. Father McInt~rre holds master's degrees in religious education and counseling. He will also be the speaker at sessions in November and December.

Other session titles in the family life series will include teach-

ing Pre-Teen Children About Sex, Disciplining the Younger Child, How to Help a Child Achieve Self-Confidence and Success, Teaching Teenagers About Sex, Communication in Marriage, Teenagers, Drugs and Alcohol and The Church's Ministry to Divorced and Separated Catholics.

Monthly Fellowship Masses will highlight the parish liturgy program. The first one will take place at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

30 at the CCD Center. This will be a Mass of explanation at which the meaning and purpose of each part of the service will be discussed.

In subsequent months, Fellowship Mass themes will include prayer (October), thanksgiving (November), and celebration (December). Refreshments and conversation will follow each liturgy.

A five session course on moral issues will meet weekly on Tuesdays from Jan. 13 through Feb. 10. Each session will have a different speaker. Topics will include conscience formation, abortion, euthanasia, birth control and natural family planning, annulments and divorce. Times and locations will be announced.

The featured Lenten adult program for· 1981 will be a sixsession course entitled Pray.

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However, the world has taken its toll on their spiritual welfare.

We pray daily for their eternal salvation.

We read your article on house rules for grown children. You said, "First stop judging. Does telling her she is wrong or bad do any good? No, she will either defend herself ot' ignore you.

Whether you are :right or wrong does not matter. Criticizing her or telling her what to do does not work."

We hear so much about not judging! We are instructed by the Lord himself to admonish sinners. We certaJinly should let our own children, living under our own roof, know when their actions are wrong.

Certainly we can continue to love our offspring even in their sinfulness. Jesus loves sinners and so should we. We should pray tor them. But Jesus never approved of sin nor should we.

We hope not too many will be misled by the paragraph we quoted. (Missouri)

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and making judgments. It is almost always inappropriate to judge others, even and perhaps especially our own children.

Such judgments are best left to God, as he on several occasions urged us to do. On the other hand, we must all make our own judgments about right and wrong und act accordingly.

You mention that Jesus told us to admonish sinners. He also said other things, including: "Judge not, lest you yourself be judged." Jesus felt love was a better way to obtain Christian behavior from sinners than orders and commands.

The basic problem with judging others is that it does not work. It may be satisfying. The moral order is set straight through our words. But if, despite our insistence and angry authority, words are not followed, then we have not achieved our desired outcome.

Some parEints may feel satisfied when they have stated their own position. Frankly, I would rather have my children do what I want them to do.

Most people react to judgment with resistance and noncompliance. Even worse, judgments often interfere with per· sonal relationships. Nothing spoils human relationships so much as our tendency to judge.

A poor relationship is the last thing I want with my children.

Having made my point against judging other'S, I would now like

to agree with you. Of course we must make judgments. Of course we must decide what to do when our child steals, when our teenagers get into pot and alcohol, or give every indication of blundering into a premature sexual experience.

What to do? I'd like to suggest a simple two-step response to these difficult situations.

First, know what YClu are doing.

Second, use "I" messages. .

1. Know what you are doing.

Uninformed judgments are dangerous. Be. sure you know all the facts before you make a judgment about what your teen-ager is doing and what YI)ur response ought to be. Otherwise you might be all bluster with Jl.O foreknowledge and no follow-through.

2. Have the courage to state your position while leaving your teen-ager his self-rl~spect. It is OK to make judgments about where I stand, how I chpose to live my life, what I choose to permit in my home. It is not OK for me to tell you where you should stand and how you must think and act.

The difference between judging others and making judgments may seem subtle. But it is critical, especiallJr in parentteen relations.

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Individual plants should then be positioned so that the eye of the peony, that is, the point at which the stems grow out of the root system is no deeper than three inches. This is easily recognizable on an uprooted plant. The soil should then be filled into the hole and a top-

dressing of manure or compost should be added. .

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Too often peonies do well enough the first couple of years and then begin to fade. 1his is largely due to lack of fl~rtilizer and humus. Minimal care is needed for these very lovely flowers but fertilizing is a must.

Being a very old-fashioned gardener, I count peonies among my favorites, primarily because I enjoy seeing and sIllelling them in the house. A vaSEt of them is hard to beat within llmelling distance of the dinner table.

• parley °to][lic Marriage IS A WASHINGTON (NC) convocation on marriage preparation will be held in Washington Nov. 14-16 to help initiate the U.S. bishops' Decade of the Family.

The National Convocation on Marriage PJ'l~paration, expected to draw several hundred participants from across the United States, is beil1g sponsored by the National Institute for the Family and the Catholic Engaged Encounter. Its theme is "Marriage Preparation: Hope for the Family."

Featured slpeakers will include

Father Carl Arico, Archdiocese of Newark specialist in marriage; Tom and Lyn Scheuring, authors and lecturers on famlly spirituality; David Thomas, assistant professor of theology S.t St. Meinrad Theology School, Ind., and Father Donald Conroy, who was recently named director of the National Institute for the Family.

Workshops on sexuality, inter~ faith marriage, finnncial planning, Engaged Encounter weekends, fertility awareness and Hispanic marriage preparation are planned.

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MOUNT SINAI (NC) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has asked for international funds to help build a Christian-IslamicJewish center at the foot of Mount Sinai.

"I hereby invite you all to contrihute to the setting up of this center, which will be a living symbol of the brotherhood of man, a lighthouse that will rekindle the spirit of coexistence and tolerance among nations," he said in a speech at the biblical site.

Mount Sinai is the spot whe~ Moses received the Ten Commandments. It was included in the area returned to Egypt last November by Israel.

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Training will begin tonight and continue for six Thursdays.

The only requirement is that volunteers be themselves parents. Those !interested ma.y contact any of the sponsoring agencies.

SERRA CLUB, NEW BEDFORD

The club's teenagers' night will be held at White'srestaurant, North Westport, at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Guest speakers will be Michael Thomas aI1ld Rev. Mr. Stephen J. Avila, both seminarians at the North American College in Rome. Teenag,ers interested in attending the program are asked to contact Clint Rimmer, telephone 992·7993, by Saturday.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, FALL RIVER DIOCESE Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant and homilist at a Mass at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Cathedral.

The liturgy will observe the feast of St. Vincent de Paul and commemorate the death of IF'rederick Ozanam, founder of the Vincentians. Members' fammes are invited to the Mass and to re. freshments to follow ;at St. Mary's School.

Diocesan conferences should submit annual reports a,s soon as possible.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Parents of first communicants will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the parish social room. ,A' family retreat weekend will take place Sept. 26 through 28 and a parish renewal week is scheduled to begin Saturday, Nov. 8.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will hold an open rosary-making IDeeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. All interested in. making rosaries for the missions are invited.

BREAD OF LIFE PRAYJ~R' GROUP, FALL RIVER The prayer group will. sponsor an eight-week Basic Christian Maturity/Foundatic>n of Christian Living course for those who have completed the Life in the Spirit seminar. The session will begin about 9:30 p.m. tomorrow, following 7:30 p.m.

Mass and the regular prayer meeting held at Blessed Sacrament Church, Fall River.

Members of other prayer groups are welcome to attend the new series.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS, NEW BEDFORD

Members of Our 'Lady Queen of Angela Fraternity will meet at 10 a.m. Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD New students in grades one through nine will register for the'CCD program from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday in the rectory basement. Volunteer teachers are still needed and may contact Sister Rita at 995-6168 in the morning and at 993-3829 in the evening.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The Men's Club will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the school hall.

The parish prayer group meets at 7:45 p.m. every Thursday in the lower church.

OUR LADY OF GRACE, NORm WESTPORT An open house for parents of all children in religious education programs will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the parish center.

ABEL MARCELINE CAMPERSHIP FUND

An organizational meeting for the purpose of forming an Abel Marcelline Memorial Campership Fund will be held at 7 tonight at the Thomas Chew Boys' Club, Fall River. All are invited.

ST. PATRICK, FALMOum School of religion registration will take place ne1d: week and classes will begin Monday, Sept.

29. Volunteers are needed as substitute teachers and to give secretarial assistance.

CASSIDY ASSEMBLY, STANG ASSEMBLY, KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus will receive newly established Legion of Merit awards at a ball marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth Degree t{) be held Saturday at Suffolk Downs, East Boston. Area recipients are Father William Collard and John Murty from Cassidy Assembly and Dominick J. Maxwell Jr., Manuel Moniz, Raymond F. Powers, William F. Whalen and John T. Trainor from Stang Assembly.

SUPPORT GROUP, NEW BEDFORD

A support group for divorced and separated Catholics meets at 7:30 p.m. each Sunday at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St. "Divorce and .Recovery" will be the topic this Sunday and there will be a Question Box session on Sept. 28.

DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA, NEW BEDFORD Hyacinth Circle will hold installation ceremonies at 4 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 5 at Thad's restaurant. Mrs. Julia P. Morris will be seated as regent with Mrs. Mary Whitney, state regent, as installing officer. Reservations for the dinner to follow will close Wednesday, Oct. 1.

The circle will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21. A jewelry display will be featured.

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Father Robert Kaszynski and Father George Harrison of the Diocesan Service Committee have worked with Father Marcel Bouchard, director of continuing education for the clergy, in planning the retreat, which has been requested by several diocesan priests.

Father Lange, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales, spoke at the charismatic conference held in Providence earlier this month. He has spoken at similar meetings in 40 states and frequently directs retreats.

The author of several books, he is associate pastor at St. Philip's parish, Auburn, Maine.

Birthright Continued from page one ing in difficult situations and how the counselor can handJ,e his or her own feelings at such times. .

A Mass will be celebrated at 5 p.m. Saturday and a presentation will be made by Massachusetts Citizens for :Life at 7:30 p.m.

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Deacons in scripture

By Father John Castelot

FATHER JOHN F. MOORE, diocesan director of the permanent diaconate, greets applauding crowd at reception honoring the first class of deacons ordained for the Fall River diocese.

A new family for the parish

By Father John F. Moore Permanent Diaeonate Director Fall River Diocese

A new family has moved onto the block. In common with all new families, they are trying to get to know their neighbors.

Yet there is something different about them which puzzles some people and confuses others.

At times they seem like any other family. But then the neighbors see the father wearing vestments and assisting the parish priest at the weekly liturgy or performing other tasks which usually belong to the priest.

What is going on? Who are these people? Why do they spend so much time at the local nursing home? How can a married man . preach in church? These are a few of the many questions .surfacing in parishes across the country.

The new family in the parish includes the deacon, his wife and children. Almost every day more Christians become aware of permanent deacons as they assist parish priests in a ministry of liturgy, word and service.

Some people receive the new families well. Doubts, however, still linger in the minds of others.

These men are permanent deacons, in contrast to transitional deacons, who eventually will be ordained to the priesthood. My personal opinion is that the adjectives "permanent" and "transitional" should be dropped and both groups should simply be called "deacons." The misnomer, lay deacon, should be eliminated altogether since all deacons, permanent or transitional, are ordained clerics of the church.

The difference between the two groups is that most men who feel called to serve as permanent deacons are married.

Thus one's neighbor or fellow worker might also be be a dea-

con who brings the Eucharist to the sick of the parish, assists at marriages and offers Benedicion of the Blessed Sacrament.

This ministry is not something new in the church. The order of deacon has roots in the New Testament and has a long history down through the centuries. Gradually, however, deacons became less noticeable in the church.

During the second session of Vatican Council II, the fathers of the council voted to restore the

order of permanent deacon and to allow ordination of married men with the necessary qualifications as deacons. In 1967 the American church was permitted to restore the diaconate for married men on a permanent basis.

Thus the church acquired its new family.

In most diocesan training programs, the place of family in the prospective deacon's life is well recognized. A man with a wife and family reaHy cannot go Tum to Page Thirteen

Deacons and families

By Steve LaDdregan

adds a new and challenging set of tensions to family life.

Several years ago a group of In most diaconate formation 45 men studying for the per- programs, wives are urged or remanent diaconate were installed quired to attend training sessions as acolytes at a. parish church in along with their husbands. The Dallas. Because families play purpose is twofold: first, to precrucial roles in their lives, the . vent a gap from developing bedeacons were accompanied by tween husband and wife if one their wives and children during partner grows in a new direction the procession into the church. while the other does not; second, It was quite a sight: candidates to help both husband and wife in their albs, wives carrying understand that, for a married babies or holding children's man, the ministry of deacon is hands, both parents trying to very much a family ministry. control the playful instincts of A candidate whose marriage or kids who would rather have been Tum to Page Thirteen playing baseball or go swimming.

A priest observed, "It looks more like Coxey's Army (a group of unemployed people who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1894 to demand relief legislation) than a religious procession." Then he added under his breath, "I'm not sure that the church is ready for this yet!"!

According to the 1980 Official Directory, there are some 4,093 ordained permanent deacons in the United States. More than 90 percent are married. The deacons and their families are discovering that ordained ministry

Deacons played an important administratLve role in the early centuries of the church, especially in the care of the poor, the hungry and the sick. As the centuries passed, deacons became less and less distinctive. While the order of deacon was retained, it became a temporary, transitional step路 to the priesthood.

Recently, in the years since Vatican Council II, the office has been reactivated along earlier lines, with married men being ordained in surprising numbers to the permanent diaconate, especially in the United States.

Dedicated to service, they bring many types of expertise to their work.

Some information concerning the possiblEl origins of the diaconate can be found in the Acts of the Apostles. The author of Acts is acknowledged as a substantially reliable historian who has preserved a good bit of information about the infant churches. At the same time, serious students of his works are becoming increasingly aware that he wa:; primarily a theologian, rather than a historian.

Furtherm,ore, the author of Acts was looking back at these communities from a later generation, some time between the years 80 and 90. He apparently had a tendency to idealize, to transform that time into the "good old days." In the process he softened many of the bitter tensions which come' through. so strongly in the letters of PauL Still while the author of Acts may have soft-pedaled the conflicts - if he was actually aware of them _. he did not ignore them completely. One basic tension, a very human one, involved native Palestinian Jewish Christians and Greek-speaking Jewish Christians from outside the homeland. According to Acts, the Jerusalem community had established a common fund for its maintenance, especially for the support of the needy. In the course of time people noticed that the widows of the Palestinians were well cared for while those of the Greek-speaking group were neglected.

When this complaint was brought to the attention of the Twelve, they pointed out that their first duty was the ministry of the Word, preaching, and that they would not neglect this sacred charge in favor of administrative work. They suggested that a number of men be selec-

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ted from the neglElcted group to ensure a more equltable distribution of community property. Accordingly, the community chose seven men and the apostles officially commissioned them by the conventional gesture of placing their hands on each man's head.

While these men are never called deacons in Acts, and their commissioning was not an ordination in th.e later sacramental sense of the term, they do seem to be the forerunners of what would gradually emerge as the ordained diaconate.

Deacons do not seem to have played much of a part in most of Paul's Gentile churches. There is just one rather offhand reference to "the overseers and deacons" in the first verse of Philippians.

In the later Pauline letters to Timothy, deacons come in for considerable attention, with Tum to Page Thirteen

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By Janaan Manternach Stephen was a popular young man among the first Christians and a well-known member of the Christian community in Jerusalem.

At that time in Jerusalem the Christians who spoke Hebrew and those who spoke Greek frequently quarreled. Stephen was a Greek-speaking Christian. One quarrel concerned the distribution of food to needy Christians, particularly to the widows. The Greek-speaking group felt that their widows were not receiving as much food as the widows who spoke Hebrew.

The 12 apostles finally decided on a solution. "We are completely taken up with preaching God's word," they told the whole community. "We cannot supervise the daily food distribution.

Select seven men from among you. We will appoint them to that important task. In that way we can concentrate on prayer and preaching God's word."

Everyone liked this solution.

The first person they thoug~t of selecting for this new ministry was Stephen. Both the Greek and Hebrew groups respected and loved Stephen. He was wise and prudent.

The community elected him and six others. The 12 apostles prayed over the seven candidates Tum to page thirteen

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A VerdC1lde E A Vida, Dirlgida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

Os Sinais De Deus

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Deacons and families

(~om Deus inicia-se peDE~US, ou sacramentos. E

los sinais de neste conjunto de sina1ectica de, Deus se inc1uem os sE~te Sacramentos, sinais muito especiais da presen9a de Deus que nao esgotem nem absorvam 0 anuncio e comunica9ao dE~ Deus por outros sinais A existencia dos seres com suas leis evo1utivas, que 0 homem' encontra e segue, enuncia <:> problema de Deus, possibi1ita a sua :reso1u9ao. Mas e preciso que 0 homem esteja desperto para este problema. A Pa1avra de Deus exige ser escutada. 0 anuncio profetico dessa Pa1avra tera como primeiro passe 0 despertar para as interroga9Ses fundamentais. E depots, enunciado 0 misterio de Deus, mostrara como e1e, embora insondave1, em :nada diminui 0 homem, antes, pe10 contrario, 0 eleva.

Nem sempre 'os sinais sao entendidos por todos d.a mesma forma. Dai,uns ficarem-se na interroga9ao e outros aceitarem as deforma90es de Deus. Como terceiro easso no anuncio de.Deus,formu1ar-se-a a interroga9ao: Que dizem para at quem e Deus? Evos, os crentes que dizeis de Deus?

Os erros sobre Deus nao sao apanagio da descren9a, do indiferentismo ou das sUb-religioes: tambem ha erros sobre Deus entre os cristaos. o atelsmo cristao pode tornar-se urn dado em que nem se pensa: Deus e reduzido a um nome sem vida. 0 misterio da Trindade e pouco vivido e menos enunciado, embora se trate do misterio fundamental da fe cris~a e se proclame depe na celebra9ao eucaristica.

E entao, reduz-se Deus a urn misterio, perante 0 qual 0 homem apenas deve curvar a cabe9a.

Se tudo pos,sui uma quase-sacramentalidade, porque tudo existe pelo Verbo e no Verbo, sendo entao seu anuncio, ; essa sacramenta.lidade apresenta-se com mais clare2;a no homem: interrogan- . do-se profundanmte, sem nada de si per de lado, 0 home!m tern de formular a ques tao da existenc:ia de Deus e a outra de quem e Deus.

Esta sacramentalidade permite ao homem 0 ser profeta de Deus, isto e, anunciador de Deus. E porque todo 0 homem possui em si 0 ser profeta de Deus, surgem os que possuem maisnitidc esse carisma. o carisma aparece entre todas as religioes e tcrniliem em todos os ramos das ciencias. ~1as e inegavel que os Profetas btblicos falam com uma extra- ! ordinaria clarE~za de Deus, e em nome de Deus, sem esgo1:arem, e bem de ver,esse carisma.

Jesus inclui-Se neste contexto: Vim para dar tE~stemunho da Verdade. 1;': o anunciador do Pai e anuncio-O com autoridade e prec::isao porque e urn com 0 Pai. Se todo 0 homem e urna interroga9ao para 0 homem, a.1guns homens tornam-se interroga9ao mais premente. Jesus e a grande interroqa9ao: Quem e este homem~ Deus torna路-Se presente em todos pelo Seu enviado Jesus, 0 Cristo.

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Continued from page twelve family life gives evidence of instability may be dropped or deferred from diaconate preparation programs because the added pressure of ministry may be too much for a troubled marriage.

Even healthy marriages are challenged when the deacon's wife realizes she has become a Sunday widow because of her husband's liturgical and preaching responsibilities. Because of this, many deacons attend Mass with their families at a time when they are not on duty.

Deacon's children often feel the pressure of their father's new role. Sensitive adolescents and teenagers sometimes feel the need to prove they are "regular kids" even though their father is a deacon. Protestant ministers' children have suffered from the "preacher's kid" syndrome for years but it is a new phenomenon in the Catholic Church. , Sadly, teachers and other adults sometimes contribute to the problem with such comments as "I wouldn't have expected that from a deacon's daughter."

For children Continued from Page Twelve and placed their hands on the head of each. In this way the seven received their official ministry. Some people called them deacons, a Greek word meaning "one who serves."

Stephen went about his new task with kindness and courage.

He seemed filled with God's love and power. People said he did remarkable deeds very much as Jesus did. He became known all over the city of Jerusalem.

A group of people who were not Christians were upset with Stephen because he had become a Christian.

They even hired several men to make false charges against Stephen. These men told people / they had heard Stephen speak out against God and God's laws.

So many people believed the ac-, cusations that Stephen was arrested and placed on trial.

During the trial the false witnesses spoke against Stephen.

"This man speaks out against God and the house of God," they lied to the court. The charges against Stephen were the same that had been made against Jesus.

In his defense Stephen challenged those who were accusing and judging him. "You stubborn people," he said bravely, "you are opposing God's Spirit. God sent Jesus to heal and to free people. You put to death the Just One sent by God. It is you who are against God's law."

The people were furious. They rushed at Stephen and dragged him outside the city walls, there they threw large stones at him.

As the stones hit Stephen, he prayed alOUd. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." He fell to his knees, praying, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them."

With those last words - so like Jesus' words on the cross - Stephen died. He was the first Christian to die for his faith in Jesus Christ.

Some deacons' families have experienced serious problems and even divorces. Various support systems are being developed to help deacons and their families deal with the added pressures of ordination. Some systems work well, some do not.

However, it is too soon to expect firm answers or solutions to the various problems.

So there are difficulties and pressures. But, on the other side of the coin, a married deacon often brings special insights to his preaching, teaching and counseling, insights that stem from his family experience.

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, Scripture Continued from page twelve specific criteria laid down for their selction. But, as the letters of Ignatius of Antioch testify, the situation cystallized only in the early second century to the extent that a single overseer , (bishop) was in charge of each community, assisted by a presbyterate (priests) and a diaconate.

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Demands are made on their time which take them away from their families. The result: both deacons and families suffer.

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New family Continued from page twelve through the years of preparation for ordination alone. Nor can he effectively minister as a deacon without his wife's consent, support and interest. Wives, therefore, are often encouraged to attend days of recollection and retreats.

The children of the deacon candidate can have programs tailored to their ages so they can learn what their father is doing and think about its effect on the entire family. This also shows them that he is not some religious fanatic.

The permanent deacon can be accepted into the fraternity of those already in sacred orders - bishops and priests. They should be ready to accept his wife and children as well.

Finally, the diocesan family need not be surprised by the advent of the permanent diaconate in its midst. Catholics can be regularly informed of deacon programs' by the diocesan press and parish bulletins, as well as by well-prepared instructions from parish priests.

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The pope speaks to youth During his recent trip to France, Pope John Paul n spoke

at length to French youth on topics of interest to teenagers everywhere. In the coming weeks, The Anehor will present excerpts from his talks.

The service of a bishop, and especially that of a pope, is linked with a particular responsibility for what the Spirit is saying. He is responsible fO,r the faith of the church as a whole and for Christian morality. The bishops with the pope must teach this. faith and morality in the.church, always assuring conformity with the revealed word of God in the light of tradition which is always a living thing.

And for this reason they are sometimes forced to state that certain opinions and certain publications lack this conformity.

They do not constitute an authentk teaching of Christian faith and morals. I mention this because you have asked about it.

I believe that the work being done for Christian unity is one of the most important and noble tasks of the church in our time.

You would like to know if I believe in this unity and how I see it? My answer will be the same as that for the implementation of the council.

There too I believe there is a special call from the' Holy Spirit. As to the different stages of its implementation, we will find all the basic elements that we need in the teaching of the council. It is those elements that we must try to put into practice. o

And above all, we must pray with fervor, constancy and humility. Christian unity can only be achieved through deep maturation in the truth and through a constant conversion of hearts within the limits of our human capabilities by following the same "historical process" which has been going on for centuries.

But in the end, this unity, for the achievement of which we should spare no efforts, will be the gift of Christ to his church.

The very fact that we are on the way to unity is in itself a gift of Jesus Christ.

Going on to other questions, I will say that I have very often spoken of the duties of the church in the field of justice and peace. In this I continue the work of my prede~ssors John xxm and Paul VI, Let us come to the question of the Third World. It is a weighty historical and cultural question, but it is above all a moral problem.

Our Western world is also a Northern world. Its wealth and progress owe much to the resources and manpower of the third world. We can no longer seek there only sources of further enrichment and our own progress. We must in conscience further its development.

By Charlie Martin

IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBI.E Oh Lord it's hard to be humble When you're perfect in every way I can't wait to look in the mirror Cause I get better lookin' each day To know me is to love me I must be a hell of a manOh Lord It's hard to be humble But I'm doin' the best that I can I used to have a girl friend But I guess- she just couldn't compete With all 01 you love-starved women Who keep clamoring at my leet Well I guess I could find me another But I guess they're all in awe 01 me Who cares I never get lonesome Cause I treasure my own company ob.

I guess- you could say I'm a loner A cowboy I'm loud, tough and proud Oh I could have lots 01 friends il I W8JIt her But then I wouldn't stand out from the crowd Some lolks say that I'm egotistical Well I don't even know what that means I guess It has somethln' to do with The way that I rul out my skintight blue jeans.

Written and sung by Mac Davis, (c) 1980 by SoItgpainter Music.

MAC ][)AVIS' winning smile and easygoing manner are part of his success. Davis makes music fun. Typical of his lighthearted app~ach is "It's Hard to Be Humbl.e," the hit single taken from his :r1ew album of the same name.

While this song is written mostly in jest, the way we view our personal accomplishments does make a difference in how othersseE~ us. Few people like a conceited person.

Conceit is often just a shield for a pers,:>n who has a hard time liking himself. He fears people will not like him for himself, so he tries t.o hide behind his accomplishments. He brangs about all he han done.

Humili~y enables us to acknowledge what we have done but keeps these achievements in perspective. A good student, a talented athlete or musician doesn't need to deny what he .has achieved. A humble person takes satisfaction in what he has accomplished, but realizes self-worth comes from who he is, not what he does.

Humility' helps us develop a balanced view of ourselves. Because God created us, we know our lives are valuable. Our dignity and self-worth are gifts God gave us, not something we have to enrn.

Humility grows with the passage of time. Our values and needs change as ,we grow older.

A humble person acknowledges hitting 20 home runs in one baseball season. But 15 yea~ later, that accomplishment may mean a lot less to us than the good friends we made or the' hard work and discipline that made it possible.

â&#x20AC;˘ Wedding's not the marrIage CHICAGO - '~My interviews with young Catholics convince me that the majority do not have the vaguest idea of why marriage is a sacrament," says Father Thomas Doyle of the archdiocese of Chicago marriage tribunal in the current issue of U.S. Catholic magazine.

"In general, young couples have very little understanding of what the Christian marriage commitment is all about," he says. "They are oblivious to the spiritual dimension of marriage.

They make no connection between presenting their love relationship to God in the church and living out their marriage in the context of the Catholic community."

Doyle says, "What stands out in a loOk at annulment petitions is the Iitk of preparation. That

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is the case with 8 percent of the cases. They pour all their time and energy into getting ready for the wedding instead of for their married life together."

One young Catholic woman says. "We didn't talk about anything when we were engaged. I was caught up with the wedding.

We were afraid to talk abQut what we didn't like about each other. I was afraid he'd call off the wedding."

Subsequently, relationships easily disintegrate. "In over half the marriages, serious problems cropped up duriJ:lg the courtship, and in more than three quarters of the marriages, serious problems surfaced within six months.

The honeymoon ended and trouble began," says Doyle.

The underlying problem is lack of maturity. Couples also fail to

do something about marital problems before things go too far. Doyle says the most common problems are lack of communication, verbal and physical abuse, psycho-sexual difficulties which lead to extramarital affairs, in-law interference, and changing lifestyles.

Material possessions are overemphasized, and sex "operates as a distr,action rather than an expression of a loving relationship."

It is clear to Doyle that many so-called sacramental marriagei should never have taken place.

These malnages do take place "due to thl~ mistaken notion that every Catholic has an absolute right to a Catholic marriage.

Actually, the right is relative; it depends on willingness and capacity," says Doyle.

OCUI on youth

How is it with the child?

By Cecilia Belanger

It is not unusual for parents and children to be strangers to one another. Not unusual at all.

Though living under the same roof they are more apart than someone who is in tune with them living thousands of miles away.

Our religion began with the discovery of a child. Read Matthew and pause before the words, "And 10, the star which they had seen in the East went before them till it came to rest over the place where the child was . . . and going into the house, they saw the child."

If you wish to know what kind of nation you live in, ask your'" self, "How is it with the child?"

As the family goes, so goes the nation.

Mothers tell me they wish they did not have to work. Children tell me they wish their mothers were home, that they are tired of being with strangers.

Others are tired of having relatives do the job their parents should be doing.

It gets very confusing. Without stability in a home, with so much divided authority, it's little wonder children today are having problems.

The world is always one generation away from disaster. The future is bound up with the minds of millions of children and youth. The powers of evil always discover the child.

We have' seen nations form the minds of their youth for war.

Looking around, it would seem that moral values have decayed at the roots.

Something is missing from this new morality. There is an absence of standards that youth detects immediately. General duplicity in an election year does not help.

If young lives are broken and suicide continues on the rise, one reason has to be the many false gods set up by an adult world for young people to worship.

As one youth put it, "Who cares if I am honest with so many dishonest people around me? Does anyone know the difference any more? Does my honesty mean I am a sap?"

A college student said to me, "If you're sensitive the wolves will tear you to pieces." She had that experience when she dared espouse chastity before a group of fellow students.

I think that youth are tired of listening to those in authority who pontificate when they have more flaws than those to whom they are pontificating. Too often people possess more power and authority than they can handle or deserve and others suffer for it. The world is tired of listening to people who give others Sunday morning lectures after their own Saturday night improprieties.

By Bill Morrissette

portsWQtch Spadans Tie Fairhaven Bishop Stang High School's Spartan gridders tied the Fairhaven Blue Devils, 14-14, at Dartmouth High School's Memorial Stadium last Friday night in a non-league (interd:ivision, if one prefers) game that launched the scholastic football season.

Stang, which will compete in Division Three of thl~ Southeastern Mass. Conference, opened up a 6-0 lead in the first period and widened the gap to 14-0, early in the second but Fairhaven, a Division Two Conference school, rallied to gain the deadlock before approximately 1,800 spectators.

In another season opener last Saturday, Norwell nipped Apponequet Regional, 21-14, on Frank Chico's touchdown 65 seconds before the end of the \ game.

Other season openers last Saturday: East Bridgewater 24, West Bridgewater 0; Hanover 32 Cardinal Spellman 0; Mansfield 34 Norton 14; Randolph 2fi Stough-

ton 0; Abinton 13 Rockland 6.

Stang is home to Bourne at 7:30 o'clock Friday night in the lone Division Three season opener. Non leaguers that night have Mansfield at Attleboro and Wareham at Middleboro.

Division Two opens its schedule Saturday afternoon with Dartmouth at Greater New Bedford Yoke-Tech, Somerset at Fairhaven and Barnstable at Dennis-Yarmouth. In Division Three games Saturday CoyleCassidy is host to Dighton-Rehoboth and Old Rochester entertains Seekonk. There are no Division One games until Sept.

27. other non-league Among games Saturday are No. Attleboro at Bishop Feehan, Boston Latin at Taunton, Brockton at New Bedford, Case at BristolPlymouth, Falmouth at Plymouth-Carver, Oliver Ames at Southeastern Regional, Mansfield at Attleboro, King Philip at Bridgewater-Raynham.

Confereuce Soccer Underway The Conference openE~d its soccer season yesterday and has full cards on tap for tomorrow in both divisions.

In Division Two East Holy Family is home to Yoke-Tech, Old Rochester to Stang. Division Two West contests have Dartmouth at ConnOlly and Westport at Diman Yoke.

New Bedford is at DennisYarmouth, Falmouth at Barnstable in Division One East, Somerset at Attleboro lind Taunton at Durfee.

Next Wednesday all schools will be in inter-division play, with Holy Family at Connolly, Diman Yoke at Stang, YokeTech at Dartmouth, Westport at Old Rochester in Division. In Division One it will be Durfee at Barnstable, Taunton at Falat mouth, Dennis-Yarmouth Somerset, New Bedford at Attleboro.

Next soccer action in the Hockomock League will be on Sept. 26.

SomerSEtt Invitational Saturday Probably the high po:int of the scholastic cross country season is the Somerset Invitational Combination Cross-Country meet which, this year, will be held at the Somerset South Middle School Saturday.

Starting at 9 a.m. the ~rowd­ ed program lists five events starting with a one-roile race for youngsters, followed by a novice race, a freshmen race, one for girls and the main event, really seven races featuring the top seven runners from each school.

The seventh runners compete in the first race, sixth runners in the second, etc. until the last race in which the number one runners are pitted against one another.

This program has annually attracted entries from ~lS far as Wachusett, Shrewsbury, Gardner, Middleboro plus area schools such as Pilgrim of Warwick, Taunton, Seekonk, YokeTech, New Bedford, Apponequet, Feehan.

Ken Medeiros, of champion Kennedy, was the leading hitter in the Bristol County CYO Baseball League with an average of .434, and Steve Ogden of North led the pitchers with a 9-2 record and an earned run average of 1.98. In 74-v, innings Ogden struck out 135 and walked only 63.

Also in the top 10 in batting were John Sacramento, North, .427; Brian Landry, .386; Pete Simmons, Maplewood, .375; Carl Desrochers, Central, .368; Randy Codeiro, Somerset, .363; John Hart, Kennedy, .357; Steve Harrington, Kennedy, .356; Dave Frank, North, .351; and Paul Rodrigues and Steve Marshlik, both Maplewood and both .350.

Runnerup in the pitching department is Ralph Borden, Central, with an ERA of 2.11, followed by Jim Pereira, Maplewood, 2.18, Mike Nunes, Kennedy, 2.36; and Bill Kay, Somerset, 2.53. Kay was 6-1 in seven starts.

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

Catholic ratings: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive Which, however, require some analysis and explanation): C-condemned.

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New Films "Hopscotch" (Avco Embassy): Wednesday, Sept. 24, 9-11 When an experienced CIA agent p.m. (NBC) "Act of Love" Based (Walter Matthau) is demoted by . qn an actual tragedy, this drama his incompetent superior (Ned stars Ron Howard as a man on Beatty), he goes underground to trial for murdering his totally write an expose of international paralyzed brother who could not covert operations, trying to stay face the helplessness of his conone step ahead of liquidation by dition. the world's spy orgamations.

Saturday, Sept. 27, 8-11 p.m.

Matthau is in top form as the (PBS) "Live From the Met." In maverick agent in this highly the season premiere, Renata entertaining chase thriller diScotto sings the role of Manon rected by Ronald Neame. It has intelligence and humor but also Lescaut in the Giacomo Puccini some "dirty language" as part opera which was taped at the of the spies' world of "dirty Metropolitan Opera House in performance on March 29, 1980. tricks." A3 "In God We Trust" (UniverFilms on 1V sal): Intended as a satire of the Sunday, Sept. 21, 9 p.m.. (ABC) exploitation of people in the - "Midnight Express" (1978) name of religion, Marty Feld- This wildly melodramatic movie man's inept· and hugely unfunny about the imprisonment of a comedy takes a tastelessly irre- young American in a Turkish verent attitude toward the sa- prison for smuggling hashish cred and many will take offense wallows in bloody violence and at what seems to mock their be- cruelty, an indulgence hardly liefs. PG,B justified by its civil rights plea.

"Ordinary People" (para- R,C mount): Robert Redford directs Tuesday, Sept. 23, 8 p.m. (CBS) this screen version of the criti"PapiUon" (1973)- Steve cally acclaimed novel about a McQueen and Dustin. Hoffman family torn apart psychologic- star in this film about a prisonally when the older of two sons er's daring attempts to escape dies in a boating accident. Donfrom Devil's Island. An enterald Sutherland and Mary Tyler taining film which neatly balMoore give fine performances as ances adventure and spectacle confused and troubled parents with a more introspective aptrying to cope with the anguish proach. Since the horrors of of their surviving son, who has prison life are vividly depicted, attempted suicide. Though imthis is mature material. A3 pressive, the film is flawed. The Saturday, Sept. 27, 8:30 p.m. main problem is the dominant role played by mental illness and (CBS) - "Marathon Man" (1976) psychiatric therapy which lessen - Dustin Hoffman stars as an the dramatic impact immensely introspective student involved by largely absolving everyone with a terrifying fugitive Nazi, of responsibility. There are hints played by Laurence Olivier. that the characters' materialism Heavy on violence and exploitmay have contributed to their ing the tragedy of the Holocaust, instability, but these remain this is an anti-human thriller mere hints. Thus the film rarely that only a society as indifferent involves or moves the viewer. to secular graces as to moral The heaviness of the theme and values could embrace as legitithe use of language make this mate entertainment. R,B mature fare. R, A3 On1V "Ragel" 9-11 p.m. Thursday, MINNEAPOLIS (NC) - At its Sept. 25, NBC, is a film on a family man arrested for rape 41st quadrennial convention, who finds it almost impossible held in Minneapolis, the Catholic to admit to himself that he is Order of. Foresters, a fraternal beneficial society, elected John guilty.

What this movie does best is A. Gorski, Geneva, nl., as high to show that rape has nothing to chief ranger; Julius A. Coller II, do with sex but is a crime of Shakopee, Minn., as vice high violence, that rape is an ex- chief ranger; Bernard F. Milota, pression of displaced anger to- Richmond Heights, Ohio, as high ward women and that rapists are secretary; and Fred J. Meyer: McHenry, Ill., as high treasurer. dangerous individuals.

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. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. NEW BEDFORD :Parents oj~ first communion candidates and the children are asked to attend 10 a.m. Mass Sunday; Sept. 28 and Sunday Oct. 5 and remain following the Mass for a brief instruction.

Choir rehearsals have begun and new members are welcome.

CATHERINIAN CENTER, NORm DARTMOUTH The Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena will cpen a Catherinian Center for Adult Spirituality as part of their observance of the sixth centenary of the saint's death.

To be located at 856 Tucker Road, North .)artmouth, the new center will offer study programs, retreats and spiritual direction.

Further information is available from Sister .Judith Brunell, OP, telephone 99'5-1305.

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A holy hour sponsored by the Legion of Mary will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. tomorrow.

All are welcome.

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New officers will be installed S.aturday, Sept. 27 with the pro· gram beginning at 5:15 p.m. at a Mass at St. Anthony of the Desert Church, Fall River, and continuing with a dinner dance at the council home.

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The parish Activities Committee will meet tonight. A Youth Ministry meeting scheduled for Sunday will include election of officers and initiation of new members. CeD teachers will meet Monday.

A series of 10 Bible study sessions began Tuesday in the church hall and will continue through Nov. 18, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. each Tuesday. Teenagers and adults are invited to attend.

TAUNTON DISTRICT DIOCESAN COUNCIL Taunton area members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold an open meeting for both men and women at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton.

Father George Harrison and Father Edward Byington will speak on the need for God's assistance at a time of moral decline, inflation and violence. Mrs. Virginia Williams will be chairperson.

ST. RITA, MARION CCD teachers will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29 and parents of first communion candidates will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2 at the parish center.

Volunteers are still needed in the CCD program. Those interested may contact the rectory.

ST. ANNE. FALL RIVER Religious educators of the parish will be commissioned at 4 p.m. Mass Saturday. Monday CCD classes will begin this Monday and the Sunday classes will begin Sept. 28.

HOUSE 010" PRAYER, TIVERTON, R.I. The Holy Union Sisters will conduct a 'weekend of prayer and sharing for young women from the ages of 19 to 30 the weekend of Oct. 3 to 5 at St. James Convent, Tiverton. Those interested may contact Sister Barbara Walsh, SUSC, telephone 674-9131, days, or 679..5417, evemngs.

SSe PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The Senior CYO will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Father Coady Center.

Catechism classes begin Monday with registration for new students taking place following 9:30 and 11 a.m. Masses Sunday.

Volunteer aides are needed.at the parochial school before school and at the noon recess.

Those interested may contact Miss Kathleen Burt, principal, telephone 672-7258.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET' CCO grade seven classes will begin at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept.

29 in the CCO center.

A fellowship meeting for those who have taken the Life of the Spirit seminar and for any others interested will be held at 7 tonight. Father Georg~. Harrison will speak.

CATHEDRAL MUSIC. FALL RIVER Pastoral musicians of the diocese are invited to an Evening Prayer service at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at St. Mary's Cathedral. A homily geared to the mu· sic ministry will be given by Father James A. Mongelluzzo, director of music for the Worcester· diocese and a specialist in the liturgy of the hours.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER Teachers of CCO classes grades one through six will meet at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in the school.

Sewing for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home began this week. Clean white cloth, such as old bed linens, is needed by workers and may be left at Holy Name School.

The Women's Guild will hold a tea and reception for new members from 3 to 5 p.m. Sun· daly, Oct. 5 in the school hall.