MONSIGNORDENEHY Rev. Mr. Philip Joseph Higgins isthesonofJames L andHulda (Anderson) Higgins. A teacher in the Norton and Mansfield Public Schools for nine years, he was educated at Randall G. Moriss School, West Turn to Page Twenty An Anchor of th~ Soul, Sureand Flrm~St. Paul REV. MR.FURTADO PAGE THREE lowparishioners andfriendsfor donations and pledges in the 32nd year of the Appeal. Some 104,500 homes representing morethan300,000peoplewillbe REV.MR. HIGGINS REV. MR. TRAVASSOS $4.00 per year
read: "We are pleased to encloseour check for $2,000. This contribution is approximately a 43per· cent increase over our lastyear's gift. This increase is being made to help perpetuate thegood works of charity towardsboth our young and elderlythroughout the diocese."
The Special Gift Phase willofficially end on Saturday, May5 and solicitors are requested tomake their final returns by thatdate. The parish house-to-houseAppeal beginning Sunday willofficially end on Wednesday,May 16. Parish solicitors areasked to make their returns totheir parish report centers onSunday immediately. Parishioners are requested to beat homeat the designated hour· 01\. Sunday to receive the solicitors.
"Your generosity in past yearsto the Appeal has produced muchtangible fruit. Perhaps you haveread the report published thisyear which indicates the variousworks which your support oflast year's Appeal enabled us toundertake. We have been blessedwith generous support in theCatholic Charities Appeal. Ihave every confidence, then, that
, our needs, and the needs of thosewho turn to us for assistance,can once again be provided inthis year's Appeal."
Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes,diocesan director of the Appeal,in releasing first donations fromthe Special Gifts phase, said today that early returns have beenquick in .coming and are encouraging. He points to one gift thatwas raised substantially. The letter aocompanying this donation
Saturday, May 12
Three To Become· Priests
visited in the diocese's 115 parishes.
The appeal provides funds formaintenance and expansion ofsocial service projects and other .apostolic works of the Diocese,which are available to all peoples in the southeastern area ofMassachusetts.
Most Rev. Daniel A Cronin,S.T.D., Bishop of the diocese, inhis third year of the Appeal, ishonorary chairman. Bishop Cronin said: "For 32 years now, anotable expression of the commonconcern of the clergy, religious and laity of the Dioceseof Fall River for the mission ofthe Church has been manifestin the Catholic Charities Appeal.A wonderful tradition of generosity, rooted in faith, has developed.
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Dootb~lIs will ring from noonto 3 P.M. this Sunday when16,800 volunteer Catholic Charities Appeal parish solicitors ofthe Fall River diocese calI on fel-
P. C. MedalTo' Bishop
REV. MR. TRAVASSOS
The Most Rev. Daniel A Cronin,' S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Fal1 River, will be honored by the Fall River AreaAlumni Club of Providence College as the first recipi~nt of theClub's "Veritas Award." TheAward was established tohonor individuals within theDiocese of Fall River for outstanding service to the CatholicChurch and to the Community.
Bishop Cronin wiU receive thedistlinction at a special dinneron Sunday evening, May 20th atthe Coaohmen Restaurant inTiverton.
A cocktail reception is slatedfor 7 P.M., .and dinner will beserved at 8 P.M. with theAwards Ceremony to follow.
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Rev. Mr. Philip Joseph Higginsis the son of James L and Hulda(Anderson) Higgins.
A teacher in the Norton andMansfield Public Schools fornine years, he was educated atRandall G. Moriss School, West
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inary in Bloomfield, Conn'. andSt. John's Seminary in Brighton.He holds a B.A degree and aMaster of Divinity Degree.
He has served as a deacon atSt. John the Baptist Parish, NewBedford, and St. Michael Parish,Avon.
The new priest will celebratehis first solemn Mass at EspiritoSanto Church, Fall River, onSunday, May 13, at 11 o'clock.
Concelebrating with the newpriest will be: Rev. John Myers,OSB and Rev. Nicholas Morcone,OSB, of Glastonbury Abbey,Hingham; Rev. Edward Correiaof Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Par,ish, New ,Bedford; Rev. JohnSmith of St. James Parish, NewBedford; Rev. Manuel Andradeof Our Lady of Healtl1 Parish,Fall River, who will also deliverthe homily of t!te Mass.
Also, Rev. Ronald Sylviaand Rev. Jose Dos Santos of St.John the Baptist Parish, NewBed(ord; Rev. Luiz Cardosa ofEspirito Santo Parish, Fall River;Rev. A Paul Gallivan and Rev.Joseph F. Donovan of St. MichaelParish, Avon.
A reception for Rev. Mr. Furtado will be held in the EspiritoSanto Parish Hall immediatelyfollowing the Mass.
Rev. Mr. HigginsA native of Wilmington, Mass.,
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Most Rev. Daniel A Cronin,S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will .ordain three deacons to the·priesthood for servic'e in the Dio-.cese of Fall River, on Saturday,May 13, at 11 o'clock.
The cathedral ceremony willbring into the priesthood Rev.Mr. Steven R. Furtado of FallRiver; Rev. Mr. Philip J. Higginsof Wilmigton, Mass; and Rev.Mr. Horace Travassos· of FallRiver.
The three deacons of the Diocese of Fall River have prepared ,for the, priesthood at St. John'sSeminary in Brighton and haveserved as deacons in various parishesin the diocese and in theArchdiocese of Boston.
Rev. Mr. FurtadoRev. Mr. Steven R. Furtado is
the son of Jesse and Mary(Lopes) Furtado of Alden Street,Fall River.
Following his years at BMCDurfee High School in Fall River,he attended St. Thomas Sem-
vicar for Catholic personnel inthe U. S. Armed Forces. '
.Msgr. Denehy was elected byhis fellow chaplains on the Cardinal's Advisory Council of theMilitary Ordinari-ate at its Aprilmeeting in New York.
In his new position, he willbe responsible for coordinatingthe activities of the council withCardinal Cooke.
The council is made up ofchaplain representatives from allof the Armed Forces and theVeterans Administration.
"The Council serves as a twoway channel of communicationbetween the military chaplainsand the military vicar," Chaplain Denehy said.
Chaplain Denehy, a native ofFall River, received his AB. degree ,from Holy Cross College in1941. He then 'attended St. MarySeminary in Baltimore and Theological College, Catholic Univer-
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in the cafeteria, the sessions willagain get underway with a final8:15 program in the evening.
Tomorrow, Friday, the sessions will begin at 10 in themorning. Lunch will· be servedat noon and Msgr. Henri Hamel,President of the Diocesan Boardof Education, will be the chiefcelebrant of a concelebratedMass at 2:30 in the afternoon,closing the convention.
The convention will gather all .educators from the field of parochial and diocesan schools andthat of the CCD apostolate in di-ocese and parishes. ,
Lectures, discussions and afilm festival will join the many
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Col. John F. Denehy, commandchapJoain, has been elected chairman of a counc,i1 of advisors toTerence Cardinal Cooke, military
MONSIGNOR DENEHY
Elect Msgr. (Col.) DenehyAdvisory Council Chairman
As the first major thrust inthe reorganization of the education apostolate in the Dioceseof Fall River, teachers and themany others participating in thetotal education of diocesans willmeet in convention today and tomorrow.
The 18th Annual Catholic Education Convention will be heldat Bishop Feehan High School inAttleboro, beginning at 1:30 thisafternoon.
Most Rev. Daniel A Cronin,S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, willattend the opening of the convention and will concelebrateMass with the assembled priestsat 5 o'clock. '.
Following light meals available, .~ ,
Teachers' ConveneToday, Tomorrow
Bishop Appeals to Parishes.
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A First Friday Mass and fivehour prayer vigil will be heldFriday night, May 4 in St. Boniface Church, New Bedford.
. . The services will be the ninthin a series of vigils at area parishes, heid for the purpose ofpraying for peace and honoring
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The program will begin withconfessions preceding an 8 P.M.Mass of the Sacred Heart. Included in the evening will be exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hour and Benediction. The vigil will end with amidnight Mass in honor of theImmaculate Heart.
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Rev. Mr. Charles Teixeira ofNew Bedford will be ordained tothe missionary priesthood Saturday morning, May 19, at theMaryknoll Seminary, Maryknoll,N. Y. His Eminence, TerenceCardinal Cooke, Archbishop ofNew York, will be the ordainingprelate.
Father Teixeira, son of Mrs.Dolor'es Teixeira of 69 StanleyStreet, New Bedford, and thel'ate Charles Teixeira, has beenassigned to mission work inCentral America. Op the ,afternoon of his ordination he willparticipate in Maryknoll's 56thannual Departure Ceremony,during which the departing missioners officially receive theiroverseas assignments and mission crucifixes, symbols of their
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Schedule Marian. The Most Rev. Edward T.O'Mear·a, auxiliary bishop of St.
Day at LaSalette Louis and National Director ofthe Society for the Propagation
" Traditionally May is the month of the Faith, will be the principalwhen Americans honor their speaker at the Departure Ceremothers. This year LaSalette mony. The, Very Rev. Raym'ondShrine and Prayer Center in At- A. Hill, .M.M., recently electedtleboro will hold a Special Day Superior General of Maryknoll,of Prayer in honor of Mary, the. will present each missioner withMother of the Lord, at the re- his crucifix.quest of many people who feel Father Teixeira was born inthat Marian devotjon is being Np.w Bedford August 2, 1946. Heneglected. received his' early education in
On Sunday, May 6th, at:3 public schools there and at theP.M. a special Marian prayer Mary.knoll Minor Seminary inservice . will be held at the Clarks Summit, Pa., He wasShrine's Outdoor grotto altar. "awarded a bachelor of arts deThe guest speaker will be Rev. gree from Maryknoll College inJohn Randall, assistant pastor of Glen Ellyn, Ill., in 1968 and isSt. Patrick's Church, Providence, currently completing work for'R.L and a team member of the a master of divinity at MaryWord of God Comm~nity. Shrine knoll Seminary.officials expect to attract char- Father Teixeira's first Massismatic prayer groups from the will be offered at 3 o'clock SunNew England States. day afternoon, June 3 in Immac-
ulate Con'ception church, 136Elm Street, New Bedford. Thechurch's pastor, Rev. A. C. Branco, will be one of the concelebrants.
Following a brief vacation athome Father Teixeira will attendthe Maryknoll Language Schoolin Cochabamba, Bolivia, wherehe will study the language andculture of the people he willserve. He will then take up hismission assignment in CentralAmerica.A liturgical dance will be pre·
s~nted by Sheila Masse of Pawtucket, R.I.
Congregational singing will beunder the direction of Fr. AndrePatenaude. shrine's music director, and will feature one of hisown compositions, "Mary, Moth·er of the Lord," and another"Come Nearer," written jointlywith Alexander Peloquin, notedcomposer of church music.
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Joseph's Church, New Bedford,will participate in the 1973 ScoutJamboree at Moraine State Park,Pa.in August. Among leaders ofthe' New Bedford boys will beFrank Jason. Sc:outs are presently participating in prejambOreetrailing "for the week-long encampment.
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THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fall River-Thurs.., May 3, 1973t
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De~rly beloved in Christ:
For thirty-two years now, a notable expression of thecommon concern of the clergy, religious and laity of theDiocese of Fall River for the mission of the Church hasbeen manifest in the Catholic Charities Appeal. A wonderful tradition of generosity, rooted in faith, has developed.
The mission of the Church is varied: God's people must.be formed by Word and by Sacrament; apostolic endeavorsmust be undertaken; faithful witness to the Gospel mustbe provided. aere in the portion of the Lord's vineyardwhich is the Diocese of Fall River, an impressive networkof institutiolls anq apostolates exists for the precise purposeof carrying on the mrlssion of the Church.
YouI' generosity in past years to the' Charities Appealhas produced much tangible fruit. Perhaps YOlll have read
. the report"published this year which indicates the variousworks which your support of last year's Appeal enabledus to undertake. You know, then, of the care provided forthe sick, the elderly, the retarded, the homeless and theemotionally disturbed. You know of our apostolate toSpanish-speaking residents of our cities. You know of theschools, organizations and camps, where our youth areeducated and formed. You know of our concern to encC'urageand maintain vocations.
Works such as these must continuel and expand. Suchpastoral and charitable) endeavors, however, cost money.We have always been blessed with gEmerous support inthe Catholic Charities Appeal, and I have noted greatinterest and enthusiasm in the local and diocesan preparatory meetings this year. I have every" confidence, then,that our needs, and the needs of those who turn to' usfor assistance, can once again be provided.
To do so, however,. I turn once again to you, faithfulresidents of the parishes of the Diocese. .The greatest
,.strength of our annuall Appeal has always been in theparishes. I urge you to r€\spond to your local, parish programwith the same generosity, indeed, wherever possible, withincreased generosity.
In doing so, you wiIn maintain the magnifi~ent traditionof charity and service which has characterized the historyof the Diocese of Fall River. You will be participatingintimately in the mission of the Church of Jesus Christ.I know that you will instinctively recognize and acceptboth the challenge and the privilege of this charitable participation, so important for the life and ministry of theDiocese of Fall River. I .
With profound gratit1;lde, I beg all'ofGod's choicestblessings and heavenly favors for you a.ll.
Devotedly' yours in Christ,
New Jersey Bishops Issue GuidelinesNEWARK (NC) - Declaring issued by the U.S. bishops' Com·
that "from the moment of con- mittee on ~ro-Life Activ.ities. Theception, life is present and de· New Jersey bishops repeatedveloping to a recognizable hu- that committee's warning about
- manness," the bishops of New excommunication f9r those "whoJersey have told- Catholics here perform, persuade or obtain" anthat they are to "refuse to obey abortion.laws which are contrary to thelaw of God." (,
The bishops made that statement in issuing abortion guidelines for hospitals and medicalpersonnel modeled on guidelines
ST. JOSEPH'S CENTENNIAL: Among the many priests present at the Mass ofThanksgiving offered Sunday in St. Josephs Church, in commemoration of a centuryof service to the Catholics of the North End of Fall River were: Rev. David A. O'Brien,a native son and retired pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Church, Fall River;· Rev. Msgr.Thomas F. ·Walsh, a native son and retired pastor. of St. John's Parish, Attleboro; Rev.Msgr. George E. Sullivan, St. Joseph's pastor, Bishop Cronin, principal celebrant and homilist; Rev. John E. Morris, M.M., 84-year-old Maryknoller who served as an assistant pastor at St. Joseph's, Fall River before entering the foreign mission service; Rev. Msgr. JohnA. Chippendale, a native son and retired pastor of St. Patrick's Wareham.
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Name TreasurerOf Mercy Nuns
Sister Therese Antone, principal of Bishop Feehan High Schoolin Attleboro, has been named amember of the Executive Teamof the Sisters of Mercy, Province of Providence.
Her resignation from BishopFeehan will be effective in June.Her four year principalship hasbeen characterized by innovativedevelopment, particularly in theareas of curriculum, trusteeshipand financial planninng. Theschool became accredited by theNew England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools during her term and is currentlyanticipating the largest freshmanclass in its 12-year history.
To Be Treasurer
Sister Therese's new responsibilities will include planning,development and evaluation ofspiritual renewal, social action,educational objectives and expanded ministerial services ofthe Sisters of Mercy. Her specialcompetency is in the area offinancial development and shewill 'also serve as treasurer ofthe province.
The religious is a native ofCumberland, R.I. and a graduateof Salve Regina College. Sheholds a master's degree in mathematics from Villanova University. She has. served at BishopFeehan for 11 years and formerlywas a junior high school teacherat St. John's School, New Bedford. She is a· member of theaccrediting team of the NewEngland Association of Collegesand Secondary Schools.
The Fall River Diocesan Education Office, in cooperationwith the Sisters of Mercy, is expected to annonunce Sister Therese's successor at Bishop Feehan within the next few weeks.
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To SpeakOwen T.P. McGowah, chief
librarian at Bridgewater StateCollege, will review "Catholicism in America" by John Cogley and "Bare Ruined Choirs" byGary Wills for the literature department of Fall River 'CatholicWoman's Club at 7:45 P.M.Thursday, May 3 in the clubhouse at 742 Rock Street, FallRiver. A coffee hour will follow,according to Miss Lorena Pacheco, chairman. McGowan, just installed as chairman of the highschool section of the CatholicLibrary Association at its Denver convention, is also presidentof the Massachusetts Conferenceof Chief Librarians.
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Rev. Francis Larkin, SS.CC. ofSacred Hearts Monastery, Fairhaven, will be among speakersat an international Marian con-
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gress to be held Saturday andSunday, May 19 and 20, at Immaculate €onception Church, 761Harrison Ave., Boston.
Father Larkin will discuss Enthronement of the Sacred Heartin the home. Other speakers willconsider the True Devotion toMary of St. Grignion de Montfort, devotion to Our Lady ofFatima, .activities of the Legionof Mary and various other devotions to the Blessed Virgin.Films, slides and exhibits willsuppleme,nt the speaking program.
Further information and tickets are available from Mrs. Barbara Keville, congress coordinator, 38 Harvard St., Lowell, Mass.
Series of ChoirRehearsals SetFor Four Areas
The Diocesan Choir Directors'Guild announces today that therewill be a series of choir rehearsals being held in 4 areas of theDiocese during the next twoweeks. In preparation for theMay 20th Choir Festival to beheld at Saint Mary's Cathedral,Fall River, music which will beused at the concelebrated Massand workshop will be rehearsed.
The dates and places for therehearsals are:
Fall River AreaHoly Name Church, Thursday,
May 10 at 7:30 P.M. -St. Mary's Cathedral Chapel,
Monday, May 14 at 7:30 P.M.Rehearsals will be conducted
by Rev. William G. Campbelland Rev. Joaquim Da Silva.
New Bedford AreaSt. Jarpes Church, Wednesday,
May 9th. Rev. Henry Arruda andRev. James McLellan will conduct the rehearsal.
St. Joseph's Church, Monday,May 14th. John Danis will conduct the rehearsal.
Taunton AreaSacred Heart Church, Monday,
May 14th and Thursday, May17th. Johanna Alden will conductboth rehearsals.
Cape AreaSt. Francis Xavier Church,
Thursday, May 10th. GeraldineBoles will conduct the rehearsal.
It is expected that choir members planning to attend the Festival will take advantage of oneof the two rehearsals in theirarea. Those wishing to attendboth rehearsals are invited todo so.
SessionsTo date, 35 churches have re
ported over 400 choir memberswill participate in the choir festival. It is anticipated that manymore churches will participate inthe festival in oreler to study.church music, and to sing God'spraises at the concelebratedMass. '
A detailed account of theChoir Festival will be printed ina special article in The Anchorpreceeding the May 20th Fes-tival: '.
In addition to::~he choral workshop, directed by J. Gerald Phillips, of Worcest~r, there will bea session. for c!lntors and songleaders given by Rev. RobertGratt~rati, pastor of St. Anthony's Church, ~itchburg, and asession devoted:'to folk singersand guitarists given by Rene LePage ofSt. Patrick's Church,Somerset. "
David R. Cat!ier, Cathedralorganist and choirmaster, willhold .a group organ lesson fororganists interested in perfectingtheir technique in choral and cantorial accompaniment.
NecrologyMAY 12
Rev. John F. da Valles, 1920,Chaplain, United States Army.
MAY 13Rt. Rev. Osias Boucher, 1955,
Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, FallRiver.
MAY 16Rev. William McDonald, S.S.,
1941, St. Patrick, Falmouth.Rt. Rev.- J. Joseph, Sullivan,
P.R., 1960, Pastor, Sacred Heart,. Fall River.
MAY 17Most Rev. James E. Cassidy,
D.D., 1951, 3rd Bishop of FallRiver, 1934-51.
said that the larger home hehopes to establish is to include ,industries and a school for thedisabled.
So far, funds fer operating thehome have been suppiied mostlyby his family, the priest said, andthe government has given someaid.
During the four months heplans to spend in the UnitedStates, Father Kibuka is traveling as a guest of Father StephenF. Lackovic, pastor of Our Ladyof the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Lackawanna, N.Y., whomet the Uganda priest in Romein 1964 at the canonization ofthe 22 Uganda martyrs.
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has 46 patients now. and alsocares for 126 outpatients: Established in Kampal,a about 10years ago; the home is a familyenterprise, staffed by 10 members of Father Kibuka's family.
His father, a successful farmer,has given him 20 acres of landon which to build a larger home.The property includes the site ofGonzaga's martyrdom.
The patients the home cares. for include some permanently
disabled persons and range inage from the very young to thevery old.
"We try to find jobs for outpatients when they are able towork," Father Kibuka said. He
Continued from Page Onenational exhibitors who willdemonstrate their many aids toeducators.
Many national figures in' theeducational field will visit Attleboro to participate in the convention. Among them are officials of the NCEA; Parents forNonpublic Education, Inc., national education centers, universities and colleges; re~igious education apostolates of the Archdioceses of Chicago and Boston,the Dioceses of Dubuque andWorcester.
SECOND CENTURY: Four brand-new parishioners help St. Patrick's Church, FallRiver, begin its second century, as they are baptized at ceremonies 100 years to theday from first baptisms in parish.' From left, Mrs. Mary Olsen, holding Michael William;Mrs.. Margaret' Oliveira with Todd Michael; Mrs. Colleen Surette with Jennifer; andMrs. Shirley 'Cartin with George. Officiating' is Msgr. John E. Boyd, pastor, aided byaltar boys Richard Levesque and Paul St. Pierre.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Theexample of the 22 martyrs ofUganda, killed during a late 19thcentury persecution of Christians, dominates the thinking of al:gandan priest who' has established a home for the disabled-atKampala.
Father Matiak Kibuka, of theKampala diocese, .said that on his,fund-raising trip to the UnitedStates he hopes to raise $22,000as the first step toward buildinga home that will care for thousands of disabled persons.
The home, now called theGonzaga Home for the Disabledin honor of one of the martyrs,
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can count on the enthusiasticsupport of church groups of alldenominations and other civicminded organizations throughoutthe United States.
I am realistic and pessimisticenough to entertain the possibility that, in the short run, theTeamsters may prevail in theirunscrupulous campaign to putthe Farm Workers Union out ofbusiness. At the same time, however, I am enough of an optimistto believe that they will eventually be brought to their kneesthe sooner, the better-and willbe taught a salutary lesson' inhumility. Much as it pains meto say so, this is a lesson theybadly" need to learn.
are unable or unwilling to admitthis and have recklessly decidedto destroy the Farm WorkersUnion is, to me, further 'proof ofthe old adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Fortunately, 'hqwever, the Teamster!?' power,great as it .is, is far from beingabsolute. In the long run, unlessI am badly mistaken, they willlearn to their sorrow that, forall of their money and so-calledmuscle, they, are no match forthe poverty-stricken but highlymotivated and completely selfless officers and members of theFarm Workers Union.
In this connection, X assumethat the Teamsters also knowif not, they will have to learnby bitter experience.- that theFarm Workers Union has publicopinion solidly on its side (remember the grape boycott) and
Make no mistake about it-theFarm Workers Union is engagedin a desperate struggle for itsvery ekistence. The Federationowes it to this fledgling unionand owes it to itself-to take theTeamsters on, come what may,and force them at any cost torespect the right of farm workers to be represented by a unionof their own choice:
Sheer PropagandaThe farm workers have al
ready made their choice in thisregard. Over the past eightyears, through thick and thin,they have demonstrated beyondthe shadow of dou~bt that theywant to be represented by theUnited Farm Workers Union.
The Teamsters deny this, of. course. They claim that theyrepresent the majority of the
.workers, not only in lettuce, butalso in grapes; That's sheer propaganda on their p:lrt, and I suspect they know it is. If not, theyhave completely lost touch withreality and are living in a dreamworld.
Majority Want UFWUOn April 10 I went to the
Coachella Valley' with a groupof 25 religious and 'civic leadersto determine which union thefield workers wante<;l to represent them. We found that, by amajority of almost ten to one,they wanted to' be representedby the United Farm WorkersUnion. A few days later, on lessthan two t\ours notice, approximately 1,500 members of theFarm Workers Union (well overhalf of the current labor force inthe Coachella' Valley) attendeda mammoth UFWU rally in theCoachella public high school auditorium and unanimously votedto go 'on strike if the growerssigned with the Teamsters.
The Coachella strike is now infull force and effect, and theoverwhelming majority of theworkers have rallied to thecause. At great personal sacr'ifice they are demonstrating onceagain that their loyality is to theUnited Farm Workers Union andnot to 'the Teamsters.
THE ANCHOR-,Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May 3, 1973, .
By
GEORGE G.
MSGR.
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'Scores Teamsters' EffortTo Destroy Chavez Un·ion
April 15, 1973 will be recorded as one of the darkestand most shameful ds\ys in American labor history. A majorbattIe in California's vineyards was triggered that day whenthe Teamsters Union announced it had signed contracts withsome 30 grape growers in theCoachella Valley who hadbeen under contract for threeyears with Cesar Chavez'United Farm Workers Union,AFL-CIO.
What's wrong with that, thereader may ask. The aniiwer is
that everything-everything conceivable-is wrong with it. Itmeans that the Teamsters-in amoment of sheer madness whichthey will most certainly Iive toregret-have decided, in (lagrantviolation of trade union ,ethics,to destroy the United FarmWorkers whiCh alone can legitimately claim to represent thpworkers in the field. .
The Farm Workers haveknown for a long time that theywere headed for serious troublewith the Teamsters. The die wasfinally cast several months agowhen the Teamsters secretly ne,gotiated contracts with 175 lettuce growers in California without even claiming to representthe workers involved.
Charges Strike-Breaking " "
AFL-CIO President Meanybluntly stated' at a press conference ! that that was tantamountto strike-breaking - the ugliestcharge that one labor leader canmake against another. Later onin the same 'press conference, tomake sure that his point wasclearly understp.od, l\1eany said'that "the Teamsters' action insigning those. Sback-door contracts with the;'growers in Cali
.fornia in order~, to destroy theFarm Workers; Union ... was,from a trade ::'Union point ofview, absolutelY'disgraceful.;'
George Meany enjoys the reputation of bei~g a' very .outspoken curmudgeon, but I haveseldom if ever, 'heard him castigate another union quite thatbluntly. As a man of conscience,however, he had no choice in thematter. With brazen contemptfor trade union princ;iples and,for public opinion, the Teamstershad asked for it - and, to hiscredit, Meany gave it, to themstraight from the shoulder.
By the time this appears inprint, Meany probably will hwemade another statement criticizing the Teamsters even more severely for invading the hard-wonjurisdiction of the Farm WorkersUnion in the'table grape industry. I feel certain that he willalso couple his indictment of theTeamsters with a firm commitment on the part of the AFL-CIOand its affillilites to support 1heFarm Workers Union-and to,support jt all the way-with personnel and with adequate financial assistance.
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ANNUAL CONVENTION OF DCCW: Top photo: Principals at the 20th annual meeting of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women held at So. Dennis were: Mrs. James H.Quirk of So. Yarmouth, outgoing president;Bishop Cronin, principal celebrant· at concelebra~ed Mass' and guest speaker at the convention; Mrs. Jean Paulson of Taunton,president-elect. Center: Rev. Msgr. James T. McHugh of Washington, keynoter; Mrs.John J. Haust of So. Yarmouth, convention chairman; Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes,panel discussion moderator. Bottom: Miss Lydia Pacheco of No. Dartmouth, treasurer;Mrs. Rodney Blythe of Attleboro, Family Affairs Chairman; Mrs. James Leith of NewBedford, registrar and Mrs. M. Lillian Johnson of West Dennis,' host president.
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.The Patricians, Q. discussiongroup sponsored by Our Ladyof Good Counsel Praesidium ofSt. Joseph's parish Legion ofMary, Fall River, will hold itsfirst meeting at 7 P.M. Tuesday,Mav 15 at St. V,incent's Home,2425 Highland Avenue, FallRiver.
Organized to increas~ knowled-ge of faith and help membersto express their convictions toothers, the group will be opento all. Discussion topics will bedecided upon at the initial meet·ang, at which Rev. KennethDelano will be chaplain.
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Proceeds from the dinner willbe added to a scholarship fundto assist needy students from theDiocese who wish to attendProvidence College. The award·ing of the f.jrst scholarship willtake place that evening. VeryReverend James M. Murphy,O.P., Prior of the DominicanCommunity at P. C., the largestDominican Community in theUnited States, will represent theCollege along with several members of the P. C;. faculty andparticipate in the speaking program.
A Committee comprised of'prominent P. C. Alumni from theDiocese is handLing arrangements for the event.
The general chairman is Francis Devjne, and committee memobers are E. James Mulcahey,Charles Roberts, Dr. Paul DeVillers, William KaYlor, JamesRogers, and Attorney JohnO'Neill. The dinner is open tothe public. Tickets cost $10 perperson, and may be purchased atRogers Cigar Store, North MainStreet, F~ll River; or by mailfrom the P. C. Alumni Office.
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sity of America and was ordained in 1945.
In the Diocese of Fall River,Msgr. Denehy served at St. MaryParish, Nantucket, Sacred HeartParish, Oak Bluffs; St. ElizabethParish, Edgartown;. St. Augustine Parish, Vineyard Haven.
The prelate was commissioneda First Lieutenant in the AirForce in November 1950 and hasserved as chaplain at SelfridgeAFB, Mich.; L'Ockbourne AFB,Ohio; Travjs AFB, Calif.; OtisAFB, Mass.; McGuire AFB, N. J.;IYIaxwell AFB, Ala.
Overseas' duty took him toGermany, Japan, Bermuda andSpain. His assignments have included a four-year tour in theOffice, Chief of Air Force Chaplains, Washington, D. C., and athree-year tour as Commandantof Air Force Ohaplain School,Maxwell AFB, Alii.
On Dec. 10, 1964, Pope PaulVI named Chaplain Denehy aDomestic Prelate with the titleof Right Reverend Monsignor.
His service decorations include the Air Force Commendation Medal with cluster; _the AirForce Outstanding Unit Awardwith cluster; the Army of Occupation Medal; the National De-
,fense Servke Medal with bronzestar, and the Legion of Merit.
Students SupportLettuce Boycott
NOTRE DAME (NC)-University of Notre Dame studentsvoted overwhelmingly to supportthe lettuce boycott called by theUnited Farm Workers Union(UFW).
Seventy-eight per cent of the2,400 students voting in a refer·endumagreed that the onlyiceberg lettuce served in campusdining hatls should be that whichcarries the UFW label, the Aztecblack eagle.
Dr. Philip -Faccenda, NotreDame's vice-president of studentaffairs, said that the universitywould abide by the decision ofthe students.
Since last August the university has supported the boycottof buying only. UFW lettucewhen it was available: When itwas not available the universitybought other kinds. But now,because of the student referendum, the university will serVe nolettuce when union-picked lettuce I is not· available, Faccenda'said.
Dr. Chavez later commentedthat Mexico should not fall inline with the birth control policies suggested by internationallending institutions for their loanpolicies.
"It is absurd to swallow theidea that the only way out ofour social and economic problems 'is to be found in pqpulation control," he said. "There isnot such a 'population explosion' in Mexico."
Dr. Hernandez warned thatpushing curbs on human repro·duction "without the proper balance of educ~tion and moralgoals . . . will be the end of thefamily."
Mexican Doctors HitGovernment Prog'ram
MEXICO CITY (NC)-Althoughleaders of the Christian FamilyMovement (CFM), gave quali·fied support to a· governmentprogram for family planning, agroup of doctors opposed it as"undermining .the moral valuesof marriage."
Luis Guzman Garcia and hiswife Luisa, the couple -whichheads the CFM in Mexico, said
. a nationwide educational cam·paign and medical services of thegovernment "cannot be calledbirth control."
"The adult eduoation programof the health ministry reflectsrespect· . for the freedom ofcouples to choose the number of.their ch!ildren.
"Our overall view is that thisis a step forward in fostering theidea of responsible parenthood,"the Guzmans ,added.
Low-IncomeBut Drs. Julio Chavez, Rogelio
Hernandez and Mario Salazar,prominent physioians of the National Academy of Medicine,said that very few low-incomelevel Mexican couples understand what "family planning isall about."
Mexico has an illiteracy rateof 22 per cent, with higher figures among the Indians andpeople of mixed race who makeup two-thirds of the population.
"Our main objective, however,is that after the onslaught ofdivor$:e laws,. the family plan-
, ning pr<?gram is bound to furtherundermine the moral and ethicalvalues of marriage," the doctorssaid.
The government of PresidentLuis Echeverria launched a 1973campaign for responsible parenthood to curh what it calls .therapid population growth, and thehigh number 'of illegitimate children and of abortions.
6 THE ANCHOR--Diocese of ,Fall River-Thurs., May 3, 1973.
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Hea(thy SignThere has been an increase in private gift-giving to
both colleges-universities and to elementary-secondaryschools. in the United States during this past year.
Colleges and universities report that private sourcesdonated a record total of $2.02 billion dollars, an 8.6' percent increase over the previous yeai'.
Private elementary and secondary schools, after reporting decreases two years in a row, have indicated thatgiving has in~reased to $98 million Jast year.
Presidenf;bf the Council for Financial Aid to Educationhas hailed this. increase in private gifts, mostly to privateschools,' as a; "real vote of confidence in our AmericanSystem of higher education." It is certainly a vote of confidence also ifr'.private education and shows that the American people dE»" not favor a monolithic educational systemthroughout the land.
The very, pluralism of educational systems-public,private, church-related--is a guarantee of scholastic competition as well as of the exercise. of the right of choice.And it is an' even healthier sign that so many personsare willing to give so much money to strengthen and tofurther this educational pluralism. '
Quite a Different ThingThe Annual Catholic Charities Appeal cannot and
should not be confused 'with just another gift-giving to theneedy.
It is'far'more than that-to the giver and the recipient.
It is nothing less than faith in aetion.
It is the fulfilling of the admonition of Jesus Christfor men to love one another as He has loved us. It is therealization-on the part of the giver--that one has stewardship only over the possessions that he calls' his own.It is not absolute ownership since Almighty God is theOwner of all things. IBut it is stewardship and this impliesnot only possession but a sense of responsibility for thepossessions that one has, and-more-·a matter of accountability for their use.
For the recipient, the Catholic Charities Appeal is therevelation in a here and now way that Christ is still inour ,midst, impelling men and women to be concernedabout their neighbors in a manner that counts~oncernedabout the needy and the poor, the sick and the helpless,the troubled and the developing, those who are all brothersand sisters of the one family of God, bearing within themselves the mark of the Creator that makes them worthyand deserving of reverence and respect and assistance.
,This is the Catholic Charities Appeal.
The measure of giving, then, is for a person to givenot just a donation-that can be done at any time to anyof the many worthy calls for help-but to give of oneself:to give a sacrifice, to give an effort, to give in a spirit ofChrist-like charity, to give as one would give to the LordJesus Himself.
This is qui~e a different thing from any other kindof giving-different for the giver, different for the beneficiary. Arid that is the way.God sees it, too~
Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May 3, 1973 7
FIRST YEAR FOR CONFIRMATION DURING MASS: Bishop Cronin,principal celebrant, during the Canon of the Confirmation Mass at St.William's Church, Fall River with Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, left,
pastor and Rev. Edward J. Burns, right, as concelebrants. Rev. John J.Oliveira, secretary to the ,Bishop; rear. Right photo: the rite is acJministered by the Ordinary. \
Religious and Retirement: Financial, .
Brandt's Position
Bishop PrefersClosing HospitalsTo Abortion
Posters referring to the reCeption of the 1971 Nobel PeacePrize by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, chairman ofthe Social Democrats, asked:"Peace Prize for the War againstchildren?"
At the Social Democraticparty convention in Hanover,Brandt, defending the proposedlegislation, said: "Our societywill be the more humane thefewer the women who will feelcompe'lled to resort to abortion."Although his party favors themeasure, he said, "Everyonemust fdHow his conscience inmatters of this kind." He alsostressed that "the governmentdoes not want to issue orderseither to women or to physiciansto resort to abortion or to forceChristian believers to go counterto their moral laws.",
Church StatueStops Robbery
MUEHLDORF (NC) - BlessedConrad, a patron of Bavaria,may have helped stop a thiefwho broke into the church inthis village and tried to open thecollection box.
Police said a statue of thesaint in a niche over the collection box fell and crashed on theman's head. His cry af pain washeard by a priest who called thepolice.
Brother Conr,ad, the son ofHenry the Black, a duke of Bavaria, was born early in the 12thcentury.
He went to Cologne to studybut then became a Cistercian atClairvaux, France. Later, withthe permission of St. Bernard, hewent to the Holy Land to live asa hermit. His poor health and thepolitical disturbances of the area,however forced him to returnto Europe.
He died in March 1154, hissanctity, according to Butler's
Olives of the Saints, "being revealed 'by the marvels which oc-curred at his tomb." •
Among other things, it says,"Iambs used to pay him reverence by coming to kneel besidehis grave."
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ders of women have taken careof their sick and elderly members out of the salaries earnedby the working Sisters. But as'the ratio between active and retired Sisters decreases, the ability to pay these costs decreasesas well.
A statewide study of nuns wasconducted last year by the Wisconsin region of the LeacfershipConference of Women Religious(LCWR). In a report summarizing its findings, the LCWR said:
"Of their expenses, the mostdrastically increasing costs forthe Sisters are retirement costs.In 1970, there were 3.3 activeSisters for each retired Sister.By 1972, the average ratio haddecreased to 2.4 to 1. . . '. TheLCWR study projects that forthe 1973-74 (school) year, therewill be 1.8 active Sisters foreach retired Sister."
Statistics like these paint avery gloomy picture on the surface, but the Catholic Sisters arefacing. the situation with hope,apd confidence. They are com·ing up with hard-headed, creative solution.s
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cantly to this increase in averageage. In a recent survey conducted by the 'Lep.dership Con,ference of Women Religious,about.half of the orders responding said that five to nine percent of their members had leftthe order since January, 1970.Most of those who leave areunder 35 years of age.
Grossly' UnderpaidIn 1905 only 7.7 per cent of
all U. S. nuns were over 60 yearsold. A recent study encompassing 110,000 nuns in the countryshowed that 33.2 per cent ofthem were over 60 years old during the 1964-68 period-and theratio has increased significantly'since then.
Finally, it is almost axiomaticthat nuns, particularly schoolteachers, are grossly underpaid.A recent study of 1,400 SchoolSisters of St. Francis in theUnited States showed that in the
"current fiscal year they gave$7.7-million in "contributed services."
Contributed services are determined by adding up the salaries and value of all fringe benefits (housing, car allowances,and other special benefits) received . by the nuns, and subtracting that amount from thesalary that a lay person withsimilar training and experiencewould receive for the same job.For the School Sisters of St.Francis, the difference came outto $5,500 per nun.
As the financial pinch increases,the communities of nuns arecaught in the bind between allocating funds to build for the future-a necessity for continuingtheir apostolates-and fulfillingtheir obligations to women whohave faithfully served their communities, the Church and societyfor 30, 40, or 50 years.
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fare."BONN (NC)-Bishop Heinrich "Diocese to aid Sisters' retire-
Tenhumberg of Muenster told ment found." 'more than 10,000 Catholics at an "Nuns struggling to make endsanti-abortion rally here that he meet."would rather see Catholic hospi- Headlines like this, which havetals closed than have' nurses and appeared with increasing fredoctors compelled 'by law to par- quencyover the: last few years,ticipate in abortions. tell a story of a new phenome-
The rally 'was held to 'protest non in the U. S. Catholic Church.a bjll in the West German par- Religious orders of women inliament that would allow a preg- the United States, which prosnant woman in the first three pered and grew during the greatmonths of her pregnancy, after "vocations boom" from the 1930sconsultation with a physician, to , to the early 1960s, are now feeldecide, .without any restrictions, ing the delayed effects of thewhether or not to have an abor- boom. Coupled with other faction. tors th~ decline in new voca-
The ,bill would also allow vol- tions has created a severe finanuntary steriliz'ation without any cial crisi.s. among ma~y religi.ousrestrictions. cOmmUD1tl~s, centermg mamly
around retIrement costs.I.t has b.e~n propose.:! by the Some' of the factors that have
rulmg coalItIOn of SOCIal Demo- created the crisis are:crats and Free Democrats. - Increased medical costs. While
Bishop Te~umberg expressed general medical costs have beenthe solidarity of the whole dio- rising rapidly, nuns are receivingcese with nurses and doctors '8 double dosage as fewer andwho object to the proposed leg- fewer communities receive freeislation. care or reduced rates.
A few days ,before the rally Earlier retirement ages. Inhere, about 12,000 persons from the past, as one nun put it, "Sisall over West Germany staged a ters just never retired." In resimilar demonstration in Han- cent years, howev~r, most Gathover during the Social Democrat- olic schools and hospitals-theic party congress. major employers of nuns-have
instituted mandatory retirementages of 65 or have exte'nded theirretirement policies to include theSisters. '
Average Age IncreasesInc'reased life expectancy.
Medicatstudies have consistentlyshown that nuns as a group arehealthier and live longer thanother women. In the past 70years the 'average life expectancyof the American nun' has increased 14 years, and on theaverage a nun will live fouryears longer than other whiteAmerican women.
A tremendous increase in theaverage age in religious communitie~. As nuns live longer andvocations drop from their peakin the early 1960s, the averageage of the American nun hasincreased steadily.
The large numbers of Sistersleaving their orders since about1965 has also contributed signifi-
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DULUTH (NC)...,..ln an effortto draw the Catholics of thiscity closer together, a singleEaster vigil service was .heldhere, and more than 5,500 persons attended.
In addition to the usual elements of the service, the congre-
. gation which represented aboutone quarter of the city's Catholic population, saw a Baptismand Confirmation rites, performed by Bishop Paul F. Anderson.
The ceremony in the DuluthArena marked the second suc,cessive year that the city hadonly one Easter vigil, Ii servicenormally'held in all parishes.
"Parishes in this city and thisdiocese," Bishop Anderson said,"must not think of themselvesas being in competition with oneanother, but should express theirunity-their willingness to worktogether-the mind of the risenChrist who called all to be onein Him."
Following the arena serviceall parishes scheduled otherMasses to serve the rest of thecity's Catholics. Since no vigilservices were held in parishes,a simplified blessing of the newEaster candle was used in the'parish liturgies.
More than 30 priests from thecity participated in the first partof the service along with theircongregations. The priests joinedBishop Anderson in concelebrating the Eucharist at the altar inthe center of the arena. Thepriests then gave Holy Communion to their own parishioners inthe arena.
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ministration and Federal Hous'ing Administration mortgages.
"We feel confident these regulations will eliminate this practice in New Jersey," Kerner sa,id."However, we are also bringingthis issue to the a,ttention of theVA and FHA in Washingtop. andrequesting that this practice bestopped on a nationwide basis."
In February tl1e VA. sent .anewsletter to its participatinginstitutions stating that the VA"does not require or condonc"the inclu'sion of birth control information in mortgage applications. It asked lending institutions not to forwar~ such information, even if the in,stitution received such information voluntarily from a mortgage applicant.
Stamps NeededRetired Sisters of Mercy at
Mt. St. Rita Health Center,Cumberland, R.I. have organizeda Cancelled Stamp Apostolateand request donations of suchstamps from individuals and business organizations. Stamps neednot be removed from envelopesand the Sisters will make arrangements to pick' up contributions. They may be reachedat the center, R.D. No.3, Cumberland, R.I. 02864, telephone401-333-6352.
N,ew Je1rsey Dir,ectiveState Says Birth Control Information
Illegal for Mortgages
BLESSING FOR P.O.W.: Papal Blessing for returnedP.O.W. Air Force Colonel Lawrence Guarino was presented to him and his wife, Evelyn, by Archbishop ThomasA. Boland of Newark at a special Mass, in Sacred' HeartCathedral, Newark, where Col. Guarino grew up. TheColonel survived seven years of captivity. 'NC Photo.
TRENTON (NC)-Birth control information cannot be usedas a basis for granting or withholding mortgages in New Jersey, a state official ruled here:
· There were also some indications· that the state ruling may affect
practices elsewhere in the country.
In directives sent to statechartered banks and lending institutions, New Jersey's commissioner of banking, Richard F.Schaub, said:
"No state-chartered bank, savings and loan association or secondary mortgage 'oan licenseemay require, accept, or consider,directly or indirectly, information as to a mortgage applicant'sbirth control practices or information otherwise bearing onsuch applicant's credit worthiness or eligibility for a mortgage,or in computing the amount· ofsuch mortgage."
An investigative report in theCatholic Star Herald, Catholicnewspaper of the Camden diocese, had revealed last fall thatmany banks and lending institutions in the state ,were demanding documented information onthe use of contraceptives bymortgage applicants before considering loans ,to them.
, Commisisoner Schaub said hewas sure the practice was illegaland began an investigation following the Star Herald's expose.
In his new directives Schaubsaid his office had consulted with
· the state attorney general andhad "determined that such apractice, in addition to being unconscionable, is also illegal."
In a letter to the Star Heraldcommending 'its staff for uncovering the illegal practice, PhilipA. Kerner, deputy director of theNew Jersey mortgage financeagency - an arm of the stateban~ing commission - said thatfurther efforts would be madeto broaden the directives so thatthey woulq cover Veterans Ad-
that I have treasured but thatnow looks as if it should be nilegated to the rag-bag.
In its prime it not only lookedgood -but it felt good. It wasdress length and made of cottonvelour, done up in black, goldand other dark shades. It didn'tshow every mark (from misplacedchocolate bars, etc., etc.) yet italways looked good. Completewith hood and long sleeves itkept you comfy 'and warm oneven the dreariest beach day.Now of course to find a duplicate.
Sew Beach TogsWhile most of us can't afford
an extensive beach wardrobe..we can buy some of the fabricsthat are being featured for summer togs, find an easy an:rl q~ick
pattern (these are very CJ.sy tofind now) and'sew up some summer fashions before the firstheat. Those 'gals who manageda trip to warmer climates during,the winter months have a headstart on those of us who have towait for the cool' north Atlantic to get wanri, but just a fewnights spent at that trusty oldsewing ma(:hine and your lastyear's beach wardrobe may notlook so outmoded with a fewextras added.
One of this month's women;smagazines even has some coverups -to make without patternsand while these look very interesting I still need the securityfound in that good old stampedtissue 'paper and the 'directionsthat tell me just how many yardsto buy.
While' summer may still seemeons away, if you're going tosew for it, now is the time tobegin.
Diocese Signs Contract·With Lay TeachersCLEVE~AND (NC) - The
. Cleveland High School and Academy Lay Teachers Association(CHALTA) and' the Board' ofCatholic Education have signeda contract forthe 1973-74 schoolyear, after negotiations duringwhich teachers staged a threeday walkout.
The contract calls for a beginning salary of $6,800 for a certified teacher with a bachelor'sdegree and $'1,480 for a certifiedteacher with a master's degree.The yearly ,increments on thebachelor's scale are five percentand on the master's scale sixpercent. Mter 16 years' in thesystem a teacher with a master'sdegree receives $13,600., This is the first raise in basesalary' in three years. The previous base foK' beginners with abachelor's degree was $6,425and "for those with a master's degree$7,067.. CHALTA members ratified thecontract by a slim margin of 56percent, Rogel' Abood, the Association president said. He saidthe contract is not completelysatisfactory, but that the teachers felt that there was, nothingmore that could be done.
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It won't b~ long \before our thoughts will be turningtoward the beaches of the area and what we plan to wearon them this Summer. While the young are warm-bloodedand hearty enough to put on a bikini and'stay in it fromdawn to dusk, those of us onthe other side of the generation gap like to be preparedfor the changes in tenllperature that very often ,accompanya day at a New England beach.
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The only thing wrong withthis particular beach cover-up'is its price. Robes run anywherefrom $25 up so even one wouldput a goodly dent in your summer clothing allotment. .
Year of Caftan,This is the year O'f the caftan'
and many ,of these loose, Oriental-inspired garments will findtheir place in beach wardrobes.I just finished (well, almost finished, I should get around tohemming it' by July) a cottonone in a very pretty yellow andwhite print, however, the, onlytrouble is I can't quite envisionmyself engulfed, in all theseyards of material packed into thecar with kids, beach equipment,kids, lunches, and more kids. Allthat glamour at least deserves apool.
If you still have swimminglessons for the youngsters aspart of your summer schedule,then you know that neither rain,nor sleet, nor hail cancel theseout, 'so you find yourself onmany a chilly summer morningstanding on -the beach shivering.A few years ago I picked up abeach dress type of coveK'-Up
"'Sees Ban on, BingoThreat to Schools
BROWNSVILLE (NC) - Bishop ~ohn J. ,Fitzpatrick of Brownsville, one of the poorest diocesesin the country, has said tha.t astate court ruling that a bill tolegalize bingo is unconstitutionalmay force some Catholic schoolsto close.
"The decision of the StateCriminal Court of Appeals declaring bingo unconstitutionalwill seriously affect the abiaityof some of our parishes to meetoperating costs and to pay theindebtedness on their buildings,"the bishop said in a statement.
"At the same time," he continued, "the ability of some ofour schools to remain open a,ndto continue their superb edUlcational program will be jeopardized."
Bishop Fitzpatrick said thatparishioners must recognize that"sacrificial giving to their parishes on a week-to-week basis,through Christian stewardship isthe only economically sound ba:;isupon which they can meet theirfinancial obligations."
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"That's not enough time toexplain alternatives," she said.
Mrs. Kambic, a volunteer withBirthright, is also concernedabout the plight of women seeking to beat their children ratherthan abort.· Funds to aid themare either among those beingsliced in federal budget cutbaoksor are non-existent.
Protest OpeningAbortion Clinic
PITTSBURGH (NC) - Thiscity's first abortion clinic openedduring Holy Week to the accompaniment of a demonstrationby more than 200 protestors
The downtown clinic expectsto perform 600 abortions permonth at $150 each.
Leaders of Women Concernedfor the Unborn Child (WCUC),organizers of the protest, distributed copies of petitions urging city officials -to investigatethe clinic.
Mrs. Mary' Winter, WCUCpresident, expressed the sentiments of many of the marchers-women of all ages, some carrying infants' or accompanied bysmall children, nurses, a numberof men and priests-when shesaid, "We are outraged over theopening of this downtown humanextermination business, especially at this time of Passover andHoly Week."
A representative of Birthright,an organization which seeks tooffer women an alternative toabortion, hit out at the counselling provided at the clinic. Mrs.Mary Kambic, who demonstratedwith her young daughter, Deirdre, 15 months, explained thatthe announced counselling periods of "10 minutes before and10 minutes after" the operationis "really ridiculous."
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Groups represented at themeeting were: Leadership Conference of Women Religious,National Coalition of AmericanNuns, National Assembly ofWomen Religious, National Sisters Formation Conference, Association of Contemplative Sisters, Sisters for Christian Community.
Religious communities werealso asked by Sisters Uniting torelease one Sister to work fulltime in education for peace. Thegroup said this would help "thevital continuing apostolate ofpeace in today's world, will demonstrate this priority of PopePaul's Justice and Peace Commission."
Nuns Asked to Insure Thqt. Poor Don't SufferUnder Federal Revenue Sharing
DETROIT (NC)-Nuns around the National Assembly' ofthe country were urged to in- Women Religious told the groupsure that the poor do not suffer that "many areas are open toas the federal revenue sharing Sisters in prison apostolates"program replaces many federally and recommended that nuns par·social programs. ticipate in "Adopt a Prisoner"
Sisters Uniting, a group which programs. The program, nowincludes representatives of na- used in Cleveland, offers opporional organizations of Sisters; tunities to help a prisoner or hisalso ·asked .nuns to work for: family for a few hours a monthpeace and prison n;form. by visiting, writing or perform-
Sisters Uniting, which met ing small services. Groups of \here, asked nuns to learn more Sisters also pray with prisoners.about revenue sharing and toseek ways in which the new program "can include the continuation of vital programs dealingwith the human needs of thecommunity - day care, health,education, welfare and the aging."
Nuns were asked to write totheir congressmen and state officials for information on revenuesharing and to visit mayors todiscuss revenue sharing.
"The current national crisisover domestic issues whichfinds the poor of all races andfaiths suffering, frustrated andangry, presented a challengingopportunity for corporate actionto the members of SistersUniting," a spokesman said. Shesaid the group urges that "theindependence of programs bepreserved and that they be keptfree from political patronagecontrols."
"True Christian responsibilityrequires more than talk andprayer, if the rebuilding of notonly the bombed-out cities ofHanoi hut the bombed-outghettoes, barrios and hollows ofAmerica, is to be accomplished,"the spokeswomen said.
Sisters Uniting also discussedthe need for prayer for peace inNorthern Ireland and called forweekly local prayer meetingswith Protestants.
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MOTHER TERESA AND PRINCE: Mother Teresa ofCalcutta shakes hands with Britain's j=)rince Philip in London after she received the $85,000 Templeton FoundationPrize for Progress in Religion. It was the first time sincethe Reformation that a Catholic nun was honored by amember of the royal family. The foundress of the Missiori~
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My second reason for beinginterested in Ozanam is that hetoo was a parent. For an idea ofthe kind of parent he was, herei3 a quote from a letter he wroteto a friend shortly after the birth.of his daughter.
"There is nothing more delicious on this earth, than on coming home to find my, belovedwife with her little baby in her .arms. I then make a third figurein the group, and 1 would willingly lose myself for whole hoursin admiring it, if presently alittle cry did not come to warnme that poor human nature isvery fragile, that many perils aresuspended over that tiny head,and that the joys of fatherhoodare only given us to sweeten' itsduties."
Today's parents need a saintlike Frederic Ozanam.
My third reason for being interested in Ozanam is the factthat miracles are needed to advance his cause and I'm a believer in miracles. Regular readersof this colurn know that I've beenblessed with more than myshare.
Some' months ago 1 askedreaders who needed a miracle towrite to me and tell me about it.I 'would pray for their intentions.I received over 500 letters frompeople facing very difficult situations.
I am praying for these intentions, but I have also enlistedthe assistance of Frederic Ozanam by placing them under hisprotection. He liked to help peopIe and I have ev~ry confidencethat he will intercede for peopleoverwhelmed by today's problems.
If you would' like more information about Frederic Ozanam,write to me in care of The Anchor. Please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed envelope and I'll sendyou some literature about him.
If you have a problem that requires a miracle, tell me aboutit ann I'll pray to Ozanam foryou. If you receive a favor as aresult of Ozanam's intercession,please let me know about it so Ican foward the information tothose responible for advancinghis cause for sainthood.
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Black Bishop BannedFrom Entering Kenya
NAIROBI (NC) - AuxiliaryBishop Patrick Chakaipa ofSalisbury, Rhodesia - his country's first black Catholic bishop- was banned from enteringKenya with four other Rhodesian Catholic priests to attend acatechetical congress sponsoredby the Association of Membersof Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa.
The congress discussed preparation of a new catechism forthe area, and such topics asyouth, marriage, catecheticaltraining centers and the formation of Christian communities.
preach love don't seem to practice it.
As a teen-age college studentin Paris in the early 1830's, Ozanam found himself going throughthe same turmoil about his faith.He became disillusioned by theway "Christians" failed to practice charity. Some lived in luxurywhil~ their fellow men starved.Cathedrals were magnificentwhile poor peop!e existed in hovels.
He met with a few of his college friends, they took some oftheir own personal finances, coli·ected more, and began helpingthe ppor.
Says Vince1ntianIs Saint for Our
This year, the Society of St. Vincent de P~ul throughout the United States is conducting an intensive. campaignto get its founder,' Frederic Ozanam, canonized. There arethree reasons why I find Ozanam's cause for sainthoodparticularly interesting. First, .as a mother I sometimes They wanted to avoid any ap-
pearance of a cold, heartlesswonder about today's teen- bread-line handout, so they visit-agers. They see poverty, in- ed poor families in their homes,justice, and many of the social talking with them, listening toills of our days. They talk about them, counseling them to helpthe "establishment," especially solve their problems, treatingthe Church, and why those who them with dignity and genuine
concern.At first Ozanam wanted his
group to remain just a fewfriends working together anonymously. But God has a way oftaking the "one little candle" ahdusing it to start a big fire.
Word of the work spread. Other young men wanted to get inon it. New groups sprang up..Within 20 years, there were 500groups in France, and the projectwas spreading to other parts ofthe world. Thus began the Soc
.iety of St. Vincent de Paul.Today's teenagers need a saint
like Frederic Ozanam.
CathoHc WomenPilon Banquet
Bishop James J. Gerrard, rep·resenting Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, will be guest of honor at th~
annual banquet and Bishop's'Night program of the Fall RiverCatholic Woman's Club, to beheld at 6:30 P.M., Tuesday, May8 at the Coachmen restaurant,Tiverton.
Substituting for singer Mar·gallite Lahey .Massouda, whoseperformance has 'been cancelleddue to illness in her family, willbe musical comedy performersJudy Schroeder and EleanorMayhew, both members of theBarrington P.layers,"and active inother Rhode Island theatricalorganizations. Mrs. Lyn Modenwill be piano accompanist.
. Also on the evening's agendawill be presentation of scho'larships awarded annually by theclub and election and seating ofofficers for the coming year.
Missioners SeekWay to RestoreIndian Pride
SPOKANE (NC) - Fifty-fiveCatholic missionaries and Indianleaders have met here to discussthe future directions for Indiantribes, and Catholic missions inthe Northwest.
The first meetings were attended by Bishop Bernard Topelof Spokane. and Bishop Raymond Hunthausen of Helena.Mont., along with repre!lentatives' from Washington. Idahoand Montana.
Iridian leaders told of the efforts they have been making tochange the directions of theirtribes ,by developing local housing. employment and educationalopportunities for their peopleto develop their resources without diluting the "Indian-ness" ofthe reservations.
Tribal councilmen callell onthe missionaries to recognize the'difficulties they have competingwith the non-Indian public agencies and private citizens to keepcontrol over their resources.
Prejudice Against StudellltsDiscussions highlighted areas
where missions and missionrelated institutions are movingin their own' directions ratherthan supporting the efforts oftribes to take control' of theirown destinies. especially througheducational and cultural programs.
Prejudice against Indian students in schools that are controlled by non-Indian teachers,schools and school boards werecited by Indian educators as aprimary cause- of high drop-outrates of Indian children. Theycalled for Indian-controlledschools on reservations for alltheir Indian children. for Indiancontrol over state and fedleralfunds used for Indian programsin public schools, and for Indianhistory and culture course!) tohelp students achieve a posLtiveIndian identity.
'Never Been Leaderst
Northern Cheyenne representatives spoke of a new researchand development corporationwhich is bringing Indian conceptsand Indian controls into theirschools.
A resolution passed at theconference called on the Adminis- 'tration to release $18 million,appropriated by Congress to !IUPport· similar Indian educationprograms. President Nixon hasfrozen these funds.
Educators from Montanapraised a recent state law requiring all teachers ·in pu1>licschools on Indian reservation!: tocomplete courses in Indian culture. They called on Catholicuniversities to help implementsuch teacher training programsfor those who teach Indian children.
"The communities we live inare all dominated by non-
. Indians." said Mrs. 'MargaretFriedlander from the Kooten~i
community at Elmo. Montana."We've never been leaders. sonow we think that we, can't beleaders. It's going to be an uphill drive for Indians to get intothe drivei·s'seat." she said. "andwe will depend upon people l1kemissionaries to encourage andsupport us."
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Theolog'ian HasSecond ThoughtsAbout Abortion
CHICAGO (NC)-A Protestanttheologian who once supportedwhat he called a "laissez-faire"approach to abortion said he haschanged his mind after havingsome second thoughts on thematter.
Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professorof sociology and religion at Union Theological Se-minary, NewYork. explained in an article inthe ecumenical weekly ChristianCentury that he had not beenprepared for the bloodletting ofwidespread abortion.
"I took the position that inAmerica, at least. the notion ofa woman's complete personal autonomy over her body is, orshould be so elementary as topreclude debate ...... Dr. Lincolnwrote.
Dr. Lincoln said these werehis feelings in 1967 when he wasinvited to Washingon to join inan international discussion onthe abortion issue.
He said at that time he feltthat "to require a woman to bean incubator for a child she doesnot want is barbaric and tyr~n
nical and in violation of the mostbasic expectations of a civilizedsociety."
Example of RetreatSince that time. Dr. Lincoln
said. he has come to realize' thatabortion "is but one more example of the I retreat from responsibility which seems characteristic of the times,"
Dr. Lincoln explained that' henever has' been an advocate ofabortion on demand. "But asthings have turned out, the factthat I am somewhere on recordas' standing for what could be inte11preted as a lassez·faire approach to the issue humbles myself-esteem. and roils my conscience as well."
Dr. Lincoln said that originallyhis vision of abortion was "of anoccasional individual caught upin circumstances so devastatingin potential as to warrant sodrastic ' a procedure as the interruption of life,"
Sick of BloodlettingHe said he had considered
abortion as a measure of last resort for a limited class of peo~
pIe who would 'seek abortionsonly after "having consideredthe vast implications of whatthey were about to do."
"I was riot prepared for thebloodletting which has.' in fact, 'ensued." he said.
, "I for one. am sick of bloodand bloodletting-in the streets.on the battlefields and in thesafe aseptic privacy of a doctor'soffice. In our continuing retreatfrom responsibility. we are tooready to wipe out the consequences of our private and public acts with a shrug and a resortto blood," he said.
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During the show, Father Weber will shout to. people in theback of the room: "Come incloser., This isn't a church, youknow."
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ter Sunday worshippers watched.thi~ves posing as repairmenwalked away from Santo Domingo church here in Colombia withsix religious sculptures regardedas historic art treasures.
munity. "We like to think it isgood for people who don't knoweach other to be close." FatherWeber said.
"The circus to me is a shape.a' circle, defined by how the'people sit. It harkens anthropologically back t:p th'e dayswhen people gathered around afire to dance their evil spiritsaway."
so I collected everything underthe rubric of circus."
PacificistIt is not accidental that Father
Weber links a liturgical term like"rubric" with his circus. He believes the show and theology arenot separate. "Historic~lly, thechurch and theatre are the samething"" he noted, adding thattheatre began as religious drama,such as the mystery plays of theMiddle Ages.
Although he defends the connection of the circus and theology, he says it is "a distractionif the audience knows I am apriest. There is nothing explicitly religious in the show."
He also refuses to defend himself against those who think apriest should not dress as aclown and appear in shoppingmalls. "I don't say anything tothat. I don't have, the' time orenergy." he explained. "It' takesa lot of en~rgy to be a· clown. Idon't pick fights with people,"
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While the circus has its moments of sheer entertainment.such as the magic. there is alsoa blend of serious comment. Thepantomimes-The Stonecutter,the Frogs. The Giving Tree- express the futility of pride. thewaste of war. the effect,of loveand the failure of communication-aIl dressed up in outlandish costumes and acted out ina sometimes raucous manner.
The circus as a whole is aneffort to create a sense of com-
PRIEST-CLOWN: California Jesuit Father Nick Weber"together with two other performers, all from Santa, ClaraUniversity, play all the parts in "the world's smallest cir~
.eus." The mini-circus is presented in shopping centers,parking lots and other informal "pitches," on a tour of 100cities in 40 states. NC Ph~to.
Fire -Eilting Jesuit Heads Royal- CircusAs Pre-Evangelical Preaching of Word
1?2'ALBANY (NC) - "The RoyalLitchEmstein %-Rin'g Circus.The World's Smallest Circusfrom the World's Smallest Na- .tion Performed by the World'sSmallest Minds."
The trio ringmasters shoutthose words at the opening ofwhat also must be the world'smost unusual circus. What othershow boasts a fire-eating Jesuit.a business student who wants todance. and a psychology majorwho imitates stormclouds?
The small-top that encloses allthis is the brainchild of FatherNick Weber. a Jesuit who teachesliturgy - celebration at SantaClara University in California.
With two friends he brings hismini-circus to shopping centers,Indian reservations, college campuses and church parking lotsacross the country. By the endof their tour. the company willhave played over 300 performances in more than 100 cities in40 states
The hour··long show is an amalgam of magic tricks, juggling,poetry, mime, one-liners, animalsand fire-eating. but the purposeis more than entertainment.
"I used to think the storiestold in the mime were the reasonfor doing the show," Father Web.er admitted. "Then I found thatthe circus showing tip wherepeople least expect it has itstheological overtones in that itasks people to accept surprise,to sit down and stretch andgrow and wonder.
"It is a sort of pre-eval!gelicalpreparation for the preaching ofthe Word. If people are not readyfor surprise they will kill theprophets. They will not be readyto accept someone standing upin the muck and saying 'God ispresent,' .. '
Besides Father Weber. theRoyal Lichtenstein Circus ismade, up of Carl Pellegrini andJohn MacConaghy. •~
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Pellegrin~ was a business major who took an acting workshipfrom Father Weber. Then he' decided to drop his plans for abusiness career in favor of thedance, a career he plans to pursue once the tour is completed.He agreed to travel with. th«;circus "'one night while jugglingwith Nick,"
MacConaghy, a junior psychology major at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. took timeout from school because "to bea clown is the ideal thing. Ibring joy to people," One of hismost flamboyant skits is the roleof a raincloud 'in a pantomimecalled "The Stonecutter."
The circus began when FatherWeber, who holds a master's degree in theatre. decided that conventional theatre only reached"culturally screened people,"
"I wanted to go into 'the marketplace' where there where already people, such as shoppingcenters and campuses," he said.He began by taking satirical reviews into the parks in SantaClara. but "became disenchantedwith satire and couldn't live withit,"
So his next step was to "puttogether a form that would attract people rather than repelthem. Circuses seemed harmless.non-threatening. I had learnedmagic and fire-eating as a kid
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Msg'r. CorcoranScores MinimumWage Proposal
WASHINGTON (NC) - TheNixon administration's latestfederal minimum wage proposalwill continue to condemn millions of workers to sub-povertylevels, the head of the NationalConference of Catholic Charitieshas charged.
Msgr. Lawrence J. Corcoran'sstatement came after Secretaryof Labor Peter Brennan testifiedbefore the House Labor SubCommittee and asked for a miniinurn wage of $1.90 an hour thisyear. Other proposed increases
. would bring the minimum up to$2.30 in 1976.
Calling the proposal "a seriousblow to the working poor,"Msgr. Corcoran' said the increases will hardly keep up withthe accelerated cost of liViing.
Msgr. Corcoran also accusedthe administration of failJng toextend equitable wage increasesto farm laborers, service workers and the nation's large youthwork for,ce.
"Secretary Brennan has ·indicated that he personally doesnot agree with the proposals advanced," said Msgr. Corcoran."It is unfortunate that the administration places Mr. Brennan
. in this position, especially in hisfirst approach to Congress sincehis confirmation by the Senate.
"Coming from the labor background of well-paid tradesmen,it is understandable that hewould feel uncomfortable in proposing such meagre remuneration for his fellows in the labor~
lng world."Msgr. Corcoran suggested that
"one of the quickest and surestways to lift the worImng poor outof poverty is to raise the minimum wage."
"We b'ust that the administration will adjust its proposal upward immediately. We urge Congress to do so, even in spite 'of
,the position of the admillJistra-tion," Msgr. Corcoran said.
The proposed $1..90 minimumwage foJ' this year provides anannual income of $3,952 on thebasis of a standard work week.Msgr. Corcoran said this is approximately $200 under the mostconseravtive poverty-level standand.
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sity career. "We have a university very much like SMU atLusaka, our capital city," hesaid. Over 105 dialects arespoken in Zambia, he said, butthere are four main languages.He is profident in Chibemba, the.tongue chiefly used' in his area.
A Brother since 1946, the religious served in Rhode Island,Maine and Massachusetts housesof his community before his assignment to' Africa, .where hehopes to spend the remainderof his active life, and to whichhe expects to return in July.
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Brother Raymond has a reques,t to make of area wellwishers. "We're still working onthat Boy Scout camp," he said,"and the S&H Green Stamps,Gold Bond and Red Scissorscompanies have agreed to redeem stamps for cash for us. Soany contributions will be verywelcome," They can be sent toBroher Raymond at 99 HatchStreet, New Bedford 02745.
While at home the Brother hasgiven talks on Africa to variousgroups and he made a specialvisit to Fall Ri'9'er to present apectoral cross to Bishop Cronin.Made by 'boys at the missionhigh school, the cross is of copper set with malchite. It wasreceived on behalf of the FallRiver Bishop by Msgr. RaymondT. Considine, director of the Diocesan office of the Society forthe Propagation of the Faith.
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'He noted that boys at his highschool can all speak at least alittle English before enteringand that many go on to univer-
CLAN MEMBER: Brother Raymond Thibault, S.C.shows elephant hair bracelets, symbolic of his membershipin three African~ clans, to his sister, Dr. Doris Thibault offaculty of Southeastern Massachusetts University, and his70-year-old mother, Mrs. Albina Thibault, who is busyworking to save money for her third trip to his missionarystation in Zambia.
manent camp will serve as aheadquarters for this work."
When not teaching or directing Boy Scout activities, BrotherRaymond runs a small dispensary. "It's not our line, but youcan't turn people away," hesaid, and he ministers daily toa long line of patients. His skills,all self-taught, include treatingwounds, pulling teeth and delivering babies.
"I've delivered 31 babies, including a set of twins," he said,"and I haven't lost a mother ora baby.·1 learned how to do itfrom a book."
Largely because of such services,' Brother Raymond has beenmade an honorary member ofthree AfrIcan clans and he
'proudly wears elephant hairbracelets in token of his membership. Each bracelet is different "so clan members can recognize each other," but each isfashioned from incredibly toughelephant hair, resembling blackplastic wire.
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Normally the religious also directs the kitchen activities forhis community but this is a taskhe is glad to turn over to his
. mother when she's in Africa.Facilities at the mission are farfrom up to.date, she commented.Electricity, supplied by the mission generator, is available from5 P.M. to 10 P.M. nightly, whilerunning water is produced withthe aid of a gasoline pump.Roads are more like washboards,she said, recalling that duringher last trip she was "stuck inthe bush for five hours when ourtruck ran out of gas."
But her son rejoined that forhis part he didn't dare drivewhen in the States. "I'm used todriving on the left and not usedto so many other drivers on theroad."
70-Year-Old Mother of Missioner WorksIn Mill to Earn Fare to Africa
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Seventy-year-old Mrs. Albina ~'Thibault of St. Joseph's parish, '" ",New Bedford, has just returned ; ", ,.to work in a mill. Her purpose?To earn the fare for her thirdtrip to Africa. When she getsthere, she doesn't plan a luxu-rious tourist-type "safari.'" Instead, she'll plunge'into the bush,country of Zambia, in hot centralAfrica, where she'll be 450 milesfrom the closest town of anysize. There'll she'll cook, wash,and mend clothes for her son andhis confreres, Sacred HeartBrothers Who operate a boys'high school serving 465 youngsters from all parts of Zambia.
"We call her Mother Superior,". chuckled her son, Brother Ray
mond Thibault, S.C., who ispresently in New Bedford onhome leave from his assignmentas a teacher of mathematics and ;agricultural science at St. Fran- leis Secondary School in Zambia.
"She really doesn't have to goto work to earn her fare," expla'ined Dr. Doris Thibault of thefaculty of Southeastern Mass'achusetts University, another ofthe dauntless Mrs. Thibault'ssix living children, "but we can'thold her down." Previously thelively lady had worked 18 yearsfulltime at the mill where she'snow a part-timer, and she wasemployed for eight years in therectory of St. Mathieu's parish,F'all River.
Mrs. T)1ibault's last trip toZambia was in the Fall. She waspresent at a huge EucharisticCongress at her son's mission ofMalole, the first such celebrationever held in Zambia. "Eleventhousand people attended fromall over the country," she s·aid."Many walked from as far as 85miles away." The event commemoratedthe ,50th anniversaryof the mission, which is the center of a community of 20,000
, catechumens and 28 out-stations.The "community" however, is
very scattered, poirtted outBrother Raymond, consisting ofscores of small villages numbering from 25 to 100 inhabitants.In fact, so remote is Malole, thatthere was initial doubt that alarge congress could be heldthere.
Many ActivitiesIn connection with the con
gress. he said, the President ofZambia dedicated a Boy Scoutcamp at the mission. BoyScouting is a major interest ofthe New Bedford religious andhe serves on the National Training Team for Zambia as well asan 'area commissioner.
He said his interest in Scouting started when he was a member of Boy Scout Troop 24 inSt. Joseph's parish, a troop thatis still active. "I was workingfor the Eagle rank when I entered religion," h,e recalled.
In Zambia Brother Raymondsees the Boy Scouts as a potentforce for spreading literacy inrural 'areas and also for demonstrating modern agriculturaltechniques to natives.
"The government -is attempting to regroup the many smallvillages into small towns inorder 'to use schools, health services and so forth more efficiently," he said. "Our Boy Scout per--Statius
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Catholic WeeklyRejects ChargesAs Ridiculous
ST. PAUL (NC)-The Wanderer, a conservative Catholicweekly published here, has rejected charges made by a prominent Scripture scholar againstthe "arch-conservative sectionof the Catholic press" as "ridiculous," "false and irresponsible,""vicious and preposterous."
In the keynote address at theannual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) in New Orleans, the
.Scripture scholar, SulpidanFather Raymond E. Brown, attacked the conservative Catholicpress for "trying to usurp thebishops' authority to determinewhat can be taught as Catholicdoctrine to youth."
He charged that the "ultraconservative or fundamentalist.Catholics" of whom he wasspeaking "have little or noscholarly respectability" and arereduced to. "journalistic abuse"in theological questions.
'Without Foundation'
In materials prepared for distribution to delegates to theNCEA convention, the editqrsand associates of The Wandererrejected "as totally withoutfoundation and as ridiculous onits, face the charge that TheWanderer or any other AmericanCatholic publication loyal to theChurch has 'usurped' or 'tried tousurp' the authority of the bishops in any area whatsoever. Onthe contrary, we have echoed thecall of Pope Paul himself- (Apostolic Exhortation, Dec. 8, 1970)for all the bishops to exercisetheir authority as 'authenticteachers of the Faith' more clearly and more decisively."
The Wanderer editors and associates dismissed "as a gratuitous ad hominen the charge thatthe many eminent clergy andlaymen who have contributed toour pages lack suitable academicbackground 'or have stooped to'journalistic abuse.' If Fr. Brownis willing to make specificcharges, we are certain that ourwriters will be:, most willing todefend themsel.v.es."
'Authe~'t1c Path',;,
Pointing out that a newspaperis not a scholarly journal and"must treat of theological developments in an, 'accessible andnon-technical vi'ay," the editorsmaintained that such treatment"is not thereby inaccurate, muchless abusive." ';
The editors rejected as "falseand irresponsible" FatherBrown's charge that ultra-conservatice Catholics "do not respect the positions of the Popesor the bishops who have permitted modern biblical and theological advances."
"On the contrary," they said,, "we have repeatedly hailed theseteachings as the authentic pathfor future theological and doctrinal development. But this isnot to say that biblical scholarsand theologians have alwaysused their freedlom wisely or inaccordance with the papal teachings which grant (and condition)this freedom,"
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The Yearbook said total membership in 180 Protestant bodieswas 71,865,190. It put membership in Jewish congregations inthe U.S. - including Orthodox,Conservative and Reformedbranches-at 5,870,000. Membership in other religious groups(such as the Eastern Orthodoxchurches, Buddhist, and ethicaland' spiritual groups) was5,263,462.
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Indiana (a gain of 2,589 to152,787).
. Southern Baptist GainAmong the large Protestant
Churches showing losses, theUnited Methodist .Church lost162,576 members (leaving amembership of 10,671,774), theUnited Church of Christ lost31,934 (leaving a 1,928,624 membership), and the United Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.(northern) lost 73,405 (resUlting'in a 3,013,808 membersh,ip).
However, the S,outhern Bap· .tist Conve,ntion showed a gainof 196,644 members, producinga new membership of 11,824,676.The convention is the second
Cardinal SuggestsLimited Amne'sty ..
.NEW YORK (NC) - CardinalTerence Cooke urged in his Easter pastoral message that am·nesty with substitute service begranted those who "for sincerereasons". refused to serve in thearmed forces during the Viet·nam war.
In a letter read at Massesthroughout the New York archdiocese, Cardinal Cooke alsohoped, that "the move towardreconciliation in South Vietnam"will mark the start of a year' ofreconciliation which wouldspread to Northern Ireland andthe Middle 'East.
SCOUTING AWARDS: Rev. Marc H. Bergeron of St. Joseph's Church, New Bedfordbestows Cub Scout Religious Awards on 'Richard Theg, a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, New Bedford and David Dufresne of St. Joseph'S, New Bedford.
Church Membership Remains SteadyNEW YORK (NC) - Church
and synagogue membership inthe United States has remainedalmost constant for the secondyear in a row, the 1973 Yearbookof American and CanadianChurches has disclosed.
The Yearbook, published bythe National Council of Churches.(NCC), said 223 Christian andJewish bodies reported havinga membership of 131,389,642, anincrease of 343,689 from theprevious year.
However, the Yearbook notedthat 62.4 percent of the American people were reported to bemembers of churches as opposedto 63.2 percent in the previousyear.
The NCC publication said thepercentage of membership decreased while the number ofmembers increased because thenumeral increase was not "keeping pace" with the. country'spopulation growth.
Catholic Church Largest
The 1973 Yearbook r~orted
slight gains and losses amongthe churches for which statisticswere available. The gains occurred in the Catholic Church andamong seyeral conservative Protestant sects.
The 1972 Yearhook, similarly,reported gains for the CatholicChurch and conservative Protestant churches and losses forsome large Protestant bodies.
Aocording to the 1973 Yearbook, the Catholic Church has48,390,990 .members, a gain of176,261 over the previous year.The Catholic Church thus is thelargest individual church in thenation.
Protestant churches showinggains, generally regarded as conservative, included the Refor-medChurch in America (an increaseof 2,345 to 369,951) and the~~~r~.~.. ~f God .<?f ....~~de!~J},_ ......-------;,;,;;;,;,;;~;";o,,,;;;,;,;,; .....
Political Reasons?
"Yes, yes, but we are beingjostled and tossed by thiscrowd. I've never seen anythinglik'e it. It's not the usual souvenirhunting mob. These people are
. singing and clapping, you couldalmost call them joyous. Not theusual Growd one finds at things1ike this. Wait If minute-there'sa man carving a wish on the sideof the tomb. Let's see if I canget to him. Sir? Sir?
"Hey, watch it. Or, TV ... amI on TV?"
Yes, you are, Sir. Can you tellme why you're carving a fishon the tomb? Does it have somesignific:ance?
"Sure does. It's the sigri of theNazarenes. You know, the groupbehind this guy."
.' Are you a Nazarene, Sir?
"No, I just heard about theresurrection and came out to seewhat was going on."
Why are you carving the fishif you're not a follower of thealleged Savior?
"Well, I figure it won't do anyharm, you k!1ow. I mean, ifthis fellow is 'for real, really real,then I want to be on his side. Ijust figured he was some kind ofnut until this. I mean, how manypeople get up o.ut of the tomband walk around. He's got to besomething."
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- \'2 THE ANCHOI~-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May 3, 1973
TV Commentatc)rs IProbeEmpty Tomb Mystery
We interrupt this program to bring you some specialcoverage on the Man who has reportedly risen from death.Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, crucified Friday on Mt: Olivetfor claiming divinity is missing from his heavily guardedtomb. Bystanders have re-·ported seeing the Man walking toward town. As of yet,no word has been receivedby his followers whom we havebeen unable to lo~ate to verifythe story. It is likely the RisenChrist is with them. We have
Some observers are speculating that his body was stolen forpolitical reasons. How do youreact to that charge?
"Where's the body? And whatabout the soldiers guarding thisplace? No that doesn't rack up.Besides, I know a guy who knew-knows-this Christ and hesaid he told them he was goingto ,do this."
He did? Specifically? That hewould rise from the dead?
"Well, sorta. He said something like,' 'A little while andyou won't see me and a littlewhile and you will see me'...something like that."
-ExGuse me, Sir. We have toswitch back to our studios now.Thank you for your information.
Well, there you have it, folks.While nobody -seems to knowwhat, really happened, the general consensus of the people
Mother Teresa Sends here is that something extra-o • ordinary happened. here, some-
S.sters to Cam'bodia thing that might change theNEW YORK (NC) __ Mother - course of history.
Teresa of Calcutta, will send six Of course,' others believe lesSisters from her Missionaries of - just a cheap maneuver to getCharity to help with Catholic publicity but there are no folRelief Services (CRS) programs lowers of the Na.zarene around.in Cambodia. If they wanted publicity, they
CRS will work to improve are doing their best to shun it. .services dealing with the care So it seems there are·only twoand resettlement of ~n estimat- possible answers. Either theyed 700,000 Cambodian re(ugees. are afraid of a' like fate that be-
The Missionaries of Charity, fell the alleged King or they arefounded by Mother Teresa in with him. If that's the case, we'll1950 now have more than 7,000 have the mystery of the tombmembers. Their work in the slum "with us for a long time, perhapsareas of India and other coun. even for eternity,'tries has received woddwide ac- This is Aquilla of Channel VIIIc!~i~: . , _.. _., _.s.i~i~~ _~f!.. _. ~ __ .
dispatched our pri.:e-winningnews team, Aquilla and Caras,to the scene with comeramenand should be able to bring youlive coverage from the tomb areaany moment.
Meanwhile, stay on VIII because we have here in our studios one of the tribunes whosejob it was to guard the grave.Tell us, Tribune, when did thisalleged resurrection take place?
"Uhhh ... I don't know. SQmetime in the night, I guess, or thismorning. Hard to tell, you know,what with the dark and the sundial and all ..."
Did any of you soldiers seethe ghost or man of god exit
. the tomb?"Errr, not exactly."
Did You See:'
But there was a heavyboulder in front of th€!opening.And it was moved. 'Did any ofyou see it being moved?
"No, uh-uh, I don't rememberseeing it move. You know, itwas pretty dar~.and the captaindidn't tell us tQ'.·~atch the boulder and ,wel'l, ydu know ..."·
No, we don't know. It was ourunderstan'ding t6'at YOUt tribuneswere stationed iii the tomb pre·cisely because there was a rumorthat this allegedij~od would risefrom the dead.·Could it havebeen that you were sleeping, all
. of you-just a moment--we are switching now to the
tombsite where': thouflands ofcurious onlookers are watchingthe tribunes comb the area forclues. Are you there, Aquil'la?
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May 3, 1973 13
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NEW CONFIRMATION RITE DURING MASS: Bishop Cronin questions Carlena Wampler,a confirmant, during the Bishop's customary interrogatory period at the confirmation ceremony at Sacred Heart Church,Fall River. The Ordinary of the Diocese receives the ciborium from James
McGuinness during the offertory procession. Concelebrants were Rev.Msgr. Lester L. Hull, right, pastor and Rev. Robert Carter, left, assistantpastor.
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HARTFORD (NC)-The governing body of the ConnecticutState Medical Society has recommended that a person be entitled to sign a "bill of rights"asking not to be kept alive by"artificial means or heroic measures" if he contracts a fatal illness.
Such a statement would besigned ·by the healthy person inthe event he contracted a terminal "physical; mental or spiritual" disease and was unahle tomake decisions about his ownfuture.
The resolution will be offeredfor approval by the AmericanMedical Association at theA.M.A. ,national convention inJune.
Dr. William R. Richards, executive director of the society, saidthat such a signed statementwould not legally bind the doctor or the family to act in accordance with its provisions. Italso, would not shield the doctorfrom a malpractice suit, he said.
He said, however, that thedocument co'uld aid as a generalguide to physicians and familymembers in dealing with a ter·minally ill person.
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The article also cited the situation of Catholics in Lithuania,recalling the memorandum protesting religious, persecutionsigned by 18,000 LithuanianCatholics and sent to Sov:ietpremier Leonid Breshnev and theUnited Nations.
Similar situations are to befound in other Communist countries, the magazine declared.
"Undoubtedly," it admitted,"the situation is improved ascompared to the first years ofpower when the communistscame in, even if every once in awhile violence of the past repeats itself." But, the magazineconcluded, "it would 'be an errorto believe that the oppression ofthe Church in these countries hasended. It continues, whether under more refined systems or not,but systems which are nonetheless efficient."
Kurti, the Jesuit magazine declared: "The agony of Christ isin the agony of the Church; thisis the' deep meaning of what ishappening in Albania and inother countries where for whatever reason the Church is persecuted."
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Lib AmendmentFails in Florida
TALLAHASSEE (NC) ~ Theproposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was killed for the1973 session of the FloridaLegislature when the House ofRepresentatives defeated it bya vote of 64-54.
Defeat of the amendment followed months of debatesthroughout tpe state on radioand TV and at various civicgroups by opponents and' proponents. Opposing the ERA wereaffiliations of the Miami Archdiocesan Council Of CatholicWomen, the Florida Federationof Women's Clubs, and membersof Women for Responsible Legislation. ,
Rep. John Thomas, House majOrity leader, said that telegramsand mail were almost equallydivided. '
The amendment, which hasbeen approved by about 30states, is designed to give womenequal rights. It must be approvedby 38 states before it takes effect.
plied: 'I am, a priest and it is myduty.' The unanimous verdictwas death."
In citing the trial of Father
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the Church and of Christians inCommunist-dominated lands hasnot ended and it is an error tobelieve so, 'according to an art:icle in the Rome Jesuit magazineCivilta Cattolica.
In a recent article entitled "LetUs Not Forget the MartyrChurch," the magazine gave asan example of the continuing persecution some details of the execution of an Albanian Catholicpriest for having baptized a babyin a prison camp.
According to an eyewitness tothe trial of Father Shtjefen Kurti, the Albanian priest w'asbrought to the people's court atMilot, Albania, in December,1971, The witness,' a woman,identified only by her initials,G.T., recently escaped from Albania to Austria.
According to the woman, thepeople's court was held in aformer chu'rch. She described thescene as follows:
Agony of Christ
"The church was filled withpeople and the judge ironicallyinvited the accused to stand infront of the place where the Mtarhad once stood and say Mass.The reply was a dignified silence.
"Then the judge asked him ifhe had baptized a baby. FatherKurti did not deny it. He re-
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The committee resolved to refuse to purchase any clothingmade by Farah 'and to urge NewYork priests to do so too. Theyalso pledged to make thestrikers' position known toothers, particularly the officialarchdiocesan purchasing groupand members of the central archdiocesan administration.
Earlier five southwestern bishops said they supported the· boycott against Farah "so that thebasic human rights of collectivebargaining and unionizationmight be recogqized and allowedto become realities for the workers and the strikers of the company."
The Farah Manufacturing Co.operates nine clothing plants inTexas and New Mexico. About3,000 workers, most of themMexican-Americans, have beenon strike for nearly a year. Theworkers charge the firm withtrying to prevent unionization.An Amalgamated Clothing Workers spokesman said the strikewas due to the firing of about250 workers since union organizing activities began among theworkers in 1969.
PriestsFarah
SupportBoycott
NEW YORK (NC)-The executive committee of the priests'senate of the New York archdiocese voted to support a boycott of clothing produced at theFarah Manufacturing Co.
The committee accepted aresolution that the senate joinfive southwestern bishops insupporting a strike by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers ofAmerica against Farah.
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The Women's Guild will holda Maybasket whist at 8 P.M.Saturday, May 5 at the schoolhall on Route 177. Proceeds willbenefit the school.
Members will receive corporate Communion at 9 AM. MassSunday, May 6. Friends are invited 'and the Mass will be offered for deceased members.
Bingo is played every Wednes, day in the school hall, with an
early bird game at 7 o'clock andregular play commencing at 7j30.
•HOLY TRINITY,WEST HARWICH
A flea market will be held inthe church hall from lOAM. to2:30 P.M. Saturday, May' 12.Sandwiches and' beverages willbe available and a baked goodssale will be conducted in conjunction with the flea market.
·SACRED HEART,FALL RIVER
Women's Guild members willattend Mass and corporate Communion at 7 P.M. Monday, May7, followed by refr'eshments anda showing of slides by Rev. Robert J. Carter of his trip to therecent Consistory in Rome.ST. JOSEPH,
, ATTLEBORO"Sentimental Journey," the
parish minstrel and variety showwill be offered on the weekendof May 12-13.
Members of the Women's Guildwill attend the 6:30 Mass onTuesday night, May 8. Follqwingthe business meeting, ,a dessertcard party will be held. It isopen to all ladies of the parish.ST. ~TANISLAUS,
FALL RIVERCharities Appeal collectors
will report to the parish headquarters at 7 P.M. Sunday ora-fter 7 P.M. Mass Tuesday.
Holy Rosary Sodalists will attend a Communion, breakfastfollowing 8 AM. Mass Sunday.Members will assemble in thechurch hall prior to Mass.
A parish Diamond Jubilee program will take place at 8 P.M.Sunday, May 20 at Bishop Connolly High School. Parishionersunable to attend are requested toreturn their tickets to the rectoryfor the use of others.,Bingo is played at 7 every
Tuesday night, with doors opening at 5 o'clock. Refreshmentsare served.ST. ANN,RAYNHAM
The Ladies' Guild will sponsora whist party at 8 tomorrownight in the chureh hall. Refreshments will be served and Mrs.Eileen Alden is chairman for theevening.
A Living Rosary ceremonywill take place in the church at8 P.M. Wednesday, May 9. MissBernice Fountain is chairman,with Mrs. Joan Frost in chargeof refreshments.
ST. MARY,'NEW BEDFORD
The Women's Guild will sponsor a rummage sail'! from 10AM. to 8 P.M. today and Fridayin the parish school on IllinoisStreet.
Mrs. Florence Lavoie, chairman, has announced that the affair is open to the public.
ST.' MARGARET,BUZZARDS BAY
St. Margaret Mary Guild willconduct .a rummage sale from9 AM. to 1 P.M. on Saturday inthe parish center.
HOLY ROSARY,FALL RIVER, A Mass in Italian will be telebratedat 8:30 on Sunday morning, May 6.
Mrs. Anthony -Pannoni, chairman urges ,all members of theWomen's Guild to attend thefinal meeting of the year scheduled for 7:30 on Monday evening,May 7. Following the businessmeeting, a calendar party will beheld.
First Communion will be dis. tributed at the 8:30 Mass onSunday morning, May 13' and itwill be followed by the crowning
\ of the statue of the Bles~d Virgin.
Mrs. Albert J. Roy is in chargeof the Communion Supper and instaUation of officers for theWomen's Guild scheduled forMay 20. The Mass will be offered at 5 o'clock.
Mrs. August Petruc,ci, president of the guild, has announcedthat a supper and theater nightwill be held on Sunday night,May 27 at the Chateau de Ville,Warwick.
The 'Parish ParadePublicity chairmen of parish organizations
are asked to sUb'mit news' items for thiscolumn to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, FallRiver 02722. Name of city or town shOUldbe Included, as well as full dates of allactiVities. Please send news of future rathert~an past events. •
ST. THERESA,SOUTH ATTLEBORO. The annual Mother-Daughter
Communion breakfast will takeplace following 7 AM. MassSunday, May 6. Guest speakerwill be Rev. John Lennon', O.P.of Providence College.
New officers will be installedat the May meeting of the Women's Confraternity, .at whichtime new members will also bereceived.
The unit's annual fashionshow and card party is slatedfor 7:30 P.j\'I. Friday, May 18, inthe parish hall. Bonnie Northwill be com'mentator.
ST. ROCH,FALL RIVER
The Council of Catholic Womenwill hold' a Communion supper
• Saturday, May 26, following 4P.M. Mass. Tickets are availablefrom Mrs. Angelina Guertin,chairman, and Mrs. Ame.liaDwyer, co-chairman.
Following the unit's businessmeeting Monday, May 7, AlfredDiPippo will show slides andspeak on the life of Padre Pio,stigmatized Franciscan monk ofItaly. Guests are invited to attend the presentation.
ST. JOHN BAPTIST,CENTRAL VILLAGE
A public whist party will besponsored by the Ladies' Guildat 8 P.M. Tuesday, May 8 in theparish hall. Refreshments will beserved.
NAMED: Msgr. Ernest J.Fiedler, 47, director of thepermanent deacon programfor Kansas City-St. Joseph, 'Mo., has been named executive director of the Committee on the Permanent Dia-
, conate of the National Conference of Cataolic Bishops.
Garden Joys
In the Kitchen
The joys of a garden varyfrom p{~rson to person. I love theunusual, the exotic, the uncommon. Joe's taste runs more tothe perfect tiny plant or thegood rose. My father~in-law, whohas that· .fabled 'green thumb,loves just about everything thatgrows and no seedling is toosmall or insignificant for him tobe concerned about. Obviously,there is: a place for every interested gardener.
Rhubarb Upsidtl Down Cake
3 Tablespoons melted butterYz cup sugarred food coloring2 cups finely diced rhubarb1 package loaf size white cak~
mix.heavy cream,whipped1) Combine the butter, sugar
and a .few drops of the red foodcoloring., 2) Add the rhubarb and tosslightly.
3) _Spread, in 8-inch roundcake pan.
4) Prepare cake according topackage directions. Pour batterover fruit mixture and bake in375 0 degree oven 35 minutes.
5) Loosen edges and inverton plate. Let stand without removing baking dish about 5 minutes. Serve warm with whippedcream.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,FALL RIVER
The monthly meeting of theWomen's Guild will be heldMonday evening,' May 14 at 8o'cloCk. The program will feature "Cooking with Cordials. Thecommitttee for this meeting isheaded by Mrs. Anne Fleming;assisted by Mrs. Mary Pontes,Miss Margaret Duggan and Mrs.Pat Charette.
Officers will be installed June4 at 8 P.M. in the church.
If you would like to read On June 5 a banquet will be heldabout the JOYs of a garden, even at Chateau de Ville, Warwick.a "small one," check your local The stage play that evening willpublic library for a book pub- be "Barefoot in the Park." Ticklished in the early sixties, "The ets for this' function have beenJoy of a Small Garden," by sold oul. Registrars request anJanet Gillespie who now resides early return of receipts.In Westport, !\tass. Mrs. Gillespie' A picnic will 'be held Aug. 12has recently published a book at Our Lady of the Lake, Freeabout her summers as a young town.girl in Westport but, the book ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE,that·I truly loved and still do is SWANSEA,that early book about her years The monthly meeting of St.of pleas.ure in working with just Anne's Sodality will be held ona small patch of soil. Wednesday, May 16. Officers.- For the person who, would will :be installed fa'llowing therather experience than. read, do 7:30 P.M. Mass. Rev. John Folas our Melissa is doing this year ster will show slides of Rome at-buy a few packs of seeds, fol- . the open meeting iii. the parishlow, the directions on the pack-' hall where ,a buffet will beage,and wait. Either way, gar- served. Chairman for this meet-~eningcan be fun. ing is Claudette Armstrong.
This is one of my favorite ST. PATRICK".ways of' usjng the fresh rhubarb SOMERSETthat is just about ready in the Somerset Catholic Women'sgarden. ' 'Club members will attend 9 AM.
Mass Sunday, May 6.Women's Guild members are
reminded that their bus for theChateau de Ville theatre partywill leave the church parking lotpromptly at 6:30 tonight.
Final registration for theSchool of Religion will takeplace at 7:30 P.M. Monday, May7. All families must re-register'each year. f
The 'teenage coffeehouse willbe open at 8 tomorrow night inthe Fisher House. All area highschool students are invited.OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL,SEEKONK
The Women's Guild will meetat 8 P.M. Wednesday, May 9.A cake walk has been planned'by Mrs. Agnes Rose, progra",chairman. Officers for the coming year will be nominated andthe social hour will be in chargeof Mrs. Beverly Ferreira.
THE ANCHOR,-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May ~, 197314
Prices of Garden ShrubsAre High, But Justifi.ed
By JiO. and Marilyn Roderick
We have been setting out a little garden by the sideof the house to serve as, a pleasant, cool retreat in the hotda'ys ahead. This garden will be made up mostly of, greens,around covers and :;tone. With this itn mind we, have beenb, ,
S pen din g a con:;iderable .amount of money purchasing been very springliRe (right at the
moment we are experiencingsmall trees and evergreens. ' what they are ,claiming as a threeCosts for garden plants have day north-east rainstorm, butrisen at a pace equal to the that's New England) and theeconomy, of course, so that one other day, the temperatureshas to rethink the eventual cost climbed into the high' seventies..of what one does in the garden. April and May 'are the months
Nursery products represent a when most thoughts turn to thetremendous investment in labor garden and some of our happiestand losses and therefor although moments are spent buying newour first reaction is one of alarm plants and visiting area gardenat the high prices of gI,eens and 'shops. All this enthusiasm willshrubs, we have to realize that wane when our usual summerlabor costs have risen dramat- heat waves hit and the 'beachically for the producers of beckons but presently we're canplants and their high prices are tent to ,"stay in our own back-
Yal'd."':.eally justified.
High Mortalit3'
Every year we start newshrubs in the garden frrom cuttings and shoots so we realizefull well the amount of timenecessary to grow a saleableplant. We must have at least 30baby evergreens growing in different parts of the garden. Afew of these started at least fiveyears ago have now grown to thestage where' they are largeenough to be respectable.
However, those that remainrepresent only about 50 per centof the number we started with.There has 'been that much lossin our original successful cuttings due to dogs, chilllr"E!n, andthe weather. I am glad not to bedependent upon my effectivenesswith these e~perimenta:; cuttin'gsto make a living! If I were, I'ma.fraid that i would have to get
.a phenomenal figure fol' my successful maturing plants.
With costs as they are, thepotential buyer can fall into thetrap of trying to look for bargains. They are available but noteconomically sound. Mass producers of lo.w-phced bushes aremaking second-l'ate productsavailable but they are to beviewed with considerable caution. I would suggest that reputable dealers still offer the bestbuys even though you may haveto cut your purchases to suityour pocketbook as I am doingmyself.The weather up to this point has
Missionary BishopBuried in' P'eru
JULI (NC)-The remains of aKentucky-born missionary bishop were 'buried in the crypt ofSt. Peter's Church here in Peruwhere he died of a heart attackwhile saying Mass.
Bishop Edward Feddtrs ofJuli, a native of Covington, Ky.,
'had headed this prelature' of400,000 Catholics since Hl63. Asa Maryknoll Missionary he cameto know the territ6ryaroundLake Titicaca high in the Andesand the Aymara Indians heserved as pastor.
His last will was that his remains stay with them. Earlierplans by friends were to fly the-""body to Kentucky.
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Father Roland Melody, CODE'snational coordinator, who, alongwith the Variety Club of Washington, hosted the banquet, alsospoke.
Art Linkletter, whose daughterdied as a result of drug abuse,was the master of ceremonies.
CODE, a year-old office withinthe U.S. Catholic Conference'sHealth Affairs Division, will useproceeds from the banquet toexpand its drug abuse programs.. .
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be shown that our society,though not admittedly perfect,strives for justice and excellence."
Among those attending wereArlene Dahl, Johnny Weismuller,
'Julie Newmar, Joan Fontaine,Mercedes McCambridge, JenniferO'Neill, Vera Maxwell, MelbaMoore, Father Gilbert Hartke,chairman of the speech anddrama department of the Catholic University of America; Fr.Stephen Quinn, superior generalof the Missionary Servants ofthe Most Holy Trinity; Miles Ambrose, special attorney generalfor drug abuse law enforcement;J:ohn Ingersoll, director of theBureau of Narcotics and Danger-
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• Discourages burglary and vandalism'
WASHINGTON (NC) - From650 to 700 persons attended a$50-a-plate banquet at the Shoreham Hotel here in honor ot'Princess Grace of Monoco forthe benefit of the Catholic Officeof Drug Education. (CODE).
Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew,a special guest, told those attending "This administration isconcerned about the unrealisticattitude of those who sanctionthe use of drugs for an unrealistic lifestyle . . . Youth must
Banquet Be~efits Drug Education Office
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d.AT CELEBRITY BANQUET: Princess Grace of Monaco joined Father Roland Melody
at a celebrity banuet in Washington, D.C., for the benefit of the Catholic Office forDrug Education (CODE), which Fr. Melody directs. NC Photo by Mary Forbes.
Newa,k Priest SeeksCounty Board P'ost
SOUTH ORANGE (NC) - Fr.James A. Binder, director ofradio and television for the Newark archdiocese, has become acandidate for the Essex County·Board of Chosen Freehold~rs,
the main governmental organization of the county.
Father Pinder, .who will runon the regular Republican slatein the June 5 primary, is the'first priest of the Newark archdiocese to run for elective office.
Does Not Change
In the age of nuclear fissionas in the age of wind and waterpower, the fundamental messageof Christianity does not change.We must love God and ourneighbor. But with the scientificknowledge contemporary withwindmjlls and sailboats men caneasily conclude that the earth isthe center of God's creation andeven make a "truth" of it. Hence,the Church''S hostile reaction toGalileo when he pointed out thatthe earth really moves aroundthe sun. Today, we know fromour radio-telescopes that 100million other galaxies contain1000 mmion other "suns." Thediscovery is a breath-taking extension of the glory of the Creator-"how unsearchable are hisways" - but also a warningagainst the risk of extending thecertainties of the Church toomuch beyond the fundamentalpropositions of the Creed.
However, the warning is muchtoo general to be of much usein the daily struggle of theChurch's guides, teachers andmembers to determine what isand what is not part of the irreducible "deposit of the Faith."As one of the greatest convertsand apologists of the 19th century, Cardinal Newman, argued,men are all prone to error, to thepull of innovation, to downrightfolly.
Ceaseless Winnowing
Christ founded a Church precisely because he knew how useful sustained tradition and guidance would be. When he gave St.Peter his charge of leadership,he said, most significantly, that"Satan hath desired thee so thathe might sift thee as chaff." Itis a wonderful .image-the ceaseless winnowing of our ideas andbeliefs by change, by fashion,by the itch of nO.velty, by thefear of being out of date. Againthe image of the rock recursthe institution capable of outfacing time and preserving itsprecious "deposit" against all thewinds of change.
Yet the doctrine is alive. Itcan be deepened, seen from newperspectives, developed, if notchanged. Here is the dilemma.If nothing is ever debated, howare the new insights to beachieved? If no new suggestionsare ever entertained, may notpartial visions take on the rigidity of fossil thinking? What arefor enlargements of understanding, for completely proper adaptations to new knowledge andto new phases in man's earthlyjourney?
Prayer, love and sacrificemake a saint. today just a'S whenSt. Simon Stylites stood on hispillar. But we may suspect thathe thought the earth was flat.It was not part of his holiness,hut it d.id creep into official formulations of dogma. This is whythe Bishops call for a "spirit ofdialogue" and "legitimate diversity within the Church."
By
BARBARA
WARD
Church Is Not Democracy,But Dialogue Needed
The Church is not and cannot be a "democratic"society in the modern sense. In a democracy, the government exists to serve as best it can the infinitely plural,important, unimportant and changeable needs and desiresof the people. A shiftingconsenusu tends to deter- science, above all, in holymine what is vital and wisdom.
what is not.The Church's basis is not a
shifting consensus but theteaching of Christ. No memberof the Church can seek a major-
ity in order to put to the votethe issue whether Christ is theRisen Lord. He either believesit or ceases to be a Christian.
Nor is there any doubt thatthe Church as a community exists to carry on the teaching ofthe Lord from generation togeneration. In human affairs, noway has been found of achievingcontinuity over the cultures except by maintaining a continuous body or institution to do so.
So there are two facts aboutthe Catholic faith - a doctrineand an institution to care forthat doctrine. But difficultiescan arise, as the Bishops' Synodal Document makes very clear,both about the development ofthe doctrine and the day-to-daymanagement of the institution.The teaching of Christ is not adead letter but a living spirit. It .is capable of enlargement andenrichment as humanity goeson its pilgrim way and new insights into our earthly conditioncome in from all manner of discoveries-in culture, in art, in
Brooklyn Al;'lnouncesCollection Campaign
BROOKLYN (NC) - Citing a. "critical" decline· ~n parish col
lection income, Bishop FrancisJ. Mugavero of 'arooklyn announced an intent!{ve programto increase Sunday collectionsthroughout -the 229-parish diocese.
Speaking to two' meetings ofthe diocese's priests, the bishopsaid the basic purpose of theprogram is to "increase givJng inthe Sunday collections so thatthe parishes fightil)g a losingbattle against rising costs mayagain operate on a stable budgetary basis."
A review of parish financialreports in the Brooklyn dioceseshowed that almost three-fourthso~ the parishes were in fiscaldanger. Parish collections in thediocese have declined steadilyover the past six years, and thedecline from 1967 to 1971 wasestimated at about $2 million.
"The decline in parish incomeis even more critical when It isrealized that the .inflationaryspiral of the economy has resulted in a consistent annual increase in the cost of Hving, ashigh as 30 per cent in the pastsix years," Bishop Mugavero said.
16 THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May 3, 1973
KNOW YOUR FAITHJesus -- Man of Reverence, Good Shepherd I II God--The ·Shepherd! II
The ~hepherd_Guides His Flock
of alienation among its members.Governments, corporations, agencies are faceless and impersonal.
SearchAnonymity is escaped for many
only because each person has a I
social security number. A man'sor a woman's value rests moreon productivity and conformitythan on his or her unique personality and needs. Even in thoseplaces wher!;l care and concern·could once be counted on withcertainty - the family, neighborhood, par,ish - there exists an
, insensitivity; a businesslike airthat only accentuates people'syearning for love.
The efforts to satisfy this wanttake many forms - not all ofthem constructive and rewarding. The nonconformist andcriminal may hope to have atleast their names recognized andremembered. Some hope to receive some love and care fromsexual involvements that mayor may not express real personalcommitment. Still others seek tofind" identity and concern bygenerously giving themselves tofamily, to their civic and churchgroups, to those who are victimized and discriminated against.
In the midst_of this search forpersonal recognition and compassion, what does the image 'ofthe shepherd tell us about God?First of all, despite all his maj"esty and power, God is sincerely'concerned about his creatures,especially men. And his concernis not selfish. Quite the contrary,his -solicitude and gUidance existfor the good of his flock.
God as ShepherdBut our Shepherd-God is much
more than a master and guide.He, knows each of us by nameand he 'addresses ,each one as
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GOD - SHEPHERD: "AU- the rustic simplicity andbeauty of the image of the shepherd and his flock come tomind ..." A shepherd in Galilee tends his flock much likehis predecessors have done for thousands of years.
One of the most striking features of the inspired literatureof the Bible is the language andimages used to describe God.Unlike the precision and conciseness of more technical catechisms and theological manuals,the Bible's approach is drawnmore from men's ordinary experiences and the ways of describ-
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ing these. It is, however, no lesstheological, for its purpose is tocommunicate God's saving truthsabout' himself and his creation.In its use of the language andmethods of the storyteller, poet,songwriter, prophet and preacher, Scripture, - like every othertheological undertaking, has itsown advantages and limita,tions..
This can be seen in the choiceof the shepherd as one of theways of portraying our God. Allthe rustic simplicity and beautyof the image of the shepherd and'his flock come to mind-even jfone's only contact has been withthe many artistic representationsof ~he Good Shepherd. And yetthe full richness of such a picturecan easily be missed' becauseshepherds and flocks are somewhat remote for modern citydwellers. It can all seem to belong to another time_and place.
Yet the shepherd-like character of our God speaks to manyof our modern needs. Technological, bureaucratic society hasbeen blamed for creating feelings
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CLIFTON
the Church's history, Christiansfrequently recalled with devotionthe image of Jesus as GoodShepherd. That image sums upthe role of Jesus as savior andredeemer of mankind. It alsofocuses attention on the humanness of his 'love for each individual.
The accident of readingSchweitzer's statement aboutreverenc~. and seeing the threeart representations of Jesus asGood Shepherd helped me realizein a fresh way how reverent andrespectful Jesus is. The Good
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His pastor, Msgr. PatrickWoods, founded St. E-~mund's
parish eight years ago in Tonawanda,a suburb of Buffalo. Together they serve the spiritualneeds of, approximately 1,400families and the following :list ofspecial worship celebrationsshould indicate what fine progress has been made there inliturgical I'enewal. '
Weekday MassAn 11 A.M. weekday Mass for
"housewives and little children."This Eucharist, obviously forothers as well, takes place in atemporary downstairs chapelwith chairs situated near andaround the altar. The hour andlocation makes it possible for25-30 to gather daily and worship well in a space Which fosters an intimate, communityspirit.
BaptismBaptisms at the '4:30 Saturday
'afternoon Mass. Announced inadvance through the bulletin, itattracts a larger tlum usual congregation, 'with many approaching the proud parents afterwards
, and congratulating them.Personal st-oles for the bap
tized child. These vestmentsbearing "Welcome to Jesus" withthe infant's name on ~hem area joint venture of adult women'and high school girl-sat St. Ed
·mund's. The parents learn whomade the stole and frequentlyinvite them home for the familycelebration after the baptismalliturgy.
WeddingsCouple-prepared weddings. The
priests stress that this is theirday, their ceremony and emphasize the importance of planningan event which will be a movingexperience for all the guests in
, attendance. Father Vogt also encourages bride and groom tokeep the booklet used for preparation of the nuptial service intheir wedding album as a laterreminder of how they personallydeveloped this liturgy.
'Communal PenanceCommunal celebrations of Pen
ance for families. The first ofthese drew 30 participants; thesecond nearly 400. It follows thestructural pattern (readings,songs, prayers, reconcilation ac-
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Progress In Parish Worship
Jesus refers to himself as theGood Shepherd......,showing towardeach person similar qualities of
care,. concern, and love.Through the centuries, partic
ularly in the first centuries of
good elements from earlier days.Contemporary, yet careful to'keep a link with the past, theystrive to create a celebrating effect, but with an element ofprayerfulness, faith and reverence.
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CHAMPLIN
protection. It comes to us in love.It is a power we feel in strongarms that lift us up, embrace us,carry us gently forward.
It is true that God is themighty "rock" on whom westand and can build secure. Butwe don't have to search out thatrock, go into the desert to' ~ind
it, approach it on our own. Hecomes to us, no matter how farwe have wandered. He takes usto where we will be safe, wherehe can take care of our' needs,and stand guard over us.
The biblical' word that triesto express some of these otherqualities of our God.is "shepherd." "He led forth' his peoplelike sheep and guided them inthe wilderness like a flock; heled them in safety, so that theywere not afraid, and he broughtthem to his holy land ..." (Psalm78).
Shepherd Who Cares
"Shepherd" speaks of concern.The shepherd is the God whoreally cares. He will' -go to any
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Fathel' Robert Vogt wears hishair and sideburns moderatelylong.. Not down to the shouldersbut not in an old-fashionedcrewcut style either. That mod-
. eration in appearance characterizes the moderation of approachhe takes to liturgy after 11 yearsin the priesthood. His attemptsare progressive, but preserve
By
FR. ,QUENTIN
QUESNELL, S.J.
We stumble around in ournaming of God, piling one imageon top of another. EX'3ct andscientific terms say a little.Some picture-words say more.But all human words in all languages together would be' farfrom enough.
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It is true to say that God is"the holy one," and so exaltedwe cannot speak his name. Butit is even truer to say that he is very, very close, and· that he,calls each one of us by name.
It is true that we cannot helprecognizing his atmighty poweras "the Lord." But it is evenmore important to appreciate thefact that his power is always being used for our advantage and
"If ,a man loses revel'ence forany part of his life, he will losehis reverence for all lifo." Thesewords of Albert Schweitzerstrike me as particularly relevant today. In many areas of ourculture there is an unl'ortunatelack of respect and rev(~rence..
Albert Schweitzer's life aswell as his teachings center onreverence. As a profound theologian he respected ideas, tradition, hooks. As a skilled musician and composer he knew thevalue of beauty, art, rel'axation.As a physician he showod a sensitive reverence for the humanbody, for suffering persons.
A dedicated Christian missionary, he recognized the value ofthe deepest realities 01' humanlife, now and hereafter. Throu'ghhis varied and remarkable experiences he developed a deep reverence for God, present in allthat is.
At the 'same time I cameacross Schweitzer's statement onreverence I also noticed severalpaintings of the Good Shepherd.An early Christian artist: paintedJesus carrying 'a iamb on hissho~lders. A contemporary Indian artist portrayed Jesus tryingto free a lamb from a bramblebush. An Indian weaver ('reated acarpet depicting Jesus catchingsight of a lost lamb wanderingfar from the flock. ,
The three artists were at.tempting to convey in their ownstyle Jesus' stories about himselfa's the Good Shepherd (In.10:1-18; Mt. 18-14). A good shepherd, Jesus says, knows andloves each lamb in his flock.
Early Christians, He will go off in search ofone
, that may wander away and getlost. Happily h,e carries hack thelost lamb on his own shoulders.
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an individual. In turn, and justas striking, he listens to hissheep. His concern goes beyondthose who are his own to thosesheep that are not within theflock. In the final analysis, Godas shepherd is at the service ofhis creatures.
AU of these ideas we mayhave become accustomed to, somuch so that we miss the amazing revelation of God containedin the title of shepherd. The losscan only distort the true character of our God and deprivemodern man of one antidote tohis feelings of alienation andloneliness.
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Among the federal officialsexpected to address the meetingare Dwight Drum, coordinator ofnonpublic educational servicesin the bureau of elementary and
,secondary education; HermanGoldberg, associate commissioner in the office of equal educational opportunity; and JosephVopelak, and education programspecialist in the division forcompensatory education.
The chief topics of the workshop will be how the government makes its annual allocations for education and how thegovernment has thus far provided funds to nonpublic schoolslegislatively, constitutional1y andpoHtically.
Schedule Workshop,On Aid to Schools
WASHINGTON (NC)-A workshop' on federal government aidto nonpublic schools is scheduled to be held at the CatholicUniversity here June 11-15.
The workshop, co-sponsoredby the university's educationschools and the U. S. Ca,tholicConference's Elementary andSecondary Education Division,will feature several ,lecturers
, from the U. S. Office of Education:
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deepest truest meaning to aU therest: "I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down hislife for the sheep" (John 10:15).
.Ask Bishops to Aid,Political Prisoners
PAMPLONA (NC) - A groupof priests in Spain's Basque region have aSked their bishops tomediate with prison authoritiesfor humane treatment for' socalled political prisoners.
Estimates on those jailed under security laws range from200 to 500. Many of them areseparatists who have called forautonomy for tpe Basque region.A government amnesty in October 1971 released 3,100 persons,including 400 described as politicalprisoners and about. 30priests.
Copies of the appeal for humane treatment of prisonerssigned by 352 priests in fivedioceses of the Basque provincesin northern Spain also went tothe Vatican, to the Spanish Bishops' Conference and to the Pontifical Commission for Justiceand Peace.
The priests said they recognize that because of censorshipin Spain it is difficult to obtain
'reliable and complete information on the condition of the prisoners, but added that enoughevidence has been gathered tojustify Church concern and efforts, "even if the repressivepower of the state is exercisedagainst our voice on behalf ofthe weak."
"The. Lord is my shepherd, Ishall not want; he makes me liedown in green pastures. He leadsme beside still waters; he restores my soul" (Psalm 23).
'Walk for Life'CINCINNATI (Nq-More than
10,000 persons are expected to"walk for life" in a silent pro-,cession through downtown Cincinnati streets Sunday, May 6,as a memorial to the innocentunborn babies killed by abortion.The demonstration will includea talk by Mrs. Jill Knight, aBritish member of Parliament.She will speak on the effects oflegalized abortion-on-demand inher own country.
, '. In the New Testament, Jesusshows how all the bibUcal riches'of this image come alive in himself. He adds one note that Godcould not show or explain abouthimself in the Old Testament.For us it is the most importantof all, and the one that gives the
"Shepherd" speaks of guidance. "The .sheep hear his voice,and he calls his own sheep byname and leads them out. Thenhe goes before them, and thesheep follow him, for they knowhis voice." We may not knowwhere we are going, or wherewe' should go, or even where wereally want to go. But Godknows. And through all theevents of ·a lifetime, he is leadingus there.
REALLY CARES: "His power ... comes to us in love.It is power we feel in strong arms that lift us, embrace us,carry us gently forward." A television technician playsgood samaritan and holds a baby for a woman who wantedto shake hands with a political candidate during last year'selections NC Photo.
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lengths, put forth any effort, tofind and help and heal, to nourishand warm and love. ')-1 myselfwill be the shepherd of mysheep, and -I will make them liedown, says the Lord God. I willseek the ~ost, and I will bringback the strayed, ,and I wiU bindup the crippled and I willstrengthen the weak; and the fatand'the strong I will watch over. Iwill feed them in righteousness"(Ezekiel 34,15ff.).
other paragraph out of contextto prove that Catholic schoolsdon't make any difference.What Rossi and I really say, ofcourse, is that under some circumstances . Catholic: schoolsmake a difference and underother circumst'ances they don't,and in some circumstances theinfluence is slight, in some circumstances moderate, and insome circumstances very considerable. Everything I've everwritten on Catholic educationhas made these points repeated·Iy but the Probe "group" doesn'tcare. They know what my position is better than I know my-self. .
Of course, most of the sistersin the United States still teach inparochial schools, and I supposemost of the readers of Probe do,too. Why would they be so interested in denying evidence thatis favorabie to their work andin falsifying my position so thattheir work would look unsuccessful escapes me completely.But the demands of self-hatredare such that reasonable evi,dence to the contrary simply' hasto be rejected.
If the "new nuns" who are responsible for Probe could findanything in their own past or intheir own work or in the historyof the American Church or the,work of the American Churchthat had in any slight way beensuccessful then they would losecaste and not be "new nuns"anymore. The only ones who arenot haters of themselves or theirwork and their tradition are",conservatives," and if you're aconservative you certainly can'tbe a "new nun."
O.K., sisers. Your work 'is allworthless and a waste of time.The parochial schools never ac- .complish anything. Drive. taxicabs. Work in Marshall Field'sbasement: Sell fabrics. Be inte-
.rior decorators. March on picket'\ines. Denounce bishops. Plotkidnappings. Dance in bikinis atoffertory processions. Do something really apostolic. '
And as for those black parentswho so enthusiastically support 'the Catholic schools in the innercities of the. country-well, theyprobably don't read Probe. Theyprobably never even heard of it.
Besides, nuns have been oppressed by man and 'particularlyby priests (never mind that
.women have more administrativeand check-signing power in theAmerican Catholic Church thanin virtually any other corporateinstitution' in this country).Greeley is a man and a priestand, what's more, he even likesbeing a priest. Therefore, he isan oppressor, so he has no rights,and there's nothing at all wrongwith falsifying his position. Infact, he should rejoice that he'sgiven 'a chance to do penance forhis sins By having his positionfalsified.
By
REV.
ANDREW M.
GREELEY
Nuns' Newsletter FalsifiesOpinion of Catholic School
Some Catholic psychologist of the twenty-first centurymay well want to do a Ph.D. dissertation linking psychologyand history in which he will try to explain the militantself-hatred of the American Catholic elites in the yearsafter the. Vatican Council.S u c h a psycho-historiancould argue that triumphalism generates self-hatred.
We pretend for many decadesto be slightly better than perfect,but then admit grudgingly tooIJr own publicitY,and then' we
'New' or 'Conservative'She then went on to lift -an-
turn vehemently on ourselvesand castigate ourselves for ourfailures. The self-hatred of the1960s and 1970s is but the otherside of the triumphalistic coin.
The standards haven't changedany; we've simply become morerealistic about performance.
How powerful the self-hatredcan be was brought home forcefully to me in recent weeks.Someone sent me a copy of the~'new nun" newsletter Prob~ inwhich I was informed that I hadsaid with conviction that the"Catholic school makes no significant differences in the livesof young Catholics." I confess tobeing intrigued by such a quotation because while I can't, remember everything that I've saidin a long career of shooting offmy loud Irish mouth, I waspretty sure I had never saidanything like that. Indeed, theresearch I've done on t\1e subject leads me to believe exactlythe opposite and I've said soon so many occasions that it haslong since become tiresome.
Still CheckingSo I wrote to, the editors of
Probe asking for a; correction. Inresponse I received a letter saying that the "group" responsiblefor the article was checking to'see if I had really 'said what theyhad claimed I had said. I responed by observing that I ought to
,know what my oWn position wasand that I thought ,an immediatecorrection would be appropriate.I was then favored with a particularly nasty phone cail from anun who clearly hated all menin general, priests in particular,a"nd me in even more particular,saying that "the group" was stillchecking the quote.
-I finally received a letter fromthe sister who was apparently
. the chairman of the group. Sheexpressed some surprise that Iwould be upset by the misquotebecause, -after all, in the introduction to The Education ofCatholic Americans Peter Rossiand I pad predicted th~t wewould be quoted out of context.It seemed to me that that was·an interesting sort of ethical argument. Because somebody expects to be quoted out of context it is therefore all right forthose who are responsible forthe distortion.
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Shepherd symbol beautifullysuggests his reverence for allthatlives, for all that exists. Theimage connotes his particular re-.spect for those who are oftennot treated with respect, thelonely, the lost, those who maynot fit, into the crowd.
Sensitive RespectFurther :reflection on the Gos
pels shows many examples' ofJesus' reverent dealings with
, people of all kinds-wealthy andpoor, influential and powerless,happy and sad, sick and well,saint and sinner. His sensitiverespect for all is poetically captured by St. Matthew when hesays of Jesus: "The bruised reedhe will not crush" (Mt. 12:20).Reverence is one of the 'most obvious, yet often unnoticed,marks of Jesus' life.
It seems that in an age characterized in many ways by a lackof respect for things, by a lackof reverence for life, a failure toappreciate the value of the individual person, religious education might pay special attentionto ways of fostering an attitudeof reverence. Parents, perhapsmore than any others, have theopportunity to encourage reverence-most of all by themselvesbeing reverent and showing respect.
The image of the Good Shepherds can help us rememberJesus' own sensitive reverenceas a call .to live reverent livesourselv,es. "If a man loses reverence for any part of his life, hewill lose his reverence for alllife.!'
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There is fuirly widespread agreement today among those engagedin the pastoral ministry that aparish of substantial size shouldseek to offer a varied fare ofSunday Masses. This wouldmean eucharistic liturgies withand without singing, featuringguitar or organ, "modern" and"traditional" (vague, elusiveterms) designed to suit in an'acceptable, authorized mannerthe different tastes of parishioners. St. Edmund's has thattype of arrangement., Every now and then we need
to look back,' to note where andhow far we have come. Thesepractices in a suburban Buffaloparish, while not in truth thatnovel or extraordinary, do demonstrate what has and can bedone with the liturgy. There hasindeed been progress-remarkable progress in a brief periodof time. .
'active involvement by many ofthe students (gift bearers, readings,etc.) The 270 on hand naturally would not fit into the"sanctuary. However, severalmembers of, each grode, representing their brothers and sistersin that class, do come forwardand stand, around the altar.Those so' designated, I am told,consider it a great, honor andothers look forward to theirturn.
PRO-LIFE PETITIONS: Mrs. Carol Shively of Our Sunday Visitor tabulates some of the more than 100,000 petitions calling for a constitutional amendment to protect theunborn. The petition form was printed in the March ~
issue of OSV. Th~ signed petitions are being forwarded tothe U. S. Coalition for Life for presentation to legislators.
which they undoubtedly use butwhich, spilled out on page afterpage, may begin by being shocking but soon becomes boring.
The extent and the operations'of organized crime have not heenof suf;ifcient concern to Americans, even to those in responsible public office. This novel,which, except at the' close, lacksthe pace and the bite of Mr. Higgins' earlier, best selling' TheFriends of Eddie Coyle, lets ussee, through the lens of fiCtion,Ii factual enormity.
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., May 3,1973
By
RT. REV.
-MSGR.
JOHN S.
KE~NEDY
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Lauds Volume of HallinanWritings and Speeches
Paul J. Hallinan's tenure as Archbishop of Atlanta wasbrief. It began on March 29, 1962, and ended with his deathon March 27, 1968. Atlanta enjoyed no special prestige asa metropolitan see; in' fact, Hallinan was the first archbishop there. It waH, then,his own personal qualitiesand activities which madehim a leader in the AmericanChurch, and which guaranteehim a place in the' text, ratherthan in the footnotes, of itshistory.
cerned about discerning and defining the role' of" the Christianin modern society, American society, and Southern society. Tothis he addressed himself studiously, and what he discovered heset forth cogently .and coura'geously.
The reader's heart does not al-,ways leap in exultation when heis confronted with 'a collection ofoccasional speeches and writings.
But here is the exceptional instance in which remnants of thepast have not lost color, or savor,but still 'have vitality' and perti
, nence. One reads with admiration, 'and also with regret thatwe shall have no more from thevoice and pen of an outstandingAmerican churchman.
Something of these qualities Apostles of Lightand activities is conveyed by Two problems now confrontingDays of Hope and Promise: The America are depicted in a pair of PrO,'9 ress In Parish W«)rshipWritings and Speeches of Paul J. new novels. The .first of ,theseHallinan (Liturgical Press, Col- books i:; Apostle'S of Light 'by Continued from Page Sixteenlegeville, Mi,nn. 56321. $6,95. mus- Ellen Douglas (Houghton Mifflin,
2 P k ' M '02 0 tion) now ratlier standardtrated). This containB three' ar ~)t., Boston, ass. 1 7.
$6 95) throughout the United States,dozen pieces of various lengths. .. but accentuates attendance byThe collection has been edited, This deals with unwanted old
1 ·· .. the entire family. Good, healingand is introduced by, Monsignor peop e III a fiver town m Missis-. . Th . . things have happened in homesVincent A. Yzermans. There is a SIppi. ,e scene IS a gracIOus, d' h h' h . h as a result of these liturgies.
m' emoir by Archbishop Joseph L. an spacIOus ouse w IC , Wit Penance service for ShroveBernardin, as well as II tribute its gardens, is m:llch the worse.f 1 t Th ' Tuesday. "Are you Crazy?",by Monsignor John Tra<:ey Ellis, or neg ec . e owners are two
d . t M th' Cl k' d Father Vogt obJ'ected, when aboth close friends of Archbishop age, SIS ers, ar, a ar e anth 'd dEl' b th Cl k parish worship team first sug-Hallinan. e WI owe Iza e all e
The memoir and the' tribute Griswold. The latter has a son' gested the idea. "Mardi Gra~andtell us more of the man himself and a daughter, bQth of whom last minute before Lent parties
1· t t d' t' S leave little room for desire for athan we would gather from his Ive a a grea IS ance. uppos- ~
dl 1 k· 'f h Id 1 di ' ,Penance liturgy." But the com-own words, and each ha!) its own e Y 00 mg a ter teo, a es. t t th t t mittee voted him down (10-2),merits. One wishes, however, In eres s on e spa are woCl k h 1 . h 'h planned the ceremony, then'that a, chronological outline, at ar e nep ews, Ii ong Wit t e '
Of Iff ' smiled at its success.least, of the late Archbishop's' WI e ane son 0 . one 0 these.life had been supplied. Better Elizabeth dies. Martha is left ,Holy Thursdaystill would have been a biograph- alone. The local relatives are
ol"t f h If th Holy Thursday adoration'hours.iCfll essay. s ICI ous or erwe are, ey-The volume's title is well cho- , ,say, and to safeguard it, bring After the evening Mass of the
sen. Archbishop Hallinan's into the household one Howie Lord's Supper (7:30), 300 keptSn der ho ma'ke b' thO vigil ,before the Blessed Sacra.thought and utterance were con- y, w sa' Ig mg
sistently hopeful, and he always of his benevolence' and of quot- ment. from 9:00 to 10:00; 150saw promise for the future in ing Scripture.' were there fro~ 10:00 to 11:00;times and circumstances which Howie soon cOlnes up with a around 70 prayed during themight strike, others as doubtful wonderful idea to' which Mar- concluding 11 :00 to 12:00 slot.at best. When it is remembered tha's relatives agree. Why not A priest and two lectors con~that some parts of this book use all the space in the house by ducted this devotional hourwere composed when projects of taking in old peopie who are an marked by songs, readings,his were in jeopardy and his own inconvenience to their families? prayers and moments for perhealth was on the downward In that way, a splehdid Christian sonal reflection.slide, his unflagging spirit is the service can be done, and, quite Why did so many come? Fammore remarkable. incidentally of course, money ilies in the parish were assigned
can be made. a given hour for adoration. DidVaried Interests Another Game this cut into attendance at the,
Archbishop Hallinan's interests More blatant crime is featured Mass itself? That remains an un-were many: among others, the in The Digger's GaIlle ,by George answered question.nature and mission' of the V. Higgins (Knopf, 501 Madison, First FridayChurch, the liturgy, peace, jus- Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022.tice and charity in a mb'ed soci- $5.95). Laid in and around Bos- First Friday Mass'es for chilety, ecumenism, Christian educa- ton, this is the story of Digger dren. Grades one to eight of thetion, the Christian vocation in Doherty, 'saloon keeper and mid- Catholic school participate inthe contemporary world. dIe echelon criminal who gets these monthly celebrations with
To' ,discussion of these he caught up in the toils of the bigbrought an acute and richly time operators.stored mind. Here are no pious He is flattered to be includedvaporings, no shuffling of stale in a mob-promoted gamblingideas. The Archbishop Vias hon- junket to Las Vegas, soon blowsest and trenchant. He e1<pressed the thousand dollars he hashimself clearly. He drew' upon brought along, continues to playhistory and literature, of which and signs IOU's for his losings,he seems to have extensive and, returning home, is conknowled~e, but most of all he fronted, with a demand for paydrew on a penetrating: under- ment of the $18,000 he oWes thestanding of the Church,' human mob.nature, and'the present age. And He devises a scheme to savehe leaven~ even the most seri- ,',himself. Its working an'd its outous matter with humor. come constitute the climax of a,He was no original like Su- novel about rough people written
hllrd, but he was profmmdly ~on- in the very rough language,
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"If there is a more unspeakable crime than abortion itself,"said Cardinal 'Krol, "it is usingthe victims of abortion as living,human guinea pigs for medicalresearch. Neither science normorality is well served by laboratory experimentation onhuman beings."
Two foreign priests active inhelping the poor have been allowed to stay in the fountryafter threats of expulsion. Theyare Fathers Gregorio Iriarte andGerardo Leclerc, both Oblates.
The bishops had protested thethreats and met with authorities to seek clarification of thepolicies o! the Banzer regime.
After Col. Banzer and hisrightist followers overthrew aleftist regime in 1971, manypriests, Religious and laymenwere caught in an "anti-subversive" drive. Some 18 priests andfour nuns, as well as three Protestant pastors, left the countrybecause of threats to their livesand freedom. Government policeand soldiers raided 15 convents,and twice the residen~e of BishopJesus Lopez de Lama of Corocoro was searched without awarrant.
Bolivia Rulers SeekPeace With Church
LA PAZ (NC)-High officials ;in the rightist government ofCol. Hugo Banzer are trying toforestall further friction withBolivia's bishops on the issue ofsocial action by priests and Religious.
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Score Experiments on Aborted Fetuse$WASHINGTON (NC) - dardi- leased a statement calling such The Committtee on Population
na,1 John Krol, president of the experiments "immoral and total- and Pro-Life Affairs, chaired byUnited States Catholic Confer- Iy objectionable." Cardinal John Cody of Chicago,enee, has called experiments on termed the matter "cause forliving aborted fetuses, "a more Both responses came after it moral outrage."
k bl . h b' was learned that for the past~nspe,~ a e cnme t an a orbon 13 months the National Insti- "It is no more justifiable toItself. tutes of Health has been con- experrment with a fetus than to
Simultaneously, the U. S. bish- sidering whether live fetuses re- experiment with the life of theops' ad hoc Committee on Pop- suIting from abortion should be sick or terminaIly ill patients,"ulation and Pro-tife AffaIrs re- used in medical experiments. the committee stated. "We be
lieve that physicians should beencouraged to do ali that is possible to preserve human life atevery stage of its existence."
NEW BEDFORD eyO GIRLS' BASKETBALL LEADERS: Beatrice Guilmette, directress of the Whaling City Girls' Basketball League presents trophies at annual awardsnight to Debbie Ruscik of 51. Mary's Parish, league champions; Fernanda Macedo ofMt. Carmel, second place in competition; Melany Martin of 51. John's, outstanding playeraward.
Httle trouble making the playoffs. Durfee may encounter afew difficulties along the way,but don't be surprised to see theHilltoppers qualify.
Coach Joe Lewis' club is 3-1going into action this week. Thebig gun for the Red and Blackhas been John Morris who losthis first decision of the campaign, but has rebounded to winhis next two outings.
Morris combines wioth SteveCamara to give the Hilltoppersa formidable one-two pitchingpunch. Both wiN be in actionthis week when the Fall Riveritesattempt to extend their threegame winning streak at the expense of New Bedford ,vocational today and Milford Saturday.
sl10ulder most of the pitching responsibilities for the duration ofthe campaign.
Not al'l of New Bedford's winshave been easy ones. In its twogames with Falmouth the Crimson triumphed by 1-0 and 3-0margins. The Whalers edgedTabor Academy by a 3-2 count.A good team is to demonstratethe ability to win the closegames. New Bedford has shownit can. The question, at this time, is can anyone beat NewBedford?
Attleboro will have the firstcrack at the Whalers today. TheHlue Bombardiers entered playthis week in a first place tie withSomerset in Division A of theSoutheastern Mass. Conference.However, Coach Chet Hanew.ich's nine has been the viWmof some loose play against nonleague opponents. They will haveto come up with a good effortto throttle New Bedford.
The Red Rocketeers have beenenjoy,ing a banner athletic yearand appear to have the firepoweron the diamond to stay with thebest the league has to offer.Whille it is true North has already dropped two contests, afew timely hits will thrust itrig~t back into contention.
Mansfield and Oliver Ameslikewise, are still in the race;however, both must play moreconsistently. Neither has a veteran club, but the nucleus for apennant contender is still presentat both schools. If either is ableto come up with the big upsetit could provide the spark necessary to produce a serious challenger.
'SCHOOLBOY SPORTSIN THE DIOCESE
The Pachecomen will be backin action again on Saturctay foranother doubleheader. In themorning they will travel to Fair,haven to tangle wioth the BlueDevils and then return to nometerritory for another engagementwith Falmouth.
New Bedford, while not amember of any league, can qual,ify for the State baseball championship tournament. However,with no league ohampionshippossibility, the Whalers mustplay every game as though atitle were on the 'line for theirfinal record will determinewhether or not they qualify.
Durfee High of Fall River is inthe same tournament position asNew Bedforo. It appears asthough the Whalers will have
The big news on the local diamond scene thus far is the performance of Coach 'John Pacheco's New Bedford High. TheWhalers who have rolled toeight straight victories will attempt to make Attleboro number nine today.
Pitching is the name of thegame and New Bedford forte isits strong mound staff. DaveGrimes has been the number oneman earning five victories in asmany outings. The hard throwingr-ight hander also has a no-hitterto his credit, a 1-0 win over Lawrence High of F'a,lmouth.
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In that contest Grimes onlyallowed one runner to reachbase that on a .base-on-balls. Hestruck out 10 men.
Randy Clarkson has three triumphs and h~ll' given CoachPacheco a scifid performanceeaoh time out. .The pair havecarried the load..in the early season and will !>e expected to
Durfee Strong Candidate for Tourney
Franklin Holds Slim Lead
In Hockomock Pennant RaceThe scramble is on in the ten team Hockomock League.
With less than three weeks gone in the campaign thereis no undefeated club in the circuit, and, at least, five ballteams are battling for first place. The diocese's threerepresentatives are all within striking distance of leaderFranklin and are expected tocontinue challenging. As theloop enters its third week ofaction surprising Franklin holdsa slim half game margin overKing Philip High of Wrenthamand Stoughton. The remainingschools are all within a gameor two of the pacesetters inwhat has the makings of one ofthe olosest races staged in manyyears.
North Attleboro, Oliver AmesHigh of Easton and Mansfieldare the three local contingentsplaying in the 'loop. The formerprobably rates the best chanceof overhauling first place Franklin.
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ish in Fall River on Sunday, May13, at5 o'elock in the aHernoon.
Concelebrating with the newpriest will be Rev. Msgr. JohnE. Boyd, Rev. Maurice Jeffrey,Rev. Harold J. Wilson, and Rev.Paul F. McCarrick, all of St. Patrick Parish. .
Rev. James P. Dalzell, pastorof Our Lady Of the Isle Parish,Nantucket, will preach the homily and concelebrate.. Other concelebrants include:
Rev. Robert S. Kaszynski of St.Stanislaus Parish, Fall River;Rev. Edward J. Burns of OurLady of Fatima Parish, Swansea;Rev. Michel Methot of St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford; Rev.Wmiam C. Carroll and Rev.Roger C. Cormier of St. DenisParish, Islington.
Rev. Richard O. Matte, Chaplain of the Xaverian BrothersHigh School, Westwood; Rev.FranCis V. Strahan of St. John'sSeminary, Brighton;.Rev. GeorgeC. Bellenoit of St. Mary .Parish,Mansfield; Rev. Edward Correiaof Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bedford, Rev. DanielF. Hoye and Rev. Robert Donovan of St. John the Evangeli-stParish, Attleboro.
Questions KindlePOW's Faith
HAWTHORNE (NC)-As hisNorth Vietnamese interrogatorsshouted "Tell the truth, tell thetruth," Lt. Col. Robert W. Barnett found hi~self thinking,"God is truth." .
"I decided when I found truth,I would find God. A weight fellfrom my shoulders," Barnett saidin an interview with The Tidings,the Los Angeles archdiocesannewspaper.
Although he was raised as a'Congregationalist, Barnet admitted that he had not been veryreligious-until he found him·self a prisoner of war in Hanoi.There he found a faith that sustained him through more thansix years of captivity and whichhas now moved him to thinkabout becoming a Catholic. .
"After I developed this faith,nothing bothered me any more,"Barnett said. "And after that Inever was physically tortured. Iwas pressured to make. statements. I always refused, but Iwas not tortured again.
"I decided, if anything comesout of this, it depends on God."
Barnett was released by theCommunists March 14. Elevendays later he saw his daughter,Lori, confirmed in St. Joseph'sOatholic Church here.
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Lin'ks Glory of GodWith Joy of Man
. VATICAN CITY (NC)-PopePaul VI, linking the glory of Godto the joy of man, called religious joy the antidote to inferiorconcepts of religion that in-
'elude notions- such as "remote·ness, obscurity, fear,. terror."
The Pope, speaking at'a gen·eral audience April 25, beganhis brief address with the Eastergreeting "Alleluia," explainingthat it began as a "cry of praiseto God" and had b~come "a cryof joy f()r us." .
The word Alleluia, therefore,teaches us "that God's glory isour joy," he said. .
"How often," he observed,"are we not put off from thestudy of religion and from thepractice of religion simply because we have failed to understand and to savor that God isour happiness."
Continued from Page OneRoxbury; Boston Technical HighSchool and Boston College wherehe received a B.S. in Education.
Rev. Mr. Higgins prepared forthe priesthood at St. John'sSeminary in Brighton and servedas a deacon at Holy Name Parishin Fall River.
He will celebrate his first solemn Mass at St. Dorothy Parish,Wilmington, on Sunday, May 13at 11:45.
Concelebrating with the newpriest will be Rev. LawrenceDrennan, Rev. John D'Arcy, Rev.Joseph Leahy and Rev. JeanAlves, all of Boston.
A reception will follow in theparish hall.
Rev. Mr. Travassos .Son of Horace and Veronica
(Carey) Travassos of TowerStreet in Fall River, Rev. Mr.Horace Joseph Tra\tass.os is aneducator in his own right.
After receiving' a B.A. and
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added a Master of Divinity from, St. John's Seminary in Brighton.
'. From 1965 to 1967 he servedas a member of the 'faculty ofBishop Stang High School inNo. Dartmouth. He also servedas choirmaster at 51. PatrickParish, Fall River, from 1961 to1968.
Since his ordination to thediaconate for the Diocese of FallRiver, he has served at 51. Theresa Parish, So.. Attleboro, andSt. Denis Parish, Islington.
Rev. Mr. Travassos will celebrate his first solemn Mass inconjunction with the centenarycelebrations of St. Patrick Par-
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SHOUT HOSANNA: It was ~ wet weekend but that didn't keep New Bedford areaBoy Scouts from enjoying a camping retreat at Camp Noquochoke, led by Rev. Roger~eDuc, area. Scou.t chaplain. Top, boys prepare for "God Is Love" game; center, fite islIghted despIte ram; bottom, Scouts gather in dining hall for retreat conference. Theme ofweekend was "Shout Hosanna" and activities included Stations of the Cross, viewingof vocations film, living rosary, campfire program and closing Mass and presentation ofawards.
