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FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1980
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Murdered • was In diocese Sister Ma,uf'a Clarke of Maryknoll, among four American women missioners murdered last month in EI Salvador, was in the Fall River diocese in December, 1977, recalled Father George W. Coleman, diocesan director of education. With another Maryknoll sister, she gave a two-day workshop at St. Mary's Catechetical Center, South Dartmouth, to school principals and rel:igious education coordinators. Her thrust was towards raising the awareness of her hearers on social justice is· sues and advising them on incorporating their insights into school and catechetical curriculums, said Father Coleman. He said he had dinner with the two sisters during their stay in the diocese and was impressed with their sensitivity imd dedication. "What Sister Maura taught us in 1977 she has now fulfilled to the ultimate degree," he conclu4ed.
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Sister Maura and Sister Ita Ford, her fellow worker in EI Salvador, were buried at the village of Chalatenango in accordance with the Maryknoll tradition that members of the community are buried at ,their mission stations. The bodies of their companions, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missioner Jean Donovan, both members of the Cleveland diocesan mission team, were 'returned to the United States for burial. The deaths of the missioners were the latest events to refocus world attention on El Salvador. Last March Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador was murdered during Mass. The kill· ~ngs 'of the missionary women were deplored by American bishops and have resulted in a cutoff of U.S. military and economic aid to El Salvador until an i,nvestigation is complete. Fear surrounded the funeral for the Maryknollers. Armed Turn to Page Two
ARCHBISHOP LAGHI
Delegate asl~s U.S. prayers BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC) ....... Archbishop Pio Laghi, newly named apostolic delegate in the United 'States and permanent observer to the Organization of American States, expects to arrive in Washington by Jan. 15, following a twoweek visit to Rome. He will leave Buenos Aires Jan. 3. The 58-year-old archbishop, Turn to Page Two .
"He leads in faith and serves in love." That phrase summed up last Sunday's celebration of the 10th anniversary of the installation of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as Ordinary of the Fall River diocese. It came from one of the intercessory prayers offered at St. Mary's Cathedral, where music, surroundings and liturgy combined for a splendid Mass of thanksgiving. The theme of the bishop as pastor was evident in the music carefully chosen by Glenn Giut,.tar-i, including IBach's "Sheep may safely graze" and Strahan's haunting "Simon, Son of John," sung by Joanne Grota, the cathedral's new cantor. "We are about the mission of Jesus Christ," said the bishop in his homily, recalling that the prophet Isaiah had given as the signs by which the Messiah would be recognized that the blind should see, the lame should walk, the brokenhearted should
be healed and the poor should have the gospel preached to them. "We give thanks today for having tried to preach the Good News," he said, noting that Ithe task of the Christian is that of evangelization.'-, "We should not dwell so much on past glories as on the future challenge to make that Good News known to all mankind," he added, noting that when he visits parishes, he always places, the community's history in perspective with future goals. Commenting that designated concelebrants for the Mass of thanksgiving were the diocesan priests he had ordained in the past 10 years,- Bishop Cronin said he thought with joy of ·the years of service the young priests would give the diocese. He reminisced ahout his years as an attache to ,the Apostolic Internunciature in Ethiopia, saying that his experience in that Turn to Page Two'
BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN CELEBRATES MASS OF THANKSGIVING MARKING 10TH ANNIVERS~Y OF HIS INSTALLATION AS ORDINARY OF THE FALL RIVER DIOCESE