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La Sallette Financial Situation in Jeopardy WINDSOR Canada (NC)-The LaSalette Fathers' Immaculate Heart of Mary province is seek· ing $5 million in interest-free loans from other Catholic Religious orders to help resolve the province's financial difficulties, the provincial superior confirmed here.

LaSalette Father Armand Proulx confirmed reports in thz Boston Globe and the National Catholic Reporter, an inde:-en· dent weekly published in Kansas City, Mo., that an appeal has been made to Religious orders to make the loans to help retire debts left outstanding by the collapse of an investment trust.

An appeal on behalf of the province, whose headquarters are in Attleboro, Mass., has been made in a confidential letter sent to the heads of all U. S. Catholic Religious orders by Passionist Father Paul Boyle, former presi· dent of the Conference of Major Superiors of Man and now president of Stewardship Services, Inc. (SSn, an organization formed to provide information to Religious orders on financial matters.

The appeal was also endorsed

by Sister Barbara Thomas of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Ky., president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Father Boyle has begun touring the country to gain support for the LaSalette appeal and for SSJ. The appeal was accompanied by a 51·page report on the La· Salette province's financial problems and a proposed remedy. The report was prepared by SSI with the cooperation of the LaSalette Fathers.

The report said that the LaSalette province's finacial problems stem from the collapse in 1970 of the St. Joseph Trust, formed in 1970 by the then La-

Salette treasurer, Father Rene Sauve.

Members ot' the St. Joseph Trust, including the LaSalette Fathers, the Diocese of Reno, Nev., and several other Catholic groups, borrowed money, kept a portion of it and turned the rest over to the trust for investment purposes. The trust guaranteed to payoff the entIre interest and principal of the debts.

The investments made by Father Sauve, however, most of which were in high-risk ventures in the Boston area, failed. By December 1972, the SSI reTlOrt said,the trust had debts totaling slightly more than $25 million and assets of about $1 million in stocks. The LaSalette Fathers' share of the debt, according to the report, was $10.5 million.

In early 1973, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notified principals in the trust that Father Sauve's operation was in possible violation of se· curities laws.

The various complaints could make the principals, including the LaSalette Fathers and the Reno diocese, liable to civil and criminal charges, the S5I report said. "But because ·of the lack of malice, the government was willing to waive prosecution providing the participants re-assumed responsibility for payment of their public debt and were able to file a guarantee to that effect.

Failure or inability to comply with this condition would result in goverl1Jlllent action," the report said. .

Bishops around the country aided the Reno diocese with gifts and loans of $3.5 million and the diocese has 'paid off all its debt.

To pay their, share, the LaSalette Fathers undertook to sell much of their land holdings, which were assessed in 1973 at $11.5 million.

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Irish Catholics Near Top In Family Income Ratings Catholic Groups Rqte High in Recent Report Jews and Irish Catholics are the most wealthy religio·ethnic groups in American society, according to an analysis just completed by the Chicago based National Opinion Research Center.

Italian Catholics take third place in the, income sweepstakes and Protestant denominations and ethnic groups lag behind. The advantage of Jews and Catholics in annual family income is not a result of their being concentrated in cities in the north where incomes are higher; in these cities the advantages of the more recent arrivals over "old Amer· icans" is even greater.

The study, entitled "Ethnicity, Denomination, and Ine'luality," was carried out for the Ford Foundation, under a team of researchers headed by Andrew M. Greeley. It was based on a "composite sample" of almost 18,000 Americans put together from 12 separate representative national surveys. Its purpose was to determine whether and to what extent the immigrant grou~s which have come since the Revolutionary War have been able to succeed economically and educationally through the "equality of opportunity" the American ex· periment provided them. "It is appropriate at a time when the last two hundred years are being reviewed," commented. the authors, "to ask how successful this experiment has been and why it may have succeeded."

Annual income for Jews is $13,340 (in 1974 dollars), for Irish Catholics $12,426 and for

Rank Order of Denominations and Ethnic Groups In Family Income - Non Spanish Speaking Whites Only (1974 DOLLARS) Denominations and Ethnic Groups Jews (357) Irish Catholics (926) Italian Catholics (1039) German Catholics (972) Polish Catholics (544) 'Episcopalians (320) Presbyterians (649) Slavic Catholics (549) British Protestants (1867) French Catholics (415) Methodists (1535) German Protestants (972) Lutherans (1105) Scandinavian Protestants (522) "American" Protestants (2479) Irish Protestants (751) Baptists (1825)

Family Income $13,340 12,426 11,748 11,632 11,298 11,032 10,976 10,826 10,354 10,188 10,103 9,758 9,702 9,597 9,274 9,147 8,693

Italian Catholics $11,748. Ger· $125 per year more than Irish man CatooHcs with $11,632 and , Catholics. Methodist, EpiscopaPolish' Catholics with $11,298 lian and Presbyterian families in come next and t'hen in sixth these areas all earn less than the place come the highest income average annual income of Polish' Protestant group-Episcopalians Catholics which is in cities outside the South $11,436.

-who el\rn $11,032 per year.

The poorest white Americans Jews and Catholics also domi· are Baptists whose annual innate the educational scene with come is $8,693 and Irish Protesthe former averaging 14 years of tants who earn $9,147 per year. education and the latter 12.5 Neither the Episcopalians nor the years. Polish and Italian CathBaptists improve their relative olics have exactly the national position when rural Southern average for whites in educational areas are excluded from the analachievement-1l.1 years, hut are ysis. In metropolitan areas' in the most mobile educationally the North Jews earn an annual when compared to their parents. f.amily income of $12,988-only How6lver, among the generation under 30, both Polish and Italian Catholics have surpassed the national average in the proportion of their young people attending college; the national average is 43 per cent (for whites), for Italians it is 45 per cent, and for Poles it is 49 per cent. The Irish, 59 per cent of whose population under 30 atte'nd college, have ,been higher than the national propor.tion in college attendance since World War I. Of 'the Jewish young people under 30, 88 per cent have gone to college.

OCTOBER IS ROSARY MONTH. Erika Polet of Seattle says her rosary before a small statue of Our Lady of Fatima. October is the month traditionally dedicated to the Queen of the Holy Rosary.

The NORC team found that despite the educational and financial achievement of Catholics, there is some evidence that .they are under-represented a,t the highest levels of professional, busi· ness, and academic life. "Irish Catholics," they write, "have the best education and the best income of any gentile group in the country. StiIl, in cities in the North, British Protestants ha:ve a higher rate of occupatiqnal mobUity than do Irish Catholicst'hey get higher prestige jobs Turn to Page Four

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New World and National News Format Page 2

Exclusive Anchor Interview With Frank Sheed Page 3

Bishop Cronin's Letter on the Bicentennial Page 4

Lebanon and the Lebanese Americans are the subjects of the editorials Page 4

TV Programs Worth Watching - A New Feature which will run Bi-Monthly Page 13

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct.

23, 1975

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World Meeting in' Rome VATICAN CITY-Bishops, priests, Religious and laity met here in an eight-day world consultation (Oct. 7-15) to review and project lay participation in the life of the Church. Suggestions and recommendations from some 250 delegates to the consultation will be evaluated by the Vatican's Council for the Laity here during the week of Oct. 20-26 b~fore being sent to Pope Paul VI for his decision. Included was a discussion of women's ordination.

Sister Lucia is in Portugal LISBON, Portugal - Reports first started at Fatima that Sister Lucia dos Santos, the only survivor of the three children who described the apparitions of Our Lady there in 1917, was transferred from her convent in politicallytroubled Portugal to Spain are not true. Sources at her Carmelite convent in Coimbra, some 40 miles north of Fatima, said Sister Lucia, now 68,. has never left P o r t u g a l . -

Monk Killed By Communists ROME - French Benedictine Father Jean Badre, who had been working in Battambang, Cambodia, was killed by the Khmer Rouge in early May after that communist group took over the 'country, it was reported here.

International Fides Service said that Cambodian eye-witnesses who crossed into Thailand in August reported that Father Badre was shot by the Khmer Rouge some time between April 30 and May 3.

Pope Meets Dachau Priests VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul VI received 200 priests from Poland, Germany and Italy who were all prisoners in the infamous NaZI concentration camp of Dachau. near Munkh. Gemvl.tlv.

Speaking in Latin, the Pope told the priests that he "gathered them into a single embrace" together with their fellow priest-prisoners who could not be present.

"Nor, do we exclude those of your fellows who have 'preceded you with the sign of faith and who sleep the sleep of peace,' including the be1.oved Cardinals Beran and Trochta."

(The late Cardinal Josef Beran of Prague and the late Cardinal Stepan Trochta of Litomerice r were prisoners of the Nazis in Dachau.)

Pope Paul told the priests their sufferings of 30 years ago brought them to a special sharing in the priesthood of Christ who suffered for all the world.

Prof. Max Kedem.ann, a Lutheran pastor with the priests, offered the Pope copies of his memoirs of Dachau, and presented his son, Thomas, a convert to Catholicism who is begin-ning studies for the priesthood at the seminary of Fulda.

Of the priest-prisoners, 150 were Polish, 40 were Germans and 10 were Italians.

Irish Bishops Calm People

Urges Communion in Hand

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland - The Catholic and Protestant bishops, of this city joined recently in an effort to calm the people of a suburb where a bombing attack had damaged a new church dedicated to the recently canonized St. Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Irish martyr.'

The bishops had condemned the attack on the church, where pews near the altar were badly damaged.

BOSTON-The Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC) voted here to recommend that the U. S. bishops reconsider Communion in the hand. The FDLC delegates approved the recommendation at the conclusion of a four-day convention in which representatives of diocesan commissions in 50 states compared notes on the state of the liturgy in their communities. The controversy surrounding the Communion in the hand method was muted in 1973 when the U. S. bishops defeated a motion to ask the Vatican to let the United States introduce Communion in the hand. The practice is allowed only in countries which have the Vatican's permission after a formal request is made by a two-thirds majority of a country's bishops.

Claim Church Tax Too High BONN, West Germany - A survey ,recently conducted, by Catholic authorities in Frankfurt reveals that the majority of those who leave the Church do so because of the high church taxes here. West Germans registered with a particular denomination face a "church tax" amounting路 to 10 per cent of their personal' income tax. Of those questioned, half named the high tax rate as the primary reason for leaving the Church, while a fourth voiced personal objections to church policy and a fourth said they simply lacked faith.

Pope Turns Down Wallace VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul, pleading shortness of notice and a crowded schedule, turned down a request for an audience with U. S. presidential hopeful George Wallace. The Alabama governor had asked to be received on either Oct. 17 or 18. An authoritative Vatican official explained to NC News Service: "The governor's brief stay in Rome, coupled with the lateness of the request for an audience, did not allow any addition to the Holy Father's already crowded schedule."

National A Fetus is a Person MILWAUKEE, Wis.-The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has criticized the U. S. Civil Rights Commission for holding that a fetus is not legally a person and therefore not protected by the 14th Amendment. A report by the Civil Rights Commission in April opposed passage of any constitutional amendment "designed to deny the right to terminate a pregnancy" and said such an amendment "would infringe upon the fundamental liberty to limit child-bearing without the due process required by the Fourteenth Amendment." The report said the unborn, at least until viability, are not persons in the constitutional sense, whereas women are. The League contended that the state did not have to establish the existence of a person to justify legal restraint on any activity. ''Dogs, cats and baldheaded eagles are dot persons nor do they have constitutional rights, yet that does not mean that, the state' cannot forbid their slaughter,': the League said.

Catholic Charismatics Meet ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-The charismatic approach to healing should be adopted throughout the whole Church, particularly in coping with disorders where the Church's traditional remedy for sin - will power - is vitually useless, a Dominican authority on charismatic healing said here. Addressing the Eastern General Conference on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Dominican Father Francis MacNutt said the average priest is helpless to aid the homosexual who comes to him with a sincere desire to change his life because "it cannot be done except through the power of God." "What is needed," the priest continued, "is more reliance on the healing spirit of God which was exhibited so freqeuntly by Christ Himself but which has all but fallen by the wayside within the institutional Church in recent years."

Holy Name Society Backs NYC LEVITTOWN, N.Y. - Members of the Holy Name Societies of New York have been urged by their regional vice, president to petition the President and Congress to grant federal aid to ease New York City's fiscal crisis. "Failure on the part of the President to provide these funds may result in foreclosure of homes, business bankruptcies, and cause many big corporations and the financial district to move to other states, leaving behind many residents unemployed and making New York a ghost city," said John P. Kilbride, national association vice president of the New York State Holy Name Societies.

New Community Formed COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new contemplative community, described as "a unique concept in religious communities" because it is composed of core members - Sisters - and associate members - priests and laity - is to be formally established here in November. Bishop Edward J. Herrmann of Columbus will preside at the official foundation ceremony at St. Joseph Cathedral on Nov. 22. In a decree dated Sept. 8, the Vatican. Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes authorized Bishop Herrmann to erect into a pious union the new community, to be known as Carmel Community.

Taunton Women

Pray for Peace Tomorrow, United Nations Day, will be observed by memo bers of the Taunton District Council of Catholic Women at a concelebrated Mass for world peace, to be offered at 7 p.m. at Holy Rosary Church, Taunton.

The Mass will be preceded by a 24 hour vigil for the same intention, during which council members are asked to pray for at least one-half hour at their churches, homes or places of employment.

In lieu of a social hour after the Mass, the district will make a donation to Rev. William F. Petrie, SS.CC. for his work with lepers in Calcutta, India.

Rev. James F. Lyons, district council moderator. will be principal celebrant of the Mass. Concelebrants will include Msgr.

Bernard Fenton, pastor of St. Joseph Church, North Dighton, Rev. Sebastian Slevinski of the host church and other priests of the Taunton district. .Arran3ements for the program have been made by the International Commission of the Taunton district, headed by Mrs. James E. Williams.

Necrology NOV. 1 Rey. William H. McNamara, 1924, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield Rev. Louis N. Blanchet, 1927, Assistant, St. John Baptist, Fall River Rt. Rev. John F. Ferraz, 1944, Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River Rt. Rev. George F. Cain, 1953, Pastor, St. Matthew, Fall River NOV. 2 A Memento for the repose of the souls of all our priests not on this list.

Rev. Joseph S. Fortin, 1923, Founder, St. John Baptist, Fall River Rev. Michael V. McDonough, 1933, Chaplain, St. Mary Home, New Bedford

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Frank J. Sheed Visits Fall River, Discusses Possi6le Changes in Teaching on Penance

By PAT McGOWAN He is 78 and slightly deaf, the result of a fall from an outdoor speaking platform in 1956, but that is the only effect time seems to have had on the indefatigable Frank Sheed, author, publisher and lecturer, who has for nearly 50 years held a major position in the world of Catholic letters.

He was in Fall River for a few days earlier this month, visiting old friends, including liturgical artist Ade Bethune of Newport and Dr.. and Mrs. Rupert von Trapp of Adamsville, R. I., the. latter a member of the family that included the Trapp' Family Singers and later operated' a widely known resort in Stowe, Vt. And with accustomed vigor he had a variety of pithy observations to make on things Catholic, past ana present. He arrived in Fall River fresh from a speaking engagement in Greenwich, Conn., where he talked at three Sunday Masses on the subject "Is There Any Future for the Catholic Past?"

"I pointed out," he said "that the Church of the first Christians was remarkably like ours: no Catholic schools, no fasting, no confession before communion, communion taken in the hand - and ahead of ours in some ways; for instance, a celibate clergy hadn't been thought of. Everyone was married." He added, however, that in his own opinion, "Celibacy is wonderful for priests."

On women priests he declared, "I'm not very interested in the sex of the priest as long as I get Mass and the sacraments. I see no theological impediments to priesthood for women - but because I don't see them doesn't mean they might not be there."

In general the subject of women's liberation is not of consuming interest to a man whose own wife "never dreamed of not being able to do exactly as she wished."

He declared, "My interest is in liberating everyone from his own futility-from the uselessness of not living towards a goal, not using one's mind. Unless you're liberated from that, no other .~ liberation will set you free."

Looking back over a career that srarted in Australia in 1897 and has included founding publishing houses on three continents and writing. more than 20 books, the first published in 1933, the most recent, an explanation of the Lord's Prayer, this month. Sheed said his street corner speaking was the "only thing I was sure was worth doing." He said his publishing flowed from the speaking. "I applied in publishing what I'd learned on the street corner."

Of the recent decline in both Catholic publishers and the appearance of books of Catholic interest, he comme:lted, "One unintentional result of Vatican II was that Catholics thought they could write what they like and many began writing about their doubts, to the extent that in the late '60's it seemed that the three theological virtues had become doubt, faith and charity. But no

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LATEST BOOK: Frank J. Sheed, author, lecturer and publisher, who visited Fall River this month, looks over his new book, "The Lord's Prayer," which "is concerned with what praying it can mean to ourselves." It is latest in over 20 books by the Australian-born giant of Catholic letters. one's going to spend money on books about someone else's doubts. He has his own."

By way of comfort, however, Sheed added "Anyone who can really write will still get a public, no matter what he writes about. The only problem is that there are so few SU9h writers."

He considers himself primarily a teacher rather than a writer and said, "My own view is that my witness to Christianity is so poor that I'd better try to teach it straight. People who think their own lives give witness don't know themselves very well," he added wryly.

"Anybody," he continued, "can be taught to talk intelligently about his faith and unbelievers will listen. Yet no one seems to think it matters to know what Christ taught. There's a kind of eclipse of our Lord and even those who think they're devoted to him aren't interested in what he really was. The Christ of the gospels is totally unknoWn to most Christians and this discourages .me."

Although he considers himself one who clarifies what the Church teaches rather than a pioneering theologian, Sheed feels that important new light is soon to be s~ed on the traditional teaching that one in mortal sin must receive the sacrament of penance before approaching the Eucharist.

"Communion should be for all who want it," he declared. "The traditional text about 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily' is now coming to be seen as meaning unworthy at the time of receiving communion. The

very fact that a person wishes to receive communion indicates that he repents of any previous unworthiness. This doesn't say that such a person should not go to confession as soon as· possible, merely that not having gone should not keep him from communion. After all, our Lord said, 'I am not come to call the just, but sinners.'''

Sheed added that in his view reception of communion should be permitted to those invalidly married. "Many are in marriages which to leave would cause great hardship to innocent parties.

They should not be denied the Eucharist.

Although a Latin scholar and nourished for decades by the old forms of the Mass, Sheed is delighted by the vernacular liturgy, and the "awareness of all of us saying some of the greatest words of the Church and offering our Lord together. It's a glory."

While appreciating change, he retains devotion to traditional forms of worship and he was especially pleased upon attending an October rosary service at Fall River's Holy Name Church to ·note that it ended with Benediction.

His friends speak with amazement of the way in which he has taken the death last January of his wife, Maisie Ward Sheed, his partner in all his enterprises and the person who introduced him to the street corner apostolate.

But his son, Wilfrid, a novelist of note, is not surprised.

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Lebanon This week a new Church was dedicated in Fall River.

The new St. Anthony of the Desert replaces the one destroyed by fire several years ago. The Leboanese people of Fall River are justly proud of this new edifice yet their joy is marred somewhat by the events in their ancestral homeland.

Lebanon has been jointly ruled by the Christians and Moslems since the French ended their protectorate after the Second World War. Now that uneasy alliance appears to be falling apart as the Lebanese Christians are caught in the cruel grip of the violence in which the Lebanese Moslems, the Palestinian guerrillas, and even the Jews are playing a part.

The Lebanese Christians have by hard work and perseverance formed a modern, profitable state. No strangers to suffering, they have long been the victims of violence by the Turks and the Arabs but they have fought to maintain and preserve their own community, culture, and fajth..

Now we are probably witnessing the beginning of the end. The current civil war will more than likely terminate with the Lebanese Christians losing the political power they once possessed. They will become a disenfranchised minority in their own land.

It would seem inconceivable that our State Department owhich has been preaching the doctrine of balance of power for so many years would allow the only Christian state in the Near East to be destroyed but we have seen enough in these post war years to believe that anything can happen.

Let us pledge our prayers and support to our fellow Chrisians in Lebanon. The hour is dark indeed.

The Lebanese Americans o The Fall River Diocese is certainly blessed to number among its faithful the sons and daughters of Lebanon.

Although not as large as some of the other ethnic groups the Lebanese Americans are conspicuous by their inconsumable activity. ' 0

In business, athletics, and the social life of the area they have made a contribution beyond that their numbers would indicate. Their energy which is characterized by their competitiveness has long been noted. More impqrtantly, however, they combine a zest for living life to the full with a warm generous spirit that has won them lasting friendships in every quarter of the community.

The dedication of the new St. Anthony of the Desert Church is a good opportunity to wish them God's blessing upon their community and to thank them for their friendship. It is also a good opportunity for all of us to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in such a great area and to rededicate ourselves to living and working together in harmony so that we may indeed boast that Christ is visible in our land.

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Bishop Cronin's Letter October 23, 1975 Dearly beloved in Christ, In celebration of our nation's two hundredth birthday, the Catholic Bishops of the' United States are' sponsoring a Bicentennial Program, beginning this fall and running through 1976.

In essence, the Program is a celebration of the "American Spirit." There will be liturgical and historical elements, but primarily the thrust of the observance will be to focus the attention of the Catholic people of the United States upon the virtue of Justice, in our country and throughout the world. Under the patriotic theme, "Liberty and Justice for all," the Bishops hope to develop a plan of action, based on broad consultation, by which the People of God will be better able to foster social justice in the United States .in the years to come.

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Under the direction of our Diocesan Bicentennial Committee, initial steps are now being undertaken for our local observance. I urge the people of our pari"hes. the nr(n;'~ ;n O',r schools fl'1.d religiou.s ed1lcation programs and all others to t.ake part in discussion groups, to become involved and to develop a keen sensitivity to the social concerns of our time and to face them in the light of the Gospel.

Parish representatives from councils, guilds and other organizations have already been designated. We are preparing to launch the first phase of the discussion and reflection aspect of our Program. I am confident that sessions will be stimulating. The topics offered for consideration will be timely and challenging. Participants will derive immediate benefit simnlv from meeting and discussing concerns of social justice.

The fruits of meetings on the parish and regional level will be transmitted to the Diocesan Committee and to me. Rest assured that your thoughts and concerns will receive careful scutiny and attention. We shall transmit reports in our Diocesan procedures to National Headquarters in Washington, to assist in preparing the Bishops' National Conference on Social Justice which is to be held in the fall of 1976. Our hope is that the Conference on So,:ial J,,~t!~e "o,:!! be the first step in a process that will provide guidelines and inspiration for the Catholic faithful of our nation for years to come.

Our Holy Father Pope Paul VI has noted, " .. that while the truths about human dignity and rights are accessible to all, it is in the Gospel that we find their fullest expression and our strongest motive for commitment to their preservation and promotion." This touches upon what I consider to be the principal goal of our efforts, a heightening of the awareness each of us has of an essential aspect of our Faith, "LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL." .

With prayerful good wishes for rich blessings, I remain 0

Devotedy yours in Christ,

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., SJ.O.

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Rev. Msgr. John J. Regan ~Leary

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The authors also report that for Italian Catholics the disparity between education and income, on the one hand, and occupation on the other is even more paradoxical. "Their educational and financial mobility is the highest in the country, but occupationally, their mobility is less than average . . . Italians get more education than do other Americans for the same parental educational level and make more money on their jobs than do other Americans with the same kind of educational background and the same kind of jobs, but they do not _get jobs nearly as prestigious as do other American, with the same educational The question background. . must be raised whether there is discrimination against these three groups at their upper echelons of the occupational strata, subtle and perhaps not all that harmful among the Irish, hut rather blatant against Southern and Eastern European Catholics."

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Father Greeley acknowledged that even though the composite NORC sample is the largest ever used to analyze ethnicitv and ine'luaIity, research scholars would like to have better data. "Unless the U. S. census could ask a reli~ious question or funding agen-' ~ies would make available grants for extensive research on ethnic 'iiversity, the present data are the best we are ever likely to have."

Non-white and Spani<;h speak;ng groups were not included in the study because much better 'lata on them is available in the -lata banks and reports of the United States census, Greeley said.

The re"'ort speculates that the c;uccess of the recent immigrant 1rou:-s may be the result of an "overthrust" phenomenon, an intense need for a·chievement. the ~hildren and grandchildren of the immigrants need to do not only as well as everyone else, hut better "because of the sheer, raw power of their elemental 'irive for respectability and success."

Tbe report (to be published "p.l\r J.,,, thp. "flOe Press in Beverly Hills, California) calls for more research on the relationship between culture and achievement in America. They note that the celebration of the Bicentennial would be an approtJriate time "to take a closer look at these unwelcome immigrants, frequently victims of preiudice and discrimination, who have become successful in the Uriited States, to note the fact of that success, and to try to understand what it is in the culture of some that have made them more successful than others, and in the culture of most of them which have made them more successful than the American Protestants which constitute the host culture "'f'vt

. .. the subject is too important intelIectualIy and too critical practicalIy to continue to be covered with a veil of silence."

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BICENTENNIAL SERIES

What About The Family?

Ever try to walk up a goingdown escalator? Difficult, eh?

Well, that is just what some parents feel like while trying to instill traditional values in their children against powerful forces that seem to work against them.

There is a tremendous slippage as the pleasure philosophy, the acceptance of casual sexual contacts, the me-first attitude that excludes awareness of other families' suffering ... all allure the young.

A sense of fear and failing see-IDS to be the predominant feeling among sensing parents. A sen~e that their vocation was eminently worth doing is overshadowed. Society is no longer supportive of the parents' great dreams for their children and grandchildren. There seems to be a cloud of dishonesty or at least silence in all family relationships.

Three things the family looks Lo the Church for: A. RESPECT: The Church must listen to the experiences of those who struggle to bring naturally self-centered children to that stage of maturity where they will work faithfully for the good of others.

The families' description of their concerns must be accepted; their sense of their own identity and solidarity must be surJported.

Pope John's finding, in Pacem in Terris, that the family is the "first and essential cell of society" must be accepted. The Pope asked that to the family "must be given every consideration of an economic, social, cultural and moral nature which will strengthen its stability and facilitate the fulfillment of its specific mission," B. SUPPORT: The more people become aware of the problems and need of the family, the more must they come to its support.

Those institutions that stand ready to blame the family for everything that goes wrong with society are learning that families cannot automatically produce children who will go eagerly to school, who will withstand the appeal of drugs, who will pass through their teen years without getting pregnant or impregnating, who will forbear when other children are breaking the windows of public buildings.

Families too are affected by ,environment. Only together can they construct an alternate environment that is not imposed by authoritarian pronouncement but springs ouf of the needs of persons for a world in which they are truly loved, where their burdens will be shared and where people "level with each other," The denouncement of material things is not enough. There must be created a world in which people can fulfill their need to grow as persons. Children need growing space, of course, but they are not the only ones. No one comes to marriage fully mature. The "crisis of limitations" - that growth spurt in the forties when adults come to terms with the failure. of their expectations and to the reality of death - also needs support.

C. EDUCATION FOR JUSTICE: If one knows what is hap-

pening, he/she can usually cope with growth crises. Parents must be taught how to survive their children's psychic rebirths; they must know in advance what stages their children will go through and how parents can best help their children to cope with these events in their lives. . This kind of education comes naturally in a church atmosphere because parents not only need the information that their children will now cleave close and then break away. They also need to be reminded that those virtues are needed to cope with these often cataclysmic pulses are the ancient biblical virtues of temperance and justice and mercy and long-suffering.

In justice, then, if the Church is going to ask parents to cling to . their minority values in a world where the majority is seeking other ends, then the Church must respect the task of the family, lend the family suppost and foster education on all aspect& of family life.

The only powerful antidote to the lures (gangs, drugs, sex, violent action, etc.) is a profound attention to and a profound care of the individual. This the parents can give if they can gather in a Christian community which can flourish in the shelter of a commanding tradition, refreshed by the emotional lift of liturgies that cement bonds by bringing the faithful together to celebrate their adequacies and confess their inadequacies.

The flourishing community can then support the individual believer who, in turn, contributes his/her day to day life as a leaven of the Gospel in the family, the school, work, social and civil life.

Society's bfferings Neighborhoods that are torn down for highway or rede{.elopment without regard for the impact on families; Companies that move plants, transfer employees and set working hours without taking into account the effect on families; A penal system that punishes prisoners without regard for the innocent wives and children whose sufferings could be alleviated; The possibility that a family can be wiped out financially by medical problems; Housing that is becoming scarcer and more costly; An economy that cannot provide the jobs for all that can handle them or ways to provide family income for those at the bottom of the social scale without affronting human dignity; A lack of adapting to the changing status of women, their role as the head of many families and their need to pursue self-fulfillment.

There is no question that the family is up against a host of obstacles.

Discussion Questions 1. What aspects of American family life give you .reason to rejoice? What aspects trouble you?

2. How does the value of justice upply to the American family? How does the value of freedom apply?

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[I Letters to the editor II Gratefully yours, Look cd Growth Rev. Philip Marquard, O.F.M. Director, St. Francis Village may be sent to: of the Church St.Stamps Francis Village

Habit-Forming Sport Her traditional' habit is no burden as Sister Carolina takes advantage of a sunny day to ski in the Italian Alps.

"Women in Art" Stonehill Exhibit EASTON-"Women in Art," an exhibit and demonstration of fine arts, will open on the Stonehill College campus on Saturday night, Nov. I, from 6 to 8 p.m. and continue on through Nov. 22 in the College Center. .The exhibit will feature dis路 plays by women artists of painting, sculpture, silk screens and photography. In addition, practical demonstrations in such varied arts as oil painting, wood sculpture, acrylic collage and enameling will be presented in the college dining hall. .

The exhibit is being COSDonsored by Women Exhibiting in Boston, (WEB Inc.), and the Conferences and Institutes Division of Stonehill College. .

WEB, Inc., is a feminist -orien,ted network for women in the visual arts with chapters world wide. The organization has had past exhibits in museums and public buildings throughout New England. WEB Inc. is also actively participating in Boston's bicentennial celebration.

"Women in Art" will be open to ,the public. Hours for the Stonehill exhibit in the College Center will be Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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3. What are some of the elements of justice and injustice that you can think of that surround and .pervade American family life?

4. What are some of the elements of freedom and oppression that you can think of that surround and pervade American family life?

5. To try to understand the roles in family life (a) identify as many of the traditional roles of man and woman in marriage as possible; then (b) try to imagine on a normal day all those roles shared equally by both partners; then (c) discuss your' feelings about the traditional and shared roles. (e.g. who "wears the pants", who is "the bread-winner", who is the "homemaker", etc.)

Dear Editor It seems that the secular media-lV, radio and press is always eager to publicize anything which seems to give the impression that the Roman Catholic Church is on its way to oblivion.

Sad to say, ,it uses some of the misanthropes within The Church to give this impression!

Looking at the growth of The Church from 1790 to 1975 should give us a viewpoint which we should let "the outside world" hear more about. The table below demonstrates better the positive thinking we proudly should have about Catholicism in America: 1790

1975

Catholics 35,000 48,465,433 Priests Diocesan o 36,058 Religious 34 20,654 Bishops and Archbishops 300 Dioceses and Archdioceses 1 169 Seminaries Diocesan o 109 Religious o 293 Colleges and Universities 0 258 Hospitals 0 798 As in the entire world today, religion is taking punishmentbecause secularism and materialism seems to have the upper hand momentarily. All religions in America are feeling THAT. However, it was encouraging to read there were 74,741 converts in the Catholic Church in 1973.

Each year we read of thousands who join us in Catholic publications-but we NEVER see our public news media tell us about this! Furthermore, as in all Catholic history, converts to our faith have become shining beacons because they-most oftenrealized. the precious gift they were given, thru the grace of God. Yours truly, Kathryn Ellis Nowak Marion

Franciscan Asks for Used Stamps Dear Editor: May I impose on your kindness to save all cancelled postage stamps, of any denomination, for St: Francis Village?

These stamps are sold and the funds received from them are a great help to the Village.

May I ask also in your kindness, to let others know that we have' need of their canceHed stamps?

Our residents sor,t the stamps preparatory to selling them to dealers. They find much joy and usefulness in using their time doing something constructive for their Village. Our Stamp Project is in continuous operation.

Daily remembering each and every benefactor of S1. Francis Village in my prayers and Masses as well as those of our residents, I am

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Maryland Woman No Shriver Fan Dear Editor Sargent Shriver's recent criticism in East Baltimore of the Catholic Church and people for their efforts to amend the U. S. Constitution to protect the unborn, was both unfortunate and uninformed, and reveals the presidential candidate to be a leading supporter of abortion on demand in America.

Not once in his presentation, as reported by' the NC News Service, did he criticize those who undergo abortion, those who perform abortion~ those who legalized abortions, and keep them legal, those wl10 pay for abortions, and those who work unceasingly in our society to foster an abortion mentality.

Rather he directed all his criticism at a Christian Church and people that have historically led the fight for the unborn, have done more than any other group for the girls/women experiencing problem pregnancies, and who are second to no church or group in their programs for America's disadvantaged. His maintaiI!ing that Catholics overemphasize a constitutional amendment is belied by the fact that for every dollar Catholics spend on protecting the unborn, $225 are spent on helping the disadvantaged.

His observation that a constitutional amendment won't stop abortions is misleading because the experience of every country in the world that has restricted abortion following a period of legalization, is that the number of abortions decreases. His observation that "The people who say that a constitutional amendment would result in more backalley abortions are right," is in fact undocumented and misleading, because legalization of abortion in America has resulted in more back-alley abortions, not less.

Perhaps the most unfortunate part of the candidates remarks were his reference to Christ, saying "He didn't go around trying to get the Supreme Court to change a law." Neither of course, did Christ work for the 13th Amendment, but we trust Mr. Shriver doesn't believe slavery for Blacks to be part of the Divine plan.

A constitutional amendment to protect the unborn will be achieved in America because a substantial majority of Americans, of all faiths, reject abortion on demand. Our task of course is more difficult and may take longer because of opposition from prominent Americans like candidate Shriver.

Mary Helen Gallagher Tacoma Park, Md.

,6 - THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct. 23, 1975 Columnist's B~est Friend Is Jewish Moth,er I'm delighted every time I read about our Church's efforts in ecumenism, especially when the dialog involves' members' of the Jewish faith. When I was in parochial school we were cautioned about associating with kids of other faiths. So I was always a bit confused by the him. They considered him a threat to their authority. fact that one of my best In her heart my friend knew friends was a Jewish girl. what her son was saying was

She's still one of my best friends, but it is more comfortable know- . ing that my Church approves of our friendship.

The Parish Parade PUblicity chairmen of oarish orlanizations Ire ,sked to submit news items for this colurr.n to The Anchor, P. O. BOl 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be I,.cluded, as well as full dates of III activities. Please send news of future rather than Plst events.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT A program, "Plants with Mrs. K," will highlight the Women's Guild meeting set for 7:45 n.m.

Monday, Oct. 27. All parishioners and their guests are welcome ,to attend.

The gu~ld will sponsor a tur路 key whist party at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in the school hall on Route 177. Door prizes will be awarded.

"Las Vegas Night" will take place from 8 to midnight Friday and Saturday nights, Nov. 7 and 8, also in the school hall. A 'luncheon w~1I be included in the admission charge.

right " . . but he was going against the traditions she had grown up with, and making the bigwigs angry.

The authorities drummed up a phony charge against him. His trial was railroaded. They found him guilty. Sentenced him to death. No appeals, no commutation of the sentence.

By And when his body was de- ST. CASIMIR, livered to her, her heart sunk as NEW BEDFORD MARY low as a mother's can.

The Holy Name Society will That Friday afternoon she hit . sponsor a whist party at 8 pm.

CARSON rock bottom . . . but things Saturday, Oct. 25, in the 'parish looked different Sunday morning. haJl at 2048 Aoushnet Ave. It's October. How are your This friendship means much to meditations on the Rosary? Why SANTO CHRISTO, me, Whenever I tell her good not talk to Mary over a cup of FALL RIVER Members of the Council of news about my family, her shar- coffee? Compared to hers, our Catholic Women may bring ing increases the joy. She's anx- problems don't seem so bad.

There is always a Sunday guests to a membership tea ious to know all the details.

And it often leads to a similar morning, if we have the' faith to scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26 in the church hall. Miss believe it. story of her own.

Patricia Oliveira, chairperson, When tragedy has struck, she will be assisted by Mrs. Lorraine has consoled me, empathized, Lima, and Rev. Philip M. Kelly, and her advice made sense. of St. Joseph's Hall, C.S.C. Tough Life North Dartmouth will speak.

She's had a tough life. Her The council will hold' a dance, marriage and pregnancy didn't open to the public, from 8 p.m. come in the conventional order..

If you're a member of Sacred In fact, her husband wasn't the Heart parish, Fall River, you may to midnight, Saturday, Nov. 8, also in the hall, with Mrs. Lima child's father..There were some also be a member of its Conwb,p thought she was "no good." cerned Parents organization and as chairperson. The Jardinieres will supply music and tickets But my friend and her husband may not know it. The new group will be available at the door. shared a love so great they didn't comprises all parents of children HOLY NAME, care what people said. attending Sacred Heart School, They had only the one boy. said Mrs. Mary Lou Viveros: FALL RIVER Project Leisure will open its They saw to his education; the chairperson, and they are curfall program at 2 this afternooh "my son, the Rabbi" dream. rently being informed of its exThen heartbreak. Her husband istence and asked to participate in the school hall with celebradied. She was alone raising the in its' plans to raise., funds for tion of Mass, followed by a talk boy. the parochial education program. on St. Elizabeth Seton by Rev. Maybe because she's known Already under the organiza- Francis McManus, S.J. of Bishop heartache she understands better tion's belt are a successful fash- Connolly High School. A coffee than if she had never been ion show held last month and hour will follow.

During October the rosary is touched. a flea market and cake sale The other day, during a coffee which took place this past being recited at 7 p.m. each Sunbreak, I was talking to her about weekend. Planned for spring is day night, followed by Benedictoday's teen-agers. I sometimes a Las Vegas night and an on- tion. worry about my kids, and I going project will be a bingo ST. STANISLAUS, started comparing mine to hers. game held at 7 p.m. each Wed- FALL RIVER Her son seemed to typify all nesday in the school.

Tickets are available from the the fears of mothers. My friend, The Concerned Parents work Felician Sisters or from any with her husband dead, was try- under Sacred Heart's financial parochial school pupil for a haring to hold things together. When board, which has Richard Man- vest supper to be held from 4:30 her son finished school, he didn't cini as chairperson. The group to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 路in get a job. started last spring "over coffee the parish center.

He got in with a tough bunch. at the Mancini home," said Mrs. The Women's Guild is planning Their goal seemed to be criticiz- Viveros. a Christmas shopping bus trip to ing the "establishment." They "We want to get more parents New York City Saturday, Nov. had all sorts of great ideas how aware of what the school can 29. Participants will also attend. they were going to make the offer," she said, adding that pa- the holiday show .at Radio City world such a beautiful, ideal rishioners without children in Music Hall. Reservations may place. school and parents from outside be made with Mrs. Amelia GroHe was the ringleader. He Sacred Heart parish, of which mada, telephone 672-5464. started preaching on the corners. there are many, are equally inThe parish is sponsoring trips He thought he had such mar- vited to become involved. to Egypt and Poland durin~ the velous ideas how love was going "If you're sending your chil- February vacation period. Furto solve everything. Love. Love. dren to a Catholic school we ther information is available at Love. It seemed that was all he know that you're truly concerned the rectory. talked about. about them and we want to give The public is invited to attend He believed his preaohing you the opportunity to show it," a concert by the Father flanwould change things. agan Boystown Choir, ,to take she declared, Too Many Agreed Further information about the, place at & p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23 The authorities didn't take group is available from her at Bishop Connolly High School. kindly to his telling them what through the school, and she Proceeds will benefit the mainthey were doing wrong. They noted that volunteers able to tenance fund of St. Stanislaus' didn't like criticism. And they give an hour or so of time on a School and tickets may be obfeared people would listen to him regular basis are also being tained at the rectory or from any ,sought. "Anyone who's willing is member of the planning commitinstead of them. tee.

Too many were agreeing with welcome!" she concluded.

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ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD The Ladies Guild has resumed its monthly meeting to be held on the fourth Thursday of the month. A Pot Luck Supper will be held on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at the church hall. The Guild will sponsor a party for the blind on Oct. 28 at their meeting hall.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Guild is sponsoring "The Fabulous Fifities" Saturday, Nov. 8 from 8-12 p.m. at the parish hall.

A Record Hop-Continental Breakfast will be served at 11 p.m. Door prizes will be awarded and the donation is $3.00 per person.

For tickets, please call Mrs. Carol Bell, 763-5681 or Mrs. Georgette Nopper 5-8373.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Men's and women's styles modeled by parishioners will be featured at a turkey dinner and fashion show to take place tonight at'Venus de Milorestaurant. State Senator Mary L. Fonseca and Anthony Santoro will be commentators for 'the event, sponsored by the Women's Guild. In charge of door prizes and raffles will be Mrs. Flo ladicola and Mrs. Anna Borges.

ST. JOSEPH, AITLEBORO Boston Red Sox player Bernie Carbo will be guest speaker at a sports night to be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 in the parish hall. Door prizes will be drawn. Tickets are available at the rectory.

The staff of the weekly parish beano game will attend a dinner theatre program tomorrow night at Chateu de Ville, Framingham. A few extra tickets are available for others who might wish to participate and may be obtained from Rev. Normand J. Boulet.

Cub Scouts will hold a one-day. door to door selling program for Christmas candles' Saturday, Oct. 25.

Knights of the Altar and their families will participate in a trip to Purgatory' Chasm Sunday afternoon, Oct. 26.

A political night, sponsored by the parish will take place in the hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct; 28.

Local candidates for office will present their views.

A junior cheeleaders squad has been formed and will meet at 3:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Wednesday in the hall.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Miss Mary Tyrrell and Mrs. Donald F. Negus are in charge of arrangements for a whist party to be sponsored by the Women's Club at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26 in Father Coady Center.

ST. JOSEPH, FALL RIVER A snipping party wHl be held at the Women's' Guild meeting scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 13.

Members are reminded to bring p'rizes.

The unit will sponsor a meat pie supper in the church hall Saturday evening, Oct. 25, for which tickets are now available.

Eight new members were welcomed to the guild at a membership tea held earlier this month, following a Mass celebrated by Rev. Paul McCarrick, pastor and guild moderator.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER The Home and School Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight. All parents of children attending St. Anne's School are asked to attend.

Young ladies wishing to represent the parish at the Bishop's Ball should submit their names to Mrs. Florence Dore, 32 Dussault St., Fall River (telephone 672-9718). Candidates should be 16 or older and daughters of parents active in diocesan or parish affairs. A name will be drawn at a forthcoming parish function from among those submitted.

A liturgy at 5:30 p.m., followed by a dinner-dance at the school' will mark observance of the school's 50th anniversary Saturday, Nov. 1. Tickets are available at the rectory.

A discussion group is being formed to study the Bicentennial theme of "Liberty and Justice for All." The first session is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2 at the school. All are welcome to attend.

ST. JOHN'S, AITLEBORO Cub Scout Pack 4 will sponsor a pancake and sausage breakfast from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 26 at the school cafeteria on Hodges Street. Tickets may be purchased at the door or are available from the rectory.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, NEW BEDFORD Members of St. John's Couples' Club will attend 5:30 p.m. Mass Sunday, Oct. 26. An installation banquet will follow at Harbor Beach Lodge, with dinner to be served at 7:30 p.m.

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With the advent of wet October and November weather a chill settles over everything and we have to dress accordingly. This season's styles should be perfect for the round of parties and other events that will take place in the chill weather to come, for jackets, sleeves, shawls and large amount of money on clothes because it wasn't my stoles are in. Now that oil money I was spending, and I prices are forcing us to lower vowed that when I had a job our thermostats and get used to a cool house or restaurant the layer.ed or covered-up fashions are quite welcome for warmth as well as beauty.

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The designers must be aware of the new problem of the world's females - how to keep warm and still look elegant and well dressed-for they are creating more and more designs in wool, knits, and heavy jersey for evening wear. Some of the loveliest gowns have long ·.sleeves or a matching jacket that's just perfect to keep you toasty warm while sitting in a drafty restaurant.

I personally love shawls, and I have since they were in style when I was in high school. At that time glen plaids were the rage, worn with a matching plaid skirt, and 10 and behold, no .surprise to those who know fashion always comes full circle, this same sort of outfit is once again back in style.

When I was in college one of my favorite outfits was a white dress topped with a red fringed shawl. The dress was very simple, with long sleeves and a knife pleated skirt, but the touch of red around the shoulders added that extra something. At that time it was difficult spending a

and money of my own I was going to buy a plaid skirt with a matching fringed stole.

Well, life being the game it is. by .the time I could afford such an outfit they had gone out of style. Now of course they are back in with as much chic as ever, only this time they are three times the price that I would have paid when I was in college.

Shawls are so popular and so nice and cozy warm, that even sweaters are coming in with their own matching ones. If you can knit one, purl one, then a short stint with the needles should provide you with a .great-looking stole. If you're very ambitious, then knit a sweater and hat to match-or if you're not, then drop some very broad hints to a favorite aunt or grandmother.

If you can't imagine yourself trailing a stole, then consider buying costume looks for this winter: dresses, long or short, with matching jackets. If the place that you're visiting has turned the heat up high, slip off your jacket or if Yankee thrift prevails (as it must this winter) then back on it goes-and all the time you'll look not only fashionable but complete.

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The new St. Anthony of the Desert Church was dedicated at a special Mass last Sunday. The new church replaces the old St. Anthony's which was burned in a fire a few years ago. Concelebrants of the Mass were Bishop Francis M. Zayek Of the Maronite Diocese of Detroit, Fr. Ferris, Fr. George I. Saad, pastor of Our Lady of Purgatory Church in New Bedford, and Frs. Ronald Bashara and Lawrence Michael, both of Detroit. In attendance at the Mass were Bishop Cronin and Archbishop Joseph Tawil of the Apostolic Exarchate for the Melkites in th~ United States.

Fr. Ferris who has been on loan from the Diocese of Fall River to the Maronite Diocese of Detroit has served as Administrator of St. Anthony's for the past five years. On Sunday Bishop Cronin announced that Fr. Ferris had been transferred to the Maronites and the Bishop Zayek announced that Fr. Ferris had been promoted to pastor.

After the Mass a crowd of 1000 parishioners and friends gathered in the Venus de Milo restaurant where they shared a meal and heard an address delivered by Edouard Ghorra, Lebanon's Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Only Yesterday in The ANCHOR October 20, 1960 Two Military Chaplains, Bernard J. Fenton and Henri A. Hamel were made monsignors.

A visiting bishop in Montreal remarked that, while there may be turmoil in the rest of Africa, all is quiet in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique.

The four Lennon Sisters of

the Lawrence Welk TV Show were pictured visiting a Catholic exhibit at the Michigan State Fair.· Mrs. Lawrence Laughlin, Mrs. Charles Hoye, and Mrs. Edmond Corr all officers of St. Mary's Guild in Taunton welcomed Rev. Kenneth B. Murphy of Rescue Inc. as he delivered a talk in Taunton.

October 21, 1965 The Vatican Pavilion at the World's Fair closed after two years of operation. During that time more than 25 million visitors passed through its doors.

An order of sisters in Los Angeles was in the news because their members wore contemporary dress. The Sisters Devoted to the Sacred Heart were known as the

"plain clothes" nuns. ·More than 1100 graduates of St. Anthony High -- School celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of that New Bedford institution.

George Baker, Patricia Re· gis, Raymond Veronneau, and Mrs. John Dziuba celebrated the dedication of St. Mary's elementary school in New Bedford.

October 22, 1970 St. Julies, North Dartmouth, announced plans to construct a multi-purpose building to serve as its church and parish activities center.

Mike Pelletier, St. Peter's, Dighton, and a junior at Coyle High stumped the panelists on the TV show "What's My Line?" Mike was an egg peeler.

Charlie Deschenes of Sacred Heart, North Attleboro, a former Feehan High gr!dder, was the leading ground gainer for the Worcester Polytech football team.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct. 23, 1975

DAY OF SAIL: Youngsters from St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, led by Sister Julia Mary, principal, enjoy day-long sail in Buzzards Bay aboard barkentine "Barba Negra" out of Vancouver. Built in 1896, the ship is oldest whaler still operational, but in reversal of former use is now on cruise promoting ':Save the Whales" campaign.

Fair in Marion A FAIR TO REMEMBER wiU be held on Saturday, November

8, from 10 to 4 at the Art Center, Pleasant Street, Marion, Mass.

The Christmas Fair which will feature dozens of handmade, home cooked, and home grown items is being conducted by the members of the Catholic Women's Club of Marion. The prices . are reasonable, the atmosphere is fun, and all are welcome to take part in this Christmas Gift bonanza.

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Humberto Cardinal Medeiros of Boston and the Bishops of Springfield, Worcester, and Fall River, have issued the following statement: "We of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, aware of our inflationary crisis in the Commonwealth, pray that our legislators will not lose sight of the personal moral responsibility we all share to provide ways and means to ensure that no citizen shall lack adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care,

and the social services needed to function, and even to survive, during these economically .depressed days. We cannot risk the health and stability of individuals and families who are brothers and sisters under God. "We recognize the difficulty in adding to the tax burden of

Liberty God presses us but does not oppress our liberty.

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our citizens in, any given fashion in the current cycle of inflation and recession. We ask only that any new taxes be carefully evaluated so as not to increase the financial burden on those at or near the poverty level."

In Boston: Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, plus the Most Reverend Auxiliary Bishops Thomas J. Riley, Joseph F. Maguire, Lawrence J. Riley" Thomas V. Daily, John M. D'Arcy, John J. Mulcahy, and Joseph J. Ruocco.

In Fall River: The Most Re~­ erend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop; and The Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop:

The first board meeting of the Fall River, Massachusetts Association for Children with Learning Disabilities after the summer recess was held on September 29, 1975 at 8:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Pat Stoico, President. At that meeting the board voted to hold their first open meeting and present Dr. Hilton L. Fowler Neurologist at the Truesdale Clinic. His presentation will take place on Monday evening at Bristol Community College Campus, Elsbree Street, Fall River, in the Lecture Hall Building C, Room IlIon the first floor. The topic of his discussion will be centered around hyperactivity.

In Springfield: The Most Rev. Christopher J. Weldon, Bishop.

In Worcester: The Most Rev. Bernard J. Flanagan, Bishop; and The Most Rev. Timothy J. Harrington, Auxiliary Bishop.

The gifts excell the virtues, not in what they do, but in how the do it.

St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica

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Looking Out From The Third 'World _.

'peal. I too remain an American. elaborately lettered and adverAnd in a sense the two worlds tised under. the brand name As the second week of Sep- I traveled between this summer "Comfort Castles". Let's nicktember approached ambassadors were but an enlargement of two name this one: "On Not Telling and delegates of two different separate experiences competing It Like It is". The accent is on worlds .were arriving in -New within my own self, the one comfort, on glamorizing the York at the United Nations for which I've inherited and the mundane, and camo~flaging a long anticipated conference be- other whiclJ, I have presently even the ordinary. The message tween leaders of the industrial- adopted. I would suggest that seemed to be that life in America ized, affluent countries and both might be framed within must be at a constant peak of those of the poorer, underdeveltwo major themes which occupy pleasure and luxury. And to enoped nations making up the so- us this year. I speak of the courage this we find euphemisms called Third World. A reading of .• for everything. Assassination "Liberty and Justice for All" the newspaper accounts could program of the American Cathplots by the CIA are harmlessly barely convey a feeling for the olic bi-centennial and the call termed "executive action" and differences represented by the to "Reconciliation" of the campaigns for abortion go under two groups. At the same mo- Church's jubilee year. In the the appeal of "women's rights", ment, however, I myself was view of two so different worlds, But really, isn't a "Comfort traveling' the opposite route;-we must ask ourselves what do Castle" much like an exercsie in leaving the United States after they really mean? I mentioned in trying to make a rose out of a two month visit and returning earlier writing in a spirit of 1 a thistle? There is, however, to Bolivia. And, indeed, in the compassion because everywhere something sinister to it all. It few hours from sunset of one I, went this summer I was meetcarries the implication that we day to sunrise of the next the ing people of all classes and ocdeserve the absolute best every gaping contrast betwee:l the two cupations who typified the moment of our lives. Such a B OLIVIAN CHILDREN play while their parents and worlds commands your attention American spirit with expansive creed rules out any confrontanot like a gentle tap on the hearts, extraordinary generosity, older brothers and sisters work in the fields. tion with discomfort, self-denial, shoulder but more like a brisk and a keen and sympathetic inhunger, and misery. And if this poke in the eye. In a way it was terest for hearing about life here Even for people accustomed to to be distinctive everyone comes really passes as our norm of life only like the final chord to a in Bolivia.

But always, it the mall must be a dizzying out often times looking 50 much how are we to honestly consider background score which accomtoo, there was the feeling of experience because of the over- alike. It must be wondered if cutting the pie differently in panied my entire two months a haunting dilemma: how to whelming abundance and variety one of the maladies of America order to share it more equally stay in the United States after really turn things around and blaring out from displays in all today is its consumerism and its with those who today struggle nearly two years in South yet not have to give up some- colors and styles. But the ma~­ abundance that brings us to re- under poltical, economic, - and America. thing of the prosperity and high ikin is the key, the image of late to each no longer as persons social exploitation? Once we beI have written in previous standard of living to which we "Mr. and Mrs. America" being but as manikins measured by the come narcotized on a pleasure articles to The Anchor about my in America have become so ac- thrust upon every innocent shop- value. and flash of what we own trip i,t becomes almost impossible experience in Ecuador, Peru, and customed. Where the head was per. Often times the manikin and wear. If 50, can it be sur- to cast our lot with the millions . Bolivia giving, let us say, an looking, it seemed the heart was is faceless. Apparently this is prising that we shy away from who suffer beyond our dream American viewpoint on life and having difficulty finding the feet no longer important. It's the the hard questions of "Liberty world living at subhuman levels conditions here below the equa- to follow. And yet that seems to image that matters, the style, and Justice for All" and of of existence. tor. In this article I would now be precisely the sacrifi~ to the cut, and the fit. I recall "Reconciliation" when they call And finally,for my third choice like to reverse the looking glass which America is being sum- from a Greek class of years ago us to recognize again the-digand give some impressions as to moned today in order to solve that the Word for "person" in nity and beauty of our brothers I offer the image that came to \ how America appeared as seen both its own problems at borne Greek also referred to "face" be- and sisters in other parts of the me one beautiful day on Cape from a Latinamerican va'ltage and to alleviate the great in- cause the Greeks obviously 'World who are living in hovels Cod. Several large sedans passed point. My arrival a week before equalities crying out for redress sensed a close connection be· and with only rags for clothes? me on the highway with their the annual July 4th weekend in Asia, Africa, and here in tween "face" and one's personal How are we to judge the infinite passengers encapsuled in' airprobably served to caption as Latin America. identity. It told who you are. surplus of choices and goods for conditioned mini-environments. well as anything what I was to Maybe this explains why a slap ourselves with the situation of Taking a cue from a well known Three images struck me over in the face is still received as a those who have hardly no conti'lually discover: a country Turn to Page Sixteenvibrating between the upbeat of the summer that might be most damaging and hurtful af- choices at all? Has the time come a grass-roots, all-American bi- treated here as symbols expres- front to our own dignity and for us to consider remaking a centennial movement and the sive of where America is at in personhood. Could our era of world more balanced between downbeat of a persistent skepti- 1975 as compared with the other the faceless manikin be a signal the extremes of excess and povcism and anxiety about the less developed areas of the that in our pursuit of the image erty? present and future course of the world.. The first I choose comes for ourselves we are sacrificing The second image I offer was country. One could almost detect from my re-entry one morning a sense of our persona'l identity? ... Cleansers • •. the elements in a classic conflict to the phenomena of the large, Has the madness of marketing that of a cargo being carried on 94 TREMONT STREET of the soul. A country and a suburban shopping mall. It was and advertising prowess succeed- the back of a delivery truck, people caught on the one hand Cinderella and Alice in Wonder- ed in making us more conscious The cargo happened to be a port--TAUNTON, MASS. between its ideal and promises land all rolled into one. But for of whom we would like to be able sanitary unit such as used Tel. 822-0621 the purpose of trying to give which have long sustained and rather than who we really are? at construction sites, but it was motivated Americans almost some observations on American And the. sad irony of this game without falter, and on the other life let's subtitle it: "How to hand what is now a strange Grow Up and Be a Manikin", is that in the fierce competition knocking at the door so we approach our 200th year. For with the turmoil in Portugal on the Where The news every day and the loudening appeal ~ or protests - from Entire Family the fledgling Third World Bloc' Can Dine the very premises of the American way were being badgered Economically and rattled not to mention the shaking of the foundations at FOR home from the aftershocks of Viet Nam, Watergate, and a conRESERVATIONS tinuing economic crisis. In a PHONE word, at home and abroad, it was easy to feel a deepening (617) 675-7185 mood of confusion and uneasiness as the country lay increasor ingly surrounde~ on all sides by (617) 673-0821 serious challenges to re-examine the assumptions of a free democracy within a capitalistic system.

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Says Patronizing Academic ~hetoric Is Unimpressive'

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, It is pretty hard for any Catholic news to be as disgusting as the accounts of the annual meetings of the National Federation of Priest's Councils. But the stories about the gathering this summer of the National Association of Women Religious prove that as "NCR" were accurately reportin most other things the wo- ing the spirit of the assembly). men religious are ahead of By accident I was reading Sister the men in their ability to Kathleen. Healy's superb life of

In a recent television program on religion and the Bicentennial, I started off by saying that the most serious mistake we could possibly make as we approach our 200th anniversary would be to indulge in bland 'complacency about the nation's virtues Well Is Dry and accomplishments. I I could many examples, congratulate ourselves on but one willcite do. In a new book, Bicentennial, we ought to "The Twisted Dream: Capitalist

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God, with liberty and justice for all.

Although that's not a very original proposition, I thought it might help to get discussion started. And it did. But it might have been more accurate to say that our greatest temptation on the eve of the Bicentennial-at least among some self-styled radicals in the intellectual community-is not complacency but cynicism.

It is my impression that a sizable number of American intellectuals are in no mood on the eve of the Bicentennial to indulge in idle boasting about the glories, real or imagined, of Columbia the Gem of the Ocean They seem to be more disposed to flagellate themselves as an 'act of reparation for the sins, real or imagined, of our still relatively young republic. In short, many of them have become extremely cynical about the future of the United States.

Ben路efit for Mercy Sisters A benefit will be held on Thursday, November 6, at Venus de Milo Restaurant for the senior sisters of the Sisters of Mercy.

Proceeds from the evening, which will begin with the social hour 'at six and dinner at seven, . will be used to maintain Mt. St. Rita Health Centre where the senior sisters reside. Dinner tickets are $25 per person and program supporters will pay an addiUonal 路ten dollars. Further information may be obtained from the nearest Sisters of Mercy Convent or .by writing to Sisters of Mercy, Cumberland, Rhode Island.

Overrides Veto WASHINGTON (NC) - The House and Senate Oct. 7 overrode a presidential veto of a $2.75 billion school lunch and child nutrition .bill. Both the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) and the National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC) had ,called for the Congress to override President Ford's veto of the bill.

Developments in, the United States Since 1776," Douglas F. Dowd of the University of California, Santa Cruz, sets out to . prove that socialism is the nation's only alternative to fascism and that "for there to be a socialist society, there must be a socialist movement with .the strength to cause and carry through a revolution." He says that the protest movements of the 60s represented "a period of revelation, not of revolution ... both young blacks and young whites believed and acted, for a while, as though reason and the setting of virtuous examples would move society to fundamental change, almost as though they were priming a pump.

Within a decade' they had learned and others had been taught that the well is dry-or poisoned." He then compares the United States to "an Ol'Idon, whose layers when peeled away finally _reveal little worth preserving."

Insult to Intelligence I am totally unimpressed by this kind of patronizing academic rhetoric. It's an insult to a man's intelligence to be told that there is "little worth preserving" in the American system, imperfect as that system may be. If that's the best that our self-styled radical academicians can come up with on the eve of the bicentennial, it's little wonder that they are regarded with suspicion and disdain by so many middle Americans and even less surprising that they have so little influence in the political arena.

Middle Americans may not be the smartest people in the world, but they are smart enough to understand that the United States, with all its limitations, is not all bad. They also know that, Watergate and the CIA notwithstanding, we enjoy more freedom in this country than do the citizens of any other major country on the face of the globe.

Would that some of our disillusioned intellectuals were equally in touch with reality.

As sociologist Peter Berger put it in a recent article in the Jewish monthly, "Commentary,": "What is badly needed in the contemporary American situation :s a change in the orientation of the intellectual stratum ... An intelligentsia prepared to affirm as well as to criticize America would be capable of playing an altogether different political role ... Perhaps a minimal expectation might be for less selective expressions of moral outrage and for a recognition of the rare as well as precarious value of individual freedom."

To this I can only say Amen.

Women Religious Produce A Case of Intense Nausea

induce intense nausea.

In the New York "Times" article on the meeting we are told that the sisters spent their time

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R. SARGENT SHRIVER, only candidate for the presidency in 1976, says his background as a member of an old Maryland Catholic family gives him an unusual .view 'of campaign issues such as abortion and racism.

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discussing "clothes, sex, men al1d their career," that they talked about the hardship of living on an average $40 a 'month personal budget and "spoke of dreary treks _through the thrift shop trying to find second-hand skirts and pants suits that fit." In the "National Catholic Reporter" we read that sisters are dedicated to the use of "organized power" and that they have become the "conscience of the church."

One of the sisters told the "Times" reporter that she had entered the convent because the church provided "greater potential for women to be powerful~' than other organizations (doubtMISS NIJOLE SADUNA路 less the truth, but a strange sort ITE 37, a Lithuanian, was of vocation). One gathers that sentenced in June to three there was not a single radicalyears in concentration camp left shallow cliche, not a single slogan that was not and three more years in ex- feminist mindlessly repeated at the meetile for reproducing and dis- ings. seminating The Chronicle of The assembly decamped from the Catholic Church in Lith- the University of San Francisco uania, an underground pub- because it was serving Teamster lication documenting viola- lettuce (even though the Teamsince then have shown a tions of the civil rights of sters remarkable ability to win free Catholic~ in Lithuania. collective-bargaining elections).

And Sister Shawn Copeland, who can always be counted on to provide at least one mad caricature per meeting, pushed everything to its ultimate absurdity by warning that blacks faced extinction in the United States. I trust that my record on the subject of the oppression of sisters in the church is clear enough that I do not have to defend myself against charges of being an agent of the Congregation of Religious. When most of the ac-, tivist nuns were holding their peace, I denounced the crucifixion by Cardinal McIntyre of the Immaculate Heart Order in Los Angeles. Women religious are not cheap help; they should not have to live on starvation wages; and they should not have to buy dowdy and shabby BLESSED JUSTIN DE clothes.

JACOBIS (1800-1855), a VinStill, one must wonder if the centian priest and first apos- sisters are doing themselves justolic vicar to Ethiopia (then . tice by such public events as the San Francisco meeting (and I am Abyssinia), will be canon- unaware of any protests against ized by Pope Paul VI on Oct. the press coverage, so I must 26. He was beatified in 1926. assume that the "Times" and the

Frances Warde, the founder of the American Mercy Sisters, at the same time the NAWR was meeting. The contrast was striking.

The brave young Irish women who founded Catholic hospitals in Pittsburgh and Catholic schools in Chicago when those were very dangerous places to be were not much concerned about power but greatly concerned about service. The four who died (three within one day) in the Chicago cholera epidemic of 1850 would have doubtless been surprised to hear that "nowadays you are relying on the hope of things unseen"-as Sister Keating, the new head of the NAWR put it. Did the young women who died a painful death thousands of miles from home and family in 1854 have a hope of things seen?

Times change; and the religious life must change with the times. There is still intense dedication within the sisterhood as / in the priesthood. Priests and sisters must battle for their rights against oppression in the church (an oppression with which I am not totally unfamiliar). But it does not seem too much to ask that when they meet in national gatherings that they de.vote most of their time to the question of unselfish and generous service of others (ALL others and not just the current radicalchic others) and rather less time to making themselves look like self-indulgent romantic narcissists.

Christianity, I -would have thought, deals more with service than with power.

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Marriage Encounter One of these weekends I probably will make a Marriage Encounter. With about 20 of our couples in the parish who have recently completed this obviously plus experience urging and praying me on, it will be difficult not to do so.

By FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN

However, I would like to share my pre-Marriage Encounter observations with readers who have never heard of the movement or who are turned off hy the "hugging and kissing" of encountered couples or who feel interested, but app,rehensive about the 44-hour weekend event.

From what I have observed the encounter is to make good

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marriages better, not to save sour unions or work miracles for emotionally troubled persons; couples will not understand what the weekend is unless they experience it themselves; participants return almost universally positive and highly enthusiastic路 about their encountered couples manifest a sudden and profound growth in love for others, interest in the parish, joy in their hearts.

The latter points, particularly this new concern for others and willingness to serve, speak rather convincingly to me. Joy and a swift surge of emotional enthusiasm are, of course, good signs, but often they fade fast and lack staying power. Unsel路 fish love, on the other hand, is a sure sign of God's presence in a person or movement.

In the past few years I have witnessed several remarkable incidents of that self-giving spirit among encountered couples ,;, I met after 17 years the first couple whose marriage cerTurn to Page Thirteen

Solidifying Kingship

By Rev.. John J. Castelot, 5.5.

David, the able warrior king, had succeeded in suppressing all of Israel's enemies. Solomon profited by the situation to build up his country from within. The first book of Kings opens with an account of his glittering reign.

He was admirably fitted for the task which faced him. A wizard at administration, his astuteness in this regard won him an imperishable reputation for wisdom.

Under his direction, a unit.ed Israel reached the peak of its glory.

But for all his wisdom, he was limited in vision, and the means he employed to develop his country, while immediately and spectacularly successful, eventually boomeranged and brought about a situation which was little short of ruinous.

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off the old block. He was not a solider; fortunately for him, he did not have to be: He lacked his warm-hearted father's sincere feeling for his people; on the contrary, he alienated them slowly but surely. He was an administrator, a builder, and a businessman. His own place was the last word in orientai luxury, and the temple, which replaced the portable tabernacle, was the glory of Israel. It has been suggested, however, and with some probability, that the latter was meant to be a sort of "Royal Chapel," and adjunct to the palace. Be that as it may, it did actually become the center of Israel's religious life, the proud symbol of the true religion, the official locale for the worship of Yahweh. At the same time, howTurn Ito Page Twelve

What makes a nation great?

Not magnificent buildings or monuments in the capital city.

Not flourishing business operations at home or abroad. Not mighty armies or armaments. Not even high culture or arts. Only one thing makes a nation great -its people. This is such a simple lesson and yet it has frequently been forgotten in history. As the story of Solomon and his kingship illustrates so well, an effort to make a nation great is doomed to -failure if the most important resource, its people, is neglected.

By FR. PETER HENRIOT

We need to apply this lesson here in the United States as we move toward celebrating the Bicentennial of our nation's Founding. We have become the nation we are today because of our people. Our futllre rests not with our economic prosperity nor our military might, but only with the character of the men and women who make up our citizen body.

The most notable feature about our people is our great diversity. The coins we carry in our pocket tell us this message very clearly: "e pluribus unum," from many, one. From many different sections of a continent, ,one unified country. From many different nationalities and racial backgrounds, one united people.

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The Bible路 and Life

Joan lay paralyzed in a路 hospital bed that looked more like an instrument of torture. Her head was pulled back by heavily weighted ropes. Her legs were stretched with other weights.

Young, bright, pretty, she lay motionless, aware that she would probably never be able to move again.

By FR. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J.

A MODEL shows the splendid temple of Solomon (triple-towered structure left center) and its environs. The majestic buildings, which took 7 ~ years to complete, stood for three centuries until burned down by Nebuchadnezzar's soldiers in 587 or 586 BC.

CHILDREN FROM VARIOUS ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS join in a tug of war during a neighborhood party in Columbia, Md. "The most noticeable feature about our people is our great diversity. The coins we carry in our pocket tell us this message very clearly: 'e pluribus unum,' from many, one."

When I met Joan on my rounds as temporary hospital chaplain, she had been paralyzed for over three months.

About 10 weeks :before, her small car had been demolished in a serious accident on an Illi-

nois highway. She was rushed to the closest hospital. That 'is where ! came to know her.

Joan had been married hardly a year. She and her husband had an apartment in New Jersey where they both worked. When it became clear the extent and seriousness of her injuries, her husband quit his job, moved to Illinois, found a room near the hospital and a part-time job.

George spent every evening at the hospital. When I came byeach evening, the two were always close together. George sat on a chair by the bed and held his wife's hand as he read to her.

I noticed that he was always reading the some book of the Bible, the letter of Paul to the Romans.

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The majority of our people came to this country as immigrants from Europe. Besides descendants from the original French and English colonial settlers, we are Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans, and other Eastern European-Americans. Enriching us with many non-European traditions are many Asian-Americans.

Black Americans from Africa, both as slaves and as free people, have enriched our economy and culture. Spanish-speaking Americans, long-time settlers in in the southwestern part of our country, are a growing part of our population. And of course the Native American, the Indian, was' here long before any others came to these shores.

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People Make the Nation Continued from Page Eleven There is a sociological theory which refers to the United States as a great "melting pot." Ac-

cording to this theory, everyonc gets thrown into the pot and comes out pretty much the same.

All sharp distinctions, all unique characteristics, fade away. But as a matter of historical fact, this process has not occurred in the United States-and we can be I was touched by how the two of thankful for that! The various them were coping with a terrify- ethnic and racial groups which ing tragedy. I was moved by make up the rich diversity of Joan's peace in the midst of our nation have managed--often what must have been a dreadful. with great effort-to survive any daily torture. "melting pot" operation. And in One evening George and I ate recent years, these groups have supper together in the hospital become increasingly aware and cafeteria. He told me how hard proud of their heritages. All of the whole experience was for us need to recognize the special him. He confided that if it were contributions which different not for the Bible, he could not groups have made and continue find reason or courage to go on. to make to our nation.

It was the nightly sharing with Yes, we have much t6 be Joan the profound words of St. Paul in the eighth chapter of proud of in the United States. the Letter to the Romans that But we cannot sit back complathey both found hope. Paul's cently and overlook our own words of hope, his expresssions faults. There is some similarity of total confidence that nothing in our time to Solomon's time. could separate one from God's We, too, have grown rapidly. We love, helped George and Joan have become a wealthy nation. make some sense out of what But in the midst of our prosperTHE BEST KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THE WISDOM seemed' so senseless a situation. ous land, there are people who OF SOLOMON, his decision in the dispute between the two The Bible helped them find a are desperately poor. way to live in what appeared a And modern technology has womeri who both claimed the same baby is recorded in this death-dealing experience. spread a picture of the entire 19th century engraving from Paul Gustave Dore's The Bible, Those two yong people taught world before us. In conscience, Illustrated. me something I've never forgot- we must add the poor of the rest ten, something that has helped of the world to our own burden. me in my own life as well as in my work as a religious educator.

We have witnessed racial unThey showed me that the Bible rest, drugs, political corruption to support himself and his huge Continued from Page Eleven must be read in relation to one's in our own country. Mode~ me- ever, he erected shrines to pagan harem in the style to which life. They taught me that the dia informs us that these prob- gods for the convenience of his neighboring potentates were acBible is really about the mystery lems are worldwide. Added to non-Israelite concubines. customed. of daily experience. It is not a this is a continued search for There is something sharply On the administrative level, the book of theories, it is a book peace among the nations of the ironical in the picture of a king king divided the country into 12 about experience. It needs to be world. districts and- appointed men to of Israel married to a daughter read as it was written, as an Never has the call for Chrisrun them, thus giving birth to of the Pharao and imposing upon interpretation of life's meaning tian witness been more clear. a bureaucracy. He established his own people the forced labor in the light of God's reality. diplomatic relations with foreign to which the building program of How can we answer this call? countries-his marriage to the the pharaos had subjected them, For Joan and George, St. Paul was talking about their lives and What can you, one person, do daughter of the Pharao of Egypt and from which they had eswhat sense there can be in a' alone?

Was a stroke of genius-and in- caped, two centuries before. The senseless, tragic accident. Paul You can begin by taking a stituted a flourishing program of smoldering resentment of the was helping them discover the good look in your own neighbor- international trade. In the latter people was ready to blaze into hand of a caring God present to hood and the areas surrounding venture he entered into a part- a social crisis of fiery proporhelp them face the results of an nership with Hiram, king of tions. The old tribal rivalries awful accident. As they read you, in your parish. Do you see Tyre, an important Mediterra- were beginning to reassert thempeople in need? each evening the two found selves; the northerners, especialnean port. meaning, courage, hope because You can search your own soul ly balked at being practically enSolomon's copper refineries at slaved by a Judean king who of Paul's words. They also began and answer a pertinent question: to understand the Bible in a new "Do I have prejudices against Ezion-Geber (at the head of the made no secret of his favoritism way because of their suffering. people who are different from Gulf of Agaban) were discovered amonp members of his own tribe.

So the Bible is meant to be myself?" If you do, the chances in 1938. While there was little Around the 24th year of his read and understood. Day-to-day are that your prejudices spring danger from foreign enemies dur- reign, an 'Ephraimite by the experiences-sorrow, joy, birth, from a lack of knowledge. This ing his reign, he was wise name of Jeroboam, with the death, suffering, pleasure, work, Bicentennial period is a good .enough to carry out an extensive backing of the prophet Ahijah, play, love, hate, freedom, sin- time to become more familiar preparedness program. Cavalry instigated a rebellion. It failed, can help us grasp the meaning of with the true greatness of our and chariot detachments manned but he managed to escape to the Bible because the Bible is people celebrating the rich di- all the strategic spots, and the Egypt, there to bide his time. about day-to-day living. Famil- versity of our backgrounds and garrison at Magiddo, overlooking This was a storm cloud on the iarity with the Bible, read in heritages. Some excellent infor- the vast plain of Magiddo, has horizon. It cast a disturbing - relation to life, can be a great mation and resources can be ob- been excavated and is remark- shadow on the glitter of the' help in, finding one's way tained from the National Center .,ably intact: hitching posts, stalls, capital of the United 'Kingdom, through the confusing, shadowy' for Urban Ethnic Affairs (4408 feed troughs are all there for the and the lightning which was paths of life. soon to flash from it would split Eight Street, N.E., Washington, visitor to see.

For example, the story of D.C. 20017); the National Office Peace and prosperity, two that kingdom in two and begin a Abraham is about MY faith, that for Black Catholics, 734 15th camels in every garage-if you process of disintegration destined of Moses and the exodus is Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. happened to belong to the mon- to end in the ruin of both North about OUR struggle for freedom. 20005; and the Spanish Secreta- eyed aristocracy or bureaucracy. and South. Solomon had brought The story of David's sin is about riat of the U. S. Catholic Confer- But of course very few did, and Israel to the heights, but in such sin in all of our lives. Adam and ence, 1312 Massachusetts Ave- this made for restlessness and a way as to give it its initial Eve are you and me. What nue, N.W., Washington, D.C. discontent. Things had changed push into the depths.

Jesus says about blindness is 2005. too quickly: from tents to houses For all his pompous declaraabout my own lack of vision and to estates. Overnight sharply dis- tions of loyalty to Yahweh, for You can take an active inter- parate classes had sprung into insight. all his showy supplications for Therefore the key to under- est in politics. Know what a can- being: a few rich and many wisdom in the government of his standing the Bible is to approach didate stands for. Stand by your poor, and the poor were under- people, he was not what one it in direct relation to daily life. convictions and, if necessary, standably far from happy about would call a godly king~ The inLife heips us to grasp the mean- let your voice be heard" the situation. To facilitate his spired authors who documented ing of the Bible. The Bible helps far-flung building program, the his reign were reassuringly frank The list of what you can do us penetrate the mystery of life. king had conscripted forced la- in their appraisal of his characFor that awareness I thank a could go on and on. Only one bor-from all the tribes but ter, but they did give him credit young paralyzed woman and her question remains: Will you an- Judah: a fatal error. Exorbitant for his material contributions to faithful husband. swer God's call? . taxes were necessary if he was the growth of his realm.

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Viewing Plan WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Catholic Conference administrative board has sharply criticized the new network television "family viewing" plan.

The board &aid that, the plan depends on "self-regulation by the broadcast industry" and that the networks have not demonstrated a commitment to an "open, accountable" and cooperative procef>s" necessary for effective self-regulation.

The board also questioned whether such a commitment is possible for the networks because of the "impact of commercial pressures upon their program decision-making."

The family viewing plan, launched this season by the three major networks, provides that the first hour of network entertainment programming in prime time, as well as the immediately preceding hour, generally not contain material judged un· suitable for younger family members. "Viewer advisories" are to accompany exceptions.

The family viewing policy is the result of conversations earlier this year between Federal Communicatins Commission (FCC) chairman Richard Wiley and network officials.

Plans Committee For Black Catholics SAN DJEGO(NC)-A special committee concerned with black Ca.tholics is to be set up by tlie San Diego diocese.

Bishop Leo T. Maher of San Diego has approved a policy recommendation from' the twoyear-Old diocesanwide synod that "a diocesan committee of black CathO'\!ics should be established."

The committee, made up of black laity, clergy and Sisters of the diocese, would function "a'S a resource and advisory board to the bishop and the Christian community regarding Mack Catholics," according to the policy recommendation from the synod commission.

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Archbishop Lamy Subject Of Monumental Biography

Marriage

One of the greatest figures in American Church history has finally been given his due. He is John Baptist Lamy, first Bishop and first Archbishop of Santa Fe. New Mexico, who was born in 1814 and died in 1888. He is the subject of a monumental biography, Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Hor- ' was rough country, and dangerous. Finally, on Aug. 9, 1851, gan (Farrar, Straus and Gi- Lamy arrived in Santa Fe, six roux, 19 Union Square West, months after having set out. En

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tryman and lifelong friend Joseph Priest Machebeuf. In 1839, they volunteered to go to America at the invitation of Bishop John Baptist Purcell in whose diocese they would serve.

The ocean journey to New York took 44 days, and after that came the trek through wilderness. Arrived in Cincinnati, they were immediatly given parishes. This meant that they were assigned areas where there were patchy settlements of Catholic pioneers.

Great distances had to be covered, at first on foot. Building had to be done. The means available were skimpy. And it took some time for Lamy and Machebeuf to attain any proficiency in English.

They were extraordinarily zealous and generous, working endlessly and putting up with assorted hardships. In 1847, the year in which Lamy became an American citizen, PurcEilI appointed him to an area of Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.

Mexican War Meanwhile, in 1846, the United States had been at war with Mexico, and as a result, in 1847, a large section of Mexico was ceded to this country. It included present day New Mexico. In 1849, the American bishops asked Rome to establish new American sees, to keep pace with the nation's expansion. One of these was to center in Santa Fe. Lamy was named vicar apostolic for that, with the order of bishop. He was consecrated in 1850, and persuaded Machebeuf to come with him as his vicar general. Lamy proceeded to Santa Fe by a route which seems p"eculiar to us today.

He went down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where he purchased an array of essentials.

He ,then boarded a boat which would cross the Gulf of Mexico, headed for the port of Idianola, Texas. Before reaching there, the vessel was wrecked. Passengers arid crew were saved, but Lamy lost almost everything he was taking to his new post.

There followed an overland trip, with an army caravan. This

route he had been studying Spanish.

Santa Fe was still predominantly Mexican in character, governed and garrisoned by Americans. It was isolated, and entirely different from anything in . Lamy's experience. There were some 70,000 'Catholics,' including Indians, and only nine active priests.

What a beginning! The question of jurisdiction was eventually setUed, although there were to be -some difficulties about it until 1874.

Lamy was a very patient man.

He was also resourceful. He kept on .bringing in priests, mostly from Europe, and he outlasted the rebels. He also recruited nuns, mostly American, and Christian Brothers, who taught in schools which he built.

Machebeuf, his unfaltering support, once said that his own life was spent in the saddle.

And much the same could be said of Lamy. He kept moving about New Mexico, went several times to Europe in search of clergy and religious as well as financial help. Such help was liberally provided, especially by the Society for the 'Propagation of the Faith, in France. He also made, almost every year, a beg-' ging tour in the United States.

He escorted parties .of newcomers across the plains, where cholera was rampant, and the desert, a long and perilous journey, with constant likelihood of Indian attack. Once he and his party were reported to have been slaughtered on an Indian ambush. The ambush had indeed occurred, and a fierce battle had ensued, gut the Indians had been routed.

Masterly Portrait Mr..Horgan says of him, in concluding his book, "Not a philosopher, not a sophisticate, Lamy was an unquestioning perpetuator of the values of almost two thousand years of faith, set forth in every august expression of liturgy, as well as in the daily simplicities of the peasant village life into which he was born like any other local child - except that upon him were visited a form of energy and a need to' express it which other children of Lempdes did not receive. The mystery abides."

This book, resulting from 20 years of labor by the author, comes happily at the nation's Bicentennial. It provides a masterly portrait of a major contributor both to the national heritage and to the American Catholic heritage. It brilliantly describes a part of the country which has a rich, if little appreciated history, and a high and distinctive kind of beauty. It acquaints us with a deep-rooted minority culture which is an undervalued component of our common cultural culture. .'"

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MEMBERS of· the Bishop's Charity Ball from the New Bedford area are left to right: James Gleason, Holy Name, Mrs. Edward Bobrowiecki, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, pastor of St. John the Baptist, Miss Mary E. LaRoche, St. Julie's, V. Vincent Gerardi, St. John the Baptist.

TV Programs Worth Watching Thursday, October 23-9:00-11:00 p.m. (CBS) BABE. Susan Clark stars in the life story of the country's outstanding woman athlete of all time, Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Joanna Lee's script is directed by Buzz Kulik.

Friday, October 24-8:00·10:00 p.m. (ABC) SOUNDER. First television broadcast of the highly-praised 1972 movie starring Cecily Tyson as a mother trying ,to keep her family together during the Depression.

Sunday, October 26-7:30-8:30 p.m. (PBS) THE IN~RED­ IBLE MACHI~E'r New techniques in medicine and micro· photography have made possible this amazing exploration of the inner.most organs of the human 'body and of the complexity of their functions. This is the first National Geographic Special to be made for public television broadcast.

Sunday, October 26-9:00-12:00 p.m. (ABC) THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER. A repeat of last year's award-winning dramatization of the international tensions during the two-week period in 1962 when the U.S. and the Soviet Union went to the brink of nuclear war over missile installations in Cuba.

Sunday, October 26-5:30-6:00 p.m. (PBS) THE PEEP SHOW. A delightful look at the prehistory of the motion pictures is provided by this program about ninet,eenth-century optical illusion devices such as the thaumatrope, praximascope, and the zoetrope.

Monday, October 27-7:30-8:30 p.m. (PBS) ANCIENT AFRICAN KINGDOMS. An overview of ancient civilization in the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, highlighting their rise to prominence and aspects surrounding their fall, is presented on the new black series, "Say Brother."

Friday, October 31-9:00-11:00 p.m. (ABC) WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST! Asa Halloween treat, ABC reo creates the circumstances of Orson Welles' trick on the American public when his legendary 1939 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" sent people scurrying for safety from invading Martians.

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Continued from ~ge Eleven emony I had performed as a young priest. They were and are delightful persons, but the husband was never a particularly faithful Catholic nor the wife much of a practicing Protestant.

Marriage encounter changed that and they drove 40 miles with their family on a Sunday afternoon to tell me this. '" On a trip, to Philadelphia's Malvern Retreat House for a next day lecture, I stopped at a restaurant for a quick dinner alone. Several happy couples and a priest spotted the unknown cleric sitting by himself and invited me over for dinner.

They had just concluded "giving" an encounter and, again, I heard testimony of persons alienated from the Church now reconciled and active in it.

Afterwards (following the usual warm embraces) one couple, despite inconvenience, drove me to the retreat house and later wrote this columnist a beautiful letter about our meeting. '" At an information night in our parish, an out-of-town husband spoke quietly to me· of how he had made his first confession in eight years during a weekend encounter. * One of our couples with 10 children were anxious to make an encounter, but understandably concerned about care of the boys and girls for those FridaySunday hours.

No problem. An encountered couple from a nearby city with five of their own took the 10 and, aided by others, hosted them for the entire weekend.

Love begets love. Upon their return our newly encountered, visibly changed and highly enthusiastic parents of 10, a few weekends later, hosted another family of youngsters while their dad and mom made the weekend. '" "Tom, have you noticed any difference in your parents since they made the weekend encounter?" My fifth-grade altar boy smiled, nodded yes, and replied they were much friendlier. * Archbishop Whealon of Hartford, following his own encounter weekend wrote: "Marriage Encounter is a powerful spiritual and human experience, deserving highest recommendation to couples of all ages, to priests and religious. It is also a force-I hope and pray-to be reckoned with in parish life of the future.

Solomon asked God only for an understanding heart. He received that from the Lord and much more besides.

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Stang Students Reh'ea rse Play

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The Bishop Stang "Gateway Players" are in rehearsal for the first dramatic production of the season, Agatha Christie's puzzlemurder, "Ten Little Indians."

The play will be presented at the North Dartmouth campus Thursday ,tbrough Sunday, Nov. 13 to

LYIN' EYES

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City girls just seem to find out early How to open doors with just a smile A rich old man and she won't have to worry She'll dress up all in lace and go in style.

Late at night a big old house gets lonely l -guess every port of refuge has its price And it breaks her heart to think her love is only Given to a man with hands as cold as ice.

So she tells him she must go out -for the evening To comfort an old friend who's feeling down' But he knows where she's going as she's leaving She is headed for the cheating side of town.

You can't hide your Iyin' eyes And your smile is a thin disguise Thought by now you'd realize There ain't no way to hide your Iyin' eyes.

She gets up and pours herself a strong one And stares out at the stars up in the sky Another night it's gonna be a long one She draws the shade and hangs her head to cry.

My oh my you sure know how to arrange things You settled his old will so carefully Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things You're still the same old girl you used to be.

You can't hide your Iyin' eyes And your smile is a thin disguise Thought by now you'd realize There an't no way to hide your Iyin' eyes. .

by D. Henley / G. Frey «c) Benchmark Music/Kicking Bear Music 1975 ASCAP, So many people 'feel the need to escape from their lives.

It may 'be that the work is too heavy; or the husband nags; or the coming test frightening; or the person wishes she was more attractive. The desire -to escape is fairly widespread.

I have come to ·believe that the desire to fle~ life's pressures faUs very heavily on one particular group of people. That group is composed of those persons who are highly talented or have attractive personalities. It is startling how many gifted persons have severe emotional problems. Initially you would not expect that insecurity WQuid weigb so heavily on those who are capable. And yet the great stars of Hollywood, the executives of the most prominent industries, the local beauties who win all the contests, all show a high incidence of suicide or marital instability or drinking problems.

One of our recent columns commented on "At Seventeen," the song which left the glories of love to the beautifu'l people.

This article offers -the balance to that statement. It says that love Is difficult for everyone. There are unique pressures that come to bear on the talented person.

When a person has something going for him or her, it seems that everyone expects more. The pressures mount because other people impose additional responsibmty on that person. The great football running back finds that he carries not only the ball, but the ball game. The beauty queen finds that she represents not only herself, but her school, her city, her state, and so on. The fine writer is given more and more work until he no longer has the time to gather e~perienc~s about which to write. What happens to an incredible number of -these people is that they develop high walls around their emotions, dsolating themselves from relationships in order to escape their frustrations.

"Lyin' Eyes," -a song by the Eagles, is a straightf.orward word on flight from life. The girl with the easy smile attempted to escape -life's pressures by marrying the rich old man. Ironically the marriage causes more need for esca,!)e.She aches inside herself and is driven -to the classic methods of fleeing, drinking _and infidelity.

The Eagles sing it caustically: ". . . every port of refuge has its price."

The key lines come in the last verse: "Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things. You're stH! the same old girl you used to be." The Eagles are singing that there is no running from -facing your life; if you do choose to run you can look for destruction to set in. Escape always catches up with the person who Hes to others and to himself.

There is not really space enough here to raise the questions about so deep a mystery as the insecurity of the· human person or why it is that people always push themselves, never being saHsfied with who they are. Let me point out, together with the Eagles, that there must be a less destructive way of living. "Thought by now you'd rea-lize there ain't no way to hide your Iyin' eyes." .

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The story, one of Christie's long-running London playbill -sijccesses, places 11 strangers together on -an island off the coast of Devon, in England, murders them all, and challenges the audience to discover "how and who done It." The play -features Anthony .Michaud and Gretchen Varkony, from West,por,t; Tim Crumbleholme, Paul Morse, David Flanders, Elizabeth Cabral and Paul Swiscz from New Bedford, Nina Catelli from Fairhaven, Elizabeth Sweeney of Marion, and Michael Rymseyof North Dartmouth.

Producing and directing the is Gerald Morrissey of New play THERESA CASTRO awards Roger Suprenant with FeeBedford, a member of the Stang hanite of the month. In the background are some of the faculty.

prizes for the fundraising project. (Photo by Thomas Blythe)

Offer Lipreading At Stang High

Feehan Students Raise Funds Keep Tuition Down

By CAROL MOORE Today is Friday. Feehan's school week just ended about five minutes ago with the 2:00 bell. The voices, footsteps and noises have been fading with the slamming of doors, and now the school is ~ almost completely quiet.

This week has been a busy one. Tuesday, we had an assembly for the March-of-Dimes Walka-thon. A representative frwn the March of Dimes asked' for support from Feehan's student body ... "to walk, so that some· day, others less fortunate will have a chance to walk also."

Tuesday night, Feehan was still wide awake, except this time, it was parents that filled the students' seats. The question of whether or not student dances would be held this year, was brought up at this, the first Parent's Club Meeting. The Student Council reminded students to remind their parents of the importance of this meeting. The results were positive, with more parents showing up for this meeting than any other Parent's Club Meeting in Feehan's history (more than 350 parents were present).

An assembly dealing with this this year's fund-raising project was also held on· Friday. Bob Clarke, a representative for the "Perfect School Plan" explained the elements of the project. Magazine subscriptions will be sold for a perio~ of two weeks, students and faculty members who participate, will be eligible for various prizes, ranging from stuffed animals, to stereo equipment, to paid vacation trips. The reason for the fund-raising is to keep tuition costs down.

Before the assembly, the Feehanite of the Month award was given out. Each month, the student body and the faculty nominate the person who they think has shown true Feehan spirit during that month. Feehanite for the month of September was awarded to Roger Suprenant, son of Mr..and Mrs. Suprenant, 239 Park St.,. North Attleboro, Mass.

Roger, a senior, is currently the manager of the football team and a disc jockey for the Bishop Feehan radio station. Roger is always on hand to help, and is definitely a good way to start off a year of Feehanites.

Congratulations go to three seniors, Donna Laliberte, Thomas Blythe and Julie Zachman, who received letters of commendation for their outstanding scores in the PSATNMSQT tests. Their scores make them eligible for National Merit Scholarships.

A new tradition was started at Feehan. On the first Friday of every month, the blessed sacrament will be exposed in the chapel. Students and faculty visit the chapel during their free time or with religion classes, to give thanks, and; become better acquainted with our Lord, Jesus Christ.

An unusual educational effort is in progress at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

Each Thursday night a small class of adults with hearing problems meets to dearn the art of Hp-reading. The class, now in the seventh week of a IO-week course, includes students from Greater New Bedford and is sponsored by the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing. The curriculum, developed by the Boston Guild, includes both mechanical and psychological meth-ods of overcoming the handicap of partial deafness.

Teaching the course is Mrs. Elizabeth Goldrick of New Bedford, a member of the Massachusetts Licensed Practical Nurses Association, and a graduate of -the Boston Guild's teacher training course.

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A SENSE OF WONDER

Jerry lies on the garage floor ... totally absorbed · . . experimenting . . . trying to bum a leaf with the sun's rays and a piece of glass. . . He is creatively exploring reality . . . testing how it works . . . caught up in its mystery.

His total absorption with his creative task . . . suggests something of a child's capacity to be captivated by reality . . . to wonder at its mysterious workings ... to want to get involved with its creative processes.

Unfortunately as we grow up . . . and become busy about many things . . . we seem to lose that childlike openness and wonder. . . We tend to live on the surface of things . . . hurried . . . preoccupied · . . dulled to the marvels of the world in which we rush about . . . no longer entranced by the mysterious power of sunrays and glass to sparkk a dead leaf.

Our hurried inability to stop ... look ... enjoy · . . wonder at the marvelous . . . mysterious world · . . betrays the best of our traditions as believers . . .

Jesus ... the prophets and psalmists before him ... and millions of Christians after him . . . wondered at the beauty . . . the ugliness . . . the mysteries . . . of the universe . . . and found that their wonder . . . nurtured their faith . . . for they sensed everywhere traces of the divine presence. . . They found the Creator . . . in the marvels of creation.

Perhaps that is why Jesus once took a child . -. . like Jerry ... and said "of such is the kingdom of God · . . unless you become like a child . . . you cannot even enter God's kingdom."

vide concrete opportunities and At the end of the last school outlets for the full spiritual year, the entire faculty of Bishop growth of all Connolly students."

The committee is composed of Connolly High School met with a number of student leaders to four faculty members: Rev. Jotake part in a Faculty-Student seph Faucher S.J., Bro. Louis St. Pierre F.I.C., Mr. Thomas SchneiWorkshop. der S.J., and Mr. Roland Lacroix.

The facilitator of the program Seven students also serve on the was Rev. Edwin J. McDermott committee. They are Ronald FosS.J., President of the Jesuit Sec- ter, Mark Travers, Edward Lamondary Education Association. bert, Thomas McGuire, Michael Under Fr. McDermott's direction, Pieri, Edward Myles, and Richthose participating were led ard Bedard. through a very comprehensive The Religious Activities Comevaluation of the academic, committee's first meeting was held munal, and Catholic programs Wednesday September 17. It presently operating at Connolly. dealt with the problem of involvThis workshop concluded that ing the student body with the as a Catholic and Jesuit High Church beyond its normal TheolSchool, the Connolly community ogy program. must be concerned not only with The committee decided that the academic growth of its stu- they coudd best serve the students, but with their religious dents, by first completing a development as well. In order to' group retreat themselves. It is promote and insure this develop- hoped that the committee will ment, the Religious Activities then be better prepared to lead Committee has been formed at the entire Connolly community. the school. .

"We know what we want to do," Instituted by Rev. Richard said senior Ronald Foster, "but Wolf S.J., Connolly's new Princi- we just don't know how to go pal, this organization is to. "pro- about it."

At the October meeting of the Priests' Senate final preparations were discussed for the

Dennis Girl At Grandmother's Alma Mater Elizabeth Griffin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Griffin of 2 Bismark Way, Dennis, entered the Freshman class at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., this fall. Elizabeth, a graduate of Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School in South Yarmouth, Mass., follows her grandmother, Alice Barry Griffin, a Trinity alumna of the class of 1932.

Trinity, the oldest woman's college in the United States, celebrated its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary this year. A President's reception was held in honor of the new students and their parents.

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day. The Fall River Diocese will host this important meeting which will be attended by all the bishops and many priests from all the dioceses of New England.

At the same October session of the senate Bishop Cronin addressed the senators and shared with them the current projects and problems of the diocese.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct. 23, 1975

Financial Situation at La Salette Continued from Page One Through .the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, they also obtained from 88 U. S. orders of men letters of credit totalling $4,166,000. The 'letters of credit were money set aside in banks for possible use, to guarantee that the debt would be paid. The letters were posted on the assumption that the -LaSalette Fathers' property could be sold.

"At one time we though we'd sell the properties quickly," Father Proulx told NC News, "but the market turned and we were unable to dispose of them in the time frame we expected.

If we had disposed of them we would not need interest-free loans."

The SSI plan provides for es-

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tabHshment of a trust, to' be administered by a Boston area bank, which will purchase two LaSalette properties for $5 million, to be raised from other Re'gious orders. Efforts will continue to sell the properties, a 46-acre waterfront tract in Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod and a 900-acre tract in Enfield, N.H. Contributors to the trust will receive the proceeds of sales and the LaSalette Fathers' guarantee to make up the difference between sale prices and the $5 million to be loaned.

Father Proulx pointed out that the properties are collateral for tht> interest-f,ree -loans. He noted 'also that the plan would take 'care of half of the LaSalette Fathers' debt stemming from the st. Joseph Trust collapse. The

province could carry the rest of the debt and pay it off over a period of years, he' said.

While the province is trying to avoid 'bankruptcy, Father Proulx said, failure of the SSI proposal does not mean that it will go into bankruptcy. "We might have some other options," he said.

The financial problems have not adversely affected the work of the province, which has 83 priests and 29 Brothers, Father Proulx said. "We're still in high gear."

He added: "We're not even thinking bankruptcy." But he said that even if bankruptcy should occur "the province is made up of people and as long as people are around, you can always bu.iJd something."

HUSBAND and wife work together to provide a meager subsistence.

From The Third World

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Continued from Page Nine song of the Beattles in the sixties let's caption this one "Life in a Yellow Submarine", being out of touch with so much of the freshness and reality of the world around us. We find so many ways of shielding ourselves within a synthetic world, not only climate control but sound (piped-in music at work), scent (air fresheners), and sight (the hour to hour make-believe world of television). America seems committed to losing. its taste for the freedom and joy of what the land offers us at no cost. All is controlled. Guarantees are provided against the chance and excitement of the unexpected in life. But the cost to ourselves is high. Maybe we need to know firsthand more the sweat and struggle of living, a bit of the precariousness of being human again. Once separated and sealed off from so many of the physical realities of our immediate environment is it not easy to become equally immune to the harshness of human realities in other parts of the world? It can become so tempting to look upon the world outside and beyond and say 'everything's fine in here. So what's the problem with you out there?'

From such a safe and secure interior how are we to respond to others who are being victimized hy the whim of drought and famine or by unjust consequences from equally capricious. man-made decisions? What a delight to spend one day this summer with two young friends of mine whose only ambition was to leave their vacation' apartment almost at sunrise in order to bike or hike or beach all day long and to return only after exhausting all that the day had to offer. Both he and she still knew where the best of life was at, and all for real. I'm sure there are others like them, and so long as there continues to be, there is still indeed hope for the flowers.

These, then, are three images which seemed to speak for America as it edges towards its Bi-centennial Year. In a way all three are but different aspects of a single impression, that of a

country overrun with an excess of consumption fueled by a superproductivity that far surpasses the needs of its people.

And so the question is at hand: how do we define the limits of our real needs in relation to the rest of the world, and when do we finally say to ourselves 'enough is enough'? Somewhere between 1776 and 1976 the ideal of a land of plenty to provide for all seems to have converted to that of a land of plenty owned by a few. It has to be at least thinkable that 1976 and the years foliowing might well be the call to a new revolution in America, perhaps even more daring and difficult than its predecessor of 200 years ago. For it would appear the time has come for America to consider using its abundance and its power no longer in a' role as master of the world but rather in a new role as servant to the world if it is to truly secure "Liberty and Justice for All".

For the Church, too, its pledge of reconciliation and its own credibility inevitably must come to rest more and more on its choice to be or not to be a Church whose witness to evangelical poverty makes it more readily identifiable with the cause of the poor and the dispossess~d in the world. And in all honesty it must be 'said, from much of what I saw, that this responsibility rests first and most heavily with the clergy and the hierarchy to adjust their own life style and ministry more in conformity with a Church that truly belongs to the poor in spirit.

Once again I say all of this not as one apart from those who read it, but rather very much as a fellow traveler with all of you, sharing the same faith, having the same love for America, and searching for the same solutions, but with some added heip from the experience here in Bolivia among a very poor and disadvantaged people. And I have to admit to something truly reassuring as I walked among them again shortly after the plane touched down soon after sun-up 0!1 that first morning of my return here early in September.

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