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••• SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSmS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS :
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980
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Cardinal at Dighton Mass
• Sunday IS the big one
Cardinal Humberto Me~eiros will be. homilist and principal celebrant at a Mass at 6 p.m. tomorrow at The Heights, Dighton provincial house of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation. The Mass will mark the closing of a year of celebration of. the 75th anniversary of the community's arrival in the Fall River diocese. Also marking the year has been initiation of a major five-part construction program at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, staffed by members of the Dominican community. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be among concelebrants of the Mass. Others will be Father Robert Blais, O.P., prior of St. Anne's monastery, Fall River; Graham, Father Raymond S.M.M., pastor of St. Peter's parish, Dighton; and Father Daniel L. Freitas and Father Stephen B. Salvador of St. John of God parish, Somerset, provincial house chaplains. -Some 60 sisters will represent nearly all sections of the DomTum to Page Eight
All diocesan systems are go for Sunday, the day on which doorbells will ring at virtually every home in the diocese. Ringing them will be an army of weli-prepared volunteers, most of them formally commissioned for their task at Cathedral services last Sunday. They will be armed with census cards for Catholic families and friendly'invitations to all others. The census cards, filled out arid returned, will provide an upto-date picture of d i 0 c e san strengths and needs and will assist pastors and diocesanwide agencies to structure services to the best advantage. The invitations' are to events to be held during Advent in all diocesan parishes. Open to all, they will share various aspects of the Catholic heritage, with special emphasis on the Advent and Christmas season. A partial listing of planned activities include: -A tour of the new church Tum to Page Three
CHJ;> appeal on weekend Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of the Campaign for Human Development, has announced that the annual collection for the fund will be taken up in all diocesan parishes this , weekend. "The 1980 theme is "Let Justice Flourish," he said" explaining that the quotation from the Psalms 'reminds us that Jesus' kingdom is one of justice and that we have a part in promoting it." "Last year," he said, "the people of the Fall River diocese contributed more to this collection than to any other in CHD's 10-year history. ''QHD is not a handout," he continued, "but rather gives , Tum to Page Six
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Bishops naDle head, speak on MarxisIDl.~, death penalty WASHINGTON (NC). - At their annual fall meeting the U.S. bishops elected a new president and vice president, voted to remove male-only references from Mass texts, explained why they oppose capital punishment and approved pastoral letters em Marxisnl and higher education. At the meeting in downtown Washington the 250 bishops also approved: - A $14.50 million budget for 1981 for the National Conference of 'Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the U.S. Catholic Conference (tiSCC), a slight decrease from the 1980 budget; - A statement praising the' involvement of lay Catholics in church activities; and - A new plan for priestly for-
mation which takes note of the many lay and Religious men and women attending seminaries and sets celibacy in a more positive context. Archbishop John R. Roach, 59, of St. Paul~inneapolis was elected president of the NCCB-USCC and Bishop James W. Malone, 60, of Youngstown, Ohio, was chosen vice president of the bishops' organizations. At a news conference shortly after his election, Archbishop Roach said Catholics might remain in the churcli although they do not agree with all aspects of its teaching on artificial birth control. He pointed out that Pope Paul VI's encyclical "Hu-manae Vitae" (On Human Life), which restates the church's op-
Germany's a mixed· bag
MAINZ, West Germany (NC) position to artificial contracep- - While, West German Cathotion, also urges "ongoing recon- lics gave Pope John Paul II an ciliation" when such a difference enthusiastic welc:;ome, Protestant exists between official teaching representatives had some criti· cisms. and personal beli~f ,and practice. Lutheran Bishop ,Edward LoDeciding that language in the hse told the pope at a meeting Mass which refers exclusively to in' Mainz that German Protesmen should be changed to include both men and women, the tants would like to see changes bishops approved a series of in the Catholic stands on interchanges in the eucharistic pray- communion' and mixed marriers of the Mass. Prepared by ages. Speaking in the land of Marthe International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), tin Luther and the birthplace of the changes must be approved the 'Protestant Reformation, the by the Vatican before they can pope said intercommunion must await "full unity" among Chrisbe put into effect. The U.S. "bishops are the firs~ tian churches. He did not discuss National hierarchy to recommend . the marriage issue. ,Protestant leaders, including such changes, which would include changing the words of Bishop Lohse, later publicly Turn to Page Seven Turn to Page Six