SERVING SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
t eanc 0 VOL. 21, NO. 49
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1977
Catholic Press: Who Cares? (A guest column by Msgr. R. G. Peters, editor of The Catholic Post, Peoria, m.)路 At their meeting in Washington last week, the U.S. bishops voted down a suggested new national collection for communications, mainly radio and television. Why? Partly because some of the bishops wanted to wait and see what becomes of another movement under way to combine some of the national collections to take up fewer Sundays. But the Catholic Press Association admitted - even claimed that other bishops voted against the collection because most of the nation's diocesan papers, through the CPA, objected that the collection would harm them. This wasn't just a "dog in the manger" attitude on the part of the press. The diocesan papers were not against Catholic television and radio having a collection. But they were against one that would be called a "communicationl)" collection. The name would give people the impression they were giving to their diocesan paper, when in fact the paper would gain. at most very little and probably lose a lot through the collection. Turn to .Page Seven
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World Awareness Program .Held Religious education coordinators and representatives of all high schools and many parochial elementary schools in the diocese participated Tuesday and yesterday in a World Awareness program presented by Sister Maura and Sister Jean of the Maryknoll Sisters. Tuesday's program took place at St. Mary's parish center, South Dartmouth, and yesterday's at St. Mary's Seekonk. The purpose of the days, said Sister Marion Geddes, RSM dioTurn to Page Seven
Melkite Prelate Bishop in Exile ROME (NC) - "My title now is bishop of Jerusalem in exile." said Melkite-rite Archbishop Hilarion Capucci. "I will remain so as long as I live." The 55-year-old archbishop, 路released from an Israeli prison through the intervention of Pope Paul VI after serving three years for gunrunning, said his suffering for Palestine and the Palestinian people had so bound him to them that he could not Turn to Page Seven
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THINGS ARE LOOKING UP for the decorating committee of the 23rd annual Bishop's Charity Ball, making final preparations for the Jan. 13 event. Paul Ouellette; St. Jacques parish, Taunton, adjusts silver rose which will carry out theme of Bishop's silver jubilee, as Mrs. Stanley Janick, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River, committee co-chairperson, watches intently.
Bishop's Ball Nears For some the post-holiday season is a period of letdown after the festivities of Christmas and the New Year. Not in the Fall River diocese, where for 23 years the Bishop's Charity Ball has been a bright spot in the midwinter doldrums. This year's Ball promises especial sparkle, dedicated as it is to the 25th anniversary of Bishop Cronin's priestly ordination. The jubilee theme will be carried out on the evening of Jan. 13 in silver decorations throughout the vast Lincoln Park Ballroom in North Dartmouth. Heading the committee responsible for the arrangements are Mrs. Stanley Janick, SS. Peter and Paul parish, and Robert Coggeshall, St. Mary's Cathedral, both Fall River. They note that over 3,500 yards of material will be used in the decorations, which will be put in place at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 8 when 150 members will gather at the ballroom for the annual task. The Charity -Ball benefits three Nazareth Hall schools for exceptional children. A highlight of the evening is the presentation of路 young women from all parts of the diocese to Bishop Cronin. For the first time this year two young women from the Nazareth schools will be among presentees. A souvenir Ball program will have categories for memorials,
very special friends, guarantors, benefactors, boosters, sponsors and patrons. Those wishing to be included may contact committee members of the ball headquarters, P.O. Box 1470, Fall River, 02722, telephone 6768943. To be heard on Jan. 13 for the fifth time over the years will be the Meyer Davis Orchestra, which has already been engaged for return performances in 1981, 1984 and 1987. Co-sponsoring the annual event are the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Tickets路 are available from members of either organization and at all diocesan rectories.
South Africa ys. Rest of-World? TORONTO (NC) - The entire white community in South Africa will mobilize itself behind a "fortress" against black South Africans arid the rest of the world, predicts Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa. Discussing. the overwhelming victory of the ruling white supremacist Nationalist Party in Nov. 30 elections, he said, "The result will see the government obtain dictatorial powers worse even than what it has now." Turn to Page Seven
BOSTON (NC) - Judges, not doctors or family members, should make the life and death decisions for incurably ill patients who cannot speak for themselves, the Massachusetts Supreme Court said last week. In an opinion directly opposed to a New Jersey Supreme Court decision in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, the Massachusetts court unanimously ruled that socalled "right-to-die" decisions must be made by the state's court. "Such questions of life and death seem to us to require the process of detached but passionate investigation and decision that forms the ideal on which the judicial branch of government was created," the court said. The responsibility belongs to the courts, the justices said. "and is not to be entrusted to any other group purporting to represent the morality and consTurn to Page Seven
Marian Medals The annual Marian Medal Ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. A.t this time the contributions to the work of the Church of lay persons throughout the diocese are recognized. All are invited to attend. Medal Recipients Fall River Area: Miss Irene Almeida, Miss Theresa Archard, Joseph P. Banalewicz, Mrs. Raymond Boulanger, Mrs. Normand Boyer. Mrs. Alfred Campos, Rodolphe Cantin, Mrs. John Conforti, Rene C. Domingue, Arthur J. Donovan, Marie Anne Drapeau. Miss Lydia Gonsalves, Mrs. Alban Guertin, Lomer Lapointe, Raymond Lavoie, Gilbert Lowney, Alphonse Mailloux, Mrs. Leo Martin. Mrs. Manuel Nogueira, Daniel Pingley, Mrs. Francis Quinn, Francis Reilly, Wilfrid St. Michel, Mrs. Nicholas Tyrrell. Attleboro Area: Mrs. Raymond Aussant, Armand Boucher, Richard Charette, Mrs. Louis Edmond, Jr., Federico Garcia, Ralph Gilmore,' Mrs. Richard Lareau. . Joseph Macedo, George MerTurn to Page Seven
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