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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER

t eanc 0 VOL. 25, NO. 43

Father John Shea and Sister Carol Ranges, CSW. are the main speakers for the anr,ual diocesan Catholic Education Convention, to be held Sunday ;and Monday at Bishop Conn:>lly High School, Fall River. Father Shea, a nationally known lecturer, emphasizes the role of the story in teaching religion. He is a professor of systematic theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Ill., and director of the doctor of

FATHER SHEA

Wojciech Jaruzelski, the newly elected chief of Poland's Communist Party, is from a Catholic background and enjoys great respect among his countrymen. It is expected that he will play "a balancing role" in reso1ving the tensions between the country's Soviet-controlled government and the Solidarity un:ion led by Lech Walesa. The evaluation came from Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, who returned last Friday from a preaching tour of Poland that took him throughout the country. "I did not hl~ar one negative word about Jaruzelski," he declared. Father Kaszynski attended one day of the recent stormy Solidarity congress in Gdansk, Poland. There he met with Lech Walesa, who he hopes will pay a flyi,ng visit to Fall River next month while he is in the U.S. to attend an AFL/CIO convention. In general, said the Fall River priest, the new government shakeup in Poland "makes little difference" to daily life. He said

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ministry program of the archdiocese of Chicago. His books include "The Challenge of Jesus," "Stories of God" and "Stories of Faith." He will speak at 1 p.m. Sunday on "The Role of Storytelling in Religion" and at 3:15 p.m. on "The Experiencing of Life in the Stories of Jesus." Closing Sunday's program will be a commissioning service for classroom and parish educators.

SISTER RANGES

During the two-day program, over 50 exhibitors will display educational materials in the Connolly gymnasium, which will open at noon Sunday and at 8 a.m. Monday for the convenience of convention-goers. Monday Schedule Sister Carol, a staff member of the Center for Family Learning, New Rochelle, N.Y., will be heard at 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Monday. Her topics will be "Family Systems" and "Trees, Triangles and Temperments." A graduate of the Fordham University School of Social Service, she has specialized in family therapy and was a Catholic Charities supervisor before joining the Center for Family Learning staff. The Monday program will begin at 9:15 a.m. with a Mass at which Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant and homilist. Morning and afternoon workshop sessions will present a wide array of topics relating to the family and contemporary concerns: - Psychologist Hugh C. Boyle Jr., Ed.D., "Healing Family Hurts." An approach to understanding origins, meaning and healing of consistent patTurn to Page Fifteen

P asto]~ evaluates- Poland By Pat McGowan

FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETIS

that the Communist party is sincerely supported by only a small percentage of Poles and that the Catholic church is the true strength of the nation. A Russian invasion is not feared, said Father Kaszynski. "The people point out that the Russians have already been in the country 36 years." What is feared is the coming winter. Waits for food are .already a part of daily Hie, with hours on line often rewarded by the sight of empty shelves and the prospect of renewed waiting the next day. "Some people say they were better off under German occupation in World War II," said Father Kaszynski, "because although food was rationed, it was at least available." He added that hours standing in line virtually around the clock take their toll in absenteeism from schools and work and that food shortages are causing malnourishment and sickness. Such necessities as soap and toilet paper are also rationed, while waits of up to seven hours in gasoline lines are common.

A bright spot is that foods, money and medicine donated to Poland through Catholic agencies "get to the people 100 percent," said Father Kasiynski, although gifts made through other U.S. groups seem to have a spotty record of arrival. The F~ll River pastor preached to priests and seminaries throughout Poland, contrasting pastoral conditions there and in the U.S. He also made a retreat at the monastery of Czestochowa which he said is vjsited by some Turn to Page Two

NOTICE In observance of national Respect Life month, a special section begins on page 3 of this issue. Next week we will salute Vocation Awareness Day, Sunday, Nov. 1, with a Vocations section. For this reason our usual features, including Steering Points, wlll not appear this week or next. Our next regular issue will be Nov. 5. Please send Steering Points announcements with this in mind.

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'Big hang' favored VAnCAN CITY (NC) - The The "big bang" theory, devel"big bang" theory of the origin of oped by a Belgian scientist, the universe was a popu~ar topic Father Georges Lemaitre, a forwhen 30 scientists from seven mer president of the pontifical countries held a week-long study academy, says that the universe session on cosmology sponsored was formed in an explosive nuby the Vatican. clear reaction within a dense, hot According to Jesuit Father globule of gas expanding rapid-ly George V. Coyne, director of the outward. Vatican Observatory, participants "But the big bang did not take in the study week heard further place ,in a given p~ace. It hapevidence supporting the "big pened everywhere," said Father bang" theory and rea<;hed unani- Coyne. "Some people think that mous agreement that it is "the because on earth everything is most accepted theory on how the expanding away from us, this universe began." -must be where the 'center' of the But many questions remain, he big bang was. But everything in the universe is expanding from said. The meeting, arranged by the everywhere else too." -Father Coyne, a 48-year-old Pontificm Academy of Sciences, brought together scholars from native of Baltimore, said that China, India, the United States, cosmologists can See only 10 Great Britain, Italy, France and percent of the univer$e, while 90 West Germany. Turn to Page Two


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