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Valid Sacramental Marriage Impossible for Fallen-Away VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Papal International Theological Commission has declared that fallen-away Catholics without any Christian faith "are incapable of contracting a valid sacramental marriage.

"It is therefore wrong and very dangerous," said the commission, "to introduce the practice of allowing . . . priests or deacons to assist as such or recite prayers at a non-sacramental wedding ceremony."

The commission said that a mariage between two non-believing baptized persons "cannot in any way be recognized by the church" as a marriage.

This is so, said the commission, because between baptized persons the only possible marriage is a sacramental marriage.

In a document on marriage doctrine, the 30-member commission of leading theologians also said that the divorced and remarried "must not be deprived of pastoral assistance."

WORK PROCEEDS on the exterior of St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, as preparations accelerate for celebraof the 75th anniversary of the diocese. (Providence JournalBulletin Photo)

Reader Institution Set For Deacon Candidates At 3 p.m. Sunday, 16 candidates for the Permanent Diaconate will be formally instituted as Readers at a concelebrated Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. His Excellency, Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, will be principal concelebrant of the Mass, in which all clergy and laity of the diocese are invited to participate.

This is the first time the reformed liturgy of institution of the Latin Church will be celebrated in the Cathedral Church.

The 16 candidates for the Diocese of Fall River are: Francis Camacho, Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster; Manuel H. Camara, St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River; John W. Cwiekowski, Holy Family, Taunton; Oscar T. Drinkwater, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Albert L. Gallant, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls.

Maurice Lavalle, St. Rita, Marion; John Malloy, St. Pius X, South Yarmouth; James J. Mel-

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Bishop To Speak At Joint Service Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will preach at 7 p.m. Sunday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Taunton, at a joint ecumenical service marking the 250th anniversary of St. Thomas' and the 150th anniversary of St. Mary's Church, also of Taunton. The combined choirs of the churches will sing and all members of both congregations are invited to participate in the occasion.

St. Mary's anniversary will be celebrated within the parish Sunday Oct. 29 at a 4 p.m. liturgy with Bishop Cronin as principal concelebrant. A banquet and dance will follow at the Roseland Ballroom, Taunton.

Abuse of Church In Nicaragua MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) Amid escalating strife, church authorities have protested against government raids, arrests, one expulsion and "sacrilegious" abuse of churches and church personnel, including the archbishop of Managua.

The chancery office issued a statement saying that those who committed the abuses had incurred excommunication.

ArcI:tbishop Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua was at the central police station seeking the release of five priests when soldiers insulted him and threatened to kill him. He has been prominent in mediation efforts and in the defense of human rights. National Guard officers quickly intervened "and avoided a major tragedy," according to one witness.

The arrested priests were from the Calazans High School in Managua and included the superior, Father Donald Mendoza, a member of the priestly council of the archdiocese. They have been charged with possession of weapons after soldiers found in the premises four rifles and two handguns. Investigation revealed that civilian rebels had left the weapons there during retreat without any knowledge of the school personnel. The priests were released the next day.

The commission is a consultative body to the VaLcan Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Its recommendations go to the Doctrinal Congregation for consideration.

Regarding divorced and remarried Catholics, the commission restated church teaching that valid marriages may not be dissolved.

That teaching, said the commission, is not merely a disciplinary law of thE church but rather a binding judgment "pronounced by Jesus, Himself."

The irregular condition of divorced and remarried Cath-

olics, said the commission, "carcaries with it the impossibility of receiving the Eucharist."

It stressed, however, that "while their illegitimate situation does not permit them a life of full communion with the church, still Christians who are in this situation are not excluded from the action of divine grace and from a tie with the church."

The document approved by majority vote of the commission said that the divorced and remarried "are not dispensed from the numerous obligations Turn to Page Seven

Religious Education Day To Offer Varied Fare Under the chairmanship of keynote speech by Rev. James Rev. Michel G. Methot, director J. Haddad, STD, nationally of reiigious education, the Fall recognized in the field of cateRiver Diocese will sponsor its chetics. second biennial Religious EducaBeginning at 2 p.m., catetion Day from 12:30 to 6 p.m. chists from the Fall River and Sunday, Oct. 1 at Bishop Stang Providence dioceses will conduct High School, North Dartmouth. a series of 48 workshops during The theme for the day will be three time slots, allowing those "Sharing the Light of Faith," attending the day to attend at also the title of the National least three presentations. Topics Catechetical Directory, soon to to be covered include the sacra~ be published under auspices of ments, marriage and family life, the National Council of Catholic 路youth ministry, classroom techniques, ministry to the sick, the Bishops.

Hispanic apostolate and the Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will open proceedings with a wel- liturgy. coming address, followed by a Turn to Page Seven

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Claim Is Denied

Nun Is Candidate

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Virgil C. Dechant, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, has become the first Catholic layman to be received in private audience by Pope John Paul I, a spokesman' for the Knights reported.

BOMBAY, India -- The man who rallied India's Catholics to defend their homeland during the Communist Chinese invasion of 1962 nnd India's first native cardinal is dead at age 77. Cardinal Valerian Gracias of Bombay died in Bombay after a lengthy straggle with cancer.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has denied the claim made by a young financier on trial in Milan that he had dealings with the U.S. bishop in charge of the Vatican bank, Bishop Paul C. Marcinkus. The financier, Franco Ambrosio, is accused of being the illegal receiver of $26.3 million misappropriated from Svirobankin Lugano, Switzerland, the Swiss branch of an Italian bank.

NEW YORK - A group seeking to sever the New York Life Insurance Co. ties with J. P. Stevens and Co. is backing a nun as an alternate candidate for the insurance company's board of directors. Sister of Loretta Ann Patrick Ware is one of two alternate candidates proposed by the New York Life Campaign, a phase of the corporate campaign initiated and run by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.

Says She'll Be Failf WASHINGTON - Sarah Weddington, whose appointment as the top White House aide on women's issues was protested by two Catholic officials because of her identification with the abortion rights movement, says she wi:] treat those who disagree with her fairly in her new job. She said President Jimmy Carter has given her no indication he will change his position on abortion to bring it in Hne with her views.

Not What It Seemls MIAMI - The job of presidential envoy to the pope "isn't what it ,appears to be," said David Walters explaining why he resigned from the position. "I'm not happy with the nature of the post . . . n's bureaucratic. It should be person to person, president to pope and it ends up State Department to pope," Walters said.

Commonweal Editctr NEW YORK - John Deedy, 55, has resigned after 11 years as managing editor of Commonweal, a biweekly Catholic opinion journal. His replacement is Peter Steinfels, a former staff member.

Next to family WASHINGTON - Catholic Schools Week 1979 will use a slogan, "Next to the Family, the Catholic School," which ties its activities to the Plan for Pastoral Action for Family Ministry, a 10-year program promoting family life launched by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops last May.

IRS 'Unrealistic' WASHINGTON - The 'general counsel of the U.S. ·Catholic Conference has called proposed Internal Revenue Service regulations on sohool desegregation "completely unrealistic" as they apply to Catholic schcQls. "The position of the Catholic Church against discrimination is well documented." said USCC counsel, George Reed.

Agreement Signed NEW YORK Representatives of J. P. Stevens and Co., the National Labor Relations Board and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers have signed an informal agreement relating to 47 charges filed by the union against the textile firm.

Activist Bishops SALISBURY, Rhodesia - The Rhodesian Catholic bishops have begun contacts with Patriotic Front guerrilla leaders as part of their reconciliation efforts in racially troubled Rhodesia. The meetings indicate a new activist role by the six bishops in trying to mediate the growing warfare between black guerrillas and the white government of Prime Minister Ian Smith. ,

College Gets Aid STEUBENVILLE, Ohio Bishops, priests and deacons inspired by their participation in the 1978 National Conference for Priests and Deacons in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal at the College of Steubenville have contributed more than $25,000 to the college since the conference ended July 14.

Bread of the World WASHINGTON Bread for the World, a Christian hunger lobby, has launched a campaign to urge Congress to make U.S. foreign aid programs develop self-reliance in poor countries.

Care, Not Cure SAN DIEGO - The growing need for hospice-type treatment for the dying will mean " a change from the concept of cure to the concept of care" hospital administrators, doctors, nurses and others were told at a Catholic Hospital Association Institute on hospices in San Diego.

Dr. Edward J. Spillane, vice president of CHA said, "As time goes on, our citizens' diseases will be chronic illnesses and ~he need will be for long-term care."

At Funeral ROME - The American Jesuits and a New York rabbi were among prominent world religious leaders attending a sevenand-a-half hour funeral liturgy in Leningrad for Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Nikodim, a leader in ecumenical relations, who died during an audience with' Pope John Paul I. Rabbi Arthur Schneier, and Jesuit Fathers Donald Campion and John Long attended the funeral.

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Millions View Holy Shroud TURIN, Italy (NC) - More than a million persons have already seen the Shroud of Turin, believed to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ, officials report.

Visitors have been coming at the rate of 100,000 or more a day and waiting for up to three hours to spend less than a minute in front of the shroud, on public display for the first time in 45 years.

The 14-by-three-foot cloth behind a bullet-pfO<of glass shield is expected to attract up to 3 million visitors by Oct. 8 when the showing ends.

Every 10 to 15 seconds a priest says over a loudspeaker: "To your left is the front part of the shroud with the face, to the right the rear image of the crucified man. Please look without

stopping, continue to walk.

Hurry, there are so many people behind you, do not stop. Do this little act of charity for those who are waiting outside."

The Red Cross and other organizations offering health services have had to intervene 150 times on some days to aid individuals, particularly the elderly.

Turin's 21,000 hotel beds have almost all been booked on weekends until the end of the public display. Restaurants and bars have been doing a booming business.

Archbishop Anastasio Ballestrero of Turin, said, "despite the crowds there is an atmosphere of religious silence, of prayer and of an intense emotion. All are moved, without distinction."

Family Ministry Conference Set WASHINGTON (NC) - Family life ministry and its relationship to evangelization and parish renewal - three top priorities of the U.S. bishops - will be explored du.ring a National Family Life 'Conference and Workshop, to be held Oct. 24-26 in Washington.

The three-day meeting, sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Conference, is the first step in preparing for a 1980 Family Year and for a decade of family ministry development.

Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, will give the keynote address and spea"lters will include George Gallup Jr., president of the American Institute of Public Opinion; William MoCready of

CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER, in top picture, for Sister Rose de Lima, RSM, administrator of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, who marked 40 years in religious life at a Mass with Bishop Cronin as principal celebrant and Father Thomas L. Rita, home director, as concelebrant. Below, it's the bishop's turn for congratulations on the 10th anniversary of his episcopal ordination, as he chats with visitors Bishop Joseph Regan, M.M. (left) of Davao, Philippines and Bishop Regan's sister, Sister Rita Marie, M.M., longtime missioner to mainland China and Taiwan. The Maryknollers are natives of Fairhaven.

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Congratulations

Priests' Council Meets Tomorrow

Best Wishes

The Priests' Council of the diocese will meet at 1 tomorrow afternoon at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will open proceedings with a concelebrated Mass and a meeting will follow, at which reports will be presented on confirmation guidelines, Eucharistic ministry to the sick, the diocesan jubilee census program and diocesan evangelization.

Methot, Fall River; Father Manuel Ferreira and Father John Perry, New Bedford.

,Ex-officio council members are Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca and Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington.

Those appointed by the bishop are Father Daniel Freitas, Msgr.

James Gleason and Father Pierre Lachance, O.P., council vicepresident.

Deanery representatives are Father Robert Kaszynski, council president, and Father Michel

ROME (NC) Seventeen African countries face severe food shortages because of drought, flood and war, the director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said.

Conditions are especially critical in Ethiopia, Ghana and three Sahelian countries: Mali, Niger and Chad, added the director general, Edouard Souma.

'Father Richard Beaulieu, Father Walter Sullivan, Taunton; Father 'Philip Davignon, Father Richard Roy, Attleboro; Father John Andrews, Father Timothy Goldrick, Cape and Islands.

Famine Feared

the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago; Mary Reed Newland of the Albany diocesan adult religious education office; David Thomas of St. Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana; Auxiliary Bishop Dominic A. Marconi of Newark; ,Pablo Sedillo, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs; Auxiliary Bishop Eugene A. Marino of Washington; and Dolores Leckey, executive director of the Bishops' Committee on the Laity.

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Open Letter The following open letter appeared first in The Evan~ gelist, newspaper of the diocese of Albany. It certainly indicates to what extent some of our syndicated columnists have become immune to the rea.l problems of today's living and how crassly they reflect totally amoral standards.

Considering the subject at hand, it is hoped that this letter will again recall to all that Dear Abby should stick to her soap operas.

Dear Abby, We are writing this editorial to you after reading a recent column of yours. We have read many of your columns, sometimes for the laughs. .After all, where else can we read letters from people with such serious problems as how to drop a hint that a co-worker's breath could fell a cement truck? But we have no time now to go into why peopl~ are attracted in bunches to such trivia.

The reason we are writing, Abby, is that recent column. You know the one: from "Had in Houston," about how she got pregnant after dating a man for less than six months and how he gallantly agreed to pay for an abortion and how his check bounced and how she ended up paying.

Your answer was precious: "If there should be another time, get half the fee in advance."

Abby, are you really that路 cold? Does the only advice you can offer a woman who has gone through such an experience amount to what you'd tell someone going halvesies on a dinner out? Has the new morality taken us to Dutch treat abortions, with the only concern being who's to pay financially, and not who has paid with his or her life and who will continue to pay with her memories?

Millions of newspaper readers flip to your column daily, Abby, and we suspect many thousands of them were let down by your response. You could have counseled the woman on her more serious problems (promiscuity, lack of self-respect); you could have offered some words about the callousness of contemporary sexual morality; you could have mentioned the truth about abortion; you could have pointed the letterwriter in a more noble direction.

Instead, you reduced this tragic situation to a one-liner about splitting the fee in advance.

A child died, Abby; a woman was scarred; a man proved his selfishness in several ways; a relationship was ruined by apparent immaturity or pride or any of several other reasons; and all of society suffered as a result of all these.

Your apparent inability to see what happened and to comment on it demonstrates an amoral streak and superficiality we dread to think is being consumed over breakfast by readers across the nation.

Abby, you disappointed us. Either stick to the easy ones about whom to invite to the wedding or be willing to tackle the hard ones with some sense of morality.

Sign us, Appalled in Albany.

May we add another signature?

Sign us, Furious in Fall River.

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'Seek, and you will find.' Matt. 7:7

Protestant Conflicts

By Father John B. Sheerin

The situation in Protestantism is serious. Of course, this is not the first time it has been in trouble. As Sydney Ahlstrom says in his "Religious History of the American People:" "After 1865 the problems of reconstruction, urbanization, immigration, natural science and modern culture destroyed the great evangelical consensus, leaving a situation wherein dissenters were merely angry and frustrated."

Today, however, the reports about the health of Protestantism are not quite as reassuring.

In Christianity Today, Oct. 21, 1977. there was an article entitled "Why the Evangelicalism Upswing?" The author, Donald Tinder. contends that evangelicalism is flourishing. because it conserves. true evangelicalism, yet is innovative. At first glance it does seem that the conservative evangelicals are doing well.

On the other hand, the seeds of division and dissent present colossal problems for liberal evangelicals.

They are a literate. highly zealous elite, most of whom were active in the civil rights struggles in the 1960s, the counterculture, the Jesus Movement, the anti-war protests and even the New Left. They retain a strong evangelical belief in the authority of the Bible and the duty of converting others

but they shy away from biblical literalism and stress the need of involvement in social action.

Other Protestant churches and the Anglicans are beset with wrangling and dissent over issues such as the ordination of women and homosexuals.

Many Protestant denominations have also been undergoing division because of changes in their doctrinal and ecclestiastical positions. The furor in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is one notable example.

I suppose some Catholics would welcome large-scale schisms in Protestantism as a prelude to a vast wave of conversions to Catholicism. But the collapse of Protestantism would be unfortunate. Many of the most significant elements of the church of Christ can and do exist outside the visible boundaries of the Catholic Church.

The "Decree on Ecumenism" says that the separated churches have an importance in the mystery of salvation. "For the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation which derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Catholic Church." (Ch.L, No.3) It would be sad to see the grace-filled elements in Protestism go down the drain. Such a debacle would only lead to new scrambles, new quarrels among Protestant groups, possibly the secularizing of much of Protes-

tant Christianity. It seems to me that Catholics and Protestants need more than ever to take a large role in the ecumenical movement. We need one church.

Church unity is the will of Christ. As it is pointless now to dwell on the historical causes of present-day divisions in Christianity, so is it pointless to engage in contemporary divisive debates. There is a fundamental unity among all baptized Christians that Christ wills should take external form. As Pope Paul has said, the ecumenical dialogue seems to be a prelude to the final harmony of the church which was at its begin~ ning "one heart and one soul."

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I don't wish to engage in a debate with a Truro subscriber about the movie list but I do urge you to continue it. I am very happy to consult it and welcomed its return to your publication.

Keep up the good work!

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Likes Ratings Dear Editor: Three cheers for the movierating column! It certainly solves much confusion in this household.

Also, glad to see the song column back. It's the first thing my 13-year-old looks for and I have to remind him not to clip it until everyone's read The Anchor.

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Family Planning Dear Editor: Justice is in the thoughts of many these days and inspires our careful consideration. For instance, in the advice to our neighbor as regards family planning, justice asks of us to be true to our most sensitive feel. ings. How many good people are waiting for a warm word of encouragement from us that when the need arises to limit the size of their family, we would say yes to the natural ability for abstaining.

How many people by abstaining during necessary and uncertain periods of their lives have found themselves very much in tune with the Creator's natural plan? Just to be reminded by one's neighbor that there is a beautiful side of marriage which may require long periods of abstaining could be a true source of comfort.

Lee E. Bourgoin Falmouth

Letters Asked Dear Editor: During May, it was my privilege to lecture and travel extensively in Nicaragua. At that time I became very aware that hundreds of Nicaraguans were being arbitrarily arrested, fined and detained without due process . . . I heard of many documented cases of torture; Church leaders and clergy have been beaten, arrested and denied entry visas.

I strongly urge our citizens to write to their elected officials strongly opposing: 1. Any agreement between the U.S. government and the Nicaraguan govern-

ment which would unfreeze Fiscal Year 1978 FMS credits for any use Dear Editor: whatsoever in Nicaragua.

I have a box full of prayer 2. The transfer of any credits pamphlets and novenas, also old from previous years for any Bibles. I hate to throw them out use whatsoever in Nicaragua. and I wonder if there is a place I base my opposition to this I can send them. Thank you for aid on the fact that the Somoza listening. God bless you all. regime in Nicaragua remains one Gladys Gonsalves of the most notorious violators Fall River of human rights in this hemisReaders? phere.

The events about which I am speaking have been given wide coverage not only in the United States newspapers, but have also <been documented by internationThe 200th anniversary of the ally respected organizations. birth of Mother Catherine McI urge my fellow Americans Auley, foundress of the Sisters to be sensitive to our brothers of Mercy, which occurs Sept. and sisters of Nicaragua, to .29, is being marked in Ireland pray for them and for an end by issuance of a postage stamp to the oppression of the Somoza featuring the nun's death mask.

Regime.

Mother McAuley was born in A letter is a small thing, but Dublin and from an early age many letters can make a real was noted for her devotion to difference. I urge all Americans the education and care of the to express their concern for Hu- poor. In 1827 she opened a man Rights through a letter to House of Mercy in a fashionable the State Department. section of Dublin, where she '(Rev. Dr.) Thomas A. Kane provided dormitories and vocaHouse of Affirmation tional educational facilities for Whitinsville, Mass. the needy.

The program led to the founding of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy in 1831, which Dear Editor: Mother McAuley led until her What are Father John B. death in 1841. Today her comSheerin's credentials for writing munity is active in education, a column on the American econ- hospital work and social seromic system? He displays an apvice around the world. In the palling lack of understanding of Fall River diocese Sisters of this system by suggesting that Mercy are in grade and high Reggie Jackson may be in the school and parish ministries and minors next year on a small also staff the Nazareth Hall salary. It is common knowledge schools in Fall River and Hythat Jackson has a multi-year annis. contract which absolutely precludes this possibility. I suggest th,at Father Sheerin study our free enterprise system. If he understood it, perhaps he would cease and desist from LOS ANGELES (NC) - Depropounding his collectivist scribing himself as "frantic" theories. over the need to promote religious vocations, Father George Edward G. Maher Clements told a conference in Attleboro Los Angeles that the church must wake up to its future, "if any."

Dear Editor: Addressing a religious vocaThank you for publishing the tion fair aimed at black youth list of political candidates and in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, their views on abortion. Thank the black priest, who is pastor you also for your latest editorial of Holy Angels Church in Chicurging Catholics to vote as ago's poorest section, said, "I Catholics. As you probably know know there is no future for my by now I have been saying church unless we start pumpthese things for the past five ing fresh, new, young blood into or six years but to no avail. that church."

Better late than never. But Father Clements said he had why so late? Why so long? often been told to get out of Again I say, for God's sake, the Catholic Church by. black Catholics of America, wake up! militants and by right-wing white Catholics.

Edward F. Acton Hyannis "I've been told if I were a true brother I should leave the white racist church. On the other hand, Correction I've 'been told by white, conser. In last Thursday's Pro-Life vative Bircher Catholics to get Voting Records feature on pages out since I don't agree with 8 and 9, John J. Marino, candi- some things." he said. date for the U.S. House of Rep"I tell them on the right and resentatives, was incorrectly left: I ain't going nowhere. It listed as supporting a Human took 12 years to get this collar Life Amendment to the Consti- around my throat and I'm not tution. He does not, although having anyone snatch it away," he does support legislation pro- the black pastor added. "As a viding positive alternatives to matter of fact, they can't put abortion and prohibiting use of me out because they didn't put tax funds for abortions. me in. Jesus Christ put me in."

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Vocation Need Called Frantic

The Franciscan Clarist Sisters conduct a hostel and boarding house for children three to ten who attend the Catholic school in Chalakudy, India. It is a rented building, much too small and not at all safe. Yet the Sisters are forced to pay a very high rent. They seek to build a more adequate structure - one which will serve a dual purpose - a home for themselves and the children as well as include a chapel where they and the students can hear Mass and receive the sacraments. The 'Sisters raised as much money as they could from their community, the parents of the students and the people of the village. But most of them are very poor and much of the money was used to buy land for the building. A minimum of $3,000 is still needed to complete the convent-chapel. For that, you can build the structure yourself, name it for your favorite saint and dedicate it as a Memorial for someone you love. If that is beyond your reach, at least give something-$100, $50, $25, $10, $5, or whatever you can to help these gallant women keep the Faith alive in a land that is largely non-Christian.

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Your Sunday dinner will seem tastier and be more meaningful if you share your blessings with the hungry families huddled in refugee camps of the Near East. For only $20-less than the cost of most family dinners-you c~n feed a Palestine refugee family for an entire month.

To show their thanks to you, we'll send you an Olive Wood Rosary from the Holy Land.

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When I was a kid back in school, I always had a sneaking suspicion that teachers spent their entire summers devising ways to make kids more miserabie the following year.

Now, as a parent, I know those suspicions were unfounded.

Teachers spend their summers thinking of ways to improve the quality of education for the next semester. It's just an accidental by-product that these plans usually make parents more miserable.

A teacher friend was quite surprised when I told him that I hated summer's ending and

was happening.

I suppose I'm prejudiced, because my colleagues William McCready and Terry Sullivan will be the principal investigators in the project. Even more important (honestly) than the fact that the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) will do the study is the decision of the Knights to settle for nothing less than professional competent reaearch.

The cost of such research comes high, but Virgil Dechant and the Knights of Columbus decided that when you're dealing with the future of the Church, that ought to be no obstacle to quality.

Professors McCready and Sullivan will not solve the vocation shortage; but when their work is done, Church policymakers, who have to m~ke the

decisions about vocations and the youth apostolate, will have a lot more and a lot better information available than they have now. My own guess is that all of us will encounter some extraordinary surprises. We may end up discovering that young people are far more religious in some ways, at any rate than we are inclined to believe at present.

the kids going back to school.

He thought that most unusual and wondered why I was out of step with most parents' reaction.

I explained, "During summer I have just the family to worry about. Once school gets started I have to answer to the demands of teachers. Somehow, all the great ideas for the good of the students finish up willi more meetings· and more 'cooperation' needed from me."

I had the distinct feeling that he was making a mental note to thank God that he never had me :for a "parent."

I think my biggest problem is that when I was young and enthusiastic I was afraid of my :role as parent in Parent-Teacher Conferences. Now that I'm old, I'm too tired to get fired up.

Most of the teachers my child:ren have had were good. But there were a couple of tyrants who made my life miserable, to

say nothing of what they did to students. It took only one dictator to make the year terrible, and outweigh good experiences with 20 other teachers..

Seven kids could come home in any state from neutral to exuberant, but the one who came home in tears, and between sobs cried, "You know what she did now?" could destroy a whole day. A real martinet could manage to "do something" every day for a whole year.

If I could do it over, at the beginning of the school year I'd set up some "Rules and Regulations, for myself.

- Presume that all teachers mean well. Some nre more competent, some outright gifted, tlut until they prove otherwise, give them the benefit of the doubt.

- If a teacher is trying to do a good job - cooperate.

- When you do run into a tyrant who seems to be seriously damaging your child if nor-

mal recourse doesn't help and the teacher proves to be completely unreasonable, don't try to reason. Lower the boom with every resource possible!

- You are the primary educator of your child. You must see that your child is in a school where your educational standards are met. If they aren't you must do something to change matters.

- You also have the responsibility to let the teachers who are doing a good job know that you appreciate their efforts • • • more than by simply not complaining.

- Accept the fact that the school is privileged to have your child. If schools had no children to teach, no teachers would have to strike, no budgets would have to be raised. The whole school system would be out iooking for work.

I'd go on with more observations but I must get to the store to buy one lunch box (not. metal), one loose-leaf binder (three-ring), loose-leaf paper (not narrow-ruled), five-subject notebooks (not four or six), sneakers (white), etc., etc., etc.

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- A few teachers rank themselves slightly above God. They regard parents as necessary evils, needed only to supply children to be saved' from the bad influence of said parents. They also need parents to do volunteer work, and attend meetings where they can pontificate about how great they are as teachers and how stupid and uncooperative the children are as pupils.

- These teachers do irreparable damage to other teachers, to the school, and most important, to the children. Check with other parents. If you are in substantial agreement, then the problem is not "your child."

- As a parent your responsibilities go beyond attending PTA meetings, cake sales, and seeing that homework is done.

Exploding Some Prevalent Myths About the Poor

By JIM CASTELILI

"Poor people are poor because they're lazy. They only work if they are forced to.

Men leave their families so their wives and children can receive welfare. Women on welfare have more babies to increase their benefits."

That is not a direct quote, but an expression of attitude. Few people are crude enough actually to say those things, but

By MARILYN RODERICK

Makeup days are here again. The generation that grew up in the sixties and early seventies shunned makeup

of the religious and vocation attitudes of young Catholics.

The most critical institutional problem the Church faces is the extraordinary decline of voca· tions in the last 15 years; and ,all too easily our leaders ac.cepted its inevitability and busiily closed down seminaries and motherhouses without ever fbothering to figure out why it

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they are the stuff of the myth that has shaped much of Am.~rica'$ policy toward its poor.

People who have tried to debunk this myth have received some new weapons in two studies begun in 1968 and recently completed for the U.S. Depart-· ment of Labor under the director of Samuel Klausner, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

The first study focused on female-headed households, including welfare and working mothers in 438 households in Camden, N.J., between 1969 and 1973.

The second study, on the relationship between poverty and. community, focused on 723 low-

income men and 414 of their the income from the working mates in Camden in 1973 and member is cut off, and the "so1974. cial outcasts," who are not simA key finding was that "there ply cut off from the American is no evidence that males aban- economy, but from most other don their homes to enable the parts of society. women to improve their welfare Klausner found that the income." church was the central social The studies also found that force for people in the studies. welfare mothers were strongly He said the first step in dealing pro-family and that there are with social outcasts is to help different types of people on wel- them form attachments to the fare who must be treated differ- .rest of the community by involving them in schools, churches, ently.

Groups include the tempor- the political process and other arily unemployed; children, old social activities.

The studies found four types people, the disabled and others normally supported by a work- of welfare mothers: - "Incompetents," physically ing member of the family, who find themselves on welfare when or mentally disabled, who need

and part of the establishment so they went around looking natural and slightly anemic.

Well, finally this generatior. realized that trying to look your best isn't the worst of crimes and as their youthful gleam fa.. ded, they were smart enough to notice that many very love.. ly women were really enjoying being women.

Those of us brought up in the fifties didn't have to be told this. We went through the trials and errors of lipst:ck, cologne and face powder and we

all wanted to look like the Fire and Ice Girl.

We were offered dreams for sale and we bought and bought and bougllt.

One good thing :has come out of the era of no makeup for the young. The cosmetic companies were forced by the back to nature generation to turn to natural cosmetics, which have been good for all of us.

One of my daughters still shuns makeup, scoffing at those who wear it, while the other was born knowing how to use it.

I have faith that the former will one day discover that a little mascara doesn't look artificial, that lipstick even in a light shade keeps your lips from chapping and that nothing gives you that healthy glow in dreary February better than a rosy shade of foundation.

If you're clumsy about makeup, go to any department store cosmetic counter, find a salesgirl who looks as if she knows how to use it herself and ask for help.

Most people on these counters

rehabilitation, training, mental health help and help with child care; - "Adjusted traditionalists," women for whom "motherhood is the core of their identity" who, when they work outside the home, work in areas closely related to homemaking; - "Temporary traditionalists," women becoming more interested in working outside the home, who need job training and counseling; - ",Modernizers," women who see themselves as responsible for their families' economic well-being and are interested in jobs in business and industry.

enjoy nothing better than trying their art on a customer and the results may convince you that maybe Cleopatra knew what she was doing after all and it's sure cheaper therapy than a psychiatrist!

Note The hyline was omitted on last Thursday's page 1 article, "Anti-Catholic Propaganda Doomed Tuition Credits."

It was written by Anchor columnist Father Andrew Greeley.

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Marriage Contil1ued from Page One stemming from Baptism, especially concerning the Christian education of their children."

In a comment on the document, Msgr. Philippe Delhaye, commission secretary, wrote that the commission "had no difficulty whatsoever in abandoning a rigid pastoral stance which, while not reaching the point of excommunication, as was true up until a short time ago in some countries, considered the divorced and remarried ostracized and abandoned unto themselves, like sheep without a shepherd."

The U.S. was one of a few countries where divorce and remarriage carried the automatic penalty of excommunication.

But last year the American bishops won Vatican permission to remove the automatic excommunication.

The commission also urged that priests act to prevent further divorces through better premarital preparation of couples.

With regard to fallen-away Catholics attempting to contract a valid sacramental marriage, Msgr. Delhaye said that the importance of an individual's faith to reception of the sacraments had been downplayed by the Council of Trent, reacting to those who overemphasized its significance.

He cautioned against permitting religious marriage when requested merely for sentimental reasons or to please family members.

While reaffirming the church's teaching that a valid, consummated路 marriage cannot be dissolved, the commission also held that "the church could further define the concepts of sacramentality and consummation, explaining better their meaning, so that the whole doctrine of indissolubility of marriage can be presented in a deeper and more exact way."

Education Continued from Page One The program will close with a commissioning sen1ice, asking God's blessing on the work of religious educators during the coming year.

The day is designed for parish religion teachers, coordinators, principals, priests, parents and all who have to do with the reo ligious training of youth or adults.

Advance registration may be made at any rectory or at the door on Oct. 1.

Father Haddad Father Haddad, the keynote speaker, is presently pastor of St. Eulalia parish, Winchester.

Previously he was director of continuing education of clergy for the Boston archdiocese and the first director of the archdiocesan Pastoral Institute, a center for the academic and spiritual renewal of the clergy.

He is widely known as a lecturer on various aspects of catechetics.

Ordained in 1958, the speaker attended Boston College and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy before beginning studies for the priesthood. He holds a doctorate in sacred theology from St. Patrick's University, Maynooth, Ireland.

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., POPE RIDES AGAIN: Pope John Paul I is carried on his portable throne through cheering pilgrims. The five foot, five inch pontiff had given up the throne but changed his mind after receiving complaints from people who could not see him. (NC Photo)

tion from reception of these ministries by candidates is reserved directly to the Holy See. For the entire community of believers, the ceremony of institution of Reader is another opportunity for the teaching church. Not only does it give the candidate the chance to profess publicly his intent to pursue his vocation to the Permanent Diaconate but it also gives the church a moment when she can share the truths of faith with her members.

It is with this in mind that all are invited to be at the Cathedral on Sunday to share this important moment in the life of the Church of the Diocese of Fall River.

Reader Institution Continued from Page One boro; Franciszek W. Mis, St. Stanislaus, Fall River.

Benjamin A. Nogueira, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Eugene L. Orosz, St. Dominic, Swansea; Leo W. Racine, St. Joseph, New Bedford; Eugene E. Rauner, St. Patrick, Somerset; John H. Schondek, St. Paul, Taunton; Vincent P. Walsh, Holy Trinity, West Harwich.

Andre Nasser also among candidates, is a subject of the Greek Melkite Diocese of Newton and a member of St. Anthony of the Desert parish, Fall River.

The rites of institution of Reader and Acolyte were mandated in 1973 by the late Pope Paul VI by way of recognition of the ministries proper to those who seek diaconal ordination.

The candidates to be instituted on Sunday will henceforward act as readers in their own right in the name of the Church, as opposed to the role of the or路 dinary lector.

In his Motu Proprio on the subject, Pope Paul clearly stated that the functions previously called minor orders were henceforward to be known as ministries. The functions heretofore committed to the subdeacon were entrusted to the reader and the colyte; consequently, the major order of subdiaconate no longer exists in the Latin Church.

Even in the most ancient times, certain ministries were established by the Church for the purpose of giving suitable worship to God and offering service to the people of God according to their needs. In carrying out these ministries, various duties of a liturgical and charitable nature were entrusted to the faithful.

Conferring of these functions often took place at a special rite in which a Christian was established in a special rank or class in order to fulfill one or another ecclesiastical Junction. .gome of such functions, more closely connected with liturgical celebrations, slowly came to be considered as preparatory instititions for the reception of sacred orders. Thus it was that the offices of porter, exorcist, lector and acolyte were called

minor orders in the Latin Church.

In time, these minor orders were reserved to those who intended to receive major orders, i. e., subdeacon, deacon and priest.

However, Pope Paul, together with many in the Church, deemed it necessary to reexamine the subject of minor orders, adapting them to contemporary needs, so that what was obsolete might be removed, what was useful retained, what was necessary defined and what was "required of candidates for Holy Orders might be determined. With all this in mind and in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul enacted the new norms for Reader and Acolyte.

The Reader is appointed for a function proper to him, that of reading the word of God in the liturgical assembly. Accordingly, he is to read the lessons from sacred scripture, except for the gospels in the Mass and other sacred celebrations.

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He is also to recite the psalms between the readings when there is no psalmist; he is to present the intentions for the general intercessions in the absence of a deacon or cantor; he is to direct singing and the participation by f:le faithful; he is to instruct the faithful for the worthy reception of the sacraments.

What is worthy of note and interesting from a pastoral viewpoint is that the Reader may also, insofar as it may be necessary, prepare other members or. the faithful who are temporarily appointed to read the scriptures at liturgical celebrations. Thus it is that an instituted Reader could be placed in charge of a parish lector program.

Candidates for the diaconate must receive the ministries of Reader and Acolyte and are to exercise them for a fitting time, in order to be better disposed for the future service of the word and of the altar. So serious is this mandate that dispensa-

Reminder At the present time the office of the Permanent Diaconate is conducting pre-application interviews of prospective candidates for its second deacon class, which will begin studies for ordination next September. This process for the third class will not be undertaken until September, 1981. Therefore, those interested in the Permanent Deacon Program of the Diocese and desiring to discuss the possibility of participation in this second class should contact: Rev. John F. Moore, Director Permanent Diaconate Program P.O. Box 7 Fall River, MA 02722

More African Bishops VATICAN CIlY (NC) - The Vatican has announced that 70 percent of bishops holding jurisdiction in Africa are now native Africans.

The news was published by International Fides Service, a branch of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (the mission department of the church's central offices in Rome).

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'Big Brother' Gets Religion A persoll who pledges a certain amount of money to his church might be surprised to get a computerized reminder in the mail when he lags in fulfilling his commitment. But such reminders B.re likely to become more common as "Big Brother" gets religion and parishes find out that the computer can significantly reduce unpaid pledges.

While parishes usually lose about 25 percent of their pledged funds, "a comput.er can cut that by about 14 percent," said Robert I:tansen of St. Paul, Minn.

Hansen is the founder of Cy-' bertronics, Inc., a firm which serves 10 parishes in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and conducts fundraising campaigns for Minnesota, Ohio and Florida dioceses. His company also handles the subscription list for the Catholic Bulletin, weekiy newspaper of the St. Paul- Minneapolis Archdiocese, and does work for 40 churches of various denominations.

In the New York Archdiocese, what began 10 years ago as a relatively simple computer system has grown into a large undertaking employing 25 people working two daily shifts..

The New York operation, located in a former stable on the grounds of St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers, is under the direction of Christian School Brother Austin David, who holds a doctorate in computer technology from New York University.

"We process the financial work for Catholic Charities, we do the grade reporting and scheduling for about 30,000 students, we do tuition billing, and we do the work for many archdiocesan agencies as well as

parish finances," Brother David said.

The computer's function is not to replace people, but to handle work that otherwise would be all but impossible because of volume, he said. "For example, the data center handles the mailing lists for the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, which has the names of 225,000 people on file. Ten times a- year it prepares this list - a job that takes about two hours. Can you imagine how long it would take for someone to type out these mailing lists?"

Rockville Centre was the first diocese in the country to use a data system, and now about 10 dioceses have one. In terms of use and size, New York is probably the largest facility of its type.

The archdiocese rents its Univac computer for $19,000 a month and spends almost $1,200 more each month for electricity to run it. While the costs may sound high, the machine pays for itself, officials say.

Brother David, currently an adjunct professor at St. John's University, is particularly enthusiastic over the uses to which computers may be put in education. He said the small, home computers now on the market are useful. But he dismisses the idea of using such devices to balance checkbooks or to keep track of recipes: their real value, he said, is in teaching.

"There's no question," he said, "that home computers are the thing of tomorrow. Because of the radical changes that have occurred in technology - today we work with stacked, integrated chips, something as big as your fingernail that does the work of 10,000 transistors - it

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lends a tremendous amount of flexibility to the instructional process. We have to recognize that perhaps schools might not look the same in the year 2000.

If we can bring the information to the students at home, homes might have an educational room instead of a rumpus room," For the time being, Brother David would like to see the church expand its use of computers. This would mean establishment of regional computer centers.

But he said the idea is difficult to sell dioceses, and his experience is backed up by that of others.

"Churches are usually tough to sell on the value of computers," said Gerald Jacobson, director of Ministers' Life Information Services of Minneapolis.

Jacobson's firm handles data processing needs for 30 churches.

He predicts that developments in computer technology eventually will help sell the devices' usefulness.

Those who have utilized computers for church work praise the machines' ability to aid in planning. Susan Flynn, secretary for Holy Trinity Parish, St. Paul, said Cybertronics programs have "updated parish records and given the finance committee an idea of how mucfi income we have to draw up a J)udget."

There are occasional problems, however, Cybertronics' Hansen noted, such as the time Catholic families got sets of envelopes meant for Lutherans.

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Padre Pio Anniversary Saturday Saturday will be the 10th anniversary of the death of Padre Pio, famed Italian Capuchin stigmatic priest. It is the occasion for intensification of efforts towards his beatification and eventual canonization, according to officials at the Padre Pio Foundation of America, Cromwell, Conn.

They note that a number of healings have been attributed to. the priest's intercession and that a Vatican representative has been assigned to assemble and file information on his life and works.

He was known for his ability as a confessor and his compassion and charitable works for the poor and sick. "Since the stigmata in themselves have not formerly been the reason for canonization," they note, "Padre Pio's stigmata may not be acknowledged by the Church. On the other hand, some of our greatest saints were marked by the stigmata an dthis fact is not overlooked by those who believe that Padre Pio is headed for sainthood."

During Padre Pio's lifetime and at his death, a number of physicians examined him. They confirmed that he had a very deep cut on the left side of the chest, lesions in hand and feet that bled continuously.

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"Padre Pio has a very deep cut in the fifth intercostal space on the left side . . . the lesions in his hands are covered with a dark red membrane . . . there is no swelling or inflamation.

When I pressed with my fingers on the palm and back of his hand, there was a sensation of an empty space. The lesions of the feet have the same characteristics. I have examined Padre Pio five times in the course of fifteen months . . . I have never been able to classify the wounds in any known clinical order."

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members to the detriment of community life and of the apostolate itself, as well as personal fatigue."

Among the new challenges, Father Chevroulet listed the new importance of the local church, evangelization and development, building christian communities, lay leadership and new ministries, solidarity with the poor, social justice and human rights, and liberation.

With regard to the style of religious life, Father Chevroulet cited reports speaking of uncertainty, insecurity and confusion regarding the basic values of religious life. While they cited new trends and the painful development of new forms, they noted that these are also a source of tension and disagreement in their communities.

At the same time, he reported, "in general, the crisis of discouragement and lassitude seems to have peaked out and positive signs of interior renewal are showing up."

The provincials, he said, reported a general insistence on the value of 'community life as "a common mutual commitment."

Concerning prayer, he said that the need for a more intense prayer life often is felt where community renewal is strongest,

eral blood tests were conducted under the direction of Dr. Giuseppe Sala. He writes: "Padre Pio's blood was normal. The only thing that was beyond comprehension was the nature of the wounds . . . they w~re beyond any anatomical classification. They were unique."

In the United States, many groups are actively furthering the beatification and canonization cause of Padre Pio. In addition to the Cromwell foundation, they include units in Norristown, Pa. and New York City.

and it often accompanies 'involvement in the charismatic renewal.

On the practice of the vows, Father Chevroulet noted attitudes toward obedience ranging from stress on the importance of the provincial as an "animator" of the province to resentment of his "intrusion into community autonomy."

With regard to chastity, he quoted from two reports. One said, "Equality, with laymen, equality with the opposite sex' and downgrading of celibacy are the "in" thing. No other way can he explain the increase in the number of our members who are seeking or have sought laicization, and this is not confined to young men."

Another report said: "The witness of chastity as a symbol of the kingdom (of God) is not perceived by the population."

"The practice of poverty," Father Chevroulet said, "leaves much to be desired. Two provinces draw this conclusion; many others could no doubt subscribe to the same thing.

"But in the congregation as a whole there is a strong movement to bring our lifestyle into closer agreement with our vocation as missionaries of the poor."

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Oblates Report Lifestyle Change ROME (NC) - The former style of religious life is ,1:"appearing everywhere, Jut not without causing tensions," according to reports from provincials of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate around the world, said a study of those reports.

The study was done by Oblate Father Pierre Chevroulet.

The 54-year-old Frenchman, a former provincial of the Oblate province in Laos, is now serving as a missionary in Thailand.

The 10th largest order of men in the church, the Oblates have 6,270 members, including 4,840 priests. Members engage in parish work, foreign missions, seminary direction and education.

Giving general impressions first, Father Chevroulet said, "The situation of our congregation seems to mirror the situation of the church today, with its difficulties and its hopes, its shortcomings as well as its renewal in certain areas: religious life, prayer, pastoral care, cornmitment to justice, etc."

Among problems facing the Oblates, he said, were the great number of tasks to be done and limitations in terms of personnel.

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This year, plan to control the excitement by setting limits.

First Iimit the time she must anticipate her party. Make a guest list and send out invitations only three or four days in advance. Next limit the num· ber of guests. An old wise ruleof-thumb for children's parties is to invite the same number of guests as the age of your child.

Third, limit the length of the party to two hours maximum.

To make certain it ends on time, drive the children home yourself.

Finally, limit the vigorous, stimulating physical games by alternating them with quieter activities such as opening presents and eating.

In planning the party, devote your efforts to details which are important to children rather than details which please adults.

Adults plan guest lists to repay social obligations. They serve unusual foods as a special treat.

They plan beautiful table set· tings or a single theme cleverly carried out. None of these details are important to children.

When selecting guests choose children your daughter wants, not children of your friends or relatives. Your two-year-old neice need not be invited simply because she is family. Invite relatives another time.

Children prefer food which is simple and familiar. Skip the special new sandwich filling in favor of peanut !butter and jelly, hamburgers, hot dogs or whatever is the favorite choice. Consult your daughter about the menu. She is an expert on sixyear-old eating behavior.

The cake need not be a decorated masterpiece on which you spend hours. It should be special in some way. An ordin,ary cake cut into a special shape or a square cake topped with a tic-tac-toe design (use small chocolate candies) are examples of simple details which are received with enthusiasm.

Arrange for lots of small prizes and lots of game winners.

Individually wrapped candies, sticks of gum, pennies and small plastic animals or trinkets can

be mixed together in a large prize dish. Winners choose after every game. Offering many prizes and many chances to win almost insures that everyone will win a few times. To be cer· tain that everyone wins, offer a consolation prize from time to time.

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ICharming Smile' VATICAN CITY(NC) - Cardinal Joseph Malula of Kinshasa, Zaire, said he encouraged Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice, now Pope John Paul I, when the first conclave votes indicated which way the election was going.

Speaking to Vatican Radio, Cardinal Malula said he had cell No. 65 in the conclave area and Cardinal Luciani had cell No. 60 so that they met in the corridor when they went to get drinks of water.

On Saturday afternoon, the first day of voting in the. conclave, "when we were going down to the Sistine Chapel to vote, I was coming out of my room at the same time that Cardinal Luciani was leaving his, so we went along the way together," Cardinal Malula said.

"I remember well that I took him, I embraced him because I saw already from the first votes that something was brewing.

"Then when I embraced him, he said to me: 'Tempestas magna est super me' (A great storm is upon'me). And I said: 'Come, come, you must have faith. If

purpose) in the order called, but everyone is called eventually.

As children get older, they can better tolerate excitement. Your daughter probably will not repeat the tearful episode of last year. Do not expect her best behavior during the party. Try to ignore a litle bossiness or temperament. Concentrate on food, games and prizes that little girls like, and you will have a fastmoving party that all will enjoy.

Reader questions on family living and child care are invited.

Address to The Kennys, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.

Will Attract the good God calls one to a task, he will give the graces necessary to carry it out.'

"What most struck me as an African was his smile, an evident sign of his goodness." the cardinal added. "He is a man who radiates goodness around him. He has a charming smile.

When he speaks he smiles ~l­ ways. This goodness of his will conquer Africans. With extreme naturalness he will attract with his goodness, with his simplicity and above all with his smile."

Central'ization SAN ANTONIO, Texas (NC) The American CathOlic Church needs "a central mechanism for pulling together the talents of people concerned about relationships between religion and the arts," concluded an ad hoc group of Catholics attending the 4th International Congress on Religion, the arts, architecture and the Environment in San Antonio.

• THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 21, 1978

Dorman Pleads for USSR Jews ROME (NC) - A Republican congressman and a permanent deacon candidate from Los Angeles who made two trips to Rome to be at the funeral of Pope Paul VI and at the Mass at the beginning of Pope John Paull's papacy issued a plea on behalf of Soviet Jewry shortly after the inaugural Mass.

Rep. Robert K. Dornan arrived in Rome shortly after leaving the Soviet Union, where he had spent two weeks looking into the situation confronting Russian Jews.

"Their plight is far worse than I thought," said Dornan, who atli- he had spent the previous evening with Soviet Jews, among them Mrs. Ida Mellmon, the mother of imprisoned dissident Anatoly Shcharansky.

"Please tell President Carter that I never expect to see my son again, and that he must do what he can to help our people," Dornan quoted Mrs. Mellmon as saying.

Several Soviet Jews asked him to relay appeals to the West, Dornan told NC News.

"They begged me to put pressure on the U.S. Olympic Committee to see that they are not subjected to more hardship in connection with the Moscow Olympics," he said.

The congressman said many Moscow Jews fear they will be forced to leave the city prior to the 1980 games to head off the possibility that they will embarrass the Soviet Union.

Another message to the United States concerned some recommended reading material.

"Two professors said to take this message back to America: 'Please ask Americans to read and re-read George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" along with Franz Kafka's "The Trial," he said.

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Dornan, 45, a former Air Force jet pilot, said he has been a student of the shroud for over 15 years.

Dornan also expressed disappointment over the fate of the military appropriations bill vetoed recently by President Carter.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese o1f Fall River-Thur. Sept. 21, 1978

KNOW YOUR FAITH NC NEWS

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By Father John J. Castelot

By Father Alfred McBride

If there was one man who would have been thrilled beyond words by Vatican Council II's "Constitution on the Liturgy" it would have been Benedictine Father Virgil Michel. In many ways, this document was the outcome of a long, arduous campaign known at the liturgical movement, of which he was perhaps the prime mover in the United States.

Dom Virgil was born in St. Paul, Minn. in 1'890, entered St. John's Prep in Collegeville, Minn., and was ordained in 1916.

J:he following year, he enrolled in the Catholic University of America with a view to obtaining a doctorate in English. St. John's University was in the planning stages, and he was being prepared for the faculty.

After teaching for a while he was sent, in 1924, to study philosophy in Rome. His European experiences were the turning point in his life. He personally read and mastered the writings of St. Thomas and developed an enthusiastic love for authentic scholastic philosophy.

His mind was bursting with ideas for new courses, new textbooks. But he also traveled widely, and became acquainted with the liturgical revival in Europe, especially at the Abbey of Mont Cesar in Belgium.' New vistas opened and they engrossed him for the rest of his life.

He read, consulted and collected literature for the library at St. John's, and conceived a burning desire to initiate a liturgical apostolate in the United States, with St. John's as its center.

The Reformation had seen to it that Protestants took an active and lively role in weekly worship. Catholics, however; continued to throw the main burden of worship onto the details of ritual.

Rousing singing and preaching might be heard through the open stained glass panels of the nearby Protestant church. The awesome stately ritual of the Catholic Mass would be seen through the open .door of the church on a Sunday morning.

Observers of this situation often said, "The Protestants are active sharers in their worship. The Catholics tend too much to be spectators."

The liturgical movement, begun in the 19th century, created the climate for worship changes that found worldwide implementation in the 1960s.

Much of the credit is due to the Benedictine order.

European abbeys such as Maria Laach produced the historical studies that revealed the roots of liturgy. Solesmes recovered the glory of Gregorian chant. ,Beuron unfolded the genius of Byzantine art that set the pace for tasteful renewal of liturgical art.

Pius X, in his "Motu Proprio on Sacred Music," legitimized the new-found love for chant and urged that the new church music should be written with its spirit. Moreover, his instmction on first Communion not only brought children to the Eucharist at an earlier age, !but awoke the whole Catholic people to the need to go to Communion frequp.ntly.

In the United States St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., took the leadership in liturgical renewal. Under the leadership of Father Virgil Michel and Godfrey Diekmann, the ideas of liturgical renewal swept through the land. Their magazine, Orate Fratres (now renamed Worship) became the central publishing organ for propagating the ideas for renewal.

Outstanding spokesmen for the movement also arose from the diocesan clergy. In sharply written columns, Father H. A. Rheinhold (H. A. R.) discussed topics associated with liturgy using the vernacular, selecting appropriate music for Mass, designing new kinds of vestments, choosing a fresh and simpler architecture.

Father Hillenbrand, rector of Mundelein Seminary, inspired a generation of Chicago clergy to get interested in liturgical renewal (and always to remember its connection with social action), Msgr. Martin Hellriegel, pastor of Holy Cross in St. Louis, showed how this could be done in a parish setting. These

He was involved in so many activities that he worked himself into a state of sleepless exhaustion and had to spend three years recuperating in the Indian missions in northern Minnesota.

When he got back, he again went full steam in all directions until he finally worked himself to death. Among his accomplishments was establishment of the Liturgical Press at St. John's, still one of our most solid, influential Catholic publishing houses. He wrote a complete set of religion texts, contributed to philosophical journals, advised the pioneers in the Catholic worker and other movements, and carried on a staggering amount of correspondence.

He had to contend with misunderstanding about the liturgy and liturgists. Many thought the later were faddists and nicknamell them 'litniks.' Michel was anything but a faddist. For him the liturgy was the very life of the church.

He never argued, never criticized, but worked positively. He Turn to Page Thirteen

'The mystery of Christ among us should be frequently expressed and formed in the very group which has as its primary function makng this mystery more real and effective in the lives of the parishioners.'

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Parish Liturgy Committees

By Father Ronald Jameson A liturgy committeE! is not just another organization in the parish. Its job involves educational activities.

It should continually evaluate the quality of celebrations and suggest any needed changes to the parish priests who hold primary responsibility for good liturgy in the parish community.

It is usually a liturgy committee's duty to plan all the parish liturgies, especially the Sunday Masses.

Planning successful liturgies is no easy task. It demands serious research and constant ev&luation. Spontaneous liturgy is a rare phenomenon even though a well-executed service may give the impression of spontaneity, just as a well-trained musician plays a difficult piece with apparent effortless ease and confidence.

A creative liturgy team will also concern itself with the planning of liturgical services which are not specifically eucharistic.

Scripture services, classroom liturgical experiences, wake services, and celebrations of tne various sacraments outside of

Mass are all possibilities.

Awareness of the liturgical year will suggest many suitable topics for liturgical planning. To give ample time for education of participants, all liturgical celebrations should be planned well in advance.

The authority of the parish liturgy committee should be real and within the realm of what is officially permitted, its suggestions should at least be tried, with the fullest possible cooperation of all concerned, especially the priests of the parish.

The ongoing spiritual formation of the parish worship team is of the utmost importance for lasting success. As a microcosm of the faith community, members pray and have liturgical and para-liturgical services together at least occasionally.

Spontaneous prayer, which should be natural to this group, should mark its every gathering.

The mystery of Christ among us should be frequently expressed and formed in the very group which has as its primary function making this mystery more real and effective in the lives of the parishioners.

men, along with others, initiated a hugely successful transformation of the liturgical scene in the United States.

They instituted and headlined the nationwide liturgical conferences to help inspire and galvanize public opinion. Their goal was to bring about a meaningful liturgy shared by well-informed, active believers. Much of what they envisioned has come to pass.

Liturgy is now the vernacular.

The celebrant faces the people.

The cycle of readings includes a much broader selction of texts, especially from the Old Testament. New prayers were composed. The progress of the liturgical year was streamlined. iNew rites for the sacraments are available. The funeral liturgy reflects the message of Easter as well as the cross. Women stand in the sanctuary to read the word. Communion ministers assist when large crowds are to be accomodated. Face to face¡ confession is available in the sacrament of reconciliation. Parish liturgical committees help plan worship services. Enough new church music has been composed to fill several large hymn . books. And so '01'1.

The pioneers and renewalists have created a situation where worship can be meaningful.

Now the body of worshippers must take advantage of it.

G. Diekmann

By Mary C. Maher Benedictine Father Godfrey Diekmann has spent 45 years teaching, writing and lecturing on the spiritual and liturgical life of believers.

In 1977, Father Diekmann, a monk of St. John's Abbey in ¡Collegeville, Minn., received the annual Berakakh Award of the North American Academy of Liturgy. Its citation read in part: "In recognition of his achievement in behalf of the renewal of worship as a writer, scholar, teacher and advisor, and of his editorial encouragement and dissemination of the achievement of others, in appreciation of his unfailing vitality of mind, breadth of interest, generosity of spirit and love for what he is doing ... " These words are backbone to the rich and full work and life of this outstanding priest who today teaches at St. John's University and lectures throughout the United States and on several continents about various aspects of theology and liturgy.

Born in Rosco, Minn., he attended St. John's Perparatory School and College. In 1933 he received a doctorate in theology Turn to Page Thirteen

G. Diekmann Continued from Page Twelve from St. Anselm College in Rome. He studied further at the Liturgical Academy in Maria Laach, Germany. Returning from his education in Europe, Father Diekmann taught in the department of theology at St. John's University and at the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University of America and a number of other institutions.

He specializes in liturgy, patristic theology, early Christianity, liturgical history and the history of doctrine. He has published many books and his articles have appeared in dozens of major American periodicals. Perhaps most know him best as editor-in-chief of Worship magazine from 1938 to the present.

Father Diekmann was a "peritus" (expert and consultant) at Vatican Council II and a member of its preparatory commission on the liturgy. He is on the board of directors of the Liturgical Conference and has contributed for more than 30 years to the thought and direction of this organization.

In 1966 he received the Cardinal Spellman medal (now called the John Courtney Murray Award) from the Catholic Theological Society of America, and eight universities have conferred honorary doctorates on him.

Typical of his love for an God's gifts is the fact that he takes pride in being the chief wild mushroom and watercress provider for his monastic community at Collegeville.

Virgil Michel Continued from Page Twelve viewed the liturgy as the wellspring of Christian activity in every sphere of life.

Dom Michel was a living example of this activity. He seemed never to stop, as if some secret voice told him he did not have much time. After only 21 years in the priesthood, his flame burnt itself out, and he died on Nov. 26, 1938, the last day of the liturgical year.

A Verdade E A Vida A

JUSTI~A

THE ANCHORThurs., Sept. 21, 1978

Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

A justiia bfblica ~ uma justi,a religiosa. Assim, para 0 Antigo Testamento, ~ Justo aquele que observa a Lei de Mois~s; para 0 Novo Testamento, ~ Justo 0 que, acreditando, segue Cristo, cumprinc.o as coisas referentes ao "caminho do Sent.or". Apesar disso, podemos aplicar os textos sagrados ~ justi~a social, j~ que, sem esta justi)a, n~o existe a justi,a b!blica. Com efeito, aquele que for socialmente injusto n~o pode ser Justo diante de Deus, nem a Biblia 0 considera como tal. A justi5a so.cial e, portanto, urna parte necess~ria para se atingir a justi~a b!blica~ Contudo, a justifa social n~o basta para ser biblicamente Justo. Exige-se ainda mais.

A injusti~a e urn cancro que roi as entranhas da humanidade. este um dos aspectos mais graves do "pecado original" dos nossos dias; um pecado que herdamos e trans· mitimos, embora sem culpa pessoal, no ,qual todos colaboramos, mesmo sem querer. E um pecado estrutural. urn dragao com sete cabe~as, a saber: 0 racismo, 0 colonialismo, a guerra, a opress~o, 0 farisa!smo, a evas~o e 0 medo. Nesta sistematizai~o de D. , Helder Camara temos um catalogo das graves injusti)as do nosso mundo e da nossa sociedade.

Falemos na injustifa social. Sabemos que 20 % da humanidade detem 80% das riquezas do globo; que, em cada 3 pessoas, duas est~o sub-alimentadas; que 15% da humanidade morrem a fome e 65% por doenias derivadas de insuficiente aliment~~!o; que em muitos pafses as riquezas est!o monopolizadas por poucas famflias. Estes e outros nGmeros revelam'a exist~cia de flagrantes injusti)as que, como afirma 0 Concflio, s~o as principais causas da guerra.

Frente a situaJ~o de injusti~a da nossa sociedade, um dever grave pesa sobre todos nos: 0 de lutar pela justi,a. Enquanto houver tantas pessoas a morrer a fome, tantos emigrantes fora das suas p~trias, tantos refugiados afastados dos seus pafses tantas crian)as sem assist~ncia, tantos analfabetos entregues a sua sorte, ~antos bairros de lata a sombra de grandes pal~­ cios, tantos no luxo e tantos no lixo, n~o podemos sossegar. Temos de lutar pela justi)a para, assim, obtermos a paz. Este deVE ser urn dos papeis muito importantes a desempenhar pela Igreja. So deste modo consolidaremos a'paz.

Ao tomar consci~ncia destas realidades, nao deixaremos de sentir 0 apelo de Jesus, dirigido a todas as pessoas de boa vontade. Diz-nos 0 evangelho de S~o Mateus que Ele, "contemplandi:> a multidao, encheuse de compaix~o por ela, pois estava cansada e abatida, como ovelhas sem pastor.

Disse entao, aos seus disc!pulos: A messe ~ grande, mas os trabalhadores sao poucos.

Rogai, portanto, ao Senhor da messe que envie trabalhadores para a sua messe."

Atraves dos tempos, muitos mission~­ rios e mission~rias t~m acudido a este apelo de Cristo, deixando tudo, par£ ir socorrer os mais necessitados. Eis um modo eficaz de construir a paz entre os homens.

Prestar um servi~o social, dedicando assim uma- parcela da vida ao bem da humanidade e outro meio de construlr a paz.

Na ora~ao que 0 Senhor nos ensinou dizemos "0 p~o nosso de cada dia nos dai hoje". Recordando estas palavras inspire-nos om a gra~a do Sennor para lutarmos smpre ara que naja justi~a no mundo.

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Representatives of the Diocese of Fall River included Sisters Almerinda Costa, SSD, Francis Michael DriscoIl,- SP, Barbara McCarthy, CP, and Marilyn Spellman, SUSC. The primary purpose of Convergence was to assist religious leaders in focusing upon global injustice and to call forth a corporate response.

'Sessions provided participants with opportunities to reflect upon their own experiences of injustice, to"view with new eyes and listening hearts" its often inoomprehensible realities and to respond courageously to the call to personal and corporate conversion for the sake of justice.

Men and women religious from the Third World spoke to the delegates of their struggle for justice and of "government by the gun."

They included Bishop Patrick Kililome, WF of Malawi, who emphasized that the heart of injustice is the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, the "center" and the "periphery."

Representing the servant church was Bishop Lebayen, CCD of the Philippines, who discussed the importance of lay people's role in the cruicial struggle for justice, stressing the need of solidarity with the poor by a witness to poverty that shows a willingness "to have less in order to be more."

Members of the Center of Concern, Peter Henriot, SJ, Joseph Holland, and Elizabeth Carroll, RSM, explained the importance of social analysis and theological reflection with regard to social justice issues and had presented an analysis of the role of women in church and society.

"The ~ays spent in Cleveland were challenging and hope-fill-

ed," Sister Francis Michael summed up. "As was indicated in the official conference statement: 'We felt our inadequacies, our limitations, our powerlessness; but we experienced the call to conversion personally and corporately; and with renewed hope and courage we took another step in our journey toward justice:"

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Christian Living classes for public school students begin at 4 this afternoon in the school.

Beginning at 7:45 tonight, Father Robert Kaszynski, pastor, will conduct a six-week Bible study course, centering on the gospel according to John.

Those planning to participate in next year's Holy Land pilgrimage will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 in the school hall.

ST. MAmIEU, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will open its season with a potluck supper at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 in the church hall.

A 6:30 p.m. Mass will precede the meal.

All women of the parish are invited to join the council.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER First meeting of the new year for the Senior eyo is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 in Father Coady Center.

An appreciation dinner and dance for parishioners on the picnic committee will be held in the parish center, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

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His explosive anger with Peter: "Get thee behind me Satan! You are a hindrance to me."

Do we tell Satan to get be-' hind us, or do we stall, pull back, postpone, hoping the necessity for a confrontation will go away?

Jesus told his disciples: "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me."

Rare is the person who takes this stand. He is laughed at.

Yet this is the kind of new person the world is waiting for.

In the name of keeping peace, but actually in fear of reprisals, we opt to equivocate, reconsider, unwilling to take up the cross of decision, of choice, of discipline.

What is the hallmark of a disciple of Jesus Christ? It is unswerving tenacity, refusal to be deflected from one's course, this is the mark.

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TRACKS OF MY TEARS People say I'm the life of the party 'Cause I tell a -joke or two Although I might be laughin' loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You know my smile looks out of place If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears Since you've left me if you see me with another guy Lookin' like I'm havin' fun Although he might be cute he's just a substitute 'Cause you'JI-o the permanent one A smile I masquerade it My hope has faded - since you put me down My smile is my makeup I wear since my breakup with you

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Rev. James C. O'Brien, S.J., Acting Principal, announced today that two senior students at Bishop Connolly High School have been named Commended students in the twenty-fourth annual National :Merit Scholarship Program. This honor recognizes outstancang performance on the Preliminary Scholastic Apitude Test;:"l'ational Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test administered nationwide to high school juniors in October 1977.

Letters of Commendation were presented to James Cobery, son of Mr. & Mrs. James Cobery, Sr. of 16 Thomas St. and Paul Nadeau, son of Mr. & Mrs·. Paul Nadeau of Twin Oaks, Tiverton, R.I. It had earlier been announced that John Lyons, son of Mrs. Margaret Lyons of 445 Linden St. in Fall River had qualified even higher in the same competition and had been named a semifinalist.

~any ~ame Linda Ronstadt as America's leading female pop vocalist. It IS her ability to put "soul" into music that creates her unique style. .

"Tracks of My Tears" speaks of "wearing a smile" as a masquerade for the pain of a broken romance. The singer appears to have taken this situation very lightly and is the "life of the party" but inside she h u r t s . . ' Disguising our feelings is something we all do. We choose to act different roles rather than reveal our personalities. One of the most common is the "clown" role.

Another mask is "being cool," appearing to let no problem cause anxiety. There are many masks and most people are adept at wearing several types.

We need to ask: What effect does this masquerading have on us? We cannot share our inner feelings with everyone, yet we need to be open with those we choose as friends.

If we always hide our feelings, we are never really known by others. When we do share our feelings, we risk a new level of vulnerability but attain a more complete level of communication.

It is important to know that the only New Testament some people will· ever read is us. What we do, how we treat another and the risks we take in giving our loving selves to others make real God's love. We are the sacraments of God's presence today, and when we hide behind masks, we hide God's ,love. To risk being our true selves is not easy, but it is the only real way to love.

Bishop Feehan Attleboro's Feehan High School has opened to a recordsize student body of 870. By this time, the new freshmen are acclimated and exhibit their full quota of Feehan spirit.

The opening rally before the North Attleboro-Feehan football game was an opportunity for students and faculty to share enthusiam and to view the cheerleaders, color guard, drill team, and majorettes in action.

These groups worked hard at extra practices after school to be ready for the first game.

Band and color guard members attended a week-long workshop prior to the opening of school. James D:llor, music director, conducted the sessions which were held at Feehan.

Among the 11 new teachers on the staff this year are two 1973 Feehan graduates: Kathleen Sedlack, languages, and Mary Lou Petti, science.

Students greeted their new chaplain, Rev. George Bellenoit of St. Mark's Parish, Attleboro

Falls, on Monday when the Mass of the Holy Spirit was celebrated in the auditorium.

Planned for today is a freshman seminar, with new students meeting with club moderators and officers for explanations of extra-curricular activities.

The program is organized by the stu<!ent council, which also sponsors several student dances each fall.

The first was a victory dance following the North Attleboro game and the next will be on Saturday, Sept. 30 .

Student council offices are Robert Bergh, president; Monique Lareau, vice-president; Katherine Cronin, corresponding secretary; Sue Ellen Beaudet, secretary; Mark Tarsa, treasurer.

Bishop Gerra rd Giselle Dallaire, Lisa Mello and Stephanie Pelland, seniors at Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River, have been named Commended Students in the

24th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

The honor recognizes outstanding performance on a Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test administered nationwide to high school juniors last October.

Youth Study NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Knights of Columbus have commissioned a study of C~tholic young people which will be the most elaborate study ever done of the religious behavior of young people. Supreme Knight Virgil C. Dechant announced the study will be conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and will focus particularly on youth attitudes toward priestly and religious vocations.

In addition the study will examine the impact of various kinds of religious education and catechetical methods, the religious problems and needs of young people as they see them, and attitudes of youth towards fraternal organizations ·like the Knights.

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By BILL MORRISSETTE

Connolly Wins Soccer Opener Bishop Connolly High's Cougars', again coached by Rev. Arthur Pare, S.J., opened their Division II Southeastern Mass.

Conference schedule with an impressive 4-0 vistory over the Bishop Stang High Spartans on the latter's pitch. Steve Kitchen set the scoring pace with a pair of goals. Holy Family, the only other diocesan school in conference soccer, dropped a 4-0 decision at Attleboro.

Play continues tomorrow in Division II as well as in Divis-

ion I, which got its season underway yesterday. On tomorrow's Division II card, Holy Family is host to Stang, Connolly is at Attleboro, Dartmouth at New Bedford Yoke-Tech and Somerset at Old Rochester. Somerset won its opener over Dartmouth, 5-2, and Yoke-Tech nipped Old Rochester, 1-0, in another opener last Friday. Division games tomorrow have Diman Yoke at Durfee, Falmouth at Westport, Taunton at Dennis-Yarmouth and Barnstable at New Bedford.

Coyle-Cassidy In Division Opener Coyle-Cassidy, one of three diocesan high schools in the conference, will take on Case, on the latter's gridiron in Swansea, Saturday in the only game launching the conference's Division II football opener. CoyleCassidy, the division's defending champion, lost its season opener last Saturday, to Seekonk, which is host next Saturday to Bishop Feehan in another inter-division contest. Feehan lost to North Attleboro in non-league action last weekend.

Although there will be football games just about everywhere Saturday probably none will occupy center stage as much as the inter-division game between Durfee and Somerset at Diman Yoke. The question will be; ....Was Durfee's impressive victory over Stang last Saturday a flash in the pan or has coach John Sullivan finally put together a team that will put the Hilltoppers back on the football map?" Somerset was also impressive in its victory over Fairhave~ last weekend.

The Bishop Stang Spartans, who fell victim to the Durfee High Hilltoppers' first victory since Nov. 1976 last Saturday night, take on Dartmouth at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Memorial Stadium, North Dartmouth.

Dartmouth swept by Algonquin Regional in its season debut.

Other non-league or interdivisional games involving conference teams Saturday are New Bedford at Catholic Memorial, Fairhaven at Dighton-Rehoboth, Attleboro at Taunton, Bourne at Falmouth, Yoke-Tech at Wareham, Barnstable at Dennis-Yarmouth.

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tv, movie news Religion - and what its various systems of belief offer to the contemporary world - is the subject of "The Long Search," a 13-part series produced by the BBC, which began last Saturday, at 9-10 p.m. on RaS. This is not a systematic study of world religions, much less a comparative survey of faith traditions. The subject is too vast, too complex and too intricate for such a limited amount of air time. The series serves the purpose, however, of providing a provocative introduction for the non-believer to the religions dealt with.

The on-camera guide to these major religions of the world is Ronald Eyre, a British playwright and stage director and a layman interested in religious questions and wanting answers comprehensible to a Jayman.

Eyre's quest for answers took him on a three-year journey of more than 150,000 miles, visiting 14 different countries. The results justify his effort, if only in broadening one's knowledge, and understanding, of other cultures and creeds.

The series got underway with "Protestant Spirit U.SA.," using Indianapolis and its many churches to represent the world of Protestantism. The first church visited is the Baptist Temple, a fundamentalist congregation whose members are certain of salvation by being "born again" in Jesus.

The program contrasts the present rapid growth of Protestant fundamentalism with. the lack of growth in traditional "mainstream" denominations.

Hockomock Openers Saturday The Hockomock League gets its football season underway Saturday with North Attleboro at Canton, King Philip at Foxboro, Sharon at Mansfield, Stoughton at Oliver Ames.

Franklin, which has the bye on this week's card, treks to Milford for a non-league encounter.

Mayflower League games· Saturday have Apponequet at

Southeastern, Bristol-Plymouth at Nantucket, Manchester at Martha's Vineyard, and, West Bridgewater at Norton while South Shore League contests list Abingtin at Norwell, Hull at Cohasset, Hanover at East ~ridgewater.

Duxbury and Middleboro meet on the latter's field at 7;30 o'clock tomorrow night.

Middleboro Wins Cross-Country Title Middleboro High's harriers won the annual Somerset High School annual invitational crosscountry meet at the South MiddIe School in Somerset last Saturday. Middleboro runners took first place in four of the seven races for a combined tiIhe of

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points IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Teachers, helpers and typists are needed in the parish CCD program. Further information is available at the rectory or from Sister Reginald.

A novena to St. Jude is held at 7:30 p.m. every Monday.

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Also at Sacred Hearts, the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on each First Friday and also on holy days of obligation for the remainder of 1978.

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CATHOLIC ASSN. OF F'ORESTERS, FALL RIVER DIOCESE William H.. Harrison Jr. memorial scholarship grants of $500 each have been presented to Christina F. McCloskey, Stonehill College, and Michael E. Tavares, Providence College, both members of Our Lady of Victory Court.

A Francis L. Hannigan memorial grant of $100, presented annually to a Catholic high school student who is a member of Our Lady of Fatima Court of the junior Foresters, has gone to Margie Quirk.

OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, NEW BEDFORD For the third year, days of recollection open to all nuns of the Fall River diocese will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on the last Sunday of eS.ch month at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford.

The series will begin Sunday under direction of Father Luke O'Connell, OFM, whose general theme for the year will be "Commitment to the Religious Life."

LEGION OF MARY, NEW BEDFORD The Legion of Mary will sponsor a living rosary to which all area residents are invited at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 at St. Joseph Church. Knights of Columbus will form an honor guard for the occasion and a touring statue of the Pilgrim Virgin will be displayed. Refreshments will follow.

De VALLES PTO, NEW BEDFORD The Parent Teachers Organization of the John B. De Valles School, New Bedford, will hold a rededication ceremony at the school following 10:45 a.m.

Mass Sunday, Oct. 15 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.

The event will honor the memory of Father De Valles, the founder of the first Portuguese parochial school in the United States and a hero of World War 1.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK Natural Family Planning classes began Monday at the CCD Center. Subsequent sessions are scheduled for Sept. 25, Oct. 9 and Dec. 11, all Mondays.

Each class consists of three sessions, held monthly, and is limited to 12 persons, couples or individuals. Further information is available from Pauline L'Heureux, 336-6349.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER The fall and winter weekday Mass schedule is now in effect, with 8 a.m. and 12:05 p.m.

Masses offered daily in the chapel.

The Women's Guild will hold an open house at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 2, beginning in the church with rosary and Benediction and continuing with a meeting in the school cafeteria.

Mrs. Lucy Camara is chairperson. All parish women are invited.

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER Sung liturgy with the Cathedral Choir will begin at 10 a.m.

Mass on Sunday.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON. Rehearsals have begun for the parish choir and new members are invited to attend sessions at 7:15 p.m. Wednesdays in the church.

CCD classes for grades one through five will begin Sunday at 10 a.m. Teachers will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28 in the parish center.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER New officers of the Home and School Association are Mrs. Joan Maltais, president; Paul Antaya, vice-president; Mrs. Lorraine Palmer, treasurer; Mrs. Cecile Michno and Mrs. Mary Gamache, secretaries. The unit's first meeting will be at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 19 in the school hall.

DISTRICT COUNCIL, ATILEBORG-TAUNTON The Attleboro-Taunton District Council of Catholic Women will hold its annual communion supper following 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday, Oct. 3 at St. Mary's Church, Pratt St., Mansfield. The chicken pie meal will be served at Mansfield High School and the theme of the evening will be "The Harvest." All area members of council affiliates arc invited to attend.

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