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Eighty men and women from all sections of Diocese of Fall River wil be awarded the Marian Medal at a special service in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, at 8 Monday night, Jan. 6. The 80 to

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instances, unnoticed, work of charity. hJ The names of the 80 winners in 1969 are pub- H ished on Pages Two and Three of this edition 11 of The Anchor.

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In a vicious and almost un- papal encyclical On the Transparallelled attack on Pope mission of Human Life. A passage of the attack says, Paul, three biologists have "We pledge that we will no released a statement which ,longer be impressed by pleas for

they said had more than 2600 scientists-signers protesting the

Bishop' 5 Charmty Ball on Jan. 10 All members of the Decorations Committee of the 14th Annual Bishop's Charity Ball will meet at Lincoln Park Ballroom at 1 on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 5. Mrfl. Stanley Janick of Fall River, Chairman of the com:rJttee, urges all members of the Council of Catholic Women and Society of St. Vincent de Paul be' ,present at this important meeting to decorate spacious Li'ncoln Park Ballroom for the 14th Annual Bishop's Charity Ball to be helaFriday, Jan. 10; Anyone wishing to aid in this decorating project will be cordially welcomed.

world peace or compassion for' the poor from a man whose deeds help promote war and make poverty inevitable. "The world must qu1<:kly ,come to realize that Pope Paul VI has sanctioned the deaths -of countless numbers of humlbl bein'gs wi~h his misguided and immoral encyclical." The statement was issued by Dr. Jeffrey J.W. Baket' of the University of Puerto Rico, Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich of Stanford University, and Dr. Ernst Mayr of Harvard. The reasoning of the statement is that any act'ion which impedes efforts to halt world population perpetuates the misery in which millions now live and promotes death by starvation in the present and future. These scientists and those of like mind use the approach that 'the answer to suffering and

Study Endowment Rockville Center C@fisid~r$ New ~~sc~d Pla~ ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)-The Rockville Centre Diocesan Board of Education is seeking approval from Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg to study the feasibility of creating an endowment fund to meet rising education costs. Next year's operating deficit for four diocesan high schools, opened in 1966, will be about $897,000. The four schools will have about 9,000 students when filled to capacity later this year. The diocese has 21 high schools and 99 elementary schools with more than 88,000 utudents. Five high schools, including a seminary high llchbol, ~re operated on a diocesan 'basis. The other high schools are either parish or in-

misery in the world, is to limit world popUlation rather than to extend production and distribution to feed the world population, an accomplishment that the present techniques of agricultural efforts are well able to do. The approach ,of these scientists is to' advocate full care of a limited number of persons. This hits directly, at the population growth of the developing coun. tries of the world and indicates to them that while the. affluent countries may allow their population to grow, the developing countries may not. This is hardly calculated to assure these developing countries of, the interest of ,the more affluent in their welfare. To them it looks like the advice is one of self-suicide for others while a high living standard for oneself. If the scientists who issued at attack on Pope Paul claim that they speak according to their conscientious beliefs, then; by the same reasonings, they should allow this same conscientious belief to the Pope who

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dependent schools operah d by religious orders. Most elementary schools are operated by the ,parishes. If the endowment idea proves feasible, Rockville Centre will be the first diocese in the nation

has expressed' full concern for the poor while maintaining that immoral means of every kindartificial birth control, abortion, euthanasia-cannot be used to control population and eliminate misery. As a matter of fact, a recent meeting of the National Planned Parenthood group, attrIbuted population growth to wanted children of middle class families rather than, as is often said, to the unwanted children of the poor who do not know how to avoid having children. The Pope's approach is that men have intelligence and will, and that they mu.st use both knowledge .and self-control in having and providing for their families. This is respor.sible human activity. Further, if the affluent countries of the world are able to spend mcre than half their budgets on armsover $75 billion dollars a year in the case of the United States -and untold other billions of dollars on such laudable projects as space exploration, then these

use," said Father Patrick E. Shanahan, associate superintendent of schools. Revenue sources for an endowment fund come from bequests, foundations, industry and individual donations. Free-

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Private College' Student 'Grant~ colleges. Kappa Gamma Pi, honor society' of Catholic women's college graduates, has cited "spiraling costs and declining enrollment in <the nation's independent colleges - many of them Catholic." as ,the 'basic reason for the campaign. The society is enlisting its Ht,OOO members to take part in the drive "to even the academic score between pUblicly financed state universities and the private independent colleges." Mrs. William H. Thorne, who heads the

Epiphany Feast Is on Jan. 5 WASHINGTON (NC) - U.S. Catholics will celebrate the feast of ,the Epiphany on Sunday ,Jan. 5 instead of Jan. 6 this year. The change is a result of a declaration of the Congregation of Rites. The declaration will also affect celebration of the feast of Cor,pus Christi in the United States, That feast will be observed on Sunday, June 8, instead of Thursday, June 5. -Both of these feasts have ,been holy days of obligation in certain countries until recently, and ,the change in dates Was made to :accommodate them. 'Epiphany is sometimes popularly known as the Feast of the Magi because it is believed it represents the day on which the Magi first saw the Saviour.

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to use an endowment method, similar toj that employed, by universities, as an 'additional source of educational revenue. "As far as we know no one is using this method, although a few dioceses are considering its

COLUMJBUS (NC)-A national Catholic women's organization has initiated a campaign for state and federal tuition grants to students attending independent

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Columbus Kappa Gamma Pi Chapter committee which is coordinating the Ohio campaign, says the average state-financed college tuition in Ohio is $500 compll1red with $1,200 too $2,000 at private colleges. Under the society's proposal, grants from state or federal sources would equalize the tuition difference by granting to the private college student ,the amount of the difference, thus enabling him to be fre<'l of economic pressure in choosing his oollege. Mrs. Thorne pointed to ,the 'recent study of Ohio coHege costs, made by the \East Ohio Gas Company of Cleveland, which showecl that a Turn to 'Page Thirteen

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