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Abortion: Still Moral It is with profound sorrow that I have learned of the decision reached l:>Y a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court regarding laws concerning abortion.

Human life born or unborn must always be protecte<1 and enjoy the protection of law.

Since it is the ethical teaching of the Catholic Church, a view'shared by countless others of different persuasions, that human life exists from the moment of conception, I feel it is my duty as Bishop to state once again categorically that the Church holds abortion t~ be morally wrong. ,The Bishops'

of the Second Vatican Council call it an unspeakable crime.

That the decision of the Supreme Court does not vest this truth with the protection of law, does not alter in the least the truth of the Church's teaching,that abortion is evil.

In the moral climate in which we live in today's world, and I fear the Court's decision is reflective of this climate, it behooves each one of us again to assert the truths of ethical living in order that the moral fibre of this nation will not wither in the face of the difficulties of upright and God-fearing conduct. '

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Now that the longed for days of peace in Southeast Asia seem to be drawing near, I urge all who were so rightly appalled by the killing in that unfortunate region of the world to raise their voices once again in unison against the wanton destmction of unborn h~man life taking place throughout the world by the evil of abortion. '

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Anointing To Stress Sacramental Healing

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope cred Anointing of the Sick), was Paul VI has reformed the old announced at a Vatican press rite of the Sacrament of Anoint- conference Jan. 18,although it ing of the Sick - formerly Ex- 'had been signed by Pope Paul treme Unction - to put more on Nov. 30, 1972.

The old ritual can be used unstress on its healing powers and til the end of this year; the conto rid it of the older associations An Anchor 01 the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul stitution states the new order with imminent death.

In a new apostolic constitu- must be used from Jan. I, 1974. ,tion the Pope brings together a Fall River, Mass., Thurs., January 25, 1973 number of modifications used experimentally for several years in $4.00 per year Vol. 17, No.4 漏 1973 The Anchor PRICE 10垄 va'rious parts of the world.

Principal changes' are: In the prayer to be used in conferring the sacrament; State Abortion Laws A reduction in the number of anointings with oil of sick persons; Vegetable oils may be used in the place of olive oil when necessary; Msgr. Amie Martimort, a conThe sacrament may be conferred more than once during the sultor of the Congregation for The U. S. Supreme Court has' During the first three months the course of the same illness; Divine Worship, in presenting stricken down ,all state laws that decision, according to the SuThe sacrament may be confer- the constitution at the press conprohibit or restrict a woman's preme Court, to have an abortion red during a liturgical ceremony ference, said that Pope Paul had right to obtain an abortion dur- lies with the woman and her or Mass on a number of sick ordered the changes in keeping ing her first three months of doctor. with the recommendations of the persons. pregnancy.

The court found that the , The constitution, entitled Sac- Second Vatican Council.

The justices ,also established a states' right is not "compelling" The old term "Extreme Uncram Unctionem Infirmorum (Sadetailed timetable for the relative enough to warrant any interferlegal right of :pregnant women. ~nce. There was no mention of the right of the conceived but yet unborn.

Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York termed' the Court's action as "shocking" and"horrifying". The Cardinal Archbishop Father Campbell was born Jan. Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, of Philadelphia called it "an un18, 1931 in Vineyard Haven, the Bishop of the Diocese of Fall speakable tragedy for this At its January meeting the River, announced today clergy son of Manuel and Gabriella Fall River Senate of Priests nation," 路changes affecting three priests. Moniz Campbell. A graduate of In general, birth control advoelected Rev. Thomas Lopes as Rev. William G .Campbell, as- Tisbury High School, he attendits representative to the National cates and women's rights activat St. Mary's Cathedral, ed New England Conservatory of sistant Federation of, Priests' Councils. ists received the ruling with great Fall River to Holy Name Parish, Music, Boston and received a praise.

The House of Delegates will meet B. Mus. degree in 1953.

The Supreme Court, in its de- Fall River, as assistant. in March to diScuss ,and act upon In 1953, he served as organist K. Wingate, asRev. Arthur proposals relating to pastoral tailed timetable, ruled that duraccountability. 'Father Lopes at- ing the period from the third to sistant at St. Lawrence Parish, and choirmaster at St. Mary's tended the N.F.P.C. House of the ninth months states "may New Bedford to St. Mary Parish, Cathedral, Fall River and after three years entered the School Delegates me~ting last year and regulate the abortion procedure Taunton as assistant. of St. Philip Neri for Delayed Rev. Edward J. Sharpe, assisacts as liaison between the Fall in ways that are reasonably reVocations., In 1957, he started tant at St. Kilian Parish, New lated 'to maternal health," River Senate and the national his philosophical and theological to St. Michael Parish, Bedford During the last 1en weeks of organization. studies at St. John's Seminary, Ocean Grove as assistant. pregnancy, during which time The Priestly Renewal CommitThe first two named will re- Brighton. tee pre~ented. results of a ques- it is judged that the fetus is Ordained on Feb. 2, 1963 by tionnaire sent in November to capable of surviving if born, the port to their new assignments all priests of the Diocese to ob- Co",rt has ruled that states may on Thursday, Feb. 1 while Father Bishop Connolly in St. Mary's tain data concerning their inter路 prohibit abortion if they wish, Sharpe will go to his Ocean Cathedral, Fall River, he has ests and opinions on the topic of except where abortions may be Grove assignment on Thursday, served as an assistant pastor Turn to Page Ten Feb. 15.

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Supreme Court Rules; Card'inals Shocked

Priests' Senate Picks Nat.ona I Delegate

Three Assistant Pastors In Clergy Assignments

tion" is avoided in favor of the "Anointing of 'the Sick," and the constitution stresses that the sacrament is not limited to those in danger of death.

The "primary and most important reform," according to Msgr. Martimort, is the change in the prayer, or sacramental formula.

The prayer used in the past said: "Through this holy anointing and His most loving mercy, may the Lord pardon whatever sins you have committed ..."

The new prayer says:"Through this holy anointing and His most loving mercy, may the Lord assist you by the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that when you have been freed from your sins he may save you and in his goodness raise you up," Turn to Page Three

Give Advantages Of Catholic High Education In preparation for entrance examinations to diocesan high schools, to be held Saturday, Feb. :W, the schools are planning various means of acquainting parents with the advantages to be gained from education in a Catholic high school.

Parents in the Seekonk area were invited to attend a meeting at St. Mary's parish center, Hebronville at 7:30 P.M. Monday, Jan. 22. Representatives of Bishop F'eehan High School, Attleboro, were on hand to speak and answer qestions. ,Parents of prospective students at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, will attend an open house from 3 to 5 P.M. Sunday, Jan. 28 at the school.

Classrooms will, be open and teachers will be available to explain course offerings and school procedures.

The three Catholic high schools of Fall River will sponsor two evenings for parents. RepreTurn to Page Three

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Bishop Stresses Advantages Of Catholic Education Dearly Beloved in Christ, I

The Most neverend William Stang, founding Bishop. of the Diocese of Fall River, had occasion to address a pastoral letter to the faithful of this area sixty-six years ago in which he spoke of the values and advantages of Catholic schools. His successors, predecessors of mine in the office of Bishop, built upon this foundation a very admirable Catholic school system within the Diocese. Parish schools were established and, in recent decades, the Most Reverend James L. Connolly directed the building of a series of magnificent.Diocesan high schools."

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Christian Brother i Maintains 'Religious Orders .1Dead' NEW YORK (NC)--"The reo Imunes in which men and women gious order isn't disapp:arii1~-- :IiV~ to~e:her and raise children. it.'s already dead. It dIed five ,maIntaInIng that the two ways years ago," said a writer who is. bf participating in the ~hurch an official of a religious order pffered to today's Cat~o~lc-the himself. local parish al1d the religIOUS or"I think it's legitimate to call . rler - are both unsatisfactory, something dead when it's. no prother Gabriel said they must longer ·an operating organiza- be replaced by "something that· tion" Brother Gabriel Moran Is more human, and that builds said' in "The Commune Way: ?n qualities other than. geograCathoilc Version," published here phy or sexual segrega,tlOn ·and in the Intellectual Digest. "You institutionalization of religious . can call yourself an organization. ~rders." but if a body has no authority; I "I stand for destruction," he no power to do something, then ~aid. "I'm against both the exis- : I don't think it's alive." tence of the religious orderahd Brother Gabriel, president of ~he ~arish. I'll. work a~d take The Christian Brothers' Long' ~art In developIng anythIng that Island-New England province. is different ..." suggested that future religious He said that he regards a relicommunities may resemble com- gious community as "a group of people who are bound together ih some sort of communion-it's Necrolc)gy Jart economic, part social, part FEB. 2 ~olitical if it's a community at Rol. Rev. Patrick H. Hurley, all, but in part it's religious, held 1968, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taun- tbgether by belief, ritual, life ton. style."

Most Rev. William Stang, D.O., Ali-Inclusive 1907; 'First Bishop of Fall River, I He maintained that new reli· 1904-1907. glous communities should include Rev. Patrick F. McKenna, 1913, Irten, women and children.

Pastor, Immaculate Conception, "~ight now we have people who Taunton. have been in Catholic religious Rev. John L McNamara, 1941, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, o~ders who might get together al1'd say, "Look, we have lots of . Fall River. gq.od, strong, free, intelligent Rev. P. Roland Decosse, 1947, Pastor, St. Hyacinth, N<:w Bed- a1uIts-why don't we brin~ up sqme of these children who've·' ford. ' . been abandoned?'"

FEB. 3 :He said the old religious Rev. Antonio O. Ponte, 1952, orders could provide a 'Yay of Pastor, Our Lady of Angels, Fall transition to the new communiRiver. ti~s. "I think the last act of the FEB. 4 religious order's life can be its Rt. Rev. Hugh" J. Smyth, P.R., greatest-to provide personnel, 1921. Pastor, St. Lawrence, New sdbilizing elements, to form new _ Bedford; First Vicar General, Fall kinds of communities that refuse River, 1904-07; Administrator of to put up with the old institu-Diocese, Feb.-July 1907. tional forms" I'm trying to test .........., , ,.., ".., ",,,, "' , ,,,,,,,,".",,-,. it in my _oWn order Once you· establish communities with two THE ANCHOIl se~es in them, you've broken all Seco~d Class Postage Paid at F'all River.

Mass. Published every Thursday' at 410" bo~ndaries and all the legal sysHlehf,nd Avenue. Fall River. Man. 02722 by the tatholic Press of the Dloce3e of Fall teqls and you have another River. ~ubscrlpllon price .by mall, postp,ld ba(lgame." ' •.00 D,er year.

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Mobile Bishop In New Post VATICAN CITY (NC)-Bishop John L. May of Mobile, Ala., has been named a member of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, replacing Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans.

Bishop May was name:! a member of the commission since he is chairman of the U. S. bishops' Communications Committee.

Archbishop Hannan had przvi"ously held the same post.

Bishop Jose Girarda Lachiondo of Cordoba, Spain, was also named to the Vatican commission replacing Archbishop Pedro Cuadrado <:;,antero of Zaragoza, Spain.

Dutch' Consultation Scheduled Jan. 26 AMSTERDAM (NC) - Pope Paul's representative to the Netherlands - pronuncio Archbishop Angelo Felici - will attend the opening of the Dutch national pastoral consultation, to be held at Noorwidjkerhout Jan. 26-28.

The consultation is being held irt place of a national pastoral council that had been scheduled for the past October but was cancelled because of Vatican objections.

It now becomes necessary, once again, to emphasize, 'even in the face of grave difficulties, the advantages of a Catholic education. There is no evading the circumstances which we now witness. Financial problems in some of our parishes and a decline in vocations in nearly every religious community active in the teaching apostolate have compounded difficulties which we share with every diocese in the country. It has been necessary, painful as such deci.sions always are, to curtail and to consolidate school operatipns.

We do, however, have every intention to continue, insoiar as is possible, specifically Catholic education in our schools. The DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION of the Second Vatican Council spoke of the immense importance of Catholic schools in our times. Last autumn, the Bishops of the United States, in a Pastoral Letter on Christian Education, affirmed the vital position of the Catholic school in our overall educational apostolate. "Of the educational programs available to the Catholic community," the pastoral letter reminds us, "Catholic schools afford the fullest and best opportunity to. realize the purpose of Christian education among children an~ young people."

Soon announcement will be made of registration opportunities and procedures' for our Catholic elementary and secondary schools. Catholic parents and children will have opportunities to visit schools and observe the benefits available. We are committed to our Catholic schools. Please consider well the advantages and values, no less apparent today than in the first years of the existence of our Dioces'e, and avail yourselves and your youngsters of these benefits.

And please remember in your good prayers the intention that Almighty God will prosper and bless our schools.

Wishing you God's choicest graces and blessings, I have the pleasure to remain.

Devotedly yours in Christ, .

The secretariat of the Dutch bishops had announced that the October meeting was postponed because the Vatican "finds that the time is not yet ripe for the thstitution of a pastoral council on a national level" and that "the authority of the bishops and their positions within the Church is not sufficiently guaranteed by the regulations of the Dutch na· tional pastoral council."

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Anointing Continued from Page One Msgr. Martimort said that the new prayer stresses both that the grace given by the sacrament "is the work of the Holy Spirit" and that the sacrament is "a remedy for the soul and for the body."

In the past, people have tended to think of the Anointing of the Sick as a form of the sacrament of Penance or forgiveness of sins, he said. "Although it does have a penitential effect," he said, "even to the point of replacing Penance if the latter is impossible, it above all brings with it a grace of salvation, comfort and consolation."

Two Anointlngs Another change is the reduction of the anointings to two. In the past the priest anointed all five senses, said Msgr. Martmont. Anointings now will be on the forehead and the hands.

When necessary, ano!nting of the forehead is sufficient, or, if special circumstances warrant, another portion of the body may he anointed, he said. Bishops' conferences can authorize additional or differing anointings according to the customs of various countries, especially missionary ones.

Olive oil has been the traditional oil prescribed for use as a sacramental, but the constitution now permits use of any vegetable oil when necessary.

Repetition In line with the desire to disassociate the <sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick from imminent death, Msgr. Martimort said: "One may administer (the sacrament) to a sick person who has already received it, not only if he sutters a relapse after a period of convalescence, as was already permitted in the past, but even if, in the course of the same illness his state becomes more critical." .

The new constitution also permits the sacrament to be part of a more complete liturgical celehration, including Mass..

"This is something quite new," Msgr. Martimort said. It "has recently been sccessfully tried in large pilgrimages, such as at Lourdes, or a,t gatherings of sick people, and has been a source of great spiritual progress."

In the past, h~ said the sacrament was often administered "furtively in order to conceal from a person t"e imminence of death." ' Now, he addecI, it has been demonstrated that "these solemn celebrations also give to people who are in serious danger of death through illpess or old age the possibility Of consecrating their state, uniting themselves with the suf,ferings of Christ and receiving graces that they need in their trial."

Great Nephew Gets $5 in Truman Will BOSTON (NC) - John Ross Truman, great nephew of the late preside!)t, received only $5 from the estate of Harry S. Truman because he was studying for the priesthood when the supplement to the will was written.

"As a priest, I never could have accepted the $500 and that's why Uncle Harry made tbe bequest as he did," Truman said.

Truman said he left the seminary, located in St. Louis, when Truman was about 81 years old.

Graduates Recall 1917 Durfee High Class, Which Boasts Eight Priest-Alumni

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111 1917 the senior class of

B.M.C. Durfee High School, Fall River, numbered 147 students, of whom 26 were Catholic boys. Of that 26 eight, or over 30 per cent, became priests, a record seldom equaled or surpassed anywhere.

Four of the eight are still living. They include Msgr. Geo~ge E. Sullivan, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Fall River; Rev. David A. O'Brien, pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Church, Fall River, who will retire next Thursday; Msgr.

Francis J. Gilligan, director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith for the Archdiocese of St. Paul; and Msgr. Raymond P. Kelly, whose priestly service was in the Baltimore Archdiocese and who makes his home with family members in Fall River.

Deceased are Rev. Edward F. Dowling, former pastor @f Immaculate Conception. parish, Fall River; Rev. Thomas C. Gunning, who was a curate at St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford; Rev. James E. Lynch, former pastor at St. Joan of Arc parish, Orleans; and. Rev. Michael V. McC;:arthy, who served as assistant at St. James parish, New Bedford.

Yearbook Tributes The "Durfee Record" for 1917 pays tribute to the eight f,uture priests, singling out Msgr. Sullivan, who was its assistant editor, as "our ha~dsomest boy."

Shared by Msgr. Gilligan and Msgr. SuIlivan was the presiTHOSE WERE THE DAYS: Msgr. George E. Sullivan, dency of the debating club, and pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Fait" River, looks fondly at Father Gunning was among its . Record Book of Class of 1917 at Durfee High School. He outstanding members.

Father Dowling is noted as is among eight priest-alumni of his class. "the smallest boy in the class," and among its most accom路 Msgr. Gnligan and Msgr. Kelly The college favored by five of plished students of Greek; while the eight priests was Holy Cross, spent their priestly lives in the Msgr. Gilligan was prominent in attended by Msgr. Gilligan, St. Paul and Baltimore Archdioa variety of school a~tivities. and Father Gunning, Father Lynch, ceses, respectively, while the was chairman of the class dance, Father O'Brien and Msgr. Sulli- other priests in the class of 1917 seeing to it that the big social van. served the Fall River Diocese. event of the Class of 1917 was even more successful than that of any preceding class.

When the Record writer came to Father Gunning, superlatives were called upon. "As an orator BOYS TOWN (NC) - Boys of the study is to reassess the Daniel Webster excels Tom but Town, the hom\,! for wayward mission of Boys Town in light of slightly; as a statesman he may boys founded in 1917 by Father the emerging problems of the be classed 'with Abraham LinEdward J. Flanagan, has hired . youth population in the United coln; for honesty, frankness and the management-consulting firm States ,that an institutional profair-mindedness, Tom is George of Booz-Allen and HamiJ.ton, Inc., gram might meet."

Washington's equal; while as a "We need to evaluate the politician he may be said to sur- to conduct a survey to "reassess the mission" of the famed instiemerging requirements of the 'pass Roosevelt in cleverness and types of boys now being served good judgment; as a philosopher tution.

The action was one in a series at Boys Town and also of other or student he is a second Socraof changes that began after Boys groups of boys-and girls-not tes."

Town came under fire from the . now being served," Archbishop Msgr. Kelly was noted as an . press last serving only 700 Sheehan said. actor and piano player and the boys whileyear having .more than descriptive quotation chosen for $200 million in assets.

Maurice P. Arth, officer-inhim referred Ito what his classcharge of the Boys. Town project Since then it has announced for Booz-Allen and Hamilton,. mates predicted would be his fame as a musician: "All Europe that it was founding a $30- sllid that the study would take million Institute for the Study about seven months to complete shall ring with his name." and Treatment of Hearing and and involve some 17 project Noted Athlete Speech Disorders in Children and. workers and special consultants.

Father Lynch, a graduate from St. Mary's grammar school, as planning a $40-million Boys It will survey the mission, goals, was Msgr. Gilligan, was cited for Town Center for the Study of organization, programs and manboth his scholastic and athletic Youth Development. agement of Boys Town.

The announcement of the longability and described as "a brilliant and popular senior among range survey was made jointly

by Omaha Archbishop Daniel E. both teachers and pupils." $5,000 Or More Father McCarty, like Msgr. Sheehan, president of the board On Equity Ir. Your Home Kelly, shone in the fields of 'act- of directors, and Msgr. Nicholas You May Use The Money H. Wegner, director of Father ,ing and music, and -the record However You Wish. book notes him as "studious and Flanagan's Boys' Home. qu'iet."

"It is expected that the study AVCO FINANCIAL Quiet too, was Father O'Brien, will provide directions as to how SERVICES who won recognition for his we can better serve (the boys') 71 William St., New Bedford "remarkable ahility as a baseball needs," said Archbishop Sheehan.

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Vigil of Prayer In New Bedford A First Friday Mass and five hour prayer vigil will be held Friday night, Feb. 2 in Our Lady of Assumption Church, New Bed路 ford.

The services will be the seventh in Ii series of vigils at area parishes, held for the purpose of praying for peace ano honoring the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

The program will begin with confessions preceding an 8 P.M. Mass of the Sacred Heart. Included in the evening will be expositicm of the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Hour and Benediction. The vigil will end with a midnight Mass in honor of the Immaculate Heart. .

Refreshments will be served during the evening, and all are invited to attend all or part of the' services.

Further information is available at Our LadY of Assumption, New Bedford rectory.

.Catholic High Continued from Page One sentatives of Bishop Gerrard and Bishop Connolly High Schools and Sacred Hearts Academy were be at Bishop Connolly High School Tues. night, Jan. 23 and will be at Bishop Gerrard High School Tuesday night, Jan. 30.

Both meetings will begin at 8 P.M. Additionally, representatives of Bish{lp Connolly and Sacred Hearts will meet parents at Holy Name School Thursday night, Feb. 1.

Bishop Stang High School, No. Dartmouth, conducted a meeting for pastors and curates of the Wesport and Cape Cod areas Tuesday, Jan. 23 and a meeting for princi;Jals of parochial elementary schools and guidance personnel of public junior high schools on the following day. It is hoped that follow-up meetings for parents will be arranged in the schools and parishes thus contacted.

Hire Management Consulting Firm To Reassess Boys Town Mission Booklet P'ublished On Family life

WASHINGTON (NC) ....:. The United States Catholic Conference .here has published a collection of three essays, "The Family in the Seventies," by Msgr.

James T. McHugh, director of the USCC's Family Life Division and weekly columnist in the Catholi<: diocesan press.

In the first essay, a defense of the continuing value of family life today, Msgr. McHugh says: "The family has always demonstrated a resilience and flexibility that helps it adjust to changing circumstances and revolutionary trends."

The second essay analyzes the role of the parent in 'religious education, and the third discusses moral values and the formation of conscience.

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It was with :no lively a*ticipation that I began reading Margaret Truman's biography of her father. Harry S. Truman (Morrow, 105 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. 10016. $10.95). She could be expected to be highly partisan. She is not a professional writer~ , And 581~ pages of artless him off as unfit in 1945, and celebration of her sUbJ·eet. as unelectable in 1948, had studied his early record, they might promised more tedium thaq have changed their minds. "

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When,in 1934, he first ran for the U. S. Senate, he was, as usuai, said to be doomed, but he was elected, and in 1940 he was reI elected despite Franklin Roosevelt's wish that another'Democrat be given the nomination.

By As always, he was a hard worker in the Senate, making valuable contributions, e.g., in RT. REV. his penetrating investigation of .MSGR. American railroads and his prophetic report on their condition JOHN S. and proSpects.

KENNEDY Notable Service With .the country headed toff~~"'lW1Wi~~t1Wt;~~ ward war in 1941, Mr. Truman . . h'ISI secured the establishment of a , fess to underestlmatmg daughter's ability to produce ani Senate committee which came informative and rather impres-\ to be known as the Truman HISTORIC MOMENT AT VATICAN: Pope Paul VI Committee. It looked into, first, sive book about him.

I Part of her success stems fromi the defense effort. iater the war Meir shake hands at the Vatican. Mrs. MeiK' was the first the fact that she had access tOI program: that is, into procure- a Pope. NC Photo. efficiency letters, memoranda, and otherl ment,. - production, documents which other writers costs, etc. It performed notable have not been privileged to see.: service, saved money, and won Of these, she makes libera.l and, a national reputation for the TEL AVIV (NC)-Israeli Prime it hard to understand how the effective use.

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Miss :rruman attempts to un- Minister Gold Meir's recent visit Jewish people, which should be Estimable Heritage . ravel the complicated process by _ with Pope Paul VI was marred merciful, behaves so fiercely in Harry Truman, born in 1884'1 which the Democratic ·nominaby some tense moments, accord- its own country. was a product of Ja.ckson Coun-, tiontion for the Vice Presidency ing to the Tel Aviv newspaper "I can't stand it when we ty, Missouri, and Miss Trumanl .in 1944 came to her father. One Maariv. are talked to like that. I've had conveys very well what thatl feels that hers is not the final .

The n~wspaper quotej Mrs. previous experiences of ,this sort, means. The character of thel word, the definitive version. But assaying that during the and I won't give in to anyone Meir place, its atmosphere and its she probably takes us farther papal audience on Jan 15, she who begins a conversation in stamp become real to the reader., it than we have previous- thought of ·the Christian cross as this way. Oh no. toward And so does the estimable Tru-I "So I sa'id to the Pope: Your' the symbol under which "Jews man heritage. He sprang froml ly been.

After his nomination for the were killed for generations," , Holiness ... do you know what farmers of ~ome SUb.9. tance, intel-I second place on the 1944 ticket, Mrs. Meir did not like the my earliest memory is? A. poIigent, hard-working, Democratic Mr. Truman had a luncheon opening of the audience at all, grom in Kiev (in the Soviet Unby blood, and with a lingering I tang of Confederate sympathies. meeting with Roosevelt, and was according to the paper':; inter- ion). When we were merciful shocked t9 discover in F.D.R. un- view with her. "The Pope said to and when we had no homeland The young Harry had expected I mistakable indications of serious me at the outset that he found and when we were weak, we to go to college. He had prepared were led to the gas chambers," for that. But family lreverses 'illness. Shortly after that, he She said she had not been so made it ·impossible. So~ at 17, he. spoke of Roosevelt's having had of that, and the would-be usurp"the pallor of death on his face, ers were handed their hats, not excited about an official engagewent to work, and on his first i ment since 1949, when she went job a fellow employee was Ar-: and he knew that he would be their heads. to the Kremlin to present her Triumph of '48 thur Eisenhower, a brother of, President before the term was out." credentials as Israel's first amthe man who would succeed ·Mr. Miss Truman recites with re!bassador to the Voviet Union.

Truman as' President. Mr.. TniNew President ish the unlikely, but now unprecOn whether she thought her man resumed farming in 1906,: He was President before three edented electoral triumph of and stayed at it for 11 years, un-I months of the fourth term were 1948. A national magazine, fun- audience with the Pope may lead til he entered the Army during lout. The war in Europe ended ning a picture of the Republican to ,the Vatican ·giving official World War I. within a few weeks, and ina few nominee, had identified him as recognition to Isr.ael, Mrs. Meir After the war, he opened a I more weeks Mr. Truman was on' "the next president of the United said: "At the moment I'm satisfied haberdashery sh.op, which failed, I his way to Potsdam for a mo- States," He wasn't. After an aras did many businesses, in the I Il,lentous meeting with Stalin and . duous whistle stop campaign, with the fact that the Pope said 1921 recession. In 1922 he was: Churchill. It was during this Mr. Truman was elected in his 'thank you' three times for guard'ing Christian holy places, for our elected a county judge, which is: meeting that he received secret own right. an office fa.r more e"ecut.ive and I word of the successful testing The 1949-53 term brought an attitude to Christians and their administrative than judicial. He of an atomic bomb. abundance of troubles. Some had holy places in Jersalem.

"And he emphasized in the was defeated in a re..election bid i F.oD.R. had done nothing to to do with the Communist takein 1924, but was voted in in 1926 I prepare Mr. Truman for taking, over in China, others with the clearest fashion that he was not and 1 9 2 8 . ' lover. The latter,once in office, Korean war, handling General speaking of internationalizing 'Capacity for Growth had quickly to master a vast ar· MacArthur, the wisdom of pro- Jerlusalem ... and he stated exMiss Truman's account of ray of docments and data. He ducing the H-bomb, as well as plicitly, and this is impor,tant, these years is interesting on sev- was plunged into the problems numerous domestic crises: for that it is necessary to continue eral counts. One is the fact that, of post-war Europe, the winning example, concerning civil rights. the dialogue between the Church I contrary to popular impression,! of the war in the Pacific, the Mr. Truman's reputation was and Israel, and that we must Harry Truman was not a crea- question of whether or not to not exactly glitttering when, by meet and talk. This I unhesitatingly call an historic moment," ture or a servitor of the notori- use the atomic bomb, the hostil- his own choice, he left office. ous Pendergast machine. Another ity of Russia,the conversion to B~t since then it has com~ VATICAN CITY (NC)-The is that always he was an under- a peacetime economy at home, to a high polish. This is due in diploma·tic pot here has been dog, said to have little or no I etc. part to appreciative recognition bubbling over in recent weekschance of winning, but generally Another difficulty was the pre- that he was the last of our Pres- .most notably over the visit of doing so nonetheless. A third is sumption by many that Harry idents with authentic homespun Israeli prime minister Goldo Meir his method of campaigning: go- Truman was inadequate to the quality and without semi-royal -and several persons have had ing to the people at an endless Presidency; more than one high trappings. Also, some of his most their fingers scalded. series of meetings involving an official attempted to arrogate relentless adversaries have been The Meir imbroglio demon'endless number of speeches. at least some part of th~ Presi- discredited by time, and some of strates the difficult and delicate Be~ides, t.here was his capacity dency to himself. Mr. Truman, his most controversial decisions problems faced by a papal diplofor growth. If people who wrote to his credit, was not having any justified. thereby. matic service, that is dedicated

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The historic visit of {Virs. Meir, the first Israeli prime minister to visit the Vatican, was complicated by the publication of two statements by the Vatican on the day of the visit.

The first statement was a formal communique tha't had been drawn up jointly by Vatican diplomats and Israeli government officials. The second was a "verbal declaration" issued by Vatican press officer Frederico Alessandrini.

The first document was a routine communique summarizing the points of the meeting between the Pope and the prime minister.

The second was hardly routine.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 25, 1973

FALL RIVER ECUMENICAL SERVICE: Catholic and Protestant clergymen met at Venus de Milo Restaurant, Swansea, Monday, Jan. 22 for a social-worship service to mark the 1973 Chnstian Unity Octave.

Among participants were: (left photo) Very Rev. Gabriel Blain, O.P., Prior of the Dominican Community of St. Anne; Rev. Arthur deMello, assistant at St. John of God Parish, Somerset; Rev. Donald Jaikes, Rector

Discuss Renewal Of Priesthood DUBUQUE (NC)-Iowa's five hishops and representatives of the state's four diocesan priests sena,tes met here for two days of prayer and disCussion.

The conference centered around a National Conference of Catholic Bishops document titled "Spiritual Renewal of the American Priesthood." The document, prepared by an NCCB subcom, mittee, has not been publicly released yet.

Archbishop Ignatius Stecker of Kansas City, Kan., chairman of the subcommittee, spoke to the conference about the docment's first chapter, "American Culture and Spirituality." Senate representaHves made presentations on the remaining four chapters, which treat the relationship between spirituality and the ministry, personal relationships, discipleship and personal integration.

Father Frank Bognanno, president of the new Iowa Conference , of Priests Senates, said the group in general "felt the document was very good." He said both priests and bishops appreciated the fact that "it addressed itself tp the American priest where he is ,today. It addressed itself to a 20th century spirituality for an average American priest."

Father _Patrick Geary, chalrman of the Dubuque Priests Senate, said the document discussed the type of 'Spirituality which is relevant to "an average American male adult 'with average psychological and social needs."

Priests, he said sometimes "tend to forget we fit into that mold."

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of the Church of the Ascension; Dr. and Mrs. Richard Wilcox of the First Congregational Church. Among guests at the service were: (right photo) Mrs. Everett Broadhurst (center, head table), Executive Sevretary of the Council of Churches and Rev. Cornelius J. O'Neill (second from left) Chairman of the Diocesan Ecumenical Commission. The dinner also served to honor Mrs. Broadhurst for her long and selfless service to ecumenism.

Anglican-Catholic Statement Popular

NEW YORK (NC)-Members of the joint Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), who last year an路 nounced substantial agreement, on Eucharistic doctrine, have received an enormous quantity of fan mail from Catholics and Anglicans throughout the world.

"It has literally overwhelmed us," related Jesuit Father Herbert J. Ryan, a member of the three-year-old commission, which will meet next Aug, 28 to Sept.

6 in Oxford, England, hopefully to draw up a final draft of a statement on the ordained ministry.

The Eucharist, the ministry and the nature of episcopal authority' are the three main areas being explored by the 22 .members of the top level international commission. They are seen as the major hurdles barring reunion of the Anglican and Catholic communions.

The 2,500-word statement on the Eucharist resulted in an unsolicited mail response that was "so enormous" that it weighed 25 pounds, Father. Ryan said.

Substantially Positive The mail was about half Anglican and half Catholic, highly knowledgeable and concerned, and "substantially positive" on the reunion issue, he said.

It came from individuals, parishes, pastors, bishops and bishops' conferences from such places as Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and India as well as "very Catholilc" countries such as Austria, Ireland and Brazil.

Messages ranged from the simple plea, "When will we be united?" to learned treatises. An Episcopal serviceinan in Vietnam told about how he wished to

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received Communion at a Catholic Mass. The writers included American Indians and men in prison., "To my min:l~ this remarkable outpouring testifies to the fact that ecumenism, when dealing with substantive issues, elicits not' just interest but passionate concern," Father Ryan commented.

He himself received a filing cabinet full ,of mail and was

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Substitute Language The mail response uncovered some difficulties in semantics, since the document in some places omitted phrases familiar to Anglican or Catholic ears and substituted other language. This puzzled the correspondents, and suggested that the findings on the remaining two problem areasthe ministry and episcopal authority - be accompanied by commentaries.

NEW 'ORLEANS (NC) - The mayor and the police chief of New Orleans have praised Archbish{;p Philip M. Hannan for volnteering to risk his \'ife to spare other lives during a sniper's reign of terror at a motor hotel here.

"Nowhere in the document, for example, do we refer explicitly to the Prayer of Humble Access, famiiliar t'O Anglicans as part of the Communion services, or ,phrases such as 'the Sacrifice of the Mass'," Father Ryan observed.

The terrorist, 23-year-old Mark James Robert Essex of Emporia, Kan., eventual1y was killed by police gunfire on the roof of the downtown Howard Johnson Motor -Lodge. But during his sniping spree six persons' were killed and 20 others wounded.

At one point it was helieved ,that Essex was holding hosltages.

The 59-year-old New Orleans archbishop contacted police headquarters to volunteer to act as an intermediary or .even offer himself as a hostage in exchange for other hostages.

"Many agreed very much with the statement but wanted to know if it was consonant with beliefs that they had only one set of w~rds to express,"

It was learned later that Essex was not holding any hostages.

But before police were sure of this, they turned down the archbishop's offer as being too risky for his own safety. P.olice Superintendent Clarence Giarusso and Mayor Moon Landrieu later voiced their gratitude to Archbishop Hannan in the name of the New Orleans community.

The Jesuit, who is professor of historical theology at Woodstock Col1ege here, is co-editor with Father Ralph Thomas of Gray,moor of "Episcopalians and Roman Catholics: Can they Ever Get Together?"

Joint Statement On Arms Published PARIS (NC) - The unauthorized publication of a joint statement by the Catholic and Protestant churches of France criticizing the country's production of and trade in armaments has drawn protests from church leaders.

The magazine Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness) publishbd a provisional, text of the sta'ternent, entitled "Reflections on Arms Sales," by the French Bishops' Conference and -the Protestant Federation of France.

The statement asserted that France has been "caught up in the diabolical machinery of the trade in arms" and cal1ed for reduction of the nation's armaments industry, currently the largest in Eumpe in terms of export sales and second only to the Soviet Union in production.

Cardinal Francois Marty of Parish, president of the French Bishops' Conference, issued a statement saying: "In the name of the (French bishops') perman-ent council I must express my definite disapproval of the disclosure of this draft document."

He said the provisional document needs revision and does not express the exact thought of the bishops.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese :0# Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 25, 19.73

Horrifying and !Tragic To speak pf the Supre~e Court decision on abortion as horrifying and tragic is not to speak too strongly. Seven of the Justices made a judicial decision that is a bad moral decision. They seem to have neglected altogether the fact "that life, even in its earlie~t stages, is something sacred deserving of protection. Tliey seem to have disregarded altogether the fact that the genetic identity of the fetus is quite different from thatlof the mother and so cannot be called a part of her body over which she has unrestricted control. The genetic identit~ of the fetus is' different from that of the mother and the fetus has' but two courses open . to it-to become a live human being or a dead human fetus. Life from the moment of conception and before and after birth is a continuing ;process. And yet, seven men have said that from a legal point of view this process may be ended at a certain moment in time for the convenience of someone else. As the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Krol, has said, "The ruling drastically diminishes: the constitutional guaranty of the right to life and in doihg so sets in motion developments which are terrifying to contemplate." ..

In a dissenting opinion, Justice White said .that the .

I decision invests "mothers anp doctors with the cQnstitutionally protected right to exterminate it (human life)."

What can definitely b~ concluded from the decision is that a judicial decision i;; not a moral decision. Those who truly appreciate the sacredness of life must continue to do so and to exert all legitimate moral pressure to have the fact recognized by others as well.

It is ironic, however, that. the decision comes at a time when people are proclaiming the sacredness of life in Vietnam and will not defend the sacredness of human life which cannot plead· for: itself. . . This kind of :illogicality smacks of an Alice in Wonderland fantasy where "all people are equal but some are more equal than others." I Those who have belieyed that we are living in a society where Judeo-Christian principles are, upheld have been profoundly shocked. Rerhaps the only way to face the shock is to accept the fact that this is not a JudeoChristian society nor yet ~ moral sosiety but a society in which those who uphold :Judeo-Christian principles are the remnant in the midst, the lonely voice in the desert.

It must remain a remnant that will not be overwhelmed, a voice that will not be stilled.

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·Johnson and History The death of former President Johnson reminds all persons of the Vietnam tragedy which dogged his footsteps while he was in office and helped lead him to the decision not to seek reelection. But it should not be allowed to overshadow the rerparkable progress 'made at his insistence and under his d~rection in the area of social justice and civil rights. The efforts and successes of President Johnson in the late 19 60's are things that we today take for granted. But they' worked' a revolution in. this country, the kind of revolut~on that helped AmeriCa catch up in the march of humanity after a century and ,a half of Injustice and the day-by-day indignity visited' upon a portion of its people. : For this alone,' Johnsoni ha~ the right to stand near, Lincoln in the pages of histpry.· .

• , " Much will be written apd spoken in these days and weeks about Johnson's plac~ in history.' Only the 'future will be able to assess that role.

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Approve Dismissal of Students_ F'or Neglect of' Sunday Mass PHILADELPHIA. (NC)-A new policy that allows Catholic schools here to expel students "for gross neglect of Sunday Mass" has been approved by the pastors and consultors of the Philadelphia archdiocese. . , .

The polIcy statement, submltted to the pastors last November

by Cardinal John Krol, will go into effect March 1 in Catholic elementary and high schools here.

In a letter to the pastors announcing initiation of the policy, Cardinal Krol said: "Be sure to stress (to parents. pupils and school personnel) as clearly and firmly as possible the medicinal nature of this policythat it is not conceived,to force the dismissal of children from Catholic schools but rather to marshal the forces of home, school and parish in order to impress upon the young the realities and consequences of their faith cotnmitment."

The policy 'statement outlined two dismissal procedures: "The common' good requires that the pastor continue to have the authority to dismiss a child from the parish school for gross neglect of Sunday Mass, or for total lack of cooperation of the family with the parish. The seriousness of such a penalty .demands that it be used very reluctantly and only after repeated attempts have been made to correct the situation."

"The pastor shall also have the authority to secure the dismissal by the diocesan high school of ~ student from the parish for the same reasons...."

Three Steps The dismissal procedure includes: notification of aU families and students of the policy; two attempts· to persuade the individual to ~orrect the situation; notification of dismissal.

The case may be appealed if a student is dismissed. Appeals, according to the procedure, will be heard by a board of review established in the diocesan tribunal. The board will be decision-making. It will hear appeals .with dismissal suspended until the appeal is decided and within a month whenever possible.

The board will consist of one priest of the tribunal, three pastors, one Sister and two lay peopl~.

"The presence in the school of a Catholic student who refuses to live up to the fundamental requirements of his faith is both a serious scanald and an act of injustice to those who support the school." the policy statement said. "The same is even more true when this is fhe attitude of the whole family."

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LONDON (NC) Anglican Archbishop Donald Coggan' of York called on English churches to start official talks about uniting all Christian faiths in the country.

Archbishop Coggan issued the call to coincide with the annual week of prayer for Christian unity, which began Jan. 18. The archbishop of York is the No.2 man in the Church of England after the archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Anglican church. ' The archbishop of York suggested that invitations for the new talks be officially issued by the United Reformed Church (formed last October by the merger of the English Presbyterians with the Congregational Church) wheri its general assembly meets May 7.

He suggested also that the talks include the Catholic Church, ,the Baptist Union and other bodies not previously involved in reunion negotiations.

Speaking for the Catholic bishops, Auxiliary Bishop Alan Clark of Northampton. preSident of the Catholic ecumenical commission of England and Wales, said: "We welcome this generous initiative on the part of Archbishop Coggan, which will offset the sense of disappointment and the feeling of frustration which rightly or wrongly is felt by many in the ecumenical movement.

'Certain Hesitations' "I feel that the Roman Catholic Church in this country will do all in its power to engage in these 'talks about talks,' but the decision to do so rests clearly with the conference of bishops.

The Church will have certain hesitations because of its firm insistence on doctrinal unity."

The Rev. Donald Lee, president-elect of the Methodist Conference here, said the plan could break the deadlock created eight months ago when the AnglicanMethodist reunion plan failed to secure the necessary 75 per' cent majority in the Anglican General ·Synod.

The precise suggestion of the Anglican archbishop of York is that representatives of the churches would be asked to answer the question "on what terms, or within what limitations, would our churches be prepared to enter into multilateral conversations towards a scheme for the·' organic union of our churches?"·,· '.

They would be asked to teport back to their churches in 1974.

MEXICO CITY (NC)-Jesuits, who are phasing out high schools for the rich here, lire concentrating resources on such poor towns as nearby Netzahuaocoyotl.

Five res:c;lent Jesui~s arid ,one Dominican priest have opened a furniture factory and a toy shop, plus an artisan school for wom. en, the Center for People's EduSpain Has Cassette cation.

Their efforts aim at reducing Editions of Rosary high unemployment in the area, which affects some ~;6 per cent BARCELONA (NC)-A cassette edition of the Rosary in Cataof the population abll~ to work.

In the makeshift building serv- Ionian, provincial language of ing as factory, posters give a Northeast Spain, has followed a constan~ account of the cooper- 'successful first cassette in Spanative business: in December some' ish. $1,800 were spent on materials Friends of the Rosary, the and salaries, and sales went over group issuing the cassettes, said $2,000. . the editions are selling fast and Artisan courses have been going to homes, hospitals, nuntaken up by '27 women, in hopes ing homes and the tape-record of improving their meager earn- player of buses and private cat~. ings from peddling chewing-gum Each of the 15 mysteries has a and pencils. They are making commentary by a· well-known doll's, jewel b,oxes and household, preacher,against a musical backwares. ' ground.

former Minister Hits Methodist Abortion Aid FORT WORtH (NC) ..... The United Methodist Church has been critioized ~y a Catholic editor, who was once a Methodist minister, for its position on abortion.

While "many Protestant church leaders and theologians" oppose abortion, Dale francis, editor of the National Catholic Register, said that the "United Methodist Church seems ~o be supporting the abortionists!"

The comments by Francis, a convert to Catholicism. were in an editorial in :the Fort Worthbased Register., "A national 'Methodist women's magazine, ,Response, asked its readers' opinions on abortrion and 56 per cent' favored a liberal position that in effect provides a!;lortionon demand," Francis said.

"But what is: of greatest significance is the report of the organiza'tion that attempted to bring about legalized abortion in Michigan," Frartcis said. "A report by the committee that promoted the ca,m'paign said that $109,745 was spent on the campaign to liberalize the abortion law. Of this, $65.000 came from the United Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns.

Given to' Campaign "That board says that none of the Methodist funds were used to provide the $65,000 but that it came from' individuals and groups that donated funds to the Methodist boa'l"d so they could be given to ~he pro-abortion campaign.

"It really 'doesn't matter, though; the United Methodist Board of Christian Social Concerns was the' channel through which the majority of the proabortrion funds was sent to Michigan. i "This is rel\lIy an issue in which all people who believe in human dignity and human life should be united. It is sad to see the second largest Protestant church taking, a stand with those who destroy life in the womb."

Ban Biblical Version Of Man's' Origin SACRAMENTO (NC) - The board of education by a 6-3 vote has rejected a' proposal to include 'the biblical version of man's origins In science books for grade school children adopted for use beginning in September 1974.

The board also unanimously approved a resolution stating that ,the philosophy of man's ori· gins shouid be ,dealt with in social science textbooks."

The decision came a month after the board had decided that Darwin's th~orY of evolution should be treated as speculation in discussions of man's origins in science texts. : The latest board de~ision approved preliminary revision in science texts ,proposed by an editing committee. One major ch{inge was the deletion from a fif~h grade book of a section say· in~ most Christ!ans believed in th~ Genesis account of the origin of man before Darwin's theories were published, in the 19th century.

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PHONE PALS: Florence Bqrden, left, and Mrs. Robert Blackburn enjoy daily chat as members of Phone Pals, telephone reassurance service organized by RATE program of Fall River Family Service Association. Organization' seeks volunteers of all ages.

Fall River''Phone Pals' Bring Sunshine Into Each Other's Lives

By PAT McGOWAN

Mrs. Robert Blackburn lives in Swansea. She is conf,ined to a wheelchair, so her activities arc circumscribed, but she is a very important person to Mrs. Florence Borden of Fall River, age 75 and recently widowed.

Both are members of Phone Pals and for each a highlight of every afternoon is a "telephone reassurance service" sponsored by RATE (Romero Aid to the Elderly) program of Fall River's Fam,i1y Service Association. Mrs. Rosalie Israel, social worker' in charge of, the project. explains that under the program "a respon.sible volunteer daily calls , an older person who lives alone to check on his or her wellbeing and to offer friendship and companionship."

If a phone call is unanswered, "a carefully worked out emer'gency plan goes' into effect," In the time that Phone Pals has been in operation in Fal'l River, there have been no crucial emer· gencies, says Mrs. Israel, but she also feels that daily contact with a concerned friend has averted such problems, in that information and assistance have bee'n supplied in, for instance, med· ical problems.

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Mrs. Blackburn and Mrs. Borden chatted daily from last October until New Year's Day without meeting. Then Mrs. Blackburn's husband drove her to Fal'l River to meet, her telephone friend, and the "pals" had the opportunity to check the mental images they'd formed of each other. Each was delighted.

For Mrs. Blackburn, involvement in Phone Pals came as the result of her membership in a Cursillo retreat follow-up group.

Cursillistas try to put the teach·' ings of Christ into action on a daily basis and Mrs. Blackburn felt ,that one way open to her was that of friendship via telephone.

Phone Pal couples may both be elderly, said Mrs. Israel.

"They are, really checking on each other's wellbeing," But any mature person is eligible to par-

ticipate in the program, and men She is especially interested in would be especially welcome. circulating word of the Phone A newsletter is circulated to Pal program to churches. ':Many the pals, she said, and this gives elderly are most receptive to inthe Romero program the oppor- f.ormation that comes to them tunity to spread the word of its from their church bul'letin." other services; including a She said that those interested Friendly Visitor program, where in volunteering or who need the senior aides visit the elderly in service can contact her at the person; the YES project, dn- Family Service Association, telewhich high school students visit phone 678-7542. patients in nursing homes; and group and individual services, among which are weekly bingo Los Angeles Joins parties at the Harbor Terrace housing project in Fall River and Key 73 Crusade LOS ANGELES (NC)-Archcounseling and referral' helps, bishop Timothy Manning of Los where needed.

Many phone, pals progress to Angeles has associated the archvisiting each other and several diocese with the Key 73 evangelenjoyed Thanksgiving and ism crusade and urged the peoChristmas dinners at each other's ple of the archdiocese to make houses. This type of interaction "a fresh and intense effort to reis encouraged, said Mrs. Israel. , f1ect Christ in our daily lives," The theme of Key 73 is "Call.

"Jot means the difference between aloneness dn a non-caring world ing Our Continentto Christ" and and happy participation in the its objectives include sharing the Gospel with every person in -living community," North America during 1973.

Romero Program Archbishop Manning, in a let· Many wonder about the name ter to the people of the archdio"Romero," 'she said. The name cese, noted "that the primary obcomes from the late Sophie jectiveof Key 73 is not pointed Romero, who left a trust fund to to the proselytization of nonbe used for the benefit of "aged Christians, but rather pointed to females," . a deeper spiritual union of our- , "We feel we can help men selves with Christ. It is obvious too, though!" said Mrs. Israel. that we will sound the trumpet.' of Christ in vain over the hea,rtland of our nation if the trumpet Lutheran Seminary of our own personal lives gives forth only an empty, hollow and Enrollment Drops NEW YORK (NC) - Enroll- uncertain echo," More than 100 denominational ment {jf. full-time degree candidates in 20 Lutheran seminaries groups, including several Cathoin the United States and Canada lic dioceses, have already andeclined to 3,191 in 1972 from nounced plans to participate in the 1971 total of 3,419. the Key 73.

Lutheran Council in the USA reported.

At the same time enrollment in 36 Lutheran four-year colleges rose from 79,966 to 81,698, but of these only 51,280 were fulltime undergraduates, 1.5 per cent fewer than the previous year.

Contractors A total of 117 women were enrolled at Lutheran seminaries, the council reported.

Lutheran high schools have a total of 18,258 more than last year's total.

SACRAMENTO (NC) - Gov. Ronald Rea'gan has charged that federal rules and psychiatrists are to blame for letting women in California have abor.tions virtually on demand.

Governor Reagan said there has been a breakdown in properly using the 1967 abortion law.

The law provides for abortions when a birth would endanger the physical or mental" health of an expectant mother; the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, and when the pregnancy resu'lted from statutory rape of a girl under 15 years of age.

He said that federal rules guaranteeing confidential status to welfare medical patients has become so ridiculous that even teen-age girls now can get free abortions virtually on demand in California.

The courts struck down th;! governor's attempt to use his administrative powers in bending the confidentiality rule which he would like to see changed.

116,750,in 1971 Reagan blamed psychiatrists in particular for aiding women in obtaining abortions in California.

According to state officials' statistics, 5,000 abortions were performed in California during 1968, the first full year of the 1967 law which modernized the state's old statute. By 1971 the total number had risen to 116,750.

Figures for 1972 have not been completed, but the number' of abortions for that year was expected to exceed 160,000, according to the officials.

Pope Asks Charity For Slum Dwellers VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI, in his yearly meeting with Rome's City Council, said Rome should give its poorer citizens decent housing and all its citizens decent entertainment in preparation for the 1975 Holy Yea'r.

"Until now we dare hope that if ,the Holy Year is celebrated, Rome will know how to prepare hersel:f to welcome this ecclesiastical event of worldwide dimensions," the Pope told Mayor Clelia Darida and the mayor's councilmen.

He expressly put decent housing ahead of the decent public morality 'in the list of things to be done.

"Rome should in the first place seek to solve the burning problem of slum dwellers. In the second place she should try to eliminate the ostentation of evil morals and the provocation to them, if she cannot eliminate the sad raality itself."

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STEUBENVILLE (NC)-;-Bishop John K. Mussio said he would like to have low-cost, racially integrated homes built on diocesan property for middle-income families who normally cannot afford to buy a home.

. Every season has its f~bric favorites, those textures or patterns that keep cropping up in one fashion after another. This past. Fall and, Iesent Winter saw a softness and paleness that haven't .een around for many years, , especially in the Winter.

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Liberty of London, the undisputed leader in lovely prints, is outdoing itself this season. Along with the dainty floral prints you will find bolts of geometric prints, small figure prints with a nostalgic bentancl even a collection of patchwork.

Sewing this spring will be a pre~ty and practicall proposition!

plaids, serviceable tweeds and muted colors. This winter has seen a complete switch. Pink, pale blue and white were its colors. l't"E.Wmt*'l'rumEWI~~jJ

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Murql Stirs Ccmtroversy In Brazilian 1rown

Spring is going to stick with FERROS (NC) -- This Brazil these colors (so don't put those mining town of 5,000 people is lovely, fluffy, pale sweaters divided over the value of a away-you can wear them way church mural showing Adam and into summer). Along with the Eve as they came into Paradise, remaining emphasis on the pales, in the nude. the naturals will have a strong The artist, lara Tupinaba, is rush of populaliity this spring. being supported by the town's Earth tones, to go along with mayor, Jose'Virgmo Goncalves, our new found interest in' the and the pastor, Father Jose yasnatural. things of the world will simiro. The priest said he will show up in natural fabrics such not cover the mural unless oras great linens and textured dered to do so by his bishop. wools.

Others in the town called the Surface ][ntel:est painting "immoral" .and sa,id they .Fabric will have a great deal will not attend religious services of surface interest (we saw this in the church as long as the during the past season when mo- mural is there. hair and angora became so pop-' Bishop Gerald Proenza Sigaud ular). of Diamantina, under whose dioCaramel, beige,. sand, and cin- cese Ferros is located, .said the namon are just a few of the , mural should be ."more discreet" shades that will shine, especially and consented to give Miss Tupiwhen accented with white. Clear, namba some time to make "the , fresh greens, yellows as bright as ' necessary changes." a daffodil, purples and reds If these are not made, he said, straight from the first tulips-all Father Cassimiro, will be asked will shine on the spring scene I to remov~ the pain~ing~ and of course again the pales.

Many of these colors will be found in the/nits that we all Cardinal DeniEts 'Story love so very much for their liveability, the .old favorites that On Dutch Course VATICAN CITY (NC)-eardihave become as indispensable a nal John Wright, prefect of the part of our wardrobe as wool.

Vatican office responsible for Wool Still Reigns Wool is still one of the favor- supervising catechetics throughites, a fabric that always looks out the world, has denied a report well .whether you're an expert in NC News Service that the ~ seamstress or not. In fact, if Vatican no longer objects to an you're not an expert, then} wool experimental catechetical course is the fabric for you because it that had been adopted by two' can stand Ii great deal of han- Dutch dioceses.

Referring to a headline on the story out of the Dutch town Arizona Court Upholds NC of 's-Hertogenbosc:h (Vatican Gives Green Ught for Revised Abortion Statute . TUCSON (NC)-;-Ari:i:oria's stat- Dutch 'Catechetical Course), Car: utes forbidding abortion except dinal Wright dec:lared: "No to save' the life of the mother green light has been given by are consti,tutionll1, ruled a three- Rome .to the Dutch catechism." . The prefect of' the Vatican's judge State Court of Appeals here.

Clergy Congregation repeated his Ruling against a suit filed by earlier statement that the final Planned Pa'renthood and 10 local two volumes of the four-volume physicians, Judge Lawrence I course had been, withdrawn.

Howard said that the challeng- Therefore the question of .their ers' six objections to the consti- approval or .disapproval had betutionality of the law did not come "academic," he said. apply.

"The first two volumes are beAmong the grounds presented ing substantially and completely for challenging the Arizona law revised," Cardinal. Wright said. were vagueness; violation of "We, have offered to collaborate rights of personal privacy and in that revision. Pen,ding that reproper medical treatment; invalid vision, and that we can see the exercise of police power because results of that revision, we can of insufficient state interest.

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A FIRST IN NEVADA:: Bishop Joseph Green of Reno confirms a child in the small town of Gabbs; Nev. (population 770). The first bishop to visit the community, he confirmed eight young people and gave First Communion to five. Helping him (background) is Brother Joseph Drolet, C.S.V., a permanent deacon who represents the Church in the town. NC Photo.

Is C,ertain Patient Has Right 't~ Die With Dignity', Medical Society Says NEW YORK (NC)-While no physician has the right to per. form euthanasia, an inc1!rably ill patient or his family may decJde with a physician when to dis. continue extraordinary means of prolonging life, according to the New York State Medical Society.

The society took that position ·in a statement on "the right to die with dignity" which was approved by its governing counciL The council originally had asked its committee on ethics for a statement on euthanasia but the committee preferred to address itself mainly to the "right to die with dignity." _ The 62-word statement reads: "The use of euthansia is not in the province of the physician.'

The right to die with dignity, or the cessation of the employment of extraordinary means to prolong the life of the body when there is irrefutable evidence that biological death is inevitable, is the decision of the patient and-oli the family with the approval of the family physician." .

Dr. Henry I. Feinberg, execu-,

tive vice president of the medical society, said the policy is recommended as a norm only when death is scientifically certain.

The society's statement follows the recent release by the American Hospital Association of "A Patient's Bill ·of Rights" which states that a patient has the right to information which would help him decide whether to accept or rduse mEdical treavment.

Church Land to Help Ease Housing Shortage

Bishop Mussio said he is convinced that it would be a good idea if young couples who are paying $150 to $170 for monthly rent could have the chance of becoming home owners.

"I want to provide homes for young people especiaIly," the bishop said in an address to the Steubenville Lions Club here in Ohio. The advantage of using diocesan property would be to keep the young people from leav-. ing SteubenviIle by allowing them to develop roots in the city' as homeowners, the bishop said.

Bishop Mussio stressed that his proposed subdivision will have no distinction between races.

"I don't see any future for any community that starts making roadblocks to those who are worthy," the bishop said in reference to "intelli~ent and relponsible" blacks who are often excluded from such' housing developments.

Contraception Given In Federal Program WASHINGTON (NC) - The government has helped supply three miIlion poor women with contraceptives under federally funded programs, according to a Planned Parenthood report.

The information was in a survey on the first two years of a five-year government plan to provide contraceptives for 6.6 million women. Planned Parenthood rnade the survey for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Some sources indicated, however, that the federal government has already made cutbacks into some of its family planning services and population research programs.

Funding for Family Planning services has risen from $10 million in 1968 to $123 million in 1972. But the projected 1974 budget omits funding for family planning and instead substitutes a health revenue sharing program among the states.

LONDON (NC) -- Land owned by the Catholic Church in Britain is being made available to the government to help relieve this country's cr!tical housing shortage.

Recent surveys have indicated . that there is a shortage of landespecially near Br-itain's major cities-to build new housing. It is estimated that upwards of four million families here live in seriously substandard dwellings.

Questionnaires have been sent to all dioceses, to Rel,igious orders, and to other Catholic propApprove Ireland's Entry erty owners to discover what land belonging to thEml can be Into Common Market released to help r,elieve the shortONE STOP DUBLIN (NC)..;....The Irish bish- age of homes.

SHOPPING CENTl:R ops have welcomed Ireland's enFour dioceses have provided try into the European EconOmic details to date on some available • Television • Grocery Community (Common Market) land to the bishop's National • Appliances • Furniture and suggested th,at Ireland's Social Commission, and so far 104 Allen St., New Bedford Catholics may help the EEC more than 100 acres have been "grow into a Europe renewed in made available for this purpose, 997-9354 Christian faith and missionary zea1." $ "The faith is the greatest asset we hold as we stand on the! threshold of E\lrope," the bIshops: said. "By God's grace the Irish • Savings Bank Life Insurancee people have preserved a sense of the supernatural and of .th ~ • Real Estate Loans meaning of life, a sense of vah:es, • Christmas and Vacation Clu~s which visitors to .our shores' • Savings Accounts often remark on with envy.".

They added: "His not fanciful • 5 Conv~nient Locations to Imagine that this faith, lived by virtually a whole population, NEW BEDFORD may have its own contribution. to make to the Europe of tomor.row."

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Mom's th,e Loser at T,his Un,endi,ng 'S,po,rts Nite'

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Last year a new event was introduced into our parish elementary school. They call it "Sports Nite" here, but you may call it something else. Sports Nite is an evening of competition open to any student who wishes to join. All members are divided in two One youngster was out of line teams. There are various events, mostly gymnastics, in a "precision" routine, causing the team to lose points. Another races, and dance routines. dropped the baton in a relay

The teams. compete for points hased on their skill, theme, costuming, originality.

The idea is to teach them sportsmanship.

By MARY CARSON

First let me tell you how it looked to me, then I'll tell you the opinion of my daughter who participated last year and is back in this year's Sports Nite.

To me it looked as if there were two kinds of kids. There were the ones who are the first string members of the basketball team, who have taken dancing lessons since' two weeke before they were born; the cheerleaders who can turn three somersaults in mid-air and not even have their hairdos mussed. I have nothing against these kids.

They're talented.

But then there arc the other kids ... the kids who sign up for Sports Nite because you' don't have to be good.

Normal Kids All these kids seem to have two left feet, knees that bend the wrong way, bodies that will not twist into pretzels, and elbows that stick out when they're supposed to stick in. I have nothing against these kids either. They're normal.

These two groups worked together with the compatibility of full-grown panthers and newborn puppies.

As far as teaching sportsmanship, I wonder. The kids practiced every afternoon for months, till they were exhausted. They entered the competition with muscles black and blue, bones aching and nerves taut.

Erie Starts Last Phase Of Housing Project ERIE (NC)-The Erie diocese has broken ground for the second and final stage of a $1.2 millio,:, dioce~an housing project for poor families.

This stage of the project will add 40 units to the 12 that have been completed and occupied since January 1970. The diocese is contributing slightly less than 11 per cent of the total cost of the project.

Better Housing for Erie, a nonprof,it corpo~ation set up under the leadership of Bishop Alfred M. Wl}tson when he was rector of the cathed·ral in 1968, is constructing and managing the project.

Half of the 40 new units are to be three-bedroom homes an~ the other half will have four bedrooms.

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SAGINAW (NC)-Faced with the withdrawal of nuns from five schools, the Saginaw diocesan board has voted' to try to keep the schools open even if it means using all-laity teaching staffs.

The board, an elective body of clergy, nuns and laity, approved a resolution which declares itself "in support of quality Catholic education and that this support would be extended to Catholic schools with an alllaity staff should it be impossible to obtain Sisters."

Board president Georgia Egan said that "while we sympathize with the feelings of those who think of Catholic schools as taught primarily by Religious, the fact is that there is a diminishing supply of teaching Sisters.

Catholic schools must go on whether Religious teach in them or not."

Miss Egan said the board is committed to assist parish schools in a search for teaching nuns to re;:>lace the Sisters of Mercy who recently announced their withdrawal from five schools here.

Commenting on the board's decision, Brother Leo Gilskey, superintendent of education, said. "r do not think we have much choice. Certainly all of us want the witness of Religious in our schools. But we also want the witness of dedicated quality teachers in the Catholic tradition.

"Lay people are not secondclass Catholics. They have a unique Christian witness of their own which can be a powerful influence in the Catholic edcational process."

Brother Leo pointed out that "other denominations, notably the Lutherans, run fine Christian schools without the presence of Religious. If necessary, I think Catholics can do it too."

race. In both cases, team mates who were "strung out" by the tension criticized the offenders in very strong language.

Maybe I didn't appreciate the evening because I had a toddler , with me who couldn't see because all the kids in front of us were standing up. So I stood for hours, holding the toddler in my arms.

The din was unbearable.

If points were scored for the kid in the audience who could scream the loudest, the boy in front of me could have beaten both teams. He had the kind of mouth you'd love to slap.

Over at Last J:le wasn't satisfied with the MISSIONER RETURNS: Rev. William J. Slight, M.S!. rooting power of his lungs, and bids farewell to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sligh~: picked up the metal baton and started beating on the metal 709 Pine Hill Dr., New Bedford, as he prepares to retur~'~ chairs. My patience gave out. to missionary ~ssignment in Cabatuan-Luna, the Philippine .

I leaned over, grabbed the He is responsible for 23,000 members of two parishes i I baton out of his hand and very sweetly asked, "How would you largely agricultural and very poor area. Friends tender like me to beat you over the head him farewell testimonial at St. Theresa's parish hall, Ne Bedford. with this?"

Finally, it was over.

The judges went into consultation and came back with their reI sults. The kids who won were all I crying ... The kids who lost were Newark Priest to Sail as Chaplain I all crying.

Now, my daughter sees it difOf Peace Ship i ferently. She points out that last NEWARK (NC) - A Newark Families from the Mideast art year was their first attempt at a Sports Nite and this year will be priest will sail to the Mideast as' among those now in the paris chaplain of a "Peace Ship" that and both Arabic and Hebrew ar much better.

She says that the competition will send radio messages of taught at St. John's School. ~I helps the. less talented kids to peace to Israel and Arab na,tions.

'When Pope Paul 'visited th improve.

The Peace Ship dream of United Nations in 1965, two chi;She also says the noise wasn't Abie Nathan, an Israeli citizendren from St. John's School-fi really "that" bad last year ... is moored in New York where it Filipino and a Japanese-were but she plays the phonograph so has been undergoing outfitting among those in the offertor~ loud I can't hear myself think.

She insists that she didn't cry over several years to turn it into procession at the Pope's Mass ir Conference Approves last year ... but I remember a powenful broadcasting statl.on Yankee Stadium. Father McTague TV Movie on Drugs designed to spread the message was given the job of escortil lending her my handkerchief.

NEW YORK (NC)-"Go Ask of peace in the Middle East. the international group of youn Well, we'll know soon enough.

Alice," an ABC-TV Wednesday to the altar in recognitio sters This year's Sports Nite is only a W,ith Nathan in charge of the of his work.

Movie of the Week was praised few weeks away. operation, it will leave its berth by the U. S. Catholic Conference Maybe I'll find out that I'm shortly to take up a station in Father McTague's friendshi~ Div:sion for Film and Broadcastjust a poor sport. the Mediterranean Sea near with Abie Nathan - the Israeli ing.

Cyprus. 'From there it will beam "Peace Pilot" who twice fletThe movie, based on the diary messages and other program- into Cairo in solo attempts ~ of a' teenage girl drug addict, is Indiana Legisla,ture ming to 'Israel, the Arab nations, help settle the Mideast conflict so realistic it "will probably Tur,key, Cyprus and other coun- began when he dr<:>pped in 0 Gets Tax Credit Bill leave some of its viewers a little Nathan while passing his ship..

INDIANAPOLIS (NC)-A bill tries. shaken but more aware of the providing state income tax credFired by Nathan's enthusias~~ threat of drug addiction," the When it departs, it will have its for parents of children en- on board as chaplain Father for peace, Father McTag~e division said. rolled in nonpublic schools has Charles H.. McTague, an assist- pitched .in wIth the work an!d The film tells of the girl's efbeen introduced in the Indi".na ant pastor at St. John the Bap- for four years has been spendi~g forts to escape the drug habit, General Assembly. . tist parish in Fairview, N. J., his holidays and vacatiorts and it ends by giving viewers in The legislation would give a for the past 19 years. Father aboa.rd the ship or promotidg formation about a national agen$150 credit for each child in McTague, who has been helping Nathan's work.

I cy which fights drug addiction. elementary school and $200 for Nathan with his fund-raising and I each child in high school. There outfitting efforts, has been rer are, no income limits governing leased from 'parish duties on a eligibility and the measure would temporary basis by Archbishop be retroactive to Jan. I, 1973. Thomas A.' Boland. in cases where totai credits exceed tax liability, the state would Father McTague has been acI refund the difference. tive in resettlement affairs from Co-sponsor Rep. B. Patrick the time he helped relocate the Bauer, a Democrat from South families of Hungarian Freedom Bend, said he expects the bill to Fighters. Since then he has • PARTIES clear committee but face tough helped families from more than I sledding on the House floor. 10 foreign countries to locate in • COMMUN'ON BREAKFASTS Bauer, a Ca,tholic, is a teacher Fairview, introducing courses in in the public school system. their native languages - among 1343 PLEASANT STREET FALL RIVER The bill is similar to tax credit them Chinese - into the parish legislation now pending in Con- grammar school with the help .

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Catholic School Decline Slows In Michigan

MUNDELEIN (NC)-The Pre;;byteral Senate of the Chicago archdiocese has proposed to Cardinal John Cody a limited term of office for pastors.

The senate, at its first annual meeting here, also decided not to join the National Federation of Priests' Councils at this time.

Reasons given included the high cost, esUmated at $13,000, based on the NFPC's fixed rate of 5 dollars per man.

The senate also questioned whether it would be possible to achieve adequate numerical representation in the NFPC for the 2,600 priests of the archdiocese, largest in the nation: Regarding Hmited terms of office for pastors, the members voted in favor of a proposal for six year terms, renewable for another six years at the request of the pastor and with the ap· proval of the Diocesan Clergy Board.

While the policy would not be retroactive, a study will be made to determine whether the policy could be 'adopted to include pastors already aS3igned to a parish. Changes in these cases would be voluntary.

The senate's ministry committee said that in every case new assignments would be made after all concerned parties are consulted.

"Change is not intended ,to fill a slot," the committee said.

Its purpose is two·fold-to respond in a reasonably consistent fashion where he can both generously contribute to the growth of the Church and grow himself."

LANSING (NC)-Enrol1ment in Michigan nonpublic schools, most of them Cathoilic, dropped by one-third from 1967 to 1972, but that decline ~ has slowed sig· nificantly this year, according to state statistics.

The consolidation of schools and the "gradual educating of Catholic parents to the need for Ic:rger tuitions" were two reasons given by Thomas Bergeson, exe· cutive director of the ,Michigan Catholic Conference, folC' the lev" . elling of enrollment figures.

Nonpublic elementa.ry and, high school enrol1ments in MichiFR. SHARPE FR. WINGATE FR. CAMPBELL gan declined, by 115,109, more , than one·third, during the five· I year period ending in 1972, the Michigan Department of Education reported. Nonpublic school He received his early education enrollment ,in Michigan was inary, Brighton, and was orI Continued from Page One 338,945 in 1967·68 :and 223,836 ih St. Mary's Parish, Taunton dained a priest by Most Rev. in Needham elementary and in 1971-72. ~nd St. 'Patrick's, Falmouth and James L. Connolly, Foul'th ~ish· secondary schools, and at New The state estimated that the has been assistant at St. Mary's op of Fall River, at St. Mary's England College.

He prepared for the priesthood Cathedral on Feb. 2, 1957. drop for the 1972-73 school year' Cathedral since March, 1966.

The new Taunton assistant , at the Pontifical College Josephiis only 3,498, compared to an ~ In addition to parochial work, average decline of 23,000 in each he has served as director of pastor has served in similar num and St. Procopius Seminary, of the previous five school years. music at the Cathedral, musical capacities at St. Joseph, Parish, Lisle, Ill. He was ordained to the Consolidation of schools reo donsultant for the Diocese and is Taunton, and St. Lawrence Par- priesthood in Fall River by Most suited in Rome loss of students, ,director of the Fall River Dioc- ish, New Bedford. He is also ~Rev. Russell J.\McVinney, Bishop Chaplain for Girl Scouting in of Providence, ~n March 22, 1958. but also achieved greater stabil· ~san Choir Directors Guild.

Father Sharpe has served as ity, Bergeson said. the Gr~ater New Bedford Area. i ' Father Wingate assistant pastor at Holy Name Better Quality Father Sharpe : Rev. Arthur K. Wingate, son of He also said that as tuitions Angela (Kirby) Wingate and the Born, April 3, 1930, Rev. Ed- Parish, Fall River; Holy Family rose a number of parents with· I~te Raymond Wingate, was born ward J. Sharpe is the son of the Parish, East Taunton; Holy drew theirchiJ:dren., Those who 'ih Wellesley on Oct. 22, 1930. la,te Richard E. and the, late Ghost Parish, Attleboro; St. continue to send their children ! He attended St. Mary's Cathe- Agnes (McAdam) Sharpe;' of Mary Parish, Nantucket, and St. Kilian Parish, New Bedford. to Catholic schools are more dral School in Fall River and Needham. committed to Catholic education *sgr. Coyle High School in and provide stability also, he' 1faunton. He then went on to said.

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Court·ordered busing to intei Father Wingate prepared for grate public schools is another ,tpe Priesthood at St. John's SemOhio Bishops Back factor in the smal1er decline in NEW YORK (NC)-The com· Catholic press is filling in an Catholic school enrollment, Ber· bined circulation of all Catholic impressive way a need for Doth 'Lettuce Boycott ' COLUMBUS (NC)-The Cathgeson said. "Some Catholic offiperiodicals in the United States informaUon and for inexpensive olic bishops of Ohio endorsed dais see it as a reason why and Canada increased by nearly educational material.

I Continued from Page One the boycott of iceberg lettuce some parent~,keep their children their continuing education. Re- 450,000 last year, for a new total Continuing Education called by Cesar Chavez's United in Cathol'ic schools," he said. of 22,805,018. , sponses from 64 priests indicated Farm Workers Union.

"The declining quality of pubThe figures are included in "The Catholic press today reptpeir desire for an institute pro· lic education, w.hich has gotten gram of three or four days dur- th_e 1973 Catholic Press Direc- resents the least costly way of The bishops praised a Califor'a bad reputation in Michigan" ation in the areas of pastoral and tory, published here by the Cath- providing a continuing religious nia Supreme Court ruling enis another factor, he said. Some rttarriage coun,selling and spirit· olic Press Association (CPA). education for both children and enabling the UFWU to resume its parents believe that the quality Jality. The committee is prepar· Catholi,c magazines increased adults-and of providing it in ,strike and boycott of growers of education in nonpublic schools i~g a policy of continuing educa- in number from 272 to 277, the home. who had earlier signed contracts is better. with the Teamsters Union. tion for presentation to the Sen- and oirculation climbed from "As to whether we have alte at its next meeting. "oNC News Service offers evi'16,717,400 to 17,301,498.

"This is really a ,grass roots turne,~ the corner" on decHnes Although the number of news- dence of this in its role as the struggle by the workers to gain !

Compiling Directory in nonpublic school enrollment, : A directory of family and mar· . papers declined from 154 to 148, principal supplier of national and a union of their choice," the Bergeson said, "I can't honestly riage counselling services is be- newspaper circulation dropped international news for the Cath- bishops stated. "The moral issay." irlg prepared by the Social Con- less than 2.5 per cent to a new olic press, ~nd also in its role as sues are the same as they were principal supplier of ,educational in ,the grape boycott: Dignity, cerns Committee with the aid of total of 5,503,520. ' material forthe Catholic press.

This suggested an improved self·determination and justice." priests from all areas of the Dio-,' Murder Suspected outlook' for; newspapers, which c~se. The directory wIll list the "During recent months NC The bishops, acting at an Ohio In Priest's Death IJcations of various services, the had experienced a drop of more News Service has regained two Catholic Conference meeting, , KAMPALA (NC)-The body of gbals of sponsoring agencies and than eight per cent the previous diocesan newspaper subscribers said they "strongly support the year.

Father Clement K'iggundu, editor f~es involved. that had previously cancelled for "We appear to be approaching ecdnmic reasons. It has regained lettuce boycott and urge'the citof the Uganda Catholic daily ,Representation of religious izens of Ohio ,to purchase only newspaper Munno (Friend) was priests on the Senate is an area the end of a levelling·off process eight photo service clients and iceberg lettuce clearly' mal'ked found Jan. 14 in the burned ,being studied by the Constitu- for Catholic newspapers," said its 'Know Your Faith' education- with the official United Farm wreckage of his car in a forest tional Committee. In a progress James A. Doyle, executive direc- al program is operating at its Workers' label, the black Aztec here in Uganda., r~port it was, indicated that 14 tor of the CPA. peak level." eagle."

"There has been some shedFather Kiggundu, 46, appeared dioceses have been contacted to to have been trapped or locked d~termirie the composition of ding of unprofitable circulation in the car. One report asserted their Senates. Procedures for in the Catholic press, just as in that he had been shot and p6ssible election of religious rep- the general press," Doyle said. strangled. resentatives were also discussed. "Individual circulation increases The 'priest resided at St. :The Senate was, informed by in some areas justify the new INC. George's parish in Pittsburgh, Rev. Joseph Powers that in place mood of optimism for Catholic journalism in this country and Pa., from October 1968 to the o~ a national Bishops' meeting in .spring of 1971, while earning a May, a New England area meet- in Canada."

In Washington, meanwhile, .degree in journalism from Du- ing will take place. The particiquesne University. He also pants at this meeting, in addition the director of NC News Service , worked as an editorial intern on . tqI the ' New England Bishops, said the increase in over-all cirthe Pittsburg Catholic. will include representatives of culation of Catholic periodicals is especially impreSSIve in view Mapy persons in Kampala be· atea priests, religious and laity. lieve Father Kiggundu's death IThe reports presented t~ the of declines in some other areas was an assassination instigated Senate indicated the steady of Church activitiy.

by President Idi Amin, who has ptiogress of committees in deal"There is a wider acceptance been 'engaged ina public dispute ing with areas of diocesan pas- of the fact," said A.E.P. Wall" SECONIO ST. FALL RIVER, MASS. with the Catholic Church. toral concern.

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The "verbal declaration" stressed that Mrs. Meir had come to the Vatican at her own request and without prior arrangements and agreements. This was denied by Mrs. Meil", who said: "I didn't break into the Vatican. I came here b~cause a meeting had been arranged."

Another point in the "verbal declaration" was to stress the warm relations that the Vatican enjoys with various Arab coun路 tries. It was obviously to 'this point that Mrs. Meir referred when she said of the declaration: "It doesn't concern me. It is a matter between those who published it and perhaps those who asked for its publication."

What then was behind the unusual events surrounding Mrs. Meir's visit?

One diplomat accredited to the Vatican speculated that it may have arisen out of the "Church's concern, perhaps overconcern, for the Catholics and churches spread throughout the Arab world. The fate of Christians and Christian churches in Arab countries lies mainly on the decision of their government."

There also seems to have been some poor staff or preparational work on the part of Israeli authorities. That ,the visit had been discussed at lesast in a preliminary way seems undoubted. One official of the Italian foreign office said Mrs. Meir's visit to Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti had been on the books a week before she arrived in Rome.

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NAME ASSISTANTS: Daughters of the Holy Spirit have named administrative assistants to the provincial superior and her council. Seated, left to right: Sr. Helen Philip Belliveau, Sr. Eleanor Baldoni, Standing: Sr. Carla Hopkins, Sr. Anita Dion, Sr. Marjorie Furze, Sr. Jeannette R.' Richard, Sr. Claire Coutu, Sr. Marie Michaud. Sister Marjorie is a Fall River native.

Sr. Marjorie Furze -Directs Apostolate Sister Marjorie Furze of Fall River is among administrative assistants elected by the Daughters of the Holy Spirit of Putnam, Conn. as a result of action proposed at the community's 1971 provincial chapter.

She will be responsible for the nUl'sing apostolate of the Daughters, known in the Fall River area as the White Sisters, and carry-

ing on their work from the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home since the closing of their nursery and convent on Second Street in the dty.

Vatican II In keeping with the thinking of the commission for the revision of canon law concerning religious life that religious institutes should have "as wide a

Give Ruling on Abortion

seems more impressed by magic Continued from Page One JERUSALEM (NC) - A comnecessary to preserve the life or than by scientific evidence repromise overcoming the objecgarding fetal development ... health of the mother. tions of some scholars to Israeli "Apparently the Court was Cardinal Cooke said that participation in the project has "whatever their legal rationale, trying to straddle the fence and made possible the continued pubseven men have made a tragic 'give something to everybodylication of the Dead Sea Scrolls. utilitarian judgment regarding abortion on demand before three The compromise" according to, who shall live and who shall die. months; somewhat more restricreports, consists of avoiding They have made themselves a tive abortion regulations for menrion of Israel on the title 'super legislature)"...They have those who want that.;. pages of the future volumes of usurped the poweI:s and respon"No court and no legislature the scrolls. The understanding is sibilities of the ,legislatures of in the land can make something intended to overcome the objecevil become something good.

50 states to protect human life. tions of some scholars who did "I remind all Americans, how- Abortion at any stage of, pregnot want to authorize publication ever, that judicial decisions are nancy is evil. under Israeli auspices. , "This is not a question of not necessarily sound moral deOne of the scholars, Msgr. Patsectarian morality but instead cisions." rick W. Skehan, professor of "In spite of this horrifying de- concerns the law of God and Semitic languages at the Catholic cision, the American people must ,the basis of civilized society. One University of America, said he rededicate themselves to the pro- trusts in the decency and good regards the manuscripts as Arab tection of the sacredness of all sense of the American people not property. Because he objected to human life. to let an illogical court action publ'ication under' Israeli aus"I hope and pray that our citi- dictate to them on the subject pices, his name will not appear zens will do all in their power ofmarality and human life." on published segments of the to reverse this injustice to the manuscripts on which he has rights of the unborn children."

Mass for Deaf-Mutes worked.

Cardinal Krol I n Brazil Church The scrolls, found in 1947 and thereafter in caves in a section PORTO ALLEGRE (NC) - A John Cardinal Krol of Philadelknown as Qumran on the north- phit 路found that "It is hard to congregation of deaf-mutes west shore of the Dead Sea, in- think of any decision in the 200 gathers regularly at St. Lawclude almost all of the Old Tes- years of our history which has rence church here for Sunday tament and other material pro-' made more disastrous implica- Mass and other religious and viding information about a Jew- tions for our stability as a e1v- social services headed by deafish sect k:lown as the Essenes Hized society. ' mute Father Vicente Bernier. who had a community there Deaf-mute seminarian Volmir "The ruling represents bad logic about tpe time of 'Christ. and bad law. There is no rational Guisso serves as lector and acFive yolumes of the documents justification for allowing unre- olyte and "reads" from the Mishave already been published, but stricted abortion up to the third sal in sign language. The sermon the 1967 Six Day Arab-Israeli month of 'pregnancy. is also given in sign language.

War jnterl'upted publication.

But not all is silence in the "The development of life beIsrael occupied East Jerusalem, fore and after birth is a continu- church. The adjacent nursery formerly part of Jordan, and ous process and in making the and play room is full of laughter took control of the Palestine three-month cutoff for unre- and noise from .the children of Archeo!ogical Museum, stricted abortion, the court the deaf-mute couples.

participation in government as possible, either directly or through representation," as well as in response -to the wishes of Vatican II in its "Decree on Appropriate Renewal of Religious Ufe," the Provincial Chapter proposed the use of administrative assistants to the Provincial and her Council. The proposal was presented to the General Chapter. in France for approval which was granted.

The assistants represent eight areas of apostolate and administration. Three, representing the areas of education, nursing, and social, pastoral, mission, and para-apostolic works, were elected by the sisters actively working in those apostolates. Five were appointed because of special qualifications in some particular field: personnel, initial fOl'mation, continued formation, finance, and programs for senior sisters. The term of office was set for .three years, renewable once.

By being responsible for specific areas, the group will help free the 'Provincial and her Councilors in order to allow .them more time to be available to the sisters, which is their primary role.

Each administrative assistant will organize committees to assist her in her duties.

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THE ANCHOR.-Diocese , of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 25, 1973.

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Reasons Why Colorado Voted Against Olympics I live in suburban Denver. Last November the voters

in. my state o.f Colorado Joted against funding the 1976 Wmter OlympIc Games WhICh we had already been awarded. Since then we've been bombarded by incredulous whys

from out-of-state friends aqd relatives, who had their eyes on our spare room. It see~s many Americans find it un-

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present some of the reasons wt!y Coloradoans voted against funding the Games. They arc ~s varied as the people ~oting. I U's important to remember that voters weren't voting for Qr against the Olympics. but rat·her for or against state- funding ?f the Games through taxes. This put it in a different light, th~t of priorities. Many voters felt that the $100 million estimated expense would be better spent for education, mental health, highways, environmental cleatlip and such. To a great numb~r . I of Coloradoans, the expen d ltu~e of such a huge hum for 10 days of Games' was irresponsible.

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On that same line, lots of Coloradoans were reacting against the state's commercial interests' slogan, "Sell Colorado." For years now, politicians and business men have travelled to other states to invite businesses to relocate here. As a result, we're beginning to face problems of the cities that people have left: increased crime, smog, highway congestion, urban sprawl, and lack of moderate income housing.

The idea of hosting the Games to bring more people in backfircQ. Help or Hurt?

"Did Munich help or hurt the vote?" is a question we've heard a lot. I believe it 'played an 1mportant role in defeating the funding, not because of the ma'ssacre but because of- the nationalism and poor sportsmanship obvious in the judging. Many voters who were committeed to the idea of the Games as a means for healing world tensions were turned off by the many instances of unfairness and power plays 'in Munich. In other words, voters who would have voted for the funding on patriotism alone, questioned whether that kind of patriotism is of positive value today.

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Other voters lost confidente in the Denver Olympic. ·Committee, which seemed to change members monthly. A good many Committee members had vest~d interests in ·Iand, ski lodges and franchises that stood' to profit from the Games.:l The Committee All things considered, I think never built up al~redibility Wi~h the voters cast their votes honvoters on projected expenses estly, after a 'good deal and this is something that huh when people vot~d. I don't thin:k thought. There was an' intense media .campaign to save the V'Oters anywhere"will stand for Olympics, backed by $150,000 of vague answers and closed meet- _undisclosed donors, but the ings any more.' At least they voters seemed more interested in didn't here. .. \ . the issues than the emotionalism.

A. good many,~voters, themI find it harder to understand selves skiers, vot'ed against tne Games because' of;'environmental the sportsmanship of the Olymfactors. Our mouhtains are M- .pic supporters' on the vote. I coming ovel'developed no~, don't think I've ever seen such when supplies of precious watet, an array of professional poor roads, sewage facilities and t~e losers in my .life.. The Colorado like are considered. Many Co16- voter was lambasted by sportsradoans ~ere appalled at t~e writers and politicians as "welshblatant advertising of large lan'd ers," "un-American," 'and "unfit developers who descended upo!n to wear the title of Coldradoan." us directly after the Games were If this is a sign of the sportsmanship the Games embody, I'm awarded us. afraid we don't need it in Colorado ... or anywhere else, as far At White House as that goes.

WA.SHINGTON (NC) - Arch. Capsule Review bishop· Joseph L. Bernardin Qf Cincinnati, the Rev. Dr. Billy Christophers )'rayers fOf ToGrahapl and Rabbi Edgar ~. day by Richard Armstrong, coMagnin of Los Angeles led the author of the popular Three Minworship service at the White utes a Day 'is a slim volume of House' on Jan. 21 the Sunday prayers you may have spoken after Jnauguration Day. Arch- yourself. Slim and inexpensive bishop Bernardin, Who had beeh enough to make an ideal slip-in genera! secretary of the U. S. gift with a greeting card or dropCatholic Conference, was i~-, by gift. Prayers are reverential stalled as archbishop of Cincin- and real. (.75; Paulist Press, -nati in December.

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People from wet states simply don't understand 'that water supply and well permits are the most vital considerations in buying mountain property. It didn't help the Games any to watch televised hearings on unscrupulous land deals held by the federal government last summer.

Many out-of-state couples told incredible tales of being taken on mountain land.

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Manages Black Lia ison Group WASHINGTON (NC) - Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. McNicholas of St. Louis 'has been named to succeed Bishop Peter L. Gerety of Portland, Me., as chairman of the U.S. bishops committee for black Catholics.

Bishop Gerety served for three years as chairman of the bishops committee for Liaison with National Office for Black Catholics.

During his tenure, the commi~tee helped establish the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC) and helped secure $195,000 for the office from the bishops, as well as $50,000 from other sources. The committee also co_ operated in the first annual ~~~C collection, conducted last .

Bishop McNicholas, 50, has been auxiliary bishop of St. Louis since 1969. He has a master's degree in social work and is Secretary of ~atholic Charities in the archdiocese. He is archdiocesan Vicar for the City of St. Louis and the Urban Apostolate.

Since 1967, Bishop McNicholas has been vice •chairman of the 5t. Louis Human Development Corporation, the local division of the Office of Economic Oppor-· tunity.

Bishop McNicholas received the man of the year award of the Missouri Association for Social Welfare in 1968. The award was given mainly for his work on the public wel~1re committee. He was a leader in efforts to extend the aid to dependent children program to families in which there was an unemployed father living at home.

The announcement of Bishop McNicholas' appointment was made by Cardinal John Krol, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops here.

Conference P~anned On Care of Dying LONDON (NC) Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster has called a national conference here to consider the care of the dying and the .increased propaganda in Britain for voluntary euthanasia.

Speakers at the conference will include Prof; Ferguson Anderson, the first professor of geriatrics in Britain; Donald MacRae, professor of sociology at the London school of Economics; and Dr. Cicely Saunders, founder and director of St. Christopher's Hospice for the Dying..

WASHINGTON (NC) - Arch- "The amount of sacrifice is evibishop Philip M. Hannan of New denced by the fact that 271 Orleans, a' former auxiliary bish- schools, churches, convents, auop and chancellor of the Wash- ditoria and rectories have been ington archdiocese, came here to built and almost completely paid speak in praise of Cardinal Pat- for," he. said. rick O'Boyle and the archdiocese.

Growth of Spirit The occasion was the celebration of the 25th anniversary of "Statistics, however impresthe consecration of Cardinal sive, are a blunt and imprecise O'Boyle and of the establishment .instrument for measuring the of the See of Washington as an growth of the spirit, the purpose independent. archdiocese. For- for the existence of the family of merly, it had been joined to the God which is the Diocese," Archarchdiocese of Baltimore. . bishop Hannon said.

"I think that the development • A commemorative Mass was said in St. Matthew's Cathedral of the spirit is owed largely to

by Cardinal O'Boyle, archbishop two factors-the immense devoof Washington. More than 300 tion to the Mother of God, the archdiocesan priests concele- patroness of' the Archdiocese, brated .the Mass at which Arch- with its consequent positive atbishop Hannan, a native Wash- titude towards life..... ingtonian, gave the homily.

Archbishop Hannon said that Archbishop, Hannan said that the strides taken by the WashWashington became a See at "a ington archdiocese in its 25 years time of wrenching changes" in of history "are the prelude to a the world. Not only did the greater exploration into God." archdiocese meet the challenge The Washington archdiocese, of those changes, but in some said Archbishop Hannon, "has cases it was ahead of other in- always known that the real fronstitutions in doing so, Archbish- tiers are the inner life of man, op Hannan said. his union with God, the infinite Goodness."

Social Justice When Cardinal O'Boyle began his tenure,' Archbishop Hannan said, "The immediate emphasis was the application of the faith to the issues of social justice.

Long before the Supreme Court made' its historic declaration on the integration of schools, the Church had decided to actualize its faith in the equal dignity of man by abolishing racial restrictions or distinctions in Catholic classrooms," he said. , "The asto.unding growth of the parishes was the visible expression of the deep rapture of the faith which enkindled and united priests and people," he added.

Archbishop Hannan said that the' growth of the' archdiocese "was the measure of sacrifice" of everyone in the archdiocese.

Catholic University In Amazoll1 Jungles PORTO ALEGRE (NC) - The booming Catholic University of Rio Grande here is opening small campuses in the Amazon jungles more than 2,200 miles to the northwest. ' The first "pioneer campus," as students call it, was opened in 'December at Benjamin Constant in the Amazon border with Peru and Colombia, and will serve the new settlers of the area. A team' of six professors and 10 advanced ~tudents serve there each semester.

The jungle campus work is half academic, half technical and geared to human development programs for the area. . The Catholic University, which the Marist Brothers started 40 years ago as a school of economics and political sciences now has 10,000 students, and 2,000 more are expected to register in the spring.

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said that the possibility of any substantial agreement between the Rhodesian governmen.t and the Catholic Church "is more remote than ever."

In a letter to The Times of London, Bishop Lamont said that the possibility of agreement had been reduced "with the intensification of op~ressive rac,ist legislation passed with indecent haste in recent weeks."

The 61-year-old Irish-born bishop wrote to deny press reports that the. government of Prime Minister Ian Smith, which unilaterally declared Rhodesia ~nde­ pendent in 1965, had conceded the demands of the Catholic Church, which, the bishop added, remains firm in its opposition to racial discrimination.

If .those reports were true, Bishop Lamont said, ",it would mean that. either the Smith regime had renounced its policy of apartheid (strict racial segregation) or that the Catholic Church had changed its attitude in regard to it. This has not happened."

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The Anchor Prepares for Installation Of Wire Transmission Facilities

WASHINGTON (NC) - The ARLINGTON (NC)-Abortion advocate BiII Baird said here National Catholic (NC) News that he is the victim of "an out- Service and most of the ne~s­ right conspiracy between the papers, including The Anchor, political arm of the Roman Cath- suscribing to it will launch a olic Church and the police to nationwide Catholic news telesilence a critic of the Chu'rch." type network on May 1.

Father James S. Rausch. genBaird spoke before being arraigned on a disorderly conduct eral secretary of the United charge arising from' an incident States Catholic Conference and during the U. S. bishops' Novem- the National Conference of Cathber meeting at a motel in this olic Bishops, has signed an agreement to share w.ire transWashington sUburb. mission facilities with Dow'Jones Baird :naintained that the and Co. charges against him had origin. The special Dow Jones circuit ally been dismissed but that will be available to NC News when he announced that he service 24 hours a day. It will would sue the Church for maliprovide rapid distribution of nacious prosecution, he was intional and' international news to tlicted on "trumped up charges."

Catholic newspapers in the The off-duty policemen who· United States. arrested him outside the bishops' About 70 weekly Catholic meeting room at a motel here newspapers have ordered instalwere "hire:l guns" of the Church, la,tion of teletype machines. Thc hc said. remaining Catholic periodicals Baird and his attorney, Philip subscribing to NC News will con· Hirschkop, said that thc two po- tinue, as at present, to receive licemen were both Cathol,jcs, and the news service daily by mail. that they were Arlington County 'Foreign subscribers to NC, inpolicemen paid by the Church. cluding Vatican Radio and CathBaird said that one of the po- olic news agencies, also will conlicemen had told him that he tinue to receive the daily news was opposed to abprtion. packet 'by mail.

Teletype Service 'Church Pressure' NC News Service is the prinThc indictment of Baird fol- cipal supplier of national and lowing dismissal of the original world news to the Catholic press eharges was "unheard of" in a in the Unitcd States and Canada. disorderly conduct case, Hirsch- It is owned by the bishops of kop said. Baird had been ar- the United States, but operates l'('stOO, he said, for "disturbing with full editorial independence. lhe peace hy expressing his It is staffed by professional jourviews." nalists, and is managed by a lay Baird said that the Church had director. brought pressure on the Virginia The daily news service and commonwealth attorney's officc NC feature material, including to indict him. "The Ro~an Cath- the "Know Your Faith" religious olic Church has long been on education series, will be distribmy back to silence me," he. said. uted to wire service subscribers Baird said he had been a paid by teletype. guest at the motel and had The teletype system also will sought to show the bishops a be used to transmit l11aterial film on abortion. The policemen from USCC offices for aiocesan who arrested him, he said, were use in chancery offices, educawearing no uniforms or badges. tion and CCD offices and the like.

Hirschkop said that Baird's "I am particularly pleased that suit against the bishops has not we are able to implement the been filed. wire service," said Father At the arraignment, Baird Rausch, "because in the Church pleaded no't guilty to the charges today we face not just a problem and was releaSed on his own of communicating but of being recognizance until the hearing able to communicate developments instantaneously as they. resumes on.J~~. 25. occur.

"In addition, the wire operaCriticize birectives tion makes available to dioceses For Heal.th , Facilities a service we often have felt a 'WASHING'OON (NC) - The need for. We have needed the U.S. bishops' '1~~71 "Ethical and ability to make the local Church Religious Dire<iitives for Catholic aware of important announcepronouncements and Health Faciliti1'\~'" are "defensive" ments, events immediately, so it can inand "predominantly legalistic" according to a theologians' re- form its people and/or respond to situations as they occur. port released here.

Installation of equipment will The B,OOO-word report, "Catholic Hospital Ethic::;," was writ· begin March 15. It is expected tcn for the Catholic Theological that the system will be operaSociety of America (CTSA) by a tional by May 1.

"This represents an enormous special study commission which the CTSA established in 1971 to step forward in Church comgive a critique of the health care munications," said A.E.P. Wall, director of Nt News Service code.

Among the major revisions since July 15. Before that he was recommended by the commission managing editor of The Honolulu were greater recognition of the Advertiser.

"Many of the most important pluralist context in which Catholic hospitals must operate to- developments that influence parday, and greater recognition of ish, personal and family life begin as news events in distant "horizontal accountability" the responsibility of the Catholic places," Wall said.

"These events are not always hospital to thc general commun..ity, to other health facilities with as dramatic as a papal encycliwhich it has shared programs calor a Vatican Council. They and facilities, and to the patient may take the form of an episwho may have different beliefs. £opal meeting in Latin America,

NEWS WIRE TO BEGIN MAY 1: This is the kind of teletype machine which will be used by about 70 Catholic weekly newspapers when they begin a nationwide news wire hookup with NC News Service May 1. It is one of the machines put into use experimentally during the U.S. bishops' meeting in Washington last November. NC Photo. a demonstration in Asia, a governmental move in Africa, a national conference in Europe, a petition at an American seminary.

Wherever these significant events take place, they arereported to the Catholic presssometimes. long before the final significance is evident. But informed and educated Catholics are prepared to live and understand life more fully because of 'the news reporters who serve them at home and ,abroad.

"Now the Church is to have a communications network worthy of the space age.NC News Service is delighted to be the central element in this network, in close cooperation with the Catholic press at large."

Quick Distribution Major documents issued in Rome and elsewhere will be distributed the moment English

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The Teamsters also announced that they are "attempting to organize disgruntled workers" who now belong to the UFWU. EarHer, the UFWU had filed damage suits to totalling $213 million against the Teamsters and the group.

The new contracts were immediately denounced as a "super sweetheart agreement by a UFWU official.

"The Teamsters do not represent anyone in the fields and this fraud is not going to insulate the growers from our strike and boycott," said Jerome Cohen, UFWU chief counsel. "This is a flagrant example of collusion between the Teamsters and growers in their efforts to prevent farm workers from getting the union of their choice." . The California Supreme Court ruled recently that the Teamsters were in collusion with the growers to thwart the UFWU's efforts at organizing field workers. The court ruled that while the Teamster-grower contracts were legal, lower court injunctions barring the UFWU strikes and boycotts were invalid.

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translations are available, putting them in the hands of Catholic editors at the earliest possible moment and also putting them within immediate reach of bishops and other diocesan officials throughout the U. S. This will make interpretation and comment possible almost at once. (NC will continue to publish Origins, its detailed documentary service, 4B times a year as at present). ' Many editors have hailed the wire service because it will overcome problems caused by delays in the mail ' "The new teletype network," said Wall, "typifies the new ideas and the new vigor that point to growth in the Catholic press. This growth, along with the wire system itself, reflects a spirit of cooperation and dedication that includes bishops, priests, editors and readers."

TRENTON (NC)-In ceremonies in the office of Gov. William T. Cahill here, a Jesuit pl1iest was sworn in to a six-year term as a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Moving into the unusual role was Father Victor R. Yanitelli, president of St. Peter's College in Jersey City. Quips filled the air during the brief ritual.

Explaining the appointment, the governor added that "in this day of difficult problems in mass transportation, I thought it appropriate for the commissioners to have a chaplain present at all times."

Father Yanitelli, in responding, said, "Whenever I see such a large group of people gathered together, my first reaction ·is to take up a collection."

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Are Children' Sick or Not? Parents Are Never SureBy Joe and Marilyn Roderick

Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P. 0, Box 7, Fall River 02722. 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.

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OUR LADY OF VICTORY, ' CENTERVILLE Summer projects decided upon by members of the Women's GuHd include a "Christmas in July" sale and an August fashion show. , Members hav.e volunteered to make baptismal robes for presentation to infants baptized in the parish.

At the January guild meeting procedures to be followed in pre, paring income tax returns were explained by R'oger Dupont of the Internal Revenue Service.

The hospitality c;ommittee was headed by Mrs. Ethel Hillen and Mrs. Margerite Bragle.

The flu has hit and we Ilare in the midst of it. No matter how many times you tell yourself that sickness is inevitable, it is still difficult: to adjust to youngsiers sick in the house. Jason is currently under attack with what started as an earache and How proud she ,is as she aphas become a series of head·, proaches our front door with that aches, upset stomachs and: empty bleach bottle clutched so general achiness. This, of delicately' in her gentle jaws!

course, brings up thl~ question of: whether he should be sent to! school or not and when.

Some of the things we were: taught as children are difficult tO'1 overcome. In my case it was a rare day when I was allowed ,to! stay home from school. I was! taught to overcome physical ado: versity like a young Spartan.'

Going to school was, made into; a personal challenge an,d both' my sister and I carry this over, into our parenthood. I hate tO let my children stay home from I I school.

What loving looks she projects at me as she tenderly lays someone's misplaced dish towel at my feet! It is difficult to describe the cooing sound that a retriever makes as she brings her master the ultimate prize, but I do wish there were some way that I 'could convey to our dear Missy that some neighbor's child's face mask hat is not what I have really been pining for.

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These love-presents may be Peter Baptist Ishigami, a naproof of Missy's affection, but tive of the Ryukyu Islands, I they do have a tendency to clut- has been appointed the first Real Dilemma I ter up the lawn. Each day as I bishop of the Diocese of This kind of thinking is ridic- i drive up to the house I find that ulous, though. Actually, sending I all her wonderful treasures have Naha, Okinawa. He will be a sick child to school does very I been" scattered over· our lawn ordained bishop there on little for his character and does! and front step, giving a decided- Feb; 11. He was a sergeant a great deal of harm to his I ly rakish look to the front of . in the Japanese army during schoolmates, who have every! the house. In fact it resembles World War II. NC Photo. right to be protected from the I "a stop-<>ff spot fOT the incineraflu bug. There is a point, how·: tor. ' I just hope that some day she ever, when it is difficult to jUdge: where sickness ends and faking' doesn't walk home with somebegins.

I thing valuable and that Joe or I won't end up explaining to a This is always a dilemma, arid judge we really didn't train her ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, one over which most parEmts as a thief.

CENTRAL VILLAGE shake their heads in anguish. I I have· an insatiable sweet The Ladies Guild will sponsor certainly have no ready means tooth-the kind that urges you a Vaolentine Scholarship"Whist at my command to determine to look at the dessert end of the Party at 2 on· Sunday afternoon, whether a child is truly sick or; menu before you order the entree, is shamming illness in order to: to make a dessert' when you're Feb. 4 in the parish hall on Main Rd., Westport. get a day off from school. too tired to fuss much with the Refreshments will .be. served This kind of problem may· main dish and to have your at this public whist. seem minor to childless adults, mouth water at the mere menbut it is. the sort of thing tion of a fancy recipe. This re- ST. LOUIS, that continually keeps parents cipe is just the type to satisfy FALL RIVER guessing. There are certainly no that longing.

A cake sale sponsored by the rules to. be followE..'<1 and the Women~.s Guild will follow all MOCHA TOFFEE: PARFAITS judgment of the parent has to Masses this weekend. Cakes may ,come',into play, keeping in mind 1 3- or 3Y2-ounce regular be brought to the church basethe welfare of the children with ment at any time after 3 P.M. ' vanilla pudding mix whom yours come nnto contact Saturday 'and on' Sunday morn.1 Tablespoon instant coffee in school. ing.

1 ~f cups milk Guild members will hold their Y2 cup semisweet chocolate In the Kitchen first meeting of the new year . pieces Why didn't someone mention "I 6-ounce can evaporated milk at 7:30 Tuesday night, Feb. 6 in that weekend that we took Missy 2 chocolate covered English the church hall. toffee bars, coarsely crushed (our golden Labrador) for a trial. visit that retrievers .do just that, Whipped cream Reorganizes Army I) In a medium saucepan, retrieve. This particular trait: would be just marvelous if I' combine the pudding mix and Chaplains' Work were a hunter concerned where coffee powder; gradually stir in KAMPALA (NC) - President my quarry had fallen, or an early milk till mixture is blended.

Idi Amin announced a reorganpioneer who needed that rabbit 2) Cook over medium heat, 'ization of the duties and responfor food. However, we olive in a I stirring constantly till mixture sibilities of chaplains in Uganrather conservative area that comes to boiling. Remove from das armed forces. could be described' a.s city with : ' heat and cover surface of pudThe three principal religious a touch of country and the only. ding with waxed paper or clear groups in the military-Roman prizes Missy has been able to: plastic wrap; cool· and chill.'

Catholic, Protestant and Moslem collect are those she comes 3) In small saucepan combine -will each be headed by a reliacross in our neighbors' barrels. ' chocolate pieces and evaporated gious military of.ficer, who in . milk. Cook and stir over low turn will be superv,ised by Lt. heat till mixture boils and choco- Col. (Sheikh) Khamis Safi, a Common Market ! late is melted. Cool and chill.

Moslem. President Amin is a 4) Remove paper from pud- Moslem.

BRUSSELS (NC) -- There are The officer in charge of Cath~ 145.5 million Catholics in the ding mixture; spoon half the territory of the* Eu.ropean Eco- I mixture into 4 parfait glasses. olics in the armed forces is nomic Community.~ (Common : Top with half.· the chocolate Father (Maj.) Mark Opwonya.

Amin warned the religion offiM~rket), according to informa- I sauce and half the crushed tion at the headquarters ot' the I candy. cers that if the standard disci· 5) ~epeat layering in parfait pline in .the armed forces falls, community here. The total population of the ,territory of the glasses with remaining pudding they will be held respon§ible. He said that they must see that sol~ cOplmunity-which recently, ad- mixture and chocolate sauce.

6) Top parfaits with whipped diers do not become drunkards, mftted Britain, Ireland and Den· mark to membership--is 243.3 cream and the remaining candy. mistr-eat civilians or kill' people . Makes 4 parfaits. for no reason. million;

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OUR LADY OF HEALTH, FALL RIVER Holy Name Society members will attend a Communion breakfast following 8 A.M. Mass Sunday, :Jan. 28.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G. will be honored at Moderator's Night of the Women's Guild, to be held at 8 Wednesday night, Jan. 31.

The guild and Holy Name Society will sponsor a joint Communion breakfast at a date to be announced.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER The board of education has unanimously decided to keep the parish school open for the 19731974 school year. Members will sponsor a bus trip to the ICe Follies for the benefit of the school on Sunday, Feb. 18. Tickets will include the cost of admj<s~ion to the show and busses will depart from the front of 240 Forest Street at 12:15 P.IYf. Reservations and further information are available from Maurice L. Francoeur, telephone 674-2411.

The parish committee will hold a Valentine dinner-dance in the school 'auditorium Saturday night, Feb. 17. A chicken dinner will be served at 7:30 and dancing to the music of the Silhouettes will begin at 8:30. Tkkets may be obtained from co-chairmen Mrs. Pauline Dumont, telephone 673-8047, or Mrs. Jane Lavoie: telephone 674-5306.

HOLY ROSARY, FALL RIVER Mrs. Warren Dearden and Mrs. Marcel' Fournier are chairmen of a Women's Guild cake sale to {"lIow all Masses this weekend.

Cakes may be left at the church hall.

A penny sale will be held at 7:30 Monday night, March 5 in the h!lll, with Mrs. Manuel Ponte and Mrs. Frank Mazzoni in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. August Petrucci, guil:l president, announces that at the' meeting to be held Monday, Feb. 5, Mrs. Donald Giannini will offer a paint demonstration.

Members may bring guests.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO Parishioners ,are invited to tht installation and investiture of 80 boys into the Knights of ·the Altar and Junior Corps scheduled for 7:30 on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the church.

Rev. Maurice Jeffrey, chaplain at Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River and assistant at St. Patrick's Parish will deliver the homily.

Sixty-six young ladies of the B.E.E. People under the direction of Miss Jo-Anne Valente will provide the music.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN St. Joseph School in Fairhaven will hold registration for kindergarten on two consecutive Sundays; Feb. 4 and II from 9:30 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER The Linden Club will hold its semi-annual party for members. and their guests Saturday night, Jan. 27 in the lower school hall.

Tickets for a dinner to he sponsored by the Women's Guild at 6 Monday night, Feb. 5 are obtainable from Mrs. Peg Leger, Mrs. Eunice Burke and guild board members.

Bingo is played at 7 every Wednesday night in the school hall. Doors are open at 5:30 P.M. and refreshments are served.

NOTRE DAME, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will conduct their regular m,onthly meeting at 7:45 on Monday night, Jan. 29 in the Jesus Mary Auditorium.

The evening will feature a calendar party. Each member is urged ,to bring her favorite' recipe.

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Christians Should Respond To Need on Human Level In their Synodal Document, the Bishops close the section entitled "Voiceless Injustices" with a plea for the aged, the sick, the orphaned, and the rejected who often simply fall out of the reach of the modem community. Part of the reason is a profound change in family size and United States, this takes the form of decaying center cities in responsibility. The range of which the poor, often black uncare possible in farming so- educated and relatively recent cieties is simply not possible in the modern industrial order given .the mobility, the work patterns, the urban pressures of

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long travel and small homes, the professionalization of health and education.

But clearly a Christian cannot say: "Well; this is too bad. But times have changed and now the state looks after unfortunate citizens. I pay my taxes. They produce welfare. I have done my share." If the "least of these little ones" - tM homeless, the deaf, the blind, above all, the aged poor-are living in misery, Christians cannot "pass by on the other side."

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migrants, huddle in the worst housing while the affluent move to suburbia and the richest citizens of all move continuously between five homes-in the Caribbean, in Florida, in Maine, in Sardinia, and' Manhattan. But every society has a version of this. Shanty towns, calampas, bidonvilles, favellas coexist with extravagant luxury all round the world.

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Pub'lications Win NEW YORK (NC)-The materials published for last autumn's Respect Life Week by the U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC) received three graphic arts awards here from the printing industry.

In Washington, meanwhile, the USCC's Family Life Division said that 10,000 more copies of the award-winning booklet have been printed for distribution and use during Lent.

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three awards for its materials ; and Spanish language versions of at the annual printing exposition the respect life poster. here by the Printing Industries Besides Respect for Life Week, of Metropolitan New York (PIMNY). The PIMNY awards Creative Services has been handling the promotional materials were: for the U. S. bishops' annual A "Certificate of special Campaign for Human Developmerit" for the graphic art in the ment.

Respect Life Week handbook. , In Washington Msgr.. James Another "certificate of special ! T. MeHugh, director of the merit" for the mailing envelope I USCC Family Life Division, said used for the respect life materi- that the additional' 10,000 respect als. life booklets had been printed "certificate of achievement" to meet a demand for parish profor the graphics in both English , grams to be held during Lent.

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. Urban Villages The next step is to base all rebuilding of old cities and planning of new ones on the community concept of the "neighborhood" in which houses, jobs and services for perhaps 5,000 to 10,000 people are sufficiently closed and varied to restore the older loyalties and dependence of village life. Urban "villages" like Chelsea in London or the Trastevere in Rome do exist and show what is possible. And urban planners more and more look to these models for the future.

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The next step is plan the' serviees in such neighborhoods on the basis 'of friendly access. Hostels for elderly people are built beside nursery schools. Active' adoption societies try to makq children's homes not much more than loving and careful reception centers: School children are involved in helping, their handicapped companions. Easy movement on foot within the neighborhood prevents the dreadful isolation of high rise living behind a roaring stream of traffic.

And last but most, important, the community itself is involved; at every step. Each parish, each child, each school board, each parent-teachers association knows the district. The old ~re visited and loved. The handicapped are entertained and cared for.

It is a flat denial of Christian love, of Christian responsibility to toletate, particularly in affluent societies, a load of misery which can often be lessened as much by human care and concern as by the expenditure of money. Afte.r all, the grandmother in a traditional Chinese family did not enjoy a very high standard of living. What she had was interest, respect and company. These are what are all too often in short supply in our modern urban megalopolis.

How can our present lack be made good? We are not likely, short of a global catastrophe, to cease to be urban. So housing and services will not be very elastic. As world population rises Cnn Begin Today to 7 billion in the next 30 years, families are not likely to increase This pervasive communal care in size. does not in fact have to wait for It follows that many commuideal urban arrangements. It, can nity services formerly done by begin today in every parish so families will be performed by that no Christian is unaware of public authorities. But it does those who need help and the not follow that they need to be roster of volunteers is continudone carel~ssly or impersonally. ously full. The ,isolation and self,They need not be bureaucratic. absorption o'f the small family TIley can be an expression of looking after its own concerns genuine community. But if it is is not an inevitable consequence to happen, we require some , of modern life. It is a selfish changes in our urban order. _ First of all, there must be an perversion of it which Christians have to be the first to reject. end to the stark division of urHow can such changes be ban society between wealthy and poverty stricken areas. In the brought about? The Bishops suggest an answer. Much of our self-isolation comes from our unStatus of Abbey willingness to talk to each other HINGHAM (NC)-The Bene- and to other groups. The city can dictine Monastery of Glaston- become a place of silence-bebury has been raised to the tween races, groups, classes, status of an abbey, it was an- generations. In this silence, the nounced by the Benedictine Fed- poor, the elderly, the handieration of the Americas. Glaston- capped are simply unable to exbury becomes the 13th monas- press their full humanity. No one tery in the federation to become is listening. Perhaps a first . an abbey since the establishment Christian responsibility is to of St. Meinrad's archabbey in open a dialogue, to begin to pay Indiana' in 1870. attention and respond.

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YOUR FAITH Creativity

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"In the beginning God created! glorious freedom of the sons of heaven and earth." Something~ God." Because we have not been' instead of nothing. A world-in using it as we should, all creplace of emptiness. There it is- ation groans and is in agony the act which most belongs to even until now" (Romans 8).

God alone. From him everything; ~.:!![MII comes. He is the one who .fills all emptiness. He calls the thingsi that are not-and they begin tOI By be. ' God makes the world to be, FR. QUENTIN and he does so in one eternal act of love. The world exists, be-. QUESNELL, S.J. cause he loves. It exists because God wants to pour himself out . generously. ~ Many parts of his creation I Our share in his creative have received from him the gift' powers flashes forth in every of being themselves creative.: bright idea, work of art, project, Thus live _comes from life, "each seed and plant according' to its own kind;" for to each he said: "Increase llnd multiply -fill the seas and the earth and the air." i Jerry had found an unusual , We are the part of his creation! with the special gift of knowingl piece of broken glass. As he we were created. We alone, turned it ~round to examine it among all the eye can see, can' he noticed that light passed appreciate what marvels he has' through this glass in a curious done. "The heavens declare the way. The rays seemed to narrow glory of God." But to whom do ::~m!:li!ill they declare it, except to us?

"The firmament proclaims his I By handiwork." But to whom would, the firmament proclaim, if wei FR. CARL J. were not there?

Flashes of Creation PFEIFER, S.J. We are also the part of his creation with the special gift of knowing we can be ourselves '. ' mi' creative. Through liS he keeps. to a bright point of light on the making the world what he wants! it to become. "The world itselfl concrete garage floor. will be freed from its slavery to I He then moved the glass so corruption, and will share the, that the point of light fell on his

inspiration of ours; in every beautiful action well done or life well lived; in any of the, many ways we can conceive, plan, accomplish; perfect. "Wisdom is a breath of the 'power of God, and a pure emanation of the Glory of the Almighty" (Wisdom 7, 25).

But his creative power is above all else a power of generous love. He wants us to continue his creation and renew it.

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IMAGINATION: "Having no playmates one afternoon does not prevent a youngster from begging for a few extra minutes before coming in to eat." His imagination providing the competion, a boy gives his all as he plays basketball alone at a rundown playground. NC Photo.

hand. Soon he noticed the spot on his hand felt warm. Jerry had an idea. He went outside the garage and. found some dried up leaves. He placed one, of the Creativity is something that is leaves on the garage floor arid very easily applauded in o'thers carefully focus'ed the spot of and just as easHy denied in our-_ light on the leaf. Nothing hapselves. All too often people bepened. moan, "I'm not a very' creative So he took another leaf, moved person." For some reason creathe glass around until he seemed tivity seems so readily overto have a brighter spot of light. looked in oneself that many of Patiently he held the' glass still us come to believe we' lack until small whispers of smoke creativity. began to rise from the dried leaf.

Sparks appeared. Then there was -just a burned out hole in the leaf.

Jerry was intrigued. He By stretched out on the garage floor and tried another leaf. After SR. JANAAN about twenty minutes of experimenting', he, was able to start a MONTERNACH small fire of leaves and dried brush. As I quietly watched Jerry intently experimenting with the power he had discovered, my I have heard myself along mind travelled back over hunMany pari'shes are, in my opin.: we know, leaves us tired and dreds of centuries. I imagined with friends and relatives com· ion, but a few hours away from drained, but has proven extreme- the excitement when some in- fortably scoot around the word providing liturgies which power-.· 'ly productive and absolutely quisitive, creative human kin- with modest phrases like "I'm fUlly integrate the music sung' necessary. just having fun." This may really dled the first man-made fire. or heard and the word preached mean carving a watermelon basAfter looking at the attractive ' Einstein or proclaimed. ket for a picnic dessert or work"Respect Life!" booklet prepared Jerry's creativity symbolized ing on dried flower arrangeby the Washington staffs for our lWm·lll~::;,,~;!lI;I.!IIII' American bishops, we decided to for me one of man's most 'valu- ments in late spring to be used set aside all the Sundays in Octo- able traits, the ability to be cre- as Christmas gifts. It may mean, ber for an examination of life ative. Fostering creativity is one "adding ~ personal touch," which By under -its various aspects. One of the most important aspects of translates into a short "I love week the liturgy would cover life all education, and in a special you" note tucked into a husFR. JOSEPH in general with special considera- way of religious education. Un- band's lunch, or a small toy CHAMPLIN I tion for the unborn. On other fortunately there is in most tucked into a youngster's lunch Sundays we would treat youth, schools, according to educational boX: on his birthday..

How many happy surprises the family, politics and peace, {;ritics, very little training in the poor. Perhaps the' most po- creativity as it is related to life's have evolved from "oh, it's real problems and issues. There In simpler terms: if the organ-! tent of these Masses turned out is instead art overemphasis on nothing - I just used what I ist-choir director knows a week i to be the celebrations which cen- learning and memorizing facts found in the refrigeratQr." Substitute desk-drawer, cupboard, or more in advance the topic or. tered attention on the elderly. in order to think about problems pantry, sewing-basket, workshop, central theme the priest will Words: Music for which answers have already or toybox for refrigerator and treat in his homily, then that' Through the group decision. been discovered. the thought is the same. Comleader of music can attempt to, making procedure, we selected a Yet as Albert Einstein once bine ingenuity, resourcefulness, underscore the message.with ap- Sunday in October on which the stated, imagination is more im- and cleverness with love and assigned biblical texts seemed portant than knowledge. In to- hard work and you have creativpriate songs. To' iIIustnite: In September, my partner at; most appropriate for a discussion day's world it is becoming clear· ity-a special and unique expresHoly Family, the two nuns who' of the aged. In this instance, the er that most serious personal and sion of oneself. , serve as parish helpers, our tal- first reading (Isaias) and the social problems can be resolved Child as 'fe.acher ented part-time organist-musical 'gospel passage spoke about the only with creativity and imagidirector and I sat down for a I heavenly banquet. The Old Tes- nation. Good will, hard work, Our children provide us with several hour planning session.' tament exc,erpt further predicted accurate factual knowledge, and a good study of how universal a With lectionaries in hand, we be- "God will destroy death forever, technological skill are needed, human trait creative imagination gan to determine what would be, and wipe away the tears from ,but they are not enough. Re- and action really is. Children exthe basic idea for Masses on ,all faces." The second reading' search is vital, but how.to direct press themselves with an aston· each Sunday during the next two! from St. Paul had a thinking- the research and what to do with ishing degree of creative imagimonths. This creative process,: Turn to Page Seventeen Turn to Page Eighteen nation and activity.

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Having no playmates one 'afternoon does not prevent a youngster from begging for a few extra minutes before coming in to eat. All that's visible to Mom or an onlooker at first, is a boy, a ball, a glove, and a pitchback device; but on closer investigation it is revealed that there is a man on second, a man on third, and two outs. Anyone who understands can safely assume that winning or losing depends upon the man at bat.

Once again something very alive has been created out of a few inanimate props.

'Imitation is often a springboard for creativity and is necessary for growth. When a child has enjoyed a glass of Tang and then decides to be an astronaut, often there follows an exercise in creative problem s9Iving.-The challenge to the child's and mom's or dad's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and cleverness might be. that of attaching a globe or a map to the curtain. rod so that laying on the floor simulates the view of the earth from far out in space.

The equipment necessary for such a trip is another challenge.

Often it is created out of transformable objects like the cardboard tube found in the middle ofa roll of paper towels, some toothpicks, a ball of string, and a host of what are termed by the untrained eye as "odds and ends from the toybox."

Creativity Fades Unfortunately many of us, as we become adults, allow this creative capacity to become dulled. We become so much·the creature of routine, monotony, self-questioning, fear of embarrassment, that we actually come to believe that we are not crea· tive persons. As a result we bebecome uncreative. We allow our creativity to atrophy.

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The New York Times is one of the few major dailies that supported the Democratic ticket in the 1972 Presidential campaign. Indeed the Times felt so strongly about the election and was so vigorously opposed to the party in power that its post-election editorial comments on the tial measures for the care of the the elderly or the Administration's policies, children, poor." both foreign and domestic, The editorial in que~tion

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readers as warmed-<lver cam· paign rhetoric.

Partisan politics aside, however, I think the Times was correct in saying on Jan. 15 that some of the "reforms" currently heing advocated both at the federal and the state level would seem to suggest, rather ominously, that a tide of reaction may he sweeping across America.

The Times is afraid that "poli•cies of hope" which got under way some 40 years ago are being replace:! hy "policies of suspicion, which appear to take it for granted that society will be improved not by the promise of reform but by the threat of punishment." ("The Tide of Reaction," New York Times editorial, Janu.1j·y ] 5). ' Retrogressive Proposal The Times editorial singles out welfare, among other areas of concern, to illustrate the harm that can be done by attempting to turn back ~he clock in the name of reform: "Welfare reform," it says, "is dead. The refurm of any program for the betterment of the human condition is now in danger of falling victim to the reactionary paranoia that sees all the poor as chiselers or criminals. Waste is to be tolerated only in defense contracts and to bail out mismanag~~ corporations. But fear of waste is enough to veto C5sen-

Restore Cathe'dral At San Juan SAN JUAN (NC) - The fourcentury-old San Juan cathedral is being restored to serve as a church "and as a living schoo: of history."

Part of that history, an archdiocesan announcement. added, is the first consecration of :l bishop in the New World and the tombs of such figures as Juan Ponce de Leon, the discQverer of Florida.

In explaining details- of 'tl12 restoration work, an archiocesan spokesman said work has started .:-:1 the four gothic naves of stone and that plans include reopening the southern portico, closed at the turn of this century. Rooms adjacent to the naves are being remodeled to serve as a museum for reli~ious art.

"In this way we hope to r\.!~ cover and preserve Puerto Rico's art mOfluments for the people, but mostly" to give ,the liturgy an authentic colonial' atmosphere," the spokesman added. '

Continued from Page Sixteen changing ('~allenges. Solutions to societies most pressing problems requires creative imagination even more than technological skill. Reso~utions of family prob· lems, of school problems, of job problems, or personal problems -all rest in large part on creativity and imagination.

Co-Creators Life as work of art is an ode to creativity. It is a real pleasure to make and to make beautifully is a real job! Creativity seems to thrive in an atmosphere where the main ingredient is freedom combined with expectancy, surprise, delight, and desire to both give and r.:ommunicate meaning 0r to discover something new.

God created out of nothing.

We are not God so we create out of sometlting - the something that he basically created. We, in our creativity, participate in the creative activity of God, as well as provide ourselves with the experience needed to grasp something of the m~aning of God's creative act. Doing this, we become co-creators with God of a world in which it will be easier for people to love one another.

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doesn't get down to specifics, but I ca'n think of at least one recent welfare proposal which, if put into effect, would most certainly be retrogressive and would definitely serve to corroborate the Times' position on t:ii5 matter.

Favor Alternative On Jan. 3 two alternative..; of a government regulation affecting the status of persons engageti in a labor dispute and the status of their families under the Aid to Dependent Children - Unemployed Fathers (AFDC-UF) program were published in the Federal Register. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) will receive comments on these two proposals for 30 days before adopting either alternative.

Alternative A would permit the states to deny welfare benefits to strikers and their families who are otherwise eligibli,' for welfare because of need. AI-' ternative B would establish need as the sole standard.

The national AFL-CIO, among other organizations, has flatly rejected Alternative A and has listed the fol1owing arguments, in favor of Alternative B: (1) Need shQuld be the basic determinant of eligibility for welfare.

(2) Discrimination against strikers and their families who are in need would put the government on the side of the employer in labor disputes.

(3) Since workers by their taxes help to pay for the costs of welfare, they should have the same rights as all other citizens to obtain welfare assistance when they are in need.

Below Wage Standards '(4) Recent legislative history clearly demonstrates that the Congress does not want to put the government on the side of the employer in labor disputes by denying eligibility to striKers.

10 the contrary, the Congress has refused to deny welfare to strikers.

(5) Meager welfare payments far below regular wage standards provide no incentive to strikers to prolong strikes unreasonably.

(6) There is no comparison between the loss to management and the loss to workers ,in the typical strike because only the strikers and their families suffer physical deprivation.

(7) In two recent decisions, the Supreme Court has ruled against states that deny welfare based on considerations other than need.

I strongly support the AFLCIO position on this matter. It would be bad enough to penalize an adult worker tor exercising his legal right to strike, but to penalize needy children for the parents' action would be intolerable-or,'" in the Federation's language,' absolutely "immoral."

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.RESPECT FOR LIFE: "God will destroy death forever . . ." A bare cross dominates a hilltop as Christ's cross did after his death and resurrection. NC Photo.

Blending Words and Music at Mass Continued from Page Sixteen back grateful remembrance tone to it.

The homilist (spending his usual five hours in immediate preparation for preaching at all of our Masses) worked up three points: older peaple should with joy rejoice over the glorious future ahead, reflect happily with pride and satisfaction upon their past, and live fully' in the present.

The two nuns found a large poster featuring an elderly couple, mounted it on a cork board with fall decorations as background and placed this in front of the altar.

Our choir director-organist likewise fashioned the day's musical program around this theme.

It included traditional entrance and recessional hymns with an antiquity motif ("Faith of our Fathers," "0 God Our Help in Ages Past"). While the gifts were gathered, the choir and congregation (the latter not very strongly) sang "Try to Remember," underscoring the homily's reflective motion.

Senior Citizen Because a large percentage of parishioners have roots in Sicily, the organist played as part of Communion background music, "Return to Sorrento.", For a thanksgiving piece, choir and community sang the familiar Latin hymn, "0 Sanctissima" (October and our Lady plus the nostalgic effect for older persons of what used to' be).

In addition, the entrance com-

Church Authorities Deplore Actions LISBON (NC)-Authorities of the Lisbon patriarchate said they deplored both. a group who held a prayer vigil for peace that emphasized the war between black nationalists and the gover.nment in Portugal's African territories and the police who entered the church to arrest those holding the vigil. .

A statement of the-Church authorities said it j$ true that the country is engaged' in war in its overseas territories, but went on to say that disc;ussions on SUC11 matters should !'lot, be held in a church context.

ments, penitential rite (form C tailored to the occasion), introductions to the readings, general intercessions, observations between the prayer over the gifts and preface as, well as the final remarks alluded in various ways to the elderly. '

Self-Exiled Bishop Returns to Panama

"To look forward with confidence to the heavenly banquet, to look back with happiness upon our past, to live the present moment fully - this is today's message for the senior citizens, the middle age individual, the younger person." Those concluding words summarizej the Masses theme and sent the congregation out to love and serve the Lord.

Some did so in a special'way, One woman invitej an older aunt for dinner; an impressed teenager wrote to her grandmother; a man in his thirties made plans to take relatives for a Sunday afternoon drive.

Association to Aid Religion Centers WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) wiU make special efforts in 1973 to expand I its services to parish religion i centers, said Father Alfred Mc- i Bride, director of NCEA's Na-: tional Forum for Religious Edu- I cators.

I Services already available include educational consulting services and publications such as "Focus on American Catechetics: A Commentary on the General Catechetical Directory;" "Religious Education-The Quest for Content;" '''Catechists Never Stop Learning;" "A Curriculum Guide for Continuous Progress in Religious Education;" and "Criteria for the Evaluation of Religious Education Programs."

Early in 1973 NCEA will conduct seminars on total parish education in several dioceses.

The seminars will reflect some of the content of the U. S. bishops' November 1973 pastoral on education "To Teach as Jesus Did," NCEA is also developing a study of the training of reJi.gion teachers, at local levels and in graduate programs.

PANAMA CITY (NC)-After helping to preserve Spain's colonial art ,in Central America and doing parish work in California, retired Archbishop Tomas Clavel has returned to Panama to work with Indians 'in Veraguas.

The prelate resigned his Panama City archdiocese in December 1968 after.a military regime seized power. Bishop Marcos G. McGrath of Santiago succeeded him.

Sinee then Archbishop Clavel has been actively engaged in organizing commissions of sacred art in Central America at the request of the Va~ican and under the sponsorship of the InterAmerican Institute of Colonial Art of Santa Fe, N. M. The Vatican and the institute have recently been joined by the Organization of American States in efforts to make an inventory and save religious art treasures throughout the Americas.

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Continued from Page Sixteen because and to the extent that we love. Each act of loving is a new creation.

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Forgiveness: Creation A very special Christian creative action is forgiveness, after the model of God. St. Thomas Aquinas argues at great length and very convincingly that God's turning a sinner into a just ~an in' his greatest and most truly creative work. It is a more impressive production than calling the whole world into being. God does it by the power of his forgiving love. He invites us too to share in this kind of creating, 'and see the marvelous effects that it can have.

There was sin. There was the broken bond between persons.

There was coldness at the heart and emptiness. Or there was the destructive and self-consu~ing fire of bitterness, anger or hate.

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Msgr. Charles Owens Rice, the Pittsburgh "activist" priest, has taken me to task~along with Michael Novak and Robert Coles--for defending the "ethnics" against the charges leveled at tl:tem by liberal elitists. I am reluctant to argue with Msgr. Rice, as .

I have a great deal of respect bigotry of your damnable, ig· for him, but he speaks such norant, unwashed people? utter nonsense that I have Real Bigots

no choice but to reply.

There is, of course, research Msgr. Rice first of all suggests Lhat I have set up a "straw man" I. evidence :hat suggests Msgr. in the liberal elitist who despises ! Rice is wrong---'my "darling reI searches" as Msgr. Rice arroI gantly dismisses them. Such a I' comment is typical of the antiintellectua 1,ism of' the Catholic elites. Their minds are made up By and they don't want to be bothered ,by the facts. Rather than REV. discuss the facts; they attack the one who has assembled them.

ANDREW M. Our evidence shows that the Irish are very like the Jews 4n GREELEY most political, social, and racial attitudes. No one accuses the Jews of bemg bigots. Hence, one has two choices-and Msgr. Rice the poor ethnic. Such people. ac- I takes both of them: Either the cording to the good monsignor, I Irish are lying to the survey in1I0n't re,ally exist.

I terviewers or the research anI invite him to come to the alyst (this columnjst) is "making University of Chicago for a day, excuses for bigotry.", and 'I'll introduce him to a lot There is a third possibility; of such people-or he could read and that is that Msgr. Rice and Gary Wills. But more than that, those social activists with whom I invite him to look in a mil'·ror. he allies himself are the real , Any man who can say without bigots, men who' find a secure qualification or reservation that place in American culture by the Irish "suffered ... in their divorc!ng themselves in haughty · had days, although it has not disdain from their own people. · made them terribly sympathetic to those under their feet today," , I can understand Msgr. Ric~'s and that "the Catholic masses need to accuse me of "making acted badly on the race question" exuses for bigotry." For if men ,is guilty of precisely that ltind of like Novak and Coles and I are elitist, contemptuous attitude to- right, th'e strategy which Rice war.ds ordinary people, whose ex- and his fellow Catholic liberals istence Msgr. Rice denies. have pursued for all their lives is profoundly wrong. If you ap. 'Martyr' to Bigotry peal to the majorilty of' people Mind you, he does ·not say, by trying to understand their "some . Catholics" or "some real fears, reassuring them about Irish." and the "Catholic masses" these fears, and appeal to both · -like all human' beings, even their wise self-intelrest and the liberal activists-->are a mixture generous and open dimension cjf of bigotry and generosity, fear I their personalities, a "peneration of consciousness," which Msgr. an~ hope, 'openness and insecur! ity.

In the mQnsignor's world I Rice so admires seems a particthings are rlear;'simple and neat. ! ularly cold and calculating tactic Catholics and~~pecially .Irish II that is designed to fail . , Catholics are radists and bigo~s People Complex -unless they happen to be the I sort of radical:~(1activists that I I am at least as aware as ,Msgr Rice adiTIjres. You de·nounce them an? ypu give a Msgr. Rice that there is bigotry "powerful \Jxamp,\q" so that yotl among the Irish. I am perhaps may "penetrate 1, " the ordinary more aware than he that there is also bigotry among the elites.

Catholic's consciousness."

But the issue is' not whether I cannot conceive of anytJ}ing some men are bigots or whether more arrogant. You write a man all of us are part bigot The issue off as a bigot, then you affront is how one appeals to the nonhim by behavior that is eertain bigot that is in most of' us. It to confuse and to frighten him, then when someone comes along isn't an easy task. It is much and says that maybe the man simpler to denounce people and isn't so much of a bigot after all, then hard them over to the "cony?U ~Iaim credit for changing sci~usness penetrators." That ultimately is the difference beh1m. tween Msgr Rice aind his allies Is this how you lead people? and Coles, Novak and me. They Is this really how you build co- II thinkthat reality and people are alitions for political and social I simple, and we think that realchange? Is this really the way I ity and people are c1omplex. It is you appeal to the best in eaeh a debatable issue, perhaps, but human personality? Is this really by the very nature of their stand, the waY you reassure fears and Msgr. Rice and his ilk cannot appeal to generosity? Or is is debate it. For debate implies rather a way to validate your I complexity, .and it is precisely own feelings of moral superiority i complexity that they reject. and ·gua,rantee yourself a warm sense- of being a martyr t,o the : © 1973, Inter/Syndicate

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An act of forgiveness is a new creation. With a word of acceptance, life springs forth. A tiny flower pushes its way through to the sun and the sky from out of the cinders and slag, the frozen lava of a dead volcano. "Forgive one another as God has forgiven you." '

NO PASSING ZONE: The Pilgrim Church was on the move literil1ly in Montana recently when 81. Theodore ,Church was moved from Garrison, Mont., to Avon, Mont.

13 miles away. A truck pulls the church along'Highway 12' blocking the whole road, but movers reported no traffi~ tieups because there were enough turnouts to permit cars to pass every mil,e or so. The new location is closer to an interstate highway and more accessible to parishioners. NC Photo.

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Missionary Group, Leaves Colomb~a MEDELLIN (NC)-The Spanish Inst:ttute of Foreign Missions said it is recalling its 78 priests from Colombia to protest, "injustices" against ·them by government and Church authorities.

Father Genaro Artazcon, the insti'tute'·s director, acted after the 'expulsion in December of three of .the priests on charges of subversion. He had come here, to investigate the char,ges.

Continued from Page Sixteen gradually penetrating deeper into its results are questions of cre- the. mystery of. life. To help peoative imagination. 'Broken glass, pie pursue issues more deeply, The three, headed by Fa.ther sunlight, and leaves were abun- more searchingly is a major step Cirilo Terron, sajd on arrjving dant in Jerry's life long before toward education in creativity. at the institute's headquarters he put the three together to Religious Education light a fire.

Genuine questions and chal- in Burgos, Spain, that they were For the Christian there is even lenges may be explored through simply following Church direcgreater'reason to encourage cre- creative w~iting, drawing, pho- tives on .the pastoral care of the ativity. Jerry's creative act sug-, tography, role-playing, and sim- poor, and that charges of sub,gests t'he meaning of the biblical ilar activ:ties. All - too often version were groundless. affirmation that man is made ill' youngsters and adults in reli"They were not guerrillas, as .

God's image and likeness" (Gen ,gious education programs are claimed by sOme government 1:28). Creatively developing the simply lectured to. Their creativ- ,people," said Father Artazcon world's resources for the better- ity is neither challenged nor . here. "Our group does not bement of mankind is man's way freed. As a result they and the lieve that guerrill~s ca!1 bring of continuing and sharing in. world fail to discl)ver the rich about the change Colombia God's creative activity. The cre- creative resources lying dormant needs." ative Spirit of God is at work in and untapped in so many perthe spirits of men and women sons young and old. who work to improve the human A parent or teacher can encondition through creative activ- courage a climate of informality, See Us F';rst ity of all kinds (d. Vat. II, of freedom for all to participate, Church in World, 34). a sense of expectation and exReality: Creationploration, and a feeling of trust.

See Us Lost It is imperative that Christian Then the creative impulse, sponeducators enable people to rec- taneously exercised in play by But See Us ognize God's call to creatively Jerry and most childen, may be develop things for the benefit,' encouraged. This can do much to help' the learners hear God's of others_be it in the kitchen factory, laboratory, office call to creatively develop things studio. Perhaps more than ever for their own good and the good before contemporary life requires of others.

Christians whose approach to reality is marked by creative imagination, infused with courage and hope.

Parents fmd teachers can encourage creativity and imagination in a number of ways-many' techniques are described in more recent religion texts. Perhaps one of the most basic approaches is to focus on questions rather than answers,. on challenges rather than solutions. Each true answer Fi~~st to any deep question about life actually raises further questions,

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Conference Teams Commence Second Half Tuesday Night The 24 member schools of the Southeastern Massachusetts Athletic Conference will play their second inter-divisional games of the week tomorrow night to conclude the first half of the basketball ca~paign. Interdivisional games feature Division I clubs Coach John O'Brien's Bishup against Division II teams and Stang Spartans lead Division 1 Division III me~bers against at the half way mark with a perDivision IV representatives. fect 5-0 record. While the Spartans have found themselves in tough ballgames almost every time out, -the Diocesans have been able to -come up with the big play when needed.

Stang has played nine games going into this week's action and is unbeaten. New Bedford Vocational, tomorrow night's opponent, will have to come up with a super effort in order to defeat the Division I leader. Voke is 0-5 in Division II competition.

Shamr10cks Look Like Somerset and Taunton trail Stang by two games with 3-2 records good for second place in the six team division. The fourth place in the standings belongs to Attleboro and -Barnstable who are, tied with 2-3 mar,ks. Holy Family High of New Bedford is in last place with an 0-5 slate.

The Division Il standing is identical to Division I by records.

However, there is one major difference. Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro who le,ads the circuit with a perfect 5-0 mark has, unlike Stang, not been seriously cha'!lenged to date.

The Shamrocks who have had their troubles in ~ast years are completely domil\at'ing Division II opponents. The Jerry Cunniff coached DiocesaM appear to be well on their w~:y to a' league championship and a berth in the state touA\'A'ment. Both

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All Conference teams will return to divisional action next Tuesday.

The 'intra-divisional games played this week, and the final week of the campaign, will have no bearing upon the divisional championship raCl;!S, but are important in determining a club's cligibiHty for state tournament qualification. A team must win 65 per cent of its games in order to qualify for the championship tournament.

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would be firsts in the history of the Attleboro school. Feehan, as a member of the Bristol County League, never won a loop basketball title nor qualified for post season championship com· petition.

Fairhaven and Bishop Connol'1y High finished the first haif of the campaign with 3-2 records, Case High of Swansea and Lawrence High of Falmouth were next with 2-3 marks and New Bedford Voke last at 0-5.

As predicted prior to the season, the Division III race is turning out to be the tightest of the four pennapt chases. However, somewhat surprisinglY the clubs expected to be leading at this juncture are not.

Most prognosticators thought Dighton-Rehoboth and Bourne would lead the pack in a hard fought race. Both are still in contention, but neither leads.

Divisioh III Race Should Go to Wire That distincti6i\ belongs to pIe, they nipped Westport 52-50.

Dartmouth and Seekonk who Everyone will be aiming for the were expected to be contenders Bull Dogs in the second half of but a notch below fhe aforemen- the season.

Diman Regional Vocational tioned. Both clubs are 4-1 in divisional play and lead Dighton has sole possession of second by a full game. Bourne trails by place in Division IV with a 3-2 games with Dennis- record. Westport, Wareham and two Yarmouth and Msgr. Coyle- St. Anthony's of New Bedford Bishop Cassidy three games are tied for third with 2-3 marks and Norton is last with a 1-4 back. ' A quick glance at last Friday's slate. scores shows how evenly When the Conference returns matched the six teams in Divi- "to divisional play on Tuesday sion III are. Dighton-Rehoboth Stang will be at Barnstable, Atsnapped Dartmouth league un- tleboro at Taunton and Holy beaten string with a 56-51 vic- Family _at Somerset in the top tory, Seekonk moved into a first division. Falmouth will host place tie by vir~ue of its 46-45 Fairhaven, Connollly will entertriumph over Dennis-Yarmouth tain Feehan and New Bedford and Bourne edg~d Coyle 66-64. Voke visits Case in Division II. The Division III -schedule lists The Division XV race closely parallels the first and second Bourne at Dennis-Yarmouth, division races. Old Rochester of Dighton-Rehoboth at Seekonk Mattapoisett leads with a 5-0 and Dartmouth at Coyle. Old sl!\te, but the aull Dogs have Rochester will be at Wareham, escaped defeat by a narrow mar- Norton at Diman and St. Angin on a few occasions. In their thony's at Westport in the fourth division. la'~t league encounter, for exam-

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Predicts Great Future for Diaconate ST. CLOUD (NC)-The permanent diaconate program in the United States is "definitely on the move, growing, even mushrooming," according to a Benedictine monk who directs a program here in Minnesota.

Father Kiernan Nolan has been director of the deacon program at St. John's Abbey in· Collegeville since the program was established in the fall of 1969. It was at St. John's that the nation's first study center for· the diaconate was established.

In an interview with the St. Cloud Visitor, Father Kiernan described a deacon's work as being three-fold _generally: preaching and teaching; ministering some of the sacraments; and caring for the sick, the poor and the needy.

The permanent diaconate makes it possible for men to become deacons without later becoming priests, according to the authorization given by Pope Paul VI .n June, 1967.

808 Candidates Qualified unmarried men 25 years of age or older may be ordained permanent deacons. They cannot marry after ordination.

Qualified married men 35 years of age or older may be ordained permanent deacons with the consent of the wife.

There are about 300 ordained deacons in- the United States, and another 808 candidates in 37 dioceses enrolled in a formal deacon program.

Father Kiernan gives credit for much of the suocess of the diaconate program to Father William Philbin who was killed in

a plane crash in Chicago shortly before Christmas.

Father Philbin was travelling from Washington to Chicago where he was to attend the ordination of 100 candidates to the diaconate. He was chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee for the Permanent Diaconate.

'Fant::stic Thing' Father Kiernan describes Father Philbin as one who spent endless hours encouraging and fostering a spirit for the diaconate. "He wasn't a noisemeker and he didn't believe in headlines. He believed that publicity would corne of its own," said Father Kiernan. '~This is the fantastic thing

Nun Vicar General In Brazil State RIO DE JANEIRO (NC)-"It's only a matter of renewal, not of personal merit," said Sister Maria Antonia Azcune, 41, of her appointment -as vicar general for religious in the five dioceses of Guanabara state.

Her nomination came from a statewide vote by more than 3,000 Religious from the archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro and the dioceses of Barra do Pirai-Volta Re donda, Nova Iguazu, Valenza and Monserrate.

The Spanish-born nun who came to Brazil more than a decade ago was until recently executive secretary of the National Conference of Women Religious.

Earlier she taught in high schools and colleges in Sao Paulo and Belo Horiz·)nte. She is a member of the Company of Mary.

ave discovered about the diaonate. It is growing without a reat deal of "ublicity and fanare," Father Kiernan said.

The Benedictine describes the diaconate as "one of the greatest hings to have come out of the econd VaNcan Council. The ~ouncil talked about the Church I':s servant and that is what the Idiaconate is. If it is going to s:Jrvive and be healthy, that's IWhat it must be. If it isn't then [I wish it an early death."

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