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VOl. 24, NO. 39

FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAYi SEPTEMBER 25, 1980

Rome Synod opens Frida}' VATICAN CITY (NC) - The world Synod of Bishops, opening tomorrow, will focus on pastoral issues in family life and will not be a debate on church doctrines such as the indissolubility of marriage or the illicitness of artificial birth control. Archbishop Jozef Tomko, general secretary of the synod, sand at a press (:onference.

Archbishop Tomko presented general background on the synod, outHned the approach. to its theme, "The Role of the Christian Family an the World of Today," and announced the names of synod officials, participants, auditors and experts.

The archbishop announced the names of 216 synod participants, 43 auditors, which include 16 married couples, 10 experts, and the chief appOinted synod (Ifficials.

The special secretary for the synod, whose job is to assist the relator Jis Auxiliary Bishop Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico City. He will have as assistants 10 experts who will serve as resource persons.

One of the experts is Msgr.

James T. McHugh of New Jersey, who has held national posts in family Hfe and pro-life activities and has represented the Vatican frequently at linternational meet· ings.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is the best known of the 43 a:Jditors appointed to join the synod proceedings. ,Five are from the United States. They are Sister Regina Casey, Dr. and Mrs. Claude Lanctot and Mr. and Mrs. Richard MoBride.

Sister Casey, who now res::des in Rome, is superior general of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

Dr. and Mrs. Lanctot are natives of Canada but Nve dn the United States. He is executive director of the international Federation for Family Life Promotion (IFFLP) at its headquarters in Washington and teaches obstetr.ics at Georgetown University tln Washington.

Mrs. Lanctot is a registflred nurse.

'Mr. and Mrs. MoBride, of Long Beach, Calif., are leaders in the Worldwide Marriage Encou::lter Movement.

The pope exercised h:is option of personal appointment to choose 24 additional bish,:>ps.

These included two Americ,ans: Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York and Ukrainian-Rite Archbishop Myroslav Lubachi'li'sky from Philadelphia,

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'We CarejWe Share' to cover dio,cese "We Care/We Share," the diocesanwide evangelization program tested last year in the Somerset and Swansea areas of the diocese, will begin in all other areas the weekend of October 4 and 5.

Materials on the program will be received by every parish at a Clergy Day to be held on Tuesday. They have been prepared over the past two years by Father Timothy Goldrick, diocesan director of We Care/We Share.

The program will begin ,Yiith parish announcements the Oct. 4 and 5 weekend but the official launching will come the following weekend when a letter from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be read at all parish Masses, an explanatory leaflet will be distributed and volunteers to aid in program implementation will be solicited.

It will be explained that We Care/We Share is a national home missionary program modified for the special needs of the Fall River diocese with materials available in both English and Portuguese. It will involve visiting of every home, Catholic or other, in the diocese in a spirit of friendship and concern.

During these visits volunteers

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN breaks through crowd at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, to kiss ring of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Bishop was at shrine to concelebrate Mass commemorating apparition of Our Lady of La Salette.

Reader installation Sunday Candidates for the diocesan permanent diaconate will be installed as readers at a Mass to be celebrated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin at 5 p.m. Sunday in St. Mary's Cathedral.

To be presented by Father John F. Moore, diocesan director of the diaconal program, the candidates are: Richard Boucher, St. Joseph parish, Attleboro; Michael Concaison, Our Lady of Assumption, New Bedford; Jose Crespo, St. Joseph, Attleboro; Robert Cyr, St. Theresa, New Bedford.

Antonio da Cruz, Our Lady of Assumption, New Bedford; Timothy Desmond, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Robert Faria, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton; Robert Lemay, Our Lady Queen of All Saints/Our Lady of Assumption, Osterville.

Roland LePage, St. Theresa, South Attleboro; William Martin, Corpus Christi, Sandwich; Richard Murphy Sr., St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis; Robert Pelland, St. Stephen, Attleboro; Thomas Prevost, St. Michael, Ocean Grove; Robert Raymond, St. Anne, Fall River.

John Rogers III, St. Stanislaus, Fall River, Lawrence St. Onge, St. Theresa, New Bedford; Joseph Stanley, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville.

Deacon Maurice Lavallee and Deacon James J. Maloni Jr. will be deacons for the Mass.

Lectors and members of the offertory procession, all ebBdren of candidates, will be John Rogers IV, Karen Ann Stanley, John Concaison, Denise LePage, Richard Murphy Jr. and Marie Raymond.

will gather census information on Catholics for the updating of parish and diocesan records and will invite other interested persons to a series of Advent meetings to be held in participating parishes.

The meetings will appeal to active and inactive Catholics, those belonging to other Christian denominations, those of non-Christian religions and those with no church affiliations. In Somerset and Swansea, programs included candlelight carol services, informational evenings on questions affecting the divorced, separated and remarried, explanatory tours of churches and presentations of dramatized religious situations.

We Care/We Share will be publicized via newspaper stories, bumper stickers and radio programming, said Father Goldrick.

The program will climax with a massive "Come Home for Christmas" campaign, inviting all reached by the program to attend a Christmas Mass.

Expressing hope for the success of the diocesanwide program, he said that "success stories" of people reached by last year's pilot effort continue to reach him.

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NCCW parley here in 1982 The Diocese of Fall River will host the 1982 General Assembly of the National Council of Catholic Women.

Involving from two to three hundred presidents of archdiocesan and diocesan councils of Catholic women, presidents of affiliated national and state or· ganizations and the members of the NCCW executive committee, the meeting will be held in Hyannis in September or October of 1982 at a site yet to be determined.

The invitation to the diocese was extended on behalf of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Miss Adrienne Lemieux, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, by Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, a past diocesan president and now treasurer of the NCCW. Mrs. McMahon said preparations for the assembly would be made jointly by the Washington office of NCCW and a diocesan committee of some 40 volunteers which she will chair.

The choice of Hyannis for the 1982 meeting was made at an assembly held last week in San Francisco. Representing the Fall River diocese in addition to Mrs. McMahon and Miss Lemieux was Miss Ethel Crowley, DCCW first vice-president.

Assembly members discussed and considered positions of NCCW on justice for women, the role of women in the Church, and proposed revisions in the Social Security Act in relation to women. Delegates also heard presentations on the work of the five NCCW Commissions: Church Communities, Community Affairs, Family Affairs, International Affairs, Organization Services, and on the Legislative Information Committee.

The General Assembly launched the federation's 60th anniversary year which NCCW will observe by promoting knowledge of its functions and programs to serve the Church and the Catholic wo;nen's community and by encouraging individual spiritual renewal.

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UNDATBD (NC)-parc(:hial schools cannot hire employees with funds from the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), a federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled. The court upheld a lower court deoision that use of CETA funds by non-publ:ic schools violated the First Amendment's ban aga!inst establdshment of religion.

WASHINGTON (NC)-The civil rights of citizens and non-citizens alike often are abused in the effort to enforce immigration laws, according to a new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

VATICAN OITY (NC)-People who minister to nomads must be willing to live within the culture and structures of the nomads, a Kenyan bishop told pal'tiiClipants at a recent national conference at the Vatican. .

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina {NC)--A gathering of 200 anti-communist leaders in Latin America praised the region's military governments and sand the Jesuits and President Carter are helping Marxist penetration. One of 60 resolutions proposed that the Jesuits be expelled from Latin America.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-路Lust reduces people to objects, Pope John Paul II said at a Wednesday general audience. He termed dt a "restIliction or a closing of the horizon of the mind or heart" as he continued his series of talks on marriage and the theology of the body.

LA PAZ, 'Bolivia {NC)--The military commander of Bolivia, criticized by the Catholic bishops for human llights violations, announced they plan to follow a "humanistic, Christian nationalism."

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.......~ ----WASHINGTON (NC)-Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Franoisco, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops" has appointed Archbishop Edward T. O'Meara of iIndianapotis to be chairman of the Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Evangelization.

WASHINGTON (NC)-The Senate Finance Committee has approved a measure allowing taxpayers who do not itemize to deduct their contributions to charity.

The proposal was added to the $39 billion tax cut bill approved by the committee in August. ,WASHINGTON (NC)-Two government agencies have announced proposed new rules reqUliring all elementary and secondary schools - both public and private to inspect their buildings fOl~ hazardous asbestos materials.

WASHINGTON (NC)-The Supreme Court has rejected without commel1it an appeal for a rehealling on its decision earlier this year upholding federal limits on abortion funding.

PARK RIDGE, IlL-Funeral services were held last week in Park Ridge for Chester J. Paluch, president and owner of the J. S. Paluch Co. of Chicago and of World Library Publications of Cinoinnati, both publishers of liturgical and catechetical materials, including a weekly missalette widely used in the Fall River diocese: Paluch, 59, died unexpectedly of a heart attack. '

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NEW YORK ~C)-The National Council of Churches' executive committee has joined Catholic officials in urging the U.S. governmelllt to protest Korean action against a CathoLic layman and opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, accused of sedition and condemned to death.

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A BISHOP'S BUSY UFE: Top, Bishop Cronin participates in a meeting of the New England Consultation of Church Leaders with, from left, Rev. Dr. James A. Nash~' executive director, Massachusetts Council of Churches; Rev. Dr. Eugene A. Brodeen, President/Bishop of the New England Synod of the Lutheran Church in America; Bishop Cronin; Rev. Paul V. Conley, Consultation secretary. (Photo by Sister Rita Murray/The Pilot, Boston).

Center, at mortgage burning ceremony for St. Mary Parish Center, Norton.

Left, Msgr. William Thomson, pastor when center was begun; right, Rev. John V. Maganani, present pastor. Bottom, joining 15th anniversary celebration at Sacred Heart Church, North Attleboro. Left, Mrs. Normand Jette, jubilee committee chairperson; right, Rev. Roger D. LeDuc, pastor.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-A special government study commission has recommended that a national peace academy be established in the United States. The academy would provide training, research, and education in the peaceful resolution of conflict at anternational, national and community levels.

WASHINGTON (NC)-A controversial $75 million aid package for Nicaragua, long sought by Catholic Church offiicials both dn the United States and in the Central American country, has been jgtiven final approval by President Ca~er.

CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy ~C)-St. Thomas Aquinas was "an authentic pioneer of modem scientific realism" and should also be called "the doctor of human,ity," Pope John PaulH said 1n a major theological address.

c.U. lectures WP;SHINGTON (NC) Twelve scholars from seven nations will give talks on "Morality and Human Nature" in the 15th annual lecture series sponsored by the Catholic University of America's school of philosophy Sept. 19-Dec. 12.

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Symbolic of the ethnic groups that share membership in St. Joseph's parish, Attleboro, its 75th anniversary Mass, (:elebrated last Sunday, featured hymns in Spanish, French and English.

Bishop Daniel P;. Cronin was principal celebrant and Father Ernest N. Bessette, pastor, and Father Kevin J. Harrington, associate pastor and direc:tor of the Attleboro area Spanish Apostolate, were designated concelebrants. A banquet in the church hall followed the afternoon Mass.

In his homily at the Ma8s Bishop Cronin traced the history of St. Joseph's. Portions of the homily follow: "The Lord's loving plan for his Church in this portion of his vineyard began to unfold on September 19, 1905, whim this noble parish was established by Bishop William Stang to minister to the pastoral needs of the numerous Franco-American Catholics in this area of the Attleboros.

"Bishop Stang ap:pointed Father Napoleon Messier as first pastor of the new parish, "Construction of the church building began in July of 1906, and Bishop Stang presided at the laying of the cornerstone of the lower structure of th(~ building on October 6th of the same year. Father Messier, during his five year pastorate, also directed construction of a parish school and convent.

"Father Arthur Savoie succeeded Father Messier (IS pastor in November of 1910. Upon his sudden death in 1913, Bishop Feehan, second bishop of Fall River, appointed Father Antoine Berube as shepherd of this parish community.

"His inspiring parochial ministry here spanned two decades. . During those years, Father Berube greatly diminished the parish debt, secured the assistance of the good Sisters oj: Holy Cross to staff the parish school, and established numerous parish societies, among them the Children of Mary and Ladies Clf Saint Anne, . which remain active to the present day. Father Berube

is perhaps best remembered for his completion of the upper church structure within which we are privileged to worship today.

"Upon Father Berube's retirement in 1933, Father Philias Jalbert, first associate pastor at St. Joseph's Church, was appointed pastor. Father Jalbert was succeeded by Father Albert Masse in 1937.

"Under the leadership of Father Masse, the parish debt was terminated and numerous physical improvements were made to the parish facilities. As many will recall, Father Masse was stricken with a heart attack as he celebrated Sunday Mass here on January 29, 1950.

"A series of dedicated priestly servants succeeded Father Masse. Among them were Fatner Anatole Desmarais and Father Ubalde Deneault.

"I note the presence, at today's celebration, of Msgr. Gerard Chabot, dean of the Attleboro area. Msgr. Chabot served this parish as associate pastor for 15 years. It is indeed a pleasure to ~ave him concelebrate this Mass with me today, along with numerous other priests who have served this parochial community in more recent yea.rs.

"On October 16, 1974, I appointed Father Ernest Bessette pastor of this venerable faith community. I take this occasion to thank him for his priestly service to the people of God. I likewise wish to thank Father Kevin Harrington, his assistant, for his pastoral efforts in the care of souls.

"Over the past 75 years, St. Joseph's Church has been blessed with steady growth. The 180 families of French descent which comprised this parish as its founding have grown to 500 families.

"The presence of a significant number of Spanish-speaking Catholics in this vicinity led me, in November of 1976, to designate St. Joseph's Parish as the liturgical center for Hispanic ministry here in the Attleboro Deanery.

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"In a particular manner, we give heartfelt thanks today for the inspiring way in which the priests and people of this parish have followed Christ over these 75 years.

"You have heard the Word of God proclaimed and preached here, and have, quite evidently, let that Word of God, with its power to change us, take root within you."

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The traditional Columbus Day candlelight procession and Mass honoring Mary will be held beginning at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13.

P;t that time parish groups will meet at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, to form a procession to Kennedy Park, about a half mile distant.

Hymns will be sung and the rosary will be recited during the march. All participants are asked to bring their own candles, which will in most cases be distributed by the participating parishes.

When all marchers have arrived at Kennedy Park an outdoor Mass will be offered, with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as principal concelebrant.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 25, 1980

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Adult Catholics One of the most pressing problems of today's American church is that we have an immense body of adult Catholics whose neglect of their faith is surpassed only by their ignorance of that same faith.

Mter expending energy and expertise in education of children from nursery school to college, we have produced a supposedly intellectual body of men and women full of facts that will aid their material progress and empty of knowledge of their faith.

It seems that we have worked so hard merely to bring into the mainstream of American life a group of Catholics whose accomplishments will ensure their church a state of social acceptance.

Well, never have so many worked so hard for such miniscule results.

We have indeed brought to the professions of this world a large group of Catholics. Unfortunately we have not produced too many professing Catholics.

This has been made only too obvious by the recent efforts of the church to uphold the concept that life must be respected in all its phases.

We have been terribly let down by many Catholics whom the church thought it was training to assume leadership roles not only with regard to material pursuits but also in the far more significant area of bearing witness to the truth of divine revelation.

The respect for life issue has indeed driven a wedge between those who have many worldly goods and few gifts of the spirit and their more perceptive brothers and sisters in the faith.

All who deal with the day to day life of the church in 1980 realize this situation only too well.

What the church must initiate· in this new decade is a massive in-depth national program of adult education, recognizing that it is in the world of adult Catholics that one finds the vacuum of faith in practice.

Engulfed by the good life, engrossed with possessions and obsessed by the things of man, the faith of many adults has floundered and become less than important to them.

If every Catholic truly lived his or her faith and believed the church's teachings on the lofty dignity of the human person and in a special way his or her right to life, would the church be embarrassed today by her own?

How can a Catholic deny that human life is the necessary source and condition of every human activity and of all society? How can a Catholic come to accept that the attempt to take life is not in opposition to God's love or in violation of fundamental rights?

Time, effort and resources must be expended by the church to return the lost sheep to the fold. .

Programs such as We Care/We Share are to be encouraged as a beginning of this effort to touch the hearts, minds and souls of our careless Catholics.

From those who have received much, especially those who have received the widest opportunities, much is· expected.

The church has a right to expect a return from those who up to now have taken much and given little.

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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., SJ.D.

EDITOR Rev. John F. Moore

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'All things have their season, and in their time all things pass under heaven.'

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The: Synod of Bishops

By Father Kevin Harrington

Pope John Paul II cQuld not have chosen a more crucijil topic for the sixth World Synod of Bishops than "The Role of the Christian Family." As some 200 bishops assemble in Rome tomorrow for the beginning of this important Sy:::lOd, all Catholics should joir:~ in prayers, spiritual offerings and sacrifices for its success.

The pope has in fact, designated Sunday, Oct. 12 as a special day of prayer for the Synod to be observed in every church, parish and diocese in the world.

Prayer is one of the most essential elements in the growth of faith in every family. With the pressures and tensions that all our families experience, we need more than ever the grace of God to bless our efforts to teach and practice Christian virtues.

Family life is in II mess, human greed and injustice still work incredibly cruel havoc. We are ourselves victims of less than ideal families but nonetheless we still believe and love and hope.

It is only through prayer that we rise like Christ from the tomb and struggle against our adversities that we can truly affirm What we cannot yet see.

Until each family member learns of God's gentle caress of loving concern then the mission of the 'Church is incomplete.

Nothing promotes the success of this mission better than prayer.

we should be eager to approach him in prayer!

Last Sunday Bishop Daniel A. Cronin called on every family in our diocese to join in the Angelus every day at supper time.

Unless prayer becomes a priority in our daily lives we are in danger of losing faith, which has become even a more precious gift in the light of the sad state of family life:.

As our families suffer the onslaught of stresses and strains of unprecedented proportions, we must not lose hope. Faith is the only force that can convert hearts and such conversion is indispensable for solving the countless problems that weigh so heavily upon the modem family.

Every believer has an obligation to share the gift of faith and there is no better' place to begin that sharing than in one's family. Faith grows when it is nourished through a close communion with. God. If we truly believe that God cares for us beyond our wildest imagination,

Few people captured with more enthusiasm the essential role of believers in the world than did Pope John XXIII.

NOTICE Next Tlnnrsday The Anchor will publish a special Respect

Life issue in connection with the national observance of Respect Life Sunday, OCt. 5.

Many of om features, including Steering Points, will not appear next week, but will resume on Thursday, OCt. 9•

If we applied the wisdom of his encyclical, "Peace on Earth." to our families we would all benefit. In it he wrote: "Every believer in this world of ours must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying leaven amidst his fellowman. And he will be this all the more perfectly, the more closely he lives in communion with God in the intimacy of his own soul."

As the bishops assemble in Rome, let us recall the prayer which Pope John Paul II composed especially for this Synod.

He prayed that the family would become the place where the young would find support for their human dignity as they grew in their quest for truth and love and that married couples would apply their graced love to overcome the weaknesses and trials which come their way.

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Synod preparations Last spring a sociologist questioned my qualifications to speak on family bE~cause I was neither a theolo~~an nor sociologist. Sigh. By his definition, half the family life directors in the country aren't qualified to speak on the needs of families even though they work :intimately with them. God's sense of humor reveals itself in many ways.

With the opening of the Roman Synod on Family, I'd like to discuss some of the material available to those wOI~king in family ministry.

In preparation for thl~ Synod, the Family Life Directors of the United States, togeth1er with people in family life :ministry, gathered input from diocese across the country. The ultimate report represents a significant input from thousands of American Catholics who shalred with them their experience (If marriage and family life today.

Reverend Peter Sammon of the San Francisco Arc:hdiocese and spokesman for th,e family Life Directors informed me that a format or questionnaire was drawn up by 50 representatives of the FLD convention :in Miami last winter. The 11 regional Family Life directors then sent these on to diocesan directors in their regions to use as Ithey saw

fit on the local level.

Input was gathered and when the directors met at their regional meetings, a rough summary was drafted of the needs and hopes of the people as they heard them. Ultimately this material was presented to our bishop delegates to Rome next week: Archbishops Quinn and Bernardin, and Bishops Stafford and Sanchez.

The summary presented focused mainly on six areas: 1. the spirit and attitude of the Synod delegates; 2. the need for a pastoral approach; 3. the meaning of Christian morality; 4. the essential need to be in touch with the lived experience of marriage and family life today; 5. the willingness of the Church to deal with difficult and controversial issues; and 6. the areas of strength in the U.S. experience of family life ministry that are of special value to the synodal delegates.

The needs and hopes expressed aren't necessarily the same as those found in a random sampling of a few hundred families by a professional pollster. But this makes them no less valid.

If thousands of Catholic families mention them as issues that need to be addressed and jf the family life people who work with them second those issues from their

Leisulre prohlem

By Antoinette BollCO One of my all-time favorite songs is Gershwin's "Summertime." Its line - "Summertime, and the livin' is easy" -- always stirred a yearning in me to feel the sun and smell the wild flowers.

But I'm afraid the good old summertime isn't what it used to be. A friend of mine made me see the truth of this. She returned from a two-wE,ek cruise which she and her husband had looked forward to all year. She came back exhausted, a.ngry and feeling cheated. A ques,t for fun had been sabotaged by an unexpected factor boredom.

Every day followed the :same pattern - sitting on deck, drinking cocktails before lunch, being entertained daily by the same singers, musicians and pingpong coaches, dining next to people she couldn't get to care about. By the fifth day, she was ready to jump overbo,ard.

"Maybe we should have consulted a leisure counsellor before we planned our vacation," she said. I thought she was trying to be funny. But she W~lS serious.

Leisure counselors are for real, she told me. They are professionals who charge for testing you to determine what youI' interests are. They help you make choices so you won't be dissatisfied with your spare time.

The whole thing stnlck me as very funny. Most of us have people around who ':lffer this service free of charge all the time. We are more or less encouraged to spend our time in

certain ways; we are told what would be fun or an escape from work. I've been invited to cocktail parties, barbecues, singles weekends and more assorted programs than I could list - all in the name of having fun. Sometimes I think Americans have become leisure-time "junkies."

When I refuse invitations, deciding on my own how I will spend my leisure time, the assumption is that I am avoiding something good for me. My standard reply has become, "Sorry, I don't like organized fun." And I am told, "But it's time for you to think about yourself," meaning not a word I said was heard.

Many people today have lots of free time that they simply don't know how to use. This says something about attitudes toward life, work, values and goals. Free time is supposed to be the opportunity to make choices about one's activities.

What a tragedy if we can't do this, looking instead for someone to program us to avoid boredom - as if that's even possible.

Last summer, a friend - a married, working woman and mother of five older children had the guts to choose her vacation according to her own needs and values. She spent two weeks working as a gardener on the grounds of a Catholic home for the old and infirm.

She said she loved every minute of it. It did for her exactly what a vacation is supposed to do.

It refreshed her before she went back to her desk for another year. She did not choose fun,

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own experience, they cannot and should not be relegated to second place. They emanate from the experience of the family life professional, not a computer, and as such must be taken as basic.

In a paragraph from the report, here are those needs.

"Among the most prominently mentioned issues were the need for a spirituality of marriage and family life, thl;! development of a theology of sexuality, concern for the role of women, the enormous influence of the media, abortion, ecumenical marriage, marr-iage preparation and ministry to young marrieds, and the social mission of the family to the world."

That these vary somewhat from a like consultation just four years ago tells us that the family is in constant change and that those of us who work with families in the pew must keep up with those changes. (To see the whole report, you might ask your diocesan family life director to obtain a copy for you.)

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but she had fun. What a contrast to my other friend who had chosen fun, the organized way, finding boredom and exhaustion instead!

Already, psychology professors are calling leisure a serious issue.

Twelve U.S. Universities now offer a doctorate in leisure studies, according to Dr. John Newlinger, a psychology professor at New York City College. Soon we'll have plenty of experts providing therapy for the sparetime blues. So we can be sure leisure will come into its own as a "problem" and the easy livin' of summertime will be just a nostalgic line from a classic song.

[necroloCiY) October 10 Rev. James C. J. Ryan, 1918, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, North Easton October 11 Rev. James A. Downey, 1952, Pastor, Holy Ghost, Attleboro October 14

Rev. Msgr. Edward B. Booth, 1972, Pastor Emeritus, St. Mary,

North Attleboro Rev. Dennis M. Lowney, 1918, Assistant, Sacred Heart, Taunton

Synod wasting time?

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REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

The Vatican recently took a strong poke at social reisearchers. In the working document on family life prepared for th~ international meeting of bishops at the end of this month, the Curia blasted those who "manipulate" public opinion to deceive the faithful on the subject of contraception. The underlying logic of the denunciation reveals the habitual workings of the curial mind: the faithful, of course, accept the papal teaching on birth control; but those who study "public opinion" say the laity does not.

Therefore the researchers' are manipulating the faithful. The ordinary laity agree with us; and the reason they don't agree is that those who are reporting the disagreement are deceiving them.

The exact meaning of the swipe at "public opinion" is somewhat obscure because the context of the condemnation seems to refer to totalitarian societies.

If you think that such an argument is disingenuous, you're right; if you don't think the Vatican is serious when it advances such an argument, you don't understand how the mind of the Roman Curia works.

As one of the possible targets of this curial swipe, I am dismayed at the self-deception of the Vatican, though not surprised. The Curia has never really given up the ancient practice of blaming the herald who brings the bad news for having caused it. After you've lopped off the head of the unfortunate herald, you've solved the problem.

Worse than the self-deception, if you care about the church, is the inability of the Curia to comprehend that a scholar could have the integrity and honesty to report factual findings without either endorsing or denouncing the behavior described in the findings. It is not merely that the Vatican cannot understand intellectual integrity. It cannot even imagine it.

Either one is loyal to the Pope, accepts his teaching and asserts that everyone else accepts it (save for a handful of radicals or the poor laity who have been manipulated by researchers) or one is disloyal. If you assert that the 90 percent of the Catholics in the United States (80 percent of the weekly communicants) reject the official teaching, you are clearly disloyal and must be lying. Thus it becomes necessary to ascertain the motives for your disloyalty. Presto!

The explanation is easy; you're disloyal because you want to manipulate public opinion.

The working paper that blasts at us pays lip service to the

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"importance of the human sciences" - a phrase which is now routine in Vatican documents.

But it shows no sign that it knows what the "human sciences" are. Indeed the paper is arrogant, supercilious, a prioristic and patronizing. The Curia knows in full detail all the answers to every important question on family life before the questions are asked.

Unless the bishops of the world can break with the twisted logic and intellectual dishonesty of the Curia, they are going to be wasting a month in Rome.

Most bishops, I suspect, realize that the laity is convinced that the church is wrong on birth control. Many would like to see the subject passed over in silence at the international meeting. Some would even like to see a reconsideration of the question, though they may think that now is not the proper time.

However, they are likely to be pressured by the Curia into issuing a resounding statement repeating the traditional teaching in all its harshness (something Pope Leo refused to do a century ago when he wrote his encyclical on marriage).

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Some bishops know that there are many other problems in family life that are important.

Marriages last four times as long as they did not so long ago.

Personal fulfillment in the maritial relationship is now a principal goal of men and women, though even a few decades ago, most people would not know what "personal fulfillment" meant. They know the church has in its tradition the resources to shed some light on these poignant and路 terrifying concerns.

These bishops also know that if the birth control issue is permitted to take center stage, nothing else they say will be heard.

One cannot be very optimistic about a meeting. at which the controlling forces see contraception as the only family topic worth calling to the attention of the world. The church will continue to mess up splendid opportunities so long as intellectual dishonesty and self-deception are confused with loyalty and are often indispensable requirements for ecclesiastical promotion. .III1IIIlIIIIIIIIllIllIIIllIIllIIUIIIlIlIIII"IIIlUIlUIUIIIIIIIlUIttIIlIIIllRlIUP'mUUIIIIII11lI_

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Area priest will speak

Father Shea Father Thomas Timothy Shea, OP, 71, a Fall River native and former dean of men at Providence College, died last week in New York City where he was stationed at St. Vincent Ferrer Church. His funeral Mass was offered last Thursday at the church.

Since his ordination in 1938 he had served in Dominican parishes in Providence and New York City. He was also a Navy chaplain during World War II and served on the mission band of the Dominican Eastern Province in addition to his assignment at Providence College.

A graduate of the college, Father Shea was chaplain of its New York area alumni association. Since 1970 he had headed the St. Martin de Porres Guild, an organization sponsoring devotion to the Dominican lay brother.

He is survived by two sisters, Miss Mona Shea of Fall River and Mrs. Eileen Dennis of Tiverton.

Perfected Grace "Glory is perfected grace." Eckhart

BISHOP CRONIN SPEAKS AT PRIESTS' COUNCIL OPENING MASS

Pope asks peace for Jerusal1em CASTELGANDOLFO. Italy Pope John Paul II has asked that Jerusalem be made "truly the 'holy city,' the 'city of peace' that is' envisioned in the traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

He particularly urged Catholic biblical scholars to contribute to the religious underfstanding of Jerusalem through their scriptural .studies.

The pontiff has been. concerned about the status of Jeru(NC) -

salem in recent months because of the controver,ial Israeli decision to declare the united city their perpetual capital.

A Vatican position paper issuea at the end (If June, shortly before the Israeli decision, called for a separate status with international guarantees for the city and opposed any unilateral decisions affecting its future.

In recent weeks the pope has met with numerous church diplomats in the Middle East and

government representatives from the region.

The pope's latest comments on Jerusalem came during a meeting with 200 biblical scholars.

He said Jerusalem "represents the geographical point of tangency between God and man, between eternity and history."

'In vitro' tries nixed in Canada TORONTO (NC) - Catholics cannot support in vitro fertilization experiments, said Father Everett MacNeil, executive director of the Catholic Health Association of Canada.

According to the association's moral medkal guide approved by the Cana.dian bishops, "morally, the conjugal act is necessary for procreation, and insemination that is totally artificial is immoral," said Father MacNeil.

The priest was referring to experiments being conducted at Laval University in Quebec City by a team of scientists directed

by Dr. Jacques-Emile Rioux. Rioux is trying to fertilize a human egg and implant it in the mother's womb.

"Just because we can do these things in science doesn't mean we mayor mnst do them. We have to ask ourselves if we should," said Father MacNeil.

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PRAYER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Holy Spirit, You enlighten me in every Wcy, You illuminate all earthly paths, so that my dreams may come true. You (tive me the divine quality to forgive and for路 get, and you accompany me every step of my life, I wish in these few words, to Thank you and verify once more that I will never separate myself from You regardless of all the powerful and unstoppable intention to join You and all my brothers and sisters in the Perpetual Home. Thank You again.

One must recite this asking for nothing. Within three days this person will be granted the wish, no matter how incredible it may seem. Publication Promised.

H.W.

Father Robert S. Kaszynski, the bishops' liaison to the charismatic renewal in the Fall River diocese and pastor of St. Stanislaus parish, Fall River, will be homilist and keynote speaker for a Catholic Charismatic General Conference to be held tomorrow through Sunday at the Philadelphia Civic Center.

Expected to attract 15 to 20,000 charismatics from the Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware area, the meeting will have Auxiliary Bishop Edward Hughes of Philadelphia as celebrant of tomorrow night's opening Mass at which Father Kaszynski will be homilist. The Fall River pastor's keynote talk will come on Saturday.

Also among speakers will be nurse-healer Barbara Shelmon and Father Michael Scanlon, TOR, president of Steubenville University.

We Care Continued from page one "Our efforts will be successful if even a few people who previously thought otherwise come to realize that the Catholic Church family truly cares for them personally," he said.

Area directors for We Carel We Share are Father Maurice Jeffrey, Fall River, with Father Edmond Rego as Portuguese liaison; Father Armando Annunziato, New Bedford, Father Jose A. F. dos Santos, Portuguese.

Father John C. Ozug, Cape and Islands; Father Gerald Shovelton, Taunton; Father John V. Magnani, Attleboros.

Module coordinators of parish groups within each area are Father Jon Paul Gallant, Father Stephen A. Fernandes, Father Bruce M. Neylon, Father Norman Grenier, Father William Baker, Fall River.

Father John J. Steaken, Father Joseph A. Martineau, Father John J. Oliveira, Father Robert A. Oliveira, New Bedford.

Father James W. Clark, Father Robert C. Donovan, Father Philip A. Davignon, Father James F. Buckley, Cape and Islands.

Father Lucio B. Phillipino, Father Edward J. Byington, Father William F. O'Connell, Taunton.

Father Bruce W. Cwiekowski, Father Roger L. Gagne, Father William G. Campbell, AttIeboros.

Non-Jew JERUSALEM (NC) - For the first time in its 55-year history the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will have a non-Jew as head of a major department.

Dominican Father Marcel Dubois has been appointed chairman of the philosophy department of the Jewish institution of higher learning.

Father Dubois has been seIfior lecturer at the university since 1968 and is involved in Christian-Jewish dialogue. He has been an adviser to Ute Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.

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Father Gree~ley Dear Editor: Father Andrew Greeley writes interesting columns of late. At times, however, his di:rectional signals give conflicting directions, and no one is going anywhere, including Fr. Greeley.

His periodic referencEis to the abuse of Hans Kung by the "inquision" methods of Rome and the distortion of his thel)logy by irresponsible church at:lthorities lack clarity and truth.

Far from being severe and brutal, Rome has been overly considerate to Kung, Schillebeeckx and others.

Father Greeley seem:; to follow a need to join thEi orchestrated plot against Rome. The agitation and protest are confined to these numerous little circles all well known for their inveterate anarchy.

Father Greeley is still entangled in these little circles. He complains everlastingly that various groups and individuals have lied about him, and his defence of Kung is a lie about Rome.

John Falvey New Hyde Park, N.Y.

One of the ;Best Dear Editor: I want to thank you for your outstanding interpretation and presentation, "Again Poland."

I read your editorial with great pride and I thought it was one of the best articles I have read about Poland and her people.

Thank you again for revealing to others a small part of what is in the hearts of llll Polish people.

Cecelia Sonski Kelly Fall River

Saying Yles Dear Editor: The great significance of the Charismatic Renewal may be escaping many because the Holy Spirit is not recognizf!d as the one who is the pOWI!r of the church.

The same Holy Spirit, the third person of the Blessed Trinity, in the greatest charismatic act of all time made possible the Incarnation when he overshadowed Mary, the most obediEint one.

This power is released in any one of us who would say "Yes" as Mary did and be an open, obedient and willing witness to Jesus Christ for the glory of our heavenly Father and the completion of his kingdom.

I regard the recent Providence conference as a continuing manifestation of the powl~r of the Holy Spirit.

Thank you for the privilege of being free to express ourselves.

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The magazines and stories Unfit to read or see The movies and the TV shows That offend society.

These all are contributions To the downfall of our young And. we must keep on fighting So our children don't succumb.

The Devil's ways are subtle And I'm sure he understands That if he claims our children He'll have the upper hand.

So let's not make it easy For him to prove he's right Don't let up for a minute Keep up a constant fight.

Don't let this generation Of young and tender souls Be led away from God Keep salvation as their goal.

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The annual planning meeting for the Bishop's Charity Ball will take place at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at White's restaurant, North Westport.

Theme, motif and color scheme for the Jan. 9 event will be discussed and committee chairmen and members will be appointed.

The next meeting of the full group will take place Sunday, Jan. 4 when Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth, the ball site, will be decorated.

The charity ball benefits diocesan camps for underprivileged and exceptional children as well as the Nazareth Hall schools in Fall River and Hyannis. It is co-sponsored by the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

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Sister Mary Lou, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sullivan of Fall River, a graduate of the former Sacred Hearts Academy and Trinity College, has been a primary school teacher in New York and Maryland. She has been a member of the community's formation team and has 926 CHURCH STREET - NEW BEDFORD participated in formation programs in Ohio and New York.

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As a result of this process, the Holy Union Sisters, from being exclusively engaged in Catholic education, now serve as hospital chaplains, social workers, campus ministers, directors of religious education, retreat and youth ministers and workers

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In preparation for the adoption of new constitutions, each Holy Union Sister throughout the world has received study booklets on various aspects of religious life which have formed the basis for individual and group reflection and sharing. .

Sister Ignatius Loyola Barry, superior general of the community, has expressed her hope that the new constitutions would "not merely be a printed text, but a life to be lived and be intimately connected w.ith the life and mission of the whole congregation."

The Holy Union congregation, founded in 1826 by Father John Baptist Debrabant, a diocesan priest in Douai, France, has two American provinces. The Immaculate Heart province, with headquarters in Fall River, administers and staffs Holy Name and St. Michael's schools in Fall River and the Taunton Catholic Middle School and Sl Mary's School in Taunton. It has members on the faculty of Bishop Connolly, Coyle-eassidy and Holy Family high schools and on the staff of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River.

The Sacred Heart Province whose provincial house is in Groton, Mass., has sisters in St. Jacques Paris", Taunton. Members are also on the staff of Sacred Heart-St. Mary School, North Attleboro.

Missionary restrictions protested CALCUTTA, India (NC) Government efforts to further restrict the activities of Catholic missionaries in West Bengal are wrong, said the bishops of the region.

"While the government has a right to regulate the entry, residence and movements of foreigners, including foreign missionaries, we request the government not to place more restrictions on· foreign missionaries than are necessary, so that their noble work, especially among the poor, may not be' unduly hampered," said a statement signed by Cardinal Laurence Picachy of Calcutta and six other bishops of West Bengal, a state in northeastern India.

The statement came amid complaints that an anti-Christian campaign is being waged in northeastern India, with missionaries blamed for formenting disturbances.

News reports from northeastern India say intelligence agencies are monitoring the movements of missionaries, tapping phones and opening letters.

Many area cler~J are native Indians but are considered missionaries because they are members of missionary orders and come from other parts of India.

Missionaries are being made the scapegoats for the ineffectiveness of the central and state governments,- said Alexander Warjri, a Member of: Parlaiment.

Another member of Parliament, Ram Jethmalani, has introduced a bill to provide unrestricted freedom of religion. .

Its aim is to remove fears by minorities, especially Christians, who are disturbed by laws restricting evangelization and conversion activities.

Prior to the joint statement of the bishops, Cardinal Picahy had issued a letter to. the Catholics

of Calcutta asking their prayers for a peaceful solution to the problems with the government.

An article in the Statesman of Calcutta newspaper noted: "In West Bengal the Christian missionaries are particularly active in the northern districts where they run schools and hospitals and maintain close links with the Nepalese and tribal groups."

St. Anne clinic pioneers care of cancer patients St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, has become a. pioneer in development of community hospital care for oncoTIogy or cancer patients, offering a wide range of out-patient, services. In many cases, say hospital officials, Southeastern Massachusetts patients are spared travel to Boston medical centers by the availability of the closer-tohome facility.

To complement its medical capabilities, the hospital is now also providing comprehensive cancer nursing education for area nurses and nursing students.

Pain management, side effects from chemotherapy, medical treatment protocols, and the emotional aspects of coping with cancer are among problems discussed, said Teri Freedman,

nurse-manager of St. Anne's oncology clinic.

A native of Fall River, Ms. Freedman's experience includes work at the Sidney Farber Cancer Research Center in Boston and the Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York City.

She and other clinic nurses follow each patient through treatment, often calling them at home or visiting them if they are hospitalized. Her aim is to equip nurses with "the unique skills needed to ensure delivery of compassionate care.

"Oncol~ nursing at the community hospital level is considered to be in the exploratory stages," she said. Through devel· oping the program, St. Anne's Hospital may become a pilot project for similar programs elsewhere, she noted.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese ofFall River-Thur. Sept. 25, 1980

'Tlte greatest. thing'

By Sister EUabeth Roach, MM.

The' Marriage Encounter' Movement is spreading. Father Charles A. Murray, of New Bedford, Mass., a Maryknoll Missil>ner in Peru for 29 years, says that ina short time more than 50 I:ouples in his parish, a poor area on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, have attended the weekend program offered by Marriage Encou:nter:.

"It's the greatest thing I've found," Father Murray says. He finds that many couples are rediscovering their love for one another and seeking a fuller Christian life.

Father Murray had no personal contact with Marriage Em:ounter until 1976, although he had long been involved with the Christian Family and Cursillo mOVlements.

While in the United Stutes for a spiritual renewal program he received an invitation to make an Encounter Weekend at the Franciscan Seminary in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Somewhat hesitant, he accepted.

"I was so impressed by the three couples who directed the weekend," he says. "ThE!re was something special about their relationship with each other."

After returning to Pteru, he made another weekend program.

This time it was in Spanish, and two couples from his parish made it at the same timle. That was towards the end of 1977.

Since then Father Mun'ay has helped couples direct the program in other parts of Peru. He says, "I see that same deep I'elationship among couples wOl'king in the movement here that 1 saw at Wappingers Falls."

"Alone No Longer," a book by Father Joseph M. Champlin, calls the weekend program, "a 44-hour crash course in loving cc.mmunication," but participants rarely reveal the details of the program.

They do invite couples tl:> an information session befclre the weekend, but when asked about what will be included in the program, they smile and sa,y "that would be like revealing the plot

of a good movie before you get a chance to see it."

Although they won't tell you what is going to happen on the weekend, they are very enthusiastic about what the Marriage Encounter has done for them.

Ramon and Carmen Guardia are a typical couple from Father Murray's parish. In their late twenties, the parents of three children, they were getting along fairly well together. "But we were living as two individuals," Ramon says, "making most of our decisions separately. Through Marriage Encounter weekend we got to know ourselves and each other better. I tell you, my life has taken a different direction.

I've discovered that God is where love is. I wish with all my heart that all couples could share our happiness. The whole world would be changed!'

Another couple, Felix and Maria Cruz started with a different experience. In his midthirties, the father of four children, Felix says "I'd had a lot of hard knocks. I wanted nothing to do with church activities, but I went to the weekend to please Maria. I was curious. God was knocking on the door of my heart, but I didn't want to open to Him." . Felix says he learned some things during the first encounter weekend, but it was later when he and Maria returned for a renewal weekend that his life really changed.

Looking back now, he says, "The first weekend I discovered the relationship that could exist between couples, between us, but it was during the second weekend that I learned that I could touch God through Maria.

Before that our lives were empty.

Now we are projecting ourselves outward, discovering what love really means.' That's why so many of us are getting involved in groups to give talks to engaged couples, to help other families. We used to live in the dark."

His wife, Maria, says, "There's

so much more harmony in our home now. We share so much more, all of us. the children, too."

Bernardina Pillpe, another woman who made the Marriage Encounter with her husband.

Julian, says, "It's the children who profit most. Before we were like a cat and a dog with each other. My son never confided in us. Now the three of us talk things over together. He's so much happier, studies better and makes me proud of him."

Father Murray, too, has noticed the effect on the children. ''They seem to feel more secure," he says. "They want to pray and help others. Their spirituality develops."

Chuckling, he smiled as he remembered a recent incident. One child, visiting his grandmother, watched as she prepared refreshments for men who were to carry a statue in a parish procession. She seemed annoyed as she did it, but smiled when the little boy said, "Grandma, if you don't do that with love, there's no use doing it."

As couples deepen their own relationships they become freer to dedicate themselves to helping others. The movement, introduced in Lima only three years ago, has spread to seven other Peruvian cities, and to four neighboring countries.

Father Henry Camacho, D.P., of Gloucester, Mass., is the international coordinator. Couples who have made the weekend are becoming active in many ministries.

Julian Pillpe tells of how he and his wife, Bernardina, have learned to give talks to engaged couples. "We are poor people, we don't have much money, but we know we have something to offer others," he says. Not long ago they gave a weekend in San .

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Parents' visiting rights

By Dr. James and Mary Kenny

the other hand your. child has been removed from you. In a Dear Dr. Kenny: I hope that sense you must prove yourself you are familiar with the prob- to society and to the agency lems that rise when a child is which now has responsibility for in the permanent custody of your daughter. Nevertheless, foster parents and one of the your interest in your daughter natural parents wishes visiting shows love and concern. rights.

The needs of the child constiMy 14-year-old daughter is a permanent ward. of the state, tute the primary issue. Your letand I was told that blwee~y ter talks about your rights but visit$ of a few hours' duration makes no mention of your would be permitted me. I have daughter's :needs.

Children need a stable home. recently been told by the foster Growing up is itself a changing parents that these visits will be Umited to once 11 month. I fear and unstable process. So it is all that efforts are being made to the more important that the sursever the relationship with me roundings, especially the immedi(the natural father), and I fear ate family, be stable and secure.

When several significant that this may be a prelude to adults all h'ilve a voice in critical formal adoption procedures_ Parents whose children were decisions, Lite child usually ends removed under cl1ild protection up suffering. To simplify the balaws have speelal problems ob- sic childbearing strategy it is taining visiting rights because important that the parents with the foster parents are total custody have the sole right to strangers, making communica- make decisions that affect the tion awkward. What are your child's basil: welfare.

Some adults will be hurt and feelings about visiting rights in feel that their rights have been these cases? (Saskatchewan) A. Visitation can be a diffi- infringed. That may well be. It cult problem and depends upon is a bad situation. The rights of individual circumstances. I can-. the child, however, should take not state a position to cover all precedence. situations, nor can I pass judgIn your case the foster parents ment in regard to your situation, seem to be making the basic desince I have too few facts. cisions about your daughter's As a natural parent you have life. Your main problem seems rights and responsibilities. On to be one of communication.

You do not know the feelings of the foster parents. The foster parents seem unaware of your confusion and your desires.

The agency in charge of your daughter should be able to help you. Who is in charge of her case? Have you made your wishes known to that person?

You have no right to tell the agency and the foster parents how to care for your daughter, but you have every right to make your wishes and feelings known and to be informed about what decisions are being made by whom and why.

Perhaps the agency will arrange a meeting between you and the foster parents. Perhaps the agency will act as intermediary.

At least it should be able to listen to you and to explain the situation as it sees it.

I am sorry that I cannot fully support your desire to visit your daughter. I simply do not know enough to judge whether such visits are beneficial or upsetting for her. The break up of a family is painful. When homes are broken, for whatever reason, just or unjust, the needs of the children should be the major concern.

Questions on family living and child care are invited. Address to the Kennys c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass.

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Expensive hut so good

By Marilyn Roderiek It must be the slight tang in the air that has turned my thoughts to cooking and cookbooks. With the girls away at college and Jason a meat and potato man, fancy recipes have fallen by the wayside over the summer but suddenly I find myself thumbing tt..rough myoid cooking magazines, browsing through the cookbook section in bookstores and even sitting in a friend's home the other evening with my nose in her newest cookbook rather than taking part in the discu,3sion going on around me. Fall has arrived.

Joe came home from the library the other evening with "Cooking The Nouvelle Cuisine in America" by Michele Urvater and David Liederman and after browsing through it I want to add it to my collection.

Nouvelle cuisine is, the authors explain, excellent, unpretentious cooking that can be done in home kitchens yet the recipes and ideas come from some of the best new French chefs.

One feature of this delightful book is that each recipe states the time needed for preparation (as well as the cooking time), any unusual special equipment needed and how to present it . (what type of dish and garnish) and appropriate menu accompan. iments. All this can be seen at a glance because there it is in bold type.

Another plus for this fairly expensive tome ($14.95) is that

many reciplls are quite unusual, for instance, steamed vegetable salad, boneless stuffed ham with fruit sauce, and upside down pecan pie. Many recipes combine fruit and meat with unusual and enjoyable 1'l~sults. When I hand my Christm.as list in to Santa, this booJt will be right on topl The marvelous Marine Museum in Fall River has also just published a cookbook inclUding many reCipE!S from the old Fall River Line galleys and as soon as I can get my hands on a copy, I'll review it for this column.

From advance peeks, this is going to be a collector's item.

Every now and then one needs a very spect.acular recipe to impress company, and money is no object. This recipe from the St. George and 51. Julie's Cookbook of Westport was submitted by Vivian Flynn. Rumor has it that the mouths of those lucky enough to bf~ Flynn guests water

at just its mention.

Seafood Newburg Supreme 1 pound butter 4 cups crushed cracker cli.unbs (3 cups plain, 1 cup cheese) 1 lb. langostino 1 lb. shrimp 1 lb. scallops or crab meat 2 cans cream of shrimp soup 2 soup cans milk 3 tablespoons of cooking sherry parsley flakes, or fresh minced parsley 1) Precook seafood.

2) Mix the soup and milk in the top of a double boiler, add seafood and sherry.

3) Melt the butter and add to the crumbs. Put % the crumbs in the bottom of a casserole dish.

Put in the seafood and soup mixture and top with the remaining crumbs.

4) Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.

Top with parsley.

Pope to Boston: Happy 350th BOSTON (NC) - Pope John Paul II has congratulated the citizens of Boston on the 350th anniversary of the founding of the city.

In a letter to Cardinal Humberto Medeiros the pope recalled his visit to the city last October and said he prayed that the spirit of hospitality shown by Boston residents during the papal trip would continue.

"I assure the people of Boston of my prayers as they commemorate this milestone in their

history, and I invoke upon all the divine blessings of joy and peace," he wrote.

It Comes First "Before a parish council begins to function as a reflecting, discerning group, its members should be bonded together in brotherhood through prayer, sharing, socialization and celebration of the Eucharist." Parish Council Guidelines, Columbus, Ohio.

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gious commUDlty I have on record that several sisters wish to donate their eyes to research and others wish to dona·te their bodies to science.

I can accept the givinl~ of an organ, and I can UDden:tand if there is death resulting from a rare disease. I find It hard to reconcile the exposure of that body and depriving it ol~ CJuistian burial in the interest of science after a run-of-the-mill death. It seems to me there are, or will be, enough cadavers for that purpose. (Louisiana) A. There seems to be a significant difference in the need for bodies for scientific purposes from one part of the country to another, I would SUggE~st you contact a medical school in your part of the country and. ask if they need such gifts.

Assuming that the institutions show as much respect as possible for the body ( a fact which should be investigated also), the gift of the whole or part of one's body with the hope that it will advance medical knowledge and assist those who are responsible for the health of others (:an be a great act of charity.

The body should be given a decent burial later on when the time is appropriate.

Q. Our unmarried teen-age daughter had a child metre than a year ago. Our pastor, a Catholic social worker, and n lawyer said the father's name need not appear on the birth CErtificate or the baptism certificate.

We moved shortly before the baby was born. The parilth priest at the new church insisted that our daughter name the biological father or he would IllOt baptize her child. She was upset but wanted the child baplized so she named the father.

This still upsets her and she would like to have this man's name tenlOved from thEl official' church record. The biological father was not CathoDe and has in fact never even seen the ehIld. 0

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A. You had the correct advice in the beginniitg. The father's name definitely does not need to appear on the birth certificate or the baptism. certificate.

To my knowledge, all states, including your own, require the name of only one parent on the birth certificate.

Neither is the name of the child's father required on the baptism record. In fllct, any name could be given, which could easily result in serious injustice to innocent people, so in such circumstances the father's name should never be on a baptism record.

In your diocese there really appears to be only o:ne thing that can be done and t:nat is to write to the bishop and explain the situ~tion to him. It is possible, however, that even the bishop at this time could Inot have the name removed.

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For others who might sometime be in this unfortunate situation, therefore, the name of the father need never be on the birth certificate or the baptism certificate. Indeed, such information can very legitimately be refused.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, FaIl River, Mass.. 02720.

Jesus meets the press

By Father John Catolr Director of The Cbristophers If Jesus were to return in this

presidential election year, how would he handle a news conference? He'd probably answer questions the same way He did 2,000 years ago.

The people of his time had their own questions. The revolutionaries were asking, "What do you have to say about the Roman occupation?" The pharisees and scribes were asking, "Why aren't you and your disciples living within the Jewish law?" The establishment was concerned about credentials: "Why don't you produce the apocalyptic sign?"

"Jesus replied by saying that the Romans were not the issue, that the law was not the issue and that cosmic miracles were not the issue. God's insanely generous love for us was the issue, and in the face of that fact, the Romans and the Torah became peripheral. . . (He) did not deny the reality of suffering, discouragement, disappointment, frustration, and death but he simply asserted that the kingdom of his Father would conquer all these horrors. . ." (Andrew Greeley in "The Jesus Myth") Answer like these infuriated his contemporaries; they were considered evasions. What would happen if newsmen were to approach Jesus in 1980?

Q. "Whom do you favor in the upcoming election?"

A. "I have not come to discuss politics."

Q. "What do you have to say about the Soviet arms build-up?"

A. "My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. The kingdom of God will triumph in the end. The victory is certain."

Jesus would be shouted down by the cynics, rebuffed by churchmen, and ignored by politicians. The cameras would turn elsewhere for something more "newsworthy" than the message that the kingdom of God is like a pearl of great price, worth more than all one's possessions; that it is the secret dream of every man fulfilled.

For a free copy of the Christopher News Note, "Let Me Sow Love," send a stamped selfaddressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48th St., New York, NY 10017, 0

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SISTER KATIlLEEN KIRCHER of the Sisters of St. Joseph will discuss ministry to separated and divorced Catholics at the 'diocesan clergy conference to be held Tuesday, Sept. 30 at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

She is director of ministry to the separated/divorced/ remarried for the diocese of Rochester, N.Y. and a field education supervisor for St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester. An experienced counselor, she holds membership in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

WASHINGTON (NC) The National Catholic News Service (NC) is seeking applicants for a new journalism training program seeking to encourage journalism school graduates, particularly members of ethnic minority groups, to consider Catholic journalism as a career.

Under the program, funded by the Catholic Communications Campaign, two graduates will be trained at NC's Washington headquarters after completing their studies in 1981.

They will spend six months at NC as paid staff members, gaining experience in reporting, writing, editing and other journalistic activities.

The deadline for applications is Feb. 15, 1981. They may be obtained from Richard W. Daw, Director, NC News Service, 1312 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

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II Neighbors

By Father John J. C8stelot

II Community

By Mitchel Do ~ey

Neighborhoods are changing in many parts of the United States today. Simply living next door to a family is no longer sufficient for neighbors to really share in each other's lives as they once did. Even though children living on the same block stitl find it easy to get to know one another, adults often complain about the unfriendliness of their neighbors.

There are many reasons for this. In the recent past, people who shared neighborhoods shared similar backgrounds.

Many lived in ethnic neighborhoods, which meant they shared race, culture and values. Often neighbors shared educational backgrounds. Many times other family members lived nearby.

Most frequently, adults, parents or grandparents, were home most of the day.

Today people can expect to live next to neighbors from widely varying backgrounds.

Many choose their neighborhoods for social or economic reasons, with the price of the home an important consideration. Frequently neighborhoods are deserted by day, as most adults commute to work some distance from home. Consequently, informal mixing among neighbors occurs less frequently.

Parishes in the United States have been affected by such changing lifestyles. Many parishes are large, embracing a wide variety of people who Turn to Page Thirteen

II For children II

By Janaan Manternach

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One路 day Jesus was in the marketplace. A crowd gathered around him. They wanted to listen to his teachings.

The crowd that day was full of people considered sinners, those who failed to keep God's law..

A number of religious leaders, Pharisees and scribes, were in the crowd too. Some were very upset that Jesus talked with the sinners.

"Look at that," they whispered. "This man welcomes sinners.

He seems to want to be with them. He even eats and drinks with them." They were shocked.

Jesus knew what they were thinking. He decided to tell them and the whole crowd something about God's willingness to forgive.

"Suppose one of you has 100 sheep," Jesus began. "One day one of the sheep gets lost in the hills. Wouldn't you leave the 99 and go off to search for the lost sheep? And when you found it you would probably pick it up, put it over your shoulders and carry it back. Once you got home, you would call your friends and neighbors together for a party. Rejoice with me,' you Tum to page thirteen

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Where to find community

By James and Mary KeDDY

Neighborhood has traditionally been defined geographically.

Neighbors are usually people who live near each other.

We prefer to define neighbors as those people with whom one shares interests. For most people, being in community means joining with others who are compatible. Thus one's neighbors in a mobile society might include friends from church, colleagues from work or fellow golfers.

Community is where you find it. For those with eyes to see, community is everywhere. Human beings are naturally social animals and continually reach out in some way to others. Unfortunately, some Americans are so isolated by a "do-your-ownthing" mentality that they can see no further than their own noses.

Yet even for the most compartmentalized city dweller, the opportunity for community exists. One reason community fails to develop is that people frequently look in the wrong plas:e.

They hear the word "community," and think of a religious group, a family, a commune or some similar formal organization.

They are so concerned with a visible organization that they are unprepared to notice natural community.

Community reflects the need to surround oneself with others of like interests and goals.

Clubs and organizations are one way to develop community, but a narrow and Iimi.ted way, in our opinion. A broader way is to be able to recognize the many opportunities in everyday life for building ties with others. This article is about where to look for community.

Community is likely to arise naturally in one of four ways; from necessity; because of a common cause; spontaneously; and by plan. Sometimes community occurs almost accidentally when people set about a common task. Other times people

deliberately work at establishing community.

1. When we moved into our present home some years ago, a neighbor described the community to us: "We're not much for glad handing and 'Hi, how are yous.' You may not even think we care. But whenever you need us, we're there."

Four years later, when my wife was in the hospital, they were there. All our meals were brought in as if by magic, hot and ready to serve. Baby sitters appeared on the scene to take Turn t(l Page Thirteen

X'marks the spot

By Tom LeDDOD

One summer day at the Overthe-Rhine Soup Kitchen in Cincinnati, Ohio, a ,student volunteer, Tom Geiger. was painting the interior walls. A middleaged hobo appeared at the open door to ask a curious favor. '~Man, could I borrow your paint and brush for a minute?"

"What for?"

"I'd like to pe.int something on the outside of the front door."

"Like what?"

"An X. A big X." "But, what . . . ?"

"It would be a sign to all hoboes who see it that they can get a good meal here."

Tom let him paint the big X, which is still there today, a symbol that someone cares. It is an appropriate sign, for the crossed lines also represent the intersection of two cultures. At this soup kitchen, volunteer workers from the affluent suburbs mingle with the poor.

They learn from each other and bonds nre formed. On one side of the serving table are the derelicts, the alcoholics, the genteel poor who have run out of money lind work, perhaps some hoboes as well as those who can't cope with the competitive pressures of work. On the other side are various repTurn to page thirteen

Community is where you find it.

Christians must keep remind路 ing themselves of the primary position of love in the religion Jesus taught. People have a human tendency to look for shortcuts to路 salvation, and many other commandments seem easier to keep than the demanding one of selfless love.

However, salvation is not won.

God gives it as a free gift. Our contribution to the process is to accept that gift on his terms and to express gratitude by committing ourselves to him and to each other in self-giving love. As Paul says, only one thing really counts, "Faith which expresses itself through love.'; (Galatians 5:6) Jesus stated this unequivocally; "I give you a new com路 mandment: Love one another.

Such as my love has been for you, so must your love be for each other. This is how all will know you for my disciples: by your love for one another."

(John 13, 34-35) What characterized Jesus' love for people? His was a completely unselfish and indiscriminate love which expressed itself by the giving of his very self "to the end." (John 13:1) For this reason the cross is the universal symbol of the Christian, not because it was an instrument of torture, but because it sums up the whole existence of Jesus - a career marked from begining to end by love of his Father and his brothers and sisters. This is the cross which he told Christians they must carry if they really wanted to be his disciples.

When Jesus was challenged to commit himself on the question of the greatest commandment of the law, he unhesitatingly replied with the command to love God as stated in Deuteronomy 6:5. He was quick to add, however, "The second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself!" He went on, very point.edly, to insist, "On these two commandments the whole law is based, and the prophets as well."

(Matthew 22:37-40) In Luke's version of this dialogue (10:29), Jesus' questioner pressed him for further precision: "And who is my neighbor?"

Jesus' very familiar answer was not a dictionary definition of neighbor, but the parable of the Good Samaritan. It said, in effect, that the concept of neighhor could not really be defined, because it was not limited by considerations of blood relationship, ethnic ties or any arbitrary restrictions.

Every human person is a neighbor whose love is encouraged as second in importance only to love of God. As Jesus says in Mark's version (12:31), "There is no. other commandment greater than these."

John Wesley, the 18th-century founder of Methodism, hit upon a very simple but expressive phrase when he urged active love of neighbor "and neighborhood." Jesus reached out not only to his neighbors but to his Tum to Page Thirteen

Where to find community Continued from page twelve care of our younger children.

This covert community emerged to meet our need. WhEln the need was over, the community resumed its customary quiet.

2. Community can surface around a common cause. How many people have come together to form car pools to mE:et the energy crisis? How many apartment renters have joined to fight a landlord who WBlnts to evict them to form a condominium? People historically have joined hands to raise a bam or fight a common foe. Somehow in the process of working together ties are formed. Pathways for communicatio,n are opened. Affection and eV4;n love have a way of creeping in. during such activities.

3. Communities can and should spring up spontaneously from what Gail Sheehy, author of the bestseller "Passages," nicely terms "the uJ'ge to merge." Follow that urge.

Haven't you ever felt like having someone over for a ,chat or for dinner for no apparent reason? Do it!

Haven't you ever wanted to organize a spur-of-the-moment block party to welcome a new neighbor or say goodbyE! to an old one? Trust your instincts.

Spontaneous celebrations of friendship and community are usually the most delightful.

Sometimes they are the prelude to more permanent bonds as well.

4. Finally, community can be planned and can occur within the context of the ordinary commitments to making and developing friendships. When people enjoy each other's company, they arrange to meet on a regu-

For children Continued from page twelve would tell them, 'be(:ause I found the sheep I had lost.'''

Everyone nodded. TIlat was exactly how they would act.

Then Jesus made his point.

"Let me tell you som.ething," he said. "There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns away from sinning, than over 99 people who have no need to repent."

Jesus told them another story to be sure they understood him.

It was a most important point in his Good News about God's forgiveness.

"Suppose a woman has 10 silver coins and loses one," Jesus continued. "What will she do? Won't she light the lamps and sweep the house ,carefully until she finds the coin? When she finds the lost coin she will invite her friends and nl~ighbors.

"Rejoice with me," she will say to them, "I found the si1ver coin rlost."

"Let me tell you something important," Jesus concluded.

"There will be the SamE! kind of joy in heaven over OnEl repentant sinner."

The religious leader:; understood what Jesus wa:; telling them. So did the sinners. They all found it hard to believe that God was so ready to forgivEr.

lar basis: Two couples go to the movies together every other Friday. Three families go camping together every July..Six couples share a monthly pitch-in supper.

Any activity can be the focus.

People join together because they have more fun when they share.

The challenge in modem society lies in recognizing opportunities for community whenever and wherever they occur.

Community Continued from Page Twelve gather for sacramental celebrations but may not know one another.

Yet, despite increased mobility, people still hunger for community experiences. Many look for them in small groups of people who share similar values, interests and goals, but often live in different neighborhoods.

People find these communities in several ways. Some Catholics are deeply involved in churchrelated communities that promote marriage enrichment, Bible study, prayer or discussion.

Many form deep bonds of friendship and support in these groups.

In some places families and friends have formed communities around their commitment to provide services in a parish or diocese. Sometimes such service takes place at an inner-city soup kitchen. Sometimes it involves care of foster or handicapped children.

In one small West Coast diocese more than a dozen families provide marriage-preparation programs for engaged couples.

The community gathers one Saturday evening each month for a family home Eucharist offered by a priest from a nearby parish or college. The group meets for non-religious affairs as well.

Members have organized learning sessions on skills for parents and ·have formed a babysitting co-op. Each year they hold a picnic.

These small groups share growth in faith, educational experiences and just plain fun.

They gather to pray and work together. And they enliven the sense of community among Christians.

X marks Continued from page twelve resentatives of middle~class America a teen-age girl, a homemaker, a bachelor, a professor, a young man searching for ways to help the poor.

The kitchen was founded in the Over-the-Rhine district in 1975 by Father Thomas Bokenkotter, professor of church history at St. Gregory's Seminary in Cincinnati. No one seeking food has ever been turned away.

At the same time, starving spirits have been nourished over a simple game of checkers or in oneon-one conversations with volunteer workers.

The lives that intersect usually provide dramatic contrasts. Consider Hoppy, whose last name is unknown, and Jerry Barney.

Hoppy, homeless, bearded and

dirty, has been an alcoholic for 23 years. He is a non-stop talker, perhaps hoping to fend off probing questions that could challenge his way of life.

Once when he was miraculously sober for three days, he was asked why he didn't stay sober and change his life.

"Man,~ts of people ask me that question and I got an answer. I drink because I like to drink. If I like to drink, why shouldn't I?" So his life goes monotonously on. He roams the streets aimlessly, endlessly by day. At night he used to sleep in a warm drop-in center, but once in a drunken fit he smashed his fist through the glass door. He will not be admitted now until he pays for the door. His nights are cold and long outside.

Hoppy knows Jerry Barney well. This 26-year-Old seminarian comes from a neat middleclass home in Toledo. All one summer he lived in rooms above the soup kitchen where he worked by day as cook. maintenance man and informal counselor. As a priest, he hopes to work in the inner city.

Jerry speaks candidly of his first weeks at the soup kitchen; I~I was afraid to go, but I thought it would be a valuable experience. The first couple of weeks were trau~atic, what with the .dirt, noise and heat.

But finally I got to know people and feel at ease.

"Some guys look awful; they're dirty; they gross you out. But once you get to know them, you discover great warmth and often very interesting personalities.

It's amazing how they survive, considering the hell they're going through."

Jerry and Hoppy are opposites, but their lives have intersected.

A bond, a sort of family spirit, however tenuous, exists.

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Neighbors

Thurs., Sept. 25, 1980

Continued from page twelve neighborhood in an effort to establish God's reign of love.

Jesus told us that we are to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. But if this light never shines beyond the walls of our houses or the fences of our back yards, then we are hiding it "under a bushel basket" (Matthew 5:15), the very thing Jesus warned us not to do.

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The pope speaks to youth During his recent trip to France, Pope John Paul n spoke at length to French youth: on topics of interest to teenagers everywhere. In the coming weeks, The Anchor will present excerpts from bis talks.

The question is: how to be a witness to Christ today? This is the main question, continuing the central meditation of our dialogue, the discussion with the young man. Christ said, "Follow me." This is what he said to Simon, son of Jonas, to whom he gave the name Peter, to his brother, Andrew, to Zebedee's sons, to Nathaniel. He said, "Follow me," and after the resurrection he repeated: "You will be my witnesses" (Acts 1, 8), To be Christ's witness, to bear testimony to him, one must first follow him. One must learn to know him, become familiar with him, become, as it were, a pupil in his school, be penetrated with his mystery. It is an important and fundamental task.

If we do not do this, constant-

ly and sincerely, our testimony risks becoming shallow and superficial. It may even no longer be a witness. But if we follow him, Christ himself will teach us, through His Spirit, what we have to do, how to behave and how to become involved, how to enter into dialogue with the contemporary world, a dialogue that Paul VI called the "dialogue of salvation."

Consequently, if you ask me what young people should do within the church, I will try to answer you: Learn about Christ.

The unfathomable treasures of wisdom and science are found in him. It is in him that man, with his weakness, his sinfulness, can become "the new man."

He becomes a man "for others."

He becomes also the glory of God, for as St. Irenaeus of Lyons said in the second century, God's glory is "a man fully alive."

The experience of two millennia teaches us that in this fundamental work of the mission of the people of God there is no difference between man and woman. If this is true, just as it is true that the church in its hierarchy is directed by the successors of the apostles, and hence by men, it is just as true that, charismatically speaking, women guide it as much as do men, perhaps even more. I invite you to think often of Mary, the mother of Christ.

I also ask you to strengthen the bond which exists between young people belonging to the church and the other young people of the world, bearing in mind the certainty that Christ is the way we must follow, for Christ is the way, the truth and the life (cf. John 14, 6).

By Chlarlle Martin

IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME What's the matter with the clothes I'm wear.[ng "Can't you tell that your tie's too wide" Maybe I should buy old tab collars "Welcome back to the age of jive Where have yDU been hiclin' out lately honey ''You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money" Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound Funny, but it's still rock and roll to me.

What's the matter with the car Pm driving "Can't you tell that it's out of style" Should I get a set of white-wall tires "Are you goona cruIse the miracle mile Nowadays you can't be too sentimental Your best bet's a true baby blue Continental" Hot funk, cool funk, even if it's old Junk It's still rock and roll to me.

Oh it doesn't matter what they say in the papers 'Cause it's always been the same old scene There's a new band in town But you can't get the sound from a story in a magazine Aimed at your average teen.

How about a pair of pink sidewinders And a bright orange pair of pants "Well you could really be a Beau BrUmmel baby If you just give it half a chance Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers ''You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers" Next phase, new wave, dance craze Anyways, it's still rock and roll to me.

Ooh what's the matter with the crowd I'm seeing "Don't you know that they're out of touch" Should I try to be a straight A student "If you are then you think too much Don't you know about the new fashion honey All you need are looks and a whole lotta money" It's the next phase, new wave, dance craze Anyways, it's still rock and roll to me.

Written and sung by Billy Joel, (c) 1980 by the Impulsive Music and April Music Inc.

THIS SONG is a putdown by Billy Joel of the frenzied efforts that are part of keeping up with constantly l:hanging fads - the fads that, you might say, keep the in crowd in.

The question arises: How do we respond to peer pressure?

Peer pressure is often regarded as a teen-age problem. But it can be a problem at any age.

Adverstisements suggest what we should own or how beautiful we should be. Status is often defined by the brand of clothes a person wears.

There is plenty of pressure to conform to group decisions. But group pressure can work against our individual personalities and our own special worth.

Here's one possession we do need: a clear idea of what our own values are.

A picture of one's real values is sketched by the actions of one's own life. And knowing what one's lown values are is a help in dealing with peer pressure.

Are we pleased with the things we accomplished during the past week? How do we feel about the ways we sptmd our money, time and energy? What about our attitudes toward others? What do our goals iilDd dreams reveal about us?

People who call themselves Christians find a challenging set of values in Jesus. They need to measure their actions against the challenges found in the Gospel.

Today's most subtle form of peer pressure is found in the attitudes and values of society at large. The list of gadgets people are told they must have is endless. Little thought is given to how much of the world's dwindling energy the gadgets consume, or how the money might be better spent.

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age groups: for young people through age 18 flnd for those 19 through 25.

Purpose of the contest is to depict service to others.

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The largest freshman class in a decade has been welcomed at the Taunton school. In the Year of the Family emphasis has been placed on family prayer in students' homes.

New faculty members are Ms. Beatrice Piche, guidance and Melodye Broadley, 23, a 1976 English; Vincent D'Oliveira, graduate of Bishop Feehan High math and assistant football 'School, Attleboro. has been coach; Charles Mansfield, scinamed a campus minister for ence. the school. She w,;u also teach Volunteers are needed for the religion and coach girls' basketschool's weekly newsletter and ball. As a minister she will esmay contact Sister Margaret tablish and facilitate a ChrisLouise. Both the newsletter tian Action program for Feehan name, Update, and its new seniors and will organize school Warrior logo are the work of retreats.

Ann Marie Stepanaitis.

A Pawtucket resident, she has been youth council president at Sacred Heart CYO in Central Falls, R.I. She was named par"Service to Others" is the ish Youth of the Year in 1975, theme of a photo contest for as well as Young Adult of the young people sponsored by The . Year for the Blackstone Valley Christophers, a New York-based region. Last year she received movement encouraging people to the "Eagle of the Cross" award work for constructive social for her work in youth organizachange. tions.

Her experience has included Eighteen cash prizes totaling $1,050 will be awarded in two organizing and directing parish

no later than Jan. 1 and winners will be announced March 1. Full particulars are available from Christopher Photo Contest, 12 East 48th St., New York, NY 10017.

• • Feeha.n campus mJDJster youth projects and five years of service as a director of the Attleboro Echo program. She was also a teen c'Jordinator at Nickerson Housre social service agency in Providence.

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Safety of planet • • IS Issue

By Cecilia Belanger Have you ever received a letter and found yourself, while reading it, stuck on one line? It happened to me this week. I couldn't get past the words: "All this missile talk and vocabularies I don't understand, and impending holocaust scares the daylights out of me. I find myself not caring about a future, saving for a future or studying, for a nonexistent one" (this from a young girl).

There is a craziness in the land during this election year. And there is a vocabulary so complex that one wonders if those who use it understand it or merely love curling their tongues around it.

What do "highly unlikely eventualities," "perceived edges," "influential capabilities," "inclinations," "anticipations," 'and other such supposedly sophisticated expressions mean? If they mean something understandable, . then use understandable laguage.

I heard a program in which the terms "countervalue strike" and "counterforce strike" were thrown around, as if to assume that all the listeners were nuclear physicists and electrical engineers.

When I hear tal~ about "the safety of the United States," I am baffled. We can no longer talk about the safety of one country. At issue is the safety of the whole planet.

This is what the leaders of nations must be addressing, not some parochial interest. But this seems forgotten in the mad race for superiority. What difference will superiority make once the madness is unleashed?

I sometimes wonder about the sanity of any of the world's leaders. There seems something pathological and psychopathic about massive weapons systems hidden here and there with everyone trying to outsmart the others. One Air Force general referred to this game as having a certain "giggle factor." Consider, for instance, the absurdity of continual transporting of ICBMs through the western desert, motion around a racetrack, as it were, so enemies will' not know where to aim.

A young man said to me, "I used to think I'd like to go into politics but after seeing what the Carter people did to Kennedy and then have Kennedy come right back and campaign for him, well, it's too much for me."

It's too much 'for me, tool There has to be something bigger than party loyalty. There has to bel No one put up with more muckraking and innuendo from Carter, political commercials than did Kennedy. Then to pressure Kennedy to come over to their side and support them, well, I too am at a loss for words.

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portsWQtch Feehan Gridders in Upset The Shamrocks of Bishop Feehan High tasted their fi:rst victory in six years over North Attleboro when they nipped the Red Rocketeers, 14-13, in a nonleague football game last Saturday. They were tied, 7-'7, after three periods. Each team scored one touchdown in the final stanza but North Attleboro failed to convert for the extra points and the Shamrocks clinched the decision on Rich Farinacci's kick for the bonus point. Farinacci had also kicked the extra point after Feehan's first-period touchdown.

Bishop Stang High's Spartans did not fare so well, however, dropping a 34-14 decision to Bourne High in a Division Three Southeastern Mass. Conference season opener, Friday night. The Coyle-Cassidy Warriors also dropped their D~lyision Three opener bowing 28-14 to DightonRehoboth.

In division Two games last Saturday it was Barnstable 36, Dennis-Yarmouth 0; Dartmouth

21 New Bedford Yoke-Tech, 2114; Somerset 12 Fairhaven 0: In Division Three action Old Rochester topped Seekonk 8. In non-league games Taunton defeated Boston Latin, 20-0, Bridgewater-Raynham blanked King Philip, 25-0; Franklin defeated Medway, 26-6; and, Foxboro nipped Westwood, 7-0.

Stang and Dartmouth meet tomorrow night in a non-league tilt. Saturday, Coyle-Cassidy visits Case and Feehan is at Old Rochester in Division Three games. In non-league games, Somerset is host to Durfee in the Hilltoppers' season opener, New Bedford is at Catholic Memorial, Seekonk at Yoke-Tech and Fairhaven at Dighton-Rehoboth.

The Hockomock Leagues launches its football season Saturday with defending champion Canton home to King Philip, Stoughton at Mansfield, Oliver Ames at Foxboro and Sharon at No. Attleboro.

Connolly Wins Two in Crown Defense Entering this week Bishop Connolly High's CougElrs had won their first two gamE~s in the conference's Division Two West.

The division's defending champions posted 3-0 and 4-1 victories over Diman Yoke ami Dartmouth, respectively.

Holy Family, which gives indication of being a stronger eleven this season, won its Division Two East open<er over Stang, 1-0, but droppel:l a 2-1 decision to Yoke-Tech.

Tomorrow, Holy Family is host to Dartmouth, Stang is at Westport, Old Rochester at Diman Yoke, and Connolly at Yoke-Tech in Division Two contests. Next Wednesday it will be Yoke-Tech at StaI1lg, Holy

Family at Old Rochester, Westport at Connolly, Diman Yoke at Dartmouth.

Division One games tomorrow have Somerset at New Bedford, Attleboro at Dennis-Yarmouth, Barnstable at Taunton, Falmouth at Durlee while Wednesday's games have New Bedford at Barnstable, Dennis-Yarmouth at Falmouth, Taunton at Somerset, Durfee at Attleboro.

Tomorrow, the Hockomock League, in its first season in soccer, has Foxboro at Franklin, Stoughton at King Philip, No. Attleboro at Sharon. Tuesday's games are Franklin at Stoughton, Foxboro at No. Attleboro, Sharon at King Philip.

Mayflc»wer League Football The Mayflower League - also has a full card of football games Saturday with Old Colony at Southeastern Regional, Norton at Apponequet Regional, Martha's Vineyard at Blue Hills, Nantucket at West Bridgewater lind Bris-

tol-Plymouth at Manchester. Last Saturday, Manchester routed Old Colony, 20-0, South Shore League games are Holbrook at Abington, Cohasset at Hanover, East Bridgewater at Duxbury and Norwell at Hull.

St. Anne's Is 25 St. Anne's Junior Baseball League of Fall River observed its 25th anniversary with a gala banquet and awards presentation last Sunday evening. Some 500 persons attended ttIe affair at which special tribute was paid to Rev. Rene PlItenaude, O.P., founder of the leElgue. Regrettably, Father Patenllude was unable to attend the ba:rtquet.

Present and former lc~ague officials were also recognized as were coaches, umpires and

others now or previously involved in league activities. St. Anne's league is the only intra-parish loop in the diocese.

Bishops complain SANTIAGO, Chile (NC) Parts of a proposed constitution are restrictive of citizens' rights, said Chile's Catholic bishops, who also asked the military government for clear guidelines and guarantees for a plebiscite on the proposec:l cQn~titutiQn.

tv, mOVIe news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

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

Catholic ratings: A1-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3--approved for adults only; fl-{)bjectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which,. however, require some analysis and explanationl: C--condemned.

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PG,B Thursday, Oct. 2, 9 p.rn. (CBS) - "Fast Break" (1978) - A HALLETT very funny movie about a new basketball coach (Gabe Kaplan) Funeral Home Inc. who recruits a motley collection 283 Station Avenue of youths to give an obscure South Yarmouth, Mass. college a winning season. Explicit language and the adult nature of one or two scenes make Tel. 398-2285 it mature fare. PG, A3 Saturday, Oct. 4, 8:30 p.m.

(CBS) - "The Fury" (1978) Kirk Douglas is a man who tries AnLEBORO'S· to rescue his son from a sinister Leading Ga"den Center government agency that is trying to use the boy's psychic powers for its own ends. Crude, heavyhanded melodrama that South Main Q Walt Sts. wallows in gore. R,C On TV Dr. Jonathan Miller thinks it 222-0234 is in our best interests to know more about ourselves as "The Body in Question," a 13-part series premiering Tuesday, Sept.

30 at 9-10 p.m. on PBS. .

Miller, host and writer of the series; is a serious, knowledgA COLLECTION OF .HELPFUL FLOOR HINTS BY 'AL' GARANT able medical professional who is also informal, relaxed and often witty about a subject that some FLOOR COVERING of us find rather disconcerting.

30 CRAWFORD ST. (Runs parallel to South Main The series opens with "Naming behind Ray's Flowers) of Parts," a basic introduction FALL RIVER to the various organs of the • CARPETING • CONGOLEUM • CERAMIC TILE • ARMSTRONG body. Miller takes the viewer to 674-5410 an autopsy room where each organ is examined and explained.

The series is not for hypoNeed chondriacs or the squeamish, or home ' but for those who wish to be -improvement money? more conscious of, and responsible for, the physical "prem- Make NBIS your home port. ises we inhabit."

Sunday, Sept. 28, 8-9 p.m. ' (PBS) "Cosmos," "The exploration of space is the subject of a 13-part series hosted by Dr. New BedfOrd . Carl Sagan who takes viewers nstItut:Ion fo" SMlQS from the edge of the known 8 r:OI1VP.'lIPllt off" pc universe to earth - eight billion light years away.

Sunday, Sept. 28, 9-10 p.m.

(PBS) "Crime and Punishment."

John Hurt stars as the guiltridden university student in a four-part dramatization of Dostoevsky's novel that opens the 10th season of "Masterpiece "Serving the Community Theatre."

Tuesday, Sept. 30, 8-9 p.m.

Since 1873" (PBS) "Nova." The popular science series premieres this sea(ities Service Petroleum son with a documentary explorProducts ing the impact of culture on the Gasoline & Diesel Fuels sexual stereotyping of girls and Fuel Oils boys from their earliest years. liquified Petroleum Gas

New Films "The Elephant Mali' (paramount) is based on the case history of a 19th-century individual so grossly deformed that he was exhibited as a freak. The film is told mainly through the point of view of the doctor who rescued and befriended him. The acting of Anthony Hopkins as the doctor and John Hurt's tormented eyes under his grotesque makeup are effective, but the narrative is flat and only occasionally affecting. PG, A3 "Gloria" (Columbia): This is a 1930s kind of crime melodrama transported to the 1980 streets of New York. Gloria is a middleaged gun moIl, retired from the mob, who suddenly finds herself responsible for a young boy marked for death by her old gang. Less a plot than a situation, the film's strength ties in Gena Rowland's extraordinary performance as a warm-hearted but street-wise woman, as tough as the mobsters and a better shot.

What the film lacks in narrative coherence it more than makes up for with its portrayal of the woman and the boy whose relationship grows from mutual dislike through guarded acceptance to loving friendship.

(Universal): "Resurrection" Ellen Burstyn gives a fine performance in this sometimes engrossing but flawed drama about a woman who discovers that she has the power to heal people after barely surviving a tragic accident in which she loses her husband. The screenplay sets up a fascinating situation, but it is not worked out well. Then for all the talk of God and love, the spiritual side of the faith healing is dealt with unimaginatively. The theme and frank language make this adult fare.

PG, A3 TV Film Fare Sunday, Sept. 28, 9 p.rn. (NBC) "The Boys From BrazU" (1978) - Gregory Peck is a fanatical Nazi doctor who has produced 94 Hitler clones. Out to get him is Laurence Olivier as a Jew dedicated to tracking down war criminals. The violence in this above-average thriller WASHINGTON '(NC) - The makes it mature fare. R, A3 Conference of Major Superiors Wednesday, Oct. 1 and Thurs- of Men has urged the U.S. govday, Oct. 2, 8 p.m. (CBS) ernment to take "more forceful "Corvette Summer" (1978) action in support of the return Mark Hamill is a high school . to constitutional democracy in senior who goes to Las Vegas Bolivia." The conference deplored in search of the stolen dream "ruthless use of terror and viocar that he and his shop class lence" since a junta took over have customized with loving in Bolivia in July.

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ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN The Human Development I Congregational Ufe commission will meet dn the rectory at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25.

Parish Girl Scouts are in need of a co-leader. Volunteers may call Noreen Cleffi at 997-9598.

The troop also needs undforms, which may be left at the rectory or church entrance.

ST. MARY, SEEKONK The Women's Guild will meet Monday, Oct. 20. At its opening meeting members held a potluck supper and plans for the year were discussed.

MINISTRY TO DIVORCED/SEPARATED The Cape Cod Ministry has resumed following a summer recess. At a meeting at 7 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 5, .annulments will be discussed. All are welcome and further information is available from Father John Ozug, area ministry director.

DISTRICT 4, DCCW Attleboro District 4 of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its annual communion supper Thursday, Oct. 9, following a Mass at St. Theresa Church, South Attleboro.

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HOLY CROSS, FALL RIVER The rosary will be recited each day of October following 8 a.m.

Mass.

Sunday, Oct. 5 Rosary Society members will receive corporate communion at 8:15 a.m. Mass.

A breakfast meeting will follow.

A perpetual novena to St. Anthony of Padua is held at 5:15 p.m. each Tuesday. Prayer and hearing of confessions precedes Mass.

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MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER, FALL RIVER DIOCESE A Marriage Encounter information night will take place at 8 p.m. Sunday at St. Theresa's Church, 2693 Acushnet Ave., New Bedford. All married couples are welcome.

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DEAF APOSTOLATE, FALL RIV£R DIOCESE The Apostolate will celebrate Religious Education Sunday at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, this Sunday, beginning with a Mass at 2:30 p.m. in the hospital chapel. Eleven teachers qualified to instruct deaf children in religion will be commissioned and a party will follow in Clemence Hall.

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ST. LUKE HOSPITAL, NEW BEDFORD A series of lectures open to the public will offer discussions of hearing loss, allergies, vision, diet, stress and plastic surgery.

Further informatIon is available by calling 997-J.515, extension 374.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Cub Scout Pack 50 will hold its first meeting of the season at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the school cafeteria. Boys wishing to join may call 674·8120.

A Welcome Home Mass for retreatants will be offered at noon Sunday.

ST. JO~N OF AUC, ORLEANS The CYO will meet tonight in the parish hall. Officers will be elected and plans for the year discussed. ceD classes will begin Monday in Orleans and Tuesday in Eastham.

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LA SALEm CENTER, ENFIELD, N.H. A Mass and dinner on Monday A Weekend of Inner Healing at St. Patrick's Church, Ware- will be directed at the center ham, will be sponsored by Dis- Oct. 17 through 19 by Father trict Five of the Diocesan Coun- Theodore E. Dobson whose mincil of Catholic Women and will istry of healing, preaching and honor Father Francis B. Con- teaching brings him to worknors, form,er district moderator.. shops, renewal days and retreats throughout the United XAVIER SOCIElY, States.

NEW YORK CITY The weekend of Nov. 7 through The use of free religion text9 Father Joseph T. Maguire of books is among services provided St. Joseph Church, Dover, N.H. the visuaEy impaired by the will conduct healing and prayer Xavier Society for the Blind, services and offer conferences 154 E. 23 St., New York, N.Y. on healing, reconciliation, the 10010. Further information is sacraments, family relationships available from the society. and the ~criptures.

ST. MARY" ST ROCH, NEW BEDFORD FALL RIVER CCD classes are now in session Students not yet registered for for grades 1 through 7. InforCCD classes may do so at 3 p.m. mation regarding the program is any Tuesday at the. parish cenavailable from Sister Rita, tele- ter. Sister Emma Guenette is phone 995-6168 or 993-3829. coordinator for the program. At DCCW

WORLD MARONITE CONGRESS, NEW YORlI{ CITY The Second World, Maronite Congress will meet at the Grand Hyatt Hote:! Oct. 8 through 12.

Father Nonnan J. Ferris, pastor of St. Anthony of the Desert Maronite Church, Fall River, as well as sevE!ral parishioners, will be among those in attendance.

The congress theme is "Maronite Church: The Spirit and the Land" and goals include the achievement of solidarity among Maronite Catholics and the deep. ening of appreciation for Maronite culture and traditions.

SALESIAN MISSIONS, NEWTON, N.J. Cancelled stamps are requested by the Salesian Mission Stamp Exchange, Don Bosco Seminary, Newton, N.J. 07860. Proceeds from their sale supports mission projects.

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER The CCD year will begin officially at 10 a.m. Mass Sunday, when parents, students, teachers and aides will join in a special liturgy.

The Legion of Mary meets at 7 p.m. each Thursday in the rectory.

LITURGICAL DANCE, WESTPORT Liturgical dance classes will be offered weekly from Oct. 1 through Dec. 3 by Sister Pauline Morrissette of St. George Convent, Westport. Further information is available from her at 636-4909.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL IUVER Initial plans are being made for a 1982 tapestry which will Using The Principles Of Our Faith To Guide Us. connect devotion to Our Lady of Czestochowa to life in the parish. "_._,.~--,----------------------,-~-,.,""""'-""""""""""'~Nearly 400 volunteers will be needed to work on the project, CATHOL,C KNIGHTS OF ST. GEORGE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION which will begin in 1981.

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The Holy Ghost committee will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the rectOlY. The monthly prayer meeting will begin with Mass at 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 2. A social hour will follow.

this Tuesday's program devotions to Our Lady of Grace were highlighted, with a copy of the Memorare given to each student and the Angelus recited by all.

In observance of the Oct. 1 feast of St. Therese, the Little Flower, the Council of Catholic Women will distribute blessed roses and pictures of the saint.

The unit~s next meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6 in the center.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Religious education classes are now in session. The theme for the year is "The Parish Community: Servant of the Word."

A coffee lounge is dn operation for parents each Sunday while children are in class. Younger children will be brought to the lounge following classes to be met by their' parents.

Confirmation classes will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27.

The Women's Guild will meet Monday, Oct. 6, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the church with rosary and benediction. A;, coffee hour and reception for new members will follow in the school cafeteria. Slides of Ireland will be shown by Pat Hebda.

SSe PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER CYO members will attend Mass the last Sunday of each month to pray for the success of the program and for parish needs.

The program will begin at 11 a.m. Mass this Sunday.

Parish educational committee members will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Monday in the school.

The SIGN folk group is in need of guitarists. Rehearsals are held at 10 a.m. each Sunday in preparation for 11 a.m. Mass.

Prospective members, ages junior high to adult, are asked to contact Father Stephan A. Fernandes.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER CCD teachers will be com· missioned at 11:15 a.m. Mass Sunday.

A family Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, with children from the parish school singing and acting as lectors.

Coffee and doughnuts will be served in the school following the Mass.