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Swansea

couple •remaIn

mISSIonarIes By Pat McGowan

";Wherever there is need 'and you bring Christ, there are the missions."

That's the philosophy of Mark Shea, 38, and his wife Linda, 34. Growing up, Linda in Swan­sea and Mark in Portsmouth, N.H., both dreamed of mission life in a far-off land; but it took a while for the dream to come true.

They met at St. Francis Col· lege, Biddeford, Me., and mar· ried in 1969, when Linda was a freshman and Mark a junior. Linda left college at that time, earning her degree 'later, while Mark continued to graduation.

·Both had become secular Fran· ciscans while at college and the ideals of St.Fraricis guided them as they moved to Erie, Pa., where Mark taught moral theology at Villa Maria College. . In Erie the couple joined an

inner-city community whose pur­pose was to fill participants with the Christian spirit so they might return to their home parishes as zea1ous, loving members.

The Sheas w.ere powerfully moved by the group and when pne Sunday the homily dealt with the need for lay ministry in :the foreign missions, "it took us only about four hours to de­cide. to volunteer," said Mark.

They accepted an assignment to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, only to have it withdrawn when the Ethiopian government decided not to admit children of mis­sioners to the nation. "We could have gone without ·the children," said Mark, "but of course that was impossible."

Their dream seemed to have receded but suddenly word reach­ed the Sheas that Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u, archbishop of the dio­cese of Samoa-Apia and Toke1a'u and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago, 'was looking for a couple to teach in his seminary in Western Sa­moa and to nurse. Children were welcome.

Barely pausing to ask "Where is Western Samoa?". the coup1e agreed to the new opportunity, Linda took a crash nures' aide course and off they set with their tots to the South Pacific.

The children were Jeremy, now 14, then 2Y2, and Jonathan, ' now 11, then 5 months. Benja­

IN SUBFREEZING cold, Father Thomas L. Rita Bedford pro-life rally. Story at right. (Rosa Photo)

Issues as varied as geography

Papal trip begins tomor~ow VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope

John Paul II's Jan. 26-Feb. 6 trip to four South American and Caribbean countris affords him the chance to discuss issues as varied as the geography in the regions he plans to visit.

His sixth trip to Latin Am­erica will take him to hot, steamy jungles, desert oases and mountain cities. He plans to visit Maraca'ibo, Venezuela, which is 25 feet below sea level and Cuz­co, Peru, nestled 10,000 feet high in the Andes Mountains. He plans to talk to bishops, workers, Indians and politicall leaders and visit shantytowns and presiden­tial palaces.

On the pope's itinerary are Venezuela, Eouadar, Peru and Trinidad-Tobago.

Latin America is heavily Cath­olic in numbers of church mem~

bers, history, tradtion and cul­ture. But there is a shortage of native clergy and the church still relies strongly on mission­aries.

the 8.6 million popu'lation is Catholic, has an average of one priest for every 6,000 church members.'

1ihe result is "a lack of reli­gious and moral formation so that specific aspects of Christian life are lax," according to the apostolic nunciature in Peru.

This is especially true of fam­ily life.

"Irregular activities such as concubinage and divorce and re­marriage are ample. The practices of abortion and contraception are on the rise," according to the nunciature.

Birth control is part of the U.S. government's foreign aid. The Reagan administration has said it will not fund programs which perform or promote abor­tion as a method of birth control. However, the ad.ministration funds other forms of population control, including family coun· seling programs and contracep­tion.

Two scheduled Ibeatifications

fer the pope platforms for stress­ing renewal of church life and Christian values..

The beatifications, th efirst in Latin America, are scheduled for Feb. I in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Feb. 2 in Arequipa, Peru:The .ordination of priests is sched· uled for Feb. 3 in Lima, Peru.

In Venezuela. the pope plans to lunch with iron and steel workers. In Ecuador and Peru he is scheduled to visit urban shantytowns, where many mi· grants find makeshift homes while seeking city jobs.

In Peru and Eouador, the pope will visit Indian~, who form 30 percent of the Ecuadoran popula­tion and 45 percent of the Peru­vian.

,Ecuador's bishops paint a bleak picture of Indian life.

"They live in huts, without electricity, without water and without sufficient means of com­munication. The average life of an Indian is 45 years. Of every seven children only two to three

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Pro-lifers •C:OntIllue

protests By NC News Service

Thousands of pro-lifers across the United States - some brav­ing sub-zero temperatures ­marcheel, prayed and rallied Jan· uary 22 to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Su­preme Court's decision legalizing abortion.

The only hitch in a New Bed­ford rally occurred when obstet­rician Dr. Joseph Santos, a scheduled speaker, was delayed becaus'l he was delivering a baby. His reason was applauded by l~O pro-lifers wearing black armbands who awaited him in subfreezing temperatures. Some 35 pro-choice demonstratorS.were also present, sand Mary Ann Booth of New Bedford Citizens for Life, a rally organizer. 'lbere was some shouting but no con­frontations, she said.

The pro·life rally was preced­ed by a march from the old New !Bedford High School building to the Free Public Library, where the speaking program took place. Among speakers were Father Thomas L. Rita, Fall River diO:­cesan director of the Pro-Life Apostolate, ,Fall River Rabbi Norbert Weinberg and Or. Cyn­thia Kruger, a N<ew Bedford city councilor and a Southeastern Massachusetts University faculty member.

Ms. Booth said the rally was also highlighted by singing of a pro-life song composed fo'r the occasion.

In Boston's Faneuil Hall Jan. 20, evangelical pro-life activist Franky Schaeffer spoke of the possibility that the 20th century will be remembered as the cen­tury of genocide.

The crowd was buoyed by the success of suburban Brockton pro-lifers, who succeeded recent-· ·Iy in pressuring the Goddard Medical Center to stop perform­ing abortions.

They applauded enthusiastic­ally the mention of Archbishop Bernard F. Law of ·Boston, whose recent initiative to see that no ,human should have to undergo an abortion because of financial need ,has received support from the pro-life community.'

Schaeffer said the 20th cen­tury is the century of death used as the solution to social prob­'lems on a scale heretofore un­imagined ·in the annals of human history. No tyrant, no leader

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2 THE ANC-HOR;.;..' Friday, Jan. 25, 1985

Nun shot in church

NEW ORLEANS (NC) Dominican Sister Mary Jude Marlborough was· shot twice Jan. 16 at St. Rita's Church by an assailant who then killed himself, police reported.

Sister Marlborough, 68, a fOlJrth-grade teacher at St. Rita's Elementary School, was report­ed in serious but stable condition at South~rn Baptist Hospital fol­lowing the shooting.

She had just entered the church for 7:30 a.m. Mass when Charles W. Boles fired four times. Two shots struck Sister Marlborough in the head and one hit a statue of Christ before \(Boles shot himself.

Father James Tarantino, co­pastor, said, "We have a speaker in the house. I heard one loud bang followed Iby three rapid ones." He ran to the church, then called police and New Or­leans Archbishop Philip M. Han­nan.

Prayer high point of papal me~~ingBoles, 38, had been sentenced in 1975 to 1~ years in the Louisi­ana State Penitentiary for armed By Tracy Early ister from New York who was pope was encouraging people to robbery. He was released in June arrested 'at the New York Con­ "realize their full potential and

iNE,W YORK {NC) - To Auxi­1984. A police spokesman said sulate of South Africa Dec. 5, not be handicapped by the color

liary Bishop Emerson Moore of he did not know why the re­ the same day Bishop Moore was of their skin."

New York, the most memorable :lease took place because there arrested. Bishop Moore said thepart of the Jan. 3 visit by the Recalling that the Baptist and u~ually is no early release for pope gave one hand to Mr. Jack­Rev. Jesse Jackson to Pope John Pentecostal communities repre­armed robbery. son and the other to Mr. Daugh­Paul II. was not revealed at the se'nted by Mr. Jackson and Mr.

try, and Bishop Moore completed Archbishop Hannan asked for press conference Mr. Jackson Daughtry had often been highly the circle at the pope's desk. prayers for the recovery of Sis­ held afterward. critical of the Catholic Church

er They prayed in silence, Bishop Marlborough and for the. re­ "For me, th'e' high point came and the papacy, Bishop Moore pose of the soul of her assailant. Moore said, and since the con­ expressed special appreciationtoward the end of the visit when

The archbishop said ,the shoot­ Jesse asked the Holy Father, 'Can versation had just been dealing for the ecumenical character of . with Mr. Jackson's request that

ing was "obviously the act of a we pray?'" Bishop Moore, who their prayer together. the pope visit South Africa, that

demented person because there accompanied Mr. Jackson to country became the subject of The bishop is a convert to

was absolutely no reason for it." Rome, said in an intervie'w at his his own prayer. "I was asking Catholicism, born to parents who

Harlem. rectory. After the attack St. Rita's the Lord in s~me way to make had been Methodist and con­Church was resanctified Jan. 16 He said Mr. Jackson, a Bap­ me better for those people," verted after he did. On becoming by Father Tarantino and Father tist minister, also asked if they 'Bishop Moore said. a bishop he adopted as his motto John Miller, associate pastor, could join hands as they prayed, the scriptural words, "One Lord, In the 20-minute' visit, .Bishop who performed the Rite of Recon­ and though the pope at first one faith, one baptism." Moore said, Mr. Jackson did ciliation of a Profaned Church. seemed a mittie tal<en aback by most of the talking, and the pope

. the request, he readily agreed. "IAccording to Msgr. Henry C. was mostly listening, He said guess people don't often ask him New provincialBezo, archdiocesan historian, the Mr. Jackson origi08'lly intended to join hands and pray," Bishop only previous resanctification iri to focus on his request for a Very Reverend Peter-HansMoore said. the New Orleans Archdiocese . South African papal visit, Ibut Kolvenbach, S.J., superior gen­

came in 1947 after a priest was Also participating in the meet­ later decided to make it only one eral of the Society of Jesus, has stabbed while distributing com­ ing, he said, was the~eY. Her­ among a number of other topics. appointed Father Robert E. }'dan­munion. bert Daughtry, a Penecostal min- ning, S.J.; presently rector ofThe bishop said he thought a

pa:pal visit to South Africa could the Co)i1ege of the Holy Cross, be helpful, and he expected the Worcester, provincial of the pope to give Mr: Jackson's reo New 'England Jesuit province. quest serious consideration. "Of Father Manning succeeds Father course, .I don't think the South Edward M. O'Flaherty, S.J., pro­

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and Fatima Bishop Moore said there was at Baghdad College, Iraq, from "no doubt in my mind that Jesse 1961 to 1964 and was ordained16 DAYS Lv MAY 2 $1,369 is the most prominent spokes­ to the priesthood in 1967.

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was college chaplain for 12 yearsfication of North and South an da visiting lecturer in the de­Korea because .it would reunite OLIVEIRA partment of religious studies. He .millions of families, said PopeTOURS and TRAVEL .has been rector of the HolyJohn .Paul II during a ceremony Cross Jesuit community sincein which Ihe received the creden­265 ,Rivet Sireet, New-Bedford, MA 02144 1983.tials of Young Hoon Kang,

'iI'~~(Sph@l1'il(s (~] 1) ~~#'~~3~] South Korea's new ambassador He will assume his new office to the Holy See. on July 31.

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN and Msgr. John J. Oliveira were recently supper guests of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at their Fall River convent. The sisters teach CCO at Santo Christo, Espirito Santo, Our Lady of Angels and St. Anthony of Padua parishes in Fall River and conduct St. Francis· ReSidence for working women on Whipple Street, also in Fall River. (Gaudette Photo)

Sanctuary

concept defended

11UCSON, Ariz. (NC) ..:... Three Southwest bishops have urged President Reagan to allow Cen­tral American refugees '. to .stay in the United States while fight­ing continues i~ their homelands. The bishops also supported the religious convictions of Ameri­cans who shelter the refugees.

The letter to Reagan, dated .Jan. 17, came three days after 16 sanctuary movement workers were indicted in Tucson for trans­porting and sheltering iHega! Central American refugees. The sanctuary movement·· is a net­work of ·Iocal church groups sheltering refugees.

The letter was signed by Bish­ops Thomas J. O'Brien of Phoe­nix, Manuel D. Moreno of Tuc­son, and Jerome J. Hastrich of Gallup, N.M., whose diocese in­cludes the eastern part of Ari­zona.

The bishops told -;Reagan "the most immediate and cOQstructive response your administration could make to the plight of the refugees would be to offer them extended voluntary departure status. We strongly urge the gov­ernment to provide this option to the refugees seeking safety in our country."

Extended voluntary departure status means the refugees could stay in the United States indef­initely while they are in, danger but would not become perman­ent residents. The U.S. govern­ment classifies most Central Americans as economic refugees and deports them.

"The persons· involved in the sanctuary movement are acting on their lPoral and religious con­victions that the refugees from Central America are victims of politica! instability, terrorism and the interplay of regional and in­ternational forces beyond their control," the bishops said .in their letter to Reagan. "Their partici­pation in offering sanctuary is consistent with our national JVs­tory and with biblical values."

The bishops said that although some Americans might believe that sanctuary workers are vio­~ating civil law, "if there is room for legal doubt and debate".on this issue, it should be clear that their choice represents a moral· posi­tion publicly affirmed, a ohoice which does not harm or threaten .other persons, a choice made with the willlingness to accept the consequences within our country's legal system if necess­ary."

Issues challenged NEW YORK (NC) - Acid

rain and "comparable 'worth" of female :employaes are among issues on which Catholic and Protestant religious groups are challenging U.S. corporate poli­cies through shareholder reso­lutions. Most such church acti­vity is coordinated by the IQter­faith Center on Corporate Re­'Sponsibility, which has thus far ·Iisted 75 resolutions filed by its members for action at 69 an­nual corporation meetings.

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tral section of Caracas, capital of Venezuela. Pope John Paul II will reach the city to­morrow afternoon as the first stop on his ll-day trip to Latin America. (NCjCIRIC Photo)

Five priests marli: silver jubilee Five priests of the FaH River Long involved 'in youth work, liaison with members of the

diocese will mark their 25th an­ Father Buote has been diocesan charismatic renewal, having re­niversary of ordination next chaplain for Girl Scouts, Boy sponsibility for some 57 prayer Wednesday. Scouts and Camp Fire since groups. He has served on the

Ordained in St. Mary's Cathe· 1976; He has also served as area faculty of the diocesan Perman­dral Jan. 30, 1960, by Bishop Boy Scout chaplain and was a ent Diaconate Program si:nce James ,L. Connolly were Fathers Cape Cod Camp Fire board 1977. Martin L. Buote, Robert S. Kas­ member in 1978 and 1979. In The jubHarian's honors include zynski, John F. Moore, Thomas 1982 he was named to the board the first Brotherhood Award pre­E. O'Dea and John J. Steakem. of the Plymouth Bay Girl Scout sented by the Greater Fall River

Also ordained with the quin· Council. Interfaith Council and member­tet was Father Agostinho S. ship as a Confrater of the Order

Father Kaszynski Pacheco, now incardinated in the of 'St. Paul the Hermit. The latter diocese of ,Brownsvil'le, Texas, Father Kaszytlski, pastor of St. distinction came in recognitionwhere he is pastor of Holy Spirit Stanislaus parish, Fall River, of his work in spreading devo­parish in the city of McAllen. since 1966, was born in, New' ton to Our Lady of Czestochowa.

The diocesan priests will ob· Bedford, the son of the late St. Stanislaus parishionersserve their silver jubilee on Jan. Genevieve (Kalisz) and Chester

will fete Father Kaszynski at a31, the date of their first Masses, S. Kaszynski. After attending banquet and testimonial to fol­at a Mass for their brother schodls in that city and Dart... low 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. The priests at St. Mary's Church, mouth he prepared for the priest­pastor wiU be homilist and prin­New Bedford, Father ,Moore's hood at semina~es in Indiana, cipal celebrant of the Mass and parish. 'Bishop Daniel A. Cronin Illinois and Michigan as well as the banquet will be. held atwill be principal celebrant and at St. John's, Brighton.

homiHst for the occasion. After two years as associate Throughout the year, other pastor at St. Patrick's Church,

festivities wi'll follow for the Fall River, Father Kaszynski was jubilarians. named associate at St. Stanis­

Father Buote laus and later in the year ad­Father Buote, a Fall River na­ ministrator, serving in that cap­

tive, the son of Margaret (Mar­ acity until 1966. tin) :Buote and ':the late John A.

At the parish he founded the Buote, attended grammar and Confraternity of Our Lady ofhigh school in Somer&et. He Czestochowa, whose charterstudied at the Massachusetts In­members were received by the , stitute of Technology, the Sohool late Cardinal Humberto Medei­of St. Philip Neri and Cardinal ros in 1976. He has conductedO'Connell minor seminary be­many pilgrimages for parishion­fore' completing preparation for ers and friends, especially to Po­the priesthood at St. John's Sem­'\ish shrines, and has given re­inary, Brighton. treats and missions throughoutHe was associate pastor at the nation as well as in E'urope, several diocesan parishes and Asia and Africa. taught mathematics at Bishop

Conno\'ly High School, Fall River, ,In 1976 Father Kaszynski was before being named in June, elected president of the Dioce­1980, as pastor of St. Ann's par­ san 'Priests' Council, serving two ish, New Bedford, where he is terms in the office. Also in that now serving. year he was named diocesan

Venus de Milo restaurant, Swan­ TH~ .ANCHOR ­sea. Friday, Jan. 25, 1985

Father Moore minstration of ReginaPacis His­Father 'Moore, also a New panic Center in New Bedford. Bedford na~ive, the son of Rose

(McCabe) Moore and the late Father Steakem {)atrick J. Moore, of Holy Family Father Steakem, pastor since High School in that city. He at­ 1983 of ImmaCUlate Conception tended Cardinal O'Connell Sem­ Church, Taunton, was born in inary, Boston, and St. John Sem­ Bronx, N.Y. He is the son of inary, Brighton. Margaret (O'Rourke) and James

P. Steakem, both deceased. After ordination he was asso· After attending grammar and ciate pastor at Holy Name, SS.

high school in the Bronx and in Peter and 'Paul and St. William's Pawtucket, he entered St. John's parishes in Fall River and St.

Joseph's, Taunton, before being Seminary, Brighton, to prepare named to his present pastorate for the priesthood.

From 1960 to 1969 he was as­in 1980. sociate pastor at ImmaculateSince 1976 Father Moore has Conception parish, North Easton, directed the diocesan Permanent then' served at SI. Kilian, New Diaconate Program and since Bedford, and St.. Julie, North ' 1977 has been editor of The Dartmouth. He was named ad­Anchor an ddiocesan director of ministrator of St. Rita's parish, communications.

.Marion, in '1978, remaining there In 1964 he was named the first until coming to his Taunton

chaplain at Bishop Cassidy High assignment.School, Taunton. The jubilarian was chaplain at

At various times he ,has a'lso Bishop Feehan High School, served as Taunton area Scouting . Attleboro, in 1963 and 1964 and chaplain, a pre-Cana chaplain, thereafter was a faculty member Taunton District ,Council of Cath­ at Bishop Stang High School, olic Women moderator, Taunton Noith Dartmouth. While in New area director of the Catholic Bedford he was cochairman of Charities Appeal, Fall River the area CCD board and he has Catholic Woman's Club modera­ also been a member of the dio­tor and treasurer of the Dioce­ cesan personnel hoard. san Priests' Council. He holds Members of Immaculate Con­master's degrees in arts and edu­ ception will celebrate his silver cation from St. John's Seminary jubilee at a Mass at 4 p.m. Feb. and Bridgewater State College 3, for which a program of special respectively. music is being prepared by the

parish choir. A reception willFather O'Dea follow at the Canoe Club inFather O'Dea, since 1971 as­West Bridgewater. sociate pastor at St. Lawrence

Church, New Bedford, was born in Taunton, the son of the -late It's necessaryMarguerite (Dinnl;lJ;n) and Mau­rice O'Dea. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) - The

sacrament of reconciliation is aHe graduated from Immacu­"necessary element" of Cath­late Conception School and Msgr. olic spiritual life, Cardinal Jo­Coyle High School, both in Taim­seph Bernardin of Chicago said ton, before studying at our at Louisville's Cathedral of the Lady of Providence Nlinor Sem, Assumption. Cardinal Bernardin, inary and Stonehill College. He who launcehed a ,lecture series completed preparation for ordin­on penance, said, "If there is aation at ,St. John's Seminary, lack of appreciation for the sac­Brighton. rament of reconciliation today,

Fat'her O'Dea was associate it is that people have not been at St. James parish, New Bed­ helped to understand the signi­ford, from 1960 to 1971. During ficance of the sacrament and ourthat time he was appointed New need for it." Bedford fire department chap­lain. In 1971 he was named dio­cesan coordinator for Project THE ANCHOR (USPS·S45·020). Second Class

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In an editorial last October 12, this \vriter responded to the divisive and deceptive action of a group of Catholic religious and laity who signed a NeW-York Times ad debasing the church position on abortion. . ,

Since that time, group members, calling themselves the Catholic Committee on Pluralism and Abortion, have con­tinued hi challenge church teaching on abortion to the extent that they are now determinedly opposed to the efforts of the Holy See to remove doubt and confusion in the matter. "

In response to the group's attempt to claim there is more than one legitimate position on abortion, the Holy See has .informed the superiors of the religious whosigned the ad that the signers shouid retract their statement. If they refuse, said the Vatican officials, they should no longer be considered religious and should be expelled from their communities. ,

Two men religious have made retractions but the Holy See's "order was not well received by the majority of group members, who have declared they will fight it on the grounds. of free ~o~. "

A few days ago many of those who signed the ad met to launch a public counteroffensive to the Vatican action.

Once more, as a result of all this, the Catholic community of this country is forced to face the consummate embarrassment of r~ligious who will not in word, deed or action re~pect the. covenant of faith they professed in obedience to the'church.

It should be obvious that those who freely make the promise of obedience have a serious obligation to present the teachings of Jesus and his church correctly, authentically and trust­worthily.

Simply because of their special role in the church, priests and religious should not assume that. they are somehow removed from the supervision of the Holy See. However, some seem to feel that they can go it alone and that free choice and the right to dissent have priority over vows.

Bot those who have consecrated their lives to the mission of the church should not willy-nilly abdicate their responsibility or be swayed by public acclaim or political considerations.

Those who have vowed to decrease that Christ may increase should not be found trifling with the chu'rchlaw that sets the limits within which the faith community must function.

The church has at all times the basic obligation to remind priests and religious that they have personal responsibility as 'well as public accountability to God's people.

The Holy See had no choice but to call to task those who have made a public attempt to distort the clarity of church teaching on abortion. The gravity of the issue, the contempt of consistent church teaching and the importance and the effront-, ery ofthose involved, left no option but the,demand for public retraction. '

Instead of acceding to the Vatican, many signe~s ofthe ad in question scandalize all who believe that life is God's gift and'its disposition is not to be determined by notices in the media.

During this anniversary month of the infamous abortion decision of the Supreme Court, it would be well not only to pray for those who have participated in "legal" murder but also for those who support the termination of unborn life.

In a very special way, the church should pray for those misdirected' religious who for whatever reason cannot bring themselves to affirm their sacred vows and cease. inflicting wounds of division and dissent on the body of Christ that· is the church.

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" Satan took Jesus to the peak of a very high· mountain and showed him the

nations of the world and 'all their glory.'I'l1 give it all to you,'.he said,

'if you will only kneel and worship me.' "

A hard look at 'MTV By Michael Gallagher

NEW YORK (NC)-I live in a relentlessly upwardly mobile su­burb.It's the· kind of place where young matrons wear gold chains with their velveteen running suits when they pick up their moppets at nursery school.

The 9-year-old daughter of friends of ours=-Catholics like us-was invited to a classmate's birthday party. The mother of the birthday girl, our shocked friends later discov­ered, had hit upon a new way of entertaining her daughter's 'guests.

Not for her presiding over charades and bobbing for apples. She put a vid~o cassette in the VCR and went back to studying for her realtor's exam.

And what did she select? "F1ashdance. "

Old fuddy-duddy that I am, I was perturbed by this. But now, after looking through some of the fare available all hours ofthe day as part of the regular cable television pack­age, I guess I was too hasty in my moral indignation.

"Flashdance," has some nasty lan­guage and some explicit nudity­but in all essentials, it's exactly the kind of thing many of these kids were already watching on their home screens.

..Flashdance,..with its blaring score, its mindlessness and its sexual sug­gestiveness, was nothing more than an MTV segment stretched to feature film length.

MTV, or Music Television, began in 1981 and became the salvation of the depressed record industry. Each segment is a dramatization of a song-sometimes with a kind of story, sometimes wholly impres­sionistic.

What disturbs almost every­body about MTV, except the busy entrepreneurs cashing in, is its faddish sex and violence.

A male singer, for example, sits by the edge of an empty pool at the bottom of which a band plays. He is flicking a knife, and as he flicks the knife, we get glimpses of a beautiful young woman changing into a swim­suit. The implication of menace is obvious.

Sometimes the vioience is not over­tly sexual but directed against authority. In a number by Twisted Sister, a domineering teacher suc­cumbs·to the righteous force of rock, suffering the sort of punishment dealt out to Wyle E. Coyote

. in the Road Runner cartoons. Nor will the Nazis die as long as

MTV lives. For Nazi garb and para­phernalia are big, especially in the' not infrequent numbers where sex is laced with sadomasochism.

The concept behind the selling of MTV is as disturbing as the content. The" concept is "narrowcasting"­as opposed to broadcasting. The folks behind MTV aren't inter­ested in everybody. Unlike network TV, they write off most of us. They're aiming at the ~2-34 age group.

And the dirty little secret behind

MTV is not sex and violence-that's no secret, everybody knows about that. The secret is money. THe MTV segments function as commercials, selling records, videocassettes, and all those extravagant clothes and artifacts.

All these are pushed on your children as relentlessly as are the sugary cereals on Saturday morning cartoons. And the effect on your children's intellectualand moral develop­ment is just about the same. .

Can I prove it? No. But only because it's much easier to demon­strate tooth decay than mind decay.

Anne Frank at II in World War II Germany could put h.er thoughts down on paper with grace and force. She could read Charles Dickens in English. How many of our MTV devotees have even heard of Dickens? How many, for all their verbal glibness, can write coherentiy?

What's to be done? 'MTV and rock music in general

hold such sway over our young peo­ple simply because nature abhors a vacuum.

And how about ourselves? Is our own religious faith nea'tly compartmentalized-or does it extend to all phases of our lives? Do we ourselves, for example, go in for que s t i 0 na b Ie en t e r t a i n men t on the score that it's just entertain­ment and has nothing to do with our beliefs?

If that is the-example we give our children, we shouldn't be too shocked

" if they follow it.

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eighteen-year-old it might be the so. wrench of letting him or her go. My toughest moment of parent­

Then there are the joyous moments hood in recent times came a year agoBesides siage differences, there when a child feels pride, exhibits when I went to my first wrestling . are parent differences. What's difficult high esteem, overcomes obstacles or match and watched my 15 year old·for one is pleasurable to another. verbalizes appreciation. These are· wrestle. As his limbs were stretched Some parents cherish toddlers and the highs in parenting. and his body flung around, I di~d aendure teenagers while others do the When I was autographing my Traits little inside. reverse. Some enjoy children's inqui­ of a Healthy Family after a college

sitiveness; others find it maddening. I spent a good portion of my life lecture last fall, two undergrads came taking care of that body and it was For me, I guess the toughest times up with the book ~nd asked me to pure pain watching it tested. I wasn't had to do with children's illnesses sign it for their parents. "We want to much happier watching him inflict and the helplessness I felt over being send this to our parents and thank the same torture on another moth­unable to relieve pain and hurts. When them for giving us this kind of fam­ er's son. a baby's fever soared and she looked ily,"theysaid. What parent wouldn't

at me with pleading eyes, I crumbled When my son was almost pinned, kill for a gesture like that? inside. I prayed fervently, "Dear God. don't

A mother told me· her toughest let him be pinned. When he began toWhen our four year old was struck moment ca·me when her daughter pin his opponent. I prayed he would by a line drive at a professional stood alone on a stage and, filled and when he did. I was as exuberantbaseball game and we waited in the with fright, began to cry instead of as any par~nt there. My emotions hospital for x-rays to d~termi~e brain sing. A father shared his pain at ran the whole gamut that day anddamage, I was filled with panic. God learning his 15 year old s~n was wrung me out. heard our frantic prayers and our alcohol addicted. "I loved him too son came through it in fine shape. I love my son and am happy hemuch not to hurt," he said. (He didn't mind the experience­ likes wrestling but it was my last These are tough moments of par­they gave him the offending ball match. I told him there are someenting. They call forth in us a depen­signed by the players.) things too painful for parents and hedency on a higher power because we

said he understands. He's wrestling know we can't handle these situa­I wonder sometimes if a non­ tonight and his dad will be watching tions alone. They establish a speciai parent can experience the depth. or him. I'll be there in spirit but not in relationship between us and a loving· feelings - fear, hope, despair, JOY person. And that's a tough part of-that parents experience with child­ parental God in a way we haven:t

parenting, too. ren. Before I was a parent. I had no • experienced before children.

By

FATHER

EUGENE

THE ANCHOR-'-Diocese of Fall River--Fri., Jan. 25, 1985The toughest part Can this

"What's the toughest part idea one could care so deeply. I'm Bythinking about the little daily expe­of being a parent?" a priest

riences that plumb our emotions.asked me. Why is it the simple baby be By

FATHJERThere are times a child is rejected DOLORESquestions are the hardest? I . or bullied, is deeply disappointed or guess it depends on t~e p~renting humiliated, or feels like a failure. It CURRAN JOHNstage. With a newborn It might well baptized?hurts. Times like these are as rough be physical exhaustion while with an on parents as on kids, ~aybe more

A delightful risk Why would a young couple of picking up' the phone when lonely

and calling a friend. Food and evenleave home and friends to water may not be pure or plentiful.work in an unfamiliar place At a mission, the habits of those

for very little pay, while delay­ ministered to are usually radically ing the start of a savings account and different from those at home. the accrual of benefits for the fut~re? Medicines, plumbing, the enjoy­

This question was discussed in a ment of a warm shower and the meeting I had with David Suley. entertainment of watching one's director of International Liaison, an favorite TV program are more the organization responsible for coor­ exception than the rule. Mass and dinating lay volunteer efforts. We prayer become central to the work. were trying to understand better the vocation of persons such as the Many lay volunteers find that Jesuit or Maryknoll lay volunteers their identification with poverty makes who serve in home and foreign mis­ them uneasy with the materialism sions. they previously took for granted.

They may come home and feel alien­One reason often given for engag­ ated from a society that has not

ing in missionary work is the lure of experienced poverty of spirit.taking a risk and going countercul­ture. From our first years in school However, as with all risks, there to adulthood, society conditions us are rewards. Bruce Larson, a Presb­to weave various types of security yterian minister, once wrote that lSlankets that minimize risk. there is a lot more to health than not being

The philosophy of many educa­ sick. When a person who IS inspired tional institutions is an example. to become a missionary takes the Education, it is suggested, will help leap, there is a healthy. feeling. us move up the social ladder, because he or she is respondmg to an increase our earning power and innate spirit that seeks to be free and therefore increase our security. self-determined.

It is healthy because·a break­Banks encourage us to start Indi­through is made in understanding vidual Retirement Accounts and the pseudo-standards of society thatother investments to ensure the edu­sicken the human spirit.cation of our children and to secure

our comfort. As Suley and I continued our dis­cussion on the nature of risk andThe cry of consumerism is: "Get it how it influences missionary voca­now, don't deny yourself!" tions, I was moved by the ~hought of

By its very nature,joining a volun­ risking all personal secunty for the teer missionary group is countercul­ love of God and others. The thought ture and involves risks. When a of making a break from convention. young man or wo~an leaves. friends, of realigning personal values accord~ home and social and matenal com­ ing to standards of conscie~cerather forts, all types of human ties are than those dictated by socIety, cap­broken. tivates one's' imagination and'

Voluntee~s don't have the luxury ignites one's zeal.

The question of what constitutes a vocation is a mystery to n:Je still. God stirs our hearts in many different ways.

But I am convinced that one way God calls a person to be Ii missio~­ary is by appealing to the daredevil. instinct challenging him or her to go counterculture in response to the . Spirit.

Ground 'for asylum

LOS ANGELES (NC) - A fed­eral appeals court ruled Dec. 29 t~at

a Salvadoran immigrant's neutrahty in his country's civil war is a valid basis for political asylum because it constitutes a "political opinion." The court also ruled that the immi­

. grant's claim for asylum does ?ot require independent corroboratIOn because refugees from war-torn­countries seldom can bring evidence of persecution with them.

Few Salvadorans have been granted political refugee status in the United States, and immigration lawyers said the ruling could increase the number granted asy­lum.

Always "God is always opening his hand." - Spanish proverb

Q. My granddaughter was mar­ried in a Protestant church, although both she and her husband are Catholics. T"ey did not wish to wait a year for his annulment process to finish.

She is now pregnant. The other day she told me that because they were married outside the church her baby cannot be baptized in the Catholic Church. Is this so? (New Jersey).

A. No. There is no law of the Catholic Church that would pro­hibit the baptism of a child simply because the parents were not mar­ried in accord with the regulations of the church.

However, both the instruction for the rite of baptism and canon law insist that a priest (or other Catholic minister) cannot lawfully baptize a child unless there exists a solidly founded expectation the child will be raised a Catholic. If evidence for this hope is not present, the priest is obliged to delay the baptism until the situation changes.

In my own experience, as well as that of other pastors I'm sure, cer­tain parents whose marriage took place outside of the law~ of the church for some reason give every evidence that they intend to raise their children as Catholics and want to give them the example of fatih which the baptism rite requires of

\ ,them. .

These parents practice their faith in every way possible, and are doing everything they can to eventually bring about their marriage in the church.

Such parents certainly seem to fulfill the conditions necessary for the baptism of their children.

Other parents in this circumstance, however, give no evidence that the Catholic faith is significant for them, go to Mass sporadically i~ at all ~nd seem totally uninterested m wantmg their marriage to be validated in the church.

Obviously, if the Catholic faith is not important to them, there is no reason to assume they will consider it important for their children.

Perhaps, as frequently happens, they would like their children bap­tized because "it is the thing to do," or because mother or grandmother is pushing them. But without a change their own religious lifestyl.e, they are simply incapable of fUlf~l­ling the promise they would make m the baptism ceremony, to profess and practice their faith as a model and example for those children.

The church does not wish to place them in the position of having to make commitments which they do not intend and perhaps are unable to live up to.

I must add that most priests do not merely let the situation stay where it is without doing something about it. They attempt in every way possible to help the pa.rentsreac~ a decision and commitment with which they may sincerely request their child's baptism and carry out their own responsibilities.

Sometimes husbands and wives let their religious faith slide danger­ously until something like t?e ~irth

of a baby and the heavy obhgatlOns

DIETZEN

that come with it impels them to stop and think about' their lives and beliefs.

Perhaps their priest is trying to make this happen for your daughter and her husband.

Q. J will be married soon in a Catholic Church. What form of vows must we use? Can we recite our own personal vows?

If not, can we add to the tradi­tional vows? I've heard that this is not allowed. Why would this be? . (North Carolina)

A. Two forms of consent or vows are possible in the United States. One is common for the whole church: "I, Joseph, take you Anne, to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life,"

The other was approved for our country at the request of the Ameri­can bishops since it is more familiar here: "I. Joseph, take you Anne. for my lawful wife. to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer. for poorer, in sick­ness and .in health until death do us part. "

Either of these forms may be put as a question ("Do you, Joseph, take Anne'!") to which the couple would respond: "I do."

One of these forms must be used' at all marriages of Catholics in the United States. Neither the officiat­ing priest or deacon nor the couple are free to compose their own as a substitute.

The: reasons for this are obvious when we realize that marriage vows, especially between Christians, are not just a private affair. They have important implications and c~nse­quences for the whole commumty.

In practice, this works no h~rd­ship whatsoever for the couple, smce numerous opportunities exist for the couple to convey their faith and feel­ing toward each other, and .toward God and other people.. A major one, of course, is in their choice of scrip­ture readings for their wedding, and the Prayers of the Faithful which (at least according to liturgical regula­tions) they are free to compose themselves.

Another quite (requently used is the opportunity for the couple to compose their own prayer to be recited, together or separately. immediately after the vows, or at another appropriate time during the ceremony, such as after Commun­ion.

Most priests are happy and anx­ious to help couples make use of these opportunities to express thoughtfully and prayfully their o~n

beliefs and commitment concernmg their marriage. It can be an inspiring and memorable part of the wedding ceremony.

Because ofthe volume of mail, it is generally impossible' for Father Dietzen to answer correspondence personally. Questions for this column should be addressed to him at Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. Main St., :8100mington, JIl. 61701.

THE ANCHOR - " "6 Friday, Jan. 25, 1985.

Papal trip Continued from page one

survive. This is, one of the high­est infant mortality rates in La­tin America," says the Ecuador­bishops' conference.

"Their culture is neither val­ued nor respected," said the bishops.

"The typical activities of their , culture and tradition are exploit·

ed as folk,loric tourist attrac-, tions," they added:

While the pope has often spoken strongly. for rapid imple­mentation of social refonns, he couples this with exhortations against violence as a means of' change.

'A stop in the Peruvian moun· tain city of Ayacucho will offer him the chance to emphasjze that message. The Ayacucho area is the base of operations for Shining Path, a Maoist guer­rilla group engaged in political assassinations and bombings.

The area is under mHitary con­trol because of the guerrilla ac­tivity.

The Peru visit also brings the pontiff to the country of Father Gustavo Gutierrez, a contro­versial liberation theologian. Father Guterrez, a theology pro· fessor at the Catholic University of Peru, utilizes Marxist con­cepts in his efforts to provide a Christian response to' Latin America's social iUs.

Pope John Paul has often warned against mixing Christian­ity with Marxism in the search for solutions to socio-economic and politica'i 'problems. He i's not expected to meet with Father Gutierrez.

The first stop on the pope's itnerary is Venezuela. He then goes to Ecuador and Peru, ending with a brief visit to Port-of­Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, where Catholics form 34 percent of the 1.2 million population.

Trinidad means trinity in Span­ish. The name was given to the island by Christopher Columbus in 1498. Columbus also brought the first missionaries to the region.'

ITrinidad and Tobagan culture

is derived from Spanish, English, Dutch,' French, ,East Indian, Portuguese and African roots. The diversity results from the is­land-nation's location on major Caribbean sea trading lanes, which made it a crossroads for colonizers, merchants and slave traders.

Clergy discount USAir airlines has extended

its clergy discount fare of at least 25 percent on all domestic USair and Allegheny commuter iilights until Dec. 31, 1986. '

The fare is 'available to any ordained or licensed minister of religion' and may be, used for reserved seats. ,Clergy must pre­sent a USAirclergy card when purchasing tickets. Further in­formatiQn on the plan is avail­able from USAir, tel. 1·800-428­4322.

ST. THOMAS MORE'S NEW ORGAN

.,' Slur'"'00' hospital nuns

creates ~proar

By NC News Newsweek magazine article The administrator of St. Anne's about Regan. It quoted Regan as

Hospital, 'Fall River, has joined saying: the U.S. Catholic Conference and "My heart cannot bleed for the Catholic Health Association many hospitals hurt by limits on in asking Treasury Secretary Medicare payments, ~ven those Donald T., Regan to issue "a run by Roman Catholic nuns prompt, public apology'" for ai- .,. Their hearts are'''big, but .legedly ,claiming that Catholic their heads aren't'screwed on nuns who run hospitals often tight. Most of them need new have heads that "aren't screwed management." on tight," In the CHA, telegram to the

Calling Regan's characteriza- White House, John E. Curley, tion of hospital nuns an "in- Jr., CHA president, said Regan's accurate stereotype,", Knight apparent comment "insult~, the pointed out the longstanding - thousan~s of w?men ,r~hglOus commitment of Catholic hospi- who dedicate their very hves to tals to care for the' poor. caring for the sil!k and the in­

"The Catholic health care in- jured:' The Treasury official, ex­dustry," he added, "can demo~- pe~ted to bec~~e presidential ,strate it tends to be moreeffl- chief of staff, displays a woe­cient and operate at lower cost ful ignorance of the true state of than the health industry as· a Catholic health care in t~e wholeY United States," Curley added 10Organ dedication ~et' The U.S. Catholic Conference, the telegram. public policy arm of the U.S, ",Beyond th,e prejudice in Se~­bishops, also critic\zed _Regan, retary Regan s slurs, Mr. Pres,.­at St. Thomas More

At 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, St. Thomas Mqre Church in Somerset will 'resound with mu­sic as the new parish organ is officially dedicated. Acquired in December, the 'instrument has greatly enhanced' the vibrant liturgical music' program of the parish.

,The three manual and pedal elec~ronic organ is manufactured by the Rodgers Organ Company.

,Aid to~(Ethiopia NEW YORK(NC) - Catholi~

Relief Services' plans to distrib­ute $140 million in relief aid to Ethiopia in 1985, said Msgr. Rob­ert Coli, CRS Ethiopia director, during a brief visit to the United States. CRS is joining with other non-governmental relief agencies in an "unprecedented" $200­million cooperative program,' the priest said in an interview.

Msgr. 'Coli praised interna­tional media efforts for making people aware of the mHlions suffering famine in Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the Del! Moines Reg­ister, a daily newspaper in Iowa, raise(1 nearly $700,000 for Cath­olic Relief Services and Church World Servic~ fot ,Ethiopian, reo lief.

Soviet honor (Undated) (NC)' - The only

cardinal in the Soviet U~ion ,has received the honorary medal of the Soviet Peace Fund, the offi­cia'i Soviet disarmamen~ cam­paign. The Soviet news' agency Tass said 89-year-old Cardinal Julijans Vaivods of Riga a,nd Lie~

paja' in Latvia, received the award '''in appreciation of his active involvement in the peace movement and the support of the church he 'leads for' the peaceful policy of the Soviet state."

The Vatican had no official reaction, but a, Va,tican source familiar with Latvian issues said the award was "no doubt . .. l;l propaganda move in some sense,"

calling the remarks attributed to dent, I ,am concerned that hiS him "a gratuitous slur on- the remarks will be construed asThe model cho~en by the parish, skill and competence" of nuns confirming the belief. a'lrea~ythe Rodgers Windsor ~40 organ', who manage Catholic hospitals. shared by many that thiS admm­uses the latest technology in

In a Jan. 14 telegram to Presi- istration does not fully compre­analog and digital designs to dent Reagan demanding the ap" hend the. serious threat posed to faithfully reproduce the sound ology from- the Treasury secre- our nation's health care by short­and feel of real organ pipes. It tary, CHA also sought a meet- sighted attempts to controlis' also prepared for the addition ing with Reagan to discuss plans costs," Curley said. 'of pipes should the parish also

wish to enlarge it in future years. 'Monday evening's dedication \vili feature two Southeastern Massachusetts organists: Jona­than Davis, 'formerly organist at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Taunton and now Rodgers Or­gan' representative for the Fall River area and Stephen Young, organist and director Of music at the First Parish Church in Taunton.

Both have studied' with Yoko Hayashi at the New England ,Conservatory of Music in Boston and are freq~'ently heard in re­citals throughout the area. '

The program will feature works by 'Bach, Vierne, Reger, and Boellmann. In addition, the St. Thomas More ~arish choir, directed by Mrs. Jo~n Cuttle and accompanied by .Larry Pou­lin, will offer pieces by Haas and Bach and will lead the com~

munity in hymn singing. Msgr. John J.' Regan, V.E.,

pastor of St. Thomas More, in­vites parishioners a~nd friends to share the' joy of the ded'ication of this magnificent instrument.

Admission is free.

Episcopal rites to 'be explained Guidelines for musicians and

lliturgy planners preparing for functions at- which one or more bishops will' be present will' be discussed at a meeting of Pastor­,al Musicians of the Fall '~iver

Diocese at 2:30 p.m. Jan, 27 at St. George Church, Westport.

Msgr. John, J. Oliveira, epis­copal vicar for ecclesiastical matters and master of cere­monies for rites involving Bish­op Daniel A. Cronin"wiN explain ,procedures for confirmations, parish anniversaries and other liturgical occasions.

for "continued arbitrary cut- The USCC, in a statement by backs" in reimbursements for its general secretary, Msgr. Dan­Medicare and Medicaid, the fed- iel F. Hoye, said it affirmed "its eral government's health pro- confidence in the sisters who grams for the elderly and poor. operate Catholic health facilities"

The remarks by Regan,' who and said the church "is extreme· is Catholic, appeared Jan. 7 in Iy.. proud of. its nearly 1,000 hos­one paragraph of a' two-page"· pitals an~ othe,r ~heat\th, care fa­

,

(necrology] January 27

,Rev. John T. O'Grady, Assist­ant" 1919, Immaculate Concep­tion, Fall River

Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, Pastor, 1955, St. Michael, Fall Rver

January 28 Rev. Joseph M. Griffin, Pastor,

1947, St: Mary, Nantucket , Rt. Rev. John J. Shay, Pastor,

,1961, St. John Evangelist, AWe­boro

January 29 Rev. Christiano J. Borges, Pas­

tor, 1944, St. John Baptist, New Bedford

Rev. Albert J. Masse, Pastor, 1950, St. Joseph, Attleboro

Januaiy 30 . Rev. Raymond F. X. .CahiH,

S.J. Assistant, 1983, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis

January 31 Rev. Charles J. 'Burns, Pastor,

,1901, St. Mary, North Attleboro Rev. William F. Sullivan, Pas­

. ,tor, 1930, St. Patrick, Somerset Rev. Manuel C. Terra, Pastor,

1930, St. Peter, Provincetown

}<'ebruary I Rt. Rev. Michael J. O'Reilly,

Pastor, 1948, Immaculate Con­ception, Taunton

Rev. Anatole F. Desmarais, Pastor, 1975, St. James, Taunton

Rt. Rev. Patrick Hurley, Paso' tor, 1968, St. Joseph, Taunton

Rev. Msgr. Gerard J. Chabot, Pastor, 1983, St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, So. AtNetoro

cilities in the United States." Calling the work of nuns in

health ministry "well known and widely admired," Msgr. Hoye added, "I sincerely hope the sec­retary was misquoted."

William J. Cox, CHA vice president of government services, said at a Washington news con­ference Jan. 15 that the nuns who administer hospitals have "a tough, tough assignment. It may be even more difficult to run a hospital today than to be secretary of the Treasury."

Cox said that many of the hospitals run by nuns are those in innercity and other low-income areas where a I,arge percentage of the hospital's clients are elder­ly or poor - with insufficient Medicare or Medicaid support if they have any at ::.11\.

Both Cox and Curley' praised the professionalism, dedication and business expertise of hos­pital nuns.

Treasury Department officials were not available for comment on',the matter.

Chilly invitation VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope

John Paul II has received an in­vitation to visit Antarctica, an is­land continent surrounding the South Pole and covered by an ice cap measuring an average one mile thick. The invitation was extended by Bishop Miguel Angel Aleman of Rio Gallegos, Argentina. Joaquin Navarro­Valls, director of the Vatican press office, said it is too early to say if the pope will accept the invitation.

Letters are welcomed, but should be no more than 200 words. The $dltor reserves t~e right to condense or eill!. All letters must be' signed and Include a homo or business address and telephone number for th~ purpose of verification If deemed neclssary.

Night prayer Dear Editor:

We are sending you a night prayer to Our Lady hoping you can publish it to honor Mary's Motherhood and to ask her to beg Jesus to bring mercy, for­giveness and a change of heart to those who uphdld ideas op­posed to generous motherhood, such as abortion and contra­ceptives.

Night is falling, dear Mother, the long day is o'er;

And before thy loved image I am kneeling once more,

To thank thee for keeping me

safe through the day, To ask thee this night

to keep evil away.... I am going to rest,

for the day's work is done; Its hours and its moments

have passed one by one. And the God who wi.JI judge

me has noted them all. He has numbered each grace,

He has counted each fall. In His book they are written

against the last day. o Mother ask Jesus

to wash them away. For one drop of His blood

whch for sinners was spiH, Is sufficient to cleanse '

The whole world from its guilt....

Jacqueline Santiago Work of St. Joseph Washington, D.C.

..................... . ;<bGOD'S ANCHOR HOLDS

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T REA SUR Y Secretary Donald Regan's comments on "Catholic nuns who run hospitals" have angered church spokespersons. See page 6 story. (NC Photo)

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., 'Jo·n. 25, 1985 . 7

'Veiled threat' cesan human' rights agency, but killings still took more thari

SAN SALViADOR, EI Salvador 3,400 lives in 1984. Tutela Legal (NC) - Salvadoran ohurch offi· said there were 6,096 politicaHy cials have caNed for government related violent deaths in 1983. action and have threatened a lawsuit in the case of a ,local newspaper ad, that ran in the lUses method form of an open letter, which San Salvador's archbishop said WASHIiNGTON (NC) - The was a "veiled threat" against recent Vatican document on lib­him. The ad's sponsor was iden­ eration theology not only sup­tified as the Catholic Traditional ports qiberation theology in prin­Movement. ciple but actually uses its meth­

od, says Jesuit Father AveryThe ad told the archbishop Dulles.

"it should suffice for you to re­member your predecessor." Arch­ It is a "misinterpretation" to bishop Rivera Dama's predeces­ read the document as a condem· sor was Archbishop Oscar Ro­ nation of liberation theology, he mero, who was assassinated in said. Speculating that the Vati­March 1980. can's real fear ds not about main·

In other news from the strife­ stream liberation theology, but torn nation, deaths due to poli­ rather that the movement wi'll tical violence have dropped con· be "calqously used by hard-core siderably since 1983, said Tutela Marxists" for purely political Legal, the San Salvador archdio- ends.

....----.. Father Bruce·Ritter

Prudence and Strength and Courage A question I get asked a

lot is: Bruce. how does yourstaff survive? How do youmaintain their morale? Your own, too? When you look at a kid that could be your own kid __ that you

would want to be your own kid -- and know that the street is going to kill him?

I usually try to avoid the honest answer that we can't very w·el!. The hardest thing -- the worst thing •• is looking· at a kid that you care a lot about, and his eyes tell you: you know that he knows he's not going to make it.

God is not enough. He's really not. I tell my staff that -­when they get overinvested, lose distance and objectivity. God will not substitute, I tell them, for their prudence and strength and courage and detachment.

I try to explain to my staff what detachment is all about: the prayed for and learned ability to protect yourself, to let go of everything, most of all your own desire and need to save a particular kid, the need to justify your own ex­istence by helping others. To let go your dependence on your own skill~ and insight and your need to be successful with a kid.

I try to explain that if your love for akid and your need to help him causes you a lot of anguish and self-doubt, it's your needs being met, mostly, and not the kid's needs.

They don't really understand -- my staff -- about detach­ment. That kind of wisdom only comes with too many years of trying and failing and more pain than you ever want to think about. I tell them that you can only really love someone freely if you're perfectly detached from loving him -- that the greatest gift you can give someone is not to bind and hold them with your love but to leave them free.. Sometimes, even free to die. No strings. My staff doesn't understand that. They understand better when I tell them that it's okay to hurt and it's okay to cry. alittle, but not for long.

God is just not enough. Grace builds upon and supports nature. it doesn't change or substitute for it. So, be caring, but careful, I tell my staff. Prudence rules commitment. Distance, objectiveness, and ruthless honesty about why you do what you do are always a greater protection and service to kids than self-serving prayers for moral miracles we hope will change them.

And when a kid dies, it wasn't you who lost him. Don't blame yourself, or the program, or the world -- or God, Who

like with these two kids I met yesterday! Take it easy, Timmy, I said. We'll figure something out,'0 'd MIt s .K.,I sal. y hands won't stop shaking, he said. I'm

sorry. I'm surprised you put up with me so long, he said. He was a moderately tall, lanky, infinitely scruffy kid who really stank bad.

Can I light that cigarette for· you, I said. I'm sorry, he said. I don't think I can manage it. My hands won't stop shaking. I'm sorry, he said again.

I'm sorry. I guess I do look like hell, he said. You smell to high heaven. I said. . Your staff are real nice, he said. They keep taking me

back, he said. They'd bet~er, I said. We're glad you're here. Stay around, I said. Don t go away.

. "/ don't like it when / argue w~th myself. "

Where're you from? Ohio, Timmy said. My mother, she just disappeared, my da{j couldn't handle me. I started to drink pretty much when I was 14 and split when I was 15. Been on my own three years. The street? I said. He bobbed his head up and down. I'm not pretty anymore. I make par­ty (drinking) money posing for a few pictures. Acouple of rich dudes will give me $50. I deliver porn for them to chicken hawks.

Timmy showed me the contents of his gym bag -- a collection of pretty routine child porn. His sad eyes watch­ed me very carefully. You know you can't have this stuff here. I said. Do you want it. he said off-handedly, his sad eyes now watchful and calculating. No, I said. I'm sorry, he said. . .

I have this heart condition real bad. Your doctors here want me to layoff the parties and stop smoking, he said. The medication I take for my heart doesn't mix with the booze. Thanks for letting me stay here again. I've got the world's worst hangover... but I'm not drinking now. Haven't had a drink all day, he said proudly, with a sad crooked grin that made him'look 16. It was 10 o'clock in the morning.

Your choices are pretty limited. I said. You're either go­

It's great theory, Bruce! Right! It's like trying to tell a violent toothache to go away at ~1:00 in the morning. Mind over pain! Right!

Why did you cry over that kid in Fort Lauderdale. Bruce? I never said it was easy. And I didn't cry very long. It is great theory and it does work, and most of the time, if you don't make it work, you're in real trouble.

It's always the same old story: Practice what you preach, Bruce. . And believe. maybe, a little harder, in what you preach.

God is not enough, huh? Maybe you should try to under­stand it better: Does God always have to love and help these kids on your terms, Bruce? Maybe you're afraid to get out of the way. Maybe you're not as detached as you thought.

I don't like it when I argue with myself --I wind up losing too often. Look, I said, back to me. I am not the truth I teach. I'm just trying to help these kids the best way I know how and to survive doing it. I've seen too many good peo­ple go down the tubes trying to help kids like Timmy because they thought God told them to and they couldn't handle it. I teach my staff how to handle it, not to rush in where there ain't any angels, not to presume... there are some devils that are cast out only after much prayer and fasting. So, I tell my staff, until you're an accomplished pray-er and fast-er, I'll talk to you about prudence and dis­tance and objectivity and detachment.

I don't know who won that argument. I wish I understood it better. Pray for Timmy. and that other kid -- Joey (I didn't like

him very much). Pray for me, too. We pray for you every day.

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ing to die, go crazy _. or give up drinking. I know that. he' ADDRESS:said. He didn't look scared. I guess maybe because he had faced his increasingly bleak future too many times not to CITY: ~. STATE: _recognize the truth in what I said. (It sounds hard -- when I write it that way -- but I said it that way. It's really impor­ .ZIP: _ FI (GAM)tant to·be clear about certain things with kids like Tommy.)

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Father Bruce RitterI tell my staff that if they try very hard. after awhile they I could sure use a shower, he said in reply. I can smell P.O. Box 2121 can grow this little switch in their brain that shuts down myself, he said. I'm sorry to be such abother. You're not, I Times Square StatiQnthe memory banks and disengages the pain so they can go said. I'm really glad you're back, I said. New York, NY 10108 on to the next kid. And the next. I tried to flip the switch in my head -- there was another __--------------~--kid named Joey that I knew J wasn't going to like very LIFE ON THE STREET IS A DEAD END

much waiting to see me -- but it didn't work too well. Father Bruce Ritter. OFM Con v,. is the founder and President of Covenant House, which operates crisis centers for homeless and He said he was sorry. I was caring -- and careful! But the runaway boys and girls all over the country. switch didn't work this time.

8 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River"'-FrL, Jan. 25, 1985 North Dartmouth Holy Cross house

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pound on '{ucker Road, North a one year stay in North Dart· three years, and, finaHy, as it isROUTE 6-between Fall River and New Bedford Dartmouth, wen knc;»wD to many in the Fall River diocese, has hadOne of Southern New England's Finest Facilities many uses since its purcliase 6y

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mouth as it moved to the Ames estate 'in North Easton the fol­lowing year. The Mission Band continued for this year to oper­ate from North Dartmouth.

The farm there was begun in 1935. Brother Claude (Francis) Hartley, a master carpenter and all-around expert worker, was the first· organizer of this. He later was helped Iby Brother Larry Triolo and a Portuguese ,layman by the name ~f Joachim Burgo.

. This farm used much of the land and proyided; abundance as the years rdlled by so that the houses in North Dartmouth and North ,Easton became self­sufficent in meat and vegetables.

Brother Larry ran the farm for eight years, assisted by brothers from Valatie, N.Y., then came Brother Lellis (Francis)-' Brannigan and Brother Protase, who were helped by most of the novices.

From 1936 to 1952 the main house was the novitiate for both the Eastern and English-Cana­dian provinces of the Holy Cross community. Many distinguished noviCe masters served there, in­cluding Fathers Christopher 0' Toole,. James Moran, Felix Duf­fey, Richard Sullivan and Daniel Gleason.

The Carriage House at North Dartmouth has an interesting his­tory. Early, it was used as a gymnasium for the novices. In 1947 it was transformed into

'the brothers' postulate. Brother Joe Morris remembers the reno­vations· which had to be 'made there, since he was the first pos­tulant. He recalls how many dis­tinguished brothers went through this postulate under the direction of Father Denis Sughrue.

When the postulate closed for lack of candidates, it became available for the .last of the fa­molislaymen's retreats in June of 1954, then temporary head­quarters for Father George De­Prizio's provincialate, a summer

today, .S1. Joseph's Hall, a multi­faceted apostolate for province development and pastoral ~rgan­izations directed by Father Philip Kelly.

In 1952, when the novitiate moved to Bennington, the mis­sion band returned to North -Dartmouth. iBesides engaging iri their own apostolate, the mis­sioners organized a laypersons' auxiliary, later to become the first chapter of the Associate Lay Family of Holy Cross.

Band members also publicized Holy Cross events in the local newspapers, ·including jubilees and other' events, notably the 1957 celebration of the centen­ary of the Holy Cross Constitu­tions,. an event at which Holy Cross priests, brothers and sis­ters were present in great num­bers.

<0 By 1970 the mission band ministry had undergone many changes. Not only had several members died but changes in approach to the parish mission apostolate dictated reorganiza­tion of the undertaking.

Today the main building at North Dartmouth, directed, by Father Tom Tobin, houses the apostolate of preaching. Also car­ried on are closed retreats for religious, conducted /by Father Jim Murphy, and a house of hospitality for community mem­bers.

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THE SHEAS AT HOME: From left clockwise, Timothy, Jeremy, Mark and Linda Shea, Jonathan, Benjamin. (Rosa Photo)

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min, now 9, was born in Wes­tern Samoa, while Timothy, now 6, arrived after the family's return to' the United States.

Within five weeks of arrival, MBlrk found himself acting rec­tor of the seminary where he had expected to teach, Cardinal Taofinu'u having packed off its rector for studies in Rome. He supervised 15 priest-candidates, 30 catechists and 20 sister-can­didates, al1 taking the same pre· liminary studies in theology, psy­chology and Western culture, the latter to prepare them for advanced studies that would pre­suppose knowledge of the struc- '

. ture of Western-oriented Roman Catttolicism.

"My course in psychology was the first offered in Western Sa­moa and I had students from the national university as well as those at the seminary," said Mark.

He explained that Cardinal Taofinu'u's jurisdiction extends to Tuvalu, an autonomous terri­tory, and American Samoa, as well as to Western Samoa, an independent state.

The Sheas were in the South Pacific for two years, with Linda teaching English at the seminary and offering nursing care in the native village in which the family lived. Following the lifestyle of their neighbors, they became so attuned to the vil'lage culture

-that on their return to the U.S. Jeremy at first refused to use silverware or sit on a chair.

"For two years we had no privacy," said Mark, "the people were so curious about us." The only break came, he said, 'when the village periodically was de· sereted as the inhabitants visited their ancestral areas.

The Sheas also learned how it feels to be a minority. "Some people were prejudiced Blgainst us because we were white," he said, adding, however, that many Western: Samoans became close friends. He a'lso spoke highly' of the "inslltiable thirst for knowl­edge of ~he seminary students."

Mark llnd Linda, in fact,' would gladly lJave stayed in Samoa. Their return to the States was-

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dictated by concern for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home health and education of their for patients with terminal cancer. sons. "I see Jesus so much in these

"We won't know for years people. It's a privilege to serve whether we may have contracted them," he declared. leprosy," said Mark, "and there. Unda, who has become a H­are other diseases it's difficult censed practical nurse since re­to avoid." turning from Western Samoa, re­

On their return the family presents a company manufactur­settled in Our Lady of Fatima ing kinetic therapy heds for par­parish, Swansea, where their alytics and trauma patients. home abuts 'the church property With a coworker, Jane Rego, and where Linda's father, Robert RN, of Tiverton, she is often on Laflamme, is a charter parish­ the road to nearby states, posi­ioner. tioning patients on the special

Both Mark and Linda are ac­ beds immedately following sur­tive in Our ,Lady of Fatima's gery. youth program, with Linda also The couple are proud of their involved in ,the parish music four sons who are "aware of ministry and Mark in COD. Their their Christian heritage," said Franciscanism continues to in­ Mark, and are willing to defend fluence them deeply as they try moral values and speak out to live the ideals of' poverty, against race prejudice. chastity and ohedience. What of the future for the

In line with that, Mark, after Sheas? a stint as CCD coordinator at "We'll go where God sends neighboring St. Louis de France' us," said Mark. "We're mission­parish, now works at Fall River's aries here as much as in Samoa."

Four start climb to sainthood VATICAN CITY {NC) - A

Dutch journalish-priest murdered by Nazis in World War II ds among four people whose saint· hood causes are being promoted by the Vatican.

The Congregation for Saints' Causes, in a ceremony attended by Pope John Paul II, formally recognized the martyrdom of Carmelite Father TituS Brands­rna.

As one-time Spiritual director of the Catholic Journalists Soci· ety in Holland, Father Brands­rna was arrested for defending t,he freedom of the Catholic press and was put to death in a con­centration camp at Dachau, Ger­many, in 1932 at age 51.

The congregation also recog­nized the martyrdom of a Jesuit missionary priest, Father Diego Luis de San Vi,tores, who was killed on the Island of Guam in 1672 at age 44:

A miracle attributed to the intercession of Sister Maria Ca­terina of St.' Rosa of Biterbo, who founded the Institute of the Franciscan Missionary ·Sisters of. -. .." ", ,

the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the 19th century, was recog­nized by the congregation. Born in Italy in 1813, ,she died in Cairo, Egypt, in 1887.

The congregation recognized the heroic virtue of Franciscan Sister Alfonsa dell'Immacolata Concezione. ·Born Anna Mutta· t,hupandatu in KudamaJlor, India, in 1910, she died in Baharanga­nam in 1946.

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U.S. Supreme Court recently ,listened to arguments over whether or not sending public school teachers into parochial schools to teach non-religious subjects violates the Constitu­tion. The court heard arguments in cases involving the Grand Rapids, Mich., and New York City public school systems, both of which have programs allow­ing some public school staff members to instruct parochial school students in special sub­jects.

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Helping the adult child By Dr; James and Mary Kenny

Dear Dr, Kenny: I was dis­appointed in your answer to the mother of the adult child who seemed to be underachieving and dependent upon his family. Your advice reflected the "bootstrap" philosophy.

.From the description of the young man, it appeared to me he was troubled. Depression, ir­ritability, lack of friends, low self-esteem, etc., are sigl15 of someone who may need· coun­seling.

Further, it may be that the par­ents need counseling, not only on how to let go of their son, but possibly on how to allow him to be whatever he will be­come~

. In this economy jobs are hard to find even for an educated or capable person.

It Is ~ier to suggest that someone is lazy than to recog­nize the larger problem. ­PenJ!SYlvania

I once watched a mama robin push her three young ones from the nest. Two flew off. The third fluttered to the ground.

The mama remained quietly on the branch. She did not swoop down to help her "baby." Nor did she refer him' for coun­seling. She waited.

After a while, a cat appeared.. The mama raised a terrible

racket, divebombing the cat until it disappeared. Mama returned to the branch.

The fledgling hopped around and chirped pitifully. I wanted to go out and care for the small bird. But I respected mama's wisdom.

The fledgling hid in the bushes for a time. Then it came out to try a few awkward takeoffs. Eventually the small bird became airborne.

What would have happened if mama had labeled her baby men­

'tally ill and cared for it? Or if I had come out to protect it? I suspect the baby bird would still be an invalid.

Equally inappropriate would have been to call the .Jittle one a "Iazybird." The mama attacked the cat, but ne'{er her baby. Judgments about moral disposi­tions are best left to God.

Instead the mama waited and expected her baby to fly. She had a positive approach. Her confidence paid off. It took a little longer than with her other two, but her third finally lived up to her expectations.

People tend to live up to our expectations. Not all tangible care is helpful. By taking care of our adult children beyond the time for independence, we send a dangerous messabe: I fear you· cannot care for yourself.

Not all withholding of nurtur­

ance is meanness. The mama robin was not mean. She al­most killed the poor cat who had the audacity to come near her ;baby. ,But she sent a powerful though quiet message to her baby: I know you can fly.

True, some adult children may need additional help to get start ­ed. But I believe it is better to let them stumble around for a while, make their mistakes and find their own way out and up. Being too quick with advice and tangible support can create life­time cripples, with no confidence in their ability to cope.

How do you know when to help? Wait for them to ask. ·Even then, I would evaluate their capability to "fly." Many peo­ple who ask for help or advice _ are really asking for moral sup­port.

An absolute criterion for inter­vention is when physical health or life are threatened. At that point I would step in with home care and medical treatment until the crisis has passed. In other situations I would emphasize moral support rather than di­rect help or advice.

Reader questions on famlly living and child care to' be an­swered in print are invited. Ad­dress The Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, In~. 47978.

. By NC News Service Three Nicaragu'an priests hold­

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three priest-officials were sus­pended "a divinis." That means they may neither perform priest­ly f:unctions nor hold church administrative posts.

I That would change an arrange· i' ment with the bishops by which I the priests voluntari!y suspended , their public functions as priests : while holding office.

Under the agreement, the priests could have resumed pub­lic ministry as soon as they re­signed office. The sanction bars

Nicaraguan- -priests .suspend~d them from their ministries whet­ would face penalities if they did her in office or not. not resign.

The sanction follows months Bishop Vega said a di~ferent of discussion and argument be­ action was being taken regard· tween the priests and the bish­ ing Father Edgard Parrales, Nic· ops. The priests have'said they' aragua's ambassador to the Or­are conscience-bound to keep ganization of American States, their government £lostS. Vatican Radio said. The action

The bishops, backed by the was not described. Vatican, have cited canon law Th~ Vatican press office said forbidding priests from holding it had no information on the offices, involving the exercise of Nicaraguan situation, saying it civil power. They have repeat­ was a decision of the Nicaraguan edly warned the priests they bishops.

Outlook bleak for Romanian religious ROME (NC) - Harsh govern­

ment policies have pushed Ro­mania's small Jesuit community to near-extinction, an official Jesuit publication has said.

The society's bleak assessment of its chances 'for survival in the communist nation came even after recent improvements in Romanian - Vatican relations which ,Included, the nomination of a Romanian archbishop..

Romania's post-World War II policy of prohibiting religious communities has 'left only eight Jesuits in the country, an article in the Jesuits' 1985 yearbook said. Only one Jesuit priest, who is over 70, is allowed to engage in pastoral work,the article said..

"The religious are not per­mittlir to live in community, and for several decades now it .is forbidden to receive new candi­dates for the society," the article said. "All of (the order's) apos­tolic work is destroyed."

Informtion on the Jesuits' stil­

tus came from a private report prepared by the society's Slavic assistancy, the article said. One Jesuit said the situation. shows that communist governments are particularly afraid of religious orders.

Tohey see diocesan churches as official ohurches, in a way," the Jesuit, who asked not to be

. named told NC News. "But they see religious orders as an avant­garde that wants to take great steps forward."

'Diocesan priests in many East European countries, including Romania, have' been aUowed limited ministry, he said.

The Franciscans are facing "a paraNel situation" in Romania, according to 'Franciscan Procu­rator General Father Onorio Pontoglio. Like the Jesuits, the -Rome-based Franciscan official said, the order's Romanian branch is "moving towards ex­tinction" unless the situation changes drastica-1ly.

THE ANCHOR-· . The joy of puttering 1~ Friday, Jan. 25, 1985

By Antoinette 'Bosco

,A recent Saturday, a mild and sunny day, was a gift ,for those living in New England: Here Winter generally comes in with a blast an dits frigid tempera­tures hang on for weeks on end.

It was hard to know what to make of a day that hovered in

, the 60-degree range. I guess the balmy weather gave

me a midwinter speH of spring fever. I found myself wanting to clean closets, wash windows, listen to good music, read a book, write letters. What I didn't want to do was my ordinary work - writing. I faced my deadlines as though they were enemies. I stretched in the warm weather. I wanted a break.

While I'm generally very dis­ciplined, the lure of the day pulled me away from the type­writer. I made tea for myself and my daughter and we sat and

.talked and laughed, joking about how we were pretending to be women of leisure.

Both of us are writers whose work cannot be confined to the hours of 9 to 5. In addition, she is studying ,to be an opera singer and is busy around the clock.

We talked about how long it had been since we had ,taken a day to do a little of this and a little of that. We concluded that the prict we were paying fo'r­our busy 'lives was having to give up the "joy of puttering."

Most of my adult olife I've had to be productive, meeting the re­quirements of being a single parent or supp0rtirg six child­ren. And usually that's been OK.

But thts day I felt the exten.t to which lack of time was fill­ing my life. Without spaces in our schedules, the things that

round us out as human beings can be' crowded out.

"When. did you last take a day to putter?" my daughter and I asked each other. What we really meant was, Are we find­ing the time needed for reflection on what we are here for, .what our lives are about, what makes life worth ,living.

And in needing to give so much to our jobs, who has been crowd­ed out - friends, ourselves, God?

I ,took a walk around my house and slowly realized that this day was no accident. It. was a message from God. I think he pulls surprises on us every so often to force us to stop, look and listen to ourselves, to him.

Sometimes the surprises are hard ones -the death of a loved one, an Hlness. They are shocks that stop us in our tracks and force us to make room for God:

But this day the surprise was a benevolent one. I think God wanted people, at least me, to do something different, to change the ordinary schedule. Unless people let go of their ordinary schedules now and then, they can get trapped and forget to re­flect on their destiny.

So I took the day, savored it and thanked God for stopping me in my tracks in such a lovely way. I shut down the treadmiH for a day and meditated on my maker and the blessings of my life.

I couldn't help but think of the invitation from Jesus I ~~arned lon.g ago in, my r~gligion classes: "Come to me all you who labor and are burdened and i will refresh you."

It was a benediction I had not thought about for a long time.

Pro-lifers Continued from Page One

ever existed who either had the desire or the means, technologi­cally or militarily, to carry out killing on ,the level that marks our own day and age."

Boston College running back Steve Strachan, the 1985 Cotton Bowl's Most Valuable Player, also spoke of his commitment to the pro-life movement.

National March At the National March for

Life in Washington President Reagan and other political lead­ers condemned violence as a means of stopping abortions.

'Reagan told the pro-lifers "the 'momentum is with us" to end abortion.

Marchers at the 12th annual protest against the Supreme Court decision ,legaHzing abor­tion heard Reagan's address oV,er loudspeakers at the Ellipse be­hind the. White House before marching to the Capital. I Distrct of Columbia .. police !estimated the crowd sIze at 71,500.

Although bitter cold the pre­vious day had forced cancella­tion of Reagan's outdoor swear­ing in l!-n inaugural parade, the weather was -less of a factor for the annual pro-life march. The temperature had reached the upper 20s by the time the march ers. headed for Capitol Hill.

Reagan, in his remarks to the marchers, said he rejected Vio­lence "as a means of settling this issue. We cannot condone the threatening or taking of hu- . man life to protest the taking of human life by way of abortion.

He told the crowd he was "proud to stand with you in the 10ng march for human life" and said he would continue to work with Congress against legalized abortion.

Reagan's message was echoed by senators, representatives and religious leaders at the march who condemned the re­cent violence at a.bortion clinics. and said Americans are moving toward rejection of abortion.

Following the \,Vashington march, 29 people were arrested while kneeling on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court build­ing and praying for an end to abortion.

The protesters were charged with violating federal law PI'Cl­hibiting parading, assembling or displaying banners at the Su­:preme Court buildi~ or its grounds, according to Sgt. Jo­seph Gentile, a public informa­tion officer with District of Col­umbia Police. The charge carries a $100 fine or 60 days in jail or both said Gentile. Those ar­rest~d were taken to District of Columbia Superior Court.

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Fewer priests~ more work

trigger health concerns WASHINGTON (NC) - The

diminishing number of U.S. priests could. adversely affect priestly health, warns a recently completed report by a National

. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee.

"The Health of American Catholic Priests," the first in­depth study on the subject, sur­veyed 4,600 priests in 21 dio­ceses over about 15 months in 1983 and 1984.

The report said that in the first years· after Vatican II, a significant number of priests left active ministry through retire­ment· and resignation, the num­ber of diocesan priests availabl~ for fuHtime assignment declined, and diocesan seminarians de­creased by more than 50 percent.

It also said that although there are now more than 57,000 U.S.. priests, by the year 2000 there could be only 17,000:

"These trends indicate . . . a .smaller bu.t older clergy popula­tion faced with greater respon­sibilities," the report said. "Un­less there are' some dramatic shifts in the immediate future, there is a good reason to be con­cerned about the health of Am­erican priests."

The study, a follow-up to a 1982 study, "Priests and Stress," was conducted by Jesuit Father .Josph Fichter and the sociology department of Loyola Univer­sity in New Orleans. The report, based on the study, was written by the NCeB Committee on Priestly. Life and Ministry.

The study showed that U.S. priests succumb to disease in about ,the same proportion' as other American men. But they also work longer hours, have

fewer sick days, live longer and work beyond the customary re­tirement age. -

"A priest's health must be seen as more than freedom from sickness and disease; it includes a deep faith sustained by prayer," the report said. The committee said the first 25 years of the priesthood are the most stre'ss­ful and that serenity character­izes older clergy.

83.6 percent of priests called their health excellent or good, 'lit 39.6 percent reported "severe personal, behavioral or 'mental problems" in the previous 12 months. '

The committee pointed out that, like other males, priests tend to minimize their needs, failings and weaknesses, and overestimate their personal well­being. The report said these fac­tors must be kept in mind when viewing the survey results.

The committee recommended that priests monitor their per­sonal health, inform themselves on health benefits and develop habits to prevent disease; and that dioceses establish "holistic health boards."

Holistic refers to a theory ·that emphasizes the organic or func­tional relationship between parts and wholes.

New pronuncio VATICAN' CITY (NC) - Pope

John Paul 1,1 has named Arch­bishop Francesco Colasuonno, a 60-year-old Italian, as the new apostolic pronullcio to Yugo­slavia,. one of the few countrie.s with a Marxist government which' has diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

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By AnY.

ARTHUR

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RICHARD

MURPHY

What would you do if .you had to pay for every program. you recorded from television with your video cassette recorder? Get a second ' job? Sell the thing?

Imagine if the VCR manuac­turers had' to pay the producers of the TV shows the VCRs were used to tape. Worst of aU, im­agine a law prohibiting the sale of, VCRs.

One or more of the above pos­sibilities could have become a reality when the Supreme Court was asked about a year ago to decide whether taping television programs with home VCRs vio­lated the copyright rights of the owners of the programs. The Court ruled that there was no violation !because home taping was a "fair use" of the programs.

Copyrights and the fair use of copyrighted material are sub­jects covered by the federal Copyright Act, a collection of laws on copyrights.

iIn general terms, a copyright gives the creator of an "intellect­ual production" the exclusive right to print, publish, copy and

Ho,Ule·VCRs don't sell that production. In fact, the copyright laws were enacted primarily in response to the in­vention of printing, whfch made 'multiplication of copies easy and profitable.

Copyright protection is avail­able for "original works of au­thorship." Examples of such works covered by the Copyright' Act are Hterary works, musical works, including accompanying words, dramatic works, includi.ng any accompanying ,music, motion pictures and other audiovisual works and sound recordings.

To be eligible for a copyright, a person's work must be original. This doesn't mean it must be strikingly unique or have great artistic value. But it does mean

.that the creator has to have add­ed something of his or her own. In other words, a person may not copyright something he or she' has copied from someone else.

However, the originality test is not difficuU to pass. For ex­ample, a work that amounts to little more than a rearrangement of 91d ideas is often eligible for copyright protection.

You can use a copyrighted ,work to a limited extent with­out incurring liability for in­fringement of copyright. This is called the "fair use" exception to copyright violation.

Fair use 'might' include using' copies of the copyrighted work for such purposes as criticism, comment, news reporting, teach-' ing, scholaflly purposes or reo search. Among the factors a court considers in determining for use are:

1) the purpose and ch,aracter of the'use, including whetfier the use is ,commercially oriented or for non-profit, educational pur­poses;

2) the nature of the, copy· righted work;

3) the portion of 'the copy­righted work used; , 4) the content or substance of the portion used in comparison to the copyrighted work as a whole;

5) the effect of the use of the copyrighted work upon the po­tential market for, or value of, that work.

In the VCR case decided by the Supreme Court, "fair use" was a critical' issue. Universa·1 City Studios, which owns copy­rights on some of the programs broadcast on' free television, claimed copyright infringement by two parties: VCR owners who taped their programs off the television and the company that sold the. VC~s.

The Court ruled that videotap­ing by the homeowner for non­comercial use, (i.e., private view­ing) was a fair use. The practice - called time-shifting - was fair, the Court said, because it's likely that 'many copyright hold­ers who l!cense their works for television broadcasts don't ob· ject to time-shifting and time­shifting causes minimal harm to the potential market for or value of the copyrighted pro­grams. In fact, it even increases the size 'of the audience.

The Court's decision seems to follow what has become one of the general ru'les under the fair use exception. That is, uses that are of even minimal social value are fair if they don't tend to sub­stitute for the copyright holder's actual or potential commercial exploitation of the original.

Another general rule is that uses having a high informational value 'are fair unless the copy­right holder can show there is a likelihood of' extensive com­mercial substitutjon. For exam­ple, a court ruled that the un· authorized use in a magazine

violate copyright article of information from for­ leading to potential liability for mer President Gerald Ford's copyright infringement. memoirs before the memoirs However, the showing of a were· publicly released was a taped broadcast, even at no fair use. charge, in a commercial estab­

lishment, llike your friendlyFinally, highly informative neighborhood tavern, could be

uses that are 'also educational considered commercial use pro­or non-commercial may be fair hibited by the Copyright Act.even when a great deal of com­ Even though the tavern owner, mercial substitution .is likely. for example, is exacting no feeFor example, the photocopying from his customers for viewing of articles from soholarly jour­ a tape of last night's Celticsnals solely to disseminate the game, it could be argued that he knowledge to others, and not for was deriving indirect commer·profit, is a fair use of the arti­ cial benefit due to the increased cles. size of the crowd in his estab·

The Supreme .Court has said lishment. that non-commercial home use To sum up, taping televisionrecording of material broadcast programs for the private, non­over the public airwaves is a commercial use and enjoymentfair use of copyrighted works of VCR owners will most likely and does not constitute copy­ not 'lead to copyright liability. right infringement. Thus" taping .. However, if the user derives any a movie or a Celtics game for commercial benefit, even. indir­·Iater viewing by yourself and a ectly, from the showing of ,thefew friends is fine, provided taped broadcast, he or she could that you don't charge your bud­ be subject to liability for copy­dies an admission fee. Not only right infringement. would this be a great way to lose friends, but it also could be The Murphys practice iaw in considered commercial use, thus Braintree.

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Rural Life Conference' siudies land, food, justice DES MOINES, Iowa (NC)'

Iowa may lose 50 percent of its farmers by the year 2000, and t is not the only state facing an increased rural crisis, according to Gregory Cusack, executive director of the Nationai' Catholic' Rural Life Conference.

So Cusack, executive director since 198'1 of the'Des Moines· based NCRLC, is trying to find j

solutions to the proble~s before they get even worse.

Clisack, in an interview with The Witness, ,newspaper of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, said agriculture is indiffioulty across the country and that the forces troubling it are the same every­where.

"If this process continues, it is inevitable that all the land in the country will be owned by corporations or other large land­owners," he said. "In 50 years, we're going to have ,the kind of concentrated land ownership in this country that we have looked upon elsewhere in the world

with disfavor. Iowa itself may Jose 40 or 50 percent of its far­mers by the year 2000." '

He said the' new system wiil adversely affeCt ,the availability, purity and price of food in the future. Moreover, Cusack said, the inability of Americans to look· aihead 50 years and plan for the. future .is contributing to, the pr.oblem'. ' ,

The NCRLC itself is conduct­ing ,a three-year study of land, food and justic,e issues,' with the aim. of identifying what a "just food' system'~ would be.

"It's not lust a question of the short-term survivaibility of

'farms, but a structural problem we have to address," Cusack said. "We've got ,to chl1nge the way we do business in this coun­try agriculturally. More of the same wiltl not work."

Farmers' and consumer must become allies to get fair prices for both and to ensure that hun­gry people are fed, he ,said.

The 'land must be safeguarded

as well, he said. "We can't possibly abuse the

land without down the road abusing ourselves," Cusack said. "It's going to take a profoundly different relationship between human beings and the land be~

fore we can have a just food system." He cited the poten'tial misuse of chemicals on the land.

"We're not agains~ chemicals/' he pointed out. ,"We're against indiscriminate, unwise use of chemicals when ,we don't know what the consequences are,"

There, are other challenges, he said.

In the business sector, ,"the farmer is subject to relative monopolies at !both ends", of his operations, from the seed, chemi­cal and implement companies which' supply the means to help grow crops,' and from the grain and meat companies which buy farm products, Cusack said. '

These industries have claimed "their future is tied to the ever­expanding farm," Cusack said.

"But I think we could make a good case for them that they would be in a sounder position financia'\tly wIth a more dis· persed and wide-based owner­ship of' land, with a ,lot of people working on the land rather than a few."

Furthermore, he asked, "Where in blazes are these' people going to get jobs" if they're forced off the land?

NCRLC is forming ties with otl1er agricultural organizations and with such other fChurch groups as the National Council of Churches. It is' also planning a series of 1985 forums on the relationship between theology and the land, Cusack said.

He added that he is excited abou.t the U.S.' bishops' planned pastoral letter on the economy, whose second draft, due in late spring, will include a section on agriculture. As Cusack sees it, "a more just economic order goes hand in hand with a just food system,"

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Fr. 'Schillebeeckx asked to recant By Sister Mary Ann Walsh

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has ordered Dominican Father Edward Schillebeeckx, a Beligian~born theologian, to ac­knowledge publicly church teach­ing that only priests may conse­crate the Eucharist.

The order, contained in a June 13, 1984, letter, responded to the priest's 1980 book, "Ministry: A Case for Change." According to the Vatican, the book argues that lay persons can consecrate the Eucharist where no priests are available.

The letter, released Jan. 10, was from the Vatican Congrega­tion for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Father Thomas Herron, an Am­erican official of the congrega­tion, said Father 'Schillcbeeckx's thesis is "unacceptable" because it says that "a person can get himself ordained or that a com­munity can ordain him outside of apostolic succession."

The Vatican said Father Schil­lebeeckx indicated that "a new book, his next publication, would accede ... to the congregation's demands."

The Vatican also releJised an excerpt of Father Schille­beeckx's Oct. 5 written response to the congregation in which he said his forthcoming book "takes into consideration the criticism of his first book on the part of historians, other theologians, and, particularly, the congrega­tion." The Vatican said it wiH evaluate. the new, book.

Father Schillebeeckx, who has often disagreed with the congre­gation, also said his new /book would not contradict the congre­gation's letter on the Eucharist sent to the bishops in 1983.

That -letter said any view that the Eucharist can' be cele6i'ated without a priest is "absolutely incompatible with the faith."

Father Schillebeeckx has cited emergency situations when lay persons presided over the cele­bration of the Eucharist. To press his point, he quoted the third-century theologian Tertul­Iian, who wrote, "But where no co}Jege of ministers has been ap­pointed, you, the laity, must celebrate the Eucharist and bap­tize; in that case, you are your own priests, for where two or three are gathered together, there is the church, even if these three are lay people." .

'St. Dorothy? !NEW YORK(NC) - Arch­

bishop John J. O'Connor of New York lias raised the possibility that Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker leader who died in 1980, be proposed for canonization. In the New York archdiocesan weekly, Catholic New York, Archbishop O'Connor comment­ed that since he initiated prepar­atory work for the cause of his predecessor, Cardinal Terence Cooke, fho died Oct. 6, 1983, "several people wrote to ask me: 'Whr not Dorothy Day?' "

CamnlJ ,it an excellent ques­tion, th~ archbishop concluded his colu\'Iln, "I would be inter­ested in your answers."

By· NC, News ServIce

As famine continues in Ethio­pia, the drought-stricken nation remains in the world spotlight. In recent days ,its situatoin was the subject of a U.S. congression­al hearing and of a Salesian priest's evaluation in Rome.

The United States should pro­vide half the aid to drought· stricken AJrica because "we have more, we can afford more," Rob· ert J. McCloskey, Catholic Relief Services' external affairs vice president, told a congressional panel Jan. 17.

McCloskey said that "eRS does not hold the view that ,the United States should or can do it aU. We believe, however, that it should be possible - and w01'thy of us as a ,people - to contribute 50 percent. of the nec­essary assistance for Africa."

Response of Americans to the Ethiopian crisis demonstrated "there is a wiU among the Am­erican people to take the lead in humanitarian assistance in Afri­ca."

"At the 50 percent level, it is reasonable that the rest should be.done by others," he added, :in ' testimony prepared for a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

At the hearing, M. 'Peter Mc­Pherson, administrator of. the federal Agency for International Development, presented the Rea­gan administration's request for $235 million for additiona'l Afri­can famine assistance. He com­plained that civil war between the Ethiopian government and rebels is hindering relief efforts. "The starving people of Ethiopia

Forests are stripped bare In the search for building materials and firewOod.

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.. As the drought continues, hunger and famine begin. people and anlmals begJn to die and man flees the area,

starting anew, and the desertification cycle repeats Itself In an Increaalng spiral of land abuse and death.

TN. Statistics vary on how.XPANDING fast African deserts are

D•••R~T_~•• growing but of the '

nearly two billion acres KEY: of rangeland and ralnfed DOesert croplands, 79'l6 has

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Famine stays in spotlight simply cannot be pawns," 'he said.

Salesian ,Report The Ethiopian 'situation was

the topic of an interview the Rome bureau of NC News had earlier this month with Salesian Father Luc Van Looy, his com­munity's general councilor for missions. Severa'l Salesians work in 'Ethiopia.

The priest told NC News that there is extensive fertile land in the African country but that agriculture is not a developed science. He said tjlat 'coffee pro· duction'is overemphasized while starvation threatens 6 to 10 mil­lion of the m~tion's 42 million people.

Coffee is ,Ethiopia's main ex­port, accoun'ting for more than $200 million of the $374 million the country received from for- I

eign sales in 1981. 'In the south, every family

has a little garden and plants just enough coffee and bananas for its own use," said Father Van Looy, just back from Sale­sian missions in Ethiopia. He said larger farms and incentives for improving crop production are needed in that fertile region.

"When there's a famine, you have to devote the land to the production of necessary food," he said. "Coffee does not resolve a famine."

People in the famine zones have "eaten aU the seeds they had," Father Van Looy said. "They figure what's the point of saving seed if everyone will be dead of starvation before the next harvest."

Father Van Looy also said that the drought could be offset by drilling deeper wells. He noted that major water sources are at 250 feet.

, "There's' lots of water," 'he said, "but the Ethiopians are not equipped to drill wells at that level. They need the help of other countries to do this."

Father Van Looy said the gov­ernment's resettlement program for famine victims is plagued by poor planning. He also said it breaks up families.

"In the north, refugees are dy­ing of hunger," he said. "In the south they are dying of malaria, pneumonia, and as victims of snakes and crocodiles."

Father Van Looy said refu­gees from the desert have been moved to unfamiliar and unin­habitable swamplands.

In one area "four workmen were eaten by crocodiles and two died of snake bites" in one day, he declared.

He said apathy has settled over . refugee camps in the drought-stricken north. People do not object when the resettle· ment program breaks up famj­lies.

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The Fixx's question seems ob­vious. Of course we are our­selves. Who else could we be?

However, we can all think of times when, we don't !lct like ourselves. So the question may not be as simple as it seems.

One reason for doing this is the fear tI.1at others will not, like us as we are. Or at times

By' Charlie Martin ' we attempt to impress others by conveying. false images of

ARE WE OURSELVES? ourselves, such as the tough , guy, the cool customer· and the

Lost feelings return', 'S~ now maybe I can learn

"To stop the world of a lie This time nround.

, , Because seen ~rough these eyes We le~d a double life No one would know

,,' So 'checJc it out

~tepping out, Here I go. _', Most spirit returns Now, maybe we learned To stop ~s whirl of a life To this earth we· are bound I ask you

, Are ~e,' are we, are we ourselves Are we' ourselves ,.And do we really know

Oooh. do we know Are we ourselves?

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What's, on your mind?'

Q. I have a friend who start ­ed drinIdng just about. three months ago. Although I and myother friends drink on some weekends," this person now seems to always want to drink.' It's like. he has a compulsion to drink. I don't want to say' any­thing to him about putting a stop to his drinking. because it really

,hasn't gotten out of hallld yet. What can I do to prevent it from getting out'of band?,(North Carolina)

,A. It sounds like you're say­ing your friend hasn't been on any wild drinking sprees and hasn't been arrested for driving while intoxicated. At least not yet.

presume you mean some­thing like -that when you say the situation "rea'lIy hasn't gotten out of hand yet."

·Butif your friend "now seems to always want to drink," then he is in trouble. Bad trouble.

His drinking has definitely gotten out of hand. To develop that strong a craving for alcohol

,By -

TOM

LENNON

in only three months, sounds very much like the person. is im al­coholic.

,But don't lay that on him ­at least not yet. No one I've ever met wanted to hear or ad­mit that he or she is an alcoholic.

Try another plan, one that involves some peer pressure and that I saw some fellows use in a small college' not far from my home. ' .

One' .of ther buddies, whom we'll call Brian, slowly develop­ed adrinking problem. Long be; fore 5 p.m., he'd start having one shot and then another "just' to , relax a bit from studying."

, ' Five of his buddies started working with. him in a non-h~s­

'tile, non-nagging and very friend­-ly way.

They helped ,Brian analye why he was tense. They Uooked for other ways for him to relax. One guy played handball with him regularly. Another helped him with his studies.

When, Brian wanted a dririk badly during the day, he agreed to go to one of his buddies to

I-cail-make-it-by-myself individ­ual. '

Individuals can give up such images when they like them­selves and accept their gifts and limitations. Not ,accepting one­self means having to prove one­self over and over again.

Such efforts put undue pres­sme on people to assume be­haviors that do not come from their real selves.

But people grow in liking themselves, they often discover that they need no images to hide ' behind. Then they can b~ more relaxed and enjoyable to be around.

What are effective ways' to move beyond false images or roles? How can we help others be themselves? Why do we some­times wear, masks instead of being our real selves? We will benefit from each other's ideas and IwiH do my best to bring' them into future columns.

Write to Charlie Martin at 1218 S. Rotherwood!, Ave., Evansville,Ind. 47714.

talk about the craving and to find a substitute like coffee or a soft drink. 'One night two of his buddies

went with Brian to a meeting ~f Alcoholics Anonymous where all they did was ,listen and watch. It was an eye-opener for all of them.

-Brian didn't stop drinking en­tirely, but he moderated it and' got .it 'under control. He also learned a .lot about himself. For him, "peer pressure" was a defin­jte plus.

Can you and your friends do something simi'lar for your one friend who .seems ,headed for serious trouble?

Could you also consider the possibility of forming a support group at your school for stu­dents who want to fight some ad,diction (even an addiction to eating too much)?

You can seek the aid of school authorities and perhaps get some sound advice from Alcoholics Anonymous on how to run such a group.

You might be·in for some razz­ing, ·put-downs or even reaNy hateful remarks. But if you can ignore them, you'll be fighting bad peer pressure in order to 'create ·good peer pressure of ql!ite another sort.

Send quesions for this column' to Tom Lennon, NC News, 1312 Mass. 'Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

•In our schools

the council is the primary alco­Coyle-Cassidy hol education and, prevention provider for the community. The Students at the -:- Taun'ton Connolly classes, conducted byschool marked Bishop Cronin's Jleter Viveiros, the cou,ncil direc­recent visit by presenting him tor bf educa'tion, focused on prob­with their traditional donation lems in dealing with alcoholism to Catholic Charities. This year,· in one's family. however, they added a special

gift for transmission to Catholic Relief Services for Ethiopian Castes deploredfamine relief.

C-C Mothers' Club meetings TlRUCHIRAPALLI, India (NC) are held the tnird Wednesday of' - In a first-ever joint statement, each month. a Catholic-Lutheran dialogue

group in India has sharply con­demned the caste system that still has a sienificant· impact on Bishop Con~l.(~lly social standing 'and social rela­

The 'Alcoholism Council', of tions in the country. The'group's Greater Fall River offered, Con­ statementcaHed on the ,church .nolly seniors an alcohol educa-' to work particularly for "the tion program last Thursday. poor and the oppressed' : • •

A Uni~ed Way agency and a ' people who are in need ofHbera­, project 'of Citizens for '·Citizens, tion from all forms of bondage.-

Psalm 103 By Cecilia Belanger ' love has redeemed from the pit.

As we 'end the first month of H, sometimes takes years for 1985, we' have reason for praise the redeemed to understand the despite the many tragedies in fuB meaning of his love. Restora­the world. ' tion and rebirth, all come from

,We know this i'sn't the end and God's love. All give inexplicable Psalm ,103 is an expression of evidence of that 'which works in that faith, Originally this lovely us and throu'gh us to give whole­hymn of praise and thanksgiving r.ess and value to life. ' was' an 'individu~l's expression Our journey is not isolated. of gratitude to a gracious God We are not alone, though we wl:o had forgiven -sins, healed may think we are. The Lord does from iHness and restored healh not' 'merely work in love and as vigorous as, that of an eagle. mercy for the individual,. but in

Toc\ay Psalm 103 is frequently justice for all who are down­used on liturgical occasions and trodden and oppressed. it expresses a' progression in In the tragedies we see nightly faith: "Bless the Lord, 0,my on TV, we are shown that fami­soul, let all that is within me , lies are not alone. Their suffer­bless his holy name!'; 'ing is 'shared, there is help, there

When we, like the psalmist, is the miracle, of going on, to review the way by which God perform daily tasks, to believe has ,led 'Us, our proper, response that those who have 'gone before, is praise. We can ,look at mis­ who now understand the journey, takes and wrongdoings and see' have joined the psalmist in un­God's forgiving love working for derstanding the forgiveness of us, strengthening us, giving us sins 'and the covering of our chance after chance. Jives by God's grace, his mercy

No one knows how many God's and this steadfast love.

"I think it would look better on thot side, don't y6U?"

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By Bill Morrissette

portswQtch Stang Widens Lead

With a 64-54 victory over Wareham last Tuesday night the Bishop stang Spartans widened their lead to two games as the pace setters in Division Two Southeastern Massachusetts Con­ference basketball. Stang is now 7.-0 in conference play, 10-1 overall. Wareham, which enter­ed the game with a 5-1 record in division action and held the· runnerup spot, now shares that spot with Fairhaven, a 73-64 winner over Old Rochester Tues­day. Wareham and Fairhaven ~re

now 5-2 in conference. HO'ly Family and Bourne en­

tered Tuesday night's play in a first-place tie in Division Three. Holy Family dropped a 56-54 de­cision to Dighton-Rehoboth and both schools dropped into a sec­ond-place deadlock with 4-2 records while Bourne's 76-~8

rout of Diman Voke boosted the Canalmen, now 5-1, into the div­isional lead.

In a thriller, New Bedford nip­ped Durfee, 59-56, to take 'Un­disputed possession of first place in Division One. New Bedford,

now 7-0 in conference, and Holy Family, also 7-0, are the only undefeated teams in conference play. Durfee and New Bedford entered the game Tuesday tied for first place with 6-0 records. Durfee, which needs only one more victory to quaHfy for the post-season playoffs, is now 6-1 in conference. Barnsta;ble's 53-50 victory over Bishop"Feehan gave the cape hoopsters undisputed possession of third place, which they had shared with the Sham­rocks. New Bedford needs only two more wins to qualify for post-season play.

Tonight's games are Barnsta­ble at Diirfee, Somerset at Bish­op Connolly, Attleboro· at Fal­mouth and New Bedford at Bish­op Feehan in Division One; Coyle-Cassidy at Dartmouth, New Bedford Voke-Tech at Wareham, Bishop Stang at Fair­haven and Dennis-Yarmouth at Old Rochester in Division Two; Diman Voke at Seel<onk, Case at Dighton-Rehoboth and Bourne at Holy Family in Division Three.

Hockomock Notes Entering this week's action, Boys' basketball games to­

North Attleboro was setting the night are King Philip at Stough­place in girls' basketball with a ton, Oliver Ames at Foxboro, 9·0 record and was tied with Sharon at North Attleboro and Foxboro, each 4·0, for the lead Canton at Franklin. The sched­in girls' track. Oliver Ames, 8-0, ule in girls' basketball is the was the leader in boys' basket­ same but with the sites of home baH. games reversed.

eyo Hockey Postponed The Bristol County CYO

Hockey League twin bill sched­uled for last Sunday - Somer­st vs. Mansfield, Fall River South vs. New Bedford - was postponed because of travel con­ditions resulting from the snow storm. The games will be re­scheduled if needed to determine the positions of the teams in the final standings.

Next Sunday night's games, starting at nine o'clock, in the Driscoll Rink, Fall· River,' ar" New Bedford vs. Fall· River

North and Mansfield vs. Fall River South.

The league is set to wind up its regular schedule on Feb. 24 with the post·season playoffs to start on March 3.

The current· standings': Fall River South 11·1-1 (won, 10st, tied), Mansfield 8-2-2, New Bed­ford 6-6-1, Fall iRiver North 2-10-1, Somerset 2-10-1.

Goals for and against: FaIl River 'South 59-25, Mansfield. 60·29, New Bedford 55-51, Fall River North 28·61, Somerset 36-72.

. . New Conference Alignments

As the present setup of schools in various sports ends at the conclusion of the 1984-85 school year because of the with­drawal of several schools from the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference, attention is turned to arranging new divisional set­ups for the 1985-86 year.

All five diocesan schools, which elected to remain ,in the conference, have been assigned to Division Two in baseball. Bishop Stang, Bishop Feehan, Bishop Connolly, . Holy Family and Coyle-Cassidy wiH be joined by Dartmouth in that division.

Division One includes Attle­

boro, New Bedford, Durfee, Fal­mouth, Barnstable, Somerset and Dennis·Yarmouth.

Division One in softball will be made up of Barnstable, Som­erset, Durfee, Dartmouth, Den­nis-Yarmoutb, Bishop Stang and· New Bedford while Attlehoro, Coyle-Cassidy, Bishop Connolly, Holy Family, Bishop Feehan and Falmouth will make up Division Two.

The new setups for golf, boys' and girls' tennis and boys' and girls' track are expected to be developed at a meeting of ath­letic directors next month in New Bedford High School.

tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews indicate

both general and Catholic. Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen­eral viewing; PG-13-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

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

NOTE Please check dates and

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

New Film "A Sunday in' the Country"

(MGM).UA), a warm and briHi­ant French film, tells about a single day in the life of an old painter, Monsieur Ladmiral (Louis Ducreux).

The day is a beautiful Sun­day in 1912. The place is the painter's country home outside Paris.

Ladmiral, a widower, 'has two children. The son (Michel Au­mont), a plump businessman, is dutiful and 'loving, but unfor­tunately rather dull, as is bis wife.

Their three lively young chil­dren much prefer the company of their Aunt Irene' (Sabine Aze­ma,) a preference that Ladmidal obviously shares. The son knows this and is used to it, but even so, some pain remains.

Unlike her faithful brother, Irene rarely visits her fath~r. When she does, as on the day of the film, it appears she has bought. herself a noisy and bright·colored car from which she descends in a whirlwind of laughter and bustle.

Irene's affection and vitality delight her old father, although fiercely independent, the owner of a fashionable boutique, she habituaHy is entangled in dis· astrous ,love affairs.

Unlike her brother, Irene takes no .pains to praise her father's paintings, daring him, at 73, to take some chances and show some passion.

Ladmirtd knows she is right. The world has rewarded him materially for his art, but its reo wards have made him cautious. He never tried for greatness, thus does not know whether he might have aohieved it.

All this he confides to Irene, who listens and understands. But then her disordered life obtrudes in the form of a phone caB and she must get back to Paris at once.

After. his son and daughter-in· law have also left, Ladmiral goes into his studio, gazes at the can­vas on which his latest safe and ingratiating work is taking form, then moves to the window and looks at the twilig~t.

Nothing' much happens in this film in the way of action, but in terms of insight into the com­plexities of human love and am­bition and the nature of art, a great deal takes place.

"A Sunday in the Country" is a rare film that no one who loves movies should miss.

In French with English sub­titles, it's marked by fine per­formances, most notably that of Ducreux, a veteran stage actor making his debut at 73 in a major film role. AI, G

Film on TV Wednesday, Jan. 30, 9-11 p.m.

EST (CBS) - "The Four Sea­eons" (1981) - Three couples maintain a friendship despite ups and downs, most having to' do with marital problems,in this entertaining but superficial com· edy written and directed by A'ian

. Aida, who· stars in it. Much vul· garity, profanity and sexual hUe mor. A3, :PG

Religious TV Sunday, Jan. 27 (ABC) "Direc­

tions" - George Will reports on the complex issues of biomedical ethics.

Sunday, Jan. 27 (CBS) "For Our Times" _ Discllssion of in­novative programs to help the elderly.

Religious Radio Sunday, Jan. 27 (NBC) "Guide­

line" - Professor David Horn· be::k of California State Univer­sity discusses CaoJifornia's Fran­ciscan missions.

Costly trip OTTAWA (NC) - Pope John

Paul II's 12-day September trip to Canada cost Canadian Cath­olics more than $15 million, about $9.4 million of it still to be ·raised, said Bonnie Brennan, a spokeswoman for the Cana­dian. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The cost was borne by dioceses that hosted the pope and the bishops' conference and did not i:1c1ude costs to the Cana­dian government, she said. She added that officia·ls are confident that through coHections and donations the debt will be met within a year.

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16 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil River-Fri., jan. 25, 1985

·,teering pOint, PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN

are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 0272a. Name of city or town should be included as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events. Note: We do not carry news of fundniislng activities such as bingos, whlsts, dances, suppers and bazaars. We are happy to carry notices of spiritual Ilrograms, club meetinRs, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities. Fundraising pro­Jects may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The Anchor business office, telephone 675-7151.

On Steering Points Items FR Indicates Fa II River, NB indicates New Bedford.

CATHEDRAL,FR During holiday competition

both the hoys' and girls' basket­ball teams scored victories, the first such parish doubleheader ever recorded.·

SACRED HEARTS SEMINARY, WAREHAM

Women's retreat: Feb. 22 to 24, directed by Father Andrew Jahn, SS.CC. Information: Carol Ducey, 295-0100 or' 295-9227.

SS. PETER & PAUL. FR . Parishioners Joseph and Lu­

cille Pavao have sponsered the third Cambodian family to come to Fall River under parish au­spices. The Hongs, a mother, father and their 17-year-old son, are now settled in an apart ­ment with furniture and other needs supplied ,by parishioners.

New activities committee of­ficers: Peter Richard, chairman; Lynn Force, vice-Chairman; Pat Willi,ams, secretary.

ST. STANISLAUS. FR Spring Bible study begins 6:30

p.m. March 3 in ,the' school. All welcome.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS, Potluck supper and Valentine­

making session: 6 p.m. Feb. 8, Visi'tation hall.

A "floral calendar" in Orleans offers the opportunity to sign up to provide weekend altar flowers during 1985.

K of C, CAPE COD , Knights of Columbus Council 7312 serves the area ,from Den­nis to' Eastham and meets each 2nd and 4th Thursday at Holy Redeemer Church, Chatham. New members welcome.

SMU,N.DARTMOUTH . Southeastern M...~s·achus€Jtts

University. Newman Assn. lec­ture series: noon Feb. 4, "Ca­tholicism in New England"; noon, Feb. 11, "The Jews and

,Ecumenism"; noon Feb. 18, "Schism and Reunion." Informa­tion: chaplain's office, campusextension 8872.

WIDOWED 'SUPPORT, CAPE COD

Meeting 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 24 St. Jude's Hall, 4463 Falmouth Rd., Cotuit. Discussion of "Taxes and Other Luxuries." Informa­tion: Dorothyann Gallahan, '428­7078.

"SEARCH OVERNIGH'Il'''' "Search Overnight" program for young women interested in the religious life: March' 23 and 24, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Ipswich. Information: Sister Marie Prefontaine, SND, 19-R Chestnut Street; Peabody 01960.

O.L~ MT, CARMEL,' NB Church unity holy ·hour: Sun­

day at time to be announced. New Holy Name Socie'ty of­

ficers were installed at a break­fast ceremony earlier this month.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET

Babysitting service has chang­ed 'to 9:15 a.m. Mass each Sun­day, beginning this weekend.

Coffee and muffins will fol­low 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, ATTLEBORO

Meeting: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1, St. Theresa's parish center, So. At­tleboro. Plans will be made for a Feb. 16 Valentine party.

BL. SACRAMENT ADORERS Holy hour: 7 p.m. Jan. 29,

Sacred Hea.rts Church, Fair­haven, directed by Father Al­phonsus McHugh, SS.CC., pas­tor. Exposition every Friday at church following 8 a.m. Mass until 8:45 p.m.; adoration daily except Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

ST. ANNE, FR All welcome to a free concert

by Colonial Brass, a brass quin- , tet from the Air Force Band of New England; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29, in the church. To be heard: selections from the works of Bach, Pachelbel, Beethoven, Sousa, Rossini 'and others.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO

"Chariots of Fire'" will be shown at 8:30 p.m. Jan. 26 in the shrine cafeteria under spon­sorship of the LaSalette Youth Group. All welcome.

Healing service: 2 p,m. Jan. 27, conducted in People's Cha­pel by Father Albert Fredette, MS. Music ministry led by Sis­ter Lucille Gauvin, OP, and prayer over individuals by members of the shrine prayer group.

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DURO nKISHlIl8 CORP. FAU RIVER TRAm BUREAU Gum C. OLIVEIRA THE EXTERMIIlATOR CO. GLOBE IIA1lUFAClURlIII CO. )1lS. AGENCY

.s'T~ MARV:'S'EEKON'K AA meets at 7 p.m. each Wed­

nesday in church hall. Altar boys meet at 1 p.m.

each. Saturday in church. Catechesis for adult confirma­

tion candidates begins Feb. 22. Information: Father Francis Ma­honey, tel. 222-0399.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO

Reception for Father William Costello: in school hall follow­ing 7 p.m. Mass Jan. 30.

STONEHRLL COLLEGE, N. EASTON

Evening division registration now in p.rogress: information 238-1081, ext. 760. '

Scrioture retreat "People Who Make a Difference," 4 to 8 p.m. Feb. 4. Chapel of Mary, directed by Rosemary Haugh­ton and Nancy Schwoyer of The Movement ~or North American Mission. Information: Sister Grace Donovan, SUSC, 238-1081, ext. 487.

ST. LOUIS de FRANCE, SWANSEA

First penance: 10:30 a.m. to­morrow.

HOLY NAME, FR Youth Group ski trip parti ­

cipants leave at 6 tonight from the schoolyard.

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS Support group for bereaved

parents: meeting 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28, St. Louis de France school, Swansea. Information: Geor­gette LeComte, 676-8458.

ST. RITA, MARION Marriage enrichment pro­

gram. "From This Day For­ward," Feb. 23. InformaHon: Deb and Dennis Kenney, 748­2825, or rectory.

NOTRE DAME, FR Dames de Ste. Anne will re­

ceive new members during Lent., Information: Germaine Boulay, 675-7625.

The choir will resume re­hearsals at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 29.

BREAD OF LIFE; FR A Life -in the Spirit weekend

will be held Feb. 9 and 10 at Blessed Sacrament Church, Fall

'River. Information: Fred De­metrius, 644-2375; Don Sylvain, 673-4378.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N.DARTMOUTH . Marriage Encounter weekend

begins today; Lamaze natural. childbirth class Jan. 31.

ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT

Women's Guild: board meet­ing 7 p.m. Feb. 6, followed by meeting· at 7:30 p.m., church hall.

Valentine dinner for area shut-ins and those living 'alone: 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 10, church hall.

ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH Rosary and Benediction: 7

p.m. Jan. 27. Altar server schedules are

available in sacristy.

0.1,. VICTORY, CENTlERVILLE CYO meeting: following CCD

class from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 27, parish center.

Mothers' Group: meeting 8 p.m. Jan. 30, home of Jeanne Remme.rs, 97 Outpost Lane, Centerville. Information: 428­5741. All mothers welcome. . Palanca party for Cursillo re­

newal weekend: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30, O. L. Hope, W. Barnstable.

ST. MARY. NB Illinois Club members are

welcome to use the school gym on Wednesday nights.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA 5 p.m. Mass Jan. 27 will be

followed bya reception ,and testimonial for Father JosephRichard, AA, who will be re­

-placed at the parish by Father Arthur Wingate as of Feb. 6.

New altar boys needed; infor­mation at rectory.

Vigil for peace,: 8 a.m. Feb. 9 through 8:30 a,m. Feb. 10. Par­ishioners are asked to sign up for an hour of adoration dur­ing this period.

SACRED HEART, FR First penance: 11 a.m. tomor­

row, rectory chapel.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON

Babysitting is provided dur­ing 10:30 a.m. Mass each Sun­day.

CHARISMATICS, ATTLEBORO/TAUNTON

The regional coordinating committee will sponsor a prayer meeting 'beginning with Mass at 7:30 tonight at LaSalette Shrine. Attleboro. Father Leo Maxfield, MS, will be principal

, celebrant and homilist. At the followinp, prayer session, to be held in the shrine cafeteria, Don Turbitt, coordinator of the Peo­ole of God's Love community in Providence, will speak and community members will pro­vide the music ministry. All welcome.

HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH Ladies' Association: meeting

Feb. 1 following 2 p.m. Bene­diction. Marie Mann will show slides of the Oberammergau Passion Play.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESERT, FR

Adoration of Blessed Sacra­ment: noon to 6 p.m. Feb. 3.

ST. MARY. FAIRHAVEN Adult discussion group: 7 to

8:30 p.m. Jan. 29, ,rectory.

ST. THOMAS MORE SOMERSET

Organ dedication: 7:30 p.m.Jan. 28, followed by wine ,and cheese reception.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Scripture study group: 7:30

p.m. each Monday. Information: Gerry Kisla, 992-8998.

New choir members arc sought. Rehearsals 7 p.m. each Thursday at rectory.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH

Vocation information day: 3 p.m. Feb. 3, Father Clinton Hall. Priests, sisters and seminarians will be present to discuss the religious life. All welcome.

New choir members are need­ed; rehearsals at 7 p.m. each Thursday. Informatiop at rec­tory. A choir is also beingformed at St. Theresa's, Saga­more. Information also 'at rec­tory.

Prayer group: 8 p.m. each Friday, Father Clinton Hall.

Wants clemency ROME (NC) - Mehmet Ali

Agca, the Turk serving a life sentence for the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II, has asked the Italian state for clemency "on humanitarian grounds." Agca made the request during a recent interview in Rome's RebiM>ia ,Prison with a reporter for an Italian Catholic weekly. In the interview, the 26-year-old would­be assassin also described his 1983 prison-<:ell meeting with Pope John Paul as "solely per­sonal" and said he felt the pope was now "like a brother" to him.

New pronuncio vATICA NCITY (NC) - Pope

John Paul II has named Vatican press secretary Father Romeo Pancirol, 60, as pronuncio to Liberia and Gambia and apos­tolic delegate in Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The assignment is a return to diplomacy in Africa for the /Milan-born priest. During the 60s he served in the west-central region of Africa.

Later he was assigned to the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. imd in 1976 was appointed director of the Vatican press office.