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APPLE BLOSSOMS AT ST. JOHN'S SEMINARY, BRIGHTON

, I arose and am. still with you, alleluia!' Ps. 138:18

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Bishop Cronin's My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing, choirs ofangels!

Exult, all creation, around God's throne! Jesus Christ, .our King, is r~sen!

So begins the Exultet, the ancient prayer proclaimed in every church t~roughout the world at the Easter Vigil. Through all its verses, we Chris­tians make the boldest and most profound statement of faith in all human h,is,tory: Jesus Christ, God, and man, has conquered death for all eternity by flsmg to new life. It is a proclamation of life. It is a proclamation of joy and freedom for all the world. .

And yet, the words of this glorious hymn are also an invitation to each of us who is a faithful follower of Christ. We are called to deepen our faith by wal~ing in the footsteps of Christ, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, freemg the oppressed, comforting the sick and lonely. The hymn invites us to be reconciled with one another and through our life together in the church to continue the earthly ministry of Jesus. The hymn, proclaiming God's great saving event, calls each of us to an earthly life of hope, longing for our share in the eternal glory won for us by the sacrifice and resurrec­tion of Jesus.

Easter Message The Easter message is also a challenge to the world, the world which rejects Jesus Christ, his teachings and his call to holiness. As we hold our lighted candle, signifying the light of Christ in our hearts, let us all join together in prayer. Let us unite our hearts, our'minds and our voices as the Church, so that our lives may be the inspiration for the world to grow in holiness, our good works may be the example of Christ's command to love one another, and our faith may sustain us in love and hope.

As Bishop of Fall River, I unite in prayer with all the devoted priests of the Diocese in extending to all of you and to your families and loved ones the blessings of a joyful Easter. It is my prayer that people everywhere may come together and celebrate the new life we share and thus grow in our love for each other and for our Risen Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lord. May God love and bless you all!

Devotedly yours in Christ,

Bishop of Fall River

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Research indicates

Catholic .high schools healthy, not elitist WASHINGTON (NC) - Cath­ upper-middle-class students· is

olic high schools are academic­ unfounded. ally healthy and are not elitist, At a Washington press con­said researchers' last week as ference Guerra again called it a they released a National Cath­ mistake "to say public schools, olic Educational Association accept everyone who comes and study that they sai~. rejects private schools accept only those some myths about education in people they want to accept." church :institutions. The findings "will be good

Prelilninaly ·reslil~ ,. of . the . news to many - panticularly' study, "Catholic High Schools: educators whose memories A National Portrait," were re­ stretch back to the 1960s when . leased at the NCEA convention Catholic high schools were pop­in Boston last April. . ularly viewed as second-class, .

When those findings were re­ second-rate, and a pale copy of leased, Michael J. Guerra, execu­ what good education. was all tive director of the NCEA sec­ about," the study said. ondary school .department and· Catholic educators at the press associate project director, said conference reiterated the major they showed that the myth that points of last year's prelimin­Catholic schools are highly se­ aTY report. lective and admit mostly white - More than 80 percent of

Father~Benoit Galland The Mass of Christian Burial time on different aItars at the.

was offered Wednesday in Ocean­ large church. side, Calif., for Father Benoit R. Father Galland was associate Galland, 70, who died March 30 pastor 8't Notre' Dame Church, in Oceanside, where he had lived Fall River, until 1944, when he . in retirement after 36 years of entered the service as a Navyservice in the Chaplain Corps, chaplain. Returning to the dio­first as a Navy and then as a cese in 1946, he was' at St. Hya­Mill'rine Corps chaplain. cinth Church, New Bedford, until '

1951, when he reentered theAt the time of his funeral in, chaplain corps. ' .California, a Mass· was offered

for him at the Fall River home He was a.Navy chaplain during ;~f his mother, Mrs. Agnes (Cou­ the Korean conflict, with the lombe) Galland, by Father Lu­ Marine Corps· during Ithe' Viet­cien Jusseaume, a close friend nam crisis and was ranking

.ohhe chaplain. Mrs. Galland, 97, chaplain at Camp Pendleton, was unaible, due to her age, to Calif. . travel to California for her son's Among survivors, besides his_ funeral. mother, are/four brothers, Phili- .

dore and Edgar of Fall River,'A native of Blessed Sacrament Raymond of California and Henry parish, Fall River, the son of of Oregon; and one sister, Mrs. Mrs. Galland and .the late Lillian Rioux of California. Charles Galland, the chaplain

Father Jusseaume will offer a was 'educated at -Blessed Sacra­month's mind Mass for Fatherment School, Fall River; St. Hy­Galland at Blessed Sacramentacinth Seminary. and St. Alex­Church at a time and date to be ander's College, Pointe Gatineau, announced.Quebec; and the Theological Sem­

inary in Montreal.

He was ordained in 1940 at Military Vicariate St. Mary's Cathedral by the late ~ishop James ,E. Cassidy to-. to be, prelaturegether with the late Father Ger­

NEW YORK (NC) - Arch­ard Boisvert and the late Father bishop John J. O'Connor of New·Donald Belanger, all of Blessed York compared it to losing aSacrament parish. The three said child March 25 as he helped in­their first Masses at the same stall Archbishop Joseph T. Ryan as the new U.S. military vicar..

The event 'marked official sep- . aration of the U.S. Military

I· Vicariate from New York, whose archbishop. itraditionally has served also as military vicar. The vicaria'te will relocate later this' year, to Washington.

A:rchbishop O'Connor an­nounced that the Vatican this summer plans to upgrade the vicariate to the level of .. a pre· ]ature, giving Archbishop Ryan more powers of a diocesan bish­op, including that of ordaining priests specifically for 'the pre­lature. .

Currently the vicariate relies on priests given leave from dio­cesan or religious order duties

FATHER GALLAND to serve as military chaplains.

Catholic high school. students. Researchers studied data in 14 ning Catholic high school teacher subsequently enroll in colleges, categories from 910 Catholic sec­ is $11,121, compared to $14,045 compared to 50-60 percent of ondary school principals to pre­ for a beginning public school public high school graduates., . pare the 254-page report f~r teacher.

- 65 percent of students: whiCh Father Robert J. Yeager "It's fair to conclude compen­come from families with less that was project director. sation is not the prime motiva­$30,000 annual gross income. tion in Cathoiic schools," Guerra According to the report, Cath­

said.- More than 18 percent of olic high schools tend to rigorous The higher turnover. of Cath­the students· are members of graduation ,requirements in sci­

miniorities; 1] percent are non­ . ence, ma'th, English, history and olic high school teachers is a Catholic.. mired blessing, he added. Staffsocial studies but do not offer as

members tend to be younger,- Teacher -turnover is high. many ,technical ·or vocational adding "zeal" to the community Fifty-four 'percent of Catholic 'courses as public schools. Ibut "it :is difficult Ito build anhigh school teachers have five The schools are economically institution" ~ade up of teachers years of teaching experience or efficient but m!1ny have financial with little experience. less, compared with only 8 per­ problems because they try to

cent of public school teachers. keep tuition within reach of low­ Guerra speculated ',that reli­gious who teach "may represent income students. In an interView before the the stable core" in Catholic

upcoming NCEA convention, . "The only solution," according schools. If so, that could be aGuerra said that while the first to Guerra, "is to broaden the problem as the number of reli­stage of the study was "to de­ base, to get support ~yond par­ 'gious continues to drop. It isscribe what the Catholic high· ents and students." He suggested projected that by the 1990s reli- .,school looks like, the second tuition tax credits, vouchers and gious will make up only 5 per-'half, which is in progress, will "support from society at large" cent of the teaching staff, Guerra be a detailed &nalysis of, the for Catholic schools. said, so "we will need -to developschool's impaCt on low-income The report showed' that while a more stable faculty." famifies." in 1962 69 percent of Catholic The NOEA' study found that

Guerra will report on his la­ teachers w.ere priests or religi-' education of the handicapped "is test reselfch at the 1985 NCEA ous, today they make up only 23 not a high priority in most Cath­convention, to be held April ,8-11 percent of most faculties. olic high schoQls" and that fine

, in S1. Louis. The final report is The study noted that the aver­ arts. also "appears to be a low to ,be released in January ]986. age starting sala,ry of a begin- priority."

. . CCA .Special GUt phase t,o open The 'SpeCial Gift phase of' the ~~,~~'rr;~nity.:· s~n!=~:' ~~rV.ic~~~~:',it .i~~tions._·,.: " '

annual Catholic Charities Appeal f!:1ndsare extended ,to all" with- Mrs. Emma R. Andrade, 1985 of the diocese will run from out question as to religious af: CCA ,lay chairperson, has asked April 22 through May 4, reach- fmation. the solicitors to make returns ,jng fraternal, professional, busi- Ms'gr. Anthony M. Gomes, dio- promptly to headquarters located ness and industrial organizations cesan Appeal director, said that in the Fall River, New Bedford, in Southeastern Massachusetts. over 900 Special Gift solicitors Attleboro, Taunton and Cape and

Such organizations regard will be responsible for contact- Islands areas of the diocese. CCA support as a benefit to the ,ing more than 5,000 area organ­

. . REV. BENTO R. FRAGA, Attleboro are a director, with Bishop Daniel A. Cro­nin. The bishop has sent personal letters to Special Gift solicitors asking their assistance in

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FATHER WALDRON

Father Waldron funeral was Tuesday

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant and over 50 priests of the diocese were con­celebrants at the April 2 funeral Mass of Father Howard A. Wald­ron, 76, pastor emeritus and from 1950 to 1952 associate pastor of St. Thomas More par­ish, Somerset.

Father Waldron died unexpect­edly March 28 in Taunton, where

/he had lived since his retirement in 1978.

His eulogist was longtime friend Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, pastor of Holy Name parish, Fall River.

"To recall Father Waldron's life," said Msgr. Shalloo, "you would have to recall Frank Sheed to add another chapter to his 1949 collection, 'Saints Are Not Sad.'

"Happiness emanated from Father Waldron's life, whether in city or suburb, at home or in a hospital, with the elderly or the young - all his actions were born of a nature based in ser­vice.

"He was founding pastor in Centerville, and pastor-director of this magnificent edifice (St. Thomas More Church). S'ome would consider these buildings his crowning accomplishment; but it was his spirit of ~ove,

prayer and service that disting­uished him, not brick, wood and marble.

"He did not step down at re­tirement but took a giant step for the priesthood and stepped upward to a new plateau. With his characteristic of availability, he served pa·rishes needing help.

"And his new apostolate was to retired priests. He was life­blood to the ailing and aged, and

he was always punctual in his visits, an important considera­

.tion to the elderly. He broug~t joy when he came and his de­parture was always made with the assurance of another visit.

"He took his friends out for meals but the greatest nourish­ment was his scintillating con­versation.

"He lived an exemplary life, accepting the years gratefully and living them gracefully.

"His two sisters and his brother should regard him as a star that, although extinct it= self, still speeds its rays of -light through space, bringing olife to many.

"Bishop Cronin, our shepherd, has ~ost an important aide, his fellow pl"iests have lost a con­soling friend.

"Thanks, Howie, for the mem­ories, for none of them were sad."

A Taunton native, Father Waldron was the son of the late William J. and Ellen V. (Mc­Manus) Waldron.

After graduating from St. ­Mary's High School in Taunton, hellttended Providence College before entering St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N.Y., to prepare for the priesthood.

He was ordained June 10,1933 in St. Mary's Cathedral by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy.

As associate pastor he served in St. P!ltrick's par.ish, Wareham, twice in St. Francis Xav.ier, Hy­annis, and . in Sacred Heart, Taunton, St. James, New Bed­ford, and St. Mary, North Attle­boro,as well as St. Thomas More.

In 1957 Father Waldron be­came founding pastor and

builder of Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville, and in 1964, ,returning to St. Thomas More, he supervised construction Of its new church building. He remain­ed at ,the. Somerset parish until his retirement. .

A special event during his pastorate was dedication of the over 300-year-old Couq~il Treaty Oak tree,. considered .the center of Somerset and formerly a meeting place for Indian coun· cils. Now on the. St. Thomas More parish property, it was dedicated, blessed and memorial- . ized with a pla,que during the bicentennial year' of 1976 on a

day that also included ~l alcen­tennial Mass at St. Thomas More that. was attend~d by represen-' tatives. of many faiths.

F8'ther Waldron is survived by two sisters, MrS.. Willard Olm­stead and Mrs.' Oscar Maynard, and a brother William .J. Wald­

"ron, all of Taunton; and also by six nephews.

Not separated NEW YORK~C) - Rornan

Catholics and Christians of the National Council of Churches are no ,longer "separated" but

THE ANCHOR'- ','." .Friday, April 5, 1985 :3 "together on a pilgrimage," said the Rev. Arie 'Brouner, new NCe general secretary, in an' inter­view. The present stage of the pi·lgrimage, he said, is a time' of "cooperation," a middle position between the "competition" of the past and the full "commun­ion" that is the goa,l of Christian unity. Mr. Brouner also express­ed commitment to building "a positive environment" for in­creasing NCC-Catholic coopera­tion.

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Let Hope Spring Eternal In New England, springtime is perhaps the most wonderful

season of the year. Winter's woes are behind us. Grey skies yield to sunshine and grey landscapes become green. Snow and slush are quickly forgotten as we anticipate plantings ~nd'

flowers. What was seemingly dead and buried comes' to life and rises again. How wonderful to celebrate Easter.' amid. these signs ot nature! .

I' tiftiiig up our heads; breathing.the ri~w air, 10okjngJ~r the ~udsl' we·'c9me.a:fi~e )I{heatt apd'mind.. We are led to·look beyond the natural. We search the horizon where sky meets sea. We seek infinity. .

Hope permeates us, givmg new bounce to our step and bringing all who have passed through winter an appreciation of birth. Once more nature fills us with optimism and enthusiasm.

This spirit brings many'of our brothers and sisters to think, even if fleetingly, about celebrating the fulfillment of our high­est expectations. Belief is renewed and that which was planted years ago comes to life even if only for a fleeting moment. The joy of Easter moves millions to refresh their 'faith and share in the mystery of the Resurrection.

For a shining moment the church too is refreshed by the presence of so many brothers and sisters rt<turning to celebrate Easter, to express what may have been a dormant faith. They ·pay tribute to that event which fulfilled all promises, lifted up depressed followers and set hearts on fire.

The Resurrection of Jesus truly ends doubt, denial and disbelief. It helps the skeptic to trust, the doubter 'to believe and the hesitant to hope. All try to make. the promise of springtime live iQ their hearts and souls.

.Yet'for' mariy the revi'val is'short lived. The world's'shackles are hard' to tnrowoff and Easter 'slips' away.amid· bliSken : promises and shattered desires. . . '

What one wants to reach out for and grasp is snatched ~way by the fool's paradis~ we call modern living-. For many faith and hope become a utopian dream suppressed by the daily attempt to achieve the world's idea of success. Winter sets in with a swiftness and rapidity that cloud the sun and quench its light.

Yet, as harried days bring Easter near, could we again be reminded that life need not be perpetual winter, that darkness can be dispelled by the single light of faith.

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'He is risen; he is not here.' M.ark 16:6

In an age that feels life holds little meaning, can we who believe renew the promise of hope? The despair of our time need not continue. Those who live in our present darkness, be they addicted or depressed, alone or forgotten, burnt up or burnt out, must see that all this can change and that there is a chance.

To reach out and not in, to search and not stop, to believe and not doubt, to hope and not despair must not be mere pipe ' dreams or flights of fancy. Our world needs those who truly want to walk in a new springtime. We need hopeful people and may we pray in a special way this Easter week that for all, espeda,lly. th~ least and those who, think they are, hope will ' always spring eternal.. ' " . "., , , :' . . " .: ;., :'." , ~ette~ Welco.~e ,", '., ...

Letters to tbe editor are welcomed..AII letters sbould be brief aod tbe editor rese-:ves the right to condense any letters if deemedJlecesary. All , letters must be signed and contain a home or business, ~ddr~.· , , • .

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Inactive Catholics wooed CHICAGO (NC) Paulist

Father Alvin Illig, whose personal priority in ministry is the un­churched, says that inactive Catho­lics are now the top priority in the Catholic Church's evangelization efforts.

"That's largely because it's eas­ier 'for parishes to establish out­reaches to inactive Catholics than to the unchurched," said Father Illig, director of the Paulist's National Catholic Evangelization Association, at the seventh annual National Catholic Lay Celebration of Evangelization. '. . ;

The 'priest also said that large parishes and the decline in p'i-iestly and religious vocations are the biggest obstacles to evangelization in the U.S'. church.

Fath~r Illig, told The Chicago Catholic, archdiocesan newspaper, that ministry to inactive Catholics serves to "introduce the parish, the pastor, the staff and the people to -the evangelization proces~.." . , ..

"Ultimately, we hope that they will move on to include the level of the unchurched," he said.

E;ulier, Father Illig told about 800 participants at the March 22­24 conference in Chicago that the best way to reach inactive Catho­lics is through "former inactive Catholics" who have experienced being away from the church.

.He told his audience of predom­inantly, lay ministers that while there are 15 million inactive U.S. Catholics, there are .also some' 52 miilion "fire-tried" Catholics who have'become the "most volunt.ary body of believers in the ·country."

Catholics today are volunteers for their faith, according to Father Illig, because '''there is no longer any pressure on them to go to Mass on Sunday or become in­volved in their parishes," as there was in pre-Vatican 11 days.

The 'priest termed Catholics the fastest growing religious body in

the nation, now 29 percent of the population, as opposed to 20 per­cent of the population in 1947.

Saying that there has been a "flowering of Gospel-rooted faith" since Vatican II, Father Illig said "we haven't d'one everything wrong." -Yet, he added, one in four Cathol­ics is nonpracticin~ and 40 percent of youths aged 15 to 29 stop going to Mass. '

"Fortunately," he added, "about two-thirds to 70 percent will come back."

Asked ifevangelization by Cath­olics is still on the upswing, he said many dioceses have opened evan­gelization offices, that nationally evangelization has grown tremen­dously in the last 10 years, and that the U.S. bishops, at their national meeting June 14-18, will celebrate the roth anniversary of Pape Paul VI's apostolic exhortation on evan­

,gelization. Pope Paul "gave us a 25-year vision - to the year 2000," Father Illig said, "so we are really just getting started." •.

5 Welcome Easter! By

Joyous Easter! Peace-filled taneous act of unselfish love, all Easter! Welcome Easter! remind us of God's promise of DOLORES

eternal life. To paraphrase Robert Frost, Easter is God's idea that his So often families ignore these CURRAN Word lives on. It's appropriate to moments. When we refuse to stop wrap up our final three fruits of and value them, we refuse moments the Holy Spirit - joy, love, and of deep grace. For Christmas I

received a small book called,peace - this week because Easter has always been a season of joy, Fifty-Seven Reasons Not To Have

thanking God for the simple things love and' peace. a Nuclear War by Marty

that enrich our lives each day. Asher (Warner Books). No heavy Throughout history, mankind's tome on the morality of nuclear "Thank you, Lord, for the letter deepest yearning has been hope'of

eternal life. From the cavemen warfare this but rather an illus­ from Tom." "Thanks for Peter's trated listing of daily pleasure!\: silly jokes." Thanks for this new who left food and water with their

dead to the elaborate crypts of the apples, Mozart, Friday after­ recipe." Thanks for our shared noons, cheddar cheese, Simon and love." "Thanks for making up after pyramids, the ancients clutched at Garfunkel, Renoir, dreams, pump­ our big argument." the hope of life after death. When

Jesus rose from his grave, this kins,balloons, fire engines, Ifwe have reflected on the other cheeseburgers, me and you. yearning was finally fulfilled. I fruits of the Holy Spirit during

think of the people who" went Each of these speaks to the Lent - patience, generosity, and Easters in our lives. Yet how often before us without this hope. How all- they have resulted in increased

fearful their lives must have been. we ~verlook tham. A young peace, joy and love in our family. mother said to me, "I know it There is a deep joy that goes But we can't expect them to flour­sounds foolish but I get great joy with belief in the resurrection. And ish all year without attention. out of watching my baby develop. this joy rebounds into our per­ Occasionally during our busyThe other day when she discov­sonal and family lives which results and chaotic lives, we need to remind ered she could sit down and pull in deeper peace and love among ourselves to stop and review these herself back up and I saw her ela­us. When we truly believe that we gifts, especially when we feel dis­tion, I felt close to God." will reunite after death, our pers­ tanced from one another, lonely Foolish? Not a~ all! Those who pective of life changes. The disap­ on marri!lge, and aimless in faith.

we suffer recognize God's grace in thesepointments and losses What God promises, God gives. events don't need a master's degree become temporary. Death looses He didn't send Jesus and the resur­in theology to understand theits sting of permanency., rection just once. He continues to ressurection.This is why Easter becomes more send us the hope,joy and peace of than a day in family life. It becomes My plea and challenge to fami­ Easter daily, if only we learn to an ongoing joy, and all the little lies this season is to let the love,joy recognize it. joys become Easters throughout and peace of Easter live on in us May your Easter last all year i the year. The birth of a child, a the whole year through. When we long and may your family life be a stunning insight or view, a spon- say evening grace, lets focus on sign to the world of Easter's reality.

ByPastoral planners FATHERProfessional planning. Pas- someone skilled in knowing why

toral needs. The first national- the program is excellent and who EUGENElevel attempt to bring together is also studying why more than 6

million· elementary and secondary the best that is known about children are not attending any HEMRICKprofessional planning and the art formal religion courses. of making it pastoral and effective To hail the lay movement as a has been announced. A new pro- welcomed new thrust in the church

can serve those in the trenchesgram designed for those involved is noble. But to know what best with the best pastoral ammunition in pastoral planning and research prepares lay persons, and where possible; i.e. useful information is being jointly sponsored by the and how they might best serve the ~oubled thinking power, bette;National Pastoral Planning Con- church, goes beyond the noble to hnes of communication and the ference, the Office of Research of the practical. added support of the best modern the National Conference of Ca­

tholic Bishops and The Catholic To bemoan lack of vocations to planning strategies available to the religious life creates surface meet the demands of our times. University of America in Washing- T t d h f '1't D C awa~eness. 0 s u y w y ,ami les

o,:\s a'p~storal researcher, I heart-' aren't encouraging thei~ ~ons a?d ily endorse this effort. But it is daughters to enter rehglOus hfe [necroloCiY)good from time to time to play the goes to the heart of the matter. devil's advocate. If the heart ofthe pastoral world, April 6

Why spend time on pastoral onwhich depends religious and Rev. Msgr. John A. Chippendale,planning and research? Compiling laity, is to continue beating strong­ Retired Pastor, 1977, St. Patrick, statistics, planninggoals and attempt­ ly, it will need new blood which Wareham ing change seem to be a far cry' consists in the best skills available Rev. Lorenzo Morais, Retired from the real, pastoral action of on how to renew itself. Pastor, 1980, St. Geor~e, Westport caring for the sick, poor and aged, ·Pope Paul VI encour~ged the Aprll7 . administering the sacraments or church to renew itself by taking Rev. James A. Dury, Chaplain,

1976, Madonna Manor, North Attle­providing spiritual counsel. ~ime "to reflect to find new s~rength More important, shouldn't there m the knowledge of her place in boro

be a concentration on establishing the divine plan." It is this same , April 9 lay ministry training, improvi.ng reflection that is at the core of pas­ Rev. Cornelius McSweeney,Pas­

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-:-Fri., Apr. 5, 1985

Yes, it's By

FATHERstill important

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Q. I don't go to confession as often as I used to, but one time I of Christ which comes to us really feell should is around Easter. t h r 0 ugh t his sac ram e n t. I heistate this year, however,because a priest seemed to tell me a Q. Could you discuss the main few months ago that the sacra- . differences between the' Catholic ment of penance is mainly for Bible and the King James version? mortal sins. Is there such a thing as I know there is a difference, but confession of devotion anymore? why do some people ofother faiths (Pennsylvania) say that Bibles ue all the same?

(Louisuana) A. The sacrament of penance

does, of course, hold a special A. There are today only two importance and significance in major differences between what return to God after a serious, mor- we might call Protestant and

Catholic Bibles. tal sin. The kind of confession youspeak of, however, in which only First, Catholic Bibles contain slighter sins or sins already for- all or part of several books in the

. f Old Testament that do not appear given are con essed, have a long in the' Protestant biblical tradi­tradition in Christian spiritualityand are still strongly encouraged. tion. These books are: Tobias,

Judith, Baruch, First and Second Many official documents in our Maccabees, Ben Sirach (Ecclesias­

own generation prove that this ticus), Wisdom and parts of Daniel understanding of the sacrament of and Esther. reconciliation remains quite alive For reas()ns we won't get into and proper. here, biblical scholars refer to

One decree of Vatican Council these as the deutero-canonical II notes this sacrament "greatly books, because of varying posi­fosters the necessary turning of the tions among Jews of the Old and heart toward the love of the father New Testament periods concern­of mercies." ing them.

The new Rite of Penance, speak- The second major diference is ing explicitly within the context of that Protestant Bibles generally do confessions of devotion, says that not include much in the way of frequent and careful Celebration of footnotes, ~xplanations or intro­this sacrament "is not a mere ritual ductions. The Protestant tradition repedtion or psychological exer- - that the Holy Spirit alone cise, but a serious striving to per- guides each individual in his or her fect the grace of baptism so that, as reading in Scripture -has caused we bear in our bodies the death of publishers of Bibles to shy away Jesus Christ, his life may be seen in from anything which, in their view, us ever more clearly" (Paragraph could put some sort of human 7). intervention between the reader

As recently as last fall, Pope and the Holy Spirit. John Paul II, in his exhortation to Catholic Bibles have not hesi­the whole church on reconciliation tated to include such materials, and the sacrament of penance, giving background to entire books explained beautifully that Chris- or passages, describing the tians come to sacramental penance audience to which the book was for other reasons than regaining addressed and so on. More and the grace lost by mortal sin. more Bibles published under Pro-

Among these.reasons, he said, testant auspices tend to include are a need to check one's spiritual notes to assist the readers in progress, sometimes a need for understanding what the biblical more accurate discernment of writers were dealing with. one's vocation, a need and desire Apart from these there is gener­to- escape from spiritual apathy ally no great difference between and religious crisis, and ~ften a Protestant and Catholic Bibles. In need for broader spiritual direc- past centuries certain biblical pas­tion which is readily linked with sages were translated quite differ­the sacrament of penance. ently, colored by the doctrinal

Even the second form of cele- positions of the two groups. bration, explains the pope, which The science of choosing and unites a communal penance ser- translating biblical manuscripts, vice with the opportunity for indi-. however, is now so ;higqly deve­vidual confession can spiritually loped thai any slanting of tr:ansla­assist the Christian whose life. - tion]n ~his-manner. is 'simply·out 'of

tor, 1919, Immaculate Conception, : reflects not even a hint of mortal the question for reputable biblical religious education and increasing toral planning. Its ultimate goal is Fall River. .' sin. He mentions two features here . schOlars of any faith: religious vocations? to avoid what Paul VI calls the Rev. Edward F. Dowling, Pastor, of spe.cial imp0t.tance: the word. of A .tree brochure on- 'marriageNoone can deny theSe: 'concerns "confusion and bewilderment which 1965, Immaculate Conception, Fall , God listened to m common, which annulments is availabl.e by sending

ring with urgency. But if they are comes from not being vigil~nt. " River . has a re.ma~ka~le. e~fect as c,?m- a stamped, self-addressedto, be properly handled, the ap­ Why become a pastoral planner? April 10 pared With Its mdlvldual readmg; envelope to Fatber Dietzen Holy proach to them must be consi­ Because there is a need for a spe­ Rev. John P. Doyle, Pastor, 1944, and a better e~phasis on th~ ~o~ial Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St.,dered as important,as the problems cial type of pastoral person who St. William, Fall River characte~ of sm and ~econclhatlOn B100 min gto n, III. 61701.themselves. Before dioceses run. April 11 (Apostohc ExhortatIOn on Recon- Questions for this column should headlong into expensive, time- Rev. John F. Downey, Pastor, ciliation and ~enance, No.~2). be sent to him at the same address. consuming programs, a game plan 1914, Corpus Christi, Sandwich

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Matthew" "I was a stranger and ,of their 9wn security forces sup­'you welcom~: ~e," more than pOlited by escalating military aid ' 300 Franciscans have pledged to from the United'States." offer sanctuary to Central Am-1n a March 12 pastoral state" erican refugees." '

, Quoting from the same' pass­age, Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco took. another

. position,. urging 'temporary ,legal' asylum for, the Central Americans "until' .that' day when they' can

ment Archbishop Quirm, also quoting St. Matthew. said,. "it ,is

:the h!lllmark of· the Christian commu~ity that strangers nee­ing persecution and death should . tended voluntary. departure. fmd' safety in ,their midst:'

The archbishop did not speci­return 'to their ,homelands In, fically 'call for' offering sanctuary peace ,and in safety.",' but 'said rthegoals of the move­r

Archbishop Quinn and other, 'ment"spring directly. from some church.officials, inchiding BiShop' ,of our. most', cherished national Rene H. Gracida of Corpus iideals~'~ ' .. , ,'. Christi, Texas, U.S~ Maryknoll ' "Whatever the merits of the

. sisters, brothers,. priests and lay 'case made by those involved in' . of s~nctuary "beclnlse I. consider 'inissionel'li, ,and the' CommiSSion ,the sanCtuarymovemeilt,· cer­ it immoral and unconscionable , on Social Justice 'of the San Fran. tain. things· are clear . . . The .to use ,a pOor refugee as .a weap­

cisco Atc~diocese ask that Cen-,members,of the sanctuary move- Qn in fighting our government." tial Americans ,.'be ,granted ex­

. ' ,tended· ' vOluntary· departure,'

status: ',Taunton Vjncentians remember founders ,E:lotended'voluntary departure,

advocated by the u.s. Catholic·' ,By AUysOn Harris, reprinted Conference,'would ahow Central, ,by permlss~on from the ,Taunton Americans, to 'stay .temporarUy' Dally Gazette. '

, in the'United States until it is" ' ." , 'safe for them to return ,to their·', In. 1932, at' !he height of the homelands. It wouli:l· not grant 'Great DepreSSion, five laymen

, them permanent ,residency or en. and the .pastor ,at St. Joseph's able them to become citizens. 'Church, m Taunton, formed a , . The sanctuary· movement, . I chapter of the St~ Vincent de

, '~'ade, ,up of almost 200 churches around, the: nation, transports and' shelters'Central Americans

'in 'the United' States illegaily. , . ,Sanctuary workers' urge, that

these 'refugees be granted polio tica,lasylum in the United .States beCaiJse of the bloody fighting in countries such as· EI Salvador .and Guatemala. ,.' ,

. The.U.S.government currently 'labels almost· all Central Ameri-' e,:ans as economic refugees and deports them. Sanctuary workers have been ~rre~ted, a~~ tw~ have b~en conVicted for aldmg dlegal ahens. . . .. . F·ranclscanFather,Louls Vitale,

minister provincial for the Pro­vince .of St. ~arbara of the Order of Friars Mmor, announce~the ' covenant made bY,300 friarscom~ mitting themselves individually' 'and corporately to the sanctuary ministry. Several' houl;es'of sanc­tltary will be offered, he said ina March statement, /but no 'loca­tions were immediately' an- ' nounced. ' ' .

"The 'Gospel caU, 'I was hun-,· ,gry, and yougaye me to' eat, I was thirsty and you, gave me to'· drink. I was a stranger lind you welcomed me,': co.mpels us ,to take this step," he said. '

In a March 24 statement U.S., Maryknoll ,sisters, brothers,

. 'priests and lay inissionerssup­ported the movement,saying, "Over the past fiv.e years more than 50,000 Salvadorans' and' 15,000 Guatemalans have been' killed ·in political violence there. Among the victims of this vip­lence were two of our own sis-· ters, Ita Ford arid Maura Clarke, who worked with10cal church· pastors to provide food, shelter and clothing to the refugees."

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Paul Society to bu.y.· co.al, food, and clothes for famlhes m need.

Times' were ,'tough, so there ' were. many·· destitute .families. . But 75 cents' c'ould', by a lot of ,coal,and $1.50 could buy a good ,bit of food for a, hungry family..,

The founders .:.... Richard Don~ ahue. Patrick Moran, HarTy:Nic~' hols, JosephSheehim, 'john Ford: and 'Monsignor' Edmond Ward - carried on the tradition for

.20 years until some new' memo ,bers .joined jn the 1950s.'

Althclugh" aU the original founde.rs have since passed 'away, they .and eight· other deceased

'memibers were honored· last month' with a special Mass at

.St. Joseph's, Church. ' The current members of the

St. Vincent de 'Paul planned the

ment are committing themselves to the religious beBef that' they

, are indeed 'called to give shelter to the homeless and the stranger in' our midst," said Archbishop Quinn: '

The Commission on Sodal· Justice of the San Francisco Archdiocese ap'proved a state­ment March 11 calling for ex­

in the past the, United States has granted such status to groups from Poland.. Hungary, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Bishop Rene Gracida of Corpus ,Christi, Texas, ,also asked for

,e:xtended voluntary departure but said h~ opposed the concept

His opposition to the sanc­tuary movement does not mean he . opposes assisting refugees, Bishop Gracida added.

'But the bishop said Americans "have' been mislead to believe that every Salvadoran is shot after he returns home." He was among five U.S. bishops who visited El .Salvador and Nicara· gua Feb. 24-Ma,rch· 2.

AI-an C. Nelson. director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said tha.t sanctuary movement activists "openly ·and continuaUy flout the laws.

"I thinkt"e government has been extremely restrained in its approach," !Nelson' said, adding, however, that' officials move against sanctuary movement leaders when' they demonstrate disregard for U.S. 'l!lws.

ceremony and invited .four sur· vivors of ,the original group ­Mary 'and Richard Donahue (children of. Richa.rd Donahue), Julia Moran (daugh.ter of Pat­-rick Moran), and Betty Lyons ,(daughter of Joseph Sheehan).. About 70 peQple' attended.

Rev:--William' Farland, pastor ; at St. Joseph's, celebrated M~ss and the senior choir sang.' The four survivors brought up, gifts.

. A 'plaque inscribed w'lth the names of the deceased members was' blessed following the Mass.

Other, deceased members rec­ognized were Harold Wrcm: Law­rence LacaiaUade. .F.rank Mc­l\'ianiJs, Joseph" Martin; Francis Fr,azier, .Michael Chase, Manuel Ventura, James Tonry, and Wil­liam RusseU. .

Two other, priests involved with the sotiety were also hon­ored. They we,re Monsignor Pat­rick Hurley and Rev. Bowen.

Roland, Ducharme, president of the St. Vincent de Paul, spent two years, researching who the original founders of the St. Jo­seph's conference were.

He has been fond of the St. Vincent de Paul since he was a young boy, in Pawtucket, R.I., where the, ,local society ·there helped his f.ather provide for nine children..

"I got my shoes from St. Vin­. cent de Paul," Ducharme said. ,"That's why I'm very interested . in 'it. I'm retired now so, my avocation is helping the needy and poor people. We stj,U help the needy but there is't as great a need as back then."

He said that he had wanted to' do something to recognize the founders, of the St. Joseph's chap­ter· for a while: but had: to be sure he had all the names before 'doing so. The children of the founders, appreciated the effort.

."They were happy that their fathers were remembered in a. special way," Ducharme said.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society was founded 152 years ago by a wealthy French student in PaTis, Frederic Ozanam, to help those ·in' need. The society has chapters based in churches worldwide.

CIDLDREN OF FOUNDERS of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Joseph's parish, Taunton, admire a plaque honoring their fat hers. From left, Mary Donahue, Richard Don­ahue, Julia Moran; Betty Lyons. (Taunton DaiIy Gazette Photo by Mike Gay)

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"The worst thing," he added,"is when no om poys attentionto you.n In sud ~es. he said.­support groups are often verybelpfJtlto~ 1IeJllber$. Ottlersfln4 ~vUalizatial"in COIIU1Iunltycollege or state college oourses,u.su.a1ly availablt to seniors atliUle or no cost.

With regard tl practical mat..tels, Dr. Peace .slid that seniors.like everyone eire, should stickto one pharmacis~w.ho can cross~

check medic8ti~ns and makesure one drug ekes not interierewith another.

"The average senior takes 7.5drugs per week," he pointed out.

"Even though it would affectme," he chuckle:!. "I feel thatno one over 65 slould automatic·ally get a fOIl'·year driver'slicense renewal. I think a roadtest should be required everytwo years.

uOf course:' he added, "lack ofwheels limits mcblllty, so we'dneed more public transportationor volunteer drivtrS."·

LoII& HBtoryCatholic nurses of the cIlocese

have been orgaaized at leastsince the early 1_, when therewere aclive gulldl in the Attle­boro, Taunton. fall River' andNew Bedford areas, at that timedirected, by Rev. CiJrneJjus J .Keliber, . ROW reired. He wasfollowed as' moderator by Msgr.Robert L. StentoJl IIIld ""'" byFather Fitzgerald . .

The Fall River (luild of Cath·oIicNurses 'Was lie~ WOlll­",,'s organizallontn. the dioceseto affiliate with the NlItloslalCouncll of catboli: woaiea

Today the cIlOCl!l8DwIde 0rgan­ization has as its :IlOilo "Caring'with Christ:' Its o\>jec:Uves In­

. dude upholding' sod fwteriIIgQIthoIic ethlcaI aM moraJ 'IB1uOsin the nursing prOf~ IUlIIdeepenjpg and <kvelopiBg thespiritual life of its members.

Loneliness, death, divorce, de- check. But ,those who try it findpression and health problems are you get many rewards from help­the major probJemsof old age. ing others:'members of the Diocesan Coon- Dr. Peace warned sgalnst sev-ell of catholic Nurses were told era1 pitfalls faced by unwaryat their spring plenary session, seniors. He said they should be·held last Sajunlay ..t tbe Family sure their insurance cuverage isLife Center In North Dartmouth. adequate and ,noted. that tbose

i'\;....'.~;~_ ·li1.- anll ". conSicl~ ilma.eto. a '.'Ilfeoib~afI~'tbe e1rl!d~' careeommunity': shoUldaoW·was or. James S. Peace. chair. ,lain that it is adequately fin·man of the. national advisory . anced and unlikely "to go belly·committee on community services up.Of

for the American Associstion of He cautioned against door·to­Retired Persons; host of "Senior door salespersons whom a lonelyForum," a weekly television person might be tempted to al·show; and past ezecutive direc. low in the house simply to havetor of Cape & Islands Home Care. someone to talk to. Along the

Also on the agenda were in. -same line, he said, great cautionstallation of new council officers should be exercised in choosingand attendance at a Mass eele- a live-in nurse or homemaker. liebrated by Father Edmund J. Fitz. cited several instances wheregerald, counell moderator and such .persons victimited an e1d·director of the Diocesan Depart. erly employer. Also a popularment of Pastoral care for the scam is that of buytng old furni·Sick. ture from an unsuspecting owner

Seated for a two-year term at a fMclion of its worth.~ 8lubara Gauthier. Taunton, Usting senior health problemspresideJlt; Patricia Lackey. Fan for which nurses shOll1d be alert,River, . vice-preslde!It; DeloJeS . be 1",,1uded osteoarthritis, hyper-Santos Byann'o _o~ teIIslOll, _ote, skin and uter-. - _~_",I-~

Helen SullIvan, Somerset, tna.. · lne cancer, ....piratory problems,urer. influenza and varicose velns. He

Dr ..~-- .~~, 75-year' Id warned that the highest suicide. C-"'. a • ..- -0 ,stressed the importance Of pre- rate In the nation is found BIIlOIlgventive medicine for all age ·w!rite males over age 80.' whogroups, but partic:ularly' _ elder. seem especially vumelllble to.Iy, eeylng_ w"'-pleBsanler"and loneJJne-., grief aiM!: seriousless expensive to prevent I1Iness health problems. •than to cure it. Dlscuasing loneli~. usually

The spe8ker, a Cape Cod ....• . -.pled wih botedom and tbedent, said that a1c:oho)ism was a feeling that "~ nothing tomajor probl...among elderly In do," he said that "-teIep\IoIle reo_ aNa. "T!lere's a Deed for assurances and frielldlyVisltornones to be· aware of lIidden· JlfOCI'lIJnS are .much. better thanelcierly &lcoheIlca who don't even· 'SlIIlshlne committees' sendinggo out to pi. their \iqG« but . -."have. it.llve1llcL" be dedarecL . He &Iso adV-ted.c:ommunlty

Lo1IeIlDes8 is a major cause of meal programs such'.. that con·,s. ai""",,"- heiald, CCIIII- dUcted at st, :Jobatbe £Vangelmbiillli;l tor aaaY Wjth the "loss Of parish in Pcic:aliset, D bring .......roI!l'!~""1/t ieIit,..neot~ CfISSfuI in geUiJlI~ to "**aetfft ute.'. . and mlD&Joi Wldi-.. other. '~ nthaeti,·....t want to At oDesadi.~ lie saki,

be voIIInteer worI<ers,." he. saki, aenion were encouraged to bring"be<II&e they think theJe·s no in pIc:turi!s of family memben,preStIge where there's no poy. pets aI)d places' meaningful to

Crib to Cross.From the crib to the Cioss, Ican dearly seeJesus Christ, was born, livedelld dleiI fOr, me.

TIle Infant a 'child of mirac·uIOUs birth,My God did send upon this'earth, , '

. ,To JIve 'a Ufe of poverty, andpain,Just for me, for my preciousgain.

Hill life of teaching andhealing did fashionAnd from his gentle beart

· flowed love and compassionA known crucifixion you canbe sure,Not t, not anyone could everendure,

Yet hUD1bly, he painfullytook up his ClOSS

Ob; dear God: .What a loss,If 1 didn't !<Do.... or didn't careaboilt him,His borribIe death wOll1d haveremained so grim,

No, not for me -'WOII1d heSllffer such pain,N,or would I let him die in_vain.

Dear Jesus, I know why youcame. wby you lived. whyyou died.To gtve me this feellng 1 have.deep,~ ,

:It tl!eIJng Of IOvejind limgibg· for you,~ feding, my own, sosweet, so tne.

A longing to see you face tofate,Let me feel your tender em·bnce.

May we be together, heart·to heart,So that even death could

. not us part,For' It is in dying, I will beborn,~ for this, my Lord. yourheart was torn.

My W'Cllds canDOt tell whatyou already know.But the ~ of my life toyiu 1 wjI1 show

How my heart and my soul,u.ey belong to youAn4 without you, c!<lar Savior.whal' can 1 do?

'Do what you will with me,and all my possesaionsThey are nothing withoutyou. that was one of yourleasona.

LearnIng about;rou has mademe c:ompIete.

. No one, or anything coilldeYer ,compete..

With the mysteries. thewonders you gave me onearth,

·AwcIlt an started with your. mitacuIous birth.From _ Crib to the Cr(>ss.every day left you'll see,I will. tllaDk you, dear Jesus,for dying, for me.

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blame yourself, your spouse or.anyone else. but to do .0 can becounterproductive and helps noone. Avoid placing blame in anetrQi't. ~explain' Why .illis hap­pened,"

Of the role of religion In help­ing parents come to, grips witha suicide. ,the pamphlet notes"Often parents find themselvesIn a spiritual crisis and questiont)1eir beliefs or feel. betrayed byGod Religious concerns aboutthe herea'ter atso surface. "Whydid God let it happen?" Is aquestion we can no more answerthan all other questions about.imperfections in ,this world. Tryto pray for inner peace insteadof an answer.

"It may also be belpful toquestion other parents who baveexperienced a suicide as to theirfeelings regarding spl-ritual orphilosophlclll questions, Forthose with concerns of a spirit­ual nature, do try to find agentle, non-judgmental m_berof your faith. and open yourselfto that person."

Information on the 10caLCrim·passiolutte Friends is availablefrom the LeComtes at. 676-8458or the Coombes at 679-6017. Na­Uonal headquarters may beleached at P.O. Box 1347. OakBrook, lit 60521.

In the words of Dr. Ryan. tohis fellow bereaved parents: "Weare all wounded and will bewounded f<>rever. We can helpothers hecause we, know wherethey are.1t

In other worcl~, this.is a resurrection st~ry.

..... 'the ~ory fromwhich it tales it.pCIt­tern, it.mI.. in life re- .'newed.

could reach out to others likethe_Iv...

The first United States chapter-was .organlzed ,in Mlami.-Florida,In 1972 and today tit.... are' hun­dreds, of chapt..... acrosa 'the na­tion. Alms of the organization in­clude .aupport and friendship toparents and 'other' relatives orchildren who have died. estab-"IIshment of regularly meeting.upport groups such as the oneill Swansea and provision of in­formation on the grieving pro_eess. -

Some parents attend meetingsonly ~nce or twice. pthers for alonger; perlodi while some, likeGeorllette and Leo Lecomte andSusan .and William, Coombea,founders of the neady four yearold, Swansea group, rel,1laln In theorganization to help others asthey wert helped.

Tough problems are tackledsuch as surviving· a child's ·sui·

, cide;of' this a CompassionateFriends pamphlet says In part:

"Tbe suiclde 0; one's childraises painful questions, doubtsand fears. The knOWledge thatyour love was not enough tosave your child may raise power­ful feelings of fllilure. Realize thatas a parent you gave your childyour humanness - your posi­tives and negatives - and. thatwhat your child did with themwas primarily your child's' de­cision.

''Cultural and religious inter·pretatiOns or an earlier day arepartly responsible for the stigmaassociated with suicide. It is im­portant' that you confront theword suicide, difficult' as thatmay be. This will take time.Rather ihan IieiJlll conceo.i>da'bOut the stigma surroundingsuicide, concentrate Qil your ownbeallnll ,and survtval. , ': '''It . ia' easy and Ilatural to

The death of a child is one of life's deepest sorrows,

"Boloneyl You do feel that wayl"He pointed out that loss of a,child places a terrible strain onmarriages. saying that rilanyooupIeI'll!pa'rate' after. 'a 'death.

''TIlebest thing Is to talk, talk.talk." ha reiterated. in the pres·ence of a counselor or trustedfrland, If necessary.

In ganeral. he saki. bereaved'parents are "living among peoplewith limited understalrding ofwhat we're going through. WeCan be hurt by a caslial 'Have anice day" and think 'Hbw can hesay that to me?' But life goeson, for us. for them. Living lifeto the fullest lan't disloyal tothose who have died."

. The Ryans' greatest help, tbeysaid. has been faith "in a Godwho' loves UI and in life afterdeath. We have faith that sep­aration la only ttmporary and,tbat one day we'll be with our

, children. Death really points up. how Important, we are to eachother.". In answer to a question about

surviving children who seem notto want to talk about a siblingwhO has died, Dr. Ryan pointedout that "children may become.protective of their parents, notwanting to speak of the lost oneso as not to upset them."

He said also that survivingmildren may feel that they 100will die young. "Elizabeth was9~ when she died." he said."and the other children werereally.,grateful to reacb age 10.It was as though they were overa hurdle." -

CompasaI_te FrlendaCom\l4SSlonate . FrIends was

fOUnded ,In- England inI9fl8' byRev. '51"",n 'Staphanl. a bospitalchaplain who C81IIe in. contactwith mapyliereaVed parenti andwas al1fecl -by l8'1e1'ir..t'o :helpfound . U, Orpnti:atlcm which

"After our second ,........ hecontinued, "we almost, didn'twant to push the pain away ~­

cause we felt we'd be. p~lng .Pat away - but healing doestake place and we get to a pointof acceptance. even though thefeelings of loss always retrlaln.nUo"';" .... II

Dr. Ryan cited the books ofDr. Elisabeth,Kubler-Ross aa veryhelpful In explaining that thereis usually a pattern of grief, justaa there is a pattern of prepa....lion for death. '

"First we deny our gri~f., ·aswhen I looked for 'Patrick com-,Ing down the street, altho"ghmy rations' mind knew he wouldnot come. Then there's anger' ­with one'a spouae. with ·tbeper­son who died, for daring to leave.Then may come deep ·depreaslonand, finally, acceptance or .rea'·ity."

Acceptance, Dr. Ryan explain.ed, means th8.t "we go o.n andrealize that grief will continue."He added that "you must be will·ing to let the stages of grief •happen, even though it can some­times take years. There's ·no,timetable!'

D,~~lr1l1 ,a,uppprt~r,.,p,be­reaved.' he said ·We neverknew what wakes and funeralsmeant until at Ellzslbeth's fun­eral Holy Name Church was jam­packed with 'people. Theycouldn't bring her back hut th'lYlet us kno~ they-cared.

'The greatest help of all Issharing how we feel - not howwe think, but how we feel aboutour loss. We need to take off ourmeaks and face the emotions wefeel. not hide in booze or drugs.

'There will always be remind­ers - maybe another child. re­minds ua of the one who is ilone- maybe we look at a bedi'o9mand thlnk 'she won't sleep thereany, more: We must let thesethings be part of Ua and'be wOI-ing to take the pain. '

"We really have to 110 througha year without the Child," saidDr. Ryan. "We have to gothrough all the seasons beforewe can Shape' a new life,"

Turning to the matter of seek·ing professional help with grief,he said, "Sometimes it's a goodidea, but there, should be goodreasons for it. If, a person hasno opportunity to share his orher f~ings or, if one's angerspills over snd causes, problems- those might be situationswhere talking to aprofesswnalcould help."

In his own family. he said.-some members evidenctd 'I,ur..vivors' guilt:' questioning, .tterPatrick's d~th. "WhY did It.baveto be him? Why COuldn't It havebeen me?"

"Never lay 'tb a bereaved ~­son, '-You :ahouldlt't'~ ~way,''' r:8utioDecl' Dr,. Ryan.

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look up and down the street atII o'clock nightly. ,

"That wasltl, curfew' UII\~and I often uaed to watch forhim if he waBiI'ibome yet.'"

Looking at the whole griefprocess, he saJi\,"Once I under­stood I needed to .allow my owngrief, r could step ollt beyondmyself."

DIscUssing the role of ,God insue/! tragedies, he said, "I don'tthink God caused the deaths ofour children but I think he couldhave prevented them: Why hedidn't. I don't know - but Imean to take the matter up withhim!

"I recognize that sufferin~ anddeath are part of living 'but Ihave no answer as to why thesethings bappen. I think tbatChrist suffered hi hi,. posslon - .and didn't want to.. " Maybeth~. ak~ Ill,pus:~. '. .,

Speaking s~ifically to thelos. of children: Dr; Ryan called,the experience l·unique and notunderstood by those who haven'tlost them. Other p....ents re~lIy

don't know what to say "-'they're thinking 'this could bap­pen to me. What would 1 do.'

l-of course,"· he sald soberly,"we have to go on, despite pain.disbelief and confusion. The oddswere astronomical that, we would'lose two children by accident ­but it happened. And we have noassurance that It won't happenagain. No dne is secure.

with grief and also at What:)was doing externally.'"

Externally. he recaUed. follow­ing Elizabeth·s death be fre­quently 'paused at a certain spotIn the house where be was .5"customed to give Iter a goodbyehug as she left for school:' WIth

worked in the Barnstable School ,her In h!'llven. Well, he's badsystem until reeently, when he, hili'-' long enough. I want hershifted to fullUme prlvllte PfllC- back.' ..tice as a psycholOlist. , Two, more babies were· born

"We're sUlI UvIiIg- and dealing after El~beth'a), ~th. saidwith the fact that wa have loat Natalie, and "heJll'8d heal thetwo chll~.fl he,"id adriIlttlng hurt." " •that although .a a psyllbo1ogist Then came Patrlck·sdeath..... h.A flo ~....... 1...... _ ..t';' .i.. ". "Acr.ln WA t"t!I"'-~--,.I'Oll1... abereaved parenta on ,what' wu .' we .d!dtI't want to 'tell ..the kids.happening to 1Ihu and to hla fain- They ,were older now'.nd eachlIy SIIl9llonally. it did. not I...... oJie took Jt differentlf, We badthe IUfferlng. .no worda, no explanlltlons. we

"We found ourle1ve8 erylna olily knew we couldn.'ttall apartas we prepued this talk." he - we 80t'through on the prayerssaid. or friends and neighbors.

Natalie. Ry.n began the . "I had been going to dallycouple'apresentatlon. describing Mus," saJd Mrs. Ryan, "and Itbe circumstances surrounding 'alwllYS sat In the front pew..Noweach. ioss. After Elizabeth's' I aeemed to hav~ to sit In thedeath In~the mld.t or 'a relaUve's iback. This time we hurt so muchbirthday celebraUon that had we coul1!n't even share It withincluded the boat ride. abe and each other.her husband bad to break the "It took until the end or, thenews to their other chlldren, all summer after Patrick's death be­younger than E1labeth. fore we could begin to let go and

rebuild," she concluded."We knew wa had to be

strong for th_," said Natalie. P,ychoJoslcal AIpocts"We don't know. how we .thought Tryin8 to sort' out the psycho-of the words. but we wanted to logical aspects of the loss ofshow them that we trusted God children and noting that due toand had faith. his personal experience be has

"Thebours al\d 48ys lhaUoJ- many referrals of bereaved par­lowed were terrible. We were ent., Dr.' Ryan nevertheless, .ad·pretty,.trong'whellthe ItJds,,"", mllted 'that ·It·s "trhposSlble·· toaround, but we'd cry at night predict a person's reactions.and we'd go to the cemetery and "You're so often lett with akneel and cry. mishmash of feeUngs: What if? if

"It was agony to bear the kids only I'd dime this or that; whytalldng about hEor. We had told me?them Elizabeth·s spirit was atill '11t·S a terrible place to be andwith us. and w~'d be riding in YOu can be very alone. Some­the car when they'd say ,things times you think no one cares.like 'She's here in spirit. Pusb they seem to forget so soon. Weover and make~ for her.' wa'lt to inake sense of everything

"OUr youngest child at the in our Jives, b!'t. the death of atime was very close to Elizabeth child seems so Senseless."and one night I heard her crying Jlis \I psychologist, be said, "IIn bed. When I went to her ihe tried to look at what was golpgsaid, 'You told us God needed' on inside me its I tried to deal

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Joe and Natali Ryan arememben of Our La of Victorypariah, CentervlUe. e Is a psy·chologlst. abe Is a aI educa-tion teacher; "seco mother toa group of prof Y. handi-capped kids" la the 'ay her hus.band deaCrlbe* her jbb.

The Ryans had en child-ren. Now they have e. 16 yearsago. when they membersor Holy Name pari "Fall Rlv!!l',they lost Elizabeth, ~en 9~. ina Iboatlng accident. iJ'hree yearsago P,trick, 17: wa IldUed in anautomobile acciden • ,

Laat ,month the ans atoodbefore a very s audienceand told their ato • Itveryonelistening to them II his or herown tale of tragedy embers ofCompassionate , an Inter­naij,cllW organlzat on lor be,reeved parents. t ':meet regu­larly at Sf. Loul 'Ide Francechurch hall in Swa sea. In heal­Ing love,they rea ~ut to eaCh

,other with the tanding ofahared experience.

Both Ryans ~~rlenced.speakers, long activ in the Cur-slllo movement. ' ti they hadnever before spo iispeclficallyof their personal ,10tiS. said Dr.Ryan. '

"We hope to h • you andhope It will help ua, •,!he said.

Briefly tracing his ~ackground.he said that after '1 years Inthe Fall 'RIver publl ' chool sys­tem. he and his fam I moved toCape Cod eight ye, ago. He

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"He even has a Mickey Mousereceiver in the front ro_om," sbesaid. "What do the bishops thinkabout that?"

"I am sure it was a gift," I said,"and I am sure Father O'Neillagrees with thc bishops."

"Then if it's OK with tbem if hehas a Mickey. Mouse phone.anddrives a new Camaro, then it mustbe OK with them if I have my ownphone," she said.

"I think you are missinl thepoint, young lady," I said in myyou'recboxinl-lI»'in tone ofvoice."Father O'Neill doesn' pay ourbills, and we cannot afford it."

"01' then," she said slowly,tbinking, "if Father O'NeIlI wasp.ying our bilts, could I haw myown telephone?"

"You'd better ask him," I said,finishing my swipe.

Maybe I'd helter bone up.onthat pastor.l •. little mo.".

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MaybeGenlillilitFll".~'} ",Ili!lIa\DlllllCiltctll'l'\ld so manythe commercial to express nottbe debts from her fntjUess campaign.reality for WOIDeD, but her hopes. Saddest of aJl would be if1l'llatMaybe right from the beginning, she said is true - that politics .reall she was dlliol was playinl out behind her. She was a stronl mndelonly what she believes in, not what for women in bercamp.ign, show­she really thiJtks is the reality for ing ber intelligence and hean, herwomen. ability to stanetl tall when attacks

It would besad but understand- came at her frcJlm all sides. 'able if she WlS lured into doing I only hope people will rememberthat commerlial for financial rea- her for that, not for Diet Pepsi.

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Former Democratic vice preSi­dential candidate Geraldine Fer­raro's appearance in a TV com­mercial for Diet Pepsi has raisedthe question of whether a womal\'in her position should promote acommercial prnduct.

In one newspaper report, heranswer to that question indicatedthat politics may be something inhe< "past." She was quoted as say­ing, "I've lot to let on with mylife."

Her role in the commercial is totalk about all the choices modemwomen have. In herseene, she tells By HDda Younlher daughters that women today I spent th. morning trying to"can be anything you want to be." remember at "hat age it was that IIt is an off-sereen voice thatliDks -entered the rtage of-iife'lIuringthat choice with Diet Pepsi, as her which I love<lthe telephone moredaughters are drinking the one- than my mother.-I thought thecalorie brew. answer milht give a better handle

The whole incident 'makes me on my daughter's CUl'I'CP.t behavior.kind of sad, mainly because it "Mother," she said to me thisreminds me of alltbe pain Geral- morning, "doyou think I cOldd getdine Ferraro went through in pio- my own 1.Clephone?"neeringa political path for women. I stopped rrid-swipe overa pieceShe paid a heavy price for darinl ofbread I wasbuttCringand looked

·to make that breakthrough. at her.~You are displeased with the

She was somewhat in the same question," 5~ said in p'readoles­jeopardy as • soldier on the front cent style. "I can tell becauseyouTe

. lines. Like the first to lcad the smiling and your teeth are stilltroops, she was the one to feeltbe together."fire and take the first, the hardest "Your ow. telephone?" I mlln-and, perhaps, the termin.1 as~ult aged.- at least .s far as her pohllcal - "Kim has rer own, and Mia andcareer goes. Francine say their parents milht

I see the .criticism· heaped on let~bem~verme,"s~rattled:eut,,:Geraldine Ferraro for the Pepsi Tbat s alnost a silly question,commercial as just another price I said. "We an hardly afford theshe is p.yingfor her De!,VY attempt one~ehave,row.You should readas an Italian housewife and mother the bishops ,astorall~teron theto rise in politics. What makes it American economy ~d ta!'e it toeven sadder is whatsbe is sayiJllin ~eart. We have .to slmphfy '!urthecommerci.1 She tells. her hves, nnt cotllphcate them WIthd8ughters they' ";"n be anything . ltii<uries." -YOU " .. t"'be," Yet:whensilo here "Father ONeill"bas extensionsselfaspired to high off'toc, she: paid aD overthe mtory, sllecon~.a terrible price. "That's diferent~" I S8:!!!~_ "Hc_

BiDr. J.mes d MIII'Y KeDDY gainst underage drinking and des- ses. If he continues to drink, ID.....Dr.K y:OunoD.ttends pite college attempts to limit its would stop sending him money.

• smaU collete ut 3M mller availability, students have moved That's not harsh; that's just com-from our home. We just received a their parties totheir private rooms. mon sense.caU from the deaD olstudents who Teen-age rebellion is probably Cooperate With the college om­tolll us that our SOD da....... anotherreasol. Away from home cials. You are both on the same.bout S50I ..orth of lumitare in for the first time, soine want to act side in trying to liinit .or stopthedormlastweekendwl!iledJbd<_independently, Hi a way that vio- excessive drinking. They lblIy.re­Ing. The deaD ..ent OD to say"'t Iates society's norms andla.... quire some wodl on cam", as ..ouraoD_beendnmk_....... .A furtberpmblem is that drink- penalty. Support them. ~"tryends during tile pastlemester. My inI is well aceepted and encour- to excuse your mn or get him offwife _I are very upset. Ue was agee! among the students them- due to yonr emtblorrassinent or annever. drinker Inlligb sChool. Do selVes. While underage drinking overly protediwe love of your son..you'think he bas • serious proll- may violate society's .norms, it.is . An alcobol education programlem? What should we do to help' right in line witli the 1\O'tms in would be • lood idea. Many col-him? (New York)' many teen groups. . 'Ieles have A1co:hollcs Anonymous

Unfortunately, alcohol abuse is What can o parent do? Most goups which meet on campus. Ifa common: problem'on 'College parents have far more power over Dot on eampus., there is surely.ncampuses, both.tlarpand smaller their. teens' ,~havior than theY AA group nearby. AA hu OM·ofcolleaes.. While.thecoUeges are think oreho.... toexercl$e:MbDoy the best ~rdls for ~ng withundentaridably~tprotee- isthep8rents'mostpowm'u1means aIcobol.blUe aDd ~enee•. :tive <>f \he' unp\qsant informs. ofcont~ol.· . .. ContiinJetOloveyourson. WIiiIetioD, research s&ows that on many You bold tle purse strillp. Be youmaytiBhten, yonrmoneysupplycampuses, o.....tbird to one-halfof sure that you are not underwriti1\1 . in YOW: <>wn,"ersioD 'of "toQh-t.he students are ~"_':"bed" every' your. son's driDking habits. . loVe,". ROtiee bis' other accClaip­weeken4;........ Do not pay for the dam&ie he Jishmentsand gltlOdqUatities. DcIa'

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Punished for aiding Salvadoran refugees

. . BROWNSVILLE, Texas (NC)- Elder's sentence was reduced Two Brownsville Diocese sanc- . from one year to 150 days after the

tuary workers, convicted in Feb­ judge consulted with defense and .ruary of aiding illegal aliens, were prosecution· attorney. Elder will sentenced March 27 and 28, one to serve the term in a halfway house 150 days in a halfway house, the to be determined later. Elder termed other to 179 days in prison. the reduced sentence "probably

Jack Elder, director of a church­ fair." sponsored shelter for Central Amer­ Elder and Ms. Merkt have ican refugees, was sentenced to received support from the Browns­150 days in a halfway house March ville and Galv~ston-Houston di­28 by U.S. District Judge Filemon oceses. Vela. A day earlier Vela had sen­ Vela had offered Elder a two­tenced Elder to one year in prison year probation on condition that after Elder rejected a probation he move out of Casa Romero and offer that would have prevented that he not speak publicly about him from continuing as a sanctu­ the sanctuary movement. Elder ary worker. had refused the terms because of

Elder, 41, is director of Casa his beliefs. Oscar Romero in San Benito, Texas, a shelter run by the Browns­ A Corpus Christi federal court ville diocese. jury acquitted Elder in January on

Stacey Merkt, 30, a volunteer at charges of transporting three Sal­the same shelter, was sentenced to vadorans from the shelter to a bus 179 days in prison for her conspir­ station in March 1984. ing to help Salvadorans enter the Sanctuary workers say Central United States illegally. She could Americans are fleeing violence in have received a five-year sentence. their homelands and should be

Vela also ordered Ms. Merkt to granted political asylum; but the serve 90 days concurrently on a U.S. government has classified similar conviction in May 1984. almost all as economic refugees Ms. Merkt had been on two year!\ and has deported many of them. probation but Vela revoked it,

••••••••••••• + • • • • • • .zordered her to leave the shelter, and imposed a gag order forbid­ .CD GOD'S ANCHOR. HOlDS ding her to speak with reporters. Ms. Merkt planned to appeal. t••••••••• « •••••••••••

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A-I Approved for Children' CindAdults:' : ... A Sunday in the Country 2010 That's Dancing The Never·ending Story

A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents Adventures of Buckaroo Falling in Love Places in the Heart

Banzai Fandango Protocol Amadeus The Killing Fields Purple Rose cf Cairo Baby: Secret of the Lost Lost in America Return of the Soldier

Legend Mass Appeal The River Breakin' 2 Electric Oh, God! You Devil A Soldier's Story (Rec,)

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A-3 Approved for Adults Only Beverly Hills Cop Firstborn Missing in Action The Brother from Garbo Talks 1984

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A-4 Separate Classif~c.ation (A Separate Classification is given to certain films which while not morally offensive, require some analysis and explanation as a pro· tection against wrong interpretations and false conclusions.)

Blood Simple Mask Witness Cal Mrs. Soffel

o - Morally Offensive . American Dreamer Into The Night Perils of Gwendoline BIRDY Just the Way You Are Porky's Revenlla Body Double Lust in The Dust Purple Rain The Breakfast Club Maria's Lovers Silent Night, Deadly Night Choose Me Micki and Maude Teachers Crimes of Passion Mischief The Terminator The First Turn·On Missing in Action 2 Thief of Hearts The Flamingo I(id A Nightmare on Elm Street Tightrope Friday the 13th, Part V Night of the Comet Tuff Turf Heartbreakers Night Patrol Turk 182 Heavenly Bodies No Small Affair Vision Quest

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Dominican Father John F. Cunningham, 56, a'philosophy pr'ofessor and former dean at Providence College, will be­come the institution's next pres­id.ent, effective July I.

He will succeed Father .Thomas R. Peterson, 0 P, pres­ident for the past 14 years.

Father Cunningham, who joined the Dominican college's faculty in 195.8, has taught philosophy and Western civil­ization and held a number of· administrative posts at the school. After a leave ofabsence to serve as vicar provincial of the Province of St. Joseph in New York, Father Cunning­ham returned this ·year to teachiqg at Providence Col­lege.

The Providence native grad-. uated from.providence Col­lege in 1949, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1953. He holds a doctorate in philo­sophy from the AngE:licum in Rome.

.CDA pledges building aid

WASHINGTON (NC) - Cath~ olic Daughters ofthe Americas has pledged $500,000 toward construc­tion of a new headquarters build­ing planned for the U.S. bishops' main national offices.

The commitment was announ­ced in Washington by Loretta Knebel, CDA national regent, and Bishop James Malone, Nation­al Conference of Catholic Bishops president.

The planned new NCCB USCC building, to be near Cath­olic University in Northwest Washington, is expected to cost about $20 million and be com­pleted in 1987. '

Francis Doyle, USCC associate . general secretary; said that lon­ing clearances for a building permit for the new building seemed back on track in March after initial rejection by the Dis­trict of Columbia Zoning Com­mission as consistent with sur­rounding architecture:

Doyle said the commission only sought changes in the facade of the planned building to make it "more complementary" to the architecture of nearby buildings.

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Now there is such a law. On January I, 1984, Massachusetts enacted the New Safe Driver Insur­,ance Plan for automobile insur-

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Safe driver insurance(plan ance. The law has a carrot (reward) -vehicular homicide pay your additional premium while Not surprisingly, under the Safe and stick (punishment) approach. -drunk driving your appeal is pending. The insur­ Driver Insurance Plan you are If you are a safe driver you are -driving to endanger ance surcharge notice directs how rewarded· for safe driving. Your rewarded by credits in insurance premiums; if you are unsafe; you

-reckless driving -;-driving after a license revo­

and when to appeal. . If the Board of Appeal deter- .

. policy is eligible for a premium credit if all the following require­

are punished by increased insur­ cation mines that you were not more than ments are met: ance premiums.

The law uses a point .system to determine premium increase,s if you are an unsafe driver. The number of"U nsafe Driver Points" assigned to you or the,other driv­ers listed on your poliH depends on your violation. There are four types of violations:

a. Major at-fault accident. You get three Unsafe. Driver

Points for each major at-fault accident. Such an accident involves a collision or property damage claim payment of more than $500 and determination by your insur­at:\ce company that you were more than 50 percent at fault in the accident.

b. minor at-fault acciClent. ­You get two Unsafe Driver

Points for each minor at-fault accident. A minor at-fault acci­dent is one that involves a collision or property damage claim pay­ment of more than $200 but less

You get one Unsafe Driver Point for each minor moving violation. A .speeding ticket would be an example of a minor moving viola­tion.

Note, you will be penalized if you have not paid' surcharges, assessed before the new law was enacted.

Also, if you submit four or more claims afterJanuary I, 1984, which total more than $2,000, your pol­icy will be surcharged..

The first three Unsafe Driver Points will add $50 per point. to your insurance premium. Unsafe Driver Points 4 through 8 will add $75 per point to your premium:

For example, ifyou were involved in a major at-fault accident (3 points) and paid a fine for two speeding tickets (I point for each minor moving violation), your total number of points is 5. Your pre­mium increase would be:

50 percent at fault, it must notify the Merit Rating Board to remove the Unsafe Driver Points from your record. Your policy will be rerated using the new point total.

For every year of driving with­out a violation, one point will be subtracted from each violation, except for major violations.

For example, if a person has 5 points ­ 3 points for a major at­fault accident and 2 points for minor moving violations - his premium increase is $300. If the person completes one year of incident-free driving, 2 poiilts remain on the driving record. You subtract I point from 'each inci­dent on the driving record so the minor moving violations are elim­inated from the recorCl. The major at-fault accident total decreases from 3 to 2 points. The premium increase will be $100 for the two Unsafe Driver Points.

-no driver listed to operate a vehicle covered by your pol­icy has Unsafe Driver Points or has a surchargeable inci­dent in the 3 year policy exper­ience period.

-no driver listed to operate a vehicle covered by your pol­icy on the principal operator has less than 3 years of driv­ing experience. ' ,

-at least one driver listed to operate a vehicle covered by your policy has a valid Mass­achusetts driver's license.

The Commissioner of Insurance determines the amount of-credit to be applied to policies which meet these qualifications. The credit for 1984 may be as much as $40. How: ever, the property damage liability limits, the territory for the vehicle and the class for the driver will affect the total credit to be applied.

As you see, under this new la~ it literally pays to drive safely. 3 points x $50 =$150

than $500; your insurance com­ The cost of Unsafe Driver Points TheMurphyspractice lawinBraintree.2 points x $75 =$150panymust also determine that you depends on how many you have Total ' $300 Educationwere more.than 50 percent at fault. collected within the experience c, Major moving violation. You can appeal your insurance ,'pe'riod of your policy. The expe­ "The man who graduates today You get four Unsafe Driver company's determination that you rience period is the three year and stops learning tomorrow is

Points for each major moving vio­ ,were more than 50 percent at fault period immediately preceding the uneducated the day after." - New­lation. These include: in an acci'dent. However, you must effective date ofyour current policy; ton D. Baker.

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"':Lik~ rest of us,-- Vatican needs more money ROME (NC) - The Vatican's

financial and administrative struc­tures need to be modernized by establishing a personnel manage­

. ment board and by computerizing operations, says Filipino Cardinal Jaime Sin,

The personnel board should be composed mostly of lay people, and its duties should include writ-, ing job descriptions of lay and, clerical employees, including the heads of Vatican congregations, he said.

Congregations are usually head­ed by cardinals.

Cardinal Sin is a member of the Council of Cardinals which advises Pope John Paul II on Vatican financial and administrative mat­ters. He was interviewed fn Rome by National Catholic NewsSer­vice during a recent council J1)eet~ ing, at which he made the recom- .

"Job .descriptions need to be updated every year. The world is moving vc:ry.fast~:' he said.. .

/\ persohne~boa:l-d would stream~. line the Vatican work force. by. eliminating job duplication and

he said, adding that "the computer is a very important invention. I have a computer in my archdio­cese. Why can't the Vatican have one?"

Modernizing and streamlining the Vatican operations also would help in reducing the Vatican's yearly .budget deficit, he said. '

In that connection, the Vatican has predicted a shortfall in contri­butions for its 1985 operating expenses Qf 63,296 billion Italian lire, about $30.1 million at current exchange rates.

,The gap gives "serious reason for concern" because church offi­cials no longer can coverthe short­fall with the worldwide Peter's Pence collection alone, said Car­dinal John Kr,ol of Philadelphia.

The Vatican is using invested Jundswhich. shoufd be earning in~erest to make up' the difference;' he said. ..,. , '

The'situation is not critical, but increased . ,~evenue is needed', to fund,·theJlolY'See's operatio.ns,-, said th~ Cardinal. He spoke aft.cr' attending a.March meeting ofthe. co~ri~il oft~rdinalsadvising Pop,f

overlapping duties, he added'.:", 'John~pa:ul II on the finances and It would also establish:Vatican' organization of the Holy S~'e~(

salary scales. central administration and wotld.~' "The church is like a corpor~"' .wide operations. He is the only'

tion. It needs good managers:' U.S. council member. ' ., Laymen should be ask,ed because 'Apress r'e.1ea~eissu~dat the end

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government for expropriation of the papal states, said Cardinal Krol.

"The problem is that those funds earn income. But the income is not enough to cover the gap, so they are now reducing the principal," he said.

To solve the budget problem over the long run, church officials must find means of increasing con­tributions, the primary source of income, said Cardinal Krol.

The cardinal suggested a quota system by which Catholics, espe­cially in developed countries, would be assessed about I percent of their income with part of the money being used for the church in their country and the, rest being for­warded to the Holy See.

"There is little you can do' to knock out the fat in the budg~t"

because almost 53 percent goes for salaries, he said. '

"This is' scarcely subject to reduc­tion" because ofltalian labor laws, agreements with Vatican lay em~

ployees and the need to provide employees with a decent ··Iiving standard, he added. ; Vatican officials,however, balk

at mention of a·quota system, said­Cardinal Krol. 'I,; " ;'. ­

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'- said. The Vatican is "looking for love"

because' it feels contributions should be voluntary, he added.

~'We are, really an operation of the poor and for the p~or," he said.

A' quota system also was sup­ported by Cardinal Sin.

"Protestants have been doing

this for years. That is their strength. We Catholics are sleeping," Car­dinal Sin said.

Cardinal Krol estimated that the 1985 budget would be about $91 million.

"The total budget is very small when you consider what it does. Many large dioceses and Catholic universities have much larger bud­gets th'an that," said the Cardinal.

The budget covers the Holy See's central agencies (congregations, commissions, secretariats, councils, etc.), its diplomatic corps and var­ious papal foreign aid projects.

The'Vatican began announcing in recent years that the Peter's Pence ~ollection, a worldwide annual request for contributions originally intended to be used at the pope's discretion, was being diverted to cover operating ex­penses. It had previously been used mostly for papal foreign aid pro­jects, especially inunderdevel­oped countries. '

Cardinal Krol said that 85 per­cent· of the 1984,collection came from the United States, West Germany, France and Italy. Almost 60 percent, ($15 million), came from the United"Statesalone; he said;,,: ,

,B~tCatholics in developed coun­tries must do more. to suppo'rt the Holy See because people in under­developed countries cannot make significant contributions, he added.

The Peter's Pence figures also show that Catholics in developed countries contributed little per person, he said. Given the. U.S. Catholic population of 52 million, for instance, it means each person donated about 25 cents, he ex­plained.

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VAT'ICAN CI1Y (NC) - With the April 1 footage of Pope John Paul II's private Mass in the Pauline Chapel and the subse­quent papal conversation with interviewers Jane Pauley and 'Bryant Gumbel, NBC's "Today" show claimed a media coup in what in basketball terms would be a "full-court press" on the Vatican.

Timothy Russert, NBC "News vice president, said the "press" began last October with NBC News President Lawrence Gross­man.

After the "Today" crew had re­turned from two weeks in the Soviet Union, Grossman suggest­ed that it would be interesting to do the program from the Vati­can and 'Rome, according to Russert.

Grossman's idea, said Russert, oled to the "historic programming" of Holy Week. "Today" not only filmed and 'broadcast sections of the private Mass but also inter­viewed top Vatican officials, featured generaHy unknown as­pects of the Vatican, such as its school for alta,r boys, and' set up a studio in 51. Peter's Square under the colonnade which extends from the statue of Charlemagne.

Jesuit-educated Russert, a former altar boy from South Buffalo, N.Y., said that competi­tors have privately given NBC kudos for the Holy Week broad­casts.

On March 27,.dur,ing his week­ly audience, !Pope John Paul II, in Italian-accented English, wel­comed "NBChee" to the' Vatican.

The same day the network learned that "Today," after a three-year struggle, had finally regained the No. 1 spot among the morning shows, NBC offi­cials said.

Top Vatican officials agreed to be interviewed live from various spots in Rome. Once committed, the officials caught a show-must­go-on spi~it and res'ponded like troupers.

"I've got the flu. I just got out of bed for this," said 74­

year-old CMdinal Silvio Oddi, head of ,the Vatican Congrega­tion for ColerBY'.

"They insisted," the ailing cardinal sa,id April 1, as he stood on ,the set at the Colosseum. "It was programmed and scheduled. When it's over, I'm going back to bed."

Flu-stricken Cardinal Oddi paid close attention to Miss Pauley's questions and tried to ignore a frantic director crawl­

o irig near his feet who was trying to reatta~h a microphone that had fallen from the cardinal's sleeve.

Compared to actor Peter Us­tinov's experience on the broad­Cllst, however, Cardinal Oddi's television encounUer was un­eventful.

Ustinov feU head-first off the side of the' stage, which had no railings. The cardinal was among those coming to his aid.

Russert, who began to negoti­ate for the unprecedented TV ac­cess to the Vatican in early Jan­uary, said that "Today" planned

Justice, peace institute at

Walsh College CANTON, Ohio (NC) - Walsh

College of Canton, operated by the Brothers of Christian Instruc­tion, who are among faculty members at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, has' ,es­tablished a Justice and' Peace Institute.

The 'institute's first program, from July 29 to Aug. 2, will fo­cus on the U.S. bishops' 1983 pastoral tetter on war and peace and their developing pastoral on the U.S. economy.

Josesph Torma, ,institute direc­tor and an associate professor of theology and philosophy at the college, s,a'id the program will not offer an academic degree but will develop "resources nec­essary to train people to operate in society and in the churcb on behaif of justice and, peace."

to move a crew of 60 to Rome from its New York, Miami, Paris, London and Frankfurt, West Germany, bureaus even before it had firm commitments from the pope or other Vatican officials to go on camera. But once the pope responded affirmatively to Rus­sert's letter, which was trans­lated into Polish by NBC's War­saw bureau, others followed.

"When the Holy Father ac­cepted, we had our 'nihil ob­stat,''' said Russert, using the Latin term for "nothing objec­tionable" in a theological pub­lication.

Soon other Vatican officials said yes to Russeres request, which offered each "a unique opportunity to communicate your views without fear of dis­,tortion or misrepr~entation."

Russert feels NBC's big break in landing the pope 'and his top advisers came from the decision ,to write to the pope in Polish and to also send the request through Polish-American Car­dinal John Krol of Philadelphia.

But Cardinal Krol did not have to prod- the pope, Rhssert said. The NBC executive said that the cardinal told him as soon as he mentioned NBC to Pope John Paul, the pontiff beamed and said "I read the letter. They wrote to me in Polish."

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By' Charlie, Martin

DON" TWA I,T FOR ,HEROES rve got my dreams

. I knOw' yoothlilk that's' crazy But I 'won't gIve up 'cause rve got this bumlngCieslre In me Oh baby It's me. WhIle the world sleeps I sit up all night thinking And making my plaDs 'cause there's something special ahead for me Something ahead for me. , So don't you tell me that rm wasting my time ruining my life And that' the odds against me are a million to one ' Don't be concerned ' rll take the beaU. all the chances I'm gonna take Mistakes that rn make Just walt and see You're gonna hear from me. So ,don't walt for heroes Do it yourself You've,got the power Winners are losers .

''Who got up and gave It just one more try One more try . I've got my dreams. , ,If YO(\'re waltlng for that miracle_train to call,out your.name And if you think the rainbow always finds Someone else never yourself Just look lnslde 'and find that spark that's burning In you Follow, it through The light you find' Wen it could change your life.

'Don't walt for heroes ThInk for yourself Make your own choices You know It's easy To fonow the crowell But my' advice Is Don't walt for heroes' Believe in yourself You've got the power ' Winners are losers Who got up 'aDd gave It just one more try Hey yeah ' Give It one more try Let's go.

Written and sung by Dennis DeYoung, (c) 1984 Grand Dluslon Songs, 'administered by AImo· Music Corp.

What's on your mind?

Q; When I am with my friends 1 don't like to t81k about the things they' ~ or do the· thlnP they do, and yet'l wmt to' be accepted. How can I do this? (Oregon)

A. Perhaps .you should' ask yourself another question: "Why do I want to be fmends with these people when 'I don't .1ike to talk al>out the things they do or do the things they do?"

Some other ques~ions to con· sider: Wbat oare friends for? What' is a good friendship :like? What do you ~ave to do to be a good friend to someone else? Should you consider seeking other,

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friends with 'whom you have more in common;, with whom you share, certain, interests or hobbies with whom you, can be more at ease and more yourself? , : The relationship you have with

your present crowd of friends sounds artificial and even phony.

A satisfying friendship in­volves such qualities as sincer­ity" mutual interests' and con­

;. THIS SONG encourages tis ,to ,believe in ourselves and take,' ac­,tion for what we want in life. '

I agree tha't we are the ones in charge of our 1ives. 'But having

"a few models or heroes cim be 'luilpful. All of us need others to help, us become our best. Most real heroes are not, those on television but the people <who love and support us as we find our path in .life. .

But iIi another sense the song ,is correct: Each of us must take the risks and make bur life what we ,want ir'to be. Others cannot take these steps for us. " Living a satisfying and success­ful life requires courage. ,For ex­ample, YOU may wonder if you' have the talent to make the school play. You may even judge that the odds of doing so are against you. Yet courage helps

,you go ahead· and try out. Cour­age alone will not guarantee suc­

'cess, but without it we ,could spend most of our, lives watching instead of doing. >

Perhaps even more imgortant, ,than courag~ is' perseverance. The song hints at this quality, when it states that "winners are losers who got up and goave it 'just one more try."

All of us face times of failure. What is important is our atti­tude toward it. Do we learn from our mistakes? Do we look for alternative ways to reach goals when our first course of action fails? Do we keep our failures in perspective, refusing to see our setbacks as larger ,than they are? , ,

Final1y, we need. each other to realize our ,'goals. Successful people are those who know how to reach out for. others. By work­ing together toward /both' indi­vidual and common goals, we gain the strength to make changes in our own Hves as well as the world we live in.

'Courage, perseverance and co­operation: three. qualities that help change dreams into ,active, satisfying parts of our lives.

Your comments are welcome. Write Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville. Ind. 47714.

present crowd of friends. But might you search among

, your schoolmates for one, two or three ,other persons with whom you can have a deeper, more sin­cere, and more satisfying friend­ship?-

Look for persons with whom you feel comfortable. Then" if you think it wise and if you want to, slowly move away from your

,present crowd of friends. There is one more possibility,

a distinctly lIJnpleasant one, that . should be considered: maybe your

present friends are very good ones, and possibly you are too wrapped up in wliat you want to talk about and what you want 'to do.

Could it be that you need to , be· more giving, more wililng to talk about what others want to discuss ,'and more amenable to

•In our

.Bishop Feehan ,induction ceremonies for the

French and Spanish national honor societies were held recent~ " Iy at the Attleboro school, with

. 90 students joini'ng the French group and 49 the Spanish.

'" '" '" '" Three Feehan seniors have

been nominated as Common­'wealth Scholars. The new state, program awards grants up t,o $1,000, .depending on need, Ito top students planning to attend a Massachusetts Institute of higher learning. The Feehanltes are Stephen, Hastry, Patricia Rushla arid Georgia Florena.

'" '" '" '" , Also an award winner is senior

. Robert Nicastro, named a winner in the Elks National Foundation "Most Valuable Student" con­test. He will 'receive a "national allocated award" for a one-year term.

CoyIe-Cassidy The following message from

principal Michael J. Donly ap­peared in the Coyle-Cassidy Up­date the week after the funeral of students ,Michael and John

- Butler, killed ina Route 128 auto­mobile accident:

Last week we faced a tragedy together. Today we' face the rest of our lives to~

gether. It won't 'be free from unhappiness, but it wiU be mostly good friends and good experiences.

Last week ~ad many good experi~nces in, it, also. It's true that we were mostly' paying attention .to our sor·

The haunting mem~ry By Cecilia Belanger

Many find it hard getting back to normalcy after Easter, its spiritual power, its lyrical beauty. They are still walking with the stranger on tha't road to Em­maus.

They do not like to give up the vision of the Kingdom and get back to the kingdom of this world. Things are too unclear, there are too many discordant voices, one cannot think, and who is telling the truth?

iBut, ah, :they know Someone who is and they can't leave him alone.

"Stay with us a while longer. Linger here with us in the shade: We are lonely and only you can ease the 'loneliness." This is what I hear many saying today. The ,road is lonely and the good strangers are few.

Can Emmaus be Main Street? Is there oa stranger with whom I can break bread in his name? wm the !broken bread heal' my broken /body? Yes;' they tell me if I believe, all things can hap­pen.

Young people a,re praying that, their lives be hallowed. Theirs ,is too ofiten a mucky' existence, homes that are coarse and vul­gar. Who will break into ,their

lives with the bread to share and the kind words? Who will ,talk to them of purity and responsi­bility and how each is different and individual and important?

We make a mistake when we think that the Easter gospel has to do with the avoidance of death; it has more to do with the confrontation with life, and that is what happened on that road to Emmaus and the roads we all must take.

He will continue to come to us as one unknown.

He walks along the highways and seashores of the world, un­known, at least at first, and then in ,the fellowship of the world, where the ,thirsty are given drinks of water, where courage is ,revived, the weary rest and people begin to find themselves and know who they are because of his soothing yet disturbing

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row and, our loss, but we were at the same time miss· ing the good things that

'were happening around us. . Friends consoHng friends, teachers and students, shar­ing with one another some very human emotions. Peo­ple helping people that they usually paid little or no attention to.

.They say every cloud has a silver Hning. If that's true, then we found that lining in one anotIter. We have al­ways been a close commun­ity here at CC ~ but we are much closer now. This closeness will help us to ,continue our lives Itogether, as we should.

We must, move on. But we don't move on alone; we have our memories, and ,they 'are good ones. They']) be

, enough. ' They really will:

Bishop Connolly Several Connolly students, ac­

companied by chaperones, will travel to Monticello, Ky., during spring vacation. With them will go a carload of clothes collected for Appalachian families served by Fall River Holy Union Sister Barbara Walsh, SUSC. The stu­dents will also present Sister' Walsh with financial contribu­tions collected throughout Lent at the Fall River school.

The former principal of Holy Name School, FaR River, Sister Walsh addressed students earlier this year on the needs of the very poor people with Whom she works.

cerns,. caring about what the other person does, feels and thinks, and sharing of activities.

All this is not to suggest that y,o_u )mmediaJe!y .albaQ40n your

, what your friends want to do? Selfishness is an insidious dis­

,ease and an enemy of every friendship. We need to be on the

, ~at~h for, symptoms of it.

•tv,rnOVle news By Bill Morrissette

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen·portsWQtch eral viewing; PG-13-parental guidancestrongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.New Coaches At Connolly

John Donool1y has been ap­pointed varsity soccer coach and Cynthia DeCosta varsity soft­bal1 coach at Bishop Connol1y High School, it has been an­nounced by Mary Jane Keyes, the school's athletic director.

'Donnel1y has had consider­able experience ,in soccer. He is a member of the Whaling City Soccer Association, which he served as president in 1983. He is also 'a member of the Cape Cod Soccer Association. He was named junior varsity soccer coach at Connol1y last year and now succeeds the Rev. Arthur Pare, S.J., who resigned afiter the 1984 season.

He has experience in other sports. He has a considerable background in basketbal1 as a varsity official and secretary of Local Board No. 30 of IAABO

Pleasant tale for most ages,Medeiros To Be Honored though a violent battle scene

Tony Medeiros, who has River area CYO director, is the ,and some mild vulgarities rule served as custodian .at CYO Hall originator of the testimon,ial, out young children. A2, PG in Fall River for 25 years, will which, he says, will give Med· be honored at a testimonial in eiros' family and friends a chance "Friday the 13th, Part V - A White's Restaurant, Westport, to thank the retiree. New Beginning" (Paramount): on Sunday, April 21. 'Medeiros, Tickets for the testimonial may Maniac stalks home for disturb­68, retired on Jan. 1 because of be obtained by calling the Fal1 ed children. Violent, gory trash. illness. River CYO Hall, Anawan Street, O,R

Father Maddock at St. William's "Porky's Rev~nge" (Fox): The_Four years ago Medeiros was rectory, and .Rev. Paul F. Mc­

presented ·a plaque attesting to

old gang at Angel Beach Hi~h

who now look old enough, if not Ibright enough, to 'be out of grad­lJate school are at it again. This effort, like the previous ones, is beneath contempt. Because of ex­ploitative nudity and mindless vulgarity, it is rated 0, R.

Film on TV Sunday, April 7, 8-11 p.m. EST

(ABC) - "Superman U" (1981), starring Christopher -Reeve and Margot Kidder; Superman gives up his powers in order to love an ordinary mortal just as three archvillains' from Krypton arrive to take over Earth. Romantic and entertaining, better than the first. Since the two principals go to bed with each other, however, it's not for the youngsters. A3, PG

Religious TV Saturday, April 6, 11:30 p.m.­

I a.m. EST (CBS) - "Easter in: San Antonio." The Easter Vigil liturgy live from San Fernando Catedral, San Antonio, Texas.

Sunday, April 7 (CBS) - "Pa­trimony: Judalca at the Vatican." Report on the treasures of Jew­ish art and literature at the Vatican Library and Museum.

Religious Radio Sunday, April 7 (NBC) "Guide­

line" - Rebroadcast of an inter­view with jazz musician Dave Brubeck about his Mass, "To Hope, a Celebration."

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since 1976. In baseball he has been a member of the South­eastern Mass. Basebal1 Umpires Association since 1969 and was its president in 1973. He has also served as assistant footbal1 coach at Durfee High School.

DeCosta is a member of the Physical Education staff at Con­nolly where she is coach of var­sity volleyball and girls junior varsity basketball. She coached softball at Somerset High School from 1979 to 1984. '

A rated ASA sof.tbaB umpire DeCosta has been active in the Youth ASA Softball League and has served as vice president and manager in the Somerset Little League Softball League. She has also played in the Foirst Edition Women's Slow Pitch Sof.tball League in Fall River.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given to' films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

NOTE Please check dates and

times of television and radio programs against local list­Ings, which may differ 'from the New York network sched­ules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films

"Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend" (Touchstone):, American couple exploring in Af'rica dis­cover a cute baby bronotosaurus. Later they reunite him with his mama from whom he had bffn separated by some villains.

Car,rick, pastor of St. Joseph'shis devotion to Durfee High parish in Fall River and diocesan School athletics. CYO director. Fathers Maddock Area Religious BroadcastingRev. Jay Maddock, assistant and McCarrick are organizing at St. William's parish and Fall the testimonia!. The following television and radio programs originate in

the diocesan viewIng and listening area. Their listings nonn­ally do not vary from week to week. They will be presentedSt. Vincent Hoop Tourney in The Anchor the first Friday of each month and will reflect

The fifth annual St. Vincent's members of the div,isional cham­ any changes that may be made. Please clip and retain for reference.

wHl be held April 13 through shirts. Each division will also April 21. have an all-tournament team and'

Home Basketball, Tournament pion teams will each receive T­

Each Sunday, 10:30 a.m. members of those teams will reo WLNE, Channel 6, DiocesanThere will be three divisions ceive team bags. Television Mass. - open, six foot and under A & For information contact Fran Portuguese Masses fromH division, and junior, age 14 Desmarais at 678-1482 or Tom Our Lady of Mt. Canneland ,under. Dunse at 679-8511. Tomorrow Church:, New Bedford: 12:15

Team trophies will be award­ is the deadline for entries. The p.m. each Sunday on radioed to the first and second place fee is $45 for the juniors, $~5 station WJFD-FM, 7 p.m. each finishers in each division and for the other two divisions. Sunday on television Channel

20. New Bedford Cops Diocesan Crowns Mass ,Monday to Friday

All three diocesan eyO basket­ball championships were cap­tured by New Bedford pa,rish teams in sweeps of the best-of· three playoff f.inals earlier this week.

New Bedford,'s Our .,Lady of Assumption team defeated St. Joseph of Fall River 86·78 and 86·69 to win the senior crown while the Assumptionists topped St. Joseph, 65-52 and 51·39, for the junior championship. In the prep div.ision iBoston College of New Bedford topped St. An­thony of the :Desert of Fall River, 56·53 an~ 39·33. First games were played ,in CYO Hall, Fall Rive~, Sunday night, the second

games ,in Ithe Kennedy eyO Youth Center, New Bedford, Tuesday night.

In the best·of-three final in the girls. division St. Mary's A' of New Bedford and Holy Name of Fall River split the first two games. They met Wednesday night in the deciding game but because of deadline requirements results of that' game were not available for publication in this edition.

The Healer "Earth has no sorrow that

heaven cannot hea!." - Thomas More

every week, 11:30 a.m. to noon, WXNE, Channel 25. .

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent partlcipantsFather Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services; Right Rev. George Hunt, Epis­copal Bishop of Rhode Island; and Rabbi Baruch Korff.

"Breakthrough," 6:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 10, a program on the power of God to touch lives, produced by the Pastoral Theological Insti­tute of Hamden, Conn.

"The Glory of God," with Father John &rtolucci, 7:30

. a.m. each Sunday, Channel 27.

"MarySon," a famHy pup· pet show with moral and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thursday, Fail R,iver and New Bedford cable channel 13.

"Spirit and the Bride," a talk show with William Lar-. kin, 6 p.m. Monday, cable channel 35.

On Radio

Charismatic programs with Father,John Randall are adred from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Mon­day through Friday on station WRIB, 1220 AM; Mass is broadcast at 1 p.m. each Sun­day.

Programs' of Catholic in· terest are broadcast at the following 'times on station WROL Boston, 950 AM: Mon­day through Friday 9, 9:15, 11:45 a.m.; 12:15, 12:30,.}.' p.m.

ST.. JOAN OF ARC, O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN ORLEANS . Women's. Guild meeting: noon Confirmation candidates are re­

Women's Guild: potluck supper 6 April 8, parish center quired.to perform 15 hours ofservice p.m. April9, replacing regular meet- and.submit a written report by AprilST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FRing. . 29. _

Adoration of Blessed Sacrament; . Area priests Imd ministers will Parishioners will assist today,noon to 6 p.m. April 10, Wamsutta \participate in Nauset Clergy Associ­ Good Friday, at the New Bedford Club, dinner and entertainment by ation's annual service from noon to soup kitchen.accordionist Gene Demers. 3 p.m. Good Friday, being held Parents' workshop: school hall today at St. Joan of Arc. ST. PATRICK, FR for four Wednesdays from 7 to 9

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On Steerln~ Points Items FR indicates Fall River, NB Indicates 'New Bedford.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAt, FR Natural Family Planning programs

begin tomorrow, April 20 and April 27. Information: Mariette. Eaton, RN, 674-5741, ext. 2481.

Pediatric lecture series for medical professionals: 10 a.m four consecu­tive Fridays, beginning today, in _. Clemence Hall. Among topics: endo­crinology; congenital orthopedic problems; Kawasaki syndrome.

The hospital has affiliated with the' Morton Hospital Speech, Hear­ingand Language Center ofTaunton and will offer services in Fall River.

ST. JOHN EV ANGELIST, POCASSET

New parish council officers: Joe Sullivan, Bill DesM;uais, George Towers, Ted Linchares. Council meeting 7:30 p.m. April 16.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD Boys wishing to be' altar boys

should call the rectory. Congratulations go to the parish

girls' A basketball team for their league record of 24-0, climaxing in their championship victory over St. James.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET .

Planning meeting for patronal feast: 8 p.m. April 8.' .

Parish Vincentians seek an elec­tric stove for a needy family. Prospec­tive donors may' call the rectory. ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN

Five child ren will receive firstcom­munion at 9:30 a.m Mass Easter Sunday. Coffee and doughnuts will follow the Mass. SS. PETER & PAUL, FR

Parent Involvement committee meeting: 7 p.m. April 9, school.

Confirmation: 7 p.m. April II. CATHEDRAL, FR

Women's Guild: meeting Tuesday night April 9.

ST. STANISLJ\US, FR Parishioners attended a liturgy of

investiture recently at which Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor, received

---the habit of the Order of St. Paul as a confrater of the order, one' of some 40 throughout the world. The community founded the monastery of Jasna Gora at Czestochowa in the 14th century and the investiture of Father Kaszynski recognizes the' many contributions of the parish to Czestochowa over the years.

Women's Guild .scholarship ap­plication forms are available at the parish school.

HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH Ladies' Association will sponsor a

baby shower at 2 p.m. April 12 in the church hall. Items collected will be sent through Catholic Relief Services to papal storerooms in Rome for distribution to Third World needy.

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New Bedford deanery meeting: I I a.m. April 8; marriage preparation training program, 7 p.m. April 10.

DOMINCAN LAITY, FR St. Rose of Lima chapter meeting:

7:30 p.m. April 12, Dominican Academy, Fall River, preceded at 6:30 p.m. by meeting for postulants

• in l\cademy library. DOMINICAN LAITY, FR

St:Anne's parish chapter: meeting in chapel, 1:30 p.m. April 9. BL. SACRA1\1ENT, FR

New boys' clothing is available to needy families. Information at rec­

·tory.

MEMORIAL 1ll0ME, FR Stalions of the Cross: I:30 p.m.

today, followed at 3 p.m. by Good Friday services.

The Holy Saturday Easter vigil service at 7 p.m. will be follo'wed by a get-together in the solarium.

ST. PIUS X, SO. YARMOUTH Women's Guild: meeting I: 15 p.m.

April 9', parish hall, followed at.2 p.m. by"Dorothy'and Her Hats," a presentation by Dorothy Dower. HOLY NAME, NB

Women's Guild: meeting 7:30 p.m. Apr,il 8, including demonstration of Easter egg decorating. D of I, SOMERSET

St. Patrick's Circle, Daughters of . Isabella: meeting 7 p.m. April 10, Old Town Hall. Somerset Senior Chorus will sing; members will contribute baby gifts for a bal;>y shower for needy mothers.

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Homebaked bread may be brought to weekend Masses to be blessed and used at Easter meals.

Thanks: from Father George Cole­man, former pastor, to parishioners for their gift -of a trip to London; from Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home to confirmation candidates for their donation to the home. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FR . A reception in the parish hall

honoring Father Kenneth J. Delano, associate pastor, on his silver jubilee of ordination will follow 4 p.m.

. Mass April 13.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS St. Francis of Cape Fraternity:

Mass and meeting 7: 10 p.m. April9, St. John Evangelist Church, Pocas­set. . ST. MARY, SEEKONK

People of Hope andJOy prayer group will sponsor a weekend Life in the Spirit seminar April 12 through 14 at the CCD Center on Rte. 152. All welcome. Information or regis­tration: Pauline L'Heureux, 336­6349.

. Sacred Hearts Sisters will offer intercessory prayers for the parish during Easter Week.

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An evangelization committee is being formed to reach fallen-away Catholics residing in the parish. Thdse wishing to participate should call the rectory. SA·CRED HEART, FR

Women's Guild meeting: 7:30 p.m. April 8, rectory. Father Stephen Fernandes of St. James Church, New Bedford, will demonstrate para­psychology.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE COD

Meeting 3 p.m. April 28 on discussion topic "Wholeness." Infor­

. mation: Dorothyann Callahan, 428­7078.

CHARISMATICS, FR Fall Riv~r deanery: prayer groups

meeting 8 p.m. April 8, S:. Anne's Shrine. Maria Rocha will speak on "Healing as a Gift." ST. JAMES, NB

CVO meeting: April 14. Last meeting at which new members will be accepted. _ Couples' Club: meeting 7:30 p.m.

. April 9. New members welcome. SEPARATED/DIVORCED CAPE COD

Support group meeting 7 p.m. April 21, St. Francis Xavier parish center, Hyannis. Dr. Mary M. Bosley will speak. Information: Janet Far­rell: 775-8168,771-1800, ext. 2124.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA

Parishioners have received a letter from Sister Pauline Boyer, a pari- . shioner serving in Colombia, expres­sing gratitude for a check for over $4,000 sent her after a Christmas col­lection in her behalf. She reports that the donation has enabled con­struction of a jam and jelly factory and that factory proceeds will fund a center for education of future lead­ers. She hopes to present a slide show of mission activities during a home visit in July. .

New parish councilors are Pauline Dufour, Muriel Patenaude and Clau­dette Armstrong.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Fellowship meeting: 7 p.m. April

14, parish center.

Pastoral delayed WASHINGT.ON '(NC) - The

final text of the U.S. bishops' pas­toralletter on the economy will be delayed until 1986, it was an­nounced April I.

A second draft, originally due this spring, will be delayed until this September.

The new plan could lead to a special 1986 spring meeting of the bishops just to debate and vote on the economics pastoral. Otherwise the vote would probably come at the bishops' regular fall meeting in November 1986.

Completion of the economic pastoral was originallyt scheduled for this November, with a full second draft due this spring for discussion at a June national meet­ing of the bishops in Collegeville, Minn.

But many bishops wanted more time to take "full advantage of the rich debate" that has had "an almost unprecedented level" of grassroots involvement, said Bi­shop James Malone of Youngs­town, .Ohio, president of the Na­tional Conference. of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Confer­ence.

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