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Pro-Life Plan Will Be Implemented Here· The annual Respect Life program of the American Catholic Church, sponsored by the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, will begin in the Fall River Diocese and across the nation this Sunday, as special liturgies are celebrated in many parishes, and homilies stress the ., necessity of using the democratic process to restore respect fqr human life in society.

Meeting Monday with the Diocesan Pro-Life Committee, which has worked since last March to develop suggestions for a pro-life pastoral plan for submission to him, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin sketched briefly the historical background of the present Respect Life movement which, he said, develops directly from the 13th century, at which time theological thinking in the area began to be codified.

Noting that abortion methods have been practiced in primitive societies over the centuries, the prelate said, "We didn't have to wait for the United States to show us how to procure abortions, but apparently we had to wait for the United States to make abortion socially and morally acceptable."

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erating in implementation of the plan's specific proposals and acting in an advisory capacity to the diocese in pro-life matters.

Members pledged particular cooperation in preparations for a Pro-Life Study Day to be held Wednesday, Oct. 13.

Other implementation of the Diocesan Pro-Life Plan began this month when Rev. Thomas L. Rita was named Pro-Life Coordinator and director of the diocesan Respect Life program. He announced that copies of both the diocesan and the general pro-life plan of the U.S. bishops would be mailed to all pastors within the next week. The diocesan -plan will also appear in The Anchor during October. .

Scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 13 is a Pro-Life Study Day for clergy and religious educaPRO-LIFE COMMITTEE MEETS: Meeting with Bishop Cronin to discuss arrange- tioQ coordinators. To be held ments for diocesan implementation of a far-reaching Pro-Life Plan are frpm left, clockwise, at Bishop Stang High School, Miss Marcella Warrener: Mrs. Pat McGowan, Rev. Jay T. Maddock, Mrs. John J. Silvia, North Dartmouth, it will offer Mrs. Richard M. Paulson, Mrs. Claire B. McMahon, the Bishop, Rev. Peter N. Graziano, addresses and workshops by James McHugh, director of Sister Thomas More, Rev. Michel G. Methot, Mrs. Daniel F. Dwyer, Atty. Frederic Tor- Rev. the Pro-Life Office of the United phy. Diocesan observance of Respect Life month will begin Sunday with special parish State Catholic Conference, liturgies and homilies.

Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Pat Cushing, regional education diHe pointed out that "The facing the electorate... It is ex- with committee members, ex- rector for Birthright; and ProChurch has ,been consistent traordinarily important, because pressing his appreciation of their fessor Paul Castonguay of the contributions to its development.. . faculty of Stonehill College, throughout on a fundamental it deals with human life." principle: Thou shalt not kill," Bishop Cronin went over the The committee will continue to whose topic will be euthanasia.

Turn to Page Sixteen and he paid tribute to non- propose!! diocesan pro-life plan meet in expanded form, coopChristians and Christians of other denominations who abhor abortion.

Citing statistics which seem to indicate the unlikelihood of obtaining passage of an antiabortion amendment to the Constitution, the Bishop declared, "We still have to try."

Joining in wordwide obser- a licentiate in medieval studies • The Franciscan Institute is a He emphasized that abortion vance of the 750th anniversary from the Pontifical Medieval In- center for learning, research, is not "just one of many issues" of the death of St. Francis of stitute, Toronto, in 1969, and a and publication related to the Assisi, Franciscan Friars, Sisters Ph.D. in medieval studies from Franciscan movement, princiand Tertiaries of the diocese the University of Toronto in Turn to Page Five will gather at 2:30 p.m. 1973.

He joined the staff of the Sunday at St. Mary's Cathedral tor a Mass at which Bishop· Fran.ciscan Institute in 1969 as Daniel A. Cronin will be prin- an associate editor of FrancisChrist~anity can Studies, advancing to the cipal celebrant.

Communities which will be post of editor in 1973. The same VATICAN CITY (NC)-Vatthe National Conference of Cathrepresented are the Convent).lal year he became Institute Direc- ican Radio has reported that olic Bishops' committee for the Franciscans of St. Anthony Director.

Bishop Donal Lamont of Umtali, bicentennial from testimony by Province, the Friars Minor of has been found guilty of failing individual Catholics in parish Holy Name and Immaculate Conto turn in black "terrorists" to and regional consultations over ception provinces, the Francisthe government and for urging the past two years. can Missionaries of Mary, the others to do likewise.

The results of the Detroit conFelicians, the Philadelphia FranThe radio report said Sept. 22 ference will be the basis of the ciscan Sisters and Tertiaries of that Bishop Lamont faces a U.S. Church's five-year plan for various fraternities. maximum of 15 years in prison social action.

"We joyfully invite all those for each of four counts for Turn to Page Thirteen who have been inspired by the which he was found guilty. life and charism of our beloved During the trial, according to the broadcast, the bishop read founder to join us at the altar," said Rev. Paul Rotondi, OFM, a declaration for two hours which attacked the government pastor of St. Louis Church, Fall as leading the country toward River.

WASHINGTON (NC) - "We chaos. It also blasted the press Homilist for the Mass wil be the People, in order to form a Father Conrad Harkins,' OFM, and Rhodesian radio. more perfect union," is the director of the. Franciscan InstiFour other Rhodesian bishops theme of the 62nd annual meet- tute at St. Bonaventure Univerattended the trial and issued a ing of the National Conference sity, Olean, N. Y. A native of statement of solidarity with of Catholic Charities beginning Havertown, Pa., he became a Bishop Lamont. tomorrow in Denver.

Franciscan in 1954 and was orBishop Lamont was charged Among those in attendance dained to the priesthood in 1961. in particular with being in conwill be Rev. 'Peter N. Graziano, He received an M.A. in history tact with nationalist guerrillas and giving them medicine.

FR. CONRAD HARKINS from St. Bonaventure's in 1964, Turn to Page Seven

Observe 750th Anniversary Of Death of St. Francis

.Delegates Prepare For Detroit Parley DETROIT (NC)-A dry run of the historic meeting of U. S. Catholics here next month was held recently for 140 diocesan coordinators of the U.S. bishops' bicentennial conference, "A Call to Action." They included Rev. Peter N. Graziano, who will lead the seven-member diocesan delegation accompanying Bishop Daniel A. Cronin to the meeting.

The coordinators, who returned home after the "mini-lab" to brief the 1,200 dedelgates to the conference, learned discussion,' voting and parliamentary procedures as well as the layout of Cobo Hall, where the Oct. 21-23 event will be held.

Delegates will discuss the vote on recommendations contained in eight working papers on the topics of Church, work, personhood, neighborhood, humankind, family, and ethnicity and race.

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THE ANCHOIl-Oiocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 30, 1976

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N.,ltional ·'Cleveland Eight' CLEVELAND - Eight women have been charged with criminal trespassing after they were arrested while conducting a sit-in at an abortion clinic here'. The Cleveland Eight, as they jokingly call themselves, are members of a group called People Expressing a Concern for Everyone (PEACE). The eight women arrested range in age from 24 to 45. Six are Catholics.

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MEMPHIS -, Bishop Carrol T. Dozier of Memphis, said he does not feel the approval of a female priesthood by the Episcopal Church will pressure the Vatican into any hasty decision on the ordination of women in the Catholic Church.

"I am sure the st'Jdy of the question will continue in the Catholic Church," he said. "But the Church will not rush to any conclusions in the matter. There are few things in the Catholic Church which are decided through hurried decisions."

Stresses Neutrality WASHINGTON - The U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) has circulated memos to its staff stressing political neutrality in the presidential campaign and setting guidelines for contacts with candidates and their, staffs. The memos - a restatement and clarification of existing policy - follow a strong statement by the Administrative Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops emphasizing that the conference speaks only to issues and neither endorses nor opposes parties or candidates.

World Found 'Alive VATICAN CITY - Quoting a report from the Brazilian bishops, Vatican Radio has announced that the bishop of Nova Ignacu has been found alive in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro after being kidnaped. Bishop Adriano Hypolito, 58, was stripped and tied up when he was 10· cated in a Rio de Janeiro suburb Sept. 22 after being kidnaped the evening before, the report said.

Is Repentant VATICAN CITY - An exiled Vietnamese archbishop who created a schismatic sect in

Flu Immunization ...

Sp.ain months ago by illegally ordaining bishops, has asked for official Church forgiveness, the Vatican said Sept. 20. ,The announcement came with the publication of a formal decree of excommunication of the bishops ordained by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngo-dinh Thuc. The Vatican said tha~ the automatic excommunication incurred by the Vietnamese archbishop was lifted . after he asked for the pardon.

Successful Irish.

ENNIS, IRELAND - Two U.S. Catholic sociologists called here for a rediscovery of Irish scholarship and learning in the United States and for the preseryation of urban ethnic neighborhoods.

Speaking at an Ennis school, Father Andrew Greeley, sociologist and syndicated columnist for The Anchor and many other newspapers, said that "Irish Catholics in the United States are the most successful, economically, occupationally and educationally of any of the Gentile groups in American society" but that this success has been achieved at the price of losing awareness of ·much of the Irish cultural heritage.

In cooperation with health officials in the Commonwealth and the Chancery office, The Anchor transmits the following announcement: "Each winter, flu claims the lives of some of our elderly and chronically ill citizens and often caus'es widespread illness among the general population. Persons 65 years of age and over and PARIS - Cardinal Stephen Kim of Seoul those with chronic illnesses, regardless of their ages, should be immunized against flu in mid or has warned that the authoritarianism of the South Korean government weakens the country, late October. Additional vaccine will be made but he said also that the resignation of President available in NoV'ember and December to all other individuals who may want it. Contact your . Park Chung Hee would result in chaos. Cardinal physician or your local board of health for furKim was interviewed in Seoul by a corresponther information on their program for flu imdent for the French Catholic magazine, Informamunization." tions Catholiques Internationales.

Korean Dilemma

Vincentians to Meet The Fall River Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will meet for 7 P.M, Mass Tuesday, Oct. 5 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. A business ses· sion will follow in St. Mary's School. Member corJerences are asked to send their annual reports to the Catholic Welfare Bureau at 368 N. Main St., Fall River 02720 as soor:. as possible.

Necrolctgy OCT. 10 Rev. James C. J. Ryan, 1918, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, North Easton OCT. 11 Rev. James A. Downey, 1952, Pastor, Holy Ghost" Attleboro OCT. 1<1 Rev. Msgr. Edwa.rd B.' Booth, 1972, Pastor 'Emeritus, St. Mary, North Attleboro / Rev. Dennis M. lowney, 1918, Assistant, Sacred Heart" Taunton THE ANeHI)R Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 H;~hland A':en'Jc, Fall Ri·Jer. Mass. 02722 by the Cath'lic Press of the Dioces~ of Fall River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid $5.00 per year.

CONFIRMATION: In the first ceremony for the administration of the Sacrament of Confirmation in the new school year, some thirty students of Nazareth Hall in Fall River were presented to Bishop Cronin. Left, the Bishop questions

and instructs the candidates prior to the administration of the sacrament; right; Bishop, candidate and sponsor come together for the reception of the sacrament. The ceremony was held at Holy Name Church, Fall River.

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Name Charity Ball Heads

Bishop Assigns Two Priests

At Meeting Held Sunday Chairmen for the 22nd annual Bishop's Charity Ball were named Sunday at a meeting attended by representatives of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, co-sponsoring organizations.

With a Caribbean theme of "My Island in the Sun," the event will take place Friday, Jan. 14 at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Ball director, announced the following committee heads: Decorations-Mrs. Stanley Janick, Fall River, to be assisted by Robert Coggeshall, Fall River; Hospitality-Mrs. Richard Paulson, Taunton; Presentees-Mrs. James A. O'Brien, Fall River; Hall-Norman Hathaway, Fall

River, assisted by Lester Reed, Tiverton. The theme, motif and color scheme committee will be headed by Miss Margaret M. Lahey, Barrington. Each chairman selected members for his or her committee from those attending the planning- meeting.

Falmouth K of C Set Rosary Rite

Area priest-directors for the Ball are Rev. Bento R. Fraga, aided by Rev. Roger L. Gagne, Attleboro area; Rev. John F. Andrews, Cape and Islands; Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, aided by Rev. George F. Almeida, New Bedford area.

Also Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, aided by Rev. Leonard Mullaney, Taunton area; and Msgr. Gomes, aided by Rev. Francis Mahoney, Fall River area.

The Rosary Committee of Falmouth Council 813 of the Knights of Columbus will sponsor a candlelight rosary service at 7:30 P.M. Thursday, Oct. 7 at St. Patrick's Church, Main Street, Falmouth.

The program, to include Benediction and a procession, will include participants from four area churches: St. Patrick's; St. Anthony's, East Falmouth; St. Joseph's, Woods Hole; and Immaculate Conception, Megansett.

An honor guard will be drawn from members of the Bishop Taylor Assembly, Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. . .

The public is invited to attend and Richard J. Fish, rosary com· mittee chairman, noted that free rosaries will be distributed.

Tickets for the Ball were distributed to all planning committee members and' subscriber cards for a souvenir booklet were assigned to representatives of each area of the diocese.' Msgr.

Gomes noted that 'the booklet will have seven categories: Memorials, Very Special Friends, Guarantors, Benefactors, Boosters, Sponsors and Patrons. Persons or organizations wishing inclusion may contact committee members or Ball headquarters, 410 Highland Ave., ...-Fall River, telephone 676-8943.

More Food ROME (NC)-The world food situation, which improved considerably in 1975-76, will probably continue to brighten in the next 12 months, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) here. The FOA reports that prospects are good for world wheat,· coarse grain and rice crops.

Interest Grows Among Protestants In a Pope for All Christians CINCINNATI (NC) - Interest in a papacy is growirig among Protestants, a Catholic theologian, Father George Tavard said in an interview in the August issue of St. Anthony Messenger published here.

Father Tavard 'cited two major reasons for the growing interest: the actions and words of Pope John XXIII and Vatican Council II, and Catholic reaction to Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI's encyclical condemning artificial contraception.

According to Father Tavard, the way Pope John addressed the encyclical Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth)-"not just to Catholic bishops as is the usual custOJ;n, but to the whole world, to all people of good will"-appealed to Protestants.

"And that struck a note that many Protestants ... had really been looking for-someone who

Divine Mercy "The good news of the Gospel is that there is a resource of divine mercy which is able to overcome a contradiction within our own souls, which we cannot overcome ourselves." - Reinhold Niebuer, "Christianity and Power Politics," 1940.

could speak a Christian word to the world," he said.

In this encyclical, Father Tavard said, Pope John not only expressed the feelings of many Catholics but also of many Protestants about the major problems of peace in the world and social justice. . According to Father Tavard, the way Pope Paul's birth control encyclical was interpreted by bishops in a number of countries helped to alter the monolithic image of the Catholic Church where everything appears to come from the papacy and move down. ."There is no doubt that the encyclical Humanae Vitae has altered the image of the pope.

Reaction to the encyclical showed that a word from the pope still needs to be interpreted....

Though there are still many theological objections to the papacy by Protestants, they "have lost a good deal of their weight-precisely because they were based on a concept of Christian truth which is no longer predominant in those Protestant churches which are ecumenically-minded," Fat her Tavard said.

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CHARITY BALL: James Gleason, president of the Particular Council of St. Vincent de Paul Society of New Bedford, is shown presenting to Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Ball, the first donation to the Ball for the benefit of the exceptional and underprivileged children.

The -Chancery today announced the assignment of two priests to various ministries. Assigned were: Rev. Arnold R. Medeiros, assistant pastor of St. Anthony Parish, Taunton, as Chaplain to the Catholic Middle School in that same city, effective Monday, Sept. 27, 1976.

Rev. Robert V. Hopkins.

C.S.V., as assistant pastor of Sacred Heart' Parish, Taunton, effective Sun., Oct. 10, 1976.

Father Medeiros, son of Albert and Odilia (Chaves) Medei.- ros, was born in Capelas, St. Miguel in the Azores on Sept.

20, 1947. Following studies in Fall River Public Schools and Bishop Stang High School in . No. Dartmouth, he prepared for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary, Brighton. .

Ordained a priest on May 10, 1975, he has served 'St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford; St. John of God Parish, Somerset; St. George Parish, Westport.

Dedication Set at Stonehill Stonehill College, Easton, will solidation of reference, periodical dedicate. the recently- completed and microfilm facilities.

The wing is named for Anthony Anthony E. Cascino Wing of'the Cushing-Martin Library tomor- E. Cascino, executive vice presrow afternoon. Rev. Ernest Bar- ident of International Minerals tell, president of the college, & Chemical Corp., of libertywill conduct the dedication and ville, III. Cascino, whose daughthe Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, ter graduated from Stonehill, Bishop of Fall River, will bestow serves as chairman of Stone. hill's Board of Advisers and is the episcopal blessing.

The $750,000 expansion and also a trustee of the college. His renovation greatly increases the concern for problems of world volume and periodical capacity hunger led him to found the of the library and permits con- World Food Production Conferences in 1965, which has resulted in more than 20 such conferences being convened throughFArnER MEDEIROS out the world.

Rev. Thomas L. Rita, associate director of the Diocesan Department of Social Services, was BELTS, BAGS, BUCKLES,' WALLETS principal celebrant at a funeral Mass for his father, Louis L. Personalized To Your Specifications Rita, who died unexpectedly ~~ .

BY last:.. Saturday.

Born in New Bedford, Rita lived in the city most of his life and was a member of Our Lady 20 SO. WASHINGTON ST. of Mt. Carmel parish, where his NORTH ATILEBORO, MASS. funeral took place.

He was a past president of the New Bedford Building and Construction Trades Council and vice-president of the State Building Trades Council. He had held many union leadership positions and was a field examiner for the State's Labor Relations Commission.

In 1964 Rita was named adCelebrate the Bicenten.ual wilh a retum to "old fashioned vahJe" you'l have to expenence to believe' ministrative assistant to the Vour.1 DoY. 2 N"h' we.kend Inc Iud•• E•• ",'h'n!l' mayor of New Bedford,. serving Room. Dlnn.... BfWlak/...... T....... n".. ,. Excellent Accommodations. r.V.. phones" 2 full breakfast' in the post until he resigned to In our Heritage Room * 2 full course dinners In our nf'\41 Granada Restaurant. featuring char broiled lib st.aks. baked Sluffed accept a position with the Divishnmp. Comphm"nlary caRlIe of wIne for 2 ,. Unique B YO B sion of Employment Security in 10ll.,ge - comphmenlary set·ups. ,. Beautiful ",door pool. saunas ,. ldeallocallOn - sail to Marthas VIDeoard. 'lOll tennIS. Boston. For many years he was shops. all nearby.• Per person. per night. dbl" occup (pool . bldg higherIunttl June 19th IExc. HoI. Penods.' also active in volunteer work Forbroc"u~.reservmfOnS(aI16J7.54().:m>.orw"r, O. P. Dmeen. Mgr. with the United Fund.

SHOREWAY ACRES MOTEL F.I.cMIlh . M.... 02540 -He is survived by three sons in addition to Father Rita, STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION James L., Maclean, Va.; John P., Filed September 16, 1976 by The Anchor, weekly newspaper pUblished by Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. with the office of publication: 228 Second Street, Fall River, Mass.

Freetown; and Louis L. Rita Jr., 02722, and editorial and businp.ss office: 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720. Rev. Los Angeles; a brother, Joseph John R. Foister, Managing Editor. '.

Average number of copies each issue du ring precedin!! 12 mon.ths: 24,100, single issue L. Rita, New Bedford; and three nearest to filing date: 24,106. Paid Circulation Mail SubSCriptions: average number of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 23,700: single issue nearest to filing date: 23,706. grandchildren.

Free distribution by mail, carrier or other means: average number of caples each Issue Some 100 priests, led by Bish- during preceding 12 months: 250. single issue nearest to filing date: 250.0ffice use lett.over unaccounted, spoiled after printing: average number of copies each issue during preceding op Cronin, were at the funeral 12 months: 50, single issue nearest to filing date: 50. Total number of caples distributed: average of copies each isslue during preceding 12 months: 24,100, single issue Mass and the Bishop imparted nearest tonumber filing date: 24,106.

Certified by the final blessing.

Louis Rita

CARL F. BERGtUND

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 30, 1976

St. Francis 750 years of emphasis and example is nothing to be casually glanced at. The shocking example of a young man taking his following of Christ literally should do something for our adrenlllin as well.

That Francis of Assisi not only emphatically pulled through a crisis:but set his example as an aid to the Church down through the centuries is something in which we can all take joy and consolation. ' We hail the Franciscan Friars, Sisters and Third Order members and we beseech them that they faithfully reiterate the great Francis' peaceful prayer, zealous service and humble self-denial in our day.

The great spirit of Francis breathes through many a ministry in the Dioce:;e where he was a distant founder or an inspiring patron. The example of humble faithfulness to the Gospel and the emphatic step of poverty in the things of this world is a lesson that must be dramatically illustrated in our day.

Yes, Francis may have changed the Church of years gone by but his love for Gospel and Church, for the rich and poor, for the faithful and the increasingly pagan must be painted in clear strokeB in our day.

Our celebration of the 750th Anniversary of the death of St. Francis and his birth into eternal life must be more than a commemoration. It needs be a rededication, a reemphasis, an ever modern repeated lesson..

Cheated "I insist that there be cuts in the abuses that are taking away from you the things which you've earned, by your lives and by your labors," said New York's Governor Carey in decrying the Medicaid abuses in nursing homes and governmental red tape recently.

The abuses that the media and governmental investigations have uncovered are real indeed. And who are the losers?

The citizens at large lose a great deal as their hard earned taxes flow quickly through complicated programs into the pockets of unscrupulous "public servants."

The citizens at large suffer when their civic sacrifices are turned into simple manipulated profit by "professionals."

The' idea and challenge behind the various health related and poverty programs is tremendous. Such a coricern for fellow citizens in need is most Christian and most American. To supposedly cure the abuses by dropping Ute programs would be unconscionable.

But the abuses must be pointed out and those guilty of sin against law and neighbor must be uprooted. Professionals must become interested for the credibility of all public servants and professionals is at stake.

There have always been among the supposedly compassionate a Judas Iscariot. To throw out the Apostolic ministry because one was a traitor surely would not have implemented the intended ministry of the Church by some kind of pHrifying surge.

So here. The poor need not be manipulated. The professional need not have confidence in him-her cut out from underneath because of a. few, or many, unscrupulous. The public servant need not share the stink of corrupt politics because of a few, or many, who seek only their own riches under the sheepskin of public service.

Let us emphasize the continued service to the poor, the abandoned, the elderly, the sick. Let us assure proper and compassionate service. Our attention to the robbing, callous and self-centered administrators must not take time out from exercising. our'' Gompassion for the real needy.

@rhe ANCHOR OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 t-Ilghland Avenue Fall River MaSH. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D.

ACTING EDITOR

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR

Rev. John R. Foister, SJ.l.

Rev. Msgr. John Regan '.~

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PEOPLE BRIDGES Hands . '. clasped . . . in affection trust .. a bridge between two people.

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"No man is an island," .... wrote poet John Dunne. . . Yet everyone is an island . . . alive but isolated in a vast sea . . . peopled by millions of separate islands ... buffeted by life's ups and downs · . . each.ultimately alone.

We need bridges . . . between our separate existences. . . We need reach out to others . . . even to discover and appreciate . . . o1.,1r very uniqueness · .. and beauty. . . We need bridges with other pers'ons . . . bridges of understanding ... of accept. ance . . . of trust . . . of love . . . to recognize the ~ewel ... that is our island self.

Hands reaching out to another ... clasping with sensitivity and strength . . . symbolize those people bridges . . . that enable us to discover our own worth · . . as w~ recognize the beauty of another . . . who genuinely cares . . . and we trust enough to .share · . . a fleeting moment . . . or a lingering lifetIme. Hands clasped in mutual care . . . reveal the presence of Jesus Christ . . . our "pontifex" . . . our bridge-builder.

Questions Remain Jimmy Carter's problems with Catholics, both on the cultural level and over the abortion issue, have been covered in detail by the media.

But if Carter's supporters have done their homework they are likely to bring up some problems which President Ford and his Administration have also had with Catholics. The President's backers may easily dismiss them as ancient history or unrepresentative of policy, but here they are.

One iUustration is a comparison betwee~ Ford's Sept. 10 meeting with representatives of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and his previous meeting with them in June, 1975.

Ford's aides were reportedly enthusiastic about the Sept. /10 meeting with the bishops, hoping to capitalize on some Catholic discomfort with Carter and on the Ford support for a constitutional amendment to allow

the states to develop their own abortion laws.

This enthusiasm is in sharp contrast, observers say, to the mood preceding the June, 1975 meeting. That meeting was originally proposed by the bishops in December, 1974, following a a United Nations World Food Conference in Rome; the bishops wanted to press Ford to increase U. S. food aid abroad at the height of the world food crisis.

There was no immediate White House response, and after further negotiations, the meetIng did not take place until six months -later.

When the meeting did occur, it was within the context of a series of White House meetings with non-governmental "pressure groups" designed to hear their views and present Administration positions.

See Rebuff The bishops discussed several issues with Ford and administration officials. Regarding abor-

tion, the bishops specifically asked that bans on abortions in military and civilian hospitals and clinics run by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare instituted by President Nixon be retained. Administration officials' said no changes were planned.

But in September, almost three months to the day after the bishops' meeting, the Defense Department revoked the' abortion ban. HEW followed suit about two months later. Some observers saw these actions as possible rebuffs to the bishops.

Fords record on abortion has not pleased a number of groups.

For one thing, the states' rights approach is opposed by some anti-abortion groups as un'satisfactory. In addition, opponents of federal funding of abortion argue that, because Congress has never explicitly authorized such funding or held comprehensive hearings on the subject, Ford could end federal funding of abortions through an executive order, but has not done so.

And, of course, Ford's own support for a states" rights amendment has been overshadowed for some by his wife's strong support for the Supreme Court's decision striking down most state restrictions on abortion.

In addition to Ford's own actions, his subordinates, like Carter's, have been invOlved in some unhappy relations with Catholics.

The most obvious example involves Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz who has been sharply criticized by Catholic leaders for his insensitivity to the world hunger issue.

Affront to Catholics ,Butz returned from the November, 1974, World Food Conference in Rome with a joke involving an Italian woman who allegedly said of the Pope's opposition to artificial birth ,control, "He no playa the game, he no maka the rules."

The joke was seen as an affront to Catholics and the dialect as an affront to Italians.

Many people felt Ford should have taken a firmer stand in ex· tracting an apology from Butz.

The following summer Butz was less than gracious to Bishop Edward O'Rourke of Peoria during an open discussion on U. S. food policy.

Bishop O'Rourke questioned Butz' opposition to grain reserves; in responding, Butz asked curtly, "First, were you asking a question or making a speech?"

"I made a speech," -Bishop O'Rourke replied, "and I'd like a response."

Ford, like Carter, is aiming his campaign largely at Catholics, according to a New York Times article. But the article indicated that Ford's Catholic strategy involves mainly cam· paigning in Catholic areas, repeating his support for a states' rights abortion amendment and letting it be pointed out that he is not a Southern Baptist.

If this continues, some feel, ford's people could create the impression that they' are taking Catholics for granted; the campaign so far this year has shown that Catholics do not like to be taken for granted.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 30, 1976

The Permanent Diaconate

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Formation Ass~mptions

By Rev. John F. Moore In preparing for the institution of the Permanent Diaconate here in our own diocese of Fall River, it has become necessary to formulate certain fundamental assumptions which will be basic to the formation program. They follow: 1. The role of the Permanent Deacon is complementary to that of the priest and bishop.

2. Priests and deacons form a kind of fraternity of service in Word, witness and work.

3. The Permanent Diaconate might be considered a broadening of ministry which will enable the Church to intensify her service to traditional needs and attend to newly , discovered needs with expanded vision.

4. The Permanent Deacon can not be competent in all ministries but should be competent in that area of service to which he is called.

5. It is better to have 10 deacons functioning competently in 10 different services than to have one deacon attempting to function in all 10 services 6. The Permanent Deacon will best find his' ministry in

St. Francis Continued from Page One pally its spirituality, philosophy, theology, and history. Its major project is the Latin critical edition of the philosophical and theological works of William of Ockham, described as one of the most important efforts in America in the area of medieval scholarship.

Other observations in the diocese of the Franciscan anniversary include a solemn triduum which began yesterday at Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford.

To continue today and tomorrow, it will consist of prayers, sermon and Benediction at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. each day.

Following Sunday's Cathedral Mass, the New Bedford chapel will hold the traditional Francis~an Transitus Service, commemorating the translation of the body of St. Francis to its final resting place. The rite will take place at the chapel at 6 p.m. and will be followed at 6:45 p.m. by a showing of the film "Brother Sun, Sister Moon," a critically acclaimed screen biography of St. Francis.

A sung Mass will be celebrated at the chapel at 10 a.m.

Monday, Oct. 4, the actual feastday of the saint.

In Fall River, Masses on the feastday will be at noon and 6 p.m. at St. Louis Church on Bradford Avenue and "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" will be shown in the parish hall at 7:30 p.m.

Women Religious NAZARETH, Ky. (NC) - Resolutions supporting the right of employes in Catholic institutions to unionize, the United Farmworkers of America, pro-life efforts and land reform were among those passed by delegates to the National Assembly of Women Religious Conference here.

dialogue with other members of the pastoral environment; pastor, associates, sisters and lay people.

7. There is a genuine liturgical and sacramental role for the Permanent Deacon, both real and symbolic.

8. The liturgical role of the Permanent Deacon must be validated by a service outside lit· urgy.

9. The Permanent Deacon can bring to ministry special qualities from his broad experience in f-amily and secular associations.

10. The service of the Permanent Deacon is related to his diocese as well as to his parish.

11. The permanent Deacon must establish credibility as a Church minister through the living out of his commitment.

12. The Deacon can be fully effective only within a family, parochial and diocesan environment which is supportive to his ministry.

13. The life and ministry of the Deacon must also be supported by strong personal discipleship with Christ, grounded in Scripture, reflected in worship arid prayer, witnessed in service to the community.

14. The Deacon's primary mission is to bring the Gospel, especially as articulated by Vatican II in "Gaudium et Spes," into the marKet place in which he will be called to minister.

Work May Clash With Diaconate CHICAGO (NC)-Some permanent deacons have given up or lost their jobs after ordination. apparently because their Christian ethics clashed with their employer's business practices, said some deacons at a meeting he,re.

This was one of many items discussed by some 500 permanent deacons and their wives at the Midwest Conference of Dea· cons in mid-September, one in a series to be held throughout the country.

The conflict facing a <leacon in an unethical situation - a topic described by one deacon as "hot"-was discussed in a workshop on business ethics.

Deacon Ed Crawley of. Chi· cago said he knew of deacons who "are being torn apart by the commitment to the Church on the one hand and what they have to do to make a living."

One deacon who participated in the workshop said he quit his job after 25 years because he could not change the unethical policies of his oompany.

But Deacon Jim Dunham, workshop moderator, stressed that the diaconate and a professional caIling are not necessarily incompatible.

Deacon Dunham urged his colleagues to stand up for what they believe in, whether in business or the Church, saying, "We cannot be closet Christians."

"We are called to accounta· bility," he said. "It is an issue for all deacons and their families."

Wives of the deacons lobbied for the ordinatiQn of women to

FOR ST. ANNE'S: Checks totaling $5,200 are presented to James F. Lyons, administrator of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, by Mrs. Adelard Demers, Jr., gift shop treasurer, and Mrs. Henry J. Feitelberg, special activities committee. They represent $3,500 gift shop receipts and $1,700 from a Tri-Hospital Ball. Funds will be used for a volume respirator and a blood gas analyzer. Presentation was under auspic~s of Friends of St. Anne's Hospital. the diaconate and urged that deacons be given full facuIties, Including the authority to hear Confessions. It was also suggested that the age for ordina-

tion to the diaconate be lowered from 35, that more training programs and that deacons be hired and paid as full-time ministers.

These and other recommenda·

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The 2nd Annual Portuguese Pilgrimage with His Excellency,

CARDINAL HUMBER TO MEDEIROS Archbishop of Boston

LASALETTE SHRINE Sunday, October 3rd • 1:30 P.M.

Procession and Rosary Meditation, Fr. John Oliveira

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Concelebrated Mass with Cardinal Medeiros as main celebrant and homilist.

5: 15 P.M. Folklore Dance Group "Os Lusitanos", will perform dances from the Islands in the Azores, fn native costumes.

After Mass, Cardinal Medeiros will greet the Pilgrims at the Dance Festival site next to the Retreat House.

A Portuguese Menu· will be served all day at the Shrine Cafeteria.

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I was very tired last evening, but I wanted to watch the TV pictures coming from the Viking lander on Mars.

I've been fascinated by the possibility of life 'there, so even though I was sleepy I decided to watch. The announcer was excited. He said the latest pictures s:howed member over whose turn it is to do the dishes. life, in a somewhat human "This discussion takes place form, on Mars. "The Mar- in loud, strident tones. But if tians," he was saying, "have towels wrapped around their heads at all times. We cannot be sure they have hair growing

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the phone rings, the loud, strident tone immediately becomes a musical 'Hel-lo-o' which sounds like it's sliding out of a Stradivarius.

Show Love "Another psychological phenomenon that has been observed is that the Martians show a sensitivity, compassion, understanding, and love that is almost human although it is more often direct toward lost puppies and hurt friends, rather than a family member.

"In spite of this, the observations show Martian parents and children do love one another ..."

I woke up to find one of my daughters shaking my shoulder and saying, "Wake up, Mom. You've been talking in your sleep."

"What was I saying?" I asked.

"You were saying the Viking lander wasn't on Mars. It had landed here among your teenage daughters."

under the towels. It is suspected' they do because they se,em to be· constantly complaining it must be washed all the time.

"Also, the Viking lander has examined refuse in the Martian environment and found great quantities of empty shnmpoo tubes and Liquid Plumber cans.

Scientists analyzing this data say the probability is the Liquid Plumber is used to clean drains caused by the fallout of Martian hair.

"The sensitive microphones ~omorrow on the Viking have picked up inA five-hour First Friday vigil dications the Martians thrive on noise. They play -music at a of reparation to the Sacred volume which would deafen Hearts of Jesus and Mary will humans. In the Martian homes take place from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. it is not unusual for a stereo, a tomorrow night at Espirito radio, and a phone conver~:ation Santo Church, 249 Alden St., to be held simultaneously, with fall River.

The service will begin with a a cross conversation ,going among the Martians... while votive Mass of the Sacred Heart, offered in Portuguese, and conthey are studying.

"Scientists at first thought the tinue with recitation of the roshigh noise level indicated the ary, also in Portuguese. A secMartians had a low ability to. ond Mass at midnight, honoring hear, until it was noticed that the Immaculate Heart of Mary, amidst all the clamor, one Mar- will be in English. A holy hour tian was able to hear ·an<:>ther will be conducted and there will borrow a favorite skirt from a be a 10 p.m. coffee break. All are invited to participate in the closet three rooms away. vigil and may attend alI or any Sense of Vision part of it.

"On another occasion a Mar(,ian was taking a shower while listening to the 'radio and singing at the top of its lungs. yet was able to hear a friend knockA concelebrated Mass at 7 ing at the door.

"The Martian sense of vision P.M. Tuesday, Oct. 26 at St. Johas also raised many intere:;ting seph's Church, Attleboro, will be questions for scientists here. They followed bY a chicken pie supper spend hours bathing, polishing, at Bishop Feehan High School, also Attleboro, as Districts 3 and bru~hing, and primping ... then 4 of the Diocesan Council of say they 'look a mess.'

"Their personal posses~:ions Catholic Women sponsor their can be scattered all over their . annual corporate communion rooms, yet if they are questioned supper.

Theme for the Mass will he about the disarray they ask, "Provide the Leaven for a Joy'What mess?'

"They can spot a friend a ous Commitment to Christ," and thousand feet away in a Maltian concelebrants will be moderators shopping center, but cannot see from member units of the two their own shoes in the middle districts. A musical program will of the living room floor. be presented at the supper.

"Psychologists here on Earth The program is open to all have also been baffled by data area women. Reservations may from the Viking lander on Mars. be made with guild or council It seems the Martians are eap- presidents and should be turned able of instant mood changes. in to Mrs. Normand Jette, DisOne second they can be in a trict 4 president, by Wednesday, heated discussion wit1t a family Oct. 20.

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LATIN AMERICAN BABIES: After adopting three Latin American babies, Richard 7 months, Vincent 2~, and Jacqueline 3~, Ron and Barbara Sposato of Bethpage, N.Y., are eager to help others do the same. A little over a year ago they helped form the Latin American Parents Association as a social organization for those who have adopted from Latin America and a source for those who hope to adopt. (NC Photo)

H,ow D,o,es S.he Buy CI,oth,es O,n Remnants of Sal,ary?

One ·of the most perplexing problems that hits the working mother is how to dress well on the small amount of her . salary that she can allocate for her own wardrobe. Most women who work do so to supplement the family income (even if they do enjoy the make sure it's an item from break from a homebound which you ca.n expect at leas~ routine!) and when they five years of wear. get through paying for new sneakers, washing machine repairs and school tuition there is very little left for splurges of their own.

I was thinking of this today when I'wore a five.year-old, still very wearable suit to church.

One good buy a season gives you that special outfit to fall back on and in a matter of a few years you have some very handsome outfits. When you do make a major investment, one special consideraation should be upermost-it should be ageless. . The gimmicky type of outfit is fine and fun when you can sew it or buy it at a good· price; however, if you're considering taking a large hunk of 'your fashion budget for one item,

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Another saving I have often stressed in the column is to buy clothes th,at can rotate. Separates are the best answer to this need, especially those that

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are classic in cut and neutral in color.

Five of the best new basics of the season: the slim skirt, the turtleneck sweater, the hooded tunic-dress, the lean-jean pants and the plaid tunic shirt could end up giving you a variety of looks for fall and winter at a fairly moderate price. Plannin8, careful shopping, and quality .goods are the friend of the working woman, wife and mother. who wants to look her best at minimum cost.

Membership Tea The Women's Club of the Knights of Columbus, St. Isidore Council 1373 of Westport and Dartmouth, invited wives of Knights to a membership tea to be held at 8 P.M. Tuesday, Oct. 5 at the Council Home, Main Road, Westport. Club officers are Mrs. John Oliveira, president; Mrs. Richard Sylvia, vice-president and treasurer; Mrs. Norman Amaral, secretary.

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The Women's Guild will open their season Tuesday, Oct. 5 with a 7 p.m. Mass for dece@sed members and deceased family members. A buffet will follow at the Fisher House.. \ I ST. GEORGE, ~TPORT

The Women's Guild will hold a whist party at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 at the school hall on .'

'Route 177. On Monday, Oct. 4 members wiII sponSor a fashion and hair style show at Venus de Milo restaurant, preceded by a buffet at 6 p.m.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, WESTPORT Louise Viera is chairman for a whist party to be sponsored by the Ladies' Guild at 8 p.m.

Thursday, 'Oct. 7' in the parish hall on Main Road. Door prizes will be awarded and refreshments will be served.

ST. MARY'S CATIlEDRAL, FALL RIVER

A harvest supper will be served by the Womens Guild at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4 in the parish hall with Mrs. Roger Vezina, president, and Miss Eleanor R. Shea in charge of arrangements. The reservations deadline is tomorrow.

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;"Members' of: the Rosary Society will receive corporate communion at 8:15 Mass Sunday morning, Oct. 3, following which they will attend a breakfast \ meeting. All women of the parish are invited to attend.

Parishioners will participate in observance of Pulaski Day at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 10 as wreath laying ceremonies take place at the Pulaski monument on the corner of Pulaski and ,Warren 'Streets.

Also on Oct. 10, a social will take place at 2 p.m. in the parish hall, Gifts will be awarded and the public is invited.

ST. PATRICK, FALL RIVER

A meeting for parents in the parochial school will be held at 7:30 p.m. MQnday, Oct. 4 in the school hall.

Bingo parties for the benefit of the school are held in the hall every Wednesday night and all pBrishioners and friends are invited.

ST. STANISLAUS, ""ALL RIVER

Holy Rosary Sodalists will meet .for breakfast following' 9 a.m. Mass Sunday, Oct. 3.

Adults involved in confirmation class preparation will participate in a retreat at Cardinal Cushing Villa Gloucester the weekend of Friday, Oct. 8 thrtlugh Monday, Oct. n.

A junior basketball team is being formed and elementary school boys are invited to apply fOr memlfership.

Christian Living classes for elementary students will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, and on Monday, Oct. 18 for junior and senior high school students.

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ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD The traditional parish living rosary procession sponsored by the Legion' of Mary will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3 with participants· requested to meet in the schoolyard at 2:45 . p.m. The public is· invited to attend. Refreshments will be served in the 'church basement following the ceremony.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The Women's ,Guild is spon· soring a dessert card party from 1:'30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9 in the school 'hall. Tickets, which will not be available at the door, may be obtained from Mrs. Anthony J. Geary, chairman, or from any member of the guild executive board. A food sale will be sponsored at 10 a.m. the same day, also in the hall, with Helen Bednarz and Myrna Renaud as ~hairmen.

Confirmation classes will be· gin at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18. Grades 4 through 6 will begin CCD classes at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, grade 7 at 7 p.m. the same day and grades I, 2 and 3 at 3 p.l11. Tuesday, Oct.

DCCWMeet Mrs. Michael McMahon, national chairman of the Organization and Service Commission of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW) and a member of St. Mary's Cathedral parish, share· Fall River, conducted shop ,session on involvement in the lay apostola~ at a recent convention of the New Hampshire Diocesan Council of Catho· lic Women (DCCW) held at Rochester, N.H. Also at the meeting were Mrs. Richard Paulson, (Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, director of the NCCW Boston province; and Mrs. James Leith, Holy Name parish, New Bedford, first ~ce-president of the Fall River DCCW.

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During October, the rosary will be recited at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday evenings priOF_ to 5:15 p.m. Mass.

A parish Harvest Dance is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 30 in the school hall with music by the New Sound. A buffet will be served from 7:30 to 8 p.m. with dancing following until midnight.

Tickets are available from the school or rectory.

The Liturgy Planning Com·" mittee will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the rectory conference room.

Parishioners and friends interested in a skiing trip to Austria next February are asked to attend a meeting in the conference room at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3.

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The Women's Guild will open its season with a Harvest Dance from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Oct. 16 in the school hall on nIinois Street. Music will be

by Bob St Amour and the ticket price will include light refreshments and a chance on a door prize; Reservations may be made with ,Sylvia Baldiga, telephone 995-0922, or Laura Correia, 995·0470.

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. KID SISTER: Miss Eugenie Labrie, 98, standing, helps her 100-year·old sister, Mrs. Marie Louise Belanger, to celebrate her birthday last Sunday. The observance included a home Mass,celebraledby Rev. Raymond Robida, M.S., curate at 'Notre DarneChurch, Fall River, of which Mrs. Belanger is believed to be the oldest parishioner.

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Nearly 200 workshops, seminllrs and discussions are planned for the six-day meeting.

General topics to be discussed include "public Policy" and Federal Responsibili,ty and Econom-, ic Justice."

Highlights of the meeting include a day-long NCCC con,ress, in which delegates will Ji')rmulate NCCC national policy and a meeting of the diocesan directors of Catholic Charities.

Keynoting the program will be Cardinal John Dearden of Detroit, former president of the National Conference of Catholic Dishops.

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The youth group will hold a spaghetti supper from 5:30 to 7 p.m. tomorrow at the school hall on Route 177. Proceeds will purchase summer camping equip.ment and the public is invited.

In charge of arrangements are Mrs. Andre Fournier and Mrs. Rene Rioux.

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SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER The Sacred Heart Women's Guild will hold their first meeting on Monday, Oct. 4. A Rosal'3VHour will be held .at 7:30 in the church, followed by a coffee social in the school' cafeteria.

The Chamber Orchestra will entertain. New members will be welcomed and the meeting is open to all interested women.

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Dear Editor: I WOliid like to share a little of what I have learned about the value of the rosary. Our Lady . . . knew that the mysteries of the rosary are from the Bible.

Thirteen of the 15 mysteries are in the Bible, centering on Jesus." Is it any wonder th~n that Mary holds out the rosary as a powerful way to know her Son better?

Our fingers are· ,kept busy counting the beads and moving along step by step in the life of Christ. The Scriptural rosary has a verse from the Bible on Christ's life for each bead.

Many writers have written or suggested meditations so that we are always finding_ new "lights" wben we apply the Bible to our daily lives. The rosary need never become. monotonous.

Rattling off. Hails Marys and Our Fathers is not the rosary!

These are, background music only and should he said neither too 'slow nor too fast.

Remember, the heart of the rosary is the Bible meditations!

Mrs. Ann C. Levasseur Raynham

'I Want to Kill' Dear Editor: Abortion on demand: "I want to kill, will you help me kill?"

One asks, another obliges, both kill.

Christ said, "If you wish to come after· me, you must take up your cross and follow in my steps." To take up your cross is not to kiU but to save.

A child should be born through love,'then you're giving life to love, and bringing up love to live in the world. God created us through love. We are made in his image and he has given us the power to .create in our image and bring love to life.

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A Mass of thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford, where they were married 50 years ago, marked the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Silvia, 111 Slocum, Road, North Dartmouth. The celebrant was Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, pastor and diocesan vicar general.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-FolIowing is the text of the resolution on the role of the bishops in the presidential elections passed unanimously Sept. 16 by the administrative committee· of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops: At the invitation of the presidential candidates of the two mlf,jor parties, the executive committee of our bishops' conference has recently addressed critical contemporary issues in frank and courteous dialogue with them. We unite ourselves with this effort by our executive committee to make known our position and clarify issues.

Despite some public misperceptions concerning the nature

and purpose of the meetings with the candidates, we note with gratitude that the executive c()mmittee has clearly articulated our conference's policy on a broad range of foreign and domestic issues without endorsor opposing either candidate.

We reject any interpretation of the meetings with the candi.; dates as indicating a preference for eitber candidate or party!

There are elements of agreement and disagreement on many issues between our positions and those of the major parties, their platforms and their candidates.

Govemment has a legitimate and indeed essential role in the solution of social problems and the fostering of human rights.

Our concern with government and the political process is based upon this fact and has no connection with political partisanship.

Abortion and the need for a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn are among our concerns. So are the issues of unemployment, adequate educational opportunity for all, and equitable food policy both domestic and worldwide, the right to a decent home and health care, human rights across the globe, intelligent arms limitation and many other social justice issues. We wish to emphasize that our profound concern for thE! specific issue of abortion is based on the fact

that life is not only a value in itself but is absolutely fundamental to the realization of all other human values and human rights.

The Catholic bishops of the United States have often publicly stated~nd we here reaffirm--deep commitment to the sanctity, dignity and quality of human life at all stages of development as well as to the legislation and public policy which protect and promote these values in all contemporary contexts.

Many of the specific issues in which these values are at stake were discussed by the administrative board of the United States Catholic Conference in its statement <?n political responsi-

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bility adopted May 6, 1976. Our concern on the broad range of issues was enumerated in testi.mony presented to the Democratic platform committee on May 20,1976, and to the Republican 'platform. committee on Aug. 9, 1976. Most recently the executive committee has ·once again spoken to many of these matters.

As bishops we have a duty to make clear the moral and religious dimensions of secular issues, to point to God's word as an authentic norm. for social and pOlitical life, and to make clear' the practical requirements which spiritual and moral values impose upon efforts to achieve a more just social order. At the

same time, we are mot supporting religious bloc vo-ting nor are we instructing people for, whom to vote. .Rather, we luge that citizens make this decision for themselves in an informed and conscientious manner, in light of candidates' positions on the issues as well as their personal " qualifications.

The issues with which the bishops are concerned, both as religious and moral leaders and as citizens; and to which the executive committee has spoken in recent days, will remain p valid and critical after the election as they are now. We shall c{)ntinue to address the issues facing our nation by all appropriate means 8:t our disposal.

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RIGHT TO LIFE

Calls abortion violent and wrong. Urges adoption of Constitutional amendment to correct tragic errors of Supreme Court on abortion.

We recognize the religious and ethical concerns, regarding abortion. Hpwever, "It is undesirable to attempt to amend the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court decision in this area."

Republicans hold a number of positions on this issue. We favor continuance or- public dialogue and support the efforts of those who seek enactment of a constitutional amendment tq restore protection of the right to life for unborn children.

.RlGHT TO EAT

We support protection of a dispersed pattern of land and resources with national land use planning; full production and fair return for farmers, domestic food programs to meet needs of hungry, and malnourished.

Calls for establishment of national food and fiber policy fair to both. producer and consumer, based on the family farm agricultural system. Urge maximum agricultural production and support attempts to provide basic nutritional needs.

Consolidate existing child nutrition programs into stateadministered programs concentrated on children truly in need.

Federal programs should assure that loW' income people will be able to purchase nutritionally adequate foods.

RIGHT TO. WORK

Genuine full employment through economic planning, structural reforms and public service employment. Provision of guaranteed income base and reform of welfare system.

Careful study of illegally employed aliens problem with attention to justice. Support of collective bargaining right and its extension to farm. workers. Joint effort of government, business and labor to plan for future and to promote fair taxation.

Halt destructive impact of inflation.

Pledges to reduce adult unemployment to 3 percent within four years. Broad new range of programs, reforms and monetary policies needed. Federal government has responsi" bility to ensure jobs for all capable Americans.. Wants to replace welfare system with income maintenance program. No position on illegally employed aliens. S'upports right of public and agricultural employees to organize and bargain collectively. Sees need for national planning by congress, the executive branch, private sector and state and local governments. Pledges complete overhaul of tax system. Calls for comprehensive anti-inflation policy including increased productivity and direct governmental involvement without comprehensive mandatory controls.

End deficit spending. Opposes federally funded public employment programs, declares job creation the role of the private sector. Government should not be employer of, last resort. Opposes guaranteed annual income concept, favors welfare reform. Favors prohibition of hiring illegliI alieJ;ls.

Supports farm labor laws recognizing both welfare of workers and needs of food production (work stoppages in harvest periods should be prevented). With regard to planning for future federal regulation and bureaucratic interference must be reduced. Best tax reform is tax reduction; reform should aiID at simplification, expansion of economy. Iqflation is major job destroyer; calls for end to deficit spendingJopposes imposition of wage and pric~ controls. .

HEALTH CARE

/ Supports universal, mandatory national health care program including insurance, preventive care, consumer participation, a voluntary health care system ,and reforms, in health

Supports similar health programs, stresses that maximum personal patient-physician relationships should be preserved. ,

Opposes national health insUrance, Favors catastrophic illness coverage for all who' cannot obtain it. Should utilize p~vate h~th insurance systems.

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Supports d.irect federal subsidies and low interest hOUJing and rehabilitation ,loans; supports rehabilitation of existing housing, rebuilding of neighborhoods; opposed to redlining. :.citizen participation in community development should be strengthened.

Need compl1lheasive approach to develop variety of pro- ' grams to meet many housing heeds. Opposed to discrinlination in housing by individuals or by institutional financing policies. No position on citizen participation in housing programs.

EDUCATION

All have right to adequate education. Advocates compliance with legal requirements for racially integrated schools.

Supports tax aid and equitable participation in federal programs for students in non-public schools; supports bilingual cultural education; supports financial aid to higher education students toa,ttend school, of their choice; supports governmental aid to public and private early childhood learning; family service and day care agencies.

. Supports right of all to equal education and goal of desegregation. Busing seen as judicial tool of last resort, other means to be encouraged. Party is committed to constitutionally permissable method of providing tax aid to all pupils in nonsegregated schools and to equitable participation in federal programs of all low and moderate income stUdents. Supports bilingual education, states federal govern1l1ent should directly provide cost of education payments to all higher education institutions; proposes federally financed child care progr~ms.

Opposes forced busing, favors constitutional amendment ,forbidding assignment of children to scho<>l on basis of race; public, non-public schools should share education funds on constitutionally acceptable basis. Favors consideration of tax credits for elementary and secondary school tuition payments.

Favors bilingual 4!ducation. Higher education policy should focus on ai~ for needy students; more realistic eligibility guidelines are required. Supports child care assistance.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Supports control and eventual elimination of handguns; opposes' capital punishment; urges reform of criminal justice system as it affects juveniles by greater use of communitybased correctional' facilities; encourages training programs for offenders, supports compensation of crime victims.

Advocates, strong controls over handguns. No position on capital punishment. Supports major reform of criJ;ninal justice system, provision Of jobs, housing and opportunity as alternative to crime. Correctional system should emphasize rehabilitation and should stress prosecution of corporate crime and consumer fraud. .

Supports right of citizens to keep and bear arms, opposes federal registration of firearms. Capital punishment should be decision of states. Young and adult offenders should be separated. Supports more relevant prison industries, better counseling, community-based aternatives, job programs. Young first-time offender needs special attention.

cMi.RIGHT~

Discrimination on basis of race, sex, ethnicity and age should be eradicated.

Supports federal programs of c6mpensatory opportunity, discrimination on same basis as usee. Supports Equal Rights Amendment, implementation of treaty obligations to American Indian.

Supports enforcement of equal rights laws, elimination of discrimination, enforcement of women's rights laws. Supports Equal Rights Amendment.

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Urges food aid policy should clarify separation of food aid from strategic con~iderations;;food priorities should go to poorest nations; international grain reserve system needed; supports agricultural aid for small farmers and rural poor. Encourages transfer of "precise percentage" of nation's income to underdeveloped, weaker nations.

Supports International Fund for Agricul~ural Development revision of Food for Peace program; contributing to world food reserve program; provision of fair share in international development assistances.

Cooperate with Food for Peace program; encourage other countries to assume larger share of bunlen of assistance; encourage financing of economic projects in emerging nations.

MIUTARY, FINANCIAL AID

Condition all U.S. military and financial aid (except humanitarian aid) to Chile upon demonstration that human rights have been restored.

Prohibit aid to any country which uses secret police, detention without charges and torture to enforce its power.

Make clear our revulsion at the systematic violations of basic human rights that have ocurred under some Latin American' regimes.

No position. ,

ARMS LIMITATION

Supports a policy of arms limitation as necessary step to general disarmament. The arms race must be stopped.

Limit significantly conventional arms sales and reduce military aid to developing countries. Such sales must be justified in terms of foreign policy benefits to the U.S. and not simply because of their economic value to American weapons producers.

No position.

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

Give same legal protection to selective conscientious objectors as to general conscientious objectors.

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No position.

( Continue reliance on UN diplomatic and peacekeeping machinery in Israel. Recognize her right to exist as soverign state with secure bound~es. Recognize right of Palestinian Arabs to inclusion as partners in negotiation.

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SOUTHERN AFRICA

Give unequivocal assurance to Rhodesia and $outh Africa that they can _expect no U.S. assistance until the black majorities J:1ave been brought into full participation in their governments. Repeal Byrd Amendment allowing importation of The Anchor, Dioces6 -of Fall River, ·Sept. 30, 1976 chrome ore from Rhodesia. .I

Firm commitment to independence. and security of Israel including sufficient military and economic aid.

Continue decisive support for Israel and efforts to secure just and desirable peace of all nations in region.

Give equivocal and concrete support .of majority rule 'in· Southern Africa. Enforce UN-ordered Rhodesia Sanctions and repeal Byrd Amendment.

Support process of self-determination in Africa ... support forces which promote negotiated' settlements aneJ racial peace . . . deplore all violence and terrorism . . . strengthen the forces of moderation. No position on Byrd· Amendment.

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Would it 1M; possible for a priest to say Mass in his home Sometime? It would mean very much .to him and to the rest of us.

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A. More than once during recent years, the Church has indicated to bishops that they may allow Masses outside of churches' or chapels-for example, in homes. One of the many different circumstances in which such Masses are explicitly approved is the gathering of famand friends in the home of the sick or aged who cannot otherwise participate in the Eucharistic celebration.

Some rather obvious regulations are indicated for such celebration, to preser'Ve the pro-' priety, serenity, and sacred character of the Mass. (See the Instruction for Masses for Special Gatherings; May 15, 1969.)

Home Masses for the sick, and for other gatherings and'events, are not all uncommon in our country. In most dioceses Masses may be offered in homes at the discretion of the pastor of the family in whose home the Mass is to be·celebrated. iJ suggest you ask your pastor, 'or other priest you know, about a Mass in your father's home.

Q. I have a friend who is seriOusly thinldng of having an abortion. To me it's murder. But what can I say to her to prevent it? She says my Church shouldn't dictate to her what she can or cannot do.

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troversy has become ridden with almost belligerent emotionalism. In my experience, when a situation of real crisis such as this arises in an individual's life, all rational argument is pretty futile. Deep convictions, raith, and the "feel" the individual mother has for children and for life, are what will determine her decision.

One observation may help.

Participation in dozens of discussions, panels, and ordinary bull sessions with people of all shades of opinion on the question have convinced me of one thing. Very few pregnant women, ' even those stnmgly proabortion, really believe they are

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They know, regardless of the line they may give themselves, that what is in their womb is not just aolob, a chunk of material' that is as disposable as an appendix or gall bladder. It is a baby~ ~lready a boy or girl-a child.

Seen in this light, the words of one .mother are, to put it mildly'\ impressive. "Apart from everything else, maybe I'm just too much of a coward to have an abortion," she said. "I know I'd have to live with it till I die.

"I don't mean just the abortiod itself; maybe I could get ' over that. But' what will happen later? Five years from now, when I see a little girl all dressed up downtown or going to school, 'I will know she could have been my daughter.

"Fifteen .years from now when I see a neighbor's boy growing into manhood, I would know mine could be just like that. And 30 years from now, when I see a young mother taking care of her home and children, I'd know she could be mine-if I hadn't ended it all before it got started.

"I know these th'oughts wouid nag me for the rest of my life.

And I'm afraid it would drive me crazy."

Maybe the mother who said this is unusually sensitive and perceptive. But we don't really know much about the satisfactions or regrets of women who have had an abortion, five or 25 years later, do we?

Encourage your friend, and pray for her. If she believes in God, urge her to pray before she ntakes her final decision.

Q. Can a Catholic be married to a divorced Protestant in a Protestant Church?

IA. Under the right combination of certain limited circumstances, it would be possible for this marriage to take place within the marriage laws of the Catholic Church. Such a combination would be extremely rare, and could eaSily involve investigations and legal processes that take ,a long time.

But it might happen.

For a more explicit answer, you'd have to take the matter up with a> parish priest.

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

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VATICAN CITY (NC)- The it perpetuated with Latin, not Vatican has announced that it only of our rite but also of will make no official, detailed Western civilization. The latter comment on traditionalist Arch- has certainly ceased to exist bishop Marcel Lefebvre's Sept. -certainly lnasm'uch as being 15 press conference in Econe, coextensive with Christendom.

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Once a member of the Austr.o11 private audience with Pope Hungarian parliament was obliged to resign in disgrace for Paul VI. American Cardinal John Wright, misquoting Cicero. Those days however, agreed to share. his are gone forever. Now Cicero is personal reflections on tlie press a suburb of Chicago. conference as reported by NC Once every prep school in the News' Swiss correspondent, liberal arts tradition taught Benedictine Father Placid Jor- Latin full-time. But today in the. dan.

United States you can count on Cardinal Wright, prefect of one hand the number of schools the Vatican's Congregation for which still teach it· seriously. the Clergy, was one of three carI find this tragic, but for culdinals who met with Archbishop tural, not theological reasons.

Lefebvre twice this year at the ,If we are going to reach peoVatican in -an effort to discover ple where they are and how his reasons' for rejecting Vatican they are, we must reach them Council U: and rresisting Pope through new liturgical forms' Paul. which are' still true to Catholic According to the cardinal, it theological faith, and nbt theois the papacy itself that is at 'logical !>pinions. issue in the Lefebvre affair, not Tho~ of us who are classi~ so much the archbishop's widely cists by temperament ·or educareported insistence on saying tion certainly have a nostalgia, the Mass in Latin according t() momentary and understandable, the preconciliar rite. for the old form. The new litMisses Latin Mass urgy has made' provision for In the interview, Cardinal this by' allowing priests who Wright admitted that-"entirely can still read Latin the opportuapart from the case or conten- nity to use a revised Latin Mass tions of Archbishop Lefebvre," text. which he described as having But those of us who are only "marginal connection with priests or bishops or apostolic the Tridentine Mass"-he him- laypeople have the obligation to self has experienced some."per- the children of a totally differsonal nostalgia" over the pas- ent civilization to create a lisage of the older Latin Mass. turgical community among them But the cardinal strongly in a language they understand. backed the new Mass ritual, NC News: In bis press conferwhich replaced the four-centu- ence, Archbishop Lefebvre asked ries-old Tridentine rite, as ful- the Pope "in the name of pluralfillment of an obligation which ism" to permit "traditional older Catholics offer "to the chil- ~ forms." Why couldn't the Pope dren of a totally different civil- do just that? ization."

Cardinal Wright: Pluralism is Here are excerpts from the in- very much a weasel-word.

There's always pluralism in terview.

- NC News: Is Archbishop Le- theological theories-there has febvre's celebration of the Tri- been since New ,Testament times. dentine Mass the central issue But there is no pluralism in of his dispute witn the Vatican? the faith. There is absolutely no Cardinal Wright: I don't think plurality of Christs or vicars of so. The problem is that a bishop Christ. There is only one Christ, just can't simply reject an ec- one Peter, and one vicar of umenical' council as Protestant Christ, the successor of Peter. ~speciaUy when he took part The papacy is at issue, not any in it every day and voted for one pope or liturgical reform. the decrees as Archbishop Le'NC News: Archbishop Lefebvre did. febvre said Sept. 15 that 36 The time to make protests was more seminarians are joining his on the floor during the council.. Econe semina{y and that this is Cardinals (AJfredo)Ottaviani, (Jo- a sign of wide public support.

Cardinal Wright: I suppose seph) Frings and others did. But to wait four or five years-that'S that one would be encouraged another matter. by these ~umbers if statistics The Tridentine Mass was were the rule of faith. But if cherished by many of \IS b~cause they are, -then anythin~ goes.

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We would not operate according to councils hut according to (U. S. pollster George) Gallup.

I wouldn't want the morality of theft, abortion or war to depend on -a vQte in public opinion polls.

• Orie man, with God is a majority. And if the Pope is not with God, I don't know who is.

'Captain in Israel' NC News: Some people feel that the Vatican has treated Archbishop 'Lefebvre much more harshly than it has treated Church liberals. such as theologian (Father) Hans Kueng.

Cardinal Wright: Perhaps. But the reason for such relative se-verity in the case of the archbishop is extremely simple.

The "liberals" and "conservatives" privately are often noisy, but, so to say, they are also sterile. They are' "private" per:· sons.

Archbishop Lefebvre is "a "captain in Israel," an archbishop who can ordain priests and consecrate bishops. He can sU\I't a ~ schism.

The others are birds of passage. They give lectures, write their books, shoot off their fireworks. Six months later their ideas are replaced by someone else.

But to the left or the right, on the liturgy or whatever. doctrine, it is the papacy that is at· issue. . It always is when a·' schism looms.

Note that the Pope acted with finality only after the ordinations took place. The -exquisitely out-of-order action perfo~ by the archbis~op was to ordain..

NC News: What are your sentiments now that a solution to the Lefebvre affair does not seem to be imminent?

Cardinal Wright: I feel badly for the people who are frustrated and bewildered that they are actually attending these illicit Masses. But I even feel more sympathy for the unfortunate ' young men ordained by the archbishop. They will be the rest of their lives straightening things out.

One's feelings toward Archbishop Lefebvre are precisely those of the Pope and every prother bishop or Christian. One feels -intense sympathy for his bewilderment, but also an intense desire, that he put his undoubted earnestness to work to get us priests.

I must add, however, that, as Pope Pius XI said; "We never need priests so badly that we need mistaken priests."

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 30, 1976

Adam路 Walinsky Stresses Catholic Jewish Friendship I write this column because there are times when one must tell the truth no matter how risky it may be. For several years I have been sending survey results to Jewish community leaders that indicate a rise of anti-Catholic feeling among Jews. The out of the debate. Jewdata do NOT show a grave ishI got anti-Catholicism is more of crisis situation nor a drama- a Jewish problem than a Cathtic surge in Jewish anti- olic problem anyway. I don't inCatholic feeling; it is merely a minor problem. I have not, however, gone public with most of these data because I do not

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REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY think such problems ought to be dealt with except by responsible bipartite discussion and research.

Recently I was asked by my friend (I thought) Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum to comment on these problems at a national meeting of the American Jewish Committee. I went public then only because I was asked to (and at considerable inconvenience to me in time and travel).

Rabbi Tanenbaum reviewed every word of the paper and suggested changes-all of which I followed. The AJC reaction was mixed but not unfriendly. Then the New York "Times" asked to excerpt the talk in its OptEd page. I neglected to insist that they mention it was excerpted from a paper commissioned by the American Jewish Committee.

Well, the roof fell in on me.

The "Times" carried a page of angry letters that linked me to Hitler, pogroms, and the Inquisition; attempts were made to terminate the funding of my research center and to get me fired. It seems that even the mild suggestion that there might be a tiny minority (my exact words) of Jews who are less than moral perfections on the subject of prejudice was enough to unleash the Furies. (Let me hasten to add that I don't take this to be representative behavior of American Jews.) Unlike the Catholic bishops; some Jewish leaders play real hard ball.

Major Problem What about my friend Rabbi Tanenbaum? Well, he' issued a statement denouncing me in which he never mentioned that virtually word for word my "Times" piece had been excerpted from a paper he had commissioned and had reviewed before its presentation.

You get a guy into the room, the lights go off, and you stab him in the back. Nice way to treat friends. .

I challenge Rabbi Tanenbaum and the leadership of the American Jewish Committee to launch bipartite research on this problem. If they continue to betray their friends instead, they will eventually have to deal with enemies.

tend to be a martyr for a cause that someone else got me into.

Anti-Catholicism as an American phenomenon is a major problem, but it is no worse (and probably less bad) among Jews than it is among others. I spoke on it because' Jews asked me; I will now stop speaking on it because a friend stabbed me in the back and because my other work is in jeopardy.

But not all Jews agree with Rabbi Tanenbaum and those who went after my research center. Consider the words of Adam Walinsky in a letter the New York "Times" did not get around to publishing: Common Inheritors "The recent response (July I) to Andrew Greeley's article on Anti-Catholic Feeling Among Jews is disturbing in the extreme. For it suggests that Fr. Greeley's fears are close to fact: that many Jews, understandably concerned with their own interests, cannot or will not respond in any constructive way to the concerns of those who have, in America, long been our closest allies.

"Jews and Catholics are common inheritors: not only of the Sinai religious traditions, but also of the American immigration, and all that flowed from it.

The great works of social justice, private and governmental, the creation of our present public institutions, the opening of opportunity for the immigrants and their children - all these were -primarily the work of Catholics and Jews, in implicit or explicit alliance. The modern Democratic party, not only in New York but in the nation, is overwhelmingly the creation, and the carried of the hopes of both. Both struggled, and still do, to overcome nativist prejudices. Neither, without the other, could have progressed to their present state.

Long-standing Support "Jews, I believe, should be particularly mindful that without the long-standing support we have received from the urban Catholics who are the bulk and muscle of the Democratic party of the North, none of our present achievements would have been possible - specifically including the enormous American support for the creation and survival of the State of Israel.

"Therefore, when our best friends tell us路 that our support for their causes has been less than reciprocal, we have an obligation to listen. But for the last ten years or more, a liberalprofessional - intellectual elite, much of it Jewish, has been perceived not only as actively hostile to Catholic interests, but as partaking of a self-righteousness that treats defeats of those interests as triumphs over the dev-

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DRAW STRENGTH: Anglican Archbishop Frederick Coggan of Canterbury fihields eyes from television lights as he meets reporters at Episcopal Church convention in Minneapolis. He told delegates to "draw strength from the tension and wounds" resulting from sixyear struggie over decision

by American Episcopalians to ordain women. He is expected to visit :pope Paul VI next April, and it is likely discussion agenda will include topic of women priests.

(NC Photo) iI. Aid to parochial schools is pictured not only as unconstitutional but as the work of a conspiracy operating out of the local chancery; we hold banquets to celebrate our judicial victories. Abortion is not only a woman's right, but the occasion for moral condemnation- of those who oppose it; no credence is given to the moral imperatives of the anti-abortionists, which even if defective would seem entitled to路 respect.

'Best Allies' "Israel we expect to be a moral cause for Americans regardless of religion; but we have little. sympathy, and much suspicion, for路 those who ask us to extend similar concern to oppressed Catholic peoples in Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. Closer to home, it may be unpleasant to remember, but we cannot forget, the noisome undercurrent of anti-Italian jokes that accompanied the mayoral election of 1969, or the Polish jokes that still make national television. Were those gibes anti-black - let alone antiSemitic - we can imagine the storm of protest; our actual silence speaks volumes.

"Father Greeley did not ask us to beat our breasts in apology, or ourselves embrace antiSemitism. All he asked was that we be a little more sensitive, a little more aware of Cathoilc concerns. For this he was reminded, by one writer, of the Inquisition. I hope I speak for more Jews than myself when I say that we should and will strive to be better friends to those, especially and notably including Fr. Greeley, who were and are our best allies in a difficult and uncertain world."

I personally believe that the openness, sensitivity and loyalty of Walinsky is typical of the overwhelming majority of,American Jews, and that the knife of Marc Tanenbaum in my back IS not.

Contemporary magazine, published by the American Jewish Committee, recently addressed the following questions to a group of intellectuals of varying political views: (I) Are you now satisfied with the way terms like liberal and conservative, or left . and Right, are used today? rized as being either liberal or 2 f h d conservative. They are both lib( ) I not, ow 0 you eral and conservative. Moreover, think these terms should be as Cole points out, they can be used?

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MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS published in the September issue of Commentary.

A symposium of this kind, which can best be described as an intellectual smorgasbord, is not meant to be gulped down in one sitting. In my own case, I decided that reading 64 esssays alphabetically from beginning to end would be extremely boring. So, like a kid in a candy store or like most adults at a smorgasbord, I decided to pick and choose in no special order.

My random sampling !!.uggests that many, if not most of the respondents are dissatisfied with the way terms like liberal and conservative are being used today. Typical of many similar responses is this one by James Finn, editor of Worldview: "Only a fool or a deliberate obfuscator inspired by the Father, of All Lies could be satisfied With the way the terms liberal and conservative are being used today. Because the situation is so messy, it's difficult to know what point of entry to make into the swampland of public political discourse."

I share Mr. Finn's sense of frustration. He is clearly right in saying that using terms like liberal or conservative as Eitheror political designations no longer makes anY sense. But what to do about it?

Sensible Answer Psychiatrist Robert Coles (who deserves a Nobel prize for his masterful series of books on children and the American working class) has come up with a sensible answer. In his own response, he says that millions of Americans cannot be catego-

-or at least appear to be-wildly consistent in their both-and political leanings.

- Coles illustrates by quoting excerpts from a conversation he had recently with a North Carolina textile worker. This man is anti-union and is still, at heart, a segregationist of sorts.

Though he voted for North Carolina's Sen. Helms and for Richard Nixon in 1972. In short, he is by his own definition, a conservative, which means to him "being loyal to your own belief, which you' learned. from your parents and your minister, and which you want to hand down to your children."

On the other hand, this same man can be quite "liberal" on a number of social and economic issues and will, upon occasion, react to controversial issues like a commited populist.

"Why shouldn't the workers, like myself, get a better deal?," he said to Professor Coles.

"Why shouldn't we own some of those factories - instead of those stockholders, who never come near this placc, and soak up all the profits that we make, sweating and sweating, the long hours of sweating?"

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KNOW YOUR FAITH How Relate to a Perfect God?

By DEACON STEVE LAM)REGAN How do you 'describe God? I found the following description in the Theological- Dictionary edited by theologians Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler. ~ "Christian philosophy and theology conceive God in terms of the analogy of being as ,3.bsolute~ ly holy, supreme, exalted above the world, personal, a'bsolutely necessary, uncaused, existing of himself, and therefore the eternal and infinitely perfe,:t being, who has created everything else out of nothing."

Sort of boggles the mind, doesn't it? For most of us who see our feet of clay whenever we put our shoes on, it is pretty difficult to identify with or even conceive of a being that is infinitely perfect.

Let's face it. To be perfectly honest, it is impos:;ible for men and women to adequately describe' God. God is ::nexpressible. ' The reaction of peop:le to the recognition of this inexpressibility of God has been varied.

Totally Different Israelites emphasized the holiness ,of. God to which they responded with awe. The name Yahweh, which God gave to Moses (Exodus 3, 13-14) was

considered so holy that it was ,never pronounced.

Philosophers describe God as being "wholly other" which simply means that he is totally different and distinct from humanity. The ancient pagans of Greece and Rome accepted the ideas of a supreme being through the natural revelation of creation, the cycles of nature' and the order of the universe.

Pagan mythology also reflected the basic human drive to transcend the -limitations ()f human nature with stories of men who sought and obtained immortality through the favor of' the gods.

Infinite perfection was not an attribute of most of the gods of pa~an mythology whose legends reflect all the human paBsions.

It is precisely here that the Divine revelation to the Israelites raises the human 'understanding of divinity above pagan gods and goddesses who used and abused their divine powers to satisfy human lusts and saw men as expendable accidents of creation to be used as slaves and playthings.

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gentle rolling hills; barren, sweeping desert, beautiful in its majesty and silence; great mountains, rugged and rocky, rising to the sky; the calm lake waters of the Sea of Galilee; the Mediterranean Sea, powerful, sometimes wild, sometimes rolling rhythmically, the sun making the white caps glisten lik,~ jewels against deep blue; summer heat to warm His creatures, cool evenings for refreshment. And an occasional snow bathes Bethlehem on a crisp, winter day.

A panoramic view of tl:,e perfectiun of creation. Yet I longed for more-I longed to see Christ, to touch Him, to hear Him. Christ-the core of all perfection. And I envied those who lived in His time and knew Him. Yet there is still the whisper of His presence that lingers in His native land-indefineable, compelling, magnetic.

Message of Peace .But there is something else in this land too-a history of the disunity between man and man -ruins that reach back through the centuries telling their stories of war, destruction and breakdown of civilizationB. And today as one sees young soldiers carrying guns, one realizes that man has not yet come to really understand Christ'B mes, sage of peace and love. Again, in Israel one sees the world tn capsule form as His chosen peoTurn to Page Thirteen

God Shows Us His Reality By FATHER JOHN J. CASTELOT An important thing to remember about God's self-revelation is that it was gradual, progressive, not instantaneous, complete once for all.

There is more than a little evidence that the patriarchs, beginning with Abraham, were not pure monotheists, in the classical sense of the term. They may have given their allegiance to one supreme God above all other gods, but those other gods were there all the same, and not as empty abstraction. The Israelites did not live in a cultural vacuum. Abraham was a polytheist to begin with, and his descendants spent centuries in an Egypt which knew many gods.

And when, after the Exodus, their descendants took over the land of Canaan, they settled into a culture which was hardly congenial to pure Yahwism. l:he Canaan religion, like those of many ancient world peoples, was a nature religion.

An agricultural people, the Canaanites depended upon and lived in awe of nature's forces, especially those of fertility.

Upon ,those ,force!; depended the fruitfulness of their fields, flocks, herds, families. And so, in an effort to control them and appease adverse forces, they deified them, made them god, worshiped them. The sexual antics of those mythical, gods were looked upon as sources of fertility; the liturgy of the times called for imitation of these antics at the shrines dedicated to Baal Ad his consort, Asherah.

The Israelites, entering suddenly wpon a new mode of existence, the agricultural, found this an all too practical religion, and the struggle between Baalism and Yahwism was long and bitter. The prophets were the champions of Yahweh, of course, but it was close to a losing battle over the centuries, at least until the crisis of the Babylonian Exile.

Revealed Himself Be all this as it may, the God presented to us by the inspired authors of the Bible is the God they knew.' It was only natural that they should present Him as " the God of Abraham ,and Isaac and Jacob and all the rest. But that is another question. Our point today is that the God of the Bible is not a personified force of nature. He is a person, with all the term implies. Posts can personify the sun, moon, stars, wind, and address them in glowing terms; they cannot make them persons. The ancients could personify the forces of nature, deify them even and worship them; they' could not make them persons.

No one made the God of the Bible a person. He revealed Himself, gradually, as a person, interested in His people and ruling all by His power.

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"CAIN, AYlER THE HORRIBLE crime of fratricide is terrified that people might kill him in his wanderings. But 'Not so!' the Lord said to him," writes Father Castelot. This painting- by Brother Eric deSaussure depicts God calling to Cain following the murder of Abel. (NC Photo) Constant Theme This divine concern shines all through the Yahwist narrative.

After the fall of our first parents, as the story goes, God must punish them and the tempter. But in almost the same breath as His condemnation of the unhappy trio comes a promise of the ultimate viCtory of

humanity over the forces of evil (Gn 3, 15). An especially touching note is the following. Before He expels the man and the woman from the garden, God makes clothes for them so that they won't catch cold in tl)e world outside!

Then Cain, after the horrible Turn to Page Thirteen

A Congregation Which Cares By ,MSGR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN The letter which follows illustrates what I consider to be one of the maior challenges facing the Church today: How do we transform usually huge, often impersonal parish congregations into communities of truly interested, warm and caring Christian believers?

"For the past two years I have been attending a small nondenominational church in addition to going to Mass. I have discovered what it is like to talk about Christ, to share Him with other human beings. I have grown much closer to God through this non-Catholic Christian fellowship. .

"I find this sense of community in some Catholic circles. I have seen it at retreats and in Catholic college centers. Yet it is not present in Sunday Masswhich is the first place it should be. As a community of believers, we are to strengthen each other in our common belief. Yet I feel and see no common bond with the people I sit next to on Sunday. We do not encourage each, other verbally.

"I see this community developing in charismatic Catholic groups. Yet I hesitate to get involved in this. God's Spirit is much broader-He does much more than speak in tongues. Besides I think I need more emphasis on the greatest gift God

has given men-Love, 'I Cor 13 love,' before I want to go onto the others.

"I believe in the beginnings of the Catholic Church - in how she has been handed down in her doctrines. It is the local parish-the majority of Catholic people - I no longer have as much faith in. I saw these people on Friday or Saturday night using our Lord's name every other sentence. And they cere tainly aren't speaking in favor of Him! I ask God to show me how I am to have faith and trust in these fellow Catholics I sit next to. Are these really God's chosen people? Is the Catholic Church' teaching them what God can do for them? Are we simply talking about love aJ;ld not being love?

"In the non-denomonational church I do not believe in their doctrine-yet I do believe in the people there. They are living every day for Christ-He isn't with them only on Sundays.

"When God shows me which of these last two areas - doctrine or honesty and fellowship ~a church family is supposed to be strongest in, my decision will be made. 'Til then I continue to search and pray for th, strength God gives."

Increased Awareness The Church proposes as an ideal what my torn and distressed correspondent seeks to find in practice at Catholic parTurn to Page Thirteen

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A Congregation Which Cares Continued from Page Twelve ishes. Article 62 of the Roman Missal's introdudion, for example, states: "In the celebration of Mass . the faithful from a holy people, a chosen race, a royal priesthood: they give thanks to the Father and offer the victim not only through the hands of the priest but also with him, and they learn to offer themselves.

They should make this clear by their deep sense of religion and their charity to everyone who shares in the celebration."

An attitudinal change and increased awareness on the part of individual Catholics ultimately seems the answer.

"Charity to everyone who shares in the celebration" is merely a different, more technical way of describing people who truly care about others in the parish, who speak to' them before and after Mass, who pray from the heart during the liturgy and who later eagerly volunteer to serve those in any kind of need. For such persons, their Sunday worship carries over into everyday living.

Relate to God Continued from Page Twelve pie strive to keep their promised land.

History tells us, too, that hope has burned brightly in Israel throughout the centuries. The journey begins with Abraham's arrival in Negeb and takes us through the centuries to Bethlehem where Christ was born. We travel the roads where His Word was spoken and walk the Via Dolorosa to His crucifixion, tomb and finally His triumphal resurrection.

And after the resurrection, we begin a new journey with Paul.

We follow him to Corinth, Ephesus, Asia Minor, Philippi 'as he lights the flame of Christianity in other lands. As century after century passes, new lights are enkindled by new apostles, the flames grow in brilliance; Christianity spreads and continues reaching so that finally, it may cover all of God's world.

God Shows Us Continued from Page Twelve crime of fratricide, is terrified that people(?) may kill him in his wanderings. But "Not so!" the Lord said to him. "If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged sevenfold." So the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest anyone should kill him at sight (Gen 4, 15).

This simply sets the tone for a constant theme in the Scriptures: God is a person (one who knows and loves and cares), powerfully interested in His people. Just think of the Exodus from Egypt, the sending of the prophets, the restoration from the Babylonian Exile, and, above all, the Incarnation of the Son of God. "Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life.

God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but. that the world might be saxed through him" (In 3:16-17).

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Division of mammoth parishes into more manageable units, however, also appears highly desirable, even critically neces~ sary. It is very questionable, if the kind of personally concerned Christians sought for by this letter writer would be evident and dominant in our extremely large churches. Needless to say, the God preached, worshiped and experienced in such settings may likewise strike many as cold, indifferent and impersonal.

Detroit Continued from Page One The papers, mailed to the delegates in mid-September, discuss family life, resistance to the arms race and the spread of nuclear weapons, programs to combat discrimination on the basis of age and sex and the moral dimensions of political issues, as well as several recommendations on justice within the Church.

Representing the Fall River diocese, in addition to Bishop Cronin and Father Graziano, will be Rev. Michel G. Methot, Rev. George W. Coleman, Sister Elaine Heffernan, RSM, Mrs. Charles Bardelis, Mr. and Mrs. John Ross and David Costa.

They were chosen to represent a wide spectrum of ages and commitments within the Church.

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the Editor Continued from Page Seven be left to completion to give glory to God. I am a mother of six loving children born from love and they have already contributed some good to the world.

Mrs. F.L. Bouchard North Dartmouth

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Music Permissions Dear Editor: A short time ago, you published an item concerning the practice of reprinting copyrighted works for use of choir members or for congregational singing during the liturgies. This item served as a warning to any parIshes who had compiled song books that they were liable to suit by the holders of the copyright. As a choir member and a member of the liturgical committe~ in my parish, I found that no one was quite sure how this problem should be approached.

We have written to several music publishers and requested information.

However, I feel that it would have been much simpler and more to the advantage of all parishes in the diocese, if some information on the proper method of obtaining permission to reproduce or reprint words or both words and music had been published in the same issue of our diocesan paper. Quite frankly, we do not find the hymns available to us in the missalette sufficient.

Anita E. Maigret Attleboro All mlssalettes and similar weekly Mass booklets carry the address of the publisher, who should always be contacted for permission to reproduce words or music for hymns and other selections. Most publishers have available a far wider variety of liturgical music than that contained in a particular issue of a Mass booklet. In this connection, see also the related story on page 16 of this week's Anchor.

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STEVE LANDREGAN WRITES, "The ancient pagans of Greece and Rome accepted the idea of a supreme being through the natural revelation of creation, the cycles of nature and the order of the universe." This head of Zeus is from the ancient city of Mylasa. (NC Photo)

How Relate to a Perfect God? Continued from Page Twelve call to transcend his humanity.

God's self-communication revealed that "wholly other-ness" viewed through the prism of humanity was distorted into a vision of a ruthless, unloving, cruel and vengeful super human potentate.

Twin Forces Only in Jesus, the fullness of God's self-communication, could man understand that infinite perfection is, in human terms, infinitely unselfish love, that to be perfect as God is perfect is to be compassionate as God is compassionate (Cf Matthew 5, 48 and Luke 6, 36). .

The twin forces of God's self- . communication and man's call to transcendence meet in Jesus who is at the same time God's ultimate self-communication and the ultimate means by which men can transcend his humanity.

God the Father calls us to perfection; Jesus, God the Son, reveals and personifies perfection; and the Holy Spirit enables us to achieve perfection.

How do you describe God? He is infinitely perfect, uncaused, absolutely holy and incomprehensible, and we will

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spend a lifetime contemplating the mystery of His wholly otherness, and never completely penetrate the veil.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-A full 134 years after its first dioceses were established, Australia has ceased to be officially considered as mission territory by the Church. Pope Paul VI has signed a decree removing the continent of Australia from the supervision of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Vatican body in charge of missions. The last time such a decree was signed was in h,08, when the United States, Canada and several European countries ceased being officially mission lands.

To know God we do not need to penetrate the veil of incomprehensibility; we merely need to respond to Jesus' call to repent and believe in the Good News because the Good News is that in Jesus we can not only know God but also can share in His life.

"The grace of the Holy Ghost is not bound by any law."

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by cecilia BelllDl:er Some OpiniO:IlS from 'Youth on the candidates and the: issues: "I think we ought to have a third party. Two pa.rties no longer serve the public. We have no choice if we do not like either candidate. And I'm not one of these people who believe in voting for the sake of voting. I agree with Gene McCarthy - the parties have become too arrrogant, too sure of themselves, with an outside competition."

"Politics is the worst game in the country. I think it's dirty, it stinks, it's corrupting, it lies, it covers. up and it manipulates the dumb people.". '~I hope one of these days a bachelor gets into the White House. I'm sick 'and tired of the kin~ of "first famiil'.es" we've bee' getting. Everybody tries to take advantage of the position and make money off the rest of us poor slobs. The media bore us to death writing about them, and the thir.gs they say aren't worth reading. They're 1:lsinine."

"What I would have to say about candid ates and politicians in general you wouldn't want to print."

"I'm so f,~d up I don't have any opinions-that's how turned off I am-but I will give you my father's. He's a real partyoriented guy and always has been. This year he said he's had it and doubts very much he'll bother to vote. And he's tired of all these peopll~ who say, 'Vote anyway.' What does that mean? Vote agains': your conscience? Hl~ thinks we should hear from c,thers be~:ides the two running-that voices with other perspective:; should be given equal time."

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HELPING FRESHMEN: Tom Motta, second left, Bishop Stang High School senior and editor of school newspaper, . distributes booklet to freshmen Ronald Jacques, Doris Gurette, Mary Ann Motta, containing floor plans, information about facilities at North Dartmouth institution.

Feehan S,tudents, Faculty Get in Swiing of New Year' Students are getting into the swing of regular acadE~mic, social and sports life .at Feehan High School in Attleboro. An Opener Dance has been sponsored by the Student Council of course, the football and track seasons have opened with a flourish.

Sophomores have taken Diagnostic Aptitude Tests and freshmen were introduced. to the many extra-curricular and enrich~ent programs available to them at a special Freshmen Seminar Day. The highlight of the month for students and faculty was the Opening Mass, celebrated on the feast of Our Lady ,of Mercy.

All students and faculty joined in prayer for the graces and joys of a successful year as pastors and assistant priests from surrounding parishes participated in a concelebrated liturgy, with Father Brian Harrington, chaplain, as chief celebrant.

Last Tuesday there was an assembly of the stu.dent body , for the March of Dimes program.

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Alternates are Sister Mary Evangela McAleer, Sister' Carolanne Theroux, and Sister Rose Angela McLellan.

Sister Mary Noel, curriculum moderator, recently attended a two-day workshop sponsored by the New England A,ssociation of Schools and Colleges to discuss school accreditation procedures.

Oral expression and journalism enrichment materials have been added to the English department under a Title IV federal grant.' A set of 160 slides, tape cassettes and records will be used in English classes and six sound filmstrips and cassettes will supplement journalism courses.

Everybody's high on consolation, Everybody's trying to tell me What is right for me.

I need a drink and a quick decision Now it's up to me, what 'will be.

She's gone, Oh why, oh why?

I'd better learn how to face it.

She's gone.

Oh why, oh why?

I'd pay the devil to replace her.

She's gone, oh why?

What went wrong?

Get up in the morning look in the mirror One less toothbrush hanging in the stand.

My face ain't looking any younger.

Now I can see love taking her toll on me.

Think I'll spend eternity in the city.

Let the carbon monoxide choke my thoughts away.

And pretty bodies help dissolve the memories.

But they can never be What she was to me.

Written by Daryl Hall and John 'Oates (c) Unichapel, BMI, 1973 Recently I lost a friend whose Job called him away. When he left, strange things happened to my world. Suddenly there was a void, an emptiness. I liked the way we worked together and sparked each other's creativity. I w:as accustomed to the comfortable atmosphere that gave us both a great deal of freedom and strength. Then, almost without warning, that was all taken away.

My first reaction was to pretend that things really hadn't changed. But despite all my rationalizations, I couldn't hide the fact that things were different and I could not have that world back again. The feeling was grief.

It has been captured in "She's Gone." The intricate rhythm creates the feeling of pounding confusion that comes with. grief. The song, almost cried rather than sung, shows the depth of anguish loss can bring.

Reaction to grief is rather universal. First we tend to deny it. We hope it will disappear. When the tension of that unreality becomes too great, many attempt to fill the emptiness with anyone or anything. The singer attempts this by letting "the pretty bodies help dissolve the memories."

In "She's Gone," there is the terrible thought of letting "the carbon monoxide choke my thoughts away." But none of these things is a solution, he admits, because "they can never be what she was to me."

He points to his only real solution when he says, "she's gone . . . I'd better learn how to face it."

While this sounds rather cold and hard, it makes sense for the Christian because there is something to fill the void.

That something is the Spirit, who is also called "The Comforter."

If we do not grieve, if we do not let go of the one we lose, or if we shortcut the waiting by filling the emptiness with running or resorting to cheap relationships, we leave no room for the Spirit. "The Comforter" can only come to those who learn to let go and to wait in hope.

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Division Foes Take Warning Somerset Raiders Are Back A glimmer of the glory days of yesteryear shone through Saturday last, when the Somerset Blue Raiders opened their 1976 scholastic football campaign. The 32-6 opening day victory brought back memories of the Raiders riding roughshod through the The'decision was based upon old Narragansett League en sound reasoning. However, judgroute to another circuit ing from the manner in which championship The advent of Somerset treated Division I Durthe multi·team Southeastern fee High of Fall River on openMassachusetts Conference, how- ing day, one has to believe that ever, brought with it a victory Somerset's request should have drought to Somerset football. been taken more seriously.

But, look out! ·The Raiders are In contradiction to tradition, back. which dictates that Durfee Last Winter when the Confer- should dominate "little" Somerence realigned its teams for this set, the Raiders completely domgrid season, Somerset was inated Saturday's contest. Their dropped from Division I to Divi- offensive attack was awesome. sion II because of its poor won- Running backs Steve Billington lost record in the top bracket. .and Norm England ran wild.

At that time, Somerset did re- Quarterback Jim Mullen ran the quest to remain in the large club to perfection. The contest school grouping, but league, raised only one question: Is officials felt the Raiders would Somerset really as strong as it be more competitive in the sec- appeared or is Durfee in for a ond division. very long season?

Attleboro Gathering Momentum for Charge The query will, in part, be answered Saturday when Somerset hosts divisional rival Barnstable.

The Cape Codders lost a tough 21·15 decisiorf to Bishop Stang High of Dartmouth last week and will be prepped for Saturday's contest.

New Bedford Vocational wiil travel to Dartmouth Saturday to meet Bishop Stang in the only other Division II game scheduled. Case High of Swansea will entertain Division I Fairhaven, and Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High of Taunton will be in Fall River to play Durfee in two interesting interdivisional contests.

Coach Tom Crowe of Attleboro may be a little worse for the wear but he's still smiling.

Going into Saturday's game with crosstown rival Bishop Feehan High, his Blue Bombar-

diers are 2-0 and heavily favored to extend the streak to three.

Fourth period touchdowns were needed in both victories which brought about some anxious moments for Coach Crowe.

Barring a major upset, Coach Crowe's charges should have an easier time with the young 0-2 Shamrocks. Another win will give the Jewelry City boys the momentum needed for the beginning of Division I competition on October 9th.

The Division I pennant picture remains cloudy in light of New Bedford and Dartmouth's tie last week. Saturday's match-up between defending champion Dartmouth and Taunton should shed some light on the Indians' future. Likewise, the New Bedford-Falmouth pairing will chart the Whalers' fortunes.

Division III Action Commences Saturday For the past two seasons Fairhaven ruled Division II and for its efforts it was rewarded by being moved up a bracket.

Whether or not the Blue Devils can compete with the larger schools remains a question.

Coach Jim Lanagan's charges have two victories to their credit already this Fall, but both have come at the expense of non-divisional opponents. The Blue Devils will play Case this weekend and Somerset next before colliding with divisional foes over the final six weeks of the season.

All seven Division III teams have been engaged in non-league action during the first two weeks of the compaign. Saturday the race for loop laurels commences.

Old Rochester High of Matta-

poisett has been very impressive to date, and could be the class of the bracket. Dighton-Rehoboth looked good while losing to a strong Fairhaven club. Seekonk, a young team came on to defeat favored Bishop Feehan last week. Wareham. and Dennis-Yarmouth should be competitive within the division. The verdict is still out on Norton and Bourne.

Bourne lost its opener to Falmouth and was idle last week.

The Canalmen will be out to prove they intend to be in the thick of the race Saturday when they host Seekonk. Norton hopes to get on the winning side of the ledger against Hull as it prepares for next week's league opener.

Pope Speaks of End of 'Earthly Day' During His 79th Birthday /

VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul VI celebrated his 79th. birthday on Sunday, Sept. 26, with a simple appearance to pilgrims during his usual Sunday noon benediction.

While reflecting on his advanced age the Pope spoke on the great richness of life.

"We personally, having now arrived at the evening of our earthly day, must thank all those who today have expressed to us their good wishes," the Pope explained to 15,000 well wishers.

"More than ever at this hour," the Pontiff went on, "we want

locus on youth •• Continued from Page Fourteen '''Both parties are off-base where I'm concerned. I'm for Gene McCarthy.

Don't Bother Amy "The media and the candidates are what irritate me. We need some new faces giving us the news. When the media keep hounding children like Amy Carter for answers to questions she neither understands nor cares about, it's going too far. Leave the children alone, and their parents and all their relatives.

What is this morbid curiosity among the American people that they have to know everything about everybody - even things they have no right to know?"

"Both parties have shown us they need to clean house. Anybody want a broom?"

"I was shocked when I read an article in the local paper last week in which Betty Ford said, "I'm dying to see an Xrated movie" or words to that effect. That, coming from the White House, sickened me. She should have been saying she's dying to get them all burned up, and that, to me, would be leadership.

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The feature game this weekend in Division III matches Dighton against Old Rochester.

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silly at the Republican Convention, and yes, the families of candidates can make them look ridiculous. I don't know if I could stand reading any more about Susan Ford and her antics and all that skiing, etc. I'm having a hard time paying my student loans. Why should I care whether the prezz and his family are having a ball? I know I'm not and that's what I'm interested in right now."

"They spend too much money to suit me. They could cut down a lot more in that White House and I agree with Carter, that not only the limousines should go but a whole lot of other things.

'AII this running all over the country at the taxpayers' expense, all that fuel that is used for nothing. I can't afford to buy six gallons of gas all at once!"

"I'm going to vote for either Carter or McCarthy. We need a change from the same faces who like to b;rag about ALL the years they've been there. Well, then, it's time they stepped aside, and stopped hogging the works! All these party hacks should be cleaned out."

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The Parish Para.de Continued from Page Seven ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO An adult discussion group will

begin at 9:30' a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5 in the school bu ilding.

Slides and a talk on the Eucharistic Congress will be pre:;ented

by Sister Claire~ The rosary will be recited ~ach day of October following 9 a.m. Mass. The parish youth bowling team will hokl an awards banquet at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 2 in the parish hall.

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The Couples' Club will hold a dance, "Shades of Autumn," from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Oct. 9 at the church hall on Sanford Road. Music will be

by The Occasions and refreshments will be available. Chairl>ersons are Richard and Mariette Vadeboncouer and tickets are available from David and Vivian Medeiros, telephonl~ 6788065.

OUR LADY OF MT. CAUMEL, SEEKONK

A living. rosary servic,~ and Benediction at 7:30 p.m. will precede the Women's Guild meeting set for Wednesdav, Oct. i3 at the parish center on' Route 44. All women of the parish are ~nvited and refreshments will be served.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, NEW BEDFORD

A Harvest Time Dance will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Oct. 16, with music

by Manny and Anne Calassa, Refreshments will be served.

Tickets are available from pal'ish committee members and at the rectory.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER

The Women's Guild will l:.old a . potluck supper for members at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4 in the parish hall. A meeting and entertainment will follow. Those attending are asked to bring a favorite main dish.

HOLY REDEEMER, CHATHAM

The Association of the Sacred Hearts will open its club season with a membership tea at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 5 in the Catechetical Center on Highland Avenue.

Rev. John J. Brennan, SS.CC., pastor, will speak on plans for the coming year. Hospitality will be in charge of Mrs. Jerome Higgins and Mrs. ·F. Murray Sullivan.

Prior to the tea a noon meeting will take place at which plans will be formulated for "Happy Tuesday" work meetings in preparation for a Christmas fair.

ST. ANN, RAYNHAM

The Women's Guild will hold a potluck supper at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6. Those attending are asked to bring a casserole ST. JOHN OF GOD, or other food contribution, as SOMERSET well as a plate and silver for New Women's Guild officers, themselves. Secret pals will be installed by Mrs. Aubrey Arm- made known on this occasion. strong, Fall River district pres- Further information is available ident of the Diocesan Cou ncil of . from Helene Telesmanick, teleCatholic Women, are Irene Pe- phone 822-2550 or Nancy Rareira, president; .Beverly Perry, posa, 822-0202. . vice-president; Frances Barboza and Mary Viveiros, secreCollege Day taries; Madeline Jacobson, treasurer.

Students from all New EnThe unit will hold its .annual gland public and private high family communion ,breakfast schools are invited to attend Sunday, Nov. 14 and on Thurs- "College Day" at Stonehill ·Colpay, Oct. 14 members will par- lege, Easton, on Columbus Day, ticipate in a district-wide living Monday, Oct. 11 between 9:30 rosary ceremony at SS. Peter and 11 :30 a.m., when sixty repand Paul Church, Fall River. resentatives from Catholic colThe next regular meeting is leges and universities throughset for 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.. out the nation will be on the 20. It will feature a food:; dem- Stonehill campus for consultaonstration. tions with high school students.

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AT CLERGY DAY: At fall Clergy Education Day, centering on an examination of contemporary moral theology are, from left, Rev. Michel G. Methot, arrangements co-chairman; Rev. Robert S. Kaszynski, Priests' Seriate president; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin; Rev. James A. O'Donohoe, professor of theological ethics at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, fea- . tured speaker; Rev. Barry W. Wall, arrangements co-chairman.

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Pro-Life Continued from Page One Throughout the month The Anchor will present special articles on the Respect Life theme.

The program will climax with "Diocesan Pro-Life Sunday," to be observed the weekend of Oct. 30 an4 31 vyith rE~ading of a pastoral from Bishop Cronin at all Masses and with the celebration of a televised Mass on the pro-life theme by Father Rita.

Nationally material focusing on the bishops' Pastoral Plan has been sent to every Catholic diocese in the United States. The plan calls for a three-pronged effort to fight abortion: a public information campaign to clarify and deepen understanding of the jssues; -pastoral efforts addressed to women with pregnancy-related prot\lems and those who have had' or cooperated in abortions; ·arid a public effort directed toward the legislative, judicial and administrative areas to bring about legal protection for the unborn.

The Respect ;Life program is an annual event in 160 U.S. Catholic dioceses. Since its beginning four years ago, the,program has distributed resource materials on topics including prison reform, the mentally retarded, food, health care, the aging, euthanasia, poverty, gun control, amnesty, the family, domestic and global justice, and human development.

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Mt. Carmel Parish in New Bedford, has met to detail plans for the October Candlelight Procession in honor of Our Lady of Fatima.

The event which drew 35,000 pilgrims last year will focus on prayer for justice and peace.

The committee voted to reflect the multi-lingual character of the Fall River Diocese by arranging for the recitation of the Rosary at Kennedy Park and the Prayer of the Faithful during the Mass in five languages.

These prayers will be offered in English, Portuguese, French, Polish, Italian and Spanish.

Along the procession route each parish will offer prayers and

sing hymns in its own chosen language.

An -aid station will be set up in the St. Louis Parish Hall to complement the work of the various emergency aid teams.

In general, the recommendations of Jast' year were readopted with few changes. A special meeting for parade marshals will be held at the Cathedral School on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. The recommendations to parishes and participants will be printed in next week's issue of The Anchor.

Serra Clubs to Meet

CHICAGO (NC)-Half of all Catholic schools and parishes "steal to worship," charged a publisher of liturgical music who has filed suit here accusing Cardinal John Cody of Chicago and five parishes with copyright violations.

The lawsuit could be the first of many-if churches do nO,t stop using without permission material copyrighted by his firm-according to Dennis Fitzpatrick, president of FEL Publications, Ltd., of Los Angeles.

Fitzpatrick estimated that 10,000 parishes across the country are using illegally copied versions of material on which he owns the copyrights.

The 28-count complaint charged that a survey of Chicago churches showed 103 of 182 sampled were using pirated material. According to Fitzpatrick,-lost income.in the Chicago archdiocese totals more than $380,000 over the past 10 years.

Fitzpatrick told the National Catholic Reporter that he was sending letters to all the country's other bishops warning them of possible violations-and possible lawsuits-in their Sees.

Msgr. Francis Brackin, an archdiocesan vicar general here, told NC News, "This could be a very difficult, awkward situation for churches across the 'country," and pointed to a general unfamiliarity with copyright -«'estrictions on the part of the public.

Worces.ter Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan will speak at the openinng dinner of the New England Serra Club conference, to be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 15 and 16 at the Sheraton Inn, Boxborough, under the auspices of the Serra Club of Worcester North.

Workshop programs scheduled for Saturday will consider dissent in the Church, priesthood in a media culture and the bicentennial program of the American bishops. The cOl1ference will dose with a concelebrated Mass. Reservations may be made with Norman Boudreau,-I-C Credit Union, 255 Main St., Fitchburg, Mass.

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