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FALL . RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1979 .
Pope Delighted By U.S. Welcome
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador has appealed to the new rulers of El Salvador to deliver on their promises of democracy and justice. The archbishop, who said that the reign of the ousted regime resulted in "years of nightmare:' also warned the people of EI Salvador not to give way to impatience, and asked them to work instead for a common goal of solidarity and peace. />:. group of young officers ousted Gen. Carlos Humberto Romero '(no relation to the archbishop) last week, saying they wanted to end repression and corruption in the government. They issued a proclamation promising to restore respect for human rights and t6 effect land and other reforms to improve the lot of the average citizen. Most Salvadoreans live in extreme poverty. "After perusing the proclamation we acknowledge the good will, clarity of ideas and sense . of responsibility of the new government," the archbishop said. "HQwever, we want to establish very definitely that this Turn to Page Seven
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Meeting Is First In 400 Years
VATJCAN CITY {NC) - Pope John Paul-II has thanked the American and Irish people for the welcomes they gave him on his recent trip. He said he was "surprised" by the huge welcome-:he got· in U.S. cities. ! Speaking "to a' crowd of about 50,000 in St. Peter's Square, the pope devoted his Wednesday general audience to recollections of his trip. Concerning his three-day stay in Ireland, the pope recalled his visits to Clonmacnois Abbey in central Ireland and to Drogheda and its relics of St. Oliver Plunkett, martyred 17th-century archbishop of Armagh. On his visit with Americans he commented, "Their church is still young because their great society is still young:' "I confess that I was surprised by such a welcome, by such Q response:' he added. "We stuck it out under the rain that fell during the Mass for young people the first evening in Boston. The rain accompanied us on the streets of that city, as it did afterwards on the streets of NewYork, among the skyscrapers. That rain' didn't stop so many Turn to Page Seven
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VATICAN . CITY (NC) The special meeting of the world's cardinals in November called by Pope John Paul II is the first such meeting in over 400 years, according to Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, dean of the College of Cardinals. The pope has called all 130 cardinals, including the 11 who' are over 80 years of· age and thus ineligible to enter a conclave, to meet with him at the Vatican Nov. 5-8. Commenting on the meeting on Vatican Radio, Cardinal Confalonieri said that the practice of the pope calling all- cardinals .together was once quite common but "was gradually attenuated. After more than four centuries we find ourselves faced with this pleasant surprise:' he continued. "It's' obvious that the cardinals intend to respond the best they can to the trust placed in them, and thus to the august wishes of His Holiness:' said the cardinal. The Vatican has not announced topics to be discussed at the meeting.
MOTHER TERESA, on right, in her Pure Heart Home for the Dying in Calcutta.
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With Bishop Daniel A.' Cronin as principal concelebrant, a funeral Mass was celebrated this morning at. St. Mary's Church, Taunton, for Father Walter J. Buckley, 81, who died on Suncation to help the poor:' she has day. said. "I wanted to be a missionFather Buckley, former pastor ary:' At 15, Agnes was inspired to of Our Lady of the Assumption work in India by reports sent parish, Osterville, and St. Kilian home by Yugoslav Jesuit mis- parish, New Bedford, retired sionairies in Bengal. At 18, she from active ministry Feb. 1 1973. He marked his golden jubilee joined the Irish branch of the Loreto Sisters, making her final of priestly ordination on June 9, 1974. His homilist at that vows in 1937. While principal at· fashion- time was Very Rev. John P. able Loreto House. a girls' col- Driscoll, p-astor of St. Lawrence lege in Calcutta, she saw the parish, .New Bedford. Father destitute and dying, homeless Driscoll was his eulogist this urchins, lepers and the other morning. sick lying prey to rats and ants Father Buckley was a Taunton in streets and alleys. native, the son of ·the late John In 1946, she received a "call J. and Nora 'Buckley. He attendwithin a call:' as she has des- ed St. Mary's grade and high cribed it. "The message was schools before entering Holy clear. I was to leave the con-' Cross College; Worcester, and vent and help the poor, while preparing for the priesthood at living among them:' The Vatican St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, gave her permission to leave and the Sulpician S~minary in the Loreto sisters and. follow Washington, D.C. her new calling under jurisdicOrdained in 1924 by Bishop tion of the archbishop of Cal- Daniel F. Feehan, Father Buckcutta. ley's first assignments were at After three months of medical Holy Family and ·St. Paul partraining, Mother Teresa went into ishes .in Taunton. ,Turn to Page Two Turn to Page Three
Nun Who 'Sleeps Fast' Gets Nobel Prize OSLO, Norway (NC) - The Mother Teresa's work in bring1979 Nobel Peace Prize has been ing help to suffering humanity:' awarded to Mother Teresa of It addeq: "A feature of her Calcutta. foundress of the Mis- work has been respect for the sionaries of Charity, and best individual human being, for his known for her work among the or her dignity and innate value. poor and dying of India. The 10wHest. the most wretched The Nobel Committee awarded and the dying have at her hands the prize to the 69-year-old Al- received compassion without banian nun after considering 56 condescension. based on revercandidates, including U.S. Presi- ence for man:' dent Carter and Cardinal Stefan Mother Teresa has received Wyszynski of Warsaw, Poland. other prizes for her work, inWhen she was told in Calcutta cluding the Templeton Foundathat she had won the prize, tion's Prize for Progress in ReMother Teresa said: "Thank God ligion and the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherfor his gift for the poor:' As reporters and television hood. crews arrived at her headquarShe was born Agnes Gonxha ters, she joked•. "I am going to Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in hide somewhere." Skopje in what is now YugoThe Nobel Committee said: slavia. She was one of three "The Roman Catholic order of children. Her father was a growhich she is now the head has cer but the family's background in recent years -extended its ac- was more peasant than mertivities to include a number of ,Chant. other Indian cities and other As a public school student, she parts of the world. was a member of a Catholic "In making the award the sodality with a special interest Norwegian Nobel Committee in foreign missions. "At the age has expressed its recognition of of' 12, I first knew I had a vo-
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