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Bishop's Yule ,Message As we keep the beautiful Feast of Christmas, the Church once again proclaims with great joy the announcement of the angels: "You have nothing to fear! I come to proclaim Good News to you - tidings of great joy to be shared by the whole people. This day in David's City a Savior has been born to you, the Messiah and Lord."

These words, spoken to the shepherds on the first Chlistmas, are fittingly addressed to each of us today on this Solemnity of the Birth of our Blessed Lord.

Christ, whom the angels hailed as Messiah and Lord, was, indeed, born for each of us. He was the longawaited Savior who, through his sacrifice on the cross, took away the sins of the world and restored hope to mankind, a hope which will not leave us disappointed.

Our contemporary world continues to be beset by difficulties and crises, at times seemingly insunnountable in nature. All of us have our own worries and concerns. The Christmas Feast reminds us, in a powerful manner, that we "have nothing to fear." Christ our Savior, born of the Virgin Mary, has taken upon Himself our human nature. He has brought "peace to his people on earth," a peace which no one can take from us. He remains with us always. And He invites all who find life burdensome to come to Him and find refreshment and hope for daily living. These, my dearly beloved, are indeed "tidings of great joy." We share this Good News of hope and peace together today as we celebrate the Nativity of the Lord.

I join with each of you in giving "glory to God" for the great love which He has shown us in sending His Divine Son among us. I send to one and all throughout the Diocese prayerful wishes for a happy and holy Christmas.

Faithfully yours in Christ,

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The aid to Poland was started because of shortages of meat, other food and fuel. The U.S. government had provided food, not through donation, but through credit guarantees for the purchase of U.S. grain and other commodities :and governmentto-government sales of surplus dairy products. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the credit and sales amounted to $741 million.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is continuing food shipments to Poland despite the crackdown by Poland's new military regime, said Beth Griffin, CRS press coordinator. ' She said that CRS, overseas aid agency of U.S. Catholics, has already shipped clothing and 17 million pounds of food valued at $10 million to Poland.

A White House spokesman said CARE and CRS food shipments "in the pipeline" are going through, but that no new requests for government credits are being considered.

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.Nul{es get reluctant nod NEW YORK (NC) - A strategy of nuclear deterrance may be "morally tolerable," said Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York in a five-page letter to the nation's Catholic military chaplains.

He called for effective international disarmament agreements, but said, "As long as our

nation is sincerely trying to work with other nations to find a better way (to maintain peace), the church considers the strategy of nuclear deterrence morally tolerable; not satisfactory, but tolerable."

The letter responded to questions raised by several widely

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publicized attacks on the morality of U.S. nuclear policy by churchmen in recent months.

Cardinal Cooke is U.S. military vicar, responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics in the American armed forces.

SS minimum still viable WASHINGTON (NC) A house-Senate conference committee has agreed to restore the $122-a-month minimum Social Security benefit for most current recipients. It was due for elimination in 1982 as an economy measure..

The agreement includes a special provision allowing ntlns and other religious who retire over the next 10 years to continue collecting the minimum benefit.

Under the agreement, hammered out Dec. 14, no other new retirees would qualify for the minimum benefit after Dec. 31.

The agreement still must be approved by the full hotlse and Senate. The House is expected to fight for restoring thle mini-

mum benefit for all present and future retirees, not just for current recipients.

The minimum benefit's purpose was to establish an income floor for the poor and others who had not paid much into the Social Security system.

Religious orders have argued that since they were only allowed to begin paying into the Social Security system after 1972, elimination of the minimum benefit unfairly penalized them for their short "work history."

They also noted that religious orders paid extra into the system at the time of their admissions in order to qualify for Social Security.

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themoori~ A Family Christmas Christmas is a family time of gathering, remembering and sharing. It is a beautiful s~ason for those who care for one another around a kitchen table; it is a heartbreak for those who sit at table alone.

More and more families do not come together for the holidays beqlUse they have separated or divorced themselves from one another. In greater numbers husbands, wives and children find themselves living apart. Some can't and others won't make an effort to share and celebrate the real meaning of Christmas.

For many, their lifestyle is a self-inflicted nightmare.

They wake up from the bad dream of their life screaming, hoping that someone will hear them; But their cries are unheard. In pursuit of their own desires, they seek freedom, fulfillment and liberation. They end as captives of their own selfishness.

These same shattered people live in a social order that encourages a so-called freedom that is in fact nothing more than license. The state has become an effective instrument in the decay of family living, never mind life itself. The union of personal indulgence and civil interference is destroying American family life.

Yet the church is ever the guardian and custodian of the family. As a mother, she cannot be silent while her children rush to self-destruction.

Because of this obligation, Pope John Paul II has this month issued an apostolic exhortation concerning itself with the family in the modern world. In this 167-page document the Holy Father gives particular attention to the relationship between the state and family life. In his clear and direct manner, he states that "The church openly and strongly defends the rights of the family against the intolerable usurpation of society and the state."

He says firmly that the family is, in God's plan, the basic cell of society and that its rights and dutieS' supersede those of the state or of any other community.

The pontiff also called government programs in favor ()f sterilization or procured abortion a "grave offense against human dignity and justice."

It is well that the spiritual leader of the church should offer Christendom these reflections at this time of year.

The world needs to know that the message of the Chnst child is not subject to situation ethics or secular morality.

Our American social order must be reminded that Christmas in all its splendor is a feast of birth and life.

The hopes and dreams of all the years are met in our families. This Christmas, may we pray for hurting familIes and support loving families.

No more and no less is demanded of all who are members of the church family.

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REFUGEE MOTHER AND CHILD

'Take the child and his mother and f~ee ... for it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him.' Matt. 2: 13

The gift of Christmas

By Father Kevin J. Harrington Good and beautiful things often endure in spite of much that has been done to spoil them. The Christmas spirit of goodwil\ endures in spite of being open to the abuse of commercialism.

Christmas presents recall that something wond,~r,ul happened in that first Christmas scene that the American Civil Liberties Union cannot hide. However imperfectly, our presents reflect the divine gift of love made manifest in an Infant Savior born of the Virgin Mary.

As incredible as the mystery of the Incarnation may appear, with the grace of faith our minds can make sense of a God lying in the straw of a stable; a Creator helpless as a newborn child; a baby horn of a virgin mother.

It is no surprise that God's love would be so great that it would stretch our imagination to such extremes. Somehow, in an ever so strange way, it all makes sense.

'But if God, in Christ, has become like us, has made sense for us, it is so that we might become like him. As St. Paul exhorts us, we are to put on Christ.

Interestingly, the mystery of the Incarnation made sense to the poor in spirit, while the proud, haughty and avaricious were too. preoccJpied to extend

hospitality to Mary and Joseph in their moment of need.

This mystery made sense to Mary, Joseph and those whose hearts, like theirs, were open and humble. Those such as the shepherds who watched their flocks and the magi who watched the heavens, who sought with sincere hearts, were rewarded.

Today, those who search honesstly and humbly for truth and goodness should be able to find the beauty of Christ among his true followE~rs. The poor in spirit who are trying to find God must somehow be able to recognize him in his disciples. We must heed the words of St. Paul and put on Christ.

The common response of the shepherds, magi and angels is one of worship. What joy should fill our hearts as we recall that first natvity scene! What won路 der should fill our minds when we reflect upon the Son of God becoming man!

Yet Christmas, for many Catholics, is an empty season. Countless Catholics stay at home and fail to join in the celebration of the Christmas Mass. Others come as strangers, feeling '"isolated because of conflicts with church law or lingering doubts.

But Christmas is an ideal time for families to gather together

and the family of Catholic parishioners should be no exception.

Differences may not disappear but barriers should be surmounted.

Due to troubled hearts, many Catholics cannot make sense of the mystery of the Incarnation.

They are tragic prisoners of selfmade barriers of fear, jealously, selfishness and ignorance.

We must become signs to such persons by conforming our lives more closely to Christ. We must continue the mission foretold by the prophet Isaiah and begun by Christ: "Every ravine shall be filled in, every mountain and hill leveled; the corners. shall be straightened, the rugged ways made smooth; and all mankind shall see God's deliverance."

Each person has ravines, hills, mountains, rough corners and rugged ways that resist conformity to Christ. To prepare for Christ's second coming in glory, we should strive to be poor in spirit like Mary and Joseph, watchful like the shepherds and magi, worshipful like the hosts of angels that joyfully praised and glorified God. And we should be consoled by remembering that God, in his usual inysterious way, still accomplishes wondrous deeds through his believers.

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gift list Ronald Reagan's rich friends may be wondering what to give him for Christmas. I have a suggestion.

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By MARY McGRORY

might be given complimentary Why don't they help hi.m with tickets on the donation of just his defense budget? one. of their famous cost overIt's something like $~~22 bilruns to the kitty. 'But I should lion and he hates to cut it. He warn you, they may be a bit took $2 billion out, but it hurt. sulky now. They may say they And if he won't whack it anymore gave at the office after what his whole economic scheme can happened to them in the Senate be packed into David Sto<:kman's this week.

Trojan horse and put out to sea.

Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., got Reagan's friends are generous, an amendment passed which prowe know that. The mere mention of his dream to red.ecorate hibits them from charging their lobbying costs to us taxpayers. the White House sent thllm into a spasm of giving. That gives We forked over $11 million to spare them the expense of lobyou a clue. They like to be able bying Congress for contracts to see their tax-deductible dolthat will enrich them. Rocklars at work in a conspicuous well, which got the B-1 (22 mil· place. lion, business, sent us a bill from Imagine the visibility o:r a gift its Los Angeles division for of weapons - especially if there $653,000, which is what it cost is a war. Your tank, your shell, it to influence votes in its favor. your plane would have an audiRockwell may feel put upon ence of thousands. if it has to take a congressman Reagan is constantly remindto dinner at its own expense. ing us that if we cut thE! taxes of the rich, they will repay us. Th-e Pentagon, which agrees with They will invest their money in Reagan that fraud and waste are their businesses, hire more peo- unknown quantities within its ple, end unemployment and whip walls, is probably embarrassed inflation. He has also told us at this slight to the military, that they will patronize the arts industrial complex.

But let us return to the ball· and make life richer and better room.

Why not have the weapfor all of us.

They don't turn on to dSly-care ons systems on display to stir centers, senior citizens' housing the Republicans' martial blood? projects or schools. Re,agan's Put the B-1 next to the orchesrich friends have had their ehance tra. Maybe Mrs. Reagan's decto weave a few strands ir..to the orator, Ted Graber, could spruce safety net, and so far they have up the interior a bit - say, flow· ered curtains at the windows, spurned it.

They do care about weapons, coordinated carpeting, a solid just as he does. Would they not gold instrument panel. Repubgive alms to armaments? How licans are bleeding hearts when about if they could adopt a tank? it comes to decor. Possibly the The Abrams model costs $3 mil- organizers would want to auclion. Or what about a pair of tion off a cruise in a Trident submatching F-16 Fighters? They're marine ($1.2 billion) or a fast expensive enough to be in the ride - an A-6 E Intruder attack Neiman-Marcus catalog. Imag- plane ($15.5 million).

A display of voluntarism on ine the thrill of having your name on the fuselage as it that order would make it a great Christmas for Ronald Reagan. He streaks aloft. hates to see money being frit.

Maybe Frank Sinatra, the tered away on Medicare, Social president's favorite minstrel, Security, on trains, training pro· would like to assume the finan· cial responsibility for the musi- grams, housing· and fripperies of cal side of our defense readi- that nature. To those who say ness capability. Military bands the wolf is at the door, he sternly replies that the "window of come to the tune of $89.'i' milis open. vulnerability" lion. His name could be written If his rich friends don't bail on the drums.

It is true that certain items . him out, he will have to go in for "revenue enhancement" might be a little rich, even for which is the elegant Reagan term the blood of the moguls. You for more taxes, which will make take the MX missile. It costs $34 billion, even without its own them unhappy. Better they private subway system. A com- should write checks to the Penmunity effort might be required, tagon for the weapons of their but it should not be a problem. . choice.

The Reagan folks love pa.rties, and a series of MX balls could be held. Let's say it's whitE! tie, glittering with gold braid and Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will brass and $1 million a couple. celebrate Mass on WLNE-TV Large organizations like the Channel Six at 9 Christmas National Rifle Association l:ould morning. Music will be by St. take tables. I'm just guessing Mary's Cathedral Choir, directed now, but maybe they would want by Glenn Giuttari. their slogan "Guns don't kill people; people do" painted large THE ANCHOR (USPS-54S.Q20). Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published on the side of one of the new every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall hardened silos being prepar.~d to River, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price house the MX. by mall, postpaid $6.00 per year. Post· send address changes to The Anchor, The big defense contralctors masters P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

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"I . dread Christmas," a mother told me last fall.

"Every year we go through the same thing. First, my husband is extravagant and excited, insisting that we get the kids more toys than I think we should. Then, a few days before Christmas, he goes into a dark mood and doesn't come out of it until after Christmas. He gets angry for spending so much money, refuses to play with the kids, or even go to our relatives for dinner."

I listened to her for a while, asking a few questions, and eventually learned, as I suspected, that her husband's childhood had been unhappy. His father had abandoned the family and there wasn't any money for trees, toys and feasts. While the rest of his friends experienced these parts of Christmas, he didn't.

He has grown up with great expectations of the holiday and overspends in anticipation but when the day itself approaches, his anger at being denied Christ· mas as a child consumes him and he withdraws into brooding.

It's fairly well publicized that the holidays are not happy for many. Grim suicide and depress. ion statistics tell us that while some are decking the halls with boughts of holly, others are look· ing for ways of blocking out the pain of the season. Around them they see warmth and festivity.

Television reminds them that Christmas is a time of reunion and love. Few in the Christmas specials are depicted as lonely, alcoholic, recently divorced or widowed, or inheritors of pain· ful Christmas pasts.· If Jesus is central to our holiday, our focus is not so com· pletely on the festivities and our

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despair is not so great if we find ourselves alone or unhappy at this time.

I suspect that all of us experi. ence holiday emptiness but we just don't admit it. How can we, surfeited as we are with goods and festivities? But if we admit it to ourselves, it might bring us closer to the true meaning of Christmas, fewer parties and gifts, maybe, but more prayers and reflection upon the Gift that fills the emptiness, Jesus himself.

Greetings Of the Noly Season At Christmas, we wish for you and yours peace, joy, and love. With gratitude and thanks for your loyalty.

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Nota phony Dear Editor: God is no phony.

He promised to send a Redeemer and he did. He predicted his resurrection when he said, "De· stray this temple and in three days I will raise it up," and he did.

He left the Blessed Sacrament to prove his love for us. When he was dying on the cross he said to John, "Son, behold thy mother," and to Mary, "Mother, behold they son."

Mary left us the rosary. She appeared to St. Bernardette in Lourdes; to three peasant children at Fati::na.

God is no phony today; he has lived up to his word in the past, the present and in the future.

He can neither deceive nor be deceived.

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Dear Editor: Thank you for your timely reflections on "Remembering Pearl Harbor." I agree that lasting peace will not be a gift of our world, but neither is it a gift from God. God has given us the gift of life and when we abused it, he gifted us with his Son, who showed us how to live. We rejected this gift, too. Otherwise, we would have no war or a Pearl Harbor to commemorate.

Let us seek Peace this Advent season as our gift to God, and before we pray for peace in the world, let us find it first in our hearts. That is where it will begin.

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Dear Editor: I am writing to telt ·you I was very. disappointed in the way Channel fj handled the televised Mass on Sunday December 6th.

When I realized I was not going to get to Mass, recalled that a Mass was televised and upon checking the schedule found one at 10:30 on Channel 6.

Sitting down to listen and watch the televised Mass, real· izing it would not be the same as attenuance at Mass in my parish church. I was to be the lector on that Sunday.

Much to my surprise by the time the celebrant (who was a priest from the Cape Cod area) finished the homily, the channel broke in to give a report.

Thinking it was an emergency, listened for a few moments.Only to find that in my best judgment it was a so-called regular weather forecast due to the storm.

In my opinion I feel the television personnel could have chosen another time to give this

type of report, not break in duro ing a televised Mass. The program was only a half hour telecast.

By the time the channel returned to the Mass the celebrant was giving the final blessing.

The diocese of Fall River was cheated on this particular telecast. I am glad I don't make a habit of tuning into Channel 6 very often.

Am enclosing a copy of the letter I sent to the Program Manager of Channel 6.

Rowena Saunders No. Providence

Birthright Dear Editor: A very special thank you goes out to all those beautiful Christian individuals who have been so very supportive both physically and emotionally to our Birthright programs in New Bedford, Fall River, Taunton, Attleboro, Cape Cod, and Islands.

The birth of Birthright babies signifies the birth of Christ in each and every one of us. As it pleases Christ to see these babies carried to full term, so does it please us at Birthright to see you there when we need you!

Mary H. Grochmal, Director New Bedford Birthright

An Appeal Dear Editor: A sanatorium for the victims of tuberculosis is one of our most urgent needs as this dreadful sickness is the single largest cause of death among our poor people. Already in the first meet· ing of all the missionaries, im· mediately the after the erection of the diocese in 1977, unanimous decision was taken to start one.

But almost immediately after that we had the attack of a devastating cyclone and tidal waves which laid waste the whole reo gion and claimed a heavy toll in human lives. We are still recovering from this natural calamity.

Thus so far we could not do anything to help these helpless people. We would be very grateful if you could sponsor a few appeals for us.

Our address is c/o Father Jose Kaimlett, Nirmalagiri, Gowripatnam P.O., West Godavari Dt., A.P. India 534313.

Bishop M. John West Godavari Dt. India

(necrolo<iY) December 27 Rev. Thomas J. Stapleton, 1956, Pastor, Corpus Christi, Sandwich Rev. Armand Levasseur, 1970, Pastor Emeritus, St. Anne, New Bedford December 28 Rev. Charles R. Smith, 1955, Pastor, Immaculate Conception.

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Hatch OK • encouragmg WASHINGTON (NC) Father Edward Bryce, executive director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' prolife committee, said he was "greatly encouraged by the Dec. 16 action of the Senate subcommittee on the Constitution in approving the (Hatch) amendment and sending it to the full Senate Judiciary Committee."

At the annual NCCB meeting in November the bishops endorsed the Hatch Amendment, SJR 110, which would remove the right to abortion and allow Congress and state legislatures to. re-enact abortion restrlctions struck down by the Supreme Court in 1973.

The new approach to solving the abortion dilemma offered' by the .ame?dmen~ "is clearly gen- ,erating lDcreasmg and well deserved support. I hold great hope that the amendment will pass both houses and will be sent to the states for ratification in 1982:" Father Bryce said.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), sponsor of the amendment has

said the Judiciary Co~ttee wilVprobably act on it by late January. , The subcommittee's a~~n "in~icates a new, more positive .attitude in the Senate," according to Richard Doerflinger, legislalive assistant for the NceB Committee for Pro-Life Activities. '"The potential of this amendment is tha~ it can attract any member of Cong~ who ~Heves that unrestricted abortion on demand is not sound public policy."

Doerf1inger also said the Hatch Amendment has broad support . from groups such as Baptists for Life, Lutherans for Life and the National Right to Life Committee as well as from the bishops.

Saint Anne Parish Ji"aII River

VITO V. GERARDI of St. John Baptist parish, New Bedford, is congratulated by Cardinal Humberto Medeiros on his apPointment as national chairman of .the Committee for the Beatification of Frederic Ozanam, founder of the Society of St V' cent de Paul The •• m . picture was taken at the annual national meeting of Vincentians, held this year in Phoenix.

Gerardi is chairman for th 2 . tak e 198 meeting, to e place, next september in Hyannis. He has been an active Vincentian for over 40 years, serving as diocesan president from 1973 to 1979 d h . . an general c all1nan for the 16th annual northeast regional conference of the society, held last June at Stonehill College.

Active in parish and other .

• diocesan undertakings, Gerardi was also chairman of the 1981 Catholic Charities Appeal.

"If people spoke only about the subjects on which they are best qualified to speak, the world would be filled with a profound and dignified, silence." - Chinese proverb

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MIDNIGHT MASS CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES AT 8:00, 10:00 A.M., 12:00 NOON AND 6:30 P.M. SPECIAL FAMILY LITURGIES WIll BE HELD ON THE WEEKEND-SATURDAY AT 4:00 AND 6:30 P.M., SUNDAY AT 8:00. 10:00 A.M.. 12:00 NOON AND 6:30 P.M.

THE PARISH STAFF AND THE DOMINICAN·FATHERS JOIN IN WISIDNG YOU AND YOURS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

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Pope John Paul asks defense of family values, human life

By Nancy Frazier

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longest document of his pontifiliThe great task that has to be mitting to eucharistic Communion cate Pope John Pau] II has/caUed faeed today for the renewal of divorced persons who have re-

on'Catholics to defend the rights society is that of recapturing the married." and value of the family and to become "communities in communion" despite difficulties.

"The church knows the path by which the family can reach the' heart of the deepest truth about itself," the pope said in his 167-page apostolic exhortation, "Familiaris Consortio," on the role of the Christian family in the modem world.

The Latin words "familiaris consortio" mean "community of the family." An apostolic exhortation is a papal document usually focusing on a specific group .in the church, in this case families, and is meant to encounge the following of a specific set of teachings. It thus differs from a papal encyclical which is a letter to the world's bishops, asking them to transmit to all the pe0ple in their jurisdiction Catholic teachings on a certain topic.

The document, dated Nov. 22 and made public at the Vatican Dec. 15; declares the church's "will to promote human life by every means," describes artificial methods of contraception as a denial of the total self-giving necessary in Christian marriage and reaffIrms the church's stand against allowing divorced CatholiCs who have remarried to particip_te in the sacraments.

It also presents the pope's views on a wide variety of marriage and family issues, includBecause "their state and coning sex education, the role of ultimate meaning of life and its dition of life objectiveiy contrawomen. polygamy, natural fam- fundamental values," he added.

The document restates the diet that union of love between ily planning and the duty of famchurch's. teachings on marriage Christ and the church which is ilies in the political arena.

Pope John Paul wrote the and family life and rejects the signified and effected by the apostolic exhortation after re- idea, that they have become out- Eucharist," their admission to the sacraments could cause ceiving 43 propositions on the moded.

"Not infrequently ideas and s0- "error and confusion regarding role of the family from the more than 200 bishops, 10 experts and lutions which are very appealing, the church's teaching about the 42 .auditors who attended the but which obscure in varying de- indissolubility of marriage," the 1980 world Synod of Bishops at grees the truth and the dignity. .pope added.

The only exception would be if the Vatican Sept. 26.()ct. 25 last of the human person, are offered to the men and women of today such a couple agrees to live "in year.

The papal document follows in their sIncere and deep search complete continence, that is, by closely the recommendations of for a response to the important abstinence froin the acts proper the synod participants, which daily problems that affect their to married couples,·... be said.

Pope John Paul told priests were not made public but were married and family life," the pope said. seen by NC News. not to perform ceremonies of any .

Reaffirming the church's ban kind for divorced persons who The pope also accepted the synod participants' proposal of on artificial contraception, the remarry, but also urged them a Charter of Family Rights, .pope urged theologians to' "col- "to make sure that they do not which he said will be prepared laborate with the hierarchial consider themselves as separated and "presented to the quarters magisterium and to commit them- from the church, for as baptized selves to the task of Hlustrating persons, they ~, and indeed and authorities concerned."

"The church openly and ever more clearly the biblical must, share in her life."

The docwrient condemned strongly defends the rights of foundations, the ethical grounds the family against the intoler- and the personalistic reasons be- pressures exercised by governments or public authorities to able usurpations 0{ society and hind this doctrine..'

Catholic couples cannot look take decisions on family ml\tters the state," the pope said in relaon the birth control teaching "as out of the hands of the families tion to the proposed charter.

"The church has perhaps never merely an ideal to be achieved themselves.

Pope John Paul called governbefore expressed in such a com- in the future," the pope said. plete and articulated vision the "They must consider it a com- ment programs in favor of confour fundamental duties of the mand of Christ the Lord to over- traception, sterlization or profamily," said Archbishop Josef come difficulties with constancy!' cured abortion "a grave offense On the topic of separated and against human dignity and jusTomko, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, at a Vatican divorced Catholics, Pope John tice."

Paul said those who do not repress conference Dec. 15.

He said that regan:ling educaThose duties; according to the marry provide a witness to the tion "the state and Pte church document, are "forming a com- church and the world with "their have the obligation tQ give fammunity of persons; serving life; example of fidelity and Christian ilies all possible aid' to enable participating in the development consistency." them to perform their educationHe encouraged pastoral con- al role properly." of society; and sharing in the life cern for those who do not reand mission of the church!'

In some countries, the pope "The historical situation in marry and those who do, but said, "the family, which In God's

plan is the basic cell of society

and a subject of rights and duties before the state or any other

even o.f itS blAtant injustice."

Pope John Paul also commented in the document on most of

community, finds itself the vic- the other major issues discussed tUn of society, of the delays and slowness with which it acts, and

in more than 300 interventions during the month-long synod. A

sampling includes: -On sex education: "A basic right and duty of parents, it must always be carried out under their attentive guidance, whether at home or in educational centers chosen and controlled by them."

The church opposes sex education "disassociated from moral principles."

--On the role of women: "The church can. and should help modem society by tirelessly insisting that the work of women in the home be recognized and respect~' ed by all in its irreplaceable value" but, at the same time, "there is no doubt that the equal dignity and responsibility of men and women fully justifies women's access to public functions."

--On natural family planning: "Theological reflection is able to perceive and is called to study further the difference, both anthropological and moral, between cont@ception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle. . • Every effort must be made to render such knowledge accessible to all married couples," --On the political role of families: "Families should be the first to. take ~eps to see' that the laws and institutions of the state not only do not offend but support and positively defend the rights and duties of the family."

Pope John Paul encouraged local bishops' conferences to contribute to the preparation of a catechism for families which "would be clear, brief and easily assimilated by all" and to draw up a directory for pastoral family care suitable to local situations.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Rlver-i'hur., Dec. 24, 1981

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By Father Kenneth J. Doyle VATICAN CITY (NC) - For many people, the immediate impact of Pope John PJlul II's apostolic exhortation "Familiaris Consortio" (community of the family). was its unusual 167-page length.

The document cannot be skimmed. Nor is it an essay, to be read at one sitting and reflected upon.

It is a compendium, a systematic presentation of the church's theology of the family, and therein lies its newness. Until now, the church has lacked a welldeveloped document on the theology of the family.

Its length can thus be understood. The pope had a lot to' cover - families of many kinds at every stage, under several aspects.

"Familiaris Consortio" synthesizes 43 wide-ranging propositions given to the pope by the 1980 world Synod of Bishops.

It covers controversial topics such as birth control and the church!. approach to divorced and rel)'llllTied :Catholics. It contains no changes in Catholic teachin,s and people familiar with ~ pope's th1nking did not expect that it wNld.

Pope John Paul feels strongly about the indissolubility of marriage and is convinced that the marriage relationship must remain-always open to the transmission of life. Moreover, he believes that he has the responsibility before God to communicate these teachings.

When such strong convictions are reaffirmed by 200 bishops from several continents and many cultures, as they were by the synod, and when the pope is asked by these bishops to proclaim those convictions anew, it is no surprise when he does so. , But these topics are not the chief elements of the document.

What is perhaps the core of the new exhortation is an appeal that families should "become what they Me," believing and loving communities.

The vision of the family as a "domestic church" first appeared at Vatican II nearly 20 years ago, but now in "Familiaris Consortio" it takes clearer shape.

The church exists, says Pope John Paul, to put people in touch with God, to keep them in love with each other, and to help them to' serve the world.

The family, in the new document's vision, exists for the same

reasons.

Family prayer, says the pope, should be central and regular.

"Joys and sorrows," "births and birthdays," "separations and homecomings" are seen by the document as suitable occasions for prayer.

It is in the family that reconciliation should first be learned.

The little boy in church who turns sheepishly to his sister at the Sign of Peace and says he is sorry he punched her has caught th~ spirit of the pope's thinking.

Families content with a "simple and austere life style," says the pope, will not be trapped by materialism but will be generous with those who have less.

When the home is a laboratory of Christian values, families become agents of social justice.

They become, says the document, defenders of migrants, of the poor, the homeless, the elderly, of women whose rights are unrecognized. They join neighborhood and international organizations promoting justice and peace.

The document invites the family to be true to itself. It does not conceal the Gospel demand to go against the flow when necessary.

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Three months later he is still Hving with us. He works when he chooses, keeps his OWD hours, and sometimes has young ladies

in after my husband and I are in bed.

I have asked him how long he plans to stay, and he says he does not know. I provide all dle meaIs and do his lauodry. He has not voIunteel'ed to help at aU. We love him dearly, but we are becoming more aDd more upset. What em we do with· our OWD son? (Ohio) Your son has been an adult for seven years now, and both deserves and needs to be treated as such. When children grow up, it often is hard for parents to change the way they treat them.

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port and friendship, but are no longer expected to provide room and board.

Close friends can visit one another for short periods. Friendship covers the cost of a few meals or an overnight stay. However, friendship is. put in jeopardy when the stay is prolonged.

Friends who use friendship for a free ride are termed deadbeats or worse. All take and no give '. can eventually destroy friendship. ,In facilitating the transition to a friendly relationship With adult children, parents sometimes must take a hard stand. Grown children who stay too long should be expected to pay room and board and help with the chores. Otherwise they should be told to leave.

How long is too long? With friendShip as the model, two weeks would seem a maximum time. After that, unless there is some reciprocation. friendship will become strained.

How much should be charged for room and board? Welfare departments pay S6 to $10 per day for foster care, depending on the locaIity. Such rates seem a reasonable minimum.

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Parents may say: We will care for you (totally or in part) as long as you are in school.

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I would ask him to make a significant and regular contribution to the support of the household or to leave.

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By Father Pierre Lachance, OP While Jesus was on earth, he laid the foundations of his church. He prepared the apostles for their future mission. But aU the while he was in charge.

When he returned to heaven, the apostles suddenly realized that they were now responsible for the fledging church. And they knew they were not ready. They were timid and unsure of themselves. That is why Jesus, before taking leave of them, had told them to remain in Jerusalem until they received power from on high. (Luke 24:49) "You shall receive power," he explained, "when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the very ends of the earth." (Acts 1:8) That is exactly what happened on Pentecost day. Filled with the Holy Spirit, the apostles began to proclaim the good news of Jesus with such power and conviction that after Peter gave his first witness talk. some 3,000 Jews believed in Jesus and were baptized.

Thus t1;te church was born on that day by the power of the Holy Spirit. Until then we might say that the church was like a baby in the womb. But now. as a missionary enterprise, it became a going concern with a life of its own. The Holy Spirit made the difference. He dwelIs in the church as its lifegiving soul.

His manifestations in the church are many and varied. In the Pentecost event, we can observe Peter speaking out with "assurance," Spirit-power. The apostles speak in foreign tongues.

And they are filled with such

joy and enthusiasm that the bystanders think they are drunk!

Pet~ has to set them straight:. '"These people are not drunk.

What you see is what Joel the prophet spoke of: In the last days I will pour out a portion of my spirit on all mankind. Your sons and daughters shalI prophesy, your young men shall see visions." (Acts 2:15-17) The first gift received at Pentecost was the Holy Spirit himself. But he came with many in Greek. Paul mentions nine of spiritual gifts, calIed "charisms" them in First Corinthians, chapter 12, including prophecy, healing and working miracles.

He considers these charisms as part of the normal equipment of the Christian. service gifts to build up the church. They manifest· in striking ways the presence of God in our midst and confirm the proclamation of the good news. (Mark 16:20) When one reads the Book of Acts, one. realizes that the charisms were extremely operative in apostolic times, as they had been in the ministry of Jesus.

As the apostles carried out their own ministry, healings abounded, even the raising of people from the dead. Prophets delivered messages from God and the Holy Spirit semed to be the commander-in-chief of the entire operation.

For instance, the Spirit told Philip to catch up with a man riding in a carriage; Philip did so and ended up baptizing the man. (Acts 8:29) Peter was told in a vision to welcome the gentile Cornelius into the church. (Acts 10:9-48) The Holy Spirit instructed the community at Antioch to "set apart Barnabas and Saul to do

the work for which I have caIled them." (Acts 13:2) Twice the Lord prevented Paul from· g0ing to ASia Minor; instead he directed him in a vision to Macedonia. (Acts 16:6-10) Finally, when the Apostles gathered in council at Jerusalem, they were conscious of being guided by the Holy Spirit as they prefaced their decision with these words: "It is the decision of the Holy Spirit, and ours too."

(Acts 15:28) In conclusion, the church has been from the beginning both a well-organized and a charismatic institution. led. by the Spirit and filIed with supernatural power and·gifts.

And there should be no opposition between the two. It is wrong to see the institutional and the charismatic as two separate compartments in the church. Indeed, everyone in the institutional ministry should be charismatic, and everyone with a charismatic ministry should find a place for service within the i~titution.

The pope, for example, has the so-calIed "charism of Peter," which includes the carefulIy defined charism of infallibility.

Pope John XXIII proved very charismatic, moved by the Spirit. when he calIed the Vatican Council. The cardinals vehemently resisted the idea. But the pope had an inner assurance it was the will of God and went ahead.

When he died, Dr. MacAfee Brown, a Protestant theologian, said of him, "To me Pope John was a prophet Uk~ the gteatprophets of the Old Test~ent."

The Holy Spirit brings fresh air, new life, the unexpected into the institutiOnal church. He is the "Creator Spirit."

Peace ()n earth his goal WASHINGTON (NC)--Bishop Leroy T. Matthiesen, 50, clf Amarillo, Tex., opposes nuclear bombs.

Up until this year, he says, he had never spoken out on the issue. Then his conscienc:e was touched by a worker who helped manufacture the bombs and was troubled over their mora1ity.

Now Bishop Matthieslen has become one of the most prominent anti-nuclear spo],<:esmen among the U.S. bishops.

Earlier this year he tlestified against placing the MX missile anywhere in the United States.

He called on Catholics working at the Pantex plant in his diocese, final assembly point for the whole U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons, to ask themselves whether in conscience they could justify the work they were doing.

A number of other U.S. bishops who have since spoken out against American nuclear policy have cited Bishop Matthiesen's stand in their arguments.

Recently he spoke in New York at the Riverside Church Disarmament Conference (In how he came to oppose nuclear weapons.

Excerpts from his speech follow.

"After I released the statement about the assembl:ing of the neutron bomb at Pantex, a member of the staff of our ,:hurch paper polled 50 students at West Texas State University, 35, miles from Pantex. The majority of the students either had never heard of Pantex or, if they had, did not know what it WliS for.

They literally did not know that thermonuclear warheads capable of incredible destruction are being loaded out there.

"A former employee at Pantex wondered why' I had issued a statement against the n,eutron bomb. After all, she observed, the neutron bomb destroys building and .,tanks and things like that and does not hurt people.

When someone said, 'HonE!y, it's the other way around: The bomb destroys people, cremates and vaporizes them, but does not harm buildings and tanks with its radiation,' her mouth fell open. She just didn't know.

"That, I submit, is our major problem. We don't know" and, sadly, some of us would .rather not know.

"We still are thinking in traditional terms of self-defense, of armies meeting on battle fields free of civilians, of honor and glory.

"I know Ithat this is the situation, because until very rel:ently that is where I was.

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of Pantex, and for those 33 years I said nothing either as a priest or a bishop until a Catholic employee and his wife came to me with troubled consciences. They had begun to think that what he was doing was wrong. Other events had preceded them. . . .

I finally was moved to speak. I had come to the realization, with Martin Luther King Jr.. that the choice really is between nonviolence and non-existence. I finally could no ~onger say, 'I didn't know the gun was loaded.'

"What followed the release of the statement was a revelation to me. The peace movement is very strong in the United States.

The mail is running over 95 per cent in favor of nuclear disarmament. . .

"In my town the community leaders shook their heads and said, 'The bishop is an idealist.

We wish we could do what he urges, but we live in a real world and in this real world we must arm ourselves with nuclear weapons in ol'der to defend our free way of life, our econOmy, and, yes, even our churches.'

"I suggest that this is the greatest unreality, the greatest illusion of all. Pile the stocks of nuclear arms as high as you will, refine them as expertly as you wish, you cannot deter others thereby from doing the same. Indeed, you force them, in their delusion, to do so. And speak not of stockpiles in the U.S. and in the U.S.S.R. only, but speak of stockpiles in country after country and thus insure the final reality: The world at the point of no return and this last civilization vaporizing in the white heat of the final noonday sun,"

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TORONTO (NC)-The Ontario Supreme Court has ruled against an injunction which would have a:llowed the Right to Life Association of Toronto to d'isplay an anti-abortion poster on the Toronto subways.

The Right to Life Association filed an injunction in the court af,ter the Toronto Transit Commission (ITC) had rejected the ad after pro-abortion groups protested.

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a sad toy soldier with a -tear rolling down its cheek. The caption reads: "Some toys will have Jess children to play with this year.

Some 65,000 aborted children less." The 65,000 figure was taken from 1979 data of Statistics Canada, which conducts a census every four years.

The ad on which the poster is based won this year's International Clio Advertising Award, given by the American Federation of Radio and Television Commercials.

But the Toronto pro-life group which sponsored the poster is not giving up. It plans to have 200 high school and college volunteers ride the subway with the posters on their laps, according to Laura McArthur, president of the Right to Life Association.

"We object strongly to the terminology used," said Dianne Nannarone, head of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League.

"Children are not abol1ted, only embryos and fetuses are aborted."

Mrs. McArthur said that use of the word "children" was intentional, implying that the abortion victims would now be old enough to play with toys.

"And if they say that we should not have ads on abortion because it makes those who have had one feel guilty, then we also shouldn't run ads with little girls crying because daddy d'rinks because that might offend the alcoholics."

It was' also noted that Planned Parenthood has run ads in the subway for more than a year.

Planned Parenthood counsels women to have abortions, she said.

Another point of view

By Jo-ann Price NEW YORK (NC)-In the September issue of Fusion magazine, published by the private::y supported Fusion Energy Foundation, Steven Bardwell, editor, says the world will need billions more people by the year :WOO to keep up with projected new technologies and economic growth.

In an interview in New York he said his organization sharply opposes the findings of the U.S. government - sponsored Global 2000 Report, which warned against continuing population increases in the world.

(The Global 2000 Report was the work of a commission set up by former President Jimmy Carter to study projections :for the year 2000.)

"By the year 2000 a new energy resource, nuclear fusion, will be in use not only for electricity but also for industry and chemical processing. It will be different from any energy source we have been using," said Bardwell.

"And with it will come economic growth, and we will have to have more people, as we have in the past, at any time of economic expansion," he said.

Fusion nuclear energy is produced by the joining of hydrogen atoms; nuclear fission splits atoms.

The magazine, which has a circulation of 200,000 and. is the chief revenue source for the foundation, is something of a David confronting a Goliath comprised of anti-population and environmentalist organi.:ations, said Barnwell. He said its supporters are agricultural engineers, scientists, some pro-life groups and foes of anti-nuclear organizations.

He said that it openly "picks fights" with organizations such as Zero Population Growth, Zero Economic Growth, the Green. peace Movement and the Sierra Club, knowing it is going against what he termed a tide of popular thinking.

Bardwell, a 1971 physics grad-

uate of Swarthmore College, holds a doctorate in plasma physics from the University of Colorado. A board member of the foundation and editor in chief of its magazine, he has contributed to the Astrophysics Journal, Int~rnational Journal of Fusion Energy and the Journal of Quantum Electrodynamics.

In the Fusion article he said that the world needs 10 billion people because of the energy explosion. There are, he said, now about 4.5 billion.

"I can't be separated in my scientific work from my moral outlook," he noted. He is not a church member, he said, but "I believe the universe is guided, is developing, that God did not create it in a static way. Man is not static - he has a responsibility.

"The big cry of the Global 2000 people is that people are consumers and that changes are not going to be made. It then becomes morally acceptable to have abortion and birth control.

There is a lot of euthanasia and genocide buried in this line of thinking," he said.

Problems of economics and population need to be viewed "on a worldwide scale," because they too often are seen only from a national perspective, he said.

This country has a "tremendous opportunity" to aid world industrialization and the people in many countries, he said.

For example, he said, Mexico is willing to exchange oil reserves for U.S. technology. And it is "just crazy that we are refusing to honor our treaty" to supply fuel for India's Tarupur nuclear reactor, he said. (Congress, in a controversial decision earlier this year, refused to allow sale of the nuclear fuel to India.)

In the Sahel area of Africa "the food is there, but the people needed to deliver it are not," Bardwell added.

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Five sisters at formation parley Five sisters from the Fall River diocese were among nearly 1000 religious who met recently in Pittsburgh for the second national congress of the Religious Formation Conference.

The diocesan representatives were Sister Mary Lou Simcoe, SUSC; Sisters Joanna Fernandes ad Marina of the Dominkans of St. Catherine of Siena; and Sisters Joanne Bonville and Judy Brunell of the Dominicans of the Presentation.

With the theme of formation in the American church, religious responsible for initial training and continuing education in their communities discussed importance of collaboration among church members, "conversion to discipleship," the future of the church and the effects of technology on young people.

Sister Aina Lanigan, PBVM. of Fitchburg is chairperson of the New England RFC region.

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Sense of sin being lost, say bishops

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (NC) Concerned about declining use of the sacrament of reconciliation, 15 Texas bishops have written a pastoral letter urging priests to help make Catholics more aware of sin.

"There is a legitimate concern that many Catholics are losing a. sense of sin, which is leading to the disuse of the sacrament that gives them the rich and redeeming love of Christ," the letter stated.

"Not only is there a. lack of the sense of individual or personal sin, but there is an appalling disregard for the morality of the social issues of our day.

For J!lany Catholics the social teaching of the church is not perceived as a matter that affects the individual conscience or personal morality."

The pastoral cited a need to restore the sense of sin according to the church's authentic teachings. "If we allow the diminishing sense of sin to grow, the result will be a practical denial of the need for God's mercy and the redeeming sufferings of Jesus would not be active for many," the bishops said.

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• ; • & : • Sunday pairings for the dioce• san Holiday Festival basketball : tournament, to be held Sunday, Monday and Wednesday at Kennedy Center,. New Bedford, have. : been announced by Rev. Jay INCLUDING ALL MEALS, ACCOM., TAXES AND GRATUITIES. NOTHING MORE TO PAY! UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE! : Maddock. They follow: : I p.m. - Our Lady of Grace, Mt. Carmel, New Bedford.

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Stephen Winslow has. been named athletic director at the Taunton school, succeeding the late Joseph Scanlon who died unexpectedly in October.

Winslow taught at Coyle High School for three years and has been at Coyle-Cassidy for the past 10 years. He is presently head baseball and football coach and previously directed basketball.

A standout athlete at Somerset High School, he also playedat Southeastern Massachusetts University, from which he graduated in 1968.

Vincent D'Oliveira, a C-C faculty member, has been acting athletic director since Scanlon's death, thus permitting Winslow to complete his duties as head football coach before assuming his new position.

Also at C-C, John Brady took first place in city competition in the annual Voice of Democracy speech contest. He will continue to county and state competition.

In a recent essay, contest first prizes went to Barbara Dillon, freshman; Sarah Merrill, sophomore; Toni Jane -Silveira, junior; Mark Gurney, senior.

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Deacons will celebrate the feast of St. Stephen at 4:30 p.m.

Mass at St. Stanislawl Church, Fall River. Refreshments will follow in the school hall.

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In observance of the opening of the jubilee year of Ou:: Lady of Czestochowa, the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from 8 tonight to 9 a.m. tomorrow,with a holy hour scheduled at 11 :30 p.m.

ST.ANNE,FR

Special family liturgies will be held at all Masses this weekend.

COMPASSIONATE FB.ffiNDS

This self-help group offers understanding to bereaved parents. A meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday at St. Louis de France youth centE!r, Swansea. Information: Leo and Georgette Le Comte, 676-84·58.

ST.~CHAEL,SWANSEA

Families will be blessed at all Masses this weekend in observance of the feast of the Holy Family.

PRffiSTS' PRAYER

Priests of the diocese will meet for a holy hour and lunch at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, at St. Julie's Church, North Dartmouth. The meetings are held regularly each fourth Monday and all priests are welcome.

BLESSED SACRAMENT ADORERS

Adorers will hold their monthly holy hour from 7 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven, under direction of Father Roy Yurco, SS.CC. Dialogue and refreshments will follow in the church hall. All welcome.

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Alcazaba Circle, Daughters of Isabella, will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 7, at K of C Hall, Hodges St., for a business session and social hour.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR

Newly elected parish councillors are Rita Tyrrell, Helen Polak and Joan Lamonde. On the spiritual life committee are Mary Farren, re-elected, and John Dolan, Patricia Lackey and Janice Tunney, newly named.

Richard Costa is chairman of the activities committee, which has as new members Thomas Dunse, Joanne Leduc and Charles O'Hearn. James Benevides was reelected to membership.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET

During the Christmas season the Blessed Sacrament will be reserved on St. Joseph's altar.

ALHAMBRA ORDER Region I Council of Caravans will meet at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, at the Italian-American

Club in Peabody. Diocesan caravans are located in Fall River and Falmouth.

ST. RITA, MARION

Greater Fall River Vincentians will attend Mass and a communion breakfast at 9 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, at St. Patrick's Church, Somerset. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be principal celebrant and homilist for the Mass.

Holy Communion will be brought to parish shut-ins this morning.

An ecumenical Christmas service w.ill be held at 11 a.m. Sunday. Marriage vows will be renewed at all Masses this weekend.

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ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN

CCD classes will resume Saturday, Jan. 9.

ST. JULIE, NO. DARTMOUTH

CCD classes will resume the week of Jan. 10.

A blood bank will be held from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, in the church hall Volunteers may call Earl Faunce, 993-2061.

ROSE HAWTHORNE HOME, FALL RIVER

The home is in need of pajamas, nightgowns, toiletries, yarn, lap robes and other items for patient use. Those wishing to make donations may call the home, 673-2322.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR

A social hour lin the church hall sponsored by the Bread of Life prayer group will follow midnight Mass tonight.

A children's Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Sunday in observance of the feast of the Holy Family.

Epiphany wil be celebrated at 6:30 p.m. Mass Saturday, Jan. 2, with the assistance of cast members of the People's Theatre.

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CCD classes will resume in mid-January.

Morality in Media takes on cable TV

By NC News service

Morality in Media, an antipornography organization, has launched a direct mail campaign to prohibit obscene and indecent material from being shown on cable television.

A letter, signed by former Dallas Cowboy quarterback Roger Staubach, is gong to 150, 000-200,000 citizens, asking them to send an enclosed postcard, opposing smut, to their mayors, The objective is to get cities to

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pass legislation prohibiting indecency in cable programming.'

Because cable TV does not use the public airwaves, instead sending programs through wires and cables, it does not come under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission.

However, in many areas, local government agencies regulate cable TV franchises.

Staubach's letter suggests that local cable TV controls are necessary because the FCC, the courts and cities and states keep passing the buck on the cable pornography issue.

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